What is the hardware and software differences between Intel and PPC Macs?
The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.
I have Microsoft Office/2008 on my MacBook Pro. Office doesn't support RTL languages like Farsi and Arabic, and I know that Office/2010 (for Windows) also has the same problem. Do you think the lack of support is because of business competition, or some other reason?
I had a power failure and upon rebooting noticed that the OS drive needed to be repaired (Disk Utilities). I am running Snow Leopard and don't have the CD to start up from in order to perform the fix. Are there any other options for running the repair utils on the startup disk?
I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button. It would be nice if this second click wasn't needed, which leads me to my question: How can I make it so that when I move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, it becomes active?
In Spaces it's possible to specify which space a given application will open on -- for example, my web browser always opens on Space 1 and iTunes on Space 3. Is something similar possible with multiple monitors, so that whichever space I'm on a certain application will always open on the second monitor? For even more control, can I specify that it will always open on Monitor 2 of Space 4?
Everytime I turn on my Macbook Pro it makes a start up noise. This is annoying since there is no volume or ability to turn it off. I just don't want the sound to play at all. How do I disable this startup sound?
Does the iPhone close the background programs if it runs out of memory or battery?
I am looking for a "word-of-the-day" screensaver or dashboard widget where I can configure (e.g. in a text file) that "words" to be displayed?
I have a 2007 Macbook Pro and for nearly two years, the battery has been toast. In April, Apple replaced the logic board. Since the repair, whenever the power cable comes loose, the MBP shuts off as expected.
I've used ShakesPeer for it's clean and Mac-like interface. But the downloads are really slow. Is there a faster alternative to ShakesPeer?
On my Jailbroken iPad, I have SBSettings installed. I chose to hide all my application icons, but iPod will not go away, no matter what the switch setting is. I was thinking about just going into the file system and manually deleting the icon, but I don't know where it's stored. Any suggestions?
I'm about to travel to the US, where iPods are much cheaper than in my country. I wonder if Apple's warranty is international, and I'll be covered when I return to my country.
If I have an iPod Touch backup on my computer, can an iPhone restore from it? How about vice versa?
I received a hand me down white MacBook with 10.4 on it and it automatically logs into a user account that isn't able to change much in the preference pane. How do I recover or change the administrator password? The original owner told me to try a few passwords, none of which work to get logged in as admin.
Is there a way to close all application in the taskbar at once?
When installing Tiger or Leopard, there was an option called "Erase and Install" that would delete the disk before installing the new OS. In Snow Leopard, this option seems to be missing. Is there any way I can add "Erase and Install" back to Snow Leopard?
I'm using my wife's Macbook with the bigger multitouch track pad. Many times while in Safari, it thinks I want to zoom in and the page will zoom in. I want to just get rid of multitouch in Safari, or just disable the zoom feature in Safari. It's nice to have multitouch in other applications like iPhoto, but it just causes problems in Safari.
I am being asked to setup my keyboard every time I reboot my computer. Is there anyway I can get this to keep the setup?
I'm getting a new laptop and I want to move my iTunes library from the old to the new computer. How can I do this? Of course I want to preserve as much information as possible: metadata such as ratings and play counts, cover art, my purchased content from Apple. I also own an iPhone which I used to sync with the old computer and now I want to sync with the new one, preserving my apps, contacts, purchased content, etc.
My MacBook Pro takes an awful long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. Considering that I generally want to close the lid and then carry it somewhere, I want it to be fully asleep so I don't have any hard drive issues. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?
Sort of like the Windows+R command in the windows world? That actually just lets you run a command but you get the idea.
I keep accidentally hitting Command+Esc and bringing up Front Row. How can I disable this shortcut?
I have my MacBook Pro sitting on my desk and it's consistently over 160 degrees. It is almost too hot to touch in some places on the casing.
On Windows you can hit the keys Windows+L to lock your computer if you step away. I don't want to have to remember if sleep currently asks for a password, if there is a time out where my screen isn't locked during a short period. Even with Lion supporting resume of many apps, I don't want to log out. I do want to be sure data is secure when stepping out for lunch or a smoke break.
For instance, say I had a few sweet background images I wanted to use to identify each one.
To search, use the search box in the upper-right corner. To search the answers of the current question, use inquestion:this. For example: If it hasn't already been posted, please follow a few simple rules when adding it as an answer. Limit to one application per answer. Limit to one application per answer. Add a short description of the application. Add a short description of the application. Add a link to the website in the name of the application if possible (no direct downloads). Add a link to the website in the name of the application if possible (no direct downloads). Use ## [appName](link) for citing the application name. Use ## [appName](link) for citing the application name.
I have bootcamp installed on my Mac, and when on Windows, I need to frequently capture screens using windows shortcuts such as Print Screen. Using virtualization is not an option, since I need to run a virtualized environment within Windows already.
Since iTunes has no way to sync with my Motorola Droid, and all of my music is on my Macbook Pro, I recently tried out DoubleTwist. It detected my Droid right away.
Is it possible to sync an iPhone with multiple computers? I know the music will be restricted, and I don't mind. I want the contacts, bookmarks, etc. to be in sync across my home iMac and my MacBook.
When I want to create a new file through the button (left-bottom one) in the project drawer or in the file menu it takes a long time and blocks TextMate and even blocks TextMate totally in some cases. I've installed the latest version of TextMate and installed all updates available for Mac OS X. Anyone any idea what the problem is?
Is there a way to tell Finder to not use (or worry about) the ._* files and other meta-data files it normally tries to use when it's on a network share? Currently when I'm in Finder and I try to copy a file to a network share it results in an error:
The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing
My mac goes to sleep. It wakes up. The volumes mounted to a Windows server in my house all work. I can see pictures and listen to music. Until I can't. After two or three sleep/wake cycles, I can't connect to the Windows server at all, with Finder hanging infinitely on trying to connect. I have to reboot the entire machine to reconnect properly. With OS X 10.5, I never could get the volumes to reconnect after sleep, but at least they didn't sabotage Finder. Anyone have any ideas? I hate leaving the mac running all the time. (27" 2010 iMac, OS X 10.6.4)
The MacBook Pro does a really good job keeping dirt and stuff from getting under the keys, but none-the-less there is some dirt under a few keys. Can I pop these keys off and then easily replace them? In the past when I've done this, the key never really went back on correctly. This is the newer Unibody MBP with the black backlite chiclet keys.
I am happy to purchase an app, but the only printing app I'm aware of seems to just let your ipad connect to a computer that is connected to the printer and effectively print through it. I'm looking to print from my ipad without the use of another computer. Both the ipad and the printer are on the same wifi network (which is how I print from our laptops). EDIT: In my specific case, the printer is a Canon MP990.
I have gmail set up to send me "true" push notifications (using the exchange server setup). So my mail arrives in realtime, and I instantly get badges on my springboard screen to indicate new messages.
I install Windows(XP after that 7) on my MBP with Boot Camp and every thing was fine but after a while in System Prefences -> Startup Disk my windows partition was lost and when I want to switch to my windows must restart my Laptop and Press Down option during startup. I can't switch directly from my OS X.
I'm reposting this question (unchanged) from webapps.stackexchange.com, because I've received no answers there and this seems like an appropriate question for the Apple Stack Exchange site. I've tried the Shutterfly iPad app, which allows uploading photos, but doesn't support any other functionality available on the website. And I can't edit photos or design cards and books from the Mobile Safari browswer on the iPad, presumably because those features use Flash. Are there any other photo websites that provide either a full-featured iPad app (that includes creating cards and books and ordering prints) or an iPad or iPhone app that allows uploading photos and a website that allows one to create cards and books and order prints in Mobile Safari? Note, I download photos directly from my camera to the iPad, so I'm trying to figure out how to avoid any need for a PC.
I've recently switched from PC to Mac, so I'm slowly building a library of useful utilities. So, any recommendations for the best generic media player? On the PC - I've found the VLC player to be pretty useful - there's a Mac version, but I don't know how it compares to other alternatives. Many of the alternatives on the PC are full of crap - e.g., constantly pushing toolbars, add-ins, anti-virus junk, etc.
I've got a Mac Pro (Jan-2008) 2.8GHz Quad-core Xeon with one processor. Do all the Mac Pro's have the two sockets motherboards even if it's purchased with one processor? If so can I purchase an equivalent Intel Xeon proc and install it to have the 8-core?
It doesn't matter whether they are for free or for purchase as long as they are compatible.
Is it worth to buy an anti-virus software for Mac OS X? I heard both opinions like "it's not possible to get a virus on Mac OS X" and "Mac OS X is also vulnerable against virus... "
Inspired by this question to which I thought I knew the answer, does anybody know how to make StartupSound.prefPane work on a new iMac? I just got the computer last week, and installed SS.pP (v1.1b3) right away, but noticed the next day that it didn't actually function. However, it appears to work, in that it installed fine in System Preferences, I can access it, check and uncheck its options, and move its slider, all without receiving warnings or errors of any kind. Whatever configuration I set is remembered the next time I go into the app, even after a reboot. Nevertheless, the startup sound is still played when I boot up.
I open a lot of terminal windows. I also make use good use of tabs & multiple desktops.
before this news jailbreaking was illegal?(if yes why? "because when we buy something we can do anything we want with that product )(and if no then what was this news for?)
I tried out several image editors mentioned on this site but some of them (like Pixen and Seashore) were very disappointing. These apps were too simple and low level. What do you suggest for a (preferably free) image editor on OS X? P.S: I was using GIMP on Linux and also know that it was released for OS X too, but I want to find new good applications.
Let's say I'm typing a word in ALL-CAPS on the iPad. Currently, the only way I know of how to do this is to press SHIFT before each of the letters.
When using the iPad to type a note, for instance, every time I type a period, the iPad assumes I want to start the next word with a capital letter. It also assumes I want to start typing with a capital letter in some text fields on web forms. Is there any way to turn off the automatic SHIFT that is taking place, so there are only capital letters where I explicitly want them to be?
⌥+⌘+M as mentioned in multiple docs only appears to minimize the current (focused) window. I am looking for the "Show Desktop" equivalent. If it matters I'm using 10.6.4.
So I want to be able to add appointments/events/tasks on either and have those changes reflected on both.
Is it possible to add additional SCM options in Xcode, specifically Mercurial? I know it is possible outside with Murky and others but I was hoping for a "inside Xcode" integration. If this is too SOish say so.
I'm looking for a free screen capture tool that has decent annotation. I want to be able to do the following: Highlight an area Dim everything but the selected area Draw arrows Blur selected areas
I recently found an old Apple Extended Keyboard that uses the ADB interface. I would like to use it, but I don't have an ADB-to-USB converter. I know of only one which is the Griffin iMate. Unfortunately, it's out of production and the ones going on ebay are expensive.
Everyday, the first time I start Safari, if I go to the history or bookmarks tab, I get the following message:  How can I stop Safari from prompting this message and completely disable the webpages Preview? I already set the update policy to 2 with this:
How can I skip the Welcome Video/Music that comes up after a fresh install of OS X? I believe you could skip this in Windows by hitting ESC, but I cannot find a key that has that same effect in OS X.
What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X?
I'm not really satisfied with the text-editors available for Mac OS X. I tried TextWrangler, Smultron, Coda, SubEthaEdit, TextMate and others I do not remember. But none of the above satisfied my needs. I want a (free) text editor which is fast, which does syntax highlighting
I've been having a problem when trying to upgrade iTunes on Windows (7 x64). Every time I try to upgrade it, I get the error message: QuickTime was not found.
Would it make more sense to buy a Mac with a better processor, or with a better graphics card, or a SSD? For general computer use, mainly word processing and Chrome/Safari.
I use iTunes on my Mac (OS X 10.6) but I wonder what's up with it's update. I really want know Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched. P.S: I have limited bandwidth with my internet then the size of update was important for me.
I use Adobe Acrobat Pro a lot, and often keep multiple documents open. Does anyone know of a way of cycling through the open windows of this application without resorting to the mouse? (Cmd+` (backtick) does not work.) I use OS X 10.6.4 on a 13" MacBook Pro.
How can I get the smart mailbox to filter email correctly? I have the following set: Contains messages that match ANY: Subject Contains criteria one Entire Message Contains criteria two Entire Message Contains criteria three
I have a lot of files that I've been transferring around my network and to external hard drives. For example, I just copied a folder with files representing an old laptop's disk image (created with clonezilla) from an external hard drive to my macbook pro.
Right now I'm going to the International System Preferences and I put English above in the languages list, then I open the app I need to run in English. When I'm done, I switch it back to French.
I understand that when I press and release the power button on the top of my iPhone or iPad, it stays on but turns off the screen. Whereas if I press and hold the power button, a "slide to turn off" control appears on the screen.
Some of my friends said that OS X sucks because you only have to choose one theme on every device that have OS X. I searched, but I didn't find any feasible solution just one little thing that cost money (and I didn't want to risk it). Is there a easy way to change OS X themes that is free? Please don't tell me that the theme doesn't need to be changed; I really want something like Ubuntu that can change anything, I really love my Ubuntu desktop (KDE and Gnome). If OS X doesn't do this, are there any 3rd-party utilities that can?
When trying to install gcc46 on OS X 10.6.4 using port (MacPorts 1.9.1) i get the following errors: MacPorts was freshly installed on the 10.6 system. Any suggestions on how to resolve this or how to install gcc46 for i386? (Previously asked and as of now unanswered on SuperUser.)
I'm not sure if this belongs here or SuperUser, so I'll ask here and if the community decides to close it, I will re-ask there. Every time I plug my iPhone in to my MacBook, the Canon EOS Utility (installed with the software for my DSLR) pops up and decides to inform me that a camera was not connected. I, of course, know this, as I just connected my iPhone. This happened with my last iPhone (3G) and continues to happen with my current iPhone 4. Is there any way to get that software (provided by Canon) to stop bugging me (on my MacBook, OS X 10.6) when I plug in my iPhone?
About twice a night, iChat will disconnect (though it'll still show me as connected). After about 10 minutes, it'll realize it's disconnected and bring up a dialog telling me it lost the connection. I can then close the dialog and reconnect with no trouble. My computer's network connection seems to be fine throughout this. Any idea: What might might be causing this? How to fix it? At least how to make it tell me more immediately when it loses the connection?
I have 3 languages installed and everytime my MacBook goes to sleep - the screen is being locked. After entering a password, system says that it's incorrect. It appears, that I'm entering password not in English language, but in Lithuanian (mother tongue), where all digits are taken by Lithuanian-specific vowels and consonants (from 1 to 8: ąčęėįšųū). And the problem is that I can't change language back to English so that I'd be able to enter digits for my password. Using backtick for "default language" does not work (I get beeps all the time). Copy pasting does not work too.
I have multiple sound cards connected and would benefit from being able to rename them from their device name to something like "Headphones", "Surround system", etc. Is there a way to do this?
When I plug my iPad into my computer's USB ports, the iPad battery area displays "Not Charging". I understand the iPad requires more wattage to charge compared to an iPhone or iPod, as evidenced by the iPad's larger power adapter (10W) vs the iPhone's (5W).
Can somebody point me in the direction of books, sites, articles, ... to learn everything about Mac OS X "under the hood"? In other words to learn more about the kernel, the system.
I want a way to create a secure connection to the internet (something I can trust) on my iPod Touch and Laptop through a source I can trust. In my research, it was suggested I use iVPN on my iMac at home to set up the connection. So I bought that and tried it out. The VPN client connects, but I cannot navigate to the internet. Any thoughts on how to fix it?
How can I do "Time Machine" from my Mac OS X 10.6.4 to my Window share drive? I'd also prefer to encrypt my image, so it's "safe" just in case :-)
It took me 3 months to ID3 Tag all of the MP3s (artist, album, released year, etc) in my iTunes library. It was annoying. I saw that Winamp solves this problem with an "Auto Tag" feature. Is there a plugin for iTunes on OS X to do the same? Or does iTunes itself support this?
When I want sort my files and folder in Finder (specially sort by name) they sort all item by name mixing folders and files together. I want a way that sorts (like Windows) first all folders by name then all other items by name. How can I do this?
What are some good resources for learning Dashcode? I've got plenty for XCode, but can neither find a good online Dashcode tutorial nor a book in stores. If anyone can help, please let me know. My apologies if this is better suited for SO.
I have multiple monitors, and with Quicksilver and Magic Mouse gestures I open applications without using the dock more often than with it. Is there a way to have these application windows appear on the monitor that currently has the mouse cursor? An added bonus would be the ability to have Finder open a new window if there isn't one on the current monitor, even if there is one on the other monitor.
I have an iPhone 4 that syncs with iCal through Google. However, the colors for the calendars are different on the iPhone than on iCal. Is there any way to set the colors for the calendars on the iPhone so that they are the same as the colors I have selected in iCal?
TextEdit will open them, but often doesn't display them correctly. I really like QuickLook, but it won't stay open and doesn't allow for copying text. OpenOffice seems to read the files adequately, but is slow to launch. The ideal would be something like Preview that can open Word docs.
Is there a tool or application that will securely wipe an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (i.e. any iOS device?)
How can I make my Mac be a DLNA server and/or client?
Is it possible to create a bulleted or numbered list in Mail on an iDevice? If so, please share how. I know it'll display them. Like if I create it in GMail on my MacBook, save a draft, then open it on the device, I see the bullets as intended, but I would like to actually create this same thing on my iPad/ iPhone.
So, I love the new, awesomebar-style address bar in Safari 5 - with it's history search, I've gotten to the point where I no longer use bookmarks for most sites, I just remember the 2-4 letter strings that will bring what I want to the top of the search results. This is great, except for when I screw up and add things to the history that screw with it. For example, one of my most used shortcuts was to get to a site I frequent by typing "bl" and hitting enter. Somehow, at one point, I did this without a search coming up, and now, the "Top Hit" for "bl" is "*=URL=* which is obviously, not an actual site. Is there any way to remove a single entry from the history without clearing the history entirely?
I was using Tag&Rename (an MP3 tag editor) on Windows and I'm looking for a real alternative for OS X.
Frequently when I'm using Safari on the iPad and loading multiple web sites at the same time and switching between them, Safari starts to reload a page when I switch back to it, even if it's been only a few minutes since I last opened the page. This can be quite annoying.
Does anyone know how to automatically mount a network share once a VPN connection using Tunnelblick has connected? Right now I have to connect and then do a cmd+K in the finder to connect to the AFP share. It'd be nice if it would connect automatically. The share doesn't have a password (TimeCapsule without any passwords, and no, not using it for backup, we use it for a fileserver).
I'm developing a WordPress site on my Mac, running OS X 10.6.4. I'm using OS X's built-in Apache server to run the site locally during development. I've set up WordPress and connected it to OS X's MySQL with no problems. The site seems to work fine, and I can post, edit, etc. The WordPress installation is in a folder called ~/Sites/mysite.dev.
Is there any plugin for iTunes making it possible to tag the music with multiple tags (not ID3-tags or genre)? Just like last.fm does, e.g. "soft electronic african female-vocalist"? Genres are so totally unusable to use as a music categorizer. I use iTunes a lot for syncing various iDevices and streaming music to the Airport Express, so I'm not really interested in an alternative app, even though I might be if it supports more or less everything iTunes does and have some more features, but also being compatible with and updating the iTunes library. A big bonus would be if it's also allowing hierarchical tag structures.
My iTunes library is located on an network drive, or rather, the music is, and my library file is located on my MacBook. Library file: /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library Music: /Volumes/MyVolume/Music
I have created a couple of automator scripts. I was curios if there is a way to change the application icon, on those scripts, to something other than the robot.
Removed it from System Preferences > Keyboard. No go. Remapped ⌘ Cmd to be Ctrl. No go. Ripping out the ⌘ Cmd key shouldn't be the solution. Anyone?...
I know that when you put your Mac laptop to sleep and the battery dies, next time you plug it in it will wake up from the state it was prior to being put to sleep. There are also hacks to get this behavior with a desktop Mac (except it triggers when you put the Mac to sleep and unplug it).
If you've used iPhoto for photo retouching, you probably know the Straighten functionality.  My question is, are there any keyboard shortcuts for rotating the photo, or is mouse & the slider the only way? Any other useful tips regarding this are of course also welcome.
If I get a new Time Capsule, how can I transfer the backups from the old Time Capsule to the new one. I see an option to Archive the Time Capsule from the Airport Utility, but I don't see any way to restore. Do I have to go through the initial back up process again with all of my Macs?
Any one know any external disk that I can use to do this?
I have a external disk that I use now to have my iTunes collection, I want to connect the same disk to the AirPort Extreme so I dont have to use a USB port in my Notebook. Does anyone have a reccomendation?
Let's say I get a file in an email, or have it stored in GoodReader, or find a link to it on the web, and want to put it into my Dropbox using the ipad app. It seems like the only files you can add from the app are photos and video. Am I missing anything? Goodreader is a great example of how an app can "pull in" compatible files from emails, etc, but I can't find any similar capability in the Dropbox app.
I have a Page Layout document in Pages currently. Is there a way to convert part of the document into "word processing" mode where when you run out of room on one page, it automatically creates a new page?
Do you know any hidden or little-known nice feature of macOS (née Mac OS X)? It doesn't matter what it is—maybe just a short terminal command or a keyboard shortcut. Share your experiences on hidden Mac OS X features with us..
I would love to be able to mirror the display of my iPad on a projector for use in a presentation. Is there any software available to do this - on the AppStore or if necessary for use with a jailbroken iPad?
I was trying to change my scrolling settings to keep the screen from scrolling when I take my hands off the touchpad. Right now, if I do a two-finger scroll, and take my fingers off the pad while keeping my hand moving, the screen continues to scroll, like a throw. I would like this behavior to stop. I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard Thanks!
I realized recently that iTunes has add-ins. What are the add-ins that add value to iTunes on Windows? One add-in per answer please.
Because any MacBook Pro in a table can be easily pick up by thieves, and we do have always our current work there (though all backed up, by Dropbox or external HD), my question is Should we protect the access to our hard drive? You would probably, if you travel a lot say yes, but What software should we use to protect our work with a password? ... and, for example, after 3 wrong attempts, maybe erase all folders that we specified without an option to get it back? Kinda like what iPhone give us in a business environment that we can, remotely, erase all personal data.
My girlfriend's battery won't last 1 second, so it obviously needs replaced. But I just bought a new battery from Apple a few months ago and it seems to discharge extremely quickly. Are there any apps out there that would help me diagnose if I just need to buy another new one?
I installed Windows 7 (and XP before) on my MacBook Pro and whenever I boot my Windows and after that boot my OS X my clock shows the wrong time and my login items that I set in the system preference > Accounts disappear! I have also lost my second language added! Indeed I lost all my specimen settings.
On Windows, there is the pretty good Windows Live Writer. I have always been told that there is no equivalent on Mac. What would be the best alternative?
I don't use widgets that much, but one particular widget makes the dashboard useful to me. That's iStat
My coworkers use NTFS partitions, and I can't share my data with them, as NTFS on Mac OS X is read-only. How can I read and write onto NTFS partitions?
I would like something that is simple to use.
My mac mini came with a remote control. When I press the play button, iTunes is launched. How can I change what happens when I press this button (e.g. launch a different program)?
I come from a PC background... every time I want to uninstall an application, I must use add/remove programs. On the mac, you can simply run a .app file from wherever you want, and many say that the way to uninstall them is simply delete this .app file.
I have Hulu desktop running and I want to make the window smaller, there are no lines which are usually present on windows for resizing on the bottom right corner, though. On windows I could right-click the title bar and choose size for these kind of windows, is there any way to do something similar on a Mac? I tried pressing the green button on the top left, but that doesn't do anything.
I have a 17" widescreen mac book pro (1920 x 1080) and find it hard to read the small fonts in the finder menu and in the Finder let hand panel even though my vision is good. Even the font's in most applications appear small. I know certain applications will allow you to configure font size but I'm really looking for a system-wide/global solution. I have tried several solutions such as: and both these mothods/features seem incomplete in that the GUI elements are not scaled smoothly. I also tried lowering my monitor resolution but that wasn't ideal cause the display gets a bit blurry.
Apps like Twitterific and Flipboard are great but I want to be able to use the "Offline Pages" app to save the text of a link so I can read it later. In Twitterific, when I touch a link it opens in an internal web app that doesn't have the bookmarks bar and therefor doesn't have my "Offline Pages" bookmarklet.
I have multiple Macs registered to my iTunes account. If I plug my iPhone in to any Mac other than the one I usually sync with it, I have the option to transfer purchased items from my iPhone to the connected Mac. This works great for moving music I purchase on my iMac to my MacBook. However, every time I hit "transfer purchases," it also tries to transfer applications. I have no reason to puts apps on my MacBook, and don't see any reason to waste the disk space. Is there any way to tell iTunes to only transfer purchased music off the phone?
I'm not familiar with OS X. I'm trying to find a way to get a modem (Huawei ETS 1201, which I believe can only be connected using a USB cable) driver for OS X Leopard (on a MacBook Pro) for a friend. After failing to find a driver from the company's website, I was wondering whether it would be possible to use a Windows driver in any way (like some sort of Virtualization?) or whether I am likely to be able to find an unofficial driver for OS X. TIA
I have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected to my Macbook Pro. I have the lid closed and have it running. I run it as if it were a desktop PC, always on. I only shut off the LCD attached to it. Is it safe to always have the Macbook Pro on and running?
Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?
When I disable syncing apps with my iPad, iTunes uninstalls all apps. How can I make iTunes not mess with it and leave the apps on it, even if I disable synchronization? I tried disconnecting immediately after applying, but this doesn't save the changes I made. This also happens to my iPods and iPhones.
I find Spotlight very very useful, however I would like to be able to search for documents that contain a given phrase, i.e. words appearing together, instead of anywhere in a document. Do you know of any way or plugin to perform such a search?
I've got two macs, both with the same monitor. When I use Back to my Mac Screen Sharing from Mac A to Mac B, I see the full screen of Mac B, but it's in a window on Mac A, and the image is scaled a little bit.
Other than OpenOffice, can you suggest a light free viewer for Excel files?
I'm looking for an application that can scan my local network and report any shared folders it finds. I've tried iStumbler, but it only gives you information on machines that are sharing with Bonjour. Anything out there that looks harder, ie. shows samba, nfs, etc?
I've started to a lot of video editing with Adobe Premiere CS5 and After Effects CS5. I don't really have the money for a new Mac Pro. I feel that laptops are general underpowered and I have no need to be mobile.
Apparently someone has given my number has his telephone number to a whole bunch of offices, and I am getting a lot of calls on my phone asking for him! Is there a setting on the iPhone 3GS - OS 4.0.2 to set a phone number to not ring, and not vibrate?
I have an SSD on the way and will be moving my HDD to the optical bay slot in my MBP. I want to boot from the SSD and store my /Users folder on the HDD. I've seen the way that everyone suggest moving an individual account's home folder to a separate partition.
I just installed iTunes 9.2.5 (x64) on a new laptop, and iTunes is not automatically syncing when my iPhone is plugged in. The preference "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" is UNCHECKED. I didn't have this problem with my other laptop, so I'm not sure where the problem lays. Any help would be greatly appereciated. Thank you.
Mobile Terminal 426 appears to be the only non-crashing iOS4 Terminal App. Unfortunately it's missing all of its convenience features, like gestures. Are there alternatives?
I kind of hate it when applications, which I start, at first search for updates. It's not the updates. Well I fire up an app because I want / need to use it (now). I liked the centralized, system wide update which Linux offered. And SoftwareUpdate just checks Apples software. Is there a way to centralize the updates of the third party applications?
I purchased a new Macbook Pro (15.4" with 500GB HDD), and discovered it had a stuck pixel in the centre of the screen. This pixel was always lit green, and any attempts to resolve it myself didn't work. I took it back to the retailer, who happily exchanged it for another one (which had to be ordered). I picked up the replacement yesterday, and to my horror, its screen had the same problem, although this time the pixel was stuck on red, and was in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Another replacement has been ordered, and I'm now a little concerned that this may have the same problem.
I find the default dictionary dashboard widget on my MacBook Pro to be very annoying. One, you type in a misspelled word and it says, ""x" could not be found" instead of being helpful and offering alternative spellings. Two, I can't copy and paste from it.
I would like to use last.fm to just keep track of what music I listen to, but I listen to a lot of podcasts as well, using both iTunes and my iPhone. Is there any way to prevent the Last.fm application from scrobbling my podcasts? Or alternatively, is there any way to prevent Last.fm from scrobbling any music file longer than 1 hour or something?
Including all e-mail messages contained in these local folders ofcourse.
Windows 7 has a nice new feature for moving around windows. The one that I am particularly interested in is: Windows Key + Left/Right : Move the window to the left or right of the screen, or over to a second monitor.
I looked around at several forums and found no one with a similar problem. The error seems to usually appear for other people when the backup is actually being created, not when the iPod is being restored to a backup like it does in this case.
I have a new MacBook Pro, when I'm using it the screen goes suddenly blank for a second and comes back, it feels like as if someone unplugged my screen and plugged it back immediately.. why does this happen? Initially I thought it was only happening when I'm running on battery, but happens even when I'm connected too. This is very sporadic.
in Windows you can put the curser on text box (focus on it) and push down arrow key ( down ) and the list of all text that textbox was remembered was shown, then you can move on them by up and sown arrow key and if press Delete on highlighted text it was removed but I can't do the same in my macbook pro. it doesn't have Delete key and this button act as BackSpace and it won't act if you press fn + Delete . any one have any idea to delete remembered text in macbook-pro(os x).
When ever I try to download updates of my iApps in iTunes I get a dialog that says "The information on this page is out dated". If I hit "Check for updates" again all is well. Does anyone know what causes this?
Every since "upgrading" my 2nd generation iPod Touch to iOS 4, it seems to lose power overnight (when not plugged in). What can I do to fix this? I have tried a restore and that did not work. Seen as a problem in releases iOS 4.0.1, 4.0.2 and 4.1
When I execute /opt/local/bin/couchdb manually, the process is created, so no problems there. It just seems the launch daemon skips this command. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Safari 5 came with a copycat of Firefox "awesome" bar, completing text as your type an url with history of previous title pages you've seen, and not just previous URLs. How to get rid of this annoyance?
All my problems stemmed from trying to get mcrypt for PHP installed. Last night I gave in and followed a tutorial of how to do a totally fresh apache2 and php5.3.3 install. I did this using MacPorts.
I recently bought the 13" MacBook Pro and using the function keys set the keyboard backlighting to be four steps below the maximum setting, as indicated by the graphic that appears on the screen. Often when I boot the computer or open the lid after a sleep period, if I adjust the backlighting by one step then I notice that it has a noticeably different value to what I set it to. For example, it might have dropped from near the maximum value to the half way setting.
Is there any way to search a specific type of file using Spotlight? I remember there was a special command or something that I had to put in front of the search phrase but I cannot remember it now. For example, if I want to search only PDFs for a particular phrase in Spotlight, what would I do?
I purchased a book and have it in ePub and PDF formats. I can easily add the PDF to iBooks from Safari. However, I can't find a method to get an ePub book into iBooks without iTunes. I'm away from my laptop with iTunes where my iPhone syncs, so that's not an option at the moment. Is there anyway to add an ePub book to iBooks without iTunes?
I recently had to reinstall the OS on my MacBook Pro. I used MobileMe to sync a bunch of my settings back to my computer (including Keychains), and now I can't see any of my Keychain passwords. If I try to view an item and check the "Show password" or "Show note" checkbox, I get a little alert that says "Access to this item is restricted". However, the Access Control tab for that same item has the "Allow all apps access" option selected, with the description saying "Access to this item is not restricted". Things I've found/tried: Keychain First Aid reports no errors with my keychain. There is nothing in my ~/Library/Keychains/.syncinfo folder. Creating a new default keychain a re-syncing from MobileMe does not fix the issue.
Hey does anyone know if there is a public framework to sync data between iOS devices using MobileMe? I've tried googling it and have come up empty.
How do I do that? (including what I need to do to iPhoto on all my apple computers) Are there any disadvantages?
When I open the lid from my MacBook, occasionally (not always) it will just show a black screen and a cursor, and the hard drive is spinning, but the log on dialog will never show up. Sometimes it shows up after a minute or two, sometimes it doesn't, so I close the lid - wait five seconds - and try again. Does this sound like an issue anyone has heard of before?
Are there any ways to move photos from the default album to a specified album? Maybe there exist some iPad apps for that? I know how to do that using iTunes, but you know, it's very uncomfortable :(
I setup my iPhone 3GS with iOS 4 to sync with my Google account according to the instructions from Google. Somehow, only the default Google calendar with my name is shown in the Calendar app. What should I do to make ALL my Google calendars appear and sync with my iPhone? Thanks!
On my MacBook Pro (Year 2009) it takes a long time until I'm logged in or until when a program is started. From day to dayit's getting slower. Programs like Safari or Word or MonoDevelop take up to 2 min until it's started.
What is the criterion for sorting photos, are used by iTunes, when you are uploading them to iPad? I'm just trying to arrange photos in right order, before uploading to iPad, but without success, they are still unordered, when i open this album on ipad :( I've renamed all photos as "0001.jpg", "0002.jpg", etc removed all EXIF information from this files set identical creation and modification time
Ideally, I'm looking for free or low-cost solutions... I'd like to test out a variety of operating systems (windows, linux, mac os, etc). Any help is appreciated!
I have an iPhone 4 and am contemplating which of the free cases I should get. I bought a basic case at Best Buy when I bought my phone. The big problem I have with this one is that the opening at the bottom for the dock connector isn't large enough to connect the adaptor I have to play music in my car (GROM iPod connector -- highly recommended).
I have brand new Macbook Pro (15", i5 2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM) purchased at the end of May 2010 and Apple advertises up to 7 hours of wireless web battery life, however I consistently getting only about 4 hours when I use it normally, i.e. WiFi is turned on and quite a few apps are running, but nothing too resource hungry like games or Photoshop. I tried to figure out if my settings are incorrect or if I'm using some apps that really drain the battery, but can't find any obvious issues, so I wonder what other MBP owners typically get from their batteries? Is 4 hours a typical or I need to replace my battery or do something with my setup? When Apple states up to 8-9 hours, must you turn off all wireless, dim your screen to the minimum and perhaps the only app running be Terminal?
Basically I'd like changes in all of these to be reflected on my iphone... but it would be cool to have all three completely synched. Google Calendar: - has multiple calendars (some public, some private) Exchange Calendar: - work calendar, access via my mac book pro
I have a mounted nas volume (/Volumes/Volume_1) and i would like to create a share point on this, so that it can be accessed via FTP or whatever. Yet, when in server admin > file sharing, I cannot see this volume. Is there anything I can do to see my NAS volume? PS: that's a shame, I wanted to tag my post snow-leopard-server... because I thought it made sense... but it's not possible until I earn these 150 reputations :)
The trackpad button on my 2007 Macbook Pro seems to be sticking. Specifically, it's stuck in the "down" position, which means I'm selecting pretty much everything all the time (you wouldn't believe how frustrating it was just to ask this question). It was fine yesterday. What can I do to unstick it?
Is there a way to change the login screen in Snow Leopard? I do not like the way the purple 'time machine' background looks and can't seem to find anyplace to change this.
I leave my iMac (24') on almost 24/7, putting it to sleep while not in use. Sometimes when I resume from sleep I encounter the following: WiFi shows full signal Loading web page in Safari loads slowly then stops WiFi sometimes shows degraded signal at this point, but sometimes it doesnt I disable then enable the Airport using the icon at the top of the screen WiFi works as expected
I leave my iMac (24') next to the sliding door in the lounge at night. The door remains open, so the air gets very cold at night. When I turn my computer on in the morning the screen fogs up inside, presumable because of the cold air inside warming up quite suddenly from the heat of the LCD. Is there an easy fix, or a way to avoid this happening?
What are the following (default) iDisk folders used for: Backup Groups Library Sites Software Web
I have recently had my iPhone replaced. An order for the free bumper case had already been placed using my old phone for which I received a confirmation email, but I did not get an email stating that the order had been cancelled when the phone was replaced. If I launch the free iphone case application I am able to place another order, but I do not want to if my current one is en-route. Does anyone know what's happening in this scenario?
Despite being a "subjective" question, it is a useful one for newcomers to the Apple platform, and serves to aide the lacking gaming community. What are your favorite OS X games? Limit to one application per answer. Add a short description for the application Add a link to the website in the name of the application, if possible (no direct downloads). Use ## [game name](link) when citing the game. Only Mac OS X games please, iOS games will be in another question.
I have an iMac 24", running OSX 10.5.8. I noticed sometimes when I wake my Mac from screensaver, the gamma is off. The screen becomes very white-washed looking. I can get it back to normal gamma by firing up System Preferences -> Display without changing any settings.
I would like to mount an SMB network share from the command line (terminal); how would I go about that? I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4.
I've been using OS X for 3 generations of the OS already (Tiger --> Leopard --> SL) but haven't really ventured in using Automator much. What are the best ways to use Automator? (Best uses, time savers, etc.)
When cleaning up my disk I deleted a couple of files from my music collection which iTunes was managing. Now when I try to sync a device I get an error message that it can't sync these files because they don't exist. The problem is that I can't find these files in iTunes any more to delete them. They don't appear when I search for appropriate terms. So, my question is how do I find them, and is iTunes hiding them from me in some "smart" way?
What are your "must-have" iPhone or iPod touch apps—the ones you can't live without? (Figuratively speaking, I hope.) Please omit apps that come pre-installed. One app per answer. Use this format for the first two lines of your answer: ## [app name](link to website) [App Store](link to appstore) Include short description. Check for duplicates before adding new answers. If you find a duplicate, vote it down and encourage its poster to upvote the original entry instead (and remove the dupe). Please exclude iPad-only apps from here; there's Great iPad Apps for those.
I have this problem sometimes with my dual-screen setup, especially when I'm juggling lots of things around. Occasionally I seem to be able to move a window entirely off-screen (I'm not quite sure how) and I can't get it back. If I do a 'hide all' in the application's menu (usually it's Mail.app, so let's stick to that one for the example), everything disappears and Mail seems to think it's got an 'inbox' window in the Windows menu, but there's nothing visible. Closing and restarting the app doesn't seem to help (as the app is helpfully remembering where my window previously was) and all I end up doing is shutting down the Mac, unplugging the second monitor and restarting it, opening the application again and this seems to persuade the Mac to rethink the main window position, and all is well. I can then restart the second monitor, etc.
I am wondering what was the very first apple product? I have heard that they have made PDA's and drawing tablet type products in the past (early days)?
NOTE: I know neither the iPhone SDK or Objective C, just wondering if possible. I know obviously it would have to be on a Jailbroken device anyway, but it is technically possible for a iPhone call recording application to be made, or is it not possible to hook into the calls or the audio input/output?
Whenever I turn on my Nokia bluetooth headphones they automatically connect to my Macbook. The problem is they always connect to the Mono (and not the Stereo) profile. So I have to disconnect and reconnect with the stereo profile. Is there anyway to either delete the mono profile or set the stereo profile as the default? Mac OS X 10.6 Nokia BH-905
I've travelled to Europe and Asia quite a bit with iPhones with no problems (I live in the US), except for the fact that making calls anywhere outside the US is crazy expensive and of course I wouldn't dare turn on data roaming for fear of the thousand-dollar bill. These days, though, is there not a better way? Can I not go into a shop in the UK and buy a pay-as-you-go micro-sim for 30GBP and call/data away? Is my iPhone (3GS and 4) permanently and forever locked to AT&T unless I jailbreak it, even with a different sim card? I'm willing to jailbreak my 3GS to accomplish this mission, but I'd like to hear from someone with real-world experience before doing so. Thanks!
I was wondering whether or not the switch to Linux would be worth it. I feel like programming on my MacBook Pro is fine and I was wondering what the advantages would be for staying or switching. What would you do and why?
Is there a way to change the amount of time you have to click and hold on a Dock icon to activate Dock Expose? or maybe tie the right click to activate it?
Is there any application similar to Hotspot Shield that I can use in Snow Leopard without requiring Rosetta? For those who don't know, Hotspot Shield provides a VPN access so you can browse anonymously on the web.
I accidentally deleted my "var/keychains" folder in my jailbroken iPhone 4 thinking that it would solve a problem to a tweak that wasn't work, and now my iPhone is not recognizing the passwords I enter into the phone. It keep asking me to enter my voicemail password, email passwords..etc. I can't even access youtube. I also can't sync my iPhone 4 to my iTunes because there aren't any valid files in the Keychains folder. I have recreated the folder, but I did not back up any of the files in it. I was suspecting that the iPhone would recreate those files once I deleted them, but I was wrong. Can anyone help me out here? I can't restore my iPhone because I haven't backed up any of my important data. I can still use the iPhone, but these inquiries are irritating me hugely.
I feel like an idiot now because apparently an AT&T sim is REQUIRED to make an iPhone work even if you have no intention of ever using it as a phone? Is that true? How can you get around this "No SIM card" issue?
When an application pops up the Mac OS X standard file or directory chooser dialog it won't allow me to open packages so that I can select something within. Is there a way to do this without creating a symbolic link to the target?
I love Macbook Air, but disk space is a real issue. This is most obvious when using it as main machine - media from iTunes and iPhoto in particular ends up leaving you with very little working space. How do you approach this problem?
I want know how can I apply a software to open all my same document, for example I want to open all my PDF document with Skim but when I right click on it> open with > other and choose my desired application and check the "Always Open With" it just do for that specific file.(mean always open A.pdf with skim if I want to open B.pdf still open with "preview"). How can I force OS X to open all pdf type with Skim.
I'm using FileVault to encrypt my homedir. But when I'm not logged (locally) into my remote machine and I'm connecting to it trough SSH my home contains only the sparsebundle file. How can I mount it so my home dir appears normally as a local login on the machine ?
I am considering recommending an iPad for an older relative that currently has no computer and no Internet access. I get reasonable 3G reception from this person's home. Internet access options start at roughly $60/month. So, I am considering recommending a 3G iPad and using only the 3G service for Internet access.
I'm considering a Mac Pro purchase but cannot afford the one I really want. The question is this; Can the cheapest Mac Pro 5,1 single quad-core Nehalem 2.8 GHz be upgraded to the dual six-core Westmere 2.93 GHz at some point in the future? If not, what would be the cheapest one that could?
Some videos on websites have the sound volume so low that even with all sound settings at maximum levels it's hard to listen. I'm looking for an app that would allow me to boost the Mac's volume. Something similar to VLC volume controls.
I have both a legitimate, store-bought retail license for OS X Snow Leopard, and I own an Apple TV. (Neither were stolen, copied, etc. ;-) Is it possible to install OS X Snow Leopard on an Apple TV? If so, how, or where can I find more information?
I own an Apple TV, with 160GB of internal storage. I'm interested in replacing that hard drive with a larger one, perhaps 640GB, or else the largest 2.5" drive I can get that would be compatible.
How do I set Time Machine to eject my external Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?
When Time Machine tries to make a backup, it informs me that it can't because the backup disk is full. What it's mostly full of (about 700GB of 1TB) is prior backups of the same machine. Time Machine used to just delete the oldest ones, but now it seems unwilling or unable to do so.
As I know you can find a limit of shortcut in system preference > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcut where you can find other shortcut and how must change it? for example if I change the cmd + O to enter where can I go? is there any software that can do it for me or I must do it in terminal (How?). P.S: I read some where that list of shortcuts for each apps save in Localized.rsrc but I have 2 problem? I check and in snow leopard I don't have this file.
I would really like to install ububtu on my Mac using bootcamp but it requires me to reformat my disk first. I have programs with license keys that I don't want to loose, or buy another copy of, and also just don't want to go through the trouble of reformatting. Is there a way I could do this?
I'm looking for a Dashboard widget for OS X that allows you to read and edit notes—the pieces of text in iPhone Notes application and Mail.app. (I.e., something analogous to the To Do Widget which shows the same To Do items that you can access through iCal.) I don't use Mail.app regularly and would like some quicker way to access the notes synced from my iPhone.
Please suggest both mac and windows tools. Please also tell us about your experience with this tool.
I've got a fairly simple job that I'd like to run every hour. I could do it using cron, but I thought I'd use this to learn about launchd, since I hear good things about it. I've got the man launchd.plist page as a reference, but I'm looking for something based more around building an example job.
Recently I have been having an issue where at least once a month my Spotlight index gets corrupted, and I can no longer search the content of mail in Mail.app. I can fix the problem by taking my HD out of Spotlight, and then putting it back in, but it then takes about 4 hours to re-index the drive.
Whenever I plug in or unplug my headphones into my computer, it freezes for about 10 seconds before it is able to do anything which is rather annoying. This didn't use to happen though, would anyone know the cause of this or how to fix it?
I don't see any application to defragment my Mac (running OS X). Is defragmenting not necessary for Mac OS X? If so, why not?
I am looking at buying a few of the 2TB Time Capsules for our office, where we have about 20 unibody MacBook Pros with 128GB SSDs. Is there a limit on the number of Macs that a single 2TB Time Capsule can provide Time Machine backup targets to? Does anyone have advice or experience regarding using a Time Capsule as a target for multiple machines?
I have an application that opens when I login. Is there a way to relaunch it automatically if it crashes or if I close it inadvertently? (the application in question is Transmission if there is any solution specific to this app) In a perfect world, it could even be launched even without me opening a session. thanks.
Should I turn my iPad off to replace the MicroSIM card?
Can you recommend a Window Manager for the Mac? I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that would snap a windows to the left or right half of my screen.
On my old-ish MacBook Pro (pre-unibody), Quicksilver has been misbehaving for quite some time. I fire the keyboard command to launch it (I like command-space, replacing Spotlight), and it comes up in text-entry mode rather than selection mode. I can hit escape and QS closes, but nothing I can do makes it come up prepared to navigate the objects it knows about.
I'm about to run out of disk space, and I know I have a lot of junk on my macbook but I don't know how to find it to figure out how to delete it. Is there an easy command line way through terminal to list my biggest files on my drive? Or is there a GUI program that could help me find all the offending huge files that I'm not using?
How can I customized Terminal so that when I open the application it opens several shell tabs? If possible I would like to also have it run a different environment script for each tab. Example: Run this command source bin/activate which is a Python virtualenv setup command.
I have a .deb file that I want to unpack and examine, but not install. I'm currently looking for where i can download dpkg for OSX, but can't find it. If you have a link, please share.
I would like to be able to reduce the quality of the photos I have in a directory through some sort of automation. One of the requirements is that I cannot change the dimensions of the photo. The way I have been doing it so far is just by opening each photo in preview choosing save as selecting jpeg selecting a low quality saving
I'm looking to upgrade memory from 4GB to 8GB on my MacBook Pro 15" 2.4Mhz Core i5. I've been looking at Mushkin 8GB RAM on NewEgg, but it's been getting bad reviews lately for not working properly with MacBook Pro Core i7. I'm not sure if it still works OK with Core i5... Is there a trusted 8GB(2x4) RAM upgrade for MacBook Pro 15" 2.4Mhz Core i5?
I am getting this error message every time a meeting request comes through, but I am not syncing anything with outlook or exchange, so I don't know what to change to get rid of it.  These are my sync settings.
This has happened to me twice recently: I have been on a call when all of a sudden I can hear the other person on loudspeaker, at which point I take the phone away from my face and observe that my face (assumably) has accidentally pressed the FaceTime button. Is this a known issue and is there a way to prevent this from happening in the future?
A few days ago an app went rogue and leaked memory taking up all 4gb of RAM and more than 8gb of page file space. The result was a machine which was unusable and took about 20 minutes to (eventually) shut down. After rebooting Safari would not show my "Top Sites", instead showed me a "This page could not be found" (or something similar, I can't remember), would not display the "Top Sites" button on the menu, and the button was not available in the list of buttons to add. After a reboot this was resolved, but I would still like to know what went wrong. Does anyone know what could have gone wrong here?
I wold like to download some safari extensions, but I'm not sure if I should be looking for ones specifically written to run in Windows. Should I be looking for platform specific extensions?
First time caller, long time listener: I've seen this question asked on a few other sites but with no "definitive" answers. The Apple website on iPhone batteries is ambiguous, at best, and the closest it comes to answering the question is saying that a monthly deep cycle is a good idea. (reference)
I want to return their phone, but can't access their contacts, etc.
I am a heavy Skype user - I use it for work and to communicate with friends. Little by little my contact list grew to almost 800 people. It's really difficult to handle my contacts and put them in different lists. Searching for contacts is also not intuitive and easy task - people like to use strange usernames for Skype.
My office used to use JungleDisk Workgroup service to exchange large files. We've moved on to a new solution and I uninstalled the client according to their instructions, but I noticed today in the Console that com.apple.launchd is trying to start JungleDisk every 10 seconds. It fails, but I can't help but think this is causing some performance issues. Where/how do I remove a background service launch?
I have an 2G (MC Model) 8GB iPod Touch on iOS 4.0 that has a strange issue. Push notifications used to work just fine, but for the past month or two, I don't get any notifications while I'm on my home wifi network. If I connect my iPod to any other wifi network (open private, public hotspot, etc), I get flooded with all the past notifications. I have tried restoring my iPod numerous times, tried downgrading to 3.1.2, tried different combinations of DNS servers (as mentioned on the net), but nothing works. Any ideas on how to go about getting push to work when I'm at home?
On linux boxes it is possible to add multiple ip addresses to the same network interface. It's achived with the following command: Is there any way to to the same with OS X ? I've tried to put multiple ip addresses (comma separated like the dns) in System Preferences / Network with no luck...
I have a Mac OS X 10.6 computer at home, which I like to remote into from my work laptop from time to time. I've tried using RealVNC and UltraVNC with the built-in VNC client, but I can't get them to accept the adaptive compression, so I can either do 8-bit color that is low bandwidth Full color that takes up too much bandwidth for my home's upload speed
Is there some equivalent to Apple's (iOS) Remote App for the desktop (running OS X)? I.e. some – preferably small – application to control an iTunes instance which is running on another Mac? Maybe some menu extra?
My iTunes shows the wrong cover image for a handful of albums. How can I correct this?
From the Advanced Server Admin for OS X Server v.10.6: You must have a fully qualified domain name for each server’s IP addess in the DNS system. The DNS zone must have the reverse-lookup record for the name and address pair. Not having a stable, functioning DNS system with reverse lookup leads to service failures and unexpected behaviors.
I'd love to use one of the new Mac Mini Server models as a backup server, but need a lot more space. Has anybody tried attaching a port multiplied eSATA enclosure to the Mini? This is the one I'd really like to work: *=URL=* I've read a few things that imply that the system controller in the Mac Mini supports it.
My iPhone (1st Gen) is no longer able to recognize when I touch it at the very bottom of the screen. The only way this effects me is when I have the keyboard up I cant hit the 123, spacebar, or send.
The .sparsebundle for the MacBook works exactly as advertised. The .sparsebundle for the Macbook Pro? Not at all. Double-clicking it gives the error "No mountable file systems." Disk Utility (pictured below) has it greyed out and refuses to run any Verify or Repair procedures on it. I've tried the Googles, gone through countless discussion threads in Apple's support site as well as other popular Mac tech sites, resorted to Terminal hdiutil mount -readwrite style hacking, all to no avail. As far as I can tell from the research I've done, what may have happened is that my MacBook Pro was in the middle of a Time Machine backup at the very second it went kaput, which seems to have locked the .sparsebundle into some kind of hyper-militant read-only state from whence not even light can escape. The message in the window pictured below comes up immediately after I click "Repair disk", though the candybar progress stripe keeps spinning and spinning indefinitely.
I have a problem with ejecting a CD. It happened twice in the past few days, CD drive disappears from the list of devices in a Finder and I can't eject a CD that sits inside my laptop. I tried Disk Utility it sees the drive, but the eject option is grayed out. Typing "drutil tray eject" in Terminal also doesn't produce any effect.
I upgraded to the iPhone 3G 2 years ago from the first iPhone and will (hopefully) get the iPhone 4 at some point. I was thinking of just using my old one like an iPod Touch or just keep in my speakers for music. I also considered jailbreaking (maybe it would help me get better with programming?) or reselling it as well. What do you recommend I do with it?
I want is to set up a Mac to connect to multiple networks. So far, so good. However, I only want to grant AFP access to users on ONE of the networks, but not the other. How can I accomplish this on (non-server) Mac OS X? This is probably an issue that comes up quite a bit in IT - you want to use the same machine as a world-facing web server and as an internal AFP (or whatever) server, but I haven't really been able to find a way to do it.
Safari unzips .zip and .gz files after downloading. How can I stop this behavior?
I made one of my mailboxes inactive. How do I make it active again?
I'm getting the error when I "Import All..." from my iPhone. Trying to import individual images I get
If you want to upload a photo to a website from iPhoto, is there a simple way that you can access it, without having to export it from iPhoto first. When I navigate to the iPhoto folder, it just appears as an empty folder.
This is a question often asked by switchers (Windows PC -> Mac)
I have an early 2008 model MacBook Pro (17") that went the way of all the earth a couple of days ago. I haven't diagnosed it fully yet, but it appears that it's the logic board that's gone, and if that truly is the case it's not worth it to spend the money to repair a nearly 3 year old machine (and no, I didn't have AppleCare because, apparently, I'm an idiot).
Is there any remote desktop solution for Mac? I don't mean a VNC where one can only manage the computer using the logged user on the computer. I want to be able to use my Mac at home using GUI with my account while my wife accesses the computer locally using her account. Is it possible?
I'm going to be getting a new MacBook laptop as part of the PhD programme I've just started, but have never used Macs before in my life. I'm quite an advanced computer user (running an informal computer repair business for Windows PCs), but I can see that I might just get frustrated with it at first as I don't know some of the standard OS X ways of doing things. Does anyone have suggestions for resources that could teach me these standard ways of doing things, or any other guides to someone transitioning from Windows?
Is there ANY way to Power Up a Mac Mini remotely? Just to be clear, I don´t mean wake up from sleep but boot up.
What are the options for playing music from an iPod touch over speakers in multiple rooms, preferably with the ability to turn speakers off in a specific room using a remote? I currently have a basic stereo system but it's about 5 years old, only has two speakers, and doesn't support Bluetooth so I'm not sure if it's worth trying to use with the iPod for this type of setup. Cost isn’t an issue at least until I figure out what the options are.
I like to run GNU emacs in a Terminal window under Mac OS X 10.6.4. Unfortunately, whenever I hit a hot key for emacs I often "trip" on an OS X system hot key. For instance, when I hit ⌃ + space in emacs, I end up opening Spotlight. Is there a way to "skip" system level hot keys when I use emacs under Terminal.app? I hate to have to manually deactivate all system hot keys and re-enable them whenever I use emacs.
When I want see movie or video in mac os x (with VLC, DivX Player, Quick Time) and want to load subtitle these video player application can't load my subtitle correctly and show in strange text. my subtitle languages is Farsi (rtl language). I think I must change some unicode settings but I don't know where anyone have any idea?
After I finish editing a movie with iMovie '09 under Mac OS X 10.6.4, is there a way to export the final product to Ogg Theora format? OR, is there a way to convert an already exported movie to Ogg Theora easily?
I am trying to get AVIDemux set up with the X264 codec using this tutorial. The following is what goes down when I get to the ./configure --enable-mp4-output command So I tried it.
How much RAM do these iPods ship with? The iPhone 4 has 512MB, and older iPod Touch 3rd Gen have 256MB (same as the iPad). Do the new iPod Touch have 512MB as the iPhone 4 (what I would expect) or 256MB?
After a while being inactive with the mouse or keyboard, the macbook will dim my screen to save battery. I know I can expand the delay before it will dim in the system preferences, but are there any way of automatically disable it when watching video? It's quite annoying having to touch the mouse every few minutes when watching a movie...
Recently my Downloads folder has become read-only. This prevents Safari form saving any file amongst other annoyances. As you can see from the below image the folder is read-only but I have plenty of disk space.
I'm trying to make room on my time capsule to make backups (it currently tells me it's full). I got help in this question with how to delete individual backups, but it didn't solve the problem. Even after I'd deleted all the backups Time Machine sees, I still have a ~700GB sparsebundle on the time capsule.
Is there a program that will allow me to use Spotlight to search my Firefox bookmarks and open the browser window?
Is there a way to hibernate at all? I know if the battery dies when it's sleeping it hibernates, but is there a way to go directly to hibernate with a keyboard shortcut?
The new vertical layout is causing me all sorts of grief - is there any way to revert this back to the normal horizontal orientation of the close, minimize and zoom buttons of every other Mac OS X window?
Why is /tmp a symlink to /private/tmp on Mac OS X? In other words, why isn't /tmp just a regular directory, like on Linux or BSD? I understand how it works and I don't mind it, I'm just interested in the (historical?) reasoning behind it.
I have a Sony PlayStation Eye USB camera and microphone. I have successfully used it on my Mac Pro desktop with several video application (iShowU HD for example). However, although iChat will recognise the microphone it will not work with the camera, see screen shot.
I thought about setting up folder actions that would copy the files into the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder. However, since I like to use the "keep my iTunes library organized" option, the files get moved into the iTunes music directory and I can't write a script that will compare my MacBook Pro's iTunes music library with the "Automatic" directory on the server.
I have a MacBook Pro plus an external 24" monitor. I'm also using 4 virtual spaces. With the external monitor they double, so I have 8 virtual spaces.
I would like a quicker method of queuing up my songs in iTunes DJ. Right clicking and selecting the option is too slow.
I am trying to Alt+D on my Mac, but it doesn't take me to the address bar. Instead, the key seems to insert a random character. Is there an alternative shortcut?
When I'm adjusting the volume on my iPhone, I've noticed that sometimes it says "ringer" as I adjust it, and sometimes it says "volume"; also, sometimes it says "volume (headphones)". What determines when the volume buttons are adjusting the volume vs. the ringer, and what is the difference between the two actions? Thanks!
My Spotlight index got corrupted, preventing me from searching messages in Mail.app. I added my HD to Spotlight's privacy list to delete the index. I then removed it from the privacy list so Spotlight would reindex the drive from scratch. I have done this before with no real problem.
I've got the Gimp for Mac OS X installed and working in my installation of Mac OS X 10.6.4. A very important tool I need is the David's Batch Processor plugin ( *=URL=* ) for batch auto-adjusting contrast/brightness/colour for my images.
If I have time to listen to just one podcast a day or every other day about Apple stuff, which one should I listen to? I know there's a lot of different specialized Apple podcasts out there (i.e. Mac downloads, iOS apps, Apple news, etc.), but can anyone recommend a general podcast which has elements of all of these? I'd also be interested in the best podcasts in certain specialized areas, but mostly I'm looking for one that I can listen to consistently and find out most of what is going on in the Apple world.
I've recently purchased a new Macbook Pro, and am attempting to copy files over my LAN from an iMac (both running Snow Leopard). I have about 100GB of data to transfer, and am finding I'm getting incredibly slow transfer speeds. For example, an 86MB file is taking about 7 minutes.
I use Air Display to convert my iPad in to an extra monitor when I'm not using it. However, I have other iOS devices lying around, too. Is it possible to use Air Display to turn multiple iOS devices in to extra monitors at the same time?
For both the new (tiny) generation, and the last generation, what media formats and codecs are supported for streaming to Apple TV? How does that streaming work -- is it all iTunes-based, or are there other ways to go about doing it?
I'm curious, does anybody have a decent solution for sending e-mails via Mail.app at some scheduled times? I'm badly in need of something like that :)
I'm looking for OS X software that can help me track 404 errors on my site.
When using my iPad to, for example, write an email, I have the option to press a button and hide the keyboard. This is useful for reviewing an email prior to sending it.
What's the default Notes account setting used for on the iPhone? Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Account (in the "Notes" section). What does it do? I couldn't find any documentation in the user's guide for this setting.
Is there any way to change what happens when I close the lid of my laptop? Do macs have the option of hibernating vs. sleeping like PC's do? If so, which of these is the default behavior when I close the lid?
What is a good Download Manager for Mac? Are there free ones available?
My Macbook Pro is running on Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz. OS - Leopard 10.5.8. My assumption is that all Core 2 Duo processor systems are 64 bit. But uname -m command outputs i386. Why is it so?
So I just ordered a new digitizer and middle frame for my 2nd Gen iPod Touch, wired everything up, and the digitizer is not recognizing any finger swipes. I have not snapped the frame into place yet as I want to make sure I don't have to tear this thing apart again. The video's I've watched show that the digitizer "should" work when not snapped in. Is there anything I should be looking for before marking this new digitizer as defective?
I've got a 2009 Unibody MBP, and the feet are starting to fall off. I've lost one and one I have kept in a safe place.
I have an old G4 Mac Mini, running 10.5. It's hooked up to a VGA CRT monitor using Apples DVI-to-VGA adapter that was included once upon a time. Last night, while using it, the screen flickered, and the monitor went to sleep, which is it;s default behavior when there's no display connected to it. Attempting to force the monitor on displayed a "No Signal" error. Restarting the machine does nothing.
There is a certain wifi network that am around a lot. It is very slow and pretty much unusable. I would rather just never see it. As it is, it pops up every time asking me to join. Is there a way that I can have that particular network only never ask again.
Where are the default/system icons for folders and files stored?
I love the idea of the Dashboard, but there's one thing that pretty much kills it for me. When I activate Dashboard for a first time or after some extended period of time it takes it 3-15 seconds to update and actually show me things like time, calendar etc. I have a MacBook Pro and this is happening with default widgets (clock, calendar, calculator and weather). The entire idea of a dashboard that it's always one click away and the information should be available immediately.
Is it possible to force a change to a program's keybindings? E.g., instead of an menu action being invoked by Cmd-J it's Cmd-K?
Does anyone know of an iPad case that blocks access to the physical buttons. I would like the user to not be able to hit the homembutton or the sleep button.
I dropped my iPhone earlier today. The screen is now full of cracks but the phone still functioning. Is there any cases of DIY style repair being performed? Can anyone share their repair steps for this?
I want to edit my crontab file to schedule a script. Where do I find it?
I want to add my company logo and and some juice to my contact information in the signature part in Mail.app. How can I do that with little or no efforts?
Is it possible to sync Google Chrome bookmarks with Safari?
When I first set up my iTunes account, I didn't have a credit card, so I set it up as a US account, as this was the only way I could create one without a card (and thus use my iPod Touch). The downside of this is that now that I am trying to add a credit card to my iTunes account, I can't, because it insists on a state and zip code for part of the address, which my Irish credit card obviously doesn't have. So how can I switch the country of my iTunes account?
Is there a way that I check the model number of my Apple computer? (For example, iMac9,1.)
I was hoping to install Mac OS X on a flash-based drive I have, but it's only 4GB. The installer tells me there's not enough free space, but it doesn't specify how much I need free. Does anyone know the exact minimum? Is it possible to create a custom install with only the bare basics and install within 4GB?
Both seem to do roughly the same thing. What, if anything, are the relevant differences?
I've inadvertently deleted my thunderbird.dmg & then emptied the trash. Doh! Is there any way I can restore that particular file? I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.6.4 on a macbook pro.
I have recently upgraded to iTunes 10. I had some MP3 files which I would like to add to the library. In the past I have dragged the folder into the iTunes "Library" section which has added all the songs, but this time it only added the last two songs of a ~20 song album. Adding the files individually does not work either, and "File > Add to Library" does the same thing (only adds two of the songs). Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround?
I've downloaded Firefox and it's now sitting on my desktop as Firefox.dmg. When I double click on Firefox.dmg it opens up a window with Firefox in it so I can use it - does this mean the application has been installed? Community Wiki'd the question because I think it's a worthwhile question to have on the site for pointing people to, it's not exactly intuitive to do and not a question I think I deserve any rep from.
How do you find the UDID for an iOS device on Mac and Windows?
I purchased a new ADSL modem/router last week (Belkin Share), and can no longer resolve machine names on my LAN to their respective IP addresses under OS X. My Windows machines and VMs are able to do this successfully. If I ping the IP address directly, it succeeds, but if I attempt to ping the machine name I get 'cannot resolve . Unknown host'. My previous modem/router (DLink DSL-G604T) did not have this problem.
I have tried downloading iChrono, unzipping and installing, but I get the following error message: You can't install the file "iChrono 3.wdgt" because it isn't a valid widget?
I have a 1st generation iPhone which is suddenly failing to be able to sync with iTunes. It starts the sync process, but then part way through iTunes just hangs and becomes non-responsive. I have to kill the iTunes process to recover - even cancelling the sync on the phone leaves iTunes in a non-responsive state. The last status message in iTunes isn't consistent - sometimes it's copying an audio file from the phone, sometimes it's copying a video file to the phone. Any tips for getting past or diagnosing the problem?
I recently started using Git with GitHub and thus discovered that I already have a generated pair of SSH keys, public and private. This leads me to ask: what applications/programs/daemons on my Mac might have caused this keypair to be created? I've never used SSH to log in to another machine.
I wonder how to handle the recharging of my iPod touch ? I've heard that there are some actions to have to be done regularly or actions that arms the battery (like memory effect etc...)
I've a iMac with an external HD derserved to Time Machine. I also have a MacBookPro. Is it possible to make this config : Share the disk on the iMac so that the MBP sees it on the network Ask Time Machine on the MBP to use this shared disk for the backups ?
With the recent features added to iTunes player I find it to be pretty heavy and resources consuming, just to do just what I would like it to do, which is play music. It is almost becoming a full OS which I do not like.
I've got some pages on an intranet that show numerical rates to 4 decimal places, eg 147.1453. When these pages are viewed on an iPad, some of these rates appear underlined and clicking on them causes the iPad to offer to create a new contact, or add to an existing contact. Clearly it thinks that the text represents a phone number (which it doesn't really, as we're in the UK and phone numbers are not formatted with periods). Is there a way to stop this happening - either with meta-data we can put in the web pages, or by changing some setting in our iPads?
So, I decide to shutdown and restart. Every time I do that I see that indeed I get back to about 3.5GB free.
I'm I missing something basic or is there no way to see the the date stamp on a pictures taken with or synced to the iPhone?
I would like to be able to develop an iPhone application that can communicate with Modbus devices, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Has anyone had experience with this or are there existing libraries out there for this purpose?
Is it possible to change the default myname@me.com address to by myname@mac.com? I'm part of a lot of mailing lists with the "mac.com", but iPod seems to send email with "me.com" ...
I've got 2 GMax external drive enclosures, each one takes 2 3.5" SATA disks (up to 1TB per disk), configured to appear as a single 'JBOD' unit. I use FW800 out of the MacBook Pro into one unit, and then the pass-thru connector from that unit to the next one (each unit has a pass-thru connector; these boxes really were a steal at the price).
I'm looking for a combination of an app like RunKeeper that tracks my running speed, with an app (+hardware?) to track my heart rate.
When taking photos I like having my pictures geo-tagged. How can I tell when an accurate GPS location is available?
The soft ring around the OEM iPhone earbud is gone, and now it is painful to use these headphones. These soft-rubber rings don't last long either.
I'm hearing some information about Elements and Pages, but I wanted to ask what you're using as a word processing app on your iPad. I'm currently using the Notes app, but I'd like to be able to work on a document (mostly just text documents) and be able to save my progress, and then optionally pick up where I left off the next time I'm in front of my office Mac.
Every time I open the "Amazon MP3 Downloader" app (by downloading a new MP3 from Amazon.com in Safari) I get this dialog box: I'm used to seeing this the first time after I open a new app I've downloaded, but usually I don't see the dialog box after the first time I press the "Open" button. Is there a setting somewhere I can use to indicate that yes, I am sure I want to open "Amazon MP3 Downloader" without this dialog box?
We have enabled Time Machine on a Mac OS X server (10.6) with a big RAID drive. The server will be used by many users for their backup. How can we set quota so that every Time Machine backup takes up a limited amount of disk space?
Over the last few months I've found my MacBook Pro is getting increasingly unwilling to wake-up if it's gone to sleep of it's own accord - not when I put it to sleep deliberately, but when the machine is left for a while and it eventually goes to sleep itself. I usually run it with the lid down, with a mini-DVI-connected 'main' monitor and then a USB-connected 'second' monitor. Sometimes no amount of keypressing, gently tapping the power button, disconnecting the external displays and lifting the laptop lid, plugging in USB devices, inserting and ejecting CDs - no amount of any tricks I've tried will 'wake up' the display even though the machine is running (shares available over the network) and I can SSH in.
Personally, I am happy with Spotlight in the sense I just use it for finding something. But, I'm also not happy with Spotlight, as I sometimes feel it slows down my Mac pretty much. Even, I can find all the files that I need to find using PathFinder, LaunchBar, and even with find command. Is there some case that Spotlight shines over other search tools?
I use Google Chrome on my Mac as my browser, and I'd like to be able to have access to my bookmarks on my iPhone. Safari provides bookmark syncing automatically, and Mozilla has an app that provides that functionality, but I the only thing I can find is Xmarks which is a) paid, and b) synchronizes with a third-party service, instead of utilizing Google's existing bookmark sync for Chrome. Are there any other solutions?
I use my Time Capsule to share files across my machines. On my MacBook, when I open the shared disk in Finder, and expand some folders, it starts to "refresh" after a few seconds again and again. If I click on a file, it loses the selection, and the directory tree disappear and appear, like being unmounted and mounted quickly.
I have been considering buying the new Apple TV. Maybe the biggest reason is for Netflix streaming. However, I do not own a digital TV, and the only output on the Apple TV is HDMI. I could get a box to convert HDMI to analog RCA but the only ones I can find are more expensive than the Apple TV itself. I could use a new DVD player, so I'm thinking maybe I should get a Blu-ray player with analog outputs and Netflix streaming capabilities as an alternative.
I use my iPhone and iPad to check emails, and would really like to have the threaded email functionality on my iPad the same as it is on my iPhone? Will this be available in iOS?
I'm new to Safari ... and would like to know if there is a way to cause Safari to inhibit the auto refresh function that a lot of pages seem to use these days. Fwiw, my rationale is to stop large websites - being refreshed regularly - and hence consuming my download quotas. This is common with a number of news sites in Australia - eg. www.news.com.au I know there are ways to do this in Firefox, but I'd like to use Safari.
Does anyone know how to prevent the iPad from going to sleep / stand by when in the iBooks app? I'm using the iPad as a music stand with my charts, but while I'm playing the song, the screen goes black... this (as I'm sure you can imagine) totally blows.
I need the following tools for Finder. Launch a Terminal from Finder. Copy a path information from Finder.
I'd like to be able to view my cpu and memory usage in real time. Not as a desktop widget or window application, but as a widget in the menu bar. Is this possible?
My configurations to access Mac mini (Leopard) from my MacBook Pro (Leopard) at home are: Mac mini: Apple remote desktop enabled with VNC viewers flagged Mac mini: Apple remote desktop enabled with VNC viewers flagged MacBook Pro: Jollyfast VNC MacBook Pro: Jollyfast VNC I find this configuration too slow for my cabled LAN (100Mbit) and I'm searching for a better software solution. What is a recommended way to remotely control your Mac Mini from your Macbook Pro at home?
Is there a tool or method to check what shortcut key is mapped to what? I used Command-Space for special purposes, after installing this and that, and changing this and that, when I click Command-Space, I see some black screen showing 'No items selected'. It seems that the Finder or something hooks the key, but I'm not sure. Any idea?
What plugin do you guys use to handle HDR photos in Aperture 3 ?
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but: From the camera app, I can select a photo, and then hit the send button to create an email with that photo in it. From mail, I can't find any way to add an enclosure without having started in the app that owns it. I want to send multiple photos in a single email.
I still have an old Power PC machine and was wondering what the latest OS X build I can install on it?
What is the latest iTunes that will still run on a Power PC based Mac?
I LOVE Snagit. I know that captures can only be done in iOS with the built in Home-Power screenshot function. But I'm looking for an app that will allow me to edit those shots and add arrows, shadows, edges, callouts, blur, freehand circles, etc.
In the course of installing some app, I came across the following. Put a link to it in your Login items to have it start up automatically when you login.
With PC, alt-something opens the something in the main menu. Does Mac have similar function? For example, is there a way to open View menu as if I click it?
I was going to buy a refurbished MacBook Pro 15" but when I compared it to a regular one added in the shopping cart for reference, I found that they had different part numbers: FC371LL/A and MC371LL/A. I was not sure if the old model had something wrong, so I haven't ordered. Does anyone know any particular fixes Apple has done to the new MacBook Pro line? Also, are Apple products of the same name but different part numbers significantly varied?
I want to upload a picture directly to my iPad (without syncing or downloading from email). I want to SSH into my camera roll (/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE), upload an image there, and be able to see it in my Photos app (Camera Roll). When I do this, the pics do not show up. I even followed Apple's naming convention (i.e IMG_001.png). Anyone have any ideas?
I'm writing my resume with Pages, and I'd like to know if (and how) I can add a horizontal line across the page before every text segment with a certain style (namely, "Header", though that shouldn't matter). Will I necessarily have to draw a straight line myself, and move it around each time a section enlarges?
I need to run an AppleScript using a keyboard shortcut. How can I do that? I think about Save AppleScript in textual format. Use Keyboard Maestro to launch 'osascript' to run the script when the matching keyboard shortcut is called.
I am aware that after closing an application (pressing the home button) you can enter the multi-tasking tray, hold your finger down on an icon and close an application properly. But is there an easy way to perform this series of actions with one command? Sometimes I close an app and know I will not be using it again any time soon and would not like it to remain open in the background.
I bought an iPod touch first. I registered it with iTunes, gave it a name, etc. All was well, it synced when I connected it, made backups, etc.
The title pretty much says it all. If I have 25 podcast MP3s, how can I associate them with the podcast in iTunes?
What is the easiest way to take a powerpoint or keynote presentation and a video of me giving the presentation and put the two together so that they can always see the slides and my video of me giving the presentation. It would be nice if I could zoom into each and shrink the other has I wanted to focus on the slide or the presentation, but just being able to put the two side by side would be good enough!
How can I insert symbols like copyright or degree symbols?
Is there any harm in using the iPad charger for iPhone 4?
What are some of the things I can do to make my iPad (Wi-Fi) battery last a long time once it is charged? I have the first generation iPad and run iOS 3.
Whenever my iPhone is plugged in, my Windows7 laptop imports the pictures and videos from it. I want to change this to using Picasa because the Windows importer creates a folder based on the date and time pictures are imported vs. the date and time pictures are actually taken! How do I change my iPhone default importer to Picasa? How do I change my iPhone default importer to Picasa? Are there any issues using Picasa for the picture and video import? Are there any issues using Picasa for the picture and video import?
I have several (webcal) subscription calendars on my iCal. Two of them require passwords stored in my keychain. At regular intervals, iCal will ask for my keychain password. Is there a way to set up iCal so that it behaves the way Mail.app does, that is, one types the password once when the app is fired and from then on it just uses it? My keychain is set to unlock when I log in; the webcal items in the keychain are set to allow any application to access the item.
Trying to flush the local DNS cache. How is this done on Snow Leopard? Using System Preferences and using the terminal?
I need to replace my aging ADSL modem/router, and am considering the Netgear DGN3500 or Linksys WAG320N, as they both appear to have all the features I require (802.11n, ADSL2, Gigabit ethanet). I recently purchased a Belkin Share which also had all these features, but I had to return it as it didn't support Bonjour, meaning my iMac and Macbook Pro were not playing nicely on my LAN.
I am trying to consolidate my music and videos on my Laptop. It is in 3 places: C:\Users\RajMore\Music D:\Entertainment\Audio E:\Entertainment\Audio I want to put all the music in a single location C:\Users\RajMore\Music so that I can carry a single laptop and not have to worry about taking my External HDD or having to remove the D drive to put in my DVD drive.
We have an iPhone 4 dock (the official apple one, and not the universal one) which I noticed has a headphone connection on the back. Is it possible to connect that to a Macbook (Pro) and play music from the iPhone through the laptop speakers?
Is it possible to create a new bookmark folder using iOS? I share my bookmarks between four devices (using MobileMe) and it would be useful to be able to structure them in a useful way.
I am wondering if there is a product review site specifically for apple products?
Spotlight allows you to play songs from iTunes. Unfortunately, when I pause the song and resume, iTunes goes back to playing what it was playing before I used Spotlight. Is there any way to fix this behaviour? Are there any alternative methods of playing an iTunes song which I already know the name of? iTunes Version: 10 OS X Version: Snow Leopard
Sometimes the settings page will show I'm connected to a particular Wifi network SSID, but the 3G logo in the top left hand corner still appears and I still appear to be downloading via 3G. What's going on here - is this a caching issue? A wifi connectivity issue? Is this a feature? -- edit This is on an iPhone4 with 4.01 - although I've seen it in the past on an iPhone 3G on 3.01.
What can I do to fix this issue? It strikes me as a system issue (i.e. OS dealing with the memory card), rather than the camera or the card reader. Both work fine and photos get transferred pretty fast.
I've got an iPhone4 running 4.01 that is connecting to a DLink DI-624. I'm getting intermittent connections. Sometimes these are resolved by rebooting the router, sometimes not. Sometimes rebooting the phone fixes it, sometimes not.
Does anyone know how to do an iTunes windows bulk delete of files for songs no longer on my hard drive?
In the settings for my exchange account I only see options for syncing up to two weeks back, not more. Is there a way I could sync mail that is more than two weeks old?
Is this normal that the events I add in my calendar on my iPod doesn't show up on the calendar on my MobileMe account ? Do I have to do something on the iPod to not only be sync from the MobileMe Account but also push the new events on the could ?
I wonder if there is a difference in battery consumption between these two cases : I shut down the iPod with no app on. I shut down the iPod with an app on. Is the app really paused, or is it still consuming power while "hibernate" ?
I am curious as to whether there is an equivalent to the Alt-. command on Mac. On my computer it inserts the following character: ≥, instead of showing the preceding lines final parameter.
I’m using HomeBrew for my port needs (seems a bit “cleaner” than MacPorts). I can install without sudoing (which is great), but the man linking step seems to require it (/usr/local/share/man/man3 is owned by root). A guide I found suggests I recursively chown /usr/local by doing Is this safe…or is it a Bad Idea™? Also: are my permissions correct?
I think I'm right in thinking Intel Macs use EFI. I heard rumours that you can create low-level password protection and even install a shell. Info is sparse and limited.
I use Apple Mail daily, and up until recently I could have images inside my mail by referencing an external source. However the external source has since become unavailable, so ideally I would like to embed the images into my mail signatures. I am pretty good with creating the signature in HTML and create the webarchive for it, however have no idea where to begin as far as embedding the images are concerned. Has anyone actually done this, or know of a very good resource that I can use to figure it out?
If I try to go to login to MobileMe (at me.com), the MobileMe site sees that I'm on a mobile device, and won't open, routing me instead to the app store to get the mobileme gallery app, which is for the iphone, and scales pictures in a totally ridiculous way on the ipad. There is no option to open the "normal" full website.
I've amassed a collection of books in PDF format (through occasionally buying the O'Reilly Media Deal of the Day), on my MacBook Pro. I'd like to get them on my iPad, where they'll be more convenient to read. How do I do that? Should I look at Dropbox, and download a PDF reader app? (Do you have one to recommend?) Or is there a better way?
I asked about the usefulness of spotlight here, as I don't like the drag that spotlight causes all the time. What I found useful in Spotlight is those two. word lookup : spotlight opens 'Dictionary' App automatically when it can look the word up. search for PDF
How can I read a crash report to get an idea as to what happened? Sample Sanitised Crash Report:
I like to listen to podcasts on my iPhone, and there's one feature that really bugs me: when a podcast has chapters, it's impossible to see how far you are into the podcast, how much is left, or to scrub between chapters. Is there a way to disable this feature?
I want to launch emacs from TextMate, I tried the method with OTC in here, but it would be great if I can learn other methods that I can launch emacs from TextMate.
I must say that Time Machine is pretty useful, and it saved me a couple of times. The problem is it seems running all the times, and slowing the system down pretty often.
I have my Time Capsule connected via wi-fi, and I want to share that connection with my other 2 computers via their ethernet. So basically, share the current wifi connection that my Time Capsule has and make sure that my other 2 computers can connect to the internet via that Time Capsule's ethernet ports. Thanks in advance.
I'm having fits with a certain web PDF document using both Firefox and Safari. Basically the document in question doesn't consist of one big pdf file; rather it consists of a bunch (20 or so) smaller files, one for each chapter or section, and the main page has file links to each of them. In Firefox on a PC, clicking on the link for section 22 simply opens that PDF in the existing in-browser window. In Safari or Firefox on Mac... it doesn't do anything - I can't navigate to or view section 22. Similarly, downloading the individual files and saving them doesn't seem to work very well either, though I am thinking of downloading them and trying to re-create locally the directory/file structure the links seem to expect - still kind of a PITA. Link to PDF document Does anyone know of any browser add-on or other tool that could be used to view something like this on a Mac?
I need to invoke a keyboard shortcut from within an AppleScript code, later to be used as a startup item (i.e. the alternative to having to press something at every log in).
It would be nice if it was a button you could press on the top right that 'tacked' the currently selected window in front of all other windows permanently (until the button is pressed again). Does something like this exist?
I have a few podcasts that I just subscribed to that I would like to listen through in order by date. Is there a way to show all podcasts in one list view? If not, is there a way to sort my podcasts by the oldest unwatched episode?
MobileMail checks my IMAP Inbox periodically and that works fine. But I also file emails automatically on the mail server side to some sub-folders of the Inbox. Is it possible to make MobileMail check those too so that I get notifications when new email arrives in those folders?
I have an eMac (PPC G4) with 512 MB RAM, running 10.5.8. When I run Software Update, the "Checking for new software..." process never completes. I have tried deleting my /Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/Cache.db and running Software Update again, with no luck. I have also tried Repairing Disk Permissions from Disk Utility, and that hasn't worked either. Both of those suggestions I got from here
I sometimes copy (drag & drop) emails from Mail to Finder/Path Finder. But, when I try to copy multiple files outside Mail, I can't do that. I have to copy one by one.
This is an issue that started today. Last night I shut down the machine. This morning I switched it on and got the initial sound but not the chime. The sleep indicator light would blink in groups of 3 blinks. I checked the battery. And also tried some tips on the Apple site for troubleshooting a MBP that won't turn on. Anyway, after looking at a couple of forums, I wound up removing and re-seating the memory. Ok, then it works for about 45 minutes, but then the screen went black and again the 3-blinks of the sleep light. What should I try next in troubleshooting this machine?
My guess is that the host command is querying the DNS server directly, whereas ping and any GUI apps (ie. Safari) are using some sort of Mac DNS resolution routines, which are not working properly. Please let me know if there's any other info I should provide. Edit: included pinging ip directly in above example Edit 2: My domain is using .local
My wife and I each have iTunes on our PCs. Originally, I set these up with separate iTunes Store accounts. I was led to believe that we ought to do this because an email address is used for the Apple ID, and we each have one. I'm thinking now that was a mistake?
How does it actually work? Does it change just the firmware on the main filesystem? Does it touch the bootloader? I'm trying to figure out what's probability of iPhone jailbreak bricking the phone Apple's update bricking the jailbroken iPhone (In the line with those questions, does Apple's update simply overwrites the flash partition with the new one and then applies the backed up data?) Edit: should probably mention it's a 3GS with 4.1 firmware.
Every now and then my iPad or iPod touch will redirect my to a particular site in Safari. Could this be malware of sorts that has crept on to my iMac and then my iOS devices? I don't think it's a popup because it happens at random. For the record, the site is www.wordslife.com/index.php EDIT:
note: This is a question that I asked on SuperUser a while ago. I'm re-posting it here because I think it belongs here.
Does Mail support multiple email accounts? If yes, how can I set them up?
Is there any way to enable Dvorak on iPad for apps like Pages or Notes?
This is started to be really annoying to me If you have an original folder with 2 files and you copy something into it's parent folder where the folder name is the same, and, let's imagine you are copying 3 files and at the end you want to end up with 5 files, let's make an example, like: Original: Stuff you want to copy: When you copy it into ~/User/abc/Documents/ you get this:
As you might know, Preview has a lossy rotation feature. Could you please recommend a tool that allows images rotation in a lossless way?
My wife finds that her iPhone constantly reminds her of google calendar events (accessed via the exchange trick). None of the google events have reminders enabled. The phone preferences don't ask for reminders. Yet reminders she gets.
I know that you can have a .profile or .bashrc file in your home folder to customise Mac OS X 10.6.4 Terminal bash startup. Every time I start up Terminal, there is a line that tells me "You've got mail". I am trying to find where this line is stated in my startup files, but can't find .bash nor .profile nor .bashrc in my home folder. I also read that the global settings file is in /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, but they don't seem to tell me anything: /etc/profile /etc/bashrc BTW, there is no /etc/bash
I use spaces for having multiple desktops, but often need to move a program from one space to another. I am aware of the various ways to do that with a mouse: Click-and-hold on the title bar of window and drag to edge F8 to show all Spaces and drag to desired location Click-and-hold on the title bar, and use Ctrl+# or Ctrl+Scroll Arrow
In X (Xfree86 on Linux or UNIX) I could move a window around the screen by holding down a modifier key (the CTRL key if memory serves me correctly) and move a window around the screen by dragging it from anywhere in the window (not limited to the title bar.) Is there a similar functionality available in OS X?
I tried using pwpolicy to set this up. I was able to set up maxFailedLoginAttempts, but setting minutesUntilFailedLoginReset doesn't seem to do anything. When I query pwpolicy using:
I'm looking for a way to get Growl notifications for new questions on the Stack Exchange websites, matching some pre-defined tags. I've tried SENotify, but it didn't work for me. Any alternative?
What are the Mac hardwares various startup key sequences? On the older Macs, Shift used to be start without extensions, Ctrl-Apple-O-F would boot to OpenFirmware, (but didn't the Intel Macs switch to EFI BIOS's?) If the shortcut is hardware specific, please note it.
I have a ton and a half of songs in my iTunes (Windows 7). I recently consolidated my library from 3 different Hard Drives. I also deleted some of the unwanted music folders on my C Drive (but I forgot to make a list so I could delete from iTunes). I want to verify that all the songs in the library actually exist on disk. It is physically impossible for me to just play each song one at a time to find out if it exists or not. I know that I have to disconnect my HDDs (just keep C drive) to do this. I know that I can export the library and purely check for the existence of file://D/ and file://E/, but that won't cover the music files blown away from the C drive. How do I verify that all entries in iTunes have a physically valid file on my C drive?
I have bought a number of apps on my iPhone. When I try to set up syncing with iTunes it says that this will remove all of the apps. How do I make iTunes not want to replace all of the apps and instead just make a backup of the existing ones?
Now that the new iPod Touch has a camera, I'm thinking of buying it. However, since Apple crippled its resolution (960 x 720), I'm not so sure. Does Chase Mobile's QuickDeposit feature work with the lower camera resolution?
I don't have a case or screen protector just yet for my iPad. What is a cost effective way to keep the screen clean and remove fingerprints?
Can the iPad 3G only use 3G and Wifi, or can it use Edge or 2G (the little blue dot on iphone)?
This relates to my previous question regarding my MacBook Pro. Why is my MacBook Pro quitting and/or failing to start up? I need to replace one of my 2G DIMMs and in shopping around at Crucial and OWC I notice that they also carry matched sets. So, is there any reason that I should spend the extra $ and replace both DIMMs as opposed to just the bad one?
I can't seem to find a shortcut for launching the activity monitor. Does it have one?
Is it possible to make Jitouch work with Synergy? Jitouch allows me to make gestures correspond to actions in different applications, but it doesn't allow me to select Unix programs (like the Synergy server) as a target.
1.) The two icons were created as the same size in Photoshop, but when I SSH the theme to the iPad, one is displayed bigger than the other.
I got to see the whole keynote at September 1st and assumed that iOS 4.1 would bring HDR to iPod Touch (4th gen) and the iPhone (3Gs and 4). Today I got my iPod Touch and I don't get it, where's the HDR button? I get that there is no flash (was announced), but HDR Button should be there, right? Did I wrongly assume that iPod Touch would have HDR?
Cross posting this from SuperUser AND Photo.StackExchange since I have a bounty on it and have no replies yet, hopefully will get more attention here ;) I'm finding my iPhone photo download workflow to be a bit cumbersome. Here are my requirements: Download photos+video off my iPhone Camera Roll, but keep photos on iPhone Only display/download new photos+video on iPhone since last download Avoid iPhoto, ideally, because it makes me a bit nervous Have all my iPhone-taken photos+video available to view on my iPhone Maintain all EXIF/GPS metadata at all costs Currently, I use regular folder structure + Picasa for all of my digital photos, however for my iPhone, I use iPhoto because it will "only display new items" when I go to import photos off my iPhone I'm finding that will 5000+ photos+videos on my iPhone, iPhoto generally takes a while (2-10 minutes) to 'find' my iPhone after I plug it in.
I would like to gift an iPad app to my friend. I don't have iTunes installed on my work laptop and right now I don't have my iPad with me. All I am trying is checking it on App Store on my iPhone, but the search is not listing the iPad version, instead it's only showing iPhone version of the same app. I also tried via browser, but no luck. Do I have to wait until I go home and do it from either iTunes on my Mac or iPad? Looking for some solution!
Since upgrading my iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.1, I've periodically seen 1 bar or "Searching..." at home and work where I used to have 4 or 5 bars. And I've sent text messages with 4 bars, only to have it immediately drop to 1 and the text message error out. I'm trying to learn if I'm alone with this issue (and should therefore bring my phone to my local Apple Store—after trying a restore just so I can say I did when they inevitably suggest that), or if this is a common problem (and we should then file bugs at bugreport.apple.com).
Got a bunch of .mp4 videos (info shows H.264 Video + AAC Audio) that are chapters of a larger video. I'd like to merge them, but not sure which is the best way. I don't have Quicktime Pro, but I'll get it if that's the best way to do this. Edit: Just to clariify this is Mac OSX 10.6 I'm on.
I would like to open a password protected Word document on my iPad. I've found paid solutions but nothing for free. Am I missing an option?
I have an external HD that I've been using as a time machine for my MBP. Here's what I want to do: attach the drive to my desktop machine configure time machine on my MBP to use the drive as a time machine through the network retain my existing backups...
I want to remove all duplicates from my library, to consider a duplicate the song must have the same encoding, bits, duration.
I would like autocopy for every text that I select to avoid to do several CMD+C. Is there any way or application to do this?
I know there are various ways to get/replace album art in iTunes and other questions about that. Some of them don't provide as good quality art as from iTunes (Store). Some of them also inflate file sizes by putting the image in each album. However, one thing I've noticed is that sometimes art gets updated in the store to better reflect the CD I ripped, or missing art becomes available. For example, Bob Dylan albums used to always get the ugly "Bob Dylan Collection" cover (same for each) whereas now they get the real original covers.
Ever since I started using Priority Inbox in Gmail I don't really care about my main INBOX folder on Mail.app. Is it possible to change the default INBOX folder to [Gmail]/Important?
Is there an app whose only purpose would be to change the wifi prefs, by starting or stopping the wifi on iPod Touch? I would like to have an icon on the home page, and a simple click on it will switch the state of the wifi.
I just noticed that I have 2 different accounts on my computers. Is it possible to ask Apple to merge them and been able to share the music I bought on each account ?
I would like to merge three separate iTunes libraries. Here is more information: Currently have 3 separate iTunes libraries on 2 laptops and and dekstop.
I use my iPhone4 to listen to Pandora radio at work. I have it plugged in to a standard charge/sync cable, and a headphone jack to my speakers.
What is a good service to back up my contacts on my iPhone?
Every time I plug in (or off) my headphones (even white iPhone ones), Mac OS X locks up for about 10 seconds, and then works as normal, and even displays the beach ball. Not everything locks up, as I can still switch screens, etc, but I think the Finder does. Initially I thought this was related to Flash, as the Flash Player would stop working, but this happens even when the browser is closed. I don't have any audio related apps installed. Does anybody have any ideas of what could causing this, or tips on how to track down the problem?
A large proportion of contacts I have gained over the years have more than two current numbers. Examples include: home, work, mobile; home, NZ work no., US work no., Spanish work no; etc I have only worked out how to add two numbers to particular contact; after that, when you click add there is no other options. This is crazy, this is 2010, I must be doing something wrong, can you help me out?
I would like to change .pdf files to use a different application when clicking on links in a browser. How can I do this?
I've got a Mac Mini that I'm using as a Home Theatre PC, and my only real complaint is that I can't set a default zoom level in Safari. It's hard to read all that tiny text from 7 feet away from my TV set, so I'm always zooming in. So: is there some extension or hidden hack way to force Safari to zoom in automatically?
I'm used to switching tabs with cmd+x where x is a number and takes me to tab x in firefox and pretty much every other browser I've ever used. I like safari's speed and would like to try it a bit, but the cmd+x shortcut is burned in my brain and every time I use safari I end up screwing up. I'd like to know if its possible to change this behavior, because this simple thing is a stopper for me.
Last night I attempted to purchase an app from the App Store on my iPhone 4. The previous day I had purchased an app with no issues, and this time was told that my payment method was invalid. When I clicked 'Continue' to fix my information, everything was correct so I re-inputted my credit card security code and tapped done. No, fail, declined.
In Windows and Linux I could always hit ctrl+← or ctrl+→ to skip a word to the left or right in the terminal. In text editors it seems that ⌥+←/→ works, but no dice in the terminal. I've searched Google and found nothing except a Wikipedia page that claims ⌥+B/F does the job, but all it does is print ∫ and ƒ characters to my terminal (or ı and Ï if I hold ⇧). Any ideas?
A lot of iPhone apps use GPS positioning to provide services. However, the iPod touch does not have GPS capabilities, although it does have WiFi-based location services, if I'm not mistaken. Do location-aware apps work on the iPod touch? If so, how well? I'm not interested in the iPhone right now, but since I live in a city, it would be cool to have a device that would allow me to call up maps and such when I'm walking around.
My wife has iPhone 3G and I recently bought iPhone 4 for myself. Since we can easily manage charging for both of our phones from just one wall charger, I actually never unpackaged mine and data cable is still packed as well. But few days ago I noticed that my phone refusing to sync with even older data cable (from 3rd gen iPod nano) although iPhone 3G does sync with it.
What is the procedure for replacing the battery on an iPhone?
I've upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 (and my wife's as well). The new phones came with their own US/AT&T microSIM cards and have been activated. So we still have our old phones with the old SIM cards in them. I've deleted the data off of the old phones, and I would like to sell them.
Every time I connect my iPhone to the dock in my vehicle, the following warning message is displayed:  After dismissing the warning dialog, everything appears to works fine. Is there any way to suppress this dialog from being displayed every time I connect my iPhone to the dock? (Enabling Airplane Mode does seem to do the trick, but that's not a realistic solution as I don't want to lose voice/data functionality when docking the iPhone.)
I was glad to see that you can download podcasts directly from the iTunes app on the iPhone, rather than having to keep the iTunes app open to play them, but there's a 20 MB cap on downloads. I'm looking for a way to subscribe to and automatically download new podcasts over 3G. Is there an app that can do this?
I have recently upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4 and there is some noticeable performance issues will some of the basic tasks (text messaging, loading application, etc.) I have restarted my iPhone and that only resolves the performance issues temporarily. Is there any way to speed up my iPhone 3G with iOS4 installed? Update
In the Clock app, if I use a timer or alarm that goes off while my iPhone is on vibrate mode, the alarm sound still goes off. Is there a way to make it obey the vibrate mode? Or a way to tell it whether or not to ignore it?
I'm planning on purchasing an iPhone 4, and I want to know the most direct method of copying my contacts from my Palm Centro to my iPhone. Extra points for solutions that work on Linux.
I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS4 and although I love most of the new feaures, multitasking keeps me checking for open apps. Is there a way to disable multitasking support in iOS4 or a "kill all apps" app/switch?
I'm looking for a way to create new albums within the Photos app on my iPhone 3GS, preferably without having to connect the device to iTunes. Is this possible?
The iPhone 3G supports Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) but lacks any volume control. As a result, my JVC stereo with the KS-BTA200 Bluetooth adapter clipped stereo audio so horribly that I ended up removing the adapter and foregoing the Bluetooth hands free capabilities. Now, I just use my AUX jack for music and a separate Bluetooth speaker phone (as long as it doesn't do A2DP).
If I buy an iPhone, can I restore it (along with app data) from an iPod Touch backup?
Preferably free - kids shows / films from iTunes are an obvious one.
I've seen a few apps that claim they do some kind of conditioning/deep charge/other jargon to extend the life of an iPhone battery. Is this just hokum or do I really need one of these apps to maximize the life of my battery?
I'm fairly new to the iPhone, so apologies if this is an obvious question. Are the default programs on the bottom bar (Phone, Mail, Safari + iPod) the only applications that can show 'new' event counts? Is it to do with them being on the bottom bar?
Long ago, I purchased an iPhone 2G in the US before Rogers came to Canada to provide iPhone service. Before I got my 3GS, I had unlocked it and was using it with my Rogers SIM with no problem. Recently my wife took an interest in the handset and we took it to the Bell Store to have them try to get the device working with her account. The sales person at the kiosk tried a "Demo SIM", and when they did that the device read "Invalid SIM".
Is there a way to get the iPhone 3gs to play a Podcast via voice command? I've tried all sorts of things and it doesn't seem to work. I believe the official answer is no, but I was wondering if there was a Cydia or other app that can achieve the same result?
If I'm on-call, I only want to be woken by important calls or text messages. How can I set up an iPhone to ring during certain hours only for calls or texts from a certain set of numbers? If it can't be done using vanilla iPhone apps, is there a 3rd party app that could do it?
My iDevice is frozen on one screen and won't let me do anything. What can I do to fix it?
Often people talk about restarting an iPhone in the same way you restart a computer. How do you do this, what buttons do you press? Also how/why is this different to just turning off the iPhone using top button and then turning it back on?
I have a jailbroken (not unlocked) iPhone 3G running the 3.1.2 firmware. What are the pros and cons of upgrading this to iOS4?
I have a jailbroken iPhone which is set up to retrieve mail every 30 minutes. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening at 3am when I'm trying to sleep?
The same as this question ( *=URL=* ) except with the UK in mind. I have a 16GB iPhone 3G and have recently upgraded (we don't need to argue if it's an upgrade :p) to the iPhone 4. What's the recommended way to sell it in the UK? It has one small crack on the back near the vibration switch so it probably doesn't count as near new (depending on your definition of near).
With included documentation as sparse as Apple's, there are plenty of them...
I am looking for a way of creating a new contact using an unknown number that sent me an MMS. The new number is not detailed in the message itself. Is this possible? Currently I'm having to write the number down on paper so an alternative would be useful. I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS4 installed.
So I can browse the App store myself, and read ratings and reviews, but with the 100,000+ iPhone apps out there, are there better ways to do this? Word of mouth? App review sites? Cool app-of-the-day? Any worthwhile "App-finder" apps? Its hard to tell the difference between objective app-review/rating sites and the millions of other ad-filled spamsites out there. So how do you find out about worthwhile apps? (Edited to make community wiki)
It's probably the phone's way of showing me there is no WIFI connection. Is that it? Probably not since that would probably be a "no icon" thing. Anyway, couldn't find it in the user's manual so here you go... question asked. Thx
It seems to insert a square. Considering that it only has 3 buttons it seems like it should do something more?
I found that after some weeks of usage, my SMS app on a iPhone 3G (iOS 3.0.1, JB) seems to take a few more seconds to start than usual. On all other cellphones I had, you had to delete old messages because of memory constrains and to make the app work better. Does this apply to the iPhone as well? If so, how can I delete all messages of all contacts that are more than 1 month old, or something?
I keep hearing all this hoopla about BBM (Blackberry Messenger) and I want in on the fun. Is there anything similar to BBM out there for the iPhone? I heard WhatsApp was something like it, but just wondering if there were any others.
My iPhone turns on, shows the white apple logo, and then after a few minutes shuts off. It is not a battery issue, it happens even when it's plugged in. Is there any way I can get the data off the phone without resorting to a hard-drive recovery company?
I'm trying to solve an issue I'm having, and I thought that placing the phone in recovery mode temporarily might resolve the problem. I'm afraid to try this though, since the phone contains valuable information, it would be dangerous for me to complete the process and actually recover the phone. So I want to put it in recovery mode, but not go through with it all the way.
I have hundreds of notes on my iPhone. I want to export these to a different program that can import text files. I'm trying to preserve the modification date (e.g. by storing it in the file's modification date, or by including the date in the file somewhere). If there's any way to preserve the creation date (if it's even stored), that's desired too.
Setting up mail on my iPhone, I didn't see an option for MS Live Mail/Hotmail. I understand (due my mastery of search engines) that there are a few options. What's the best?
I'm looking for a way to stream music from my iPhone to a stereo which doesn't support Bluetooth, but does support connecting a standard audio cable to it. For example, I can take a standard audio cable and connect my iPhone directly to this stereo. However, I'm looking for a solution that will free me of wires on the iPhone side. If there was some kind of Bluetooth device which has a standard audio cable as its output and as its input it uses a Bluetooth profile that the iPhone supports for wireless audio listening, I guess that would work. Is this even possible?
I had an iPhone on loan from a friend to try it out and now I need to give it back. How do I make sure that everything is erased from it? SMS, Calendar, Phone Logs, contacts?
I have a huge collection of WMA files (from my Zune days). And of course, my iPhones can't do anything with them. Does anyone know of TRULY free (preferably open-source) WMA conversion software? Is that even legal? If it exists, someone please let me know where to find it. I've been searching, and only came up with AVS Audio Converter...which is "free..." They give you a free trial, but each encode has a voice logo over your file. I could just use Audacity to edit that out, but who wants to go through that? Anyway, please let me know if free WMA conversion software exists anywhere on this world wide internetz.
Is there an iPhone navigation/GPS app that will announce the turn-by-turn directions through a car's stereo via bluetooth? I already have my iPhone synced with my car via bluetooth for calls, so I'm wondering if any of the navigation apps can also take advantage of the connection? I'd rather not have to buy a separate iPhone car kit or a FM transmitter.
I'd like to prevent this problem in the future with my other email accounts. I know that I can disable Load Remote Images in the settings. The problem is that I believe this will not allow any images to load, even those from people in my address book.
How can I upload HD video from iPhone 4 directly to web?
I have seen ones for previous versions of the iPhone - is there one for the new iPhone though?
I'm looking to go rogue. Where do I jailbreak my iPhone 4.
Does the mail app in iPhones still use POP for Gmail? Or is it updated to use IMAP?
I'm looking for a holder like the one that I got with my first Android phone. It must hold the phone in landscape.
I know that through iTunes you can store images, audio etc. on your iPhone. But is it possible to access the iPhone and store any kind of files for later retrieval, much like a memory stick?
Is there a backquote (backtick `) on the iPhone keyboard, and if so, where is it? When I'm writing a post on a site in the SE family (especially SO), I want to use the backquote for inline code blocks. Under the single quote key, I've found two curly/angled quotes, but those (’ and ‘) don't seem to do the trick...
I'm trying to connect my iPhone 3G to my MacBook via Bluetooth to use the iPhone Tethering. When I connect the iPhone to the OS X everything works fine. Since I often also use Windows 7 on the Boot Camp partition I'd like to connect from Windows 7 to the iPhone as well. This works, but in this case I always have to remove and reconnect it when booting back to OS X and vice versa. Is it possible to setup the Bluetooth connection and have it working in both operating systems on the same MacBook?
When you attempt to download an app that costs money, you will not be charged if you already bought the app. After you press buy and enter your iTunes password, it will say "You have already purchased this item. To download it again for free, select OK."
I am looking for an outliner app for iPhone, with either a desktop or web counterpart.
I would like to queue up songs on my iPhone like I can on my desktop music player. Is this possible with iTunes, or is there an alternative music app that will let me do this?
I'm about to upgrade from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4, and I'm not sure what will happen to my old device once my phone number is transferred. Specifically, I want to give the old device to my girlfriend, who is on a AT&T non-smartphone. What will I have to do to move her to the iPhone 3G? Will she need to sign up for an iPhone specific data plan if I put the sim card in there? WIll it work like any old phone if I just put the simcard in there? In short, I'm not sure what will happen, and what I need to do.
When I tap on the bottom of my iPhone's screen it actually acts as if I tapped in another section higher up. It may be a calibration problem. How can I recalibrate the touchscreen?
I've purchased some books that make epub and mobi versions available for download. What are the main differences and which is better supported in iBooks?
When having one computer, it works great syncing your iphone with it, to get your stuff on the iPhone. However, having two computers, one at work and one at home, I wonder if it's possible to have a relationship like this:
I'm thinking about recovering the data on my bricked iPhone, but the hard drive recovery company would probably need to know what file types I want to recover. Most applications store their data in SQLite databases. When I sync to my computer, it saves this in a .mddata file. I'm guessing this file type is only used for the backup process. What file type/extension is used to store the data on the iPhone?
Many of you know there was a Flashlight app with a hidden feature that enabled tethering, that snuck into the App Store this week. It was removed very quickly, about 10 minutes before I found out so I wasn't able to snag it up. I have a developer account so I was thinking if I could get the code to a tethering app I could install it on my phone myself. Are there any open source tethering apps out there?
I am trying to decide if it is better to use the IMAP/CalDav option for accessing my GMail/Google Calendar on my iPhone vs. Using the exchange connection. Anybody got pros and cons of the different options? What I know so far is this: I have to use exchange for syncing contacts, so I will have exchange setup for that no matter what. The IMAP/CalDav option doesn't have push The Exchange option seems to be buggier than IMAP/CalDav Any other thoughts?
I'm looking for a third-party (i.e., cheaper) alternative to the Apple Dock Connector to USB Cable that is compatible with an iPhone 4 w/ bumper case. I've tried a few third-party cables and none of them are able to connect properly with the bumper case installed on the phone. Also, I'd prefer it if the dock connector end of the cable doesn't have the press-to-disconnect buttons.
I've recently acquired an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.0.1) and hooked it up to my Cisco WRT320N wireless router. For whatever reason, my iPhone drops of the network constantly. Sometimes before I can even load a single page in Safari. When it does work, its quite slow. This behavior is independent of distance from the router, and the iPhone is showing full bars for the network when its connected. The router is configured as follows: Wireless Band: 2.4 GHz Network Mode: Wireless-G only Channel: Auto Security Mode: WPA Personal Firmware Version: v1.0.03 (which seems to be the lastest)
Suppose I'm in the range of a wifi network and I check my email on my iPhone. Will it try to use the wifi network first and only if that fails attempt to connect to 3G? Or will it always use 3G (with the charges that carries) regardless of other mediums?
Update #3: I've noticed that sometimes when playing audio over USB the Bluetooth symbol will disappear from the my car's Sync screen (as described above). The audio immediately stops, and won't start again until I reconnect to my iPhone over Bluetooth. (This is somewhat annoying, since Bluetooth shouldn't have anything to do with USB.) I like the Ford Sync system, but it appears my worries about Microsoft's tendencies towards inferior quality and lack of attention to detail were not entirely unfounded.
I have an iPod Touch that I upgraded to iOS 4 (but this an issue that also existed in iOS 3.1). When I travel, and I join a WiFi networks (e.g. hotel, etc), I don't always remember to forget the network before I leave.
I am using iPhone 3gs 16gb with OS 4.0.1 and each time screen blocks it is switching from wi-fi to 3g. It comes back automatically to wi-fi each time I unblock the screen.
Our office is using Google Apps. I have it set up to sync calendars against Google, but none of my Other Calendars appear when I click the calendars button on the iPhone. Is this possible? I've tried the sync instructions, but navigating to google.com/sync from safari on the iPhone assumes you will log in with a Google account, not a Google apps account.
I found a page in iTunes that appears to allow me to sync pictures from my PC to my iPhone, but I can't see any obvious way to upload pictures taken on my iPhone4. How do I do this? What about videos I've taken on my iPhone? Just in case any of these matter: iPhone 4.0.1 iTunes 9.2.0.61 Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2
Will be travelling to the US a bit and trying to determine the least expensive way to get my unlocked iPhone online. My provider (Rogers) has a standard US data roaming rate of $30/mb but also offers travel add-on packs that you can buy for 30 days of usage: Add on packs are: 10mb for $30 ($3/mb) 25mb for $50 ($2/mb) 75mb for $60 ($0.80/mb) Alternate carrier options I know of so far: AT&T GoPhone prepaid service - $20 for 100mb, but you have to be careful not to tell them you are using their prepaid service with an iPhone and you need to muck with APN settings -- walkthrough one, walkthrough two. AT&T GoPhone prepaid service - $20 for 100mb, but you have to be careful not to tell them you are using their prepaid service with an iPhone and you need to muck with APN settings -- walkthrough one, walkthrough two.
I have heard that running iOS4 would slow down my 3G. Does anyone know of any reliable data on whether that is the case or not, and if so, by how much? Related Questions Is it worth upgrading my jailbroken 3G to iOS4?
I'm trying to decide which case to choose via Apple's case program. Are there any side by side physical comparisons of the cases available? All I have been able to find is speculative information, gleaned from marketing material. Feel free to provide your findings if you have one of the cases already.
I have an iPod touch which is regularly synced with my PC/iTunes at home. I have bought some apps and music.
My old iPod nano was completely erased, (losing some unrecoverable songs) when I last updated iPod firmware. Is there a way to upgrade my iPod touch 3g without losing all my data?
I’ve just started using iTunes U on my iPhone 3G running iOS 3. For some reason, they are all mixed up in my songs on my iPhone, rather than another section such as podcasts which would be far more logical.
I've got both an iPhone 3GS and an iPod Touch 2G which used to both be able to control my computers iTunes library using the Apple Remote app. However since I've started using a BT Home Hub 2 (A & B) the Remote app has not worked.
The iPhone has a very limited selection of default ringtones. How do I create a new ringtone for my iPhone?
I have an iPhone 3GS with firmware version 3.1.3 running on tethered jailbreak (blackra1n). Yesterday the wifi didn't work so naturally I: reset network settings (as I did once or twice before). got the recovery mode screen (as expected). Connected it to my laptop. ran blackra1n.
After we upgraded to iPhone 4, one of our old iPhones was pressed into service as a children's video playback device for our 1.5 year old. That's one of the best things about an iPhone upgrade -- every upgrade comes with a "free" previous-gen iPod touch!
When I take a picture using my iPhone's camera, it attaches the current location to the image in the metadata. Does it also do this for screenshots that I take?
I am having trouble saving a contact with a custom label in iOS4. I received a phone call from a number not stored in my phone. After the call, I clicked the blue chevron next to the number >> Create New Contact >> Entered name info >> click "mobile" >> Add Custom Label >> Entered my label name >> Save
My girlfriend just got an iPhone, and we are wondering what are the available (and recommended) applications to chat using jabber.
So we bought an iPhone 4 from the Apple store. But we didn't get a micro-SIM as there are no PAYG tariffs on micro-SIM available.
I reset my data usage on my iPhone after asking this question, so at 28th of July. Since then I was using my phone all the time, watching YouTube, talking on Skype (both voice and text), downloading games from the App Store, using Facebook (including uploading videos and photos) and finally sending emails with attachments (photos, each photo around 1MB).
Most of the time the podcast title is long and it is truncated with dots at the end. I think since iPhone OS 3.?, title font size has gotten smaller so I can see more of the title. However, I still can't view the full title. Is there any way to view full podcast title? I'm on iOS 4.
Can any apps print from the iPhone? Preferably via WiFi...and to an Epson PX710 all-in-one in my case.
A co-worker of mine wants to stream an RTSP streaming video feed to his iphone so he can tap into his child's daycare center here and there. Any ideas on how to do this?
My iPhone 3Gs got slightly damp (not wet) from being in my pocket in a rain storm. Since then, the top button (power on/off) is not working consistently. By that, I mean that sometimes when I hold the button down, the screen goes black as expected. Other times, nothing happens, and I have to press it multiple times to get the iPhone to respond. My iPhone 3G had the same type of issue that began after being exposed to salt-spray air at the beach. I couldn't find any real information about the problem online using obvious search terms (iPhone 3Gs top button problems, iPhone top button problems, iPhone power button problems, etc).
I have followed advice from this website to sync my iPhone on multiple computers, but it is determined to erase my applications. I have about 50 apps on my iPhone.
Which software/hardware can turn my iPhone into a decent remote control for my TV? (Are there any reviews out there that compare the options?)
I updated Twitter for iPhone on my second generation iPod Touch running iphone OS 3.1.2. After the update, the icon was nowhere to be seen, and I had to restart my iPod to get it back. Attempting to launch the app would get a White screen for a few seconds, and then a crash.
My iPhone 3G contract was completed a while ago. I have the 3GS now. I would like to give it to someone else who is not on AT&T. I called AT&T and they wouldn't do anything about it. I heard it can be unlocked after jail breaking. Is there an alternative? What happens if I jail break, unlock and then restore? Would it still be unlocked?
When I enter the text message / SMS "app" and tap on the input field a keyboard pops up. When I'm done writing and have sent the message I would like to dismiss the keyboard again. I haven't found out how to so this.
So, Apple is billing Facetime as though it is a revolutionary technology. I'm not going to ask you whether you think it is, as that is clearly a subjective question. What I will ask instead is how does it compare to normal video calling. Is there anything new that hasn't been done before?
I would like all photos taken with the camera on my iPhone automatically synced to a private picasa web album. What's the best way to do this? (jailbroken/cydia solutions if avail would work as well)
Which one is better in terms of features, ease-of-use, and performance?
I recently had $500 stolen from my bank account via the iTunes store. I am not certain whether the charges are directly from Apple or via some other company whose iPhone app has somehow circumvented whatever security is on the system. The specifics are that I had 3 phantom charges amounting to just under $500 on my credit card, but there were no charges on my itunes statement!
I'm searching for an app and software to to let me use my iPhone 4 as a webcam for MSN and others. My phone is 4.0.1 and jailbroken. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.4.
I am looking for an offline iPhone app to recognize Japanese words: I take a picture of a kanji or Japanese word or short piece of Japanese text The app recognizes the kanji and converts it to text that I can copy and paste where I like (for instance in a dictionary)
A few months ago the GPS in my 3G has become really unreliable. The blue circle in google maps looks to be about 2 miles in diameter, and never shrinks to a pinpoint. Apps like RunKeeper can never get a strong enough GPS signal. This may have coincided with the iPhone not picking up wifi unless almost on top of the access point, but that could have been a coincidence. Things I've tried that haven't worked: Trying to lock on to a satillite when outside with clear skys for >30 minutes General Settings -> Network -> Cellular Data -> Reset Settings Restoring the iPhone from a back-up Giving the phone a prelonged stern look Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Some of the iPhone/iPod Touch app review sites require developers to pay them to have a review posted. This raises obvious concerns about the independence and objectivity of the reviews. (See this Wired article for more information.) Requiring payment for product reviews is not illegal, so the only way to turn back this trend is for consumers to ignore these sorts of reviews.
I understand that the bundled apps for iPhone does not support AVI files. However, I have lots of these files which I want to watch on my iPhone.
I have an iPhone 3G 16GB with iOS 4.0.2 and my wifi is not working, I tried to fix it with reset network settings and other quick fixes like that but it still doesn't work. Sometimes it sees wifi networks but I can't connect. I don't think is a hardware problem because I can see the wifi MAC address on the device. Version: 4.0.2 (8A400) (jailbreak with redsnow) Modem Firmware: 05.13.04
I recently jailbroke my iPhone 3gs with jailbreakme. At the beginning everything was working well. But since yesterday I am having problems with the network. It would disconnect from wifi and there is no way that I can reconnect until I reboot my phone. It happened twice so far, but I am not able to reproduce the problem as it doesn't happen all the time. Anyone here has any hint on what I should check? Edit: I found out that this problem occurs if it changes wifi network.
I had hundreds of notes on my iPhone before I upgraded to OS 4.0. Now there is the new feature which allows me to sync the notes with an email account. I added my email account, but rather than sync all of my existing notes, it created a new folder in the Notes application. How can I transfer notes from my old folder "On My iPhone" to my new one that is synced to an email account. I'm looking for a method which doesn't require syncing to the computer, if possible.
I've noticed that when I am browsing a web page in Safari on the iPhone and change the orientation from portrait to landscape, sometimes the text size and/or wrapping changes. For example, in portrait there may be 10 words on a line, but when I turn it sideways the text size changes and there are maybe 8 or 12 words on that line. Usually when I turn it back to portrait again it stays at that number instead of going back to 10.
Any way to turn the notification badges for the Mail app off without turning all notifications off?
Similar to this question already posed: Decent headphones with a Mic for Android and iPhone, I'm looking for a pair of decent sweat resistant headphones that are good for working out. Originally I used the default headphones that came with my iPhone, but as they got wet with sweat, one or the other earbud would stop functioning temporarily... eventually after many workouts, the 'phones just died (I'm assuming it's the sweat, since I have another set of the same headphones from a similar period that work fine) I'm currently using these but the problem is they are exhibiting the same problem as my original earbuds and I'm questioning whether they'll eventually die. So I'm looking for: A stereo headset with microphone so I can answer calls and do voice commands Ones that are made to be sweat resistant and durable (Preferably) bluetooth so I can put my phone in my pannier or on the treadmill shelf. Anyone with suggestions?
Will the installed apps and their data still exist after re-installing OS3? If not, is there any way to keep the data?
It seems like it just assigns random color when you add a calendar. Is there a way to change calendar color on iOS 4? I'd like to pick a color for each calendar...
Is there any way to set up and easily switch connection profiles in iOS4? i.e: Home - Wi-Fi on, Bluetooth off, 3G off Work - Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth off, 3G off Car - Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth on, 3G on etc. Would prefer an App Store app but would consider a jailbreak app if not available.
I have Badges turned off for the Facebook and Mint applications on my iPhone 4 running 4.0.2 (Settings -> Notifications -> Facebook/Mint -> Badges: OFF ). I have Alerts and Sounds turned on. Despite the fact that badges are turned off, my Facebook and Mint applications continue to show red numerical badges on their icons.
iOS 4 allows you to lock your iPhone in portrait mode by double clicking the Home button, swiping the dock left, and clicking on the lock icon. However, it does not appear to allow you to lock the iPhone in landscape mode, which can be desirable for some applications. Instead, the lock always seems to force portrait orientation. How can I prevent my iPhone from rotating out of Landscape mode?
After additionally ~5min's there's a new popup with the text The Apple Id you entered Couldn't be found or was incorrect. Please try again. and buttons Cancel and Retry.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the iPad supports the clickers on the iPhone headphones (volume up/down, play/pause, etc). Does the most recent iPod Classic series respond to these buttons as well?
The headset supports the "Headset" and "Hands-Free" profiles. I can make phone calls with it, but when I play music, it doesn't work.
I have a Motorola ROKR S9-HD headset and the Previous and Next buttons don't work with my iPhone 4. I'm thinking about buying a different headset to replace it. What options exist and which are the best? Does the previous and next function work on any of them, or is this an iPhone problem?
I have a quick question regarding upgrading to 3.0 to 4.02. To me this seems like common sense but I just want to double check before moving forward with the upgrade. Will he update wipe everything on my phone and then grab my backup in order to repopulate photos, contacts, sms, phone log, etc?
I want to do some user training on the new iPhone they are getting and I would like to be able to display the screen up on a projector while I am talking, similar to a Steve Jobs keynote. Is there a way to do this without jail breaking? Specifically, I would like to do this on an iPhone 4.
I need to transfer contacts and SMS history from a Samsung SGH-X830 to an iPhone 3G. Preferably, I would like to preserve date/time for SMS messages. How can I achieve this?
I seem to be using a lot of hire cars recently, so I'm looking for an easy way to connect an iPhone 4 to a car audio system, with minimum fuss and rewiring. I had a Griffin iTrip years and years ago, for a 2nd/3rd Generation iPod. It was fiddly to setup and needed retuning every hour or so. I'm sure the former problem is better now, but do they still lose the signal over time? If so, are there any decent alternatives?
I'm trying to connect my iPhone 3G(iOS 4.0.2) to an ad hoc wifi network that I've created on my netbook(running Fedora 13). When I attempt to connect, everything seems to go fine on both ends, however after the connection is established the 3G icon is never replaced by the wifi icon, even though there is a check next to the connection in the wifi selection screen.
I'd like to be able to write notes on my iPhone and have them synced with my Google docs. I've tried Notemaster, but it doesn't always work (some docs just generate an error message when I try to sync). Is there something out there that is more reliable?
I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad. Since the iPad really charges best off the wall charger I keep it plugged in, but I usually just charge the iPhone off the computer. Although frequently if the iPad is charged I will charge the iPhone with the wall charger.
Is it possible to send and receive faxes directly on the iPhone? The goal is to try to avoid paying an additional 5 or 10 bux a month to use a 3rd party service. I'm hoping the functionality can be either bought through an app or configured.
Specifically I am trying to play music from my iPod-Touch through my XBOX360, but I know there are other devices that only work with the old iPod interfaces and not the touch/iPhone. I was wondering if anyone knew of an app, or some other method to make these devices emulate for the purposes of the USB connection more primitive iPods (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, etc.) so they can work with devices that only support the older interface.
I'd like for everything to be done on my iPhone - i.e. I don't want to record the audio separately on another device or on a computer and then have to combine it with the video. Any suggestions?
Is a screen cover worthwhile for an iPad? Does the screen scratch easily, or is the protector just another snake oil?
I just picked up an iPad and the sales "specialist" was completely unconvincing for me to get the AppleCare extended warranty. I realize the iPad is fairly new, so not a lot of failures yet, but I am curious if in general the extended warranty is worth while for a device like that. The only thing I could think of was battery replacement if the battery performance falls off.
I just got an iPad a couple of weeks ago. I had a co-worker pull out his iPad out and immediately start talking about jailbreaking it. I have no fear of doing it, but I do realize that sometimes going beyond what the manufacturer intended ends up making your device less stable.
I have a new iPad and MAC address filtering on my home wifi network. How do I figure out the MAC address of my iPad?
I would like to understand what other ways I can use the bluetooth on my iPad apart from connecting a keyboard via.
Any recommendations from actual users ? The files are non-DRM pdb books that I have on old Toshiba e830 PocketPC. I am specially interested in software that can handles non English encoding well (Latin2 or Win1252) Thanks
I need to convert some of my movies and other videos for the iPad and I am wondering what solutions are available for this. Ideally, I would like to have something that adds the new video afterwards to my iTunes.
I want to sync photos on my Windows desktop with my iPad but when I set iTunes to Sync Photos from the My Pictures folder, iTunes creates an iPod Photo Cache folder (which is about the size of My Pictures folder which is 6 GB). Letting iTunes create the folder is not the issue but I am syncing the "My Pictures" folder with my laptop and other computers and I do not want to have the iPod Photo Cache folder to also sync across my other computers. Is there a way to change the location of where iTunes will put the iPod Photo Cache folder? I did not see a setting in iTunes for it.
I just ran across this app from Maxivista that allows you to use your iPad as a second monitor. It's just like their other app that lets you use another computer as an additional monitor, such as a laptop. The problem is, however, it's a bit sluggish as it has to use WiFi to send what is basically a video signal. So, are there any solutions that allow you to use an iPad as an additional screen via USB?
I'm about to buy an iPad, but I don't want to, if in 6 months, the new version has cooler features like retina display. Is there a chance for it to happen? Or should I buy it now, and just, enjoy it for the next months.
I seem to remember that dragging and dropping a file used to work the same as it did with my iPod.
I'd like to record video output from my iPad on my Mac. I know there is a VGA output adapter for the iPad. What hardware and software do I need on the Mac side? Details:
I have an HP LaserJet 1020 connected to an IOGear network print server. Currently the iPad doesn't support printing out of the box, however I have heard there are several third-party solutions on the market, each with a mixed bag of results. Which solutions are available and which is the most versatile or successful?
It is tedious to manually pick iPad-optimized apps from all the apps in iTunes when syncing with iPad. I just want iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps - apps designed for both iPhone and iPad, and iPad Apps - apps designed for iPad only on my iPad, but not iPhone and iPod touch Apps - apps designed for iPhone only.
I'm interested in buying an iPad, but I'm trying to understand what the implications are of not synchronise/docking it with a computer. I only have Linux (Ubuntu) machines these days; I have nothing running Windows or MacOS. As far as I understand, there is no official support for Linux (I am aware of libimobiledevice, but would like not to rely on it).
We're giving away iPads (for real, and no you can't have one) as part of a promotion to our referral network. But the plan is to ship it pre-installed with our sales presentation apps and sign-up tools. However, you can't install an app on an iPad until you've activated it through iTunes. Is there some method anyone's aware of that would mean we can pre-install these apps on the pad before giving it to the recipient to activate?
I have a Outlook synced with my HTC Hero, but now I also want to sync it with my new iPad. However, I never touched an Apple product before, so I have absolutely no idea how to do this. So can anyone explain me where these settings are hidden?
I have loads of videos and music on my computer, which I want to watch on my iPad. However, I want to stream it to it, so I can grab what I feel like watching rather than having to preload everything. I would like to stream these over wifi and they should be Windows 7 compatible
While I'm waiting for my credit card to arrive, I still want to be able to buy some apps for my iPad! Are there alternative ways to pay for apps, without resorting to someone else's credit card?
PROBLEM: I have bogus entries in the autocomplete cache for the TO: field in the iPad e-mail application. QUESTION: How do I get rid of these entries that do not correspond to real e-mail recipient addresses?
It's easy enough to zoom in on a page with the pinch gesture and on most websites it works well to zoom in past the navigation and ads to make the text big enough to read but some sites don't have all that left and right margin area and I want to be able to zoom the text and have it reformat it to fit my screen like Android does. Is that possible? Is there some magic gesture I'm missing like three finger zoom scroll or two hand double finger split scroll?
I'm looking for a method to record the video without actually filming the device. Does such a method exist?
I'm about to go on a trip and I'm wondering if anyone has tried both MaxiVista and Air Display as monitor extenders for Win7. MaxiVista was first on a PC and Air Display is still in beta for PC.
I have purchase a iPad (non 3g model) and have also recently started using an application called Foreflight for my personal flight planning while getting my private pilots license. I would love to be able to get a fix on my location - is there any way I can use a bluetooth GPS receiver with this application?
i have an iMac, that has internet access via cable (no WiFi). I know, that my iMac has Wi-Fi access point. How can I share the internet connection of iMac with iPad?
I lost the original plug-in charger that came with my iPad. I have tried using my iPod cable to charge my iPad (plugged into the USB port of my Windows laptop) but the iPad will not charge (or at least it charges extremely slowly). I also have tried using another USB plug adapter with the iPod cable (plugged into a wall outlet) and it also does not charge. What is going on here and how can I charge my iPad now that I have lost the original cable and outlet adapter that it came with?
I have iTunes installed on both my work and home computer. At home I want to keep it synchronized with my extensive library of music ripped from CDs, but for large files like videos and podcasts I like to download them at work where I have better bandwidth.
Is there a way to downgrade an iPod touch (2nd gen) from iOS 4 back to 3.1.3?
It seems like this should be simple, but I can't seem to find the right place to click. I see how I can go into edit mode for a playlist and remove songs. I just can't figure out how to add songs to a playlist on the device. Ideally I'd like to be able to do it from the now-playing screen somehow, but any solution is acceptable as long as it doesn't involve connecting to my computer and using iTunes to do the add.
Ever since iOS4.0 came out (even before I installed it) my iPod Touch no longer downloads apps from the appstore. The appstore itself loads (slowly) but when I try to buy something, it just takes unbelievably long and then doesn't even ask me for my password 9/10 times. I haven't tried buying a paid app because I don't want to pay for something that I don't get. I can still buy apps from my laptop, but it's a pain. I'm currently in Australia, but I still use the US appstore (since that's where I live). Any ideas what it might be?
Since I upgraded to iOS 4 on my iPod touch second generation my battery life is draining very fast. Is there anything I can do to help with that?
Are there any chargers that let you use an iPod Touch while it's being charged? I have a simple wall charger, but it disables the iPod's audio while it's plugged in. I can plug the iPod into a laptop, but that seems a bit inconvenient and inefficient. I even tried using a clock with a built-in iPod dock, but the clock always tries to start playing iPod music whenever the iPod is plugged in and also tries to disable the iPod's built-in speakers.
This only just started happening. Settings reports I am connected to the network, and I can browse the web in Safari, update apps, receive emails etc., but next to where it says "iPod" in the status bar, the little WiFi strength symbol is no longer displayed. Does anyone have an idea why, and how I can fix it? Thanks, jrtc27
I have an iPod Touch that was upgraded to iOS 4. I am sick of my FM transmitter, and am looking for an after-market car receiver for my 1998 Honda Civic with iPod support, but am concerned because of discussions like Topic : iOS 4 - Iphone 3GS - Alpine X303 - Not supported anymore.
I am a programmer so what I have in mind is trying to write some software that could run on this iphone and possibly convert it into a completely different device. I know this is very vague but maybe together we will manage to come up with some interesting ideas...
I have installed 150 apps on my iPod Touch, but I have found that some apps do not display. Is there any limitation on the number of apps that can be displayed?
If you were to remove the battery from an iPod touch, and then connect it to a computer, would you still be able to play music on it?
I got these with my 1st gen iPod Touch, but I have never figured out how to use them? What are these for?
I have one year old iPod Touch. All of a sudden YouTube is not working. I have wireless network at home.
Does the iPod touch have a GPS? If not how, does it know where it is and how dependable is it?
My car stereo claims to support my iPod touch, and has an iPod connector that is round. The car is second-hand, and no cable was supplied. It isn't the specific adapter shown below - nor indeed that specific ipod, but it is the same connector - and simply, I don't recognise it.
Part way through the iOS 4 update on my touch 3g my c: reached capacity. After clearing off some space I restarted iTunes. Now iTunes (and my touch) think that the latest version is installed. The touch still works fine, and it thinks it's running version 4, but it doesn't have any of the version 4 features! Is there anyway to force it to install version 4 again without doing a restore?
I am currently considering update my second generation iPod Touch to the 4.0 firmware (not 4.0.2 because I need to jailbreak it). I know that if I update the firmware, I will lose the jailbreak. But is it possible to update it without losing music/videos/apps/etc? All the instructions I found involve going into DFU mode, and afaik, you lose all your songs/data when you go into DFU mode. I have my SHSH on file with Cydia, so that is not a problem.
I know the iPhone does that, using me.com, but I don't know anything similar for iPods. I have an iPod touch and, sometimes, I forget where I leave it, only knowing it's on my house.
When I sync my photos with the iPod Touch, the photos are put on as very low quality. They do not even look good at full screen size and do not cope with zooming in to see details. I can't find a setting in iTunes to control how match it compresses the photos.
I noticed a considerable performance degradation when updating to iOS 4.0; enough to downgrade back to 3.1.x. Has that issue been completely resolved in 4.1? Having to downgrade again would be a pain.
My iPod Touch's battery is not performming as well as it should. I've had it for a while. Is there such thing as a battery conditioner that might help get the battery performance better?
On my main menu in my iPod, I frequently click 'Shuffle Songs' to play randomly through my songs. It manages not to include my podcasts but every once in a while will play a chapter from an audio book. Is there a way to stop the Audio Books from mixing in with the music? I have an iPod nano if that matters.
My 80gb iPod Video just died, and I'm pretty sure the hard drive still functions. If I buy an older black-and-white iPod, can I throw in the hard drive and expect it to Just Work?
I found that if I just switch the lock switch to unlocked and back to lock while leaving the iPod connected to the stereo, this "wakes" the iPod up and allows it to then go to sleep shortly thereafter without disrupting the "pause". I should note that I do not have any issues with the iPod going to sleep when it is not connected to the Alpine.
The cable, not the part on the actual iPod.
I have a first-gen iPod Nano 4GB. I live having album art in my iTunes library on my nice, big, fat, PC hard drive. However, I don't really need it on my iPod. I'd like to maximize the amount of music I can fit on there.
I have a Windows desktop and laptop (no Macs) and an Airport Express for listening to music in the living room. I also have sets of speakers in two other rooms. I don't want to spend another $200 just to redirect sound to other rooms. Is there a cheaper alternative to Airport Express that would allow me to stream music from iTunes (on a Windows computer) to these distant speakers? (I intend to control the music playlist/volume remotely via a mobile device)
When I plug in my iPhone 3GS into my Windows XP machine, it automatically opens up Word and displays a preview of all my photos from my phone. I believe I may have accidentally selected an option to always do that. How do I turn it off?
Can you FaceTime over 3G with jailbroken iPhone 4? If so, can you FaceTime in following situations?
On my new iPhone 4, I can add a new contact after talking to them (Add as new contact) but I cannot otherwise add new contacts, or edit existing ones. It looks like a bug. Is there a way to work around it, or do I have to wait for Apple to fix their issue? The phone is not jailbroken.
I was a very happy customer of my microcell until the upgrade to 4.0 and the subsequent patch. Now, at best, I can force an M-cell connection by flipping to airplane and back. I have completely reinitialized the M-cell. Is there way way around this except to whine to AT&T and wait for someone to fix something?
This morning I woke up to find my iPhone dark. If I pressed the home button to turn on the screen, the backlight would flash on briefly and then die. I've turned it on and off, done a hard reboot (home+lock), and I'm in the process of trying a restore. Has anyone ever seen a similar issue?
There are numerous questions (and good answers!) about the fact that iOS 4.0 is horribly slow on an iPhone 3G.
as I already said here my wifi is not working so I need to install Cydia .deb files like SBSettings, Installous, Winterboard etc. manually...well I did, but they wont work properly. I got some .deb files from various website, added them on my device in the cydia install folder, so far so good. I restarted my iphone, the icons showed up (Installous, winterboard) but when I open up Cydia and go to the packages they have a redish background (something like "hey there is something wrong"). Is something wrong with the files or the manual install is not good?
I'm looking for a way to play megavideo (flash) and divx on my iPhone 3G which is jailbroken. Flash seems to require 3G S and above (like everything these days sigh) Should I be able to do this, I will be able to replace my Sky box with my iPhone, as I can get live TV on there through TV catchup and access my iTunes library, I just need to be able to stream flash and divx and I'm set. I've tried imobilecinema and that didn't play any audio or video and openstream (vlc4iphone) didn't work either.
The native Gmail iPhone 4 app on my phone behaves weird, it is not showing pictures that come as attachment, when I click on the picture it starts downloading the picture but it displays those classic picture not available pic with a question mark. I tried deleting account and adding it again still no luck.. Any clue? I'm on iOS 4.1
I noticed my phone bill had a data plan attached this month to my jailbroken iPhone -- is there any way to get around this?
The volume controls on my iPhone 3G S are pretty hard lately. It works, but I need to press very hard on them to change volume. I am afraid that some sand went inside, but I am not sure about that. Any hint to fix it? Thanks!
With my old dumbphone I never really worried about the screen, but my new iPhone 4 has a pretty gorgeous screen that I certainly would never want to come to harm. So I was wondering how many people out there use a screen protector, and what your experience has been. Specifically: Do you use a screen protector for your smartphone? Do they interfere with touch-sensitivity of a touch-screen?
Installing a screen protector on a touchscreen is not always easy. Bubbles and dust can make your screen look horrible. What is the best method/procedure you have found to apply a screen protector?
Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like when I plug my electronics (iPhone, iPod, etc.) into a car charger it gets up to a full charge MUCH faster than if I use a regular charger and an outlet.
I'm new to iPhone development and sorry if my question sounds stupid. Just wondering is it possible that I can buy songs from the iTunes using my iPhone application I just saw some apps doing the same. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I love the big screen on the iMacs, but having to shape the applications so they don't overlap is not optimal. Is there a way to have an autotiling feature, so that with the touch of a (configurable mouse) button the windows get tiled automatically ?
I have a 2nd generation iPod touch (8GB), but I don't know how to make it work as an external disk. I think I saw a checkbox somewhere but I can't find it anymore. I've searched the Web, but the way it should work (as a check box on the front page of iTunes when the iPod is connected) doesn't work for me...
I'd like to do some R&D pushing the boundaries of iOS devices. Is there a how-to guide or private API documentation? Is there a Stack Exchange site for this?
Does anyone has experience buying an iPhone 4 to be unlocked (oficially by Apple) in the US? iPhones are unlocked by Apple, after you request the unlock to your carrier (once you have paid the subsidy). Since Apple Stores allow buying iPhones at full price now (for gifts, for example), can I buy an iPhone in an Apple Store and immediately after call AT&T to unlock it?
First of all: I use a MacBook (white) 13.3" 2Ghz (It says it's a MacBook3,1). There was an 80GB HDD (Hitachi) built in, which just turned out to be a little too... Well, it's not enough anymore. So I cloned the drive with Carbon Copy Cloner (can recommend it by the way) to a 250GB FUJITSU MHY2250BH.
I have an app, "mail notifier" that sends notifications to my phone when I get a new email, it does not support Exchange though. Is there an app that is similar that does support exchange, maybe an app that does 'local' notifications so there is not a reoccurring cost?
I have an iPod Touch -- my first iOS device -- and I'm trying to figure out how to set up the keyboard layouts, because I'm going to be typing almost exclusively Japanese. I went into the preferences, added the Japanese 10-key, added the Chinese (traditional) handwriting recognition, and removed all the others. (I'm indifferent to the emoji keyboard layout, since it doesn't ever seem to appear, even when it's in the list.)
Certain times of the week I would like the phone to be on vibrate and other times of the week I want it to be on ringer. I would like to setup a schedule for these changes to happen automatically. Can this be done? If not natively is there an app that can do this?
The Apple specs say the 13" MacBook Pro supports up to 8GB of RAM. I have a 2.26GHz 13" one, and would really want to use this.
I'm using Google Notifier for Mac 1.10.6.879 and I want it to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox. Previously, I had Notifier report the number of unread messages that had a certain label assigned to it (it was a quasi-Priority Inbox). I set up the notifier by going into terminal and typing: When I substitute out LABEL for Priority Inbox, it doesn't provide an accurate unread count:
On some wireless networks, whenever I try to download or update an app I get the following message: I assume it is some kind of firewall issue. Assuming it is, does anyone know what firewall ports are required to download apps via WIFI to an iPod Touch?
Suppose my_folder contains my_script and my_program. my_script tries to run ./my_program -myoptions. It works when I cd into the directory, but not when I double click on it. Here is the output: How can I fix this?
I want to stop using macports, and use homebrew instead, I have been reading on their approach and it makes more sense to me. Now, I don't care much about having to reinstall my packages, even if some of them might not exist yet -- apparently, creating a new formula is straightforward.
I have an iPhone 3GS running 4.0.1 that is currently Jailbroken (using the Jailbreakme.com vulnerability a while back). While I don't care about any ability to unlock my phone - I'm quite happy with AT&T - I do have LockInfo and one or two other jailbreak apps installed that I quite like. I'd like to update to 4.1 for the new features like GameCenter etc., but as far as I know, I'll lose my jailbreak if I do this.
If I were to examine my iPhone's hard drive, in what format would I find the images in the Photos app stored? Are they in a big .sqlite database file? Or are they stored as individual files such as .jpg?
Can the iPad Camera Kit be used to move or export photos onto an SD Card? I'd like copy photos from my iPad onto a memory card for a digital photo frame.
I want to be able to plug my iPhone in to my main computer and have a fire-and-forget sync happen with iTunes automatically. But leaving the box(es) ticked about doing this appears to be a device option, not a computer option. Thus, when connecting to another PC (e.g. just to charge, or grab a photo), I have to wait whilst iTunes starts up and the device does some strange mini-sync (that doesn't seem to actually do anything other than lose track marks, scrobbles etc.). Have I got something set wrong?
Run CCleaner to clean up all the cruft (temporary files, hidden caches, etc.) that browsers leave behind Run CCleaner to clean the registry Run AdAware to clean up tracking cookies, etc. Run MalwareBytes malicious software removal tool Run Microsoft's malicious software removal tool to backstop malwarebytes (hoping that at least one of them would find the hard-to-catch stuff)
So, I have my Mac running VMware Fusion and I have a Windows XP VM running. Currently the VM Network setup is NAT, my Mac is already setup as a web server. I'd like to be able to access the Mac from the vm via the web browser (for some testing).
If a USB device is plugged or unplugged, my MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep. Can this behavior be changed somehow? That is to say, I do not want my Mac to wake up when a USB device is unplugged.
Does anyone have tips for conveniently dealing with a variety of NFS mounted directories in Mac OS X? When I drag them to the sidebar in finder they can't be renamed.
I work in a windows environment with active directory. Just logging out doesn't disconnect (unbind) the network drives. I need something more forceful, and faster than shutting down and restarting. Because if my mac awakes in another network without connection to the windows shares it gives me the spinning beach ball of death.
When I connect to windows servers (called PC-servers in OS X) getting the list of files in a directory is really slow (20-30s) in comparison to using a windows machine (<1s). Sometimes the files in a directory even disappear for a while! The network is not slow - copying files goes at 1Mbyte/s. What can I do to improve this?
I've heard people talking about using alternative software to manage their iPods. My iPod came in the post today and I was wondering what the pros and cons of using iTunes (as opposed to popular alternative) were.
If I buy a MacBook Pro, what parts can I upgrade later? Is it possible to upgrade to more memory? Is it possible to upgrade to another harddrive? e.g. to a newer SSD-drive? Anything else that is possible to upgrade?
I have recently purchased the Apple Battery Charger and immediately charged the batteries that came with it. A few days later (3 or 4) I placed the batteries into my mouse and noticed that they only indicate about 75% full. Is this correct? Is the value being read wrong (they are actually 100% full) or do they not fully charge?
I'm running Boot Camp, and once in a while I'd like to listen to music under Windows too. Is there a way I can use the same library under both Mac OS and Windows? Just changing the "iTunes Music" folder in Windows iTunes' preferences won't do it.
Does anyone know of an HID-compliant touch screen that will work straight out of the box with Max OS X 10.6 without requiring any drivers to be installed?
I'm considering getting a Macbook or a Macbook Pro (I use Windows on my desktop computer), and I'm thinking about how note taking could be done. Most I'm thinking would use Microsoft Word/Pages, but OneNote seems to be loved a lot of people, especially for education purposes, and it's mandatory for use for people in Years 9 and 10 in my school thanks to the NSW Digital Education Revolution.
Is there a way to find out what time machine is backing up? My time machine has been running fine, but it suddenly started to back-up 20GB a few days ago when I have not changed that much since last back-up. This morning it started to back-up 14Mb, but I have not used it since it's last back up at 00.01 am. Thanks, Linda
I just replaced my old 320Gb HHD on my MBP with a 240Gb SSD and I did not wanted to transfer the hole drive as it would not fit, as I have more than 60Gb of music and 110Gb of Photos and HD Videos. So I started "blank" and, might say, did a good job :o) but I really want to have my Bootcamp partition on my SSD instead hooking up the HHD all the time, and was searching for a tool... Carbon Copy Cloner sounded great but:
I have an external Hard Drive with two bootable partitions on it. The first is an image of a Mac OS X 10.6 Install DVD, and the second is an image of a Mac OS X 10.6.3 Install DVD.
How do I keep iOS from replacing my typing with something else when a correction is proposed? If I do nothing (i.e., don't choose the proposed word) and continue typing, it replaces the word I typed! Is this possible to have the opposite behaviour—that is, to have to do something to have what I typed modified?
When my MacBook wakes up, away from a network it was previously connected to, it shows the "server connections interrupted" window. When I click "disconnect all", I get a spinning beach ball of death. Restarting the finder doesn't help. Logging out and restarting is not possible anymore. The only thing I can do is a hard reset. Or is there a way to kill the process from the terminal or from the activity monitor?
I have a 20' aluminum iMac (the one that came with a Mighty Mouse). The not-so-mighty mouse started to fail, and I'm tired of trying to clean its wheel.
I have an iHome wireless 5 button laser mouse model iH-M130ZR and I can't find any drivers to be able to program the buttons. By default, left/right/scroll clicks work, but I can't get any response from the other buttons. Does anyone know of a program or drivers that will let me take advantage of these other buttons? Even to just be able to use the side buttons for back/forward in browsing would be great.
I have a Mac Pro with a dual setup running an Acer P243w and Samsung SyncMaster B2430. I have attempted making my own profile but have difficulty matching them.
I have two monitors, and 9 (3x3) virtual desktops. When I invoke the Spaces overview mode of expose, everything gets pulled onto the primary display. It creates one overview with 3x3 desktops, although each desktop is a weird shape of two rectangles touching and offset, representing the two monitors. I would much prefer to have both desktops used for this view, with a 3x3 display of the primary spaces on the primary display, and a 2nd 3x3 display of the secondary desktops on the second display. Does anyone know of a defaults command or 3rd party app that supports this?
When I'm watching a movie and I press the "play" button, iTunes 10 launches. How can I keep this from happening?
Pages on the iPad has as one of its defaults the "Personal Photo Letter". What is the intent of this type of document?
If I buy a new hard drive and clone my original onto it (using Carbon Copy Cloner or something similar), will my computer function exactly the same as it did before? Will things like licensed programs not work properly? (I can't think of any reason they wouldn't, but you never know.)
I have a problem charging my battery. When I plug my power adapter into my MacBook Pro, the power adapter's light turns green (it doesn't change to orange) and my monitor light turns on (which means the laptop is getting power from the adapter)—but the battery wouldn't charge.
How do I do that? The normal installers (with .pkg files) ask for a root password. It is possible to run normal mac software without root access, but how do I run and install this shell software?
I use the iPod application on my iPad to watch podcasts most days, but after watching a podcast it seems impossible to get back to the initial screen (which shows when the app is launched) without quitting the app and starting it up again. Is there some sort of secret to getting back the the initial screen?
Is there a way to convert an iOS 4 backup to format that was used in iOS 3. I have an iPhone 3G and iOS 4 runs really slow on it. I have succesfuly downgraded the firmware back to 3.1.3 but now I can't restore data backup because the backup format is only for iOS 4. Any ideas? Thanks!
I have selected to download a few podcasts in iTunes on my iPad but have decided that I don't want them anymore (they're audio only and I would prefer to listen to them on my laptop instead). Is there any way of terminating/cancelling the download? I have tried tapping, holding, and various other things in iTunes on the iPad but no luck. Am I doomed to have to download the files and then delete them? I ask because I'm in a country that does not have unmetered download internet plans.
The most common use case I have for this is when I'm playing music over AirTunes, but don't want an open laptop laying around. Or when I'm syncing or downloading something. This isn't the same as this question, which related to sleep vs. hibernation; I'm looking for a way to make it stay active with the lid closed.
I have a few hundred mp3's which are labeled, e.g., "Rush - 01 - actual title of song". Is there a way to automatically remove "Rush - XX - " form the title names?
Anyone encounter this, or know how to prevent it? I'm syncing two MacBooks, an iPad and two iPhones. Each entry appears one to five times once it syncs.
I bought a headset, and it has a (obviously) male headphone input and microphone output. Problem is, MacBook Pros don't have a microphone input. Instead, they have an audio line in. However, relatively recent MacBook Pros apparently combine the audio out with a microphone input, allowing, for instance, iPhone headsets to be plugged in the computer and work as expected. So I was wondering if there were adapters that took the two jacks and merged them into a single, "iPhone-compatible" jack, that I could plug in the MacBook Pro.
I have recently downloaded a .sit archive file. Is there a way to decompress it at the command line?
I have a weird problem with an external disk connected to my 27" iMac running OS X 10.6.5. It is a 1TB LaCie d2 Quadra and it is connected through Firewire. I use this disk primarily for Time Machine backups, which works well and fast.
I know that the way to install an application on Mac is to drag the icon from the disk image onto applications. Often these folders don't just contain an application but resources (such as a readme as well). How do I then access these resources later? Do I have to save the disk images as well? This seems kind of silly as then the default instructions for installing the application mean that you can't easily access the readme later (as the disk image has probably been saved to the downloads folder where it will eventually end up being deleted).
Is there an app that sends weather alerts push notification to the iPhone? I have seen similar apps on Andriod but haven't seen one for the iPhone.
In the 10.4 or maybe 10.5 versions of Terminal.app it was possible to hide the scrollbar completely. Does anyone know if this is still possible in the 10.6 version of Terminal.app?
I have multiple accounts configured in Mail and I would like to see the separate unread counts in the dock icon. I was looking at dockstar. When I google I see that another plugin Mailbadger is also available (the homepage is down for quite sometime now, and the download available via macupdate and others seem to be outdated) Is there another/better app/plugin for customizing Mail's dock icons?
I use international keyboards which have ` (~ with shift) next to Z key. I'm used to having `/~ key next to 1 (currently, this key produces § or ± with shift, which I don't use at all). My goal is to remap §/± key to `/~.
How can I allow incoming SSH connections on my mac (Mac OS X 10.6.4) from other machines on the same network? Every time I'm trying to scp something on the machine I get a Connection refused error.
What can I ask on the phone to a Mac user who has a MacBook Pro (Alu), but doesn't know if it's a 15 or a 17 one (and don't have a tool to measure the screen) What can I ask him to look at to tell me what version it is?
I would like iTunes to automatically delete the downloaded file after I had listened to it. Ideally I would like to be able to keep them for a few days after I had listened to it but it's not necessary. Is this possible?
Is there a way I can add the italian language to Safari's built in spelling support?
I've set up my fair share of Macs over the years, but I've never been able to pinpoint what setting tells OS X that you're ok with being able to drag-resize a window vertically so that it goes behind the dock (assuming the dock is in its default position at the bottom of the screen), as opposed to only being able to resize it vertically so that it is touching the top of the dock's "space". My work computer is a 21" iMac Core 2 Duo and it drives me crazy because I'll quickly drag-resize a window larger by pulling down and to the right but instead of staying locked vertically above the dock it'll slide behind it which I don't like so then I've gotta jiggle the window around to get it all back into visible space... my home computer (6 core tower) doesn't have this problem even though I've, from what I can tell, set it up nearly identically. Both machines running the latest version of snow leopard.
When working in Keynote I like to use medium and light fonts instead of bold and normal. This causes me a problem because when I hit apple-b to embolden something I want the font to be switched to medium instead of bold, but the default is the bold font. Is there someway for me to either a) redefine what a particular presentation interprets as bold and normal or b) assign a different shortcut key to switch the font between medium and light? UPDATE: An option c) occurs to me too: could I copy the whole font somehow and play around with its definition to replace normal with light and bold with medium?
I have an iPhone 3G with 3.1.3 firmware. I want to upgrade it to 4.1, but I can't find information on how to then jailbreak it (I want it to work with any mobile provider). Is there a way to jailbreak iOS 4.1?
Apple displays are great, except for the price. I'm looking to replace my LG 19" display with a 24".
Is there something like Linux console in Mac OS X? Like "terminal", but without running graphics environment.
What is jail breaking? Why do people do it? What is the advantage and disadvantage?
I have a pretty large music library in FLAC, and I need to import it to my iTunes library somehow. I want to use the ALAC format to keep everything lossless so I can transcode to different lossy formats later if I need to.
I have a MacBook Pro 5,3 with a 7200 rpm 500 GB hard drive. I am running out of space and I have been considering upgrading with Western Digital's 1 TB laptop hard drive. I am just curious if I am going to get a big hit to my performance. This is the hard drive I am looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136545
The two iPhones appears in iTunes but the run data is not synced with Nike+
A friend order an iPhone 4 to replace his iPhone 3G which has a cracked screen. He offered it to me.
I recently downloaded a YouTube playlist, ripped the audio, and added it to my iPod/iTunes library. Currently the songs are in my "Recently Added" playlist, but once they disappear from there, I don't know I'll find them. I've checked if the name of the playlist (also the name of the directory the files are stored in) is being used as either the album name or artist name, and it's not.
If an iPhone is configured to sync with Exchange, what's the best way to break that connection while preserving all the contact and note data on the phone? Is it enough to remove the Exchange account and then sync with Outlook directly? Or are there other gotchas with that?
On a number of occasions I have synced my iPod after several months of ratings only to have all of my meticulously applied stars get erased from the iPod Classic. I switched from the more convenient Manual mode to Automatic management but it still seems to wipe my ratings. The ideal behavior would be to have iTunes sync the new stars back to my library. Why wouldn't this happen?
One of my friends had recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" and had been astounded to find that he couldn't read some of his old documents that were in Chinese in Office 2008. All the characters had been reduced to little square blocks like [].
Commercially speaking they are the same, as stated by Wikipedia, but what should be the correct way to name our precious personal devices?
Can you guys teach me how to rotate an image so that when sent by email we actually send it in the right rotation?
Is there an easy way to obtain a list of all songs in my iTunes library that are protected by DRM?
I like the threaded view for mail.app, but it only groups the messages per thread. In other words, there's only two levels: the original messages, and all the replies that came after that.
Is there an easy way to extract plain text from a pdf file? On *nix systems I used to have a command ps2ascii that would do the job, but it seems that this command is not installed by default on my Mac. What would be the easiest way to extract text from a pdf file or, alternatively, how to get ps2ascii on my system?
Is there a way to start/stop internet sharing from the command line or maybe an apple script? The thing is that I move around my laptop between home and work. At one place I get wireless internet (and thus I have to disable internet sharing), and at the other I get internet from an ethernet cable and set up the computer to share the internet to other devices by creating a small wireless network. But it's getting a bit tedious having to go into System Preferences and start/stop the internet sharing every time I switch locations, so I would like to have a quick command or script to launch and do the switch on demand. Any hints or ideas?
I don't understand why Mac OS X 32-bit kernel can access all 4GB of memory (and even more) while Windows 32-bit can only work with ~ 3,3 GB, and for using more than 4GB you need 64-bit Windows. Even when 32-bit Windows runs on Mac hardware with > 4GB mem, it still doesn't use it all. Sorry for talking about Windows on this site :-), I would just like to understand the difference.
I was trying to run a Keynote presentation on a secondary display and Keynote told me that I didn't have enough video RAM and either needed to reduce the resolution or number of colors from Millions to Thousands. I know how to change the resolution, but how do I change the number of colors? Thanks!
Is there a way to run a Keynote presentation in a window instead of fullscreen? I changed the resolution to one smaller than my display, and it displays it centered. I need it in the upper left corner of the screen to record it with Camtasia.
I've just installed iOS 4.1 on my iPhone 3GS, and want to try the new HDR feature in the Camera App... But it doesn't seem to be available.
Over the past year, my dad's Powerbook G4 (OS X 10.3) lost the ability to run any usable version of firefox or other end of life PPC software. Apple customer service wouldn't sell him a copy of 10.5 and told him to search ebay for copies of OS X 10.5, 8 months after releasing 10.6. We've been watching ebay and the price just keeps climbing above the original price.
I want to burn a CD from iTunes and include a picture of my own as the cover art. So then when people stick the CD into their computer, it shows a picture in iTunes in the cover art section.
I'm running into a situation where I need to repair my main partition but I can not get my machine to boot off the Snow Leopard DVD. It will boot up, let me choose my language, then go to the "Preparing Installation" (I think that's what it says) screen just before you get to the install wizard and utilities. After that the screen goes gray and then the machine cuts off, black screen, no lights, no power. Also I seem unable to boot into an Ubuntu install cd (which seems to hang up) or into Safe Mode via holding Shift at startup (which gives me folder with a question mark in it).
I would like to use my MacBook Pro with a second monitor. What do I need to be able to do this?
One option I have for activating expose is to combined Shift, Control, Alt or Command with a secondary click. I am wondering if any of these combinations are likely to interfere with any useful commands on the Mac. Do any of these combinations already do anything useful?
On my iPhone (though I'm sure it's on iPods and iPads as well), under the iPod settings, there's a toggle "Sound Check". What does it do?
Is it possible to download lectures (from iTunes U) with iTunes on Mac A, sync an iPod to Mac A, then carry that iPod to Mac B, and finally watch them on Mac B? That's what I have been doing with my previous iPod (not an iPod Touch) because it allows me to use it as a USB hard drive. Now that I'm using an iPod Touch (which doesn't allow me to see what's inside), I wonder if I can use syncing to do the same job.
I have about 20 contacts on my iPhone that is in the wrong group. How can I move them to another group?
I love the idea of the Lilliput 7" USB mini Monitor (found via the Stack Exchange API Contest). However, I already have a 'normal' second monitor connected to my Macbook, would the Lilliput break the 2 monitor limit and not work? Or is USB different?
What if I have a Nokia PC Suite backuped file which contains all the SMS and want to copy them to the new iPhone?
Is it possible to create a shortcut or bookmark to a webpage directly from an iPad's main page which opens in a non-Safari browser. i.e. Readledocs or GoodBooks?
My iPhone 4's compass is off to a significant enough degree that it's annoying... is there any way to manually re-calibrate the compass? I have, of course, done the "figure 8" (whatever action that was supposed to elicit) when I first set up the phone, and again whenever the phone prompts me to (which is very rare). What I'm looking for is a setting/menu/option by which I can call up that re-calibration interface, instead of waiting for it to prompt me.
I want to run games on my additional screen, how can I do this? By default they run on the built-it screen. I'm using a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard.
I was inspired by the question Mac or Macintosh. What's the proper way to pronounce "Mac OS X"? I've heard the following things used to refer to the operating system on the Macintosh: "Mac OS Ten" ("OS" is said like "AHSS") "Mac OS Ex" ("OS" is said like "AHSS") "Mac Oh-Ess Ex" "Mac Oh-Ess Ten"
I'm on a Mac, and I'm enrolled in the iPhone developer program. It would be of more general use to have an answer that doesn't depend on the latter, tho. While "just pop in a SIM card from another carrier" is a technically feasible answer, I'd rather have one that doesn't involve my getting off my chair.
I don't see any native functionality to export highlighted notes made from within iBooks Is there a third-party tool that will allow this?
I want to be able to launch a Terminal window using JiTouch, which allows me to make a gesture open a file, so I want to know the location of the Terminal app so that I can open it.
I am currently hiding my dock. I would like to unhide it whenever a the fn key is pressed. Is this possible?
I'm going to buy 2T external HDD to replace my already full 1T HDD external. I want to keep the time machine backup data. In this case, is it just OK to copy all the time machine backup data in 1T HDD to 2T HDD?
I have a client with a large number of Word documents that he needs to be able to search. He's been using Spotlight and Quick Look, which has worked pretty well. He asked me if there was a way to have the Quick Look image automatically highlight the search terms within the Quick Look preview. I've been googling for a Quick Look plugin, but I haven't found one? Does anyone here know of something like this?
What's the best solution to convert .mkv files to .avi ?
I’ve done a bit of searching for specific Safari version numbers in support.apple.com. Quite a few versions have specific change notes, but it seems like often the versions bundled with major OS X releases aren’t given their own change notes. 1.0: *=URL=* 1.2: *=URL=* (Dave Hyatt also provided some more detailed notes on the old WebKit blog: *=URL=* 1.3.1: *=URL=* 1.3.2: *=URL=* 1.0: *=URL=* 1.2: *=URL=* (Dave Hyatt also provided some more detailed notes on the old WebKit blog: *=URL=* 1.2: *=URL=* (Dave Hyatt also provided some more detailed notes on the old WebKit blog: *=URL=* 1.3.1: *=URL=* 1.3.1: *=URL=* 1.3.2: *=URL=* 1.3.2: *=URL=* 2.0.1: *=URL=* 2.0.1: *=URL=* 3.1: *=URL=* 3.1.1: *=URL=* 3.2.1: *=URL=* 3.2.3: *=URL=* 3.1: *=URL=* 3.1.1: *=URL=* 3.1.1: *=URL=* 3.2.1: *=URL=* 3.2.1: *=URL=* 3.2.3: *=URL=* 3.2.3: *=URL=* 4.0.5: *=URL=* 4.1: *=URL=* 4.1.2: *=URL=* 4.0.5: *=URL=* 4.1: *=URL=* 4.1: *=URL=* 4.1.2: *=URL=* 4.1.2: *=URL=* 5.0: *=URL=* 5.0.2: *=URL=* 5.0: *=URL=* 5.0.2: 
I'm planning to purchase a printer + scanner soon and want to have one that will be able to work with Mac, as well as Windows machines. I am hoping for one that will have a wireless printing/scanning feature. There are certain types of printers that I heard that work with Macs, but I'm not sure what differentiates them from other normal printers. What's the difference?
What is the format of ebooks that the iBooks uses that allows page turning, white on black text, etc.? (I.e., the books you get from the store.)
Is there a program I can download to add an option to create a new file to the contextual menu of finder? NuFile doesn't seem to work in Snow Leopard.
This article on identifying a MacBook Pro lists the serial number as one method of identifying it. However, the article it links to, doesn't explain how to identify it either. How can I identify a Macbook Pro from its serial number.
I have an external USB drive from LaCie that is connected to my MacBook Pro – almost all the time. So whenever I don't use it for a few minutes, it powers down. That means, it takes a few seconds to spin the disk up again if I need it.
I recently got a Mac from a friend. All it has is a power cable and a cable to connect it to the monitor. On the back, it says Mac mini 2.0/2x512/120 so I'm guessing that's 1 GB RAM, and 120 GB hard drive.
Is it possible to sync iTunes U feeds with non-Apple devices?
My phone uses a standard icon when mounted. I just want to replace that icon with a custom one.
Is there an iPhone 4 compatible Car Kit which supports charging, playing Music through the car stereo + Hands Free Calls? I've looked at a few kits, eg from Parrot but not many (if any?) seems to be iPhone 4/iOS4 compatible? I currently have my iPhone plugged into my stereo, but since I upgraded to iPhone it no longer charges which is why I need to upgrade. Any suggestions welcome
I would like to boot safe mode but I can't because of my rEFIt. Holding the Shift button at startup has no effect, I just get the rEFIt menu and OSX starts to boot normally. any ideas how to do it?
I'm rather disappointed that iPhoto has no direct ability to import from a scanner. I'm reduced to scanning in Preview, which has a less awful UI for scanning than the program that came with my HP scanner, and dragging the resulting files into iPhoto. Is there some better scheme that I've missed?
I don't have enough disk space on my PC to store whatever is backed up by iPhone. Is there a way to change location to where iPhone backs up the data? I want to back it up to my external hard drive.
Cmd+Shift+L searches for the selected text in Google using Safari. Can I change this to use Firefox instead?
In short, I want a small device that allows me to access the Internet in any way at any time (I will get a phone plan that includes unlimited Internet access). All the data should be stored in the cloud rather than on the local device.
I have 3 Monitors which I would like to drive off a Mac Pro (that is not bought yet). The Monitors don't have DisplayPort though (and I had not much luck with the $100 adapters). All 3 have DVI and 2 have HDMI as well (running at 2048x1152).
The normal mail app correctly shows a list of mails in my mailbox including a preview of the message body. When I tap any of them, the mail opens and correctly shows the mail header (sender, subject, date etc.) but the message body is blank. When I look at the same mailbox using Gmail webpage, I see the identical mails with message body intact so I know that it's not a problem with the mails or the mailbox itself.
OnMyCommand allows commands to be added to the shortcut menu. Unfortunately, I can't add them to the services menu or add a keyboard shortcut for them. Is this possible?
I'm trying to find a numeracy/maths/times-tables application for my children in which you have to 'write' the correct answer. There are lots of multiple-choice type times-tables applications but I'm looking for the equivalent of the various "Brain Academy" type applications available on Nintendo DS. Age from 6 to 10. Thanks for any help.
Battery warning "Service battery". This warning have appeared in my MacBook Pro (2008) with Snow Leopard. Is there a way to find out what a reason of this warning, without apply to service centre?
My iPod Touch shows the icon for "I won't do anything until you connect me to iTunes." When I obey, iTunes tells me: The software on the iPod has expired and must be updated to a newer version.
I've used mobile me(me.com) quite a while, but I happen to know and use DropBox. DropBox is much better than iDisk in terms of easy of use, size, speed, and many things. I'm considering discontinue to use mobile me to switch to 50G option of Dropbox ($100/year), but before doing that, I need to know what services that I cannot use. I need to use, even though I can live without them. email web check. bookmark and other items sync
How can I enable invisible files with "Transmit" FTP client ? It asks me to show them only if I override one of them. I actually would like to always see them.
On my iPod (iOS 4.1), I'm often browsing Japanese webpages, and while I can usually understand the meaning, I often don't know the readings, especially in new contexts. For my desktop web browsers, there are various ways to get it to display furigana for the webpage you're looking at: the Furigana Inserter extension, a bookmarklet to hiragana.jp, etc.
I'm currently recording videos of my screen using QuckTime Player and a MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2010) in a resolution of 640x480. The application I'm recording is called Synthesia (it is a game like Guitar Hero for piano) and is based on OpenGL. Somehow all videos I record do have a subtile stuttering which I think is annoying (see an example here: *=URL=* Is there a program that will do a better job at recording my screen than QuckTime Player, or is it just my MacBook Pro that is not powerful enough?
I'm looking for an app to read RSS feeds on my iPod Touch. I saw Reeder, but it looks like it only interoperates with Google Reader, as far as I can tell -- you can't just add an arbitrary RSS feed. Is there a good RSS reader that works without Google Reader?
Everyday, I usually start my Mac Mini at 16:00 and shutdown it at 2:00 using the Energy Saver schedule settings. I would like to be able to set a different behavior on the Weekends starting Mac Mini at 9:00 for example. Do you know any way to achieve that (third party software, cron job, superuser trick)?
I had two external hard disks: External and Backup. External had many aliases which pointed to other files on the same disk. Backup was used to backup External.
I use OS X Mail and iCal connected to my company's MS Exchange server. Sometimes a co-worker sends a calendar invitation (using Outlook) with lots of agenda details in it. I'm trying to find a good way to print that. iCal has an option to print the day's events in list format, but the output is in two columns and a few of the lines write over each other and are completely unreadable. If I try to print the invitation as it came to me in Mail, the output has an iCal icon showing the attachment -- not the contents of the attachment. So, short of copy/paste into TextEdit, Word, etc, is there a clean way to print this?
I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 Ultimate installed via Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro. I also have Parallels 5 installed on my Mac OS X, which can boot up Bootcamp's partition of Windows 7. I'm getting an error when I run Windows 7 on Parallels: You may be a victim of software counterfeiting
How do you stop iPhoto/Aperture launching when you sync an iPad?
A few weeks ago I got my iPhone 4 replaced by Apple because of a fault. The replacement now seems to have a loose back panel. If I try to slide it sideways it will move a bit. None of the other people I know with an iPhone 4 have encountered this and I'm not sure if I should be bothered taking it back to the store or just keeping it. Should the loose panel be cause for concern, or is it nothing to worry about?
I use the latest wireless keyboard for my iMac at home. Since I use it for programming most of the time, the little laptop style arrow keys are inadequate. Are there any GOOD alternative apple keyboards available? EDIT:
Is there an iPhone app that allows me to take pictures of documents and then upload them to Google Docs?
Is there any good, free program for OS X that can create RAR files? Preferably with a GUI. It seems there are plenty of options for extracting RAR files, but not that many for compressing them...
I am considering going on eBay to try and buy a new powercord for my MacBook. I know that phones often advise that you only use the official charger, so I was wondering if the same warning applied for laptops and if so, I serious I should take the warning.
Unlike Windows, you cannot maximize a window in Mac with a click of the button. The little green (+) button next to the red and yellow buttons at the left of the windows does some strange stuff sometimes when you click it and doesn't do the expected operations. How would you fully maximize a window on a Mac?
I'm currently using an iPhone 4 and a cheap e-reader that was given to me as a gift. I don't think I can afford both an iPhone and an iPad, so I was considering switching to a dumbphone (non-smartphone) and an iPad. What features would i lose, or miss, from making this switch - specifically in the iphone-ipad part?
I am looking for a way to update my iPhone 3Gs to 4.0.1, and not to 4.1 so that I can jailbreak. Can anyone help? EDIT - I have now tried, and failed on two seperate machnines to restore from DFU mode to 4.0.1 The device is has 4 beta on it.
It keeps asking me for my password, even when I'm using other apps such as Mail.
In windows when right clicking a folder there is an option: send to -> desktop (create shortcut). How can I do this on a Mac?
So, I've been hearing a clicking sound coming from my macbook for about a week now. The last few days the system has just been locking itself up when I try to type anything. Now, at startup I see this:
What applications are recommended for encoding existing videos from various sources (ripped DVDs, MKVs, AVIs ...) into a format playable by the new (2010) Apple TV?
Are there any good Google Reader clients for OS X?
After 4 years of being a Mac user, there is only one thing that I still miss from the Windows world, and that is being able to switch with a single keystroke between all open windows in the computer. What is the best app or utility, free or not, for accomplishing that?
Is it possible to use the time machine backup system without an external (or second) HD? I know that the protection to disk failure will not be guaranteed anymore, but the file accidental deletion, the wrong edit etc. will be avoided... Is there a trick to make Time Machine believes that he has a disk dedicated for him to do the job ? Note : The situation is using a laptop on travel.
my iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1 is really slow and I am tired of this stupid situation. I am considering downgrading somehow to old 3.X or even 2.X versions, so it can breath again. What do you think? How would yo do it and to what iOs version? Thanks
I want to know if a particular date (for instance, October 1, 2010) is a good date to go ahead and buy a Macbook pro, or whether I should wait few months for new models to come out. How can I figure out whether a computer I buy will soon become obsolete?
Is it possible to create a folder containing a single icon? I guess you could drag one icon onto another, then remove the second one, but is there a more "elegant" solution?
How can I copy the path to a folder or a file? The Info Dialog doesn't allow me to copy the information that stands there ...
Is there any way to view a PDF in Preview in Full Screen? Quick Look works, but it doesn't have the 'remembering the page you were looking at' feature that I like.
How do I create an image, containing a copy of the current screen display, on the iPad?
I'm using Apple's in-ear headset; perhaps it's simply louder than the regular one. At least I can play music at a much lower volume with it, so the "perceived" volume of the songs is louder.
Can you advise me of where or if it a high capacity battery exists to replace my pre unibody battery on a MacBook Pro?
When I reboot my machine, I'd like it to reopen all my programs and windows, and put them back in the same place, after restarting. how do I do this? (I'm on 10.6, and use spaces)
I have a pages document that I want to copy a JPG into and make the JPG take up the whole first page with no margins. Then I want the rest of the pages to keep their margins as I've already specified. I have the jpg copied into pages, but I can't make it any bigger than the margins and there is still a header and footer. Thanks in advance!
This summer Apple changed built-in mail app to support "archive" button (at least for GMail and GApps-based accounts), but I have found that I need to delete emails much more often than archive them. Right now the only way to delete them that I know is moving messages into Trash folder, which is quite cumbersome. Is there a way to bring back "delete" instead of "archive" button or any other way to quickly delete messages?
Is there any way to get TextFree working with a Google Voice account belonging to a Google Apps account? I have been able to get it working with a Gmail account by simply adding the user@textfree.us address to the forwarding text message option in Google Voice. The problem with a Google Apps account is that it doesn't let you add additional email addresses to that list. It won't let me forward to the phone number that TextFree gave me, since I must verify the phone with audio (as opposed to a text message), and TextFree doesn't let me answer phone calls. Is there any other way to get the three services to work together?
Mail.app seems built to punish us for not having inbox-zero. I hear a chime telling me new mail has arrived, but with a list of mailboxes that look like:
I have a Spanish layout keyboard (in Snow Leopard). Whenever I use the dot, or comma, in the numeric keyboad (right of the 0) it always shows a comma, but I'd prefer if it entered a dot, just like PCs do. Otherways, entering IP addresses, or decimal numbers when coding is a PITA. How can I do that? I have tried altering my regional settings so that the decimal separator is a point and the thousands separator is a comma, but that doesn't seem to affect text entry. I'd prefer changing some regional setting rather than remapping the keyboard, but I'll accept any answer that works - short of changing the regional layout of the keyboard, I really need my diacritics there.
I'm looking for a simple, zippered "sleeve" case for an iPod Touch (like a laptop sleeve, only smaller). I'm interesting in something styled like Case Logic's zippered digital camera cases, such as this one or this one. Those would be perfect, except the Case Logic website warns that they are too small to fit an iPod Touch (by about half an inch). I've looked at Incase's offerings, too, but they don't sell anything like these.
When I try to open a website when my connection is down or while my modem is starting up, my Mac flags this url as unreachable. When the connection is finally open and internet available, I still can not reach this web site as if the Mac doesn't try to reach it again and still displays me the error page. Other web sites (that I didn't try to reach while offline) are reachable... Is there a way to reset this information so that the Mac really tries to reach url ?
This is a real nit that I I'm picking :-). I save a lot of stuff from the web as PDF files. Is there any way to not have the "Save as PDF" use my name as the author of the PDF by default, other than removing myself from my address book? I'll fill it in for those few times that I really am the author. On OS X 10.6.4.
Is it possible to save a file received by e-mail to a folder on iDisk ? Watch out : The context is : web browsing on my MobileMe account.
I can't find how to buy it, so I assumed that on English is available. Does anyone know if there are other languages available for this product, or like in Windows version a Profiling Tools that not only change the GUI locale but also adds the dictionaries in that language. I'm currently searching the Portuguese version for a friend.
I have a layout in Pages that I want to turn into a template. Here is what I have so far:
I have a broadband dsl at home, but my wireless signal isnt that strong in the living room. I am excited with getting one of these 2 devices, but I don't know how it will all work without cable.
Just started to use a Mac for my new job and not being able to use the middle button to open links in a new tab is killing me. I know I can press control and do a regular click but it's not the same. I know the Mac knows I'm trying to do something because it beeps at me when I press the middle button on my mouse. Is there any hope? Note I tried the trick about setting expose dashboard to - but it didn't work.
OS X lets me type special characters directly on the keyboard by holding the Option. For example: — is an em dash, “ and ” are curvy quotes, etc.
When I buy a TV show in iTunes in high-definition, at the time iTunes starts to download the show, it actually begins downloading two versions of the show: one in standard definition, and one in high definition. This is a waste of my bandwidth!
My friend's MacBook Pro was recently stolen. Fortunately, it was protected with a password. How secure is the built-in protection ? Can thieves access the data on the hard drive, and at what difficulty?
The Apple TV arrived! I'm slightly bummed that I can only stream from iTunes, and therefore only use formats that iTunes supports. I haven't found a single other video player that supports AirPlay, though to be fair, AirPlay has only really been around since the new Apple TVs started arriving.
Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible replacement. Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex information flows with smart objects and interconnect graphics that snap and bend as the user moves things around on the page. It's morphed over the years to support other diagram and information flow views like IT diagrams and UI mockups. What's out there that can replace Visio on the Mac?
For better or for worse, I am so used to Microsoft Word. The page is in the center of the window surrounded by gray. Pages pushes the writing area to the left. Why is this?
I'm running 10.6.4 and PHP reports itself as version 5.3.2 (5.3.3 is available) and mySQL reports version 5.1.45 (5.1.51 is available) I know they are minor releases but is it possible to easily update either of these? If so, any hints or pointers as to how?
The OWC Data Doubler allows you to remove the SuperDrive of a MacBook or MacBook Pro and install a secondary drive. This leaves you with two drives in your Mac laptop, and a SuperDrive sitting on your desk. Is there any sort of SuperDrive enclosure that would allow you to put a SuperDrive inside of it, and then plug into your computer via USB?
I have an iMac and I use it for development and video editing. I am looking for greater portability and I'm considering a MacBook or MacBook Pro. My other option is an iLugger. I'm looking for owners of iLugger to share their experiences with iLugger and if it is a worthy buy.
iWork for iPad now has WebDav export/import options, DropBox doesn't support WebDav. Where can I find a service that has WebDav support? Besides setting up my own server, is there any consumer (and ideally free) site that does this?
I have a 2007 24" iMac with 4GB RAM and internal 320GB HD. A while ago the machine froze and then would not boot. When I run the Extended Apple Hardware Test I get the error "4HDD/11/40000004:SATA(0,0)". Is this more likely to be a problem with the HD or the logic board?
So, I've decided to go for an iPhone 4. But since I am new to the whole iPhone thing, what are the things that I should know, to make the maximum use of the device? Some of the questions I would like to know the answer: what are the apps I should install? How do I charge the battery? The temperature the iPhone should be exposed to in order to prolong the lifespan?
I have an iPhone 3Gs that is synchronized with my home PC (Windows Vista). But I spend most of the day at work (unsurprisingly), I don't have iTunes on my work PC and I never connect my iPhone to it. Often, while at work, I see a link to a podcast that I want to listen to later - but I can't subscribe to it on the spot (because I'm not near my iTunes PC) What I want is to subscribe to the podcast on my work PC, over the web (without installing iTunes) and have the podcast waiting for me in iTunes on my home PC.
Are there any (preferably free/cheap) solutions for syncing and accessing encrypted passwords on a Mac, a PC and an iPhone?
Does anyone know of a Safari mechanism (extension in Safari 5, perhaps), that will allow a person to send the current URL via instant message? Ideally, it would pop up a list of contacts.
Has anyone seen this before? I haven't tried rebooting yet because I have a ton of things open. Is there some way to restart the networking subsystem on Mac OS that might help this?
There is a persistent thing going on in Pages where there is a line under a rectangle shape when I make it. How do I get rid of it? I don't want it to show up when I export the document to a PDF.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running 4.0.1, and I recently installed git from Cydia just for fun. I've noticed in recent weeks that a number of developers have been throwing their theme/plugin source code up on GitHub, which is theoretically awesome because updating is a 2-command process (cd /private/var/stash/Themes/<theme>.theme/ and git pull) that can be done on the phone itself. But when I try to clone a repo, this happens:
I administer a number of Windows machines, and am trying to find a really good application to remote desktop in to them from my Mac. I've tried CoRD, and I really like its library approach to saved sessions (as opposed to Microsoft's file based approach), and tabbed sessions are great when working on a bunch of machines. Unfortunately, it's just too buggy for serious use, and given that it averages less than 2 releases a year, I have little hope that that will change. Microsoft's official client is very bare bones and doesn't support connecting on non-standard ports (which I need). Is there a remote desktop client for Mac out there that's both fully featured and not buggy? Edit: Apparently the Microsoft doc I read that states that the Microsoft RDC client can't be used on non-standard ports is out of date.
Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac?
I have an iPhone 4, iPod Touch and iPad... And I have problems with syncing. If I download an app directly to my iPhone and put it in a folder, and then sync my iPhone with my Mac, it will pull that app out of the folder and put it on the last homescreen of my iPhone. If I download a song to my iPhone and add it to a playlist, then sync my iPhone with my Mac, it will pull the song out of the playlist and maybe even remove it from my iPhone. If I sync the iPad or iPod with my Mac, it will add a bunch of random apps that I either previously deleted or did not request at all. Any ideas how I can make this a more managable process?
Anybody else feeling this/have any idea how to fix it without reinstalling Snow Leopard? This seems very similar to problems PD used to have back in 2008 (forum link) FWIW, my current network interfaces are: (And yes, as you can see from the NICs, I also run VMWare Fusion 3.1.1, but the issue started upon upgrading to PD6)
I keep reading in articles that GPS on the iPhone, or any cell phone for that matter, uses a lot of power, but I've never heard an explanation of why. Why is this? The phone doesn't have to transmit like it does with 3G or WiFi. Does the actual act of receiving and amplifying the signal take a lot of power?
I have a 2nd generation iPod Touch running OS 4 that I (usually) leave powered on 24x7. What I notice that I am unable to go online - I cannot check my email, browse the web, etc. My guess is that my wireless router's DHCP tables have recycled (or whatever the right word is) and that the iPod Touch needs to renew its IP address.
On my iPhone, my date and time are set automatically. Is there any way to do the same thing on the iPad to ensure it always displays the correct time?
I used a Magic Mouse for the past few months. Very soon after I started using it I developed some aching in my hand. Over time this has grown to be more or less constant, even when not using the mouse for a while. I just switched back to an old bulky Logitech mouse, and just resting my hand on it feels much better. The Magic Mouse seems way too flat to be comfortable for prolonged use.
I am currently using this ( *=URL=* ) for a tickler file system and have it setup in my Dropbox (so it works across systems). There are just a couple of things from making it perfect. If anyone can help me out that would be superb.
Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save as PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS using the built-in PDF handling. They display correctly using Acrobat, Photoshop, Inkscape, or probably any other app that uses it's own PDF rendering, rather than the native quartz rendering. This problem is also visible when viewing the PDFs on an iPhone / iPad. This PDF displays as *=URL=* There is a discussion here, but it doesn't have an useful answer. Is there anything that can be done in Office 2007 on Windows to make it create PDFs that don't have this problem?
Antennagate indicates that I should avoid touching that spot of the iPhone where the two metal pieces nearly touch each other - touching here would electrically bridge the two pieces and decrease antenna performance... but it's nearly impossible to hold the phone and not touch it there! So here's my question:
Given an iPad that doesn't have 3G but only wifi, can I make this use the 3G connection of an iPhone 4? Does this require a cable between the devices, or does it work over (bluetooth|wifi?) ?
I'm finding Safari (Latest - v5.0.2) to be even more of a memory hog than usual. (Currently using 465mb of RAM with only this tab open, but having been running for a while) Closing it and reopening it lowers it's memory footprint, but it always creeps back up over time.
Is anyone using an iPad in the corporate world? If you are: Is it better than carrying around a laptop, and if so, how? Do iPads connect to networks like notebooks do? Can I remote into my Windows PC in a corporate environment using an iPad?
So I capture a screenshot with my handy "[HOME]-[POWER]" combo, and draw freehand arrows on it in Adobe Ideas (because I like their line smoothing) to highlight my problem, but: How do I upload this picture to Ask Different from the iPad?
I've just switched to OS X and am struggling to find a good, easy to use, and preferably free/cheap newsgroup reader. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
I plan to get an iPhone, one of the tricks I can think of is to use it to play a joke on my friends. This is how the joke goes. I would ask my friend to pose for me in the name of testing the quality of the camera. As I snap his/her photos, instead of showing his/her real face, I want the snapshot to be replaced with a picture of a pig (say), or anything that would elicit laughter. Is there such an app available?
I would like to give my iPod touch as a gift to someone I know, but I want to be sure that there is nothing left on it to avoid giving data with it... How do I clean the iPod ?
I have a 12" PowerBook with no HD and a dead screen. I'm trying to determine if the actual LCD is broken or if it is "just" the graphics card, without taking out the screen and transfering it to another computer (which I intend to do if the screen is working). I've tried connecting the computer to an external monitor, but, since there is no HD, nothing happens. The same nothing happens when I connect my working 12" PowerBook to the external monitor. Is there a secret keyboard combination that tells the laptop to throw some characters onto the screen (from BIOS or something), and to mirror or output to the external monitor?
I carry my 17" MBP in my laptop pannier, into which it just fits in portrait orientation. I'd like to protect it with a slipcase, but I don't want to have to take the slipcase out of the pannier to get at the laptop. Is there a slipcase on the market that opens at the side?
Whenever I want to print a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to shrink the page to fit the bounds of the page. I have to manually select scale: and enter 100 into the text field. Is there a hidden default or other way, to tell Preview to always default to 100% print size?
Is it mp4 or m4v or mov? I'm not sure. Please tell me what can be the different formats shot using iPhone or iPod Touch
I'm a user of Movistar (Spain) iPhone 4 mobile. I'm trying to activate the internet tethering and seems to all work fine. By default can be selectable. So, I put it on and connect it to my laptop (PC).
What is the best way to make automatic backups on my MacBook Pro? It's more preferable that synchronization will perform via Wi-Fi. I heard that Apple's Time Capsule has short-living time, so I thought that there exists alternate way. I would be glad to see any recommendations and success stories. Thanks.
I am doing iPhone development and my first app is in the market. First week was pretty good but now it is loosing momentum. If I provide an update to the app will it improve the app exposure in the iPhone app store.
I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update. Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option
I plan to update my app with new features. If I publish a new version say V 1.0.1 then will I loose all my ratings from version 1.0.
I want to click on the completed download in the Chrome download bar at the bottom, and have it open and Preview and application-switch directly to Preview so that Preview is the foreground active application. This happens when I open other file types, but does not happen with PDFs into Preview. My question:
I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini. Any Suggestions?
How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up.
Is it possible to install Google Chrome web browser on an iOS device?
I'm planning to replace my mouse entirely with the Apple Magic Trackpad on my desktop Mac. My work involves lots of typing (both code and prose). I also use Aperture quite a bit for processing photos. I don't play games; other than chess (Yes, it's that sad.)
Sometimes in an "Open" or "Save" dialog you want to go one directory up. It is in column view, but there simply is no column to the left and no horizontal scroll bar. Is there a way to go up one directory without browsing completely down again from the root directory?
I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6 pre-installed. Is there a way to use this machine to test my software on 10.5? Do I need 10.5, or is there is a mode within 10.6 with which I can run 10.5?
There is only one button at the bottom of my iPod Touch. To close applications, I press the home button. Does it really close applications, or does it just display the home page and an extra thread runs in the background? Is there any way that I can see the currently running applications?
How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable.
I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB. What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them?
I use Cmd+L to make a alias, and the alias has "alia" appended to the original file name. I move the link to a directory, then remove the "alias" part manually.
I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away. I've checked some other forums and they told me to: Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours. Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours. Put it in the freezer (never again) Put it in the freezer (never again) Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it) Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it)
Possible duplicate: iPads in the corporate world Has anyone remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network with an iPad? What has been your experience? How do you address the issue of multiple domains? Is this even possible? Currently, I just connect my laptop to a network cable and remote desktop from one domain into another domain to get to my desktop computer into a different location.
As I asked in this post, I could make it that a file in a directory can be renamed automatically, but I have some questions about this action. Where to the workflow files are copied? When I run 'save as', it doesn't seem to show the directory where the file is copied.
In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English. However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English?
Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ? For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ?
I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened. Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead?
How do you make a script or app to run or stop running automatically when the system is booted, a user logs on, at a specific time, when a disk is attached, etc.?
I have a new (4gen) iPod Touch. There's an MP3 on the web that I want to download so I can listen to it when there's no wifi available.
I have the trackpad on my Macbook pro set up to scroll to top/bottom on a 3-finger vertical swipe. As far as I can tell, that option isn't there for a Magic Trackpad.
If I have a playlist of songs, and I want to go from a song and play the entire album, I can't see anyway to do this except manually finding album in music list. There must be a better way. This is using itunes 10
I try to keep my mid-2009 Macbook Pro (5,3) pretty clean but over the last year I have definitely felt things slowing down a bit. I'm anxious to do a fresh install but I want to make sure I have a backup of everything at least, but an easy restore procedure would be best. I have files that aren't in the standard home folder locations, so I want to make sure I get everything. What are your best practices for backing up before a fresh install?
I tried to install gnuchessc with Mac ports, but there's nothing like that. Actually, it should have been gnuchess not gnuchessc. Is there a way to let Mac Ports teach me that there is gnuchess instead of gnuchessc from command line?
Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this?
I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition. I don't want to leave OS X to organize files.
A simple one, I guess: I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings.
I'm familiar with the OWC Data Doubler, a kit which allows you to remove your Macbook's SuperDrive and replace it with secondary storage. What alternatives exist for this product? A complete answer might explain the pros/cons to removing the SuperDrive as well as tips for proceeding.
Scenario I use terminal to SSH a lot, however would like the Terminal App to quit when the last Tab closes using exit. I already have the terminal window itself set to close on successful exit, however Terminal keeps running. I followed Ricky Campbell's tutorial here which uses an AppleScript to quit terminal. The AppleScript works perfectly when running outside of Terminal, however I somehow can't get the trap command to work that needs to be placed in the terminal. For reference I will post the relevant text here:
I have a few accounts in iChat: GMail AIM Google Apps (a custom domain)
I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac.
I want to launch an app at login but have it running as a specific user. Here's the use case:
In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone). But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".)
I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone or iPad application to share. How is that accomplished?
Can you recommend a high quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4? (Apparently there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones)
What's happening here? Shouldn't the computer go to sleep and save all information to disk? When I wake the computer up from sleep mode, shouldn't it restore all information from my previous session?
Previous audio books that I had built had no such issue. They last around 10 hours, which is still more than the time at which the two problematic files stop.
I currently have a jailbroken 3Gs iPhone running 4.01. I've really used the jailbroken part, but it's good to know that I can tether my laptop to the phone should I ever need to.
As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with it.
I have been having issues with syncing my iPod and would be extremely grateful if anyone could help. When I connect my iPod to the computer it shows on both the iPod and iTunes that it is syncing. However the songs that I have added a week ago still won't go on to the iPod and I have tried syncing it several items. The songs are downloaded from iTunes so I don't understand why it won't work.
Does anyone know of a command line method to select the active Time Machine disk? I would like to alternate between two backup disks for redundancy. I would like this to be automated, presumably via cron, perhaps launchd.
Locale seems to be one of the coolest apps on the Android devices. Lets you reconfigure multiple aspects of your phone depending on location. I for example would like to change my default calendar depending on if I'm at work or not.
I've been getting along with VisualHub (defunct) for a while now, but recently I've needed an expanded set of Codec's, in particular Theora and VP8.1
I purchased a 27" Cinema Display to go with my late 2009 iMac. What I would like to do is use the speakers on both displays. This doesn't seem possible using System Prefs -> Sound. I can only set it to use one set of speakers or the other. Ideally I'd have the cinema display output the left channel while the iMac outputs the right. Is there a way to use them both?
So I have a playlist with a bunch of albums in it that I would like to sort by album name. This is mostly fine, except where you have two albums from different artists that have the same album name, such as here: Note that 'Aphex Twin - Classics' and 'Ratatat - Classics' are being merged together.
I much prefer reading white text on a black background. Is it possible for me to configure Mail.app so that messages are displayed white-on-black instead of the other way around?
Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ?
How could I connect to my satellite receiver from Mac OS X and be able to watch TV and navigate through channel list? Is there any free software that could do this?
I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac?
I upgraded from the 3G to the iPhone 4 and forgot to backup and transfer my apps. If I attempt to purchase apps that I have previously purchased, will the Apple store charge me? Or will it recognize that I have already purchased the app based on my apple ID?
My MacBook is running really really slow at the moment, I have quit loads of processes (but activity monitor only reported about 10% cpu usage anyway). I had just noticed I have a VM Size of 250GB!
When I attach a second monitor to my MacBook, I drag many windows onto it. When I detach the monitor, all the windows move back onto my MacBook's display. How can I make it so that when I re-attach the monitor, all the windows automatically move back to their position on the second monitor again?
I am considering purchasing an iMac. Our office situation is such that the new computer will be placed where a monitor is presently located for a Windows laptop connected via a docking station.
We all understand that the way to solve iPhone 4's antennagate problem is to use case and a protective layer. As far as I understand, Steve Jobs said that all these case and protective layer is available for free. However today as I went to an iPhone reseller (I'm located in Malaysia), I was told that I would have to purchase the case and the protective layer – they would not be given for free.
I'd like to do something like: In other words, I'd like to display some text but format it differently based on some condition. Possible? Doesn't seem like it. thanks, Rob
Did Apple change the display adapter from MacBook 2006 to MacBook Pro 2010? I thought they were the same, (similar size) but they actually differ. Do I have to buy a new adapter?
I was considering using Time Machine and I was wondering if creating a 50 GB partition on a disk of 500 GB for it make sense.
I have the tap-to-click feature enabled on my Magic Trackpad and find that it works very well for the most pat. However, I think it tends to be a little too sensitive at times. Is there any secret adjustment for reducing the tapping sensitivity of the Magic Trackpad? I assume that the same setting will also apply to the built-in trackpad on MacBooks.
Can I backup only specific folders with Time Machine? If there is not an "official" way to do this, does somebody know a trick to do so?
I already have a BT keyboard and I don't really want to buy a new one, so my question is, will the BT keyboard I already have work with an ipod touch? Or will I need to use a proprietary Apple solution for that?
When I enable contacts in both accounts, I get two identical entries for each of the contacts in my gmail. If I disable the Notes exchange account, then there are no more duplicates. If I have Notes contacts enabled, and gmail contacts disabled then I have no contacts at all.
Is it possible to see who is currently connected and listening to a shared iTunes library? Is it possible to see which songs they listen to and how many/often?
I would like to connect to an AFP server from a windows PC (XP/Vista/7). The AFP server is a Time Capsule with file sharing over WAN enabled. It seems from my research on internet that it is not possible to setup the Time Capsule to use SMB for the file sharing over WAN.
After using a fresh OS X system for a while, I regularly hit the point where X11 clients start and run, but their windows do not show up anywhere. I suspect it has something to do with Mac port paths, but i am not sure. Has anyone else experienced this?
I've been recently playing Urban Terror, which is a multiplayer FPS game built on Quake 3 engine, and runs across Mac/Linux/Windows. Are there more such games that are free run on immersive 3D engine [not a Flash/HTML5 game] belong to action-adventure/RPG/RTS/[insert your favorite] genre possibly multi-platform [not must-have but a nice-to-have] Thanks!
I'm rolling over my AVI's to MP4 for my new AppleTV. Is there a good program out there for tagging the movies with their appropriate details?
I just noticed a weird behavior on my dock. The icons seem like if they'd be locked but in fact they are not. For instance when I try to move the icons around, I can take them and move them up. While I'm holding the touchpad, the icon moves with my cursor (that's not the case if the dock would be truly locked), but there won't open any spaces on where I'd like to move the icons to. I also tried the commands
Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names?
Most of the media players that have a "media library" functionality usually self-refresh the library when files are added or removed. As I share the media library with other media players (I use iTunes only to copy music on the iPod), I would like iTunes to automatically refresh when I add, remove, or rearrange audio tracks in the file system. How can I get iTunes to do this?
I can cmd+k to hidden shares if I remember the names, but normal access of dfs shares would be nicer. I want to get rid of admitmac since it makes my system unstable and slow.
I'd like to use Conkeror as default browser in Mac OS 10.6. Selecting conkeror.app as default browser with Safari does not work. While it is possible to start Conkeror via Firefox command line arguments (-app), opening additional URLs with that instance is not. If anyone has been able to setup Conkeror on Mac OS 10.6 in a way that... uses Conkeror as default browser for all applications reuses a running Conkeror instance when opening an URL (either current or new buffer) ..., could you post the steps necessary to do so?
I'm running snow leopard on a fairly new macbook pro 13" (september 2010). Sometimes the black visualization showing the available spaces and the space I'm currently on doesn't disappear when I have switched between two spaces. When this happens, spaces seems to steals keyboard input from the application(s) on the space I have switched to. Sometimes the visualization disappears after I keep switch spaces some more, but sometimes I have to force a reboot. Also, spaces seems quite slow at times. Does anybody else experience the same thing, and is there anything to be done about it?
I have a little problem with my new second generation Apple TV. TV episodes and podcasts remain unseen/unheard status even if I did watch/hear them. So the list of unwatched shows stays pretty much the same. I have to set the status manually in iTunes.
I would like the CasebashMac:bfgenv chris$ part of the following line to appear in a different color in my terminal.
In Linux there is an option to save the currently opened windows such that when you shutdown and boot later, these applications are there the way you left them. It is similar to Hibernate in Windows. Is there something similar in Mac OS X?
I want to see movies that are on my Mac on the screen connected to my PS3 or Xbox 360
Does Textmate have a function to nicely indent HTML? HTML Tidy indents it - but it seems to delete tags as well. (This isn't completely proper HTML, but still!)
I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that. Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too.
Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling?
I'm trying to find where this shortcut is being configured under Snow Leopard but I simply can not. Any help would be appreciated!
The problem is that here is a router (at a cottage), which only allows 2 connections. but we need wi-fi for 8 devices. so the plan is to create another wi-fi spot to share our connection. is there a tool or tutorial for that?
My fourth-gen iPod Nano has very recently started to completely lose its charge when I'm outdoors (currently it's a bit colder here, about 10°C / 50°F). Indoors, or when it's warmer, it still manages a relatively reasonable music playback time of about 10 hrs. Is there anything I can do except contact Apple about a battery replacement? (The iPod is no longer under warranty and I want to avoid the 59 currency unit fee.)
I have a Launch Agent configured to run a .plist file for example: /Library/LaunchAgent/foo.plist. Inside this .plist, it is set to run during LoginWindow and Aqua. When I attempt to launch my computer and get to the login screen, this plist should run but instead gives the following error (in the console): launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/foo.plist
I'm looking for a program (or programs) that will allow me to do two things: Create a video of one photo of a face morphing into another photo of a face. (This requires tagging the matched elements somehow, I presume.
I use the keyboard shortcut ⌘1-⌘9 to switch to tabs in Firefox. In OS X every time I do this there's a sound, which can become annoying when the volume is turned up.
I often use the ⌃+O shortcut in bash (from "Learning the bash Shell"): [G]o back to [a command in history] and press ⌃+O instead of ↩. This will execute the command and bring up the next command in the history file. Press ⌃+O again to enter this command and bring up the next one.
I have an iPhone 4, a PC, and iTunes 10. I can't figure out how to sync photos AND videos from multiple folders.
I have a 1 action automator workflow. This workflow is recorded to produce a "Watch Me Do" action. The action is to click on the "VPN" menu bar item, then select a particular VPN from the menu. This workflow runs fine in automator. When I run it as a standalone app the mouse moves correctly (clicking on the menu, selecting the correct VPN), but I don't actually connect to the VPN. I'm clueless about what's going wrong, so any help at all would be good! In the console, the only thing I see is: I'm running on a MacBookPro5,1 with an apple keyboard and a standard 2-button + wheel mouse attached.
is it possible to connect an iPod Touch to a WiFi network whose SSID is hidden? If so, how can this be achieved? Regards, Christoph
How could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains "Hello" in it's name?
Videos recorded with an iPhone or with other GPS-enabled phones gets geotagged as they should. When I trim/crop/edit them in iMovie (iLife '09) the GPS tags are gone. How to keep the tags despite editing or is there a program to add back the geotags to the movie afterwards?
I've accepted this so many times that firewall should already remember it. For example, I get it for Eclipse when starting my java programs in debugging mode ... sometimes this dialog is displayed only very shortly, like half second, and disappears. I also get it for iTunes (when I enable sharing my library), and other programs, even though I have them listed in Firewall preferences panel (adv. settings).
If I select an email in Mail.app and do ⌘+C, I can then paste the entire email (including header info) in a rich text editor app, such as TextEdit or VoodooPad. However, I'm not able to paste it into a plain text editor like TextMate or into a terminal window. (Oddly, I can paste into into TextEdit in plain text mode, which is exactly what I want to be able to do with other apps).
How can I see the permissions for a file (e.g. if I want to recreate those permissions for another file using chmod)? For example after I run chmod 644 on foo.txt, what command, if any, can I run on foo.txt which returns 644?
I have a MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard and I'm using a Magic Mouse which connects through Bluetooth. While I like the mouse, it's way too slow for my taste. Moving the mouse cursor takes ages. On my Windows PC I'm using a Logitech G9 and in Control Panel of Windows I have set Pointer Speed to maximum with the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box checked.
When I get warnings that my HD is nearly full (Macbook Air, 64GB SSD), spotlight always loses its index of applications. That means that I can't launch Safari or Mail or other apps, which is the only thing I use Spotlight for. Only restarting helps to resolve this. Is there a way to force Spotlight to reindex the Application folder?
How many hours can the iPhone 4's camera flash last before it burns out? Have there been any studies done / reports published, or is it just assumed that you probably will need a new iPhone before the flash dies (with normal use)?
I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone. Is that possible?
I want to buy a MacBook to develop iOS apps. What are the minimum requirements?
There's two types of Kingston 1066 2GB RAM here. (Laptop-sized RAM) Normal RAM Apple-certified RAM?
I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter.
How can I do this? I have the 13" model.
I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures). I automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default.
The purchase history of iTunes and the email receipts don't show me exactly which version (i.e. album and song number) of a song I have previously purchased. How can I view this information?
Does anyone know, why some compilation albums (purchased on iTunes Shop) sometimes appear as 100s of album covers in the album overview? (as opposed to what one would expect, just 1 album or atleast 1 per CD) (would have posted a picture here to show what I mean, but I am apparently not allowed to)
iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the "i" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple?
I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction. Is there a program able to do this?
Is it possible to ask Spotlight to not index a volume ?
Tomorrow (October 20th, 2010) Apple will announce something. What have they announced at previous Mac events and what are some of the things are "usual"?
As today, any Subscribed Calendar is added as Read Only to the iCal Application to confirm that. just double click in a day with the subscribed calendar selected and you will get this annoying popup message
I installed a download manager (I think folx) on this mac book a few months ago, every time I would download a file folx would pick up and download it. Long story short, this got confusing, so I deleted folx from the applications. Now whenever I try to download a file it just does not work right (on either chrome or safari), the browsers complain about a broken plugin when I view a PDF and it seems safari attempts to download the file on the actual page as opposed to going to the download queue. How do I fix this so file downloads work again in the browsers.
Sometimes when I plug my iPod touch into a dock or cable I get the message Charging is not supported with this device. What's that mean? Did Apple change the pin configuration of the dock connector?
I'm thinking of buying an iPad at some point, the one with 3G. I also have a 3G dongle that I'm not really using at the moment and wish to use on the iPad. I understand that it's a MicroSim, and I can chop my SIM down, but are there any 3G sim locks on the iPad itself?
I want to use the Dvorak layout on my iPhone's keyboard. I've seen that there is an iKeyEx app in Cydia which offers this, but only for iOS 3.x, not iOS 4.x. Is there a Dvorak solution on iOS 4.x? Note that I'm explicitly excluding external Bluetooth keyboards -- I want to have Dvorak on the on-screen keyboard.
I've been impressed with the better battery time of my new iPhone 4 as compared to the 3G I had before. Yesterday evening, I finally jailbroke the 4, and the battery time today has been much worse than usual. Why is this?
I want to be able to control an iPhone with a PC or Mac—that is, see the iPhone's screen on a computer and control it with my mouse—via either USB or wireless. Are there any solutions faster than VNC Veency? Veency's frame rate isn't good enough, and I need it to show 16-bit color.
I want to use my old iPhone 3GS, but don't want to pay another plan for the occasional use.
I am about to buy an iPad, and was using a friend's device recently. I noticed all these multi-colour intrusive square things I'm completely unused to seeing because I've been using Adblock Plus for years now. What are my options?
Can Numbers ’09 (part of the iWork suite) import XML files? Specifically, the format created by Excel when exporting as "XML Spreadsheet 2003." I can't just use Excel's native format because the files are generated for our clients by a web app.
I have my Mac Pro (Cyrus) configured not to fall asleep completely but to let the screen sleep when not used for half an hour. I also use the keyboard shortcut for forcing the display to sleep.
I make use of the rather clumsy 'closed clam' mode of operation. I close up my macbook pro, bring it to work, and plug in a USB keyboard and a monitor. 80% of the time, all is well. The other 20% of the time, things proceed as follows: Unlock box appears on external monitor Enter password System unlocks 30 second later ... Go to black screen with mouse cursor It looks just like the 'unlock' environment, only, of course, missing the unlock dialog box.
How can I download my voicemail from the iPhone to my computer? Technically, I know it is not voicemail on the iPhone - it is in ATT's phone system but you knew what I meant. How can I download my ATT voicemail from the iPhone/iTunes to my computer?
I have a client who want me to add PDF's to a DVD, so that people can view them through their televisions Can it be done?
They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement. In both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My .vimrc is quite lean and there are no key bindings set in there that would causing this problem. iTerm v0.10.
On a PC, the most important shortcuts are CTRL-A (select all), CTRL-C (copy), and CTRL-V (paste). Almost all the other important shortcuts also use the CTRL key.
But what does that mean? What does the chime tell you? Why would the machine not chime?
I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro. I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working. Any idea how I'd go about it?
I have programmed a Flash app that makes use of several webcams at the same time. The app works great on Windows. When I try to use more than one webcam on Mac OS X, I find that each webcam I plug into the computer disables the previously attached webcam.
So I have bluetooth stereo headphones (Motorola s305), that, now with iOS 4.1 and AVRCP, are a delight with my iPhone 3GS, at least, unless I happen to turn them on when my Macbook Pro is around. Then the MBP thinks it's a pairing request and the headset's command is lost (worse: this happens while the MBP is sleeping, causing it to wake). I think I once paired it with the MBP when I didn't have other headphones lying around, but I've tried to get the MBP to behave by Disabling "Discoverable" Unpairing, then removing the profile of the s305 on the MBP Telling my MBP to NOT allow BT devices to wake it up Short of disabling bluetooth (would not be desireable - I like my Magic Mouse), what can I do to get my MBP to ignore the headset?
There is often a plus sign in the upper left corner of the price button for an app. Even some free apps have this plus sign.
In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses.
For some strange reason, when I rotate a PDF using the trackpad (Two finger multi-touch rotation gesture.), there's no option to save it and all changes are lost after I close it. (The save button is grayed out.) What am I doing wrong?
I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac. I can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone.
I backed up my data from my iPhone to my PC. This backup is not encrypted. When I open up the backup folder, I see a bunch of files named with long GUIDs. Each app that saves data (e.g. to a SQLite table will have a file here. How can I find out which GUID represents a specific app I am looking for?
I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space. Any ideas as to how I can partition my drive?
I bought a new MacBook Pro with a Core i5 processor; everything is very good but it hangs a lot. I changed its hard drive and used Apple's diagnostic test but neither helped. Any ideas about what could be the problem?
From what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it. So how can I make sure that all the unwanted apps are closed, so that the memory can be reused?
I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary.
Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)?
I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal?
What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department.
Subject says it all, but here are the requirements in full: Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD (destined to become a media and file server for v1 Apple TV and home network) Mac OS 10.4.11, but will be upgrading to Mac 10.5 at a later date Surround sound support (Dolby 5.1, DTS) Movies are intended for use with an v1 Apple TV, so no disk images or VIDEO_TS folders.
Does using Copy or paste cause monodevelop to crash, or is it just me? If you have Monodevelop installed, please can you test this, I fount that both shortcuts and from the menus cause it to crash. I seem unable to find information about this on google, though would personally consider this quite a major bug.
I have been using my iPhone 4 to take photos on my holiday, and have been noticing that approximately 10% of the photos I have taken are chopped a bit shorter. I have only noticed it happening on landscape shots, and I have HDR enabled without the option to keep the original. Is this a known issue?
Do I have to have iTunes running to charge my iPod Touch? I mean, can't I just turn on my computer and have the USB port just charge the silly thing? All my other devices work like that; why does Apple have to be such a prima-donna?
I have few .mp3 file that have no name or have a wrong name(artist name and song name) is there any free software exist to recognized what exactly this song is(by playing the song and this software search their database and find similar signal wave)? I see some similar app in iphone (if you play song and run this app after some second this app recognize the song) And I Also use Tunatic in windows and it was a good software but I can't use Tunatic in OS X (Tunatic is available for MAC OS X too)
One of the reasons I went to Aperture from iPhoto was that I could easily dodge and burn my photos, which iPhoto doesn't let you do. I have also been enjoying the full screen mode in aperture, where I will keep the HUD up for my edits.
On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when editing the movie. Is there any application that does this?
Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too)
I want to know when my MBP's battery was fully charged it's better to unplug my adapter and use my battery power or still let use adapter power? I somewhere read that when MBP's battery was fully charged it's just use adapter for power and don't use battery, if it's true it didn't hurt adapter and reduce it's lifetime? I have Macbook Pro 13" dual core(2.53)
Is there a best-practice way of dealing with a system crash or a system freeze? I know of the "force-quit" keyboard shortcut. But what if it doesn't work? I just bought a MacBookPro and I am switching from Linux. In Linux there is a possibility to shutdown the X window system, and log in from a text console, or one can communicate with the kernel directly via magic SysRq-key, and for example, remount a hard disk read-only or reboot the system.
When you purchase a new MacBook Air they give you a mini-USB drive that is used to reinstall OS X and iLife '11. How can I format this USB stick and put whatever I want on it? The option to format is not available in Disc Utility and the USB stick mounts as a CD.
Is there a Google Pinyin app for iPhone? Current pinyin on iPhone is really bad.
Is there any way to trigger an Automator action with a sound? I'd like to be able to record a sound and trigger an action every time my computer's microphone receives the sound.
Instead of specifying each number one by one, is there anyway I can specify a group when sending sms? For your info, I am using the contacts synced from Gmail, not the iPhone's built-in address book.
Whenever the Keychain prompt pops up, the window has the focus, and I haven't found a way to switch away from it via the keyboard. I know entering my password dismisses the window, but sometimes I'm just browsing the web, and Mail.app will trigger that window, forcing me to change focus. Is there any way to switch out of that window via the keyboard?
With a jailbroken iPhone 4.x, is there a way to download podcasts (about 60-100megs in size via an rss feed -- they are not in the iTunes store) directly to the phone without syncing? Ideally, I'd like them to appear in the standard iTunes player on the phone with the other podcasts synced from my PC, but if this isn't possible, perhaps another app is available? Similar question here, but I'm jailbroken.
Is it possible to upgrade the iOS version and apps on an iPhone without connecting it to a computer and going through iTunes?
I will be leaving on a vacation soon to a place where there are several days between power outlets. What charger should I use to charge/run my iP(ad/hone)?
I have a second gen nano that will not charge or connect to the computer. I see it charging when the screen is on, but when it goes to sleep, it stops charging. I've left the thing on overnight and it's on half battery life. Usually you'll see the little battery with the lightning bolt over it when it's sleeping and charging. That will come up once in a while but promptly go away again.
I've got 2 iPad games that crash (vanish from the screen) on startup. The games are Epic Citadel and Gravity HD. Both apps go through the loading sequence then the screen goes black and returns back to the main iPad screen. I have tried reinstalling Epic Citadel with no luck. I don't want to delete and reinstall Gravity HD as I would lose where I am up to. I have raised a support call with the latter game but have not heard anything (2 weeks ago). Any ideas on what to do?
My wife use separate accounts and quick user switching on a MBP running 10.6. Sometimes I want to log her out to free up some RAM, but I'd like to avoid logging in as her, logging out, then logging back in as me.
I'm looking for an app which provides functionality similar to Apple Finder's "SHARED" feature, or Microsoft Windows Explorer's Network Neighborhood. Basically, I should be able to use my iPhone to access shared files on computers that are on my same network. Any suggestions? Specifications:
My ethernet connects to the LAN, my airport connects to a different network (it's another mac sharing a VPN connection). I want all apps except the iPhone Simulator to connect via the LAN. Is this possible?
Does anybody know how I can change my yahoo messenger's status using a command in mac terminal !? Or anything except the regular way to change it !? thanx
I've recently attempted to install 2 sticks of 2GB RAM into my MacBook Pro, but unfortunately had jammed one stick in the lower RAM compartment (Apparently I forgot to enter it at 45°) and had a rough time getting it out. The RAM stick is busted and had to replace it, but I'm quite sure the slot might suffered a bit. What are the signs of RAM failure?
I'm attempting to deploy a PDF I created in Photoshop on my iPad using the PDF Pro app. When I view a text PDF, everything works flawlessly - however, when I put my image-loaded PDF on the device, it fails to load (and, if it matters, displays a completely wrong file size next to it). I'm willing to use other means, but I need to be able to view PDF's with images ASAP for a company meeting tomorrow. How am I able to get this to work?
I noticed that notes, like Calendars, get synced with a Gmail account on the iPod touch. But where do they get synced to? Where can I access them online?
Is it possible to install Windows 7 as a second OS on a Macbook Air with no access to a superdrive? And if it is, how?
Can I configure OS X so that the default open action on an ICS files is to open it in iCal?
Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard to write down notes? N.B. What I use now are yellow small sticky notes (I'm using 8 on several spots on the scren). I really love them, but sometimes it would be useful to enlarge them and make them bigger rather than put several of them into one.
I have an iPhone 3G, whenever I add a photo into a folder in iTunes, and then I sync it to my iPhone, the photo doesn't appear at all in the folder on my iPhone. Why is it doing this? The image is JPEG image type.
I am looking for an iPhone app for our sales team that would allow them to do the following: Group contacts into custom groups Add meeting notes against a contact Locate contacts on a map (optional provide directions from current location) Store extra images such as business card against a contact Doesn't screw up Outlook contacts
I have iTunes (10.0.1) syncing with my iPhone (4.1) with the Voice Memos option enabled. I created a single voice memo. I synced the phone and the voice memo transferred correctly. I then deleted it on the iPhone and synced again. iTunes still has the voice memo in the "Voice Memos" playlist. Additionally, when I click the iPhone's "Voice Memo" playlist in iTunes, I see the one file there, but it has an exclamation mark near the number. I have 2 questions:
I'm using Gmail for Contacts, Notes, Calendar, and Mail sync. Since I only have one account, most of these apps don't have the top level selection page which let's you choose which account to use. They always use my Gmail account, which is exactly what I want.
I'm using Keywurl now, but since Safari 5.0.1 there are also supported extensions for search. I'd like to add any search url format and assign it to a shortcut.
Well, my personal account and my company account are both the same user name, i.e. username123@gmail.com, and username123@company.com. (Not real.) And it seems like this is causing a collision in Mail.app. On editing the initial mail config setup, I get an error: "Invalid Directory: The account path /Users/.../Library/Mail/IMAP-username123@imap.gmail.com is already being used by the account Company Mail".
I have 30 or so smart playlists defined in iTunes on the PC. What I'd like to do is export all of these definitions. To clarify, I don't want to export the songs in each of these playlists, I want to export the definition (e.g. "Artist contains Foo").
I just bought an iPhone app knowing that it may or may not provide the feature which was the entire reason for me buying it. I figured I could always get a refund if it doesn't do what I want. It doesn't. But now I've realized I don't know how to get a refund. Is it possible?
I have an jailbroken iPhone and I want it to make a little vibration when the other participant answer the call so I don't have to hold it near to my ear while the phone is dialing. I found this feature in MCleaner app from Cydia but it costs too much and have a lot of other features that I don't need. Is there a better way to do that?
My iPhone 4 gets hot as the battery is charged. To compound the issue, I think I bought a cheap case that traps heat, which in turn makes the phone even hotter -- you can feel the heat if you hold it in your hand while it is charging. When you stop charging it, the excess heat goes away.
Is the memory compatible for use in the mid-2009 aluminum unibody MBP? Reference: *=URL=* The specification is compatible, but from my research, there are at least two conflicting user reviews on this matter: Amazon product page, which said that it is compatible, but failed after five months. newegg product page which says that it is not compatible, however it does not specify the MBP in detail. Sorry I can't provide links for newegg & amazon page, don't have enough rep. Thanks in advance.
My iPhone 4 asks me to recalibrate the compass by using a figure 8 motion almost every time I use it. I'm wondering if this happens because my phone is defective, or if other people are having the same issue.
I'm attempting to revive a non-working 15" Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro purchased early 2007. The laptop suddenly powered off (or so I was told). Attempting to power on gives only a few signs of life. Magsafe lite works when power cord plugged in Hard drive spins up when power button pressed No chime, no back light, no power button light, no fans Holding the power button for 5 seconds will spin-down the hard drive After drive spinds down, hitting power will turn it back on. Please give me your best suggestions on getting this system booting again.
I am looking for a picture privacy app supporting the following features: Unlimited number of "vaults" (note: only one vault is bad, one real vault plus one fake vault is bad as well, only an unlimited number really allows to hide vaults and to use the app with several groups of people) Folder support per vault Full screen mode Picture zoom Picture slideshow and manual forward/backward with low decoding delay Mass upload Great, well designed, visually appealing user interface Do you have any idea or recommendation? Thanks!
I have duplicate contacts in my iPhone, not knowing their source or how to safely delete them. I synced my iPhone contacts with Outlook via iTunes. I have 220 contacts in Outlook. I estimate 100 of these are duplicates in the iPhone i.e in both the Contact and Phone app. They are apparently exact duplicates. The strange thing is that the duplicate ones do not get synced to Outlook so there are no duplicate contacts there. I don't know which of two contacts is linked to the respective Outlook contact, so I fear that simply deleting one contact may delete it in Outlook as well, which would be bad. Does anyone have any ideas on the cause and cure for this behaviour?
I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before the reboot. Example After rebooting the mapping might be
In order to use my university's printing shop, they said they need a PDF x-1a format. I noticed in Pages that I can print as "Save as PDF-X" but a little googling says this is not exactly the PDF x1a format, but another one. Googling did not turn up exactly how to get the x-1a format.
What is the most classic/used keyboard shortcut for switching between input sources (languages)? Except for cmd+space of course which is used by Spotlight.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and iTunes 10.0.1. When I start iTunes, iTunes loads the iTunes Store. How can I stop iTunes from loading the iTunes Store upon start? Note: I still want to have access to the iTunes Store.
My iPod is out of warranty (30gb older model) and recently one side of the audio dropped out. If I manipulate the connector I can get both sides. The phones are not the issue - they work on all other devices. The local Apple store was unhelpful. Has anyone else had this issue and been able to fix it? It appears just to be a mechanical connection in the jack. it is the 5th gen ipod with video/color
The knowledge base mentions that you get to reinstall the app for free... once you find it again on the store, which is no easy task. There are dozens of apps, all alike the one that was installed.
Notice how in the second scenario the t key was never sent and that it thinks that it's one finger rather than two. Notice, also, that in the first scenario you hear two click sounds and in the second, you only hear one. This is actually the way I know when the bug happens, by listening for missed click sounds. Although the example I gave with the word with may seem like it's much more likely since the t and h keys are very close by, this is actually not the case, and it frequently happens even with letters that are on opposite sides of the keyboard, such as n and d.
It was my understanding that iphone case program closed on 30 September, however I downloaded the app for it anyway, and ordered a case just to see if it would work, and well it let me login (I had the wrong email address entered in so I never got the email telling it been dispatched) and select a case and well it arrived today. So is the case program still on or is it just luck.
I am trying to teach myself graphic design. The templates in Pages are really nice, but I want to be able to make my own. I was stripping apart a brochure template ("Elegant Brochure"), and found that most of everything on the page was a text box or an image. Once I removed all of those elements there was still a pattern in the background. When I clicked on it, I noticed "x's" on the corners that were immobile instead of the usual white boxes for manipulating images or text boxes. I clicked on the inspector and noticed that these were actually jpegs, but I don't know how to remove them, or in the case of wanting to make my own brochure layout, insert background pictures like that that will stay immobile.
Previously when downloading an iTunes U video I could double click it and the video would start playing while it is downloading. But now after updating to iTunes 10 it doesn't seem I can do that? Is it just me or have Apple gone backwards on this.
Anyone know of a command-line* ID3 tool, with support for ID3v2, that you can get working on Mac OS X with reasonable effort? It should support both reading and writing tags.
when trying it I get the "can't do that" icon  How can I copy new photos to the iPod?
We have tried Boomerang but it does not find the deleted file. The file was deleted 3 days ago. I would think it is recoverable, but Boomerang does not show it. Any help would be appreciated.
Will I be able to print from my Linux box, which is connected via ethernet to the same router as the Airport Express will be? (In the past, I've just plugged the USB cable into whichever machine, Mac on Linux, needed to print, so it certainly does support the printer.) My thinking is that, if I can reach it over the network, I can print to it, but it's not clear from the documentation if it allows printing from the ethernet port, or if it only uses that for WAN communication.
I need to reinstall the OS but here's the issue: I don't have the original disc that came with the computer in question. However, I have a disc that came with another computer. Is it possible to install Mac OS X on the first computer using the disc I have? Do I need a serial number for this?
Are there any apps which allow me to edit text files on an iDisk? I don't need anything fancier than a notepad with the ability to open/save iDisk files. I understand that Notes.app is basically the same thing, and it might be considered if nothing better is available.
I have enabled the option to equalize volume but it doesn't seem to do anything. Neither does it work for itunes, nor for the songs on my ipod. Is there some option/setting I am overlooking?
I would like to make a small video tutorial of a web application I deployed recently. Could you recommend some free programm to record screencast easily, ready to upload to video hosting platforms like youtube?
I recently installed unrar for Mac Os X but i found it useless sometimes and bug-full. So i uninstalled unrar. Now if i open a .rar file, another application (VLC) open it. But i want the default unrar application to manage .rar files. How can i do that? If i select the "Open with" options and i look for that application in the applications folder i cant find it.
Is it possible to snooze a reminder for a calendar event when the reminder shows up? I have my calendar set up through an exchange server and would like a snooze feature so I can be reminded of the event 2 or 4 hours after the original notification. If this is not possible is there a good app for recurring events with push notification?
Mac OS X 10.6.4, MacBook Pro, Apple Magic Trackpad. The trackpad is unresponsive. Right-clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar shows me gray text that says "Bluetooth not available". I don't see a system preference item in which to fight with this, but I don't see anything relevant.
My Snow Leopard crashed while I was switching from Itunes to the browser. Basically everything got stuck and a the current song second started to run in loop.
As the title, is there any known problem of installing SIMBL on my Mac? For example performance degradation, security problem, or anything else.
About a year ago, I sold my old MacBook Pro. Last week I got a call from the buyer who said that it had been stolen and he didn't have the serial number — and did I have it?
Go to watch any video instantly. Click on play video. It'll say that it's preparing to load. Then it switches to the video screen for half a second, then back to the preparing to load screen, then dumps me back to the browsing for instant videos screen. So the video never played at all. Any idea on how to fix this?
Is there a good software for mac to manage subscriptions billings ? I need to be payed regularly by my customers. I need warnings service sending emails to them and me. And I need to automize the payment process.
Has anybody been able to use a VPN connection to CheckPoint from a Mac? My test until now: Tried the standard Html page to login, no success because the java applet cannot be loaded Downloaded a full featured Checkpoint client, no success (connection not made) Tried IPSecuritas, same results Until now the most interesting result were installing the SNX client from CheckPoint and then creating a .snxrc profile, after that snx is able to connect like so Problem is that at this point it seems to connect (because IP address are correct and also because if I provide a wrong password it give me the correct unsuccesful logon message) but if I do a ifconfig I see that the interface created from Checkpoint do not have an IP address and also if I try to add one using ifconfig I'm not able to ping any machine on the remote network Any idea about I can assign a proper IP address to the interface so that I can use the remote network? Regards Massimo
Is it possible to mod the MacBook keyboard to be backlit? Is there any website or business that can help or would do it for me?
I recently changed my email address that I use as my apple ID to log in to itunes. So I got an email to verify it by clicking on a link, which I did. And it seems to have worked, sort of: on my ipad and iphone, I'm in business, and can buy apps, etc. But on my mac, when I try to login to the store in itunes, I get this: When I click ok, it takes me to the verification page, but the page seems to imply that I both need to verify my address and that it's already verified:
My iMac is just less than 1 year old. I have ran the diagnostic that came with Apple Care and found no problem. Recently, I notice that the max speaker volume of my iMac decreased after I switch on the machine on for quite some time. If I leave the iMac off a few days, the volume will sort of reset again but it is not as loud as before. I believe this problem has nothing to do will software settings in OSX as I have tried all those settings. Any recommendation, send the iMac back to Apple?
When I want to use Quick Look to quickly check if an .avi file is corrupt, or if the quality is alright, it does not play the sound anymore. Is there a way to enhance Quick Look with "proper" divx capabilities, to prevent mishaps like this? On a related note: I would enjoy .mkv-support, too, if anyone has an idea how to integrate that.
I have 4 calendars in my GMail Calendar account, two of these have been imported, they are shared by other people. Basically, I have this: My personal calendar Week numbers for norway (since GMail Calendar doesn't show week numbers) One imported from an organization I have some work for One with TV Shows I follow every week
Is it possible to sync music onto the iPhone and then delete it from the iTunes Library to save hard drive space, without having it be automatically removed in a later sync?
I tried deleting the few words I had entered and removing the unwanted keyboard again, still the option does not appear. I am thinking the dictionary database may have been built to correspond only with the keyboards I had when I initially edited the dictionary, and now it won't rebuild or something. Anyone else seen this?
I remember that during the installation of iTunes (while I was upgrading it on my Mac) it asked if I want to install an application so that iTunes can be opened when my iPhone is connected. Initially I didn't want this so I answered "No". Now I want this behavior, but have no idea where that option is. How can I get iTunes to start up when my iPhone is connected?
I'm using vmware on mac to emulate Ubuntu. When I change shared folders files on OSX I don't see the changes (automatically updated) in Ubuntu... When I added the folder, everything was visible and it perfectly worked, but when I edited some files, these become red in the Ubuntu terminal, and I cannot see the new versions of them (even if I restart Ubuntu, I guess the only way is to remove and add the shared folder again). Any help ?
I have a workflow (LaTeX editing in Emacs) which produces PDFs that I then examine in Preview. Preview is smart enough to re-load the PDF when it changes, but it only does so when I click on the application and bring it to the foreground. Is there a way to tell Preview to re-load the document (and stay in the background) using the command line? Edit: To follow up, I'm perfectly happy to do a little AppleScript hacking or whatever (I've never used AppleScript, but it can't be too hard).
WinMerge is an excellent and very powerful file merging tool, but as the name would imply, it's Windows only. What's a good equivalent on the Mac?
Is there any way to take higher resolution pictures with it? The videos are massive!
Thanks to the appshopper.com RSS feeds, I've downloaded a lot of free apps: some good, many forgettable. Is there a simple way to see a list of uninstalled iPhone apps so I can re-evaluate and delete a lot of the duds? I've seen programs that scan my iTunes library for apps (though some of them miss a lot of results), and IIRC it's possible to read an iTunes-managed iPhone backup to see which apps are installed there.
In Microsoft Windows Alt+Tab combination switches between all windows from all applications. In Mac, Cmd+Tab only switches between applications, and when you want to switch between windows in single application, you have to use Cmd+`. I'm used to Windows behavior and I like it more. Is it possible to configure Cmd+Tab to switch between all windows from all applications?
How can I adjust the level at which Mac OS warns me about the battery of my magic mouse? I always have a lack of batteries, so I would prefer if the battery warning comes up at 15 or 20%, so I could work the rest of the day with the almost empty batteries and put them in the charger before I go to sleep.
When you first create your OS X login account it takes a picture of you. Where does that picture get stored? I can't find it in ~/Pictures or ~/Library.
I want to restart Safari and reopen it with some tabs that I specify.
When I click on a folder and choose File->New Folder the folder is created in the root directory of my current view instead of the currently selected (highlighted) folder. How do I make it so when I create a new folder it will create the folder inside of the current highlighted directory?
How could I let Preview start speaking a selected paragraph? I found the speech menu item in the edit menu but this starts speaking from the beginning of the document!
I am hoping someone can help me with a smart playlist creation question. I have two smart playlists (A and B) Playlist A contains songs that are "singles" (meaning I don't have the full album) and are not in playlist B Playlist A contains songs that are "singles" (meaning I don't have the full album) and are not in playlist B Playlist B contains songs in my Library that are rated 5-stars Playlist B contains songs in my Library that are rated 5-stars I would like to create playlist C that includes all songs for a specific genre in playlist A and B. This sounds simple, but if an artist is in Playlist A and B, I can't get the songs in Playlist B to appear.
I would like to share the iTunes library my the account of my wife. But (in importance order): files should not be duplicated playlist and rating are user dependent podcast are user dependent Then, she will managed her ipod with her account.
I have the Mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. Sadly, the Keyboard Keys have caused some scratches in the screen, which is annoying as hell. (Yes, I know, I should use the white buffer sheet that came with it)
Is there any software to compute and display furigana completely offline? It doesn't have to be integrated with any existing app. A new standalone app I type into is fine.
How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)? I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps.
My iPod touch (2G 32GB iOS 4.1) is stuck on this screen  (image from the iPhone restore assistant page). I guess that means that I need to sync with iTunes, but unfortunately when I try I get
I've got an iPhone 3GS, on the UK network of O2 Can I take that sim card out, and put it into another mobile device (not iPhone) ? I don't have a spare device to try this hence asking here More importantly, would the sim card actually work in a non-iPhone device or is it locked for iPhone usage only? Thanks
I've got an external monitor and want to be able to use the monitor above the laptop. It seems I'm supposed to use "Spaces" to support an external monitor which I have done and I've set up two spaces for this. Unfortunately it seems that I'm only able to move between spaces by moving my mouse cursor from left to right instead of from top to bottom and vice versa. Given the layout of the monitors it is really unnatural to have to move from left to right in order to access monitors that are stacked. I can easily do this on my Dell laptop running Windows but is there a way to do it with my Mac's OS X? Stumped.
I just asked this question (Using External Monitor and Spaces. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right?) and @calavera gave me a great answer, thanks!
Since I upgraded to version iTunes (10.0.1), playback is bumpy and full of hiccups. Typically, for video playback the video will freeze for a second or two at random times, and then skip to the current location in time, meaning that content will be skipped over. This happens every time I play videos now, and it is seriously starting to annoy me. For mp3 playback, sporadic hiccups seem to be happening as well, but with nowhere near the frequency of videos. The videos I play are all content purchased from the iTunes store, typically TV shows in 'standard definition'.
Ideally, it would allow the user to rip a URL and all other URLs on the same "prefix" to a single PDF. For example, given the URL "*=URL=* it would pull "*=URL=* "*=URL=* "*=URL=* etc., but not "*=URL=* to a single PDF.
We want to test our iOS app on a few devices (iPhone 3G and 4 - or equivalent iPod Touch), but we also need to ensure it will run on the major releases of iOS, maybe 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 4.0.x, etc - I'm a little rusty on the version numbers and who got free upgrades to what. I've read Is there a way to downgrade a 2nd gen iPod touch from iOS 4 back to 3.1.3? but I'm still unclear whether or not we can just buy a single iPod Touch and downgrade and upgrade as necessary, or if we'd have to buy an iPod Touch per iOS version we want to test.
Sometimes I get this "cannot play" image instead of a YouTube video. The video looks normal on a computer, so I'm not sure why this happens. Reloading the page in Safari doesn't help. Here's the page I was visiting: http://www.boweryboogie.com/2010/11/basketball-diary-trick-shots-on-the-lower-east%C2%A0side.html#more-19961
I live in Italy and since the summer time change; I cannot set up the alarm to ring at the appropriate time. I need the alarm to ring at 6:30 am, but if i set the alarm to 6:30 it rings at 7:30 instead. It's very annoying. I tried to delete every alarm i had set before and create new ones, but i doesn't change anything. How can i fix it?
My kids completely changed everything in their user account, what is the easiest way to reset everything to default (without reinstalling everything) including: Name of hard drive Menu items in Finder Dock size and items Size/appearance of things Even some applications have been moved from their original location
I've found that the command line unzip tool doesn't gracefully handle some of the files I'm unzipping: it makes a bunch of junk directories, and creates files whose resource forks aren't found. (Perhaps they were created strangely.) Anyways, using Archive Utility is a start, because I can run the following and it is close (and it doesn't mess up my files):
I have a network location set up to ssh tunnel to my server. For now, just ssh -D type stuff. This works fine. I set up the tunnel from within my .screenrc. In other words, "screen" is the trigger to connect to my proxy. Before I type that I should not be able to go online. However, lynx and ping go through without problems. tunnel or not. This is disquieting.
How do I make a game controller an active input device on my Mac-mini?
I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on a mac mini and was wondering what the best free FTP server was? I hear okay things about pure-ftpd but I'd like something with an easy to manage UI as well etc...
Imagine the disappointment when trying to pair a Monster iCar Play 800 FM Transmitter with a new iPhone comfortably wrapped in a Speck CandyShell. In short, the business end of one does not fit into the business end of the other. I've looked at the SendStation Dock Extender, but is there really any guarantee that this will fit into my case. Does anyone have any experience with this or another dock extender, or is my best option to be more careful when buying a replacement case? Edit:
I just received my iPhone 4 and Activity Monitor Touch and SYSTEM lite only show 247 MB of hardware memory. But the iPhone 4 is supposed to have 512 MB (of which 503 MB are actually available). I checked with a function of my own (derived from here), too, and it also just shows 256 MB of RAM. I'm running iOS 4.1. I don't believe this is a readout bug as other iPhone 4 owners told me they are shown 503 MB in those apps.
If not, what other solutions are there, either for 'tricking' Time Machine to back up the contents of a FileVault, other Time Machine-compatible encryption systems, or FileVault-compatible backup systems? If it matters, I don't need to have the backup itself encrypted, just the MacBook.
I bought a NAS to store my media files and I'd like to automount the volumes on startup. Currently I'm opening those volumes as a Login Item under System Preferences > Accounts.
I'm experimenting with aperture, and it seems the preview and thumbs file is 3x (Three Times!!) larger than the actual photos in the album.
How can I get this app back? (Or any app for that matter!)
maybe I am stupid, but I just cant figure out how to extract multiple zips into the same folder easy. I always end up with folders of the zip name that then has the content in it... this is really annoying. Is there a app that does this automatically? thx
I've set my screen brightness to about 50%. This works fine for me, except that the setting seems to be ignored when it's charging: then it's 100%. I've got a desktop charging stand on my bedside table, and this is exactly the place where I don't need maximum brightness! How can I make my iPhone respect the brightness setting even when charging? This is an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) but I noticed the same with the iPhone 3G (iOS 3.1.3).
I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a "globe" key is always near the bottom of the keyboard. This annoys the heck out of me because I keep accidentally tapping it. Any way to turn it off?
I want to use my iPod touch to view and edit word documents. I've found a free app (Office Connect) that seems to allow this. However, the way that this app wants you to upload files is to connect to an IP address and upload files one at a time. I have a while directory structure for my files that I want to maintain, and I have too many files to upload them one at a time.
Can you theme the 80gb iPod classic so the menus or the music player have a different graphical user interface?
The new iPod Touch and the Mac FaceTime app both allow the user to send and receive FaceTime calls with their email address/Apple ID as the identifier. Is it possible to set up an iPhone 4 to send/receive FaceTime calls with my email address instead of my phone number?
It still seems to sync most things - the error occurs late in the sync toward the end of the last step, which seems to be photo-related, and my apps are up to date, etc. The main thing I've noticed that's off is my pictures - when I open the pictures app, I get a message saying:
I would like to replace my MacBook pro hard disk with an SSD, without reinstalling everything. I am looking for your experience on good SSD drive models that have good performance at a fair price the relocation strategy so that I get my old system migrated with no trouble or pain from the old hard drive to the new one (including additional hardware needed, I guess a usb-sata connector)
Is there a way to not let the iPod touch switch the screen off? I want to use my iPod as a "count down" timer with the built-in clock app. But after some time, the screen turns black thanks to the energy saver policy. I actually want to see the count down until the time is up!
What's the best place to gain the equivalent knowledge about the Intel architecture? I basically want an Intel equivalent of that chapter. I don't want to actually do any hardware tinkering, I just want a solid understanding of the hardware as a programmer.
I've got an application on my iPhone which was free when I installed it and now it became paid application. One day I accidentally deleted it from device and then was able to download it from Appstore for free (as I "had the previous version" of that app). So now I just wonder are there limits for that (number of devices I can do that on, any time limits etc)? Edit: The only thing that I managed to find so far is the following paragraph in iTunes Store "Terms and Conditions":
When I use textmate, I select multiple lines and I press TAB, I would like to change the indentation of my code, rather than deleting it. Is there a way to change this functionality?
Is it bad for my MacBook if I simply close the lid and pack it up? Will this impact the hard drive? What about using it in a moving vehicle, like a car?
I want to get the adaptor to stream videos from my macbook to my TV. I already have the Apple adaptor from DVI to VGA: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA4Mw&mco=MTM3NTA3MDU
I have a mac that is hooked into a sound board, I have external sound card that interfaces between the computer and the soundboard, this works great. However, whenever the computer restarts it sets the input & output to the 'internal microphone' and the 'built in output'.
On my MacBook (10.5.latest), I turned on "Web sharing" in the control panel. The built-in firewall is turned off. I have an index.html in my ~/name/Sites/ folder. It's publicly readable (a+r). I can view it in Safari (or any other browser) if I open it as a file. If I go to *=URL=* (or without index.html, or with any other file from that folder), I get a page which says simply: 404 - Not Found
I changed my iTunes account location to German (with an Austrian credit card) in order to download a certain app that wasn't available in Danish (my primary language). I was now able to get the app from the German App Store. Afterward, I set the location back to Denmark and entered the Danish credit card that I was using before.
I haven't bought any TV shows on iTunes, but my boss has -- many. His MacBook Pro's 250GB disk is more than half filled with TV shows (mostly sitcoms for entertainment during travel). Most of the rest of the disk is filled with other stuff. I see a couple options for clearing up some space currently occupied with TV shows: buy a bigger disk (go to Apple store and have them swap out the 250GB model with the 500GB model) move some of the tv shows to an external disk and help him restore when needed backup itunes library and then just nuke
Is there a iPhone (or even better iPad) alarm clock app that will play a radio stream of my choosing to wake me up? With custom stream I mean the possibility to enter a custom URL to a .pls file, and that pls contains a URL to a mp3. Something like TimeTurner but with the custom stream support.
I recently replaced the logic board on my Mac, now I have this "fan constantly on at 6000RPM all the time" issue. So I did an Apple hardware test using the installation disk that came with my Mac and got this cryptic error: 4SNS/1/40000000:Th2H-128.000 After some googleing I came across this: Th2H Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp And my question(s), what part does the Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp refer to? Is the error given by the Apple Hardware Test considered 100% accurately?
I've purchased a few games for my iPhone, via App Store. I understand that I can check my past orders via iTunes program downloaded on my PC. But is there anyway to check what are my past orders online, without going through iTunes the Desktop Program?
Is there a hard case for the Apple wireless keyboard for the iPad? The case is to make the keyboard safe to transport, like in a backpack or something.
I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the mouse is starting to show its age and I've been looking at Apple's Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, and I'm wondering - do either of these support the "middle click" operation? If not, is there a gesture or a multi-finger click that can be used for the same things (i.e. opening new tabs, etc)?
As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing addresses from Address Book? If so, how would I do this? If not, is there a program that will interface with Address Book and do this? If it's not possible to do envelopes, would it possible to at least print labels?
In addition to printing, the other feature in iOS 4.2 that I'd been looking forward to was AirPlay. My understanding from the keynote when it was introduced was that it allowed iOS to stream audio to existing AirTunes equipment (as well as provide video to the new Apple TV), but I can't get my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2 to stream audio to my old Apple TV like iTunes can. Is this a known problem? Are there any workarounds, besides buying one of the new Apple TVs (which I can't because my TV is component, not HDMI)?
What's the easiest way to take a screenshot of my Mac? I've used Grab.app, but it's a bit annoying just to get a quick screenshot. Is there a faster way?
Is there any problem if I let my iphone 4 battery drops to 0%? I remember for older smartphones, once your battery flattens out all your data is lost, because they are stored in memory. While I understand that iphone shouldn't have this problem, but I wonder whether is there any problem if the battery goes flat?
I seem to have inadvertently deactivated my wireless in the "Network" section of System Preferences. When I go to the Airport icon in the menu bar it looks like a semicircle that, when clicked on, says "Airport: Not Configured". When I go to configure it, the status is shown as "Inactive", with no "Activate" button in sight. How can I get my wireless working again?
My DVD drive isn't working at the moment. I attempted to put another drive in instead, but that didn't work either. My friend suggested that there might be a problem with the connection. What type of connection do I have to obtain?
I have a pdf document, and I want to print it as a booklet, i.e. two pages of the document on each side of a sheet of paper and so that (when printed) the entire thing can just be folded in the middle to create a small booklet. How can I do this easily?
I have a big collection of music. I thought it would be so natural to remember the last playlist, the last song (and possibly also the position within the song) that I played before I closed iTunes, e.g. because I restarted the computer. So many applications do this, take XCode for example.
I want to make a simple Stop Motion movie on my mac. It will be very simple, as a dialog between 2 "playmobils" sitting in a car. So, the animation will just only be "mouth movements" and "eye winks", to make them look "alive".
How can I capture a video on an iOS device or the iOS emulator? I saw some product pages that are using videos demonstrating that how their apps to be used. The video is also showing the touch and other gestures of the user. How can I create such video?
From my own observations, specifically with iTunes, I've noticed some strange behavior. Here's my setup. I have an iMac running 10.6.4 (the latest update), the latest iTunes 10. The iTunes app is located on the local internal HD, I have my iTunes library files and all my media on disk 1 of my unRAID server. I'm hard wired to the server via a gigabit router. I have iTunes set to keep the media organized and copy the media files to the server.
I've come across a problem with my 5g iPod nano. For some reason all of the songs come up as being -0.00 seconds long. I've tried the normal soft reset, but this doesn't seem to have done anything. Any suggestions?
I have just got an iPad and tried to set up my mail server. I have a server that has SMTP on port 25 and IMAP configured on the default port 143, nothing special.
The only microphone I have is the one built-in to my iPhone earbuds. I want to try some line-in stuff, so I plugged the headphones into the microphone port. I then went to System Preferences/Sound/Input and selected Line In. It doesn't appear that this is working as a microphone. Should it?
OS X doesn't allow me to cut files. Are there any applications to enable this?
How exactly does Apple "register" the multimedia keys? I notice that Play/Pause, Rewind, and Fast-Forward are active Application aware. By which I mean that it will control Front Row, or iTunes, DVD Player, or Keynote, all uniquely, not at the same time if all of them are open.
Apparently, data is only pushed to the iPhone when a new unread emails arrives. If you read an email on your desktop or on the web, the 'Read' status is not being pushed down to the iPhone until another new email is being pushed down or you check manually. It's very annoying because I always think there are new messages when there aren't, and the only way to find out is to launch Mail. Is there a solution?
We're only a very small company, we don't have a proper Windows server, but we do store central documents on a Windows XP Pro machine via Windows file sharing. The boss's MacBook Pro will connect and use the shares, but often will get itself into a state where the shares no longer work - navigating to the "server" in the Finder shows zero shares, yet all our Windows machines still work as they should. I've asked a question elsewhere (serverfault, I believe) about trying to fix the connection problem, but I've not managed to find a solution yet. We currently only have one Mac in the office, but that may soon rise if we land a certain project, so I'd like to find a workaround, perhaps by using a non-samba sharing system. Is there an AFP-compatible server that will run on Windows XP? Alternatively, are there other file sharing technologies that we can use?
I bought an iPhone 4 today and after alot of fiddling around I got it connected to Microsoft Exchange Activesync. Mail shows the message headers correctly and a preview of the first line from the body. When I click on any of the message headers, it displays the header information but then it just sits their loading the message body. Eventually it times out and says: The message has not been downloaded from the server How can I fix this?
I'm a mostly Unix user that are starting to user OS X for iPhone development. Since I won't (and can't) quit my Linux environment I'm trying out the 'Spaces' functionallity for virtual desktops. But the built-in settings for changing keyboard shortcuts are quite limited. Is there some alternative way to change those keybindings to any combination I'd like? (I want Ctrl-Alt- arrow keys to change to next left/right desktop). Hacky methods OK, too, even very hacky ones.
I've bought an iPhone 4 and the text and calling work fine, as does wifi. However, when trying to use internet without Wifi I get a "Could not activate cellular data network - PDP authentication failure". How can I fix this?
I have a problem with the phone screen. I set up a repair with apple today and I noticed that the warranty expires in just 3 days. Would the repair be handled as a warranty or am I expected to purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to ensure that the repair is treated as within warranty thanks for your help
Is this even possible? I will never use like 90% of them and I'd like to hide them.
Similarly for Keyboard. It's paired, and I've clicked "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" so that if I want to use the keyboard to change the volume or something I should be able to use the combination Fn-F11. But both F11 and Fn-F11 do an Exposé thing. If I click "Set up Bluetooth Keyboard..." I also get "Searching..." and the eternally spinning wheel.
Will the App be synched when I connect my new iPod on my Mac ? Do I have to do something special before selling my old iPod ?
I am thinking about buying the new MacBook Air as a primary desktop replacement. One of the things I have on my desktop which I like is two large monitors. Does anyone know whether the new MacBook Air can be used to drive more than one external monitor? Note that I don't want to use the LCD panel on the laptop as one monitor and attach another monitor. I really am looking for two monitors.
I have an iTunes account with an Italian billing address; because of this Apple assumes that I want the app store in Italian which is not the case. Part of the UI is in Italian (other parts are in English, go figure), the app descriptions and their reviews are in Italian, even the "Top apps" are the top apps in Italy instead of worldwide.
I want a backup task to run once a week. The computer I want to do this is a laptop, that is often off / sleeping. I would like the task to run when the computer wakes, if the computer was asleep when it was supposed to run. Otherwise the chance of anything actually getting backed up is pretty slim. Is there an application or MacOSX feature that does this? My understanding of cron jobs is that if the computer is not on when it's supposed to run they will not get run on awakening, so that doesn't look like what I want.
Is there any way to set the default web browser from within Mac OS? I currently run Firefox 4 Beta, and haven't been able to find anywhere within the browser to set it as the default - possibly because it is a Beta. However, this makes Chrome start up as soon as I click a link from somewhere other than within FF, which is a tad annoying.
I use Preview's Command-F (find) to search for C# in the pdf document. However, the result is not for 'C#', but just 'C': I get hundreds of meaningless search results. How can I get the search result exactly for 'C#' or 'C++' in Preview?
Is this something loaded by Apple or did it come with some third party app I must have downloaded.
I have an .avi and an .srt for a Mandarin movie. I used HandBrakeCLI to generate a M4V file that I could import into iTunes. In iTunes there is an option to turn the subtitles on and off, which works beautifully.
I'm looking to do some Linux development, which includes some live testing of my application. I need pretty decent performance, but maybe not pedal to the metal performance, at least not for testing. However, I don't want a VM that is going to drag me down, or use more of my Mac's resources than needed. How well does VirtualBox perform on Snow Leopard?
My daughter set a password on it and now does not remember it, how can I remove/reset the password? The software version is 3.1.3.
I have notices that sound only comes out of one speaker on the bottom of my phone. Is it playing in mono or is the other "speaker" actually a microphone?
Is there anyway to stop downloading an iphone app without restarting the phone?
What I need is to extend the delay before the display dims. I will often read a page full of text and the screen will dim, and I have to touch the trackpad. It gets annoying when trying to take notes or do homework. This is for a 13" 2008 MacBook Aluminum.
Is there an app which works like Andriod Lock on IPhone. I had read cydia offers but on jailbreak. Is there an official one for this.
I have tried a number of times to make VLC Media player the default for MP3 and MP4. I open a file and tick the "Always open with" checkbox, but they still open with iTunes and QuickTime by default respectively. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I use Leo for structured editing of my code, and Leo has the extension of .leo. In order to run Leo, I use the following alias It works well to launch leo with leo file as follows. However, I need to find a way to launch Leo by clicking the leo file in the Finder/Path Finder. What might be the solution to this problem?
I would like to drop Vuze that I've been running for many years now on my G4 Mac mini in favor of a more lightweight torrent client. These two features are mandatory: Watched folder RSS scanner for automatic downloads Any recommendation?
I've updated my iPhone 3G to the latest version (4.1 8B117), but I'm still missing features such as the task manager, background wallpaper, etc. I've tried restoring it a couple times now, even set it up as a brand new phone, but I'm still missing these features. Can anyone shed some light on why this is?
When searching Spotlight, certain Address Book contacts are listed twice. I have confirmed that I do not have two entries in Address Book for those individuals.
I'm testing an app that uses the System temp Directory. Inside of the app, there is some call to a Cocoa function to query this. Is there a way for me to query for this directory name outside of having to write a Cocoa app of my own? Possibly a command that I can issue in Terminal?
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on a MacBook (32-bit, Dual Core, ca 4 years old). I am presented with: "Mac OS X Snow Leopard can't be installed on this computer."
I'm trying to get an iPad to play a video playlist through the VGA output cable. The only way I know of to play a video playlist is through the iPod app. The problem, is that the iPod app doesn't output the video through the VGA cable.
Is there a way to save an MP3 from a web server directly onto an iPad? I can stream it through the browser, but there is no obvious "save" capability. Would it make a difference if the MP3 were an email attachment?
I often have trouble connecting to wifi with my MacBook Pro. To help identify the problem, I was wondering if there were any tools for measuring wireless signal strength.
I've had this happen a couple of times so far, not sure what's happening. I think it's related to having an external monitor connected to the notebook.
I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one of the mini DisplayPort ports. This mini DisplayPort to DVI LCD doesn't register at all.
I already have Windows Friendly attachments enabled, but I'm still having a problem. Whenever I send a image attachment to windows (Outlook) users, it comes as an inline image, not as an attachment. They can't save the image like a regular attachment.
I have quite a collection of DVDs which is slowly getting smaller and smaller thanks (in part) to crappy Wal-Mart binder style DVD cases scratching the discs. After purchasing an Apple TV, I'm wondering if it is possible to backup DVD's so that they can be watched in iTunes, and subsequently on my Apple TV. I'm running OSX.6, if this helps any. I would prefer FOSS, but I wouldn't mind paying for something that works, and will be around for a while.
I have an 2010 27" iMac with an SSD and a regular hard drive. Now that I've been using the machine for some time and have not come close to filling the SSD, I'd like to disable the spinning hard drive completely. Why? It makes a loud humming sound when it runs, and I don't use it for anything. Anything I can do short of taking apart this monster and ripping it out?
On my Mac mini, app icons have gone missing for some apps (Terminal, Chrome, Spotify, Skype) from the Dock and elsewhere. See a screenshot of the Dock. When I hover over the empty spots, I can see the names of the apps and launch them normally. And here's one of the app switcher (it was kind of challenging to take this with cmd-shift-3, btw):
Following a Windows Update which required a reboot, Windows 7 (64 bit) cannot launch successfully. The Windows System Recovery tool has been unable to fix the problem with any of the recovery points I have tried. The only system image available is from the same time as the Windows Update, so it seems pointless to try. This thread on the Apple Discussions board has more details. Any suggestions?
Can the Airport Extreme in a Mac Pro be used to create a network that is simultaneously dual-band such as the Airport Extreme base station? The Mac Pro is a 5,1 with the AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E) card in it using the Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1) firmware.
I was thinking about getting iWork as a replacement for OpenOffice. Since I usually saved my files to the OpenOffice format (OpenDocument), I was wondering if it's possible to read these files with iWork. Most important would be reading of .odt (Text) and .ods (Spreadsheets). The ability to write these files isn't that important. Saving the files to MS-Office first isn't an option though. I also noticed that Quick-Look displays .odt files on a system that doesn't have OpenOffice installed so there's probably already some OpenDocument support built into OS X?
I'm looking for a camcorder that will save me the video conversion step to display said videos on an iPad. Does such a camcorder exist?
What it says on the tin; I have an iPhone 3GS jailbroken with limera1n, and I'd love to try Android on it. I've installed Bootlace from the OpenIBoot cydia repository, but it claims it can't run on my phone.
I am looking for something similar to Time Capsule, but I am really not interested in the wireless router capabilities. Can you suggest hardware which has the same good qualities (size, silent operation, reliability), interoperability with my Macs, and possibly aesthetics? I've looked at various offerings but I've overall unconvinced by any.
I tried the new version of TextMate (1.5.10, r1616). I noticed that there's a 'Changed' item on the Release notes stating that the keyboard shortcuts to change tabs are now the de facto standand Shift-Command-[ and ]. Now, whenever I have a tab with .tex file open and I try to browse through tabs TextMate executes Insert commands 'Command Based on Current Word' (Command-}) and 'Environment Based on Current Word' (Command-{) from the LaTeX bundle when changing to the next and previous tab, respectively.
OK, I'm going to sound like an idiot for asking this, but... How's the volume control work on an iPod Touch (iOS 4)? I always seem to surprise myself when I discover that the volume is up when I assume it's down, or vice versa.
Apple made a big deal about the iPad's A4 running at 1GHz, but they've never said how fast the iPhone 4's processor is. In the teardown, iFixit mentions that the iPhone 4 uses an A4 but never gives a clock speed. Has anyone been able to find out how fast it actually is?
As a prank someone has inverted the colors on my iPhone. Black is white, blue is orange, etc. How do I get my phone back to normal?
Is there any way to force the App to run one of its menu options if there is no command line interface available? Perhaps an Automation sort of thing? EXAMPLE
Today's my mother's birthday, and hey gift is a new iMac. Her older iMac has a G5 processor, and is thus stuck on Leopard. She also has an older version of iLife.
Is there a way to prevent the iPhone from locking when "Sleep iPod" is activated as a timer? I have this alarm clock app (SleepCycle) that needs to be running on an unlocked iPhone to pick up movement during the night. If I also want to listen to music or an audiobook while falling asleep, I set the clock timer to sleep iPod after a certain interval, but this seems to also lock the iPhone, even if I've set auto-lock to never. Any ideas?
How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes so that it shows the lyrics on the iPod/iPad?
Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where can I find them in my browser?
I found this thread, about how to use AUNetSend waaaaay back in 2005- *=URL=* Double click on any instrument track in GarageBand to open up "Track Info" screen. Choose an additional effect from the area below "Compressor" (it should say "None") Go all the way down to your Audio Unit Effects and you should see "AUNetSend" and "AUNetReceive". Depending on who is doing wha,t if you are the sender, the other person has to pick the "AUNetReceive" option. Now since I don't have Tiger, this is were I get lost and don't know how this actually works from here, but if 2 people would like to experiment and fill in the blanks I'm sure a lot of people would really appreciate it!
Spotlight, is a fantastic tool. Took some years, but now I use the command line tools and it's awesome. However today, I found that spotlight does not index /System (!) I'd like spotlight to index everything and that way I can cobble together a nifty IDS solution.
EDIT: Am I asking on the wrong site of the increasingly fragmented stack empire? There is no tag for 'documentation', or 'howto'?
My Macbook is constantly losing its wifi connection. Sometimes it has trouble connecting, other times it connects, but I obtain a server not found error. It seems to work reasonably well at work, but it can't obtain a connection at home even when I am extremely close to the router. Until recently, I used to only have wifi connection problems occasionally. My android phone seems to be able to connect to wifi without problem.
The storage on my iPhone is nearly full. Most of the space is used by apps. I'd like to see which apps consume the most space on my device.
I have an iPhone 4 and have set up mail with an IMAP account. When I delete a message a popup says Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder. How can I fix this?
There seems to be some dispute on whether the iPhone can still get a GPS signal when out of cell tower range, see this archived Apple support thread, for example. I had a friend out in the woods hunting this weekend, and he said that he couldn't get a location via gps, it was just giving errors.
When packing and unpacking a tar file on OS X today, I find myself looking at things like: I don't think I've ever seem these extra files starting with a '.' before. If I x the file, ls -a does not show them. What are they?
I am downloading some iTunes U content in iTunes and am getting on a number of the downloads. I was hoping to find a list of err codes, but no luck. Found a lot of forum posts for other error numbers, but not that one. Any help?
Since I've upgraded from an iPod classic to a Touch, I've had a number of times when I've synced with iTunes and tracks have not been correctly updated, that is, they have not been marked as played that day, even when they have been played (all the way through). Further, I've downloaded some tracks from a course on iTunesU, but they do not show in the playlist on my iPod Touch (despite being in the playlist on iTunes).
I've noticed a semi-handy feature on Apple Wireless Keyboard: quick pressing the caps lock key won't enable the caps lock, it needs a determined push. Benefits are obvious, it prevents accidental all-caps text when you actuALLY INTENDED TO PRESS 'A'.
NOTE : I just want to backup only the data associated with Shazam app, not the full iPhone backup. Apple recently swapped my iPhone 3GS due to some issues on the speaker, but I am having issues with 3G and WiFi after the swap. When I go and visited the Genius Bar, he suggested to restore the iPhone and set it up as a New iPhone, and not to restore via a backup copy of iPhone.
What combination of keys do I press to produce the command symbol (⌘) on Mac OS X? (I copied the above symbol from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key.)
My computer just downloaded an OS X update. Is it possible to know what's been changed?
Is there any way of viewing the composer of a particular song in the Ipod Touch? I know you can sort songs by composer, but what I want to do is while listening to a particular album (classical music), view the composers of the different songs.
I already have it installed (the gold master), but I can't for the life of me figure out how to search a page.
Thad said, I have two questions: Is there any reason I shouldn't be altering the thread priority of the finder like this? Is there any way to make the priority change persistent, e.g. so it stays that way after reboot.
There was an extension on Mac OS 9 system that I could not live without : This extension offered the following feature : When a "Choose a file / folder" dialog box appeared, you were able to click on a "visible" opened window to make the selection box "jump" to that particular place in the tree structure of the disk (on the network). Is there something like this on OS X ?
I have a shell script that deletes exif data from images. I would like to right-click the folder with the images and execute the command from the context menu. How can I do this? The Shell script is: where test is the dir with the images
Is there any way to sort files in any way other than NAME while in ICON view? This is typically when in a file dialog (i.e. browser upload window) there are no options for sorting by Last Modified or similar, you have to be in DETAIL view for that. Please see this screen shot as an example: http://cl.ly/0w0f3L0z3z0Q2n2E042F
I have MacBook Pro with latest Snow Leopard on it. I just bought an Iomega eGo external HDD for Time Machine backup. I also run Windows 7 on Boot Camp partition and I normally use Parallels 6 to run it, but I noticed that Time Machine does not backup Boot Camp partition. I went to Windows 7 Backup and Restore tool to see if I can backup Windows separately but it didn't recognize my Iomega HDD probably because it's Mac-formatted.
Problem: (stressing the "automatically" in the question title). I add the hidden network by selecting "other" and entering the SSID. There is no security right now in order to simplify troubleshooting. When the iPod 4 sleeps, goes out of range or the wifi radio is turned off and then on, the iPod will not re-connect to the hidden SSID once within range again. Strange, considering I reset the network configurations before setting up the 1 and only network the iPod 'knows' as well as having installed a configuration profile on the iPod with the wi-fi settings for this hidden SSID. Nothing i try seems to get the iPod to connect automatically. The hidden SSID does appear in the list of networks when I go into wireless settings, but thats not good enough - the iPod needs to connect to the hidden network without any user intervention.
Safari has suddenly started showing some strange GUI colors on the bookmarks screen. They seem to have started shortly after applying the latest iTunes update, although not IMMEDIATELY after (a few hours, and only after rebooting my machine). This is what it looks like now (I have not changed any settings): Is there a way to make it appear normal again? EDIT:
I'm trying to upload a photo from my iPhone 4 to a website. However, the browse button to display the select file dialog is disabled. Normally this works fine on my Windows PC. Should I be able to select image files to upload from Safari on iPhone?
I've been using the music service Rhapsody for over a month now, and I really like it on my iPhone. Unfortunately, I spend most of my time in front of my computer, programming. I'm kind of so-so on the web client for Rhapsody, and I particularly would like to be able to download songs to my Mac. I don't have access to a (legally obtainable) copy of any version of Windows, so VirtualBox/Parallels/etc. is out. Wine doesn't really work with the Windows Rhapsody client. Has anyone else encountered and/or solved this problem? Switching from Rhapsody to some other service isn't really an option either, since so far, at least, no other "all-you-can-eat" music service has an iPhone app with downloading allowed.
I've made a movie project in iMovie 7, but it's taken 3GB of space on my hard drive and I am lacking space right now, so I need to move it out onto a external hard drive. How can I do this?
I thought I'd switch from a Mac Mini to the new Apple TV (2nd generation) as my primary video device. Unfortunately I find the video quality disappointing: Text (menus, etc.) is shimmery, and video seems coarse, like broadcast TV. I've tried it with an iTunes rental, with Netflix, and with a movie streamed from a computer. The results were poor each time. I switched back and forth between the Apple TV and the Mac Mini to confirm, and the image is indeed much sharper on the Mini. The Apple TV is connected via HDMI to a Sony KLV-S32A10 32" LCD with 1366x768 native resolution. Is this normal?
Is there any way to mute a specific program? I want to be able to mute Firefox.
I just got my first Mac (a MacBook Pro) last Sunday and I am LOVING everything about it so far! But, I am a little confused about the folders in OS X.
Is there a way to remove this sidebar from Textmate?
Looking to set up approximately 10 iPads for a presentation where each one has a single icon on the main screen that then immediately loads a slideshow/video. Challenges/thoughts: Would prefer the video to be saved locally to the iPad so we aren't dependent on the video loading from a shared Internet connection. Would prefer the video to be saved locally to the iPad so we aren't dependent on the video loading from a shared Internet connection. Preference is that they click an icon and the video autoloads full screen, would prefer not to have load/select a specific video file and hit play Preference is that they click an icon and the video autoloads full screen, would prefer not to have load/select a specific video file and hit play Ideally want there to be a custom icon on the desktop for this video : this, I assume may require a safari bookmark saved to the home screen (which requires the video to be hosted...) Ideally want there to be a custom icon on the desktop for this video : thi
Is anyone aware of a way of setting Office for Mac 2011 to automatically use the "remove personal information" option on every save?
I have one of the new mac mini's and run multiple users on it. At any time up to 5 users may be logged in. I have a keyboard and monitor that I connect to alot of machines so very often the mini has no monitor plugged in. When I connect my monitor - Dell Monitor, VGA to HDMI adapter that came with mini - I get just a plain blue screen. It looks like the blue that you see when the mac is switching users.
As a developer, I take a lot of screen captures. I often take a lot to share with StackExchange members on chat. The problem is my desktop is so cluttered with screen captures that they're now overlapping! On Mac OS X 10.5.8, how do I change the default location where screen captures (taken with Command+Shift+3 or Command+Shift+4) are placed? EDIT: I would prefer a solution which doesn't require installing any software.
I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? What is the history of that command? Where does Command+Shift number originate from?
As relates to an answer to a previous question, I'd like to unmount a built-in hard drive every time I boot up. (Or alternately arrange for it not to be mounted). How do I do this?
I'm using MacOSX 10.5.8 and the default Java provided by Apple (e.g. /usr/bin/java -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java). My web browser is Firefox 3.6.12. I'd like to view the Java console to debug some Java applets which I access with Firefox. How can I enable the Java console?
The MacBook Air has the magsafe and a USB port on one side of the chassis and the mini display and another USB port on the other side of the chassis. Does the 3-port cable for the Cinema Display work, seeing as how the magsafe and the mini display are on opposite sides instead of all lined up like on the MacBook Pro? If so, is it graceful or ungainly?
I was riding in the car today and the as I was traveling home, decided to pull up maps on the iPod. I know that GPS isn't used by iPod and uses wifi to triangulate it's position. However I wasn't connected to any wifi as I was traveling through town and my iPod kept up with my position? How?
I would like to download "RAGE HD" which the App Store says is "643 MB", but after clicking "BUY NOW" there is a message: There is not enough space to download "RAGE HD". Please delete some photos or videos.
I want to add a shortcut to "refresh" the web page in Safari (5.0.2). I added a shortcut definition in the System Preferences.
The subject says it all, but for further explanation, MS Office has this (what I consider annoying feature) of notifying me of pretty much anything that happens in Entourage—emails, calendar events, and the like. This is similar to the new "My Day" feature but the notifications pop-up in the lower-right corner of the screen.
I am looking for a GPS that will guide me on hikes and travel from point A to point B without loss of signal in remote areas. I have found this accessory for the iPod touch that enables GPS location services. I am looking for other users EXPERIENCE (not opinions) of this accessory and their personal thoughts on using it or other solutions that I can use my iPod as a location/directional device. My iPod touch is a 3rd gen, however I feel that this is something that would be desired for all gen's (at least for the 4th as well)
I know that the camera connection kit accessory has so far only worked on the iPad. I assume that this is the case because the iPad was running a special version of iOS 3, but seeing as iOS 4.2 is now in GM for both iPhone and iPad, I'm wondering if Apple has extended support for this accessory to the iPhone as well.
My wife has inherited my iPhone 3G and it's using a few megabytes of GPRS data every month even though she doesn't deliberately use any services that cost mobile data. The problem is that she doesn't have a data plan, so these few MB's cost as much as a few gigabytes would with a data plan. 1: How can I set up the iPhone 3G (OS 3.1.3) so that it absolutely never sends or receives any data except on wifi?
The question is: Is there an easy way to get to the dialog box, or to keep spaces from doing this? Thanks!
Whenever I plug-in my earphones with a round connection into my MacBook Pro, the sound automatically switches to them. Whenever I plug my headphones with a USB connection (Logitech USB ClearChat Comfort Headset) and I am playing sound in iTunes, the sound automatically switches. Whenever I plug in my headphones and VLC is playing, the sound continues to play through the speakers. Is there any way to make VLC work with my USB headphones? Update: It seems that the headphones don't work properly with Skype either.
I have a few scanned in images of some some pages that I need to digitise. They're each roughly around 5.1MB with 600 DPI, but I can't really afford to have scans so large because I only have around 16GB to last for another 7 months.
On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x. Is there a way to do the same in iTunes?
I'm trying to install the Gitx Git client on my friend's mac and it seems to install fine but when I run it I get the following error: You cannot open the application "GitXStable" because it is not supported on this architecture. Ideas?
First of all, I need to clarify: I do not mean turn off the viewing of top sites in the browser, or the switch for it. I've done that. However, even after the recent 5.0.3 update, Safari constantly pulls webpage previews down and into my ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage\ Previews directory. I picked 686 MB out of there just this am, and had to remove write access to that directory to stop it. Now, running Returns: Remember, I removed write access to the directory, in order to be able to paste: 1 Which are now filling my logfiles. Now, I disabled access to the web via Little Snitch before with this program, and quite noticeably the constant chatter from my laptop died right down. How can I turn off Top sites in safari, ie, stop it from downloading all these idiotic, unwanted, performance killing, space using previews? Mac OS 10.6.5 , Safari 5.0.3, Same issue with WebKit.
I have a MacBook Pro and an external HDD with Ubuntu, I can use this HDD to boot other machines into Ubuntu but no amount of pressing option would make my MacBook Pro think that the drive is bootable. Is there a setting or an option that I have missed?
Microsoft Messenger For Mac 8.0 crashes sometimes when I try to open a new chat window. Moreover there is no any error logged in Console.
I added restrictions to my iPad and I forgot the passcode for them, now what? Is there a way to remove it without resetting the device?
How do I get my books on the iBook store?
I'd like to know if anyone out there has done a comprehensive comparison of the various package manager solutions available for OS X. More specifically, I'm looking for:
I would like to create a PDF document with images, text and table of contents. I have also other PDF documents that I would like to merge in this new PDF. Do you know some tools/software for creating PDFs?
I'm looking for an RSS reader that has push notifications but I can also filter the RSS feed, like there's an RSS feed I need to subscribe to but I only want to be notified about posts that contain a certain word in the title.
When i click on the "insert stuff" button, the window pops up with the tabs that let me pick pictures, shapes, tables, etc. If I select a table, shape, or anything but a picture, I can pick a specific one, and it appears in the doc, as it should. But if i pick pictures, I get to pick from my albums, images, etc, but when I select one, nothing happens - the thumbnail gets darker to reflect that I clicked it, but the app just hangs - no image appears in the doc. The same thing occurs if I use a pre-made template with a pic in it - I can click on the embedded image icon, and get to my images to pick one to select the generic one, but nothing happens when I pick one.
On my iPhone headset (the one that came with the device, as well as the in-ear buds) there's a little piece of plastic that slides on the cable to one earbud, and can clip onto the other cable. It's not large enough to accommodate the headset cable below the split, so it can't be used to somehow hold the cable in place when it's curled up. It's not tight enough to stay in place if I slide it nearer the earbud, so it can't be used to essentially move the point where the cable splits closer to the earbuds.
I want to create an ordered list in Pages '09 with decreasing numbers, like: But it looks like there is no option to do this, but prefix items with numbers manually myself. Does anyone know how to do this automatically with Pages '09?
I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. I'm not sure if this would be possible with an Automator script, or if I would have to try to program some type menubar software or something. Any ideas?
I'm looking for a photo viewer that would sync with multiple (sub)folders on my computer HD (some of which are not in my MyPhoto folder), and would have a feature to do a slideshow on the iPhone.
I've found out that if I install Windows 7 and use the Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers (Which I need for the graphics chipset drivers.), the Mac partition appears and is read-only. I'm quite concerned about this, because if my Windows partition is infected with malware, it could be a possibility that the hackers could take data from my Mac partition, even if it was read-only. Is there any way to turn off Mac partition support while booted in Windows?
I would have thought this was one of Goodreader's many tricks, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I like how in Finder, they only have 3 columns of files before the files wrap to a new row. However, when I lend out my USB to some friends, they don't have "Snap to Grid" enabled, which causes them to "add" in the 4th column, which messes up the view of the USB. Every time this happens, I have to manually drag everything back. This is quite time consuming and fine if I only have to do this once. However, I lend out my USB multiple times every week. It's quite a headache. Is there a way to force Finder to constrain the columns of files to only 3 columns?
From what I can recall, both 3G and Wifi should consume about the same about of battery when in operation. However, my field testing seems to indicate that 3G is more battery consuming than Wifi.
Is it possible to change language used for reading song album/artist/title for certain songs? I.e. when I use slovak as default iPod nano language, but I have songs with english titles, I would like to hear those in english. I think this was available for previous iPod nanos, but I cannot find it in iTunes when syncing songs to 6th gen nano. Update: This is how Options panel looks when I right-click on song stored on my iPod Nano (6th gen):
I have an iPhone 4, an iPad, and an iPhone 3G repurposed as a "touch" for a little one. The short of it is, there are apps I have on my iPhone 4 that I don't want on my iPad, and some on the old 3G that I don't want on either. What's one to do? I've tried managing by hand which apps sync on which device, but this information gets lost periodically, which means a huge app dump across the iPad and iPhone 4. What would seem most effective is, while the "purchased" app pool would be common, each device would have a derived subset of this pool (so they wouldn't have to re-purchase), and so would/could never inadvertently sync apps from another device pool. I suppose the checkboxing of each app approximates this, but it's very frustrating when this information is lost.
I've read that iOS 4.2 is faster on the iPhone 3G -- they're making a big deal out of this. Is this performance improvement limited to the 3G? I have an iPod Touch 4gen and I'm wondering if I'll see any difference. There's no features of iOS 4.2 that interest me, so I wouldn't bother with the upgrade, but if it also gave me improved performance, I might. Thanks!
I would like to monitor the messages generated when I boot my Mac, similar to what you on a *nix box. Is there key-combo to press/hold that will let me do this?
I use Mail.app to access my Gmail account and it doesn't delete the draft email - which is created automatically - after I have sent it. How do I correct this?
Does upgrading iOS change my IMEI? I was told not by AT&T not to remove my SIM card or certain restrictions that they had placed on the iPhone, at my request, would be lifted. I want to know if upgrading my iOS is like removing the SIM card. I think this was because the IMEI number changes when the SIM card is removed from the phone. Does upgrading iOS change this number?
I've "inherited" an iPhone 3G from a friend who upgraded to iPhone 4. He had complined about the slowness of iOS 4. Although I personally have no problems with it, I was wondering if iOS 4.2 offers any noticeable performance improvement. Does iOS 4.2 improve performance on the iPhone 3G?
I do a fair amount of work in the command line, and I find myself defining a lot of aliases of the form: Is there a way to add magic such that asking for executable "foo" automatically uses executable /Applications/Foo.app/Contents/MacOS/Foo? This is on OS X 10.6. (I'm aware that I could do open foo.pdf, but Skim is not the default PDF reader, and I'd like a general solution - in some cases, it's not appropriate to set the application in question as the default handler for the file.)
I have just upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 and I don't have an Apple TV so there's no Airplay button, however I still have a volume slider in the multitasking bar? What volume does that change, and whats the point of it, I can just use the hardware buttons. (I'd much rather it was a brightness slider like there is on the iPad)
I have looked at iOS 4.2 wrap-ups and all I can see are features for iPad. Besides AirPrint (which does not work with my printer), is there anything for the iPhone 3GS there?
With AirPlay will I be able to stream to iPhone, iPod Touch, and/or iTunes, or is it only to Apple TV and 3rd party speakers?
iOS 4.2 has just been released, and I am wondering what exactly has changed? Can I assume that the changes are different for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad?
I want to take a photo of something (an arm injury!), and I think it'll be hard to hold the camera in just the right place while I hit the touchscreen-shutter. But I could put it in video mode, and then pick out a good frame later. Does the video taken by the iPod Touch have the same resolution/quality as a still frame captured by its camera?
We have a large number of Mac Minis that are running a piece of software that we have developed and have been distributed to various clients. We recently updated our code signing certificate as the old one had expired. However, when we put a new version of the application which is signed with the new certificate on one of these machines, it pops up asking to 'Allow Once', 'Allow Always' etc.
My friend told me that the salt in the air on the beach will reduce the lifespan of iPhone. Is it true? If yes, is there anything I can do to "clean up" the salt in my iPhone?
I have owned and enjoyed the Bose SoundDock speakers for a number of years; during this time it has worked great with my iPod Mini, Video iPod, and iPod Touch. The speakers have an iPod dock that you seat the iPod in and the audio is played through the speaker.
The experience I see thus far for AirPlay with 3rd party apps, on both iPhone and iPad, is that only the audio is output to the AppleTV but not the video. This is great for Pandora but not so good for any video app. Is this a bug with AirPlay or do the developers need to update their apps to support it properly?
I own a MacBook Pro, which is obviously a Laptop, so I want to protect myself in case it ever gets stolen. On Windows I can use TrueCrypt to do a full system encryption, but would that also be a choice on Mac OS X?
I have just updated to 4.2, and the space for my music is still taken according to iTunes, and the device "About" screen says I have 723 songs, but I cannot see it in the iPod app. I assume that another sync is required to activate the content again or something to that effect?
Does the SSD make that much difference? The processor is not much beefier, what are the other factors I should consider/which have an impact? Anyone made the same upgrade and happy with a significant improvement? Or am I just wanting a new shiny thing?
What key does it use to encrypt the stored passwords? If it uses the phone's unlock code, what key does it use for phones that don't have one set up?
On Linux, I often use the free command to see the current amount of free and used memory in the system. For example:
I need to have this PDF sync to a HTTP url. That is to say, I want my PDF on my iPad to be the exact same (the latest revision) of my PDF on my HTTP server.
After a day's of work at my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.5, Activity Monitor shows that the majority of my computer's 8 GB of memory is "Inactive", and only a tiny sliver of the pie chart is "Free". This is even when I have closed all applications, with only the Finder running.
I'd like to experiment with the EFI shell on a MacBook Pro 2010 model. I am unable to find the keyboard sequence to hold on boot. Does someone know what the sequence is, do I need to boot from my Snow Leopard CD instead to access this or has the EFI shell been left out (I read that Intel makes it an optional component) ? Thanks, Scott
What is Steam? Why should I buy the game on Steam instead from normal retailer? Can a game bought via Steam played independently?
I'm trying to evaluate a purchase but am having trouble finding apples-to-apples performance comparisons for these two machines. A year and and many details separate them. Are there any common benchmarks that consider disk and graphics performance? Which is preferable for software development (dual-head, but otherwise light on the GPU)? Mac Pro (2006) [Detailed specs] Two dual-core Xeon processors at 2.66GHz (1.33GHz bus) 3GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256 MB RAM iMac (2007) [Detailed specs] Core 2 Duo (obviously dual-core) at 2.4GHz (800MHz bus) 3GB RAM ATI Radeon 2600 with 256 MB RAM Both machines have their original hard drives (SATA). Thanks in advance for your input.
On desktops, when web browsing you typically right click on an image and choose an item from a contextual menu to display/copy the image URL. In iOS, when you tap and hold down an image, an action sheet displays asking if you want to save the image, copy to the clipboard, etc. But what if you just want the URL?
How do I tell Safari to always open links that want a new window in a new tab? I know I can use cmd-click to do this but that's not what I want. There has to be a setting somewhere?
I was hoping Airplay might do this, but when I turn it on in the Hulu Plus app, it only streams the audio to the ATV.
I bought a wired aluminum keyboard in May this year. Today one of the rubber spacers pressed into the case and I can't get it out. As the keyboard is now extremely loud while typing and not even anymore, I'd like to have it replaced/repaired by Apple. Does anybody have experience with that problem? Is it a pain to get it repaired?
My Macbook Pro won't boot from it's hard disc. If I boot it from CD, the drive will only mount sometimes. Where should I go to get hints and tips on data recovery? What are the best tools that should be in my toolbox?
I have a MacBook Pro, which uses Safari as the web browser. When I check my company's e-mail online, I cannot use the Reply button (it simply does not respond.)
While I initially liked the ability to set custom backgrounds on my iPhone 4, I've come to find that I'm starting to miss the simple black background I had on my iPhone 3G. How can I set my background back to black?
I'm setting up my iphone so that all the mail, calendar and contacts are synchronizing with my Google service, according to the description here. I find that mail and contacts are synchronizing all right; all the added, edited and deleted emails and contacts are appearing and disappearing as expected, both on the mobile and on Google side.
Everyone wants a iPod Nano watch, right? All the videos I see are on an analog clock (you know, the one with hands.) Can you change the clock to digital, rather than analog?
I have an apple laptop.But the OS is corrupted.I have a new one to use the apple laptop.But i have an licensed version. How to install the leopard os.... What are the steps am i should follow...
Is there a way to remove the preview icon of a gif or jpeg file ? I made very little image file for the web, but they weight 45 Ko ! I guess this comes from the preview icons
Really, I mean you shell out $300 for this thing you'd think the usb cable would be able to sync after two months of use. I ended up buying one from China that works just fine (as opposed to the one that came with it!)
I am looking into deploying 10 iPads with identical content to 10 different people. Each iPad needs to be set up for an individual end user before hand, with content on it and then be able to sync to their own iTunes if/when they connect it to their PC or Mac. Ideally I'd like to prevent the iPads from being wiped/reset when they connect to their iTunes - however I know this may be tricky.
I have an ipod Classic 80gb. It is currently stuck on the apple screen. I am unable to recover or restore the ipod. It is not recognized by windows as either a ipod or a mass storage device. When I plug it into my PC nothing happens.
I have an avi file that takes 350mb; I go into iMovie and i create a new project, then i create a new event and then i click on import video, i go to the right directory, to the avi file and click on import. The import window disappear and appear a loading bar that says something like "Optimizing the video..." and in 1 second it disappear (... i don't see the bar load). Nothing else happens, but the video is not imported. Why? More informations
I would like to know how to type Chinese (simplified), using Pinyin, on my MacBook Pro. I went to System Preference > Language & Text > Language, moved Chinese (simplified) on the list right after English, and then under the Input Sources tab, I check Chinese simplified and English.
My 24" 3.06Ghz iMac will no longer fully boot. It constantly gives me the grey "Your machine needs to be restarted" half way through booting. At first I was able to boot into SuperUser mode and run an fsck which passed normally, but eventually after the constant rebooting fsk now reports: I have also tried booting to my Snow Leopard install DVD but that just brings up the grey "Your machine needs to be restarted" screen.
When trying to upgrade my iPhone running iOS 4.1 to 4.2, iTunes displays the error message saying: There was a problem downloading the software for the iPhone "[Username]'s iPhone". You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
I have an old 8GB iPod nano (2nd gen, I think). When I plug it into iTunes, one of the things on the status page is "Format: Macintosh". I no longer use this iPod, so I'm thinking of giving it to my parents, but I don't think they have a Mac. Will this iPod be able to work with a Windows PC?
Something started happening to one of my mail accounts on Mail one of these days. When I press Get New Mail, it starts downloading, showing the KB/s of the Mail Activity. The problem is, without even downloading the first new email, the KB/s starts dropping to 0 and no emails are downloaded... This only happens to this email account and has been happening for some days now. Any ideas of what could be wrong? Thanks
I would like to permanently modify my keyboard's button labels to match the non-default keyboard layout that I have set on an Apple computer, so that others who do not touch-type can use the keyboard. How do I do this? I have the "Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English)".
For a dropdown list on a website, iOS shows only the first few characters and then ellipses for items with a long name. Is it possible to somehow see the full text of each item?
Is there any advantage to upgrade the iPod Touch 2d Gen to iOS 4.2 ? Is the tech specs enough for that new version ? Does it consume more battery ? Will it be slower ?
I've got a couple of barcode apps, but they all require that you have the item, the camera, and the internet connection at the same place. Are there any barcode apps where you can take a picture of the item's barcode, store the picture, and then feed it into the app when you have an internet connection?
I'm having a problem using ssh agent to make sure I don't have to enter a password each time a certain program uses my id_rsa private key. I did ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa and it seemed to add an entry to my keychain
Something I noticed a while ago. I use Carbon Copy Cloner for backing up my files and I noticed one day when I changed a video's "Open with" flag to always open a video file with Movist instead of Quicktime, and the next time the clone ran it copied the file again. Even though nothing was changed. Which made me realize that OS X changes changes a files modification date causing backup programs like Rsync (Which CCC and SuperDuper use) and Time Machine to re-copy the file, even if it's 10GB in size.
This is not a "I use OS X, do I need Anti-Virus?" question.
I set up a wireless HP Printer for my mother, prints and scans just fine. The annoying thing is that every single time we try to scan in Preview, we first have to do the following: Select File > Import from Scanner > Include Networked Devices Select File > Import from Scanner > Printer name
In Windows 7, Win + 1,2,3..9 launches the first, second etc App in task bar. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut in OS X in order to launch Apps that are in the Dock?
I may just be missing some simple setting, but if I mount a volume in Path Finder, it never switches to show me the contents of the volume. I have to manually click the volume in the sidebar. Is there a way to have it immediately switch to that volume after I mount it?
On Windows computers, people often use third party software like SystemCare in order to keep their system functioning at top performance. Are there Mac equivalents that monitor startup, configuration and the like? How necessary are they? What is the best general purpose package?
Does Leopard 10.5.8 support the first-ever Mac Mini (M9686*/A, M9687*/A, I think)? Or do I need one of the later ones? I'm buying my first-ever mac this Christmas.
I wanted to know if increasing fan speed of macbook pro with applications such as CoreDuoTemp, smcFanControl or Fan Control is harmful or not. My macbook's cpu temp rises up to 80 degrees when I use ooVoo or mysql and I want to reduce it. Is it useful to use these applications to do that? thanx.
I know that the Magic Trackpad is not good for a few things (I personally don’t like trackpads in general too much when I’m on a laptop). I tend to start looking for a mouse. (18 years of mousing around may be too much for my old brain).
What exactly does jailbreaking and unlocking doing to an iPhone? I'm aware that hackers are using baseband crashes for unlocking, but how are they exploiting these crashes? Even if they inject their code into memory, how they are keeping it even after a reboot?
On Windows, I use TeraCopy for improved file copying. Are there any similar equivalents for OS X? In particular, I'd like to see things like copy speed.
I'm an OS X newbie. Other than setting up Emacs / Vim with ctags or cscope or both, are there alternatives to C++ code navigation of an existing code base? I used to use Source Insight on Windows and it worked for me fairly well. I know I can setup ctags or cscope but I was wondering if there is anything even better out there. The main functionality I am looking for is quickly find definition of variables and functions and places a function is being called.
I'm looking for an iPad app that will 'play' a large PDF file as a slideshow. I've tried the major popular PDF apps, including GoodReader and ReaddleDocs, but none seem to have a 'slideshow' function. I've also looked into a few Music Notation viewers, but they all seem to require a screen tap to advance to the next page.
Is there an easy way to get a list of all my songs in iTunes into a text file?
I used to stream a music from my desktop to wdtv using VLC. I would like to stream all the sound from my iPad to wdtv. I googled about it, but I only found how to stream music from other devices to iPad.
I don't think this is a "short name" question. I changed my "full name" to include my last name, but I'd like to revert back to just my first name. When I try to change the full name entry under "accounts" back to "Richard" I can't, with the warning "Name is not available."
How can I add a Note to a ToDo? Or is there another way to add a paragraph or two to a ToDo to record progress. The ToDo is linked to an email if that makes a difference.
I recently replaced my wireless router from Verizon. I kept all the settings identical, and all the other wireless devices in my home connect with no problem (a pc, mac, ipad, etc). However, my iphone is unable to connect. It correctly identifies the wifi network, and I'm prompted to enter my password. But even though I've entered the password correctly multiple times, it always returns "password incorrect".
I've submitted my first app on the 20th November but the status is still "Waiting for review", has anyone had longer than this or similar waiting times?
I have a very wide PDF and I would like to find a PDF viewer which would allow me to split the screen vertically so I can keep the left side the same while scrolling the right side back and forth. I found the application *=URL=* but it only allows one to split the screen horizontally. Is anyone aware of such a PDF viewer on the Mac?
I'm wondering about the feasibility of using my iMac's built-in bluetooth as a source for keyboard input to my iphone. There are times I want to type longer messages in my iphone, i keep a bluetooth keyboard around just to have a full sized keyboard to use on the iphone. I don't use the keyboard on my iMac because I have an ergonomic keyboard there that I much prefer. What I think would be great is to use that corded ergonomic keyboard as an input to the iphone via a bluetooth device that uses the iMac. Any thoughts on this?
I have a couple folders in my Finder's sidebar. Since they're nested (on the actual file system), the names aren't very descriptive. Is there a way I can change the name of the entry in the sidebar without changing the actual name of the folder?
In the Photos app on my iPod Touch, when I'm scrolling through photos, it always makes "up" = the orientation of the device, even if that doesn't match the orientation of the photo. So half the time, the photo takes up only half the pixels on the screen, and the other half are just black, and I have to rotate the device, and it takes a couple seconds to realize this and rotate the display. Is there any way to make iOS/Photos always show photos full-screen, even when that doesn't match the current orientation of the device?
Is there a dictionary app that I can just click on a word anywhere (in any app) and it will automatically define it for me?
I wrote an AppleScript to mount a bundled sparse disk image. I want this script to be executed exactly when Time Machine launches. I can check if Time Machine is running with on idle statement, but I'm pretty sure, it isn't a robust way to do that. IMO making an event trigger for Application Launch event would be a better approach. I appreciate if someone can help me.
I have a MacBook Pro (about 18mts old) which has recently started to inexplicably die without warning. I'm running it on battery and, yes, it's getting close to the bottom end (between 10 and 25%). In the past I would get to about 10 minutes of life left and the "Reserve Battery" warning dialog would pop up and let me know that I'd better get on the adapter. Not any more.
I often want to move files between my MacBook and iMac, but its such an issue that I usually resort to failure. They will see each-other on the network (shown in Finder) but after selecting the machine and waiting a while there will be a message like "connection filed" or similar. The other MacBook in the house doesn't even show on this list at all. So I am wondering is there a secret to getting networking happening, or at least something I can use to troubleshoot these issues?
A friend of mine asked for help with an iPod Classic that isn't working. It is an 80GB iPod Classic, model A1238, that doesn't give any signs of still being alive. It won't beep or light the screen, doesn't matters what I try. I have tried to reset it (turn the hold switch on/off and then hold the middle and menu button) but it did nothing, and so I couldn't put it in disk mode either.
In various websites, at random times and with no apparent pattern, the Flash plugin will crash. This has occurred in every browser, and I typically have at least one crash a day. According to Mozilla's plugin check I have the latest version of Flash (10.1.102.64) This is a new MacBook Pro (17", 2010 unibody version) running fully updated Mac OS X 10.6.5.
I'm looking to give a WiFi-only iPad to a family member as a gift this Christmas. However, I'm concerned that since I am located in the UK, and the device I purchase will be 'US' configured for the store, etc, I will be unable to configure it to work correctly as a UK iPad, with the correct iTunes store, etc. Is the iTunes store (app, music, video) related to the device software, the network it's accessing from, or the locale of the iTunes account associated with that device?
I'm looking for an application that can help manage a library of pdf documents. I prefer open source (or just free beer), but that's not absolutely essential.
As the title says; if my MacBook has been exposed to minus degrees, should I wait for it to reach room temperature before I boot it or am I just paranoid and have nothing to worry about?
On Apple Developers portal, under downloads I get this:  Where are the iPhone 3G / 4 / iPad versions of the OS? As I had beta 2 on my iPad (I'm have a iOS developer account), and I want to update to the new one, iTunes says iPad has version 4.2 (witch is right, 4.2b) and mentions, that there is no newer version.
The finder has the Command-H assigned to 'hide finder'. Can I reassign the key to something else? Or can I disable the Command-H short key to hide finder only through menu?
I'm looking for an app that can tell me how much time I spend on each installed iPhone app. This would be useful for identifying apps I really should delete, and also "lite" apps I really should purchase.
Is there a breakdown that can be viewed somewhere?
I have a friend who is wanting to get a Mac Mini to do iPad development. He says the server version is cheaper than the desktop version. I've only ever used the desktop version. Is there any reason not to get the server version? What are the main differences between Server and Desktop?
Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window.
Is there any way to connect my iPhone 4 to my Mac Mini via Bluetooth so that I can play music on my iPhone and hear it on the speakers connected to my Mac? When I try to connect to my computer via my iPhone's Bluetooth screen, it says "Connection Unsuccessful: 'My Mac mini' is not supported." However, if I take a look at the Bluetooth page in the system preferences of my Mac, I see that the following two services are listed for my iPhone: Audio Source and AVRCP Device (I had to enable the "Show More Info" option to see these).
Is there any way to view metadata (such as composer, genre, year etc) for a song that is currently playing on an iPhone? If there is no way to do so, and no apps which can do this, does the iOS API allow access to this information (i.e. could I write an app to do this myself)?
I have a video of a music performance that I downloaded online, and want to extract the audio so that I can store it as a music file. It's a MOV file with the Codecs - "XVID, MPEG Layer 3." What software should I use for best results?
Caffeine is a small program. Why is it taking up so much virtual memory or am I reading this wrong? Edit: persists across application and os restarts
At work, my iPhone gets only limited 3G signal. The "3G" indicator is there, but the signal strength is only 1 or 2 out of 5 bars. Is the download throughput less under these circumstances, compared with the full 5 bars?
I have a 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. A lot of times, software that I want to use is offered in both 32 and 64 bit. What version should I prefer?
I'm taking an economics course, and for whatever reason economists create graphs with the independent variable (price) on the Y axis and not the X axis. If I only have 1 dependent variable to graph, it's pretty easy just to swap the two, but I need to create a graph with price as the independent variable on the Y axis with multiple dependent variables on the X axis. Is this possible in Numbers?
Although I do like and enjoy using iTunes, I'm not a fan of the new Ping service that Apple has embedded into it. Is it possible to disable the Ping link under "Store", the Ping sidebar, and the Ping buttons next to each song? If so, how?
I need to test my app with older version of iOS and can't find exactly where to download them from Apple. Anybody know the adress?
This may seem like a strange request (and I really hope it doesn't get closed) but I need some info on the iPad Mail app as I don't have an iPad. On the inbox there is a search box at the top, if you scroll down a bit and then scroll up fast so that the table bounces. I need to know if the search box bounces with the table or if it sticks to the navigation bar at the top. If this question is considered off topic, then please don't close it, I'll delete the question after an answer.
I'm using built-in Python 2.6.1, however, I need to run Python 3.0 from time to time. Is it OK to install Python 3.0 on my Mac? Is there anything that I need to be cautious?
cmd+tab navigates through all open applications. Some Apps can have no windows at all e.g. firefox, finder. Is there a shortcut for navigating through only applications that have at least one window?
Whenever I want to listen to songs from a particular band in iTunes, I'll just type the name in the search box, select shuffle, and start playing. For most bands this works very well, but I've run into a few situations where I'm unable to narrow it down to a single band due to the fact that the name of the band I'm looking for is a subset of the name of a different band. A classic example is "The Who" - every time I type "the who" in my search bar I get "The Guess Who" as well.
I've tried to install an X11 window manager in Mac OS X 10.6.5 such as ratpoison via fink, but I can't get it to start. I am also thinking about getting xmonad to work in 10.6.5, does anyone know how to set up such a window manager?
My hard drive used to display on the desktop. It's gone missing, how do I get it back?
Right now my hard drive is called "Macintosh HD." How do I change it to something cool like "Death Killer"
I have a desktop that I put on the floor. I put my iPhone on top of the desktop, and accidentally I stumbled on the desktop and the phone dropped to the floor.
I've heard talk of installing a CUDA driver for the new unibody mac (Nvidia 330M) to possibly resolve graphics problems (though it seems it actually doesn't do so). I'm not having problems but I was wondering exactly what the CUDA driver does, if it supplements or replaces the default graphics driver, and if it gives better performance. Please explain!
I wanted to know if there is a standard way of making licenses on Mac OS 10.6. For exemple, if I am creating an application and I want to create a licensing system, do I leave a file somewhere in the system that my application can read/write?
Is it possible to have Remote Desktop running in Full Screen mode ? Like it is possible to have with Real VNC, for instance.
I want to add twitter names to my contacts in Address Book. But I cannot find an obvious place to do so.
Is leaving the phone on the charger overnight really really bad for your iPhone?
Is there a way to use the processor of the graphic card on a new MacBook Pro to do some long and repetitive calculations?
There seem to be several Mac applications that will send tweets scheduled in advance, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which is good. The bulk of the Google results are more than a year old. Does anyone have any firsthand experience, and can you recommend something?
In my work environment I have three smaller monitors and love the productivity benefit. At home I have two 27" displays (the iMac and an external cinema display), but am having trouble laying them out on my desk so I can effectively use them without neck strain. What's the best layout for ensuring most of your work involves you staring straight ahead at your work, while still letting your work spread out over all those lovely millions of pixels?
We have a pod of 30 MacBooks and MacBook Pros that don't get used over the holidays. What's best practice to store the laptops for 6 weeks? I know that when you store laptops for long periods at half charge, unplugged in a cool place is a good idea, but in practice I've just put them plugged-in in the storeroom! Could anyone share their best practice methods when storing these sort of devices?
The wireless transmit rate of my MacBook Core 2 Duo is extremely unstable. That is, when I connect to my AirPort Express the transfer rate is good for about one minute and after that it suddenly drops (option click on the AirPort icon shows a transmit rate of 1...).
I recently acquired a Hauppauge HD PVR which my Xbox 360 is currently plugged into. I can record media from it using HD PVR Capture or use it as a TV Recorder via EyeTV. Unfortunately, I want to take the raw video stream, and hook it into something like a Justin.TV or LiveStream ProCaster for live streaming purposes, but I can't figure out how.
I downloaded the newest version of iTunes because it said it couldn't update the iPod Touch to 4.2 without it, but after the download I went to update my iPod Touch and iTunes said it couldn't contact the update server. This happened when I downloaded iTunes 9 and tried to update, but I never fixed it. Any help would be appreciated!
Is there a list of possible voice commands anywhere?
I want my previous browsing tabs to be restored when restarting Safari. I can do this in Firefox and Chrome. Is there a setting or an extension for this?
My home network is very secure, but my school's wireless network is open, which makes it vulnerable to wireless sniffing (e.g. with Firesheep). I just discovered the Location feature and I think it's really neat, but it doesn't make obvious a way to automatically switch Location based on which wireless network is currently connected.
What does the power button on the Apple Wireless Keyboard do? When it is paired to a MacBook in clamshell mode, does pushing the power button put the MacBook to sleep, wake it up, or have some other effect? Is the power button strictly limited to turning on and off the keyboard itself?
In the Finder, I did "Get Info" on a .wav file and chose "Open With" "QuickTime Player". I then did "Change All..." and clicked "Continue" in the "Are you sure you want to change all similar documents to open with" window.
Often I find myself shuffling large directories (20 GB+) of data between computers or drives. What is the most reliable way to ensure that all data is being exactly mirrored with permissions/dates intact? Bonus points if it's wrapped in a GUI rather than a terminal command.
I took some photos on my iPod Touch, and I want to use them on my Mac. I've synced the devices, but I don't know where the photos are. I looked in iTunes (since it seems to want to manage everything about my iPod, even the things which aren't "tunes"), but I don't see a photo section there. I looked in iTunes (since it seems to want to manage everything about my iPod, even the things which aren't "tunes"), but I don't see a photo section there. I looked in ~/Pictures/ but they're obviously not there. I looked in ~/Pictures/ but they're obviously not there. I looked in ~/Music/iTunes/ (since my mobile apps are stored their, strangely), but no luck. I looked in ~/Music/iTunes/ (since my mobile apps are stored their, strangely), but no luck. Where are they hiding?
I may be considering to get the iMac. I don't own a TV, but I would love to be able to use it as such. I understand it has a DisplayPort input for these types of purposes. What would I need to get to get my Wii and analogue TV (PAL) hooked up to this?
Whenever I try to open up StarCraft II, the updating screen appears for a few seconds on 50%. The window then disappears, but it is still shown as open in the dock (light is on under the icon). How can I fix this problem?
How can I "page down" in the terminal?
Is there an iPad app that will give me turn-by-turn instructions for south africa, or do I need to use an iPhone app and the 2X button?
what is the quickest way to transfer a bunch of photos (and videos) that come from an iphone to another iPhone's camera roll? Sync with iPhoto/Aperture is not an option: they wouldn't end up in the camera roll Opening from email or dropbox one by one and saving them is not an option: too many! A big email is not feasible AirSharing and Dropbox apps are apparently of little help, since I couldn't find a “save all” command. Any suggestion is welcome, third party apps too!
Edit: The below was written before Lion came out, so this post is referring to what is now called "Legacy FileVault", which encrypts only your home directory. I've enabled FileVault on my computer and haven't had any problems yet, but I've read online that FileVault has issues. What are these issues? Are they out of date and fixed in Snow Leopard or are there still problems that I might have in the future? I like the idea of my disk being encrypted, and it hasn't seemed slow to me, but I'd like to be aware of any possible pitfalls that currently exist with FileVault.
Browsing the "network neighborhood" in OS X Finder does show XP machines, but not Windows 7 machines. (Vista machines have a similar problem). I can connect manually to Windows 7 machines ("connect to server" and then specifying "smb://ip_or_name"), but want to be able to browse Win 7 machines automatically.
Is it possible to code a program which connects to my phone and use its dial-up service (GRPS/EDGE) to connect to the Internet?
I would like to transfer photos from one computer to another, but I would like to maintain the originals (most of them are re-touched), faces information, gps coordinates, whether the image has been hidden, and it's rating. I know that transferring using the built in sharing mechanism will remove this detail, so is there a workaround?
When I go to the Apps section on iTunes, the apps are all faded out and I can't get access to move Apps around. If I click on the Sync Apps button, I get this message:
I've got an iPhone 4, not quite sure which version of iOS, but I keep current. Recently, I got an update for one of the apps, started it, and then for some reason it got stuck on "Waiting..." indefinitely. Another app later offered an upgrade, and when I accepted it got stuck on "Waiting...". This has been a few days now, with both 3G and wireless available, with no change.
Is there any keyboard shortcut like ctrl+tab for switching between open editors in Eclipse except for the advertised cmd+F6? Is there a way to customise it?
So, I wiped my drive clean on my MacBook and reinstalled the OS. Happily the best of my music was safe on my iPhone and I figured it would easily flow back to my iTunes library. Not so happily, I can't seem to figure out how to get this music, which is mine, to the laptop, which is mine, from the iphone, which is mine. I don't want to jailbreak my phone just for this one task, I'm running iOS 4.2.1 on an iPhone 3G and my MacBook 5,1 runs OS X version 10.6.5.
I didn't quite get around to updating to the GM version of 4.2 in the iOS developer channel on my iPad and unfortunately the beta I had installed has now expired. iTunes says that the software on the iPad has expired, but any attempt to synchronise with the device throws an iTunes error along the lines of "no session could be created with the iPad". Looking at the device logs, I see this: Any ideas on how to get up-to-date without taking the iPad to Apple?
Just out of the blue, iTunes starts synching my all-day events in Outlook (standalone, no Exchange server) one day after the event and in some cases TWO days early. I've already checked the time-zone issues and tried replacing all the iPhone calendar with the Outlook calendar Using iPhone 3g Outlook 2010 64bits iTunes 10.2 Update: I've downgraded the phone to iOS 3.1.3 and still have the same problem
I want Ethernet on a MacBook Air running in clamshell mode. Will the USB<-->Ethernet trinket work from the Cinema Display?
Basically, I want to be able to tether my laptop to my iPhone 4 but I don't want to pay for extra service or lose my unlimited plan. I've heard there were some apps that had easter eggs but are no longer available. I've also heard that you can do some things if you have a developer account. So, are there any free, simple ways to do this without jailbreaking my phone?
I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps.
After upgrading the iPad to 4.2.1 the screen rotation lock button no longer has any effect on the screen rotation. Instead it turns off the speaker. I've looked in settings but I don't seem to find any way to change this behavior.
In recent days, the DashboardClient process is taking more memory on my MBP. It's a real memory of 144 MB as seen in Activity Monitor.
I do not use the voicemail at all and from time to time I keep pressing the voicemail button by mistake. I am looking for a solution to this problem. I observed many others are complaining about the same problem, even on Apple's forum but they closed the thread and keep it unresolved :p
If you tell iTunes to upgrade your iPhone from os4 to os4.versionupdate (example)... Does iTunes automatically back it up before attempting upgrade? my phone is currently in recovery mode - and I don't know whether it backed up or not (you rookie!!!) EDIT I have browsed to the back up folder, i.e. C:\Users\<MY USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup There is a folder with todays date: \a6fbdb939e60771c51f18a68a41e8e0e2d230dcc - would this be the backup done before attempting software upgrade?
Dutch surnames are kind of weird, in that a lot of them start with small words such as de/'t/het ("the"), van ("of"), van 't, van der ("of the"), etc. This makes them a pain to enter in most address books, since you really want to ignore that part of the name when sorting, but not when displaying. This means you get "Piet Vries" instead of "Piet de Vries". While Address Book has the "middle name" field, which can be abused for this, it really isn't meant for it, causing some applications (iCal, for example) to ignore the field, showing an incomplete name.
I've setup a VPN connection using AnchorFree.com on my iPhone 4 which works great, the issue I have is when my iPhone goes to sleep or screen locks the VPN connection appears to auto disconnect and doesn't reconnect unless I manually make it. I saw a thread here on apples forums confirming others are seeing this issue but no real solution.
I want to set to open a folder in finder with Enter. I know it's possible to open a folder with ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow but I don't like it and I never use it because it's easier to use the trackpad, but enter would be the easiest way. I tried to set it trough the keyboard shortcuts but I can't do it.
What are my options for using TOR on an iPod Touch, either using something similar to the VPN settings, or through dedicated apps for browsing/email/RSS ?
I want to use my happy hacking keyboard with ipad. I just read an aritlce about changes on ios 4.2. One of changes I noticed was that voltage changes for camera kit on ios 4.2. I also read that USB keyboards no longer works with camera kit on ios 4.2. Is that true?
Problem: Many of my friends are moving to OS X and are frustrated that, unlike Windows and *NIX systems, copying/moving a folder (with sub-folders) deletes the destination folder if a folder of the same name already exists at the destination. Question: Is there a way to hack the system (or install a plugin?) so that it by default copy/move operations merge the source and destinations instead of outright wiping out the destination and everything inside (with no option for recovery)?
The Apple shop lists glossy and antiglare options for their Hi-Res screens and I'm not sure what the difference is, and in particular which one is better for editing photos.
I would like to schedule a task to execute with parameters at a specific time/date in the future. Does OS X include any such tool (even if it's command-line)? If not, are there any free or relatively cheap tools out there to accomplish this?
Is it possible to change the completion key (escape) to command for instance? How?
I installed Windows 7 on my (month-old) Macbook Pro using boot camp assistant. I basically used defaults throughout, so I don't think there's anything crazy about my setup.
I have a laptop and want to give it to my sis after I bought a mac mini. Now how can I let my iphone sync with the mac mini for the following data: (I think this applies to any 2 computers)
Does anyone know of any iPad cases that are so indestructible, that you would entrust a 3-year-old with an iPad?
I tried to configure Google service as custom URL shortening service by adding this url *=URL=* but it's not working. Any idea ?
I am trying to make ports on my OS X 10.6.5 MBP accessible to the open internet. The only thing I could find in the system firewall was allowing (or disallowing) a particular.app file, but nothing about specific ports. From Googling I read that the firewall is supposed to let an allowed.app use any ports it wants and specification is not needed. I added the .app I wanted to add the port for. The router is an AirPort Extreme v7.5.1. I've created a DHCP Reservation based on wireless MAC address for the laptop, 10.0.0.5. Under Advanced: Port Mapping, I added a new entry with the same values for each combination of fields: Public/Private UDP/TCP Port: 9000 Private IP Address: 10.0.0.5 I want port 9000 on my public IP address to forward to port 9000 on internal IP 10.0.0.5. When I test my application after this, it doesn't work. To further test, I've turned off the system firewall on the laptop, and I've also placed the laptop in the 'DMZ' by checking Enable default host at: 10.0.0.5
In a web project I have multiple environments and a .htaccess.<env> file for each of them. In each of the environments I've made a symbolic link from .htaccess to the right file.
I bought a 3GS in August 2009. After about 9 months I started seeing occasional precipitous drops in battery level overnight (i.e. from 50% to "dead", as in all you see is the red "charge me" icon). This would happen every few weeks, even if I made sure nothing was running in background before going to bed. Since upgrading to iOS 4 and multitasking it's happened once, but in general iOS4 seems to have improved the standby time of the device slightly. Usually I see a 1-2% drop in charge level overnight.
Last night before I went to sleep my iphone battery was at 30% and the active usage was about 6 hours ( since last full charge). However this morning when I woke up I found that my battery went flat. Upon some checking I discovered that it was on active usage for 12 hours. Which means that when I was sleeping either Someone played with my iphone for 6 hours, or Some rogue apps that ran in the background were silently draining my battery even though they shouldn't
I have an iPhone 3G, When I plug in the charger, the big red battery on the locked screen is red, low and doesn't appear to be charging. When I unlock the screen, the small battery symbol on the upper right is green with a bolt. When I unplug it, the battery symbol in the upper right is low and red, but the phone seems to be charged. The phone syncs to my computer fine when connected.
I am using Google's exchange service on my iPhone, and I have successfully selected which calendars I want to sync by going to m.google.com or whatever the Sync address is. However, in the native iPhone app, I have this weird calendar called "Birthdays" in the "Other Calendars" section. I have no idea where this calendar is coming from - its not in Outlook (and I don't sync with Outlook anyway), and its not my Google Birthday calendar (the dates are wrong). How do I remove it? I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.1.
Is there any way to get tabs in Finder? I often need to open many finder windows at the same time and it pollutes my desktop.
Ive now switched back over to MobileMe for all of my calendar stuff. I was wondering though, if I go to 'Calendars', it also displays a calendar 'On My iPhone'. I don't think I would ever want to use it (because I want it to write to one of my two MobileMe Calendars).
I recently purchased a new iMac. I used the Migration Assistant to migrate users and applications from my previous iMac to this one. Both are x86 based, and both running Snow Leopard, so as close as possible from that perspective. While most things came across cleanly, it seems that programs that have lower-level driver like things did not. My ScanSnap for example did not work, and had to be reinstalled from DVD. My PL2303-based serial port seems to need a reinstall, and I have not yet tried the blackberry software.
I've recently switched from Linux, so I'm still getting a hang of things -- please bare with me. ;)
I read about how to add custom ring tones, but those don't show up in the SMS tone tab, just the phone ring tab, is there some way to add custom text tones without jailbreaking my iPhone? :(
When using Smartfolders in Mac OS 10.6.5, is it possible to choose where to search beyond the 2 button choices? One button is usually "This Mac' (too broad) and the other one is a folder that has never been the one I want - in fact, I would want to exclude a particular folder (ie the Library folder in my user directory). Since we are given a choice of 2 places to query, why not any particular branch of the directory?
I uninstalled Flash a little while back, and installed Chrome as a back-up for when I hit something in Safari and want to see the Flash. I have the "Show Develop in Menu Bar" preference set, and created an Application Keyboard Shortcut for Safari, to Develop>Open Page With>Google Chrome. The shortcut I created was ⌘ + K. And it works!
I have an apple 30" monitor plugged into my late 2008 15" Macbook Pro. Every once in a while when I start up the Macbook pro the monitor will first turn on, then off and repeat indefinitely until I unplug the DVI connection. If I place a finger on the power touch switch on the side the monitor, the display will usually stay on as long as I hold my finger there.
I am trying to install cabal (for Haskell) in Mac OS X 10.6.5 (64-bit kernel). When I try the command "cabal update" I am presented with the following error:
I am adding a 30" monitor to my existing setup (a 24" monitor) for use with a 2009 13" MacBook Pro 5,5 with DisplayPort. This is the model with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video card. This MacBook Pro should support the higher resolution of the 30 inch model (2500x1600 res), but... How do I add the older 24" monitor (1900x1200 res) into the mix?
If yes, how? If no, why such a decision?
The guidelines I read on the Internet ask me to clean the oil off my iphone 4 surface by using a slightly damped cloth. But is there any method that I can use to clean off the oil without using damped cloth?
I want to install a few CPAN modules in OS X. It filed since the module I want requires make and gcc to be installed. A quick google on the subject tells me that I need to install "Apple Developer Tools". Do I really have to install the entire Xcode package (it's a 3 GB download) just to get make and gcc?
Can anyone recommend me a productivity/workflow tool that does the following? I would like it to be task based I would like to be able to set: a due-date priority status (for example: started, paused, waiting for input, finished, cancelled) a due-date priority status (for example: started, paused, waiting for input, finished, cancelled) I would like to be able to link directly to one or several emails in my email program (OS X Mail.app or Thunderbird preferred) I would like to write notes about each task I would like to be able to add attachments (documents and images) Some calendar integration would be nice
I am happy with iTunes 9 and am a bit leery of upgrading to iTunes 10 on my Mac based on some feedback I've heard from others. Can I duplicate iTunes.app in my Applications folder prior to running Software Update to update to iTunes 10, and use the backup iTunes to run iTunes 9 if I am not happy with iTunes 10? I know this works with some applications like Final Cut Pro but not with others like Safari.
I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space without my requesting it to do so. Why does it do this and how can i stop it? How can I make spaces only switch in response to my requests?
I have a NetBoot image which I use for booting into to do things like disk maintenance and testing new applications without having to install them on my workstation. It's really handy, but I created it a while ago and much of the software on it is now out of date, like the OS, QuickTime, and Safari. I want to update the NetBoot image but the only way I think to do that is to use Disk Utility.app to restore it to a USB drive, boot from the drive directly, make any changes necessary and re-image the USB drive, overwriting the original image. Is that the best series of steps or is there an easier way to update a NetBoot DMG file?
Personally, I have not signed up the Ping service that is included in iTunes 10. My main reason for avoiding it is the fact that Apple requires you to use your real, full name for registration. What are your opinions of the service? pros/cons privacy or security concerns? things you wish they had done/not done things you'd like to see added things you'd like to see removed
I have used sudo gem install to install a few gems. My question is how do I know where the executable was installed, so I can add it to the path in .bash_profile?
There's some weird behavior surrounding this. If I do ls -lhaG I see ---> and the relative path to the right of the symlinks:
As a heavy Emacs user, I like to remap my Caps Lock key to function as the Ctrl key. There is a convenient dialog in the Keyboard Preference Pane to do that. But the problem is that this setting gets lost after someone logs into another account that hasn't this preference set. So is there any way of doing the same as the preference pane dialog from the command line?
Is there any way to add, remove, or modify user accounts via the command line? I'm not talking about an account for a system process or daemon, I mean is there any way to add a user account, change, user real names, icons, FileVault protection, Admin/normal/limited user status, and basically do everything else that can be done in the System Preferences Users preference pane, but via some command line utility?
What are the best dock replacements? It's frustrating to keep track of windows in the dock unless they're minimized. For instance, I often have 10-15 separate PDF documents open. It's a mess to keep track of them on the dock. -- Harry Gindi
Now I am able to see the preferences screen with some menu's and here is the screenshot. Am I running very old build/ version ?
I looked for crash logs on my computer, but there's been no crash logs created in over a week, even for apps which I know have crashed many times since then. I don't know what that means, if anything.
I have a Camera that supports RAW (Panasonic Lumix FZ35), but sadly iPhoto (and Aperture) don't support this format. Short of reporting Feedback to Apple and hoping for the best, is there any other way to make iPhoto work with this RAW Format, like a "Plugin" that integrates neatly into iPhoto? I want to avoit having to use Photoshop to edit/convert them to JPG and then put those JPGs into iPhoto.
While two-finger scrolling in Preview is nice, it is not very comfortable when slowly reading very long PDFs. What I've figured out to this point is that I can use space and ⇧+space to move forward and back a page at a time; and ↓ and ↑ arrows to move a couple pixels down.
I tried to make a bootable Ubuntu installation USB drive according to these instructions. However, when the procedure is finished, the USB drive does not show up in the "Startup Manager", nor does it show up on boot with alt pressed. What could I have missed? EDIT:
I have scoured the internet looking for a dock that will allow me to charge an iPod Touch 4th Gen which includes a jack to connect it to an external stereo system. I understand this can be accomplished with a standard USB charging cable (plugged into a USB-AC converter) and a male-to-male audio cable, but I'd like a classier way of docking the iPod.
So I tried to change the output of my terminal prompt but when I try something like /W it just puts the /W not the path. For example export PS1="/W $ "turns my prompt into "/W $"
I just tried printing a photo and it cuts off the sides. It's a piece of yet so it's quite important to not cut off the sides. Is there a way to set which part of the photo prints? I ended up taking a screenshot ofthe photo when the UI hid which reduced the quality severely and printed a huge black border around wasting a lot of ink. So is there any way to access printer settings as is traditional on the PC/mac? (Eg choose orientation or greyscale/color)
I've been very interested in learning ASM for a long time now and finally decided to get to it. The problem is I have a MacBook and most of the books teach you based on DOS/Linux or MIPS. Do you have any good tips for starters in ASM on a Mac OS X?
How can I use select.kqueue() to find out when a file in a folder has been modified?
I have an Airport Extreme as my main router in my house and have recently bought an Airport Express to use as an extender. This is all now set up and working fine, with the Express bouncing on the internet connection for me to use throughout the house. However sometimes my phone will connect to the Express instead of the Extreme, although the Extreme is closer. Is there a way to selectively choose which router to connect to? The problem is that there is a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the Express, and this limit is being reached every now and then.
Somehow recently I managed to mess up my Desktop folder so the contents are no longer displayed on the actual desktop. Anybody have any ideas how to get this back? It's not a problem normally since I normally use spotlight, but it'd be nice to have. Thanks
When watching a video, or making a presentation, is there an option or a tool to disable all screensaving, energy savings and all? Regardless of if the power is plugged, I'd like to keep the screen fully on.
My friend has a G5 Tower and would like to create some music videos for his band. I've looked into Final Cut Pro, but unfortunately the latest version is Intel only. I assume if we went that route, he would need Final Cut Pro 5?
I'm running OS X Snow Leopard & CocoaSuite 1.4.
Is there a difference between bulk-moving files with Drag & Drop vs mv? Use case:
I'd like to have DropBox running under multiple user accounts on a Mac, even after a reboot. The Mac auto logs in as one user, not me. How to best achieve this?
I have a couple of iPod Touches, a 3rd generation and a 4th generation. I would like to get an AC adaptor so that I can plug them into the wall to charge. The Apple charger is $30, which seems quite expensive to me (the cheapest 3rd-party USB charging units are just a few dollars).
I use iPhoto to manage my pictures. I have, therefore, over several years gained quite a set of Events as iPhoto calls them.
One or more of the songs you have selected to import have already been imported. Do you want to replace existing songs and import them again? [Replace Existing] [Cancel] [Don't Replace]
I did a stupid thing with one Event in iPhoto library. I thought of making a copy of this Event, and I did use the menu duplicate.
I'm looking for a piece of software that is a tracking studio, that allows you to use your keyboard to perform at least piano parts, or at best, any instrument. Needless to say I mean keyboard as in my QWERTY keyboard I'm typing into right now. MIDI support is optional, but probably already there on any piece of software like this. I've used LMMS in the past, which (aside from the hard coded AZERTY input method) was a wonderfully simple program that offered plenty of high-end VSTs and features to grow into.
I try to use an external mic to make some audio recordings. But the level of the input is really low ! In fact, the internal build-in mac has a better input level than the external one that is closer to my mouth ! Did I miss something about audio recording ?
NB. I'm not too concerned about challenging the figure, I trust it to be reasonably correct based on past performance, but I'd quite like to be able to monitor the apps and decommission those which seem to be using a disproportionate amount.
How can I find out if (and what languages) subtitles are included in Apple TV movies before i buy it?
I've installed the latest version of NeoOffice 3.2.1 on my May, 2010 2.66 GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.5 (8.0 GB RAM). Regardless of what I do, whether its Writer, Calc, or Impress, the application's response has been extremely "laggy", (i.e. the exact opposite of snappy...can't think of a good word for it). It always takes close to a second before anything responds to a mouse click, and moving/resizing images is a pain also because the response is so slow.
My objective is to delete all .DS_Store files in the selected folder (and all folders within it). I normally do this in Terminal by executing /usr/bin/find /path-to-folder -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print, but I would love to get this to work from my custom Service.
I have a custom Service that I've created in Automater (I'm on OS X 10.6.5). The Service executes an AppleScript which in turn executes a shell script. Here is the AppleScript: The problem is, the path passed by the Service (in the variable input) looks like: And for the command to execute properly, the path needs to look like:
I have installed Google Latitude and am wondering how much quicker my battery will run flat? I know the way Apple implemented its "mutitasking" framework minimises the impact?
Relatively new to the Mac world, I still find the 'Finder' not really that user friendly. What free alternatives to Finder exist? *I mean really file browsers, not application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy etc..
I find it very complicated to move photos taken with my iPhone into my pc's photo library. I used to take photos with a compact camera, and pc applications could very easily import the photos because the compact camera shows up as a USB disk -- this way, importing photos was almost a one-click process!
Actually I do use the prey project but was wondering about other tools or scripts one could use to find back information about a lost/stolen Mac. With features like: -Getting the ip address or any other localization information. -Triggering the webcam remotely. -Protect/destroy personal files remotely
The watched flag and playback positions in Front Row are no longer in sync with iTunes. Is there any way to resynchronize them? If it matters, I would rather iTunes' positions replace Front Row's. These two questions on Apple Support were not useful. The Cause
I'm trying to share my wired ethernet connection from my Windows 7 laptop with my MacBook Pro (running 10.6.5). I've just set it up to be an open network; no encryption. I'm pretty sure I set up the ad hoc network correctly, it's broadcasting, and I can connect to the network on the mac.
I'm on windows 7 with bootcamp with a bit older iMac. I installed the bootcamp stuff from my Leopard DVD and I updated my bootcamp to 2.0. with Apple Software Update but the Microphone is still not working. How should I make the microphone work?
I just upgraded the harddrive with the Kingston SSD (100V series), did restore with Time Machine, immediately noticed the battery doesn't seem to play nice, it charges, but the time estimate is quite off. On a 100% full charge, it shows it can run shy of 3 hours, with the computer doing nothing. Another thing is it seems the battery drain is crazy fast. Does anyone else have the same/similar issue?
This may be a problem specific to Reddit.com, but I find that if I follow a link to another site on mobile safari and hit back, that only part of the time will I see the latest copy of the page. A lot of times, I'll see a copy of the page from weeks ago that mobile Safari has cached for some reason. For clarity this is what happens: I visit reddit on March 1st in mobile Safari, click some links, everything works. Later I visit reddit on March 3rd and I see the March 3rd homepage. I click a link to visit another site off of reddit, and then click back to go back to reddit.com I see the March 1st copy of reddit.com
In System Preferences > Expose and Spaces > Spaces Tab > to switch between spaces, there is a drop down list that allows you to select a modifier key and the arrows. The arrows are so far away from the rest of the keyboard! I want to bind to the vim keys (h, j, k, l) for (left, down, up, and right). On my Ubuntu machine, I push the equivalent of command-option-j to go down a space. Does anyone know how to change to a non-standard keyboard shortcut on OS X?
I am trying to understand the relationship between Page Outs and Swap Used as displayed in Activity Monitor. Currently, Activity Monitor shows: Page outs: 1.6 MB Swap used: 8.1 MB How can there be more swap used than the amount paged out?
1) What is the truth to this statement? Is there a list of applications with known problems? Is this a thing of the past? Does FileVault have anything to do with it? (I have FileVault turned on)
I have an old Apple TV that I have hooked up to my 4:3 TV, and I would like to have the output from the Apple TV match the ratio of my TV so there isn't any stretching or squishing. It's running the latest firmware 3.0.2.
I have an IPOD Touch 4 and i was hoping to convert it to a phone. However in india we don't have VOIP support, but my phone "HTC TOUCH" supports Remote Sim. I am looking for an app which can allow my ipod to control my phone and also enable me to make calls thru my ipod by dialing on my phone. is it possible?
I would like to develop iPhone apps without using Mac OS X. Is it possible to do this on Windows OS?
When I have abc.exe generated from C#/Mono source, I use 'mono abc.exe'. Is there a way to run abc.exe with 'abc.exe' not 'mono abc.exe'? I mean, when I run 'abc.exe', can I make 'mono abc.exe' called automatically?
Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness manually using the hot keys although it's set to do so in the displays configuration?
Apple shot us down - because the other division already has the license under the legal company name. Which also makes sense.
I have an update for the Dexter game on iPhone which is 400MB in size. Since I don't play this game anymore, I deleted the app. But iTunes still wants me to download the update and tells me I have "1 iTunes Download available". I tried deleting it (pause then right-click-*delete*), but the download keeps coming back. Is there a way to permanently remove those available downloads?
"Full Screen" mode in OS X doesn't look as good as my PS3's DVD upscaler. Is there a good way to play DVDs in OS X with high-quality upscaling zoom?
How can I do voice recognition on Mac OS X from the command line? Details: % When I look in ~/Library/Speech/Speakable Items, I see many files, like "Tell me a joke", whose contents are:
Hey everyone, I have a 2008 Mac Pro/2.83hzXEON(8)/8800GT512mb. Is it possible for me to upgrade this machine to newer hardware, since it is Intel based? What would it entail to put a newer processor, ram and video card in this machine? Is it worth it? Thanks
I would like to transfer the contact list from my iPhone 4 to my Windows 7 PC. How can I do that? Which software should I need? After I transfer all my contacts to the PC, I want it to copy back to another iPhone 4.
In the pulldown for "Format", there are only the following options (other than various Mac OS Extended variations): MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT.
The File Open dialog has three very useful Media entries in the sidebar (Photos, Movies, Music). They are backed by the various iLife applications, so that you can select, for example, from your iPhoto albums. The Finder windows have a "Search For" section in the sidebar, but the "All Images" entry there is just a smart folder that contains all image files from your whole hard disk with no further categorization. Can I get the Media libraries to show up in the Finder as well?
iPhone 4 supports: up to 6 hours of 3G up to 10 hours of wifi But how many hours of game play can iphone 4 support?
What's wrong? My thoughts are corrupt OS or RAM. I can't reinstall the OS with being recognised by another Mac and I can't test the hardware for the same reason. Am I missing something? Rich
Skype works fine when I launch it on my Login. When I switch to the Guest login, though, Skype launches but does not connect after 90 seconds. Does it eventually connect if I give it more time, or is there some architectural obstacle that prevents using it as Guest?
On *=URL=* I changed the preferred language to French at least 10 times now, but it always comes back to German. Not immediately thus I see I can save the French language preference, but then I receive the next mail in German, I check my account and language is set to German. I live in Switzerland and thus our languages are French German and Italian...
Is there perhaps an RSS feed or some other method of being notified of new AppleTv titles as they become available?
I've a strange problem with iMovie : I can preview movie clips that I've directly imported into iMovie, but the ones that have been imported from my camera by iPhoto have a problem : the displayed preview when I do a "mouse-over" is showing another movie clip (always the same, for every movie clip) Is there a way to ask iPhoto or iMovie to "rebuild" this previews ? EDIT : Is there a way to rebuild the cache of iPhoto ?
I've noticed that some flying bugs have an irritating habit of crawling into the hinge vent on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009). I don't know what possesses them to go in there, maybe it looks like an inviting hidey-hole, but they obviously end up dying from the heat. I'm paranoid they'll eventually clog something. Bless the designer for the nice design, but it's next to impossible to fish dead bugs out of there! Ironically, because of the silent design there's also no huge gust of hot air to persuade them not to try climbing in there.
Is there any way to automatically mark junk mail as 'read' in OS X (10.6.5) Mail? A free or shareware utility would be nice.
I've got an HFS+ formatted external drive that is starting to act a bit funny, mainly causing my mac mini (finder) to freeze up on occassion when accessing it. Fearing imminent failure, what is the most comprehensive way to determine the health of the physical drive and the file system? Verify in Disk Utility indicates the disk is fine, but weird behaviour would indicate otherwise.
Following a MobileMe import of a Windows XP AddressBook legacy, there are hundreds of entries in the Mac Address Book like this: It appears that what happened is that both the First and Last names in the Windows XP Address Book migrated to the Firstname field in Mac Address Book.
I'm having trouble finding a coding environment that is comfortable and I'm hoping anyone has had the same problem. On my windows box at the office I've found my ideal coding environment that I really dig. VS2010 or Eclipse, Notepad++, WinScp, Fireftp is often everything I need. On my macbook pro however, I've not yet found that environment that just says "click". What I'm looking for is a solution that can handle "intellisense" with php, ssh browsing like WinScp and snapping windows over halv the screen like Windows 7.
I need to temporarily (5 min) hide my top menu bar. Is there a glitch, or something that will let me do that?
In Mail on iPhone 4, with software update 4.2.1, it seems my Trash icon has been replaced with "Move to Folder". Is there someway to get the Trash icon back, so I can delete messages with one keystroke instead of two? I use Gmail IMAP.
I don't have an Apple TV, so I've never had an AirPlay button anywhere. However I noticed while switching apps in a call that the AirPlay button appears while making a call. Pressing it does nothing. Also when the call in on speaker the AirPlay button goes blue (and still does nothing on pressing it) Why has it suddenly appeared, whats it's use during a call?
Adobe Acrobat plugin 9.4.0 has File | Attach to Email ..., but selecting it yields the following: The SendMail doesn't know how to talk to your default mail client. Please select a different mail application to use. How does the user select which mail application for SendMail to use, and which mail applications does SendMail know how to use?
Is it possible to get educationally-priced hardware by visiting any given physical Apple Store, or is that only achievable online or at college stores?
With the purchase of a new iMac, Apple seems to be offering your choice of Mighty Mouse (Apple Mouse) or Magic Mouse with the option of adding a Magic Trackpad to the Magic Mouse. I have no interest in either of those mice, and would prefer to simply get a Magic Trackpad with my iMac, which is priced the same as a Magic Mouse. Would Apple Retail be able to set me up with this at a brick-and-mortar Apple Store?
I'm trying to install a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 with little luck. The printer works fine from my Windows machines. HP doesn't support the MacOS for this printer by default so I followed the instructions from this forum post: http://macosx.com/forums/hardware-peripherals/302806-hp-lazer-1600-printer-driver-mac.html.
Synching my iPod Shuffle (4th generation) updates the Last Played column in iTunes, and it looks as though the updated value matches closely to the time I played the song on the Shuffle. But ... how does the Shuffle know? Does it have a clock? If it has a clock, does it have other stuff?
I am beginning to learn Python, and want to "upgrade" my Python installation os OS X 10.6.5. I know it's a bad idea to directly upgrade the Python install, so I have installed Python 3.1 separately from the default Python install (2.6.1). However, whenever I use the "python" command from the terminal, it starts up Python 2.6.1. I have tried multiple recommended ways to get the "python" command to start up the newest version, rather then the default: 1) I have tried running the script "Update Shell Profile.command" script in the Applications/Python 3.1 directory, and get the following output: 2) I have created a file named .profile in my home directory, with the following contents: As recommended here: https://superuser.com/questions/29652/how-do-i-properly-update-python-on-mac-os-x
I have a iPod touch that is not jailbroken. Recently I was given a jailbroken iPhone by somebody. I want to know if I can use both devices with the same iTunes installed on my laptop? Will using a jailbroken iPhone mess up with the iPod touch syncing? Thanks
I've recorded two videos with Snapz Pro, and I'd like to concatenate them (i.e., have one immediately follow the other in a single file). What's the easiest way to do that? I have iMovie '08 installed, and I can use it to combine the two into a single movie. However, I can't get it to export the resulting video at the same resolution as the original video. According to the QuickTime player inspector, the video formats of the two original videos are "Apple Animation, 1164x1153, Millions IMA 4:1, Mono, 22.050 kHz', FPS: 9.97 fps.
Is there some hack app that will make the iPhone present itself with a drive letter? This would probably not be a Windows application but rather an iPhone jailbreak app, but any solution is welcome. I'm running Win7 and a jailbroken iOS 4.1.
I'm writing a script that will rsycnc my Time Machine directory to a remote server using ssh. I've switched from a shell script to an AppleScript and then back to an Apple script and I don't really care what kind of script the solution will require. I've had success starting the backup process with this little snippet of code.
I need to replace my MacBook Pro 15" 2009 hard drive with a bigger size. Will this hard drive: *=URL=* be compatible with my Mac?
Is there a way to delete text in front of the caret using the iOS software keyboard? The small wireless hardware keyboard accomplishes this with a fn+delete, so there might be a way to use multiple keys to accomplish the same task in iOS?
Does anyone know of software for OS X that can quickly split a 2 hour H.264 video file into two 1 hour files? iMovie estimates 2 hours just to import the file. I was hoping for something that could do it quicker.
If I reply-to-all on an inbound message with multiple recipients within iOS' Mail.app, I can't view or move/copy the email address of any recipients - I can only view the a 'bubble' which contains their name. Curious if there is a way to view the actual email address while composing, and ideally, copy the address (in case I wanted to move it from the TO: field to the CC: field)
I've an issue on a old Mac with Tiger. I cannot upgrade iTunes to version 9. (I cannot find version 9, and I'm actually looking for the Italian version).
I'm trying to make a stop motion animation and I can't seem to find a way to make clips shorter than 5ms. By "clip" I mean the images I drag into the time line. I try to adjust it by hovering over the timeline object, click on the cog, then go to clip adjustments, then edit the duration. How do I make a clip shorter than 5ms?
I have an Apple HD display that has been in our IT depart for a few months now. It was working fine until recently (the past month or two). I can turn it on and it will work for a few days, but then it suddenly will stop working. If I unplug the monitor, wait for a few days, and then plug it back in, the monitor will work again for a few more days.
I currently have a 2008 MBP and am thinking of getting a new computer. I was wondering if the MBA OCT 2010 edition with max cpu (2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) and 4gb ram would work well with photoshop and some web development? The tools I use are photoshop, dreamweaver, textmate,coda, and transmit, also my MBP from 2008 is 4gb intel core 2 duo 2.4 ghz. Would the MBA be faster then my 2008 MBP?
I have a desktop of 4 screens arranged in a 2x2 pattern. Each screen has a size of (2048 pixels x 1152 pixels). (And the Apple Menu Bar is on the top-left screen). ⌘+⇧+4 gives the upper-left of each screen as (0,0) and the lower right as (2048,1152). But each screen does that!
I have an iPhone 1 gen and the iOS version 3.1.1 the latest for 1st gen iPhone. Suddenly I am not able to slide the slider which unlocks the home screen.
Does anyone know if the dock connector change when Apple upgraded from 5th to 6th generation?
This is a weird question, I know, but... I have an alarm system which I can call into and send commands to, I.E. to arm/disarm/listen to the ambient noise. However, for this to work obviously it has to pick up the line, which prevents me from using voicemail for anyone who calls me. Instead of getting a separate phone line, I was wondering, if I plug my G5 into the phone line and plug this device's telephone line in to the telephone line out of my G5, is there any way the G5 could only tell the alarm system the phone is ringing for certain caller ID numbers?
Is it possible to attach my MacBook to my iMac and use the iMac as a display? What cable/connector would I need? EDIT: I have the newest MacBook and a Late 2009 21.5" iMac.
Where can I buy or sell a used iMac online? EDIT:
Is there a way to add (or even enable) a FM tuner for the iPod Touch? The only thing stopping me from getting one is the missing FM tuner. By the way, I need the FM tuner to listen to TV shows at the gym (they transmit the sound through a FM transmitter). So I cannot replace the FM tuner by Pandora.
Why do a couple of my friends have a camera on their iPod touch and I don't?
Is there a key combination I can use to show/hide hidden items in Finder?
I was excited when my new HP 8500A arrived this weekend because I wanted to try out its recently added AirPrint compatibility. However, I can't seem to find the requisite firmware update for the printer. Since I haven't updated the firmware when I tap print from Safari I'm told no printer can be found. What am I missing to enable AirPrint on my HP 8500a?
Here is the setup: I have the Applications folder right in the dock, which is the default after installation afaik. Now I have a custom build DMG with an application in there which I drag&drop into the Application folder. When I open the Application folder from the dock and look for the newly installed app, it does not have the application icon it should.
Please share your experiences and reviews about NAS (Network-Attached Storage) below. In particular, rate their compatibility with Macs, OS X, iTunes, Time Machine, AppleTV, and other Apple-specific tools. The goal is for future users to be able to easily find the best Mac-compatible NAS appliance. Rules: Use a single answer for each NAS (no duplicates, please). Vote (up or down) on any NAS you have experience with. Also welcome: useful reference links, such as this one from xlr8yourmac.com.
I've made an iPhone application that is a goal-setting workshop (that is - it doesn't just track goals - it helps users to decide upon them). That is quite a novel approach I think.
Disk Utility says my boot drive need repair. Unfortunately my DVD drive is toast, so I can't boot from the install DVD and make the repair. Is there a way I can create a bootable USB drive and perform the repair that way. I have an 8Gb USB drive.
I tried to connect my LG HDTV (42" LD650) to my MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2010) using a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. When I plug the cable in, my MacBook's screen flickers every time but the TV is only detected when it is in standby mode. Its status will switch to "No Display Connected" the moment I turn it on. Here is what System Profiler shows when the TV is in standby mode: I tried the TV and HDMI cable using a Windows PC and it worked instantly. Is my TV somehow incompatible with the MacBook Pro, or is my adapter faulty, or am I doing something wrong?
After I transferred my Power Point presentations onto my new iPad, into Keynote, I notice a problem. The links associated with buttons within a Power Point slide to connect to other slides in the presentation are no longer working, but everything else is? Is there an easy fix?
If I have a bunch of menu extras (the things on the top right side of the menu bar, such as time, date, battery status, and other OS X icons, plus 3rd party icons from QuickSilver, DropBox, etc.), sometimes they are hidden if the foreground application has a lot of or long-named menu items.
I hate to be all cliché with yet another "best [something]" question, but I am genuinely interested in what you most often install with MacPorts. When you get a new Mac, which ports do you first install?
Is there software available that'll make a Windows PC running XP appear as an AirPlay destination in my Mac's iTunes? I'd like to be able to stream audio from my Macs to a Windows machine I use as my home theater PC that's connected to my stereo.
So I've discovered there are a number of things to be kept up to date in OS X: built-in Software Update, obviously Individual programs, which typically check for updates automatically and the 'update' option can usually be found under the program's menu (to the right of the Apple menu in the menu bar). Gem, which comes preinstalled in OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), should be periodically updated with sudo gem update --system and then the gems updated with sudo gem update - see Greg's answer for why you should not update Ruby. MacPorts, if installed, should be periodically updated with sudo port selfupdate and then sudo port upgrade outdated
Can Roambi or any iPad app make authorized http-requests to pull data (say JSON or .csv) from some source and interactively visualize it on the iPad screen?
Configuration: OS X 10.6.x, Parallels-desktop 6, Windows 7 When I press F1 or the help button in any windows app (f.e. MS Office 2010, Delphi 2007/2010), Microsoft Help Viewer or Microsoft Document Viewer try to download content. Accepting this, or canceling, will both result in empty documents, sometimes at least showing an outline of the help file, but no content at all. How can this be fixed?
It is very easy to switch applications in OS X using ⌘-tab. But what if an application is hidden? Let me describe some problems I am facing and what I want to accomplish.
I know this is a elementary question, but I figured I'd get a quicker answer here than Apple support. Where can I find out how many times the app has been downloaded and other download stats? I'm a developer and can't find the stats on the iOS Dev Center. I have not renewed the $99 Developer license, so could it be hidden because of that?
My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an SSH/SFTP volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think SMB share). I have tried everything I could find (MacFUSE + sshfs (whatever version), Macfusion (couldn't install),...).
Quick question. I'm reinstalling Snow Leopard, and am not sure how to back up my Mail. It is all done solely in Mail.app, so is there a folder I can just back up and have Mail 'rediscover' after I load the fresh install?
Is there a good app to store login information to various sites and services on my iPhone?
Am I doing something wrong, or do 1st generation iPhones require particular headphones? My white iPod headphones work, but most of my other ones wont fit? Is the standard solution to purchase an adapter?
The power button on my first-gen iPhone is broken. I remember last time I came across this problem I found a utility (for windows) which caused the phone to reset to enter restore mode (the one with the yellow alert symbol), but I can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what it is? Thanks for any help, Wyatt.
At this point I would be happy with any simple app that would just enable me to use my stored info the way it is to strip the +5511 part and place a call. Or some tweaking to allow proper and simple editing of the phone number on Phone.app would be very welcomed!
About a year ago I came across a piece of software that was around $30 that said it could read the underlying data in an iPhone. I bookmarked it and still I cant find it. It said it could read and export any of the Notes, SMS Text Messages, Call History, etc. Essentially, if it was on the iPhone it could get to it.
For some reason I have a mystery box when I go to expose (or w/e f3 is). It'll show my other open apps, but once space will be transparent until I mouseover it. It isn't horrible, but annoying so any help would be great. Thanks
I am using my iPad with windows 7. So..everytime I connect my ipad to my pc, itunes downloads applications that I bought on iPad. So..to what directory does the Itune download purchased application from my iPad? and..is there an option to prevent iTune from downloading apps from my iPad to sync?
Nothing more to say than "Is there an app to record the current phone call ?" :-)
I'm looking for an app which I can use to find my camper in the desert after going for a walk, or find the b&b i left my bags in after exploring a new city. I'm hoping for something really simple which just points in the right direction and perhaps tells me a distance, like your next target on a computer game. I'm imagining opening a compass and clicking a button to record a place then having a needle pointing north and another arrow point back to the waypoint. Does this exist?
Is there a way to retain a map with as much detail as possible (street view, maps, directions, zoom levels) offline? This question refers to the Apple maps program that shipped with iOS versions 1 to 5 that relied on google map tiles. Please open a new question for iOS 6 maps and the google map app that is also available on the App Store since 2012.
I'm looking to get "app activity" type information from pages like these. http://appshopper.com/social-networking/tweetee
I want to jail break my 3Gs running 4.2.1. Possible?
Is there an app (normal, jailbreak) that will keep my iPhone (3GS, OS 4.x) screen on, indefinitely, when it is plugged in, regardless of what app is running in the foreground?
How is it possible to customize toolbar of Finder and to add more buttons other than defaults ?
I like my Magic Mouse, but I often touch it "incorrectly" while watching a movie in QuickTime Player, and QTP then moves the video position forward or backwards or makes a pause or ... . It can be annoying :-(
Since a few days, i have a limited Screen resolution, resulting in a black bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. When starting up in safe-boot, there is no prolbem. The display dialog let's me select the correct resolution 1920x1200, but beneath ther is written "Usable resolution 1920 x 1080"
What's the best application to open and edit a plist file ?
So far, Siphon is the best SIP app I've tried. MobileVOIP and TruPhone are very nice too (and don't need jailbreaking). Other apps offer at least some SIP features such as Nimbuzz, Fring, Viber and even Skype. Apple's FaceTime audio clearly is an option for some While I have all of these, I hardly use any of them, for a variety of reasons. I'm looking for a more ideal third party app that should: Integrate with both Address Book and the iPhone's native recent calls Replace phone.app and load rapidly to place phone calls Have international number support Allow call recording As a plus, - Support Skype, Google (talk, voice, etc) and integrate with other options if possible
I would like Time Machine to ignore the indexes and other metadata created by Spotlight, where are those kept on 10.6?
I'd like to only display the percentage left in the menubar. It seems that it is more useful than any other battery display option, but it isn't available. Is there a work-around?
Some microphones require power on the stereo mini jack and may not work on Mac systems. Try to check for Mac compatibility when buying USB microphone sets. Unamplified PC microphones often won't work. The SteelSeries FAQ says I need a USB sound card to use the microphone with a Mac.
I managed to create a SSh tunnel on my iPhone via the Terminal (iPhone's Terminal). (Yes, it's jail-broken) At this stage my iPhone is SOCKS proxy.
I have a Macbook Pro (latest version) and iTunes 10.1.1. I have the preferences set in iTunes to prompt to import an audio CD when it's inserted into the drive, and my System Preferences set to throw audio CDs over to iTunes, but whenever I put in an audio CD, it just starts playing (and not through iTunes). I don't see any other players pop up w/ controls, either, and if iTunes isnt' already open, it doesn't open but I see the same behavior (i.e. music starts playing). Any ideas of what I am missing?
I have asked a question here. But it is for adding a custom button in OS X Finder toolbar.
The disk I'm referring to is the Hitachi Deskstar HD32000. Though I couldn't find that exact model on Hitachi's support site, these are the power requirements for a similar drive, the 7K2000 (2TB, 7200RPM, SATA II):
I'm trying to set up an in-home music system with built-in speakers. Right now I have my Apple TV plugged into the stereo outputting the AirTunes signal to the speakers. However, I'd like to get my Apple TV back at some point, so I've been looking into a replacement unit. The AirPort express and the Apple TV seem to be the only two devices that will seamlessly work with iTunes. New units cost $100, and even the used units command $50-$60 on eBay. It's also possible that I'd like to control several sets of speakers throughout the house, which would require several units for the different audio channels.
There's an app or two that I'd like to run fullscreen on my Mac. However, hiding the dock manually and unhiding it when I'm done gets tedious. I know there must be a way to get an application to hide the dock when it's active as iMovie 06 used to do exactly this. I also think that I read somewhere recently how to do it, but my search for the particular article comes up empty. How can I get an app to hide the dock when it's active?
Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, Safari hung for over a minute and there were periods where Safari used a very high %CPU:
I use Safari as my browser, but I've found that it frequently hangs for 20, 30 seconds (sometimes longer), often times when I wake it up from sleep and/or when I open a new tab. Though I'm not sure it would be helpful, the next time it does it I'll see if I can sample the process and report back with the results. In the meantime, is there something I can try? I'm running on a mid-2007 MacBook so, while I think I have enough processing power (2x2.16Ghz) and memory (2GB), I suspect it's a disk issue.
Have I missed something in my search? Or do manufacturers simply not produce the product I describe? If the latter, is it due to restrictions on using the Mini-DVI connector, a technical problem that requires the adaptor to be no longer than 6 or so inches, or perceived lack of demand?
I've been trying to set up iChat screen sharing between an iBook G4 and my MacBook (both running the latest Leopard) for some time now without success. iChat has been configured on both computers with Jabber connecting to GChat (both accounts are GMail addresses). I've been able to get it to work when both computers were on the same network, but I get this message when I try to connect over the Internet:
As the owner of a Mac and an iPhone, I've naturally been using iTunes as my podcasting program. It works pretty well, except for one huge problem: if it determines that I haven't been listening to podcasts for a while it stops downloading them. Is there any way to force iTunes to continue downloading podcasts regardless of how often I listen to them? For most it isn't a big deal, but there are some (like "This American Life") that only publish one episode at a time so it's impossible to download the ones that you've missed. This would also be useful to set up an iTunes server that shares the podcasts over the local network - since the podcasts would be listened to remotely, their "new" status would not be changed. I poked around com.apple.iTunes.plist to no avail - if there is a setting to disable it, it's not labelled in there.
Now that I've had my iPhone for a few months, I'm trying an experiment to see if I can't replace the laptop I carry around with my iPhone + internet connected computer. To this end, I've been trying to find a program that will let me play the music on my iPhone through the hardware and software on the host computer.
Every few days I get notices on my MacBook that it's running or run out of hard drive space. Curiously, restarting the computer will enable me to recover gigabytes of space (this past time, it was able to recover about 2.2GB). However, I can't identify anything in my personal activity that consumed that space. It's possible that it's a rogue iTunes podcast or a huge software update that my Mac is automatically downloading - would either of these reclaim the space upon a restart?
I'm a MacBook user, and when I'm home I plug into a large external monitor to get additional screen space. When I'm on the go I disconnect and use my laptop's built-in display. For the most part this arrangement works very well; however, I occasionally run into an issue where I'll resize an app on the external, causing it to be too large to fit on the built-in screen when I disconnect.
I am trying to sync all of my photos to my ipod touch. it syncs some of them but now when I add more folders it simply fails upfront saying: No photos were copied to the Ipod because there is not enough free space on the ipod to hold your photos and photo albums.
I've used The Unarchiver for this purpose, but it doesn't support extracting encrypted 7zip files. Can anyone suggest any other freeware for this? BTW I'm using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8
I can't seem to find this option any more. has it moved ??
I would like to access music files on windows from my iPad. Is it possible? I really don't think it is a good idea to transfer music files to my ipad since I use ipad at home anyway.
I hope this doesn't go against the rules of the site. I have an iPhone 3G for which I did a restore without knowing it was unlocked as it originally came from the US (I'm in Mexico) I'd like to fix it since it isn't mine but I've tried redsn0w and blackra1n without luck =( could anyone please help me out? I feel really awful for rendering useless the iPhone of my friend...and I can't seem to fix it..it was firmware 3.1.3 it said it was upgrading but then it restored so I'm guessing the firmware didn't changed.
After having used Eucalyptus and Stanza apps on my iPhone, I really can't read printed books while traveling any more. What similar app can I use to transfer, store and read my own pdf files on my iPhone? I know that Stanza has a Windows application that converts PDFs for iPhone, but I am not a Windows user.
On iphone 3GS I have iOS version 4.1 running. The thing is when I swipe a mail in my Gmail account on iPhone, it always displays the Archive button. So, to delete some mail in my inbox I always have to open the mail, use the Move to button to move it to Trash.
I'm wondering if there is a way to extend the maximum duration of a custom ringtone i make for my iPhone past 30 seconds.
Is it possible to install two versions of an app on the same iPhone and, if so, how? The scenario would be that you have purchased an app, and a recent update has changed some of the features--not necessarily for the better or worse, but enough of a change that you'd like to still be able and use the older version at times. You could downgrade from a backup, but it'd be nice to have the new version at times as well. Is it possible to have two versions of an app be 'seen' as different apps so that they can both be transferred to the iPhone at the same time?
Hey, I own an iPod touch 2g which worked great until I updated to iOS4. After I did the update, it takes just a few hours for the battery to run out. Even if I´m not doing anything with it. I noticed that if I turn off wifi the battery life is great. So I´m hoping you guys can help me with either a solution to this issue and get it to work normally even with wifi on, or some way to get the wifi turned off when blocking it. Some things I already try: - fully discharge the vattery and then charge it to 100% - restore the iPod - Updated iOS again to 4.1 now Thanks in advance!
I just bought a used iPhone 3G and I want to jailbreak it. What tool do I use?
I've iPhone 3Gs and want to download Google maps to use them offline with GPS. So is there a good app do that for me ? Note: i don't want to jailbreak my iPhone.
Is it possible to crossfade songs on an iPhone that are played through the iPod app? If there is no native way to do this, are there any apps that can do this?
I would like to install Windows 7 on an external USB 2.0 500 gb hard drive. Is it possible to both install to and boot from this USB drive from my MacBook Pro 2010?
I've got a new iMac (Santa must have thought I was a good boy this year) and I want to move data from my 3 year old MacBook (Intel, running Snow Leopard). I realise I have a few options for this, but migration assistant is currently looking better than either starting from fresh or Carbon Copy Cloner etc.
I'm thinking of using Migration Assistant to transfer data to my new Mac, but what is the best way to do this? I have a Time Machine Back up on a Time Capsule, but this would be over wifi, so slow? I guess target disk mode is out, as my MacBook only has FW400 and the iMac only has FW800, I understand these are different connectors, so out of the question? However I do have a FW drive with both FW400 & FW800 connectors, so could Time Machine onto that, would it be slow? Or could I make a temporary wired network between the two machines? If so would I need a crossover cable, or are Macs clever enough for this to work with a standard ethernet cable?
Vacation computing for me these days seems to have fairly few requirements that my phone alone can't easily support: Offloading raw SLR photos from SD card to clear space and post online (often to facebook) Offloading, editing down, and posting videos (facebook)
My MacBook Pro (described below) fell 5 feet while it was powered on. Would the sudden motion sensor be able to turn off the hard drives in time? Also, can anyone recommend the best (free) hard drive diagnostic tools Mac OS X? Thanks, Chirag
I have been trying to sync my playlists from itunes with my new ipod nano 5th gen, but the podcasts don't sync (they did sync on my old 2nd gen). Any suggestions for how to fix this?
I have an iPod Touch, and I tried to sync with apparently more room than my iPod Touch had on it. So instead of not syncing some new podcasts, it decided to delete one of my photos folders off of my iPod Touch (over 5000 pictures).
One tip or trick per answer. My favorite is
One of the cable tabs on my MagSafe charger for my MacBook came undone, so I took this as a sign to retire the charger to home use and to purchase another for travel. When I went to my local Best Buy, they had two chargers for sale, 60W and 85W, that looked the same size, sold for the same price, etc. The only difference was that the 85W supported the MacBook Pro, while the 60W only supported the MacBook.
i have a new ipod touch and i am on a wifi connection but whenever i try to use facetime i get this error: "Can't connect to facetime, please check your network"
i have a new ipod touch and i want to get my gmail contacts available on the ipod touch contacts. what is the best way to do this?
The situation is that I have an iTunes library and account and my girlfriend also has an iTunes library and account in her name (on a separate machine). While there is some overlap in our libraries we would like to be able to add music from the other's library to our own, can iTunes home sharing be used for this? Whilst maintaining separate iTunes accounts? (I have only ever used home sharing to sync 2 libraries using the same iTunes account)
every time i sync, i get a status saying "optimizing photos . .1 of xx". this is even if no photos have changed since my last sync.
How do I show a percentage battery indicator on the iPhone?
I have the 13" Late 2010 MacBook Pro, and the 250 GB Hard Drive is way to small, so I'm looking to get a bigger one. I wanted to upgrade to a 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue (WD7500BPVT), but I've read reviews that say the Mac will constantly park the head and that I need an HDAPM fix or downgrade to a lower EFI. Is that because it's an Advanced Format (4k sectors) drive, or what causes this?
Does anyone tried cramming a second gen iPod touch with iOS4 into the iPad keyboard sold by apple? I've seen this but I'm not sure what the difference in architecture is between the iPhone that the Wired article is talking about and the iPod that I own.
Is there a way to tag photos in the iPhoto library with Faces on iOS? Something like a sequence of screens that just asks for confirmation like "Is this John, yes/no"?
I am not sure if my question is okay to post or not. I found a cheap, but simple and beautiful iPad stand on a korean website. http://www.funshop.co.kr/vs/detail.aspx?categoryno=1359&itemno=10516
Which it did, and being able to verify that no leases had been generated in the past week (by looking at the date of the leases directory in the output of ls -l /var/db/dhcpclient) was useful in debugging the situation, so kudos to Harv. You can get more information on the individual leases by looking at ipconfig getpacket $INTERFACE, but not the date of when the last lease was issued/deleted.
I am trying to create a iTunes account for my younger cousin, but he does not have a credit card (he's too young). Tried Google, seems outdated on this issue.
I have 4 CDs I made from music tracks using iTunes and I was wondering if those are MP3 or some other format. Is it possible to read them with a non-MP3 player, such as a car CD player?
I would like my iPad to connect to the internet via a bluetooth modem (in this particular case, a Samsung Omnia with a more convenient pricing plan.) The iPad has been bought full price and thus should be carrier unlocked. However, when I go Settings → Bluetooth and tap on the device name, the only available option is "Ignore this device." Is there a way to make this happen? To be crystal clear:
Now that I have the directions from A to B, I want to mail them to a contact, ideally as a Google Map link. I see no way to do so within the iPad Maps application, but maybe I am overlooking something.
My got a new Mac for Christmas and I'm trying to help her import a bunch of DVDs with home movies transferred from VHS into iMovie 11. Google turns up several results but most are trying to sell you an app to rip encrypted DVDs. Other results suggest using Disk Utility to copy the DVD into a .dmg file which iMovie would recognize as a camera it could import from, but that doesn't seem to work with the current version. I was able to use Handbrake to rip it to an MP4 and import that into iMovie but I'm curious if there's a more efficient way that avoids two transcodes and would be easier to explain to my mom.
How can I use a favicon for my website that is published using iWeb?
Merry Christmas. In a MobileMe Family Pack, do the subaccounts have their own, independent syncing features (dock, bookmarks, etc - as seen in the MobileMe system preference?).
I did a restore on my iPhone 3GS running the latest 4.2.1 (after a failed attempt at jailbreaking). For whatever reason the applications won't sync. For each of the apps it gives me an error: The app "iDivide" was not installed on the iPhone "iPhone" because an unknown error occured (0xE8000001).
I have iPad and iPod touch. Both I bought just for reading books in pdf format. If it is possible, I want to create some folders to separate the books based on categories I will define.
I think the proximity sensor in my iPhone 4 is out of order. Nearly every time when I use the phone to place/receive calls, suddenly the mic mutes itself, or the speakerphone turns on, or a call starts on the second line -- but I am not doing this! I am merely holding the phone up to my ear (in a quite normal way). This was never a problem on my iPhone 3G.
I am trying to do a spring clean on my iTunes library. I have around 500 songs that are tagged incorrrectly. The Name is in the format '11 Artist - Song Name'. Is there any quick way of extracting this and retagging the files without manually editing each of them? Cheers
Something analogous to photobucket for the desktop - whose iPhone app is a bit useless to me because it doesn't enable importing from the camera roll. I'm looking for something that easily allows me to share a screenshot (to embed somewhere, for example in a forum, or on a Stack Exchange question) but don't want to junk up my flickr, Instagram, etc.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for toggling between Function and classic F keys?
I read on Apple website that Mac mini audio port supports the apple earphones with mic. Does it support the mic as well? Can I use the mic for Audio input on applications like Skype? I tried plugging it in but the audio input did not work...
After a botched attempt at jailbreaking, then removing the jailbreak, half the stuff does not work on the iPhone (apps won't sync, iPod app crashes, Settings don't "take", sync freezes the phone for 5 minutes after iTunes says its done, etc...). I'd like to start over. I will re-download the apps manually and sync all my photos, addresses, etc... after the fact.
What are the radii of the iOS icon corners at the various sizes?
Somewhat similar to this question, but I don't just want to import. I have a bunch of This American Life podcasts that I downloaded using iTunes on another computer. I also have a This American Life podcast subscription on my current Mac with a bunch of podcasts downloaded.
What's the differences between the iPod Touch calendar and the iPhone calendar?
I've had a strange problem that's been bugging me for awhile. It seems that every couple times I quit Firefox, it will reopen itself automatically. Basically: I'll hit cmdq Firefox will shut down the little 'open' light underneath its icon in the dock will disappear suddenly the FF icon will start bouncing and it will open back up
3-finger left and right swipes on my trackpad work in Chrome. They take me back one page in my history or right one page. However, 3-finger up and down swipes does not appear to be implemented. In Firefox and many other applications, an up or down swipe works the same way as hitting the home or end keys, respectively. Is there any extension, application, or tweak that will enable this functionality in Google Chrome?
Does anyone know of a dock for an iPhone that has standard usb data/power, but also a headset jack (not just speaker / headphones output)?
I need to edit some local text files on my iPhone but so far, all the apps I have downloaded do not navigate the OS3 file tree for me to load and edit them. I need to do this on my iPhone as I can no longer access it via ssh or with the iPhone cable. One of the files I want to edit is an ssh config file which is what is not allowing ssh connections. Any ideas on apps or other methods that I could use?
Since I'm working on several projects that require different resources (shells, files, Chrome windows, etc.), I'd like to organize them better. Is there a Mac utility or something that will allow me to group a bunch of app windows together to represent a specific task? For instance I can group Chrome window, Finder window, shell into one group (this would be one project), and then a bunch of those into another group, etc.
I'm trying to reset my root password on a macports installed MySQL on OS X. But none of the ways to do this that I can find works, for various reasons. One reason common to all is that I can't stop the mysql deamon. As I understand it, I should be able to stop it with
I have this problem where iPhoto gets into a state where it won't quit, and won't let me import anything. If I try to empty the (iPhoto) trash it tells me I should "Wait until the import is finished". Only it isn't importing anything. So far my only solution to get it back to a usable state is to force quit it. Then it is good for another import, deleting the trash, or quiting.
I am a long time OS X user and as such, I often enjoy the built-in dictionary available system-wide. It’s a small detail that, if you come from Windows (or Linux) turns out to be of great help (provided you really care about improving your typing skills). Available on most Cocoa applications by default (thanks to the underlying technology), it underlines incorrect words and obvious grammar errors. It has its bad days, but the results are usually better than nothing. I type mainly in English and Spanish and in both cases, it’s a decent solution.
When scratching the back of an iTunes gift card to get the numbers to redeem it, the numbers scratched off and now I can't redeem the value of it. How can I get a refund or a new gift card with the same value?
I have a jailbroken iPhone. Recently, I have realized that its battery usage is abysmal. Suspecting that it has something to do with the radio, I downloaded Data Counter from Cydia to check real-time data usage and found that even with push notifications off and exchange set to manual, there is a persistent 0.06kb/s of data transfer. So I hooked the iPhone to a WiFi network and captured packets originating from its IP address using Wireshark under promiscuous mode. I get A LOT of these: Where 10.236.199.xx is the destination IP and xx goes from 0 to 249, then goes back to 0. If it helps, my cellular data IP address is 10.236.199.213 and my cellular provider is SingTel (Singapore). I believe when I am on 3G, these packets are keeping the radio transmitter from powering down and thus draining the battery severely. Which app is causing all these packets and how can I stop it from going on?
I heard that the flash storage in the MacBook Air is faster than SSD since it doesn't need to go through a SATA interface. How much faster is the MacBook Air's hard-drive compared to a traditional SSD?
Is there any way to watch live news on an AppleTV? This is the only thing that's preventing me from cutting my cable.
I have disabled spaces' auto-switching, and I've mapped each space to a ⌘+space # shortcut. In general, I usually have one application open per space, maximized. Since I really only ever have a half-dozen or so applications open at any time, I can easily switch between them in constant time with my left hand. The problem is that I sometimes do have two or three windows from different applications open in the same space (e.g., I often have a PDF reader open in the same space as my web browser). Let's say I have a terminal open in Space 1 and both a web browser and Preview open in Space 2. If I am in the terminal and then decide I want to open a web page, I switch to Space 2, where the web browser has focus. I then want to consult a PDF that is open in Preview, which is in the same Space but whose window is behind the web browser. If I hit ⌘+tab, however, the first option will be to take me back to Terminal in Space 1 (since Terminal most recently had focus). In the worst case, I will ha
Do any music stores beyond iTunes exist that allow you to legally purchase content on an iPhone? That is to say, is it possible to purchase music without connecting to a computer? Streaming or downloading are both ok. Through an app or a website is also ok.
I'm planning on installing Windows on my Mac, and would like to be able to use both Boot Camp (for when I need to be able to use all of the hardware of the computer) and a virtual machine (for those times when I don't want to restart). I noticed that both VMWare Fusion and Parallels allow you to set up a virtual machine which uses the Boot Camp installation, which is exactly what I want because I want to have one installation of all the programs. However, I'm wondering if using a virtual machine with the Boot Camp installation has the same exact performance as creating a brand new virtual machine. The thing that prompted me to think that they might not have the same performance is the marketing text on VMware Fusion's website: Boot Camp Improvements — Up to 5x faster disk performance with Boot Camp virtual machines and a new option to disable authentication.
So, how can I just remove the future updates from the list? If there is any way to do it, that is.
I've been on a bit of a Keyboard-only kick lately, enabled chiefly due to the Chrome Keyboard Shortcut Extension, and I've begun bumping into a few difficult situations in everyday Desktop App use. In applications like iTunes, or Code Editors, they have a unified sidebar with categorically organized content. iTunes has categories for your library, other people's libraries, your device, and playlists, Coda has a file picker, etc. But what is the easiest way to move keyboard focus to these sidebars? My current solution is to alternate Tab and ▼ aimlessly until I see an item on the sidebar highlighted. Needless to say this is frustrating and can lead to unintended changes being made in content panes. I notice that most all apps have a function to hide the sidebar in the app menus, but restoring it doesn't move the focus to the sidebar.
I have a large number of random folders of photos on my hard drive, some of which have been imported into iPhoto. How do I figure out which photos have been imported into iPhoto, so I can delete the non-iPhoto copies?
Is it possible to run Nautilus instead of Finder on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? How?
We just got a new iMac are using the /Users/Shared directory to store media assets (pictures, audio, video) that we want accessible to all users on the machine. After copying over all the files initially, we set the desired permissions and then applied the same permissions to all directory contents recursively. This is working fine, except then whenever someone creates a new file or directory, it does not have the same permissions and we have to repeat the whole permissions process before everyone can access it. Is there a way that we can set permissions for all new files/directories created within that directory?
Is there a native way to rebind keys in OS X without requiring a 3rd party tool? I'm interested in rebinding my whole keyboard layout, not specific shortcut keys. It's not a standard layout either, so I can't just change it from Qwerty to Azerty, for example. I need to be able to choose exactly which keys are at each location.
I have both a Mac and a PC. On the PC I use Outlook.
I've installed the Perian addon for Quicktime so it can open .flv files, and then I can save them as .m4v or .mov. I'm trying to make an Applescript to convert from .flv to .m4v automatically by using this tutorial and butchering their example applescript file, which normally converts ChemDraw files (.cdx, .cml, .mol) to .tiff, so that it instead uses Quicktime to save the .flv files as .m4v. When I try to use it, though, I get an error "QuickTime Player got an error: document 1 doesn't understand the save message". My save message is currently: save first document in target_path as ".m4v" which looks like the QuickTime dictionary's instructions: save specifier : The document(s) or window(s) to save. [as saveable file format] : The file format to use.
I've been tinkering with my router and have flashed it to use DD-WRT (a Linux distro that can provide me with some extra functionality). This in turn has allowed me to create a Samba server to share the USB drive connected to my router.
I'm considering getting a Kindle, but am still doubting as to whether the 3G model is worth the extra expense. As I'm also considering getting an iPhone later: on the off chance that I'd ever want to buy a book without a WiFi hotspot nearby, wouldn't it be possible to share an iPhone's 3G connection with the Kindle through WiFi and hence buy a book and read it on the WiFi-only Kindle?
I've disabled the web server on Snow Leopard, and I'm using an emulated Ubuntu with Lighttpd web server. In order to access to the web pages I need to specify the ip of the emulated machine. However I now need to associated such ip with "localhost" in Leopard environment. When I type localhost in Leopard I actually want to visit the localhost on the Ubuntu machine. Do I need apache on leopard to make the forward or can I change network settings in Leopard or what?
I have a Synology DS210j NAS. My music and movies are served from the NAS by its built-in iTunes server. The content is then available on my MacBook in iTunes / Sharing Library.
I'm using VMWare to emulate Ubuntu on my Leopard Mac OS X. The IP address changes everytime I put the Mac to sleep. I was wondering if I can avoid that.
Is there any way for me to put a "marker" in the timeline of a QuickTime movie? This would be very helpful in certain cases, for example quickly marking parts of long movies from my digital camera which I want to review later. I'm sure I could do this using iMovie or Final Cut Pro, but I'm looking for something specifically in QuickTime player (as I'm previewing movies taken right off my digital camera) What I envision is something like I have mocked up in this doctored screen capture:
I have an iPod Touch G4 and a Belkin N+ Router F5D8235-4 v2, and for some reason the iPod Touch disconnects from the router at random intervals. Checking the settings in the iPod, it will read that it is still connected to the router, but before I can access the internet again, I have to turn on Airplane mode and then turn it off again to get any program to work with the Internet again.
I am a programmer and find the small wireless keyboard hard to use (the small arrow keys and lack of home/end keys). From what I remember there used to be a full sized wireless keyboard, is this correct?
I am trying to run Wireshark on Mac OS X in the background. I installed the command line utilities, and so I am able to start Wireshark and capture packets using the command line.
I was interested to see that the power button on the new Airs has been moved to the keyboard, and was anticipating that it would just replace the eject key that has traditionally taken up that position. However, this appears not to be the case (pic is from iFixit's teardown guide):
I recently purchased this Dynex DisplayPort to HDMI adapter with the understanding that it would support audio out. However, it only works on my boot camped Windows 7 install that way. Video and audio passed to the TV with no issues. On the other hand, I only get video passed when booted into OS X.
Most of my applications crash whenever a sound is played -- but not if the machine has been recently rebooted. For example, Mail.app crashes when I send email, because of the whoosh sending sound. Safari/Chrome/Firefox will crash when Flash plays sounds, e.g. with YouTube, but does not crash for silent Flash apps. iChat will crash if I get a video chat request. iTunes will not start at all.
I was wondering if there is an app for the iPad in order to see photos that are shared in a Windows/Mac folder. I went to Australia and took over 12000 photos, now I want to take a close look at all of them without without importing all to iTunes (so it does not fill up space on my iPad). Something that I could check, mark in order to move/copy to a diff folder so I can edit them later. For iPhone there is the WiFi Photo Viewer but I can't find one for iPad.
Basically I would like to have two email accounts setup on my iPhone 4, one my personal account and one for work. However for the work account, I'd like to not have it's unread message count included in the number of unread messages displayed as a part of the Mail app's icon (the number in the red circle). Is this possible to do?
What are the differences between sparse and sparse bundle disk images?
Once opened, I can drag files in and out, as long as I don't fill it up. The theoretical maximum should be the 4.6 or 8.3 GB DVD option from Disk Utility Once I've added (or removed) files from it, I can eject / unmount it When unmounted, it returns to the size of the contents and is again password protected.
I want to forward my viewers on my site to a different place if they are using an iPhone. Is there a way to do that using iWeb?
I'm looking for a piece of software akin to Cacti, one that is preferably much easier to set up, and has a high-quality frontend to it. I had a headless Linux desktop that I used to poll my Time Machine and graph network statistics off of, but that computer is currently undergoing repairs, so I'm left with the remaining computers I have in the house, which are all Mac.
I am getting the following message from Xcode every time I connect my iPhone to Mac OS X. The host is no longer paired with the device. My iPhone doesn't even charge.
These colors aren't that great, I want them look like this:  I have found a 64-Bit compatible SIMBL/TerminalColours plugin, but if I can avoid having to use SIMBL, that would be my goal. I know that there are alternative terminals like iTerm, but I want Terminal.app.
In a few days I'm going to buy my first Mac (an iMac) as well as a Time Capsule. Looking at the specs of that product, I've seen that it has a WAN port and 3 Ethernet Ports. I suppose that the WAN port is to connect the TimeCapsule with the Internet. At home, I get Internet trough a Ethernet wire (it's not an ADSL connection). My question is: will I be able to connect the Ethernet wire into the WAN port in order to share my Internet connection wirelessly over the house? Thank you so much!!
I have a MacBook pro and it won't turn on. Basically I press the power button and the White light at the front turns on. Then a few seconds later it just crashes and the White light goes off then the laptop turns back on but just seems to be stuck you can hear it and the White light stays on (not flashing like in sleep) and that's it. It just stays like that no screen or keyboard lights, nor the Apple logo. I have tried restarting it and tried holding all the key combinations that the apple site suggest, but still it doesn't work. I've tried it with the power cable plugged in and without. It's a 2008 model 15".
If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad?
There are paragraph styles that you can create and tie to the function keys. This is all great and dandy, but not if I wish to switch style in the middle of a paragraph and then revert to the one I used to begin with. The whole paragraph will change to the one I just selected. Is there a way to do what I want, or do I have to manually apply the same font, size and colour every time?
I would like to send an email with automator and have a link that shows a couple words (for e.g. name of the site) instead of the whole URL like you can do with the add link inside of Mac OS. I have tried just writing the link as HTML as shown below but that didn't work. Is this possible?
Apple's help is very vague just saying that "The download time depends on the speed of your Internet connection." without providing any references to file size or anything to help work out a time. Do rentals buffer and allow immediate playback - or is the complete file required?
Is it possible to use a time capsule as a shared iTunes library? To be clear, by shared library I mean a library that all the computers running iTunes in the network would recognise as a shared library and not merely a shared location to be configured in iTunes.
What does the "..." button in the iTunes "Edit Smart Playlist" dialog do? And how is specifying a condition using that any different than a condition specified otherwise (by clicking the "+" button). The only link I could find on that is iPod nano: Hierarchical Smart Playlists do not update on device and that doesn't clarify anything.
Does Apple or anyone else sell iDevice cables that are several feet or several yards long? I'm making an iPad Kiosk and need to keep it powered. I'd be even happier if someone could point me to a "smart" charger which knows when to stop charging and when to start again.
Over the past decade I've come to acquire a random selection of large hard disks from my older computers. While most of the stuff on it isn't vital, there are fair bits of music I made over the years just sitting on them.
I started downloading an app then realized that it's really big (over 600 MB) and that I don't want it anymore. Is there any way to cancel the installation?
I have had my blackbook for a little over 4 years now and think it's time to upgrade to a new macbook pro. I'm currently running leopard on the blackbook with time machine. I'm wondering if time machine is the right way to move my data from my old mac to the new one.
Recently I've been thinking about the idea of migrating from PC to Mac, specifically Mac Mini. The biggest issue however is hardware, since I'm not sure what will and what won't work on OS X.
I am looking for a command line utility (I need to use it in a script) that can set Spotlight metadata to files.
I am having trouble transferring my account settings from Entourage to Mac Mail. Specifically, what is the equivalent setting in Mac Mail for the Domain setting in Entourage? In Entourage I have the following account settings.
Whenever I use the phone on my iPhone 3GS, it detects my face's proximity and dims the screen. However, once the call ends and I take the phone away from my face, the screen does not brighten again until I press the power/wake button, at which point the screen returns to normal.
(IE for Mac is not supported by Microsoft any more, so I didn't download it. I've received several suggestions to use Boot Camp, but I don't want to install Windows.)
I've found how to do this on the desktop, but haven't noticed how to achieve this on any of my iOS devices. I'd also be happy to know if this actually isn't possible.
What I'd like to do is have my Google Voice contacts available on my iPhone, not the other way around. I recently had to restore the phone to factory defaults and it's a pain to manually enter all them all.
The computer is an iMac 2009, with OS X 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard), and Image Capture v6.0.1 (428). The Camera is connected via USB, and appears in Image Capture as 2 Mass storage devices (internal + the card). The card device (2nd) is exhibiting this problem, the first device does have Image Capture set as its default when connected. Other notes - each device now has a different name (Not just NO NAME for both). How can I stop Image Capture reverting my choice for behaviour when the camera is connected?
(Apologies ahead of time if this question belongs in the audio production stack exchange. Since this question directly involves iOS, it seemed more appropriate here.)
I use terminals a lot, and I frequently open and close them. The problem is that whenever I open a new terminal using ⌘+n it overlaps the current one, and I have to move it out of the way first. Is there a way to make them open side by side from top left to bottom right?
Is there a tool or application that can help me quickly organize my iphone applications? The standard way of dragging and dropping 1 application at a time in folder is too frustrating for me. I gave up after 1 hour of trying... I found it to be such a waste of time ...
Is there any application for screenshots that could upload directly to FTP or any image hosting site and just give me the URL? I come from the Windows world, where I got used to FastStone Capture, where you basically press print screen, click on FTP and it copies the URL into clipaboard so you can immediately paste it for example on IM.
Is it possible to create custom gestures for Macbook Pro Trackpad and Magic Mouse to custom actions? For example to close a window or launch some application.
I have a folder that starts with a dot . but unable to display them in Finder. How can I say that for folder X Finder should also display hidden files/folders?
I would like to control two cursors with two mice in the same time, as well as have two keyboards for separate control and text input. My goal is to have two users on one computer, so I can let my brother to play/chat anything while I do my job. If we have two monitors, then I don't need to buy a new computer. If you know of some software that can do this, please let me know.
How might I best prepare my MacBook Pro in case it is ever stolen? I hardened my security by flipping on FileVault (home directory encryption) and enabling the password prompt after waking from sleep or screensaver. My account has a secure password.
Is it possible to run OS X in VM Ware? I want to setup a virtualized OS X for testing instead of going to buy another mac. Can I do that technically and legally? To be explicit I do own a mac already.
My 13" MacBook Air (late-2010 model) shows strong flicker on some of the following "Inversion / Pixel Walk" test images from the LCD test on the site "lagom.nl". Does that truly indicate a quality problem with the screen (as the test says), or is it a normal side effect from the screen technology that any 13" MacBook Air would suffer from?
I am a photographer and archive my images on a NAS (LaCie Networkspace), but as this is a single point of failure I also back my images up to an external harddrive. However, when I am away from home I archive my images straight to the external hard drive. I would like to be able to keep these devices in sync to ensure that al images are on both drives.
I recently changed my Apple ID from an old email address to my current one. I updated the Apple ID in iTunes and then synced my phone with iTunes. Now, however, when I try to download new apps (or update existing ones), I get the standard notification asking for my Apple ID Password, however the Apple ID that is displays is my old Apple ID. When I enter in my password, it tells me that "Your iTunes Store password was incorrect. Please Try again".
I tried to login to my gmail, hotmail, and facebook accounts today. I could not login to those three because they said that my password is incorrect. So I tried to think what I did yesterday. I only used those three websites on my iPad. One thing I noticed with iPad's safari is that it does not warn me for suspicious websites like Chrome or Firefox do.
On my iPhone 3GS (32GB) I want to keep more than .48GB free space when I tell iTunes to "Automatically fill free space with songs" for doing things like taking pictures/recording videos. I don't want to create a playlist by hand to do the same thing. I like how it randomly comes up with new songs to put on there (and yes I'm aware of the "random"ness of iPods ;) ) Do I have any options?
Every day or two, I get another "how to reset your AppleID password" from Apple. They assure me my account is secure.
I work at a small company (80 employees), when we deployed MS Exchange anyone who connected their iphones using the exchange connector lost the icon to the camera on the home screen. The engineers made some changes and the camera icon returned. What other access / control does the exchange team have over our phones? Can they view email (personal and exchange?), photos, web history etc?
Would you please confirm that it is not possible to add an arbitrary RSS feed to Flipboard on my iPad? I find this so hard to believe that I'm in doubt I missed something...
I'm working on my Mac for video editing from time to time and normaly use Windows and Linux. Thinking about to switch completely but there is one thing I'm so darn used to which held me back for years now.
The default install of Mac OS X 10.6 includes Java 6, or is it still Java 5?
I would like for someone to outline the differences between buying a time capsule vs. just getting an airport extreme and attaching an external harddrive. The latter seems more flexible (easy to change external harddrive) and even cheaper, yet people are getting time capsules. What are the pros and cons. Thanks. UPDATE Could you please elaborate on:
I actually took many hours this morning to find out how to do it, but I want to see alternatives to it. I got my iPhone in sync with my iTunes at home, my first machine. I could "just" bring the app folder/file back home and sync through that. It works just fine.
I am using an iPhone 3G and surfing internet on it. I want to connect this phone with my laptop so as to surf internet on it, but my iPhone carrier does not support the internet tethering option. It is invisible. Is there any way to enable that option.
Is there a way where I can see if GPS is working? Or what the location service is using right now and why it is not using GPS? (Because the location service has become very inaccurate after a recent jailbreak I did and I was wondering how I can check if it is really not working anymore or if I just had bad luck.)
I need to replace the keyboard on my iMac G5, and I'm considering the MacAlly keyboards, probably the iKey Slim as it's available for less than $20 with shipping and tax. It also has two USB ports on the back, which I need. My only hesitation is that I saw a review on Amazon that mentioned a driver problem. I'd prefer to avoid installing any drivers. The MacAlly site isn't of much help.
Now, it seems that GPS is not working anymore. Why? How can I fix it?
I'm searching for an application to find duplicate images. In my Linux days, there was a nice Gtk+ application which I could provide some folders and which would list all duplicate images based on some algorithm to determine image-equality (It could detect duplicate images even if one image had a lower resolution or was color shifted) It was also possible to modify the threshold to prevent false-positives. So far, I found nothing for Mac OS X which could do this. Nice GUI is a plus.
Does anyone know a simple way to monitor who is connected to an AirPort Extreme, see the bandwidth they are using, and the ability to disconnect them or throttle their bandwidth usage? I know for disconnecting two options would be 1. updating wifi password and restarting the AirPort Extreme 2. setting a limit by MAC address but I am looking for something that wouldn't involve restarting the AirPort each time.
I know the functional effect of unchecking a song: it doesn't play (except when explicitly double-clicked) and doesn't sync with an iPod/iPad. But how is this useful? Does Apple officially recommend any sort of usage of the checkboxes? Or, more subjectively, do you make use of the checkboxes in iTunes, and if so, what songs do you check or uncheck and why?
It's about time for me to bit the bullet and buy either iWork 09 or MS Office 2011. My main concern is rendering docx files (I've been using OpenOffice for many years, but the .doc and .docx rendering is still suspect). How do they compare? Does Pages render a docx file at least 95% accurate? From the info online I understand that Pages cannot save in docx format. Which do you prefer? To clarify I'm talking about more complex layouts.
Also, a weird thing is that when I first set up my Mac Mini I was actually able to access it and browse files from my Mac Book Pro as well, but just for a week or so and then this error message started showing up. Don't know if I might have changed any settings but I don't think so.
Is there a way to make the iPhone's Calendar App support timezones with appointments, or is there an alternative App that has multiple timezone support? I have a friend with an iPhone 4 (4.2.1) who travels around quite a bit and always struggles to book appointments with people when he's outside of his home country, the U.S. The conversation might go something like this: [The scene is a New Zealand Beach on a Sunny January 5th] "Let's met for lunch a 2pm, sushi, my shout" "Sweet, so, 2pm new zealand time is 12pm yesterday american time, so I'll put it in my iCal at 12pm yesterday"
Happy new year! I'm using an iPhone 4 with 4.2.1.
I have a folder in my Windows, call it c:\mybook. I put all my pdf books into this folder. No nested categorizing folder for sure.
I've an iPod Classic 160 GB bought in 2007. I've never had problems copying songs into it, through iTunes, but from the beginning I never had much success using it as a portable hard drive. Whenever I tried copying large files, or many files, into it, it would hang and reboot after a while. The same happens when I tried copying videos into it, also through iTunes, to the extension that iTunes complains that it can't read or write to the iPod. Usually, restoring the iPod returns it to the state that I can copy songs again, but when I increase the usage to videos or large files the trouble starts again.
When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved?
I have my iMac set up with: Firewall off Screen sharing on for specific user, no general VNC password File sharing on (with liberal access)
Categorizing the pdf assets from within iPad or iPod is possible now. But I think it is more elegant if I can make the categorization from within iTunes in advance. Is it possible to arrange or categorize the imported pdf assets from within iTunes first and then sync the devices (iPod,iPad) with iTunes?
Windows users have the luxury of being able to load a flash drive with specially-modified "portable" applications, which run and keep all data contained on the flash drive so that moving them from computer to computer doesn't change the experience or modify the host computer at all. In the past I have gotten various apps from portableapps.com for this purpose.
I know iPhone 4 supports H.264 and MPEG-4 as video codecs, and JPEG and M-JPEG as image codecs. I'm looking to get some information on the iPhone 4's video and image codecs and processing chips/SoC parts. Does anyone know which vendor provides the SoC's to enable image/video compression and processing on the iPhone 4? Does anyone know which vendor provides the SoC's to enable image/video compression and processing on the iPhone 4? Are the video/image codec solutions - 'Software codecs' on a specialized dsp-core/processor or hard-wired as in a FPGA/ASIC solution? Are the video/image codec solutions - 'Software codecs' on a specialized dsp-core/processor or hard-wired as in a FPGA/ASIC solution? Any pointers would be useful.
I was on vacation and took some videos, and now the iPhone 4 memory is near full. So I tried to delete other experimental movies I made using Handbrake, so that I can take more video or photos, but if I plug the iPhone 4 into my Notebook computer, I can seem to delete it on iTunes? Maybe because the computer I sync with the iPhone 4 is at home (a desktop), but not with me on vacation.
I am unable to find out how to force the iPad ask for my password when I want to use certain applications (e.g. e-mail)
The question title pretty much says it all. I'd like to be able to free up space on my iMac G5's hard drive. I had considered upgrading the drive, but moving it off the Mac seems like it'd be a better option.
I would like to be able to either navigate from a calendar event to its location within maps, or view all upcoming events on a map. Preferably, both. How do I connect the location of a calendar event with the iPad maps app?
My niece has got a used iPod nano (not the newest model); in the App Store are about 50 games for iPods with Click Wheel. What game can you recommend?
I have an external drive. Is it possible to launch a program or perform an action when I connect it or plug it in?
What reputable stores exist for purchasing RAM for a Mac?
I'm not normally one for paraniodly checking my activity monitor for rogue processes; but this one just has my internal nature-watcher all curious. Why is there a racoon running under my root user? What's it doing? Foraging? Looking for nuts and berries? Staring at headlights?
Is it possible to change the color of the mailboxes in Mac Mail? Here an example
How can I upload/download files from/on to a jailbroken iPhone 3G? Are there any apps that allow me to do this?
I have a single message in Mail on my iPhone 4 that just cannot be deleted. I get a popup saying Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder.
If I've previously bought a song in iTunes, can I download it again on another computer without paying for it a second time? Both computers are authorized to the same account.
Back when Apple announced iLife '11 I bought a copy, but now I see that it's also available on the Mac App Store. If I want to be eligible to use the Mac App Store's built-in update mechanism to update it, do I have to repurchase it through the Mac App Store?
I notice that apps downloaded through the Mac App Store are placed in the /Applications folder on my Mac. Is there any special procedure to delete them, or can I just drag them to the trash like I can with other apps?
If I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I download it again without paying for it again like I can with iOS? In the event of an app restore, does the app retain settings, saved progress, etc from the previous installation?
Does anyone know if an application that can change the background of the desktop to a different set of images based on your location? I am thinking about writing an AppleScript to do this, but if someone knows an application / script that already does this that would be great? I want it to check every time I login to the computer and it would be great if it could do the 1 hour rotation that I currently have, but otherwise a random image from a folder each time I login would be fine too.
I have an RCA feed with video. I'd like to capture this video to my Mac. I am looking for a mobile solution, something that does not require a wall plug, although battery power is OK. What methods exist to capture video on a laptop? Here is a solution (mini portable VCR) that does not use a computer, but if I can get it into my Mac for around that price, it would be preferred.
I somehow managed to mis-configure my Mac OS X update-server and would like to reset it, the problem is that there is no reset button to put the update-server into it's original inactivated state. So does someone here know how to reset the update-server completely without leaving traces from the configurations which have been done before?
I've previously purchased several apps (Pixelmator, Rivet, a few others I can't think of now) that are now available in the Mac App Store. Given that apps in the store are not allowed to use their own updating frameworks (like Sparkle), how will I get updates to them in the future? Can I somehow tell Apple that I already own those apps and get updates through the store? Or will the individual developers have to work something out on their own?
Scenario - I have a new Mac, and am giving my old one to my father-in-law. He now has an old Gx Gumdrop iMac running 10.3 (I think), and the new-to-him mac is an older Core2 iMac running 10.6
I am migrating from Entourage to Mac Mail. Entourage has a tool called MyDay which is quite handy for getting an overview over my appointments first day in the morning. Is there a competitive product available which snycronizes with iCal appointments and todo list?
I'm wondering whether it's possible to use Image Capture to scan over WiFi with my EPSON All-in-One SX620FW? If so, how can I set it up?
Is it possible to merge to Time Machine Backups? When I look inside the sparse-bundle which Time Machine generates then I see that the folder-structure ordered by dates. So theoretically I could copy the files from my old TM sparse-bundle into the new one. Is this possible?
I am using Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows 7 and its numeric pad is not working on windows 7, it was working OK on windows XP, what I can do to make it work on it too?
I am trying to import my entire folder structure from Entourage 2008 to Mail on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8. First I tried to export the whole email database from Entourage to the Desktop as a .rge file. The export aborted with a message saying that my Entourage database is corrupt and that I should rebuild it.
I have a Netgear Wireless Modem Router which I have configured to not broadcast it's SSID and the security level is set to WPA2 with a MAC Adress Filter. When I manually connect to the wireless network through the Wireless settings then my Mac has a hard time to even find the network and just gives the message that the timeout was to long. When I manage to connect with the wireless network then my Mac will hold the wireless connection for sometime until some random time the mac will disconnect itself from the wireless Network and then I will have to repeat the same procedure with reaching the wireless Network. Does Anyone know what is causing these troubles?
Whenever I email a photo from the iPhone 4 photo app then the email gets stuck in the Outbox. Just doing a refresh leaves it there, even when viewing the outbox. To get them to send I manually need to open each email in the outbox and hit send again (and again specifying what size to make the image).
I am using WinOS at the office and MacOS at home. But I am more experienced on WinOS. While i am browsing (via Firefox), I use ⌘ CMD+Q accidentally to write "@" mark because of WinOS and keyboard habits. So, the browser quits and I lose all what I've written.
Where does the Mac App Store install its applications to? Is this a system-wide location, or somewhere inside my Home directory? Is it possible to use the App Store on machines where I am not a System Administrator (just like I can currently install almost all applications I manually download by putting them in ~/Applications instead of /Applications)?
I need help with my iPhone. It's stuck on the 'connect to iTunes' screen.
When I first got my iPhone 4, if I selected a song from the "search iPhone" screen (when you hit home twice), iTunes would start playing a playlist of all my songs, starting with the selected one. I recently updated it to 4.2.1 (I don't remember exactly what I was at before). Now, when I select a song from the "Search iPhone" screen, iTunes starts playing a playlist containing only that song. Is there a way I can get the old behavior back?
I understand that Snow Leopard is required to install the Mac App Store and actually install apps. But is it possible to browse the store on the web the way you can with the iTunes Store?
How can I make the Safari tab bar display all of the tabs? Right now it displays only n tabs and the remaining are only accessible through a >> button.
I have a Mac OS X Server 10.6 with a hard disk attached to it which has been configured as Time Machine destination. Over the Workgroup manager I have assigned the TM destination on Computergrouplevel. Now I would like to swap Backupdisks so I can always store one disk offsite. Is it possible to change disks and let the clients update their TM destination automatically when the Disks have been changed?
Is there any way to disable the "the disk was not ejected properly" message? I use a KVM and need to switch between two systems and have a memory stick that is in the KVM. The problem is that it's very annoying to get the message every time I switch from one computer to the other. I know, I can unmount it (and probably should), but I switch all the time, so it's a inconvenience to unmount, and there is nothing sensitive on the memory stick.
(This is a repost of my question on SuperUser.com, hopefully it's better suited here ). I've happily installed Linux on my MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM, but I only get 3.6 GB available: I'm running a 64-bit kernel so this should not be a problem: What can I do to get the whole 4 GB available? Update: this is what I get when running top on MacOS X: where used + free = 4096 MB. Update 2: There's a thread on MacRumors.com where a user complains of the same problem with Windows 7/64 bit. Update 3: /proc/meminfo output: Memory info from dmesg:
I'd like to record some video on my MacBook Pro, which I could do using the built-in iSight except I'd like to record in HD. Rather than go out and buy a new HD video camera, is there any way of getting the Mac to recognise the iPhone 4's HD camera as an input?
Is there an easy way to tell whether all my kernel extensions will "survive" booting with a 64 bit kernel? I can of course try the "6-4 finger boot", but maybe there is a piece of hardware I use infrequently and that won't work when I use it in a month, leaving me to wonder what went wrong.
On the iPhone, to show the percentage of battery left, I can go into Settings > General > Usage and toggle "Battery Percentage" on. My daughter's iPod touch doesn't have a Usage category. Is there a way on the iPod touch to display the battery percentage?
Is it possible to disable the startup sound on an iMac G5, or at least decrease its volume? The obvious way to do this would be to put a script in the shutdown folder (OS X 10.4.11) that mutes the sound, then put one in the startup folder that reverses it. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find a "mute" script. Edit: To clarify, how can you set the system to mute with a script?
Per this blog post (not my blog post) how would you go about disabling the warning popup given that I know I'm not writing data so can't suffer any data loss? I'd be satisfied with an answer that just disabled this warning across the board, but a more specific solution that could blacklist specific devices, or even better a "smart" way of only showing the popup if data has been written.
How well does Google Docs work on the iPad via Safari?
I have a 2,1 macbook with 4GB ram of which 64mb are dedicated to the video card. Can I increase this to at least 512?
I have a Sansa Fuze MP3 player, it's 4 GB. I plug it in my Mac I have a capacity of 3,7 GB of which apparently 1,8 GB is in use. Problem is I only have arround 120 MB of MP3s on it... Who's stealing my free space ?
I am going out of th country in a few weeks, and I am planning on taking my Macbook. I have a power adapter for the country I'm visiting, but it was bought for a PC. Will it work on a Mac?
Is there any way to shut down Apple TV (new, 2G, second generation) by remote controler? I can do it by holding middle button on remote controller but only if the TV set is on. If I just listen to the internet radio without TV set on, I cannot do this.
Is it possible to sync iCal on Tiger with Google calendar? Upgrading to 10.5 isn't an option for my G5, but I'd love to be able to use iCal to access the years of calendar data I have on Google Calendar.
There was a new iPhone app released recently but I can't recall its name. It had some very simple features: Keep a single list of things Star items Sort those items so that stars rose to the top
When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, otherwise OS X complains about the device not being ejected properly. On Windows, the solution to this is trivial: Disable the File System Cache for USB Drives, so that they can be immediately and safely removed. Does OS X have a way to disable the cache?
Can you have GPL software in Mac App Store? I know this is not possible in the iPhone App Store, but is it the same situation in Mac App Store?
I have an iPod touch. I want to know if there is any way to have my Facebook or Twitter feeds update in the background? I often grab my iPod from my home (with WiFi) and then go into the train (no WiFi) and want to see what was posted recently or when I was sleeping. It seems like these apps only do a "fetch" once you start the app up. Is there any work around for this so it's always updating if i am on a WiFi network?
I have an iPod Touch 8GB (probably 2nd gen) that stopped working. By this I mean that it cannot be turned on, an doesn't show any sign of activity when connected to the PC, a docking station and other chargers. Of course iTunes does not recognize the device when plugged in to the PC. This happened, without prior signs of a coming malfunction, about 2 months after I bought it, used, during the last summer.
I have a two Macs, an iPod Touch and an iPad, so 4 devices in total. I wonder if there is a way to sync contacts and ical calendars between these devices automatically (or in case of the iPod/iPad when they are connected to a mac). So far, I'm seeing these options: MobileMe - seems really expensive for what it offers and stores data in the cloud Mac OS X Server - requires a dedicated machine and is also not cheap Syncing with Google Contacts and Calendars - requires the data to go to the cloud, but is free Is there anything that simply allows me to sync from Mac to Mac to iOS through my local network?
I’m connecting from one MacBook Pro (10.6.5) (let’s call it “1”) to another (10.4.11) “2” via WLAN and afp and both are connected to the WLAN via WPA2. The router is showing me theoretical connection speeds of 104 MBit/s for “1” and 54 MBit/s for “2”. However, when I’m trying to transfer files (doesn’t matter whether I use drag & drop in Finder or cp in the terminal), it takes eternities: 70 seconds for a 2.1 MB file (~ 250 KBit/s if I didn’t make a mistake). The network activity monitor looks like this during the transfer: (There’s no other significant network activity going on.)
Is it possible to control the Mac remotely? My parents live in different country other than where I'm living now, I think about giving one of my Mac to my parents to use iChat. As my parents are not good at using computers, I need to control the Mac remotely. Is there any software tool for it?
Is it possible to add an entry to your /etc/hosts type file (or whatever the equivalent is) on an iPod Touch 4G without jail breaking it?
I download multiple podcasts from one source, eg, five episodes of Naked Scientists. I want to listen to one only, but when the first finishes it automatically goes to the second, and third etc. I want to listen to just one episode at a time and have the iPod Touch turn off when it is finished (this is a sleep-aid for my insomnia...I don't want it playing all night !) A "Genius" suggested making playlists, but although you can make a podcast playlist, it does NOT sync.
Reason: I reboot every 2 - 4 weeks. I have 9 virtual desktops, each with a few to a dozen windows and applications. After a computer reboot it feels like a brain reboot and takes a few days to get everything back. Concept: Manually prior to a planned reboot, or perhaps once a day via cron in case of accidental reboot or system freeze, I'd like to somehow capture the system state in order make recovery post-reboot easier.
Mac OS X Spaces change when I hold the mouse at the edge of the screen. Is there an application or 'defaults' command to disable this? Warp looks like it might help, but hasn't changed the behavior for me, even though I tried turning it off, or setting a modifier key.
I have had my MacBook Pro for about 6 months; bought it new in 2010. I am running Mac OS 10.6.5.
I've been working on this for days but simply cannot find the correct references to make it work. The idea is to have a script that will baseline newly purchased Macs that comes into the company with basic stuffs like set autologin to off, create a new admin user (for remote admins to access for support, set password to unlock screensaver and etc) . Sample list for baseline that admins have to do on each new machine: Click the Login Options button Set Automatic Login: OFF Check: Show the Restart, Sleep, and Shutdown buttons Uncheck: Show input menu in login window Uncheck: Show password hints Uncheck: Use voice over in the login window Check: Show fast user switching menu as Short Name (note: this is only part of a long list to do on each machine)
I'm looking for an iTunes alternative for my new iPod nano 6g. I've used sharepod before but it doesn't work with the nano 6g—I can upload songs but they're not being recognized by the iPod database. Any ideas on alternatives that work with the nano 6g?
On all linux boxes /proc/loadavg contains the raw load for 1, 5, and 15 minutes. Nothing extra. On OS X machines this file does not exist.
Is there a way to tell Safari to automatically use Reader when it recognizes an article which it is able to display with Reader? Right now I have to manually click the Reader button at the right side of the address bar.
Can I attach my iPhone 3GS to my Mac Pro so that the iPhone's audio plays through the Mac Pro's speakers? I can easily attach my Bose headphones so that the music from the iPhone plays through them… that's cool… but I want others to hear the music through my Mac Pro's speaker system.
I'd like to know if an iPod classic is a better investment than an iPod touch? I am really more into music than apps and games. If you have some other suggestions about great-sounding mp3 players I'd like to hear it.
I have an iPod dock with Video Out. It says on the box that it only supports pre-iOS devices for that (iPod classic and the like), and it certainly does not seem to do anything with my iPod Touch (audio and remote control work fine, though). Is this something that can be solved with an additional (cheap) adapter, or are the two Video Out systems fundamentally different?
I am forced to use Opera instead of Safari on windows, and would like to sync my bookmarks with MobileMe. Is this at all possible?
Installed Windows 7 via Bootcamp for some work-related projects. I've also installed the Apple Bootcamp drivers from the OS X install disk and updated to the latest version. It mapped all my keys just fine, but I was surprised it does not offer an option to switch the mappings of Alt and Windows keys; ie. Alt is left of Spacebar, Windows key is left of Alt.
Is there an easy way to make the mapping from kernel extension to the file it came from? I can get the list of currently loaded kernel extension via kextstat. This gives me the bundle names, like com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport or jp.plentycom.driver.SteerMouse. But how can I then find the actual file locations of these bundles? For example, the Ambrosia bundle is AmbrosiaAudioSupport.kext, and I can only find the bundle name in the Info.plist inside that bundle. I could grep the /System/Library/Extensions/ directory, but this does not necessarily contain extensions loaded after booting, and I assume there is a better way to do it?
When tethering via. USB on my iPhone 4 (4.2.1) with my MacBook Pro (10.6.5) I frequently encounter: my iPhone freezes with either a black screen (hard reset) or a frozen screen (hard reset) my iPhone restarts itself and reestablishes its internet connection
I would like to experiment with the arrangement of my apps on my iPod touch. Using folders more extensively. However at the moment I have a quite well working layout. If the experiments proof to be worse than my current layout I would like to go back there easily. Can I somehow save the current layout of my home screens? Regards Mike
Currently the MacBook's display works as primary, so every application I open gets open on the 13" and I have to drag it to the 24". I also don't have access to the dock on my 24". Is is possible to turn off the MacBook screen and use only the one attached via DVI? (I've just connected my 24" HP LP2475w via Mini DisplayPort to DVI to my MacBook Pro 13", which works great except for this one thing.)
I'm aware of the ability to use accented characters by holding down a key until they appear (ie. á ü etc.); however, I'm curious as to how, if possible, one might enter a code point in hexadecimal format or otherwise to output the corresponding character?
I am no longer on a contract with AT&T. Virgin Mobile has an awesome Beyond Talk plan for $25 (unlimited text, data, web, well I guess a max of 5.5Gb). Can I use a SIM card from a Virgin Mobile phone on my jailbroken iPhone? Also, is it possible to buy just a SIM card from Virgin? TIA
Is there a possible way to create a camera shake effect in iMovie 11?
Coming from Windows, I've quite got used to writing to my blog using Windows Live Writer, which offers the ability to directly publish to the CMS. Is there any such alternative for Mac OS X?
Will Excel formulas be OK if they are imported within a spreadsheet into iPad Numbers?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS and I cannot transfer purchases to iTunes. This is a recent issue; I could transfer purchases earlier.
I am looking for a way to transfer large files to the iPad without using iTunes or pushing to and pulling from a remote server. I run an Ubuntu laptop as my only OS at the moment and want to be able to transfer movies to my iPad. I currently transfer most of my files by way of the dropbox app which works well for small files but is quite slow for larger files and eats up my bandwidth. Ideally I'd like to be able to transfer over a cable or through WiFi. Thanks for any tips.
Usually people used to download application on iTunes & then install it on their iPhone using iTuens sync. Currently, I have an iPhone that I bought from my friend. He had purchased many applications on iPhone.
Sorry I've been away for a bit and haven't updated my question for a bit. A bit more info - I'm teaching a digital class of 8,9 and 10 year olds (who have a MacBook each) this year; and I'm looking for funny ways for them to remember the things you commonly do on your mac. Kids love learning shortcuts (for some reason) and any thing I can do to help them build confidence and have a laugh is great. Here are the shortcuts that would be handy: Force Quit (That was my example, you have the option to command escape). Search (command space) Command Tab Expose (Four fingers down on the mouse pad!?) Command ShiftK (Connect to a nearby server in finder) Apple ShiftA for Applications Anything else you might think is handy. I know it's a bit of a vague question, I'm just looking for any fun and easy way to teach these shortcuts.
I can't find many solutions for changing the mouse cursor on OS X 10.6 I've seen *=URL=* but it does not support 10.6 at the moment.
The corporate calendar and email server is Exchange. My personal calendar is in google. Currently, I use iCal to allow me to see both calendars at the same time.
Besides working on their respective carriers, what are the similarities and differences between the AT&T iPhone 4 and Verizon iPhone 4?
Of course, it's possible to get any phone to lose a bit of signal if you cover the antenna with your hands, but I'm wondering if the Verizon iPhone 4 also suffers from the attenuation issues that the AT&T iPhone 4 famously suffered from last summer:
I bought my MacBook Pro about 1.5 years ago (with 4 GB RAM) but these days I think it uses an extraordinary amount of memory; when I open Firefox & Adium & Thunderbird & iTunes & last.fm it uses 3.84 of my 4GB RAM. I must say I installed several 3rd-party software packages on my laptop (maybe on start up they run some process of itself) is there any tool that exists to help me tune my laptop and find what processes run functionless in background, or is there any guideline to help me fix this problem?
Lately, my Magsafe power adapter has not been connecting properly: The wires are not worn out as I take good care of them The issue happens when I try to connect my power adapter to my computer
My MacBook (Snow Leopard) seems to be unable to read DVDs and CDs. When I insert a disk (DVD or CD, I've tried a couple of each), the drive spins up, and (it sounds like) moves the laser back and forth a few times, then ejects the disk. I haven't tried blank media.
quite a straightforward question. I started to really like Google Docs and the fact I can edit them from iPhone from the mobile site.
How can I jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 (unthethered) if you do not have older SHSH? Currently I'm looking for this only for my iPad WiFi, so no baseband. If there are not solutions yet, do not post anything.
Is it possible to integrate Growl into iCal so that invitations made by other users are shown by Growl especially those which are pending? Alternatives to show iCal notifications are also welcome!
If UserA logs in to an OS X machine (at the GUI) and starts Dropbox, UserB logs in via ssh and adds a file to their Dropbox, will Dropbox work for UserB? Or does UserB need to log in via the GUI also, and then "switch" (not log out) to UserA?
Swype has been rumored to one day become available for iPhone. Does anyone know of any concrete plans?
I'm pretty new to SSD technology, so I don't know how it compares to hard drives when it comes to securely erasing the drive. Is it enough to run Disk Utility and erase the drive with the option "overwrite with zeroes", or is this designed for hard drives? Are there other actions that should be taken? I'm not looking for NSA-grade security though, just the kind of wipe you'd do if you're returning or selling the Mac.
Does anybody has experience in how to best convert OpenOffice.org documents to pages documents. Obviously, it can be read in a Text Editor.
I don't think I have ever used the digital zoom feature in the Camera app. The controls are just in the way when you wan't to focus something in that part of the image. So, if possible, I want to hide them. I'm not afraid to jailbreak my phone if that is what i takes. Any answer appreciated. I have an iPhone 3GS.
If I buy an app on through the Mac App Store, can I install it on both of my Macs? I use the same iTunes account on both of them.
I see that the latest 13 inch MacBook Air has two USB 2.0 ports, but can they power, say, a 2.5 inch external hard drive?
I just recorded a video on my phone, but when I play it on my Mac it's in the wrong orientation. How can I rotate the video by 90 degrees so that I can upload it to youtube? Free solutions are preferred. I just found out how to do it using YouTube's Video Editor which has rotate left/right buttons. But this is not an answer how to rotate on Mac.
My Macbook Pro lasts me about 1.5 to 2 hours max on a single charge. This feels ridiculously low. What can I do to increase the battery life on Macbook Pro?
How can I preview an animated GIF? When I double-click it, it opens in Preview and is not animated, showing each frame as a separate image instead of playing the animation. As an example, here is the image I was trying to preview (so you can try it yourself).
My husband's iPhone has the multi app icon and wanted to get the same on my new iPad. Is it possible to get it on the iPad?
I really don't like to bookmark things (on iPad or other platforms) but just type a few relevent letters that bring the right site from browser history as a suggestion. However, on iPad I noticed that when I haven't visited a site for a while, Safari no longer suggests sites it previously did.
I have been having power issues with my MacBook Pro (late 2007?). The power cable had a dodgy connection, and kept cutting out. This destroyed the life of the battery to the point where it would only hold a charge for a couple of seconds. Last night it stopped booting up, so I reset the PRAM, and tried booting from a CD but it wouldn't fully boot.
I know that Mac OS 10.6.6 has a built in VPN server that one can access through command line. Is there an easier way? Can I make an Automator or AppleScript program that starts and stops the built–in VPN server? I have Developer tools installed. I see that there are several paid software front–ends, like "iVPN", yet I would rather learn how to do this by myself.
When I look at my Facebook contact list in Adium, I can see only people who write to me first. When I enable show offline contacts I can see all of them displayed as offline, however when I go directly to Facebook, many of them are displayed online. I've done little search and it looks like many people are having issues with Facebook chat in Adium, but I didn't find any fix.
I'm looking to imitate the functionality of Firefox's keywords in Safari. That is, I want to be able to type wp Apple in the address bar, and Safari should go to the Wikipedia article on Apple. I found a Sourceforge project, SafariKeywords, which does just this, but it was last updated in 2004 and doesn't work on Intel-based Macs. Does the latest version of Safari have this functionality built in and I just didn't find it, or is there something like SafariKeywords I can use, or is this just a feature I'll have to live without?
and TV will be selected. But, remember, I saved it as "This Mac"
What are some gestures or shortcuts you use on a daily basis that you can't live without? I've found the BetterTouchTool preference pane add on to be great for creating custom gestures on a per app or universal basis
Is it at all possible to change the time for saving drafts in Apple Mail. I use MobileMe and whenever I send a mail, the draft is not automatically deleted. I don't want to switch off saving of drafts, but would like to increase the time between saves, since I don't need to save drafts for short emails.
How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?
When you get a new mail in Entourage then a small window appears with some basic info about the new mail you receveid. Is it possible to do the same thing with Apple Mail?
My time machine is backup is very slow. Connection is FireWire 800. Transfer is around 5 Mb/s or 0.5 MB/s, which seems slow. I've seen plenty of mention online of very slow Time Machine backups. What are some techniques or suggestions to speed this up? I have:
On an iPad, when we hit play for a Keynote presentation while connected to a projector via VGA cable, the app closes down. What tricks are there for getting iPad-Keynote to work with a projector?
I want to know how to open a spreadheet email attachement in the Numbers app on the iPad. Here are the steps I have taken with no luck: On the iPad I open my email. On the iPad I open my email. I see a spreadsheet attachment. I see a spreadsheet attachment. I click it and it previews. Now how do I get the spreadhseet into Numbers? The Apple directions say the following:
Is it possible to change the shading of the selected day/today/weekend in iCal? The light blue tone which is used to mark the current Day is almost impossible to recognise. Same Problem different color on the highlighted days.
Isn't there some wiki or apple documentation which shows which app keys can be used for apple software? NOTE: I searched the whole net and didn't find any databases on this topic, so if there isn't really such a database maybe we should create one where we can share these keys. Is it possible to create a wikipage in this manner on stackexchange?
I have scanned text. I am looking for an affordable OCR tool (Optical Character Recognition) tool. I tried OCRTOOLS from the App Store, but it crashes with the first picture I tried. Any recommendations?
I'm trying to move some pictures from my laptop to my iPad, but every time the first thing iTunes starts doing is making a backup of the iPad. But since I already keep a backup at my desktop, I want iTunes to back off and just let me move the pictures! So how can I prevent iTunes from making automatic backups?
I'm trying to connect to a mac screen sharing from a windows machine using tightvnc I'm getting the error "Server did not offer supported security type" Any ideas on how to fix this ?
I'm looking to replace my Macbook Pro 13" hard drive. I tried upgrading to a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB, but returned the drive because it caused the palm rest to vibrate when pressed (I installed correctly; the problem disappeared when I swapped back the stock drive).
I'm looking to upgrade a notebook hard drive and wanted to use the Hitachi Travelstar 5K750. Will it work with the Apple Sudden Motion Sensor? Do I have any way of identifying drives that will play nice with this technology? I've heard of problems in the past, should I be concerned?
I currently live in an area that has very poor internet connection. I can log in to iTunes but it would cost a fortune to download the updates to the OS. Is there a way I can have somebody bring the OS update on a thumb drive and load it from there?
My iPhone is tethered to my Mac laptop via Bluetooth or USB. I want to set up a proxy on my Mac for use with the iPhone network interface, but unfortunately in Mac OS X 10.6, under System Preferences -> Network, the iPhone Bluetooth and iPhone USB network interfaces lack the standard options under the Advanced… tab. These Advanced… options are available in other interfaces (e.g., Airport, Ethernet, etc.). I want to use the polipo caching proxy for tethered browsing, but I am unable to define an HTTP Proxy in the GUI, since these options are missing. The prefpane windows for my tethered iPhone's network interfaces (Bluetooth & USB) is missing the normal options for network interfaces. Does anyone know a command line workaround for setting up an HTTP proxy, or some way of modifying the prefpane settings for the iPhone network interfaces?
I have a pobox.com account whose address I use as my main e-mail address and that forwards my messages to a Gmail address. Eventough that is the address I tell my friends and coleagues, when I send e-mail from my iPhone it uses the default gmail.com address, and so people start to pick that as my e-mail address.
I'd like to search my iPhone contacts using a part of a telephone number as a key (search by substring). The integrated spotlight search, however, doesn't return any entries when searching for a full telephone number or for its part. The number formatting in search doesn't appear to make any difference. Suppose there an entry in the Contacts.app (number is shown exactly as it apperars on the screen): John Smith mobile: +41 76 123 23 43 Neither of the following searches in spotlight returns "John Smith", as expected +41 76 123 23 43 +41761232343 2343 Is it possible to search for a number using spotlight or an alternative application? Tested on iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1
I tried to open a file with an extension name of adb in Finder (to be precise, PathFinder). When I clicked the file, vi editor is activated to open the adb file. I didn't do anything with the adb file, so my guess is that vi editor changed the system setup to open it whenever unknown file format is opened.
Whenever I open iTunes, I get the standard OS X dialog, Do you want the application "iTunes.app" to accept incoming network connections? Every time I click allow, but I am asked the same thing without fail the next time I open iTunes.
I am looking to have a shared calendar which my partner and I can access. I have a MobileMe account and my partner has a Google account. We both have Macs, I have an iPhone and she has a Blackberry. I am looking for a solution where we can create a calendar that we both have access to from iCal (and maybe iPhone / Blackberry if possible) and that we can both edit.
What came through my external speakers was just muffle-ly cracked noise that were very unstable sounding. After failing to get a decent sound, I found that my sound in general sounded really weird.
For a number of devices that were stolen, can I find their serial number on a Mac that I still have and which the devices have been connected to at some point? In other words, are there any applications (or the OS) which might have kept a record of any of these devices' serial number(s)? I'm specifically thinking about: iPod Cinema Display Time Capsule another Mac a camera
The ads from Cydia are really intrusive and slows down the application a lot. How do I remove them?
I have an iPhone 3G which had a cracked screen. I replaced the digitizer last November and this morning the left third of it stopped responding to touch. What can I do to fix it?
I have an app that's been out for a couple of weeks. Its not exactly selling like hot cakes yet, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten a rating or a review by now. But nothing shows when viewing either in iTunes or directly on the AppStore on the iPhone.
What software do I need to open and read a .chm document in OS X?
On occasion I need to look at an image at fullscreen so it doesn't have anything else around it to distract me. Is there a way to do that? I can't seem to find a way to do it with preview.
My wife and I both have iOS devices (some iPods, an iPhone, soon an iPad), which means that both our iTunes libraries have not only music, but also apps, podcasts, iTunes U stuff, etc. How could we manage to share just the music in one single location, and still keep our apps/podcasts/etc separated from each other?
The quality of my PowerBook and 20" Cinema Display screens has degraded over time, they became noticeably yellowish and darker due to the wear of the backlight (I assume). Neither of those screens is LED-backlit. I'm wondering, how do the LED-backlit screens used in current Apple products degrade over time? Do they similarly become yellowish, give less light, ...? How long does it take for the effect to become obvious, or what's the expected life time of these screens?
I have enabled 3 languages and use their keyboards, but the default keyboard still insists on popping up. Bought in Bangkok, using in Europe.Can I disable this unnecessary keyboard or am I stuck with it??
I have a Mac Pro from late 2007, early 2008 and I want to perform a clean install but nothing comes up on my monitor. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GT 120 and the hard drive is an Intel SSD. I am assuming the graphics card is the problem but all comments point to it being supported. How do I do a clean Snow Leopard install with the given hardware?
On Windows, I ran Xampp on port 80 for PHP/MySQL and IIS on port 8080 for ASP. For OS X, what's the best route to take... Should I just run Xampp for Mac for PHP/mySQL, or is there a better option since this is Unix? What's the best (free) way to run ASP off a mac?
I use three different accounts for downloading from the App Store, each in a different country. When there is an update, I have to connect to the correct App Store to download the update, but sometimes I can't remeber from which store an app was downloaded and so I need to connect to each one in turns.
Ever since apple has decided to make iTunes account access your email address instead of a username I have noticed the apps that were bought under the old username do not recognize this and there doesn't seem to be a simple way to fix this. For example when an app has an update it asks me to enter my old username/pw combo, however if I make a new purchase and then it has an update the new email/pw info is displayed. This more of an inconvenience than anything, but the other day I was trying to make and in-app purchase and the new email/pw dialog displayed for an app I purchased with the username/pw and the transaction would not go through saying I needed to purchase the app first. Is there an easy way to fix this?
I have a USB drive plugged into my Mac. What I found was .Trashes was not emptied when the emptying trash (right click the Trash icon and run "Empty Trash") for the USB drive
I don't know if maybe I accidentally screwed up a batch change at some point in the past, or if the library upgrade somehow messed up, or what else may have happened. But what I need to do is fix these somehow.
Safari hides the protocol part of the URL (HTTP or HTTPS) in the address bar. When I'm purchasing something on the Internet, I like to check that I'm using HTTPS when entering credit card details or entering a username and password. I don't seem to be able to do this when using Safari on my iPad.
I don't have home contents cover. Anyone know of a good, reliable insurer for a MBP?
I would like to use a monospaced font on the Sticky Notes in Apple's Dashboard widget. However, only a few fonts can be selected, none of which is monospaced.
I have to turn a big stack of images into one of those somewhat sappy slide shows with music. Google shows various advice from various points in time. The last advice I found was iDVD. Is that the right path to launch off on?
Cydia is spammed by too many skinning tweaks and it is real hard to browse for more interesting applications. Do you know a way to make Cydia hide the theme-related packages?
I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard. I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in order to access Exchange mail and I thought Snow Leopard introduced this feature to Mail, but I can't seem to get it working. I have tried just about every combination of settings I can think of.
I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10). On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac. I copied over all the settings, set $TERM to xterm-256color, but no dice. I changed my .vimrc to the absolute minimum to try this out: Tried multiple colorschemes, too.
Origami is very nice. However, detailed control is, in my case, very hard to live without. I am setting up a 10-minute slide show. I want to use several pieces of audio cued to different points in the show. I want to have some sections, and origama shuffles my pictures across the section boundaries. Even text slides don't clue it in that this might be a good place not to shuffle across. Some of my consumers find the plain 'Ken Burns' transition in imovie positively sea-sickness-inducing.
How do I sync GMail contacts into my Mac?
I'm looking into getting a new Verizon smartphone. I like many things about the iPhone, but I'm concerned that I'll have to give up a feature I really like about my current phone--turn-by-turn navigation. According to this skattertech chart, the iPhone lacks this feature. Is there really not an "app for that"? (And if not, why? The phone has GPS, so what gives?)
What peripherals do you use on your Mac that really work well? It seems like most things (especially mice and keyboards) don't work all that well, even if they claim compatibility. I'm looking for things that work as well on a Mac as they do on a PC.
I have an iPhone 3GS running on 4.0.1 and I want to upgrade it to 4.2 with my Mac. How can I go about doing this? Current Version: 4.0.1 (8A306) Model: MB7... Modem Firmware: 05.13.04
I'm generally not a fan of iTunes for storing/listening to music (I use MediaMonkey). Is iTunes required for syncing between an iPhone and a PC?
Is it possible to disable notification generated by Mail.app for a certain set of folders? For e.g. if have Inbox and Inbox > fol1 & Inbox > fol2, I want notification from Inbox and fol1 only. Would this be possible with growl somehow?
I'm seeking a Mac app for creating basic flowcharts and similar diagrams. Google has been no help; I've followed dozens of links to apps that either don't exist anymore, I can't find any real reviews of, or that won't run on OS X 10.6.6. What I'd really like: A simple and clean interface A simple and clean interface Basic shapes Basic shapes Automated connectors that stay linked as you move shapes around Automated connectors that stay linked as you move shapes around Inexpensive, preferably under $30 but definitely under $50 Inexpensive, preferably under $30 but definitely under $50 What I'm not looking for: Hundreds of shapes Hundreds of shapes Default styles that have shadows and textures and such that I have to keep removing Default styles that have shadows and textures and such that I have to keep removing Dozens of amazing features that allow you to automatically map databases and draw UML diagrams from code and such (I'm looking at you, Visio) that I have to constantly navigate a
I'm at my job and I have no cable, so connecting my iPhone with my computer is not possible. I have tried emailing the video, but the iPhone is compressing the video. It is not jailbroken. Is it possible to transfer the original video?
I tried to open a split pane to run another command but instead it displays the same in both panes and I can only interact with one of them. I thought it would split the view so I could use the two panes independently like two windows. I have the Visor installed but I don't think it would interfere.
Is doing a motherboard swap on my own feasible? I've built my own desktops in the past and I'm not worried about what is what and what goes where. I'm just wondering about the difficulty of the job and/or if there's something I don't know about that would prevent this from working at all.
Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when this is happening. (i.e. it's not time machine.) and I have plenty of free memory (800MB to 1.3GB out of 6GB total) so it shouldn't be paging. I don't see any apps in top that are blocked on I/O when this starts. (once it's going then I see things start to pile up... but everything I see in there appears to be victim.) What tools can I use to get a sense for what process is causing the disk io? I think it started with 10.6.6. :( I don't recall ever hitting this with 10.6.5.
I have a set of surround speakers, connected to my iMac through the headphone jack. I use a switch to control what goes to the speaker set (iMac, iPod, or MacBook/aux). So that I don't have to be constantly unplugging and replugging, I leave the audio cable in the iMac's audio port. This means that when I'm listening to something from another source, I can't hear anything from the iMac unless I unplug the cable. Is there a way to force sound to come out of the internal speakers, even if there's something in the audio out port?
Windows 7 Action Ceenter reports: Address a problem with Bonjour Bonjour has stopped working properly. The name of the file that caused this problem is mDNSResponse.exe. For information about possible solutions to this problem, go online to the following Knowledge Base (KB) article: Click to go online to the Apple Inc. website for the KB article When clicked, the browser opens to the Bonjour Print Services for Windows download page.
I am asking this because I observed that there were some reports regarding problems with baseband 06.15.00 on iPhone 3G like no GMS connection or poor or no GPS functionality. From my knowlege Redsn0w is the tool to do this.
The new MobileMe iCal data lives in the cloud, and the data on your computer is actually a cache. This support article from Apple explains how to backup calendar data by exporting to an .ics file. I would like to automate that process via AppleScript, Automator or any other method (paid software is fine).
I have successfully downloaded apps on a laptop, but when trying to download on a desktop mac, whenever i click install, it says 'put password for billing info', as it would normally. I do so, click enter, and nothing happens. No error message, nothing.
Perpetua:2011-01-16 ashley$ mdls IMAG0107.jpg ... kMDItemComment = "Cat with is tongue out."
I'd like to do a dry run of how a slideshow in imovie-11 is doing to come out when I run it for real, if I decide that 'for real' means 'playing a DVD on a DVD Player with a projector.' Other answers here have dissed idvd as an obsolete item, and I am noting that my 9:24 movie has idvd sitting there spinning a cursor for a very, very, long time. So I have other choices?
I just discovered that 'system a' has no DvD burner. System B has one. I can drop ilife onto system B, but ... which of the collection of 'import/export' mechanisms makes sense here to use the B drive if the movie is under construction on A? Heck, can I just somewhow share the 'media browser' and just do the DVD part of the process on System B?
I'm looking for a programmers' editor. I know Xcode and I use it for application programming but I'm looking for something that will: Syntax highlight PHP, SQL, Javascript (including jQuery) and CSS not required but would be nice; also Lua, Python, and Perl
Some of the music on my iPhone 4G 32Gig started skipping intermittently when I play it on the phone. These are mp3 files synch'd to the iPhone through iTunes from my Windows 7 laptop. I have filled it to 28G. The same song played back again at a later time does not skip but another one might. What is going on here? What do I do about this?
I'd like to set up my network like this, and I want to make sure it's possible using the hardware I have. I think it should be...
If I buy a mac with OS X 10.6.5, and then I upgrade it to OS X 10.6.6, how can I downgrade it back to OS X 10.6.5? I don't mind having to reinstall the entire operating system if necessary. Could this same method also be used if I upgrade to OS X Lion (OS X 10.7)?
From what I understand, this means that I can't simply begin the installation using the Windows 7 CD, since it is an upgrade version. What I didn't understand, though, is if I can upgrade the OS once it is installed. For example, if I install the full version of Windows Vista Ultimate, could I then upgrade it to Windows 7? Or is my only option to purchase a full edition of Windows 7?
I'm assuming it's part of the 'check for updates' process, but does anyone know how this is controlled and what it's mounting and unmounting? I first discovered this behavior after updating Growl, and I ran HardwareGrowler to see what it did (it was a slow afternoon) and it's kind of neat to see what hardware is connected at any given time, and watching what happens when I plug in various USB peripherals, etc. I know, I have a severely deficient view of entertainment. After amusing myself with this for about 5-10 minutes, I returned to my work.
is the C api to the syslogd daemon. The ASL replacement for the above is Now, has 2 modules, one writing to the files defined in and one writing to the apple system log, as defined in
Hi I had an I pod touch (first generation) with version : 1.1.5(4B1) which I bought from EBAy long time back in 2008 I had installed latest ITunes and browsing if I can find any applications that can be run on this 1st gen iPod. But most of the apps are generally compatible with 3 and greater.
I've got an old MBP where the internal drive starts to refuse reading discs and stopped burning discs a while ago. Now I'm thinking about getting an external drive (DVD-RW, USB or Firewire). Most of these devices don't explicitly mention Mac compatibility. According to this forum post, most of the drives should be compatible though.
I have a MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard, and an Epson V700 Scanner. I'm thinking of buying an Airport Extreme or even better, an Airport Express (cos it's cheap). Can I use the Epson V700 via the Airport as if it was connected locally via USB? Apple talks about printers but not dedicated scanner, any ideas...? cheers!
It’s now pretty well-established that you cannot change the language of the iTunes store unless you also change your billing address. Fair enough.
I have a Lenovo Windows 7 laptop and now I have a shiny new Macbook pro to go with it. I want to build a workstation where both share the same monitor. Since I code, I want a fairly large monitor with a fairly large resolution so that I can see a lot of code. The only thing better than high resolution is very high resolution. :) The Lenovo laptop is docked and has a digital output (the unused rectangular white outlet in middle of the picture)
I can't stand iPhone's auto-rotation feature, e.g. rotate your phone just past some threshold, and the screen rotates from portrait to landscape. This is always tripping me up, especially when I'm lying down and simply want to read my iPhone in portrait mode. Is there a way to just disable the feature altogether?
I am using TexLipse for working with latex, producing pdfs as output. I have configured it to use preview as viewer using this command line:
I have a white MacBook, and it has gotten kinda dingy over the past couple of years. Still runs fine, but I would like to know what I can use to clean the white plastic. I was thinking one of those Mr. Clean erasers, but just want to see if The Community had any other (verified) options lol.
My Windows laptop (and HDD) have died, taking with it iTunes and my music. Things could have been a lot worse, but I fortunately have a back up of my mp3s. However, I have lost the iTunes library containing all my play counts, last played, ratings etc.
I'd like to open Terminal.app and enter a command like: my-macbook-pro:~ my-username$ ls -lh Instead of seeing the size of the folders in bytes that are in my current working directory, I'd like to see size of the folders, including all of their contents like so: drwxr-xr-x 7 my-username staff 100Gi Dec 20 19:38 my-huge-project-folder drwxr-xr-x 3 my-username staff 80Gi Dec 27 14:15 my-slightly-smaller-project-folder Is there a command I can type that will yield similar output above?
I'm looking for something to replace Visio on a Mac. I am getting tired of using VMware because it's too slow on my computer and was wondering if there's anything out there I can use to wireframe apps specific to Macs.
One of the things I dislike most with the iPhone is its sized-down keyboard with only 10 keys in a row. This may fine for English, but leaves not enough room for umlauts or accented letters.
I have a lot of audio in my storage devices. Finder for Mac OS X Snow Leopard tries to get a 'snapshot' of the audio whenever a folder is opened and this can take a while if there are lots of files. It seems to integrate iTunes with the Finder so that audio can be played directly from the Finder icon and not just in iTunes.
Whenever I browse my Time Capsule's AirPort Disk, it seems very slow in simply listing the files it has. I am looking in directories with upwards of fifty music files in each.
What cable do I need to display my iPhone on my TV? I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.2.1.
Can someone please educate me on exactly how I can access my Time Capsule from any other network aside from my own (over the Internet?) I don't have a static IP address, so would I need DNS forwarding? Would it involve checking my home network's IP while away? Should I get static IP?
I love to play games and do other tasks that quickly drain the iPhone's battery. Sometimes I'll use the phone while plugged into a power supply. Does the iPhone still use the battery when performing these high-performance tasks while connected to the power source?
EDIT Jan-19 - The "Add to iCal Automatically" solution in Mail.app's preferneces is better than what I had, but still not quite enough. 1. I don't see that it allows me to specify what calendar it's adding the event(s) to. 2. It's not automatic - I would need to open the email to do it. My intention is for an unattended workflow. 3. It's too broad - I only want .ics files that meet certain criteria (ie, only in emails from my work email address), not every invitation that I receive.
I have a few family members with Macs that I'd like to be able to help if they have questions or get stuck, and I've been looking into various solutions to be able to remotely connect to their computers over the internet. In the past I've mainly used iChat, but it sometimes just doesn't work (and I do have a few members in my family that have a bit of trouble accepting the screen sharing invitation). My typical fallback is Skype which nearly always works, but I don't have any control over the screen so I have to walk them through what they need to do.
I have a 3rd generation iPod touch with a dead battery and want to get the music off of it for my new one. It powers up fine with the AC power cord but nothing with the PC's USB. Any short fix besides sending it out for a new battery?
I just got a new Mac Air for my wife. Every time she starts it up (after installing software, crashes, whatever), it starts up logged in as administrator. This confuses my wife no end (where did all my stuff go?) How can I make it just go to the login screen?
I just purchased an album on iTunes on work PC but can't sync because it will delete all my existing tunes from the iPad (I only sync with my music at home). Can I copy the files to my home PC manually and sync there, or will that not work because of DRM issues ?
I mean, does mac have a "home" folder, and if I want to format and reinstall the system, it'll not affect my home folder? And the Desktop is a folder within the home folder?
I'd like to know if you think the white MacBook (2.26ghz, 2gig ram) is sufficient for software development (using Xcode, Interface Builder etc...)
When I synch downloaded podcasts eg BBC History magazine podcast, they playback so fast on the ipod touch it is unlistenable even though it sounds normal on my laptop. Is there some setting on the ipod I need to change. Audio cds work fine on both.
Is there there a way to check a folder/file for changes (includes adding files, deleting files, changes in files,...). The 'Folder action' in Automator is only checking if any files are newly added.
Sometime in the last few weeks, Mail.app has become painfully slow when moving an email out of the inbox and into a folder. I have five email accounts that I check in Mail.app—one is pop3 and the other four are IMAP (gmail or google apps).
I've been using Console to debug some things on my Mac, and I keep seeing --- last message repeated one time --- in the log. Apparently it's not really essential, and you can turn it off on the command line with the -dup_delay switch on syslogd (see here). But how do I do that so it turns it off in the Console app? I don't want to start syslogd again, I just want to change a setting on the currently running process.
We have a shared iPad at work which is used for trade shows etc. It is a pain to only be able to copy content to this from one PC, i.e. one nominated shared PC with iTunes on it. We have Windows XP on the PC currently. Is there a decent way of plugging an iPad into an arbitrary PC and loading content on to it, while not breaking iTunes sync?
Finder truncates file names (and other things). Is there a way of changing this behaviour? example: i have a file with a names but what i see is
I am looking to swap out a BlackBerry for an iPhone from Verizon. On the BlackBerry we use an older version of the desktop synchronization software and I can access personal folders (Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007) stored on a network share. Can you do that from an iPhone?
iTunes displays the number of "plays" for each track. What exactly does this mean?
(445 is the default Windows file sharing port, which I haven't changed. My SSH server is configured to use port 3484 instead of 22).
I've recently upgraded from iPhoto '08 to '11 and am in the process of cleaning up my geotagging. Most of my photos had been geotagged outside of iPhoto, but for a lot of them it wasn't as accurate as I'd like. So what I've done is flag all of the photos where I'd like to zero in a little more on the map. Working one at a time I can just select the photo and, in the info pane, drag the existing pin a little bit to a new location on the map. Works fine.
Hello all I just installed iOS 4.3 beta version available for developers on my iPhone4. Now I want to go back to version 4.2. But iTunes displays the version 4.3 installed. How can I do this? Can somebody throw some light on this? Thanks
My iPhone 4 front glass broke. Screen is OK, I only want to replace the glass. Assuming I get a new glass, is it hard to replace it myself? Can anyone provide some step by step tutorial on how to replace it?
I asked about this in connection with this network of websites, but it brings up a more general question that I don't know the answer to. Is it a problem that mouse over events are not able to be invoked by apple touchscreen - especially in regard to website rollovers? Is there a way around this? Related: *=URL=* https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75656/cant-see-spoilers-on-touchscreen
Everything I can find on the SOS chimes is 'Hope you got AppleCare, that means your logic board is gone, man' but that is (in this case) demonstrably not true. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is there anything else I can or should try? This has all the symptoms of a firmware glitch to me, or some strange EFI issue. No one else, apparently is experiencing it at this time. Anyone?
Trying to upload picture from my iPhone to Facebook. In Facebook app, when I choose a picture and select 'Upload' I should see progress bar as picture uploads. Instead when I press 'Upload' the upload screen disappears and picture is not uploaded.
It seems to me that both, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad respond differently on Windows. While using them with Mac OS X feels natural, on Windows 7 with drivers extracted from Bootcamp Upgrade, it feels spongy / laggy / delayed / with latency, no matter what the mouse settings are. So I feel like I'm not in touch with the mouse pointer (cursor). It makes me sad that I should not be able to use this excellent hardware on my Windows PC, and I would like to know if this can be fixed.
I am currently having to access the internet through a wireless dongle which is giving me a 2gb per month download allowance. I need to be really cautious about my internet usage.
When plugging a USB stick into a Mac, OS X creates a number of hidden files on the stick, including a Spotlight index and Trash folder. Example from the terminal for a USB stick "Untitled": It even does this on the xD memory card for my camera, so after having copied my pictures and deleted them from the card, the card is still full. Is it possible to turn this off for USB and memory cards, so OS X either writes these files to the primary disk or doesn't write them at all?
I use the first generation iphone. My warranty is up like two years ago and I have already jailbroken my phone. It was functioning just fine until one day suddenly my laptop stopped detecting my iphone. I reconnected the device to a PC and the same thing happened. I guess its my mistake that I ignored it!. Then one day while I was riding on my bike,to my absolute horror the phone suddenly slipped from my pants pocket and fell on the rough concrete. I ran and checked but except for a few scratches on the back, it looked just fine, it jus got switched off. I switched it back on and it was working just fine. A week went by while I ignored my phone's inability to connect to any PC whatsoever. It was then that the issue started, Now my phone is not charging at all!. Sometimes either through a stroke of luck or a vigorous shake from me, it resumes charging! Help me out Please!. What am I to do to get it back to normal?!
I check 3 email accounts on the iPhone. So under 'All Inboxes' in the email app, there are 3 entries. How do I reorder the 3 inboxes? I'd like to put the inbox that's currently 3rd in the list to be 1st in the list.
I have a MBP 2010 with Snow Leopard on it. I put an SSD in the place of DVD Drive and am using an awesome SSD(80GB)+HDD(500GB) combo for speed and efficiency for the right price.
What I'm looking for is basically some monitoring application, which will log how long has each of my applications been actively used. By that I mean it got focus. The point of this would be to monitor the workflow and to see where do I spend most time.
Is there some sort of known logic behind Apple's choice to make the enter key rename a file/folder, rather than open it as is standard on Windows and Linux? For those of you coming here for the substitute key combination, ⌘-O and ⌘-down arrow both work. And I fully understand ⌘-down, since ⌘-up goes "up" in the directory tree. But couldn't they have made some other key combination the rename key, and allowed enter to be the "standard" open action?
Short Version I rebuilt my iTunes library and now when I try to sync my iPad and my wife's iPhone, iTunes wants to erase and resync. I want to know if there's a way to save the stuff added to these devices since last sync. Longer Version
On this page, it shows that without the Apple Care package, you get 1 year limited warranty, and 90 days of complimentary telephone technical support on a mac. If I buy the mac from another retailer (e.g. Amazon), would I still get these same benefits?
Apple Remote Desktop isn't a bad program. It's a bit overdue for an update, has some issues, but is an otherwise solid program. The big downside to ARD is the price, however.
My iPhone4 periodically does not wake up from being locked. I have to wake it by holding the home and power buttons. This is happening a lot more frequently as of late than before. It has the latest OS. It seems quite a few people have the same problem. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? None that I found on the Apple forum seems to solve it.
I heard that you are not supposed to use substances containing alcohol because it will destroy the anti-grease coating layer that's above the glass. The problems is that just water and microfiber cloth is not always enough and I want to know what is safe to use.
Can I redeem a 50 EUR iTunes gift card purchased in Germany in any other country of the Euro zone?
I've received a number of videos encoded in Apple ProRes 422, and it plays fine in QuickTime 7 or X. However, I can't open them in any other player (VLC, mplayer, etc. etc.). What can I do to let other player be able to read the file? Thanks.
When I want to see which Events other Users in iCal are attending through the delegates tab then I get the same entry multiple times for Events which my delegates and I have accepted. Is it possible to just show one event in some special color or else so I don't get a cluttered Month view?
I'm just trying to connect to the server hosting my website through Finder, but it's always read only, even though I'm logging in with my username and password. Obviously, I can connect with an FTP client (Fetch), and through the terminal, etc. – but what's the trick to FTP-uploading with Finder?
I heard that as of Mac OS X 10.6.6, Apple removed wording about installing Vista via Boot Camp, suggesting that they are no longer supporting it. If I have Mac OS X 10.6.6 installed, can I still install a full version of Vista on it?
If you download a rented movie on your computer: You can transfer it to a device such as your Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, or iPod if it’s a standard-definition film (movies in HD can only be watched on your computer, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), or Apple TV). Once you move the movie from your computer to a device, the movie will disappear from your computer's iTunes library. You can move the movie between devices as many times as you wish during the rental period, but the movie can only exist on one device at a time.
Ever since I updated to 10.6.6 a week or so ago I've wanted to use the Mac App Store but I can't sign in. The Sign in link and the sign in menu item neither seem to do anything. I'm signed into iTunes just fine, I can use my account on my Mac and iPhone. I've tried erasing the contents of ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore/ but that had no effect.
My girlfriend just got her bosses old PowerMac G4 and big ol' Cinema Display. It's got the ADC connector, so I'm not sure if it's relevant what the size is (and frankly I'm too lazy to measure unless it is). I'm looking to drive this off of my MacBook Pro, and her MacBook, both using Mini DisplayPort.
Are there any solutions available which will allow HDMI input on my 24' iMac?
Every time I sync my ipod touch, I sit there and watch "optimizing photos x of 1000" which takes forever. To be clear, I am not adding any more photos. Shouldn't this only be a one time thing to optimize photos? Why does it need to do this step every time?
The system sleeps correctly if it is triggered manually ( – Sleep) or by closing the lid. I have tested it with no USB devices connected and on a fresh user account, on the chance a background program was preventing sleep. There is no relevant information printed to the Console at the time when the system should sleep. I've performed a PRAM and SMC reset to no avail, as well as the usual superstitious Verify Disk Permissions. Is there anything else I should try before I reinstall OS X? This is a MacBookPro5,5 running OS 10.6.6.
My Google Maps app for iOS has gotten too slow to be useful at times. It doesn't seem to be a bandwidth issue, as it even affects typing- there's often meaningful lag from when i type a letter until it appears.
For some time I've been using the combination of FreeMind and One Note on my Windows machine. About a month ago I migrated to Mac and now I'm trying to search for an alternative. So far I've tried Personal Brain, but it has quite a heavy interface and I don't really like the workflow. What app(s) would you recommend for managing larger amounts of information on tasks and projects?
A friend broke her iPod Touch 2G. Additionally, some water got inside. Now the iPod sometimes doesn't start at all, or just freezes and doesn't react to finger touches. There isn't any background light anymore (or at least, I don't remember there was or if there wasn't) Because there's no explicit digitizer included in some offers, my question is, is it even possible to seperate the front glass and the digitizer? My position is that, if there's a cable attached to it, there must be a digitizer too but the owner of the device disagrees with my opinion, so I am asking here for a definitive answer.
I'm basically using US keyboard as my default, but I also have enabled Czech (QWERTY), which has quite different layout for when I need those special characters. The problem is, that in the past few days whenever I put focus in a password field in Google Chrome, it automatically switches from the US to Czech and I can't switch back, as it is grayed out.
Rather than running a long cable from my Laptop to my stereo, I've been thinking for a while about getting one of those wireless devices that lets you transmit audio from your PC to a receiver plugged into the stereo. Then I realised I already have hardware that can potentially do this - I have an iPod Touch, and a Wi-Fi network in the house.
I saw a friend of mine manage to use his iPhone as a usb key. I had a large file that I needed to transfer to his computer. So he gave me his iPhone cable, had me open iTunes, open his iPhone in iTunes, select some app that was on his iPhone, drag and drop my file there, and then he could get the file to his machine.
I added a text slide to a slideshow. I can't get rid of it. If I delete it, the neighboring picture gets deleted, too. If I re-add the picture, the text slide reappears with it.
With the demise of Cha-ching, I find myself in need of an application for managing my expenses which I can use on both platforms. It should work in Europe, and maybe have a decent UI.
There are times when I've got some store credit from a gift card/certificate on iTunes, but I want to buy something without that. I want to buy something with the credit card, regardless of what's prepaid on the account. Is this possible?
i have a dell 3010cn printer, and a iMac having some trouble getting it installed, i know that its not officially supported but i installed foomatic-rip and ghostscript and downloaded the pxldpl PPD file but i wont actually print though it can connect to the printer the printer is connected to my LAN
EnGenius ESR-9752 with latest firmware is the main AP. This has wired and wireless connections.
I have a 13" Macbook Pro that came with a 60W power adapter and a 15" Macbook Pro that came with a 85W power adapter. Can I use either adapter with either laptop? There seems to be disagreement in the Apple forums.
I've loaded some lengthy PDFs onto my iPad in iBooks, and I've noticed that for only one of them, it's seemed to have created a beige cover page for the PDF thumbnail with what looks like the file name. It's nice, but I was unaware of this feature and ideally I'd like it to include the author and paper title instead of the file name. Does anyone know more about this functionality or how I can change what this new cover page says?
I'm looking for a keyboard and pointing device which I can use when my laptop is plugged into my TV. It needs to be able to connect to the laptop via bluetooth (I want to minimize the time and effort connecting the laptop), and the pointing device must be integrated into it.
Given the large number of examples of issues with the manual steps necessary to provision devices and install apps using the developer SDK, I am wondering why Apple took this route. Specifically, the process seems to be error-prone and could likely be automated. Is this just a rite of passage or are there reasons for implementing it this way that I am missing? Are there reasons some of these steps HAVE to be manual? Does anyone see a way of improving this or does anyone know of some automation/scripts that make this simpler for developers new to the platform?
I am following this guide on how to install iPhone apps thru OTA without iTunes. I have the following questions:
The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.
I'm looking for a free or commercial software for Os X to create mockups for websites. Any suggestion?
An authorized repair center said they changed the motherboard of my iMac 27" but I have doubts since I can still experience the problem for what I had it repaired. I was told on a forum that if the computer's SN was invisible or started differently in the About this Mac menu it meant that the MB had been replaced. I'm seeing the same SN so it should mean that the MB was not replaced, but on the phone the repair guy said this method is wrong. What do you say ?
So, I downloaded Chrome, and I put it in the Applications folder and from there a shortcut to the applications bar on the bottom of the screen. All is fine, but now there's an icon on the desktop that looks like a harddrive with a Chrome icon on it. I don't want it there, but I don't know what to do with it. I also have the DMG file from the download in the Trash, but it won't let me delete it.
Since many days I am trying to achieve this, but I can only delete/ clear all recent dial, received phone numbers. Is there an option/ hack to delete only one number at a time on my iPhone ? I have iPhone 3GS
I was wondering if there's any package in Cydia or iPhone app that would allow me to change the inline remote buttons behavior. I often walk around the cydia with my headphones on and speaking the VoiceOver commands is really unconfortable. I can normally reach my iphone from my pocket to switch up or down the volume, so I would like to use the headset buttons to skip songs.
Does iOS 4.2.1, the latest release at the time of this question, support WebGL?
I know that you can change the format used by ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 (SE answer and external source), but is it also possible to change the format of Grab.app (uses TIFF)?
Is there any utility or script that integrates with iTunes and helps me organize my libraries by doing lookups on large databases such as Amazon? For example: downloading track names from Amazon downloading CD covers from Amazon downloading book categories from Amazon (this one especially would be useful) Or in general, at least a "look it up on Amazon" script would be great.
I use my iPhone 4 as a GPS device when I go tramping, but since the phone is constantly searching for signal in remote locations it drains through the battery extremely quickly. The simple solution is to remove the sim card, although I've lost one microsim this way, and it's not an ideal solution.
When answering this question, please note if the solution is: For Windows and/or Mac OS X users The price of the solution If you have successfully—and actually—used the solution How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?
How can I change or set the icon for a file or folder, in the terminal, do I need to use a scripting language?
For all my Windows PCs I use CCleaner to perform cleanup duties. Is there a similar tool that I can use for OS X to clean up any accumulated crap?
So, I'm trying to get Boot Camp to work so I can put a partition of Windows 7 on my MacBook. I'm getting to the point where it's downloaded the supporting software and I have to burn it to a DVD. I have blank DVD in the SuperDrive but regardless of how many times I hit 'Burn' nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong? Also, I'm a complete noob with OS X, so please be very explanatory. Thanks in advance!
I love my iPhone-4 and I am about to move to Mexico where AT&T and Verizon are not viable carrier options. What is the safest way to unlock my iPhone so I can continue to use my apps (and new ones I may acquire later) with a non-Apple approved carrier?
I am looking to do a video chat between an iPod Touch 4 and an Android phone (not sure which version, but less than a year old). Both of these devices have video cameras and microphones, I'm just not sure the easiest way to video chat between the two. Any suggestions?
Ever since I installed snow leopard I get multiple safari crashes per day. And my desktop refuses to stay organized (by date modified)?
I've had my Magic Mouse for about two weeks with a MacBook Pro 13", and I'm starting to notice quite a latency in the movement. It gets really bad whenever any performance heavy operation is going on, that creates almost a half a second latency. This happens even for small things, like when a web page is being rendered, sometimes even while nothing is happening. At first I thought batteries might've caused this, even though it was at 50%, so I changed them for new ones, which (subjectively) helped for about two hours, but it's still really laggy. I also tried using the mouse on different surfaces, again it seems to work a little better on the table than on my mouse pad, but it's a little laggy everywhere. Is this behavior normal for the Magic Mouse?
Last evening my iPhone began to exhibit very odd behavior. Every few minutes (whether awake or asleep) a dialog appears saying that "You got a mail." I've posted a screenshot below. (For those who don't read Japanese the text above "You got a mail." translates as a "A message was received.")
I'm looking for a device that will wirelessly stream my computer (13" Macbook Pro) audio to my 5.1 speakers. I've seen that AirPort supports 2.0 streaming of iTunes music, but I'd like support for all audio and surround sound (for games and movies). Does anyone know of a product or software for this?
I just switched to the Mac, and I installed Firefox and Chrome. For some reason, I can't get the functionality for opening the tabs and windows from the last session to work either browser. Mac OS X 10.6.6 Firefox 3.6.13 Chrome 8.0.552.237 I have tried making different profiles and reinstalling the browsers but nothing works.
I have a 24" iMac running 10.6.6 that will not boot if anything is connected to the usb ports on the back. If they are removed, it boots fine. It has been to the Genius bar once but they did not find anything wrong hardware-wise.
There's the wonderful Greasemonkey to run user-defined JavaScript on web pages. Is there such a thing as Greasemonkey for Safari? Or would one instead write a Safari Extension to customize behavior on other web pages? Maybe there's an alternative that runs on AppleScript instead of JavaScript?
Is there any way to get Mac OS X to connect to a specific access point by BSSID? I have a network with the same SSID for multiple access points, and I would sometimes like to specify which specific access point to connect to. Is this something Mac OS X can do natively, or is there a third party tool that can do this?
I have Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. Does the upgrade to Parallels Desktop 6 means that I have to reinstall Windows 7 and all the other programs?
I tried just option-clicking the drive and renaming, which worked but I started to get a lot of application errors. For example, Terminal won't even open. Also, a lot of the Ruby gem installers don't handle spaces well.
Is there an app to disconnect an iPhone from a Wi-Fi router at a specific time, other than just turning off Wi-Fi?
I'm trying to rip some DVDs on my Mac, the boxset for a TV show, using Handbrake. I'd also like to automatically fetch metadata - show name, episode name, etc. But MetaX isn't getting any metadata for me for this particular TV program. Any other Mac apps I can use that do similar?
I can hear the hard drive chugging away when it should be idle. Some process is writing/reading from it in semi-random bursts, let's say once every second. Very annoying and wasteful. I tried activity monitor, but that did not give me enough information and lsof is overwhelming. Where should I start digging to find out what process is (ab)using the hard drive? This is on 10.6.6.
Related question here. I find out that when I charge my iPhone, if I don't charge it to 100% before I pull out the charger, sometimes the battery will leak out very fast. The leak manifested in these ways:
(I wasn't sure whether this was an iOS mail issue and so should be asked here, or a Google apps issue and so should be asked on webapps.se, or if it's just not possible. Feel free to bounce me if appropriate!)
I got carried away taking high-res and RAW photos, and now my iPhoto Library is just too big. Most of these photos aren't good enough to take up that much space, but they're still good enough to keep. How can I reduce the sizes of my photos while maintaining iPhoto metadata (e.g., albums, rating, location) for them? Extra props if: I can do it as a batch process. I can exclude certain photos from the reduction (e.g., only reduce photos without 5 stars). It gracefully handles the relationship between the modified and original photos.
I specifically want to know what the difference is between badges and alerts in the Notifications options in the iPhone 4. Could you provide screenshots of each case?
I use Coda as web editor, and I usually have to mix Italian and English nouns and phrases. I don't want spellcheck on (as I use programming-related words such as uid and pid), so I'd like to deactivate it. At the same time, though, I'd like to have it enabled everywhere else on my computer. It appears that Mac OS X doesn't have a way to enable spellcheck for some applications but disable it for others. Is this possible?
Just curious if it is at all possible to have Time Machine backup to the 'cloud' using Amazon Simple Storage Solution. I've setup Time Machine to work over the network before to unsupported volumes (NTFS) but wasn't sure if this is possible. Anyone ever tried?
I want to know if I buy a iPhone 4 in another country if I take it home to Denmark where I live, can I then reinstall it so it uses the Danish keyboard and the iPhone is on Danish?
I need a kit that I can mount in my car on the dashboard where I can do the following with my iPhone 4G: Use GPS Record Video from the forward facing camera (toward me) or the rear facing camera (away from me / through the front windshield) Make phone calls hands free (using the speaker phone or the headphones kit that comes with the iPhone or with a Casette Adapter for iPhone) Is there a mount that I can use for this?
I'm trying to connect to my Ubuntu desktop from my Mac laptop (10.6.6). The linux machine shows up fine in my network list, and when I connect to it, Screen Sharing prompts me for a password (which is how I have the Ubuntu machine configured).
I have a MacBook Pro 13" and my wifi connection never works properly. I know there are no problems either in the MacBook or in the router since: Another computer can connect to my router easily I connected my MacBook to other routers My router is a Linksys WRT160NL that seems to work properly since also my iPhone can connect to it.
But it's doing it again now, and I am at a loss. I wish there was a way to "get inside the Finder's head" and see what it's doing. I've tried running a sample of the Finder process in Activity Monitor, but honestly I don't know what it's doing, much less how to interpret the output.
I'd like to view the data spotlight has imported. Is this possible? EDIT: For example I can do this: and find out this volume was indexed. I'd kind of like to find out what's not indexed though.
How can I access Windows PCs from my Mac, and vice-versa, on the same network. I need to transfer files back and forth, and I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I poked around the settings, added the MacBook to the workgroup and all, but the computers still can't see each other. Right now I'm using a USB HDD to shuffle files, but that is far from ideal...
My office uses: Microsoft SharePoint to store and version our documents Microsoft Office, with Microsoft Document Connection to connect to the SharePoint site. Can Finder connect to a SharePoint server? Can MacFUSE be extended to mount a SharePoint path as a volume in Mac OS X?
One evening, the screen of my iPhone 3g would no longer rotate. It was working fine that morning. I haven't updated or installed any applications.
I just got a new hard drive and I want to sync all my iPad stuff back into my iTunes but it's just asking to erase the iPad. I just want all my books and stuff to be back in my iTunes.
I want to download free app in my iPod touch device and i have the following doubts. Kindly resolve me doubts. when i try to download it asks my credit card security number. when i try to download it asks my credit card security number. since i am trying to download free app , why do i need to provide my credit card security code? since i am trying to download free app , why do i need to provide my credit card security code? Will i be debited for downloading the free app from app store? Will i be debited for downloading the free app from app store? I cant able to find any information regarding this on apple. Please provide me some references about this from apple and please resolve my doubts. Thanks a lot.
How do you change back an iPad from Korean to English?
I have a 500 GB hard drive in my iMac, and I am planning to buy a new external hard drive to use for Time Machine. I don't know if Time Machine synchronizes, or something else. What size external drive should I get for Time Machine?
I have no iPhone 4 here now but I need to know how well is its camera for reading small-size QR codes. Now I have some test QR codes printed on a sheet of paper and my old 1.3MPx smartphone camera doesn't recognize them. So, I wonder how good is iPhone 5MPx camera for doing that. The code I need to be read well from a printed sheet is 16x16mm or so. The size of a single square module is about half of a millimeter now. Please let me know if you have a chance to test it or if you had a deal with such things. Thanks!
I've got a broken screen on my iPhone 4. Does anyone have any hints, suggestions, or products that you have used to repair your broken screen? Is there anything different about the iPhone 4 vs other iOS devices (due to the Gorilla Glass)?
I often listen to podcasts on my iPhone 3GS over several sessions. Occasionally the iPod app will forget the playback position, which drives me nuts because I have to remember where I was and fast forward to that point. Does anybody know what causes this? I can't seem to find any pattern to it.
Following this answer I have created a custom service that executes a shell script that looks like this: It works fine when I click. Then I defined a custom shortcut for it, (⇧ ⌘ L), and when I use that, the script seems to get executed twice (two tabs open, both showing the desired page). How can I fix that? Edit: This only seems to happen when I invoce the service using the shortcut from within FireFox.
There used to be a vibrant community of themers and modders for OS X. It seems like after Leopard was released a lot of that has dried up. This may be the one area where I envy Windows users. The flexibility they have in changing every aspect of the UI is really nice. Are there any resources for people looking to change the look of our OS?
My iMac has been running horrendously slow the past couple days, so I booted into the Snow Leopard CD and ran a disk repair and a permissions repair. Now I can't get past the spinner. It's been going for about 4 hours now with no shows of progress. Does any body have any ideas on what else I can try (I already tried doing the repairs again) or is there any way I can debug this?
The upgrade was successful, but I'd like to be able to restore applications directly instead of re-downloading them from iTunes and then copying over the data/documents/library directories from my backup. Once caveat of doing things this way is that there may be a newer version of the app now on iTunes and my backup is no longer compatible with it.
I'm the developer of an application that is currently on the Mac App Store. I'm trying to download my own application so that I can test out the binary that is on the store. (As opposed to running it in Xcode.)
I love the command line and I would like to see an app like Terminator (for Linux) in my MacOs:  It seems there are ports of that app for Mac available using Fink or Ports. But I found it's a hell to install them... it depends on a lot of things which depends on other things which... etc. So I've been wondering if there's a MacOS native app like that (free or not)...
I got an app (RDP Lite) which lets me use my PC remotely when I set the IP address to my PC's and use it at home. So it's fine internally but when I want to try it externally I try setting it to my router's IP address, provided by BT Home Hub Manager under Home Network > IP Addresses, and that doesn't work.
I already posted this question in stackoverflow: *=URL=* but I was informed there that this is the right place to ask it. I check "Use option as meta key" checkbox in Mac OS X Terminal, because I like to use emacs way of moving between words: M-f & M-b.
We have a number of iPods and a number of computers and the fact that they need to be matched one-to-one for iTunes sync'ing to work is really a pain. Is there a way for me to upload a video directly onto an iPod Nano (a previous generation that can still play them back, not the current one), without having to switch the library it is connected with (which would erase all other content on there)?
I have a small problem. I don't want that our Macs here create the ._ files to the network drive. For example when you copy an image over the finder to the SMB storage. Is there a way to disable this function in Finder? The .DS_Store file is already disabled, but not files such as ._pic1.jpg . We activated veto files in samba to prevent creation of ._ files, there arose an error – not enough permissions on the drive. Thank to all ;)
I have a macbook pro as my everyday machine, but since my music collection was getting big and my hard disk is small, I decided to utilize an external hard disk that I had and was not used for anything. On the external HDD I created a new iTunes Library and copied all my music there. Some small amount of it I left on my MBP so I could listen on the go. When I was home and I wanted to refresh the MBP's music, I'd connect the external HDD and if I downloaded any new music in my iTunes Library I'd copied them to the external HDD too. This way the external HDD contains the most current contents of my music collection. It was ok, until I recently decided to buy an iPhone. I synced the iPhone to my MBP's iTunes Library and now trying to copy some new music from the external HDD iTunes Library I'm being told that in order to do that I have to delete everything that's on my iPhone. Is there any different option?
My application preferences were reset, and at which point the 'Open In Finder' arrow on the stacks is now opening iPhoto. Does anybody know how to change this?
I have an iMac (PPC) with iSight. How can I re install Tiger without the original install or recovery DVDs?
I want to use RemotePC, but it needs an internet connection. I don't understand why; I only want to remotely control my Mac from an iPad, so a local network should be enough… right?
I've used a static IP so that I can be sure I'm pinging the right machine. I've also checked that the firewall is (Preferences -> Security -> Firewall) turned off. What else do I need to check to diagnose this?
Newer MacBooks provide enough juice through the built-in USB ports for the iPad to charge quickly, and one can use the wall outlet to get the job done as well. However, there don't seem to be any hubs out there that do anything but trickle-charge...
I've got an external 1.5TB drive I'd like to connect to my iMac and use as a networked drive so other computers can connect to it's IP and read/write to the Drive. What would be the best way to do this? Specifics I'm looking for:
If I go into Settings > Trackpad and enable Tap to click, I can enable the settings Dragging and Drag Lock. What is the difference between these two settings?
I can single tap my trackpad for a left click, and tap it with two fingers for a right click. Is there any way to bind a three finger tap to perform a middle click? I tried MagicPrefs, but it's limited to the MagicMouse only, it doesn't work with the trackpad.
I enabled the System Preferences > Trackpad > Tap to Click which causes it to work while I am logged in. However, in the login screen, it does not work. How can I get this setting enabled in the login screen as well?
Which trackpad gestures does Safari support, and what do those gestures do?
If I deleted files on my computer and they went to the trash, how can I send them back to the same folder that they came from? On Windows, I can right-click the files and press restore.
I'm wondering if anyone knows what features will be offered in iOS 4.3 for Apple TV? I'm primarily trying to find out if the Netflix app will be updated to support subtitles.
Currently, if you enable it, the four finger gesture popups a window that shows you the apps you can switch to, You can then select one of them using the mouse. Is there any way to modify this gesture a bit to make it faster to use? I would be fine with either of these implementations:
Does the Nike iPhone Sport Kit will work on a 2nd generation iPhone that has the 3.0 update applied? In the Q&A on the website, some say it will, but others say it only works on a 3GS iPhone.
When data is transferred from my iPhone via 3G, is it encrypted, or is it relatively simple for a hacker to read the data that's transferred to AT&T's cell tower? What about after it reaches the tower?
I have an airport base station model A1354. I am attempting to setup MAC Timed Access so a laptop can only connect between 5:00AM and 11:00pm through the Airport Utility version 5.5.2 (552.11). My AEBS is running firmware version 7.5.2
Trying to see if I would buy this accessory with a new MacBook Air 11'', does anyone know if the Airline Power Adapter work exactly as a charger that we normally use in the car?
I know that you can rebind shortcuts in system preferences/keyboard. I just don't know how to set multiple keystrokes to the same action.
curious if anyone has any experience with any third party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI cables? I noticed the cables on ebay selling for around $16. Compared to the official cables that run for around $35 seems like a bargin. Wasn't sure if the quality is the same or if anyone has any experience with buying them. Thanks!
Does anyone have a Terminal command-line recipe for making a new bootable USB flash drive for one of the new MacBook Air's? Is there a way to dd copy the USB boot device that comes in the box and make the new copy bootable? I'd like to make a new backup copy of the USB rescue device for my MBA, preferably on a much larger flash drive with room for a backup of some of my working directories. Added:
On my iPhone 4, I have a large number of SMS messages (I don't delete them at all). If I want to search for text in a particular message, it appears not to search historic SMSes. In other words, unless the text is visible in the latest messages, viewable on the screen without tapping "Load Earlier Messages", it will not match my string.
I have a stereo system hooked up to my Mac mini, but sometimes I'll play music from my laptop. Is there any way for the Mac mini to be recognized as a speaker and allow me to output sound to it (and the speakers connected to it) from my laptop without paid solutions like Airfoil?
I like the magic mouse for the two-finger scroll and other features under Snow Leopard. Which of those features will not work under Windows XP and 7. I have XP on a home machine and 7 at work, so I care about both.
I would like to upgrade my 1st-gen Apple TV and was wondering if it is possible to stream to new Apple TV from a NAS drive with iTunes server or an alternate method. I am not willing to go XBMC way since I would like to control my Apple TV though the Remote app for iOS.
tricky question here. I don't know how long this has been going on, but I noticed it only recently. My semi-transparent windows have a “fake” square/window beneath them, which is visible (it also project a shadow, but only when the window is in foreground. Screenshot: (the textedit window serves just as a white backdrop). Video showing behaviour: *=URL=* I initially thought this was just TextMate, but I noticed this on terminal.app too (semi-transparent too).
I'm currently writing emails frequently to a Slovenian who has the letter š in his name. I use copy and paste for the letter š, which is quite inconvenient. I'm using the US keyboard layout. How can I type this letter directly from the keyboard?
Is there a way I can change the function of my caps lock key so that when it's on it inserts_underscores_instead_of_spaces_when_i_hit_the_spacebar? It's fine if it just works in Textmate but would be handy in other apps.
Core2Duo is old architecture in comparison with iCore (MacBook Pro 15" and 17"). When can we expect upgrade of 13" macbook pro? And any rumors about what we can expect? Apple Updates MacBook Pro with Next Generation Processors, Graphics & Thunderbolt I/O Technology http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/24mbp.html
If you double click a word to select it, and keep the mouse held down, you go it starts word selection mode, meaning it will select whole words as you move the mouse over them. This only works when using the physical click on the trackpad. The problem is that I want the same behavior using a tap (i.e. the One Finger Tap to Click feature is enabled). When I try to use a tap, though, it goes into character selection mode rather than word selection. Is there ant way to perform word selection using tap gestures on a trackpad?
How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X?
What does iTunes do while it's "Verifying iPod, iPad, iPhone" I see this most often after an abruptl disconnect and plug it back in but also sometimes when doing a second sync immediately after the last sync completes. Does it fix any errors that have occurred on the device?
I'm trying to follow the steps in this article to make it so the contents of my memory aren't written to disk every time the computer goes to sleep. I'm having trouble in the "Check the current setup" step. Before changing these settings, I want to make sure I understand it 100% so that I can revert the changes. It says that I should have a setting of 3 if hibernate and sleep is enabled, or 7 if hibernate, sleep and secure virtual memory are all enabled. I'm on a standard user account, but when I go to System Preferences > Security > General, I see that Use secure virtual memory is enabled. The problem is that when I run pmset -g | grep hibernatemode, it returns 3 instead of 7. Any idea why there is this discrepancy?
Is there any way to disable mouse acceleration on a mac? Mouse acceleration is what causes the mouse to move slowly when moving it a tiny bit, and a farther distance when moved fast. In other words, I want the mouse to always move the same distance no matter the speed I use. I'm using a trackpad, by the way. To understand what I mean by mouse acceleration, try this: Place your finger on the left most side of the trackpad. Very slowly, move your finger all the way to the right of the trackpad, and observe that the cursor doesn't move very much on the screen.
I'm trying to follow the instructions for how to set up a firmware password, the problem is that they don't mention anything about Mac OS X 10.6.*, nor do they mention what to do with a MacBook Air, which doesn't come with an OS X DVD. If I try searching for "firmware" in spotlight, it doesn't find any relevant application.
I've been playing around with a lot of different settings, and I'm not sure if one of the changes I made causes three finger gestures to not work in the System Preferences application, or if they never worked in the app to begin with. When you navigate through the application and the forward or back buttons are enabled, does using the three finger swipe advance you forward or backward?
How are they related? How is Push notifications used in iPhone Maps application?
I got an iPad back in June 2010 and it worked wonderfully for about 30 days; full bars for 3G all the time. I loved it. Then one day the 3G just seemed to quit working and Apple says it is "fine." Now I hate it! How can I get Apple to admit my iPad 3G does not work and actually fix or replace it?
When I login as guest, then change the background, logout, and log back in, the background is not saved. How can I choose which background the guest account will have?
I'd like to swap the shift key with the / key. Ukelele says that it can't be used to change modifier keys. DoubleCommand has static settings that you can either enable or disable. It doesn't let you chose your own custom bindings, and needless to say, this remapping I want isn't available.
I tried using DoubleCommand, but it doesn't let you hold down caps lock, and pressing it causes caps lock light to be enabled/disabled. Ideally I want caps lock to never be enabled and for the key to behave exactly as though it were the delete key. Another problem that DoubleCommand has is that every second press just toggles the light, and doesn't delete a character.
It's something that drives me crazy. The current version (2.0.2) of the official Twitter app for Mac OS X doesn't behave well with Spaces. It moves from space to space when I select another application (switching with cmd TAB.) Is there a way to fix this or do I have to wait for a new release?
is there any way to stream audio from my Mac to my Linux computer (my av receiver is connected to that)?
I am currently the only iPad user in a large company, and am loving using it, especially for meetings. I keep a lot of information relevant to meetings on DropBox, such as minutes, reports, spreadsheets and so on, and tend to refer to them a lot. I like the fact that I can easily navigate my own directory tree in DropBox, and view common file formats on there. However, whilst I have permission to use dropbox for the files I use, I find that I am limited in scope with some meetings, as I'm not allowed to place others on servers that don't belong to the company. I end up having to either bring a laptop, or, more commonly, look over somebody else's shoulder. So, can anyone recommend a solution similar to Dropbox that would work for shares on Windows Server 2003, and allow me to: Easily navigate a directory tree, possibly with shortcuts to commonly-used folders View files in MS Office 2003 and 2007 formats and PDFs without lengthy conversion processes Not have to go through an intermediate
To date I have had an Apple ID tied to my personal email address. It uses my personal paypal account for the purchases, and currently it has a credit balance thanks to some Christmas iTunes gift cards.
I'm curious as to how or why I might want to take advantage of two ethernet ports on the back of the tower?
For some reasons I could not install Boot Camp on my iMac. I tried to defrag, reinstalled OS X, repair hard drive but nothing seems to be working. I kept getting error "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved".
Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to activate a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this?
Is it possible to use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch? I have an old iPhone 3G that no longer has a SIM card and I want to use it as an iPod touch. How can I achieve this?
Before this problem occurred I have been trying to defrag my disk using Drive Genius 3 and repair using disk utiltity. Than I decided to delete it. Not sure if that was the reason or not but after that I had this message pops up all the time "The application DGAgent quit unexpectedly". I have no idea what it is. This happens every I start up my iMac. The message pops up every time I click "ignore" "report" and "relaunch" buttons. Can you tell me what it is and how to fix it? Also this causes some of my applications such as Skype "cannot be opened because it is not supported on this architecture".
I want to set up Skype to have priority on my router whem I'm skyping from my iPhone, but I can't figure out which port the app uses. Any ideas?
I've created a bootcamp partition and successfully installed Windows 7 there. The problem is that Windows loads too slow - there is a white pointer on black screen blinking for 2 or 3 minutes before system starts loading, so total loading time exeeds to 4 minutes. How can I reduce Windows loading time? I'm using MBP 2010 MC371, so there should be no perfomance problems.
I've an old iPhone 3G that I want to give it to my girl. She don't need it for play big games or stuff like that, but it's really slow in most of common tasks (access contacts, email, etc). And since she isn't going to use many things the iPhone have, I was thinking in jailbreak it to see if there are apps that let you strip some of these things she wouldn't use. Do you know jailbreak apps that strip functionality/features to iPhone 3G? Or it'll going to be slower than now?
Has anybody encountered a problem with the USB driver when running Windows 7 on MacBook Pro 2010 (MC371)? It doesn't recognize any USB drives or USB hard drives. I've tried both Windows Update and Bootcamp update - nothing helps. Where can I find a proper driver?
I recently changed editors from TextMate to MacVim. Thanks in part to vimtutor, things are going pretty well. But I miss the Espresso Libre color scheme:
When I've plugged in my USB HDD (WD Passort Elite) for the first time, the system had asked me whether I want to use this HDD as time machine drive. I've chosen smth like 'decide later' and continued my work. When later I tried to setup time machine preferences I couldn't find the way to set my USB HDD as time machine drive. When I press 'Select drive for backup' i see empty list, nevertheless my drive is plugged in and works well. Btw, it is ntfs-formatted, could it be a problem? Thanks in advance
This link, from Amazon, also 60W, claims to work for MacBooks (all of them, or some of them?), but is much less expensive: http://amzn.to/f3Xsc7
Is it possible to increase window width of the Spotlight search results under Mac OS X 10.6.6? I mean the semi-transparent "instant search result" window appearing at the top right corner under magnifying glass, not the Finder window.
I have the Eye-Fi Pro X2 Card and an iPad. I just wonder if there is a way to transfer pictures from my camera wirelessly without going through the Internet or a real wireless network - basically I want an ad-hoc connection between the iPad and the card. I do own the iPad camera connection kit which works, but that kinda defeats the purpose of an Eye-Fi Card in the first place :)
My Mac decided to delete all but 19 fonts, which is fairly annoying. It didn't really delete them, as in I still have the original files in the /Library/Fonts folder, but they've disappeared from Font Book, so I can't use them.
I'd like to jailbreak my iPhone but have it appear to my network provider as if it isn't jailbroken. This should be do-able, but what do I need to do to make this happen? I have an iPhone 4 currently running iOS 4.2.
Does a Wireshark implementation exist for iPhone 4? I recently felt a need to have some tools with me at all times.
It's interesting. When I first pull up the keyboard viewer, it shows a diagram of a standard Mac keyboard. As soon as I hit one of the above 6 keys, the map changes to an extended keyboard closer to what I have. But the diagram has my Cmd/Opt keys swapped. Is there any way for me to tell the OS I am using an extended keyboard?
I found the following FAQ on Apple's website: Why can't an upgraded version of Microsoft Windows XP or a full version of Microsoft Windows XP that does not include Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later be used for installation? An upgraded version of Microsoft Windows XP cannot be used because you are required to validate your copy of Windows by inserting an original Windows CD, but there is no way to eject the first disc until after Windows installation is complete and the Boot Camp drivers from the Mac OS X 10.6 DVD are installed. And so I was wondering if you had two DVD drives hooked up to a MacBook Air, could you install boot camp using an upgrade version of Windows 7?
You can select text, and then press highlight. You can then tap the highlighted text and press open to add a text annotation to this highlighted text.
According to the User's Guide of the MacBook Air, it says: Set up your MacBook Air on a stable work surface that allows for adequate air circulation under and around the computer. Do not operate your MacBook Air on a pillow or other soft material, as the material can block the airflow vents.
Does MoneyWell have a "jars" system? I imagine if I have PHP 1000, I want to be able to "give every peso a job" like place it in a "jar" for example. Then I want MoneyWell to track that "jar" for me, like if it's positive, I'm obliged to spend it (or transfer it to an untouchable savings account). If it's negative, it means I'm over the budget.
I want to create a host name that points to my MacBook dynamically, so I can have a chance to take back the control if it was stolen. I opened ssh and vnc, but I have no idea how to find my machine. Maybe DynDNS is a solution?
I am trying to create an Automator action for a workflow I often need for web publishing: Select some images inside Aperture Export two copies of the original image with different resizing settings applied (say, a 1000 px version for viewing and a 150 px thumbnail) Rename the exported copies, prompting me for a file name
I have an HTC Desire that currently cannot connect to the internet and a Mac that can. I want the HTC Desire to be able to connect to the internet.
Is it safe to carry MacBook with HDD in a bag while it has been put sleep? I.e. I know there are some risks of hard disk drive damage if one tries to shake them or rotate them while they're working. But is the HDD working while the Macbook is asleep?
I have an iPhone 4, iPad, and MacBook Air, all of which support Wi-Fi 802.11n. However, there are many routers out there that were created before the official N spec was finalized (e.g. those based on drafts). How do I know which routers will be compatible with my Apple products?
Any way out of this? Is there something about aspect ratio that I don't understand, or is iLife 11 just buggier than a new york hotel?
When percolating slide shows from iPhoto '11 to iMovie '11, what is best format to choose for export to minimize wasted disk space and time, given that I do not want to carry any audio? I've been using QuickTime, on the theory that Apple's programs would behave best with Apple's format, but I'm beginning to wonder.
I sync email, contacts and calendar to my company's Exchange server. This morning all of my contacts are gone from my iPhone (iPhone 4, iOS 4.2.1). Facts that further explain: My contacts were good last night I haven't synched to my computer, updated any apps or changed any settings since then I'm getting email and my calendar entries are all good. I see all my contacts when I log into the web mail interface to the Exchange server Is there a way to tell the iPhone to wise up and realize that it has screwed up its contacts?
I have an old cinema display 20", and I'd like to ask if I can make a digital TV out of this display. Can I buy any tuner for it? What more do I have to buy if necessary?
I use Mac book pro 15", and it's time to buy a new one. For HDD, now I see a new option of SSD, which is pretty expensive. I can expect shorter boot-up time and faster access of files, but I'm not sure if it's worth the money. Does the use of SSD give one a dramatic performance boost?
I recently recovered from a disk failure and while most of my files are ok, I'm having trouble with my iPhoto library. While it appears that the data fro the iPhoto library is intact in the recovered files, the library now appears as a folder rather than a bundle. As a result, iPhoto will not recognize or open the library. Is there any way to make it back into a bundle either from the GUI or via the Terminal?
Does Apple (or any oter company) have such a service which would let you temporarily use a SuperDrive (or other external DVD Drive)? I have a MacBook Air and in order to install boot camp, I need an external DVD drive. Paying $80 for a one-time use of a DVD drive sounds absurd. For that reason, I was wondering if Apple or any other company has some kind of service which allows you to bring in your laptop and use a SuperDrive for one time installations. I wouldn't even mind paying for such a service as long as it's significantly lower than the $80 for a SuperDrive. Any other ideas besides buying a cheaper alternative of the SuperDrive?
What iPad apps are available that support handwriting recognition? Are there any good iPad apps for taking notes that can recognize handwriting?
The reason why I'm considering the iPod Touch is because I want a device that is not a phone, I can listen to music and podcasts while walking, and it has a browser (wireless connection is fine) on which I can quickly check news and tweets. Perhaps I should add that this would be my first Apple product.
I see i can download individual podcasts one by one but i can't figure out how to subscribe to an entire podcast going forward on my ipod touch. is this possible or can you only do this from itunes on your computer??
I'm searching for an audio converter for mac with wide capabilities. It should be able to: Convert to flac (not from flac) Split cue files into separate tracks Grab audio CDs Edit ID3-tags in batch mode Ability to convert different audio formats to MP3 and ALAC would be a big plus :) If there is no such ultimate tool, could you please provide links to some separate tools that have the different functionalities listed above. Thanks in advance!
I have some problems that i cannot resolve on my iMac and now I would like to delete everything and start it from scratch like when i first bought it a few years ago. Please show me the steps. Thanks, Jon
Having had a certain amount of frustration with the iphoto-11 slide show dept, I decided to get Aperture and see if the grass was greener on the other side. I imported the whole shebang, and my slide shows obediently waddled across into Aperture. The pictures look normal in the small images in the bottom, but previewing or playing in Aperture shows a 'pixelated' effect in which the picture is split into many small squares, resulting in terminal fuzziness. Is this a display artifact, or an import problem, or just a setting hiding in Aperture somewhere that is trying to conserve CPU or something?
I've been looking at buying a used ipod touch from craiglist but I'm confused as to what's what. The adds all say things like "2nd generation 8gb" or "3rd generation 16gb" and I'm not sure what the difference is.
I run iTunes on the Mac MBP (Snow Leopard). I have a folder of apps called New Folder. I click on it to open it, rename it, then close it. It shows the new name. But then after sync it changes back to New Folder.
Ever since upgrading to 10.6.5 my MacBook pro seems to crash when graphic acceleration. The screen will go black and if audio is playing it will start to skip like a broken record. This occurs when using the following apps: Transmit Sparrow Mail Pixelmator and this css3 demo: *=URL=* Anyone else experiencing similar issues? Hardware is stock and diagnostics are reporting everything is ok.
Is there any app (or otherwise) that allows me to select audio tracks to play, or even just skip to the next track on my iPhone 4 via a PC connected to the iPhone by USB?
I tried to install Boot Camp to my iMac and I installed windows to the wrong drive. Instead of Boot Camp partition, I installed it to OS X :( So now I cannot repair the drive using disk utility because i grayed out. The drive is now called "disk0". I tried to reinstall OS X using the Mac OS X install disk but it cannot see the drive. the drive is not even on the list. How can I get it back, PLEASE HELP!!!
If I try to go to the settings in System Prefs > MobileMe, it asks for a username and password. Is there any way to remove the menu bar icon without needing to either login or create a MobileMe account?
I would like to have two iTunes libraries with one being automatically organized and the other letting me choose where to store the files. When I create a second library it seems to share the same preferences as the first (the settings are actually iTunes preferences). Is it possible to have separate settings for my libraries?
I've recently bought an HTC Desire and I'd like to sync my calendar from my MacBook Pro (Os X 10.6.6) with the calendar from the phone. I suppose it would be easiest to do it over Gmail, but I'm not sure how. I checked their site, and there is a simple tutorial how to do it if you want Gmail calendar events in iCal, but I need the opposite. How to do that?
I purchased a PlayStation 3 controller for use with my Mac. It's paired via Bluetooth. It works great in emulators such as Snes9x, but I'd like to use it for other things as well. Is there any software that will allow me to map buttons on the controller to keystrokes? I've tried USB Overdrive and as far as I can tell, it doesn't do what I want. I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.6.
I installed Folx download manager on my MacBook Pro. I didn't like it, so I removed it from the Applications folder. I also searched for its dependent files in /Library/Preferences, but I found nothing related to Folx.
I'm looking for a bandwidth/packet throttle/shaper program with the following features: Similar to Windows-based Netlimiter. GUI based and not terminal or command line. Shows list of all applications communicating over network its connections, transfer rates and more. Set download or upload transfer rate limits for applications, connections or groups of them.
Whenever I start Safari on my iPhone it insists on bringing up the last bookmarks folder I happened to be in. Is there a way to disable this behaviour and just have it present me with an empty page when I start up the app? I don't use bookmarks and the process of waiting for that bookmark view to show up and then dismissing it is surprisingly time consuming.
I have a B/G protocol modem/router and when I connect my iPod Touch (4G) to it, the internet access is incredibly slow (0,19 MB/s DOWN // 0,05 MB/s UP). So I've tried to create a new wifi (N) connection through the share menu on my iMac and connecting to it the iPod Touch has the normal speed one would expect. I've also tried to restore wifi settings and restore from DFU my iPod but nothing changes. Any idea on how to make my iPod Touch fast with my B/G modem? Thanks
I have a 20 iMac and an AppleTV 2 (the black one), and three external drives (2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB) that house all my music, movies and tv shows. Up until now, I've never needed more than the one drive for everything, but now my 1.5TB drive is almost full and what I'm doing to keep things organized feels like a cludge so I'll just explain what I'm doing and hopefully someone will tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it. Right now, I'm using the 1.5TB (music, apps and tv shows) and 2TB (movies) for my media. After I've converted, tagged, etc. all my new shows or movies, I change the preferences in iTunes to the drive that contains whatever I'm about to add to the library. For example, if I'm going to add a new movie, I switch the "iTunes Media Folder Location" to the 2TB drive, add the movie, then change the preference back to the 1.5TB drive. This just seems silly to me, and I know I could create a RAID but I don't want to move all that data around so there has to be a better way 
I want to organize my to do's for programming an iphone app. I found this, and I really like it, but is not native to Mac OS X. Is there any app similar to it?
I've been wondering how to organize my shows by Show, then season and then episode because I have, for example, 6 entries for Bones (one for each season), 7 for Star Trek TNG, etc. and it just looks like a mess (Imagine if you had all 22 seasons of The Simpsons), is there something else to clean this up?
Greets everyone. I've updated to 10.6.6 but my Mac App Store doesn't behave well - see screen below:
My Mac App Store updates keep repeating. They won't clear. The update is clearly installed. I know this because the new features in the changelogs are visible in my apps when I open them. The update process itself also works smoothly; meaning the progress bar gradually fills for each item in the update list and displays no errors. The badges will clear, but whenever I go and click on Updates again the badges and all previous updates return. It's very annoying. How do I fix this?
I want to know what's draining my iPhone battery. Is there an application that can monitor / estimate battery usage by application?
Why should I jailbreak my AppleTV 2G? I'm confused on what extra functionality it brings. I understand you can browse the full internet with something like a typical web browser, but that doesn't interest me at all. What else is there?
Occasionally after turning my keyboard brightness all the way down to 0 manually (Which I do sometimes at night if I need to leave the machine running while it processes something) it won't allow me to turn it back on. It gives me this symbol when I try. It usually lasts until I reboot. But is not easy to reproduce as it does not always happen. Something tells me this is unanswerable, but I was hoping someone else might have discovered this problem too. 2010 2.4GHz MacBook Pro.
I'd like to use two external monitors for some excels, coding, email, not games or video content. Can someone please explain how I can go about using two external monitors with my MacBook Pro, and realistically, how good will the performance be of the 2nd external monitor?
I've got a 2006 13" MacBook (Core Duo; the first ones they produced with an Intel chipset), and the built-in webcam doesn't seem to work anymore. Here's what my System Profiler shows in the USB tab:
I'm a developer working with Windows. I have some cutomers who are interested in iPhone Apps, so I'm looking for a Mac right now. The problem is, that I have no clue at all about what to buy.
I have a pretty recent macbook pro 15in, aluminum unibody, probably not yet one year old. It mainly gets used in clamshell mode connected to an external monitor. I've noticed frequently now when I take it out for use as a proper laptop, the left side Option and Command keys have an oily substance seeping out of them, with a corresponding spot on the screen where it touches those keys when closed. Any ideas on what's causing this?
When I plug my iPhone 4 into my Windows 7 Ultimate laptop, it syncs just fine with iTunes, but it no longer mounts on the desktop for me to transfer pictures and videos. When I plug it in, Windows attempts to install a driver named "MTP USB Device" and then fails. I've tried a number of things, the most drastic being: Uninstall iTunes Uninstall MTP USB Device from Device Manager Restart Install the latest iTunes Restart Run iTunes Plug in the Phone
I'm having a hell of an issue with my iPhone 2G. A couple of days ago, I noticed my phone was behaving strangely and appeared to be 'half-synched'. I tried restarting it then did a restore to my last backup using iTunes. To my dismay, I stopped getting any cell service after this; just no bars or "NO CARRIER" instead of data or voice service (everything else worked fine). I called AT&T to report the issue and they were essentially no help and determined it to be a hardware failure. I tried resetting the network data, resetting to factory settings, doing a restore to a different backup but to no avail. The only thing that worked was when I switched the sim card to another spare iPhone I had.
(Crossposted from Serverfault) I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about every 10 seconds. And seemingly redundant updates at that, as the IP is more or less stable (consumer broadband). I don't remember seeing that frequency in the (distant...) past. The lowest time-to-live that MacOS pushes on the entries is 2 minutes, so I have no clue what's going on.
I have an iOS application - an alarm clock. I released it a little over a month ago. Initially it was paid, but when I saw there were virtually no purchases (from 0 to 4 a day), I changed it to be free for a period of time. When it become free, in less than 10 days it has been downloaded more than 30,000 times, and more importantly (I think) it moved much higher in the search results when the user searches "alarm" - it reached 20th place in the results. During that time I also received very good reviews in the AppStore. But today I changed it back to paid, and now when I search "alarm" my app is shown at the bottom of the 4TH PAGE. Given that one page contains 120 apps, this is very bad for me and I don't understand why this happened. Can anyone tell me how does AppStore ranks search results and is there a way to move my app higher in the rankings, please? :) Huge thanks!
I'm an avid fan of QuickSilver, and I had been using it for several years already. But then development of the application seemed to have stagnated for a while, and many bugs (specially with plugins and advanced features) were never fixed. I then moved to QSB, which seemed to be where the efforts were being concentrated in order to produce such an application. But then again, development seems to have stopped and several features I still miss (like AppleScript launching) were never properly implemented. I'm aware of a few alternatives out there, notably AlfredApp and LaunchBar, but I wanted to ask here for your opinion and recommendations before trying them out.
I need a good external sound card mainly to record guitars and vocals. What options available? What would you recommend?
Is there any possibility for me to sync with my Mac and not reinstall apps and re-upload music? I know I can use an iPhone file manager (my iPhone is jailbroken) to search all the saves and then reinstall all the apps and then transfer the saves back to phone, but it'll take too much time. Is there a more elegant way to do it?
I'm not sure about this, but I just want to know if it's possible to purchase a product from the Apple website, but not to pay in full, but pay every month since I cannot fully pay the whole price of a 27" iMac but I can if I pay every month. Cheers. EDIT: Ok, I had a chat with an Apple Expert on the live chat (via the website) in order to pay monthly, you will have to place an order WITH a financial payment which is label in the payment method (second tab on the panel). After that, confirm your order and you will be redirected to an Apple "Apply Now" which you will place an confirmation for Apple to approve or disapprove, if you are approved you will be sent an application - if you dislike the Terms and Conditions, your order will be canceled. Cheers guys, hope this will help everyone.
Help! I've installed boot camp and Windows 7 on my black Macbook Santa Rosa (2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM) and have a serious problem where I can no longer boot into OSX. OSX freezes with the apple logo and timer, but also has an extra progress bar that I have not seen before. Has anyone else encountered or heard of this problem?
I have a shortcut key conflict between TextMate and LaunchBar. I use ⌘+⌥+\ to call up LaunchBar's clipboard history. And it works great everywhere except in TextMate, which has this combination bound to some Bundle action. I'd like to unbind this combination in TextMate so I can get to LaunchBar's clipboard history view when I'm in TextMate and pull things off the stack.
I'm a longtime FVWM user over on the Linux side and have developed some keyboard + mouse shortcuts that I find very helpful in managing windows. Specifically: left click + command + shift = send to back if frontmost, otherwise raise to front right click + command + shift = maximize window vertically (horizontal size unchanged) left+right chord + command + shift = grab window and move it left+right chord + command + control + shift = resize (drag pointer to side or corner and move that to resize) For all of these, "click" means click anywhere in the window.
In iTunes 9 and earlier, I could go to a playlist and hold down option and click the small arrow next to the name of any song in that playlist to select that song in the main library instead of the playlist. This was very useful, for example if I wanted to remove a song from my library, I could use this to "reveal" the song in the main library and remove it from there. (This little icon, when clicked on without option, would open the iTunes store for purchasing the selected song)
I'd like to use the "right-to-left override" (unicode character 202E) in Safari. How do I make it work?
I installed ProXPN on my Mac and successfully used it. It installs an icon in the menu bar which you can use to enable and disable the application. I was messing around with the settings and clicked on the option which said something like "show icon near spotlight icon in the menu bar". After restarting my computer, I no longer see the icon in the menu bar. When I try to launch the application from my Applications folder, it doesn't seem like it's doing anything. How can I access the program or its settings?
What privacy and security risks am I exposing myself to when I connect my MacBook to an open insecure wireless network? Are there any risks that are worse or better when compared to a Windows PC that's connected to an insecure wireless network?
I am looking for recommendations for a video card for my Mac Pro version 2,1 circa spring 2007. It currently has the ATI 512MB card that Apple sold as an option at the time.
iTunes could not connect to the iPhone "iPhone" because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter the passcode on the iPhone before it can be used with iTunes.
I have my magic mouse and I've gotten it working with windows 7. Left and right click work as well as scrolling.
First of all, is there such a thing? All I want to do is be able to import film clips from DVDs into iMovie so I can make groovy youtube videos. Any suggestions for a Mac 10.4.11 user?
I'm a Windows software developer interested in reading the .quizPack file format. It is designed for Apple iQuiz software, and contains text quizzes for iPod. The text file format, unpacked from quizPack, "trivia.txt" is fully documented here. But how to unpack these files? I cannot find any specification of this format on Apple website or elsewhere. Here is a downloadable example of quizPack file.
If I'm not going to be using my Mac for a while, am I better off shutting it down completely or just putting it to sleep? Obviously it uses more power to "sleep" than to be off completely, but it uses much more power during the boot up and shut-down stages... Presumably, if I'm going away for a couple of minutes, I'm better of sleeping it, but if I'm leaving it for some longer period I should shut it down completely (assuming I know how long I'll be away for!). How can I tell when to shut it down vs sleep it? I'm interested in knowing the answer for a few different, specific models (me/friends/family): Mac Mini (late 2010) MacBook Pro 15" i7 (late 2010) MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo (late 2007) MacBook 13" Core 2 Duo (mid 2008) But of course it'd be useful to have some more generic information for others too.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my MBA, 2010. I open up Boot Camp and attempt to use it, but after the first screen it comes up with an error saying it can't install unless theirs 10GB of free disk space. Right now my HDD has 21.5 GB free. Disk Utility won't let me partition my drive either, so a manual install is out of the question.
I've read this post here: How can I save Google Maps in iOS for offline use? but it didn't mention anything about MotionX GPS caching Google Maps tiles. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that it can cache proprietary tiles or Bing tiles or something, but can it cache Google tiles? That would be sweet if it could!
There's a couple of behavior's that I find very frustrating, and no luck yet in fixing them: Imagine chrome with multiple windows open. There's one in front, then another application, then the other chrome windows. When I hit apple + M to minimize, another chrome window pops up, rather than showing me the other application, which would be desired.
Whenever I download a .dmg file and then open it (usually from the download bar in Chrome), it opens up in the background. Is there any way to get it to open up in front of my window? Edit To clarify: I want the DMG window to pop up as the active window.
I'm about to format an external hard disk drive (HDD). What are the key differences between journaling HFS+ and non-journaling HFS+? Apart from the fact that one has journaling and the other does not, how does it affect the drive's performance (with numbers)?
I bought my first Apple product a few months ago, an iPod shuffle, a tiny little music gadget that's fun to play with. However its getting a little boring because I don't know what I can do with it or places I can use it. Currently, I'm limited to listening to it during sleeptime as a lullaby machine. What do you do with your iPod shuffle/nano? how do you get the most out of it?
First off, I am well aware of how to—in general—create a wireless hotspot using an ad-hoc network directly from my iPhone. I have previously used the latest version of MyWi (version 4.12.6 at time of writing) but it creates ad-hoc networks and this doesn't work for me. I do not want to and cannot create an ad-hoc network from my iPhone to allow another device to share its connection (must be wireless, as bridged connections don't help either). Does anybody know if this is possible?
It pops up a message telling me this which means I have to tap 'OK' This is seriously annoying, does anyone know why this happens and what terrible event it is supposed to help me avoid?
I use emacs/org-mode which uses color for hiding some of the headlines as is shown here. This works well with Aquamcas, but when I run emacs in text mode, I still see the stars in the headline as I didn't make the background color exactly the same as the color of the font. How can I match the text color and background color in Terminal?
I'd like to open a new Terminal window in Terminal.app. I'd also like to be able to customize this window (color, text, etc.), based on one of my pre-defined defaults, or based on something else not yet set in Terminal preferences.
I have a Macbook Pro that I use both at home and at work. At home when I'm using it as a laptop, the standard resolution of 1440 x 900 is fine as it's closer to my eyes. However, at work I plug in an external LCD so that I can dual screen and the resolution of the Macbook screen is a bit too large for my eyes.
I was wondering if there is a way (or at least if it is possible) to purchase an app from the app store now, but do not download it now (to save on disk space) and download it later when required. Often there are apps on sale (e.g., Lonely Planet city guides) that are not immediately useful. These are great apps, but not immediately useful. So, instead of downloading the app right away and use up disk space, it would be nice to purchase the app and download later when required.
Machine #1 is a mac mini with a CD burner only. Machine #2 is a macbook pro with a DVD burner.
Inserted resulting disk into nice new-ish dvd player with 30" LCD TV, 720 resolution. The pictures have a very visible structure of being built of little squares.
I found a really cool app in the App Store called FileSorter It automatically sort files. Is there any FREE alternative?
I want to set up Casp Lock as a shortcut for changing the input language. There are some solutions like this. But it requires installing some software and doing tricks. Is there a way to do it in a neat way, say through terminal command?
It seems that ProXPN will only launch after you connect to a wireless network. How, then, can I keep my connection secure while connecting to an insecure wireless connection while using ProXPN?
How can I figure out if a Safari extension is using unreasonable memory/cpu? I'm not really experiencing any unreasonable sluggishness, but I am starting to pile up on the extensions and was considering pruning the most performance draining ones just for good measure.
So, the question pretty much says it all. I'm on Snow Leopard, and I do a lot of web development, particularly in Rails 3 which makes heavy use of the console.
All my iPad landscape screenshots end up rotated to portrait view. In other words, they are 90 degrees turned the wrong way. It's annoying. No I don't have the rotation lock on when taking them. I am on 4.2, but it has always done this even before 4.2 update. I am jailbroken, so it may be one of the jailbreak apps. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas?
I've got a Goal0 Nomad 7m solar panel. It produces ~7 amps @ <22V DC on a regular day.
I usually spend around 3 or 4 hours a day working with and annotating PDFs. I've always used Preview, but there's a few things that bother me about it. Mainly the large icons used when you place notes, which can get in the way in tightly formatted documents. Is there an alterate PDF reader that is any better for annotating documents?
This seems to be a pretty common feature in most Windows-based IM clients and I'm confused as to why I can't find this functionality in Adium. By "dock" I mean dragging the buddy list to the edge of the screen and having it essentially turn into a sidebar which no windows overlap and which takes up the entire height of the screen.
Since I've had my iMac I've noticed that my wifi network locks up a few times a week, it is always fixed by turning off the wifi on the iMac, then turning it back on again. The network shouldn't be over loaded, it's a Time Capsule with iMac, iPhone, Macbook and Apple TV connected, surely these should all play together nicely! I've checked and the Time Capsule is at the latest firmware level (7.5.2), so not sure what the next step is. [edit] iMac is current model 21.5" i3, OSX is at 10.6.6 and software update says everything is up to date. To clear up unstable the wifi connection always appears to be connected, but if I'm using the iMac I can't view websites, there have also been times where the Airplay streaming has just stopped, so it seems to be the whole network.
Is there a way to define multiple release years in the mp3 tags using iTunes? The reason I am asking is that I have a lot of "remastered" albums in my iTunes database that were released in the last couple of years but the original ones had been released much earlier. Now I would like to store the release year of the original album with it. So that for example I would be able to sort and search by original release year OR by acutal release year.
Like many people, I'm having trouble finding an iPhone 4 for purchase in my area. Right now, I'm using an advanced Twitter search to monitor tweets in my area, looking for people celebrating the purchases of their new iPhones, and I'm calling local personal electronics stores after they receive their shipments.
When I add the Nibbble web app to my iPhone home page, it not only installs an icon, but when run, also hides all of the mobile Safari chrome. How does it achieve this?
I understand that you can output to one 1920x1200 monitor while still using the laptop's screen, and one 2560x1600 monitor using the dual-DVI adapter. But can you output to two external 1920x1200 monitors? I don't care if you can still use the laptop's screen in that case.
when I press Shift + Control + Eject the displays go blank for a second, then they turn on again. There's no way I can get them off permanently. I also don't want the computer to sleep as I leave it downloading over night. I have a MacBook with an external monitor attached.
A file copied from a NTFS share has become read-only, other files in the same folder are OK. Finder's Info says in the Sharing & Permissions: ls -l@
I'm facing a strange problem where my WLAN suddenly stops working the moment I plug in my HDTV into my MacBook 13" (mid-2010) using an HDMI to DisplayPort adapter. Any idea why this is happening?
Back to the screen that asks for SIM insertion and iTunes connection on background. Is it?
How can I make GrowlTunes start automatically when either Growl or OSX does?
When I am watching a YouTube video, the video will pause and freeze for about one second, every 10 seconds on the dot. I've timed it. I have also tried watching activity monitor but it doesn't show anything out of the ordinary spiking. And it's not Flash or the browser in particular, though they show the worst effect. But even as I type this, every 10 seconds it freezes. In other programs too I'm pretty sure I have seen this freeze. (lately I haven't used many other programs, to be honest, so I'm not 100% sure)
This is something I always wondered about: when I leave my charger plugged on the wall socket but not charging anything, is it still consuming energy? Some notebook chargers have a led that is always on, so I guess it's consuming at least a bit. But what about Apple chargers? I want to leave my iPhone and iPad chargers always plugged under my desk (so I can just connect my device when I want to charge) but I'm worried they shouldn't be plugged all the time due to safety risks or phantom power consumption. Is there any way to measure this to be sure?
Is there any global Finder setting for "Keep Arranged By"? I know I can set it on a per folder basis pressing Option - Right Click: It is painful having to do this for every folder though... Jonathan
Is it possible to disable alerts coming from the Calendar app? I am talking about the on the screen pop-ups that come before the start of an event. You can turn off the alert sound in the Preferences, but I don't see an option to turn off the alert pop-up. (My iPhone calendar is synchronized with Google Calendar, and so I already alerts through some other means, and don't want to get them one more time on the iPhone.)
Let's say I have some repetitive work on Mac which requires click menu A, then give some input, click button on and on. Can anyone easily automatize these kind of tasks with Mac? What kinds of options do I have for it?
I'd like to know the best way to create gorgeous mail templates such as Jumsfot's Stationary Mail ones and send them without having to use Safari. Is there a way to do this easily?
As of MacOS 10.6.6, there's no keyboard shortcut that I know of for zooming (maximizing) the window. There's ⌘M to minimize, though. I made a custom shortcut, defined it on the keyboard preferences pane, but as it identifies the menu command by name ("zoom"), it clashes with other commands in some applications, for example this one I'm using right now, Firefox. It briefly highlights the view menu, giving me a hint that the command matched by "zoom" is inside that menu, but in this case, zoom is just a submenu that has the options zoom in and zoom out, but it's obviously not related to zooming the window. Is there any other way of setting this shortcut to work in such cases?
I am looking for a thin/tight yet robust rubberish/silicon skin for my latest iPod touch 4G. It should have a single black or dark gray color and not not have any pimples or ripples. Simply put: as unobstrusive and robust as possible. Also the iPod touch still should fit into the apple universal dock. Wich skin would you suggest?
I have installed emacs with homebrew, with the --cocoa flag, which makes homebrew create an .app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/<version>/Emacs.app. I have symlinked the .app bundle into /Applications/, to make it easy to open. The problem is that when I try setting file associations for files, I can't set Emacs.app as the default (the Add button is greyed out):
Is it possible to limit Growl notifications to one App only? I'm really bothered by notifications by Adium, Bowtie and lots more but I don't want to deactivate each of them manually.
The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's new iPad-only app, has a narration feature where a professional actor reads the stories. I can't for the life of me figure out how it works. There is a headphones icon that starts it, and then you get a fast-forward arrow and a stop square. But the fast forward arrow just seems to activate the carousel, not jump to the next story. And the story you get when you press play seems random. And I think there's only narration for some of the stories, but I'm not sure, since I can't find a controlled way to navigate. Can anyone help to explain how this feature works in detail, so I'll stop feeling like my mom and cursing at the "broken machine"?
The keys 9,o,l and . on the keyboard of my MacBook Air have stopped functioning all of a sudden. Instead of the intended characters, random characters from the same row as the faulty keys appear. Also, the built-in mic is failing. What could be the problem?
I have a macbook in clamshell mode that's plugged into an HDTV for display output. Yesterday, I changed my display settings via the System Preferences. However, I inadvertently picked a setting that is not supported by my screen, and now I can't figure out how to undo the change. The screen is blank. I can open my laptop and go to dual-screen mode and change the settings there, but as soon as I switch back to clamshell mode the system picks the broken display settings again.
I bought an iPhone 4 recently. I've been using Find my iPhone but I find it a little limited.
For a few months my Macbook (white, 1.83Ghz Core Duo, OS 10.6.recent) has been showing the mouse pointer in a strange way. It's as if alternating vertical rows of the pixels making up the pointer are transparent instead of black. The following photo shows it (try squinting a bit) against a white background:
This is a general iPhone usability question. I wanted to know if we can clear contact cache in email of iPhone mail account?
I've just upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6.3 and all seemed to go OK, except that now no keyboard shortcuts work in any application. The keyboard viewer shows me that the command keys are working fine, and some global shortcuts work fine when I've configured them to (e.g. command-space to produce the Spotlight search box).
Are there any free apps to download my entire photostream from Flickr? Or at least as much content as possible? I want to quit my Flickr account.
At work we have a firewall that prevents certain outbound connections. But I also have a Clear wireless personal hotspot. I would like to use the work connection for normal requests but for certain requests such as my Mysql app, I would like to use my personal wireless. Is there a way to do that without having to switch back and forth. So all mysql connections just know to use one network interface while other requests use the default.
This is all that's happening. My laptop, my other mobile and my desktop computer all see each other. But my iPhone just keeps "searching". Any tips on what to try?
One of the iOS apps I use has been crashing a lot more than usual lately, so I'm posting about it on their forum. I've got a bunch of crash logs.
I have a Mac Pro tower with a 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon chipset, and 8 RAM slots. I have been told because of the processor's triple-channel memory capability that I should be installing RAM modules in sets of three. I do a lot of compiling on this machine and want to maximize all the hardware I've got. Does it follow that I should avoid installing RAM in the last two slots?
With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, such as Acorn, but is it possible to do this from within Skitch?
I just started with Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi's Mac Hacker's Handbook and was doing the tutorials. This includes getting to know things like 'otool'
Is it possible and safe to share an iTunes library between users on the same Mac using a blank disk image to hold the library? The goal would be to have all albums in one place only and to be able to handle sync'ing both iPhones to the same library and holding all backups on this image. Also this simplifies library management and backups (we switch computers every 6-9 months) What I'd be afraid of are things getting "screwed up" Also with this solution is it possible to use 2 iTunes accounts?
Assuming I have songs with lyrics already added to them, how do I easily view them when listening to a song?
I have Macfusion automatically running when I boot, but how can I have it automatically connect to a server? Can't find this anywhere..
It seems that there are two different sleep states on my MacBook: Sleep State 1: Invoked by: closing the lid or by the sleep timer. Awaken by: touching the trackpad, clicking the trackpad, pressing a key, or opening the lid. Sleep State 2: Invoked by: Apple Menu > Sleep (or its keyboard shortcut). Awaken by: touching the trackpad, clicking the trackpad, pressing a key, or opening the lid. You'll notice that the main difference between the two is that in the first one you can simply touch the trackpad and the computer will wake up. I have two questions: Why are there two different sleep states? Are there any other differences between them besides the one I mentioned? I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but I changed my MacBook's settings to cause Sleep to only Sleep and not the default 'Sleep and Hibernate'.
I've deleted the two hash files in the folder /private/var/db/shadow/hash/, corresponding to my login account. Now, I cannot login, and don't have any other account on my Mac with sudo permissions.
I want to be able to lock my screen on Mac, much the way Windows+l does on windows. I do not want to have to put in a password each time my computer sleeps/screen saver turns on. I want a keyboard shortcut to lock the screen while still allowing the computer to wake from sleep without a password. I don't want my session logged out or suspended in any way. Note* I would like a keyboard shortcut for this.
I'm a programmer, and I find Mac's QuickLook a really great feature for quickly becoming familiar with a particular code base. Basically, I open up a Finder window in the directory where my code files are, I push the spacebar (to evoke QuickLook), and then I arrow key up/down/left/right through all the files and scroll within QuickLook as needed.
I’m having a problem with podcasts in iTunes. Here’s how it seems to work:
The little button that sits on the microphone of my iPhone headset stopped working. Normally, pressing the button will pause a song, go to the next song if you double-click it, and go to the previous song if you triple-click it. Now the button doesn't do any of these things, but the headphones and mic are working fine.
I noticed that MacOS (10.6) makes a decimal conversion for file sizes, instead of binary:  Is there any way to force it to make binary conversions instead in Finder? Because my mind kinda works in powers of 1024, regarding the file sizes.
I have a Macbook, though I assume this behavior occurs on all of Apple's newer trackpads (the multitouch ones where the entire trackpad acts as a button). For a split second after clicking the trackpad, the cursor won't move (try it!), even if you continue sliding your finger across it. This probably improves usability in some areas (like double clicking), but I don't like it. Is there a way to disable this behavior?
On my old Macbook pro I had a Windows 7 64bit Bootcamp partition. When I got my new Macbook pro I transferred the Bootcamp partition to the new computer with Winclone. Now when I try to boot into Windows 7 it immediately goes to the BSOD. I can however boot into that partition just fine using VMWare Fusion.
I suppose you could have it pass in whatever was selected in general in any app (such as text highlighted in a web browser).
Will using a MacBook Air out in the sun damage it at all? Will it affect any of the paint, the screen, distort the laptop's form, cause excessive heat, or cause any other damage?
Per my other question on monitoring network throughput, I now have a series of graphs, some of which are distinctly non-obvious as to what they are. Is there documentation on what every interface on a Time Capsule (in this case, current generation, 1TB Wireless N Base Station), pollable via SNMP are? Here is the list that is available:
Is it possible to test iPhone applications which you downloaded from iTunes Store in the iOS Simulator?
Suppose you lost your iPhone or it was stolen and with your MobileMe subscription you have the choice of tracking it, locking it, displaying a message or remote wiping the phone. What would you do and in which order to maximize your chances to get it back?
Is there a way to mirror the display of an iPod Touch or iPad to the Apple TV using AirPlay? I know I can do it for Applications that support it, but for presentations it's often useful to just mirror the whole display, e.g. when wanting to show something in Safari.
Is there a tweak that lets me delete any photos from my iPhone - including the ones uploaded with iTunes?
This is very similar to this question however the only problem is that I'm running solely Windows OS on my PC. I also only sync with google calendars and that's all. However, it appears the sync doesn't match the calendar colors. Is there anyway to synchronize or directly change colors on the iPod/iPhone?
I bought a CD, ripped it and copied it to my iPod Touch. Then I found the lyrics on the internet, confirmed that they're the same as in the album booklet, and pasted them into the lyrics section in iTunes.
When I sync my iPad, iTunes tells me that Video accounts for so many gigabytes of space, Photos another portion, etc. etc. But iTunes also tells me that a whopping 5.5 GB is being used by "Other". What could this possibly be? If it's not video, audio, photos, apps, or books, what's left taking up that amount of space? I don't have that many contacts...
I just recently got a MacBook Air and noticed that its battery life is much lower than Apple's estimate of 7 hours. Since it is not the same, I would like to benchmark my battery life right now (while the battery is fairly new) so that in the future when the battery feels like it isn't holding as much charge, I can know if it's due to the battery life diminishing, or if it's simply my perception that the battery is not holding as much as it used to.
I want to bind a gesture in BetterTouchTool to the shut down menu that is invoked by pressing the power button on my MacBook Air. It's fairly simple to bind gestures to keyboard shortcuts, so what I'm really looking for is a way to bind a keyboard shortcut to the shut down menu. You can't use the power button in BetterTouchTool, so I need to bind it to a standard keyboard shortcut such as Command+Shift+S.
Is possible to have Forklift open folders, paths, etc instead of Finder?
The hard disk on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.5.8) died, and after getting it replaced I have been trying to restore my files from backup. The backup I have is just a copy of my user directory. I copied the following files from backup to their corresponding location in my user directory before starting up Mail: Library/Mail Library/Mail Downloads Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist Library/Preferences/comp.apple.mail.searchhistory.plist Going into Mail, I see my email accounts, and I can look at the lists of email messages... but when I click on the message to see it, there's no message content.
We recently bought an iPhone 3GS for my stepson. He has my old iMac G5, running OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger), and iTunes 9.2.1.
I'm noticing my iPad battery seems to be going down very rapidly, even when not in use. Has anyone else seen this behaviour and what would be the most common causes?
I have a Macbook Pro and I'm trying to get VPN from home to work. It refuse to work. I have turned on verbose logging, but how can I read the log ?
I want to use an antivirus app on my Mac, and I heard that ClamXav is a good one to use. However, I'm not sure how to use it. All previous anti-virus scanners that I have used have two main features: Active monitoring Scheduled scanning The first feature constantly monitors your system and when it detects a new virus file being created, it will let you know so that you can remove the virus before it does any damage.
How would I assign ⌘1 to Music (Library item) ⌘2 to Movies ⌘3 to Podcasts
I have a problem with my Mac mini running OS X Server 10.6.6. I want to use iCal and Address Book on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro. I started the two services without SSL. I installed port forwarding on my router: 8008, 8800, 8843, 8443 I added the account on my iPhone and iPad But now, on my iPad and Mac I get the error: Code 60. What did I do wrong?
the free Find My iPhone seems to require an iPhone 4 for setup, even though it will work on an iPhone 3GS. How can I set up the service without an iPhone 4?
Is the format of Time Machine's backups documented, or standard? Can I extract the files with a non-Mac system?
I'd like to have a command-line script I can invoke at the Terminal that will output the total number of messages in my "Work" Inbox in mail.app. Usage would look like this: What does the Applescript code look like to do something like this?
I've recently switched to Chrome for developing and have thus started using the build-in Developer Tools instead of my previously preferred Firebug workflow. Just today I found a keyboard shortcut (Command-Shift-I) that jumps straight to Inspect Element rather than just opening the Developer Tools like Command-Option-I does.
I need a tool/script to synchronize two different iPhoto libraries between two Mac books. By now I want to have common albums with my mother and myself. Is there anything to do this automatically via Internet or local network?
Is there a command I can enter in Terminal that will force eject a CD or DVD? One that will always work, equivalent to a "Force Quit" for an app?
I have my Apple TV linked to my iTunes library stored on a network storage device by linking to my laptop. I would like to point my Apple TV directly to the iTunes library on the storage device without linking through the laptop. Is there an easy way to do this?
My late 2009 unibody MBP won't boot. I have already booted in single user mode, ran fsck -fy until I get no errors. But when typing 'exit' or rebooting in verbose mode I see, after fsck runs:
I have a new MacBook Air. I would like to run Wireshark on it. But when I choose capture in Wireshark there is no interfaces to capture from. Doesn't Wireshark have support for the MacBook Air WiFi nic? How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air?
Anyone know what the problem might be? This problem is seriously causing the battery to burn down.
Normally when you invoke expose, you can use the trackpad's two finger swipe gestures (up, down, left, and right) to highlight a window so that it has a blue border around it. You can then select the window by tapping your third finger down. I really like this method, since it is much quicker than moving the cursor over the window you want and tapping it.
What iPhone apps can I use for sending bulk SMSs? Hopefully something very simple to get started with....
Am looking for a good quality stylus primarily to be used for note-taking apps.
I just upgraded my iPhone 3G from iOS 3.1.3 to 4.2.1. Backed everything up (8 hours) Downloaded the update (1 hour) Installed the update, and restored everything (1 hour) Everything looks like it worked… EXCEPT that now, all my email is gone. I have three questions: How could it restore all my contacts, settings, apps, all email settings, all email boxes, everything… and only skip my email? How could it restore all my contacts, settings, apps, all email settings, all email boxes, everything… and only skip my email? Where did my email go? Where did my email go? How do I get my email back? How do I get my email back?
Im really just curious to try IPv6 and see what happens. Is it possible to turn on IPv6 and to turn off IPv4 on my Mac? If it is possible, how can I do it?
I'm about to buy a second Mac Pro - I have one in London where the temperature is pretty cool most of the time, but want to get another one for Spain where the temperature gets up to 51 degrees celcius outside sometimes. What it be a foolish thing to try and use a system that presumably would overheat pretty quickly in such a hot country? I've tried air conditioning, but that really doesn't bring the temperature down much when you're in that kind of heat. Plus it's VERY noisy with AC on and I'm a composer so need as much silence as possible for when I'm recording... Thanks for any pointers - especially from people in hot countries!
I'm looking for a secure and hopefully free remote desktop client that will allow me to interact with my Mac OS X 10.6 machine from a 10.5 machine that will also transfer sound to the client. At a minimum, the software must support a tunnelable connection. If there is a vetted iPad app out there that will do it, that would work, too!
My impression of the general feeling toward spaces is that it's a good idea that doesn't work very well and so most people don't use it. I do use it and I can't imagine having all my windows open on one screen as being easier to navigate. I'm interested in any better workflows people have in play. My primary machine is a 15" MBP (no separate monitors), with a space each for mailplane, browsers, omnifocus, evernote, and two clear work spaces for whatever projects I am working on with relevant apps and windows within.
Yes, I know Acorn isn't Visio, but still let me ask the question: How can you draw an arrow with Acorn? I am talking about the kind of arrows that Skitch or Jing would draw, and that you typically add to a screenshot to take the viewer's attention to part of the image.
One of the nice features of the recycle bin in Windows is the ability to sort it by the date an item was deleted. This way if you accidentally delete something, you can easily find it because it will be at the top of the list. Is there any way to do something similar in Mac OS X's Trash folder? I see that there is a date modified field, but that is not updated when the file is deleted.
I installed Microsoft's Remote Desktop and connected to a PC. How can I share files between my Mac and PC?
I have a 32GB iPhone 4 version 4.0.1. I have many photos on my phone, but I have deleted an important photo from my iPhone. How can I get this photo back from my iPhone?
I change the cover images for the songs in my iTunes library using: and in most cases the artwork updates immediately. On some tracks, though, it doesn't. I then tried removing the artwork (so nothing should appear in Cover Flow), but the track then keeps the image it had previously.
If I have a router that supports 802.11 N, G, and B, how can I know which one of these my MacBook is currently using to connect to the router? I'd like to see proof that it's connected using the fastest protocol available, rather than hoping everything is working correctly. For example, the N protocol may not be compatible with the MacBook (if it's an early draft), so it would use G instead. Another situation may arrise if the N protocol is disabled on the router via its settings, which would also cause G to probably be used. Thus, rather than assuming that it's using the fastest protocol, I want actual proof that shows which protocol is being used.
Are there any editors or notes applications out there that support Markdown? I am often having to make notes or documents where markdown formatting would be ideal, and have gotten into the habit of using markdown on a daily basis.
I just got a MacBook Pro for my parents, and I need to get their files from a Linux desktop machine that most likely has either reiserfs or ext3 file systems. I would like to know if Snow Leopard can read these files if I put the HDD in an external HDD case?? Thanks
How does one remove a black border around a video. The input video has the size 720x576 and has the output video should be 720x480. I need to crop away 96 pixels from top and bottom.
In the file system on the iPhone, Photos are located under /User/Media/DCIM/* But where should I found Images of "Photo Library" ?
My iTunes library, that's shared on our network, has some songs that have a bit rate of 320 kbps. These songs will not play when I try to play them from a client computer - accessing them through the Shared library.
I'm looking for a way to obtain an updated installation media for OS X 10.6.x, currently 10.6.6 I am looking for a similar solution to the Windows slipstreamed installation media and preferably a solution to put the kit on a USB drive in order to improve the installation speed. Is this possible, and if it is how it is possible to get such a media?
How can I change Terminal.app's default shell to BASH? For some reason, my friend's Mac (10.6.6) defaults to using TCSH instead of BASH. The obvious remedy is to choose /bin/bash as the command to open shells with (as below), but then it fails to load .bashrc and .bash_profile (even if I give a --source or --rcfile parameter). How can I switch it to use bash the right way?
Mobile me users have web.me.com/USER to use it as a HTML server. Is there a way to password protect some/all of the contents?
At my job, we get specific emails that need to be responded to right away. Currently, I filter and forward those emails to my SMS gateway address provided by AT&T (1234567890@txt.att.net). The problem is that they result in 16 text messages because there are 4 emails and each one results in 4 text messages. Can anyone recommend a service or app that provides an email address that will result in an iPhone popup?
I'm currently using the built-in microphone on my early 2007 MacBook Pro to access the Speech features. I'd like to use an actual microphone that I can clip to my shirt or something (since Speech seems to work better when I'm closer to the mic). What do you use for a mic? Can I just use the mic on the default iPhone headphones?
My circa 2008 iMac hung up today and wouldn't reboot -- it just hung on boot with the Apple logo and the spinner. I booted the Snow Leopard DVD and ran Disk Utility on the drive. It told me the drive needed repairing but during the repair cycle stopped, and said the drive couldn't be repaired. That I should format it and restore from a backup.
Is this drive dead? Seems odd I could restore to it if it's dead. Should I try an older backup from TimeMachine? Could the most recent backup be restoring something so corrupt to the disk that it's un-bootable after the restore?
It doesn't need to be terribly convenient. If CD ripping doesn't work, for example, I'm happy to rip elsewhere and copy the files to Windows for iTunes. I really just want the ability to copy data onto my iPod, including iOS updates, and do backups.
Safari is quite slow when I open new tabs. I get a busy cursor, and I cannot interact with other tabs. Is there any way to make it faster? I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.6.6, Safari 5.0.3.
What reasons are there for choosing the case-insensitive version of HFS+ when formatting the primary drive partition? Would case-sensitive not always be the best choice?
What do these dashed boxes mean and how to use them?
I need to automate a screenshot task, so I thought why not use automator? I found the "Take Screenshot" Action and started to play with it. The problem is is that is sets the file name and when the workflow is ran again it overwrites the prior screenshot. I tried selecting this and renaming it but it won't work. Essentially what I want is the normal function of Command + Shift + 3 where it will date-stamp it or something, anything but overwrite!! Any ideas?
I have a Mac Pro, and I use Mail.app. Everything used to work fine with my POP account.
I'm thinking about getting a word processor for my Mac. The two most popular options are probably Microsoft's Word or Apple's Pages. Before I decide to buy one I need to make sure that it will have all of the features I need. Is there feature matrix which compares Word to Pages and shows which features each application supports?
At work, I have a MacBook Pro, plugged into a Cinema display, external keyboard (mini-style/no-numpad style), and magic mouse, and I use my laptop with the lid closed. Thus, I have no power button. Can I end the session without asking for mouse access?
I've installed macports and then done 'sudo port install nautilus' to install nautilus, which all works fine. Now i'm not sure how to actually run nautilus - there's no app in the applications, and if i do 'nautilus' from the terminal it simply throws up a lot of errors. Am i missing something? Thanks And the errors are below:
Switched recently from a Lenovo PC and one thing on my mac bothered me. Headphones plugged into my Macbook pro 13" (latest version) "hum" with static when there is no audio playing. Then after a short period of time, they stop humming, as if all power to the port is turned off. When any sound plays, it starts again. Anybody know of any setting in the Mac "bios" (or whatever they call it) or with drivers or software to get it to stop humming? It's rather annoying.
The program Anki saves its data to the Documents folder. I would like to move this folder to my Dropbox folder. Anki has no settings which allows you to change the location that data is stored.
I'm trying to follow the directions on how to create a Windows 7 installation USB flash drive. I was able to create the drive and when I insert it into a Windows computer, it shows the installer correctly.
It's MY local personal keychain after all. I can edit other passwords, but not the VPN PPP pasword. See screenshot for details.
I'm looking for a solution that would enable me to install Ubuntu and run it as a virtual machine under OS X but still be able to boot directly Ubuntu. If possible I would like to test both scenarios: Ubuntu guest on OS X host and Ubuntu host and OS X guest.
I have always wondered how the orientation/autorotation hardware works inside an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Originally I thought it was the accelerometer but I don't think it is as an accelerometer can only measure movement and the iPhone knows it's current orientation without any movement.
I need to automatically run a command when I log in but I don't want to add an item to the Dock. How can I do this?
I've tried several solutions to enter DFU mode but none worked: - the Home + Sleep combo - the DFU program here Somebody has an idea?
I want to be able to backup my apps, sources and themes so that i can still do restores without having to go through the whole process everytime. I am a tinkerer, and sometimes I break stuff. I need a way out!!
How can I type a backtick (accent grave, or "`") on an European (Dutch) apple keyboard ?
I am considering purchasing a 2010 27" iMac to replace my 2007 MacBook Pro as my everyday development machine. Ideally, I would like to work on the iMac when I am in my home office and work on the MacBook Pro when I am out at a clients office, coffeeshop, etc. I would like both machines to be in sync so I don't have to worry about not having an application installed, missing project files, etc.
Can anyone tell me an easy way to transfer my dashboard widgets from one OS X computer to another? If there was a way to keep their positioning/settings too that would be great.
(I asked in stackoverflow but repeat it here) I would like to build a GUI prototype for an iPad application. The prototype can use static data (e.g. an xml file) but should look good and be fully functional, i.e. support user gestures, etc.
I have an iMac with a dead internal drive. And I have it's TimeMachine drive. I'd like to know that the TimeMachine-based data is safe and sound so I'd like to restore it to my MBPro. But not over top of my MBPro data. Is it possible to connect the iMac's TM drive to the MBPro and rebuild my Documents folder in to a random location (not over top of the MBPro's Documents folder) on my MBPro?
I wonder if this is a way (or an app) to send instant messages to iTunes library shared owners, visible on the network. It would be really handy to be allowed to communicate with them :-)
When viewing a podcasts on the iPod app on the iPhone, there's an option below to "Get more episodes". When you click on that, iTunes app is launched, and you're shown the latest 20 episodes.
During my work day as a software developer, I frequently have multiple Terminal windows open, each dedicated to a specific purpose and directory. I switch between them on a regular basis.
I want to run an Applescript when I mount a specific disk. It isn't if the script is located on the disk or not, it should just run when OS X mounts the disk. I tried to accomplish this with folder actions, but it looks like it isn't possible to do it this way. Clarification: I get home with my Macbook I plug my USB Hub into the device External disks are mounted in OS X My Applescript gets run, does some stuff on those disks I want to automate step 4.
With Finder, Cmd-L is a short-cut to make an alias of a file/directory. How can I use the command line to do that? I tried 'ln -s', but it generates the 'Symbolic Link', not 'Alias'.
I've got a rather peculiar problem. My wife's iPhone got stolen and we bought a new one from the insurance money. When trying to restore the backup file to her new phone, iTunes asks for the password: Enter the password to unlock your iPhone backup file.
I'm searching a program for slicing a song (MP3, wav, whatever) automatically in different patterns.
Chromium has command line flags. I'd like to use them, but I'd like to put them on the shortcut, since I tend to launch Chromium via spotlight. Is this possible?
I just update my Mac to 10.6.6 and Safari to 5.0.3 now almost every page I load causes Safari to crash, it does well on simple pages like Google but anything with a bunch of images or flash and it loads to about 3/4 and hangs until I force quit. Are there any known issues?
I just installed Windows 7 on Boot Camp, and when I login to windows, it says that there are Windows Updates available. The problem is that one time when I tried to install these updates, it prevented Windows from starting up again. So I'm wondering if it's okay to run all of the Windows updates as they appear, if I have to avoid some of them, or if I have to wait until Apple releases a patch which would permit the updates to be installed without any adverse effects. Here is the series of events that occurred as I remember them: Installed boot camp Installed Apple's drivers via a USB flash drive Restarted Connected to internet Windows noticed that there were a few recommended updates and installed them. Restarted I manually checked for updates in Windows Update to see if there were any more, it showed 40 or so. I began the update process.
I believe that by double-clicking the setup.exe in the Boot Camp directory, the first of these bullet points was installed. The second refers to something about installing Mac OS X, which isn't relevant to me. The third bullet point sounds like the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to read a DVD off another computer, not have another computer read the DVD off of mine. Therefore, I don't think that it's a problem of not installing the right drivers. Is it possible to use the optical drive of other computers on the same network in Windows as I can do in OS X?
I have a macbook 2,1 upgraded to 4GB ram and 500 GB hard drive. When installing AutoCAD, it complains that i have an older video card. Granted, that is true, I only use autocad for 2d purposes only. Is there a way to override that error?
Is there a special procedure to be followed when installing a brand new battery ? Like discharging it completely, or not; leave it fully charged for a certain amount of time, etc... (It's a battery of a MacBook Pro)
In the example below, there are two email addresses for the recipient. Mail.app defaults to the Home email, whereas I'd prefer it to default to the Work email for this contact.
I bought a MacBook Pro 13" in june 2010 in Poland. I want to buy AppleCare Protection, I'm going to Hong Kong where it is 50% cheaper than in Poland. So can I buy it there? Or are there any law/guarantee restrictions? Mateusz
When the iPad is plugged into the keyboard dock, you can reach the home screen by pressing the "square" button in the upper left corner of the dock's keyboard. Is there a keyboard analogue to the double-press that brings up the multitasking bar, or do you have to reach for the physical button?
My best friend and a client of mine have the same name, and it's way too easy to accidentally click on the client when I'm having a more adult or humorous conversation with my buddy at the same time as my client. Is there a replacement iPhone texting app that uses the native SMS (I have unlimited texting plan so don't want to bother with giving all my contacts a new handle nor requiring them to download an app themselves), but allows a couple other features like choosing what color a contact's talking bubbles will be or choosing the messaging font? I really don't want to jailbreak if at all possible.
I use logmein to remotely control my computers. Can I wake up the Mac when it's in sleep mode so that it's offline to the outside world?
Occasionally, after i do a forced reboot on my iphone (holding power and home) all the apps rearrange themselves to alphabetical order and it removes all my folders. Is there a way to fix this? I have a jailbroken iPhone 3gs 4.1.2
I have a MacBookPro (MacBookPro5,4) with the DVI output connection and I can't seem to get it to connect to my Dell Monitor. I've tried using Detect displays and made sure the monitor is using the DVI input. It says there's no power coming from the cable and enters power save. Detect Displays does nothing. Any ideas?
Whenever I quit iTunes, it restarts itself. I have iTunes 10.1.12 (the newest one) installed on my Mac. I don't remember exactly when it started—with either version 10 or 10.1. Is there any solution to this? It was caused by the GimmeSomeTune, after reinstalling it, everything seems to working fine.
I listen to a lot of podcasts - A lot of stuff from twit, cnet, smodcast and npr. I sync my phone about once every two weeks or so which for a lot of my daily podcasts is not good. For twit there's a decent mediafly app that is specifically for twit but it seems buggy - when you go back to listening to a podcast after stopping for a while it goes back in time and will skip back anywhere from 30 or so seconds to about 20 mins and you then have to scrub to find out where you were. There is also a standalone mediafly app that is supposed to be for alternate podcast locations but it doesn't seem to do a good job handling the RSS and misses quite a bit plus it has some of the same bugs as the twit version. Also as with any background audio api (aside from the iTunes app) they never properly are able to display the right info on the lock screen - some times it shows the title of the app, sometimes it shows the last thing you were playing in itunes (even though it doesn't play that and plays 
Whenever I open a post to edit it a whole preview window opens up along with it. I find this effect disorienting. I looked in the preferences and couldn't find anything. How do I shut off the automatic opening?
I need to run nohup nice synergys -f --config ~/bin/conf/synergy.conf & command whenever the computer boots up. As is written in this post, I came up with the following plist code. And, ran this command. However, I got this error message.
I just bought an iPod, and when I turn it shows an image with the USB cable and iTunes. It wants me to plug it to a computer with iTunes? But I use Linux, what do I do?
I have issues with my iPod Touch 4G where it disconnects from the access point for no apparent reason, and I need to go into the settings app and toggle the airplane mode to get the wifi working again. Is there an app that I could run to automatically turn the wifi off and then turn it on again so that I don't have to waste so much time opening the settings and toggling airplane mode? I haven't been able to find one in the appstore.
I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6) and OnyX told me I need to boot from my install CD and use Disk Utility to repair my drive. (It wasn't any more specific as to what the actual problem was.) I can't find my Snow Leopard disc anywhere, but I've got a 10.5.8 disc here. Will it work too?
Somehow I have gotten my Mac Mini into a state where every time I press a modifier key - shift, option, command or control - it shows an image of the symbol of the modifier key around the upper right of the screen. This is quite annoying and I do not know what this feature is called so it is difficult for me to find information about it. How can I disable this "feature"?
Why does turning on 3G data make my iPhone's battery die faster?
I'm stumped. I cannot get the HTML I wrote to display! I followed all the steps properly with creating a webarchive file, renaming so that it shows up in Apple Mail. But then when I go back in and see the signature, it's there but it doesn't display the HTML ... it just displays the code!
I just logged into Gmail and noticed that the last note to sync was from 6 days ago, even though I have newer notes on my iPhone. When I try to test it now by deleting, updating, or adding a note, it does not sync with Gmail. I have 355 notes on the iPhone, and 350 in Gmail.
I think that Spaces can be a really nice tool to improve your day-to-day work. I would gladly hear about the settings and usage of those virtual desktops (For instance : What's your logic behind the way you dispatches your apps between Spaces, in which order or direction (up, down, left, right ?), etc.) I also gladly hear about the hidden tricks related to Spaces, and its usages with the other tools (The dock, Exposé, ...) For instance I just noticed by chance that you can change an windows from one Space too another just by "pushing" it on the border of the screen for a few moment.
After jailbreaking iPhone 4, I was noticed that some proccess added to proccess list, like kern_sploit. What is this?
Where in my iPod Touch I can write my name and phone number, so if I lost it or it been stolen and found by the police (as I read that happened), someone could call me to go get it back?
I've got an iPod classic, and I can't for the life of me find any of the games that work with it on the iTunes Store. I know they are there, because I've seen them recently I just can't find them.
Could someone tell me how to retain the email window to the full page size eachtime I open entourage.? When I open the new email window it opens in a small window, in then have to drag the window to use it comfortably. I close down reataining these sizes and when I open the entourage later it always goes back to the small window! It is driving me crazy?
I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm misunderstanding the restore process.
I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm misunderstanding the restore process.
I don't have access to Office 2008, but require the information for a project I'm working on. I'm mainly interested in Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This is the information I have gathered so far... The preference file is: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist The property keys take the form: 2008\File Aliases\{APP}{n} 2008\MRU Access Date\{APP}{n} where {APP} represents an Office application, and {n} represents a number starting from 0. The applications are represented by the following values: MSWD (Word) XCEL (Excel) What value represents PowerPoint? In the property list I've seen, the numbers represented by {n} range from 0-10 (11 items).
How can I enter in the enter in the Apple symbol () in an application such as text edit? IIRC, Safari automatically converts this symbol when it sees the text &apple;. Update: Does it exist in the Edit > Special Characters... list?
Does the iPhone App PlainText transmit data securely (i.e. does it use SSL?), or it there a risk of my data being read by third parties when I sync with dropbox?
I just saw Pi Cubed, and now I'm thinking, what Math/Calculator apps are available for iPod Touch?
My ipod touch synchronized well with google calendar. But I would like a "synchronize now" button, is there something like that?
is it possible to install VirtualBox on a non-intel Mac ? My configuration : G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.8
Both Parallels and VMWare allow you to set up a virtual machine using your existing Boot Camp partition. Does Virtual PC for mac have a similar feature?
I have an email that has something like: XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa The iPhone keeps turning 4:20pm Feb 11 into a link to create an event on the iPhone which looks real ugly, dark blue link. Is there a way to prevent this, and tell iOS to ignore this in the Mail App? Thanks
I installed rEFIt in order to install boot camp via a USB key. Now that Boot Camp is installed, I no longer need rEFIt, so I'm trying to uninstall it.
I'm planning on installing the trial versions of both Parallels and VMware Fusion to try them both out. I have a Boot Camp partition which I want to use instead of installing another OS. My question is if both of these applications can use the same Boot Camp partition without modifying it; such that both could be installed at the same time without it affecting the other.
Do you know of a good app for iPod touch that let's me quickly take a bunch of webpages offline that contain some articles I want to read later when I don't have an internet connection? It would be cool if it could also strip out the noise like ads, navigation, header, footer and leave nothing but the actual article. Also when reading later it should give me as much real estate as possible for the actual content having absolutely no chrome visible just like the kindle app.
Is it possible to get push notifications only for the emails in the Gmail Priority Inbox and not for the unimportant mail? I would like to set up my iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 so that I get notified (with sound, vibration, etc) only when I receive a mail that Google thinks is important to me.
I'm thinking about use Ubuntu's Rythmbox to synchronize music, but I need the iTunes from my windows to get some apps. If I plug my ipod to a windows with no musics on it (to get my apps), my musics will be deleted from ipod?
I have an external NTFS drive from which I was trying to copy some files to my macbook pro 10.6.6. I was getting error 36 so with disk utility I clicked on Repair Disk. Now all my data is gone! What gives and how can I fix it? By the way I was using Paragon NTFS as well. Part of the log:
How do I select all songs as compilations in my iTunes. I don't want to modify each song one at a time, I have about 2000 songs.
I'm interested in knowing why one would run Windows on a Mac. I may be required by my school to do so, and I'm curious about potential reasons. So, what are some of the reasons to run Windows on your Mac?
something awful happened to my mini. I placed it under my aircon, and for some reason, the aircon started to drip. right on the fan grills on the mini. not a lot, probably like an eighth of a glass of water. so, i rushed to unplug everything from the mini. and leave it to dry. problem is... when i plug it all in, i start with the power cable. just when i plug it, the fan gone furious. like 6000rpm furious. the state of the mini is currently OFF. that's one thing i'm confused about. second, after a while the fan speed goes down.. but never really really low. even when it's off, and the room is cold (not just cool) it's still noticeably whirring. and the mini is still OFF. when i turn it on.. after just 15-20 minutes the fan goes furious again. like 6000rpm. what can i do to fix this, and how much damage have i done. and to answer a few preliminary questions. the mini is a late 2009 mini, C2D, 4GB ram, and usually running on 18C room. and i've never upgraded any hardware, RAM, HDD, every
A little history: I had a old Nokia 5310. Lost it. I had the contacts backed up in a .vcf file. So imported them to a old Sony Ericsson W700i. Used the W700i for sometime, added some more contacts. Not got a new Nokia C5. Wanted to import all the contacts to the Nokia and at the same time add them to Address Book so that I can manage all contacts from Address Book and sync with the new Nokia. (Address Book has some old contacts, that are not required to be on the phone but nevertheless necessary, my wife's contacts imported sometime before etc). (Thanks for reading)
I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Boot Camp partition. When I launch the virtual machine, I see the C:\ drive which is the BOOTCAMP partition, but I don't see the other hard drive (D:) which is visible when launching boot camp directly. I realize that I can drag and drop files between OS X and the virtual machine, but I was wondering if this is the only method of accessing OS X files from the virtual machine. Is there no way to have it show the second hard drive so that every file I want to access doesn't have to be copied over?
In Microsoft Outlook 2011, I'd like to be able to quickly highlight an email and move it to a folder (e.g. "Processed") with a simple keyboard shortcut.
We have an OpenVPN server at work, which I use frequently to access private work resources. When I do, the "Shared" listed in Finder populates with all the automatically announced servers/resources at work, but the reverse is also true. My local resources appear to anyone at work, and/or on the VPN as well.
Hey, I have some rather annyoing behavior with my system: Whenever I close or kill -9iTunes it just keeps coming back up. Any ideas how I can find the root cause of this?
Is it possible to stream movies from an external hard drive (attached to a Mac Mini) to an Apple TV2? The movies on my external drive show up in iTunes on my Mini, but the Apple TV says there are no videos in my library. I don't have room to store them on my internal drive, but it seems like that might be the only way to get them to stream. I have "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" unchecked. Any thoughts?
I cannot find the way to change the key shortcut for cut command on my macBook pro. Where can I change that setting? I can't find it with the rest of the key command preferences.
I'm looking to view/edit OPML files on the iPhone/iPad. Is there an app that can do this?
I enabled the VMWare Fusion setting Open your Mac files and web links using Windows Applications. When I double click a .docx file in Finder, it launches Wordpad in the virtual machine, instead of Word. If I open the file again, it launches Word. If I launch it a third time, it opens Wordpad. It keeps alternating between these two programs.
When I run VMWare Fusion in Unity mode, is there any way to see the desktop or access the files on the desktop? Or must I switch into Single Window/Full Screen mode?
My VMWare Fusion is set up to use a Boot Camp partition. Is there any way to have it automatically login to a user account when the virtual machine starts up, but still require a password when booting via Boot Camp?
I have an Applescript that simply opens a Dialog Box, asks for a user input and runs a Terminal Command and spits out the answer. It works great in AppleScript Editor yet I am trying to work out how I could package this Script File along with an icon to make a Mac App for my personal use. Thoughts.
I am searching for an iPhone application that does not show or load the timeline. On my phone, I am just interested in tweeting text and/or photos, and consequently, that's what I want my twitter iPhone to do, nothing more, nothing less.
I have about 53GB of photos in my Aperture library which is stored on my internal HDD. I would like to move this library onto an external hard disk and continue to use Aperture without any loss of images, etc. Is there anyway I can do this?
I tried using the tab key with the modifier keys, but I didn't get Safari to write a tab character in a text field shown in an HTML page. Is it possible to do it? If it is possible, how can I do it?
Is there an app to amplify sound output on Mac OS X, I've put the volume to max and it's still quiet.
I want a text-only browser on my iPod. It is not jailbroken (nor do I wish to do so), and it is running iOS 4.2.1. Does anyone know of a way to install any text browser on iOS without jailbreaking? Any of these text browsers would be awesome; Lynx, Edbrowse, w3m, Elinks, Links, Emacs/W3, Net-Tamer, WebbIE, etc
Is there a utility that shows the menulets in a window in the style of the old Control Strip (which means a window that automatically shows and hides)?
However, doing this for each document is tedious. I'd like a way to convert them all at once.
I have iTunes installed on my old computer (Win XP) and all iPhone + iPad apps + all backups are done on this computer. Now I would like to use iTunes on my new computer (Win 7) and retire the old one.
When I go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver, I see many images in folders such as "Desktop Pictures", "Nature", "Plants", etc. Where are these images located? I want to use them in an application such as SpaceSuit to set them as background images for different spaces.
Any suggestions on buying a good router for my macbook?? I currently have a trendnet router. the wifi(WPA security) keeps dropping on a regular basis. i am contemplating buying a apple airport extreme...but it costs 179$ ..is it worth the money???
I have a project in iMovie and I want to crop part of one of the included clips to a rectangle that isn't 16x9 or 4x3 or any standard aspect ratio. As far as I can see, iMovie will only let me crop in the shape of the current ratio. How can I get iMovie to let me crop part of a clip to a nonstandard aspect ratio and letterbox the result?
I have a normal display dialog working using AppleScript within the Editor. How would one increase the width of the display dialog and add text under the input field and above the buttons. In advance, thank you for your time.
I have a TV with hdmi inputs, and I have an old Mac Book Pro with DVI output, and I'm going to buy a new Mac Book Pro which has mini DVI output. When I want to use TV/projector with hdmi inputs as an external monitor, is it just simply connect them with dvi to hdmi connector? If so, what vendors are favored with reasonable price? If not, what equipment do I need to connect them?
I have been using OS X for only a while now and am finding certain things a bit hard to do. Consider an option box shown below :-
Terminal.app has a setting to select with shell it uses, and the default setting is "Default login shell (/usr/bin/login)". What are the differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash?
I want to disconnect a connection to a bluetooth device through an Applescript. Please note that I don't want to disable or enable bluetooth, I just want to disable one specific connection.
I was looking for a PDF Reader application which supported PDF layers (turning them on and off). Do any exist?
What I would like to do is find a bluetooth capable phone that I can pair with my iPhone and will remain paired even if my iPhone is paired with a bluetooth headset at the same time. I had purchased the AT&T phone model TL92278, but, if I forgot to turn off my headset just before I returned home, the phone would no longer be paired with my iPhone. It was easy, but annoying to have to pair it again constantly. Basically, I am wondering if there is a phone out there that can remain paired with my iPhone while my iPhone is paired with a headset.
Movies start, but a few times per movie, returns an error: "An error occurred while loading this content". It will allow me to start it again, but it's really frustrating. Internet connection seems solid enough- movies in hd start almost instantly, and nothing else on the network hiccups when it occurs. Any ideas?
What processes, if any, run while my computer is put to sleep (not hibernation mode)? For example, if there's an application which prints a line every second to a file, will it print lines while the computer is asleep? If I have an application running doing video conversion, would it continue its process while the computer is sleeping? If I have an IM application running, will I receive messages while the computer sleeps?
I have downloaded some pdf files I need them for school but would like to read them on my PC at home. how do I get them to my PC.
An iMac Intel Core 2 Duo: Mac OS X 10.6.6; ARD Client 3.4-current; WAN-side TCP & UDP 22, 3283 and 5900 forwarded to the iMac. In desperation, I DMZed the administration target.
I have an iPad that is connected to my network's wireless router. However, this router is connected to my Win 2008 server, which is itself connected to the internet. The iPad is unable to connect to the public url for the exchange server on the server and has erratic internet access, where Windows laptops are provided with faultless internet access, even when they are not a member of the domain. How do I solve this?
I just installed Google Notifier (Mac), and I noticed that it's a bit delayed in when it reports an email has arrived. It seems that it polls the server every X minutes instead of using push technology. How often does Google Notifier check for mail, and is there any way to modify it?
I am a web developer, and I want to buy a copy of Windows 7 to use with my currently-existing copy of VMWare Fusion for easier testing of web sites in Internet Explorer. However, the overabundance of Windows versions is confusing me. I believe I want the Professional version, since from what I understand, the Windows XP emulation feature will let me install IE 6 and 7 for testing alongside 8 and 9. However, Amazon is offering me two versions of Windows 7 Pro; a normal boxed one, and a "System Builder" one for half the price. Obviously I'd rather purchase the latter, but I haven't found any clear information as to whether it can legally or technically be used under virtualization or not. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Normally, when I want to take video files from my Mac to friends who use Windows, I move the files on a FAT32-formatted flash drive or external hard drive, but FAT32 cannot handle files larger than about 4GB. I could archive the file into some multi-part format (e.g., RAR) or I could use some not-quite-perfect userspace filesystem drivers (MacFUSE) on the Mac to write to an NTFS-formatted disk, but it seems like there should be a better way. What other options are there?
When using Mac OS X, is there a way to have white text on black background without inverting the other colors?
Well, we all have Macs, we all have iTunes, and we want to be able to democratically enqueue songs on one of our Macs while being able to choose from everyone's iTunes libraries. Is there such a tool?
I'm not looking for a flame war or anything like that. I am looking at (once I have some money, the hardest part) buying a iMac. Let's just assume one could build a fully working Hackintosh with one's current hardware. What would be the advantage of buying a new 21" iMac running the same Mac OS X version vs. building a Hackintosh with better hardware?
I frequently want to read academic papers while on the go. They're usually in PDF format, so I sync them to my iPhone with iBooks. The problem is that most of the papers I want to read are in a two-column format that's extremely difficult to read on the phone's screen - I have to zoom in on a column, scroll down, then scroll up to the top of the next column and repeat.
I have been given a QuickTime file to place on a web site for my client. I requested the file be prepared for streaming using "Fast Start - Compressed Header" so that the video with start to play as soon as QuickTime player has buffered enough. (We will not be using a QuickTime Streaming Server for this video)
This problem has been bothering me since I switch to Snow Leopard. When I use applications that have some floating windows (Maya 2011, Adobe After Effects), Spaces seems to bring the floating windows along for the ride. The main application window stays in it's appropriate space. When using an app like Maya, this could be 5-10 windows. A workaround is to click the desktop twice and then jump to a new space, but that is getting old. This was never a problem in Leopard. Thanks, Mark
My workplace has VPN and it works great for me in Parallels Windows XP and Bootcamp Windows Vista. However, with the same config, I can't get it to work in Snow Leopard. I don't know what type of server they are using, but PPTP works for Windows. Any ideas why it may work for Windows and not OS X?
On Windows, I use a program called Perfgraph, which, among other things, showed a visual graph of ping latency to various hosts in my Task bar. Here's an example:
Is it possible to share the clipboard of my local machine and a remote machine automatically when using OS X's built-in Screen Sharing utility? The whole Edit -> Send Clipboard, Edit -> Get Clipboard routine starts to feel a little cumbersome if you're doing any regular copy and paste work between your local desktop and a remote session.
I recently discovered that sending \033[5D and \033[5C sends the character to move a full word at a time, making mac os x terminal almost as awesome as the default ubuntu and debian terminals. So then, the one thing I'm missing is: the control key to bind option-delete and option-backspace to deletion of full words.
I noticed that Safari has an Extensions Gallery page. I'm wondering how I would search all the extensions to find the one I want.
I'm on OS X 10.6.6, and I've tried Adium and iChat, but neither are iChat isn't capable of showing a list of available rooms anywhere on our company chat server. Does anyone know of a Jabber chat client that can? Thanks! Update: See my answer at the bottom of the page ;) Yes Adium can!
I would like to backup my data to two external drives. That way I would like this to work is that both disks should have have a full backup of my internal disk. Is this the way TimeMachine would work?
Further. I want her to be able to sync with her laptop on a regular basis but I want to be able to restore from my computer in case her laptop gets stolen/destroyed/corrupted. Her laptop is a Windows 7 and my computer is also a Windows 7.
I found information from Apple regarding managing a business with a large number of iPhones and iPads. It looks to me like Apple just builds the libraries, and expects vendors to build applications that actually manage these devices. Of course all of the options that Apple mentions are the typical "call us for a price" places.
I like the fact that I can launch the dictionary app by highlighting a word in any any application and then going to (Application Name) > Services > Look Up in Dictionary. However, this selects the Dictionary filter (instead of All, Thesaurus, Apple, or Wikipedia). I would prefer if it selected the All filter instead. Is there any way to create such a global menu item/shortcut which would do the same thing as lookup in dictionary but have it select the All filter instead of the Dictionary filter?
I have switched computer which I'm using to sync with my iPhone 3Gs. The problem is that all my old voice memos aren't added to my iTunes library, but they're still on the iPhone. So I wonder how do fix so I can get all my voice memos to sync with iTunes?
I have a font set - Type: Font Suitcase I am sure I have used a terminal command to convert it to a TTF or OTF. I don't really want to pay for software to do so. What is the best way of converting these types of font?
My iPhone 3G is currently showing 3.1GB of 'Other' disk space in iTunes, and this amount seems to be growing by about 0.1GB every couple of days. I can't find any good references for what this space could actually be getting used for. I've heard of doing a restore to clear it up, which works, for about a day, but then the 'Other' space starts to quickly accumulate again.
I have 6GB on my old Macbook, with an SSD. I would like to avoid writing to the swap file as much as possible. Ever since my upgrade, I have always had at least 1 to 1.5GB memory "free". Yet, I have always had 2 to 25MB of used swap space. (Out of 128MB total) How do I get this to be 0MB swap used unless I run out of "free" memory?
I (and I think many of you) would like to find an iPhone calendar app that lets the user add an new event by touching the hour (no the day-view mode) and delay an event, instead of needing to enter, edit, change the time and finally save. Is there such an app?
In PC, the utility of xkeymacs.exe enables one to use emacs key in every case. Does Mac have the similar utility? For example, is there a utility that I can use key 'C-x C-s' to send the key 'Command-S'?
One of my main information stream inputs is RSS feeds. Yet many link to long articles on strangely designed web pages, so I regularly read using Instapaper, or Readability. Is there a RSS reader with built-in integration with Instapaper?
I use XML Editor from XMLmind for editing/viewing XML file in Mac. It's not bad, but I expect an XML editor for Mac. What options do I have including the commercial/free software?
In my home network, my Apple TV, iPad, and Macbook Air all have the same problem. The WiFi network works fine, but after about an hour or less, the Wifi stops working. Things just hang when I try to things like open a webpage or ping yahoo.com. The WiFi signal icon is still on, however. The fix for me is to turn off my wireless on my Apple device and turn it back on again.
I start using Mail.app today. I have two Gmail accounts (one free hosted and one on Google Apps). In Mail.app I created two IMAP accounts according to the official Google manual.
We have one canon copier machine which is connected to our LAN router via Ethernet cable. Currently, we are connecting to the Internet using a different router. To work with the printer, I need to manually configure the Ethernet connection as follows. Ip Address: 192.168.1.19 Subnetmask: 255.255.255.0 Router: 192.168.1.1
Hi, I've been using mac for quite some time now, but my problem is that in my daily job I normally use a Windows PC (which require switching between keyboard shortcuts). now I've become very familiar with all the Mac shortcuts and keys and find it very handy to use (even easier than the shortcuts on Windows). But one thing keeps bothering me, when I browse through my folders which I normally have in "Grid View" I can't use enter/return to access a folder, but have to use CMD + O. I find this very annoying because who changes names of folders and files more often then opening one? and I know this might be the mac way, but is there any possible solution/program to let the enter/return key act as CMD + 0, not looking for a Keyboard Remapping tool. Kind Regards, SterAllures
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Apple's ratings/reviews system on the App Store. I've had issues with my own app (ratings/reviews not showing) now I see a major app with similar issues...
I'm asking if TRIM is enabled on iOS because, ever since I ran out of memory on my iPhone (have since cleared a few GB back), it seems to be slower than it was before. My suspicion being that, with most flash memory "sectors" now partially used, every write operation now takes longer… Relying heavily on flash memory, I wonder if the iPhone implements TRIM (or any "trim-like" feature) to maximize flash memory performance and specifically if that will let me troubleshoot a slow phone and/or know if I would want to jailbreak the device to enable TRIM or otherwise control storage more tightly than iOS is delivered.
If I have no wireless connection, can I connect to the internet using the usb on the computer, or some other way?
Which technology do iPhones and iPads use to play YouTube without supporting Flash?
How do I start up a Mac when all it shows is a Folder with a Question Mark, even with a DVD in the drive?  Image courtesy of Loïc Wolff
I've read some docs about notifications and background work, but there is something I do not understand. Yesterday, I upgraded to iOS 4.2, rebooted my phone many times, and did not launch any apps. Then this morning I received a push notification from PandoraBox to inform me that an app I've placed in favorite had its price changed. I wonder how this app, that is not launched, not in background, that cannot know in advance when the price of an app in MY favorites will change, can alert me with a notification this way?
I doubt a hardware problem with my ethernet device. I'm unable to connect to Internet. How can I verify if it's a hardware issue or not?
Assume I have an AI file, Adobe Illustrator CS 5 and no CorelDraw. How can I convert this AI file to CDR file? What is the fastest and cheapiest way?
I set up a firmware password on my MacBook. One thing I don't understand is how I can install a tool such as rEFIt, and effectively bypass the entire firmware password (i.e. installing it never asked for my original Firmware password). It says on their website: [...] since “refit.efi” is configured as the legitimate boot loader, it effectively circumvents the firmware password protection.
If I create a firmware password on my MacBook, what does that protect me from? Does it protect from any of these: Reformatting the hard drive.
I'm using VMWare Fusion with my Boot Camp partition. Are there any problems with installing Windows 7 Updates through VMWare Fusion, or should I boot up into Boot Camp in order to install these updates?
Every time I open iTunes, Mac OS X keeps to ask me if I want to allow it to accept connections, even if in the Firewall settings iTunes has been set to accept any connections. I am not using a beta version of iTunes. How can I avoid this "problem"?
Is there a way to make it so that launching an app from the dock requires a double click instead of a single click? I find myself accidentally launching apps and then needing to force-quit them.
Is there a way to block content scraper sites from Google searches on Mobile Safari? I would like something like the "Personal Blocklist" now available for Google Chrome.
I have 3 files about 40 KB each. When I combine them using Preview and save them as a single PDF file, instead of having a size close to 120 KB, the size is closer to 500 KB. Why does this happen, and is there any way to retain a small file size when the files are combined?
Howdy. I have a MacBook Pro 15" (MB133LL/A) with a Matsushita UJ-867 DVD drive. The DVD drive is failing and I'm looking for a replacement. Are there any other supported drives for this machine than the UJ-867?
I'm going to a conference where there be a booth for my company to showcase our product. I'm bringing an iPhone which will be part of the product demonstration.
Is there an app that can help me get connected to bluetooth in mobile phones manufactured by companies like nokia, samsunng, etc
I'd like to export my Light Table to disk using a custom counter that preserves the ordering of the Light Table. Alternatively, I'd like to do the same for an Album. Thoughts?
I leave my iPhone in vibrate mode all the time. The switch still works (when I switch it the iPhone shows the ringer on/off notice).
Does the Mac come with Quicktime pre-installed? If so, what OS version (minimum) could be expected to have come with it pre-installed?
I'd like to to add an icon to my homescreen that takes me directly to a specific note. What I was thinking was doing it by having a bookmark in safari that triggers that note, and adding a shortcut to that bookmark to my homescreen. This would open safari, then open notes, to that note, similar to how an iTunes link in Safari opens the app store or iTunes app. Is this possible or is there an alternate solution? is there a syntax like apps//notes.app/noteid or something to accomplish this? iPhone 4 iOS 4.2 Why I want it: I use a specific note frequently and I'd like quick access to that one, without opening notes, scrolling to, and selecting it.
Snow Leopard seems to have dropped support for the HFS (not HFS+) filesystem in Disk Utility. I have an HFS disk image that I created on a Leopard system. In Snow Leopard, this disk image is read only. I also can't create a new HFS disk image in Disk Utility, the option is missing.
I'm doing development with the Windows phones, but I'd really like to ditch my Windows box. I have access to a virtual Windows installation in the cloud, but I need to be able to deploy to, and debug on, my phone which is most decidedly not in the cloud.
I was trying to create a symbolic link using the following command: ... but it didn't work (i.e. when I go into finder and try double clicking it, it says that it's pointing to an invalid path and prompts me to delete the alias or fix it). I had to rename the folder to FooBar and then run the following command: How can I create the link without having to remove the space from the folder's name? I'm looking for a way to do this in Terminal and not in Finder's UI.
I created a service using Automator and noticed that it created a .workflow file in ~/Library/Services. Is this the same file that handles the service that I see under (Application's Name) > Services?
Is it possible to select multiple files in LaunchBar? (For example, I may want to select two files in a folder and "drag" them to another folder.) How do I do that?
I have a MacBook Air which has a built in camera. Is there any simple application (preferably one that comes with Mac OS X) which simply takes a picture and saves it as PNG or JPG?
In the Finder > Connect To Server window I have an IP address I connect to. Is there a way to make a nickname or alias for this server?
I've noticed that my iPhone 4's home button does not work very well. Sometimes I have to press it multiple times, or press it very hard to get it to register a click. Sometimes it will detect a double-click even though I only press it once.
How can I get my songs from my iPod Touch to my PC? Some of the songs were purchased through iTunes, and others were ripped from CDs. This is what happened: The iPod Touch was set up to sync with my PC via iTunes, so my PC had all of the music on it. The PC got infected with viruses and the computer needed to be formatted. The music is now only on the iPod Touch and not on the PC. Is there any way I can get my songs back to the PC from my iPod Touch (or iPad or iPhone since they all run iOS)?
I'm trying to enable "DVD or CD Sharing" in the System Preferences. When I enable it, it says that the Firewall is blocking it. If I go into the Security > Firewall settings, I see that the first item under Advanced... is "DVD or CD Sharing" and that it's set to "Allow incoming connections".
I would like to receive a notification somehow when system events happen. For example, a process writes to a directory, or a sandbox violation gets logged. (Ideally when it occurs, the sandbox violation).
I was a long time Ubuntu user before I moved on to a Mac; so I'm used to seeing videos on YouTube and copying the buffered files from /tmp to another place for later viewing, if I like the video. I tried doing the same on my Mac but its not working. Are the videos being buffered to a location other than /tmp?
I'm trying to help someone else with their computer, every time I try to access the "Accounts" settings in system preferences, system preferences hangs and then crashes, any idea what's up? The computer is a Macbook 2.4Gz Core Duo, and all the software is up to date. -Thanks Edit: This is what comes up in console.
Some apps (e.g. Angry Birds) I'm finding only on iTunes, isn't there a way to buy in directly on my iPhone/iPod touch?
I am unhappy with the inherent insecurity of having to type in my system.install.root.user password when installing some applications. I realize this is necessary to install to the system wide Applications folder. Does anyone know how to set the default installation location to be the Applications folder inside my home directory? Thanks, Teo
I'd like to keep user passwords and require them when doing any administrative tasks as they are required in the default installation on Mac OS X. Is it possible to be tweaked/hacked so that OS X won't ask for password when switching users? Or so that OS X won't ask for password in the login screen? It is also essential that password is required for any remote login attempts — as they're in the default installation — be it SSH, SMB, VNC or the like. I'm using OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Case example (added after first answer):
Closed my computer last night, went home. Opened it and it had restarted. Now when I open a couple programs such as Adobe Fireworks or Appcelerator Titanium they throw up a nasty error like below. Other programs (Chrome, Firefox, Textmate, Versions) work fine.
Is there a QR-Code reader application for Mac OS X? I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and an iSight.
Does anybody know if there's an option in Coda somewhere (or a hack) that would sort folders at the top of the list in the file browsers?
I have set up a personal wiki on a localhost using drupal. I have attached pdf's that open in the browser window which is generally ok but I'd rather be able to open them in Preview so I get all the usability benefits of that app (without downloading them and thus creating a 2nd version outside the wiki directory). Anyone have a suggestion?
I'm using the Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC option in iTunes when sync'ing music to my iPhone. iTunes is complaining about three tracks from an album I recently ripped every time I sync my phone. It claims they can't be converted (I rip as Apple Lossless). Unfortunately there's not much in the way of detailed information in the error messages iTunes is giving me.
I'm a network administrator at a small college. In the past, we've kept a fairly open wireless network, but recently a few throughput issues have made us consider locking it down a bit more, in a play we predict will potentially preserve packet-passing performance for peers. Students would still be able to do almost anything over the wired connection available in each room, but the wireless would for the first time require authentication and be limited to only certain ports. Currently we're considering 53(dns), 80 & 443(web), 143, 587, 993, and 995 (email), and 1935 (flash video).
I have two MP3s. One is an instrumental and one is an acapella. I want to mix the two in GarageBand, but I can't seem to find a way to change the tempo of the tracks individually. It looks like the new GarageBands Flex Time would work, but I would really like to be able to do it in '09. Ideas?
I plugged a brand new digitizer into my 2g iPod touch and I wanted to test it before I clip it in. It worked great at first and I managed to click with it for about 30 seconds, while not moving the digitizer or the iPod.
Airport connects to the network in order of preference that I have set. Is there a way to make it connect to the network that I was last connected to, instead of the one higher in the list.
I notice this behavior all times I move a sentence on a separate line: I delete a space character between two words with the backspace key, and the text cursor is moved to the next space; when I press Enter, the first word is left on the old line. Is this a bug, a feature of Safari, or neither of them? (Therefore, it is a bug in third-party software)?
Does Mac OS X, and any Mac application, handles Fn+Enter differently from Enter? As optional question, does any application handles Fn+Return differently from Return?
There are pretty clear answers to the question 'How to put my Mac into hibernation mode voluntary', but there is still an issue for me. I use Bootcamp Windows and rEFIt to select which sistem to load. But when I wake from the hibernation mode I have no option to choose - just Mac OS is loading. How can I enable boot source choose after waking up from the hibernation mode?
The shortcut the Apple menu reports for the Force Quit menu item is ⌥⌘⎋. (the last character is the one Unicode calls broken circle with northwest arrow.) What key should I press to invoke the Force Quit menu item?
I'd like to bind a key to an action that "takes the active windows and moves it to screen S, coordinates X,Y resizes it W,H". The S,X,Y,W,H variables can be hard-coded.
In Pages, I notice with a rounded rectangle if you make it editable and click on any of the points, they all seem to have only one "control handle". Normally there are always two. Is there really only one control handle on those points, or does it just look that way? Assuming there is indeed only one control handle, how can I do that too?
I created a Smart Playlist to sync to my iPod Touch so I can listen to my podcasts one after the other while I'm on a long drive. I can't figure out how to leave Video Podcasts off that list, though. Is there a way?
Is there any way to transfer photos from the iPhone 4 camera roll to a MacBook over Bluetooth?
Anyone know which video cards are available/supported/will work on the Mac Pro (Original) from December 2006 also known as MacPro1,1 in the system profiler?
I utilize the Voice Memos feature on my iPhone and have noticed a recurring problem of iTunes duplicating my recordings. Note that the recordings appear duplicated only in iTunes and not on my iPhone. I haven't figured out how to prevent this but have provided steps below for removing duplicates and synchronizing the proper recordings as I've found the process not very intuitive. I appreciate any insight into the cause and/or solution for this problem. I also welcome a simpler cleanup process. I'd love to be shown that I'm overcomplicating this. MacBook Pro Mac OS 10.6.6 iTunes 10.1.2 iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 *UPDATE*
Is there a dashboard widget available that displays Google Maps with traffic data?
In my iTunes library, I have a playlist which contains several video podcasts. However, I cannot seem to access this playlist on my AppleTV 2G although all of my music playlists show up as do the TV Show playlists. In the Audio & Video settings, I have set Show Playlists to All rather then music only. Is there something I am missing or is this not possible?
I have a MacBook Air Late 2010. I notice that sometimes when I press the decrease brightness button, it causes the brightness to increase and only after subsequent presses it starts to actually reduce the brightness (from this now higher brightness setting). I was just wondering why this happens, and if it's related at all to an ambient light sensor similar to the one that the iPhone has.
My default browser is Chromium. I tend to use different browsers and assign them to a Space. So for example Chromium is space 1 along with an item, Firefox in space 2 with terminal, Safari 3 with virtualbox, and so on. Browser plus terminal, for me gives a functional workspace. So far, so good.
Is there is a way I can test my iPhone for any potential rogue apps that someone may have installed on it? I have been working on some nondisclosure type work lately, and it appears that information is being leaked. I am concerned that something has been installed without my knowledge, and I just waant to make sure of things.
I'm looking for an incremental backup system on OS X that plays nice with USB NTFS-formatted external HDDs. I am currently using NTFS-3G to work with the HDD, but since Time Machine doesn't work with NTFS drives, I have just been manually copying files from my HDD to back it up (ugh).
I have a MacBook where I have to dual boot Windows and OS X. When I hold the Option Key on startup, I get the nice "Select Boot Device" screen. Is there a way to permanently enable this, so that I don't have to remember to hold option every time I restart?
Now, I can find out which processes are opening files dynamically. However, for a file on my filesystem, is there a way to find out which process created the file? I'm trying to differentiate a file I created by: from one created by say, an NSAPI process running under my id. will give me information such as which tty is doing something, is that an attribute I can access?
I have rEFIt installed. Is there any way to choose a default OS to launch which would in turn suppress the load screen from showing up when you start up the computer?
I run applications that use Adobe Flash. This causes my MacBook Air (1st generation) to heat up and end up becoming unusable. Someone suggested running flash after creating a new Windows Partition, because Mac OS-X does not support Flash very well. Will it help to run Flash that way?
I have a Macbook Air with a Swedish keyboard and when I type Shift+4 I get this: €. What I would like to get is $ ,now at Alt+4. How can I swap these two around?
Flash Player 10.1 is no longer downloadable, so I don't know how to downgrade. User agent setting are not permanent, or I don't know how to set them fixed.
How can you easily toggle the Ink preference pane setting "Write Anywhere"?
Today I noticed that Safari doesn't show anymore the videos shown on Youtube; I just see a black rectangle, and when I try to use the popup menu in that area, it doesn't appear. As far as I can remember, one week ago I was able to see videos on Youtube. Something is changed in this week; for what I can remember, Safari has not been updated, in these days. How can I find the reason of the problem, and eventually resolve it?
Does the iPad use any type of controller for drive wear leveling? It seems like Sandforce is the only player in the field.
Is there any way to set a custom quick look image in OS X? I'd like a command line tool or applescript to change or embed a custom preview for a file using a jpeg.
I have a script which checks for loads of applications if they are open, and closes them if yes, and opens them if not. Until now I had a simple:
I want to scrape all the pages and subpages of a web site (by scrape, I mean save all the online content to local HTML files). What is the best utility to crawl all the pages? Ideally, I would like to specify how many layers deep to scrape.
Can I stream video to an Apple TV without using iTunes? iTunes is good, but if I can have another way to stream video, it would be great.
Today I was cleaning my MacBook keyboard (OSX 10.6.6) while the user was locked. Due to some random key-presses, the language of the login changed from English to Hebrew (I use both in MAC, but only English for login). When in the login menu, the cmd-space shortcut has not effect, and it does not change the language. I didn't have any way to change it, and was practically locked outside my account. What is the magical key-sequence that can change the language back to English?
Due to my email backup software, I had to create 'real' users on my 10.6.6 install rather that create 'share only' users. Now when users connect to the shares, they see a full home folder as well as the shares I have setup. Is there a way for me to turn off sharing home folders? EDIT:
My Macbook (the unibody aluminum version) has lost its internal speakers. When I open System Preferences -> Sound -> Output, all I see is "Digital Out". If I plug in a pair of headphones, this switches to "Headphones". I don't see "Internal Speakers" at all any more. Headphones seem to work fine. In System Profiler -> Audio -> Available Devices, I do see "Speaker: Connection: Internal". I just clean-installed Snow Leopard, so it appears to be a hardware problem.
Is there a way to add To-Do's to iCal from the iPhone?
Anyone know when iOS 4.3 is due to come out? I'm hoping to buy an iphone and use the wifi 'tethering' feature that apparently is part of ios 4.3 to replace our home internet connection, and am wondering when this is coming out? Thanks all
I tried repairing the permissions on the boot disk, resetting the Mac, and repairing the permissions on the boot disk. All times I repair the permissions, the list of the files that needs to be repaired is the same.
Is it possible for an application to have undocumented applescript functions. Commands that do not appear in the Applescript Editor Library for the application? Is this common? Is there someway to uncover these functions?
I've also checked out Dropbox which has the advantage of not requiring a subscription fee. It caches photos on the iPad the same as MobileMe Gallery. But it doesn't have an easy export from iPhoto which is a drawback.
A friend has a Mac that’s still running Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). She has Photoshop CS (version 8.0) on it. She needs to upgrade the Mac to Leopard or Snow Leopard to allow installation of iTunes 10, because she has an iPhone 3GS now.
If I buy a regular retail Snow Leopard disc (i.e. the £25 version), can I use it to upgrade a Mac from Tiger (10.4)? This answer on the Apple Store’s Q&A site suggests it’ll work, but Apple seem to imply that you need the (significantly more expensive) Mac Box Set (“the Mac Box Set is the best way to upgrade your Mac experience, especially if you're still using Mac OS X Tiger.”).
using the ical on the iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad how can I set the refresh rate? or does it pick the refresh rate that I had set up in the Mac iCal App?
My iPhone 4 restarts itself exactly every 3 min, whether I use it or not (screen off). More precisely, it's respringing its springboard; I don't need to unlock my SIM card after each respring. Seems like a software issue as it restarts at such precise intervals, but a firmware restore has not helped.
I have an iPod sync and my wife just got an iPhone. Before I set up her iPhone, I want to make sure I don't mess anything up. I have a few questions: Should I create a separate Apple ID for her, or have her use my id? Is there anything else I need to worry about to make sure it recognizes her account and sync info and mine and doesn't get confused? I see a few horror stories on the web and just want to make sure I do this right.
my wife just got an iphone and she did her first sync and its syncing all of my applications (i have an ipod touch). Is there anyway to have us sync to a separate list of apps? if i delete these apps off my wife's iphone, are they going to be removed from itunes (and then my ipod next time i sync ?? )
I had earlier installed mysql-5.1.50-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg and then uninstalled it using the below command (found on Stack Overflow): Then I have tried to reinstall from mysql-5.5.9-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg. However I am getting the following error:
Is there any way to keep the dock visible without it affecting the size of windows? On my MBP 13" I have the dock hidden since it simply takes to much screen real estate, but working with a tablet I feel the need to have it visible at times. And I don't want to hide/unhide with a shortcut, I just want it to show on top of my windows.
Someone dropped their iPhone near my door. The neighbor picked it up, phoned me, and told me it has my number in it so it's probably someone I know.
I realise it is the default for external drives but not sure about other partitions on a users system drive. I don't have separate partitions on my machine so I can't look for myself ;-)
Is it possible to tell growlmail to stop notifying me on RSS feeds and just show me the new mails I get? It is getting really disturbing when I get some 30 or more RSS Notifiers when I'm working!
When I got my first iPhone and bought something via the iTunes app, I got a playlist in the iTunes source list underneath the “Store” heading for all the songs I purchased on the iPhone. I’ve had a few more iPhones since then, and each phone has also been given its own “Purchased on” playlist in iTunes. They’re now taking up quite a lot of space in the iTunes menu. Is there any way I can consolidate, or just get rid of, these playlists?
If an app crashes while I'm using it in OS X I get a little (apparently) OS-driven dialog that lets me "report the crash to Apple". It sends along a stack trace and some other system information. Does this crash information get shared with the app developer of the app in question at the time the crash occurred?
I've got this problem where my cursor is jumping left and right all on it's own. I'm not touching the computer at all, I've rebooted the system, and the only way to get it to stop is to use a mouse and disable the trackpad when a mouse is connected. Here is a video showing the problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUGwhv7h8I
Is there any desktop utility for OS X that would periodically monitor a (non-osx) server and display a status icon? Something as simple as attempting to visit a URL every 5 minutes and turning red if it does not respond would be enough, although anything more detailed is interesting too.
Is there any combination of iPhone and/or Mac apps that I can use to send a push notification to my iPhone? For example, let's say I want to create a service (invoked via (Application Name) > Services) which sends the highlighted text on my Mac to my iPhone as a push notification message.
Last night I was trying to install Windows 7 on my new MacBook Air, I started it and the Windows installation began. I deleted 80GB HD (preinstalled Mac OS) also deleted, but I could install windows completely. Now my MacBook is not starting or booting from external USB DVD rom, please help me out, not even booting from the original Mac CD which came with PC.
I'm a desperate owner of a Sony HDR-XR520V and an avid Mac user. Sony + Mac users know that the supplied footage management software—Picture Motion Browser (PMB)—is only for Windows. Sony's advice for importing footage into the Mac is via the transfer feature of iMovie or Final Cut's "log and transfer". Both applications cost money, but more importantly, the footage is being transcoded, so the initial AVCHD video will not be transfered/stored into your computer. My last attempt was to try to use PMB inside a Parallels virtual machine. PMB may be bloated but it has a really nifty feature for footage syncing: At first sync, it transfers all data into your machine. Then you may organize the imported footage into folders, however you like via the software or even Finder. On every following sync, it transfers only the new videos.
I have tried to install windows using boot-camp-assistant on mac-min ( new version ). After first installation process, I am getting "Disk error - press any key to restart" Now, The problem that I am facing is I am not able to eject the disk. I am not able to boot osx I am not able to boot windows. Please help. Sugar.
Previously before, I didn't touch apps like GeekTool because I was afraid that it would slow down my system performance severely. (MacBook Pro 15" C2D 2.4ghz Late 2008) However, I have decided to use it as a clock on my wallpaper.
I have an iPod Touch (Model MC086FD) and upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 - all works fine. But I do not find the AirPrint Software on the iPod. Can I install it? How do I make my iPod print (emails etc.) when connected by WLAN?
Is there a quick key combo that will allow me after typing some stuff in the OSX terminal to move back to the beginning of that line? I have tried different things, and was wondering if there is a way without setting up something that is custom.
I am looking to display my iPad screen wirelessly to an external display to demo applications. I found this video showing exactly what I want to do with an iPhone but no explanation as to what the hardware dongle used was. The main thing is that there isn't a wire tethering the user to the external display.
Why finder doesn't have 'New File', but 'New Folder'? Is there any way/tool for having 'New File' in Finder?
I have a MacBook Air and would like to install Windows Vista in a virtual machine, so I can use both Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. I have tried with VirtualBox, but it performed very bad and Mac OS X crashed sometimes.
This might be something quirky about MacVim, so I'll ask here. I put a syntax file in ~/.vim/syntax, but it doesn't load. I have syntax on in my .vimrc. When I open the editor, :scriptnames doesn't include the syntax file. Is there anything else I need to do to make sure it loads?
I am having trouble creating a Smart Album based on Faces in iPhoto '11. Whenever I set up a Smart Album condition using "Face IS" the third drop-down menu is populated with a list of my Faces. This list contains many of the names of faces I have set up, but there are names missing from the list that always appear if I go directly to the Faces corkboard. Any idea why some of my Faces are missing from this drop-down list?
Is there a Quick Look plug-in that works with ZIP files, and that lists all the files contained in the archive? It is also fine if it lists at least some of the files.
I have installed mysql in Mac OS X 10.6.6. However I don't know how to get to the mysql prompt. Any thoughts?
I have a Mac that doesn't have iPhoto installed on it, which I use for syncing with my iPhone. Is there any way I can copy images from my phone to my Mac (other than email) without purchasing a copy of iPhoto?
I've setup an Exchange account to point to my work address and it works pretty well. The only annoyance is that if I receive an email that has several recipients, pressing Reply All, also includes me on the To or CC list. When I do the same operation in Outlook, I am not included in the To/CC list. How can I get the iPhone to stop including me on the Reply All?
I think i overwrote my /usr/local/bin folder - any way to undo this? I was installing MacVim and did the following command: Now instead of copying mvim into my /usr/local/bin folder, i think it replaced that folder with a file called 'bin'... Any suggestions?
My (Discrete, not Unibody) MBP (2007-ish) just started to kernel panic on boot. Pulled the HDD, which boots via USB on my Mini - hopefully ruling out a HDD or data/OS issue.
When I connect my iPhone 3GS to my computer, iTunes does not detect it. The phone displays the green battery meter indicating it's charging, System Profiler detects an "iPhone" connected to the USB bus, and I can even open iPhoto and pull some pictures off of it. It doesn't appear under "Devices" in iTunes at all, nor does it appear in the Organizer window in Xcode. I've tried: Using a different sync cable. Using a different USB port. Restarting the phone. Restarting the computer. Connecting the phone to a different computer. (I'm on OS X 10.6.6 and iTunes 10.1.2)
I have received my email to verify my Apple ID, but when I click on the verify now it will not open a verification window in Internet Explorer 8. I receive the error "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
Can I transfer data between two iPhones via Bluetooth?
I have read the setup guide, but what is either not clear or I just missed, is how the updated drivers that I download via the apple update get to my windows partition. All I read is that I have to have the original Mac OSX DVD and that I get the drivers from that.
I have an issue with the USB ports on my Macbook Pro. When I plug a device in, the device draws the power, but nothing else happen. This is what I know about this problem: 1- USB Prober can see the connected devices and identify them 2- VMFusion it's able to connect the device into the guest OS but nothing happens 3- If I reboot in windows all works good (no HW fault) 4- I tried to reboot in safe mode, login, reboot 5- I tried to reset SMC, nothing.
I have a Macbook Pro running Os X, but it doesn't connect to Wifi automatically. If I turn Wifi on, I then have to manually select the network. Is there some way to change this behaviour?
I am trying to add myRepositoryKey to my Mac keychain utility so . I exported this item in OpenRSA format from Putty. When I try to use Import Items, the file is unselectable. What do I need to do to import into my keychain? Does the file need a specific extension?
This is a followup to the Stack Overflow question, Why does there appear to be a different number of unique colors available on the Mac as compared to Windows? How can I turn off anti-aliasing on a Mac, either through manual settings or, more preferably, while doing a screen capture (i.e., when I capture the screen, I need the raw data without anti-aliasing algorithms applied)?
I have some old FrameMaker documents on my Mac (Intel Core Duo, OS X 1.6.6). Is there any way to open this files (readonly would be ok)? I cannot use the FrameMaker 10 trial from Adobe, because it is windows only. There has been a reader/viewer app in the past but I cannot find it anywhere. There are two file formats: *.mif is Maker Interchange Format (an XML dialect) *.fm is FrameMaker binary
On my 2010 MBP, I want to encode several hours of video, which will end up with the CPU used at 100% for a long time and the MBP heating quite a lot. Is this considered as normal use (I would say yes, isn't it what computers are made for! :)) ? Could it end up with a too high internal temperature and could it damage some components? (The aluminium case will be hot but the hand is not a good thermometer).
I have a MacBook Pro which is attached to an AD domain. The user has a domain account which is Administrator, Managed and Mobile - the home directory is on the local machine. The company is closing and the user is keeping the Mac, so I want to change the account to be a local account, or recreate a local account with the same name and change ownership. When I remove the machine from the domain, I don't seem to be able to delete the user from the Accounts panel. I presume I can remove them from the machine if I rejoin the domain, and then change ownership of the home directory with find; is there a cleaner way?
Yeah, it makes no sense to use an iPhone as web server, although the hardware could be used in some interesting ways if this would be possible. You could, for example, set up the iPhone to send a phonecall or SMS with pre-recorded message to someone who, for example, send his phonenumber through it's web interface to be included in it's address book.
I work on a terminal most of the time. Is there an application / plugin over iTerm or any other terminal like application using which I can control the cursor location of my terminal using a mouse ?
What do Macs do differently so its USB ports can charge my iPad, but if I plug into a USB port on my PC I get the "not charging" message?
The currentprevious 17" MacBook Pro has three CPU options: 2.53GHz Intel Core i5 [Subtract $360.00] 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 [Subtract $180.00] 2.8GHz Intel Core i7
What is the solution if you get Error 1601 in iTunes when trying to restore a custom firmware (shift+restore) and device in DFU mode. In case it matters, Windows x64, iTunes 10.1, firmware created using sn0wbreeze 2.2.1
I often switch my default browser between Safari and Chrome. I would like to create a shortcut that will launch the default browser, whatever that may be. This way I don't have to remember what my default browser is and switch between typing "Chr" or "Saf" in spotlight. I would like to type the same word such as "Browser". What are my options?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 computer. Connecting my usb flash stick doesn't do anything, I tried both ports but not working. I tried connecting an iPad, the iPad charges but it doesn't open show in iTunes for syncing.
I would like to create an Automator application that reads the address book and sends an email from the default email account with the content of the addr. book search result.
I have Mac with OS X 10.6.6 running. When the screensaver gets started and runs for a few minutes (10 or 15?) Thunderbind, Firefox and a few other programs gets terminated because OS X seems to want to log me out. This is very annoying as I have to restart all of these programs again and again. The interesting part is I have another Mac also running OS X 10.6.6 where I do not experience this behaviour. Any help is appreciated Robert
[I'm an iPhone newbie, I hope the question isn't too stupid] I want to be able to put my iPhone 4 in a dock and have it connected to my computer for syncing, but I want it to charge from an AC adapter so that it will continue charging when I turn my computer off at night. Does anyone know of a dock with an AC power input that's separate from the USB connection, or a spliced cable that inserts 5V power from an AC adapter instead of from the computer's USB port?
Coming from a Windows background, I'm confused about the concepts of minimizing windows and hiding applications. What are the differences between the two, and when would you want to use one method over the other?
What I would really want is to have it running in the background, but not consuming any resources. Sort of like hibernating the virtual machine, such that when I start it up, ideally the same exact state is restored very quickly and doesn't require a login.
I recently came across a blog post highlighting powertop for Linux (see: *=URL=* Based on the FAQ, powertop relies on the fact that the Linux kernel is now tickless. Given a specific Linux kernel requirement, I am doubtful that it will work with the Darwin kernel. Freshmeat also mentions powertop, but they have a tag suggesting that a POSIX compliant OS can use powertop. Since FreeBSD is POSIX compliant, I was wondering if anyone had tried powertop on Snow Leopard ?
I am checking system logs via the Console utility. I am wondering what the difference is between the console.log and system.log file?
How can I format the Time Capsule hard disk?
For a long time I've been using a relative clunky technique which involves Audacity with a LAME plugin. This is fine I guess, but the appeal of the Terminal approach is I can be a little finer grained with my [options] and perhaps use more up-to-date binaries. Furthermore, my MacBook is ageing a little now and if I can get rid of an unnecessary GUI, all the better. Thanks in advance.
I have installed Windows Vista on a Parallels Desktop virtual machine on my MacBook Air. But it seem that my Windows Vista home directory is stored in my Mac OS X home directory.
Is there a way to detect the insertion of an SD card so it would be possible to automatically move specific files (photos in subdirectory) to another location? I do not want a photo application to take control. Even better, when I put the card in, I get asked whether to move the files. I would like the files to be moved directly to a shared folder..
I was just about to order a replacement for my iphone 4, when I noticed there are apparently two different types. Both are claimed to be genuine apple batteries, however one costs nearly 10GBP more than the other. The only difference I can tell is that one of them is called "iPhone 4 Battery A Series" Anyone has an idea what the difference might be?
Whenever I try to use the internet on my iPod Touch the Log In screen slides up displaying the log in page for the internet service I'm utilizing (like you'd typically get at hotels, airports, etc). How can I save my login so I don't have to log in every time I wake my device?
I have converted my video files from .MTS to ProRes (Proxy). When I play them back in QuickTime everything is fine. When I import them into Final Cut pro, they start getting out of sync with the audio at the end of the clip (they're about 20 minuts long).
On the iMac there is some thermal sensor that connects to the hard drive and makes this a bit tricky since non-Apple SSDs don't have that feature. Is this true for the 2011 MacBook Pros?
This has always been a big want for me. I love using multi-monitor setups but only want a single laptop. Does the 2011 MBP Thunderbolt support chaining multiple monitors together? I know that you can add a monitor and say, a few hard drives, but can you connect it to 2 27" monitors and your flat screen TV (for example)? Thanks!
Is it OK to use my iPhone charger for charging other USB powered devices like the Kindle or a digital camera (with a rechargeable battery)? Can it cause any damage to the charger or to the device being charged?
A few months back I sold my Iphone 3G because I was going to get 4 instead. Unfortunately my windows machine crashed and I was forced to reinstall from scratch. I now plan to (finally) purchase the new one and I want to restore from my old backup. I copied everything from My Music folder on the old HDD to a the new one and I also copied everything from: Appdata\Roaming\Apple Computer to the new one. I though that would be enough but the backup is not showing up in Itunes.
Thinking about getting the new MBP but cannot decide if the SSD upgrade is worth it; $100 dollars to bump to the 128 is small money but SSD drives vary widely in performance. trying to decide if I spend the $100 with apple or pick something better up at NewEgg.
The screen looks like a newly loaded (not activated phone)  Attempts to fix
I'm currently running 10.6.6 and my MBP has a nice and speedy SSD in it. My plan is to replace my current laptop with one of the new ones just announced today.
I recently bought a couple of memory modules from Kingston to be used on my MacBookPro 13" 7.1, they are KVR1333D3S9/4G which should work fine with the computer as the frequency and latency is supported, but when I installed them OSX will never boot, it stops on DSMOS as arrived. The only way I fount to make it work is using one of the KVR and one os those that the computer originally had. But then the memory works at 1067 and worse,I don't have 8GB but only 6. Googling I found that I should had to buy a certified memory, and I know, I should googled a bit more before buying this memory, but I don't want to give up, not now. Does any of you have a "trick" for this kind of memory to work.
I have a lot of compilation albums where each track is by a different artist, but I have the Album Artist tag set to "Various Artists" (or in the case of some soundtracks, the main artist's name). However, when viewing my music by artist in the iPhone's iPod app, it lists all the track artists, creating a miasma of artist listings with only one or two songs under them. Is there an iPhone app out there that lists by Album Artist instead, which would be a lot more manageable and frankly, makes a lot more sense?
How do I enable an existing TFTPd within 10.6.6 ?
Is there a way to configure the Magic Trackpad with tap-to-click without having tap-to-click on the built-in trackpad of a MacBook Air?
I often use spotlight to locate documents quickly. The one annoying thing is that I often email documents to share them and spotlight will find the version of the document indexed in my mailbox attachments folders. Is there any way to selectively exclude certain directories while searching? I'm thinking something along the lines of: *=URL=* I'd love a "not:message" operator or something.
Is there any free RSS reader client for Mac that can give me a notification if there are new posts to read?
Is there a Mac OS X service that takes clipboard data and pastes it as plain text? Or an easy way to create one?
Without individually setting the ringtone for each contact in that group. Maybe there are other apps that manage contacts and have this feature. Basically, I want my iPhone to ring the same when contacts from a group call.
I would like to organize my photos with iPad (remove, edit, create albums etc). I have the synology NAS and I can run the Photo app on the NAS (server) and I can use the DS Photo+ app on iPad (client) but this app can be used only as a viewer (I can't organize photos).
I have a situation where I provide access to a Windows server by forwarding the remote desktop port 3389 with ssh from my Mac to the "inside" of an otherwise inacessible network. I can now connect with the Windows version of Remote Desktop, but the Mac version of Remote Desktop time out and do not provide access. This is even when using the IP-number as the host to connect to. Any idea why this happens and how I can work around it?
I just bought the wrong album on iTunes. How do I give it back?
In older versions of iTunes (for Windows at least), there used to be a way to Deauthorize all computers associated with an account. Now it appears the only option in 10 (10.1.2.17) is to Deauthorize this computer... and removes only the one I'm on. Has the option to Deauthorize All disappeared or has it been moved somewhere else? My reason behind needing this: One of the authorized computers had a hard drive failure and I just wanted to clean up the computers I have authorized.
I had always thought the answer to this was no. I have an app that was pulled from the iOS App Store (VLC) still on my non-jailbroken phone and thought this was proof that Apple can't remote wipe an app. But I just heard a claim that they can remote wipe apps installed via their app purchase portals if they choose.
Is there a good alternative to Autodesk's 3D modeling software 3ds Max that works on a Mac? I like 3ds Max because it's very powerful and easy to use for someone who is not an expert in 3D modeling. I tried Blender, but it was really hard to understand and control, and I found its commands to be very counter-intuitive.
Say I have two apps that match a search in spotlight (e.g. utility), it seems that Spotlight chooses the first application (sorted alphabetically) as the Top Hit. Is there any way to change this so that a different application appears on top?
This question is a follow up to this question I found on this site. If I have a monitor that supports DisplayPort, will it be possible (with a Mini Display Port to DisplayPort cable) to have my monitor (Dell U2711) at the end of a Thunderbolt daisy chain?
I've got a 15" macbook pro, i5 2.4ghz which I've inherited. When I use it to watch video -- with the notebooks monitor turned off, video piped to an external monitor - the battery dies in 90 - 120min.
Example at bottom. How does OS X apply this warning and what's the best way to disable it? I'm a Web Developer and more than understand the risks of teh interwebs.
The light-up Apple logo inset into on the back of my 13" Unibody MacBook (this thing) has come loose and is recessed into the lid. Is there a way to get inside the lid to reattach that piece? Thanks for any help!
How can I delete all events in iCal? I have a bunch of events (some reoccurring) that I want to delete. I don't want to have to manually delete/cut each event. I tried declining the events but that just turns them gray. I'm running OS X 10.6.6.
I upgrading my version of windows and I forgot to backup my iTunes music, is there a way I can re-download it from iTunes without buying it all again?
I am looking for a program to time projects and activities, both computer- and real life-based, allowing me to tell him to start and stop timing this or that activity, in a very light, background, non-invasive way, and possibly keping past data about time intervals spent on various activities. I have been trying out such a program called TrackTime, but it is (at least on my 10.5 MacBook) quite slow to react, and cannot show easily data for more than five or so activities. Any suggestion for such a program?
I installed Windows 7 (from MSDNAA) with BootCamp on my MBP (late 2008). After using the BootCamp utility on OSX I restarted the computer and the installation of Win7 began. This first time, there were no partitions to choose as destination. After a restart, I could install Win7 on the Bootcamp partition.
I normally can use Command-DownArrow, to go to the bottom of the document in text editor such as TextMate. How can I do the same thing in Safari? How can I scroll down to the bottom of the document with Safari when I read the long HTML document? And, how can I scroll one screen with keyboard?
Is it possible to delete any of the default apps in OS X? I suppose it is possible, but will anything break if I do?
Apparently you download it from the Mac App Store, but I don't understand how that would work, because it's not an app. Can a developer who has installed it explain the process to me?
Bonus if it has a mic and can handle iPhone calls Basically I have a snowboarding helmet that has speakers built into it and has a 3.5mm (female) connection to the speakers.
I understand that you need to pay $99 and get the SDK to write applications for the iPad, but do you really have to upload them to the store to get them to work on the iPad, or is there a way to get them onto your own device for "testing purposes?" Failing that, I understand that Apple now has some way for corporations to distribute enterprise applications without involving the Apple store. What if you wanted to write an application that is to be distributed to a handful of people in a corporate environment. Could this alternate mechanism be used without involving the Apple store and its approval process?
How can I change all occurrences of one string to another in TextEdit? Other text editors call this "find/replace".
I just rented a movie using iTunes on Windows 7 and then transferred the movie to my 4th gen iPod touch using drag & drop. It has disapeared from the list on the PC, and I have not started watching the movie yet. Now I want watch it on the PC, how do I get it back on the PC?
I have a huge IMAP email account that contains a lot of subfolders and a lot of messages (dating back to 2005). Is there a simple way to back up these folders and messages so I can delete them from the server? I would like to retain the ability to browse and manage these archived messages, reply, or add addresses from these messages to my contacts - all preferably within Apple Mail. If Apple Mail can't do it, what other options do I have?
I have a MacBook Air and I run Windows Vista as a Parallels Desktop guest. In Windows I need to press Alt Gr but I don't have that key on my MacBook Air. How can I press Alt Gr in Parallels Desktop?
I just bought a new hard drive for my Macbook and want to install a fresh OS X 10.6. I looked through all the CDs that I have and I could only find the Mac OS X Install DVD that came with a new Mac Mini I bought a couple of months ago. Can I use that disc to install Mac OS X 10.6 for my Macbook?
I'd like to remap Caps Lock to right click - for the cases where I can focus on objects with cursor keys, or tab. For instance after selecting files in Finder I'd like to hit Caps Lock and get the contextual menu you'd get on right click.
While I was working with my (unibody, 10.5) MacBook, suddenly the display was covered by a grey shade and a message - in four languages - appeared, ordering me to restart the computer, and of course nothing else was working. While I know that I should describe in detail all programs running etc., does anybody have an idea about what kind of problem could possibly have caused this? I don't believe it ever happened in almost three years with the same computer.
Hi, I just bought a new external HDD, It went well on my PC but I can't delete/move files on it from my macbook. PS. Im running OS X 10.5.8 on my macbook
and will Apple accept software built in this environment for iTunes AppStore and Mac AppStore?
This is what I'm trying to do on Pages '09 — *=URL=* — two equal height columns with a title on top. Any suggestions?
When I tried to create a new partition using Boot Camp it suddenly crashed and my computer restarted. Apparently the partition was created because the 50GB I specified during creation are gone from my HDD but the partition never got registered. How can I remove the partition and begin from scratch?
Is it possible to remove the Mac copy (iTunes/Mobile Applications) of all synced iOS applications (they are already installed on my iOS device)? They are currently taking up about 6 GB of space on my hard drive. I'm talking about the .IPA files. Thanks!
The Sparrow mail app icon had been bouncing fine on launching the app till a few days ago but has stopped doing so recently. Any reasons why it might be so? I miss the bouncing dock icon.
I have the following: Facebook friends iPhoto faces Address Book contacts
Since a couple of hours, when I try to run iTerm2.app, it opens a window, says and closes rather fast. Running Terminal.app works and if I run /Applications/iTerm2.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm from it it works just fine. Any ideas what's going on or how to fix it?
I have a very old demo application on my iPhone. It was on the app store a long time ago (1 year) the guy who developed it works with me. He's since taken the app off iTunes, however our boss wants to demo it tomorrow. Anyone know how I can go about getting the application onto his phone bearing in mind the following: We can't deploy from the developer's computer It's not on iTunes
Is there a comparison between the different versions of Common Lisp for Mac OS X? Is there a clear frontrunner?
What is the best iPod Touch G4 case that clips on a belt and covers the screen? The main annoyance I have with my current case is that I can't always reach the edges of the screen.
My father wants to sync a bunch of photos from his Windows PC to his iPad for a presentation. But he's never synced photos before. And he's downloaded a number of photos from his camera directly to his iPad. I fear his iPad contains the only copy of some of his photos, and he doesn't want to loose them. When my father turns on photo syncing in iTunes, he gets a warning that photos on the iPad not previously synced will be lost.
I have some basic data I want to total up the amount for each person so I end up with something like
Where can I find a list of most purchased iPhone / iPad apps WITH the number of buyers?
I am trying to work with some CD and hard drive images that I will run inside of QEMU. On Linux, I mount the images using the losetup command, but I notice Mac does not have this. Is there something similar I could use instead?
One morning my iPhone 3G just showed up with a gray screen. Everywhere I looked said that I need to replace the screen. I bought an "iPhone 3G Screen + Digitizer" off the internet but it turns out this is NOT the part I need. I have the technical ability to replace the screen...but I have no idea what part it is that I'm looking for. Can anyone help me figure this one out?
So I am trying to create a simple script that will use a file to store an integer. When the script is called (in my case as part of a keyboard macro) it will drop in (where I'm typing) the current integer, with the requisite number of leading zeros. Then it will increment the integer (without the leading zeros) and write it back into the file. The leading zeros part works, but for the life of me I can not figure out how to store the value of the 'counter' variable in a file so that, later, when I call the script again, it will pick up where it left off. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the error message I get: And here is the code:
How can I clone a CD or DVD to an ISO or DMG, using just the CLI, so that I can attach it to a VirtualBox VM. I often clone CDs or DVDs using the following commands: The result is a .ISO on my desktop that is, as far as I can tell, a bit clone of the CD or DVD. However, when I boot a VirtualBox Windows XP VM and attach the ISO, Windows says it cannot read it.
What after a bit of googling reveals some missing libraries. I also realized that the emacs referenced in the expanded command is pointing to /usr/bin/emacs which is one big file, I don't see the normal lisp / site-lisp / etc directories. I also know that my prefered emacs is carbon emacs located in /Application/Emacs.app which just opens when clicking on it, or alternatively, I can open it in with the terminal:
Sometimes when I startup my Mac, I notice that the menu bar doesn't load fully. It remains completely transparent and doesn't have a title (or any menu options) for the current application. It doesn't even have the Apple logo on the top left side. Here's a picture of what it looks like:
My MacBook is connected to Internet. I want to share this connection with another MacBook via WLAN. How do I achieve that?
There are some software updates I'm not interested in, either because I don't use the applications involved or because I don't care. I uncheck them and click Not now The annoying part is that they keep popping up every time there's a new update. Can't you uncheck them forever so the updates-to-ignore list doesn't keep growing? For example, I couldn't care less about stability when sending slideshows from iPhoto'11 to iDVD, something I don't do anyway.
I recently upgraded my iPod Touch 2nd Gen to an iPhone 4. I have since sold the iPod Touch to someone else. Io no longer want it to show up in the list of devices on the Find My iPhone app, or at *=URL=* but I can't see a way to remove it. How do I do this?
I need to know the maximum width and height of the viewport in Mobile Safari, iPhone 4, without the height of the statusbar on top and the bar with the forward/back/bookmarks bar at the bottom.
With BitDefender fully deactivated (as it cannot be quit), and ZoneAlarm shut down, it does not change anything. Not a surprise as they where both activated days ago and everything was working fine before the restore procedure.
How would I go about transferring iTunes credit between accounts? The question pretty well speaks for itself. I have two accounts, one for my iPod, one for my iPhone, I have passwords to both accounts, I can handle talking to Apple Support if that's what needs be, but I was curious if I can transfer the funds without going through customer service. Should I just "gift" myself purchases?
Every time I want to connect an iPhone to the Toyota Prius, I have to do the following: On the Prius, go to the audio screen, then select the bluetooth tab. Press the connect button. On the iPhone, go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and tap the connection to the car. Wait until the two pair, then exit their respective screens. Isn't there a way to have the two pair up automatically as they detect one another?
I recently converted from Windows to Mac, but one thing that I really liked on Windows was how easy it was to traverse the menu bar and the associated submenus with the keys. Effectively, I would push the magic menu button and then type letters corresponding to menu options. With Mac the analog is an awkward button combination followed by repetitively hitting up, down, left, and right. So, is there any way to make my Mac behave like a Windows computer in this respect?
I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. I'm using the Disk Utility, but am continually getting: Partition failed Partition failed with the error:
What file-format an external drive has to be for it to be writeable on both Macs and Windows machines? I have a 750GB external drive originally formatted in NTFS for Windows, but it's not writeable on Mac. I know FAT32 is writeable by both systems but am I correct to remember that it has limits to partition size (32GB if formatted from Windows or 2TB) and file size (4GB)? If that's the case then it's not good for me as I use it to transfer files over 5GB.
I'm using iPhone as a modem. Is there a way to port forward to my computer because I'm using it as a development server.
My 12 month-old MacBook Pro just suddenly seems to not want to download certain files. This sounds like a silly noob PEBKAC but it's not! For the past few weeks, most files that I click on in my browser which are not viewable in the browser (DMG, ZIP, etc) do not prompt me to save them. Instead of the Open with/Save File dialog appearing I just see a blank page and get the spinning wheel in that browser's tab. The status bar at the bottom reports "Transferring data from " but the download never completes, no matter how long I wait.
Every time I open Finder it open in a small windows I want it open in a bigger window how can I do this?
I have two drives on my Mac which are always empty (I've enabled show hidden files in the Finder):  What are these drives for?
I have two computers (iMac and a Macbook Air). Whenever I try to sync my iPhone to the Air it will remove all my data. Is there any possibility to have a common sync mechanism in between my two computers (or especially iTunes libraries) so that I can sync my iPhone without any problem.
I'm completely new to Mac (OS X) and I want to buy a 13" Macbook Pro 2011. I'm not sure if the "2,7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7" is worth the +300€. I want to order one of the two with a 128GB SSD for fast boots. I'm a developer (mainly web) so I need the book for programming and for the university later this year. I'm not going to install Windows or Linux on the machine. I need Mac OS X. My questions:
I already have a lot of experience in Photoshop because I normally use it to edit my photos, but I've heard that Aperture is far better (or easier to use) than Photoshop. I started using the trial version but it's not that good. It's just like Lightroom. Is there any difference if i buy the full version? Also, does Aperture support plugins?
I currently work with Adobe Lightroom and while I like its advanced stuff, I don't like the basics much such as the organizing, sorting, etc. What I saw in the iPhoto demo certainly looked a lot better.
I've got an iPod Touch 2nd Gen. It has Software Version 2.2.1. When I click 'Check for Update' in iTunes it says it's already running the latest version.
To be clear, I can't install any Mac OS X update at the moment. I reformatted my disk and installed fresh off my Snow Leopard disk. I then continued to download 1.16GB worth of combined update (10.6.6) and I kept getting an "invalid checksum" error when attempting to open the DMG.
I've got a simple shell script that I would like to incorporate into an automator workflow. I just need to double click the application , pick a finder folder and run the command. At the moment it is running in my default user directory. I've found how to do this as a service, but I'd like it to work as an application. How can I get to run in the chosen folder? Optionally a drag and drop onto the application would be nice as well.
How can I make my Mac (running the most recent OS) do a task automatically once a day? For example, I'd like to have it automatically download a copy of this open source algebraic geometry textbook once a day. I have a feeling that some combination of wget and cron should work, but, after googling and reading the cron documentation, I just couldn't get it to work right.
This is the only thing that bothers me with Safari, but it's a big deal. I've looked everywhere but can't seem to find any good suggestions. Is there any way to enable the Safari downloads window to automatically close when a download completes?
I'm wondering if there is an easier way. Currently, I launch Screen Sharing app, and a window appears asking for a host to connect to. I'd like it to already have the host field populated with my last connected host. Is there any way to enable such functionality? Thanks in advance.
My MacBook Pro is not loading my photos anymore. I insert the SD card, as I have always done, iPhoto pops up and says loading photos, but then the error message pops up saying that the disc was not ejected properly when I haven't even touched it! Can someone please help me? Thanks!
I would like to take control of my app on an iOS device (mostly an iPhone) from my MacBook Pro or Windows, doesn't matter which one. I know that it can be accomplished via Veency, and that's exactly what I need - but I do NOT want to jailbreak my iPhone. Is there a similar legal alternative? If not - is it something I could develop perhaps, or will I run into some SDK limitations for such a thing?
How long is it usually between when Apple releases a refreshed product and when authorized retailers like Best Buy and Target get the updates? I feel like when the last iPod refresh happened it took about a month before Target got the new ones. I ask because my wife is a Target employee and I'm debating how much I want to wait to get the new iPad vs saving 15%. UPDATE 3/4/11
I have this alias: The problem is that for some reason the temporary file thus created will be a .txt, while I'd need it to have the diff syntax highlight. If I manually change the highlight to diff, then every .txt I'll open in future will use the diff highlight too. What can I do to fix that?
When looking at my photos, I see that I can view a picture, click on the button the bottom left, and then click "Email Photo" but I now want to be able to email multiple photos into a single email. Is this possible on the latest iPod Touch?
I'm running a series of commands on the command line that takes approximately twenty minutes to complete. I'd like to see some sort of notification on my Mac when these are finished so I don't need to monitor the terminal for when it finishes. Is there a way to do this? Edit:
Is there a tool to count the number of windows I have open, including on all Spaces? I am curious and too lazy to do it manually. :)
I have a 13" Macbook Pro (2009) and I randomly get the "Service Battery" warning. I haven't noticed a huge decrease in battery life but the cycle count is at 725. I'm out of warranty, and so I'd like to do it myself, but I couldn't seem to find a replacement battery on Apple's web site. All I could find was this article, but I'm out of warranty. Where can I get a new battery? Also, if I don't notice a huge decrease in battery life, should I even be that concerned over this? I've included a few of my stats from system profiler. Charge remaining (mAh): 4102 Full charge capacity (mAh): 4102 Condition: Check Battery Amperage (mA): -477 Voltage (mV): 12271
If you didn't already know, the 2010 MacBook Air doesn't have an IR receiver. Does anyone know of a very small and cheap IR receiver that would work with a MacBook Air and the Apple Remote? Here are a couple of examples, do you know if they work? Micro Mini USB to Infrared IrDA Wireless Port Dongle Adapter Receiver PC Syba SD-U1IRDA-NM USB Fast Infra-Red Adapter Also, are there any good bluetooth remotes that work similarly to the Apple IR remote, and have similar design quality and size?
I was using VMWare Fusion on a boot camp partition and installed VMWare Tools on the Windows volume. How can I completely uninstall everything related to VMWare Fusion?
Coming from Windows I have gotten extremely used to the Windows Snap feature, which resizes a window when it's dragged to the screen edges. However, it's not built into OS X. Are there any 3rd party utilities that add this functionality?
I'm a former Linux user who just switched to a new mbp and I've got a spaces question. On my linux box I could remap the keys that would move left and right between virtual desktops (spaces).
I just installed Parallels 6 and upon launching it for the first time, it started up in coherence mode and I saw the taskbar overlayed the Mac OS X UI. After a few seconds, though, it disappeared. I tried enabling the relevant settings I found related to this, but I was never able to get the taskbar to appear again. How can I show the taskbar in Parallel's Coherence mode?
I own an iPhone 4 and I am planning to buy an iPad. I am wondering whether I'll be able to use the tether feature in the iPhone to access the internet from the iPad over Bluetooth. If this works, I won't need to get a 3G-enabled iPad; if it doesn't, I'll need a 3G iPad. Any ideas? Thanks.
I need to record just my browser and nothing else on the desktop. Does anyone know how I can do that? I know I can do a screen recording with QuickTime, but it takes the entire desktop. I want to stick a demo of something into a presentation, therefore just want the browser visible.
I'm thinking about selling my first generation iPad, but was wondering if I should sell the dock with it. I know that they are coming out with a new iPad dock specifically for the second generation. Will it not fit on the first generation dock?
The keyboard is the new typematrix 2030 *=URL=* When I plug the keyboard in it always shows up as unrecognized and is unable to figure out what type of keyboard it is based on pressing the key directly to the right of the left shift and directly to the left of the right shift. Can I tell osx not to bother me about unrecognized keyboards or to remember this one for the future?
What type of video files can I watch on my iPad? I usually only have .avi files; is there an app that will allow me to play them?
Even though I have had an iPad for a while, I haven't taken the plunge to buy any ebooks yet. I'd like to make a decision on whether to prefer buying iBooks or Kindle before I buy any so that I can keep my collection in one place. iBooks or Kindle: What are the reasons to choose one or the other? I also have an iPhone for some reading, and don't imagine I'll ever buy the Kindle hardware (as nice as they are at present).
Since there was no hint about more RAM during the presentation yesterday, did anyone find out if they stay with 256 or (like iPhone 4) increased it at least up to 512?
Whenever I connect my iPhone/iPad/iPod to MacMini, It automatically launches iTunes & start syncing every time. I am a developer & I frequently need to connect/disconnect different devices. So, whenever I connect device, I force quit iPhone & iTunes. Can I eliminate the initial launch of iTunes and iPhoto when iOS devices connect over USB?
Is A-GPS also working without an active 3G contract? Say I buy an iPad 3G with an operator SIM card in place but don't pay for 3G service, will A-GPS still work or not?
I want to sync many photos from my MacBook to my iPhone, but I realize that they really take too much space. I'm not exactly sure what resolution photos are scaled to when syncing with iTunes, but I would like to know if it is possible to lower it so that I can fit more photos in less space.
From Windows back to OSX is fairly easy. What I would like is a few less steps to get from OSX to Windows. Currently I launch system preferences -> startup disk - then select the bootcamp partition and press restart.
Apps that are purchased on my devices are deleted from the devices when I sync them with my desktop. iTunes states that the purchases are being transfered, but they are still deleted and do not show up under the iTunes app list. What is causing this?
As some people might know, the default behavior for external links of Google Chrome is quite bad. I'm using Spaces, and opening a link in some application outside of Google Chrome while being on a different Space than the last used window of Chrome results in Chrome switching to the last focused window. This behavior is just bad.
What's a good native Mac app for making timelines on Macs? I'm looking for an easy-to-use program that I can use to create timelines easily without delving into graphics programs like Illustrator. (Which I can use, but would be quite time consuming.)
How can I use keychain scripting to write a script in Applescript that retrieves the login and password of a website from the login keychain, given the website's URL?
My iMac's fans are making an awful lot of noise, sounding like a piece of cardboard is in them. It's a kind of ticking noise. This is happening since a few months ago. I have not changed any hardware. I have never encountered any other problems with my iMac and it has never crashed. My Mac is running normally and fast. Here is what iStat says: I have an Intel iMac (iMac9,1), Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.6.6. I have tried to reset the SMC but this did not help. How can I make this noise go away without opening my iMac or sending it back to Apple?
I've had an Apple ID for a while now and have many iTunes purchases associated with the account. Yesterday, I created a MobileMe account. I tried updating the existing Apple ID account e-mail with my new MobileMe address, but get an error about the MobileMe address already being associated with an iTunes account (I'm guessing it's automatically created when you create a MobileMe account). Is there a way to update my existing Apple ID to use my new MobileMe address so that I don't have to repurchase all of the apps and things I've downloaded on my original account?
Do the new (2011) MacBook Pros work with Apple's Remote Control? I'm little confused because the Apple Store offers me an Apple Remote when I try buying a new MacBook Pro, but I don't see any information about support for that remote in the MacBook Pro's description.
I am a freelance journalist who needs to record calls for accuracy and legal reasons -- I inform every person I record that I am doing so, so *PLEASE* do *NOT* post asking about the legality of recording calls. Don't even mention it. I don't give a rip. I've sat through more lectures on this topic than you — trust me.
I love Printopia - this allows my iDevices to print to a printer attached to my Mac. The problem is I usually don't leave it on all the time. Whenever I want to print from my phone, I'd turn it on via System Preferences app.
When I log in as "Guest", the dock looks like this:  Any changes made to the dock are lost upon logout, when the guest user's home directory gets deleted. How can I change the default dock settings for guest account so that it will automatically include a custom application of my choice, such as Google Chrome?
I've historically kept all my photos and videos on my Windows Home Server (WHS). I've now got an iMac and I'm using iPhoto to manage all my photos (linked to the server, not managing the files locally).
Time was, Macs crashed a lot. (Maybe PCs did too, but I've only ever used Macs). And over time, I became wary of doing two things at once.
I am looking for an iOS app (iPhone and/or iPad) that lets me store read articles permanently for easy offline browsing. I have tried a bunch of the ones out there, but somehow they just don't work.
I have a macbook pro with minidisplayport (MDP) out. It's plugged into an external monitor. Sometimes via MDP-to-DualDVI, and sometimes directly via MDP. I'd like to extract the digital audio signal from the MDP connection. I've seen cables that go from MDP to DVI+Audio. I want a cable that goes from MDP to MDP+Audio so that I can feed the audio into something other than my Apple Cinema display (which has cruddy speakers).
I'm trying to install "Belkin USB PDA Adapter Driver" and I'm getting message: You can't open the application Belkin USB PDA Adapter Driver because the Classic environment is longer supported. What can I do in order to get it to work?
I would like to study C using iPad. Just simple programs. So, is there a C compiler for iPad?
Is there any easy way to share links between iPads? For example, if my friend is looking at something interesting and wants to send it to me. Is email still the best way?
Maybe this is silly but... How can I find out the 3G usage on my iPhone 4? (like a counter telling how many Mbytes I have been moving over the 3G network)
I use Firefox on my Mac and have hundreds of website passwords saved in its password store. I don't even remember my passwords half the time for the various sites that I use. How can I sync the usernames/passwords between the two devices? I'd also like to be able to sync my bookmarks if possible. I use Firefox Sync to keep my various computers in sync, but of course this will not work with the iPad.
Is there a way to enhance Mail.app with better rules? What I'm missing most is regexps and the ability to group conditions and not only get "If all rules match" or If one rule match" Alternatively is there a way to use apple-scripts as rules? I'm not after Junk Mail Filtering
I've got a MacBook Pro (17", 2010 model), and recently I've been having a few issues with the keyboard. Frequently, some keys on the keyboard fail to respond. These are mainly on the right-hand side of the keyboard (P, O, ;, return, F11, plus others). An external keyboard does not have any issues. At first I thought it may be a hardware issue, but (a) there seems to be no issue when I boot into Windows 7 (Bootcamp), and (b) I can temporarily fix the problem by pressing F12 (Volume Up).
There's a bug in JDK1.6 in Snow Leopard that's affecting Netbeans. I could solve this issue by using JDK1.5, but I noticed that /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5 links to JDK1.6. Is there a true JDK 1.5 for Snow Leopard that can be downloaded and installed rather than just one that points to the newer JDK 1.6?
I find it little tedious to drop items in new email and make it an attachment. I need to resize both, source and destination window, so that I can pick and drop the item. This takes time. Yes few seconds more, but it matters.
I just ran out of disk space and I have like 15GB in my trash. Is there a way to not keep items older than say 7 days or limit the size of the Trash? I need a way to automatically keep this managed.
Whenever I plug my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard into my MacBook Pro, I have to swap the Command and Option modifier keys. How can I prevent these keys from reverting to their default settings whenever I unplug the keyboard?
Often when I work in the Terminal (the command line) I need to edit some text files. I prefer to edit text files using TextWrangler. How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal? I tried with /Applications/TextWrangler.app/ my_text_file.txt but it doesn't work since TextWrangler.app/ is a directory.
I have a MBP running 10.6. This is my first mac.
Should I upgrade my mbp internal hard drive (160 gb) with a 64 gb SSD? How much improvement will I see?
Disclaimer: I'm a Windows boy awaiting his first mac. I never bothered learning/using command-line interfaces. I've been looking at the Terminal Tips and Tricks topic and I don't see how any of those commands would be faster than using the GUI.
What does it actually do when showing this message on the end of a installation?
I would like to back up and clear the contents of my iPad before I sell it off and buy an iPad 2. What is the best way to do this?
Want to change the icon of my main drive. I have a bunch of drive icons from interfacelift. They appear to be just .icns packed in the resource fork (%file returns empty, and %cat prints nothing, which is fine, I understand why). My understanding is the way to use these was: open the icon file info (cmd-i) select the icon in the upper left, copy it (cmd-c) select the drive you want to change pull up info (cmd-i) paste icon on top of icon on drive
Basically the Title: Is is possible to replace the CD drive in a 17" macbook Pro with a SSD/second HD? I'm looking at buying a 17" MBP, and I am having a hard time deciding if I want a HD or SSD.
I'm creating a few screen casts and wanted to exactly center my windows in my screen. Any good way to do this on the Mac? I found an Apple Script example (and a few linked screens) but none of them support centering 'Terminal' vertically (although they do support centering other applications vertically).
I've used my Time Machine drive to back up my main machine, and also a friend's mac. Her machine is now being backed up on another Time Machine drive, and she'd like me to delete her backup. I'm familiar with the (perhaps obscure) way to delete a particular time machine backup, or how to delete all backups of a particular file, but I have no idea how to delete another machine's backup.
Disclaimer: It's kinda hard to search for this question, as Google would give me mostly iOS programming topics. I'm planning on buying an iPad2 and I wonder if other programmers have found it to be a practical, and hopefully, better replacement for books. Despite the availability of online tutorials I have found the times I have learned best and made the most progress is when I forced myself to sit down and read through manuals, from start to finish. I guess the crux of my question is: as a developer, have you been able to use an iPad for reading programming books in a way that it is more convenient than Cmd/Alt-Tabbing between a PDF viewer and other apps on your computer?
I have a 2nd Gen 2008 Mac Pro 2.8ghz Quad Core with an 8800GT. I'm sure I can get away with the processing power and more RAM for now. Is there any way possible I can put a modern day GPU inside this machine? What does it entail to do such customizations? Could I gut this machine and upgrade it fully to current technology? Thanks.
I have configured my wireless airport extreme to use client mode (hint: if this is not available in "manual configuration", start the assistent and it will appear in the menu ...). This is working fine and I can access APX via my default wireless connection. However, I have a few systems attached to the LAN ports and these are not accessible.
I have various devices to connect to my iMac using good-old RS-232. Of course, I only have USB connectors on my machine. I have a couple of Prolific PL2303-based cables, and they seem to work OK, but the kext provided seems a little flaky and I'm not sure about long-term support. What is the most-stable, best-supported USB-Serial chip-set or cable?
There are a number of posts that talk about CPU temperature. Is there a utility built in to Mac OSX that I can use to determine the current temperature of the CPU?
Is there a way to create a smart playlist that consists of random albums and when I sync my iPod touch, will remove the music I just heard and replace it with new randomly chosen albums? If not, is there anything close? I'd like to play music in album order, hear complete albums and hear music I have not heard recently. I'm on Windows, so Mac plugins wouldn't work.
I'd like to do something with my windows on OS X, where something includes options like re-arranging, moving, re-sizing, remembering positions, cloning across Spaces, etc. What options exist? One app per answer. Use this format for the first two lines of your answer: ## [app name](link to website) [App Store](link to appstore) (price) Check for duplicates before adding new answers. If you find a duplicate, vote it down and encourage its poster to upvote the original entry instead (and remove the dupe).
My girlfriend says she dragged the USB disk from the sidebar in finder into trash and I have since emptied the trash. Is this plausible? How do I show/display a USB drive using the command line or finder?
I'm currently using an Apple Wireless Keyboard connected via Bluetooth to my iPad. However, I have the habit of accidentally placing the keyboard in my backpack, where the function keys get accidentally depressed. Sometimes, it hits the ▶ || key, which will cause my iPad to start playing music. Is there anyway to disable the function keys without turning off the entire keyboard?
I realized that the say command can be great when combined with another command/program because it can read you the output. I tried to pipe the output from leave to say by typing the following in terminal, but it didn't work. What is the correct way to do this?
I ran a batch of images through an AppleScript Finder script that replaced text substrings in the filenames and did so once more to change the extensions to something other than .jpeg. As expected, some of the images, lost their thumbnails, but others didn't and when I CMD+i to view info for these, they still show up as JPEG image files to be opened in Preview.app, even though they are now .info files. Any subsequent attempts to rename them or change their extension fails to remove their thumbnail or JPEG association.
Is there any way to force Finder to refresh its in-use information for gray (inaccessible) files? Details:
My company has a guest wifi network for use by non-company issued machines. Since getting my MacBook Air recently, I've wanted to bring it in and use it around the office.
A friend of mine has a MacBook2,1 mid 2007 with a dead Combo Drive (long story short, someone at the Apple Store put the wrong drive in), and I have a MacBook7,1 (mid 2010) that I tore down for parts. Normally I'd just try this myself but the drive is at my parents house an hour away and gas is $3.49 a gallon. Does anyone know if they're interchangeable?
How do I clean out the dust in the fans of my MacBook Pro? (I'm perfectly comfortable with opening my MacBook Pro up (Unibody 2008 edition with removable battery cover), but I'm not exactly sure how I would carry out the dust-cleaning procedure.
Is it possible to run XNA & Visual Studio from a machine under VMware Fusion running on Mac OS X?
I'm new to the Apple world. I was wondering if the update to Lion X will be free for users that has recently bought a new MacBook Pro (like me). If not, how much will it cost?
Is there any way to globally hide every single file extension in OS X? I've seen the option in the Get Info menu to hide the selected file's extension, but I'd like to never see a file extension unless I chose to.
If I wanted to play some .m4v files (non-DRM Apple TV as they're produced through Handbrake), what would be the best HD Media Player to play back the files? Would this one work? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/249286
I have a TiVo Series 3 HD Recorder purchased in Dec 2006. For the past few years, when I have wanted to archive something from the TiVo to my Macintosh, I used iTiVo. However, this application has many issues (crashes, freezes, very, very slow) and has not been updated in almost 2 years. My frustration with its "quirks" has prompted me to seek another solution. The only other Macintosh OS X software I have found via google is a Dashboard Widget (ick) called TiVo NowPlaying. This widget (versioned 2.51) has not been updated since Oct 2007. It's usable, but not ideal (slow, sometimes needs to be restarted and doesn't support mpeg4). I am using fairly modern Macintosh (intel) computers, updated to the current version of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). What are other Macintosh + TiVo owners using to move content from their TiVo to the Macintosh? I am hoping someone has some information on something better to use than the options I have listed above.
When I browse the Mac App Store, the buy button of the Xcode app is shown as "installed" so that I can't buy it. But I can't find it in my Applications folder either.
I've been using the bashpodder script recently, and while the script works beautifully when I use it in the command line, the crontab I created for it doesn't work at all. It fails when it has to use wget. I downloaded the most recent OS X binaries for wget, but the script still fails, and I get a log with an error that reads thus: Lines 71-75 read like this: Any recommendations?
I am considering getting an iPad 2 because of the support for inputting an electric guitar in via an Apogee JAM device. However, part of my bigger picture is to take an MXL .009 USB Condensor Mic into the Garageband app. But I just read that the iPad 2 does not have a USB port on it. Is there a way to take the audio from a MXL .009 USB mic into the iPad 2 similar to the way the Apogee jam works via the dock connection?
I haven't seen any nice Bluetooth headphones that support A2DP (stereo audio profile for bluetooth). That would be ideal -- no wires, no transmitter required.
I have a 2010 Macbook Air 11 inch, and it noticeably lags when I use tools like Gnu Screen, Tmux, and Vim, especially with vertical splits and during Screen/Tmux window switching. Does anyone notice this performance issue?
I just bought an old Mac Mini to start developing for iOS. The Mac Mini has a DVI port, so I connected it to my Dell 24" display which has a DVI connection. But it appears that my Mac wont boot. I dont even know if it is booting or not because my monitor does not show anything, as it did not get any signal and went to standby mode immediately. My questions are: Do I have to connect a keyboard and mouse to the Mini in order to boot?
I am considering purchasing an iPad and one of the uses would be to read books. But I can't find a way to browse the iBook store and see what books they have available without actually owning an iPad. Is it accessible via iTunes?
The Apple iPad is a sexy little device, but I have no clues on how the OS on that thingy works, and since it does not come with a USB connection I'm having some problems with how data is moved around on that thingy. Apple sells a USB converter that you can plug into the iPad so you can connect it with a camera. But could I do the same with a portable drive like Western Digital Passport? Can I move images back and forth between the IPad and the Passport?
I have an issue that I've been experiencing: semi-cold fingers, iPad, and/or room make for a very stubborn drawing experience (I'm an artist that uses the iPad). I'm talking indoors, and it doesn't have to be that cold to trigger the problem: even slightly below normal room temperature.
I would like to tell iTerm2 to have red text whenever I'm root when logged into a server. I'm not able to change any configuration on the remote server.
Some international fonts (such as Devanagari and others in that area) are apparently missing some glyphs. Checking the lower left of wikipedia I get squares ("missing glyph symbol"), and going into that site I get only squares too; however, checking in other sites it appears many glyphs are there, but a few are missing.
I have iPod Touch and iPad (version 1). I noticed some images on pdf cannot be viewed on the iBook. Why? The following are my pdf ebooks that cannot be viewed by iBook: Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Expert's Voice in .NET) Learn JavaScript and Ajax with w3Schools to be continued...
Apple Mail doesn’t seem to let you edit the source of HTML e-mails (customised stationery workarounds aside). Is there a Mac app that lets you send HTML e-mails? A bit of Googling turned up HTMLMailer, but it looks like it’s no longer available.
Now iCal seems to be sending invites using the topmost email account set up in Mail.app - in this case example1@example.com. Is there a way to use different email account to do this? Also, it seems that iCal creates invites using the email account defined in iCal accounts - in this case example@gmail.com, even though I use local Calendar and not the CalDAV one!
I already found a product that does this, named Meerkat, but I'm looking for a free solution. I need to do several port remapping with ease.
I'm Korean and don't have a US address or credit card, but I want to buy content from the US iTunes store. I have a PayPal account connected to a Korean bank. Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes account with PayPal?
Sometimes I'm not able to change any of the custom images associated with contacts in the address book. If I quit and restart several times, it eventually works again.
I just downloaded the .tar ball and unzipped it. It seems to run as a standalone from the folder that was unzipped in my Downloads folder. However, I want to install this so it is in applications, but there are so many other files like configurations. Where do I put those? I tried dragging just the eclipse.app to the applications folder and when i try to run it, it says the shared dependencies are missing.
When I play or select songs on my iPod touch 4G I often can not read the full title of the song when it is very long. In all views (Coverflow front, coverflow back, now playing portrait mode, playlist) it is always truncated. Especially for classical music this is really annoying because the titles are something in the lines of "Beethoven: The Complete String Quartetts" - "String Quartett #3 in D Op. 18/3 - 1. Allegro". Is there some trick to view the complete title?
When I get a threaded message in mail.app and want to insert my signature under my reply text, then the signature gets inserted at the bottom of the email content. Is it possible to insert the mail signature just below the reply text I wrote?
I have problem connecting to a wireless router using Mac OS X which is on channel 13. This is because there is some other router nearby which is broadcasting the US country code. The only way around this i have found so far, is to each time go to the router and restart the computer.
I changed the root user password in phpMyAdmin and now it cannot connect to the database. Does anyone know where, in the MAMP folder structure, where to hardcode the new password in?
Does anybody know of an iPhone application or shortcut that allows you to save your email address access it via a shortcut? This would be super useful when filling in forms in Safari or in when your email address is required in an application.
I've got an application that won't overwrite a file with the same filename. It will only append the filename with a 'space 1'. If I write a file more than once I get something like this: filename.jpg filename 1.jpg filename 2.jpg What I need is to only ever have the newest file without the extra space and number.
I unfortunately tried to open a few Excel files that have huge amounts of data. After 20 minutes they were not opened yet, so I did a force quit.
As someone who doesn't like to shout, I have Caps Lock remapped to Control on all of my computers. A second control key is far more useful to a guy who spends most of his time in Terminal.app. This was set up in System Preferences under Keyboard and Modifier Keys.
I need to reinstall Xcode. It seems that some of the installation did not work correctly and so I need to completely reinstall it. Xcode is a pretty hefty piece of kit and so I was wondering how you go about completely uninstalling / reinstalling it? Thanks
Apple gets the latest trailers. Is there any way I can automate iTunes to download the newest trailers? Similar to how it automatically downloads the latest podcasts?
I'm looking for usual tools, like messenger, file transfer, text editor and so on. PS. I would make it community wiki, but I do not see the option?!
I have an iPhone 3G and I may be upgrading to an iPhone 4 tonight. I'm on AT&T. Once I get up and running on iPhone development, I'm thinking I want to keep the old phone around to test how apps run on the older, slower phone.
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro MC371 (Core i5, GeForce 320M, 4Gb RAM). When I launch a game either new one (i.e. Starcraft 2) or rather old (Unreal Tournament 2004, bootcamped) my MacBook gets rather warm, even hot in the top left corner, around the place where magsafe charger is plugged in. The temperature is more than 40C. The fact that confuses me is that this warming occures even when I play old games. Is that OK?
I want it to have all the colors for syntax folders, etc... How can I do that?
Is there a combination of math functions I could use in spotlight to accomplish change of base ? I know I can do it on a case by case basis with normal algebra.
Does OS X have the option to allow you to lock your screen?
Is there any app like NitroDesk's TouchDown Android email client for iOS? Just for background info, many companies force you to have the latest version of iOS installed to access Exchange Server, or you can have a secure client like TouchDown. That means you're out of luck if you're on an unsupported phone such as iPhone 2G which cannot have the latest version of iOS and cannot run TouchDown since it's Android only. EDIT:
I just started using Time Machine for backup of my late 2009 MBP. So far it's backing up only OS X partition and ignoring Bootcamp partition. I also see the point Time Machine completely ignores NTFS and FAT32 partitions. Looking for solution/ hack to include Bootcamp partition also included in my Time Machine backups.
I'm a teacher in a classroom with 8, 9 10 and 11 year olds who each have a macbook or a macbook pro. Fun job. We have a standard 10.6.6 image with iWork '09 (4.03).
On Ubuntu, I was able to connect to another server using "places". Is there anything like that in Mac OS X?
I've been getting a lot of bogus contact add requests from my Yahoo account - it almost always turned out to be a spambots. I wonder if BeejiveIM has a feature that can block these spam requests?
I have had this bug-bare for a while where preview always opens documents too small, I'm visually impaired and want them to default to open with two options Default width to nearly 100% of screen, last used would be perfect Default PDF display to "Single Page Continuous" Default the mouse tool to "Move" No matter what I do it always opens in a window 1/3 of my screen size to what I assume is "100%".
I want to move to other workspaces using trackpad. How can I do that?
Internet Sharing from my MacBook Pro (10.6.6) to other WiFi devices works fine. But the moment I turn on the VPN connection (PPTP) on the Mac (which I would also like to share), the other devices cannot access anything anymore (everything works fine on the Mac itself). What do I do?
I just deleted (via AppCleaner) my Mac App Store app (which I couldn't log into for 2 weeks) with the idea to re-get a fresh app via Software Update. But Software Update doesn't download Mac App Store anymore.
I'm using Keynote '09 for the first time, and I find myself wanting some bits of clip art or additional shapes. At the moment, I just want a big check mark. It's hard to believe that this isn't provided, but I can't find it.
I have an Airport Express that I have plugged into a speaker system. I can change the music in my house with my iPhone through Apple's Remote app. Great.
iWork provides the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-Shift-V to paste text without it's original formatting. How can I get this or a similar shortcut key for Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac?
I'm looking for a, preferably free, SIP client for OS X, one that will allow multiple SIP accounts and preferably supporting g729 audio codec.
Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro?
I would like to use my iPhone as an BT headset, is it possible to pair it with the computer and to have it used for computer calls?
I want to use an iPad as an interactive part of an exhibition. Will it last or will it break? Does anyone have experience?
Is there a way to change what app opens a file type programmatically/with a script? Basically, sometimes I'm working on a web site, and I want to set all web files to open with a text editor (*.php, *.html, *.htm, etc...). However, other times, I want to just view the files, so I want them to open with a browser. Right now, I'm dragging items onto dock icons, which works, but is slow, particularly when I'm going through a large number of files with the keyboard only.
I'm looking to charge my iPod via USB or car charger while still being able to use a sync cable accessory with the iPod. I'm connecting an iCombie (which is a wireless adaptor) to my motorcycle helmet and want to be able to charge the iPod at the same time.
I'd like to be able to set the titles on my tabs to short, easy-to-remember things, since I often have a few open. You can use Command-I and set the Title that way, but OSX appends the name of the currently running process to that title, (e.g. "test title -- bash"). Is there any way to set the full text of the tab title?
I've seen a lot of discussion about this through googling, but found no answers. In GIMP for Mac, I just want to keep all the dialog windows above my main document window. Is it possible?
I'd like to play with OS X to see what makes it tick under the covers for the purpose of IT support - at CWRU here we have a lot of Mac-using professors. However, I can't justify spending twice as much on hardware as I would purchasing from any other vendor. Therefore, I'd like to avoid getting Apple hardware. I know you do get something for that money (nobody else does anything like Apple's aluminum unibody), but I don't need that for what I'm doing.
I just bought an i7 MBP with 4GB RAM. I'm upgrading it to 8GB with this: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=8C4DD5E1A5CA7304
I have enabled pop at gmail and successfully used it on other PCs. On my mac (10.6.6) I go into Mail, I press the + to create a new account. There is no option to choose the Account Type anymore. Just the Name, email addr, and password. If I put in my gmail address, it just defaults to imap. I don't see a way to change it to pop anywhere. I want to use pop as a way to backup my gmail to my mac. How can I create a pop account for gmail?
Is there a comparison of networks and their cost for the new Personal Hotspot feature? Also, how does the hotspot feature differ from internet tethering in previous iOS versions?
Apple RAM for the unibody MacBook Pro's typically has a large markup to it. I am wondering if it's different than Crucial or other brands in quality..
Is there a way to recall an app to the current space? This is possible by turning Spaces off, but that recalls all apps. I just want one.
Based on the specs page, Apple seems to indicate that the 4th gen iPod touch has an internal microphone. Is this true, or are they merely indicating its compatibility with the headphones-with-remote-and-mic?
Is there a (hidden) keyboard shortcut for minimizing the frontmost window (that works in most apps)?
I'm looking for an OTA (over the air, eg. no cable) ATSC USB tuner to use with a Macbook. There appear to be a few options, all of which seem to have ugly hardware and buggy software. Does anyone have a recommendation? Elgato seems like the biggest manufacturer, but I'm reading mixed reviews. I would primarily be using this in the US.
I got my first mac today and Im really going crazy trying to do something quite simple I have some split zip files called somefilea.zip somefileb.zip somefilec.zip somefiled.zip ... to z.zip somefile1.zip somefile2.zip ... I'm trying to merge these into the same folder and let the files they contain join into one folder.
I replaced my disk with an SSD. Smooth transition, everythng fine. Now, I want to keep the disk health checked, since I know that SSD tend to degrade over time. Which utilities can I use for this task ?
I need a way of extracting EXIF GPS data, using my Mac, from a bunch of photos taken on an iPhone. So for example, if I put 1000 photos into a folder, I want an easy way of extracting all the GPS data for each photo into a text file.
I want to start recording professional quality screencasts on my Mac and I've narrowed it down to two apps (that I know of): Camtasia Studio and Screenflow. I considered Camstudio, but since I will be doing this professionally and frequently, I would much rather pay a premium for a well-designed and fully-featured app. Which brings me to my question: Is there a clear winner between Camtasia and Screenflow, or perhaps a third, better app, that I haven't listed? As an additional and partly related question:
I have my master iTunes library on a Mac Mini, and I set up Home Sharing to stream my music and videos to my MacBook Pro. When I had iTunes 9, I selected certain playlists to share and not others, and things worked fine. When I upgraded to iTunes 10, now the entire library shows up on the MacBook Pro. But I still only want the selected playlists. Here's what I've tried so far: I've gone into Preferences and double-checked that I'm only sharing selected playlists. I've quit iTunes on both machines and re-launched it. I've turned off Home Sharing on both machines, then turned it back on. I've switched the setting on the Mac Mini to "Share my entire library", applied the change, then switched it back to "Share selected playlists" and applied the change.
I was reading up on the update and it seems that most changes are for either iPad2 or iPhone 4 (e.g. the personal hotspot).
When I try to update my iPad from my Win 7 desktop, I get this error message which says Could not start session with iPad and then the iPad disconnects. Even during normal syncing I have noticed that my iPad disconnects a few seconds after doing the backup. It's for this reason that I have never been able to do a full sync of my iPad. Note that the same usb cable/port works just fine for syncing/updating my iPhone 4. I even tried reinstalling my Apple USB drivers as mentioned here but to no avail.
The only reason I am using Chrome over Safari is the cool feature Chrome has namely the address bar acts as the search bar as well. Is there a way I can enable this feature in safari as well?
is there free equivalent to Total Commander for OSX? two panels drag & drop tabs etc ect
My professor requires me to go to the website and login and check the individual folders for updates. It is using http and I am wondering if there is a way to mount it as a drive similar to SSH and macfusion.
I was changing the default program to open .txt files with and I noticed 2 entries for TextMate. Its one of those little things that annoy me. How can I fix it? I didn't see 2 directors of TextMate.app in /Applications.!
Is there a way, in the Mac App Store, to buy an app and to give the license to a friend who has no way to pay for that app?
I've been Flash-free in Safari (5.0.3, my primary browser) for a while now, using Chrome with its bundled Flash Player whenever I have to. I'm also developing a little bit in Flash for school, and have ended up using the Flash Debug Player, since it's really convenient to use trace for debugging. I tried just putting the Debug Player inside my Google Chrome.app, similar to how the existing Flash Player is located, but Chrome refused to detect this, so I had to put it in /Library/Internet Plug-ins, and now Safari detects it too. Is there any way I can get Safari to ignore this plugin, or something that makes sure Chrome can find it, and not Safari?
I've got an Early-2009 Unibody Mac Book Pro 17". It came with 4 GB RAM and by default it boots into 32-bit Kernel. I've just upgraded to 8 GB RAM and my main concern is getting maximum performance from my 64-bit version of Lightroom 3 (I scan negatives and edit large tiff files). Now that I've got 8 GB RAM, will booting into 64-bit Kernel give me any performance boost on Lightroom (and even generally)? Should I see a performance boost on 32-bit Kernel with the additional RAM?
I prefer to install each OS on its own partition and be able to boot it without virtualization or to boot it virtualized while I am under OS X. The question is what virtualization solution does support this. Please answer only if it worked for you and also include some guidances. So for, I was able to boot Ubuntu VM using Parallels, but I was not able to add a real partition to VM under VirtualBox or VMware Fusion.
I don't find how to draw a curved arrow in a Keynote'09 presentation... I'm sure is really before my eyes but .....
I'm interested in purchasing the 15" model of the latest generation (Mar 2011) of Macbook Pros. They list two variants that differ $400 in price. As far as I can tell, these are the only differences between them. 2.0 GHz i7 processor ($1800 version) vs 2.2 GHz i7 processor ($2200 version) 500 GB hard drive ($1800 version) vs 750 GB hard drive ($2200 version) 6490M (with 256MB GDDR5) graphics card ($1800 version) vs 6750M (with 1GB GDDR5) graphics card ($2200 version)
Short story: partition resizing using Disk Utility fails because MediaKit reports no such partition when I try to shrink it. I also tried the same while booting from the DVD, same result. Details: reFIT is installed and partition tables are in sync. Current configuration: refit hfs+ - with OS X 10.6 on it linux swap linux ext4 - with Ubuntu on it I can boot both, OS X and Ubuntu, via rEFIt boot menu but I want to shrink the OSX partition in order to add another NTFS partion where I want to install Windows 7 x64. What should I do?
So, What will happen if I restore my iPhone from itunes?
Is the best way to delete a users information on a macbook pro just to do a clean reinstall or is it safe to just delete the user account from the machine?
It seems to me like there is a communication issue between the iPod and my (crappy) PC. When I click "restore from backup" this weird little window pops up in iTunes with an indefinite progress bar. Its title is "Restoring from backup" and under the progress bar it says "Estimating time remaining." The real interesting part is that the iPod is unaffected. It doesn't change to the "Restore in Progress" screen or "Sync in Progress" or anything. I'm really at a loss here.
I've got the latest iTunes on my Mac [10.2.1(1)], I've downloaded iOS4.3 to my iPad, so I've got all the software that should be necessary, right? My Apple I.D. and password have both been correctly entered on the Mac and the iPad. Home Sharing has been activated on the Mac, but the iPad can't see it.
I've recorded some audio from an external mic and an acoustic guitar with a mic. I can hear it just fine when I play it back, but in the visualization it is almost invisible. There are just some really small bumps on the otherwise straight line. Is it possible to adjust the scale of the visualization?
I'm hoping to build on my embarrassingly-limited knowledge of the command line, and I know there are a ton of great resources out there. I'm wondering if there are any books or other resources that are tailored specifically to the OS X user running Terminal. Thanks.
What is the complete list of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) that are unable to update to iOS 4.3 or higher?
Unfortunately, using the Connect to Server method above, I am not able to see any dollar sign shares of my server. I know this particular server has about 20 shares ending in $, and yet I only see these few public shares.
I have a 17" MacBook Pro. I bought it in November 2010, so it is still under the one-year warranty and thus I have the ability to buy AppleCare and extend the warranty. Thing is, I'm having second thoughts as to whether this is worth it, or if there are other third-party warranty services that might be just as good at parts replacement for a lower cost.
1) Is it possible to output the audio over a2dp to multiple speakers simultaneously? 2) Is it possible to change the audio output to A2DP speakers directly from iTunes or do I have to change the system preferences every time? Thanks.
From the Homebrew installation page : We recommend you delete /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib But my /usr/local/lib contains the following files:
As it says here, I can use an iPad as a remote photo vieing client if I buy the WD My Book Live NAS. But I have an old NAS already and I wonder if there are any generic iPad apps that give similar function, but without restriction on a specific NAS? Thanks.
The iOS spell checker works for me in all the iOS applications, but it doesn't seem to work for text I type in a text area in Mobile Safari. For instance, spelling errors are underlined in red for emails I type in Mail, but they are not underlined in red in the web-based Gmail. I am not talking about completion feature, but the red underline of misspelled words, which is new with iOS 4, as shown in this screenshot:
I'm the owner of three Samsung SyncMaster 245BW monitors (resolution: 1920 x 1200). I'm interested in getting a Mac Mini and was wondering if I'll be able to connect the Mac Mini to all three monitors such that I can have a separate desktop on each. Does the Mac Mini come with the hardware / software to do this? Thanks!
I am slowly beginning to fear the worst with Textmate and the impending release of Lion and how stable Textmate might be on it. So my question is, are there any Textmate alternatives out there that supports the completion feature (Esc key autocompleting) in the same way that Textmate does? It must be as similar as possible to textmate implementation ideally. Meaning: It can autocomplete various language keywords, based on existing language It can autocomplete nearby words. It doesn't generate a dropdown showing options, you should just keep pressing the key to cycle through the options.
For my iPhone, is there anyway to have gmail chat ping me, when a new chat occurs, and I am on another app? Unlike Android or Blackberry, I am amazed that I have yet not found anything that works well on the iphone for chatting with friends. Am I missing something here? Or is this just one of the greatest overlooked features that my iPhone does not have.
Because I already used BootCamp for creating the partition I used for installing Ubuntu, now I am not able to install Windows 7 by using BootCamp. Here is my disk partiton configuration: refit (fat) osx (hfs+) freespace (here I want to add the NTFS partition) linux-swap (raw) linux-ubuntu (ext4)
Expanded I see this:  When I collapse the account, it shows the total unread count next to it:
How do I format a disk partition from the command line on Mac OS X? In case someone wonders why: because for some people Disk Utility fails.
I'm looking for some Pages templates for Resume (software developer CV). Do you have any suggestions?
How does one transfer app data (e.g., Notetaker HD books, game progress, etc.) from an old iOS device to a new one?
I recently bought NeO and I am having a bit of trouble understanding it. I have tried googeling for resources, but NeO does not seem to have that many users. I am looking for a place to discuss NeO usage and/or pointers to documentation besides the included help file.
I currently have a 640GB external HD that has 1 partition formatted as HSF+ Now I want to split some of the free space into a new FAT32 partition, without having to reformat the whole HD and losing all my data. I read that I'm supposed to be able to add new partitions in the Hard Disc Utility by clicking the "+" sign, without any loss of data. But in my case the "+" is not clickable and it says that this partition cannot be altered.
What are the ways for both an iMac and an iPad to share the same physical keyboard? If it's possible to share a regular Apple bluetooth keyboard between both devices without jailbreaking the iPad, I think it would be my favored option.
I am trying to use the key "shift-tab" in emacs running purely under Terminal.app, but got an error saying there is no keybinding for "M-[ z" (where M is the meta key, set to be the option key under Terminal.app preferences). In other words, emacs thinks I am pressing "option-[ z" when I pressed "shift-tab" on the keyboard of my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.6, what is the problem and how do I correct it? Thank you.
I'm just wondering how secure commercial podcasts on itunes are protected against piracy? Does it even matter for security if the podcast is provided over itunes or is it the content provider himself who must make the proper security adjustments?
Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts? Assume I have corporate and private account. How can I use a single dropbox app for them?
Is it possible to change Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) user agents on OSX? I dont see a menu or preference option for doing so.
I'd prefer not to install the whole iOS SDK with Xcode, just the gcc toolchain for my own console applications and school work. I know for the old Xcode installs it was possible to customize the install and deselect it, but I'm not sure how the Mac App Store handles it and I'd like to know before I buy it and try to install it. The iOS SDK is a good 4-5 gigs of overhead I have no need for, and with an SSD I'm trying to save space wherever I can.
Is it possible manage files on an iPad directly, or do all file transfer (music, movies, etc), have to go through iTunes?
Is it possible to trade my 2009 MacBook Pro for store credit or something?
I have brought a new mac and would like to sync my iPhone content with the new mac (i.e. contact, calendar, apps and etc..) As the the first sync will erase all contents from my iPhone, is there any way to avoid it. If the iPhone backup has been performed on the old PC, can I restore all the content from the backup if the content was erased during sync with the new mac. Please advise.
Does anyone know why ^ (control)+click was chosen to trigger a context menu, rather than ⌥ (option)+click? Is there any history surrounding this? To me, an alternative method of clicking that brings up a menu of options seems most intuitive if triggered by ⌥ (option)+click, especially considering that key is also known as ⌥ (alt).
On Windows I used to blog to Wordpress using Microsoft Word 2010 blog feature, but the Mac version is missing this feature. I am looking for alternatives, preferably free ones. If you specify a commercial solution please include the price: name (x$). Please do not suggest generic text/html editors and submit different suggestions as separated answers.
I've seen on the Apple support site, that my Macbook Pro (late 2008) will support up to 4GB at 1066Mhz is this the actual maximums or will I be able to install say 8GB 1333Mhz memory? Also I have different memory that appear identical: *=URL=* http://www.dabs.com/products/2gb-ddr3-1066-module-6DLP.html?refs=4294946774
I have a Mac Mini with iTunes 10.2.1 installed, I enabled home sharing in the preferences and the Advanced menu. I also have an iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3, which I enabled home sharing on using the same username and password that my desktop uses.
Since spotlight continuously updates the index, sometime the file precedence gets changed around and I might type in "saf" and press return expecting to get Safari, but instead spotlight attempts to open some Java jar file. Question Is there any way to make spotlight ignore certain file types or directories?
I am visiting Canada (Vancouver, BC) this coming week from the UK and have an unlocked iPhone 4 (bought SIM-free from Apple). What are the best options for buying a pre-paid SIM that will give me some data (around 500Mb) whilst I'm away? I already had a SIM cutting tool to make micro-SIM cards from standard SIM cards. Jack
I have been reading PDF files a lot lately and I would very much prefer it if someone could read it out aloud for me ;). Is there any software that you use that can read PDF files aloud so that you can hear it, rather than read?
I have seen a guide/tip on the internet to make Finder tile it's background by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist however the guide is now outdated and no longer works on Snow Leopard. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?
I'm moderately familiar with OSX but am attempting to solve an issue remotely. My girlfriend is in Argentina for a bit, and the IP location bars her from many "US only" sites that she frequents.
I'm looking for a graphical file manager fro OS X, for console Midnight Commander is ok. I need two panels, function keys operations and preferably FTP and SCP support. Also, it would be great to be free.
My favorite file comparison tool was Beyond Compare but since I recently switched to OS X, i'm no longer able to use it and I'm looking for an alternative, preferably a free one. Update: I made the mistake not to specify that I am also looking for a tool that does directory comparison, not only files. Because this could make the already answers invalid I made another question for this What directory comparison tools can I use on OS X?
Is it safe to remove the Xcode 4 installation program from my Applications folder after I installed Xcode? If there is a free update, will I still get it, or do I have to buy it again? The installer is 4,58 GB, which is space I could use on my hard drive!
After the slew of updates this week I'm no longer able to backup either my iPhone 4 or iPad. There are two errors:
I'm doing a bit of a disk cleanup, and was surprised to find that my iPhoto library was a whopping 83gig. From what I understand iPhoto keeps a jpeg copy of each RAW photo in your library (but I could be wrong). A lot of this space is because the images are in RAW format. Is there a way to either: easily convert the raw photos to jpeg and remove the raw image file remove the raw files and keep iPhoto's Jpeg version.
I have a problem: each time I create an album in a smartplaylist in iTunes and sync it with my iPhone, I have multiple items of the same album with different artists names. I'm wondering how to create smartplaylists so that I can unify my albums. Have you heard of Smartplaylists? Which app would you suggest me?
I've a wonderful iMac G4 with 2 GB of RAM so I can install/upgrade from Panther to Leopard but I cannot officially buy from Apple site! Is there a possibility somewhere to buy an original disk?
Has anyone ever seen an error like the one pictured below on Mac OS X? What is it? The system is 10.6.6. I'm quite experienced in OS X but I've never seen such a thing. I was booting in verbose modem, and it looks like the verbose mode came "through".
My Windows 7 Laptop HDD crashed. I bought a new HDD and installed Windows on it. I also installed iTunes.
I would like to monitor CPU and memory usage in realtime with charts on a macOS system tray (menu bar). Is there a utility that provides such functionality?
It happened to me every time I had drained the battery down to around 30%. I would think that the electronics on board the battery controller would force the system to go into hibernate (suspend/sleep) mode, while making sure there is just enough charge left to keep the system memory alive somewhere. However, as far as I can tell, obviously, the controller has no reason to think the remaining charge (at 30%) on the battery is appallingly low to warrant any such operations. But, it is as if the battery suddenly abruptly completely shuts itself off, as if its connection gets severed off there in a second.
I already know that I need to tune /etc/sudoers file but I would like to see full information and also a solution that would not require me to use vi editor. Update: never, ever try to edit the file with something else than visudo.
I am looking for a way to make the root privilege escalation procedure less annoying - I have to type the password too many times. Is it possible to remember the password once per login session or to remember it for a specific period of time? Or to have the dialog but not require you to type the password? Remark: I'm looking for GUI solution, for console sudo I do have a solution.
I did not know that we can't play videos on an iPod nano 6th generation. I added a video (180 MB) to my iPod but I can't access it . I cant see it in iTunes nor on my iPod. But when I connect my iPod to my system, in iTunes it shows that 180MB is occupied with videos (in the bar graph shown below which also shows the space occupied by songs, pics, etc). Can anyone please and tell me how to delete that video?
Activity monitor is not always good if you want to see what is keeping your computer busy for a period of time. For example if you have gcc executed hundred of times it will take a lot of CPU power but the overall CPU time consumed by gcc will not appear. I'm looking for a solution that is able to count and summarize application usage so I can know that how the cpu was used.
I want to do an "Erase All Contents And Settings" on my iPhone 4. Will that require internet access and upgrade to the latests firmware? Or it will just erase everything and leave iOS firmware version as it is right now?
Whenever I install a program via MacPorts, it gets and installs lots of dependencies. When I uninstall said program, how do I make MacPorts recursively remove all unused dependencies with it?
My Mac G4 (running OS X 10.3.9) won't install from any .dmg file I download. It keeps popping up a message: "name of setup & no mountable file system" or "application file cannot be found". Is there some setting I need to change to get around this problem as I need to install some extra programs urgently.
I downloaded a Java library and noticed, that for every file and directory there is a binary file of the form ._<name>. It contains something like: "Mac OS X ... com.apple.quarantine ... com.google.Chrome"
When typing a password in any password field on my ipad, it displays each letter I type for a short time. I'm on the train every day, and I always have people looking over my shoulder.. just can't help that. How can I disable this? On Android, you can disable this in settings, but on iOS I can't find this setting anywhere.
I've seen discussions about upgrading memory but it was only for the MacBook Pro. I have a white 13" MacBook with 2GB memory, I'm considering about upgrading the memory to 4GB. Is it possible to upgrade the memory from 2GB to 4GB with the white MacBook (late 2009)?
Also, the control key does not seem to work. For example, CTRL-F and CTRL-B do not scroll forward and back a page in vim. Any clue how to correct that situation?
I did some searching here and on Google and found out that there should be a "None" option when selecting credit cards, but it was not there. I then read that it's disabled in some countried, so I tried telling iTunes that I'm in the US (I'm in Argentina), but still no "None" option. Later, I read that apparently this feature was disabled in iTunes 10, so I installed iTunes 9, but I still don't get the option.
When I replace the batteries in my Magic Mouse, I turn the mouse off, replace batteries and turn the mouse back on. The problem is that the system does not notice the mouse after this procedure, the mouse cursor stays stuck. I have to put the computer to sleep and wake it again to make the mouse work. Is there a better way to “wake” the mouse, maybe using some keyboard shortcut or a special click combination?
The Terminal.app application from OS X is quite good but it lack some functionality that I find really important like: ability to setup SSH profiles for connecting to different servers and ability to setup tunneling. I know that there is a putty port for OS X but it uses X and is ugly. Is there any other alternative, preferably free?
what is the location accuracy of wifi version ipad? If someone holds one iPad and walks in a big room, is there a way to detect the location of the iPad?
I tried to reboot my iphone according to the guidelines here, but after the phone is started, I found that all the apps are still there at the bottom of the screen when I tap on the home button twice. Any idea why this is so?
I’m doing some screen-scraping using Selenium, a framework which lets you programmatically control web browsers on your system. I’m running it as part of a web app on a Linux server, and on my MacBook Pro for when I’m writing the web app.
I'd like to have the background as black for server 'foo' but have the background be say gray or blue for server 'bar'. I am worried I'll run the wrong command on the wrong ec2 instance because all the pwds are /home/ubuntu! How is everyone else solving this?
I'm using iTunes on Windows and I have my Music Library. Recently I added some music (Mafia II soundtrack I purchased with the game) to the local iTunes Library, but the neither the Artist, nor the Album turn up in the Music Sync overview. Can someone tell me what might be the issue here?
I have machine x (running Windows) that has my iTunes library file on it in the My Music folder. All the media files in the library are on an external hdd. I use machine x to sync my iPod on a regular basis, and have built up quite a history of songs played, recent songs, etc.
i am completely new to Mac. Recently i tried to change the home folder name of my mac mini. i have gone through a website and followed some instructions to do that. finally i have ended up by creating a completely new user profile with a new home folder name. after some time i have decide to turn back to my old user and deleted the recently created user. This is where all my problems started. Now my deleted user folder is in my hard disk with the the following name - alpha(deleted). This folder is still being treated as my home folder even after logging in from a different user. I am unable to access even my keychain services through mac. Some softwares are asking me to reinstall on this user.... i ran into chaos with this. Can some one help me to make my current user as default and renew my keychain access... Please help me as this is of high priority for me.. Thank you
A MacBook air would work very well for me functionally. However I expect that I may have to use it in a hot and dusty environment. Any idea how badly the cooling system would be affected by prolonged exposure to dust?
I've got an AirPort Extreme base station that I use for several computers and devices. I set it to configure IPv4 with DHCP, but there's a problem with that: The IP changes from time to time (as reported in AirPort Utility and whatismyip.com). I need the IP address to stay the same, so I set the AirPort to configure IPv4 manually, and left the settings there that were last setup automatically.
I want to use an original (non jailbroken) iPhone4 to access the internet with an iPad. This should is possible using the Personal wifi hotspot included in iOS 4.3 as mentioned in Can I use tethering to share my iPhone's connection with my iPad?, however some providers (such as the Dutch T-mobile) have removed this feature in a localised version of the OS. Is there a (legitimate) way to update to a "generic" iOS so I can use the Personal Hotspot to tether my iPad or is there another (legitimate) way to not have to get the 3G iPad and an extra sim card.
Whenever I export a song to disk from GarageBand, it automatically adds a few seconds of silence to the end. I don't want that silence, as the files I'm exporting are sound effect mixes to be played manually one at a time. I know that I can go into Audacity and manually remove all of the silence at the end, but I'd rather avoid spending that much time cleaning up after GarageBand. Is there a way to tell GarageBand not to add silence to the end of tracks it exports?
I'm migrating to a shiny new laptop (yay) unfortunately I've manually set up my iTerm to match the old machine, but something is not right (not yay). I'm experiencing using xterm-256color doesn't give the full colour set for say, vim. applications like vim dont clear out of the scrollback when exited. my ↖ home and ↘ end keys are completely broken and I can't seem to Google a solution my ⌫ backspace key doesn't delete backwards, it adds a 'space' and prevents further input until ^C.
One of the features added in the iOS 4.3 update is the ability to tether to your iPhone via wifi in addition to the USB and bluetooth tethering that's been in iOS since 3.0. I understand the use case for wifi tethering (multiple devices, non-computers like iPads, etc) and I understand the use case for USB (keep the device powered so battery doesn't run down). What circumstances would bluetooth tethering be preferred to wifi and USB?
I have a MacBook 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo version 10.6.6 i updated the iTunes to the newest version 10.2.1 & and an iPhone 4 .. when i was updating to the newest software of the iPhone a error occurred 1013, i went to the apple store and they change my phone.. i came back to restore the iPhone again (the new one) and the same error happened is it my iTunes or my computer making my phone break down?
I downloaded the iOS SDK file xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3__final.dmg from the Apple developer site but I'm not sure about its integrity. Could anyone provide me the md5 or sha1 checksum for it?
I am working in a big organization where I want to distribute application with 300 different devices. I came to know that iOS Enterprise programme is available for such a big in house distribution , But I want to know how many device can be registered with such programe ? With simple developer programe with ad-hock profile we are able to register 100 different devices that I know but with enterprise I do not have any idea. If any one know then please let me know. thanks in advance...
I am looking for an easy way to start different GUI OS X applications from the command line and with different parameters. If possible I would like to add them to the system PATH in order to call them easier. Note: I tried open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-plugins and it started Chrome but without disabling the plugins.
I am looking for a tool that is able to compare directories, not only files. Also it is important to be able to call the tool from the command line. It would be great to have a free tool, if not free please specify the price.
I have a mac pro with the latest mac os x, I have google chrome installed since 23 oct 2010 and still everyday when I open it mac os x ask me "Do you really want to open this software, it was downloaded from the internet 23 oct 2010" which is really annoying since it's my preferred browser. I'm sorry that the message is in swedish but it's my fathers computer.
I'm trying to navigate on Coda using only the keyboard, but I can't seem to find the shortcuts. You can expand a folder by pressing the right arrow key, but I can't seem to mimic double clicking using the keyboard.
Is there a way to make changes to a Smart Group's distribution list persistent? In Address Book, I right-click on a Smart Group and select "Edit Distribution List".
When installing Parallels in Mac OS X 10.6 I believe I chose to integrate Windows XP with OS X. Some files are now associated with programs in Windows even though there are OS X equivalents. This is annoying because it is easy to accidentally open Parallels and Windows. Very annoying. So my question is: can I un-integrate Parallels?
Is there an easier way to copy and paste website content in HTML? What I want to copy looks like this: But when I paste it into my content box it looks like this: Then I need to edit it in an HTML editor to rearrange it. Is there an app or plugin that will turn the text of the page into HTML so it looks right when I copy it into my content box (if that makes any sense)?
A friend of mine got a locked iPhone 4 from the US. Now she's trying to unlock it, but there's no unlock code available for iOS 4.2.1 with baseband 3.10.01. After a lot of searching I found two twitter accounts supposedly to be the masters of unlocking - Hashim Sherif and MuscleNerd.
I've been reading , a bit about users noticing a severe drop in battery life when using Google Chrome. I'm curious if this is a real issue - and attributed to the rendering/flash engine it uses.
How do remove or erase the emails that I use befor on iPad email, they are not on my contacts. As soon I start typing one email address I get a bunch of old address..how can I erase or remove that.
From my own research and asking on other Mac forums. The answer to my question seem to be split. People who prefer mobility chose 13 over 15 and people who like better screen resolution pick 15.
I have one drive containing about 90GB of MP3s which is used at home, it serves three Squeezebox players though the Slimserver software running on one of the desktop Macs. I have a separate firewire drive containing about the same amount of music which I am very slowly cleaning up with Song Genie and I've finished the process of getting all the covers in better than 300x300 using CoverScout. Good tools if you are prepared to work more or less manually, they can come up with some pretty strange suggestions for covers & tag info at times. All this is from CDs I have in storage and I've even scanned some of the covers I couldn't find online. It's a long-term project and one day I want to know all of it is perfect.
I followed the guide at *=URL=* to boot into 64-bit mode. I had no problems with the instructions and on the boot screen it says "PAE enabled, 64bit mode enabled" but when the system boots, both uname -a and System Profiler tell me that it has booted into 32-bit mode. I really need to boot into the 64-bit kernel, what should I do? System is MacBook Unibody (Early 2009, 6 GB RAM, 2.4 Intel CPU, 10.6.6)
Does the time capsule router log web history? How?
Is there a map navigation application ( GPS app) that is built on top of google maps? Something like papago, but it is too expensive for my taste. It would be better if that GPS can alert me on the current road condition ( whether there is a massive traffic jam ahead of current route) and suggest me alternative. Edit: If GPS apps are not allowed to build on top of Google Maps, is there a GPS app that can check on traffic condition and suggest me alternative route? I'm living in Malaysia, if that's important to answer the question.
I just wanted to be able to play on a bigger screen... but have already paid $4.99 for Angry Bird on iPad. It is the exact same game (same content) on the Mac... do I have to pay again actually? (if the answer is yes or no, can you quote some source for reference?) thanks.
I've got a problem with sharing internet connection from my macbook pro to iphone. I've shared Ethernet connection in System Preference and managed to connect to the network from my iPhone but has no internet connection on the iPhone I assume that the problem is because my macbook's Ethernet connection uses proxy. I tried to enabled auto in proxy setting on iPhone but it didn't help. So the question is how to set up internet connection sharing under conditions described above. Thanks in advance.
I used up all the space on my 11 home screens with apps, then installed another app (which can only be found through search as it's installed 'offscreen'). To make more space, I put a lot of different apps into folders. How do I restore the hidden app back to a home screen? If I reset the home screens then my folders are lost and an app will be off screen again, and I'd be back to square one. Running iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.
This is a pretty simple question. I removed the Mail.App app early on on my Macbook Air, and now I want to take a look at using Mail.
Yesterday, I noticed that when I'm at my office on the wireless network, and I purchase or try to update an app, it doesn't work. Doesn't matter if it is on my iPad or iPhone. I've never had this problem until this week.
Is there any way to stream a video from my iTunes library to my iPhone 3GS? I have a couple of videos sitting in the 'Movies' folder of my iTunes, but when I start up my iPhone iPod application, it doesn't show anything in the 'Video' tab. What am I doing wrong? For completeness, I'm using a PC.
I have a big pile of DVDs and DivX encoded files with animation shorts that I sometimes would like to watch on my iPod touch 4G while I am on the go. What would be a quick and easy way to transfer the movies to iTunes and then to my iPod touch? Sometimes the DVD has a menu that list all the shorts, I would like to have each short as a separate files (or "item" in iTunes).
Greetings. I want to be able to have a view of just the unread messages in the Junk folder. Thunderbird has a nice way to do this (essentially, "show only unread" while in the folder view), but I don't see anything similar in Mail.app. Further, when I try to make a Smart Mailbox whose two rules are "Message is unread" and "Message is in Mailbox - Junk", it never finds anything, even when Mail.app knows there is unread messages there because it shows a count. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
I know that when you're saving or opening a file ⌘ shift D shoots you to the Desktop folder, and pressing ⌘ shift D whilst using finder shoots you to the desktop folder as well. Is there a way to create a custom shortcut to jump to your own choice of folder? (e.g. ⌘ shift W for your 'Work' folder).
What would it take technically for the iPad to be able to allow Keynote slides to be advanced by a remote (like this - *=URL=* Or how about via Bluetooth?
Sometimes the problem occurs after an unavoidable hard shutdown (which occurs only infrequently. These machines are not being excessively powered down improperly. Only what you would expect with a Mac Lab running multimedia five days a week), other times it is completely out-of-the-blue
I have an iPhone4 running version iOS 4.3. It is not jailbroken. I want to re-use a previous passcode (the 4 number code to unlock the screen). How can I get the iPhone to forget all the passcodes I've used in the past?
I have iPhone 3GS and suddenly it's gone away. I mean WiFi, bluetooth is not working, and I can't make any calls. Here's a screenshot:
When using Migration Assistant to move users, files, and folders from an old Mac to a new one, you have a few different choices, depending on the Macs involved. Presuming that both Macs have appropriate ports, which ports should be used in a real-world situation? Please do not provide quotations of theoretical port speeds; I'm looking for real-world experiences as to what will get the job done faster. Port choices: FireWire 400 in target disk mode FireWire 400 to 800 in target disk mode FireWire 800 in target disk mode 100 Megabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet in the OS Gigabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet in the OS Thunderbolt cable in target disk mode
I am looking for a command that I could use to run on an entire directory and subdirectory that will convert all line endings from DOS to UNIX. It should be able to detect if a file is text or binary. I installed dos2unix using macports but it looks that it does miss the recursive option.
My iPod Touch (8GB) always bothers me with lack of free space. And right now I'm considering buying the new iPad and would like to choose the right storage capacity. I'm trying to decide between 32 GB and 64 GB. Will 32 GB be short for anyone? Why?
How to show iOS screen on projector like Jobs did? Too many people ask me how to do this... They also want iPhone frame image like exactly Jobs did. (the iPhone frame image is optional)
Sometimes network volumes get a -1 suffix on their path. As I have scripts that rely on this path they can't work. For example an afp share at afp://nas/Team is shown Team in Finder, but its real path is /Volumes/Team-1
I'm looking for a text editor that can close the current file when you press ESC key. I am interested about this for using with a file manager, I open for edit a file and with ESC I want to return to the file commander.
I am having problem with accessing Virtual Hosts (located on my Mac) from XP installed via Parallels. Here's the setup:
On Windows it is something common to close a window by pressing ESC key. I'm looking for a solution that would allow me to close the current Window and the application when I press ESC. Currently the Preferences panel does not allow you to set a shortcut for ESC. Use case: you open a file from another application inside a viewer or editor and you want to return to the initial application just by pressing ESC once.
I have switched HDMI ports and reseated the cables. Still the issue persists.
I have just inherited a first-gen Mac Pro, however it comes with no power supply, no CPUs and a 7300GT graphics card. My questions are:
Is there a way (or an add-on) that lets me customize the Mail.app toolbar beyond "View -> Customize Toolbar"? At a minimum, I want to add buttons that do "Move to <somefolder>".
my ntfs-3g application takes up to 20% of my cpu usage. I don't know any way to reduce it so I have to kill it's proceess. Any idea about fixing this?
I use mysql and it takes up to 2.5 GB of my ram. I checked activity monitor and saw that I have 1GB of inactive memory but it never changes even if I have only 10MB active free memory. Is there any way to force the inactive memory to be used?
Is there a way to automatically download lyrics in iTunes?
I'm trying to customize my php install, but I'm not that familiar with compiling programs from scratch. How can I tell determine what compile-time options were used for php? Specifically, I'm trying to determine whether the --with-readline option was specified. Thanks!
In Xcode 3, the console only cleared when you specifically asked it to. This was nice to quickly compare log output between runs. In Xcode 4, the log clears between every run, and I'm looking for the setting (if Apple deemed it worthy of existence) that will switch this 'feature' off.
As it says in the title, "Can't quit app launched through launchd"—or more precisely, I can quit it, but it then automatically restarts again. Background: I prefer to use BusyCal, not iCal, but there are some calendar-ish things that have to be done by iCal before BusyCal can get the results. I figured I'd create two launchd scripts: one to launch iCal every day at 5 am, and another to quit it a few minutes later. Here's the plist to launch (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dori.iCalLaunch.plist): My understanding was that I didn't need the KeepAlive and OnDemand keys, but I put them in anyway to try to stop the relaunching. Here's the plist to quit (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dori.iCalQuit.plist): Based on my log files, they both run just fine—but after the Quit runs, iCal relaunches. Any ideas for things to try, or things that might be causing this?
I don't know what the problem is. I recently went to Lion (Developer Preview) and restored a fresh new copy of 10.6. I later updated everything and then tried to open Java. It keeps giving me this error. I've tried reinstalling the update, but it doesn't do anything.
I tried Espresso but it lacks so many important features like no auto-parentheses, no auto-aliging. What is the most advanced JS editor for OS X? (please not Emacs for me).
I'm wondering what are the advantages of using a MAMP stack instead of Web Sharing provided with Mac natively and MySQL downloaded and installed manually? I can see how in some cases MAMP can have latest/other versions of apache/mysql/php, but are there any other advantages?
I once used Foxmarks, then delicious and now google chrome bookmarks. I think each one has sucked in different ways, but i'm at a stage where i'm using google for hosting all my core info, it makes to put bookmarks with them too. Delicious just never innovated in chrome, and stayed a FF thing.
I tried Merriam-Webster and Google Translate, both are far from satisfactory.
Does there exist a quick method to change the language? Keyboard shortcut? List of the languages appearing after right click the way it is organised in Google Chrome? Maybe there is a possibility to associate spelling language to keyboard layout? I use different layout for different languages, so this would be very natural.
Need to ask a question about my MacBook White It's Early 2009 model (http://support.apple.com/kb/SP504)
Well, the Mighty Mouse trackball died for good (no amount of cleaning has restored its ability to scroll down a page, though it scrolls up just fine) and the only new mouse I could get from Apple was the Magic Mouse. So I bought a 3rd-party USB Bluetooth dongle, which works OK, but occasionally disconnects my mouse for a while and sometimes requires me to use the USB mouse to reconnect it via the Bluetooth menu. Also I experience periods of latency that are intensely frustrating, especially when gaming.
Is there a way to periodically check if a process is running with (probably with Apple script, or some other shell script) and if not then to execute it in Terminal? I have a PHP script that is needs to run, but after some time it breaks, so I need to start it again. Thanks.
As the title says, can I have both versions of Xcode installed on the same machine?
I frequently miss incoming telephone calls because I am listening to my iPod Touch. Does anyone know if it's possible for my iPod to detect incoming calls on my mobile phone (an HTC Desire) and alert me to the phone call? I've seen bluetooth connection devices that purport to do this (such as the GEAR4 BluEye), but they are several years old now. However given that this kind of hardware exists, and that the iPod Touch has Bluetooth built-in, I wondered if there was an app or setting that would enable the phone and iPod to work together in this way?
I have created a Clip Web dashboard with a selection of a web site that shows a google maps with special spots. How can I move the map around in that widget ? The only thing I managed to do is to move the widget itself :-/
Is there a way to open a HTML file in TextEdit without it rendering the file but just showing it as source (and possibly edit it)?
I would like to mirror the directory structure that I have on my linux machine at work. There, my home directory resides in /home/emiller rather than /Users/emiller as it does on Snow Leopard. I was intending to create /home/emiller and use it as a sshfs mount point for my files on the linux machine - thus permitting to me run all my scripts without having to change any paths. However, when I try to mkdir /home/emiller, I get: mkdir: /home/emiller: Operation not supported
The new 15 and 17 inch macbook pros only list the processor model as quad-core core i7. However what is the fully model number of the processor? Are the quad core processors really dual cores with hyperthreading or are they really quad core? Do any of the models have hyperthreading? As requested pasting info about the macbook pro model to enhance this page: Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B04
I bought a new MacBook and am wanting to transfer my Skitch history. I've copied all of the .skitch files from ~/Pictures/Skitch on my old MacBook, but Skitch isn't showing them in the history list on my new MacBook Pro. Any ideas?
I would like to use "space" to preview *.yml files directly out of the finder on Mac OS X. I think I have to tell finder to launch the text file quick view handler for files with that type and this has something to do with universal type identifiers (UTI.) But that's as far as I was able to get.
I read stacks of PDFs on my iPad and I have downloaded (and paid for) a few PDF readers hoping to find an auto-scroll feature, without luck. Does anyone know of any iPad app that can auto-scroll PDF's (preferably with Dropbox integration so I can get at my PDFs easily!). Thanks
Is there any way to repeat a video while it's playing in slow motion? I tried using both QuickTime and VLC. I don't see a way to control the playback speed in QuickTime, and the problem with VLC is that when the video replays, it loses the playback speed setting.
I know how to set the key repeat rate using System Preferences > Keyboard but it looks that the fastest settings is not enough. Is there any way to speed up even more? I do not know if others encountered the same issue, but I'm using a MacBook Pro, model 2010.
I'm completely new to the Mac and I have a whole lot of problems with the shortcuts etc. Is it possible to remap the keys to match my windows expirience? For example I'd like to have CTRL+C, CTRL+V as Copy & Paste.
I install some app from WD external Hard and it add some incon in my menu bar but I don't know how can I remove it, I try to drag it out of the system bar while holding the "command" key (but it didn't work for this type of icon) I also try to uninstall this app via CleanApp but I can't find it! sorry because of my low reputation I can't post the image here. :(
Is there any website comparing 3G plan for both carriers? Like application fee, monthly fee (including different data usage limit), termination fee.
When opening mac mail I always get my mails sorted in the wrong order in the Date sent column i.e. oldest at the top. But like most people I want to have my mails sorted by the newest date on top by default. Is it possible to configure mac mail to sort my mails by newest date at the top by default?
Let's say a folder has a file called Näyttökuva.png (for those who are interested, it is ”screenshot” in Finnish). This is what happens:
My MacBook Pro has two graphics chips and automatically switches between them. How can I tell which one is currently in use? I'm just curious really; it's plenty fast enough whatever it's doing by default!
Is there any way on typing out nuclear equations/symbol equations (With the two numbers at the top and bottom in front of the element)? One of my friends have used an app that does this for him automatically, but he refused to tell me the name of the app. An example of the result would be:
I have an iPhone 3G. I am trying to restore it but have had trouble all day. This is what I have done so far: Run redsn0w 0.96b6 Use iPhone1,2_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw as the current firmware. Run redsn0w with default settings until the iPhone enters DFU mode Everything from redsn0w's perspective runs great - the phone installs the jailbroken data, and reboots, as expected.
I have a PowerMate USB controller from Griffin: it works, but using my normal user account I can't control the light settings. With a fresh new account, everything works as expected. How can I find what cause the trouble?
I know that .DS_Store files are created in every directory I enter with the finder in Mac OS X, and that keeps track of the folder's metadata (including how is it being displayed). I also know that this command: ... will recursively delete all .DS_Store files insite the /Users/[USERNAME]/ folder. Also, I know that when pressing CMD+J inside a finder window, selecting the configuration I want (40x40 icons, small-medium grid space, arrange by kind, text size 10px, show item info, show icon preview, background white) and selecting "use as defaults" will.. well, make it the default, and holding OPT will restore it to THAT default.
On windows I was using "s3 Backup" to backup files to amazon s3. One of the options is to compress with zlib.
My situation: I have an iPhone with synced to my computer and my wife just bought an iPad (in shipment) which she will sync to her computer.
When I click on "new tab" in safari, I see this flicker often as a new tab is opening:  Any idea why this is? It seems to be a scrambled cache of my graphics card... (In case you're wondering, the sushi stuff is from my iOS game, Nippon.)
I'm looking for a way of making the window switching behave more like on Windows, to switch to last open Window instead of switching to the next.
I have a LaCie Network Space 2 (and I wish I had bought a WD instead) which is connected to my iMac with USB. I have used it before through LAN, but I've moved my Mac to another room and now I connected it with USB as that transfers faster. The problem is that the disk doesn't show up in the Finder, not even in Disk Utilities. I've been fighting with this for a few hours now, but I couldn't find anything :( Windows, however can find it. What can be wrong? I'm using Snow Leopard.
For the last month or so, I have been receiving notification windows in the upper right-hand corner whenever a volume is mounted or unmounted (i.e. portable hard drive, Time Machine, etc.) How do I turn these notifications off?
I have never used Mac system before but I am considering switching to Mac Pro 8 core 8 GB model. Currently I am using Linux box based on Dell Core 2 Duo with 4GB ram (that is maximum it can have). I am running into performance issues and sluggish application startup especially Natilus file maanger. Usually I have multiple applications running at same time. I also need to run windows virtual machines for software testing.
Sites like omegle.com want video from my connected camera, but I don't have one. How can I feed omegle.com (a Flash app) a spoofed video feed (eg, a static picture, mp4 file, etc?)
I imported all of my videos from a Sony HDR-CX550V camcorder into iMovie '11. I imported the video at the original resolution 1920x1080. I was planning on converting the video into some other codec so I can view it on both a Mac and Windows machine. Unfortunately, I learned that this video is an ICOD (Apple Intermediate Codec) format wrapped in an MOV and I cannot use Handbrake to convert the video.
In some video such as *=URL=* I see that it looks like the iPad video is captured... but it is also said that the Component cable for iPad only works for movies and photos, but not for apps... so how can it be done?
I'm looking for a tool, preferably free, that would help me identify and correctly tag my itunes music collection.
For whatever reason, the "Open With" context menu in Finder is always listing every app four times (exactly).  I've read about (and tried) rebuilding the Launch Services database to restore the context menu to its initial state, but nothing seems to work. I've also used Onyx.app to clear user and system caches, but I'm still left with four repetitions of each app under the "Open With" service. I have restarted the system a few times just to be sure it was not some temporary corruption of the list.
I have MacBook Pro with a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter. I use the adapter to play images from the Mac to my Sony Bravia TV. Since it doesn't play sound, I have an audio that connects the Mac to the PC in HDMI Audio jack.
Can someone help me get started on showing iPad 2 videos (and possibly photos) easily on my TV?
I have created a signature in Mac mail. However, every time I send an email to a gmail account it enlarges the font size. Has anybody else come across this? Is there a workaround?
I VPN into my work Windows PC (Win7) and used to use MS RDC to access it, but a little while ago a network move at work led to RDC no longer working. The RDP connection via CoRD still works fine. On attempting to connect with Microsoft RDC 2.1 or 2.0.1, I get 2 error dialogs now. The first complains "The certificate is not from a trusted certification authority", whilst the second says that "The remote computer is not allowing connections from the Mac". Eeven though I have set the remote computer in question up to allow RDP, as evidenced by my ability to access it via CoRD.
I recently switched from NetNewsWire to Reeder on my iPhone and iPad because a) Reeder as a “Mark as unread” button, and b) I thought NetNewsWire was marking older articles as read, and not letting me switch them back. I soon realised that old articles were being actually marked as read because Google Reader does that after a month.
I am a little disenchanted with development on the Mac right now. I need a single IDE that can handle all of my development needs. I did notice there are other questions on this topic already, but those did not cover my specific needs of: Must support at least HTML, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails and PHP syntax highlighting, bonus if there are more language plug-ins available Must support the ability to connect to FTP and SFTP Must support handling of projects/sites Must have some level of code completion, even if it is just at the variable level Must support syntax formatting Must be able to recognize and highlight ERB/TPL files as HTML Are there any suggestions for such an IDE out there?
I tried connecting my Mac-Air to my TV using the HDMI adapter. The volume is very low. Even cranked all the way up, it is still not loud enough watching hulu, netflix etc. Any suggestions?
So I heard of the following: 1) the component AV cable and the HDMI cable for iPad 1 cannot show the game play (3rd party apps) on TV. Those 2 cables can only show movies and photos -- that's it.
Whenever my MacBook Air is connected to the AC power and I have my hands on the palm rest, I feel it passes some electricity to me. If I unplug it from the AC power it stops doing that. This has recently became obvious, when other people can feel this tingling by touching my skin after I've been working for a while. I have two questions: 1- Is this normal in unibody Macs? 2- Is this harmful for my health in the long run?
I am looking for an app that makes windows stick to each other (if anybody used WinAmp back in the day you know what I mean). This would be great when using apps that have several windows that I want to treat as one window - so if there is another method to accomplish this please do tell! I found Zooom/2 that makes windows snap to each other when moving via Zooom/2's keyboard shortcuts, but the windows do not stick to one another when you move one of them.
On Windows computer that are inside a domain the names are auto registered in the domain DNS when the DHCP assigns their IP addresses. This is happening because the DHCP server is configured to dynamically update the DNS. The problem is that this is not happening for OS X clients and I suspect that I need to configure something in the client to make it work. How can I solve this problem?
I have several CDs and other FLAC collections (classical music but not only). I want to add them to my iTunes library but I am looking for some recommendations regarding how I should encode them in order to keep the best sound quality and without running out of disk space. I found Max conversion tool for converting them but there are too many formats and configurations to choose from. Also I do want to use a format that is able to use keep tags, like MP3. The winning response should contain a numbered list of formats compatible with iTunes and iOS, ordered descending by the sound quality: Apple Looseless format X, (extension), bitrate, vbr format Y, (extension), bitrate, ... ... Please specify the format name clearly, preferably including the codec, like "MPEG-4 AAC", "Apple Looseless", "MPEG-4 HE-ACC", "LAME MP3", "AAC ADTS", "MPEG-4 Audio versus Apple MPEG-4 Audio",
How can I download (also, possibly upload from my iPhone) contacts of my Google account?
Back to Mac OS 9, there was a way to create startup configs (to include or not some extensions to the OS). This was a built-in feature of Mac OS. Is there a way to manage this on OS X ?
Is there a way to accelerate the boot process? Can we disable some (rarely used or not useful) services?
If I buy a paid iPhone app, will I be able to get free updates for the rest of the lifetime of that app or should I pay later for the updates? What's the norm? Can you perhaps give 1-2 examples?
I've experimented with Handbrake and VLC and I'd like to know the fastest possible method to convert .avi file into a a file that is readable by itunes so I can stream it to my TV via my Apple TV 2. The mentioned solutions require a couple of hours and I'd like to improve this. I'm working on a macbook air. Thanks.
I have a pdf file, which I would like to convert to iBook compatible format, which software can I use to do this? calibre seems to be too tough to work with
I will be using Mac OS X Server to hold an email server, web hosting, DNS and iOS and Mac development and I was wondering if you guys think Mac OS X Snow Leopard would do me just fine or if Server would be the best bet. So far, when setting up server tools on Snow Leopard it seems to be tedious but from the overview page on Apple's website, Server seems to be able to perform tasks with ease. Should I just use Snow Leopard or go for the Server?
Can you damage screen or something because of: Playing loud music when lid is down? Playing loud music when lid is down? Running some processor/videocard-intensive applications that heat the laptop, while lid is down? Running some processor/videocard-intensive applications that heat the laptop, while lid is down?
Some of my coworkers receive updates to Xcode through the regular software update mechanism in OSX. I however have always had to manually download it from Apple and install it myself.
currently I have a mac mini: Hardware Overview : Model Name: Mac mini Model Identifier: Macmini2,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 1,83 GHz Number Of Processor: 1 Total Number Of Core: 2 L2 Cache: 2 Mo Memory: 1 Go Bus Speed: 667 MHz Basically it is a 2 years old mac mini.
I'm getting ready to buy a MacBook Pro 15", but would like some help regarding a few things. I witnessed somebody using a tool that showed all web requests' request headers / content, response headers / content, URL, port, other meta info, etc, sort of like a "Live HTTP Headers" on steroids (I thought it was a stand-alone piece of software, but maybe it's just a browser add-on). Do you know what the tool I'm speaking of is called?
Is this possible? Anyone tried? Don't wanna brake system before trying.
I found that my iPad might be half charged after a few hours by USB from PC... too bad I can't find the wall adapter... but when I turn it on, it says "Not charging" without saying the Percentage it already has charged up. Can it show somehow? Maybe by tapping the "Not charging" message but I don't really need to see it so many times. (but tapping doesn't work) Does the iPad 2 also have the same issue of slow charging too?
I have noticed that, sometimes, the slider that represents the entire duration of a podcast and showing the current reading position (the one that you're able to move to go forward or backward rapidly) is not present in the UI. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not...
last day i put my mac on the whole night for downloading xcode.however today i noticed that it is shutdown in the morning.i used the "last" command to know when it was shutdown.it is showing time 11:00am and a word crash besides.how can i know the reason for this crash.is there any tool or utility to know the reason.is there any log of it stored in mac
Can an i5 27 inch iMac with an exsisting 1 TB hard drive be upgraded to have an additional 256 GB SSD and if so, is it possible to remove Mac OSX from hard disk and re-install on SSD disk?
I could not find iphone stack exchange site so I am posting here. On Canadian Apple store iphone 4 is available for $659. Is this iphone 4 is the same iphone as factory unlocked new iphone 4 being sold on ebay for over $800? I am confused about the price difference if they are exactly same phones. Also would this iphone work with any GSM carrier in USA or other countries?
Since the switch from Windows to Mac, I've been looking for a good music tagging application for Mac OS X. I've tried apps such as Tagalicious, TriTag and a few other apps, but none have made me happy so far. Basically I'm looking for something similar to Mp3Tag (which is Windows only). Just asking before I consider starting an open source project and do this on my own.
I have an external usb hard drive that I used to connect on my old PC laptop. There are some files I created with the laptop on this hard drive. Now, I can only read those files with my Mac notebook I can't write any file on the hard dirve. How can I enable write access on my hard drive ?
I am considering purchasing something like Sennheiser MM450 Bluetooth Headphones but I'd like to get some input on whether the Back/Next/Play/Pause/Answer buttons work as expected with iPhone 4? I've seen some old reviews that said not, but nothing about iPhone 4 / iOS 4.x..
I ask this question because the Axiotron website and their Facebook presence seems to suggest stasis and/or the end of the company. Hence the DIY approach.
I am using Outlook 2011 for Mac (the office uses Exchange) and have some Google Calendars I am using for home. How do I get 2-way sync working between Outlook and Google? I could do this with iCal but its Exchange support is sorely lacking and therefore not an option.
I can't find any way to get a video in the Apple Videos app into iMovie on the ipad to edit it. In my specific use case, I have a trailer I made in iMovie on my mac that I can see and watch in the videos app, but neither that nor any of the other videos there appear under "video" as a source for imovie. (The only thing that does is a movie I took in the app itself.)
I want to see the system files for the Apple iPad on my computer but the problem is when I plug the iPad to my Windows 7 PC, Windows opens it as a storage device with only some wallpaper -- I can't see any system files. My question is, how can I see the system and content files for the iPad? I want to modify the system files to change one of the iPad keyboards to support my language.
I have one of the core i7 MacBooks, and I'm wondering if there is a way to see when Turbo Boost is active (other than the fact that the laptop gets really hot and the fan kicks on). I use iStat to monitor CPU activity, but that doesn't show Turbo Boost activity.
Firefox 4 is out and I'm a little bit worried about the lack of compatibility of my loved Addons on this new version. Can I install Firefox 4 to try it without the need to upgrade the 3.6.15 version?
I have tried ⌥+→ and ⌘+→, but no luck. Instead iTunes jumps to the next video podcast. Is there a way to fast forward ?
I've got a movie in iMove and I'd like to burn it to DVD. I used the "iDVD" export option in iMovie, but then iDVD refused to burn the DVD on the grounds that the DVD didn't have enough space.
I recorded a lengthy meeting today in two parts. The first part was 20 minutes, and it was easily imported to my Mac. The second, about 55 minutes, will not sync. It is still on the phone, but I want to transfer it to my computer so that I can create an MP3 version. Can anyone tell me whats wrong?
I have a problem with the connection between my iPhone 4 and the bluetooth system in my car. Frequently it will not connect to my car and frequently the connection breaks down during dialling and calls.
I received a new iPhone yesterday and connected it to my home Wifi network. On content heavy sites it runs perfectly fine, but if I use either the Youtube site or the Youtube app I can't watch anything. It takes forever to watch 5 seconds of video.
Only cure is to delete ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder/ and restart Finder. Then changing icon via GUI (drag&drop, copy&paste) works normally with any file. Two main questions—and answering to either one probably solves the problem close enough for me:
Mail.app and Microsoft Outlook 2011 both only support Exchange 2007 and later. What mail clients for Snow Leopard support Exchange 2003? I'm especially interested in email. Being able to view calendar events would be a bonus.
I have broken my issue into several parts hoping to make it easier to understand what I am trying to accomplish as well as what I have tried. Any suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated! The Goal Install and boot Windows 7 Professional on a new Wintec 48G SSD via Expresscard 34 slot.Can this be done, if so has it been done before? Background
I really love Notepad++ and I haven't found an alternative for it yet. TextMate and TextWrangler aren't quite there yet. Specifically, two things that I want that are not in TextMate: variable highlighting bracket highlighting Can you suggest an alternative editor for OS X?
I have a first-generation Airport Express that has the common failure of simply not powering on. There are several sites showing how to open or repair the device, but all basically involve destroying the exterior and/or keeping it in two (exposed) parts afterwards.
I just enrolled as an iOS developer. I now need a device to test my app on a real device and not solely on the simulator.
Anyone have a quick way, accessible from Quicksilver, to force your mac to hibernate?
Are there any methods for combining multiple Word documents into one big document in Mac?
I am trying to set up a new (Verizon) iPhone to sync Contacts and Calender entries with Outlook 2007 on a Windows Vista Ultimate PC. The Contacts sync both ways, and calendar entries created in Outlook sync to the phone, but calendar entries created on the phone don't sync back to Outlook. I only have one calendar in Outlook. How can I get the calendar items created on the iPhone to sync back to Outlook?
I am looking for a good GTD (todo/task/project management) app that has cloud sync. I'd like it to be on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. Web app would be nice, too. OmniFocus is the closest thing I've found but it seems too expensive. Things don't have clound sync... only WiFi sync is available for Things.
My iMac's HDD has died so I need to replace it. I don't just want to go like for like, does anyone know what the upper limits of the machine are?
Theoretically the accelerometers in the iPhone can be used to track distance using interpolation over time. What is the estimated error for tracking distances between 1 and 10 meters? Is there any iPhone app that work as a measuring tape?
I usually connect my macbookpro with the charger 12-15hour/day and 7 days a week. I'm afraid the battery could lose capacity over time. However, I believe modern electronics should be able to handle this kind of scenario and automatically stop charging the battery once it's full. Does this apply to macbook pro? Or do I need to continue disconnecting it once its fully charged? (I'm not a native speaker, so please feel free to edit this question to clarify my words.)
Is there a list somewhere of the areas of the hard drive that aren't backed up by Time Machine? And does reinstalling from Time Machine install everything from the backup or just parts of it? I like to tweak things a lot, like customizing the system Apache server and installing stuff into /usr/local (Max Howell's Homebrew, for instance), so I'd like to double check what areas I might lose if I needed to reinstall from a Time Machine backup (whole disk image backups seem a bit overboard for my tastes).
Maybe a good solution would be just an app able to monitor the DCIM folder and send any new ones through e-mail as soon as it sees it. Then we could use pixelpipe, instapaper, sendtodropbox or anything! That way the iOS already handles sending e-mails exactly the way we expect - it will go through as soon as a connection is available.
Just recently I noticed my battery life having a pretty significant drop and the "kernel_task" process using quite a bit of CPU (a constant 1-6% on my 2.8ghz dual-core i7, 2010 MBP). Obviously I think the kernel_task's CPU usage is contributing to the battery drop and I need to find out why. Searching Google, it seems kernel_task is OS X's version of Windows's "svchost.exe" - the notorious do-everything process that you can't ever truly debug, you have to just manually flip switches until one of them works.
My PC recently died, and I'm trying to transfer my iTunes library to my Mac. According to *=URL=* the iTunes database is keyed by filename, so even if I copy my old library and music files into the iTunes directory on my Mac, the database doesn't point to the right files anymore, because the directory structure is different on the Mac than on the PC. iTunes is able to partially recover by searching for matching files, but it still winds up with a lot of broken links - too many to repair by hand. Since the old computer is broken, I can't 'consolidate' the library in its old location before transferring it, as that website suggests. Do I have any options for restoring the library intact?
My impression is that I need both an Airport Express for sound, and an AirPort Extreme for sharing the hard drive. Is this true, or there are alternatives?
I want to know how many (number of ) SMS and Contact details can be stored in an iPhone 3gs and iPhone 4.
I need a way to sync plain text files from a mac that are usually edited with Notational Velocity and they must not pass through any cloud based storage unless they are stored encrypted with a key I create. I've looked at Evernote, Simplenote, and multiple dropbox based apps but I have yet to find a good solution.
At the moment I can play my iTunes library in 2 rooms of my house, from the iMac in the office and through the Apple TV in the lounge. I would like to purchase at least one Airplay compatible device so that music can be streamed into other rooms.
so here is my problem: we all know that the osx keychain is located in ~/Library/Keychains/something.keychain
I've got my mac two months ago and there is a problem that kinda bugs me to death. It is related to input languages and composite characters (those made up from more than one character, for example in Bulgarian Phonetic layout, the characters 'a(cyrillic a) produce ђ ). I'm looking for a way to disable this behavior as I almost never (let's say never had to use them) and it gets in the way when I need to type ' followed by some other character - for example when I try to write python comments and I'm in Bulgarian Phonetic, when i type 3 ''' and then press enter for next line, a fourth ' is added and I have to delete it and press enter again.
I'm sharing my internet in work and forgot to turn it off! Does anyone know how I can do it via the command line? I have SSH access but thats it. D'oh.
I do have a MacBook Pro (2010) and I would like to use it with 3 monitors: the internal LCD and two monitors using DVI. From what I know the DVI dual-link should support two monitors up to HD resolution each (1920x1080). The question is if this is supported by the hardware and in this case what kind of adaptor do I need. Please do not suggest invalid alternatives like using an iPad or and USB graphics card.
Company portal has Windows authentication with SSO. But iPad is not domain member, so ask password on every SSO company site. Is there a way to setup iPad for domain authentication ?
I have read a lot about this online and would like to confirm once and for all. Is it possible to retrieve SMS messages that have been deleted from my iPhone?
My company is growing quickly and we are purchasing a lot of iMacs. Up until now each one has been configured individually but I'd like to be able to define default settings (network settings, Safari settings, dock settings etc) which I can apply automatically on a machine. I'm assuming this can be done, but where do I start?
Can the iPad 2's HDMI out adapter, work on the iPhone 4 with ios4.3, as a complete mirror, rather than just video out. Also on the iPad 2 when using the HDMI out mirror will the onscreen keyboard be displayed on the external screen?
How can I empty the trash from the Terminal?
When I add a gmail account with a username of @gmail.com, Mail.app ver 4 recognizes this as a Gmail IMAP account. However, if I try to add a Google apps domain email address ending in @google-app-domain.com, Mail.app does not recognize this as a Gmail IMAP account. Instead, I have to manually select IMAP. Is there a difference between Gmail IMAP accounts and IMAP accounts in Mail.app ver 4? Why doesn't Mail.app ver 4 recognize Google Apps accounts as Gmail IMAP accounts?
I'm really new to Macs, and finding file operations to be really frustrating after Linux. If I have a Finder window open with 5 files that I want to move to a different folder, I can select all 5 (shift-click for contiguous or command-click for non), but when I try to command-drag them to a new location, it deselects all but one.
More than just academically interesting, I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to adjust the metadata of those songs that get the Genius error messages so that they work. I have had a few lately that are popular songs and should have been able to find results easily but didn't.
I tend to use the dictionary a lot on the mac. Its annoying to launch the app everytime i need to lookup a word. Are there any other apps/hacks to avoid this annoyance? Spotlight lookup is awesome, but doesnt show enough detail. Do you know any app that can provide a panel view for dictionary definitions. For example, launch bar has a nice panel view for its calculator results.
I want to allow the _www group to write to a folder. I clicked on the folder to go to the "Get Info".
Is there a way to retrieve password stored in Safari as it is possible to do it in Firefox ?
The problem with this is that I can't find a way to access and "dial" numbers from my Contacts when I'm presented with the dial-tone. I essentially have to have the number memorized or written down beforehand. When given the dial tone, I can access all my contacts, but there doesn't seem to be a way to generate the keypress tones from them.
I'm running Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro- audio preferences seem to limit audio output to only one port at a time. Is there a way around this? Also the Bluetooth output from the Mac is really weak, is there any way to increase it or make it more effective?
I have an iPod touch 4th generation that I had been using with my iHome iP90 until today. All of a sudden today I get a message saying that "This accessory is not supported" Then when I remove my touch the sound no longer works. When I reboot my sound returns. Any ideas? Really confused because all was fine until today.
I am trying to help my friend get his Pandora app back on his iPhone, I don't use iPhones (Android guy) so I have no clue how to add the app back to his home screen, I have searched everywhere. I reset settings and made sure there were no restrictions set. I can search the iPhone and launch Pandora that way. I don't know how to uninstall it since I think you need an icon for that. Any way I can get the icon back so he can just press it and launch Pandora?
I'm planning to buy a new MacBook Pro with quad-core. And I want to install 16GB on it. But there is only 8GB options on Apple's website. Is this possible?
I need to import a text file (consisting of subtitles) into a Keynote presentation. I need to turn each subtitle into a single slide, interspersed with blank (black) slides. I'd like to create an Automator action in order to do this. I think the way to do this is to filter paragraphs ending in two line breaks, but I don't know how to do it.
Is there anyway to force the iPhone to always use Bluetooth for incoming calls? - I'm on a motorcycle and have my iPhone set to auto answer calls, problem is it answers with the built in iPhone headphone/microphone instead of the paired and connected bluetooth headset. I also cannot answer with the button on the bluetooth headset as it is inside my helmet.
I did a complete restore this morning, setup as new device, activated (officially unlocked). Still the same problem. Someone at work connected it to XCode on Mac, said they didn't really do anything, and it started working. I turned it off, on again, and it has the same problem. Any ideas?
I have installed Remote Desktop 3 (purchased from the AppStore) on my administrators machine. However, if one of our employees installs Remote Desktop 3 themselves onto their machine on the network via the App Store, how I can prevent them also accessing all the machines on our network? Or will I have to disable admin access to everyone's machines other than mine on the network?
I'm wondering whether there is a way to see all iPhone App Store purchases in a similar fashion that is available on Mac App Store in Purchased section.
I have a SAMBA share I mount on my Mac from time to time. I do this in Finder with Go > Connect to Server..., typing smb://192.168.1.1 into the Server Address field and pressing Connect. On the authentication dialog I choose to Connect Guest, and finally my remote share is mounted in /Volumes/<share_name>. This is great.
I hate itunes and so I usually use Windows7 to browse my Iphone4 and backup Videos and Photos. Yesterday I did just that.
I've just started using SecondBar to provide a menubar for applications that I display in an external monitor. It's a big help, except for one thing: dialog boxes (like Apple Menu -> System Preferences, or Firefox's add-ins) open in the main display.
A few months ago, I made a deal with the devil the worst and most obnoxious telecommunication company ever to get an iPhone, and I actually would not regret it if they did not bother me sending me spam SMSs when I am at work. This is so annoying and disturbing I would actually leave the phone at home, but I need it so my girlfriend who is pregnant can communicate with me. Here in Peru there is no such thing as regulation in the telecommunications market, so I actually cannot complain about being sent spam.
I am looking for an application which would allow me to encrypt either a file or a folder. Something like right click on a file/folder, select Encrypt, give it a password and ready. Of course, it should also be able to afterwards decrypt the said file/folder. Is there such a thing?
Some Mac applications have this button in the upper right. What is it called? Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?
The trackpad on my wife's 17" Macbook Pro seems to be failing. She'll be in the middle of working when suddenly it will stop responding to input. Both the tracking (i.e. mouse movement) and button clicking just stop responding. She usually has an external mouse plugged in, and this continues to work fine; just the trackpad dies.
I have a second hard drive installed on my Mac. On its several root-level folders there's only one I can't get write access to. I've tried right-clicking it, select "Get Info", unlock it, click the plus sign, select my name, change my name, & everyone to "Read only to "Read & Write", click the gear icon, "Make Me the owner" & "Apply to enclosed items."
The Mail.app only supports POP3 for Hotmail which I hate because it is only local sync - I am looking for either IMAP/DeltaSync/Exchange (i.e. 2-way sync) for my Hotmail to work in Mac. I tried Postbox/Sparrow Lite/Outlook in Mac Office 2011/Thunderbird with webmail plugin/Eudora and none worked. I tried mBox for Mac and it worked great for about 2 weeks and now it stopped working with the new Lion Mail.app update. In anycase, mBox has been out of development since 2009. I looked at IzyMail but I am not willing to pay a subscription - I don't mind paying a one time fee though.
Inspired by this answer I installed SafariStand (after installing SIMBAL) (following instrtuctions in the read me file How To Install - Install SIMBL 0.9.5 or later *=URL=* - Quit Safari. - move "SafariStand.bundle" into your SIMBL plugin folder. - Result path is "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/SafariStand.bundle". and also in this website) Now that the installation is done, I am unable to see the menu/icon of SafariStand There is not much documentation anywhere. Where/how do I see the SafariStand settings window?
I have a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard (10.6.7). Now I want to share my internet connection with my Xbox 360 Slim. (Don't ask why I don't use the WLAN in my Xbox).
I use "Mail" as my default mail client and "iCal" as my default calendar. However I have to use outlook when sending emails to work because their outlook for windows clients don't support inlining and display my images as attachments.
I tried the, press reset and power it down without success. All I got was to make it do yellow blinking. If I release the reset the blinking slops, anyways it stops even without releasing the button after 30 seconds. The problem is that AirPort utility is not able to detect it and no Wireless is started. What else should I try to reset this white brick?
Is it possible to make Steam games playable on the Guest account? It would be nice to be able to let visitors entertain themselves with e.g. Portal in a sandboxed setting. Edit:
This seems like it should be simple, but I've googled and gooled and still can't find an answer. How can I change the System font color on Mac OS X 10.6.7?
Sometimes I have to restart my Mac Mini because an application blocks it. When I restart it, Time Machine starts to back up files right after 10 seconds I restarted the Mac, and it makes it slowly (I have 4 applications/tools that are opened at login). Is there a way to avoid Time Machine starts to back up files, if not after X minutes I restarted the Mac (X could be a value between 10-30 minutes)?
I have a jailbroken iPhone, and it's low on space. Much of the wasted space seems to have been consumed by the "Other" part of the space display in iTunes.
I use Mobile Me to synchronize the settings of three different Macs, but I have some problems with specific preference file because one of the Macs runs Mac OS X Lion. I would like to avoid that specific preference file is overwritten in the Mac running Mac OS X Lion. How can I do that?
I have a problem with the Dictionary application: all in a sudden, without any changes on the preferences, the application doesn't show all the dictionaries I can look a word in the toolbar that appears under the title bar. The Mac synchronizes its preferences with another Mac (through Mobile Me), but in the other Mac the application shows the usual list of dictionaries, as it is used to do, and how it should do basing on the application preferences. What can I do to resolve the issue?
I'm specifically looking for du, but really, I want the usual suite of command line power tools. Which package contains those?
Is there a way to configure iTunes to configure the equalizer based on "Genre" tag of a given song?
Does anyone know how or why the search function in my text messaging is no longer working correctly after I upgraded to 4.3 on my 3G iPhone? All was fine until I upgraded and now even tho I can see a name in a text for example I search for it and it comes back as "No results".
I just upgraded my iPod (4gen) from iOS 4.3 to 4.3.1. Pressing the button twice now no longer brings up the app switcher.
I recently bought a new iPod Classic 120GB, mainly to use on my Numark iDJ2 but also for general use. I have it set so that all my iTunes songs are automatically pulled over to it and when I look at its contents on iTunes all my songs are there. However, if I unplug it and then search through it manually, some artists don't appear. (I haven't yet found a pattern.)
I have just had my iPhone replaced under warranty, and when restoring it from backup much of my preexisting free space vanished. What I've found, after some shell hacking, is that I appear to have duplicate installs of several apps, some of which are quite large. Here is an alphabetically sorted list of these apps: Here's the command I used to dig up this list (run in /var/mobile/Applications):
my printer (it is samsung ml 1640, if that matters) exhibits random failures since updating its software. the update went through apple software update. it worked fine before update. so, obvious fix would be uninstalling the offending package, i suppose. how can this be achieved? i must confess i have no clue... i'm running os x 10.6.6 on a 2006 macbook. thanks
I recently switched from PC to Mac and one thing I miss is Windows' application-level volume control (i.e. mute Firefox, turn up iTunes, turn down Skype etc). How can I achieve the same on a Mac? Or better yet, I want volume settings based on location (using HTTP location API or WiFi network name) and time of day or day of week etc.
I want to know what kind of games can I play with my MacBook Pro before I purchase them. Can I play something beyond Bejeweled? Type of games that I am interested in playing: Call of Duty Counter Strike Source Civilization
How do I recover a deleted file from an iPod Touch running OS 4.1?
I'm trying to decide on an uninstaller that does before and after system scans. So far, I've come across these three: CleanApp (syniumsoftware.com/cleanapp/) - which I saw someone recommend in this post CleanApp (syniumsoftware.com/cleanapp/) - which I saw someone recommend in this post Yank (matterform.com/mac_software/uninstaller/index.html) Yank (matterform.com/mac_software/uninstaller/index.html) Uninstaller (macmagna.com/) Uninstaller (macmagna.com/) So I was hoping if anyone on here has any tips or recommendations on these or any others. Thanks!
When to do when you get this message while you were purchasing an album? How are you supposed to contact support? Is there an email address for this? A specific phone number? Please contact iTunes support to complete this transaction.
I have a miniDP to VGA adapter, and its worked fine until this morning, I woke up and shook the mouse, but only the internal MacBook screen worked, not the external monitor. I tried to reset SMC and PRAM but it did not help. What might be wrong?
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro. It currently has 6G of ram (2x1G and 2x2G sticks). I've been swapping with some programs for a while, and just got around to buying more ram. (4x4G).
I bought the Camera+ app for my iPodTouch yesterday because it was on sale and because I thought that it could be used to get images with as high a resolution as when using the video feature of the device. Is this possible, or have I been sorely mis-informed and thus ripped off another 99 cents for an app? :) I noticed there's a setting under Quality that says that setting it to Optimized which reads: "Photos are saved with a maximum size of 1200x1200 for faster sharing and saving" which is what made me wonder...
Is there an easy way to transfer my applications and data from my old macbook pro to my new macbook pro? I vaguely recall a service or utility that transferred "everything" from an old macbook to a new macbook.
My goal is to select a file in Finder and get to the "open with" menu without having to leave the keyboard.
I've imported a bunch of my photos from Lightroom (not directly of course) to use my iPad as a scrap book. So that I can look at them, and decide whether they belong in a series or should be included in my portofio. Currently I'm doing this by e-mailing myself each photo with some notes and thoughts.
Using this guide: *=URL=* I get this error: I am trying to turn on and off LISTEN in the config, but how to either link VSFTPD with INET or XINET or let it start in listen mode?
Is there any way I can access the files that are used for the alert sounds found in system preferences? For example, in OS X 10.6.6, there are different sounds for Funk, Glass, Hero, etc. Where are these files located?
iPhone 4 voice memos will not play on my docking station. Is this normal or do I have a problem? The iPod app plays fine, and of course I can connect to the headphone jack, but what about the dock socket?
I am looking for an easy to use LaTeX text editor for OS X. It is meant to be used by a social science student, hence TextMate seems to difficult to use. Basically I am looking for a LaTeX editor for dummies.
I have an old 3rd generation iPod, barely used it since I got an iPhone a couple of years ago. I wasn't expecting the battery to hold its charge anymore (I've replaced it once or twice already, infact), but even when plugged in there is no reaction, the device is just dead.
I got myself a Mac Mini and started using it with a PC keyboard as I don't have the time to learn Apple keyboard shortcuts at the moment. I was wondering if there is some kind of keyboard emulator that will make Home, End, ^→, and ^← work as they do in Windows.
Using Finder, I have mounted an SMB share which resides on my NAS . When I use the mount command, the NAS is listed with the name it advertises (nas-smb).
I'm trying to restore my Macbook Pro (17") to factory settings, and here were the steps that I took: I inserted the Snow Leopard DVD. I turned off my Mac. I turned it back on while pressing the "option" key. It prompted me to choose either my hard drive or the DVD; I choose DVD. I saw a gray Apple logo in the middle of the screen, but it just freezes there. By freeze, I mean pressing the keys doesn't do anything. Other points:
Is there a way to disable the checkbox near Encrypt iPhone backup without knowing the password. I don't need the data that is encrypted but I would like new backups to stop being encrypted as I forgot the password so I would like to disable old backups and keep new backups in place without password.
Does anyone know of an app like AppTamer *=URL=* that frees RAM usage and not just CPU?
I've seen a couple of Mac compatible HD webcams for sale, but they often come with the caveat of falling back to VGA resolutions when used with any application not supported by the camera manufacturer. So, my question is: Which webcams can I purchase which will support HD resolutions in all Mac video applications?
Currently my iMac has 10.5.8 Mac Os X installed. I want to install 10.6.6 over 10.5.8 (iMac (intel Dual core)).
When attempting to watch purchased older material on iTunes I have been receiving a prompt stating that my MacBook is not authorized to view material. As the material was purchased unsing my original Apple ID - having since changed ID's twice - I am not able to view this material without entering the password for the old ID. I am then directed through iForgot to the change the password. Here iForgot states the prompting information provided is not recognized. As I cannot enter a password for this old ID I cannot view this material I am having similar problems with apps purchased on my iPhone under this original ID.
Sometimes I simply want to print Microsoft Word documents. If I view them in Quick Look, they display as I would like to print them. However, when I try to print them from the Finder, it opens Pages.app and the rendering is significantly different. Is there anyway to print the document as Quick Look renders it?
As you can see in the photo, my iPod has several podcasts. But iTunes only displays one. It doesn't always show the subscribed podcasts, sometimes does, but not always. If I drag (copy) a podcast to the ipod, it then shows on iTunes, but it may dissapear later. In the iPod, the podcasts always show, but I can't delete the ones I don't need anymore.
Usually, if I click a link to an mp3 in Safari on the iPhone, it will look something like this:  But sometimes, it looks like this, with no scrubber bar:
Any clues regarding this value? I couldn't figure it out. I am trying to find the power budget for devices such as Square (www.squareup.com) Thx
How can I stop QuickTime from opening WMV embeds?
I'd like to create a TextMate project that consists of all files in a particular folder, with the added stipulation that as files are added to (or removed from) that folder that they be added/removed from the TextMate project. Is this possible? I'd love to have a TextMate project that can mirror the list of files being worked with by the folder storing Elements files...
To me, It's quite difficult to understand podcast when there is some noise around, for instance in noisy subway. I think I've read something about the weak output sound level of the iPod touch 2nd gen... Is there any means to increase the sound of poscast on that device ?
Are there any hardware differences between the 8GB, 32GB and 64GB 4th Generation iPod Touches. Apart form the storage size.
I want to make the Search in Google context menu to open my default browser instead of Safari.
as you can see in the example shot, the color in the image are not consistent on my macbook. In the finder the image looks nice, but in Quick Look and iPhoto there is too much red in the images. The effect happens with photos I downloaded from the net, like this one, and with pictures I have taken with my camera. Do you have an explanation? Thanks for your time in advance! [added info]
I'm hesitant in using it, as it asks for all your passwords for your messaging programs. What is their privacy policy? Has anyone ever had problems with it?
I subscribed to about 30 interesting podcasts which I would like to listen to one day when I have time... maybe never, but I hope I will soon. I just noticed that iTunes has not been downloading some of them for months with the following error:
Is is possible to run multiple instances of skype client on an iphone. I would like to be able to to login to two separate skype accounts and have the run simultaneously. Is it possible? For instance, if there was an unofficial skype client, I could install it along the official one with different user name.
In GNOME Terminal of Ubuntu when you open a new tab the new shell will automatically start you in the current working directory of the active tab shell. E.g. if in the active tab shell I am on ~/myproject and I open a new tab, the new shell will start on ~/myproject too. As you can guess, this is very convenient when you work deep in the directory hierarchy. Can I configure the OSX terminal to have this behaviour? If not, is there any free (cocoa) terminal that does this?
I've got a first generation iPhone. About once a year, like clockwork, the standard Apple iPhone headphones will start to crap-out on me. Audio will flake out in a channel, the clicker will stop answering the phone, and ultimately they'll give up the ghost. The flaking out is an audio-on/audio-off thing, eventually becoming a completely off thing. This is not the schmutz in the iphone problem. I think I've tracked down the physical defect (but am not a headphone/electrical engineer)
I'm new to Mac's in general and iOS development. I've used an iPhone and iPad, and I'm looking to write apps for both. I'm a (newly) registered Apple developer and have Xcode downloaded and working my through it. My question is this: Are there any third party tools that iOS developers with more experience than I (which is everyone) uses? Example, in the Windows world I use Notepad++ as a extra text editor. Depends for dependency checks (yes, I realize there might not be a corollary to this) Regex Buddy for building/debuggin regular expressions. etc... Being ignorant of the iOS landscape, any information anyone could supply on tools (and possibly why they are must haves or need to haves) would be great.
My AirPort Express is showing a permanent orange light. Every ~5 minutes it blinks green once and after this I get continuos yellow. The AirPort device is connected via LAN to my Linksys WRT-160NL router that is configured with DHCP enabled - is supposed to give and IP to the AirPort. The AirPort is undiscoverable via LAN or WiFi. If I try the hard reset procedure, all I get is flashing yellow led after few seconds but no other effects.
UPDATE: I was listening to Pandora while my iPad charged and functioned as my AirDisplay when all of a sudden my iPad started rebooting repeatedly (not syncing or updating, checked iTunes.) It kept rebooting until I removed the sync cable. When it came back then it backed-up and synced fine. I'll leave this question open in case someone has any suggestions. If no one has any suggestions then I will probably delete it.
I have backed up my Mac to an external disk using TimeMachine. When I plug in a different external disk the Mac still expects to backup to the first disk. Is it possible to backup to two external disks, one at a time?
Well, I played with permissions and even deleted some of the folders in question to see if they would be re-created properly. I think that was a mistake, there were odd side effects, so I tried my best to restore the folders to the way they had been previously.
I am running Windows 7 in a virtual machine. Now all of its applications are available via the Open With (or even as the default for some) on the Mac. I don't want them there. I've remapped the ones where it was the default, but it is still listed on the Open With menu. How can I remove all of them? I have shared folders turned off. I've seen this with Parallels too, and I thought I saw a option to turn it off, but I cannot find it.
We have 2 iPhones and 2 iPads synced to iTunes. It seems that to delete an app, I need to delete it from all devices individually and iTunes - i.e. 5 deletes. Is there a better way to do this?
I use Outlook for Mac on my iMac and my Macbook (that I use when I travel). Due to storage limitations in my employers Exchange servers, I need to store emails locally (as well on the server). Is there any ways to have access to the locally stored emails on both my iMac and MacBook? Easy ways prefered ...
I dropped my 15" MacBook Pro off of the couch onto hardwood floor (a drop of about 24 inches). It works fine still, but the bottom part (not the LCD) has bent inwards as a result. So if you are looking at the laptop with your eyes at desk-level the left hand side of the case is bent in a few millimeters on the bottom. This warping has caused the bottom-panel (the big panel screwed into the bottom) to jut out slightly. I talked to Apple and they said that this sort of damage isn't covered by any warranty, and all they could do is replace the entire lower unibody frame for something like $600.
How can I check my line-in does work? I'm interesting what software should I use and how.
I am using Google Sync to connected various calendars between my Google account and my iPhone. Some of these calendars are subscribed to calendars (national holidays/sporting events etc). When I go to create a new calendar entry on my iPhone it always selects the national holidays calendar, rather than my own, is there a way of setting my own calendar to be the default?
Recently the UK changed from winter time to summer time, I have noticed that the timing of some of my calendar appointments (Google Calendar via Google Sync) have also been shifted forwards by an hour, whereas some have not changed. It could well be that the split is down to events created on the iPhone and those created on the Google Calendar web interface. Does anyone know a work around for this, that will stop me turning up an hour early to things when the clocks change back in October?
How can I change depth (bits) and frequency (kHzs) characteristics when recording session in GarageBand? If I can't then what are the default values?
I'm new to Macs and got a 2011 MacBook Pro a few weeks ago and when I first set it up there was an American Flag on my menu bar. Somehow it has disappeared and I can't figure out how to get it back.
I bought a song on iTunes on my iPad, but the song is greyed out. How can I get the song back? Also, how can I download the song to my iPad or iPhone?
My iPhone sometimes gets very hot and drains battery extremely quickly. When I use the app iStat to check processor load, it shows high numbers (above 2, where it is normally 0.5, not sure about the format of those numbers but that is what is reported). It seem to be the equivalent of a computer stuck at 100% CPU load.
I'm looking for a program that will create a visual map of my home network, I've found lanmap but it requires too many programs to be installed to be able to run. Does anyone knows a native Mac app for the job?
I've been trying out Safari Restore and Sessions for a few days and I find they both remember the tabs from the previous session, but only the last page I looked at in each tab. There is no history for the tabs, ie, I can't click the Back button. "Reopen all windows" in the History menu does the same thing. Firefox and Chrome remember the entire session, so it's as if I never shut down. How do I get Safari to remember the actual session and not just the last page I looked at? Safari 5.0.4, 10.5.8
This is not a AirDisplay question, it's about the HDMI connection. I don't have a TV. I use my main computer, a 27" iMac, for watching movies. The iPad 2 has HDMI out and games can output to 1080p while using the iPad as a controller, as seen in the recent RealRacing HD announcement. Does anybody know if it will be possible at all to use an iMac screen, and its mini display port, in place of HDMI out?
I have a graphic on the clipboard on OS X. What's the quickest way to get it onto disk as a png or jpg?
I'd like to use Apple's Automator to obtain content from multiple webpages. The webpages each contain links, text, and photos. I would then like to place this information in a text document. Detailed steps would be much appreciated! Thanks for your help!
I use hot corners to lock my screen. Sometimes, my login window appears but the screen behind it does not turn black. My desktop stays visible, but behind the Login window.
I previously had a DLink modem-router (DSL-2740B). I replaced it with a small ADSL D-Link modem and a TimeCapsule. While I'm quite happy with it, the main and only criticism I could make is the loss I had in the Wifi coverage in my apartment. When I had an almost full signal in my bedroom with the DLink, I can now barely connect.
Is there a FoxToPhone or Chrome2Phone app for the iPhone? Chrome2Phone is an app for Android OS, and goes hand in hand with a Chrome or Firefox extension.
I'm looking for an easy way to print to a file the following information in a directory full of video files: File Name, File Type, Video Length (in Seconds) I realize the first two are very easy, its the 3rd bit of information that I'm having trouble finding an automated way to accomplish.
I've had my IPhone 4 since October 30th. Yesterday, it started acting funny. I can't receive text messages and when I do receive calls they go straight to voicemail. I'll get the voice mail several hours later. I can send texts AND make calls. I have reset everything on my phone and nothing has worked. I haven't updated anything on my phone because it is jail broken and I do not want to lose my games. Is it possible that because I have not updated it's acting up? I know it isn't my account. Could there be anything else wrong with it?
How can I enter a character using that input source? I tried entering a tab character with ⌥+0009, but I didn't get anything. Viceversa, with ⌥+9999, I get 香. Am I doing anything wrong, or doesn't the input source allow to enter control codes? I tested those codes on Firefox 4.
I actually want to boot Linux but since that is not working I'm thinking some one might know on the Apple end. If there's a way to boot Mac from a USB stick, then booting another operating system should not be impossible. Do I need to use an Apple bootloader to trick my PowerBook into thinking it's booting Mac OS and then slip in the Linux disc or what?
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the "View In Mac App Store" button on web based pages (e.g. *=URL=* ) to open the mac app store when using Firefox? It only seems to work in safari atm. My specs: Running Firefox 4 on OSX 10.6.7 on Macbook Pro
Is there a way to send the current used application to a specific Space? For example, I work in Space 1; I double-click on a document and an application starts to open this document. Is there a quick way to send this application to Space 2?
I've just been trying to create a .crt file, so I can copy the contents (text) from a web page in to it, but Mac OS doesn't seem to want to let me do it easily. Normally in Windows I would right click > new file, or even open notepad and save as (as it lets you save with any extension), but TextEdit in mac forces me to save as RTF, and I seem to be unable to rename it in finder afterwards?!
I'm about to purchase the new macbook pro 17 from amazon. $134 less than from Apple and no tax means almost $400 is saved... amazon only has the base model without any upgrades, but that's what I wanted anyway.
I'm trying to update Starcraft 2 to patch 1.3.1. Everytime it tries to write the patched files the entire system freezes and eventually also crashes. The OS is 10.6.7 there is no log from starcraft itself most of the Times sometimes it tells me to Run the Blizzard Relais Tool. I tried fixing Disk permissions and Erlangung the filesystem. Also reinstalling didn't help. Any ideas?
Is it possible to share one IP address between two Apple laptops (both running Snow Leopard in my case) so that both devices can connect to the internet?
Curious if anyone else is experiencing ActiveSync email accounts showing sent email in your iPhone mail.app Inbox. Messages still appear even if "organize by thread" is disabled. iPhone mail seems to handle native Gmail accounts correctly, knowing to hide any sent email, however my Google Apps ActiveSync account/mailbox doesn't.
Does Safari 2 support tabbed browsing? What is the first version that supports this feature?
Why is my iPod Nano 6th generation playing in recovery mode? How do I take it off of recovery mode?
In the Finder sidebar (and in Pathfinder's sidebar too), there is a Places area where you can add your own shortcuts. Where are these actually kept on the Mac. I checked $HOME/Library but couldn't find anything. I want to see if I can change some of the names there. I have several shortcuts to mount Windows C$ shares over there, and I want to see if I can rename them to something a bit more meaningful than just C$. It's a little confusing when you have about a 1/2 dozen shortcuts all with the same name. Finder doesn't seem to let you rename them.
When I try to delete some items, whether from the keyboard (Command+Delete) or by dragging to the Trash on the dock, I get a message informing me that I can only permanently delete the item. Why is that? How can I change that? (Is it a permissions issue?)
Say I have some image files (for instance, the result of scanning some sheets) and I want to combine them into a single pdf file, each image on a different page. Is there a faster / more convenient way than converting each one to a pdf file and then combining those (say, as explained here)? Or, if this is more or less how it is to be done, which is the most intelligent and less tedious possible way to do it?
I found this tiny deep scratch on my MBP and I don't know how the heck did it get there. Is there way to fix it or does my warranty cover it? It is near the ESC also near the charger input.
I recently updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3.1. Everything seemed to go fine. However, after I sent my next text message the phone quickly showed the restart screen and then all my old messages were deleted. Thinking it was a fluke I restored to before the update. Everything (except the messages I had sent between the update and restore) showed up again. However, again, as soon as I sent another text, my phone restarted and all the old messages were removed. I'd like to keep my old SMSs on my phone and still be able to send/receive new ones. Any ideas?
I'd like to disable and enable Time Machine at will via Quicksilver. 'nuff said.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS with 3.1.3 and I want to upgrade it to 3.2. Is it possible to do so without losing everything?
Just wondering if I have a copy of of snow leopard 10.6, if I put it in a typical pc that runs windows will it boot or do nothing?
I just discovered SheepShaver and I'm mindblowingly excited! I got all my old Mac games out of storage and began to install all of them. A trick that I learned awhile ago for making playing games on OS X is to simply make a disk image of the CD and then mount that when I want to play.
I have a POP based mail account from my ISP. What I need is a way to say "If the Subject contains XXX then do not download it from the server". This was simple in Windows Mail, but there doesn't appear to be this rule action in mail.app Any ideas? (I guess something to say, leave it on the server, and delete it from my inbox" might also be appropriate).
I want to dual-boot via boot camp to install XP on an external USB flash drive on my Late 2010 Macbook Air. Has anyone done this successfully? Virtualization is not an option, installing XP on small internal partition and putting programs on USB drive is not an option, looking for a real solution only (Important detail - I have a Macbook Pro that I can use to get things rolling)
I finally made the jump and got a MacBook, and I'm trying to move in. I have the OSX port of gedit installed, but I'm having trouble adding it to my PATH. My current PATH looks like this: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/Applications/gedit.app/Contents/MacOS/gedit:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH as per a comment here.
I use smb to connect to the PC to look at the files: In Finder, Go -> Connect to Server and I use
There is a VLC app on the iPad, except it says, "enter your email address and we will email you the instruction" and that sounds fishy... It also talk about using Bonjour, but I set up Bonjour on the PC and the iPad's VLC is still scanning and scanning and can't find it.
New MacBook Pro here. I am about to use Migration Assistant to copy over my old files from my old first-gen MacBook. Will I have to reinstall macports manually or will Migration Assistant copy my /opt directory?
Is it possible to temporarily disable the SSD on a Macbook Air? I want to install XP on an external USB drive to work with my Late 2010 Macbook Air. This technique requires detaching your hard disk in order to make the image. That's obviously a problem since my disk is soldered onto my motherboard.. but on the same token I imagine there's a way to disable it (what if there was an actual malfunction? perhaps it just renders the unit useless but I'd hope not). I have a MBP I can do this on, but XP will surely NOT like to be transferred from one machine to another..
VLC for iPad and iPhone is available, but how to install it? (it is not an App Store app) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
Is there any cleaning solution for the MacBook Pro? How should I clean my MacBook? Which fabric should I use to clean it?
When I open Terminal it shows this: I installed something yesterday and modified bash_profile. Now I cannot do anything in Terminal. Even "ls". It returns… How can I fix it?
⌘ + Shift + 3 The screen capture shortcut on the Mac is one of the most useful tools I know. It grabs the screen and neatly places a .png file onto your desktop.
I make photos every day. I want them to be kept somewhere safe (online, not on my computer), without having to think about it. Either over 3g, or whenever I'm near a wifi, I want my videos and photos to automatically upload. Ideally to smugmug.com, so I don't need to take additional steps to share a subset of the photos, but something like dropbox or s3 would also do.
Calendar alert sound on the iPodTouch isn't loud enough is there some "mobile" way to make it louder?
When viewing solid, light tones, such as #FDF6E3, I see evenly spaced horizontal lines across my entire screen (I have a 2010 white Macbook). These lines are especially visible when the screen is viewed from below, or when the screen is tilted back.
Anyone experience this problem? It all of a sudden started happening for me.
Is there any way to automate cropping images on Mac? (Not the whole file, but part of the file.) I've tried this with Automator but the cropping function just makes the whole image smaller instead of chopping the part that I don't want off of the image.
Is there a way to automatically have a folder deleted every day at 4am? I'm running 10.6.7.
I was just walking around with my iPod Touch and touched the screen accidentally. The settings icon was deleted and I can't recover it. It's very weird because usually you can't delete default apps icons. I can't find it in iTunes either (after connecting and sync iPod with iTunes) I would prefer not to lose my current settings like bookmarks in Safari, mail settings... The iPod is not jail broken and I would prefer not to jailbreak it.
I'm looking to add another layer to the querty keyboard on the iPad so I can get accented characters. Can I do that?
It was the same installation. Now my unrecoverable backups are gone.
There's another instance where the attack were through AFP, which I also want to leave open. Someone added a "Pamela" folder to my dropbox, which is perfectly fine. But if I don't go there and see it's there, I don't get any notification about it and don't get to see who did it and when. Ideally I would see the exact moment and even get to interact with the user somehow. The solution would probably be enough if it were one software able to: get me notified of any user connection anywhere (but just once per user / attack / minute or something), take a preventive automatic measure, give an automatic response and give me options to take action if needed. Sorry for such a big and long question!
My mac pro (first gen) previously had a whole disc dedicated to Windows/bootcamp. I've now added a new disk to the machine. On this new disk I have installed OS X 10.6.
My wife's 2007 Macbook has a busted screen and a screwed up keyboard. I have a work PC and she can use my Macbook Pro but I was wondering if I could use her Macbook sitting on my network as a NAS for Time Machine and an iTunes music storage. I have a 320gig USB hard drive that I can plug in to it. Is there some way that I can use the USB Hard Drive plugged in to her Macbook as a network drive? Without reinstalling OS X would be the nicest thing.
I have a network share that is used by a large group of kids. They love changing the icon of this folder, which causes a lot of debate. I know that there is a hidden file that specifies the icon; can I lock this file so the icon of the folder can't be changed anymore?
I bought an iPad 2 recently, and tried to buy some accessories such as a cigarette charger or something. What I found was that I can't find accessories for iPad, and the accessory box says it is for iPod/iPhone/iPod Touch, but there was no mention about iPad.
I had about 8.9GB hard disk space before installing Snow Leopard (had Leopard before). After installation, the hard disk space increased to 20GB.
There's a couple points that I'm not really that happy with. For example, I don't really want the Address Book or Calendar visible particularly. I've moved them onto a second page of Apps.
If Bonjour is installed on all PCs, Macs, is it supposed to make home networking a lot easier? (the heaven of seeing all shared folders any where at home?) (even the VLC Streamer on iPad claims to use Bonjour) But now I go look for Bonjour, and Apple is saying it is a printer service: *=URL=* Bonjour Print Services for Windows
Since I have been using Leopard on my Macbook, all the apps should be 32-bit. So an hour ago, the macbook is upgraded to Snow Leopard. Does that mean all apps should also be upgraded to 64-bit version for speed? For example, does Chrome, Firefox, (and any other popular ones) have 64-bit versions?
iPhone has GPS, and iPad 3G model has Assisted GPS. What's the difference between the two? Which is better? Do I need to buy GPS receiver if I want to get real GPS data?
How can I make my Mac display the login screen (as though I'd selected "Login window" from the fast user switching menu) after the session has been idle for a certain time? I can make it log out after some amount of inactivity, but I don't want that. I want my programs to continue running.
How can I delay the audio (relative to the video stream) in an MP4 movie file and save the result?
I have audio file with 192Khz/24bit sound, and Revo 5.1 and driver for Snow Leopard. This driver is not official, and it is only the kext, without any GUI, and I can't see sound quality playing right now. I just set up in Audio Midi Setup App sound format of 192Khz. How can I see be sure the sound playing in 192/24 quality, not just 192/16? Is 24bit/16bit sound switching begins automatically?
I am in vancouver B.C. Is the iphone4 bought in bestbuy official unlocked?I saw that the network of iphone4 is telus but have a uncontract price on bb website. So can the iphone4 be used in other countries? thank you!
I'm curious as to where Active Directory configurations are stored on Mac OS X 10.6. "man dsconfigad" and "man dscl" are both silent on where those utilities store/read their information.
I have a Drobo hooked up to my intel mac mini mounted to /Volumes/Drobo, although after a poweroutage the Drobo now automounts to /Volumes/Drobo 1. I unmount it and mount it back on /Volumes/Drobo so that all of my apps work but, how can I force it to go back to using /Volumes/Drobo as the automount location?
I got borred about all the spam created by less or more famous iOS hackers. They simply create too much hype for nothing: tweets, rss feeds, facebook pages, all of the full of nonsense messages. I do not want to spend my time reading fake news about new hacks and I'm looking for a way of subscribing only to real "news". For a while I considered the Jailbreak Matrix to be a page I could monitor but it looks that it not updated in time and the page became too crowded by ads. What information source do you recommend?
How to copy MP3 files from my PC to my iphone? I have many Mp3 on my PC but some Mp3s I want to copy in iphone to listen from iphone. How to do that? I'm having itunes account and itunes software on my PC but unable to copy MP3s to iphone.
Is there an iPhone app that allows one to follow an imported .gpx track, in a car navigation-like way? The apps I found so far, like Trails, can only display the track on a map. What I am looking for is a "download-and-forget" experience for my bike trips. I want to import a track and just look at my iPhone to tell me in which direction is the next waypoint, or how can I get back on track if I get lost.
I find really annoying to use Midnight Commander under OS X when using the non-extended keyboard (laptop). I found no way of simulating an INSERT key press (select file) and I would like to find a solution that does not require me to reconfigure MC, specially because I cannot do this with each machine I'm connecting to from my MacBook. I will give extra bonus ;) for and extended solution what will solve the problem not only for the INSERT (select file) but also for switch selection and add/substract selection (NumMultiply,NumMinus,NumPlus). Remember that Numlock area *, + and - are not the same as the ones from the standard keyboard.
When sharing internet in my Macbook, from a 3G USB pendrive to Wi-Fi, if the 3G connection falls, the natd process rises up in CPU usage. Is this a real problem? Is it expected in some way? There's a easy way to solve the hogging, using the menubar disconnect option, but sometimes it doesn't work and I have to unplug the USB modem. My modem is a HUAWEI E226. Hope you can help me.
All of a sudden, dragging a space in spaces to switch it for another space lags and takes for ever. Why? any solutions? It didn't happen before. There are not many apps open, memory's fine, dragging windows in Spaces works great, switching into and out of spaces works fast too. See: video example. PS: Embedding videos here would be nice wouldn't it? Spec: 13' MacBook, 10.6.6 OS, 2GB Ram, 2.226 Ghz Core 2 Duo
When I use Skype on my iPhone 4 for more than 15 minutes, it heats up to the point that I cannot even hold it in my hands - I have it on a holder to avoid movement so I didn't notice the gradual rise in temperature. Is this normal? Should I be restricting video conferences to less than a specific amount of time?
I was wondering if there was any was I could right click inside any instance of a "Finder" window such that I have an option that says "Open Terminal Here". It would be really helpful.
So on Linux it's eth0, eth1 etc which stands for ethernet interface 0 etc So what does en0 on mac stand for? (the "en" part)
I'm wondering whether anyone else has had problems with iTunes Home Sharing working with Apple Lossless formated audio files? I have iTunes 10.2.1 on both machines and it will not even start to play lossless music, only MP3 and other lossy formats. I'm wondering whether anyone else has any workarounds or if this is just the way it is? Thanks.
I have an iPhone 4 with the Google Voice messenger app. However I don't get notifications at all; I've tried everything! If I want to check if I recieved a text I have to go into the app and press the refresh button. Any suggestions?
I am used from Linux to have a colored prompt in my shells and also want to implement that in my OS X Terminal.app. The Terminal reacts differently though. If I use my normal PS1 code the right side of any line will be cut down at a strange point (surely not the right end of the Terminal window). And also the next line will not show on the next line but on the same line. expected reaction: real reaction:
I'm having first version of iPad and a USB headphone. is it possible to use skype on iPad? I'm on Wi-Fi.
iClarified says that there's an untethered jailbreak for iPhone4 for iOS 4.3.1 which is the most up-to-date version of iOS as of writing this question. Let's assume we are talking for unlocked phones. My question is which tool is better - RedSn0w or PwnageTool? My question is valid not only for 4.3.1. Wikipedia says "redsn0w is a utility to jailbreak iOS devices" and "PwnageTool is an iPhone jailbreaking application for Mac OS X that creates custom iOS firmware images" (cannot post a third link, but that one is easy to find).
Sometimes the activation option from the PwnageTool does bring your GSM in an unusable state if you have and iPhone that is locked to other network than AT&T. All I remember is that it was a tool that I installed using Cydia that was able to deactivate the phone.
I have an iPhone 4 with the Google Voice app. However I don't get notifications at all, I've tried everything! If I want to check if I received a text I have to go into the app and press the refresh button. How can I get notifications working?
How do you guys secure/protect your Time Machine backup drive? Even though it's an external drive, it's still susceptible to physical theft though. What do you guys do for precautions?
I have an external hard drive (Verbatim #47576) setup as a Time Machine drive. Everyday, at random intervals, the computer warns me that the disk was not ejected properly. Why? How to prevent that? Is there a real problem? iMac8,1 , MacOS X 10.6.7, Darwin 10.7.0,
I have passcode on iphone but sometimes i need to give my iphone to other to make calls. I want to make specific things password protected, things like mail, sms, contacts and some games. Is it possible?
Apple recommends at least one charge cycle (charge to 100% and then running it down completely) per month. Then, is it OK to charge iPad/iPhone all the time as long as I have charge cycle per month? Or, do I have to refrain from recharging iPad/iPhone until it's completely discharged?
I just got an Apple 4870 and am using it with OS X fine. However it is soooo noisy. Are there any software tools or firmware mods I can do to change the fan speed at various temperature thresholds?
I'd like to create a professional looking demonstration of my app, just like this. I have captured a video using ScreenFlow, but I'm not how to add title screens where I want, like for example in the Sparrow app demo, they first show the name in huge bold text with black background, then "Navigate" and so on...which app should I use to achieve that? Many thanks for your help.
I'm looking for the best way to open an iPod classic, meaning taking it apart. Mine got wet and now doesn't work and I would like to open it up and check that everythin's in place. I would like to do so in the safest way, so as not to dent the iPod. Any suggestions?
I'm looking to produce plots from some very large data sets. To start I've got a data set with 40 different series in it, each with 5000 samples that I'd like to produce a line chart out of, with each series represented by a line in the plot.
Can anyone think of a reason why (and a possible solution) the volume on my ITunes player is lower than other apps (like for example playing videos on youtube or music in grooveshark)?
I have concluded that my office is in sore need of a new display and have decided to take the hit for one of apple's refurbished displays. The most important thing for me is similar pixels/square inch (so that the same size font shows up the same size on each monitor). Is there a screen-definition difference between the most recent MacBook Pros and any of the currently available cinema displays on Apple's site? I could not find any such specs in the product descriptions.
i'm in china and need to jailbreak/unlock my iphone to use it here with chinese sim card. I followed the instructions online about how to do this using a program called snowbreeze. It worked and i believe the iphone now has ios 4.3.1 and the ipad baseband. However, in order to unlock the thing i need to get into it, and it is asking me to insert 'a valid sim card with no PIN lock to active iPhone.
The network at my place is using a proxy. So I have set up the proxy in iPhone. I can connect to the internet and access Facebook using the Safari browser without any problem. However when I access Facebook using the native app, it gives me a connection error. Why is this so? Does the native app use different ports instead of getting JSON objects through HTTP port? I am quite new to this, so bear with me.
What I would like to have is: By default the microphone should be muted When CapsLock is Down the microphone should unmute When CapsLock is Up the microphone should mute (Basically convert my Skype to act like a Walkie-talkie with a push-to-talk functionality)
I recently (less than 1 month ago) purchased a new Macbook Pro 13". Love it so far, but have a question on the battery. It never reaches 100% - usually it makes it up to 96% then the light on the charger goes from amber to green, and the charging indicator says "fully charged". I've tried recalibrating the battery as described here.
What is an easy way to move a song I bought from iPhone 3 to iPhone 4 to iPad? Do I need to move some files such as Mvx034f.mp3 over somewhere and rename it? I think the only other way is to let Apple know I want to download it one more time, but that is ONE TIME ONLY.
Somehow (a long time ago) I deleted the contents of the Applications folder under my username (User/Applications). However, when I typed "Applications" into Spotlight, it gave me a folder called Applications with all my Adobe products, MAMP and other software in it.
Although the wired memory stays below 1000M (i.e. I have over 7000M available for processes), I see heavy paging activity leading to very bad performance from the three memory-intensive processes that I launched. Apparently, I am not running out of available RAM, as the reported inactive memory stays around 2500M and the active memory doesn’t rise above 5000M.
each time i import images, some faces are detected instantly and automatically, but I have to run detect missing faces one time more to find other recognizable faces. Note: they are all auto-recognition without manual input. why possibly does aperture apply such mechanism?
My girlfriend has an iPod Nano (3G) and she asked me how she can delete a song from inside iPod. I didn't find any option inside the device, is it really like that? Can I delete songs only using iTunes?
We have a server that runs ARD and we use it for Network Discovery. I'm in the process of writing a few scripts to grab the ARD lists and push them to Support Analysts machines. However the com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist is not the key file here. Does anybody know if this is possible?
I'm thinking about picking up a refurb 13" 2010 MBP next month. But I just started wondering, how long will they be available?
I want to remap the up and down arrow keys, from Move Selection Up and Move Selection Down to Increase Rating and Decrease Rating. That way, it would be really instant to move between photos with the left/right arrows, and adjust the rating with the up/down arrows. Unfortunately, the Commands window does not let you edit these specific actions. Does anyone knows if there is any workaround on this?
Ok, I've read past posts, and found good articles on Lifehacker, but I want to crowdsource my worries for a moment: Can I safely extract my SMS messages from my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3 without jailbreaking or paying money? I'm not scared of the SQLite db holding the info and would love to learn a bit about it in the meantime. I would likely use my MBP running 10.6 to do so, but have SUSE Linux and Win 7 systems on hand if that's easier.
I want to buy a Solid State Drive for my PC, but also is thinking of just buy Macbook Air or Macbook Pro 13 or 15 inch so that there is already a Solid State Drive. How does the Solid State Drive (SSD) in Macbook Air or Macbook Pro compare to the SSD drive I can buy for the PC? (for speed) Especially the Macbook Air, because it is so slim and small, will it have an SSD that is not as fast as the bigger brothers? For example, these two seems highly rated for the PC: *=URL=* and *=URL=* and even an external one... but maybe less useful if computer has no USB 3.0 http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-SuperSpeed-USB2-0-External-35141/dp/B0047ZGNIC
Does there exist a dashboard widget which displays my Outlook/Entourage and Exchange calendar?
I have both FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced installed. Because the available licenses for the Advanced product are limited, I shouldn't use it unless necessary. But when neither application is running, my Mac will currently open any "fmp7://" URLs in FileMaker Pro Advanced. How do I change this so that FileMaker Pro is opened instead? (There's no obvious configuration option for this in either application's Preferences window.)
I've written an AppleScript app that I use to open certain files with (it sends them to Vim in the Terminal). I'd like to set all my .Tex files to automatically open with this app. The problem is this changes the files icons to the blank file icon.
I dont have enough free memory to run PhotoShop CS. I'm looking into external drives to free up space. I would also like to upgrade OS so I can watch netflix, and maybe would help with streaming video in general. If I upgrade, not sure what to upgrade to as I want to still be able to use PS CS, office X.1, amd maybe dreamweaver MX (less important) since I already have have these and there would be no cost. Any suggestions are much, much appreciated. I don't know many tech terms beyond CPU, HD, Platform, etc. I am not very technical.I did upgrade the CPU myself thanks to youttube but not sure what the speed is now. All I know is I upgraded to the "maximum".
my girlfriend is currently using an iPhone 3G (iOS version 3.1.3 - 7E18) and I've noticed it can be very sluggish. She doesn't use it for much more than the usual messaging/safari/mail. Compared to my 3GS it is pretty terrible. I used to have a 3G (still do in fact, and it runs much smoother/faster). So my question is, what is the best version of iOS to run on an iPhone 3G? I'm going to downgrade (if necessary, which I think might require jailbreak which I'm not thrilled about) or try a restore and see if that fixes it, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to restore her phone but keep it running 3.1.3. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
On a freshly intalled computer rather then importing my old safari bookmarks (ea wih migration assistant) I want to start anew with no bookmarks. However, from time to time I would like to browse through my old bookmarks (on the 'old safari') to selectively drag a few bookmarks over to the 'new' safari. Both new and old safari's are in fact the same version.(what if the old was leopard and the new was snow leopard, does the old run inside SL?) An extension to switch bookmark libraries wouldn't solve this, as I need both bookmark lists open in a window to drag and drop bookmarks from one to another. So I guess I could use *=URL=* but feel this is more then I need: I wonder if I can do this with both safari's using the same webkit version of the OS (just like camino uses the same webkit as safari and can be open at the same time) Also would it be possible to run the old safari from an external disk, so without it being located in the local applications directory?
I prefer to listen to my music on my laptop in Apple Lossless at home. On the go however AAC is fine, and a must, as I don't have enough space on my SSD.
Does Edovia "Screens" support multiple displays? My Mac has two displays, and I need to be able access applications that open on either one of them.
I learned from this post that I can hold the power button long enough to turn off the bluetooth keyboard. I used Apple's bluetooth mouse around 5 years ago, and I just threw it away as it was a battery killer. Since then, I never have used bluetooth devices. Ironically, I use Microsoft wireless mouse which lasts months without battery change with Mac.
An iPhone has previously been connecting to Exchange email without any problems. Two days ago it stopped, generating an error:
Since I got my iPad and iPhone I am unable to download certain applications, especially the games Is this due to region restrictions with Apple and South Africa?
After installation of new Skype version for Mac, each time I search for a contact - it gives me few choices for one person: the skype contact; the contact from address book with phone number
I would like to transfer music from one iTunes library to another but I tried to drag songs from local library to a shared library and it didn't work. Is it possible to do this transfer using just iTunes, without having to manually copy files from one computer to another?
MacPorts became really a pain because it does compile the packages on your machine, like the infamous gentoo and I would like something with a smaller footprint on your machine. I know that Fink and other solutions exists but from what I remember form few years ago they are less maintained than macports. I would like to read a more informed opinion regarding which solution would be optimal and why.
I'm writing cross-platform scripts that are executing utilities and some of them are windows executables. I would like to find a solution that would not require me to prepend the command line with wine when I run from OS X. I know that on Windows it is possible to define executable files based on file extension but I would like to know if this is possible to do on OS X and how. I am open to suggestions ;)
I'm a newbie macuser coming from Debian, and I'm a big command line user. One one my preferred one is netcat (aka nc on mac). I especially loved the -e option which enabled to create a process that deals bidirectionnally with the strems. Unfortunately, when I use the classic: Netcat does not agree with me, and I get this:
Can someone tell me the best alternative to Apple Time capsule? Common question, I know, but couldn't find it in the list. People who have actually tried out the alternatives only please.
On some wireless networks that others can seem to access just fine, my MacBook Pro won't connect, I get an error like this in the Network pref panel: This occasionally happens with unsecured networks, and also with secured networks where I know the password is right, and the password appears to be accepted.
What's the easiest way to get photos and videos on to the iPad without Syncing? The way sync works is ridiculous; its either all the pictures in a folder or nothing. Basically I want the ability to drag and drop random photos with just a computer and cable available. No cloud storage options please.
This is my current set-up: Wireless network, multiple macs connected, two of them are standing next to each other. As I want fast file transfer between those, I've got an ethernet cable between them. With IPv4 turned off (on ethernet) on both of them, and Ethernet on one in the service order, this all works. Kind of.
I tried to update Mac OS X using Software Update. But when I tap on software updates, it's checking software updates and listing the available updates.
I'm just curious to know if there is an easy way to tell if your calls coming in on an app like google voice or skype are routed through the data plan or if they are using minutes.
One of the few ways I think Windows beats the Mac is in letting the user resize a window from any edge or corner, not just from the bottom-right corner. I haven't found any software that enables this functionality on the Mac. Does such a thing exist?
I have a MacBook Pro at work, but am new to Macs and have never used the webcam outside of Skype. Is it possible to take a still photo with the webcam?
Let me explain my situation. I jailbroke my iPhone 4 when the untethered 4.3.1 jailbreak got released last week. As precaution, I did make a backup of my Cydia apps back when it was 4.2.1 and my iPhone's personal data as well. When I restored the Cydia apps it had to remove my phone's apps. The problem is when I restore my iPhone data back on, it does not restore all of my apps due to it being over capacity. And thus I don't have my app's data.
I'm not really a big fan of macports or any package manager that exists for Mac; Im more of a compile from source guy. Has anyone here tried compiling wine for OSX so that I can execute exe files on my OSX(10.6)? Are there any alternatives for wine that you would suggest?
I have been looking around for a method and haven't been able to find one, any suggestions?
My son changed the password on his iPad and promptly forgot the new one... He was working on a lengthy document in Pages on it and was hoping to recover the work since his last save to iDisk. Will he lose this work if we reset the iPad in iTunes? Any way to transfer the file from iPad to iTunes (it doesn't appear in the list of documents that we can transfer over)?
I have just moved onto OS X from Windows and am using an early mac pro. Inside eclipse, when I hover over the toolbar, there are various keyboard shortcuts, (like F11 for 'Run').
I recently had my MacBook's HDD crap out on me. The OS X partition, in particular, quit working, but my Windows 7 partition was still in decent enough shape for me to grab an image. I got a replacement drive from Western Digital and restored the Win7 partition. I am able to see it from Mac OS X and am able to select it as a boot target with the Boot Disk tool, but when I reboot the machine, I get a gray screen for a few seconds and then a fully black one with simple white text reading "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and hit any key..."
Currently, my iChat does not recover my status when Mac is waken from sleeping. It keeps being offline. How can I make it connect to server automatically when my Mac waken?
I want to upgrade to 4.3.1 but wonder whether Locktopus 1.1 still works ... thx.
On iPad or iPhone, I take a snapshot of the screen looking at the screen sideway (Landscape mode), but the snapshot is taken to be in Portrait mode? So if I send this photo to a friend or post it on Facebook, it will be 90 degree off... (I mean taking a snapshot by pressing the Power and Menu button at the same time)
Is there a way to do that? The only way i can think of is to use dropbox but it doesn't support some common file types such as .mpg, .mobi, and .epub, and is limited to 2GB. Also, doesn't it make sense if iPad comes with an app on iOS that can do it?
I'm a new Mac user and I regularly minimize windows using the Command + M shortcut. Is there a keyboard shortcut to restore these windows?
I'm using iTunes home sharing between two Windows 7 64bit PCs and one MacBook Air, over a private VPN using Hamachi. It works great, but after playing the music for about 30 minutes ~ 1 hour, the home sharing is just disconnected and the shared PC does not appear anymore. I can make it run again by restarting iTunes at the both sides, but it's quite annoying. Is there anyone who has solution to this problem?
I have MacUpdate installed (which I got with their Spring Bundle). I noticed that it tries to check for updates every hour for some reason. The app itself is not running so it must be some agent or daemon. Here's example log entry (with network off): I was looking for a setting that could determine the frequency (ideally switch it off completely) but didn't find anything. Using Lingon I found one Agent that's suppose to run every day at 0:35 which would be fine, but as you can see from the log, it's seem to be run hourly. Any ideas? UPDATE Did some testing and these are my findings...
Keynote is $19, Pages is $19, Numbers is $19. iWork bundle is $79. Why would anyone want to buy the bundle?
Is it possible to control which applications/processes use which network card? So, for example, I could assign different things to different interfaces? Also, is this possible for the different types of connections e.g. Bluetooth PAN, firewire networking and so on?
I've just recently changed the ISP and now have a cable modem, which only has one LAN port. Connecting here requires to use DHCP to get an IP address. Connecting my laptop works just fine and I get an IP immediately.
I have to do a presentation where I want to demo some apps on an iPhone 3GS. Is there a way to mirror the iPhone screen on a computer screen without jailbreaking?
since the TED HD podcast and iTunesU my iTunes library is getting bigger and bigger and thus free space on my MacBook HD smaller and smaller. I'm getting an iPad2 soon and would like to sync my TV shows and some movies as well, but this just doesn't fit into the library any more. I already tried to have two libraries, one on an external HD, one on the internal for on the go, but this is kind of complicated and not really 'the apple way'. Is there any way to outsource the movies and podcasts to an external library or HD and leave the music on the MacBook? Thanks!
I frequently have more than one window open for a specific app. For example, I have my Thunderbird mail window, and then a new message is a separate window. When I command-tab through my apps (or use Expose to display all apps) it only shows the app, not the individual windows. If, for example, my new message ends up in the background, the only way I can get it back is to control-click on the Thunderbird dock icon and choose the window from the list. This is a pain when I'm working quickly and don't want to take my hands off the keyboard. Is there any way I can get all open windows to show with a keyboard shortcut, rather than just the actual apps?
Are there any applications I can use to periodically download new images from a Flickr tag search and update my desktop picture (preferably with support for multiple monitors)?
I just recently switched from Windows and *nix to OS X, and I miss being able to hit F6 to go straight to my Address Bar. What's the OS X equivalent?
So im trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro 13"....Managed to partition the HDD but for some reason whenever I click install, the Macbook restarts and I'm met with a black screen with white text that read something along the lines of "This is not a bootable device" or something like that. Now i should note that Windows is on a DVD-R, so i thought maybe the DVD-R was damaged so i created an .cdr image of the DVD-R via the disk utility and then changed the file name to .iso as stated on this website - http://www.ehow.com/how_2093946_create-disk-image-mac-osx.html.
Back in my Windows days, I used to fully format my PC once a year or so, to start fresh and get rid of some of the slowdowns. It helped.
iPad 2 has the same OS however a new dual core processor should allow a workaround this limitation and allow for app-switching by freezing whatever apps are inactive at the moment. I ask this question because this is generally how I work... A pdf/djvu file open Mp3 player running Blog being updated Browsing internet
I own a 2010 13" macbook, and I'd like to do a RAM update from 2gb to 4gb. Before I buy brand new 2x2gb ram, I'd like to make sure that my macbook has 2x1gb or 1x2gb ram slots. I mean, if both slots are used or if there's only 1 used. Is there a command line to have that information?
Is there an easy way to hide an application's dock icon? For example, I can't hide Iconfactory xScope dock icon. Most similar apps a preference settings to hide the dock icon, but I can't seem to find one in this app's preferences.
Whenever I turn on my Nokia bluetooth headphones they automatically connect to my Macbook. The problem is they always connect to the Mono (and not the Stereo) profile. So I have to disconnect and reconnect with the stereo profile. Is there anyway to either delete the mono profile or set the stereo profile as the default? Mac OS X 10.6 Nokia BH-905
Looking for something like wireshark - a nice UI for monitoring network traffic in and out of a development machine.
In numbers I have a table that contains some configuration values, I reference these in formulas but when I copy and paste the cells using the configuration values it breaks as it increments the cell position. How can I copy and paste the cells but maintain the reference to the configuration value? Thanks
How do I remove duplicate songs from my iTunes library? Is there an easier way than just ⌘ Command + Click every other song in the list?
I am trying to create an automator based workflow whereby I create archives of folders but exclude certain files from the final archive. I would also like to specify the files or folders to exclude (e.g. ".cvs" or ".git" or ".psd" etc). Here's how I have currently tried to do it, but cannot get step2 below working: I specify a folder to scan and archive.
In iPhoto '09 looking at a picture in an event, I could hit Esc to get back to the event. It appears that this no longer works in iPhoto '11. Is there a different keyboard shortcut that works?
Under the General section of a file's File Info, there is a checkbox for Stationery Pad and Locked. The Locked option is pretty straightforward, but what does Stationery Pad do?
I've got a non jailbroken iPhone 3GS (iOS 4.2.1) with a lot (hundreds) of text messages and MMS. A good number of theses MMS contain photos. Is there a way to save all this data at once on my computer (PC with Win7) without having to manually copy/paste each message content?
I'm pretty sure this is the best site for the this question, if not please feel free to point in a different direction, I am using the Mac version of Eclipse and I'm stumped as to what the Keyboard Shortcut for "Run as.." is. The image looks like this:
How to listen my local FM stations in my iphone 4? Like I can listen with my old Nokia phone, without using Internet, GPRS etc. Is iPhone 4 lacking this facility? I heard about "Pandora Radio" but it uses the Internet to run and it's also not for Indian FM channels. In my Nokia Express Music Mobile I can listen my local FM stations without any GPRS, Internet in mobile.
Is it worth buying a stylus (one that is precise and that can be used to draw circuits on the fly)? I was thinking of using it to program quick python scripts by VNC'ing into my desktop at home and using vim to edit.
I have a 3g phone jail broken. In order to delete data. i click on the option of Erase All Content and Settings.
Is it possible to use Nike+ with rollerblade skates? How?
I want to my iPhone to forget my apple Id ?
In the Keyboard preferences, I enabled the shortcuts that allow me to take a screenshot of the full screen, or of the part I select. Is there a way to select in which directory will the file be saved?
So I'm running out of space on my iPhone (iOS 4.3) and the quickest thing to do is delete the videos that are already backed up in iPhoto. How can I do this quickly? That is, without scanning through the 4000+ items in my Camera Roll and looking for the video icons. Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not looking to delete all the videos, just enough to free up some space.
I have a very expensive piece of software that began crashing after a recent system update, which presumably broke something. Unfortunately, the system logs the app throws aren't detailed enough for me to debug it myself.
Is there any way to sync my iPhoto photos with picasa? It would be great if it works in the same way that the facebook integration works.
I'm very new to OSX. I installed Ruby with HomeBrew, and the rubygems installer said that I should add a certain path (/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.2-p180/bin) to my PATH variable.
Is there any way to disable the "feature" wherby when I'm in one virtual desktop and something happens in a window in another virtual desktop, OS X automatically switches to it?
Are there any hand held devices, PDA , phones or pads that have a screen refresh rate of 120Hz.
Simple curiosity question. How does FaceTime and Push Notifications work on Wifi only devices? I mean does the WiFi stays always on to achieve a continuous connection to Apple's servers?
I have a 2010 Mac mini and I would like to output 5.1 surround sound from it. The optical audio out is the way to achieve this, but I don't want to have an audio receiver, 5 times bigger then the mini. I know there is the Logitech Z-5500 and the new Z906 that can do direct optical audio-in, but it seems to be the only option. Is there other speakers with optical-in or small/cheap adapter?
I've been working on transcribing a lecture series from audio to text files. There are just over 20 lectures, and each one is about an hour long. Using VLC Player, I'm able to slow down the speaker's words to a rate that I can keep up with. However, it's extremely slow going, and it takes so much concentration that I can barely get through a third of a lecture before I have to take an extended break. The thought had occurred to me that I would be better served by using some kind of speech recognition software, and then proofreading the computer-generated result. This is likely to be a one-time thing, so while I don't mind using commercial software to get the job done, it would be preferable if it wasn't too expensive (or free; free is always good). Command-line solutions are fine, too (: Any suggestions?
I'm encountering latency trouble with my 15" 2011 Macbook Pro (running 10.6.7) when on an 802.11n (5GHz) wireless network hosted by a Time Capsule (version 7.5.2). When I ping the Time Capsule, the ping numbers are all over the place, like so:
I have an iPad (first revision) and want to charge it using my Windows laptop. It doesn't want to charge and I've read quite a lot about it now (this one here amongst others via Google), but I haven't found a complete working answer.
After deleting and re-installing the apps, I can't use iWork. Specifically, the document area is always empty, no matter if I create a new document or open an existing one. This applies to Pages, Numbers and Keynotes.
So I guess I need to know what my options are here. Is it better for me to use SMB? Or is there a config file I can alter? I have a feeling this bug may be linked to certain disallowed characters in file or pathnames. Has anyone else experienced this bug? Cheers.
I am using an Aiport Extreme as my wireless router, and it has port forwarding set up but disabled for SSH: However, I keep seeing instances of ssh login attempts from outside -- someone is trying to access my computer using a series of user names. Moreover, I can still log in from outside my home network using SSH, so I know it's open to the world.
Question says it all. Is there some config to do this? Phone is not jailbroken.
I'm trying to partition my Macbook Air's SSD for dual-boot with Boot Camp (which I've done several times before)... however, it's not seeing 10GB free, yet I have 20.56GB free as per Finder, and Disk Utility sees 10.9GB unused space. What's going on? How can I force this to work? Can I use disk utility and image to an external drive and restore? Would vastly prefer an easier method of course
I'm looking for an app I can leave running and that shows me all necessary info at 1 glance without any need for interaction. Ideally, it should contain a clock good, concise news weather forecast list of my next appointments subjects of my unread emails Other people might also like rss feeds twitter feed
I'm interested for a code editor for my iPad. I've made a search on Apple Store for "HTML", and I've got a huge amount of results.. Can anyone recommend any of them?
I know that the remote works with units that have an IR sensor. The system profile has listings for hardware that both is and is not installed but, I don't see a listing for an IR unit.
I know of sites that sell 8GB sets for the MacBook. Apple states that they can have up to 4GB. One of my co-workers got her first gen MacBook to 6GB. Can anyone confirm that 8GB is recognized in last year's MacBook? EDIT: My model is MacBook7,1.
He unplugged the printer and plugged it back in. OS X (10.6) asked for the print administrator password. I would like to add the user to that group but not the full administrators group. How do I do that?
I bought my mother an iPad 2 as a gift for her birthday, hoping that it would enable my toddler son to do Facetime with his grandmother. I tried to walk her through the activation process (over email) by having her download iTunes to her Windows laptop, etc. She managed to do that much, but when the activation process asked her to create an Apple ID and give a credit card number, she refused to proceed.
I have an iPhone 4. Under Settings > General > Usage, there is a button to "Reset Statistics". After reading the manual, I'm not clear on one point: if I reset the statistics, will the entry under "Call Time: Lifetime" also be reset?
I'm preparing a document for Macintosh users. Currently the document is in .doc format.
I am looking for a good way to stop all apps in the background without manually stopping each of them individually. Something straight from the OS would be preferred, but I would not mind using a management app either.Some apps are taking a lot of battery and I would like to kill them with as few as possible steps in the evening.
I stuffed up (basically wiped) my PATH variable. Is there any way to reset it to the default?
Are there other localization issues I need to be aware of? The most obvious one, the keyboard, isn't present in this case. Are there any other other possible problems I might run into?
How to capture screenshot of entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser like I can take in my Desktop with Help of Firefox Addon called Fireshot?
By holding down option key while booting I can select which OS I want to boot into. This is a bit hit and miss for me, sometimes the option key is not recognised and it just boots into my default OS. Is there a way to boot into the OS select option everytime without pressing the option key ? Thanks
How can I get a tree view like the one below on OSX? To clarify, I'm mostly interested in the tree structure, not the extended information.
I use a VPN tunnel to connect to a remote network on Snow Leopard. I set it up with the system settings for VPN and it works fine. Unfortunately, the VPN tunnel is used for all connections. Some ports (like the one I use for IMAP) are not open in the remote network.
I'm going to try diffrent versions of MacOSX on my macbook pro. I have a Snow Leopard installed there, and need something else (possibly a Tiger) as second solution, to test the software. So I thought of a virtual machine that would be running on my Snow Leo and have a Tiger running on it. I tried VirtualBox, and install a MacOsX from there (from a .iso disk image), but it basically hangs during the very beginning of the instalation. Is there any good and easy to perform solution to do this?
My 18 month old son loves to interact with my iPad. I have explored some apps that I would think he would enjoy, but he finds it hard to resist the device's home button. (Perhaps because this is the most obvious way to interact with the device that always yields some kind of visible result.) He hits the home button almost compulsively. Are there any solutions to this problem?
Because when you connect it to Ubuntu, it sees iPod touch as a usb device and I think it allows to format it also. So, I wonder what would happen if I format my iPod Touch?
I'm tired of finder creating these .DS_Store metadata and finder view tracking files in all of my directories. How can I disable this in Finder?
I just wander whether it is possible to install Ubuntu in my iPod Touch 2G just for fun.
Since it appears to be impossible to disable the creation of .DS_Store files in Finder I'd like to know of alternatives to Finder. Ideally this would be a Community Wiki with one piece of software per answer and a description of the software with instructions for installing would be great.
I can use zoom function in firefox3 and safari,but when I update to firefox4,I find I can’t use the zoom function ,how can I fix this problem?
Inspired by Marco Ceppi's DS_store question I became curious about what is the current preferred mechanism for submitting bug reports and feature requests to Apple. I'm aware that they have the internal RDAR bug tracking system, and that there is an Open RDAR project to crowdsource the tracking of issues, but I'm at a loss as to the preferred channel to submit something. Is there a public-facing portal for submitting issues?
Can you help me to configure the Apple keyboard in Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection for Mac so it works correctly with the Portuguese keyboard layout when connecting to a Windows 7 computer? I want to configure it to work the same way that the Apple keyboard is configured when using Windows 7 through Boot Camp.
I found that Apple has the MFi program to help develop a hardware for iPad/iPhone/iPod, but it looks like that only a company can apply for this program. Can a hobbyist or an individual apply for this program to develop home brew iPad/iPhone/iPod connected devices?
I'm considering small widgets like QuickCal, Anxiety, DoBeDo, etc. Integration with Mail/iCal would be great. What's your favorite?
im trying to get DSL (Damn Small Linux) to work on the iphone version of bochs but i cant figure out how to configure the os.ini file, please help?
We just made a fresh install of Mac OSX Server 10.6.7, but the MySQL service doesn't seem to work, which is strange as its a fresh install! I open Server Admin, and under Services, the MySQL service has a grey circle. AFP, FTP and Web are all green. If I uncheck the MySQL box in Settings, it rechecks itself within a few seconds. Clicking on the MySQL service on the LHS yeilds: (that popup appears twice, then)
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or way to set one) that allows to easily switch between different email signatures in mail.app ?
I was just reading a webpage on my iPad and the screen went black and then the Apple logo came up and then the spinning loading wheel and it just went black... Nothing after that.
My car has an auxiliary input, which I connect my iPod to with a stereo patch cable. The problem is when I get out of my car I forget that the iPod is still playing and when I come back I'm not at the spot I left off. Is there an iPod car charger/adapter that will turn my iPod off when my car is turned off? It would be nice if it turned iPod back on when I started it up again, but that's not a must-have feature.
I am looking for an easy way to install spell-check dictionaries for languages that are not supported by default on OS X (one example Romanian). By easy way, I mean a solution that does not require command line usage. While this is ok for me, for average OS X user this could be too complex.
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard (A1255) paired to my iPad. Pressing the keyboard's eject button lets me hide or display the virtual keyboard. It makes sense to hide it with the external keyboard attached. Is there a way to turn the virtual keyboard back on, while the BT keyboard is still paired, but without having physical access to the BT keyboard? The reason I ask is because the keyboard can remain paired to the iPad throughout my whole house, so it's easy for the two to be physically separated by a few rooms or a floor but still paired.
Is there a way to make available more fields to sort by? Or do I need to resort to a Finder replacement? I realize that iTunes could do most, but not all, of what I want. (iTunes doesn't display some .mp3 metadata fields.)
To get internet in my school I have to use the schools http proxy server. So I configured my network preferences to use the proxy. But nearly no program seems to accept that configuration and use the proxy. In Firefox I can help myself with setting FF itself to a proxy connection. But what do I do with all my other programs? Why don't they use the proxy I already set up? I set the following proxy configuration:
/var/lock doesn't exist in OSX, so where do the lock files / PID files go?
I would be very grateful if someone with access to the new iPad2 could confirm whether the [Glossary] tab in the jsFiddle link here is truncated around the letter -G- or -H- or is being completely rendered, i.e. all the way to the letter -Y-. On the original iPad the content is getting truncated.
I recently picked up a Drobo for storage and light backup, and want to clear the 1TB Western Digital external drive I have off my desk. I would like to still use Time Machine, but possibly off a share from my Airport Extreme, so my wife can use it on her laptop too.
I bought a noise canceling headphone yesterday and it works perfectly. The only problem I have is that when I myself talk, I cannot hear my voice correctly. I'm wondered if it is possible to enable the microphone sound feedback in the audio output while the headphone is connected? I have a MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.6 installed.
for some rather strange reason my sharing preferences tab crashes (it's a long story and there seems to be no good solution for it, it's looking for a ui object that no longer exists). Anyway, I want to enable internet sharing to share my macbook's internet connection with my iPad but I can't find a way to do it without the gui or apple script (which basically calls the gui).
Is there an app that can tell me someone else's exact or general location by entering their phone number, no matter if they give permission or not? (Preferably not.) Or is there some other device, software, etc. that I can purchase? Something that is real and not just for entertainment purposes.
There are a number of ways I use my Dropbox with OS X apps, or iOS devices. Some of them include:
When my iPhone connects to Sync in my Ford truck it automatically starts playing music on my iPhone. This kills the battery. Autoplay on the Sync system is off.
My iPhone often restarts automatically. It happens when I charge for long time and sometimes, it happens when I'm talking on phone .
I can't find any detailed guide on how to setup a client OpenAFS on Mac OS X. I downloaded OpenAFS 1.5.78 from OpenAFS.org but I can't make it works. I read that a panel for the system preferences should be installed, but I don't see anything. My goal is not configure a server but just to connect to a cell as a client. Any help would be very welcome.
My iPad 2 has simply stopped syncing to iTunes. I can still sync my iPhone, but syncing iPad 2 has no effect at all. It creates a backup and then simply says that the sync is finished without doing any thing at all.
I make mobile optimized websites and I develop websites on my Windows 7 Desktop. Whenever I want to see any .html file on iphone to check compatibility I upload the file to an online FTP then I open the file from that url. But the whole thing takes so long each time. I've got XAMPP installed but no wifi on my desktop - just on the router. Is there any way to open on iPhone's Safari browser a .html file located at my PC's Desktop?
When I run Hulu Desktop (and certain other programs), they turn the menubar dark (and turn on auto-hide), but they don't put it back to normal when they are done. Is there a way of resetting the menubar to white (and turning off auto-hide) without having to log out and log back in?
My iPod shuffle Is just 7 months old and the earphones has a problem. The output sound is very low. I just now got my friends earphones and checked, the sound was loud and clear. What could be the problem. How can I rectify it?
I'm looking for something equivalent to SelfControl for the iPad. Is there anything like that?
When I'm working in a text document, I like to start typing at the top of the window or in the middle. I hate when the carat/cursor gets all the way to the bottom and there's no blank space left underneath where my typing will appear. It's especially annoying when I'm adding to the document by drag&drop of outside text - much easier when your target is half a page/screen, not a 5mm line.
I'm looking for a stand alone audio spectrum analyzer for OS X. The main requirement is that it can analyze the audio out (the current audio from any app) rather than microphone or line in. I'm a developer (although not a obj-c, c, c++ one) so if there are no apps that can do this a library could work too. thanks!
I've ordered a MacBook Pro (early 2011, 13-inch, 2.3 ghz), to replace my aging and breaking-down iMac G5. I'll need to run a FireWire cable from an audio interface (also on order, that has a 6-pin connector) to the FW 800 port on the MBP.
Running on Mac OS 10.6.7. Don't know of any changes that could of happened to make the keyboard shortcuts different. Tried Googling and found nothing helpful. Anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?
I am using FileVault to encrypt my home directory, and Time Machine for backups. This is a typical workflow:
Whenever I use the search-field on Outlook 2011 I get "No results". After installation it worked for a while, but now it's just quit on me...
When I go to search, it says, "Search iPhone" in the box. How do I change that to search Google?
I was reading a story about how some guy reverse engineered AirPort Express and can't get one thing: what's that AirPort Express in plain words? I understand that there's a device called "wireless access point" that connects to a wired network of the Internet provider (that might be Ethernet) and makes that wired network accessible to Wi-Fi or some other wireless protocol users.
I use VPN client that comes inbuilt with Snow Leopard OS to connect to VPN on the macbook. Mac OS uses “racoon” process internally to make any vpn connections work. This process starts when the machine boots up and runs in the background even if vpn is disconnected. Racoon won’t run in the background anymore when the vpn is disconnected. As a workaround, I have to start this manually each and every time and it works:
Hiya, I need to present some options on e-detailing on the tablet format. I'm quite keen to use iPads (as they still carry the "wow" factor imo) but I'm not ruling out Android tablets if that solution ends up being the best.
This may be a tad specific but it's one thing that irks me with OS X. In Photoshop, if I want to change a layer style from 'Normal' to say 'Overlay', I need to click the dropdown list and select 'Overlay'. If I then wanted to change this again, I can't just use the keyboard buttons to scroll up or down the list - I need to go in using the mouse again and it's a bit of a pain. Scrolling with the arrow keys works fine on other drop down lists like fonts etc. Any ideas?
I had an old instalation of MySQL but it wasn't working very well, so I Googled how to completley remove it and found this: *=URL=* and then did: And now I'm getting this on a new install:
Is there any way to make it so these connections re-establish once the VPN is back up? Occasionally my VPN hiccups and its annoying to close all my windows. I'm aware I could use screen but it doesn't really solve the problem as easily as it was working under Ubuntu.
I use Ubuntu and every time I need to transfer music to my iPod Touch I need to start VirtualBox where I have WindowsXP especially installed for this occasion. Is there any easier way to transfer/sync/delete musics in my iPod Touch right from Ubuntu? Thanks
Since I updated from iOS 4.0 to iOS 4.2.1 my iPod Touch consumes less memory but still would like to hear some more advices about how to reduce memory leak in my device? Usually I use Free Memory apps to free up some amount of memory, that is only thing I know. Note, my iOS it doesn't have multitasking features.
I'm following this How-to on installing MySQL on Snow Leopard but instead of using MySQL 5.1 I'm downloading the source for MySQL 5.5.11 so when I go into the source directory and run: I get:
i have installed mysql 5.5.11 and i'm running on Snow Leopard (10.6.7) when i create my rails application everything wokrs fine: rails fooTest -d mysql then cd fooTest then rake db:create and i get: Couldn't create database for {"reconnect"=>false, "encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"root", "adapter"=>"mysql", "database"=>"fooTest_development", "pool"=>5, "password"=>nil, "socket"=>"/tmp/mysql.sock"}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)
I've looked around but can't seem to find any good answers. Would appreciate any pointers.
I have lost my original source itunes library music and files. However, I do have backup copies of everything on an external disk, I copied the original files and organization structure of the old library to an external disk. (we'll call this external disk 1)
I'm considering purchasing a PDF annotation app for the iPad; mostly something that allows me to highlight, add handwritten and typed notes, comments, etc. I have three closely-related questions: Does anybody know of a recent review of PDF annotation tools for the iPad / iPad 2? Alternatively, does anybody have/know of a list of pros-and-cons of the different PDF annotation tools for the iPad?
I have an iPad named aiPad, and a Mac named prosseek. With 'ping prosseek.local', I can find the Mac, but with "ping aipad.local", I can't find the iPad. What might be wrong with my iPad bonjour? What kind of tools/methods can I use to debug this problem?
Lately, I've seen a few Mac computers that can a) see the wireless network, b) "connect" to the wireless network, and c) receive a valid IP address, yet when a web browser is launched it's stuck in an eternal loading loop, or when the ping utility is used, it returns with a connection timeout. I've solved these problems in the past by making a new network location, but recently that alone hasn't seemed to fix it immediately. I'll make a new location being sure to hit 'Apply', even going so far as to restart the computer, but none of these things seem to work as I expect them to. Internet connectivity will "magically" return a ways into troubleshooting, and I wish I had a more concrete explanation as to why. Could anyone elaborate on these situations?
I'm using this script: *=URL=* to install imagemagick and it's dependencies i have a few errors the first run for some missing files or borken links but now i have all this solved.... but when it's installing the libpng, i think, the scrip stops and trow this error: ln: ./libtool: File exists i don't know what to do, seems like the first run it created some symlink somewhere and not it found this symlink and stops the script. thanks.
I've recently been reading about new peripherals for the Mac (such as this). I'm very attached to using an external display, but since the DisplayPort is now combined with Thunderbolt, how is it expected that we use an external display and a device?
I have to unzip a bunch of files in a bunch of different folders. So I select one file to unzip, then move onto the next file. But as I set a bunch of files to unzip, they start to complete and start popping up new windows! Pretty soon my screen is covered with new windows popping up constantly and it becomes a pain to navigate, whether it's to select new files to unzip or do something else.
When installing certain software, usually anything printer related, I receive this error This began after I erased some printer folders that I thought I wasn't using anymore. I'll get about 30 error messages in a row, all with different paths, but all the same message talking about kext files. I tried fixing permissions with the Mac boot disc, but it didn't seem to help. I usually just click through all the errors and nothing seems to be affected. Any ideas how to fix this permanently?
I like to 'listen' to YouTube video in the background while I am surfing on my desktop. However, I cannot do this on the iPad as, as soon as I switch from YouTube video to the browser, the video pauses. Is there a solution for this either in the form of an app or a website?
Is there a way to watch Divx movies I usually watch with QuickTime or VLC player on my mac, on Apple TV ? If I buy Apple TV I would like to watch movies I downloaded from third parties, and not only I bought through iTunes. Does it work ? thanks
My iPhone's calendar, configured by me to start week Sundays, suddenly started starting week Mondays. I cannot find the setting to configure this any more. I found when I switch the phone's region settings from Irish (I am in Ireland) to US, the weeks start Sunday again, but then PM times are shown as 4:06 (rather than 16:06). What can I do to have my weeks shown properly and the time in 24 hours and remain in my local region?
Is there a way to tell Finder to not peek inside or generate thumbnails for files based on a particular network share or folder? I've got a tape archival system which presents an SMB (Windows) network share to clients. Clients can see all the files and folders that have been put on the network share, and the data gets transparently archived to tape in the background leaving a small 'stub' file on disk. When a read request on a file is issued by a client, the tape system recalls the file from tape and sends it back to the client. The upshot is I get a large amount of cheap high-latency storage, but with a very simple network share interface.
I'm looking for "the best" SVN GUI/manager for Mac OS, allowing things like line by line comparison, merging, branching, ... I tried Versions for a few days but now I found that Cornerstone might be a good alternative (better ?). I was wondering if anyone would have some feedback on these two apps (or on others ...).
My most common search pattern is to search for files based on their name. When I try this in Spotlight (cmd-space) it rarely works. Is there a way to make Spotlight search for file names, and to place those results on top?
Is there any iPhone app that allows me to transfer music to another iPhone by shaking the iPhone nearby?
I have ordered an iPad 2. I was wondering if I could protect applications that I don't want my 7-year old to muck about in. It's stuff like Mail, Things, Evernote, and perhaps some games not suited for a small child. I'm OK with paying for it if there are good third party solutions but it should be able to protect any app.
Does anyone know of any free resources available to people studying for the ACSP exam? I'm a student technician at my university's computer clinic, and unfortunately the school's IT department does not have resources available to me for preparing for the exam. Note: I'm aware that there is an app for iOS devices that has sample questions, but I'm specifically looking for literature.
I am used to doing this in Windows with FireFox or IE by pressing Ctrl + F5. Is there a way to do this for Safari on a Mac?
Are there certain formatting requirements or minimum resolution requirements for a video to play in an iPad? I had presumed that any video that would play in an iPhone would also play in an iPad.
I'm filling out a PDF form that doesn't work with Preview so I have to use Adobe Reader (ugh). After I fill out the form, I want to print it to PDF so that it is finalized.
I have MacOs 10.6.6 and a Western Digital external 2.5'' HDD USB 3.0 pre-formatted to NTFS. I try to format the drive do HSF+ with DiskUtility program, but it says: Error: -9944: File system formatter failed I think I've tried almost all combinations; I tried to set up 1 or 2 partitions with different sizes; journaled or not, but nothing works. I don't care about the data; I just need the drive to be HFS.
I would like to set the TCP congestion control algorithm to Westwood+. Is this possible in OS X?
Okay, there's a lot of smart Mac guys here, so lets see if any of you can figure out this stumper. Our Xserve G4 (RackMac1,1) went incommunicado a few years ago was left in this state until I pulled it out yesterday. I started my mission with a triple PRAM zap, and like clockwork it decided to boot perfectly into Mac OS X Tiger Server.
I'm mostly a Java developer and have been developing on Linux for the past 5 years. I'm pretty happy with Linux but time to time I need to run proprietary software that is not supported on Linux so I've decided to give Mac a try. I was wondering if anyone has any advice like how do you organize your development environment.
MY power settings are for "NEVER" when it comes to sleeping with AC power. AC power is always on. So why always when I come to the Mac after hours of being away, it awakes from sleep, loads up all the programs, signs back into skype etc. Where is the hidden setting that causes it to do that? It only does it at home, another MBP I have at work doesn't exhibit this strange behavior.
I'm going put SSD drive instead of DVD and move OS-X to SSD. Big capacity HDD I'm gonig leave to have some place for large multimedia data and archives. So I whant keep HHD in spindle off mode most time and mount it just on demand, what should I do to prevent HDD to be mounted and powered while system boot (after restart) and how to manage spindle with the command line? Thank you!
There is a nice designed product: Twelve South BookArc. You can save some space and increase wow-factor of your workspace a bit. But is it safe for HDD to operate a Macbook when it is not parallel to the Earth surface?
How can I make multiple files show their extension at once? Any finder setting and/or terminal command would be nice.
I would love to send mails in my apple mail scheduled! What is the most comfortable way to do that? only method i found: *=URL=* (but this is quite tricky + buggy)
It's official. I love to hate Emacs on Mac OS X. No matter what I do, I get a thorn in side.
I ended AT&T service with my iPhone, but would still like for it to be useful. When the service was ended, Things was in the process of being updated, and I deleted it from my iPhone (not iTunes) in the hope of restoring it. I've tried a few things, but while Things is still visible in iTunes, it hasn't shown up in my iPhone. Is there any way that I can restore Things from iTunes to my iPhone?
I just bought a new MBP and I copied the iPhoto '10 library of my old iMac to the Pictures folder of my MBP. Then I opened iPhoto '11, it said that it has to update the library. To that point it was just fine and I have my compete library in iPhoto '11 on the MBP. Then I tried to import the iPhoto '11 library in Aperture and that's my problem: Apertures says it can only import libraries from iPhoto of version 7.x or newer.
I know how to have the connection established at login, but I don't know if it's possible that the Finder doesn't open a window of the server root... I've tried the "Hide" checkbox, but this doesn't help. (I'm on Snow Leopard)
I would like to download the keynote speech on *=URL=* so that when Apple remove the video later, I can still watch it later... but there seems to be no easy way, except if I buy the Pro version of QuickTime? some meta file shows these addresses, but the first one will save as a 1k file to show the second address, and the second one can't be saved because it is rstp:// not *=URL=* *=URL=* rtsp://a2047.v1414b.c1414.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1414/1_h264_1000/1a1a1ae757c733980368e14fbe3297c529980f7de958b91d4bac1778e546afdd40af1c4b7cb0e115/1103pijnpfvrbfvijbavojh_1_hd.mov Someone mentioned using Ubuntu Linux's Movie player to download it but it seems there is no save option?
When I view pdf file with Preview, I can use wheel click mouse to scroll one page up/down. How can I do the same thing with trackpad? Using two finger scroll gives me two much scroll. I need to scroll up/down only one pdf page with trackpad.
In the recent developer preview(2) of Mac OS X Lion, Safari no longer displays Tab Bar when put into the Full Screen mode. You have to move the pointer to the top to see the Tab Bar, which is very annoying for people who mostly work with keyboard.
I use Apple Bluetooth keyboard with iPad. It works well, but the control key doesn't work with remote access program such as iSSH, Remoter VNC, LogMeIn and Remoter VNC. In order to use control key with those apps, I have to touch the 'Control' key on screen then hit the keyboard. Is there any way that I can use bluetooth control key with those remote access apps? From http://groups.google.com/group/issh/browse_thread/thread/8b91ce601edb2283/3ed3f672964f1ae5?lnk=gst&q=bluetooth+control#3ed3f672964f1ae5
I would like my Mac to play a sound when certain email arrives. For example if the subject contains "xyz", play "mycustomsound.mp3". Any easy way to do this?
A handy tip I discovered by accident. Highlight any file in an Open/Save window, press the space bar and voila! there is your file in all it's glory.
In the "Add Printer" dialog Windows section, there are no printers showing up, even though there are several in the office.  I think this might be because my Mac is not "logged onto" the Windows domain where the printers live, but I can't be certain. What are some common debugging steps to diagnose why a Mac computer on a Windows network can't browse to a Windows printer?
I'm a web developer, and use a specific IDE for all of my work. It does everything I need it to do, so please don't suggest a host of other IDEs. The only issue I have with it is that there is no keyboard shortcut for printing. It drives me up a wall to have to use the menus for this. I'm new to Mac - is there a program or utility like AutoHotKeys that would let me create keyboard shortcuts that work inside of apps?
I have set the wallpaper to change every hour and have enabled it to cycle them in a random order. Sometimes the background image changes to an image that was set just few rounds ago and I'd like to rechange it to something else.
Now Spotify is useless I've shifted Grooveshark, however there's a distinct lack of being able to use the media controls at the top of the keyboard to control it. Is there an extension or (non-web)app to enable this? Grooveshark responds to space, ctrl+arrow, for play and skip to next/prev track, but only when focused. I'd like to remap these to the media controls, and if possible not have to have focus on Chrome and the grooveshark tab.
If I turn off spaces on my MacBook, or reduce the number of spaces, will that improve graphics performances? EDIT: I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard on a MacBook 7,1 with 2GB of memory
I have two external hard drives, WD 320GB and a WD 1TB. I would like to backup my WD 320GB on a regular basis. Please could you inform me of a good application which could provide these needs: Backup compression (not just copy and pasting the files) Support for FAT-32 Possibly scheduling The external hard drives are in a FAT-32 format because they are sometimes used on a windows computer. I have used Get Backup and it doesn't seem to work, as it has an error about copying files with the same name but different extensions Thanks
The imputes for doing this comes from my using my svn repository to store and manage my homework and handouts for class, and also for answering questions about work projects in meetings. So, I'm looking for a relatively easy way to access these documents in a pinch if need be.
I installed OSX on an 128gb SSD in a 2.3Ghz Core i7 MBP 2011 and i want to move the SSD instead to a 2.2Ghz Core i7 MBP 2011, all of the hardware is pretty much the same other than the different CPU. Will this work WITHOUT re-installing OSX on the destination machine ?
I have a Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 with 3.5GB of ram running 10.5.8 The system feels so slow though.. :( Taking in mind that this was a beast back then, which would be the best OS X version I could install on it, in order to make it breathe again?
This issue has been going on and off for years. I still don't consistently get the new mail sound when new mail arrives. Sometimes it happens, most of the time, never. 10.6.7
I've been troubleshooting this problem for two years and it keeps coming back. Our Mac users authenticate to our Active Directory server which is running Windows Server 2008 Standard. One of the Mac users in particular has had a recurring problem where she can't log on and causes her AD account to lock before the maximum log-in attempts has been reached. The problem started again this week and yesterday I reconfigured her networking and Active Directory settings. This morning I logged on to her computer using her ID and password and had no problems. When she tried it twenty minutes later, her account was locked. All Macs have Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and they all have the same network and AD settings, but this particular Mac continues to have a problem. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Kent
"Software Update" seems to take a long time. What's it doing? Utilities -> Activity Monitor yields: CPU usage low ( 1% - 2% ) by the "Software Update" process. + network traffic inbound, [picture of Network activity after starting "Software Update"] [Network activity after ~30 seconds to ~90 seconds] [Network activity after ~90 seconds]
Is there any app that allows the user to zoom out and see multiple pages of the same PDF simultaneously? (for example by zooming out the PDF).
I have a few Macbooks that will be added to our Windows 2003 domain controller. Since these are mobile units, concerns arose of how long they (the machines) will maintain login rights after their last contact with the domain.
How come? I don't believe that wmv is so good, that it can be several times smaller than other video formats.
In Xcode 3 I could click a button in the top-right corner of the code editor to switch between header and implementation (.c or .m) files. Now in Xcode 4 there is no button like this around the editor. This would be even more useful now than it was with Xcode 3, because I'd like to click a class in the Symbol view to pull up the relevant .h file, then click a button or keyboard shortcut and get to the .m file.
I've just read with pleasure, and learned a lot from these questions : OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks OS X Hidden features and nice tips & tricks OS X Applications you can't live without But I didn't find in these some of my favorites tools, which I use on a daily basis, and I think that's because these are OSX/Terminal intended tools, not fitting well in above questions. My favorites are, by order of preference: oh-my-zsh, homebrew (but also macports), janus... These tools having in common : Terminal: install and use OSX Intended: brew is, git is not!
Sometimes my hard drive gets low on space, and various things don't work properly until I empty the Trash and free up some space. I know there are applications that empty the Trash after a set interval—but what I want is an app or script (or other means) to empty the Trash whenever there's e.g. less than 2GB of free space on a given hard drive.
I'm trying to use my Samsung HMX-H100N digital camcorder, and I'm having difficulty with the files. When recording in 1080i/60, the video is badly interlaced (yes, I know it's an interlaced format, but it's painful to watch and it isn't on the camera), and video recorded in 720p/60 is displayed in a much wider format than the 16:9 it was recorded in.
I bought the Spark Radio app through iTunes and apparently it was downloaded, but I don't see the app on the iPad. How can I get the app I purchased to appear on teh iPad?
I need to buy a MacBook for iPhone development, but I have budget constraints also. I saw on Apple UK website that they are offering refurbished laptop(s). So is it OK to buy a MacBook (refurbished) by Apple? Here is one of the link of refurbished MacBook Pro.
All my iOS related downloads (firmware updates and app downloads) are incredibly slow in iTunes. Right now, a single 70 MB app is an estimated 3 hours download making the transfer rate lousy 52 Kbit/s on an 8 MBit/s ADSL. When I download my .ipsw firmware updates (400 - 600 MB) in a browser from a direct download link (appldnld.apple.com) the transfer rate is normal though.
On windows, when you right click then you have option to create files. I want to do that too on Mac, how can I do that without terminal?
I have installed the win7 on macbook white (via boot camp), and now I am not getting the dual boot screen at the start up, instead windows is starting by default :( How I can fix this issue? Have I done something wrong when I was installing win 7? Thanks
I am looking at options for a 2nd hard drive (SSD is primary) for my 15" MBP 2011, i initially was going with a 750gb 5400rpm drive but i'm thinking about either of the following 7200rpm drives. 1) Western Digital Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT 2) Seagate Momentus ST9750420AS I will be running lots of Virtual Machines so i'm thinking the faster drive would be a better fit. Are there any concerns with noise/vibration/battery drain with either of these faster drives ?
So assuming that I'm in a playlist I'd like to be able to type a keyboard shortcut and then have my music library display on the main panel and then tab to the search bar and look for a song.
I try to install mac os cause I didn't know what I was doing when I installed Ubuntu... I want mac os back but everytime i insert the install dvd and hold option or c all i get is a blinking folder looking back at me. What do I do?
Can any one tell me what a white screen on an imac means? There is also a folder with a question mark flashing in the center of the screen. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
I just got a new 2nd-generation iPod Touch 16GB. I believe I had a 2nd gen iPod Touch 8GB before.. but back when I did if I played a song, the album art would show up for that song on my locked screen. However this new iPod Touch doesn't do that (it just shows the default wallpaper I chose) and I can't seem to find the settings I need for it. Not looking for a jail-breaking solution by the way. Thanks.
All of the web shortcuts on my desktop look the same. Any reason they can't be using the site icon (favicon) the same way the browsers do? Is there a way to do it in OSX 10.6?
I am a software developer and I'm considering getting a 15" MBP as my development machine. I would mostly use that laptop to code with Java and I probably won't be playing much on it, so having the 6750M video card is not that relevant (although it would be nice to have, of course). Would you still consider the 2.2GHz model just for the CPU speed or it is not worth the difference price by itself?
I recently bought am older Mac (Mac G5 with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger). I have a PC keyboard and when I tried the keyboard shortcuts for text editing such as copy, paste, cut, select-all I realized they don't work.
I'm looking to upgrade my 15'' 2011 MBP from 4 GB to 8 GB. The memory upgrade on the Apple Store is 200$, apparently it can be done for ~100 $ quite easily. I've seen this 2x8GB kit from Crucial: Crucial 2x4GB memory kit.
I jailbroke my iPhone4 and want to display and alter the route table on my iPhone. There is a route command, but I don't know the parameters needs to display/alter the route table.
I have a lot of documents I would like to scan to produce PDFs. Some of them are single-page, others are multi-pages.
My iPhone will not connect to my wireless router, even when I put the password in. How do I troubleshoot this problem?
When I hear a song playing in iTunes DJ or some other kind of playlist, I'd sometimes like to see which album it is from or even see which other albums I have by that particular artist. How can I do this? The only option it gives is 'show in finder' EDIT: Meaning to navigate directly to the track in the main music library EDIT: not sure how I really clarify this much more but here goes:
Why hasn't the XNU kernel been extensively used despite the open source licence offered by Apple? Is it because of specific licensing issues? Or because Linux is technologically much better for reuse ? Or is it a market with one winner, Linux?
One of the dependencies of libusb-devel is curl. However, installing curl seems to fail. During the configuration of curl, an error message is shown and the installation quits. I'm referred to the log, where this is the relevant part for the error:
I have two Macs in our house (iMac and MacBook Pro). I would like to use the say command-line utility to type something on my MBP and have it speak on the iMac, rather like an intercom system. Plus, it could be hilarious to send messages to my wife while she is using the iMac. Can this be done?
I started playing a video added from iTunes and about 10 minutes in the video stopped and the Videos app closed. Whenever I go back to the Videos app, it is a blank dark screen that won't respond to any input.
When I start a session programming on my macbook pro, I have a bunch of apps I'd like open and ready: DevNull smtp java server (run from terminal with java -jar DevNull.jar) Terminal shell in the tomcat/bin directory with startup.sh;tail -f ../logs/catalina.out running after rm -rf work and test webapp directories IntelliJ running after tomcat loads (fine with just having a timer), Firefox with my webapp loaded after tomcat loads, Chrome with my webapp loaded ForkLift TextMate Couple of Finder windows open in particular directories Those are pretty core... then it depends on what exactly I'm working on as far as other apps I need open.
I want to remove the need of connecting my Time Machine USB disk directly to my MacBook. I don't need any other functionality which Apple Time Capsule offers. Is it possible to use my router with a connected USB disk (already working with Time Machine) and installed OpenWRT as network Time Capsule? Is it possible to use my router with a connected USB disk (already working with Time Machine) and installed OpenWRT as network Time Capsule? Can I use a Samba share as Time Capsule disk? Can I use a Samba share as Time Capsule disk?
I've heard that thunderbolt can be used as a displayport. That make me wonder if I can use two external monitors with mini displayport and thunderbolt to displayport or hdmi.
At home, my iphone has a strong signal to Verizon's 3G network and my home WiFi network. In the interest of battery life, which connection will iphone use if it has access to both networks? Also, given strong connections to both networks, what's the best way to optimize for battery life?
I want to buy a 27 inch iMac, but the monitor cannot be re-used... it cannot be hooked up to any KVM (Keyboard / Video / Mouse) switch to be used with a PC too... Also, 3, 4 years down the road, I know the iMac will become slow and probably need to buy another computer. At that time, what am I going to do with the monitor? Apple is saying they save the "microwatt" between your typing, but what about wasting a good monitor like that?
Title says all. My friend told me that I need to disconnect the power cord when the battery is fully charged. Otherwise, I will shorten the life of the battery.
I recently did a complete wipe of my late 2009 MBP and restore using a Time Machine backup, so I would have uninterupted space at the end of the drive for creating a Boot Camp partition. The Boot Camp tool runs fine now, so I insert my Windows 7 DVD when it tells me to, reboot the computer, it appears to start running off the DVD… but then I just see a black, blank screen. I left it in that condition for over half an hour with no changes. There shouldn't be anything else weird with my system.
Why isn't my MacBook running 64 bit mode? It's a mid-2010 model, "MacBook 7,1" , with a Core-2 Duo. why would it run in 32-bit mode? Could it be because I've only got 2GB of RAM?
I was using Preview to annotate a screenshot for a question on Apple.StackExchange.com and I saved it. For some reason, it only saved my annotation. I must've spaced out and accidentally pressed something, but what might that something be?
iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.1 Push notifications are working, when WiFi is turned off and device uses 3G, but when WiFi is on I can't receive any notifications.
At which date will MAC OS X Lion be released? And if I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard, can I upgrade to Lion for free?
I'm developing a mobile website and am using an iPhone for testing it. One of the .jpgs used was faulty and displayed as a black rectangle in the iPhone's Safari browser. The code was then changed and there is now a .png image instead. For some reason even after clearing Safaris cache that image is still black, and I need a new phone that has never visited the website before in order to display it correctly. Why is that happening and how can I fix it?
I want to use 'dvdbackup' tool in my Mac OS X, however its specification is too simple. I would like to know how to back up my whole DVD, can anyone give my some example or advice step by step?
What is the best way to use Gtalk on iphone?
How can I block specific telephone numbers on my iPhone? I don't want to get call from specific numbers. if anyone call to me from the blocked number, he should receive a message that "this number does not exist" or "this number is busy" always.
Is there an easy way (in Preview or whatever) to scale up and split a PDF file with a single page into multiple pages? What I would like is to split say an A3 paper document into two A4 pages, to print separately and then put together with tape. How can I do such a thing in OS X?
A feature of Windows 7 that I really like that it can decrease the volume of system sounds/music by 50%/80%/mute entirely when it senses communication activity, ie. Skype call, Google Voice call, etc. Is it possible to do this in OS X either out of the box or with a third party app?
If I use a generic/aftermarket iPhone USB cable instead of the official Apple product, can it damage the iPhone? A vendor at the mall said that high quality iPhone USB cables have a chip that regulates the charging current so it won't damage the device. He said the cheaper cables don't have that capability. Doesn't sound very credible, so I wanted to double check.
My girlfriend's new MacBook Pro will sometimes seem not to wake up from sleep. No amount of spacebar hits, enters, clicks, etc. seem to awake the computer. She's resorted to hard restarting the computer which is obviously not ideal. It seems to happen regardless of its state as it goes to sleep (closed lid, idle). Anyone else hear of this or have any ideas?
I run commands in terminal a lot and i'm wondering if it is possible to run the commands from spotlight. For example in spotlight would like to run the command(because i have a lot of network issues):
I have an Ubuntu PC (IP: 132.195.2.2) set up which should be connecting through a switch to my iMac (IP: 132.195.2.1) in order to gain internet access. The iMac has "share internet connection" turned on. I've added the iMac's IP in the gateway, DNS and search domain field in the configuration for the eth0 on the Ubuntu PC. I also added the iMac's IP as proxy for all services. They can ping each other PC/Mac, but the only thing my Ubuntu PC gets when calling any URL is my addressbook server web admin page. Any idea what I've done wrong or how to set this up the right way?
Can any one please let me know how to create new user and new db in MySQL? How to use mysqladmin in Mac OS X?
Just wondering are there any apps specifically for AppleTV on Cydia. I have jailbroken my AppleTV 2 and am looking to install XBMC to get 1080p playback, as well as a browser. Are there any other apps out there? Please let me know.
In Mail.app, what does Synchronize actually do? How is it different than "Get New Mail?"
ON a current project, and really need help. Re-install would be a painful option right now. Running OS X 10.5.8 and just downloaded and reinstalled compbo update.
As the title suggests, My Mac will not receive an address via DHCP from a certain network. No matter if it's connected via WiFi or ethernet, it always fails. Even when I boot into Windows 7 there's no luck (so it's not the OS). All the other computers, older MacBooks, and iPod/Phones work great on the network. Take it to a different network and it works flawlessly.
When I go to start Safari on Windows 7 64-bit, I get an error dialog box: I deleted the Apple Application Support and the Apple Software Update. I refuse to have these two pieces installed. I do not need any program giving me support or auto updates. Safari works just fine without them in XP. Any way around this?
I would like to order photo prints off of iphoto through phanfare because I like their quality of prints better than iphoto/kodak. Is there a way to do this?
I recently reinstalled Windows 7 and I just didn't bother about iTunes (anymore). Now I luckily found a way to transfer all my apps "back" to iTunes (see here), but now when I don't want to keep downloading the updates with my phone, but instead in iTunes, the sync activation leads to one being forced to overwrite the iPhone data. Three questions:
I need a program to remote control my (new) Apple TV from my macbook. I know I can control it from my iPhone using Remote. Does exists a similar software for mac osx? I want to be able to watch youtube videos in Apple TV, and make searches in youtube using my macbook keyboard.
Is that possible to upload some videos from my macbook (itunes library) to apple tv? This way, I can watch that movies without use my macbook or any kind of streaming.
What are some alternatives to iTunes for managing music on a mac? It should uspport flac files.
I use an mp3 tagger to fix my mp3 tags, and the tagger is set to move my tagged mp3s to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. Then, iTunes usually copies the tracks to iTunes and organizes the folders accordingly. For some reason, its not working on three albums. I can't see anything unique about these albums, but iTunes is adding it to my library, and leaving it in the folder. Then it seems to repeat this process every so often until I have a number of duplicate entries of the same song, all pointing to the same location. I've got it working properly before and after adding these tracks, just not for these specific 3 albums. Any thoughts? I will post a screenshot as soon as my reputation allows ;)
I am running a Mac Pro as a kind of server for an application, everything is automated and I am usually using Remote desktop. Now I have the need to update the Mac version and just realized that the graphics card might be broken as I have tried two different screens without success and in the system profiler the graphics card information is just blank. In which log files can I check that the graphic card is not found during startup. What would be the procedure to replace the graphic card as I could imagine version problems...
Are there any good/easy solutions for using TimeMachine over the network? I am currently unplugging the backup drive from the desktop to backup laptops but would like to do this wirelessly instead if possible.
I'm on mac osx. 1. Is there any tool to compress a folder into multiple zip files ?
Is it on MacOS possible to get notified by eMail if the space on a disk gets low.
I was looking for a way to add more "gestures" for my mbp (to accesss spaces for example) and I read about BetterTouchTool which seems to work quite well. I was just wondering if there's any other tool like that one, and if another is more recommended.
I am looking for Diary App for my MacBook (Leopard) and MacBookPro (Snow Leopard) One of the famous Diary App is Chronories (link), but I need something else (if it's free, it would be good)
A friend of mine bought an iPhone 3g with a sim card in another country. Some months ago he gave me this iPhone, but he forgot to give me the sim too, so I've jailbreaked it leaving the sim-lock, that is I don't use this iphone for the phone calls. So now I have a jailbreaked iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1 and I would to pass to iOS 4.2
My device iPhone 3G shown " "No SIM Card installed" 'insert a valid SIM With no PIN lock to activate iPhone' " It is in Emergency mode so please give me a solution if there is..? It comes when i am tried to Updating the ios From 4.1 to 4.2. i am in india and i got it from USA. i didnt have any USA sim.. so please tell me what i do? Thank you.
How to send an email from command line or script? I want to be able to run the script programmatically by passing the receiver and the message.
On OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), I don't seem to be able to us the "Cut" command on a file in the Finder, like you can do in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows. (In Windows, once you select a file and "cut" it, you can then move to a different directory and "paste" the file to that location.) The only way I can move a file using keyboard or contextual menu commands is to copy the file to another drive or location and then delete the old version of the file.
My iPhone 3G is showing No SIM Card installed Insert a valid SIM With no PIN lock to activate iPhone It is in Emergency mode so please give me a solution if there is..? It happened when I am tried to update the from iOS 4.1 to 4.2.
I am using an Apple iPad. I have a number of programs that need Adobe Flash v10. Two of the programs have to do with my husband's business, accounting and load tracking. He is a trucker, I am his "bookkeeper".
I sometimes shut down my Mac, and I cannot wait it shuts down because I am urgently requested to do something in another office that would require some hours. In some cases, an application that opens a dialog box asking if I really want to close the application blocks the shut down, and when I return I find the Mac still on. Is there a way to force the Mac to close any applications, instead of blocking the shut down?
I just wiped my MacBook Pro clean as part of my yearly reinstall habit. The problem is, now when I connect my iPad or iPhone, there is no really trivial way to sync my PDFs and ePubs back with the clean MBP. If I sync Books, it will overwrite my iPad and I'll be left without said PDFs/ebooks. I have all of them backed up, that's not the problem. I was just wondering if there's a way to do a two way sync, meaning take the pdfs/epubs I have on my ipad then sync them with the MBP. Or is this going to require me manually putting back all of my content sourcing from the MBP first?
Numbers in my phone are stored in the following formats All calls from the USA show the proper entry from the Addressbook regardless of the format that the number is stored in my address book.
Suddenly my MBP shows an "Other..."-Account on the login screen. I searched for a solution to get rid of it and found a couple of answers that say I have somehow activated/enabled the root user. All I did was using a couple of trivial sudo-commands at the command-line, but nothing experimental or which I am unfamiliar with... The suggested solutions said I need to deactivate the root user in the Directory Utilities but it was not activated. Are there any other solutions to get rid of this "Other..."-Account?
Always on USB ports will provide power to a device even when the laptop is shut down. Obviously this can be problematic for battery issues, but sometimes a user wants this capability all things considered. Do the Macbook Pro offer this on any of the USB ports and if not is there any chance its wired and just has to be enabled?
How do you access apple.stackexchange.com from your iOS devices? What apps do you use and what is good/bad about them?
I have a macbook pro. And like all macs, there is never enough ports. I've been searching and searching to find a USB hub that power 3 external USB hard drives. Any advice?
I am a the tech support guy for a small church. we just purchased Microsoft office 2011 for mac. we have noticed it drastically slows our imac (not sure on the specs atm) when one of the office products is running. has anyone else noticed this or is it something on just our machine
Is there currently a way to view flash content on an iPad besides VNCing to a desktop computer? Currently you can connect a VNC client to a desktop computer to view flash content, but I am looking for alternative methods above and beyond that. Is there any other ways to use Flash (and/or play Facebook games) on the iPad besides the VNC based method?
Just thought I would add the problem descibed with triggers is known with b58 and now with the latest b59. So if b59 is not even on blacktree's site and only on qsapp.com (as someone posted), meaning brand new I guess the next hope is b60. Who knows when that may be available though.
I currently have an airport express as my router. I've configured it to look to an external dns server. on the inside of my network my machines are told to look to the airport express for dns.
Is there any way to get the dock to use "intellihide" (this is a carry over from various docks in the linux world). Basically that means that the dock is always visible if no windows are in its space, but if a window gets too close, the dock reverts to autohide type behavior. I can only find "autohide" and always visible. I would prefer something as I described.
I tried MobileMe a while back but never subscribed. I have since used the same Apple ID to enable Find My iPhone and this works fine. I log in at me.com and get redirected to me.com/find. However, no matter what I try there doesn't seem to be a way to reactivate a paid-for MobileMe account. Am I missing something?
GNU Screen's default meta-key is Ctrl-a, which is really inconvenient for me because I frequently use Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the line. I'd prefer to change this to Cmd-a instead. I know this can be changed in my .screenrc file, but how do I encode the Cmd key?
I have a white 2007 MacBook with a 2.0 GhZ intel Core 2Duo processor with a 80GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm. Recently my hard drive crashed so I got a new 500Gb Western Digital AV-25 WD5000BUDT 500GB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal AV Hard Drive. I registered the hard drive and tried installing the hard drive into my machine. When I try to partition using the disk utility it gives a " Failed to partition ,I/O read/write error". Interestingly for some reason the disk utility tool says that the hard drive is 3.6TB when it is actually a 500Gb hdd. Has anyone ever faced this kind of problem and if yes what is the solution? Alternatively should I go for a Hitachi hard drive?
I'm installing a MacBookPro via DVD which I booted from. Do I use Disk Utility to format the HD which has an OLD OS X, with users info on it that I don't want, so it WON'T upgrade and retain user data, and instead would actually install a fresh copy with NOTHING inherited?
What factors are important when selecting an external hard drive for time machine backups?
Sophos detected a trojan which it cannot remove on Mac OS 10.4 and it says to remove it manually. Problem is, it gives the file name as xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx where the x's are hex digits. No directory path, no nothin—just the digits. How do I find and delete this file?
I am interested in learning chess better, and my past experience with chess programs is that if there are multiple difficulty levels, they go very quickly to "I can usually beat this" to "Cut to the chase and resign." I haven't been able to find a rough area I can beat 30-70% of the time, get a little better, knock the difficulty up a notch, and win 20-60% of the time. (And then bump things up when I can beat the new level 30-70% of the time.)
I'm suddenly not able to preview files in column view, or select them in the Open File dialog. Selecting the file gives me a spinning beach ball, and eventually I end up relaunching the Finder. I've confirmed that .jpg, .pdf, and .app files all do this, so I'm assuming it's an issue with previewing the files. Has anyone experienced this, or have any suggestions on resolving it? I'm running a G5 PPC Mac with OS X 10.4.11 Thanks for the help.
I'm quite inexperienced with OS X, despite being a fairly competent Windows techie, so I definitely need some help with this ancient family computer. It's an old Mac Mini, has a lot of photos, music, etc., but it's gotten so unbelievably slow over the years that my gut is telling me a complete wipe would be the smartest solution. I have a terabyte-sized FAT32 partition on this USB external hard drive, and what I want to do is back up the entire disk so I can wipe the drive and install (preferably) a more recent edition of OS X. Disk space isn't an issue; all I need is that files can be plucked from the backup later as necessary without restoring the entire thing. The last time I tried to make a backup with just the command line it managed to start recursively copying the backup into itself, so I really am hopeless doing this alone. Can anyone help me out?
I tried to make a partition on my macbook for windows. I was unable to do so, because, apparently, the hard-drive has been damaged. Since I do not have osx installation cd, I tried to recover using 1) disk utility and 2) from command line (exiting the desktop, at boot).
I'm facing a problem with Office 2011 for MAC, for example, when you open WORD 2011, and key in some Arabic letters, each word will appear as discrete letters not connected as one single word as it should be !! Arabic language pack is installed on the machine and works perfectly with many other apps and browsers. what should be done to get rid of this annoying problem ? thanx in advance.
In some site offers and forces me to install Configuration Profiles on my iOS device. iOS will warn me it'll change something important but the site is talking nothing will be changed. Of course I can't trust the site. Because it feels something like ActiveX on IE, and the site is lying.
Yesterday I tried to change my OS X default theme so I installed many themes one of them was Aqua Extreme. Non of them give me what I was looking for as a result I revert pack to default theme using ThemePark program but icons in the main menu lost its shadow. Is it possible to return pack to default theme settings? Thanks
When the cleaning man has been by my desk then my computer wakes up from sleep. How can I make it insensitive to mouse movements?
I have a jailbroken iPhone (3Gs, iOS 4.0.1, bb 5.13.04). I want to get jailbroken & unlocked 4.3.1 , but I cannot do it in other way than restoring from custom pwned firmware, so all my saves and app data will be erased. How can I back up all my app data and games saves to restore them after firmware upgrade? Thanks in advance.
Is there such an iphone app which gives me multiple filters to apply to a photo and save it to photo library camera roll (syncs to iPhoto later). It appears the photos are stored inside the Instagram app only when they get uploaded to the Instragram servers. I read the description of Hipstamatic on iTunes but I'm hesitant to buy it as it doesn't seem to have the option I want.
I'm a VMware guy, running a dozen of ESXi ... and i'm also a mac user and I've had it with launching VMware Fusion to boot my Win7 to work on vSphere client... Am I missing something? Sys Admins and Solution Architects are using Linux/Mac more and more ... Is there anyway that i can do that without having to rely on rdesktop and other unreliable workarounds?
Quicksilver has hundreds of different web searches available, but I only want to use a few of them. I can manually deselect the ones I don't want by navigating to
What are the disadvantages of jailbreaking the iPhone 4 even if it's legal? I'm interested in disadvantages in any and all terms, but especially about the warranty, future updates of iOS, and bricking? Will I have to jailbreak after each iOS update?
Is there a way to compare my iTunes library with the iTunes Store's library, so I can find what songs I'm missing by a particular artist? Ideally, I would be able to compare the Store and my Library by Song Title, Artist or Album name.
I just need to see the signal strength of WiFi stations I have around my house. It would be better to have it (signal strength) in a percentage format, because there some apps that show strength in some other difficult format.
I have an older Mac Pro with two DVI outputs. I have access to an Apple Display that has a Mini DisplayPort connector, which I'd like to use as a second monitor. Is there an adapter out there that will let me plug in this Apple Display to my Mac Pro? Basically, I'm looking for an adapter with a female Mini DisplayPort connector and a male DVI connector, which is the reverse of this adapter that Apple sells.
I am looking to buy an iPhone 4 from the secondary market. I currently have an iPhone 3GS. Can I just replace the sim on the new iphone with my current sim? Or is there something else that I need to do?
In Mac/Unix since there is no control panel, I could be installing same dmg again and again. I would never get repair option.
I'm looking for a good, compact MP3 player that can also double as a pedometer (or at least as a part thereof). I wouldn't hesitate to buy a nano 6g if not for some of its 'features' that I'd rather avoid (expensive proprietary PC cable, iTunes required, and the general creepiness of a closed-source OS). However, looking at the competition, I haven't been able to find a single item that would impress me anywhere near nano 6g. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Due to this whole cloud thing, we've started to end up with more and more macs within our enterprise network. And, like most enterprises, we've got an internal wireless network that we'd rather not distribute the password to. Currently we've got techs visiting people and entering their wifi keys, but we'd like to be able to send folks a file they can import. Is there some tool natively in OSX that handles this? Or some 3rd party package we can use? If you are familiar with Lenovo Access Connections and the key files one can send about for that, we are looking for a macbook version of that. Clairifications:
I am getting really annoyed by the number of ads that I get in Pandora and am considering shelling out $36 for the paid version. Are there other streaming music iPhone apps that I can review before I make a purchase? This will be used in USA.
I'm thinking of migrating to bootcamp (from Parallels for speed), but need encryption. Apple has said Lion will have "whole disk" 128-bit encryption - any guesses on whether this includes bootcamp partitions?
3rd-party AirPlay-enabled AV-receivers are starting to hit the market (Pioneer, Denon, Marantz), but as far as I can tell, they can stream AirPlay audio only. Apple's page for AirPlay seems to imply the same thing. The only Apple pages that mention video streaming are the AppleTV page and the iOS 4.3 Update page, which don't make any mention of 3rd-party products. This question mentions that other iOS devices and Macs can be enabled to receive AirPlay video streams through 3rd-party apps.
In Windows, it's easy to grab a bunch of files up to a size limit. Just keep selecting and look at the bottom of explorer where you can see the 'selected files combined size'
I've been installing some applications and some things are not working properly. I want to reset my MBP to factory settings. How do I do a clean installation so I can start from scratch?
Through the CLI, I would like to select the flurry screen saver set to activate in 15 minutes and show the clock.
What kind of support does OSX have for JPEG XR (also known as HD Photo)? I know that there is a Photoshop plugin for it, but are there any other forms of support such as an image preview or other editors that can read/write the format?
What is it? (I know, oh so subjective.)
I just installed windows 7 using bootcamp. I then connected an external keyboard and mouse. I understand that I need to change settings in order to use right click on the trackpad. My problem is that my external mouse's right click does not even work. How do I enable right click on my external mouse? Thanks!
I just got MacBook Pro 2011 and installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp. I am a Windows user who need to develop iOS apps. Is it possible to install Mac OS VM on Windows that is installed using Boot Camp?
When using Safari from iPhone/iPad I can scroll back to the top of the page in one touch by touching the upper bar of the device. Is there any similar trick for scrolling to the bottom of the page? Is there any way of scrolling down fast?
I currently have a 20-inch Early 2008 iMac (iMac8,1), with the iMac display and an external LG display. The graphics chip is an ATI Radeon HD 2400, which, as far as I can tell from the specs, only supports two monitors. Short of getting a new computer (which appears as if it would support three monitors), what are my options for getting a third display to work?
I'll do the upgrade from ios 4.1 jailbreaked (on an iphone 3g with a foreign locked sim) without updating the baseband. My baseband is 05.14.02 (bootloader 5.9). So I should to obtain an iphone 3g ios 4.2.1 jailbreaked with the 05.14.02 baseband (I'm not interested to use it for phone calls). I would to know what I have to save before the upgrade to revert to the original state (ios 4.1 jailbreaked) in case of failure.
I got a iPad (1) and no mbp or windows for itunes so I hooked it up to another persons mac to get the latest updates for it. It was all good for a while till the battery died the other day. After I charged it I was not able to open any apps except the ones that came pre installed. not being able to play plants vs zombies any more makes me :( how to fix please
Can i track my friend's iphone with the help of any app on iphone? Is it really possible? He always tells a lie about location. I tried many apps on App Store but they all are fake.
I have videos on the iPad that can be played back by VLC. But the only output I get when connected to the TV is sound, no video. Is there any way to get them to play through the HDMI using VLC, or alternatively move them to Cinemax without connecting to a PC and iTunes
If you have an older version of Tcl / Tk Aqua, you'll benefit from upgrading. There have been many usability improvements since the version that comes shipped with MacOS X Leopard.
I would like to know if it possible to share an user profile if you have both 10.6 and 10.7 installed on the same machine (different partitions). So far my experience was not a good one but maybe I did something wrong. I am interested mostly in sharing iTunes library, Outlook 2011 database and other user setting.
When clicking something on the Mac screen, the cursor will a) take up residence as directed, If I click again, it will b) select the whole word, If I click again, it will c) select the whole passage.
What are some good resources about running a small office (25 or so computers) with Mac computers only (though perhaps with a Windows or Linux/Unix file server)? In other words, what information and options are available that would help understand how to standardize and maintain a number of Mac clients in an office?
I have a 2007 iMac 24inch, and I’m starting to notice the display is giving out (very opaque lines across a section of the screen, which sometimes do not appear. It is the display though, as I confirmed this at the Apple store), and my warranty has expired (162 days past). The cost of a replacement is $500+, which would be insured up to two years if Apple replaced it. I just don’t see the benefit, as the monitor is just starting to show this, and I’m not really sure how much more time I will get from the current display.
Can I copy the PDFs I have on my Mac to the iPad ? I want to download them from example from Google Scholar with the Mac (or iPad) and then read them on the iPad.
Pretty much self-explanatory... I just have a bunch of utilities (LaunchBar, DeliBar, Tags, etc...) that I never need to tab to and so are just in the way.
I have an iTunes library on my WinXP PC. This library includes tons of music, some podcasts, and a few T.V. shows. What's the best way to back up the whole iTunes library? Specifically: All music, album art, podcasts and videos preserved and recoverable All album art preserved and recoverable All playlists preserved and recoverable All settings, such as compilations and volume adjustments, preserved and recoverable Catalog can be restored on Win and Mac iTunes installations It would be awesome if there were a way to do incremental backups instead of having to do the whole process every few months.
Obviously other than muting the computer. I just want to create a screenshot without having that "camera sound" come out. Is there a way to disable this sound?
My MacBook battery failed a few months back. For a few weeks, my computer would go to sleep a few seconds after removing the power cord. (It could be awoken by re-attaching the power cord, and it would be in the same state as I had left it.) After a few weeks, it would shut down instantly after removing the power cord.
It happens to me that, sometimes, the MobileMe synchronization starts when it should not, when Mac OS X is busy doing something time-consuming. In such cases, I try to stop the synchronization using its menu extra, but for some reasons the synchronization doesn't stop. Is there a way to stop it from Terminal?
I've got a gutted Mac Pro G3 tower which I'm thinking of building a machine into. What form factor should the motherboard be and what are some good starting points for parts?
I want to find out the IP address of my iPhone Hotspot connection. I can enable it, and connect to it with a laptop, etc - but I want the IP address so I can telnet to the iPhone (I've set up the socket server software on the iPhone). Any ideas?
My iPhone 4 running on 4.2.1 and I was wondering if I could restore the phone to the same firmware by dowloading the original firmware and holding SHIFT in iTunes and clicking restore???
Does a docking station exist for MacBook Pros that let you dock it and keep the book open, so you can still use the keyboard, trackpad and monitor plus let you have an auxiliary monitor connected. I am debating ordering a Thinkpad with dock vs. a MacBook Pro but the user I am ordering it for loves her two monitors and was using a Win XP desktop. We are going to switch her to a mobile machine but the "docking" solution is very appealing and manually hooking up a second monitor all the time is not that appealing.
When I click on the Facebook bookmark I saved to my home screen, m.facebook.com appears in Safari but the navigation bar at the bottom and the URL bar at the disappear. At first I thought I was launching the Facebook app by mistake but I verified that's not the case. Any idea why this happens?
So there is no "good" way of seeing all my purchased items in iTunes (only the very cubersome "purchase history" screen). Is there, however, a way to download all my purchases to the computer? e.g. when I install iTunes on a new computer?
How long should replacing all white spaces with commas take in my 46MB text file using a simple text editor such as textmate on my Mac?
I want to add a path to the PATH environment variable? I have tried with export PATH=/mypath:$PATH and it works. But the next time I start the Terminal, my new path is not int the PATH environment variable any more.
So..I bought my first macbook pro few days ago, but found I don't need a laptop. I figured out that I can buy used mac mini + windows laptop for my developer environment. is it possible to install snow leopard on a 2006 mac mini?
I'm using Windows 7 on VMware Fusion. In the hard disk settings of the virtual machine I've set Disk Size to 65GB, I've selected pre-allocate the space and applied.
I am using ClamXav for protecting my Mac from Antivirus. But I don't think that it protects from Malware, Spyware, or Trojans. So, what are free (or paid :( ) options available for above mentioned threats. If comparison is available, with suggestions for choosing right product, then it would be like icing on cake.
Can I charge a fourth generation iPod touch with Samsung Galaxy Tab's charger?
I would like to make more use of the terminal. Is there a command I can use that could list for me all the available command of the Mac OS? I am using Snow Leopard.
I have downloaded groovy-binary-1.7.10.zip, unzipped @ /Users/sarbbottam/SW Developments/groovy-1.7.10 and navigated to /Users/sarbbottam/SW Developments/groovy-1.7.10/bin. I tried to execute ./groovysh; however, I got the below error. Do you have any suggestion?
I would prefer a good and free solution for reading epub books on OS X. It looks that by default OS X is not able to open epub books.
A thing that I like with Windows 7 is that I can have the gadgets (widgets) open and visible all the time, e.g. a small RSS reader in the corner of the desktop.
What is the font that's used in Mac OS X's graphical user interface (GUI), in the menus, dialog boxes, etc.? Is it different from what was used in the classic Mac OS (i.e. OS 9 or older)? If so, what are the fonts back then? I like the font but never knew what it was. Thanks.
When I download an item, I would like the modified date to be the date the item was downloaded. Is this possible somehow?
There's no wget command. How do I get it?
The title pretty much says it all, I need to know because I want to install new software that has these two versions, and I need to know which one to install.
I've been told that it's possible to use an AT&T (GSM) iPad in Europe by buying a microSIM card and a chunk of service from a local carrier, and swapping the card into the iPad while in that region. Q: Has anyone actually done this? I've also been told that visitors may not be able to buy the cards because of residency requirements or something. Just trying to get some real data...
I'm not entirely sure why this has started happening since this is completely new behaviour and I haven't done any system updates but I have a nice little toolbar app for my Snow Leopard Finder.app that opens the existing folder/or files in TextMate. It used to simply bring up TextMate with the chosen content but since today it instead gives me a prompt asking me to run or quit the script. Here is what the popup looks like: Now… this app/script isn't new, I trust the script and I don't want this popup everytime I use it. So 2 questions: How do I disable this annoying prompt? Why am I all of a sudden getting it when yesterday everything was working fine? Any insight would be much appreciated. For reference the script in question is this one: OpenInTextMate However the MateDot.app script I was using also is doing the same thing. Thanks for reading. Jannis
Is there anyway to config my Mac to don't scape characters when I copy and paste some text on the console? Could anybody help me? It is driving me crazy to erase all \ characters inserted after a simple copy and paste on the console. Many thanks, Thiago
Where do terminated incomplete downloads go when using firefox?
i have a URL like this for example: *=URL=* and i want to bring that into itunes and then onto my ipod touch. what is the best way for going about this?
um...i don't know what happened.. I just opened lid to wake up my mac then it freezed. I re-booted it and now i'm seeing "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" i'm using intel 320 ssd 120gb.
I'm trying to customize Textmate's keybindings. I edited 'KeyBindings.dict' in Content/Resources/ and then restarted textmate. It does not work. Is three an easy way to customize keybindings?
Is it possible via Automator, an app, applescript, etc. to automatically press a key (i.e. "g") every 60 seconds?
My MacBook 2,16 GHz (13" white with the max. 3 GB RAM from about 2007) feels quite slow. I read somewhere that upgrading and keeping old user profiles can slow the Mac down my current user profile in OS 10.6.5 is based on that from 10.4 (which might be even based on 10.3 or so...) So would it make sense to "start fresh"? What Preferences might I miss after a clean install or would it be enough to start with an empty new profile? May I get problems with permissions?
I want to access my web application on iPad for local testing (*=URL=* But here is the problem; I am having a local copy on my Windows machine with a Weblogic server running and the app server requires a VPN connection Is there any way by which I can access *=URL=* on the iPad , and given that my local machine would be connected to VPN.
As the title says, is it possible to upload iPhone apps to iPhone on an expired dev certificate? Do we need to extend our dev certificate once it's expired and pay another 99$?
I have a MacBook 2,16 GHz with 3 GB RAM (white from 2007) and I wonder how much free space should there be on the start volume. I have a 100 GB partition for OS X (10.6.5) and a separate data partition of 300 GB (however the user directory is on the system partition). free space on the start volume: 30 GB after booting 22..25 GB after one day of use goes down to about 22 GB after several days of use (I usually reboot, when it reaches 22 GB). (there is also about 30 GB free on the data partition). => Could that be a performance problem or is that enough free space? I have some large databases open in DevonThink Pro, mostly many pdf files open in Skim, Safari seems to need quite some RAM and there are some non-native apps (TexMakerX and JabRef) which also get quite slow sometimes.
I have installed scala 2.8 using macports. I have setup the SCALA_HOME env variable and I have added the bin directory to my path. If I type scala-2.8 into my terminal I get the scala interpreter.
Is there any way to batch convert .jpg files into single .pdf files?
My home network is cable via a Motorola modem to a Netgear router. MBP is connecting via WiFi to the network.
Sometimes I'd like to have "tungsten" (2700 K) colors during the day or morning, which would require fiddling with the location coordinates in f.lux. Sadly, there's no "manual mode" that I'm aware of.
The command works on Linux but not on OS X. This is because OS X command line options have to come before the arguments,and not just anywhere as in Linux. In particular, this means that any shell scripts I write on Linux will be unportable to Macs. Question How can I fix this on the Mac?
I don't want to use my trackpad too much due to a strain injury, hence I use the Control F2 "Move Focus to Menu Bar" a lot. However this feature only works occasionally, it can work for hours and then suddenly stop working, sometimes I can fix in the Keyboard Shortcuts pref pane by unchecking and checking the "Move Focus to Menu Bar" checkbox, at other times it takes a restart of the system.
I currently have an AirPort Express (Newest N version) that is connected to my AirPort Extreme Base Station via ethernet. I have no other use for it (printer, wifi extender, etc.) other than it being a conduit for my MacBook Pro's iTunes library to be streamed to my stereo and controlled by my iPhone, my wife's iPhone or any guests with iOS devices.
Can two users share a Mac remotely? What software would be used? I'm wondering if this is a viable idea for two developers to share a Mac for app development.
My budget is around 1800. I already bought 13'' macbook pro 2011 from microcenter for 1093 (including tax). This was my first macbook and I'm impressed, but only downsize of it is that 13'' seems a little bit small for me. Since I have been using 15.4 windows laptop for 6 years now, I have to decide.
I have an old MacBook 1.1 and since I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 it does not seem to connect to my external Monitor or TV. I'm using the Mini-DVI to VGA adapter. I've tried using detect displays and made sure the monitor is outputting through VGA.
How can i get a message report that tells me that an email i sent has been received and opened?
Woke up this morning any my 250GB, which had approx. 50% free space last night, was totally out of disk space! Took me all day, but finally found a file in /private/var/audit/ called "20110423020458.crash_recovery" that is 126.61GBytes!
I'm trying to install a quite old Fortran code requiring xorg and OpenMotif libraries. Here is part of the install script where the code is checking for these libraries: Ok, I know this is in Italian, and I can't even translate it properly as I speak French... But I hope I can give an idea about the libraries dependencies.
I purchased applications from multiple iTunes store accounts, and when I sync with iTunes they are removed from the device. What do I do in this situation?
Apparently Apple enabled multitasking gestures on the iPad in a 4.3 beta but later removed them... However those that managed to get them have maintained them through future updates (at least up to 4.3.2). This site *=URL=* describes a way to re-enable them if you do a collection of steps and buy an app but that seems a bit drastic for basic functionality. Are there any other free options to re-enable this feature?
Is there a way to theme Mail.app in Snow Leopard to look like iPads Mail application? Maybe with a Thunderbird skin or something else?
Is there a database program for the Mac that makes it easy to import a CSV file into a table and then query and manipulate the data using ad-hoc SQL queries? (A Windows example of a similar product would be Microsoft Access ... it also has forms and reports, which are not as important, but I would not mind a Mac solution that has those too.)
Compared to the iPad, the Touch's orientation lock is quite clunky. Oh well, I say. I only use it twice a day, on at 10pm and off at 7am—the time I spend in bed with the little gadget. But it gets clunky, like I said, and it'd be nice to realize that it's nighttime and I'm likely in bed, drinking water and trying to sleep, and turn on orientation lock. Is it possible?
I have broken my desk clock and am trying to use my square nano to show me time instead. The problem is that when I set the screen to show time and leave it for some time the screen dims and eventually shuts off after which I have to get the screen back again by going to the menu.
I shared a folder of pictures on my OSX 10.6 MacBook with my wife, who accesses it from her 10.5 MacBook. I created an account for her and gave her read/write permissions on the folder (via the Get Info). However, when Image Capture dumps new images into the folder, they aren't readable or writeable by her. I have to click 'Apply To Enclosed Items' for her to get access to them.
I need to flip the screen of Mac X 10.4 either vertically or horizontally. I should emphasis that I do not want to rotate 180 degree I want to have mirrored output. Is there any way of driving a Mac's display as a mirror image (and not simply rotated)?
I'm trying to make myself a little script that I can run on the fly that gathers all my open windows onto the main display. I think a good starting place would be to be able to trigger Gather Windows (as seen in System Preferences-> Displays) by a shell script, AppleScript, or Automator action. Can anyone either tell me how to do the above, or point me at a utility that will let me bind a key to do gather windows (freeware preferred)?
i am trying to restore 4.3.1 custom firmware made by sn0wbrzee with expert mode. at the last moment of restore itunes shows 1015 error. so i try to reboot, but iphone not rebooted. at last I jailbrak with redsnow and iphone rebotted and i see my firmware was 4.3.1 with bb 6.15.00, but after 10 mints it sleep forever.
Before Leopard, hitting the Spacebar would take you to the bottom file in List view -- but that now initiates QuickLook. As far as I know there has never been a keyboard shortcut to go to the top of the list. Or am I just ignorant?
I restarted my ipad becasue cannot access to my email accounts, went off showing a no stop wheel and connect to my computer a message comes "unknown error QxE8000065
I have suddenly lost the Wi-Fi on my iPad. Me and my friend have a Wi-Fi account with AT&T and his iPad Wi-Fi is working just fine. Why not mine?
For 5 hours it only charge 10% . How could I solve this problem.
I have an iMac for day to day use, with LaCie backup, and a MacBook Pro for use on the road, also with LaCie backup, and a mobile phone, too, of course. I do not care much for the mobile phone I have (a 2 year old Motorola model), so I am thinking about swapping it for an iPhone.
I'm running an OS X Server with the following services turned on: Web, MySQL, DNS, AFP, Firewall. I'd like to also start FTP, and I did this, but I can't seem to make it work properly. I'm sure there is a way, but I can't find a way to make it work for me. What I've done so far: - activated the FTP service - opened port 20-21 in the Firewall - forwarded ports 20-21 from the router to the Server
On the last week I powered off the iPod at least once per day, but today I noticed that in the multitasking tray there were applications I have not used in the past weeks. Are those applications running, or the tray simply list them because I used them? If those applications are really running, is there a way to stop the iPod from running the same applications that were running before I powered it off?
The cluttered desktops of our computers at home (Macs and PCs) made me think about a better workflow to deal with new files (self created or downloaded from the internet). My question is: Which workflow do you use to keep your desktop uncluttered and your file system tidy? I have a hierarchical folder structure for the data of my personal "projects" and for some general things like e. g. finance, photos, etc., but there are lots of incoming files which do not seem to fit in any of the existing categories and therefore clutter the desktop. I tried to create an "Inbox" directory, which removed clutter from the desktop but on the other hand only moved the problem to another place.
I am looking for a way to change the permission of multiple files using the GUI. I tried to select all the files and hit show info in the right click context menu, but this opens multiple dialogs where I have to enter my admin password and then change the permission. Is there an easier way to accomplish this task?
How to record phone conversation in iPhone 4?
Is there any app to copy Ctrl+C any text from Desktop (Windows) and paste Ctrl+V in iphone at anywhere; at editor, address bar in safai and wheneever we have keyboard on and we can paste?
I have a flaky keyboard which sometimes translates a single keystroke into several, and while I hope to repair it soon, I am wondering if there is a software solution which would help for the time being. For example, it could notice that a single key is being repeated too fast for a human to produce and filter out the bogus key events. Does such a program exist?
There are many suggestions on the internet on how to use cue/bin files on a Mac. Is there a native way of mounting cue or bin files and seeing them as Volumes in Finder? Alternatively, are there any tools—in the vain of Daemon Tools on a Windows machine—that provide this functionality? I would very much like avoid converting the files I have.
I just found out that cron has been deprecated in Mac OS X. Why is this, and will it eventually be completely removed from future releases?
Now I know that most if not all software dev platforms are for Mac, but can I use a VM to test Win capability? And are there any cost relating the dev tools for Mac that integrate tightly with the OS? Can I play games on this (e.g Civ 5, Hitman & others)? I'm considering a MacBook Pro with i5 (i7s are way too expensive on the mac).
I am thinking about using iPads with headrest mounts to allow my toddlers to watch videos while we drive. I'd really like to be able to control the iPad from the front seat if at all possible, so that we don't have to get into the back seat and do things like slide to unlock, press play/pause, adjust the volume, etc. Are there any devices that could be used to remotely control the iPad from the front seat in this fashion?
I have a number of folders and filtering rules on my various e-mail accounts (Gmail, personal email, company email, etc). The problem is that the Mail app only checks for e-mail on the "received messages" folder.
(FYI, I'm using Snow Leopard.) I used to launch Firefox using spotlight by just typing "Firefox" to locate it. Since I didn't launch Firefox often, I didn't want it in my dock, so I just got in that habit.
I have an iMac and a MacBook running Snow Leopard. I used to connect from my MacBook to my iMac regularly with screen sharing. Has worked great for over a year.
I've just jailbroken my iPhone (3Gs, 5.13.04, iOS 4.3.2, Pwnage Tool 4.3.2). Now I'm experiencing troubles with WiFi, so I can't do an unlock. I have an AirPort Express router, it works well with other devices, the iPhone does have connection with the router (in the Settings -> Wifi menu there is a checkmark in front of my network) but there is no indication of WiFi connection and none of my applications see this connection. How can I solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Simple question: I'd like to disable the A2DP profile for either (a) specific devices paired with the iPhone or (b) the profile entirely from the phone. How can I disabled the A2DP profiles? There used to be a program called Bluetooth Profile Selector for jailbroken iPhones. However, it stopped working after 4.3.1.
I have a nice new iPhone 4. I can use it for my work calendar, but not my work email. The reason why is because I work for a medical company and email is very protected. I have heard that the encryption that comes with the iPhone 3GS is laughable for real enterprise use.
iPhone and iPod Touch aside, I've always considered manual brightness and auto brightness to be mutually exclusive settings. Intuitively, auto brightness means exactly that - the device figures it out. Why is the iOS auto brightness setting implemented relative to the manual brightness setting rather than absolute? In other words, why is manual brightness even an option when auto brightness is selected?
When I sync my iPhone 4 with my iTunes, the latter starts to make a backup before doing the actual sync. This backup often takes a lot of time to make, which is very annoying. What is even worse (imo) is that the backup is stored on my C-partition (where my WinXP Pro sp3 is installed and running). I consider a backup being data, and I wish to store data in a different location than the one used for my operating system.
I bought an external hard drive, plugged it into the USB port of my Airport Extreme base station, turned on Time Machine, set it to use that drive for backup. It's backing up 350Gigs of data and it's literally taking days to work its way through.
I have a factory unlocked, not yet jailbroken iphone 3g. I am running ios 4.2.1 and firmware 5.15.04. My problem is that the edge connection keeps getting turned off randomly (rather frequently) and I need to keep toggling the airplane mode to get it back to work. I already tried resetting network settings, resetting all settings, restoring to factory settings and creating a new profile. None of it seems to work. Other iPhone users on Airtel (a carrier in India) are not having this problem. Please let me know if anything could be done?
I'm getting this error while trying to start the mysql server any suggestions?
I want to create a service to copy the URL and subsequently download it via wget. How would I go about creating an OSX service to wget arbitrary urls from a browser or system wide. I believe it'd be possible with Automator's Run Shell Script action. I had it set up to use my default shell (bash) and run the command found at /opt/local/wget but for some reason I'm not getting it to pass along the url.
The title pretty much says it all. Using the File Inspector I can see if a given file is locked or not, but I would like to be able to create a smart folder containing all the files in a given folder that are not locked. (I need this as a convenience to quickly find the files I have checked out for editing on another machine which I am accessing through a shared folder)
Weird thing has started happening, basiaclly when your lid is closed and the battery dies, normally your MacBook should "hibernate" itself, yet what started happening on mine is that it completely shuts down. After restarting, the WiFi password is forgotten and date/time are resetted to detaults (year 2000). Can it be that the PRAM battery already died on a Mid 2010 MBP i7? Best Regards, Oskar
How can I check if the battery calibration has been done properly? I followed Apple's steps precisely, but I see no change in the loadCycles, or battery capacity using CoconutBattery.
I have entered my name with a typo when I first started my MacBook Pro. Now whenever I open iChat or whenever I send an E-Mail the typo is still there. Where do I change the name? I have change the name in System Preferences / Accounts as well as the Profiles for Mail and iChat, but the typo still shows up. Is there a configuration file I can edit directly?
My MacBook Pro's VPN disconnects two minutes after it connects. I change the account and I had no luck with it, Any ideas?
I am looking for an app that is able to search a string in every fields of my contacts on the iPhone (same as in outlook).
I'm using my Mac to connect to an Active Directory drive. When I was running on Leopard, it worked fine : I could open, modify and save files from the remote drive. Last week I upgraded my computer to Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and since that, I'm having problems : I still can connect to the remove drives, I can open files, but when I want to save them I get the following error : "The document mydoc.txt could not be saved." But if I do Save as and save the document under the very same name, then, it's working !
Push notifications for any app are no longer working with my home WiFi network. I'm running an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.2. I tried 5223 port forwarding and even disabled my router's firewall.
I'm looking for a program that will let you make the mouse pointer jump from one monitor to the center of the other monitor with a keyboard shortcut or a gesture. Does this exist? Moving the pointer across the monitors sometimes feels like more trouble than it should be.
I use Wireshark and it runs under X11 environment I want take some screenshot from wireshark windows but cmd + shift + 3 or cmd + shift + 4 or ... didn't work there is there any way that I could take some screen shot in X11 environment?
my caps lock key doesn't work. I changed the keyboard and it also doesn't work with the new one. Now, every other key works fine, and if I go to pref pane> keyboard and replace caps lock with say option key, then it lights it up, so I know that's not broken. This is an old macbook pro, 15 inch, 2ghz, but with Leopard worked fine and now it doesn't. Has anyone come across something similar?
I have a specific mail setup on my mac where I use Mail.app to access my Gmail via IMAP, and the app filters emails into folders ("On my mac" as opposed to in Gmail itself) for my different projects, school, etc. The problem is that whenever Mail.app moves an email into a folder (out of the main Inbox), it gets put in the Gmail Archive (All Mail), and then is no longer accessible via my iPhone - i.e. when I search for it, it's not there. Is there a way to make emails in folders available on iPhone/iPad, preferably actually synced with the device so you have the real folders from Mail.app available?
This is on OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard). Let's say I activated Expose (All Windows), and I see my windows in a certain arragement. Then I activate Spaces. The spaces I was in sometimes shows the windows in a different arrangement from what I saw with Expose alone. Use case: I want to move an obscured window from one Space to another. The current behavior makes this more difficult to locate the window I had my eye on. I'd like to always have the same arrangement in both Expose-alone and Expose-plus-Spaces. UPDATE: I noticed that the z-order of windows in the Space affects whether the issue occurs; that makes it even more annoying.
You know how when you disconnect from a VPN, you get a little scrolling "Disconnecting..." notification in the upper right notification area?  Well, I'm getting that, but it never goes away. It's been "Disconnecting" now for 20 minutes. The VPN is not, actually, connected anymore, but the UI won't let me reconnect now. The Network preferences panel shows the same problem:
There is a simple way to include the original picture's file of a iPhoto slideshow? I create a slideshow with iPhoto, select Share and iDvd. Now I have the slideshow on iDvd and I can burn or export in VIDEO_TS or .IMG. What is the best way to have the burned dvd video with the original picture's file inside too?
The screen on my daughter's iMac went partially bad and so I just bought her an interim Mac (basically the same model that she had before). I'm in the process of trying to do the migration from the old one to the new one. Her old computer was running 10.6.6 and the newer one is running Tiger. I thought that it would be a good idea to update the new one to Snow Leopard before starting the migration. When I set up the new computer I accidentally gave it a different short name than the old one has. Will I be able to migrate the files if the short name is different? If not, is there any easy way to change it one the new computer There is nothing else on there now.
I love my iPhone and it changed the way I deal with email. However there is an annoyance: It seems that the iPhone mail app cannot deal with meeting invitations in .ics format (e.g. sent by Lotus Notes).
I am shelling into my Mac (ssh) and get logged in with the wrong userid. There are three unprivileged user accounts on the system, and when I log in, I give my password, and whoami gives me either of the other unprivileged user accounts. (And I can't write to files I own, etc.)
In the Aperture 3 "Faces" view, when clicking on a person, there is a section "John may also be in the photos below". By clicking on the "Confirm Faces" button, you have the ability to click on each image to confirm. Is there a way to select multiple images or do this in bulk? I'd expect shift-clicking on the images to do it, but that doesn't work. There must be a better workflow.
I have a development server on my LAN with a static IP address. My DD-WRT flashed router assigns the domain 'server.local' to the static IP of the server. Everything worked fine with my setup. I could connect to the server via ssh, ftp, http, ping, or even samba.
My MBP will no longer detect external displays. It was working fine a few hours ago at work, I got home and plugged in the external display as usual and turned on the machine and nothing. Using the "Detect Displays" does nothing. I have tried re-plugging the mini DVI display port adapter and have tried using a different monitor with a different monitor cable. I have tried shutting down and booting without the adapter plugged in and then plugging in the adapter. Nothing works. Is there some trick to force my MBP to see and use the external monitor?
I cannot log into FTP sites on my iMac (Intel Core i5, 2.8GHz, running OS X 10.6.7). I probably created the problem when I installed Firefox and it took over as the default browser. I changed the default back to Safari, but then every time I try to log into the FTP at school (ftp://sws.pcc.edu), Firefox launched instead. I found a utility that said it would allow me to control internet protocol associations, which it kinda did. I tried to set Safari back to FTP but now FTP's open in Finder. How do get things back to allowing me to login to FTP sites in Safari?
I recently synced my iPod touch(4th gen) for the first time and it asked me if I wanted to "authorize the computer"- I chose "yes" but now, I can't download apps(neither from my ipod nor from the computer). It asks for credit card info. but since I don't have a credit card, now I can't download apps(free ones) at all. Deauthorizing doesn't seem to help either.
I'm using Iphone 3g for a year exactly and have no problems at all until recently I went to Malaysia. it says 'no service' where the carrier name supposed to be. so I assume its because since I'm out of the country, Singtel can't get coverage where Im at. I returned to Singapore 2 days later and still it says 'no service'. I tried doing all hard reset, clean restore, wipe everything out, tried toggling the airplane mode, still no improvement.. I thought maybe my line got cut and called Singtel but they assured me that the line is working perfectly fine. The singtel iphone tech support guy tried advising me to do the network reset but still no use.
does someone know how to open a new terminal window when opening a new text with VIM. I would like to have an autarchic window which can be resized and closed while the other windows will stay as and where they are. Regards mmm...
Can I set up FileVault to encrypt only specific folders inside of my Home folder but not the whole Home folder? I want to do this because it's not very convenient for me to encrypt the entire Home folder because it's too large and there is no place for encrypted data, and it's also not convenient for me to keep all those files out of my Home folder. Thanks in advance. EDIT: if it not possible, what are the other usable ways of encryption?
Is there any way to add (sound) typewriter effect to keyboard stroke?
I have a very nice and expensive mechanical keyboard. It was designed for a PC and not a Mac.
Is it possible to configure Mail.app to use the growl notifications for incoming mail ? Maybe there is an external script doing that too ?
In particular, the backup has to be immediate (as soo as I’m adding a new key or editing an existing one). This can be done by registering a launch agent.
I have setup Two Step Verification for my Google account and all is well getting into email from a browser, or from the Safari browser on my phone. However, I cannot get Mail.app to work. It just tells me the password is wrong. I am using an application specific password generated from the account access page in Google, tried two, still no go. How can I get the Mail.app to actually work with this?
I have got all the dates and times for my class seminars set in iCal, and I've also made week-long events that coincide with my colleges week numbering. The thing is, I forgot to let out this Easter holidays, which are two weeks that should be blank.
I created a smart playlist in itunes of songs with a playcount less than X, limiting to 3gb selected by album. This seems to work properly.
Is it possible to restore a user's account and home folder from a compressed disk image of the Macintosh HD? The image was created using Disk Utility.
Since the update OSX to 10.6.7 opening finder windows (such as when you want to save an image in a browser) takes between 5-10 seconds and then an additional 1-3 seconds to show places in the finder window. I have tried installing Onyx and rebuilding the links in LaunchServices, and this solved the problem but after a day or so the problem returned. There most be some kind of permanent solution to this so I don't have to format and reinstall. Any ideas?
When I plug in my headphones to my iPod touch (first gen), I get a weird hissing noise that I don't get when I plug them into anything else. Also, If I plug different headphones into the iPod, no hissing noise.
Some forensic tools like Lantern 2.0 allow the use of a passcode bypass file to get around the passcode lock on iOS 4.2 and later. This means that if someone has your device they can get around the normal restriction to not sync until the device is unlocked.
So I recently picked up an iPad 2 and promptly loaded all my music onto it. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to have it display my albums grouped by artists like they are on iTunes. Am I just missing something (probably obvious) or did Apple not bother to provide this functionality?
I want to force myself to use folder/file names without spaces etc. so I'm 100% certain I can open and run them from the command line. Some terminal apps which I use frequently hava a hard time recognisizing filenames that have spaces in them, and I want to prevent having to type \ every time. Is there a way of forcing this (perhaps formatting my hdd in to a different file system)?
I recently bought a new macbook pro and it just came in (very excited). I want to wirelessly transfer my itunes library on my old mac to my new one.
I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen. I have to select run script: in the Terminal>Preferences>"MyDefaultTheme">Shell prefpane and add: source .bashrc && clear for it to work... This seems odd since many tutorials only say you just have to add to the .bashrc file and all is good. Note that I don't run in bash when using the terminal, I like the other (default) one (don't know what it is) better, because it show me where I am all the time eg: in stead of: In bash all is loaded as should be. So my question is, why didn't my .bashrc file load automatically and did I have to add the option to call it everytime? Also some tutorial told me to do something like: which should write the alias to my .bashrc, this doesn't work either... Note that I'm a UNIX novice, so be gentle.
I'm selling my 2007 White MacBook. In line with many suggestions I've seen online I've securely wiped the drive and done a re-install but have hit a problem. The machine came with OS X 10.4 Tiger but I've since upgraded it to Leopard then Snow Leopard.
The home and end keys on a MacBook Pro can be emulated with fn + left arrow or fn + right arrow. Or when certain settings are changed, with the Command (Apple) key instead of fn. None of these works in Terminal. As I frequently need to go to the beginning or end of the line and would also like to jump forwards or backwards by word. How can I jump around on a line in Terminal?
Currently I can switch between spaces using Control + arrow. I want to change that to Command + arrow. How would I go about doing that?
I'm trying to open an app that listens to port 25 within a shell script. In order to listen to port 25, I need to run the app with sudo. So I tried the following:
I've sucessfully installed MySQL server (5.5.11) on my MAC Snow Leopard. I can start the server using PreferencePane, using command line sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe but cannot use the same command within AppleScript. This is the output from running sudo /user/local/mysql/bin/mysql_safe: Apache2 server can be started using the command sudo apachetl start, then it could be implemented using an AppleScript script like this: However, I can't simply do the same for starting mysql server The apple script result says: Then MySQL server cannot be started!
How can I write a bash script in Mac OS X that opens a Terminal window in a specific directory? I'd assume something like:
It seems that Apple stores GPS information (or GPS information of hot spots) in the iPhone/iPad, and a hacker invented a tool to show the info on Mac. I think this is a pretty useful feature for automatically recording what I've been visiting. Are there any apps for iPad/iPhone to track my GPS info so that I can extract the data to display on Mac later?
I have a Linux server that stores some files, and I want to sync them with my Mac. I can mount the directory of the server, so after mounting it's just directory to directory sync. There are thousands of files, so the sync tool should be smart enough to sync only the changed files.
What is the best way to keep my notes stored in the cloud? I want to access them fast and they should be editable on every device I use. (iPhone, iMac, Windows, etc.) What do you personally use? Simplenote or Evernote or is there another contender?
I know how to change an application icon, but when that app updates (e.g. browser), icon reverts to the one that application has. I imagine, that the update process works something like replacing the package I have, with a new one, so the icon change occurs because the new package simply doesn't have that icon associated.
For every other application package I've looked at, there's a Paste option available in Edit menu after selecting the icon in "Get Info" dialog. For Google Chrome, there isn't.
Yesterday I just closed my mbp and this morning I had the great pleasure to have this: At the login (passwork) screen...
There are half a dozen questions here why the iPad doesn't charge (or displays this at least) on most Windows machines. I have one more to add.
I figured it was worth checking out. Especially since my memory is non-original. I had put 2x 4GB Corsair sticks in it right away that I also got from Amazon a few months before then which I had used in my previous early-2009 MacMini. The memory seemed to have worked fine in both computers. All 8 GB were being recognized. These kernel panics only started happening a few months ago.
If I build an iPad app for a company (for internal use), do I need to commit it to the App Store to install it on all company devices ?
I can't find the keyboard shortcut for this on the mac. It's F2 on a windows machine.
In every later release of Google Chrome (including the just released version 11), all pages are rendered with a very thin, jaggy serif font. This is how it looks in Chrome 11:
Is there any app for mac which I use to know the RBG value of the point where my mouse is right now?
I bought a new macbook pro (13 inch with 500GB) and it came in yesterday (April 28th, 2011). I tried downloading Xcode and was able to download it onto my computer. However when I try to and open it, it tells me that I do not meet system requirements. I did a software update check and updated all of my software.
I have a decently modern (late-2010) Macbook Pro, with a 7200 RPM 500GB HD. I need this much space, but I'd like to have an SSD for compiling code, running the OS, and running games.
I like to read in iBooks with the brightness turned down, but I have to re-adjust this every time I open the app. Is there a way to make my brightness setting "stick"?
I am wondering what I can use the bluetooth capability in the iPod touch fourth generation for? I tried to pair it to a Motorola headset, but I was not able to pair it.
I run Mac OSX 10.6 and noticed that a process 'fseventsd' was taking 100% CPU and 1.5G RAM. Doing a google search, I found that this could be tied to Time Machine. However, I do not run Time Machine on this computer.
How can I backup my iTunes library (including album art and playlists) to an external Hard Disk 1? iTunes only seems to allow full backups to discs. FWIW, this is on a Win7 machine.
Here is a snapshot of the screencast I was watching. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7468116/screencast.png
A while back here How can I enable Internet sharing without using the GUI or AppleScript? I asked if any one knows how to enable Internet sharing without using GUI or apple script, I still have that problem but I thought this one should be easier, I want to be able to SSH into my machine but sure enough I can't go to the "sharing" pane in the Preferences (It crashes). How can I start sshd?
I have a LCD tv hooked up to an HDMI switcher flipping between a Mac Mini (2006 snow leopard using a DVI - HDMI cable), cable tv and dvd player. Trouble is, whenever the switch goes away from mac the picture is blank when coming back.
Is there a way to copy paste the content of this warnings in Xcode ?
That would be perfect; their current wireless keyboard is too laptop-like. I like having wide arrow keys, the delete/end/page up/page down/home keys. Otherwise, can someone recommend a similar option?
I am using windows 7 64 bit on hp probook 4520s and want to install quicktime, apple provided link give the quicktime to download and install but it give error of some assembly instruction. I think that version of quick time is for 32 bit, microsoft have also given the same url for isntalling quicktime on windows 7 64 bit on its website so can some one please tell me from where I can get 64 bit version and solve my problem. thanks in advance guys-
I want to be able to put an 11" Macbook Air into a backpack and run to work/gym with it. Is that safe to do that, given these devices have no moving hard drive parts? What about the other components, would they handle shaking? Bonus points: is there any backpack made specifically for doing this?
With Linux/Unix, I can use useradd -G developers vivek to add vivek to the developer group. How can I do the same thing with Mac OS X? Then, how do I check if vivek is in developers group?
I have been leaving my iPad plugged into my dock and just keeping the Remote app running to display the album art. Which leaves me wondering, is there some sort of 'live news feed' app that I can get for my iPad just to display my rss feeds in a glanceable manner which will automatically update my rss feed?
I have single file that is 7GB that I want to burn to multiple DVDs. Is there a way to do this that's built into Mac OS X?
What are the exact specs when shopping for early 2011 MacBook Pro SO-DIMM memory? I'll be uprading to the maximum of 8GB.
I've heard about the 5 computer limit. I'm wondering if iOS devices are included in that or not.
I need to install Checkers game on my Mac 10.4.11 for my HCI project. Does anyone know a free download link? tnx
We are considering getting a Macbook Pro but are quite heavily tied to windows application so want to install Windows 7 on it. Can you install the OEM version of Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro using boot camp or do you need a full licence? I'm fairly sure there should be no difference, I've installed OEM version of Windows an quite a few machines before I was wondering if there was anything that would stop it working on a Macbook. Also are there any limitations on which SKU of Windows 7 will run on a Macbook Pro (Home Premium, Ultimate, etc.)
I've seen various iPad applications that allow you to take notes in your own handwriting. I'm wondering if there are any options for allowing a user to input handwritten data into input fields on web page and convert the handwriting into text.
When an iPad is "not charging" and is not sleeping, is it still drawing power from the USB port so it doesn't drain or at least drain slower?
Is it possible to download the latest version of iOS without connecting my iPad? I have ordered the iPad, but it has still not come. So can I download and keep the iOS update in the meantime? Because I think that the iPad would not come with it installed.
When I sync my address book on my mac to Google Apps (gmail) it doesn't sync groups. Is this normal?
I've seen the system wide tools (that all seem to just manipulate the default key bindings) that allow you to swap keys around, but has anyone found a way to swap keys for just one application? (no, the app in question doesn't offer it, and the author was a bit of a prick about it when I asked if they could enable an option to adjust them.) I'm talking about real keys like home, end, page up, page down... not shortcuts.
I've bought few months ago a MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 13'. As a Linux geek, I'm really happy with this computer, and it usually works fine.
I had an app in my iphone which i recorded a meeting, (TSA) it said it was ready to sync to document folder. so I syncd and they all disappeared. Where is the document folder located? When itunes deletes from iphone is there any way to find those and restore? Why did itunes delete apps that were installed?
Is there a Tweetdeck replacement for mac? A program that'll allow me to post to both my Twitter account and Facebook accounts with a single action?
How to connect my iPhone to PC and edit my contacts and other things like I can do with my Nokia phone?
Using CMD+Ctrl+D (my own binding) to delete a layer works... sometimes. But not always.
I'm in India. I bought an iPhone 4 some time back. The vendor informed me that it is a factory unlocked version (iPhone 4 is officially not launched in India yet). So, my questions are Is there a way to find out whether it is a genuinely factory unlocked version? If it's indeed a factory unlocked version, will I be able to update to the latest iOS version without getting it locked? Since it is either a Canada/UK version, will updating the iOS in India create any problem (auto IP detection, time zone blah blah)?
I planning to upgrade my 2010 MBP's Hadrdrive from 160GB to 500GB, I have alrerady lot of data on the existing disk, including Bootcamp partition. Could anyone suggest how to do I go ahead with restoring the data? I don't want to recreate/reinstall bootcamp after upgrade.
Just as the mails in Outlook under windows are stored in a PST file , where are the mails in Outlook under Mac stored ? I understand they are stored as OLM files . But can anyone tell me the exact location of these files so i can perform a backup ? Thanks.
I'm thinking about partitioning my MBP (late 2008) to dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion. I found an article about running both OSes, and using the SL user account for both SL and Lion.
My daughter has an original iPhone, aka iPhone 2G. It is currently unlocked and jailbroken, but that was all done about 2 years ago. She wants the latest iTunes now, so I am revisiting what the procedure and limitations are for updating, unlocking, and jailbreaking. I think the right high level steps are:
Recently, I've noticed that my MacBook Pro 5,1 (mid 2009) running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 doesn't respond when I press CTRL+3 or CTRL+4. When, for instance, I'm in an application that has no bindings for the CTRL-keys and I press CTRL+2, I will hear the OS X alert sound, because the application receives a key combination it doesn't understand. This is the case for all CTRL+n combinations, except 3 and 4. No matter where I try it — even in places where pressing the aforementioned key combination would have an actual effect — nothing happens.
You know the way you smoothly zoom-in in mobile safari? How do I do that on my Mac + magic trackpad in regular safari?
I am a huge fan of HandBrake. It is the epitome of simple. Select a video file (or DVD), select a preset, select an output path, click Start. A certain amount of time later relative to the size/quality of the content, and you have yourself a pretty much perfect video file suitable for the medium of your choice.
You know how you zoom-in whole screen with your magic-trackpad + ctrl + 2fingers in snow leopard? The result is not-so-nice-looking screen. You can see pixels and basically the resolution is crapy... how do I fix that?
Is there any way for me to extract notes from an iPod Touch backup? I had forgotten to back up the notes on my old iPod Touch and subsequently lost all my notes on it. It's been a year and a half now, and the older computer with the backup has Snow Leopard clean-installed on it.
What does CMD+< do in AZERTY keyboard layout? I'm trying to assign it to a program using apptivate, but it keeps telling me it is already assigned to a system-wide shortcut.
I have a friend’s iPhone 3G that does not and has not at any time had the Wi-Fi connection available. It is greyed out with "No Wi-Fi". I have restored it a dozen times to no end. He wants me to put his phone on Straight Talk, but to do so I need to open a mobileconfig file which is usually emailed, or edit the APN with a tethering app through Cydia. I have installed the apps into Cydia through Cyder II, but Cydia still cannot load them without internet. Help me please, I've been hunting for and trying work-arounds for hours.
When i try to open a specific project in xcode (i can open my other projects just not the most important one) i get this error  I have gone in "Get Info" and made sure my account had complete access, but i still get this stupid error and i have no idea why. I am also the administrator for my computer and logged into my only account for this computer (i have not made multiple accounts) Can someone please help. - Thanks
I want to resolve two issues: keep track of my (e)books and be able to insert and manager citations or references with Scrivener. I would like to see what would you recommend for this. I found and interesting tread on *=URL=* but for the moment it does not contain enough feedback for making a decision. Please suggest answers only if you successfully used the product(s) for some time. If you have different alternatives it would be good idea to add them as separated answers. So far I identified: Calibre Papers Bookends Sente EndNote BibDesk Mendeley Zotero Main features I am looking for: ability to manage ebooks (or alt least PDF ebooks) ability to get books information by using one or more online services ability to build a bibliography listing manage cites integration with Scrivener (to insert a reference or a cite) (optional) possibility to copy/share books to iPad and read them from there.
I often use the Terminal application, especially to commit code to a Git repository, and I don't want to have the window always open. Is there a utility that allows to open a terminal window using a shortcut?
I'm trying to create sounds to be used with a mobile app for iPhone. Is there a default setting in Garageband? Or is there another best practices way to get this accomplished? The sounds are spoken word. I've tried different effects and settings (and no effects), but there is either a lot of background noise, or it is much too loud in the ad hoc version.
Is it possible to redefine the keyboard shortcut for deleting files to delete loosing the command ? How?
I updated my iPhone yesterday and now whenever I take or make a call my phone restarts itself. It was updated via iTunes on my computer. Each phone call can last between 1 - 10 minutes. I've never had this problem before.
I tried asking on apple forums, and they said do a SMC reset. Tried it, and it doesn't work. It always happens. Here's a video of what I am talking about, watch through the full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25cWVrg8Bfw&feature
I will be in Korea for 5 months, I'm about to buy an iPad 2 there and I'll be back in London or France in September. I would like to know if my warranty will be valid in England or in France in case something happens because there are no Apple Stores in Korea, but only retailers.
My Macbook doesn't shut down ! It gets stuck on a blue screen with a loading image and doesn't shut down. I recently have updated my Macbook but I don't know if it is the problem or not.
I've got an applescript that I use to open files such as test.txt in vim, using the terminal. I usually open a file by right-clicking it an selecting the service open in vim (this service is created by me and basically runs the applescript). How do I build an actual program, that can be set in the "open with" option for a file? This way, when I double click test.txt, the applescript gets run and the file gets opened in my vim in terminal.app. I would also like to create custom icons that will be applied to all files I open using this app (using the "Change All..." button).
I just added two files as an attachment to an e-mail in MS Entourage 2004. In Finder, the files have a size of 2,5 MB respectively 205 kB. When I send them as an e-mail, Entourage tells me that the sent mail has a size of 3,5 MB!
If I copy text from Safari or another app, is it generally copied in rich text format, or plain text format? And if rich text, is there any way to paste it formatted, or see the HTML source of the copied text?
I'm trying to dd from a disc in my DVD drive on my MacBook to an ISO, but the image always ends up as unmountable and unburnable. The disc is unmounted when I start the process.
I need to operate a CRT monitor in 100 Hz (1280 x 1024) on a Leopard Machine. The same monitor was working fine on a Tiger machine in the mentioned range but I switched to Leopard and it does not show the 100 Hz option in the list any more (but I am sure the monitor can support it). Is there a way to manually modify the list?
I've got a 2009 iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) and I've noticed that the disks never sleep. I ran a power monitor and the iMac is using a third of our electricity every day!
Here is my configuration: Living Room MacBook Pro NAS Network printer All connected to Time Capsule MacBook Pro NAS Network printer All connected to Time Capsule Bedroom Hifi System (with line-in) Laptop, iPod touch (any wireless device) Hifi System (with line-in) Laptop, iPod touch (any wireless device) As of today, the connection between the two locations is too weak (see this question) for me to use devices wirelessly in the bedroom. What I would like to do is to add a PLC connection between the two rooms and place an airport base station in the bedroom to extend the wireless network. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so check below my existing configuration and the things I want to add (green bullets and green arrows):
I'm trying to view the SSL certificate for a web site on my iPad. For example, how can I view the SSL certificate for this site? *=URL=* Using Safari on the desktop, I can click on the small lock icon in the address bar to view the certificate details. How do I do this on the iPad?
Apple used to use Skyhook Wireless to do geolocation on wifi devices to assist with GPS. Now, according to their recent location services press release, as well as previous iOS release notes, they switched to an internal service to handle this. The recent PR said that they do still collect some of this information for their anon database.
I was running into issues playing Starcraft 2 on Windows 7 (32 bits): once in a while, the game would unexpectedly quit with "Core: out of memory" as the error message. I went to the Blizzard support forum with this problem, and they told me that my video and sound drivers are outdated by a year or two.
I downloaded a mp3 file from author's site (not itune store or audible), and I found that the book is not in iTune's Library/Books section, but in iTune as a song. What is necessary to make the mp3 ebook is listed in itune's Library/Books section?
I have a fairly new white Macbook, the kind with a built-in, non-user replaceable battery, model MacBook6,1. The thing's Power Management Unit is clearly on the fritz-- the battery indicator says "no batteries available" (while clearly running off battery power), the magsafe adapter won't light up, and the fan is constantly running at full bore. According to Apple, this calls for resetting the PMU as follows: "On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time."
I sometimes need to copy the pictures I have in my digital camera in a directory of my Mac. Is there a simple utility that copies the pictures automatically, once I plugged in the digital camera in the USB port?
I have a brand-new Macbook Pro. As I'm almost certainly going to eventually spill something into the keyboard, I picked up a keyboard skin. It only took me a few hours to get used to typing with it; skins have come a long way since the last time I had one on a Mac.
My iPhone's battery runs down frequently after being fully charged, what can i do?
Is there a way I can make Safari on my iPad 2 save passwords or auto-fill forms. for example, I want it to save the user/password for my wifi router so I can access it easily without typing the user/password each time I access it. (I am using the latest firmware on an non-jailbroken iPad 2)
I would like to allow iPads to be connected to Mac for provisioning of applications on the devices, but would also like to prohibit any other device from being connected to USB port for security reasons. Would you please let me know what is the mechanism to be adopted to achieve this?
Is there an application that will allow me to do video talk using Google Talk from my iPad 2?
Is there any virtual machine which works on a PPC (non-Intel) Mac 10.4? I am killing myself finding a virtual machine for Mac 10.4. Everything that I found needs an Intel Mac.
Is there iPhone App to solve the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) for real world addresses? I found solver for OSM data? But I can not find in repo sources for iPhone.
I am using the "lock when sleeping" preference of the login keychain. When I use my computer after wake up, as expected i have to enter my password when an application (such as the webbrowser or instant messenger) try to access a keychain entry. However, sometimes the login keychain is unlocked after entering the password, sometimes it remains locked and the application gets single-time access. What rule does that follow? System is up to date 10.6.
Is there any way to specify the output filename and directory that qlmanage uses? We are using qlmanage to convert word documents to HTML, and it writes Preview.html to its temp directory. You can specify the output directory with -o, so right now we create a new directory for each file we write, which works fine, but... not optimal. No mention of such a facility in the command line options, but i thought i'd ask in case there is some undocumented trick. thanks, ian.
I've got a Macbook Pro whizzing it's way through the postal system towards me which I intend to run Mac OS X and Windows 7 On. I was wondering how the MacBook Pro does right clicks in windows, I'm lead to believe that clicking with two fingers rather than one will right click in Mac OS but does the same apply to Windows on a MacBook?
When I turn on my MacBook Pro it starts with a sound of checking CD inside and the case light detector turns on as usual, and ventilators starts to run, but monitor is still switched off. At the beginning right after it happened, I just switched off/on the computer once and it started again with all it's processes and a typical beginning sound, but without a screen. Moreover, I was able even to login (in blind mode) and really check if the machine is running, because my Internet sharing has been started as soon as Mac OS starts. So my network has been accessible in other computers and I was sure that the problem has been just in my monitor.
I quite often find myself needing to move the cursor to the beginning or the end of the line. Is there a keyboard shortcut or other magic trick to move the cursor apart from the arrow keys.
I've been looking around and only found a couple of enterprise (price) level solutions for remote controlling an iPad/iPhone. Does anyone know of any cheap or free software out there that will allow me to control an IOS device from my PC/Mac?
On my Mac, there is a font that contains the "BEAMED EIGHT NOTES" Unicode character, but there are no fonts that contains the "MUSICAL SYMBOL PLUS NOTEHEAD," or the "MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER NOTE" Unicode characters. Are the fonts that contain such characters?
My Magic mouse two finger right click stopped working 4 days ago. I can use the control click combo to right click but the mouse was way more convenient. I have not changed any settings, it just stopped working. I am using a Macbook pro 15", both were purchased togeather about two weeks ago and worked fine until 4 days ago.
When I import pictures from my camera using Aperture I can find them by using Aperture to browse through its library, but I generally want to access them from Finder. Where might they be?
For the new imacs that just came out, which memory upgrade should I get? This: *=URL=* or: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
Is there an app that will receive AirTunes? I want to use iOS4's new AirPlay capability to send audio from one iOS device to another. I realize I can use Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil and Speakers to stream from my Mac to said iPhone, but I want to send from my iPhone to another iPhone. What I'm trying to do is avoid buying an Airport Express device by just hooking up an old iPhone and running an app...
I am totally new to OSX so sorry for this beginners question. If I would like to reduce the startup time (from being completely without power to being able to use Safari) of a new (HDD only, no SSD) iMac as much as possible what do I need to do? Does using hibernation or something help ? What would that time approximately be? By how much could I improve this time if the iMac had an SSD?
Although similar questions have been asked before [1,2] non of them fully address whether OSX 10.6 Sever is a good candidate for everyday use on a top of the line computer. For the really lazy; 1 - Discusses on the importance of having a high spec computer in order for OSX Server to perform to its best. 2 - Discusses on the appropriateness of using OSX Sever in a software development environment. Getting on to the nitty gritty, my question is more focused towards whether using the aforementioned OS is a good idea for an advanced used (not so much in network related subjects) that desires to do both Software Development, Image/Video editing, and setting up shared services such as; Calendars, Webservices (Wiki's + Websites) and email. When I say top of the range, I refer to the recently released iMac configured to the following specs; Quad-Core i7 3.4Ghz (Boost to 3.8Gz) 8 Gb of DDR3 RAM 2 Gb ATI Radeon HD 6970M
How can I make a stop motion movie with iMovie. I just want to play around, so I don't want to buy iStopMotion. All tutorials I've found are with iMovie09 or older. I have some 50 pictures in a folder, that I d'like to use for that...
Does anyone know how to view passwords in Terminal? Maybe by accessing the Keychain data or something? I want to be able to view passwords in Terminal with just a series of commands.
My compass app is reporting that I am X degrees north, X degrees E, however I am most certainly west of greenwich (Basically I am closer to USA than greenwich). Is this a known bug, I assume that the standard of writing positions is not backward, as I am in the northern hemisphere and it states I'm north. It's not that it's got the wrong position, but the wrong side of the greenwich meridian, as the degrees, minutes and seconds are correct (according to google maps), it's only it says E instead of W? Is this a known bug?
I'm excited about the iMac 2011 refresh, but I'm troubled by the news that there are no SATA 3 connections. There's lots of confusion on Mac Rumors and OWC blogged that there is no SATA 3.
But since then I could not download any application. It starts to download it, finishes the progress bar and then this alert window appears:
I got my original 3GS on release day in June 2009 as an upgrade to a 1G. In around September 2009 it developed a problem with the mute switch so I had it replaced at my local Apple Store. A friend just asked me what my data usage is (as he is looking at his first smart phone contract and doesn't know how much data allowance to include) so I checked my stats on the 3GS. It says at the bottom Last Reset: Never so my question is, when does Never begin? My current 3GS was restored from the backup of my original 3GS when it was replaced and I'm not 100% sure but I think that the original 3GS may have been restored from the 1G. Does my usage stat include only the current 3GS or does it include the original 3GS usage (and possibly the 1G usage if I restored from it) as well? EDIT: Following Cawas's answer, here are my current stats for illustration:
Is there a way to remove some of the absurdly old back ups from my time machine so I can continue using the disk that is now too full? Or is this even the best idea?
I just installed a menubar application and would like to assign a global keyboard shortcut to one of its operations. Is there any easy way to determine if the key combination I want to use conflicts with an existing one? Do I need to look at each category in the Keyboard Preference pane? I am running OS X 10.6.7.
My friend tried to gift me a film in the iTunes store but he says that somehow he "received" it by mistake (his mistake, most likely). What are his options now. Can he: Return the purchase "Gift" the purchase to me Call someone to correct the error and reassign the item to me instead?
the 27" versions of the new iMac come with either the AMD HD 6770M or HD 6970M GPU. How do they compare performancewise? Is it worth its money?
I am trying to install Git on my Mac (OSX 10.6) following the official Git tutorial. I had no problem until I had to set my username and my email. Every time I tried I got -bash: git: command not found
Does any one have a definitive answer? I am reading so many answers that tell you both thing, one tells you that it is not a problem at all and the other one is very definite NO...Is there any developer over here that has a jailbreaked iPhone that is using it to test the application in development? From what I heard from friends, Not over the web, Apple don't allow that and is checking for that, but over the web I've read that it is not a problem.... I will eventually remove the jailbreak that was installed on my lovely iPhone, but I want to know if to do it now or can I wait with that because I want the person that installed it to remove it and give me the iPhone I asked for....never mind, if I can wait, I prefer to do it this way (might take weeks of month as we do not leave in the same place) but if I have to, I will do it by myself and that's all..
In my account settings under Login there is an app called iTunesHelper. What does this app do? Can I remove it from the login apps without affecting iTunes, or will it be put back?
I'm on OS X 10.6. When I'm downloading a torrent, the connection is sometimes lost. And because of this, the download stops too, and the only solution I found to reconnect is to manually turn off the WiFi and turn it back on. Is there a program or trick to restore the network connection automatically?
How do I clear the auto-fill address field cache in Mac Mail? I have loads of old addresses that I do not send email to. A removal and reinstallation of the email accounts does not affect the cache.
What options are there for plugging a MIDI-device that offers only a standard DIN-5 MIDI connector into a MacBook Pro? The marketing print on the box of my Rock Band 3 Wireless Keyboard talks about plugging the keyboard into a computer for use as a general MIDI instrument when not playing Rock Band, but there's no cables inside the box to accomplish this, and again, the only port it offers is a DIN-5 port.
I've had an iPod touch for over 6 months now, and while I've gotten better at hitting buttons and icons with practice, some things remain virtually impossible to tap. For example, the tiny circles (one above the line, one below the line) for selecting text are pretty much impossible to hit. Auto-complete options (like the "I" if I type "i") are similarly difficult.
I don't know if I at the right posiution with this task. I have ubuntu running on a server. A notebook has Cisco VPN Client installed and is connected to this ubuntu server. Because I dislike working through putty I want to use my more beautiful terminal of my MacBook. Is it possible to connect to this ubuntu server through the Windows 7 NoteBook without having to establish a VPN connection on the MacBook?
Macbook laptop has a few programs .. in which I'd like to uninstall and then keep the programs on a disc or external hd. Should I clone the program? (best suggested freeware? eg. Clonezilla or ..) or use a software such as Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner?
See I installed some chinese input methods, and some of them have already shortcuts, I'd like to add a shortcut for the one I use mainly so I can come back from chinese quickly without grabbing the mouse. I inspected the pref pane for keyboard shortcuts but couldn't find out how. PS: Mine is ArgenPinYin, a customized keyboard layout
Im making a Drumming app for the iphone and the ipod touch. I was searching for good drum samples around the internet, but couldn't find anything fitting. Then i thought of garageband and its drum kits which contained the samples that i needed. Will apple allow me to use the garageband's kit sounds separatly and for commercial purposes?
I noticed that the new iMacs graphics cards are AMD Radeon HD 6970M. Why do the new iMacs have mobile video cards? What are the implications of those cards? Are those cards as powerful as dedicated desktop graphics cards?
I have bought a new monitor Samsung SyncMaster 2243. I have been using it normally on windows with 1680x1050 resolution for almost a year now. I tried to connect it to my MacBook Pro via VGA to Mini display port adapter. It worked fine but 1440x900 resolution showed up. So I tried to set it to native display resolution 1680x1050 and now only thing I see is black screen. It works only for a few seconds per minute approximately. There are flashes. I cant lower the refresh rate, there is 60Mhz and no option to select lower.
Is there a program or app that i can use to tell me where all of my hard disk space has gone? I'd like a graph (pie chart) if possible, but I prefer free/low cost over the aesthetics of such a program.
I'm a recent Mac convert, but still need to use Windows for work related tasks. A man's gotta eat & pay for internet access.
Just a minute ago my iMac's fan stopped spinning (sound like it broke). I heared no noise coming out of it anymore and I quickly checked iStat which reported a fan rotation speed of 0 rpm (usually 1500 rpm). I turned my Mac off immediately.
What is the easiest way to stream/listen to a specific song for free, that's not in your iTunes library from an iPhone? On a PC, I'd go on Deezer.com, launch spotify, try Hype Machine... But on the iPhone the "no-flash" policy makes it much harder.
Anyone know of a way to simply select and copy text from a file open in Quick Look? Our project managers really enjoy sending out change requests as attached .doc files, and I'd really love to be able to hit spacebar, copy the text, and paste the text into my preferred editor without having to fire up Word (or Office alternative).
I know i can do it in linux, anything similar in osx?
Are there any conclusive tests on battery life for both of these disks? It seems a 7200RPM would gain a great performance benefit, but if this would cost 1/2 of the battery life, I am not sure wether this would be a good choice. What are your experiences?
Out of the blue, I can't send any files to the trash bin. "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -1407) Any ideas for me?
I'm having some trouble with <syslog.h> in 10.5. I'm writing a small fork based server for class and I want to use syslog() to print a bunch of debug info. However, I can't find any of the messages I issue via syslog() while using Console (I'm looking in both all messages & system.log). Here is a code snippet of a plain C:
I'm a heavy user of an iPhone 4 and often got to the red line. I bought a Battery Extender a few months back, can't remember the company's name, but it stopped working suddenly after a month. What do you guys recommend?
Hey guys I wonder if there is a way (a third-party solution maybe?) to control my IPad with the keyboard thats connected to my mbp. Someone else on Stackexchange also asked link for this feature (Nov 2010) back then there was no other way but jailbreak the Device (whats not possible right now for the IPad 2).
What can I do to be able to switch to space 1 easily with my mouse only ? I touch about an Exposé corner but there is a limited list of actions possible... I though about the 3rd mouse button but there is no space command in there...
I'm on O2 Uk so I'm pretty sure it's a GSM network. I was under the impression that iPhones (at least) could browse the Internet while on a call. But when I switch to Safari while on a phone call I get an alert view saying I can't use data on a call. And it doesn't matter if I'm in 3G Edge or GPRS (the dot) coverage.
Is it possible in keynote 09 to stretch a line through an animation without making it more broadly?
How should I use the terminal to browse and manage my iPod Touch? I mean is there any way to do this just with terminal, not with installing MobileTerminal or something like that, or sshing into the iPod.
Is there a way to select all the photos in the iPad 2's photo booth application and copy them to a new/existing album? currently I need to select each photo individually by clicking (touching) it. Am I missing some kind of gesture that will allow me to select all of the existing photos in photo booth?
On Ubuntu, I can change the terminal background to be semi-transparent. I've seen other people do this in OSX, but I don't see the setting anywhere. Is there some way to make this happen?
I have an Apple laptop running 10.6.7 and I somehow managed to get into a situation where Java header files are actually (empty) directories. The laptop came with 10.6.7 pre-installed. I ran "Software Update", installed Xcode 3.2.6, and installed MacPorts. When trying to install port "db46" I get compilation errors, because jni.h is broken. How do I fix this?
I tried several programs to convert a SWF file to a video format and so far none of them seems to work. I expect a video in any format that I could play in iOS, like .MOV, .AVI and other. Any ideas?
Ever since updating to iPhoto '11 it has become incredibly slow to launch. Using it is acceptable performance wise, but launching is terribly slow. I just closed it and reopened it to get an accurate time, and it too 3 and a half minutes! BTW, it only does the bouncy thing for a minute, then it just sits there. At first I ended up launching it multiple times because I thought it wasn't opening. It is a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro with 5 GB of RAM.
I am considering setting up a Citadel groupware server. It natively supports syncing via the GroupDAV protocol. Is there an app for the iPhone that lets it sync its calendars, contacts, and tasks with a GroupDAV server?
I have an iMac and I'm coming to the point where I'm going to need Windows 7 on it so I can do a bit of my Visual Studio development work on it. I'm aware of two options, setting up the dual boot using Boot Camp and using something like VMWare or Parallels to setup Windows in a virtual environment.
I have a 2009 octocore Mac Pro. A few weeks ago it started making a constant noise. It sounds like a fan. The computer is not particularly hot. I checked with Temperature Monitor and CPUs/disks/etc. are around 40C. Only the Northbridge chip and sink are at 73C and 65C. Is there anything obvious that my Mac needs or that might have caused the fan to get so loud?
I got an Airport Express to use to wirelessly extend my existing Airport Extreme (which is plugged into my cable modem). I'm also using the Airport Express to send music to the stereo. Unfortunately I'm getting audio dropouts.
The obvious solution is to record in an air-conditioned room with good ventilation. However, that's not always possible.
I know it is possible to save form username/passwords on the iPad's Safari browser. The thing I can't do is to save .htaccess username and passwords. In case you don't know what those are, it's when a webpage is protected and you can't even see the page without authenticating. It usually displays a popup window so you can authenticate. Is it possible to save this type of credentials?
So last time I tried to upgrade, I downloaded the OS, then proceeded to run the installation, which shuts down my iPhone in order to install files. After that though, it requires some sort of verification from apple.com and because my iPhone is already shut down, i have no Internet access. I ended up having to go to a friend's house to the install cos she has WiFi.
As a complement to this question about keeping the Mac cool so the fans don't get triggered: At what temperature does the mac turn on the fans? I know that a high CPU load can cause the fans to go on, so it's not just temperature-based. Are there specific processor temperatures that trigger the fans to spin up?
Will it be possible to disable the Auto Save feature in OS X Lion?
Is it possible to set a default application to open files with no extension? I'm not referring to files with hidden extensions, but those completely lacking an extension -- e.g. README, CHANGELOG, mbox, etc. "Open With" => "Change All" on these files doesn't work, returning the error shown below:
My iPhone 3GS was unlocked using O2's official method. I am considering jailbreaking but am unsure if this will affect the unlock status of the handset. The jailbreak options available seem a little bewildering, so is there a specific jailbreak method which doesn't unlock and will leave my iPhone with the official unlock? What I really don't want to happen is to jailbreak and have the phone lock again on the next iOS update. I am currently running iOS 4.3.3 and use iTunes on Windows 7 x64.
I can enter all my Exchange 2010 data and it looks like everything is fine, but my contacts, calendar, and mail are never loaded from the exchange server, and mail gives me errors ("The connection to the mail server failed") when trying to connect. Do I need to update iOS or change Exchange 2010 settings?
Ever since rolling out the 10.6.7 update on my latest MacBook Pro (15", i7), I have found that Mac App Store has become awfully slow. Starting it alone takes anywhere from two to four minutes for the application to become functional and start responding. During that time, the application seems to get lost into the 'not responding state', with the spinning beach ball showing up.
I have a pdf file containing annotations from someone else (I assume they are made in windows with some Adobe software, but I'm not sure). They look like that: and can be displayed in Preview.appor Skim.appon the left of each page: However, I'd like to print them (together with the pages) and/or find a way to export them to a text document. How can I do that?
Is there a way, like an app or a system preference, that will open applications in full screen, all the time. By full screen I mean taking up all the screen real estate. I know it doesn't match apple user interface guidelines but I have a friend for whom it would make life easier.
EDIT: Just to clarify, the rest of the iPod data - music, videos, iBook books, etc. sync fine.
I've been looking at using Bento for iPhone / iPad on a few projects where data will be logged in the field and then synced with a main database held on a Mac. My worry with this system though is that if there is a problem when the Bento database syncs with the Mac and the databse gets corrupted, there may be a complete loss of data. Ideally I'd like to, for instance, email the data from the iPhone / iPad before the data is synced so that even if the databse is lost, at least we have the data and can manually enter the data onto the main databse on the Mac. I have not yet however found out any way of getting the Bento data off the iPhone apart from syncing with a Mac. Does anyone know of any other fix for this?
Has anyone else seen the issue where apps are removed from their folders when you do a mass update from the App Store? I've seen it with my iPhone 4 and my original iPad. It only seems to happen when it's the most inconvenient lol...like updating 20+ apps at once. I don't think it's a jailbreak issue; I don't even have Winterboard installed on either device. I just wanna know if anyone else has seen this behavior, or knows why it happens. Thanks!
Wondering is anyone knows of an application that can change settings on my Macbook Pro depending on the wireless networks it detects? Ie, If I was at work, connect to the Work Wireless, Change default printer, chance location, change wallpaper etc. I seem to remember seeing an app at one stage, however after much Googling I cannot find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Since I have Papers for all my documents, iTunes for my music/videos I'm only missing a good "code library manager/snippet manager" for all my pieces of code (especially for small projects or test code, as the bigger ones are easy to archives but little piece of code usually get more or less lost). So I found Code box but there's no trial version available. I looks like it has the features I want, so something like Paper but for code.
My current apple mouse works fine for moving, clicking and scrolling down. The scrolling functionality with the tiny ball on top is not working while going down. I had the same issue back in 2008 at a different company with a similar mouse. Does anyone know how I can clean the mouse?
Is there a way to add an iPhone contact and have it sync to an Exchange server without having to cable sync through iTunes?
Is there an official way to take my DVD and put it on my iPhone?
I recently started using Snow Leopard (after using Leopard for a few years), and I noticed that when I ssh using a passphrase-protected private key, ssh will automatically add the key to ssh-agent. Question 1: How do I prevent ssh from behaving this way (doing the auto-add)?
I put my PowerMac at work to sleep so that I can use Wake-on-LAN to do remote work on it. However the office cleaner often touches the keyboard or the mouse button unintentionally. So the question is: How to disable mouse and keyboard wake up; to just use the power button and wake-on-LAN to wake/sleep instead? Don't tell me to disconnect mouse and keyboard.
I am trying to automate the inital setup of my macbook, that includes installing software and changing OS X configuration to my needs. I have tried to update the modifier keys with defaults, the code is as follow: The problem seems that even if the pattern is changed the System Preferences does not catch the update, not even restarting the computer. Is there any way to perform this operation in Snow Leopard? Thanks.
My displays are color calibrated every other month or so with a hardware calibration tool. When I take a screen shot of a profile aware app, such as photoshop or lightroom or some web browsers, I don't want the screen shot to be adjusted for my monitor. Is there an easy way to do this besides my current approach: goto system preferences, display, color calibration change the profile to a generic monitor one start the color aware application (most seem to require a fresh startup to deal with the change) take the screen shot change my profile back restart the application
The iPad would be the perfect handheld device for controlling some USB devices. I would like to get started with programming iPad applications which would communicate with USB devices.
Specifically, I'm trying to make a purchase inside a certain iPhone app using Paypal. Instead of the app opening for me a paypal url in the Safari, it seems to be loading the paypal url in a browser window inside the app. I can't see the url of the page and in general can't be sure that the app isn't intercepting my paypal credentials.
Is there a way to purchase Cydia apps from a regular browser and not from inside Cydia?
Is there a way to tell Keynote to change the font for all the presenter notes in this file to a specific font? I find that sometimes it screws up the fonts for the notes (not the body) of a bunch of the slides, and it is tedious to change them one-by-one.
There are a few ways to reset the login password of an OS X user account: Starting up in single user mode, running mount -uw /, launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist, and dscl . passwd /Users/username. Starting up in single user mode, removing /var/db/.AppleSetupDone, restarting, creating a new admin account, and changing the password of another account from System Preferences. Starting up from a recovery partition or installation media, opening Terminal, and running resetpassword. Is there some way to prevent people with physical access to a Mac from using them?
This has happened to me a couple of times now. I try to connect to a computer using screen share and for some reason the computer doesn't answer. I'm not worried about that though.
I'm very sceptical to syncing it with Google calendar, seeing as the calendars work a bit differently. In my GC I have layed out my tasts and appointments in "theme" separated colorcoded calendars. It seems my iPad will only let me work with one calendar, and the Google calendar will show up as a different calendar. I don't want it to work like that - rather I'd like to have full control from both the iPad and the synchronized online calendar. If anyone understands what I'm after, I'd love an answer :-)
If I develop a website in BootCamp under something like *=URL=* can I browse that web site from within OS X? I was thinking maybe using Parallels/Virtual Box to point to the BootCamp partition and get it running and then from within Safari somehow point to that virtual machine's localhost. This would be good so websites could be developed in Windows/Bootcamp and then viewed from OS X to see if they render ok. Would be also good to run up another virtual machine to look at the virtual machine with the web server on it eg/a Linux VM looking at the Windows VM to see how the website looks in Firefox etc Can any of this be done?
SO, the long and short of it is, is there a simple way to assign a very short backward skip function to a hotkey combination that will work on VLC player while Word is the active window? Or do I need to admit defeat?
I have a local development environment that is sending email to the mbox file at /var/mail/myusername. I can successfully view those emails with the command line mail program, but I'm looking for a way to read the emails graphically (they contain HTML). I've read the article at: *=URL=* but I've also read that this method does not work in Snow Leopard (10.6) because Mail.app no longer uses standard mbox files, but rather has it's own format based on sqlite.
When using Spaces on Mac OS X trying to open a new terminal instance results in focus being pulled to whatever space has the most recently accessed terminal window. With Finder I can click on the Desktop and then use ⌘-N to create a new Finder window. What I am looking for is a method for performing the same function for Terminal windows. How can I create a new Terminal instance in the current space, regardless of whether or not there is another Terminal instance in one or more other spaces. Thanks.
I'm currently trying to port all my old stuff from an old Power Mac G4 (MDD) to a newer Power Mac G5 (Late 2005). Both have gigabit ethernet and so I decided to connect the two via ethernet cable (Cat6). Both are running OS X 10.5.8.
I added a folder (a network share) to the iTunes media library (File -> Add Folder to library). I didn't find a way I can undo this operation. What am I missing? how can I remove this folder from the iTunes library?
I'm actually using an US iTunes account, but I'm interested in switching my country to another (as people suggest here) to my original country to be able to use my credit card (with address in my country). The problem is that I may have apps only available in the US App Store, and probably I don't really care about those apps but I would like to know which are those apps to be sure if I could live without them.
Recently I found my estimated 100 desktop symbols re-ordered in 5 bunches: 4 bunches with one in each corner and one bunch in the middle (leaving more space for more crowd between the bunches :). Unfortunately I was not aware how my symbols have been arranged in that way, I cannot find any menu entry nor do I remember the short cut that I might have pressed accidentally. Do you know how to invoke this function? Since I tried out some Apple menu items I found, I now ended up with the desktop arranged by the grid. But I prefer the bunches.
I come from the land of windows, where the ipconfig command shows four important pieces of information: IP address, netmask, gateway address, and MAC address. However, on a Mac, ifconfig only shows IP address and MAC address.
iTunes pops up a message and ask to sync iPad 2 before upgrade iOS to 4.3.3 due to there're purchased apps. After sync'ing, I only saw purchased apps in iTunes, not those free ones. Does this mean, if I don't sync iPad 2 before upgrade, only purchased apps will be removed from my iPad 2?
I disabled and removed spotlight from my menubar to save performance and space. Now except for saving some space, I have a gap in my menu-bar I'd like to get rid of:
I tried going into System Preferences, Sound, and Input and making sure the "Internal Microphone" is highlighted but it still won't work. No one can hear me in any Skype calls I make.
I'm trying to fix the WiFi on my friends iPhone 3g. It sees all the networks, but I only get "Unable to join network " when I try to connect. So I jailbroke it ;) and installed WiFiFoFum just to see if I could get some more details. And it seems like the phone cycles the wifi drivers or something.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.3, and find myself switching between the Dvorak and U.S. Extended keyboard layout. Ideally I'd want a Dvorak layout with the international character support of the latter (e.g. Option-u for umlaut, Option-6 for circumflex, etc), but such a thing didn't turn up during some quick googling. Can I download such a keyboard layout somewhere or, failing that, is there a tool to create such a layout?
I've encountered an interesting issue, and I am wondering if anyone else has experience with it. Every time I restart my Mac, FaceTime is added back to the Dock. If I remove it from the Dock, it disappears. Restart, and it's back. I can remove other things just fine and they stay where they are, if I re-arrange FaceTime in the Dock it stays in its new position. Only when I remove it does something put it back. Recent System Changes that might be causing it: EFI Update was just installed, it seemed to start happening as soon as it rebooted from installing this. XCode was upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 Things I've tried:
My first Problem: For some reason the Applescript Editor is not able to pick up events when recording from Keynote'09 (I already turned on the acessibility options). The Editor stays blank for all actions I perform. It works perfectly for things like Finder though. The resulting problem: I still want to tell Keynote to export presentations so I made this Script:
I recently upgraded from Windows to a Mac, and now I have two Macbooks. Would they work better with my wireless if I got an Apple Airport a/b/n router? (I couldn't find anything about this on Google or anywhere else.)
So back story about my hard drive. I bought a USB 3.0 enclosure and a well rated and trusted brand WD 2tb hard drive to put in it. For many months now it had been running flawlessly on my iMac, formatted 100% as HFS+. After I decided to sell my iMac, I made a complete backup image of my iMac's hard drive as a single image file onto this external. It worked great and under Windows 7 with Macdrive installed, I could mount and access my old computer completely as if it was still running. (Note that the image file was 257gb in size, and I have about 1tb worth of self ripped movies, music, and my professional photography work.)
I have installed dnsmasq and now I want to be able to start it with launchctl. The problem is that every time I start the app launchctl starts an anonyous process instead of using the specified label. But I want it to be
When I close my laptop I have it set to automatically log me off. I closed my laptop while I still had some Safari browser windows open along with my iTunes.
I'm trying to reformat the hard drive on an iMac G5 prior to selling it. I've booted the Mac from the installation DVD that came with it, opened Disk Utility, and told it to erase the drive using both security options for zeroing out and rewriting the data. However, Disk Utility seems to be hanging: I let it run for over 12 hours and it didn't finish; I needed to unplug the Mac and restart it (the program wouldn't even let me force-quit it.)
Here's the situation: I often access my Mac Pro remotely using Screen Sharing and sometimes TeamViewer. The problem is that when I do this, everything I'm doing can be seen by those near the physical computer. It also uses a considerable amount unnecessary power to have the displays on but not actually being used. Is there a way to turn them off and not just blank if possible, while still using Screen Sharing or TeamViewer Free?
I use the accessibility feature called sticky keys in OS X, what it does is that if you press a command modifier key (Ctrl, Cmd, Alt, Shift, Fn), it stays "pressed" until you press another key. This is very useful if you often use your keyboard with one hand, and actually quite convenient even when you use two hands.
I want an app that can push my emails so they show up with the blue screen and with my notification tone. I've tried Im+ but it's a chat also and I just want to push my emails. I have Gmail, and I only want to push Gmail mails. Is there an app that can do just that?
i'm using a Macbook pro 15" i5 and I'm hearing bad statics sounds when connecting my external speaker while connecting an external monitor through the vga displayport. The static sounds that come out through the speaker changes depending on the brightness of the external display. When the external display displays a dark output, the static pitch is high; when the external monitor diplays a bright output, the static coming through the speakers is low pitched. If I don't plug the external monitor, just the external speaker, there is no static sound. Please help me.
My iPhone 3GS has just developed an unusual problem. Audio will not come out of the loudspeaker, but the ear piece works, the headphones work and plugging into iPhone speakers via universal connector works. Oddly, the loudspeaker works when on a call and setting to loudspeaker. I think the audio is constantly being routed through the universal connector, for the following reasons: It tells me that the device is is plugged into is not compatible with iPhone, despite not being plugged into anything at all. It connects to my speakers instantly, normally there is a slight delay is it needs to redirect the audio.
my 3yr old son loves using it, but everyday he manages to reorder everything, and places all the objects in 1 folder I have found how to disable the delete ablitlity, but is there a way to prevent the object icons from being moved thanks
Is there a tweak, hack, or piece of software that can adjust the brightness of the MacBook Air's screen below the settings that MacOS X allows by default? In low light the lowest brightness setting is too bright for me (and the setting after that is black so that doesn't work at all). :-)
The newly released iMac can be built with an optional 256 GB SSD. To complement this, the new iMac's also contains the Intel Z68 chipset: Z68 mproves performance by putting files that are accessed often on the SSD.
In Mac OS X, what causes the change in file permissions? For example, consider that the operating system was terminated abnormally.
I am using iTunes 10.2 on Windows 7 32bit I am trying to subscribe to a video podcast (Tekzilla) and I am getting an error message.  I've been trying to do that for a couple of days and I'm getting the same error message so I guess the problem is on my side, somehow....
I have an iPod Touch (second generation) with iOS 3.1.2. Will I lose battery life or performance if I update to the latest iOS (4.2.1)? These are the closest answers I could find: iOS 4.2 on iPod Touch 2d Gen: is it worth it? Does performance degrade between iOS 3.1 and 4.1 for the iPod Touch 2nd gen? However, these relate to somewhat different versions of iOS.
I'm using an editor that requires X11 and for the most part it works well. I have many commands that use the Alt key and I like to navigate the menus this way as well, but the Alt key doesn't work through X11.
I need to install node.js on my new Mac and it requires having c++ or g++ compiler installed. How do I get one without paying for xcode?
I updated my 3rd gen iPod Touch to 4.3.3, and now almost none of the apps will run - they appear to start, and then exit back to the desktop. A double-tap on the home button shows them running, but switching to them produces the same results.
I have the latest gen iPod touch: which has an HD camera with mic. I want to record class lectures and such but the files are massive that it produces: 4+ gigs for 1 hour using the built in app. Is there a setting or another app that will allow extremely high quality audio and video without the cost of such a large file?
iTunes is showing this "Connecting to Store" alert. I know this is caused by the cover-search when I add new songs. But sometimes it happens when starting the app, it stucks and says "Connecting to Store" again and again. Most of the time I have to close the App. Any solutions?
We have an iMac with several accounts (two admins, one normal and one parental controlled). My son's account (the parental controlled) will not let me change the desktop wallpaper! Seriously? I even told it to allow him to run system preferences (once) and even though I chose another wallpaper image, it won't work. SURELY there is a way to change the simple desktop wallpaper for a managed account without opening the terminal? Thanks for any tips.
We gave our son a parental controlled account on the iMac (Snow Leopard) and while we were able to limit the apps, we don't even want him to see the restricted apps. Plus, he is using the "Simple Finder".
I have a Macbook Pro 15" i5, and I'm connecting it to a Samsung 40" 1080p monitor. Previously, it displayed a 1920x1080 resolution just fine, but then I accidentally changed something in the OSX Display preferences, and the monitor is unable to display 1080p; it only displays resolutions of 1600x1200 and below. When I select 1920x1080 the monitor displays the message "mode not supported." I think I messed up by changing the rotation of the external monitor to 270 or something; I tried restoring the default values, but it still doesn't work.
It's been a long time since I've ever had to burn something that isn't just a set of data, or an ISO (via Disk Utility), but now I have to burn a Multi-Session disc. Are there easy ways of burning a data ISO first, followed by MP3s (as standard Redbook Audio tracks), other than paying $80 for Roxio's Toast burning software?
I'm not sure of the legal implications of what I am trying to do, but here it goes. There is a radio show that I love listening to. It comes on everyday and the podcasts are uploaded to a website so users can download and listen to them for free. The website isn't very navigable, however, and it's extremely hard to play the podcasts from my phone (and, therefore, my car).
Any way to do this either via a utility, command-line, or otherwise? I regularly have my headphones and moused paired which causes the Bluetooth service to crash nearly daily. Sometimes I can just repair the devices but other times the service breaks completely. When that happens I have to reboot; very annoying indeed. Is there a "Factory Reset" option for Apple Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, trackpad?
Are there issues while using a Smart Cover for the iPad 2 arising due to the fact that the cover only covers the front? (Not a buying recommendation, just a question about a specific plausible issue with a peripheral.)
I am looking for a preference file that contains the MobileMe username/password couple that I would need to pass to a script that starts the MobileMe synchronization. What I am trying to achieve is to start the synchronization when some conditions are verified, and disable the automatic synchronization that is started from the Mac OS X. Is there a preference file that contains the MobileMe credentials for the currently logged in user?
I have all of my music catalogged in iTunes, and have no intentions of changing the software I use to listen to it. Therefore, I came here to gain some advice on the easiest/cheapest way to listen to my music in my shower. It's a big plus if I can use a remote to change the song while showering. Previously, I used my iPod touch docked in batter-powered speakers placed on my bathroom counter. The speakers had an included remote. This method worked great, but my iPod has since been broken and I do not think it was a great idea to expose it to the high-levels of water vapor in the first place. Would the cheapest method be purchasing another iPod? Or would an Air-play supported speaker system be the best option?
MacBook (White) 2.4Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.6.7 Keyboard language - Canadian English (have also tried US English). All other languages removed, computer language ENGLISH. All keys type fine apart from the S key which frequently types a ß or when capitalized an Í. I am typing from a USB keyboard which types the S (s - see) fine no issues but as soon as I reach over and type on the laptop - ß there it is.
I am not sure that is this the place to ask this question, but I heard of Lemon Experience on Mac. What does it mean? is it some hardware failure or software issue?
Altho for python 2.6.1 it finds readline-6.1.0-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg and works fine, fixing readline for ipython for 2.6.1. No joy for 2.7 however.
iPad 2 supports full mirroring, which is great, but I have an iPad 1. How do I find out which apps support the vga adapter on iPad 1. I have failed to find a definitive answer. For example maps, safari, google earth, photos. I have seen references to video and itunes supporting it, but not fully. Which apps have you used with the VGA adapter, and which features does it support?
If I add a event in Google Calendar the time comes out wrong on the iPhone. When I add an event on the iPhone the time on Google Calendar comes out wrong but the date is right? Anyone got any ideas?
I have this weird error message showing up in my console. I'm hoping to locate the problem and fix it: com.apple.Dock.agent -> : kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: singular Matrix Screenshot: http://cl.ly/6bJd
I'm a developer who mostly does web stuff in Ruby and C#, and I'd like to start tinkering with iOS and Mac development. Over the last few month I've been trying to get fluent in one set of key bindings. I chose vi/vim because it just feels right. I have the awesome ViEmu installed for Visual Studio on Windows which gives me a ton of the vim awesomeness side by side with Visual Studio power toys. Is there anything like this for Xcode? I know I could set up MacVim as the default editor but I'm not too interested in this as it means losing all of Xcode's Cocoa awareness. The other option, of course, would be to go for the lowest common denominator and switch to emacs (as the Cocoa keybindings are based massively on emacs) but let's not think about that for too long.
I'm trying to convert a bunch of HTML files into PDF files. I'm looking for an automated solution so that i don't have to open each HTML file individually and convert it to PDF. In Mac OSX, convert utility can be used to convert HTML files to PDF. I'm facing two problems. convert utility is not applying CSS style to generated PDF content. My AppleScript for batch convert is not working. Here's my AppleScript:
I have an AVCHD camera that records 1080i clips. I want to retain this quality in resulting projects, but what is the best way to manage this raw footage in the long term, so that I do not fill my hard disk by importing Full quality Apple Intermediate Codec movies, but preserve the HD resolution by not importing 960x540 Large quality? I found a hint that shows how to easily save both original content and Optimized Large content, but this still does not preserve HD quality in exports, only for archiving. I also found ClipWrap, but without AIC the scrubbing is basically useless on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro - no audio and picture lags too. Long story short - is it a viable solution to craft a script/tool that will allow: wrap the footage in iMovie compatible container (MOV) Manually import them into iMovie and optimize only when needed Prior to exporting, use the tool to revert back to unoptimized HD footage. This way I could get HD exports and cut back on disk usage.
I would like to force an update of App Store applications from the command line. How can I do this?
I have download an app called DoodleCam. But I can't see where it saves the photos I take, It only shows me the videos I record.
I have Mac and a disk on a USB key, I'm trying to copy a folder and to paste it in the disk on the USB key, but its not pasting. How can I paste files & folders onto my USB disk?
I am copying directories from a Snow Leopard machine to a Tiger machine using scp -r and for some reason, it appears that the final line of the target (Tiger) machine's /etc/bashrc (echo '') causes scp to hang. When commended out, it works as expected. Why?
I'm used to "classic" unixoid user right system with a machine running a normal user, as main account, and a super user (or root account), just for maintenance or configuration purposes. Then I was really wondered about Mac OS X (I'm currently running Leopard). What purpose has the admin user account? If I'm installing something via console (as a normal user, not admin) I have apparently to log in as admin and then log in as root user (via sudo -s because su strangely doesn't work). Does anyone know what the main reason for this is or how to fix it?
I want to leave the software on my mac and the profile and all that but I want to erase all passwords and history and personal settings from the mac so that a new colleague can use it?
Background: In Word 2011 for the Mac, it's possible to view tracked changes inline -- that is, see the changes made on the screen within the text itself, as opposed seeing them in a balloon off to the side. (Such a balloon would read "Text deleted - "on the screen".) However, there's currently no way of doing this while simultaneously viewing comments.
I play Tap ranch which at times gives free points for downloading free apps. I've downloaded all free apps and have deleted them but when I try to download it again I dont get the free points. Is there a way to delete the memory of already downloaded games so I can receive the free points again. Thanks for helping.
I have a 12mbps connection, so I know that my ichat transfers should be super fast. When I receive files from some people, my transfer rate is about 1k/sec, which is horrible. Why would this be happening? Do I need to do something with my router? In the Connection Doctor it says Router Type: Port Restricted.
Is there a way to add songs to iTunes and avoid make duplicates in the process ? I've a couple of macs and I want to merge all my songs on 1 mac and then be using home sharing... Is it possible to avoid duplicating all the songs that are already in the "destination" iTunes Library ?
How to upgrade a jailbreak iOS without loosing Cydia applications? Are there any additional steps required in order to keep you configuration and applications between iOS upgrades? itunes backup itunes upgrade jaibreak (probably using redsnow) restore backup using itunes
I have installed MySQL via homebrew: brew install mysql. I'd like to get the MySQL preference pane hooked up to my installation of MySQL through homebrew. How can I achieve this?
I had to do a couple of hard resets (holding power button until it shuts off) because MacOS became unresponsive. Now it's happenning every time, when opening a pdf with preview, or apps that used to work fine, now hang up with the beach ball and never come back, and some times the whole finder hangs. It looks like something got corrupted because I made some clean restarts and it keeps happening, other than reinstalling MacOS, is there something that I can do to try and fix this? Specs: MacBook with intel core duo, 2GB memory MacOS 10.6.7 still using the original factory install (plus updates) from about a year and a half
I don't know how to get my FaceTime to work. It says "turn on FaceTime" when I open the app, then I click on it and it says "FaceTime Activation: An error occurred during activation. Try again." How do I get it to work?
I am looking for a combo of two IM applications, one for the Mac and the other for the iPhone. The main features I am looking for are as follows: supports MSN (Microsoft messenger) has Push Notifications on the iPhone has a unified session (will explain below) doesn't have stupid bugs (Trillian will not let you copy with ⌘C) does not ask me to email someone that is invisible/offline (instead of messaging) Unified session - I want the two apps (iOS and OSX) to share the same session, so when I leave the one and fire up the other, it should have my chats already there, exactly as I left them on the other device. I have tried Meebo and Trillian thus far.
Anybody have something like that hooked up yet for watching TV and other content on demand? I've tried pvr's from Tivo and Windows Media Center and they have their shortcomings. I'd like to have TV recorded on a server and accessible anywhere in the house. At the TV I'd like to use an Apple TV to access it.
I have a bunch of podcats that I've downloaded as mp3's. I'd like to burn them to a CD in a single directory, call it "podcasts-1". Next week when I download more I'd like to add them to the CD (if there's space) in a directory called "podcasts-2".
I downloaded and compiled the latest version of ruby 1.9.2 which was installed in /usr/local/bin/ruby, however the system officially recognizes /usr/bin/ruby which is only 1.8.7 which came installed on the machine. How can I get the new ruby into place? In this instance I need to replace the ruby version and be able to use the updated version for command line work and rails development.
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11 from 2006 or 2007 with a problem during start-up. The computer will boot and then after showing the desktop, menu bar, and dock (but before icons appear on the desktop), the screen will fade to blue. After a few seconds the desktop will reappear and then fade to blue again. This cycle continues repeatedly. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Question in the title basically. Not sure what else I can say!
Am I the only one who noticed this : since the last Mac OS X System update, the fans are quite often spinning at full speed, regardless of the activity on the computer. It happens even when there is not app running. I don't know if it's an heating problem or just the fans that are randomly triggered... Does someone else encountered this weird behavior since a couple of months ?
Every time I bootup my mac the drive tries to eject it but it can't. I ran the Apple Hardware Test (hold d on startup) and it sayed that all is fine. (it also tested the slot in drive).
I have a strange issue on my iPhone 4 running 4.3.2, the device is jailbroken. When I add a new contact, the contacts application seems to assign a random photo to newly created contacts. My phone syncs with mobile me so this is replicated across all my devices. I create a new contact I click done. I view the contact and it has a random picture assigned to it.
For some reason, Google Chrome was randomly starting up on my system. I uninstalled it, and now I occasionally get the "Choose Application" dialog, which asks "Where is Google Chrome.app?" How can I determine which application on my machine is trying to invoke Google Chrome? (Note that I have "Google Chrome Canary" installed, and it is set as my default web browser).
Firefox, Safari and Chrome won't load any CSS or JS files when I open an HTTPS url, for example on Twitter, it will only load the HTML. When I look at firebug in Firefox I get the following errors:
Is it possible to sync Mail.app tasks with Gmail / Google Apps so they appear either in Tasks or as email messages?
Here is a small annoyance that I have with TextMate. When I want to open a new file in TextMate when it's not running it also opens the last opened file. Now for some cases that's just nice of him to do but in most cases I end-up closing the previous file. Maybe this is a simple setup/preference issue? Any ideas?
In the Dvorak key layout, Spotlight's shortcut masks the Undo shortcut, and I couldn't fix the problem by changing or disabling shortcut associations. Any advice?
I'm looking for a way to monitor the power being drawn from the USB ports on my Mac. System Profiler doesn't appear to display this and I haven't been able to find any applications or tools to do the job either. Can anyone suggest anything (preferably software based)?
When I Open certain apss (such as MacVim) I don't need the toolbar. So is there a way to make the app know this and always open in with the toolbar hidden (eg. as you would do by pressing the bean shaped button on the upper right)?
Is there a way to disable Growl notifications automatically when a certain app is running, Quick Time for example. I don't want to get the notifications while watching a movie.
Is there a way with Bluetooth or WiFi or something that will display on my mac mini's screen that there is an incoming phone call or SMS and who its from with possibly a photo? I'm currently on a non-jailbroken phone, so would be most interested in solutions that would work a non-jailbroken phone. On the other hand... if the only solution (seamless preferably - ie the phone talks to the computer, not through a 3rd party server out in the internet someplace) is with a jailbroken phone, this would be a reason for me to do it...
In OS X there is a lock icon in the lower right of the Get Info screen. What is this icon called? What does clicking this icon do?
I have been reading up on SSD technology current as of 2011 and don't know of any first hand reports on what happens when an SSD eventually fails due to over use. I am most interested in the SSD that apple includes as a factory option - but aftermarket information is certainly welcome.
I've recently registered to the Mac Store and provided the credit card though I didn't plan to buy anything immediately. Some people say that there is an option "no card" when registering, but I didn't know that, so whatever. After the registration I was charged 2 euros, without any explanations.
I've configured syslogd like so: I want pretty much everything logged in /var/log/messages. When I run I get the message showing up in /var/log/message. I tried restarting syslog using to check that syslog is not running, then to restart.
Having an odd issue. My dock is showing these strange red icons where normal numerical notifications should be. For example, Thunderbird will display a 3 when I have 3 new messages, but instead it is showing this red A? icon. This happens with all the apps in my dock that display a notification. See attached screen shot:
Is it possible to have a Mac Mini running OSX act as a bluetooth headset for the iPhone? (sound comes out the mini's speakers, sound goes in the mini's mic) I'm guessing that the mini would have to support the bluetooth headset profile?
I am looking for information about what macs are considered unibody and wondering if there are any notable advantages and/or disadvantages to this fabrication style. Answers that address marketing material as well as lifecycle data or experiences for largish deployments of macs with real life failure rates or data would be great to read.
I have a MacBook Pro 15", about a year old. Today, the charger started working only intermittently. I've seen a few other people talking about similar problems, and most people say it's a problem with the charger.
Is there a good image file organizer for OS X? I'm looking for something with good previews for image files, and that will allow me to tag the files.
Right now i am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 (on my macbook pro). I am doing a project on Hispania (an old Roman province) which today is currently Spain. My spell check has switched languages to spanish (for this reason i think). However I need it to be in English because my project is not in Spanish. When i go to Tools>Language... and set it to english it ignores my change in the settings and continues to check in Spanish. Can someone please help me change my settings. Thank you
Here is the dilemma that I'm having with the PDF export on Apple Pages. When I export my Apple Pages document into PDF and open it in any PDF viewer (let's just say Preview) then I don't get the TOC on the Sidebar. Just to clarify we are not talking about the cases when you do include TOC in your document and have it in the text of the final PDF. When I look at the Pages PDF Export I can see Thumbnails, Contact Sheet but in TOC I see just the name of the file. Does the Apple Pages PDF Export actually have such a feature to customise the final PDF?
I'm planning to sell my old macbook that has a cracked screen, but I do want it to go with a fresh install. Obviously, I can't make a new installation using an external monitor since the external monitor won't work when booted from cd. So my question is if it's possible to target (firewire cable and target disk mode) my old macbook's drive from my new mac when doing a fresh installation. thanks in advance,
When synchronizing Playlists between iTunes and an iPhone, by default, the playlists of iTunes are preferred - even if the iPhone's change is more current. I prefer to change my playlists on the go on my iPhone, so I want to change this behaviour. Is that possible?
I'm wondering if there's a way to stop SugarSync (or any app) putting itself in the OS X menu bar (top right) when launched. Sugar Sync doesn't have this option in it's preferences. I've managed to get Sugar Sync to appear in the Dock by going into the app's package contents and editing the property list. But I can't figure out if a similar approach can be used to disable the menu bar item.
I would like to know the discount amount available for educational at Apple stores and how does this apply cross-country. Is the educational discount valid for refurbished products? For example, if you are a student in a country where Apple does not have a store, can you get a discount and how?
Is there any way to unhide partitions that have been hidden by a third party partitioning tool on a Mac using nothing more than Terminal via a Mac OS X Boot CD or USB stick? Edit
I'm having some pretty major problems with Mac OS X. Frequent crashes, Dock randomly disappears, general sluggishness, etc. & I think it's time to reinstall.
I have the late 2010 MacBook Air and need a way to do a factory reset on it. Maybe factory reset is the wrong phrase, but I would like to delete all of the information from it so that nobody could access any of my information.
I would like to install a binary executable so that all users can run it from the terminal. Where should I put it?
When I first got my Macbook Pro, I somewhere came across a setting that let me map the Fn key to the same action as the 'F3' command, which I guess is the 'Expose' feature where it shows all open windows. Since that was set, I've been unable to find where to UNset it, because now I'm unable to use Fn + Function Key to activate F1, F2, etc. I've checked the Keyboard preferences, but all Expose options show they are mapped to the usual F1-12 keys, with no reference anywhere to Fn. I've also clicked the Reset to Defaults button there, but no change. Any ideas where I can find this?
I would like to have an item in the /Applications folder that will open a new terminal window and run a specific command inside. How can I create this?
How do I install an application for just one user, without using administrative permissions or affecting any other users?
Is there a software, command or way to know what keys from an external non apple keyboard are being mapped to which mac keys? And also is there a way to remap the shortcut keys of my keyboard: back, forward, home, search & mail? The play and volume keys on my keyboard do work as expected, but the other keys don't seem to de anything. PS: I have this one:
For some reason, starting yesterday, Safari will not show ANY style sheets for any webpage I visit. I updated today to Safari 5.0.5 thinking that might help, but it didn't.
I have to do a PMU reset to turn on my G4 PowerBook (1.25 GHz). This occurs on every shutdown of the system. What are potential causes of this? I'm perfectly happy to troubleshoot, but on Google I'm hitting a lot of misinformation.
Normally when you install Parallels, it adds a folder to the dock which acts exactly like the default Applications folder on the Mac, except for all the Windows apps. It even organizes them in folders exactly as the start menu on the PC is organized. I accidentally dragged it out of the dock, and I'm not sure how I can restore it.
I've got a large folder of music with lots of aliases to tunes that are spread throughout subfolders of the main tunes folder. For example I might keep the original files sorted by artist, and then have a folder for a genre with a bunch of aliases to tunes (or folders of tunes) for that genre, like a playlist. Now that I've got a new laptop how can I transfer the whole folder without breaking the aliases? I tried using the symbolic link options of rsync but that doesn't seem to work with OS X aliases. BTW I'm not interested in replacing the aliases with a copy of the original, I really want to keep the aliases :) Is this something Time Machine can help with? Thanks!
I'm giving Twitterrfic a test drive. I'm not sure about the issue but it looks to me the Twitterrfic doesn't keep my last read tweet after a relaunch. I mean Nambu and Twitter official client save my last read tweet, thus I can scroll through all the new tweets. Twitterrific scrolls me to the newest tweet. I can't read the tweets while I'm offline. Any way to make Twitterrfic behaves like Nambu or Twitter?
Is there a way to (automatically) delete all aliases when the file they are an alias to is deleted?
I've been exploring SSH on my iPod and have noticed that some commands seem to just leave the console hanging or do nothing all together. Some examples are 'simulatecrash' or when I try to launch an app. If anybody has any ideas on why these do nothing, I'd appreciate your input. Thanks in advance. Also, if it matters, I have a 32GB iPod Touch 4g running iOS 4.3.3 and it is jailbroken.
Sometimes my MBP plays this somewhat distressing sound through its speakers (external if connected, otherwise internal, if my system volume is not muted). Has anyone experienced this? What is it? [Listen to the sound here.] Things that make me doubt it has to do with the electrical system: The fact this seems to be emanating from my system (affects either internal or external speakers) The precise, musical, repeating nature of the sound That it has occurred on battery power at my girlfriend’s as well as in my house (plugged in). Makes me wish there was an app like Little Snitch but for audio output instead of network traffic…
I took my headphones out of my phone after a run and I figured out that it is stuck on headphones mode. I've read the forums and tried... to plug in and out my headphones (I even used two different pairs I blew into the headphone port (similar to an old Nintendo system) Something to note: My alarm works and when I unlock the phone during the alarm I get the click sound.
Is it possible to turn off all animations on OS X?
Today, I got Mactracker from the App Store. It has data on all the Macs that ever existed.
I am looking for an iPhone app which will synchronise with Microsoft Outlook memos, while maintaining the categories which I have set up in Outlook. From my understanding, the Notes application which comes bundled in with the iPhone doesn't have any categories. Any recommendations about an app which will do this for me?
I can't seem to find a simple way to filter mail that is either to or from a given address. It seems that you have to duplicate the address and use two conditions e.g. I would have hoped that "Any recipient" might include "From" but it seems that it only includes "To", "Cc", "Bcc", etc.
I recently reinstalled the Mac Mini Server using Snow Leopard-server, but using the account I created during setup (allegedly the server administrator account) I cannot authenticate to the LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 store. Using the diradmin account I can get limited (cannot change anything) access (after waiting a long time) using the same password as the 'standard' admin account. Also, using the root account I can log in fine. So, what am I missing here?
The power outlet has more power obviously, but maybe the computer USB is suffice to charge it at maximum speed. Is there a difference between charging an iPhone using the computer USB port and using the power outlet?
Is it possible to password protect a specific Mac application? For example, I am interested in protecting Mail because even if you cannot retrieve new emails, you still can read all the already received emails.
I think my question says it all (and yes, I've googled and searched StackExchange already) - but to clarify: I want to embed an image, which I have locally, in my html email signature (i.e. my logo, linked to my website). I create a html file (and made a web archive of it) with referencing to my local image like src="file:///Users/myuser/path/to/image/jpg". Opening the web archive/html page in Safari displays the logo fine.
I want to install Ubuntu on my iMac. But I don't want to use Unity. I want to use Gnome 3. I can install it over Ubuntu (as I do on my laptop) but I know that Fedora and OpenSuse use Gnome 3 natively.
I can't seem to download or update any apps purchased in the Mac App Store. So far I've tried most of the usual troubleshooting tips found by googling the issue (deleting caches & preferences, signing out & back in, rebooting). Nothing's helped at this point. I've deleted the app from the Applications folder to try to re-install it but when I click Install, the wheel on the top left just spins for a few seconds then nothing happens & the install button reappears. I don't have any problems on a different Mac. I do have the same issue if I create another account on this Mac, so it must be a system setting somewhere...
Some applications can synchronize data using MobileMe synchronization; the problem I have with those applications is that they are still listen in the MobileMe preference panel, under the "Synchronize" tab, even when they have been uninstalled. I use a tool to remove any files associated with an application, when I don't need it anymore. Is there a way to refresh the list of settings to synchronize, and avoid that removed applications are visible in that list?
So a bit of an annoyance with the Mac App Store: if it isn't running, it doesn't seem to check for updates. 2 apps I use quite a bit, Evernote and Twitter have both had recent updates and it's taken me a few days, or in the case of one Evernote update, a week to find out about the update (and Evernote included a fix I wanted). Is there a way to have the App Store check for update on a schedule and notify me somehow, ie dock icon badge or a bounce or through the OSX software update?
Long-time ago i created a service in Automator, which still works. But i want to change the code and it isn't located in either /Library/Services/ nor ~/Library/Services/ as they are both empty Have i lost the source code or can i restore it otherwise?
I used to have a 2nd generation iPod Touch, and had it connected to my email account at work (Exchange 2003). The iPod got push email as expected, and would often ping before Outlook (2010) would on my PC. I have since upgraded to a Verizon iPhone 4, and it does not get push email, or anything else from Exchange. I've deleted and re-added the account on the phone, and have verified that the delivery setting under Settings is set to Push. If I open the Mail app, then it gets email just fine. It won't even fetch it on its own; I have the interval set to 15 minutes, but I've never seen it receive email without the Mail app open.
I bought the new Mac Mini and connected it to my HP 3065 screen using the DVI cable + supplied HDMI to DVI adapter. The problem is, that the display settings enable me only very low resolutions (max 1280x800), which is unacceptable for this 30" display.
For quite some time I had my camera configured with the wrong year. How can I change the year portion of the date of 500+ photos in my iPhotos library?
Rather than pay an additional monthly fee, I'd like to take advantage of the existing cloud computing resources I already have and host a VPN on Amazon or Linode, and access that from my MacBook while I'm on public wifi networks to encrypt my traffic. Are there any recommended solutions with a nice Mac client to optimize the experience? Specifically, I just saw Cloak on Hacker News, and wondered if there was something similar I could set up myself.
Prior to owning Mac, I used Ubuntu with Nautilus (the default file-browser). With Nautilus, you could simply start typing something, and it would select the folder / file matching the characters you typed. I'm a programmer who simply just needs to quickly navigate folders so you might understand why I would prefer this over the normal finder search which is slow, searches file contents, and the entire contents of your disc. Is there a simple equivalent of this type-to-select functionality for finder?
I often want to ssh to a Mac and would love to make use of of iCloud to look up IP/DNS routing information. Can this be done without signing up for a dynamic DNS service and configuring it on each Mac in addition to iCloud?
Is there a way to have a shared clipboard with the computer you have accessed with Remote Desktop ? I tried to use those 2 buttons on the top of the screen to send and reveived what I cut and paste... Can It be set once for all ?
I am looking for a silent (unattended) way of updating OS X that would not require use intervention. Is this possible, how?
Login screen loads a very long time occasionally. It's annoying to wait for 5 minutes just to be able to use the MacBook. I have not been able to find a reason why it sometimes takes a very long time and sometimes loads instantly.
Is there a way to sync Address Book contacts added from an iPad, on iPhone and Mac without having to manually sync with a USB cable and through the Mac?
We have a house in a rural area where broadband data is capped at a really low rate (only 9 GB per month upload and download total, then $10 per additional GB) - the only way to get broadband other than satellite is through a local provider that uses a wireless signal. Once we have set up our Apple TV (which we have used very easily at a location with unlimited broadband), will it use data at all while we are streaming content from iTunes?
It has been recently discovered that Apple uses a new 7 pin hdd connection in their mid 2011 iMacs. When a none Apple certified hdd is installed the fans kick on during boot and system fails to start. Is a way to override the check for an Apple certified hdd either through a software(ktext?) or hardware(jump pins) modification?
I have purchased an iPhone 4 about six-seven months ago. Roughly two weeks into using it I have decided to jailbreak the iPhone for ideological reasons (I am not a big fan of The Man telling me how to manage my stuff) However, after all these passing months I can honestly tell that I have not even used any of the jailbreak features even once.
I tried to login with my apple id to develper.apple.com and application loader But is giving the error -Your Apple ID or password was entered incorrectly I know my login credentials are right. Please help..
Is it possible to manually define a custom icon on track in GarageBand? Having something like a usericon I see on web sites makes knowing whose track I'm editing much easier than having to read relatively small text with the person's name on it.
How can I send private email from my iphone to an Outlook user so his delegates cannot see the email?
Is there any Dictionary app act like this: 1.capturing the image of the word on the book by its camera 2.converting the image of the word to text,and show its meaning in other languages
I am using keynote to make a presentation. Let's say that following 3 lines. And the third line is something like We are opening a section for kids In June use 20% discout on all kids items On all kids items 30 days money back guarantee Next I want this to happen. When I hit next then a big "X" come over slowly on "20%" When I hit next then I want "20%" to be replaced by "40%"
Is there a way to make Spotlight show files that reside in different unmounted Volumes? I think there is no official way of doing this, and that Apple does not provide a plugin API that allows this kind of behavoiur but, is there any hacky way this could be implemented? (Maybe in a similar way to the Spotlight Google Importer:) http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/spotlight/googleimporter.html
How can I know where does an app locate its configuration files such as in ~, /Library, ~/Library etc, other than browsing and guessing? I mean is there some command like findfiles this.app that prints them out or something?
I want to install the 3.0 iPhone simulator on my Xcode 4.0.2 installation. Is there a way to do this?
Since my Macbook only has two USB ports, I'd like to get myself a mouse that can pair with the Mac's built-in bluetooth. The obvious choice is the Apple Magic Mouse, but at $70 it's pretty much overkill. I don't need the touch functionality, since the Mac's trackpad already does a great job with that.
I was so happy with my iphone when I bought it. It was so fast... now, after dozen of upgrades i hate my iphone.... does anyone remember what was the original version of iOS when they bought their 3GS
Copied the syntax description files for Xcode included in the Go distribution as described here. However it still does not work in either Xcode 3 or 4. Has anyone gotten Go syntax highlighting to work in Xcode?
I bought the Xcode app from Apple's Mac App Store last night on a computer which I ended up returning. I now have a new Mac. After logging into the App Store, I am asked to repurchase the app.
I have an HP Officejet 6500 E709n. It is not the exact model that is listed as "AirPrint" compatible. Is there a way to get it to work any way? I would love to be able to print from my iPhone.
I'm trying to digitise several (as in about a hundred) VHS tapes, but I've run into two problems before I've even begun. I've got two major problems; The first being iMovie 09 won't capture VHS from my VCR (but it will capture analogue output from a DVD recorder) and the second is iMovie isn't giving me any video/audio preview when capturing video.
I followed the instructions in How to use Preview for Basic Image Editing: Remove Backgrounds and Extract Shapes to use the Preview app to remove backgrounds with an image. The problem is that the "Instant Alpha" tool sometimes does not capture all the pixels and can't figure out how to use the rectangle tool to remove those remaining pixels. I tried highlighting the pixels and then pressing delete but it doesn't work. Can someone explain how to do it or recommend another free, lightweight Mac OS X tool to remove background to make it transparent? I do not want to use Photoshop or anything else expensive.
For some reason I can't get Adium to connect to Facebook. Facebook refuses to log me in every time I try. I have the right email address and the right password... but it keeps asking for password.
I'd like to spend some time aside from the IDE for a bit and use command line gcc, g++ compilers. When i use my terminal, they however, can't be found. How can i install them? I honestly am surprised why these two don't come standard. Please let me know.
I store my music on a network location \192.168.1.6\music I added that folder to iTunes on Windows 7. I want to use a new Mac and I'm wondering what's the easiest/fastest way to transfer all the iTunes settings, metadata, playlists, etc from Windows to OSX?
I have a strange memory issue: I've been running out of free memory for months now, which I thought was OK, since I use the Creative Suite apps and Xcode regularly, all of them is quite memory intensive. But somehow the situation seems to be getting worse. Today I logged off to free up some RAM, then when logged back in, all the 4 GB of my RAM was used. (I've uploaded the list to here)
I can find it hard to differentiate between my dev and production server. I am using SSH to connect to the machines (both Ubuntu 10.04), and I was wondering whether there is a way to change the colour of the Terminal window depending on what SSH server it is connected to as I will forget to change the colour for each server...
When I launch my Terminal app, it starts in a Basic mode. I'd like to do a few things: Change default to "Pro" Control how Terminal is started .. For example, i'd like to either use my keyboard or LaunchBar to bring first terminal as Pro, second as Ocean etc Please advise.
In my previous question I had asked about backing up the content of the iPhone in order to un-jailbreak my iPhone. I was told that simply synchronizing with iTunes should do the trick, and I did that. However I did not get a certain answer about the media. When I had applied the jailbreak patch I recall it completely obliterating everything I had: contacts, logs, apps and even mp3s and such. I fear that after applying the update to my iPhone all my music will be gone (it will still be on my computer, but transferring all those files again and setting up playlists is something that generally I wish to avoid) So all in all, after applying the update to my iPhone, what happens to my music, playlists, photos, videos and voice memos?
As a long time Putty user, I love how upon selecting a text it gets copied into the buffer and upon right clicking it gets pasted back in. Is there a way to configure Terminal to behave the same way?
Where is the location of the error and the warning icon? I'm talking about the red octagon with a ! inside it and the yellow triangle also containing a !. Example: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/1-blog-pics/mac-usb-device-removal-error.png
The terminal command sips -s format pict /path/to/image.ext --out /path/to/output.pic ouputs Error: Unsupported output format com.apple.pict even though if you do man sips and go down to format, there is written that it supports jpeg | tiff | png | gif | jp2 | pict | bmp | qtif | psd | sgi | tga. Is this normal and can you fix it anyway?
I have the following plist file in my User/Library/LaunchAgents folder. It presses the "g" key every 60 seconds. My question is, how can I change this to press the "g" key every 5 seconds?
It's possible to get iTunes to start a song in the middle, say, after a long introductory section. (This is great for party mixes, where one doesn't want to interrupt the energy of a mix.)
I have clear information that iStyle, a Premium Apple Reseller is sending commercial email messages to people who did not subscribed for that. In addition to this, their "newsletter" contains no information regarding unsubscribing. I want to send this complaint directly to Apple because this would be the only way that could put enough pressure on them to change their practice ASAP.
I have just switch to a mac recently. Trying to find some thing equivalent to Babylon on windows but haven't found any.
I have setup a laptop with iis and have a test website running on it. I have created an adhoc network between my laptop (running Windows 7) and my Ipad 2. On the laptop I can enter a url in firefox and it knows it is a local site, by entering details of this into the hosts file. When I try to enter the url into the browser on the Ipad 2, I get a message of: Safari cannot open the page because it is not connected to the internet. Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Many thanks.
My iPhone clock is at 15:32 when the actual time is at 15:52! why is it twenty minutes behind? The time zones are all correct and I have a screenshot that I will upload soon.
I am using Outlook/Exchange at work and iCal at home. I have one Outlook/iCal calender for all my appointments (both home and work). I sync between outlook and iCal using my windows mobile 6.5 phone, currently testing The Missing Sync.
I have a fresh install of Snow Leopard on a 32bit Core Duo. Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, I have random crashes when compiling: i.e. - during brew install imagemagick. While brew installed dependencies (tiff and little-cms) it finished just fine, but when it went to compile imagemagick itself, it crashes. During make install for imagemagick, the system fans just spin up then my computer shuts down. I've looked at mkmf.log and CrashReporter, but nothing is in them about this install. I'm using Xcode is 3.2.6 with iOS SDK 4.3.
I've been looking around to find out how to change MIDI sounds for the Built-in MIDI synthesizer inside Mac OS X, haven't found anything, is there a way to do that?
Back when I was using my MBP as a desktop pc I had moved my music archive to an external disk and changed the "iTunes Media Location" within iTunes Preferences. Now that worked without any complications for a long while. A couple of months back I got an iMac to replace my old and worn-out laptop, and I figured it wouldnt be more complicated than to change the media location on the iMac to point to where the media is. Oh, how terribly mistaken I was...
I used to love the terminal.app for many reasons. I especially liked the way I could navigate to a file and edit using vim it all in one app, without having to leave the keyboard. But, since the terminal.app doesn't support many of vim's rich features, I decided to make the step to MacVim. This breaks the symmetry though, I have to use terminal.app to navigate to a file, edit in MacVim (using mvim of course), quit MacVim and open up the terminal again.
I tried syncing my iPod Touch, but the recently purchased/acquired apps were not sent to iTunes. Then I tried to update the iPod and got a message that before updating, I should move the apps to the iTunes library (the implication was that they would be erased if not in the iTunes library). That seems like a lot of work just to update my iPod, especially since I don't know of any actual benefits resulting from the update. What benefits will I get from updating my iPod Touch?
I have been a mac user for quite a while now (about 5-6 years) and I would consider myself rather tech-savvy. That being said I have very little insight to the automation capabilities that have been introduced to OSX a couple of years ago. There are smart folders, folder actions, and other applescripts, as far as I know. As I haven't come across a good tutorial, or some other resource for these new capabilities within OSX, I was wondering if people could give a couple real-life examples of how they are using these.
I was using Skype, and suddenly the internal iSight camera stopped working. It's not the first time this has happened. I already fixed this problem with a reboot, but I would like to find a solution without a reboot. Is there a way to push the driver back, or do some more accurate diagnostic? I have MacOSX 10.6.7 on a macbook 13" unibody.
List your favorite accessory (or peripheral) for your Apple hardware. Rules Limit to one accessory per answer. Add a short description for the accessory. Add a link to the website in the name of the accessory if possible . Use ## accessoryName (price) for citing the accessory name. Check for dupes. Only Mac OS X and iOS compatible accessories.
Is there any good zip application for Mac OS X similar to 7-Zip (Windows only) which is free, compatible with many formats, and offers encryption options?
I want to control my Windows box from my Mac. I installed RealVNC on Windows but it's impossible to connect from Mac. (Finder, Command+K) What should I do to do this?
Is there any way I could lock up my Mail client so that only I can read my emails(which are present locally on the machine)
Is there any website, where I can check which memory (RAM) is suitable for any MacBook or Apple computer?
I've just realized I can't send images from Mail on Ipad. When a create a new draft there is not add image functionality, so I guess the only way is to email images from Photos. However, what if I want to send an email with more than one image ? thanks
I'm looking for a dashboard sticky-type widget that I can "lock" so that it won't accept edits. I have a number of stickies that I place there with common terminal commands I use, but I have the nasty habit of hitting cmd+v instead of cmd+c when I select the command, and cmd+z doesn't undo the paste, which means I have to recreate the sticky. Are there any widgets where I can lock the contents, and maybe even auto copy-to-clipboard on click/select?
I have histograms in a bunch of hundreds of .pdf files. I would like to find a way to make an animation from these files to use in a Powerpoint presentation.
Specs: MacBook Pro 7,1, 2.4gHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD with Snow Leopard v10.6.7 I'm having a weird problem. I want to boot from the install disk to run Disk Utility because I'm having a Time Machine problem (that's not the problem). So I grab the install disk and hold down C as the computer starts up. The logo appears and then it goes straight to the login screen. I did it again, still the same thing. So I double check and saw that Startup disk is set to Snow Leopard disk and there is nothing plugging into the computer besides the power cable.
I'm new to Mac and Xcode. I realize there's always a significant delay when I click the trackpad and when Mac responds to my action, around 300-500 ms or so, which is very annoying for me. I'm using a new MacBook Pro with plenty of memory and processing power.
In Windows Live Photo Gallery, there's a timeline view (see below) that shows all the Months/Days that any photos in my collection were taken. I found this very convenient. Is there something similar for the latest Picasa for Mac?
I used to switch windows using win+1..9 on windows 7. Now switching to mac, i wonder if is there any equivalent feature in snow leopard? Or maybe there exist some third-party application support that?
In keynote each page has a fixed size. Just to impress people I am developing a page which will list around 40 clients.
When I first configured Apple Mail, I mistakenly opted not to keep a copy of mail on the Hotmail server. I've now changed that, but would like to move Inbox items that are on Apple Mail back on to the Hotmail server. Any ideas how I can do that?
I am going away on holiday for a week but don't want to take my phone with me because I'm afraid of running up a huge bill, is it safe to turn the phone off for this long? Or can it damage the battery?
I finally got my wireless keyboard for my iPad and I'm quite disappointed. Beside the media controls the whole stuff from the dock-keyboard doesn't work on the wireless one. What's even worse is that I have to disconnect the keyboard when I take the iPad away from the desk and go to the balcony. Is there any way to get the soft-keypad back, when the wireless keyboard is connected without going to the keyboard and pressing the eject-key?
I'm doing some Rails dev, and I'm trying to get Pow running. After making the appropriate symlink, if I try to go to idealm_web.dev/ (idealm_web being the name of my Rails project), I get this:
After a simple upgrade to OSX Snow Leopard, there is an issue with cookies on any site using any browser. I have checked multiple times that cookies are enabled and still have no luck. What's going on and how can I fix this?
I have to let members of the public use my laptop to access a member signup web page at a student fair in a couple of weeks. Chrome doesn't have kiosk mode on Mac, is it possible to disable CMD+Q, prevent the title bar from showing up etc..? Is there software designed for this? Any other advice?
I will be returning my work machine to my employer soon and I would like to leave little or no personal trace on the machine. I am not able to create a new user, delete my user, access the administration account, or reinstall the OS, but otherwise I do have full administration rights to my user name. What options do I have for removing as much personal data as possible?
Other than the color, what exactly are the difference between the black and the white iPhone 4?
On my ipad (gen1, 3g, iOS4.3.3) the time is constantly 5-15 mins fast (depending on whether I set it manually or automatically). I don't have the same issue on my iphone 4 and don't recall having it on my iphone 3G either. Anyone know why this happens and what the fix for it is?
I can't open my network preferences anymore. It says that Network Preferences don't work on a PowerPC-based Mac, whereas it's actually an Intel. (2.0 ghz core 2 duo, 10.6.7) I've tried the following: repair disk permissions reset PRAM Trash network .plists copied Network.prefpane from other Mac and replaced it
I tried to upgrade from the default vim install on Mac OS X (vim 7.2) to the one used by MacVim (vim 7.3) by creating a symlink: However, now I get the following error messages:
I drag-and-drop 2 folders to the places group in finder's sidebar. Now i want to remove it. However, there was no option for remove it from side bar, although the other things (application, desktop, documents...) have the option to do so when you right-click on them.
I've just bought an iPhone 4 and I want to connect to the internet but I can't do so. Do I need an apple id to use an iPhone?
I'm trying to diagnose an issue with a Mac Pro Early 2008. When I received it, it just doesn't boot: when I pushed the power button, it started for less than a second, and then it automatically shutted down. No chime, no gray screen, no apple logo.
I was wondering if anyone knew a command line 'command' I could use in a cron to force the iTunes podcast updater to run overnight. I'm running 10.6
I have ImageMagick installed on my Mac. I manually installed it and the dependencies.
Is there an app for iPad to assist in wireframe design for iPad and iPhone apps? I don't mean actual development, just placing standard widgets and the things you usually do with photoshop and associated kits.
I'd love to make a smart playlist to exploit this and collect tracks for listening based on the idea that "if genius can't match this song to others in my library, it's worth a listen". This song is either too new (or obscure) and genius won't match it on anyone's library no matter how complete, or that song is so different than the others in my library that it stands out as a singleton. Basically I'm asking if the Smart Playlist criteria are extensible as I want a Has Genius flag similar to the Has Artwork flag to make a playlist where this is false.
My new iPhone 4 takes pretty good pictures (for a phone); they're comparable to a lower-end point and shoot. Very convenient.
I'd like to copy video files from my computer (OS X) to iPad over WLAN. I'd prefer simply share a folder on OS X and then be able to copy files from that folder when iPad is connected to the same WLAN. What solutions there exists for this (apps, OS X native share)? I have been using Dropbox, but it's too slow as it is round-tripping the file transfer through the internet connection, not the WLAN. Videos are MP4 files, so they don't need to be converted.
Is there any better English dictionary software available to replace the simple default dictionary app in mac? I need some features like one-click word lookup, hotkey to open the program, hotkey to lookup, speech synthesis...
I am using keynote 2009 and I want all my slides to have the font-family "Courier". I tried playing with master slides but when I create a new slide it defaults to "Gill Sans". Any help is appreciated.
For reasons that are unimportant, I really need an extension just like the ShowIP extension for firefox but for Safari. Tried google and the safari extensions gallery but got nowhere. On top of this, I need a version for mobile safari, but I'm not sure if that is even in the art of the possible.
I know that we can easily use time machine. However, i wonder if there exist any other way to backup the data on my macbook? Since I do a lot of modification to the system and sometimes make it has kernel panic, I would need the backup program to be able to restore everything from a bootable cd (the backup file can be on the hard disk). So, if your solution offers a bootable backup, that's great, but I'm more interested in equivalent functionality of Time Machine where multiple snapshots are available.
I have a 5+1 theater system(can use USB or DVD) which doesn't support MKV play. How can I use my Mac to burn the .mkv files into high quality dvds ?
And here's the tricky part: I'd like to keep some of my music on the local drive so I can actually listen to it when I'm out and don't have the external drive with me. Is there a way to do that? I don't need to preserve ratings or play counts.
When you use iTunes to import a CD you have several options -- "AAC Encoder," "AIFF Encoder," etc. I'd like to have the best possible sound quality and avoid any sort of lossy compression. Which setting, if any, allows me to do that?
How can I configure BBEdit to insert 4 spaces (or at least spaces up to the next column which is a multiple of 4)? I've checked "Auto-expand tabs" in the preferences, but it doesn't seem to be doing that.
So after testing my backup strategy to its limits, I bought a new drive (Seagate Momentus XT 500Gb). This drive is updated with the latest firmware SD25 and I'm generally happy, the hybrid drive is everything you'd expect: nippy and reasonably huge. On a good day, my cold boot from off to active is less than a minute (much less).
On Ubuntu I use SMPlayer or SubDownloader, which both reliably retrieve subtitles from opensubtitles.org. SMplayer even does this automatically for the file you are currently viewing.
How does one disable Google Chrome from using WebGL on a Mac (Mac OS X 10.6)? (There currently appears to be some sort of security advisory regarding this component.)
I am about to take a long flight and would like to take my 13" Macbook Air (late 2010 model) to watch some movies. I don't have a DVD drive, so I will be ripping DVDs (that I own), encoding them, and transferring the video files to the Macbook Air. I would like the battery to last as long as possible. What encoding methods should I use so that the Macbook Air uses the least amount of battery? (I will be using Mac the Ripper to rip the DVDs and Handbrake to encode the video files) Update: According to some notes by a Stanford student in 2009 about video encoding:
So this has been driving me crazy for a while now: when you have a lot of blank space before a word, you go to the beginning of the line and push option-delete, it will delete not only the blank space, but also the next word. All editors in Windows and Linux will only delete the blank space. Is there a setting for this? This is an absolute must-have for me when, for example, trying to format code in XCode. As an example: Pushing option-delete, I expect this: But instead, I get this: This is particularly nasty when you copy-paste code from somewhere, and get something like this:
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro and just purchased a wired Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad. I really wanted dedicated navigation keys, and it is working great in Eclipse after a bit of configuration. I also wanted proper mappings for Word given how non-standard it feels, and this works well out of the box. I've set up the extra function keys to swap between Spaces - all working fine. However, in other apps like FireFox, the home and end keys are not working.
I'm trying to install windows 7 with bootcamp. I get the following message, after mounting windows image (.iso) Insert your Windows installer disc and wait a few seconds for the disc to be recognized. I did the same thing on the imac and it was fine, but now, on the macbook, osx seems not to recognize the dvd. Do you know could I fix this problem?
On my laptop I usually have a ssh connection open and use the remote machine as a proxy server just so that all my network traffic is over ssh. I know that it's hopeless and we're all doomed, but it makes me feel a little better. Problem is sometimes I need to set and unset it for some reason and then I have to dig through millions of dialogs to get to here...
I have an MacBook White, will it support Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (via BootCamp). Are there any softwares/apps (in particular) that won't work after I install Snow Leopard and windows7. MacBook Specifications 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 13.3-inch TFT screen NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with Main Memory NOTE: I know it's old system, but can't help it.
I'm going to collaborare with several customers to develop iOS apps, and I was wondering how should I deal with app store subscriptions ? Should I subscribe by myself and pay 99$ per year (and have the apps with my development username) or should I ask to each of my customer to subscribe ?
I've recently started a programming company with my girlfriend and we're doing a lot of pair programming. I'm looking into the various solutions for driving multiple external monitors from a MacBook Pro. It looks like the solutions are to either find a DisplayPort 2.0 monitor and daisy-chain them (too expensive / rare), use a USB video card (lol, lag), or use a DisplayPort hub.
Is there already an app or would it be possible to have an app which: Catches *=URL=* links that are clicked from any application and can redirect them to other apps other than safari. For example a link to twitter could be set to goto Tweetbot, so *=URL=* would be clicked but it would actually load tweetbot://user_profile/adamdempsey I know obviously this would be for jailbroken phones only, just asking if it could happen?
If my iPhone is stolen and the thief shut the phone down, I wouldn't be able to locate it anymore. Is it possible to disable the possibility to shut down the phone when a passcode lock is set up?
I use a mac at work and a home. However, at work I need to log into a Windows virtual machine (using either CoRD or MS RDC) several times each day to do some work. Switching between using control instead of command for common keyboard shortcuts is driving me mad, so I was hoping there was a way to switch these keys only when I am in Windows. That way I wouldn't have to fight my muscle memory for tasks such as cut, copy and paste. (Permanently switching my mac to use a Windows layout is not a solution btw. I like my mac keyboard layout) I have looked at Ukulele, but it doesn't allow rearranging of modifier keys.
I did a class at a university - RMIT. Their network required a complex set up, which their tech support did for me. I also set up Locomatic to switch locations when I went home and used my home network. Every now and then, when I join my home network, my laptop says in a synthesised voice 'welcome to rmit' Locomatic is now disabled, and I have deleted all the RMIT network and location details.
My impression is that by adding an "Exchange 2007" account to the Address-book does not work with Google Mail. I tried to configure Google by using the iPhone method: exchange server on m.google.com but it doesn't seam to work. I need to sync contact from 2 different gmail accounts (to be able to see and edit them as separated addressbooks) Any ideas?
I am looking for the OS X corespondent of FileMon, that was later included in ProcessMon. BTW, it is essential to be able to filter by process.
I have a MacBook Pro (10.6.7 with latest updates). Next to me is a TP-LINK TL-WR841 Router.
I was trying to install npm, and I got How can log in as a root?
I have a Macbook Air (Late 2010) and am running Windows 7 Home Premium via VMWare Fusion. It works great, except that I have to press the key labelled as '@' (i.e. shift 2) to get a quote mark ", and vice versa - press the quote key to get an @.
I am trying to place Mathematical equations in Pages and it appears it doesn't have this feature (why not apple? glare), however looking online I was advised to use Equation Editor which I seem to have installed.
We have a new Macbook Pro which we've installed Windows 7 under boot camp. We've also installed the drivers off the OSX CD.
I occasionally receive the infamous HDCP error (as seen below).  However, I don't have an external display connected. It happens on the MacBook's built in display. This happens MID VIEWING. It starts playing fine, then randomly I get this error. I can always restart it, but it's become a pain. Any ideas?
My friend gave me a USB key that has Windows Viruses on it. On my mac, when I try to delete them it fails and tells me that those files are "locked". I ran an anti-virus, which also was unable to delete them for the same reason.
In the upper right corner of the screen, right beside the clock, you can open the character table which opens a window with a lot of different characters, sorted by categories (currencies, arrows, math symbols, ...). Now my question is how can I know which font serves one specific symbol? For example if I insert the arrow "RIGHTWARDS ARROW FROM BAR" I get only a questionmark in my text. Obviously my font does not contain this symbol but how to know which font DOES contain it? I don't have to try all my 200 fonts, do I? Thank you!
I have some music ripped from my own CDs on my iPod Touch. Recently, I lost those CDs (well, I still have one but it's too damaged to use). I also recently have a new PC, so the only copy of the music is on my iPod.
For all that own or know this in the new version. Is the Thunderbolt output compatible with the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter? If not, how do we connect our external monitor? If yes, with the 27" version there are two ports, can we connect 2 external monitors? BTW: I'm asking about standard monitors, not the Apple Cinema Display.
Assume I have a CDR file, Adobe Illustrator CS 5 and no CorelDraw. How can I convert this CDR file to AI file? What is the fastest and cheapiest way?
While in a call with the phone at my ear the touch screen stays active instead of going off which I am sure it always used to do. What is now happening is I keep activating the mute or hold button during calls.
I have software updates set to check weekly, but it seems to happen at random times during the day. I'd really like to have it run at a specific day and time - say 4:30 on Friday - so that I can just let it run on my way out the door, rather than having to let the computer restart in the middle of a workday. Is it possible to schedule the software update that granularly? Obviously it can't be done via system prefs, but maybe there's a hidden setting somewhere (or a utility I can download) that I'm not aware of as a Mac newb.
Is it possible to somehow determine which of my safari tabs has the most cpu usage? NOTE: I haven't turned on any flash (i'm using a "plugin customs" extension) in my tabs so it's really hard to figure out visually which of the tabs is a cpu hog
In a (possibly related) recent question I outline some background to a decidedly unhealthy Mac Book Pro (patched up to date with the latest 10.6 updates). A suggestion was to try to see what clues might appear in Console.app ... but Console.app doesn't start. It bounces in the dock, then reports that it can't open. Where can I find the logs that Console.app reflects?
In Finder's view options: I assume that "Always open in list view" pertains only to the current folder. True?
This is the scenario: there's a wedding and a couple of friends can't make it, because we're in different countries. One friend is willing to transmit the wedding live with his iPhone, but we haven't found anything that allows us to conference call (Facetime and Skype conference call seem to not be supported on iOS devices, but I'm not sure). There's five of us that want to be connected simultaneously, perhaps the best option is to "broadcast" the call to a service such as justin.tv?
I own Peggle for iPhone and bought the Peggle Nights addon from within the app. I installed Peggle on my new iPad, but Peggle Nights isn't available.
My macbook is currently a brick. I added a /etc/launchctl.conf file that must be malformed. The OS now crashes even when attempting to start in safe mode: "launchd System bootstrapper has crashed: Seg fault"
I've got a lot of files named 0 all over the place on my filesystem. They contain some digits (mostly also zeroes) inside.
Whenever I open "About this Mac" > "More Info..." and navigate to logs there is an entry with the following content. Any idea what I can do about it? /usr/bin/pmset -g log: Description: Power Management logs Size: 77 bytes Last Modified: 5/19/11 11:26 PM Recent Contents: Couldn't locate MessageTracer database (at path /var/log/DiagnosticMessages) I am on a MBP with OS X 10.6.7 TIA
I've been using Time Machine over wifi and have had a recurring problem with corrupted sparsebundles. The scenario is a relatively new Airport Extreme, a MacBook with Leopard, and a partitioned Western Digital drive hooked up via USB to the Airport.
Should I take it out and put it in a HDD enclosure. assuming its a 2.5" drive, should i buy a HDD enclosure and just slot it in? Anyone know of a half decent FAQ that will help me with this task. Finally any special gotchas when reconnecting this external drive to my iMac desktop machine? Do i have to use firewire or can I use USB 2? Sorry for what seems like lots of questions but they are related.
I've been looking around for a few weeks now and still dont see any Thunderbolt adapters, like a SATA/eSATA adapter or anything similar, is it still too soon ? i just havent seen anything on Newegg or anywhere else.
I was in a situation where I wanted to use a tunnel-all VPN, and went to Hotspot Shield's site. Much to my dismay, they ship an installer in order to use their service.
I have a spare BluRay Drive. I wonder if I can replace the Superdrive in my Mac Pro? I know I could install it along side, but I need the drive very rarely, so I just prefer to replace it.
Is there any software for mac to create this particular 3d histogram: given a matrix of value? I've tried with Numbers but it doesn't have 3d histograms.
I would like to send some text to a port on my machine using telnet in the Mac OS X Terminal. I start telnet using:
What are working stereo USB microphone options for the iPad? It needs to be usable as an audio input into recorder apps? Presumably plugged into the iPad through the USB camera connection adapter.
I've looked around the AppStore for this but have not found one yet. Maybe my keywords are all messed up. Is there an app that will allow me to read files created by Microsoft Office on the iOS?
Which .conf file do I need to edit in order to view man pages in a web browser? I'd like to use Google Chrome to do this. Is this possible?
I am looking for an extension in Safari that automatically tracks my time in Safari. Specifically, I want: 1) When I start Safari, the timer automatically starts/resumes. 2) When I stop Safari, the timer pauses. 3) The timer would reset every day or at a frequency I specify. The basic idea is that I can track my daily usage on the internet at work, so that I don't spend too much time goofing off.
I have several Macs (10.6) on a wireless home network and want to add a network HDD, primarily as a drive for Time Machine to back up to. Having heard bad things about Apple's Time Capsule, I'm currently looking at buying a Western Digital 1TB NAS and connecting it via ethernet cable to a wireless router on the network. I have no experience using Time Machine, although it looks pretty straightforward. Before trying this, I'd like to know:
I manage the computers at a public library. We just got a donation of two iPad 2's. I'd like to be able to lend the library patrons the iPad with the iTunes account setup (without a credit card) just for free apps/songs. Is it possible to create an iTunes account with a “user” password that allows free apps and songs but restricts the user from changing the profile unless they have the “master” password?
Having problems with an iMac that I bought today. It's a 21", 2ghz Dual Core with 4GB ram. I'm connecting to my router via ethernet, and I can load up my remote websites and servers using the ip address, but when using a domain, safari complains with "You are not connected to the internet" It's a fresh install of snow leopard 10.6.3 - I've tried running the Network Diagnostics and it just keeps saying it can't resolve the problem. Would appreciate any ideas. Dave
Can an Applescript change the primary monitor option within the Wacom Driver, and do it near instantly?
I need to batch a process that requires me to automate some key presses. All I need to be able to do is hit the enter key, wait 5 seconds, hit the enter key again, wait 5 minutes, and then cmd + w to close the current window. In the MacOS 9 days I would use OneClick by WestCode software: http://www.macworld.com/article/15791/2000/12/13reviews2oneclick.html
I had to get the logic board and HDD replaced on my Unibody MBP, before I sent it back to Apple, I took a DMG copy of my hard drive thinking I could just remount it once I got my MBP back. When I got it back it had a blank Snow Leopard install, when I tried to restore the backup that I took, I had to create a new partition and mount the DMG to that. So now I've got 2 Mac OS X installs on the MBP. I changed the default boot partition to my old install so I can use the MBP as it was but I want to put it back to its default behaviour. Can I just use Time Machine to backup my old Mac OS X install and restore that on the blank Mac OS X install I got when Apple sent my MBP back?
I'm thinking to reinstall my Mac OS X on my Macbook Pro and starting fresh (instead of recovering from a Time Machine backup) The question is: If I do that, after OS X is reinstalled, will I be able to pick only certain files to be restored from my Time Machine backup? The scenario is basically I want to start with a fresh OS X install and restore my iTunes library and possibly a few other documents.
My Macbook Pro 15" (Early 2011 - the one with Thunderbolt port) constantly kernel panics whenever Cisco AnyConnect establishes connection. The panic tends to happen in the first ~30 seconds after connection is established. The crash log is available here: *=URL=* Any thoughts? Some details: Macbook Pro 15" i7 Early 2011 (the one with Thunderbolt) Cisco AnyConnect version 2.5.2019
On many forum web sites, if you go to the site on an iPhone/iPod/iPad it prompts to install an app for the site. But 90% of the time when I visit a forum site, it's because I'm following a search result; I never ever want to install the app. Is there some setting in iOS that disables this kind of prompt?
Because the format appeared to be universal, it was clearly being done within Safari (or by the mobile version of Google Reader) and not by all these sites. But for a while (perhaps since iOS 4.x) articles are opened in in their normal formats, without being modified at all for mobile browsers.
I synced my friends' Facebook profile pictures with the facebook iPhone app. When I get a call from someone it has the picture displayed in small in the top right corner. When someone calls whose contact photo I've taken with the iPhone itself, however, it looks like this: — the picture is "full screen".
Does anyone have experience installing and running Windows 2008 Server on a Mac Mini (which has either Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server installed), with Bootcamp? I have an old Dell PC with Windows 2008 server which acts as my domain controller, Exchange server for a small home-office network. It's due for an upgrade as the hardware is so old (and noisy!). I like the idea of having a nice compact, quiet Mac Mini, but want to make sure it can carry out the same duties if I use Win2008 with bootcamp?
I just bought my iPad and left it syncing overnight with a somewhat large iPhoto library (22,000+ photos). This morning I found that the sync worked just fine and the entire library is handled beautifully on the iPad. However, I just noticed that the size of the iPhoto library on my Mac has pretty much doubled.
Can I access and post on the official Apple iOS developer forums without the 99dollars subscription ?
I have noticed some strange behavior when using an external monitor with my MacBook and DejaVu Sans Mono (or Panic Sans) with Terminal.app and TextMate. If I launch these programs prior to plugging in an external monitor, when I plug in the monitor, the fonts appear like so. However, if I plug in the monitor first, and then open the application, the fonts are displayed like this. Is there some way to ensure that the bolder, clearer version is always displayed, regardless of when I plug in an external monitor? Note: I have noticed this behavior on many different monitors, connected via both DVI and VGA. Thank you. ~Arun
I'm trying to collect advice and utilities to make better use of the Google Apps on OS X, in particular Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. Gmail I tried Mailplane but I find the ratio price/features a bit too high so I decided not to buy it. Now I use a Fluid's app for Gmail and I installed Google Notifier to have growl like notifications. Google Calendar Idem, Fluid app, and Google notifier. I'm syncing my google calendars with iCal but it is only one-way. Edit As @Rene Larsen said, it is possible to use CalDAV to sync with Google Calendar.
Do I need to be a member of iOS Developers program to develop and install an app on my iPad ? Or can I just run Xcode and specify the device on which to install it ?
Is there an app out there that I can have on my mac that does the following: Basically if I am on a website on my macbook, I want to be able to click a button on the browser and the same page to pop open wirelessly on my ipad.
On my mac, when I go to the folder Applications see the format ".app" How can I hide it?
I've got 2 questions regarding password security and IPhone If say I access the internet and key in my gmail password. Exactly how "safe" is this action?
I'm going to use the internet on a MacBook 5,2 and I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.1 and it's jailbroken (and using TetherMe), if it makes any differences.
When Apple announced the iPad, one of the features was the possibility of running iPhone apps, optionally scaling to 2x size with blurry results. Fast forward to the announcement of the iPhone 4 and Retina display. The iPhone 4 uses the same apps as the legacy iPhone, only scaling images that don't have a higher resolution available. For everything else, the final render is as crispy as an app designed for the Retina display would be.
I have been using iSSH on the ipad when I need to ssh to my servers; however, one of the glaring problems with iSSH is that you don't have copy / paste support within the iSSH terminal application (supposedly it is there if you will run VNC, but that is not an option). Has anyone got an ipad ssh application with good copy / paste functionality? I need to be able to copy text from within the session and paste it into a browser (and vice versa).
My MacBook Pro doesn't boot anymore. I've lost my install disc for the OS and I need to format/re-install. What are my options?
I'm using external NTFS HDD via Tuxera-NTFS.Suddenly some of my folders turn to be protected (I don't now how it has happen):  I'm trying to delete such folders but still without any luck. I've tried to uncheck 'Protected' checkbox in folder properties pane, I've tried rebooting, I'm always logged as admin but still can't delete those folders. Any ideas? UPDATE 'rm -rf' says 'Operation not permitted'
In Windows, we can hold down Ctrl or use right mouse button while dragging the file in Explorer. When we release mouse button we see a menu where we can choose 'Create shortcut'.
I checked all the answers to my question (how to add two mobile numbers to one contact in iPhone) but I didn't see a clear answer. A lot of my contacts have more than one mobile number, and while my android phone syncs beautifully with gmail contacts (multiple mobile numbers), my iPhone 4 only allowing me one mobile number. After that when I click on add, I get a list of home,work,fax,etc. But no second mobile number. My 5 years old Nokia phone let me add custom labels to any phone number, like I can add a number and name it "boat phone" , gmail contacts also can do it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm currently at a hotel that forces you to click through an "accept screen" before being able to access the Internet. The way it works, as best as I am able to tell, is; When you make your first port 80 HTTP request after joining the wifi network, thenproxy server intercepts your request, and takes you to a screen in which you must read the terms of service, check a box, and click the submit/accept button. The problem is that it does this only for first request, then denies all additional port 80 requests, and disallows all other requests until then page is acknowledged. The issue at hand is that this page only appears for the first HTTP request, and with the myriad od sparkle-update powered software I have running, I'm suspecting that the confirmation screen is being delivered to one of these apps, instead of too my browser. I've tried logging in with holding shift after entering my password (disables login items) which disabled everything except for MenuMeters, and still I could not
I've noticed there is a new category in my iTunes (Books), with all the boocks I synced from the iPad. Can I read books in iTunes on my computer as well ? If not, there is some other way to read them, since they are stored on my mac ? thanks
I homeshared my iPad to my husband's computer via homesharing and all went well. But it reset the Apple ID on my iPad to my husband's email address. Now I can't access iStore with my own ID. I checked that my ID and password was still stored under general in the iPad but this has not fixed the problem. Any ideas?
Is there any plugin to block ads in iPhone, iPad's Safari like Ad Block Plus is available for Firefox (Desktop)? Without jailbreaking.
I have an old imac that I have turned into a printing server with cups, it is running debian I need to set up printing on a mac running leopard I have tried inputing the info directly on the localhost:631 but it didn't show up when I need to print something, the test page worked fine I then tried to put it in directly from system preferences it appeared in the menu were you select your printer but I couldn't print, when I printed the test page it printed weird symbols and I saw the word adobe, the printer driver was the generic postscript printer, that is why I believe the word adobe was there, also after that first page it would print blank pages untill the printer ran out of paper it is getting quite annoying
I want to know what graphics cards without OpenCL capabilities are supported by Mac OS 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’? The list is probably really short.
How can I split a video every X minutes using iMovie or some other Mac software, outputting the split videos to a folder, named by section (e.g. "video1of4", "video2of4")?
Sound isn't playing on startup or any other time. I'm not seeing the red glow from the headphone jack that I've seen mentioned in certain cases of this failure. Though I have noticed an awful lot of cases that at least sound like mine (sudden blanket audio failure.)
I have a MacBook Pro with a dying hard drive. It was working poorly for the last month or so and the last 4 times I turned it on it booted correctly once, issued a boot sector not found twice and a kernel panic the remaining time.
Whenever I try to issue su I get this: $ su Password: su: Sorry Needless to say, I'm entering the correct admin password which does work with sudo. What I want is not having to enter sudo each time.
I have an ordinary bluetooth speaker. I connect to the device using bluetooth and when someone calls me I can hear my ringing tone through the car's stereo and hear the caller's voice through the car's stereo.
How does the Network preference/defaults domain work on Mac OS? I see it referenced in a lot of Apple documentation, but I don’t understand this particular preference domain.
Are there any third-party software or services that offer synchronization of user-preferences the same way that MobileMe does? I’m thinking of the user defaults that live inside ~/Library/Preferences/ With conflict resolution and merging of property lists, of course.
Does anyone know if I will ever spoil my iPhone by placing it on top of my laptop? I mean I don't know about these electronic/magnetic stuff and I want to know if there may be any problem putting them close together (especially when my laptop is running and heated)
No longer able to connect to my Cisco VPN using 10.6.7. No configuration changes have happened and another machine still on 10.6.6 works correctly. If you've experienced this and resolved the issue, please advise.
I'm copying the backup folder of Time Machine, but it's taking too long, the backup is 90GB and the copy already reports 160GB and there's 60% to go yet, so I suspect it's copying hardlinks as different "solid" versions of the files. (which would take up much more space than I have avaible, which is 300GB) I tried making a partition of 120 GB to fit it by restoring from disk utility, but it said there wasn't enough space. Also tried to restore to a sparse bundle on a partition with 300GB free, but didn't work either. Is there a better or smarter way of doing this within my 300GB space? edit & PS: The only alternative if this doesn't work is keeping only the last backup and saying bye bye to the older ones. PS 2: Time Machine just recognized the old Backup folder and resumed from it even when the OS was freshly re-installed.
I have all my contacts in Google Contacts, so I was wondering is there anyway I could sync them with the contacts on the phone? Edit: Now I've set it up properly, however there are still no contacts in my phone! Do I need to do anything else after syncing to get the contacts to my phone? Edit: For some reason I can read my emails using my phone but still no contacts!
What is the logic behind the "wave your device in a figure of eight to calibrate the compass"? How does this work?
I have the wireless keyboard and one of the keys is sticky. Can I remove the keys or how can I get the sticky food from underneath the key?
When I type env at the terminal prompt, I get a dump of all the environment variables. When I check / or ~, however, I do not see a .profile, .bash_login or .bash_profile. Where is this being stored in Mac OS X 10.6.7 ? Thanks, Scott
When I try and run curl in the OS X Terminal I get the following error: I have a suspicion this is something to do with fink - as I installed a number of things from fink. However, I have tried removing and reinstalling curl with fink and it still refuses to work. I can't seem to get it to find a correct version of libcurl whatever I do.
I have a Facetime HD camera in my new iMac but no one else I know has one. How can I test the HD capability of it? Photobooth doesn't take pictures in HD.
I use em units in my CSS for a few links, and they are in the right spot on my computer, but they are shifted too far to the right on the other computer. They are both running safari 5.05 Any ideas? Thanks.
I found a screen recording feature of QuickTime X very useful. Except you can't pause the recording, as in most other screen recording programs. Or can you?
I need a program for editing moves, specifically, only MOV files. Only simple editing required - cropping, splitting, trimming, etc. One requirement is that the program does not re-render the video file, since such changes generally do not need this. A good example would be QuickTime X trimming facility - you can trim a huge MOV file and it will save it in seconds, because it will not render it again.
In the terminal, I can use readlink on a symlink and it prints the target path of the symlink. E.g.
So my problem is exactly what it says in the Subject: the find/replace dialog in TextMate is not working anymore. By that I mean that first off, I have to hit ⌘ + F twice to make it even appear. Then it does not remember any of my settings like "Wrap around" or "Ignore case". But the worst thing is, that it does not give any results on pressing "Next", "Previous" or "Replace" (or any other available button whatsoever). I already thought it might be a permission problem with some configuration file as it keeps losing my set preferences, but the permissions on the App and both Application Support-folders (systemwide and user-specific) seem to be just fine, as is my_username:admin. Has anyone got an idea how I could adress this issue?
I have a shell script that logs messages to syslog using the 'logger' command. In my syslog.conf, I filter those messages to a specific log file. This is a portable solution that works across all unices. On OS X, I would also like to have these messages sent to growl. I have tried both of the following with no success:
I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I installed Wacom drivers, and Wacom dock. Now I can use both the pen and touch, but there is no pressure sensivity when using the pen (I tried using it in Photoshop). Is there a tool to diagnose the pressure?
I use Gmail with Mail.app. As you know Gmail allows replying mails as someone else (by changing From header of the sent e-mail). If you don't know, you can register multiple mails to Gmail (your personal mail, work mail etc.) and you can send mail from them from one account.
My MacBook is also plugged in, and the Ethernet cable is plugged in. I always leave the Airport on on the macbook so that's on too. It's now in "sleep" and the lid is closed.
I tried cd "~/Library/Application Support/" -bash: cd: ~/Library/Application Support/: No such file or directory also cd ~/Library/Application Support/ -bash: cd: ~/Library/Application Support/: No such file or directory
my iMac has recently developed an odd issue: If the mouse, or keyboard, is powered off (power button, or because I pull the batteries), and then powered on again, the device will not connect to the machine again without the whole system being power cycled. These are: * Magic Mouse * Apple Wireless keyboard On a late 2009 i7 27" imac.
I have two partitions on my external HDD, I shrinked 1 partition (Macintosh Lion) in order to expand the other (Macintosh HD), but I can't drag the lower right corner to expand of the 'Macintosh HD' partition, I can only do it with the 'Macintosh Lion' one, ideas?
As the title suggests I have a mid 2009 MBP that has started behaving as if the lid is permanently closed. It started happening while the machine was on with the AC plugged in, it was in use and simply went to sleep. Pressing the power button brought it back on for approximately 2 seconds before it went back to sleep. Hard power off and on again now results in the machine booting up fine but as soon as the login screen is displayed it goes to sleep. I can plug in an external monitor and use it that way as if the machine was in closed-lid mode. Unplugging the external monitor switches the display back to the laptop for 2 seconds before it goes to sleep. I have reset the PRAM and SMC to no effect.
In Numbers, how can I convert the values of a table into percentage values rather than absolute values ? The percentage are computed per column. The sum of the cells in a column is 100%.
I'm looking to extend both the main SSID and the separate guest network from an airport extreme base station for more range. What apple networking hardware is needed? I presume two express would do the trick, one joining each SSID - but wonder if I can do it with less hardware. Advice or tips appreciated.
I have a Linux server in my cupboard. My Windows machines can connect to it via its hostname. I have never configured any DNS server; all I did was assign the Linux box a name when I installed Ubuntu on it. It's running a Samba file server.
Suppose you have a terminal with two tabs. You click, drag, and let go one of these tabs and it becomes an independent terminal window. After a while, you want to take this terminal window and reattach it as a tab to the previous window. How do you do it ? I have seen the merge windows option in the menus, but that merges all windows into one, which I would then have to revert.
In light of stories about stories about secret monitoring over laptop webcams (such as this one or this one), I wonder about the reliability of the green LED next to the camera that indicates that it's in use. Is there a known hard-wired link between the camera on a MacBook Pro and the indicator that is impossible to circumvent in software? Would such a thing be possible given the hardware of the camera?
How do I open older .imovieproject files (they're actually folders folders) in iMovie '09? I don't want to import the assets of the old project, I want the actual project to open on iMovie '09.
I've got a couple of questions regarding buying iPhone apps. 1) If Fruit ninja is $0.99 does it mean that if I buy it i will have to pay $0.99 every year? or is it a one time payment (what other hidden payments are there?) 2) Is there anyway we can be tricked into buying something that is not what we thought it is.. like if i search for fruit ninja (or some other game) how big is the chance that there is a "con app" waiting for me to buy but isn't actually the original one.
I'm considering buying an iPad 2. I already have an iPod Touch and was wondering if there is a way to upgrade apps, either for free or pay the difference, that I have already purchased in order to get the iPad specific version, or do I have to rebuy anything that I would want on the iPad? I know it can run iPhone apps, I'm just looking at the apps that have specific ones for each device.
I'm wondering what the cheapest option for achieving a split-screen effect with different video clips is. This is on new iMac hardware with the latest version of iMovie '11, as well as QuickTime Pro 7 and iMovie HD '06 installed. Obviously I know Final Cut Express can do this, but I am hoping not to have to pay so much for what should be a simple thing.
I have a MacBook Air and I'm using Microsoft's RDP client (Remote Cesktop client) for OS X to remote in to Windows machines. Is there any way to get the client to use the full screen? There seem to be no options for this in the menu bar on on the dock icon.
pictures taken on my iPhone4 recently became blurry. No software updates were performed, and not water damage exists. Even pictures taken with lots of light show some blur and look foggy.
When I do an ls of a directory and a shell script is listed as a directory item, is there a way I can have a visual indication that it is a shell script ? For example: Displays port from MacPorts as an ordinary item:
I have a video that has audio several seconds in front of what it should be. I'm looking for an independent program that will delay the sound output. Is such a thing possible and more importantly is it free?
I'm having some issues with my remote desktop software and the Wake-on-LAN feature. On that note, is it ok to set the MacBook Pro (17" 2009 unibody) to never sleep when plugged in? Am I somehow shortening the lifespan of the Mac by doing this? I'll probably be doing this 9 to 5 as it were while at work during the week. All other energy settings are default including all on battery settings and the hard disk and screen off settings for plugged in. Cheers
Is it possible to automate the following action: Folder name: "TEST" the name of the file inside the folder is: "Evelyn.jpg". How do I rename the folder using the name of the file inside of it: Folder name: "EVELYN" the name of the file inside the folder is: "Evelyn.jpg". Any ideas how to achieve this with Automator or AppleScript?
The NPO I work for has been given 20 ipads for students to use in the classroom. To simplify things I was wanting to set it up so that all ipads could sync to the same PC.
I can use Preview app to select a region and crop a page. Can I do the same cropping for a whole pages in pdf? Are there tools (commercial or free) available for it?
From time to time I need to edit some text in a text box on my iPad. One example is adding a bookmarklet to Safari; many techniques suggest you add a bookmark then edit it afterward. Clumsy, but it works.
I want to delete songs from iPhone but keep in iPod in iTunes. when uncheck songs from library, this erase from both devices. Is there a way to remove all the songs just from iPhone?
In Safari, the default PDF-Viewer in Safari is "Preview". Unfortunately, since I installed the Acrobat Reader, this default changed to the Acrobat Reader, which is extremely annoying. How can I change this back to "Preview"?
I am looking for a text editor that supports HTML5 and CSS3, allowing you to add/edit new properties, like rounded corners and so. It doesn't have to be a visual editor but it has to have support for CSS3 and other new stuff like rounded corners.
Can anyone help? Or recommend a program that will backup and keep a version?
I recently got an iPhone 4. When I turn on HDR on my camera and take a picture, it takes 2 pictures, both of which look grainy. One appears brighter than the other but I don't "see" any other difference. Any idea why this happens or is this how it is supposed to be? Thanks.
Here's my setup: both me and my roommate have an Ethernet plug in our rooms to which is assigned a distinct public IP address. Also, my roommate bought a shiny wireless router for his/our various Internet-enabled devices, to which my Mac is connected (because his computer is connected on it, and it's sometimes useful to be on the same subnet).
I'm looking for something, preferably free, to play MP3s in OS X in a way they don't automatically get dumped into iTunes. Any suggestions? Songbird is not lightweight. VLC I use for videos.
How to do beautiful print screens, with shadows on the border, like this image?  Is the shadows automatic? A Mac tool? Do I need to manipulate the image in other programs like Adobe Photoshop?
When I dock my iPhone in the charger (desk stand), it briefly chimes to say it's charging. If it's on silent, then it vibrates instead of chiming. When I go to bed and put the phone in the bedside charger, the noise from either is very annoying.
I've set my screen brightness to about 50%. This works fine for me, except that the setting seems to be ignored while displaying the lockscreen while being charged: then it's 100%. I've got a desktop charging stand on my bedside table, and this is exactly the place where I don't need maximum brightness! How can I make my iPhone respect the brightness setting even when locked and charging?
I have: an iPod with an Apple Composite (RCA Red/White/Yellow) cable I want to connect this with a TV that has: Component in (Red/Blue/Green/Chartreuse - there's a bunch of them) DVI in HDMI in VGA in Given this setup, what is the least expensive/least painless way for me to hook my iPod up to this TV (if I can get this done with a simple trip to Radio Shack this evening, that is ideal [and no, nowhere around me has the iPod Component AV Cable :(])
When using a a IPSec VPN in OSX, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password every ~45 minutes. After a certain amount of re-connects, no further connection will succeed. I have to restart the laptop by then, which means a restart a day. Is there a way to reset the IPSec cache etc, so that I don't have to restart? OSX, latest version, using www.witopia.net as provider.
Is there a way to display a timestamp for each chat message in iChat? (I'm aware that you can hover your mouse to see a timestamp tooltip, but I want to be able to copy/paste it.)
I have a black iPod Classic 160GB. I use iTunes on Windows 7 to sync songs. I can see the songs that are synced with the iPod, iniTunes. However, after ejecting, the iPod shows 0 songs. Going to settings show the decreased free space. Opening up My Computer, and I can see the songs in the ipod_control\Music folder. I have also set the songs to not be a part of a compilation, as suggested in this question. However, I have been unsuccessful in getting the iPod to show the songs. I am tired after fiddling with it since 2 days now. What gives?
I've set Opera to allow empty workspace which should not close the window when the last tab is closed. As closing the window in MacOS doesn't close the application, as does in Windows, maybe this configuration is ignored in MacOS, is it?
I posted on the Transmission forums that, when saving to the Samba share, I would constantly see "Prefetch failed, Operation not supported" debug messages in the Transmission log; literally hundreds of them every second for every torrent being downloaded. I suspect this has at least something to do with it, but haven't gotten a response on their forums. Other than "Just save stuff on your local disk then, dummy", is there anything I should try?
I'm copying the old Mail folder over a fresh OS install. I Copied over ~/Library/Mail & ~/Library/Application Support/Mail Mails and mailboxes imported all right ( even better results than using Import Mailboxes menu option ) But the accounts didn't import. Where are they stored?
For a recent MacBook Pro, lid closed, non-Apple keyboard: can I map some key (like F15) to be the same as the Apple power key so I can do a full shutdown and start up without opening the lid?
I have 3 Windows laptops on my home network connected via a wireless router. I have been through three wireless routers in six months and have found them to all be poor quality. They inevitably flake out and drop connections (even though I live in a 600 square foot basement suite).
I've been having this problem for some time now - first I thought it was some temporary thing with CNET servers, but it doesn't seem so. I can see the index pages of CNET sites (download.cnet.com, news.cnet.com), but when I delve deeper by clicking some application link on download.cnet.com or get direct link to some news from Twitter, I get error 'page not found' as seen on the image:
When someone sends me a link in Adium I'll click it and Safari will open up. I'd like links to be opened by Google Chrome instead. I've had a look around the web and in the preferences but for the the life of me I can't figure this simple one out. Any clues? NB: My default browser is Google Chrome. EDIT
I had an email from Apple the other day saying "Our records indicate that one of your apps requires iOS 4.3 or later. Currently, iPhone users on the Verizon network are not able to upgrade to iOS 4.3 and are unable to find any apps requiring iOS 4.3 or later on the App Store. Unless your app is using iOS 4.3 functionality, such as AirPlay, we recommend changing the iOS Deployment Target build setting of your app to an earlier version of iOS."
For example, could the iPad or iPhone accurately detect the difference between conductive pieces of plastic in the following shapes?
I am using an early 2009 MacBook. Is there any way or any APP that can make Solid-state scrolling trackpad on my MacBook behave like Multi-Touch trackpad Solid-state scrolling trackpad supports two-finger scrolling, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities, while Multi-Touch trackpad supports inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities. Can gestures from Multi-Touch trackpad, be available to Solid-state scrolling trackpad?
I want to use iPhone 4 for sensitive information. Will jailbreaking, downloading unofficial apps (not registered in Apple's App Store) and enabling Bluetooth file transfer cause a chance of sensitive data theft? Can unofficial app turn out to be malware? Is sim free iPhone already jailbroken?
I have repaired an iPhone with a 3GS glass. Then I realized it was for an iPhone 3G. So, after replacing it again with a proper 3G glass the LCD just went black! What have I done wrong?
Occasionally when I open my new (April 2011) Macbook Pro I'm greeted by an unusable system with a garbled display. Most often I have to force a reboot (hold down power button for 10+ seconds), but occasionally it will fix itself if I close the lid and re-open it. What is the problem, or what should I look at to find the problem? Are there other things I could try to wake this laptop from this state? I can't reliably reproduce the problem, so it doesn't seem that taking it to the genius bar is going to yield useful results, but tell me if I'm making a bad assumption here and I should take it back.
Is there a way to scrub through a chapter on the 6th gen nano? I have only been able to scrub chapter to chapter which isn't useful when you become distracted and want to rewind 30 seconds.
how can I share a folder in VirtualBox between my host-OS Mac OS and my installed guest-OS Debian 6? I installed the guest additions and created a shared folder, but I cannot find it
A friend has the opportunity to get a recently purchased Apple MacBook from a colleague in exchange for some work. It was very recently purchased (< 2 weeks). The receipt is in the original owner's name. The new owner would like to purchase an AppleCare warranty for the machine in their name so there's no trouble in case they would ever need the warranty. Is this possible? Is it enough to simply purchase the AppleCare, fill in a form with the new owner's name, and thus connect it to the machine for warranty purposes?
Are there any features that Airport Extreme is missing that typical routers always have? For example virtual servers, dmz?
I am looking for a bash set of commands that will enable me to schedule the execution of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb once every day. Please respond only with a set of command line commands, because I want to include this in a "setup" script (in order to be able to reuse it when I go to another machine).
What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
My friend gave me his iBook G4. I could not login because I did not know his password. I have the 2 DVD Mac OS Install disks of the laptop. After I installed these OS X Install discs, once again I was asked for the old user's password. How do I do a complete wipe out and then reinstall the OS so I can become the new user?
I'm new to daily Mac use, but I think I have my settings correct. My laptop is kept plugged in at work - never runs on battery. In my Energy Saver system prefs, I have Computer Sleep and Display Sleep set to Never on both Power Adapter and Battery, all options (hard disk sleep, wake for network access, reduce brightness, start up after power failure) are unchecked. There is nothing set up in the Schedule area to turn on or off at specific times.
Is there any way to sort all files in a particular directory by date, even ones in subfolders? For example: drive root -> documents -> mysite -> dev
I know there is a setting in Mail for internal and external names for the server, but using this brings back the original certificate errors. After some thought, I also wondered what would happen if I make a second entry for the same name but using IPv6 instead of IPv4? Should have IPv6 some time later this year, and if I understand correctly you can have one name listed twice in hosts when one address is IPv6.
I'm not sure what happened but I noticed recently that the Cover Flow icon previews were missing from my files in Finder. I'm using OSX 10.6.7. See the screenshot below - I'm expecting a preview of the file to be shown rather than the black document icon.
After all the fuss over Mac Defender, I thought it might be a good idea to disable the open safe files option in safari for the users in our network. I'd like to do this with the 'Send Unix Command' via Remote Desktop.
I recently started to see kernel panics on my iMac, that I believe has something to do with my hard drives. Not so sure though. How can I try to track down the cause of this error?
This is probably a calibration issue, but why is it that my Mac doesn't need any kind of monitor calibration but my desktop's monitor do? Well, I actually really want to get a monitor, so I am wondering what specs should I look at to get it as close to my macbook colors as possible without a need for calibration.
I am trying to make a WiFi hotspot through my MacBook. It has Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on it. The thing is that when I go to sharing and then configure internet sharing, it only gives the choice of using WEP password encryption.
I want to use 2 (or more) iPhones as walkie talkie (i.e. they talk each other without needing internet/voice call). Of course this should work with wifi, because it doesn't make much sense a to have bluetooth or usb connection for this application...
I'm a "born again OSX user", coming from 20 years of Windows ;-) I'd like to run a batch file that does maintenance for me - backup, some other stuff every night at a given time. On windows you have something called "Scheduled Tasks" what allows you to handle that. Couldn't find something equivalent on OSX. Is it not implemented on the GUI Level and you have to go to command line for that? something like "cron jobs" on linux?
On my iTunes page, it is showing a 7 next to Apps to indicate I have 7 apps with available updates. When I click on the link to show available updates, regardless of which iTunes account I have, it always shows "No Updates are available". How can I see what apps it thinks I have updates for, or reset that counter?
I've got my calendars in Google, but when I sync them with iCal I get all these ugly folders. How can I clean this up?
But my mom's iPad only has wifi and she has no number, and I call her iPad via my iPhone by using her email address. I don't quite understand how it knows her iPad and makes the connection? Is it through her Apple ID?
Using Bootcamp is it possible to run OS X and Windows simultaneously such that I can command-tab between the two? I've run Windows using Bootcamp a few years ago but at that time a restart was required when switching between OS X and Windows.
The address bar in my safari broswer has disappeared... I have quit my safari browser and reopened it, but the problem persists. This is what it looks like I have no idea why this is happening, but i use safari as my main browser so it has all my bookmarks, etc so i can't really just stop using it. Please help, thanks.
I have a 13" MBP with a mini DP to VGA. I have it hooked up to my new Samsung 23" display that has a max resolution of 1920x1080, but it seems that I can't pick a resolution higher than 1360x768. The adapter is from CablesToGo and states that the max resolution supported is 1920x1200 so I should be fine. Note: I've tried on 2 MBP's and the resolution is the same on both.
I am having a 1Tb external harddisk. Its working perfectly fine on ubuntu and windows. But On mac its read-only. How can I change this.
Currently Archive Utility is configured to unzip all archives opened by me in their directory. While this is good it is not enough for me, I want it to show me the result in Finder. How can I obtain this behavior, is there a hidden switch?
I like to use my MacBook Pro's usb port to charge my iPad, but do I get same charging speed as compared to using the included power adapter?
in Windows it is easy, just shift + click, but in Mac I cannot do the same trick. I am fed up with cmd + click every single file
Do I have to copy paste those ⌘ stuff from online sources?
I understand from the Apple developer site that Xcode 4 requires an Intel Mac running Snow Leopard, but I can't see any advice on hardware spec (other than Intel). I imagine it could run on an old Mac Mini with 1GB of Ram, but that perhaps I'd be pulling my hair out before too long.
I used preview to merge 5 pdf files, of total size of 800k. All pdf have no graphs. However the resulting file size is 10MB... I then tried Acrobat, under similar simple method I got a combined pdf of 750kb.
I think I might be missing something but it seems like Quicktime is happy playing my .avi movies but iTunes isn't. So I have to go through the rigmarole of converting .avi to .mp4 with iTunes before viewing in iTunes or on my iPod Touch. This of course means I end up with two versions of the same file (three if I need to view on iPod). Is there some solution to the issue? I'm going to have to buy yet another portable hard drive before the month is out ...
I have a iMac 27'' and a LED Cinema Display 27'' connected to it. And I've noticed that to be able to control brightness I need to open the Display.prefPanel and modify the brightness of the displays individualy.
I got my iPad in february, and got it syncing with my PC. That transfered all my music and pictures onto my iPad (Nice). But then my hard drive on my PC said goodbye and didn't want to work any more. So all of my pictures are gone, I just got a baby girl and we had taken pictures of her in the hospital and everything (And YES, I didn't make a back up of my pictures with all the latest pictures).
Simple question: Can I install an application that was downloaded to my iTunes into my iPad/iPhone without syncing it with the computer? I am abroad and without access to wi-fi, only network cable, so the trivial solutions of "download directly through the iPad" and "sync it with your computer once and be over it" won't work (unless I start syncing with two computers at the same time, and I recall it gave me trouble in the past).
I work at a school, and I would like to add a number of unique names to the local dictionary so that they won't be flagged as misspelled by the spell checker. I've discovered the local dictionary at ~/Library/Spelling/ I also see that words are added to the localdictionary text file each on individual lines. However, when I try to paste in a large number of names (or to simply replace this file with another) I find that the new entries aren't recognized by the spell checker, even after killing the applespell process, or restarting altogether.
I'm wondering what is the app that used to make this kind of these videos/screen-casts with awesome 3d effect. I found these two videos which I guess both made using the same app. Analog: *=URL=* Analog: *=URL=* KickOff: *=URL=* KickOff: *=URL=* Any idea?
Whenever I attempt to sync an iPhone with iTunes for the first time for this specific installation of iTunes, it makes a mess of the currently installed applications - it doesn't remove them, but it re-arranges all the icons in what seems to be completely random way. Is there a way to prevent this?
I am looking for a tool/script/javascript to run within windows against my iTunes database that will produce a playlist of "all albums for which I have given five stars to any one song." I can easily get a play list of my 5 star songs (been there, done that) but now I want one that pulls in the remainder of each album that has a 5 star song. Odds are, if I liked one song, I should listen to the rest of the album again and may find others I like as well. I saw something like this a few months ago, but can't find the site. *=URL=* provides some useful scripts, but not quite what I'm looking for. Any help out there? Thanks!
I'm on a laptop running OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and I've downloaded "QuickTime 7.5 for Panther updater" -- and for the life of me I can't figure out how to install it. The file mounts as a disk image. When I doubleclick it I see a QuickTime75_Panther.pkg file which opens when I double click. Inside I see a lot more files but nothing that lets me install. Help?
I recently discovered the /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert tool that is able to convert HTML, DOC, ... to PDF. It works great but it has some optional arguments that are not documented: -a 'name=value ...'. I am really interested about them because these are supposed to control more of the 'printing' process.
A couple of days ago, my Snow Leopard Mac Mini started to crash an average of once every 12 or so hours. Symptoms include the display being frozen (no changes in response to any keyboard or mouse input), and being completely unresponsive to network connections (ssh etc.; I've turned off the firewall on a NATted network). What are the logs/diagnostics I should be looking at to figure out why it's crashing?
My iPhone4 is weird. The bottom touchscreen can be slid (to unlock) but it's really hard to tap the app in the bottom area. It seem the bottom screen is not sensitive but I can slide to unlock. What's wrong with my iPhone?
it appears that Samba functionality is restricted to the server edition of OS X 10.6 - is there a workaround or third-party solution?
Some time ago, I had a bookmark on my iPhone for a WebApp I believe to be called "Sparkie". It was a web app that would display electric arcs for every finger that tapped the screen, and would draw lines in-between multiple fingers. It goes without saying that it appears I've lost the bookmark. In my attempts to search for it, I have found Matt Gemmell's Multi-Finger Test app, but I am not able to deploy it to my iPad because I am not a paying iOS developer. Anyone out there know of the WebApp I'm searching for?
I noticed extra options pop up in my context menus, I'm not sure how I managed to get it (or how long ago I installed this item), but does anyone know how I can remove it? Particularly the iconStiX item, which doesn't work. I've tried looking in /Library/Context Menu Items, but there's nothing there +1 if you can tell me where it came from.
I am aware about an application that is able to remove unneeded architectures from Universal binaries - XSlimmer. Still, I am looking for a free solution for this because I am not willing to pay for this kind of service.
Can I schedule a periodical file permissions repair? With Automator, maybe?
When I first boot my MacBook Pro with Core i7, 8 GB ram, and 7200 rpm hard drive running Mac OS X 10.6.7, it still takes a long time (10 or so dock icon bounces) for latest Firefox 4.0.1 to open. Why is it so slow? Is it something on my part? Or is Firefox just that slow to open? Thanks!
I am using different operating systems on different machines on different locations. I am using a USB flash disk to keep my files (source codes etc.). I am new to Mac OS X and now I realize there are lots of files created with a dot underscore ._ prefix. Why are ._ files created? What are their purpose? How can I avoid them?
There is an extremely annoying bug in OS X with a non-Apple mouse where every time I reboot I have to go into ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist, logout, then reset my buttons for Expose and Spaces. This bug has been around for years now, and Apple refuses to fix it so I'm trying to figure out a way to make starting up a less painful experience. I think it would be bearable if I could just scrap symbolichotkeys and refresh without having to logout. Is there a command or AppleScript that could accomplish this?
Frequently when pasting images into Keynote for Mac, I want to crop off a small piece of the image, say on the bottom or the right. When I apply an image mask, Keynote defaults to a small square inside the image, forcing me to drag the square to the original image boundaries, after which I can crop off the small piece. It would be much better if the mask were started with the same pixel size as the image, surrounding the entire image. Is there any way to get it to do so?
Over the last couple of days, I found that my iPad - whilst functioning as expected in all ways - is not able to discharge beyond 14%; it would simply turn off as if I had drained the battery down to zero. I've been using this iPad for almost two months now and it is only in the last couple of days that it has started behaving in this way. I can think of several reasons for this:
I've been using the (iPhone) app Flash Drive, which you can use to start a *=URL=* server on your phone and connect to it using Finder and transfer files. I recently transferred a .mkv file of over 1gig to my phone. It took a solid 5mins to complete, and then after it said done, the app's size showed up as zero KB on the phone. Even through Finder, the file shows up as zero KB, so I deleted the files individually via Finder. Now, the space is allocated on my phone, but the files don't show up any where. I connected using my FTP/WebDAV client to see if there are any hidden files (.XXX) taking up space, but nothing, just the same files I see through the app's interface.
Is here a way to changing the Terminal.app profile from the command line? Here is already couple of questions about changing colors, but I need change the whole profile from the "Basic" (what is my default) to "Homebrew" or "Pro" from the shell script.
OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls. When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.
Is there a way on OSX or with a 3rd party software to use both a Wi-fi and an ethernet connection, thus having the sum of the connection speeds? Or maybe making some applications connect to one connection and other apps connect to the other?
I have IMAP configured on both my iPhone 3G and MacBook and I have push enabled on my iPhone. When I receive an email and read it on my MacBook, shouldn't it mark it as unread on the iPhone too?
I don't really understand how Spotlight works, I sometimes search for a file that I know it exists, and Spotlight doesn't find it. Then I browse to it and it's there. The volume or folders where it is in are not excluded from Spotlight, I've made sure of that. Should I (and how?) rebulid Spotlight's index? or otherwise do something so every file can be found?
We have just discovered that none of the passwords on our word documents work any longer, and I need a recommendation of an application that I can use to recover the files. I believe the files had been created on a windows based computer, so I do not have much of a problem with using a windows based program if required.
UPDATE 6/3/2011: I ran DiskWarrior's file and folder utility on my drive last night, and it found that iPhoto's mosaic plist was corrupt. I moved it out of ~/Library/Preferences to my desktop and pulled up System Preferences, hoping to get the Mosaic screensaver working. After I selected the Desktop and Screen Saver pref pane, the whole system locked up and I had to force restart. I also tried renaming my Aperture library and launching Aperture to see if it was a library problem, and it still bounced forever and then stopped, while still appearing as a process in Activity Monitor. And I noticed while renaming the library that its size showed up as about 600 MB, when I know it's supposed to be over 180 GB. I'm going to boot into DiskWarrior and run its directory repair, then reinstall Aperture and hope for the best.
I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iOS device but one thing worries me. Apple's restrictive developer API has one big advantage: apps can't tinker with my data outside the app unless I allow them to. Can apps on jailbroken iOS devices access my e-mails, iTunes account password (through keylogging) and other sensitive information without my consent?
I'm trying to play DVDs on my MacBook Pro however the disk doesn't play it doesn't even mount. When I check Disk Utility it shows the format as Windows NTFS 3G.
I'm trying to create a PDF document from an HTML document. Of course it's easy to do this using the built-in PDF Printer, however, this does not retain hyperlinks. I've tried wkhtmltopdf which looked very promising, but it crashes on every attempt. Is anyone aware of any other options for generating a PDF document from an HTML document while retaining URL links?
Macbook screen goes black a few seconds after been woken or started up. I've tried everything outside of opening it up or bringing it back to the hive. Has anyone else run into this issue, or am I a lonely sailor sailing up a creek of sticky brown paste that's not chocolate? It's a Macbook 5,2 (early 2009, 10.5).
I heard that when you rip an Audio CD to MP3 with iTunes it hides your email address (or some other identifying information) in the MP3. Is this true? Is there any way to remove this identifying information?
How can I configure my iPad 2 interface languages, to allow using English as system language and, when writing, be able to have Spanish word recognition auto-complete?
Is is safe to repair NTFS drive/partitions with Paragon installed? I don't have access to windows anymore and can't format them
Just curious about whether it is iPHONE, IPHONE, or just never written in all capital letters. Is there a style guide or something on this issue?
How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application? In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari. I'm running OS 10.7.4.
What is the difference "FTP on the Go" and "FTP on the Go Pro" for iOS? and which is better?
I have just saved some data from a crashed PC to my external HD, which is a HFS+ Volume using Ubuntu live (regular copy no dd). Now I am lost: I don't have any privileges in the Folder i copied on my Macbook. I tried changing it using chmod and chown, both as regular user and as root, but I always get a "operation not permitted".The owner for all those files is "999".
I'm often using some news applications (like WP.PL) which sometimes enter in full screen mode on my iPhone. It means all the buttons dissapear and there's only text/photos to read. Swiping left/right switches between news but all I would like to do is to get out of the full screen and continue reading with ability to change categories etc. I tried multiple options and 99% of times it gets out of full screen mode but it's more of a random pushing the glass (multiple times) than actually "knowing" how to leave full screen. Is there some sort of finger combination for all applications or is per app setting I have to leave with ?
I wanted to add a have a network share mount on boot so I added it to the users boot items. The volume mounted successfully but other network shares are no longer visible either through the sidebar or via Finder > Go > Network.
I need to charge, overnight, about 12 ipads in 1 location. Are there pre-made charging stations? Should I just buy a surge protector with a ton of plugs? Do you have any other idea or advice?
This may be a duplicate of another question, but I was new to the site and I didn't check other questions. Feel free to close if this is a duplicate. I'll proceed with my question.
Is there a way to customize the Kinds in the Finder in any way? I'd like to set up my own custom kinds to make it easier to sort files in Finder views. I know that I can use the Get Info palette to customize which application opens a file but that's not exactly what I'm talking about. Really, the problem is I work with a lot of source files in plain/text format and as a result they all end up being displayed as TextWrangler Text File. Thing is, I do prefer having TextWrangler be their default application, I just want them to have a more descriptive Kind is all.
I have a problem with the latest itunes 10.2 When I hit itunes podcast tab it freezes. I found a workaround by creating new library, but it's annoying that every time I had to recreate my library to just got freeze again in new library. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this? Operating System: on PC Window xp sp2 iTunes version: 10.2.2.14
Can anyone suggest an IMAP client for my iPad2 that can be password protected. I want to be able to check my work email on the iPad but at the same time I don't want my daughter accidentally mucking about with my emails. FYI: The web-access I have to my e-mail is truly horrendous so please don't suggest I use that
I have email through Google Apps that I access from my iPhone via the web. I can view all emails and do everything I need to do except view invites sent from others using Outlook. I see the message and who it was sent to, but none of the details about the actual time and place. I can't accept or reject the invite so it never gets added to my web calendar. Even if I look at my email using the "Desktop" link, it doesn't show the details of the invite. If I look at it from my laptop, I see the details and can accept the invite and have it show on my calendar.
I have an Apple TV and Keynote for the iPhone. Is it possible to display a presentation that I created on the iPhone on Apple TV?
I thought that this would be achievable with the color setting in System Preferences but I don't think it allows the tinting sense. I might be wrong though. Thanks for your help!
I have installed snow leopard on a macbook ans selected case-sensitive file system when partitioning the disk, presuming that it's a standard thing and I'd rather have this system behaving as close as possible to *nix shell. Although when trying to install Photoshop CS5 recently I got an error message saying that case-sensitive file system cannot be used for installation. Apparently reason is some issues in Apple installer system, which Adobe developers cannot find their way around. So it looks like I will have to convert the case-sensitive FS to a case-insensitive one.
Sporadically, but frequently, the WiFi connection on my MacBook gets exceedingly slow. I'll be browsing around with no problem one minute, and then the next, everything will slow to a crawl. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason to it. It seems to fix itself if I turn WiFi off and back on again, but that could just be my imagination...and even if so, it doesn't last.
I have Facebook on my iPhone and it works well because it has the password stored on it so I don't have to put it in every time I log in. Now I want to use Facebook on my new computer, but I forgot the password since I don't have to enter it each time I log in. I really don't want to change the password because I have done that before and keep mixing them up. Some one help me please.
I am trying to do a screencast and I use ⌘+⇥ to move from browser to my IDE . During editing I need to remove all the screenshots of me moving from one app to another since that is distracting. I was wondering if there is any utility I can buy or if there is a trick so that I can quickly move from my browser to my IDE.
I have done this before but it no longer works. Some combination of the XiphQT component and the FLAC Import component allows one to open FLAC files natively in iTunes. After an update I was no longer able to open FLAC files in iTunes. If this was directly related or not I do not know. I've tried Fluke, which has been no help, especially since the SetOGG script no longer works on Mac OSX 10.6. Here is the link for the XiphQT component: *=URL=* The other component is called FLAC importer, available here: http://people.xiph.org/~arek/flac_import/
So...I have an iPad and MacBook Pro. I bought my iPad because I thought I needed it but now I'm thinking to sell it since I just found out that Xcode offers an iOS simulator. Is it possible to develop a fully working iOS app without actual test hardware?
I have an old iBook running Mac OS Tiger, and I want to install the Homebrew package manager on it. Which branch should I choose ? The Tiger one? The PPC one? Another one?
i know of a app which pops up a dialog at the top right corner of the screen, when a user in on skype and the other person is typing something. this is not specific to skype, but for any messenger that is installed on the mac. i know that the name of the app starts with c but i am not sure if the name is crawl or cawl or something else.... i would really appreciate if someone can help me. thank you in advance.
I'm trying to find a certain few apps that I know I purchased but I can't remember the name of. I don't have access to my computer right now & there's an app that I really could use right now but I forgot the name of it so I can't just go to the app store and re-install it simply because I can't find it.
I tried Winclone. Its no longer supported and fails everytime. Also not easily usable on OS X 10.7 Lion. I've tried using the built-in Windows 7 backup functionality but this only seems to restore my files, not the OS environment. Please help!
Yesterday I started downloading Xcode 4 to my iMac. It's a very large file, around 4 GB. The next day I found that only 2 GB of it is downloaded and the download had stopped. Before leaving my computer to download, I disabled the automatic sleep setting. Why did it stop? The computer was still on in the morning, and there was no power failure. Is there any way to find what happened?
I noticed the other day that none of the ratings I've made in Aperture are showing up anymore. Firstly, I'm wondering how that could have happened? I've done a number of things lately like relocate masters, regenerate thumbnails, etc. but I can't pin it down to a specific date and besides I was fairly certain that the ratings metadata was stored separately from all of that. I'm trying to avoid having to restore the library from Time Machine.
My 1TB Time Machine drive just filled up, apparently due a bug in Chrome. Since this issue has been open for a year and a half, I don't expect that Google will fix it any time soon. Can anyone offer a work-around that will allow Time Machine to back up Chrome bookmarks, passwords etc, but exclude the ever-changing cache and history files?
I have recently upgraded to a 2011 MBP, and I'm finally all set up on it. It's time to sell my previous MBP. I've already copied off all of the data I want to keep and deleted the obvious suspects.
I can't seem to pinpoint a specific cause for this, but sometimes when I wake my MBP the external screen gets fuzzy, like a TV with no reception, but I can faintly see my desktop behind the noise. If I sleep the display again (with hot corners) and wake it up again it's fine. Anyone know how to fix this?
Does the official OSX client for Twitter (the one available in the App Store) use https? I'm unable to find any info about this on the Twitter site and my searches aren't turning up much either.
For the past couple of weeks I have noticed some sites take longer to finish loading. GMail would be one example; after the site is loaded and fully usable, the spinning indicator in Chrome’s tabs will remain for a couple of minutes. Safari behaves the same. Right now reddit doesn’t load at all. Pinging www.reddit.com results in 100% packet loss. Their address resolves to an Akamai IP, so if everything delivered via Akamai is timing out, that would explain why quite a lot of sites are affected.
Is there an iPad application which is capable of playing iPad compatible movie files from an SD card via the Apple Camera Connection Kit? I prefer App Store apps, no jailbreak apps please.
I installed Google Voice Voicemail on my wife's iPhone, thinking she would like it. You know, the thing where you put in the funky long set of numbers and dial somewhere, and kapoof, you now have Google Voice Voicemail instead of iPhone voicemail.
I want to put a passcode restriction on the Video app (and others), but the options I see in Settings are only for a few things. Is there a way, native or third party, to do this?
I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro (model MacBookPro6,2) with 2.66 gHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB RAM from mid 2010. Right now, I use a LaCie Firewire 800 bus powered Little Big Disk Quadra which works well. There are two Firewire 800 ports on the Little Big Disk Quadra, so I am wondering if I can daisy chain another Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drive to it? Will the MacBook Pro be able to power both? Thanks.
I have just started the Mac Server Essentials certification course and I'm stuck at chapter 1! I have a MacBook Pro, a Mac mini server and a WiFi router as a switch between the two. I don't have it connected to my home network yet because I will be going through a lot of different exercises playing with services, installing/reinstalling etc.
On my iPod touch running iOS 4.1, the iTunes store app (purple note icon) lets me search for podcasts and download episodes. In my RSS feeds I often see a new podcast episode announced, so I load up the podcast in iTunes and inevitably the most recent episode is absent. Has anyone else experienced this problem, and are there any solutions to this? besides: use Instacast sync to PC/Mac iTunes wait a few days for it to show up
I have Snow-Leopard running on my MacBook. I want to install Windows 7 32-bit Professional. I have already purchased copy of Windows from Amazon. I never'ed install Windows on my MacBook till date, so I don't know what to do, and how to install it.
I have had X11 installed on my Mac for quite some time (as long as I have owned it I think) and have never used it. Do applications still use X11 or is out outdated at this point? Should I "learn" how to use it because I may use it in the future? The reason I ask is that I read that you can run X over SSH and I thought it might be useful to run a window manager to get some graphics from a remote machine. Then I realized I have never used X11 and launched it only to become confused. So should I use X11 and why?
This is annoying. Is there a way to set UTF-8 as default text-encoding, and not Automatic?
How can I encrypt photo files on my iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 with a password and without any quality loss? Is there an app for that?
I want to make ls display time in ISO format (military format). How can I change this behavior? On Linux I knew that I could force ls to display time in long format by usin --full-time but this doesn't work on OS X.
How do I change (switch) the input language in Mac OSX (English->Russian->Hebrew). In Windows it is done by pressing alt-shift. What is the equivalent in OSX ?
There have been a few times where my iPhone (and iPod as well) has gotten slightly warmer than I would like after extensive use or a specifically demanding app (infinity blade). Should I be worried about my iOS devices overheating? If so what are some steps to prevent this and overall protect the device?
I have some visual impairment, and I often have problems finding my mouse pointer on the screen. I want to change the color of the pointer.
Is there any way to recover the photos from an iPhone which has been "erased" after several consecutive failed passcode attempts? Unfortunately, these photos were not backed up. Apple techs grudgingly suggested that the data was still there...
I have a third party application on my iPad (Stanza) which has some data that I'm interested in doing some analysis of on my Mac (read statuses). Is there any way to get the data that the application has stored?
I am using "mail" to send e-mails from command line on my OSX 10.6 the "< filename" however doesn't work quite well, as I don't really see the file as "attachment" on any standard e-mail client. Is there any solution for this with the standard tools that come pre-installed with OSX 10.6?
I'm totally unaware about Macs and video editing. I have an iMac and a Sony camera that produces .mt2s files. I've heard that the Mac is the best for graphic and video editing, so I was wondering how should I work with this file format on a Mac?
I received a 2TB Time Capsule today, and replaced an Airport Extreme. However, after replicating the settings from the Airport Extreme on the Time Capsule, there was no internet connection (amber light). I tried: turning DHCP on and off manually applying the IP Address and DNS settings that the old router had turning NAT on and off playing with everything, pretty much
As a follow-up to this question MBP Mid 2009 thinks the lid is closed permanently I have identified (with a lot of help from google) where the closed lid reed switch is connected to the logic board, disconnected and insulated it. The immediate side-effect of this was that my laptop now turns on every time without needing an external monitor or some voodoo where it would sometimes boot if I kept pressing the power button every time it went to sleep, this is a good thing.
I just got a really large Mac App Store app, (2GB), but Im having some trouble with my diskspace... Is there a way to completeley cancel the download of the app? I mean not just pause it but cancel it. The icon on the dock kind of stresses me out, and it reappears even if I drag it out.
I have bootcamp loaded with Windows and would like it to boot and login at startup through VMware Fusion instead of starting manually after OSX 10.6.7 loads. Any ideas on how this functionality can be turned on or off?
For a Macbook Pro, I've set trackpad settings for Three Fingers to "Dragging":  However the tracking speed is too slow, and often it's impossible to drag for a larger distance due to the size of the physical trackpad. How do we increase the tracking speed beyond the maximum allowed?
Are there any e-book readers for iPad that allow the user to highlight a block of text and share it, either by email or blog post? Use case:
I am getting what seems to be a common error when trying to install lxml on MacOS 10.6: I have tried several of the suggestions I could find (setting archflags, linking to gcc-4.0) but still get the same error every time. I have Xcode 4 installed. Any help appreciated. RESOLVED with: sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" easy_install lxml
Consider this scenario: a mom and her kids are reading a single book using iPad. The mom is on a business trip and kids stay at home. Each of them has a iPad. The mom hopes that when she turns to next page the kids' iPad can do the same thing so they are always on the same page. Any idea how to do that?
I am looking for a generic TWAIN driver for OS X, one that would not need additional hardware. I just want to use it for testing TWAIN.
I'm in the process of setting up my Ruby on Rails development environment and part of that was playing around with RVM. I screwed up a bit though because I deleted the /usr/local/bin/ruby which was required for homebrew. How can I get that version of ruby back at this point?
I am in the progress of switching my MBP to run off an SSD, so I’ve been looking of ways to save harddisk space. Xcode with the iOS SDK weighs around 10GB, and since I don’t really use the iOS SDK for anything this seems like a good opportunity to save space.
When my external drives are mounted and idle on a Macbook Pro, they run hot. Why? I do not have the same experience with NTFS volumes on my Windows box, where's the difference in idle disk usage? No... time machine is not running on these drives. External HFS+ Drives I use: Seagate 3.5" 7200rpm in Seagate USB enclosure WD Green 3.5" 7200rpm in rosewill USB dock WD Black 2.5" 7200rpm in rosewill USB dock Seagate 2.5" 7200rpm in macally firewire 800
I recently changed an account password by accident, and was wondering how to set it back to a blank password via the shell. I have root privileges. Please help :) passwd USER doesn't accept blank passwords
On my Mac (OS X 10.6.7) using iTunes (10.2.2 (12)), if I drag a bunch of files into my app via iTunes' File Sharing, the first dozen to four dozen files transfer quickly ... then, sporadically, about one in five files hangs for a minute or two. I'm dragging 209 files, with a total of about 35 MB (so, each file averages about 170 KB). The hangs seem to occur more often on the "loaded" iPad (4.3.3, cellular/ATT, about 280 apps), and (IIRC) never on the unloaded iPad (which was on 3.2 until last week, and is now on 4.3.3). Xcode is not active.
On the iPhone, if you hold down the Power button + Main button, it'll take an image of what's on the screen. I've used it in the past to capture and print out text message exchanges. Is there a way to do this if the text message exchanges span multiple pages?
I have a macbook pro (mid 2008). Right now I'm experiencing problems with the wireless connection at work. It goes on and off. Every time I loose the connection I have to turn Airport off and on again, and it works. But this happens quite frequently.
Is there any way I can use the Seagate free agent Desk Hard Disk for Mac on a PC? Notes: When this disk is plugged into a PC(running Linux, say) the disk is recognized as a separate drive, but we can't do anything more than browse the top level directory. I debugged this problem with the help of an expert at USB devices about a year ago , using a USB debugger. My vague memory is that one of the USB commands is misinterpreted by a non-Mac OS, and thus we can't read from/write to the disk.
I have added two new host entries in /pricate/etc/hosts I have flushed the DNS using dscacheutil -flushcache I now want to access local.wys and have content served from localhost/wys/sub-folder This doesn't work, I have tried 127.0.0.1 and localhost in the hosts file. Any ideas? Thanks, Jake
If you look at Apple's keyboards nowadays, you'll see that on the "F" and "J" keys there is a little groove line under the letter. Why does this exist? What purpose does it serve?
Does it copy all files in ~/Library ? Including cache files and even things like Flash cookies? What about user created files/folders in / ? etc etc
I have an iTunes account in the UK but I am going to spend 2 months of the year in the US. Is it possible for me to download from the US iTunes Store but keep my UK credit card and billing address?
Today I started my Mac (iMac) and when I tried to search in finder or spotlight it produce no results. I think its related to the search cache. I guess it gets corrupted. If this is the case How can I regenerate the cache or fix this issue.
I'm looking for an application that can do the following things. On the server side (either Mac or PC): define executable commands; let's say I can choose 10 executable files. On the iPad or iPhone: the application displays from 1 to 10 icons, one icon for each application. When I click one of the icons, the server executes the file that is related with the number. Does such application exist?
I'm considering replacing my four year old MacBook Pro non-unibody with an Air, possibly when the line refreshes. My one consideration was GPU output, though. I know my old GeForce 8600M GT isn't much nowadays, but is it better than the onboard 320Ms in the current Air line? My main question, though: is there a reliable benchmark for graphics output, like Geekbench but for GPU?
I need some backup software for just backing up files of a particular type or a smart folder. In this case I need to backup all my video. Is there a free backup software available that will accomplish this for me?
Of course, there is much stuff on my system which doesn't need to be secured. This includes ~/Library/Caches and especially the installation of the developer tools (/Developer). To save space, I don't want to clone these.
Is there any way to move the fields within Address Book up or down? I like to have order on my address book and it looks really bad when the phone number fields are all over the place.
I'm having a problem syncing MobileMe mail with an iPad 2. When I set up the syncing either through general preferences or through the mail app the only syncing option is Notes. I've tried deleting and recreating the account and readying the iPad but with no luck so far. MobileMe syncs with my iPhone so I dont think the problem is there. What could I look at next?
I'm new to Mac and have the following wish: I would like to have one instance of an application (app1) on space1 and another application (app2) on space2. When I pres press CMD-Tab I see every open programs in every space. For example I'm in space1 and press CMD-Tab then I can switch between app1 and app2. But I would like to see only app1 when I'm in space1 and no app2 when I'm in space1. Is there some setting where I can change this behavior? Thanks for your help. Matthias
I've been told by an independent, authorized Mac repair company that the logic board needs to be replaced. That seems a bit excessive to me, although I've read many similar diagnoses online. Any other ideas?
I have some old documents that were created with MacWrite (I think it was MacWrite Pro). Is there any software that will run on a modern system that can read these files? Alternately, is the file format documented somewhere so that I can write my own program to translate the files?
I downloaded the free trial ('lite') version of an app on the Mac App Store. I didn't like the app, so I uninstalled it from my computer. However, the App Store wants me to install updates for this app that I no longer even have. Is it possible to tell the Mac App Store that I don't want to be notified about updates for a particular app?
I am sharing a win 7 folder and trying to access it from Osx. Everything works but if the folder is named something ending with the words ".service" the folder is not accessible any more, the icon is changed and if I try to access it I get the message below. If I remove the word "service" the folder is accessible again. The machine is hosted inside a VmWare Fusion machine but I don't think this could be a problem, maybe something related to osx-bsd naming for services. As I am working on folders where I can't change the names is there a way to prevent this behavior?
I'm a new Mac user and I've been installing a few different apps for different things. A lot of these use .dmg files.
What are my options for sending audio from VLC on my MacBook Pro to my Airport Express? (I know about AirFoil so far.)
I've been told it is important to use matching DIMMs when installing memory to take advantage of the 128 bit throughput. I'm looking to buy a new 27" iMac (mid 2011) which has 4 memory slots. If I put matching 2x2GB in 2 of the slots and matching 2x4GB in the other two slots, will that reduce its throughput or cause any problems? Do all 4 have to match or do each set of 2 need to match?
I want to be able to open the terminal application and have it either automatically run a script that opens several tabs and run an arbitrary set of commands in each. For example I would like one tab to open, change directories, and run a rails server; have another open, change directories, and tail a log file; etc.. Is there a way to do this either with a shell script or applescript? I found this question but it seems to hang if I want to open tabs with commands that don't end (like running the rails server).
I got a file on desktop, file name is ded.html. To copy the file, I click the file and press cmd+c. Now how would I do the same thing using terminal ?
I just moved to Mac and I need to get used to the keyboard of my Macbook Pro. I've seen images / maps of the QWERTY keyboards but could not find a proper one for French. I want to see what the modifier and options keys does etc. For example finding pipe (|) was by luck but where the heck are the square brackets?! Here is my layout:
Cmd-1..n are handy for changing and focusing the different navigator tabs so I don't have to take my fingers off the keyboard, but is there a shortcut for giving the focus back to the editor after focusing, say, the Project navigator with Cmd-1?
I am looking for a preferably free SQLite frontend to use under OS X. Something similar to MySQL Workbench will do. Put separate suggestions in separate answers.
I know of just one song, but are there other songs out there? James Dempsey - Model View Controller
I just upgraded from a 2010 13" MBP to a 2011 15" MBP. When I boot off the Snow Leopard DVD and go into Disk Utility to erase the drive, should I do a simple erase or should I also zero out the drive?
Does Apple and either AT&T or Verizon currently allow voip services to be used? Essentially, would a user be able to have phone services by using just a data plan?
If I don't drink enough coffee my brain doesn't function. If I drink too much coffee, I end up over-percolating my brain. Is there an app that will recommend how much coffee you should consume to keep your consumption at the optimal rate, so that your brain functions but doesn't over-function? Ideally, the app would go so far as to slide back your coffee consumption so that your body doesn't get used to an amount so that it requires more.
I'd like to use Inconsolata as the closest free approximation of the Consolas font for editing and programming on my Mac. After downloading Inconsolata's OpenType file I changed TextWrangler's preferences so that Inconsolata becomes the font for the editor window.
Hello I have a new iPad 2 and two wireless networks at home. I can only connect to the one from my Actiontec DSL router, not to my Linksys WRT320N. I have followed all the steps on *=URL=* and cannot get it to connect. My iPhone and other laptops connect to this network just fine. I have tried setting the router in N, and B-G Mixed modes. I have the network set up using WPA2 Personal and have tried it with encryption turned off too. I have reset everything. Any other ideas for troubleshooting?
Since it's a system-wide modification, a new user shouldn't have any effect. I've also compared the basic entries to a known-good hosts file and nothing is missing or broken. Hopefully you've got some answers!
My son was playing with my iPod Touch 4th generation and changed the screen resolution. I don't know how to fix this. How do I change the screen resolution back to what it is supposed to be? Everything on my iPod is way too big and I can't do anything.
In Keynote, when adding a frame stroke, it is possible to change the background color. However I am not seeing any way to change the actual color of the frame border (which always stays white). Any advice for doing so?
I would like to get a RSS reader application for my iPad. It will need to be able to sync with Google Reader because I use Google Reader on my phone and at work. However, I am concerned about providing my Google password to a 3rd party application. If I enter my Google password in a 3rd party app, I am assuming that the app could easily send my password back to a home server, store it, and then do anything they want with it. Is that not the case? Do Apple or Google provide some kind of password hiding scheme so that 3rd party apps can use passwords without actually being able to see them?
The iPad has the cool feature of being able to rotate the home screen (screens) with apps on them, I was wondering if this is possible for the iPhone's as well? If so, how do I do this. My iPhone is Jailbroken so using a Cydia or equilvalent app is possible. I'm also looking to auto rotate the lock screeen as well.
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro and the display looks great under OS X, but is really washed out in Windows 7. I have installed all the drivers supplied by Apple and ran all the updates, but that didn't change anything. I think it's related to the color calibration, since Windows reports it's using "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" which was created in 1998. Yeah.
I have a new 27" iMac with 1 GB of video card memory. I'm trying to play The Witcher 2 in Parallels. (Boot Camp is just too much of a hassle.) It appears I can allocate only 256 MB of video memory to the VM?
I have the iPod 160GB Classic Black. In my music library, each music album is organized into folder on my hard disk, each folder having album art. Why doesnt my ipod display that album art while playing? Just to clarify, the problem is only with some albums, not all. EDIT: Is there a specific name that the jpeg file should have?
I have downloaded two apps using iPhone App Store in the morning and they were downloaded successfully. My apps stuck when I was trying to download 1 of the app called Ninjump. It's still showing in downloading mode but no progress has been made yet.
Considering that Spotlight is already using ⌘+space and that you cannot use combination of modifiers alone, I would like to see an ergonimic alternative. I can't use the following combinations due to conflicts with other software ctrl+space - auto-complete in IDEA
Did anyone experience if using Spaces slows down the system? Is there are difference between using 4 spaces vs 9 spaces?
I prefer installing stuff from their source and dont use package managers generally. Has anyone here tried building python2.4 from source here? If so, had any luck with the same?
I have a quick and simple question, is there any possible way to host more than one domain name from a single MobileME account? I am using iWeb11 and already have purchased two domain names and configured one of them with ME, this works fine but I would just like to be sure that I don't need to buy an additional ME account if it isn't absolutely necessary. Thanks you in advance!
Just got myself Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA to connect my early 2011 (pre Sandybridge/Thunderbolt) 15" MacBook Pro to Samsung SyncMaster 2494HM monitor. The monitor is currently connected to my PC via DVI, so I wanted to use its VGA port to connect my MBP as I frequently need to use them both at the same time and want to avoid shuffling cables.
I'd like to type the two characters "tilde" ('~') and "fullwidth tilde" ('～') with a german keyboard, since I need those characters quite often, for example when writing hiragana in romaji, for example 'っ' which is spelled ~tsu or song titles, for example "惑いて来たれ、遊惰な神隠し～Border of Death". I tried the combination Alt+N, which produces '~' with the austrian keyboard map enabled, but does absolutely nothing in hiragana-mode.
Would it be possible to customize a macbook so that it has 2 screens instead of 1? what i mean is, could i hook up the lcd from another macbook and connect so that it has 2 screens.. if it could work, would i have to connect it via minidisplayport or is there a way to connect it to the video board.. essentially something like this.. http://www.freeonsmash.com/news/2008/12/12/apple-macbook-tribook/
Here's the goal: I have a backup server with a ZFS filesystem with built in compression and snapshots. All our machines backup there nightly with rsync, and then a ZFS snapshot is taken, so we have backups of how eveach machine looked at the end of every day.
How can I remove the gray part in BBEdit/TextWrangler. I want it to be white as the other part. Screenshot (see part marked with red square):
I'm often printing several versions of a document (e.g. a paper in progress). To keep track of the printouts I would like to print the date and time of printing onto each page, regardless of which application I'm using (although it would be okay if it works for PDF files only, if it happens automatically). I have seen Windows printer drivers including this feature, but haven't found any settings here (e.g., Canon iR3225) nor any hidden-CUPS-feature-I-could-activate-in-the-config-file.
Is there a website, platform, to find beta testers for OSX applications?
I was just wondering what the published accuracy of the GPS chip in the iPhone 4 was...? I also understand that increased accuracy can be had if the hardware has WAAS capabilities. It is this true? Does the chip the iPhone 4 have WAAS capabilities? How accurate are chips with WAAS?
I noticed these icons in the resources folder of Transmit: I was wondering how I can change the standard cardboard mounted disk icon with the transmit logo to one of these. Is this possible and how?
If I were to buy a used iPhone 4 (e.g. from eBay), which carrier(s) would allow me to activate it without a contract? Is there an activation fee? Anything else I should be aware of?
According to this previous question, I want to install Homebrew Tiger branch on my iBook running ... well, Tiger. Unfortunatly, when running the Ruby one-liner, I always get the following error : I have unsuccessfully tried to add myself as a member of the staff group. What can I do to install Homebrew on my Tiger mac ? Thanks EDIT Yes, I have a version of XCode for my platform, it's a legacy 2.5 that I installed specifically for that purpose. Concerning the Ruby script, a rapid overview of its code indicates that the error appears as invoking groups does not return the staff group. And indeed, when I issue this command by hand, I get So, how can I add myself to the staff group in a fashion that this command will understand ?
My netbook is 1.5 years old and it only happens when Safari is opened. Why it happens? I think that the sounds are coming from my HDD. Should I remove Safari completely? Does it harm my netbook? Latest Safari (5.0.5) on Windows 7 Starter Netbook with Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz 1.6 GHz processor and 1 GB ram, 160 GB HDD Brand: Casper
Historically, if you wanted to get the new Windows, you should always wait until Service Pack 2 if you want a stable OS. So, how is it with Apple OSes? Should we get Lion right away or wait for 10.7.2 or something? I'd bet most people (specially fan boys) will say to get it now. "Simple".
Basically, I think I want an off-line, personal Wikipedia that I can write in Markdown. Do any of you know of an app (or apps) that does what I'm looking for?
I have a old Mac Mini. (1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo) Running Mac OS 10.6.7 That is not able to upgrade to “Lion”. Also several large external “Firewire” hard drives.
I have an Apple Developer Account, but it's in organization that I no longer work for. How I can leave this organization and buy my own membership in the Apple iOS developer program?
If I deauthorize a computer from the account used to purchase a certain app, will that app continue to work as usual?
I am looking for a simple/fast, free solution that will allow me to get screenshots from different windows, crop areas that are interesting to me and adding some comments to them. It's main use case would be to track UI changes in applications, so it would be a good idea to support layers.
How would this be done? Do her privileges prevent her from installing global apps?
I've written a bunch of services for my own use that I use frequently, but recently it's getting tougher. I installed some apps (such as Skim.app, apptivate) that introduce their own services (eg. Open URL in Skim) which I don't need/use. These services clutter up my services list though (Skim alone add about 4 services to the list you get when you right click a Finder item).
Is it true that I can only install app from app store in OS X Lion? Can I not install app from any other source?
I am an iOS developer and I just enrolled in the mac developer program. The site says i'll get confirmation in 24 hours, what is the 'normal' time in which confirmation is usually received?
I just set up a new @me.com email account through iOS5 beta and was wondering if there was a way to access through the web, or if anyone knew the imap server info. It looks like they are using some custom token system for auth on the phone.
Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows ? I have several tables in my sheet and I need to swap columns with rows for each table. e.g. should become: thanks
I accidently deleted the ~/.Trash/ folder. How I fix this? I do not want to: Restore files currently in the Trash can Restore files emptied with the Trash can
Running Snow Leopard, I have enabled the build in apache(with indexing) and php, and installed and enabled mysql. I have setup my sites in the ~/Sites directory, named: www.site1.dev www.site2.dev It all works,localhost shows the index linking to them.
I am used to using the Terminal in full screen on Ubuntu. On Apple, the native Terminal app doesn't do full screen, and iTerm, which does, is very, very slow when you use a multiplexer like tmux in the Terminal. I'm using iTerm 0.10. Does anyone know of an OS X Terminal program that can go full screen and that is responsive when running tmux?
In most text areas, ctrl-a and ctrl-f used to move my cursor to the beginning/end of the line, but now I get "^A" printed to terminal, and nothing happens in other input areas. Any ideas what happened?
I often run my Macbook Air 2010 11 inch with an external monitor and keyboard, and I close the lid so that I'm using only the external monitor. But then the fan starts running on high in a few seconds, as if the laptop is not getting enough ventilation. Is this normal? I would think that the Air would be designed in a way to allow it to be ventilated adequately in this kind of use case.
Now that I will be able to share iCal calendars (e.g. on iCloud, MobileMe), for events that are marked as private is there a way to make other people only see that I am occupied at a certain time but not why? Can I somehow make an event private?
I have the new (2011) 27" iMac and need to run visual studio and some other .NET software development related software. What version of Windows 7 (home premium OEM - because it is the cheapest?) should I buy? 64bit or 32bit?
My partner and I work on iOS apps together, he's on one Mac and I'm on another. We often need to see each other's displays though and right now we have a monitor that we swap back and forth. When I want him to watch my screen, I plug the monitor into my external display port and spin the monitor around to him (and vice versa). Is there any way to get a video IN signal such that I could just swap to a different virtual desktop in Spaces (or something else) and see what he's doing without having to do this lame hardware swapping? The external monitor I have doesn't match the resolution of our Macs, so whenever we plug in to share the screen it reduces the size of our desktops and that sucks. Any suggestions? Looking over the shoulder isn't an acceptable answer ;)
You buy Parallels Desktop (costs money!) which doesn't require you to reboot your Mac every time you want to use Windows. This program also requires you to have a copy of Windows (money!).
Since yesterday I can't login to the iOS developer forums, and I just subscribed 3 weeks ago. This is the error I get:
For what its worth, I stumbled across a forum thread discussing the captive portal detection. I'd rather not outright disable it... I just need to find a way to make it work.
I have multiple computers which I will be installing Lion on. Is it possible to download it once and install on those computers?
I want to have the most recent file downloaded to be on top when I look in the Downloads folder in the finder. How do I arrange my download folder as "Recently downloaded"?
my iTunes thinks it's a version below for some reason I have 10.3 installed (Finder says so, iTunes > About says so) but when I try go into ping it gives me the "See what you're missing, upgrade to 10.3" message - I hadn't worried about this too much before but I just updated my iPhone to the OS 5 beta and now iTunes is not letting me sync at all leaving me with a fairly useless and unsyncable iPhone and crippled iTunes. I have tried re-installing iTunes (Yes I even deleted all the preference files) I have tried iTunes on another account on my macbook and it gives the same error. Please help, I need to sync my iPhone! Here is a screenshot of the Ping message: *=URL=* Screenshot of the iphone sync message: *=URL=* Thanks
Is there an easy way to remove all files NOT referenced by "iTunes Library.itlp" on my iphone? I need to free up some space and I know I have audio files saved on the iphone that are just orphaned..
Some time ago my Time Capsule's light was blinking amber. When I opened the Airport Utility, it indicated that my IPv6 tunnel was down, I assume due to the remote IPv4 host being down. I was given the option to Skip or Ignore the problem. I believe when I skipped the problem, the light remained blinking amber, it wasn't until I chose the 'ignore' option that the light returned to solid green. Since that day, I've been completely unable to use my IPv6 tunnel. Considering that World IPv6 Day is underway, I would love for my tunnel to work again... How do I undo the damage I've previously done?
Was this a service only offered with Apple's Mobile Me? Is there anyway I can still get an e-mail address ending in @me.com?
I wonder if there is an application (on iPhone) to determine money goals, for example I can set an aim "vacation on Hawaii - $5000" and see the progress from 0-100% after adding money.
What is fundamental difference between OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Install Disc that come with New MacBooks to one that comes in Retail Box-Pack (either Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard OS only, or Mac Box Set)? Reason behind asking this particular question is, I have a MacBook (Late 2009) which was running Snow Leopard. I have another Mac, 15" MacBook Pro(Mid 2010).
Is it possible to add the item "Look up in Dictionary" in the right-click popup menu when you have selected a word on a web page, in Firefox (just like it is available in safari) ?
I have a working HE.net IPv6 tunnel configured on my Apple Airport Express but the rest of the machines on my LAN aren't picking it up automatically. Connected machines work fine if I configure IPv6 on them manually. Sniffing the network appears to show that there aren't any RA packets being sent.
I am trying to use a script to find the username and home directory of the user that is currently logged on to a Mac. This is what I have, and it works, but is there a better (i.e. simpler) way to do it? The script will almost definitely not be run by the logged on user.
I'm trying to get my Windows 7 laptop to connect to my OSX server VPN via L2TP. I understand that Windows 7 has some issues with NAT-T and I was wondering if anyone has a fix for this. Or has gotten this combo to work.
For us 10.5 users, is the only path a two step upgrade to 10.6 then 10.7? Also, is there a hardware compatibility chart? My mac is an older macbook, not sure if it's even supported by Lion.
I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. Both have the same certain application installed, but I want to transfer the Touch's app settings to the iPhone's app.
I'll often move around in the course of a work day, from my basement office where I have a second external monitor, to the patio and so on. When I unplug my external monitor, any windows I have on it gather on my MacBook Pro's screen -- this is great. But when I plug my external monitor back in the windows cluster up on the external monitor (I have the external set to be primary when it's present).
A few years ago I remember a friend using an application in Ubuntu that made window management extremely easy. If you wanted to move the active window, you would press a key and drag the window by clicking anywhere on the window. If you wanted to resize the active window (proportionally), you would press a key and turn the wheel. I think this is very intuitive way to resize and move a window. Are there any free applications for Mac OS X that can utilize similar mechanics?
I swapped the original 80 GB hard drive for a new 640 GB Samsung HM64JI hard drive. It is not recognized after booting from the 10.5 Installation DVD on Macbook 2.1 with recent EFI updates installed. Any ideas?
I've just synchronized my iPhone and backed up contacts in both Outlook and GMail. However, it has saved the email addresses only. How can I back up the phone numbers on my phone?
I'm using an aluminium unibody MacBook (pre unibody 13" MacBook Pro) running 10.6.7 with a Dell SX2210 external monitor. The monitor has a built in webcam and USB hub. When I try to use the webcam with my Mac I often a very strange looking green and purple picture, as shown below.
I'm wondering if references referring to pf in FreeBSD are applicable to ipfw in Mac OS X Snow Leopard? I'd like to know to see if it's worthwhile to consult books on pf for use with Mac OS.
I currently have an iPhone 4 (GSM) and I'm signed up to the iOS development program, meaning I can install iOS 5.0 on it. The problem is that I use this same phone as a personal phone, I'm wondering if it's a good idea to install a beta OS on it or not. I'd really like to be able to take advantage of some of the newer features that iOS 5.0 introduces right now rather than having to wait until the fall. The main things I'm concerned about are:
Using the external accessory kit could one iPhone charge another iPhone with a double headed dock connector? Or would the power supplied be so small that it wouldn't worth charging it that way?
On my iPhone, I'd like to get a push alert when there's a new tweet from a twitter account. How can I achieve this?
I started installing an application from the App Store but forgot to check its size. When I check now, it is 50 MB. Now I don't want to download that application any more because I'm on 3G plan which is costly. I paused it but don't know how to delete it. Can anyone help me on how to delete a paused app download?
Recently I bought Mac and Magic mouse. I am new to Apple hardware. I was trying to install mouse with mac. I installed it successfully. But whenever I restart the machine I need to configure magic mouse and pair with mac again and again. Is there any way so that Mac remembers this magic mouse just like wifi names? Thanks in advance.
According to my tests, Excel on Mac, when asked to save data as CSV file, uses MacRoman encoding. My questions are: Does it always happen or there is some setting that controls it?
Sometimes I try to connect to a Wifi network and the only things that connect are the IP Address and the Subnet Mask - the other fields (DNS, Router, Search Domains) are still blank. My iPhone shows it's connected to the wireless network (three blue bars in upper left corner) but I never get connection in this case.
Is there an application where I can crop an image then resize it into custom dimensions? I would like to crop it like with the built in Command+Shift+4 , then in a window I could select the dimensions. So is there an app for this?
This must be my undeveloped mind, but browsing through Apple's iPod Touch website, I could not find the capacity (in time) for video and audio recordings on the 8GB and 32GB models (not in Features neither in Tech Specs). I am debating which one to keep after buying the two at a discounted price. Have not opened it yet, so I can return one of them. So, can someone point me to the place of this top-secret information?
I've been using SoundJam MP since it came out and many years ago I found a beta version that worked on OS X and that's the reason I can still use it. Unfortunately, with OS X Lion, PPC support is gone and I need to find a similar app for my music listening. My main objective is to find a software that allows me to add folders with MP3s and allows me to sort it manually and even sort the files inside the folder, instead of (as iTunes and others do) having the app sort it by album/artist, because I have several MP3s that aren't even tagged and I want to control it and not let the app sort and "mix" (wrongly) for me. I've searched a lot and tried so many apps already without success (ex: cog, instinctiv, neutrino, songbird, vox). Anyone knows of such a software?
Will quitting (Cmd+Q) large apps before closing the MacBook lid make getting up and running again faster? I have the impression that my MacBook needs more time to recover from sleep if I have large, memory-hungry (LibreOffice, heh) applications open, but that doesn't make much sense from what I believe sleep mode is (e.g., powering down disk and screen but not memory).
I want to record Plants VS Zombies and upload the gameplay video on YouTube. Is there any program can do this? Much appreciated for any suggestion.
Some applications come in .pkg files, and ask for you administrator password, even if all they do is copy the binary to /Applications. I like to have my applications in ~/Applications, and I do not like to give administrative permissions to anything that is not from the mothership.
The problem is that it's only fully supported under Windows. I'm after a third-party solution because:
Which is the best software to open/make rar files in Mac OS? I am new to Mac and I want to open rar files.
I tried to install Windows 7 on my Mac via Boot Camp, but the disk of Windows 7 doesn't work. When I tried to install the Windows 7 it shows a black screen. Now I want to boot back to OS X, but I don't know how.
So, my MacBook Pro froze three times today, two of which about two minutes after startup. I could hear fans making noise. When I say 'freeze' I mean that both input an UI don't work.
I have Notepad which I open with "Wine". I want to do that when I want to open file .txt, it will be opened by Wine Notepad. How can I do that?
I need to remove some apps from my account history forever because I don't want them anymore, and because iCloud keeps a new history format I need to know the process which is doing this.
Originally I was going to ask a question about how to get LaTeX working in Anki, but as I was writing the question, I was trying to solve the problem myself. I thought others may benefit from my findings, so I decided to post them here. If you notice that any of my steps are wrong, please let me know. And I was still unable to get it to work, so if you scroll down to the end, you can see where I'm stuck and still need help. The current issue is: How can I install libgd?
I have a MacBook, which was running Leopard. It got corrupted, and even I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard. So I purchased Snow Leopard Retail Box.
Hi I heard that you can write cron job into plist and put it to JB iPhone /Library/LaunchDaemons folder in plist format I would like to backup the photo folder every 300 seconds, so I put a com.backup.plist like this into /Library/LaunchDaemons folder I have created a folder of /private/var/backup with access right of 777 mobile:mobile I rebooted the iPhone, however, the script just doesn't work
Today I went to the Apple Store to see if there's maybe a special mousepad I need. The employee showed me their sample magic mice and said that's just how they are.
I've switched my 2008 MacBook Pro to SSD, and love the speed increase. I'm now keen to do the same on my 2007 Mac Pro desktop. I've currently got 1Tb + 2*500Gb disks installed. My strategy is to go for a startup disk of about 128Gb, with the 'bare minimum' stored on it, then leave the rest of my data on the traditional hard disks.
I'm interested in starting to edit videos and I'm looking for a good video editing application. It shouldn't be too complicated but one should be able to do advanced stuff with it too. I currently got iMovie but it's too simple for me. Any tips?
Recently 1 week back I bought a new white iphone... I have found 1 problem in iphone... Actually the problem is: white iphone home button is little bit deep.. i can feel edges/corner while pressing home button. I think it shouldn't be like that.
My Magic Mouse is intermittently losing its connection to my MacBook Pro. First the mouse becomes unresponsive and a few seconds later, a picture of the mouse appears on the screen wit the words "Connection Lost." Then about 10 seconds later, the connections is "magically" re-established, without any action on my part.
Is it possible to disable Wi-fi on a Time Capsule device and use it only wired ?
I have two copies of OS X (10.6 and 10.7). By default rEFIt boots 10.6. However, I want to make it boot 10.7 instead. How do I do this?
I tried TimeTracker, tms and timedog but none of them works with OS X 10.6 Any suggestions?
I was wondering if there was any relatively easy way to change the carrier text on my iPod touch 3g (running ios 4.3.3). I've tried editing the com.apple.springboard.plist and adding the SBFakeCarrier key, but it appears that has been removed as of ios 4.2.1. Is there any similar solution?
The Apple Battery Charger's product description page states: The Apple Battery Charger can recharge one or two batteries at a time. It's optimized for Apple-supplied batteries and it works with AA NiMH batteries from other companies, too. Does anyone know the required specifications for using non-Apple batteries?
At my work we need to connect to a few IP cameras but it can not be wireless as the iPad must be in airplane mode, we must use the 30 pin dock connector and a wired cable. We are installing cameras in the cabin on an aircraft and need to view it on the iPads on the flight deck. But certification rules will not allow us to use WiFi for this. We are open to becoming enterprise developers because the software will be on a couple of thousand iPads. Is this possible?
In order to deploy files the the apache server running on OS X host I want to ssh/scp to it using the _www user. I do not want to use root because I want to be sure that I always put the files with correct permissions.
Is there an easy way to upgrade from OS X 10.6 to OS X 10.6 Server, or a workaround to eliminate the 10-user limit for ftp connections?
I have an external monitor and want my macbook screen to go blank or black so I can focus on the monitor instead. On my windows machine Function F5 does this.
I use to be able to run this ps command from the terminal: ps -u whoami -o pid,rss,command But recently the RSS size returned are all 0! unless I run it with sudo Does anyone know how to fix this or how to get the original functionality back?
I'm looking for an app that can take sms, email and possibly other programs and combine the inboxes into a combined inbox. This would enable me to view a conversation with a particular user aggregated over multiple communication-media. Now I often wonder, did I sms, email, whatsapp, etc. that? Does such an app exist? Thanks, Geert-Jan
Can I enable file removal in the open window on OS X? The open or save dialogs do not allow you do do many opeations, like removing a file or renaming it. Is there any hidden defaults preference that could enable this?
I just bought an iPad 2 and wish to link to the Microsoft Exchange email server Outlook Web Access connection. Sadly even though all details are correct it still says that the details are unable to be verified and obviously can not load emails. For the record i can successfully connect via OWA connection on browser.
I have a clean installation of Snow Leopard on a MacBook and I want to get a MySQL Server running on it. I downloaded and installed the .dmg file provided by the homepage of MySQL and installed it. I did not yet try to start the server. I installed Workbench and configured it to localhost (standard settings). Now Workbench keeps telling me, that it could not find the file /etc/my.cnf. I was able to start the MySQL-Server from within Workbench, though. Now **Workbench wants to add a /etc/my.cnf file. Shall I proceed or is the file somewhere else already? locate my.cnf tells me
I'm looking for an offline RSS reader, which also downloads images embedded into the feed. I've tried (and liked) NetNewsWire (and the Lite Version of it), but it does not seem to store embedded images for offline viewing, which is a must for me. I've no other requirements except this, so it doesn't matter if it syncs to Google Reader or to iOS. Does anybody know of an application that can actually accomplish this?
I have a HDMI -> iPad adapter that I'm using to connect my iPad to a monitor to do a demo at a tradeshow. The monitor I'm using is placed vertically, so I need to rotate the video out from the iPad to match it. I couldn't find any way to do this in the settings app.
my wife just got an iphone 3GS. we both have apple IDs and use a macbook together, but her iTunes on her iPhone shows my username and the credit amount that I have. When buying a song or an app, my user account info pops up. How can we have her username and log in information appear on her iPhone?
Non-technical question here, sort of. I'm planning on selling my old MacBook Pro on Craigslist. It's in great physical condition, with the exception of the battery, which is nonfunctional. It's never been replaced, but after use and age it can no longer hold a charge.
This is probably one of the most important / useful feature in any image editing software - any knows how to draw curved line in Pixelmator?
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to save online videos, especially YouTube, to the iPad for later offline viewing.
I bought my MacBook in mid-2008 with Leopard (10.5.2) pre-installed. On it, I installed (Japanese) Windows XP using BootCamp. I am now up to Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and I can continue to use Windows XP (currently at SP3) with no problems. If I upgrade to Lion, will I still be able to use my existing Windows XP installation? (N.B. If I can't, I shan't upgrade.)
The main harddrive of my MacBook Pro is filling up. So I need to move some files to an external medium.
A friend is considering buying a MacBook pro AppleCare package. She lives on the Canary Islands, and is getting a new MacBook soon.
Are there any apps in the store made using mono, ruby or lisp or put together in another alternative way. Do you know of any? The reason I'm asking is because I'm already making apps using cocoa/objective-c, and I really love ruby and obscure languages.
I shared a folder on my computer, called "Foldername". My account on the computer is UserA, my wife's account is UserB. I gave UserB read+write access on Foldername, and clicked the "shared folder" box.
I have been using this simple TCP Test Tool on Windows. It is a very basic GUI for listening ports and making TCP requests, yet it was very handy. However I could not find anything similar which works on Mac OS X. Does anybody have any suggestions?
I like to hide the dock unless I need it. There is a slight delay before it will reappear. Is there a Terminal setting I can change so that the dock will instantly appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen? I like how things work but want to tweak the timing.
Quite simply, I'd just like to modify the right command key to escape and that's it. Keep the left command key as is. The only tool I've been able to find for this is ControllerMate but I'd rather not pay $14 to map one key. Can anyone suggest a free alternative?
I have an AMR-format audio file which I recorded with my HTC Desire. I would like to send it to somebody who has a Macbook Pro. Will he be able to play it without jumping through hoops?
I'm new to Automator, but I've had a Mac for quite some time, and I'm not a total noob. :)
I'm a long-time The Unarchiver user. I noticed today that it can be installed and package-controlled by the App Store. I'm a total App Store novice.
I know this: Fn + backspace - "del" key (delete letter to the right) <-- where's the Fn key in the MBP? Alt + backspace - Delete last word Command + backspace - Delete whole line
How much space is recommended for a Windows 7 Bootcamp installation besides Snow Leopard? I thought of 30 Gigabyte. Would that be sufficient?
I just downloaded and installed Xcode on my MacBook Pro, but I don't see it under Applications or Utilities. I also don't see a shortcut at the bottom. How do I run it?
I often like to charge my iPhone for long periods at a time (like say when I'd get home I will just plug it into the charger regardless of how much battery there is left). Will this spoil my phone by overcharging or will it in any way, degrade my phone?
I'm trying to find four replacement mounting screws for the 2.5" hard drive in my MacBook Pro 2011 15". Here's a pic of the four screws (one attached to hard drive).
What brand/model of memory do I need to buy for a macbook pro 17" early 2011 model? On Apple's memory page, they just say DDR3 1333mhz SODIMM. So I went to purchase some from Newegg and happened to notice in the comments people complaining the mushkin RAM was not working on their macbook pro... I just want to find the lowest priced working 8gbytes RAM.
Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?
AirPrint is a function on iOS that allows you to print from your iPad (or whatever) to certain wireless printers. Sadly, there are only a dozen or so compatible printers.
After a few minutes, if I haven't touched the iPad 2's screen, it goes dim and then turns off. I suppose this is a power savings behavior; however, when it is connected to my computer I don't want it to power down. How can I change the power savings settings?
I created a table in Pages '09 and pasted it into Numbers '09 to see if it worked, then I created a graph for it, still in Numbers, but the graph displayed no data as you can see from the screenshot. So is it because the table came from Pages or there's something I must do before it works ? I'd like to know if it's safe to create tables in Pages or if they are going to be trapped in it, in that case I'll prefer to create them in Numbers and then paste them into Pages.
I'm using the 'Diablo' app to mine bitcoins on my work computer. But since I need to use that computer, I don't want it to consume all my resources as it is wont to do. Anyway to limit it to use only 3/4 cores or half of the GPU or whatever? Thanks.
Are there any (hopefully free) iPad apps for viewing PDFs containing links? For instance, I have a long PDF with a table of contents in the beginning containing links to later parts of the PDF. These links work when reading the PDF in Preview on my laptop -- when I click on the link for a specific section, the Preview jumps to that section.
I have 7GB free. If I give that to someone to record, what sort of ballpark figure would I get for a HD video recording? There may be about 10 individual videos being recorded over a couple of hours, if that makes a difference. Maybe just one hour long one. I just want to know a rough figure but ideally with some maths so I can work it out myself.
I am running OS X Version 10.6.7 and Firefox 4.0.1. I am trying to install the Web browser plugins for 10.5 and later (release 1.0.5), there is not a newer version of the plugin at the moment. I downloaded the dmg, ran the installer with firefox closed, then rebooted. Launched Firefox and went to about:plugins. It was still not listed.
Photo Booth does 640x480. I know the HD webcam on the 2011 MacBook Pros can do better than that. What app can I use for taking full resolution stills?
I have Facetime on my MacBook and Facetime on my iPad. Of course I also have one Apple ID account. Sometimes the family uses the iPad while I'm away. I'd like to be able to call "myself", that is my iPad from my MacBook. How do I do this?
I've speen a while trying to figure this out to no avail. On 4.3.1 Apple TV2's Onscreen Keyboard, I can't find some characters, in particular angle brackets (< and >). I know some characters can be accessed by holding select over the 'master' character, but none of them seem to have < and > in 4.3. They were present in 4.2 firmware version keyboard, which was of a different design. Thanks in advance!
I tried to download the "Dictionary Free" app from the App Store four days ago, but it's been stuck in "Waiting" ever since. I've tried everything: rebooting the phone, restoring from an iTunes backup, side-loading the app from iTunes, but nothing has worked.
I would like to copy several different texts/things at the same time and paste them in any order. Does anyone know any good Mac OS X software or plugin that can handle multiple copy/paste?
I've installed python 2.7 with the dmg-installer of the official python page. After typing which python in terminal, I get this: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
Bonus question: I don't think she's got anything running her contacts on, and worse - she's only using a Hotmail account. Does the iOS3 allow the phone to sync with any external systems like Gmail? Thanks!
I have a Canon PIXMA iP5000 printer that is connected via USB to a Windows 7 PC. I'm trying to access it via my Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I've tried the steps in the following article: *=URL=* I've managed to add the printer and install the required drivers from the list, but on printing from my Mac, nothing happens on the printer! Any help appreciated, thanks.
A relative told me that iOS can playback YouTube videos. I thought that YouTube requires Flash. How come this is possible without Flash in iOS?
I am using Snow Leopard and Windows 7 with bootcamp. I would like to be able to save some files to my OSX partition from Windows. I would also like to have files (say, photos, source code, etc) that I can manage with both partitions. Is it possible to get the two partitions to "play nice"?
In Aperture 3, at the beginning of the Import process, one can select/check or unselect/uncheck images one by one. But it requires the mouse. In the Viewer view, during that selection process, I can go to the next image easily using the keyboard, with the -> key, but what is the way to uncheck an image using the keyboard? (ie without having to click on the checkbox with the mouse) Edit Since I'm here, and in order not to create another question: is there a way to have the Undo to work only on the current image, being viewed in preview? (the default for multiple undoes, is to perform the undoes even on previously edited images (not shown during the undo) - very confusing/dangerous)
trying to create a scripts that deletes files older than X days. It seemed straight forward enough but all files seem to be getting removed?
Just like the newly presented iMessage but instead of just between iOS devices, with the Mac too. I've looked at Handoff. It can only send links to the iPhone from the Mac.
It is required to have a mac to build iphone application or we can use VirtualBox to emulate the MAC OS X platform and do the same task ? Is there any license restriction ? Thanks.
The current behavior for an upward four-finger swipe on the trackpad is to move all Windows to the side and display your desktop. I personally have no use for this since I keep absolutely nothing on my desktop. Is there a way to reassign this gesture to something else? For instance, I'd like to reassign it to Activate Spaces, since I'm a heavy Spaces user.
I bought an Airport Extreme and need to extend it's reach. I currently own a TimeCapsule. I believe the TimeCapsule also has the wifi creating capabilities of the Airport Extreme. Can I hook up my TimeCapsule to my modem and use my Extreme as an extender? If not, can I buy an Airport Express to do this?
I have a video in mp4 (MPEG-4) and I would like to add subtitles to it. What tool or application would you recommend to help me write and sync the subtitles with the video?
I have on my Mac - Microsoft Word 2010, now … I want to write from right to left ( not only text-align right, but direction ltr). I'll be thankful for some help. :)
For example on this page. *=URL=* all of the navigation links in the teal bar appear as outlines.. as do the main nav items on the left side of the screen. this is how my browser is showing this page
Where are all the places I can locate the serial number for a Mac Rechargeable Battery? I know the serial number can be located on the battery itself as well as on the Mac they were used with, but is the serial number available in any other locations?
The company I work for is thinking about getting a number of iPads. Normally with computer hardware (laptops/desktops) we plan for replacement every 3 years. Is it reasonable to expect the iPad to have similar service life or is it more likely that we'll be needing to replace these after only 2 years or less?
I am using the official wired Apple Keyboard with my Windows 7 64bit Desktop, is there a source for official drivers anywhere? I'm kinda fine with the default setup, but I'd really like the ability to printscreen! I am in the UK, but wouldn't mind switching language if that makes all the keys work in he right place.
So the second file is a duplicate. What I want to do is: Delete the aliases from the finder Delete the duplicates in itunes
I like the fact that I can use Google's built in PDF viewer instead of a separate application (Adobe Acrobat). Normally I would open a Finder Window with the PDF and drag it to a tab on Google Chrome but this process becomes two steps if the PDF is to be downloaded first.
I am looking for a packet sniffer / inspector which runs natively on OS X (Cocoa) and not with some sort of compatibility layer like X. Ideally I am looking for an application with the following qualities: native (Cocoa) interface ability to inspect packet data inspect packet data as XML, or RAW formats free
just got my first mac os computer. installed quick silver. (I rely heavily on launchy in windows) so, the cool feature i was able to achieve on windows using launchy, is that after saving "quick search" i can search any site before even opening the browser. i.e. alt+space "g (tab) mac forum" this will open my browser with search results for "mac forum"
I bought the iPod Touch 2g 8GB about 2 years ago and I now want the iPod Touch 4g 32GB. Is there a way that all the apps and music I bought on the iPod Touch 2g can be transferred to the new one I will buy?
is it possible to write an application that can block call, disable writing text messages if you are driving or moving fast, regardless of any version of IOS?
I have a folder full of video file to upload to a youtube like video service, they don't provide any api, and the upload form is made of flash, that means I can't manipulate anything, so what I think of is the mac automator is anyway to do that? some point that important: how to choose the next video to upload? how to choose the next video to upload? how to copy and paste the file name into the title how to copy and paste the file name into the title because other video service is banned in China, so youku.com is my only choose to upload my videos in China as you may notice, the upload page is made of flash, so there's no api for it, so the apple scripts may not work in my opinion, all I could think of is using automator
I want something more visual than Apple’s very subtle binoculars in the top right status menu when there is an active incoming VNC connection to the machine. Preferably just a floating window notifying the user that there is an active VNC connection, and maybe the IP address. The best solution I have found is running the below command in the Terminal. But that doesn’t really solve my monitoring issue as I actively have to go and find the data.
I am looking for a free editor to edit comma-delimited text files, or .csv format.
Is there a way to change the default volume setting for headphones/line out, i.e. the one you get after plugging a jack in for the first time since you've turned your Mac on and started OSX?
What is the best free software "uninstaller" for OS X?
Every time I start up Radium the menu bar icon for the application shows up in the same place: dead smack in the middle of all my other menu bar icons. Doesn't matter if it's the last menu bar occupying application I've started. I'd like to have it appear as the icon furthest to left on account of it displaying song information in the menu bar area once I start streaming a station with it. Is this possible?
Can you copy mp3 files directly to an attached ipod from the command line and have them show up on the ipod for listening?
There's an m4v video for download on the web that I'd like to watch offline on my iPad. This is the process I know will work: Open link in web browser on my laptop Download video to my laptop Stick video in iTunes Connect my iPad to my laptop Sync Disconnect iPad from laptop Watch offline This is what I want to do: Open link in web browser on my iPad Download video to my iPad Watch offline Is there currently a way to do this?
There are plenty of sites out there that compile wallpapers, but most have a very low signal:noise ratio. I don't want to deal with so much 'rough' to find a couple 'diamonds'. Are there places that have a generally high level of quality?
Is there a way to hide folders in OSX like you can in Windows? And if so then how?
I am trying to setup my mac mini as a secure git server, I'm following this very helpful blog post, *=URL=* Now I get stuck at number 6 when i am trying to save changes I have made to the /etc/sshd_config file. I am logged in as my administrator account and can open the file correctly, when I try to save it I receive the following error:
I have a iPod touch, iOS 4.3, running iTunes 10 on Windows 7. I had an iTunes store without a credit card, because I didn't intend to buy apps anyway. So today I plugged in my iPod and iTunes told me that I should update its OS. I said OK, and it told me that I should transfer my downloaded stuff from the iPod to my iTunes library first. Fair enough, I went to File > Transfer purchases from iPod (rough translation, my iTunes' in Spanish), and it told me that I don't have authorization to use them in this computer.
I got a new iMac and I'm trying to install Adobe Photoshop CS3. I'm using the original install disk, but when it gets to the end of the installation it says that the Shared Components were installed successfully but Photoshop CS3 failed to install. I contacted Adobe, but they only support CS4 and CS5 now, so they won't help me. I've searched the web and followed a bunch of suggestions, but nothing is working. I'm hoping you might be able to help me. I've tried: Used Disk Utility to repair permissions on my disk Used Adobe Cleaner Tool to ensure that no partial installations are present Copying the install directories to local disk and installing from there
I just bought a LaCie Rugged Safe Hard drive, and I am a bit disappointed by the sustained write speed that I measured. Here is what I see : sustained read speed : about 55MB/s sustained write speed about 12MB/s if the disk is formatted with HFS/journaled sustained write speed about 20MB/s if the disk is formatted with HFS/Not journaled
I just read that apple is now selling unlocked phones? I also read somewhere earlier (probably Wikipedia) that jailbreaking was made legal. Is jailbreaking and unlocking the same in this context?
I'm editing a keynote and i would like to center the slide I am editing in the middle of the window, simply for editing. It seems to stick to the top left corner of the window. How do i centralize the slide I am editing (only for editing purposes) in the window?
I often use my laptop in the subway / office buildings where internet connection may be laggy / absent for some period of time. Is there any network monitorying software that can constantly monitor my network connection quality (for example, by sending ping to google.com every few second) and display a green-yellow-red icon in the notification area so I will know if i have a normal internet connection or not? Google search doesn't show any such software :(
How exactly does a VPN work for iPad? I mean are all VPN connections (specially the Cisco VPN client) designed to work the same way..i.e. they always require 3 inputs; Host, UserId, Pwd OR that depends from one connection to the other?
I use pages but most of my friends/clients don't. If I save a Pages document in MS Word format and send it over to them, most of them see it all garbled.
Sometimes I have to upload, attach, open, insert, multiple files into various programs and websites. Often I have to do many in a row. Every time I "Browse" to add a file, OSX or Finder takes me back to its default location and the window defaults back to this little square that I have to then widen and navigate back to the directory I was just in, every time. Can OSX be told to always use the last file location and window size for an Open dialog, no matter what program is being used?
I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work. So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?
My mac pro doesn't want to start up. I purchased some new memory installed it (and cleaned up some of the dust on the inside of the box) and now the machine won't boot up. I get a constant white LED on the front, no fans, no chimes, no other lights light up (RAM riser boards)?
I have a 17 inch MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt. Occasionally, it heats up and the fan has to kick on. This happens typically during heavy CPU utilization, but also seemingly randomly when doing mundane tasks.
I'm traveling to China and would like to use my iPhone there. I would not like to pay AT&T's crazy and predatory charges. What should I do? I don't have much time and want something low on the 'things can go wrong' scale. Oh, and I have a dinosaur 3G, and a 4G.
Is it possible to set up a printer, so it will always print in black and white?
I have an old iPhone 3G which I purchased in Canada and it was locked for three years to Rogers, a service provider. Last month, I stopped the service and moved to the US. I was not able to use the iPhone because it was still bundled with a Canadian service provider and could not even go into the operating system. I called the service provider but they won't help me unlock because I've stopped the service. What can I do now?
When I sync a folder with iTunes to download into my iPhone, do the images get resized or compressed in anyway? Specifically I am trying to sync large images such as 5000px x 5000px at 72dpi. If iTunes does do this is there another way to get them added to my phone without compression?
I want to buy mac mini. But I do not want have USB keyboard/mouse, which will not be used after installing them because I will use wireless keyboard/mouse. Can I install or reinstall mac os and install wireless keyboard/mouse without USB mouse/keyboard? it is acceptable for me to have only a usb mouse because it is small. if there are no ways to install os and wireless mouse/keyboard without USB mouse/keyboard, are threre ways to install them with only a USB mouse?
I have tons of file on my desktop. I am using latest macbook pro. After selecting the file using mouse I hit delete and then "command and delete" and none of them work. So finally I hit ctrl + mouse click and then I chose "Move to trash". Is there a way to delete the file using only keyboard?
A friend of mine is going to stay here for two days, and I am sure he will need to ask me to use the Mac (and PC) in the study room. (which will be tons of work to move them and no matter where they are moved, the friend for sure will ask for use of a computer). In such case, what is the best way to protect my privacy, so that he won't be able to look at my Documents folder, Photos folder, etc, and all of my Firefox, Chrome, Safari's History, Bookmarks, and Stored Passwords?
I'm planning on upgrading a friend's Macbook from OS X Leopard to OS X Snow Leopard. I think it's a good idea to backup all the data before upgrading the OS, in case something goes wrong. The problem is that the important data is not clearly stored in a single location — e.g. it may be scattered all throughout the system since my friend doesn't store all his data in one location, so it's very difficult to know which files/folders I should or shouldn't back up. Is there any recommended procedure I should follow or a built-in (preferred) or 3rd-party tool I should use to back up the data before an OS upgrade?
I wanted to see if my technical hiccup was experienced by others, as well as any obvious fix I am missing. Perhaps 5-10 times per day, my external, bluetooth, apple magic trackpad will interpret a regular click as a two-finger click (ie a right-click.) I believe it is only when I click via the full "press down" method, it does not happen during a mere light-touch-to-click.
I have a 15" Macbook Pro in a Speck protective case. Will this fit into a Twelve South BookArc Desktop Stand for Notebooks comfortably? The protective case adds a little to the body of the Macbook, my concern is that it won't fit.
I have concern regarding this behavior. When I use Time Machine as a standard user, it backs up everything (including data of users I do NOT even own). I realize that I still cannot access it, but how legit it is to allow me to backup everything on a system used by multiple users on an external hard drive and take it away with me?
I've done jailbreak a few weeks ago to try some new apps and games before buying them. Today I've updated my iPod touch to a new version and I've purchased some apps I liked. To sync iPod touch with new app I have deleted the previously cracked app and then I realized that all data associated to that app was lost.
I've got a 2008 MacBook Pro (Late 2008/Unibody, MB471LL/A, MacBookPro5,1, A1286) with 6GB of memory and a 160GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD running 10.6.7 (1OJ869). Around a month ago I noticed the machine is constantly freezing all the time for a fraction of a second, it's really regular and barely noticeable in general use. It's more obvious when scrolling down a long page in Safari (5.0.5) but really noticeable when playing YouTube clips, there's constant pauses. The odd thing is that video played by VLC (1.1.9) is totally smooth. I'm thinking it might be a Flash (10.3 r181) thing as it seems Safari-bound.
What are some recommended carrying cases for MBP 15.4"
I have a price list: 12,560 14,340 11,890 ... Is there a simple way to divide these cells by a number at once?
What I know about the problem: It happens randomly. I can hit Refresh All in iCal and this sync error won't occur.
I've learned that simply by adding an Exchange-based email account to my iPod's Mail app, I am implicitly allowing the administrator of the email system to remotely wipe all data from my iPod -- even though neither the (sparse) documentation nor the user interface seems to warn of this. I don't find this acceptable, so I simply read my Exchange mail through the web interface. No problem.
I am having one problem with the Magic mouse; after 3-4 hours of continuos use, the Magic mouse automatically loses connection with my Macbook pro. Do you have any idea? Why is it happening? Is it a defect? Should I go for replacement?
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect an external USB drive to my Airport Express and then run Time Machine backups onto that? A bit like a makeshift Time Capsule.
I have purchased Macbook Pro 13 inch, and it was shipped by DHL, but when I received it, the screen was damaged. So, I want to buy a new one. Where I can find it? Because I want to buy and install it.
I'd like to use Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Server as an Internet gateway. My router would connect to the Internet facing NIC on my Mac Mini server and the internal NIC would connect to a WiFi access point. I want to be able to track the bandwidth users on the WiFi network are using, but I am aware of the fact that MAC addresses on wireless clients are easily changed. How can I do bandwidth accounting based on WiFi clients without MAC addresses, logons each time and having the Internet gateway server act as a DHCP server ? UPDATE - It appears I want to run RADIUS for WiFi auth and usage accounting...is this available in server/daemon form for Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard Server ? Thanks, Scott
My iPhone 4 is in VoiceOver mode. It`s currently locked and not accepting my passcode which is absolutely correct. And now it's saying iPhone is disabled. Any solution?
I have my iPhone headset plugged into my Macbook Pro so that I can listen to some proper music and have my Iphone 4 lying next to my MB Pro. Now, of course, it would be really really fancy if there was a way I could proxy my incoming iPhone calls to my MB Pro via Bluetooth (essentially turning my MB Pro into a bluetooth headset) so that I can still pick up calls with my iPhone headset, even though it is plugged into my MB Pro. Is there a way to do this?
So... Over the period of 2 years owning my beloved iPhone 3GS, I have found many useful apps that I use very frequently. However, in the process of finding these apps, I have also downloaded much, much more crappy apps.
Is there a way to retrieve the current watt usage info on OS X Snow Leopard? I'm using mid-2010 iMac, so I'm not looking for just battery-related apps.
I've seen products out there that let you view a security camera in your home remotely via an iPhone app. But I was wondering if I could build a cheaper solution. I would like to use my built in webcam on my MacBook as a remote security cam (really, I'd just like to be able to check in on our dog at home while we are away, security being a secondary concern) and be able to view it on my iPhone and potentially on my work PC as well. Although, if it was just working for the iPhone that would be plenty enough. Is there any software/apps out there that will do that currently?
I have iCal version 4.0.4. I have enabled the "Delete events 30 days after they have passed" preference option. When iCal purges these events, it is sending a decline e-mail to the event organizer. Is there a way to stop iCal from sending decline e-mails when it automatically purges calendar entries?
I entered my Gmail info in the Mail app on my iPod touch, and I can now read my email on my iPod. That's great as far as it goes, but I want to sync all of my email to my iPod. Right now, it only seems to load a couple hundred messages, plus any that I specifically choose to read - which I suppose is good for minimizing bandwidth usage, but the whole point of syncing email to my iPod is so I can read messages when I have no network at all.
Can I somehow run this script on something else without a server? Terminal works, but it is too hard to read.
I have external speakers and microphone hooked up to my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and an iPhone 3Gs connected to it with a USB cord. Is it possible to route calls from the iPhone through the external speakers and mic (with or without bluetooth)? Put another way, is it possible to use my MacBook Pro, external speakers and microphone as a speakerphone for the iPhone?
I would like to lend my iPod Touch 4 sometimes, but I would like to block access to my e-mails (as well as Facebook), is there a way?
I've got my firewall on (the OS X firewall) and I've got a lot of attempts on screen sharing. I want to log successful connections to make sure no one is making it through, similar to what is done with /var/log/secure.log In fact, I'm surprised this isn't included with secure.log What can I do? For what its worth, I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Update 1: Daniel had a nice suggestion to use redirected to a file to log what is going on. The problem is a connection is flagged as ESTABLISHED as soon as the vnc login screen comes up regardless of whether or not a login is ultimately successful. In other words, all those (hopefully) failed attempts that my firewall logs will look no different than my successful logins.
Over the years (!), I have collected a bunch of weekly freebies, plus I have bought a few singles. Is there any way that I can have a playlist made up of albums with just one track? I just tried dragging everything over, but created a problem where iTunes continually crashed.
I haven't been able to figure out how to fix this, after tinkering around for some hours, but I am a Motion n00b so I'm probably missing something obvious. For the time being, I've been using a workaround of making separate text boxes for when I need to use different font sizes, but there is a lot of formatted text in this animation and placing all the text boxes just so and getting everything perfect in the timeline has proven quite tedious. Thanks for any help!
Most of my computing time is spent in Linux (with occasional time in Windows). On these platforms the Home and End keys universally jump to the beginning or end of the current line. I am gradually getting used to using the one Apple computer in my life, but it is still frustrating than these keys seem to be bound to the beginning and end of the document and there doesn't seem to be any key at all for the line based actions. My question:
iPad runs iPhone apps too. Sometimes people want to make it bigger and they click the "2x" button. Then the OS scales the app with pixel Doubling, which makes it look ugly because the whole app is pixelated.
I was wondering whether it's possible to use an Airport Express that is connected via Ethernet (using a powerlan/-line bridge-set inbetween) to extend an Airport Extreme network? Basically the two places are a tad too far away from each other so connecting the Express to the Extreme via WLan hardly works reliably & I thought I read somewhere that the lan connected method should work, but after going through the Airport Utility Wizard that actually seems to offer this method & it restarted the Express, my Lan stops working.. for some reason.. heavy packet loss from my mac to the Extreme (via ethernet aswell) and all that... if I unplug the express from lan, it all of a sudden works again perfectly fine. So basically the question is and if its doable, what do I have to do to make this work?
I just bought my first Mac, and I want to use FaceTime with someone who has an iPhone. How can I do this?
Yesterday, I purchased an HP LaserJet M1212NF. It, like many other printers, can't scan over ethernet natively in OS X. That is, I can scan using the stupid HP utilities that I hate (not going to happen), but I can't do it from Preview, Image Capture, or the "scan" button that's supposed to show up on the right-hand side of the pane after double-clicking the printer in the print & scan control panel.
There are some processes that are launched upon a login, how to get a list of these processes? I want to prevent some processes from being launched automatically.
I thought I could handle the driver issues later, I used Boot Camp Assistant to make the 500 GB harddisk Windows installable. Then I booted into the installer, selected BOOTCAMP partition and formatted it. Installer did not continue displaying 0x80300024 error.
Couldn't find anything anywhere. Does the iPhone support Quicktime VR files?
airprint is pretty cool. On my Mac and PC I could setup a separate profile to use my color printer in black&white mode. Is it possible to do the same when using air print from iphone/ipad?
I have a PowerMac G4 at my office running Leopard Server that I'd like to be able to access remotely. Normally, I'd just use VNC / SSH, but it's behind a router that I don't have admin access over (it's in the office next door and we're in a piggybacking agreement, I just don't feel like asking him to forward ports, etc). I think "Back To My Mac" generally can take care of this, but it's going away and you can't subscribe to MobileMe anymore anyhow.
I have a Denon DP-200USB turntable that converts analogue records (LPs) into MP3s (one MP3 per side) and stores them onto a USB memory stick. This lovely piece of kit comes with some software called Trans Music Manager (PDF) that will automatically split tracks (based on silence between tracks) followed by naming and tagging them using Gracenote. Sadly this software runs under Microsoft Windows, for which I don't have a licence.
Can anybody explain some details about how is implemented the automatic file versioning in the Lion? It is transparent for any file? (for example, for files created in the Terminal.app with shell command like ls >file.txt and ls -l > file.txt mean than the file.txt got versioning?, or every application should call some versioning API at the save?
I plugged my iPhone into my computer last night and opened up iTunes. It said I needed to sync and download the latest version. I clicked ok. After all was done my iPhone has been set back to Decemeber.
I have an iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and an iPad running iOS 4.3.1, both jailbroken. They have lighttpd and PHP installed, however PHP seems to be an old version that I need to upgrade to use a WebSocket script.
Because I might just want to go to bed after this one song (but don't want to stop it midway – It's a classic). Edit: Found a workaround in iTunes 11, a two-click solution but it works. See my answer.
If it helps, say the Macbook is being used for something graphics intensive where it heats up quite a bit. My concern is that when the lid is down, and the heat can't escape as easily.
I'm trying XCode4. I created a new project, told XCode to put in my ~/develop/ directory, but then I immediately get asked:
Question: should the user UUID (different than UID) be set to the same on each of the computers? Any disadvantage if they are not? Does OS X use the uid (e.g. 501) to determine if the users on two different machines are the "same"?
I have all the BitCoin data encrypted on an image on Dropbox. Is it possible to have a script that mounts the data right before I open the BitCoin.app ?
Is there a way to sync photos in PC to iPad, without syncing the apps? I want to manage the apps only in iPad. The problem is that when I turn off apps syncing, iTunes asks me "are you sure you want to remove 60 apps?". I don't want to remove all my apps.
I've recently noticed that I have the following network interfaces setup on my mac: Ethernet Airport Firewire vmnet1 vmnet8 gif0 stf0
I just bought my first MacBook Pro as I will be doing more work on the road, but I just realized my Windows license of Photoshop CS5 won't work on my Mac. I guess it's OS-based? Someone suggested installing Boot Camp or Parallels to run Windows via the Mac and use my Windows Photoshop CS5 license that way.
Last night the iPhone 3G (my friend's iPhone, not jail-broken) went black and a white fuzzy line would move around the screen. Powering off and starting again seemed to remove the problem.
I have several font families that have different naming styles. The results is that instead of all those fonts showing up as one family, there's a separate family for each font variation (bold, black, thin, italic, etc).
My iMac 24" is about 3 years old. Specs: 2.66ghz Intel Core 2 Duo / 4gb RAM / OS X 10.6.7
Visor is a plugin for Terminal.app that allows usage of quake-console-style terminal access. Are there any alternatives to this Terminal.app plugin?
Is there a place in the OS that we can see to which person the OS is registered to?
My Macbook does not pick up wi-fi signals that my iPhone can pickup. I have an wi-fi setup at home and the router is in a room. Outside that room - or even in some corners, my Macbook Pro does not pickup wi-fi signal. But my iPhone can still use the wi-fi outside the apartment doors.
I currently use "Stay," and have tried other tools (haven't really loved any of them), but I am looking for a window management tool that does the following: Store my window locations Have a separate profile for different monitor setups Allow me to quickly modify the location with hotkeys Automatically load my default settings when I attach/detach a display Any help would be great!
Ok guys, here's the deal. Randomly, I wasn't doing anything specific -- my system starts getting sluggish. I checked the activity viewer -- wow, finder is at 150% CPU! I have scoured the internet for fixes, and franky, I have tried them all (except one -- which I may need help with -- more on that later). SYSTEM: Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro (Twelve Core 2.66 Westmere) This is what I have tried and the results: However, if I create a new account or use my wife's account -- the FINDER CPU USAGE IS NORMAL.
What free software/app is there to edit pdf files on Mac OS X? Specifically I am looking to edit an existing PDF file and re-save it in PDF format.
I'm looking for apps that have faux materials in them like leather, wood, paper, etc. (Apple stresses "tactile" apps when guiding developers.) I'm trying to guide a graphic designer. What are some apps that I can show that get the point across?
I received an e-mail with an .ics attachment and I opened it on my iPhone. I opened the attachment and added it to my calendar. Now I want to delete the event. How do I do that?
In the remote that comes with Apple TV, if you pair it with a mac, you'd be able to press and hold the play/pause button and your mac will go to sleep. Is there a way to do the same with iPhone/iPad Remote app?
What software (or using any other in-built tools) can I use to clear (by clear, I mean scrub from the disk) the cache & cookies in browsers, without affecting the bookmarks etc. I use firefox 4.
I am using Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Now, I am giving my MacBook to my younger brother, who is quite new to OS X and Unix. He is using Windows for thelast 8 months, and is quite familiar with it. I need your guidance in finding Video Tutorials, that I can give to him so he can learn on his own about different things.
I recently bought the highly respected Instapaper app for my iPhone. One thing I have noticed is that if I save an article from (most) blogs such as Coding Horror, the comments to the article are not saved in the Instapaper version. While in many cases the comments are mindless noise, and I can understand why Instapaper would strip them, there are some blogs where the comments are very much part of the conversation and I'd love to see them, formatted nicely, in the Instapaper output. Does anyone know an easy way to achieve this?
I'm not a big ipad user, but I need ot know how to view powerpoint presentations on an ipad. I have noticed alot of people mentioned to convert it to a video, pdf slides or image slides. But I have also noticed that KeyNote seems to do alot of the same stuff as powerpoint.
I proceeded because I don't have anything important on my iPad... The only thing that was annoying was it lost the order/groups. It did lose all the app data, but apart from a few high scores, I do not mind.
I just bought two 500 GB hard drives for my Mac for the purposes of backing up ten older hard drives to it. One hard drive (200 GB, pretty much full) is from my Linux machine.
I am trying to execute a script when a server becomes available (a bit like when the OS detect the presence of a time capsule device and it starts the backup.) I didn't find a simple way to attach an applescript to an system event. Is there a way?
I would like to send a voicemail I received to someone else for them to be able to listen to the exact same audio. Is there a way to forward an individual voicemail to someone else, whether by email or some other means?
Do we have a Vimperator style extension for Safari 5?
There is a way to add applications to a "always allow access"-list for a specific keychain entry. Those applications get read/write permissions to that entry. Is it possible to make keychain only grant readonly access to certain applications?
If I delete photos from my current iPhoto library which have been backed up on time machine, will it be possible to recover these photos from my time machine backup once they've been deleted from my hard disk/iPhoto library? or will time machine eventually delete them next time I backup? does time machine keep my backups for a particular period of time before deleting them to make room for the next round of backups?
I have my MBP connected to another screen with a smaller resolution. Thus when I want to move a window on the other screen, I have to resize it first to that it fits, then I can make it full screen again. Is there a more convenient way to do that ?
Is it possible to wake my MBP via Magic Packets from power down? I read Is there a way to power up a Mac Mini remotely?, but that does not seem to work from power down. "Wake for network access" in "Energy Saver" prefpane is ticked.
What kind of license do final cut pro sound effects have? Can I put them into nonmovies? For example, can I use them in a Flash game? Hypothetical: If I'm distributing my own video editor, can I include these sound effects?
I need to enter a new MS Office for Mac license key. How can I reset my old one?
I have a mid 2007 white MacBook. I don't currently have the money to get a new computer (even though I'd love to). I was thinking with all the good reports coming out with the SSD performance in MacBook airs, perhaps I could get a speed boost of my own by replacing the hard drive in my computer with an SSD. I don't need a very big one so I'm thinking of spending no more than $250, but hopefully less. The first question I have is has anyone performed the upgrade on that model of MacBook and do you have recommendations for SSD drives and tips for doing the actual upgrade?
Is there a way to create a printer on a machine. Then bundle up the Printer bundle and create an installer out of it for multiple users at a location. To avoid having to explain to each user how to install a network printer?
I'm looking at buying a new iMac 27" for university and want the hard drive + ssd but the problem is that its so expensive. So is it possible to install another hard drive without adding in the option? Also I don't want an SSD - I want more storage for the OS, so I would replace it for a 500gb hard drive if it would fit. Has anyone done this, or is it not possible?
I'd like to upgrade Firefox to the new version but I don't know if I'll still be able to read pdf on it with this this plugin. Is there another way ?
I've got Xcode 4.0.2 installed in /Developer, and the Xcode 4.2 beta in /XcodeBeta. My problem is that the .xcodeproj file type is now associated with Xcode 4.2 and I can't change it to Xcode 4.0.2. I've tried the usual thing of doing Get Info on an .xcodeproj file, selecting Xcode (4.0.2) in the Open with: drop down then clicking Change All..., but at that point the version of Xcode selected in the Open with: dropdown just flips back to Xcode 4.2 and the file type association remains with Xcode 4.2.
When I first set up my 1Tb external disk with my AirPort Extreme I partitioned it into two 500Gb disks, one for Backup and one for Media storage but I have no memory of how I did this. I seem to remember being prompted when I first connected the disk.
I'm currently using Thunderbird for my e-mail needs on OS X. I manage 4 different e-mail accounts, one of which receives a lot of e-mail per day. As the messages pile up, I notice that Thunderbird is getting more sluggish. Is there an alternative that handles large volumes of e-mail efficiently?
In trying to get the best performance possible out of this old guy, I've been looking into Activity Monitor more and more. kernel_task is usually above 130MB (142.9MB right now). Is this abnormal? If so, what could I do to fix it?
I sometimes suspend the machine manually (for example by pressing ⌘-⎇-⏏). This will suspend it properly, but when I come back to it sometime later I will often see that it is on again and no screen saver.
15 year Windows guy here, slowly going full Mac on everything and enjoying it. But there's one thing that's killing me: the USB mouse acceleration curve in Snow Leopard drives me crazy. I've looked at utilities that claim to change it, but I haven't found anything that works (thanks Apple for removing the mouse acceleration curve function). I really want my mouse to move like it did in Windows.
I have always purchased AppleCare with new Macs, and I seem to recall TechTool Deluxe being an important part of the bundle. I bought an iMac at the beginning of the year and neglected to pop in the AppleCare DVD at that time since I knew I was already registered for support and the TT app was migrated from my old computer.
I added a calendar from my Google account in Ical and now it quit about 3 seconds after loading. I have tried the solution described here: *=URL=* but I don't even have user's Library > Application Support > iCal OS X 10.6.7
It seemed that the USB connection was OK. Is there any way to solve this problem?
I develop for iOS, and use an ipad2 with firmware 4.3.2, and xcode 3.2.5 multitasking gestures work fine, I got the ipad of a friend which has firmware 4.3.3, but my xcode doesn't recognize it, * so I want to make this friends ipad be able to use the multitasking gestures, is the problem of not recognition because of the x code?, does the 4.3.3 only work with latest xcode? thanks a lot!
Which sticky notes app you would prefer for iPhone which can synchronized to Google tasks? I want a simple sticky notes on top and always.
I usually buy Apps in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store but I've always had the doubt, when I buy it, will the app be available in the future for the next releases or not? I never brought an App two times because of a major release, but is it possible?
I would like to use an iPad as a sketch board during some presentations. Idea is quite simple. I draw on the iPad and the people can watch it on the big screen. One way to do it its plain simple. Just connect a HDMI cable to the iPad from the projector and you're set. You can use any app you prefer for that.
Let's start by assuming that I have a perfectly compatible file. (In my use case, I was literally trying to get a video I took on my iPhone, that lives in my iPhone photos/video gallery, onto my iPad, so this isn't about conversions or codecs.) Now, there are many ways to transfer and watch the the video, but I can't find a single darn way to save it with my other videos and photos:
Coming from a Linux background what are the main difficulties I will face if I start to work on iMac? I use to work on Linux with consoles and I know I have a huge apps repository (synaptics) for almost all I need. I'm programming Java and Ruby all day long, so what are the main differences?
When Lion comes out, PPC Rosetta support for the Eudora email app is reported not to be available. Which contemporary Mac OS X email clients might support the most painless and reliable importing and use of 10 years worth of of Eudora messages, contacts, filters, and settings? Which current and supported email clients have the largest subset of Eudora's capabilities? What problems might I encounter during a complete Eudora export, and how might I avoid them?
Inside Logic Studio, you can re-map all your track output to specific buses and use those buses as inputs for other tracks. I was wondering if it was possible to somehow use those buses outside of logic. Basically, here's what i'm trying to do : I want to link a track to my Skype audio input so I can create insane real-time voice filter effects.
I do lot of video editing work, mostly on FCP & Avid and I feel Quadro card is way to go. Do you think I can get it changed from Apple? -Reddy
I'd like to change my MacBook's languages of the UI. How would I do that in Snow Leopard?
Say I've bought an app for $0.99. If I delete it, and then I require that app again, do I need to pay another $0.99? (OK, I really don't want to waste $0.99 just to try it…)
File sharing is not an option for me under 'sharing'.  The image above illustrates the lack of file sharing, but I do have the following items: dvd or cd sharing screen sharing scanner sharing remote login remote management remote apple events bluetooth sharing Any idea why certain macs have different items in the sharing pane?
Over the last few days my hard drive has gone from a few GB of free space, to zero KB, absolutely full. I then deleted about 1GB of files, and now the free space has gone down to 640MB, and then went up to 690MB. This is without doing anything major. Over the past few days, almost all of what I've done is on the internet.
I am looking to download previous version of iTunes (iTunes 10.2.2). When I tried googling, all the webpages direct to apple site which has only the update iTune 10.3 for download. Can any one let me know, how can I get older version of iTunes?
I don't want to erase all my existing apps. I just want to install the .ipa file and KEEP all my existing apps. However iTunes says
I want to install a linux debian in virtual box and on debian an apache webserver. After this, I'd like to access it form my mac via browser like *=URL=* The goal is to "dry" test the apache configuration before performing it on a live debian server... is this setting possible and if so, how? UPDATE: After choosing "Internal" I tried to determine the IP-address... There's no ip address I can use :-) After that I switched to "Host-only" and again no ip-address: Is this a debian issue or a misconfiguration in VirtualBox?
In the Desktop & Screen Saver panel of System Preferences, I check the "Change Picture" box and set it to "Every 30 minutes". The desktop background doesn't change.
I have a household with mostly Apple products with a Cisco base station. I was wondering if I can use an Airport Express as a range extender. If it works, it would be very attractive for me since I could also use it to play music from my iPhone through it.
I might be overlooking something very obvious here but I cannot see any of the books I add to the Kindle app. Listed below are the steps I follow to add the books.
I have a co-worked whose name is Jennett. In Pages, I added her to my local dictionary (located at ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary) by right-clicking on her name and choosing Learn Spelling. However, OS X is not flagging Jennet with one "t" as being misspelled. How can I make Jennet with one "t" be flagged as being misspelled?
I've got roughly 5 apps on my iPhone. Then I went to iTunes and downloaded 15+ apps. After that, I synced them to the phone and it says "Sync Complete", but the apps on my phone are showing "Waiting..". I've waited for over a day and the apps are still showing "Waiting..". What may be the problem here, and how can it be fixed?
I've been noticing that Safari skyrockets in terms of memory usage. I've been getting some results by restarting it, but I'm wondering if there is an app or some easy script to run that would send a growl notification (or some other sort of notification) to inform me that it has reached, let's say 200MB, and then I would know that it might be time to restart it.
Also, ocremix.org has a convention when multiple artists are participating in a single track to list them all out, separated by commas. Can iTunes handle this in some way?
This may be a bit of a stretch to post here (in terms of whether people will have an answer), since this is a fairly specific question about video work, although I am performing the entirety of this work within FCP 7, Compressor, and DVD Studio Pro. I have 2 hours of footage edited from a HD Camcorder in FCP 7, and I need to get it onto a DVD. I want to use the highest quality container I can, and I want to be able to author and preferably burn the DVD within DVD Studio Pro. Unfortunately, DVDSP doesn't support MPEG-4, which is one of the nicest containers to put 1080p video into. It supports MPEG, which offers considerably less options for compression, and data rates.
Some application or action is deleting my ~/.Trash directory. I obviously don't know when this happens, save for the "Are you sure you want to delete..." dialog box. I can restore the Trash, by restarting the Finder, as per this question, but I would like to figure out what is doing this.
With the impending release of Lion, I'm wondering whether there is a way to download an app from the Mac AppStore only once, but use the downloaded installer or binary on more than one machine. This is especially important for Lion, as I understand that will be a 4GB download. I have two Snow Leopard machines to upgrade, and considering the draconian data caps we have down here in New Zealand, I'm trying to avoid having to perform 8GB of downloads in order to upgrade them both. Is this possible, or is it a limitation of the architecture that a shared app has to be downloaded via the AppStore on both machines?
In Safari, when the Develop menu is enabled, I can make the Web Inspector appear by hitting ⌘⌥I. However, when I hit that again, the Web Inspector stays where it is. Is there any way I can hide it with another (or somehow the same) keyboard shortcut?
It would have to be able to edit and view PowerPoint presentations. I'd prefer pptx support but I can live without it.
Why does my MBP sometimes report VM Size: 300+ GB in Activity Monitor under System Memory tab, when my hard disk size is only 250 GB (total) and RAM is 4GB? I know it can't magically get that extra space, but what is it trying to tell me?
I now have two versions of Xcode installed: Xcode 4 - installed in /Developer (bought from Mac App Store) Xcode 3 - installed in /Developer-old (I believe it was installed from the second disc supplied with my MCB)
Although I keep my system time & date in check using time.asia.apple.com, I can't "Set time zone automatically using current location". I get the error message, "Unable to determine current location at this time" every time I try this.
I have a script set up to create a RAM Disk at login. But I have now noticed that the RAM Disk (And sometimes other networked disks) get unmounted when I put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again. Is there any way to stop this? Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 8GB RAM 128GB SSD 2010 13" MacBook Pro Edit: This may be a known issue with Apple, but it is unknown if it was ever filed with them and if they ever plan on fixing it: http://openradar.appspot.com/8426423
Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop? (I know that the trackpad gesture four-fingers-up will sweep them all out of the way, i think it's an expose function. I was hoping for a full "hide" of them all instead.) thanks!
I have AKG K830BT bluetooth headset which works perfectly with my MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.7). The only problem is while using Skype. It looks like Skype wants to use my built-it speakers disregarding the BT headset which is already successfully paired. So the result is that I can head system signals (e.g. a sound assigned to the activity of closing a Skype conversation window) in my headset but not the conversation. Is there any fix for this?
I have this sweet old iMac 350 Mhz sitting in my dusty cellar. Filled with nostalgia I've fired it up and it is still working :)
As I need to use the fn + F8 shortcut within my virtual machine, I'd like to disable it in my host. How do I go about disabling this particular shortcut, so that it can be used within my VM?
I would like to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm from my iPod touch. I currently use the official iTunes scrobbler, but it seems to drop data.
I've noticed a strange animation on the desktop of my January 2007 Macbook Pro. The animation appears sporadically in the lower left-hand corner. The best way I can describe the animation is "a hard disk being accessed". The image is a simple cartoon hard disk being read. The animation appears very briefly. Have you seen something like this? Cheers!
The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why? Is there any way to get it back?
Suddenly, since today (not having installed todays OSX Update to 10.6.8, so still running 10.6.7), my Google Calendars ('delegates') have disappeared from iCal. Strangely, I found them in the Window menu, where they are all listed. When I clen one of them there, iCal opens a new Window with only that calendar showing. I want the combines view back, as it always was - where all calendars are shown at the right and can be selected for being displayed in the main pane. Any ideas?
I've been reading Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X when I came across this. Apparently I should be able to view man pages with some HTML mark-up if I save this function somewhere.
I have a RCA VR5220 voice recorder, with a built-in USB connector. Because this thing was clearly built by Windows-minded engineers, the only way to access the files in Mac OS X is to plug it in and hope that it detects as a FAT32 disk. If it doesn't (i.e., I plug it in and nothing happens -- no disk is mounted, device is invisible to Disk Utility), my options appear to be: Remove the disk without unmounting, hopefully not wiping it in the process. Reboot my computer, removing the device after the power-cycle.
Once in a while I have to work over a 3G network, which is reasonable, until I mount a file system on the other side of the world. When that happens OSX tries to show me "previews" of every single document in the finder, an operation which takes forever because it usually tries to download the entire document in order to generate the preview. After spending hours downloading a 5 MB file, it often decides, "oh gosh, I don't know how to show thumbnails of Word files. I'll just show you a Word icon." In the meantime Finder is in bouncing-ball-hell for hours.
I observe an extremely annoying font problem in Google Chrome for Mac. When I visit a page like GitHub or Bitbucket (which use monospaced fonts, e.g. for code) I see the HTML sections that are meant to be displayed in a monospaced font displayed in “Times New Roman”. This pretty much makes these sites useless for me. I found a blog post that describes a similar problem and which suggests to clear Mac OS X’s font caches with these terminal commands:
Is there an iPad out there than can connect to Terminal Services RemoteApp? See TechNet article explaning RemoteApp
When I drink a beer I enjoy I like to snap a photo of it with my iPhone. I keep an event in iPhoto called Beer and in to this event go all those photos I snap.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.7 and VMware Fusion 3.1.3. I have Windows 7 on my VMware Fusion.
(FWIW, I've already purchased a replacement drive, and plan to replace it at some point. I'm really wondering whether I should do it as soon as possible, or whether it can wait until I have nothing better to do on a weekend.)
is there anyway to arrange or organize our apps in the itunes library? I mean i have well a ton of apps and it really helps if i could put them in folders / lists / or anything?
I'm trying to move my standard ~/Sites folder, or the global Sites folder (in Library/WebServer/Documents) to my Dropbox folder, and make this usable with Web Sharing, PHP, MySQL etc. So far I have changed the httpd.conf in etc/apache2 to overwrite these lines: But when I browse *=URL=* I get: Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?
I was expecting to find .epub or .prc files on my hard-disk, but didn't. Does anyone know: Where are the ebooks that the official Kindle App downloads located?
I would like to ask if anyone has some recommendations on some of the specific settings for Window power plans (especially advanced parameters) for a Macbook Pro. For me specifically I have an early 2011 17".
What compression utility can you recommend that supports zip, rar, tar, etc... like 7zip and FilZip on Windows?
I'm using a magic trackpad. There is a time lag for about 0.5 second between when i dropped a something, for example desctop icon, and when it actually dropped. I can drop immidiately by touching after I drop something. But I don't want to touch every time I drop something. Magic mouse can drop immidiatelly without any extra operations. What is this time lag? And how can I solve this problem?
I don't know whats wrong with Apple Customer Ratings system on Appstore. Recently I have uploaded two apps on appstore. And still there are no ratings/reviews on apps. Infact I observed there are 1000s of downloads has been made in last 2 days.
I have just baught an Iphone and I have to upgrade my itunes, but it says my operating system is too old. I have an Ibook G4 10.4.11 with a 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor. The support team are sending me out a disc to install Leopard operating system. However, I am worried that once I install it I may not be able to run Photoshop CS version 8.0. Will this be an issue, as I use it everyday. If so, I am thinking of returning the iphone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I heard that there maybe issues with intel based macs, but I think mine is PowerPC...
Does enabling the Guest Network on a 4th Generation Airport Extreme have any impact on Dual-Band performance? I have multiple 802.11/g devices that I want to use the 2.4GHz spectrum, and only occasional need for Guests. However, when Guest access is required, it is usually required suddenly, so it would be nice to have it always on. Does enabling the Guest Network necessarily disable the dual-band, or do these capabilities co-exist?
Is there a way to watch Youtube videos without Flash installed on Safari? If not, are there any other solutions?
In the safari extensions there is a cool extension to use google translate on the current web page: "Translate". However I don't like the fact it is adding a button to the bar. I would like to make it work as in Chrome, where the bar automatically appears when a website is in a foreign language. thanks
I am Norwegian, but I set up my new iMac with English as the primary language. My question is this: Can I configure Mac OS X (possibly through a 3rd party application, free or not) to pick the right spell checker language depending on which application I'm typing in?
When logged in to my user account, the screensaver selected in System Preferences is used. However, when on the login screen before logging in or using fast user switching a different screensaver is used. How do I set the screensaver used on the login screen?
Is this possible? I know you can protect a .dmg file, but is there a more convenient solution, by using a third party application?
I have a project running on a iPad and my client have decided to print a document on his clients and with that I'll need to find a portable printer for iPad. I have searched on Canon and HP and nothing portable was found. Does anyone here knows about one?
The "Overture/Prologue" and "The Launching" from the musical Titanic is six tracks totaling 16 minutes. I want to make them available for inclusion in a Smart Playlist, but they need to be played as a group, and in order. Similarly, the Canadian Brass "All You Need Is Love" has four "Intro to ..." tracks, about a minute in length, that should be played together with the song they introduce. Is there any way in iTunes to mark multiple tracks which a Smart Playlist could pick as an ordered group? Example: Jasmine, Kittens, Humor, and Geology are not especially related and can be played separately and in any order, but it is not pleasing to hear just the Intro, or just one of the parts of Geology. How do?
I can plug in my gamepad controller and usb probe shows me, that it is recognized. I want to umount it, so that I can use it under the Virtualbox. Where does Mac mount USB devices such as a gamepad. Here is a picture of the usb probe output:
Where is the left-to-right delete button in iPhone’s keyboard? We have backspace but where is Delete?
All of a sudden, my Voice Control on my iphone 4 keeps beeping and making noises, and it's starting songs on the music player and making the whole phone go haywire. I turned the phone off and on again but the problem persists. Is there a way to replace the whole system or do something else that might fix it The phone was working perfectly yesterday and every other day since last October when I bought it
I would like to use an alarm clock application on my MacBook Pro. The thing is, that I need to close the lid on the MBP while sleeping. Now I know this is a common issue, but after moderate amount of Googling I haven't found any reasonable solution. Some solutions are already old, do not work on 10.6.7 or the current line of MBP.
How do I get textmate to remember what project i had open last and reopen it automatically? Right now I have to select it from the menu.
I want to edit MKV video files (anime). Naturally I want to use iMovie / Final Cut. But sadly they can't import MKV?
I have another problem which I am trying to implicitly solve with this solution, and that is that invites no longer show up properly in GMail (they are plain text and I cannot "accept" them). They do show up however in my desktop mail app..
Just two days back, I bought a MacBook Pro. I have just decreased the resolution of the display and started one game. Suddenly, my MacBook made an annoying beep sound and the front light was also blinking. After I restarted the system, everything seemed fine. I just want to know what the problem was?
Is it possible in Mac OS X to somehow make it change the network location from a custom location profile to automatic when leaving the home network without having to manually adjust the settings in system preferences?
There is a LastPass extension for Google Chrome. I wonder if I'm missing out on much by not using it. I also wonder if, in some ways, my data are less secure if I put all my stuff out there 'in the cloud'. Thinking of recent missteps by Dropbox et al. makes me a little queasy. There are other concerns such as making a large number of highly random passwords and storing them in LastPass, only for LastPass to be sold. All of a sudden I'd have quite a task on my hands to get all those random passwords back.
How is the correct way to uninstall applications on Mac OS? I've noticed that almost zero of them have a Uninstall utility... Currently I'm just Deleting the shortcuts of the dock, and removing the app files of Application folder, but I think this is not the best way, because many apps install libs on other system folders. What is the best approach?
When I plug my iPhone 4 into my Bose SoundDock Series 2 I get a popup message saying "This accessory is not optimized for this iPhone" and the dock will not play audio from the iPod or Pandora apps, presumably others as well. (Interestingly, if the iPod is playing music from its built-in speakers it will play through the Bose briefly when I plug it in but stops with the popup.) Fearing a problem with the SoundDock I tested on my father-in-law's iHome speakers and I get the same message and audio failure.
I had broken my Unibody MacBook screen and took the opportunity to replace it with a matte screen, via TechRestore. I loved the improvement, as I dislike glossiness in almost every context. Even my car is painted matte!
I am new to Macbook Pro and Mac OS X. I am experiencing irritating problem. My internet wifi gets disconnected frequently.
Are there any calorie-counting/nutrition/exercise-tracking iPhone apps that include significant numbers of foods from popular UK stores (e.g. Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose) in their databases, please? I've tried out MyNetDiary, and it has very few (a couple of dozen or so) items from each of the stores mentioned above. I've looked at UKPoints, and its UI looks quite primitive.
For iOS there is quite a few websites providing a alternative ways to browse through the many apps and also provides neat info about it's popularity. What websites are there for the Mac App Store? I already know of AppShopper.
I was trying to run VirtualBox on OS X when I got the error:  According to this article *=URL=* it is because the permissions on my /Applications folder are too broad. I checked, and I was actually very surprised to learn that the folder was in fact world-readable / world-writable. So before I go changing them, I'm wondering if that is normal or if somehow they got changed?
We know that iPad 2 performance is higher than the performance of the original iPad (Safari, Games, etc). But whether iPad 2 user experience is better in opening and reading heavy-weight PDFs than original iPad?
I'd love to install garageband on an old mac mini... Which version will it run on 10.4.11? Can I download it from apple site or any other source?
I want to download and install an app on my iPhone, that is available in the US iTunes App Store - but not in my country's iTunes App Store. Is that possible without creating a US iTunes account or jailbreaking my phone?
The only way I found is to manually add line breaks, which can lead to inconsistency. Is there a way to automate this ?
Every time I get an email, I hear a ping and a vibration on my devices, followed by another about 3 seconds later. I'm using gmail (through exchange) on both devices. The only option I can find in settings is to turn 'new mail' notifications on or off. I do not have other email accounts on the devices, so it's not auto-forwarding to two accounts or anything. I'd like to get a single ping and or vibration for each message.
I have a 500 GB WD My Passport with two partitions on it, one of which is set as a Time Machine backup drive. The problem is that the backup doesn't start automatically when I connect the HDD. Any idea why? If it helps, the only thing I did was to partition it, I haven't formatted it, so the SmartWare drive kicks in every time I connect it. Environment: Last generation MacBook Pro; Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I work a lot at the command line in a Terminal and would like to start a text editor on a certain file. I'm from Linux Land and normally use kwrite or gedit from a bash shell. Trying to find the Mac equivalent, as a guess, tried and and
My IT dept setup my new MacBook Pro with 2 accounts. One is a local account and the other is on the Active Directory server. Both have administrative privileges on the mac.
I'm starting to work on iOS apps at work, and I'm trying to determine the minimum version of iOS I'll need to support. We have a network registration system that gathers some basic information about devices on the network, but unfortunately, it doesn't report the version of the operating system or hardware. I do, however, have MAC addresses for every iOS device used on our network in the past 12 months.
I have an 8GB iPod Touch, 4th generation. Recently it has been automatically turning the volume all the way down, and it often won't let me turn it back up again. This happens both when I'm using headphones and when I'm not. It has also been restarting itself automatically. It hasn't always done this--I've had it since December 2010, and it started doing it in May 2011. Any suggestions?
Summary: 1 Time Capsule. 2 Macs connect to Time Capsule fine. 1 Windows 7 Dell connects to Time Capsule Network, but on different IP range and cannot see anything else on the network. 1 Ubuntu VM running on the Dell connects to Time Capsule network on same IP range as Macs and can connect to Macs correctly.
I have been trying to configure a nightly backup job on my Mac Mini server, and after a lot of Googling and digging and man-page'ing, I figured out that launchd seemed to be the correct too, and tried setting up my own plist fil. I've come up with this (stored in /Library/LaunchDaemons/dk.revealit.NightlyRSyncBackup.plist):
I would like to know if every YouTube video is playable on iPad2. Further does iPad2 play .avi or .mp3 or .flv videos ? For example can an iPad2 play these videos - *=URL=* *=URL=* A list to give a flavour of the kind of videos I watch and hence will hope to watch on my iPad. If iPad can't play these then is there an app which makes it possible ?
The end result is not quite what I'd expect, however. I am still able to access all sites on the company intranet however all traffic to e.g., stackoverflow.com or anywhere else other than the intranet fails. A sampling from ping confirms this: Is the default entry above not sufficient for that purpose, or am I missing something? Update 2 Apparently adding the following got things working as I'd expect: Resulting in the following table:
I transcoded a DVD into several m4v files with HandBrake. How can I merge these files into one m4v movie?
What utility or tool that runs which under Mac OS X 10.6 can I use to extract data (icon images and strings, etc.) from old Mac OS 7 (and earlier) resource files/resource forks? (...files created using ResEdit.)
I just bought a new mac and when migrating my old to my new mac, I accidentally put it in a different user. Is there a way, I can combine both users?
Is it possible to install some configuration profile on an iOS Device that will always have the user connected to a VPN without having them input his/her username/password each time one tries to connect? In other words, our current setup has users connecting to a VPN via the "Settings" App on the iPad (using IPSec). With this setup, our users are prompted for his/her password each time he/she tries to connect to the VPN. We are trying to avoid prompting for a UN/PW and having our users go to the Settings app in the first place, so is there any way to force a VPN connection, and therefore always stay connected via the iPhone Configuration Utility?
For those that are interested in the final script you can get it here I am trying to make a alarmclock script to wake me up. but I can't figure out how to change the screen brightness in automator.
I want insert a Table in a List, but couldn't figure out how to indent the Table to the rest of the content in the List. The Table keeps stretching across the width of the document. Anyone knows how?
I'm trying to view a MS Publisher file without running a Windows virtual machine. Any way to do that? It's ok if it doesn't render 100% accurately.
I'm planning on buying a new macbook pro 13inch and I've got the choice between a 2.3ghz intel core i5 or an 2.7ghz intel core i7 for an extra €300 (= $430). Can someone explain me what the difference is between i5 and i7? Would it be worth it to updgrade (eg will the performance be better)?
Drag & Drop in iCal is very convenient, but last time, I accidentally moved an appointment (or at least, I'm not sure, if I did...) Is it possible to somehow "lock" important appointments? Or alternatively, to lock all appointments/disable drag and drop?
I know that since 2009 Apple has been advertising the 1000 battery cycles that'll last for around 5 years under normal use for Macbooks and Macbook Pros. I don't see them advertising it in the new Macbook Air, is it the case that they have the same long lasting battery or not?
I am planning to use it as jukebox but I just know that apple started selling fanless iMac from 350mhz model... When did they stop doing fanless imacs? 700 mhz? I just care about crt models.
I have a 2008 aluminum Macbook running Snow Leopard, and I have set it to ask for my account's password after 4 hours inactivity. However, it sometimes asks for it much earlier, after just a few minutes of inactivity. This also happens when waking the Mac up from (a short) sleep, but when that happens, the screen usually stays completely dark: I know it's actually asking for my password because if I enter it, the screen "unlocks" and starts working normally; if I press Esc instead, the computer stops again (and works normally if I wake it up again).
How can I prevent iPhoto/Photos/Image Capture from launching everytime I plug in my iPad/iPhone?
I'm reaching my quota on my IMAP account, one big space hog is email attachments. Is there a way to tell mail.app that I want to "remove" certain emails from the server but keep them around locally? My only other idea option is to forward them to a gmail-account and pop them back.
As the title suggests I cloned my mac hdd using CCC and bootcamped and restored win 7 on the bootcamp partition. It would seem that everything worked out as planned but the first thing I noticed was that chrome wouldn't launch. It would crash instantly. So I re-installed it which did nothing. I then proceeded to remove the application support folder for Chrome and then re-installed. Nope.
I am not very good with AppleScript but I would imagine this is something quite easy for the AppleScript guru out there, I am looking to make a screenshot of a region like with doing Apple-Shift-s and feed it the ScreenShot filename to a shell script which would take care of the upload. Thanks. PS: I don't need the shell script part just the AppleScript one.
the app in the dock (right of Safari) apparently shows the network speeds in the dock.  Does anyone know what the app is called? There are more images of the app in the blog post at link Thanks
As I know iPad 3G can define user's location using A-GPS module, and there is a Maps application which is closely related to this functionality. But can non-3G iPads define user's location basing on WiFi routers position, for example? Is there any Maps application?
I recently updated my iMac to Mac OS X 10.6.8, it took a while to come back up, and when it did start up, the network interfaces were missing and when trying to open the Network tab in system preferences, the program just crashes... Any idea? I'm desperate...
If you shift-click the minimize button or hold shift while restoring a window, you get the slow-motion genie or scale effect. Is there a way to resume full speed after an accidental shift-click? Is there a way to disable the shift-click combination so that the transition always runs at full speed?
There is a default preference I want to edit (or delete and recreate in the English.lproj) in the Dock bundle in System/Library/CoreServices. What are the possible negative repercussions to editing these app bundles?
I like the idea of putting our apps in "folders" , but is there anyway we can furthur put those "folders" into "folders" ?
I have MacBook Pro 13" mid-2010 (MacBookPro7,1), and sometimes I need it to work with the lid closed (long compilations, etc. while I'm on the go). I have tried InsomniaX, but it has no effect. I enable it via the menu bar icon and it displays "enabled", but, if I close the lid, my notebook will go to sleep in a dozen seconds or so. Any way I can prevent this? I know about the heat issue; it doesn't bother me.
How can I change the filesize (resolution and compression) of an image from iPhoto before adding it as an embedded image in apple mail without actually changing the image in iPhoto?
I really like the iPad version of twitter, in that it opens up links to the right of your stream. No need to go anywhere else. Of course, the new browser based client opens photos on the right. But Twitter for Mac only opens up links in your regular browser. Does anyone know of a desktop client that has its own built-in browser?
I see suddenly that my downstream bandwidth is 400 KBps which is the maximum my ISP gives me, so there's an application downloading at its top capacity. The thing is I didn't start any download, so it's doing it in the background without telling. How can I know which app or process is using it? Or, basically, how can I determine how much bandwidth each open process or application is using?
Does iCloud work with Mail and a Gmail account, or do I need to necessarily create a .me account and then forward the mails from gmail to .me ?
When I want to delete a file in Finder or in the Desktop a popup appears and it says it will be deleted immediately, and I need to confirm. The trash is always empty, and I can't use it anymore.
I tried to install Xcode from the App Store. While it was being downloaded, a network problem occurred so the installation didn't complete. However, in the App Store, it appears marked as installed (so now I can't install it).
I have a French AZERTY keyboard with a Backspace key (that can be modified with Fn into Delete) and to my surprise I saw on the Apple Store that the English QWERTY keyboard had a Delete key in its place, so I'm wondering if it's really a Delete key (erase right) that can be modified with Fn into Backspace, or not. Edit: If I try on the virtual keyboard with American layout, the key does erase left.
After an update to 10.6.8 my ethernet stopped working. I understand this affected millions of mac users. Is there a way to revert in OSX? This is the newest MBP 13" 2.7 GHz i7.
I have a Mid 2010 MacBook. Is it possible to make the external display into the only one, so that I can close the lid and keep working on my MacBook with an external keyboard/mouse and monitor?
I have a 2007 MacBook that I'd like to perform an Apple Hardware Test on, but I don't have the original install media. I have a Snow Leopard install DVD, but rebooting and holding down D does not launch the test. Short of going to the Apple Store, is there any way to test the hardware?
I have a question on the storage requirement for running Xcode and working on Application development. I am planning on upgrading my Macbook Hard disk to a Solid State Drive (SSD) for an increase in speed. Would it be enough if I have a 128GB SSD , or should I go for the 256GB SSD (which is more expensive) ? Could anyone help me with this ? Thanks.
I used to find color codes which I want to use for texts or background colors on htmls with color edit tool of MS paint which pre-installed on Windows. But now I use Mac instead of Windows. How can I find color codes with Mac? Is an software like MS paint pre-installed on Mac?
the screen on my macbook air has broken, It is only hanging on by a couple of wires and it lights up but doesn't do anything else. I want to sell it for parts but obviously want to get all my data off first. I have an external cd drive with the restore cd in but when I press C on boot I obviously can't see anything. Can I somehow connect it to an external monitor? Or is there another way of doing this? Thanks
I use Google Chrome as browser. I like the feature that it autocompletes the web-address when I start to type. e.g. when typing "app" it's autocompleted to "apple.stackexchange.com" and I just need to press enter.
I have a 13" Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 which is unable to go to any URL on either my office or hotel networks. I have no proxy or firewall enabled on the computer - and have connected to both networks in the past without issue.
I find myself bookmarking webpages on my MacBook often, with the intent of reading them later. The problem is that my bookmarks end up in the bookmarks bar and then are lost as new ones are bookmarked. I'm looking for a tool to help me organize my bookmarks so that I can write a note along with the bookmark, and perhaps store a screenshot of the page, or even the text offline. What are my options for a MacBook running Snow Leopard?
I used the Iphone configuration utility to help a developer troubleshoot an unrelated issue. I noticed that console was being hammared with the same two warnings every few seconds. I don't notice any performance issues, but it's making it impossible to debug anything else. My phone is jailbroken, running IOS: 4.3.3
You know, the MacBook has such a beautiful trackpad. Are there applications that use its power for music-making, drawing, or anything else unusual?
When I run grep on a text file, I get nonsense results. It seems as if the whole file is printed out but on one line overwriting itself. I read that on the Mac, text files use \r instead of the normal \n as a line ending. That would explain it, but how to make grep treat \r as if it were \n? I'm using Snow Leopard OS X, and am quite new to using Apple anything, but a long-time Linux programmer.
My /home/myusername/ directory is provided through a network, and looks exactly the same on my Linux machine and my Mac Mini. I'd like to add to PATH a directory of Mac-specific software in my home, e.g. /home/myusername/SW/bin_mac/ and have this happen only when I'm doing command line stuff on the Mac, and not have PATH contain this when on Linux. If I edit .bashrc (or tcsh's equivalent) it'll affect PATH in both cases. What are some tricks to do this?
Firefox has a problem by which you can't assign it a shortcut to zoom the window. As it has another menu item named "Zoom" which actually has subitems for zoom in, etc. you can't map the shortcut by menu item name, because that item takes the stroke instead of the window zoom. I tried to edit Firefox's resources, to see if there was a .nib where I could rename the menu item to another thing so the shortcut would find the correct "zoom" item, but failed. Does someone have a solution for this? edit: I'm talking about MacOS's Zoom Window action equivalent to Windows' Maximize, and not about zooming the contents in or out.
I am relatively new to Mac and OS X (4 months now). While I build my collection of preferred applications my Dock keeps on growing. It now takes about 70% of my screen width and I start to find it a bit messy. I like to keep things organised and was wondering what are common practices to do so? I know some people organise apps in folders by category/type, but how do I do it actually?
My camera doesn't focus any more. Is that a known issue and is there a fix for this? If not, can I take it to be fixed? I had this phone for less than a year.
Safari 5.0.1 on OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) doesn't seem to have any status bar in which the URL of a link shows when the user moves the cursor over a link (without clicking) All other browsers I've ever used do this. Is there a user preference checkbox somewhere for this?
I'm trying to keep my dock simple - just Chrome, MacVim, and the terminal. Is there a way to run iTunes without it being in the dock (i.e. just show the icon in the menu bar)?
I have tried installing windows 7 on my MacMini. I followed following steps. Setup went perfectly But while installing I thought of not installing it. So, I just restarted mac mini. Pressed Alt key while booting Started OSX Launched Disk Utility Removed windows partition.
When I'm in presentation mode in PowerPoint 2008, and I deliberately or accidentally switch to another app, PowerPoint forces my dual monitors into mirrored mode. Apart from shrinking my desktop and repositioning many dozens of windows, this also forces fullscreen virtual machines onto my main monitor, such that I can't get at the menu bar without unzooming them (and consequently messing up their desktops).
I just got a refurbished iPod Touch. I synced it to my work computer rather than my Mac at home because it is mainly for PodCasts. It was working great, until I put my music on iTunes over a network share at home and accidentally told the iPod Touch to sync all music. Ever since then, every time I try to sync my iPod Touch it tells me that it does not have enough space to sync all the data I am trying to sync. The problem with that, is I'm only trying to sync about 30 total Podcasts, all of which are audio and none are longer than an hour. I have reset the iPod to factory settings and still get the same thing.
I want to create a BootCamp partition on my 13" MBP with a 250 Gb hard drive. The DiskUtility shows the partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). . When trying to perform a partitioning with BootCamp Assistant, after the progress bar gets to about 40% of partitioning, I get the alert stating:
I have a QuickTime .mov file which I want to convert to swf format. Is there any tool for Mac? I already search here for a similar question but couldn't find any. The google search directed me to VisualHub which was discontinued and doesn't support Snow Leopard.
I am looking for a visual tail tool that can monitor several local or remote log files. Optional features that interest me: color highlight based on log error level, coloring for special words, filtering of messages and/or notifications on new activity.
I just bought a MacBook Pro 13. whenever I play a game that has lower resolution than 1280-800 I get two big black rectangles on both side of the screen, instead of the screen entirely filled. Is there any solution for this problem?
I have Apache installed on OS X and I want to know what command I can use to: start apache stop apache restart apache gracefully restart apache Also I want to know if the commands were successful or not. Apache seams to be installed as org.apache.httpd or at least this is what sudo launchctl list|grep apache shows.
How can I list my Applications by date installed? Some applications are installed from a zip file or a .dmg image, and I know that the first one, at least, preserves the Date Modified from when it was put in the zip file or compiled or whatnot.
For over 6 months now, every Time Machine backup requrests around 15GB of space for backup, but sometimes only backups up 200MB. That is a big difference.
I'm trying to get my Mac to latch onto my friends wifi signal and use Internet Sharing to share it with my other non-wireless desktop, but I'm running into a problem: Apple Internet Sharing doesn't stay enabled. I enable wireless networking and connect to my friends network on my Mac Mini, enable Internet Sharing on the same machine, and go to my other computer to start using the internet, but when I get to my other machine I find it has no internet. Going back to the Mac Mini shows that Internet Sharing has been disabled. This is most frustrating, I'm not the only one who uses the non-wireless machine but I am the most tech savvy and as such I'm expected to make sure the network works properly. I need Internet Sharing to stay enabled so that when I go to work, my room mate can continue using the internet. How can I set Apple's Internet Sharing to stay on permanently? PS, I suspect that Internet Sharing is disabling itself when the Mac Mini temporarily loses connectivity with my friend
On my iPhone, the camera shutter sound follows the ring/silent switch. However, I'd like the camera to be always silent, regardless of whether incoming calls & messages make a sound. Is there any way to configure it that way? (Non-jailbroken iPhone 4 with latest iOS.)
I have no idea why this is happening as nothing seems to trigger it. The computer just freezes and the screen goes off, and no amount of key pressing or brightness control jiggering will do anything. Only a restart will let me use the laptop again.
I've been playing around with GrandVJ and it's reasonably compelling software. My initial problem is that it's corrupted my video output twice already in the first few days of using it, requiring a restart each time. I'm looking for a piece of software that is well-integrated into the OS X environment, supports Quartz Composer (.qtz) files, and has support for external controllers such as the NuVJ or a supported Ableton Live controller.
The easy workaround is to edit the URL in Safari's address bar, fine for just once but gets tedious when I'm hopping around reading massive amounts of brain fodder. A harder but once-only workaround is to edit the .html files by hand (or clever perl script or whatever), but I don't want to lose the fixes if I upgrade the thing or have to install it on another machine. (And I don't feel like doing such grunt work today.)
My weechat; notice the ? marks by the nicklist: What weechat is supposed to look like - a nice thin line separates the nicklist :
I have a macbook white unibody 2010 (A1342) that is now 17 months old. I'm wondering if my battery is still good? The battery's information is below. Design Capacity: 5200mAh Current Capacity: 4578mAh (84% left) Mac model: 6,1 Age of macbook: 17 months Battery loadcycles: 187 Condition: Normal Thank you!
I'm creating a new Installer using PackageMaker. I need to run a bash script after the installation is complete.
Here is a nuisance that I'm encountering during my word processing using Apple Pages. Every time when I need to make an external link (http link) to some web page I need to make sure to edit the link field from *=URL=* to my desired one. Now this is not a problem if you need to do this procedure once or twice but you can imagine how frustrating this can get with more links. I wonder if there is a preference to change this into say the one from the clipboard? Any other suggestions on how to proceed in this case would be welcome.
Most likely after installing/(and since removed) Parallels my Apple IR Remote stopped working. I've confirmed that it's not the battery (using the built in camera) and later tried it on another mac (where it works as it's supposed to). Is there any tricks to restoring IR functionality without restoring the whole machine?
I know that, in multiclip mode, I can switch among between different angles by setting the playhead in open mode and by clicking on a different angle. What I would like is to switch between angles using a shortcut (i.e.: "1", "2"). This would seem to be the default behaviour, except when I press "1" or "2" it just stops playing and focus goes to the "jump to" textbox. Also, would it be possible to automatically set a fading effect for the switch?
I have a script that converts a file to another format, and I want the resulting file to have the same timestamps as the original, including the creation time (as shown by ls -lU). I can use touch to set the access and modification time, but I don't see a way to set the creation time.
We all know that Mac OS X has the very useful Login Items functionality which lets you, among other things, set up apps/scripts to run when you log in. I'm looking for a way to setup a list of scripts/apps that run when I log out. A "Logout Items" list, if you will. Basically, I want to write a few little cleanup scripts for myself that will run automatically when I log out or shut down.
I want to rotate an image in preview but I only need to move it a few degrees. Is this possible? Or can you only rotate 90 degrees?
I have a friend whose iPhone (latest gen, relatively recent iOS but I don't think it's fully up to date) doesn't have any calendars on it. I don't think it's ever been sync'd, and even if it had, she has Windows 7 (which doesn't by default come with a calendar app), and she doesn't have Outlook. So my idea was to sync the device with a calendar app to force it to create a calendar, but that's obviously not going to work here.
Here is an interesting issue: on the Mac and iPod sections of Apple's site there are the products subsections (Mac, Applications, Accessories, Server, on the Mac page and Products, iTunes and more, on the iPod page). Now, when you click on, say, the Applications link, the images above should slide out and be replaced with the images of Apple's apps. Except from Safari on my machine it doesn't. Also, the Web Inspector shows two JavaScript errors that. This happens only in Safari. Any body else observed this? Any idea why? Mac OS X 10.6.8 MacBook Pro 8,2 Safari 5.0.2
I'd like to make a video demo of my upcoming web application. Requirements include: Being able to have a sound track (probably just an mp3) Being able to 'film' screen work and chop it to bits and pieces to be embedded in the movie Having text, photo effects, fade in-out, constant motion (similar to mac screen saver slide show) etc - nothing too fancy. "Timeline" editor where I can combine all those elements and time them perfectly HD output with formats I can export later to Vimeo or YouTube.
My macbook pro running Snow Leopard stopped making sounds a couple hours ago. I've found other reports of people with sounds working through headphones, but that's not the problem I'm seeing. I get no sound when my headphones are plugged in either.
In Apple's Macbook line, who is actually making the Wifi components for them? Intel? I ask because I've never had any trouble with wireless connections on my Macbook but all the adapters I buy for my PC seem to degrade quickly over time and I'd like to buy something along the lines of what Apple is putting in their machines.
Is there a difference in resultant quality between uploading my video to YouTube directly from my iPod Touch, or first copying the (huge) MOV file over to my computer and then uploading it with my PC's browser? I'm running iOS 4.3.3 and have the HD setting selected in the "Publish Video" screen. However, I noticed that the estimated MB displayed in the "Publish Video" screen, is smaller than the video's actual file size. So is there a difference, or does it not matter? (this question would also apply to the iPhone)
Every so often my Mac mini will fill up the hard drive with log messages in /var/log/DiagnosticMessages. It will be fine for weeks, then suddenly spew 30GB to a log file in a single day. I'd like to be able to limit the size of the log files so that it doesn't fill up my drive when this happens.
When changing the volume on a Mac, you get a big ugly gray bezel showing the change in volume. This is super annoying when (say) watching a movie. Is there any way to disable this?
I just downloaded a temperature monitor app for my macbook pro. It tells me the following temperatures. I was wondering which ones I should take extra note of and what temperatures of those I should be worried about if it surpasses? Thanks for any enlightenment!
I have the latest macbook pro 17 and it seems no matter what I do, particularly noticeable when I simply scroll up and down on a window, I hear the hard drive tapping away like it's being accessed or written to repeatedly. I used to also get frequent pauses with that ever annoying spinning color cursor until I upgraded to 8gbytes ram. Now the pausing happens a lot less frequently (though it still occurs), but I still get that hard drive craziness for everything I do.
I'm a beginner Mac OS user. When I open Firefox I receive the dialog below, why doesn't Firefox just start? What is the point of the below dialog?
I'm thinking about getting an iPad 2 3g & I was wondering if one can set up a personal hotspot from the iPad to share the 3G internet with wifi enabled devices (i.e laptop etc.) Is it possible in any way to tether an iPhone or other devices to the iPad, rather than using an iPhone to tether against which is the normal method?
I have to read lots of PDF books on my iPad but I also need to make notes (annotations), notes that I want to be able to transfer to the Mac later. What solutions do I have for this?
I made a copy of a DVD and two sets of subtitles (Hebrew and English). Both subtitles are optional and only VLC can display them.
I'd like to temporarily turn on the echo service (TCP and UDP port 7) on in Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I guess this involves using the launchctl/launchd?
I am looking for a software to handle archives on OS X. I know there are many of them quite easy to find, but none seems to have the most basic feature that most Windows archive applications have: browsing! I mean, most OS X unarchivers, when they open an archive, they just unzip it... then ask you for target location in the best case.
I have created a Windows partition with Bootcamp. Now I would like to get rid of this partition and attach the available space back to the primary Mac OS partition.
I have a 2008 Macbook 13.3 inch (Model number: MB061LL/A) whose battery stopped working yesterday. It also has frequent kernel panics, so although the cosmetic condition is pretty good, its market value seems zero. I was happy with it for the first one year and a half, but then the kernel panics started and my warranty had been void.
Just wondering, is it possible to install dual OS on an iPhone 3GS/4?
I have an external 2TB drive that I've been using for Time Machine Backups directly connected to my Mac. I've recently gotten a Time Capsule and would to continue backing up with the existing backup, so that I keep the history I already have and do not need to start from scratch.
The Fn keys don't seem to work on my Macbook Pro when it's runnign windows 7 Under bootcamp. I can't turn the volume up or down or mute the sound etc.
What was that extension in System 7 and Mac OS 8 which put a little yellow smiley thing of a mexican singing out of tune on your screen?
I have my entire music collection on an external HD which I connect to my network through a direct USB connection with my Apple base station. I'm finding that iTunes struggles to load the library (43,000 files - some of which are hour long podcasts/mixes etc) and I've also purchased TuneUp to tidy up my music collection, but given that iTunes struggles to load in the first place, this avenue isn't even worth considering right now.
For those of you who have linked your Google Contacts to your iPhone, when someone sends you an SMS did it display the person's name or did it simply display the number? Because, although I have linked my Google Contacts to my iPhone, I can only access my contacts when I go Contacts -> Groups -> Google Global Address List -> Search. When someone send me an SMS, only the number is displayed and I have to go Contacts -> Groups -> Google Global Address List -> Search to search for the number and see who it is.
I just recently started using Mac OS X Lion. Everything is working very well but I do miss the swipe of three fingers which made me go back and forward when I was browsing.
Backstory: iTunes 10.3.1.55 had been installed on Windows Vista 32 bit. It's main purpose is to allow me to move files to my iPod Touch 3rd Generation. Whenever I download an app, it get downloaded to the location "C:\Users\Thomas\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications".
I use IPv6 on the iPhone and it is working fine on the WiFi - I have radvd (router advertisement deamon) in the router and iPhone gets configured automatically. Problem is when I use VPN through the EDGE/3G to my router. It works good for IPv4 but ppp0 interface doesn't autoconfigure via router adverts. It has only link address fe80*** assigned. If I assign a global ipv6 address to the ppp0 and create a default route, everything works fine.
Has anyone been able to get the VNC server that came with Lion to work? Right now it seems to have problems with the new multisession remote login, causing problems for any VNC clients connecting to the server (see below). Is there a workaround for this problem, other than installing another VNC server on the system? Further details:
How do I access my default video camera on my mac? I know on Linux it is /dev/video0 but my Mac does not have that. I'm trying to capture my webcam into ffmpeg But it won't work because /dev/video0 doesn't exist.
I know this question has been asked many times before but I would like to know if one can send and receive text messages on the iPad without having to bother those who are texting you to join IMs etc. Maybe something through email or sms gateways....
I've recently started to notice that my home button has been a little unresponsive. Sometimes a single click won't work at all and it takes a few tries to get it to quit an app. Sometimes two clicks does what one click is supposed to do, sometimes it just doesn't work the way it's supposed to. A firm double tap that is slightly spaced out seems to solve it, but here's the strangest thing that I discovered. I did a hard reset and it helped and everything was normal. Then I did a restore to a backup and it helped a little (I don't want to have to start over again with a fresh fresh install, I'll save it for iOS 5). I was experimenting quitting various apps to see what would happen, since it seems like it could help. Quitting out of intensive applications such as the app store or other apps that take up a lot of memory did nothing. What does fix it immediately is force quitting mail. I've tried it with the other Apple supplied applications and it did nothing. There are only two gmail acco
My wife has a new iMac, and she has noticed that Yahoo mailing lists are rejecting her because Gmail is adding a "Sender:" field that has her Gmail address instead of the email address she's using. Her email address was originally a POP account, but that gave her only 10mb of storage. I changed the email account to a forwarding account with a Gmail IMAP backend (giving her 7Gb of storage). I did this about two years ago. Her old Mac Mini seemed to work fine with this, and so did her iPad. However, it doesn't seem to work on her iMac.
Since beginning to learn Quartz Composer, I've stumbled onto Open Sound Control (OSC) and have begun looking for OSC compatible iOS apps. I have a universal iPhone/iPad app called Control which seems to be capable, if not just a bit ugly. I'm attempting to use it as an interface into Quartz Composer projects via the built-in OSC Receiver but there is no documentation for the Control iOS app, so I don't know what key is bound to the various objects from within the iOS app.
Certain online shops I use don't easily allow you to bookmark an Order Status page. That's because they use a POST request to access that info. So, the order number is not encoded in the URL. Which means that I can't bookmark the page (a bookmark just leads to the form to enter the order number).
I live in a remote area that has very good 3G and Edge coverage. I have bought and returned every other device but NOTHING seems to have reception to ANY Internet except for an iPhone.
I've got a "developer-old" folder besides for my "developer" folder. "developer-old" contains "headers", "SDKs", etc folders.
Is the charger of iPad and iPad 2 same? I want to buy i extra charger for my iPad but in future I can buy iPad 2 also. So I want to buy a charge which should be compatible with iPad and ipad 2 both.
What always happens is that I feel them getting out when handling the notebook and then I just screw them back with my nails until I get ahold of a screwdriver. What I wished to happen is they simply stay there, keeping the lid in its place as they were meant to be and quit acting up on me! Anticipating some comments:
So now I have an "identity cannot be verified" message whenever I activate it from the activation code Apple gave me via email. Is there anything I can do about this or is my $99 "doomed"?
Is it possible to view all applications using a projector with an iPod Touch 4th gen? This Apple support page indicates it is possible, but when I connect the projector to my iPod it did not receive any signal.
Is there a way to use my USB web Camera which I use with my windows PC to use with my iPad first edition? Or any other camera to use with ipad first edition.
I have someone who is not using their AT&T iPhone 3GS. They are willing to give it to me since they have a later model. How can I convert an AT&T iPhone 3GS to a Verizon iPhone 3GS? What hardware changes need to be made?
I'd like to view most articles of Wikipedia while I'm offline. I understand that it doesn't have to be or probably could be all articles, but a good subset would be nice.
I am doing some research and I do put lots of notes and bookmarks in the books (PDF files). I am looking for a tools that will allow me to see and search inside all these notes. I supposed that this tools should be able to scan a directory with PDF files, for notes and keep them in sync.
Can someone tell me if I can customize the HDMI output of the iPad2? I mean that the view on the big screen is not just a mirror of the iPad view.
My iMac has two non-matching displays. When I connect from my iPad using iTeleport, only one of the displays is visible. Is there some way to configure Screen Sharing so that both displays will be available?
My keyboard layout is "Turkish QWERTY PC" and the problem is that I cannot type the special symbols being typed by using ⌥+3 and ⌥+4 which are "#" and "$". I opened the key viewer and typed ⌥+3. It then says that I typed "#" but that's wrong. Is there any solution to fix this? I am using a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I want to darken the screen of my iMac because it is too bright for me. I use an application called shades, but it doesn't work in bootcamp.
Is it possible to filter which applications (in Windows) can use my iPhone's Personal Hotspot?
I am trying to get Mac OS X to save all my VirtualBox VMs when it reboots. I already have a script that does this, but I need OS X to run this script automatically before a reboot. When Mac OS X reboots, does it run /sbin/reboot? Or how else could this be achieved?
I've been using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there just for the sake of having a tunnel open.
Why one or the other? I don't use the numpad nor much of the functional keys (delete, insert, etc.). The latency with the wireless worries. What are your experiences?
all my contacts, notes and calendars are gone. when the iphone backs up does it copy everything? is there a way to get my important stuff back?
I am new to Mac OS X. Is there any good desktop app or dashboard widget which displays latest exchange rates like Windows 7 gadgets on right side.
I have a number of images that are 8.5" wide, but very long (around 40" tall) and I want to create a standard multi-paged 8.5" x 11" PDF document from all of the images. The problem is that the PDF will resize the images to fit the height of the PDF page or each page will be one image, which looks horrible.
My lovely son spilled apple juice on my laptop keyboard. It works, but it feels like it has grit under the keys and sticks a bit. How do I clean it out?
So at home ive been a linux user for a while, and frequently use byobu in the terminal. After a little searching I was unable to find anything like it for a mac, which I now have to use at work. I'm curious as to there being any software available to macs that can do this, or has a similar setup.
When I tag someones face in Aperture, it lets me either choose a name from Facebook (with the FB icon), or from my Address Book. Sometimes, these names may differ.
I like using Aperture to upload to Facebook and Flickr, but I don't like how it syncs. For example: What does this option actually do?
How to copy songs from my PC to iphone without erasing my iphone? itunes giving this error
I have an Apple dock for my iPhone 4 and find it beautiful so I like to have it in my desktop or my bed table while charging. The thing is I'd like to have a simple app that shows me the time, weather, maybe a small brief of my social network accounts, dunno just useful info so the phone isn't just standing there with the screen off.
just installed Intel 320 instead of DVD in Macbook MC516LL. Does old DVD place is equivalent to standard HDD place in Macbook from temperature (thermal) perspective?
I'm having an issue with a website. On one machine (10.6.8) it is not possible anymore to save the login cookie of a particular website. The site does not work with any user account on that Mac anymore.
I want inspect (and just that, without editing this layer) which font, size, color etc. were used in a given text layer in PSD file created with Photoshop. Is this doable without Photoshop.app? Pixelmator seems to be unable to accomplish that, same with Acorn. Anything else I could try?
I want to monitor each application's network/internet usage on my Mac. Sort of like how Activity Indicator shows total upload/download usage -- but I also want to know particular application usages. Is this possible?
How do I move the Library/WebServer/Documents folder, which contains files shown by *=URL=* ? For instance, to the Desktop. Also, can the ~/Sites folder be moved too?
Transmit and Forklift are paid, we can't use finder, macfusion doesn't work... so I'm wondering... Is there any free option left to mount an FTP on finder so that I can write files to it? Maybe using scripts or automator? Maybe fixing my issue with macfusion? I don't even know why my installed macfuse is 2.1.7 (beta) while it asks me to "update" to 2.0.3 or, if I tick "Show Beta Versions", 2.1.5! In general, it looks to me the whole thing is too unstable yet.
Is there a solution/app available that will allow me to take video from iPhone/iPad camera and live-stream it to a VLC player running somewhere else in my WiFi network? Searching around for iPhone RTP/RTSP encoders isn't coming up with much.
I have a jailbroken iPad 1 with iOS 4.2.1 I replaced hosts file under /etc/ and resprang the iPad stuck at blank screen I restarted by pressing both power and home key Now the iPad is stucking and looping at apple logo booting screen Currently, I can access the file system using iPhoneBrowser 1.9.3 and iTunes 10.2.1 recognizes the iPad. WIFI interface seems to be up but SSH is not up Now, I have replaced the modified hosts with original file.
No one at Apple Support seems to know how this process works. The latest guy I spoke with said that it is a small department, and there's no way to directly contact any of them. (I pictured like 3 old-time detective looking guys in suspenders, smoking cigarettes and wearing beat up derby hats...but I have problems ::shrug::).
When I type anything into the Spotlight menu in the top right corner, I get the normal list of top results. But if I then click "Show All", or if I just go to the Finder and initiate a search there, it returns no results. The status bar says "Searching This Mac…" and I get the spinner in the corner, but it never goes away and never shows any results.
Music - easy. Copy from device, then import to iTunes. The funky file names don't mean anything since the iGods speak ID3.
What are the programing language requirements for publishing to the mac app store? Obviously Obj-C is the main one, but can someone publish using something like C++? Or Java?
I have a couple questions regarding this: Is there a good source for old firmwares, including 3.2? (iClarified doesn't have 3.2) Does Apple support downgrading for OS compatibility testing? Thanks
Recently I have been having some issues with hooking an external monitor up to my Macbook (worked at first, now will detect but wont display anything). I found that the solution may be to delete com.apple.windowserver.plist in the Preferences directory and let OS X restore it for me on reboot. However, when looking through that directory I have found that the file doesn't even exist there anymore! Is there any way I can run a repair on my filesystem to restore that file or will I have to re-install OS X (FYI I'm running latest Snow Leopard)?
I rebooted a couple times and it the mount point never came back. I was traveling at the time, so I guessed the SATA connector came off and that I'd have to open the case when I got home. I got home, booted up and the drive was back, the mount point was there and so was all of my data.
That is, what files does it actually change? I am deploying a new version of an application on to multiple machines (100+) and when I test it on a machine, the "You do not have permission to use the application" box pops up, due to quite strict restrictions on the machine. If I click "Always Allow..." then everything works fine. However I do not wish to have to click this box on 100+ machines. Is there a command line alternative which can accomplish the same thing?
I thought I would download a few podcasts with my iPhone. I was sad to see that they all look like this: Some Person discusses ... Fulano Tal shows how ... How to fully setup a ... How can I get a list that will wrap and show more than 3-4 words.
Specifically I would like to edit com.apple.applicationaccess.new.plist. (Which is in /Library/Managed Preferences/[username]/), but when I restart the computer my edited preferences are replaced with the old version.
I need to redirect all my traffic to Tor network. I have just installed Vidalia, but I think that I have not correctly configured my Tor-client. I have a Java desktop client that have to access to a website. This allows us to connect 50 times then it reject our connection. I would like to use Tor to create more conecctions. How I can configure my tor-client correctly? Is there any online how-to? Are there other solutions?
Time Machine stopped this morning, stating it has too little disk space left. It wants to back up 200 gigs, but my local hard drive has 240 gig used and 150 gig are excluded in the Time Machine options, so this leaves 90 gigs of data at most that can be backed up, and I am pretty sure only very few files have changed (no big update or similar). So I would estimate a backup of, at most, 1 gig.
My macbook automatically joins both the usb and the wifi version of my iPhone's personal hotspot. I know I can just turn airport off or only enable my iPhone's usb tether. Is it possible to make my mac only join the usb mode and not the wifi, if both modes are enabled?
I know how to take a normal screenshot with my iPad, but I'm looking to see how people on the internet are able to show content on the iPad in a picture that has the physical border of an iPad. Do they just take a screenshot and superimpose the image?
I have an iPad that needs to be able to connect to a server via its short hostname, e.g. *=URL=* instead of *=URL=* The network it connects to assigns it a domain name other than example.com so it doesn't work automatically. Is there a way to add a hosts entry (/etc/hosts) for that server in iOS, or add the appropriate domain name to the resolver search list without jailbreaking?
I have an iPod Shuffle. Unfortunately, I formatted it using Windows Explorer and copied some songs to it, but it's not working now. What happened to it? Did the supporting programs get formatted? How can I recover it?
for some reason my /opt /private folders are not hidden anymore while the rest of my finder's hidden files are. What would cause these to be visible again, and how do I change them back? I know it has something to do with permissions, or fixing it might involve using "chflags"command. update: so I fixed it after some searching around by using chflags sudo chflags hidden /opt /private
I have a wifi internet router (via an ADSL modem) which i use to connect internet on my iPad. For some reasons, the connection seems to break in between (and more when idle). The same connection works fine on my desktop. Is there any setting i need to make on the iPad ?
This has been a "quality of life" issue for me for a while now- command-line editing in the Mac terminal is messed up for me. If I type a few chars, and then hit CTRL-A to move to the beginning of the line, it'll move the cursor too far over. It seems like what's on the screen is out of sync with what bash really has in its "buffer". For example, I start typing "ls -l":
It's easy to browse a list of songs using home sharing and import all the songs that are "not in my library". Once that is done, is there an easy way to get the same playlist on the new library?
If I want to tell iTunes I don't really like a track very much (but don't want to uncheck the track or delete it from my library) should I rate it as one star or leave it with no stars? Which would iTunes consider to be the lesser rating for a track?
Is there a way to mount an AFP share at boot so it is accessible to the system without a user logged in? I would like to run scripts via SSH or as a daemon on boot that check files on my AFP share. Unfortunately, the shares don't mount until a user logs in.
From what I have read and/or seen about OS X Lion, it sounds like many of its new features rely on gestures. I have a Mac Pro and do not have a trackpad of any kind. Will I need to get a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of many of the new features in OS X Lion? What kind of user experience can I expect in Lion if I don't have one? What will I be missing out on?
I recently had connected an external hard-drive to an old 1st gen time capsule and successfully used it for backup. However, my TC began shutting down on me so I thought it was time to get a new one. Now my new TC will let me choose my external drive but as a backup but cannot seem to login to it. It keeps complaining "problem with the network user name or password. However, I know this is right. In the Mac Help doc, there is one section that reads:
I have a Time Capsule that I use for Time Machine, and am thinking about getting a regular entry level 4 slot Drobo to hang off its USB port as shared, non-Time Machine disk space. The Drobo appeals to me because I can expand it as my needs grow, and because it has RAID-type functionality built in. I figured that I could also unhook it from the Time Capsule and attach it to an individual machine should the need arise.
I use SSD instead of optical drive in my Macbook MC516LL, so I have bunch of reasons why I wants to keep HDD's spindle off: Preserve HDD from shock Reduce energy consuming Reduce overall system temperature
Recently every time I compose an email, when I hit send not only does the mail compose window disappear (as expected) so does the main mail window... and then I have to click the dock icon to bring it back! Ideas on why this has just started happening?
There are several filetypes that get a generic “Kind” description (if viewed in Finder’s List View) based on the program used to open them. I’d like to add descriptions for some file extensions so that they are not of the Kind “[editor] document”. Is this possible? If so, how?
I'm thinking about getting a mounting bracket so I can record more video with my iPod Touch (4gen), but I wonder if I'll have enough space on it to hold very much. How much space does recorded video take up on an iPod Touch, in gigabytes per hour (or whatever the appropriate units would be)?
Is there a way to auto-paginate with "1 of 3" "2 of 3" "3 of 3"?
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I'm developing a website which contains, by its nature, very large images. When testing on an iPad, I'm noticing that any image on the page larger than 2MB is not showing up, just showing the dreaded blue '?' instead. The only reason I can think of is that there is some sort of built-in resource size limit. I've tried Googling, but there doesn't appear to be any published limit, and the only reports I've found mention 6.5MB... but I'm way below that. Does anyone have any concrete sources that indicate if this limit exists, and what it may be?
Is USB or WIFI faster when syncing an iPhone 4 with iOS 5 to iTunes? This SuperUser answer suggests that Wireless N might be faster than USB 2: *=URL=* Note: iPhone 4 is 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only)
Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.
System: Macbook Pro Duo 2.4Ghz, 4GB, Snow Leopard I first encountered this problem when running eclipse. When I first run it after every reboot or waking up, it painfully takes > 7 min to load. The same actually happens the second time or even third time I load it anew on the same session. Next times, however, loads rather fast. When already loaded, eclipse seems to go just fine, but when running (very simple) Java programs, the JVM virtual machine typically loads also slowly.
There are clients for telnet and SSH but I couldn't find any app including SCP. Is there any?
I have more and more thoughts about taking my class notes on my computer, and Pages '09 would seem like a good candidate for that task. However, being that I have a lot of technical classes, I find myself needing to insert MathType equations very often.
I was wondering if there was an iPhone application that would continuously reads the GPS location and saves them for later analysis. For example, I would like to be able to tell where I was at certain point of time, or how long did it take me to travel from one place to another. Is there such an app? Thanks,
Before you jump on me I know flash is not supported on the iPad. I just want to know how I can get the url (if possible) of these embedded videos.
I have a problem with the sound from the headphone jack on my iPhone 3GS. Sound from the speaker is fine, but the sound from the headphone jack (on any headphones) is distorted at normal volumes. If I turn the volume down to about halfway then the distortion vanishes but the volume becomes barely audible. I've just replaced the headphone jack with a brand new assembly, so it's not a problem with jack itself. Anyone have any ideas?
A couple of days ago, I was browsing, and downloading something from Usenet, when my iMac all of a sudden froze up, grinding to an unbearable slowness. After trying to tolerate what was happening for 5 minutes, hoping it would pass, I finally gave up, and restarted the computer manually. To my horror, for about a day, I was plagued with the interminable locked up gray Apple startup screen, but thankfully the next morning, left it on from a restart to find later that the computer had managed to boot up to a login screen, everything seemingly fixed.
When I'm at work, I have two networks that I frequently connect to and switch between. The first one is the internet-enabled network, the TCP/IP settings in this network is configured automatically using DHCP. The second one is the internal testing network, this network is not connected to the internet and the TCP/IP settings must be configured manually.
I had been using Windows for over 10 years. But I'm a beginner of using Mac OS. Which books should I read to use and understand OS X very well.
My iPods push notifications only work every now and then and I'm always on the same router. All my notification settings are turned on but like I said they only work occasionally. Does anyone know how to fix this so they work everyday all the time?
I noticed some PDF documents viewed on iPad (either version 1 or 2) show a weird effect as follows. There are thin lines distracting the image.
I am looking for a way to create a wish list in the App Store, like you can in iTunes on the desktop. Is it possible to do this on the App Store from an iPhone?
I'd like to add a Spotlight comment to TextEdit.app. Is that possible? What I've done: Open Finder Browse to /Applications/ Select TextEdit Press ⌘ + I (Get Info) Click the lock icon to unlock the dialog Click on Spotlight comment text field
This is related to How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates I would like to write a script to tell iTunes to download all the free app updates available, and have that script run regularly using iCal. Is this possible?
I want to know how many times can i charge iPad2 Battery. I heard that iPad Battery can recharge 1000 times. if recharge 1000 times over,that battery will be damage. Is that right? Please tell me about ipad battery.
How do we "block" calls such that no one is able to call through? For example, I would not like anyone to call me for the next 60 minutes, but I do not wish to turn off the phone. What's the best solution?
I am trying to reinstall a clean copy of Leopard Server on my Mac mini server. I have erased both disks and tried to reinstall the OS, but it's always stuck at 36 minutes. The installation successfully finished once, but then the OS got stuck on the opening screen. I have checked both disks with disk utility and both appear to be fine. I would love any suggestions, as I don't know what to do next.
I want to jailbreak my iPad 2. How can this be done?
I am planning to buy an iPhone, but the one thing missing is FM radio. Is there a way to listen to FM radio on the iPhone?
I've found Pages simply great and very useful on making documents for idendity scopes, very lighter and faster than InDesign for medium-small documents. The only thing I missing inside it are the text variables. Well, this is the name used in InDesign, I'm talking about the creation of text pieces, inserted inside the text areas, this is very useful, if you need redundant informations, like client name and project name. Does it exist in Pages?
For some reason, the sounds for ringers, and alerts/notifications on my mother's iPhone appear to not be playing anymore. Even though the ringer volume in settings is turned up almost to the max, the phone still only vibrates when receiving a call. And when the phone is placed onto it's charging dock, instead of BEEP ing like it normally does, it simply vibrates. Interestingly, when I fiddle with the ringer volume slider in settings, the test ringtone plays just fine, and music audio can also be played through the built in speaker. What's going on?
While checking the tech specs I see iSight on Mac book and FaceTime HD on Mac book pro. I tried finding solution myself through google and sources but found no justifiable response. Can some one tell me the difference ?
I'm seeing behavior from my mac mini that is confusing me, I'm hoping someone else has seen this before; When connecting to my mac mini from my macbook pro, connecting to the computer name is instant but connecting to the IP takes several seconds (10-15). This seems counter-intuitive to me, because connecting to a name involves the extra step of looking up the name I would think that connecting to the IP would be instant. Does anyone know why this is, or how to eliminate the delay?
what is the difference between a Movie and a TV Show in iTunes Library?
I recently migrated over from Notepad++ (and from Windows) and I am finding myself at an inconvenience without CTRL + T in Notepad++ which switches the current line with the previous line. I tried using Move selection (CMD + CTRL + ARROW), but it does not behave the same way.
I've got an iMac and Macbook Pro, both running Snow Leopard and both on my home wireless network (running off a Linksys E2000). They both can get online fine, both have file sharing enabled, neither have a firewall enabled, and they both have IPs on the same subnet (192.168.1.144 & 146). Yet neither one can seem to see the other. If I open the network browser in Finder it's empty, attempts to go to the other machines IP directly fail after a long timeout, and even trying to ping the other machine fails. Yet, strangely, I've been able to get services like Synergy working just fine between them. Any ideas as to why these two machines are so inconsistent about talking to eachother?
I can't save my dock and spaces setting. Every time I set them (eg. disable spaces), after I reboot/re-login to the system, the dock and spaces settings will revert back to the previous status. How can I fix this problem?
If I browse my Apple Finder at How can I possibly go to Terminal with that very same directory? So that I won't need to do two less productive commands (1) open Terminal from Spotlight, and then (2) type cd /Users/arie/Documents/shugyou/genjutsu/fp.
Textmate has been around for a while, I bought it in 2006. Is it possible to split windows horizontally and or vertically on Textmate nowadays? Probably someone out there made a kind of Plugin for this :-/ Like C-x 2 when I'm on GNU Emacs to split horizontally or C-x 3 to split vertically and have flexible control on each windows' width or :split on ViM.
Is there a way I can import my ReadItLater's exported html file into my Instapaper?
I want to disable photos icon in my iPad 2, but I don't know how to do that. I want to disable like Movies. I can disable Movies in General's Restriction, but I can't find how to disable Photos. How can I do this?
I moved rented movies from my iMac to my iPod Touch with iTunes to watch them outside, but now I want to watch some of them at home. I tried to drag the rented movie in iPod Touch to iMac with iTunes, but nothing happened. How do I move rented movies from an iPod Touch to an iMac?
Is there any alternative to Windows' Baretail? What I am looking for is a graphical Baretail? Actually, I don't really care that it is graphical but I want to be able to have colors (lines with ERROR in red, lines with WARNING in yellow and so on...) And I want it to behave like a "perfect" tail -f command meaning that I want it to be non-invasive (does not prevent the file deletion). But always on the watch (if a file is deleted, and recreated and re-written in it then the tool would just start showing it again). In any case, any tool that does a better graphical interpretation of tail -f is welcome.
I want to write a shell script that ejects all currently-connected external drives (either USB or Firewire drives). I can use the disktuil eject <disk-path> to eject a specified drive. But I still can't figure how to find out what are the external drives. For instance, /Volumes shows internal drives, external drives, and mounted images. Is there a way to identify only external drives programmatically?
To move to the next tab in most browsers, you use ctrl+⇥. Then, to close it, you have to reach over to ⌘+W.
So I got a USB drive I want to use with Time Machine. This USB drive has some files of mine.
I wonder if I can use those Thunderbolt ports as inputs from a PC? The PC will be running a Radeon HD 4850 (i.e. it has enough juice to power the display). Can it be done?
I'm just curious how much space I'll retrieve by deleting them.
Now I love my Mac. & love "Snow Leopard " but I have been playing around a lot with Ubuntu, running it in a virtual machine. I think that I can replace all or almost all programs that I now use on the Mac. with programs running on Ubuntu.
On my Mac Os 10.5.8 Server, Java is reserving 16,777,216TB (about a third more then the sum of all human knowledge -eek!) of virtual memory. I know it's not really reserving this (it would be pretty amazing if it was!); is it something to worry about (i.e. a bug / glitch), and if not, what does it mean?
(using OSX 10.6.4 if that matters) I know about the Cmd-`, but it doesn't work everywhere, namely Chrome and Firefox don't seem to react to it. It works in, for example, Finder and OpenOffice. Any solution to this problem?
I don't want my BootCamp partitions automatically mounted on boot. For the main windows partition this can be accomplished by putting the UUID into fstab.
My wife's iPad 1 will no longer log into website accounts e.g. Amazon when using mobile safari, it just refreshes back to the log in page. She can get into these sites through the google app though and I can get into her accounts on mobile safari my iPad 2. It sounds like some sort of safari file corruption so all I can think of, and have tried without success, is to do a complete restore from iTunes. Anyone have any ideas ?
How can I import my Skim bookmarks so that they can be restored on a clean installation of OS X?
I have used OmniPlan for a 6 month project with lots of tasks and people. I like the visual appearance really much, but its drag'n'drop is annoying to use when you drag tasks outside the scrollview and it starts scrolling. The scrolling makes it impossible to position the tasks correct on my 27" display.
Looking for a way automatically change terminal colors when ssh-ing into remote machine and revert back to the default colors, when exiting the ssh session. Simply, want have another colors when i'm working on the remote machine. Any idea? ps: don't want use iTerm2, but standard Terminal.app
This means I would have 4GB in one slot and 1GB in the other slot. I have heard that 32-bit OSes don't support more than 4GB of RAM. Is it the same case here? To find out the architecture of my Mac OS, I used this command:
For a project I'm working on I need to get people to interact with a mac using a TV Style Remote. I want to map some of the buttons (Left, Right, Up, Down, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Select) to simulate keypresses.
I want to monitor one app on my phone to see what webservice it is accessing when it first launches. I remember seeing an article on TUAW a while ago that detailed using Charles snooper, or something like that to set up a network to detect that. However, I can't find it. Anyone know where it went?
I need Windows for my development environment on my Mac. I use Alt-U and Alt-S a lot in this software. I can't do this on my Mac. Is there a way to send the Alt key presses to the virtual machine?
Is there an option to prevent the Parallels Desktop 6 registration permanently?
Until 2 days ago my iPod was playing music and videos just fine. Now suddenly it is unable to copy multiple video files together from the library. It copies only when videos are given to it in groups of 3 or 4.
I am able to access localhost on a Mac through Windows XP on VMWare Fusion by using my Mac username like this: But how do I do that with a subdomain, something like this: Any ideas?
How do I set a window to be "Always on Top" like in Linux (ie, even if you switch to another application the current window will not go to the background, but it will stay "on top")? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Whenever I restart my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, I see a Recovered files folder in the trash—most recent example shown below. This is after a regular restart and not after a crash. Any ideas why this keeps happening?
My friend's iPhone was stolen. I want to get her contacts back from iTunes. She didn't sync her contacts with Outlook or anything else. I found in her computer an data.syncdb file in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\SyncServices\Local\TFSM\com.apple.Contacts It's size is 64kb. Is there a way to restore contacts from this file?
I'm looking for an application similar to a mind mapping piece of software but that lets me view the notes as cards on a corkboard, being able to connect between them. The feature is shown here on Scrivener but I don't want to be using Scrivener for everything since not all of these things are writing projects. Any suggestions?
How do you maximize the cycle count of your battery? There seems to be a debate between: Leave plugged in 24/7 but do a full cycle once a month Charge to ~100%, drain to ~10%, repeat. NOTE: Taking your battery out is bad
Sorry about the title. I followed these answers as suggested by some users on Ask Different. They've solved my problem. However, when I opened up Mail.app to inform it I want to use Google Notifier as default, like so,
I have an iPhone 4 and I'm a windows 7 user; I have the latest iTunes installed on my PC and synchronized with my iPhone; I don't have any music or video in there, as I don't use the iPhone for that purpose, but I have quite a big app library. If I'm going to reinstall Windows on my computer, or even move to a different one, what should I do to keep my iTunes library? I'm assuming the App Store keeps track of what I've purchased, but how to avoid re-downloading everything again?
I wipe my iPad quite often since I'm an iOS developer, but what I'm wondering is that why does my CPU goes 100%? Isn't it quite the same as copying music/photo to a USB drive (which doesn't make my CPU 100%?). Granted I ticked the "convert to 128 kbps AAC" option, but for photos, I thought they'd only have to resize the photos when syncing?
I use iTunes (latest available build) on Windows 7 x64. Whenever I buy apps for my iPhone, or download free updates to apps I already purchased, iTunes asks me to enter my Apple ID password, and my credit card confirmation number; everytime this happens, I also get an email from Apple saying "you purchased something from a device that has never been associated with your account, watch out because someone could be messing around with it". I always used iTunes only on this computer, and I've tried logging out/in, and also unauthorizing the system and then authorizing it back again; but this keeps happening. How can I fix this?
I have installed some packages from macports, and nearly all of them required to install Xorg. How can I remove the Xorg packages? Is there a way to reinstall all my Xorg dependant package without Xorg support?
I know (or think I know) that both devices can do this. Basically I have the ISP provided router, which has wifi, but it doesn't work well. That gives wifi to most of the house, and then on the other side, I have an airport extreme that then hooks up to an xbox, ps3, etc, and provides wireless to the other side of house.
A week ago, I attempting to load Windows (with Boot Camp) on my Mac Pro. The Windows 7 install CD I used had missing files, and thus I deleted the partition I created to house windows, not wanting to waste space on my hard drive. Eventually, I decided to to use bootcamp, and now, whenever I start my computer, there is a message that states: "No bootable device, insert boot disk and press any key", or something similar. Of course, I can hold alt/option or X at startup, but I don't want to have to do that every time I start up my computer, because normally I forget. Do you have any suggestions on how to stop this phenomena from occurring every time that I start my computer? (Note that I am looking for solutions - I understand why this is occurring)
My iPhone 4 is constantly low on memory when downloading large Apps from the App Store. I always get a message saying remove photos and videos to get space for new App. I have been to Apple to sort out problem but did not work. The video are very important with sensitive info. How do I move these videos to my hard drive?
A friend needs a battery for his MacBook and I do not use my own MacBook battery, having changed to another laptop. My battery is fairly recent.
I'm seeking software for Mac OSX that can hide any icon on menu bar. Some apps leave an icon on menu bar, but don't have a option to hide its icon from menu bar, are there any applications that hide all of the icons on the menu bar? Thanks.
I am a new mail.app user. I am going to be out of the office for a few days. I have 3 accounts in mail.app. Can I set one out of office rule for all 3 accounts?
I have a Power PC and I have been wanting to do a live screencast of a this thing I do, but there doesn't seem to be a single widget out there that would help me out. It is not just a matter of grabbing the screen, I have Snapz Pro X and it will work, but I want to share it with a bunch of people in real-time. There is no love for the Power PC architecture. Any ideas? :(
My macbook pro has 2 built in speakers and a line-out for audio. Additionally, I have it connected to my cinema display wich also has 2 speakers. I want to know how to combine them to use all of them to play my musics so it does't just come from a single output.
In Safari 5.0 or below it's very easy to disable opening pdfs inline, you simply say and it never bothers you again.
So I'm debating between powering down and sleep mode when toting my macbook around in my backpack. Apple says the HD 'spins down' when in sleep, which obviously means is not spinning. But are the read/write heads completely removed from the platters as in power down or still poised at the last read/write position? If they aren't cleared of the disc, I'm not dragging it around in sleep mode.
I am getting following error:  Previously I connected iPhone headphone/handsfree. It was working fine. Now, I disconnected my headphone/handsfree & my iPhone started giving warning as follows.
I have several Java installations on my machine: I don't need them all. For example I don't need update 22 version. How can I uninstall it cleanly?
The HP LP2475w supports all of the following inputs: DVI-I, HDMI, DisplayPort, Component Video, S-Video, and Composite Video Which one is the preferred to connect the Macbook Air's mini-display port to?
When I send a message and the progress bar is still "moving", can I simply move along and send another message? And even before that is completed, if I move along and send another message can I be guaranteed that all messages will be sent?
I am a user of Windows and I want to use MAC OS X. I have an ISO image of MAC OS X but the size of an ISO image is more than 7 GB which is not writable on single DVD. I don't have dual-layer DVD writer. So tell me any solution to split the image in 2 parts. And after splitting it can boot also. I mean to say that when first DVD have finished installation, system will ask for second DVD. Thanks in advance
We have an iPad in office, which we use to play music when not being used for mobile app testing (etc.). Is there a way to remote control volume from desktop (OS X)?
One of the extremely irritating things that (the Windows version of) iTunes does is that from time to time when I connect my previously-set-up iPhone or iPad, it thinks that it is a "new" device. Thus when I connect, it takes me to the "Set Up Your iPhone" screen and insists that I either "Set up as a new iPhone" or "Restore from a backup", despite the fact that neither is it a new device nor do I wish to restore from any backup and the thing I want to do is just "do nothing" and carry on as before... Am I the only person in the universe to have this problem, and if not, is there a way to fix it?
My mac seems like it is running slower and slower. While I am thinking abut installing Lion from scratch, I figure there has to be stuff I can do now to help. I have reset PR RAM recently, I have run the verify disk utility, and fixed permissions. I have seen mixed references to running a disk defragmenter. Could that help? I am on an iMac that is about 2 years old now. I regularly run Windows XP in Parallels, Chrome, Mail.app, and iTunes.
I bought some software; on the back of the cover it says the minimum version that it supports is 10.4.11 which is the same as my Mac. However, after copying it to the Applications folder, it says it can't run on this version of OS X (I have checked in About this Mac, and the version matches what's on the CD cover).
I just figured my main folder under my user and everything in it was shared. Is there a log on my computer that checks whether someone downloaded from my computer? I remember there was somebody else with a mac on the same network and had the opportunity to download all my private information. Thanks
From the Terminal, how can I release and renew my DHCP lease? Currently, I'm doing the following for the wireless interface, but I'm wondering if there's a better way: For the wired interface, replace en1 with en0.
I'm a developer/system admin/unix guy so I have many IDEs/Editors/Terminals running and I'm also temperature freak... I like it cold, here are a few tips I did to keep my MacBook Pro Unibody under 46 degrees C ~ 115 degrees F. Please list your tips. Clean your MacBook Pro fans from within... it's simple, open the bottom closure and blow the hell out of these fans. Download and install Fan Control and run your fans @ 2800-3000 RPM Position your MacBook on a hard surface
Is there some way by which a ping command or somewhat similar can be run on iPad ? I am trying to do this as my wifi connection dies out if there is idle time even for a few mins though it works with continuous ping on desktop browsers. So i want to simulate the same ping thing on iPad..
I set my prefs to save files in UTF-8 (the default). But I've noticed that my files are not UTF-8 but US-ASCII. With my newly created file: => myfile: text/plain; charset=us-ascii What gives?
I've found lots of tutorials for using a Mac to control a serial device, but not the other way around. I've got a DEC VT520 terminal and a recent Mac Pro, is there a way (with a USB adapter) to get a shell on my Mac from a hardware serial console? Basically I'm looking for an OS X version of the "Ubuntu Serial Console HowTo". Or is this so ridiculous that no one has tried it?
I just got an iPhone from my company. I have to access my work email on this iPhone 4. However, I can't use Grooveshark as my music service, since it only works on jailbroken iPhones.
Perhaps a more answerable question (if the above isn't answerable) is: what steps are needed to clean out temporary files from a user's area on an apple? I'd prefer concrete steps rather than "download (and pay for) iKillTempFiles". Lastly, I don't know the versions of the software involved, but I suspect they were all fairly old.
I'm looking for any way to post media to google plus using only an iOS device. I am able to get still photos into my linked picasa account, but fail at getting it posted to a circle (or the public) in google plus. Still Pictures embedded into the stream is a must have. Bonus points if I can control more than one or have a fancy album like posterous handles multiple pictures. Bonus points if I can control more than one or have a fancy album like posterous handles multiple pictures.
Running Windows 7 and after a resume the fan comes on about 2 minutes and doesn't turn off and it's the loudest thing in the room. I'm not doing anything but browsing . . and I don't think it's because of flash. Any ideas?
When I try to save a new file in TextEdit, I always get a popup saying I can't save with ".txt" at the end of the file name. I want to save a plaintext file, but TextEdit insists on saving as .rtf instead. It also lists .doc, .odt, .html, and some others. How can I save a TextEdit document as plain text?
In Lion there is an animation when switching to and from full screen applications. Full screen apps are great, especially on a 11" screen, but this animation is getting very annoying. Is there a way to turn off these animations?
I've come across How can I show multiple Google calendars in iPhone's calendar app? but the topic seems to be dead already and doesn't solve my problem for now.
How can I delete an email in Mac Mail instantly without moving it to the trash? I don't want to look at the spam crap twice :-)
Is there a way to sync iTunes podcast subscriptions across two iTunes installations; one on a Mac and the other on a W7 ?
I have the latest version of Remote Desktop Connection client form Mac (2.1.1), the one that is also included in Office 2011 but I am not able to connect to the Windows machine. I checked the logs on the Windows machine and found nothing. It keeps asking me for user/password/domain... and I am entering them properly. FYI, the computer is on domain.
Have you got any tools you use for presentations with Xcode? I'm preparing for some live 'showdowns'. Anything is welcome - mouse pointer enhancers, fast typing with snippets, etc.
Is it possible to use Sparrow over a SSH-tunnel since the imap and ssl ports are blocked at my work?
I'm a bit confused. In the keyboard settings of my iPhone are two options: "sofware keyboard layout" and "hardware keyboard layout"
And what are things to watch out for based on previous upgrades?
I have set up homes sharing on both my iPad and macbook's iTunes. Originally I did not set a password and it worked. Now I have set a password in iTunes preferences and when accessing my shared library on the iPad the content from library is displayed without me having to enter the password.
I have the most recent Macbook Pro 13" and on the apple website it says that the audio port is in and out. I just ordered a headset that has two separate 3.5mm plugs and was wondering if there is any sort of adapter that would let me use both the headphone and the mic, or if it has to be one or the other, since there is only one port.
I used SetFile -a V "/Volumes/Backup di Time Machine"/ to get rid off the time machine's icon on the desktop but it seems that I don't see it in the finder too and Time Machine stops working, it can't find the drive! So how to undo this? Thanks
I have Chrome installed in Applications, and a shortcut to it in the Dock. How can I achieve to force some command-line arguments to each start-up of this app?
Is there an option, or external program that anyone knows of that would allow me to set window to always stay in the same position on every one of my 4 spaces / not move when I switch. Like I want VLC player to not move so I watch a movie, but switch spaces between other applications.
Short Question Is there something I am missing when setting up a Cisco IPSec VPN connection that redirects all traffic over the VPN? Background When I am connected to the VPN, I can browse our company's intranet with no problems, but when I try to go out to say www.google.com it times out. Another co-worker is having the same problem on his MBP as well. The VPN client we use for our Windows machines is Shrew Soft talking to a pfSense router, which works like a champ. System Information Network VPNing into a Pfsense based router Hardware MBP early 2008 4GB Ram 500GB 7200RPM HDD Software OS X 10.6.8 Bootcamp and Parallels 6: Windows 7 Pro
I don't see the AirPlay speaker selection gadget on the Spotify IOS client. Is AirPlay support something the App developer must provide explicitly? Is there a way to force the default audio output from an IOS device to an AirPlay speaker at the system level?
Is it possible to downgrade an app from a newer version to an older version without having a copy of the older verion. I guess this could also be rephrased to, 'is it possible to download an older version of an app from the AppStore after the new version has been released'
I have some private SMS messages I want to hide. The problem is that they are displaying on main screen even when it's locked. So it was useless using password because it's displayed even with the lock. How can I make SMS messages hidden on locked screen?
I'm trying to install Windows on my Mac, and I don't have my OSX installation CD with me. I see an option of Boot Camp Assistant to download the drivers online, so I select it - and it says the download is unavailable. Does anyone have a work-around? Or experience the same issue when they try it? I have a 13" Mid-2010 MBP.
Is it possible to upgrade the native python version (2.6 on my Snow Leopard) to a more recent one? Or do I have to just install python 2.7 besides the current one?
I already have a backup of my system on Time Machine, but will it restore my application preferences too when I migrate to a new system? Even if it is Lion? (I come from Snow Leopard) And what about those apps that have their data in Library>Application Support? Do I have to manually copy and restore .plist files or is there a Backup app smart enough to copy them together with the .app file?
I cannot boot my system anymore and I want to disable a service from loading and the only way to do this by using the terminal window from the recovery mode. launchctl is not available in the recovery mode.
I bought an early 2011 (the current model at the time of writing) 15 inch, 2.2GHz MacBook Pro. I had a previous generation model, pre unibody model which I loved and performed like a star.
i am using a macbook pro 15" early 2011 unibody with an german (DE) keyboard. and that sucks really hard. So ive decided to change it, and it should be working because the english international and the german keyboard-layout are the same.
What to do if your OS X system fails to boot, being stuck at gray screen with the moving-wheel? The system boots from recovery partition, it does check the partition but it will not boot.
I'm not very savvy. I usually accept all iTunes updates to get any important fixes. But I don't think I need Ping - never signed up and don't use social networking. Should I reject iTunes update # 10 and its follow-ups, i.e., 10.3?
I am running FCE 3.5 HD on a Macbook Pro and whenever I start rendering, it (FCE) unexpectedly quits. Here’s the crash report: *=URL=* I have no idea if this will even help, as I have no idea even how to read it...but....
We have an early 2005 Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI). This tower has been having a lot of problems: freezing randomly, runs hot and slow, fans race intermittently, CDs/DVDs don't always load, won't go to sleep sometimes... What is happening and how can I fix this?? Here are additional specs: Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 Processor 2GB DDR SDRAM Runs OS 10.5.8 This is the model info for this tower: *=URL=* Additional System Profiler info is here at: *=URL=* I deleted the log files from the file because they are way too long, but everything else is there.
Sorry for such a simplistic sounding question, but I haven't found any resolution to this. As I migrate users from Outlook to Mail, this is one of the biggest things I miss...
Activity Monitor will show you how much CPU time the current instances of each process have taken. I want an app that will show the total CPU time all instances of each process have taken, so I can (for instance) see what's draining my MacBook's battery the most on average.
I am quite a non-technical guy when it comes to such stuff and hence looking for "easy" solutions. On Windows, I had used Red Kawa Videora to convert the various audio and video formats to iPod-playable formats. I think it also has a version which works on Mac.
I find the whole iTunes sync process very confusing.. I have an iPod touch and an iPad, which I generally want to sync using my MAC Mini and my PC (Windows XP). I have only 1 iTunes account though for all devices..
I used to use the /etc/auto_master file to load SMB shares in Snow leopard Mac OS X Now that Samba is removed, I wonder what should be the correct way to auto mount windows shares.
I had an iPhone 3G that I've given to my friend. I had a number of paid apps that I left on there in the hope my friend would be able to use them, however when he tries to sync iTunes tries to delete them all. I no longer have an iPhone and so have no need for these apps - is there any way that I can give these apps to my friend?
First question: Why is the AirPort singled out with its own special entry in the plist? I understand the entries for primary interface (the source) and the sharing devices (the targets) But who cares if AirPort is enabled in this plist if you are setting up a NAT between Ethernet and Bluetooth, for example?
My intel-based mac mini (Model A1283, EMC 2336) refuses to boot. When I plug it in, the fan spins up very loudly, but then nothing happens when I hit the power button. I don't get a boot chime, and the power light on the front doesn't turn on. I've followed the directions here for resetting the SMC, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
I'm having problems getting the field values out of a Bento database using Applescript: I'mn using the following code to get at the entries but I'm not able to get at the cells or fields associated with the entries. Can anyone point me in the right direction:
I'm looking for a free GUI app to help run programs on a schedule. It seems that launchd is the underlying tool to use, and in the past Lingon has been recommended as a good GUI interface to launchd. But now it seems that the open source (Apache License V2.0) version of Lingon 1.2.1 doesn't work on Leopard (10.5), and the newest version of Lingon (2.2.1) requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later and is no longer open source. Has anyone gotten a version of Lingon to run on Leopard (10.5)? Or is there another free alternative?
Sometimes the Dock will keep an icon app in the Dock, even though I haven't set it as such, even though I've previously de-kept it in Dock after the first time it kept it 'for me'. Is there a way to turn this off it's a bit annoying?
I am having trouble with AFP Sharing a backup drive from one computer to another. Yesterday it was working fine and today it's not. I don't think any settings have changed since yesterday. When I try to connect via AFP in the Finder, I get this message
I would like to restrict some sites on my iPhone? How it would be possible? (if it is)
What is the best way to find new iPad games that can be played over the internet? (Not splitscreen, not bluetooth, not WiFi, only the ones that can be played over larger distances)
Launchd is an interesting piece of software. It seems like it is working ok, but one would think the brand new way of replacing init would have a few more iterations.
Handily, this means that the default will be in the plist files in /System/Launch* /Library/Launch* ~/Library/Launch* and one can just blow away ( errrm copy and move ) that directory and reboot to a default set. This worked for me recently.
I have a MacBook Pro 4.1. In the past - from time to time - you could feel a bit of electricity close to the aluminium case when working in AC mode, but now things are getting worse. I can feel the electricity all the time, especially close to the opening button and to the corners. Talking with other MBP users, I have been told that the whole MBP 1.4 series has got this problem and that it is due to the presence of the aluminium case. Is it a known issue? Is there any workaround to properly ground the laptop?
hoping for the virtual machine to be a 'network tap'. configuration is an intel mac with an airport card and several usb nics. The airport card is for connectivity to the internet. the usb nics provide connectivity to the local lan. internet sharing is used on the mac to distribute internet access and the mac is also a file repository.
I think that using this, this and this, I should be able to just AirPlay from iTunes. I'm worried, though, that the set-top box might be a bit offended that I don't plan on giving it an HDMI buddy. Has anyone done this before?
I recently asked if I should upgrade python 2.6 to python 2.71 on my Mac (Snow Leopard). I was told to install 2.7 without removing 2.6. Done! Now I was wondering how the installation of new modules is handled:
I'm buying a mac book pro (this one: *=URL=* My doubt is: 5400 tr/min 750Gb or 7200 tr/min 500Gb ?
Not sure if this question if more appropriate in this Mac site or a non Mac site, but: Can the current (as possibly soon to be updated) Apple 27 inch LED Cinema Display be used with non Mac systems such as those running Windows or Linux? What would it take to make it happen? Thanks.
I have a White MacBook model 3,1 (bought in 2007). My AirPort card seems to be busted. It has trouble picking up WiFi from a transmitter that is more than one meter away. I know it's not an OS issue because I also have Ubuntu and Windows installed on this machine, and I'm having connectivity issues there too.
When running top in terminal, I can't find a way to scroll down to view all running processes (save for resizing the window, but even then I can't display all). I tried setting and using the page down key command in the preferences, but that didn't work. Anyone know how to scroll down in the list of processes in top?
I'm looking to develop a video for a software application that I make. I'm willing to spend a lot of time learning the software, so features are more important than simplicity.
As part of a kiosk system, I have set up a Guest account on a Mac OS X Snow Leopard computer. This account is cleared every time someone logs off the computer. However, plenty of people don't. Is there any way that I can automatically log out this guest account after a period of inactivity? I tried using the security preferences pane, but that just causes the confirm logout dialog to show up. I have hacked around the /System/Library/User Templates/ folder, so I can set the screensaver, desktop background, &c. If something like ScriptSaver can solve my problem, I will gladly use it.
Is it possible to have multiple Apple IDs? Can I have different Apple Ids using my different email ids?
I was wondering if that comes bundled with a text editor too optimized for LaTeX. If not then kindly suggest me a good editor too. I am used to GEdit on Ubuntu. For editor I was looking at TeXShop. So will I have to install both TeXShop and MacTeX ?
How will you rate your wifi experience and over all experience between Macbook and Macbook pro? How much of that good or bad is to do with Aluminium body?
As a new comer from Windows OS, I wonder how to start/stop/restart a service on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 ?(it's straight forward on Windows using its Task Manager). I tried Activity Monitor, but it only kills processes, it does not start them. I tried the command: launchctl stop *servicename* and then the command launchctl start *servicename* after I hit return on keyboard after each command the terminal does not show any message so it must be successfull, but when I check out the result in Activity Monitor, it sounds that this command is useless because it has no effect on that process in Activity Monitor.
Is there a place where we can find our own comments in the iTunes App Store so we see how many consider our comments as good ones for example?
I use the terminal on a daily basis, I will often use rm DirectoryName. Sometimes I get a little crazy and do rm *. As you can imagine, these shenanigans have sometimes come back and hit me in the face. Does anyone know how I create a mapping so rm whatever moves everything to the trashcan which I then delete manually.
I've just got my new 2011 iMac (OS X 10.6.8), but connecting my HP LP2475w via a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable leads to a very fuzzy screen. It's the correct resolution and refresh rate (1920x1200, 60Hz), and size-wise, everything looks fine on the monitor. However, everything, especially the text, looks horribly blurry. It's almost as if the iMac is outputting a 1920x1199 image or something, and the display is stretching it slightly. Like what used to happen with old CRT monitors when you set the image 1px too tall/wide. Here's an image of what I see
When I attach my video camera (for the purpose of importing some clips into FCP-X) I noticed that spotlight is indexing the camera (which does show up as an external disk when I connect it, via the USB cable) I'm pretty sure that there is some contention between spotlight trying to index these files and FCPX trying to import them. Is there a way to stop Spotlight from indexing the attached disk?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro conected to a LG Flatron L19WS monitor through a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter and the image is delayed from the MacBook Pro to the actual monitor. How can I fix this?
I want to play flash games with iPad 2, so someone told me iSwifter can help. I want to know whether iSwifter can only run with internet connection. If it needs connection, is there any other application the can play flash games without internet?
Can someone find me a picture of Macbook Pro US keyboard Layout and one of an English international? I need a detailed image, because I need to know the second key assignments of each key. Everything I found on Google had too little resolution.
I just recently bought a mac-mini server and love it. It currently is being used in a small work environment for communication purposes and storage/backup use. However I have noticed that there is a wiki page application residing on the server and available for use. Are there any user guides out there for this application, Im not very familiar with it and want to learn how to use it more in depth.
I have recently purchased a Macbook Pro and I am very impressed with the machine and OS X. Coming from Windows the one thing I have struggled with is the file system and the Finder application. I suppose I am very used to drag and drop of files in Windows Explorer. As a aspiring Mac developer, should I ditch Finder altogether and use the Terminal only? Also, whenever I am trying to decide where to put a document or file I wonder what all the directories in the UNIX file system are for and where files should go, and I end up just putting it somewhere and it seems to be a real mess now :). Do you know of any resources/ tutorials that would be of any help?
Are there any real alternatives to force quit dialog on mac? Alternative, just a command/app that kills every running app (not process)?
I have installed a new XCode 4 on a machine and I'd like to copy/paste the syntax coloring settings from the first one to the new one. How may I do this ?
I have my iTunes library that lives under my account. There's about 20 Gigs of music and I sync the music to my own iPod.
I just manually deleted about 1gb of useless old version files from that folder. But I've got 966 items there and no way to going through them all, plus some of them are not even that simple to identify as being an older version of the same app since they change names.
I recently imported a whole bunch of MP3s that I've already grouped into a single album, but the ID3 tags for track numbers are all blank. How can I tell iTunes to auto-add track numbers in the order they just happen to be in in iTunes? The actual order of the MP3s isn't essential, but I like to keep every MP3 in my library properly labelled.
My video editing needs are very, very pedestrian and seldom. I have no real need for Final Cut Pro.
When I edit formulae in Numbers, is it possible to select nearby cells using the cursor keys? For example, I might be editting cell C3, and set its formula to "=B2+C2". I would like to select cells B2 by hitting the up-arround and then the left-arrow, to take the cursor from C3 to B2. I've tried hitting the keys, and using combinations of shift, alt, and command. Is there a way to do this?
My current setup is Dropbox with a directory called /Docs, in which I have my emacs .org outline files. If you don't know about Emacs and org-mode, these files are plain text, just formatted with ** and so on for headings, however the extension is .org I have tried Elements, however it would not let me view notes with the extension of .org So essentially, I want to sync up notes between org-mode and an app on my iPhone 4, without using MobileOrg (which doesn't really sync as such).
I deleted the App Store application with AppCleaner some months ago, after ongoing problems with a freezing Finder. Now I would like to reinstall, but I cannot find a way. The 10.6.6 combo updater of course will not do the job because it needs an older OS X incarnation and I'm running 10.6.8.
I've tried to connect a Nexus S to a MBP 2010 via USB. After connection, the Mac does not respond.
I am replacing my Macbook's hard disk and I have already a copy of all files I want to transfer over except for my iTunes library. Since I sync my iPad with it, and have some apps, what is the best approach to backup and migrate my iTunes library to the new disk? I don't have a 2nd computer, so I can't use the migration assistant.
I'm about to get my new 2011 MBP next week and it's coming with a 256gb internal SSD, but I was wondering if it's possible to use the disk entirely for Windows 7 (bootcamp'ed) & install Mac OS X on an external FW800 drive 'only'? Is this doable or are there any restrictions or limitations that require Mac OS X to be installed on the internal hdd? Basically my main work environment is Windows 7 but I need Mac OS X for other, fewer contracts aswell.
I am using coda as my main editor on mac. But I want to use just the keyboard for navigating through file browser. This I was able to quite easily by installing the plugin to switch between editor and file browser and then turning off the feature which opens files on a single-click or when it is focussed.
my one friend from UK want to publish a book for UK and USA ibook store I found this page *=URL=* it has all the info but there is a section about U.S. Tax ID My friend lives in UK and don't have any bank account in USA but have a Bank account and credit card in UK my question if my friend is only want to publish book for UK store, will he need U.S. Tax ID? Please guide how he can upload the book to iBooks store and people from USA and UK should be able to download the book in iBooks app on their iPad and iBooks. He has his book in ePub format.
I have 2 installed versions of Python 3! The installers for Python 3.1 and Python 3.2 both installed to separate locations. So, now I have Python 3.1 hanging around and I’m never planning to use it. And since the installer is awesome (I’m not being sarcastic; I’m really impressed, especially since most programming languages require compilation from source), it also creates entries in /Applications with some handy utilities. But since I have installed a newer Python 2 and two versions of Python 3, this means I now have: /Applications/Python 2.7, /Applications/Python 3.1, and /Applications/Python 3.2 I just want to ditch Python 3.1.
What would be the consequences of Jailbreaking my iOS device as a developer? What are some of the benefits, and what are some of the issues with Jailbreaking as a developer? How would this effect Xcode when "paired" with my iPod?
I'm looking for a Mac OS X program for editing midi files. Specifically, I'm using the program Synthesia to learn how to play songs on the piano, but a lot of the midi files I have don't have the notes split into a right hand and left hand track. I'm looking for a program where I can load one of these midi files, add a new track, and then manually move notes from the existing track onto the new track. Are there any good programs I can do this with?
Is it possible to downgrade apps you have upgraded in the Cydia Store? (Jailbroken) If so how would you do it?
I have an early-2011 MacBook Pro 15" with a 128GB SSD. I replaced the built-in SuperDrive with a 750GB MCE OptiBay HD, so my boot drive is the 128GB SSD (speed!) and I have moved over most of my Home folder except for Applications and Library to the 750GB HD (storage!). To make it all work smoothly, I followed TUAW's advice found here. My directory structure looks like: SSD (Boot) Applications Developer Library opt System Users Applications Developer Library opt System Users HD (Storage) Desktop Documents Downloads Dropbox Library (the other one) Movies Music Pictures Public Sites Desktop Documents Downloads Dropbox Library (the other one) Movies Music Pictures Public Sites
How can change video container from .mov to .mp4 without touching the video itself? Preferably a GUI app. I have a bunch of videos in .mov and since .mp4 is more widespread I want to use that, but I don't want to lose any quality.
Is there any way to create a screenshot of an iPhone without using the combination home+lock button? Is there an app for jailbroken phones? Something else? I do not have a Mac; only Windows.
I have a local apache running on my macbook pro and I need to run a SSL website on the local host. I have everything configured in Apache, but can't open port 443 on mac. I tried to add ipfw rule to allow 443 but it doesn't work.
If I use the my laptop while my hands are (very) wet, will the water get into the insides of the computer through the gaps at the side of the trackpad?
I am having many problems sharing (printer, file, screen) from a Macbook Pro (10.6.8) to a PowerMac G5 tower (10.5.8). It was working just fine until we switched internet providers and got a new router. I have checked IP addresses, etc. What are some general troubleshooting steps I can take to determine where the problem might lie?
I want to capture some video of my iPad. Doing this via VNC on a PC seems like a good choice. However is there a possibility to make my touches visible?
Are there any Mac tools for checking pdf and image files for encapsulated malware, exploits, or other potentially suspicious stuff? If I email these files to myself on some online account, which online email services (gmail? yahoo? mobileme? et.al.) might do a decent job of scanning these items for me?
Is it safe to unplug a drive while MacBook is asleep? (i.e., does sleep unmount drives?) I think probably not, at least if a file operation was running when you put the computer to sleep, I guess it expects the drive to be mounted when it wakes up. Does it?
How do I create a menu/brochure for a salon with 3 columns, where the price will be next to the description but right-aligned? I think there has to be be a better way than hitting the Space bar to get it to the right!
I have a problem every time my 2010 MacBook Pro wakes up after I opened the lid. The symptoms are as follows: The display is completely normal, I can see the latest program I used, the top bar menu, the dock, everything Moving the mouse is ok, and so is typing Clicks have no effect AirPort is trying to connect to a network Sometimes the network I usually use can't be found and I have to turn AirPort on & off to make it reconnect This is really annoying!
I recently hit this weird bug in iOS 4.3.3 on iPad. When it was locked, the "Team Provisioning Profile is expiring in N days" popup popped up and I wasn't able to dismiss it by hitting the two buttons of the popup itself. The only way I could regain access to the device was to restore it. Now I upgraded to 4.3.4 and hopefully the bug should be gone, but I didn't find anything like that in the changelog of the upgrade. The device's log didn't show anything unusual, and I couldn't even turn the iPad off and on again because said popup is modal and you need to slide to confirm poweroff.
Although this question is being answered many times, I could not find any help from previous posts, so here it is again. I have tried to add a new route to PATH variable with no success. I have added the following command: to this files one at a time: ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc After starting a new Terminal session I type but the PATH variable never show the changes. EDIT:
I recently moved countries and had to update my billing address in iTunes (change of full address and credit card info). This went fine, no problems whatsoever. It also meant that I had to change App Stores.
I would like to call for a place to list some little things that surprise you about Lion. There are so many articles and lists of all the new features with information overload, I would rather focus this spot of the site on tiny delights with a note why it makes a difference to you.
Is it possible to burn a DVD out of the Lion app store install?
I just started downloading OS X Lion, and it's 3.49 GB. This is the extent of the user interface for the download process:
I just downloaded Lion and am pretty eager to install it, but I can use every minute I have, so I'd rather not install it now if it means my system is unusable for 30+ minutes. How long should I expect a Mac to be unusable during the upgrade process?
My understanding is that the new MacBook Air 2011 is using a new Intel CPU that uses less power. I expected that should mean either longer battery life or a lighter computer, but I can't remember how much battery life they claimed the old one had... Should I expect longer battery life from the new MacBook Air 2011?
Is there a way to install the official release when you installed the Gold Master version? I can't purchase it from the app store because it think I have the app already intalled... I wonder how you can purchase/install lion on x machines since your appstore login can be used at home, at works, etc...
When I bought my Macbook Pro I was told that when Lion came out I could get the upgrade for free. How do I go about doing this? I've searched the Apple.com website extensively and can't find information on this.
Apple has just announced the new MacBook Airs, Mac mini, and Thunderbolt display. One of the features of the Thunderbolt display that caught my eye was its ability to daisy-chain two displays together from one Thunderbolt port (on a MacBook Pro).
I just got 10.7. The two-finger scrolling direction seems wrong to me, although it says "direction - natural." I couldn't see a way to reverse it. Does anyone have a way yet?
I just installed Lion, and I can't find the Library folder in my user folder. Does the folder no longer exist? If it doesn't, where are my preferences? If it does, how do I get to it?
So I am a little confused and slightly worried, and I was wondering if someone could answer this. I have a Time Machine backup saved on an external HD for my Mac mini that is running the latest version of Snow Leopard.
To me it feels more natural to "pull" down the Desktop down to access Mission Control however System Preferences for the Magic Trackpad only allow for swiping up to access Mission Control. Is there a hidden terminal preference or app that would enable swipe down to activate Mission Control?
Now that File Vault 2 can encrypt the entire disk and encrypt external drives, can I have a fully encrypted Time Machine volume?
I've just installed OS X Lion on my iMac, and I want to make an installation DVD, so that I can reinstall without having to first install Snow Leopard. The way to create the DVD is answered elsewhere, but it seems that the installer gets auto deleted after the installation of Lion completes. It looks like I'll have to re-download the 4Gb Lion installer again, but when I try to download it again via the App store, I'm told a newer version already exists, and I'll have to move it to the trash first. I've double checked, and there isn't another version of the installer present. How can I now create the install disk?
I'm trying to download the new Mac OS. When click install, the icon pops onto the dock and says Waiting... After about 5 minutes, it disappears and in the purchased category of the Mac App Store, next to install it says: An error has occurred Why is this happening?
I like using the debug menu on the Snow Leopard App Store app by enabling it with defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
Worked in Snow Leopard and now gives error 51 and the sudo restart system command in Terminal i used to use doesn't work. Any idea?
My wife finds that her iPhone constantly reminds her of google calendar events (accessed via the exchange trick). None of the google events have reminders enabled. The phone preferences don't ask for reminders. Yet reminders she gets.
When I try to sync my iPad, it aborts on the last step, indicating that it can't be synced, becuase "not enough memory is available":  But I have LOTS of room:
I don't have a lot of extra software on my Mac, but wondered what tools people are finding useful for aggregating or checking that existing software is ready for Lion. I'm also wondering if I need to buy new versions of iLife - will iLife 08 work OK with Lion? I almost hesitate to ask, since the best solution is to dutifully check with each vendor - they are the best resource, but has anyone found a good resource that lists or aggregates software that is either known to have issues or is reported to be good to go Lion?
I recently bought an unlocked iPhone 4 from the US. I live in the UAE. I had a normal SIM card and I cut it and installed it into iphone and it started working. But when I tried to upgrade to the most recent iOS version using iTunes, at the end of the installation it says Your SIM card does not appear to be supported. When I went to my carrier office they gave me SIM card which works in their iPhone (UAE) but it does not work in my iPhone (US).
So... prior to Xcode 4, Xcode was always free. Then 4.0 cost $5 for non-developers. Now 4.1 is free. I'm just a little confused with this situation.
Good ways to test or check the compatibility with Lion is being asked in a different question: What tools are people using to check for Lion compatible software? What, generally, would make an app—that works with Snow Leopard—incompatibile with Lion? Could I have an educated guess whether app works / doesn't work / works partially with Lion based on some features? What does, for example, all the apps reported "Not working" or "Has some problems" on RoaringApps Compatibility table have in common?
Before installing Lion, I could use the "double finger left/right swipe" gesture to go back and forward in the history in Google Chrome. After installing Lion, I can't find any mouse gesture that implements this.
I just finished the huge download of Mac OS X Lion, started the installer, and now I have a problem. The installer says that I must have the GUID-Partitions Table Scheme. The problem is that when I go into the disk utility, I can't change the format anymore, because I have Master Boot Record as type. Can anyone help me, please?
Does the magic mouse support all of the gestures that the magic trackpad supports, including but not limited to Launchpad and Mission Control?
The story is this: I just upgraded to Mac OS Lion and as it turns out it won't work with my Samba share in the way Snow Leopard used to, for TimeMachine backups. After a bit of Googling I found that this is because TimeMachine now requires NetTalk 2.2 and AFP. So my question is this: How do I get an AFP share to work on my router? I currently use DD-WRT but I've had no luck installing custom software to it, recall it having something to do with there not being a package manager for the architecture used in the router I have. I don't mind reflashing the router to either original firmware, if anyone can confirm that works, or some other firmware such as Tomato.
I created a folder by dropping one icon on top of another. Now I want to rename that folder, since the default name, "Utility" isn't the one I want. According to all advice I find on the internet, I should open the folder and then double-click the title in order to rename it.
I currently have a OS X Snow Leopard installation and Windows 7 as a virtual machine on VMware Fusion 2.0. Has anyone tried to upgrade to Lion with a similar setup? Are there any problems or compatibility issues?
My hard disk is starting to get a bit cramped, with only 30GB available. I'm about download Lion and I'd like to know if I'll need to free up some space before I install it.
I have a MacBook with PC2-5300S memory in it. I have an HP laptop with F2-5300CL5S in it. I'd like to take my 2GB modules from my HP and move them into the MacBook. Are these memory modules compatible? Can anything go wrong from using them?
When pressing alt/option in Lion's Launchpad, only some icons get the delete X overlay to remove them. How do you delete the others? I've read that control-option-command should do this, but it simply launches the app for me.
Can someone tell me what is build number of the Lion version released on the app store July 20th 2011?
Carbon Copy Cloner is a great utility that's saved me a few times over the years. I've always used a much larger target drive than the source so I've never run into this problem before.
Is there a Camera app that will let me control the shutter speed of a 4th gen iPod Touch? Camera+ for some reason doesn't support this. Edit: I mean shutter speed, not exposure.
Does Apple Remote Desktop send the framebuffer (VNC like) when using remote viewing/control capabilities or does it send rendering commands (RDP like). Does this differ based on what client is connected (VNC vs. the ARD client)?
I have 2 macbooks (the unibody and the one before that). Do I need to buy two licenses or can I just use one license for both machines?
Does FileVault 2 in Lion have any other differences compared to the old version, FileVault in previous releases of the system? Are there any additional benefits to using the new version?
I upgraded to OS X 10.7 this morning and upon attempting to connect to my corporate VPN, I discovered that my script at /etc/ppp/ip-up has disappeared. Has anyone else encountered this problem, or do you know where it might have ended up?
I just opened Ars Technica's review of Lion intending to read it with Safari 5.1's Reader but it appears to somehow block Reader. I tried the following with no success: changed the extension on the url from .ars to .html but that didn't work Installed Readability's Safari extension but I couldn't get it to work to with any page so it might be broken in Safari 5.1 Saved it to Instapaper but it only saved the first page. Apparently Ars Technica thinks Safari reader is a "evil genius" plan from Apple but I think this theAppleBlog post sums up the issue fairly well.
I have 2 partitions, I reduced the size of one and want to expand the other to fill the now available space. How do I expand the Lion Partition into the empty grey space beneath Macintosh HD partition?
I've installed Snow Leopard 10.6 a while a go and I'm pretty new to MacOS. I was working on Windows, then started using Slackware and I'm used to working with those OS. So now after I migrated to MacOS I have a few issues:
For example $, &, é, § and @ etc. work fine. Forward slash / using ⇧ + : works. Forward slash / using ⇧ + : works. Backslash \ using ⌥ + ⇧ + : does not work. Backslash \ using ⌥ + ⇧ + : does not work. Pipe | using ⌥ + ⇧ + L does not work. Pipe | using ⌥ + ⇧ + L does not work. Is there any configuration that I can do to make my keyboard work?
There is a folder in my favorites in the sidebar of the finder on my Mac. That folder no longer exists, but for some reason it started showing up again as soon as I upgraded to Lion
I've been a fervent user of Textmate for many a year, and I hope to continue to be one. However, the versions feature of OSX seems like a great and easy to use idea.
I'm having a bit of trouble with Vuze after installing 10.7 (and the JRE.) Vuze can connect to seeds and peers, but no data will transfer! That makes it a bit useless. So far I have tried: Running Vuze as root Switching to the 32 bit JRE Trying the 4.2.0.5 Vuze beta Attempting to run it using the Java 1.7 OpenJRE (wouldn't launch.) Attempting to install the Leopard Java 1.5 JRE (wouldn't install.) Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
So, I just downloaded and installed Lion on my iMac. However, I did so on a separate clean partition, and saved Snow Leopard on the other. So, in Lion, I tried to open iPhoto on my Snow Leopard partition, and it crashed. Here's the error message: com.apple.iPhoto: dyld: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/iLifeFaceRecognition Any help would be appreciated!
Today, Apple updated Safari to 5.1 (6534.50). In Safari 5.0 or below it's very easy to disable opening pdfs inline, you simply say defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES and it never bothers you again.
How can I boot safari only in Mac OSX Lion Chrome OS style? I heard that there was a key that one had to hold at startup, which one is it?
I would very much like to disable the sliding animation that occurs when switching desktops via ctrl+→/← or ctrl+[number] in Lion. This was previously accomplished in previous versions with this command: This new animation is even more slow than in Snow Leopard - nearly 1 second to switch - a real productivity killer. Any help greatly appreciated!
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Will iWork '08 work support autosave and versions? I really only use iWork like twice a year, and don't feel like buying a new one.
Is it possible to change Versions' save frequency? For some kind of work, one hour's worth of work is too much to lose!
I upgraded to Lion today, but was having the same problem on Snow Leopard. When I start up my Mac and login, it automatically connects to an NFS server. I know this because I see the server in Finder in the Shared section. I'm assuming I connected to the server at some point in the past, but I'm not sure how to make it stop connecting now. Where can I look? Even after ejecting the server, it reconnects on the next startup. What can I do to make it stop? Further information - here's what my /etc/auto_home looks like: And running /usr/libexec/od_user_homes produced no output.
How do I get an app to run in Full Screen mode on OS X Lion on my second monitor? It seems to be stuck on my first monitor, and I'd like to move it.
After installing Lion, ⌘ + ← doesn't go to the line start and ⌘ + → doesn't go to the line end. Anyone know how to reconfigure this?
I purchased bought a license of Lion and heard that it supports virtual machine install. I want to install Lion into my VirtualBoxVM on Lion on an iMac. How can I do this?
Has anyone else experienced problems logging into POP servers that require plain text password login? Or more importantly found a work around? (I know that in this day and age a plain text password long for POP is bad, but I have no control over this server) Based on a packet trace it looks like Mail 5.0 doesn't even try to login based on the settings in the preferences, it just connects queries capability and quits reporting that the server doesn't support "Password" the thing is, there is no required capability for plain Password method, it is a base POP command.
I know how to open Launchpad via a gesture, creating a hot corner and obviously clicking on it in the dock .... what I am looking for is creating a keyboard shortcut to open Launchpad. I tried going to System Preferences | Keyboard | Keyboard Shortcuts | Launchpad & Dock, but I cannot add any shortcut for the "Show Launchpad" checkbox that is there.
10.5 and 10.6 limited users to a maximum of 16 spaces. Since Lion's space interface is a single (presumably scrollable) row, is there an upper limit on the number of Spaces? Yes, I find myself needing more than 16 Spaces, frequently.
I let it hang like that for fifteen minutes or so before I got bored/antsy. I then forced shutdown with the power button and started it back up - same song 'n' dance. It's been doing this for thirty minutes or so now. The machine is hot and whirring away about something, but no progress is being made. It all feels very foreboding.
Not sure if this is a bug or not in OS X Lion. By changing default gesture of mission control to use four fingers, which seems to me doesn't work. It doesn't disable it when I uncheck the gesture option either. I miss the space id icon on taskbar and three fingers left swipe for backwards.
That Thunderbolt Display looks great. However, if I buy a monitor, it had better work with all my older computers, not just the latest and greatest Thunderbolt Macs. Is there any way I can get DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA into it?
With OSX Lion, scroll directions have been reversed and I'm looking to get back to the old behavior. On my laptop there is a setting in System Preferences under Mouse to get it back to the way it was. On my desktop this setting is missing! Is there another way I can get it so that the scrolling is back to the way it was on all computers pre-Lion?
I have an older MacBook (2006) that I want to use the four finger swipe to enable mission control. It is not the glass trackpad, but it does have two finger scrolling. Is there any way to enable this?
I've used keyremap4macbook for the last few years to turn the right Alt key into a forward delete. Unfortunately, the tool has stopped working in Lion. Does anybody know of a keyboard remapper that already works in Lion?
I want to give the new scrolling behavior in Lion a try (both on the built-in as well as on the magic trackpad). But on my Mouse (a Logitech Anywhere MX), I don't want reverse scrolling. In preferences, it seems as if there were two different settings (one in the mouse prefPane, the other in the trackpad prefPane), however changing one always changes the other. Is it possible to set this behavior independently?
My Mac running Snow Leopard has several MacPorts based open source software packages installed. Upon the upgrade to Lion, all my ports are listed as outdated. It's safe to upgrade them en masse?
I got the Mid 2010 Single CPU Mac Pro and want to add a 3 TB hard drive, specifically the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX. Does anyone know if that drive will work? Not looking to boot from it, just need a large data drive and got all 4 bays in use already. Mac is running OS X Lion and windows 7 64-Bit, so GPT partition scheme is no problem.
It seems the new Mac Mini uses both HDMI and Thunderbolt, but bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt may prevent using 3 daisy-chained Thunderbolt high resolution monitors such as the newly released Apple Thunderbolt 27" Display, limiting you to two instead of three. If this correct: 1. What occurs to the 3rd monitor in a triple daisy-chain? Black screen? Reduced available resolution up to the bandwidth limit of Thunderbolt? 2. Are there HDMI to mini-displayport adapters for connecting the HDMI output of the Mini to the Thunderbolt input of an Apple Thunderbolt 27" Display? Would that even work?
Can I use PayPal for non-US iTunes Store payments? I've heard US users can do so, but my PayPal and iTunes account are non-US
Apple has stated that AirDrop will support only the following models: AirDrop supports the following Mac models: MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 or newer) iMac (Early 2009 or newer) Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010) I saw mention of more detail on Twitter, but the forced brevity has provided me only limited information from @GlennF (Glenn Fleishman) (here):
In Snow Leopard, it was possible to display the space number in the top right corner of the status bar. How do you do that in Lion with Mission Control?
Has anyone managed to get CS4 working on lion? If so, how?
I would expect 'Mission Control' to allow me to drag spaces in a certain order (with the exception of the 'Dashboard' space), but this does not seem like an option. This would be especially useful when re-ordering full-screen apps: for example, opening iCal and then opening Mail fullscreen would result in Mail being 'spaced' after iCal. But what if I'd want Mail to have a higher 'priority', thus wanting it spaced before iCal? Is there an option to re-order spaces without recreating them entirely?
I was looking through the System Preferences for Mission Control in OS X Lion (10.7). One of the options had F13 in it but I couldn't find it anywhere. Where is it?
As a software developer who recently bought an iPhone, I knew it was just a matter of time before I started dicking around in the iOS apps space. Today Apple released a new line of Mac minis and I am going to buy one. I'd like to just buy a KVM switch and flip between my current two monitor PC setup and the Mac. What kind of adapters do I need for the Mac mini to be able to take two DVI outs? I've been told that I can use a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter with the Thunderbolt port then just a HDMI to DVI in the HDMI port, is that possible?
Lion has Mission Control that combines features from both Exposé and Spaces. Do the old Exposé and Spaces UIs still exist in Lion or does Mission Control replace them?
I remember going from Leopard to Snow Leopard was a huge performance boost. Going to Lion, is it going to be the case? Read so many reviews yet none of them discussed this (many discussed gestures and mission control, etc).
On Lion, if I quit Safari using ⌘ Command+Q and then restart it, it reopens all tabs from last time. In Preferences, I have set that new Windows open with an Empty Page, a setting that worked fine in Snow Leopard.
When trying to boot from the OS X install disc (Snow Leopard) my Macbook will just eject the disc and boot normally from the installed system on the hard drive. Once booted, the disc can be read fine by the computer, but when trying to restart in order to make a fresh install of the operating system, the computer will just again eject the CD and boot from the hard drive.
I want to play PowerPoint presentations on an iPad which I create on a computer, using MS Powerpoint 2010. I know there is an Apple app for that, but it isn't free. So, are there any other apps or methods?
I purchased and downloaded Lion yesterday. As always when there's a major release, I like to keep things clean as I have a huge tendency to fiddle with the system once installed and that might render future updates instable, so I'm going the full reformat-then-install route.
I'd like to know if there's a way I could package compiled command line tools together as part of an automator script or an app. Let's say, for example, I want to use a command line tool called foo and this relies on jpeglib and a few other libs. Am I able to put them in the same folder and somehow pipe this new $PATH to the foo app?
I upgraded to OS X Lion yesterday, everything went fine and I used it for the day without crashes or problems. In the evening, I decided to burn myself a DVD from the installer, and I did a clean install. Am I the only one to notice that the OS X Lion clean install is buggier than the upgrade? Why is that? Examples of "buggier":
I just bought an "Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad", then I connected it to my Macbook Pro running Lion. But the home and end key under the F14 key doesn't work as I expected. Say in "Pages", the home key doesn't bring the cursor to the beginning of the line, while the end key takes you to the bottom of the page. Does anyone know how to re-map the home/end key?
Would it be possible to connect a thunderbolt display and a DVI display to the new thunderbolt MacBook Air? The Apple website has images of a Pro with multiple external monitors, but an Air with only one. Is it possible to do this? Or is the MacBook Air not powerful enough? I know this is technically possible, by connecting the Air to the thunderbolt display and then connecting the DVI display to the thunderbolt display (with an adaptor), but will the MacBook Air be powerful enough? [The DVI monitor is a standard 22" Dell monitor]
I have a MacBook Pro & a Mac Pro, both have fresh installs of Lion. I've also set up the Mac Pro as a Lion Server. I've set up a few AFP shares on the Mac Pro & I notice there's no "Time Machine Destination" option on the shares. I know this option was there on Snow Leopard. When I connect to the shares on the MacBook Pro, they do not show up as backup disks in the Time Machine preference pane. Is it possible to do this anymore?
I have this strange situation in Mac OS X (10.6.8) wherein 2 accounts cannot be deleted nor can I reset their passwords. If I try to reset their passwords I get "Reset Password Failed". I have tried booting with an install CD and using the Password Reset Utility - no joy.
The default new desktop space is named 'Desktop 1'. If you create a new one, it is named 'Desktop 2'. Is there a way to change those default names to something more meaningful? Additionally, it looks like you can't rearrange spaces either and the 'automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use' checkbox seems to do nothing.
Up until yesterday (with Snow Leopard), closing the lid would cause my MacBook to sleep whether or not the external monitor was connected. Since upgrading to Lion last night, closing the lid when the external monitor is attached just tosses all windows to that screen and keeps going.
Safari 5.1 (Snow Leopard) seems to have disabled the combination of fn + arrow buttons for navigation (page up, page down, top, bottom). I know the same can be achieved with option + top, down and command + top, down, respectively but I find it rather impractical to use. Are there any tips already how to reactivate this or do I even have to fear that fn + arrow behaviour has been completely dropped in Lion? Edit: Added Lion explicitly to the tags since they seemed to have dropped the Home and End behaviour of fn + arrow there as well in many applications.
⌃ Control+→ and ⌃ Control+← switches desktops. I actually had this enabled in Spaces on Snow Leopard, but I'd like to turn this off because I use those key combinations when editing in Eclipse. How do I turn this off?
Spaces used to show the space number in the menu bar; I would glance at it regularly to see which space I was in (1, 2, 3, etc). How do I get Mission Control to display the current desktop in the menu bar like that?
I have my Finder window set up to display in "list" view so that it shows all folders with triangles on the left to click to expand. I have a number of levels of nested folders. Is there any way (keyboard shortcut, menu item, etc.) to expand all, so I don't have to click through each level to see the files contained?
I often move windows around on the desktop by clicking and dragging them by the title bar. As of Lion, you can resize the window from the top, so if you put the cursor in the top portion of the title bar, the icon turns into resize arrows, when I actually want to move the window, not resize it. Is there a way to turn this new feature off or customize it so resizing from the top is disabled?
I'd like to disable the Zoom effect that the windows produce when they are being opened. Does anyone know a way to disable them?
I installed Lion on my MacBook Pro. Worked great. Now I want to install it on my iMac, I don't want to re-download it from the App Store because it's a 3.5GB download and I have to pay for all my bandwidth (yes, I'm Canadian).
I'm running version 10.6.8. Where do I go to enable password challenge after sleep?
Somewhere I read that Apple wants to include macruby framework in OS X Lion. Did they include it?
Somehow I have changed this, and I want to change it back. In Finder, on command-F "Find", I default to my home folder, not the current folder. (The "This Mac" choice is also there.) I don't remember how I did this, but I want it back to the default behavior. Other users on this machine do have the default behavior. I tried trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist (or whatever it is called). [MacOS 10.6.8]
I've been playing with Lion and Mission Control. I'm not sure how I did it, but I seem to have reordered my desktops. When I open Mission Control, the labels of the desktops at the top of the screen are (from left to right):
I purchased Lion from the Mac App Store and for some reason my connection got cut, after that Mac App Store says that the app is INSTALLED when i can't see it anywhere. I tried to check for unfinished downloads but it still says: INSTALLED I should note that i'm on Lion GM and the installer was downloading in LaunchPad, but i can't see it anymore i tried: Rebuilding LaunchServices Look for the installer
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with a MagSafe T Power adapter. The power adapter makes a buzzing/hissing/fuzzy noise when it is plugged into the wall. When it is plugged into my mac, my light turns green for about a second, then orange for 5-10 seconds, and then no charge. I am not sure if the problem is my Macbook Pro battery, or my adapter? How can I diagnose/troubleshoot, and what are the best recommendations?
I’d like to assign an “Every Application” keyboard shortcut to bring up the login window, for when I step away from my computer. Is there a way to do this? (Lion-only methods are fine.)
Before upgrading to Lion I was able to double-click the header bar of windows to minimise the windows. Since upgrading I only seem to be able to minimise by clicking the yellow - button. Is this a setting that I'm missing?
If I spend time grouping apps in neat folders in Launchpad on one machine, is there a way to copy that mapping to another system without having to manually organize everything all over again ?
I need to install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on about 10 company workstations. If those were my personal computers, I could simply buy one license and then log into the Mac App Store on each workstation to download the installer.
I'm about to order one of the new macbook airs and wanted to know if it is possible to transfer my itunes library from my old windows machine to the mac. I know you can do win->win and mac->mac, but can you do win-> mac? If so, how?
In Finder, how do you open a folder in a new window, while the existing window keeps the same view? All file managers I've ever used (on Linux only) have something like "Open folder in new window" in the right-click menu for a folder. Does Finder have this feature in a hidden way, or is there another file manager I should be using on Mac?
The DVD of Snow Leopard was something like 7.09gig in size, and the Mac Store download of the new Lion install is <4gig. Why the big difference in size? Since Snow Leopard was a physical disc, did it include extra drivers or such, where the d/l of Lion is 'just' the base OS?
Even though in the pref pane for Trackpad it says "Swipe between full-screen apps" when I'm using the internal trackpad in my laptop, it will switch desktops even if I'm not using full screen apps. However, when I'm using my Magic Trackpad, the 4-finger swipe does not switch desktops. Anyone have a solution?
The basic question is if this repair time is "normal", or is the drive bad. I'm debating simply erasing the drive and starting over, but if the drive is bad, then it's not trustworthy. Advice appreciated.
How do I download a whole folder through FTP in Terminal?
Is it just me or the rubber band scrolling is not working on Gmail (I'm on Safari)? It works on any other site.
Just the same way you can open the web inspector or activity window in Safari on your laptop and see all the HTTP requests any website has made, how do you do that on the iphone for an iPhone app, if the iPhone app is using HTML5 (or even if it's a native app)?
I started downloading XCode on my 10 mbit/s but it is 4 GB and I want to pause it for a while.
I want to watch a video on youtube on my TV, connected with the HDMI adapter and a cable, but use other apps at the same time on the ipad's screen. I think this is possible if I use Airplay (to Airplay a video in the background), but I don't have an Apple TV, so i'm assuming it must be possible to play the video over the HDMI output while using apps on the screen. But when I switch apps Screen mirroring kicks in and the video stops playing, if I press play in the multitasking bar I only get the audio of the video. Is there a way to turn off screen mirroring on the iPad 2 when using HDMI?
I found this script online somewhere and I'm trying to make it so that it constantly checks to see if Final Cut Express is rendering and when it finishes rendering, it displays a Growl notification. EDIT: My question is: How do I get the script to constantly check to see if FCE is rendering and once it's done rendering, display a notification? The script works to display the notification, now how do I get it to work right?
I'm subscribing to a Google calendar using the new, lovely, Corinthian leather iCal on Lion, and it's asking me if I want to remove alerts, attachments, and reminders: What do these options mean?
I'm trying to decide whether or not to upgrade to Lion. I use the Dashboard a lot, and I value the ability to get to it quickly by hitting the button on my keyboard. In Lion, it sounds like I would have to open Mission Control, then use my mouse to open the Dashboard.
When using App Exposé on Lion ( Control-↓ by default), the lower part of the screen above the dock is reserved for minimized windows. A new feature of at least TextEdit in Lion is that it also shows the most recent documents as icons, which makes for an absolutely crowded area. I never use MRUs in my workflow so that's an absolute waste of space and of time. Is it possible to disable this behavior and only show minimized windows?
Exposé in Snow Leopard showed minimized windows — if any — in a dedicated area at the bottom. This was extremely helpful and efficient, especially combined with the "Minimize windows in application icon" setting of the Dock. Mission Control is apparently done with this behavior, so monitoring and fetching minimized windows is now a pain. Is there a way to show minimized windows anywhere in Mission Control?
And if so, have there been any recorded instances of this? (I'm excluding the so-called "jail broken" devices.)
In Snow Leopard you could switch to App Exposé from global Exposé by clicking an icon in the Dock. Doing the same in Lion merely exits you from Mission Control and focuses on that app. Is there a way to go to a given App Exposé from Mission Control?
Has anyone made Keywurl work with Safari 5.1 after their Lion upgrade? I tried updating the MaxBundleVersion without luck: I'm not interested in using Glims, SafariStand, etc, I just want Keywurl to work.
I installed XCode after I upgraded to OS X Lion, I downloaded XCode from the App Store. gcc, make and such are still not found and I cannot compile anything from source because of this. I did a find / -name make and it looks like it found something:
Before I upgraded to OSX Lion, I could open up the Bluetooth Preferences, select a device, click on the settings icon, choose 'Rename Device' and rename the Bluetooth device. Now that I've upgraded to OSX Lion, the option is there on the same location, but it is called 'Update Name', however, it doesn't do anything for me. Is that just a dead GUI component that will get functionality tied to it later on, or am I doing something wrong?
I have a few people between Facebook/Gchat/AIM that I have IM info for them on more than one account. This could be the case, espc. with multiple Jabber accounts. With the unified buddy list in 10.7, how to I send an IM to someone through Google chat versus Facebook? There is a drop down at the top of the IM that says who it is from, but that shows up even if I know the person is on one network and not the other.
I've got a Mid-2010 17" MBP freshly upgraded to 10.7. I went to the coffee shop today to do a bit of work, but I was unable to connect to the wifi network. I had been there yesterday(though without my laptop) and the wifi password had been changed. I updated the password on my iPhone and iPad, and those devices have been connecting to the network with no problems.
I prefer to have all applications installed per-user, to ~/Applications/ rather than globally. The default location for apps installed from the Mac App Store is the global applications folder located at /Applications/. Is there a defaults write com.apple.AppStore command I can run in the terminal, or perhaps a .plist file I can edit manually, to change this default preference?
I just installed Mac OS X Lion on an iMac. I noticed that the system language during installation and log in screen is Spanish (my primary language). But, once inside (desktop, etc) is English.
Is there a command line utility that allows me to take a picture from the built in camera? Something like screencapture allows for, well, screen captures. The reasoning for a command line tool is I would like for it to be stealthy, without a countdown or flash or other indication to the user that a picture is being taken.
How do I get to the Macintosh HD, or the root folder, from Finder in Lion? It no longer appears in the favorites section. I know I can open it from Terminal, but I want to do it in Finder easily like I could in 10.6.
So far I only know of Clyppan and Alfred but clyppan is only available as a paid app from the App Store and Alfred only offers its clipboard feature with a pay-for upgrade
Xcode 4.1 Installer downloaded from the App Store, I have no applications running except the installer and the Finder. The dialog that pops up says that iTunes needs to be quit in order for installation of Xcode to continue. How do I make Xcode installer realize that iTunes isn't running?
I decided to do a clean install of Lion on a new partition, then after copying my stuff removed the old one. I'm now stuck with 100~ GB of free space and a 20 GB partition that Disk Utility won't let me resize... oops.
How can I use my widgets on the desktop in Lion? I have done
My friend updated his 13" MacBook Pro to OS X Lion today. After upgrading he has been met with a login screen showing a single account, "Guest". This "Guest" account is password-protected and none of the existing passwords he used on the computer seem to work. My friend had previously installed rEFIt on his computer, which apparently hasn't been updated for Lion yet. I found this thread on MacRumors where a few other people are reporting the same problem. Does anyone know of a solution?
In OS X Lion, is there a way to disable rubber-band scrolling? This is the bounce that occurs when the window is scrolled beyond the top or bottom edge. I'm aware that non-apple input devices don't rubber-band and hope to find a setting or software to eliminate this on the Apple trackpad and mice.
Duplicate of: Is there a way to export chat history in Skype 5.2.x for OS X? I'm currently running 5.2.x on OS X 10.6.8 and I need to some deep searching of the past history in a conversation with a colleague. Skype tells me the term I'm looking for is in the long-running chat we've had, but good luck getting it to show you the specific chat entry in time without manually scrolling backwards through months and months of back-and-forth.
I upgraded my 2009 model iMac to Lion yesterday. I can no longer connect my iPhone in order to synchronize with iTunes. Additionally, if I connect it to the USB port on my wired keyboard, it is also no longer charging the phone. The only way I can charge the phone now is if I use one of the USB ports at the back. Prior to the upgrade I had absolutely no issues using the keyboard USB port for this. Can anyone offer any hints/tips to assist with troubleshooting this?
In an attempt to save some space on my ssd, I used SuperDuper to clone Recovery HD to a USB drive. But when I booted up my Mac holding the option key I only got the ssd and Recovery HD as alternatives. Does anyone have an idea as to how I can clone Recovery HD to an external drive/memory stick and then remove it from the boot drive?
where do I begin in joining an OS X Lion workstation to an existing AD Domain (Server 2008 R2)?
I just installed a new hard drive into my Macbook Pro 1,1. I had a little difficulty when I initially installed it because the monitor was not turning back on. After re-opening the MacBook Pro (with some difficulty) I closed it up again and it mysteriously worked.
After upgrading to Lion, I tried creating a guest account and it worked. I enabled FileVault on Lion and went through the process of encryption. After that, when I am trying to create a Guest account, the option itself is disabled.
I recently upgraded to Lion, which has been good so far. My employer likes receipts for the things I purchase though. Is there some place where you can see what you bought through the OS X App Store and how much you paid for it?
Yesterday I upgraded to Lion and it seems it got some additions on Spotlight - the Developer and Web Searches groups. Sadly I couldn't find a way to disable them. There isn't an option in the Spotlight preferences and I couldn't find the right defaults option.
After upgrading to Lion, all my 802.1X configurations are gone. There also does not seem to be a possibility to configure them via the system preferences:
I can live with the skeuomorphic skin of the new iCal, but the useless page curl animation when switching months is both slow and jittery. Is there any way to disable it?
Any ideas on how to get around installing that huge iOS SDK in Xcode 4.1? This Q&A suggests to deselect iOS SDK during installation, but the Xcode 4.1 (App Store-Version) Installer seems to have no "Installation Type" Step anymore.
Has anybody tried Chax with Mac OS X Lion? I got it to install perfectly, but I do not see a Chax tab in iChat preferences.
How can I force OSX Lion to boot into 32bit mode without having to hold 3 + 2 down on boot? I have to use the Cisco VPN Client to connect back into work and since upgrading it no longer works on 64bit. Cisco have dropped support for the client as well.
Even though in the preference pane for Trackpad it says "Swipe between full-screen apps" when I'm using the internal trackpad in my laptop, it will switch desktops even if I'm not using full screen apps. However, when I'm using my Magic Trackpad, the 4-finger swipe does not switch desktops.
On Linux machines you can hold some keys pressed to jump whole words and such. That is much faster. Is it possible to do that on a Terminal of Mac, too?
I've upgraded from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Lion. I used several scripts with sshpass but after I upgraded to Lion the following error appears:
On Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) the terminal shows you executables and folders and such in different colors so you can identify them easier. Is this possible on Mac OS Terminal, too?
Two weeks ago, my 13" Macbook Pro was stolen. Is there any way to locate my laptop if and when the thief accesses the internet? Is there any application or a website similar to this that can give me an alert message if I register my Macbook pro ID number?
Is there a way to let Vim on Mac OS highlighten syntax of different languages in Terminal? I would guess for vim it is a .vimrc thing, right? (But I cannot find this file in my home folder).
What version of Perl 5 is OS X Lion shipping with?
I haven't found good data about how the versions feature is implemented. As I see it there are three ways it could be implemented: The separate versions are all in one file (possibly as resource forks) The version information is part of the filesystem The version information is kept in a set of files and a library is need to put them together into one file
I am running Migration Assistant (over a network) to transfer an old Mac's setup to a new one. The process starts fine, but every time I try it the target computer freezes mid-transfer (at the moment the source computer has shown '9 hours 34 minutes' remaining for the transfer for hours). The target computer's screen is black, and it does not respond to keyboard or mouse input, but I can tell it's on from the fan whir. It does not respond when I press the power button as it would were it asleep or off. I have to hold this down to force it to shut down. I've restarted the whole process several times - what should I do?
I love Mail 5's new Conversation View. But, I don't like that it only shows messages sent to me, and doesn't show the messages I send. Is there a way to show both messages I receive and messages I send in Conversation View?
If I set the iphone alarm clock with a ringtone, how long will the ringtone run if I do not stop it? Will it run all the way until it runs out of battery and the phone shuts down?
It would be nice to have an AirDrop client for Microsoft Windows. Does anyone know if such a program exists as a shipping product or an open source work-in-progress? I'm aware that there are many other file sync options, but I'm looking for something that works with Apple's implementation from the Windows OS.
I have a 3rd generation iPod touch with iOS upgraded to version 4.3.3. When installing the Google+ 1.0.1 app, it gives the message shown in the picture below.
I have the 2011 macbook air with 128gb ssd. Storage is low so i'm hoping to set up for the very first time, a NAS to host large files such as photo's (raw format), video's and music (lossless and aac format). I require your help in achieving the below functionality. A list of of hardware/software that I need to achieve the below will be very beneficial as will be those products that would provide very good performance. I would like most action to occur wirelessly. I have 1 macbook air, 1 ipad, 2 iphones, 1 cable modem, 1 airport express 802.11n Itunes library to be hosted on NAS with writing and reading files to occur wirelessly. When I plug in my iphone or ipad to sync, I would like it to sync and backup with the files on the NAS wirelessly.
After upgrading to Lion, I am getting a launch error from Xcode 4 saying it requires Snow Leopard. I see 4.1 is now a free app for Lion in the App Store, but it doesn't show up in Software Update. If I install it from the App Store will it upgrade 4.0 or live side-by-side? Or, do I have to uninstall Xcode first if I only want 4.1?
Is there a workaround to install/use apps that are using Rosetta on Lion? I'm still using Zend 5.5 and I don't want to switch to a new IDE right now.
How can I convert an .bin/.cue image to .iso format? ... preferably free.
I don't know how this feature is called. Here on stack exchange you can take some text and mark it as a url. The url is embedded below. Example: Google
I have a gift card whose balance should just about exactly cover the cost of some repairs Apple is doing on my computer. Is it possible to spend a gift card on repairs? I assume so, but I cannot find any confirmation on Apple's website. Just wondered if anyone on here had any experience to confirm or disconfirm.
I am somewhat picky about my filesystem structures. I really, really dislike directories with capital letters. I'm more used to Windows where there are a lot of "special" folders in the home directory where care must be taken when renaming folders. I'm currently using Lion and trying to force myself to use OS X more often.
I am backing up remotely from a Macbook Pro to an external backup drive on a PowerMac G5 via Time Machine and AFP. When the G5 goes to sleep, the Macbook Pro can't back up because the drive is made unavailable. How do I get the G5 to wake up while the Macbook Pro is backing up, and to go to sleep after the Macbook Pro is done backing up? The MacBookPro is on Snow Leopard and the G5 (Early 2005) is running Leopard so I can't just use the normal sleep proxy / Wake On Demand or have an airport do the waking up whenever Time Machine tries to connect to the AFP share.
I've been using RealVNC Server on my Mac for years, since it gives me encryption and other features used by RealVNC's clients for iOS and Windows. Once I upgraded to Lion, though, it broke. Now, I see a completely black screen while connected. The cursor moves around fine (which I can see while seated at the monitor, and used as an ad-hoc mouse when Lion initially didn't pair with my Magic Trackpad), but no image comes through. I only discovered the problem with the built-in VNC server when I tried falling back on it to temporarily replace RealVNC.
Does Growl logs all the notifications that it handles? And if yes, is it possible to view a list with all of them?
I've changed the application icon of my Eclipse editor, and this causes a confirm dialog to pop up asking me if I allow the program to accept incoming network connections. I faced this before, but then, I somehow got rid of it. Now I can't anymore. Here's the output of the codesign utility: Does anyone know how can I totally uninstall Eclipse so that the OS forgets about that "Eclipse.icns.bak" file? Thanks!
I had Snow Leopard running on my MBP, now I just installed Lion on a Clean Installation and I noticed iLife is not in the installer. Can I insert my snow leopard's application disc and install them on Lion ?
Before I installed Lion I was able to open folders and documents by using double click/tap on the trackpad. Now it doesn't work anymore. Did this happen to anyone else? How do I resolve this problem?
I am in the market for a new laptop and have my eye on the new MacBook Air (13" model). It's perfect in every way, except one. Unlike the white MacBook (RIP) and MacBook Pros, the Air lacks a Kensington lock slot. I spend a great deal of time in cafes and don't like worrying about my laptop while I'm going to the restroom or standing in line to get a refill, etc.
I'd like to take a Linux ISO (e.g., CentOS, Ubuntu), and create a bootable USB drive. (It will be used for booting on a stock PC, not on the Mac). How do I go about creating such a drive using a Mac?
My sister gave me her old Macbook that had a bad hard drive. I replaced it with a non-Apple drive and tried to install her software on it, but had no luck at all. I did successfully load/run Ubuntu, but I already have 3 computers running that. :)
I'm considering using FileVault 2 when I upgrade to Lion. Though my understanding of it is weak, it seems as though it shouldn't really increase the number of reads or writes per disk operation compared to a non-encrypted drive.
Just as the title says: can I gift a song from within the iTunes iPhone app? I searched but couldn't find any option to.
I know officially Logic 8 isn't compatible with Lion. However, I know you can edit the plist (inside the package), or open it with terminal, to make it open under Lion. And it launches. (See this thread on the apple discussion forums).
I love playing with new operating systems, and also love to experience the default behaviour that Those That Be have decreed are the New Best Thing. Up until now, I've always - be it Windows or Mac OS X - nuked my hard disk before installing, so it would be easy to see what the authors had in mind for my new desktop experience. Now I'm married, however, and my wife has an account, files and preferences set up it was too much of a hard sell.
My problem is fairly simple: Currently both F8 and F9 bring up Mission Control. If I use the System Preferences, it shows that the "Mission Control" keyboard shortcut is F9. If I disable this, then indeed F9 no longer works, however, F8 does still work. Where could it be configured that it should use F8, since the System Preferences does not show it anywhere. I know that this does not happen for everyone, but it is maddening for me, since I really want F9 to be used for Mission Control, and for F8 to be returned to eclipse… Update This occurred after an update from Snow Leopard to Lion.
Start with a new MacBook Air running Lion. Configure it's address book to synchronize with MobileMe. The MobileMe contacts list has 374 items, synched from another Mac running Snow Leopard. After invoking Sync on the MBA, all items are deleted from the MobileMe Contacts, and the MBA Address Book has just two entries: Apple, and the MBA user account. This behavior is the same whether the user chooses Merge or Replace Data on This Machine. The desired result is for the MBA to be updated with the 374 items in MobileMe. Any suggestions?
I am using a MacBook Air 11" 2011 Model with Mac OS X Lion hooked up with a Cinema Display 27" and I am getting two different mouse tracking speeds (I am using a Apple Magic Mouse) when I move between the two screens in a two screen setup. I have to move the mouse 20cm to move the cursor from one end of the 27" screen to the other. However, I have to move the mouse 40cm to move the cursor from one end of the 11" screen to the other! I can only adjust the mouse tracking speed in the system preferences, increasing it does make it faster on the 11" screen, but makes it too fast on the 27" screen...
I would want to download Lion before I start clearing my system for a fresh install, but would the fixes released in the next few weeks be included in the download?
I often used Digital ColorMeter to capture colours as hex codes for web development. For some reason, Lion's version has removed a whole load of functionality, including this. Some people have managed to copy over the Lion version with their Snow Leopard version, but my Mac tells my that it's required by OSX and can't be deleted. Can anyone work out a way to do the method described by these people?
I recently updated my Snow Leopard installation to Lion, and I couldn't ftp into my localhost. I went into the system preferences pane > sharing > file sharing > options and looked for the FTP option. It's not there! Apple has removed the FTP option from the GUI, so you now have to enable it through terminal. I had to wait on tech support to get that answer, so I figure I'd help someone else out. Someone like me is bound to run into this issue. Here's the link to the article they sent me that fixed the issue: *=URL=* Note: In step three, you need to add yourself again, even if you are the admin user that was put in step one.
Every playlist I have made in the iPod app has at some point vanished. What causes this and how do I make them persist?
I recently performed a clean install of Lion on one of my Macs. The installation process created one administrative user account. After installation, I enabled FileVault for the entire disk. Then, I created an additional administrative user. Both users are able to decrypt the drive during login.
On my iPod Touch 4th generation (latest generation as of the original time of this posting), when I'm at work, I can successfully access the Internet by connecting to my office's wi-fi network. The network requires a set of basic authentication credentials to access the Internet. When I open the browser on the iPod Touch and attempt to access an *=URL=* site, I am prompted for my credentials; after successfully entering my credentials, I am able to continue and access the site.
I have an old 5 button Microsoft mouse (Laser Mouse 6000) and forever I've assigned the thumb button to "back" in the browser and the middle mouse button to "next app" on the desktop. Since I've installed Lion, this doesn't seem to work. The settings in the "Microsoft Mouse" panel in System Preferences don't seem have any effect.
At the login screen, how do I login to a domain account? For example, on Windows the username might be something like louis@contoso.local, where the domain is contoso.local. Edit: The AD username happens to be the same as a local username.
Is it possible to take a Lion install burned by the method outlined in this question and preform a clean install with it? I just want to make sure that if I buy Lion from the App Store in the near future that when the mood strikes me I will be able to reformat and install Lion without some previous install of Snow Leopard.
The new MacBook Air and Pro without optical drives lack an Eject key. I use Ctrl + Shift + Eject a lot to put my display to sleep at the simple press of three keys. Without the Eject key being there anymore I'm wondering if there's an alternative to those very handy shortcuts which required the Eject key. The alternatives I've found so far are not too good: in Alfred type "lock" - too many strokes for fast computer locking a hot corner in the bottom left to put the display to sleep - ok, but I get there by error too often and lock the computer for serious productivity bummers close the lid of the MacBook Air - puts the Mac to sleep completely and therefore not very useful, when it should keep doing what it's doing. Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook?
I've installed Samba3 from MacPorts. (following this guide) To run it I execute sudo /opt/local/sbin/smbd -D && sudo /opt/local/sbin/nmbd -D in a Terminal window and everything works fine.
I have a SOCKS proxy listening on 7070 at localhost. Here is what my proxy.pac file looks like (to keep the test simple, I just return SOCKS proxy for all urls):
In earlier versions of Mac OS you could enable TimeMachine to use Samba-Shares as a Backup-Target using this: and create a backup image with this script. Sadly Time Machine now says that my drive does not support the necessary AFP protocol. Is there a workaround for this?
If I switch on FileVault 2 in Lion, can I still access my OS X volume from Boot Camp (Windows 7)? Are both volumes encrypted and decrypted together, or does it only affect the OS X volume?
If I upgrade my Snow Leopard to Lion, is it technically and legally possible to reinstall the original Snow Leopard into a virtual machine, which is inside the same, original, Apple-branded iMac? From the Snow Leopard software license agreement §2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions:
After upgrading to Lion, I started experiencing this issue: Internet stops working frequently. - I open Safari and browse for some time - Suddenly I can't open any sites; Internet will stop working. - So I check WiFi; it is online and showing correctly in my MacBook Pro. - I check with my roommate and his Internet is working properly. - I switch to Google Chrome and it still doesn't work. The solution is to turn WiFi off and back on, then restart my browser.
Mac OS has a built in password generator. It is a little bit hidden behind the key icon in System Preferences / Accounts / Change password. The memorable option is quite nice as it even conjugates words (my screenshot shows the German version):
I've noticed that the Spotlight Search keyboard shortcut (cmd space) doesn't work if I'm running Google Chrome (12.0.742.122) as full screen application in Lion. Is this a Chrome-related bug or is this inherent of some type of applications? Is there a way to fix it?
(Part 3 in my ongoing Lion upgrade/hard drive replacement saga...) When I get my computer back in a few days, it will have a brand new hard drive with a clean Snow Leopard install. I will be upgrading the OS on the new drive to Lion. I have complete backups of my old drive on a Time Capsule, automatically backed up now and then by Time Machine. Should I restore this data before or after upgrading the OS? Would restoring Snow Leopard backups to a drive running Lion cause any problems? (I am leaning toward getting the Lion upgrade out of the way first, just in case anything goes wrong, and then restoring my data to its new home.)
I particularly want to disable: /private/etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist.disabled, but in general for any daemon. Does changing its plist extension prevent it from loading? In the past I moved them to a different folder, but this is more convenient.
After upgrading to Lion, my NTFS shared folders are no longer accessible. I can see the shared folder, but when I try to enter from Windows 7 box it says Windows cannot access \path\to\usbsharedresource. Even BOOTCAMP partition which was shared and working now inaccessible... SMB is ON.
I want to connect my iPad wirelessly with iTunes. Can it be done? If it can be done, please explain on how it can be done.
Xcode 4.1 is installed, gcc -v: Any idea how to fix this?
While on some websites, iPad Safari automatically asks to save form data like Us/Pwd, on other pages, it never asks for the same. How can we force it to ask for form data save on any website?
Has anyone noticed any battery life decrease after upgrading to Lion? I'm on MacBook Pro (mid-2010). Before, on Snow Leopard, when unplugged I had minimum 5hrs of life. Now, it's not much above 4hrs at best. Is this a common problem? I notice the estimate battery life now fluctuates a lot more than before, too. UPDATE
I purchased a new Macbook Pro (8,3) last April, and have been using it heavily for xcode development, and little else. This morning a message popped up: "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory" It then suggests closing applications and removing files from my startup disk.
With the death of Front Row, I need an alternative 10' interface to iTunes. My IR Remote will let me pause/play the current media, and of course the volume. But I can't seem to navigate the library with nothing but the IR remote. I know I can use the Remote software on an Touch / iPad, but it 10x the price of an IR remote, you're kidding right?
As far as I know, Lion was to ship with the next version of Safari which would be Safari 6. However, I cannot find any information about a new version of Safari... So, does Lion ship with Safari 6 or not?
The Lion features page says: Interact with photos in screen saver. New onscreen controls let you pause your iPhoto screen saver and manually flip through the photos in an album without leaving the screen saver.
if you press cmd + shift + / focus moves to the search field in the help menu of the current application. This seems to be broken when the frontmost app is in full screen mode in 10.7. Is there a workaround to this?
Is it possible to use Time Machine via AirPort Disk without storing the backup in a sparse bundle? I've had bad experience with sparse bundles and would like to avoid them.
I'm getting a lot of TWAINBridge errors in the console and Image Capture won't scan documents like it did last week (on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard). I checked the canon site - and the latest drivers are only for 10.6 - no mention is made of this scanner on the Canon list of devices that work with Lion.
I've just updated to Lion and noticed that I cannot mount my NTFS USB HDD. I'm using Tuxera and it gives me the error listed below.
I'm trying to add keyboard shortcut to move to prev/next full-screen app. I'm now @ Keyboard > 'Keyboard shortcuts', there is no options under 'Mission Control'. And I have no idea of what to add in 'Application shortcuts' for it. In addition, I would like to change the shortcut in 'Mission Control' which 'Move left/right a space', but doesn't seem like I can change it. Any idea?
I'm on a French keyboard and I'm unable to jump to a topic in vim: If I go ':help' the instructions say: Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit CTRL-].
One of the little things in Lion I was most excited about was the Finder's new "Date Added" field. I wanted it for two folders in particular, for obvious reasons: the Downloads folder and the Trash.
After upgrading to OS X Lion, I noticed that my preview app is now excessively slow, taking minutes to open a file instead of seconds, even when opening a local file. In addition, it is often unresponsive.
About 2 years ago I tried and installed Phusion Passenger Preference Pane for OS X and now I need to delete its "Passenger" icon from my System Preference. There's no uninstall option, how can I delete it? I use Mac OS X 10.5.8
Just upgraded to Lion, but the new login screen needs some colour. I found someone online who posted the address of the image that's in the background, so I went and replaced that. Only, after doing that, I realized that there's an additional overlay being drawn that adds a vignette effect by brightening the center of the screen. Does anyone know of a way to remove this?
Win XP SP3 in fusion can surf the net through the mac's airport in either bridged or nat mode fine. the mac has a static ip. the windows is set to dhcp. ifconfig on the mac shows en1: inet 192.168.1.43 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 vmnet1: inet 172.16.193.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.193.255 vmnet8: inet 172.16.143.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.143.255 ipconfig on windows shows
I see that Snow Leopard is available in a box sent through the mail. Is it also possible to download Snow Leopard from somewhere? So I don't have to wait for it to be mailed to me.
I installed my SSH private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and set its permissions to 0600. When I connect to an SSH server which uses my private key in Terminal.app via ssh, a dialog pops up and asks me to enter my password to access the id_rsa file:
Today I purchased a LaCie iamaKey v2. When I first ran the included 'La-Private' software, it urged me to install MacFUSE, so I did. After going through the steps, I tried to open my Private Volume, though it wouldn't open.. So, I formatted the drive, and then downloaded the software, and went through the steps again. Though now I get an error message...
i am about to purchase an iMac mid 2011 2.7 i5 that comes with 4 GB of ram preinstalled. I also have an mid 2009 macbook pro 13.3 2.26 computer. I wonder if i can install the 4gb ram of the iMac to my MBP?
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Lion and one of the problems I've had is that Time Machine keeps running and running, and the fans go on. This usually seems to be in the state where it indexes the backup.
If I press Command-H, an activated window disappear. How can I make it appear with shortcuts?
Referring to the following question here, how can I reset warnings for locations in Mac OS X Lion?
The guest account always had very limited permissions, unfortunately since activating FileVault on Lion it's deactivated by default. (More about it here: Unable to create Guest Account after enabling FileVault.)
I just upgraded to OS X Lion and now cannot initialize Git where it used to work fine: I'm new to Git and to programming, so I'm sure it's a quick fix, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
I like copying flash videos for offline viewing later. I used to do this by loading the video in the browser (Firefox or Google Chrome), then running this command to see where the flash file was being cached: This will show all the temporary files Google Chrome has open at the moment, for example: None of the files exist, though: Listing the directory doesn't show any files or directories like this existing:
In Leopard, you can configure it so that a password is required when waking the system from computer sleep (i.e. close the lid) or returning from the screen saver, but not display sleep. This allowed me to easily lock my screen by activating the screen saver with a hot corner or have it lock automatically after an extended period of time when the screen saver kicked in or the machine went to sleep.
I messed up my Time Machine backup in some way. I'm no longer able to mount the sparsebundle file as I get an error stating that there are no mountable filesystems. I used the hdiutil command to attach the sparsebundle file: which resulted in the following /dev/ devices: Afterwards I ran the fsch_hfs command to check the main volume (/dev/disk2s2): This resulted in a notice that the Time Machine Backups volume is corrupt and needed to be repaired: As you can see there is also an error saying "Unable to open block device /dev/disk2s2: Permission deniedjournal_replay(/dev/disk2s2) returned 13". I thought this might be due to not running the fsck_hfs command as a su, so I tried it with sudo but this had the same result. My sparsebundle file is on a Synology DS408 NAS and has been running without a problem for about 2 years now :( Anyone an idea how to take this further? Kind regards, Niels R.
In earlier versions of OSX, when you search in a Finder window, it gave you the choice of searching by contents or file name. In Lion this choice seems to have disappeared, I can only search by content now. Is there any way to search by name in Lion?
I am a work-from-home developer that gets paid by the hour. I am seeking an app that runs in the background and records my screen(s) and uploads it (every 20 seconds or so) through FTP to my webserver. That way, I can set up a simple website for my clients, and they can "watch me work" and be assured that I am really working for them, and not just goofing around or playing games. It will have to be a ambient app, meaning that it should be very discreete and not interfere in my work (xcode/unity stuff mainly) Im willing to pay a fair shareware fee, but not anything subscription-based.
I have AppleScripts that run on a schedule to download files from URLs. They had been using URL Access Scripting.app's download event, which now looks to have disappeared from Lion.
iPhoto is not properly anymore since I upgraded on Lion. It starts and seems to be alive in Task Switcher or in the Menu Bar, but there is no open Window for iPhoto. I re-installed from the AppStore several times, (after deleting it), but I can not open a iPhotoLibrary. This is the console output: Any idea what I could do next?
Windows os has tools to spin off multiple threads for copying files: RichCopy, Robocopy or vXCopy. I was wondering if there exists a method or tool to copy a lot (thousands) of small files/directories using multiple threads on macOS?
Where does Mac OS X store contacts in my Address Book? Has this changed from Snow Leopard to Lion?
I've just installed Safari on Windows XP SP3 and after succesful installation it starts and just hangs up. I also see process Webkit2Webprocess.exe which uses 100% of one core and nothing else happens. Can you please give me some hints how to fix this?
Should I reinstall Bonjour after I got an message : File Problem: M DNSResponse.exe How do I go about doing this?
After upgrading to Lion on my recently purchased Macbook Pro 13" base model I'm having trouble connecting to an HDLCD TV. My TV is connected to a receiver. Sometimes when I connect I get 5.1 sound to play through my speakers. Sometimes it's 2.1 sound. And other times no sound can be played. Even just getting the laptop to display to the TV is hit or miss.
recently i downloaded VLCP layer for my iPad2. i know that VLC player can play MKV format. so i add MKV format movie into my ipad2 and test it. one warning occur "Your iPad2 is too slow to play that movie". i think that iPad2's processor are dual. so why its happening? Can't i watch MKV format in my iPad2. if it can be please tell me how to do that. Thanks you for your time.
I have installed Lion Server on my box. (broke my existing VPN setup, and I wanted to play around with it).
I have many double entries in Launchpad. (Address Book, DVD Player, Image Capture). Any idea why and how to fix it?
How do you stop the jumping cursor bug in Mac OS X Lion? I am using the Magic Mouse and the cursor keeps jumping to the edge of the screen very often, every minute or two I say. The mouse seems to take off in whatever direction the mouse is moving, just going way too far leaving the cursor at the edge of the screen After googling, it looks like it is a widespread issue and definately a Mac OS X Lion bug.
I have some shares that are mounted during login. I used Users & Groups' "Login Items" panel to do this. When I login, all of the shares pop up in their own Finder windows.
During boot-up, immediately after the Apple logo with the spinning progress wheel ends, rather than the desktop appear, I get a white screen with pointer in the top left for about 5 seconds. Then the desktop slides in with Caffeine, Flux and Dropbox loaded up in the title bar already. Previously, (in this Lion install), the desktop would appear and then these icons would load in. Can anyone suggest why I get this white screen and possibly suggest a way to rectify this issue? edit: This is on reboots where I have not saved the open programs from a previous session.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to order prints through iPhoto, and have the prints shipped to a different country than the one you chose when you setup your print account. In the account setup page, you can only choose to setup new shipping addresses which are in the same country as the account you're using (I think). What I would like to do is to order some prints through my Canadian iPhoto account (and make the payment with a Canadian credit card), and have them shipped to an address in Japan as a gift. Does anyone know if it's possible to do this somehow?
So far I've been using Ukulele for editing my keyboard layout (I assigned some shortcuts to Alt+key and changed a few others). Unfortunately, after upgrading to Lion, it's broken. The point is, Lion changed behavior of pressed keys -- they don't repeat, apart from punctuation that does. But I can't fix it, since Ukelele apparently uses some PPC program. Is there any other keyboard layout editor for Mac?
I need to replace my HDD to SDD, and I think of upgrading to OS X Lion. Can I use my old backup in time machine HDD from Snow Leopard when I have clean install with Mac OS X Lion? I mean, can I open time machine in newly installed Mac OS X Lion to copy all the necessary files backup in Snow Leopard?
I want to override F1 and F2 behavior, since I have external display and Mac can't control display's brightness. The rest of the keys should retain their non Fx
I have found an old iPhoto 09 library on a back up folder and I want to import its content to my newly purchased iPhoto 11. Is this possible? If yes, how is it done? By the way: I tried to import it through iPhoto 11 by SHIFT-CMD+I and then navigating to the old library but it was grey and therefore not possible to select.
Apple's advertising for Lion highlights a new "local snapshots" feature of Time Machine: OS X Lion lets you take the Time Machine experience with you when you’re away from your Time Capsule or backup drive. Time Machine keeps a spare copy of the files you create, modify, or delete right on your Mac. Now if you accidentally delete a file while on the road, you can recover it from a local copy.
I have an old Mac Book Pro A1260 (2008 early model), and I need to replace the old HDD with SDD. In doing so, I'm thinking about installing Mac OS X Lion.
When exploring the new Launchpad feature, at first, it would seem as is it draws it's content primarily from the Programs folder. It seems to be the case, however, that the Launchpad database is drawn from somewhere else.
If I select the option to sync my Address Book to Google: and I delete a contact on the Mac Address Book (or from my iPhone), is the contact automatically deleted in Gmail? And what about vice versa?
i have the following javascript that searches the current site (very handy) I am a launchbar user, but launchbar will not open this javascript bookmark. Can i create an applescript that runs the javascript bookmark (in chrome, which is my default browser) Have tried:- but nothing happens...
I can see that I will quickly come to love the Lion way of scrolling. My brain will soon become rewired to think of moving the content with my gestures instead of moving the controller down to slide content up in my fixed viewport. I have several macs that need to remain on Snow Leopard for some time, and would love any suggestions on how I might change them to better fit Lion's new model for scrolling.
I have grown very fond of a sparse first page of apps on iOS and want to hack, reverse-engineer, and/or fake out Launchpad to get a clean first page of apps. Here is a picture from iOS that is analagous to what I want to accomplish:
I am an avid iMac user and have no intention of buying a MacBook/MacBook Air or a trackpad. I have just installed Lion and have seen Launchpad and Mission Control in my Dock. I could see myself using these lots, but I am concerned that it's not going to be quite as natural as finger-gestures. Will I have to learn keyboard shortcuts or is there something I'm missing? Will I gain the full Lion experience without a MacBook or a trackpad?
Is there an Automator action for this that I can use? If not, AppleScript?
I'm having a problem where the last imported photos to my iPhoto '11 (version 9.1.5 (615)) library don't show up under the "Events" entry. The event shows up under "Last import" and under "Photos", but not under "Events". I have tried to re-create the event several times, without luck. There are several events created from the last two photo imports that aren't showing under "Events".
I have a late 2008 MacBook so I know that if I want to connect my laptop to a tv I need two cables: one for video and one for audio (while in newer models this issue is bypassable via appropriate adapters). So using the hdmi port of the mini would make my life easier. Are there any other advantages? For example when I first connected my laptop I needed to do some fiddling around with the displays settings to achieve a decent output: would that be necessary with the mini as well? I've been using laptops for so long I forgot what it's like not having a display already embedded in your computer!
I recently purchased a brand new 27" iMac that came with snow leopard as the default os. I was wondering if I could use the back up disc that it came with to install it on my old 21" iMac that is 5 years old. I have seen on various forums that the discs that come with computers are machine specific, and thus the result is a message stating that "Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this computer." But I've heard there are workarounds to this. Does any one know what they are? Thanks.
So two weeks ago I had purchased the 10.6 xcode from the app store. Today I was updating it after I just got lion (7gb in total downloads in one week for one app. Through the install, I get a message in the installer: Error encountered check /var/log/install.log: I'm not sure what's going on but I'd like to get it fixed.
I store sensitive information on my laptop in encrypted .sparsebundle images which are made with apps like Disk Utility, Knox and Espionage. The question is, if I upgrade to Lion, when I'm working on a file located in one of these mounted disk images and Lion is saving older versions of the file, are these older versions stored within the encrypted image (as they should be) or somewhere else? If the versions are stored somewhere else, are they encrypted or not?
I know I'm crazy, but it's bugging me.
Is there a way to hide ONLY .app file extension? I know that you can enable or disable the visibility of file extensions in Finder but I'm interested in avoiding .app file extensions from showing up. I hate the redundancy of seeing that the files in my Applications folder are Applications.
I see this in iWork 08, is it the case for everything else?
I Love iChat and its sleek UI and prefer it to Adium or Windows Live Messenger for Mac. iChat now has ".impreferencepane" which allows the addition of support for new networks. My question is: has anybody found a plugin to support Windows Live Messenger within iChat?
I have a Mac Pro, and I've added an Intel 80GB SSD to improve performance in LightRoom and Photoshop. So far so good.
Does Apple have a customer service email address? I have checked their site, and I can only find phone numbers and a mailing address.
Lion's improved Quick Look can now preview web pages. The full screen view and quick launching make it superb for peeking at a web page without having to launch a browser; which, in my case, always has many tabs to open from a previous session that I plan to revisit later.
After installing Lion the iWork applications no longer have a "Save As" command in the file menu. It is common that I want to use an existing document, save it as a different file name, and then modify it. I'm sure I can make a copy but that's more work than it's worth. The help file continues to insist that there is a "Save As" feature in the File menu.
With the new state saving features (which I want to keep), the dock notifications are more aggrivating to me in Lion. Can I suppress the bounce and/or the notification badge functions? While I like the new restore feature in Terminal.app that re-opens the tabs and shows the last 500 or so lines in the history, I absolutely hate that the Terminal.app now is so much more communicative and intrusive as before. If I have a command like tailing a log file in the terminal, it constantly keeps telling me when there are new entries, which turns out to be pretty annoying.
I currently have an old 21 inch iMac that won't run Lion because it doesn't have a 64 bit chip. Other than that it works absolutely fine. I am however a part time developer and so I really need to make sure I have a machine that runs Lion for testing as a minimum.
My workaround for iTunes automatically assigning hollow star ratings to new podcast episodes has an unfortunate side-effect: after dragging the podcast files back into iTunes, they not longer have their “Release Date” field populated, meaning they can’t be sorted in release date order. (Which gives my tiny little mind the heebie-jeebies.) I can figure out what the release date was for these podcasts, but iTunes won’t let me amend this field via the UI. Is there any way I can edit the value of this field?
Currently, I have already upgraded to Mac OS X Lion. But an error occurred(Progress to the last 99%) that when I trying to downloading Windows support software via Boot Camp 4.0. It says "Can't install Windows Support Software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server".
After upgrading to Lion, and verifying/repairing my disk, I noticed a 3.5 GB file in /lost+found. Ran file on it and it reported it as an xar archive, so I ran xar -t on it to discover it is the Lion installer I downloaded from the App Store. Just wondering if anyone else sees this and if it's safe to delete the file?
When I'm reviewing mail, I like to have my most recent on top, and I work backwards in time (i.e., down the list). But when I delete an item, rather than going to the next lower item in the list (like Outlook does), it goes to the closest item that's newer. Because it's based on always going to the closest item that's newer, I can't even get the desired behavior in going from new to old by reversing my sort order. Am I missing a preference somewhere, or do I really have to either hit the down arrow after each delete, or work from oldest to newest if I want to save those precious keystrokes?
I have "restored" one usb stick with the BaseSystem.dmg of the InstallESD.dmg of my Lion installation and it boots. However it wants to connect to the internet to check the system requirements blablabla. Due to the fact, that i am currently at university where we use a proxy the network tool tells me that i have no connection. How can i set up the right proxy? Via the Terminal?
When I drag two items into a folder, the system seems to choose the folder name for me. Am I missing any way to choose a name or am I presently stuck with what the system chooses for me?
When used in full-screen mode, Lion’s new Mail.app has a modal (= always in foreground, disables rest of application) dialog for composing and viewing messages. Can I disable this? It’s quite annoying since I often need to make reference to previous messages in a conversation so I need to go to and fro different messages while composing a new message.
I'm trying to download Xcode 4.0 for my Mac and they want me to upgrade to Lion and download 4.1. Is there a way to download 4.0 without having to change my entire operating system?
I'm using the iPod on my iPhone 4 in shuffle mode. If I go back to songs menu and select a specific song, the iPod forgets that it is in shuffle mode. It will play the next song in alphabetical order. Is there any way to make shuffle mode setting stickier?
I get this error message in iTunes when trying to update my iPhone 3GS (non jailbroken) from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4:  Why is this? The iPhone 3GS is listed under “products affected” on the iOS 4.3.4 release notes.
I see many people asking how to save the Lion installer, and ofter the way to go is unpacking the installer and saving the disk image. In my case, I saved the whole installer app (the same as downloaded) in an external disk before installing it in my iMac. Now, can I just copy the installer to my MacBook Pro and run it with no trouble? Or should I burn the disk? I don't really intend to burn it now, using the installer would be more practical.
I'm looking for some troubleshooting ideas on my mac mini failing to boot. The machine had been working fine until 3 days ago. I purchased the mini second hand from a friend ~ 4 months ago. The machine: Mac mini 1.83/2x512/80/SD/AP/BT OSX - Snow Leopard The attached peripherals to the mini are: USB mouse, USB non-Apple keyboard, ethernet, and display. Here are the symptoms: Power on Boot Chime continuously repeats ~ every second or so The indicator LED is continuously lit The keyboard indicator LED is NOT lit Monitor is a blank gray screen
Can I upgrade to Lion from 10.5.8 without upgrading to 10.6.6 first?, or with a package deal? And can I upgrade just downloading? -- Without having to have the discs mailed to me?
I have successfully installed Xcode 4.1 from Mac AppStore on Lion, and restarted the machine to be sure that everything will run correctly, everything is ok up to this point. however, when I open Applications (and also when I open LaunchPad too), there is no XCode there, there is an icon named: "install XCode" (its size = XCode size = 3.5 GB, and contains a lot of packages inside it). I can run XCode without problems using either its icon on the dock or from spotlight. my questions are: 1) where is the real XCode Icon located ? 2) what is the correct way to remove "install XCode" package icon that exists in Applications? 3) can I put the "install XCode" package on a USB stick and install it on another machine (running Lion of course) without problems? thank you so much in advance.
How do I show the hidden files in OS X 10.7 Lion?
Been using OS X 10.7 Lion since early developer previews and there is this bug (or feature that's not implemented). Clicking Inspect Element/Web Inspector of the Develop tools will always pop up the Web Inspector window. It used to be stuck or used to remember my preference and used it as default. It is docked by default on Chrome and FireBug is well docked in Firefox and it was docked by default (or remember my settings) in Safari 5 on Snow Leopard. Anyone faced this issue and have a fix? Much appreciated.
what's the best way to convert .m4a to a more common song format, like mp3 etc. The m4a files are recorded by the iPhone and my machine runs windows vista home premium 32-bit sp2
Whenever i visit a page using the web browser, then i simply jump to other applications, when i come back to the page again, the web browser will reload the url. Is there anyway to make it such that if i come back to the page again, simply show me whatever was shown previously, without any reloads whatsoever.
Is there possible to disable reverse scroll only on the mouse, and not when using the touch on my macbook.
Kind of like this: Please share your hidden macOS features or tips and tricks but specific to OS X Lion 10.7.x ONLY Do you know any hidden or little-known nice feature of OS X 10.7 (Lion)? It doesn't matter what it is—maybe just a short terminal command. Share your experiences on hidden OS X features here.
With Lion it seems the mission control is separate for each screen, however I have not found a way to show a different desktop/space on each screen. Basically I want it so that when a do a swipe on my track pad to change space, it only changes scrolls the spaces on the monitor which the cursor is in.
I have updated from Snow Leopard to Lion with Safari Version 5.0.5. Now I can not update to Safari 5.1. There is no update in the Software Updater, and on the apple-download page, I only found a Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard. When executing it, there is an error message, that it is for 10.6 only (). Any idea how to get full screen browsing?
Is it possible to watch movies in the format of RatDVD on a mac? If yes, how?
I'm looking for a tool or tools to (1) switch to the next (or previous) space using an arbitrary keybinding, rathern than the modifier+arrow keys allowed in the preferences, and (2) show a (very) small preview of the windows in Spaces in the menubar. I've been using Desktop Manager to do this since before they were called spaces. Unfortunately Desktop Manager is PowerPC-only and is not being maintained; I'd like a more modern solution. I'm much more interested in solving the first problem; specifically I'd like to have ctrl-command-n to move me to the next space, and ctrl-command-p to go to the previous space. Any quick solutions?
Just wondering if it's legal to run Xcode on OS X Lion Server in a virtualized environment on Windows? I know it's not for the client but I've heard that it's legal with the server. It this true?
I've been using POP to access my Gmail account pretty much since Google offered it. I've been meaning to migrate to IMAP access for a while now, and initial attempts to switch yesterday caused quite a bit of pain. I had problems ranging from 55000 messages trying to download, to being locked out of my account with the error message 'Account exceeded command or bandwidth limits.'
I have a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (Pre-unibody) running Snow Leopard that fails to stay in sleep mode when the battery is run down to 0%. This problem just started a month ago. The battery is new. It runs down fine and I get a warning when the reserve battery kicks in at 10%, but when it reaches 0, it goes into sleep mode for about 1 second and then dies.
After upgrading to Lion the pinch-to-zoom seems to be gone in Finder. Didn't even find an option for it in system preferences. Any ideas?
I would like to view my RSS feeds on the iPad, and when I see something interesting, share it to Google Plus circles. Any thoughts? Thanks!
I used to own an iPad 2. I didn't much care for it, so I gave it to my sister as a gift. She lives in a different state.
Problem trying to solve I use multiple terminal windows to develop web applications. I'll have a terminal open for vim, a terminal open for git and a terminal open for basic file/directory commands. The terminal application doesn't remember window settings so whenever I quit the terminal or have to restart I must manually resize and position my terminal windows. I would like to automate this process using AppleScript. 1 window, big, fills up left half of screen (vim) 2 windows, smaller, stacked on top of one another, filling up other half of screen My attempted solution The problem
I clearly remember seeing Dimensions column in Finder to show image dimensions (width x height) but I can't find it now. Does anyone know how to show this column?
My Lion installation ruined. Everything doesn't work. Even my Mac doesn't sleep. I want to reinstall whole OS, but I have no spare backup drive. So I want to reinstall OS without erasing or repartitioning to keep my data on disk.
Is there software and/or drivers that support using the Kinect to replicate the same behavior triggered by the Multitouch gestures? Would it be possible for me to swipe my hand leftward in the air and switch to a different desktop or space, for example?
I'm trying out Aperture to see whether I should upgrade from iPhoto. I take a lot of photos on my iPhone and have always imported, then deleted these using iPhoto. After importing photos from my photo with Aperture I didn't get an option to delete the originals from the phone. Am I missing a config option somewhere, or does Aperture not offer this functionality?
I live in a country where Internet isn't that broadbandish, I installed Lion on my home laptop and want to copy the updates to my Mac Mini. Is there a way to copy Apple updates from a machine to another?
Where do unsaved files go in Lion? I quit TextEdit without saving since I had no intention of saving, but with autosave the file still got save somewhere since when I reopen TextEdit the file I was working on is there (even tough I disabled resume >.<). So I was wondering were did that file get saved?
I'm asking this because I'm considering distributing a commercial Windows application to mac users. The application would run in WINE, but WINE depends on X11. I've read that X11 is installed by default on OS X 10.5 and later, and available as an optional install on the installation dvd for OS X 10.4
I need tips on a good application that you can stream "live" video and publish that on a website. The source is raw video from a video mixer and i will have my os x machine in the middle and then out to one of my webservers.
Flash is not supported in OS X Lion i.e. Safari, how can I browse webpages with flash content and actually view the flash content?
One of the neat new (though understated) features of Lion is Whole Disk Encryption. Before I flick the switch, I'd love to know what the performance impacts (speed and battery impacts) of switching it on. There are some great articles with qualitative data (see below - not to mention a good Ask Different Question), however it would be great to have some quantitative (or even anecdotal) stories of people who Filevault 2 has, or hasn't worked for. What implications have you experienced in speed and battery life using Filevault 2?
Is Snow Leopard or Lion faster? And how significant is the speed difference?
I have a iPod Classic 160 Gb. I have forgotten the generation. Is there any way by which I can find out the generation of the iPod?
Is there a way to move all the windows found in one space into another without having to move them one by one? (This feature was available in Snow Leopard)
I am helping a friend set up a brand-new MacBook. She is migrating from a Windows environment and is used to OpenOffice. I have very little OS X experience. OpenOffice 3.3 has a native Aqua port for OS X > 10.3.
Screen Sharing stopped working after I upgraded to Lion. Trying to connect back home to my still yet not upgraded Snow Leopard machine. Logs says PM Screen Sharing: MVS Codec - bad rectangle size - clossing connection 0 Has anyone else notice this?
I have different calendars for various types of things that I use to schedule my days. This involves switching between the different calendars for different kinds of events when doing the scheduling. In Snow Leopard, I could just select the calendar I wanted by clicking on it on the left. With Lion, it looked like I might be able to get the same functionality with the little "Calendar" button in the upper left, but that just seems to allow me to rename the Calendars, without actually setting one as being currently active for creating new events.
I can't get archive to work on Lion. When I choose archive in Mail.app it creates a folder called Archived. That's not what I want. When I choose delete it doesn't remove the message from my inbox. It is just greyed out. Right now I leave the messages in the inbox and archive them from my iPhone, which works great. Please help me get this working.
Mission Control has freed up a couple of my function keys, I'd like to try using one of them to activate the application switcher. I've tried the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, and Spark.app, but no luck. Any other ideas?
I am looking for a tool that would allow me to do fast searches inside files, something considerably more complex than what finder provides. Features looking for: file extension filtering (include/exclude) directory selection, eventual defining search groups unicode support replace functionality (optional) save/load presets (optional) Also, it has to be fast and be able to search in >100.000 files without putting the computer down.
I'm in the process of ripping my DVD collection to disk for backup, syncing with my iPad, and protecting from my toddlers. I'd like to have the commentary (if available) and subtitles with the video file, but I do not want the subtitles burned in.
Is there a way to view an "iTunes Analytics Dashboard" or some type of plugin that would have similar capabilities? There's all this really good data locked up in iTunes, from Play Counts to Ratings to Last Played Date, etc... but I'd like a beautiful interface to view detailed charts and graphs that break things down simply yet informatively. This could hypothetically be marketed as "Personal Media Collection Analytics Software" going above and beyond what conventional media player software currently offers. Sample capabilities: - proportion of 5-star tracks vs. 3-star tracks - which month do I listen to genre X or artist Y the most - at what hour of the day do I prefer songs with BPM > X - etc...
Other iLife apps like iPhoto already support this functionality, like assigning "vacation" or "mountains" keywords to certain photos. Is it possible to add tags to songs in iTunes without resorting to the rigid options currently provided (i.e. the 'Comments' or 'Grouping' fields)? See this mock-up for an idea of what this type of tagging would be like:
The subject says it all. Is there somewhere a list of the first set of apps on the iPhone App Store when it went live in July 2008?
I upgraded to Lion but now under ~/User there is no library folder. What happened to it? Is there a way to get it back?
I have a case where a machine was upgraded to Lion. Prior to Lion the user was running Photoshop CS4 (a Universal Binary) under Rosetta which required hitting a checkbox in the application's "Get Info" dialog. With the advent of Lion and the removal of Rosetta, the checkbox is gone but the OS still tries to run Photoshop as a PPC binary and fails. Is there a way I can reset the "Launch this UB as a PPC binary" flag?
Since upgrading to Lion I notice that typing is automatically getting "corrected". For example, I type "I posted to elance that" and the word elance automatically changes to "glance". I back up and change the 'g' to an 'e' and it changes it back to "glance" again. I first noticed it in Mail, but I see it's also happening here in Safari too.
I'm looking and don't see any official word yet from Apple - I wondered if any web sites have reported whether these older versions work a little or at all (or perfectly well with only some little errors). The Roaring Apps table lists only iLife 11 versions and my attempts at the top 20 results for several google searches shows a lot of content farms gaming the results.
When run from cron, it doesn't work. The ssh-agent output looks normal: But the ssh -vvv output shows that it fails right when the private key should be read: In other words, it's expecting me to type in the passphrase for ~/.ssh/id_dsa, which of course doesn't work in cron jobs. This all worked in Snow Leopard. Note that I've got Keychain Access setup so that ssh, ssh-agent, and ssh-add are allowed to read my passphrase for my .ssh/id_dsa file - as a result I can SSH from a terminal prompt without ever having to enter my passphrase.
iTunes is telling me there's updated iOS firmware available (4.3.5) for my iPhone 3GS. I've synced the iPhone to iTunes already. Repeated the sync several times. Regardless of this, every time I go to apply the firmware update I get the following warning from iTunes:
I was using the Dictionary application, and I have noticed it was showing the pronunciation using strange characters.  I checked the preferences, and they were set to use the American IPA characters.
Man - I feel ridiculous shaking my ipad and turning it 8000 times before it finally orients itself to the proper landscape / portrait setting. Is there a way to manually change the orientation, by hitting a button or something?
My (older) iMac runs 24/7 and it seems like it's constantly doing Time Machine backups which slows down things considerably. My wife is always complaining about beach balls. Is there a way to configure Time Machine to do backups only in the wee hours of the morning?
You may be aware that Lion introduced MTMFS, the Mobile Time Machine File System. I've had a couple of instances now where MTMFS has been chewing up an entire core of my dual-core (mid 2009) MacBook Pro for hours on end with no evidence that it's actually doing anything constructive. As a consequence, CPU temperature rises and the cooling fans run fast and noisy. Restarting the machine quietened things down again, but I'm expecting it to start again.
For years I've zoomed the whole Mac OS X screen with Control ⌃ + two finger scroll on the trackpad. It was very useful when giving demos and when wanting to zoom in on a YouTube video. Since I installed Lion it was working, then it stopped working, then worked again, now it's not working. What am I doing wrong, or is it just broken?
I've install Lion on both MBP17 2008 and iMac27 i7 2010. On the old MBP, Mission Control animation are smooth but on the iMac, the desktop slide away with a nice animation but then all the application window appear in a snap with no animation at all. Is there a way to turn this feature on again ?
I have a certain PNG I'd like to replace a folder icon with. I noticed that when i Command-I this .png file, it will preview on the bottom, but not on the top left part (generic ".png" text appears instead). I also noticed that only images that DO appear on the top left side of the "Get Info" window can be successfully Command-C'ed + Command-V'ed into my target folders' "Get Info" top left area - so that the image is replaced. My question: is there some kind of standard for images that makes or breaks their compatibility with changing a folder's icon?
Does anybody know of any software for Mac OS X which will save your program windows, so when you boot up again you can return to the same windows? This would be a huge help since as a developer I often have 10 windows open and often have to re-open and re-size them all when I reboot.
what i want to figure out is how to send a String to iCal 5 on 10.7 which is interpreted the same way as creating a quick event, as if you press CMD+N with iCal in focus and then just type "tea at 5" into the popover. a simplistic sketch (which doesn't work):
Sorry about the n00b question but why is this an option? Is there any caveats to not ending a file with a line break?
I submitted the following as a Xcode bug report, but I'm post it here in case somebody is experiencing the same problem and can shed more light into the matter. I use two devices for development: my iPhone 3GS, and a friend's iPhone 3G running 4.2.1/8C148. I could debug with both of these devices using Snow Leopard and Xcode 4.0.2.
I hate the status bar. However, I love hovering over URLs to find out where they will take me. Is there an alternative to having the status bar on at all times, or constantly toggling on/off? An extension, or maybe a preference that I'm missing?
How do I resize icons in Lion's finder. So for example if I wanted to resize the icons in the application folder. In Snow leopard, there used to be a slider at the bottom of the finder page, but thats gone in Lion.
I'm looking for a good, lightweight email client. What do you guys recommend?
I am trying to download Xcode 4.1 from the Mac App Store (I am on Lion, and I have Xcode 3 installed). The problem is that the download bar barely moved, and after being stuck there for an hour it reset to 0%.
I would like to purchase Lion, but the Mac App Store requires a credit card, and I don't have one. Are there any other options which don't require a credit card?
I have a 15-inch MBP, Mid-2010, 2.66GHz i7, with Intel integrated graphics and a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. Since I installed Lion, it seems my battery life has gone down to just 2 or 3 hours. After reading various things on the internet, I found out about the gfxCardStatus app which I used and noticed my machine is using the discrete graphics card. It appears the following apps are requiring discrete graphics: the Google Talk plugin (because I keep gmail.com open, even though I'm not signed in to chat) Twitter for Mac both Droplr and CloudApp
Currently I own an MacBookPro. For some reasons, I need to run Windows. So I installed Windows XP using VirtualBox (a free virtual machine). My questions is: Can my Windows XP (which run from my MacBook Pro) install another VM machine, which is VMplayer, then I want to install ubuntu in the VMPlayer?
I have lots of playlists on my iTunes library, and I want to be able to copy the music of certain playlists to a flash drive to play on a stereo system. I have too many songs in too many folders to just copy the raw .mp3 files, so that option is out. Any other ideas?
I have just noticed, that in Lion I no longer see any of those 'compact application header' little grey buttons on the right side, top of applications... (the opposite side to which the close and minimise window buttons are) Have these been removed? Or were they more tied into the apps rather than the system.
...the drive is 'whirring' etc, but not ejecting the cd. I restarted and held down the mouse on the start-up chime -- that worked once; but I then put the cd back in and that method no longer works. How do I get the cd out? Thanks,
On Snow Leopard I used to have 9 spaces organised just for my needs. Unfortunately new Mission Control approach broke it completely and I'm still feeling a bit lost with the new horizontal approach.
Also, is there any way to restore the old icons? Previously, I could use color-cues for fast navigation (Ex: Downloads is green, Desktop is purple, HomeDir is white). Now, I have to stop and actually read the labels every time I use the sidebar
Is it possible to use an iMac (early 2008 model) as a second monitor (note: not with a second monitor)? I have a Windows 7 laptop (for work) and when working at home it would be nice if I could somehow connect my iMac to act as a second monitor. Of course, the Mini DisplayPort on my iMac can probably not be used since that is for connecting an extra monitor to the iMac, but maybe there is some neat cross-platform application to do dual-display over USB? Also, any solution for the same thing between a MacBook and an iMac would be nice to know as well.
For the past few days, my old macbook told me that it wa not charging, although the plug was plugged in. Unplugging it would just stop the computer from working, so the battery would really not charge. Last night, I accidentally pulled the wire out of the computer, and it stopped working. When I started it again, the indicator light at the front of the computer flashed a couple of times (I think 6), before starting seamingly normal, but it got stuck at the apple logo with the spinning disc, indicating something is loading, below it. I've waited for half an hour, seeing if something would happen, and I've tried turning it on and off. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to resolve this issue?
With our new 21,5"-iMac, we bought the first Mac system for our Windows/Linux-oriented office. Hence we don’t have a lot of experience in using Mac OS X.
I had downloaded the Lion beta when it was launched about a month ago. It asked me to enter credit card details and all such things, I did it. When it was launched, I checked for the updates, there were few, it did. I didn't see what it did, I was out.
After upgrading to Lion my Magic Mouse's level indicator seems to be broken. For the whole week it was reporting solid 100% on a pair of used batteries that were about 65% before upgrading. I swapped the batteries naively hoping it'll change anything and it actually did. It's now solid 95%! Screens from both system preferences and Bluetooth icon in the menu bar:
When I'm on the move I want to tether to my phone to access a few essentials (telnet, ssh, IM, a few low bandwidth websites). What I don't want is for a load of background processes like Software Update or Google Software Updater to start downloading gigs of patches over the phone's 3G connection.
I've never really been a huge fan of trackpads but after playing with the official Apple Magic Trackpad using Lion, I have to admit, I loved the full screen swiping and using two fingers to swipe Chrome web pages. I'm a programmer by trade and do VERY minimal art work using Pixelmator. What are your impressions of using Apple's multitouch trackpads?
How can I set DigitalColor Meter to show color hex values, like it did before upgrade to Lion?
I bought a Lion OS X license for my home Mac. Can I use this same license to install Lion on my work computer?
I tried, but my voice memo gets paused. If this isn't possible, is there any way to import voice memos to ipod (kind of workaround)?
*) Actually I've enabled parental controls for my sock–puppet account and, because I know the admin password, adding time through this dialog would be just too easy.**
How do the old Filevault and the new Lion full disk encryption compare speed wise? ATM I am using Snow Leppard with FileVault to encrypt my whole home directory, which makes opening IPhoto, Chrome or ITunes annoyingly slow.
For some reason, I cannot convince the app store that an application (Xcode, in this case) is not installed. I have deleted /Developer (which only contained an old, busted Xcode 3.2.3) and tried to rebuild the LaunchServices DB (using lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user) but to no avail; The app store stubbornly claims that Xcode is already installed. I'm at my wit's end, here.
In Console.App I can see various log messages. I've diagnosed a Time Machine problem and searched for "backup". In the resulting messages from backupd I also noticed the message 27/07/11 16.01.59,562 mds: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume showed up (which is most likely not Time Machine related but has the word backup in it). Any suggestions on what this is and how I can fix it?
Situation: when I'm at my desk, I have speakers plugged in to my Macbook Pro and everything is working fine. The problem occurs the next time I boot the computer without speakers connected: I'm now unable to mute or change the volume at all, it's set to maximum and greyed out (see screenshots in attachment).
Is it possible to read the date when a mac first booted via terminal or system information GUI? Maybe there's a file set at this moment.
I want to try out the new Mail.app but I can't seem to find a way to unsubscribe from certain IMAP folders using my Gmail account. If I right-click on any folder and select "Get Account Info", and click on the Subscription List tab, the list refreshes but no folders appear. I do not want to use Gmail's server-side label hiding/message count limiting because I want other machines to be able to download all of my email for backup purposes. Is there an alternative way to limit the folders that Mail.app downloads, or to limit the number of messages per folder that are downloaded (as is possible on iOS)? Did folder subscriptions work in Snow Leopard, or is this just a long-standing incompatibility between Gmail and Mail.app?
I run OS 10.5.8 and I need to upgrade it to Snow Leopard or Lion so that I can run GameSalad. I'll develop an app with GameSalad and upload it to the App Store. As I understand, I need to pay $99 fee to Apple to upload apps. Question 1: Is the following link the place I need to register to upload apps: *=URL=* ? Question 2: Is the $99 fee at that link the same fee that will enable me to download the latest versions of the Apple OS for free?
I'm using iTunes 10.4 and under "menu > View > Visualizer >" there are two options, "iTunes Visualizer" or "iTunes Classic Visualizer" there's also a greyed out "Options..." menu. The last time I used visualizer (a while ago) there were several cool visualizers to choose from like plasma shapes, and bouncing balls, and stuff. I don't see any of that here.
Since upgrading to Lion, my search in Mail has gotten drastically less helpful. Since I have read many reviews about what an improvement Mail 5.0's search is, I can only assume that my search index was not built correctly. Is there a file I can delete or a terminal command I can run to tell Mail to re-index my messages?
I'm on a school network so I have to sign in before I can use the internet. Before in OS X 10.6 it would just connect me to the network and let me signin on my own. Which I made a script to login for me.) However, now with this new join dialog that pops up asking with the login window, I can't have my script automatically log me in.
How can I list all the currently memory devices on MacOS X? I need to do this by command, because I have an Java application that needs this information. Thanks
I'm trying to decide whether to get Lion or Lion Server. I'm not too worried about the $20 premium or the extra disk space used, but I'd rather not make things more complex to work with and manage, nor do I want my laptop to run slower as a result of having the Server version.
I'm contemplating downloading it but I'm in an area prone to connectivity outages. Or does it install a pre-loader which then downloads the actual disk image (which I can curl)?
I'm trying to set up a network using an AirPort Extreme as a router (connected to the WAN on one end and the LAN on the other). I understand that out of the box I will have a hardware firewall, and the ability to set up DHCP, but am unclear on what the best way to add the capabilities of Lion Server, or if there's even any advantage to doing so. Specifically, (1) I'd like to use Lion Server, rather than the AirPort Extreme for DHCP, mostly because the UI is much easier to use and provides finer control. (2) I wonder if there's any reason to use Lion Server as the firewall, instead of or in addition to AirPort Extreme (or if that even makes sense).
I want to be able to copy portions of PDF file and paste into another document like MS Word format document. The important thing is that any portion that is copied must preserver original formatting fonts etc. when it is pasted into my document. So what product is out there on the writing side and what product is out there on the PDF side?
Under Snow Leopard and Spaces you could define which Space an app should automatically launch in, including the ability to indicate that it should be visible in every space. My apps are respecting the settings I applied before upgrading to Lion -- for example, iChat, QuickTime Player, and my Billings time tracker show up in all Spaces, Chrome always launches in space 2, etc. -- but there no longer seems to be any way to modify them or add these kinds of defaults for new apps. Is there any way to make these assignments with Mission Control?
The new Versions feature in Lion creates hidden files that store old versions of the document you're working on in case you want to revert back to some older version of the document. If I drag a document to the Trash, then select Secure Empty Trash from the Finder menu, do the hidden version files get securely deleted along with the document?
If I upgrade to Lion, will I still be able to use iChat to take over my elderly father's Mac (we have MobileMe accounts) to help him with problems and software updates? I read in some forums that this is broken in Lion, but I don't know if those were isolated incidents or not. Kindly requesting that gracious Lion iChat users test this and report results here.
After upgrading to Lion, this no longer seems to work. I've not changed any settings, and disabled any third party tweaks that might interfere. Still, it seems weird that such a strange edge case would be specifically removed, so I'm wondering if anybody else can confirm/reproduce this behavior? If you've got dual displays and wouldn't mind testing it out real quick and reporting back whether it works or not and what OS you're on, that will help narrow down what's going on. As a side note, I know that I can rearrange the displays in the Arrangement tab to have the left one 'sit' a bit lower, which will give me a corner to aim for, but this is non-ideal since then windows will look pretty funky when they span it, as I don't want to have to physically re-arrange the screens. In addition to testing this out, if anybody has a link/source that documents this behavior for either OS, I'd appreciate it.
I am using iMovie HD (6.0.3) to export to iDVD 7.1.2. If I make any changes to the iMovie project, iDVD asks me if I want to update assets. When I click "Update", all my chapter markers are ruined because they all point to one marker. If I click "Cancel", I can't burn the DVD. I have searched high and low on many different forums, but I haven't found an answer. The only way I've fixed my markers is by 1) Starting the iDVD project over again or 2) Deleting the iDVD .plist file (which really isn't a solution, because once I open the project again, it asks me again if I want to update assets which…………and the process repeats itself again).
I'm primarily a Windows admin, but I just got a new MacBook Air with Lion on it. I'm trying to use it with my Brother MFC-7820N printer/scanner/fax device. I've installed drivers, and am able to both print and scan, BUT not via TWAIN (applications such as Image Capture and Preview do not show the scanner as a valid source for importing documents).
I'm considering getting a new MacBook Air, and wondering whether to get the extra diskspace that the 256GB model offers. 128GB seems like it might be plenty but then I remembered that the OS takes up some space the pre installed apps also take up some space. So an upgrade from 128 to 256 would actually more than double the usable capacity of the machine. But by how much? So my question is on a brand new, straight out of the box, July 2011 MacBook Air 13" if you right click on the mac disk and Get Info how much available space does it report.
I am using an external USB drive for video. Is it possible to increase the speed of the drive to make rendering/copying/, etc., faster? When I have a couple of applications writing to the drive, and I open up the hard drive in the Finder, it takes awhile to load the files/folders.
On my second drive image dimensions do not show. On my main drive they do. Is there some way to enable that? Thanks a lot.
I'm trying to use the new "three finger drag" gesture in Lion and it's not working. There isn't a preference setting for it in TrackPad -> Point and Click either. Does anyone know how to turn it on?
Anyway, to get around this issue, I turned off the wireless connectivity on the 2Wire, changed the Time Capsule to Bridge Mode instead of the current setting of "Share a Public IP address". I then connected an ethernet cable from a port in the 2Wire to the WAN connection on the Time Capsule, and everything seems to work ok connection wise. The Time Capsule light is green, and I can connect wirelessly from my computers at home.
So I installed Lion and I can't stand the way finder arranges icons arrange by date. Finder makes a bunch of sub headings like: today, yesterday, past 30 days or earlier. These settings have a show all button/coverflow thing. Is there a way to get rid of the headings? Thanks.
I have an early 2011 17" Macbook Pro which is giving me issues related to SATA 6.0gbps; these issues were apparently consistent with the first machines off the line but some of the later machines have been better. I bought my first in March but fed up with the issue I went this week and bought another - alas - same issue. How can I determine the manufacturing date of the machine?
I listen to music on my iPhone 4 while working out on stair master. After about an hour, voice control turns on by itself. I turn it off but it comes back on. Then the iPod is paused then skips couple songs. It doesn't stop. I think it has to do with headphones or something. Maybe sweat getting into headphones? This happens almost every time I work out.
How long should I expect it to take to do a clean install of Lion on an already-formatted disk? I'm using a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro with an i7 and a 5,400RPM 500GB hard drive. (I ask because I think my hard drive is in bad condition, and the installation seems like it's taking too long.)
Today, i looked over my keychain and was surprised to find out that i have several apple certificates as part of it. I wonder .. what is the significance of them and how could i have possibly gotten them? (I am not a registered apple developer)
I'm sure this is not the correct forum for this but figured it was pretty close. Does anyone know of any courses in Melbourne Australia for iOS development? I've been developing in the MS arena my whole life and am looking at getting into Objective-C with regards to mobile devices but cannot seem to find any courses. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.
How long should I expect it to take to enable FileVault 2 on a fresh installation of Lion? I'm using a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro with an i7 and a 5,400RPM 500GB hard drive with only 10GB used. John Siracusa's 19-page review for Ars Technica had this to say: Encryption happens transparently in the background, which is a good thing because it takes a long time. Hopefully someone can be a bit more precise than this.
After fresh install the Mac OS X Lion, when I tried to download again my purchased mac apps with App Store, I found that they are checked as installed. How can I reinstall my paid apps?
This is very neat to not always have the scroll bars displayed over every windows. I might be facing an edge case though: when opening a vnc session I sometimes need to scroll the window displaying the remote display but as expected it does not scroll when the cursor is inside the window as the mouse events are handled by the remote system. This means that to scroll I either toggle the show scroll bars to always or resize the window to make the scroll bars appearing a few moments. My question: is there a way to make the scroll bars appearing without having always as show scroll bars setting or resizing the window?
How can I turn off the autosave feature on all applications in lion?
In Windows I can create self-extracting archives, which end in exe instead of rar, and then you don't need to have an unarchiver available to extract them. How can I create a self-extracting archive for Mac?
I have a large Firewire disk permanently plugged into my Mac mini. Whenever possible, this external disk is where I install any new apps. How do I get these apps to show up in Launchpad?
I have a Nero Disk Image(.nrg) File and I would like to mount it on OSX to copy it's contents. I've tried to rename to .iso and to use NRG2ISO with no luck. Any tips ?
I have just restored my iPad but for some reason (most likely because I pressed space bar on that text field but do you not remember) my newly restored iPad is called "iPad" rather than "my name's iPad". Is there a way to rename your iPad without having to go though the restore process again? Note: Jailbreaking is not of the question. Thanks
I accidentally deleted all the mp3 files on my computer (as opposed to just the ones in my downloads folder). There were a lot of files (around 2,000) so it took a while to delete but now, although at the bottom trash says it holds 2,500 files, they don't show up. I need to drag these back onto my computer into their respective folders but I can't find them. I am running Mac OS X 10.8 (Leopard) on an iMac. Any assistance would be much appreciated!
In OS X 10.7 Lion, the iTunes dashboard widget from 10.6 Snow Leopard is no longer on the dashboard, I can't find a method of adding it again, it doesn't appear to be listed. I frequently used this to control play/pause and track forward back.
There is an option in the Finder. Right click in the background of a finder window, the new toolbar icon or cmd+j. To change the view of the sorting/arranging I can choose between "Sort by" "Clean Up By" "Arrange by"
What does Mail do to the file or files differently when it sends attachments that are Windows friendly?
When i try to reduce my mac book volume it suddenly shows that this isn't possible, even the icon in the menu bar is (grey inactive) This happens sometimes since i installed lion os
Does the MB Air with thunderbolt only connect with Apples Thunderbolt monitor? What are the options for third party monitors with DVI or VGA?
I need to install both Xcode 4.1 and Xcode 3.X on Lion. After installing Xcode 4.1, when I tried to install Xcode 3.X in ~/Developer, I find that I can't install Xcode Toolset with the installer.
How can I create a bundle of HTML/CSS/JS/Image files that can be double-clicked to bring up a web browser? Ideally I would like to be able to use an icon on the file as well. Is there a plugin for Chrome or Firefox that I could use to save page as a bundle?
I'd like to move my kids applications to a separate account but am trying to figure out the best way to move the application data. For example, are documents and settings stored somewhere consistently on a Mac or do I need to use some sort of migration assistant?
And also  For reference, these are FeedLight and Bohemian Broadsheet styles.
I'm thinking of upgrading to Lion after hearing that they've upgraded Terminal.app somewhat. The main thing I've heard is that Terminal.app now supports 256 colors, but I don't care about colors. I want mouse events in screen without using MouseTerm.
Is is possible to display a progress bar when copying files in Terminal using cp?
I have an external HD that's about 60% full. The remaining space is more than enough for a Time Machine backup of my hard drive. If I enable Time Machine using that disc, will it erase my existing files, or just use the free space?
Since I updated to 10.6.8 yesterday (and this might be coincidence), both Quicktime Player (I still use 7) and VLC (current version) keep stopping the video (but not the audio) of movies I am watching. This happens whether they are in the background or fullscreen and fixes itself when the program gains focus. Is this a faulty video driver that came with 10.6.8 or what could be the reason? Mac Pro 2009 2x2.26 GHz, 24 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870.
All the music on my iPod is legal, either ripped from my own CDs or purchased from the iTunes Store. On a road trip recently a friend said she liked the music, so I was thinking of making her a mixed CD of some of the songs. I know I can make a mixed CD of the songs for my own use in my own car, but is it legal for me to give the mixed CD to her as a gift? Thanks. Note: Author of question is from Canada.
I wanted to test the new recovery mode in Lion and can't find a way to enter that mode using a bluetooth keyboard. There are steps how to get a single user mode or safe boot using sudo nvram boot-args
I already tried this: But it doesn't seem to work under Mac OS X 10.7 (aka. Lion) anymore:
For whatever reason, one of our macs didn't make a recovery partition when it upgraded to Lion. Is it possible to add a recovery partition after the fact?
On previous versions of Mac OS X pressing ⌥+⇧+volume+ would adjust the volume by quarter increments. This seems to have been removed in Lion. Is there any way to do fine volume adjustment now?
I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (2011) with Lion preinstalled. There is this persistent and incredibly annoying problem that is occurring with the WiFi. Every time I close the lid or let the computer go to sleep, and then begin reusing it, the popup comes up asking me to select a network to join. IT remembers the password, it just wont connect me until I chose a network. This happens every time. Things I've tried: Restarting computer Turning WiFi on and then off Changing encryption of the wireless (even though it happens to all wireless networks)
Title says it all. I've used HandBrake, Subler, VideoMonkey, and RipIt. I'm familiar with mencoder. None of them seem to be able to rip the subtitles from a DVD and then get the soft subtitles to the iPad.
Does anyone know if it is possible to keep the menubar in Mac OS Lion visible for fullscreen apps instead of hidden until hovered over with a mouse or trackpad? I imagine there's some Terminal command I can enter to adjust this preference.
I am trying to install xcode 4.1 with lion. Apparently at 3/4 of the installation problem, it says to close itunes, which is not open. How can I fix the problem?
Any attempt to connect to a server over port 143 is blocked by the OS. I've verified it's not my connection; other computers on the network can see the port just fine. I've replicated the problem on a different network, as well as both the Ethernet and Wifi interfaces. On my Macbook, I get this: On another computer on the same network: The problem is due to a lot of extraneous ipfw rules: I cannot find where these settings are coming from, disabling the firewall has no effect.
But turning off en1 or en0 or the unseen Bluetooth DUN that does not show up(!) in the gui. give one time to run this: <=(serveradmin list) parallel serveradmin stop {}
Right now my fans have been spinning for a couple of hours. However, the cpu usage is low, nothing seems to be running, spotlight is not indexing, all the diagnostics i can think of tell me not much is happening except i have a few connections open.
I gathered that it's not recommended to download torrents using an SSD (due to the high number of write operations, the SSD will be worn out pretty fast). I've changed to an AirDisk connected through my Airport Extreme for downloading torrents (uTorrent for Mac). Does this wear out the SSD on my MacBook Pro? Thanks!
I moved to using an external disk (a Drobo) on 1 machine as a Time Machine backup for all of my machines. I've got 2 of the machines backing up perfectly, but the problem is with the machine that the drive is connected to. When I start the backup of the directly connected machine, Time Machine creates the folder structure /Backups.backupdb/[computer name]/ instead of just creating another sparsebundle file.
I have a removable Firewire drive. It has several partitions, many of which have Mac OS installers on them (I'm a developer/sysadmin, and need to reinstall fairly frequently). However, I also use this disk for backup and storage, so I don't want to install an operating system every time I attach it.
I owned a MacBook Pro. I want to play a PC game called WarCraft 3 (with the DotA mod). I have Google and done some research on how to play DotA on the Mac. I can think of three possibilities:
However, in Lion, even though ⌘+H hides the app, it only moves it to the next position in the switcher. This is equivalent to ⌘+⇥ing between 2 apps, except that the app is now also hidden from view. IMO, this breaks a fundamental feature of the switcher and the app-hiding concept. I have no idea why this was done.
Is there is any way to turn off animation while navigating through pages in safari (using one finger swipe left/right gesture)? I know, that it is a subtle different thing comparing to what we've accustomed to call navigation, since clicking back/forward history buttons works as expected. But as for me, it is really annoying, eye straining and time consuming - to see animation each time you use mouse gestures to navigate.
I just purchased an iPad 2. I was trying configure mail in my new iPad. I followed this tutorial for configuring mail on my iPad. But after I enter the required information and click Next, I receive this message : Cannot connect Using SSL Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL? If I click Yes I receive a message :
I want to know the meaning of the letters in the project navigator in Xcode; (Ms & A)
Where can I find those symbols on Mac OS such as Apple logo, small iPhone?
There's be mention made of the fact that OS X Lion Server ships with PostgreSQL as it's standard database rather than MySQL. Can anyone confirm:
My Mac Pro Cyrus (running 10.6.8 in 64 bit mode) keeps writing the same message (for different lengths) to the kernel.log file every second: I think this has happened before I updated to 10.6.8. Just about an hour ago Cyrus had a kernel panic and needed to restart. I don't know if it is related. I notice that Cyrus' little brother Xerxes (an iMac running 10.6.8 in 32 bit mode) doesn't have these problems. What can it be?
In my recently acquired iPad2, the Safari "Open Page" button is not working. All the rest of the buttons work fine, except this one... The oddest thing is that when I "long-tap" a link and choose "Open in a new page", the animation shows all the other pages (though I can't tap/select/close any of them) before opening the new page...
I have seen many discussions describing SSD as fail-prone. I have read Jeff Atwood's warnings. Portman Wills' experiment looks alarming: Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days Further research yields that a rule of thumb makes an SSD cell with more than 100,000 writes practically unusable.
I have the wine software on my mac and I have a little problem here: I try running my windows executable and I get this error in the console:
Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that you cannot even get to the partition table without decrypting it? And if not, is there any support for reading File Vault disks on Windows, Linux, or, for that matter, Snow Leopard ?
I am forced to Jailbreak an iPad so that I can deploy a custom application for a client. This is an application that no one can have but him, so basically jailbreaking is the only choice I have? I can't even install the app as a demo through the provisioning profile because that expires I think in 1 year? What legal implications, in various jurisdictions, are there for jailbreaking an iOS device?
EDIT: I went into my router's settings and changed the wi-fi channel from 9 to 11. It doesn't seem to be disconnecting anymore. I'll wait some more and see if this is true.
Which OS X Lion features wouldn't work on a late 2008 MacBook? The system in question has a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and has been upgraded to 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive, so it meets the hardware requirements. (Oh, and the MacBook is white. ;-) Am I right in thinking the only major thing not supported would be the lack of some multi-touch gesture functionality, assuming no external trackpad is attached?
I'm trying to use the full screen mode in Lion, but I can't get the menubar to show up at all. I push my cursor up to the top of the screen, wait a second, and nothing. Some apps will seem like they're trying to do something (e.g., Safari will change what's visible in the toolbar), but in no case does the menubar actually appear. Needless to say, I really effectively can't use full screen mode this way. Any suggestions on how to get the menubar to show up?
Is it possible to select more than one app icon at a time in Launchpad and then drag them to a folder?
Can the Migration Assistant be stopped midway through? I began the wireless transfer from a Mac Mini to a new MacBook Air last night. It still says it's going to take 40 hours. Unfortunately, I can't wait that long, and the process is taking up both of my computers. In case of catastrophic failure what recourse do I have, as the MacBook Air doesn't have a system restore disk?
I use Mail to connect to a traditional IMAP server (non-Gmail). I've noticed that all the messages I send are placed in Mail's "Sent" folder and that Mail is translating this folder to a server folder called "Sent Messages". The problem is that on the IMAP server, the real folder meant to store sent messages is called "Sent Mail".
I just got a new MBP that came with Lion, and they didn't give me any install disks. If I swap in my new SSD, how can I install Lion on the new drive?
I want to rip a dvd (and/or blu-ray) to an ISO, but remove some of the features on the disk (i.e. menus, extra features). DvdFab and DvdShrink for Windows allow users to do this. Any similar programs for Mac?
On Snow Leopard, the locate database is updated once a week by a launchd job, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I'd like to make the updater run daily, but AFAIK it's considered very bad form to edit anything in /System. What's the best way to change its StartCalendarInterval so it runs once a day?
I've upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, then I purchased and installed the Server from App Store. Now I'd like to remove the Server features, and revert to standard Lion. I don't mind reinstalling, I don't want to reformat, or restore from backup. What is the most correct and complete process?
When you buy a new mac, the iLife apps are redeemed with App Store validation codes which means you can upgrade/install iLife 11 on your other macs. (Assuming you have fewer than the current store limit of 5 macs connected to your store Apple ID and the software requirements are met). Does this also apply to Lion?
I have this applet made in java, which relies on the users keycode input. The case is that I have to press "Insert" for a function, which doesn't exist on the keyboard. Another function requires the "Page Up", which is also missing from my keyboard. I have the BT Keyboard (no numpad). I did not make the applet and there are no options to change the keyboard-controls. How can I send these 'keys' to the Java applet?
From time to time I want to simulate having a full keyboard even though my Mac uses the smaller Apple bluetooth keyboard. It is most important for the system events to get the actual key pressed as much as possible and not just find another shortcut that maps to the same action once it hits the OS. I had hoped to use (or better trick) the supplied keyboard viewer, but the OS "cleverly" shows me the layout I have instead of the layout I want.
I really want to upgrade to Lion, however I have some concerns with upgrading an OS, believe me, upgrading OS is far too scary for me, anyway, I just read on upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, now I want to understand what I have to do, can I just download Lion from the App Store then just open it, which will install Lion. The part that gets me, when installing/upgrading, will my files on Snow Leopard be intact, because I have so much to transfer if I were to upgrade. I have no external HDD which I'm thinking of buying soon. All I need is some piece of advice and explanation what goes on in the installation/upgrading process. Thanks! EDIT:
I'm new to Mac usage. It seems that most commands trip over options given after the file names. In linux, which I've used for years, it doesn't matter. On Apple, it does. Is there some setting somewhere or some hack to make commands like ls behave "normal"?
Hallo, I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion from Snow Leopard on my 2009 Unibody Macbook. Now, checking in activity monitor I often find a strange process named helpd taking large parts of the memory ~400 MB.
I want to be able to change the password of a disk image, but fully automated. Is there a way to enter a string as a password instead of plain text? Or can I have a .txt file with nothing but the password, and somehow import that into the password field? Thanks very much.
Mac OS ‘Lion’ introduced a version control system with a fancy user interface called Versions. I’m slowly getting used to working with it and find it quite powerful.
Is is possible to do multi-camera editing in Final Cut Express like this or this? EDIT: I am using FCE 3.5 HD on Snow Leopard. Is that bad?
I have Mail 4.5 on 10.6.7 and a Google apps account. My total message counts for each folder in Mail don't match the counts I see in the GMail web UI.
I got the app Baby Story for my iPod Touch a while ago, and then decided I didn't like it and deleted it. Part of the reason I got rid of it was because it would pop up random messages with things like, "Your baby is hungary!" The app appears to be completely deleted, and I can't find any reference to it on the iPod anywhere, but I'll still get random notifications with things like, "Your baby is sick." Is there a way, short of reformatting the iPod, to stop these messages?
I am leaning towards getting a SSD for my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009), since this is my first journey into SSD I was wondering if there was anything I needed to consider as far as drive specs when it comes to the mac. I am currently running Snow Leopard but will be upgrading to Lion shortly. As I understand Lion added Trim support, but I could not find a list of drives it supports Trim with. So does Lion support Trim on all SSD? Are there any other things I need to check to make sure the SSD I purchase is compatible?
I've been using Apple's screen sharing tool to connect from a client to an Xserve for a while and it's just occurred to me that doing so might be quite a bad idea! I know VNC is inherently insecure and that it is possible to tunnel it over SSH, but does Apple's Screen Sharing tool use any secure transport protocol? If not then surely I've been typing in server passwords on my client and they have been transported over the network in plain text. Anyway, I now use the Server Management tools and SSH when possible, but I'm sure there will be times when I still need to use VNC.
My Startup Items for my username (i am admin) shows only dropbox - yet a look at my processes (in activity monitor) shows other helper processes from Adobe, Lexmark, etc, etc. Where can I see and manage these processes that are being launched on startup? update
I have Office 2011 installed on Mac OS 10.6 and I tried to send an email to multiple recipients and got this error: The message could not be sent because it has unresolved recipients. And now, every time it does Send/Receive I get this error: A message could not be sent
Short answer: Touch is not a cell-phone. I'm looking for long answer because I don't really get why iPhone is like 2x more expensive than Touch?
I would like to know what chapters in keynote are and how you generate them. NOTE: I first encountered these options when I made a keynote recording and it asked me stuff about making chapters. An other application where I encountered the chapter option was in podcast producer where it askes me if I want to integrate chapters.
Are there any kind of troubles that I could get into if I use the same install CD on two laptops? I've just received a laptop from my workplace, but apparently they lost the install CD, and I want to use my own to "clean up" the laptop.
Is it possible to access Yime Capsule's files from iPhone? On my Mac I'm simply connecting to afp://10.0.1.1/ and I have my data.
will it open on Word on Windows? I don't have a Word on Windows and I've only Pages on my Mac.
I bought lion server and would like to set up an address book server to keep contacts synchronized. With the address-book side panel is selected I click the On/Off switch, which should turn it on. I then click off that side panel, and back on and nothing it is once again in the off position. No errors, no feedback nothing.
I've just installed Lion on my 24" iMac from 2006 and do have again problems with screen-freezes due to overheating. This is a known issue with the 2006 iMacs since OSX late 10.5 / 10.6. While for (Snow) Leopard it was possible to overcome this problem by deactivating a kernel extension of the graphics card driver, this does not seem to have any effect with Lion.
I am getting this error. Can anybody help me? /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found;
I have audiobooks copied to my iPhone that I didn't buy on iTunes. How can I get them to show up in the Audiobooks section? It's annoying having them mixed with music, because I usually use shuffle.
i just got a dell printer that is WIFI because my old printer broke. my wife now wants to buy an apple computer or laptop. Would she be able to print from an apple computer to a dell printer?
Edit: I have active windows on each desktop that I would like to stay there, so closing all of my apps and regenerating desktops is not helpful. Similarly, gathering all windows to a single desktop and regenerating desktops is again not helpful. The point is to reduce tedium, so anything that involves more steps is clearly not what I'm after.
i need to use visual studio and a few other windows programs but i am now looking at getting an iMac. Can someone recommend the best solutions for being able to use these windows programs from a mac. I see that there is bootcamp built into the mac operating system but i am unclear if that is the best solution from a workflow point of view (switching back and forth)
I think Hazel is a great idea, but I'm having trouble finding practical uses for it. A short search revealed the below pages, but I still didn't find anything compelling. Why I Started Using Hazel for Mac Mac Automation Tips: Hazel Seven Amazing Uses for Hazel
We upgraded from CS 4 to CS 5.5 last month. We also upgraded from suitcase fusion 2 to 3 because of this. Both apps with the latest updates.
I'm wondering what kind of setup I need on my Linux machine to be able to connect to it using the default "Connect to Server" (command + k) in OSX. I'm going to ask this on askubuntu as well, but I want to see if anyone here knows the server connection types that the default file connections in OSX are?
I have a unique plan: I have a 2009 Mac Mini mid-2009 with 10.6 OS X. I just got the 2011 Mac Mini with 10.7. But I am planning to use the hard drive from the 2009 Mac Mini with 10.6 OS X as an external USB drive for my new 2011 Mac Mini.
If I am in a specific path in a Terminal window, how can I open that same window in a new Finder window? Note: This is the opposite of opening a Terminal from Finder.
In Safari, when I click on the magnifying glass in the search bar I get a menu, the bottom of which lists Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. I'd like to see Wikipedia here too, and get results returned from the Wikipedia website. FYI, I'm using Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard.
I have an external hard drive with Master Boot Record partition table. I wish to change that to GUID so that I can modify the partition on the fly next time. How do I do that? Is it possible to do with disk utility? (Similar to this, but I have an external hard drive)
What does "everybody" exactly mean in File Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane in Mac Os X. Sounds as if everybody in the local network could read my files without authentication if its set to read-only. Is that right?
Most OSX programs can be installed by dragging the app to the Applications folder (or wherever the user wants them). However, some software must be installed by launching an .mpkg package, acting more like the 'double-click and press next-next-next...' installation method under Windows. For example: Google sketchup has an installer, while Google Picasa is drag-and-drop. Why is this?
Using the technique described in this post: http://paulmayne.org/blog/2007/11/how-to-remove-broken-or-dead-tracks-from-itunes/
I bought the smallest 21" iMac model of the 2011 update cycle. I was planning on having the HDD replaced with an SSD later on. Turned out this would not be an option.
I am working with several files in various formats (PDF, HTML, DOCX) that contain Devanagari (Indian) script. When I try to copy text using either CMD+C or the right-click menu, it is transformed into latin letters immediately: Both the copy source (Safari in this case) and target (TextEdit) support Devanagari script. Why does this happen and how can I fix it?
Is there a nice way to set up an IRC server for my wireless home network, running on an old Mac Mini? On other forums people have recommended compiling IRCD-Hybrid for OS X. I have Homebrew installed and it contains a formula for ngIRCd; would that work? Or should I give up and just use the Bonjour functionality built into iChat?
Is there any way to replace the brown wood-effect toolbars used by Pages on the iPad with something more neutral?
Using iStat (which provides a small graph in the menubar showing the present upload and download speeds), I notice once in a while that something is being downloaded, without any action on my part. Since I allow most of the programs to download all the updates, any of them, plus MacOSX updates, plus Dropbox etc. may be the culprit at any given time. But is there a quick way to understand what exactly is being downloaded at a given moment (for instance, to stop it if the case might be)?
I have 2 apple ID. All of them are not mac.com or me.com account. I didn't know about them hone making the accounts. However, now I can't login with my apple ID on iChat. I have been used Google Talk account, but it has too many features not supported. I want full featured iChat experience (support all iChat features including file transfer, group chat, video chat...). What should I do?
I have my iMovie events stored on my external harddrive (located in a Synology NAS). It worked like a charm with iMovie '11 on Snow Leopard.
I like to keep things neat in my computer, so when I started to have too many apps, I decided to create subfolders within my /Applications folder and move tings around. Sometimes, I got asked to enter my password.
With Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A411) alone, or with Xcode 4.1: A graphical view of load on a timeline would be useful but not essential. I would be equally happy with useful results from something run at the command line. Popularly-referenced (and well written) sources such as Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review (page 13) (2011-07-20) discuss uses of the CPU in ways that are reassuring, for example:
When Lion's Mail Inbox is set to "Organize by Conversation", an odd behavior often occurs. If I hit Reply to the latest email from my correspondent, the recipient in the new email is me, not this correspondent.
I'm trying to prepare a trailer with nice presets incoming in iMovie 2011... Can I change the storyboard or alter clip length? If so, how?
I know how to determine if a program is an Intel or PPC application (with Cmd-I or in the Activity Monitor). But how can I find all PPC applications that still lurk on my disk? Before upgrading to Lion I'd rather know which (seldom used) applications on my disk won't work anymore (I'd be happy with GUI or terminal ways to do this).
This one took me awhile to discover, but you can show the Dock while in Lion's new full-screen mode: Place your cursor to the side where you currently store your Dock (right, left, or bottom), so that it's sitting on the last pixel of that edge. Then lift your finger and push towards the edge again, holding it in the push. Voilà, the Dock appears.
I've updated my OS to Lion today. But now, I can't remove the folder "maven-2.2.0" from Finder Sidebar. This folder was deleted from my computer, and I can't right click on it. How to do it?
I have a MacBook Pro from mid 2009 annoying me. When I turn it on, the led blinks rapidly, about 14 times, and then the Mac beeps once. The screen remains black and nothing happens. So I have to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. When I turn it on again, no beep or blinks, but still a black screen. I repeat that 3 more times and the Mac finally turns on and works normally. I use it, shut it down and when I want to use it again, I have to go through that process all over again: the beep, blinks and 4 tries until it comes back to life. I've opened it and tried changing the memories, the hard drive, but no different results. It's worth mentioning that I was reinstalling it for triple boot when that happened, however I've repartitioned the HD and it's back to the original state now, so I believe it does't have to do with that reinstall. I'm not able to run the hardware test pressing D before startup, even with the original disc. I googled for it but couldn't find any alike pat
A few months ago I setup an Instiki wiki using Snow Leopard. It took me quite a while, as I had to work some black magic to understand which version of ruby (plus gems/rails) I was supposed to install/update.
Is it just me or is there a right-click bug for Chrome in OS X Lion? I first noticed that double finger tapping the trackpad didn't show any menu when in chrome (either on a link or on anything).
I have snow leopard and have been using time machine to regularly backup files. How / is it possible to compare files on your hard drive with those in your time machine backup?
After upgrading to Lion, I boot up and most of my icons don't appear on the right side of the top menu bar and when I hover over spotlight, I get the spinning pinwheel and there's no network access. The preferences open up fine but when I click on network, it hangs. The only way I can get around it is to reboot while holding down the shift key. I read about a fix (that didn't work for me) that clears the font caches by executing:
I had subscribed to my meetup.com calendar via iCal and after a week decided to delete the calendar subscription by right clicking on the subscribed calendar name and clicking delete. However, I still get popups to add events to my calendar for meetup even after I deleted it. I thought I'd resysnc my data from Mobile.me and overwrite my calendar data on my mac with the data from Mobile.me and the calendar data doesn't even appear in the Mobile.me preferences, though everything else seems to still be there. Has anyone else had this problem and know how to: get the phantom calendars to go away forever get iCal to re-appear in Mobile.me sync preferences -- Brian
Is there a way I can save the history for what I have searched for in Dictionary.app or save them for reference within the application itself ?
When playing some TV shows on Netflix on a new Apple TV, sometimes the show does not start playing. I get the spinning pinwheel for a "normal" period of time, then a black screen. If I press select, I can see the playback progress bar shows the proper length for the show I selected, but the only command it responds to is Menu.
My MBP has the IP 192.168.1.109. From there it seems OK. a showmount -e 192.168.1.2 shows the list: Exports list on 192.168.1.2: /volume1/video 192.168.1.109 /volume1/homes 192.168.1.109 But unfortunately, my mount always fails: GroundControl:/ ludo$ sudo mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.1.2:/volume1/homes /Volumes/home mount_nfs: can't mount /volume1/homes from 192.168.1.2 onto /Volumes/home: Operation not permitted The /Volume/home directory is created upfront.
I have a Macbook Pro 15" running OS X 10.6.8. When not connected to an external monitor, launching Terminal looks like this. Note the width of the text (almost looks bold). When connected to my 24" Dell 2408WFP monitor (via Mini DisplayPort to DVI connector), launching Terminal looks like this. Note the skinny non-bold appearance of the text. Even more odd is Terminal decides on the text style depending on when the app was first launched. If Terminal was initially launched with no external monitor connected, it uses the bold style. If I keep Terminal open and hot connect to my Dell monitor, all subsequent new Terminal windows will use the bold style. If I exit Terminal and relaunch, it uses the skinny non-bold text. This behavior is really annoying as I prefer the non-external monitor bold appearance.
So I've upgraded to Lion, but now I can't enable File Sharing, when I press the checkbox, it simple shows the "correct" symbol and in less than half of a second it removes it again. This happens the same for the 2 checkboxes under the Options... as well. What can I do to enable File Sharing again?
Struggling to fix several issues since I switched to Lion (see here and there), I came across several ways of connecting network shares to my MBP: NFS, AFP, SMB, CIFS (maybe others). What are the differences between all these protocols and what is the one giving the more advantages to a MacOS system?
I currently use Gmail and Google Calendar for my primary email and calendar system. I've been using them both through the web interface so I can best take advantage of all the features. However I'm considering switching to Mail & iCal, and I'm trying to figure out what I will and won't be able to do. (I already set up syncing with Mail & Calendar on my iPhone, and Address Book on both my iPhone and Mac.) Here are the features I use: Keyboard shortcuts in Gmail
If I am listening to all my music and I hear a song and I think it would be great to add to a certain playlist (lets say a playlist i called "gym mix", is there anyway to do this from the iPod touch itself, instead of having to remember this and them do it from iTunes when i am at my computer. This seems like a basic function but i can't find it anywhere
I've heard of RGB Sub-Pixel Rendering. I'm wondering does the IPhone 3 have this capability (or is it that each pixels are only 1 color) ? I'm wondering does the IPhone 3 have this capability (or is it that each pixels are only 1 color) ? What about the IPhone 4? What about the IPhone 4?
After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion with added volume encryption along the way, my boot partition wasn't case sensitive any more. Is there a way to convert it back to being case sensitive without reformatting? I know that iPartition claims to be able to do this, but I'm a little hesitant to shell out money for a tool that I'd probably use exactly once.
I'm new to Mac and using a Macbook Air with Lion and a German keyboard. From my PC I'm used to other keyboard shortcuts for {} and [].
I've 22 inch iMac. I am using it about 1 year and just noticed that the top back of the screen is very hot as i can't put my hand about half a minute on it.
I have 7 mail accounts configured with Apple Mail. The dock icon shows the count of new emails for all of my accounts. How can I disable notification for 2 of those 7 accounts, so it just shows me the counter for the other 5 accounts?
I see that Address Book has a field for entering a friend's Facebook profile. However, many of my friends don't have an actual facebook username (ie a profile at facebook.com/username), but just the old user ID (facebook.com/profile.php?id=blah). Is there any way to make it work with those?
Every time I synchronize my iPhone with iTunes on my computer, for example, when I want to add new music to my iPhone, I suddenly lose all my music on the iPhone. I recently wanted to add a new album to my iPhone. So I plugged it in via USB, checked the album for synchronization in iTunes and started synchronization. After a while it finished and said "Synchronization done. You can disconnect your iPhone now blah blah…".
What do they mean? If I sync my iPhone will anything change on it? Does my iPhone have to have the same data as my iTunes account? (Because it doesn't - by design.) If I get a new iPhone when the iPhone 5 comes out, will I be able to copy everything from my Mac to the iPhone via sync (or backup)? Is there an Apple webpage with the definitive word on this? Thanks, No One in Particular
I downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store, and have been trying to install it to a 32GB USB flash drive. I want to be able to boot my Mac from this disk to use Lion and test some things out before I upgrade my Mac's main hard disk.
Tried transferring 4gb file yesterday and seems to be taking such a long time. Anyone knows the transfer speed? It may help to say that I'm using last year's AirPort Extreme.
If I create an account, and don't give it a password, what's the password to SSH it?
Reading through other questions I learned that the 2010 Air came with one, but I don't remember noticing any USB drives when I unboxed my 2011 Air (days ago).
I have an iMac 27" (late 2009) running Lion OS X with all latest patches. There is an external USB drive (Mac partition, journalled), on which I have created a network share using AFP.
I'm working on MacOSX environnement, but I would like to tweak it a bit. I have a few bash scripts I used in Linux to retrieve infos such as IP, average ping and so, that I would like to be displayed in a persistant place. (I.E. the doc, or the menu bar). I did not found any documentation on this topic, can someone provide a few link or the name of the correct man page to read about that? thanks
Ideally I'd like to receive notifications on both devices. Is this possible?
I've recently switched to a MacBook as my main platform for doing work. Previously, I was an all-Linux sort of person (I now run Linux under VMware). But there are still a few UI differences that are driving me crazy, and one of them is this:
Since I upgraded to Lion, my second SATA drive stopped working. The issue occurs only for reading files, not writing. I can unmount it, but I can't rename nor delete files.
has anyone managed to run fusion 2.x under Mac OS Lion? Since the update it says Incompatibility with 64 bit kernel
Can I watch 3D movies on my Mac? If not, can I just watch them normally in 2D (not having 2 pictures side by side).
I'm trying to VNC into my MBP running Lion using TightVNC on Win7. Under Screen Sharing I have Allow access for All Users turned on, and Anyone may request permission and VNC viewers may control screen checked. When I try to connect, it connects fine, but all I see is a screen full of the textured dark grey background used on the login screen. If I log out of my Mac then VNC in, I'm presented with the Login screen proper, can login over VNC and everything works fine, but this is not how I expect VNC to work and not how I require it to work. Is there a way to make it so VNC-ing in simply controls the currently logged in user like it usually does? Anthony
When I'm writing text in Danish, the iPhone always auto-corrects foto into FOTO which is immensely annoying. How can I prevent that specific suggestion from ever showing up again? This is iOS version 4.2.1.
update1: after i check with other application, it still failed to save any file into my ntfs drive. looks like the problem comes from Paragon. anyway i changed the title
I just replaced my optic drive from MacBook Pro with another 500gb HDD and I want to speedup one of the partitions. The first drive has two partitions, named 106 and 107 and I want to convert one of them to use the second drive. The problem is that disk utility does not let me add any of the partitions from the first disk to a RAID set.
I have a mac pro 2008, and the graphics card (nvidia 8800GT) has started to lock up - I can still move the mouse but cannot do anything in Windows 7 (I hardly use OSX latelly so dont know if it happens there). The entire screen goes all garbled (various colours, flashing) and I have to reboot the machine. The latest nvidia drivers for windows 7 have been installed, and until now everything has been rock solid.
Until recently, when I pressed Option-Cmd-Eject, my MacBook Pro used to go to sleep almost immediately (e.g. within three or four seconds). It's a MBP 8,2 with an SSD and 8GB RAM.
As a rule of thumb programs on Mac OS X stay running when you close all their document windows. This is the behavior I noticed in MacVim, VmWare Fusion, Chrome and host of other applications. I personally find this of no use and frankly quite annoying, although having had some number of experiences confirming that my opinion is not always the prevailing in a given target group, I assume that there could be a reason for this decision. What are scenarios where this function could be useful?
I've got a Linux Ubuntu 10.10 machine running Vinagre (VNC client) and I can't seem to be able to connect to my spanking new Mac mini on Lion. All I get on the Vinagre side is a blank screen.
It seems that a rather large group of Mac users considers Finder to be a product that contains a number of conceptual failures and oversimplifications. It is however not clear whether Finder can be completely replaced with other application. Is it possible to remove it from the OS, including thing like file open dialogs etc?
I have an A4 PDF document that has content all the way to the border and I want to print it out. Hence I print out on A3 sized paper (i.e. I print on paper twice the size) and then cut it to the actual size. Is there an easy way to add crop marks to the document when printing it?
Auto-correct in Lion is great, but I need to know when it has made a substitution so I can check it. Is there a way to set an audio alert so that OS X makes a sound to alert me everytime it autocorrects? Is there another way to see a quick summary of the auto-correct changes which have occurred in a document?
I have a Mac Book Pro (late 2008, unibody design). Recently I replaced the HD with a crucial SSD and added more RAM (2x 4GB instead of 2x 2GB). I also installed Mac OSX Lion on it. It worked fine for a few days but then started to crash. Either the screen froze or the OSX Kernel panic dialog showed up telling me to reboot. I looked at the crash reports but have no idea what exactly is causing the crash (seems the look different every time) Here is the last one, I can post all of them if that helps.
I'd like to be able to change the displayed desktop in Mission Control without actually exiting Mission control. For example, if I'm on desktop 1 and I go into Mission Control, I see all of the applications in that desktop along with thumbnails for the other desktops. Can I view the applications in the one of the other desktops without having to click on it and leave Mission Control and then go back into Mission Control?
I am looking for a general technical overview of the changes Lion brought to screen sharing (VNC). Specifically, the server now can differentiate and communicate the difference between dropping in and observing whatever user is presently logged in as opposed to starting a new and completely virtual loginwindow process and environment independent from the physical screen.
iPhoto '11 has beautiful email templates that make it a great choice for sharing pics with friends. I can't seem find a way to send emails with the recipients in a BCC field, forcing me to break a cardinal rule of mass emails--putting all the addresses in the TO field OR first email myself and then forwarding the email, which is kind of a pain. Any fix for this from iPhoto itself?
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, and installed the Path Finder file manager for replacing the builtin Finder. Because of that, I have Path Finder setup so that the original Finder is quit during startup. However, during system use sometimes Finder would seem to spontaneously start. Is there a way to check what I did to trip it, or what application, is making Finder start? Thanks.
I see that Lion offers the option of encrypting TIme Machine backup volumes, which seems like a Good Thing. After reading up a bit on this, it seems clear that it will handle the situation where the backup volume is physically attached to the machine being backed up. However, I've gotten mixed signals about whether this will work with networked clients. I have a server with a TM volume, and a number of machines on my network use that server and its disk for TM backups. Can I encrypt the TM volume in this situation, and will Time Machine be able to back up from those clients to the server? I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work, but, like I said, the overall story isn't completely clear. Thanks for any advice!
I have a USB car charger from TomTom. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4, or will that damage my phone?
Basically, after using Fast User Switching to go back and forth between my wife's login and my own, we begin to experience loss of capactive touch functions on the Magic TrackPad. This occurred on both Snow Leopard and now Lion. A little more detail is in my post here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15712385#15712385
How can I use my external hard drive on Mac OS so I can modify/edit files on both OS's: Mac and Windows? How should I format it?
I've upgraded my iMac to Lion and that broke my VPN to work (Check Point's Connectra SNX--it's browser-based, so it does not use OS X built-in VPN). Long story short, until there's a fix, I want to share my MacBook Pro's VPN connection (still running Snow Leopard with VPN working) with my iMac.
I know you can change the icons of files, folders, etc, but in the sidebar folders appear the same. Is it possible to give them a custom icon for the sidebar like the Music, Photo's, Movies, etc folders have?
I got a new MBP with Lion installed (as detailed here: How can I install an SSD on my new Lion MBP w/out install disks?), and I want to clone the drive (including the Lion install partition) to my new SSD drive? (Note: I don't care about the OS or user files since this is a brand new machine).
I'm helping manage a OSX snow leopard server for a small company and one of the first things we did was setup time machine to get backups going. However, having at least one more of the copy of the data seems prudent. It's starting to keep me up at night.
We are running Snow Leopard Server and have setup VPN here and external users can pretty easily connect to it. We want to make it even easier though. The one option that I've spent several hours trying to get to work is "VPN on demand", which you of course can find in the 'Advanced' pane of the VPN network options.
After installing OS X 10.7, Dropbox presented the following error upon loading: "URLs with the type "nwnode:" are not supported". I also got this error from Path Finder (although I don't know what I did to cause it). Both applications only gave me the error once and have not done it since.
Why is 3-4 finger multitouch support not available (not even listed as trackpad preference options) on my late 2008 white plastic Mac book?
I use iTunes DJ pretty frequently, it serves a great purpose for when you have no specific artist/album you wish to listen to, nor a loose collection of songs based around a single genre (Genius). This issue is at it's worst when I'm driving, and wish to listen to music; Voice Command only gives me the ability to pick an artist, album, or playlist. How best am I able to create something which uses my entire Music library, and can quickly, easy, and perhaps most important of all, safely, begin playing any random item?
In Snow Leopard I could switch spaces by pressing ⌘+Number. Is there a way to turn that on in Lion?
Mission Control has been horribly slow on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" (2GHz quad i7, 8GB RAM, 256MB graphics, SSD) -- swiping up usually freezes the screen for 2 seconds, before showing me the Mission Control layout. I've tried switching to discrete graphics only, but the problem doesn't go away.
I'm looking for a way to determine the read/write speed of a disk drive, either by looking up some system information or running a simple benchmark test utility.
Normally, Mac OS X lets you choose to show the login screen as a list of users (you click to enter the password), or two text fields (you enter the username and password): But, I use FileVault 2. So, when I first turn on the computer I'm greeted with the login screen (with a blue background). This is fine, except for one thing: It's a list of users. But, for a variety of reasons, I prefer the 'Name and password' style. Is it possible to have FileVault give a prompt for username and password, instead of a list of users?
I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for disabling the Safari-only mode?
I want to start using my Mail app on Mac the same way I use it on my iPhone. On my iPhone once I read an email it is marked as read in my gmail account as well (if I access it from the web) and vice versa, this does not happen with Mail on my Mac.
I am having some big issues with Mail.app after upgrade to Lion. Performance is horrible. When i open a message, cpu usage grows up to 150% See monitor activity screenshot I already tried to repair permissions and remove all accounts to recreate it but it didn't make any difference.
I have an Ipad 1 GSM (it takes a 3g sim) and i've been looking for the IOS 4.3.3 firmware but cannot find it anywhere online. i found this iPad1,1_4.3.3_8J3_Restore.ipsw
I have a Windows 7 Media Center machine for our family's DVR. It creates recorded TV files in a .wtv format (used to be .ms-dvr in the Vista days). We have a laptop running Lion that I'd like to watch TV shows on occasionally. Obviously it has no idea what .wtv files are. I checked out Adapter, but it doesn't look like .ms-drv or .wtv are supported for conversion. What's the easiest approach to getting these files to play on my Mac? I'd prefer to run a converter on the Mac if possible rather than the DVR just because it's not often that I'd want to watch a show that way.
Like many of you, I'm sure, Mission Control isn't quite cutting it for me in Lion. I much preferred Spaces and Exposé. So, naturally, I tried reinstalling them on Lion. I got Spaces.app, Expose.app, and Expose&Spaces.prefpane from a machine running Snow Leopard, and tried installing them in System Prefs and the Applications folder.
I'd love to be able to use iBooks on my laptop. Is that possible? Maybe if I install Lion?
I maintain more than 20 million files in my trash without cleaning. Can it slow down my Mac OS X?
I just can't find the folder "Contextual Menu Items" on my Mac. I tried these paths : /Library/Contextual Menu Items /System/Library/Contextual Menu Items /Users/nnnn/Library/Contextual Menu Items Nothing found. I didn't use "Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature lately". Thanks for your anwers.
Will 3Tb SATA hard drives work in Xserve (Model Xserve1,1) and allow all the space to be allocated.
I have to admit I'm a bit mystified in trying to understand one particular part of the OS X user interface: interacting with content in "inactive" windows. For example, let's say we have Chrome & Safari each taking up 50% of the viewable screen estate. We're "in" Chrome and want to click a link in Safari - why the need to click twice? (once to activate Safari, again to interact with the link)
I'm a web developer by day and a lot of the software I install on my computer (namely databases and web servers) come with an optional LaunchAgent to automate starting/stopping processes on boot. I'm wondering if there's a GUI for these types of services so I can use the LaunchAgent, then kill the services gracefully. Another great feature would be if I could turn off boot on launch and just use the LaunchAgent to start/stop a service as needed.
I just upgraded my machine to Lion to see if the project works on the new OS, but I else need to support users using the program on machines running OS X 10.5, but Xcode 4.1 doesn't come with the 10.5 SDK, where can I get the SDK & how do I install it on my system?
I am looking for a way to reassign default editor on OS X. For example I want to reassign all file types opened by TextEditor with TextWrangler. Probably it has something to do with the defaults command but I do not know how to list current assignments and change them.
I would like to know if there is a possibility to display the iPad 2 screen on my Mac? You know, silmilar to the Steve Jobs presentations. Thank you for your help.
Do I need any special software? What should I do to connect to a L2TP/IPSec VPN?
Is there any way to revert Web Inspector in Safari 5.1 to the old behaviour that if I have developer tools enabled, all Ajax/XHR, image, css etc requests are logged and when I open Web Inspector, they are available? Now it seems that they only get logged when Web Inspector is open - so if I run into an Ajax issue on my dev site and have closed it meanwhile, I cannot any longer just open WI and see the result of the Ajax request, but instead have to reload the page and try to reproduce the problem once more.
Has anyone run 10.7 as a Server (for iCal and Adressbook) for 10.6-Clients? Did you encounter any Problems one should be aware of before upgrading? TIA
I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files. Considering I had to download multiple large files, is there a way to find out exactly which of the files I should re-download?
I've been putting off from using the App Store, and now it seems I'm kind of obliged to keep doing that. Screen shots are not being loaded, and when I click the button to download an app, nothing happens. I did get the update for an app I installed a while back, I can log in normally, search, check my account, etc. Has anyone ever seen something similar?
I'm a .Net developer running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) on a 2010 MacPro (2.27Ghz/6GB RAM) using Bootcamp. Until about a month ago its been, imo, the ultimate dev workstation. However recently I've noticed that Visual Studio 2010 takes a very long time to redraw its windows. This is most noticeable when switching to it after its been in the foreground.
For various reasons, I've only just updated to iOS4. There are a number of games that I have gained achievements for, it is possible to update the game center app to recognise these achievements automatically?
I updated my Mac from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Lion. Everything went well. The computer restarted when the OS setup finished. Now, Spotlight setup has been running for more than two hours. Is something wrong? In the meantime, I can't open the App Store or Software Update.
I tried Launchpad first time today and went through the common modifier keys & their combinations to see if some hidden options appear. When I pressed ⌥ ALT all the apps started wiggling. What does it mean?
My mac osx from snow leopard 10.6.8 update to Lion,all os setup is all right,but it lookslike can't setpu soptlight ,it stand for the loading process for a long time.(more than 3 hours)
Say that I have two computers connected to the same network. I know that from computer1 and file sharing enabled I can snoop around inside computer2. But say that there is something interesting on computer2, which you access by typing localhost:9091 in safari. (e.g. transmission's web UI). To access that I would have to type in the ip_address_of_computer2:9091 on computer1. But how do I find out computer2's ip address without using computer2?
I like the fact that scrollbars disappear in Lion, but only if I don't have an external mouse plugged in to my MacBook Pro. Is there a way to have this behavior always be on? I know I can set the vanishing scrollbars to be "always off", but I'm basically looking for a way to do the opposite.
Application Exposé (sometimes known as Application Windows) is a wonderful feature. One that I have wished for very hard! However, it seems it isn't available when an using an application window in fullscreen. Is there a way to enable it there too?
According to System Information, I have about 57 GB of "Backups". What exactly is meant by "backups"? I'm guessing iPad and iPhone backups count, but that only accounts for ~25 GB. Where is the rest?
Since upgrading my Late 2010 MacBook Pro to OS X Lion, I noticed that swiping my finger across the trackpad no longer wakes it from sleep mode. Clicking the trackpad or pressing a key on the keyboard does still wake it up as expected. I can't seem to find any related options in System Preferences, so is there another way to re-enable this feature?
I have purchased a second-hand MacBook (13 inch, white) which is quite cool. Now i want to connect it to my external monitor and i have got a Mini-DVI-to-DVI cable from a friend of mine:
EDIT 8/21/11: It appeared that this issue may have been fixed in Update 10.7.1, but it reoccured just recently. Recently after upgrading to Lion, my MBP refuses to allow me to login. I can see the screen and move the pointer, but the password box refuses any entry, and after about ten seconds my pointer turns into the beachball completely freezing up my mac. I was able to temporarily fix the issue by upgrading my system from 4 to 8 GB of RAM which I already had on order, but after a couple boots, it has returned to it's unusable state.
Lately when I walk away from the computer and it goes into sleep mode, I come back and try to us the computer, all the applications are stuck "not responding". I can use the computer and browse around, but any application that was open before going to sleep is now stuck. If I try to open Chrome after, it takes forever and 300% CPU. I have to force quit all the apps. Then I reboot (which also takes a long time).
When I upgraded to Lion, Mail.app 5.0 created a directory ~/Library/Mail/Mail Lost+Found. There were a couple of outdated bundles, which seems logical. But there is also a Mailboxes directory that has a lot (~30-40) .mbox files. Here is the contents of one of those files:
I like how Gmail gives me the option to, for example, Always display images from allsongs@n.npr.org. Is there a way to have Mail.app do the same? I can only find the global option for displaying remote images in HTML messages.
I have a snow leopard computer in a remote location, logged out. I want to be able to use this machine from a Linux computer. I already hear you saying vnc, but vnc works only for a logged in session. The remote machine is logged out, and must stay this way. Occasionally, someone else may login to it with a different username. How can I start a remote OSX session from Linux ?
I am looking for some free File management iPad app. It should be an offline file viewing app, with features to open common file types and also extract zip or rar files.
How would I find out all the devices on my LAN by pinging them all in terminal? What would the code be?
I would like to know if/how is possible to get 4 channel audio from a Mac Mini. My speakers do have two jacks for from/back and currently I can use one one of them. It seams that putting the second jack into the line in doesn't work (some Windows audio boards do let you configure the purpose of the jack socket. Is there any solution or should I get used to stereo?
I replaced my iPhone 4 today and used iTunes to restore all of my settings, contacts, calendars and apps. Everything but my music was restored- including my purchased items. I have tried the iTunes Store on iTunes and on my iPhone and I feel like I'm missing something- is there another step that I should be taking when restoring to retrieve my music?
I installed Lion on launch day, and a few days after, my Finder sounds stopped playing. When I move files, or folders, delete items or empty the trash there is never any accompanying sound. I know this worked under Lion for a while, so I do not thing that the cause is the lion upgrade.
So yesterday I had to jump through some hoops getting Xcode set up, in the end I had to install it once, uninstall it and then install a different version. At the start I had ~78GB free. After the first install it went down to ~75GB as expected. However when I uninstalled it and installed the other version which requires 10+ GB since it includes the iOS SDK (the version I uninstalled was what came on the disk with my machine). Now my disk usage reads at ~62 GB, not quite I expect considering my starting amount and the download (4 GB) and the install (10 GB). My question: is there some cache that just hasn't been cleared yet or is finder just not reporting the disk usage correctly?
After completion of a "clean" install of Lion I get prompted for keychain passwords every 5 min. It's driving me crazy. I want my keychain to fill needed fields automatically as it had in the past. Most frequent is the "Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates" prompt for Outlook 2011. I have searched all through Keychain Access and have found no solution. I even checked the box for keeping keychains unlocked and still it locks and prompts later.
What would be the "best" drawing tool for OSX that both lets me quickly and freely lets me sketch out ideas for software architectures but also refine and "prettify" these sketches so they can be used in a specification document or book. Sort of a bit like Microsoft Visio but better. With all the predefined shapes and cliparts but also with a little bit more freedom in drawing, layout and design.
Since 2007 I've had the 250GB and the 300GB drives set up as a RAID0 under OS X i.e. software RAID. I had to touch wood before typing this, but so far (touches wood again) its run like a dream and I've enjoyed faster performance than I would have had with apps and software running off a single drive (I ran extensive tests on drive configurations with one and all of the above as single and two/three/four drive RAID and this one was the best all-rounder).
Using Macbook using OS-X 10.5.8, how do I get a Quicktime video window to play on an external monitor, simultaneously using the laptop for something else? I have a Macbook circa 2008 which has OS-x 10.5.8. I recently installed an HDTV in order to watch videos from the Macbook on a larger screen, while continuing to use the laptop for other things. I am unable to play a video on the larger screen unless in the mirror arrangement of the screens. With a side-by-side arrangement, I can drag the folder which contains the movie, but when I click on open, it opens and plays on the Macbook instead of on the tv. Other folders also open in the laptop window, not the tv. *=URL=* This suggestion of dragging the window doesn't work.
[Backstory for this question: I'm staying in someone else's apartment currently. All equipment mentioned in this post is being connected to their existing wireless network. That network is broadcast by a Netgear router. Let me know if the specific model is important and I'll dive under the desk and figure it out.]
After quitting an application, the previous app that I was interacting with is automatically selected. If I was working in Terminal, switched to Chrome, and then decided to quit Chrome, Terminal becomes the active context. Unfortunately, if Terminal happened to be in a different space at the time, OS X swaps to that space for me.
I want to add an FTP command to my crontab to automatically download a file. How do I do this?
I have some 9500 individual audio files I am trying to download which: a) require a login to a website b) are located at subdirectories which ?redirects? to a download link
I've been switching back and forth between Colloquy and Linkinus a lot recently as my IRC server has become more and more popular - since then I've been trying out the correct way to use my Tor proxy with Colloquy or Linkinus. I've read they both have support for Proxies but I can't find anything in either of the Apps nor any relevant documentation around the internet.
I recently purchased a Macbook pro, and I have some issue with my Trackpad. I notice that if I lightly press on it, I can hear a click (sometimes faint, sometimes clearly audible) but no click action is performed. If I firmly press, then the click goes through as expected, but instead of one clear click noise, I hear a faint click followed by a louder click.
Historically, it was possible to hide users from the login screen. In pre-10.5 times, one simply changed a userid to < 500 and: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES Since ~10.5, the sequence is: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUserList -array-add sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED -bool false
Since upgrading to Lion, I have noticed that Lion is placing lockfiles that correspond to the plist in ~/Library/Preferences. For example, in this folder I have both com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile.
When switching between running applications via Command-Tab one can see all of the currently running programs. This is however somewhat cumbersome, for instance I don't want certain programs to be listed there, say Adium - I would rather click on the icon in dock to bring it up, since I need it not as often as other apps. I guess the solution I am looking for is similar to the behavior apps minimized into Windows tray area - can I somehow have an app running on Mac Os, active in the dock but not in the list of switchable apps? It should be possible from technical standpoint - there are windows which not registered in the Command-Tab list, for instance - Character/Keyboard Viewer.
I have moved from a Mac running Snow Leopard to a new Lion machine. Since there was a lot of cruft on the old machine, I set up the new one from scratch, only copying the data over I need. I still want to retain the Time Machine backup of my old machine for a while in case I missed something. That backup spans many months though and is huge. I really just need the latest backup from it, not its whole history.
I want to know all keys (property list) which available on certain domain application, as example I could list available key for com.apple.dock by entering this command: but somehow the output of this command only showed the active property list key, and yet not all available key for com.apple.dock listed there. Anyone can help me on this?
I've noticed some applications on my iPad have advertisements. The problem is that the advertisement covers lower part of the screen where some applications place buttons and other UI elements, and the ad blocks there elements and prevents me from properly using the application. Is there any way to solve this - like move the ad somewhere or temporarily remove it? It's OK when the ads are just annoying but when they actually prevent me from using the application it's bad.
Is the iPad 2 a truly multi-tasking device? e.g. Can I listen to some kind of audio formats (not via iTunes) in the background while surfing on Safari ?
I'm having problems with the DNS resolution after a wakeup from sleep. The system I'm running is Mac OS X Lion 10.7, and I am properly connected to my Wifi.
I have a new MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 and use Lion. For "Launchpad" I can't use the Shortcut F1. For "Move focus to menu bar" I can't use the Shortcut Cmd+Esc (⌘+⎋).
How do you encrypt an external hard/flash drive connected to my Mac in Lion 10.7? Preferable something with a strong encryption as FileVault.
I updated from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Lion. The OS update process was all right.
what is your experience running Final Cut Pro X on a MacBook Air? thanks, udo
I know you have heard this before, but is there any app/hack that makes the computer behave like Snow Leopard when closing the lid? I don't want to hear about this being a duplicate question, as I want a solution not an explanation. Only post here if you have a solution that makes the macbook behave like in Snow Leopard when closing the lid.
When I click a Youtube link, say, in the newly released Skype app, the iPad will open the link in Safari, which will load the mobile site. Also in Twitter's built in browser the mobile site is displayed. This sucks, because the site is slow and often fails loading a video at all. Is there a way to stop Youtube redirecting to m.youtube.com on iPad?
I haven't been able to find this via Google. In particular, I am interested in reading about whether or not a Snow Leopard license is a prerequisite for installing Lion, and the new virtualisation rules. Does anyone have a link to this?
And when I assign other command to left shift it display error, and when I press the sign it redirect me to the keyboard shortcut, which does not display any conflict... I just want to use my right shift ToT
On a MacBook5,2 running OSX 10.5, with only 2GB RAM, Alfred toggles very slowly, like up to 5 seconds after the keystroke. After I've just toggled it, it will toggle again much faster, but after a while it will be slow again. What can I do to identify and fix the problem? IIRC it does that even with the computer just started, so it's unlikely it's already swapping, but I'm open to suggestions.
I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to the promised TRIM support on my 2009 MacBook Pro. It seems that the upgrade hasn't enabled it. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing so in the disk manager. Am I missing something?
Before I updated to Lion, whenever I would mount a disk image (.dmg) the Finder window that would pop-up would always have a little 'jellybean' in the top right corner that would expand this window into a 'full' Finder window with the left-side panel, thus allowing quick and easy access to be able to eject the disk image.  I do not know if this feature has been completely removed from the OS or if its just disabled. Is there a way to get this back? I miss the jellybean!
I don't have AT&T anymore but have an unactivated iPhone with a new sim card. Is there any way to use it like an iPod touch - without setting up an AT&T account. I don't have the old sim card; previous owner kept card.
(The company has between one and two dozen employees, so they're definitely not at the level that Apple considers "Enterprise". Plus they're in Canada, so the new business app store isn't available to them yet.)
I just got a new machine with Lion preinstalled. After transferring all my applications, I noticed that the file sizes (and only the sizes) of some applications and folders are greyed out:
iPhone's "Clock App" has a countdown timer which sounds an alarm when the countdown is down. Is there a way to make the alarm significantly louder?
I've downloaded the 64 bit Version of iTunes and I'm wondering why it's running as a 32 bit application under Windows 7 (of course 64 bit)? Any Ideas?
Will setting the volume adjustment to 100% change the quality of the song? Furthermore, if I change the volume adjustment back to 0%, will any quality be lost?
I have a 500 GB hard drive on my MacBook Pro. I have OS X 10.7 (Lion) on my main partition and Windows 7 Ultimate on a secondary partition. Because I have older applications that I would like to run in OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I was thinking of creating an additional partition and install either Leopard on it. This raises the following questions: What are the license restrictions on doing this type of install if I own all the software?
I'm trying to install ruby/rubygems on the latest version of 10.6. I used MacPorts to install ruby after noticing that my version was old. ruby was installed into /opt/local/bin. I changed .bash_profile and added: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH When I echo $PATH, I get: So when I type which ruby I get: /opt/local/bin/ruby
I have a iPhone 3GS with iOS 3.1.3 in my job. I have to update it to 4.1 and after I need to go back to 3.1.3. We have only this iPhone with it, so if I do something wrong, I will never can go back.
I am attempting to get my Linksys (Cisco) WET54G Wireless Ethernet Bridge working on my Airport Extreme Base Station. I know you have to connect via ethernet and change your ip settings so you can connect to the device itself and get to its configuration page on Macs.
Would love to be able to get a Growl notification when a user logs in to my (locally hosted) Minecraft server. I took a peek in the Console but it doesn't seem to record the logins, although my server GUI shows activity on the server including logins. It runs within Java, so maybe that's the issue with it not showing up in the Console, although some of my actions do seem to get recorded, but those seem related to the main Minecraft app and not the server. Even if I could find the logs, I am at a loss as to how one sets up a Growl notification, although I assume it has to do with growlNotify: http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify
The company I work for recently ordered me a Macbook Pro and I received the shipping confirmation today. Among the machine configuration there is listed the following: DVI Adapter 065-0106 None VGA Adapter 065-0108 None
When listening to audio books and podcasts iTunes and iPods/iPhones remember the last position. How can I see this piece of information in iTunes without playing the podcast? (It is displayed on my iPhone as "xx minutes left" in the list of podcasts.)
How do I get the directory where the app created in automator resides? Example: Create App using automator Save to ~/Documents/Automator Run automator app, which does something in it's directory
What I'm looking to accomplish is have something trigger a git add *.txt and git commit -m "Automated Commit `date`' when I close Notational Velocity. I'm guessing I could probably accomplish this with an AppleScript but I don't know the language well enough. I looked into creating a launchd plist that would watch the main database file and that didn't seem to cause it to trigger a commit at all. Does anyone know of a good way to accomplish this?
Could anyone propose any RU-EN/EN-RU dictionary application compatible with iPod 1g (iOS 3.1.3)? Paid or free, doesn't matter, but need some good one (with big amount of words and handy/fast UI)
I want to create a keyboard shortcut to i.e. open Firefox while I am working in another application. I know I can use ⌘ CMD+T when I am in Firefox to open a new tab. I haven't found a way to create that kind of shortcuts in System Preferences. Any ideas?
I followed the simple instructions on Homebrew's homepage: But I get the following permission errors. What is the proper way to install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion?
TLDR: What can I do to my 2007 MacBook Pro (under Leopard) to make it snappier? I have a 2007 MacBook Pro (technical characteristics below). I use it for heavy nonprofessional office-style work: browsing, email, Word & Pages, Excel, Keynote & Powerpoint, Acrobat Pro, … I tend to have many documents open simultaneously, so I can easily have 20 windows open and ~30 Safari anf Firefox tabs.
I have a Leopard system which feels rather sluggish, and which I suspect may be disk-I/O-bound. While I know how to check which app is using CPU or memory (top or Activity Monitor), I don’t really know how to check which application is heavy on disk-I/O, or if (and how much) swapping occurs on my live system.
I have an early 2006 iMac, the first with Intel CPU and now I am looking for speeding it up a little. I maxed out the RAM (2G) and my only other option is to install an SSD drive there. First of all, I would like to know if this is a good idea to speed up my iMac? Shall I take my iMac to the service for this installation or I can try this on my own at home? Would it be possible to keep the current primary hdd as a secondary hdd in the machine or there is no space inside?
One opens a youtube video in Safari. One clicks pause, waits a while, then clicks resume - nothing happens. One has to move the progressbar of the video a bit (the thing that shows at what point the video is in) and then the video starts.
I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and after an upgrade to Lion I got a whole bunch of Windows app icons on Launchpad:  They look ugly and don't have a remove button. They also don't exist in my Applications folder so I can't delete them from there either. How do I get rid of them?
I have Parallels Desktop 6 (6.0.11994) installed and after an upgrade to Lion, whenever I start Parallels, I get these two messages:   Then Parallels Virtual Machines window appears but neither of them can be started. How do I fix this?
However, the partition stays mounted and it can be browsed via the same icon on the desktop. After this pop-up the other, HFS+, partition gets mounted and its icon displayed on the desktop.
I know that I can simply click the downloads icon next to the search bar, however I'm visually impaired and have trouble using the mouse (I can't find it, miss click), therefore I'm much faster with the keyboard. I'm wondering how I can show and focus the downloads manager in Safari 5.1 just like in prior versions.
I am looking for a super easy app for cutting .mp3 files, and setup fadeout at the end. Like Ringer, but this is for ringtones. plus the time is limited and I can't export mp3 files with it. But you get the idea. It's really easy to use.
I installed Lion on a new disk today and let the migration assistant move users, applications and stuff from my internal disk to the SSD connected via FW800. So far everything works great. Because I have a pretty large photos and audio library, I want to leave my user's home directory on the old Volume and have OS and Applications on the other disk. To achieve this I opened up Terminal.app, sudo'd and entered the following command: So far so good.
My iPhone's camera stopped working. App opens but the shutter never opens. It holds still forever. It just came suddenly without any warning.
QUESTION: Just wondering how to enable an alert message notifying me that a pop-up has been blocked? I know Firefox has that feature(and other related pop-up options), but I don't use Firefox... also preferably avoid 3rd party apps. I have Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
Using Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A511), attempts to backup volume content with Time Machine have failed. With a simple non-encrypted image I tried three approaches: the traditional workaround, which reportedly works on Snow Leopard the removeexclusion verb of tmutil in Lion (1) and (2) combined. This leaves the question: content of the volume, not the bands of the image. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist Within this file, the FXRecentFolders key contains an array of data. Opening the required volume in Finder, then closing the window causes volume-related data to be written as a sub-key: file-data sub-keys in Snow Leopard file-bookmark sub-keys in Lion. /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist The removeexclusion verb of tmutil (manual page not yet published by Apple): seems to add — to the IncludedVolumes array of com.apple.TimeMachine.plist — key data that differs from the data found in com.apple.finder.plist does not add a corresponding key string to the IncludedVolum
I'm trying to get my host machine running Lion to automount an NFS export on my CentOS VM. I was able to get this working on a system running Mac OS 10.5 by modifying /etc/auto_master and then restarting the autofs service per the instructions in *=URL=* However, in Lion, the service command appears to be missing. How do I reload the autofs service in OS X Lion without restarting?
I would like to know if there is a way to have the dock always there when running an App fullscreen in lion?
We have a Drobo setup with a fixed IP on ethernet which we've named BoxA. It shows up in the finder list, everyone can connect to it and share files. We brought a second Drobo to backup the first, this was given a different fixed ip and a different name BoxB. When we connect BoxB to the network all the clients which are connected to BoxA receive the message "BoxA has closed down" clicking on BoxA on the finder reveals the content of BoxB.
Unlike predecessors, the iPhone 4 has a screen that is more resistant to smears and smudges. Is this a property of the glass itself, or is it a coating that will wear off over time? If it wears off, how long does that take?
I have a Mac Pro 2,1 2x6-Core Xeon@2.66 GHz and am trying to boot from several ISO images written to USB sticks. I have tried the dd-based methods as recommended by Ubuntu, with no luck. In every case the stick fails to be recognized at boot time. I have also tried booting from a rEFIt CD (which I can do) but the loader there doesn't identify the USB stick in the front of the machine.
I have a self extracting exe file that is password protected, does anybody know of a program that will open this? If I need to I can just run bootcamp, but it would be convenient to not have to do this.
I have a clean install of Lion (I whipped the drive, then installed Snow Leopard and upgraded to Lion). Now I'm trying to add/install my network printer. It is a Brother HL-5350DN.
When email is sent using Mail.app a Apple Mail (x.xxx.x) X-Mailer header is added to the message. Is there a way to determine which actual version of the app was used to send the messages? In Lion Version 5 the header is (2.1244.3).
Can an FCE 3.5 project be opened in FCE 4? And, can you open an FCE 4 project in FCE 3.5?
What is a .apple extension? I am recovering some files and I recovered several files with the .apple extension.
How can I replicate Windows Home/End keys to use to jump to the end of a line or use Shift to highlight to the end or start of a line
Ever since i upgraded to lion, finder has been having problems for me. At first I thought my Quicksilver was broken when I tried to summon my downloads folder and it didnt appear.
In OS X, what file or program do I have to use? If I want write a file with;
It often takes me a while to find the mouse crosshair when working with Terminal.app. Is there a way to make it more visible?
I've added special characters that I frequently use to my favorites, but I'd like to group them more logically than simply the order in which I "favorite" them. Is this possible?
I am looking for a way to inject some more extensions into the OS X launch services database systematically so that when clicked, they execute in the terminal app just like .command files do by default. Things like .ksh, .sh, and .csh would be nice to start, but I assume once I figure out how to add one, it's easy to do the rest.
As I understand it, there are some alternatives: macports, homebrew etc. Or in the GIT example, maybe just download the installer from their website. Thanks.
Is there a way to send a file in Terminal from one Mac to another? If I have a file on Mac A and I want to send it to Mac B via Terminal on Mac A, how do I do this?
I am using ICS on my Early 2011 MBP (latest version of Snow Leopard) to share a connection to various devices, e.g. XBOX. Normally this is by manually configuring the network settings on the client, and connecting to the MBP via Ethernet.
Is there a way to trim off the first 3 character of multiple file names? (or last 3 characters)
Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? I read somewhere else that it was in /Library/Caches/com.apple.Desktop. But I don't have that directory.
I have a Linksys router with dual-band networking. I set the 5ghz band to WirelessN and the 2.4ghz band to wirelessG. If I set them both to the same SSID, will the Mac automatically chose the faster WirelessN band? Is there a preference I need to set for this?
I like music to be played on the background and changing tracks by keyboard shortcut like in musikcube: *=URL=* Is there an alternative for musikcube on Mac OS X Lion ?
I can’t open Keychain Access (the system keychain) to modify; it freezes when I try to open it. How can I fix this problem?
I am currently considering a new iMac, but I was wondering if this would be able to support two extra monitors. The setup I am considering: iMac built-in 27" monitor. Current Dell 27" monitor @ 2650x1440 (Dual-link DVI via adapter) One of the Thunderbolt displays @ 2560x1440 (via one of the two thunderbolt ports) This is really two related questions: Is the above setup viable at all? Will the available resolution be restricted by the video card?
Neither is ideal: the first is aimed at non-technical customers and doesn’t really offer the possibility to provide technical details, let alone crash reports. The second presents a website that seems to date from the 90’s and apparently hasn’t been touched since. That, and I’ve already submitted a bug report there once, which has subsequently been deleted without comment. Neither fact instils much confidence in me that Apple actually cares about this platform.
In Snow Leopard you could right click an application toolbar icon and select "Remove item", this is no longer possible in Lion. If I select "Customize toolbar" I get the customization panel, but it's not possible to do any changes. Anyone know if this is a bug or intentional? Any way around it?
Some applications can store Quick Look information (previews and thumbnails) within the file. Others can not. For a file that is local and without integral Quick Look information: where does Lion store that information? For a file that is remote, on an AFP server (Mac OS X Server (Leopard)/AFP 3.2+ or greater) and without integral Quick Look information: does Server store the information remotely? (An AFP client can cache some information locally, with limitations, but I strongly suspect that there must be a more permanent store.) Much Quick Look information is stored in the attributes B-tree. If so, an attributes B-tree in a more modern version of Mac OS X Server may be potentially better (than older versions of Server) for AFP clients where bandwidth is limited. Please, does anyone have more definite answers? Quick Look — Wikipedia Mac OS X v10.6 to v10.7 API Diffs: QuickLook Changes Apple Filing Protocol Programming Guide: AFP Client Caching: File Metadata Caching I don't know wheth
I always loved the opportunity to create a standalone version of the Color picker instead of having to look for it between the apps menus. Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?
On Windows and Linux one can switch between open windows by pressing Alt+Tab. On the Mac pressing Cmd+Tab only lets one switch between windows of different applications. In order to switch between windows of the same application one has to press Cmd+` instead. Is it possible to disable that behavior, and use Cmd+Tab to switch between all windows regardless of whether they belong to the same application?
So a friend just gave me his Macbook Air 1,1 on which he spilt some water. He wiped it away immediately, turned it off and upside down but alas the "l" key is no longer functional. However all the others are.
Do I need the Install Xcode after Xcode is installed? Do you know of any reason it installed an installer to Applications?
Don't get me wrong, I like Lion, though I do miss many things from Snow Leopard and wish to express this to the OSX team via some sort of suggestion forum. I'm visually impaired and the OS is seemingly becoming more and more visual. One thing that seems to be missing which I can barely live without is the CTRL+WHEEL to zoom in/out, the options seem to be there but don't work, or somehow work differently than they used to?
Can I partition my external HDD into 2 HFS + NTFS? and use HFS+ partition for TimeMachine backup. I already lost my info once in this way, this is why I have to ask now, before doing some stupid things again. The NTFS partition is for Ubuntu and Windows machine from my office, at home I am using 10.6.8
is there a way to upload video from iphone to Google+? From iphone Google+ app we can upload photos but Video option is only available for Android yet
I have OS X Lion and when I open a finder window everything seems OK. But I can't see the Path Bar nor the Status bar. When I activate one of the bars with View->Show Status Bar or View->Show Path Bar the Finder window gets bigger in height ( growing downwards ), nothing else happens. Anyone have an idea what I can do to see the Bars? (The Bars are working in other applications like Safari, ⌘+/ and it pops up)
I was creating a guest account and to prevent it from accessing the Macintosh HD as in other applications and stuff I assigned it as in "No Access" When I switched to the guest account everything blocked, I restarted my mac and all I get is a blue screen.
I have the possibility to buy an iPad 2 3G which is written iPad "UK", on the vendor's site. I expect it to have a different charger plug, but that's all. Being in Poland, will I be able to make it work with 3G cards from Poland? The broader question is to know if there is a country limitation, or a difference of norms in the 3G matter for the iPad 2.
How do I open a file as root, in TextEdit? I've tried these commands as root, but TextEdit always say it's locked:
Since 3 months I do have an iPhone 4, 3 weeks ago i started to get no SIM card installed error increasingly more frequent. Right now the phone is unusable. I went to a sales office of my mobile supplier, they tried a different sim card. But this did not solve the issue unfortunately.
MBP "13, 10.7 and Safari 5.1 I've noticed something weird: last week, I added a couple of bookmarks to my bookmarks-bar in Safari and the next day (or the next reboot) they weren't there anymore... Added them again and the same thing happened... I've disabled bookmark syncing in the "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" settings but the same problem still occurs... Any ideas how I can further troubleshoot this?
What is the best approach to using multiple USB disks and Time Machine to achieve a backup methodology with one drive being used for current backups and one stored offsite and updated periodically? I've considered swapping the disks periodically but that would mean that the drive that comes "in" from being offsite would be missing incremental backups for whatever period it was offsite.
At System Preferences > Startup Disk I select a disk with Mac OS X (10.5 or 10.6) installed, but when I click Restart I get this error message: You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk. I have 10.6 installed on an internal hard drive and 10.5 on an external drive. I have completely erased both disks from Disk Utility; done Verify Disk, Repair Disk, Verify Disk Permissions, Repair Disk Permissions; reinstalled Mac OS several times on both drives... Update:
Money is no object. I want a bit for bit perfect copy of a hard drive/partition which is bootable (is either possible) to be used in a backup regimen. I have heard of some tools but your recommendations with clear outlines of the features that make it useful for you as a backup solution would be most appreciated.
I have a MBP with a secondary display. Is is possible to have the brightness keys (F1 & F2) change both the main display (laptop screen) and the secondary display (a VGA external monitor connected via a Thunderbolt port with an adapter)? If not, is it possible to change the brightness on the secondary display?
I've read that pages on iPad can access protected files created on Pages (mac). Can you also edit the files on iPad, or are they locked? If you can edit the files, do they become unlocked, or do they retain the protection.
Searching the web, I discovered some potential solutions that I tried unsuccessfully. Here's a list of what I already done : repairing permissions disabling Spotlight and re-enabling Spotlight for my whole disk (via the preference pane & via the terminal) deleting the "envelope-index" file and get mail re-index all my mails rebuilding each mailboxes
Is it possible to change the URL of a RSS feed in NetNewsWire? And if so, how?
I am looking at using DVD Studio Pro on an Intel MBP. 1. Which version will work? 2. How much control do I have over the DVD?
I've created a folder in Finder with aliases of several apps. I want to add this to my dock so that those apps are grouped together and the dock isn't quite as messy. No problem; I added the folder to the dock and it's displaying as a stack. The only problem is, the icon displayed in the dock is the icon of the first app in the folder, rather than the custom icon I assigned to the folder in Finder. Is there a way to force the dock to display the custom icon?
Web sites vary as to whether they enforce a maximum width for the content within the window. When running Safari full screen on Lion, is there a simple way (without rolling up my sleeves and playing with style sheets) to establish my own maximum width? Lines of text are too long if I happen to be connected to my 24" monitor, but I like how this full screen mode maximizes vertical space.
I thought I remembered being able to add notes to a message in a pane over the main message (as well as todos). In Lion, I don't see how to do that. I can create individual notes but not annotate a message.
Thunderbolt daisy chain (does this actually work yet? If so, what cable is required?)
How do I increase render speed on FCE? I have several overlaid HD video tracks, and it is SLOW.
I have a SATA III SSD which I would like to connect to an ATTO technologies' SATA II card in my Mac Pro. The SSD uses the typical internal SATA interface while the ATTO card uses Mini-SAS both internally and externally.
I've been researching various SSD's to put in my 2011 MBP, and I've come across quite a few reviews and threads indicating various reliability and performance issues, even with the popular models. For example, I've read that the OCZ Vertex 3 models are very popular, but I've also read that they have intractable issues.
8/5/11 5:21:37 PM kernel FireWire GUID ffffffffffffffff is invalid! I have a Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo running Snow Leopard. Any suggestions?
I have some Photoshop plugins in a folder PSPlugins in my home folder. When Photoshop runs, it doesn't see them. I did put the correct path into the preferences. Is there some way to determine why Photoshop doesn't see these plugins? Does it really not see any plugins, or does it see them but doesn't like how they taste? Does PS write a log file stating where it looks, what it finds, and any error messages?
I'm running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 and need to install an app that can only be downloaded from the App store. If I download it to a newer Mac can I install it on my main Mac running 10.5.8? When I click "Buy App" it starts the install immediately. I would like for it to just be a download that I could transfer to my other Mac and delete from the mac downloading the App. Is this possible? How?
I've installed Windows 7 via BootCamp. I'd like to rename the partition from BOOTCAMP to something a little easier on the eyes. Will renaming my Windows partition from "BOOTCAMP" to "Windows" break anything? (Should I do it from the Windows side or the Mac side?)
I was having problems uninstalling a package in macports (gimp2-devel, to be exact) due to some "directory not empty" errors. I discover from comments made by the maintainer of macports that it's OK to delete these folders, so I went and did so, thusly: (There was another one as well; I forget which.) However I am now re-installing gimp2-devel, and it bombs out thusly:
The new Thunderbolt Display offers multiple USB ports, a FireWire 800 port, and a gigabit Ethernet port to computers hooked up to it all through one Thunderbolt cable, enabling, for example, a MacBook Air to not be constrained by lack of ports while at a desk. My question is can a 27" iMac (with Thunderbolt), while in Target Display Mode, offer the same ports via thunderbolt cable? Aka: if I get a new MacBook Air, do I get all the ports through my 27" iMac as I would through a Thunderbolt Display?
I just upgraded to Lion on my work computer and it seems like Spotlight doesn't index SMB volumes. This used to work for me perfectly under Snow Leopard. I've talked with Apple and they said it was never a supported feature, and just worked by coincidence on 10.6. Now it's not working at all. When I run the mdutil command in the terminal it says "indexing and searching disabled." Can indexing be enabled for SMB data on Lion?
I have a Mighty Mouse that came with an iMac nearly four years ago, and the scroll ball won't turn anymore. Is it possible to clean that or do something to make it usable again?
I have a folder on my Drobo called "HFS+ Private Directory Data" and it contains old Time Machine data. I cannot delete it and do not want to reformat my drobo. I have tried 'option' trashing and various Terminal hacks but to no avail. I am using Lion now.
Is it possible to plug a Thunderbolt cinema display into a Mini DisplayPort-equipped Mac and have it work? This question suggests that it's possible and that it's pretty much the same cable, but I don't see any explicit confirmation anywhere.
Is it possible to move Boot Camp from Macbook Pro Late 2008 w/ Lion to Macbook Pro 2011 w/ Lion? I have been trying unsuccessfully for several days. I used WinClone to successfully image my old Bootcamp, and then ran it on my new Macbook, but it errored just before it finished. The error was similar to this one: *=URL=* The command line commands in that article fixed my first problem of Windows not showing up on reboot despite holding the key, but now when I boot into it, it just blue screens. So my question is: Is this even possible? Is the hardware difference between the two Macbooks causing the blue screen, and the only solution is to re-install from scratch?
I've made a bootable lion disk by extracting the InstallESD.dmg from the lion installer app's package contents. - (Contents>SharedSupport>InstallESD.dmg) When booting from this disk, can you run disk utility or any other utilities from the menu bar (like you could in the SL install)? Thanks
I still have a folder called "System Folder" that belongs to the Classic environment. It takes up almost 400MB on my disk. Since I'm running Lion, can I safely delete the entire folder?
I had Office 2008 for Mac (with Entourage) installed. I never used Entourage and didn't have any email accounts configured. Then I installed Office 2011 without 'uninstalling' 2008 and setup Outlook 2011. However in iPhoto I only see Mail and Entourage as the options for sending mail. Any ideas how I can get Outlook 2011 to come up in the Entourage Mail options? I am running Snow Leopard and iPhoto that came with my late 2009 MBP. Thanks, Sumit.
Back in the days I used Last.fm suggestions but they are way too generic and aren't useful to me anymore. I switched to RYM and its recommendation engine is much nicer, however I'm also looking for some iPhone apps that would allow me to discover awesome new music on the go. I'm looking for these features: an easy way to browse through artists and albums; a wide range of non-mainstream artists; a recommendation engine and/or a smart “similar artists” engine;
I'm a happy longtime Mailplane (Mac gmail client) user, but it seems to have become buggy since installing Lion. There's nothing official on the website about problems, so maybe its just me and/or my configuration.
Snow Leopard had a default smart folder called "Today". This folder was awesome! All "Open" dialog boxes could easily display all of the files you've worked on "Today" (which are probably the ones you want 'right now'). I've been googling around and so far there's one result: *=URL=* This doesn't get the same behavior though. When creating a new smart folder based around file timestamps you have three options: Date Created Last Modified Date Last Opened Date The smart folder system doesn't seem to have OR syntax; each filter you add creates a narrower intersection of files.
I'm on my third mid-2011 MacBook Air in less than a month and this weird wifi problem may be related to the sudden, black screen bricklike nature of its predecessors. The Air works fine when in the same large living room as the NexusLink 5631 router, but when I go into adjacent rooms, including, irritatingly, the one where my desk is, it repeatedly loses and regains its wifi signal. (Sites don't load in the browser, it stops being able to play music to the speakers in the living room, it stops being able to find the Time Machine backup drive in the living room, etc.)
The problem is when she goes to print a photo, the quality is much worse than it used to be. We are using the same printer (an HP PSC 2175 all-in-one), photo ink, and photo paper as before, and printing the exact same photo, selecting the correct photo paper and "Best Quality" in the print settings, and the comparison is laughable. The overall color is dingy/yellow/darker compared to the old print.
As the title states I am not able to print from my Mac to a shared printer that is hooked up to my Windows PC running Windows Vista. I am currently running OS X Lion 10.7 on a Mac Mini. My Mac is able to find and add the printer on my network to its list of printers. However when it comes to printing a document the status of the print job becomes: "On Hold (Authentication Required)" regardless if I correctly enter the correct credentials of the PC which the printer is connected to.
A podcast I subscribe to has mp3 files and PDF files side-by-side. They all sync together into iTunes. On the Mac, in iTunes, I can double-click on either and hear (mp3) or read (PDF) what's inside.
Since Wednesday I can no longer use ⌘2 as shortcut in any application on my MacBook Pro. I've quadruple checked Keyboard Shortcuts in Settings and I have nothing there. ⌘ and any other key works fine. Today I discovered that with an external keyboard attached, I can use ⌘2 by using the 2 key on the number pad, but not the 2 in the number row. Ideas?
I checked System Preferences → Bluetooth → Advanced. The first 3 checkboxes are checked. The 1st checkbox is "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at startup if no keyboard is detected". I never understood this, I assume it indicates that the keyboard is detected. The iMac can be awakened from sleep with keyboard and mouse. Any clues?
I have several tv shows that I purchased on iTunes for my daughters to watch. Rather than have them sit at the desk and watch on my laptop or on the iPad, I would like to burn the episodes onto a DVD that will be playable in my DVD Player.
I re-downloaded the OS X Lion installer app to burn a DVD. After burning the DVD I put the installer files in the trash. Now when I try to clear the trash, I get a message basically saying I only have Read Only permissions on the file, and can't delete it. The permissions don't appear to be editable. How can I get rid of the file?
I am using Celtx for script-writing/movie production. Just earlier today, I used it with no problems at all. Now, when I open it, it bounces 2-3 times, then quits. If I open a Celtx file, the file will open and load, then quit. I can't do anything with Celtx at all. Please help me!
I wish to use a mac mini as a home theatre system. I would like the mini to send commands to the power amplifier to turn on/off depending on whether there is any sound generated (like a screen saver but for sound). Anyone have ideas on how this can be done? UPDATE: Power Amp is Cambridge Azur 650R, which can be controlled by IR or RS-232. Amp manual says not to keep on at all times, and I wish to conserve energy. I am looking for something equivalent to the 'Sleepwatcher' utility (for the display, that I will use with my projector), but which works for sound. I have found that the HALLab utility, from apple's XCode developer kit, can show that sound is 'Running somewhere', so it's possible in software.
I have a web application on a local Linux Apache server that scans a folder for new files and then processes them. I have an SMB share to this folder and I use Path Finder to copy files over from my Mac (10.6).
Does the universal dock allow full tv out? I have read on a few pages that it might. But I don't know if it really does and if it supports more than just videos and Pictures. If I use an iPhone 4 will it work?
I need to open and convert old Autodesk Animator FLIC (.FLI) files (from MS DOS) into something more useful, like say AVI or even an image sequence. I realize both Motion and QuickTime "can" do this, but they mess up the films, probably because of a faulty decoder.
In Lion, a document's version history is normally accessed by clicking the arrow next to a document's name in the title bar. However, the title bar does not appear when an app is put into fullscreen mode. Is it possible to access the Versions interface while in full screen? Or am I completely missing something...
I had the antialiasing disabled in Safari (5.0?) in Snow Leopard, by setting
In Mail, is it possible to show attachments in a separate list (like in Entourage) rather than as icons buried within the text?
I'm new to OS X Server (started with Lion) and I'm learning a lot by trial and error so bear with me please! I'm running a mini with 10.7 server who's currently sitting behind an Airport Extreme Base Station. I wanted to let the server do DHCP and and let the AEBS do NAT but apparently the AEBS doesn't allow it (I've tried this workaround but it didn't work for me) so the plan was to experiment with setting the AEBS as a dumb bridge and let the server do DHCP and NAT. The DHCP portion seemed to work fine (Server Admin tool is showing the DHCP clients) but NAT just won't start. When I click on START in the GUI or try from the command line (serveradmin start nat), I get this:
Before I upgraded to OS X Lion, when I click a stack, it would show the very top. Now, it shows the very bottom of the menu meaning you would see the "Open in Finder" option after you click it. Now, I sorted my download folder by "Date Added" and its very annoying that I am seeing the oldest files first rather than the newest ones. I would have to scroll all the way to the top to access the new files. How can I have the newer files be shown first aka ascending order?
Is upgrading as simple as installing Lion Server from the App store? I've heard that you have to be running Lion first to be able to install the Lion Server software, but I'm looking at upgrading a live server and need to know how others have gone about it and the problems they ran into. Thanks :0)
Roughly 20% of the time now, the song or podcast currently playing on my iPhone 3GS will display some completely random album art from another title in my library of 9967 songs, 19 podcast subscriptions. Songs can have podcast covers and vice-versa. Unlike the answer suggested by Why doesnt my iPod show album art?, when I cross-check the Artwork tags of my Mac's iTunes (anything from 8.x through 10.4), I can verify that the songs with mistaken artwork on-device have the correct artwork on-Mac and that songs without artwork on-Mac display the generic "no artwork" icon on-device.
I have an SSD-based MacBook Pro running Lion, with Time Machine active. I'm aware of the difference between base-10 and base-2 storage sizing, but cannot explain the discrepancy between what Finder reports as available space and what's labeled as free space in the Storage tab of System Information:
I have an iMac with the quad core i7 CPU which shows up in Mac OS X as an eight core CPU (thanks to Hyper Threading, I think). Parallels Desktop allows me to assign 1-8 cores to the Windows VM that I'm running. How would changing that number affect the Host OS performance? Currently I have 2 cores assigned to the VM, but it is unclear how Parallels manages them. Are those the real cores or the virtual cores? I always see only 4 cores being used in Mac OS X, the remaining 4 (I guess those are the virtual ones) never show any activity.
my mac book pro is refusing to stay asleep. I noticed it will wake up roughly every thirty minutes and display the screensaver password screen and even when the lid is closed I will be able to hear it wake and then go back to sleep quite regularly. I installed please sleep but that didn't fix it either. another curious thing I noticed was that sometimes when waking the mbp from sleep it will not let me type anything into the username/password fields. only closing the lid and reopening it after a few seconds will fix this. I'm running 10.6.7 on a 17" 2.66ghz mbp i7 with 8gb ram.
Currently, a reply window contains this: *new message text starts here* ... old/previous message text starts here... What I want is this *new message text starts here* ... old/previous message text starts here...
Just switched to lion a couple of days back, and juts noticed that when you quit Terminal while in a folder, when you open it, it should be back in that folder(along with your other tabs). This is a good feature indeed, but the problem is, it doesn't "refresh" your paths. meaning even if you had a .rvmrc file in your app folder, it won't set the ruby and gemset again. you'll have to actually cd out and get back in again, which defeats the purpose of having an rvmrc. Is this a known bug and are there an fixes/patches for it already? EDIT Following Chris Page's advice, I added cd "$PWD" in the last line of my .bashrc (which is loaded by my .bash_profile) This in turn "loads" the rvmrc as expected :
I'm buying a 27" iMac and having trouble understanding why I may need a higher-end GPU over the next 4-5 years (intended usage). I do lots of picture editing (Photoshop, Lightroom), movie playing (1080p on an external monitor), and some small time video editing with iMovie. Is it superfluous to upgrade to the higher end gpu for my purposes?
I intend to buy a MBAir 11 and need lots of pixels. the more I have the better. If I could have 4 30' screen I'd do it. Graphic performance is of absolutely no interest to me, as I only do programming and bloomberg. What is the configuration that gives the most pixel estate ?
I'm sure some people really love that new feature, but I use Google Reader so it's driving me batty. Not to mention that as a tech guy, I might want to actually view an XML feed once in a while (like for instance, Sparkle update feeds). So how do I stop Safari from redirecting the normal XML feeds to their "feed://" pseudo-protocol?
When printing a PDF from preview, is there an easy way to only print the currently displayed page? Now, I look up the page number and enter it two times in the page range. But maybe there is a keyboard shortcut to do so?
I recently purchased one of the new core i7 Macbook Airs and in most respects its amazing. The one problem is that the battery life is far less than the "up to 7 hours" Apple claims. In moderate usage, no flash or video, it lasts about 2.5 hours, maybe. I use the istat menu monitoring tool and don't see much CPU usage, the fan isn't running constantly, and poking around with the Activity Monitor doesn't show anything unusual, so I'm pretty sure I don't have any rogue processes running. I have flash disabled in Safari, so I don't think that's the culprit either. My questions are...
In OS X Lion, there is a very useful feature for people like me who need to write in multiple languages, which pops up a small menu of additional characters when you hold down a letter. For instance, when I hold down the letter E, I get:
I know there's a system wide preference to disable 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps', but is there any way to have it restore only specific apps?. I would like to have Safari open in full screen every time I launch it.
I want to store both backups and shared data on my Time Capsule. Hence, I need to limit the space taken by backups. I see two options: Partition Limit the size of the backup sparse bundles.
Where is the "Previous Recipients" info in Entourage? Can it be edited?
When you press Command ⌘+J in Finder to bring up the options for the current folder and change what you sort the files by (in my case Date Created), is there any way to reverse the order? Rather than seeing the newest files at the top, I'd rather see them at the bottom. How could I reverse the order?
For the past few years I've been using a 2008 aluminum MacBook. The day the new airs came out I decided to switch so I purchased one to replace my well used MB. Lion has had its bugs, most of which aren't to bad, but one thing that is really annoying me is how long it takes the MBA to come out of sleep. I don't know if this is a MBA issue, or a Lion issue in general, but my MBA takes about 5 sec for the keyboard to light up, and then another 5 for the screen to light up. My old MB never took more than 5 sec. I would assume that an SSD would cause things to go lightning fast. What's causing it to take so long? Are there ways to make a computer wake up faster? Notes: This happens everyday even after restart The time varies slightly, but just being asleep for a few minutes it takes just as long to wake as leaving it asleep all night. Typically 4-5 applications open Only 50GB of 256 GB HD used, has 4GB of RAM and 1.8Ghz i7 Processor
I'm using a Windows-type Logitech keyboard with my OS X 10.6.8 iMac. I've always just used the "Modifier Keys" setting in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences to reverse the Option and Command keys in order to get the usual Mac key behavior. Recently, however, it seems that these preferences are being ignored. I created a second account for my wife, and even though I swapped the modifier keys in the prefs dialog, the setting is ignored and Windows-style behavior continues. The same setting worked on my account but were ignored on hers (though they stayed as set, as if they were being honored).
I'm not sure if it is a problem with Lion, but my App Store is insanely slow. I Googled and tried the solutions available online, but none of them work. And I just keep seeing the beach ball.
On some sites (especially this one) I cannot read certain parts, there are only A's displayed.  How can I fix this?
MacOS Snow Leopard and Lion: permissions set for a folder aren't inherited by new files copied into it or created in it.
I have an Apple ID that is not an e-mail address(*). When you visit the “Create an Apple ID” page on the Apple ID site though, it says you need to “Enter your primary email address as your Apple ID.” I'm not sure how I got my existing Apple ID that is not an email address, from what I can tell from Apple's FAQ page it may have something to do with MobileMe (though I never had a paid MobileMe account; it could also be from using the Apple Developer Connection site). Is it still possible to create a new Apple ID somehow and not use an e-mail address as the ID, or is this a legacy MobileMe option only? (*) To clarify: the Apple ID is associated with an e-mail address of course, and that's where my receipts are sent to when I buy something in iTunes (let's say “john.doe@gmail.com”), but my Apple ID username that I use to sign in in iTunes or on the Apple ID page is not that e-mail address at all (let's say it's “cool_john”).
I found auto-correct incredibly annoying and turned it off soon after installing Lion on July 20th. Auto-correct is fine on a small touchscreen and I can deal with it occasionally correcting to the wrong word, I could not stand it on my real physical keyboard with my Mac. Since then, I noticed that I am always having to go to the application's Edit menu -> Spelling and Grammar and check the "Check Spelling while Typing" option to get spell check to work and underline misspelled words.
I know you can do ifconfig | grep inet, but that shows you several IPv4 addresses. How do I get the specific one for SSHing et al?
Over the past year or so I've seen a movement towards switching to Emacs on Mac OS X, often away from TextMate. While I understand the motivation for switching away from TextMate (TM2 is more or less vaporware), I don't really understand the appeal of Emacs. I recognize that it's an extremely powerful editor, but it does not integrate with the operating system very well, uses different key commands than most other applications, and has a heck of a learning curve. With a preponderance of other programmer's text editors on Mac OS X (BBEdit, Sublime Text, Xcode) and some promising upcoming ones (Chocolat, Kod) what is the appeal of Emacs to someone that does not live in a terminal and does not have the muscle memory for it (yet)?
Has anybody found a decent solution to this? Custom keyboard shortcuts (as defined in System Preferences > Keyboard) don't work for any dynamic menus like Compress XX items or (new in Lion) New Folder with Selection (XX items) because they add the number of files selected after them. Are there undocumented wildcards for keyboard shortcuts? Unlike Compress, New Folder with Selection (XX items) does have a default keyboard shortcut, but there still doesn't seem to be a way to change it.
I just upgraded from Tiger (on an old MacBook) to Lion on a new MacBook Air. I had become accustomed to using ⌘H to both hide an application and to put it to the back of the ⌘Tab order.
I have aluminium macbook (not pro). I have recently updated to Lion. So far so good - had some minor issues with printer, sshfs, mac fuse. Managed to resolve almost all of them.
I ran "$ ls -a" in Terminal from my home directory and it listed a .myPassword file which contained my user account password. Is this file where the password is stored? It seems like it should not be that accessible.
I can't see what I type as I write this question in Safari – all I see is lots of capital A's in boxes. I'm new here, so I'm not allowed to post a screen grab. No problems in other browsers, or in other apps. Seems to affect all the relatively recent Microsoft "C" fonts, but not Arial. I am using Font Explorer X Pro, which has exhibited a bit of post-Lion flakiness, but given it is apparently limited to Safari this is quite possibly irrelevant. Anyone else had this problem? Any ideas?
Is there a untethered way to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.2.1? The phone has never been jailbroken before. I need to be able to reverse it, so I am hoping that there is a way to do this without upping the baseband.
One thing I dislike about Preview.app in Lion is its defaulting to Continuous Scroll as the view option when a new PDF document opens. My recollection is that previous behaviour was for the last-used view state to be honoured subsequently, and I would prefer if this applied in Lion also (my personal preference being for Single Page), or if the default could be changed.
In Lion is there any way to have "Natural" scrolling for trackpad and "reverse" for mouse? They seem tied together in the system preferences. If I change one it changes the other. I would like UP on the mousewheel to scroll up but up on the trackpad to scroll down? Is there any way to do this?
Is there any program that allows a user to read eBooks or PDFs in a way that does not bother the eyes, pretty much like what Kindle does? Maybe by reducing the illumination of the monitor and using some other tricks?
Sorry for the wordy title, but my problem is thus: When I'm at my desk, I would like to use only the external display. With the nifty gestures in Lion, I have decided I would like to use the internal trackpad on my MacBook To physically touch the trackpad, the lid on my MacBook Pro needs to be open This used to be a piece of cake with Snow Leopard and below - you plug in the external display, close the lid, plug in a USB device or press a key on a connected keyboard to wake the machine, and once it's woken up and using the external display reopen the lid and the internal screen stays off.
Is it possible to mount the core filesystem used on the iPad on to my linux box? There is an application named DiskAid which does this for Windows and Mac, so it is accessible, just a matter of how. I'm looking for the same sort of functionality as iFile (on jailbroken devices).
What is the easiest way to reclaim HD space on an ipad2 without having to sync? Ideally I'm looking for an app that would allow me to delete files directly from the iPad (I remember there was one for the Newton that did this quite well, yes I'm old).
Once I upgraded to Lion, I found out that the vertical scrollbar is always plastered to the right side of the application window. Because I run GNU Screen within Terminal.app, the right side of the screen session gets hidden partially underneath said scrollbar. Likewise for emacs sessions. Is there a way to disable scrollbars in Terminal.app in Lion?
I downloaded Lion OS X (an upgrade on top of Snow Leopard) but my MacBook pro is becoming quite slow now. I'd like to install a fresh new copy of Lion OS X. I know how to do that, I can just re-download Lion from the App Store and there are a ton of tutorials online on who to do a fresh install.
Why will the App Store not permit the re-download of a free product in its entirety, as a registered Apple Developer, even if I did have it installed ? Which I don't.
I bought an iPad for somebody who is paralysed; primarily as a book reader for its ability to enlarge the text- but also to surf the net, etc. with a family member or caregiver using the touchpad. I want to know if there is a voice command so he is able to turn pages himself, rather than needing to rely on anyone else.
When I hold a key in Lion, I get this iOS-style character picker instead of a repeated character, as in previous versions of the OS:  I really dislike this (I rarely use those symbols as I only speak Dutch and English). I want to hooooooooooold a key. :)
I have number of co-workers in other countries. I would like to be able to setup something like shared network drive so that we can all access the files and work together. What's the best way of doing that? Do I need Lion server for that?
I have had 3 PC's stolen during a break in. How can I de-authorise my account on these without access to them ?
this is what I get when pressing that combo. Also, some strange window frame gets drawn along the active sub-windows... I do not know how I have managed to screw it like that but would surey like to revert to normal. Help please
I'm planning to get a new Mac mini server plus a mac book pro. I would like information about Thunderbolt support for connecting two computers to a single display, i.e. in my case the Mac mini to the Thunderbolt display port and simultaneously the Mac Book pro with the Thunderbolt cable.
I'm getting TM backups whose sizes don't match the target. My 260GB content on MBA SSD may produce a 220GB backup. My ~125GB IPhoto lib may produce a 95GB backup. Yet the other 30GBs of photos in the pictures folder back up to precisely the same size as on the SSD.
I have a number of Rails Apps working just great under Snow Leopard, but would like to migrate these to Lion. However, like many others, the rug has been pulled from under my feet by the changes that have been made to Mac OS X Server admin with Lion. That said, it has been straight-forward to install Rails and get my Rails app responding via the WEBrick web server. I'd now like to get Passenger (or equivalent) working and use Apache as the web server, with automagically launched rails apps, and associated goodness.
I'm considering upgrading my end of 2006 MacBook Pro RAM. Yet I'm hesitating: it will not support 4GB of RAM, but only 3GB (I have 2x 1GB at the moment). This means that each slot will have a different amount of memory, and I read somewhere that would prevent it from using double data rate or something like this.
I just updated to Lion and I'm wondering why the background of the locked screen (login screen) seem to be different everytime I look at it: it is either the grey texture, the default desktop background or a plain black background. Why isn't it the same background all the time ?
I am thinking about upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, because it offers full disk encryption. However, if I use Time Machine with on an external hard drive, will the Time Machine backups be encrypted as well? If not it seems to defeat the purpose of whole system encryption. :p Also, if the Time Machine backups can be encrypted, how does it handle restoring from a Time Machine backup onto a new system?
I have an Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse (not the newer Magic Mouse) that I've used for a couple of years. In recent months, though, the mouse would spontaneously disconnection itself at random, even when the batteries are still full. Does anyone have experience with this or know how to fix it? I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 if that makes a difference. Thanks!
Is it possible to transfer all the audio files from logic pro to a video editing program so that they are all in the correct place and each file is separate? I want it so it looks like it does in logic but I can place video upon it.
In Mac OS X Lion, when I do Apple > Shut Down, there is a checkbox that says "Reopen windows when logging back in". Even though I constantly UNCHECK the box, it seems OS X doesn't care - and still opens some Finder windows and sometimes Chrome... How can I turn this feature off?
I guess i should create some sort of bootable restore USB stick. Any ideas how to get me going again ....please....
I have a bunch of MP3 files on an SMB share. They play great if I use Finder's Connect to Server to mount the disk first, iTunes thinks they have names like /Volumes/musicshare/foo.mp3. But if I reboot and launch iTunes first the files are as if they don't exist until I manually remount the volume in Finder.
Is there anyway to ping a computer's IP and find out some basic information about it? Platform, OS, etc... If so, how would that be done?
i'm a new Mac user. Just bought a MacBook Pro 13' . So i want to use all 3 Systems ( Ubuntu , MacOS , Win7 ) on my Machine.
I'm running Lion, connecting to an Exchange 2010 server. Sent messages are stored locally.
I am looking for a solution to join entire CD to a single audio file, preferably with chapterizing functionality. Usually, Join Toghether should do the job but this solution doesn't work anymore with Lion and I am looking for a solution that works with Lion.
In Safari 5.1 older tabs will auto-reload after being flushed. This has to be the wonkiest, most unproductive "features". I can't imagine this being done for memory usage reasons as I have plenty to spare. Is there any way to stop this?
I have become very used to dragging links, from within the browser or other apps, onto existing tabs in order to have the link open in that tab. Safari 5.1 seems to eliminate this behavior and it is driving me batty.
I have MacBook Air with Lion which has problems to join WIFI network which password is 7 chars long. Basically button is grayed out until i add more chars. Is there a way to force Lion to ignore this behavior or the only way to go thru is to change WIFI password? It's not my network so it's not so easy.
The only way I've found that works is to pull the HDMI cable out of the second machine, which forces all of its open windows back into its own display. I'd prefer a way that doesn't involve connecting and disconnecting the cable. System Settings -> Displays is no help.
I installed Lion on my macbook air, and noticed a couple of days later that my bootcamp partition was gone--rebooting with option key no longer showed the volume, and diskutil shows the following It's a 128GB SSD, so looks like my 20GB bootcamp partition is toast.
I have a rogue item on my menu bar from a terrible piece of printer/scanner software. I long ago removed the app, but the button for the app remains in the menu bar.
After updating from 10.6.8 to Lion 10.7.0, my shared folder (shared over SMB) begin having strange problem with my Windows VM. When I create a .exe file from my Delphi compiler or create simple test file from the Windows VM, OS X doesn't inherit the permissions anymore and sets them to read/write not read/write/execute. This also causes problems with Windows, which gives me the error "unable privilege for execute".
I often screen share using the Macbook Air as the client, and presenting the screen from my iMac onto it. When this happens the original iMac screen resolution is used and scaled down to fit into the lower resolution on the Macbook Air. The iMac resolution native resolution is 1900x1200 (16:10), so when scaled down to Airs 1366x768 (16:9) it looks bad and doesn't fill the screen (even after using "full screen"). When I am in though, I can change the resolution, and have elected to put the display preferences menu bar item in to allow me to change quickly. If I screen share using the normal physical display, I get the following choice of screen resolutions:
I am unable to get Lion to download and uprgrade my Mac Mini as it gives an error message - "We could not complete your purchase. This version of Mac OS X 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer." My Mac Mini originally had a Core Duo in it but was upgraded with a new Core 2 Duo 2Gz processor and it has 2 Gb of memory. About this Mac confirms this setup. I am using an external drive to boot from. There are two users on the Mini, and seperate drives to boot from. Neither the internal drive when booted from will allow to upgrade to Lion or my external one. I have contacted Apple Support and they had me capture and upload my complete system configuration to them using a little program they emailed to me. I sent this over a month ago now and have not had a response. Has anyone else had this issue and found some way to resolve?
I have to enter my password to create, delete, or move any folder or file. It sure is getting annoying. Why is this happening?
A 40-60 hour project has hit a brick wall because FCE 4.0.1 will not create usable video transitions. (It was working a week ago & no new software or updates have been installed). Even a simple Cmnd+T generic transition doesn't work, except for one whose time code is always <00:00:00;01>. When I do the typical "tricks" to lengthen the duration of the transition (like right click, select duration, then type in a longer value), all I hear is a bump sound signifying an error of some kind. No error code is generated. The duration value remains unaltered.
My MobileMe email account has a mailbox named Junk (first letter capitalized), and I don't know why. I created a mailbox called junk (all lowercase) into which I manually move junk messages. I see both mailboxes everywhere I view the account (Mac, iOS, me.com web interface).
Shift + Control + Eject will turn off a Mac's display. I just bought a new MacBook Air. It has a power button instead of an Eject key:
For some uses such as communicating with Weblogic or WebSphere application servers from Windows or Unix, I have to use the IBM JRE. Does such thing exist on Mac? and/or how can I do that (except for the obvious solution of not using a Mac to run these programs)?
I want to ping all possible IPs in my LAN, and I have the code for it, but right now, I've already cut the weight time from 5s to 2s, and it's still about 8 minutes to test them all. How long should it take to ping an IP on my same LAN? Thanks
Turns out cats' paws are not a very reliable input method. The cat walked across the keyboard, and now I am stuck in a "secure text field". It looks like this:
I have two 27" iMac's running Mac OS X Version 10.6.7 with the following specs: Hardware Overview: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac10,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.53f10
I'm looking to broaden my horizons. I have enough unix/linux experience to not be afraid, I just haven't found a good use-case yet.
For example: if I add a URL to the Reading List on my iMac, can it then be synced to the Reading List on my MacBook? It does not appear so even though I believe Reading List is going to sync with iOS 5 devices? (if it is not officially supported, is there a hack to do so)?
With 10.6, I routinely had two accounts logged into the Mac while I was working - my personal and my work account. I switched between them as needed and this worked fine. For example, if I had an IM client running under the work user and switched to my personal user and then back again to the work user, everything was ok. The work user's IM client stayed connected the whole time.
Is there an iPad app that allows me to use a desktop game with an important audio component? I'm looking for a pleasurable music-like experience on the iPad.
Recently while troubleshooting some network issues, we figured out we are not able to ping any of our 85+ MacBook Pros. On further analysis we checked and confirmed firewall is not enabled on any of the machines. Is there something very basic we're missing?
The hosts file might have a custom entry which prevents iTunes from getting a response. I've checked: There are no entries in the hosts file, only #comment lines.
I'm using Firefox, where CMD + ALT + ← / → Arrow changes to the next / previous tab. This is an important feature to me.
I own a Mac Mini 3.1 with Snow Leopard installed. I would like to dual boot with Lion for development purposes. I have partitioned my hardisk as described in Point (1) in this tutorial How to Install Dual Boot Mac OSX Lion and Snow Leopard Can I now buy and download Lion from the apple store and then install it on the new partition?
For example, if I played a game and downloaded some game contents in the app and then saved some game progress, there should be some files generated within the app. After syncing with iTunes, where will those information be stored?
I used to be a PC boy and now been in to Macs for a few years. I am after a good torrent client that supports auto unrar and move on completion.
I'm going to location where my 3G will be pretty expensive. Can I connect my iPhone 4 to WIFI in hotel and share it for my laptop thru WIFI as well? That way I could save some money to not have to buy 2 x WIFI from HOTEL.
I'm trying out Homebrew, but I can't seem to figure out when uninstalling a 'formula', how to recursively remove the dependencies as well. I.e. Macports is: How does this work with Homebrew?
The Problem actually was the way I build the PDF file. I have a Makefile to build my latex files which looks like this:
Does anyone know how to make symlinked services work in Lion? I used to keep all my services under version control in SL and symlinked into ~/Library/Services and this stopped working when I installed Lion. Once I 'installed' the services they work but even after they installed replacing them with the symlink doesn't work.
I have a 15 inch MBP which I want to install windows 7 on and I read online that I should have the MBP installation disk with me to install drivers and things after I install windows. I don't have it anymore.
Has anybody else noticed a problem with date display in iCal in Lion? It appears when "Show event times" is activated in the General tab of Calendar preferences.
I used to have a dashboard icon, which opened the dashboard when clicked on my keyboard. But now there is another image, which does nothing when clicked. What is it supposed to do? How to I fix it? How do I alternative assign it to dashboard again? Image: Also what does the key with an upward arrow and a line do? And what does the one with a crossed box do? Image 2:
I have an iPhone 3GS (with the latest iOS version). It syncs with the corporate Exchange server.
When I have (and browse with Finder) a directory with a bunch of photos and videos (from e.g. my camera), I often want to open all the pictures in it. How can I do that?
I formatted a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive on a system running OS X Lion (10.7) as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)". Everything works great on the Lion system. However, when I try to mount the drive on a system running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), it can't mount the drive; it complains that the drive cannot be read (I do not have the exact error message in front of me ATM).
I always put a .vimrc in my home folder for turning :syntax on. But in OS X Lion it seems that sudo vi foo.txt ignore or can't find this vim configuration anymore. Has anyone experiences the same thing?
I have a 2011 27" iMac running OS X Lion. There is a known bug when iMac, after waking up from sleep mode, freezes while playing video (Flash in my case). It does not respond to any key combination and mouse clicks. I can still move mouse pointer and hear iTunes playing. It does not happen if iMac has been rebooted and was not put into sleep mode after that. So when it freezes, I have to turn it off and on again with the power button. The question is, does it affect hard drive, power supply or anything else that I need to worry about?
Every so often, mostly during what appears to be more-intense-than-usual processing, the computer quits all apps, logs me out, and returns to the login screen. I usually get the translucent spinning wheel when this happens.
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Lion for navigating through my open full screen Xcode projects? ⌘~ is not working.
What is the best, easiest, preferably cheapest way to make OS X write to NTFS-formatted drives in Mac OS X?
I am using the iPhone Configuration Utility 3.3 and I had an iPad plugged in - while trying to deploy a profile, the application just crashed. After this, I attempted to launch it several times but it would just crash immediately.
What is the default font that Mac OS X Lion use in it's apps, more importantly the Finder window?
I have a mid-2011 Thunderbolt 21.5" iMac. A secondary monitor is connected to the iMac with a Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable (a single cable, not an adaptor and cable).
Prior to Lion I used overflow as a program launcher. I'm trying to replace that with Launchpad (one less app to deal with) and it seems to be working...almost.
After installing Lion, three finger gestures no longer work in the Twitter for Mac app. (I've gotten used to swiping left with three fingers to go "back" after—for example—clicking on a person's avatar to see their timeline.) In the Trackpad System Preferences panel I've disabled three finger drag, and changed "Swipe between full-screen apps", "Mission Control" and "App Exposé" to four fingers to try to eliminate conflicts. But the three finger swipe still doesn't work in Twitter.
I'm fairly new to Macs, so I wanted to check if this was a good way to update my machine. Also I'll comment on my reqs so perhaps there's a better way.
Since installing Lion on my Late 2007 MacBook Pro, which cannot support AirDrop, an icon called "Network" has appeared under Favorites in my Finder sidebar. This icon seems to have no function. Clicking on it only reveals the error message "Network" can't be opened because the original item can't be found. There is also no option to disable its appearance in Finder Preferences. The Network icon seems to disappear on occasion, only to reappear later. I can find no documentation of this mysterious icon, and no reference to its existence anywhere. Can anyone suggest what this icon is and why it is being displayed?
I have an HP laptop and I'm thinking about buying OS X and running it inside a virtual machine on the laptop. Is running OS X inside virtual machine allowed by the license?
How can I maximize a window in Finder without using third-party software? I read this post but none of these tricks seemed to work.
I used to be able to download URLs from an Applescript, but I lost the Applescript. I want to enter a URL: i.e.: "*=URL=* and have it prompt for a place to put the file.
I would like to map the "Archived" folder that's created when you Archive mail to the "All Mail" folder in my Gmail account. How can I do this?
I'm trying to set up a score in Logic for multiple parts, and the horns are each in their own key signature (trumpet, saxophone, trombone) which isn't necessarily the key that the piano is recorded in. How can I get the Logic file to play back the sampled instruments with the correct notes, but have the sheet music generated display the notes as they would need to be transcribed for the live musicians? I've played around with global key signature changes and that's not helping.
Is it actually possible to update iTunes running on Windows 7 Ultimate? Because every time I've tried, it fails with an error about one service or another. The error is usually related to not having sufficient permissions to modify the service, even though my account is configured as Administrator, and the service varies. The only way to get the latest version installed consistently is to manually uninstall everything, reboot, then run the installer.
I'm using Lion 10.7 and Chrome 13.0.782. When I'm in Google Chrome and hit “Cmd-T” (new tab) or “Cmd-L” (change location) and any character, my mouse cursor jumps/changes its position to the Chrome input bar.
Currently, when I use Alfred to action the currently selected item in Finder (using Cmd-Opt-), and then selecting "Move to...", the only options that come up are "Desktop" and "Documents". Is there a way to add additional sources to this list or to navigate in this screen to move the file to a different location?
Basically the exact opposite of this existing question How do I disable inline PDFs in Safari 5.1?. I need to view my PDFs in-line, and with Safari 5.1 it's no longer working on either OSX 10.6 or 10.7.
My home wifi network is password protected, as it should be. My neighbor's is not. Because I have password protected my network, my computer continually joins my neighbors instead of mine. I have moved my network to the top of the list of the "preferred" wireless networks, but if my network is down for whatever reason my computer just re-joins the neighbor's network. I don't want to join my neighbor's network, ever. Is there a way to make it so that my computer will never join a particular network, i.e. "blacklist" it?
I am currently using Windows, and I have ordered all my library. But when I do a back-up and I copy all these files to another computer, running Windows too, there are always some files where the metadata such as song name, track number, or album title are wrong or disappear. Also, it happens when I run Ubuntu with other media players, so I suppose it's not Windows' fault and it happens with other operating systems even on the same machine.
I have been using Microsoft Office Mac since the 2004 version. Right now, I have Office 2011 running on my trusty 2010 MacBook Pro with a Core i7 2.66 gHz CPU and 8 GB of memory.
I'm trying to create a Windows 7 installation USB (for use on a PC) from OS X. I've tried following these instructions from a similar question on superuser: Insert the USB flash drive and run the command diskutil list to find out the disk name, we'll use /dev/disk1 as an example Now unmount the disk using diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 dd if=/path/to/Win7.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=8192
Every time I install an app in app store on iPad, the app store will close. This is annoying when I want to install multiple apps at once. Is there a way to stop it from doing this?
I have a Drobo which is attached to my MacBook Pro via USB. When I boot into OSX Lion (and Snow Leopard before it) I would get a Drobo icon on the desktop. The icon looks like a shiny rendered picture of a Drobo with the funky blue and green lights.
Lion uses the ⌘ + R to boot into recovery mode. Resetting the PRAM in anything less than 10.7 was ⌘ + ⌥ + P + R.
I'm currently running a Snow Leopard Server, and trying to get anything useful working with the v1.1 version of Dovecot bundled with it is as pleasant as banging my head against a brick wall. Dovecot's extremely sparse documentation has a lot of mentions of horribly-crippling bugs (specifically with public mailboxes and permissions) in 1.1 that were only fixed in 1.2. Which is not helpful for me since Apple has their own frustratingly-special blend of dovecot build (1.1.20apple0.5) for Snow Leopard Servers. So, does the new Lion Server have enough Dovecot functionality to make it worth using?
This question relates to use of a Lion Server only for testing and prototyping, so I don't need multiple sites hosting separate domains. All of my projects have directories in the root directory, not in separate "Sites" sub-directories. In Lion Server, Apple has dropped the previous directory arrangement of: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables [aliased as cgi-bin] /Library/WebServer/Documents [aliased as root directory] Now, the web server is simply: /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default
Whenever I boot up from a forced shutdown (aka holding down the power button), OSX restores all the programs I had open before the forced shutdown. Is there a way to disable this? If my computer turns off for whatever reason, I want it to boot up fresh.
I am using a template from Pages for a document. When I convert it to PDF, it loses its style and font. I've tried exporting it as a PDF as well as printing it as a PDF. Any suggestions on how I could keep its format and font intact when conveying it to PDF? Thanks
Is the magnetic timeline on Final Cut Pro X optional? I see the advantages of the magnetic timeline, but nonetheless still prefer dedicated layers as it gives me a much greater sense of control of specific kinds of resources. I have been considering Final Cut Pro X but if the magnetic timeline is imposed upon its users, or if it is optional but there are no significant layer controls when magnetic timeline is disabled such as hide/mute, etc., it's a complete showstopper for me. I'm coming from Sony Vegas Platinum HD 10 to which I migrated from iMovie, and right now Final Cut Pro X looks like going back to iMovie.
I recently discovered that on Mac OS 10.7 (aka Lion) my documents on my NAS are arranged in the order "Z, Y, X, W, V, etc...". So how do I specifically change this setting of the arranging order? The bars on top (in 10.6) are now gone...
In the past we used to have to go to iSync preferences but iSync has been completely removed in OS X Lion. Any ideas? I would personally prefer a warning before any data is changed on my computer, on account of issues such as Snow Leopard used to "support" Google Contacts sync but would remove all nicknames from your contacts.
Reading this documentation *=URL=* i get that Lion support only openGL2.1 This is a 6 years old version, the current one is the 4.2, Please tell me that i'm not in right and that we are at least at the version 3.2 :) this would be a really really really big problem for me :P
I want to take a screenshot of my Lion lock screen to highlight the new circular user portraits. Is there an easy way to take a screenshot of the OS X lock screen?
I've used wget for the first time after installing Lion OS X and I've noticed that wget got localized to my native language. Running set command in terminal showed that my LANG variable represents my local language. Where can I change this or make wget ignore this setting? update Here's what locale gives me:
How can I change artist of multiple selected mp3 files in finder? Like in windows we can select multiple mp3 files and can change the artist of all selected file in properties.
I have a portable disk with NTFS format, and use it keeping my private data in windows xp. Recently I connected it to Macbook and found that the folders I set "hidden" in windows still can be seen and read in mac os x. So, what can I do to hide these folders in Mac OS X? Also, I want these folders still to be hidden if the disk connected to other Macs.
What are the specs for voice recording on the Ipod nano fifth generation (such as how long can the iPod record until its battery runs out, what are the mic specs, does it continue recording until it runs out of space or battery)?
On upgrading to Lion, I noticed that cursor movement in emacs (^-N, ^-P and so on) while running in Terminal has become sluggish. Cursor movement in vi seems fine and cursor movement in Emacs.app seems fine too. Any ideas what is going on?
For example: I opened some files in Excel, then I close Excel, without close each file (ex.: command + Q). In the next time that I will open Excel, it is going to open my recent files that weren't closed. Is there someway that I can change this behaviour?
How can we join/start live meeting on my macbook pro. I have microsoft office installed. Do i need any other software also.
I've noticed since upgrading to Lion that Mail.app doesn't seem to update the mailbox and synchronize properly with Exchange. Before on SL, or using Outlook now, they always maintained correct state, matching with my iPhone, or webmail. Now, it seems that Lion gets lost. I have to force a sync, open and shut it, or change folders to get it to resync that folder contents. Is this just me, or is this a known issue? Is there a work around? Thanks.
If I put iCal.app or Mail.app or iPhoto.app in full-screen mode, I'm unable to access those apps via Command+Tab from my main desktop interface. This seems like an oversight. What's also puzzling is that if I manually switch to one of the full-screen apps (via clicking on its dock icon) and then use Command+Tab, I'm able to switch between that full-screen app and any other full-screen apps via Command+Tab, but as soon as I switch to a non-full-screen app, then I'm unable to return to a full-screen app via Command+Tab. Is there a preference setting I'm missing?
Is there any way I can unlock an iPhone 3G with Firmware 4.2.1 and baseband 05.15.04? I correctly installed Cydia and Ultrasn0w (under iOS 4.1.2 or something like that if I remember right) via JailbreakMe 2.0. The Unlock seemed to work, but I accidentally updated to 4.2.1. Is there any way I can fix this?
Currently, when I use the Command+Shift+L keyboard shortcut to flag a message in Mail.app, it defaults to the first flag in the available list (Red). Instead, I would like the default to be one of the other flag options (Yellow, Purple, Grey, etc.). Is there any way to do this?
When my new Macbook Air (13" mid-2011, Lion) wakes from sleep (by opening the lid, clicking the mouse or pressing the space bar), it usually wakes to the last application I was using, then changes applications as if I had pressed alt-tab. Has anyone else observed this phenomenon and Does anyone know what could be causing it
I have this fantastic new Lion server that I've gotten all setup with my user accounts, files, etc. File sharing is up and running, everything. Except for one problem: the users running Linux (we use both Linux and OS X clients) cannot authenticate and access the SMB shares. All of the users' accounts are setup as network accounts (i.e. in Open Directory not the local user database)
If I check the "Encrypt backup disk" checkbox in Time Machine (in OS X Lion), I get this warning: Will just the Time Machine "Backups.backupdb" directory be encrypted, or the entire disk? In other words, will computers running earlier versions of OS X than 10.7 be unable to access the entire disk, or just be unable to back-up to or restore from the encrypted disk?
I have a 13 inch mac pro running 10.6. I recently got a hp cp2025n. Is there a way to create a black and white printing profile. I am using the postscript driver. I print a lot of pages and and prefer to print in black and white duplex to save pages and toner. How do I create a black and white print profile?
I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro with Lion preinstalled. I'm about to replace the hard drive, and I wanted to burn the Lion installer to DVD so that I could install OS X on the new HDD. However, all instructions I've found for creating a Lion boot disc assume that you've purchased and downloaded Lion from the App Store. On my new machine, is it possible to get the .dmg file and burn it so that I can reinstall Lion on my new SSD? If this is not possible, what is the recommended approach?
I have a MBP mid-2009 and I'm running Snow Leopard on 500gb HDD (original mac HDD died). I'm thinkng about getting a 240Gb SSD and doing a fresh Lion install.
My Macbook does not power up for more than a few seconds, and I have declared it dead. The only issue is that there is still a disk inside of it of Snow Leopard. The MB doesn't power on long enough to push the trackpad button, or do the PRAM Reset, or press the Eject button on the keyboard before shutting down again. Any ideas how to MANUALLY remove the disk?
So now I'm trying to find out if I can use tethering to make my iPod's Internet-connection available to my PC (over USB since the PC has no Bluetooth either). I do not have a WLan-adapter or something I could use instead. And since this is only for a few days, I don't want to buy one.
I'm seeing a lot of questions with all sorts of steps to burn a DVD or create a USB disk so you can boot your Mac with Lion if the internal drive is replaced. Is there a definitive set of steps that is best in terms of support, reliability and cost?
I'm trying to connect with a server that is not on the same network as my mac, when I enter the ip address the connection doesn't go through. The ip is correct, the server is on, and remote access & login are allowed; I even tried sending the login name i.e afp://ipaddres/shortname. Is there something I am not doing or doing wrong?
What I thought was a universal keyboard shortcut (ctrl+⌘+1) to cleanup and arrange my desktop, no longer works after I installed Lion. I can go up to the view drop down menu and click on it and it works but I like to use my commands. What can I do about this?
i recently just upgraded to osx lion(july 30 here). Today I just received a receipt from itunes of my purchase with the receipt date as 01/08/11.
I have recently updated my macbook with Lion. Now it keeps on waking up in my bag for some unknown reason. Here is what i get in the console. An Unknown USB Device (Port 4 of Hub at 0x4000000), may have caused a wake by being connected
I have two MacBooks and a Mac Mini that are synchronized through Mobile Me. All times they synchronize to Mobile Me, the MacBooks (which runs Mac OS X Lion) keep showing some icons two times, in the sidebar of the Finder; this doesn't happen to the Mac Mini, which runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard. What can I do to avoid this, apart avoiding that the MacBooks running Mac OSX Lion synchronize with Mobile Me?
In dev builds of Chrome, they've implemented, refined, and released two-finger swipes left/right in order to browse back/forward in the browser history. Unfortunately, you can accidentally trigger it while you're in the middle of a long down/up scroll, which needless to say occurs often. I generally like the gesture, and things like Preview, Safari, and other application have implemented it much better, where you cannot blindly navigate back/forward so long as you have begun to scroll up/down. How do I selectively disable two-finger back/forward navigation in Chrome?
Does anyone join a Mac OS to Samba PDC? My point is to build a single domain for different clients (win xp, win 7, mac os 10.6) with home folders and roaming profiles.
Can the display casing for a 13" MacBook Pro be used in lieu of the corresponding part for a 13" Aluminum Unibody MacBook??
Short Question Why do the keys 'stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick' when my MBP gets hot? More importantly, how can I fix it?
Sometimes I just need a break from serious work. Can my Mac OS install tell me any jokes?
If I use the red dot in the upper left of the last window of a program, why doesn't it shut the program down? Except for rare programs that run without windows, what's the point of keeping programs running after all their windows are shut?
From what I understand is that when you change your settings in Cydia to developer you should be able to access extra utilities. Otool being on of them.
Is it possible to extend iOS spotlight's search results to include data from my application? My iOS app has a separate search interface but it would be great if there was a way to provide the results when the user uses the phone's native search interface.
I'm considering purchasing an AppleTV to listen to/watch content stored locally on my network on my television and stereo. If I have my media stored on an external hard disk connected to my Airport Extreme, is there any way to stream that data to an AppleTV? If I need a machine to do this, can I use a MacBook to act as a "middleman" of some kind between the Shared Disk and the AppleTV in this situation?
I've read through the "Questions with similar titles", and I don't see anything that directly answers my question. Which current MacBook models (of any product line) support (directly or indirectly) attaching dual DVI monitors, for a total of three screens?
I'd like to stop the SuperDrive from spinning up after coming out of sleep since the noise it makes is quite loud. The SuperDrive was 'fixed' at an authorized retailer a while back and it's made a lot of noise ever since. This is a 3 year old white MacBook, so it's out of warranty. Is there a way to not have it check for disks after opening the lid?
I am buying a testing device for iPhone apps. I cannot afford an iPhone 4 so I am thinking to buy an iPod touch. Can I use an iPod touch for testing iPhone apps? What will be impossible to test on an iPod touch?
I came across an iPad2 application that allows a user to write Python programs on their iPad. Though this framework was only limited to Python's maths functions I was wondering if there is a similar application that will let you write C++ applications on the iPad2?
I would like Tor Browser Bundle for OS X to work with my keychain, so that after filling out logins and passwords on a website one time, I would never have to do it again later. This works with safari, but it doesn't with the Vidalia packed aurora (firefox) browser. What settings should I change?
My iMac suddenly stopped recognising my HP OfficeJet 6500 printer over the wireless network. Previously, it worked fine for years. It works with USB, and the printer connects to the router without a problem - it just doesn't see the computer, which is also connected to the same router. Things I have tried: I upgraded the Mac to Lion (which I guess counts as a software re-install - it was previously on Snow Leopard) I have completely reset the printing system on the Mac, and allowed it to re-find the printer and reinstall drivers. I have reset the printer to factory defaults, and then re-connected it to the router. I enabled Printer Sharing in System Preferences I have installed a new router (a different brand)
At each reboot, the permissions on the network devices /dev/bpf* are changed. As a developer, I want write acccess on these files. This can easily be fixed with a chmod. What is the most elegant solution to fix this issue permanently?
With Lion 10.7, how does one access the user library on a time machine backup through the Finder?
I have upgraded my iPhone 3G from iOS 3 to iOS 4.2.1 using the iclarified Redhook for windows tutorial. Upgrade has gone fine but I cannot get Redsn0w (v0.9.6b6) to recognise the DFU state. Every time I restart in DFU mode, I get the following error:
Per What's a reliable method to create a stand alone recovery disk for Lion?, I'm attempting to create a two-partition thumbdrive such that one of the partitions is the Recovery Disk created by Recovery Disk Assistant and the other partition enables me to use the rest of the space for storage. Since I want this storage to be Windows 7/XP-compatible, its format will be MS-DOS(FAT). So far, my attempts have been thwarted.
I don't have a Wi-Fi connection here. Is there a way to connect to the internet from my iMac with my iPod touch?
When I boot the Lion OS the date setting is correct but the time is not. The way I correct this is by selecting 'Open Date and Time Preferences', check the 'Set Date and Time Automatically' checkbox and select my region. The correct date and time is set.
This is a work machine. I do share files with other Mac users, and also access a shared Windows drive via Samba. How can I troubleshoot these errors so the log file doesn't get filled with them?
I have a Logitec K750 and it has the left Alt key closer to the space bar than the Windows Key (to be used as Command Key). How can I remap the keys on JUST my Logitech keyboard and NOT on my built-in MacBook keyboard so that the Left Alt key functions like the Command Key, and the Left Command Key functions like the Left Alt key? Is there a way to do this without having any apps running in the background, like some kind of key-map file I can edit rather than using a tool to do it? I'm a real resource-conscious user and don't want anything running in the background. Thanks!
How can I set a Magic Trackpad (or, any other bluetooth device, I guess) into discovery mode, if it has already been paired to another mac? Anything I find on google just mocks me.
On iPhone 4 IOS 4.3.5, if I start playing music the iPod app is getting or sending information from internet. To reproduce it : kill the ipod app using the "taskbar" then play some music your will notice the turning "wheel" of data transfer during a few seconds
I'm coming to Mail.app with a background using both Outlook (on the PC) and GMail. In every mail client I've used, there are easy keyboard shortcuts to do these: jump to any folder I want, just by typing a substring of it in an easy to launch dialogue move currently selected message(s) with a similar dialogue
I'd like to use a shared drive on my Airport as a central location for all of my media. But, I'd like to not place all my important data on a single drive if I can avoid it. Is there any way to build in some kind of redundancy or RAID as a kind of wannabe SAN into something Airport will allow me to share as a single disk, on the cheap/free?
I need to clear the local storage for safari on my iPad, what I found by googling says to go to Settings > Safari > Databases but databases is no where to be found in my safari settings. The screenshots show it right below accept cookies but it's not there or anywhere else on the page (or sub pages). Any ideas?
As I understand it, what one would normally do under such circumstances is change the appropriate parts of an /etc/sshd_config file. For example, I might have
So I have a time capsule of a few machines. The one i did last (Snow Leopard) doesn't seem to be showing in the list. I don't have a snow leopard DVD boot handy only Leopard. Is this why this isn't in the list?
I have recently started using my iPhone near a stereo set which picks up the radio signals from calls and 3G connections, making me very aware of when the phone emits anything. The phone currently makes about 10-20 "wakeups" per minute, which is enough to make me place it a couple of meters away so the speakers won't pick up anything. Though this is annoying in itself, I'm more concerned about if this is normal for an iPhone. I'm always connected to a WiFi router, so if it's an app trying to get Internet access – it's doing it wrong. Each wakeup lasts for about one second but sometimes (far less often) it blasts away for two or three seconds.
In iPhone Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Contacts, there is a message: New contacts created outside of a specific account will be added to this account. What does that specific account referring to?
*=URL=* (rephrased): if you want to sync google contacts with iphone over the air using google sync, you can... sync all contacts... this way you can leave your already existing contacts on iphone and sync all google contacts (remember that every email which contact you except spam is put into all contacts... this means veeeery lot of contacts and some people find this very frustrating) Ok it basically claims that we can sync All Contacts (all people we have ever contacted) to our IPhone over the air.
I'm using Mail in Lion in three-pane full screen mode. Let's say I put my pointer over a message in the middle pane. I push the touchpad with my thumb to click and hold, and start to move the pointer with my index finger in the direction of the new folder where I want to file the message. Mail does one of two things: Begin to highlight a range of messages, or Begin to move the selected message to another folder.
From time to time the album art on my iPhone 4 becomes completely messed up. In iTunes they are correct, but on the phone they are suddenly mixed up. Album A gets the art from album K, and album C from album G, and by luck album E has the right one... very annoying. I can "fix" it by resyncing everything (don't sync, apply, sync, apply), but I'm getting really tired of that.
iPhone has a default "Notes" app which allows us to store notes. Stored notes can be deleted by hitting the "Delete Note" button:
While exploring the effect of different keys on menus in Finder in Lion, I spotted what seems like a redundancy in the case of the Go menu. When pressing the ⌥ key while the menu is open, not only is the user Library added to the menu list, but the key combination for Enclosing Folder changes from ⌘↑ to ⌥⌘↑. The additional modifier appears to be redundant, since the same enclosing folder opens with both key combinations.
When you full screen an application in Lion, it "flies out" of the desktop space it started in, and winds up at the end of the spaces list (assuming you have turned off auto-arranging). As a result if the app being pulled out of the spaces flow, there is no way to ctrl+1/2/3etc to jump to the space it is currently occupying. Does anyone know how you can make a keyboard shortcut so you can jump directly to full screened apps?
My iTunes library has disappeared and looking in the Music/iTunes folder, I see an 'iTunes Library (Damaged)' file. All of the music appears to still be there, so I am guessing it is just the database that is damaged. Is there a way to recover the library, like from the xml file? There is also a folder with Previous iTunes Libraries that are a couple months old. Can I just copy and rename one of those files?
My machine with Lion installed failed to wake from sleep the other day, and all sorts of nastiness was in evidence after a power-button shutdown and restart. Not to worry, I thought, I'll use Time Machine (TM) to restore my Library folder to its pre-problem state and perhaps that will solve the problems. This seemed like a good idea, but TM refused to cooperate, informing me that the operation could not be completed because I did not have sufficient permissions to change my Library folder. How could this be, since I operate with an Administrator account? (As to restoring the machine to normality, it took two restarts into Safe mode to sort things out, at least to an acceptable extent — I've had to re-enter license details in several apps when they re-launched afterwards, and almost all my preferences had reverted to their default state.)
My friends laptop was dropped and fell directly on the power charging connector as it was connected to the charger. Now the port still works, but the strength of the magnet that holds the connector is very weak, as if it has lost some of its magnetism. That sounds pretty ridiculous of course, so I'm wondering if it's possible that the force of the drop dislodged the magnet so it is no longer close to the surface? There is still some "pull in", but so little that the slightest tug on the cable pulls it off. I've never seen the inside to know what the magnet looks like. Is my theory plausible? Any remedies short of opening the case?
It sort of works except for two things: 1) the cwd isn't shown in the title bar, and 2) the cwd along with some gibberish is printed at the command line. I figured maybe the quoting wasn't right, or some other syntax issue, but experimenting didn't lead to improvement.
i was wondering if there was any way of disabling the folder location on the titlebar of the built-in terminal application on Lion. I mean:
Since installing Lion, I've had Safari 5.1 become unresponsive to input several times on two different machines (both iMacs, in different locations). I don't see anything in the forums I quickly checked. Any ideas?
I have to maintain several different versions of OS X for testing, and it would be nice to know at a glance which version of OS X is on a machine. I've previously created custom backgrounds with the version number, but as the number of machines increases this is becoming difficult to maintain. Is there a utility that can display the OS X version on the screen at all times, or automatically change the background image to a generated image containing the OS X version on each boot (or, I suppose, when run manually)?
When I copy and paste a file from one folder to another in Finder on my Mac (running Lion), I don't see it. This isn't the first time. I've had lion for a while now and it works fine. But for some reason today, when I copy and paste. I go to paste, and the files just don't show up after I paste. Is my Mac hard drive full or something?
In Space 1 let's say I've got Safari and Mail open, Space 2 is iTunes, and let's say TextEdit is open in space 3. The spaces are currently in order 1-3.
i just fresh-installed Lion, and i am in the process of seeing up my system. i am using this function (found somewhere online...) to show it in the prompt : And i generate my prompt like this :
There are three page swipe gesture options in Lion:  Scroll left or right with two fingers, which is new to Lion, has a neat animation and is currently supported only by Safari. Swipe left or right with three fingers existed in Snow Leopard and doesn't have the animation, but is supported by other applications. Swipe left or right with three fingers existed in Snow Leopard and doesn't have the animation, but is supported by other applications. Swipe with two or three fingers enables both of these gestures. Swipe with two or three fingers enables both of these gestures. Now, I would be happy with the third option, however it seems that three-finger swipe gesture completely ignores natural scrolling preference. If you disable natural scrolling, all options work identically, but if you turn it back on, two-finger swipe changes its direction, while three-finger gesture stays the same. This leaves me utterly confused because to go Back in Safari with natural scrolling I can: swipe right wit
After upgrading to Lion, Reeder swipe up and swipe down gestures stopped working.  How do I fix them?
I'm having trouble with my Apple bluetooth keyboard for several days after upgrading my system to Lion. In a weird way, neither right shift+; nor right shift+' is working. I have no trouble with the left shift key, or the right shift key with any other keys. Can anybody give me some suggestion to solve this?
As the title says, I'm seeing a weird font smoothing issue. It appears to happen randomically, mostly in Safari. I don't know exactly how to explain it, so here are a couple of screenshots from Safari: Normal screen:
I also have an iPad and an iPod touch. I would like to sync my iPad and iPod to my Mini for music and my Air for documents, such as PDFs, school files, iCal and Address Book. Is this possible? Is there anything I have to do before I start syncing to the Air? A Google check didn't bring up anything relevant to what I was attempting to do. Yes, this is possible.
I have the new iMac and need a Mac mini. Is it easy to switch the display back and forth or do I have to plug and unplug? Also.. Will the Mac mini continue to run in headless mode when I'm using the display with the iMac? I'd like to connect to it via Remote Desktop most of the time. Thanks!
How do I use the iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor? *=URL=* I downloaded the file and extracted it but there isn't a single runnable file at all?
The British spelling dictionary in OS X is customized to UK spellings, a very useful feature. However, the designers have made the unfortunate choice of only listing -ise endings for words such as advertise, customise, etc. Many Brits, such as myself, prefer the -ize spelling.
I use iPhoto to import images from my iDevices and the photos go to the iPhoto library folder. When I import from my DSLR, I place photos in a folder I organize myself by date and events. I would like to automatically copy the imported photos in iPhoto to my folder so that all my photos can be found in the same place. Is is possible to launch an automator workflow upon import in order to perform this task?
Please do not comment on how using Windows itself is a huge downside. After several years using OSX, Linux and Windows, I can say that working on the latter OS is best for my needs.
Since Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) TimeMachine performs local backups to /.MobileBackups if enabled (tmutil enableLocal, default enabled on portable macs). The different types of backups are color encoded in the fancy TimeMachine space thingy, local backups are white, external storage purple. They mostly differ only by a minute. What exactly is the concept of those local backups?
Recent iMacs support a "target display" mode, where you can connect another Mac using a DisplayPort cable, and the iMac will function as an external monitor. This used to work fine, however now if the iMac is running Mac OS 10.6.7 or later (including Lion), the iMac screen will switch to 100% brightness when put into this mode, and the brightness keys on the iMac keyboard can not be used to adjust the brightness. Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
While browsing the apps in Mac App Store I can see the majority of the reviews are posted by users with Finnish sounding names. Some of the reviews are written in English and some in Finnish.
How can I see some or all of the individual word differences between the built-in dictionaries. I'm curious and inspired by this question where the UK typically adds the suffix -ise and USA typically spells it -ize. It would be nice to to see the differences between these variants from the list of languages/dictionaries available in Mac OS X. Australian English British English Canadian English U.S. English
We are using Apple Directory for internal user authentication. We want to restrict a user to login from a single machine at any one time. I have been trying to find a way to do this in Apple Directory without any luck. Is there a way to do something similar in Snow Leopard or Lion server?
There's an option in Terminal.app -> Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard but it allows me only to set both option keys as meta keys. iTerm.app has such an option but don't like that application.
In Snow Leopard alt-3 used to print a #, in Lion it doesn't. I'v tried different key combination keyboard viewer but still no luck. Any ideas were the # key went?
I'm using Mail.app + IMAP email accounts for my email. I want to be able to archive all my email and make them searchable.
Whenever I save a Pages (or other) document I'm greeted with this warning.  I really like the version feature and this warning basically says that it is disabled. Any ideas why my hard drive isn't supported? The machine is a mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro with a 1TB internal drive. The drive is formatted as HFS+ Journaled.
If I remember correctly, the older Macbook pro models (pre 2011) had a 4 partition limit: so, if you tried to install multiple operating systems, you had this limit. Do the new models (2011) still have this limitation? I'm planning to install two Linuxes, A Windows and a Mac partitions to boot.
I recently pruned and edited my Mac's Safari bookmarks. I was very dismayed the next time I synced to discover that the bookmarks from my iPhone had been merged with those on my Mac, even though before the lists had been identical. So now I had even more bookmarks than before I started, many of them duplicated. As an experiment I've tried deleting just a few bookmarks on the Mac and resyncing, and they just come back.
Having discovered the excellent SafariKeywordSearch thanks to an answer here, I'd now like to get rid of the warning which Safari pops up on launch about Keywurl not loading because it hasn't been tested with Safari 5.1. I thought I had circumvented this by deleting the Keywurl bundle from ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins (it had only been installed locally, not globally), but Safari still stubbornly pops up a warning. In actual fact, I was seeing two instances of the incompatibility popup before I performed this deletion, but that second one still persists. I've used Spotlight in an attempt to track down the phantom second instance, but without success. Has anyone any idea where it might be lurking?
I have updated iOS version to 4.3.5 but I want to reinstall 4.2.1. Does any one know how to reinstall 4.2.1 on iPhone?
I have an Ubuntu NAS setup with both SMB and AFP shares, both of which I can access from my Windows machines and Macbook Air. I have also verified that I can copy files to these shares from my MBA.
I switched to Lion soon after it came out on my MacBook Pro. Now when I pull down the airport menu, it indicates that it is searching for networks all the time. It does this even after I am connected to my preferred network. I never noticed this with Leopard nor Snow Leopard. Is this a bug? a feature? Should I care?
I do web development on Windows for my day job, and I rely a lot on Fiddler, which is web debugging proxy. What is an equivalent tool for OS X?
I just replaced my optical drive with an SSD, which I now boot off of (Lion, fresh install). I'd like to keep my iTunes folder on the original drive, which is still in the computer as well. When I used Migration Assistant I had it skip the Music folder.
I am running on a Mac with Snow Leopard. Up until now, the default Terminal.app has served me well. I have installed the IR_Black theme mentioned here: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/6.
I have a web app added to the home screen of the iphone. is it possible to open this web apps added to the home screen if someone visits a URL in safari. i'm aware that the web app added to the home screen is actually running in safari, but i want to open that web app .. is there any custom iphone specific URL to call a web app ?
My iPhoto (iLife 11, version 9.1.5) committed sepuku. No fear, I have backups.
The pages of my pdf presentation add incremental changes to the first page. The second page, for instance, consists of the diagram on the first page in addition to a few more lines. This way a complex figure can be introduced gradually.
A common workflow on a Windows or Linux PC is to right click on a link in (say) Chrome, then hit "L" to copy the URL to the clipboard. How can I achieve this on MacOS? I don't want to have to use the mouse to select the relevant menu item.
I have recently purchased a new MacBook Air, with my optical drive equipped MacBooks, there is a Shift+Control+Eject key combination that allows you to lock your system by showing the Login Window for Fast User Switching. With the new MacBook Air, the Eject key has been replaced with a Power key, so the Shift+Control+Eject combination is no longer possible. Is there a new key combination available?
Just bought a new Macbook Pro with lion, but the launchpad button is not in the dock and I can't find it anywhere on the computer. I thought it may be gone because when I started the computer I used a firewire cable to put all the information from my old Macbook into the Macbook pro, and so all the settings from the Macbook were transferred. Could this have deleted the launchpad button? All help is appreciated!
For the last few hours my trackpad has been behaving terribly, jumping all over the place and sticking. I believe I remember there being an option to disable the trackpad when a mouse is plugged in in previous versions of OS X, but can't seem to find that option anymore. Is such an option still available in Lion?
I need to open files with images that come as Word (docx) files. I couldn't see the images if I open in Pages or Mac Office. Had to get VMWare Fusion, Win7 and Windows office, and still having problems opening these files in Fusion Virtual Machine ... Files open fine at work in a Windows PC. Any ideas? Would Boot Camp work better than Fusion Virtual Machine? Thanks...
Are there any OSX tools that can watch for file changes in a directory then sync (SFTP) those changes to a remote server? Basically I want to edit files locally (whatever files, whatever program) and have them automatically upload to the server. Rsync can't watch a directory for changes on it's own, and I can't seem to get lyncd to run on osx, due to no inotify tool. Any ideas?
I'm trying to install ImageMagick on Mac OSX 10.7 and I'm getting the following errors: When I try to run the suggested verification When I try pretty much anything... I've followed the path and it looks like the libclparser.dylib is missing from the OpenCL.framework, but I'm unsure of where to find that or how to replace it, or even if that's the right thing to do.
I am searching for "iTunes Connect Mobile" app by Apple from my iPod touch (has OS 4.0) in the Apple Store, without any luck. Also tried "iTC Mobile" (a name used in some articles about it).
I really like Cisco's 'Network Magic' software; but the site says they no longer support Mac.. Does anyone know of any software like it, that is supported on Mac?
I am looking for a way to initiate a PPP connection with my EVDO modem from the command line instead of having to go to System Preferences -> Network and hit "Connect".
Occasionally, when chatting, it is fun to deliberately misspell words, dyaknowadImean? OS X Lion is autocorrecting my misspellings into completely random words! Does anyone know how I can temporarily, (e.g. by holding down a key as i type the deliberately misspelled word?) disable autocorrect?
Once after using Time Machine in Lion Recovery OS to restore a system, I noticed that the attributes B-tree was unusually small. Initially I was worried (had Time Machine failed to backup some thing, or failed to backup important metadata relating to a number of files?) but before long, I was reassured: the attributes file grew to something like the size it was before erasure.
how can I enable in Preview.app the three fingers gesture that shows the selected word in the dictionary? This gesture works great in Mail.app but doesn't in Preview.app
I read that the upgrade to OS X Lion is not intended for Mac Minis, is this true? Is there a way to upgrade a Mac Mini with an Intel CPU to OS X Lion?
I've seen a number of references to a folder at ~/Applications, including in a comment on this question. This prompted me to open my home folder on my Lion installation to have a look, and sure enough, there it is, complete with its own folder icon. Checking another machine which is running Snow Leopard showed no such folder.
I was using Linux for the last couple of years and I find it extremely useful to copy text by highlighting it as well as to paste by clicking a middle mouse button. I'm using a Mac now and I wonder if I can achieve such behaviour on Mac OS X.
I'd like to use a snippet of a song I have purchased as a ringtone for my iPhone. Is this possible using only iTunes?
Is there any official AppleScript documentation? If so, where can I find it?
Is it possible to run Windows Server R2 with Hyper-V virtualization on a Mac Mini (via BootCamp)? I am looking for a new server for my dev enviroment. A Mac Mini would be nice since I can take it with me to a customer site.
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't seem to search for the right terms. I have a playlist in iTunes that has over 200 songs in it, yet when on Shuffle, iTunes plays the same 15-20 songs over and over. I created the playlist over a year ago and listen at work almost every day, and there are dozens of songs that have never been played unless I turn off shuffle and manually select them to play. I know Shuffle is random, and that true mathematical randomness means it's just as likely that you'd hear the same song 10 times in a row as that you'd hear 10 different songs, but isn't there some way to force iTunes to play all the songs in a playlist when it's on Shuffle? I'm currently running iTunes 10.4 on a Mac (Snow Leopard), but this is true on other versions and operating systems as well.
Currently leaning towards wiping the disk, running iDefrag, restoring from the clone then installing Lion. Is there a simpler or otherwise better route?
Does anyone know how iCloud will handle this issue? Since it's native to Lion perhaps it will sync the version history as well. Barring that, does anyone have any workarounds or best practices?
I recently got a Mac Mini with the i5 chip. Is it OK to set it on its side and run it that way? I wanted to shrink the footprint.
Is there a button to add the song that is being currently played into a playlist on my iPhone? So i don't have to search it back and add it manually?
I'm testing an HTML5 application that uses a database. According to the app, the database exists, and I can write to and read from it I use Gmail through Safari - I'm virtually certain that it uses a database I'm also virtually certain that I recall seeing the "Database" options in the past.
I recently updated to Lion, and have found that at least some HTML tagged as <pre> or <tt> shows up looking like this  I've tried changing the fixed-width font in Safari. I've tried rebooting. The same page looks fine in Chrome, and when I copy the text in question out of Safari into BBedit, it looks fine. I'm at a bit of a loss.
Safari has started display scrambled text on some websites. This only happens on certain site and in Safari. I've also noticed that the problem may appear in certain spots on the website, like the header, or an ad on Facebook. Here's a screenshot of oDesk.com in Safari 5.1 (7534.48.3)
It's pretty simple. I just got an iPad and want to get the best app to edit word documents that I have saved in my dropbox. There are many options: pages, quick office, docs to go, office2.
I have a couple of albums in iTunes that are "Various Artists" compilations, and the kicker is that each song has it's own artwork. Is it possible to add album artwork only to the "album", and not to any individual song, so that I'd see the logo for the game/album on the main iTunes/iOS album view, instead of the first song of the album's art?
Scenario: I boot into Recovery mode and open Disk Utility. Then I select the primary hard drive and choose 1 partition. Will that destroy the recovery partition as well?
I am running Lion and I wanted to add certain stocks to the Stock widget. I was able to add them fine and remove the default ones but everytime I go back to Dashboard the Stock widget is reset and the default stocks appear. Does anyone now how this can be fixed?
I have a USB device that I use on a daily basis and it has Linux and Windows drivers. I would like to use this device in Mac OS X (meaning not through a VM). Is it possible? edit System requirements from the read me: Linux 2.4 or 2.6 System setup for kernel compilation.
How do I make an AppleScript that displays a drop-down menu without using Xcode?
I have the latest 2011 Macbook Pro. Sometimes I notice that even when I'm plugged in, the battery status says "Not charging" even when I unplug it and the battery is at 35%.
I have a new 15" MacBook Pro running Lion. My client has a new 60" Panasonic (P60GT30) in their conference room. They have a Windows laptop plugged in to the PC input, and it works fine. However, when I try to connect like ... ... the MacBook simply will not recognize the TV. (Note: The TV actually has a little VGA-to-weirdPanasonicMiniConnector dongle that's needed to connect the TV; but Windows worked fine with it, why not the MacBook?)
Ideally, the solution would work like Time Machine. The problem I anticipate is that I would need a second disk (formatted as NTFS) to hold the Boot Camp backup--or maybe I could also bi-partition my external hard drive and make an NTFS partition to store the Boot Camp backup? That way I would not need a second physical disk plugged in.
The export progress window pops up and tells me that it will take 9 minutes. Over the course of the next 2-3 hours, it bumps up to 4 hours or so. After letting it sit overnight, the progress window reads 2 days. I have tried this twice and I still get between 44-48 hours in the morning after it has sat overnight. Any suggestions why this would be taking so long? Computer Specs: 13" MBP running 10.6.8 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB DDR3 RAM
Since Lion still won't allow me to search the SMB volumes I need, I'm planning on syncing them to a local folder that will be indexed by Spotlight. What's the best way to sync folders automatically in the background? I don't want to open up an app and manually hit a button to capture the newly added files, so I'm hoping that there's something out there. Thanks for your help! jared
I created a custom keyboard layout with Ukelele (*=URL=* in Snow Leopard (idea is to generate scandinavian letters with Alt-key, otherwise have a pretty much standard U.S. layout). After the upgrade, the old installed (to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts) layout wasn't working. Ukelele seems to work OK in Lion, but whether I put the generated keylayout in a bundle or single file, or save it "/Library/Keyboard Layouts" or "~/Library/Keyboard Layouts" doesn't seem to matter. Help? EDIT:
Is there a way to get a "new mail" notification on the status bar (that indicates the presence of unread email in the inbox) of my iPod Touch Model #MB528LL Version3.1.3(7E18). I see that the iPhone or other Apple handhelds are capable of an email notification in the statusbar as shown in the image:
Does not support connecting via a Terminal Services Gateway. Are there any other options?
I just upgraded my one month old osx desktop computer to lion. I had parallels desktop 6 on it and now I cannot access parallels. Do I have to reload windows? Have I lost everything in windows? I must have to it for my business. Please help!
I have 2 x 500 GB external Harddrives and 500 GB internal harddrive . I use time machine to backup from the internal 500GB and one external 500GB HD to the second 500 GB HD. This is good till date since I only had to back up less than 250 Gigs in total. What would happen if and when I exceed the disk space of 500 Gigs?
Is there an app for the iPad that let's you view an NFS share? It seems like File Browser lets you mount SMB shares and iFiles lets you view different cloud storage sites like Flickr and other file shares such as FTP but neither support NFS or SFTP? Is that correct? Thanks for your input!
I need to use my Terminal window on a MacBook Air but it closes about 10 seconds after I open it. Is there a setting or is it possible another program is causing it to close? If I type quickly I can run say diskutil but it closes after it runs.
I'm using the Goodreads iPad app. I have data protection set in the iPads general settings and passcode required to unlock. I also have a passcode to open Goodreads.
I have a keyboard that has only a PS2 interface. I tried setting a PS2 to USB connector over it and connected to Mac. The keyboard does not work. It works fine on a Windows XP though.
So it turns out that I am not the greatest fan of Lion after all. Is there a way I can downgrade from the Lion OS to the Snow Leopard OS if I bought my laptop in mid 2011?
I would like to run a shell script daily, but not necessarily at a specific time. The computer the script runs on is switched on at irregular times, and no assumptions can be made when that will be. For that, I would like to get launchd to behave a bit like anacron: It only needs to run the job once a day, at any convenient time. Most posts I have seen here or on other sites describe things like "running every day at 05:00", which is not helpful for me if the machine is off at that time... How do I write a launchd plist specifying that behaviour?
I have used iPhoto to backup my pictures from the iPhone. How can I find all the iPhone-photos without having to click on all the pictures to view the EXIF-info?
I went through a similar question, but the answer was informing how to hide the monitor, but not how to disable it. I do not want any new windows to creep into the laptop display when the external display is connected. I could not find any in the Display Settings (under System Preferences). I don't want to close the lid because I think it impacts the air flow of the MacBook Pro.
Is it possible to convert video resolution within 10.7 without the use of Handbrake.app or other 3rd party software? I'm not allowed to install any apps on this machine so hence not being able to download Handbrake.app
I would like to download albums off of Facebook onto my iPhone. I tried the app called "Fb Photos download," but it seems that it downloads only by a group of 12 photos. Is there an iOS app that downloads all the photos in an album with one click?
I have $10.00 next to my name in the iTunes screeen. I click to buy "Surfin Safari" (by the Beach Boys) for $0.99. I am then asked for the security code on my Credit Card. Why? Why can't it just take it from the iTunes gift card I put in?
I am trying to install Homebrew on Lion but keep getting an error. I run the above code, which results in:
I've installed a bunch of apps from the App Store, some free, some paid. Many of them are garbage, were uninstalled, and I don't intend to ever install them again. How can I remove (or hide) them from the "Purchased" list?
I run my own mail servers and have them set up to support SSL connections over IMAP/SMTP. They are GoDaddy SSL certificates and are recognized by Mail and IOS since the root authority (godaddy) is trusted.
I was installing Wine on 10.6.8 and got this error:
I've been using Bootcamp (XP) with no problem for quite a while now. Today, when I tried booting to XP, my mouse will work for about a second and then stop working. If i unplug/replug it, it will sometimes work for another second and then stop. The keyboard works fine. I've tried several different mice, all corded. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix it?
I'm using a java program with a dropdown box to select some fonts to use. I want to add a new font into this list. The manufacturer said that I had to add the font file to my jre/lib/fonts directory, but where can I find it? In the Frameworks-Path there is no fonts directory... thank you!
Call me paranoid but my everyday account has no privileges. I have a 'administrator' account who is in wheel. When I want to perform administrative tasks, I open a terminal and do This works fine in most situations, except with X11 applications. fails with Can't open display: What I've tried: start X11 with the everyday user do xhost +localhost with everyday user do export DISPLAY=:0 with administrator How can I run a X11 application with the administrator account when my desktop runs with the everyday user?
If I rent a movie on my Mac, I can move the rented movie to my iPad. Can I do the same if I rent a movie directly on my AppleTV?
When the countdown timer ends I would like to set the IPhone to play a custom music file. is that possible?
My MacBook (Late 2007) has an 80GB hard drive. I used to have a 15GB Boot Camp partition, and deleted it at some point -- but I forgot to resize my Snow Leopard partition to fill the 15GB of free space at the end of the drive.
In iTunes, we can right click a track and do "Get Info" and add some lyrics to the track. I have a text file that is roughly 500 kB.
I have Internet Sharing enabled: The WEP password is aaaaa. I understand that my MacBook Pro now acts as a wireless access point. My Windows XP PC can see this. However, when I enter aaaaa as a password, I can't connect :(
I just upgraded to Lion, and was having problems with my old XCode installation, so I just removed it completely by running Now having removed the developer tools, I would like to reinstall them. But as soon as I go to the App Store, XCode is still marked as installed. How can I make the App Store realize that XCode has been uninstalled?
Is there any IDE like Notepad++ for iPad? I want to create HTML pages with CSS and jQuery on my iPad.
I'm having problem with my user account in Lion. I want to remove some of the icons in the dock. Every time I sign out the dock will be "restored". Not to factory settings but always to the same appearance. I'm not really sure if this behaviour started when I upgraded Snow Leopard or before. Upgrading to Lion did not solve the problem. The behaviour even applies to some general settings and some Application. Adjustments just wont survive reboot. To me, it feels like some permission glitch? New user accounts works fine Using the disk utility, repair permission didn't solve the problem Clearing the Libary/Chache didn't do anything
My MacBook Pro 2011 is having problems. When I turn it on, I hear the chime but the screen is black. I am planning to send it off to Apple since I have AppleCare. But before I do that, I need to backup my hard drive. I have taken the hard drive out and plugged it into my desktop, but I don't see it. I see it in device manager - > Apple TSC 128 GB, but how can I browse through the contents and save the stuff? Thanks.
Since I installed Lion, the Spotlight database keeps reindexing (which is taking several hours). It does this at least every second day.
I have an Issue wIth my Apple keyboard where the "I" key does not work In lowercase mode. When I checked usIng the keyboard vIewer, It shows that the lower case "I" Is trIggerIng a double ⌘ (command key) I have trIed a dIfferent keyboard (I use an apple bluetooth keyboard and have trIed replacIng It as well as usIng a separate USB keyboard) I have an IMAC 10,1 runnIng OS X 10.6.8 Any and all advIce welcomed
If src/ contains a few hundred files, the rm operation takes many minutes. If I open the directory in Finder, I can see the files vanishing one by one. This operation used to be virtually instantaneous in Snow Leopard, but is excruciatingly slow in Lion. If I copy the files instead of hard-linking them, removing them is still instantaneous. Can anybody tell me what has changed to warrant this slowness?
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 with Safari 5.01 with my main user account, which is an admin account. I would like to do some testing with Safari 5.1 before I fully commit to it.
I've bought a MacBook Pro 8,1 one month ago. Snow Leopard was pre-installed on it. Yesterday, I did the free upgrade, provided by Apple. I received a code for the App Store. I filled it in, and I got immediately the OS X Lion upgrade tool (after downloading). But is there a way to put the new OS X, on a DVD as backup? Please, keep in mind that everything is legal. Thanks.
I have been using Quicksilver ß60 for a while, and I recently updated to Lion. However, there is a problem. Quicksilver quit unexpectedly, and now when I launch it launches and quits immediately. I have reinstalled QS, deleted the .plist file restarted my Mac, and cleared the QS Cache files in Library/Caches and Library/Application Support/QS. I also moved the iTunes plugin away and deleted it's entry in the Plugins.plist file. This still did not fix the problem. Are there any other plugins that have not been playing nice with Lion/ß60? Have any other users experienced this problem. The messages from Console.app are as follows (the same 2 happen every launch, in this order):
The installer installed it to my hard drive but I don't see an icon that I'm supposed to click on to access it. Can anyone help me understand this
A friend of mine just got a new MacBook and is trying to look at some files she had from her old Wintel boxen with .VOB, .IFO, and .BUP file extensions. What Mac conversion or viewing utility or app should be used?
I would like to disable resume for all applications by default (including newly install applications). I know the following command will disable resume for a specific application (Safari in this case) defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false but I was wondering if there's a way to disable it permanently.
I have installed Firmware update to 4.3.5 for my iPod touch 3g (32gb), and after installation, I have a problem where apps can't run. I tap on an app, it runs (~1 sec) and then skips to main menu of iPod.
Times Skimmer is a browser-based application that offers a new way to read The Times online. The application provides the experience of spreading out a newspaper and paging through it.
When ever I close and open Terminal.app, it never loads my ~/.bash_profile. I have my RVM setup at the top of the file but it never loads it. As you can see, when I type rvm into Terminal, it says command not found this is a pain as I have to run source ~/.bash_login every time I open Terminal.
I don't want to start a holywar, but as far as I am concerned, I am on track according to the faq. I wanted to know the key differences between macports and fink. I am a long time macports user and am looking for some fresh blood (if I may say so). I was looking towards fink. I'd appreciate it if anyone listed out a few differences between these two package management systems.
I have mapped the Home and End keys of my apple keyboard to work PC style: Go to the beginning of the line and end respectively. (Using DoubleCommand if that is important, I am aware of other ways of doing this, and open to alternatives if that would solve my problem)
How can I painlessly upgrade ruby and python languages and their libraries? Can I nuke the system versions (which are present somewhere in /System/Libraries) and install newer ones using package manager (macports, fink, homebrew) or should I install them side by side to separate --prefix and override the $PATH variable to use installed versions first? Any other decent options?
I have a MacBook with a French AZERTY keyboard. On this keyboard, the forward slash ('/') is over the ':' character, so I have to do: Shift + : to get the /. However in Eclipse there is a useful shortcut to comment out blocks of code: you do ⌘ + / to put "//" at the beginning of every line of selected code; and Shift + ⌘ + / to put /* and */ at the beginning and the end of selected lines, thus commenting out the block of code. But as I already need to press Shift to get the /, when I do Shift + ⌘ + :, it understands ⌘ + /, and I get the first shortcut.
I observed that an ipad (wifi) connected to a personal hotspot made by an iphone does get also the GPS position. The question is how can I get this from a MacBook Pro? I would like to use it with apps like Google Earth.
I have an iPod touch and its WiFi seems to have this "awkward" feature. Lets say that A and B are two WiFi networks to which I have the passwords or are free. When I move out of the range of A into the range of B, I seem to have to manually reconnect my WiFi to B. Is there a way out of this continuous manual intervention?
Since I bought my Macbook Pro 5.1 two and a half years ago I could barely burn DVDs and CDs. I have read some discussions on the Apple forums that pointed a potential solution that didn't work for me: blowing compressed air into the superdrive.
I am wondering how fast the current 2011/2010 era macs spin the optical media. I'm talking about real physical speeds even if it is complicated. Angular velocity is fine, linear velocity is fine - the radius is fixed, so the math is easy. If you can address both slot load and tray loading or go into details how the speeds vary, that would be very nice. I am also curious of the read speed is different than the burn speed for writeable media of the various types.
I have an external hard drive in an enclosure that plugs into the firewire port of a Mac Pro, and it is not recognized. I connect the device to the firewire port, and this is what it shows: Any ideas on how to make the drive be recognized? Disk Utility does not see it, and neither does diskutil on terminal. Running Lion on a MacPro 4,1.
My MBP has been freezing every day, and extremely slow ever since the last 10.6.8 update. Is there a way to go back to when my laptop was usable? Sort of like in Windows where you can uninstall updates
I would like to make a bootable USB flash drive with Diskwarrior, techtool pro, and some other utilities. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to go about doing this? I was hoping to keep the total image unter 8GB, but I could do 16.
Since upgrading to Lion, iChat refuses to connect to either my AIM or Google Talk accounts. (Not a Google Apps account, fwiw.) Interestingly, if I sign in to AIM on another computer and try to get iChat to sign on, I get a message that I'm trying to sign on in more than one place, but iChat still shows status as "offline" for all accounts. So far, I've tried deleting all the com.apple.iChat preferences in Library, but to no avail.
I'm surprised how much I use Launchpad after upgrading to Lion both to launch and switch to applications, to the extent that I rarely find myself showing the Dock anymore. I do have one problem, however:
Lion came with a sad surprise to me. Now, every time I want to run VI on terminal, I get VIM. I hate VIM. How do I get my old and bad VI back to the system? thanks.
I'm using Dropbox and replacing some of the standard user folders like Documents and Pictures with symlinks to locations in my Dropbox. I can easily set the icons of these symlinks to match the icons of the standard Documents and Pictures folders, but I can't find a way to also change the symlinks' appearance on the Finder sidebar to look like the native Documents and Pictures folders. In short, I've placed custom folders in the Finder sidebar; is there a way to change the icons they're given? I've looked into Candybar, but it seems like that's mostly for changing the appearance of all appearances of the standard icons, whereas I just want to make a plain and ordinary folder look like a standard user folder.
Every night I start some music/audiobook/whatever in iTunes and then reduce the brightness of the screen to zero to listen to the audio without seeing a bright screen. For the past few weeks (I think), my MacBook (2007) automatically increases the brightness to at least level one after five or ten minutes requiring me to press the lower brightness button again to switch the screen back to dark. Any idea why it does that?
In Snow Leopard I was using this utility (it uses MacFuse) to mount my iPhone as a volume upon its connection. Worked very well, and I could browse my jailbroken iPhone's files easily and drag/drop over themes like on a normal HD.
I want to buy a Kindle and use my iPhone 3G to connect to the internet to download books. Do I need to buy the Kindle 3G + Wifi to work? Another thing, will the two work together?
Edit 2: I did a "Safe Boot" and that appears to hang too. Here's the last few lines of output: and nothing more for over an hour now.
Outlook 2011 keeps closing about 2 seconds after launch. There is brief flashing in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen but then nothing. I have checked the console and I am seeing error 255. I have pasted the error below. Does anybody know how I can correct this error or at least get Outlook working again?
I am going to buy a MacBook for iOS development as its main use, though I will also use Photoshop some for image processing. I am choosing between the new mid-2011 Macbook Air and the early-2011 Macbook Pro. Both 13" for portability, when at home/office the idea is to use it with an external monitor. These are the configurations:
I have a 16 GB iPhone 3GS. The phone is dropping the network sporadically. I am in a metro area that should have full coverage. I know I should have service, because I can sit right next to someone with a 3GS that has full bars, while I am "searching...". I'll go hours with no messages, then I'll get dozens of texts/emails/voicemails all at once. Apple Store said to take it to ATT, I did. They gave me a new SIM card. I've done this twice. When the phone isn't working (I'm assuming it has something to do with the network or antenna), I try to restart the network settings and then do a hard reset (home button+power button). About 30% of the time this works. I have done a DFU restore and that did not make a difference. I can't figure out what to do with it. I'm trying to hold out until the next iPhone comes out. What can I do to fix this issue or who should I contact that might actually help?
I've been looking around for reviews for the best way to run a Windows on a Mac. I've come across Bootcamp, Parallels, VitrualBox, and VMFusion. I am wondering what seems to be the most efficient, one with the least problems, and why use it over the others. If there are others I haven't mentioned let me know. EDIT I have a MacBook Pro just bought it a few weeks ago, and at the moment I would only use the Windows side for a few games.
I am running Chrome 14 on OSX Lion. I swipe 2 fingers horizontally to scroll a web page horizontally, for a page that is too wide.
Got a brand new iMac 27" Mid 2011 - Core i5 and when backing up data from old iMac, through the wireless, the network stall and then stops, after some minutes it restart. Got this problem several times, changed from DHCP to DHCP with manual address and no luck at all. In console, shows (will list 2 logs, basicly the same, but have a lot of others): log #1: log #2: Think that it happens only when copying large files (larger than 3.5gb)... Any ideas?
I recently updated to Lion and didn't keep any backup of the local library for my installed apps on the iPad. Now when I'm trying to update to the latest version of iOS it tells me this:
In Snow Leopard when I used a screencapture program (⇧⌃⌘4) on the screen area that was zoomed in (by using ⌃ + mouse wheel) the resulting screen shot has the same zoom factor. Super useful when I wanted to take some small, detailed screen shot. In 10.7 screencapture ignores the zoom factor and resulting screen shot is in 1:1 scale. Is there some defaults setting, or anything else, that could bring back the SnowLeopard behavior?
How do you burn a CD within iTunes? I want to be able to burn some music to a CD, but I just can't find the option.
On the OSX server itself, the folder has a little red indicator on it with a line through the icon. Get Info -> Ownership & Permission has "You have [No Access]".
I deleted a file last week (a PDF in this case). While I'm able to reconstruct the information I need in this case, I'd like to take precautions against this happening again.
How do I associate an ssh public key with a user account on the machine I connect to, so I don't have to type in the account password every time I make an ssh connection to that machine? The machine being connected to is an older mini with Leopard installed. I assume that this is doable in Leopard, and I don't have to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion.
In my iPhone is there a way to get more "recently added" songs? I have about 100 songs and I have added recently 5, now in my "recently added" I've got only those 5.
I used to own a Dell with a pretty beefy replacement plan. When I bought my MBP, I asked if there was any similar coverage and the "genius" said no. I search around online and found a company called Safeware, but it would be hard for me to believe that this would be the only company around doing this.
Whenever I am using my 2006 Macbook for a while, the screen starts flickering, from one shade of brightness to another. When I change the brightness, it stops. It also occurs right after startup or when coming out of sleep mode. It is running the second to latest version of Snow Leopard, though the problem has been occurring ever since Tiger.
If I hold Alt/Option and click the Airport icon at the top, I get a bunch of extra data about the access point I'm connected to. Most interestingly for me right now is the Wi-Fi channel. ifconfig doesn't seem to include it. How can I get this same info from the command line?
On the Mac end of things, I also mess around with Garageband and Coda, edit video and photos with iMovie and am learning Objective-C using XCode. And also for general use (web, email, officey-stuff, iTunes, DVD viewing etc). The laptop handles all this extremely well and although its a couple of years old now, I see no reason to upgrade to a newer model.
If I buy a lot of ram for my new iMac (16GB), is there a way to make the system cache my most frequently used applications so the launch time is much faster?
Before upgrading to Mac OS X Lion with a clean install, I backed up Mail app according to this article on Apple Discussions. I know have the com.apple.mail file and the Mail directory and I have no idea how to restore it. As it seems, theses paths have changed. Do you have any ideas on how to restore my emails?
My daughter is headed off to college. I'd like to send her off with a Time Capsule so she can wirelessly backup her MacBook automatically. My concern is that Time Capsule will not work properly on her dorm's WiFi network, which she clearly won't have access to from a management perspective. I know she can connect her MacBook to Time Capsule via ethernet but that is effectively a manual backup and I know that my kids (and many others) won't do that every night. Does anyone have any more information on this or know how this could work?
I have a stack in my Dock with aliases to my most-used preference panes. In the past, the icons that appear in the grid when I click on the stack have been the large descriptive icons shown in Finder. Since upgrading to Lion, instead, I'm getting new icons. The descriptive icon is small, surrounded by a gear, and the word PREF is under it. At a glance, it's no longer possible to tell which preference pane is which. Finder doesn't show these large "gear/PREF" icons; the stack and QuickLook do.
Michel Fortin’s Multi-Safari actually makes it possible to test websites in old versions of Safari, should you feel the need. Unfortunately, the Multi-Safari version of Safari 2 doesn’t quite work properly in Snow Leopard. For me, it worked for a few minutes. Then, for no apparent reason, it stopped loading web pages — the progress bar would stay stuck at a fairly short length, and the status bar would say it was waiting for the web site. Is there any way to get it working reliably on Snow Leopard?
For some reason, my Console is filling up with <8/15/11 6:47:12.000 PM kernel: IPv6 Non-Local address> messages. A quick Google doesn't tell me much and there's nothing on some of the usual boards. Any hints? I'm on a MacBook Pro running Lion.
I cannot reply to emails on my iPad 2, but if I compose a new one it will send it fine. This is a new problem as it was working fine before and there have been no changes. I use a Telstra Micro SIM and an optus email address.
Are there any applications that persistently track statistics like those displayed with iStat Menus (network, CPU, RAM, temperature, etc.)? Having this data would be cool on its own, but it would also be useful if such a program broke down the data by day of the week, time of day, programs running, location, etc.
Travelling overseas and would like to take the iphone only for wifi purposes. I have heard horror stories of people rackin gup huge bills for roaming charges, so how do I ensure the iphone won't use cellular data/3g?
On many operating systems if you want to undo something you can press Ctrl+Z. I tried this on Mac OS X and it does not work. What is the suitable equivalent?
I like to group my bookmarks into Folders in the Bookmark Bar. But I cannot find an easy way to delete these bookmarks! The only way I know to do this is to go to Show All Bookmarks, then browse down to the shortcut and select it and delete it - this totally gets in the way of workflow.
I am looking for something like the hostednetwork on Windows, which lets you create a wireless connection at the same time as being connected to another. I have a widespread enterprise wireless network, which, for security reasons, blocks all communication between devices on the network. However, in order to test mobile websites and such, I need my devices to connect to my MacBook Air.
The situation is this; 1 shared Mac Mini with user switching. If I leave the Shared disk mounted and the other user logs in, they get prompted for Administrator credentials (which disconnects me.) We both need to be able mount and use the share without disrupting processes running under each user.
I'm looking for the file which Mail plays when a message comes in.
There's no Set Content button when I add a media source in Plex (0.9.3.4) to select a metadata provider. I've installed Plex on a Mac Mini running Lion and added a content source. To add the source, I went to Video Plugins -> Add Source. I added a folder called movies from my smb share by clicking Browse, selecting the folder, and clicking OK.
I recently bought an iPad 2 Wifi + 3G. It is not Jail broken and it is completely genuine. It has iOS 4.3.3 pre-installed. I have not updated my iOS yet as I have just bought it today. I didn't find any option like "Enable Multitasking Gestures" under the General tab of Settings.
In Safari, when you Ctrl-click on an image in any web page, a menu comes up with several options. I'd like to be able to do a single trackpad click with a modifier key (option or command, for example) on an image, and have just one of the options from the menu be invoked immediately, instead of showing a menu. I haven't been able to find a way to do this, but maybe I'm missing something. I have older hardware so multi-touch gestures won't help me much.
I got a newsletter to go to store.kagi.com It's an offer to buy an update to the discontinued video converting software Visualhub by Techspansion. What makes it a bit suspicious that there is no contact whatsoever to ask if this is the real deal. I'm a fan of Visualhub no question but an anon update to a discontinued product? Would you buy this though?
(journaled, encrypted) is a new option which I am able to find in Lion. Can I convert an existing harddrive (external) to encrypt the whole drive instead of using other tools ?
I mean, both use Intel HD Graphics 3000, and the MBP actually has a better processor. If they use the same Intel graphic card (and according to the website, the same info "13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display", so they don't say they are different), how come MBP can't have 1440x900? What is the technical limitation of Apple hardware in MBP that justify this difference?
I bought many iOS Apps on various iPads and iPod touchs. This Wednesday I will have my first Mac, a Mac Mini, so my question is: Will I be able to download these Apps without any charge, if they are available on Mac Store?
I use Google Calendar with an iPhone, syncing several calendars. My main calendar has default reminders set up so that if I create an event on the web, I get emails and SMS messages. When I create an event on the iPhone though, I don't get these default alerts. Is there any way to configure the phone or the calendar so that, when I create an event on the phone, the default alerts work the same way they do if the event is created on the web?
I've got a mid 2011 MBA with Windows 7 running via Bootcamp. In Lion, i've enabled Filevault 2. Normally, when I turn my laptop on, I first enter the filevault password before the laptop boots into OS X.
I have a third-party iPhone dock connected directly to the mains. I found that I cannot unlock my iPhone 3GS when it is in the dock. The slider just slides back and doesn't follow the finger's movement completely. Any idea why?
I have 2 folders one called "Ambient" and one called "Dance", sometime I add new songs to these folders and then I do File -> Add Folder to Library Is there a way to have 2 playlists, based on the songs' directory ?
I would like to have a template that I can update and be able to auto-update the documents using this templates. Currently I wasn't able to find a way to convince Word 2011 to update a document based on the changes made to the template.
I am considering the purchase of the iPad2 and among other things, the one that bother me is this -- you can turn pages when reading an ebook with hand gesture, i.e. moving finger from left to right with nice animation. This is cool for starter.
If I have a dual booting computer (os x 10.7 and Linux), and would like to remove the Linux partition and return it to one single large disk running os x, how is this done? Is there risk to messing up os x? Do I need to clone the os x side, repartition, and reclone, or is there a simpler method?
1Password shortcut cmd+\ stopped working on all browsers so I tried to change it to cmd+/ just to try but now I lost cmd+/! I tried to reset the keyboard shortcuts to default from the preference page but that didn't help.
I'm not sure if I haven't seen that in earlier versions of Mail.app, but I would really love to have the ability to create a task in iCal from an email - and that this task could link to the original email. Maybe there are some third-party solutions that would let this done easily?
Android devices have a screen that shows you approximately what applications and processes are using your battery, by percentage. I'm wondering, in theory, can this be done on a MacBook? How do you think Android determines those numbers?
I want to combine multiple photos like this I tried many apps like diptic, picstich and many more. But they all combine like this.
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and a Time Capsule. In the last few days every backup took over 100GB of data. I don't know if there is some issue with permissions or something similar, but to be sure I removed all the old backups and reformatted the Time Capsule disk. I've also run filesystem checks and permission checks on my MBP disk using the installation disk. Then I've restarted backup from scratch, the first backup took 160GB and for a few days following backups has worked fine (with a decent quantity of data for each run). Now after some days I started my MBP and the backup is still in progress, when it was started it says that it needs to backup about 40GB of data (which obviously is not true) and while running the limit is increasing constantly, currently is at 95GB and it continue to grow. I suspect that there could be some hardware issue with Time Capsule, but not sure. Any hint to solve this issue?
I was programming in python and I had two text editors open to the same file, and right before I shut down my computer I saved in the wrong one and overwrote the version I wanted to keep. How can I restore the old version? I'm using Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I recently received a notification that took up the whole screen on my iphone which says that I have breached the Apple terms and conditions for jailbreaking my iphone. However, I am pretty sure that I haven't done any jail breaking to it and it is a definitely a new piece of hardware since I bought it directly from the telco with the box and wraps.
I'm writing some shell scripts that automatically convert some video files. Except I don't want to run the conversion on files that are already h264 encoded. Is there a way I can tell via a terminal command whether a video has a certain codec?
We manufacture and sell an industrial product (not consumer-grade) that is currently being controlled using a traditional keypad and display. We'd like to replace this with an iPod Touch (smaller systems) and/or iPad (larger systems).
I want to create a template, which is conform to the German business style DIN 676. Somehow I can't figure out how to achieve this. Is there a good Documentation for creating templates within pages?
In my Windows Outlook client I can change from the default behavior of marking an email as read only after hitting the space bar or opening the message to automatically marking an email as read after x number of seconds (if it is selected). Does anyone know how to set this in Outlook 2011 for Mac? I can't seem to find the option.
I have a server that my machine is connected to via AFP. On this server there is a file called 'TransferLog.txt'. While the server is doing it's work it adds to this file. When it finally writes 'successful' I want to be notified by a pop up window in the finder.
I can't make my main Macintosh HD partition bigger. It's limited by the FAT partition in the middle, which seems to be frozen, I can't move it down to make space for my main partition.
I heard that my Intuit Quicken 2007 which I use for balancing my checkbook and other business accounts won't work on Lion. Is that true? I am so dependant on it that I have postponed my Mac's OS upgrade to Lion. What can i do to work around this issue?
I know that ctrl-e will move to me to the end of a line, and ctrl-a to the start. I also know that ctrl-n will move down a line. What other ctrl-key combinations are there? Is it possible to move up a line? How about, most desirable for me, is there something to move back and forth a word at a time? I realize that I can do these things in emacs, or with an alternate set of keys in vi, but that's not what I am interested in. If I am writing a question on one of the stackexchange sites or on a wiki, vi and emacs are not in play.
I have bought brand new MacBook pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I have also installed newest Mac OS, Lion. However, how it could be strange, when cable is not plugged it, battery shows me that there is only max 1:50 of vitality (nevertheless, despite the fact that there is written in the official web page (*=URL=* that the battery work is "up to 7 hrs wireless web". I do not know what the problem is, is this OS problem or the issue with the battery. Update:
Currently, if I open Photoshop after a days time, the load up time is about 5 seconds. If I close and open again (right after), the load up time is about 2 seconds (I assume this is caching?). Can someone explain how adding memory will (if at all) increase performance here (4GB to 16GB)? Background Info: My Page-Ins are about 2GB and my Page-Outs are about 60MB (iMac 12,2 4GB RAM).
Just bought DVD-Creator from the App store; big disappointment. Took an uncompressed 11 minute QuickTime 720HD 6.2GB file down to a 721MB VIDEO_TS when it burned the DVD. In other words, it chucked 88% of the info and looks lousy. Unacceptable.
Are there any applications out there that can record mouse interaction, and save a standard image1 that adequately conveys the exact situation that using the mouse created? Due to the proliferation of gestures in Lion, I would like to include an image conveying exactly what I do in bug reports. Take for example my question regarding Chrome's use of Two-finger forward/back gestures. I would love to attach an image that conveys my exact touch pad usage (and a standard mouse could be beneficial too in other cases) when filing a bug report regarding my gesture grievance. 1 Where standard image file is something like an animated gif, or perhaps an annotated jpg/png with indicators of finger number, and stroke direction.
Is it possible to upgrade a first-generation 2.66 Ghz 2-core Mac Pro (Woodcrest) to a faster model by replacing the CPUs? I've read that some Mac Pro models shipped with 3 Ghz 4-core Xeons (Clovertown).
Many Mac apps have "hidden" configurable options that can be modified in Terminal by using the defaults write ... command. This is straightforward to do if you know the name of the option that you want to configure ahead of time. Is a list of values that each application actually uses tucked away somewhere in a master config file? How do people discover these options without a list of all configurable options for a given Application?
I have a web page with tables full of people & their contact information. I started writing a pairing of php & javascript to automagically generate vCards (*.vcf) for each contact. Half way through this process I’ve discovered that iOS is none too cooperative with .vcf downloaded by Mobile Safari.
What are all the ways to kill a buggy GUI app? I can't right-click on its icon in the whatever-its-called bar, or use the top-of-window menu. The app does not respond to anything, and does nothing but eat more and more memory as times goes on.
In Snow Leopard, whenever you close the lid of a MacBook, it puts it into sleep mode. Simple as that.
Using TextMate, I noticed when you open a new set of quotations, the ending quotation is automatically created and wraps what you are going to type. Let's say I am finished typing my string literal, and now my cursor in the position right before the ending quotation. I still need to write other things after the ending quotation. For example, I may be writing a parameter for a function, and the function has a few more parameters. I know CMD + ENTER goes to the next line, and I know CMD + SHIFT + ENTER ends the current line with a semi-colon and then moves the cursor to the next line. Is there a similar natured hotkey that moves the cursor to the position after the ending quotation? I understand that I can just press ' and then SPACE, and that I can use the arrow keys, but I want to know if there is a hotkey with similar a similar nature. Also, for future reference, I feel like I can never find all these hotkeys that I maybe look for. Where am I supposed to look?
A question about TextMate. For example, I just typed var_dump($codes);, and I forgot to write <?php ?>. So, now I want to highlight the area that I want to wrap the php tags around. How can I do this?
iMac OS X Lion here. I have two accounts in the iMac. Both with password.
While organizing my bookmarks, I made several folders. Now when I click the Bookmarks menu, I don't see any sign of these folders. I need to do "Show All Bookmarks" to see them. Shouldn't the folder appear right in the Bookmarks menu?
iMac OS X Lion. I have 2 accounts with password.
After updating to 10.7.1 (the first Lion update) & restarting the system, it's not logging me in. As I give my password and press return it stays on the same login screen. I could move the mouse but there is no rotating wheel, just the same login screen. I tried starting Mac in safe mode but same thing. Resolution
I bought a MBP a month ago and as a developer and a first time Mac user I want to get my hands dirty with the OS, I found a lot of tweaks and hacks for example: Instead of just coping commands I want to learn and understand these commands, any recommended resources - books, sites, etc. Running OS X Lion. Thanks, T
I've been using GarageBand to play my MIDI keyboard for a few years, just because of its built-in software instruments for keyboards. Now I'm thinking about purchasing some jam packs only for the extra keyboard software instruments.
Let's say I have two lists in AppleScript: I'd like to create a third list that has only the items present in both lists: Basically, something like PHP's array_intersect().
There is a monitor/display like icon at the bottom of the Now Playing screen of the Remote app on iPad. It's just to the right of the genius icon. What is it?
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive for Time Machine backups. I plugged it into my iMac and the hard drive never showed up in Finder. The drive does not appear in Disk Utility and the command diskutil list outputs only my system HD /dev/disk0. Even when I go to the System Profiler the drive does not appear under USB.
I'm trying to edit my hosts file with BBEdit 10. When I begin, it tells me to unlock the file with this message: Are you sure you want to unlock "hosts"? You aren't a member of the group "wheel".
when I am not using it, at some point, every day, my MBP tries to log out on its own. When I 'wake it up' I can see message windows about "applications aborting logout", obviously because some applications that needed to save data aren't allowing OSX to close them. This is extremely irritating, because all applications that have nothing to save, will close down on me, sometimes in the middle of a long download.
So the default scrolling behavior for the trackpad in Lion is to scroll in the direction of your finger movement similar to the iPad. This can be changed in the trackpad preferences by un-checking Scroll Direction: natural. I get that part. My problem is that un-checking or checking this box in the trackpad settings also causes the box in the mouse settings page labeled Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating to be checked or un-checked - effectively tying the mouse scroll wheel behavior to the trackpad scroll behavior. Is this a bug?
I have white MacBook (early 2009), with Snow Leopard running. I read this following article about calibration: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/9036.html
Update: I logged in as admin and the App Store works fine. So some sort of Prefs file is hosed in my main user. Does anyone know which one it would be?
I'm having a couple of issues with my Audible Audiobooks after my upgrade to Lion and iTunes 10.4. Audible is permanently "authorized", even though it's not. When choosing the "Deauthorize Audible Account" menu option, I log into Audible, then I authenticate using my local/computer credentials, and a dialog pops up stating my account has been Deauthorized. Returning to the Advanced menu continues to show 'Deauthorize', in which I can continue this process over, and over, and over.
I want to control an application that does not have an Applescript api (simfy). I would like to pause it via an Alfred command, but for this I need to use scripts. This application is build with Adobe Air and there is no script dictionary entry for it.
There are many movies on iTunes that only have HD versions if you are shopping from an iPad or Apple TV. However, I use a Mac Mini for my media center rather than an Apple TV. Is there any way to buy HD versions of these movies directly on a Mac?
I have two users on my MBP, and IIRC, both are Admin accounts. I want to upgrade to Lion GM, and have the dmg to do that. However, to be safe, I want to have a backup. I am not familiar with Time-machine, being new to this ecosystem and all.
I had understood that the pre-2011 Macs & Apple displays have a built–in iSight camera which sensor is capable of VGA (640 x 480) resolution—unlike the FaceTime HD cameras, which replaced the built–in iSights, that are capable of SXGA (1280 x 1024) resolution. I had also thought that, when importing feed from the camera to an iMovie-project, 640 x 480 is the native maximum of the camera and the other, WSVGA (1024 x 576), option is upscaled and cropped version of the 640 x 480 feed. Moreover, when I open Photo Booth app, I'm stuck with one resolution which is for video 720 x 480 (DVD (NTSC)) and for pictures 1280 x 853. There is still one more native way to record iSight video: QuickTime Player—with which the resolutios are as interesting as follows: Normal: 640 x 480 (VGA) High: 960 x 720 Maximum: 1280 x 1024 (SXGA) This made me suspicious: it says maximum but the resolution is over 4 times what I had thought the max was.
I configured gmail account on my IPad , Iphone and Mac. Many a times, some mails get missed in one of the system either ipad, iphone or mac. WHy???? What is the solution for that?
Is there a way I can stop programs from opening? I want to block Stacraft 2. I've tried blocking the servers using SelfControl but it didn't seem to help.
I would like to save some mouse clicks and keystrokes by initiating VPN connection from command line. Is there tool for this in Mac OS X? Ideally, it should accept VPN connection name and password and start VPN connection. Update: I'm talking about builtin VPN client for Cisco IPSec VPN.
I noticed that sometimes Mail.app locks files. The lock itself allows for files to be moved to Trash, but doesn't allow Trash to be emptied. (Perhaps Trash should be renamed Thrash in this case) Is there a way (via a terminal command or an app) to see which app locks the file and/or unlock the file without quitting the app?
I have an Airport base station and Network DG814 Modem Gateway both bought in 2002 and use over the years for wireless access at home to a family's worth macs and one work windows laptop. Demon is our provider.
Ignoring licensing/legal issues, is there any virtualisation software that will virtualise an older, PowerPC-only version of Mac OS X (e.g. Panther 10.3.9) on an Intel Mac? If I understand correctly (and I very possibly don’t), such software would have to emulate a PowerPC processor, so it doesn’t seem likely.
I would like to share a Mac mini (currently running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8) allowing coworkers running Windows XP on their boxes to perform a remote login using their username/password. They should each get a session of their own in which they can use MacOS without interfering with other users. As far as I know the usual remote desktop sharing mechanisms like VNC only share the desktop of the user that is currently logged in. Is that scenario possible? Thanks for your help!
How can I add the Trash icon and empty Trash from the sidebar of Finder.app in Mac OS X Lion ? I dont have a problem to add them in the list of favorites too, but the Trash icon is not draggable.
The title pretty much says it all. I have set a firmware password on my MacBook Pro just to make things a bit harder in case of theft. Still, by pulling the RAM and resetting the PRAM, it would be fairly simple to clear the firmware password and boot into single user mode. Is there any way at all to prevent this?
This is likely a stupid question, and it should be easy, but I'm clearly not seeing it. My local Sites directory seems to have changed permissions since using it yesterday. It's been working fine for months and I can't for the life of me figure out what's changed. The localhost works fine, but my home Sites folder gives a 403 my local Sites directory (~/Sites) is 755 permissions, as are the directories inside, and the files are mostly 644 Permissions on ~/Sites is drwxr-xr-x+, owned by my shortname & staff, which seems right Checked apachectl configuration and got a "Syntax OK" response
Just curious — could anyone explain the exact meaning of all the connection type symbols in iPhone? Let's see, wifi and 3G, the fastest connection types, are quite clear, but how about the others: E is probably for EDGE (aka EGPRS), but what does the circle (O) mean? (2G something? GPRS? Or is the latter a higher-level concept in mobile data transfer?) EDGE is presumably the better of these two? (In practice I haven't noticed great difference as both are much slower than 3G.)
I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion. After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the recovery partition and used the disk utility program to repartition the disk with a single partition (the recovery partition wasn't listed there so I assumed that it was not affected of the repartitioning much like the hidden EFI partition) and reinstalled Lion onto that partition. Later I noticed that this has in fact removed the internal recovery partition (although it allows the "web recovery" to start).
I have a disk image which I uploaded to a web server and then downloaded with Safari 5.1 in OS X 10.7. Finder reports the original as 34,911,334 bytes, and the downloaded file as 34,909,684. Both appear to contain identical contents when mounted. What's going on here? Edit: See output of ls -l@ and md5 as suggested:
I've noticed the following: I have 1 desktop and a couple of applications open I drag an application to a new desktop (2 in this case) I drag an application to a new desktop (2 in this case) I 'full screen' both applications I 'full screen' both applications A blank desktop is automatically added before both fullscreen apps. A blank desktop is automatically added before both fullscreen apps. Anybody know a way to stop it from doing this?
Are bash commands on OSX case insensitive? I type "which TR" and it shows /usr/bin/TR, though there is no such binary there. Same thing for other binaries, when capitalized. Or is Terminal.app maybe doing this translation? How do I turn this off?
I run a MacBook Pro 15", Wireless Bluetooth Apple Keyboard and Magic Mouse. Everything for the last year has been working great. Just recently I FINALLY had to change my batteries in my keyboard. Upon doing so, a bunch of my key combinations from the wireless keyboard no longer work. For example:
Is there a way to make a external optical drive appear to applications as though it were an internal SuperDrive? I am using the optical drive bay in my MacBook Pro for a secondary hard drive, and I would like to regain as much SuperDrive functionality as possible with the optical mounted via an external USB enclosure. I'm familiar with the hack to allow DVD Player to play via an external drive, but other apps won't recognize the drive in exactly the same way as when it's mounted internally (VMWare Fusion and Handbrake immediately come to mind). What's required with making a drive show up as a SuperDrive?
Background: I tried recently to hook my Macbook Air to my TV using an HDMI cord and a converter. It worked completely using Netflix and iTunes but the audio did not work with ANY of the AVI files I tried using VLC, even when I connected the audio ports using a 3.5 mm audio jack cord.
Since installing MacOS 10.7 (Lion) my workflow has been seriously disrupted by an increasing number of instances in which my folder window view settings and icon placements are modified or reset to the apparent default, which seems to be icon view, alpha-sort, even-spaced rectangular arrangement. Like many other users, I depend heavily on using icon view and workflow-specific icon arrangements in my folders.
Is this only possible with a Mac Server? It seems like the CLI should see the other mac on the network since I have logged onto it from the network and have the other mac hard drive visible on the desktop. thanks,
I have an ios developer account. I by mistake added a wrong device Id in my devices. Can I modify the device id? I am able to modify my device name but not device id. What can be done? Please help and suggest. Thanks.
I have Plex on a laptop and I can use Plex for the iDevices to stream media to them. Can I do the same with Plex on another computer around the house like ZumoCast?
Recently I changed my partition scheme from MBR to GPT, and during after conversion I saw a another partition named EFI ... I don't have a good idea what does it do or its purpose ... but I think it's use for backup's. So my question here is can you explain/tell me about EFI and it purpose?
I have already asked this question over here *=URL=* and I got one answer thats satisfying but risky to attempt such action, so anyone else can up with less risky alternative?
I use Mail.app in full screen mode quite frequently. However, I often like to open up and individual message for a task I'm working on and move it to a different Desktop. Opening up a message in full screen mode does nothing more than bring up a overlay showing the message but doesn't open another window that I can move elsewhere. Is there a way to get individual messages in different windows to move to other Desktops when using Mail.app in full screen?
As it says on the cd that after installing the windows insert your OSX disk and run the bootcamp updater that'll install all the drivers and updates to use your mac machine in Windows environment ... After installing OSX Lion, when I installed Windows 7 on my machine I did as I mentioned above and it deleted the OSX Lion from my machine ... strange behaviour ... and this is because the CD i got was the bootcamp updater for OSX Snow-Leopard ... so this might have cause this strange action ... when i look for the current release of bootcamp update so on website the most updated release of bootcamp is of early 2011, so if any one tell me where to download the bootcamp software for windows that is compatible with OSX Lion?
So this is my third hard drive that I installed on my intel Mac OS X desktop (made in 2007), and I installed Western Digital Black Caviar (which is supposed to last 3 yrs, I believe). But the hard drive is already failing: I hear tapping noises, occasionally, the hard drive clicks just once, and there's been some freezing lately (for example, when waking up my Mac from sleep mode, it freezes on black screen and finally turns on after 15 seconds). Sometimes, Safari freezes, sometimes, I get a scrambled screen with Safari open, etc. Do you have any idea why this is all happening? This Western Digital drive was installed barely two weeks ago, and now it's failing? Maybe the hard drive is not the problem?
In mail I use two email accounts, a gmail for private use and an email adress that was allocated to me for use when mailing to teachers and staff. I would like to set mail.app to automatically use my private email adress when I'm mailing to my friends and my university's email adress when mailing to my teachers etc. I want this because now I tend to forget to change this account, using the gmail when mailing to teachers and using the universities account when mailing to friends, which can cause some problems when they reply, having emails end up in the wrong mailboxes and so forth. Can it be done? Currently I'm on Snow Leopard, but I will be moving to Lion soon.
Update #3: I just tried connecting the DEL U2711 without rebooting first, now that I'm running OS X 10.7.3: my MBA did not lock up. (They may have fixed it prior to 10.7.3—I haven't tried to reproduce this problem for quite a long time.)
Know anyone any foreign exchange (forex) trading software native for OS X? (Not Windows emulated).
When I access Special Characters (⌘+⌥+T), many groups of characters will not display any characters. Coptic, Glagolithic, Runic, Gothic, etc. (Mostly more obscure characters) I'm running OS X Lion.
I have moved to another country, which comes along with the joy of moving apple store accounts. This would be easier, however, if there were a trivial automated way to re-download all of my free apps under the new ID.
Help, I've tried everything. I have an iPod Shuffle 2nd generation and ever since I plugged it into an AC wall charger, my PC has stopped recognizing it. I tried multiple PCs, to ensure it's not my PC.
Yesterday I was doing some typing on my keyboard, when I found that I could not type a capital T with either shift key. I tried a different user account, and even rebooted into Snow Leopard (was using Lion) to no avail. I tried a USB keyboard, and it works fine. I don't understand what is wrong because the shift key still works, and the t key still works, just not at the same time. Any Ideas?
You could assign a keyboard shortcut to move the app with focus to a specific desktop. Can't find this in Lion. Anyone know if it's still possible?
I'm trying to find out how many types of WiFi authentications does OS X support. I know it's supports the basic WEP/WPA and even EAP-PEAP. Does anybody have the full list of supported WiFi authentication protocols? Thanks!
How can I import iCal event into Lion from either an iPhone or Snow Leopard? I have a Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard, and an iPhone, each with up-to-date iCal calendars. I have a clean Lion install with no iCal events. I would like to get the iCal in Lion up-to-date, either from Time Machine or the iPhone.
Generall Safari automatically prompts to save form data like Username, Password.. But on some pages, it never asks for the same. How can we force it to ask for saving form data on any website?
I wonder for Time Machine, if I delete 3 files on the hard drive that I will for sure never want to use again (for example, that are 1GB each), can I tell Time Machine that please don't archive these files and remove them from the history so they don't need to occupy any space? Can Time Machine also be configure to keep history for up to 6 months (or 4 weeks)? Or otherwise, how does Time Machine handle it when the backup hard drive is full? (will it automatically delete the oldest history?) thanks.
I am trying to mirror a hard drive that is 3TB on the PC using SyncToy from Microsoft's PowerToys (as a backup method). But Mac is usually better for indexing and content searching, but is there either something similar to SyncToy on the Mac, or any Software RAID or Sync tools on the Mac that are free?
I had a couple of applications set up to be on all spaces when I was running on Snow Leopard, but now that I'm on Lion I want to turn that off. I can't work out how to do it. Does anyone know how? There doesn't seem to be an option in System Preferences for it. Perhaps there's a plist or something similar I can edit?
I setup Mail.app to pull GMail data . I realized that I cannot search within my GoogleTalk chat history. Is there a way or a hack to get the chat history to my folders that get pulled as well so that my search results will include information from Chat as well.
Using iTunes I tried to sync my iPad with my PC after downloading an epub book using iBooks on my iPad. However I get an error stating that my PC is not authorized to sync the book to my iPad and after getting this error message i noticed that the book that I downloaded is no longer available in my iBook library on the iPad, which is weird because the book was already on my iPad in the first place. How do I resolve this issue? I'm a relatively new user on the iPad so I apologise if this may seem like a silly question.
I have a video with chapter markers in iMovie HD 6.03 (267.2). What settings do I need to use when exporting to get a file with chapter markers viewable by QuickTime and iTunes?.
Any way to enable scrollbacks after you quit the window? Even if the app itself is still running, closing the window and opening a new one doesn't work. I am SURE it used to work on my old Mac, but I simply cannot find an option in preferences anywhere and Google is not my friend.
I have a current MacBook Pro 15" i7 2.2Ghz with a 500GB 7200RPM (default) hard drive. I am thinking of replacing both the current hard drive and the superdrive with two Seagate Momentus Hybrid 500 GB drives and placing them in RAID0 for optimal performance.
I own two macs, one running Snow Leopard and one running Leopard. My partner also has a mac running leopard. I am planing to upgrade all three to Lion and am looking at the Official Lion USB Thumb Drive as a way to do this. So my questions are as follows:
I have purchased an app on the Mac App Store which doesn't work at all on my computer. Is there a way to contact the App Store team and report the problem and maybe get a refund?
I sometimes have to make git merges on the console. Up to now, for resolving conflicts, I was using Xcode 3's FileMerge (you can open it on the console using the 'opendiff' command). If conflicts show, I use 'git mergetool' which automatically invokes opendiff for each of the conflicting files.
This clearly not very helpful. I'm looking for a way to keep the previews, but disable the controls on the icons, so that whatever I do, the icon looks like this:
I’ve put all my photographs into Aperture’s photo library which means that in the Finder they are hidden in a special folder, making it virtually impossible to quickly browse the photos there. On the other hand, starting up Aperture quickly demands more than 1 GB of RAM, which is something I’d really like to avoid.
Wife's 2007 24" 2.8 ghz 6GB RAM running SL, and now Lion. For the past month or so, It won't automatically shut down at night per the schedule in System Prefs/Energy Saver pane. My wife may not use the iMac for several days at a time, and then use it daily for a week or more - very random.
How do I set the vibrate to not fire for alarms but still fire for calls, texts, emails, reminders, etc? I have looked at third party alarms but they all seem quite fallible, many do not work when you press the home button. Those that do use push notifications to get around this but this feature obeys the silent switch on the phone which means you have to remember to switch the sound on each night. And I have had two of them just randomly not work on me. Is there a way of turning the vibrate off for just the alarm? I'm willing to jailbreak for this.
When I connect the charger cable to my Macbook pro, sometimes the battery is not charged and I can read near the clock: "Battery is not charging". If I unplug and reconnect the cable, it usually starts to charge again. Even if the battery is not charging, the mac is not in "battery mode" (the charger works): it is just a battery issue. thanks
I'm primarily interested to know whether installation of Lion included the Recovery System. I understand you can enable extra formats and debugging in Disk Utility, using the following commands:
I'm in the market for a new laptop and so have a few queries. What I'm after is a high res screen (when I say high res I mean I want better than 1280x800) and good battery life. Obviously this tends to point me toward Apple. Currently I have a dell xps and whilst it's powerful, it has a low res (1280x800) and REALLY bad battery life. The main uses for me are general web browsing, visual studio development and really light gaming (football manager, maybe a small amount of terraria and minecraft). Obviously I'd be looking to install Windows 7 via boot camp to facilitate these things (unless any of those games have mac versions) - but I'll definitely need it for Visual studio.
Since I've upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion (including the latest 10.7.1 update), my usbmuxd seems awfully chatty. This only happens when my iPhone is connected. It spams the following message at least once per minute: I've already tried reinstalled iTunes, which seems to include all the mobile device connection stuff (instructions: *=URL=* but without success. I've also braved the horrors of the Apple forums, and while some people report the same issue, there's no fix or explanation for this.
I connect to a bunch of WiFi hot spots with my iPhone, and love that I have a VPN option. One thing I don't love is that it disconnects from the VPN if the screen ever goes blank. How can I keep the VPN connected so I don't have random emails or other data in the open for man-in-the-middle attacks?
I am potentially going to be buying a MacBook on finance from Apple. As it's my first Mac, I'm not 100% certain it'll be for me and so might re-sell it in the unlikely event it isn't. If it isn't, am I able to just sell it on or is re-sale not allowed as long as I am still paying Apple?
I would like to ask you what is wrong with my Xcode 4.1. Every time I launch it, it show me that there are "No recents" nevertheless the fact that I have created lots of projects.
When I hit F11 or F12 (volume up and volume down) I get the volume control overlay; the volume increases or decreases; and the machine makes an "SQUICK SQUICK SQUICK" noise. How do I keep the functionality of the keys but stop them making that noise? (Mac Book Pro with Snow Leopard)
My iMac has gotten slow lately. The (wireless) keyboard lags if I type while a program or dialog box is opening. A couple of Chrome tabs crash every day. A few days ago, Preview and TextEdit started crashing on open. Finder sometimes takes over seconds to come up when I click it in the dock. TextEdit sometimes takes ten seconds to launch, sometimes takes two. Info dump: I have an iMac from 2007, upgraded a year ago by a third-party vendor, currently with these specs: Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo RAM: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB HD: 1 TB ATA Disk (466.76 GB free) Backup drive (nightly 4:30 AM backups with SuperDuper): External 1 TB USB Disk (479.21 GB free) OS: Lion I usually concurrently use: Adium Google Chrome (often six to twelve tabs open) iTunes On top of that, I often open one to three of these apps: Pixelmator Photoshop TextEdit The Hit List Word The official Twitter app Transmission My menu items include: Textexpander Last.fm scrobbler
I have a personal Macbook running Lion (10.7.1) and a Company issued laptop running XP at work. I want to access the files on the mac from XP on a regular basis. Right now using "sneaker net", i.e. swapping USB stick – but keeping files in sync is a challenge/worry.
Can I save tabs on exit in my iTerm 2, so I don't have to open same directories again after restart? Like Chrome does, for example.
Battery is supposed to last longer since SSD are less power consuming. In my case, I haven't seen any changes about it. It is not lasting longer or running out of power earlier than before. No changes about that.
When I open Pages 09 4.0.3, it tells me I need a software update; yet, running Software Update responds that all software is up to date. I believe there is a later version of Pages with improved Lion support (like full page modes). I've been to Apple Support pages download section: No dice. How can I get that upgrade?
I've got a handle on how to install Xcode 3 and 4 on the same machine (running OS X < 10.7), so I'm looking more how to manage this environment. Rather: is it possible to enter some shell command to "point" to the Xcode version you would like to use for a certain task?
Is it possible to customise the search engines used by Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard? I'd like to get it to use google.co.uk rather than google.com for searches. I've found a couple of old posts (including this one which doesn't seem to apply any more) but nothing very recent.
I heard that some people buy a Mac and use Bootcamp to set up a dual boot so that it can run OS X and Windows 7 and some people buy it to only run Windows 7 just because Mac computer is high quality. But when a Macbook Pro or Macbook Air (or iMac / Mac Mini) runs Windows 7, can it run everything well? For example, can the USB Flash drive all be used well? Can all USB devices be used on it as if it is just a PC? Can the Mini Display Port / Thunderbolt converter to HDMI work nicely? What about the hardware drivers -- for the built in webcam, microphone, DVD writer -- can all devices on a Mac be used with Windows 7's drivers with no problem?
Sometimes, when I try using a special character (⌥+U for ¨) a strange bar will appear at the bottom of my screen. This doesn't happen every time, just on and off for no apparent reason. I haven't changed any Safari settings or preferences since upgrading to Lion, and I'm using Safari 5.1.
I am attempting to route my mic audio and system output so both can be heard through Skype. Any ideas?
On an external disk (that contains a clone), the /.Trashes/501/Users/myusername/Desktop folder contains (within some subfolders) a locked invisible file that I cannot delete. The whole folder starting with 'Users' is visible in the Trash in my Dock. I have tried: secure empty trash (it asks whether I want to delete locked files and I say yes) secure empty trash (it asks whether I want to delete locked files and I say yes) empty trash via Cocktail empty trash via Cocktail launched Terminal as root and went down to the file (admin user alone cannot cd into ./Trashes) launched Terminal as root and went down to the file (admin user alone cannot cd into ./Trashes) files has these properties: -rw-------@ 1 myusername myusername 4635 Mar 3 2010 int10923.ris files has these properties: -rw-------@ 1 myusername myusername 4635 Mar 3 2010 int10923.ris rm asks me whether I want to override override rw------- myusername/myusername sappnd,arch,schg,hidden for int10923.ris? rm asks me whether I want
Well, I left it plugged in via USB and charging. iTunes was open. Nothing unusual. Until an hour or so later, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a zooming shiny apple animation, picked it up and was prompted to "Set up my iPhone". Ugh. I haven't backed it up for 10 days or so and there's stuff on there I really want to keep. So I went through the setup, enabling location, selecting my router, and then trying to activate the phone, all the while hoping once completed everything would be just as I'd left it, right as rain. But I can't get past the activation stage. And when I opt to activate through iTunes, iTunes complains that the iPhone's software is too old. At this point I should mention I'm a registered developer, and my iPhone was running iOS 5 beta 3.
I can't seem to find my Coda plist. I've searched all throughout my library (including the Preferences folder), and I can't seem to find it. I've searched my computer, and that doesn't work either... Can anyone else find their coda plist?
Here's my first question: In Lion, if you turn on Filevault, you can no longer modify the System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Require password... after sleep or screensaver. The value is forced to 'immediately' and changes are not saved. If you haven't turned on Filevault, this setting acts as expected. Has anyone found a workaround? It's not a security feature, in that you can set the screensaver not to come on for hours (or never), but it sure is annoying for those folks who reach over and wiggle the mouse when the screensaver comes on.
I want to know if I can make Mail require a password to actually do anything, see messages, etc. so no one can just go into my Mail and send messages or see my received messages.
Let's exclude Window, Linux, or anything that would require X11. I'm hoping somebody knows of a native Mac app, or something you can run in a Web browser.
I've set up a Synergy client on my copy of Lion. I have configured it to auto-start on login and for my computer to auto-login. However, it takes about 2-3 minutes for the Synergy service to finally run and connect to my Windows server. Is there any way to set the priority of this service?
I tried to download a 500MB app using my iPad 2 connected to WiFi and got an error stating that the app could not be downloaded. Someone told me that its because the file is too large to be downloaded from the iPad and that I will have to download the app via iTunes on a PC and then sync it with my iPad.
Is there any iPhone app available that allows you to create folders in iPhone while using their Photos app? It is kind a annoying that every time I must connect to iTunes and do the folder management there.
I need to add songs into iTunes Library but I don't want to copy songs into library. While drag and drop just copies all songs which needs to be added to the Library folder and then uses it. So, we have waste of space twice, from where we copy songs and to where we copy them. But I don't want to copy songs into Library folder, I just want to add it into Library and play or sync with iPhone. So, at only one place all songs can be managed.
Ever since I upgraded to Lion, I've been getting this error message a lot. It seems to trigger(not every time though) when I plug in my iPhone to the usb port on my keyboard.
I would like to setup my Macbook Air's disk drive with 3 partitions - 50Gb for OSX Lion, 50Gb for Windows 7, and the remaining 150Gb for Data to share between both OSes (music, photos etc). What's the correct way to do this?
I have recently reinstalled my Mac Mini server. It was acting up after the upgrade from SLS to Lion Server, so I reinstalled with Lion. I can't figure out how to properly migrate calendar data from the old installation.
Most stock apps will use the proxy settings, but apps from the App Store rarely use the proxy settings given under Settings > Wifi. I am told that the proxy API must be called explicitly, but is there a way, perhaps a jailbreak app, that will force all connections to go through the proxy? I currently have the option of using either a .PAC config file or typing out the http proxy of my university manually and providing authentication details.
Is it possible to remove "Log Out" from the Apple Menu? I know there used to be a tool that let you customize the Apple Menu (can't remember the name) but I doubt it's still working on Lion. Preferably I'd like a Terminal command or something.
I recently purchased a 120GB SSD that will replace my optical drive in my MBP. It also has a 500GB 7200RPM hard drive.
I am looking for iOS games which use multi-touch in such a way that is not possible to emulate on other systems. This does not include games that use multi-touch to emulate a button and analog stick controller. So far I have found these apps: Eliss - pinch in and out to combine planets Sway - Left/Right side of screen to dedicated to each arm of the character Cross Fingers - Must use multiple fingers on some levels to hold blocks out of the way
I cannot insert emojis in a keynote presentation. More precisely, when I insert one (Edit > Special characters), I have a blank space instead of the emoji. This works very fine with textedit. Does anyone successfully did that? (Lion 10.7.1 and Keynote'09 5.1)
It seems that after disabling Filevault 1 in OS X Lion, there no longer is an option to choose between Filevault 1 and Filevault 2 functionality. I actually prefer Filevault 1 over Filevault 2, since it does not interfere with my theft protection software and allows me to use a guest account. Is there a way to enable Filevault 1 again?
Is there a way to find out today how many applications are in the Mac AppStore approximately?
It is not possible to rename symlinks to one default folders in your home folder (~/Documents, ~/Desktop etc...) using Finder This works in Terminal. To test: run ln -s Documents "Documents symlink" in terminal. verify you can't rename ~/Documents symlink in Finder verify that running mv "Documents symlink" "Document symlink new" works
I'd like to setup a dual boot onto my MacBookAir 128GB, with Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate in BootCamp. However, I'm already close to the 128GB limit (games + CS suite + Eclipse + XCode + a lot of Web development tools). Therefore, it would be ideal for me if I could use the same HDD I will run my Time Machine saves on... when it's finally delivered! The question is therefore: is it reasonnable to create a dual partition on that and run Windows 7 from the first one?
I did a dumb thing and accidentally overwrote my copy of /usr/bin/sqlite3 on my Mac OS X 10.5.8. I don't have a Time Machine backup so I can't grab the file from there. When I try to run Apache2, I'm getting the error: How can I retrieve or rebuild /usr/bin/sqlite3? Edit: Before all of this, I ran the 10.5.8 Combo Update in case something on my system was corrupted.
Once I've upgraded to Lion I had a new icon on my Menu Bar next to Spotlight. It was an outline of a mugshot similar like one of the Guest account. When I clicked on that icon I was able to select "Login Window..." which basically locked my Mac.
On my iPhone homescreen there's an app which in an half-downloaded(actually, more like barely downloaded) state -  (In case you're curious, I was trying to download Rage during it's on-sale-for-free-period)
There were methods for doing this in earlier versions of Safari but I don't know of one that works with 5.1. The reason I want to do this is that it takes up a great deal of disk space, and I suspect it slows things down on my older, slower Mac running Lion because of all the extra caching going on. I never use the feature anyway. Here is the link to an earlier question on Ask Different with regard to Safari 5.0. How can I disable "Top Sites" in Safari/Webkit completely? I am creating a new question because apparently any methods that would work for Safari 5.0 will not work for 5.1.
This would be simpler if I understood how to create a Chapter Name/TOC linked style on my own, but I don't. I have been changing the typography on the predetermined style to make it smaller (redefine from selection) and that seems to work fine. Sorry to ask rookie questions, but ... well, I'm a rookie. Thanks for any assistance.
I want to transfer my contact from iPhone to HTC Desire so is there any way to do it. As I have more than 200 contacts in Contact list in iPhone and I don't want to enter it manually.
I know that I can filter via MAC address (AirPort>Access Control) and in doing so, run a stricter network. I am more interested at a quick glance to see if Bob's iPhone, Suzy's iPad or HP Printer X is connected.
We're at a crossroads where most Macs now have space and connections to contain two storage devices. SSD are fast, low capacity and expensive - HDD are in comparison slow, huge and cheap.
A colleague has just upgraded the memory in his spanking new 2.7GHz Core i7 Mac Mini from 4Gb to 8Gb. This means he's got 2x2Gb PC3-10600 (1333MHz) modules kicking around. I have a Mid-2010 model 2.4GHz Core 2 MacBook which has 2x1Gb PC3-8500 (1067MHz) modules.
I just installed Xcode 4. Everything seemed fine, but then, after poking around, I found that the ability to create Python and Java (And probably more) projects was missing. I asked Apple in apple store chat (on their web site) and was told that Python and Java are supported. However, I can't find where to make a Python or Java project - only C based files (and some more miscellaneous files). Does anyone know how to make Java/Python based files/projects?
I have a desktop computer with a non-Mac OS (it currently runs Windows XP Home Edition, but I'm about to replace/add Ubuntu) which I can't connect to my home network (again, the router is not a Mac product): I don't have an ethernet cable where it currently is and it doesn't have a wireless connection option. I do however have an Airport Express and I wanted to know if it was possible to use it as an "antennae" to set a wireless connection to my network. I mean, the idea would be something like this:
Now this all brings us to today where it's suddenly broken again. Location Services cannot find my location while I am at home and my Location Services dependent apps are useless. Does anyone have additional information or updated news on this topic? Does anyone have additional information or updated news on this topic? A URL similar to this one where one can manually submit a Wifi MAC address and Lat/Long to Apple? A URL similar to this one where one can manually submit a Wifi MAC address and Lat/Long to Apple? If not Apple, what company took over maintaining Location Services from Skyhook for Apple? If not Apple, what company took over maintaining Location Services from Skyhook for Apple?
In addition to Time Machine I do a weekly clone of my system drive to a volume on a second hard drive in my 2011 MacBook Pro. I also made a clone in another volume before I upgraded to Lion.
Problem is my wrists scrape against the edge on the bottom of the keyboard. I'm on the computer a lot and this is starting to really bother me. Normal desktop (detached) keyboards don't have this edge... I actually bought Apple's wireless beautiful little keyboard, but then the issue is the screen gets too far away if I have to put the wireless keyboard in front of the laptop's built-in keyboard. And working on my lap, which I absolutely love, is much less comfortable.
Right now we have a single iMac in the house and I have two external hard drives. One is connected to the iMac and used for TimeMachine backups. The other is a few miles away (thanks Mom!) to act as off-site backup, and I swap them once every couple of weeks. Thinking of adding another computer to the mix and I don't necessarily want to purchase two more disks to keep it backed up, so I am considering upgrading to TimeCapsule. But it has an in-built disk. So how do people either do a) an offsite backup b) swap disks like I used to c) anything that will work similarly!
I tried creating a bootable DVD of Lion, which was successful and would load in my MacBook Pro (already running Lion). I inserted the same DVD to another MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, but it comes up as a blank CD... Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Thanks!
I'm trying to migrate my files from my time machine backup (external drive 500 Gb) to my MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.1. It has almost empty brand new internal hard drive 500 Gb. I can see the external hard drive in the desktop (is connected to my MacBook Pro with a FireWire cable), but the Migration Assistant is unable to recognize it! What can I do to migrate my files?
The wifi on my MacBook Air 2010 keeps dropping the connection at home with a Linksys WRT160N router running DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) std. Other devices maintain their connection to the router just fine. I'm getting these messages in my kernel.log:
When setting up GarageBand to use this interface, I notice that it provides two stereo channels: 1-2 and 3-4. I am thus led to believe that System Preferences shows a total of all levels on all channels, while iChat and Skype simply default to the 1-2 inputs and ignore the rest.
I've set up Screen Sharing, so I can see Teleport is working... But I can't get it to work if I use Target Display Mode. Here's what I tried: ⌘+F2 with Teleport's mouse on the iMac. ⌘+F2 with Teleport's mouse on the Mac mini. Just doesn't work... Any ideas?
I notice that mds is almost always on top for use of Real Memory. I wouldn't mind if this wouldn't be also the case when Free Memory runs out. Usually mds uses over 600MB on a system with 4GB (I know I need a new Mac) and no Free Memory. I notice that it might be somehow connected to Time Machine running (mds memory goes up when/after a Time Machine backup is done). I kill mds from time to time but pretty soon it is again using over 600MB. Googling this brings some workaround tips but nothing which is really on any foundation or analysis. I'm having this problem on Leopard (still stuck on a Q G5) but have seen reports on the net that the same problem also exists on Snow Leopard. Don't know about Lion though. Update: After the question in the comments if my Time-Machine is also indexed by Spotlight, I did some more research and found Setting Spotlight preferences in Apples MAC OSX 10.6 Help:
Since 10.6.3, Apple has decided change the AppleIntelCPUManagement kexts, which leave me stuck with a kernel_task that pegs out at 135-185%, generating a lot of heat. Anyway, since I doubt anyone has a fix to the above, is it possible to switch from Safe Mode to Normal (and vice-versa) without a reboot?
I am attempting to install Tiled Map Editor, a cross-platform open-source application that uses the QT application framework. It is used in game design. When I attempt to install it, I get this error message: You can't open the application Qt SDK Installer because it is not supported on this type of Mac
I've been using Lion since its release, and I noticed today, for the first time, that Terminal did not prompt me for a password when I typed in a sudo command, if I close and reopen Terminal within the five-minute window, but wait longer than five minutes after reopening the application to enter another sudo command. Is it being cached somewhere as a result of Lion's new "remember the state of the application" feature? Can I turn off this setting? It seems rather insecure. I've also tried using the Command + Option + Q combination, as well as exiting Terminal before quitting the application, to no avail (also within the five minute timeout window). For the record, I don't recall seeing this behaviour before I updated to 10.7.1, but I may be wrong. Can anyone else replicate this for me and confirm my suspicion, before I log a bug with Apple?
I want to have my apps start with their previous state (windows/tabs/documents), but I do not want to have all the apps I was running before logging out/rebooting/shutting down restart automatically. I see the option:
whenever I work on multiple files in different vim buffers/tabs and do a :w to save, vim crashes with a segmentation fault. I'm using vim 7.3 that came long with Lion (Actually with SnowLeopard which later I upgraded to Lion).
I ran this command in Terminal, which supposedly clears all duplicate applications from the "Open With…" menu and now many of my files are just showing up as blank images (.zip files, .dmg files, .rar, etc.) and they don't open with the correct application. I did log out and log back in after doing this. Help!! /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain user
I imported a lot of super 8 film using iMovie. While the import worked great it didn't split the video into separate clips. I've read that iMovie does this automatically for DV tapes. Is there any OSX software out there that will detect when one clips ends and another begins and automatically split the two into separate files. I imagine it would have to compare adjacent frames and determine if the difference between the two was great enough to warrant a split.
When I first got my MacBook Pro, I installed Windows 7 via Boot Camp. A couple months later I wanted to install Ubuntu and have a triple boot. I followed this tutorial: triple-boot
Sometimes when I create a service in Automator, I want it to always appear in the Finder contextual menu, not just when I have a selected a file or folder. The services are always either pure applescript or pure bash, so if it can be done some other way without using Automator, I'm also satisfied.
My Gmail account has multiple folders and labels. The iPad mail app can search through one of the folders. How can I search through all of it at once?
I would like to mark messages as "important" in the iPad mail app via my gmail account. The app can move messages to a new folder, so I can put them in Gmail's "starred" folder, but that moves it out of the current label. How can I "star" messages on the iPads email app?
I rely on the "Ctrl-→" command on Windows to navigate my way through text documents. This useful key-combo will quickly bring me to the beginning of the next word. For example, the following sequence illustrates what would happen to the cursor location after successive presses of Ctrl-→ (the "^" will represent the cursor): And, if I start pressing the ← instead, it will move the cursor to the exact same spots in the document, just going the other direction (which is ideal because the position of the cursor is predictable, which leads to me being faster at making my edits): Mac OS X has a similar keyboard shortcut (Option-→ - I mapped "Ctrl" to "Option" specifically so I could get this same functionality in the way I've become accustomed to). However, "Option-Arrow" brings me to the end of the current word when using the right arrow key, as illustrated here: And, what's worse, going the other direction doesn't bring you back to the same spot as moving forward, it brings you to the start
What methods are there to blackout a part of a PDF? I don't want to simply use Preview's annotation tools and then save the document, since then someone could open up the PDF and remove the annotation to reveal the part of the document which I'm trying to black out.
I have a Snow Leopard MacBook Air with Boot Camp installed. I'm thinking about upgrading to Lion, but I'm worried about all the software I have installed on my Boot Camp partition. I have a lot of software, including Windows, which uses serial keys and product activation to ensure that I'm running a legal version. I'm worried that if something happens to this partition, all my keys will remain in use on an unusable drive. If I upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion, will the Boot Camp partition remain untouched and still work properly?
I want to change Command+Space combination to change keyboard layout to a Windows like Alt+Shift but the Lion's keyboard settings does not react when I assign that particular combination. It allows me to change it to a other combinations, however. I assume this is because Alt+Shift is already being used by some other program, but which one? How can I tell that and what can I do to override that setting?
I've upgraded to Lion today and since then I am facing a very strange problem. Gmail, Facebook, discussions.apple.com do not load at all, and IF they loaded, I get only text with no CSS or images. support.apple.com, Google, apple.stackexchange.com work fine and astonishingly fast, as usual The sites which do not load, do not load in Chrome and Safari, but if I used wget I do get immediately the HTML of the page.
What is the differences between these directories? How long is the files stored in each of them? The oldest file/folder I could find in each of them were /prviate/tmp, 13 days old /private/var/tmp, 28 days old (2-3 days after I upgraded to Lion) TMPDIR, 1 day old
I find it strange that while the Armenian language (keyboard layouts and characters) is supported on OS X, on iOS it is not supported at all. A jailbreak on iOS 3 allowed me to install iKeyEx from Cydia, which had an Armenian keyboard in it. This solution no longer works because the app is not supported. Besides, jailbreak probably isn't the answer. There are 3rd party apps (like iTetr) that can be used for typing in Armenian. How can I get Armenian language support in iOS?
Is there a way to transfer videos to iPad but at the same time password protect it? Or password protect a folder so that only people with a password can go into that folder?
I am wondering if there is any iPhone application same like MS Office suite, I mean Spreadsheet, Word Processor and so on. If you know a free app it will be better if not so what is the best pro payed one
In finder, we can 'arrange by' for each folder separately, but how to set these settings for all folders. NOTE: i have tried 'Use as defaults' in info dialog but of no use
I have a LaCie key (iamakey). When I change the drive's name to "LaCie" then dismount and remount it, it's name changes to "LACIE" I'm trying to figure out why it won't stay named as "LaCie" Any ideas?
I bought my 13" MacBook Pro last March 27, 2011. It's 5 months old now. coconutBattery shows that I've lost 12% of the original battery capacity in just 5 months with 238 load cycles. I read in some of the questions here that one MacBook user just lost 1% of his battery capacity in 2 years! How could I have lost such a large percentage of my battery capacity in just 5 months?
Is it possible to configure my iPhone to just send Photos I have taken with the camera to iPhoto without synchronizing additionally stored photos back to the phone?
Since upgrading to Mac OS X Lion, I consistently have issues sending mail from Mail.app. I can receive mail but when I send mail it stays in the outbox. Sometimes I can send the mail in the outbox by deleting it, rebooting my MacBook Pro, and then recreate the message and send it out. Does anyone have a solution?
I'm running Windows 7 in Coherance mode in Parrellels desktop, and have the task bar visible at the bottom of the screen. Is it possible to move the task bar down, behind the Mac Dock, without turning on Dock hiding? Like this:
I tried out Focus follows mouse and found too many occasions when it really annoys me. Thinking about the cases when I would need focus follows mouse, I realized that it's only necessary when I'm scrolling in a non-active window.
I constantly see messages in Console (coming from /var/log/appfirewall.log) that look like this: Click for a longer sample of the log. So, it seems that some device on my network (10.0.1.2) is trying various ports to connect to my machine (and being refused). What tools does my Mac have to help me figure out what this device is and what it's trying to do?
I have a fileserver running Ubuntu 10.04 I'd like to access via NFS from my Mac running 10.6.8. Problem is, while the usernames are the same, the uids are different. Googling suggests that the past method of dealing with this was static uid mapping on the server end, but that seems to have been eliminated in NFSv4, which is the only version on 10.04 that I can find.
I hope this is a stupid question [with an obvious answer that I am missing] ... My email services have suddenly stopped working and nothing I do seems to affect the problem.
I recently upgraded to Lion and am mostly very pleased. However I'm having some errant behaviour when CMD clicking on links in Safari and Chrome. Instead of opening the page in a new tab, often nothing happens until I do the same again, at which point two tabs open to the target page. This doesn't happen every time, but now it's happening more often than not. I'm using a late 2008 Unibody MacBook with the glass trackpad. Since both Safari and Chrome pause when opening more tabs, I'm a bit at a loss where to look next for a cause or solution.
Am I the only one who struggles with this from time to time? Is it possible to change this behavior?
I frequently need to just get a finder window up that's a ton of folders deep. There's only so many favorites you can put in the finder sidebar. I'd happily configure a dedicated launcher to just get me to folders by name and use one of the others for their normal purpose. I just can't figure out if any of them can be made to do this.
On CentOS, the Apache configuration can be found in /etc/sysconfig/httpd How to change MPM prefork to worker on default Apache OSX installation?
It seems to be a new behavior in Lion but here is what is happening for me: I open a video file Quicktime launches and play the video When I'm done, I hit CmdQ Now, with Lion, when opening another video the same way, it opens but the previously opened one also... To avoid this I have to do a CmdW before my CmdQ.
In Safari, I must have typed quickly and hit enter after entering the letter W. Now, whenever I open Safari, it opens a window and immediately tries to reach *=URL=* which is obviously not accessible. Not that it makes much of a difference, but I'd like to remove this persistence.
I don't see extra power cables for the i5 2011 Mac Mini in the Apple Store Accessory section. But this power cable looks a lot like black ones I've seen that go between a power brick for a Lenovo laptop and the outlet. Is this the very same cable?
I want to connect to my mac remotely from my Windows PC. What good products are there available that you recommend checking out?
How to delete synced photos and folder from iPhone, my OS is Windows 7 and I don't want to erase all content from setting. I have iTunes installed on my PC. I want to delete images and folder in my iPhone except "Camera Roll"
Mac OS X Lion introduced a new feature where in many applications you can press (Command-Control-D) to produce a popup with the definition for the word under the mouse cursor. A side effect of this is that you can no longer use the same shortcut to access functionality in other applications (for example, Emacs). Is it possible to either a) disable the word definition Command-Control-D keyboard shortcut, or b) change the word definition keyboard shortcut to something other than Command-Control-D?
I just got a new iPhone. I plugged it into my computer (iTunes was already installed). After clicking through the registration windows, iTunes displayed the screen below to me.
In recent months my macbook has been steadily running slower. It's about 2 years old and gets heavy use so my initial suspicions are that maybe the hard drive is starting to get old. I used the disk utility and it said the disk was fine though. I dont have an especially large amount of applications running at a time, about 4-6 (plus whatever background stuff is going on).
Is there any way to search a folder in Finder that hasn't been indexed? I have an external HDD that I don't need indexed, but when I am search for a file, it brings up no results because it isn't indexed.
I normally get new podcasts by doing the following on my iPhone: Go to my list of podcasts Select the podcast I'm interested in getting an episode for (e.g this week in google TWiG)
I know that each file will always contain a string in the format of SxxExx where the x's are always numbers. But I do not know what the numbers will be. I want to get the filename up to and including the SxxExx string and the file extension but strip out everything else. So for the above example I would end-up with: The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.mp4
I have a Logitech Mouse with a horizontal-scroll-enabled scroll wheel (it tilts left and right to scroll left and right) the only problem is that the scroll speed is very very slow to a point it is not worth using. The normal mouse settings do not appear to alter the scroll speed at all.
Adobe AIR does not appear in the App Store - this is Australia, on an iPad 2. Are there geographic restrictions - surely it isn't sideloaded?
I'd like to convert many WAV files to MP3 files using LAME and Automator. I need a script that I could right click a folder and convert all the WAV files inside the folder to MP3 files. I've been able to find a script to convert single file but I don't know how to modify it so I could convert many files with a single click.
Usually, all the .ipas are backup up in the ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications folder. I accidentally deleted an .ipa in the folder. Now, after syncing, the app is on iPad but the .ipa is not backup in the Mobile Applications folder. How can I enforce the sync to backup all .ipas to the Mac again?
(Without thinking much) I set up my Mac mini server and used an actual domain name I use as the computer's host name. I've since changed the host name to something that isn't an actual website, but I'm unable to navigate to the original hostname/domain. I've tried changeip in the terminal as well, as well as flushed DNS in case it was cached there as well. How do I get Lion to reach out to the WWW to find this domain?
I have a bunch of video files (FLV and MOV), some with alpha channels and some without. How can I efficiently know the ones that have an alpha channel?
I am having some Wi-fi issues at home and am looking for some advice on how to troubleshoot it. The setup. Comcast Modem connected to Airport Extreme Basestation which has a NAS drive and MacMini hardwired to, and my Macbook Pro which connects via Wi-fi.
Is there an app that will record HD video but sleep or dim the screen? The camera app that comes with the device chews through battery power like crazy.
I'm looking to turn an old Mac laptop into a "car-puter". However, I don't want to drain the battery on either the laptop or the car. Is there a way to configure it so that the computer automatically wakes up when plugged into power? (I know that it can be woken via ethernet, but I don't know how I can turn that to my advantage.)
Is it possible to record video of the iPhone screen, and if so how? I'm talking about video screen capturing, not using a camcorder or any app that requires jailbreaking my phone.
We have a mixed Windows/Mac network, with Windows fileservers, and an Exchange/Outlook mailsystem. The Windows users send out emails with links to the shared files that look like: If you right-click on the link in Mac Outlook 2010, it seems to have a pseudo-URL of: Mac Outlook 2010 makes that link clickable, but fails with an error: Given that we're not going to be able to get people to stop copy-pasting in Mac-unfriendly SMB links, is there any way to get the Finder or some handler to rewrite the URL into something the Mac can open?
Cmd+tab is like the task switcher in Windows, except it only pulls the menu bar up for the application, and not the application itself. Q: How do I switch between applications such that the application is visible?
I upgraded my Mac Pro to OS X Lion (now 10.7.1) a few weeks ago, and am mostly very happy with it. The edge-resizing of Windows is especially nice. Still, the Special Characters app, which used to have a resizable window from the lower right corner, now has no resizing available at all. Is there any way to alter this behavior to make this window resizable, or do I just need to wait till Apple recognizes this problem and fixes it?
I have an early 2008 A1226 15" MacBook Pro Santa Rosa (ie non-unibody), and I want to put an HDD in the optical bay (replacing my original HDD with an SSD). There are caddies like this that might do the trick, but they never specify my older (non-unibody) MacBook Pro version exactly. I'm wondering if that will actually fit, or if there's a better alternative that's fairly cheap. Optibay sells one specifically for non-unibody here but at $100 it's 5x the price.
I have just purchased a Macbook Pro which will run OS X Lion. Which version of Windows can I run in Bootcamp? 64 or 32 bit? Both?
I want to know what apps I've paid money for, as opposed to free apps that were downloaded. I need to know this because I gave my little brother my old 3GS to use as an iPod which remains attached to my iTunes account because he doesn't have a credit card or an income in order set up an account. I notice that he downloads a lot of apps, games in particular, and I'm worried because I've tried a few that seem like they could easily charge for. I often download apps that I pay for, so often that I wouldn't know if he was buying things without my knowledge.
I'm having an issue with file sharing in Lion using the default system pref pane. Although the list shows no share points, i can see that my home folder, and Macintosh HD are being shared, despite my empty list. Does anyone know how to 'reset' ALL file sharing options, or possible the .plist file associated with sharing services on the mac.
I installed the most recent update to OS X Lion (10.7). After I did that, my terminal won't recognize normal commands. I typed ls and got:
I'm looking for a spreadsheet app that fills in a functionality hole in Google Docs, specifically the ability to have checkboxes/toggle buttons or equivalent. The only problem is I will probably only use this once or twice so I have second thoughts about spending $10 for Numbers, even though I'm pretty sure it would do what I want. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would like to be able to import work already done in Google Docs, but I'm fine with doing a manual export/import if it saves money.
How can I force the phone to re-count the number of drafts?
As an example ... If I wanted to see all commercial airplane simulator games out there, how would I accomplish this without going to see title by title? *=URL=* As using iTunes I can only see this
When customizing safari toolbar I can't get rid of google's search field right next to address bar. Is there any secret preference tweak to achieve this?
After installing Lion, my macbook pro became unbelievably slow.. what could be the reason? Safari sometimes freeze for 30 seconds (in particular when there's Flash content). When I open mail after long time, the interface takes a while before to load. Also Xcode and the simulator are slower.
On my iPhone 4, after I updated the software to iOS 5 beta 6 by restoring it and importing a backup of my data, the Photo app is stuck with a spinning wheel and the "restoring" message: Everything is working correctly otherwise, all my albums, events, faces and places have been synced to the phone and the photos are showing without problems. I'm wondering what the "restoring" message means, it's stuck on "0 of 444" since yesterday.
After upgrade to Lion OS X I've noticed new "Safari Web Content" process which is separate from the Safari.app itself. And after some time it starts using huge amounts of memory (so far, 1.2G real memory logged). Is there a way to limit process's real memory usage to, say, 500M?
I got my new MBP today and I plan to use MCE's OptiBay to place a second harddisk in the drive bay and put Windows via Bootcamp on it, but I heard / read that, at least with Snow Leopard, it was not really possible to install via an external optical drive with the Windows7 DVD. Has this changed lately or anyone done this successfully? rEfit pops up as a solution, but I wanted to know whether it's possible with the stock bootmanager/bootcamp assistant in Lion?
Does anyone know of an app for the iPhone that can analyze sounds and tell us what pitch the sound is? For example, if i had that app running and i go to the piano and play some notes, it should be able to tell me what notes they are.
I used to use spotlight fairly frequently to quickly look up words in a dictionary. With Lion, I've noticed that my dictionary results have dropped down much lower in the list of results:
Is there a way to delete music, podcast or iTunes-U to make some space available (to take more pictures for instance) without a computer ?
Upgrading my iMac to Lion resulted in Adobe Fireworks CS5 hanging on launch. My home iMac experienced exactly the same issue after the upgrade to Lion (both iMacs are less than 12 months old). Home iMac issue fixed by repairing the disk with Disk Utility. I tried the same fix with my work iMac, but it didn't work. Any ideas anyone? This is very frustrating as Fireworks is badly missed a laggy Windows version in Parallels is a poor substitute. Help badly needed!
The purchase, download and upgrade all happened on my machine. I intend to keep on using that Lion for my machine only.
I changed hard drives for my Time Machine backup. I can't delete the backups on the older hard drive. I get an error code after I use "Move to Trash": -8072. It spends 45min deleting some 1,000,000+ files to end in error -8072. A google search didn't turn up the reason for the error.
I am looking for a text editor with support for Lion's new features - specifically autosave, versions, and full-screen support. I would also really like to be able to use VIM keybindings, either standard, or as an option. Does this combination exist?
I have a new MacBook Air (13" with 128Gb SSD) and my wife has an old MacBook (120Gb HDD) and we're planning to both use the same 1Tb external HDD to store our iTunes and iPhoto libraries and the same 2Tb external HDD for Time Machine backups (obviously only one of us can use the external HDDs at the same time). If each of us sets the the 1Tb (music and photos) drive to be backed up by Time Machine will Time Machine back it up independently for each user, even though the data is the same? If so (which I suspect is the case) then I guess it would make sense for only one of us to configure the 1Tb ext HDD to be backed up by Time Machine, with the risk that any changes the other person makes won't be backed up until the one doing the backups connects?
I'm using Hazel to automate the conversion of video files to iTunes .mv4 format, however one limitation I've run into is being able to mark a video file as "TV show" or "Movie" before adding to iTunes. I'd like to do this via Applescript so I can run it as part of my rule set up, but I'm more of an AppleScript copy/paster than a coder.
In trying to get a list of all music files from a particular album using mdfind I see that the files aren't necessarily returned in any order. I'd prefer album/track order if possible, but can't find a way to provide the sort order on the command line. The current invocation is something like: where: Ideally I'd want to add something like the following to the query:
I am having an issue where somehow lion decided that the F1 shortcut should be mapped to opening mission control on my 2011 mbp. This is a problem because I had F1 mapped to desktop 4 (don't ask) and F5 mapped to mission control. F5 still worked correctly and even after attempting to revert to defaults the F1 keyboard shortcut is still incorrectly mapped. Has anyone been having similar issues or do they know how to totally reset keyboard shortcuts at the operating system level? This is obviously really annoying.
I'm trying to figure out some basic Terminal commands, so I thought I'd try out 'mail.' I opened a Terminal window and entered the following: mail (my email address) (The Terminal then said "Subject:" without quotes) so I entered "test" without quotes. "This is a test message" without quotes
I have the following network setup: OSX is currently sharing an ethernet connection with A and B via an ad-hoc wireless network. This works great, except that Machine A and Machine B can't see each other. They can see the LAN and OSX, and OSX can see both of them. I'm convinced some combination of ipfw and/or natd configuration options can solve this problem, but my networking knowledge is limited enough that I can't seem to Google effectively for a solution. What do I want ipfw/natd to do for me? How do I get them to do it? (Obviously, I could solve this problem much more easily by the expedient of purchasing a switch, but I feel like I should know how to do this sort of things regardless.)
I'm doing a large amount of music library updating and de-duplicating and evaluating, and I would like a piece of software that would allow me to quickly be able to view a waveform of a selected audio file. I currently use Fission for editing, but it loads slower than I would like, and I have no need for the actual editing aspect of the software. Additionally, Garageband is antagonistically slow and too hard to examine the waveform like I would like. Is there software, or maybe something like a QuickLook plugin, that would allow me to select an audio file, and quickly get a rendered version of the waveform data within the file? Loudness levels labels are appreciated, but not required.
I am trying to install Rails 3, but having trouble with sqlite3. First I tried however, I got this error message: http://pastie.org/2419493
(Note: I'm am not sure if this question fits in this StackExchange site, so please correct me if it doesn't belong) To cut my problem short: I'm trying to make a Word document which prints data from a Excel document. Is it possible to link an Excel and Word document? Almost like this: I have tried using templates and just simply printing the excel document without the lines, but my "requirements" are too specific and complex.
On my 2011 MacBook Air with Mac OS X Lion, and I boot into Recovery mode via holding the command-R key during startup, if I go into Terminal and do a diskutil list, I get a list of 12(!) logical disks. disk0 is of course the disk holding the main HD and the Recovery HD partitions (along with the GUID partition and the EFI partition). But there is also a disk1 with partitions including one titled Mac OS X Base System that is approximately 1.39 GB big. There also are 10 other disks of varying but small sizes. What are these other logical disks (and partitions) and is there any way to reclaim their space? Update: Here is a copy of the diskutil list output: output
I have multiple Macs in my house. I'm looking for a way to play the same music simultaneously from both Macs. Each is connected to a speaker set, so I don't need bluetooth audio or anything fancy.
In Safari, how to switch tabs using mouse gesture? I try to use the BetterTouchTool, since there's no shortcut to switch tabs, I have no idea how to config in BetterTouchTool too.
Is it possible to move full screen apps in Mission Control to be at the beginning, (before space #1)?
My Drobo that acts as my media server and Time Machine host for my family's Macs has become read only. While this would normally be a nuisance, it's become a real problem in that I can't change it back from the Get Info Window I've also tried chmod +w to no avail. Any hints on what to do? In the attached photo, you'll see that the options are dimmed and say that I should have access, but the disk is still read only. Get Info Window
I have 16:9 footage that I am working with in FCE 4. When I drop the footage into a sequence, the viewing area is 4:3. Then when I export it, I export it as 16:9, and it looks like stretched 4:3. Help! How do I fix this problem? Is there a setting that I need to change? I have already tried changing both the video clip settings and the sequence settings to anamorphic. That didn't help; it looked like stretched 4:3.
I just spent a good hour on Mail app, and its pissing me off. First archive button is dumb, it actually creates a label called [imap]/archive. Sending messages is dumb, it actually creates a label called 'Sent Messages' Deleting messages is dumb, it actually creates a label called 'Deleted Messages'
When I search for any major label band on my iPhone 4 almost none of the official video clips are available. I can always find the equivalent clip on DailyMotion.
Previously in SL I had chax to make sure iChat was always signed in. Now on Lion I constantly find that iChat is disconnected from Facebook chat (jabber). Does anyone have a clever idea to keep it connected?
I used MacPorts to install a newer version of Python on my system (10.5.8 PPC), and then used the MacPorts select command to change the default invoked version of Python to the MP version. Now I want to change it back to the system version of Python, but I can't find a command to do so in the documentation.
Relatively new to Macs, I'm used to Windows wanting to verify HD data integrity after an unexpected shutdown. I know they use different file systems, but do Macs need to do anything like this?
I can sync Gmail contacts to my iPhone and it works pretty well. Is there a way I can sync my Yahoo contacts over the air with my iPhone?
At the moment, if I create a TAR or ZIP file foo.tar - containing multiple files and directories - when I double click on the archive it creates a folder foo containing all of the archived items. Is there a way to have an archive extract itself - when opened from Finder - so that the files are at the same level as the archive was? I'm trying to distribute an archive which users can use to setup a USB drive with a custom icon etc, however this requires copying hidden files into the USB drive's root, so I can't just get them to "copy/paste from this network directory"
I'm an absolute newbie in Apple development, and I just want to know something special: Is it possible to send a push message not for all downloaders of the app, but some selected users? I thought about two possibilities send apple the push message command just for some selected devices decide in the app wether to show the push or not If this is not possible at all, I do not have to keep on developing.
After upgrading to Lion, I have no sound at all under OS X. It doesn't come through my speakers or through my headphone jack. I've checked in the Sound preferences, and it's set properly. I've tried killing coreaudiod, which does nothing. I've triple-checked that I'm not muted (I'm not) and the volume is up (it is), and I've made sure I'm upgraded to 10.7.1, since that was supposed to resolve some sound issues. There's just nothing.
I have an iPhone which has suddenly (last two months) started going way over the 200mb data plan it was on. Prior to this it wasn't even close to the limits.
Shows huge percentages for dropbox but total is normal, and everything seems to be running fine. I have a Macbook with Intel Core2Duo
I applied for the apple up to date program through their site and got now the e-mail with a password protected pdf attachment in it. Xmr3 doesn't really sound like apple. Has anybody some additional info on this? NOTE: I didn't visit their site because the WOT add-on in safari rated the website with a poor reputation score.
I am setting up a new Mac Mini server which will serve as a web server (with Apache and MySQL) as well as some other pieces of functionality. I have seen little on securing OS X for such a scenario (I am running Lion - and this is not Lion Sever).
How do I locate the contact data for the Address Book in the hard drive on Snow Leopard?
Somewhat confused by the Thunderbolt/Mini DisplayPort compatibility rules, and the apple store people were unhelpful, so I ask here (maybe I should ask here first :) Hopefully we can come to a complete compatibility matrix. I have a 27" iMac from December 2010 ("old imac") and another 27" iMac ("new imac") from July 2011. The first is MDP and the second is TB. I also have a MBP from July 2010 (which is MDP) and a MBA from August 2011. I would like to make a unified setup.
DEVONthink has a “See Also” feature that shows you documents that the software thinks are related to the one you are currently viewing. I would like to experiment more with using this feature. Unfortunately, AFAIK DEVONthink limits its search for related documents to those that you've put inside the same DEVONthink database. I'm — at least at this time — not interested in using DEVONthink exclusively to organize all of my documents.
Source code files viewed using Quick Look on Snow Leopard had syntax highlighting. Unfortunately the syntax highlighting has disappeared on OS X Lion. Is there a way to get it back?
Can I use my iPad as a wireless webcam for my PC? I think the solution would be an app streaming the video captured by the iPad's camera from the iPad to the PC where another app would decode it, emulating a local webcam like ManyCam does (ManyCam could very well be part of the solution to this problem). Kinda like Air Video but reversed. I haven't been able to figure out how to do it; has anyone else figured it out? Thanks!
I'm using BootCamp to install Windows 7 on my Mac. On both OS I'm using Firefox 6. Is there an easy way to automatically share the favorites in both OS?
This problem was tested initially on my external keyboard, the problem does persist on the internal macbook keyboard. Those '4 finger swipe' works, as does the 'Cmd + Expose(f3)' keyboard shortcut work.
The Mingler process periodically allocates most of the RAM I have on my MacBook Pro, bringing it to a halt. I have never just let it run, though I am doing that now just to see what will happen. I've read through discussions at support.apple.com and none of those helped. How can I control Mingler? More generally, is there a way to limit processes using a system resource on Mac OS X Lion?
I am a T-Mobile customer wanting to upgrade to a smart phone. I would like to be able to sync my Macbook iCal to Gravity Smart or Mytouch 3G. Is this possible without being complicated?
What is currently the best file system to use for drives that are regularly accessed (both reading and writing) from both Windows and OS X on a single machine using BootCamp. The most important points are stability and speed.
Recently there has been some files disappearing (in iTunes), and I'm not so sure of the extent of this problem yet. Perhaps it may have been an iTunes upgrade bug, but I'm not so sure. What can I do to check the integrity of the hard drive and of all the files on my Mac computer, to see if they are corrupt or not? Is there a hard drive integrity checker that I can use on my Mac?
I am using MacBook pro. I have this weird chrome icon:
Below are the commands for 10.5 and 10.6 I have used over the years that is a walk-thru for any tech to accomplish regardless of experience. The 10.5 one has worked with 10.6 too, with the exception of line 8 or 9 due to some changes.
As the title says. I have a Mac Mini server--I bought it because I liked the lack of a optical drive. I don't really care to use the software, and now having to spend an additional $50 on Lion's "Server" add-on is meh. Can I wipe the machine clean and install a fresh 10.7, non-server edition?
I have a macbook pro and yesterday the sound just stopped working.I was funny cause I turn it off and tried and cool it down cause I thought that it's been so hot. after that it worked but after a few minutes it just stopped working.
The volume is loud enough. I test the volume of the alarm clock before I go to sleep and it's definitely loud enough. In addition, the iPhone is lying in a distance of 15 inches from my head.
I have synced my mail and calender to our company's MS Exchange 2003 server using Outlook Web Access(OWA). I have received a meeting request that I wish to forward to someone. How do I do this using the default mail app? (iOS 4.3.1)
I have an iPad and would like to use it as a graphics tablet for recording video tutorials on my computer. What software should I use to allow the iPad to be an input device to control my PC directly? I want to be able to draw on my computer via the iPad. It would work like the Bamboo Pen Tablet like the one in the "graphics tablet" link.
I´m currently using my Mac with Lion. Using Bootcamp I installed Windows 7. I also have an Android phone. Now I´m looking for a calendar software that allows me to synchronize between all three OS. It should not be an online solution.
Everywhere I just read posts and questions about how to make lion like snow leopard. So... Why not keeping snow leopard, at least while lion's "young"? Are there any technical / cosmetic reasons for the switch?
I'm using Windows 7 on my Mac. On the Lion OS I installed Time Machine to keep a backup of my Laptop. Does this backup also cover the Windows partition?
I'm sharing a scanner from a Mid 2007 iMac (10.6.8, USB scanner over wired ethernet). I've enabled sharing on the local admin account and it all works well on the other Macs that are using the scanner. However, after logging out, the scanner stops being shared and immediately drops out of the list of "Shared devices" available on the other Macs (in Image Capture).
I am on a MBP Early 2011, running Snow Leopard and am facing a strange issue. If I boot up my system and try to connect to my external display using the MDP->VGA adapter, System Settings won't show the correct resolution for the secondary display. I can see 1440x1050 and 1600x1200, and even if I hit Detect Displays, nothing will change.
Recently I was messing around with Backtrack 4r2, and created a USB "live CD" and started from it. I normally run the live CD in a VM, but wanted to see if I could install it on the USB as a separate HDD. Normally, I experiment on VMs as well, but decided to go against my better judgement. This corrupted my startup disk, and for a little bit I had the folder with the question mark. The internal SSD was there untouched, but the starting sequenced was affected. I tried using rEFIt to get back into it, but the system did not recognize the SSD. Finally, I went in with GParted on the live CD, and made the Mac Book Air boot from the "Recovery HD". I used the terminal in the "Recovery HD" to correct my permission, and made the correct area of the SSD my boot disk. I am running Lion 10.7.1, so trying to build a "Recovery USB" was impossible since the app store would only let me access Lion 10.7. Onto the question: Lion now mounts the "Recovery HD" upon start up, and it didn't before. How can I
In our network, we use NetMotion to lock down laptops in the field so they can only access what we allow them to access (no ESPN, news, Google) in the truck. As we look at iPad 3Gs (and similar competitors), we want to be sure we keep the same tight control on what websites they visit (and have internal access to network resources at the same time). Is this possible? VPN isn't really effective unless there is a way for it to be forced on at all times.
Is there a way to change the default Airdrop location from the Downloads folder to something else? I have changed the location of many other applications, so I assume it's possible, even is possibly taking a few lines in terminal.
I have enabled internet sharing with ethernet. I try to share the internet with "automatic DHCP" to my Buffalo. I can access the buffalo but I am unable to share the internet from mac to buffalo and from buffalo to other machines. How can I do that?
I have been using a free SSH app on my phone for a little while but stopped because using VIM mostly broke it. Now after some updates I seems to have a limited number of key strokes before it expires. So now seems like a good time to shop around. There are the requirements: Can emulate color Can run VIM, though being able to run EMACS would be cool too. It does not have to be free. it must run on a non jail broken phone.
I have noticed that HTML-formatted graphical emails which I receive are the perfect width for the message pane in Lion's Mail app. It almost looks as if Apple designed them (it didn't they are from random companies).
I've set up Automatic Proxy Configuration (PAC) in OSX Snow Leopard to point to a URL. I've also filled out the "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains" box because I want to skip the proxy for certain sites. (I'm using pow which as far as I understand, works by creating a local mini dns server.)
When I export my numbers spreadsheet with photos in the column the photos do not transfer when I import it into excel. How can I do this?
I often like to use a non-network specific DNS server (like Google's public DNS 8.8.8.8). However, many public wi-fi locations won't load their "terms of service, click here" page during the authorization process. I suppose it is because my Macbook needs to look-up their web page, but is sending DNS requests to Google, which are blocked because I'm not yet authorized. The quick fix is to delete the DNS server from the Network preference pane (Network / Advanced / DNS / Select / delete / clickety / click /GAAA) ... ... and then add it back after I'm authorized.
So about a month ago I started using the Nike+ GPS app and everything was working fine until a few days ago while using it, my ipod starts skipping and the voice control automatically pops up. At first I thought the app had glitches but then even after i close the app, my ipod was still skipping and that voice control thing popped up. So should I restore? Is there a problem with my phone itself? Or is the app the one that caused this issue? Thanks in advance for your input.
Is it possible to easily share the single set of input devices without having to repeatedly break and reestablish the pairing of the input device to the correct computer? I'm not opposed to buying some type of additional hardware to accomplish this, provided it's not prohibitively costly or cumbersome to use or configure.
I have purchased a Razer DeathAdder Black Edition mouse, and the latest Mac driver I can find for it is 1.00. The possible assignments for the side buttons don't seem to have Mission Control buttons available for them (they only have various Expose keys available)
I'm due for a free update to Mac OS X Lion, as I bought an iMac in July after the cut-off date for free updates. When I go to claim the free update on the apple web site, it asks me to enter the serial numbers of all "qualifying macs". If I just enter the number of the Mac that I bought most recently, will I be able to install Lion on the other ones manually? I assume so, but I don't want to accidentally short myself $30 :)
I just got a new iMac with 256G SSD + 2T regular HD. The data on my old computer is bigger than 256G Not only that, but the Migration Assistant seems to want to migrate-to the SSD only. Advice? EDIT I wasn't clear -- I know which data I want on which device, I was trying to cajole MigrationAssistant into splitting it up for me.
This seems pretty easy in Windows 7, but I am unsure of how I can do this on Mac OS X. I have a Wireless printer connected to my router via Wireless, and now I want to use it with my Mac. How can I connect to the wireless printer with my Mac? I am using OS X Lion and am on a MacBook Pro.
Is there an APP to make a bootable dvd i am using snow leopard but i do have access to a lion machine. I have an ISO from a legal copy of windows 7 it is a back up cd and yet i am having a hard time making it boot from the cd, the boot camp installer sees it but when I try and boot from it, it gives me a code 5 which is a non-bootable DVD the things i have tried I just want an app that will make it easy and painless and hopefully free so i can just get my bootcamp working... thanks in advance
Is is possible to have two pointers on the same computer? I was working on a project with a friend and it would've been really nice to have two pointers. Note that I am not asking how to connect two mice to a computer, I want two pointers on the same computer.
Background info: the various iTunes stores (and I think Software Update) use the a CDN to deliver all those jigabits of data. Google DNS can mess with the speed of these CDNs.
[my first question here...] Is there a good way to map a function key to do the [App : Show All] command? i.e. Un-hide all apps. BTW, i currently use Spark to map function keys.
Is it OK to downgrade 10.7.1 Client to 10.7 using the original version 1.0.4 of Install Mac OS X Lion.app? Either type of downgrade to be followed by updates. These questions focus on: the period during which a downgraded system runs. (Installation to a clean volume, without downgrade may be preferable, but that's a separate discussion.) Version 1.0.4 of the installer recognises that something more recent than 10.7 (Build 11A511) is running, but: does not caution the user against downgrade does not create /Previous System reuses /System
I'm looking for another app than Mail on my iPad. I have searched the appStore without success. Is there not other emailers on iPad ?
I have a MacBook Pro 13' and recently I received a MAcBook Air 11'. The Air is not big enough for me to use day to day but it can be helpful when I'm out of home. What I'm wondering is 2 things: What uses can 2 macbooks have? How do you keep them sync so when I use the Air, everything from the Pro is there? Thanks
Regularly I use more than 4 spaces in my Macbook Pro ( lion/10.7.1 ). Can I get a screenshot of all spaces at one time ?
I am new Mac user and I don't really like the Magic Mouse so I reverted to a good old 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel. When I turn the wheel slowly, it only scrolls pixel per pixel (or per two pixels) If I turn the wheel more quickly, it scrolls nearly line by line. There is a kind of scroll wheel acceleration where the amount scrolled for each wheel step depends on the rotation speed of the wheel. This behavior is not present in Windows where you always scroll a few lines per wheel step. Is there a way to disable this behaviour or to tweak it in Mac OS X Lion?
Opposite to another question here I want the badge count to appear. I have the "resume" function enabled in my Lion. Is there another setting that's responsible for the badge? To clarify I run tail -f /path/to/file in 2 tabs of my terminal and I expect the badge to inform me about the changes.
This is a problem that has bugged me for the last 5 years, across multiple devices, operating systems and installs of iTunes and iPods. I have found that the iTunes shuffle feature does not randomly shuffle songs. In fact, I can accurately predict the exact sequence of songs that iTunes will play. This frustrates me to no end because I like to listen to my music randomly, but I have a few favourite songs that I always start out with. For example, if I select the song 'Somebody That I Used To Know' by Gotye, it will always follow with this exact sequence of songs: Blame It On The Tetons by Modest Mouse Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine by The White Stripes Mombassa by Hans Zimmer, from the Inception Soundtrack Break of Dawn by Michael Jackson Missing Words by Mark Ronson and the Business International
My network is amazing slow, and my question is what can I do about it. I have done the following analysis:
Is there a way I can set a different default printer for each network location?
I have two monitors set up at work, with the external one set to a portrait configuration. When I attempt to VNC in to work remotely, this results in a HUGE (something like 1600x3000) because the virtual screen is the compositing of the two (with black bars where there is no monitor space). As a result, the VNC connection is non-responsive.
I have a Macbook Pro 2010 (Core2Duo), and I lost my original software and OS restore DVD. The one that came with the laptop. Now my HD volume is corrupted (many programs quit randomly now -- like iTunes, XCode, etc). What can I do? Can I just go buy an OS X Lion DVD, reformat my HD, and do a clean install? Or do I somehow have to get the original DVD that came with the Macbook Pro and start from there? Please help. Thank you.
How do I tell mds that this is not the right time to do its job? Killing it to delay it could mean that it would choose to start a minute later.
I use iTunes all the time in the grid view, showing artists. If I click on one, all tracks of this artist are displayed, grouped by albums, sorted after the album name (alphabetically). Now I click on the table header to sort for year instead and start playing one album. After the last song of that album has played, the next album that will play is not the next one in the list, but the next one alphabetically. Example: Album A, 2003 Album B, 2010 Album C, 2005
I'm trying to watch a protected WMV file on my Mac, but it seems that neither VLC nor Flip4Mac support DRMs. Well at least all I get is psychedelic images, such as this one:
Let's say that I have an iMac with a wired Ethernet connection and a WiFi connection at same time, on two separated LAN. Is this possible to ask Firefox to use the WiFi and Safari to use the Ethernet wire card ?
I was told that I could open a .CSV file with Excel. However, my Microsoft Excel refuses to recognize the file. I have tried my different ways to open it in Excel but the program didn't give me a choice to click the file open. I am using Mac 10.4 and the Excel version is Microsoft Excel X for Mac.
Once in Mission Control, I like to able to preview the contents of each the Desktops in the larger preview section instead of only relying on the thumbnail view. You can accomplish this by entering Mission control and then hittingCTRL+Shift+left/right arrow.
I have an iPod Touch 2nd gen that I can hook up to my car's stereo through a CD Changer adapter. It works great and will play anything in my iPod's music library, and I can even navigate the library from the stereo's interface. However, whenever I try to play a video or application and hook it up to the iPod adapter, the sound will play briefly before it switches over to the main music library.
My Mac Pro boots into recovery mode every time it boots up. I have to select the start-up disk when in recovery mode. How can I make so it starts up in Mac Os X Lion every time without it going into recovery mode?
An example situation: Let's say I have a song on my iPod (in iTunes Devices > iPod > Music) and it shows a play count of, let's say 16. I disconnect my iPod, play the song, then connect it again and check the play count again. I would expect it to be, of course, 17. However the play count almost doubles every time (for a song with 16 plays, I suddenly got 31). This is quite a problem for me, as I want to scrobble my tracks to last.fm, but I can't if my play count increases on some freaking exponential scale (when I do what I described above (disconnect, play the track once, connect + sync), the last.fm scrobbler suddenly has 16 scrobbles of the same song to upload).
I have an external 1.5 TB hard drive split evenly with a partition for backup and a partition that was used for Time Machine on my previous computer (OS X Lion). Now I'm using this hard drive with a new computer (OS X Lion), and I don't want the Time Machine partition anymore. I should also point out that I've never configured Time Machine on my new computer.
I purchased an app (Divvy) from the Mac App Store ten days ago and still have not received an email receipt for the purchase. The e-mail address in the App Store Account Settings is correct and it's not in the Spam folder. The same account gets receipts fine when I make purchases in the iTunes Store. Is there a way to either: View old receipts somewhere, or Get receipts emailed again?
I have a client with about 60TB of data on multiple HFS+ volumes, attached directly via fibre channel and shared using AFP. We are running around 85% capacity at present, and the budget to expand storage won't come into play for months. Our data growth suggests we'll hit 90% capacity in four months. I'm considering some sort of in-place filesystem compression that would transparently compress files at rest in storage, while not changing the workflows of the desktop users. (That is, they should just work as usual without having to decompress files.)
I have had purchased for me by my employer a new Mac Mini Server. It came pre-installed with Lion Server (the Server app from the App Store that costs $49.99).
I realized that I was running a very old version of Dropbox for Mac. Somehow I was not notified about the latest updates. I was expecting the same behavior as apps like 1Password. In the past, I missed out Selective Sync by few months which I was eagerly waiting for. I was running 1.1.35 (Under Preferences/ Account) and the latest version is 1.1.43 . Where can I find the config to let Dropbox auto-update/prompt me on every release, similar to 1Password.
I created 50 small (1GB) encrypted DMGs using DiskUtility, and want to combine them into a single 50GB "virtual" drive but still have 50 1G images on disk. How? Why: I want to encrypt my files (even the filenames) before backing them up without using half my disk space just for encrypted files. I want to encrypt my files (even the filenames) before backing them up without using half my disk space just for encrypted files.
Saft -- the (now seemingly defunct as of Safari 5.1) Safari plugin -- had the ability to change the name of the download folder (and create said folder if it didn't already exist) that Safari uses (e.g., by creating a name based on the date). This was incredibly useful for decluttering/ordering my downloads. Is there any comparable feature in a supported Safari extension (for Safari 5.1)?
The plug portion of my power adapter broke off. Fortunately, this piece of the adapter seems to just slide off of the main adapter body, attaching via a round metal piece. So basically I would just need to find a new plug assembly and slide it on.
I like to organise the icons in my dock, but I do not always like to display icons for applications that are not open – quite a clutter when you're setting the position of many icons. Is there any way to ensure that an application's icon will always be in a set position but only when the application is open?
I learned in Upgraded to Lion: Time Machine spends a LOT of time indexing backup that if I hold down the option key and click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, the "Back Up Now" menu item changes to "Verify Backups". But for some reason, on my MacBook Air, "Verify Backups" is disabled (greyed-out). How do I find out why?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8. And I'm curious to see if there are any advanced options for ejectable volumes. Such as hiding a partition, password protecting, and so forth.
I bought the new Mac Mini, which doesn't have a SuperDrive, and I noticed an icon in the sidebar of the Finder: Remote Disc.  To which device is referring? When I clicked over the sidebar icon with the right button, to get information about the device, I got just genetic information that didn't help me to understand if it is referring to a specific device, and how I can "connect" such device to the Mac Mini.
I've been using an Apple keyboard for the last week and while it looks cool, it's just awful to type on for any amount of time. Since I'm a programmer that is an issue.
I know bluetooth supports encryption, but is it in use? How do I know? The help in the Bluetooth preference pane gives some vague answers: For extra security, you can stipulate that only trusted devices be allowed to connect to your Mac, and 128-bit over-the-air encryption is also available. But I don't see any options like what they just said.
I am having a weird problem. When I save network setting is not available the list of other available network used to get displayed on startup. However from past two days I could not find it on startup. I have also verified Network preferences. "Ask to join new network is checked". More over when I try to connect to my preferred network its showing "connected to unknown" in network airport preferences. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
VLC responds to the itunes control keys (you know: back, forward, pause/play) on the keyboard. Yet when I use them, both iTunes AND VLC respond, which is quite stupid. For example: I want to pause a video playing in VLC (iTunes isn't even running) so I press play/pause, VLC pauses yet iTunes launches and starts playing. How can I temporarily disable the control keys for iTunes?
As Lion now supports Resume, does it mean that most software no long need starting at login, as when they are open, they remain open in the next boot-up? Of course it won't apply to those tools which only run once at login and auto quit afterwards.
I know that you can improve performance and battery life by not having Flash on your Mac. Is there any similar advantage to not installing Java?
I am using Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I tried changing a folder's icon using this well known method. I used a png image as my target icon. The icon does get changed, but not to the picture itself, but the icon of a png file. The Icon I want to be there:
Usually I'm just using the "Automatic" location in System preferences->Network with my home and work wifi networks configured. I was wondering what would be the advantage to configure different locations ... What is it useful for ?
I installed Mac OS X Lion and enabled FileVault to have a full disk encryption of my system disk. I bought my Mac with a French keyboard (since I'm French and used to this layout) but my Mac is configured to be in English, except for the keyboard layout.
I created a folder in /Applications to move all Games into a folder called Games. Launchpad is not in sync with the folders that I created. Looking at the folder Utilities, I was under the impression that creating a folder in /Applications would keep Launchpad in sync . Is there a way to keep these two distinct Applications (LaunchPad and Finder) which show me a list apps to respect the folders hierarchy ?
I am trying to encrypt a disk which is taking approximately 20-30 minutes per every 1% . Can I restart/switch off my Mac while the encryption is going on ? Would the Mac automagically resume encryption after switching it back on ?
I am trying to share my monitor and keyboard/mouse between my PC (Windows 7) and Macbook Pro (1,1 - 2006, Snow Leopard) using a basic KVM switch (Trendnet TK207). By hitting Scroll Lock twice the KVM switches from one computer to another. The problem is this works on Windows but not in OS X. OS X does not recognize my Scroll Lock key at all (even the Scroll Lock light doesn't work). Any ideas on how to debug/fix this problem?
I purchased Lion from the App Store, installed it, etc. Now that I'm selling my Mac Mini, I'd like to keep Lion on there since: 1) I have no need for the purchase anymore since any new mac buys will have it preinstalled, and 2) it'll make my mac mini for sale that much more desirable of a buy.
I don't want my apps to open previous windows. When I go into Prefs/General and unclick "Restore windows when quitting...," and close preferences, it doesn't save it. When I re-open Prefs/General, it's checked again.
Is there a subscription site or iPhone application for changing caller id or caller id spoofing? In other words I want to call someone, but I want to change my number (for example 000000 or 111111). How can I do this?
A question about the built-in iPod app on iPhone. Once you get into the iTunes mode (e.g. after clicking "get more episodes" on a podcast view) it seems you are stuck forever wandering the endless isles of the iTunes store.
Because a problem of compatibility between Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 (the problem was that the computer with Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 were both synchronized with the same Mobile Me account), I see an icon the desktop in the sidebar of Finder, even if the icon is not selected to appear.  I even tried to remove it dragging it off the sidebar, or clicking it with the right button and selecting "Remove from Sidebar," but the icon is still there. The problem is that the dialog box to open files shows two icons for the Desktop, in some applications.
The Mac Pro here (2008 model) started acting up as of yesterday during booting - when I turn it on, I hear the typical sound, the Apple logo appears, it disappears.. and the monitor remains in that grey tone.. forever - nothing else is happening. This machine has Snow Leopard installed. When I try to e.g. boot from my Lion USB Recovery HD, i plug in the USB stick, press alt during bootup, both systems (the SL one on the disk & the Recovery on the USB stick) appear, I select the Recovery HD.. and again, the same (logo, then grey forever). What's going on here and what can I do? Update:
I purchased a 3TB HDD, which I put into an USB enclosure for my iMac. The drive is recognized at boot, but it only shows 801.23GB.
I have a strange problem since upgrading to Lion: Some .pkg and .mpkg files won't open the installer but instead will open the terminal, and no installation takes place. The most recent example is the Microsoft Office 2011 Update 14.1.2. Does anyone know of that problem?
Is there software that will allow you to add a second menu bar to a secondary display? I am using Second Bar, but I was wondering if there was other software out there that would do this. Note that I don't want to move the menu bar. I know I can move the menu bar in System Preferences. This is not what I want. I want a second menu bar.
I was wondering if there is software out there that will make OS X windows act like Windows 7. For instance, you can "bump" a window at the top of the screen and it will fill the screen. Or, "bumping" the left/right will make the window become half-screen.
I was wondering how I could change the icon in the "window bar" of my Mac app I've also added a picture of the icon I want to change since i believe window bar isn't the correct term.  Thank you in advance! :)
I also asked the same question for Android but I found that Android Browser has a bug that crashes when uploading big files, so you need the native app: What extra features has the Android YouTube application over the HTML one? It seems that iOS 5 still provides the native YouTube app, but it seems it is obsolete: *=URL=* http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/youtube-iphone-mobile-html5/
Is it possible to archive emails using apple mail? Or do I have to log in to the web UI to archive old mail? I am using 10.6.7.
What do the F5 and F6 keys do on the 2011 MacBook Air? They are marked with what I interpret to be small-sunrise and big-sunrise icons. I do not see any effect when I press them.
I just installed Lion on a Mac Mini, and I can't get the CD to eject. Currently, the computer boots up to the "Welcome" screen for new installs, where the Country/Region is selected. I want to leave it at this point because I'm selling the machine, but want to eject the disk. When booting up, I've tried several keyboard shortcuts, but none of them are working: "C" -- to boot of the CD "Cmd + Option + F + O" -- to bo into firmware mode where a cd can be ejected with a command holding down the left-mouse button "option" -- supposed to eject the disk "Cmd + R" -- should go to the recovery console
I'm looking for a Safari extension that can rewrite the google search results so that it gives you the direct URLs rather than the long jumbled redirect links that often pop up. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, Google often (but not always) gives you the results with redirect URLs like this: *=URL=* which make it a pain when trying to share/copy&paste a link, not to mention whatever additional tracking nonsense goes on behind the scenes. It's definitely possible, as there seem to be some Greasemonkey scripts available for Firefox, but I haven't been able to find any Safari extensions that do this so far.
old age?(only 2 yrs old) needs more RAM(at 2GB - this is the late 2009 MB btw, the last one before the unibody) fan problems filevault?
Where is the mic jack on a 13" MBP? I want to plug in a 3.5mm jack (like the iPod headphone size) into the MBP. How do I do that?
I know I can Command-click it to achieve that. What I want is to change the default behavior from opening in the same tab to opening in a new tab. Is there an extension or a hidden configuration for that?
How do I use a non-amplified/powered mic on a MBP? Or is it not possible without an amplifier/interface. I don't really want to get an amplifier or USB/Firewire interface, but if I have to, I will.
I know a Mac volume can be renamed... obviously. But if you look at the output of diskutil you will see that a volume also has a "device name" that corresponds to the name it was given when it was formatted:
I accidentally dropped a file in the Finder toolbar instead of the destination folder (the ZIP icon on the right of the screenshot): How can I remove it from the toolbar?
Update: To be more precise: I have synergy and use Mac for coding. On my linux PC I would like to see another application's display (GUI) from Mac. Thus, 'live screen sharing' apps like VNC will not work.
Older MacBooks had a dedicated key to switch off the keyboard backlight (like the mute key). It was F8 if I'm not mistaken.
I just cannot get Rails to work on my 10.7.1 Server installation. After having run CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 gem install rails --force as root, I still get this: RVM doesn't appear to be producing a working install either. To cap it all, this lack of Rails is preventing Profile Manager from running.
Zite is an awesome iPad app that offers a personalized magazine from web sources (an amazing variety of public RSS feeds from conventional news to popular blogs). You start by giving it some keywords that characterize your interests. Then, every time you read an item, you can indicate whether you like it or not, and it will learn your tastes and give you more suitable content.
I recently bought the baseline 13'' Macbook Pro with i5 CPU and Lion preinstalled. I mostly work with Firefox (without Flash), NetBeans IDE and iTerm running and the machine tends to get really hot at the bottom and in the upper left area of the keyboard after few hours of work. I checked the Activity Monitor and no process is above the 5% CPU usage.
ctrl + shift + V does plain text paste on Chrome and Firefox on Linux and Windows (removes all HTML formatting from WYSIWYG pasted text). I think Chrome honours cmd + shift + V, but this doesn't seem to work in Firefox 6. Is there a shortcut to paste as plain text on Firefox?
I assumed it was an overheating problem and installed Fan Control. However, the last time I had the problem, the CPU temperature was only 54 degrees C and the case did not feel hot. I'd appreciate suggestions on how to diagnose this problem. This is a company owned laptop and due to a "frugal" employer, I don't have AppleCare.
I've read online and saw that it appears to be impossible to install Lion on a clean/wiped/reformatted hard drive - is this true? I'd like to wipe my hard drive clean and then install Lion on it (new) and would prefer not to wipe and install Snow Leopard and upgrade to Lion. Regarding the tutorials or detailed instructions on clean installing Lion - are there any that are (Most that I have searched online, including the one on Egg Freckles have been released [I]before[/I] the actual release date on Lion, and since I'm not that up to date on everything in the Mac world recently) detailed, and I'd like to know if there is a comprehensive (new) tutorial regarding the clean installation of Lion?
Is there some way to get back the side-by-side page view from Snow Leopard with the continuous scrolling? From the View menu in Lion Preview, it appears they're mutually exclusive now. I can't help shake the idea that Lion was designed by someone without a desktop Mac.
I am trying to download Lion through the Mac App store, but its telling me that my payment method has been declined. I don't know what to do.
Does anyone know anyway to make the iTunes sync photos taken using camera on my phone into my PC? I've enabled the iTunes photo sync already but it isn't working. Right now I'm accessing the photos in the My Computer and right click Import Pictures (or Explore) .
I want to be able to easily zero-out (make the filesize 0, not fill the existing filesize with 0s) files from the Finder by selecting files from within Finder and selecting an action from the right click menu. I looked at the available Automator actions, but I could only figure out how to delete and recreate files, which would lose any existing attributes. How can I create a contextual menu item to zero out files?
Is there a way to slightly adjust the subtitles offset in the VLC player? Often I just need they to appear 1 second before or later.
Can I stream any video played with VLC player to Apple TV ? Any additional plug-in for it...?
Does a microSD adapter exist that doesn't stick out of the MacBook Pro SD card slot? I don't want to live in fear of breaking the SD card off while carrying around my laptop.
After uploading photos to Flickr via the iPhoto "share" button, I find that iPhoto renames the photo titles to whatever I have in the description field. It'll then pass along those changes to Flickr. I like to change my titles to something short before uploading, but this overrides either my custom titles or the ones the camera assigns.
Can i use the iMac 27" mid 2011 as an external display for, let's say, a Playstation 3? Is this possible for the latest iMac?
I have a vbulletin forum I frequent in which I'd like to place a link to the "new posts" search on my homescreen. Anyone familiar with vbulletin knows this is a url with search.php?do=getnew , once you access that URL it redirects you to a search ID which is cached for easy access later. Thing is, you can't add that to your home screen as it wil just pull up the old search results rather than returning the newest posts. I'd like to add a link to the new posts link on my homescreen but it seems there is no way to edit the homescreen links.
Any time I want to do a batch transfer over FTP to my iPad (Using AVPlayer or Photo Privacy) the transfer only lasts for a short while before the application shuts down and I'm back to the iPad dashboard. Is this due to some internal security meassures in the iPad breaking any application that writes too much data? If not, what could it be that makes FTP servers on completely separate apps crash in the same way? Any answers even remotely helpful would be appreciated Thanks EDIT
Will @mac.com (as from .Mac) e-mail addresses continue to work after the MobileMe to iCloud transition?
I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac. Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor? Edit: Ideally, it should be managable remotely (like XenServer and ESXi), desktop virtualization software (like VirtualBox) isn't really what I had in mind.
I'm trying to use screencapture from the terminal, when logged in over ssh, to a mac that has no screen attached. I can screen share to the machine, so I'd like to capture the same display. However when I try it, I don't get an image file. Here's what I've tried... and... and finally, None of which work... (note that the last attempt is getting the PID for loginwindow.app and attaching the screencapture process to it as suggested by the OS X man page.) FYI I'm running OS X 10.6.8. I didn't mention that the machine doesn't have a screen attached, (I usually connect to it via VNC/Screen Sharing) I jumped to another machine on that network and the command works ok, (of course I guess!) I should also mention that, as I'm logged in on the remote machine on the same account as the local GUI session, the first version of the command works fine. In fact, just the following without all the launchctl stuff works fine:
I want to install phpMyAdmin on the native Apache webserver that is bundled with Mac OS X 10.6. I turned on Web Sharing in System Preferences. Yet, me fear is that my computer is granting access to everyone on the web. Where are the user access restrictions for the Web Sharing / Apache webserver within Mac? Where are the user access restrictions for the Web Sharing / Apache webserver within Mac? How to I restrict access for all computers except my own so that I can run applications on the localhost webserver (like phpMyAdmin). How to I restrict access for all computers except my own so that I can run applications on the localhost webserver (like phpMyAdmin).
I have multiple wifi connections in my campus (XYZ-Open, XYZ-Secure and XYZ-Guest) where XYZ-Secure is a secure connection and asks for authentication. Students use the secure connection which has a better bandwidth than the rest.
This is my first post...I was attempting to help a friend with my first-ever data transfer using Migration Assistant. Before I was expecting it to start copying (I was expecting it to allow me to name a transfer file on the target location), the transfer started! I suddenly panicked, thinking that all the data on my friend's target Mac might be overwritten! There was no "cancel" button - so all I could do was shut the lids on both MacBooks. At first, everything seemed fine. But when I tried to go back into the Power Saver panel to reset the energy saver on the target computer (instructions had told me to set it to "never"), it would not load the energy saver panel. The sending computer seemed fine in every way. All that was being transferred were files - no applications.
My problem is that when I attach my pen drive to any of the ports on my Mac, it won't show up on my Mac, but when I remove the pen drive, it shows the error, "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging." This means the Mac detects the pen drive on removal, but not on attaching. Can anybody tell me how I can fix this problem?
With the proper gesture enabled, Lion allows using a three-finger drag to move a window. However, it only does this when the pointer is over the title bar; gesturing anywhere else in the window does a text highlight instead. Is there a hidden configuration or a hack that would allow three-finger window moving from anywhere inside the window's bounds? Thanks!
Is it bad if I never shutdown my computer? I am asking solely terms of hardware so let's assume my software is stable and I reboot regularly to clean up software errors.
I have now been able to pull the Music/Movies off the old Time Machine backup and put them on the HDD, and all the system/app files are on the SSD. So that's all good up to now.
I've spent a lot of time arranging the apps the way I want them on my Mac and would like for them to stay that way. Is there anyway to save the current layout of Launchpad for a later restore if it gets all mixed up again? I already know about LaunchpadCleaner 2 but would rather not buy an AIR app.
I am using the default Apache and PHP installs that are present in OS X Lion. But I would like to make some settings (like adding Virtual Hosts to Apache) using a GUI interface. Is there such a thing?
The APNS worked fine for various month until few weeks. Every time we send Push Notifications the connection aborts with the following error:
I have some pictures and videos on my Mac (OS X Lion, OS X Snow Leopard) I'd rather have NOT show in Finder>Images. For example, if I'm in a meeting with clients and want to show some document, I have to fire up Finder and open said document, and when I click towards that, those pictures/movies show up and embarrass me. Think hmmm, strategic company workflows ahemf. Is it possible to tell Finder to NEVER show these?
I'm just curious - I guess lots of people with Mac hardware use Windows. How do they manage to do so, given that delete key is missing on Mac keyboard and you have to press ctrl+alt+delete to log in to Windows? Are they all forced to use autologin (to bypass ctrl+alt+delete pressing) or buy a PC keyboard?
I just noticed that when I hover with my cursor over a link, I don't get the url. I tried in maximized (full screen) and normal mode, and it doesn't show up in a popup or in a bottom bar as it does on Firefox. It's a bit annoying of course. I know about snowleopard's behavior, has Apple changed their stance or is still an external plugin the best solution?
This problem has ben bugging me for a while now. Every now and then, I need to write a script file that should execute sudo commands. I do not necessarily know in advance that I will run as sudo so I am sure there is a way to open a nice graphical interface (such as the one popping up when installing software) but how ? The man sudo says: So I am pretty sure the solution resides in that -A and SUDO_ASKPASS tuple however I've managed to find what to put into those.
Is it possible to change the display default image on a second display connected to an Apple running OSX 10.6. ? I can see all the display options for the desktop, but the 2nd display has the Apple Desktop picture 'Apple/Nature/Aurora as a default. The only way I can find of changing this is to select mirroring on displays and then choose an alternative, which will display on both screens. Turn mirroring off then 'Aurora' returns, but the desktop will reflect the new change. kind regards Ric
Basically it takes very long (sometimes up to 5 minutes) to reconnect to wifi after waking my Macbook Air (june '11 model) running OSX 10.7.1 It does show a list of available networks when I click the wifi icon and it does include the network I want to connect to, but it doesn't do anything if I click the network name.
I recently upgraded to Lion which led me to install a new version of Fuse for the 64bit kernel. Today I upgraded to 10.7.1 and get the following problem.
In Snow Leopard and prior, when clsoing a window with unsaved changes, the system would suggest to either save, cancel or discard the changes from keyboard shortcuts. You could: save return cancel ⌘+. discard the changes ⌘+D.
I have noticed an annoying bug in OS X Lion that happens if you try to take a screen cap with cmd+shift+4. It works fine with every rectangular selection, but if you take a square shot (for example 150x150 or 280x280...) it captures 1 pixel in excess only in width: so, a 150x150 will eventually become a 151x150, forcing me to crop it. I was wondering if it's just me or if it's a known bug.
I am trying to set a username and password for my http proxy in the network panel in system preferences, I select the "Proxy server requires password" checkbox, enter a username and password and click ok and apply but when I go back to the proxy page the checkbox is unselected, how do I make osx remember my proxy username and password? I am running 10.6.7 Thanks Mark
I'm trying to create a bootable USB drive for my downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 Server (ppc) iso using my MacBook. I followed the instruction on the Ubuntu website for creating the img using hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso. However, after running the command, this is the output that I get:
I would like to install rEFIt. Will it void my warranty, even though it can be uninstalled?
I know it is impossibly to manage the order for the applets in the menubar (those which aren't apple's own). Yet is there an application or trick that enables this?
This is driving me nuts. I go through my mail in reverse chronological order. This means I look at the newest mails first and then go back from there. So this scenario happens dozens of times a day: Check out message, decide to mark it as unread to review/act on later Proceed to next, older, message When I decide to delete/archive the current message, Mail will highlight the message from 1. and mark it as read (because it is selected) This forces me to REmark this last message as unread before proceeding Any ideas on how to solve this?
I have a encrypted sparsebundle and I want to mount to to a folder in my home directory and not under /Volumes. How can I do that?
Does a Magic Trackpad have a button, as opposed to just being a trackpad? I am not sure if this even makes sense, so let me know if I need to clarify.
I created a bootable flash drive using the instructions on Ubuntu's website using OS X 10.6, but it was for the wrong version of Ubuntu. Now, I want to remove the dmg from the flash drive, but diskutil isn't letting me remove it.
I download Apache James email server on my Mac. I extracted the zip to a "james-2.3.2" folder. When I run "./james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh" I get a "Permission denied". I tried doing a chmod 755 on the run.sh but it still gives me an error (something about permission denied regarding a phoenix .sh file).
Is there an app that I can run on my iMac that will regulate Internet usage? Specifically, I want to only allow internet to work between 6-8pm.
I want to see a log. Something like: 192.168.0.23 www.example.url 13:34 19 april 2011
Once I plug headphones into my iMac I no longer have the option in the sound preferences panel to output audio to the built-in speakers. I have to unplug the headphones to get audio output through the built-in speakers. Since the plug is on the back of the display this is inconvenient. Does anyone know of an audio app that allows me to easily switch between built-in speakers and headphones for audio output?
The need for drivers. Lacie provides one. *=URL=* Ugly (I'll forgive this one, since this is a temporary solution until Thunderbolt drives arrive).
A similar question was asked here but the answer refers to something called QL Stephen, which only claims to preview files with no extension. I need something that will show previews of files with extensions that are unknown to the Finder. They are all plain-text files. And, it needs to run on Lion (10.7). To clarify: I'm not looking for a default QL for any unknown extension, but rather for one that will preview certain specific extensions (e.g., .sps, .fort) as plain text.
This question has two parts, I suppose. Is there a way to assign a default case to QuickLook (if no other preview applies, use this one) and Is there a way to assign a default case to QuickLook (if no other preview applies, use this one) and is there a good hex-dump QuickLook preview? is there a good hex-dump QuickLook preview?
I have two Microsoft Excel documents that are, except for the data contained within, virtually identical. One was created as an offshoot of the other. In the Finder, the original displays a thumbnail for the icon but the offshoot copy displays the standard Excel icon with the (XLSX) "button" in the lower left corner. I've tried:
My iPad is really starting to infuriate me. My Google/iPad calendar sync has been working perfectly for months, but not it won't. In Google Calendar I've removed a few now superfluous calendars and added a new one to keep track of my classes. This new calendar just won't friggin show up in iPad. I've visited the Google sync page for devices and everything is set up correctly. All my calendars are checked. But out of my 3 checked calendars, only 2 of them show up in iPad calendar. I've tried removing my Gmail account from the iPad and re-adding it with no results. Any ideas?
Every so often I'll add a couple hundred new songs to my iTunes and discover a new mix has been created. It makes me wonder then, exactly how many mixes are there, what genres are they, etc. Here's a photo, in case you're unsure what I'm talking about.
My new MacBook Pro uses Thunderbolt to connect a monitor. My monitors have all HDMI or VGA plugs. So I was looking for an Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter in my favorite shop. But I can't really find one. Am I missing something?
I'm running 10.7.1 server and recently have been experiencing app crashes related to hard disks. I can't mount DMG's, can't backup with Time Machine and every single time I open Disk Utility to try and find out what's wrong, it crashes.
I have a iPhone 3G is very slow when launching apps that use GPS, like Google Maps or similar. The phone becomes unusable until I restart the OS.
I'm using MobileMe to sync my keychain between an iMac and a MacBook Air. Since both machines run Lion this error message pops up every other system start (or when waking up from sleep): "An error occurred when configuring keychain syncing."
I'd like iTunes to automatically add any music that I add to my music folder to its library. I don't want to have my music on the same hard-drive as Itunes, though, so I can't just copy it into any of the Itunes music folders. Is there a way to do this?
I am designing a website. I want users to be able to upload photos from their iPhone to my website, as such I need to know: Can users upload from their phone gallery through Mobile Safari to my site?
I am looking for iphone applications like this one. What I am looking is an app that: Shows me the map, with tram stops and metro stops. And with hotspots or touristic places in the map, so that you know where to getdown of the tram and metro. This is the best one I used it already for amsterdam, but they dont have many cities. Anyone knows apps like these, let me know
I have a Mac for my work computer (that is company property). Should I use my personal Apple ID, create an Apple ID with my work email, or ask for a corporate wide Apple ID (if that's possible).
I can't copy a folder (with files) from an external hard drive because of permissions problems. (You do not have permissions to the files in this folder.)
I'm from England and I'll be going to the US and I'd like to take my Mac Mini (Mid 2010) (not the newest version). My main question is: would it be safe to use over there? I'm worried because of the voltage difference. If so should I purchase a US power supply cable (does Apply even sell these separately) or a UK->US plug adapter?
But I am already loged in to my iTunes account and keep getting an error where my iPod tells me to log in to iTunes account on a computer I had originally pluged my ipod in to the computer as it would give me this message and not let me update my apps. Once pluged in it told me there was ipod updates so i installed them. In that process it told me there was a problem with my ipod and that i had to set it to factory settings. So needless to say, i was not happy about losing all that i had on my ipod! But still now it gives me the same message. I deauthorized and reauth computer and i thought that worked as it let me uppdate an app and add a new app. But then as i started to build my app selection again it would still from time to time tell me i need to log in to my itunes on my computer before the app could be added (even though i am still loged in). This is the same computer, and connection i have always used for this ipod. Now that i am at work i am using my Wi-Fi here and i have been
I have my Samsung SCH-R500 phone connected to my computer via bluetooth. Though when I go to browse in the 'Bluetooth File Exchange' software, nothing comes up. So, I was wondering if I can navigate through my phone using a Terminal. Or, is there a way to get to it by going through the directory?
After upgrading to Lion and installed the Java runtime for Lion, Netbeans and Eclipse became very unstable. They quit unexpectedly very frequently.
I'm trying to repair my sister's iMac using single-user mode. Since a recent power outage (no surge protector) it won't boot. I used verbose mode to see where it was hanging ("mDNSResponder: adding browse domain local") and found some advice online that said repairing the disk permissions might help. So I booted into single user mode, ran fsck -fy a couple times until it stopped complaining, ran mount -uw / and autodiskmount -va fine, and got stuck at diskutil. It just hangs (over an hour, no output). Is there anything else I should try, or should I just revert to surgery and grab the hd?
I have a MacBook Air and I'd like to install CD- and DVD-based software on it without having to purchase an external CD/DVD drive. I stumbled upon the CD & DVD sharing feature OS X supports but I've been having trouble getting it to work. I'm sharing my DVD and CD based software using a Windows 7-based PC with drive sharing enabled. But when I try to access the drive the Mac "thinks a lot" and then it says (roughly translated from danish): Action could not be completed, because the original subject to "Warcraft III" doesn't exist I've tried this with multiple software discs, all have similar error message results when I try to access the shared disc from my MacBook Air. How can I make drive sharing work from my Windows PC to my MacBook Air so that I can install this software? Additional information: MacBook Air is running OS X Lion Practically no HDD-space used on the MacBook Air The PC with the CD/DVD drive is running Windows 7
How do I make sure ssh sources .profile and .bashrc on login without tty? I have a Mac (10.6.8) that I'm using for various UNIX-y tasks like hosting git repositories. I have remote login enabled via the System Preferences "Sharing" pane. When I ssh into the machine, bash sources ~/.profile, which I have set up to source my ~/.bashrc file and set up my MacPorts path. The problem is that when I run ssh without a tty, like this: Or run a git command that essentially uses ssh in the same way:
I have a PoGo digital voice recorder. I'm trying to play the mp3s in iTunes. The device is not showing up in iTunes or in the Finder. Assuming that the cables are good, what else should I look for?
Certificates issued by DigiNotar have been blacklisted today by Mozilla. Viewing websites with certificates issued by DigiNotar with a nightly build of Firefox will render warnings. Instead of waiting for an update, for the certificates to be revoked on my own system, I removed the root certificates from my Keychain but Chrome still validates the website certificates and Safari isn't throwing any warnings. Am i missing something? Certificates removed: DigiNotar Root CA Staat der Nederlanden Root CA Staat der Nederlanden Root CA - G2 Website tested: *=URL=* Here's an alternate test site that shows the problem in Chrome 13.0.782.218: http://auth.pass.nl
I'm not inviting people to hate on AppleScript in general; I'm just wondering if what makes AppleScript useful can instead be used by other general-purpose scripting languages. I.e., Lion & Mac Apps probably give AppleScript hooks & APIs—could any language use those? Or is AppleScript in its own special category?
I'm looking for a widget that can Show the lyrics of the current playing song Get the lyrics online if there is none on the music, and save it Nice designed I used to use the Harmonic widget, but it seems it was abandoned
How can I sync iCal and Address Book with Windows Mobile 6.5 in OS X Lion? I would prefer a simple solution. I very much don't want this information on the Internet and am willing to wait for my Windows Mobile to be in the same location as my mac for syncs to happen. I have tried The Missing Sync but it does not support Lion.
I used brew to install MacVim and it put it in /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-61/MacVim.app I would like to be able to go to spotlight and type MacVim to launch the app. I tried creating a symlink in the Applications directory to /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-61/MacVim.app. But that doesn't seem to show up in Spotlight. I set the executable bits on the symlink. open MacVim.app from the command line works. How can I get MacVim to show up in Spotlight search?
Is there an application that will go through your iTunes library and add the lyrics to the songs? If at all possible, it would be great if it was free.
I have read through this question and the associated apple kb article. I know that I can use an existing external hard drive and time machine can backup to it without affecting the other files.
I have just purchased a brand new Mac Mini which came with Mac OS X Lion. I then (maybe not so cleverly) tried to restore a previous hard drive image to the hard drive. Unsurprisingly enough, the computer wouldn't start. So I decided that I would go with a fresh install of Lion. However, when I booted from the Recovery Partition, it told me it would take 5 hours+ to download "Additional Components" needed to install Lion.
How can I store my home directory to a NAS device? I go to System Preferences ->Accounts ->CTRL Click "My Account" -> Advanced Options... What do I enter in the Home Directory field to accomplish this? Is this possible? I can store my home directory on a USB or Firewire drive. Thanks in advance for the assistance.
In iTunes > Library > iTunes U, the items are sorted by Released Date. How can I sort the items, say, by Name?
(fn) Function Key keeps bringing up Mission Control. How do I disable it? I have looked all around and have found no answers? any ideas?
I just installed the Tor Browser Bundle (1.0.24). Vidalia launches with no problems. Tor connections are created. However, Firefox doesn't start. When I manually click on the Firefox app in the Vidalia bundle, I get the following error:
Is it possible to run Snow Leopard (Server) inside VirtualBox on a Mac running Lion, as a means of continuing to run legacy PowerPC apps (Eudora, Quicken, et.al.) under Rosetta, even on new Macs (Lion only)? The EULA seems to allow running the OS in a VM on Apple Mac hardware. ADDED:
Up until Lion, I could double-click inside a particular date (in Month view) and it would automatically create a new event whose time that day defaulted to one hour. I could then change the starting time, and the ending time would automatically adjust to be one hour later. This was often good enough, and made adding an event very straightforward.
My son entered too many incorrect passcodes on my iPod Touch and apparently forced it to wipe my iPod clean. Sadly, this has happened before. I connected to iTunes and restored from my latest backup and then sync'd. When I went to unlock my iPod, instead of being presented with the usual numeric keypad, I was given the full qwerty keyboard. This was alarming, but I switched to number mode and entered my numeric passcode. I was told "Wrong Passcode, try again".
I am a support technician for a school district. I've found it helpful to have links in my email signature to our helpdesk form, staff directory, HowTo documents, etc. Using meaning titles as opposed to raw URLs... For the sake of cosistancey, I'd like to be able to have the same/similar signature on my iPad as I do in outlook.
i'm trying to deploy an ipad application ota, however i am getting the error: unable to download application "appname" could not be downloaded at this time.
I can't think of any reason why Command ⌘ + Enter ↩ would not send a mail draft, instead of the current shortcut, which is Command ⌘ + Shift ⇧ + D Is there a way to change this?
I am a web developer. I would like to view my web design on IE(6 - latest). Is there a quick way to view it? Thanks in advance EDIT:
How can I create passwordless keychain on OS X? Specifically, I'm wondering if it's possible to sign application without keychain storing p12 and developer certificates Using 10.7.1 OS X
A friend of mine has a crappy broadband connection, and he needs to install the latest XCode 4.1 which is only available on the Mac App Store. For my part, I have a good connection, but already have XCode 4.2 DP installed on my system. Is there a way I can download XCode 4.1 from the App Store without installing it (I don't want my 4.2 overwritten), and then hand it to my friend?
I'm using WireTap to record some documentary while I need to frequently make cue mark command (Command-Shift-T). And the way I do is first use Command-Tab to switch to Wire Tap and hit Command-Shift-T, and then switch back to the player which is very annoying. Is there a way to make the command system wide?
I am using a Mac for the first time and need to install Eclipse. How do I know if I am on a 32 bit or 64 bit computer? I am on a MacBook Pro.
I am using MacBook (2008 model with 4GB max RAM). I am planning to buy Mac mini (Core i7 Quad Core with Lion Server). My aim to have a logical system with 12 GB (8GB with Mac mini + 4 GB in laptop) for running virtual machines on both Mac mini and MacBook and be able talk to each other. I have the following questions:
In iPhoto 09, how do you close the editor without closing the Event you're working in? For example, you can enlarge a photo with space, then go back to the event with space again (single-clicking the image also goes back). However, if I'm editing the image, clicking "Done", double-clicking the image, and pressing Escape or Return all take me back to "All Events". How do you close the editor only, so you can go back to the thumbnail view of the event, or at least to the enlarged photo view?
The DigiNotar root CA has been compromised and has been blacklisted by Mozilla and Chrome. I've already un-trusted their root CA in Keychain on my OS X devices, but how can I do something similar on my iPhone and iPad? Edit: I'd like to do this without having to jailbreak any device.
I've been having this problem for the past several years where I like to stay up-to-date and install the latest versions of software like Ruby, Rails, and Git. However, I somehow always seem to have difficulty using the latest versions. For example, I go to the terminal and type Which tells me that I'm running git 1.7.3.4
I have a series of executables which I would like to wrap into a stand-alone .app. A bit like ffmpegx does for the executables contained under its /Resources folder. I've noticed that Automator allows you to create a stand-alone application, but it's not clear to me how to: include my executables within the .app package specify a relative path when adding a "run shell script" action, so I can execute my executables when the user double clicks the .app
Can I use an extenal windows formatted USB3 harddisk on my mac connected via thunderbolt on the future Sonnet Echo-Expresscard/34-Thunderbolt-Adapter? It's clear I can use UBS3 HDs for Mac, but how is it when virtually running windows?
A while ago, I remember having customized the Boot Camp drive icon with a pretty simple hack. It was on Mac OS X Tiger. And it was that hack.
All, I have Gmail and I'm currently using the Sparrow application, but I wanted to see if Mail.app was able to handle what I need.
I've created a Screen Recording in QT Player and I'm trying to use the Share function to upload it to YouTube. QT goes through the whole process of uploading (takes ~10m), then the progress window says "Waiting for YouTube to process video..."
I need for the machines in my LAN to have static (by which I mean constant) private IP addresses. Is it possible to configure the Time Capsule to assign IP address based on MAC address, so the hosts can simply use DHCP and get the same address each time?
After using MAMP for ages, I found out I could actually use Snow Leopard's built-in Apache server. Now that I've upgraded to Lion, I have no idea how to do this anymore.
I'm trying to find an RSS-app for iPad, that supports https-protocol. Tried The Feed and News Reader for iPad, but they don't want to accept links with https proto-supplied(rss generated from Pivotal Tracker, and includes latest tasks for project). Any suggestions guys?
I just system restored after a kernel panic, and I am no longer seeing this feature. It used to be that when you scrolled (say, down this page in Firefox), there was some physics in the scroll, rather than a hard stop and start. Since system restoring, this is gone. How do I bring it back? I am using Snow Leopard.
I am wondering if it's possible to do "mass giveaways" on the AppStore, without lowering, changing or otherwise changing the listed application. Is it possible to distribute hundreds to, potentially, thousands of promo codes, legally, while still leaving the "normal" distribution channel of purchasing the app open?
The most recent version if possible. Maybe you have it ? The developer's site has disappeared, here's the MacUpdate page.
I would like to set up a shared calendar system for our office of 4 people. Optimally, I would like all (or as many of) the features from Exchange but built in such a way that it all ties together with our Snow Leopard/Lion machines.
I don't know if there are any settings to toggle, but I figured out that if I keep pressing a button on my keyboard it doesn't repeat it and displays only one character! Can this be fixed to go back to the previous repeating behavior?
On a couple occasions since I installed Lion, the keyboard shortcuts ⌘+→ and ⌘+← have stopped working to navigate to the beginning/end of a line inside text fields and such. Any ideas what's going on? Notes: My computer doesn't beep when I hit these shortcuts. Keyboard Viewer shows that when I hold down ⌘, pressing left/right doesn't do anything. When I hold down both ⌘ and ⇧, the arrow keys work fine. The left and right arrow keys still work by themselves. ⌘+↑ and ⌘+↓, and ⌥+arrows still work. ⌃+A and ⌃+E still work. I don't have any particularly weird custom keyboard shortcuts set up. If it matters, I use 4-finger swipes and ⌃+arrows for switching desktops, two- and three-finger swipes for navigation, and three-finger swipes for Mission Control & App Exposé.
I am encountering an irritating feature of Lion. Say I spend 30 minutes in XCode, then I go to iChat to talk to my girlfriend for 5 minutes, then I switch to Safari to check StackExchange, gmail, and whatever else I might want to check.
I need to set up a couple of ssh-tunnels from a shell script. I've tried running them as bg tasks using: but the tunnels don't seem to work correctly when I launch them that way. They work fine when I manually set them up in their own tabs, so my next idea is to have the script open new tabs in Terminal and run the commands in there as foreground processes.
Before I installed Lion opening a terminal window placed the cursor at the end of the prompt like so: Now when I open a terminal window I get the cursor somewhere in the middle of the prompt like so: How can I correct this?
I dont want to put passcode on phone, it is quite annoying, i just want to protect email. Is there any way to do so?
I had an Arch Linux Live DVD in the optical drive, too, and I can't make it eject or boot into Arch Linux. The optical drive whines when the macbook is powered on, but it doesn't keep spinning. This optical drive is old-ish (original to the 2007 macbook) and refused to burn CDs starting a month ago, so I've been expecting it to go any day.
When I sync my iPod touch with iTunes, it stays on for about 10 minutes each time (even if I have synced it an hour ago and have no new photos to actually sync) It then goes to Again, even if I have no new photos since last sync. Would any know why this takes so long and it there a way to make it faster?
Does Mail log errors into a console or text file somewhere?
Or can I use a third party one that is half the price? If there will be compatibility issues then I would prefer the Apple, but if it's just the same (like not needing to buy a SuperDrive any USB DVD reader/writer will do) can a third party one be used?
I'm on an intel 64bit 10.6 osx - and the default calculator application also functions in the same mode. I'd like a 32 bit scientific calculator(with provisions for decimal,bit,hex calculations). Any app suggestions?
I'm currently on 10.6 and I really like it so I'm not really thinking about an upgrade right now. Two things I really like about 10.7 are the full screen apps and the Mail client.
I've recently become infatuated with TotalTerminal and am tempted to switch from iTerm back to Terminal just so I can use it, except that I rely heavily on a half dozen SSH bookmarks in iTerm. Is there a way, or extension, to save SSH bookmarks in OSX's Terminal? (or a way to use iTerm like TotalTerminal's quick visor
Even when I am not doing anything on my Mac, I see a lot of Disk IO: "Data Written per Sec" in Activity Monitor showns continuous writes:  Is this normal? Why would some process continuously write? I understand there can be some housekeeping activities going on, the "Sleep image" being updated, but does this happen this frequently? (I have not set up Time Machine) Edit: I have quite some free memory:
I recently got the new iPhone 4 but it doesn't have my contacts and old text messages etc. I previously had the iPhone 3gs. When I upgraded my iphone 3gs to iphone 4 they gave me a new sim card but it was basically a replica of my old sim card (eg.same number).
I read that Parallels 6+ can use Bootcamp installations of Windows, and I'd like to go this route. But I've read reports that Windows will detect a major hardware change significant enough to ask for a new product key.
Lately, I've noticed that my iPad's touch screen feels sticky to touch which makes it difficult to swipe in a smooth motion (particular when several swipes in quick succession have to be done in quick succession). As I don't use a screen protector, I initially suspected that this could be due to the build up of oils on the screen but wiping the screen with a microfiber cloth (even with a damp one) does little to help the problem.
If I do the above will the drive need a caddy or will it just slot straight in ?
I've found that the iPad, using its Safari browser can't access web pages that include a port number in the URL: *=URL=* or even *=URL=* In either case, the browser displays a message stating "Cannot Open Page, Safari cannot open the page because the network connection was lost."
I install Xcode4 first in the default path /Developer then I install Xcode3 in /XCode3 It seems that the installation was not completed because I can't see Xcode.app in /XCode3/Application. What should I do?
I'm guessing it might have to do with either a misconfigured server, or the fact that the username I connect with is the same for both servers. If you could confirm that the problem is either of these it would be helpful, thank you.
Recently I switched from Thunderbird and so far really love native Mail.app which is quite lightweight to my surprise! However the transition seems a bit hard as the size of the font while editing messages is too small for me... Can I have two different font sizes - one for editing and other for actual font size with which messages are sent? EDIT: My os is 10.6.8, but if you know the solution for 10.7.x, please share it as well :)
I have an Application created with Automator. Since the application starts a service in the background, I'd like to keep the application open even after the end of the workflow is reached. When the user quits the application, I'd like to execute a command to stop the service. How can I achieve the above?
I read an article that said the JailBreakMe hacker reads through Apple's source code to try to find flaws. I am curious and wondering: how do we get the source code for iOS?
Is it possible to get the proxy address that my system is currently using in order to populate HTTP_PROXY variable from command line ? I would like a command so that I could set it in my .bashrc file. complete solution for me was to update my .bashrc file with this
There are a lot of applications that I have no use for that take up space on my Mac that I want to delete. When ever I try to delete them it says that it is an essential part of the OS but with Chess.app, I find that reason specious at best.
I just came across a strange quirck: I use my MacBook Pro in the office. Every computer is assigned their IP addresses by a DHCP server. It seems to be the case now, however, that my OS X changed my hostname by itself. I am assuming this is done because of the fact that my current IP address was previously used by the user with this hostname, but obviously, I don't want OS X to change my hostname without asking me to do so. How can I prevent this from happening?
Just got a defect report that application is crashing in iPhone3GS using iOS 4.2.1. No problems with iPhone3GS using iOS 4.3.5 or iPhone4 using iOS 4.1.
My System Preferences are crashing when I try to open time setting on my mac. I have try to repair the permissions by following the help given on this thread (*=URL=* but its not fixing any problem.
Under 10.7.0 Server I was able to activate the root user and I was able to login to my Mac Mini Server i7 as root. Now after I did the update to 10.7.1 Server, this capability has disappeared . I'm able to du a "su root" with the coresponding password, but I'm nomore able to login through the login window.
I am currently developing an iOS application. I'm considering not supporting anything less than iOS 3.1. I was wondering, can I expect a huge backlash from customers that buy this application and try to use it on devices that haven't been updated in years?
Many of the unix executable binary programs are delivered with more than one architecture: Is there a way I can select or force a specific architecture to run (mainly for testing to explore the effects that some larger programs or longer running processes have when executing the same workload over different codebases / memory capabilities?)
I'm looking for an app in which I can write down a quick message for myself on the Mac that can later pop up on my iPhone and remind me via a push notification. I'm not looking for a full-featured task manager. I know I could do this with iCal, but it's overkill for what I'm looking for. iCal is closer in nature to full featured task management apps than I'd like. I know about two options that fit quite precisely what I'm after:
For OS X Lion 10.7, is there a way that I can use three-finger drag and still be able to use gestures to swipe "back" in Firefox or Chrome? I've found out how to do one or the other, but not both.
I tried to delete a folder which I access via terminal.app. Though the Finder moved the folder to the Trash, I was still able to see the contents and edit the file from terminal. created a textfile
Some time ago Sourceforge forced everybody to change the Passwords. A real pain since I use a lot of automated scripts.
I love using my Airport Express to wirelessly play my music. I have a projector at home, and I would like to wirelessly play my movies, which were not downloaded with iTunes.
This morning, I found out that the Command+A shortcut key for selecting all failed to work. I have gone into the keyboard shortcuts preference and did not find anything useful. Is there any suggestion on what to do to fix or at least troubleshoot my problem? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
I develop on Mac (Lion) with Eclipse and GlassFish 3.1. GlassFish uses ports 8080 and 4848. Suddenly, when I try to launch GlassFish it tells me it can't because there's a port conflict.
I recently upgraded to Lion. Now when I try to export an iPhoto slideshow as a QuickTime movie it goes through the initial rendering process but an error message appears with the iPhoto logo saying that I don't have permission for this task.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop and I am planning on purchasing a mac mini, new version , I am tight on money for a while and want to use my current laptop screen as monitor for mac mini, I just want to know if it is at all possible to do, I have windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04 installed in my laptop, and I don't really care if need to wipe them out, or purchasing a monitos is the only option left, also I am planning to use it for coding and stuff, so VNC is probably not a good choice.
Can you pair both a Mac and an iPad 2 with the same Apple wireless keyboard, but not at the same time? Or do you have to un-pair one, and then pair it with the other?
To have group permissions set to read/write by default in Snow Leopard and Leopard, I used /etc/launchd-user.conf to set the umask to 002. This still works in Lion in every app except the Finder. Actually, Lion's Finder does apply the umask when setting permissions, but if the group (or everyone) bit is set to zero, the Finder will treat it like it's a 2, which makes new folders' group permissions read only. Out of curiosity, I did try using the old technique I used in OS X 10.4, using the defaults command to set the umask and NSUmask, but that doesn't work (which was expected). I'm hoping to find a solution without having to use ACLs. Does anyone know of another way to get the Finder in Lion to set group permissions to read/write by default?
Occasionally it's nice to hard code a wired connection network port to not auto negotiate and force things to be 100 half duplex even though a higher speed is configured and negotiable on the switch. Can I similarly force airport software and thus the hardware to only run one flavor of 802.11? Can I use the airport command to prefer a higher / lower channel rather than join by signal strength? Might alternative drivers be available or some developer testing tool to exert this level of control over the WiFi chipsets in Macs. I want to force this on the mac end for cases where I can't control the base stations or want to test a specific channel of a simultaneous dual band router that is live with other traffic.
This is driving me insane. I always design in Photoshop with my monitor profile as the active profile. My PSD's are never color managed. This is the way I've designed since I can remember and I have always had great results. Until now. I'm designing an iPad interface and while my blues are blue in Photoshop and soft blue/greys are soft blue/grey - saving as a PNG (not converting to sRGB), emailing them to my ipad and previewing them in the Photo app makes my blues dull and my soft blue/greys more like a brown grey. Any help would be appreciated.
Process "mtmfs" is using 98% of cpu, heating up the core and runing the fans flat out. I have quite the process through activity monitor, but does anyone know a longer term solution? I am running a MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB RAM and OS 10.7.1
With Snow Leopard one chose the number of Spaces before hand (in preferences); in Lion one must create spaces one by one. Are there shortcuts to create & remove Spaces/Desktops?
I've done a brilliant stupidity... I have a Jailbroken iPhone and have iFile on that. I wanted to edit a Winterboard theme that I had downloaded, so I fired up iFile's inbuilt Web Server and downloaded the .theme file to my Mac.
I am using a MacBook Pro 13" (pre-Thunderbolt) and was wondering if there is such thing as an external GPU? Possibly over FireWire or so, something that I could plug a monitor (or two) into but ideally does some of the work that would normally all be lumped onto the laptop CPU/GPU.
This is the output in Disk Utility: Disk Utility cannot modify this disk because it contains CoreStorage physical volumes. Use command line distil instead. The selected partition won't be changed. How do I remove the partition? It's completely empty now and I've cleared it by formatting it but I want to completely remove the partition and merge the free space back into the bigger partition. I've tried doing this but it doesn't work in Terminal: It didn't work:
I frequently get asked by various poeple to fix or help them with their computers (Windows XP, Windows 7, OSX Leopard, OSX Snow Leopard, OSX Lion). What is currently the best secure, free (or cheap) and most imporantly simple way to remotely access the desktop of another Mac or PC over the internet from my Mac (OSX Lion).
I basically installed Homebrew as described at *=URL=* However, my user account ist not an Administrator account, therefore I substituted my user identity with the one of user admin (su - admin), who is an Administrator. Then, as user admin, I installed Homebrew by executing /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL *=URL=* Moreover, I installed giter8 by running brew update && brew install giter8.
If I buy a new mac that comes with a free upgrade to Lion, can I use the upgrade on a different machine instead of the new machine, or is it tied to the new machine? The upgrade site requires the serial number of the new machine. I prefer to have Lion on the old machine and Snow Leopard on the new one, then maybe I will buy Lion for the new machine if I decide I like it.
Android phones can be USB tethered via RNDIS protocol on Windows and Linux. As far as I understood Apple does not provide RNDIS driver for OSX. Are there RNDIS drivers for OSX by third party (Android vendor) or community? I don't want to use any any app for tethering, I want the real thing, as other operating systems can do it, so please no suggestions for alternative methods.
I've noticed since upgrading to Lion that if I press Command-Control-Left/Right (and sometimes Down as well; see below), my computer beeps at me (plays alert sound). It doesn't occur in all applications: In Console, I can press any of the above key combinations, and there's no beep. In Mail, it beeps if I press Command-Control-Left/Right, but not Up/Down. In most every other application, every combination except Command-Control-Up causes a beep.
I have an Applescript which - simplified - looks like this: One of the users of this script runs Lion. Whenever he tries to copy/paste a string to the input dialog, that won't work if the origin of the copy has got some formatting (e.g. the string is copied from a web page). Everything works fine under Snow Leopard. Any hint on why this happens?
on iPhone, when you have an HTML5 video tag on a web site and you click play it will open the iPhone's native video player and play the video there (unlike on the iPad where it will play the video in the on-site HTML5 video player). Is there a way of suppressing the native player and play the video in the browser in the on-site HTML5 video player on iPhone? Thanks
I am on machine LOC. I would like to connect to a directory on the second hard drive of machine REM. Both machines are running Lion 10.7.1. I use Finder on LOC and Command-K to connect to a server. I type in afp://192.168.1.3 (IP Address of REM) and authenticate as a user on REM with Admin priveleges. I am presented with an option to connect to any of several different folders, all of which reside on REM's primary (boot) hard drive. I would like to connect to a folder which resides on a second internal drive in REM, but I am not given this option. The folder on the second hard drive is owned by the Admin user I am connect to REM as, and has 755 permissions. I have created a symlink on REM under the home directory of the user I authenticate as. When I am logged in to REM locally as that same user, clicking on the symlink takes me to the folder on the secondary drive. How can I access this folder via AFP from another computer?
What notable software is there that was originally written for Macintosh and then later ported to Windows? What makes this software notable? Let's stick to actual software packages that stand on their own and not ideas or implementations like a window system or menu idiom.
I'm looking for the CLI equivalent of "Check disk" and "repair disk" in Disk Utility. I think fsck is involved but I don't know with which options, and if it's the only program run.
My problem: "watch me do" in automator only recognizes for cocoa buttons and doesn't work for apps like games with interfaces drawn my rendering engines. Desired solution: an Automator action(s) that simulate mouse movements and clicks to coordinates on screen. "Automator Virtual Input" is a great app but doesn't is far outdated (doesn't work in lion) And considering the amount of scripts i need to create, applescript isn't a time effective solution
(1) So I understand that iOS 4 support CalDAV in for syncing the Calendar app on the iPhone. However, during my initial tests with a test CalDAV URL, I can see the events my iPhone pulled off the server, but I don't see a way of adding/editing events on my iPhone and pushing them onto the server. Am I doing something wrong? Or is the iOS limited to subscribing to CalDAV, but not real two-way syncing? If anyone can give specific instructions on how to setup two-way CalDAV syncing that would be great, too... (2) Is two-way syncing via CardDAV supported? If so, how? Thanks.
The server "otseeley-remote" is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally.
I've been testing my new site on my PC's IE 7 (actually IE 8 in 'IE 7 mode'), and yesterday I installed WineBottler's 'IE 7'. Testing across both, WInebottler's IE 7 looks significantly older, and significantly worse. Do you know why this is and how I might be able to fix it? Related question, if I decide Winebottler isn't working and I'd like to go with Parallels or VirtualBox, do I need to shell out the $200+ for Windows as well?
A friend has a Canon still camera (the PowerShot G9) that has a movie mode. My research shows that the camera produces 30 fps VGA-sized AVI files (probably uncompressed). She wants to send the footage via iDisk or Dropbox to someone else to be edited (in iMovie or some flavor of Final Cut), but is being frustrated by the large AVI file sizes (more than a MB/sec). I know that she'll want to convert the raw movies in Handbrake before sending, and I've seen with my own movies that converting AVI to some version of MPEG4 can result in significant size reduction. Two parts to this question: What is the optimal Handbrake setting (preset preferred; this is a non-technical user) to convert AVI to an editable format? What is the optimal Handbrake setting (preset preferred; this is a non-technical user) to convert AVI to an editable format?
There are certain file types that Safari automatically opens natively. Various kinds of video files, for example. Is there a way to configure Safari to not open these files and instead default to just downloading them? I'm using Safari 5.1 on OS X 10.7.1
I got this big error while running Logic. I'm not sure what it means - can someone help me?
I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) using this link *=URL=* The problem is that when I followed the steps, it isn't working
I'm using pfSense 2.0rc3, and I've set it up as a DNS forwarder and enabled "Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder" and what I understand are all the appropriate settings to get DNS server for local lookups. It works as expected with Linux and in particular I can run host abc and ping abc (and other applications) and they all work as expected.
The purpose of this question is to create a reference for the various default storage locations where Automator stores the files it creates and saves. I've found a few from searching, but have yet to see a quick reference listing the possible storage locations for all the Automator workflow types. On OS X 10.6.8 with Automator 2.1.1 they are: Workflow Application Service Folder Action Print Plugin iCal Alarm Image Capture Plugin
How do you increase the font size in the Mac App Store? I have just gotten a new Apple Cinema Display and I'm getting used to the higher resolution. I like it and don't wish to lower it. I have just been increasing the font size etc. wherever I can. The only place where I've found it to be a real issue is in the Mac App Store.
Should my brand new Macbook Air 13'' have come with a CD/DVD in that black booklet included in the package?
I just bought a brand new MacBook pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. It is running 10.7 Lion.
I bought an early-2011 MacBook Pro 15" (highest-spec model) in June. It's running Lion.
Is there a way someone else can share a purchased iOS app with me when I only have my iOS device with me but no Mac but the other person has both his Mac and his iOS device around? Is there also a way when we both only have our iOS device around?
I understand I can share apps with up to five other iOS devices of other people (with different apple IDs). But is this on a per-app base? I.e. can I only register five devices I want to share with once or can I share one app with 5 people and another app with 5 other people?
I have a small screen and MANY email mailboxes. I'd like to make the side panel font size smaller, but I can't find an option for it. Is there one? (I can change the font size in messages and in the message list--that's not what I'm talking about.)
I have an NTFS drive in my mac and use paragon to read and write from it. All good. I now want to share it with my windows 7 pc. I did this by using the "File Sharing" feature in System Preferences.
Today I did a mistake I normally never do - I blindly installed a software on my mac without knowing what I was doing. I was looking for a dark color scheme and ran into this video *=URL=* Went ahead and installed the software from here http://wavespell.deviantart.com/art/Snow-Leopard-Dark-Dock-wK-155508613
When composing messages in Mail.app, as I now have an HD screen on my MBP, the default Helvetica 12pt appears quite small. I would like to be able to enlarge the text size, but only locally, without changing the font in the message, as I don't want the recipients to have jumbo-size text on their screen. Is there a way to perform this kind of "zoom" without using the "Universal access" zoom features which are a little bit too much.
I'm writing an OpenGL application in C++ using Xcode 4 on Lion. To load textures, and keep the application platform independent, I plan on using DevIL.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to get rid of the quarantine "Do you want to open this?" warning because I don't like it. The well documented way (defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO) does NOT work.
What steps do I need to run a command line program via a global shortcut? I setup Automator to create a new Run Shell Script and tried to assign a shortcut in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts, but nothing happened.
What's a good software solution to slow down internet connections on the mac for testing and simulations? My primary need is when testing code in the iPhone / iOS simulator, so slowing down the connection for specific applications or processes would be great.
I use ⌘ + D whenever I go the the Desktop folder. Is it possible to add a shortcut for the Downloads folder?
I'm using the MagSafe power adapter from my old multibody Macbook Pro:  On my new unibody Macbook Pro:
I have a new 15" MacBook Pro with the highest specifications, running Lion version 10.7.2. However, when I watch movies they sometimes lag on my computer: frozen screen (for 3-4 s) with lots of broken cubes and with the audio track still playing). What could be possibly wrong with my computer?
Is there a way of stopping TexMaker from opening .tex files? I'm using OSX (10.6.8) and have TexShop 2.43 and Texmaker 3.0.2 installed . Even though I have right-clicked on a .tex file and specified Open with: TexShop, and clicked on Change All; TexMaker appears to still have some way of overriding this preference.
I'm getting the following response when I try and run dscacheutil -flushcache ?Invalid command
I'm trying to free up space on an external drive, and after deleting a bunch of stuff, it's still showing very little actual free space. I went to the trash can, but can't seem to delete the files there other than by emptying the entire trash.
I just got my new iPod 4. I wanted to use it as a storage device copying to it music and eBooks, but it doesn't show up on my computer. I followed the direction in this page, but unfortunately, the option "Enable disk use" doesn't show up (iTunes 10), I've checked "Manually manage music and videos" instead, but it doesn't do the trick, and the device doesn't appear in Windows Explorer.
I'm wondering how I could record the screen of my iPhone without jailbreaking? Are there any Apps that will do this? I know how to take a screen shot but I don't know how to record video.
I keep an external drive on my desk at work that I used as an off-site (ie not at home) backup. Because it could easily get taken I have a partition on it encrypted with TrueCrypt. I've got a script to mount this encrypted partition then do a backup via rsync then un-mount. It looks like:
I have a USB drive with some archive data on it that I'd like to access from a Mac running Snow Leopard. However, I want to ensure that the data on the drive is preserved and no modifications are made to the drive. The drive is FAT32 formatted and does not have a write-protect switch on it. How can I make the drive read-only or otherwise write-protect it by the OS so that I can ensure nothing is modified on the drive?
This laptop no longer has OS X on it at all. How do I get the required drivers? I cannot find them anywhere on Apple's support pages. Every other manufacturer has their drivers available for download. How do I download the Windows drivers for my 2010 MacBook Air without the BootCamp Assistant?
I recently installed the Java runtime (through Software Update) and enabled the Java browser plug-in and WebStart on Lion, but I don't need them anymore. Unchecking "Enable Java" in Safari preferences gets the job done, but I'd rather get rid of Java completely. So the question is, how do I do this? I want to go back to a clean Lion install, Java-wise.
Can anyone recommend an offline mapping application for Mac (something similar to Google Maps, but that works when not connected to the internet)? Ten years ago, Microsoft Streets and Trips worked well for Windows, but I'm looking for something similar now for Mac.
When I start reading a PDF or TXT on my Mac and continue reading it on my iPhone, I have to waste time looking for exact place where I stopped reading on my Mac before continuing to read on my iPhone. Is there a web-based app or a Mac/iOS app that would remember where I left off, the way Whispersync does in the Kindle app?
I have a 2 years old 13" macbook pro, and I admit I can't use my 6 months old PC when I just surf and code, since it's quite noisy and hot in the summer. I still have a nice 20" flat monitor, and it'd be nice to use it, but Apple sells their adaptor 30 euros, isn't that a little bit expensive ? I'm reading this connector is not patented or licensed, do you think I can find cheaper ones ?
I'm new to iPhoto. Before importing any photos I unchecked the option "Copy items to the iPhoto library".
Do anyone know how to enable it? Or how to have the Preference Pane for the NTFS-3G from MacPorts?
I am new to Mac and I am looking for a Windows emulator for Mac OS X. I want to use an application which is not available for Mac. Please recommend the strengths and weaknesses (including cost) of the various options available.
I have a Macbook Air set up for dual-boot (Lion & Windows 7) and am planning on buying a newer model. How would I go about cloning the entire hard drive to the new machine?
I'm trying to treat my iPhone as an alarm clock. But, it's not working. I'm not a light sleeper and the iPhone "alarm clock" does not have that kind of explosive power my traditional alarm clock has. Is there a way to make the alarm clock much much louder?
I use QuickLook a lot to quickly open PDF files. I like the speed and clutter-free presentation more than using Preview.
I recently enabled FileVault on OSX Lion. All seems to have gone well - it asks for my password before booting as expected, however it asks for it twice. Basically, it asks for my password, boots for a 30 seconds, restarts, asks for my password again - and then everything boots OK.
For whatever perverse reasons I wish to rename the Downloads folder to Temp. I would also be happy with a way of making it appear to me, in both the GUI and the CLI, as Temp. I am aware I can do this via Terminal with root privileges, but the fact that I need root privileges to do so suggests to me that something might break. Will something indeed break if I rename the folder, and if not, is there a gentler way of renaming it thansudo mv Downloads Temp? I will also be happy (though less so) with confirmation that making Downloads into a symbolic link to a different folder won't break anything.
In the new Terms and Conditions for the iTunes store, it says that the following has changed: Notification of an additional type of previously purchased content that may be subsequently downloaded to certain computers and devices as an accommodation to you, subject to existing association rules; and that such content may be played back on certain devices that are not subject to existing association rules, with limitations. What does this mean?
every time I start my terminal, it always says "-bash: .: command not found" twice. Does anyone know how I can get rid of that?
I need to configure a bunch of iPads with the same settings. For instance, volume level, auto-lock, side-button, timezone and light level.
I was trying to turn off my Macbook Pro and suddenly got this message. As far as I know, there's no reason why this should be happening. Anyone want to fill me in on some possibilities?
Activity monitor can report on a single processes's disk and cpu usage at a single point in time. The "Sample Process" feature is good for debugging, but doesn't provide easily digestible information. Apps like iStat are just pretty layers on top of activity monitor. Is there an app for OSX which will sample a Processes's resource use over time and then provide a report with nice graphs? Something like DaisyDisk but for cpu and disk usage for a single process over time?
I have a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro, and all was well before the weekend. Now when I try to fit in the MagSafe charger to the macbook, I am unable to fit it in correctly (but as you can see, it is charging): When I tried to see what was in the macbook side of the adapter, I see some small balls:
Something that bothers me as Windows User on OSX that I can't minimize an App Window by clicking the Dock Icon of the application. Is there a hidden setting for enabling this behavior or an utility that someone could recommend?
Is it possible on Safari for iPhone to increase the length of the browsing history? It seems to only keep one week of browsing history, which makes it hard to go back to stuff more than a week later.
When I leave the house carrying my iPhone, our Wi-Fi network stops being available, and the people left in the house have to restart one of the access points to get back online. We're using two Airports Express, connected to each other using WDS. The Wi-Fi network is using WEP encryption. My iPhone is an iPhone 4. The Wi-Fi network has three Macs and one PC connected to it.
I currently have Gmail contacts synched to my iPhone but I noticed that , I can't find my contacts created in Google contacts in the address book. Do you know of any hacks or apps that would allow me to browse groups created in Google contacts in the address book?
Something is wrong with the rendering of this PDF in Preview (or Quick Look). This is how it looks:
I found an unopened .mac box. It's still in its plastic wrap, so the subscription code has not been used. Is this of any value or should it simply be thrown away?
Will my iPhone charge slower if I connect it to my laptop than if I connect it directly to the plug ?
While most people seem to want the Windows mouse movement on their Mac, I'd like it the other way around! Basically just remove the mouse acceleration on Windows. Ideas, anyone?
I've got an iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3.5) and iTunes (v10.4.1) on a Mac running OS X (10.6.8). When connected to iTunes, I've got the Music -> Sync Music -> Include voice memos option unchecked, but that seems to have no effect. Each time I sync the phone, all the new voice memos are pulled down to iTunes and dropped in my library. So, the question is: How can I prevent iTunes from pulling down the voice memos and just leave them on my iPhone?
I know there is already a post out there for Safari extensions, but Chrome extensions are completely different. So, what extensions do you think are useful? Please read these simple rules before posting: Include only one extension in each anwer. Include a description of the extension, its pros/cons, and why you use it. Link to the developer's website, rather than a direct download page. Cite the application name like such: #appName by [developer] Check to see if there are duplicates in this post by typing in the search box: inquestion:this searchTerm Please do not give a price because that can localize your answer too much.
I know Nikon embeds the shutter count in the EXIF of their NEF raw files. What's the easiest way to find it?
So, I’ve searched for literally hours on this subject. Seen various solutions. But practically all of them are for people who want to see their Ubuntu desktop on their Mac, with both machines on the local network.
I know there is a way in Keynote to print your slides with notes. However, on some of my slides I have notes that are VERY long (as in a couple of pages). I'd like to print these off as handouts, but after the text gets to this point (in length) the slide (when printed) will SHRINK the text to fit. I'd prefer if the overflow text would go onto a new page. So that when it prints I have one page with the slide at the top and then notes beneath and then the rest of the notes print on the additional pages.
As you may have noticed, the time in iPhone/iPad advertisements has always been 9:42 am, and it's recently (?) switched to 9:41. Why the original 9:42, and also, why the switch?
I'm trying to run Emacs in a terminal. I've turned on the "use option as meta" in terminal preferences and so it's about 95% working right.
I saw a couple of questions about executing command line scripts? I saw that the .command and .tool extensions were mentioned. I have always used .sh. What is the difference between these different scripts? Do some extensions allow for different commands?
I set it up in the apartment I used to share with my girlfriend until about a week ago when I moved away for school. After I left, she found herself not only without companionship but also unable to access Netflix or the iTunes store.
I was trying to make a mock-up for a video player on my browser and couldn't find the character for a speaker with three sound waves like you would normally see at the top of the screen for audio. When I went online to find the character value for it, I found this &#x1F50A; which renders 🔊 (what is now the Emoji speaker icon). How can I get the symbols I knew back?
Is it possible to connect my MBP with a Thunderbolt port to an old CRT TV? I think the TV has composite inputs at least, and maybe S-Video too. I'd also like to use other computers with the same TV, including one with a Mini DisplayPort and one with a DVI output (I think). I do video-editing and it's helpful to see my work on a TV.
After the DigiNotar certificate debacle, I tried to remove their certificate from my Keychain. However, I think I deleted the wrong one. I am not sure which one it was, but trying to go to *=URL=* in Chrome shows me a Error 202 (net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID).
I remotely manage many servers every day. I'm currently using Nautilus in Ubuntu and it's awesome. Before buying a Mac, I'd like to know if there's anything similar or equivalent to browse SSH servers visually over SSH for OSX.
I have created a playlist folder which contains 2 regular playlists (i.e. not smart playlists). The hierarchy is like this: In iTunes, if I click on the Occasions folder, I can see all of the songs from Party mix 1, but none of the songs from Party mix 2. I can't see any difference between the 2 playlists, and because it's not a smart playlist there aren't any settings available.
The thing is I hate Spotlight like every software burning my cpu for no reason when I am working and I could put my cpu to better use BUT it is required to search in mail bodies with Mail so I still keep it... What I really want to do is stop Spotlight to index anything but my emails, is there a way to do that ? I already added the biggest folders to the ignore list but it does not seems to be enough since as I am writing this mds is happily using between 10% and 30% of my cpu :/
Will the iPhone 3GS be compatible with iOS 5?
I'm trying to avoid installing lots of software willy-nilly, because like so many Mac users I don't have antivirus software. Case in point, I really like TinkerTool but I'd rather change my system wide settings from the command line than use someone's program for that. So, how can I change the system-wide font smoothing setting from the command line? Thanks.
I'm working with iMovie 11 and try to show a text list with ten rows. The viewer should be able to read all text, so the list is displayed for 20 seconds. As you can think, that will be very boring. Therefore y tried to show the list dynamicly, line per line (the previous lines will be kept, the new one will be added). The viewer can read the text and also knows how fast he should read to get the whole information.
I use SetFile via the terminal to render files and folders invisible inside Finder windows. This does not appear to work on symbolic links: the symlink destination is made invisible, rather than the symlink itself.
I use the emacs that is installed on their Unix operating system (not emacs installed locally on my Mac). I made sure that Terminal is running vt100 emulation, as that is the setting that I was told to run it at.
Every time I reboot from Boot Camp into OS X, the bootloader gets to the login screen, and then after I've entered my username and password, the screen will just go grey. I have to force a restart with the power button, and then when I reboot, it proceeds normally.
After having upgraded to OS X Lion seamlessly, the whole system became unresponsive. Sometimes, I have to wait seconds for keypresses or clicks to have effect, even sound playback or the Dock animation stutters, while strangely the CPU usage remains low. Repairing my disk and its permissions didn't help, upgrading to 10.7.1 neither. Can somebody help? FYI: I have a 2.3 GHz 13'' MBP with 4 GB RAM.
Is there any way to quickly scroll through text-heavy output in Terminal such as man pages ? Using the up and down arrows only move the screen one line at a time; is there any way to scroll faster?
Is it normal that there is "invisible" file (because I made all files visible) ".pdf" in my "Downloads" folder? Everything what I have in my downloads folder is: 170 6 Sep 22:40 . 1088 5 Sep 12:09 .. 24580 6 Sep 22:41 .DS_Store 0 1 Jun 16:06 .localized 145000 11 Jul 15:52 .pdf Thank you in advance.
Is is possible to re-route Cocoa applications through ssh -X? I like being able to route X applications, but I want to route Cocoa applications too. Any ideas?
I have a mid-2009 MBP 15", and I recently upgraded to lion. I also have DisplayLink hardware which worked fine under SnowLeopard.
I have a new Macbook Air with Lion and I'm using Excel in VMWare Fusion and it has a hotkey for Control + Shift + Down Arrow. Every time I try and use this key combination instead of doing what it's supposed to do for Excel it's getting intercepted by Lion. Is there a way to disable this hotkey globally or perhaps just when I'm using Fusion?
Broken image removed I receive this error upon attempting to rename a flash drive. The renaming process works, but I would like to know what this error is, and why it's appearing.
When I press F4, it no longer summons LaunchPad. F3 still invokes Mission Control, and the other function keys, without modifiers, have their respective meanings (volume, play, etc), but I can only invoke LaunchPad with my hot corner or the Dock button. How can I reset this to default behavior?
The USB-Bluetooth is there because my Macpro's internal Bluetooth arrived non-functional from the factory 2 years ago, and I gave up with Apple customer service on getting it repaired. I settled for the USB-Bluetooth plug to handle my bluetooth mouse. I wonder if having this USB-Bluetooth is somehow causing the Safe Mode hang.
Can someone suggest a really good blogging client for Mac OS? I am looking for something having similar functionality like Windows Live Writer (on Windows).
So I'm not at all impressed with the "Continuous" view in Preview, that seems to be the default way PDFs are opened. Is there a way to change the Preview.app preferences in such a way as to set "Single Page" as the default?
I'm always hearing that there is practically no malware threat in Mac OS: clearly claims that there is no Mac malware are exaggerated, but the received wisdom is that they are a negligible threat and anti-virus software isn't generally used unless required by a corporate policy. So that being the case, why does OS X warn me before running an app downloaded from the Internet? What's the perceived risk exactly? Either there's a credible malware threat out there (in which case everyone should be running AV software) or there isn't (in which case the warning is unnecessarily obstructive).
I search for a software to allow multi-tagging. Meaning, i want to add more than one genre to a song/album to be able to easily access specific songs i.e. ("female singer, jazz" or "duet, jazz") which i can not realy do by choosing just one genre.
I have an iPhone application that I would like to use to access a VPN. I've configured the VPN through the Settings app on the iPhone, but my app still can't access the VPN to get data. A similar Mac application I developed worked without issues through this VPN.
My Mac Pro's internal bluetooth is broken. For the past 2 years, I've been getting by just fine with a USB Bluetooth adapter. I had to temporarily remove that adapter recently, and after putting it back I find that Lion has reverted to using the internal (broken!) adapter again.
A file using "module" as extension is a PHP file, in my case (it is a Drupal module); what I want is adding that extension to the ones reported for the "public.php-script" UTI.
I am totally new to "iMovie" so I would like to ask you if it's safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder (as it appeared from nowhere, maybe it was result of opening "iMovie")? Thank you in advance.
Does anyone know of any iPhone app that tracks distance accurately ? I tried a couple and I'm amazed how lousy they are (some are reporting distances over twice as much etc)
I have downloaded a game on my iPad (hopefully free), played for a while. Then, after several days, the app crashed. The current situation is that this app starts, but during initial loading, it crashes. I've deleted the app and then re-downloaded it from the App Store, believing that the corrupted file had been deleted too. But the problem stays the same: crash at startup.
When opening Launchpad I've noticed that every page has different amount of applications laid out. Also, they doesn't seem to be ordered by any criteria (name, usage frequency or size). What are the sorting parameters for applications in Launchpad?
This is related to an earlier question, but the advice there doesn't work for me. My disk space is full. Whenever I open iTunes, it tries to download some purchases that I don't want anymore (old Lost episodes) that I haven't wanted for years. All that I want to do is cancel these downloads. Deleting them in itunes doesn't work. The recommended advice on an earlier question is to finish downloading them, then delete them, but I can't do this for diskspace reasons (there are about seventeen episodes, so it's not practical for me to sit there and slowly deleted enough diskjunk to download an episode at a time, then delete the episode - and even if it were, it seems rude to hog this much bandwidth.) Any other solution?
Lion keeps "losing track" of Spotlight information. Directories and Applications disappear, full text searches stop working, etc. I seem to need to re-index it once a week or so. However, now it appears to not work at all. Running from the Terminal I get a message I have tried trashing preference files, deleting the whole V100 folder, repairing permssions, etc but Spotlight still thinks indexing is turned off on my entire Volume (Yes have added/deleted whole disk from Spotlight's privacy preferences"). In the console I have quite a few errors that look like this However, I do not know how to tell it to re-enable that scope as mdutil gives an error when I try to turn on indexing and gives an error when I try to delete the index
It seems like I cannot execute AppleScripts on my Mac. I am running OS X 10.7.1 and when I try to compile an AppleScript, even a script as simple as display dialog "Hello World!", I get a syntax error. In the preferences for the AppleScript editor there nothing in the Default Language drop down menu on the General preferences page.
My disk is out of space all of a sudden and I found out that a directory in /Users/.harith/harith.sparsebundle is using 178 gigs of space. What is this directory? How/Why is my mac using it. Is it safe if I remove the directory?
I recently had a situation where I wanted to uninstall a Brother TWAIN driver and rollback to an earlier version on my MBP (OS X 10.6.8). I found instructions on the Brother web site and followed them to the letter. However, I was unable to reinstall the older version (freshly downloaded from the Brother web site) - the installer provided a message indicating that a newer driver was currently installed on my system. I ended up manually reinstalling the older driver by going into the DMG and extracting the files. Questions Are there any other locations that I should have looked to remove files from the newer Brother TWAIN install? Are the Brother uninstall instructions complete?
When I first upgraded to Lion, my startup items loaded as normal. Now however, no startup items load (even though they all appear in the startup items preference pane as normal). I thought maybe it had something to do with Lion's behavior of saving the system state on restart, but that's not it. Anyway to debug the startup process and see if it is getting stuck somewhere or aborting somewhere?
Are there any legal issues with iTunes sharing? I responded to this question on Super User, and if you look at the comments, the point was brought up that iTunes sharing may or may not be legal.
I'd like to access Hulu and similar sites from outside the US, so I'm using blackVPN via PPTP. Works great, no major problems. Is there any way to use the (consisting) VPN connection only for a small list of domains like *.hulu.com or *.youtube.com, while not having the other traffic sent through the VPN? Thanks in advance! — Ben
I have a MacBook Pro user who uses Mac Office 2011 and he has been getting iCal invites from another user. When he gets them, he can't seem to respond to them (accept or decline).. the generated response seems to just sit in his outbox and never get sent. Anyone seen this before?
I bought my MBP 2.5 years ago, it came with a 240 GB drive. I don't remember how much free space it hat to start with, but let's just say 200 GB.
I was messing around with some external libraries, and for some reason when I enter any Osascript command, I now get this error (before it did work): Help please?
I nuked the Saved State Folder (which oddly is the only app, Apple or 3rd, with a symlink to within its Container…) and it went away for a bit. But I just got it again. Oddly though it was only for half the open files. (five PDF whitepapers open in one window, sitting in the same folder, three opened, 2 gave Permission Errors)
I follow the instructions in *=URL=* to boot in Safe Mode, but it appears something different happens with Lion. After holding the shift key when hearing the startup tone, the icons for the two accounts I have configured come up as usual. If I hold the shift key after logging in, the screen stays grey and a status bar appears with a "sunburst" waiting animation. (I don't know what the canonical name for that is.) After the status bar fills, the waiting animation continues and then my MBA reboots. How do I boot my MacBook Air (running Mac OS X 10.7.1) in Safe Mode?
Is there an accepted name for the spinning animation that's displayed when one needs to wait for an indefinite amount of time? It looks like this:
I've decided my install of Lion is hopelessly botched. Spotlight doesn't work, kernel panics, etc etc etc. Want to reinstall. If I reinstall Lion from the recovery USB key I have, it will retain all my data correct? ie; not format the drive and reinstall.
I'm on Lion and until ten minutes ago I didn't know that the nifty new tmutil existed. But now I'm a little uncertain with all its options and sub-commands which to use to try and figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
I seem unable to send a "clear" button press from the number pad on my standard apple extended keyboard (aluminum) to the calculator widget in Dashboard on Lion. The regular calculator app works as expected. Strangely, nothing on the internet seems to indicate a known bug.
I am going to purchase a 15.4" Macbook Pro by this month. I have a Windows laptop at this moment. Can I transfer my data from from a NTFS formatted disk on my PC to a Mac?
Safari's default font size is not large enough for my eyes so I have to press ⌘++ for a while on every website I visit. I could've used CSS to set the default zoom level in Safari but I want different zoom levels for Twitter, Facebook, StackOverflow, etc. Is there an extension or other way available to make Safari remember per-site zoom level settings?
I would like to run some iPhone applications on my MacBook and be able to use them with the mouse. Is there some way to run an iPhone emulator via Parallels Desktop or any other virtual machine?
I am not planning on taking the iPad everywhere I go. That's what the iPhone is for.
Is there a quick way to find the volume on which is located the current running OS ? I've noticed that the sort order of the volumes list can be changed manually, so the current system volume is not always on the top of the list. PS : And, in my case, of course, there are several volumes with a System Folder.
Is there a way to use the new Lock feature of OSX Lion on a Macbook Air which does not come with an Eject key?
I bought new Neverlock (sim free) iPhone 4 with 4.3.5 firmware. Then I would like to return it to factory settings and click "Restore" in iTunes. But after restoring i received unlocking device with "only emergency calls" message. What can i do now?
How can I configure Lion to search for files in the Contents of an .app?
I have an iPhone 4, and I would like to recycle my “old” iPhone 3G. Is there a good Android-for-iPhone? A Linux distribution optimized for iPhone? Another alternative OS, like a BSD or a BeOS-like? What OS other than iOS can run on iPhone 3G hardware and how would I install the OS you recommend.
Is there a way to break out or have independent docks across displays? I have a MacBook Pro (circa 2009, 10.6.8), which is connected to a Dell UltraSharp display, and I keep going to the bottom of the Dell display to invoke the dock.
Some month ago I started using openmeta tags to manage my files. Is there a tool which shows all openmeta tags on my mac and the files tagged with these tags?
The default home folder on Mac OS X has folders named Public and Sites. I never use them, so what will possibly break if I delete them?
Is there an app embedding the Flash player? I don't want to install the flash player in osx. I just want to use this app when I need it. Does it exist?
I came across a thread about installing an SSD drive in MacBook Pro. Someone in the comments also recommended to disable the swap file but didn't say why:
Is it possible to do this without owning an external mouse or having the latest multi-touch trackpads? I need to do this for games originally made for windows, but either run through wine or ported to mac. For the most they doesn't just require this, but also to hold both down for a specific time. I'm using a MacBook Core 2 Duo, which doesn't have a highly customisable trackpad settings.
I'm planning to get a paperless office and for that, I a need good scriptable piece of OCR for OS X? I've read a blogpost by Marco Arment about a few programs. Are there any workable ones there that allow me to script things?
We have a 'web service' iPhone app where users can generate new content (which is publicly viewable) by uploading texts. So, wanted to confirm: is it okay if they discuss/chat on benefits or on how to jailbreak?
I've been using Exchange with Google Contacts to manage my iPhone contacts. Recently, I noticed my Google Contacts wouldn't sync when I added a new contact to my phone. Today I found a setting under Contacts for "Default Account: Exchange or On My iPhone," and the second one is chosen by default.
If the new 2011 iMac is equiped with SSD and HDD at the same time, is HDD running (so fan on) even at times when HDD not used for a longer period? Context: I need the computer to be really silent (bedroom), and only when exceptionally accessing e.g. video files to use HDD. So if HDD would run all the time, I would rather go for an option of sole SSD in iMac and external HDD which can be unplugged. Otherwise I would go for both in iMac.
I want to put a .mov file I have as the background for a website. I am guessing the best way to do this would be to convert it to a .gif file but I can't find any programs that do it. I have tried Handbrake, Graphic Converter and Gif Builder.
I have suddenly come into a dire need to run PowerPC apps. My understand is that Lion will never support 32-but PPC code. It seems like the only solution, therefore, is to install Snow Leopard.
In iTunes, under "Photos", it's possible to check "Sync Photos from iPhoto" and then "Selected albums, Events, and Faces..." to sync only selected albums, events and faces. In the list of faces I can sync, there is one face missing from the list. The face is prominently visible in iPhoto, but unavailable in iTunes. Does anyone know what might be causing this?
My girlfriend recently ordered a MacBook Pro with Lion installed. For an online class she needs GIMP which depends on X11. What are my options to get it? Is there any Apple-sanctioned way to do the install? Would there be any downside to using the SL DVD from my machine? Or should I just install XQuartz?
I cannot eject anything from Finder, either by clicking the eject icon in the sidebar, or by dragging the icon to the trash (it does turn into an eject icon though). I'm using Disk Utility to get around this, but it's frustrating to have to open that up when I'm staring at Finder all day long.
I have an external HDD with 4 partitions. My question is the following: is there a way of telling the OS to mount just two of them (One FAT and one HFS+) when I connect the HDD? It is rather annoying to have 4 "disks" connected on the finder, and it makes ejecting the drive a test to my patience.
Is it possible to do two-way screen sharing on Skype mac? if I share my screen with someone, the other person is unable to share theirs with me (thought their camera works). Is this a Premium feature? I've looked on *=URL=* but its unclear if this supports two way or not. thanks
I just bought my first Mac (MBP) and Id like to add an SSD drive without pulling or replacing my original factory drive. Is it possible to fit and use both types? early 2011 MBP 13.3 2.3 GHZ.
I'be been experiencing an ongoing (if not precisely measurable) feeling that my MBP is underperforming, and it seems to be related to disk IO. I recently downloaded a disk benchmarking tool, to see how the disk is performing. The issue, however, is that I don't know from that how the disk should be performing. Where can I find numbers to set my expectations? This is a late-2010 17" MBP with a 7200RPM Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 drive.
How much current/power can be drawn from iPhone 30-pin connector by external devices? I googled it and failed to find some definitive answer for this. some say 50-100mA.
I made some capacitive styli with my brother, following this video on Cnet. I tried using it with the Wacom notebook app, and the handwriting is a teensy bit too large to work as well as a real live "dead tree" notebook. At the moment, the app feels like a wide ruled notebook, and I'd love to be able to write as much as a college ruled notebook. Is the problem the tip of the sponge on my styli, or is it the resolution of the iPad? What can I do to improve the accuracy, so that I can fit more handwritten text on the page?
I know Apple doesn't officially support installing operating systems that predate the one that ships with the hardware, but is it possible (perhaps through adding drivers?) to run Snow Leopard on a mid-2011 Macbook Air?
I was just wondering was it possible to use the "AMD Radeon HD 6490M " card of MBP on Windows 7 by installing Win7 either on a) Boot Camp b) Parallels c) VmWare as I like to play games on Win7 for which I need t graphics card. Thanks
I have mis-configured ~/.profile while adding new environment variable. I want to restore my original .profile for my Mac OS, I am not mac expert please help me. None of my shell command is working for me like ls, java, php etc Please help
Is it possible to turn off automatic preview of attachments when composing an e-mail? NOTE: Yes I know that I can manually ctr+select the attachment and disable preview, but I want this done automatically
I planning to buy a 13 inch MBP this month. Is it a good idea to stick to the standard 4GB of ram and 500GB harddrive, and upgrade it myself to 8GB/1TB? This would save me about $350. I have experience opening/repairing laptops, but I never had a MBP.. would this void my warranty?
A client has an internal Apple Server setup in their office that manages their domain (let's say it is example.com). I have setup a subdomain of example.com (test.example.com) on Google Apps as I want to use email addresses under test.example.com for an app that I am building. The reasons for needing GMail aren't important - but I need it. The problem arises when someone from their office tries to email bla@test.example.com.
I do not use Mail.app, instead using Postbox 2 for all my email needs. I do use iCal for my calendaring, syncing it with my Google Apps accounts. Whenever iCal wants to send a reminder, it tries to open Mail.app to do so, which is highly annoying.
We really need your help. We are shooting a movie and searching for a solution how to capture video from HDMI port of Canon 5D Mark II to an iMac 27 inch in real time. The iMac doesn't have an HDMI port. We have a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, but it's not bidirectional so we can't use Mini DisplayPort for input.
I've found the link below which provides useful info on how to configure Time Capsule for remote connection. I've followed this and am able to connect to remotely manage the TC (via Airport utility) but still cannot connect in order to access files. I'm trying from a Windows PC. How can I access my Time Capsule remotely?
I dual boot Windows 7 and MacOS X on my iMac. Recently I needed to type some text in a non-English keyboard layout in Windows. I installed the second keyboard layout the way I usually do, but when I pressed Alt-Shift to switch, nothing happened. After playing around with the settings a bit more, I was able to switch to the other keyboard layout, but not back to the regular American English layout. No language bar either. alt+shift does not work, nor does Ctrl+shift, nor does specifying a separate key combination for each layout like Ctrl+0 | Ctrl+1 | Ctrl+shift+0 Interestingly, the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box dies with I select the United States (Apple) layout and click on Properties.
Is it possible to disable trackpad when running Windows 7 on Macbook Air/Pro? Anyone with this setup can confirm that it's possible? (I don't use this setup yet, I'm just thinking about it, and want to make sure it supports my needs).
I have the latest MacBook Pro *=URL=* running Lion and I plan to purchase the new LED display *=URL=* What I would like to do is hook up a 19" LG LCD monitor in portrait mode. This will allow me to put the MacBook in clam shell mode and still have two monitors. What is the best way to make this happen? Thanks
I want to have an SSD for the OS, and the existing disk that came with the unit. Is this possible?
I recently switched from Windows to Mac. One of the things that's really ingrained in my muscle memory is hitting Alt+D in a browser to go to the address bar. On Mac browsers, ⌘+D creates a bookmark, the equivalent to move to the address bar is ⌘+L.
When I installed Xcode on Snow Leopard, gcc was not in my path. I manually added /Developer/bin to get gcc. However, I wrote a simple C program to include stdlib.h and stdio.h and print a string, but I get linker errors.
I have a Drobo attached to an always-on Mac mini, with a bunch of files I want to be able to access from other computers. Some of them (DVD rips, photos) I want to be available to anyone on my network, and some (backups, personal file storage) I want to restrict to certain users.
I bought a new macbook pro, till the day I bought the battery indicator is not moving further from 96%. I wonder if there is a problem with the battery because if I unplug my power cable it is still showing 96%. My previous Mac used to show 100% or "Charged" but in OS X Lion it isn't the same, is it?
I currently have the Dock to the left. In the Displays pane of System Preferences, I have the external display (if present) configured to be on the left side of the main built-in display; and the menu bar on the built-in display. Problem: when I connect an external display, the Dock jumps to it, separating it from the menu bar. How can I configure the Dock to stay on the main display with the menu bar? Some things to keep in mind: I prefer the Dock to the left. I don't want it on the right, since that would interfere with the disk icons on the desktop. I don't want it on the bottom, since I have widescreen displays and that would be wasteful of vertical screen real-estate. I can't unusably configure the external display to be on the right side, since it's actually to the left, given the way my desk is setup. I'm using Mac OS X Lion on a Macbook Pro.
"All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working. I suspect that this has happened after installing Path Finder 5.7.8.
I'd like to know how to increase the font size for Eclipse so it adjusts the whole GUI to not look so darn small on my screen. For NetBeans there is the --font-size switch which can be set in netbeans.conf, is there something similar for Eclipse? (In case it's useful, I'm on Snow Leopard.)
I currently have a 2.2GHz dual-core macbook pro (2007) and it doesn't seem to work very well with HDV 720p real-time playback. I am looking into buying a new iMac this or next year. What would be a good processor speed for rendering and real-time playback in FCP 6 or 7? They currently have quad-core 2.5, 2.7, and 3.1 GHz.
I just traded in Mail.app for Sparrow and want to clear up some space on my hard drive. Is it safe to remove the ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-[mailbox] folders for any mail accounts that I have removed from Mail.app?
Today I downloaded Apple Security Update 2011-005 for Lion (*=URL=* However, I got some issues here. After the update I noticed that some of the folders on my Desktop was rearranged. Moreover, my Mac started slowing down. Does anybody else have same problems?
I'm new to OS X. I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro. Is it safe to upgrade the bash shell using Homebrew: If safe, how do I make it the default instance of the shell I run through Terminal? Thanks!
The Apple keychain application will not let you remove system roots, it will only allow you to disable them. It will only allow you to disable them one at a time. For each one, you need to go through 3 UI panels and type your password. Is there a way to either automate this or do it all at once? I do not like Apple's current selection of system roots.
Tried booting from an install disk (Snow Leopard) to use Disk Utility. This produced a Kernal Panic error message.
I have an airport express connected to basic (but not crappy) speakers. When I run audio directly to them it plays fine, but when I run audio from either my iPhone or Mac to the speakers via AirPlay, I get crackly distorted sound if the volume slider is above about 75%.
Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice. It's been acting like this for a while but if I remember correctly I think it first started when I let Skype auto-update itself a while back. Any ideas why Skype is showing up twice? How can get rid of the extra Skype instance?
I like using Homebrew for installing Unix software on my Mac, and appreciate that it doesn't try to install multiple copies of things like Python. There are some packages I've already installed manually, though, and I don't want Homebrew to install its own copies of them.
My MacBook was purchased in 2008. Yesterday I checked the number of reallocated sectors of the hard drive using Disk Utility. It showed there were no reallocated sectors. That seems strange since I haven't replaced my hard drive since 2008. Can I rely on Disk Utility for this information or I need to download additional software?
Sometimes when I visit friends and don't have my Mac around I still would like to watch some of the movies I purchased on iTunes together with them. How do I do this? Can I share movies with others just as I can share Apps?
I have maybe a silly question here. I have "Ecler NUO 2" mixer (and obviously turntables with it as well) and would like to ask you if it is anyhow possible to connect it to my "Mac" so as I would not need turntables (I know that it is possible to do so with "Serato Scratch Live" but it is not very practical)? Ecler NUO 2 Features
Is it possible to connect iTunes playlists to folders so that playlists update automatically when I add new song to a folder?
Where are Automator's "Watch Me Do" files being saved?
I hear a lot about the good aspects of using Time Machine, particularly the fact that it's so easy to use that people actually do backups! What are the downsides to using Time Machine compared to other contemporary backup programs? My particular interest is the disadvantages of using it in a (semi)-managed environment i.e. at a university.
Is it possible to add a signature e.g. from PDF files or from JPEG images instead of using a web cam? The problem is that I don't have a web cam and I would like to use this feature in spite of that.
In the original post, I mentioned that my options were Flip4Mac, Xvid or VLC. Since then, perian has also been suggested. Having decided on Flip4Mac, I discovered that while it does function according to specification, it does not interface with Adobe Acrobat reader. Adobe, however, do suggest visiting the Apple web site for QuickTime....hence my reason for installing Flip4Mac!!!! One caveat of Flip4Mac is that it cannot play WMV videos that use Windows Media digital rights management, so some videos may not be viewable even though Flip4Mac is installed.
Is Automator's "Watch Me Do" action permanently deleted when it is removed from the action sequence?
When reading email using mail, I always click on a link and it open in safari. But when I want to go back to mail, I need to press the button and then find email. Is there a better way to seamlessly switch back to mail, with a gesture or something?
Currently .mp3, .aac, .m4r, etc. are all looked as "Music". So when I do an Arrange or Group By in the Lion Finder, all of these files get displayed under the heading "Music". Is there an option to make this arrange by Kind setting respect the exact file type?
Is it possible to modify which files Apple's quarantine warning pops up on? Specifically I download hundreds of PHP files (web developer) and I'm tired of seeing "...is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" I don't mind the warning on most downloads, but don't want warnings on scripts I'm opening to edit. FYI, Quarantine can be completly disabled with: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO and can be removed from existing files with: xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/foldername
I am currently using an iMac running Lion and am having problems sharing my internet through WiFi. The iMac is connected to the internet through ethernet and I share that connection through WiFi to my iPad and iPhone.
A couple of days ago all the contacts from my iPhone 4 disappeared. I am not sure how to restore them using iTunes. I am afraid that if I plug the iPhone to my computer it will sync the other way around and delete whatever I had stored as a back up on my computer… Any of you know how to get those contacts back on the phone?
I have a folder that contains a number of sub folders that are full of pictures. What I'd like to be able to do is start a slideshow from the parent folder that will show all the images in all the sub folders, however I would like the pictures to be shown in the order that they are in inside of each subfolder. So, considering the following folders: Parent folder - Pictures 1 - More pictures - Best pictures I would like the slideshow to show all of the pictures in the 'Pictures 1' folder before moving on to 'More pictures' and so on.
Is there any way around the read-only access that Finder strictly allows so I can get write access to a FTP server through Finder?
In non-full screen mode your iPhone shows up in the left side bar under the 'Devices' area. In full screen mode there is no left side bar. I tried File -> Import to Library... but there's no iPhone listed in the Finder window that opens up. How do you import photos from your iPhone when iPhoto is running in full screen mode on Lion?
Is there any way to check whether an app explicitly supports Lion's new Resume feature or not? For example, as of right now, Safari supports Resume, meaning all the tabs are reopened, however in Google Chrome, this is not the case.
Is there an app that can change the color of the menubar? I saw one that I'm pretty sure wasn't Nocturne.
In mail, I'll get email to a list of about 50 people, all of whom need to be in my address book. Is there a way to add them all at once? I can tell it to add one at a time, but I can't seem to get it to do more than that.
I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes. Is there any way I can have a "Quit Confirmation" show up when I try to quit Adium, except when I am logging out or shutting down the OS?
Every time I plug in my iPhone to my MacBook Air iPhoto pops open, how do I make it stop?
I am having a big problem with my iPhone's Mail App. For some reason, emails are not going to my iPhone. I have all of my settings right and I have IMAP on in settings and this still keeps popping up:
I installed Quicksilver and due to some problems I have with the "shelf" feature I decided to uninstall it (using appCleaner). When I tried to install it again the application wouldn't install the second time and it gave me this option
I hate the in-built book mark managers of all browsers, it quickly becomes too messy and important links are hard to find Is there desktop application which deal with bookmarks? something that has multiple options of fitters: categories, folders, tags and more For example the task manager, omnifocus, is as simple or as complex as you want it to be, is there anything like that for bookmarks
I thought perhaps this question would be a list of bugs, but it's been closed. Is there another place out there where I can find this info? And when I say the current release I mean whichever release is current at the time that you're looking for the information.
I tried to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but the Windows 7 boot CD has a boot problem about code 5. The Windows 7 installation DVD is in the DVD driver. How can I eject the DVD from the drive, and boot normally?
I want to record an application window for a demo/tutorial, and I'd like the video to be a particular resolution. Is there a trick/tool already installed in Lion that allows me to take a window and resize it to a specific resolution? For instance, take a window and resize it to 1280x720 in preparation for a HD 720p video recording? If not, is there a tool I can get from the internet that will do this for me?
I have a white Macbook that is released near the end of 2007, with an Intel Core 2 Duo. And now that I want to try installing Windows XP or Windows 7 on it to see how robust it is running Windows, with Boot Camp Assistant, it tried to "download files needed" but it always says "The Windows Support Software is not available"
I'm a big fan of Kinetic and use it track my bike rides as well as map the local trails. Lately it's been giving me some grief though and telling me I have a weak GPS signal at the outset of rides. It shows a bar for the signal strength and it's definitely below the 50% mark. Unfortunately that's all it shows. On my old GPS unit I used to be able to see which satellites were in range of the unit and which ones the unit was locked on to for positioning information at any point in time.
I'm using a macbook pro 8,1. I've installed rEFIt so that I can dual boot with Ubuntu. This is all "working" except that each time I turn on my laptop, it takes ten or fifteen seconds to even get to the rEFIt menu for me to select an OS. At this point, I have done nothing special except to make Ubuntu the default OS and reduce the wait time in the rEFIt menu from 20 to 5 seconds. How can I reduce this lag between startup and OS selection?
I've recently migrated from an old mac pro with leopard to a new mac pro with snow leopard, everything seems to have gone right so far during the migration process, however I cannot initialize git anymore, my git repos still exist and I can seem the .git folder for my projects but in terminal git init doesn't work anymore and I get a not found error when trying git --version How do I fix this, do i need to reinstall git, would this effect my existing repos?
I have several PNG images I want to view as a single document in Preview, Lion OSX. Usually I just select several images and open them in Preview, but when I do that, I can't set the view to "Continuous Scroll."
I'm on a personal computer, with Lion running and only a single user account on the computer. Is there a log file for authentication attempts (both for login attempts and password protected screensaver aka sleep mode)?
I recently purchased a MBP 13.3 i5 system, and I'm keen on making it triple boot (Lion, Win7, Ubuntu 11.04). What is the safest way to do this ? I found quite a few websites online, but I'm not sure of whether they are entirely accurate/updated for Lion etc. I would really appreciate it if someone could post a link that has worked for Lion/Win7/Ubuntu 11.04. Also, would this action invalidate the warranty of the MBP ?
I have an Apple A1048 109-key keyboard that I really like, except it does not have an FN button, which is a bit annoying. Is there any way to remap one of the keys (I'm thinking the 'help' key) to function as an FN key?
I'm installing Windows 7 on my Mac via Parallels. During installation I'm getting. "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing." message. Doesn't give me any option to proceed further. What am I doing wrong?
My Macbook pro is connected to my router over the AirPort. The IP address it gets changes every few hours. Is there a way on the mac to request the same address. I do not have access to the router to configure it.
What are some good screencapturing applications for OS X? I am specifically looking for an application that records in HD video. I have used QT Player X, but I'm wondering if there are some alternatives out there.
I'm looking to create a website on my Mac, with content coming from a database also on the Mac. The website is static, and I'll probably need to write some scripts that will periodically (1) create new HTML pages on my Mac based on new content in the database, (2) sync the HTML pages on my Mac to the web server on the Internet using SFTP. Can this be done using Bento, or should I be looking into Filemaker Pro instead?
The shutdown/restart dialog has a check-box Reopen windows when logging back in which is checked by default. I need to change its behavior to be unchecked by default. Is this possible? If yes, how can I do that?
I hope this is the right place to ask this kind of problem. So, before the Lion, when I tried to ignore something on Apache Subversion (svn), I just typed the following command: svn propedit svn:ignore . So this opened a temporary file for the current directory with the selected editor and I could write there my patterns, which where ignored by the svn. After the I installed Lion, when I type this command the following error appears: The document “svn-prop.tmp” could not be opened. The file doesn’t exist. Did anybody else met this error before? (I tried googling, but I didn't find any solution).
When logging into Lion with a second screen attached, does the second screen always have a plain grey background as opposed to the textured background that the primary screen has? Is there a way to change the login wallpaper on only the second screen?
I would like to consolidate several iCal calendars. So, I'm wondering if there is a way to move all events from one iCal calendar to another. I'm not interested in changing the time, etc. of any of the events, as asked here, and I'm not interested in simply deleting all the events in my calendar, as asked here. I'm running iCal Version 5.0 (1535) on OS X 10.7.
I deleted libsystem.B.dylib by mistake. On boot it got struck with Apple logo and a loading symbol below it. I tried booting with Cmd-v but it got struck with and didn't process any further. Any hints on how to get out of this are appreciated!
Anyone know why this doesn't work? If I remove either of the rules I get emails but never if I have both.
I noticed that many useful applications are unavailable in Russian App Store, as US Store seems to be the primary target for developers. I wonder if there is any legal way to obtain a US Store account (I'm interested in iPhone and Mac Apps, no music) if I don't live in the United States.
I need to restart the WindowServer (OS X's GUI); I know this can be achieved using the command sudo killall -HUP WindowServer but this closes all your open applications. Is there a way to restart the WindowsServer without it quitting all your open applications?
I've formatted my mac, and I've reinstalled Snow Leopard from installation CD. Successively I've accessed to the mac store to download Lion again and install it on top of the fresh Snow Leopard installation, and suprise: the mac store asks me to buy it again. I'm using the same user profile (Apple ID).
I am selling an old MacBook. The MacBook came with Leopard. I also bought Snow Leopard on DVD. I believe it would be legal for me to sell the MacBook with Snow Leopard installed, provided I included the install media. But now my question:
I have my network setup like as follows: internet > router 1 > ethernet ports > switch > router 2 I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server connected to "router 1", but it is so slow when accessing a web page hosted on the server from a browser on a workstation connected to either router 1 or router 2? Is there a problem with my network setup or maybe because I changed the name to newservername.local?
I have set up Active Directory on my Mac and I can log in and authenticate fine to the server. When I try to browse the Internet, there is an error which says "The user could not be determined by the Single Sign-on agent". I believe the Internet is filtered through Bluecoat, so I was wondering how to browse the Internet as it's trying to request my Active Directory username but the browser is not picking it up. I've had a look at the settings in Safari, but I just can't see anything about this.
As an alternative to using encrypted disk images, I created a FileVault 2 encrypted partition in Lion for some important data on the SSD in my MacBook Air. The password is not stored in a keychain. Once it is unlocked, I can unmount and mount it again without authenticating, even after logging out and back in again. Nothing short of restarting seems to lock this partition again. Re-locking an internal encrypted partition while logged in is possible in other implementations of whole-disk encryption, and for FileVault 2, according to the man page for diskutil, specifically, for the command diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume,
I installed my SSH private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. There is no passphrase associated with the key, however, whenever I connect to an SSH server, a dialog pops up and asks me to enter my password to access the id_rsa file. If I cancel the dialog or enter an empty passphrase and click OK, the Terminal prompts me for a passphrase. I have verified that the key is valid and does not require a password by connecting with the same key via other machines.
I used to be able to use g++ from the terminal to compile c++ programs, but now when I try to use it, I get -bash: g++: command not found
This question concerns a Mac Pro running 10.6 with 2 monitors set side-by-side and configured as one big monitor. Recently I have found that sometimes a "dead spot" appears to my USB Apple mouse in the lower right quadrant of my left monitor. When my cursor was in this area, nothing was clickable (making a window active, scroll bars, buttons, etc.) on that part of the window. Other parts of that window that were out of the dead zone were clickable. I noticed that some of my Safari windows straddled the junction of the two monitors, so when I dragged those windows to be totally in the left monitor, the problem seems to have gone away. Any ideas as to what might be going on? I have had this hardware configuration for several years but this problem is very recent. Thanks.
I need to place my Time Capsule a fair distance from my ADSL router, and cannot easily run an Ethernet cable between the two. Can I use a pair of Powerline ethernet adaptors to make the connection? If so, any advice as to recommended make/model.
I'm looking for the simplest way to record voice -- a two people conversation -- with a Macbook Air. The goal is then later to listen to it on the Mac and transcribe it.
How are fullscreen apps organised? This is usually my workflow: I sometimes go to Pages and type some things and go back to Safari, and then I find that it becomes like this: It has shifted location for some reason. Why?
I'm buying a new MacBook Pro tomorrow, but I'm unsure on which adapter to buy for a VGA adapter. Is it the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter? The MacBook Pro doesn't say it has a Mini DisplayPort, only Thunderbolt. So am I going to buy the correct one?
Not realizing that OS X creates a ~/Sites folder when you enable web sharing, I started putting my sites for MAMP within a ~/Sites directory, which did not exist on my new laptop. Is this ok, as long as I don't enable web sharing? Even if I did enable it, would something happen to the other files I put in there?
I know there is MemTest86+ for PCs, but what can I use to see if my RAM is actually good in an Apple product? Whether it's a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro? What symptoms would show that RAM is bad?
The reason is that I have some screenshots of full websites. Though for inspiration and illustration reasons I need to crop them to show different parts of that website. I know that when you crop an image in LittleSnapper it does not damage the original but I really would like to be able to see the full image AND the cropped version
I just imported a huge music library to iTunes. This library contains plenty tracks that are already in my library, but the info is in a different language, my question is, is there a way to have the file info multilingual, so I'll be able to merge the files while keeping the info in both languages?
I have a Mac Pro 4,1 (Dual 2.66Ghz, 6GB Ram). I want to increase the RAM, possibly adding 8GB to my existing 6GB. The RAM slots are used as follows: SLOT1: 1GB SLOT2: 1GB SLOT3: 1GB SLOT4: OPEN SLOT5: 1GB SLOT6: 1GB SLOT7: 1GB SLOT8: OPEN What are my options without removing the RAM that I already have?
How do I transfer a folder containing mp3 files to my iPod/iTunes to be recognized as an audiobook?
question is in the title. There's some files that most Apple users don't need access to, but if you program you do need access to. in particular the bash profile. anyone know how to make these visible in the finder? i'm using a macbook pro 10.6.8
I've been searching for information about wireless file sharing for iPad through webdav, which is new in Lion Server. However, I can find nothing more than the few lines Apple has to say, which has been re-blogged around the place. To keep to Q&A, can anyone provide instructions for setting this up, and what types of files can I share? Am I limited to certain file types and why? Is there a way around any file type limitations?
Mozy does not support networked mounted drives, but does support USB drives. I don't want to disconnect a drive I have on my linux server just to do the mozy backups, so can anyone think of a way I can make this drive look like a regular/local disk?
Since upgrading to Lion, I have seen a sleight decrease of productivity when it comes to using iCal. As a result, I am trying alternatives such as BusyCal. The application seems great, however I cant set an alarm to run a script as I could in iCal.
Subject sums it up. Just curious if there is a trick to be able to export your reading list from Safari, any format. Where on the HD is the info stored? bookmarks.plist?
I recently reinstalled Lion on an SSD and have all my media on the original HDD on my MBP. I was hoping Time Machine would recognize my existing backups in Time Capsule but it wants to start a new backup image. Also, it looks like Time Machine wants to only back up my SSD. So, my questions are: Can I back up both drives to one time capsule image as if they were a single logical drive? Can I back up both drives to one time capsule image as if they were a single logical drive? How can I access my old backed up data in the existing image? How can I access my old backed up data in the existing image?
I want to export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail. How can I do this?
I don't know why. My entire iTunes Library is on my Mac mini I've entered the same Apple ID in iTunes' Home Sharing on both computers My iPhone and iPad can use Home Sharing from my Mac mini's iTunes I open iTunes on my MBA and Home Sharing does not appear in the left sidebar
Would it be possible to do this? To run lion, ubuntu, and backtrack all on the same machine? Or even just lion and backtrack would do the trick. If so, how would I go about doing this?
I just unboxed a new MBP 13.3 inch i5. I wanted to know what is the best way to start using it, so as to ensure optimal battery life i.e. Should I charge it to full capacity, before even booting it ? Should I start using it out of the box on AC ? Also, going forward, what must I do to ensure that the battery lasts longer, and the average capacity doesn't go down with the years ? While I appreciate individual experiences/suggestions, I'd really like links to articles/reviews from respectable websites that could authenticate the information - there are simply too many opinions out there :).
I recently brought a new Mac mini running Max OS X 10.7 Lion. I downloaded the iOS SDK 4.3 and Xcode 3.2.6.dmg from Apple.
I currently have a 3,1 Mac Pro with dual quad xeon CPUs, 20GB RAM, 1TB SSD (8x256gb in two RAID 10 groups), ATI 5770, running Lion. I currently have every DVD and BluRay I own ripped to a set of eSATA direct attached storage arrays at about 38TB (76TB in RAID 1).
I'm using airdrop to transfer files and stuff to another macbook. Looking at the output of ifconfig, I can see that airdrop creates a VNIC to communicate with the other computer.
I upgraded to lion on the day it was released. After that I updated my system twice even then I am not able to see any cut paste option as specified here.
I'll try to be as brief as possible with my problem. Do not hesitate to ask for logs or information about my computer and/or the program.
I have a mid-2009 MBP (13"/ 2.53Gzh/ 8GB). I installed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on it at the weekend only to find the on-board GPU can't cope with it.
The scenario: I go into class, hook up my laptop to the projector using mini-display port adapter, and fire up Keynote. Keynote opens with it's window on the projected display, showing off the hidden slides or completed builds or slide #42. I'd rather have it open on the laptop display so the only thing my audience sees is the title slide. I then spend two minutes trying to get a mouse over the titlebar so I can pull the window back to my laptop display.
Is there a way to re-enable the fine volume control using It has been removed in Lion, but I use it often. Maybe there is a globals pref that works?
I have several calendars synced using MobileMe and after upgrading to Lion it is often the case that a day's worth of newly added events all disappear. This generally happens when I am in another application. Often, if I re-add the same event later, the old events re-appear, giving me duplicates. However, if I never re-add the events, the old ones never come back. The events that are missing from my Mac still appear on my iPhone, but attempting to re-sync does not bring the events back to my Mac. I have tried clearing my iCal cache and preferences while the events are missing, but this does not seem to bring them back. So, why are my events disappearing in iCal and how can I fix it?
I have an application listed in my bought applications. I prefer to not see or hide some apps I have purchased in the list of purchased apps. Is there a way to do this? Can I reverse this and unhide these hidden apps at a later date? For example:
Every time I listen to music on iTunes or VLC, I notice that the process coreaudiod causes an unusually high CPU usage (5% or more). Recent OS X updates have not changed this observation. Restarting (or killing the process so it respawns) doesn't fix the problem. After a couple of seconds, CPU usage of coreaudiod goes above 5% again.
I'd like to make use of the special iOS symbols found in Apple Symbols font, e.g. the "Reload" and "Action" glyphs. In Snow Leopard, I could obtain and insert them via the "special characters" pane where I could show (and select!) all the symbols of any given font. In Lion, however, this feature seems to be missing (said pane now only contains some given character ranges) and when I preview the entire font repertoire in font-book, I can't select and insert text from the preview area.
When I put my MacBook Pro (2011, 13") to sleep and wake it up again, the Magic Trackpad doesn't get recognized. I have to turn Bluetooth off and back on again to get the trackpad to work. It shows up in the Bluetooth menu at the top of the screen, but telling it to reconnect doesn't do the trick. I have a USB keyboard, so I don't know if the same problem would be true of the keyboard.
I am having problems with Web Clips. Had the problem in OS X Leopard and now in Lion.
I understand that backing up in iTunes then restoring the backup to the new device should transfer everything. But thinking specifically about the case of upgrading my iPad 1 to an iPad 2: Are there any issues I should be aware of if backing up from an original iPad 1 and then restoring to an iPad 2?
I bought a new MacBook Pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I also installed newest version of Mac OS X, Lion (updated).
I can only use the GNU Debugger (GDB) when authenticated as an administrator. When I launch GDB as a standard user, after giving the GDB command "run", a dialog requests me for a user name and password of a user in the "Developer Tools" group. The problem is that I already am in the "Developer Tools" group, so I do not know what else to do... Thank you! Platform: MacOS X 10.7.1 GCC 4.2.1 i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00) GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1705) This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".
I'm interested in throwing Chrome OS on an old Powerbook just for the hell-of-it. Does anyone know if it's possible to install it as the only OS? I'd rather not have to run a VM for this.
I have a rather puzzling scenario for you, one that I would like to solve with Automator: We're a startup that creates HD music video content that is streamed online; we've got a custom-programmed Linux/Unix backend that takes HD videos from a folder, processes them for streaming, and throws them up in a Web format so that they can be viewed/streamed/downloaded from our site. Let us call that folder Folder D for the sake of this problem.
How can you keep one window always on top? I saw that there are several third party solutions, but is there absolutely no way to do it natively?
How can I prevent Terminal from showing me my old output when it starts? I would like it to always start with a clean window.
Before I upgraded to Lion Server, I was running 10.7.1 I setup Internet Sharing in the preferences (Share from Ethernet 1 to Ethernet 2). After the upgrade, sharing doesn't work unless I take the following steps Login Turn off Internet Sharing Turn Internet Sharing back on So the question is can I have Internet Sharing on and running even if no one is logged in? Thanks
Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content? I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through Bonjour Sleep proxy, but I couldn't find real details on this on apple.com, other than a support document. I couldn't quite follow the final flow from the users perspective.
In Snow Leopard, Chrome had a feature that is like Exposé, but for the tabs. The gesture to trigger it was a 3 finger swipe down. And in Lion it just stopped to work. Does anyone knows how to enable it in Lion?
I have a third-party NAS drive (Western Digital MyBook World II) which I used for time machine backups in Snow Leopard. I've upgraded to Lion and the first backup has spent over an hour 'Verifying Backup...', what is OS X actually doing here and if I choose to skip verification what are the consequences? It seems to be stuck on 69%...
I'm teaching a photography class and would like to use a cheap setup to display photos taken by the students in real time. I have a macbook pro and an iphone. I also have an eye-fi card but it's an old one and doesn't work with ad-hoc networks so that's out of the question.
I just spent a looooooong time trying to use Macports' Apache2 to serve documents out of my home directory. She no work!!!11 In the absence of any meaningful log data (that I could find) to go on, I decided to just plop the whole thing into the default document root ("/opt/local/apache2/htdocs"). Voila! Immense anger!
are Mac mini (2.53GHz so called "late-2009" model) memory modules any different than ddr3 so-dimm modules I would buy for my pc laptop? I'm a little confused here. Should I buy modules especially labeled as "Apple" type?
I'm trying to call nmblookup in a Terminal on Lion, but it's not available. How can I lookup NMB hostnames from the Terminal now?
I was just watching the Windows 8 keynote and Steven Sinofsky said 8 will be able to run on ARM CPUs, which are also used in iDevices. So I'm curious, would it be possible to run 8 on an iPad, similar to how iDroid works?
With Lion, you can use screen sharing to connect to a "virtual display", meaning that you log in to a new session instead of 'hijacking' the currently active one. Is there a Windows program that can make use of this feature and let me start and operate a remote session on a Mac?
I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.
I know TextMate isn't Lion optimised, but is there any way to do this?
Awhile back, I set up a cron job on my wife's MacBook to automatically backup her Safari bookmarks to Dropbox every morning using the following command that I found online (I forget where): This worked swimmingly until all of her bookmarks were lost. When I try to import this file using File > Import Bookmarks in Safari, it says that it can't find any bookmarks in the file. I've opened the file up and looked at it and while I'm not terribly familiar with the XML plist format, it looks reasonably complete/intact.
I really like the "Quick Event" mask in iCal under OS X lion: insert event name, start time, date and you're ready! except for the fact that sometimes I'd like to add an event to a particular calendar instead of the default one! I've tried to add "in *calendar_name*" or "calendar: *calendar_name*" at the end of the sentence, but none of them works! Is there a way to achieve that?
In Terminal.app, when I select some text and start typing again, the text selection is gone. I personally find this very annoying. Is there a way to make Terminal.app keep the selection when I type?
I have been migrating my account from Mac to Mac for years now. Every time a new Office version is out, I'd install it (X, 2004, 2008, and now 2011) and remove the old one after some time.
I'm running Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on a 2010 Mac Pro running Lion. Every so often I'm prompted to download and install the latest update to the Boot Camp software under Windows but this doesn't ever seem to update the installed version of Boot Camp. I also get prompted to do this when in OS X.
I would like to limit the amount of CPU time dedicated to certain processes (e.g. Firefox, Safari, ...). I can't understand why such programs, even when not used (nothing loading, no animations, running in the background, ...)can consume resources such as a browser must eating 50% or more of my CPU when I feel it should be idle. Can I limit tasks to 10% CPU usage rather than waiting/convincing the developer to address high power usage in idle states?
The only other mention I can find of this error is on the Apple forum, which suggests it worked in 10.5.8 but not 10.6 or later. I have a colleague that is running 10.6.8 and it works for him. I am running Lion (10.7.1). Running Safari in 32 bit mode does not seem to make a difference, nor whether I prefer 32- or 64-bit Java.
I'm looking for an auto shutdown app that will forcefully shut down the computer at an appointed time. The most important part of this is that the shutdown should not be cancelable (unless the process is extremely onerous).
MacBook Pro 8,1 (13", i5 2.3Ghz) - when I connect an external screen through a MiniDP -> DVI adapter the Mac detects it (knows it's a Samsung SyncMaster and lets me change its resolution) but doesn't show anything on screen. Even though the Mac thinks that the screen works properly (I can move the cursor out of the Mac's screen), the external monitor's led blinks as there was no signal at all. Changing screen resolution doesn't help.
A couple days ago, I was experimenting with Air Play. What I'd like to do is play music behind a party, driven from my iPhone in my pocket. I sleep my phone while iPod is playing music all the time, it keeps going just great, but this time it would die after a few minutes of sleeping. I believe what's happening is it's losing WiFi and killing the Air Play connection. Any solutions for playing an evening's worth of music through Air Play from my pocket, without pulling the phone out and restarting it every few minutes?
I'm the owner of mid 2010 iMac (core i7) with 16GB memory installed.Normally, Mac OS X (SL and Lion) never uses swap (that is page ins/outs = 0), there are always 3-8GB of free memory. But after watching a few DVD/h264 movies, there are only 50-100*MB* of free memory and swap is used actively. Looks like video files are mapped into system memory, since the amount of inactive memory ~= size of files. The only workaround is to use purge utility. I'm looking for a solution which is better than running purge every time I looked a movie. uptime: vm_stat:
I tried to install an authorization plugin on mac OS X 10.7 that previously worked on Snow Leopard but all I'm getting is a white screen with the cursor. Did something happen to authorization plugins in Lion? Is there a way to fix this?
How can I convert SVG image to something raster? Are there any native [command-line] tools on OS X that can do that? I am able to open them in Safari or Firefox, but doing "Save as..." only proposes original (.svg) or web-archive formats and no rasterized image format.
I've tried ffmpeg but there is no /dev/dsp device.
I am able to tweak time response of touchpad as you mentioned above. I also notice that while typing (say blogging etc), if I have to go a few words back, my keyboard response to <-- key is very slow. So either I use mouse to click at desired place or wait for <-- key to reach to the place. This key response is noticeably slower than what I am used to in ibm thinkpad/dell etc. My CPU is of decent configuration, so I don't think the system speed should be a hurdle here. Any way to configure keys response time too??
How is it possible to transfer all my information from dashboard(in stickies) to my new macbook pro? Is there an easy file just to transfer or do I have to copy and paste them to an email? Also I have 10.6 running on my macbook and 10.7 on my new macbook pro if this makes a difference in how you can transfer them.
I started experiencing problems after playing with hotspotshield.com, it may have done something to the core apple connection preferences. I have looked all over the internet and I can't find a solution..
How to have a keyboard that presents shortcuts for common ascii emoticons? I specifically do NOT want anything that uses the emoji unicode symbols. But instead a keyboard that provides shortcuts for the standard emoticons such as :-), :-(, ;-), B-), :-*, <3, and so on.
When I type command-backspace in a Cocoa text field, it deletes everything from the start of the current line to the cursor point. Can this be disabled? It's driving me nuts because I hit it all the time by accident. I've tried adding the following to ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict: or: or:
My iPhone 3G home button broke so I bought a new one online and all the repair guides require me to remove the glass digitizer, which seems very tough (hair drying glue etc.) and harder than I expected. Does anyone know a way or a guide of replacing it without removing the glass?
I booted from the DVD again and it said "Install failed, try again." but the installer wasn't run again. I found it on / by using the console and run it manually. Both from the DVD and the USB I did several installs, making sure the Internet connection was working before starting and in all cases it finishes, reboots and it looks like the partition in the hard drive is not bootable. It won't boot from hard drive. Any ideas what's going on and/or how to solve and perform this clean install? Thank you.
UPDATE: Now iOS does allow system-wide third party keyboards, so this question is no longer really relevant. However I keep it alive because the answer "no third party app can do SMS" is still correct and useful.
The ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file lets you define your own key bindings in Mac OS X. It can be in one of two formats: old-style NeXT format (example) or modern-style XML plist format (example).
I saw someone with a Macbook Pro using the Spotlight feature several times, and every time the Spotlight opened, it used a certain effect that's not like what I see in other Macs (I use Leopard). The effect I'm talking about is like a vanishing "teleport" effect, it opens up starting with a thin, long horizontal bright line which shortens and expands in height until it reveals the Spotlight. To see a similar effect, use a recent version of Safari with several tabs open, and drag one of the tabs down as if you're going to break it off into a new window. Does this effect happen to be OS based, or exist from a third-party tool (Something like Compiz, but for Mac)?
Update: The default boot is going to the Windows partition but it shows the "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" error. I assume that means the partition is still good?
I have used Time Machine to restore my MBP to a larger HDD with great success, but am about to purchase a smaller SSD for it. With the obvious caveat of not having more data than the SSD can hold, is there anything stopping me from going from a 500GB SATA drive to a 240GB SSD using a Time Machine restore? It's a 2010 MBP running Lion 10.7.1, if that makes any difference.
Is there a way to set custom DNS settings for a single wifi connection without affecting other connections? I use my laptop at home and work. When at work I need to type in an IP address of a local DNS server to resolve company resources. I currently do this by pressing the "Advanced..." button on the network preferences page. Unfortunately this setting is global for all of my wifi connections. So when I go home I need to remove the DNS setting. Can I set the DNS setting to only work while I'm connected to the company's wifi?
I (Candybar) deleted some of my app icons and they are completely gone. Is it possible to extract the icons for the system applications (e.g. Address Book, TextEdit) from the installation disc? Alternative can anyone upload the icns files for the following applications: where asterisk is the system applications.
So I have Google Chrome installed on my Mac & randomly it will put itself in my dock, where it normally doesn't reside. It is usually about every two weeks or so, but sometimes its within a few days. It is the only application to do so. It puts itself as the first application (immediately after the finder) regardless of what else is on the dock. Of note: I rarely use Chrome as I usually prefer Safari or Firefox. I may open it once every few months. I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem. Suggestions?
Under Linux, this would be a no brainer. Just go into /etc/password and edit that, and rename the directory in /home. I want the new shortname and the new home folder to match after the change.
I am currently running 10.4- Tiger. I never updated because my optical drive went out and I never got it fixed. I called Apple and they said that I could upgrade to Snow Leopard, but not Lion. So I have purchased Snow Leopard, but don't know how to load it. Here's what I've tried:
I came across a ECM archive that I need to extract. The Unarchiver can't handle this format, and I'm not sure about other utilities. How do I extract ECM in Mac OS X Lion?
I'm not sure WHY it is so hard to get calendar syncing to work right, but it does seem to be one of the problems of our age. I thought maybe finally with iCal 5 syncing with google calendars would finally just work, but no luck. Main issue:
Currently, it doesn't seem possible to just drag and drop the desktops to change their order. Is there any other way of doing it then?
after using the Migration Assistant each time arrives a new OSX or i buy a new MacBookPro, its time to tidy up my work machine, Since upgrading my current MBP(mid2009 2.8GHz 4GB DDR3) to Lion many applications stall randomly, i got a new 7K2 rpm HDD (no budget for the ssd yet...) but they still go slow. Last week i Reinstalled Lion from scratch in the New HDD, and right after installing the OS was incredibly fast, like it should be with a laptop like this, then i ran the Migration Assistant for my Profile stored in a TM Backup, and the performance went back to what i had before reinstalling lion, My conclusion is that somehow theres a bunch of preferences in my profile that are making my system slower, and after trying to fix that myself (looking at logs, Daemons, Launch Services..) and cleaning them manually, i still have no performance improvements. So, i will reinstall Lion from scratch and then, go App by App (only the ones i use which are 20% of the ones i've installed) migrating 
I've got an iPhone 4. One sunny day the receiver stopped working (the headset. the part where I hear the other side). The speaker mode will work just fine, the headphones will work just fine, in any case the other side hears me as needed. The only problem - I can't hear the other side if I don't use headphones or speaker mode. I've tried restarting the iPhone - didn't help.
How can I obtain older versions of Xcode? Is there a way that I can freely download a version that only requires OS X 10.6.8? So far this is all I've found on the matter; but, when I click the 'download Xcode 3' link, it simply brings up the page for downloading version 4.
Recently there has been alot of news about how free charging stations could be reading data from devices that are plugged into them. The obvious solution to this issue is to place an adaptor between the charging station and the device that is only wired to transmit power.
I'm not really at home in the screwdriver world, and since this question relates to my purchase of a MBP I figured I could ask the question here. Whats the difference between a Phillips 00 and a 000 screwdriver?
The "server" ("mini", running OSX 10.6) has SysPrefs>Sharing>RemoteLogin enabled. I can log in from another machine on the LAN with ssh me@mini.local just fine. To enable access from WAN, I assigned a static IP address to mini (192.168.1.102) and added a portmapping entry in my TimeCapsule, mapping port 10221 to 192.168.1.102:21. I have a DynDNS hostname, so I should be able to log in via ssh -p 10221 me@my.homeip.net but it just hangs and eventually times out. I verified that DNS is mapping my.homeip.net to my correct public IP address. Is there another setting on 'mini' that I've overlooked, that allows local connections but disregards non-local ones?
I want to have movie style sound effects in the terminal. You know, when every keystroke and line emits a cool little beep. (Something like this.) I've used KeyClick, but that's only for keyboard typing. I also want effects when characters are read across the screen, etc.
I downloaded MPlayerX from the App Store and I would like to use it to play a video in loop. Is there a way to do that?
Is it Possible to export the notes made in Entourage 2008 V 12.0.0 to Apple Mail notes? How do I do it?
Our corp is implementing Macs for the first time. We are using Casper to manage them. Unfortunately our Computing Security folks will not allow a Mac Server with NetBoot on our network, which puts us in a real jam. How do we boot up to get an image?
Everytime I restart/boot my mac and open up a mail application (thunderbird) or a web browser (firefox or chrome) I am always asked if I want to make it the default. This happens even if I click yes.
Is there a free way to wirelessly stream content to an iPod Touch (if it helps, 4th gen with latest 4.3.5 installed) without jailbreaking? If not, will iOS 5 enable me to do this?
I need a screen recorder. However, I try to avoid using closed-source software whenever possible except from major vendors like Apple and Skype. I am wondering, is there an open source screen recorder for Mac OS X?
I would like to get automator to mount a volume in a shared SMB server and get all subfolders symlinked within my Documents folder. I thought I could do that easily by creating Finder's so called aliases but it turned out they are not symbolic links and some applications like Picasa fail to explore these subfolders. How can I get Automator to create symbolic links instead of aliases for my folders?
If I have: foo bar ..and I'd like to awk/sed this to: foo-bar ..what's the syntax? I'm trying to use: to output type-speed (ie DDR-1067).
For the past few years Skype has been getting progressively worse with each iteration. Skype 5 moved away from the compact 2.X era interface to an interface that's much more wasteful and less usable. Features like videoconferencing went paid-only, and now the latest betas are integrating with Facebook and have ads. I've been on the fence a while regarding Skype; for all its faults it still is useful, but I've gotten to the point where I don't like the direction the software is taking and I'm looking into potential replacements. The following is a list of Skype features that I use; I'm looking for a set of software/services that will cover most of these: audio calling video calling audio conferencing video conferencing Mac client iOS client Windows client (for family without Macs/iOS devices) calling phone numbers call recording (I use Ecamm's CallRecorder for Skype)
I'd like to store my iTunes Music Library on a USB drive connected to my time capsule to use it with my Macbook Air. The problem is, when the network drive with the library is not mounted or unreachable by the computer then iTunes creates a new local Library on start up.
By moving my iTunes Library to a network drive, will iPhone/iPad backups also be stored on that network drive? (If not, is there a way to set this up?)
This is my first experience with OS X Server, I setted Open Directory up and added some accounts through Workgroup Manager. When I login in on one of the remote Apple computers with one of the network accounts it mounts the file sharepoints nicely. But it doesn't automatically configure the Mail.app.
I keep hearing that iTerm2 is much better than Terminal. I downloaded iTerm2 today and played around with it, but I couldn't see what is so much better about iTerm2. iTerm2 seemed just like Terminal. What is the difference between iTerm2 and Terminal? Why do you use iTerm2 and not Terminal? Basically, convince me that I should switch to iTerm2.
I have Macbook Pro 13" (Early 2011). I replaced the SuperDrive with a SSD that now is my main disk. The existing HDD is used for Time Machine and nothing else. I have 2 problems with the secondary disk:
I have used LogMeIn Hamachi to play on different game servers, however since I update to Lion I have been unable to change the server I want to connect. The whole "Network" menu is gone. Here is a video showing LogMeIn Hamachi in action, where the "Network" menu is visible: *=URL=* (See 1:20) I have the latest version installed (2.1.0.65)
I've just bought an iPad 2 and it seems to have a very subtle screen fault: a very slight darkening down the left hand edge of the screen, so that if e.g. a document is being viewed on a white background, the left hand edge (say 1/2 cm) actually appears to be a very light grey. It does seem to be a physical screen issue, in that it appears across different applications, and with the device turned upside down, the fault is now on the right hand side. It's quite subtle, but quite irritating. For what it's worth, I'm upgrading from an iPad 1 and never had this problem with the previous iPad.
When watching videos or podcasts in a separate window in iTunes (10.4.1) OS X Snow Leopard, my preference is to place them at the bottom right of the screen. This is so I can keep browsing and working on other applications. But when the next video starts, the window gets resized to the original size. How do I keep iTunes from doing this. FYI: The older version of iTunes did not exhibit this behavior. The window would remain in the user set size
When I close the lid, the computer behaves correctly: Screen turns off Does not go to sleep (front light stays on and does not flash) Still can hear fans
I use Microsoft's RDC on Mac. I need to click on print key to have some screen capture, but Mac Keyboard doesn't have one. How do I send print key with Mac through RDC?
I had MAMP running on my laptop. I use MySQL a lot. I kinda messed with the user file permission and I fixed it , in that process I changed some password in MySQL config files. So now SQL does not work even though MAMP runs perfectly.
How can I use an Apple TV with the iPad 2 where there is no internet WiFi? e.g. in a car?
Under Mac OS 10.5, you could boot a fresh-out-of-the-box Mac into single user mode, mount /, set the root password, and touch .AppleSetupDone - this would allow you to log into the desktop environment as the root user without ever creating a 501 user. I've never been able to do this under 10.6 or 10.7, however. Has anyone been able to do this without first creating a traditional user account? Many thanks!
I want to upgrade my harddrive to a SSD. Does apple offer this service? I was going to do it myself, since its easy. Does this void my warranty?
I find it really annoying, that firefox on my Mac (OS X Lion) automatically downloads a pdf instead of viewing it in a tab. On Windows this works flawless. But why is it not working on the Mac? Is there a way to change this?
The Mini was installed with Windows 2003 now and its the only OS installed. It's a Mac Mini A1176 and now I want to install reformat the box and install Mac OSX. But the problem is unlike any other Mac products I have, by holding 'c', 'shift', 'option', or 'd' on the keyboard immediately after power on the box cannot successfully change the booting sequence, it only boots from hard disk which is installed with Windows now. I think the problem is that I'm not using a Mac keyboard, but a normal PC keyboard, is that because it doesn't recongnize the keyboard at the booting stage? Please tell me what to do to force the box to boot from CD, because I don't have a Mac keyboard with me right now.
So I love the login screen in OS X lion, and I want to make my desktop look like that. I found the background image they use, but now I want to make my menu bar completely transparent like it is in the login screen.
I use both Windows and Mac OS X on my work/home computers, and on Windows I love SnagIt, because it allows me to capture fixed regions of the screen: I select a resolution (for example, 500x400), and then when I click on the capture button a rectangle with that fixed dimensions appears on the screen. I only have to move it to the exact location of the screen where I want to make the capture and it's done. The capture utilities that I've used on Mac OS X (native, or Jing, for example) doesn't have this feature afaik.
I write a lot of technical emails, and like to use a monospaced font for the code bits. Highlight text, hit apple-T, choose my font from the list of favorites, then close the font window. Is there a way to use a keyboard shortcut to apply a given font to the currently selected text? Ideally this would be OS-wide, but if that's not possible I can use it for just a single app (Mail.app)
I would like to be able to have an iPad2 have custom functionality. It would have a custom desktop (company logo and other icons). When the iPad2 is turned on, it would automatically start playing a pre-installed video. When the video is done play, it would go back to the custom desktop allowing the user to replay the video (via an icon) and/or click other icons to view pdf files. I would like to be able to turn the custom functionality on and off (but this would be something only I would be able to do via a password or something similar) so that the iPad2 can be used for only this custom functionality or it can be used as a normal iPad2.
I am customizing the guest account under Lion. Several questions here, any feedback is greatly appreciated!
I was trying to connect up using my personal hotspot. I turned it on, and it seemed to start up normally. I turned to my computer, which saw the connection, but couldn't successfully make a connection. When I looked back at my iPhone, the option was completely gone. I then went to the general -> network panel, and I see the personal hotspot, but the option just has the "wait spinner" going with no buttons. This persists even after powering down and restarting the phone. What do I need to do to get this back up and running.
I have enabled File Vault in Lion on a shared computer with several user accounts. Is it possible to encrypt each user home directory such that other users cannot access their data? As it stands, I can go on the terminal and (using sudo) access all the files in all accounts. I'd like to be able to prevent this.
Is it possible to add copyright information, or a logo, on the pictures themselves (bottom right corner for instance) for a selection of photos, at once, using iPhoto ? If iPhoto is not the right app to do it, what would be a free tool to do it ?
I have tto check a path like "volume1:FTPRoot:StenRoot:Stnp00:A12:B38:f000031913". Is there an easy place where I can paste this to unsure me that this path is valid ? PS / I can follow it manually, but I want to automate this...
Before upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, I did not have this problem. None of the hardware has changed.
So I am planning to upgrade my Macbook pro's harddrive to a SSD. I don't know much Mac OS X tools, so I was wondering if anyone could let me know how I can copy my entire harddrive (including OS) to my SSD. I have a MacBook 2011 and am using OS X Lion.
I'm looking for some Video Editing software that allows me to Have more than one video track, so I can do Picture-in-Picture, cross-fades etc. Read AVCHD and AVCHD Lite Have good options for synchronizing video and audio Have a few limited options to cut audio and take parts of audio, just so that background tracks can be made to fit Export into at least one standard format, be it uncompressed so that I can do it later Compatible with Lion
I can put large text on the center of my screen with certain apps, such as Address Book (click on a phone number and choose "Show in Large Type") or using Quicksilver (type some text and choose the "Large Type" action). Is there any way I can invoke this functionality from the terminal, to show arbitrary large text by writing, say, Applescript or a bash script?
I did a quick, pseudo-system audit this morning and found an unexpected directory hogging up ~10GB of space on my drive. I assume that it's a remnant from a reasonably recent upgrade to XCode 4, but that's more of a guess than anything else.
I'd like to write some rules for incoming calls on my iPhone. For instance, if a call from a certain number comes in, I'd like it to go to voice-mail. Or simply hang up and not answer at all. Is there a way to do this natively on the iPhone or perhaps an app that does that?
I have a few desktops set up in mac and and browser with my calendar and mail in full screen mode. In total I normally have 3 running. I also have custom hotkey to quickly scroll through the desktops, but when I get to the last one how do can I make it cycle through to the beginning. For example if I'm on the 3rd of three desktops, is there a way I can go the right to a 4th, but since it's not there it will go back to the 1st. Thanks
I have a Mid-2010 Mac Pro, Single CPU, MC560LL/A. It's equipped with the Apple-provided Radeon 5770.
I have added a standard user for my brother on my Mac Mini, and I would like to limit the amount of space he can use on my hard drive, but I can't see where I can set this kind of restrictions. I have read online that you can set it from accounts; however, I can't see any option there. The only options I can see are checkboxes to allow the user to administer the computer, and to enable parental controls. Does anyone know where I can set this?
I upgraded my MacBook Pro by replacing the SuperDrive with an SSD. I'm now using the SSD as the boot volume and have all my applications. My home folder is on the HDD. My question is how to best optimize my setup for speed/performance/lifetime. A few specifics questions Is the SSD the ideal location for applications?
Is there any app or hack which can split a monitor into multiple screens? So for instance, a 1920x1080 display could be treated by the operating system as though there were two 960x1080 screens connected instead.
I used to have a Mac hostname as simply "macpro" under Snow Leopard. After doing a clean installation of Lion, then a migration to restore my files, it's now called "Georges-Mac-Pro".
I want to sync my calendar with a Basecamp generated ical feed, like: webcal://test.basecamphq.com/feed/project_ical?token=c9d3d7b7d0a77ce8b9f615c8b4c2295eproject_id=8024071 Can it be done?
I have several sites in Coda that I would like to automatically re-download when I tell it to. The sites are collaboratively managed, and I'd like to download a fresh copy of the sites automatically. I am open to AppleScripting, an Automator workflow, a shell script, a combination of all three, or anything else you suggest. How would I go about doing this?
I am looking at Mac OSX Lion and I am not liking the fact that Aqua is gone. No more blue scrollbars, no more 3D look, no more beautiful Aqua design. (drop-downs, radios, scrollbars, etc.) I do not currently have a Mac but if I ever get one, (I highly want one, but they're too expensive for me to afford right now) I want the Aqua look back. Is there any way to do this? I really hope that there is.
I'm traveling now and relying heavily on Google Maps on my iPad. with no warning, the app now crashes instantly when I click on it. no warning at all. I tap the icon, the default screen comes up, a second later the app closes.
I want to export my iPhoto library so that I can import it onto another computer and still keep the Events I've organized etc. How can I do this?
Every time I go to jailbreakme.com on my device, the site says "Not supported on your device." Like I said, I have an iPod Touch 4g, ios 4.3.3. And the site clearly says my version and device is supported. Help please, thank you.
In iPhoto '11, I have created a slideshow and sent it to iDVD 7.1.2 (Share > iDVD...). iDVD does fine with maintaining the timing, the music, the transitions, etc. However, even though I have the project set to 16:9 and under iDVD's options I have disabled "Always scale slides to TV Safe Area" the images of the slideshow are stretched vertically, compressed horizontally. No toggling of any of these options has had any effect. Burning to DVD, "burning" to image, and preview all show the same thing: stretched/compressed images. This is not a problem of my player's aspect ratio, or my TV's aspect ratio. How do I prevent image scaling when burning an iPhoto Slideshow in iDVD?
I bought 2 usb cables to sync and charge. The problem is that my iPod Touch says "unsupported cable" and will not charge (but can sync over usb). Is there a cydia hack to stop the os detecting the unsupported cable and start charging? Or a mod to the cable itself?
I have an iPod Touch 3G 64GB with 4.3.3, and, with just 5 videos loaded i get a problem with this symptoms: When I tap Videos, it takes ages to load, crashes, then I can load again, still slow Every video has the same preview thumbnail, taken from a genius playlist
I would like to compare two excel spreadsheets. I have found many Windows-based solution but nothing for Mac OS X. Are you aware of a build-in way to perform a diff (didn't find much in the help) a standalone tool (for Mac) an online tool (data is not sensitive, comparing in the cloud would be no problem)
I have a local folder Photos which keeps growing as I import pictures from the camera. The question: is it somehow possible to easily synchronise the folder with a NAS storage device? I stumbled over this answer, but I wonder if it is also possible with the "onboard tools" of Mac OSX. Actually I would not mind using the command line and kicking of the process manually
For some reason, whenever websites try to identify my location, my MacBook Pro always gets confused and spits out a location that is not based on my current coordinates, but rather is my hometown, Cleaning browser data didn't help to solve this problem, thus I am thinking it has something to do with OS settings. Do you know if and where OS could store my incorrect gps coordinates?
I've noticed that when an application, such as iChat or Twitter for Mac, sends a link to Safari it opens in a new window rather than a new tab. I can manually force it to open in a new tab by holding down cmd, but I'd like this to happen automatically. I don't recall links opening in new windows in Snow Leopard.
I am new to Mac and still struggling to be productive with fewer clicks and keys... When I use Terminal and click on a word, I would like the delimiter to be only space and not other characters like . _ / etc. I want these to be treated as part of the word. Then, I would like to be able to click on a word, be able to select the whole word and then copy and paste it to another place, say command line or into an editor etc. How do I achieve this? Many thanks!
Could I just use something like dd on the paritions? I heard about Carbon Copy Cloner, but that seems to be a file copy rather than a partition copy? Since the 600 GB Drive uses MBR, I need to wipe all partitions anyway and repartition using GPT, correct?
Is it possible to have Aperture import videos alongside pictures when importing from a phone. It can handle videos, but when it shows me the list of things to import, only pictures are displayed.
I am required by my VPN software to have Sophos anti-virus installed and running. However, when I'm NOT on VPN, I don't want it running at all - I want it dead. However, killing the tasks is ineffective:
I have an Apple ID which I had registered years back (when I had bought my Ipod Shuffle). I wanted to use the same Apple ID to download apps on my newly purchased MBP - but whenever I try to login with that Apple ID, it tells me "This ID hasn't been used with Itunes", and proceeds to let me "Review" it. In the last step, I'm asked to furnish credit card information, which I don't want to, since all I want to do is to be able to download free apps !!
I am considering buying a used iPod touch. I really don't know too much about buying used iPod touches. What should I watch out for when I am looking at used iPod touches? (If it makes any difference, I am going with Craigslist rather than Ebay)
When I send photos from my PC to my iPad through iTunes, there is a pre-processing stage where iTunes reduces the photo size and resolution (I think). Does this also happen when I use the Camera Connection Kit to add photos from an SD card? If so, does this mean that I will lose the originals if I delete them from the card?
I'm working on getting Python installed on my Mac 10.5.8 and I have been having a heck of a lot of trouble. The standard downloads at Python.org do not show a compatible version. They have 10.3 - 10.6 for 32 bit They have 10.6 - 10.7 for 64 bit I tried downloading and installing the 32 bit version for 10.5, yet when launching the IDLE, it "Unexpectedly" quits. I've been told that Python comes pre-installed on Mac OSX computers, but when running "python" in the terminal I receive this error: If anyone has any advice or other references not on the python.org site, I would really appreciate it.
I have an iPhone 4 that I got from my uncle (it's a little used), but I don't have the original SIM that came with that iPhone, and I want to unlock it, can I ask the old carrier to unlock it with only the IMEI and others information that do not depend on the SIM card? Will it be able to receive a carrier settings update on iTunes?
Is there an app, or any other way, to make my iPhone 4 to say the name of the caller while ringing, just the same way we are used to on Nokia phones? Preferable without jailbreak or sophisticated scripting trickery...and preferably a text to speech solution.
I bought and downloaded a song in iTunes on a PC of mine. I never synced it to my iPhone. Well, I got a new computer, and no long have the old one. I think there might be a problem now. Here is what happens when I click Check For Available Downloads in iTunes: And here is what happens when I click on buy, for the song in the iTunes Store:
Today I spilled some yogurt I was drinking. My iPod Touch was right there besides the glass, so almost all the screen was covered. I quickly cleaned it with a wet towel, but some yogurt got into the USB cable port. I left the iPod standing vertically for a while, hoping that the yogurt would just fall off.
I am really annoyed how iCal uses Mail.app to try to send e-mail notifications. It always pops up Mail.app and I do not want it to at all. How can I make iCal use Sparrow instead to send e-mail notifications/reminders? I tried this: *=URL=* But that didn't work for some reason.
I recently upgraded to Lion and since then I haven't been able to use Keychain to look at my stored passwords. When I click on the checkbox to show them it prompts me for my master password, then pops up a dialog that says "Access to this item is restricted".
I have the AirPlay enabled B&W Zeppelin Air all set up correctly on my local WiFi. However, quite often when waking my iMac from sleep it will have disappeared from the list of AirPlay devices in iTunes to stream to.
I have a Macbook Pro 13 inch from 2009 on which I spilt gin a few months ago. As a result the shift key is constantly stuck down.
I own an iPad 2 with 3G but I've not inserted SIM card and I'm not planning to unless it's really necessary to get GPS working. I was wondering if iPad 2 3G can navigate without SIM card (thru Navigon for example)?
Many moons ago I installed an application that moves downloads into a desktop folder with today's date as the title. I would like to stop this behavior. However, I cannot remember what I did to cause this behavior. Specs: 10.7.x Mac Pro. Things I've tried: I checked System Preferences and Activity Monitor, and see nothing obvious. I made a separate test user account, and this behavior does not occur in this account. Any other ideas what to look for to get rid of this, would be most welcome.
I had a few apps originally purchased through the App Store that got corrupted. I removed them with the intent of re-installing them from the App Store, but it seems that the App Store thinks they're still/already installed. The action button is disabled. I found How can I reinstall an application that the Mac App Store thinks is installed already? but the solution reported there didn't work for me.
I found that the apps I have stored in iTunes take up more than 10GB of space on my computer. Since I have a 128GB SSD I'd like to tell iTunes not to backup apps. I can download them again for free, anyway. If I uncheck the Sync Apps box, I get the message:
I have been living in the past, and it is finally catching up to me. What is the cheapest way to upgrade from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6?
I have, stupidly, upgraded to OS Lion on both my desktop and laptop. I've now done a hard restore on my laptop, back to Snow Leopard, and reinstalled my photo software, which wouldn't work with Lion. Now I need to remove Lion from my desktop, but must save 19,000 photos first, either by transferring onto my laptop (preferred) or onto my WD 2Tb hard drive, so I can reinstall after downgrade to Snow Leopard. Crazy, I know, but I've never needed to do this before, so please be gentle with an upgrade novice.
I just found out that Mac OS X 10.7 ships with STIX fonts (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange format). Can someone explain me how I can make use of these fonts or where there is a tutorial on proper use of these fonts? The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats.
When opening a new tab or window in Safari, sometimes the address field is selected, and sometimes it isn't. If it's not, there's no way to tab to it. Is there a way to make the bar always selected by default?
Could you please recommend me software for drawing plots? I need something like the Grapher application that is included with Mac OS X but with these functions: Axis naming Error bars Advanced working with input datasets(I need to plot data from physics labs) For reference by default Grapher is installed in /Applications/Utilities/
I am using Mac OS X 10.7.1 and Outlook for Mac 2011 (14.1.0); I am looking for a dashboard widget which could list all the tasks I have added in Outlook. Is there one such dashboard widget available? From where can I download it?
A friend who owned my current Mac before me created a lot of alias commands. Is there a way to list all defined aliases and the command that is associated with them? And if so, am I able to edit them or should I just remove them using unalias and recreate them?
Friend of mine has a Powerbook G4. He came across some install disks for 10.4.6, in an envelope, with a bar code on the back. He's asking me if that's all he needs to install the software. Can anybody provide guidance on this?
When I switch to a full screen mode app in OS X Lion, it automatically switches to Desktop 1. I prefer to automatically switch back to the Desktop that I was in before I switched to the full screen app. I tried configuring the app for "All Desktops" and "None" by right clicking on the app in the Dock and choosing "Options". Both resulted in the same problem. Thanks!
I posted this question over at the Apple Support forums a couple days ago, but I haven't gotten an answer yet so I'll also post it here. Ever since I bought my 11' mid-2011 MBA I have issues with wifi. When the computer awakens from sleep, wifi gets turned off and can't be activated again. If I reboot, the wifi icon is greyed out and says "Wifi hardware not installed". The only way to fix it is by turning off and then powering on the MBA.
Is there such a thing as a double wireless earpiece for iPhone 4? I've just bought a wireless earpiece and argh! it's only single ear. I didn't expect that, I mean I didn't even know that anyone would ever sell single ear earpiece.
I have one particular game that saves data through the game center. Somehow the saved game data got messed up which causes the game not to work properly when I a connected to the internet (I.e. When the game center is accessible). Is there some way to delete all the data belonging to that game only?
Is there any way (using apple script or by using settings on chrome) to open Google Chrome in incognito mode.
I would like to know if there is a way to find out the keywords used by an App when they submitted the app to the AppStore?
But I am looking for other ideas as well. I do not know of many applications out there which might be of use for this. Our household has 3 Macs (iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook) and 3 iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch [current gen]). All of the devices except the iMac connect to the network via Wi-Fi. (There is no 3G coverage, so the iPhone or iPad must use the Wi-Fi network.) The network is served by an AirPort Extreme 802.11n (3rd generation) which operates in 'bridge mode' connected to the satellite modem (because the modem has to be the router and DHCP server and I cannot access those controls at all).
When I press F11, It directly shows me the current-desktop of OSX. Now, Let me describe the issue ( which is an issue according to me ).
I have text (3 words) that I want to test by generating this text from a collection of fonts ? do you know any way to automate this?
I've tried to search the Parallels Desktop website, but did not find any information about licensing in this case: If I use the same Apple ID on two Macs, is it then possible for me to install Parallels Desktop on both machines, or would I need to purchase a second product (key)?
I have a number of workstations on a LAN with a new OS X Lion Server. The server is "set up," in that there are user accounts on the server, among other things, but I actually don't know how to connect the individual workstations to the Lion Server. In the Windows world, this would be called "Joining the domain" and, depending upon setup, could include setting up home directories, directory redirection to the server, policies related to mapping certain drives, among any number of things.
I'm able to update other apps, but for several days now I get "An error has occurred" when I press the Update button for the Kindle app:  I wonder if the App Store is confused since it's displaying "No Updates Available" above the update for the Kindle app. I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.1.
I am the sole Mac user in a Windows shop (graphic designer / video editor) and as such mount a Windows share to store all my working files on. I'm experiencing horrific lags from time to time (not always, and not immediately replicatable), particularly when I'm using anything from CS5 (although it's happened when loading MS Word files or moving items through the finder, too). I get the beach ball of doom for up to two minutes (on rare occasions I have to force the application to quit) when I'm loading / saving / placing files (anything where it has to go out to the network share). I'm reasonably certain that the connection to the windows mount is what's causing the problem as when I move the files to a local firewire drive and work from that I don't have any of these issues. I have 1G+ right to the desktop, and it's not a consistent thing(sometimes I can work all day from the network share and sometimes I have to literally force applications to quit and work locally).Web connections ge
I want to invest in an NAS drive for backup & I looked around on the internet to see what is available; I looked at NAS drives from most of the leading brands but most of them get bad reviews especially when the users run Lion. Do you have any tips or suggestions so I can make a good choice & not end up trowing away my money or worse, loosing my data?
I need to get the RGB for a pixel that is in an image. Under Windows this is easy but is there a way to do this on Mac OS X?
Holding C with the DVD inside gives me ten minutes of the optical drive sounds as if it were stuck (to clarify, I never had problems with it before). Then it rebooted and got stuck again.
Following on from my previous question (which I answered myself), Configuring OS X 10.7 Lion Server to serve Rails Apps via Apache ...I'm now looking to set up SSL. Again, I have the config working fine under Snow Leopard, but I want to set this up on a new i7 Mac Mini, so running Snow Leopard isn't an option. I'm using the named virtual host kludge described in the link answer above, but I've been unable to get SSL working. The Snow Leopard config I'm basing my Lion config is included below.
I was wondering if it is possible to download content like an mp3 or movieclip from the internet and directly having it added to the itunes library. So you wont have to connect to the computer to have files sync with your iDevice. Or you can download a movie trailer and automatically have it show up between all your movies. Is this possible, and if so, how?
Is this intended behavior? Is there a workaround that allows AirDropping of "dot" files? To enable seeing hidden files in Finder, I did the following if it makes any difference: $ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
First of all, my Mac Book Pro won't start up after going to sleep mode - all black screen etc. When I choose power down from the menu, well, it doesn't power down completely. The hard drive is still running. Only when I hold down the power button will it power down properly. When I try to boot, the Mac book simply won't turn on; nothing happens until I keep pushing and pushing several times then it turns on, but there is no pattern to how many times I have to push the button. The super strange thing is that it sometimes turns on after a good while, say anything from between 5 min - 30m - 1 hour AFTER I've pushed the power button. And the Mac Book prior to that has no sign of being in sleep mode or anything at all, no heat or anything - just cold and dead. Then I turn my back and then as if nothing has happened it boots up!? I've tried several routines like taking off the power cord, dropping the battery, then holding down the power button for several seconds before then applying the po
If you look at the album art for "Alternative Rock" and "Electronica," iTunes automatically puts up default album artwork and for specific cases, like "Acoustic Rock," it uses the album art of the music artist. How can I change the album artwork to something I want then? For example, I would change the default album artwork for "Alternative Rock" to an image different from "Alternative" music, etc.
Happens intermittently: When I unplug my Sony headphones, I am unable to get my 17" MBP (2.8ghz intel core 2 duo, running Lion), to make any sound. I've tried a handful of different hardware, and nothing will make a peep. Restarting "fixes" it.
On my Windows Vista, I use iTunes to synchronize songs, apps, movies and books (items) with my iPod Touch. The iTunes media folder location is C:\Users\thomas\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media which does not have any items in it. All the items in iTunes have their actual data reside in an external hard drive that always has the same drive letters when connected to my PC and I connect it with my PC only while synchronization with the iPod Touch. Anyway, there are a lot of items added to iTunes and now I have to create a new user profile since my old one got corrupted.
After starting my macbook it is very slow/ not responding at all to mouse clicks and keystrokes. I do not get the famous beachball but just the normal pointer. On windows that are already open i can scroll content with the mousewheel or two fingers on the pad, but thats all the response. If i have a browser open it will respond to mouse over/hover but not to clicks. I have not been able to find the cause for this, i have started up in safe boot, but after a while that gets the same problem, the disk shows to be ok and i started on single usermode to run fsck which also shows ok. I have enough drive space and no processes / tasks eating away resources as far as i can see.
What could be the reasons for my MacBook (early 2009) not shutting down. When issued the shutdown command it won't go pass the hiding of the icons on the desktop. It doesn't freeze (as I can still press the power button to invoke the shutdown dialog and press the button again). It just won't do anything at all. Fixing permissions didn't help as well as resetting system management controller.
Is it possible to run two full screen apps at the same time in OSX Lion when using multiple monitors?
I have just started playing around with text editing using Text Wrangler. I have real estate sales data cut and pasted from a web site on which I have searched and deleted unwanted data and cleaned up the tabs and spaces nicely. However each data record is still split over 2 lines. One line starts with a letter (persons name) and the next starts with an address (a digit). This pattern repeats all the way down the document. How do I say "if line break is followed on next line with a starting digit, replace line break with a tab" I assume that would put each record on one line ?
I want to know if deleted devices from the Developer Portal are reallocated. After deleting a device, I can use that spot to allocate it to a new one? I have read in Program Renewals
I am using 1Password (version 3.8.5) to manage my login data and somehow I am reluctant to use the browser extensions. I want to speed up my login and password acquisition though and therefore I am searching for keyboard shortcuts to: Copy a password Copy a login The keyboard shortcuts for getting to the login I have searched for or for tabbing to the correct item in the UI is something I am already familiar with.
The only problem I have, is the lack of output from the workflow. Doing it manually I have a Terminal window displaying the requests coming in and enabling me to Ctrl+C to end the webserver.
I want to label each axis with an x, y, and z. I know it's possible to label x and y axes in 2D view, but for some reason, I can't do it in 3D view. Any suggestions?
After logging in (typing the passwort) my MacBook Air will display a white screen for about 10 seconds before the desktop appears. How can I find out what is going on and fix it? So far I've tried: deleted the ~/Library/Caches and /Library/Caches folder checked that there are no login items logging in without 'reopening windows' disabled the network (in case it's waiting for a timeout) repaired the disk permissions verified the keychain looked at the output from Console (there is a large gap where apparently nothing is happening) but none of this made any difference whatsoever. I've also created a new user account and I can login to that in about 2 seconds - so I assume that the problem has to be with my account.
Disconnect and connect to device. Works fine. Reboot Mac Connect to the device from the Bluetooth menu
I'm looking for a Lion compatible application similar to AirportLocation that will automatically change the Network Location based on my current location. It's becoming a bigger and bigger pain to change it every day, manually. I have different settings for home and for work. I'll also be adding several new places in up coming weeks. It's a shame that AirportLocation isn't compatible with Lion because it's exactly what I was after and more! Edit: I've seen an application called Sidekick, but I'm preferably after a free application, bash script, whatever.
I have the new Mac Mini with Mac OS X, with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, with 2 GB of DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz, and a graphic card (Intel HD Graphics 3000 288 MB) that uses shared memory; the screen I am using has a resolution of 1600x900. Periodically, Safari keeps freezing, and becoming unresponsive; all I can do is using Finder to force quitting it.
According to the Register Apple is throttling web apps: If a web app is run from the iOS 4.3 home screen – in other words, if it is saved to the screen alongside local apps downloaded from the Apple App Store – and launched into full-screen mode, it runs roughly two to two and a half times slower than it does in the browser, according to various tests. It appears that whereas Apple has updated the iOS 4.3 Safari browser with its high-speed Nitro JavaScript engine, Nitro is not used when web apps are launched from the home screen. Is this true?
As freelance web designer I have a total of four macs. I have an office I use during the day with an iMac and MacBook for taking to client meetings. And I also have a iMac and MacBook at home for generally personal use. I have bought licenses for Coda, Postbox and a few other programs that I use and they work across all four macs but I would like to do the same with Adobe Creative Suite CS5.
I extensively use Launchbar and have almost all my daily productivity items working through it. Since I use my personal MacBook at work, I do not have use a screen saver password, however, when at work, when I leave my desk, I use the Lock Screen feature of Keychain to lock my machine. When at home it hardly ever gets locked, so putting a password on the screensaver is really not useful to me. I have searched far and wide, but can't seem to find a way to have Launchbar emulate the Lock Screen feature of the Keychain. Any suggestions on how this can be achieved using Launchbar? I would also be happy if someone can just provide me with guidance on an AppleScript that can achieve my goal? Solution bmike gave a very usable solution, however I ended up purchasing Lock Screen 2 from the App Store which allows you to set a hotkey to lock your screen among other options.
I would like to stop syncing my iPad with my MBP & start syncing it with my iMac instead; when one connects an iOS device with a machine other than the one they previously synced with they get a message saying that they should erase & sync their device. Is there a way to sync my device to my iMac without erasing all my data first; PS. the MCP & the iMac share the same library.
I bought a Macbook Pro 15 inches 3 months ago. It's running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it has 4GB of RAM. I consider having a fair use of this computer : - surfing (Chrome) - developing (Fraise) - gaming But after some hours of use, here is what happens :
Is it safe to uninstall stock OS X applications that I do not use? They're really just taking up space on my Applications list (and my SSD). The applications I'm eyeing for deletion are: Front Row iDVD Image Capture iMovie Mail Photo Booth Stickies Textedit Does OS X malfunction if these stock applications are uninstalled?
The only internet connection point in my current apartment is PPPoE service(via cable). I can plug it into my Macbook Pro to get internet connection. The problem is how to bring the internet connection to my iPad. Is it possible to configure my Macbook Pro as a wireless rounter for my iPad? Or, if I have a separate wireless router with the PPPoE cable plugged in, how can I get it to work?
My Gmail drafts are not syncing properly between Apple's Mail.app (on the Mac) and the Mail app on the iPad. What is the proper way to set up drafts so that they sync properly?
Is there any way to change the dictionary used in iBooks? When reading books written in a non-English language I would like to have access to the dictionary function in the book's language (not translation, just dictionary lookup). Currently I'm reading Don Quijote in Spanish, and it would be really helpful to be able to lookup unfamiliar words.
How can I add a static route "forever", that means without retyping add route in Terminal each time I'm using VPN? I found this solution for 10.6, but what if there is a nicer one for 10.7?
All the packages needed to install gnuplot through MacPorts on Lion succeed, except for aquaterm. Installing gnuplot through Fink is far less lucky on Lion. Fink bails out after only a third of the packages needed for gnuplot have been installed, but Fink does install aquaterm. Is there a way to 'port install gnuplot' while pointing MacPorts to the aquaterm installation generated by Fink?
With my 2011 MBP, when connected to my external screen I always encounter an issue when waking up from sleep mode, if the lid was closed (and only if lid is closed from what my tests show). To summarize:
I've imported most of a javascript code base via mdimport (using the packaged SourceCode.mdimporter provided by Xcode) and it succeeds. However, mdfind only ever returns to me at most two results, those being the two most recently accessed files. For example, if files A, B and C all contain the substring "term", mdfind "term" would show only A and B. If I then opened file C, the subsequent call of mdfind would only show B and C. How do I get mdfind to return to me all files containing my term?
I enable the sync with Google inside the preferences of address book on snow leopard but I don't know how to set the time between the syncing and how to force to update. I added a new contact to gmail from the web browser now I eed this contact in the iPhone and on the iMac too. Before Lion there was iSync which stay in the status bar and keep update my contacts every time I wanted, but now with Lion it's gone! How do I do that?
I've got a weird problem that is almost certainly a configuration issue. I send calendar requests to 3 people via MobileMe (for shared calendaring), and 2 of the people receive Accept/Decline buttons in their HTML emails (and also an ICS file), but one does not. I've checked all sorts of settings, but I can't figure out why he doesn't get the Accept/Decline buttons or ICS attachments when the others do! Any ideas?
On a computer, in iTunes I add a number of video files that I group by marking them as TV Shows. The shows, in turn, have files grouped into seasons.
At some point after upgrading to Lion my Time Machine backups have stopped firing on the hourly interval. It works manually, but not automatically. It also works first thing in the morning when I plug the external drive into my laptop.
I saw a similar question (Can I delete the /Developer-3.2.6 or /Developer-3.2.5 folders?), but I am unclear if it would break anything. That question assumes the user is not a developer, so I was a little worried and would like to be sure before I do anything. Can I delete this folder? I updated to Xcode 4, but I am unsure if deleting this would remove things that I may need. For example, before Xcode 4 came out, I installed Xcode 3 to compile my C programs (gcc). Right now, there is a Developer and a Developer-3.2.5 folder, so I assume Developer is for Xcode4 stuff.
I'm looking for a screenshot tool that will snap the current page, in its current state. So if I've filled out a form, or changed the page from its default state in some way via DHTML, or I'm using AdBlock, that's what the screenshot looks like. SnagIt Pro on Windows works this way. But the screen shot utilities that I've used on MacOS that do scrolling captures of full web pages all seem to send the URL of the desired page via Applescript and then snap the page using their own browser-like engine, which doesn't give me the state that I want.
I have had instances of people deleting my applications (purposedly or unpurposedly) and it's a real annoyance to get them back, plus you lose all of your data. Is there a way to password protect the removal of applications, maybe through the use of a Cydia tweak?
UPDATE: Here is an example of a broken .ico file produced by Icon Composer. My coworkers are all on Windows 7, so it's not just a Windows XP issue.
Basically, the Macbook Pro 13inch (early 2011) has only one audio jack, but I need two. What I want to do is to plug in my electric piano (I have a male-to-male audio cable, I plug one end into the piano, the other in the microphone jack) into the computer, then play some backing track on the computer, and finally plug in headphones into the computer so that I can listen both to what I'm playing and the backing track.
When I sync my iPad, a random selection from each event is there after I sync. Some events seem to have all of them, some have only one (of hundreds), some have a minority percentage. And there's no rhyme or reason - it's not the first, last, edited ones, or any other category I can think of. I've tried rebuilding Aperture's database, turning photo syncing off, syncing, and then turning it on again, restarting, all to no avail. I do get the "some of your pictures couldn't be sync because they can't be dispayed on your iPad, but I always do, and can't fathom that's the issue - they're standard, non-giant jpegs. Help?
I need to preload and preconfigure some software on an iPad, and then give the iPad to someone else. I thought about just buying the software with my App Store account, but is there a way that I can "transfer" the ownership of the app (and the registration of the iPad itself) to the other person?
I just got an iPad and want to know, what is the best way to set up Gmail on the iPad? As far as I can tell there are three methods to set up the account: As a Gmail account As an Exchange account
I had a Leopard server with a few hundred users (students), and each of them was able to maintain their own web content in their Sites folders in their home directories -- and they could access them (from either inside or outside the network) by going to *=URL=* Just migrated to a Lion server, and everything is working perfectly, except now visiting any of those home directory sites nets us a 404. I can't find anything in the GUI apps that looks like it could help with this... am I missing something? I've already tried re-creating the whole OD structure, but that hasn't helped.
Intermittently, I witness a freeze with my MacPro and I was wondering if anyone has had a similar freeze and found a cure. Some background: I have my screen saver turned off. I have Energy Star set to never put the computer or the display to sleep. I generally Switch out to the Login Dialog and turn my monitor off because often times I remote into this computer and it freaks family members out when they see a computer operating by themselves...
At some point in the past, I had a folder on my desktop that I placed temporary music files off of my Aunt's iPod. I imported the files from her old school iPod in order to add to her iTunes library and import to her iPhone. This specific path to the folder was ~/Desktop/Jean.
I have OS X Lion installed on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I also have SIMBL with two plugins: Colorful Sidebar and Safari Omnibar. I (obviously) have Finder launch when I login, and I also have Safari launch at login.
I have Sparrow configured for my personal gmail account, and Mail.app for working. However, every time I open Sparrow, it will set itself as the default .eml file reader, although I didn't config the Sparrow doing so (as in the following picture). I like to use the Mail.app as the default .eml file reader, so every time after I use Sparrow, I have manually re-config the .eml file reader to Mail.app. Is it a Sparrow's bug?
I imported pictures into Aperture from iPhoto and since then, added a lot of new ones. I'd like to start over because the dates on the tags/folders in which the pictures are organized are not consistent. In effect, what I'm looking for is a way to do a re-import of all pictures in my current Aperture library (not that many... just over 1,000) to have it apply its import rules/magic to have it all sorted properly.
I wonder if some of you have found a way to share an iPad in a family and keep a reasonable privacy on the emails stored on the device (since there is nothing like a session management feature...) Any tricks or ways to handle this?
We have a Time Capsule in the office. I'd like to share a clickable link to a specific folder on the Time Capsule with my fellow employees. Is there any way to do this? Ideally, I'd like to be able to email out a link to people and they can click the link at it will open a Finder window in the specified folder on the Time Capsule. Thanks.
whenever i used to leave my system i just press WINDOWS+L in my windows system. Now i have macbook pro with snow leopard OS and i am searching for equivalent of windows+l. So my question is what is the keyboard shortcut to lock macbook pro?
When Xcode is installed your best bet to change a file's creator is SetFile. I only found AppleScript. Unfortunately, while the type is set correctly, the second line silently fails on my 10.6: How can I change a file's creator code on a vanilla (just installed) system, even when Xcode is not installed?
I can't access Server.app in my mac mini server, i don't know why. The username and password are correct. How can I solve this problem?
After upgrading to Lion (10.7.1) a while ago I'm currently faced with a very poor performance of my system. It's a 2.2 GHz Core2Duo with 4 GB RAM and a 500GB HD. E.g. the JBoss6 AS needs about 5 minutes to start (compared to 1 minute before facing this problems), or after starting Safari and loading a page it's freezed about 5-10 seconds until the Flash animations are available. I tried the XBench test and wondering about the Disk Tests [4K blocks, 256K blocks]:
Whenever I access Terminal and press Command ⌘ + Delete ⌫ my screen flashes white. It also happens when Chrome's Command ⌘ + F returns no results. Have I somehow messed up my settings?
Under Snow Leopard, sometimes a strange behaviour occurs in Exposé. I swipe four fingers down to activate it, optionally hover over another window, and swipe four fingers (I believe) again. Instead of closing exposé, the order of two windows change, with an animation. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what I am doing to trigger this. Any ideas?
Just wondering if I can, using Disk Utility, format the hard drive such that it is OS X Extended (HFS+) Journaled encrypted. Will Lion be able to install on that disk?
I've started using spotlight with webpages today. It will actually index the content of web pages in your history and bookmarks. It's great. But I can't find any documentation on how to use it. My understanding is spotlight doesn't index URLs that start with *=URL=* of the main wikis that I use has all pages behind *=URL=* so I would very much like to change this.
The Dropbox app is shown in Launchpad. When I click on it's icon to launch it nothing happens and I return to my browser. Is this normal?
I have recently starting using Mail.app with two email accounts (work and home). Every now and then I send email while having the wrong folder selected, and the default "from" account will be not what I expect. Are there any extensions or tips to make the currently selected "from" jump out at me in the compose window if it's not the 'default' from address? In other words, 99% of the time, I use my main account, but if I accidentally open a compose window with the alternate account, I'd like a different background color in the compose window, or some big flashing icon or something. The problem case happens because I was reviewing a folder in the non-default account. Any ideas?
Is it possible to set up Terminal to launch a new window by default? I recently came from running Ubuntu and I normally open hundreds of terminals a day. It's a pain to have to always right-click on the shortcut and select "New Window". If I could use Spotlight and have it open a new window instead of giving focus to the existing window, it would speed things up a lot.
When I try to rename a file (by pressing enter, then changing the extension of the file), it pops up with an alert asking "Are you sure you want to change the extensions ... " and the old extension is selected in blue. I haven't found a keyboard shortcut for selecting the new extension from the popup alert. Is there a way? I need to rename dozens of files, and doing it all through the keyboard would be so much quicker than selecting this one alert with a mouse.
Lion's new mail.app update has a great feature for displaying emails where it shows "related" messages, ie both messages received and Sent are shown in the same conversation. Is there a way to get this on the iPad?
Currently, I'm using the incredibly agonizing xattr command to list the extended attribute and then strip them. For example, the above would be carrying the following as shown by xattr, In this case, I would have to strip the resources one at a time, again using xattr, This is quite arduous when you sometimes have dozens of files and has become far too much of a pain.
After logging on, I see this dialog box pop up. Whenever I dismiss it, it reappears 30 seconds later. (Stealing focus at the same time! Grrrr!)
I have an iPhone 3GS and am trying to upload a video I shot in the Apple Camera app. Here's what I do: Go to the video I want to upload Tap "Send to YouTube" Enter my Gmail username and password for "YouTube password" I also try my old YouTube username and password
I have two batteries from my old 15" Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo (Early 2008). It's a non-unibody (discrete) model. Anyone know of any way to use these batteries to power my 2nd Gen Macbook Air? An external battery costs ~$300-$450 and it seems kind of unnecessary if there is an adapter or some hack job way to make the old batteries work. Note: I'm not talking about replacing the macbook air batteries, I'm talking about using the macbook pro batteries as an external battery connected to the magsafe power port.
Is there any way to use "Option" as the meta key in OS X Lion's Terminal.app? The checkbox that was present in Snow Leopard is nowhere to be found.
I'm pretty sure before Lion, I was using /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages Although this might have been from a manual install of 2.7 on 10.6 OS X. Anyway, any idea where standard location is for python packages that are installed?
I stream a lot of videos on my iPad. Vimeo, stuff on Apple.com, and more. The place where I consistently have a problem though, is YouTube. On a video such as this embed on Devour, about 10 seconds or so of content will play, and then playback will stop for 30-60 seconds as content buffers. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this, or better yet fix it? For starters, I'm using my ISP's DNS server, as not doing so has led to problems with streaming from Apple and Netflix.
I have recently purchased a MacBook Air and the speakers sound tiny. Does anyone know how many watts the speakers in the 2011 Macbook Airs have?
I need a small graphical utility, using which I can ssh to a server and see all the files and copy and paste (drag and drop) into my local machine. I am running Snow Leopard.
I've got a question about the prompt in Mac's Terminal. I opened Terminal and was installing GIT. I don't know anything about Unix or how to use Terminal, so please forgive my ignorance. (I know that Terminal is very powerful, though. And it's easy to screw things up!) The prompt reads as follows:
As far as I understand there's no way to make Time Machine with SMB/CIFS; you have to connect using AFP. Is that true ? Is there a way to make it work ? I'm using OS X Lion.
Is it possible to close a window within the Mission Control interface? E.g. by highlighting a window and perform a keyboard/mouse shortcut?
Having several related files in different folders, I was looking for a way to combine them in the same view, like the "Libraries" of Windows Explorer in Win7. While Finder has great smart folder capabilities, I don't see any way to do this? Third-party tools are welcome.
I am aware that iPad does not have a file-system in traditional sense. I want to know how Safari for iOS behaves when trying to download/upload files from/to a website.
In previous versions of Mac OS X, to select a whole row of files, you select the file which comes first in the row and then select the last file with a shift+click. When I try this procedure in icon view in Lion, it behaves as if I would select the files separately.
there I know there's many ways to transfer multiple pictures from an iPhone to an iPad,but i want to transfer them using only the iPhone and iPad, without a PC or Mac. I was wondering if there was an app that would allow me to do this on the go. Hope you nice guys can help me,ths!
I recently went to a Tweetup event and want to scrape from my Twitter account all the tweets made during that either by selecting a date/time range or by matching to a hash tag. Is there an app to pull all these tweets out (hopefully with links intact) and all so I can "archive" them on my own web site?
I want to connect a camera (web cam or just regular digital camera) to the iPad and download the pictures from the camera and showing it on the iPad. I need it to be live - take a picture with the camera and than download it from the camera into the iPad. any suggestions? Is there a way to connect the camera to the iPad and connect the power supply of the iPad at the same time (the iPad should be connected to power supply all the time). if it is not possible is there any other tablets which can make these requirements? Thanks in advance, Shahar.
The DMG now pretty much fills A, and I'm fine with that. This is not about space on A.
I need to purchase 10 licenses for an app found on the Mac App Store (not iTunes). How do I go about purchasing those 10 distinct licenses and then deploy them to their respective machines?
I often use emacs from a terminal (emacs -nw), and when comparing two files side-by-side (C-x 3) it is often useful to go into full-screen mode. I'm using a 27" screen, so full-screen mode provides a lot of screen real estate, usually more than I need. To counteract this, I typically increase the font size under Terminal->Preferences->Setings.
I would effectively like to switch from a case-sensitive journaled filesystem to that of a case-insensitive journaled filesystem. Booting into Lion's recovery allows me to format the drive as I wish, however, no matter what I choose Time Machine will always reformat it as a case-sensitive journaled filesystem (which makes sense). My question is, how can I make this switch?
I'm trying to find the best means of stopping dmg files mounting in OS X 10.6. I was shown a system where 'no mountable filesystem,' would pop up whenever a user tried to mount a dmg but I can't recall how it was achieved. I'm currently using parental controls but it keeps getting circumvented. Any help appreciated.
Whenever I right-click on a file and go to the Open With> menu, it always takes forever to load. I know I'm not the only one with this problem (at least I think so), so I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to speed it up. Is there a way to speed it up or to remove certain application from the menu?
I would like to reverse the resume keys for Safari. i.e.; Command-Q should quit and not save any tabs (since that is what I normally want to do). Cmd-Opt-Q should save windows. I know I can disable resume system-wide. I know I can use or other trickery (locking the saved state folder) to disable Resume per application. In this case, I don't want to disable Resume for Safari, I just want it to reflect that 90% of the time, it isn't what I want to do.
There's this website I need to access about every ten minutes. And apparently it was designed in 1993, by sadists. There is no "remember me on this computer" checkbox. And if you don't interact with it for a minute or two it logs you out. I would like to somehow implement a keystroke that will bring my browser to the foreground, open a new tab, enter my username and password, and click "Login".
I created a few services with Automator and it seems OS X automatically adds these to the context menu of files/folders that they apply to. Is it possible to remove the services from the context menu BUT still have them be accessible from the application's Services menu (under App Name > Services)? Services appear to be stored in ~/Library/Services, and when I remove them from this folder, they're removed from both the context menu and the Services menu.
After running flawlessly for 2 years, my 6 Gig Mac Pro has started to suffer a kernel panic about once a day. Nothing really has changed as far as I know. Two details, probably irrelevant, I installed Lion about a month+ ago. And I have had an Android tablet attached via USB and enabled for remote debugging. I ran a memory diagnostic (rember) and it didn't find any problems. This is what I find in the Kernel log just before the crash: I've seen a variety of messages mentioning these errors but nothing conclusive. If there's a hardware problem, is there a definitive diagnostic that I can run to prove or disprove it?
I have been trying to run Nautilus on OS X 10.6.8 without any luck. First, I installed MacPorts, then installed Nautilus. However when I try to run it from the command line, I am getting an error. I came to this thread and followed the instructions given. However I am still getting this error:
Is there some keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture, or add-on I can install that will allow me to maximize terminal windows vertically? When I press the green button on a terminal, it maximizes vertically and horizontally. I want a way to maximize vertically only.
If someone has a word that they commonly use, but OS X Lion keeps "correcting" to something in it's dictionary, how does the user add the word to Lion's dictionary?
How can I change the default text color (black to dark grey) in Mail on Lion?
Recently, I received a compressed file with an RAR extension from a colleague. Not being able to view it under MacOS, I went on to download the MacPort php5-rar thinking that it would solve my problem. I soon realized that this was not a utility, but an API for viewing, extracting and creating RAR files programmatically. Please correct me if I am wrong, since the only documentation I have been able to find on this MacPort thus far is an API reference manual.
Does anybody know where the folders containing the default (i.e. system) wallpapers are located on OS X Lion? (it may not have changed from previous versions of OS X, so please also tell me if you know where they are on a previous version of OS X). Thanks!
iTunes is not recognizing my iPod Touch. I tried re-installing iTunes but that didn't help. At first, my iPod was recognized by the computer as a digital camera but this has already been fixed.
My Apple TV2 stopped responding to the IR remote all of a sudden. The white LED would blink with every button press, but nothing would happen. I was able to pair the Apple TV's remote with my Macbook Pro, and it worked fine. My old plastic IR remote, which still works with my MBP also displayed the same behavior with the Apple TV. The Apple TV did respond to the iOS remote app, so that's not the problem either.
I have multiple volumes on my mac and I just enabled encryption on the other drives. My home folder is stored on one of those drives. Now I can't login because it can't see my home directory, but if I login with my admin account it unlocks the drives and then I can login. How do I add those passwords to my login keychain, so they can find my home directory?
I have been using the default installation of oh-my-zsh (robbyrussell theme) without issues. I just did a 'git pull' and now on startup I see a weird prompt. As soon as I press any key the prompt becomes normal and I can use the terminal without any issues. I assume something in the startup script got damaged or changed when I updated or possibly the prompt config? Here is the contents of the theme file: I am a Mac OSX and terminal newbie so sorry if it is obvious. Thanks, Jarrod
Windows never likes when you stick things into different (USB) holes. It has to recognise the thing again, install drivers, again, etc.
I woke up this morning to my MBP whizzing along (i.e. the fan that is). Looking at Activity Monitor, I saw gpg-agent taking up 97% of cpu, and launchd taking 60%, plus maybe one or two that were also high (one of them was font related -- fontd? I forget). I am using Mozy, and it was doing a backup over night, but it has been for the last few weeks. After killing all my apps, these runaway processes remained, so I restarted, and the issue resolved itself.
I need to create a common development workspace between two macs connected in a wi-fi network. Sort of like a shared folder. But the problem using a shared folder is that there are a lot of ownership issues and stuff. The ownership can be for both or an individual mac. Any ideas ?
I have File Sharing enabled in OS X Lion, and I'm accessing the shares using Win XP and Win 7 boxes. I can read and write fine, by when I create a new file, the permissions for that file defaults to 600, and is accessible only by the account authenticated with SMB. If I edit files, permissions are not changed. It is only new files that have this problem. This means other accounts on OS X cannot access the files, and neither can the apache server, which runs as _www I think. Is there a way to make Lion SMB mark new files as 644 instead?
In addition to whatever files I may choose to exclude, what files does the system exclude by rule or classification?  It might make sense not to backup Trash or Caches, but I'm looking for a way to tell what files are skipped "behind the scenes." Knowing if the system maintains an exclusion list or exclusion pattern would be very helpful in managing larger groups of macs.
I am fed up with the text editor TextMate. It's great, but it's old and keeps crashing on me. No development in (what, 3+?) years, etc.
Has anyone had any luck installing openconnect on OS X? I have downloaded the source code but I can't figure out how to build it. The instructions on their website say to extract the code and run make, but doing so gives an error: My reasons for wanting this are: The current version of Cisco AnyConnect is incompatible with OS X Lion I'm interested in the idea of wrapping the vpn connection in a deployment shell script
When I edit my hosts file to redirect a URL to a specific IP address, nothing happens. My hosts file looks like this - 199.204.138.195 zionica.com this is in the directory /private/etc/hosts. I am not all that familiar with the Terminal nor it's commands so I'm having difficulty troubleshooting my problem.
If I update an event on my iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.3.3, it is updated correctly on the MobileMe calendar web site, but not on iCal – I have to refresh the latter manually. I took a look at my system log, and there are entries like this:
I have pianobar installed and I'm trying to update it using brew update pianobar. I also tried brew update pianobar --force but that didn't have any effect. It says that I have local changes, but I'm not sure how to tell it to just overwrite these.
If I have three windows open in Safari and minimize one of them, then I try to switch between windows by pressing Control+' it only switches to windows that re not minimized. How do I include that window that was minimized?
I really hate the blue-purple color of the Lion (and Snow Leopard before it) menu bar selection. Isn't there some way to change this? I've tried tweaking everything, but Apple seems to have decided that we should all use this absurdly bright color unless we want to go totally monochrome and use Graphite (which I don't). I assume the same fix should apply to Snow Leopard.
I just ran a system update on Lion and after the reboot I got issues with Mission Control. Namely,
I'm on a MacBook Pro running Lion. During a Keynote presentation that's running in full screen, I'd like to be able to switch to a different desktop with the four-finger-swipe gesture to demonstrate a Web site with Safari.
Is it possible to add a button to the Lion finder that goes up a directory? I looked at the buttons available under customize and didn't see one, but thought there might be a hack out there.
My company runs an exchange server which also provides outlook web access. The thing is that I cannot connect using activesync from the iphone because the exchange server is only reachable through a VPN. But OWA is not, so I can use it with safari. Is there any way to configure the mail app to connect using OWA instead of activesync/exchange somehow?
What is the best way to output the sound of my macbook to my hifi system without using the headphone jack? Is there a way to use bluetooth or airplay or whatever to output all sound (and I mean not only iTunes Music) ? What hardware do I need for this? Since Airfoil has a very high latency, is there another solution that has a latency under 1 second?
So I listed the files under that location and it seems the whole Sites folder is gone. I found out later that Mac OS X doesn't include that folder under your user account by default.
I have a MacBook with Lion installed. I bought VMWare Fusion 4 because I want to create a Lion VM. As far as I can tell I need to point VMWare to the Lion installer that is downloaded from the App Store, but that file deleted itself after Lion was installed. How do I re-download the Lion installer (and keep it around) to create a VMWare Fusion 4 virtual machine?
The dialog only shows up when I have no internet connection. Great. That dialog won't magically help me know encryption keys to random networks I am around. There is only like one time that it was useful, and thats the first time I ever turned this machine on. The dialog is annoying.
Quick question that I just can not seem to find an answer for. I am wondering whether or not when using Documents to Go on my iOS device (iPad 2), if I open a file in safari, will this app help safari render the .doc or .ppt, whatever office format, correctly. Currently it can open the file but it does display the information and equations that are present in the document.
I frequently find that a Terminal command to open a file in TextEdit would be very handy. Does such a command exist on Mac OS X?
I keep typing in Russian keyboard layout into Safari address bar by accident. This drives me mad because I usually end up loading domain-for-sale pages.
I have tap to click enabled. Is there a gesture that I can use to drag and drop? (especially in Finder). I do not want to over-ride the new three finger swipe for dektop change.
I edited ftp.plist by using sudo nano in terminal, and I saved by control + O but after reboot, it changed again. How can I save the file?
Since updating to OSX Lion on my late 2009 iMac, I have noticed some strange behaviour while using my computer. Every hour or so (I'm not actually sure about this pattern), the application that I am using will suddenly freeze. I will then hear my external hard drive spin up, and eventually, the application will begin to work again.
I have a Time Machine backup but, as I understand it, it backs up everything. I wish to do a reformat to get rid of a lot of useless clutter I have, a lot of which I'm not even sure where it has been installed to! This includes MacPorts where, when I try the uninstall everything command, the computer just hangs. Do I need to find my Snow Leopard disk in order to reformat and install Lion? Is it easy to just pull out my data, such as from iTunes, Aperture and my documents folder from my Time Machine?
I just got a new macbook pro. It runs Lion.
I choose to use a time capsule to initialize my new MacBook Pro. All went well until I tried to use applications bought from the AppStore. Some of them don't start and eventually ask me for my Apple ID. After some time it gives this:
My Macbook Pro using a Wifi internet connection & I would like to share this connection to other systems in my house. When I tried to configure by myself I don't see the usual "airport" option to create the ad-hoc connection. How can I do this in lion OS X?
I would like to share my wired connexion by Wifi. As you may know, Mac OS Internet Sharing option doesn't support more than WEP security protocol. In other words, it's creating a nearly opened network.
I'm dual booting OS X (Lion) and Arch Linux, and when I hold down "option" during the boot process, I am presented with both of my startup disk options (i.e., OS X and Linux); however, they are named "IluvatarHD" and "Windows". Does anybody know of a way to rename the "Windows" option to something more accurate. I assume this is on the Mac OS X side as nowhere on my Arch install is the label "Windows" applied. In an ideal world, I would be able to change the disk icon as well... NOTE: I've uninstalled refit as it's unnecessary once Arch has been installed and would rather keep using the Apple boot loader. Any help would be appreciated!
I know that when I close a finder window the next time it opens, it will open at the same size. This works with me for a while, but sometimes all the finder windows just go back to the default size (Small window) except for the Macintosh HD folder!
I recently used ifconfig en1 1.2.3.4 to set the IP address of a network interface (specifically, the wireless card) on a Mac… How can I remove/unset it? Using the graphical network configuration tool doesn't seem to change (or even be aware of) this address - when I use it to manually set an address, a second address is added to the device. For example, right now ifconfig shows:
What is the difference between cron and lauchd? I have always used cron, but I have recently heard that launchd is better. Why? In what ways is cron better? In what ways is launchd better?
This article describes a feature I heard about from multiple sources about an automagic backup migration process that Lion will do for you. Essentially, when migrating to a new machine, you can maintain your backup history and use the same backup drive on your new machine.
Is there a way to start an application as another user so that the started application would use the other user's preferences/history/resources et al? For example: I've logged in as Alice and I'd like to start Firefox as Bob, so therefore Firefox would show Bob's browsing history instead of Alice's. I tried But with no apparent effect; as a matter of a fact Activity monitor shows the Firefox process is being run by Alice—not Bob. I understand I will need Bob's login credentials, but that's not a problem.
I'm shopping for a 17-inch MacBook Pro and trying to figure out my minimum specs. From the Apple website it appears these are the two procesor options... 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 6MB shared L3 cache; or optional 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache Do the additional .1 Ghz and 2 MB of cache make the 2.3 Ghz model noticeably faster? (I do understand that HD access is usually the biggest bottleneck, but for my particular tasks CPU speed does make a difference.)
I have an iMac 21.5" and a MacBook pro. How can I connect the macbook pro to use the iMac's screen?
I have a Logitech USB webcam, and need to display the image from it on a second monitor, delayed roughly 15 seconds ish. How would I do this?
I'm dual-purposing a new Mac mini (2011) as a desktop machine and media center. I will be using a DisplayPort to DVI adapter to use with the desktop monitor, and a long HDMI cable to go directly to an HDTV at the other end of the room.
Is there any way to play PPC applications on Lion without running them in a VM? The application in question is Halo Demo.
Since the decommission of Halo Demo for Mac, I have had no decent LAN/Internet games to play with my Mac. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Like picture in picture, I want a 'always in front' spaces in spaces. So if I am working or programming in one space, I can see another space that may be playing a video on the bottom right corner. Is there such thing?
I upgraded to Lion recently. I noticed tonight that backups performed on Snow Leopard do not show in the Time Machine interface so I cannot restore from them. If I browse my backup volume I can see my backups exist right back to December 2009. How do I get Time Machine in Lion to recognize my old backups?
Judging by the label in the Wi-Fi menu at the right of the top bar, my MacBook is connected just fine to the Siemens Gigaset SE567, which I'd like to use as a wireless router. Judging by the lights on both the router and the cable modem (Motorola SB5101 Surfboard), that connection is also good.
I would like to move folders like 'Pictures', 'Documents', 'Movies' to a different from the default under the root of user's home location, preferably into a sub-folder under the same user's home folder. For example, user/Music would go to user/stuff/Music. I'd rather not create symbolic links to moved folders, but change system's behaviour altogether, so it knows where to find those folders. Please bear in mind that I do not want to move user's home folder, but just those ones, for example, move them to /Users/[user name]/stuff/ since I don't like them polluting the home folder there.
After going to: Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control
A guy on eBay seems to has a lot of new-in-box machines for sale for much less than you'd pay at the Apple store. In fact he has one with the specs I want.
I am buying a Macbook Air and would like to know about the difference between the i5 and the i7 option. The i7 is only 100mhz faster and has 1mb of extra cache on the CPU. Does that small difference make a big difference to performance? Or is it so small that its not really worth the AU$100 extra?
I'm pretty new to iTunes. I have a video series that I want it to be imported to iTunes and be organized in this hierarchy:
I converted many media files in iTunes to be suited to iPod. Now I have all the selected files along with the converted files (unselected).
Does anyone know of an icon set that he's the same blue icons as are standard in Lion, yet with extended meaning? E.g. a folder with a pacman figure (to denote a games folder) on front.
How do I correct the "screen lock" on my iPad? I used to be able to turn the unit a quarter turn and the screen would adjust to my movement. Now it is somehow "Locked". How can this be fixed?
Is there a way I can track total bandwidth usage over the course of a month? My service provider requires me to stay within fairly strict limits.
I'm trying to configure VPN on my Mac Mini Server running OS X Lion 10.7.1 with Server app. I have a SKY D-Link ADSL router connected via ethernet is Apple AirPort Extreme and my other devices including my Mini connect to my AirPort Extreme via Wi-Fi.
There are 3rd party apps but I'm not interested in those. I'm a web developer and during testing I find myself entering login credentials over and over again. If I could quickly "play" these keystorkes it would help my sanity. I'm assuming Automator can do this? I've never used Automater so a complete answer for that would be appreciated. However I would prefer something even more native if it's possible.
Have any of you faced some problems with the new Lion Mission Control after migrating from Snow Leopard. I have the following two problems.
I am struggling with the new Lion finder features. There are some subtle differences that are putting me off.
My specific interest is in the context of the Facebook for iOS app, but it can be asked of an iOS app really. Given all the recent changes to Facebook and the way that Facebook cookies are not cleared when you log out of Facebook I've become keenly interested in knowing how my access patterns to Facebook can result in tracking cookies sticking to me.
I believe I've seen one or more utilities, possibly command-line or Applescript, which will take a string and create, for example, an image containing that text with the specified font size, etc. I can't find it again. Does anyone have a hint?
I used to be able to enable “root” user and log in under it. (I know this is not recommended but let's just assume there is an actual reason for doing so.) I just repeated the instructions, set another root password and logged out of my account.
I have a MacBook Pro that I travel with a lot. I also have a NAS for my home network. Many timesI use my MacBook in areas where I do not have Internet access. I'd like to have copies of some of my folders while I travel and sync up when I return back home. Is there anything like the Microsoft 'Offline Files' feature present in the MacOS, or do I need to script something like this myself?
I have the new iMac 21,5" and a Samsung G3 Station 1,5TB external HDD. When I plug my HDD, connecting to energy and via USB, no problems, Mac OS recognizes it and I can use it normally. The problem appears when I put my computer to sleep. When it wakes up, my HDD was unmounted and to use it again I have to remove USB cable and reinsert it. This is annoying me. I have looking for suggestions or improvements to put it work better, but no idea. If you have any ideas, please let me know. Additional Information: Snow Leopard 10.6.8; On restart it works; Disk utility cannot see HDD after it wakes up;
The usual Internet speed test is written in Flash. Is there an HTML one that works with iPad and iPhone?
Is it safe to purchase apps when connected to an unsecured Wifi network (like Starbucks)? Can your password be seen?
I am using a USB wifi adapter on my Lion imac. I am trying to use that connection to create a working wifi hot spot with the imac's internal airport. I tried following these instructions: http://maketecheasier.com/create-wifi-hotspot-using-mac-os-x/2009/10/20
This question says that you can install the same purchase of Lion on multiple non-commercial Apple machines. The accepted answer states the same applies to all App Store purchases. My question however is, once you install something from the app store onto a 2nd machine, do you have to remain logged into the app store.
Consider an iPad 2 using WiFi attepting to make FaceTime calls to users on an iPhone 4. Each contact has their phone number defined under the iPhone tag (as opposed to Mobile). Whenever attempting a FaceTime connection, FaceTime attempts to connect, and fails with the error: FaceTime failed - 'Person' is not available for FaceTime. Measures attempted: close FaceTime from running apps. disable & re-enable FaceTime from Settings. confirmed the device's WiFi is active & enabled. I've seen the 'solution' of "reset all settings", but suspect that's overkill, and likely won't work, as reported by lots of other users. How can this error be avoided?
I've purchased Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Office 2011 (single computer), and have installed and activated on my current Mac. Given that I've already activated the software for my current Mac, what steps should I do to move the app to the new Mac, without having any problems re-activating the software? Would Apple's Migration Assistant automate the process completely?
So I have a regular (fresh) install of OSX Lion on my 2009 MBP, and I installed an SSD as the primary HDD prior to installing Lion. It's a 128GB SSD drive, but the system is using 52.6GB of this for it's swap files, which regularly results in zero space remaining on the drive and the system locking up.
I was looking for an option to use Airdrop to sync a set of directories between two computers. I want to achieve this wirelessly (hence chose Airdrop without having the computers connect on a network or with cross cable wires).
After I upgraded to OS X I am not able to use my ~/.inputrc bindings to search through the shell command history: Any idea what I have to change or do? Are there any default keys for that I could use?
I want to delete a file because it's of no use to me yet I seem unable to do so. I've gone through these steps so far:
I've accidentally overwritten my ~/.bash_profile file. Does anyone have a "sample" one I could copy, or know where I might be able to find one?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 from a USB onto a bootcamp partition. No working :( So, I thought I might try and burn the bootable win 7 usb to a dvd or ISO (and then burn that ISO to disk).
I ran a disk check on my hard disk and the Disk Utility tells me "Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.". The last physical disk I had was the Leopard -> Snow Leopard upgrade and I now do not know where that disk is. Is there a way that I can create a bootable CD, DVD or flash drive, boot the computer from that and repair the hard disk? I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I don't how this happend, but I feel like my machine is experiencing a Being John Malkovich syndrome. There is a folder on my Desktop called Desktop which contains all the other folders on my Desktop. I want to get rid of this folder, but not the contents of my desktop. Any advice?
I have a new macbook pro 15 inch 2011 model. My magic mouse and bt keyboard won't pair. The keyboard doesn't even get detected in the bluetooth settings. How can I get them to work together? I have bluetooth enabled and tried using Setup Bluetooth Device to pair them.
I am in Disk Utility under the Erase Tab. The Format section is grayed out even though I have my main disk selected. The only buttons active are Erase Free Space, but I want to reformat the entire disk.
The problem I now have is that the Mac File Quarantine is triggered when the .torrent file is opened. I get the message:
Does Pages have an in-built formula editor? If yes how do I access it? If no, are there any third party software I can use?
Somehow the Applications icon is gone from my Dock. However I can't just drag the Applications folder (from Finder) into the Dock. How else can I restore it? Is there a config file somewhere for the Dock that I can just edit with vi and fix this? Thanks.
After clearing hundreds of items out of my Downloads folder, I'm eager not to repeat the process. Anyone know of a plugin/app/hack that will let me badge a folder in the Dock with the current number of items in that folder? Such a badge would make it very apparent when I need to access/clear stuff out.
When double clicking an executable file (without a file extension) in Finder, it opens in Terminal by default. I can change that to any other application for this single file, but I cannot change the default for all files.
When I stream audio from my iPhone 4 into my Ford Sync audio system over bluetooth, the audio quality is excellent. However, if I plug in a USB cable to get access to the hands-free features, then the audio quality degrades almost immediately. Sound comes out with "hissing" sounds, pops and cracks. This is even more noticeable when listening to spoken word or podcasts.
Trying to think of software which could be causing the problem it suddenly occurred to me that Growl is also constantly running on both machines which display the problem. However, disabling Growl hasn't stopped the problem from happening...
When I delete an app inside iTunes from the iTunes Library, it will also get deleted from my iPhone, the next time I sync. The same with if I download a new app, it will be transfered to the iPhone. When I install an app on my iPhone it will also be imported to the iTune library, however when I delete an app on my iPhone, it doesn't get deleted from iTunes automatically?
Often when this happens the type on the menu bar will also break up and become sort of faded looking and hard to read. Desktop items may also break up becoming unrecognisable.
I installed Windows 7 64 bit using bootcamp. The Ethernet driver is missing. Can't find it search on disk. Where do I get this driver? I have a Macbook Pro OS X
Under OS X Lion, when downloading a file with Safari, is there a way to keep the downloads window open? After clicking on the "Show downloads" icon, a dialog-like window appears.
Is it me or is Lion's buttons' contrast way too low? The back button (enabled) and forward button (disabled) are almost the same shade of gray.
My computer is pretty snappy, and the UI is typically silky-smooth. However, for some reason, on virtually every Mac OS X computer I've used, opening the Applications folder takes an inordinate (>5 s) amount of time before any icons are shown in the window. Does anyone here know: What the heck is the computer doing? How to speed this up?
Just installed Windows using boot camp. I downloaded the drivers using boot camp. After installing the display says: Mobile PC Display. I have 15 inch Macbook Pro. What display driver do I need to get the right resolution?
Is there any way to always display menu bar in full screen mode in Lion?
I'm trying to write an Automator service for iTunes so that I can immediately open a file from iTunes in VLC, so I don't have to do (show in finder, launch with other application, vlc). I go to Automator, create a Service, in the top right dropdowns, I choose: "Service receives selected audio files in any application", and the script itself is just "Open Finder Items" with VLC.
I was composing an SMS message and then I tapped on send button. This message was composed for group of 50 persons. It started sending messages in background and I could hear the sound of sending messages one by one.
Now, I know I can use iTunes to convert music. But it's quite a pain.. All I'm asking is: Is there anything built into OS X or UNIX for converting files? Right now I simply want to convert .mp4 to .mp3..
I'm writing a user's guide with iWork Pages. The document has multiple sections and sometime on a single page, I'll have an end of a section and a start of another section.
I have an account on dreamhost that autoforwards everything on to my GMail. This is fine as it all gets pulled into my phone, but if I try to reply on my iPhone, it shows the google address, not the fancy forwarded address.
The "Empty Trash" is a bit non-specific for me, as it empties the trash on all connected volumes. In order to empty trash from a single drive (for instance, on a USB stick), I've been going to the terminal and using: What I'd really like is some App/Finder Extension/Menulet/etc that would let me empty the trash without having to run to the terminal (and without having to supply a password). I could wrap the bash command in an Applescript/Automator script, but supplying the volume name is troublesome.
I totally hate to see those .dsstore and resource files on my Windows disks. Is there a free program that will autodelete those files on specified disks on logout/eject?
After having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion on my iMac and MacBook Pro, how can I get "Internet Sharing" to work automatically as it did in Snow Leopard? In particular, my iMac gets its internet via a DSL Ethernet connection, and I have enabled internet sharing on it. While my MacBook Pro can see, via wifi, the iMac, every time I awaken the MacBook Pro from sleep, I have to manually select the iMac from the list of available wifi sources and manually re-enter the password.
I study computing on an advanced level and I need a program that will make it easier to create flowcharts and other diagrams efficiently. I don't need too many features; I just want something that works! I'm aware that there are many website that do exactly what I need but most of the times when I need to draw diagrams I don't have access to the internet
The old laptop is running Snow Leopard. New one would be Lion. Will that be a problem?
I have a 2007 macbook pro and two keys are not working on the built in keyboard. I tried cleaning the keys by removing the keys and the plastic under it but that didn't help. After removing the keys, tried to depress the plastic blob underneath to make it work but that didn't work either.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger pressing the home button on an iPad when using it with an apple (bluetooth) keyboard?
Is it possible to use my MacBook as a bluetooth headset? I would like to connect my phone to my MacBook via bluetooth, so that when calls or SMS come into my phone I get notified on my MacBook, and ideally be able to read the SMS and reply, and talk and listen to the calls through my MacBook.
The Finder was not responding, so I control+click'd the Finder icon on the Dock and chose Relaunch… except that it didn't relaunch. Activity Monitor happened to be visible and I could see that it listed Finder (including the PID) and showed it as "Not Responding." I was in iTerm, so I tried killall Finder and was told "No processes belonging to you were found" (or words to that effect).
I'm always reading about developers praising TextMate as the editor. What's so awesome about it? Please note that I'm a long-term Emacs user.
There are a number of remote access apps (from Citrix, etc.) that allow you to run Windows apps remotely on an iPad.
I'm planning on buying the iPhone 4S from the Apple store when it comes out next week (waiting in line in NYC shouldn't be too bad). In the past, how many unlocked iPhones will they let you purchase at the Apple store?
I am loathe to reconnect MobileMe and Outlook through any sort of sync partnership. I have the original exported vCard but I still have the issue of fields within the vCards that do not conform to Outlook fields.
I have a small problem with my permissions. I use rsync frequently on a certain target directory, but one day I by accident I used "sudo rsync", and now all my permissions for the files in the directory have been changed to user 502. Can anyone provide me with a clue as to why this happened, and why user 502? thanks.
How can I make my text follow a curve or arch shape in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011?
I'd love to mount a RAM Disk in OSX Lion on boot. I know how to write the launchd stuff to do it when I want, but is it possible to mount a RAM Disk onto a certain path, so that it would be cleared on boot?
I am very interested in the MacBook Air specs and form factor. Both for reasons specific to my software needs (developing using an IDE as well as needing to run a virtual OS on top of the boot OS.) as well as an example of state of the art system design.
I am asking this question because I feel it belongs on apple, not superuser. Also the perfect answer is not checked off there.
This question might be similar to some that others have posted, but I want to be more specific: Does anyone know how to enable Magic Mouse's middle-click in Windows Bootcamp (specifically Win 7 x64)? In OS X we can use MagicPrefs or Better Touch Tool, I'm looking for their counterparts in Windows. Also, this feature is enabled in Windows Guests if we use Parallels or VMWare Fusion while having the aforementioned tools active in OS X.
In the Finder's view "All My Files", I can see a button "More…"... what does this button mean? Why is it there in the first place?
E.g.: part1.iso part2.iso I know The Unarchiver can extract a single ISO file, but how can I extract multipart ISO files?
I have a bunch of h.264 videos and an old standalone DVD player, which cannot play them. I would like to convert them all into mpeg-2 and just burn onto a disk. It seems, however, that it's somewhat not trivial kind of task. When converting, I'd like to: keep the video quality, if possible keep the aspect ratio
I am synching my iPad with multiple computers. I now want to switch my "main" computer (as in the computer I really do the syncing with). Now the problem is that when I uncheck "Sync Apps" on the other computer, a dialog box says the following:
I remember an app that was featured on the Mac App Store a while ago that allows you to write mathematical formulae into an image. I can't find it now though. Does anyone know what it is?
It looks like ffmpeg will not work with MOV files created using iMovie. Is there a way to batch convert these files (which are HUGE) to a compressed format, preferably mp4? I've also tried HandBrake with no success (though I assume ffmpeg is under the hood).
I am connected to a remote system via Screen Sharing. I have text (plaintext) on my clipboard locally. I am unable to paste into the remote system. How can I make this work? Here are some details: When I open the Edit menu, only "Copy" is available, "Paste", "Send Clipboard" and "Get Clipboard" and so on are grayed out. The buttons for "Send Clipboard" and "Get Clipboard" are grayed out. The buttons for "Send Clipboard" and "Get Clipboard" are grayed out.
As a new convert to Safari, I am astonished by how unbearably ugly default page source view is. The font is miserably small and unaliased, leave alone color highlighting. Is there a way to enhance Safari's View Source feature or seamlessly replace it? I'm looking for: reasonable default font, customizable is better; basic HTML/JS syntax highlighting; working on Lion. Please refrain from suggesting viewing source with Web Inspector: it is nice but isn't convenient for quick source browsing.
I realize that iTunes is a little slow on windows in general. But dealing with my stuff locally is workable. But whenever I use iTunes to go the iTunes Store, that tab takes a long time to do anything. The home page takes a couple of minutes. I have a fast internet connection using IE or Firefox. (Comcast 12MB service) Any thoughts on how to make the iTunes store go faster?
Will a 2011 Mac with Thunderbolt run a 120Hz monitor? I ask because I'm considering switching my desktop from a 24" iMac 2.8 ATI to a 2011 Mac mini AMD and want to pick the best monitor.
After installing Lion, I have had trouble setting my status to Online. It will stay on Away. I can changed it to the other values, but it will not stay in "Online".
I am running OSX Lion on a Macbook Pro. Some website suggested I put in a command in the terminal to 'increase my graphics performance' by turning off BeamSync. The command was:
When I load the Google Maps app on my iPad, it simply quits before showing anything more than a grey screen, which I assume is a crash. Is there any way to fix this, or should I book an appointment at the genius bar?
When I turn on Internet Sharing on my mac, the broadcasted network name is the original Computer Name of the iMac. The computer name has since been changed, however the WiFi name continues to be broadcast as the original which I really need to change. I've looked everywhere in System Preferences for the original computer name but can't find any remnant of it. Can anyone please tell me how to change the ad-hoc WiFi name?
My girlfriend moved her iTunes library into Dropbox and now her iPod Touch doesn't recognise it. I moved it back to where it had been before, but this wasn't enough to get it to sync without threatening to erase everything.
I can't seem to figure this one out. I have filevault running if that makes a difference.
I have more photos then I want to download onto the iPad. Is there a favorite app that allows users to browse photos from a Windows7 machine to view on my iPad over wifi?
I am using a Seagate Free Agent Desk external drive as my Time Machine on a modern iMac running Lion. I made the mistake of encrypting the drive, and I do not remember the password. I dont mind losing the data on the disk, and I just want to reformat it if possible in order to use it as a non encrypted drive. Any ideas on how to do this?
I have two macs in separate rooms and like to use AirDrop to transfer files between them, but having to accept on the receiver every time I send a file is annoying. Is there a way to tell AirDrop always to accept files coming from a certain other Mac?
The new Versions feature in Lion stores old versions of the document I'm working on in case to revert back to some older version of the document. However, how can I delete the version files for a given document? There're hidden files in the /.DocumentRevisions-V100, but I'm afraid I cannot just simply delete that folder.
I am looking for an Evernote alternative with the following requirements: Cloud syncing iPhone and iPad app
I'm having some serious issues finding a data collection program (Spreadsheets?) for use with my Dropbox account. The application should be able to export CSV files, and automatically upload them to a Dropbox account that I specify. Does this app exist on the iTunes Store?
I'm trying to allow access for multiple Mac clients with OS X Lion and user directories on a Lion server so users can login from any Mac in the network and access their profile. I also want to install/autoupdate software or put configs on all clients. I already took a look at patch management tools like munki but they don't seem to do what I'm looking for or their purpose/usage isn't clear. I would be glad if somebody could point me in the right direction.
I created a new YouTube account to use functions like "watch later" on my iPhone4, my PC and my AppleTV2. But if I try to log in with this account on my iPhone and the native YouTube app, I always get the error message that the username and/or the password are wrong. I used as username the email address I used to create the YouTube/Google account and which I use to log in the web interface.
I have a .mkv video with SSA/ASS subtitles & I want to convert it to .mp4 so I can watch it on my iPad. The video converts without errors but the subtitles are not there. How do I fix this?
My mail account (OS X Lion) refuses to send email. It receives mail fine and I have checked and rechecked all the settings etc. My iPhone and iPad send and receive mail with no problems, using the same settings, the same network, and the same accounts. Any ideas why this is happening?
I just upgraded my 13" MacBook Pro (mid-2009) from 2 GB of memory to 8 GB of RAM. What a difference! I'm wondering what I can/should do with the old sticks.
If I out for a while and if I need some free space on my iPod, I can manually delete some videos (iTunesU) or some podcasts. Fine. But what will happen the next time I sync ? Will those deleted podcasts be deleted in my library on my computer OR Will they be reloaded on my iPod ?
Is this possible to change the order of the different user accounts in the login dialog box ?
If I go to the Books section of the iTunes store, I see the Column browser:  If i try to go back to the standard view (my Command+B or using the menu "View" -> "Column Browser" -> "Hide Column Browser" I am redirected to the main store page. If I click back on books in the top bar, I get the books section again in Column browser mode. How can I get rid of it?
When running the Upgrade Installer from VMware Fusion 3.1.3 to v4.0.1, this dialog pops up: A virtual machine is running with an older version of VMware Fusion. Please use the older version of VMware Fusion to suspend or power off all virtual machines.
Is it possible to delete songs manually on an iPod Touch (without the help of iTunes) as it is possible for podcasts and videocasts?
By default, Macs are extremely insecure if somebody can get physical access, as they can simply shut it down, press the power button, hold command-S, and there, they get root access in 5 seconds. Is there a way to disable the single-user boot mode, or at least password-protect it?
While the green led is flashing, I go to the Trackpad set up and find the device. However it keeps failing when connecting to the trackpad. I did notice that it fails immediately after seeing the "Connected" message displayed on my screen. At this point I can use the trackpad as a pointing device, but am unable to connect to it using the trackpad set up. System Settings OS X Lion Using USB Overdrive (for a wired logitech mouse)
I remember seeing a stylus that was available for the multitouch (laptop) trackpad. I'm learning a new language right now so it would be rather useful to be able to use a stylus to 'write' instead of using my fingers.
The latest version of Skype for the iPad has commercials. It will probably be necessary to upgrade at some point, but until then I want to stay with the commercial free version.
Is the local repository folder A meant to stay separate from the folder B containing the files I want to keep under version control? Can folder B be a subfolder of A? Also, as far as how it works internally: Where are the past versions of files kept in the file system?
Can a 2010 MacBook Air internal SSD be configured for the dual-boot of both Lion/10.7.x and Snow Leopard/10.6.x? If so, how much extra storage space is required for 2 boot partitions vs. one? Other than storage space, are there any downsides of doing this? For example, will the (re)boot speed get noticeably slower?
When using Numbers, I have noticed that whenever I add a new row above existing rows, all of the formatting for the new row is exactly like the rows below it. However, if I add a new row below existing rows, the formatting is reverted to the default formatting for a brand new sheet. There are other inconsistencies around the choices that Numbers makes when determining the formatting of new cells and rows, but this is the one that I find to be more consistent.
Is there a common way to add institutional scheduling information (such as an individual's university course schedule or timetable) to iCal? In what format would it have to be published to be importable into iCal? In other words, would it be possible for iCal to know what times during the day your availability is set to 'Busy' so that it warns you when creating appointments during those times?
I have a physical hard drive that is split into 3 partitions. The second partition is running out of space and I want to give it some free space that I have on the third partition. While, this is simple to achieve on Windows, I just can't get there with my Mac.
I have hit some evil kind of problem with my MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2010). The backstory is as follow: I bought the MBP in January. Felt 4 GB of RAM memory wasn't enough, so in June, I upgraded to 8 GB. From here it went downhill.
I have had my MacBook for a couple of months now, and the minimize and maximize buttons are all grey. They weren't like that when I got it. Does anyone know how to get the colors back?
Simply put, I'm looking for a utility akin to Windows NT's Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe). The ability to specify which metrics I want to track (ex. reads/sec, writes/sec) for a given object (ex. Macintosh HD), and ideally, for all or specific processes.
So I turned on Web Sharing on my mac and put a basic HTML file in the folder for it, but I want to know how to make it accessible from any computer. How would I do that?
After installing the OS X 10.6.8 update on my iMac (10,1), when PDF files are opened within Safari, a blue circle appears, then a black screen with the first page of the PDF file. It will not open further or download.
I am going on holiday tomorrow and the hotel I am staying in does not have wireless internet access in the bedrooms (awful oversight I know!). They do however have ethernet points in each room. I will only be taking my iPhone with me on this trip which obviously doesn't have an ethernet port. However I do have a Netgear DG834PN modem-router which I can take with me.
I'd like to install two separate version of OS X Lion and a copy of Linux on my Mac. How do I go about doing this?
Are there any email clients for Mac OSX (10.6.7) which can automaticly CC an email ID (without writing the CC email field)? Update 1 - I want to give an email ID to all the team members. I am using a shared hosting for my site where I am going to create all the email ID's. I will configure these ID's in default Mail.app. Now whenever my team send emails to clients I want it to CC to my email ID automatically.
When I switch my iPhone (3G) on and put it immediately into the email app (or if it was left in the email app), I get annoying pop ups like: Cellular Data is Turned Off Turn on cellular data or use Wi-Fi to access data. Settings OK
I have the opposite issue of this question: Is it OK to charge my iPhone with my iPad charger? I want to use my iPhone charger (plugged directly into main electricity) to charge my iPad. I've noticed that the charger gets quite warm when charging the iPad (not iPhone). Is it unsafe to charge the iPad via the iPhone 5W charger?
I would like to rip a DVD on to Mac then onto a multimedia device to play them on my TV set. Is there a software that will help me to do so?
I have a large pdf file and I was wondering how I could decrease the lag when scrolling. I tried breaking the file into smaller sections (roughly 20 page chunks) but that didn't help. I'm thinking scrolling is so slow because each page is some sort of image. Are there any other steps I can take to reduce the choppiness when scrolling?
Is it possible that I can make partitions on Mac other than the one holding OSX as FAT32. I want to access it via Mac and also when I run Win7 on Vmware Fusion. I can then add that FAT32 partition as Shared Network folder and access its data. The following is the partition structure I would like to use: MacOS = 100GB VmWare Fusion Win7 = 120GB myStuff Partition = 280GB (which is Fat32 or exFat) I want to access myStuff partition via OSX as well as VMWare Fusion.
In Lion, you have All My Files to search everything in your home folder. However, when you activate finder's spotlight, via command + F you can start searching only by first typing something. How can I search for everything in one particular folder (say, external HDD) without specifying a search token?
Since the iPad battery cannot be replaced, how can I make sure that it lasts as long as possible, preferably years? E.g. should I always keep it charged, or always let the battery run to 0% before recharging?
The Activity Monitor allows users of Lion to inspect the CPU usage, used memory and some other things for each running process. Unfortunately it doesn't show the drive (IO) activity like e.g. the Process Monitor does for Windows. Is there any tool for OS X that does the job?
Is this possible to use the Apple Magic Trackpad on a Windows Computer ?
I'm developing a lot of Java software with Eclipse. My MacBook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with 4GB RAM and Core 2 Duo is very slow.
Word on the street is that Apple is very close to discontinuing the iPod Classic for good. I bought a brand new 160GB iPod Classic in June 2010 (during the last iteration of this rumor). I am an iPhone and iPod Touch user, but for music, I don't think anything beats a simple, dedicated device. I want to keep my iPod Classic going for as long as I can.
My macbook boots to a grey screen - BUT the hard drive is OK. I tested it in target disk mode and the drive loads fine on my other machine, so I can only assume it is something to do with the display. I've reset the PRAM/NVRAM , can anyone offer any advice on how to proceed from here?
Is there any change to set the port to use when connecting to a PPTP VPN from a Mac? I configured a VPN at home from Server 2008 so I can access my home server and use ports like RDP, VNC, IMAPS (Gmail), ..., that are blocked.
My friend has an iPad 2 and we can't seem to find a way to attach photos to emails using the standard Mail software the device comes with. What are we missing?
I plan to replace my old MacBook with a new MacBookPro or Air but I am not exactly sure what I need. I work as a windows software developer so I need to run Windows with Visual Studio 2010. I am very sure this is no problem on any new machine and Bootcamp but I would like to run my windows only in a virtual machine. So I will be working with Visual Studio while still be able to use all the OSX tools the same time. Is a MacBookAir powerful enough to do that?
Configuration: 13" MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 8GB RAM running Lion Video: NVIDIA GeForce9400M 256MB. Apple 27" LED Cinema Display
Then on the iPod the Apple logo appears for a few minutes, which then switches to a "Do not disconnect" message. Again after some time the recovery mode reappears in iTunes. I've cycled through this a few times, even on a different USB port, but no avail. If I disconnect the iPod I can walk through the menus, and reset it. The music of course has gone. Is there a way to get the iPod out of recovery mode, other than with the iTunes function?
We don't care if the phone is jail-broken or not (they are not at the moment). Both phones are on the same provider.
I'm using rsync in Mac OS X Lion to copy a backup directory from my local HD to a network mounted share (local LAN). My goal is to archive the local backup to the network drive, thereby freeing up local disk space. The rsync command I am using is:
I often can't find my sent mail in my Gmail account viewed on my Mac in Apple Mail. I did not set up these folders, but I have both a "Sent Mail" folder indented under a "Gmail" folder and a "Sent Messages (gmail [accountname])" folder in my Gmail account in Apple Mail. Sometimes a sent messages shows up in neither of those, but I can find it by searching for it.
I use an Airport Express to create a wireless network at home. Frequently (~2 times a week), all the computers using the network (eMac, Intel iMac, MacBook Air) can see the network as an option in the Airport/WiFi menu (one machine is running Panther, one Leopard, one Lion), but cannot connect, resulting in a Timeout error. I get the same problems when trying to connect my iPod Touch. The light on the Airport Express is still green when this happens. Rebooting the Airport Express fixes the problem. What could be causing this, and is there any solution that doesn't involve climbing under the desk in my family room twice a week to unplug and replug the Airport Express?
I have OS X installed on my 27" iMac and want to dual boot with Windows 7. I installed rEFit and then installed Windows 7. Now I need the drivers that normally get installed with Boot Camp Assistant. Does anybody know where to find them? I can't find them on Apple's site.
I am using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL on my Mac mini server (Lion). However, I am unable to run the version I have installed, the only version I see running is the version installed with OS X: How do I go about starting another postgres instance and having it run on startup?
I have a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.6.4 which has Parental Controls enabled for an account, but with Website Restrictions set to 'Allow unrestricted access to websites'. However, there is one website (which I cannot specify for confidentiality reasons) which does not load at all. Instead I get the following error message in the system log every time I try to access the website: Obviously 10.1.1.3 is the machine's IP address and 49757 in this case would be the port that the request was sent from. The website in question is in no way a bad/inappropriate/illegal website, so I don't see why it would be filtered. Disabling Parental Controls completely for this account fixes the problem, but I'd rather not do that. Any idea how I can fix this, or why it is happening in the first place?
I'm running a 2007 24" iMac, and recently installed OS X Lion. I am trying to use the EyeTV software for my Elgato TV tuner. When I run the program, Console logs messages of the form:
How can I return the temperatures, fan speeds, etc, using Terminal?
I want to add a 128 GB SSD for faster booting and performance. I can definitely fit that part of my existing HDD unto the smaller SSD. The question is how to install and configure.
I find myself drifting away from Firefox to Safari, but the lack of NoScript is making me a little uneasy. Is there an equivalent plugin for Safari?
I've had a second hard drive in one of those optibay things in my MBP 5,1. It's been super awesome, until it stopped getting detected today.
The box says I can add up to 3 GB (for a total of 4GB), but is this restriction hardware based, or because of the operating system? If I upgrade to OS X 10.6 or higher, can I increase the RAM to 8 GB like the newer models?
This is one thing I don't quite get it for the Mac: why is it so hard to start a slideshow? The most often way is, I have several photos on the Desktop or in Downloads, and I double click to see the first one -- and no, it is not the one I want, so I want to see the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. At least on Win 7, that's super easy just by pressing the right arrow on the keyboard and that's it.
I'm interested in knowing how much Hardware Growler affects performance. My MacBook's performance at some of point in time became terrible and I could not figure out the reason. The Beachball of Death was spinning most of the time and I was thinking of getting a new machine because the current one was almost unusable.
I would prefer not to download these shows to my MacBook Air as it doesn't have enough free disk space and it leads to sync issues when I plug in my iPad. They don't seem to recognize the shows as the same so I end up with duplicate copies of many episodes. How can I configure iTunes to achieve this?
I am using Mac OS X Lion. How can I learn the MAC address of a wireless router that is listed in the wireless network list?
I bought MacBook Pro today, when I reached home, I unboxed its contents, but I didn't find any Software DVD for Mac OS Lion installation. I called the seller, he told me that there are no Software DVDs included since Mac OS Lion installed Macbook Pros. He said there is a process by which you can re-install the OS without using DVD. He will let me know of which by Monday. I like to make sure that what he said is that true? Thanks
I know that on the iPhone, there's a 20 MB limit when downloading podcast episodes over 3G (if you try to download anything larger, it tells you to connect to a wifi network). However, when this happens, I noticed that it still permits you to stream the episode.
I have MBP with Lion. In my Sys Info it says 170.12GB of space is being used by "Other". How do I determine what this Other space is and how to clean it up if possible?
What happens is that computer stops responding, including mouse, lights, function keys, etc. The only thing to do is to turn it off manually and back on again.
Ever since I upgraded to 10.7, my computer has been acting funny, I lost my PostgreSQL installation so tried to install it again using the postgres 9.1 dmg from the postgres website. The installation halted. I've also removed all postgres installations from the computer in the hope of doing a "clean" install; but still I can't get it to install.
I want to buy a Mac App Store game, but I don't want to play it in an office chair: I want to sit in front of my TV! Is there a way to stream the video output of Mac, wirelessly, to my television? The TV is currently connected to a Playstation 3, Wii, and AppleTV, and if this is at all possible, I'd like to do it without having to "hack" any one of those devices. Is there anything I can do here?
I would like to ask you, where could I find my crash logs?
Authorization is required. To play this content on your Apple TV, choose Authorize This Computer from the Store menu in iTunes on your computer, then enter the Apple ID and password used for the purchase.
What are the .py, .pyo, and .pyc files in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/X11/xcb?
Is there a way on a mac to make it so when you click on a python script it runs python filename.py through terminal?
I'd like to disable the next/previous song keys, because I rarely need them but often press by accident when pausing/playing. Keyboard shortcuts doesn't seem to provide a solution, and neither does googling around. My OS X version is 10.7.1, in case it matters. Thanks!
I set up a shortcut in System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts:  But it doesn't work. What's wrong?
What I'm trying to achieve is if I'm near my mac mini (10 meters) I want to press a button (or something else) on my ipod touch and than my mac mini should boot up. How could I make that?
Alright. I'm angry at this. I'm on a 2008 Macbook Pro, running snow leopard trying to install windows 7.
I am having trouble decoding a .ecm file on my computer. This is my first Mac so I'm new to the different operating systems. I'm on a MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard I believe, I know I haven't upgraded to Lion. 10.6.8 seems to be the current version. I have the cmdpack downloaded from Neill Corlett, just not sure how to use it really. Any help you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I've had my first Mac for about five months now. Though, even when I was a full-on Windows user, I never did things through a command line; I was pretty much for the GUI all-the-way..
I have grown to really value Versions in Lion. However it only works on a locally mounted disk on my Mac. The majority of my files are stored on Samba shares on Linux servers, for which Versions is not supported. Is there any workaround such that I can use Versions when editing documents on these Samba shares?
I am working on some python projects. The files are hosted (and run) on my mac-mini, which is running OS X 10.7.2. I am editing the files from my windows desktop (It has a bigger screen(s)).
This is related to this question: How to start a slideshow on the Mac super quick and easy?
Can I stream videos to an Apple TV using the VLC iPad app? In other terms, can I browse through movies on my Mac and stream them to Apple TV?
I'm trying to create an AppleScript snippet that locates the current random wallpaper and reveals it in Finder. I have the following snippet which finds the current wallpaper's POSIX path as a string: thePath is now a string in the form: /Volumes/Archive/Widescreen wallpaper/12345_Name_2560x1440.jpg (Note spaces) I try to reveal this path in FInder, but everything I've tried results in an error: How do I reveal a pathname in Finder in AppleScript when all I have is its POSIX path?
Netbeans is my usual IDE for developing.Today I formatted my mac and install a new lion.When I wan't to install netbeans,It I stuck at disk selecting step.I cannot choose my hard drive,the information below is like(sorry,I am using Chinese system and I don't know exactly what is said in English)'NetBeans 7.0.1 can't install on this drive,It can be installed but only use for Java 6' I have no idea about issue,Is there anybody meet and solved this problem.
I have imported all photo's from my phone (Samsung Wave 525) to iPhoto. As I was using iPhoto for the first time, I did not want to delete all photos at the end of importing, preferring to check whether it as done properly first or not. Now that I know that all photos have been properly imported, how do I delete the existing photos from my phone ? (I've tried importing them again, using "Import All" option - though I get a dialog for what to do with duplicate files, I don't get that dialog which asks me if I wanted to keep the existing photos on the phone or not).
I have an HTML file (XHTML 1.1 strict, if you want to be technical about it) that I am trying to make into a Kindle format (.mobi) book. I've been trying to use calibre and have found the process to be very confusing.
My mac has PGP whole disk encryption (WDE) installed. I would like to back up my entire drive. However, the backup must also be encrypted (although not necessarily with PGP WDE). I need to be able to completely restore the computer (system files, etc.) from this backup. The only instructions I have found for backing up such a drive are for Windows: HOW TO: Create Backup Images of Whole Disk Encrypted Drives or files.
What does the .ipa file extension (used for iOS app bundles) stand for? I'm guessing that it has something to do with iPhone app, but I'm not sure.
I want to be able to browse/search my files, send email... nothing fancy like watch the movie and so on?
Is there a way to remote login with a visual client to a MacBook, for example, with a higher resolution than the LCD attached? Currently I tried VNC (with screen sharing) but that was limited to the resolution of the LCD. I also tried logmein but that had the same problem. I tried to use ssh+xming to the MacBook but that didn't seem to work either running applications seemed to start the displays on the remote machine rather than my client machine. I'm used to using RDP with Windows which lets you specify whatever resolution you want since the server resolution doesn't matter if you are accessing remotely.
I have a Plantronics ML10 headset and after setting it up through bluetooth it can handle calls. But when I play music with my IPhone, the sound is not coming through the earpiece. Is there anyway I could "channel" the sound to the earpiece whenever I play songs with the iPhone?
For example, I would like for iTunes to play thru my iMac's speakers, but iChat's notifications thru my headphones.
I'm helping at a friend's house. She has a Airport Extreme setup with a WEP (yes, I really do mean WEP) password. Her iMac running 10.5.8 connects to the network just fine. I'm typing this question on that iMac.
When searching using Spotlight for, say, the word "Exotic", it fails to report the file Important_Exotic_Class.h, containing a C++ class by that name. Can you think of a method to make Spotlight index the portions of identifiers between underscores in .h and .cpp files? In the example above, the three words would be indexed. Even just indexing the words between underscores in filenames would be very useful.
I want to be able to resize and move a window without using a mouse. Recently I found shiftit, which is 80% what I need. The only thing it is missing is the window resize. And it is not updated since 2010 :( . Is there a better alternative?
Since updating to Lion, none of my image show their dimensions in Finder column view. I tried highlighting a file for a while or opening it with Preview, as suggested by this anser without success. Here is a screenshot to visualize my problem :
How can I get Itunes to move everything to my library retroactively. When I add new songs, it copies them to my library but I have a lot of music that I added before I discovered I could enable the auto import to library function. How can I get itunes to go back and copy all of those to the Itunes auto-organized library? My files are spread out all over the place, it would be nice to have them in one place.
I was having a discussion with some friends about the built in camera of computer and what you can do with them, and I realized that my macbook has one of those. That got me thinking about how the camera and LED are connected; Are they connected to the same power supply or can they be turned on or off individually? If it's not connected to the same power supply has Apple said anything to ensure my privacy against anyone looking at me without the LED turning on?
I have an iMac 20-inch early 2009 model. There is 2 GB of RAM (2 x 1 GB sticks). Can I upgrade the amount of memory to 3 GB, replacing just one of the two RAM sticks?
When I minimize safari, finder or Firefox windows, they move down to the dock. When I use Command + Tab , to move back to them, the minimized windows don't appear, just the top menu bar is changed. I have to click on the docked thumbnail to maximize particular window. Is it possible to maximize windows with only command + tab. thanks
I need a scientific calculator for the iPad; preferably it shows the functions like a real scientific calculator i.e. when you press sin you get sin( on your "display" & not just the result
I have different mail signatures that I'd like to use, depending on whether my recipient is internal or external. In the Signatures tab of Mail.app preferences, I can choose random or sequential only.
I've got a Mac Pro with 3 hard drives: 1 x 7200rpm 640GB - 1/2 for OS X - 1/2 for Windows 7 (Bootcamp) 2 x 5400 Western Digital'Eco-drive' (runs like a dog and is only useful for backups and archives).
My MBP (GeForce GT 330M) seems to recognize my Dell U3011, but I've run into the following: Mini-DP to VGA adapter to monitor: Supports up to the VGA max of 2048x1280 just fine. Mini-DP to DP adapter to monitor: Flickering to the point where it's dark 98% of the time. Mini-DP to monitor using M-M Mini-DP to DP cable: Supports up to 1600x1200 fine, but silently fails (nothing shows up on the monitor above that).
Some of my coworkers are having troubles on their Macs - DNS resolution does not work under Mac OS X. They're running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. They can use DNS in a Windows 7 virtual machine (VMware Fusion 3.1.3) running under OS X. The computers are 15" MacBook Pros, early 2011 model. Things they've tried that have not worked: turning airport on/off rebooting using wired connection instead wifi deleting connection credentials and adding it again turning off Mac firewall using fixed static IP manually setting DNS servers restarting mDNSResponder the fixes from this other question EDIT response Martín's answer: • Can you ping the DNS you want to use? • What is/are the IP address(es) of the DNS(s) you want to use?
Does anyone have any reason to believe RAID 0 is any faster than independent drives on a Mac Pro? I have always run my Mac Pro with all five drives in RAID 0. I recently decided to try out Bootcamp for running Windows & Linux, which, I believe, does not work with RAID. I decided I would remove at least one drive from the RAID array, but now I'm reconsidering RAID altogether.
I am trying to run movie on GOM player for Mac, when I open the movie, GOM player name appears on top of menu bar, but no player appears. The same .avi file opened well in VLC player. I found out that if there is any other file of same name as .avi but of different extension exist in the folder, GOM player won't run that .avi file. As I have XVZ.avi and XYZ.srt, player didn't opened the file, then I changed the file name to XYZ2.avi. It opened. What could be the issue?
In Windows it is possible to switch between and work with open applications when PowerPoint is open in presenter view. In this mode, the audience sees only the PowerPoint presentation, while you use the other applications. So the presenter is viewing the presentation via the MacBook and the audience sees it on a projector.
Yeah, I know my battery is probably hosed, but every time I reach 5%, my MacBook shuts down, as it expects the battery to be able to run down to 1% before hibernating. However I would like it to hibernate and not shutdown, when I run out of power, so is it possible to make my MacBook hibernate at like 5-10%?
I am not able to install any of the Adobe CS5 software. The installer hangs when calculating time. Here's what I found in the installer log: Every time it tries to perform Bootstrapping, it hangs right there. I've also tried to download a trial version of Photoshop only and install it through Adobe Download Assistant, but still the same results (see the last entry in the log). I'd really appreciate it if someone could help.
If I have an OS X Address Book group of people I want to email periodic updates to, and I want to send that list to a second person who wants to email updates to this group as well, how can I do that? If I drag the group to a Mail.app message and send that to my friend, they can open it and import all those contacts into Mail.app... however, it does not import the group, just the people. Since we know some of the same people, my friend will have some of the people from this group already in her address book. If she does and she chooses to not update her cards with my cards, then they won't even show up under "Last Import". How can you email an address book group to another Mac user so that it shows as a group in their address book?
I bought a MacBook Pro 15.4" in September and the battery life is nothing like what is advertised. I'm struggling to get 4 hours out of it with wifi off and Ethernet as my network connection. The spec I choose wasn't the best, either: it only has the 2.2GHz Core i7 with the better graphics card model, no other additions.
Is there a way to not require a password when I wake my MBA (open the lid)? I'm aware of the security implications. I'm running Lion.
I wanna do an animation like the one when you search for something in the upper menu in OS X. Help > Search.
I don't the the exact reason why, but all the files in my home directory have 0620 file permission. What I remember is that I setup file sharing in System Preference.
Good annotation support. I'm giving 2hr lectures so I have to be able to write on the presentation in response to the students' questions, or to highlight something that I want the students to take particular note of. Good annotation support. I'm giving 2hr lectures so I have to be able to write on the presentation in response to the students' questions, or to highlight something that I want the students to take particular note of.
I have an iMac and an MBP connected to the same network and I want to transfer files from one machine to the other. I can see the other device listed in my Finder sidebar and connect to it from there. I am able to view the remote files as well. However, when I try to copy files to the remote machine, it doesn't work. When I try to copy, Finder creates a file with the same name but zero bytes in size. It then warns me that a file with the same name exists and do I wish to replace it. On confirming replace, I get the following erorr: The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “” already exists.
I used to use Flip4Mac, but because QuickTime X doesn’t provide a plug-in mechanism for video exports, Flip4Mac doesn’t work with it. How do I export videos to WMV in Lion?
A week ago I upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. I want to use the locate command, but the locate database has not been built yet. So I tried running The plist file only points to /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb and I keep getting the following error in syslog su: pam_acct_mgmt: error in service module When I try running locate.updatedb directly I get the same error in syslog. I could handle not using locate, but what bugs me the most is that I don't know what's causing the issue.
Repeated key presses are being registered by the Macbook Pro (running OSX 10.6.8) that I'm using. For example, if this had happened in the above sentence, on pressing 'k' it would keep pressing 'k' several times unless I type some other key and looked like this: kkkkkkkkkkkkkkey.
Keep getting a message in Terminal saying This message typically appears when running homebrew, and while I can swear it's popped up on other places, I can't precisely remember. echo $TERM outputs xterm-256color. I'm not the best at diagnosing Terminal problems, so any help is greatly appreciated. (I know this may be an issue when SSHing to remote servers that don't support xterm-256color, but in this case I'm just concerned about my actual system.)
Is there some email client out there, which is well integrated into OS X, that has the ability to annotate emails? In particular, I would like to add a note, which will be linked to a specific message. Any ideas?
I'm running Lion and since the past 2 weeks I've been having really really slow browsing speeds, but extremely fast download speeds (file downloads, torrents, YouTube and Hulu streaming, etc) but page loads are extremely slow. It's only on my laptop and not any other devices in my house, and I'm running it wireless. I've cleared my cache on all three of the browsers I have installed (Chrome, Safari, Firefox). My main browser is Chrome. Sometimes pages don't even load in Chrome or Safari, but then they load in Firefox. Some times when it wants to, it loads pages fast, but that's about 1 in a 1000 pages. Any ideas what could be causing something like this? And in case it's of any use, I'm running on a Macbook Pro i7 Quadcore 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD
I constantly get this warning in Matlab, which I run on the command line: This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported. What can I do to prevent this?
When I plug in my headphones the built in speakers are no longer an option for audio output (they literally disappear from the audio output system preferences). This means to switch back and forth I have to walk around my iMac and plug/unplug my headphones. Do I have any alternatives?
I have a file on my system named "2011.09.08įU0.G80.Šsl" that I'm unable to delete. Here are the different steps I've tried, but haven't had any success with yet: sudo rm file - Results in "No such file or directory"
This should be so straightforward but it's not working for me. I've followed Agile Bit's help guide for setting up a new Mac but it's not working.
I have been running VMWare Fusion (4.0 now) for a long time, but off the main MacBook Pro hard drive. Will I get faster overall performance of the VM/Mac if I put the VM on an external Firewire 800 drive?
I have a USB hard drive attached to an Airport Extreme called "Webb Family Network Storage." After upgrading to Lion, about 50% of the time, this volume will mount with a "-1" on the end, showing up as "/Volumes/Nic's Airport Extreme/Webb Family Network Storage-1/" Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal, but a few apps that use Java or Air that interact directly with the paths (such as Eye-Fi's Upload Center or CrashPlan) will detect that the volume is missing and I'll either have to re-configure them to use the new "-1" path or reboot the machine and hope that it connects using the "old" path.
The new iPhone 4S has 2 antennas: both GSM and CDMA. Is there a chance that if I, who am an AT&T customer, buy one of these, that I would be able to use it in areas that are CDMA only? AT&T is GSM only. I have two locations out of town that I frequently visit that have ZERO GSM / AT&T coverage, but get full coverage to Verizon and US Cellular, both CDMA networks.
There is a computer I don't have immediate access to that I cannot screenshare with it. I have an account on the computer and have screenshared before with it. I believe some setting has been changed to deactivate screensharing. Is there a way to activate screensharing through ssh?
I have a Mac Mini connected to a Time Capsule (connected to a DSL modem, getting a new external IP address every 24 hours). Any recommendation on how to access the Mac mini remotely (both file system and screen sharing) when I am not at home? (Also it would be nice to have a solution that works with Wake on LAN, so that the Mac mini can be asleep when not in use)?
I am planning to reinstall my operating system because it has many glitches. However, I am totally new to this and I would like to ask you what actually happens when you reinstall Lion? Do all your files remain or not?
I have bought brand new MacBook pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I have also installed newest Mac OS, Lion.
One of the features of SIRI showed the instruction: “Remind me to call Mum when I get home.” My question is - how does it know when you'll be home? Or is there a location based trigger for tasks?
So now the only thing I really have to link it to it's original owner is the background pic on the phone which isn't much to go on at all. ;) Especially since it's half covered by the missing sim message.
I am migrating from Windows to Mac OS X. I really like Windows file explorer. In the left panel, a tree of folders shows up, and in the right panel, files show up. In addition, I enjoy naming files very long such as project1_year1_this_project_is_about_something_ver_A01.docx, and as I proceed I create: In Mac OS X, it might look something like:
In Windows, if I overwrite a folder abc/doc to def/doc, (1) files existing in abc/doc but not in def/doc are simply added to def/doc; (2) files existing in def/doc but not in abc/doc do not change; and (3) files existing in both folders are replaced. But in Mac, all files in def/doc are deleted and files in abc/doc are copied. I am not talking about which should be the more correct behavior, but was wondering if Mac can be tuned to how Windows behave, because I am more comfortable with such behavior. I found that Lion now behaves just like Windows, but in Snow Leopard or older version, how can I make Mac OS behave like what I described?
I want to get the exact color value(RGB, HSB, or any other color space value that can be converted to RGB value) at any given point(preferably the point under the cursor) on a png image. Any tool for that? Thanks.
Seems odd to me that the Siri assistant feature would be available only for the iPhone 4S. I have the Siri app (from the company Apple bought and integrated into the OS) running on my 3GS and it works just fine. So what gives? It surely isn't hardware. Then what? Just to move more 4S units?
Trying to restore an iPhone backup I took tonight, but can't because when it tries, the startup disk runs out of space. I have other drives, but I can't remove anything else off of the startup disk. What can I do to restore this backup?
I would like to send a link via email to a file that everyone has in their Dropbox. The file exists on everyone's machine in the same relative location, however everyone has a different User Name. On my machine, the file is accessible at afp://Users/scott/Dropbox/shared/example.pdf Unfortunately, afp://~/Dropbox/shared/example.pdf does not work. I am running Lion (10.7.1), most others are as well, a few are running Snow Leopard (10.6.x)
iPhones and iPads both have several apps aimed to be remotes for the PC/Mac -- mostly geared towards specific apps. That's not what I'm asking about. I'm interested in any way of using my iPad and iPhone/iPod touch side-by-side where the iPhone presents a menu of commands to control the iPad -- things like shortcuts, or better yet, buttons that invoke user-definable macros. Does it exist? Does the iPad have any way of being scripted through an API? Note: VNC is irrelevant to this question.
Quicksilver is a long-loved Mac app that gives you a single entry point, a command box, for performing a wide variety of actions on the Mac. It is easily extensible and scriptable. A similar app on Linux is Gnome Do.
Hi all I was looking for a solution to prolong my battery life potential. Is there a replacement battery for iPhone that is more powerful than the one in-built when we bought it? Or is there an "external battery" that I can plug into my phone to increase the battery life potential?
In the Windows server world, when you connect a computer to a Domain, you have the option of logging into the computer locally if there are local accounts. Consider this scenario: I have a Mac with a local admin username called "localusername." I then set up the Mac to use the local Open Directory Master for logins. I then want to login to the Mac as "localusername." Is that possible?
The large 0 on my Apple keyboard (came with my 2008 Mac Mini) has fallen out, and upon my attempt to put it back in, a small but extremely vital plastic piece snapped off. Can I order a new key from Apple?
I started Time Machine for the first time in Lion (you know, to make sure everything was working properly), and I noticed something odd – on the timeline on the right side of the screen, some backups were purple and others were grey. There wasn't an apparent difference between the purples and greys to me, but I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
I have an original iPhone and an iPhone 4. Both phones are mine that I have owned since their respective launch days. That said I have not used my iPhone since I switched to the 4 and after I did that switch I forgot my passcode to unlock the screen. Since I couldn't get into it and I wanted to get my iPhone ready to just be a wifi remote around my apartment I went to iTunes and reset it back to factory defaults.
I'm looking for a truly basic app that takes photos with the built-in camera and uploads them somewhere in the cloud. I stress basic because I need my photos to be easily programmatically reused without a lot of translation (glue code) on my part. For example: a Media RSS feed with nothing but the photos themselves, or a WebDAV folder.
What is Siri? Is it really only for voice control? Don't we already have one of those on the previous iPhones?
How does it work? I heard it sends all your data off to the internet to be translated. But it seems like it's integrated into my phone. Does it run on the phone or on the internet?
our internal software based on Zend throws Date Exception Errors for Excel Files from Mac Users. Same File stored on Windows passes. So someone told me that in both OpenOffice and Excel for Mac (some here use the 2011 version) you can switch to "Windows Date Format" somehow but i can not find anything about this on google nor can i find it in the settings. Any idea?
I have many servers to manage and I don't want to use Terminal on my Mac to keep and manage server lists. I want to know if there is a secure shell client for Mac similar to Secure CRT on Windows?
I have an issue with QR Readers. I encode a URL within a QR Code. When read by many iPhone App they will open the URL within a WebView within the app. I want to open a vCard there, which those internal things just won't do - page stays blank but when opened directly in Safari everything works great. Here is my example: If you visit vcard.nikb.de in Safari it will bring up a VCard If you visit vcard.nikb.de in Safari it will bring up a VCard If you scan the QR below (which opens the site mentioned) it won't open... If you scan the QR below (which opens the site mentioned) it won't open...
I've noticed that a lot of different people have been asking, "If I upgrade to lion, will this program work?". So I guess lion isn't very compatible? Here's my question: Will FCS 2 work with lion? FCS 2 includes: Final Cut Pro 6 Motion 3 Color 1 Soundtrack Pro 3 DVD Studio Pro 3 Compressor 3 Don't tell me to upgrade to Final Cut X; It is junk compared to this.
I want to disable AirDrop so that my users do not have access to it but I have not been able to find a place to disable this feature. The closest thing i have found is this thread but I don't know where to disable it. Could someone explain to me how to do this?
I need to check programmatically whether Set Date and Time automatically is checked or not on a Mac System Preferences. I didn't find any .plist file that contained this information, can anybody tell me where I can find this information?
Is there a way to confirm that an image is encrypted? When I choose "Get info" in Finder, it reveals nothing, and when I use Disk utility I also can't seem to see the information. I know I could try mount it on another machine and see if I need to use a password, but I'm looking for a clean way to get OSX to tell me that it's encrypted.
When I execute 'ls -al~', I see + marks, and it prevents me from moving/deleting files. What is this, and how do I get this mark on every file and directory in my home directory?
So my iPhone is charged at 100% overnight, and when the battery gets to like 90%, the phone suddenly shuts off when I open an app like Facebook, Foursquare, Maps, etc... I try turning it back on and the Apple logo appears. When it gets to the lock screen, the battery is still showing 90% but then the phone decides to turn off again. I can turn it back on, and the same thing happens. Occasionally, it'll get past the lock screen, but after I launch an app, the phone decides to shut off again. After a couple of on/off cycles (the battery still showing >80%), the phone decides to give up and displays the low battery/plug into charger icon, even when it said it had 80% battery a minute ago. Anyone have the same problem and know a solution?
I've seen several posts on the general process of handing off an old iPhone to someone else, but there are some details I'm not clear on. I have the following scenario to start with: Person A: iPhone 4 Person B: iPhone 3G Person C: (dumb phone; no data plan) I'd like to end up with: Person A: iPhone 4S Person B: iPhone 4 (from A) Person C: iPhone 3G (from B; new data plan)
Every day I get a couple of error messages on my Mac Pro iCal, presumably from Me.com, saying that I have a calendar file waiting. I click on OK, and then I always get another message, saying that iCal cannot read the file. It doesn't seem to have an effect on my calendar, but it is annoying to have to go through this every day. Any ideas on what I could check?
When you open a file with finder (by pressing cmd-o) and subsequently close the file in whatever application opened it (e.g. TextEdit for a .txt file) by pressing for example cmd-w, the application still has the focus. Is it possible to always have the Finder get the focus back (like on Windows)?
I have a 500 GB internal HDD on my MacBook Pro and a second 500 GB external USB drive as well. Is it possible to tell Time Machine to back both the internal and external drives up to one Time Capsule?
Edit again: I have no problem copying an app into ~/Applications on my home computer, even for a different user. Because investigating (not to mention solving) this problem requires so much hassle (including two computers or at least a virtual machine), I am offering a bounty.
I am aware of the F11 shortcut, but that doesn't really minimize all windows - it moves them to different corners and then when I open something up they ALL come back. The closest thing I have to making this work is by pressing F11, then Command + Option + Desktop click. Are there any easier ways?
Can I enter a path to a file and its name instead of selecting a file in Mac OS X file dialog? I tried just typing into an open dialog but it will just try to "Go to a folder", it won't accept a full path. I'm on Mac OS X Lion
There was some recent news about the release of an HTML5-powered offline Gmail and Docs. But it looks like these won't work on the iPad. Is this true? If so, is there a way that I can use these tools on my iPad?
Is there any way (perhaps involving jailbreaking) to disable all (or at least some) of the transition animations on iPad? Examples: Homescreen fly-together animation, sliding animations in apps
So I have an email signature and web site that links to my email, twitter and linkedin identities, how do I add a link to my iChat account (via google talk server) other than just linking to my google user name (which is of course my gmail address). Thanks. RIP Steve Jobs.
I'm switching back to Safari from Chrome. Now that I figured out how to get Safari to let me navigate tabs the way I want, only one thing remains: I want to be able to reopen my last closed tab with cmd+shift+T.
Has Apple stated any meaning for the 'S' in the iPhone product designations '4S' or '3GS'? Does it mean the same thing in both product names?
Right now, it gets locked in 3-4 minutes. How do I delay the locking? I am using snow leopard
I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part, but I've been having a few issues which I find very worrisome. I'm a computer science student, but my Mac experience is limited, so I'm not sure where to begin in diagnosing them.
I am using mac os x snow leopard. Is there a way to hibernate? also any keyboard shortcut?
It's been like this for months:  A friend of mine downloaded Angry Birds on his account, then signed out. Then a week later I said "I'm never going to play this." and deleted the app, however, the update still remains.
The mouse cursor in Mac OS X has a lag to it that drives me crazy. I love everything else about the OS though so I'd like to solve this.
I will be interviewing someone in a few weeks for a story, and we won't have the opportunity to meet in person. Therefore, the interview will be done on Skype or something along these lines. What's the best way to record both me and the person I'll be interviewing?
On Windows, I love to use an app called WindowsTabs. WindowTabs runs in the background and attaches a tab to each of your application windows. Drag one tab onto another and create a tabbed group. By organizing your windows into logically related groups, you can more easily manage a large number of open windows. I searched google for Mac equivalent, but got nothing so far. Does anyone know a similar app?
Does there exist some method to add the Create document function to the context menu? I would love a function like this with the Templates folder because I always need to create files with the same template inside and place it in different folders. Does there exist some app to do this or some Context menu modification for Leopard or Lion?
If I have a user with a local profile on their mac and they want to migrate all the data to a network based account (OS X Lion server), what's the best way to do this?
Apple hasn't approved the Google Voice app so Google created it as a web page. My understanding is that the web browser doesn't (currently) have access to the hardware (such as the Microphone). So, how does Google access the Mic through the browser?
Can anyone link me to a document or otherwise provide information about what the license is for the generic icons included in OS X (Lion)? I tried searching at developer.apple.com but nothing relevant came up.
I would like to purchase an SSD drive online to keep the cost low. What is the best method and software to use to transfer all my data from my current HDD drive to the new SSD drive? Below are the relevant parts of my System Report. Thanks, Chirag Hard Drive
I just saw that VLC doesn't support 10-bit yet (i checked the link here and i don't see a 1.2 build) *=URL=* Is there any other good player that supports this?
I recently came across a problem where I used to be able to send myself a photo from one Gmail account onto another Gmail account now I keep getting message undelivered. I deleted my Gmail account on my iPhone and set it up again still the same results. My iPhone is running on iOS 4.2.1.
I am using Firefox 7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Often times when I make a new window, the tab bar contains only a single "+" tab, even after I got to a URL:
I work with hidden files all the time, but I like an uncluttered desktop. It would be nice to make files like .DS_Store, and .localized invisible just on the Desktop. Please note I am already aware of this trusty old terminal standby:
When I send an email, I type two or three letters and select the recipient's full name in the list that pops up. A great feature. But one day I mistyped an email address and now have several junk entries in that list. How do I delete those?
I have a Mid 2010 MBP, running 10.7.1. Ever since I upgraded to Lion, I have noticed that Wi-Fi connections that require 802.1x authentication are dropping whenever I lock the screen. The connections remain down until I unlock, at which point they quickly start passing traffic again. This behavior is new as of 10.7.
About to drive across country and, while we're sporting iPhones, it sure would be nice if the navigator could use our iPad, non-3G, version to view maps while we're traveling. I've looked through the app store but the field is littered with impostors and the carnage of the poorly implemented.
I would like to press the < or > button on my apple remote, and "virtually" make the mac think I pressed the left arrow ← or the right arrow → key. Is there a free application for that? *=URL=* http://mira.en.softonic.com/mac
I am looking for a way to have some text "permanently" copied to the clipboard and assigned to a hotkey? Any software suggestions?
I have two computers: a Mac Pro, and a Macbook Air. When my Mac Pro is on (awake), I can use screen sharing to take over its screen. It displays in the Finder sidebar as a networked computer. However, when it is asleep, it does not appear in the sidebar. How can I wake my Mac Pro (or always have it displayed in the sidebar) so when I am ready to screen share, it is available?
It seems the option to enable double, normal, or half speed playback is gone from the Music app on iPads running iOS 5. Anyone ran into this? Workarounds?
Whenever I open Safari on both my iPhone and iPad, it starts loading the last webpage that I visited in the past, which is not very convenient. Is there a way to stop it from doing this?
I have recently shifted from PC to Mac and from what I recall on PC keyboards, there are keys where you can delete characters placed before your cursor as well as after cursor. I don't recall what the later is called. I can't find something equivalent for Mac to delete post cursor characters.
I'm trying to determine if it's better to purchase a Mac from an Apple Store or from a separate retailer. Beyond the hands on and focused purchase experience are there long term advantages derived from an Apple store purchase (ongoing support etc.) as opposed to purchasing from an independent retailer?
Can I retrieve a list of the sizes of MacPorts installed packages? Yes, I know they are compiled from sources, but if a list of generated files is known, it should be computable anyway.
I download an excel file which contains chinese characters, but the excel on my macbookpro/osx/snow leopard is not able to show these chinese characters. However if I copy a chinese character from somewhere and paste it into a cell, it is able to show the chinese character. What might be going wrong? THanks
I am trying to create a folder with a background picture (to make a .dmg for distributing an application), but when I drag an image on to the view options it resizes the image to about 75% of the original size. How can I stop it from doing this?
I just did a clean install of OS X Lion and I see that now I have no .bash_profile file in my home directory. Should I create this by hand? (I want to save in it some alias.) Thank you. PS : The only file that exist now that I could use is /etc/profile
I am using MacOSX Snow Leopard. How do I achieve page-up and page-down?
I have chosen to use the F1-F12 keys with their original -PC- behavior, because I want F5 to refresh the page in Firefox! (and not control the backlight of the keyboard)
Since Lion, every item in the Finder's sidebar are gray. I miss the colors, as they were helpful to quickly find a specific item. The problem is the same in Open File dialog box. Do you know of a way to get back some colors in the Finder's sidebar?
A new Mac user here... On Windows, I could connect to my parents' router by clicking a WPS button on the router and then connecting to the network within a given timeframe, even though I can't remember the password. Is this possible on Macs?
A friend of mine just purchased a new Mac Mini, and ordered Aperture at the same time. It shipped on a DVD, and of course the Mini does not have a DVD drive. She currently has a laptop running Windows, but when she inserts the DVD into the Windows laptop, the drive appears empty.
I've recently installed Lion on my macbook, and did not back up any of my files. I did a Time Machine backup under Lion, and wish to go back to snow leopard.
Which DLNA Server do you recommend to install on my mac to make it work with my Sony Bravia? UPDATE: Mainly interested in support for mkv videos.
I am running OSX Lion. I've looked all over the web for solutions to the issue I'm having and can't find a fix. I've found several entries where uses are trying to resolve custom_hostname.dev (etc, etc), but I'm actually trying to use the search domains for FQDN. I do not have access to the DNS systems, so my system is assigned some DNS server IPs, but I have to manually set all the search domains for some of the hosts. For example:
I'm trying to shoe-horn a shell script into an application bundle so that the shell script will be run when I open the bundle, as opposed to the executable put in there. Specifically, I'm trying to do some environment setup before running the binary, e.g. setting environment variables (I already tried just putting the environment variables into the Info.plist, which didn't work, presumably because MATLAB is stupid), and when I cd into the bundle and manually execute my script, (./StartMATLAB) it works; The program launches, and the environment variables are recognized.
On Tuesday I've updated my (non jailbroken) iPad 1 to iOS 4.3.5. When verifying the installation of the installation an error showed up telling me (translated from German) "The iPad cannot be restored. Unknown error (37)". Ever since when I try to restore my iPad I get this error.
Let's assume I have an SSD that supports TRIM-supported drive, and I create a single encrypted partition that fills the entire disk (minus the obligatory GUID and recovery partitions). Is FileVault 2 smart enough to TRIM deleted bits, or does the full disk encryption prevent this from happening? Even if it does TRIM deleted bits, will the encryption of the full partition (presumably marking every bit in that partition as used) slow down the drive because there's nowhere clean left for it to write to, resulting in write amplification?
I have an iPhone with an exchange account and also a gmail account. I saw Google's instructions to sync Gmail contacts and it says to first tell contacts to stop syncing on the exchange account. The article gives this screen shot:
I'm in the market for an iPhone 4S to replace my older iPhone and iPod. If I took a Christmas holiday in America, the cost of a US phone is substantially less than a UK phone at current exchange rates.
I was looking for /dev/dsp or /dev/audio through terminal but I couldn't find either of the two. Is there any audio device on iOS 4 (specifically iPhone 4) for input or output?
Is there an app that will let me automatically resize all my open windows when I switch between working on my laptop screen and my external monitor? I spend my time either working on an external monitor connected to my mbp or just my mbp. When I switch from monitor to laptop, all my fullscreen (the old definition) apps have windows that are bigger than my laptop resolution. I have to resize all of them, but then when I reconnect to the external monitor they are all smaller then I would like them. I've tried moon, but have only been able to resize windows on a single space at a time, I typically have multiple applications in fullscreen mode (the old definition) open across multiple spaces.
I like using iTunes' equalizer, but that only works in iTunes. I'm looking for some software that lets me apply a global, system-wide equalizer to Mac OS X. The app (or pref pane, etc.) would let me change EQ settings and have that apply to all apps (iTunes, Spotify, Chrome, etc.). Ideally the software would have some nice presets like iTunes does. Free preferred, but I'm certainly willing to consider buying something.
In Finder, the search bar in the top right corner has ceased to function. Observe:
How can I tell if I have purchased an app before I try to download it? (I so wish iOS5 would hurry up already)
This is one of the weirdest bug that I've observed: It seems that Mail.app's audio notifications for new mail and sending mail accumulate and play in order of occurrence when I unplug external speakers. Just now it played a series of more than 100 notifications (mostly new mail notification). It's not big enough that I want to fix it but I just wanted to know if anyone experienced something similar. It happened on an iMac that was upgraded to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard.
What would be the best course of action? Just create a new blank partition out of the free space and leave it at that, or clone (if that's the right term) my Lion DP partition into the free space, then delete the second partition and resize the cloned one? Or something else entirely?
Simple I am looking for a way to map a keyboard key to a unix command. It could be as simple as literal as opening up terminal and pasting a required bit of text.
a number of use our 'family' OSX Lion Mac Mini in the kitchen. We track multiple gmail accounts by each of using a different browser. But, none of us can tell at a glance if we have any pending emails - not without switching browser panes. What would be ideal would be for a screensaver to show pending emails across multiple email accounts. Can anybody offer a solution for this?
Since my upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, my dashboard widgets are inactive. I can enter the dashboard, move widgets around, add and remove them, but their content is not updated and I cannot interact with them (they do not respond to mouse clicks in their normal fashion).
I also have an azerty keyboard, but am used to the qwerty and I want to know how I can modify the keyboard to have a "delete" function. Deleting using the backspace is laborious and I miss being able to delete from the front of the text. Any ideas?
My two year old loves banging on the keyboard of my iMac and occasionally discovers strange features that I've never seen before. Most recently he has enabled what appears to be some kind of debug mode where there is a black box just above and to the left of the dock containing current windowing event info. I'll post a screengrab when I've got enough reputation to do so. , and This debug mode is also making apps such as my browser unusable as it tends to scroll back to the top of pages at regular intervals. Does anyone know how to switch this off?
I just put orders in for a few new iPhone 4S upgrades for the wife and I but I'm not sure how to keep her data (app data mainly, the other essentials are synced with outlook). She has an iPhone 3G, so can't upgrade to iOS 5 then backup where my 3GS phone can. Can an iTunes backup of her 4.2.1 (latest she can get) iOS be restored to a newer iOS 5 phone, or will it only work on an equivalent 4.2.1 iOS-running device? Or...is there another series of steps to make that possible? If not, is there a completely different way to get her app data off the phone and onto her new one?
Is there any automatic way (or a good script) to compress the videos you import to iPhoto? I currently import the pictures and videos from my camera, and the videos are not compressed at al, and take up a lot of space on my hard drive.
As a prior Windows user, on the Mac I miss some popular video game console emulators like VisualBoyAdvance or ZSNES. Especially the lack of a good Game Boy Advance emulator is bugging me.
I have two computers with iTunes. All the music from Computer 1 has been downloaded to my iPod. I would like to download all that music onto Computer 2. However, Computer 2 has newer music on it that is not on my iPod/Computer 1. I can't figure out how to get the music from my iPod onto Computer 2 without erasing the new music. Suggestions? Thanks. PS: Both of computers are on Mac OS.
I have a machine not running Lion because of software Lion does not support. This machine is currently my primary household media hub, and it would be very helpful if it could take advantage of Photo Stream.
I am occasionally away from my time machine disk. During these periods I would still like to backup my calendar in case the hard disk (MacBook's) crashes. Which file or directory should I copy to backup iCal's entries? Edit
I have two 4GB modules of ram for a Macbook Pro (1033MHZ). I have a new Macbook pro that came with two 2GB modules (1333MHZ)
I want to pay the $25/year for iTunes Match specifically to get my thousands of low-bitrate tracks "upgraded" to high-bitrate. Will I be able to invoke the service, get high-bitrate tracks downloaded to my Mac, and sync it with my iPod Classic? Or is it only for iOS/iCloud streaming?
What fees does Apple charge iPhone/iPad developers? Is there an entrance fee so that the app is listed in the App Store, and some charges on each sold app?
Have an SSD installed in my MBP's optical bay. All works well other than being unable to directly log on to my main home folder, which I think is due to the fact they this folder (still on the HDD) is filevault 2 encrypted (workaround is log into a second "test account", log out and the I can successfully log into my main user account).
I also have a partion with Ubuntu installed. Unfortunately, every time I have an error while working on the Ubuntu partion (I believe it's ext3), I get a Kernel Panic and I have to restart. I believe this is related to fseventsd, since it my try to log the errors on the root of the Ubuntu partition. How can I stop fseventsd logging events on that Ubuntu volume? Thank you!
MacBook Pro 2010 running OS X Lion. Is it possible to run scripts on sleep and wake events?
Sometimes, when I am moving the mouse cursor on my Mac Mini, Safari zooms in the page. I checked the mouse settings, and the only gesture that would cause that should be the double-tap, which is not what I am doing. I have not noticed the same behavior with other browsers, or applications.
I bought new MBP some days ago and it came with the lion installed on it. Now I am curious can I make an OS X Lion Bootable Disk? I read some tutorial to make an OS X bootable Disk if you download it from appstore, but if Lion was installed by factory on it how can I make a bootable disk?
I have ext. monitor connected to MacBook. I use macbook with closed monitor most of the time, sometimes I need second monitor: I open notebook's monitor call Detect Displays to turn on monitor and after that my wallpaper on external monitor resets do default How can I prevent it?
I now own an iPod Touch 4 with iOS 4.3.5 on it. I jailbroke it a while ago, but since it made me too many problems I reset it and it's now locked. My question is, will the new iOS 5 is going to support flash videos such as from megavideo.com?
I want to change these behaviors from terminal: Auto-login Showing password after screensaver and sleep mode Go to sleep mode after x minutes Enable screensaver after x minutes
I've already replaced a home button on my iphone 4 and I'd prefer not to have to do it on my iphone 4s coming next week. I'm looking for a way to protect the home button while obviously still making it usable. Most screen protectors don't cover the home button. I'm not interested in a total case (otterbox is too big) I don't want a screen cover per-se. I think something like a screen protector that has some elasticity just over the home button/bottom of the front would work. Does anyone know a good solution?
I'm looking at buying an iPod Nano with a watchband to use as a watch. My concern is that as a watch it will have to take a certain amount of incidental knocks and splashes. I don't want to have the iPod die after every little tap, or a splash of water when I wash my hands. Has anyone had any experience with the durability of the iPod Nano?
I'm getting this error only on big file size. Small files copying fine. This file for example was more than 8GB.
I have a Mac Book Pro. When I attach my external hard drive to it, I can only read rights. How to I get read and write rights?
What are people doing with the second 16 or 48GB of storage on their iPhones? Movies? Whole music collections? DOS emulators?
To date my wife and I share one Apple ID for all Apple purchases and devices. We currently own a first and third generation iPod, iPhone 4, and will own an iPad 2 in the morning. Thus far having the one account has not been an issue, but with more Apple purchases to follow at what point does it make sense to have more than one Apple ID? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having one or multiple accounts? If we each had an iPhone would multiple Apple IDs be required? What's the relation to iCloud?
When I start up my MacBookPro/osx/snow leopard , I get this error with yahoo messenger.. What is this keychain thing? Is this some Mac thing? Any links to explain this concept and how to resolve it? Thanks,
There are 45, 60, and 85 watt power adapters for the MacBook line of portable devices (the Air, the Pro, etc.). Does the 45 watt charger which comes with the MacBook Air work with the 15" MacBook Pro for example?
When I set my brightness on a 27'' iMac (2011) next time it boots up, it's dimmed. I switched off the ambient sensor, so this shouldn't be the problem. The connected Cinema Display remembers the brightness correctly. Had anyone the same problem and found a solution?
I am trying to find a way to download an URL and convert it into a PDF. I have found lots of suggestions on how to turn PDFs into HTML or HTML into PDFs, but that's not the same as what I want to do. Basically I am looking for the same result as if I had opened the page in {insert browser of choice} and selected "Print" and then PDF » Save as PDF… But I want to be able to do it all from Terminal, automatically, so that I can feed it a handful of URLs at once and have it do it all for me. I don't need or want recursion to additional pages.
I edited the hosts file and added: 10.0.0.1 devsys.crossreader.net Later I commented out the entry: #10.0.0.1 devsys.crossreader.net
Is there any application that can stream content of a screen, or application window to Apple TV? I would like something that works in similar fashion as AirFoil, but for captured screen content instead of sound.
I am using Mac OS X SnowLeopard. My Huawei mobile broadband E173 data card is giving me problems. After inactivity for some time, it gets disconnected and when I connect again, it shows as connected but sites don't get loaded. Even the default startup page that's supposed to start on connection is not able to load.
On an Ethernet connection, when I manually set my proxy information, it won't save correctly in the keychain for HTTP web proxy. In the same environment, it does it correctly for HTTPS web proxy. At this point, in Safari I can access to *=URL=* but not to *=URL=* the proxy server return an error asking for my credentials. In the keychain, a new line has appeared but it doesn't store the full address of the proxy server (sometimes the port is missing - :8080, sometime the full IP address), the password is always missing. If I type manually in the keychain it is saved, but it doesn't seem to be used anymore by Safari since I always get the same error message. If I use Chrome, I get a prompt asking for my proxy login/password, and once typed it works. It seems like Safari doesn't use the password stored in the Keychain, and doesn't forward the credential prompt of the proxy server. I'm on Lion 10.7.1 (new install from the store), French, fully updated, with Safari 5.1 (7534.48.3). Thanks 
I have a cell with the following content 2262/4121. I want to have a cell next to it that contains the result of that expression. Is there a function for that?
Is it possible to use the iPad 2 as a kind of oversized mobile phone for everyday use? Using the 3G functionality available in some models? Using VoIP through WLAN? Using other means? With or without additional gadgets like headsets and I mean not just theoretically possible, but really feasible with decent audio quality and a pleasant experience even for long calls. Does anybody have experience with this?
I have an HP ScanJet 4890 connected via USB to my desktop Mac Mini running Lion. Recently, HP finally! updated scanner drivers and my scanner is recognized and works on that machine (connected to a powered USB hub). But I unable to set up scanner sharing. There are two related problems:
Does anyone have a clever hack to subscribe to podcasts on iOS? The important characteristics are. Obviously one can use iTunes and sync, or manually download directly from iOS. I'm looking for something that automatically downloads podcasts as they become available (when on wifi) and doesn't require me to plug in to a computer. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.
Computers infected with bots are considered compromised hosts. They may be used to send spam (also called Unsolicited Bulk Email, or UBE), scan other computers for vulnerabilities, take advantage of security holes, and/or be used as part of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These programs also allow computers used by attackers or spammers to hide their identity and location. These bots are often spread by viruses or worms."
Every time i write ... in a text editor like TextEdit or Coda, Lion has started replacing it with a single Ellipse character, which doesn't encode to HTML. This started after I upgraded to Lion and happens across multiple programs. Any idea how to stop it?
I have a internal drive containing 640gb of storage with the operating system on it, my external time machine drive is ~720gb. I am thinking about installing another internal 1tb hard drive, and still using the external drive I have. I am guessing that it will backup until there is not enough space on the external drive. I am not going to backup all of the folders to the drive so the two drives combine (both internal) should never reach 720gb. Is my hypothesis correct? Can time machine handle this?
I have Outlook 2011 on my running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I managed to import the mail, calendar and contacts without an issue. Under Outlook > Tools > Sync Services I selected calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. I also selected "On My Computer" and the box shows the Outlook folder to add new items to on my computer. My MobileMe preferences have also all been selected and I've tried syncing several times, yet, when I add a new contact, I se eno merging of the data on MobileMe or my iPhone 3. How do I get MobileMe and Outlook 2011 to sync correctly?
I have a Synology SAN/file server. One of the reasons I bought my Synology was that the reviews said it supported "Network Trash" for the Mac, so I can drag files to the trash and then drag them out without having the annoying message that files are deleted immediately. I can't find instructions on how to set this up. Can somebody tell me how to set this up? Is it specific to the Synology, or can any remote file server be made to do trash properly?
I currently use two 2011 iMac's equipped with Mighty Mouse - the round mouse with a rubber scroll ball. When I go to scroll through pages or folders though, it is inverted. By this I mean that down is up, and up is down. I have been told there is a "natural scrolling" option somewhere in the settings, but I have yet to find it, only mentions of using it with the trackpad. How can I disable the inverted scrolling using a Mighty Mouse?
I want both iPods to be identical- including the folders and organization I have already made on the first iPod.
Does anyone know which monospace font in the Terminal program or iTerm is the best to use at very small font sizes?
I haven't upgraded to Lion yet and was thinking of keeping this Mac running Snow Leopard and buy a new Mac with Lion. So I hope to install the newest QuickTime 10.1 on the current Mac running Snow Leopard. It already has QuickTime 10.0 (128) so it can record the screen as .mov, but it can't select a region on the screen to do the recording like on a Lion Mac in the Apple Store (which has QuickTime 10.1). (so QuickTime 10.0 must record the full screen, it seems, and the duo core CPU is not powerful enough).
I'd like to buy a Macbook Pro 15 inch instead of a Dell, and I know I can send video to the HDMI TV using the Moshi adapter. My MacBook doesn't have a drive for Blu Ray discs. Is there a way to solve this? I kind of want the navigation of chapters and extra features in a Blu Ray disc, so if using makemkv and a Sony external Blu Ray drive to make the Blu Ray disc into an .mkv file, that's not so preferred.
They are about the same price ($100 difference, iMac $1699, Macbook Pro $1799), and iMac: Quad Core i5 2.7GHz Macbook Pro: Quad Core i7 2.0GHz How can you tell which processor is faster? (the iMac shows 4 processors in the Activity Monitor, while the Macbook Pro shows 8 processors)
I am typing code on Google Docs through Chrome. What I want is for an app to enter whatever I type in the Google Docs into an open XCode editor. This way while I am done typing code I can check for errors. The hard way is to finish coding and select everything and then copy and paste. In short: I am looking for an app that helps you type in 2 different applications at the same time.
[Edit]: As a commenter pointed out, there is also another application Bump, which use the same technique to perform similar (and even more) functionalities. The FAQ stated that this application was designed with personal and data security in mind, and uses various sensors and algorithms to "feel" the bump and the server will find matching bumps according to the sensor reading and algorithms.
I have a Verizon iPhone 4. What the easiest way to migrate my data & settings from the iPhone 4 to a new Verizon iPhone 4s [I'm expecting one in a few days]? I want my new iPhone 4s to be just like my current iPhone 4 but with IOS5.
My Macbook currently has Snow Leopard on it. I'd like to try Lion as well, but is there a way to make it dual boot either one, perhaps using BootCamp?
I know CSD (Circuit Switched Data) is a really old technology and going to be obsolete. I just want to know: Does iPhone allow CSD dial-up like old mobile phones (without Jailbreaking it)? If the answer is Yes, how do I configure it?
I have Pro Tools 9.0.2 and a third Gen Oxygen25 MIDI keyboard connected by USB. Both are made by Avid, yet I can't get them to work together. The keyboard even works with Logic Pro 9, just not Pro Tools 9. I'm running OS X 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro (15-inch).
Is there any way to limit the number of versions time machine keeps of files? In this case, I want time machine to back up some of my Virtual Machines. However, Since VM images are very large and monolithic, using the VM results in a 25 GB file that has to be backed up in it's entirety again. However, I do want to have at least one version of the VM backed up, as a disaster prevention measure.
I've an iPhone 4 and I've installed iOS 5 on it. Since then, whenever I receive a text message or an app notification, the tone plays like "tre..tre..tre..tre..te..tre..tre...tring". Sometimes it takes a whole 5 to 7 secs for the sound to be complete. At first, I thought it's because of the beta; but I guess they should've fixed it by now as it is already some Beta 3 if I'm not wrong! Does anyone know any settings change/fixes that can fix it?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 and use Cydia, SBSettings and iFile to see how much storage is marked as Free between the two partitions on my device. The problem is, my System Storage had a total size of 1GB and is 100% full. SBSettings says this in addition to Cydia, but when I check the size of the System folder with iFile, then I see that all files together are not more then 640MB. Shouldn't I still have 360MB of free space on my System Storage?
I'm trying to upgrade to xcode 4.1, but I it's not working as I expect. I am a registered iOS developer, so I downloaded the (huge) installer. When I double click, it appears to launch, but then it stalls -- nothing happens. There's no installer window with buttons to click, etc. I'm sure there's a better way to do the installation from the terminal and see what's really happening. What do I try next?
Recently I've had a few computer failures; first, I was having issues with the computer locking up (staying eternally on the light blue screen—had to be hard powered off) when changing to the high-end graphics card in my MBP. The Apple Store initially suspected a RAM issue, as when they reseated the RAM, it temporarily fixed itself. The symptoms later reappeared, and they replaced the entire logic board.
Recently I upgraded to Lion, since doing this upgrade I am now getting a bug with Safari where the browser window "scrambles". By this, I mean that the entire window breaks up into rectangular blocks say .8cm x 1 - 2cm of different colours etc. Each of these blocks can be a solid or mixture of colours.
I will be starting a new job in a couple of weeks, and I've been asked to spec out a machine I'd like to work on. As a UI Developer, I am much more comfortable developing in OSX.
Is it because it is a non-approved app on iPhone 4 and why? If so, is it only installable if it is a jailbroken iPhone 4?
I'm trying to execute a shell script as a cron job. The problem is that my script needs to be run as a super user. I tried it with just writing sudo infront of the command in my crontab file, but it didn't work.
Is there any way to differentiate between a contact with different phone numbers in Messages?
I loved to use Spaces in Snow Leopard. Now with Mission Control I love using the feature even more. However as many people on the web pointed out, the animation when switching between to spaces is really slow.
I'm not sure how I can set the default page size for Pages '09. For some reason, every time I set the page size as A4, it defaults back to US Letter. I've tried setting these settings: Settings: Save as default Format For: Any Printer Paper Size: A4 But the settings won't let me choose the 'save as default' option and goes back to Page Attributes.
I installed ffmpeg 0.8.5 in my Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 with Homebrew It installed without any error. But, now when I run, it gives the following -
I have this strange problem on my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It comes and goes, but I haven't found out why or when.
Stability and a good native feeling client. Adobe's dark-grey drab interface is neither of these things.
I am aware of solutions that allow one to extract text from a pdf file. Are there any practical solutions on the Mac to extract rich text and layout from a PDF, or somehow convert a PDF into some editable format without losing all formatting, and without multi-column layouts ending up with the text from each column interwoven?
Two friends and I are sitting at a coffee shop. I would like them to browse the family pictures that I keep in ~/Family-Pictures. We don't have any cables or cords and for unimportant reasons, both friends need simultaneous access that one folder without my giving them my password. I also dont want anyone else in the shop getting at my mac or its contents. How can I set up my mac to share with two other computers?
I bought a new MacBook Pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I also installed Lion and have updated it. Moreover, I would like to ask somebody who already has the same model, or any MacBook Pro, if it is normal to hear ticking sound when you push some spots on the bottom of the computer (beneath where the trackpad is).
Recently — perhaps when I upgraded to Lion, perhaps some other time — I've noticed that OS X is not ready to go after startup as fast as it used to be. I have a fast SSD as my only internal drive, and I used to be able to do whatever I wanted within a few seconds of logging in. Now, as my Login Items and previously-open applications are reopened, there is at least one point at which I have to wait ten or so seconds while nothing happens.
I have various Safari windows, TextEdit docs, and Stickies notes that relate to different things (e.g. work, home). I want to split these across two Mission Control desktops depending on what they are for. On Mission Control, I can't seem to drag these separate windows or even whole apps (collection of windows via the icon) into a desktop - the drag action works, the plus square appears, but the item then just springs back. Same for hovering it at edge of screen. Update: these apps had "Assign to All" set - changing to "Assign to None" via Dock did the trick :-)
Is there a quicker way to clear cache in Safari on iPhone besides going to Settings -> Safari -> Clear Cache?
I have some scratches on my A key. I don't actually know where it came from but it looks deep and melted. Could it have actually melted due to the screen heat? And if so, why only that letter?
I have a faulty (hardware-wise) drive in my 2011 macbook pro and will probably get a replacement drive from the vendor, but I was wondering whether there is (by now) a way (tool) to clone the disk completely, including the (main) lion-, its rescue- and finally the windows7 bootcamp partition without having to completely re-install both systems?
Has the GPS chip been upgraded in the iPhone 4S? How does it compare to the 4 and 3GS? As I understand it the GPS in iPhone 4 is much better than that in the 3GS.
If I understand correctly, MobileMe Mail will only work in the future under ICloud. For iCloud you need iOS 5 or Lion on an actual computer.
I'm working on a MacBook Pro, with my external monitor arranged on a higher shelf, and "arranged" within my display preferences as being "above" my MBP display. I use the larger monitor when I'm coding, using the terminal, etc., and the MBP display for browsing, IM, and other things.
When I'm working just on my MacBook Pro,I like to keep as many apps as I can in Lion's full-screen mode. One of these apps is Google Chrome. However, Chrome doesn't remember that I want it to appear full screen after I quit it. It always opens up in "windowed" mode. Is there a way to force it to start in full screen? Thanks.
I'm dealing with my company's Mac Mini (with loads of data I cannot risk on an external drive, but cannot plug out because of below) running Mac OS X Server 10.6.4. My problem was that I needed to share a local folder with a client (giving him write permission). And my idea was that I could create a local account with very strict permissions. Having found the option to change the home directory (system preferences > accounts > right-click > advanced) my thinking was that this would make the account unable to access anything but this directory (which may very well be wrong I now see). Thus I changed the home directory to the directory I actually wanted to share (which is on this crucial external drive), which worked almost accordingly when logging in to the mac mini remotely (another shared folder was available as well).
Feel free to call me crazy or paranoid, but sometimes I feel like the camera LED turns on briefly (for approximately 0.1 seconds). Maybe it's just odd reflections, or me confusing the LED for the camera itself with my peripheral vision, but it piqued my curiosity; how would I find out if some utility is turning on and off the camera very quickly to snap a picture? Is it even possible to do it that quickly? How would I diagnose this? Does something like this actually exist?
I just tried to reinstall OS X on my 13" MacBook Pro with the installation DVD that I have (OS is Snow Leopard, I bought around 2010). I followed all the reinstallation steps correctly, but what I got is a "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer" error. I read lots of forums post about the solutions and tried everything, but nothing works. I tried zeroing the partition several times with GUI partition scheme, did PRAM/NVRAM reset. Nothing works.
I just bought a brand new 13" MacBook Pro, i5 2.3 GHz, running Mac OS X 10.6.7. I'm not able to open the DVD tray of my Mac. I have tried pressing down the ⏏ key in the top right corner several times, as well as fn+⏏, but no success. Is there some defect with this MacBook Pro or is there some other way to open the DVD tray?
I've been backing up my Lion OSX system using Time Machine to an second, external drive connected to a time capsule. It has worked but stopped working. The menu says "Faied" and the time machine prefs says:
I read that the iPhone 4 couldn't do this. Is that still true of the 4S when used in CDMA?
It's possible to use the iPad as a USB host and connect up class-compliant USB audio interfaces through the Camera Connection Kit. But is there a way to adjust their settings in iOS? There is in OS X through the Audio/MIDI Setup:
I used to turn on virtualization on my PC by turning it on from BIOS. But how I do it on MacBook Pro, as I am using WinXP on VMware Fusion 4.0, but its very slow, and both Windows XP and Mac OS starts lagging.
I was curious about what time apple traditionally has released its major iOS updates in the past? I could see several times that make sense: at 12:00am PST? at midnight local time across the globe? I wonder if past major releases are random/indeterminate when they come out? (Of course, it takes some time to propagate the update through their CDN, and there really is no way to determine when any individual might get a change to download an iOS update)
less(1), the terminal file pager, seems to be missing lesskey(1) and the ability to rebind the keystrokes in less. The docs claim it's there, but it doesn't work. Am I crazy or is Apple's version of less broken?
When you send a message using the Messages app, iOS seems to magically figure out that the recipient is on iOS 5 and automatically switches over to iMessage (blue messages instead of green SMSs). Does anybody know (or fancy a guess at) how iOS 5’s iMessage knows the recipient is an iOS 5 device? I’m stumped. (I asked this question on Twitter a few months ago and wanted an easier way to refer to the answer!)
I have one Apple ID that I use for both my iPhone and my wife's iPhone. In iOS5, if we want to message to each other using iMessage, will one of us need to create a separate AppleID? And if so, will that affect apps that we've downloaded to the device using the other Apple ID?
I like to use vnc on my ipad on my bed. I want the mac to go to a black screen so I can fall asleep while using the ipad, and not have to get up to shut down the mac afterwards. Is there anyway to turn off the imac screen without sleeping? I'm open to anything that minimizes the light - so if the backlight is off, that would meet the needs even if the screen is still drawing content. From a semantics standpoint, let's assume the following:
To summarize, I'm not able to access the server as the name green until I've accessed it as green.local. Once I've done that, it works for some amount of time (I've never figured out exactly how long, something less than a day).
This is on Snow Leopard. When I plug in my iPhone or iPad into iTunes and click the "Check for update" button, it puts up a dialog box asking me to choose a file. This is supposed to happen if you press option while clicking Check for Update [which I'd done once], but now it happens every time. Restarting iTunes makes no difference, and it happens both on iTunes 10.4 and 10.5.
I am aware that the text message preview can be disabled so that the actual message is not displayed. However, there is still an alert that a text has been received and from whom that can be openly seen on the lock screen. Therefore full privacy is compromised. Can I disable this alert completely on the iPhone 4? Thank you
How can I convert a Windows Live Mail eml file to Apple Mail mbox file
I have an iPhone 4 (and have pre-ordered a 4S] and I have a car. I'd like to play the music from my phone over the car's speakers easily. I know I can get a cord that has a cigarette lighter adapter on one end and a 3.5mm audio jack on the other but I'd prefer to do it completely wireless if possible.
I have several computers at home but only my iMac is having wi-fi problems - around once a day wi-fi stops responding. When I turn my wireless off and immediately back on, it works again. Is this a hardware problem? Software problem? I'm running a newish iMac running Lion and an Airport Express on Comcast.
I have developed an application for which I had registered a name on apple itunes portal. As my application is done now and I needed to upload the binary, I got invalid binary error many times. I thought I should start over the process to create the app again. I deleted the app and tried to create it again with the same name. Now it gives me error when I try to create the app with the same name.
After every sync, I am alerted that two items could not be transferred because they could not be found. That is not surprising to me: they are two podcast episodes which were deleted long ago and I don't even subscribe to those podcasts anymore. However, for some reasons there seems to be some data of them stuck and I'd like to get rid of that. Downloading the episodes again and then deleting them would have been the first thing to try, but they are no longer available. When I edit the iTunes Music Library.xml to remove the entries for those files and the corresponding key from all playlists, that does not help at all.
When I connect my iPad or iPhone to my Mac iTunes automatically launches. What is the simplest way to prevent this from happening?
I've just upgraded my Mac to Lion, and now my iPhone is not being recognised in iTunes. I've tried... Updating iTunes (to 10.5) Checking for all updates Restarting both the Mac and iPhone Extracting iTunesHelper.app from the iTunes bundle and installing it into the Login Items list, and confirmed it's running in the Activity Monitor.
I work in the terminal a fair bit, and one thing I really miss from the servers I usually work on is the comprehensive autocompletion bash provides on Ubuntu servers. Are there any readymade tools that will add a similar level of completion to my Mac; containing at the very least command line arguments for built-in system utilities and developer tools (like git, xcodebuild, etc.)?
I am searching for an OK and free screencasting app to finally start LP-ing. The app doesn't have to record sound because I can do that sort of stuff with Audacity. Recently tried out "Copernicus", a screencasting app; I set the frame rate to 30, hoping for a good result, but it didn't turn out that well. In fact, it was horrible, the 8 second video I captured using this software turned out to have 2 frames per second. If you happen to know of any good, free software for screencasting, please post some links.
Recently, I've migrated from a strict Windows to a OSX environment. I'm using the Magic Mouse as my pointing device and so far I've been satisfied.
After upgrading after Lion (circa 3 months ago) more and more interfaces seems to just break. It's easiest if see it yourselves!
I have a MBP early 2011 model and when running on the integrated GPU I'm unable to dual screen. The screen is a VGA monitor running at 1400 x 900 yet it won't display so do I always have to switch to my AMD GPU to run dual screens? I'm running gfxCardStatus to switch between them and i'm just trying to save power.
I have this icon (which I never use) in my menu bar:  What is this icon for and how can I get rid of it?
Safari allows you to set any image as desktop background right from the browser.  Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane will then display it as Safari Desktop Picture.
My wife never syncs her phone to her laptop, which I rarely have access to, but I would like upgrade the version of her phone's iOS when updates come out. Is it possible to plug her phone into my computer (a MacBook) and upgrade the OS whilst preserving all of her settings/music/etc, even if her laptop is a Windows 7 PC? Further, even if this is possible is it advisable?
I'm looking for a "just the facts" answer that lists the various models that are for sale and whether these devices are locked to a carrier or unlocked. I understand that CDMA doesn't become active unless you elect to activate it at the time of purchase, so the locking status can apply only to the microSIM GSM usage when roaming to avoid billing through your primary carrier.
I am getting an iMac 27 inch, and it will have a 1 TB internal hard drive, and I know we can set up the Mac so that this hard drive is mirrored on an external 1 TB hard drive using the built in tools of Mac OS X (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). But the OS's system files, the swap file, etc, are all on the internal drive as well. Will those be mirrored as well? If so, won't that slow the system down a lot, since the external drive is usually slower than the internal drive. Also, even if the OS's files are not mirrored but just the user's own files, will copying or file saving be slower, since instead of copying to the faster internal drive, the OS will report done only after the external drive is done as well?
I love the Apple trackpad with its multi-touch gestures. I want to buy a MacBook Pro primarily because of this. I am a student though and it seems to be very expensive for me. Hence I was wondering if any other company except for Apple provides a trackpad, or is it only available on Apple devices?
What is the easiest way to add menu item to finder that switched audio from internal to external(headphone). I have to switch back and forth often and going into control panel every time is a pain in Snow leopard. Is there a way to do this with Applescript?
I don't get why, when I play music with AirPlay from my iPad it always work, but with iTunes on my mac it rarely work. It says after 10 seconds: The iPad works perfectly instead. It worked also on the mac few times (so it should be correctly configured). thanks
In Mail 5.0, when I view a message, it's marked as read. No surprises there. When I get a few messages in the same thread, and I view the thread, the latest message is marked as read, but I can't figure out how to mark the earlier messages as read.
Using iTunes to upgrade the OS on a 4th generation iPod Touch, the update downloads but when it attempts to install it the process fails with the following message: The iPod "iPod Touch (4G)" could not be restored. An internal error occurred. Any ideas what might cause this and how to avoid it?
If I click 'Get Started' I'm redirected to www.me.com to login to my old account where I get the message below:  When I click on 'Learn More' I get directed to a support page which just says I can migrate from Mobile Me by visiting www.me.com/move but this just gives me the same result as above.
We have 200+ gigs of pictures and home videos on both me and my wife's laptops. This is getting unmanageable as well as taking up too much hard drive space on both of our laptops.
I'm using Parallels 7 with windows 7 in windowed view mode. The program i'm running in windows is fullscreened. I want to make the window larger, as it's very small by default. Dragging the edges gives me a larger parallels window, but the program is still the same size, with the rest of the window filled black. Is there anyway to actually enlarge the program? I have parallels tools installed.
Here is the situation. I have accidentaly deleted a file of an episode in iTunes podcast. Now whenever I try to play it, I get an error message asking me to locate the file on disk.
For some reason, my text to speech isn't working. I don't know why it stopped working. It works when I manually click it, but when using the default hotkey alt+esc, it doesn't do anything.
Yup. Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7 (no 10.7.1) and not only that. Please note the build number. Turns out it apparently is the build version of Developer Preview 2. Nevertheless, I go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and surprise! It says:
I am one of those people who had an iTunes account way before having an .mac or MobileMe account. Since one can't really merge accounts, I have been trying to decide what to do about my iCloud account. According to Apple's documentation, their recommended setup is to upgrade your me.com account to iCloud, and then just use your iTunes account for purchases and iTunes in the cloud. I am debating on actually NOT fully migrating my MobileMe account to iCloud, and instead upgrading my iTunes account to the iCloud account. My question is this - if I upgrade say my gmail.com account to iCloud, and sign up for a new me.com address - is that address ONLY used for email? For example, if my wife wants to share a calendar with me, she would use my iCloud account (which would be my gmail account), rather than my new me.com email address?
While upgrading to iOS5, my iPhone 4 got crushed. Here is the log from the upgrade process:
I just got a new iMac 27 inch, and from *=URL=* *=URL=* if I buy those 8GB, then I can add them to the original 4GB and make it 12GB, it seems. But I wonder why these are 1.5V and the crucial website also list these other RAM which is 1.35V for the same system: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=06C539BDA5CA7304
I have recently upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and am loving it. One issue I've run into is that my iPhone adds my recently taken photos to an album named "Photo Stream" whenever I'm on WiFi. The Photo Stream album seems to have the same properties that an album I had synced with iTunes would have; meaning I can't delete photos. I have my iPhone syncing with iCloud, but I can't find any mention of synced pictures on icloud.com.
In iOS5 (and later) my newsstand icon will not go into a folder on either my iPod touch, or my iPad2. Anyone have any suggestions on how to move this application?
I recently installed a brand new HD in my macbook pro. I did this by cloning the original drive. Everything (almost) is working fine, but I did give the Volume a different name, it used to be Macintosh HD and now it's Hybrid HD (not sure if this matters).
I have family members planning a party for next month, and they're looking to get a single audio track/playlist streaming across the house. Their current solution is to pick up another AirPort Express (we already have a couple), attach 2.1 speakers to each one, and use a single iTunes instance to stream to all of the speakers wirelessly.
This is really weird. I updated my iPhone to iOS 5 today, along with iTunes to version 10.5. According to Apple's own documentation, I should have an option to "sync with this iPhone over wifi" under the Summary tab when my iPhone is plugged in - but I don't! Since I can't enable it, my iPhone doesn't "see" my computer when I go to Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync on my iPhone, even though both are on the same network.
I moved all my web files/folders from my default MAMP directory to a more manageable location. Now all the files and folders have been changed to read only.
I've downloaded the IOS5 IPSW from Apple's site and want to update it from within iTunes. So, Does the update require an Internet connection? Does the iPhone switch off/reboot just as the update is initiated?
I have shared my App Store account with my family member not to purchase the same app twice. It has been simple so far. Just enter the same Apple ID in two devices.
I have some serious problems with the hosts file on my Lion 10.7.2. My hosts file is like following; I have more than 2 local sites but I just cut is short.
When setting up iCloud in my iOS 5 iPhone 4, there is a new @me.com address created (Settings > iCloud > Account > Advanced > Mail Is this new @me.com a full feature mailbox?
I'm looking to setup with iCloud, and I'm concerned with their desire to sync my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. While I'm fine with the bookmarks, I am legitimately concerned about contacts and calendars since I consider that the domain of Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar, which I've had synced via Gmail Sync for some time now.
How can we quick look at our contacts and see how is having iMessage or not? So we can easily contact them, instead of going through all contacts one by one to check them.
Mainly asking because the settings iCloud config set are not all filled in and are not following the earlier linked support document, e.g.: username is the <username>@me.com, not the full address incoming mail server is p06-imap.mail.me.com and it is grayed out password field is empty username is the <username>@me.com, not the full address incoming mail server is p06-imap.mail.me.com and it is grayed out password field is empty Receiving emails does work though, not sure why
I got Vmware Fusion 4 when I bought my MAC Book Pro ( core i7 2.0Ghz Quad Core 6MB Cache, 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD). I installed Win7 first on Vmware and then later WinXp. In both case the Virtual Machine was slow, it lagged and even the host OS LION, started to lag.
I just bought my Mac few days ago and I am trying to install Oracle Express for work purpose on Mac OSX X 10.7.1. I've downloaded Oracle 10g R2 from here but when I run the installation shortcut,I got the following messages I did try to check the pre-requisite from here.but I'm not sure if I am following the right guide because some of the instruction and output are differ from what it suggested. I am fairly new to Mac, so any guidance would be appreciated.
I have a two Macs at home and one at work that I have kept nicely synced with a combination of MobileMe and Jungle Disk. Apple's replacement for MobileMe, iCloud, looks interesting, but I am not going to switch until I have an adequate replacement for three syncing services Apple is dropping. Mail Rule Syncing Mail Rule Syncing Preference Syncing Preference Syncing Keychain Syncing Keychain Syncing What are my options at present for replacing these services?
I use this command quite often to show hidden files on my machine: Is there a way to show all hidden files only in specific directories. E.g. I want to be able to see stuff like .ssh
I am trying to update to iOS 5, but iTunes wants 10 GB in the C: drive. (I don't have that much free space in C, but I have it in another partition.) I have already reinstalled iTunes in my secondary partition (300 GB free) and moved the Preferences > Advanced iTunes Media to my secondary. But still when I try to update to iOS 5, iTunes tells me there is not enough free space (it still wants to use the C: drive). Are there any other settings I should check?
As in the title. iCloud calendar is not sending invites to people being invited. No matter whether I try via icloud.com or iCal.app synced with iCloud - it just doesn't. No events no updates. Tested sending to a gmail address and at least two other. Why doesn't it?
Trying to sign into iCloud on my Macbook and I get this error message. I've also had some trouble signing into the same account with iCloud on iPad and iPhone, but the messages there are even more vague. My Apple ID is a gmail address - not anything from iTools/Mobile Me and existed as an Apple ID before iCloud was released.
I've just upgraded to iTunes 5 and iOS 5 and after the process completed, my apps are missing from my device. I can still see them in iTunes under Library/Apps folder, how do I push them to the device? (I've tried sync already but it did nothing.)
I have made a mistake. I'm a developer and while testing iCloud I made an @me.com (let's call it dummy@me.com) account. Now I am setting up iCloud on all my devies and would like to use my original Apple ID which I use my Gmail for. To use Notes and Mail in iCloud I need a @me.com mail and I would like to use the one I made earlier (dummy@me.com) but I am told this e-mail is already registered - that's true, it's mine. My original Apple ID has another @me.com e-mail attached to it (let's call it placeholder@me.com). Does anyone know if there is a way to delete dummy@me.com and recreate it on my original Apple ID or attach it to my original Apple ID?
I've had an iPhone of various vintages for 3 years connected to MS Exchange activesync for work email. Part of the deal with this that you need to enter a four digit PIN before you unlock. I was quite excited about the iOS5 camera option available from the lock screen.
I updated my iTunes yesterday, along with Lion, as did a lot of other people. Now I've been experiencing some weird behaviour.
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 last night. In iOS 4, the purple GPS arrow appeared next to the battery indicator when an app I was using (or had running in the background) was actively accessing my location data. Now, it seems to be on all the time, even when I have no apps running. Does this icon now simply denote the fact that I have Location Services turned on, instead of notifying me that they are being used (like it used to)?
Our company has various Mac computers that need to purchase software from the Mac App Store. This includes Apple software like Keynote or the Lion update, but also apps from third-party developers.
Since I activated iCloud, iCal has changed the default calendar to new events to one which I do not want to use. How can I change the default calendar for iCal? I cannot find a setting!
I like Notification Center in iOS5, but I find the stock ticker at the bottom a bit distracting. Is there any way to turn it off?
Only after setting up my girlfriend's and my own Lion user account to sync with iCloud did I discover that the address book still doesn't lend itself to sharing in the way that calendar does :-( We currently use a single iTunes library on my user account for syncing both of our iPhones to a single address book, where all her contacts are in a folder called "girlfriend's contacts". This allows us to share our contacts but still (in a way) keep them separate.
I can't find how to access the pages I added to "read later" with Safari in iOS5, any hint?
The icon in Launchpad look huge on my iMac and I usually like my icons fairly small. Is there a setting to resize the icon app size in Lauchpad?
My iPhoto and iTunes library is taking up most of the space in my 128GB SSD MBP. I'm considering to buy a mac mini to store all of my media for iPhoto and iTunes libraries and sync a few of my favourite playlists/events to my MBP.
I just upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPad and during the intro session it asks you if you want to "back up to iCloud". Choosing yes, gives the error "There was a problem enabling iCloud Backup". Any ideas?
I was looking for a way to sync my reminders from Google Calendar with the reminders app in iOS 5. I have Google Sync set up, and on my "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" settings page, it says "Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders" are being synced with Google Sync, but reminders created on the gmail tasks (or google calendar tasks) do not show up on the phone, and vice versa. What can I do to get them to sync? --update: Macworld says: You can also save your tasks to Google Calendar or Exchange servers, which then handle the syncing separately. But it doesn't say how to do it...
After enabling the new photo-stream feature on my mac and iphone, I found that there does not seem to be a way to delete individual photos from the stream. I like the convenience of having the photos automatically show up everywhere, but it would be nice to be able to weed out the bad ones. I have the option to delete everything in the stream, but this was not what I was looking for. So, is there a way on the Mac or iPhone to delete individual photos in the photo-stream?
In the old (before version 4) LinkedIn application, there was a button to Download all connections to my iPhone. In the latest (4.0.2) I cannot find that option. How can I update (download) all my connections with the latest LinkedIn version?
After upgrading my iPhone, there is about 10 gigabytes assigned to Other that I don't remember seeing before.  What could be causing this space to be filled?
Just went to update my apps on my iPhone and it looks like Apple have updated their Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy. It's currently at 62 pages!
I have Numbers and Pages for iOS and the Mac. With iOS 5, I can create documents and spreadsheets in iCloud. How can I access those same iCloud documents in the Mac versions? Even better yet, if I want to create a document in the Mac version, how can I save it in iCloud to begin with?
I inadvertently deleted the wrong App from the list of purchased Apps in the Mac App store. I would like to get it back. How can this be done? I was able to to "Re-Purchase" for free, by searching for the App and clicking buy, but that did not re-add the App to my Purchased list.
I am trying out iCloud right now but it keeps telling me: I am using a non email username(that I use for itunes and the app store) so I followed the link to convert it but going to *=URL=* redirects me to: https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
I currently sync ~3000 photos from my PC onto my iPhone 3GS. These photos are split into folders on my PC and these folders show up in the Photos app on my iPhone. However, these photos don't show up under the "Camera Roll". The iCloud Backups page states that iCloud backs up "Photos and video in the Camera Roll". *=URL=* I would like to make sure that all my photos get included in an iCloud backup - Is there any way to convert my synced folders so that all the pictures show up in my Camera Roll and the folders show up as regular Photo folders which I can add/delete on my iPhone? If not, is it possible to get my existing sync'd photos included in iCloud backups?
The fonts in the Messages app look much better in iOS5 than in iOS4, and wanted to confirm it. I couldn't find any discussion or note about this online. I don't have a phone running iOS4 around to compare myself.
There's an empty file called Icon^M occasionally in my directories. I guess this stuff predates OSX, and it's a file that gets created by the finder to be backward compatible with OS 9. Yet, this is my guess. I tried to google, but given the name, I had some trouble finding something meaningful (in the sense that it explain what the file is and where it comes from, historically). If you have any reference at hand I would enjoy learning this bit of lore.
I have Time Machine running on an external hard drive and it reports happily that it is doing backups and I have no reason to doubt it. But when I try to look at the backups by clicking "Enter Time Machine" nothing at all happens. No noises from the disk as far as I can tell. Nothing. And when I locate the "Time Machine" app in the Applications folder and run that, again, nothing happens... Do you have any idea what is up or what I need to do?
As the new Music application in iOS 5 seems to have an extremely broken behavior for some audiobooks, I am looking for alternatives. I have several audio books that have a series of many MP3 files, one for each chapter (e.g *=URL=* In iTunes I had all files for these audio books set to have the 'Audiobook' kind. It seems like the new behavior for the Music application is to play the current selected track until the finish, and then stop playing, it does not continue on to the next track like on a music album. I do not want to revert back to an earlier version of iOS, and I would like to avoid having to change all my audiobooks to be seen by iTunes as music, but how can I listen to my audiobooks?
I will never use Launchpad, however I really like Mission Control. I'd love to disable the Launchpad feature and make my F4 key toggle Mission Control instead. F3 does that already, however I'd like to have both keys assigned to that feature.
I previously had an Apple ID account, and I logged in using my gmail address. Now I have a @me.com address and I'd like to use that to log in.
The 10.7.2 upgrade made the launchpad icons bigger which I'm finding incredibly annoying as before I could see all my icons at once, but now because of there being less space between icons my eyes just focus on one icon at a time.  How can I make the icons smaller again? Is there some hidden setting or string I can change (e.g. using terminal)?
My Mac has an external disk attached, and I often get "disk not ejected properly" warnings after resuming the computer from sleep. These warnings appear only when the disk has spun down during the sleep, and it seems that they are related to how long OS X is willing to wait for a device to become present before declaring it disconnected after resuming from sleep.
I have a Library.xml file, and want have its contents in iTunes. If I follow the recommended "File -> Library -> Import Playlist" option for this, it tries to copy all my songs into the iTunes Media folder, probably because my Library.xml file references all its songs on a networked drive.
I recently updated to iOS5, One of my friends messaged me through iMessage, the sender name was his @gmail.com address. The message appeared in a seperated thread to the existing SMS messages I had with him previously. I added his mail address to the contact I already had with him, however I cannot get the iMessage thread to merge with the SMS thread. I have tried deleting the iMessage thread with no result.
I'm running OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBook Air (mid-2011). The computer seems to be waking itself up from sleep. If I go from the black apple in the menu bar and set it to sleep, it wakes up in about 10 seconds. If I let the computer sleep from being idle, then it wakes itself up within four minutes. Here's what the console output looks like after waking up: Does anyone have any suggestions for how to fix this?
We're a college campus that has an iPod Touch program... all new full time students get an iPod when they first arrive on campus. We also have a number of faculty using iPads.
Clicking Safari brings up the launch screen for Safari and then it immediately quits. Double clicking the Home button shows Safari is still running. Quitting it and restarting does not help. Quitting and restarting phone does not help.
I'm web-developer and I need local domains. Before 10.7.2 update, I'm just fix /etc/hosts as I need, but new update crash this solution. How fix this new "feature"?
I am a happy @gmail.com user and do not plan to switch to @me.com in the foreseeable future, still I do have a Mac and an iPhone and I do want to keep all my info in sync. So far I used the Gmail Exchange setup (m.google.com method) because this allowed me to sync calendar and email. What is the best way to use Gmail contacts and calendar with Apple OS X and iOS? As I do have an active iCloud account, does it bring any new functionality for a gmail user? How can I sync tasks and notes from Gmail with iOS?
I hate the automatic saving and versioning in Mac OS X Lion. Is there a way to completely turn it off? (This has been asked before here, but the answer and the linked article are completely wrong, so I thought I'd try again.)
I installed SCPlugin on my mac for subversion. It works fine but I don't see the icons show status of my files. And I don't have SCPlugin's options in my right click menu bar. Any idea how to fix these?
Is it possible to view the photos we upload to iCloud from icloud.com or somewhere else? Are the photos available anywhere?
I know I can go to the Maps app, and then click on the pin for my current location, and then select to share it, and then pick to send a message (vs. an email etc.) But I can't find any way to send my location from the messages app, the way I might send a photo.
When .Mac first came out I signed up for trial and got "myname"@mac.com I never did subscribe to .Mac or MobileMe, but it appears I still "own" that email address because I just logged into iCloud with with "myname"@mac.com as my Apple ID.
Example: A commute planer app could take a start and destination from you, through Siri, and plan your trip. Would be very useful, especially when you're in a hurry.
I logged into iCloud with an old Apple ID (abc@mac.com) because I was hoping I could use that old email address with iCloud. However, it told me I had to create a new @me.com email address in the iCloud setup tool so I did (abc@me.com). The thing is, my preferred Apple ID is actually different (abc@gmail.com), that's the Apple ID I've been buying iTunes music with for years, so I want to keep using it for iCloud too. So I logged out of iCloud, and logged in with the "correct" Apple ID abc@gmail.com
Since I updated to Lion, every time I bring up a new Finder window the default sort order is by modification date. I want the default sort by filename. Is there any way to change this?
I've recently switched to using Gmail via IMAP in Mail.app on Lion, and I've mostly got it configured to do what I want. However, there's one annoyance I haven't been able to fix yet. Because of Gmail's peculiarities, I have at least 2 copies of every message in my inbox - 1 in my inbox, 1 in the All Mail folder (Gmail's archive). This isn't a big deal, except that Mail seems to like to announce this fact for every message that's got a duplicate, like so:
EDIT: It occurs to me that after I plug in the phone, I could just uncheck every single "Sync" option underneath the tabs on the device screen in iTunes. Is that all it would take to upgrade to iOS 5 but leave the device untouched?
My wife's phone went from lasting a full day to needing a recharge every few hours after upgrading to iOS 5. Mine still works fine after the upgrade. What might be causing this?
Now that iTunes in the Cloud is available, my iPhone (iOS 5.0) and my MacBook Air (10.7.1 / iTunes 10.5) will show me lists of all the songs I've ever purchased through iTunes. It almost works great: I even found an album I'd completely forgotten I owned. But I've noticed that at least one album (Muse - Absolution, which is still available on the Canadian iTunes Store), despite having purchased the entire album way back when, only registers a single song (Blackout) as a purchase. Update: Having looked at a bunch of other albums (and testing downloading one) this is actually rampant across my collection: sometimes all but one, sometimes only a couple of tracks are available from albums that I've purchased, and which are still in the store... Ironically, one of the few albums that will let me download it in its entirety is not in the Canadian iTunes Store! Update: Sounds like this has been happening since beta, and is still going on.
I wanna upgrade to the latest iOS 5 and wonder if my existing photos and videos at Camera Roll will be still on device. Is that right? Or I have to backup them before upgrading? If so, how would I do that - iTunes doesn't seem to backup those things at sync.
After I upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPad 2, iBooks no longer shows any cover art for ePubs that I have imported. Anything that is from the iBook store shows art fine, along with PDFs. Is there a solution to this?
From what I know, iCloud is like a personal storage and you uses your own Apple ID for it. Is it possible for users to store for example an image and be shared with other users?
Does the iCloud service upload and download data or does it only upload and if so how fast will it be using a 3MB/s line? Does it upload everything from my iPad or only the installed application names which are then downloaded from the Apple servers?
What is the difference between synchronizing an iPad/iPod/iPhone compared to backing it up? Is it not the same thing?
i downloaded the new iOS 5 for my iPhone 4 and safari is the same as it was and i was under the assumption that it would be somewhat different?
is there any way besides holding the home button to get to the voice control on the iPhone 4 like an app button or anything?
I have just downloaded Lion and iCloud and now when I open Address Book from the dock on my desktop, all the names come up but no details????
Is there a way I can stop syncing apps with iTunes without first obliterating the apps from the iPhone and re-downloading them? Now that iOS 5 and iCloud are released, I want to stop storing all my apps on my computer, and instead just let them be downloaded directly to each of my devices. Music, podcasts, etc. should still sync with my computer. However, when I deselect "Sync Apps" in iTunes, I get the message:
After updating my system to Mac OS X 10.7.2 I was able to activate all features of iCloud, except for Find My Mac that stays greyed. It says "Recovery partition required". I have a Macbook Pro, Middle 2009 model, and it was updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion.
If you have Google contact syncing enabled in 10.7.1 or earlier, then upgrade to 10.7.2 and try to enable iCloud contact syncing, you will see the following dialog:  Is it possible to have both worlds? I would like to sync with iCloud for my iOS/mac devices, but ALSO sync with google for my gmail/android devices. This used to be possible with mobileme.
I'm using Lion's iCal and Mail.app, and I've started working in a company where everyone uses MS Exchange. I haven't connected iCal to Exchange. When I receive an event invitation (sent with Outlook) by email in Mail.app, I get the normal options of Maybe/Decline/Accept. When I click Accept, the sender is notified and the email is moved to the Trash. But the event itself does not show up in iCal.
The Problem: I've just updated to OSX 10.7.2, with iCloud support. Everything works fine. Except... when I try to enable 'mail and notes' under iCloud settings, it just gets stuck displaying 'starting'. If I go to my mail app, I am greeted by the message Cannot send mail, failed to connect to the iCloud server. When I try to use mail from iCloud.com, I am greeted by the message To use iCloud mail, create an @me.com email address by turning on mail in your iCloud settings, using iOS or OSX. However, I am never prompted to create an @me.com email address when I turn on mail in iCloud settings. - What might have caused the problem:
I need to remove iOS 4.2 beta from an iPad which I added using iTunes and the option+click Restore button feature. When I click "Restore" in iTunes I get an error (image attached). I have the iOS SDK & XCode installed.
I have heard that if I update my iPhone to iOS5 it will take all of the apps off of my phone and I will have to manually put them back on. Does that mean I will lose any savegames or game progress in the games I have on my iPhone?
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. I also installed the latest version of Xcode (version 4.2) in order to build MacPorts. After doing this, I had no problems executing sudo port selfupdate, which downloaded the latest version of MacPorts (version 2.0.3). However, I saw a LOT of compile warnings, especially for packages/ports like Python, when executing sudo port upgrade outdated. For other packages/ports I noticed that a couple of compiler options were obsolete and/or ignored. Otherwise, I had no problem rebuilding MacPorts.
I've got iOS 5 beta 7 on my device (I installed the first beta in June and then updated it a few times wirelessly without any problems) and now, when the final version of the iOS was released, if I'm checking for software update in the device setting it says that my version is up to date which doesn't look as true. Thus I'm wondering if I can update my device without resetting OS version? Thanks in advance.
Yesterday I installed Mac OS X 10.7.2, iOS5, and set up my iCloud.com account. I entered my iCloud details in System Preferences in Mac OS X, and in Settings on iOS. In both places, I set calendar syncing to “On”
Similar to how Google Apps for you Domain works with your own domain (by using the mx record settings). How would I setup icloud email to achieve this? Custom domain is not suppored out of the box (and maybe will never be...?) so I could hack, like in the days before GAmail, when everybody forwarded to gmail.com: Setup GAmail to forward all email to icloud. But then icloud should change all sender headers from me.com to my domain. Are there other consequences of importance? Or is this not recommended at all?
What is the right way to set up iCloud for a family? Assume that I want to share iTunes store account, have separate mail, contacts, bookmarks and notes, but have the possibility of sharing calendars and reminders, and have all devices appear under one ID for Find My iPhone. It would be nice to share data as well, so that I only need to add space on one account for backups. Is this possible? If not, what is the best way to set up for a family with, at a minimum, shared iTunes account for purchases?
I'd like to connect iPhoto on my MBP to my photo stream and my wife's photo stream. We each have our own Apple ID and iCloud account. Can iPhoto connect to multiple iCloud photo streams? Thanks.
I can't open the files on certain drive that is formatted as ntfs. I have Tuxera installed however. Here is an image on how they look: The file with a lock is password protected as it should.
How can I configure autofs with an indirect map using sshfs? What I've done so far: added /servers auto_sshfs to /etc/auto_master created /etc/auto_sshfs with * -fstype=sshfs &:/ Ran sudo automount -vc I'm assuming that either I have fstype flag incorrect, in the wrong place or I some how need to let autofs know of sshfs.
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS5 yesterday morning, and noticed after the install was complete that the contacts seem to have disappeared completely from my phone after setting the Preference for them to sync with iCloud. Find a forum post from July suggesting creating a new text message in the Messages app and typing the first few characters of a contact's name to see if they still exist - which works, suggesting that having the contacts sync with iCloud causes some bug where the contacts merely aren't displayed in the Contacts app. I then turned off iCloud-syncing for Contacts, and all my contacts were displayed normally again. A few hours later, I test turning iCloud-sync for Contacts back on, notice no side effects; login to www.icloud.com later and see all of my contacts listed there.
I have a personal AT&T iPhone and my company gave me a Verizon iPhone. Both are running IOS 5. How can I get all of my contacts from my AT&T phone to my Verizon iPhone since I am required to carry that one 24/7. Is there a way to do that through iCloud? Thanks!
I am looking at an ipad app which can be used to store files locally as well as supports multiple types for viewing. E.g. Doc, xls, ppt, etc I heard Goodreader is one such app, but was looking for something free..
I'm setting up a new Mac Mini server for a client that came with Lion Server. The Mac Mini will act as an Open Directory server and will store each Mac user in the office's home directory on it.
This maybe similar/related to this question. I have my iPhone and my wife's iPhone synced to the same iTunes with different accounts. I sync my podcasts to 3 most recent that have not been listened to. If we listen to some of the same podcasts then we will effectively 'hide' the ones that one has listened to from the other that has yet to listen to it. Is there a work around for this?
I particularly want to know if iPhone 4S can work with other networks that use SIM cards when the device is authorized to be unlocked. With these conditions, can it take a SIM card when traveling?
It seems that iTunes Wi-Fi Sync only kicks in automatically (when plugged in) if there is new content, but not modified content. If I listen to a podcast on my Mac, the time remaining in the podcast is not synced with my iPhone. I have to go into Settings and manually perform a sync for this to happen. Is there any way to have this happen automatically, or should I rely on a third-party tool such as Seamless?
Is it possible to listen to the radio for free on the iPhone? Do I need a special app? I have downloaded some apps for digital radio that require payment, but I just want to listen to regular free radio
I never used MobileMe and am struggling with getting iCloud to work properly for me, but I'm wondering... Now with the iCloud launched what's the difference between iCloud & MobileMe. They both still exist in the System Preferences after 10.7.2 update.
I have an iPhone4, upgraded to iOS5, and a Mac running the latest Lion updates as well. The new Wireless Sync feature keeps everything up to date with iTunes, and the iCloud Photostream takes care of getting my photos into iPhoto.
I'd like for apps to download 'free updates' whenever they are available so when I sync my phone they will already be there, similar to podcasts. Is there a way to configure iTunes to do this automatically?
Transferring photos from my Android smartphone to my laptop via Bluetooth is really easy, but the laptop always pops up an "Incoming File" dialog asking if I want to accept the file-transfer. I can choose an "Accept all" checkbox, but that only seems to apply for the current connection -- not future connections. Is there any way to set my Mac to trust my phone and automatically accept transfers?
Camera works and stores somewhere photos. But I can't open Photo.app... I have tried many things to solve this problem: Quiting Photo.app iPhone restrat iPhone restore Image Capture doesn't sea any photos as well. All the same. Do you have any ideas how to troubleshot this. Thank you in advance.
I'm experiencing significant video playback stuttering when there are other users logged in in the background via Fast User Switching. I'm not sure if this is do to a recent change to my user setup, or Lion, or what.
If I enable the iCloud Backup feature, can I later restore from an iCloud backup, but while tethered to iTunes? So if my phone ever dies, is the only way to restore from iCloud to do it over WiFi, re-downloading every app, or is it smart enough to let me plug into iTunes, use the iCloud backup to figure out which apps go where, and then push the actual apps from my PC onto my iPhone? The closest question I could find is this
In 10.7.2 update Apple roll out new bug, - hosts bug. This crashed broken hosts. I had tried install and configure dnsmasq, reconfig /etc/hosts/, and after this manipulations *=URL=* doesn't load. If you need more info, please request it )) My /etc/hosts file: My /etc/resolv.conf file: dig localhost ps sorry for a little broken english ^_^
I have some files that have .gid extension. What Mac software should I use to open it? I use OS X 10.5.8.
When I get a notification, my phone has the standard "message received" sound for e.g. Twitter. iOS 5 has sound settings for Text, Voicemail, Mail Received, Sent, and Tweet.
What caused my 3G plan to be over used? The MMS or iCloud?
I downloaded the new Xcode 4.2 update yesterday and installed it. The installer shows up in Launchpad as an app, see screenshot below.
Is there any way to export or otherwise copy Categories, with colors, between Users/Macs? They also don't yet synch to Exchange 2010, from what I can tell. I'll likely develop a default new user profile and then run an AppleScript to add the Exchange account based on the currently logged in user's credentials, so I can set up defaults that way, hoping that there's a way to export or copy categories however.
I have just restored my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 factory settings but it requires a Wi-Fi network although I do not have a wireless access point in or around my house. Can I not use the iOS 5 without a Wi-Fi connection?
I just got a new 4S and am not seeing notifications pop-ups from Twitter. I'm using the Twitter for iPhone app. How can I enable new tweets in notification center?
Is there any way to create a hard link in the finder? A hard link in terminal would be created with: whereas a symlink / alias can be done by holding command and option or (though apparently the behaviors of 'alias' and 'ln' are different)
I have several games that, combined, use up a pretty good chunk of my iPhone's flash. I haven't played some of them for a while, and would like to remove them. However, at least before iCloud, deleting an app also deleted its data. Since I may go back and play them again, I'd rather not lose said data. After backing up to iCloud, can you delete an app, and (possibly much) later reinstall it and restore your data from the iCloud backup?
Is there an iPad app that lets me share my iPad screen with someone at another computer at another location? I'd like an app that lets me write stuff with my stylus (like note taker HD) and have that appear on someone else's screen on a computer at another location. If there is no such app, I'd be happy with some hack that lets me do this through my computer. (Now what I tend to do is write a bunch of stuff and have note taker HD email it to the other person.)
Since upgrading my iPad all the books are gone from my library yet when I go to iTunes it shows the books I purchased. Am I going to have to download them again?
Except... I'm not. When I go back to the System Preferences > iCloud, it still has the "you need to move from MobileMe" screen and the button to start the transition. And I am 99% sure that my contacts, calendar etc are not syncing with iCloud, so I can't get them on the phone (that's a problem).
Is there a way to change the default screenshot filename prefix (the Cmd-Shift-4 type screenshot) to something other than the default? The default name looks like this: But I'd prefer to use something like:
I am trying to update my iPad first generation to iOS 5. It is freezing at the "Set Up Email" screen after I enter my email address and password. I have already clicked on the link in the email that asked me to verify my contact email address. Any thoughts on how to get past this?
iTunes makes automatic backups each time I want to sync in a different day (if I recall correctly) - what if I want to restore to a backup WITHOUT having to restore the whole operating system? Can it be done?
After install of iOS 5 on my iPhone 4, I noticed that only 2 of my ringtones installed. I resynched. I explicitly requested a sync of my 7 purchased ringtones. Same result: iTunes synced the same 2 of 7. I'm on OS X 10.6.8. How can transfer all of my ringtones to my phone?
Supposedly, you can change the colors of calendars from the iPhone now. How!? (In particular, I'm trying to do it for google calendars synced via exchange, but I can't see how to do it with iCloud ones, either.)
I am running 10.7.2 and had my Address Book synced to the iCloud. I inadvertently deleted all of my contacts from my iPhone (synced with iCloud) and now my address book is empty. I've attempted to restore all of the files in ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book but when I do I can see the cards briefly (for about 1 second) and then they disappear from Address Book. I also backed up my Address Book (prior to deletion), but opening this file yields the same results. Any suggestions?
Since updating to 10.7.2, the email addresses in my address book card seem to have re-prioritized themselves. Now when I use Auto-Fill, the wrong address pops up, and I don't see any way to change it.
This past week, I've been having constant problems with my 2007 Aluminium iMac (2.4GHz, 3GB memory, 320GB HDD). I've been downloading using Transmission, and when (sometimes) stopping or starting a download, my Mac would hang to a state where the Force Quit dialog would not even activate, it would then stay in this state for as long as I let it. I had to force restart every time. After a few force restarts, it lost its start-up disk, and it takes longer than usual to boot up.
iOS 5 is here! Geofencing, new Voices in Voice Command/Siri, and Notification Center for all! We all know how heartfelt iOS makes you seem (Cards), how much control it gives you for managing your network (Airport Utility), and how it will easily turn you into a stalker (Find Your Friends), but what about all the day-in and day-out things that truely make the upgrade process worth it?
My mom just got a new iPhone 4S today, so she wanted me to transfer the contacts on her old iPhone 3G to the 4S. However, I screwed up. And I don't have a single backup, so now, all I have is a copy of the contacts on her computer, and no real contacts.
My iPhone 4 is about 15 months old now and the screen has completely lost the oleophobic property is had when it was new: finger smears now show up just like they do on other phones. Contrary to the comments on this question I've never cleaned it with any sort of solution: all it's ever had is the occasional wipe with a cotton cloth (well, T-shirt :), although of course it will also have been rubbed in the pocket of my jeans. It's never had a screen protector but is completely unscratched and undamaged.
I filmed something with my iphone 4 by rotating the phone so that it looks wide. Like a widescreen TV. But when I upload the .mov to youtube, the video is sideways and tall & skinny. How do I rotate it? Is there a setting in iPhoto or quicktime I can configure? Or on youtube?
Is there a last.fm app for iOS to submit the music I'm listening to ? Now with iCloud I'm not connecting my devices anymore by cable to the mac, so the tracks are never submitted. thanks
On Wednesday I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS5 and all my 3rd party apps worked fine. Then on Friday when my iPhone 4S arrived I transferred everything over. The phone works great and all the core apps work fine, but none of the 3rd party apps work at all. They "blink" if I click on them but none of them will launch - even ones that have just been updated. I have a couple of key apps with years worth of data that I really can't afford to lose. I have done a hard reset. I have restored the software and restored from backup and still the problem is the same. Any suggestions as to why this is happening and more importantly how I can resolve it? Thanks.
I am on Leopard 10.5.8 (my MacBook is too old to upgrade to Snow Leopard) on itunes 10.5, and on iPhone 4 (iOS 5.0). I have a MobileMe account.
Isn't Reminders app on iPad allowing you to trigger an alarm when you leave a location ? I can only find the option to set the time. I do have a 3G version of the iPad so it does have the GPS chip which in theory should make this feature as beneficial as on an iPhone with GPS and a data connection.
the iPhone may be a real battery hog and sometimes having the battery last till evening is hard. The obvious tips are turning localization, bluetooth, wifi, 3g and so on off. The problem is that this requires a lot of tipping. For example, if I just want to turn 3g off because i'm not browsing or something, I have to tap Activate -> Unlock -> Setting -> General -> Network -> 3g.
I have a new TimeCapsule 2TB and use it as a wireless AP, router, and backup device. The TimeCapsule is directly connected to the DSL modem.
Has anyone tried to get Colloquy to work with Google Talk? Have searched online, but couldn't find any useful articles.
Just bought Macbook pro 2011 running on Lion. I connect to my WiFi, but it has started happening frequently that internet stops working even though my DSL modem and wifi router are ON and working perfectly, as I acess it via my phone also. But on mac, no internet. To fix it either I need to restart the machine or turn wifi OFF and then ON. Is this issue common on OS Lion? any solutions? Thanks
I just upgraded to iOS 5 and am having trouble with the automatic sync to iTunes. Sync works fine if I go into Settings -> General -> iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and press "Sync Now" or trigger the sync from the Device menu in iTunes, but when I plug in my phone overnight sync doesn't happen.
The sender id as it displays on the recipients iMessage is what I would like to reset. However, I cannot find where it is set on the sending device (iPhone 4). It seems to be device dependent as sending iMessages from my iPad 2 displays a different sender name although both devices use the same Appleid.
I used to use Spotlight to directly start iTunes at a track I wanted to listen to by searching for it. However since upgrading to Lion I've not been able to do this with .m4a music files (mp3s still work). They never show up in spotlight even if I type their name exactly. Has something broken in Spotlight in Lion?
Currently, the location features for Siri don't work in Canada. Is there a timeline for that being rolled out, or is there any way to get around it?
When I open my laptop at Starbucks a Chrome-window is automatically opened. It shows the login-page that allows me to log on to BT OpenZone for free Starbucks-wifi.
I setup my Verizon iPhone 4S by restoring from a backup of my 3GS. Now my contact's phone numbers aren't formatted at all. They now look like 5555551234 whereas they used to be formatted like (555) 555-1234. In the Messages app, most conversations are no longer linked to a contact's name, only phone numbers are shown. Creating a new contact exhibits the same problem. Adding +1 to the beginning of each contact's phone number(s) seems to help, but I'd rather not have to manually edit all of my contacts.
I've tried changing settings, and I've found that enabling Sound Check helps some louder songs. Unfortunately, Sound Check doesn't apply to apps like Spotify, which I use more than the Music app.
Does anyone know if iCloud backs up ALL of your files (including files outside of the Documents folder AND even the stuff outside of your user directory /Users/USERNAME) or only the ones inside of the Documents folder (So Downloads, Movies, Music , Desktop and Library are out of the question). If it backs up everything then does anyone know how to configure it to only backup your Documents folder?
Now that iOS 5 has been released and devices now have the 'Newsstand' feature, I've been considering switching over some of my print magazine subscriptions to the iPad platform. Does anyone know what happens to your existing issues after an iOS magazine subscription is canceled? After downloading the "free" app for a magazine (such as PC Gamer), you have the choice of either buying individual issues at a high price or "subscribing" on either a monthly or annual basis. The subscription can be stopped at any time (and will expire at the end of the current paid period.)
My Mac, iPhone, and iPad are wirelessly connected to a Time Capsule. This works fine except when lots of data is being transferred. For example, if GBs of music are syncing from the Mac to the iPhone the Internet is almost unusable on my Mac. Safari, Mail, etc. are either very slow, or the connections time out entirely. And on the iPhone, OmniFocus syncing and Siri are incredibly slow. Is there an easy way to prevent the iOS sync from monopolizing the 802.11n connection to leave room for other traffic?
When I use WiFi sync using my wireless router, is the data transfer completely in local network OR does it happen over the internet to iCloud or another service? Will the bandwidth used be deducted by my service provider?
After switching to wi-fi sync with iOS 5, I've been running into problems with it syncing videos that are already on the device. It slows things down too much, so I thought I'd try manually syncing videos. This also has the advantage of not having to keep videos in my iTunes, I could just drag them from my network file server, saving space on my MacBook. I did a bit of research and found Apple HT1535: Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod, which says (emphasis mine):
I'm wondering what physically has changed between the CDMA iPhone 4 / GSM iPhone 4 and the new iPhone 4S. the placement or number of bands interrupting the metal side case micro SIM slot location camera and LED opening / placement home button receiver / front camera / proximity sensor placement Superficially, the buttons on the 4S seem to align with the CDMA model spacing as opposed to the GSM spacing
On my iPhone (and iPad) I have "Photo Stream" enabled for my primary Apple ID (I have others setup for mail, etc). On my iPad it works fine - I see the one "Photo Stream" button and everything shows up there.
I'd like to be able to reboot into the Boot Camp partition without needing to go change the Startup Disk in System Preferences or holding down the Option key at startup. After reading some stuff on the Internet, I tried these shell commands:
I set an appointment on iCal from 19:30 to 22:00. In the iCloud calendar it shows as 18:30 to 21:00. In iCal on Macbook Pro, on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 it shows the correct time i.e. 19:30 to 22:00!
One problem however is this small (niche) area with regards to my company. I know that I can easily work around it, but I'm hoping for a definitive answer. Here's the example. Say I have 3 people who work for my company. Smith, Joe Doe, John Lew, Sue My company is called Acme Holdings Inc. and there are two campuses. Acme Holdings North Acme Holdings South Now I'd like to have in my address book Acme Holdings Inc --Phone-- North Campus (555)-1234 South Campus (555)-5678 Then I'd like to be able to voice dial one of my co-works with the following command Call Joe Smith, North Campus So my question is, is there a way to associate a company with their respective contact information to each of the employees without having to do double/triple entries?
I would like to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mobile Safari, not just the part that's visible on the screen. I'm running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4, but I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't built in anywhere. What app or trick do I need?
My wife has an old Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro (pictured).  It's built like a tank and refuses to die, and that longevity seems to be causing trouble.
If I put my iMac (2011, i7) to sleep, it'll wake up after 5 seconds, then go back to sleep after a few seconds, and repeat constantly. The only way to stop it is to restart. This seems to be happening every two weeks or so. One key thing is the screen remains blank when going in and out of sleep. I've quit every application, disabled bluetooth completely, removed all USB devices, reset the PRAM and SMC, turned network wake off, and disabled the inferred sensor, but nothing seems to help. Here's the kernel.log, where I put it to sleep, it woke, it slept again, then I woke it up by pressing the keyboard (I've split the parts up):
Instead of getting a Macbook Pro 13" or 15", I was thinking of getting the Macbook Air 13" or 11", but checking the machines at Apple store, it turns out the density of pixels of the screen of the Macbook Air 11" or 13" is larger, so the font appears more "dense", and therefore smaller. It turns out that the Macbook Pro 13" has smaller pixel density, and the 15" model has even smaller density, so they can have larger fonts, without needing to squint the eyes. The 17" model also has high font density as well.
If I happen to have two external hard drives, one 1.5TB and then other 2TB, and use Disk Utility to mirror the two drives, will there be any problem? Can it be mirroring just for the 1.5TB portion, while the remaining 500GB is for storing un-mirrored files? (but will Mac OS X always try to mirror those files and try to copy into the 1.5TB drive?) (will it be the same if the two drives are 2TB and 3TB, or if the drives are different brands, so the capacity might differ slightly?)
I just updated to iOS 5.0 on my iphone and when it started up for the first time, all of my emails in a POP account are now showing as unread. The total is 79 emails and I don't want to go one at a time marking each one as read. Is there a way to do it in one sweeping motion?
Yeah, I'm still trying to kick it old school. I have a Macbook 2.1 (2.16 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB of Memory, 667 MHz Bus speed) that I recently installed 10.6 on (thanks to help from stack exchange). Unfortunately, between snow leopard and upgraded internet browser, I have about 20 MB of free memory just when checking my email. Lots of loading time and spinning wheel (aka Steve Jobs' eternal flame).
I've just updated an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 to iOS 5, and turned on iCloud, with syncing of Bookmarks enabled on both. And they are tied to the same Apple ID too.
I am rather new to Mac, but I am trying to get familiar with Terminal and I want to change its theme. I am a bit confused on how to go about installing Solarized themes I am seeing so much of around the net. I am able to get the theme installed for vim, but I want it for just my general terminal usage. I see some suggesting to install SIMBL but then I read if you have Lion, SIMBL is not needed with the color support that it has. And then I've seen a suggestion to just "double click" to install, I am not entirely sure what is meant to be double clicked, the Solarized Dark ansi.terminal file?
I tried upgrading to an iPhone 4s. After starting the phone, I chose to restore from iTunes and it told me to connect via USB, which I did. It went through what appeared to be a normal sync process, but after doing so, only my photos appear to have synced to the phone. There were 0 apps and 0 songs and 53.6GB Available through the About screen on my phone. The default apps as well as any Safari Home Screen links all were there as well as the config of my favorites and a few of the folders (the ones which contained default apps). I've tried resyncing a few times as well as doing a Restore, but I can't get any apps or music from my MacBookPro.
I can get Siri to show me events on my Google Apps calendar (which I have set up as an Exchange account, to get the benefits of push email), but I can't get her to make an event on that calendar; new events keep being created on my own calendar.
The settings screen Settings ▸ Location Services ▸ System Services in iOS 5.0 contains the following boolean options: Cell Network Search Compass Calibration Diagnostics & Usage Location-Based iAds Setting Time Zone Traffic This is fine, but: Every time you provide an option, you're asking the user to make a decision. I have never used an iPhone before and don't understand what each of these services does, so I'm not well enough equipped to be able to make this decision.
While there is no system-wide way to make all fonts larger under Lion without leaving native resolution, many individual programs do have a way to make text and various elements larger on the screen. Unfortunately, this varies from one program to the next. If the goal is to make text appear larger in all programs, can we put together a guide to zooming in the various apps in Lion?
I got a new, 32gb iPod Touch for my birthday in August, and I really love it. It's faster than my old one and holds all my songs, but I thought it would have a camera. I don't know much about the Apple Store (I don't go there often), but I thought that after a new model comes out, they stop selling the old one. This one was bought in summer of 2011, so I was under the impression that it would be a 4th generation with a camera and all. Am I not accessing the camera? Is it there, but I can't see it? Is there an app I need to buy to use it?
I just installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 several days ago, and I backed it up to iCloud. After performing a sync with my PC, it deleted a bunch of apps. I'd like to restore these from the iCloud backup.
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2 backed up to one of my PCs which I no longer use. If I upgrade to iOS 5, will I lose the opportunity to restore from one of these old backups? Would I be able to restore the phone to the old operating system and then restore from an old backup?
I work for an international non-profit that has Active Directory with multiple domains. (A bunch of them.) We can't get Lion (10.7.2) to bind to it properly. Has anyone been successful in getting AD to work in Lion 10.7.2? We have a bunch of new Macs and can't get them on the network. We'll be testing AdmitMac this week, but would rather not pay more than $100 a machine to get them hooked up.
I created a new Google doc on my iPad2. When I select all to copy the whole contents, it only selects the current line. Is there a known workaround for this?
If you jailbreak iOS, there is an app that gives you quick access to toggle settings such as wifi, 3g, data, location... by just swiping the top bar. Is there a similar solution without jailbreaking? an app or a setting? I have iPhone 4S, iOS5
I asked: "Should I wear a jacket today" It replied: "Sorry Nathan, I can't look for places in France"
I noticed my mid-2011 Core i5 iMac felt a bit too hot on the back. So i checked my iStat dashboard widget, Here are the temperatures: HD: 52 degrees celsius CPU: 49 Ambient: 35 GPU Diode: 55 GPU Heatsink: 56 Mem Controller: 55 Optical Drive: 48 Power supply 2: 66
I'm going on a long backpacking trip and going to leave my Macbook at home unused. How should I store its battery to maximize the battery life?
I bought Macbook Pro 15 inch laptop last year with 4 GB RAM and 300 GB Hard disk, Now I feel like upgrading its RAM to 8 GB and 1 TB hard disk. I want to know is it possible to do that or not.
When syncing via WLAN, the most recent sync date/time is displayed on the iOS device but not on iTunes (where only the time of the last backup is shown which seems to be the time of the most recent cable-based sync). Is there a way to show the most recent WLAN sync as well?
I'd like to sync my contacts from the Mac addressbook to an Android phone, but I'd rather not use Google (or any cloud) where I have no control over my data. So far I found SyncMate and Missing Sync. Both cost $40 and promise to do sync more data that I will ever get on my Android phone.
What happens to Microsoft Exchange accounts accessed in Outlook on a Windows machine when one migrates to iCloud? Will I lose that anything when I go to iCloud?
I've noticed after upgrading to iOS 5 that a little pull-out sheet for the Calendar app appears on finger swipe near the top edge when inside other apps. I already disabled multi-gestures but this still occurs. Is there way to turn this off? It's annoying when using full screen drawing apps for example.
I just got a new MacBook Pro, and is looking at how the power modes work, and according to this article: About Energy Saver sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X, making it sleep by closing the lid (say) will put it into a low-power mode. However, the article also says that it uses power to keep RAM contents. What I'm wondering is if the sleep mode is just a mode meant for "sleep on my desk", or meant for transport. So, tomorrow I will bring my computer to work, by car, I have a computer bag I'll use so it'll be protected, but I'm worried that if I just put it to sleep, it'll get hotter than just regular off, and I know that you're not supposed to stash a running computer into a confined space, like a computer bag, because the heat might induce wear'n'tear problems on various parts. So, should I: Just make it sleep by closing the lid? or, should I turn it completely off before transport? Also, if option 1 is OK for a 5-10 minute ride, but not OK for, say, a train-ride to our offices in the 
I have tried several times with several backups, but i keep getting the message that the backup is corrupted or not compatible.
My computer does not have a WiFi card, so I connect it via LAN cable to my router. My iPhone is connected to the WiFi signal of that router. Is there some kind of magic that will enable me to use WiFi sync with my computer?
Recently I upgraded my laptop from Snow Leopard to Lion. However in Snow Leopard, I fooled around with the system a bit and "named" an app called LaunchPad.app(It's actually called quickpick) Now in Lion, it retained the old app and didn't change it to the actual LaunchPad. When I try to delete the LaunchPad app now, it says the it is necessary for the system and I can't delete it. What should I do now? Thanks everyone.
I just got a MacBook Pro, and different from my iMac is that I'll be using the lock-screen much more on this one. I noticed that in the upper right corner of the lock screen, the time is shown, but it is in 12-hour mode with AM/PM indicators. I guess this is some remnant of the machine having been configured to use english language as the main language (I'm a developer, I don't want to have to fight with badly worded Norwegian translations of error messages on google).
I hid an app listed in my purchased list by accident, how would I go about getting in back?
I felt that my computer was slow today so I checked Activity Monitor. What I found was a process called SafariDAVClient hogging up 3.32GB of memory.
I'm trying to change the folder background image on a USB flash drive, using the View Options panel. However, when I eject and re-insert the drive, these settings (as well as icon positions, etc.) aren't saved. In fact it doesn't look like Finder is even creating a .DS_Store file. How can I make this work?
2) I'm only interested in a month-to-month plan from T-Mobile. I see some listed here: T-Mobile Plans The one that looks best to me is the new $30 "Unlimited Web and Text with 100 Minutes Talk". I've noted that only the first 5gb of data are at up to 4G speeds, I guess the rest go back down to 2G. This will be more than enough for me.
I've been using icalx.com to sync all my many calendars as a single group. When I turned on iCloud, all my calendar group structure completely disappeared and I see no way to re-add it. Is there any way (including workarounds using icalx or Google Calendar as an intermediary) to continue sharing all my calendars as a single group? It's a huge pain for people to set up 10+ subscriptions just to see my events, not to mention having to check and uncheck all 10 each time they want to see what I'm doing.
Yesterday, I zipped up something using 7-zip on the PC, using a password for the zip file. So if I copy the file to another PC and unzip, it asks for the password and restore the file. However, if I copy the file to a Mac with Snow Leopard and double click on that file, it will simply say, can't unzip the file. (Archive Utility was the app). For me, since I know UNIX, I tried to open up Terminal and typed in and it actually asked for the password and unzipped for me, but I just wonder, what about if I don't use Terminal, or for people who are not familiar with the command line, how can it be done?
Apple just released an app that helps you configure your apple router. I downloaded it to try it out and when I opened my iPad's Apps tab in iTunes I noticed you can transfer documents to this app. I would like to know what kind of documents can you transfer and for what purpose?
Prior to iCloud, it was necessary to explicitly encrypt iOS device backups in order to include passwords stored in the iOS Keychain. Indeed, this was an important and recommended use of encryption, which allowed easy migration from device to device without having to reenter passwords, but it us unclear whether iCloud backups behave the same way. In fact, it's difficult to tell from the layout the settings UI in iTunes whether encryption applies only to local backups, or to those iCloud backups as well (though the former seems to be the case):
If I buy a new Mac with OS X Lion, will I then be able to update my old computers to Lion via the Mac App Store without charge?
How do I remove the sync status icon from the menu bar after migrating to iCloud?  Prior to iCloud the Sync pane of MobileMe preferences had a simple setting for this, but after migration it is gone.
I am about to get my SSD back from an RMA process. I currently have my backup HDD and I'm considering utilizing FileVault's full disk encryption. I'd like to minimize the number of writes before I get the SSD back in my machine. Can I enable FileVault on both drives, then Carbon Copy Clone the HDD -> SSD?
After upgrading form iOS 5 beta to the final release, I cannot create any new reminders. The issue seems to be caused by the fact that there is no reminder lists to which to add a new reminder, but I can't find any way to add a new list to the app. In the screenshot, you can see I have the "Completed" list of tasks, that I made with one of the earlier betas of iOS 5, but there are no other lists.
I've been looking at iPhone 4S prices. I'm not an US citizen but I've been wondering why does it cost only $199 with a Sprint/Verizon/AT&T contract and why does it cost $649 without those contracts? What are the limitations if I was a US citizen and I was going to use one of those service providers?
I am searching for a good font manager for Lion. It should work especially with google web fonts.
My Downloads folder is on my Dock, and sometimes when I want to open a file, I don't want to open it in the default app. For example, I want to open a jpg in Pixelmator instead of Preview. Anyway I can do that from the Dock and not have to open the folder, find the file, and then open it? I thought that you might be able to right click on the icon as you would in windows, but it doesn't work?
From what I understand, the mid-2010 MB (MacBook7,1), unlike its predecessors, is able to send audio and video from its Mini-DisplayPort to an HDMI port with a simple Mini-DP-to-HDMI adapter, and does not require extra hardware to convey the audio signal. Is this in fact true? Are there any other dependencies, such as the make/model of the HDTV? And are there 3rd-party, off-the-shelf adapters (from, say, Staples or Radio Shack) that will fill the bill? One of our local authorized Apple dealers told us we'd need a separate audio cable!
This screenshot was posted by somebody in my Twitter feed on the day Steve Jobs died. It was the author's tribute to him. He received many @replies asking what app this was, but nobody received a reply. What app is this screenshot of?
I purchased some audio books and movies on the iTunes store before (2-3 years ago). But when I use the new iPhone 4S to look at my account, the "Purchased" show 1 audio book but doesn't show the other one I can clearly remember (in fact, I purchased that audio book twice, hoping the second time won't be any charge, but there was). Also missing are some movies, such as Toy Story... Is the only thing I can do to contact Apple iTunes Store Customer Service to resolve this?
I am looking for a tabbed PDF reader, preferably with annotation support (highlighting mostly) for Mac OS X. I looked at the Skim FAQ which said that tabs would never come to Skim. I am currently writing where I need to have multiple PDFs open for reference (at the moment 17). This is a lot of windows which clutters upp my Exposé. Does anybody know if such a PDF reader exists for Mac OS X? I have had a look at Adobe Acrobat Reader, Skim, Preview.app, PDF Pen. I found Dioretsa which has tabs, but no sadly no annotation.
I have GeekTool for Lion and am trying to run the Glet located at - *=URL=* On my system. It's just not working. The same code is running perfect in terminal and IDLE, but GeekTool is not processing it. I thought it might be a problem with Geektool and Python, but another python script, used to pull the latest XKCD is working perfect on GeekTool (http://code.google.com/p/geektool-xkcd/source/browse/trunk/xkcd.py)
After upgrading to iOS 5 my AppStore language changed to German. Referring to that quesiton it is possible to change the language by selecting the country in iTunes like it is described in this apple KB. My problem is the following : I have a Swiss AppStore account, as you may know Switzerland has many official languages (German, French, Italian, ...) that why a Swiss AppStore account could be in German, French or English as default language. Before upgrading to iOS 5, the AppStore language was in English as I want it.
I have a Macbook Air and I'm very happy with it, except for the fact that it made a creaky noise. It turned out the bottom plate wasn't screwed on properly and I had to reseat it (I tried to let a Genius do this, but out of the three Geniuses I visited, no one of them had the proper screwdriver and wanted to take my Macbook for repair or switch it for a new one, I refused this because I don't want to live for a week or more because of such a stupid problem). So I bought a special pentalobe screwdriver and screwed the bottom plate off. I noticed there was some aluminium dust inside the Macbook Air because the plate has been moving a little and has been scraping onto the body. Could this dust create a short circuit theoretically?
Was wondering whether it's possible to sync non-iOS5 devices (in this case iPhone 3G) with iCloud? In particular I'd be interested in syncing contacts.
Like many people who own both an iPhone and iPad, I like to play games on them -- preferably on the pad when I have it at hand, but on my phone when not. One thing that always irked me was that, for games that run on both, progress on one device wasn't saved or shared to the other.
Let's say I'm sick of Angry Birds, I delete it from my phone. I back up my phone daily to iCloud. In a few months when I want to play it again, will all my data be there (or is it different implementation every app)?
Every once in a while, my iPod does a spectacular job at shuffling the perfect set of songs. Is there any way to save this sequence to a playlist so I can replay it again in the future?
I have about 20GB of photos (from my external hard drive) to sync with my ipod. The first sync tooks 11 hours to copy everything over. That makes sense to me as this is actually moving all of this data. My issue is that now when i sync it (no new pictures added or deleted) it sits on this view
I then upgraded the iPhone 4 to iOS5 and synced it. Worked fine (over wifi too)
Recently, my Apple remote has stopped working from a distance of more than one meter. I thought maybe it was the battery, so I bought a new one, but nothing changed. I thought I had broken the remote and could not pass a signal at a distance greater than one meter, but I did a test with my friend's Macbook and it works fine from this distance. So, I think that the problem could reside inside my iMac. Does anyone know what's happening?
I just updated to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4, and now I can not edit my contacts. Where "edit" use to be is no longer there. If I type a new number on the keypad and hit add to existing contact, I can edit from there, but there is no "done" or "save". Not sure what to do.
In Lion Cmd-N in Finder opens a new Window with "All My Files" showing as the default. Is it possible to set that back to the normal "home" directory of my user?
Some of my imported pictures don't have location data on them because they were created using apps like Diptic. I'd like to tag them with them location data but the 'Assign a place...' search dialog in iPhoto is doing a poor job of finding the location the photos were taken. I have pictures in my iPhoto library that have the exact location information that I'd like to assign to these location-free photos. Is it possible to copy just the location metadata from some pictures to others?
Let's say I have a few of my favorite artists who I've told my iPhone to sync, even though those songs might not be in any playlist. Is there any way, when I open up my iPod (now "Music" in iOS 5) to see who those artists are? Or maybe there are specific albums I've sync'd; is there a way to see those albums listed anywhere?
I recently turned on my iMac (White intel) to find it wouldn't boot. Running the boot in verbose mode I get the following message:
I never got the 10.7.2 update, as you can see here:  But my system thinks it's running 10.7.2:
I've a powerbook g4, it should be the "PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)" named here. It was on the table where I work to gather dust.
Is it possible to use Safari's Reading List on my Windows machine and have it synced with the one on my Mac/iOS devices?
When my Mac goes to sleep, and I awake it, AirFoil no longer detects my Airport Expert speakers. I always need to restart OS X to make AirFoil detect it; restarting AirFoil doesn't fix it. Do you know how could I avoid this?
I'm looking for a way to take pictures without them going into the Photo Stream. Rather than have to remember to toggle it on and off as I adore it for my personal pictures, I'm looking for an app that lets me control this. I don't really care if it stores the photos in it's own storage space or somehow can toggle a "do not send" status before it gets added to the normal camera roll. Has such software been released for iOS?
I like seeing my upcoming appointments in the notification view, but I have several subscribed calendars that I generally keep turned off, but keep around so I can reference them when necessary. They're showing up in the notifications and I don't want them to.
I want to be able to add an action to search Google with any selected text in Terminal. Any ideas?
Is it possible to include the currently playing track in a smart playlist? Ultimately, what I'm after is a smart playlist that includes tracks without a rating and tracks that I've already rated 3-5. If I rate something 1 or 2, I want it to keep playing until the end of the song instead of just automatically kicking it out of the playlist and skipping to the next song.
Also, when I leave my iPhone charging for night (I know it can fully charge in 1 hr), I see 93% in the morning. And it doesn't increase.
I have an Exchange server account which works fine on my Windows Vista pc. I have set it up with no problem on my iPhone. However, on my MacBook Pro it does not work: the icon under "Default Account" (next to the account name) remains yellow. I tried setting up a Gmail account on the Mac Outlook and that worked with no problem. What could be wrong? I have set up: Account description Full name E-mail address Method (User Name and Password) User name Password Under "Advanced" I also entered the Server. The OS is Mac OS X version 10.7.1.
I've restored an iPhone 3G (purchased outside the US) and am trying to activate it with iTunes (in the US with an ATT sim). The iPhone tells me to connect to itunes, with an unlock for emergency calls. When I connect to iTunes, all I get is a plain white window with the word iPhone in it (can't show image; I'm new). I've tried with iPhone-activated SIM cards and not, and also tried activating without a SIM card at all (iTunes tells me to put a SIM in).
I just got the iPhone 4S, and it seems like my email is polling rather than push. I set up my Gmail account, and emails do not come to my phone instantly. It appears to be polling, rather than pushing. I see, on average, about a 10 minute delay between when I see my email in my browser and when it comes to my phone. Does Gmail push on this device, or have I set something up incorrectly?
I've been under the impression that iOS shuts down WiFi when the screen is off - which is good as far as battery savings. Lately I've been suspecting that WiFi remains on, and I did a test. My iPhone's screen has been off for like 15 minutes. I opened iTunes and did a WiFi Sync, it worked! Does that mean my WiFi is on 24/7?? Thanks
I often find myself creating Keynote presentations with lots of extra slides. I then go through and skip a bunch for a particular class.
Is /usr/bin/otool available in a stock OS X installation where Xcode hasn’t been installed?
I am so used to using ⌘D to "delete-next-word" in emacs and xterm, that I automatically hit it in Terminal all the time, which rather annoyingly (to me, at least) causes the pane to split instead. I've tried to google solutions, but all I get are hits telling me what a neat feature this is.
As mentioned in this post, I'm wondering where I should put UI suggestions for apple.
After I bought a new MacBook Pro 2011 with 4 GB or RAM at 1333 MHz I decided to switch the RAM with the one from the old MacMini 8 Gb at 1066 MHz. Initially I was expecting to have problems with the MacBook Pro, but it seem to have no problems running with 8GB of RAM at 1066 MHz.
I started a transfer over AirDrop of a 4GB xcode dmg file. Something happened in the middle of the transfer (3.5GB) and I now have 3.5GB of space missing from my computer. I have restarted the computer and deleted the file in the downloads folder. I tried using grand perspective to find large files but I can't seem to find the location of the temporary airdrop file. Where are these temp files located so that I can delete them.
I changed the e-mail address linked to my Apple ID. Now when I try to update apps or purchase them on my iPhone 4, the old address pops up asking me for the password. I cannot seem to get it to change on my phone. I can log into iTunes and purchase apps there on my computer without difficulty.
Is there a way to copy an entire photo (not just a shortcut to the photo) from your camera role to another photo album? Now that we can edit photots on the iPhone I thought it might be useful to make a copy of a photo before messing with it.
I had a question on how iMessage message routing works. Assume this setup: Thing1: iPhone 555-555-5555 Apple ID: thing1@me.com Thing2: iPhone: 999-999-9999 Apple ID: thing2@me.com If Thing1 sends a new iMessage and selects Thing2's Cell as the destination, the iMessage appears only on Thing2's iPhone. If Thing1 sends a new iMessage and selects Thing2's email address as the destination, then the iMessage appears on Thing2's iPad and iPhone (and at this point, there's two separate conversations from Thing1 on Thing2's iDevices). I had assumed that since the Apple iMessage servers know that Thing2 can receive iMessages at both their iPhone and iPad (via their Apple ID) that it wouldn't matter if the iMessage was addressed to either cell or email (and that iMessage would route it to all associated devices). Is that not correct?
On the rare occasion that I would like to plug in some headphones to my Mac Mini, rather than speakers, I often turn down the volume before plugging them in, because the first "blip" is rather loud, and probably isn't good for my headphones. However, upon plugging them in, the volume will revert to 100%, and I often get an unpleasant pain in the ear because of it. Is there any way to make the volume stay where it was before?
I've noticed this on several occasions where I'll print a document (Pages file, RTF, PDF, etc) and any hyperlinks in the document don't appear on the printed page. Where the hyperlinked text appears on screen it turns blue with an underscore (as expected), but on the printed page a white gap is left where the text should be as if the font has been changed to white.
I've installed octave with homebrew (via brew install octave), and it seems to work fine, including gnuplot support. However, it looks like it's missing curl support. I'm getting the message "error: urlread: curl: No error" when trying to execute str = urlread(url, 'post', params). I've tried making homebrew install curl by adding depends_on 'curl' to the octave formula and setting the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables to point to homebrew curl, but that didn't seem to change anything.
I subscribe to a bunch of Google calendars on my iPad, and I have my iPad fully set up with iOS 5 and iCloud. The only calendars that are currently syncing with iCloud are Reminders—is there any way I can also sync my Google calendars? Other info: the Google calendars are a mix of read/write and read-only.
I currently have five Calendar events displaying in Notification Center at a time. However, I have one specific calendar that I'd like to hide from it, as it has too many events for the Calendar-in-Notification-Center setup to be useful. As far as I've been able to surmise from my tinkering in settings, there's no way to do this. Has anyone else been able to find one?
My iPhone is currently managed on my macbook, where I've added my music library from iTunes onto the phone. However, I want to also be able to add music from my PC to the iPhone, without erasing the rest of my music. Whenever I try to do this, it threatens to delete the rest of my library. How do I add music from multiple computers?
iTunes saves Album Artwork to ~/Music/iTunes/Album/Artwork/Cache/[some seemingly random folder name here]/ The problem is that if I move actual MP3 and AAC files from this computer (and/or iTunes database) to another one, I (assume that I) will lose the connection between those songs and the cached artwork. Right now there is 826 MB worth of of cached images in 950+ files. I am almost certain that it is possible to add album art directly to the media files, but I need a solution which can be automated (at least most of it) because I really don't want to do this 950+ times, and I have a lot more music to clean up in the future. Footnotes: [Non-free solutions are entirely welcome, but please let me know if your proposed solution isn't free, and how much it costs, if you know.] [Non-free solutions are entirely welcome, but please let me know if your proposed solution isn't free, and how much it costs, if you know.] I have both MP3 and AAC files, so hopefully any solution will work on eith
I am looking for a quick way to sleep without closing the lid, or using the mouse. If it matters, I have Lion version OS and a MacBook Air.
I want to take some Matroska (.mkv) movies I have (h.264/AAC with subtitle & chapter tracks) and change the container to the more iOS friendly MP4 container, but without re-encoding all of the media streams. What tool is suitable for doing this? Other info: I'm using 10.5 PPC.
My daughter loves SuperWhy show but I'm not sure if their app is good. I wonder if anyone can list his/her favorite app here so we can vote on them.
I'm looking for iPad games for my 4 year old daughter to learn numbers. I've tried many different games, like "Learn Numbers", "Counting101", "Animals Count", "Baby Phone", etc. but none of them are really good. They are either too simple, too hard or too boring.
I have an old iPhone 2G (first generation) that I plan on using basically as an iPod touch (not using the phone portion). I no longer have the AT&T service on that phone. I installed an update to the firmware (stupidly) this morning because iTunes prompted me too... and now the phone seems to basically be bricked. Upon completing the firmware update I was stuck at the "connect to iTunes/emergency" screen.
Apple provides instructions for configuring one Apple ID for iCloud and a different Apple ID for Store purchases. But this is clearly not the "recommended" approach.
I'm upgrading my wife's laptop from an old MacBook to a newer windows based laptop (thanks for the free laptop, Telus). I believe you can manually copy everything in the 'iTunes' folder over (I know this works Mac -> Mac, never tried to a PC), but I'm curious if this process can be done by iCloud? or is iCloud purely for synchronization of content for iOS 5 based devices? The line is a bit blurry to me as pretty much everything in iTunes is just content for the iPhone now.
Filezilla: When I use it for file transferring, I check the "Activity Monitor", the "% CPU" usage is like 150% - 200%. I was shocked. My mac start to become lag, so I stop it.
I've configured Notifications to display Messages in the Notification Center, but no messages ever appear there.  Is there another setting that I'm missing? Are only certain kinds of messages displayed in the Notification Center?
Ability to have several custom document indexes ie. can ideally set up some content indexes to only contain a smaller subset of documents related to a certain project - not everything on my computer. Or alternatively have 'saved searches'. When you do a search for a phrase or term, a list of MS Word documents that contains the search term/phrase is returned. When you do a search for a phrase or term, a list of MS Word documents that contains the search term/phrase is returned.
Does Apple offer fanless desktop machines in its current lineup? I could not find any information searching for this.
My best guess is that the app probably does something to cause the system to dump the "Inactive" memory, which probably has no effect whatsoever on performance. However, very little information is provided about the app, and I'm reluctant to install it on my machine. I'm also not as familiar with OS X as I am with Linux and Windows, so I could be mistaken about how OS X handles RAM. My questions are:
Alot of existing iPhone 4 cases are now being marketed as iPhone 4S cases; but I'm not sure that all of them would be compatible with an iPhone 4S. Can anyone who has found a case that fits add it to the answers? For example my girlfriend has two Incipio iPhone 4 cases (DermaShot and NGP) and neither of them fit my new iPhone 4S (due to the position of the mute switch and the volume buttons) despite the Incipio site saying that they are iPhone 4S cases.
Every time I try to quit iTunes (⌘ + Q) in OS X lion I encounter some strange problem and after some seconds I find it has run itself again! If I use ⌘ + Tab I see iTunes in my running application. Why could be causing this and how do I stop it?
In my network I have: a Macbook Pro (running Lion) an iMac (running Lion) and I want to use the internal drive of the iMac as a Time Machine "target" for my Macbook Pro. What I did is create a sparsebundle on the iMac and mount it share the mounted volume connect my MBP to the shared volume on the iMac (with AFP) tell Time Machine to use that volume to backup My questions are is it the best way to achieve what I want to do ?
I get dragged all the way to the Desktop 1 because that's where Finder is currently open. Well, that makes sense from a programmer's perspective (switch to Desktop with the app window). But it doesn't make any sense for user. Whenever I press Finder, I want it to open on current desktop, because it's utility and not really an “app” I need to “switch to”. I usually have half dozen Finder windows on different desktops and these redirects just get in my way. Is there a workaround to make Finder in Dock desktop-bound, apart from choosing New Finder Window in menu?
I got the Magic Mouse along with my MacBook, tried using it for awhile, but I got disenchanted with it quickly. Instead of having sliding pads, it has two hard plastic bars, which make it unpleasant to use on most surfaces. I`ve tried it on my wooden table (little bit of dirt scratched it up), paper (too much friction), cloth-covered mousepad (has some issue with correctly tracking), even on the surface of my MacBook (awkward), but none of them seem to be working too good. What surface was the Magic Mouse designed to work on, and which surfaces are really good for using it?
Question: Does anyone else have this combination of problems since upgrade, or have any suggestions to help me. I'm visiting the Apple Store at the weekend and will look forward to being reminded that my warranty is 6 days out of date.
I had a perfectly working unlocked and jailbroken iPhone 3GS, but of course I had to go ahead and try to get iOS 5 on it. I didn't know I need to preserve my baseband while updating it, so now ultrasn0w will not unlock it for me and I'm left without a phone line.
I would like to buy an iPhone 4S under a different family member's name as their eligibility to purchase the phone is available and furthermore, they're on a different bill. If I purchase the 4S under my family member's name and activate it under my name... will the "required" text messaging plan, etc. still hold on the purchaser's bill even though the iPhone was not activated under that name? Note: This isn't to unlock the phone to use it on a different network -- it would remain on AT&T.
Using Mac OS 10.6.8, I'm trying to connect via HTTPS to a WebDAV server that requires client certificates. Without luck so far. The certificate is stored in the keychain. Is this possible with the built-in WebDAV client? Are there alternatives that integrate somewhat smoothly?
I have a list of about 10 bookmarks I want to create as iOS home screen icons. Are there quick ways to do this? And is there a way to edit them once they're created?
I have gmail set up via exchange. My drafts aren't syncing back to the server. Should they be? Is there a setting somewhere?
I really like the reminders feature in iOS 5, especially the geo-tripping reminders that will alert you when you are at, or leave, specific locations. I was disappointed, however, that you could not have 'shared reminders list'. For instance a shopping list that my wife and I could both use and contribute to that would alert us whenever we are at the grocery store.
As the title says, the built-in card reader in my MacBook Pro doesn't work. It simply doesn't do anything when I instert an SD card. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I understand that the iOS 5 Photo Stream is a collection of all of the recent photos taken on all iOS 5 devices in a given account, synced with those devices through the cloud. It is not clear to me, however, what the Photo Stream settings in Aperture do.
Unable to show all sort of iles (e.g.: if ti shows pictures, it doesn't show vector images, like .ai files) Unable to handle a library (only browsing through the filesystem) Unable to retrieve metadata (and therefore take advantage of an hypothetical search engine) Unable to handle separated libraries (iPhoto and Picasa creates a single library, mixed with all images: personal and for work can't be spearated, unless using tags or folders) Unable to display a single stream images (filtered or not filtered): they only shows the current folder/album files
I do like the mac mouse. touch sensitivity is nice. But the precision and number of buttons on my gaming mouse is much better. It seems to work on the mac just fine, but only left/right click and scroll works.
Having an issue where I have a folder on a QNAP NAS with over 68,000 subfolders within it. I can browse it quickly and almost instantaneously within Windows 7 via SMB, however in OSX 10.6.8 and 10.7.2, it takes nearly 10+ minutes to display the subfolders, using both SMB and AFP. Hoping there is an easy solution - we can't break the folders into smaller subfolders due to a requirement of proprietary software that accesses the sub folders. I've tried the fixes suggested here, which don't seem to help: http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#030311b
Today something really stupid happened to me. To show the new iPhone I gave it to a friend at work. He activated Siri and said: "Call my father" Siri said : "Who is your father?"
Then it offers me to start Software Update, but it finds no updates. Some people said I should check in the AppStore, but it asks me to pay if I want to take iPhoto from there. I am running Mac OS X 10.7.2 I believe this update is to enable Photo Stream.
It seems that LaunchPad is not remembering the position of my app icons. I manually sorted them by name, but every now and then it will shuffle them.
I use a bluetooth apple trackpad and keyboard, and once the battery hits 20% the bluetooth indicator in the menu bar starts flashing this lower battery warning. Normally, I wouldn't really care, but 20% battery is about 1-2 months of usage so the thing just flashes at me constantly for over a month. Is there a way to disable this behavior?
Where is Siri (on iOS5 on an iPhone 4S) get it's list of recognized locations, such as those used for location-based reminders, from?  I've seen demonstrations and have experimented a bit, but only a very few locations like "home" seem to work well. Is it necessary to set up named locations in Contacts? Does Siri use "world knowledge" from other sources (such as Maps or Yelp)? Is there a way for users to extend or configure the list of locations Siri recognizes, or for developers to create applications that do so?
Which apps in iOS and Lion support the "Documents in the Cloud" feature from iCloud? I know that Apple's own iWork apps support this. But other than Apple's own apps, which third-party apps implement this?
My wife's iPhone 4 (Verizon) earpiece stops working every now and then. She has to switch to speaker mode during calls.
A while ago I wanted to make things more convenient so I organized the my Mac applications in folders. Little did I know, it prevented Software Updates to detect needed updates.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish using only a keyboard: Move a window to different areas/corners of a desktop Move a window to different desktops Set/unset a window as shown/sticky on all desktops Yes, I know #3 could solve #2 by stickying a window, pressing ctrl+⌘+&leftarrow;/&rightarrow;, then unstickying it, which would be acceptable, but i'm hoping for something a little more elegant :)
I have an iPhone 3gs 32gb. As they do, my battery was noticeably depleting as well as conflicted with the device having been slightly water damaged (dropped in quickly but immediately turned off and dried out. Works "fine"). I decided to replace the internal battery with a factory OEM version but even after doing so my battery life is awful. I am talking about losing 10% during one 4 minute phone call or 30% in the first hour or less or simple standby. Are there things I should look for or perhaps additional parts which could be causing the depletion?
It used to work, but now it doesn't. It now has iOS 5 on it. (I can't say for sure once iOS 5 went on it stopped working) When I plug it into the docking station I hear the audio click, the green power light goes on the bose for a second, then it goes off then the phone charges. If I go into Music and play anything, it appears as though it's playing though there is no sound coming from the sound-dock. I can connect wirelessly to my Apple TV and it works, though then when playing on the TV, I connected it to the sound-dock and was able to select the "docking station" option (instead of Apple TV) I've tried the phone on a cheap branded docking station and it works fine. I've tried an iPod Touch in the sound-dock and it plays music fine.
I have a 13" 2011-model MacBook Pro running Lion that I connect to a Dell monitor. The connection is made as follows: mini DisplayPort -> mini DisplayPort to DVI-D adapter -> DVI-D into monitor. Everything works quite well graphically when I connect the laptop to the monitor, but it pretty much instantly causes the wifi to slow to a trickle.
Be sure to specify if your tip or trick is for all iOS5 devices, or if it is restricted to the iPhone 4S only.
I purchased a new MBP and am eligible for their free Lion upgrade program; I applied for it but it would take anywhere between 5-7 business days for my country. If I purchase Lion now, will I get a refund after entering update code into iTunes?
I wonder if I can remove the U.S. language of the languages list. Because I use a shortcut to cycle through input methods, and don't want to land on U.S. as ArgenPinYin is already a modified U.S. international keyboard layout, so I don't need the plain U.S. Is there a way?
I'm trying to set up a function to make certain grep command easier. The end result should be a recursive grep of all *.m, *.h, and *.xib files, for whatever is specified by the command's argument: Can anyone demonstrate the correct syntax for this?
Is it advisable to upgrade an early 2009 MacBook (2GB RAM, 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) from 10.5.8 to Lion? Under 10.5.8, the user is complaining about some 'slowing down' (especially after a few days w/o restarting). If we upgrade, how strongly is it recommended to increase the RAM (to 4GB? to 6GB?).
I'm using Terminal and committing some data to a remote SVN server... every time I get the same message about a new certificate, and I choose to "permanently" accept the cert and it works. However, the next time I commit... same thing. Why isn't the cert being remembered, and how can I fix this?
With the introduction of the iPhone 4S and Siri I really want to stick with notes.app on the iPhone. However I greatly prefer notational velocity on my Mac to using mail.app.
My question is: will Time Machine/Capsule be able to retain the history after the new partition scheme goes live? Or will it decide to wipe the slate clean and start with a fresh backup of the newly re-partitioned setup? Is there any way to make sure I don't lose my history and have backups "continue" and build upon the existing collection?
I am currently running Lion on my late 2010 Macbook Air. The new bootcamp has an option to create windows 7 installation disk from usb and iso. I have both but bootcamp won't let me select that option, any ideas?
OS X 10.7.x, (updated to 10.7.2 when it became available last week); Quad Core iMac. Hard crashing about every 2 or 3 weeks, except had one yesterday and another today, 5 times total so far. Mouse and keyboard go dead. Screen frozen. Doesn't respond to LAN ping. Dead.
I compiled Git 1.7.7 from source and while doing so, got warnings about SHA1_Init and other related functions being deprecated on MacOS X 10.7 (I'm using 10.7.2 and although I have XCode 4.2, I am compiling with a home-built GCC 4.6.1, but that only changes details in the warning messages). The header is /usr/include/openssl/sha.h; it contains notices such as: Does anyone know where it is documented why SHA1 is deprecated by Apple and what the proposed replacement is? Illustrative messages: Grumble: I can't yet create new tags 'sha1', 'openssl' and 'deprecated' which I consider might be appropriate.
So, iCloud is now available to all Mac and iOS5 users. I don't (yet) have an iOS5 device, but i do have OS X Lion with iCloud installed. I've set it all up nice and (almost) easy. In iCloud PrefsPane I noticed there's an option to sync Documents & Data. This is what baffles me. How do I do that? How can I share Documents & Data between 2 Macs?
When I have a form that I don't want to print out and write on, I can simply use Preview.app's PDF Annotations feature in order to fill in the necessary fields, and print out the final result. I have now done this and completely filled out a PDF file, but I'm making a few last minute changes and have run into a problem. The first couple of fields have an annotated text size that is nearly double that of the rest of the fields, and I wish to shrink them to be closer, if not exactly the same size. But I am unable to do so;
I'm still working with Office:mac:2004 on my MacBook 13" (2,16 GHz, 3 GB RAM, MacOS X 10.6.8) and it is quite slow in Loading the applications, so I avoid working with it if I can. What are alternatives to MS Excel which have at least the following features: filtering of tables creating complex formulae (if possible also a programming language like VBA to create custom commands and formulae) cell format change automatically dependent on cell value (Free applications would be welcome) Would the most recent version of MS Office perform better on my (quite old) MacBook?
Is there a way to sync Address Book with Android phones without using Google Sync (i.e., directly)?
What features does the minidisplay port on the MacBook Air (early 2010) allow you to do? I couldn't find much information about it in the Air's manual. All it said was that it was a video out connection. Does it only work as a monitor repeater (i.e. it shows exactly what is shown on the built-in screen?) or can it also allow the second monitor to behave as a dual screen? (i.e. where you can have some apps on one screen and separate apps on another?)
I'm sure I came across a really nice app that would ping a list of sites or IP addresses every x mins/hours and send alerts when it could not ping. But I can't find the app back, anyone know of any good ones?
I'm using Lion and every time I edit a file, TextMate prompt me for my password. Is there a way to bypass that?
Just upgraded to 10.7.2 and found out that the Launchpad icons had become much bigger / magnified. Is this a normal thing or is there something wrong with my installation?
I have an apple Mac-mini 10.6 and 10.7 with me. when i am trying to connect Mac-mini from Windows server 2008 using vnc server over the internet from my windows machine using *=URL=* Mac:5800/, the connection is not set up.
Every evening around 10:30, my iMac just stops and restarts. It's not a power outage because another iMac next to it (same plug) is not affected. I'm thinking maybe a service that's set to run at that time, but I don't see it just shutting down the computer with no warning ..
I have iOS 5 on my iPod Touch 4, and I can't find Siri on it. Does it have Siri?
I was reading the following answer which tells you how to enable shared Reminder lists: Is it possible to share reminders? However, at the moment, the only way I can get to icloud.com is from my iPhone (site is blocked at my work). When you go to icloud.com from your iPhone it doesn't let you login and see the actual site features, it only links to information on how to setup iCloud (and Find my iPhone / Find my friends) Any ideas how to get full icloud.com functionality from the iPhone?
I have some Xcode (iPhone/iPad) development on the horizon and will also be doing a bit of Eclipse (Java) and .NET development in between. Since I'll be running a VM for the Windows stuff, I think a Macbook Pro is the way to go.
While looking through my timeline in Tweetbot, occasionally a tweet will be marked as a favorite even though I'm sure I'm seeing it for the first time. (I can't resist taking the time to unfavorite it.) I don't see any mention of this in *=URL=* Is this a bug, or a "feature" (where perhaps Twitter's API is doing this)?
If there's no GPS in the iPod, how can it know (with such a good precision) my location?
I live in a building where I am connected to the university network for internet. I am not allowed to connect a router, or I will be kicked off the network. (This rule was created after wrongly configured routers blocked internet access for the entire building.) They expect people to connect their computers all through ethernet. I have multiple computers including a MBA and an iPad, so I don't plan to abide by this.
We are migrating our Leopard server to Lion. We were using Group wikis and blogs in such a way that I didn't make much of a distinction, so it came as a shock to realize that Lion Server doesn't support group blogs. Hence, we need to convert the blog entries to wiki articles, which is fine. But, what is the least painful way to go about that?
As someone with vision issues I typically need to zoom on every single page I load on my iPhone. The "three finger tap" to zoom kinda sucks, so pinch to zoom works great. However since upgrading to iPhone 4S I've noticed a lot of sites don't allow it.
I basically use US keyboard for programming and Spanish for everything else, and I´m always switching keyboard layout when I change from browser to VIM or console. In Linux (gnome), keyboard layout was a per application preference, that the window manager remembered automatically, so for every application, if you switched keyboard layout, when you focus back to that application the keyboard layout would change for you. Is there any way of doing this in OSX Lion?
Is it possible to jailbreak an iPad 2 running iOS 5? Please let me know if it's possible. If so, how do I do it?
How does one know if upgrading OS will slow down their relatively older machine? For example I bought a MacBook Air a couple of years ago. It came with Leopard and I've already upgraded to Snow Leopard, but now want to download Lion. I'm concerned though that it may slow down my machine. I've heard of this before where upgrading OS slows down performance on older hardware. How can one know if they risk a slower performing machine if they update OS?
I'm amazed I can't figure this out - my friend has an iPad running iOS5. He can send me an iMessage to my phone using my AppleID. But (outside of replying to his message) there is no way for me to send him a message using the Message app, since it only lets me enter phone numbers. So, how does an iPhone user send an iMessage to an iPad user's AppleID?
I tried to upgrade my iphone 3GS to iOS 5 today, but the upgrade failed saying 'an unknown error occurred'. Now my phone is in a weird state where you can't turn it on properly, it just goes to a screen with a picture of a USB cable pointing into an itunes logo. I plug it into itunes and I go through this sad sequence of events:
I upgraded the memory on my MacBook (unibody, Core 2 Duo 2GHz). I followed the instructions here and bought a single 4GB DDR3-1066MHz SODIMM. After installing it, the MacBook only detects 1GB:
I'm a web developer. I really need to use .htaccess file. How can make Finder show only the .htaccess file and not all the file prefixed with .? I am running OS X Lion.
I want to change the buffering of streaming radio in iTunes 10.5. Every help document I've found online says to go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab. I see no such buffer option there. I'm running on Windows XP Service Pack 3.
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS5 and Facebook and Messenger push notifications are not working for me, or they're delivered hours after they should be. I had jailbrake on iOS 4.x and always assumed that was the case for me not getting push notifications, but the problem is here again on a freshly restored phone with iOS5. All my settings are correct (i.e. notifications are on etc.), I tried the same thing on an iPad 2 with iOS5 and notifications work instantly.
I am trying to set up Wi-Fi sync of my iPod Touch (iOS 5) with iTunes 10.5.0.142 running on Windows XP. They sync fine over the USB cable. I've enabled Wi-Fi sync both on the iPod and in iTunes. The Wi-Fi is functioning and I can ping the Windows XP machine from the iPod. However, the Wi-Fi sync won't work (the sync app on the iPod doesn't see the computer). How do I go about troubleshooting this? Notes: Windows XP is running inside VirtualBox on Ubuntu. I've checked out other similar questions, and none of them are relevant here.
And along came iOS 5, which seems to trim all non-alphanumeric characters from the beginning of each title before sorting. On iOS 5, they show up as follows (on the iPhone and iDrive):
I am trying to iMessage an iPhone 4S using its phone number. When I press send, the sending progress runs to ~90% and pauses. Then, after about 1-2 minutes, a red exclamation point appears. This happens every time. My WiFi connection is great. What's the problem? I have a 16 GB iPad WiFi running iOS 5.
I like Spaces, and I like my two-monitor setup. However, I'd like to just use spaces on one monitor, while keeping the other one always showing the same desktop. For example, Monitor 1 shows Desktops 1-4, changed with Spaces Monitor 2 always shows Desktop 5 Is there any way to do this?
Just bought a new iPhone 4S (64GB). Like virtually every other early Apple product I've owned in the past few years, I'm having trouble setting up the networking. At my home, all's well with a 802.11b router, same at the hotel I'm currently in. But when I go to my office, it refuses to get a connection to the G router there. It sees the network ok, but when I select the appropriate network, it asks for the password but won't connect when I enter it. I've tried everything I've done in the past (power off the device, power off the router, reset the network setting on the phone), and nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?
I am trying to get SSH/SFTP working on my iMac running Lion so that one of my friends can connect to me remotely. I have managed to get it working using my local user account, but I need to understand how I can add an additional account that my friend could use to SSH into my machine. This is probably really simple, but if someone could point me in the right direction in would be appreciated.
The following is a simple question that's difficult for me to diagnose because it causes a hard freeze that the system daemons appear to not be able to log. As a power user, I'm in full control of my system as root and expect, from circumstantial evidence, that this is related to an audio driver issue with the latest update to 10.6.8. I do not know how to fix the problem, however.
How can you remove the 'Computers' menu item from the Apple TV menu? I do not plan to use Home Sharing, and would like to remove this menu item altogether from the main screen. ATV can be jailbroken or not. What steps can be taken to achieve this?
I recently installed two certificates (for use in signing mail) on several iOS devices. Both certificates derive from the same trust chain and were purchased from the same vendor on the same day. The only difference between them is that they are associated with different e-mail addresses. Both work fine on OS X in Mac Mail. But when they are installed on iOS devices (using iPhone Configuration Utility after exporting to .p12 files from Keychain Access) one works fine while the other is flagged as "not trusted". What could account for this difference? Update: 5.1 does not fix this.
Is there any way to determine the number of the currently active Mission Control space/desktop in Mac OS X Lion from the command line?
I have a mac mini connected to a TV that is on during the day and switched off at night. This displays a web page with stats during the day. When the TV is turned off the resolution readjusts to I am guessing "defaults" then when the TV is reconnected it readjusts. During this process the safari window shrinks and whenever I turn the tv back on I have to readjust the browser window. This is mac os x snow leopard server. Is there any way to: Disable screen resolution detection and always keep the res at the one i want Always have safari go full screen (no full screen option in safari snow leopard as far as I
I am looking an app for my Mac that can backup in the background (such as Backblaze or CrashPlan) that will backup over FTP, SFTP, rsync, or scp (I'm using DreamHost's 50GB of personal backups). Preferably this application would be free, but I would be willing to pay a bit of money. It would be nice if it could encrypt the backups before sending them as well. EDIT: Command line solutions are fine as well.
One of the most exciting new features since iOS5 is the ability to setup reminders - and even better - the ability to setup geofenced reminders based on when you arrive or leave a location. I have two key questions about how these work in practice and I was wondering if anybody could answer them based on their experiences.
I understand that one can configure a Game Center profile so that it is only visible to Game Center friends. Are such profiles also not listed among "friends in common"? I have several friends, most of whom I have each other in common with me, but when I select the their lists of friends, I see no friends in common.
I am new to Mac. Recently I realized something for usernames.
I would really like to find an audiobook player that works on iOS without using the iTunes media library. Here is my problem: iTunes (on Mac) mixes audio and e- books together. I have a fair sized software development library in e-book format and I can't begin to say how annoying this is when I am trying to manage (or use) e-books. I can't say enough how I don't want audio books appearing in alphabetical order mixed in with my developer library. Removing the "audiobook" designation will make the impossible task of separating modern and classical music on iTunes that much more aggravating. I used to have a similar problem with podcasts being in the same app as everything else, and I solved that by switching to an iOS podcast app: it downloads podcasts, stores them outside of the media library, remembers my place even after I have been listening to music, and is far easier to operate than the Music app. Unfortunately, every iOS audiobook player app I have found seems to use the iTunes me
When I log in to my MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.5.8 w/ Intel 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and 4 GB of DDR3 ram with a few bad sectors), it started entering my desktop but returned me to the log in screen. So, I took my MacBook Pro to the nearest Apple Store (where they were holding the memorial for Steve Jobs and I had to wait for hours) :'(, where they determined that one of my launch preferences was corrupted. They created a new account, and they transferred data from my old account to the new one without the bad preferences.
I have iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X version 10.6.8. I would like to restore my iPhone from backup. iTunes detects all my backups EXCEPT one, which happens to be the backup I want.
With the release of airdrop it is apparent that my WiFi network card is capable of making more than one network connection. Are there any apps, documentation, command line tools, etc. for managing multiple wireless connection on my mac. in a nut shell can I get my single wireless nic to act like two wireless nics?
I am using Handbrake to create ATV2-compatible video files using their included preset. After importing these files into iTunes, when I try to add artwork to them it seems to rewrite the entire video file to disk. Is there any way to speed up this process? My first guess is that there's something wrong with the format/container coming out of Handbrake.
Is there a way to share iBooks with a device without connecting it to the machine running iTunes with the purchasing account? I know that it is possible to download iBooks to a device that uses a different Store account by connecting the device to the machine machine running iTunes with the purchasing account; but is it possible to do so with a device that syncs to iTunes on a different machine (using a different account)?
I'm worried that dust and dirt are going to be able to get inside the case and stay trapped there, possibly damaging the device and hurting its later resale value more than if I just use a different, less protective case altogether. Of course, nothing hurts a device's resale value more than being dropped and broken.
I set up iCloud when I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone and was excited about Photo Stream. I logged into icloud.com and found there are no photos. What gives? I was hoping that this would end the need to selectively pull photos off my phone, then upload, then share. But it looks like you can only sync between iOS devices and Lion (which I don't have). Is there a web interface or some other way to see these photos?
How do I refresh / check new mail in Mail? By default, I don't see a toolbar button to do so in Mail 5.1 on Lion.
I updated my iPad 2 to iOS 5 using my Windows PC. I backed up my apps, calendar, mail, photos, etc. using iTunes before the iOS 5 update. However, although I got my apps, I am missing all the data in them! For instance: for iAnnotate PDF I am missing all my annotated files, in Note Taker HD I am missing all my notes, and most importantly in bizXpensTrkr I am missing all my business receipts and data!
Suppose I have multiple iOS devices, say more than 5, and I purchase a gun through In-App Purchase, after I restore my purchases, will that gun be available in all my devices, in that game? Just want to know, if the 5 devices authorization works in this case too Thanks
I'm looking for a file manager application which helps to organize a large amount of movies, pictures, music, text documents, databases, audio-books and ebooks. Right now I only use the Finder which doesn't work well, because I really need a function to put single files into multiple categories. Simply using the file system for this creates a confusing nesting of files.
I was looking around for ways to get my iWork documents from iWork into Dropbox; going through a forum post on the dropbox website I came accross SMEStroage do any of you use this? If how does it work?
iOS 5 has introduced the ability to create folders in the image library, and copy pictures from the camera roll to these folders. When synced on a PC (on Windows 7), where are those pictures stored? How can they be managed on the computer? I'd like to find them to be able to save them, and add/remove some pictures from those folders. I know the way to add "hard" folders to the image library from the PC, but those can't be managed on the iPhone.
I have all my songs in a folder, when I need to add songs I do "Add folder to library" Now I have deleted some songs from my folder, how do I tell iTunes to check which songs were removed and remove them from my library to remove them from my iPod?
I was able to share my mac system screen using VNC server in Snow leopard OS but now I have upgraded the my Mac OS to Lion OS. Now VNC server is not compatible with Lion OS. So can any one help me how to share my Mac system so that others can access my system remotely and run the iPhone application in XCode and able to see the iPhone simulator.
Ever since I installed Lion I've had problems with wifi. Connections would drop, and once wifi was turned off it wouldn't turn back on. Now, I can't use it at all - it says "No hardware installed."
Recently I have seen some interesting tips for increasing the accuracy of Siri by entering phonetic details for contacts with names that is has trouble understanding or saying correctly. This involves editing a contact, adding a new field, then selecting either phonetic first name or phonetic last name. E.g. Shuvawwn instead of Siobhan. While I do not have Siri as I run an iPhone 4 not 4S, I have still seen these tips pre-dating iOS 5 to help with voice control as was before Siri came along. The problem is that I do not appear to have these fields available on my iPhone at all.
I enjoy using Keyboard Maestro to set custom keys to take control of apps, I can apply more functions to the play/pause button in the earphone remote, but by default it is set to control iTunes. How to disable or overwrite the default setting of these button? I'm using a Mac, and use the iPhone earphone with remote
After I changed my Gmail password (on a PC), and try to login (with both the new and old password) on the iPod Touch, the browser shows: Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on.
I wrote a small shell script to spoof my wireless interface mac address. I'd like to run this script on my mac (snow leopard) before the airport utility starts and attempts to connect to an access point. Where would I put this script or what appropriate startup file is referenced where I can have it call my spoofing script? Here's my little bash script:
I purchased a free app Haunted Manor by Big Fish and then bought the in-app upgrade to full version for $6.99. After I upgraded to IOS 5.0 (BTW im using an IPAD 2) it started crashing so I re-installed it (delete then install) . Now after the free levels are over it asks me for money again to upgrade :( ? What is the solution to this. And ya BTW when i deleted it i also deleted all game data(it prompted) as I was still early into the levels and I thought that may be cause of crash.
Android has "Instant Upload" with the Google+ app. I'd like something similar for iPhone: an app that takes all my photos and uploads them to a private album on Picasa Web Albums. Jailbreak alternatives are fine too.
I had an older Windows XP disc lying around which I then tried on this machine. It installed without flaw. However, the Lion Boot Camp drivers do not support XP anymore and anyway I need to install Win 7 on the machine.
For lot of applications, the disc image (.dmg) contains the .app files which needs to be copied to the /Applications folder. I use Launchbar's Instant Send feature to open the selected files quickly in some text editor. Is there a way I can use this feature to quickly send a selected application to /Applications?
When I update my apps on iOS the configuration for the apps are always maintained, including passwords. I am wondering someone knows if the data is kept when I (as end-user) uninstall apps as well. The questions here are: Is the Update on iOS actually is an uninstall and then install or really a different operation than uninstall? Is there a real uninstall or is it simply a delete? Given that the app provider is not capable to distinguish between end-user uninstall and update, how is the configuration data expected to be secured?
If you create a brand new admin account in Lion, the following will be your id and group memberships (from $ id [new Lion account] | perl -lne 's/ /\n/g; s/,/\n\t/g; print;'): In contrast, an older OS X account will have these uid, gid, etc: Note that the gid=20(staff) on the newer account and the that user is a member of 20(staff). When you upgrade an older account to Lion, the older user and group names are kept. There have been issues reported with not having staff group membership on upgraded accounts: Inability to install or upgrade Homebrew; The display of 'Fetching' when pressing Cmd+I on files in your user folder ACL and permission issues. The current workaround seems to be this:
I have many apps on iTunes, some installed permanently onto the iPhone, some others not installed, and same thing for iPad. I'd like to separate them on the computer (Windows 7) to be able to make targetted backups. So I'd like to put them in some subdirs : "iPhone/Permanent", "iphone/occasional", "iPad/permanent", "universal/occasional", ... Can this be done without breaking iTunes ?
Is there an app that allows one to create "workspaces" on the iPad? A workspace is essentially a particular set of open documents/windows that can be saved and reopened later.
Is there any way and have there been any examples of split-screening two apps on iPad so, for example, I can be scrolling through a PDF or PPT and simultaneously be typing notes about it in a text editor with an external keyboard?
To serve the same basic purpose as my question about split-screen apps: Is there an app that allows me to quickly (in one touch or zero!) bring up a notepad/text editor while I'm in another app?
Is there a way to get a pixel for pixel copy of a Mac-created Keynote presentation onto an iPad to present on an external display? The iOS Keynote app often has great trouble in importing Mac-Keynote documents (lacks 16x9 resolution, fonts, etc). I don't want to convert the presentation to a PDF, as this removes animations/videos/etc. Converting to a Quicktime file also does not work, as there isn't any way to manually advance a Quicktime "slide" on the iPad. It's quite probable that there is no solution, but I'm eager to hear suggestions I may have overlooked.
I have a new iPhone 4 (not S). I have installed iOS 5 on it. I have configured an Exchange active-sync mailbox for my mail. I have three Exchange rules running on incoming messages in order to sort them into three places: filter out all low-importance messages to folder B filter out messages that are not to me to folder B filter out messages which are to me but I don't want to get notified-on-arrival to folder A
Is it possible to add an entry to the bundled Japanese-English dictionary? I'm using Dictionary version 2.2 (155) on OS X Lion.
Since upgrading my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 some of my podcasts no longer display their custom cover art. They sync OK but use the default image. I'm still syncing over USB, no iCloud or Wi-Fi sync at the moment. The cover art displays correctly in iTunes itself. How can I get the missing cover art back on my iPhone?
Are there any iPad PDF apps that either automatically or manually can split scanned PDF's into multiple pages? At school, I receive many scanned PDFs that have 2 physical pages per PDF page, which makes them more cumbersome to work with since it requires me to manually pan around to see the next page.
Is there a free app that I can use to move a window from one monitor to the other monitor (assuming only two monitors) via the keyboard? I shouldn't have to use the mouse at all (e.g., for selecting the window or the monitor, or for dragging). I know this can be done in Linux using compiz; I'm surprised there isn't a (free) option for OS X.
Quicktime (10.1) keeps quitting when I try to launch an .avi file on OS X Lion. I have removed the codecs I had installed (I used cleanmymac to completely remove leftovers) I also deleted Quicktime and re-installed it from my Lion recovery disk and the application still gives me an error report when I try to open a .avi file. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Also, the avi files are working fine on quicklook. Here is the log file:
My Mac Mini crashed. I restarted and after a long time the screen remained gray. I then started in single user mode, did a disk check (fsck reported no problems) and rebooted again.
I have a 1TB external hard disk from Seagate connected to the USB port of my Airport Extreme and everytime I need to access it I have to wait some time until it leaves the sleep mode. Is there a way to prevent it from happening?
I'm in the UK, where (like the US) we use miles to measure distance, not kilometres. However, on both my iPhone and iPad the Find My Friends app in iOS 5 shows distances in km.
I was a longtime windows/linux user and just purchased a Mac, everything is great except that I need a good download manager for Mac which works like Internet Download Manager for Windows, I know some things would be different but I am specifically looking for following feature ability to resume downloads automatic capture of downloads from browsers such as firefox I use Downthemall in firefox right now but it is not as reliable as it was on Windows.
With iOS 5 upon us, does the iPhone 4 still vibrate in your ear if you receive a text message (or any kind of notification) during a call?
Perhaps a silly question: But let's say I have a word that I love to misspell. Okay, maybe not exactly. But maybe Lion has a problem with ReiserFS and keeps: Suggesting something else (autocorrect). Marks it as incorrect. Is there anyway to:
For some time it has been possible to configure iChat accounts so that iChat messages sent when one is offline are forwarded to a mobile number. This conveniently allows iChat-to-moble conversations. Has the deployment if iMessage changed any of this functionality?
With past versions of OSX, I used Afloat, but ever since I moved to Lion, it stopped working for programs like Evernote & Chrome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that will let me keep any other program's window 'always on top'?
I use NetBeans, and when I activate other applications or windows then return to NetBeans, the cursor no longer changes to the text selection cursor, but instead it remains as the default mouse icon. I can solve the problem by hovering over the application toolbar, then go back to the editor area.
On 10.7.2, whenever a new account is created, and the person logs in for the first time, they see the iCloud system pref pane. Is there a way to prevent this from showing up?
I am programming an application for IOS 5, but I need to use a different font. I found the perfect font for the job in Font Book, but it needs to be a TrueType Font file. Is there an easy way to do this? By the way, if you can tell me how to make my own, I would appreciate it.
I have git on /usr/bin/git (I think was Xcode install) but it is 1.7.5.4 and I want to use the current version 1.7.7 Is there a way to uninstall that version and use the new one?
I just bought myself a used iPod Touch - 2nd generation. The person who previously owned it cleared just about everything off. The Problem:
Excuse me for being completely confused about how AirPrint works. I'm aware of AirPrint activator on a PC. But is there a way to use a generic router (or Airport base station/Time Capsule) to attach an HP ethernet Laserjet printer to AirPrint?
I'm using an Apple bluetooth keyboard with my iPad. Even in Safari, arrow keys, Cmd-arrow for forward and back, Cmd-D for bookmark, etc do not work. The only useful keyboard navigation is Return, Tab and Shift-Tab.
I've been trying to create a new keyboard layout using Ukelele on Lion. I want to replace some dead keys combination like option+e to option+'.
Is there a medical application for the iphone where you do not lose all info entered when getting an upgraded iphone? I did not realize I would lose all the information I entered.
Right now, for me, that feed shows Camera+ as being the number 3 app paid app. However, on the iphone app store at this moment, Camera+ is number 4 and Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots is number 3. In the feed Puss in Boots is like 8 or 9.
Simple question: What is the simplest, most minimal app for both creating/managing blogs and posting photos from the built-in camera?
I've been using iOS5 beta 7 for a while. About 4 hours ago (possibly the end of the 20th, PST, the expiration date for iOS 5 beta 7) the phone locked itself and claims it requires activation. Whenever I try, it claims the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Should I sit tight and wait, or is there something else I can do, such as wipe iOS5 and reinstall from a release image?
I have problems publishing my Application in the App Store. It seem that the UI has been updated, but the tutorial I use still uses the old version of Xcode, and I can't follow the instructions to publish my application. Where can I find the Get Info window in Xcode 4.2?
I arrived in Greece yesterday and suddenly this morning my phone turned off, then on again and now it says Activation Required. When I unlock it to try and do it, I get the message: This device is no registered as part of the iPhone Developer Program.##br####br##If you are a member of the Program, please register your device in the @@url@@
As much as I like multitasking gestures , they are creating problems in certain games where we use multiple fingers like Fruit Ninja , can these be disabled for specific apps/games on my iPad 2?
This morning my iPad wanted to activate itself once more and at some point I receive the following message: We're unable to complete your activation on my iPad
Seeing as Yahoo (japan) got imap push to iOS devices working today (it's working on my phone now), is there a way to set it up with a GMail account?
In Lion, being able to swipe between desktops with the trackpad is great. However since adding another monitor to my setup, what I really want to be able to do is swipe desktops across monitors. E.g. if I have the following setup:
Can I explicitly lock the iPhone, so that it needs a passphrase to unlock? I want to instantly lock the iPhone and not be waiting until "Require Passcode" (currently at 1 hour) kicks in. Basically I want the iPhone to automatically lock after an hour, but if I want to lock right now, to do that easily.
We are about to develop an application using Phonegap, a cross platform mobile development tool, but they offer a service where they will build your applications and send you the compiled source code. Can I submit the compiled source code to the App Store on a Windows-based PC?
I am helping my in-laws install Lion this weekend. They have purchased the Lion USB upgrade, but are only running Tiger on their Mac. Is the Lion USB bootable so I can do a clean install rather than upgrading their OS?
I need to do a full backup of a Mac running Tiger. If I use Time Machine will it capture everything I need to restore a user's data after a clean install of Lion? Are there other better mechanisms I can use to perform the backup?
At school we heavily rely on using iDVD for our video projects. Upon receiving our 2011 iMac's preloaded with OS X Lion, we found it doesn't seem to exist anymore. Videos have been edited in iMovie, and there is the option to Share > iDVD, but once the video renders nothing happens.
Are there any differences between the iOS 5 GM seed released to developers and the final version released to the public? If I have the GM installed, do I need to do anything?
Do any applications enable AirPlay from my Mac to an Apple TV? I am looking to wirelessly mirror my Mac's display to the TV, similar to the way iPad 2 and iPhone 4S can mirror their displays over AirPlay. Yes - it's coming as a feature for Mountain Lion, but solutions that work now on Lion are much appreciated.
Since I updated to iOS 5 I have 4 photo albums in the Photo App. Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library & iPhone. Photo Library & iPhone are identical. How do I delete one or the other?
I just got a brand new mac pro. I opened the cd drive with the eject button on the keyboard, and then went to close it the same way, the cd drive goes in, but the metal gate doesn't come back up. What can i do?
I'm looking to buy a time capsule to back up my MacBook, however currently there are more Windows machines in my home than macs. Os it possible to use some of the time capsule for windows backups? Or at least plugin an external hard drive to the Time Capsule?
FileVault can’t be turned on for the disk “Macintosh HD”. Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk. I've read that this is because I'm now missing the recovery partition (Didn't even know I had that). What are my options here? Can I create this partition manually? Do I need to reinstall Lion again (cleanly), patch it, and then restore from Time Machine?
My little sister accidentally deleted one of my iPhone games. I know I can get it back by "rebuying" or resynching it via iTunes, but this will give me a clean install, without all my saved game state. Is there any way for me to reverse the deletion without losing all this information?
My friend purchased two iPhone 4S's in London. The salesman in London refuses to unlock the devices since you need a UK credit card, which my friend doesn't have.
I would like to change the text you type your username and password in with on the Lion login screen. I have a Command and conquer login screen and I would like to change the colour of the username and password Green and change the font. Is this Possible and how would i do it ?
I'd like to be able, without much hassle, add a video to my Miro Download-queue. From bash I can do this by entering
I updated my iPod to iOS 5 and all my apps and their save files are missing. I backed them up to my computer but can not find them. How do I restore the backup?
I would like to know if there is any application that can enable you use use Fn keys differently based on the current application. For example in terminal or you favourite IDE you want to use them as standard function keys but for other applications you want to keep the default Apple keys.
I've got a handleful of macs (all with unique names) and on occasion it prompt a notice about saying another computer on the network as this name and adds a (2) or (3) to my mac. How can I set the host name from the command line?
I've tried upgrading iTunes, un-installing and reinstalling. Removing all Apple software from my machine. Running the installer with administrative rights. Installing Quicktime independently of iTunes. I've searched everywhere I can about this error I'm experiencing and I still haven't resolved the issue. I've even been through Apple's support article.
When a new user account is created on a Lion machine, a "helpful" dialog appears to describe "Natural" scrolling. I want to set the scrolling to be "unnatural" for any new users created - is there a defaults setting for that?
Is it possible to use Google Docs as the default document viewer for MS Word and Excel files?
I'm happy for the pic to be public, but don't necessarily want it to be associated to me if people stumble across it, or have it included with photos I actually care about on services like Flickr etc. I just want to throw it up to an image hosted and dump it without a trail, in the easiest and quickest way possible.
Why doesn't internal drive appear on desktop after a fresh install of Snow Leopard 10.6.8?
Is there a wan to edit what is shown here? e.g.
How does the auto focus in the iPhone work? Is there a something mechanical in there to adjust the lens or is it completely software?
I set up a cronjob a long time ago that now doesn't exist. Whenever I open up Terminal, it now says "You have mail". I have something like 100 messages that all say the same thing. How do I mass delete all of the messages?
Since upgrading to Safari 5.1.1 none of the websites I am visiting is displaying Favicons. I had a look in ~/Library/Safari/Icons to try and reset these but noticed that the file/folder doesn't exist, so the problem is not related to the caching.
I have an essentially new MacBook Pro with Lion and all updates applied, and am wondering if this is a hardware or software problem. Essentially with something plugged into the headphone jack, things work as they are supposed to for a while, then the sound will switch back to internal speakers, or sometimes 'digital out' (I can watch it change in the system settings), and then often switch back. It doesn't seem to follow any sort of pattern or be related to any specific application that could be open, and happens with different sources of audio (iTunes, streaming from the web), and different external speakers or headphones plugged in. It does seem to be better for a while each time I unplug and plug back in the jack.
I have upgraded my iPod to IOS 5 but now I want to go back to IOS 4.2. How can I do this. Is there any feature in iTunes which can be utilized or I need a .iDYSM file.
We have a number of iDevices in the family, and each user has their own Apple ID. Also, each person has their own computer to sync apps and other content. If I purchase an app for my iPod, Can I share it with my wife and son, each of whom have their own IDs? If so, how do I share purchased apps, if each person has their own computer or iTunes library?
I had to restore my iMac from a Time Machine backup. Everything seemed fine until I tried to start Office 2011 and it is asking me to re-enter my product key. I am trying to locate my key (I believe I downloaded this version originally and it should be in my email but I can't find it) I tried a program that is supposed to "find the keys for products installed on your computer" (Mac Product Key Finder) and it found my very old Office 2008 key, but not 2011. I am surprised that if I had a totally working install before recovering from back-up that this wasn't restored as well - do I have any options to find it hiding somewhere on my drive? Note: The recovery was after a hard drive was replaced by the Apple store - if that makes a difference, so this is a new internal drive.
I've enabled WiFi sync for my 4S and my first gen iPad, both running iOS5. When my phone is plugged in to my computer with a USB cable, it shows up in the sidebar, but as soon as it's unplugged it goes away. The iPad stays in the sidebar until I manually eject it. It seems that my iPad is behaving 'correctly', at least based on This kbase article. Toggling WiFi sync when the phone is connected doesn't seem to solve it. I've also tried the steps outlined in this article to no avail.
Is there a tool that allows you to monitor the amount of time spent actively interacting with an application? This would be useful for development work to get an idea of just how long projects take. EDIT: I've been using RescueTime as it tracks apps, catagorises them based on productivity levels, and also looks at web pages visited.
I am setting up a new iMac that has a 2 terabyte hard drive and a 256GB SSD drive. The Operating System came installed on the SSD drive.
Previous to the update to iOS 5, the 'home sharing' feature in the iPad's iPod app worked as expected. You'd simply choose the different 'library', and you'd be able to play items over the network from that remote library.
I just upgraded to Lion recently. When I was on Snow Leopard, creating a multi-page PDF document in Preview was simple: I would open up the image Save it as a PDF Open up the PDF Open up the panel that displays pages (on the left)(Menu:View/Thumbnails) Drag and drop images on this "page panel" below the first image Save the file again. This would create a multi-page PDF file where each page is an image.
I'm using Chrome on SnowLeopard. I use the www a lot. I want to monitor how much bandwidth I use for all SE sites in one month. I don't care how much bandwidth is used on any other website. What is the easiest way to do this? Best answer will be an accurate tool to measure; but a reasonable estimate is acceptable too.
Currently I'm running iOS 4.3.3 on my iPad. I was expecting to ugrade to iOS 5 directly.but iTunes is trying to upgrade to iOS 4.3.5.
How to configure launchpad on OSX Lion? Like Hide some application Group application into folder Sort application alphabetical
I have a MacBookPro4,1 (Early 2008) with the following specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz 4 GB RAM I know that this model is supported by Lion but I'd like to know by people who has already performed the upgrade if: they've noticed a performance degradation after the upgrade if there are any other gotchas when upgrading
I just updated my iPad 2 to iOS 5. At the step for setting up iCloud, I said no to iCloud. My iPad appears to be stuck at this step, displaying "setting up iCloud" for over an hour. The only recourse appears to be to start over, which suggests that the iPad will be erased. What can I do about this? Thank you.
I got the Personal Hotspot working great, with both USB and WiFi (on different computers/devices). However, I am not able to ping or telnet the other computer. Both computers can ping the iPhone (default gateway). I found the other computers IP through ifconfig and ipconfig.
After upgrading to iOS 5, I have some issues with my iPhone 4. I did not activate iCloud backups, preferring to keep them on my MacBook Pro, but when I sync the phone to iTunes the backup does not start, neither through wi-fi nor by connecting the phone to the mac with the USB cable. It syncs without any problem, but the backup is not happening. Is there a way to manually trigger the backup? The last backup listed in Itunes is the one made during the update to iOS 5, and not having regular backups makes me feel nervous.
I'm having problems with the search in Finder windows in MacOS X 10.6.8. If I'm typing a search keyword in the textbox in a finder window and search for "file name" or "content", I get no or only a few results, although there should be much more results. Is this a bug in OS X?
Everytime I start my MacBook Pro (which is set to automatically boot into my account) I get the error message "unable to unlock login keychain" with 3 options - continue (which will give me errors as I use my computer whenever I need the login keychain) create new keychain (I know this creates a new keychain, but does it copy all my keys? Or are they lost now?) or Update keychain password.
I want to return my Air to the original factory settings, to the way it was before I added all kinds of junk to the solid state drive. I'm running Snow Leopard. So after I wipe it clean, I plan to go to the App Store and buy Lion.
I never changed my student email account to which all app purchases have been made. I just upgraded to iOS 5, and it requires to authenticate the iCloud, by verifying an email sent to the now defunct email address. The problem is that I can't even change my email adress, because the system wants to verify my iCloud account first. It's a circular problem! Can't change email because I haven't verified iCloud, and I can't verify iCloud because my old email is now defunct.
I own a MacBook Pro and always used Ubuntu in the past. In Ubuntu, I was able to configure my IP, DNS, Gateway, for a specific access point. There was a list of all the access points, each one with its own settings. The goal I want to achieve is to do port forwarding in my own local network with static IP and still being able to connect with automatic DHCP settings somewhere else (not my own network).
I'm looking for software that will let me do bulk edits on metadata for photos in my iPhoto library. Specifically I'd like to be able to edit the date on the photos and the location information.
Is there some command line utility to create a screenshot of the my screen and store it as png? (Preferably one in the system, without need to install anything new)
Siri telling me more often than not that it is having trouble connecting got me wondering what kind of servers Apple is filling its datacenters with. At some point in the past, I'd have assumed Xserves running OSX Server, but given that they are no longer making Xserves (or at least they are not commercially available), I can't help picturing pallets of Dell servers being unloaded and racked at the North Carolina datacenter.
I just upgraded from a 3GS to a 4s and my battery life is dramatically worse. I wasn't expecting it to be the same (though I was hoping that it might even be better), but I'm seeing a big difference. Since I have the same settings as I did previously, I don't think the problem has to do with any configuration differences (for example, I have email set to check manually on both). I was even running on iOS 5 on the 3GS, so I can't really point to that either. Siri is one software bit which is 4s only, but I can't imagine that is the culprit as I don't think it would always be running. I've restarted the phone to make sure that no out of control process is running in the background.
How can I get my apps back after a clean install if I bought all of them directly on my iDevice and never bothered to sync them to my computer? Background: I lost all of my apps on my ipad when I updated (10/22/11) they were all gone.
When using tmux, if I CMD-W, or otherwise quite out of terminal, my tmux session persists, as it should. However, it still lists itself as "attached", whereas on other platforms, (e.g. Ubuntu) when the terminal exits it must signal tmux in some way that it has detached. (Also works when logged in through ssh and I kill ssh; tmux notices that the terminal connection has detached)
When I upgraded to the new iOS 5 last week, I noticed that iTunes made a backup before installing, and then did a "restore". I realized that a lot of events in my iCal were missing, and so I tried doing a restore. I didn't realize that this restore was from when I first synced the phone over a year ago!, and that I am missing all of my photos and videos. Now, when I try to find a backup from last week, I can't. I looked in the Library/Application Data/MobileSync/Backup, but there only seems to be older backups there. (I look at the info.plist file, and it verifies that these are backups from 2010) Is there any way that I can find the backup from last week? I'm proficient in the command line. Any help is appreciated.
The price between an airport extreme and 2TB Time Capsule is quite a lot (£100) and as far as I can see the only different is that the Time Capsule has a hard drive built in. Is there any problems with buying an airport extreme and a (£70) 2TB USB hard drive and just plugging it in to the back? Will I still be able to use Time machine? And will I be able (like my last question) be able to use the same drive for windows backup? (I'm not sure why Apple would charge so much more if you can use them separately?)
I have an album that contains many songs, some of which are performed by several artists. I do want all the songs to appear under one album in the albums, and when I am browsing by artists, so under each artist I should see this album and the songs he participated. How do I set more than one artist on a song? How do I make it appear in the library the way I described above.
I recently upgraded to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard. One bug I've found is that in browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera), when you hover over any link, the cursor doesn't only change, it jitters around for a second before changing.
I have a copy of Leopard that came with the MacBook. However it fails checksums.
I can hit the up and down arrows to navigate a playlist in iTunes 10.5 but hitting F2 doesn't allow me to rename a song. I have to grab the mouse and do a finicky click, wait, click to highlight the song and then rename it. Can I just assign F2 to this? Or can I use an existing keyboard shortcut? Incidentally, I know I can hit Command-I, and then Command-2, tab to Name, change the name, and hit Return, but this sub-optimal. Bonus points if you can explain how I would assign such a shortcut to highlight the Genre of a song, which is my more common use case (long story).
When an app is first installed, occasionally it asks if you would like to receive push notifications for that app. Normally I click 'No' and never think about it again. But yesterday, I accidentally clicked 'Yes', and would now like to turn push off for that app so as to save battery life. If I go to notifications in the settings app, I can easily change the type of notification to 'None', however is this actually disabling push, or just hiding the notification? Some of the apps that I am pretty sure I clicked 'No' to push notifications have this setting set to 'Banner' - making me think that these settings aren't related to whether push is turned on or off for that app.
Is it possible to purchase from other sites using my Apple ID account like paypal; to pay for items on sites other than the iTunes store? How would this be done technically? I have came up with a few possible solutions but doubt them. Would Apple even allow this?
I use the optical out on my new Mac Mini to play high quality music over a separate D/A converter and a class A amplifier. This worked fine with the previous Mac Mini revision.
I'm facing an issue with Transmission's "Set Default Application" button - it seems to do nothing. Magnet links still don't work, so this feature is broken for me. I have been able to use Magnet links with uTorrent prior to switching to Transmission, so I know there's no issue there. Is there an app or any manual way to set/change protocol associations without having to use the target application to set it? I'm using Transmission 2.42 (13013) running on OS X Lion 10.7.2.
On my iPhone and iPad I use Google Apps for syncing mail, calendar and contacts. With iOS 5 I now use iCloud for backup (and for syncing Reminders, Bookmarks and Find my iPhone, none of which I really use). I have no media (music, video or photos) that needs to be synced with the iPhone.
After the upgrade to iOS-5, I got the Newsstand app "for free". I don't use it and I probably never will. Is there any way, short of jail breaking, for me to remove it from my iPad2? I know that I can put it in a folder, but can I remove it entirely?
I have an old Alcohol 120% CD/DVD image file that I'd like to convert to an .iso image. I have tried simply renaming the file thus (disregarding the 4 KB .mds file): video.mdf --> video.iso.
When I initially got my MacBook, I connected my external monitor and it worked fine. Last night I disconnected it and when I connected them back together, the resolution on the external monitor was changed. The overall display is now magnified (for example as I'm writing this I have to scroll down to see this).
Is it possible to place the "Save as PDF…" button from the print menu underneath the "Print…" button in the "File/print…" menu in safari?
I'm aware that iCloud's Photostream should allow me to do this, but I don't have a new enough version of iPhoto to access it. I really never use iPhoto, so it's hard to justify an upgrade.
I was originally looking for my Google Chrome profile because something went wrong and I need to delete it. In the process I realized that I don't know where applications in general are putting this kind of stuff. Where is the typical place to go looking?
I have a radio app that I listen to all the time. Then I want to visit a website which has sound (or a game). Is there a way to mute sound from an application?
I have MacBook Pro (late 2007) which I planning to sell. Currently it's running Lion. Is it possible to clean all data but leave Lion?
Currently, Terminal is set to handle SSH urls. For example, if I do:
iPhone 4S: at first, Siri was magical. In the last 3-4 days she usually reports an inability to work due to network issues. I've tried myriad fixes but to no avail. Anyone have ideas?
I told Pages to learn the spelling of a character name I was writing about, without noticing there was a misspelling in the name. Is there anyway to delete or correct the spelling of the name from the Dictionary now that I added it by mistake?
Now that I figured out how to set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler, I'd like iTerm2 to respond to an ssh URL by opening a new window instead of opening a new tab in an existing window. Is this possible?
Before iOS5, we were recommended to save our iPhone's shsh so that when a jb came out, we could restore it back a jb-ed version. For iOS5, Tiny Umbrella couldn't find any shsh. So, is there anything we should do while waiting for iOS5's untethered jb?
Apple's new iMessage sends messages between accounts associated designated e-mail addresses (as well as certain phone numbers). Apple's iChat also sends messages between accounts associated designated e-mail addresses. For the most part, for example if one uses the default iCloud settings, these e-mail addresses are the same. Yet, as near as I can tell, iMessages only work between iOS devices and iChats only work between OS X machines (or machines running specific chat clients). If this is correct, is there a way to get around this limitation using an iMessage client for OS X, or is it possible to configure iChat as an iMessage client?
How can i find out what is taking so long? Is there anyway to view a log file or something to highlight if a specific app or something else is driving this slowness
When I send an iMessage from my phone, it appears to come from the phone number for that phone, and as a result, when it is replied to, the replies (and the conversation) appear only on the phone; but when I send an iMessage from an iPad, the message appears to come from an e-mail address, and as a result, the conversation is replicated across all iOS devices using that e-mail address. I may not have that quite right (it requires some cooperation to test, and I can find no documentation that confirms it) but if I do: Is there a way to "force" an iMessage to "come from" an e-mail address rather than from a phone number, so that I can ensure that a conversation is synced across my iOS devices?
I bought a new MBA 11" i7, it's about two weeks old. I've noticed that as soon as the fans come on, they Never turn off. If I watch a video, or do any slightly heavy lifting, the CPU hits 70C, the fans come on at +6000rpm and never turn off.
I gave my old iPhone 3GS (iOS 5.0) to a friend, and after removing the SIM card, we noticed a peculiar behavior. My friend is able to send texts via iMessage from the old phone number. Likewise, I can receive texts from this number.
I am interested in old school technology. The Mac OS X is based on UNIX. I am interested in the old school OS, Mac OS 9, what is this based on? Can it run the UNIX application? What is the file system in Mac OS 9?
I got a friend who sent me his location via WhatsApp. I am also having the navigation software sygic installed, and it accepts the longitude and latitude to specifiy the location. For it can I pull the longitude and latitude from google maps and sent them in Sygic?
Is there a client software (similar to DropBox) or any way to mount a disk to get access to the content of one's iCloud? I'm talking iTunes-backups and other files synced to iCloud.
I created music as .wav files using a program called Mackie Traction. I then used iTunes to convert them to .mp3 files. How can I attach these files to an email to export them to MySpace or other similar sites?
I have a 2007 Mac Pro with a 3-disk RAID0 bootdrive. I want to do a clean Lion install on the RAID volume but I'm not sure if there are any known issues with doing this. I seem to remember that last time I did something like this the installer crapped-out when it encountered the RAID. I got round this by doing a clean install on a different (single) drive, backing it up and then reinstalling it onto the RAID volume. Quite painful.
This is a 15" MacBook Pro (Early 2011 model). In one user account, only a single USB port works. When logging into another user account, both USB ports work. What could be causing this? What would you advise as a fix (short of rebuilding the user account)?
I've upgraded my system since 2007 (no clean installs). Now that I have Lion installed I was wondering if there are any historic files, plists etc. that I can remove as part of a general post-upgrade spring clean? Are there any other files I can safely remove?
If I share my ethernet over WiFi I would like to specify the IP address of the hotspot (for now it defaults to 10.0.2.1). Can this be set somewhere in system settings?
I recently purchased an iMac with OSX Lion already installed. My parents have an iMac running 10.4 Tiger. I have been trying to file share between the two but when I try to open the dropbox (from Tiger) it says I do not have permission, yet I cannot find anywhere on Tiger to grant the permission. I'm sure there is something simple and easy I am missing but I can't find it?
With iTunes Wi-fi sync in iOS 5, it seems that the host iTunes machine and the iOS device have to be on the same LAN. Is it possible to circumvent that requirement by accessing the user's LAN (with the host iTunes machine) via the iOS VPN? What steps would you take to set this up? --UPDATE--
Is it possible to create repeating reminders for weekdays only? I don't see this option, but I can't believe something so basic would be left off.
My goal is the following: use my iMac as a TimeMachine Server (under OS X Lion Server) to backup my MBP via the network. What I did is to choose, in the TimeMachine Server configuration, the internal drive (1TB) of the iMac as a target for the backup. However I would like to have redundancy, not for the whole iMac data, but for that backup. If I backup the sparsebundle created on my iMac (using CCC for example), then I'll have to copy the entire content all the time. So would it be possible to create a virtual RAID 1 drive whose two drives are two sparsebundles, one located on the iMac internal drive and the other one on an external drive. I think that would be a very interesting solution for what I want to do, and it would be possible to scale it for 3 drives.
I have an iPhone 3GS. I just did the software update to iOS5. My sister took a cute video of my kid and sent it to me on iMessage. I tried to save it to my phone so I could upload it to the computer and/or facebook, and now I can't find it. It is not in my camera roll or in my iCloud. So the question is....where is the file and why can't i find it?
I have an iPhone 3G. How can I get out of one of Calendars on my iPhone. It is stuck in an empty calendar and doesn't allow me to get out of it to add any new events. I've tried backing out of the calendar program to no avail. And I've restarted my phone, also to no avail. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Since I updated to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.2) all pictogram fonts (Zapf Dingbats, Webdings et al.) seem to be broken. The application I have tested are below.
I would like to see more of my video titles on the same screen using iPad 2's native "Videos" app. But the video summary page wastes space by showing a rectangle preview of each video. Is there a way to list iPad 2 movies in a table containing just title and other textual data about the movie?
I am on the verge on snapping my brand new 27" iMacs keyboard. It's the latest USB model. I can't even login to my system because my password contains the letters I have said are not working. All was working fine yesterday.
How does one export all contacts from iCloud in some sort of standard format? I would prefer to keep a backup in case my sync goes bad and I'm yet to find a way to export all my contacts. I would hate to lose hundreds of contact details if my sync from the iPhone goes bad.
The MacBook Air has no Kensington lock slot. What other options are available for protecting it from theft?
I was reading through the launchctl man page and have a few questions about its functioning: What is the difference between load and start, unload and stop? Where do I find the job label for a daemon, is it in the plist file?
I was using the Facebook app when it decided to freeze. Out of frustration, I clicked the home button multiple times. I got back to the homescreen with VoiceOver turned on ('Triple-click Home' was not set) and a second later, Siri loaded. I tried to take a screenshot, but Siri closed just before the 'flash' took place.
I used to have two iMacs running Lion connected to each other via Firewire. On starting up a computer, two icons representing both computers would appear. I would select one and type in the password. Now I have sold one of the computers but both icons still appear on start-up, requiring me to choose one. How do I eliminate the unnecessary start-up icon?
I am trying to load pics from my iPhone to my computer, but just want specific pictures. How can I choose which ones to download. I already have several downloaded and so when I go to download the additional pictures I took, it wants to download them all again.
I manage a small lawn business, I currently use about 12 tabs in Excel and keep track of customers, expenses, income, payroll, etc. I now have an iMac and am wondering what quality small business management programs are available.
I have a Windows PC and VMware Workstation. I am trying to figure out a way to install iOS on it. Is there is way to install iOS on VMware Workstation?
I have a Google Voice account that is set to transcribe voicemails and send them as e-mail. This used to work on my iPhone 4.
Checking Directory Services for network file system mounts, i.e. and
I recently bought a new macbook pro with Lion, had some problems and had it checked by Apple people. It was returned to me but the software update server seems to have been changed and will not update. How can I change to the official one? I would like to avoid the 2 hour drive. Thanks!!
I have Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium x64 installed under Boot Camp 4.0 in OS X Lion (10.7.2) on the 2011 Mac mini and it's also hooked into Parallels Desktop 7 as a VM when I need it in OS X. An interesting problem I've noticed lately is that when I'm in Boot Camp any window that gets maximized will maximize past the Taskbar and therefore cover the contents of the bottom of the window. This behaviour applies not only to maximized windows but even windows that are set to open at the bottom of the screen but usually stick to the Taskbar as a boundary (i.e. run prompt). This has become irritating as I use Download Statusbar in Firefox as an example and I can't access the downloads if they're covered by the Taskbar without hiding it first.
OS: OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.7 After a several months of work escape key stopped working. But it works with the Command, Option and Control keys (checked with 'Keyboard View'). Restarted finder with moving com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.systemprefernces.plist. How to fix it?
I have MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2010, NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M Recently (but right after installing OS X Lion) I've encountered artifacts on my screen. It's quite often and I can't say if the problem came from Lion (which brought me also problems with sleeping and few freezes, which I never had on Snow Leopard)
I am trying to download WWDC videos from iTunes U. When I click on "Get" it starts downloading but after the download completes it disappears from iTunes U collection. I tried to download it from my new MacBook Pro, OSX Lion and iTunes 10.5 . When I downloaded the same video from my office mac running OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.4 everything worked.
I was recently given a used iPhone 3G as a gift, and I intend on using it as a iPod. I am told there are ways to do this, but I can not make sense of it. My phone is completely wiped with no sim card. I went to iTunes, but it won't let me activate it without a sim, which I don't have. Is there something I am missing here? Anything I can do to make its use basically an iPod?
iCloud has duplicated my bookmarks and bookmark folders many times. Now I cleaned all the bookmarks on my Mac but iCloud keeps syncing the old data and the deleted bookmarks reappear. On the icloud.com website, I found no way to reset the bookmarks. The iCloud pref pane doesn't offer any help either. Did I miss something?
Carbon Copy Cloner is taking 2.5-3 hrs to work its mojo these days. I suspect this has something to do with the switch to Lion (the same process took 20 mins on SL.)
I own a MacBook Pro, 17", MA897D/A, A1229, Mid 2007, with a display resolution of 1920x1200 which worked seamlessly under 10.4. As I upgraded to Lion I sadly noticed that the maximum resolution now is 1680x1050.
Can MacBooks (10.4) stream music to Bluetooth headphones? If not, is my only other option to purchase bulky/expensive wireless headphones, or is there another way?
I just set up my new TV on the wall above my iMac, so I arranged the external monitor above the main one in the preferences. The problem is that it got very hard to access my menu bar on top of my main monitor, when I move my mouse up so fast it would jump to the other screen! So I have to be precise and move my mouse slowly every time I want to hit something on my menu bar. The question is, is there a way that I would have to hold my mouse on the edge of the screen to jump to the other monitor instead of it jumping right away?
I have some videos on my iPad, which have gone corrupt somehow. They do not play and say Unknown in the details.
It seems that the majority of my device's content can now sync wirelesslly to my computer either via wifi sync or iCloud photostream. Notably, photostream does not encompass videos.
I recently installed MacVim along with Janus. When I'm inside macVim I can change my color scheme with :color freya but if i restart MacVim the them is reverted back to ir_black. I've added freya to my .vimrc.local, but it doesn't help. Also added the following: set term=xterm-256color I'm using Lion and I've got a bunch of themes in ~/.vim/colors
I created a new account on a machine and gave it a default password but I want to ensure the user changes the password when they log into it for the first time. It's just a laptop with nothing special running client version of Mac OS X 10.6.8. I'm sure it's possible, I remember seeing a check box where you could require the user to change their password at some point. Could someone refresh my memory on this or tell me how to achieve this goal?
I recently started syncing my iPad and iPhone with iCloud. I selected to merge my contact list into iCloud from both devices. The problem is that, while I use my iPad for my email, I don't use it at all on my iPhone. Now, if I want to call a contact, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I need a way to only view phone numbers, not email address-only contacts.
Is it possible to force an AppleScript to activate when I log in?
After 4+ years (and one replacement unit) I finally retired my iPhone 1 and bought a new 4S. I'd like to continue to use the original iPhone as a low rent touch device. I'm paranoid about doing a hard software restore on the device, or otherwise putting putting it back into pre-activation state, as I'm no longer with AT&T. I assume jail breaking can help me here, but my initial google research led to a lot of pages written for people already familiar with the jailbreak community and technology. So, there's three concrete questions I have. Can I somehow reactivate an old iPhone that gets put back into pre-activation mode without resorting to a jail break when I'm no longer under contract with AT&T Can I somehow reactivate an old iPhone that gets put back into pre-activation mode without resorting to a jail break when I'm no longer under contract with AT&T
When I have two applications open side-by-side in the same space, I'd like to be able to swap between them quickly with the keyboard. I can use Command+Tab, but often I land on an application in a different space, and it moves me to that space. Is there a similar shortcut which limits the list of applications to the current space? (I'm using OSX Snow Leopard.)
I'm about to set upon a difficult task -- well, difficult for me anyway: Lion Server and Profile Manager with an eye toward managing a couple of MacBooks that will be taken out of the office from time-to-time. I have several questions about it, but I'll take them one at a time as I learn more.
I have an old iBook (2003, G4) with a burnt-out harddrive. Being a poor academic, I don't want to bother with replacing the drive. I'd like to use an external USB drive in place of the harddrive. I managed to get a copy of MacOSX (it was Tiger at the time of the burnout) onto a USB before the harddrive completely gave out (it seemed to be a problem with overheating so I took it into the coldest part of the house and copied it there). But all my experiments in the open firmware came to naught: it seems that my iBook is too old to be able to boot directly from a USB.
I turned on home sharing on my iMac & I want accessing my library from my iPad. The setup went smoothly and I was able to access my Library from my iPad but some of the content isn't showing up correctly. To be more specific some TV shows are listed more than once and some others are not shown at all. How do I fix this.
Spotlight only indexes a limited number of folders and doesn't index all of the files on your system. This makes sense and for the average user this usually isn't a problem. However, I recently discovered an annoying side-effect: Image files in a a non-indexed folder do not show their image dimensions in the Finder! Screenshot shows that a image which was non-indexed does not have any dimensions. Is there any way of telling Spotlight to include a normally un-indexed folder in it's index to ensure that the dimensions are shown in the Finder?
I managed to go into iTunes and change some settings for the calendar and was able to recover some of my calendar for my iPhone but not all of my events are on there. And my iPad calender has nothing on it! My iPhone has an extra calendar which is the name of my email address and my iPad dosent give me an option for this calendar which is why I think it's blank. So I need to know what my settings should be to find my original calendar that i had on my iPhone?
I'm sysadmin for a small company; my users are on 10.6.8 (iMacs) and do not have admin rights for various reasons. The only times this is annoying is when a print job jams or otherwise does not go through, and the user can handle the issue, but I have to come by and type admin credentials to "Resume" the printer. Is there an easy enough way to grant standard users rights to the Print Managers/Admin group?
I have an MBP and a MacPro. I tend to use the laptop a lot of the time but have need to control the workstation (e.g. for iTunes, DVD Player, TV tuning etc.) from another room or when I'm working at the MBP in front of the Pro.
Prior to iOS 5, iOS devices that were in the process of syncing with iTunes turned on their displays, locked the screen, presented a prominent warning that a sync was in progress, and offered an unlock slider to cancel the sync:  In iOS 5, all this is gone and there is simply a tiny sync indicator in the status bar (the screen remains off too):
I currently backup my Mac to a local Time Machine drive. I'd like to start periodically backing up that drive to the cloud, using an as of yet unchosen solution. Once it's backed up to the cloud, can I restore that Time Machine data to any other drive to restore my Mac? Thanks
In iCloud, each Reminder is placed in a named list (called a "List" in the details dialog, and a "Calendar" in the context menu in iCal), but there seems to be no way to assign a reminder to an existing ("normal") iCal calendar (as there was with pre-iCloud "To Do" items).  Is there a way to assign a Reminder to an existing iCal calendar?
When I am in my phone app, if I press the contacts tab, my phone app crashes. Also, if I try to open my contacts app, it crashes.
I recently just bought a used Gen2 IPod. It's worked fine until now. When I left home, the wifi disconnected. makes sense so far. I clicked an online app while I was out so naturally, the app crashed (it was a texting app) right as it started to load the data from the web. I have lots of these kinds of apps (different kinds of wiki things, etc.). I've now come home to my sweat home and apparently (to my surprise) even after reconnecting the wifi (Safari works just fine), all of my apps that were connecting to the internet crash almost instantly.
Can anyone recommend an iOS email client (Exchange/ActiveSync or IMAP... preferably both) that supports really sweet email signatures? Our company email signature has an official format that has a base64 encoded image and a standardized font/color. Please, throw me some suggestions!
Is there a way to configure a MacBook Air running Lion (10.7.1) to recognize the internal keyboard as QWERTY, but to attach an external keyboard configured to use the Dvorak configuration?
I've jail-broken my iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3.3). I cannot restore it cause I don't have access to the computer that I used for jail-breaking my iPhone. Now I want to update my iPhone to iOS 5. Does it break the iPhone? or It'll work fine?
I have a recently purchased MacBook Pro with Lion and I want to transfer a video file to my iPod touch. The only problem is this is not the Mac with which my iPod touch library is synced, so I cannot really use iTunes sync feature. What can I do?
I have two phones that are both on one Apple account in Itunes. Now that I am on ICloud updating the two phones are merging information. How do I separate the two phones into distinct accounts?
I upgraded to Lion and decided I no longer want 100 GB of my drive devoted to Boot Camp, I never boot into Windows, I just use it as a VM anyways. So I deleted the boot camp partition using disk utility and then attempted to expand the main partition to fill this now unallocated space. I also deleted the boot camp from inside VMWare Fusion. When I go to expand it, I get the error in the title of this question.
My keyboard layout menu — occasionally the one showing up in my menu bar, and occasionally the one showing up when using the keyboard layout change hotkey — accumulates more and more copies of the British keyboard layout I am using.  How can I make my computer not do this?
Does anyone knows if (and how) I can get my MacBook Air trackpad to feel more natural when used with the iOS simulator ? It should be easier to use the iOS simulator with the trackpad - but it's not, it's way more difficult to scroll :-( It feels weird but it's the only time I wish I had a mouse on my mac book air - to emulate a touch screen :-|
My MacBook Pro has a Mini DisplayPort and running Snow Leopard. I'm looking to get myself a Mini DisplayPort -> VGA adapter so that I can attach a hand-me-down LCD display. The LCD display has a native resolution of 1280 x 1024. Can the MacBook Pro use both displays at once, with the main notebook display at 1280x800 and the external display at 1280x1024? In general, can the Mini DisplayPort output a resolution different from the main notebook display?
I often run mvim from iTerm, and it pops up on the Dock with the default vim icon. A friend gave me a nice icon for mvim, how do I go about updating the icon for mvim launched from a console?
I'd like to set a Reminder on iOS5 for my iPhone 4 for when I leave work on Friday... However, the app seems to allow only location OR date/time notifications (or you can have both independently). Is there any way to get them to work in conjunction with one another as I'd like?
My requirements are very simple- I want notes that I can access quickly and easily via the web (from my Mac or PC) and also via iPhone and iPad. For iOS, it's critical that I can go from having an idea to typing it out immediately- think the level of speed of the default "Notes" app in iOS app. A rich text editor would be nice, but not necessary at all.
I'm considering switching to Mac's for our new in-house marketing and graphic design department. Currently we use CS5 master suite collection and the licenses can be reappointed from pc to Mac.
I rebooted my Mac yesterday after installing the Apple update TS4088. Even though I disabled Guest Logins in my Users Preferences and have enabled FileVault 2 since the start, I am able to see Guest Login which is showing the following notice The computer will restart to a secure, safari only system for the guest user
Seems like iCloud is not for songs that I ripped from CD and add to my iTunes Library? It seems that I have to hook up the device one by one, the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod, and then drag the song from the iTunes's Library or Playlist to that device?
Siri doesn't pronounce my name correctly. I tried editing the phonetic spelling as it says on many sites, but it doesn't fix the problem. How do I fix this problem?
What OS X tweaks or customization applications do you find indispensable? Please search before posting in order to avoid duplicate entries. You can search within this question with inquestion:this <search phrase>. Limit each answer to a single entry Include a short description Include a link to an application website if possible, formatted like ## [AppName](URL)
All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:  Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it? UPDATE: Logging off fixed this. UPDATE 2: I came to a conclusion that this is a result of a conflict in the display cached data.
I have a PPPoE internet connexion that I use on my Macbook Pro. There is a checkbox in the settings that allows to automatically reconnect when needed - which is good. However the system is not smart enough to stop trying when I unplug the Ethernet cable.
When you command+tab to an application that is minimized it doesn't bring it forward, is it possible to make it so it gets restored?
I previously here asked about a problem setting up Exchange server on Outlook 2011. The answer provided began, "Outlook 2011 requires an Exchange 2007 and above server." Problem is - my company has Exchange 2003 and they're not likely to change any time soon.
I was under the impression this was a killer feature of iOS5. I'm running the latest versions of OSX, iTunes and iOS.
I want to use both Web Sharing and FileVault however when I turned on FileVault, my home directory Sites folder came up in the browser as permission denied, even though the Unix permissions were 777, meaning anyone can access it. How to resolve this?
I updated my iPad from iOS 4 to iOS 5 yesterday, without making any backup. However, I found that it is not convenient for me to debug my programs. So I want to restore it to iOS 4 again. I did as follows: Downloaded iOS 4.3.3 Downloaded iTunes 10.4 to replace 10.5 Connected iPad with my PC
Is it possible to set custom shortcut keys for finder, for example at the moment we have CMD+Shift+A to go to Applications, could finder be programmed to CMD+Shift+S for sites for example?
Today I dropped some juice on my iPhone 4 and since the iPhone's keyboard and others tones aren't working. The calling tone works however. I keep getting the following message:
I have an early 2011 MBP running Lion. Is there a way to let screen not switch off i.e, a keep screen on software? I heard several recommendations of a application named coffee for Mac but I can't find it anywhere.
My wife and I are both running current versions of OS X (10.7.2) and Adium (1.4.3). We both use gmail accounts in it for instant messaging. She launched Adium yesterday, and it complained that Gmail's security certificate has been revoked, so she has the choice to override and trust the certificate anyhow, or not use that account--given the DigiNotar breech, the former is not a happy option.
Give the mysqld process write access to that directory without using chmod 700 or whatever. I am trying to use chown and it is not working Create a script so the mysqld process starts at boot-up Create a script so the mysqld process starts at boot-up Can anyone help me?
On Mac Lion after reboot, the applications come up immediately. Is there a way to prevent it. From searching over the net, it looks like the user has to disable it explicitly. My problem is I am setting this for a lab at a university and they have many macs. I cannot ask the students to do this individually. I have to set something up. Is this possible ? First of all programmatically(either via applescript or a launchd) ?. Second, if so, is there a good approach ?.
I have an external hard disk, where I had stored my 10.5.8 image. The laptop had issues with keyboard and display, so I stopped using it. I have a relatively new(5 months old) Snow Leopard Mac book Pro.I also have a mini mac. When I reboot the mac mini with the 10.5.8 image, it works fine. But with MBP, when I reboot, it sits at the apple image and does nothing.
With iCloud it is possible to associate a location trigger with Reminders generated on an iOS 5 device, but there seems to be no way to view or edit these locations in iCal. Is that true? Is there a way to see or edit the locations associated with iCloud Reminders within iCal?
I have gone through the steps to migrate from Mobile Me to iCloud on my Mac. The incoming mail server (p99-imap.mail.me.com) is grayed out and cannot be changed. According to Apple Support, that is not the correct incoming mail server. Thoughts?
To track down the culprit for the frequent crashes of Lion, I ran: which produced:
I have a 2008 13" MacBook (A1278) and it has a problem. The keyboard has a few keys on it that aren't exactly not completely broken, but sometimes when pressed they will send a few weird sequence of letters and symbols. Now before I go off and buy a new keyboard to replace it, is there a way to tell if it is a keyboard problem, or if it might be the logic board? Please, any suggestions would be appreciated. I did not spill anything on it.
Can I download apps from the US apps Store even if I'm currently using the italian store ? For example, I would like to download Spotify, which is not available in the Italian store:
As the title says. I have a folder, which I added to my Shared Folder list under System Preferences > Sharing that I do not want to broadcast publicly. I'm the owner of the folder and my access is "Read & Write" and the Everyone group is set to "No Access". Using a second computer I can navigate to this share, logged in as "Guest", and I can still see and navigate this private share.
How do I find out if I've already purchased an iPhone app? I don't have a credit card so I'm worried about how I can pay to download apps if they're really not free. Even if I have chosen NONE in the billing method, they will still allow me to download paid apps even if I didn't select a payment method.
I have set up my iPod Touch 1G to use the iCloud mail servers as per *=URL=* IMAP works, but SMTP, although it worked for the first ~24 hours, refuses to work, complaining that the username or password is incorrect. I tried manually using this SMTP server on my Mac (Lion 10.7.2) and it gives the same result. Is anyone able to send emails via smtp.mail.me.com or has anyone experienced this problem and has a fix for it?
I use Mail.app on Lion with Classic View enabled so it works like it did in Snow Leopard. When an email comes in with an attachment, I used to be able to select one or more attachments and drag them to my desktop. In Lion, it looks like I have to click "Save" and then choose a location for the file. How can I drag and drop email attachments in Lion?
I'm really frustrated with the way overscrolling works in Lion. It makes working with flexible web applications quite difficult. Anyway is there a way to disable the over scroll?
I've got a 2007 MacPro, 8GB RAM, 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (256 MB). I tried to look at a couple of Google's WebGL demos, for example this one but am unable to do so because my system is not WebGL compatible.
I am new to mac. I was wondering something.
I had a little problem when running a script: this script reads a config file on $HOME, and it had ~/Downloads inside it. Instead of saving a file inside ~/Downloads when I executed the script, since I executed it inside ~/Library, it created ~/Library/~/Downloads.
I want to quit a process but without force quitting it. Is that possible from the terminal?
I have very recently purchased a Macbook Pro pre-installed with Lion. After spending several days unsuccessfully trying to get it to play nicely with Active Directory I purchased a retail copy of Snow Leopard, booted it from an external DVD drive (wouldn't read the disc) erased the HDD and attempted to install Snow Leopard. No go. Forums suggest it cannot be done. I now have a blank HDD.
GNU date(1) understands the %N format spec, which outputs nanoseconds, so: outputs 19:10:03.725196000
I am currently experiencing an undocumented problem for my 15 inch Macbook Pro (Early 2011 Version), and was hoping to get some help diagnosing what the issue might be. The problem is that whenever I am doing anything that is computationally expensive (i.e. streaming video or using parallel processing in MATLAB), my screen goes haywire and shows up noisy green lines on anything that is supposed to black. Similarly I get noisy light blue lines on anything that is supposed to be white. The problem is hard to describe, so here is a picture of my screen when this happens:
I just installed an app that was a waste of my time. The problem is, when I long-pressed the app to delete it, it didn't show an (x). How can I delete it? I've looked through the settings. I'm kind of new to iPods so if this is simple, just say it bluntly.
When saving photos from the Photo Stream to the Camera Roll, is the full resolution picture stored? I ask this because the the Apple FAQ states that iDevices only get an "optimized" resolution (approx 3MP) whereas PC/Mac gets the original full resolution picture. However, it also states that you can permanently save a picture on the device by copying it to an album. It seems that if the picture that is saved is not full resolution, then saving it permanently on the iPad does not make much sense, as it would be better to save it only on the PC.
What is the de facto standard way of subscribing to podcasts on iPad without using iTunes on a PC? iTunes on iPad lets one download podcast episodes listed in the iTMS but not subscribe to them. This could be a cloud based podcast aggregator or an iPad app.
I just upgraded my wife's 4th generation iPod Touch to iOS 5 last night. She went to play a white noise app through the dock connector connected to a Sony ICF-C1iPMKZ. It plays through the Sony clock until the auto-lock is triggered. Is there any way to keep it playing through the dock connector when the screen locks? It use to do this before the iOS 5 upgrade.
Is it possible to get iOS's email push feature to work only when I'm on Wi-Fi?
I saw a video at some point recent. In the video, the guy had an app that would replace certain phrases with other phrases. Example: I type "afaik" and it replaces it with "as far as I know". My iPod is a gen2 running iOS v4.x and jailbroken.
Is there a way to change the little glossy dock notification icons that have been changed from their pleasant form pre Lion to a glossy style badge like iOS? An example would be the incremented indicator that notifies you of how many unread emails you have in the Mail application. It displays in the dock.
I noticed that there is a setting under Phone > My Number which displays my phone number. What does changing this setting do, and why would someone want to do that? Is there any Apple documentation that explains the feature?
It seems that the default snooze time for alarms is 9 minutes. Is there any way I can change this setting?
I'd like to know if it's possible to share my iPhone's music to play it in my computer with iTunes. I can play my iTunes Home Shared library in my iPhone, but I'd like to do it the inverse way. My iPhone is synced with my home's iTunes library, and have music I'd like to listen at my work's computer (want to use the computer speakers). Both devices are on the same network. Any clue? Thanks.
I'm running Sparrow mail client and would love to disable Mail.app, which keeps opening from time to time.
I jailbroke my iPad several months ago, and then could not open the Bloomberg app that I use for work. ("Device has been jailbroken.") I figured that work>jailbreaking (duh) and restored my iPad. I tried to open Bloomberg once more, and it said "Device has been jailbroken." What does jailbreaking do that is irreparably detectable?
One that I have found that would seem to have all of that is this one. I have to admit that the temptation to write my animations on an iPad using CBM64 BASIC is very strong (plus it doesn't have such a steep learning curve as, say, Lua since once long ago I used to program in BASIC on a CBM64), but if there's something a little more practical then I might just find the strength to resist.
How to change PHP $PATH setting? I am using MAMP 2.x, my terminal for PHP command is already set to the MAMP PHP 5.3.x, but now I want to change to PHP 5.2.x I have done this before, but i forget the location of the file.
The iPhone's autocorrect function is wrong for me more often than not, but I'd still like to see its suggestions and have a way to apply them - they just shouldn't be applied automatically. Is there a way to do this?
I'm planning to buy a MacBook Pro and get into devlopment. But I'd like which is the best configuration I should go for?
After upgrading my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 I recognized, whenever I close a movie mid-play by clicking Done and selecting it again, it will just restart and not remember where it was before. This was remembered in the previous iOS release when videos where still located in the Music app. The videos were not purchased through iTunes but converted from avi with ffmpeg (just to be complete). Is this a known issue?
I have a 2nd gen iPod touch (bought around 3 years back)...Off late, I am facing some issues with it; Date/Time gets reset on a few ocassions even though I charge it regularly (mostly seems to be a battery issue) But the major issue is with AppStore downloads. Most of the apps just do not download. After I enter my username/password, it shows the icon with Waiting for long time, but the download never starts. I know a few might be bcoz of compatibilty issues, But this happens for almost 90% of my app downloads.
My iMac (mid-2010 model, Snow Leopard) has a problem with S.M.A.R.T status: Failing and it has become read-only. Because I didn't want to waste money on the repair, I bought an external HD, so the internal HD is now unnecessary. How can I disable mounting the internal Macintosh HD at boot?
For a company, in order to be able to publish an app for iPhone/iPad to the App Store what hardware does it need to register? I know that you need to register your development devices. What is the minimum that you need to register? Is a MacBook Air enough? Or do you also need to register an iPhone, iPad? I am just starting and I prefer to test it on friends devices, as I don't have the money to buy them now...
One of the "great" features implemented on Mac Os Lion is the fact web frames can be detached and snapped as on IOS when scrolling. For example when scrolling the page is "detached" and snaps back on scroll release. See the screen shot below :
What are the instructions to install a .qtz screensaver in Lion?
need to do a live demo of an ipad app to be shown on a projector. tried using a flip cam but there is a ton of reflection / glare. i've seen folks put the ipad on what looks like an overhead projector with a camera attached to the top, so the ipad sits flat on the table area and the camera is on an arm above it pointing down. anyone know what this setup is or what type of camera is used and where to get it? thanks!
I have customized the shell prompt with the following code in my ~/.bash_profile, but there is one quirk left I can't seem to fix: (code is also on github)
The bottom of the iOS 5 notifications screen show the Shares for some enterprises (Apple, Google, Yahoo!). Is there a way to configure which one I want to see?
I developed a Cocoa based OS X app to set brightness and contrast of a monitor using DDC/CI communication. The app works perfectly using a Mac Pro attached to a BenQ DDC/CI capable monitor. It works with every connection interface: VGA, DVI and HDMI. If I attach the same BenQ monitor to a MacBook via Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, the app isn't able to send DDC/CI commands to the monitor...it reports that the monitor isn't DDC/CI capable.
I have an iMac desktop and a Mac Mini, both running under OS Lion, and both under my local network WiFi (iMac with a cable and Mini on WiFi). I configured "Screen sharing" on the Mini and installed the TightVNC Viewer version 1.3.10 on the iMac. When I invoke the vncviewer on the iMac, it connects fine and I am able to do everything I need. The only problem are the keys used for diacritics (accents): none of them work! The keyboard of my iMac (standard Apple keyboard) is configured as "U.S. International PC", so that when I type on the iMac, for instance, the two keys '^a' I get the character 'â' (a with circumflex). If I want the character '~' I press the keys ~ and a space. I chose the same keyboard option for my Mini, but these special keys are completely dead and I can't get any accented letters, or even worse, I can't type personal URLs which include ~. Any hints on how to solve the problem?
The current iTunes Plus feature will replace selected purchased iTunes tracks with a 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free version. The soon to be released iTunes Match (for iCloud users) will store all tracks (including ripped tracks that Apple can match) in the cloud as 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free versions. Does that mean that Match replaces Plus? Specifically, if I'm planning to sign up for Match once it launches, is there any reason do any Plus upgrades now, or should I simply wait for Match.
I have a coworker who should do some testing on a Mac but is a Windows user who has no desire to learn the Mac. If I could just log in to his Mac, which is on a wireless network, and do his work for him I would be so much better off. I am about 2000 miles away from him, however and we are not on the same network (it's a small company). So...is it possible to remotely take over his computer by enabling remote administration in Settings, without being on the same network?
After a forced shutdown, my white MacBook hangs at the gray screen with the Apple logo and an infinitely spinning progress wheel. I can boot in verbose mode, but I didn't see any particular error, just a timeout (I can provide the verbose text, but I'm at work and my Mac is at home).
When a MacBook fails at my workplace, we, in the IT department*, swap the computer for another one and migrate the user's account over (using the Migration Assistant). I have found lately that we are having problems migrating users from Mac OS X 10.5 systems (which is what we have licenses for) to other 10.5 systems, and haven't been able to figure out why. Here's what I've determined: Migration works perfectly when: I migrate from 10.4 to 10.5 I migrate from 10.5 to 10.6 When I migrate from 10.5 to 10.5, I get: occasionally, the migration assistant refuses to recognize that I've plugged in another Mac in target disk mode. often, I can see the machine, and accounts that should reside on it, but they all show up as being 0 KB in size, and the migration assistant refuses to transfer a sum total of 0 KB. Distressingly, I've seen some accounts show up at what seems to be the right size, but other accounts, that only reside on the destination computer and aren't on the source computer at al
There are new Autodesk products (AutoCAD LT or similar) for Mac OS and iOS, but I couldn't find a simple free DWG viewer for Mac.
I use voice dialing primarily to call my wife, let's call her "Helga". She's the only Helga in my contacts, so I could hold the button and say "call Helga mobile" and it would dial her iPhone. Since I updated her phone to iOS5 (and enabled iCloud), when I say "call Helga mobile" my phone asks me which of four Helgas I wish to dial -- my wife or one of the three other Helgas in her contact list.
Is there a way to open a recently closed tab in the Safari browser in iOS? I am specifically looking for a solution that works on the iPad. For reference, here is this question for the Mac.
Harraps Dictionary App is corrupt after IOS 5.0. How do I restore it. I can see no way to download the App again through iTunes.
Does this only apply to the family software? I purchased a single user copy of OSX Snow Leopard so that I could upgrade to lion. Once I have upgraded my memory, I will download lion. could I then sell my copy of Snow Leopard? can someone else use it once it is off of my home Mac? what if I sell the disc now? can someone else use it?
Dragging in and out doesn't seem to be working for me, but I can see the ones I dragged in there before I upgraded:
On Lion, a three finger double tap brings up the dictionary. The problem is I have to disable this feature on multiple Macs and cannot be done by clicking on each system. How can this be achieved? Can I use a script? Is there a table with all the multi-touch commands? And maybe I could disable it there?
Can I have some definitive answers? Also, what are you forced to do on a Windows machine that is not required on a Mac?
I'd like to be able to make a playlist that is all recently released podcasts. Unfortunately release date is not a field available for selection in a smart playlist in iTunes. Similar-ish dates like date added and modified date won't be close to release date when downloading the back-catalogue of newly added podcast. The best solution I've come up with is to close itunes, truncate the iTunes Library.itl file, copy the release date field values in the iTunes Music Library.xml file into the date added field, and then relaunch iTunes, and letting it rebuild the itl file from the xml file. However, my library file is large enough that the rebuild takes 20-30 min, and even with no hacking of the xml, fails more often than not. Is there a method for me to either or both of: hack the itl file to set the date added to the release date? be able to select the release date either in rules for a smart playlist or the "limit to... selected by" dropdown of a smart playlist?
I like how Lion gathers everything in All My Files. I often use it to download and post pictures without thinking where exactly they are saved (Desktop, Downloads, whatever). However it really annoys me that Music is displayed above Pictures, and therefore I have to go through my entire music library just to get to the pics.
I am not a mac person, but I am trying to buy a used MacBook for XCode purposes and I want to figure out how much RAM it can take. However, I am having trouble identifying the chipset in the MacBook. The computer is listed as being a May, 2007 white MacBook with a 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
I am trying to edit a line of code within a program that I use for work. I need to use the insert key to be able to add additional spaces that I can then type letters, numbers or characters. How to get this function to work on my MacBook Air?
iOS 5 recently added Twitter and Facebook fields for contacts, and this was also incorporated into iCloud. However, it seems that you can only add one Twitter (and Facebook) account per contact, which is rather inconvenient as I know several people who have 2 Twitter accounts.
I am using a Mac after five years of Linux. I had remapped "Caps Lock" to "Ctrl" and swapped the "`" with Escape.
I am trying to connect my iPad (running 4.3.3) with my Macbook (running Lion) in my college dorm room using my college's Wifi. It uses 802.1X Authentication. I can't ping my iPad from my Macbook. Is there any way I can make Bonjour or AirPlay work? Is there a tool that proxies or routes the Bonjour service somehow?
As of several days ago, my MacBook refuses to go to sleep either automatically or manually. I have taken the following troubleshooting measures to no effect: Reset PRAM Rest SMC Boot in SafeMode Verified that the lid sensor was working (my MacBooks's status light responds when it's closed)
I'd like to be able to trigger QS and then start typing "gmail" or "weather" or the name of whatever bookmark I'd like to open, and have the previously bookmarked site open in Chrome, my default browser. Is it possible to do this with Chrome? (I was able to do this with Quicksilver on my old G5 Mac, although I used Firefox on that machine.)
I'm sure that my Mac is filled with crap by now, being 2 years old. Is there an app that will clear the temp files away? Or is there a list of locations filled with TEMP stuff I can safely delete without killing my Mac?
I've upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 and hence changed my baseband to 5.16.05. Now it is not possible for me to unlock the phone. Is there any way I could get both GPS and phone working?. I've done jailbreak with redsnow. I don't need iOS 5 and is willing to downgrade without breaking anything. Is it possible to do it?
I'd like to fiddle with Spotlight's priorities so that when I enter 'photo', my first returned result is Adobe Photoshop, and not Photo Booth. I understand how to change priorities for or disable entire file types, but I'd rather just remove Photo Booth from Spotlight search.
While it's great that Terminal now has built-in support for changing the ANSI colors, I find it annoying that it automatically adjusts the colors to improve contrast, which means the colors that I actually pick often end up washed out or off in some other way. Here's a screenshot explaining the problem:
I have a stock early 2007 Mac Pro (8GB RAM, 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (256 MB). It has a RAID0 bootdrive and is running Lion. I've had it for >5years and I really love it.
As we know, the messages app in the iPhone will detect if the party you are texting to is iMessage compatible or not, and will then send an iMessage instead of an SMS. This is great, and works as advertised with other iPhone users that have data plans.
I have Lion and Snow Leopard installed on my machine, and I switch between them all the time (I develop for compatibility on both platforms). Going into System Preferences and selecting the startup disk every time is quite a pain, it would be great if I could automate this process with a script that I can launch from my dock.
I have an external USB hard drive I use for backing up my MacBook (running the latest Lion). FWIW, it's a Western Digital internal 3.5" SATA drive in an Antec HD enclosure. Anyway, of course every so often I have to unplug it so that I can take my MacBook places, so I eject the drive as usual and everything's cool.
MacBook Pro 15" quad-i7. Been running Lion since day one. Just started this week, Eclipse and Oracle SQL Developer crash unexpectedly, then a moment later the MacBook cooling fans kick in and the machine is hot to the touch. I installed iStat Pro and it looks like the CPU temperature approached 90-degrees at the time of the crash. Any ideas why this would suddenly start happening? Rob
I just noticed my built-in audio output doesn't work anymore (MacBook Pro, late 2008). I've tried all sorts of headphones, but none of them seemed to work. Right now I'm using an external USB soundcard, but I'd really like to figure out what happened here. I haven't installed, upgraded or updated anything at all: it just happened. Do you guys have any suggestions about this? What kind of data should I look for to help debug/diagnose?
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Ok, so the scenario is this: I have a G5 Quad (running Leopard) with no wireless card. The G5 is connected by ethernet to a Mac-Mini (running Lion), which is picking up my AirPort Extreme network over WiFi. The Mac-Mini shares it's internet connection over ethernet to the G5 enabling it to connect to the internet perfectly. I can also screen share or ssh into the G5 from the Mac-Mini without any problems. Now comes the trouble:
I have an Airport Extreme and Airport Express connected via an ethernet cable to different parts of my home. Is it preferable to used the same SSID name? Will my devices automatically connect to the stronger signal?
Usually I need different settings in my terminal depending on what I'm working on. For example, change the opacity to see some info on the back.
My spouse got an iPhone 4 recently and we want to use the old iPhone 3GS as an iPod for the daughter. They switched him over at the AT&T store so I don't know if the old phone has a SIM card in it or not right this minute (not at home).
Is there a GBC emulator that will run on Lion? I've been in the mood for some nostalgic gaming recently, and I'd love to play some of the games from when I was younger.
I have already searched for some knowledge, but it's useless due to the fact, I have a PC. I know there are ways to see the password with a Mac, but have not yet a solution to figure out the password with a PC. I have tried randomly some numbers, my previous passcode, my password for the SIM-card, nothing. As I also understood, the password has to be a number code from 0000 or 1111 to 9999. I would be really glad if someone figured this out and let us know, who are occurring this same, rather an irritating problem.
When I use the direction in maps the direction is almost always ~90° off, occasionally it will be 135-180° wrong but mostly it looks like I'm travelling sideways. The phone is flat. Is there something wrong with the hardware? Or can I manually calibrate it (like tell it to offset by 90°)? Or tell it to ignore the compass and just use the direction of travel. Also the compass app gives the wrong direction but it doesn't even match the incorrect direction in maps. For example I was travelling along this road, away from the motorway.
How can I make a screenshot on Macbook pro using Windows 7? The keyboard does not include a special key for this function.
I am not terribly dependent on iPhoto, but I'd prefer not to purchase it via the App Store, as I already owned the app in Snow Leopard. However, now that I have done a clean install of OS X Lion (did a complete format and used recovery mode to install Lion), it is not there. How can I install iPhoto on my system without repurchasing it?
I'm trying to upgrade from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard, using the install CD. The steps are: Insert the DVD Start the installation When is about the 40-50% of the installation, the system restarts Then ejects the DVD Snow Leopard is not installed
I have a unique situation at my company. We are trying to develop a mobile service app that connects to slot machines. If you connect a PC to the slot machine, an external HD pops up in Windows and you can copy files to it. We want to do the same thing through an iPad. I know this would be all custom code, but I was wondering if it was possible for iOS to read an external USB drive through it's doc connector.
I am looking for a simple note taking tool for, with only requirement for backing data, and code highlight support
Sidekick is a helpful little tool which adjusts the system settings based on geographical location. I added an action which will execute a sudo command-line command. The problem is that the Terminal pops up and asks me for the password. Is there a way to allow Sidekick to execute sudo without asking for a password?
Is there a way to use punctuation in Siri dictation? For instance, if I tell Siri to text someone "want to meet for dinner?" - it won't track inflection, right? How can I add the question mark via voice?
Every time I sync my iPhone or iPad (both running iOS 5) with iTunes, I get this error. iTunes displays no information that I can find about what the mystery six unsynced items are. How do I find out - any ideas?
I am not a Mac user yet, but I am used to working with Inkscape on Linux platforms. I use Inkscape to create website mockups and sometimes the files are big and require a lot of RAM. I would like to know if someone has some experience working with Inkscape in Mac OS? I am planning to buy a MacBook but I can't live without Inkscape.
I have a 2TB external drive I use for Time Machine. At random intervals, it will decide to spin up and my entire UI freezes until it's finished. This is incredibly annoying.
I want to add a compatible video to my videos app on my iPhone (using iOS 5), but when I sync my iPhone with iTunes, the video doesn't show up on the device. The video is already added to the iTunes library, and in the "video" section of the used space, there is video content, but there's nothing in my video playlist on the phone itself.
A couple of months ago, after updating my iPad I think, my iTunes password expired all of a sudden. I've had this iTunes account for about 4 year now and back then it was first time it happened.
How can I get control functionalities in the notification center like in Android? I would like to be able to turn Bluetooth on and off without going though layers of menu in the Settings.app.
On Android it is easy to toggle between normal (ring + vibrate), vibrate (vibrate only) and silent (no ring or vibrate) modes. How can I get all 3 modes and easily change between them on iPhone?
I'm looking for an alternative to iTunes' Album Art. I liked it so far but since the upgrade to Lion / latest iTunes I see some annoying bugs. To be worth considering, the alternative I'm looking for must have at least these three features: Automatic lyrics download and saving in the ID3 tag; Automatic cover download (iTunes is confused when the album title is missing); Display cover/title/artist on the desktop. Any suggestions?
I want to talk/listen through the SYNC/car speaker system to stay hands free while driving like I did with iOS 4. In iOS 5, when I make a call I get a pop up to connect thru SYNC. But, when a call comes in, SYNC goes into Privacy mode and I have to hold and talk thru the iPhone. I don't have any options to tell it to go thru SYNC. How can I answer calls and use the car's microphone and speakers?
When I arrive at my house, I manually start Wi-Fi Sync (Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync > Sync Now) to back up my data. But sometimes my iPad crashes into Safe Mode during this process. I looked through the error log (Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Data > LatestCrash.plist) and it was constantly referring to libsystem_kernel.dylib, which is making me think that this might be caused by my tethered jailbreak. Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone know how to fix it?
After upgrading to Lion, the owner of my files on the time machine disk is no longer myself but some user '501'. This makes all the backups that preceded Lion inaccessible. I would like to run a recursive chown directly on the time machine disk to fix the ownership of everything under ~/., but I'd like to check first. Have you run a recursive chown on your time machine disk under Lion and survived it?
Is there a way to put weather widget into notification center of iOS5 for iPad?
I have a 3G iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.5. I wanted to jailbreak it but most articles point to 4.3.3 and the downgrade isn't applicable to my model . I wanted to know if it is possible to jailbreak my device?
I've got a pretty scary problem. Yesterday I wanted to empty the trash but somewhere in the process it just hung up. I rebooted a few times and tried it again and again but with no result.
I'm doing web development with PHP on my mac and need to be able to use the mail command locally (on localhost). What do I have to configure to get the PHP mail() command working? PS: On Windows I used hmail for this. I mean how to connect PHP with mail server on my mac, i noticed when i type mail on terminal, it seems mac already come with Mail Server.
I made the mistake of attempting to run the Maxtor Hard Drive Manager Installer on OS X Lion. It doesn't run because it is a PowerPC app. I uninstalled it but I still get a popup alert every 10 seconds which makes the Mac impossible to use. I looked up forums but nothing helped. Best suggestion was to go to the Library folder and remove the relevant files under Driver Support folder. Unfortunately I don't have such a folder. I removed a dmg file with Maxtor name but it still didn't help. I would truly appreciate any on this matter as it seems that I am stuck. Thanks.
I just got my new Macbook Pro 15" - it had OS X Lion pre-installed. Is there a way I can download the OS X Lion ISO (legitimately) so I will be able to have it in case I need to reinstall ?
I have 55 short clips (<1min) that have the same characteristics (only the content and length change) and I want to combine them into one big chaptered video. I know with QTPro how to combine 2 videos and how to add chapters to 1 file. Now I need a Mac OS X tool that's gonna do it automagically.
im using Google Chrome for years and i never experienced like this before. im using chrome for a while without problems(several tabs open), then i open a new tab and google disables everything. can't close tab, can't open new tab. but i can change between tabs. is there anyone have a problem like this before ?
If I buy an Apple TV and connect my HiFi system to the optical out, will the sound go to the TV through the HDMI cable, and the through the optical cable? Or will the optical cable take precedent over the HDMI? Basically can I use the Apple TV as an Airport Express for my HiFi, when the TV is turned off, without plugging cables in and out?
I want to sync my previously never synced iPhone (filled with 2 years of pics & music) to my mother's Mac. Is there any risk of data loss? It has never been linked to a computer. I have many pictures & videos of my baby & don't want to lose them!
Apparently there is a place within the OS's system files that have lots of .qtz s that you can use for your desktop background. Could someone tell me the location of the files?
In GarageBand '09, I find that the Metronome plays only when I'm recording. How do I use the Metronome just for practice?
According the iOS 5 features page on Apple's web site, the 3GS is supported. When I push the "Check for Update" button in iTunes, it says "This version of the iPhone software (4.2.1) is the current version." I'm running iTunes 10.5.142 on Windows. I have also used this same setup to upgrade my iPhone 4.
How does iMessage work? I had messaged one of my friend with iMessage, and he replied to me. However, I had disabled 3G and was not on a WiFi network. Were the subsequent replies routed via regular text message/SMS?
It worked before, and I'm not sure when it stopped working, but I'm unable to start Web Sharing at the moment. Attempting to start it from the Sharing screen results in "Web Sharing Starting..." immediately followed by "Web Sharing: Off". I've tried reverting to the httpd.conf in /etc/apache2/original, but the result is the same. What else could I try?
I want to validate a "dd" image of a USB disk in OS X using the terminal. The terminal command md5 works on the dd image but not on the entire disk.
Over the last few weeks I have noticed that some WiFi access points just aren't registering on my iPod Touch. It used to connect to my home WiFi as soon as I pulled up in the car outside, and got that 'meep' noise as emailed synced.
How can I change my no-longer under AT&T service iPhone 3G to my new sprint service? Sprint doesn't use sim cards.
I sync'd the contact of my old iPhone 3G with my yahoo mail contacts. That worked ok for while, then at some point all the the Yahoo contacts were duplicated (every contact appeared twice in my contacts list) on the iPhone. This was annoying, but I could not find a quick fix, so I lived with it.
Basically, my shift key is being random. A long time ago, I set it to act like F3 (whatever that's called), and undid it. Now it's doing it again. How can I change it back to just shift? I can't seem to find the correct option in System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard shortcuts
I'm looking for some kind of a utility that lets me select a file(s) and then say hit a command key and then move to a difference directory and hit the command key again and have those files moved to the new location. I think I have seen some similar apps where you could drop files onto a dock icon to gather them but I cant recall the names. Any suggestions?
I tried to activate the mod_rewrite module in the httpd.conf, but I do not succeed to make it work. I'm running Lion, and my goal is to do URL rewriting in ~USER/Sites/mysite Can someone help me please?
Some manifestations of this problem: macports won't install, MATLAB won't run, BTT works but incessantly spams me with " not found" popups, and emacs shell does not work. My interactive shell PATH is fine, so this is my '/etc/paths' file: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /Users/sambo/bin
We have 2 iphones and 2 ipod touches and 3 separate apple logins. We manage all accounts on one computer by using multiple computer user logins. Note: this is how apple told us to set it up in the beginning when we had 2 iphones because it was over-riding one set of iphone contacts and mirroring both iphones the same. So, we've been purchasing everything twice (or 3 times in some cases). We want to share music, apps, etc but how? Home sharing is turned on...I even asked an apple "genius" and he had no idea how to share content with multiple apple logins but all managed on one computer. Any help would be appreciated!
Since I'm not currently selling anything in the apple appstore it would be nice if someone who does could help me out with some details on the information Apple provides to the developer about the people purchasing your apps in the Mac/iOS Appstore. Do you get any personal information like the email address? I'm asking this because I'm working on a multi platform SaaS solution and I'm evaluating if I the appstore(s) could be integrated into my own account management as just an alternative payment method.
I know how to alter the background for the login window that you see when booting, but I would like to know how to change the background of the plain black login screen that appears after waking a mac from sleep (when the 'require password when waking from sleep' security option is selected). I would like to use one of the background images that come included with Mac osx or even change that black login screen to replicate the login screen shown when booting.
On the Amazon site, it says: Click on any word or click and drag over a passage to create a highlight or add a note within a book. Once you've selected text, a pop-up box gives you the option to Highlight, Add Note, Copy, or the More dropdown menu. But that doesn't seem to work in the Kindle application I have on my Mac. Is there a way to add a note in a book in Kindle for Mac?
My wife tediously renames files all the time when storing on her backup external storage, so I investigated using automator to do this for her. I now have an automator folder where she just drops the file in there and it will rename the file appropriately. I'm now faced with a situation where the file may now contain leading and/or trailing whitespace, how might I simply trim this whitespace?
I am facing a very weird problem with my MacBook Pro 15". I was working in Xcode 4.2 and when I option-click in simulator (to simulate multi tap) my keyboard stops working. The weird thing is that only the a-z and 0-9 keys are not working... By the way I am using a bluetooth mouse... and recently updated my system to MacBook Pro EFI firmware update and I am running OS X 10.7.2 Lion. I had to restart my system to get the keyboard functionality back.
I have a school project where I have to make a program(java), therefore I need some way to keep track of the changes I make to the sources; I decided the best way to do this it to create a git repository on my box.net account. How is this done?
I like iOS5 reminders app and use it on my iPod touch , however I am looking for an app for OSX lion which provide similar functionality for macOSX in an app which can sync with reminders app for iOS5.
While working on the wording for another question, I wanted to refer to the parts of the Apple environment which are, by design, the same in Lion and in iOS 5. For example, it is reasonable to expect that the available relationship types will be the same for iOS 5 Contacts and Lion Address Book. It is surprising that Siri understands son, but that iOS 5 Contacts knows only child; this is attributable to Siri's beta status. For items that sync in iCloud, Lion and iOS 5 probably use a single canonical structure specification or separate structure specifications which are kept conformant by engineering discipline.
I'm not really bothered which is quicker - I'm guessing this is wifi anyway. I just want to know which would allow me to get the most life out of my iPhone 4S when tethering to it with may MBP. Thanks!
I have a problem (bug?) with application switching on Lion.
I have a license for the excellent app, Soulver. I'd like to use it to find the average of some integers. I'd like to do something like: However, that doesn't work:
It annoys me that Mail “To” field autocomplete doesn't match that of the search bar. When I start typing name of a person I've had conversation with in the search bar, I can see their full name along with the address. Clearly, Mail knows about them.
However, how do I get my MBP to get that address now? If I simply enter the network preferences and click on the Renew Lease button, it gets the same, dynamic, address every time. Well, sometimes the router has assigned addresses differently, probably due to timing of reconnects, but my MBP never gets the address I set it up with, it always gets a new one from the dynamic pool.
I have a recent iMac and will buy a new MacBook Air. And I'm finding fastest way to connect internet to the Air. Wi-Fi is still too slow and USB-Ethernet converter offers only 100-Mbit speed. But both of them have Thunderbolt port, so I expected internet sharing via the port. It could be fantastic.
I'm trying to connect with mysql_connect using PHP. I was wondering how to find the hostname when I turn my MacBook into a server by turning on the personal webpage. I have Apache, MySQL and PHP enabled.
I followed this tutorial on creating a workflow using Automator that will email the events of the day from iCal to an email address. I would like this to be executed every morning at, say 4am, so it is in my inbox when I wake up. What would be the best way to do this? I was thinking of perhaps creating a daily iCal event to execute the workflow, but then wouldn't that event also be included in the email?
On Apple's iMac page, it says: Configurable to 8GB (all models) or 16GB (select models)
My Magic Trackpad (on a 2011 iMac) keeps randomly clicking, which causes random text selects, etc. Also the cursor seems glitchy while it's happening too, it'll slow down and erratically move around.
Every time I import photos with iPhoto, it crashes! I have no idea how to diagnose. I used cleanapp to remove all traces of iPhoto I just purchased *=URL=* to try rebuilding and importing photos, but no luck I have created and removed about 10 libraries, and still no luck It's always creating folders called "iPhoto Library Recovered Photos" Every time I try to import it just crashes.
I know the basics of the Season Pass from the iTunes store for current TV shows - you can buy the pass in either HD or SD. Episodes that are currently available will download immediately, and future episodes will enter your download queue as they become available.
I recently got an iPhone 4 (with iOS5). I almost never have the ringer on, so the phone is mute and alerts (like incoming calls) come with a buzz. Periodically, while the phone is idle and no call in coming, the phone buzzes. I figure this results from some notification, however no recent notification shows up in the notification finder, nor have I recently received any emails. How can I figure out what is causing these alerts?
In VMware's RAM setting, if allocated memory goes higher than the recommended maximum, it warns "if higher, memory swapping may occur". What is "memory swapping" in this context? And what will I see?
My host is Mac OS X 10.6, and on my VWware Fusion, I have Windows 7 and Windows XP as my guest. I can drag and drop files between my guest and my host, but not between my guests (cannto drag and drop files between Windows 7 and Windows XP). Is it possible?
We have a number of email accounts set up in Mail on our family iPad1, only a couple of which are mine. I have the iPad the most (and utilize it's deeper features most), and want to start benefiting more from Notifications Center. At this point, when I open up notification center it lists all new messages for all of the accounts stored on the iPad, which is distracting for me. I just want to see my new messages at a glance.
When setting up my AppleID I get a verification email but there doesn't seem to be a link to click on. There is a line that says "Verify now" but it's not a link. The only other thing on the page is a link to Apple that starts the process all over again. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
While trying to download an app over a wifi connection, app store told me that it was "unable to download application, please connect to pc to download application". After doing some research i found it was not a common problem and this morning over 3G the application has now downloaded. My question being, is there an issue with the wifi network restricting me (maybe i have to many Wi-fi connections or something) or does it have something to do with the fact that i haven't downloaded iOS 5 yet?
Now that the iCloud works (almost) flawlessly on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone I get annoyed by Mail.app on my Mac which seems to update contacts in my address book on its own, without my request or approval. I can't seem to find any setting to switch this behaviour off.
I'm using a very simple tool on Windows called *=URL=* which allows me to set screen regions and maximizes to that region. Is there similar software on OS X? The one's I've found only allows you to split 50/50 and requires you to press a special key. Thanks, Dennis
I just switched back to quicksilver and I was wondering if there is an instant send feature in QS like Launchbar. in Launchbar, you can define a hotkey which will send the selected file/folder as a context to launchbar, and you can perform an action on it like open in TextMate.
I have an iPhone 4 and a 2011 Mustang with SYNC. The system works fairly well (outside Of the connection issues many others have experienced) but I have an annoying problem whenever I start my vehicle (maybe 95% of the time).
I am using a Huawei E160X mobile dongle on OS X (10.6.8). I am connecting via Orange in the UK using the driver/GUI which is supplied on the device (it's rebranded Huawei software, I believe). If it helps, it is Internet Everywhere 2.0 (build: 090924.164852).
I'm sure the fellow who wrote TinkerTool, which lets me change the Finder title bar font among other things, is a fine fellow and surely TinkerTool is not malware. Nevertheless... I want to change the Finder font without installing software. Is there a way to do it from the command line? Thanks.
There is no where for me to enter the fact I already have a me.com address that I wish to keep and continue using. At the moment none of my devices are syncing because it insists I set up a new me.com account - help!!!!
I have been asked to help out with a friends iTunes/iOS/Phot syncing setup, they have 4 iOS devices (all iOS 5 compatible except one 3G iPhone) and a range of iTunes libraries that they have previously synced to. What they want to acheive is to share an Apple ID for purchases from the App Store, and also all sync to a single iTunes library on a shared Windows PC for music syncing etc. This bit is simple enough.
If I accidentally delete a photo from my Photo Stream (or get a corrupted disk or lose a laptop) and later want to recover that picture from the online Photo Stream that has my pictures stored for 30 days in full resolution, how do I do that? I tried turning the Photo Stream on and off, and it does not download the existing pictures again. If the photos are being stored for 30 days, it would be a natural thing to want to re-download on-demand. The current way it works seems like the photos are stored for 30 days as long as any one registered device has not downloaded, but once all "registered" devices downloads it, it is removed. In this context a registered device is one that was signed in to iCloud BEFORE a picture is taken. Is this correct?
Is there a quick way to make calendar events for 3 days in a row for like 8am to 4pm without having to make 3 seperate events? Eg. Make event for 8am to 4pm and repeat for next 3 days ONLY. Can't see anyway of doing this using the iPhone interface or the iCloud interface.
How do I reconfigure an installation of Python 2.7, on Snow Leopard, so that the OS uses the default 2.6 but leaves my 2.7 installation, and its installed modules, for use under virtualenv? Basically trying to fix the mistake of getting at 2.7 directly rather than through virtualenv. Technicalia: OSX 10.6.8 2.7 installation was probably from source 2.7 residing in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python python2.6 at /usr/bin/python2.6, a symlink to /System/Library/Versions... there exists a file /usr/bin/python; << /usr/bin/python -V >> returns Python 2.6.1
I wonder if is there any app for the iOS 5 that will let me edit the artist or title of my music? The music is currently synced through iTunes and stored in the music app, but please let me know if there are any alternatives. I am open to jail breaking the device if there are no other alternatives.
Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS ? I would like to be laptop free
I've updated my iPhone to iOS 5, but my Mac(s) are still on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Syncing Contacts to iCloud is enabled in iPhone settings. Now, I was wondering is it possible to make Address Book on my Mac (running 10.6) to sync with iCloud too? Or is this something that's only available in 10.7 Lion?
Is there a safe, stable application for reading from and writing to ext4 file systems on Mac OS X? If not, what's the best way to access the contents of an ext4 file system on Mac OS X?
I opened up Dropbox and received this error:  I am on an Intel i5 MBP running 10.6.8. Dropbox is version 1.1.45. Console log:
I don't know if this is even possible, but how can I import an iDVD project into DVD Studio Pro? I really want to be able to copy an iDVD project and tweak it in DVDSP. I am using DVDSP 4.2.2 and iDVD 7.1.2.
Every once in a while my screen dims, I don't want that to happen. Just now it did it while I was moving the mouse.
I just purchased a new ipod touch and it is not working on my bose docking station. Both my daughters have older ipods and they are working. On my new ipod, when it is plugged into the docking station it appears to be playing, when discounected it plays on its own speaker and ear phones... Any ideas what may be the problem?
For example, when I launch Emacs from the terminal (an interactive shell), I can use "M-x shell". When I launch Emacs from the dock (which spawns process from some other shell), I cannot, because "grep isn't found" (or 'ls' or 'some other universal UNIX command'). Also, half my non-default applications have stopped working (MATLAB, DrRacket, X11, etc). How do I change the environment of the shell that is called by the dock? What shell does the dock call / what else ought I know about different shells on a mac?
I'm trying to create a pair of virtual serial ports on my mac. This is fairly easy to do with many shareware programs on a PC. I figured there would be some uber-powerful shell command to do this in one line, but I can't find it. I want to send NMEA data into one port, and have Google earth read the data out of the other. Any tips? EDIT
So I recently got an iPod touch and synced it with my computer. I set it up to sync with iCal. Unfortunately, on my iPod, all of my events are switched from AM to PM and vice versa. Or at least they are moved 12 hours forward/backward.
When you first open Safari and only have one page (one tab), the tab bar is not shown. When you open your second tab (e.g. by center-clicking a link to open it in a new tab), the tab bar then appears, which makes the content of the original page jump down a bit.
If I move a message to the Spam folder using the native mail app on the iPhone, will it be marked as spam on the gmail server? Or will the message just be moved to that folder? I'm connected to gmail via Exchange.
Before a talk, I'd like to try the presenter mode for Keynote - to get familiar with it - on my Macbook Pro, without an alternate display being attached. Is this possible? How?
How can I list all local user accounts (whether logged in or NOT so 'users' or 'who' is no good) in the terminal on a mac? OS X version is 10.6.8. I have seen this suggested - dscacheutil -q group But it lists domain user groups and non-local accounts.
A message appears stating that an error occurred while syncing, with the error number "(-54)". Then it says that I do not have "access privileges" to sync my iPhone and complete the process. All my contacts have been completely deleted. iTunes is not allowing me to restore my phone to a backup before installing iOS5 update.
When the recovered document comes up the last hour's worth of work is missing. This has happened multiple times. I have even had recovered documents lose more the second time around. I have autosave set to every 10 minutes.
The updates for my events in iCloud and iPhone differ by a day due to the difference in timezone. My iPhone's timezone is set to Singapore time. How do I set my iCloud timezone to Singapore time as well? iCloud only has a few timezones for us to choose from.
I have two partitions - one with Mac OS, and another with Windows 7 (created by Bootcamp). Now, I want to create two more partitions for Linux - LINUX and LINUXSWAP. I open Disk Utility and specify new partitions using + button in the mas disk. Then I click apply. Application returns strange message partition failed with the error: couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed. I googled for that problem and everywhere people advice to repair disk using boot CD with MacOS which leads to deinstalling all applications, perhaps, losing windows partition and very time consuming. I don't like this way. Do you have an idea how I can create just two partitions for my Linux?
On my iPod Touch, I was playing around with the audio balance setting (settings -> general -> accessibility) How can I reset the balance setting so that it is precisely at the midpoint (i.e. the default)?
I'm trying to install Scala following the advice at the official website: But this gives me:
I recently picked up a used Macbook Pro with Lion installed. There are no other accounts in the native Mail app except my new Gmail one. However, when I send an email, the "Reply-to" address that the recipient sees is the email address of the previous owner.
Do others have this same issue? If not, any suggestions on how I could get it to stop?
Can't find a way to reorder tasks in Reminders. Am I missing something or it really is not possible? Update: Apple added this feature to iOS 6.
I'd love to use Dropbox to back up all my photos and videos, especially from iPhoto. But I'm not exactly sure the best way to do this is, given that I know that my 2 computers with iPhoto directories will conflict with each other within dropbox. And my video collection (with 2 little kids) is getting massive. 100 GB from Dropbox won't cut it.
If I purchase a Wi-Fi + 3G model of the iPad 2 in the U.S., can I use the 3G service outside of the U.S.? If so, in which countries and how would I go about doing so? For what it's worth, I am specifically interested in using the iPad 2 in Japan.
In TextEdit on OS X 10.7 Lion, I want to remove some custom text styles I created previously (see screenshot). I have tried the “Remove from favorites” button in the “Show Styles > Favourite Styles” dialog, however this only removes them until TextEdit is reopened. How do I delete the styles permanently?
Is there a screenshot reader similar to ABBYY Screenshot Reader (you are just selecting area on the screen and getting text into the buffer, something like that)?
I'm talking about the charger that comes with their new Bluetooth trackpad and keyboard. If I put 2 empty batteries in it now, how long till they're full?
I work with non-ASCII alphabets like Hebrew and Greek just a little bit, so I have the appropriate keyboard layouts available in the language and text menu in the top panel. However, I don't quite know all the characters yet, so I have to bring up the keyboard viewer when I want to type in those languages so that I can hunt for the characters I want. Is there a way to automatically bring up the keyboard viewer when certain keyboard layouts are selected and then make it go away when I switch back to normal?
I haven't tried doing this in quite some time (iTunes 7 era), but I seem to remember simply editing the XML file iTunes creates was NOT sufficient in updating the Date Added field in iTunes. In case you're curious why I would want to edit Date Added, it is because I most often enjoy listening to music with iTunes sorted on Date Added field. Most of the time this is a logical order for me, but occasionally (when importing more than one album at a time) iTunes imports a batch of songs in a seemingly random order, so I might have very differing albums intermixed. In these cases, I'd like to go in and make sure the Date Added times are grouped by album.
After burning and formatting a project with DVD Studio Pro, I have a folder named "PAR" on my desktop. In it is a file with the project name and it has the file extension .par What is the file for? What information does it contain? Is it okay to delete it?
I have a Canon iP3600 printer connected to a networked hard drive and up until a few days ago I was able to print from it. however, i have now lost the ability to print ever since i downloaded Apple's updated software for the printer!
I have an AirPort Extreme that drops connection every two to three days. When my client indicates no signal/SSID present, it searches and does show my AirPort Extreme SSID. However, selecting it results in a timeout error. Unplugging and replugging the AE and allowing it to reboot does fix the problem until the next 2-3 days dropout.
I am running iCal on Snow Leopard and, whenever I add a new all day event, two alarms are automatically added, but only after I save the event. There are no alarms present when I create the event; they only appear afterwards. How do I stop this from happening?
I have a network with 2 Mac OS X computers in it. When I try to print a text document from my upgraded OS X 10.7 to the shared printer on OS X 10.6, my print job gets stuck at the "job pending on server" message.
For example, someone goes to Joe's Cafe, gets the wi-fi password from the waitress, and in the background (ideally) an application puts the password on a server. Then another guy/gal enters the cafe and automatically has the password from the same server and connects, to the wi-fi without having to talk to the waitress. Thanks,
How do I rate songs on the 5th generation iPod nano? Is it possible? Do they get copied back to iTunes?
A week ago I noticed a weird Lion symptom, and posted a vague description of one this problem. Today, after some tests, I came to a conclusion that this bug reproduces whenever a the computer is logged into while plugged to a certain display, and then being plugged to a different display. The only thing I can think of is that the display data is saved, and a conflict occurs upon the plugging of a different display. Any idea as to how I can delete or reset this data?
How do I transfer my address book files in the abcdp format to my new MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Lion? The files are from a 2008 MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6; the hard drive crashed, and the computer won't start up at all. Luckily, I had everything backed up with Mozy. I restored the files on the new MacBook, but I cannot read the abcdp format. I've tried a few other solutions such as copying the abcdp files into the metadata folder with no luck.
I like to listen to music on my iPhone when running, but it's really annoying for the music to be interrupted by calls/texts/alerts. I know I can put it in airplane mode, but that will keep me from using the GPS to track my mileage through apps like RunKeeper. Is there another way to "silence" calls/texts/alerts and just have them show up as missed when I'm finished listening to music?
I've already created a new Preset configuration, but I cannot set it as the new default settings. Anyone has any clues on achieving this?
My aim here is to make my iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0) serve its music library over SMB/Samba (Windows File Sharing protocol) so any computer on the LAN can access it. Are there any iPhone apps available (for a non-jailbroken phone) that can act as a Samba file server for the iPhone's filesystem (or at least music library)?
The missing print to PDF feature on iPad (like that of Mac OS X) has been written about in a couple places on the web, but they all reference iPad apps that are no longer present in the App Store. Is there a way to get PDF generation in the iPad print dialog? Has Apple decided to pull such products from the App Store?
I have an AppleScript that adds the subject of a selected email in Mail to my task manager. I have put this AppleScript in an Automator service so I can hotkey it.
I am wondering if it would be possible to connect a resistive touch panel (manufactured with a 30-pin connector) to the iPad through the 30-pin connection and use that for input?
The edges of both the MacBook Pro (aluminum case) and the MacBook (polycarbonate) are exceedingly sharp. Depending on my typing position, they dig in my wrists, an unpleasant and painful experience. Can you suggest a solution?
When using iCal in Snow Leopard, I shared a calendar. I had two options for this - either a privately shared, editable calendar, or a publicably shared, view-only calendar. I used the latter option, and was provided with two URLs - one of which allowed my friends and colleagues to subscribe (via their own iCal or other software) and the other of which was an ordinary web address, that allowed them to view my calendar in their web browser. It's this latter type that I'm now trying to set up in iCloud, but I can't seem to find an option to do so - neither in iCloud itself nor on iCal running on Lion. Any ideas, please?
Did you succeed in installing LilyPond on Lion? How? After downloading the (precompiled) LilyPond, I am getting: In plain text: LilyPond Error An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/objc/_objc.so, 2): Symbol not found: _objc_sync_notify Referenced from: /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/objc/_objc.so Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib And yet I duly have: ls -l /usr/lib/libobjc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1997152 21 Jul 01:27 /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 21 Jul 01:28 /usr/lib/libobjc.dylib -> libobjc.A.dylib
I have an 3rd generation iPod Touch with iOS 4.0 installed and running smoothly. Should I update to iOS 5 and will it run as smooth as iOS 4?
If a non-admin types a sudo command in Terminal, this will appear after they enter their password: User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Where is this reported to?
I'm having a problem with the Contacts app on my iPad. Basically I can't see anymore the contact details. This is what I can see on the right page:
I had a script under Snow Leopard that would upload a tiny file to my server when I launched iChat to reflect my status on my website. For some reason it doesn't work anymore in Lion. Is there a way to trigger a shell script on online/offline status change in 10.7 without even launching iChat?
I got PostgreSQL from here. Since I'm on 10.7 OS X, I'm having problems. I want to uninstall the software I got from enterprisedb. Any tips?
My iCloud is not backing up my device (iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.0) completely. When I try to backup my Contact List or Mails via iCloud; It only backups the newest added contacts or recent mails. (Beginning from last restore) For example. I have 220 contacts, I added 10 more after updating to iOS 5 (fresh restore) When I run iCloud. It only backups the 10 contacts. Is this how it is supposed to work?
Just bought latest generation 2Tb Time Capsule that replaced my old USB drive for Time Machine backups and my Belkin G router. Everything runs fine except when I start downloading torrents. With Belkin, I could run several downloads, work remotely on three machines, and my wife could be streaming Netflix over Apple TV. Now, with Transmission running a 2.1MB/s download and no Netflix streaming, my remote connections feel like I am on dial-up. This is really disappointing. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I know I can throttle the torrents but I also frequently download large files for work and I can't just sit there waiting for download to finish before I can continue working remotely.
One of the first things that I tried to do when I got my new MacBook Air out of the box was upgrade iTunes to 10.5 (through Software Update). It downloaded the files (four different updates in total), verified data, then started to write the files, at which point it stopped and said that it couldn’t complete the update.
Is it possible to shrink a VM Ware Fusion Virtual Machine, and if so how? Specifically a Windows XP guest/client? I've found old references to procedures purported to make this possible, but they reference a VM Ware DiskTool that appears to no longer be available.
With the new iOS 5 comes new way of managing Location Services. This allows you not only manage which applications can use Location, but also which System Services are allowed to use it. There is total of 6 items on that list and I'd like to know a little bit more about what they are and how are they used: Cell Network Search - I am not quite sure how GPS can help with that? Compass Calibration - I guess I can see how GPS can help with that. Diagnostics & Usage - I guess your position is stored in diagnostic & usage reports? Location-Based iAds - That goes off without a doubt
I'm running Mac OS X version 10.7.2. There's this app called app-zapper. It helps to remove the library and cache files from apps when you want to get rid of an app by "zapping" it. I needed to shave some space. I'm using Pixelmator now instead of Photoshop, so I tried to zap my Adobe folder but instead my App Store app got zapped. I didn't realize it till my trash was emptied. The rest writes itself. I've tried reinstalling 10.7.2, extracting the App Store.app file from 10.7.2 package (it's incomplete) and re-downloading the snow leopard extracted one (don't work on lion). How can I re-install the app store?
I am looking for apps that would help me to manage my amazon EC2 servers on an iPad. Are there any apps like that?
I've read this question and still have a few concerns. I've been using linux for a number of years and was wondering if some of the features I have learned to rely on are present in OSX (on a Macbook Pro, if it matters).
I'm trying to get mod rewrite to work on my Mac. This is the content of the .htaccess file: I know this is active, because it's blocking .ini files properly, and it seems to rewrite the fictional request /foo to index.php, as this is the error I'm seeing in the browser: The requested URL /Users/rwel/Sites/dev/quaestio/index.php was not found on this server.
I am a video editor and I want to split up my 42 inch TV into multiple desktops. I want to shrink the display into multiple shrunk sections, so the Mac Pro thinks that there are 2 or 4 monitors hooked up but there is actually only one super freaking huge TV, made to look like 4 monitor displays. I want to have sharper resolution. Just having a bigger screen isn't doing it for me. I need 2 monitors for Final Cut Pro - not just big Final Cut Pro windows. I do not want to "Size Up" or Split the screen into multiple windows, I want multiple displays. I want to trick my monitor into thinking that there more than one display. Any ideas. It looks like Microsoft has similar programs but nothing for Mac.
I was using the Migration Assistant utility to transfer data from my old MacBook Pro to my new Mac. I didn't anticipate issues using Wi-Fi, but the transfer of 250 GB of data using wasn't going to end within a day of starting, so I interrupted it and I intend on starting over using a wired network (or target mode disk connection) to speed the transfer.
I have a MacBook Pro8,3 (Early 2011) with 10.6.7 build 10J4139 installed on it and I need to get Build 10J869 installed. Now, I can obtain a combo or delta update for build 10J869 from *=URL=* but neither seem to want to install on top of build 10J4139. Any suggestions?
After searching online for some time I was unable to find a real answer. It it possible to start an application (i.e. Chrome) in a way that it always goes fullscreen?
In the settings for the iOS 5 Messages app there is an option to send messages as SMS "when iMessage is unavailable". Under what conditions is this the case? Is it merely the obvious (no data connection available or the iMessage server is down, or the message sits undelivered for a time), or is it more subtle (for example, the service simply not having had time to confirm that the recipient has iMessage enabled, or that the recipient's device cannot be contacted at the time of sending)? Phrased another way: what are the conditions under which an (intended) iMessage wold go undelivered, and are there other events that would cause a message to be delivered as an SMS?
I configured my computer name to "Macbook of Matthieu" in the network sharing preferences. However, this name end up being used: new-host-2.home, how can I change that?
Sometimes new messages come in and Mail (on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion) shows them as empty, with "This message has no content" in the preview column. The message is empty in the full message view window. I'm connected to Exchange 2010 on the backend. When I open Outlook for Mac I can see the mail, and it's definitely not empty. When I quit and restart Mail the message appears in its entirety, but the middle Mail column (with the subject/from/snippet in it) still says "This message has no content". So a Mail restart sort of fixes the problem, but it's quite annoying. I didn't have this problem pre-Lion with the same Exchange backend.
I'm looking for a way to drop pins on the map from my computer and have those pins accessible on my iPhone. I know Maps app has Bookmarks but it appears I can't sync them with Google account or anything. Can I achieve this functionality, with or without third-party apps?
Can anyone tell me how this is possible? The files in these two folders are exactly the same, but the file size reported for the folders is different. Any ideas? Edit: fullsize image @ http://i41.tinypic.com/6435ah.jpg
I'm trying to turn off the Web Sharing service from the Preferences panel, but everything I try, it just gets stuck on ‘Interrupting...’, with an orange icon, and it doesn't do anything. If I close the Preferences panel and come back, I find it turned on again. (I reckon that it's not stopping due to the missing /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist, because when I try to stop it using the terminal, with sudo apachectl stop, I get an error that says that it can't find that file) What could I do to fix it?
I have a macbook air and I really want to plug in my guitar to garage band, but unfortunately the air doesn't have a line-in port. My question is, is there an external device that can provide you a line-in port? Just like the way you can plug in headphones and use the headset's mic, instead of the built in one.
I am working on some bash shell scripting for a local login script and it works fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard but fails on Lion. I was curious if there was a place that listed the differences in bash on Lion?
When playing a podcast on my iPhone, can I view the names of the songs (or whatever show notes are embedded into the podcast metadata?
So I tried installing XQuartz, but I got the same problem. The Console says:
I just plugged in an external hard drive that has Firewire 800 and started Time Machine, but it seems that both the internal hard drive and external hard drive work frantically copying about 75GB of data from the iMac to the external hard drive. And in fact, I dare not use the computer while it is copying that much data, as I don't want to over work the hard drive's head. If it is the case of Time Capsule, backing up using Wireless, then won't it actually work better, because if Wireless-G is limited to 1 or 1.5MB of data per second, then it won't stress the hard drive, and user can work on anything without affecting the hard drive's hard work?
(Disclaimer: I'm not sure if my question is isolated to Skim.app – if so, it's fine if someone changes the title to reflect that – or if it's a Lion thing.) I'm using Skim to read PDFs. Every time I … Open a document Resize the window to cover my whole screen Quit the application Re-open the document … the application's window revert to small size (about 2/3 of my screen instead of the whole screen. I find this very annoying, as I expect the application's window size to persist after closing and re-opening the app.
I need a wireless keyboard and mouse that I can switch between my MacBook Pro and PC. I was looking at the Apple Wireless Keyboard, but I'm not sure if I can change from PC to Mac usage easily enough. Does anyone have a similar setup?
How can I use two 30" LCD screens with my 2011 MacBook Pro?
I don't just want to back up my data. In case the hard drive comes back completely wiped I want to avoid the hassle of reinsalling everying OS X as well as a Bootcamped Windows install. What tools can I use to backup/image my hard drive such that when I got my laptop back and if I needed to, I could just dump the image back onto the hard drive and be right back where I was last?
Could someone please list the steps to make a backup Lion install on a flash drive? Is it as simple as copying the Lion installer?
So first here's the problem. I used to be a Blackberry user and could selectively turn things silent/off/loud but with the iPhone it seems to be an all or nothing deal. I run a small company so I need to be able to be reached in the event something goes wrong and I'm sleeping. My old system for this was to turn everything to silent except for voice calls which would play a loud ringtone to wake me up. I don't get many voice calls except for work related stuff so this worked perfectly.
Say I have two windows of a browser running, how can I switch between those two windows? like Command + Tab?
Is there a way to use a personal sorting system in the finder's windows ? I don't want to sort the files and folders using the "Labels" (because of the colors). I just want to have the list ordered the way I want... Is this possible ?
How did you find out an existing printer's IP in lion? In Snow Leopard you can do it in this way: Open System Preferences Select the printer that you want to find the IP for Click 'Options & Supplies' The IP is shown next to the 'URL:' label, and might say 'lpd://192.168.0.50/' How can you do this in OS X Lion?
I would like to make a quite simple "special effect" in a short movie : showing "me" two times in the same room (for instance sitting at the same table and talking to each other). Can I do this with iMovie and how ?
iTunes on PC was used before to sync and update my iPhone 3, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2, but recently I got an iMac 27 and started sync'ing the iPhone 4S using the iMac. But when I plug in the iPhone 4 (the old one) into the iMac, then I can't drag Music, Movies, or iTunes Univ videos into this old iPhone. (in iTunes 10.5 on the iMac, I can't drag and drop any Music to the iPhone 4 under DEVICES)
I want to be able to test the apps I am creating on my jaikbroken iPhone 3Gs, and I want to know how I can get my apps from xCode onto my device without a developer account.
There's nothing wrong with the permissions. I can edit and save the same files from other applications, such as Textmate, Text Edit and Preview, without problems. I can also create a new project in Xcode, and it generates all the files without problem, but I still get the error message when trying to save any changes in these. I'm running Lion, clean installed. Edit: here's an example ls -l on some files I can't edit:
My MacBook Pro (2007) on Lion has a strange behaviour. Sometimes Chrome browser stops working. When I then launch Safari, it can not load any web page.
I have downloaded a couple of stationery templates for Apple's Mail application, but I don't know how to add them to the software so I can use them when composing messages. Anyone know how?
I recently installed windows 7 on a partition using bootcamp and all went well. Now i am trying to use terminal on my original mac partition on OSX but the command line comes up as: myusername-Win7:~ username$ i am having trouble connecting to an ssh tunnel for lowering for WoW, could this be my problem as it looks like its using windows 7?
We are testing a local login script that we created for our Macintosh users on Lion. It has worked fine on all OS X versions prior to 10.7. Listed below is the script that we are using. When we run the script, it now mounts a folder called "home" instead of "username" and throws an error stating that "The folder can't be opened because you don't have permissions to see its contents." I have referenced the following Apple document and it was not helpful in resolving the issue. The following is the share path that we are trying to mount to in the script: and the following NTFS permissions have been provided to the respectively listed directories. /home -- All users can Read attributes, Read extended attributes, Read permissions /home/username -- All users have full control of this folder Here is the script that we place in /usr/local/sbin: I am not sure what additional NTFS permissions need to be provided or if we have something that we need to edit in our script since Apple changed some
Mac OS X is already loaded with Apple Spotlight, why use Alfred? What does Alfred bring to the table that Spotlight doesn't?
Is it possible to spell a word to Siri? For instance, if I ask for the stock price of a certain company, she doesn't always understand the company name.
I've been a happy mac user for a couple of years, because I'm visually impaired, and very glad that Apple built in very good accessibility tools into all their operating systems. But after installing lion, I noticed that the icons in the navigation bar at the left of the Finder, lost their color, they're just grey. I'm still able to see them, but my eye is less drawn to them, I can't see as quickly where I should click. I can't find a secret in the secrets app to change this. Is there a way to revert this change?
I often get the dialog box warning me that I'm opening an application for the first time. But, it isn't the first time. Some of these are applications that I use daily.
I gather the original Macs used a serial port for the mouse with a RS-422 DE-9 connector. Totally nonstandard today. But surely, at some point some company (Apple?) must have made an adapter to use the early mice with USB-based Macs? Thanks for any info...
I installed iOS 5 on my wife's iPhone 3GS about 3 weeks ago. When the process was over, she was missing her apps. I reinstalled these from the App Store via the Purchased section. However, she was missing data from her apps. At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal, because her emails were still on the server. Over the past few weeks, however, it has become more of a pain, from the trivial (lost Angry Bird levels) to the more major (lost appointments).
Question for operations people. I work at a place that believes in configuring Nagios to send SMS alerts on all priorities of issues - even non-urgent ones that I don't need to wake me up in the middle of the night.
I have a Mac Mini Server 2011, which has 2 Hard disks of 750GB each. I want to install Windows 7 on the second disk, but i want to split this disk on two partitions: One of 450 GB for Windows and one of 300 GB with exFat to share data between Windows and OS X (is Lion by the way). I tried with the Bootcamp assistant, but it took for the Bootcamp partition the whole disk, and so I installed that way, but I prefer to have both partitions as I mentioned above.
I'm trying to upgrade Xcode from 4.1 to 4.2. However App Store thinks that it's already up to date, which it is not.
I'm looking for empirical evidence of what's happening, rather than speculation made by individual observations. Here's an example of an answer I'm not looking for: I notice that the battery icon stays at 100% when my laptop is plugged in, therefore it must mean that the power outlet is the one supplying power.
I subscribe to Tiesto's Club Life Podcast, and the episodes are released as very superbly crafted AAC files. Aside from containing audio data, they also: Define Podcast "Chapters" marked at the start/end of each song. Define custom artwork per chapter. Name chapters appropriately by attributing artist/title (and often remixer) of the particular track.
I installed Mac OS X lion on an SSD (through USB) after checking the firmware was the latest version (2.15). When I transferred the SSD into the MacBook Pro (like i usually do after an install) but it displayed a folder with a question mark during boot.
I plugged an external drive into Time Capsule using the USB input on the back. Then I used Finder to move data from the Time Capsule's drive to the USB drive. Finder says it'll take over 24 hours to move that data.
After plugging in my headphone into my iphone 4s no sound comes through. I can hear the music from the phone itself. Do I need to change the settings?
I was under the impression that everything in ~/Library/LaunchDaemons and ~/Library/LaunchAgents got loaded automatically by launchd. Is this not the case? If this is the case (and I think it is), then why isn't my plist getting loaded?
Are the SSDs used by Apple high in quality in terms of Speed and longevity (which is a particular issue with SSD). If not would you recommend buying a separate SSD and installing it after purchasing a mac?
I forgot to turn on "VNC viewers may control screen with password", to enter on my working Mac, is there way to turn-on this feature remotely via SSH (I'm on WindowsXP now)?
I download the iOS 5 firmware file for my iPhone 4 (GSM): iPhone3,1_5.0_9A334_Restore.ipsw. I put my iPhone in DFU mode and Alt+Clicked the Restore button in iTunes. I then selected the .ipsw that I downloaded and then it extracts the software and gives me the following message:
Most large torrent files (8-20 gb) take quite a while to download. Is there software for Mac OS X that allows me to watch them while downloading?
I have connected my MacBook Pro to a Samsung P2770HD monitor using a Kanex brand Mini Displayport to HDMI cable However, the output on the Samsung monitor is absolutely garbage. It is pixellated to the point that I don't even want to look at it. The resolution is 1600x900 (but I have tried all other resolutions as well - all with similar output) When I connect my Windows laptop to the same monitor using DVI cables, I get 1920 x 1080 resolution and the display is crystal clear. How do troubleshoot this?
I'm currently thinking about buying a 27" iMac after my current Windows computer. I know Mac OS X is awesome, but I was wondering how is gaming on this OS. What I mean is, how much of the current game releases are both on Windows and Mac OS X ? And if they are not released on Mac OS X, is it possible (performance speaking) to play them on the Windows VM ?
In general, I do want to keep it in just one library, since iPhoto should be able to detect faces, show geotagged photo map, etc. However I may not do that for a while until I upgrade to a new computer :( (this is another big problem for me)
I uploaded a video to my YouTube account from a friend's iPhone. Now I want to to sign out so that he can upload videos from his own account, but it's no longer prompting to login to a YouTube account or giving an option to log out, it's just leaving my account signed in. Help? Thanks.
My initial Apple ID was associated with a now defunct email address. I just updated my AppleID to a real email. I have managed to update it successfully with everything except iCloud on my phone. The App Store, iTunes, everything else on my phone has the correct ID except iCloud. How do I fix this?
everyone. On Linux there is a layout called US International (AltGr dead keys), which converts the right Alt key into an AltGr key. AltGr+a gives á, AltGr-Shift-a gives Á, AltGr-m gives µ, and AltGr-' followed by another key puts the acute accent on whatever you type next, and so on.
I upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 5. I don't want to sync it through the cloud : I just want to sync it as usual, with iTunes through my USB connector. But I have a problem : as soon as I upgradedto iOS 5, when my iPad is connected to my Mac, iTunes is not displaying the device summary pane. I have SnowLeopard 10.6.8, iTunes 10.5. Here is a screenshot of what I get :
I received following message after I restored my iPhone OS to 4.2: The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported. How can I use my SIM?
I forgot my passcode to my phone because my friend changed it. I'm not locking it, so I can still use my phone. The computer my phone is backed up on is down right now. Is there any way I can go to the apple store and have them unlock my phone? Or any way to take my passcode off besides resetting it on my computer. That option is not possible right now. Thanks.
I looked everywhere and I can't solve this. I looked at Error trying to backup both iPhone4 and iPad (1) after 4.3/iTunes/XCode updates and didn't solve my problem
I'm cleaning my old 2007 mac-mini and am wondering whether I should upgrade it to Snow Leopard while I'm at it? I want to do this only if this will be any performance upgrade. Note that I have upgraded it's memory from 1GB to 2GB. Thanks in advance, Ittai
If I am planning to upgrade my Macbook Pro 13" (Late 2011) with a 7200RPM Hard drive, should I get a SATA 3Gb/s or SATA 6Gb/s drive?
I was looking for an easy to use device for my mum, who wants to occasionally grab movies to watch on the go. I didn't do my homework properly and just bought an iPad because it seems to be a synonym for "easy to use". Until I found out that to watch movies using the built-in player, they have to be transcoded.
If an iPhone app is in the middle of a network operation (e.g., downloading email in Mail, loading a web page in Safari, posting a photo in Path, upgrading apps via the App store) and I tap the lock button to blank the screen, will the network operation complete? Or will it suspend the operation and only resume it when I tap the lock button again? More generally, what happens to a running app when I tap the lock button?
It seems to check it on a schedule, regardless of what I do. I've tried setting it up to masquerade as Exchange, but was not successful.
I think I have a common use case that is not properly handle by Lion. If I close the lid and remove the power supply, my macbook is not going to sleep mode and stays awake draining the battery. It's like having the Caffeine active. In fact, I do have Caffeine started but it is inactive. This happens quite regularly, do you know a solution for this?
When I first creed an Apple account, years ago, I used a password which I've been using ever since. Later I joined Me.com and I was assigned an email address that also became another Apple ID for me. More recently, with the new iCloud it looks like only my email address will be accepted as the ID t... So, how do I merge my now "old" ID into my newer @me.com address? Thanks.
I had an AT&T iPad 2 3G which I took back to the Apple store on a warranty, and they gave me a replacement one. When I got back (it was an 1.5 hour drive), I realized that I forgot to specify that it's AT&T, not Verizon. Now I know that, chances are, they gave me the correct one, but how do I verify if the iPad is GSM or CDMA-enabled? I don't have a SIM card handy at the moment, so the easiest solution won't work here.
Today, I learned the very handy trick: man [some command] -t | open -f -a Preview
Does anyone know why all the .bom files in /Library/Receipts moved to /var/db/receipts?
I installed a new 115GB SSD with a clean lion install in my MacBook pro (2010) with the data doubler containing my old seagate hdd. The install took over five hours, which made me pretty suspicious to begin with. But now I'm seeing why: every 30 seconds or so, whatever app is using the disk seems to completely freeze. Examples: Chrome accessing cache App store downloading Xcode Sublime text saving a file Safari doing anything Dropbox sync
I am looking to transform my macMini into a media server that is shared by all my flat mates. I want to fully share: the torrent client, the media centre application and the media library.
Without a monitor connected (via Thunderbolt/mDP) to my iMac (2011, 3.4 GHz, 6970M 2GB), iStat Menus reports the GPU is using ~15 watts, and has a temperature of 60c. With one connected, it uses ~35 watts, and is ~80c. Both of these are when idling.
After updating an iPad 2 to iOS 5, I lost the ability to do anything contacts-related: The "Contacts" app disappears the moment I start it Composing an email works until I try to select a "To" address, at which point the compose window disappears Opening the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" section of the Settings causes the whole Settings thing to disappear. When installing iOS 5, I chose to sync the contacts to iCloud, at which point whatever screen I was using disappeared just like all of the above do.
My TV does not have an HDMI input, so I was wondering if I could still use it by connecing the Apple TV to my DVD player's HDMI port instead? My DVD player (Philips DVP3560/F7) is capable of 1080p.
My system log is flooded with error messages like the following: The volume in the error was in use on a previous machine before I migrated to my current machine. Several have suggested adding and removing that volume in the Spotlight Privacy settings, but that volume no longer exists. Is there an mds configuration file somewhere that I can edit so that mds no longer looks for that volume?
The Apple FAQ has this same question, but doesn't really have an answer. To quote: What is the Mac App Store refund policy?
My .profile file includes the following obscure lines. What are they for?
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to create an equation that looks at one column, if it is equal to a certain value, then add the value in the other column? Example: I'd like to be able to create another table that results with this: Any help in setting up an equation to do this summation would be helpful.
I will be as short yet detailed possible. The devices are Microsoft IntelliMouse Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The keyboard still works. The mouse no longer works properly since I updated from lion 10.7.1 to 10.7.2. The keyboard connects and pairs, the mouse will "connect" during the initial setup but never shows the status "paired," although I never noticed if it was "paired" in the past. The mouse works during the initial setup. It will also work 50% of the time if I just press the sync button on the bottom of the mouse. Each time it works until the connection is lost due to inactivity and then its down again until I perform one of those previous two steps. In the bluetooth status bar the mouse and keyboard both show up as system devices. When I first click the mouse during a period of inactivity it alerts bluetooth, in the status of the menu bar the "Microsoft Mouse" becomes bold as if the device is connected, but there is never activity from the mouse. I have already tried the foll
Looking for a HTPC, and I noticed the G4 Mac Minis are relatively cheap to get. I just wonder, do they support 1080p playback for MP4/H.264 files?
Can you use the iTunes gift card to buy the cards on the new iOS5 cards app?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.2 "Lion" and Adobe Lightroom 3.5. On Windows, it was possible to adjust settings in the Develop module (exposure, contrast,...) by clicking on that setting and using the scroll wheel.
My 5 year old iPod Nano "2G" 8GB has recently began skipping during song playback. It sounds like when a CD skips, a kind of digital glitching sound. But lately it's gotten really bad, where it will skip repeatedly over a whole verse of a song.
I connect my Macbook pro to internet through Lan and if I type ifconfig in terminal my en0 interface get valid IP now I want add en1, en2 and en3 to my configuration and they all be able to get valid IPs, I don't want to add additional network card I just want to use my internal network card. I don't know if I must use bridging or nating or ... . please help find my solution.
I need to be able to work on a motion project on-the-go on a MacBook Pro, but it really seems to be lagging performance wise, so I want to transfer the project to a iMac while at home, and to transfer it back onto the MacBook when I go out again. So how do I transfer the active project along with all required data easily between two computers?
First of all, I've used pf extensively on OpenBSD so I know its rule set quite well. Even though I'm more used to the more recent versions. However, I would like to know if there is a simpler way to regulate network access to launchd, or more specifically afp.
A particular client whom I provide email hosting support for, has problems connecting to the mail server using iPhone, via IMAP and on the China Mobile 3G data plan in China. When asked over the phone what error message he got on the iPhone, he says iPhone only reports cannot connect to server. He says when using WiFi everything is fine. In general, are there any ways I can troubleshoot the 3G network?
I am trying to figure out how to use this command with mac os x The only thing I have found that seems like it might work is but I get: ipfw: invalid action m\n' Does anybody know how I could translate the iptable code to mac compatible code?
In the System Preferences panel, I have the MySQL there.   I chose it to start up every time my Mac starts up, however this doesn't work, I have restarted MySQL many times, but it will not start up at all - which I require to start up manually. How can I fix this?
Am i wrong or it is true that the evernote app on iPad doesn't have undo funcionality ? For example if I delete a line, it is gone for ever ?
I have a Snow Leopard DMG on one mac, and an empty MacBook I wish to install Snow Leopard onto. I have a Snow Leopard DVD that I can use to get into the installer with, but it's scratched so it won't install.
I'm in trouble. My Mac won't boot (frozen on gray apple logo with spinning wheel), and it appears to be a disk problem. I ran disk utility from Lion's recovery disk, but it says it can't repair my disk and that I should erase it.
Then I did a sync with my iPad. They do not seem to appear in my iPad (iPad 2, now running iOS 5). The rest of the sync seems to go fine (i.e. recent songs are added to iPad, apps are all fine). There is no error or warning message. Either I'm failing to see them in the iPad (I looked under TV shows and some other places, where should I look?), or they weren't really pushed to the iPad.
What current Mac utility or paint program (something that will run directly on Snow Leopard or Lion, not requiring an emulator), if any, can write valid MacPaint files (readable by MacPaint 1.x on a 512Ke)? Assume I have access to a disk drive with which I can copy files to an 800K Mac formatted diskette.
I have a MacBook Pro, and in OS X (running Lion), I can't figure out how to connect using the WiFi Protected Setup feature of my router. When I boot into Windows (Windows 7), using Boot Camp, I have to simply press the WPS button on the router while connecting. Does OS X even support WPS?
I have a 3 year old 15" 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP that I upgraded to 4 GB of RAM about a year ago. Before I made the switch to Apple I used to feel the need to upgrade my Windows based laptops every 3 years, that's about when they started to feel sluggish. After paying double what I would pay for a Windows machine, I'd hoped I might be able to squeeze a bit more life out of my Mac, maybe 4 years. But it's coming up to its 3rd birthday and it's starting to feel a little sluggish at times. In fairness, it is mainly when using apps like iPhone 11 and Final Cut Pro X. I replaced the 250GB drive in it with a 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive about 18 months ago, so I sometimes wonder if that could have introduced a problem that might be causing it to run slow. So my question is: is there a way to test the HD, RAM or other things to see if there's a problem with my setup that could be easily fixed, or am I just expecting to much of my machine? Anthony
Periodically, once or twice a day, I'll start to experience network issues (latency and dropped packets) on this one machine while I'm browsing:  Other machines on the same Linksys WRT54G wireless network continue to function normally I've attempted shutting down all running programs that I can identify I've attempted disabling and re-enabling the wireless connection and reconnecting to the network
To use push or pull at a regular interval. In either case, it will sometimes download new mail in the background, while the phone is locked. And this means it will do so over 3G instead of WiFi, even if there is WiFi where I am.
Or does efficient usage of cores depend only on whether a given application is written to take advantage of them? I am deciding between a Mac Mini - Intel dual core i7 2.7Ghz vs. one with a quad core i7 2.0Ghz.
I have sshdfilter setup to maintain ipfw rules when someone is un invitedly trying to login my system. This has been working quite a while. Since a while - beginning to suspect the last lion upgrade (10.7.2) - I see sshdfilter adding rules and, when I check, I don't see the rules in ipfw using 'ipfw show'. When I add them manually, they show but again, after a while they are gone. What I found in /var/log/system.log are messages like:
Every since upgrading to Lion my system has started to slow down, big time. I realized that the Finder was using over 100% of the CPU, even when I am really not doing anything with it. I restart it, and after a bit, it is back up to over 100%, making everything else crawl.
I'm using a Macbook Air with an external monitor (I finally converted from Windows, don't know what took me soo long ;-) ). When I have a Chrome browser window open in the external monitor and click a link that opens in a popup, the popup will open hidden on my Macbook. I can't find a setting to open it in the same window my browser is in.
I noticed that the 21 songs are all songs I had previously purchased from the iTunes Music Store. They are not on the iPhone; in the iPhone music list view (in iTunes), they all have a sync icon next to them:
I have an iPhone with a Bluetooth Logitech keyboard that also works with iPads. The solution works great for me in meetings etc. because it is a lightweight solution. The problem I face (and I am really there is no solution for it) is that I need special characters all the time.
The usual method of dragging the app out of the Dock doesn't work, and neither does command-dragging. The contextual menu doesn't allow you to remove the icon.
My 13" MacBook (late 2006) is set to never sleep but after about 3 hours the whole computer still goes to sleep. Lid is always UP. Power Adapter is plugged in and indicator light is green when battery is 100%. Recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.6.8 and all system software is up to date. Here are my exact settings... System Settings -> Energy Saver -> Computer Sleep: Never Display Sleep: 15 minutes Put the hard disks to sleep when possible: NOT checked Wake for Ethernet: NOT checked Automatically reduce brightness before display sleep: checked Startup automatically after power failure: NOT checked (please ignore the "battery charge: 94%", it's only because I'm composing this question while using the battery)
How can I tell the difference between the entire computer sleeping and only the display sleeping? I'm trying to diagnose sleep problems, and one of the basic things I need to know is the difference between these two kinds of sleep modes. I can't rely on the times I set in the settings since that is what I'm trying to debug. I have a 13" Macbook Air late 2010, if that makes any difference. Things I thought might help:
As discussed in this question, when I'm switching between apps in different spaces, I need to hold down Option so that the the correct app is shown. I find this really annoying. Is there a way to modfiy this behaviour, so that when I'm switching between apps, the app I'm after is always shown, regardless of the space that it's in?
This menu bar icon is useless and takes up space.  I use iCloud on Mac OS X Lion to sync contacts, calendars, and the like. On Snow Leopard I could use an option in the iSync preferences to remove this icon from my menu bar, but iSync isn't around anymore. Is there any way to get rid of it?
I'm trying to write an applescript that will disable the screen saver through sending a keystroke. Something like sending a "shift key" pressed every 30 seconds. I don't want to have the applescript actually disable the screen saver through system preferences.
I had installed Xcode 4.1 on Lion and recently I saw the update for Xcode in the appstore. It was to update my current Xcode 4.1 to 4.2 with iOS5 SDK. It's around 1.8 GB of download and I did update it through app store. But at the end of the update, the update download restarted and I let it happen. But even after second download it restarted the download and started the updates downlad for third time.
Once upon a time I had a Link to the Harddisk directly on my desktop. Since I set up Lion, the Link is not there anymore.
How do I create an event on my I phone calendar that would occur every other day without manually putting in the Event on each day in the calendar?
I have two Macs, I haven't bought any software on the App store yet. If I wanted to buy lets say for example Pages and Numbers, would I be able to install that on one Mac or two macs? just like I can if I download an app from the iTunes app store I can install on both iPad and iPhone for the single price? Thanks
Launchpad quickly becomes a mess once you have many apps installed. Especially seeing the fact that stuff like 'Microsoft Silverlight' (which you most likely will never run manually, but runs as a plugin) hooks itself into the Launchpad as well.
I would like to add an APC brand of a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) device to a Mac only environment. By default APC has a very loud heart attack invoking, babies crying in the night alarm to indicate power interruption. This audible alarm function can be disabled through a setting in their "Powerchute" power management software. However the APC software seems to be Windows only. I understand that the Mac will see the UPS in System Preference in the Energy Saving pane for settings concerning saving and shutting down but not for disabling audible alarms.
My iPhone 4 was playing a ringtone that I had purchased from iTunes. I updated my phone to the latest operating system, and in the process it said that it had to restore my phone from backup. Now: I can still see the purchased ringtone on my local machine when I view it in iTunes on my PC I can drag the ringtone onto my phone icon When browsing my phone contents from my PC I can see the ringtone But... When I attempt to change the ringtone in the settings, my purchased ringtone does not appear!
I have downloaded iSwipe from Cydia and I really like it, but it lacks a dictionary of italian words. I have found the original github repository of iSwipe and it gives access to the code. I would like to modify it to allow for the use of multiple languages, but I have never programmed any iPhone apps nor I know how to compile them and run them as Cydia apps. Apart from forking the repository and modifying the code to my fit my needs, which I know how to do, could anybody kindly guide me through the process of compiling it and installing it on my phone to test it? I am using Windows and don't have access to an OS X workstation, is it still possible?
Is there a way to get the same files you can find in a local backup of an iPhone / iOS device from iCloud programmatically? Ideally, I would like to access them from a computer, but any access other than just restoring a backup onto an iOS device (and overwriting the current contents) as an intermediate step would be most welcome.
I recently tried to do a screen repair on an iPhone 4. It won't boot fully, so I may have managed to break something else. Basically it wont turn on, and I only get a flashing Apple logo when plugged into a computer. I believe it could be the motherboard, although I have visually inspected it extensively to determine if i could have physically broken anything. I could not detect any fault. When I use the suspect motherboard on another iPhone frame I get the same problem.
I am a programmer and I use symbols more often than the number keys. I'd like to change the priority of the top row keys so that hitting "1" gives me "!", and holding shift and pressing "1" gives me "1". I'd prefer a built-in solution even if it requires more effort.
I recently bought a MacBook Air with Lion. I have had many issues since, especially when connecting to the internet through "open" wifi networks that redirect you to a login page in the browser (i.e., where you need to authenticate in-browser, not through some WEP, WPA or 802.1X thing); what follows has occurred with at least two distinct such networks. Here's a list of the weird things that happen: Can only login to the network using Firefox; not with Safari or Chrome. When using Safari or Chrome (after logging in to the network using Firefox), I can only visit fairly "regular" sites; most https services (Gmail, Facebook, ...) just won't load.
I am trying to upgrade my 4th gen iPod touch to iOS 5. First I downloaded the IPSW file from iTunes. When I press shift + "Restore" button, I get the following error: The iPod cannot be restored at this time because the iPod software update server could not be contacted or is temporarily unavailable.
I'm looking for bluetooth keyboards for use with my iPhone. I'd like a full size keyboard that has a built in iPhone stand. Everything I've found so far with a built in stand is almost full size but not quite. Are there any full size keyboard options with built in iPhone stands? A case for the apple bluetooth keyboard that had a stand built in would also work but I haven't found one of these.
My eyes hurt a lot since I have a macbook (current is antiglare 15 inch, last one was 13 inch). What's the best way to calibrate the screen (hardware calibrator, software, internal calibration)? Other best practices in regard to the topic?
I don't know how to get my .profile aliases back in to the terminal every time I try them, this error massage comes up: How do i exit this -bash? I strongly believe it was named different while it still worked.
When Instagram takes a pictures, it send a lower resolution version to Flickr, but saves the full resolution in the Camera Roll. Right now, I am: Taking picture and letting Instagram send the lower resolution version to Flickr, so something is available online right away. Later on, transfer the pictures to my Mac (through iCloud or sync), and replace one by one the pictures on Flickr with the full resolution version I have locally.
I know that tapping on the screen with an object doesn't cause any reaction in the user interface (e.g. it doesn't cause a click of a button shown from an application). To what is the iPod's screen sensitive, and what can I use to replace my fingers? The problem I am trying to resolve is that, using my finger to play a game, I don't see part of the screen, and my finger hits something that causes the game to end (you know, those little bombs that are launched in the play field when you are trying to slice fruits).
I have iOS 5 on my iPhone and have iCloud set up. I also have turned Photo Stream on. I have an original iPad that also has iOS 5 and also has iCloud & Photo Stream enabled. When I take pictures on my iPhone, they do not appear on my iPad. I went to my iCloud settings (Storage & Backup to make sure that iCloud backup was on. (It was.) I hit “back up now”. Only the 10 or so pictures I took that morning with my iPhone appear on my iPad now. I took some more photos and checked it several hours later, and the new ones do not appear on my iPad.
I like to install some packages by hand that are also available through MacPorts. When I do this MacPorts still wants to install that package even though its binaries are in the path. Is there any way to install let's say Python without MacPorts and than install a package that depends on Python via MacPorts without installing MacPorts Python?
As it says in title. I want to add one for Eclipse, to have all in one place.
Would Mac OS X be able to distribute processes to the various cores in an Intel i7 Quad Core processor even if the applications are not multi-threaded?
I installed iOS 5 on my iPod Touch 3rd Generation, but it slows everything down. I want to put it back to iOS 4. How can I do this?
Apps purchased from the app store and songs purchased from iTunes can be downloaded again by going to the purchased section in the respective app and clicking the cloud button. Neither app shows the audio-books I have purchased and when I look at a specific book I have already purchased in the iTunes store it shows the buy button. Will I get charged again if I click the buy button or will it just re-download it?
I have files like this. Is there any application (or command line) to check the md5 of all files ?
Any chance iOS 5 lets devs access Reading List in Safari? A potential Read Later option for Twitter clients, etc. I've been asking devs through Twitter for a while, but am yet to hear anything back.
I use the latest model of iMac 27 inch and output to an Samsung 40 inch HDTV, and found that the Menu Bar is missing on the HDTV. This is usually known as the "overscan" issue, that the top 10 or 15 lines are missing (and so are the bottom, left, and right) -- this is because in the old days, there are some signals for TV info piggy-backed in the TV signal (usually at the bottom) and the TV won't want to display it, so the top, left, right, bottom 10 or 15 lines are cut off. This isn't a problem with a Dell Studio 15 Notebook: the notebook computer output HDMI directly, and 100%, every single pixel is visible on the HDTV. Also, I tried both a generic Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable (from Monoprice), as well as an expensive, Belkin cable sold at the Apple Store -- they are the same. Also, this issue happens no matter I choose the "Mirror Mode" or the "Individual Display Mode" on the iMac -- in either case, the 10 or 15 lines are missing at the top, bottom, left, and right.
on the iPhone it refuses to accept my the same password when entering the app store. (Not 100% sure what user name is used in that particular instance.)
I want to jailbreak my new iPhone 3GS, but I need to find out what firmware it has before downloading the jailbreak software. I can't get past the emergency call only page, and I can't read it with iTunes because I am using an illegal carrier, so not valid Sim as far as Apple is concerned.
I have an old Address Book .abbu archive that has some contact data that I need to recover. I do not want to restore the entire address book archive, and I especially do not want to overwrite my current address book.
By “brace/bracket highlighting” I mean: when you select an opening or closing curly brace or a bracket while editing JavaScript in Espresso, the brace/bracket you’ve selected and its corresponding closing brace/bracket is highlighted with some visual cue (bold, background colour, anything). If not, would it be possible to develop such a sugar?
I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app that I'm a beta tester for. These are the standard PNG files created by OS X's ⌘+⇧+4 keyboard shortcut. They show the sequence of events I use to reproduce a display bug.
My computer name in System Preferences > sharing is set to "archos" but is showing as "iphone" on the terminal. It just started doing this after I loaded Xcode for doing iPhone development. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Any special compatibility concerns when replacing the HDD on a MBP with an SSD? I am running Parallels with XP Pro and Ubuntu and have been disk bound for some time. Not too concerned about size, 100GB is probably enough. Hoping to get the absolute fastest IO I can with reliability being a close second. Below are specs in case they are needed. Hardware Overview:
I compiled my own X11 Server for Mac OS X and want it to replace the original outdated X11.app supplied by Lion. How do I do that?
I have an old account that I don't use. I can log in through *=URL=* and edit my account but can't find anywhere to delete it. Is it possible?
Starting this weekend after I cleaned it... probably too aggressively... by vacuuming the exhaust slits and air intakes, it is now making a grinding / whirring noise. I suspect is is the case exhaust fan.
I'm running 10.6.8 and wondering where my Mac stores my install history -- I'm thinking everything from Ruby gems to full blown web apps. Does such a general file exist?
I am having internet problems and the ISP technicians suggested that something is using my bandwidth. Is there a software to monitor which processes use how much bandwidth?
So, web browsing on the iPad has its quirks and drawbacks, but the one that stands head and shoulders above all others for me is the abomination that is OnSwipe, and especially its incarnation as a WordPress theme. (Thanks so much WP for flipping that global default switch earlier this year.) While it is notionally possible for a visitor to disable this on a case-by-case basis (assuming that the theme's broken assumptions about window geometry even allow you to reach the relevant link), the cookie setting or whatever seems pretty transient, especially when running in a nested browser window in something like the Twitter app, and before you know it the wretched thing pops back, jiggling and gurning and generally making sites unusable.
I Have a gmail account configured to receive and send emails of a live mail account and I have some services that I need to send emails as live mail to be identified, but in Apple Mail I'm only able to send using the gmail account. What I need is, using Apple Mail, send emails on behalf live mail account without having to setup the account 'cause I already receive the emails through the gmail account. Is this possible?
I searched for this problem online and found many similar instances of it, but could not find any actual solution. How can I solve this issue? And if it's a still-unsolved problem, is there any work-around I can use to bring the screen back to life without rebooting the laptop? Technical details, as copied from the About This Mac dialog: Running software update reports that the laptop is up-to-date. I only got it yesterday, and have managed to install a grand total of just 4 applications (Keka, Steam, Syncplicity and Chrome).
I was curious what the limit was on the number of people you can add to an iMessages group. Assuming everyone was on iMessages (i.e. everyone shows up as blue).
How can I make a 3G video call (not Facetime) from an iPhone 4 to another brand's 3G phone? Is it possible by default? or any apps? Edit 11 November: I just found this today: No 3G video calling on iPhone 4
I have an iMac, and sometimes I want to play some music over night, without the bright display. The display will be turned off automatically several minutes later, but I would like a button that turns the display off instantly and keeps the music playing. How can I do this?
I've never seen that. A kind of shade slowly took over my screen and a message asked me to hold the power button until the macbook shuts down. Here is the error report:
I am an IT person, and i have set up two Time capsule and the backup is not working. It just stays stuck. I can use the TC as a file server, no problem. I have tried everything, fixing the backups, erasing the disk, creating the backups again, checking updates...
I'm considering using Ubuntu as a main OS. So far, I've been using it in a dual boot setup with OS X. The dual boot worked by holding the ⌥ alt key upon boot (not rEFIt).
I just bought a 24" monitor (asus pa246q) with dvi/hdmi/displayport inputs. I am wondering which is the best input I should use to connect a MacBook Pro 15" (late 2010). Someone suggested me HDMI, but the image is not perfect, still looks better on my old white-plastic Cinema Display with ADC adapter. I was thinking to display port as an obvious solution, but I have to find a mini display port to display port adapter.
On a Linux machine, I can see my IPv6 neighbors using the following command (Also see the Linux IPv6 HOWTO: What is the equivalent command on a Mac (currently running Snow Leopard)?
When my MacBook Pro (13" 2010, Intel C2D 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM 1067 MHz DDR3, running Snow Leopard) runs out of free memory, instead of releasing inactive memory (which is mostly about 500 - 1000 MB), it starts to write to disk (raising page outs). Here are processes that are running on my macbook:
I have been having a bunch of email problems and want to start over. I have deleted all the IMAP accounts from Mail. What other files do I need to delete, hidden and otherwise, to make Mail (and only Mail) just like a clean install?
Is it possible to perform a "right click drag" with a Magic Trackpad? What gestures/settings do I need to accomplish this?
....will iPhone remote earbuds work with 6th Gen iPod Nano? My brief internet search (random Google searches, Apple forums) yielded no results.
I have a early 2011 Macbook pro with graphic card as Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, will Assassin creed : brotherhood run on this Mac version.
Is there a way to quickly access apps by holding down the home button, volume button or double tapping any of the buttons while in lock screen. I believe there was a way to do it with a Jailbroken iPhone but I am looking to do it with iOS 5.
Is there some way in Safari, possibly via a third-party extension, to save the running contents of a Web page as a PNG image? I understand I could print the page to PDF and use Preview to export it as a PNG image. However: I’d prefer not to create a temporary PDF file and then manually open Preview to export the PDF contents to PNG; I’d like the contents to be running instead of paginated, i.e., no page breaks; When the PDF file contains multiple pages, Preview seems to export the current page only to PNG. I don’t have any experience with OS X automation but I suspect it could be used for this, though I want conditions 2 and 3 to be met. I’m running Safari 5.1.1 on OS X Lion.
I want to delete a user account before selling my machine, so I chose the secure delete account option in System Preferences > Users & Groups. I think I saw a progress bar at first as it was deleting the account.
I have been trying to log into their bug reporter system (bugreport.apple.com) for about a month. Every time I log in, I get redirected to an error page, which tell me to report the problem. The thing is, I have reported the problem through the email-address they provided in the error page and also through the "Report Login Issue"-link at the login page. I have only received an automated message, which tell me they received the message and I haven't got any other update (and I still can't log in). I have waited almost a month, what should I do? Here's a screenshot of the error I get when I log in:
I have a client who has asked me if we can distribute electronic copies of a Keynote presentation I prepared for him in "slideshow-only" mode, such that other people can only view (not edit) the presentation and so that they'll always see the animation when they flip through it. The animation is the biggest sticking point, he is concerned that people will normally just open the file and flip through it in editor mode.
When an application gains focus, it can change the order of desktops in mission control. In my mind, this creates some very confusion animations.
I just bought a microphone to test built in mac speech. On the speech preference, I can choose which keyboard key to make mac to listen to my voice. Is it possible to make my mac to listen continuously without pressing a key? I know that I can make mac listen to me without a voice command (ex: mac, [command]), but i don't like it..
On the Mac Pro, the setting for the location of the iTunes Media Folder has changed back from the NAS to the local folder twice now; I've had to reset it back to the NAS. Some apps have been updated, and I discovered that the updates had been downloaded to the local iTunes Media Folder. After I reset that location to the NAS and re-ran Consolidate Files, the apps were copied to the NAS. Any idea what's causing iTunes to "forget" the NAS location and revert to the local folder, and how to solve that problem?
I like the default iPhone earbuds, but I'd prefer a color other than white, which is the only color Apple makes them. Are there any other good earbuds that have the following characteristics? Have all the iPhone-specific controls
Look at the screenshot. I want to select the non-blue button with a keyboard shortcut. What is it?
I have iOS 4.3.3. Are there any apps or methods that allow simple rotating of an iPhone photo (taken where the level sensor picked the wrong orientation), without losing the EXIF information? Using ExifWizard app, it seems Adobe PS Express and PerfectPhoto both lose the original exif data upon rotate and save. I know iOS 5 has a built in rotate feature but I'm not running iOS 5 here.
My younger sister plays with my iphone4 and at one point I thought I had a globe key and realized I don't. How can I get it back or is there a way to get one for my phone?
Specifically: When doing this within the MS Office suite (Powerpoint, Word etc.), does the font get embedded within the PDF? Does Preview.app embed fonts when “Saving as PDF”? If I’m generating the PDF on a Mac, when I view it on other Macs and PCs, would the fonts be embedded?
I tried to generate ssh keys for GitHub (access through SSH in terminal), but I do not have access to the .ssh directory. I tried to ls -l ~/.ssh, but I got this error ls: .ssh: Permission denied I tried to read on the internet tuns of tutorials and tips for fix it, but unfortunately nothing works me.
What is the best way to permanently change the Mac OS X path variable? I've tried to add a .profile file in my user home directory with the below path, but that didn't work. Right now I have to run the export command every time I open up a new instance of the console. Any ideas? export PATH=/Users/tom/sshfs-binaries:$PATH
I'm using Linux with XFS under Parallels. How I can mount a XFS in an efficient way? I use Transmit to mount guest filesystem as a disk, however performance is very poor.
I've been browsing different forums for this answer and the closest answer I could find was a post on this Stack Exchange. However this post is still a 'may be' it won't work and it targets the general question 'Non Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt ?' which I would understand to be negative. My question is more on the display side, since the thunderbolt technology carries both a display signal as well a pci express signal, can a non-thunderbolt diplay with a simple display port still carry that signal to a thunderbolt cinema display ? Thanks for your knowledge on that matter.
I work on media files as per my profession. I find my Mac (Mac Lion) going slower day by day. I think it will be beneficial to defrag the drive but didn't find any Apple tool for it. I want a an effective third party Mac defragmenter for my Mac drive.
I've noticed that many downloads are a dmg (disk image) that contains a single pkg file (installation package). Usually the pkg seems to be already compressed since the dmg doesn't reduce the file size much if any. Example: MonoFramework-MDK-2.10.6_1.macos10.xamarin.x86.dmg is 119,242,061 bytes (119.2 MB on disk) MonoFramework-MDK-2.10.6_1.macos10.xamarin.x86.pkg is 119,979,719 bytes (120 MB on disk) A savings of 737,658 bytes, or 0.6% of the original file size.
How can I properly delete some of these (en_US "Funny") voices? By properly I mean in a way I don't accidentally break anything in the process. For example, directly deleting files from /System/Library/Speech/Voices feels a bit dubious…
There are tons of PDF to EPUB converters but almost no EPUB TO PDF. Only thing I've found is a free online converter (takes some time to upload, lacks the cover and the sidebar navigation) and a shareware (that I couldn't get to work).
I've upgraded to Lion OS X on my MacBook a while ago, but never connected my iPhone to iTunes for quite some time, however, there is no backup data on my iTunes but my iPhone has everything I need it to be transferred and backed up to my iTunes, but I cannot do this because I wanted to sync my iPhone, iTunes gave me a warning:  If I click "Sync Apps", will my iPhone apps be wiped off? Thus, causing no backup data to my iTunes. How can I transfer my iPhone data to my iTunes without iTunes wiping my iPhone with no apps stored on iTunes?
All of my all-day events are a day "early" on my iPad. This applies to all-day events I have entered manually, birthdays (which I can edit indirectly through the Address Book), and synchronized calendars from Apple (e.g., US Holidays). For events that I can edit, doing so corrects the problem (though even that would require hundreds of edits to individual events), but I can do nothing about synchronized calendars. Events in Lion Calendar, iCloud, and my iPhone calendar are on the correct dates. Has anyone else experienced this issue or found a way to correct it?
I move the pointer to a click location, and tap the trackpad. No click is registered. I tap the trackpad again, and a click is registered. I tap the trackpad again, and a click is registered.
The only way I found of adding a custom wallpaper to an iPad leaves that wallpaper mixed with all the photos. Can I somehow specify that it's a wallpaper and should go into the list of wallpapers? (couldn't find this by googling...)
I'm helping a colleague set up his new MBA. When we try to create his email account in mail.app, we choose Exchange but the auto-discover feature fails to start. It has worked fine for 4 others in the office so we know our Exchange 2007 server is programmed to support auto-discovery. When we try to manually enter the server settings, he can receive email but not send.
On my iPad, long video titles are cut off even though there is lots of blank space everywhere. Even when I tap a video, the detail screen cuts off the title in the exact same location despite there still being lots of blank space everywhere. Full movie titles are a lot more useful than blank space... Can I somehow see them at all when I'm away from my PC?
Since I upgraded to iOS 5 when I download podcasts from iTunes on my phone the date the podcast is published is no longer downloaded. See the below screenshot, notice how the last podcast has a published date of 11/3, that one I downloaded via iTunes on my computer. The others I used the iTunes store on the iPhone to download directly to the phone. Downloading directly from iTunes on the phone is nice, but then the phone holds all of the podcasts out of order. Thoughts?
I'd like to know what precise version of Mobile Safari the iPad I'm using has. Is there any way to find out (preferably from the device itself)? There doesn't seem to be any menu in Safari Mobile, and thus none to choose "About" from. If you go to Settings | Safari, you see various useful things, but no "About" or "Version" or similar, which surprised me.
I'm not sure why, but I can't get my iPhone 4 to talk to my new MacBook Air 13". I turn bluetooth on for both devices, open the Bluetooth Preferences and pair the devices. This works - the code is displayed on the Mac and the phone, I click OK and it looks busy. After that I get a message on the iPhone saying "[mac name] is not supported".
I know that the iPhone supports video out using the AV cable accessory that Apple sells. This would indicate the possibility of an app which can use said cable to display video.
I tried loads of other free/cheap PDF viewers and even a couple of PowerPoint viewers and get the exact same problem even when the PPT is saved with fonts embedded. Before anyone mentions it Slideshark has the same problem not supporting these fonts.
I want to create a rectangle in keynote which is filled with diagonal lines, like shown in the example image.  How can I do this?
I've been wondering about this for awhile. So, is it possible to create a Wi-fi hotspot from an iPhone or 3G iPad?
Is there a built in feature into OS X Lion which is similar to iOS 5.0's shortcut feature? For example, by default if you type "omw" on the iPhone, it gets expanded to "on my way" automatically. I know that there are probably 3rd party solutions, but I would prefer using an Apple solution.
I'm trying to extend wireless service to parts of my office that aren't getting a reliable connection. On one end of the office, we have an Airport Extreme, with a 60Mbps internet connection. In that room and the surrounding rooms, I get a pretty reliable 57Mbps or so on speedtest.
I'm looking for a shooter in the style of Gradius V, meaning futuristic, weapon power ups, frantic action. I'm not interested in a WW1/WW2 style shooter. Google and the app store are not coming up with any relevant results; any ideas?
There is some .m4b files from the iTunes store that I bought, and from what I understand, these files cannot be converted into .mp3, unlike the .m4a files. To put those files into another audio player that I have that can only support mp3, I need to convert it... and it looks a way to do it is to burn the .m4b into a CD-R, by first creating a playlist, and then burn the playlist into a CD-R, and there are up to 7 times that can be done. Then, once the CD-R is made, then it can be ripped as an .mp3
I have noticed some issues with the new split keyboard feature of iOS 5. First, the when in split-keyboard mode, the screen content is not moved up despite the keyboard covering the content. As you can see below, in iMessage, it's difficult to read the most-recent messages without moving the keyboard up higher.
I have some 60 FPS videos ranging from 640x480 to 1280x720. I was able to convert a few using H.264 Baseline @ L3.0 and sync them to Photo Albums on the iPhone and they clearly are playing back at 60 FPS. The smoothness is incredible. Apple's tech specifications claim the iPhone can playback up to 30 FPS, but evidently this is not a true limitation. My problem is most 60 FPS videos I have, fail to sync in iTunes and I get a message saying this video is not playable on the iPhone. What do I need to do differently to make 60 FPS videos reliably convert to iPhone 4 compatible H.264?
I have successfully paired a Bluetooth keyboard with my iPhone 4S, and it works great for composing messages. However, I can't find a way to send a message from the Messages app using just the keyboard. I've tried Enter, Alt+Enter, Ctrl+Enter, and Shift+Enter. There's a thread on Apple's site that covers the same topic - one of the posts alluded to a "send" button on a full-featured iPhone keyboard.
Ever since iTunes introduced Home Sharing, the Preferences dialog has had a checkbox titled "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts". But this option has never had any effect whatsoever that I can discern.
I have an officially unlocked iPhone 4 from a non-US carrier. Now that I'm in US, if buy a prepaid SIM card from AT&T and use it in iPhone, do I get 3G(WCDMA) or GSM network? To put it in the context, do I see "3G" or "E" in the iPhone status bar? Could anyone clarify if this chart is correct?
I have Logitech K750 (solar thingy) attached to Lion. For some weird reason § and < keys have traded places. I have checked keyboard settings and everything is correct. I downloaded KeyRemap4MacBook but I can't find how to actually change mappings with that program. Can anybody tell me how to get my < in the right place, it's really starting to annoy me when doing HTML and CSS...
I'd like to use my iSight camera to detect motion, and if any motion is detected, record a short movie (until the motion stops) for security purposes (ok, I want to spy on my cat). Is there software available to do this? Free/open is preferable.
I have the original iPhone and I cannot seem to get it recognized by iTunes 10.5.0.142. I followed the troubleshooting advice at *=URL=* but it did not seem to help. Is it no longer supported by iTunes?
When replacing my HDD in my MBP 3,1 with a SSD (SATA3), I noticed that the SATA1 cable can be fully removed. Thus I thought, that it might be possible to replace the SATA 1 cable by a SATA 3 cable in order to boost my SSD use. However, I do not know whether this is supported by the Logicboard... Any idea?
I just received a new Mac, shipping with Lion. There is no install CD or DVD. Where is Xcode ? Do I have to use the App Store and create an Apple ID to get it? What about X11 ?
I am using the built in Face Time HD camera (iMac Mid 2011) via Bootcamp on Windows 7. It basically works great, but I need to switch the output image horizontally. The software I am using does not provide that function. There is actually a switch in the driver pop up for "Flip Horizontal" but it is deactivated.
I know that new lines are different on windows and mac os x (and on linux for that matter) and I know that this is the problem. See *=URL=* I would expect textedit in OS X to detect the type of new line used and stick with it. Is there anyway that I can accomplish that ?
I really like the preview functionality that Finder offers in the last column of the column view. However, not all filetypes or document types are associated with a preview. For example when I have a file INSTALL (without file extension), the document type of this file is just Document and the preview column only contains an icon. How do I change the behavior of Finder in such a way that a text preview is displayed for the file INSTALL?
Currently there are many reviews on SSDs, and different types of SSDs as well. What I would like to hear is what cost effective SSDs that exists that aslo has TRIM support and will work well with Lion. The System Information app says that the SATA interface can do 3 Gb and the link speed is 1.5 Gb (on the stock 250GB HDD) I would like around 256 GB. Which models and brands would be a good choice for this model ?
According to a source in OWC they do not recommend enabling TRIM on Mercury Extreme SSD as TRIM is only supported by Apple on Apple installed SSDs. They suggest that I am better off using the build in data management in the SSD. Is this scientifically founded in any way ? Have any of you had success, failures or some knowledge with this ?
I can't find Shark on OS X Lion. The most recent Xcode is correctly installed, but I can only see Instruments. Has Shark been made obsolete by Instruments ?
Is there a way to view Game Center information, such as achievements or friends, on OS X (or any other desktop OS), or is Game Center only accessible from iOS?
I've connected to a remote network printer and attempted to print something, but clicking on the "print" button does nothing, as if the button wasn't clicked. It doesn't close the window, doesn't alert about any problem, doesn't report a successful printing, and the paper doesn't actually come out. Checking the printer queue also shows no jobs.
Should an iPhone recharge when plugged in to a MacBook Air which itself is plugged into its wall charger? My MacBook Air was closed and plugged into its wall charger. The green light on the power cord was lit. I plugged my iPhone 4S into the MacBook Air USB port under the MagSafe connection. I went to sleep. When I awoke seven hours later, the iPhone was at 30% charge. I thought it would be at 100%. Is something wrong?
My LAN includes an Ubuntu 9.04 server which runs an ISC DHCP v3 daemon. I'd like to migrate the data from that daemon to a Lion OS X Server. Is there an easy way to do this (by copying the Ubuntu /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and importing it into OS X Server)? Lion's /etc/bootpd.plist doesn't seem to contain the information about individual machines (MAC, IP): where are these stored? Steve
I’ve got a Mac mini running as a media server-type thingy. It’s running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.5. I access TV shows on it via my iPad (running iOS 5.0) using Home Sharing. (The Mac mini is plugged into an Airport Extreme via ethernet, and the iPad accesses it over wifi.)
I have started trying the "Jump to the spot that's clicked" option under General System Preferences because I'm pleased by Lion's vanishing scrollbars but they complicate finding the current location before scrolling. There is however one serious problem with the "Jump to the spot that's clicked" option : You'll never even see your current location in the document, because scrollbars only become visible when selected, which makes returning challenging. Is there an option or tool to either (a) show the scrollbars on mouseover, or else (b) always show transparent scrollbars.
After reconsolidating my music collection in iTunes, I’m curious if there is any way to programmatically set star ratings based upon the number of plays, but only for songs that I have not yet rated? Specifically, I'd like to set all songs with >1 plays and 0 stars, to 3 stars. (3 being the average in that I didn't care enough to rate the song lower because I hated it, higher because I liked it, because I was doing something else at the time.) An AppleScript that I can run occasionally would be sufficient – this way I can passively set song ratings based upon an apathetic impression of the song :).
Someone I know copied a file into a directory over another one and hit "replace" accidentally. Is there any way to recover the older version of the file on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8? EDIT: Time Machine was not running at the time.
At the company I work at we use the proxies to connect to the Internet. This works fine until I have to do XCode simulator work(in UIWebView, not Safari browser), at which time I have to turn off all the proxies.
I'd like to get a new iPod touch, I'd also like to not have to re-input all my contacts and notes (don't mind clearing out the apps) but I want to make sure of two things before I go in and take advantage of the 10% discount at the Apple Store. Can I backup my data on an as updated as possible 2nd gen iPod and restore it onto a shiny new 4th gen iPod? Can I backup my data on an as updated as possible 2nd gen iPod and restore it onto a shiny new 4th gen iPod? Can I make sure (within reason) that my data is cleared off the iPod when I turn it in to the Apple store? Can I make sure (within reason) that my data is cleared off the iPod when I turn it in to the Apple store?
My users are requesting that we set up a conference room Mac mini (2009) for videochats using Skype. Since iSights are no longer reliably available (and I'm not going to give up my personal one), has anyone tried any 3rd-party webcams to use under OS X, such as any of Logitech's? Any other brands you'd recommend?
I've been experiencing considerable delays between the time I take a photo and the time it shows up in Aperture's synced Photo Stream. Specifically, the photos show up on other devices that consume the iCloud Photo Stream, but Aperture seems to lag them substantially. Is there a way to force Aperture to refresh its Photo Stream so that it matches the Photo Stream on iOS devices (and thus, presumably, its state in iCloud).
My camera has a complicated path to the video files, and I'm constantly plugging it in, and then digging to get the videos. I just want find to automatically popup to the specified subfolder when the card is mounted. I've install DSW (Do Something With from Azarhi), but I'm not sure how to set up Automator to open a new finder window with the specific location? Any thoughts?
This is a continuation of this thread from Super User. The question is how to set an icon on a directory. At first I was trying cp -R, which did copy the directory with the icon, but it also copied every file and subdirectory in the folder. Then Keith Thompson suggested that one of the invisible files inside a directory might be responsible for the icon (because cp -R would preserve those/bring them with the copy) so I tried copying the 'Icon?' invisible file from a folder with the desired icon to new directory (newly created with mkdir) but that didn't work. He said to ask here, because this is more geared towards Mac- and UNIX-based questions. In that last post, he also suggested the .DS_STORE file (which I've seen, but I think stores which files to display) but I may try copying that into a new folder too... Empty directory is created No invisible files Regular files are put into the folder, '.DS_STORE' appears.
Can I move apps purchased with one Apple ID to another Apple ID? I am looking at purchasing a used iOS device and I want to be able to keep all the apps that are on the device (with permission of the original owner of course). How can I do this?
I'd like to run the Java client for Runescape but want to quit Safari while the Java pop-up is open. How can I do this?
I'm using Mac OS 10.6.8 and I guess I've updated iTunes recently to 10.5 (141). I pretty much only use iTunes to get my daily fix of podcasts and now it won't get new episodes and just crashes when I ask for a manual update. I'm not syncing to any device and I've to tried to reset the store cache at the Advanced Preferences (no result).
I just did a clean install of Lion on my 2010 MBP. It seems as though in the system preferences for the built-in trackpad, I have the option of setting the secondary click gesture to "Click or tap with two fingers", "Click in bottom right corner", or "Click in bottom left corner".
Sorry this is a UK-only issue. The BBC have a Flash-based player for their live radio on the following page: *=URL=* This works fine in Google Chrome on my Mac, but in Safari, the Flash elements in this page fail to load, and the radio does not play.
I noticed this a while ago, but I have no idea what it means, or if it even means anything.. it's pretty weird though... When you do Cmd-I (Get Information) on the hard drive and look at the permissions at bottom, they are: system: R&W admin: R&W everyone: Read only On my home folder they are: admin (Me): R&W staff: Read only everyone: Read only Why are these different, and should they not be?
I remember having an ethernet icon in Tiger and Leopard in the menu bar. This was very convenient since it gave quick access to the settings just like you need it for airport:
I have set up Lion text replacement to replace a three-letter short-code with my full email address. It works great, and I recommend you all do it. :-)
We are looking for a Subversion client for OSX Lion that support version 1.7, but we cannot find one. Is there "an app for that"? :-)
Suppose I wanted to open a couple of bookmarks in my browser. To do this, I use the menu bar. I click on «Bookmarks» to reveal the dropdown with all my bookmarks and then select the bookmark. The dropdown closes and the browser opens the bookmark. Now I have to click on «Bookmarks» again and click on another bookmark, the dropdown again closes and the browser opens the bookmark. Is there a way to keep the menu dropdown opened after I clicked on an item? That way I could click multiple items in the dropdown way faster! I remember being able to do this in Windows XP some years ago and it was really handy. I think I had to hold down ALT when clicking on the menu item. Thanks for any advice!
I brought my unlocked iPhone 4S to Israel and got a local SIM card. The voicemail button is calling the voicemail instead of showing me the visual voicemail.
I have a large amount of email in Gmail, the account is at 99% capacity. I'd like to remove this from Gmail and only store it locally. Using mail.app When I drag the message from a Gmail mailbox into a local folder the message still appears on Gmail. How can I move the messages locally so they don't appear in Gmail anymore? Thanks,
I have a few PowerPC Mac binaries I would like to run under MacOSX 10.7. I guess Rosetta is not going to be Open Source, isn't it? Any petition about this? I would start one or contact someone at Apple about this if I would know whom or where. Can Rosetta be downloaded somewhere or copied over from an 10.6 and made working on 10.7?
Is it possible (and how) to have all the system sound played on AirPlay? Or at least for some specific (random) application (e.g. Songbird)?
As a rule, one should never trust closed source cryptography software, but encrypting external drives and Time Machine backups has become quite convenient in Mac OS X Lion. Is that specific code available anyplace? Or has anyone audited it seriously?
My iBook G4 has OS X 10.4.11, it needs 10.5.8 or higher to run the external hard drive I recently purchased. I was not aware of this until many unsuccessful attempts to get the thing to work and I read the fine print on the box. The guy at Staples said to just hook it up and there would be "Prompts" to get it going. I now believe he knew about as much as I did about this product! Really need the storage space for about 4000 photos, music, etc. Please advise.
How can I hide certain files or folders from "All my files" I'm developing a website with 100s of icons and now they making this section in finder quite redundant.
I'm having problems dealing with accented characters in file names in the Terminal. Consider the following:
I have a Samsung E1170 mobile phone and a USB datacable for it. How can I import/copy the contacts from the phone to my computer? Is there any application for Mac which can do that? If not, how can I do that at all in principle? (Question on Superuser.)
On OS X Snow Leopard, there was an option to hide the toolbar in many applications, such as but I don't have that option on Lion anymore
I know that many people jailbreak their iOS devices. Is there a risk involved with jailbreaking? If, so what? Can you brick your device by jailbreaking? What's the worst thing that could happen?
Since the update to iOS5 my iPhone 3GS does not show up as a device on iPhoto anymore. Before that, iPhoto was working without any hitch. I'm currently using the following: MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB, Mac OS X 10.7.2 iPhoto '09 Version 8.1.2 (424) iPhone 3GS, with IOS 5 iTunes 10.5 (141) 64-bit Is there some way to recover so that I can import photos on iPhoto again, or is the software not compatible anymore?
I have a Macbook Pro 13 from about a year ago running OSX Lion. Whenever I connect to my school's WiFi, I can't seem to get to the WiFi Login page I was told the problem was probably in Keychain Access, but it crashes as soon as I try to open it whenever this is happening. Using Safari or Chrome, I can't seem to get to any websites, it just hangs or gives me a page load error. Firefox works though without any issues.
I use multiple Macs (OS X Lion). There are a lot of settings, apps, and files I'd like to keep synced up between them. Files are the easiest of the lot -- Dropbox + symlinks, Mercurial repositories, and standalone Puppet manifests are all well-understood and simplish tools. Apps are slightly more difficult, but I'm experimenting with Puppet + PackageMaker + Dropbox to meet this goal.
Using iTunes, I updated album names and track numbers on my iPhone. But the music library is stuck using the old values. What gives? How can I get the iPhone music library to update? I'm on iOS 5
I am an iOS developer. What certifications does Apple provide in the field of iPhone/iOS development?
In windows, in most applications, if I hit Alt+F it opens the "File" menu. If it hit Alt+E, it brings up the Edit menu. Is there an OS X equivalent?
Is there a way to indicate that I do not want a given item to ever be downloaded to iTunes, but prefer to have it remain in the cloud? For example, if I purchase a TV show or movie, iTunes assumes I want it downloaded to my machine, and will attempt to do so several times, even when I cancel the download and delete it from the downloads list. In general, after several tries, iTunes seems to finally give up, but it's hardly a convenient process convincing it to do so. This the issue repeats (automatically) with purchased TV series.
Will I be able to play Skyrim in Parallels? These are my specs: *=URL=* Bootcamp is a non-starter for me (too lazy). Thanks!
How do I sync AppleTV purchases from iCloud to iTunes? I recently purchased the most recent episode of Psych on my Apple TV but am unable to transfer it to iTunes. I was able to do this with a previous episode but can't recall how. I've tried going to Store > Check for Available Downloads... but it says I don't have anything to download:
Every time I pause or unpause Netflix on Apple TV it starts playing iTunes music on my computer, even with wi-fi and home sharing turned off. How do I disable iTunes from launching when using Apple TV?
I've recently set up my Google Calendars to hook into iCal on OS X Lion. I've noticed though that when I make a change in iCal, it doesn't sync instantly to Google Calendar. I'm sure that iCal will eventually sync when it gets a chance, but because I don't leave iCal open all day, I'd like the ability to force it to sync before I shut down. Is this possible?
I am a DJ and I have just got a new Mac and transferred all my music to iTunes. A lot of my tunes do have the wrong Genre assigned mis-tagged (e.g.a tune that is TECH HOUSE is maybe tagged as genre House).
I am trying to connect my Huawei phone to my Mac. I get it as a new device and I can see it in the file manager. Now I would like point my Mac to some drivers of this small Huawei device. (I have them as .ini files or as .exe for the full installation package.) The thing is that I am programming for Android and did it easily on Windows (using Mac just for a couple of weeks). In Windows there is a great feature like "find device" and then just point it to .ini driver files. Is there any similar feature in Mac? I have installed some applications on Mac, like Huawei driver, Huawei modem something, also some mobilepartner application, but still nothing. Is there any way I can use the adb to connect to my device?
What's the fastest way to get a screenshot from Skitch into OmniFocus? When you drag and drop an image into OmniFocus, it only creates a link to the image, rather than embedding it. One way to do this is to drag and drop the image from Skitch to finder, and then from finder to OmniFocus by holding down the command key, but this is tedious, especially when I need to do it many times. Another way is to drop onto finder, and then right-click and choose to attach and embed in OmniFocus, but this too is time consuming. Is there any way to drag the image directly from Skitch into OmniFocus and have the image be embedded in the task?
I have the keyboard set to "British" and my locale is Australia, but neither of these seem to affect the spelling suggestions.
I notice it when I'm highlighting text as well. Halfway through the a selection it will unselect. It only seems to click right at the very bottom now. Do I need to replace or clean it?
I've developed a web app which is having some weird issues on iOS safari on my iPad. I've never developed an iOS app, although I am a developer (c#) and have downloaded the latest xcode dev tools (just never got round to it). Is there an easy way to just get the iPad sim up and start browsing the web on it on my mac? thanks
I would like all iMac sounds to go through my network into my PC speakers. Is there an available solution for this?
I am trying to downgrade to ios 4.3.3 but each time I try this, my iPod Touch 3g goes in a recovery loop with an all black display and I can't do anything but restoring ios5. Is it possibile to downgrade to 4.3.3?
I am trying to understand iCloud backup and how the data from a 64 GB iPod might fit in a 5 GB account. I just updated to iOS 5 and the latest iTunes. Now, when I sync, I get a choice to backup to iCloud (instead of backing up to the computer). I see it offers me 5 GB of space, but my as stated my iPod is 64 GB.
I hope this is the right place to ask this question, since it isn't actually programming related. I work at a company which is taking the first steps in iOS development, and we realised that there is a problem on how to demonstrate a fully functional developed application to a client. The situation is quite simple:
I currently have a MacBook Pro (Lion) and my iMac (Leopard) sitting side by side. The MacBook Pro connects to a wifi network and speeds are as they should be. The iMac has serious problems: it doesn't find the same networks, it gets connection timeouts when trying to connect to the wifi network, when it finally connects the speed is so slow that it's unusable. When I ping yahoo.com I get results of between 100 - 1500ms and sites take minutes to load. How can I start debugging this problem?
Is it possible to purchase a one-year iOS Developer Program membership for someone as a gift? I know the Apple ID of the desired recipient, but couldn't find how to offer the program membership.
I am looking for a pricing guide for used Apple laptops, desktops, and iOS devices. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to go to find a guide like this? Preferably a free guide.
I'm trying to access my MacBook from a Windows PC over the network. The computer is connected to the router, the MacBook is connected to a WAP, which is connected to a switch, which is connected to the router.
I'm looking for an app for iPad in which you can: Sync with dropbox Save and edit RTF-files Color markup text (in addition to making text bold, change fontsize, et cetera)
I have php and apache enabled and a folder test located in my ~/Sites. Is there anyway to access it thanks to the address *=URL=* instead of *=URL=* ?
I have a one generation old MacBook Air. I upgraded to Lion when it came out. Now I wish to go back to Snow Leopard. I booted from the thumb drive installer for Snow Leopard. There is a Lion installer image that I can't delete. Disk Utility greys out for that partition. It's not the end of the world, but I would like to get that 5 gigs back. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm looking for an iPad app for guitar tabs reading and writing. I'd prefer that one had an auto scroll feature.
In OS X Mail, when I enter the name of a person to whom I have sent a previous e-mail, I'm often presented with a suggested e-mail address, corresponding (roughly) to the most recent frequently sent-to person matching the entered name, or part of a name. These suggestions make sense, and I realize that they are coming from my previous recipients list, but what I don't understand is this: often, though the proposed address is associated with a contact in my address book (and is marked as such in the Previous Recipients list), it is not recognized as being associated with the contact in the sent message. For example, if I have a contact, say: and I have been corresponding a lot recently with him at joe@bbb.com then when I begin typing his name in the To field rather than proposing along with context menu containing a list of all of the e-mail addresses from his contact information, I get
I would like to install Lion on a different MacBook Pro in my house, but I can't download/install OS X Lion as it hasn't been linked to my Apple ID. Any suggestions?
The main problem is that I can't AirPlay to her apple tv from my mac nor my ipad. That's the main issue. But also my mac can't see my ipad, and vice verse, and even with file sharing enabled on both macs (lion and snow leopard) I can't see her mac in finder, and she can't see mine. Any ideas? thanks
If I put a video in a Keynote presentation, and save it as a .ppt file, will the video work in PowerPoint?
MacBook Pro Early 2011 - Mac OSX 10.7.2 VMWare Fusion 4.0.2 Guest OS is Win7 64-bit, all the latest updates. MS Office 2010 w/latest.
I just upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5 after I did a backup of the device, and during the upgrade another backup was done too. When trying to restore me backup I was asked for a password which I didn't know about and accidentally I deleted the backup file that I created and therefore, I have no contacts, photos, nothing only my apps but as if they were brand new. Please help I need to retrieve my deleted backup file from iTunes and retrieve my contact and photos.
I accidentally removed the Mac App from my Mac Mini while removing the iTunes 10.5 Beta. How can I reinstall the Mac App Store?
I have 2 seperate photo albums on my iphone. I have downloades one of the albums to my computer, but can't figure out how to switch to download the other album. When phone is hooked to computer itunes only reccognizes one of the photo albums and I can't figure out how to switch...any help out there?
First of all, I don't use iCloud for my address book on my iPhone 4S; instead, I sync my Gmail contacts (and mail and calendars) using the "Exchange" account type. ("Gmail" accounts don't sync contacts, so I have to connect via Exchange.) This is all fine and dandy, except Siri pronounces my wife's last name (my last name) incorrectly, and it's driving me crazy.
I have an extra pair of speakers. I can connect the speaker to my iPad and listen to music.
I upgraded to iOS 5 sometime ago and all was fine. Last night I got a message that another upgrade was available, so I followed the prompts. During the upgrade the connection between my PC and iPad failed.
I have installed windows xp/vista through bootcamp with snow leopard (boot camp 3.x) several times. After a fresh installation of lion on my macbook air, something has changed.
I'm having iTunes 10.5 problems (crashes on Podcast refresh) and I've been unable to export the subscriptions (the .opml file generated is empty). Are there text-readable iTunes podcast preferences somewhere, so I can copy the RSS URLs to another podcast client?
Is there a way to enable natural scrolling on the trackpad, but disable it for mouse? I think that natural scrolling does make sense on a trackpad, but with a mouse it doesn't feel natural at all
This is not about the iPad not charging over a USB connection. My device refuses to charge both over USB and the charger that came with it.
I'm preparing to upload an iPhoto event to Facebook for the first time (I'm using iPhoto '11 and my Mac runs Mac OS X 10.7), except I can't quite get Facebook to turn iPhoto's Faces tags into links to my friends' profiles. Basically, uploading causes the tags on Facebook to show up by themselves without linking to the right profiles. This also means photos of me show up as me... with myself! Like a stunt double, or a clone or something. Anyway, this renders them effectively useless in a sense, as I end up having to manually retag on my browser and remove the tags that came from iPhoto.
I know that iPhone has some internal sensors that can be used to test if the device was got ever wet. Apple uses them in order to deny your warranty. The question is how to find out this before sending your device to service?
I used to be able to turn my macbook air on, plug in an android phone, then close the lid and the phone would keep charging. Note, this was not the same as charge-and-sleep, which works all the time (like on ThinkPads). There is a link to someone describing this process here: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/07/23/why-i-love-yellow-usb-ports-sleep-and-charge/
I have an iPad and I want to sync it via wifi. That works fine. Sometimes I mistakenly eject the iPad from iTunes and then it does not synchronize anymore ("searching for my MacBook"). Can I instruct iTunes to search for my iPad again? To undo the eject? I use the newest OS on my MacBook and iPad.
After installation of iOS 5, once it was done restoring my settings, apps, etc I got an error message -19. All apps restored successfully. But I don't see the photos. I tried to revert to iOS 4.3.3 again but I got stuck again with error -10.
I would like to dual-boot OS X Lion and Snow Leopard, because I have a few programs that do not work on OS X Lion yet. That works, but now I have the problem that I have run out of disk space on my OS X Snow Leopard partition, and I would like to resize the partition of Snow Leopard so it takes space from the Lion partition, but in Disk Utility that is apparently not possible... Is this really impossible or do I need a special program for this?
In OSX one can use Ctrl-F7 to change what the Tab key can move the focus between. By default it is only text boxes and lists but after pressing ctrl-f7 one can move between all ui elements. I was wondering if there is a way to toggle this functionality by using the defaults tool.
I found online that Mac OS Lion has option similar to "Cut" option of windows. I found one link which shows the option as : I am using OS Lion, but this option is not visible, even when I copy file/folder. Am I missing something or any update?
Currently my iPhone 3Gs is on iOS 5.01. I'd like to use it on the T-Mobile network. What are the steps required to make it happen?
Obviously, this is not acceptable in any way. I don't know what I did that made these appear. I've looked through Secrets, but haven't found anything relevant. Does anyone have any ideas?
The usual way for downloading youtube's flv files used to be to double-click on the conspicuously largest file in Safari's activity window (cmd-option-a). For some reason doing so now triggers viewing the video using a plugin. The possible culprits are perian and vlc. Disabling perian doesn't help, and vlc does not seem to include a plugin. What to do?
I'm used to VirtualBox, which gives the option of either, a) fixed portion of hard drive (i.e. choose 40gb, and 40gb gets taken up in OS X); or b) dynamic usage (i.e. I choose 40gb max cap, and it fills this up as data is written by my VM). I have a few problems with these options: for (a), I don't want to lock into 40gb unless I need to (I'm on a SSD, so space is limited).
Is it possible to change the Bluetooth UUID (the 128-bit value) on my iPod (Currently running iOS 5.0)? or is this a factory locked value?
I have created a shortcut for Launchpad using the keyboard, but cannot figure out how to make one for the 4th button on my mouse. This would eliminate the need for even using the dock...for the most part.
I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 a few days ago. The upgrade went smoothly; however, I'm having trouble activating my phone.
My friend is having a problem with an iPhone 4 (not yet updated to iOS 5). Most apps and the ring tone will make noise via headphones but not via speaker. iTunes and at least one other app will play sounds via the speaker, however.
currently, I have a 4 digit lock on my phone. I know this isn't really secure - and can be broken through if neccessary. It just kind of stops the situation if someone picks up my phone, they won't be able to dial people or write and read my emails straight away.
After installing gnuplot on Lion using 'brew gnuplot', the gnuplot info page appears at /usr/local/Cellar/gnuplot/4.4.3/share/info/gnuplot.info But in the info index page (M-x info) in emacs, I see no gnuplot entry.
I suspect that someone is restoring my daughters iPod Touch to get around the password she has on it, and then setting a new password on it. Is there anyway to track when a restore was done? (i.e. if I can show that it was done today at 2:45). Is there anyway I can prevent the device from being restored (parental controls)?
My wife's default country for creating contacts is the Netherlands. The only solution I've found online is to go to:
I know that there was a period of time after Mac OS X came out that new Macs still shipped with Mac OS 9 for a number of reasons (OS X was buggy, better compatibility with Classic apps, etc). This is more of a curiosity than anything, but I'm wondering what the most powerful Mac capable of running Mac OS 9 is, and what the maximum specs are.
I installed iTunes 10.5 Beta. I want to go back to the regular version of iTunes on the iTunes website. When I try and install it, I get an error saying the version on my computer is newer, so it can't. My version of iTunes will expire. I don't want to upgrade to the next beta. I just want the regular iTunes. How can I do this?
Asking on behalf of a friend. His 2011 MacBook Pro (no Thunderbolt) was running Snow Leopard and was being connected to a Dell monitor in the standard way. He upgraded to Lion and now the MacBook cannot detect the display. What can we do to detect the display (my Snow Leopard MacBook still detects the display)?
I do web development so I normally have web sharing turned on in the sharing preferences. After upgrading to Lion I have been continuing with the web development projects I have pretty much as normal. However, I noticed something weird today. I'm not doing development at the moment so I thought I could save some system resources by going into the preferences and turning web sharing off for now. However when I did, I found that web sharing was already unchecked! Sure enough, I could access web pages and scripts on localhost. I turned web sharing on and off again and localhost files could no longer be accessed, as expected.
After a clean install of Lion, followed by partitioning which again was followed by a installation of Ubuntu, I noticed some error messages of Disk Utitity. When verifying the volume I get told that there is no EFI partition. But you can clearly see one in Disk Utility (and with diskutil list). The Mac boots fine. I have no problem choosing between booting into Mac or Linux at boot.
Due to a water leakage, we had to move offices temporarily. In our temp offices, we have WIFI network, but not cabled network (yet). Since my computer doesn't have WIFI (it's a stationary desktop) I thought I could see if I could bridge my iPhone WIFI connection over to my computer via USB while I wait for local facilities to set up cabled network here. Is this possible?
What's more important, I'd like to remove them (not just hide them), but I don't know how. iTunes on Windows isn't a big help here. But perhaps I'm overlooking something.
Arabic Keyboard on iPad uses GeezaPro font and obviously keys are limited compared to available glyphs, but what should I do if I want to use a glyph that doesn't have its own key. Is there any way I can add/use it somehow? The reason I need to do this is so I can write in Persian/Farsi.
I have a Mac mini (Mid 2010) with 2.4 GHz CPU and willing to upgrade its HDD to SSD. Can I use a sata3 SSD for it?
Since upgrading to Max OS X 10.7.2 and converting my MobileMe Account to iCloud I am receiving endless dialog boxes asking about syncing Yahoo Contacts. I cannot find settings anywhere to turn this off. I have to manually dismiss these frakking dialogues, which come up at the rate of about one an hour.
I'm trying to find some headsets that will work with airplay from either my mac or an iPhone. Should i presume all wireless or bluetooth headsets do? best, Dan.
I use a MacBook at work and the Fn is exactly where I expect the Control key to be. Is there any way I can swap the two keys?
A friend of mine has an iPhone 3G and around September his phone seemed to lose all of his SMS messages, and now only messages received since then are visible. I have found some sources saying that this can happen when the message database becomes corrupt (or there is a message which is corrupt somewhere and it's breaking things). I understand that the database archive is an SQLite DB and that somebody with similar symptoms solved this by deleting the offending message from the database manually. I'm happy to do this but the iPhone is not jailbroken and I assume I won't have write privileges on the device. I've tried backing up the iPhone via iTunes and extracting the messages using a tool but it only found the messages that the device can see, and there are no backups from before the issue occurred.
My Mac Book Pro 2.2 (2008) Core 2 Duo, was working properly, and after waking it up (open the lid), the display was black... It happened to me before and the other times I reckon it was some kind of bug with it not understanding it was meant to wake up (nothing a lid close, wait a bit and open lid wouldn't solve). This time none of my previous solutions worked, and I forced a shutdown and then started it, and it remained with a blank (black) screen.
I have Zeppelin Air from B&W which works great most of the time. However during VPN connection to different work places during VPN connection Airplay stops playing. If I then go to iTunes and play next song it starts to work again. My VPN connections don't have Default VPN Gateway set so there's really nothing that should be affecting AirPlay. Is this normal? Any workarounds ?
I'm planning to buy a new iPhone. I'm going to exchange my current one for the new one. Before I give the old phone to Sprint, I'd like to wipe it clean (by going to Settings > General > Reset, etc).
I have a main iMac with an iTunes library that I share with Apple TV and an iMac my kids use. I want my kids to be able to plug in their iPod and sync it with a playlist I have set up, but the playlists don't appear as options on their computer, even though they can see and play them through the shared library. How am I supposed to accomplish this?
I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. There are two USB ports and the problem happens on both. I've also tested with Windows on the same MacBook — with same problems.
I'm using Lion (10.7.2). I close all applications and restart the Mac. When it starts up again, it opens windows for iPhoto, Word (to a blank doc), Address Book, and a Finder window. None of these application are in my "Login Items" for my account. How do I get Lion to start clean instead of opening all these apps? Rob
I am running the latest Lion. It just did a software update which provided a firmware update.
When I purchase songs from iTunes, I often times hate the way the MetaData is presented. For example, I prefer the format But songs purchased from iTunes usually come in the form My concern is that once I use iTunes match to match all of my music with the music that exists on Apple's servers, iTunes is going to use the MetaData as stored on their servers as opposed to the MetaData that I have meticulously set in my library. If it is going to use Apple's MetaData instead of my own, this is a complete deal breaker for me. Does anybody who has signed up for/used iTunes Match know the way iTunes Match behaves in this regard?
Does anyone know why my iPhone has (suddenly) started playing podcasts in seemingly random order? I want podcasts to be played in the order they were downloaded (in iTunes), chronologically.
On my Macbook Pro, whenever you press the power button it goes into sleep mode. How do I change this to do nothing?
On regular Windows notebooks people generally remove their battery packs when connected to a power source, in order to extend battery life. Does a similar approach work on the Mac?
My iPhone was linked to my main computer and it has all my photos stored on it, but not in the camera roll. Since my husband blew the main computer up, my precious photos appear to be in limbo. It does not appear that I can import them anywhere. I could email all them one by one but that seems a little low tech. iTunes tells me that if I upgrade iOS I will lose my photos that are not in the camera roll. Also, the same would seem to be true if I deauthorize my main (now usless) PC. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am developing a site with django (email registration) and for testing purposes I would like to set up a local smtp server on my MBA. This has to be local because my main work location does not have an active internet connection. So does anyone know how to do this? Would I have to buy Lion Server or can I just do it through the terminal or some other program? Any help or questions please let me know.
When I click "Turn On Photo Stream" on in iPhoto it reports "iPhoto unable to connect to Photo Stream." It shows the correct user name on the Photo Stream screen in iPhoto. I have the correct credentials provided on the iCloud App in System Preferences, and Photo Stream is turned on there.
I've noticed the small movies I take on my iPhone 4 result in large .mov files. For example, a 1 minute movie results in almost a 100MB .mov file. This is running through my cloud storage (Dropbox) rather quickly. Is there an easy way to reduce the quality/size after transferring to my Mac?
I've literally been trying to crack this for an hour. With previous versions of iOS, the db was a simple sqlite file and could be opened with any sqlite utility. I really need access to these messages and I'm at a loss on how to open the database. Note: I've pulled the file off of the iTunes backup.
Macports? Binary? RVM-esque tool? Other? I will be using NumPy/SciPy for a computer vision project, so I want to do it once and do it right.
iOS 5.0.1 is out and I want to do any upgrade, but when I click Update, it will pop out a window that says:  So I sync'ed the iPhone 4S once, and it pop out the same dialog. I sync'ed again and it was the same thing. Is it not good enough to just sync? What should be done to "transfer the purchased items to my Library"?
I was trying to create a new user on my OS X Lion machine, and somehow managed to destroy my own user's account. Here are the steps I took; hopefully someone here can recognize what I did, and maybe identify some way around this. First, I ran these commands:
I'm about to put a SSD (60GB) into my MacBook Pro, the disc drive is coming out and the current drive (320GB) will sit in a bracket in its place. I'd like to use the SSD as the main drive for the OS, Apps, and frequently accessed files and the old drive for everything else.
Enabling iTunes Match adds a new default column to song lists in iTunes that displays several new icons:  What do each of these icons (as well as no icon at all) mean?
One of my calendars is stuck on my iPhone. I tried to double-click the home button, but the Calendar app is not one of the icons showing in the task bar, so I can't close it manually. Can you assist?
When were custom sounds for e-mail notification alerts introduced in iOS? I know that for SMS/MMS/messages they were introduced with iOS 5.0. Now I always thought e-mail sounds could be changed since 4.x..? (custom sounds = the ones you create yourself and import by using iTunes on a computer)
At one point, I typed "^me" into iOS 4. Now it corrects the word "me" to "^me" every time. How can I remove this?
My main iTunes library was in the process of uploading to iTunes Match when I enabled iTunes Match on iTunes on another computer. I got a message saying that only one computer at a time could upload to iTunes Match, and because there were only a handful of items in my library on my secondary computer, I decided to interrupt the upload on the primary computer and quickly do the match on the secondary computer. Unfortunately, once I did that, the "iTunes Match" sidebar item disappeared from the primary computer, and going into "iTunes Match in the "iTunes Store" just shows a page describing what I can do with iTunes Match. How do I get my primary computer to resume the upload process?
I have scanned a document into a PDF at 300dpi. The document file is larger than I would like. Is there a simple way to down-sample the document so that it has a lower resolution? Or do I just need to re-scan the original document?
I had one iPad 2 and I got a second one. I want to sync them both to the same iTunes account from the same Macbook Pro. When I plugged in the second iPad it asked me something along the lines of This computer has been previously synced with an iPhone or another iOS device Well, I wanted to share programs and things between them so I thought it would be good to choose "restore" - however that seems to have been the wrong thing to do because iTunes now thinks I have two of the same iPad and won't let them each be customized.
Apple's iCloud makes syncing of Safari bookmarks easy between Safari on Mac or PC and IE on PC. However I'm using the Chrome browser on both those platforms and I'm wondering if there's any workaround to have Chrome bookmarks synchronized with iOS devices either by using iCloud or another service / package.
A friend wants to sync his calendar (also his contacts if possible) with a non-iPhone device. Is there a way to connect a device to iCloud via Exchange or CalDav. If so where could the specific parameters like servers and ports be found?
I am often using the terminal, and I'd like to be able type a command that will attach a selected file to an email in mail.app. Any idea on how to do that?
Is there any free and easy to use audiobook creator for Mac? I need something that could create a .m4b audio book from several .mp3 files and eventually audio tracks. Also possibility to create chapters is important. As far as I know (correct me), just setting the type to audio book for an audio file does not enable all the audiobook features in iTunes. Do recommend only solutions that are working in Lion, for example the Audiobook Maker doesn't work because it contains some PPC apps inside.
If I show the iCloud Status column in my song list, in a number of albums I'll see "Matched" for most of the tracks, but "Uploaded" for one or more track. If I look up that song/album/artist on the iTunes Store, Apple has those songs. I've even looked at the track info to see if they might have been encoded differently, but on the few I've spot checked they have the same encoding as the other songs in the album that were matched.
Is there a keyboard shortcut key to select all the text in the current cell in Excel, if you are in the process of editing the cell?
I've had a problem since upgrading my iPad to IOS 5 in that I can't seem to edit/delete some events on my calendar. It mainly seems to be repeating events that have the problem. Any ideas about what may be causing this?
Will additional RAM help or is there a different problem? I'm also using a Samsung 21.5" monitor through mini DisplayPort to VGA connector if it matters.
Can I use Time Capsule as shared disk (without any extra hardware)? I want to store my media there (e.g. photo)
I'm using a rental iPad2 this week and it came with a lot of cool pre-installed programs. When I get my iPad2 back next week I'm thinking of installing some of these programs.
In iTunes there is a checkbox to "manually manage music and videos". However when I tried clicking it, there's a popup saying that I can only do so after erasing all data on the phone:
I would like to explicitly remove songs that I uploaded using iTunes Match, from the cloud. How is this done? And if I do remove the song, will it be automatically removed from all my devices?
After enabling iTunes Match, songs that are recognized as duplicates are marked with an icon:  Clicking on this icon brings up a dialog offering to delete the duplicate:
As mentioned is a previous question, I made a backup of my old AT&T iPhone 3GS, then exchanged it for a new iPhone 4S at Sprint. They transfered over my contacts. However, there's a lot of other stuff in that backup that I'd like to have on the phone. All my applications and their various configurations. For example, my GPS app has two years worth of saved locations. On top of that, it looks like not all my contacts got transfered over for some reason.
Recent versions of StuffIt will extract .xz archives, but they will not run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. And using something like Fink, it should be possible to install xz-utils on 10.4, so that .xz archives can be extracted from the Terminal. But is there any graphical application that will run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and which will extract .xz files? It's OK if this application supports extracting .tar.xz archives in a single step, but not necessary, because if it extracts the .tar.xz file to a .tar file, even an older version of StuffIt can extract that.
I recently updated my MacBook Pro to the latest firmware: EFI 2.3. Since then when my screen dims from idleness (while plugged in), it takes at least 5-10 seconds to come back on after I touch the trackpad, keyboard, or mouse. Everything worked fine before the EFI update.
How do I edit the items in my "reading list" in Safari? Unlike bookmarks, there doesn't seem to be an "edit" option.
I want to monitor the requests (and responses) my iPhone is sending via the internet. I have a web debugging proxy called Charles on my Mac, which I would like to use to monitor my iPhone's connections. It basically works by configuring a proxy to localhost and reading that data. I tried to share my internet connectiong my Mac, but I cannot both share my internet over Wi-Fi and connect to my Wi-Fi at the same time? How can I accomplish this?
I have numerous audiobooks that I've manually ripped to <96kbps mp3 format. The steps I've taken to adhere to Apple's iTunes Match policy to get these files available to match are as follows: Convert track to m4a, automatically up-converted to a higher bit rate; now meets standards. File size was over 200mb, so I ran it through splitting software, which brought the total size of each individual m4a down to ~64 MB. Attempted to match the file, and received an "Error" message in return. I followed Apple's recommendation and removed the tracks from iTunes, added again, and received the same message while syncing.
I have an iPhone 4, my wife has a jailbroken iPhone 3G on Simple Mobile (T-Mobile's network). She's able to send and receive MMS messages, but images that are taken on my iPhone are flagged as too large and she receives a message that she has received an image from me but it has been blocked due to size. Older phones and other limited plans have this implementation, so this question should be useful to others. Is there a way to change the size of images when sending them via MMS like you can when emailing a picture on the iPhone? If not, how can I work around this?
I have both iOS devices and with keyboards. I could be much more productive if I could do Alt-Tab / Command-Tab app switching using my keyboard. Is there any way to do this? Is there any way to switch between the two most recent apps or anything similar?
My music in my iTunes library has come from many sources over the years, and it's filled with incomplete or inaccurate or simply missing data, not to mention the fact that most of my stuff doesn't have album art associated with it. I had hoped that as part of the 256kbps 'upgrade' functionality that iTunes would also upgrade the metadata on my songs to the metadata that they ship with the iTunes Store purchases. However, deleting and redownloading a matched song only upgrades the audio data, but keeps the metadata intact. Is there a way to upgrade the metadata as well?
I have a 17" Early 2008 Macbook Pro running lion 10.7.2. And about 3 weeks ago, this problem started occurring where my interent would stop working randomly. I go to toggle the Wi-Fi on and off, but when I try to turn Wi-fi on, it does nothing and the wifi icon remains an empty wedge. Trying to turn Wi-Fi on from System preferences also does nothing - same empty signal. But if I restart my Mac I can get on Wi-Ffi normally and it will last from a couple hours to a couple minutes till it drops again and I need to restart to get back on. I searched all over the web for a solution and tried to reordering wifi above the other service in System Preferences deleting 'SystemConfiguration' folder in under library>preferences reinstalling Lion from recovery disk Reset PRAM Reset SMC
I need to create a "document" icon for an application on the mac, and I need a source "blank page" image to use for it. Is Apple OK with using their own blank page icon as the backing for your icon? If not, is there a free equivalent somewhere I can use?
What's an easy way to back up the files on a Macbook that is running OS 10.5.8 ? As far as I can see, I think iCloud only works with 10.7.2 and above, and MobileMe is not accepting new accounts...
When I type a word that my iPhone doesn't like I get provided a suggest word. I can press space to accept this word and go onto the next word or I can click on the "x" to close it and use the word I typed. For example "Syndey Gumtree" gets changed to "Sydney hunters".
I want to automatically upload files to a remote server when I make any changes in them using some editor. Is there some app which I can use for this purpose? I know that this kind of thing is available in Panic Coda, but I want to continue using my favorite editor instead of switching to Coda.
How can I open access to port 8080 from the outside world (private lan) on my Mac OS X Lion? I'd like to access a webpage that's running on my lamp stack on my mac (zend server ce) from within the lan. I can access port 80 just fine. Port 8080 is blocked on the other hand. I've also disabled the firewall.
So prior to iTunes 10.5.1 the album art viewer in the bottom left of iTunes always displayed arrows on either side of the bar to flip between multiple covers for that particular album. However this appears to have been removed in 10.5.1.
I have a Windows server that I want to backup all the Shares through a script automatically to my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6.8. There is no common folder all the shares are in, they are just mounted as \\SERVER\Share_Name. I want to be able to have a script that cycles through all the shares on a server (even if the folder names are unknown at the time the script is created), and create a backup on a local folder on my Mac. Or, if there's an easier way than a script, or drag-and-drop (that doesn't seem to always copy all the files)
My Mom's main computing device is now an iPad. It's been working great for several months, but I'm trying to do what I can to get her to make use of its full capabilities.
I sometimes see the iMac copying files from the PC wirelessly at a rate of 1.5MB/s and sometimes 2.5MB/s (by visually examining, because Mac doesn't seem to show what the speed is in the copy dialog). Is there a way to find out whether my iMac is connected to the wired PC through the wireless router using Wireless-G or Wireless-N? Can some app show and/or the terminal app show?
Ok, I have about 10 macs, each with a different username/password that acces a mac os x server raid. File on the server, Photoshop, illustrator and indesign is used and open by anyone, anytime of the day !
I've upgraded to iTunes 10.5.1, which the release notes claim includes the widely publicized iTunes Match feature, but I can't find any way to purchase and enable it. How do I enable iTunes Match?
So I am concerned if I can save data usage(I have only 200M per month on my account..) by using Siri at home(with a wifi connection)??
This may happen later with my iMac, but right now it is happening for my iTunes on PC. The PC had 60GB of partition to install Windows 7, and right now it is down to about 2GB of free space. All iTunes purchases, including Music and Movies, are downloaded to
Today I am out-of-office and have to use my iPhone's tethering abilities to get my MacBook Pro online. I have an online backup utility, CrashPlan, that immediately noticed that I had connectivity, and started backing up. Since the data plan on my phone does not include unlimited data (at least not without having to pay extra per MB at some point), I stopped it immediately. Is there a way for me to configure my MBP so that when I connect to the iPhone's WIFI hotspot, some applications are denied bandwidth, either built-in or through 3rd party applications?
Is there any plugin or other tool that I can use to upload my whole iPhoto Library to flickr? What do I need to do with that tool?
I have a backlog of all my favourite podcasts and i was wondering if I could speed up the rate at which they play to say 1.5 or 2.0 of the normal speed
How do I tab through buttons? If I use the tab key it will change the selection (blue background glow) however if I press enter, it will always choose the default option. See the screenshots for what I mean:
I have a Samsung UA46D8000, which is a really cool TV. It is plugged into my router and understands DNLA protocols. The TV is great, however the remote is unsuitable for selecting music. Here's what I'd like to do, however I don't know if it's possible. I'd like to be able to select music on my iPad (which has a fantastic user interface), and then that music is pushed to the TV (either from a separate server or directly from the iPad over wifi) Does anyone know how this can be done? Cheers Rich
I'm going to the USA, and I am planning to buy an Apple TV there for use it in Europe. Why I should do that?
Developer Information: Version: 4.2 (4D199) Location: /Developer Applications: Xcode: 4.2 (828) Instruments: 4.2 (4233) Dashcode: 3.0.2 (336) SDKs: Mac OS X: 10.6: (10K549) 10.7: (11C63) iPhone OS: 5.0: (9A334) iPhone Simulator: 4.3: (8H7) 5.0: (9A334)
I open Icon_Folder/, change its view to icon view, press ⌘ cmd + J and tick "Always open in icon view" — presto! it works.
My contract with AT&T is up for renewal. My wife has an iPhone 3G. I'd like to use my renewal to score her a free upgrade to a 3GS. She's on T-Moble and so needs to have her phone jailbroken and unlocked. I read that all new 3GS models are now bundled with iOS 5.
Hello everyone hope somebody could help me. I work in education and we have been getting large amounts of iPad 2s being bought by schools so I have been trying to automate their deployment for our enterprise network. I know they are not the greatest devices to manage on the network but I have been using the "iPhone Configuration Utility" which is a great tool for pushing out preconfigured profiles. The problem i am having is with the proxy setting on the wifi connection. The wifi network gets connected fine but the proxy settings do not port over to the device. I have tried manually editing the xml files as per the instructions on the web but the suggestions are from back in 2008 and do not work possibly due to a changed layout. All the devices are on iOS 5 and i am using the utility version 3.4.0.283 Also i wanted to add that the same thing happens when applying to an iPod touch, wifi ok but no proxy.
How do I use tmutil to figure out what is wrong with my Time Machine as it keeps backing up huge amounts of data each time it back-ups although nothing has changed since the last back up? I'm backing-up to a Drobo FS
I'm a bit pedantic over my library, in many ways. Clean album art, quality standards, tagging standards, etc. iTunes Match is a boon in many ways, but one problem concerns me. I'm not entirely sold on the concept of acoustical audio matching, and I know my file tags occasionally differ enough that some parsers can't match based off song information alone. That said, I've followed Jason Snell's instructions for a Match upgradable Smart Playlist, and I'm at the step where I'm about to delete all the files from my machine locally. But I'm terribly concerned that I may lose a file due to incorrect identification, tagging, or some other issue that I haven't even considered yet. Is it possible to preview the iTunes Match supplied version before I delete my local copy?
I am using the wifi at a library where they prevent me to connect to FTP servers for some reason. I need to upload my work. Is there any tool or trick to go around this?
When I turn off Send Read Receipts in iMessage, does that disable me from receiving read receipts from others as well? I have noticed that I only receive read receipts when I have the feature turned on.
I'm on Mac. I want to make it so that any new files/folders that get created within a specific folder have the same permissions (not group, that's already taken care of) as those of the parent directory. On Linux, I would normally use setfacl, but it looks like chmod on Mac might be able to do what I'm looking for. I've read through the man page for chmod but I still can't figure out how to properly format the command to get what I want.
Curious if there is an easy way to send a background email alert if a Time Machine backup fails (or continuously fails rather than just one time) I've found TM Error Logger however, it cannot run in the background, and also generates the email through the systems default mail client, which then needs to be manually sent. Ideally I'd like a solution that does this in the background without any input or action from the end user - so that I can be notified if their machines aren't backing up.
Yesterday I set up iTunes Match, and before the day was over it Matched and/or Uploaded all of the tracks in my library at the time. Just now I added a few more tracks and they're currently listed as 'Waiting'.
I often use Safari's Reading List functionality to save links to pdf documents from the arXiv. The URL for the particular paper -- and hence the title given in the Reading List -- is not very informative:
I know that there are some utilities which allows us to install iPhone apps to Simulator. But I found problems installing in this way when I have two Xcode versions installed on the system.
When copying links to stuff in iTunes or Mac App Store, I always get a countrycode-specific link. Is there any way to get a generic one? If not, will those links resolve to national-specific iTunes destinations when people from abroad click on it? E.g, might this lead to some other store except the Swedish one? http://itunes.apple.com/se/artist/nash-the-slash/id160526527
I have recently started using a Mac. I am used to Notepad2 for handy text editing. I am used to its keyboard shortcuts and options and would like to have something similar on Mac. I need something with shortcuts for: line deletion line duplication sorting lines alphabetical converting characters to unicode codes word wrapping I also need at least: code highlighting tag autocompletion regex What do you recommend?
There seems to be a lot of information about iTunes Match, but I couldn't find any that describes exactly how the algorithm works. Is it something as simple as comparing song names/artists, or is some kind of checksum done?
Under Snow Leopard, I had no problems with VNC connections from my Windows 7 64-bit PC to my Mac mini. However, after upgrading to Lion, my Mac mini no longer responds to mouse clicks when using any VNC client on my PC. Oddly, the local cursor is moving and the Mac also responds to keyboard events - I just can't click anything. I have enabled Screen Sharing/Remote Management and enabled VNC in System Preferences (obviously) and have checked Observe -> Control in the settings.
Throughout my library I'm seeing cases where some songs from a given album that I've imported from CD are matched by iTunes Match, while others — on the same album — are not recognized and are instead uploaded (at a lower bitrate):  What accounts for this difference in treatment of tracks from the same album? Is there anything I can do to acquire the high bitrate tracks?
I was wondering, is it safe to install Xcode 4.2 on top of Xcode 4.1 ? Will it break things like homebrew or other, that uses command line tools provided by Xcode ?
TextMate's QL generators are supposed to render QL views for files that TM recognizes, while TM is open. Out of the box, it only renders the basic ones (C, Perl, etc), but this article on Ciaran Walsh's Blog explains how to add other UTIs to the generator, to have them rendered properly. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Dynamic UTIs which are the only type I can find for HAML and YML files (dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80u2prru and dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81w5pq on my system) using PathFinder's ShowInfo command.
I want to change one of my keys on my keyboard to a Compose key so I can easily type common accents or characters, e.g.: Compose+e+' -> é.
In Leopard Server, via Server Admin, you were able to enable multiple partitions to be Time Machine Backup Destinations. In Lion Server, there seems to only be an option to have one Time Machine Backup location.
So now I'm left with two incomplete data sets. The Source probably has some files/folders which are already on the Destination, but not everything has been copied. Some of the folders may have been partially copied but not all of their subfolders, etc.
Why does it take so long for Software Update in OS X to tell me that I'm up to date? I'm currently running 10.7.2, but this has been the case for all versions of OS X I've run. I just performed a check, and it took three minutes to return.
How can I use the built in tool, Automator (rather than a 3rd party app), to create a simple keyboard macro? For example, I want it to press Cmd-Shift Left, then Cmd-U, then Right, etc. I tried using the record feature to create this macro, but ran into several problems.
ITunes tells me I cannot sync a smart playlist that references another playlist, but combining playlists is how I like to shuffle my music. I especially like creating individual playlists with "last played is not in the last" and "limit to" and then combining them. Do I need more cleverly designed rules, or is IMatch not for me? Advice? I have certainly been disappointed that smart playlists won't live update on the Iphone, but at least I could still combine playlists into "superplaylists." Imatch won't allow this, and by that I mean, these superplaylists sync to the Iphone through a direct sync (with IMatch turned off), but as soon as I turn Imatch on again, they disappear.
I apologize in advance if this question does not belong, but .. what software do you use for simple image manipulation on your mac? Tasks I am looking for to do, are no more complicated then: Re-size existing image to certain, specific size Create image with a certain size I am working on an iOS application and have found out that instead of worrying about how to re-size images, scale them etc .. i should just get images of the size i need (doh!) I am not looking for things like Photoshop, rather something much simpler (and free if possible) Thank you for your time.
Having checked through Stack Overflow I cannot find a suitable answer, so hope the community are able to help me. I am using a DNS tunneling program called iodine, on the Mac as a client device and am currently able to connect to the server correctly, create the tun0 device and ping the server as defined, via the tunnel.
Why is this happening? Has any one ever experienced anything like this before? Some windows stay dark on my external monitor and some come good after I let go of the cursor after dragging..
Is there a way to instruct an iOS 5 device to download from iTunes Match an entire playlist or an entire album, so that it will be available offline? Use case:
Preview or Acrobat can both print out individual pages of a PDF file, as a new PDF file containing only those pages, but I think Acrobat 10 probably can print out page 1, 10-12, and 5 -- in any order, while Preview can only print out the "selected page" and must be in ascending page number order. Preview can do that, but if using Acrobat 10, then going to File -> Print will actually trigger a "No printer is installed. Please install a printer first"... The thing is, I am really trying to print as a PDF file and there is no printer around... so is there a way to get past that dialog and print the pages as a PDF file?
Is it possible to jailbreak to 4.3.x a jailbreaked iphone 3g 4.2.1 (with a foreign locked sim)?
I need to buy a new laptop (Mac) for work and the top priority for me is having at least two displays. Unfortunately, due to budget limitations I cannot buy Apple Thunderbolt Displays. Now, and correct me if I’m wrong, the Apple Thunderbolt Display currently seems to be the only Thunderbolt display out there.
My home machine, where the bulk of my music library lives, is currently syncing itself up to iTunes Match. It's a big library and a long process, and the upstream on my cable modem is tragically slow, so it's taking it a couple days to fully do. I can see on my iPhone and my iPad the status of that, and can pull my music down to my devices from the cloud, and so far it's pretty great.
I logged into iCloud.com but there is no option to send an iMessage. Is it possible to send an iMessage through iCloud or any other website?
I recently updated my iPhone to IOS 5.0. I was syncing my iPhone calendar with my Yahoo Calendar using CalDav. After the upgrade the syncing stopped working. I tried deleting the calendar sync profile and re-adding it, but when I get to the step where it verifies the settings, it fails. What can I do to fix it?
I am installing a C++ library using the Installer application(its a .mpkg file) The installation is successful, but I cannot find the location of the library to set an environmental variable. I have checked the /private/var/log/install.log, but the destination folder is not listed. Is there another log I can check, or a way to determine the installation destination through the .mpkg? Thank you very much for your time, Adam
I upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and now I cannot play audiobooks correctly. When I transfer audiobooks to my phone using Overdrive they show up in the book section but are unable to play. I have to designate each file as Music to be able to play them, but then I am not able to listen to them in chapter format, nor am I able to play in double speed or use the 30 second fast forward button. I spend more time listening to books on my phone than anything else so this is a major digression in capability. Is there a fix to this?
After syncing my iPhone with iTunes, I now somehow have a "disabled" podcast episode: All of the text is grey and there's no artwork I can't play the episode even though it displays "19m left" I can't delete the episode (swiping to delete does nothing)
I recently turned Match on in iTunes, and it did its thing and matched/uploaded songs. I then turned it on in my iPhone and to my horror, the tags that I thought I had meticulously organized weren't quite so perfect... mostly due to the "Album Artist" tag.
I have a German Macbook Pro, but I dont really like the keyboard layout, I would like to replace about 15 keys to make it easier for typing. Is it possible to do so ? And where can I find the black cover of the key (Do I need to buy the white scissors below the black cover as well ???)
I bought a new gen iPod nano and filled it with my best songs. But when I connected it to my car's audio jack so the music would play through the speakers, all of the songs sounded flat and weak. I set the equalizer to what sounded best, but it still sounds awful. Sort of muffled and plain. What did iTunes or the iPod do to my songs that made them this way and how can I fix it?
I just moved to Idaho, and here everyone has the same area code (208 for the whole state). Unfortunately I still have my old phone number. So when someone texts or emails me a phone number they never include the area code. When I try to dial it with my iPhone I get an error from AT&T that I need to first dial the area code.
I use iPhoto to organize my photos, especially to order them. If I copy a whole album, for example the last holiday trip, to an usb stick, all images are transfered, but not in the order I created in iPhoto (obviously ^^). Is there a way to automatically rename the files so they match the ordering I created in iPhoto?
Even though I have selected the option "Always Open with" Quicktime Player for my .mp4 files. The changes never take effect and instead when I open a video, parallels desktop launches Windows Media Player. Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Greasemonkey is explained in this Wikipedia entry. I would like to add my own stylesheet to a particularly non-mobile-friendly website. Is there any way to accomplish this? Are there any browser apps that can do it?
Can I screen share with a computer that has no monitor? My computer is OS 10.6.8.
I share an iTunes library on another computer in my house. If I uncheck songs so they don't play when I shuffle, the next time I share that library the songs are checked again. No one else re-checked them. How do I keep them unchecked?
There are situations where (for example to free up storage) on an iOS device with iTunes Match enabled, it would be nice to be able to remove songs on the device, based on certain attributes. For example, it would be convenient to be able to remove all songs one has given low ratings. Match makes the first part of this easy: it is a simple matter to set up a smart playlist that is synced through iCloud to the iOS device; but it appears that (while it is possible to download missing songs from within a playlist) it is not possible to remove them. Is this in fact the case? Is there no way to remove songs from a device from within a playlist?
I have this problem happening on a new 2011 Macbook Air with the latest version of Lion. When viewing emails, the text is coming through as odd characters that look like a capital A in a box (see image below). If I click Reply, and then convert the message to plain text, the entire text of the email displays fine. But in the message list, preview pane, and full message view, I get the odd characters any time I'm display rich text. I've verified that my Mail.app is up to date, and in the Fonts & Colors preferences, the message font is set to 12pt Helvetica.
Is it possible to downgrade from Mac OS X 10.7.2 to 10.7.1 without deleting all files? I want to do this because of this: https://superuser.com/questions/349740/mac-os-x-lion-10-7-2-update-breaks-ssl
There is a very limited set of Alert sounds in Sounds > New Mail > Alert Tones. Is there a way to add other sounds to this list? I would like something sort and subtle, not something that goes on for 2-3 seconds.
After updating my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.0.1 from 4.3 on Sunday Evening, and letting it finish syncing, I tried playing my music in the morning. I thought it was great that it held the last song I was playing, but it never actually played it. I hit Play, the play logo appears on the status bar. The Pause button switches back to Play on the iPod Controls screen. I can hit Next or Previous, and it does the same thing. One about 1 out of every 20 songs, it will play a song, although all the tags are matched up to a different song.
I'd would like to add some ripped DVDs to my iPad from both my work and home computers. Is this possible? Ideally I'd like to watch them using the Videos app that comes with the iPad but I'd be fine buying another app if it's necessary. thanks!
I have a drive which has a folder full of MP3s on it. At one point, I added all of these MP3s to my iTunes Library; sometime after that, my folder turned into a Unix executable file.
I am currently running iTunes 10.5.1 on a Windows 7 Home PC and when I plug my iPhone 4S into my computer via the USB cable it freezes. iTunes in Task Manager shows up as not responding and after a few minutes it displays the following error:
I have a mid 2010 Mac mini 2.4GHz with 2GB of RAM. I want to upgrade the RAM to 8GB. Willing to buy this RAM: *=URL=* Will it work with my 2010 Core 2 Duo Mac mini?
On my Snow Leopard Mac, I can't seem to paste into a password field on login pages to Apple sites, (developer.apple.com for example). I thought is was a browser issue but it's happening with Safari, Chrome and Firefox so it must be the System. I assume this is somebody's idea of a security feature, though I fail to see the logic and it's very annoying. Any ideas on how to fix, turn off or work-around this?
I'm considering to replace my existing windows based server on my small business (< 10 employees) with a mac mini server with Lion Server installed. But after a look at the App Store, I noticed a lot of 1-star reviews labeling this OS as "a toy", "unstable", "downgrade with respect to Leopard Server" and so on. My usage for this would be essentially for e-mail management (but using Kerio to have exchange support), calendar, internal web site (web apps), account management, some centralized apps (to be accessed using VNC), iOS based devices management, Windows virtualization to support legacy apps (essentially for accounting), VPN. I'm not asking for a complete review of this OS, this is not a right place, bust just a short comment from the users in the community that had the change to work with this new OS.
I am using an external 2.5" hard drive (the original MacBook HD, which has been replaced by an SSD) in an Icy Box USB3 enclosure on my MacBook (running OSX Lion). When the MacBook goes to sleep, the activity led of the external hard disk gets on and you can hear a humming sound through the enclosure. This means there is some constant hard drive activity going on if the notebook is at sleep, which I find rather strange.
I've had my 15" 2011 MacBook Pro for about 6 months now, and I picked up a VGA adapter for it a few weeks ago. (Thunderbolt -> VGA) I have the laptop in clamshell mode running an Acer monitor, and will occassionally (every 5 minutes or so) experience a weird flickering, as seen in the first few seconds of this video: YouTube Link (Not my video) I see the weird flickering/distortion, but it doesn't last nearly as long as shown in the video, it's maybe 0.25 seconds of "shaking", then back to normal for another 5 minutes. I experience this issue with multiple different VGA adapters, so I'm convinced it's a GPU/port issue. I've installed all the EFI/SMC/Thunderbolt updates available in Software Update, but I've heard that there was a separate firmware update being passed around the Apple Discussion forums, but not released publicly.
The marketing team where I work is looking for an application that would allow their team to categorize and sort a slew of images and have them be read/write for the whole team. My understanding of the request is that they're looking for iPhoto or Adobe Bridge on a commercial level. The database and images would need to be accessible from multiple people, on multiple machines; preferably stored on a Windows file share. The number of people using the application could range from 5-50 people depending on how widely the solution gets adopted.
I already own my developer programmer account for which I paid the $99 per annum. I understand that it allows me to develop and test on the device(s) and to submit applications to the Store. However, I wonder if there is another associated cost on the submission of the application, and per application. I am also aware that the process could be rather long, so I am also asking, if, for any reason the application is rejected, are there any fees or cost related to re-submission. Thanks.
Which is the best OS X "TO DO"-app that I can sync my Android device with?
I was wondering if there was any software out there that could record mouse/keyboard input and allow you to play back the input that was made? I've tried using Automator but for some reason it's not picking up all my input and when I play it back it does the wrong thing and gets into a mess. I've also tried using Systems Events in AppleScript but I can't get the "click" command to work at all. Thanks!
I recently ran Software Update and installed "Update 1" for Java for Lion. Unfortunately this broke about the only thing I use Java for - a webcam applet to check conditions at a ski area. The applet hangs Safari until I close the tab and force quit the process, and in Chrome it simply displays the Java Applet loading screen with no progress. So, the questions: How can I remove this update?
I'm on OSX Lion and this is driving me crazy. Whenever i watch a video in quicktime and close it, then open another video, the previous video that i played also comes up. Is there a way to not have the previous video(s) come up when opening quicktime besides closing out the windows, then quitting, everytime?
I've been looking for a way to lock the mouse to one monitor in a dual, or more, display setup. [Edit:] The application that I am programming will be run in full-screen mode only, at all times. This means that it doesn't matter whether the mouse restriction is to the game window itself, or just on one monitor regardless of the applications being run. [ /Edit] I'm programming in flash, and I know that until 11.2 comes out, it can't be done in flash, so I have to find some way to do it on the Mac OS itself, 3rd party software, or through hardware. I'm looking for any and all suggestions on how to accomplish this by ANY means, or alternative solutions to Flash if it can't be done. I've found 3rd party software on Windows 7 that allows me to do this, however I could not find one with Mac support. Background info: Using flash with Adobe AIR Application going on a Mac Mini Application is a game, one monitor shows the game, the other monitor has a separate application running The two apps are
I am getting an iPad and my mate has an iPad as well. We have a bit of a band and want to know if it's possible to 'sync' 2 iPads together to use music making apps that will play at the same tempo and be on beat with each other?
On the family's iMac my wife and daughter have separate user accounts, each with their own iPhoto library. My wife has asked me to consolidate both libraries into a single library for convenience.
I have a IPSec/L2TP (PSK) VPN I'm connecting to with OSX's built in client through the System Preferences > Network (in Lion/10.7.2). The VPN gives me an IP of 10.0.1/24, but I need to access servers within the whole 10/8 and 172.16/16 range. By default the VPN will only route over 10.0.1/24, and if I want to access the other networks I need to select the "Send all traffic over VPN connection" checkbox. Is there an easy/sane way to specify the exact network ranges to route via the VPN so I don't have to send all my other traffic over it, and end up with problems like their firewall blocking google?
Thanks to the tip here, I was able to make a smart playlist containing all the DRM encumbered music in my iTunes library. I remember in the past there was an offer from iTunes Plus that lets you pay a fee to "upgrade" your DRM'ed songs to unprotected ones.
I have an iPhone that is already synced with my iMac, but I am away on leave and am using a Windows 7 computer. I need to send the contacts I've created on my iPhone to my Gmail account online, because I am going to update my iPhone's operating system and want to be sure I do not lose the contacts on my phone. I know I will probably lose my music, but that's okay.
How does one go about scheduling "settings" to change on applications given certain criteria? For e.g., I am using Adium, and between the hours of 8am and 5pm, I would like that status to set to "Available", and outside of these hours go "Invisible" or "Away".
I've had my iPhone 4 for about 3 months and when I connected it to my computer today I was prompted to update the iOS, so I did. But somehow I didn't realise that it meant I was going to need some kind of password once the update had been downloaded etc... having failed to remember it after a few attempts I simply left iTunes to get some troubleshooting advice. When I got back it seems that the password prompt had disappeared and my phone seems to be back to its original settings. How can I restore the data that was on the phone?
Looking for info from mac users who stream audio from imac to a stereo in the home. after a bit of research, I have narrowd my choices down to Soundfreaq SFQ-1 (bluetooth) or the Pioneer X-SMC3-S Music Tap AirPlay Music System (airplay) Can anyone tell me the difference between airplay and bluetooth for streaming audio (only about 10 feet).
The install USB booted fine. But the install failed. It could not even start. I got the message like: Install failed. Restart Installation.
I'm trying to delete a file, but I get a message from Trash saying: "The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified."  What does that mean and how can I delete it?
After accidentally pressing some wrong keys, it seems my Preview window is stuck in 'Always on Top' mode. I can't figure out how to undo this. Is anyone aware of what might have happened?
Is there any way that I can download apps that I removed last week? (I can't remember the names of them)
I use the program No Machine to open up remote desktops to my development servers. I choose No Machine because the client software reportedly runs on Windows/Linux/Mac, but I am having trouble with the Mac client.
I'm a huge user of Taglocity on Windows (Outlook 2010). Being a recent convert to a Mac, I'm very interested in using the Outlook app from Mac Office 2011. However, I can't get by without some at least basic functionality that I depend on from Talocity, which is Windows-only. The most important feature is the ability to automatically keyword tag emails as they are sent and received and to have those tags follow emails that are subsequently sent/received in that thread. Workflow is typically something like this --
Is it possible to exclude a specific mailbox from the "Inbox" view in Mail.app? I got 3 mailboxes in mail.app, 2 of them are mail accounts for normal mail communication, 1 is used for receiving mails from senders which sometimes send to much mail (newsletters etc.). The problem that occurs is that all the newsletter mails show up in the "Inbox" view preventing me to see the mails from the other mailboxes.
I'm trying to get iCloud on my PC to sync its bookmarks with Safari, not Internet Explorer. According to Apple's documentation, it is possible to sync iCloud bookmarks to Safari on Windows:
I'm trying to find a way to receive notifications on my iPhone when certain people email me to my gmail account. I don't want to use SMS. Is it possible to configure iMessage to receive emails?
I would like to create a "Mail Service" with Mac Automator to create a New Message that automagically fills the body with the content of ascii file ~/Documents/MailBody.txt I can select the file with "Find Finder Items", but not sure how to get its content to pass it as input to "New Mail Message". Note I want to add the content of the file to the body, not to attach the file itself. Thanks a lot in advance.
I have a windows 7 system and would like to watch one of Apple's keynotes. I have downloaded Quicktime player version 7.0 and it automatically starts as soon as I click on the video. But after starting nothing seems to be happening. I just see a Quicktime loading screen and that is it. No video seen. I have problems playing any Quicktime video for that matter especially from the Apple website. What could be going wrong and how to fix?
I have an External 1TB hard drive that has been corrupted, it was so corrupt that I had to abandon the files on it. So now I'm simply trying to erase it so I can begin using it again. But here's the problem; the External HD will show up in Disk Utility but it wont mount the (FAT32) partition. And even when I try to reformat the drive it simply won't do it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to fix this for I don't know how long.
What does it mean to sync apps to iPhone? I don't understand exactly what this does, or why I'd want to turn it on. What are the advantages/disadvantages of enabling "Sync Apps" in iTunes to my iPhone?
iTunes Match has worked well, so far, except the process seems stuck on the last song. I have more than one song 'waiting', so I can't tell which song this is stuck on:
Is there an app that acts like windows-based unzipper? I don't want my unarchiver unzip when I click a zipped file. I rather want to right click then click 'unzip' or something similar.
The title pretty much says it all. I have a 13" version of the newest-generation MBA. Can I get 5.1 surround sound? If so, do I have to do anything special to enable it?
I'm using Windows 7 with Parallels Desktop. When I open an instance of Windows 7, I see the 'Device' menu. I can choose which OS (Windows or OS X) can own a device within the menu.
If I try to download a game from the AppStore from an iPhone 3G, and the game says in the requirements that it only supports 3GS+, will the AppStore immediately disallow me the download or will it let me download nonetheless?
I recently switched to Mail.app from Outlook 2011 and have been importing some of my archive messages. The problem is that for many of the messages, Mail.app seems to think they are duplicates so it only shows one of them. However they are NOT duplicates, they are not even close. All the messages are there, I can search in spotlight for them, however if i want to scroll through a folder they will not show up. I can see certain messages have a '8 Duplicates' or similar written on the top right corner, and when you click that all the messages show, but it is only temproary, as soon as you move to a different folder and then come back all the messages are hidden again.
I am quite confused about the iTunes sync process. What I expect to happen is that whenever I add any new songs to iTunes, it should only sync those songs. I do not want to wait for the entire music library to be synced again. (Doesn't this also create duplicates?)
What is this? Why can't I copy/delete files onto this partition from Ubuntu? It worked the last time I created such a partition. This partition has journaling disabled.
CMOS battery in my MacBook Pro (2007, pre-unibody) has died recently. I am looking for a replacement, although all I could find so far was only used batteries off ebay. It says following on the battery's shrink wrap: Under the shrink wrap it says:
Homebrew is a useful tool to install UNIX tools. What are useful things to do with homebrew? What tools can you recommend?
I need to compile simple *.cpp files with a GNU compiler of at least version 4.3.1. As I understand, Apple's Xcode does not install standard GNU compilers but a modified version suited to Apple's needs: gives me also referred to as What is a simple way to install and safe method to use a newer C++ compiler in Mac OS?
The display on my iPhone 3GS keeps randomly fading in colour. Sometimes unlocking the screen is normal, sometimes faded its still visible but much paler than normal. If I lock and unlock the screen several times it usually clears it but then after a period of non use its back to pale when I unlock, or not, as the case may be
Spotlight has an operator, -label, that lets you search for files with a certain color label applied (e.g. Red, Green.) A dropdown auto-populates with label colors when you type the operator into a Finder window find box.
I have a 24" iMac and have used Boot Camp to install Vista on a 100GB partition of the hard drive. Can I install Parallels Desktop as well so it will be easier to switch between Mac and Windows?
Having reinstalled a clean Snow Leopard. Is there a way to access the old keychain - I still have the old time machine backup - and copy all the wifi account information to my new keychain?
I have a jar file containing a swing application that needs to run on Windows, OS X and Linux. At the moment, Windows users are launching it from explorer, and Linux/OS X users are running a shell script to launch the jar. However, I suspect the shell script is probably not necessary in OS X. I don't own an OS X machine myself, but Wikipedia says that Jar Launcher will run the jar file when it's double clicked. Is it reasonable to assume this is always present on an OS X system with 10.5 or above?
So far I can only delete pictures from iPhoto. How can I delete a picture from my Photos app on iPad?
On the iTunes Store, you can gift people music, apps, etc. by clicking on the down arrow next to the buy button and choosing Gift This .... That option, however, is not available on books in the iBookstore:
I'd like my email from my phone to look like the email from my MS Outlook. The email from my phone looks like ASCII, and there is no way to create a signature with a logo as far as I know. Any suggestions?
I've been using mamp for a while now and everything has been working great. Then today I go to start it up and mamp alert tells me that apache is already running on that port and to pick another one. So without starting mamp, I type in local host in the web browser - my usual way to get to the sites that I'm developing - and a page pops up and it reads IT WORKS!, which tells me that I have an index.php file somewhere on my computer that echos It works!. But mamp is not running and I can't find this stupid it works file anywhere. Is there any way to diagnose this and perhaps kill this apache server so that I can start mamp back up without switching my ports?
A kid down the road asked me to update his iPod Touch from IOS v3.1.3 to v4.2.1. I was doing this on my Windows 7 with itunes. This was a fresh install of itunes. I connected the device and the first thing i did was right click & back up. It took a while because he had filled all 7Gb of the device. Sure enough, I could tell that the music was now listed in my itunes library.
I recently got an iPad 2 wifi only and my boyfriend just got the new iPhone 4s but if I try and FaceTime him it just rings out. I know that he only has 3G at home, is this why? And how can he FaceTime me when I have no number on my iPad? Really confused please help!
Looking at the album index in the Photo app, it seems that the photo used as the album cover is picked randomly. Is it possible to change the picture that is used as the album cover?
Is this possible? I have emails stored on my iPhone that are no longer accessible anywhere else, and I'd like to copy them out. I could forward them through a different account, but there are hundreds, so I'm looking for a shortcut. I'm more than happy using the command line and playing with SQLite DBs that I know Apple use for some things on there, I just don't have much experience with the file structure on the iPhone.
A 13-inch MacBook Pro costs £999 in the UK, compared to $1,199 (about £760) in the US. For this reason (I guess), brand new US models cost about £850 on UK eBay. The obvious downside is the keyboard layout is US, not UK.
Yesterday my macbook pro (running 10.6.8) refused to reboot, and after booting it using the install disk and running disk utility I got Invalid catalog PEOF. The volume could not be verified completely. So, from the looks of it, I may have to reinstall the OS: Is there anything else I can try? If not, how can I access the disk and try and save some data before formatting (if at all)?
I'm trying to figure out what is using all of the memory in my Macbook Pro running OS X Lion. I have 8 GB of memory total. When I quit all active programs except Finder and Activity Monitor, then run a memory cleanup (FreeMemory) it shows about 5 GB of Free Memory, 1 GB of Active Memory, and 1.5 of Wired memory. Support docs say Wired Memory is full of stuff that "can't be moved to disk". What is taking up all of that memory? Is it the menubar processes? I have mozy, last.fm, dropbox, and growl running in the menubar but they all appear in Activity Manager and don't appear to be using a significant amount of memory. I also run Parallels but it is shut down completely so I thought all of it's stuff should be written to disk. Is it just Mac OS X using a reserved chunk of memory and labeling it "Wired"?
I see a free application in the App Store but the reviews say it doesn't work. I have a Snow Leopard MacBook that I hook up to my TV to watch videos sometimes. To control the video and volume, it'd be nice if I could do this from my iPhone. How could this setup be done?
On my iPad smart cover (It's one of the polyurethane ones) there seem to be some spots of what looks like grease, it could be some sort of food grease or skin oil. What would be the best way to clean the cover without damaging it? I was thinking just a damp paper towel would be best, but I want to see what would be best before I tried.
I've edited every single php.ini on my Mac (at least all the ones found by "locate") and still can't seem to increase the memory_limit directive for PHP. I'm using MAMP PRO and running PHP scripts in the terminal. How to solve this?
My wife is to face a 2h flight with our very active daughter and would like to prepare some distractions. Specifically we are looking for very simple, entertaining games a toddler can handle. We already have "Memory" and she really enjoys it.
I am trying to view a video in safari and it says there is a plugin missing. The message I get is:
I have an iPhone, iMac, Macbook Air and a girlfriend. So far, so good. I have multiple Google Calendars that sync perfectly to my iDevices.
Is it possible to add an additional HDD or a SSD to a 2011 mac-mini (no the server edition) in addition to the 500GB HDD that comes with the computer? If so, are additional parts required? Are these parts readily available?
I'm trying to save the output of a command in a variable, i.e: Run Shell Script Set Value of Variable This has suddenly stopped working because the output from the shell script is no longer plain text: )
I have seen a lot of people asking about what carrier to use and what features they have. Also people have asked about Visual Voicemail, which confusingly is not available on some networks, although Apple highlight it as one of the iPhone features, without mentioning it is not available to all carriers. Source Also I have had many people ask about using a Personal Hotspot or unlocking the iPhone. Where can all this information be found?
I've been developing web apps for several months now on my mac using the built in apache server and everything has been fine. I restarted my mac this morning and now when I try to connect to anything on localhost I get the error: "Could not connect to localhost". Here are some things I have already checked:
I've just started using Pixelmator 2.0, and I love it. It's a beautiful alternative to clunky and overbearing Adobe products, but I can't seem to find some very simple key features that I'm sure (read: hope) must exist. Center Horizontally/Vertically in Background Inner Shadows Transform Tool (I know that CMD+F brings up a transform mode, but is there a tool that can be docked in the toolbar?) Aside from the latter, which is a UI preference of mine, these features seem (to me at least) to be pretty critical in a full-bodied image editor. EDIT: If these things are stock-and-standard features, has anyone out there found at least a workaround for them?
Is there any application to boost the bass levels in all audio output? I started searching for it because I have a HTC Wildfire phone and loaded Cyanogenmod onto it. In that I have got an application named "DSP Manager" which can dramatically increase bass levels. I thought it would be very nice if I could get something similar for my MacBook Pro.
My system is kept fully up to date and I still see this problem intermittently, although not as often as I used to; I would say that this has not been fully fixed. If there are any workarounds other than rebooting, this would be a good place to collect them. This has previously been closed and re-opened due to demand.
I notice that within my xcode project I see an icon\r file. When I go to the folder where the project is from finder, I dont see this file. I believe this is some sort of hidden file that I should not be able to see. However, xcode see this file and its causing some error on my project when I try to archive it. The following is the error that I got:
When using Terminal.app, you can clear the screen by using the shell builtin clear or by pressing ^+L (Control-L). However, all this does is push the current screen content back one screen height and reset the cursor/input at the first line. Meaning you can still scroll back and see it. What you are also able to do, is reset your entire scrollback by pressing ⌘+K (Command-K). After you've done this, you cannot scroll back at all. In certain situations (notably, before running screen or vim), I'd like to reset the scroll back before the command actually executes.
Is it possible to gift apps to another iTunes account ? I want to accomplish the following: Select payed application → Gift to friend → Payment of app → Send to friend → Friend can download it as a gift (for free)
My Favourites sidebar has gone in All My Files in Finder:  There is a thing which you can pull out from the side like this:
I plan on purchasing 3 iPod Touches and I have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 1. Can these devices all participate in Home Sharing from iTunes (on Windows) in an ad-hoc wifi network?
When I receive a push notification no sound is played when the sound is switched of on the device (with switch on side of iPhone). When I add an alarm event in the iOS clock I do hear the sound although sound is switched off. Can I force to play sound with Push notifications when sound is switched off? everybody thanks for the response (this was a programming question) with regards, Frank PS I don't know what is meant by fixing up my accept rate but I'll have a look into that...
The older method of: doesn't work because /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist can't be found. From what I gather, OSX Lion doesn't use this method anymore. How can I create a new user solely from the Terminal?
A colleague of mine gave me a MacBook Pro that a friend of her has asked for help with. The MBP is installed with Lion, 10.7.2, but unfortunately the previous owner, the father in the family, died, so I don't have any of the passwords necessary for his App Store account. I can run the reinstall program from the recovery partition, but of course this wants to activate with App Store with his account. They are currently waiting for his email accounts to be opened up, and until that happens, requesting a new password from Apple won't do much good either.
Like most of you I have a very large iTunes Library with a lot of video content; I was wondering if it is possible to save the video content in compressed form(since space is always an issue) but still keep your contents available in you iTunes Library; preferably iTunes does the archiving & unarchiving automatically. I know that having to unarchive a movie before watching it must sound a bit tedious but considering that a lot of time might pass between watches I think it is worth it.
Is this possible? I went into settings and turned off "fetch new data", but if I send a message from an account, the durn thing still downloads all my mail in that account. I don't want it to do that. In other words, I want the email on my iPad to be write only.
Christmas is coming up, and I'm currently living in a country (UK) that's a completely different iTunes store from my family (US). So I'm wondering if I can gift things in the iTunes store if I'm in a different country than the recipient. If I gift something from the UK store, can someone in the US download the items? I'm not even sure if there's a way for me to go to the US version, let alone try to gift an item from there.
A few minutes ago I was listening to music on my iPhone and the music faded out and then the notification sound played but no notifcation showed. (it has done this about 10-15 times now) Does anyone know what could possibly be wrong with my iPhone? I have an iPhone 3GS running on iOS 5.0.1.
I'm in a situation where I purchased a new iMac and need to install my editing software (Final Cut Pro and After Effects). Only thing is I have FCP 6 (Studio 2) and also FCP 7 (Studio 2) upgrade install DVDs and Lion won't install FCP 6 because it containts PPC code. I'd like to either: install Snow Leopard on this computer, but I'm not sure if I need certain firmware drivers (anyone know where to get them and create a brand new Snow Leopard install DVD?) or, at the very least, I would like to be able to install my video software on Lion.
I’ve been trying to set up Lion Server on a Mac Pro with it acting as the router/gateway/firewall/DNS/NAT and DHCP. I’ve been trying to setup an internal-only network named mycompany.something. After having a lot of problems with that I switched to using mycompany.private (as recommended in Mac OS X Lion Server for Dummies). When I was using mycompany.private and I turned on DHCP for the 192.168.2.x side of things it would distribute addresses and machines behind the server could get to the outside world. I then noticed that every time I went back to the DHCP settings Subnets panel in Server Admin the subnets were either gone or different. Looking at the logs it became apparent that the DHCP server was basically losing the settings file (which I assume is created/altered via Server Admin) and was putting a default one in its place. Any idea what causes this to happen and how I can cajole the DHCP server into retaining my settings?
Is there a tool (preferably free) in OS X that will allow me to verify that an ISO was written to a CD or DVD correctly? I want a tool that can do that without going through the burn first. If there's a tool that can be used from the command line, that's fine too.
I have been adding a lot of movies to iTunes lately. Problem is, the size grows very quickly. I appreciate having the metadata in one place, but I would want to move the actual files to an external drive. Preferably, I'd be able to have unwatched movies on the main drive and move them to external drive once they have been watched. The link to iTunes must be kept, and metadata kept, as is.
I'm looking for a way to automatically run a shell script or command every time interval. I'm running a server and I want to backup some folders every day. I don't want to use time machine because the backups need to be just the raw data.
Is there a command that can tell the label status (labels as applied in the info menu in the finder cmd+i) of an item from the command-line in OS X? Essentially, I just want to list all the items with or without labels in the current directory, but I can't find any way to pull them appart.
LibreOffice for mac - by default - starts with a welcome screen. While this might be useful to some, it also results in resume not working in Lion (I assume). No previous documents are being opened. Can I deactivate this welcome screen? Thank you for any help!
I need to insert radio buttons on a Numbers spreadsheet. I tried importing an Excel document with form radio buttons, but it did not pull through. Advice would be appreciated.
I was facing the issue outlined on this Apple discussion thread, where I had duplicates of every contact on my iPhone -- one in iCloud, and one "Unknown". The thread presents a working solution on how to remove all "Unknown" contacts.
I can send files using the built-in Bluetooth File Exchange on OSX Lion just fine, except it requires me to put my phone in a discoverable state. However, since this is an Android phone, it stops being discoverable after 120 seconds. In addition, I have a nice Bluetooth toggle on my home screen but I can't get one for BT and discoverable. The Phone is paired with my MacBook, so I was wondering if somehow I could bypass the discoverable requirement for previously paired bluetooth devices.
When I turn on the Mac firewall I get prompted to allow the MS office apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) to accept incoming connections. Why is this, and is it safe to allow it ? I'm running Mac OS 10.7.2
How can I upgrade my ipod from version 1.1.5 (4B1), to a iOS5 on a 8gb pod?? I have no problem paying the $$ to have it upgraded.
For some reason, my Applications folder is using the Address book icon in the Dock. How do I change this back to the correct icon. I am using Mac 10.7.2 (although the problem has been there since 10.6).
I'm attempting to import an mp3 into garageband for some basic editing. I used the media browser to locate the file and then I 'dragged and dropped' main area ('drag apple loops here!')- a quick message appears to say it's importing. However, when the message disappears there is a new track but no music. I checked the whole track to make sure it wasn't sitting at either end and I couldn't see it but alas that shed no light as to where the 'imported' track had vanished to. I've attached an image - although I'm not really sure how much use it's going to be. Facts: Running Mac OS X 10.7.2, Garageband '11 v 6.0
"The Device "#### iPad 1" could not be updated. This device isn't eligible for the latest build." Help...
When pushing a key for a long time, you expect to print a lot of times the same char. Instead of that, I now have a popup suggesting all accentuated chars. How to disable that and come back to a classic keybaord function?
Recently, my iPad 2 was stolen. It was protected by a lock screen passcode. Can the person who stole it access my data even if they don't know the passcode?
I want to free some space on my SSD. Is there a way to move the Developer folder from my root drive to another one without breaking anything?
I had borrowed a USB modem which I used briefly with my Snow Leopard MacBook, and while setting it I had told System Preferences to show modem status in menubar. Now I have removed the modem services, but after doing so I have realized that I cannot remove the modem icon from menubar anymore. Is there a way to do so, short of finding and reinstalling (and uninstalling) another modem?
I use Macbook Air and Lion. I use Time Machine to back up on my Drobo FS. All seems to be ok until I use Parallels. The Time Machine seems to take my virtual machine as one file so every time I open it Time machine wants to back up the WHOLE virtual machine although I maybe have changed only a word in a file. This leads to huge back ups of 20-30 G. Is there anything I can do about this unnecessary backup? Or is there any way I can tell the Time Machine not to back up my Windows files? Can I use tmutil and in that case how? Camilla
I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with a serious permissions issue that affects most items in my Documents folder, which now require my password for modifications like renaming. The concerned files and folders also seem hidden from Spotlight and therefore do not show up in searches. Both issues are seriously problematic for everyday use. This is what ls -l gives me for folders:
Is there any way to switch off the GPS on an iPhone 4, so that the location tracker application can use GSM instead (this is only to save my battery)?
This is a followup, but not a duplicate, of my first question: Reinstalling a MacBook Pro w/Lion (10.7.2), when previous owner died, can it be done? What do I need?
I'm in the process of setting up my Mac Mini with Lion server. Everything appears to be working fine on the server, but I'm having problems logging into any open directory account that has a network share set as the home folder. If I change the users home folder to just a local folder, I can log in fine. I've confirmed my client is correctly connected to the directory server, because if I enter the password incorrectly, I get the password incorrect error.
Apple has decided to exclude iDVD from Lion, and I haven't found an easy way to make a DVD that can be played on my DVD player created in iMovie. I found this question
I want to manage where my home, work etc is for the reminders app. Where can I do that?
tl;dr How can I tell iTunes to not back up my old iPhone 3GS when I plug it into iTunes I have an iPhone 4S, and an old 3GS I'm using as an iPod touch. I asked the salesperson at the apple store whether having my old iPhone backing up in iTunes would cause problems, since iTunes only stores one backup. She said probably, and that I should set iTunes to stop backing up my old phone when I plug it in to sync. a) Is this correct, that a backup of my old 3GS will overwrite my last backup of my new 4S? b) Is there a way to turn backups off for a specific device (short of just remembering to click the X when the backup starts)?
Can I connect standard Dell monitors to a Thunderbolt iMac? I think the Dell monitors are VGA with DVI-D ports.
I have an iPhone and two Macs -- an old Mac I've been using to manage what's on the phone, and a new one that I've never connected to the phone. Now I'd like to use the new Mac to buy a couple apps and add them to my phone. (The old machine isn't available right now.) I don't want to connect my phone to the new machine and have it sync and wipe out the apps and the music that are already on there. Is there any way to keep what I already have and add some more items using the new Mac? (The reason I don't just use iTunes on the phone itself is that something I want to get is so large that the phone refuses to download it over the cellular network.)
I've found that Lion's autocorrect handles technical terminology abysmally. Are there any configuration tweaks that adjust its behavior around words that might represent technical terms?
These days when I try to SSH to my server I get this error: I used to SSH to that server for about 2 years. What happened to my OS (OS X lion) this week that caused this problem? log file for : ssh -vvv user@X.X.X.X
I have been looking for a few weeks for a workaround to get iCal on Snow leopard to sync with iOS 5 devices with iCloud. Is there a work around that will allow syncing as I cannot upgrade to OSX Lion?
I want to be able to move really large video files (think 60 - 90 GB) between Macs in different cities on a closed network. I'd like to be able to go point to point, so no single-server or cloud-based solutions. Because the pipe between locations isn't huge, the files may take hours to transfer. I want a solution that won't just stop if there is an intermittent network error, or even an unexpected reboot. The interface should also be simple; something like a folder for each destination that a user can drag and drop to. Nice to have would be the ability to monitor and pause a delivery on the receiving end, so if two transfers get started at the same time you don't have to wait forever for either to finish.
I have a spreadsheet of open projects with payments for each milestone. Right now I set a cell to red if the client still owes, green if the client paid, and no fill if we havent reached the milestone yet. What I would like to do is get a sum on all red cells and another sum on all green cells. My hope is to make it easy to see how much money has been paid and how much is owed.
Today i started my macbook pro and after some seconds it stopped working (just turned). I was not able to start it again. After some apple support search I found a page that described how to reset the SMC. After that the notebook startet. Then I switched it of again and tried to start it again but it did not start.
I'm using Chrome on a daily basis or to be exact, latest-builds of Chromium. I recently uninstalled Flash, in order to increase battery life on my MBP and in general rid my laptop of the evil Flash imply.
I have a 2TB external USB drive that I'm using to share things in my home network. Now the drive is connected to my Mac Mini, that is supposed to act like a file server. Currently the drive is partitioned using NTFS (via Tuxera NTFS) because I wanted to be able to bring it with me when I visit some friends with PCs using Windows ;) The biggest problem is that I discovered that Lion is no longer able to share NTFS, FAT or exFAT drives because Apple replaced samba with their own implementation. In the future I plan to buy a new router that will be able to share the drive. Now, what partition type and setup should I use in order to minimise portability issues between OS X, Windows and Linux(Ubuntu)? NTFS - so far not able to share it from Lion but I can r/w on all platforms if I connect it directly HFS+ ext3 ext4 exFAT FAT32 is not an option, I want to be able to deal with big files 4GB+ (Optional) It would also be great if you could tell me which inexpensive router can be used to share a
One option would be to configure it properly to access my email accounts, but I specifically don't want it messing around with my email. I definitely don't want it downloading tons of email onto my hard drive. I could just delete the app altogether, but I sort of want to keep it around in case I feel like using it at some point. Is there a way to get it to just sit there and not do anything at all, ever?
The thumbnails themselves are not corrupted; they are generated correctly. Deleting the thumbnails and the cache and having iMovie rebuild them does not help. They are simply not being displayed. Even if I ask iMovie to go ahead and transcode the five smaller files, it refuses to; it copies them over as-is. Even if I ask iMovie to NOT transcode the larger file, it refuses not to; it always transcodes it anyway. I've seen recommendations to use several different "iMovie converter" apps, but they all seem like scammy crapware. So what I need is one of the following four things, ordered from most to least preferable: A way to make iMovie display video thumbnails when mixing h.264 and AIC video in the same event A way to make iMovie directly import the larger .m4v h.264 file that it currently insists on transcoding A way to make iMovie transcode h.264 video even when it can import it directly A good, decent, usable, reliable, non-scammy third-party app that I can use to transcode (as many 
I have an iPad, an old iPhone 3GS and a new iPhone 4S. When someone sends an iMessage to me it appears simultaneously to both my 2 iPhones but does not appear on the iPad. When I respond from the iPad the message appears on the iPhones. A friend has a worse problem where his new iPhone 4S does not receive any iMessages, instead the are only received by his old 3GS.
I have a desktop computer with an Nvidia 9700 GTX graphics card. I'm using the DVI port on the desktop with the Mini-Display Port DVI adapter to plug in to my mid-2011 iMac Thunderbolt port. I boot the computer in Target Display Mode (holding T at startup), and all I get is the thunderbolt/firewire screensaver, not my desktop.
I'm using a Kindle DX (3G, no WiFi) for reading documents saved from the web with Readability. Because Amazon charges a conversion cost for these documents I'm forwarding the documents to my foo.baz@free.kindle.com account. Amazon then forwards these as emails to me where I use Gmail or Mail.app to click on the link inside each message and laboriously save the corresponding foo.azw download to my Kindle. I'm wondering if anyone has created an automator workflow or an Applescript that can visit a group of unread Amazon emails and use the links in each to download the corresponding .azw files? If there's a better way to go about this I'd also be delighted to hear about it.
I want to download some videos which are streamed through a Flash player. Since the website does not give me the option to download the video, I would like to know where are the FLV files stored when the video is being downloaded by the player.
In iOS 4.x.x, I remember having a preference in: Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Contacts that would allow me to select a Default Group. Now that I've upgraded to iOS 5, that preference is no longer visible.
I am cleaning up a really old mac to bring it back to use. It has an 80 gig hard drive and after wiping out downloads, documents, pictures, music, videos and unneccesary applications I am now stranded at about 48 gigs. I read that Leopard needs about 9 gigs, how do I get rid of the remaining 20 gb without reinstalling. Its been three and half years since I bought it and I could only find Part 2 of the recovery disk. (I have already gotten rid of iLife, iTunes, iWorks, Web Browsers, Printer Drivers etc as I need only terminal based facilities such as lynx and vi.) If anyone could point me to solutions for freeing up as much space as I can it'd be very helpful.
Has anyone compiled doom3, released here: *=URL=* ? I have never done something like that before (compile c++/xcode project) and a how-to would be more than welcome. Also how do I know if it can run in my macbook?
Gordon Davisson offered a solution to a "standalone user" in another question I'm facing the same issue in an office environment. Printer paused and System Administrator needs to be called to enter admin password to release the printer. Is there a terminal script that would allow me to effectively give ALL our users these Printer Admin privileges AND would follow them to other desktops as they move around from office to office, site to site. (Although using various desktop macs, they are ALL on mobile accounts to allow them to work locally should server go offline for any time.)
I've been trying to start eclipse IDE on my Mac for a while, I downloaded different versions and no one works. I'm sorry if there is something I missed. Here is the log:
I just plugged in a USB stick, edited a text file a few times, and found that I could browse through the revision history of the file, even though it's on an external drive. Are these revisions saved on the USB stick? Where exactly?
I want to start development on Mac, and from what I read around, everyone suggests the current Mac Mini. So my question is, does the hardware support dual monitors out of the box? If not, what should I purchase to get a dual monitor setup working?
What I figured would be awesome, came up when I was trying to install libjpeg, PIL, FreeType2, Pillow etc. I wanted to install these libraries or packages like libjpeg, FreeType2 in a virtual environment of the OS. If I felt like the Homebrew version of these library installs was not to my satisfaction, I could just work in a different environment or try some other installation procedures and switch between environments of the installed applications. So, I was wondering if something like that exists for OS X or are there some tricks one can do to emulate it?
It may help, in this case, to consider an email as being similar to a physical envelope. The front of the envelope contains routing information, handled by the mail-transfer agent (e.g. sendmail, postfix, qmail, Exchange). The inside letter contains formal addresses handled by the reader, which in this case is the mail client. So, Mail.app doesn't necessarily have to care about the routing info -- the envelope-from address, which is Return-Path:, and the envelope-recipient address, which is shown in the Received: header -- it just cares about the To:.
I learned that ⇧⌘L in mail.app should toggle the flag of a selected message. However, it doesn't work for me... I'm using Snow Leopard and Mail 4.5. Any ideas?
I've tried editing files anywhere in my home directory, and the changes can never be saved, because the file is locked. I've seen this in Byword.app, Preview.app, Pages.app, and TextEdit.app. When I try to save, I'll get a dialog saying "The document 'doc-name' could not be saved. The file is locked. Do you want to save your changes anyway? [Save Anyway] [Cancel]" If I choose [Save Anyway], I get a second dialog saying "You don't have permission to save the file." I was able to edit and save a file in MacVim.app that TextEdit.app declared I didn't have permission to save.
I recently set up an additional Lion partition in addition to my existing partition for development reasons. I was in the process of installing apps on this new volume through the Mac App Store, when I realized that it would not let me install apps that I had installed on the older partition.
Now that I've upgraded to Lion, Quicken 2007 is history. I need a good replacement that automatically downloads credit card and bank statements from major cards and banks. I need to track investments, too. Importing of old Quicken data would be required, too. Quicken Essentials doesn't fit the bill for me.
i use launchpad quite a lot, but find the 'finger & thumb' pinch rather awkward. i never use mission control, and would love to use the 3 finger vertical swipe for launchpad instead of mission control. in the trackpad section of system preferences there appears to be no way to swap these out, which seems rather limited to me. Can it be changed?
I went to use my iPod yesterday after putting some new music on it and it said there was no music on it. When looking at my iPod it said it was full. I tried to restore it on iTunes and it said it was corrupt and I got error 1430.
I've enabled iChat and iCal Server through our local 10.7.2 Server which has DNS set up correctly. I can add the server account via a client's System Preferences (under other - Mac OS X server) and it authenticates with my shortname correctly.
Is Xcode (Using Xcode 4.2) optimized for a quad core processor? My real question is will Xcode's performance be noticeably different with a dual core i7 as opposed to a quad core i7?
I bought a used iPhone 4, originally from the UK (now in Denmark). The phone has been reset/restored, updated to 5.0.1 and appears to be functional with 4-5 bars and the "3G" icon next to them. The phone worked perfectly with the previous owner's SIM card.
On my iPod touch I am able to type basic Hebrew characters by adding a Hebrew international keyboard. Is there some way for me to type Hebrew vowels (Niqqud) [without using any specialized apps]?
What iPad PDF reader can I use to highlight text? I don't really care about annotations, saving, or transferring. It just helps me read better if I can highlight things. It does not look like I can do anything other than bookmark pages with iBooks.
I was wondering how the DRM/Purchased/Protected thing works with the songs downloaded from the iTunes store. If two people by a DRMed song from iTunes, are the raw bytes they download the same? Or are the songs encrypted using different keys per user such that they basically download different byte-streams? I think they encrypt using a single key but I am not sure if that poses a threat because if even a single person can obtain the key by some hack, then it can easily be shared to everyone.
Update: I may have found a clue -- the result of xattr -l Desktop shows that the com.apple.FinderInfo attribute is set, with bytes 9 and 10 set to 20 and 10 respectively. Is this normal? (By contrast, my older Mac has no attributes set on Desktop.)
We recently upgraded from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4S. In general it has been a good experience, however we aren't sure how to turn off 3G and go to the EDGE network on the 4S. It doesn't appear to be an iOS 5 thing since older phones with iOS 5 still retain the ability to turn off 3G and switch to edge. Instead of turning off 3G being an option (which would kick us back to edge) we can only turn off cellular data, but calls don't revert networks.
I would like to use the Google Voice app instead of the built-in Text Messages with Siri on the iPhone 4S. Is this possible and how?
Does anyone know how to set the priority order of SSL/TLS cipher suites on Safari for Mac OSX (10.7 ideally, but any version would be helpful). Can't seem to find any documentation on that point.
I have upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5 and my MacBook to Lion, so "enjoying" the Photo Stream goodness now. I have plugged my iPhone in and see that all the photos I have taken have been synchronised to my laptop via Photo Stream already.
I have: 1 Macbook Pro for office use 1 Macbook Air for personal travel use 1 Mac Mini to run my home theater system 1 iMac that my wife and kids use 1 iPad v1 for the kids to play with 1 iPad v2 for myself 1 iPhone 3GS
I am quite lost, how do I get this to work. I can't find any GUI Programs that support 1.7 yet. Commandline would be okay, but I can't seem to find one! Also how would the diff work on the commandline?
In Lion, Finder shows sizes greyed out and when I open folders, they seem empty. Upon "Get Info": they also look full with normal sized files.
When I change the display settings in Finder, it is only applied for the current folder that I'm in. I want to apply a display settings for all (sub-)folders in ~/Pictures.
When I boot my iMac onto windows partition and then reboot into Snow Leopard my system time is updated (reverted on hour back). This occurs even though I have 'locked' the system time on Snow Leopard.
When you send a group text message in iOS, it appears as if you automatically opt in to receive any and all replies to that message. Is there a way to avoid being included in group replies? Is there a way to remove oneself from a group chat?
How can I solder power cord back as it was? Has anyone else had the same problem? I know that Apple hardware and peripherals are very hard to "open up", so maybe some of you know some tricks about it. My power adapter looks like this:
This is a new question related to a question I asked previously. MacBook is sleeping despite being set to "never" sleep Basically, the MacBook would sleep after 3 hours despite the preferences telling it to "never" sleep. I fixed the original problem by deleting the Energy Saver plist file.
This is weird. I'm on OSX Lion, and sometimes both drag & drop and cut & paste stop working, at the same time. They stop working in any program, not just the Finder. And it's not just the shortcut: if I try to right click and select "Copy" it doesn't work either.
I want to tether an unlimited data plan on a Nexus S (with Android 2.3.6) via USB cable to a MacBook Air (with OS X Lion). Both on Windows and Ubuntu, it works like a charm, so I'm wondering if there's something I can do it OSX to make it work. The articles I read imply that given Apple's restrictions, it's imposible and OSX only supports tethering an iPhone via USB. On Android Enthusiasts, I found a a couple of solutions: one tethering from Froyo and one tethering on a Snow Leopard, On Android Enthusiasts, I found a a couple of solutions: one tethering from Froyo and one tethering on a Snow Leopard,
What kind of arm do I need to hold up a large cinema display? The back of the display doesn't have a standard 4 screw mounting bracket. I understand it would need some type of way to remove the built in mount?
It says there are items that should be transfered to iTunes Library, but does not say how. Drag-and-drop in iTunes from iPad to the Library doesn't do a thing. Next screen (assuming it'll offer me to do the transfer) is:
This is incredibly frustrating; I have a new airport extreme and its been working fine for about a month but now it has stopped working. my two MacBooks and dell Inspiron tower cannot connect to the Internet. The weird thing is that my iPhone can. On the MacBooks, the network settings say 'wifi has the self assigned ip address 169.xxx.xxx.xxx and will not be able to connect to the Internet.' why can my iPhone connect but not the computers?
The ones that came out on October 2011. Models #: MD311*/A, MD313*/A, MD314*/A, MD318*/A or MD322*/A The SSD options are listed here with no detailed information: *=URL=* Note that *=URL=* is NOT a duplicate question as the answer is not specific to these model #'s
I want to create a script that creates alarmed events in iCal for birthdays of people that I have in my address book. Unfortunately, I am very bad working with AppleScript. Below is the outline of what I it to do, I would love some help as to what the actual script should be. run script when a change is made to a birth date in address book or when address book quits define list of people (will have an extra alarm, see below) search for birthdays entered in address book if no event is present in ical calendar named "birthdays" for birthdays found in address book (check name and date) create new all day event in birthday calendar with alarm on date and title "(Name of person)'s Birthday) create new all day event in birthday calendar with alarm on date and title "(Name of person)'s Birthday) if birthday is on list defined earlier add extra alarm two weeks before the birthday add extra alarm two weeks before the birthday display message showing what new events were created when the script 
I wonder if anyone could master this one? So Quicktime can play movies in ASCII mode as per the link below: *=URL=* But is it possible to view, through the webcam in Quicktime, the webcam video as ASCII art?
Can someone please tell me the model number (something like MC920LL) of their Officially unlocked iPhone 4S 16GB White, that Apple started selling since Nov 11. There are various other contract-free phones available but they are not truly unlocked since there is a risk of being locked in the future maybe. So if anyone has bought the OFFICIALLY unlocked white or black iPhone 4S from apple directly, can you PLEASE share the model number? Many thanks!
Prior to 10.7.2 I used to be able to do the following sequence: Drag and hold a file using my thumb on the trackpad (button depressed) Three finger swipe to move to another space Drop the item in the other space This was a handy one-handed way of moving things between spaces, but with 10.7.2 it no longer seems to work: the trackpad doesn't respond to swipe gestures while the button is depressed.
For some reason my Air still uses its own LCD when the lid is closed, so that I often find that an apps windows are all on a display that I cannot see. Is there any way of bringing them to the primary display without randomly clicking and dragging in the hope of hitting a title bar?
I have a mac mini (model that has no DVD slot with 4gb ram & 500gb HD) and a mac-mini-mac-os-x-install DVD disc. I tried to install os on it with an external DVD drive but it booted up with an apple icon in the center of the screen and nothing else. Please help. Thanks in advance.
I have set up PHP and MySQL, however MySQL wants the mysql.sock file in /var/mysql, which is fair enough. I change the directory to /var/mysql however every time I restart my computer mysql.sock gets deleted and I can't work. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can fix this problem?
I bought a used iPhone 3GS and the owner claims it worked fine with iOS 4.3.5. When I came home, I reset all content and settings on iPhone. Did I know that doing the reset would force me to upgrade to iOS 5.0.1!
When I check the permission on my etc folder using the alt + i command, I am not able to check the permission. As if the file had no permissions at all. This occured to me while I was trying to write some stuff in the hosts file. I tried to manually chmod the file but I got an "operation not allowed".
Is it possible to do a time machine backup from a MacBook Pro to a Windows 7 PC? (i.e. use Windows 7 as a time capsule)
I'd like to keep track of my finances better and wondering what good options there are out there. Preferably something that isn't geared towards Americans as my dollars tend to be Singapore ones and it'd be nice if also could track my finances in other countries in their native currency. :)
In PowerPoint the master slides have inheritance, so you can set common elements on all the master slides easily. I don't see anyway to do this in Keynote. For example, if I want to set the background image on all the master slides then I need to edit the background image on each master slide. How to set the background image the same on all master slides without editing each master slide individually?
I have an iMac from 2011 and there is already one external monitor connected via minidisplay port to dvi adapter. Today I wanted to connect another one, as the iMac features 2 minidisplay/thunderbolt ports. I bought a second adapter and hoped it would work just as easy – plug in and done. But the screen of that monitor stayed black, nothing happened at all. Do I need another adapter? Some additional software?
When I bought my new Mac at the end of July, 2011, the dealer (Microcenter, Marietta, GA) Renee told me I had 4 months to upgrade to Lion. I calendared the drop dead date at the end of November, and now discover I only had 30 days. Is there a way to upgrade for free at this time?
I've learned how to copy photos from Camera Roll (iPad 2 with iOS 5) to new or existing albums. Is it possible to move photos to new or existing albums from Camera Roll?
I have my iPad plugged into my Windows 7 computer, and I can see the Internal Storage of the iPad but most of the photos are missing. I have many different albums on the iPad and none of them are visible inside explorer view. How can I get these photos off my iPad?
The logs don’t help me. The Wake event is always 0020, regardless whether it's an intentional wake or not.
I can start Postfix temporarily with: However, Console.app shows that it only runs for a short time: I think the file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist needs to be updated to make Postfix run permanently, but I haven't found the answer yet. What's the correct way of getting Postfix starting at boot time and running permanently? Update In order to edit the file as recommended by the selected answer, I first converted it to XML. Then just edited it with Vim: I had issues trying to get Xcode to edit the file.
I have a Macbook Pro that had a hard drive failure, I've replaced the hard drive but I don't have a boot disk of any kind. I could just order a Snow Leopard DVD, but I have to wait a few days for this. So I'm wondering if it would be possible to download either Snow Leopard or Lion to a DVD from a PC that I have access to, that I could then use as a boot disk on the Mac. Is this possible?
All of a sudden, I had the date and time on the menu bar of my 10.6 machine vanish. I tried turning it on in the "Preferences >> Date and Time" section but I'm not able to. Anyone got similar problems/found a solution to this?
I'm trying to download the X-Plane 10 Demo through uTorrent, however I get a "too many open files" error all the time. I can do the alternate download (which takes forever and a day), but I wonder how I can increase the setting in Lion? I found conflicting information about it, some say that ulimit -n and sysctl are the tools of choice, while others report that launchctl is correct. The reported value for ulimit -n is 256, same for launchctl limit:
Yesterday I received a weird message on my iPhone 4, it was a completely black screen with a wide green / standard button at the bottom. It seemed like a kind of broadcasted message. The message said something about RSVP.
In Snow Leopard there was a way to select which address to use for each contact in a group, for sending group emails or printing address lists. This was done by selecting the group in the groups column and choosing Edit → Edit Distribution List…
After upgrading to Lion, I'm finding that Finder is stretching the preview of smaller images (~100 pixels), which is making them look terrible. Is there a setting somewhere I can check to have small images show at actual size?
I got a bunch of audiobooks on a different Mac then my own (to which I don't have access at the present moment). I want to get them onto my iPhone without erasing stuff from my iPhone. How can I do that?
I am facing issues streaming Youtube videos on iPad (using the native Youtube app) My connection speed is 3.1 Mbps, which I guess is decent for video streaming. Also I agree that I would not get the full 3.1 Mbps and would only get about 1/3rd. So I get around 1 Mbps based on speedtest. Now what should I do to fix the Youtube streaming and is it a known issue with speed limits for the Youtube app ? Thank you.
I have a love-hate relationship with the new Reminders app in iOS 5. I like how entering new items is made simple and the interface gradually reveals itself as you become more of a power user. Yet it fails at the most fundamental function—to remind me the important stuff that I entered.
Is there a way (eg. a binary hack into Finder) to stop it from creating .DS-Stores on LOCAL Volumes? I am using Leopard, therefore these don't work: Asepsis (requires Lion) TotalFinder (requires Snow Leopard) Also, BlueHarvest slows down my computer.
Off late, the Safari on my iPad has become a bit slow. That is, the pages take a long time to load.
I have a mid-2010 (Intel) MacBook Pro, and I’m nostalgic for Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, which was released in the early 2000s (!). At some point there was a freely-downloadable Carbon version to allow people who already owned the game to play it under then-current versions of Mac OS X, but as far as I know there hasn’t been any development recently. Can anyone think of some way I might be able to get the game running again?
I did some research and found that some people had that same problem, but said it went away when the allowed it to set up as a new iPhone, which, as they said, would do nothing and everything would be good afterwards. Well, they were right that it did nothing to my phone, but now all those checkmarks ("sync music", "sync contacts", most importantly: "sync apps") are unchecked. If I re-check any of them, the program makes it quite clear to me that first, everything on my phone will be wiped, and then being installed as instructed. I.e. if I did this with my apps, I believe all my settings would be lost and I would have to set all of them up again.
I first tried searching here at apple.stack but couldn't find a solution that seemed to work for me, so I'm trying my hand at posting a question. I already spent a few good hours trying to make it work, since I overall would like to keep using MAMP (again, not MAMP PRO) instead of switching to another package that might give me more road blocks.. History: I'm a total newbie to Apple's OS. I have recently moved to using a macbook pro with Lion OS installed for my PHP development. I had come to a point in my development where I now have to send mail. I created a gmail account since the project I am working on hasn't got a name yet so no domains have been purchased (meaning no other smtp server to use) I installed MAMP (not PRO) and have been programming on the macbook pro up to this point I have installed pear using: *=URL=* I have installed pear using: http://blog.stealth35.com/2011/07/27/install-pear-on-osx-lion.html
When using Siri to send an email to a contact with multiple email addresses, I can't find a way to select one of the addresses in a hands-free way (without clicking with my finger). Siri reads out the two addresses, and then gives me a voice prompt to pick one, but when I say one of them back it just loops back to the "Which email address for..." prompt.
In Lion Server Admin, under DHCP settings, it is possible to see a list of "Clients", but for me this list is nearly always empty, except in the rare occasions when I allow a machine on my network that is not statically mapped. Is it in fact the case that statically mapped IP addresses are not listed under "Clients" by default? Is there a way to see currently connected, statically mapped IP addresses?
I just observed something that I'm having trouble believing. To push Lion onto my daughter's laptop without waiting for yet another giant Lion download, I turned on sharing on my MBP, connected from my daughter's SnowLeopard MB, and dragged.
I am trying to update a jailbroken iPhone 4 IOS 4.3 to IOS 5.0. I have acquired the needed things from this link *=URL=* First, I got the error 3194 when when itunes was trying to verify the .ipsw file with apple. I fixed the problem by downloading TinyUmbrella and turning on the TSS server. But now I get a 1604 error when itunes trys to prepare the iPhone for restore. I sort of fixed that buy putting the iPhone into Pwned DFU mode using IREB or Redsnow 0.9.9b8. Now I'm getting error 1600. How do I fix this? Extra Info: Itunes version: 10.2 Yes I have tried normal DFU mode and Recovery Mode. Thanks In Advance.
The Verify Disk functionality of the Disk Utility reports that my HD is corrupted. I fixed the problem using the startup CD but what does that mean for the health of my HDD?
I bought a mid 2011 Mac Mini mit dedicated graphic card along with the iFixit dual hard-drive kit and a OWC Mercury 6G SSD. After I installed the ssd into the Mac Mini with as second hard drive, the boot time of Lion on the factory hdd increased to about 4-5 minutes. On login, a dialog appears, stating that a uninitialized hard drive was found. So I tried to partition the SSD with GUID partitioning scheme and one HFS+ Journaled partition. The partitioning process was stuck at about 50% and failes after about 2 minutes with a posix input/output error.
I like to set my desktops a certain way for work. I noticed that when I command-tab around my Spaces, it seems to switch around the order of desktops when I access with ctrl+arrow.
As I was trying to register, I have entered my apple ID and that takes me to a page where I can edit my contact info. I can change everything, except my name, which I would need to change, since somehow there is a wrong name there. (It is actually an old name which I have changed and if I go to "manage my apple ID" page I can see the new name, just the developer site still has the old one). Since they will probably be checking that against information on my credit card this could be a problem.
I've been using mac for years, but prefer to do software development on windows. I'm really used to is using the folowing shortcuts on windows very much:
I have an Iphone 3G with ios 4.2.1. I am using internet on my phone using Cellular data turned ON. It works fine for some time, but after then it disconnects and does not work untill i restart my phone. What is the issue.
I got a Mac-mini but I'm not using Mac mice, I have a Razer Imperator mice. Checking under System Preference, there are only options that allow modifying scrolling speed, and tracking speed. So my question is how do I modify the left/right button of my mice since I want to navigate back and fourth between pages within Safari. Plus, I also want to change the scrolling behavior, it's completely opposite with Window, I scroll down, it goes up, I scroll up it goes down :(.
I got an external hd "clickfree hd" but when trying it with my Mac I get the following error: ntfs 3g could not mount, error
Is there a command for refreshing the Display Settings? Or, in specific, refreshing the Desktop Wallpaper?
I notice the syntax file for PHP for vim is quite out-dated. Does anyone know where is these syntax file located in Mac so I can do the upgrade?
I am looking for: There are many hot words which I often need to type while using my Apple MacBook Pro/Snow Leopard like say my desktop machine name, some other host names etc. Now, right now, I copy this and paste it wherever I need, but I would like these hot words to be all the time copied and be available like if I use a shortcut key + d, this should paste desktop machine name etc.. I don't know, if such a thing exists, but looks like a commonly needed requirement and nice to have thing.
I've been using iChat, and it tends to switch itself into "offline" mode from time to time. It will make no notification of this, so I often only discover it after I miss some messages, especially since its "connected" and "disconnected" menubar icons are nearly identical.
I keep getting this message: "Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address 169.254.10.243 and will not be able to connect to the Internet."
Is it possible to hyperlink to another sheet in the same workbook in Numbers '09? I want to have a link so I can jump back and fourth between sheets. Excel has this feature but I can't find anything about it in Numbers. It appears that Numbers only allows hyperlinks to webpages or to send an email.
I am a PC user, I like to mess around with audio production software (Albeton Live, Friuty Loop, etc.) On my pc (not an high end one at all) I can achieve around 3ms audio latency when playing a single virtual instrument. Obviusly increasing CPU load will increase also minimum sustainable latency.
For example, I have two folders named Edit but the one I use most frequently, shows up second on Spotlight. Can you anyhow influence the precedence and importance of found files in Spotlight?
I am trying to play a QuickTime video in Lion on an external monitor. How do I get it to play full screen on the external monitor, not on the laptop screen?
How can I convert a NTFS drive to HFS+ without having to move the data? It is an external drive of 2TB and I don't want to spend too much time moving the data. This is required in order to be able to share the drive on Lion (smbx)
How can I tell Pow to run only if I point to my_app.dev or othermyapp.dev? Is this a way to correct this issue?
I just want to know when it does make sense to use HFSX instead of HFS+? HFS+ is the default partition type.
My wife and I both have our own laptops with our own iTunes accounts. Then we have a shared desktop. In the past, this was fine as all we had for iDevices was an iPod each. So we just managed our own music.
Is there a way to run a script every time a network interface finishes coming up? Or, is there an equivilent answer to this Debian question on OSX?
I would like to know how to prevent an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch from charging while connected to the USB port on a MacBook on battery power.
Everytime I connect my iPhone to my laptop, Image Capture opens. How to I stop it? I just need to use iTunes, not Image Capture.
I want to set up my Grandfather's mac (running lion) so that it's got a vnc server always running that I can connect to anytime without any input from him. The point is to try to circumvent the hour long support calls I end up doing when his "email is broken", by being able to take control of his computer and do it for him.
I have done some extensive testing of my iPhone 4S compared to my iPhone 4 and found GPS accuracy has suffered substantially. I've been using the 4 for about a year, riding a bicycle on a 3 mile loop park road several times a week. Typically, I'll do about 6 laps or 18 miles. Using a great app called Cyclemeter, I save the track so I have a record of how fast and how far I rode. After I upgraded to the 4S I found the measured length of each lap varied widely and that ridiculously high speeds were being recorded.
Often when I'm using iTunes 10.4, the menubar will hide and show like the dock does when you set it that way. I don't know of any settings that allow for that to happen on the menubar. Is it a bug or a setting that I accidentaly changed?
I built a robot a while ago that I control via the iPhone (video). The robot connects to a WiFi hotspot and the iPhone 3Gs would connect to it via Safari and I'd control it from there. Now that I've upgraded to iPhone 4s, Safari simply won't connect to the IP address stating "Cannot open page".
I can use the command line to :- What is the equivalent to do so in finder? I can't seems find a way to browse to that folder using finder, (my intention is to view images which I created in /tmp) Or is there any image browser tools can do the same?
I've written an AppleScript that I want to set as the default browser. I've added a CFBundleDocumentTypes section to the p-list (copied from Safari) and rebuilt the launch services database, but that didn't work.
I had a jailbroken unlocked iPhone with iOS 5.0, but by mistake I updated it to iOS 5.0.1 with iTunes. I'm asking this as both a cautionary tale to others as well in hopes that perhaps there is a jailbreak option I am overlooking. In the process of the update from 5.0 to 5.0.1, the baseband was also updated to 4.11.08 and as expected, the phone became locked again as evidenced by the fact that it says "No Service" when I try to use my SIM. Is there a way to unlock my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.1 other than asking the carrier to which it was initially locked?
So far, I've been using the build-in VPN tool of Lion. I would like to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the internet. Is it possible to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the internet with the build in tool? If auto connect is not possible with the build in tool, can you provide me with an alternative that is free?
I've seen some posts about whether you can stop spotlight constantly indexing your time machine backup drive. It seems you can't have it attached to your computer and not have it indexed. I have been getting around the problem by demounting my backup drive and then remounting it when I want to back up. I wonder if any anyone has a script that would mount, backup and unmount a backup drive every 6 hours or so. Thanks.
Recently I dropped my iPhone, breaking the screen, so I had that replaced with a new screen by myself that I brought from Amazon. Now that I replaced it, the iPhone home button doesn't work at all because when I press it, it doesn't do anything, no matter how hard or many times I press it, it still won't do anything. Later on, I took apart the iPhone and replaced the home button with a new one, and this didn't solve the issue and yet I don't know why it doesn't work at all. I have pictures of my iPhone 3GS, hopefully it should help or whatsoever. How can I get the home button working again?
A recent update brought multitasking gestures to my original iPad. I hardly use them because swiping left never works and swiping right seems to launch random apps. What are the rules behind them?
I will be buying an iPad and will want to use iCloud. However, I want to use a non "@me.com" address to send email from/reply to. Is this possible when you sign up for iCloud? Thanks
My MacBook Air from mid 2011 recently only scores about ~1800 on geekbench vs 5300+ that it was before. I'm starting the benchmarking right after reboot, and the CPU seems initially calm. Any points?
I was chatting with someone via Messages.app on my iPhone, and they sent me a message saying "call me in 20 minutes". I was away from my phone when they sent it, so I didn't know when they sent the message, and therefore didn't know when to call. I know that Messages.app displays a start time for new conversations, but I just want to get the time of a specific message. Tap-and-hold and double-tap on the message just give a "Copy" context item. How can I see the time of an incoming message?
today, i wanted to change my carrier logo on my iPhone. Every Tutorial failed. Even if i complete delete my Carrier-Folder: nothing happens. The path on the iPhone: /System/Library/Carrier Bundles/iPhone/TMobile_Germany.bundle There isn't any other path were the icons can be. I restarted the iPhone many times and changed four times the size and the name of the images. Any suggestion?
What is the easiest way to migrate data (software, documents, bookmarks, etc.) from an old Mac OS X (probably Tiger) to Lion? Time Machine with Migration Assistant?
wait 30 seconds then hold ⇧+ctrl+⌥+R+power (Let the Mac reboot three times with that apple tone, then let go. The Mac reboots again.)
I am looking for a way to downgrade to ios4 without having SHSH. I found some tutorial one of this a youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMHvRsplnw
I have an AirPort Extreme (n, 1st gen.) and several AirPort Expresses (g), all connected through their Ethernet ports to my network. The Extreme is used to "create a wireless network" and one of the Expresses is used to "participate in a WDS network", while the others have their antennas turned off. Every few weeks, the Express that is extending the network (along with its signal) vanishes from the network and needs to be powercicyled to reconnect. Why would this be happening?
Short of creating custom audio and a custom playlist, is there a way/app that will act as a virtual DJ for a wedding including things like introducing the guests who are going to speak, daddy/daughter dance, chicken dance, etc? I could do everything in a playlist but if someone has already done this then it's all the better.
In Lion, I've had an incredible amount of difficult with Preview hanging indefinitely when restoring open documents after being hidden for any extended period of time. There is no immediate solution except to force quit Preview and relaunch it. Console reports no error messages except for Preview being manually killed. Any recommendations on dealing with this problem?
I've upgraded my iPhone 3GS to the new iPhone 4S. I want to give my old 3GS to my daughter to use as an "iPod touch". We've upgraded the 3GS to iOS 5 and attached it to iCloud with her own separate account. I'd like for the 3GS to be able to text me on my 4S - yet it is the same phone number the 3GS used to be, it doesn't seem to work.
I recently got an iPhone 4. At home, it connected to our wifi and worked perfectly. Now I am at school. My iPhone is now connected to the wifi here, it says that it is connected and has strong wifi signal. However apps that require internet like email, Facebook app, and online games (like words with friends, etc) load and stall showing "updating". All apps are unable to actually update. It shows it is loading for forever. What can I do to fix this?
I've always used MesaSQLite to open the SQLite database that stores my iPhone's text messages. I've also used python's sqlite3 module to programmatically do some things with my text messages.
I want to use Windows 7 on my iPad 2. Could this be done in a general case? If it can not be installed, please let me know how I might get as close to having windows running on the iPad as I can get.
Parallels Desktop has ugly red bars on its icon. How can I remove those bars?
I use iDisk and have some Web Galleries on my MobileMe account (both features that have been siginficantly changed in iCloud), and since none of my computers run Lion (my iPad runs iOS5) I cannot sync fully with iCloud. Is there any reason why I should switch to using iCloud now? or should I continue with the benefits of MobileMe.
I was wondering if it's possible to make sure that some files I've deleted in the past on my mac are really gone? I know about the option in Finder (Finder -> Secure Empty Trash...), but what if I already emptied Trash the standard way, and now want to make sure the files are fully wiped off? Cheers.
Say I have drive A that is already encrypted with Filevault2. I want to make an exact clone of the drive to a different drive B. Every way I've tried so far decrypts drive A first, then clones, resulting in drive B being decrypted when the clone completes. Is there a better way to clone drive A bit for bit? I'm thinking of using dd but was wondering if there was a more Apple friendly way. The best way I've been able to figure out how to do this so far: Boot to a Lion install USB drive. Open Disk Utility & unlock the encrypted drive Format the new drive
I want to get the details (OS,version,UDID...) of the device (iPhone) when it is connected to a Windows machine. The only thing here is either using iTunes or another way. I want this done from command line (NO GUI Tool).
I did not set a password for the restore encrypted thing. I have tried 1234 and anything else I could come up with. I have to get back in. I accidentally deleted text messages that I need for personal reasons. I called Apple, and they basically admitted that this could happen somehow, but they had no remedy. Is this true?
This is a bit of a nit-picky thing, but it's annoyed me ever since I upgraded to iOS 5. I use my iPhone quite a bit for web surfing, and would often use the swipe action to return back to the top (and address bar) of a long web page. However, now I'm constantly pulling down the notification center pull-down when all I want to do is return to the top of the page. Is there any way to disable or change the swipe-to-pull-down notification center? At least in Safari? Or is it gone for good now....
I have a 20" iMac (white, Core Duo 2.0 Ghz, one of the first Intel iMacs). Lately I've had a problem where the iMac won't eject a CD. It attempts to eject it, makes all the eject-related noises, but the disc seems to hit a piece of metal and then falls back into the drive. I can see the little metal piece when I look in the slot (pushing the rubber stuff aside with a paper clip). It's like the little metal piece is supposed to retract but it's staying put.
There are some lags with the animation. e.g. when i run the Launchpad it has a laggy and harsh animation. It's feels like the animation only has 3 frames so it isn't that smooth.
I use TextWrangler to open code files, such as .php, .ccs, .js, etc. But it assigns the same icon to every file. How can I get the original icons back to each extension while TextWrangler is still the default app to open them?
I have a meeting every day at 10 am. At some point I clicked a link to add a reoccurring task to my calendar. Now every single day 10 minutes prior, Mail opens and I see an alert about the meeting.
I installed php5 from macports. But i can't find php-fpm for start. Look in /opt/local/sbin and /usr/sbin/ I used console command: sudo port install php5 May be need some like php5 +fastcgi fscgi
I've saw some review that the apple magic mouse isn't recommended by designers. How do you find the magic mouse in your daily graphic design work? Would you recommend it? If not what are some good alternatives you would recommend? I'm looking for a bluetooth mouse so I wouldn't keep plugging on my usb port. And since I'm using it on my MBP 15, I only have 2 USB ports. So I need to use those ports wisely. Thanks!
I am having problems running the /usr/bin/purge commands on my iMac with Lion since the last upgrade. Someone suggested me that I may be running in safe mode and asked me to type "nvram -p" on terminal. According to this person, I should have any variable listed, but I have these:
I know that iTunes Match is still in its infancy, but I'm having a weird occurrence. Most of my tracks are ripped from my CD collection.
I use Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client for Mac to access my work network from home. While using the VPN I am unable to connect to my home printer. Is there any way around this? Is it possible to add my home printer while using VPN?
Is there an easy way to export all my subscribed podcast URLs in iTunes? I am trying to subscribe to the same podcasts on a non-Apple device (Zune used instead of iPhone when running) but having to right click each one and copy and pasting the URL to another computer to add the podcast to it's software is tedious. I am sure there is a better way. Also would like to do it for backup purposes since iTunes seems to have to get reinstalled every 6 months or so :(
In Lion, everything is working but i am puzzled by the presence of a "busy" wheel in the far right hand side of the finder window status bar. What is it indicating is happening? I have no search in process, no file size calculation, or any other process that I am aware of that would account of the "turning worm".
I have done everything to trouble shoot my non-working keyboard. I've been using it a year and it is set up correctly There is supposed to be a power button? I sure can't find it! Thanx!
I'm breathing life again into an "old" MacMini G4 1.5Ghz. Instead of searching each and every one of my favorite apps to check whether there's still an old version that runs on PowerPC / OSX 10.5.8, I was trying to search some kind of "software still running on PowerPC"-list. Something that would gather links to (or would mirror old installers of) the latest PPC-compatible version of a big list of commonly used apps. Something like iUseThis but for old versions, or with an advanced search to target only PPC apps.
I lived in country A for a few years, and made a number of purchases on the iTunes store for that country. I have now moved to country B, and want to start using the iTunes store from country B. If I change the country in my account settings, will I lose all my previous purchases, or will I still be able to re-download my purchases from country A from iCloud?
I'm trying to order old folders and old files using "arrange by date created" from the View menu, but that choice is greyed out. How do I do this, and why doesn't it want to allow me to do this? I'm running OS 10.6.8 on an iMac. Thanks, R
I have enabled Web Sharing in OS X 10.6 and now I can access *=URL=* from the browser. Now I have copied this PHP app to my ~/Sites/the_app folder, but when I want to access it in the browser I get a Forbidden error message: You don't have permission to access /~myuser/the_app on this server. Any ideas how can I fix this?
I have a MacBook and I did not take care of the battery properly. It started to shut down unexpectedly at around 20% and then even at 30%. I got a new battery and it seems to work fine; it lets me get down to 6%. The only problem is that even with the new battery, a warning does not pop up telling me that it is time to plug in my computer. I was waiting for it to come up when my computer was at 6%, and instead it just died. I don't know if I need to change some kind of setting or what. Any ideas on how to fix this?
New 2011 Macbook Pro 8,3 less then three months old, this is my first ever Apple product. I have an old USB thumbdrive I couldn't remember what was on it so I plugged it into the USB port nearest the Thunderbolt port and nothing. Then I tried the USB port closest to the front (nearest me) and my Macbook instantly goes black. Even the light on the power adapter, the magnetic end at the laptop, is not lit.
How often do you clean your macbook pro and what are you cleaning with? When I bought my macbook pro last week it came with a special cloth/wipe and I've used it to wipe the dust off my screen and keyboard.
I'm a beginner with Mac OS X. Would somebody please tell me how to fully uninstall Firefox using Terminal on Mac OS X Lion? I'm experiencing hangs and crashes with Firefox 5.0.1, so I want to remove it then re-install it. Thanks so much in advance.
Where are files that are synced with the iPad via iTune stored? For example, if you sync some image files onto the iPad via iTunes, where are those image files in the iPad?
How can I reset all settings for the system preferences in Mac OS X? I'm using lion.
I installed the newest Mono framework on Lion. After that I tried installing KeePass 2.17 from *=URL=* When I try to start the application it probably fails, silently (it looks as if nothing happened). How can I check what happened? Does anybody know how to use KeePass 2.x on MacOS Lion?
My current OS X install is getting long in the tooth. It's been ported over through multiple OS upgrades and system changes (started with an iMac G4, then a PowerMac G5, and now a iMac i7).
I'm accessing a Windows File Sharing folder on my home server in Finder on my Mac (OS X 10.7.2) using the SMB protocol. When I'm navigating through the folders, sometimes (most of the time) I have to wait up to 10 seconds until I can see the list of files in the selected folder. Also, there is no visual clue that Finder is fetching the file list, so the first time I got this behavior in Mac OS X Lion, I was thinking the folder was empty. Even worse, when I'm copying some large files to the server, Finder is delaying the process of getting the file list more or less until the copying is finished.
I've followed the advice in these questions and am not having any luck. No matter what I try, the fonts are rendered so poorly on the external monitor. My environment - MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 ViewSonic VX2450 External Monitor using DVI. I've tried values for "X" (0,1,2 and 3) for this command without effect --
I want to find some text inside binary files. Is it possible to do in Finder (it skips binary even if I set up "All kinds" of file types)? Otherwise I would be thankful for utility that can do it. PS: I need to search among many files in directory.
I have been using Lion from the start without a problem like this. I did install a few apps yesterday (Sparrow, Alfred and TotalFinder) and the problem appeared today, so there may be a connection. What can cause this problem with Address Book?
When I charge my iPhone 4s it reaches 100%. But often, in the morning, it is as low as 95% and most of the time it shows less than 100%. If I unplug it and then plug it in again it quickly reaches 100% again. How to fix? Not a problem?
Search page works very well except when it doesn't work at all. In those cases it just stays blank. What's the fix for that?
I sometimes discover that my iPhone 4S is no longer able to receive data from the cellular network, although the 3G/EDGE badge is still showing, alongside two bars. Usually I first suspect the application to have a problem, so I restart it, then go to Safari to open a random webpage. After some time with no loading whatsoever, I get the usual screen (sorry it's German, it basically says the page cannot be opened because the server won't answer):
My 2010 Ford Edge has Sync but not the nav system. The phone is paired. With radio off, a phone call works fine through the car's system, but reminders only vibrate the phone and there is no sound. If the radio is on, the reminders can be heard. The dealer upgraded the Sync so it is current. He said something about privacy mode, but I can't find that on my phone.
I'd like to send an app from the App Store to somebody as a gift. I have their email address, but I'm not sure if it's the email address associated with their Apple ID. Do I need to enter their specific Apple ID email address, or will they be able to download the gift app if the email gets sent to any of their email addresses?
I'm trying to implement a solution for a multiuser environment involving Image Capture and AutoImport. (10.6.8 with remote MCX).
What free tool can I use to repair an NTFS partition under Lion. I already have Tuxera NTFS on it and I do not want to install windows for this task.
What is Ubuntu's CTRL+H equivalent in OSX Lion Finder to toggle display hidden files? My all searches point me to use: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE which is not exactly the same and its effect is somewhat permanent.
I use several IMAP accounts for e-mail, and, except for iCloud, all of them show duplicate folders for Sent, Trash, and Draft mailboxes:  These duplicate folders are (generally) always empty, and seem to have no special status (e.g. the absence of the special icons used in OS X or iOS Mail):
From time to time, my Magic Trackpad gestures will stop working. I can restart to bring them back, but this is pretty disruptive. Is there a process I can kill to bring them back? (I've tried turning off the Magic Trackpad; unfortunately, it doesn't fix the problem.)
Yes, I know, it's another list, but here goes: What is your favorite menulet and what is it used for? Please one post one menulet per answer. Add a link to the developer's website, if possible. Duplicate answers should be flagged for deletion, so do check or edit an existing entry rather than adding a second answer for the same software.
I am currently on the search for a universal desktop application (osx if possible) that is tracking both my iOS developer account as well as my android market store account. I already tried a lot of different tools but none of them so far seemed to work this way: Prismo (OS X / only iOS / lots of bugs) AppViz (OS X / afaik only iOS / though decent tool) AppAnnie (Web / only iOS / does not give all stats wanted / not sure but data privacy) Distimo Monitoring Tool (Web / multiple Stores / data privacy not given) AppFigures (I did not try this so far - anyone have experience with this tool?) If anyone would know such a tool as Distimo but with the privacy and data security that is needed for highly confidential app statistics it would be awesome if you could post it right here.
I have an iPhone 4 and my wife has a 4s. We want to trade phones. Once we get Verizon to reassign the phone numbers, what's the easiest way to migrate the apps, settings and data between phones? BTW, the 4 syncs with iTunes on windows 7 and the 4s is paired with a OSX Lion machine.
I am buying a new Mac Mini that has one of these new Thunderbolt ports to connect to monitors. I know that this Thunderbolt port is equivalent to mini Display Port. My monitor is a Samsung 2232BW+ that has one of this DVI-D Single Link connectors. See next picture:
It seems to me that the Finder does not (on the surface) distinguish between aliases and symbolic links. (In particular, in the Get Info window for a symlink the Finder claims the symlink is an alias.) But is there a way to force symlinks all to be assigned a certain icon (that isn't the standard folder-with-a-little-arrow alias icon)? That is, is the global 'alias' icon file different from the global 'symlink' icon file, or can one instruct the Finder to use a different icon file for symlinks?
Is it possible to boot an Intel Mac to Linux, or any non-OS X operating system, from the U3 partition of a USB drive? I know that because OS X uses EFI rather than BIOS for the boot process, the only way to boot from USB is generally if you're booting an EFI-capable operating system -- meaning OS X. And (at least I think) I know that when a non-OS X operating system is booted, a Mac switches into BIOS emulation mode during the boot process, which actually disables USB support until the OS loads the appropriate drivers for the USB subsystem... which is why booting non-OS X operating systems is generally not possible from USB drives.
I want to make sure that the replacement iPhone I am being given is new, not refurbished. Given the serial number, is there any way to tell if an iPhone is new or has been refurbished?
So the 5 signal bars on iPhone 2G is merely the 2G network. When the 2-bars 3G signal on my iPhone 4S drops to only the 2G network, it also has 4-5 bars of signal strength but that's 2G. Does trimmed SIM card has problems with 3G networks?
I can start iTunes on my Windows 7 desktop, and can browse it from my Apple TV 2. It works fine for a while, then randomly in the middle of the movie I'm watching it completely loses the connection and kicks me back to the Apple TV home screen. I have to restart iTunes to get it to work again. This does not happen streaming from my MacBook Pro.
I am running Remote Desktop to connect from my iMac with Snow Leopard to a Windows box at work that runs Windows 7 Professional. The connection is done over ssh.
There has been little written technically about the Carrier IQ software on iPhones despite it being present on iOS 3, 4, and now iOS 5. From what I can tell, the daemons vary depending on the firmware version of the device (as well as where the default log files lie): iOS 3: /usr/bin/IQAgent logs to /var/logs/IQAgent iOS 4: /usr/bin/awd_ice2 or /usr/bin/awd_ice3 logs to /var/wireless/Library/Logs/IQAgent iOS 5: /usr/bin/awd_ice2 or /usr/bin/awd_ice3 logs to /var/wireless/Library/Logs/awd
For iOS 5, are either of the Carrier IQ daemons installed as part of the base software on any non phone device image such as the iPad, iPod Touch or Apple TV ? On iPhones (iOS 5) these programs are /usr/bin/awd_ice2 or /usr/bin/awd_ice3 If yes, what causes them to run and to where does their data get stored or forwarded?
I am currently using Twitter. I would like to receive growl notifications for a particular twitter list. However it seems like the current preferences allow notification on a all/none basis. Do we have an alternative app that offers such an option? Otherwise I will just create another twitter account and use that for growl.
I had my iPhone replaced, and restored my data from the iTunes backup. Unfortunately, now iPhoto thinks the photos that were restored from backup are new photos, and so it does not hide them when I choose "hide already imported" in the import screen. Is there a way to get it to recognize that these photos are already in the library? I'm using iPhoto '09.
I want to make a driver for low-level access to the iPhone's touchscreen controller, the Texas Instruments TI 343S0538, so I can try to detect fingerprints. However, I can't seem to find any information about it, because the Google search results don't return much information, apart from lots of pages showing the iPhone specs. So does anyone know anything about the controller, or is it secret because it's used by Apple?
The grease stain on a black keyboard looks awful. What are the recommended steps to remove the grease?
TextEdit is not working. I have tried reinstalling but every time i am getting You can't open the application TextEdit because it may be damaged or incomplete.
Now that iCloud is available, I don't need to backup my iPad to my Windows PC. Is it possible to remove backups from my PC or do I have to uninstall iTunes?
I am working on a 2006 MacBook with Snow Leopard. The battery level indicator has the option to show Time or Percentage remaining. I would like to show both.
I was wondering if you could post your favorite code editor on OS X. I'm looking for something lightweight (no netbeans or eclipse) for fast editing multi languages. tag highlighting and code completion highly appreciated :). On Windows I was using Notepad++ a lot and was really satisfied with it. btw - I don't like dashcode so much - that's why I am looking for an alternative :)
How can I know if an app of an unknown author (like gTasks) is reliable for me to give my mail password to use it?
Sometimes when dragging files from folder to another, or moving a folder, the items being dragged are stuck in the dragging mode and it hangs. I can see Finder use 30-35% CPU at that moment. Anyone facing the same problem? I'm on 10.7.2 also using FlexiGlass for Window moving/resizing.
Will I be able to install Snow Leopard from scratch on a new, blank, disk, without having any copy of Leopard whatsoever? Would it be legal?
I recently switched to Lion from Snow Leopard (Yah I know, I am late), it is great, the only one thing that I miss is the four fingere swipe that did COMMAND+TAB Is there anyway I can enable that?
Could anyone recommend me a free tool to use on OSX for keeping my CVS projects? I am using the integrated SVN on OSX for all my SVN projects; maybe there are similar commands on the terminal to access a CVS repository.
In Windows, one can hit Shift+F10 to access the "Context Menu." But a similar keyboard action doesn't seem possible on Mac. One potential application... When I make a spelling error in a document, Lion gives me the option to correct the error by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, two-finger tapping, etc) on the misspelled word and bringing up the context menu.
I got a new iPhone 4S, but I had upgraded my old iPhone 4 to iOS 5. On Wi-Fi, I get iMessages on both the phones. I want to receive them only on my 4S and not the 4.
I'm just migrating from Ubuntu Linux to Mac, and everything is new and I'm re-learning a lot of stuff. On Linux I had the excellent apt-get to manage software packages. I googled for an alternative on Mac and found about MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew. I will use this computer primarily to develop Ruby on Rails applications.
I want to compress several files and encrypt them with a password if possible. Are there any build-in tools in Mac OS that provide such functionality? If not, can you recommend me a (freeware) alternative? I'd also be happy with a terminal command.
Can I install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a 2011 Mac Mini Server? (I own the Server model because of its better CPU)
I just recently switched to Lion from Snow leopard and dealing with a few issues (like this question) I am still loving it, though.
This worked as expected. Then I tried to hide them again with the following commands: defaults write com.apple.finder showHiddenFiles FALSE killall Finder
does anyone know a good tool to create HDR photos on OSX? Freeware or paid? From Windows I know: Photomatix Pro Picturenaut FDRTools any hint?
I'm puzzled by what iTunes is reporting about my iPhone's memory usage:  Clearly this doesn't quite add up, and it's hard to manage my memory use without having an accurate summary of what's really going on. What could be causing this and how might I fix it?
I'm thinking of getting the basic Mac mini with the Intel HD 3000 graphics. I'm planning to run two 1920x1080 screens - one with a mini DisplayPort to DVI, the other with an HDMI to DVI. Has anyone tried this and confirmed that it works? I've seen many threads talking about using two monitors, but the resolution hasn't been specified. The tech specs page says: Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution DVI output using HDMI to DVI Adapter (included) Support for dual display and video mirroring I'm not clear whether that means that I can run on monitor from the mini DisplayPort and one from the HDMI, or whether the resolution is capped somehow.
I've got a mid-2009 MB Pro that I'm setting up to run some tests. I've got Lion and Snow Leopard partitions up and running, but struggling with Leopard. The initial OS with mid-2009 MB Pros is 10.5.7 The only full recovery disk I can get on Apple Developer is 10.5.0 (build 9A581), and machine won't boot into that. All this leads me to believe that someone out there has got to know where I can get my hands on a 10.5.7 recovery DVD .dmg Any and all ideas would be very appreciated! Thanks, Alec
I'm not really a programmer so I'm am a bit lost. I can find the relevant folder containg the iPhone backup, and I already know where the nokia backup is. I have a program called Notepad++, which I have used to run scripts before, but not really sure how to do this.
I am using Numbers '09 v2.1 (436) and I have a table having positive and some negative values. When in my project I add a column chart mapping properly data from that table it displays a chart without negative values. That is, "negative columns" aren't displayed in the chart, only "positive columns" are.
I have an Apple Magic Mouse, and in Safari, when I swipe my fingers left and right on the mouse, first the page scrolls left or right if there is a horizontal scrollbar, and then if there is no scrollbar or the scrollbar is already at the edge, then Safari will go back/forward in my history. This is particularly annoying when I am trying to scroll left / right, and accidentally scroll too far and navigate off the page. For example, if I'm answering / editing a question on StackOverflow which has if I quickly swipe left / right to read the code, I often accidentally leave the page I'm on.
To troubleshoot the server, I used telnet to manually connect to localhost on port 25. I was able to connect to it successfully, but I received no response as I typed commands. Here is a transcript.
Have you guys seen the "mini lyrics" app for windows? It downloads the lyrics of the currently playing song and displays it on the screen. The great thing about it is that it highlights the current part of the lyrics. Do you know any alternative of it for mac?
When you buy a refurbished Macbook direct from Apple, is the battery in it new? I cannot seem to find a definitive answer on their website or on the internet. I am concerned that the savings from buying a refurb will be cancelled out by having to replace the battery in less than a year.
Is there a way to show the speed of copying files on a Mac? For example, when copying a file from the hard drive to SDHC card and vice versa.
This has me stumped. I have nearly 4GB of photos and videos on my phone, and I want to put them into my computer's pictures folder.
The Mail App on iOS 5 adds support for flagging emails, but I can't seem to find a way to actually put this feature to use. Is there a way to search for flagged emails? Is there a way to cleverly auto-filter flagged emails into a folder? I know that using GMail as an IMAP server automatically duplicates flagged messages in the "Starred" folder - but if you are using another email service, is there any way to make flags useful on iOS?
Is there a way to invert the behavior of the spelling proposal ? By "invert" I mean : Don't change what I have typed if I don't do anything special AND Select the proposal if I tap on it
I have a new iMac, quad core with Lion running. I want to install Leopard on an external drive to run some hardware that will not work work Lion. I have formatted the external drive as Mac OS journalled and used GUID but when trying to install Leopard the Installer will not let me choose different installation drive
I recently (w/in the last year) have began integrating file tagging and use of meta-data heavily into my digital organizational system, on my MacBook Pro (running OS X Lion 10.7.2). To facilitate this, I've used the software "Fresh", which is a tagging software, which I use in conjunction with Leap (both made by Ironic software).
I am trying to clean up as much of the metadata as I can in my iTunes Library. One issue I came across is albums from a band, where the band releases multiple albums in a year. While this doesn't happen all that much, a good example is the Smashing Pumpkins, who released Machina in Feb. 2000, and then released Machina II later that year in Sept 2000. Live concerts are a great example as well, for example if you have recordings from different shows on a tour.
If I move over to iCloud can I still sync two Macs (calendar and address book) as I am doing now with MobileMe? Or does iCloud only sync iOS devices?
I'm returning a Macbook Air I purchased last week at an Apple Store (not because I don't like it, I just need a bit more screen real estate) and I want to make sure I put it in an acceptable state. I'd like to remove all the data that I've put on it in the last week but I don't want to go overboard.
I'm looking at upgrade options for a Macbook 2,1 with the following specs: I'm seeing conflicting reports on various forums. Can someone tell me definitively what needs to happen to get this onto Lion? Cheers, Rob
my headphone jack output stopped working a couple days ago. As in - when I jack a cable (or headphones) the sound comes via the built-in speakers. On the installed Windows (Bootcamp) it works OK (sound coming out via headphones when jacked in). Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this? The OS is Lion, freshly updated (update after the problem first appeared).
What programs can act as a terminal and access serial ports? This is not for terminal access on an IP connection, this is so I can access a hardware device plugged into a USB/serial converter running at 9600/8/N/1.
I have been trying to use Siri to set a Geofence reminder to no avail. Apparently there seems to be some type of conflict with the phones local reminders and syncing (via Active sync) with Exchange servers in general. Siri will setup a standard reminder but review of the created task none of the Geofence options are present. I have read through Apple's forums and other 3rd party forumns. I have found a thread on Apple's forum that can be found here that involves turning off reminders and the Exchange account and enabling them on your iCloud account. Upon testing, this potential work around was unsuccessful for me (Siri still refuses to utilize Geofence options). I am currently syncing to an Exchange 2010 server (mail, contacts, calendars and reminders). Can any one provide or point to: A canonical answer as to why this occurs? Are there any potential workarounds that will allow an Exchange account and built in Siri Geofence functionality to work in tandem with each other?
I've just replaced my existing MacBook Pro with a new MacBook Air. I've got 18 months of Time Machine backups from the old computer. I'd like to configure my new computer to use the old computer's Time Machine backups, so the new computer picks up where the old one left off. Is this possible? If so, how?
My wife has iMac 27" (2009) with Snow Leopard and I want to use it as an external monitor for development on Mac mini with the latest Xcode/Lion (I don't want to upgrade the iMac to Lion to get the latest Xcode because I don't want to mess with her computer). Is it a matter of buying a Belkin mini DisplayPort-to-mini-DisplayPort cable and re-using existing keyboard and mouse? Any other issues?
I have a software problem with my Mac laptop: I had made a division in the hard drive some time ago and installed Windows in the other partition using Bootcamp software. But now I think that the Windows partition is getting full and when I try to switch from Mac to Windows, I get a message saying "inadequate system resources" and the Windows side does not boot up. Can you tell me what to do to fix this issue? Thank you very much; I'm stuck and have some important documents on my laptop.
I am new to Mac (from Linux/Windows background), I find the modifier keys very confusing. I have tried different combinations of modifier key settings but didnt get it to work as expected. Managed to get Ctrl+C/P to copy/paste but how do I do Alt+Tab to switch Windows.
I am planning to get one iPod Touch from one of my friends who is coming from US this december end. The current price of iPod 32GB is around $299. How much discount can I expect this christmas?
How can I permanently mute the start-up sound on Lion? StartupSound.prefPane isn't compatible with Lion. I found Psst, and I guess it's the best option, but it still looks like a hack. Any better ideas?
A few times now, Starcraft 2 has frozen up on my wife's Macbook Pro, but the mouse pointer still moves and the sound keeps playing. I can also SSH in from a different machine. The keyboard shortcut for force-quit doesn't work though, and nothing in-game is clickable. Command-tab won't switch windows either.
I've recently been suspecting problems with my hard disk and saw another answer here on AskDifferent recommending Drive Genius or Disk Warrior. I thought I'd start thought by using the built in Disk Utility app. How good is Disk Utility at possibly identifying hardware issue, and what do "Verify Disk" and "Repair Disk" actually do?
In Lion, the "All My Files" smart folder in finder is based on spotlight search categories. While I can see how from System Preferences->Spotlight->Search Results I can alter the order of these as well as enabled/disable categories, I cannot see how to alter the file types that go into them. I specifically want to add the Libre Office ODS file type into spreadsheets, but a generalised answer I can use for other file types is even better. I don't fear cracking out vi and editing system files.
I have a shared drive on a Mac and I keep having problems accessing different directories. For example, while logged on the server as root I create a new folder aaa on this drive. Now, I discover that a normal user cannot write to this directory. Is there a way for me to change the default permissions/ACLs so I prevent this from happening in the future. I am looking for a one-time solution, not running chmod or chown each time. Details: it seems that root is not member of staff group because when I do ls -l I see group _unknown listed for files created by root. By default the files do get only xr write for the group (drwxr-xr-x), how can I change so the group will have the same rights as the user, by default?
Is FrontRow available for Mac OS X Lion or is there some third party app which does roughly the same? I particular like about FrontRow being able to use it with my Mac Remote and I love to watch trailers / dvds. iTunes integration is not that much of importance to me, but would be a nice to have.
I would like to be able to use Finder to connect via (read-only) FTP to a IIS file server. However, I need to log in using the pattern domain\username. I've tried all the combinations I can think of to get this to work (domain\username, domain\\username, domain%5cusername) and none of them work. I have no problem connecting with the command line ftp client (though it's quirky), or any graphical clients. Has anyone been able to get this working for themselves?
I have a family member who's considering buying an iPad. The biggest needs she has is to see PowerPoint presentations with music/audio.
When I first plugged in this USB disk I told Time Machine to erase it and set it up. It has a GUID Partition Table, one 1TB partition formatted to Case-sensitive, Journaled Mac OS Extended. What can I do to have my backups run without needing intervention?
For some reason, neither Spotlight nor Alfred can find the Photo Booth app. The app clearly exists in the Applications folder, and it runs fine, but typing in Photo Booth to Spotlight only returns the folder that stores the Photo Booth images. Alfred just shows the standard "Search Google","Search Wikipedia","Search Amazon" that it shows when it can't find something. What's wrong and how do I fix it?
I wonder about the technology used by the multitouch and the pens and brushes that are sold. Is this really high technology or can we build a pen for ipad ourself ?
there are some applications that don't write cache files on the disk, instead they write into the RAM directly and thus you can't back it up, analyse it or do anything with it. How can I retrieve (that is, save on the disk) the files they are caching in the RAM ? I'll take any method: utility, script, Terminal command…
I recently installed ubuntu on a flash drive, following all of the instructions on the ubuntu website. When I started up my mac, it didn't appear in the boot menu. Has this happened to anyone else here booting their thumb drives onto their macs? If so, what did you do to fix this? (I asked this on the Ubuntu forums as well, but I thought that it would be relevant here as well)
I made some optical character recognition on a scanned PDF File. The original document contains special characters like öäü and so on. The problem is that sometimes the characters get recognized wrong (ex. ö=u), Preview will then let me highlight the character image ö but when copying the character it will output u. Can Preview show me what the actual recognized characters are without the Image?
When I am writing and I hold number pressed, as when you write the number 9999999999, a dialog appears. It ask me wether I want to write 9ª or 9º. I want none of them, I just want to write the number. This is very annoying, how can I deactivate this behaviour altogether?
When I download a PDF and open it in Preview on OS X Lion, Preview opens the last couple documents that I viewed. It seems to arbitrarily open anywhere from the last document to the last x documents. Does anyone know how to disable this feature?
I use a MyBook 1Tb FW800 drive from Western Digital as my Time Machine backup, and I also have a FW800 Lexar CompactFlash card reader. My 2011 MacBook Pro only has one FW800 port so I have to daisy-chain the two devices, which both have 2 FW800 ports each.
On all my other machines, I can type CtrlAltW to launch a web browser, CtrlAltE for an email client, etc. I have looked but haven't been able to find how to set this up on my mac. Can this be configured on a mac? Preferably without external software.
I'm listing some items for sale online, and have taken a bunch of pictures with my iPhone. About half-way through the process, iPhoto '11 stopped downloading new photos into its local Photo Stream. I've quit iPhoto and re-opened it. I've gone into the Photos app on my iPhone and confirmed all the pictures are there.
With older models, one needed only to change the hardware configuration (e.g. amount of installed RAM) and then reset PRAM three times to force a reset of the firmware password. I presume this is not possible because the MacBook Air has no user-removable parts (since RAM is soldered to the motherboard, for example) but it is not clear what alternatives exist.
On a lot of Windows keyboards there's a key to the right of the spacebar that brings up the context-menu (right-click menu) in applications (I'm running Win7). I can't seem to find a way to map this function to the VM's keyboard in Parallels. Is it even possible?
Is it possible for an extension to add items to the right click menu in Safari? If you enable developer mode, there is a menu item called "Open Page With..." and Google Chrome is a choice if it's installed. Can the Open Page With... menu get added to the right click menu, so I can use one less step when viewing a page in Chrome? Right now I'm required to load the page in safari, then choose the Chrome option, whereas I'd rather just right click on links and send them to Chrome quickly. I would make it myself if I knew how!
There is an app that can do screenshots in MacOSX Lion, what's the name? It comes from the OS, not a 3rd party app.
A few weeks after iOS 5 came out, I disabled app syncing with my phone. I still sync my media with the computer.
I can access the youtube Playlist with the default youtube application on an iOS device by tapping "More" then "Playlists", but how can I play those lists? When I tap on a playlist, it shows the list of videos included in it, and I can only play them individually one at a time. I want to play the whole list continuously. I don't connect my device (iPod Touch 4) to a computer, so I cannot use a solution that uses iTunes.
I don't have an email client set up on my PC. I'm looking for a simple way to send some text from my iPhone to my PC.
I couldn't find a way to get the back button of my Razer mouse to work with both Safari and Chrome, is there a workaround for this issue? I'm so used to surfing the web this way.
Trying to build mplayer from source for applying patches. ./configure works fine, but it leads me to this error
Sometimes I need to download very big files from the internet using torrents (I'm using Transmission) and the Wi-Fi always drops. I bought several routers and modems and none of them work. I've been having this issue a for a while (~10 years, with both Windows and Mac). Now I decided to learn a bit, and write some AppleScript which reconnects automatically:
I'm at the lock screen of Mac OS X Lion (not login, but the quick lock screen), and I know my password, but the keyboard and mouse are not connecting. I am using an iMac that did have Bluetooth on the last time I was working on it. I know that restarting the computer will probably help, but I have unsaved work on Xcode 4! Thanks in advance.
I want to backup my iPhone to my Mac with iTunes, but the problem is I cannot backup because my iPhone needs to be wiped first but I have no backup data on my Mac and I don't know how to force it to backup without wiping so I can restore my iPhone and reimport the data back to my iPhone such as messages, emails, photos, videos and music. I looked at PhoneView, it can export messages, but it cannot import anything to the iPhone, how can I import important data because I want to import my messages that I do not want to be wiped. I need an effective program or solution for this to be possible, I do not want to do illegal activities such as jailbreaking my iPhone.
I am using my 2010 i7 MacBook Pro to debug some Linux programs; but I already have a Windows partition and it would be inconvenient to create another partition for Linux, so I am using a virtual machine with VMware Fusion 3. However, it appears that I cannot set hardware breakpoints with the hbreak command from GDB inside the virtual machine, and there are times where I would rather have them. However, it does work from the host operating system, so I assume that this is a limitation of Fusion 3.
You can use the headphones button to pause or play, or skip to the next song. Has anyone figured out how to replicate this functionality on a Windows desktop or a MacBook Pro with players like Pandora or Spotify?
Long ago I bought the retail box version of Aperture and have been steadily upgrading until the current version. I no longer have the DVD, but I do have a valid license and serial number.
I have some files that were hidden on a PC. Now they live on my Mac. How can I remove the hidden property on each of these files?
After losing my connection while downloading Xcode 4.2.1, the App Store has removed it from available updates and under purchases it says I am up to date (even though the date of the my installed version is before the latest update date). I have tried to do: And then use the Debug menu item after restarting the App Store using these instructions: *=URL=* Is there any other way to directly download 4.2.1 or to force the App Store to clear its cache, short of removing Xcode entirely?
i have seen many people among my friends who have jailbroken their ipad 1. I have just bought an ipad 2 yesterday and wish to do the same . how would i jailbreak it i have also tried downloading an ios 4.3.3 firmware thanks in advance
I have a TM volume on my desk at work and I also have one at home. That way, I have a better shot of my data surviving a disaster. Right noow I have to manually change the TM volume based on where I am.
Let's say I have two spaces with a program open in space one. If I'm actively working in space two and open a file that uses the same program as what's open in space one, I get hucked back into space one. How can I make the default behavior be to open a new window of the program in the space I'm in?
I wanted to change the boot logo for my Powerbook G4 so i used MacOS X to find the location. I changed it and had to change some permissions to do so. I then restarted the computer. It reached the grey apple screen and then the blue screen...then it stopped...and never continued to the login screen. if anyone knows how i could somehow force start the computer without resetting it and without losing all of my information that would be EXTREMELY helpful.
In App Store, What is the different between Top Grossing and Top Paid?
I have a webserver running on a MBA at port 4431 and I want to access through my local network. But web sharing uses port 80 by default and I can't access to my_mba_ip:4431
Does iOS 5.0+ destroy data securely once deleted? Specifically if I delete a text message or an email from an iDevice, is said data destroyed to a point that data recovery would be unrealistic in practical terms? I understand that I can perform a full reset and doing so will erase data and restore the phone to a factory state but that is not my intention. My question is in relation to a device being used on a daily basis. This is a question of curiosity for the most part as I have been asked this by clients and I have not been able to point to a clear answer as of yet. I saw reference to this question but again it references a full restore and wipe of an iDevice with an APP and not daily use with no APP.
My MBP will sometimes drop 4 of the 8G of RAM I have after recovering from sleep or a reboot. One (or more) restarts later I'll have all 8G again. Is this a memory stick going bad? Could it be something worse?
I'm trying to setup my MacBook Pro so that I have an internal drive with one OS X installation (Lion) as well as an external installation that boots via an esata card. Everything is working great except that when I go to install software via the app store on the external installation it finds apps that are installed on the internal hard drive and won't let me re-install them on the external drive. I'm trying to keep things completely separated, any way to do this?
I have a photo set as my current iPhone wallpaper, which I would like to save. I have forgotten where I stored this file on my computer originally, so I can't easily go back to place it back on my phone. It has since been deleted from my camera roll. Is there any way to export the photo that is currently set as the wallpaper, so that I can change the wallpaper to something else, but save the other one?
When I originally set up my iTunes account, I used an email address from my prior employer. I later moved my account to a personal rather than corporate email address and I have since changed jobs. The original email address associated with my Apple account is no longer valid. In the meantime, my computer on which my original iTunes account died. Fortunately, I had my iTunes music backed up and when I purchased a new computer, I uploaded my songs. I recently tried to play an Album and an error message came up that said that this computer was not authorized to play the songs and that I would need to access my account to authorize the new computer. When I clicked through the authorization screen, my original email address came up and asked for my password. I tried several of my “usual” passwords, but none of them worked. I clicked on the “forgot my password” link and Apple gave me the option of answering a few security questions or having my password sent to my email address. Recognizing
When turn down the volume on my iPad 2 all the way down, It still makes a sound when notifications are received. Is there any way to globally disable notifications sounds ?
The times in my iCloud calendar are all wrong. The answer I found to fix this is to click on my name in top right hand corner — only problem is that my name does not appear there and I can find nowhere to access settings for the time zone. iCould currently shows "Pacific time zone" and I need it to be set to "Australian Eastern Summer time".
I miss the ability to go back to previous directory via a gesture (swipe with two finger right like in Safari or Chrome) in Finder. Is it possible to enable it? Edit: I'm on a MacBook Pro, and using the trackpad.
How do I run VNC (any flavor) from the iPhone (Jailbroken/not jailbroken)? I would like a solution to remotely manage my PC from my iPhone, I could even use an RDP client? (I'm running a number of OSes Windows XP and Windows 7 and Hackintosh 10.5.6 but I'm interested in remotely managing the Windows XP box first!)
Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator. Neither Little Snitch's network monitor nor tcpdump show any network activity during the above interactions. The same message appears (again, without network activity) after specifying "afp://1.2.3.4/share" (where 1.2.3.4 is the correct IP address of the Time Capsule and "share" is the correct name of the AFP share) in Finder's "Connect to Server..." dialog. In syslog, the following entries appear: Dec 5 22:41:17 MacbookAir Finder[123]: SharePointBrowser::handleOpenCallBack returned 22 From the command line: I suspect that this is the error which resulted in the syslog entries from Finder, but I am unable to debug further. I would welcome your thoughts and suggestions on how I might proceed!
I've got my iPhone set to use the Telegraph alert noise:  But whenever I get an alert from Twitter, I always hear three noises: Tri-tone, then Telegraph, then Tri-tone.
Does anybody know how (if possible) to print a whole conversation thread in Mail.app?
I have an iPad2 (brand new) onto which I have loaded books from the app store. Most of these books are showing a blue question make where the images should be. This includes the 'iPad User Guide" from Apple itself. In the "iPad User Guide," it also shows the following error message: This page contains the following errors: error on Line 1 at column 1: Document is empty error on Line 1 at column 1: Encoding error
I have 3 iPhones and 1 iPad. These devices are listed on the left column on my iTunes on the mac. Suppose I have the first iPhone selected on that column. Every time I select another one, I see this annoying message: where XXXX is the name of the device I had selected before.
The specs are: 2011 MBP 13" Core i7 4Gb RAM 320Gb HDD (not SSD) I use the system for work everyday, I almost always run the following: Mail.app Chrome (7-10 tabs) Terminal (2-3 sessions) Skype TextEdit (2-3 docs) Adium (5 accounts across gTalk, Jabber, MSN) Finder (1-2 windows) PGP Encrypted Drive Occasionally (less than 50% of the time) I also run: Firefox (2-3 tabs) MAMP (Apache / PHP / MySQL) LibreOffice (1-2 docs) MS Office (1-2 docs)
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Chrome (on OS X) to let me select the web page content? Sometimes after I go to a web page I want to start scrolling using my space bar but it gets stuck in a textbox or in the address bar, etc. I can hit tab many times to get to the web content but it'll cycle through all my toolbar and menu items first.
Yesterday I finally decided to upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard on my 27" iMac (mid-2010 quad i7 model) and overall everything went fine, there is just one thing that bugs me. Prior to the upgrade Snow Leopard had automagically chosen a color profile for my projector (Optoma HD100X) which I have connected to the Mini-DP port via a Mini-DP-to-HDMI adapter. This color profile worked great with the projector.
When playing Minecraft 1.0, a java-based game, when I switch the rendering options to "Far", the game shows a message saying that memory usage for the game might be too high in Far rendering mode, and that I'm running 32-bit java and should install 64-bit java for the Far mode to work properly. I can't recall ever actually installing java on this Mac at all. Is there a way for me to install 64-bit java on my Mac? This is an June/July 2011 iMac with Mac OS X Lion, all updates installed.
I am looking out for an app that can read and write NTFS partition. I am using Snow Leopard, and will update to Lion (very soon). I have heard about NTFS Mounter, but I think there will be other apps which are much better than NTFS Mounter. Please suggest a fine app, once that you have personally tried and tested.
I have a New 2011 iMac which came with the magic Mouse, I would like the option of having a trackpad as well for multi-touch gestures and scrolling up and down etc, but would also like the mouse for times when moving windows around and for programmes like Final Cut and Photoshop where for me a mouse is easier to use. Will they work together well with out interfering? obviously I will not be scrolling with one and moving with the other, I just want to switch between the two as and when I want. I would only like answers from personally experienced sources.
I'm building a HTML iPhone 4 web app, and I need to convert to iOS5 because I know safari has fresh bugs which need fixing, but I need to be able to convert back tomorrow. Is this possible?
I've updated the iOS on my iPhone 4 to 5.0.1 the baseband was also updated to 04.11.08. I've downgraded the OS it but the baseband didn't change, can someone help please?
Is there any way to just change the icon in the dock while still keeping it the same everywhere else? It's probably not going to be possible without tweaks, so are there any programs for that?
Mac Mini Server, OSX Server 10.6.8, dual drive I cloned the first hard disk (HD1) to HD2 using CCC, thus creating a bootable copy. However, now I discover that when I startup from HD2, Spotlight has been indexing only HD1.
Is there really no way to stream music from dropbox to iPad and play MORE THAN ONE song at once and without giving third parties (Boxytunes etc) my dropbox password?
I want to buy a gaming controller to play games like GTA3 from the App Store. Which controller will be most compatible with Mac OS X and games on Macs? Especially it will be useful to know if you have any experience with setting up either PS3 or Xbox controller for Mac. Update: I'm especially interested in correct functioning of the analog controls (joysticks).
I am debating between purchasing the 32 vs. 64 GB iPod touch. I would lean toward a smaller hard drive if there is an effect of size on speed or battery life. Aside from cost, are there any reasons not to get the larger memory? Specifically, is there any effect of hard drive size on speed or battery life?
I put a bunch of videos onto my iPad 2 a while ago, syncing them over iTunes. The PC that I set this up on is no longer available. All I have now is my iPad with the videos, and a new computer with a clean install of iTunes. Now it seems that iTunes wants to wipe all those videos off the iPad in order to set up a sync. Can I get these videos off the iPad somehow? (connecting the iPad as a camera doesn't help: this only shows videos shot using the iPad camera, but not the videos I recorded with my camcorder and synced over iTunes)
Remote procedure calls are considered to be a security risk. Is there a way for me to disable RPCs on OS X to make my Mac more secure?
I have an Xserve running 10.7.2 Server fully patched today. We have a valid SSL from GoDaddy installed. Lion's firewall is off, hardware firewall is not blocking any traffic.
What does the "Suggest…" menu item do? I am referring to the one that comes straight after the "Paste" item.
When iTunes is already running and I plug in my iPhone or iPad, the device appears correctly in iTunes but it doesn't sync automatically. I'm sure it always used to sync automatically on connection, but now I need to start the sync manually (i.e. by selecting the device and clicking the Sync button). Does anyone know how I can get it to sync automatically as soon as the device is connected? My details are as follows: iTunes 10.5.1.42 on Windows 7 64-bit iPhone 4 and iPad 2, both with iOS 5.0.1 iTunes > Preferences > Devices > "Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" is unchecked. For both devices, the iTunes setting "Open iTunes when this iPhone/iPad is connected" is unchecked.
If I buy an app for iPad or iPhone, then login to my account on a few other iPhones and download that app, are there any restrictions on how many devices I can install that application on? Once I've downloaded the app to the maximum amount of devices, will my restriction be lifted if I delete the app on those devices? Basically, how exactly does installing apps, with the same account, on multiple devices work?
I purchased a MacBook Pro in March of 2011. I plugged a mini-to-HDMI cable from my laptop into my Sony receiver. I have no a picture, but no sound.
I am familiar with the route add default gw command in Linux to add a default gateway, but this doesnt work on Mac OS. I cant find any appropriate example in the route manual. Can anyone help me the command.
I am in the process of trying to recover files from a failed MacBook hard drive. While I've already replaced the drive in the machine itself and installed a fresh copy of OS X, I have the old drive in an external 2.5" SATA enclosure. I am able to (very, very slowly) view the directory structure and copy files, but it's an incredibly slow process and one failed file stops the whole thing. While I know there are paid drive recovery utilities out there, I'm just looking for something that will attempt to copy all of the files and directories from within a given directory and just skip the ones that can't be copied (ideally, I'd also like to know which files get skipped, but that's not a requirement).
We have just acquired a BT home Hub router which has a USB socket. I have my music stored in an Iomega hard drive and normally plug this into the MacBook, which is a bit clumsy. ( I have told iTunes where to find my music when I am logged in. My partner uses the Mac to store her music.) I was hoping to be able to plug the Iomega into the Home Hub which would send the music to the Mac (or indeed iPad) wherever it is in the house. Does anyone know if this is possible and where I'd start; or should I just ring BT?
If one wanted to connect a firewire peripheral to a 2011 MacBook Air, one could buy Apple's Thunderbolt monitor, connect the monitor to the Air and the peripheral to the monitor. That's kind of overkill, however, for simply connecting a Firewire music keyboard. Does any other method currently exist?
How can I extract a single 'snd' resource from a classic application into a form that Mac OS X can play? I can use derez to get the snd resource out, but from there I'm not sure how to assemble it into a form Mac OS X can read. This is on Lion; I have no access to earlier Macs. Derezed,it starts like this:
When I open iTunes it opens directly to the store. How do I set iTunes to open to my music? Note: I am running Windows XP
Is there any software out there that can convert PostScript type 1 font to ttf?
It may be just me, but Apple's website seems to beat around the bush regarding the use of Airplay. I just need to know: Over wireless can I stream directly from my iPhone to an Airplay-Enabled 3rd party sound system (No AppleTV, no Airport Express, no Macbook)?
When you set up GMail on an iPhone normally, the delete icon in the mail app is replaced by an archive icon, as this is the most common action in GMail. I changed my settings to configure GMail as an Exchange account, as I wanted to enable push email for this account. But this has changed the archive icon to a delete icon. Is it possible to maintain the archive icon while it's set up as a Gmail account?
There are loads of bands on the internet offering their music as free downloads on their websites. Either as zips or direct mp3 downloads. What ways are there for iphone/ipad users to get the music playable via itunes without taking the mac/pc detour and without jailbreacking?
Whenever I wake up my mac by opening the lid, approximately 20 seconds later it will put itself to sleep again, even though I'm actively working on it. I'm guessing it's "deep sleep" (hibernation) because the indicator light turns completely off, not just blinking.
In finder, when I set the view mode as columns(cmd+3), finder will auto preview the file.But when I select doc/docx file the finder will be very slow even I cann't do anything for a while.How can I disable auto preview for doc/docx? Thx
ok - just bought a mac mini server but not sure about the best way to set it up for remote access etc. At the moment its; cable modem (has 4 ethernet ports) > airport extreme > lion server (& other machines) should it be cable modem eth1:airport extreme, cable modem eth2:lion server (& other machines connected wirelessly to airport extreme)
Whenever I send an e-mail from Mail.app to someone with Outlook, they can't read any text that is placed beneath an inline attachment. When I send an e-mail to myself from Mail.app any text that is placed beneath an inline attachment is attached as text-files. This is very annoying, does anyone know how to fix this problem?
I would like to know how to make an iPad app for free for users buying a Mac app, via the appstore. My goal is to do a promotion like "Buy Mac app and get an iPad app for free!"
My MacBook came with Snow Leopard installed and it came with "recovery" DVDs, I upgraded to Lion via the App Store. I had a problem with my MacBook -- the Apple Genius concluded I needed to do a full clean reinstall of Lion.
I am looking to purchase a Speaker docking system for an iPad2, I also want to be able to use a 6th generation iPod Nano with the same dock connection. Is the connection on the iPad 2 the same as the connection on the iPod Nano?
Two years ago my MacBook Pro A1150 Core Duo 15" died. How? Basically the MagSafe will stay green, but the machine will not power on. The DVD drive will make some noise, but it will do nothing else.
The old method that works for Leopard/Snow Leopard doesn't work any more on Lion: Has something changed or does anyone have some good workarounds?
I tried to search the energy saving settings but there is nothing related to this... I would like to see how to prevent this behavior.
I am an Apple newbie, I want to know how I can add a desktop button that takes me to the Desktop either in the Dock or in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
We bought a 27" iMac for our CEO. And we brought in some consultants to hook it up to our windows Active Directory using ADmitMac. Back when we were on 10.6.x things were hunky dory. But then our CEO upgraded to 10.7 and the fun started.
I currently find my new computer a bit slow when it comes to my number crunching requirements. Also, I find my computer painfully slow when it's running VirtualBox.
However, I still have 10 GB of 'inactive' memory while a process is using ~25 GB of swap. My machine has 32 GB RAM and a single process is using 21GB Real Mem / 24 Private / 34 virtual.
I normally switch around my virtual desktops using the ctrl+num. Now, Exposé shows all the desktops and the fullscreen app whereupon clicking the fullscreen app rectangle will take me back to it. I'd rather do so via keyboard nav. cmd+tab doesn't work for me because I'm doing this with VMware where I have multiple windows open, one is fullscreen, others are not. cmd+tab seems to land me on whatever VMware window it randomly chooses.
I recently upgraded to the iPhone 4s from my 3gs. I do not want to sell my 3gs as I would like to keep it as a 32gb iPod essentially.
I am looking for a decent RSS reader app that would double up as an archiver. It would let me flag any posts that I find valuable for PERMANENT storage in a database. Even when the blog is no longer online, this application would let me browse and read the articles I've saved, for YEARS to come.
If I turn a headphone plug around in the headphone jack, it makes really loud and weird creaking noises. I just want to make sure that my Macbook Air isn't the only one which does that. I already had a close look into the jack, but nothing seems to be wrong with it.
The flop: I was running a linux VM under VMware Fusion 3 on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard laptop. The VM was located on an external hard drive. The laptop battery died and the system went down.
With two user accounts running simultaneously with fast user switching, is there any issue in running say 10 apps simultaneously in each account? I have a personal setup and one I use for when I'm at work so that I can create two full workspaces that have different accounts/preferences, etc. But I like to be able to fast user switch between the two. In each account I have Mail, iChat, Reeder, Safari, Skype, iCal, iTunes, iWork open all at the same time. I used to do that on my old Macbook, but I would only have one account logged in at a time. Now with my new Macbook Air, it seems so far that it's ok handling all of those apps running at the same time in both accounts.
Safari (the desktop variant) shows an RSS button in the address bar for any page with an associated RSS (or Atom) feed. Clicking that button opens the RSS feed in your chosen feed reader application (Safari by default).
ok, my original question was pretty much the same as this one: Changing a file or folder icon using the Terminal, but now that I see the commands, my secondary question is with a .png file, (or any other graphic format) how do I change it to a .rsrc file, as required b
I use an Exchange account to sync my Gmail account to the iPhone's mail app. Recently (the past 2 days or so), every time I try to open the account I get an error that says my password is incorrect. I've reentered the password several times with no luck; I've even verified the password by opening up gmail on my laptop, so I know the password is correct. This problem was outlined on the FeldThoughts blog, so I tried following his advice to unlock the captcha in google apps, but that didn't do anything either. Is there anything else I can do?
I have a mac mini 2011 with OSX Lion. And I have connected my monitor (with integrated speakers) through hdmi port. The sound is working fine, but the volume keys on the keyboard don't work. When I press one of them the volume image appears on the screen but with a prohibited signal. Is there a way to fix this and make my keyboard keys change the system volume? By the way, they work very well when I use another audio output device
I got my Mac back from a repair shop that recovered my files from a corrupted partition and then reinstalled Snow Leopard. When I booted it up Keychain complained about my password. I know my old password but it said it was incorrect. I canceled and that logged me in. I went into Keychain Access and tried Preferences > Reset My Default Keychain. It asks for a new password, which I gave, but it responded that it was “incorrect” as well.
I have several bookmarks for finance.yahoo.com. Each bookmark lists a series of stock tickers that I am watching. I gave the bookmark unique names that makes them easy to identify (e.g. "$-Investments".)
I am new to this. Is there any script that analyzes and creates an XML files the entire file structure of any external hard drive that is connected to the computer,including all the fill names in all the folders.And i want to store the xml document to the computer even after removing the hard drive. Can anyone help me by giving an idea or a tutorial or link which will me? Thank you
When using Android and ZXing for reading QR codes, one can open the link *=URL=* to start the/a QR reader app (as mentioned here at zxing) Are there any similar ways to activate a QR reader from an URL for iPhone?
When writing an email, I want the picture I insert to be formatted (add shadow or border for example). How to do this ? When right-clicking the picture, I only have basic options:
I would like to disconnect from my WiFi network on OS X Lion without having the computer to forget the network. So basically I'm looking for a way to just disconnect and connect to a specific WiFi network at will. How do I do this?
This would make more sense to me, given my "other" data. Next, I decided to turn local backups on again with sudo tmutil enablelocal. The overview now changed into the following:
I tried to share my iPhoto library with putting it into my sharing folder. I changed the permissions, so the other users can use it. Now they can use it, but if they add new photos, i cannot edit them. They were displayed, but if I try to edit the, there is only a black screen instead of the picture.
Ever since upgrading my iPhone to iOS 5 (currently at 5.0.1), I've noticed that a few websites that I regularly visit get stuck in a constant redirect loop and never show up. It's only sites that require logging in as a first step. The two sites that I can think of off the top of my head where this happens are: Oreilly Books Online (Safari) FT.com Though I have seen this on more than just these two sites.
I'm trying to run the Xmonad window manager in X11 on OSX lion, I load Xmonad at x11 startup, and X11 just crashes, sometimes it does not. I'm just wondering how I can view some kind of error log to ascertain why it is crashing. Solution: The log file I needed was system.log in /private/var/log/system.log Thanks for the help
My earphones would not longer go all the way in / click into the earphone jack on my (out of warranty) iPhone 3GS. The sound was fine but the earphones fell out with the slightest knock.
I'd like to set the PATH shell variable for all users, but could not find where it is defined. Having no export PATH in my .bash_profile, I have this: Where is this the PATH shell variable defined?
I'm quite sure that I read, in more than one place, that one of the features of iOS 5 was to be delta updates for apps. However, the massive download that was required for an update to Infinity Blade II (a great example of just the sort of app delta updates would be tremendously useful for) suggests to me that its update was done the old way, by a complete download of the entire new version of the app.
To help and teach older relative of mine who is on Windows XP I would like to have solution comparable to iChat's Screen Sharing. Which means I can ask them for sharing their desktop with me (or get invitation from them) and to get full control over their computer with simultaneous audio chat while they can see what is on the screen and take control when they want/need.
Is there any FREE real SSH apps for iOS 5. There should not be any jailbreaking. I wanted something like these: iPhone SSH clients reviewed: iSSH, pTerm, and TouchTerm Three SSH terminal apps for iPhone I want to use an online shell.
What cables can be connected to the 30 Pin connector on Iphone 4S? I mean to say; what output, input, audio, video, usb.... does it support.
I have a machine at work that I sometimes like to connect to using screen sharing, but I don't want anyone else in the office to be able to see what I'm doing. I also don't want to give them access to the computer - I password-lock my screen with a screen saver when I'm not at the machine, but when I log on with screen sharing, I have to disable this lock. So, is there any way to prevent the original screens from becoming active while using screen sharing?
I bought my AppleTv a couple of weeks ago (Black Friday) got it set up and running just fine. I've been enjoying Netflix and video podcasts, overall its been great. Then unexpectedly starting sometime yesterday and with increasing frequency today I've been getting the error:
On my iPad and iPhone I have several email accounts: three Gmail and one Exchange account. I stopped using the Exchange account and tried to remove it from the iPhone, but also all my contacts were deleted. On the iPad the Exchange account is still configured and the contacts are still there. Is there a way to transfer all contacts into iCloud and distribute it again on the iPhone (and my MacBook)?
Is it possible to perform advanced searching on the native iPhone Gmail client? Search for mail containing "some string" or mail sent by, from?
I stupidly forgot the password to my MacbookPro. I have locked single user mode 2 weeks ago (for security reasons). How can I unlock single-user mode to get my password back? Thanks guys :D
I want to do a demo of an iPhone optimised WebApp using my MacBook Air with a local server, so I don't have to depend on getting an internet connection or WiFi access from my client. The Air is running Lion 10.7.2 and the iPhone is on iOS 5.0.1. When I create a network on the Mac I can join from the iPhone, but when I open "*=URL=* in Safari, it doesn't work. Strangely it doesn't seem to utilize the WiFi, as the indicator never appears (but shows connected in the Settings app).
The mp3 files themselves play fine in VLC. How can I get iTunes to normally recognize the new files?
I'm working with Profile Manager in Lion Server 10.7.2 I want the user to be prompted during the installation, not set the value here. To have the user prompted both fields need to be left blank. The User field, however, requires a value. Is there a workaround? Also we are using Google Exchange as our exchange server.
I try to use an external projector on an mid 2011 iMac running Snow Leopard. The iMac is connected to the projector using a VGA adapter. DVI is out of the question as the beamer supports VGA only.
I have pretty good eyes, and I'd like to be able to see more than 5 emails at a time in the list view. I realize I can reduce the number of preview lines, but I want to keep the preview and just make everything smaller. Seriously, the from labels are huge.
10.6.8. Hold down Cmd+S throughout the entire boot process. It always goes to the regular login screen and starts doing the "stop holding down buttons" chime. Why?
We changed recently our Hosting provider. How can we remove the old IMAP account in Apple Mail without loosing any Mails and have them uploaded to the new server including all IMAP folders? Thanks, Aldo
I just bought a SSD For my MacBook Pro. It is running Lion. I have a time capsule with a full backup, as well as an image of the entire drive I created stored on a network drive. How do I copy everything from the current drive to the new SSD? I don't have any cables, i.e. a USB to SATA, is this possible? Is there a way if I install the SSD and boot into a safe mode, and load Disk Utility, and then simply load the image backup from the network drive? Thanks for the help.
No, this isn't a "who's buried in Grant' tomb" question. Rather: How much space for apps, music, etc is available on a fresh-out-of-the-box 16GB iPad? My 64GB iPad says that its "capacity" is 58.12 GB, which suggests that almost 8GB is taken up by disk formatting and the OS. That wouldn't leave much for other stuff on a 16GB. I'm providing "pre-sales tech support" for a price-sensitive relative; any data out there? Thanks!
Has anyone got Memtest86 4.0a working from boot on this hardware? If not what do you guys use to test RAM without loading OS X?
I have noticed that - even with email push turned off, running the App Store on my iPad 2 would push any new mail on the Exchange server to me. This could have been the case previously but it is incredibly apparent now with the way iOS 5 handles notifications.
By just launching a MIDI file it will play by default using QuickTime Player 7, but the volume is rather low and the sound is far from polished. How can I ask QuickTime player 7 (or any other application) to send the MIDI stream to GarageBand. I have already done it from EarMaster to GarageBand and the difference is spectacular, but no option in QuickTime Player lets me select the IAC Driver.
Sometimes, if my iOS device (ipad or ipod touch) is acting sketchy or slow, I will bring up the multitasking bar (double-press the home button) and then remove items from that multitasking bar (do a long touch on one until they jiggle, then press the red delete spot on them.) I imagine that this is somehow saving memory or freeing up the device somehow.
No matter which combination of icon size, spacing, font size I use for the desktop Finder view, the info for my drives on my Mac Mini hooked up to my TV (1080p) shows up as: 999.85 GB, ...06 GB free instead of 999.85 GB, 152.06 GB free I've even made a screenshot:
I want to connect eletro acoustic guitar and a speaker too to my Macbook. My Macbook has only one 3.5 mm jack and for connecting 2 devices simultaneously I need to have two 3.5 mm jacks. Is there any way to connect both devices?
So, YouTube application doesn't work. What I mean by that is that it won't playback any videos, nor will it log me into the YouTube so I can't see my subscriptions, or my videos/playlists, etc.
Boot Camping with a 3rd partition (I know it's non-standard) for data sharing/ease of reinstallations, and possibly to keep applications too… Options are exFAT or NTFS-3G. I went with exFAT originally because it's native and I'd rather not rely on 3rd party drivers for my critical files. However now I'm wondering if I'll run into any issues down the road with regard to permissions, since exFAT doesn't support POSIX ACL—and neither does NTFS; it has its own similar thing, but the advanced [I'm assuming unstable] NTFS-3G add-on can supposedly map between the two. Is that a better bet? If I do ls -al in Terminal on the exFAT drive I get Mac owners, groups, etc., but I don't know where any of those are coming from. What's the best way to go on this?
When I highlight several folders in Finder and do a get info, I get an info window for each folder. Is there a way to get a single window showing size of all folders highlighted?
My 15 inch MacBook Pro recently has horizontal stripes on the screen. It looks like this: *=URL=* It happens randomly and sometimes it gets worse (flickering with horizontal lines,stripes) Does anyone know what might cause this and how to fix it? No such issue during the past year...it has just started happening since yesterday.
I'm debating purchasing iTunes Match to sync my music between my desktop, laptop and work computer. The only issue I have is that my laptop doesn't have enough space to download all the music I have purchased on iTunes. Is it possible to have it download a subset of my music or does it have to download everything?
First I tried waiting a couple of minutes, but the process didn't stop. Rebooting the machine seems to always fix the problem, but that's not exactly my preferred solution for this problem.
I am looking for a simple solution that would enable my MacBook Pro to read smartcards and use them with Cisco AnyConnect VPN solution. Do you know what cards are supported on OS X Lion?
What is the recommended way to get rid of a whole TimeMachine archive (aka Backups.backupdb)? Using Disk Utility to erase the whole disk is not an option.
I want to change dock view so I downloaded an icontainer file that should contain files to replace some in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Resources... But how to extract files from icontainer files?
when I press command-Tab to get the task switcher icons, to let me change the foreground program, I am seeing that after a little while, the icons are badly miscolored. Anybody else seeing this bug? Thanks.
I've recently seen third-party apps like Smultron and iA Writer mentioning in their Mac App Store descriptions that they support iCloud syncing. Are the files saved to iCloud via these apps accessible from icloud.com? How do they appear? Are they downloadable to e.g. a PC for which the app that saved the file is unavailable? I'm asking whether or not I am able to access the files with my credentials from (any) web-terminal, all foil hats aside.
I'm wondering if it is possible to set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme based home network. Specifically, I'd like to block just rad.msn.com, and I need to do that at the network level.
A coworker of mine has recently noticed that for any person with whom he has a long SMS history, and with whom iMessage routing has started, the messaging logs with that person are now being truncated. He can only hit the "load more messages" button five times before it hits the apparent end of the logs. Is anyone else noticing this? No one with whom I share that much history has upgraded to iMessage yet.
I wonder if this could allow us to have Chax functionality on Lion. I've got iChat 5.0.3 from a Snow Leopard install: the next step would be to install Chax over it.
Even with latest iOS 5.0.1 some 4s users do encounter huge battery drains (1-2%/minute) even when they are doing nothing with the phone. Is it a hardware or a software issue? Should I get a refund? Update: The phone was bought 3 days ago from Apple Store in London, UK. Last night when the phone battery went to 10% the phone just shut down automatically, like other were doing when the battery was reaching 2%.
I'm currently using mamp instead of web sharing and I'm trying to figure out the best approach to share php and mysql web application that I'm working on to clients. What is the best way to do this?
How can I use ipfw (or another tool, if one is available) to allow unlimited access between computers on my LAN, but not allow access to the Internet? (The IPs on my local LAN are 192.168.0.xxx)
I am new to Mac coming from Ubuntu Linux background. How do I find out what packages are available for Homebrew? With Ubuntu I could search packages.ubuntu.com for example, or Google since its using apt
I've noticed an enormous number of Safari crashes since switching to Mac OS X Lion, especially the new "reload all windows" crashes that leave Safari slow and unstable. Any tips for handling those more gracefully?
I have an iMac27 run Lion, now I buy a cinema display 27, but at display setting only main screen have brightness adjust controller. And use keyboard to adjust screen brightness also only change main screen.
I am currently using XP on my laptop, which has the iTunes library. I use it to sync my iPod/iPad.
I've hooked up my new Mac Mini to my 47" LG tv with an HDMI cable. Everything works fine, however there's one problem: I get this weird white glow around text (especially "os x native text") like this:
I have an iPod touch (8gb) which currently has iOS 4.2.1. I thought the latest version was 4.3, but it's not upgrading. When I go to iTunes, I click on 'Check for update' and it says I have the latest version. Am I doing something wrong, or is the new version just not available for my iPod?
I would like to have all applications names displayed without the .app extension in Spotlight or Alfred. Reeder for example is listed as "Reeder", whereas Sparrow is listed as "Sparrow.app". Which setting determines whether the file extension is visible or not in applications like Spotlight and Alfred?
I've got a 27" iMac 2.93Ghuz Intel Core i7 running 10.7.2. Anytime I reboot (like for some software updates), it gets stuck at the gray startup screen (no Apple logo). If I press and hold the power, turn it off, then turn it on, it boots as normal.
I'm trying to get LAMP working on OSx Lion and am having a little trouble. Have Apache, MySQL, and PHP set up and working just fine. Have turned on "Website" under sharing in Settings. Removed the original ~/user_name/Sites folder and created a symbolic link of Sites to a directory withint ~/user_name. Now when I try to run *=URL=* I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~user_name on this server. Where and how do I change these permissions?
I'd like to swap the hard drives of two Macbook Pros. One is a Core 2 duo model from 2010, the other a 2011 i5 model. Will this work? I just want to save time and not go through a lengthy data copying process.
I have a custom label in my Address Book cards (to indicate the name I'd like to appear on a label, e.g. The Smith Family). I'm on Lion (so that's Address Book version 6.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.2). When I go to print the labels, File > Print > Mailing Labels I can't change it from using the Name (Prefix - First Name - Surname). Before I set off trying to export this to a mail merge and use a much more complicated method, is there a way of doing this within Address Book? I found this hack which suggests adding the label as the Company Name, because that is an option to print, but some of the people have actual company names, so that isn't going to work for me.
Anyone familiar with the internals of Linux knows about NSS; it's the subsystem that services, like gethostname() and such, delegate to. The code that actually makes DNS queries or reads /etc/passwd, etc., is in the form of NSS modules. Furthermore, additional NSS modules can be compiled and linked to, allowing developers to provide different ways to lookup hosts, users, etc.
I've got Logitech G9x mouse. Gaming mouse. Great mouse. Logitech doesn't support it under MacOS X. Mouse works perfectly (as far as I can see ) with standard Mac OS driver. (ie right/left/middle buttons and scroll works. What doesn't work are thumb buttons. I've got used to them to go back/forward while browsing, etc. Couple options I've tried, none helped.
I use three keyboard layouts (three input sources), and I chose to show the source in the toolbar (I mean the main bar at the top). Since I moved to Lion, in addition to the icon for the input source (usually the flag of the country speaking that source) it also shows the name (which takes a lot of precious space). I choose the "Hide Input Source Name" from the menu and the name goes away until I reboot. Any solutions?
The wireless router I'm connecting to does not have any encryption. If you log in from a computer and open a browser, you are prompted with a password request. How do you access this type of network from an Apple TV? EDIT: I don't have access to the router or a wired connection; the router belongs to the condo.
Is there an equivalent to the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder on Mac OSX and or iOS?
Is there any way, without jailbreaking, to open java applets on websites on an iPhone? I want to open a java based online ssh service (applet) : *=URL=* I will be using it from Usermin (Webmin). Is there a free solution?
On the Apple product site it says the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic aren't compatible with an iPhone 3G. I would assume, though, that the headphones and the mic will work, but the remote control buttons might not. However, the more basic version works with a 3G; these feature just one button to answer or end a call. So the main button of the more advanced earphones might work as well? Has anybody ever used the combination of an iPhone 3G and the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic and can report on their compatibility?
Well i'm a bit confused. Cause I heard that the purple areas are because its backed up in an external HD. Then why doesn't the purple areas turn white ( white= available i think) when i connect my ext.HD? Shortly, how is it possible to access the purple areas? Thanks in advance..
How do you reset screen zoom to zero? I mean the one you do with control-mouse wheel, I know you can reset it with the wheel again until it gets to 1:1 but it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to make it 1:1 Is there?
I recently got a macbook air and am getting used to the mac os interface... Liking it so far but still relearning how to do some basic stuff. For example, right clicking on VLC, and all the pr0n I've been watching comes up! Don't want to risk that popping up if someone else is using my computer for a few moments.
[Turns out this is known bug #9536151] I have a strange issue with Quicklook in Lion. This is on a clean install and happens with more than one user. It also isn't fixed if I clean out the Quicklook cache in /var/folders I have to push the spacebar twice to get Quicklook to work properly. The first time the usual Quicklook 'window' appears but it is blank:
I just bought an Airport Extreme thinking it was easy to share a USB disk. I'm very disappointed that this is taking so much time and still not working.
that OS X does not connect to the internet on my regular internet connection, or at all, during boot (until the login screen, for time synchronization and other possible "call home" stuff etc.). What services, if any, try to do this, and how can I practically analyze and change what's going on with networking during boot? Is there a way to connect to VPN earlier than right after login?
I buy many apps and I'd like to let my little cousin use my account to download games I've purchased. Obviously Apple won't encourage accounts holders to share their accounts with relatives but what's the risk of doing so? I use my account on my iPhone and my iPad and he's got an iPad 2.
MacKeeper (and other sites) adverts pop up on some video sites which I find very irritating. Is there any way to block specific URLs in Safari?
For some inexplicable reason, I decided to delete (not hide) Spotlight from my Mac via a terminal command. I downloaded the 10.7.2 update, hoping it would fix this by redownloading Spotlight, but it did not. This is what happens when you give an idiot access to the terminal. For reference, I this is my menubar right now:
They are advertised all over Kijiji and Craigslist - just wanted to make sure that the 3rd generation only came in 32 and 64GB.
AirPlay is a great feature for stream audio/video to iOS devices, but can you stream live video? For example, instead of recording the video and then streaming it, can you just stream on the fly? I want to shoot video with an iPad and stream it to an Apple TV on the same network.
I have an external hard drive connected to macbook. When I am listening to music and my mac is not in sleeping mode everything is fine, but after 15 min. when display is turning off and music is still playing my hard drive has very weird behavior - it looks like it turning on/off every 40 seconds 'to load a little bit of music and continue sleeping' making simultaneously ugly sounds/snaps. I don't remember the same behavior when I used Windows.
I am attempting to install a VMware Fusion virtual machine with Windows 2008 R2 server, but I'm having problems with the ISO file I downloaded. I want to verify that the file is correct before attempting the installation, and the download page at Microsoft MSDN downloads mentions that the file has a SHA-1 checksum of X. So, I googled on how to verify the SHA-1 digest for a file, and found this page: Mac OS X: How to verify a SHA-1 digest ... openssl sha1 [full path to file]
I've recently started using Path for iOS. I changed the Cover image used, the one behind the activity, but how on earth can I reset it back to what it was when I downloaded the app, I can only now choose from my photo library.
So I'm trying to skate this through as on-topic because I'm interested in items specific to the Air 11" or 13", rather than "what's a good laptop case". (I.e. third party hardware specific to Apple products.)
I installed the Charles web proxy, now if I start VPN and without starting Charles, I cannot browse the web. The web browser says proxy error. But i unchecked all the proxy in web connections.
The iOS Calendar app dynamically changes every day, showing the current date and weekday. Are there any other dynamic icons, either provided by Apple or 3rd parties?
I've recently acquired a MacBook Pro. It's a 13 inch model which comes with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 display card. I've had a few issues lately (such as flickering graphics in certain games and on youtube when hardware acceleration is used), and what I would do on a Windows machine is simply download and install the latest drivers to see if that helps.
The menu bar is in the way so I can't pull one of my windows there. I had to move the bar up to that monitor as well so it wouldn't be in the way.
I'm using Sidestep to securely connect the Internet from everywhere I am. I have my own server as an SSH proxy. But I'm facing trouble with Transmit which doesn't seem to use the proxy settings defined by Sitestep.
I'm looking for the file that contains all the Time Machine exclusions entered in its Options dialogue. I know that (some of?) the scheduling related settings are stored in the com.apple.backupd-*.plist files at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons but I haven't been able to find the exclusions.
I read that iPad2 graphics is faster than iPad. I would like to know how much is iPad2 faster than iPad at PDF rendering.
What's the location (path) of these icons/buttons for OSX Lion? what is the width, height? What is it called? Finder Icon or Finder Button ?
I have 2 email accounts on my iPhone and iPad, a work and personal. I have edited a signature for my work account but can only seem to have one signature. I also use Mail.app on OSX which lets me change between accounts that automaticly reply/send with the correct signature. The iOS app doesn't seem to match a signature to an account rather it looks as though it attaches the signature to the iPhone. Is there a way to add another signature to Mail?
Startup in safe mode - fails with the following error: ** The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. /dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8 .... disk0s2: I/O error. Invalid node structure (4,1211) ... fsck failed! Kext loading now disabled. Kext unloading now disabled Kext autounloading now disabled. Kernel requests now disabled. Can't get kextd port. syncing disks... Killing all processes continuing Startup in safe mode - fails with the following error: ** The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. /dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8 .... disk0s2: I/O error. Invalid node structure (4,1211) ... fsck failed! Kext loading now disabled. Kext unloading now disabled Kext autounloading now disabled. Kernel requests now disabled. Can't get kextd port.
My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the options in the Desktop preferences (in the Apple section, anyway.) I'm assuming the graphic exists somewhere, and if I know where I can choose it from the folders. Can anyone tell me where this graphic is saved or what its filename is?
Is Apple TV Full HD? I need to stream video to my TV wirelessly, but necessarly need to be Full HD to use all the TV resolution.
I'd like to use the half-qwerty keyboard layout on my mac, without actually buying any (ridiculously priced) hardware. I found a auto-hotkey script, but that appears to be windows-only. Are there any alternatives?
I have an iPad2 with me and I can't turn it on. Here are the behavior; Not shown in iTunes/Device Manager (I have Windows XP SP3) The sleep button will not show the slider to close the iPad.
I want to exclude some firewall notices and certain benign error messages from the system logs. They occur every few seconds and make it hard to find real problems, especially when the files get rotated away.
In Snow Leopard Server I was able to add lines to the Apache vhost files in /etc/apache2/sites in order to add custom configuration options. In Lion Server those changes are overwritten as soon as the Web service is restarted. Is there any way to add such configuration options in a way they'll be preserved?
I would like to know how long (in milliseconds) does it take for the iPad/iPad2 to render a PDF page. Every page and every PDF are different, of course. I am interested in average figures if you have any or can measure it, for any PDF's that are technical books.
Suppose I want to develop for iPad or iPhone. Can I release the code of this application on a public git repo, and under an opensource license ? (side comment: I consider shocking that I have to ask such a question, since the software is mine, but considering the times we live in...)
I just upgraded to Lion and find now that my ssh keys are not working properly when trying to log into various servers via SSH. I've checked permissions on the ~/.ssh directory and the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and they are properly set to 0700 and 0600 respectively. What can I do to fix this issue? Here is a sample of the ssh connection process:
Tomorrow I am going to buy a OCZ Vertex 3 (240GB) and then I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro (late 2011) and install a fresh Lion system without copying any files with SuperDuper etc. Now I would like to know, whether it is necessary to flash the SSD via Windows (as I've sometimes...) before plugging it in to the MacBook. Furthermore I would like to know whether I can install Lion without the need to pay the 23€ in the "AppStore of the Installer" (wanted to create bootable USB stick with Lion Installer on it - otherwise I must do the "Packages"-hack to prevent from online-check/download) as I have bought my MacBook only a few days ago with Lion shipped on it. Last but not least, any further advice or things I must pay attention of?
Is there a way on the iPhone that a certain subset of incoming emails (coming through Exchange) will ring a specific ringtone (a real one, not just a beep)? In the Blackberry world, you would set an email filter that marks these emails as priority 1, and have a different ringtone for priority 1 messages. I'm hoping to accomplish the same thing with an iPhone. Thanks
What is the easiest/quickest way using an iMac to scan the ISBN number of a bunch books. Non-paying (for software, or dedicated scanner device) preferred, although low-cost solutions might be considered.
I've got a G4 Mac Mini that is running 10.5.8 and the latest version of Skype (v 5.3) will not install on my machine because it is Intel only. What is the last version that would work on PowerPC?
I worked with iPhoto for a while, tagging photos with faces. Now when I view my own faces, I see "Steven Fisher may be in 8 additional photos."
I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find this feature anywhere now. Has it been removed or is it hidden somewhere else?
I recently upgraded to Lion. X now takes a couple of minutes to load. Anybody know what to change to make this go faster?
I would like my app to be launched if the user clicks on a custom URL within an MMS, this is working for SMSs but I would like to test it using an MMS. Does anybody know of any tools available that would enable me to create and send an MMS to the iPhone, with the MMS containing a mixture of images and the url as a clickable link from within the MMS? (it doesn't have to be sent from on an iPhone, I'm just looking for any way at all to get an MMS onto the iPhone containing an image and a clickable url link). Thanks
I have Mac OS X Lion installed on FileVault partition. On the same disk I've installed GNU/Linux. When I boot my MacBook I can only boot Lion. How to boot Linux? In case you need here is more details about my setup. MacBook Pro 13" (8,1) - MC724LL/A (2.7 GHz) Partition setup: Microsoft Basic Data is in fact Linux Ext4 root partition, no idea why on diskutil listing looks like that.
On my iPad, I accidentally deleted my calendar named with my apple id, thinking i didnt need it. Now, it wont allow me to sync my phone or the iPad with Cloud Calendar... it doesnt even appear as an option in the iTunes sync on my PC.. only Outlook is a sync option. How can I restore that apparently important calendar so I can sync between all my devices again??
In Snow Leopard I blocked malware sites by editing the hosts file - /private/etc/hosts. I cannot get it to work the same way in Lion, in spite of reading up on the various issues people are reporting for Lion and hosts. For example, to block 0fees.net: sudo nano /private/etc/hosts then add 127.0.0.1 0fees.net to the beginning of the hosts file (instead of at the end, which was the usual way pre-Lion). dscacheutil -flushcache (though most authors say this is not required). To test: ping 0fees.net
There is a new option in the power management system preference to "restart automatically if the computer freezes". How does this work exactly?
i just got my hands on lion after some years in previous mac versions. There is a feature in finder that i absolutely hate though. When i select Arrange By -> Date Modified, for instance, i get a categorized, incredibly inefficient view. Is it possible to get what i would normally get on leopard, just a list of last modified files, without the horrendous categories ?
Last night I was still using my iPhone 3GS to play Kart Rider Rush game. My iPhone was still on 80% battery. Then in the middle of my game, my iPhone gradually gets heated up a lot and then it automatically shuts down. I thought maybe the iPhone just needs to cool down and left it on my table.
Can anybody clarify the availability of multitasking on an iPhone 3G? I went through several documents in Apple's HI guidelines, which state that: Multitasking is available on certain devices running ios4 and later.
I am trying to get Meld onto my OS X 10.6.8 box using MacPorts 2.0.3 and am not having success. When I look at /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgnomeui/libgnomeui/main.log it has a line like...
In Safari 5.1 on my Mac, the Downloads button appears on the toolbar at the right of the search bar when you download a file for the first time:  I want to move that button elsewhere on the toolbar, so I open View > Customize Toolbar... and drag it to where I want it. The other toolbar controls move to make way for the new spot, but when I drop it, nothing changes; the Downloads button returns to its original position.
I often move between Ireland, Germany/Switzerland (same timezone) and Israel. I use MobileMe, iCal and (two) iPhones. The problem is that Apple's calendar applications seem to assume that everything I do involves conference calls which happen at the same time in physical reality and hence in different times in each time zone.
I really like the auto-hide feature of the dock in Mac OS X. However, the animation for the dock to reappear is just a bit too slow for me. Since this is quite annoying, I disable the feature. Is it possible to manually shorten the time for the dock to reappear?
I have a snow-leopard os-x Server configuration running postfix with no local firewall on the X-Serve. When a client attempts to connect to the SMTP port the connection takes about 15 seconds to accept the connection and get the smtp id string back. Does anybody have any idea what the delay could be. telnet smtpserver 25 takes 15 seconds externally telnet localhost 25 is almost immediate Using tcpdump on incoming firewall (separate host) and smtp server for the port shows that the connection is being passed through almost immediately but the response is very slow in coming back. Thanks for the support.
I have downloaded WWDC 2010 podcast from iTunes. How can I find the Podcast file and save it to a USB Memory stick so people who doesn't have iTunes can play it using quicktime?
I want to create an exact duplicate of an audio CD on my Mac (Lion). Is there a way that does not involve to import the CD into iTunes? I just don't want to remember that I have to delete the tracks after copying. And I'm not sure if importing and burning again really creates an exact copy. (Track gaps preserved, and so on)
This question fits somewhere between server fault, stackoverflow and askdifferent. I am installing some web apps on my Lion server using webappctl, which hooks into apaches vhost configs to setup up a reverse proxy (simply mod_proxy). It uses launchd to start the server, in my case unicorn serving a Ruby on Rails app, listening on TCP port 5000. I use RVM (mixed-mode) to facilitate in separate ruby versions and gemsets for each webapp. The problem lies with RVM and launchd, and the complete environment not being available for launchd. I tried to start from launchd using /bin/bash -l -c 'unicorn_rails -l 5000' but that gave me bash usage errors in the logs. Any suggestions for making RVM play nice with launchd?
MacBook Air 11" - Mid 2011 My MacBook is not reconnecting to the wireless network on wakeup. Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?
This was working earlier today, but suddenly didn't work when I tried to play music in iTunes. I open iTunes, select a track, click play, the track doesn't play. The play button toggles between pause and play, but there is no sound and the position status bar does not move. So I dropped a little lower level: Tried restarting the coreaudio daemon. Still nothing. Failing applications: Quick Look in Finder Quick Time Youtube content in Google Chrome
I got used to switching between open windows in an application on my other mac (US keyboard: command + tilde. This doesn't really work on swiss german keyboards, since the tilde is generated with: alt + n. Pressing command + alt + n behaves the same as command + n, that is, the applications tend to open new windows instead of cycling existing ones. Any tips?
I have just got the new iphone 4s and when I am trying to sync it with my itunes it is not being recognised. I have downloaded the new itunes twice so I am sure it is up to date. Does anyone have any other solutions I can try?
I'm trying to find a relatively cheap Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable that also supports sending audio to an HDTV. Cables from Monoprice are out of the question, since they don't ship to Romania and I'd rather not spend $40 for a cable sold by an Apple authorized reseller.
Until Snow Leopard URL files (.webloc files that you get when you drag a URL onto the desktop) opened with OmniWeb on my computer and some URLs were configured to open with Safari. After upgrading to Snow Leopard all URL files open with "Finder" which then proceeds to open the standard browser (OmniWeb) for them. I tried changing the association, but Snow Leopard insists that these files be opened with OmniWeb via Finder.
I would like to know if turning on FileVault affects TimeMachine Backups; if yes how? (E.G. Do the backups become encrypted? etc.)
With iCloud I've found the notes app super handy now that it easily syncs to my iPhone and iPad. It also syncs to my mac via Mail.app, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to access and edit notes that doesn't require opening my email. Any way to do this?
I'm reading a book in Preview (Lion) and i've highlighted some parts. Is there any way to remove this formatting for printing or sending this book?
At my job I have just switched from Windows to a Mac. I already have a MacBook Pro with all the tools for software development set up. I would like to skip the painful setup process at my work computer and just somehow "clone" my MacBook Pro installation to my new Mac Mini that I got at work - all the apps, settings, files etc.
I'm planning on reinstalling Mac OS Lion, but I don't have the MS Office install file or disk. Can I move my installed copy of Office to a USB drive and then back, or to another machine?
I am setting up a video editing / encoding workstation based on a mac mini and a freenas box for mass storage. We plan to use iSCSI to share the disk with the mac and had planned on using GlobalSAN's iSCSI initiator as it had worked in testing and was free. Unfortunately, version 5 isn't free so we are back to the drawing board. Or at least now that we have to pay we'd like to make sure we buy the right one. Anyhow, we've identified a two options: a) GlobalSAN v5.0 b) Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator
I understand it is fairly easy to add a signature to the standard iPhone mail app. However, I am now using the Gmail app on my iPhone 4S, and I can't seem to figure out how to append a signature to mail sent only through the phone. Is this possible?
I was looking on the Apple store for a keyboard for my iPad (specifically this product) and it doesn't say if it is compatible only with the iPad2 or if it also works with the original iPad. Would it generally be the case that docked hardware like this would work with both iPads, or has something changed in the iPad2 that might break compatibility with the original iPad?
Will iMessage work on 3G if the sender or receiver isn't connected to a wi-fi network?
I saw one of my friends using a regular A4Tech OP-620D USB mouse with a MacBook Pro 2010 and Mac OS 10.6.7. I tried to use a local brand USB mouse on my machine but it didn't work. It showed properties in preferences but the mouse was not functioning. Therefore can I use a branded USB mouse on OS X Lion? Also can it be a bluetooth or 2.4G wireless mouse?
How can I configure Mac Terminal to have color ls output? I am using MacOS 10.5
I recently asked a question How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot? which got answered well using apple script . I want to extend this question to the following problem:
In windows i had a program to inspect the password that i stored in filezilla. But I forgot my ftp password I can still see the dots but I want to see what the password was that I stored. Is there anything like that for the mac? I found a solution for filezilla.
I want to have configurable recurring tasks and notifications for those tasks. Eg, I need to trim the hedge once a week, but it doesn't matter whenabouts in the week that I do it. So I want a task that recurs once a week, but I also want to set the notifications to remind me twice every day until I mark it as done, the task then being dormant until the following Monday when the reminders will continue twice every day until I have clipped the hedge that week. I notice that NotifyMe for iPhone does more or less this: does it, specifically, allow me to customize when I am reminded?
I have this crash on Preview and TextEdit happening every time I use the Print command. cmd+p = spinning ball... It's only on these two apps, as far as I know. Ie: Mail app prints fine. Both MS Office and Acrobat Reader print okay. Printed installed: Canon MF4360-4390 using driver Canon MF4360-4390 UFRII LT (UK); version 2.0 Current OS: 10.7.2
When i click on shutdown nothing happens. I've tried repairing and verifying the hard-disks. Rebooting in safe mode, resetting PRAM, SMC. Nothing seems to work.
Is it possible to buy the genuine Apple USB sync cable for iPad/iPhone/iPod? I know there are many aftermarket cables available, but most of them seem inferior.
One can use Preview to compress a PDF. However Preview on Mac OS X 10.7 does a too hard compression for my taste. There is only one compression setting. Are there alternative tools that allows you to adjust the compression ratio?
I have a 2011 iMac. I plan to replace the SuperDrive with an SSD drive. I've noticed on various images of, e.g., on ifixit, that the SATA cable that plugs into the Superdrive looks different to the female SATA connector on the SSD drive I have ordered (and Intel 510). Does anyone know what (if any) adapters I will need to plug the SSD drive into the Superdrive's SATA/power connectors.
I've set up my own domain (say owndomain.com) to forward all his e-mail to my personal Gmail account. It works great and once setup, I can send e-mails from the iPhone using that account with the coma trick, but it will also show "via gmail" after the address. Any idea on how to avoid that?
On Snow Leopard, photos taken with Photo Booth were stored in ~/Pictures/Photo Booth. They were individual image files that could be opened with any image editor. After updating to Lion, when I go to ~/Pictures, I see an icon for Photo Booth Library. When I double-click to open, it just opens Photo Booth with the thumbnail strip along the bottom.
Which command / configuration file controls the open file limits on OS X? Is there a different command for OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7? The options I explore below are ulimit, sysctl, and launchctl "Too many open files" is apparently a common error on Leopard, perhaps other versions of OS X: 420 Too Many Open Files 420 Too Many Open Files How to properly increase ulimit -n on Lion? How to properly increase ulimit -n on Lion? Where are the default ulimits specified on OS X (10.5)? Where are the default ulimits specified on OS X (10.5)?
I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011) running OS X Lion and while running a few apps that only take up, say, 200 MBs of space each (Xcode, Spotify, and Photoshop), my wired memory shoots up to 1.4GB, my active to 4.39GB, inactive to 2.18GB, and free 28.3MB. Note: this happens with different apps at times, not just a combination of these three.
I have an MacBook with OSX and backed up everything in a Time Capsule with Time Machine. Now I bought a MacBook Pro with Lion and then migrated everything from the old computer to the new using Migration Assistant and the Time Capsule, everything went right in other words the Migration Assistant said: the data was copied successfully. The problem is that I can see all the data on my new computer but they seemed to be blocked because when I would like to open them there is a message which says they are blocked because I have no rights. I have restarted my computer already and renamed my computer the same name as my old computer, no good.
So that I could resize the window to a certain size from within Terminal.
I run OSX Lion and I have an excel spreadsheet 2011 sitting on my desktop that I regularly open, update, and save. Whenever I open, edit, and save the excel spreadsheet, a new file is created on the desktop that I can't delete (even when excel is closed). The files have names "BEE05630", "D5A1F120", etc. I have to restart for the files to disappear from my desktop. Any way to fix this?
Lately, I'm low on drive space on my main volume. But after I just deleted some stuff, the error remains:
Before switching to Lion (on Snow leopard) I used to open a directory (like my Downloads) and start searching using the search box at the top right of the finder window for a file and there was an option to restrict the search to "filenames" only. The "filename" option does not show up by default for me, is there a way to bring it back?
Is there a way to continue saved games (e.g., Cave Story) across multiple machines? I.e., I play Cave Story on my iMac, but would occasionally like to pick up a saved game from my MacBook too. It would be awesome if I could use dropbox to do this.
I'm using iCal for managing my schedules in my company. And my company is using Microsoft Exchange server for schedules. When I added the company account to iCal, it set the calendar color as orange. I have been using blue for my working schedule. So it's confusing me so much!
I am using a Huawei e160 USB modem and I regularly lose connection to the internet with the following error: You have been disconnected from the PPP server. It has nothing to do with reception, and I am always able to connect immediately back up. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this may be happening? Or at least explain to me what a PPP server is? Thanks.
This question is not about remapping keyboard layouts and different languages. This is about the actual differences in the physical location of keys. My June 2011 UK Macbook Air has the same keyboard layout I'm used to from previous Macbooks - a double height return key and the backtick/tilde key inbetween left-shift and Z.
How do I do fine adjustment on the progress of video playback in iTunes? For example, on the iPad, if you slide you finger down while holding onto the dot on the playback progress bar, you will go into fine adjustment mode and you track the progress second by second. Btw, I'm on OS x Thanks
For the past year my Macbook has be getting slower, lauder and lags constantly... The lags range from switching spaces to changing a language or even typing an input. It almost never craches, but it does seem like his age is catching up to him...
When I open my applications folder, all the apps inside have their name below the icons appended with the text .app. I don't think it used to be this way, is there a way to remove the .app text? I'm on OS X snow leopard.
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5. In the last month or so, it has developed an annoying habit. When a new mail arrives it makes a "boing" sound and a vibrate.
I have found unlocked iPhones 4 from USA and malaysia to be so much more cheaper than Australia, are there any compatibility problems associated with this? I heard if you buy an iPhone in US or other countries and take it back to Australia, itunes will only accept credit cards from the country of manufacture when purchasing apps i.e. if bought in US, must use US credit card. Is this true?
Recently (and only while at work) my phone has started to claim that its 8 hours ahead of the correct local time (e.g. it is currently a little after 1230 and the iPhone is showing a little after 2030).
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro 15". What would I need to buy in order to be able to use my LED HDTV with it, and which wireless keyboard works the best with it?
Whenever I open up a .dmg file, it just gets opened, but it stays under everything that I've got open. Right now I would have to launch Mission Control to see the opened .dmg window and then click on it, to become visible at the top. How can I set it up to behave in a way, that when I open up a .dmg file, it gets displayed on top of everything?
I've got 2 time machine drives. I have one at home that gets used on the weekend and another that gets backed up to during the week. I recently replaced the one at my office. The only thing that is weird is that it's backing up 3-4GB of data each hour. It goes super quick, so it doesn't feel like its actually backing up that much data, though. I've ran disk utility on the disk and it doesn't find anything. Any thoughts? Is it just something weird or is there a problem with the drive?
I’m looking for an iOS app with spell-check that will allow me to edit Word documents and sync them with Dropbox. From reviews I’ve read neither Quick Office nor Documents to Go offer this feature. Does such an app exist?
I can't seem to get Perl & MySQL to talk to each other on OS X 10.7 Lion. I did all the installs by the book, I used Oracle's PKG installer for the latest MySQL Community Server, and I installed DBI and DBD::mysql via CPAN. There were not problems at all during the install, but, when I try to USE DBD::mysql to connect to my local DB server I get the following error: After a lot of googling all I could find were suggested hacks, so I gave this one a go: *=URL=* I had to update some of the paths in the instructions since on Lion it's Perl 5.12 not 5.10. After doing that I got a new error:
I am running out of space on my iPhone and since iOS 5 I can see the worst offenders in Settings -> General -> Usage. Some apps while being very small themselves have accumulated a lot of data. I want to keep the app itself on the phone but would like to get rid of the data.
so I'm looking to buy a new 17'' Macbook Pro, but I'm having a hard time deciding if I should buy it with a solid state included, or buy my own and stick it in. I've heard that the Toshiba drives they put in (for $1100) aren't as good as some other drives you could buy for closer to $800. Is there any truth to this? Any recommendations/links would be much appreciated. Thanks!
When I search for something e.g. a PDF file, in Spotlight and has i displayed in the search results list. How can I open the file in Finder? If I click on it, the file is opened e.g. in the pdf reader, but I would like to know where on the file system it is. Any suggestions?
What's the difference between processors here, other than 0.1GHz? Are there actual model numbers given for the processors so I can look them up on Intel's website? I'd like to see the real differences, and information seems sparse on the Apple store page. Is it worth $250 for the difference?
I need to output to two screens from a Macbook Pro 17" I'm looking at buying. My current laptop has a VGA port and an HDMI port, and so it's pretty easy to run a dual-display setup with it. How would I connect my displays to my Macbook? Both displays are 1080p HDMI computer monitors.
With iOS 4.x everything was super fast on my iPod Touch. Now with iOS 5, whenever there are a few apps open in the background, everything becomes slow.
I am writing some image processing software to be used with the webcam built-in to my MacBook (purchased in mid-2008 to be specific). I want to know the specifications of it; particularly, frame rate (around 30 FPS from what I can tell) and exposure time / shutter speed.
I have this stupid symptom with my mac mail since upgrading from 10.6 to 10.7. I have multiple exchange accounts; a couple times a day the inbox for 1 or 2 of them will be blank, quitting mail and re-opening will re-download all the mail. Search also only works by person, not 'message contains'
I have a Phillips alarm clock with iPod dock and an iPhone 4. When I got the iPhone 4 first, when i docked it with the alaram clock, i got an message on the screen of the iPhone saying that "This accessory is not designed to work with the iPhone and may cause interference", but after the upgrade to iOS5, this message does not occur. I did notice with iOS4 that interference would happen when playing music on the iPhone, but now it does not seem to happen...
I have two VirtualBox guest VMs running Linux under a MacOS X host. I'm using bridged networking mode but I am not in control of the DHCP server and can not give my host+guests static IPs. Any time a DHCP lease expires, or I join a different network, I have to deal with my VM IPs changing, and consequently change all my firewall rules and /etc/hosts entries, etc. which is a pain to say the least.
My Internet connection has been flaky for a while. I wonder what the options are to monitor and somehow store statistics (over time) for when my modem loses and regains Internet connectivity. I wish to use this information when I contact my ISP. I'm thinking, would something like Instruments be able to do this?
I need to connect two displays to my MacBook Pro, and I read a recommendation to use external video cards to accomplish this. How can I do this? Do I just buy a video card and some kind of case which can connect to Thunderbolt? I'd really like to use Thunderbolt as it's so much faster than USB2.0.
I have a first generation Macbook Air, and the firmware is locked. I tried taking it to an Apple store, and they recommended swapping the Logic Board. Is there anything I can do to reset the password?
Is there any way to automatically turn Bluetooth on or off when my MacBook Pro (mid-2010, running Lion) joins specific networks? I typically want Bluetooth off except when I am connected to my home wireless or wired network. It would be really handy if I could configure Bluetooth to turn on whenever I join my home network(s), and likewise, turn it off when I join a non-home network.
In Linux, if I want to change a user's home directory, I can use the usermod command: *=URL=* Is there any equivalent command in OS X?
In Mail's conversation view, by default, quoted text is hidden and can be shown by clicking "See More from XXX" in the bottom of each message. After clicking that, how can quoted text be hidden again?
In Lion Preview.app, if I have many image files open in a single preview window (so that I can scroll through them) and one of them changes on disk (e.g., I remade the image with a plotting program or convert), instead of loading the new image, the whole preview window shows an empty background for all images, even those that have not changed. In Snow Leopard and Leopard, preview would just reload the new image in place. Is there any way to fix the Lion version of Preview? EDIT: related post refresh Preview from command line
I have some iTunes files with the file type AAC audio (protected) on Windows 7. The problem is that these songs only work with Apple software, and I want to remove the DRM.
I finally got my iPhone 4S! But when playing a song, I noticed the sound isn't stereo. The right box is doing all the hard box, while the left one is producing a very minimal sound. Is this standard on the iPhone 4S or is it a hardware/software issue?
I just updated the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I decided to also take the opportunity to upgrade it to Lion. I previously had Boot Camp under Snow Leopard. I created a new Boot Camp partition and went through Windows 7 installation. Now, I am trying to restore my previous Windows 7 system image. Windows restore seems to insist on wanting to format the entire drive though. Clearly I don't want to do this. Is there any way to restore the image back into the Boot Camp partition? I am willing to hack around the recovery console if necessary.
I would like to prevent my MacBook Pro (2009 version) from going to sleep when I close it. I can do this with a Windows-based laptop, but I could not find an option on the Mac. Is this possible? I want to be able to close it when outputting video to a TV, for example.
Let me preface this by saying: I do not want to drop my firewall completely Yes, I really do need particular ports rather than an application.
I posted my iPod Nano to Apple two weeks ago, under their replacement service, but the "check repair status" says that they still haven't received it. Does anyone know a number or an email address I can use to chase this up?
How a company I work for should update my MacBook Pro to Lion? I have some options but I'm unsure which way to go? Note: volume license is not an option (not that many Macs at my company).
I am a Jira superuser, my company runs Jira and I am looking for a way to use it on the go. Unfortunately, none of the mobile Jira app I have been using seems to work with our setup. Does anyone have recommendations?
I've been trying to use Google Hangouts in Firefox for a few weeks, but Firefox keeps asking me to install a plugin. I've installed the required plugin more than once, but the page behaves as if I haven't installed it.
I have been assigned the task of installing an iMac that is only allowed to use one specific site, and block access to all other IP addresses. The iMac will be on display at a resort so guests can fill in a questionnaire hosted on the resort website. My questions are: How do I block all outgoing traffic except for traffic to IP xx.xx.xx.xx?
I have two Macs running Lion on a home network that I use regularly, and I would like to keep my keychain files synchronized between them. I add keychain entries on both machines, so I need to be able to merge (rather than overwrite) keychain files. Is there a way to accomplish this?
My ISP offers unlimited downloads at a certain time period at night, but I don't want to wake up to shutdown my MBP 13.3 at that time. I tried to specify a certain shutdown time using the Energy Saver option. However, I found out to my utter dismay that Transmisison needs to be explicitly closed before it for the computer to shut down.
I'm discouraged that for those of us wanting matte displays, we have to get a pretty crummy looking white-gray border around the screen rather than the sleek black edge that normal MacBook Pros come with:  Is there a way to get a matte display without having to get the terrible-looking edge? Could I buy a regular MacBook and use some commercial screen overlay which would give the same effect without compromising the black edge?
I have disabled the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" checkbox in the General preferences pane in Lion, but after a recent sudden power loss (no battery) my iMac restarted in exactly the same state as I had left it the night before. What feature of Lion is making this (miracle) possible, and how do I ensure that it remans enabled?
I just bought a MacBook Pro (I've been a Windows user before this), and I noticed that the terminology for memory is a bit different here. In System Monitor it is showing: Free Wired Active Inactive Used What exactly do they signify?
Is there something like the Windows Snipping Tool for OSX? For those, who don't know about the tool, it's an easy to use software to take snapshot of any portion of screen, and is really useful in various situations.
I recently upgraded OS X from 10.6 to 10.7. Since doing this, certain command line tools I installed via MacPorts, such as ImageMagick, stopped working. For example when I run $ convert Jobs.png -resample 72 Jobs.png I get: How can I fix this? I've tried the following commands, to no avail: The last gives: Following the suggestion there I ran $ sudo port -f activate perl5 but this yielded: At this point I'm at my wits' end, so any help is much appreciated!
I see that I can play individual songs by tapping on them, but I'm trying to figure out how to play albums, and ideally I'd like to do that by queuing them after what's currently playing is complete. This is on an iPad 2 with the latest iOS update. Is such a thing possible in the built in app?
I want to be able to go invisible in iChat, like I can via Gmail. How can I do this?
I know it's possible to write an AppleScript to add music and video files to the iTunes library. Is it also possible to write AppleScript to add files to iOS apps that use file sharing?
I downloaded an application and copied it to the Applications folder. When I click on the Applications folder in the dock, the icon for this program is broken. It runs fine, and if I create a direct shortcut to the application on the dock, the icon here is fine. Any ideas why the icon would be broken within the applications folder in the dock?
Ever since my company updated to Lion, terminal.app has been behaving differently. When I click on the dock icon, it sometimes opens several terminal windows at once, instead of a single one, and all of them display my previous session's activity, rather than just opening to a shell prompt.
Does anyone know how to get rid of the text drop shadow from files and folders on the Mac desktop? I would prefer a subtle shadow with an offset of 1 pixel.
At work, I'm connecting my MacBook Air 11" to a Lenovo L2230x Monitor (aka L2230xwA) to extend my display. Given that the MacBook Air has no Ethernet connector, today I thought I might put the monitor's USB Port Replicator feature to good use. Long story short, this monitor embeds a USB 2.0 Hub that connects to your laptop through a USB-A to USB-B cable and exposes: 3 downstream USB ports 1 Ethernet 10M/100Mbps port Multimedia ports: audio line-out + microphone-in jack The 3 USB ports work out of the box, but no luck with the Ethernet port! In the user's manual (pdf), the steps are simple: Install the USB Port Replicator driver for L2230x Wide [...] Connect a standard 10 Mbps / 100 Mbps Ethernet connector to the Ethernet connector on the monitor, and wait until the device is fully configured by the Windows operating system. So I looked for a driver, but on the Lenovo support page I could only find the USB driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
I’m slightly disappointed by Lion’s iOS inspired feature to show a selection of accented characters on key hold. On a German keyboard, when pressing a, I am able to choose between ä, â, à, á, æ, ã, å, ā. So far so nice.
Frequently I encounter this problem in iOS's Safari: I want to watch a Youtube video, and it starts playing, but the display area is entirely in black, although I can still hear the audio. Is there some sort of hack that will get the videos to play normally, with a 100% success rate? Quite frequently I have to refresh multiple times (>5) to get those videos to start playing.
If I'm viewing a webpage which embeds a PDF document with the <object> tag (example), how can I download this page on the iPhone? If I view a non-embedded PDF document (example), I can select the Open in... option and download it to an application such as Dropbox. I have not found a way to do this when the PDF is embedded. If there was a way to figure out the PDF's address, I could copy and paste it into the address bar, but I haven't figured out a way to do this either. So my questions are: Is there any way to do this in Safari? Is there any way to get the URL of the embedded PDF document? Are there any 3rd party applications for iOS that allow me to download, or get the address of, the embedded document?
Going back into System Preferences, changing the Hot Corner to some other action and then back to Mission Control resolves the problem temporarily. But eventually it fails again.
How am I supposed to deal with .tar files with OS X Lion? I'm trying to install Ruby Version Manager, but Lion is throwing a fit about not being able to expand the tar file. This isn't the first time this has happened either. Any tar command gives me this error: Launch of "tar" failed: the PowerPC architecture is no longer supported. Any help is greatly appreciated. Update: which tar outputs /usr/bin/tar
I don't like the App Store app automatically checking for app updates, or showing me notifications when there are updates for my installed apps. I prefer to take care of updates when I'm ready to update. How can I prevent the App Store from automatically checking from updates, or from giving me the the little red notification when updates are available? I've got an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.
I like the simplicity of iPhoto and all the nice ordering features. But, since I like to manage my library myself (folder names etc) I have not selected the option to import my photos to iPhotos' folder structure, but rather prefer to import my photos to iPhoto but keep them where they are (in my own folders).
I'm not all too familiar with the XMPP protocol, but ever since Microsoft released official XMPP support for Windows live Messenger, i've been wondering how to make it work with the "Jabber" account type on iChat (which is also XMPP). Anyone found a solution?
I'm learning to work in unix using Terminal on a Mac and I'd like to set the default listing for the timestamp to display in 12 hour time, using AM and PM, instead of 24 hour time (ie: 1:00 PM, not 13:00). I'm somewhat familiar with setting preferences, so to speak, using the ~/.bashrc file, where I've set a couple of aliases, including one with the options for my preferred ls display. I've looked at the man pages and elsewhere online, but I haven't had any luck finding what I'm looking for time-wise though. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The hardware apple tv2 remote is lost again. And I cannot find it this time. :(. I had reset apple tv2 earlier and forgot to turn on home sharing. To make matters worse, I had setup a fixed ip for my apple tv and it only goes online with the lan cable in. When I remove the lan cable, it tells me the tv is not connected and asks me to choose settings.... which of course, I cannot do without the hardware remote. Is there any way that I can get back control of my apple tv2 without my lost remote but from my ipad remote app solely?
Since yesterday, my first-generation iPod Touch would not let me download apps. In the app store, the image description (the one that you can slide left and right) would not appear and was replaced by small rectangles. The [free] or [0.99] button does not respond. My iPod Touch is not jailbroken, and is updated with the latest firmware (3.1). How can I fix this issue?
I need a desktop database that will have a need for extensive 1-many, many-1, and many to many relationships. I've built this kind of app with Microsoft Access, which I don't love, but does combine the database and a useful GUI.
Can I load and play audibooks on the iPod shuffle 2GB? If so, how many standard novels can I fit on there, am I only allowed to download from the iTunes shop or can I also load from the library?
I have a MacBook Air with limited disk space as well as an iPad and an iPhone. With iCloud, do I need to keep the apps in iTunes on the MacBook anymore? When I try to delete them all in iTunes by clicking on the Apps link on the left side of iTunes and then selecting all of the apps and right clicking delete, a message appears saying that the apps will also be deleted from my iPad and iPhone. Is this really the case with iCloud or is it safe to delete them from the MacBook and free up the disk space? I think these files are stored in a folder called Mobile Applications on the MacBook.
I have an iPod Touch 4. It easily lets me set up the Mail and Calendar apps to use my Gmail account, but I can't seem to find a way to get the Contacts app to use my Gmail contacts. Am I missing something or is it not possible? Seems silly that it wouldn't let me use my Gmail contacts with my Gmail account.
This is an issue that occurred to my iPhone. What is the recommended general fix for this?
I have a document with text and floating images. Let's say I want to insert some text in the middle of the document. If i click in the document and hit enter a bunch of times, I want the existing text and images to slide down so I can put my new content there, but only the text moves down and the images don't. How can I make it so everything would slide down when I press enter.
We have two XP machines (in different cities) that up to now they have been the the hosts for syncing and backing up an iPad and iPhone via iTunes via USB. We want to make use of iCloud, at least for backing up the iPhone and iPad. As you know iCloud / it's control panel isn't supported on XP (without a hack to the installer). I've got some questions about how the syncing and iCloud backup process will work in my situation. 1) Is it correct that we can enable iCloud on the iPhone and iPad (via iTunes on XP or directly on the iPhone and iPad) without the iCloud control panel being installed on XP?
I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 5. How do I record speech or sound to use as a ringtone dedicated to certain phone numbers, especially numbers that aren't in my address book?
Then I added music to the sync settings. Houston, we have a problem.
I have a Mac Pro running Mac OS X Lion, and one of my hard drives has acted weird since attempting to repair permissions. I used Disk Warrior, but it says the HD can't be rebuilt. When I try to format it with Disk Utility, it takes forever to unmount. I'm wondering if there is a surefire way to format the HD with another program or through the command line. The HD is 2TB, and the SMART status is verified, so I doubt it is a physical issue.
[orignally posted to stackoverflow.com - it was suggested that this would be a better place for it] I'd like to start experimenting with iOS development, but to coin an (awful) phrase: "I'm a PC". I love my Windows 7 laptop and don't want to move wholesale to a MacBook Pro. Instead what I'd like to do is buy a Mac Mini and use it as a server. I've read that:
I want to install firefox-x11 but theres no repo in homebrew, only macports seems to have one, hence I'm at a loss how to get firefox-X11 on a system that relies on homebrew for OSS. The way I'd solve this is: install software with macports (Firefox-X11 in particular) remove macports install homebrew and still use the software installed by macports (firefox) I fear this will not work.
The title pretty much says it all, plain text files are a bit annoying to read on QuickLook (and to preview on finder's preview column) due to a lack of antialiasing. On the General preference panel I've checked that my text smoothing is set to ~“Turn off for sizes 4 and smaller”. I've also checked with TextEdit that the font size in QuickLook is quite on the bigger-than-4 side, and that I can see the text antialiased in TextEdit. Doing some googling I only found people with the same need but 0 solutions. For the record: this is a brand new mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2 as fully updated as I can, that arrived home last week and I haven't (yet) installed any plugin at all for QuickLook.
I'm on a jailbroken iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3.5. There is still not an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5, so I am not able to upgrade yet.
I've been chatting on Chatzy via Firefox on the Mac lately, and every time I go there I get told that I need to update QuickTime components. Here's the dialog that comes up:
I've got a movie file that gives me the following error every time it opens in any QuickTime based player: The movie could not be opened. An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie. Is there any tool I can use in 10.5 on my PowerBook to fix the file? And please, don't suggest using VLC; it can play the file, but it can't fix it. Ideally I want to avoid re-encoding the streams.
PowerBook G4 laptop no longer boots. Hooked PowerBook G4 to another running Mac using Firewire and held down the 'T' key on boot up. This is a Mac similar to the one I connected the PowerBook G4
A long time ago I installed the Art Directors Toolkit widget. Today, when I restarted my computer after a power outage, there were 2 instances of the widget. The first one is in the dashboard and a second appears on the desktop, like any other application would appear. I don't know how to remove it. It has none of the usual dashboard buttons and it reappears if I relaunch the Dock.
I was thrilled when the cafe at our local sport center started to provide free wifi. Everything was great for awhile, but a few weeks ago something changed, and now my devices cannot browse or check email etc. Despite being able to detect the wifi network with full bars, my devices tell me they cannot connect to the Internet. The staff do not think they have changed anything. What could be happening, or what could be different? Is there anything I can do about it?
Some months ago, I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout, which is mostly great. But, there is one annoyance that is imposed by OS X.
I'm getting really tired of seeing this: As I understand it, ubd (the Ubiquity daemon) is responsible for the “Documents and Data” portion of iCloud's syncing. However, all of my iCloud-related data are in a separate, non-locking keychain.
How do I add multiple files into the queue at once in HandBrake? I heard that multiple files can be added to the queue by selecting the folder. But when I select the folder as source, only the first file is added, rather than all the files. Am I missing something?
I purchased Pixelmator 2 from the Mac App store. The app appeared in Launchpad, but not in my applications folder. The problem is that I don't use Launchpad. I can't find where Pixelmator is actually installed on my hard disk, and I want to move it into my applications folder. How do I move it from Launchpad to the Applications folder?
I want to download the complete English Wikipedia (not just the 45,000 article version floating around) for viewing offline on my Mac. I have downloaded Okawix, and downloaded a torrent with Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.okawix, available on the okawix site) to view within Okawix. However, I can't figure out how to view this downloaded torrent within Okawix, so I'm not sure what I can do.
I set nvALT to use a single database to store my notes. Using a database provides the benefit of encryption. I also sync my notes using Simplenote. I just noticed this warning at the bottom of the synchronization settings window: Note contents will be delivered in clear text. This came as a bit of a shock because I have personal sensitive information stored in nvALT.
How can I make the ls command in Max OS X Lion sort files and directories similar to how Ubuntu Linux does (case-insensitive, directories NOT on top, dot files NOT on top)? Ideally I'd like to do this without piping output to another command such as sort. For example, I want to see: instead of:
I googled to try to solve this, but changing the hostfile didn't work and using tinyumbrella didn't work either. I'm still getting the same error 3194.
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a 4-bay NAS with AFP/TimeMachine support and the ability for me to install s3cmd (a utility for simple S3 syncing). The reason I ask is simple: just having a back up at home isn't good enough. I've used Dropbox for a while now but since we've got a number of machines my ultimate aim is to back them up to a NAS and for that NAS to sync with S3 a few times a day so we'd have a remote version.
I am using the Chrome browser and I know OS X has built-in voice synthesis that can speak to assist visually impaired users. Can I use this feature to have the computer read contents of websites for me? Eg., I'd like to select a couple of paragraphs and have them read.
When I enabled iTunes Match (which is generally brilliant), it wiped my iPhone's music library as I expected it to, but it didn't wipe my iPad library. Now that I've got iTunes Match working so nicely, I want to reclaim the space from the music I was carrying around in case I wanted it. But I can't find a way to bulk-delete music either on the device or from iTunes. Now that it's Match-managed, iTunes shows my music listing greyed out and uneditable. On the iPad I can delete songs one by one, but that's not what I want. How can I wipe clean an iTunes Match-driven music library on an iOS device?
I just enabled iCloud on my iPad. I've also downloaded iPhoto on my Mac to sync my photos on the iPad. The problem is that I can only get pictures that I downloaded after I enabled iCloud on my iPad. Is there a way to add all the photos to photo stream?
The Reddit homepage appears like the below screenshot sometimes. It happens across all different pages and at different times eg Facebook/Google etc - can anyone shed some light on why?
As far as I know, no configuration changes have been made to the NetBoot server. Other iMacs still can netboot fine.
I have Final Cut Pro X, a video of a game and I would like to draw on it. This would be similar to a sports broadcast where circles are drawn around key players and arrows are shown for their movements.
I'm getting strange behavior with invitations I send from iCal to another .mac address. The invitations never show up (not in the invitee's inbox, nor in his iOS Calendar or iCal) and my iCal shows an exclamation point next to his address in the invitation:
I have enabled remote login (ssh) on my Mac via System Preferences. But it doesn't work with keys and only works with normal user/pass authentication. I want to disable this behaviour and only allow public key (RSA or DSA) authentication. I edited /etc/sshd_config and uncommented following lines:
Can someone please tell me how to restrict SSH access only to certain IP ranges (e.g. local network) and not the whole Internet? I guess this has to be done via firewall.
Anyone used ipfw or pfctl to block an IP address range for outgoing packets? I would like to temporarily block Apple's IP address range 17.*.*.* to find everything that's phoning home phoning home. Anyone know if Apple owns any other IP address ranges?
I have sent my Gmail contacts to my iPad via Microsoft Exchange. I now want to back them up to my iCloud account but they reside as a different group in the iPad contacts. How can I move or merge them to my iCloud group in contacts to sync with iCloud? Many thanks, Harry
After the text describing the status of an invitee in iCal (in the context menu for the invitee) there is a number. For example I nearly always see numbers like 1.1 or 1.2:
I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6 on my iMac and I am wondering how to multihome a Mac. I know it's possible to accomplish this by using both Wi-fi and Ethernet, but I just want to use Ethernet. Any idea how to set this up? Thanks.
I've just run into quite a big problem. I bought an iPhone, and the person who had bought it from the store for me had, being a nice person, helped me charge it. Unfortunately, this meant that the iPhone is now synced to the PC that she has and not my MacBook Pro. Is there any way to change this? Thanks in advance.
Today I used the Mac version of Skype for the first time on my new MacBook Air 11" running Lion - v10.7.2. To my surprise, the process was using more than 100% CPU, the CPU temperature went high, as expected, and the fan went wild! Even more, the battery went from full to critical after just one hour of the video call. Just now, I opened Skype to get the version number - v5.3.60.1093 - with no active chats nor calls, the CPU usage went to 135.9% in the blink of an eye! This issue seems to be all over the Skype forums, but I can't seem to find a solution. If anybody can lead me towards a viable fix, I'd be grateful!
Is there software that helps identify problems, issues, conflicts, etc. with the hardware of a Mac?
I would like to disable the internal microphone for everything. My device is jailbroken and I have tried 'Disable Microphone' in MyRepoSpace, however that just gets rid of the Voice Memos app instead of actually disabling the microphone.
I would like for Reading List to automatically sync between an iMac, MacBook Air, and an iPhone 4S. The Macs are both running Lion 10.7.2 and the iPhone is running iOS 5.0. All three devices are signed into the same iCloud account and have 'Bookmarks' checked. It appears that some syncing has occurred at some point between them, but it hasn't seemed to be working lately.
I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 and Web Sharing is turned off in System Prefs. I don't think this is specifically related to Lion.
Whenever I try to boot up from a live cd, it starts to boot and then it tells me: No bootable file system available. It's an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" 8,1 with the 2.3 GHz Core i5. What's going on?
I just got quickpick from the app store, and of course I have it doing my basic call this person (tel://A), text this person(sms://B), but I would like to know, is there a URL scheme for SMS with multiple recipients? I've tried mms://A+B but it doesn't recognize mms:// as a command. Any thoughts?
A few months ago I had an external drive with my iPhoto Library for iPhoto 4 on it failed. I was able to recover everything from the drive successfully and continued using the iPhoto library in its new location.
So I hurt my ears from excessively loud music last week at work. I'm well aware of the volume down key of course, but I tend to crank it up too much throughout the day without noticing it.
I configured SSH access to my Mac in order to use Prompt on my iPad. That way I can use my Mac from anywhere in the world, as long as I can get my home IP address. Although the SSH connection works fine from a separate external connection (my 3G iPhone, for example), it times out when I try to connect from a separate device on the same home wifi network. As a result, I spent two whole days trying to debug a connection that actually works fine. Why does an SSH connection that works fine from a separate external address time out when I try to connect from behind the same router? Is there a workaround so I can just use a single SSH setting whether I am in my living room or on a different continent? Note: a useful way to get your home IP address (if it's not fixed) is to log into your Gmail account from afar and look at "Last account activity" on the lower right corner of the screen.
After a long struggle I got successfully installed Windows 7(OS in English but French Keyboard) in Lion OS X Using Boot-Camp. Followed this I have installed all the windows necessary driver software's but I have some problem with the special characters.
I have an iMac, that has Internet access via Ethernet cable (no Wi-Fi). I know that my iMac has a Wi-Fi access point. How can I share the iMac's Internet connection with an iPad?
I have Apache running on another machine on the local network but am unable to do certain things that I can on the live server - namely perform file uploads. Wordpress tells me this may be because Apache doesn't have permissions to write to the website directories - does anyone know how to fix this? The website folder is shared on the network also so I can't really go around chmoding it incase I break access for someone else. Any help appreciated
We have a mixed mac and linux environment at work, to make life easy we use the same uid, gid for each user both on the mac and linux side (I believe this is a standard practice). The problem is, when you add a new user on a mac, there is no way to set the uid and gid "while" you are creating it, so you need to add the user then set the uid/gid and then go and execute a few find ... -exec ...{} ... commands to change the owner and permissions on the home directory for the user that you already made, Is there a better solution for this?
Every now and then I browse through software you must have on your mac type lists and more often than not somebody mentions Little Snitch as a must-have application. Now what I think that many people ignore or aren’t aware of is that in fact OS X itself has an application firewall built-in (though hidden and the application layer inactivated).
I am using Mac OSX Lion Server that I just got on a new Mac Mini. This is my first apple desktop experience. However, I notice that when I want to create or rename a folder, I keep getting prompted for my admin password. Is there a way I can disable this?
Can I set up my mac/iPhone/mobile me to sync the mails I've sent on my iPhone back to my mail.app on my mac? I use two email addresses: an IMAP (gmail) address and a microsoft exchange address. On the other hand, I can't even see the mails I've sent on my iPhone in the mail app on the iPhone, it only shows mail.app sent mails.
My iPhone (3gs) has this behavior: I'm typing a text and I put a certain letter in caps I might decide the letter shouldn't be in caps so I press backspace (a couple of times if I've typed a lot after the capped letter). when I do this, my iPhone remembers the letter was in caps and already puts on caps (the upward arrow is glowing).
I'm trying to have fewer photos on my iPhone (3GS running iOS5), and if possible to have them searchable by naming them. With this in mind I used Image Capture to download all 500+ pictures onto my MacBook Air (running Lion), then synced my iPhone with iTunes to remove them all.
I have iChat set up with the Yahoo Messenger protocol. Every time I log in, or suspend/resume my machine, it prompts me to respond to the same 3 Yahoo Messenger buddy requests. I always hit "decline", dismissing the dialogs, but it doesn't seem to stick. Is there a way to fix this? This is iChat v6.0.1, with Lion
Hi all. I used to be able to play music with my iPhone but now I can't. I'm not sure what causes this problem, and I'm wondering if this is a hardware problem.
So, I have a MacBook Air and a 27" Thunderbolt display. I was under the impression that I could connect my PC (Asus Laptop) to the Thunderbolt display by using a HDMI to Mini Displayport converter. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Is there some technical limitation as to why this isn't working?
I've followed the instructions at this link to set the audio port for input, yet nothing changes as described in bullet 6. Any idea what I could try next?
I'm a casual gamer with a MacBook Air (fall 2010 13" model), I'd like to find some games that are playable on my Mac. Is there any software or website that makes it easy to find games with compatible system requirements? What I have in mind is something like the (now defunct) Aspyr Game Agent application, which at a glance showed whether a game's system requirements were compatible with a specific Mac; see the screenshots for one game, for a list of games, or read Softonic's review.
Are non-unibody MacBook Pros (Late 2006 ~ Early 2008) capable of Lion's 3 and 4 finger multi-touch gestures?
I've never used Versions, and the extra step needed to Save as are enough reasons for me to downgrade to Snow Leopard. Is it possible to disable Versions in all apps and have a Save As… menu item instead of a Duplicate one?
I'm using Logic Pro 9.1.5 on my MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz CPU, 7200 RPM HDD). I have Snow Leopard. When I'm doing nothing special, working on my project, Logic sometimes freezes and I'm stuck with a 'spinning wheel of death' for hours.
I just subscribed to iTunes Match and it's currently scanning my library. I've got a few tracks named as 'track 1', 'track 2', and 'unknown artist'. My plan is to clean up my library (some day). But will iTunes Match be able to rescan the new names of already matched songs? In other words, will iTunes Match re-sync those songs already synced or will it only sync newly added songs?
My wife organises amateur and semi-pro orchestras. She has a ‘database’ of about 600 musicians which she currently keeps in an OpenOffice spreadsheet on the Mac, with each player’s name, instrument(s), contact details, some notes, and a record of which concerts they have played in. She’d now like to have this accessible on her iPhone (4S). It would be nice to be able to edit it on the iPhone, but not essential; it needs to be easy to keep the two copies in sync; it would be great if it was easy to call/SMS someone’s number from the iPhone database, but she doesn’t really want to merge the database with her iPhone address book. I can think of a few different ways of solving this, for example: view the spreadsheet on the iPhone using Quickoffice or Documents to Go move the spreadsheet to Numbers on the Mac and iPhone, syncing via iCloud use some sort of business contacts manager app, maybe adding contacts to groups to define both instrument played and concerts played in create some sort 
I am trying to create a script to determine the destination of time machine on a number of computers I manage. It shows very clearly via Time Machine Settings in System Prefs. I need to be able to find that info via command line.
I've just upgraded to an iPhone 4S, and I want to use my old 3GS like an iPod touch. I have updated the software using iTunes and now on iTunes it says: How do I get around this?
When I connect to my server and mount all its volumes, new Finder windows open for each volume. This is new behavior in Lion (10.7), it just connected silently in SnowLeopard (10.6). How can I connect in Lion without new Finder windows opening up?
In case anyone comes across this, Quicktime's screen recording + Xcode's emulator should work under normal circumstances. My use case is just more demanding.
I have installed drop box iOS app. It syncs with the documents that I have on the pc. Is there any way I can open a word/excel file inside the drop box app with a document editing app like Documents, iSpreadsheet etc inside my iPod touch?
I've tried Ukulele and KeyRemap4MacBook. Neither does what I need to do.
How can I disable iMessage for a phone number if the iPhone it's attached to has been destroyed? My sister dropped her iPhone in the bath, so she is now using an older non-Apple phone. Whenever I send her a message, it gets sent as an iMessage (and even says "Delivered"), but her device never receives the message. The only information I could find was this Apple knowledge base article which states the following:
I have some mp3's ripped from a language CD, "Lesson 1", "Lesson 2" and so forth. Some of them are uploaded to iCloud with iTunes Match, for some it says "Ineligible". I don't really need them in the cloud, but on my iOS devices. How do I get them there, as the music sync is disabled when iTunes Match is turned on?
In Lion - on a one person per install setup - the user is admin by default. Would you recommended this setup? I thought that the default user should never be admin but have a restricted standard account instead. If I change my account for the everyday use to standard and keep an extra admin account for maintenaince, what restrictions take place?
The current iWork on Lion supports autosave and versions. Is the same true for the iOS versions of these applications? I need versioning support for my documents on iOS devices.
How do I transfer photos and videos between iPad and iPad 2?
I have Lion installed in my system (macbook pro 17 mid 2010). I have also created a Lion DVD using a guide I've found while surfing the Internet. Tomorrow I will receive a ocz agility 3 240gb ssd drive. What is the best way to move all of my work to the new ssd drive? I am a developer and I have numerous ide installed (like netbeans) and servers like glassfish. It would be a complete disaster if I had to reinstall things, so I am wondering what is the best way to transfer the operating system and the installed applications easily. Thank you.
Is there a Mac app for viewing all the characters of a font? Font book doesn't seem have this feature.
The Windows Team blog announced XMPP compatibility with their MSN/Live IM network recently. Have anyone tried to get iChat to work with MSN yet? (I'm not looking for Jabber transports)
This keystroke turns off the display on most Macs. But the Air does not have an eject key. How do I achieve the same result?
How can I run terminal commands on startup or login? On FreeBSD I believe you can do this using rc.d - is there an equivalent for the Mac? I know how to set up Login Items, but these only work for GUI applications, and there must be an elegant way to make terminal commands run without wrapping them in a GUI executable? As clarified below, I sometimes need to sudo these commands.
Does it matter where I purchase an Apple product (Macbook Pro), or will I get essentially the same product with the same level of support no matter where I buy it?
I know my macbook has an infrared port, but I don't know what it's used for.
I'm thinking of buying a SSD or hybrid drive for my new Macbook Pro. Is the SATA connection in new Macbook Pros SATA 3.0Gbps or 6.0Gbps?
I noticed that scrolling in Firefox on Lion is not very pleasant experience. Is there a way to optimize it for better performance? I tried smooth scrolling setting - but it didn't do anything.
Is there a program for Mac that I can use to copy DVDs to iTunes? I've tried Handbrake but the quality is poor. Maybe there's just a setting I need to change?
I have an iPhone 3GS, and I want to know if it is possible to install Siri on it.
My wife's iPhone has iOS 5 and hence iMessage installed. I would like to be able to chat with her using my Windows computer. What options are available for this? Is there a Windows client or any web site that can provide a bridge?
When I re-open Safari on my Mac Mini, it keeps opening the same tabs that were open before it was quit (or before the Mac OS X was switched off). The result is that it takes too much time to be operative, especially when I restart my Mac.
For many years, I have had a set of mp3 files on a NAS that I manually managed (I've been picky about artist/album/track naming). The two Macbooks in our house each have their own iTunes libraries (the itl and xml files) on their respective local drives at ~/Music/iTunes/. To add music, I just make sure the SMB or AFP share is mounted and then do "Add to Library" in iTunes, pointing it at the top of the music file tree on the mounted directory from the NAS. This has worked fine for years.
In Red Hat, if there is a path somewhere on my terminal window and I triple click it, the whole path is selected. I can then easily copy it using middle-click or a regular copy-paste.
I am trying to burn selected photos to a DVD and it keeps telling me that the burn failed: I've tried rebooting and that helped the first time, but the second disk I tried to burn failed. What's up with this? How can I fix it? I am using iPhoto '11 (9.2.1).
As all of you know, Mac OS X stores all commands that run from Terminal in Terminal itself, however, I want to delete (for example) the last 3 commands from the terminal. How can I do this?
I have a 5.1 MacBook Pro (5.1 Model Late 2008) with 4GB of Ram. All the apple documentation I can find that the maximum supported for this model is 8GB of RAM (2 x 4GB). Has anyone tried to put bigger DIMMs into one to see if they would work? Given the price of RAM at the moment I would go for 2 x 8GB if I knew it would work.
My Time Machine is going for a year quite strong, but I recently noticed it is not including new directories in its backup. Basically new directories are being excluded by rule or error and I'd like some help figuring out which.
I was reading a book in iBooks and clicked on a link in the text which took me to the index at the end of the book. Is there any way I can get back to where I was reading before I tapped on the link (without manually flipping through the pages/table of contents)? There's no obvious back button that I can see. I'm using iBooks 1.5, which I believe is currently the latest version.
I have a Mac with VMWare installed and run Windows- and Ubuntu-powered virtual machines there. The problem is that in each of the operating systems I have to use different keys to switch between keyboard layouts (English->German->Russian).
I'm using a MBP 13" and want to connect it to an external monitor. What is the largest resolution supported for an external monitor? From what I know this MBP is using VGA intel. Workstation: OSX Lion MBP 13" early 2011
Let say my current directory in terminal is ~/Users/Desktop. On my desktop, there's a folder called "sample_dir". How can I cd in this "sample_dir" folder with typing: "cd ~/Users/Desktop/sample_dir"? There's gotta be a shorter way that looks at your current directory and appends that path to the directory you pass in to make things faster. Thanks
I have an iPhone 4S. I schedule all my appointments through the iPhone calendar app. Typically I receive an email with all the pertinent information and in turn, I have to transfer all of the information from the email to the calendar. When the appointment comes around, I have to search through my email files in order to locate any additional information. Is there a way to link emails to the calendar in order to easily access them when my appointment date comes up?
Sometimes when I'm typing in (Japanese) a text box in the safari browser, all of a sudden a new thin text window appears in the bottom left corner and my typed text is transfered there. This box has no title or anything, just a minimize icon.
I'm trying to access an encrypted partition on an external hard drive. My dad formatted it in OS X Lion before sending me the drive. I am running Snow Leopard with no access to a Lion install... however, I can only access the non-encrypted partition. Supposedly it works fine on Lion, and I'm guessing it has something to do with the switch from FileVault to FileVault 2, but am at a loss as to what to do or if there is any way to access the partition without using Lion. Output from diskuil list:
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 and cannot find (after trying) any app that blocks calls. Is there anything out there that can block calls on the iPhone?
Is there a way to scrobble to last.fm what I play from my iPhone with home sharing? Edit: last.fm currently scrobbles when I play right from my iTunes. I am using the last.fm mac app. When I stream music from my iTunes library on my mac with my iPhone, using home sharing, last.fm does not scrobble.
will make the /usr directory visible in Finder. I can then navigate to /usr/bin and see emacs in that directory, but it is grey'ed out and not selectable.
With iTunes Match, I tend to pull songs down to either my phone or my Mac whenever I feel like listening to them, and delete them from the device afterwards at will. What's the story, then, with play counts and - more importantly - ratings? If I rate a song on the phone, will the rating propagate to the Mac (or vice-versa) through iCloud, or is the only way to sync that data between the devices a wired/wi-fi sync through iTunes? And if an iTunes sync is required, what sync settings are necessary such that my ratings and playcounts will be copied across devices without having to sync the songs themselves, as we had to in the pre-iCloud days?
I used to use spaces a lot on Leopard and Snow Leopard, but the way it works on Lion is annoying for me, especially when it sends the full screen apps to a Space at the end of the row. Is there a way to disable Spaces altogether on Lion?
My iPad 1 runs iOS 5.0.1 but I believe I have had this problem with previous versions. I'll go into the App Store and find a lot of pending updates. I'll tell it to update all and then leave it on to do its updating.
Is there a way to create a Smart Playlist in iTunes that will contain the songs in my library that have been downloaded locally? I have to reduce the bandwidth used at my job but I can download files at night and I want to only play songs that are downloaded to my computer (plus I don't want to play all the songs I own :-)).
I don't have any parental controls turned on, and other devices on the same network have no trouble connecting via HTTPS. What's going on?
Most shareware (free trial) allows only for limited use e.g. one week or 10 uses. This shareware must have a way of storing the times it was used or for how long you have been using this. Yet when I trash a shareware app, along with all it's preference files etc (using apptrap) and redownload it, it seems to remember the times used/usage time, even when I delete all of its pref files.
Kensington's TrackballWorks software does not seem to come with an uninstaller component, and is not compatible with my Kensington trackball model. Accordingly, I'd like to uninstall it. Can anyone tell me how to properly (thoroughly) uninstall this software from my OSX Lion installation?
0 wait mobile entry :: Related: some mobile apps synchronize before I can enter in a new item. This sucks. I want to be able to add a TODO on the go with no wait (and definitely with no wifi).
I have two Macs sitting on my desk: a MacBook Pro (work computer) and an iMac (personal). I sync my iPad 2 with the iMac where all of my media and other stuff lives. Since the advent of iOS 5 and OTA syncing, however, the iPad has taken to syncing with both Macs, choosing (seemingly) randomly between the two when powered on and plugged in within WiFi range. The trouble is, when it syncs with the MBP, it generates dozens of "error while syncing" dialogs (which take awhile to individually dismiss) on the iPad because (I'm assuming) none of my content, apps, etc. are on that machine. Is there a way I can stop the MacBook Pro from syncing with the iPad? Thanks!
If I want to uninstall a program and remove all trace of data it stored on my computer, is there a tool to see where a program has written data? I expect it isn't going to be possible after the fact, but perhaps there is something that can run when a program is first launched to monitor all the locations to which it writes? I think I'm looking for something that does for local storage what Little Snitch does for the internet.
I don't know why but my iPhoto on my dock just has a picture of some pencils and an ø through everything and it was the same thing when I looked at it in the applications. When I try to open it, it says that it is probably damaged but it worked just last week. Btw my MacBook Pro was shipped with OS X Lion so I don't have any startup disks or anything like that and I never set up Time Machine and I still don't know how to set it up, so anything involving those 2 are out of the question.
Simple question, big problem. I evaluate a solution to sync calendar together but not FULL calendar.. just part with cloud here is the spec : I have 3 person person #1 = have a calendar with personal, professional, account, prospect person #1 = have a calendar with personal, professional, account, prospect person #2 = have company and personal person #2 = have company and personal person #3 = have company, internal, account person #3 = have company, internal, account now, i like to be able to share personal calendar between person 1 and 2, company between person 2 and 3 and account between person 1 and 3... all the rest should be absolutely private ! I have research.. and i cloud and i cal share ALL and you HIDE some color in the calendar... that's NOT what i want... hide is not private... so my research get me to : Google calendar with busy sync or BusyCal wich is an application that do the sync (i think !) You guy's do you have solution, what have you try and what work ? thanks in ad
I have three copies of Skype. How do I remove them from Launchpad?
I'm trying to uninstall Adobe Air on Lion. All of my air apps won't load so I think an uninstall/reinstall will help.
I signed up for iTunes Match and have uploaded nearly all of my collection to iCloud. Unfortunately, I have several tracks that have given me the following error:
How to copy my iPhone contacts to my sim card? (without Jailbreak)
I had multiple terminal programs running at same time and Terminal stopped responding. Now I wonder if there is any chance to get those session output/scrollback files and save them.
I am considering resetting the PMU on my Mac, but I'm am unsure what it exactly does. I know it resets date/time, but what other settings does it wipe?
I typically backup over a network to a networked hard drive on another machine. For some unknown reason, backups tend to get incredibly slow over the network (the first few backups work fine and timely, then it gets crazy slow.) I let the backup run over gigabit for a night, and I came back to find 300 MB of 10 GB backed up. Anyway...
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro 2010 13 inch, 2.4 GHz. Originally I had Snow Leopard installed on my Mac, then I was trying to upgrade it to Lion (official version from App Store).
I use the iPhone in English, but I save the names of my contacts in Russian. The problem is that they all appear now under (#). Is there any way to fix that?
I have a picture taken with a person in front of a Christmas tree; the lights in the Christmas tree look like small blurry things. However, I want to make the lights look like stars. Is this possible in Pixelmator?
I am asking myself which constellation is better: should I stock up my RAM up to 16GB (from 8GB), or should I buy a SSD with 128GB?? I really dont know :/ Cheers! BTW: My macbook supports 16GB RAM, i already checked this ;)
I have a rather large vinyl collection, some of which i have recorded to mp3 and added to my iTunes collection over the years. I have noticed that some of them are not being matched, and i am wondering what the cause is. I have updated the track and album info, but it still doesnt match. For example... In my collection (notice it says uploaded, not matched) - and in the store - It located and downloaded the artwork, yet it still wont match.
Realistically, besides processing speed, what is the difference between the i5 and i7? Can you really tell a difference? I may be developing apps with it (I haven't tried yet, nor have I ever owned a Mac), so I'd also like to hear from a developer if there is a major difference or preference between the two.
Last October I bought my first Mac, a Macbook Air 13". It works perfectly except for the wifi: I can be connected for hours without problems, but then it suddenly disconnects. The wifi widget doesn't change, and the way I solve it is disconnecting and reconnecting again. I can't find the way to trigger this behaviour, which can happen after some minutes, or hours. This doesn't happen with the other PCs that connect to the same wifi, nor with the iPhone. I use WPA encryption; a friend of mine suggested using WEP to solve it, but I want to have a more secure network. What could I do? UPDATE:
I want to connect 4 monitors to my Mac mini. I want to send the video output to an image wall, so the 4 monitors should show one big screen. Which adapter(s) do I need for my plan?
iTunes is not recognizing the correct number of photos in some of my iPhoto events. Some events are showing as having 0 photos in them, others are showing far fewer photos than the event actually has.
I'm about to install Linux on my new Macbook Pro. In order to do this, I need to resize my Mac OSX partition to allow some free space for Linux. I've booted into the Recovery HD and started "Disk Utility." I then repartitioned my hard drive, resizing the Mac partition to 100GB and leaving the rest as free space for Linux to fill. The problem I'm having is that whenever I go to apply the changes, I see an error that says: Partition Failed Partition failed with the error: Couldn't modify partition map because the filesystem verification failed. I then verified the disk, it found errors: So I repaired it, then verified it, and everything looked fine. Then I tried the partition again and it failed with: Partition Failed Partition failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disk. Then, I try to boot into the regular OS and try resizing the partition there.
I have a MacBook Air, and an AirPort Express. Currently, I have my AirPort Express in a different room than my wireless router.
A good friend of mine got a new MacBook. She lives on a remote Spanish island, and I have only Chat contact with her right now.
I know that Carbon Copy Cloner, Time Machine, and other Mac-specific software goes to significant lengths to back up Macs correctly, with all the fiddly details right: permissions, file attributes, etc. My company uses Tivoli Storage Manager as the standard backup solution, and there's a Mac version.
I'm trying to save a new event on iPhone calendar, but it just keeps giving me this error: Cannot Save Event — That event does not belong to that event store What can I do to fix this?
What is the difference between enabling remote management and enabling screen sharing? Apple's support article, *=URL=* says: If the Apple Remote Desktop administrator authenticates with a name that is different from the user logged on at the remote computer, the following applies: If the service was enabled by turning on Screen Sharing, the screen sharing user is presented with the option to request sharing access from the user logged on at the display. If the service was enabled by turning on Remote Management, the screen sharing user can simply choose to share the display. The screen sharing user can always choose to log in to their own session. ... It also states:
Back when I used Excel you could easily do all the navigation and editing on a spreadsheet with the keyboard. I could navigate around with the arrow keys and hit F2 to edit a cell and start typing.
I would like to enable click-through on all windows. Is this possible on Lion? To be more specific, "click-through" as defined by Apple in the Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines means "that the user can activate the item when the containing window is inactive."
This has been bugging me for a while, and despite googling around, I cannot seem to even find an explanation as to why the "Create Application Shortcut" is disabled.
I have a client that wants to connect an OS X Lion macbook air to his business network remotely, and I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this easily. Normally, I would set up a VPN server and allow for a connection in this way, but that is not a process I can recommend to "less techy" people. Is there an easier (while still secure) way to set up a business network connection remotely? Thanks beforehand.
I am wondering if there is a way to see which files an application accesses (reads or writes) when starting up. /usr/bin/fs_usage seems like one tool, but I wondered if there are others.
Maybe it is possible but I'm doing something wrong. I want to know the total number of reminders for the day by just glancing at the icon. Do you have any suggestion?
I'm trying to set up Web Sharing... phpinfo() shows MySQL is installed, but I can't find it. Terminal says "command not found" when I try mysql. I have no idea what I'm doing, or even if this question makes sense.
I have about 800 contacts in different contact groups on my iMac. Some of these groups are a sort of archives. I don't want to use all my contacts on my iPhone but still I don't want to delete the permanently from my iMac.
I installed reFIT on my new MBP, and now, unfortunately, OSX can't get past the login screen. When I try logging in, it simply bounces me back to where I started, the login page.
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5 and an Apple Composite AV Cable. I cannot find the TV Out option that used to be under the dearly departed 'iPod' settings menu that is now gone for iOS 5. This is quite perplexing because I have been watching video off of this iPhone and operating system as recently as a week ago, on a different television, and now I cannot figure it out.
Every thing else seems fine in english. just bought the thing today. My head's about to pop off my neck. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
I am using MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard, and my system is connected to internet via wired broadband connection. I want to share internet connection from my MacBook Pro via Wi-Fi, so I can connect other devices to internet. How can I achieve this?
I want to edit tab delimited text files with my iPad 2. I'm looking for an editor with visible spaces and line endings as well as Dropbox support. Anybody know of such a product offering?
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature in Mac OS X 10.7. Every time I (re)start my Mac the volume of my audio device is set to zero and doesn't remember the last level I set.
I just bought a MacBook Pro with OS X Lion. I am having a problem with all my saved preferences: for example, in my Finder "General Preferences", the new finder window shows setting keeps resetting each time I turn on my Mac. I am having the exact same problem with the general system preferences regarding the restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps setting; I disabled it but when I restart my laptop, Lion keeps re-opening the programs that were opened in the previous session. I am a first time Mac user and I am a bit lost with this problem :)
I am new to ipfw, my requirement is like that, once application launches,i need to read the certain application parameter and depending upon them, i should be able to allow some site and block others, I am thinking of using ipfw as its i might need to run them in admin privilege, the reason behind choose www.slashdot.org is its always giving me static ip "216.34.181.48" assuming , i want to allow www.slashdot.org and block all other site, this is what i have tried , but its blocking www.slashdot.org site also, Are these rules correct or any correction required ?
So I have a problem with iTunes crashing every time I try to activate iTunes Match. After talking about 3 Hours with Apple they said I should just reinstall OSX. Great. So I went looking into the problem on my own. It seems that iTunes is trying to free an allocated object that couldn't been allocated before so iTunes crashed. iTunes(2407,0x10e2f5000) malloc: * error for object 0x7fd20ab694c0: pointer being freed was not allocated Is it possible to activate malloc logging for iTunes? I want to use malloc_history to search for the problem..
I could find the security configuration guide for mac osx versions at *=URL=* however, I can't find any for OS X Lion. Any one know if it is in the works or if it is moved else where?
Does anyone know if we can install Android on an iPhone 4? I've jailbroken my phone with redsnow, and followed the steps at *=URL=* which teaches you how to install Android on an iPhone. However when I tried to add the repository *=URL=* into Cydia (step two), I have the error repository not found:
My friend used to have an iPhone and we would talk via iMessage but when he switched to a droid it keeps trying to send him iMessages instead of SMS and the text messages take twice as long to send. How do I stop this from happening? I deleted him from my contacts, restarted my phone, and even turned iMessaging off and on in my settings and nothing has worked.
I know I can get to e.g. Desktop with ⌘+⇧+D, but what about custom folders that I have added to Favorites? Can I move which Favorite is selected up and down?
I had a 2 1/2 year old Macbook Pro. It was a 2.33 Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of ram, 320 GB hard drive, running Lion. An employee of my company left and his Macbook Pro was a 2.66 Intel Core i7 with 8 GB of Ram, 500GB hard drive. At the suggestion of a friend, he said to swap my hard drive out and take the new computer, so I did it... I find the new computer is running slower than my old computer for pretty much all the applications (and including booting up).
So I have had my iPad for about a year but I haven't used it in a few months. I've been easy on it. It has never fell or anything and now it won't work. When I hold down both buttons (or the power one) absolutely nothing happens. Also when I plug it into my computer iTunes doesn't even recognize it. What can be wrong and how can I fix it?
I have a MacBook with an English keyboard running Lion in English. I used Boot Camp to download the WindowsSupport package and then installed 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate, also in English. Turns out the WindowsSupport package is in German, probably because I am currently in Switzerland. How can I fix this?
Lion opens lots of windows automatically after a restart. How can I stop that? It's very annoying. Is there a way to stop this? I found an option in System Preferences ("Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps") and disabled it but it doesn't seem to affect anything.
I got a text message, and I want to copy an email address from message context, but iOS comes to send email app, how can I copy it? Thanks in advance.
My headphones are a bit damaged it seems and the left has higher volume than the right. It isn't my ears, the song or the device :). Is there a program to change just one speaker's volume? Lion allows you to set the balance, but I don't think this is the same thing - it would lead to the sound shifting into the left speaker, effectively reducing the stereo effect. Windows 7 can do this, but I'm not quite that desperate.
I have a MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, running OS X 10.6.8) that does not reconnect to its stored WiFi network after it restarts or goes to sleep. To reconnect, I need to go into System Preferences and choose a network in Airport settings. Then it happily reconnects and stays connected.
I've got a brand new Mac Mini with a peculiar video issue. It just won't show video using the included HDMI to DVI adapter.:
Is there an app to shut down my iPhone 3G? It's a non jailbroken iPhone and the power button isn't working anymore. So I need to shut it down with an app. Any advice?
On the old laptop, I just changed the library location from the default C: to D: I also did a consolidate and now I have the entire music, movies, iTunes folders, etc. in my D: drive, and want to move it the new laptop.
On my iPhone 4S (iOS 5), I've set Auto-Brightness to on (in Settings -> Brightness). I haven't, however, seen it do anything. As far as I can tell, my brightness has never changed automatically. The screen is equally bright when I'm outside on a sunny day, or inside reading in a dark room.
Is it possible to upgrade the logic board in a Power Mac G5 1.6GHz? Mine recently died and I was thinking of trying to fit a more powerful board like the Dual Core 2.7GHz logic board into the case instead of just replacing with the same.
I've been having this weird problem with iCloud for a while. If I go to icloud.com, I can login just fine, and everything works (Contacts, Calendars, etc.), EXCEPT the Mail app. Whenever I click the Mail Icon, I get this error:
Bluetooth is off, Sharing is off. Automatic sleep doesn’t occur both on power adapter and battery power. Unplugging USB hub with things like keyboard/mouse connected makes no difference. Thanks in advance! EDIT Just booted into safe mode, and automatic sleep definitely works then. EDIT 2 After removing Google Software Update, automatic sleep miraculously started working again.
I made a foolish mistake when creating my iCloud email address. There was a misspelling that I did not catch. Now, my iCloud email is unacceptable to me with this spelling error. I understand that one can not edit the email address. Items: I have iPod Touch, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Before unplugging the Mac, I press the battery power indicator button and all lights are green. When I unplug the Mac I press the indicator button again and only one light is green.
I have a new iPhone 4s and an account on iCloud. Is it possible to move an old photo album from my old iPhone 4 to the new iPhone 4S by just using iCloud?
I have been working on an iMovie multimedia (picture, music, titles, etc.) project for six months using iMovie '09. Six months later it is not allowing me to further add anything to the project, and iMovie keeps crashing on me. I decided to stop, and burn it to iDVD. I have now tried at least 3 times to export project to iDVD to burn this disk, and after two hours of supposed copying; I come back to my computer to find out iMovie "Quit Unexpectedly"! The project is approximately 200MB. I just deleted the iDVD preferences playlist, and did verfy and repair disk permissions in Disk Utility. Any ideas on what to do next?
I want to transfer my entire iTunes library from old laptop to my new laptop. I want to use Home Sharing for the same..Since the data is almost about 15 GB, I would like to use Home Sharing over a local network (and not through internet). I have a Wireless router. I already tried doing a copy through iTunes Media folder (and Consolidate), but for some reasons, it does not copy all the songs..So I am trying Home Share..
I'm about to upgrade to lion and at some point in the future I might want to restore back to a snow leopard time machine backup. However, recently my first time backups have been overwritten. Is there any way I can preserve a backup so it won't get overwritten ?
I have a new Apple Keyboard, up until recently pressing the F4 key used to activate Launchpad (Fn keys are set to do as the image on them) but mow it does nothing. I tried the keyboard with another mac and it worked as expected (pressing the F4 activated launchpad). How do I reset the settings on my mac so the F4 key works as I want it to?
I accidentally deleted my /bin folder. My computer is now permanently stuck at the Apple screen with an infinite spinning indicator. I have: Inserted my Snow Leopard DVD Held down c - nothing Held down option - shows me Macintosh HD, but then hangs I am not sure how I can just start fresh and install a clean build of Snow Leopard?
At some point my daughter entered the wrong passcode too many times on her iPod Touch 2nd gen. I'm trying to reset the iPod as follows: Unplug the cable from the ipod turn the iPod off by holding down the sleep/wake button and dragging the red arrow across the screen Hold down the home button and connect the USB cable to the iPod Keep holding the home button until the "connect to itunes" screen comes up
I get an Authentication failed error when I try to log in to the Youtube iPad app. But the same username and password work on Youtube Safari and other browsers.
I have "PageUp/PageDown to Left/Right (only in iPhoto)" checked in KeyRemap4MacBook (version 7.5.0): And I've confirmed that my (non-Kensington) wireless USB gadget shows a PageDown and PageUp in KeyDump when I press the next slide and previous slide buttons: But when I put iPhoto (version 9.2.1) in slideshow mode, the right and left arrow keys change the photo, but the buttons on my gadget don't work.
An UAC elevation and a trip to the services interface later, iTunes informed me that if I didn't transfer purchases to my computer I'd lose them, and asked me if I wanted to continue. Continue to what, upgrading or transferring?
When I open a movie in preview (tested with .mov and .wmv), and I go to full screen, the movie turns black after five seconds, unless I keep moving the mouse. The movie plays just fine in windowed mode, and the issue occurs both on external and internal monitor, and with Caffeine turned on or off.
I have a lot of photos in which I have tagged people, given it the right information and so on. Sadly, I lost all these photos when I did a clean install of OS X Lion. The photos were being synchronized to my iPad and my Apple TV and therefore I have the photos on both of those devices with faces and all the correct information. Does anyone know of a way to extract the photos with all the information (especially the faces) from the iPad or the Apple TV and into iPhoto?
Is there a text editor for ipad which supports python and mercurial? It would be even better if there were a solution that also allows one to run and develop with django. Any suggestions?
Now here is where it gets a bit messy. Because I wanted to use this machine for work, I decided it would be a good idea to turn on drive encryption (for the 750 GB HDD but not the SSD) using Lion which was easy. But then, a while later and in my infinite wisdom, I moved the /Users directory from the SSD to the HD and that's where the trouble began. Now I want to make a clean start and copy all data to my 1TB USB 2.0 and then rebuild the entire machine using the Lion recovery flash drive which I already have. My plan was as follows: Boot OS X into Recovery Mode Log in as test user (that I won't need after cleanup) Open Terminal su to root rsync -avz /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD /Volumes/1TBHD/Backup_MacHD rsync -avz /Volumes/Data /Volumes/1TBHD/Backup_DATA Disk Utility --> Format HDD --> Format SSD Reinstall OS Reboot to newly installed OS Try and piece it back together using data from /Volumes/1TBHD I got as far as 6 but when I checked user and group ownership I already noticed some discrepa
It's been commonly noted that the iPhone 4S looks the same, but that its internals have been upgraded. Despite that, the iPhone 4S weighs more. What causes the added weight?
I got a HengeDock for Christmas. When I close my Macbook Pro and dock it to the external monitor, mouse, and keyboard, it will not wake up. I move the mouse around and type on the keyboard, but it stays asleep. Is this because I have a non-Apple monitor (I have a Sumsung -- highly rated by Consumer Reports). Is something set incorrectly in my preferences?
My dad just got a new iPod Touch, and he'd like to add his personal info to the lock screen. If possible, how do I do this (without jailbreaking)?
I am doing a TM backup for the first time to a portable disk from my macbook Pro(mid 2010) over a firewire connection (both ends). The disk only contained a folder of around 20GB of manually backed up stuff before I decided to TM to it (left the folder). Now it's only done exactly 580MB in 30 mins (around 19.33Mb/min) is this normal?
I've tried Safari, with the same problem occuring. I don't think it's a Lion problem since I've been plagued with this since Snow Leopard. I've mitigated the problem a little bit with Flashblock for Chrome, but still - when I actually need to load something in Flash, the computer locks up again.
I purchased an iPad for my parents who live 2 hours drive away from me. The only internet connection they have is the 3G sim chip in their iPad. I want to apply the iOS 5 update, but in order to download it the iPad seems to be required to be plugged in to my iTunes, which is really inconvenient. I also would ned to provide my laptop with a wifi connection from a hotspot on my iPhone, which does not seem stable enough long enough to download the iOS update. It would be so much easier if I could download the update while at home over my fast fiber optic network connection, then drive the two hours and apply the update. Is this even possible?
I have a Windows PC that doesn't have iTunes installed, because I don't want it. But I still want to be able to use other software to transfer data from my iPad, which means I need the drivers for it. Apparently, they only install with iTunes, but is it possible to install them standalone, with no other software needed?
I have enabled iCloud for my iPod touch and enabled Calendar sync, but my calendar events aren't showing up in iCloud when I login, even after I've manually backed it up to iCloud. What's the problem?
I have an iphone4 and I have never locked the phone or set a passcode, but for some reason, the phone is now requiring a 4 digit passcode and will not let me do anything but unlock it without the passcode. I have tried a couple but each time the phone locks and wont let me try again for several minutes. Is there any way to fix this?
I recently purchased the latest mac mini (with an included HDMI to DVI-D connector). My monitor is VGA so I want to still utilize it. The problem is, Apple does not sell DVI-D to VGA adapter.
I've got an iPad running iOS version 4.x and I want to upgrade to iOS 5 but I'm currently in the middle east. iPads in the middle east don't have FaceTime installed on them. I'm a little worried that if download the latest version of iOS the apple update site would notice my IP address and give me a version of iOS without FaceTime. Is the version of iOS downloaded for an update based on location/ip address or device serial number?
I am looking out for an app (for Mac OS X) that reminds to take a break (gives out a message) at pre-scheduled time. Free (or low cost) app will do, as I don't want to spend my hard earned cash on this simple app.
Does Macbook Pro not provide power modes (Power Saver, High Performance, etc) like a Windows laptop? If there is nothing like that, then I'd assume that OS X manages optimal settings itself. Or is there something which I'm missing?
I got my iPhone 4S a week ago since I got it, it seems I can't open the photo app. I can't see the pictures I have taken. Whenever I try to open the photo app, a white screen appears for two seconds then closes by itself.
I am writing code in various text editors with Finnish keyboard layout. Sometimes I press alt+spacebar accidentally when writing symbols. E.g. ... there is a high change I type pipe+pipe+magical alt-spacebar character.
I am considering buying an iPad 2 mainly for email on-the-hoof. I use my main PC as the central machine for email, so does the iPad have the option to mirror what is on the email server, rather than download and delete? That way I can get emails as I travel but the originals would still be on the main PC when I return home.
It seems like there is no voice command in Siri to directly update your status on twitter. Am I missing something? I thought that with iOS 5 Twitter is tightly integrated into iOS?!
I find it hard to believe this is a design decision. It would be understandable to keep the app on my computer, but why does it copy it over to my iPhone even though I deleted it there? Specs: latest version of iTunes on latest version of Lion, and latest version of iOS on iPhone 4.
I'm in the process of configuring a cloud backup for my OS X machine and am trying decide what folders to back up and whether there are any folders I should avoid. I have complete control, by folder, over the frequency of backups, and can "seed" the backup locally (so the size of the initial backup is not an issue). My question is about (1) whether there are certain folders I want to be sure not to miss (e.g. they contain settings or history that it would be a bother to recreate) and (2) whether there are other folders that are best avoided (e.g. it is either more convenient or safer to "restore" their contents from other sources, such as a reinstall). And, as with all backups, a dimension of interest is the degree to which backing up a given file or or folder will cause frequent large backups of things that don't matter much.
So I bought an unlocked iPhone 4S and im stuck at activation. I just want to get into the phone, get some apps and other stuff via Wifi. My friend has an unlocked iphone as well, can I put his SIM into my iPhone to get through activation and then remove it ?
I just bought a used MacBook Pro from a friend. He left the OS discs in Iraq so he did not have them to give to me. The laptop is currently running 10.6.8.
Is it possible to unlock the iPhone 4s when in voiceover mode? I need to be able to enter my pass code in voiceover mode.
I want to be able to make free phone calls from an iPod touch. I've used Google Voice for my computer, but it doesn't work for an iPod touch. How should I go about doing this?
I manually backup my home directory onto an external USB drive. So far, I have to override everything data on each backup which, of course, results in long back up times. Is there a free and simple tool that I can use to sync folders?
I have seen that there are many other model numbers of iPhone 4S's, but I have not seen any info about model number MC922ll/A Is an iPhone 4S of this model unlocked or locked to a specific mobile carrier?
I set up my email into the iPad 'Mail' app, and I cannot find how you log out to prevent another user from opening and reading my mail. Is it possible to log out of 'mail' on the iPad?
MacbookPro6,2 running Mac OS Lion 10.7.2 attempting to run a DVD fullscreen on an external monitor. My laptop display is primary, but I would like the DVD to run fullscreen on the External (a lovely 23"-er).
After iChat is open, I click the menu named 'iChat', inside it says "log into pancake44@me.com" (which is my Apple ID). I've clicked on that item but nothing else prompts me for a password afterwards.
I have a Mac mini Mid 2011 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5. I received as a gift an 8GB memory kit. The memory spec for my Mac says it needs PC3-10600 DDR3. The kit I have is PC3-8500 DDR3. In particular, the kit is Crucial part number CT2CP51264BC1067. Will the memory I have work in my Mac?
My iPhone 4 has trouble connnecting to a Sony speaker dock, it will continuously charge. Sometimes it will play music through the speakers; sometimes it will not. If it is not playing music it acts exactly as it would if it were to play music (the play/skip area drops down over the volume) but nothing comes through the speakers. If it DOES play music at all it often seems to come disconnected from the dock every 30 seconds or so only to reconnect itself and have to be pressed play again. I believe that is just a problem with my iPhone 4's connecting area... any suggestions at all would be so helpful!
Is it possible to send audio from music in iTunes, or from movies on Netflix, or video game sounds, etc., from my MacBook and receive and listen to the audio on my iPhone? I'm thinking of this working like wireless headphones, except with a really long cord. If there is a way could you let me know how the solution works, I'm interested in creating my own script/app to do this if it's not too daunting. If its important, I'm running an old 2009 MacBook, running Snow Leopard.
What free image editors exist for the Mac, which can handle *.psd files and treats layer groups correctly (for example, GIMP just ignores layer grouping)?
Mix the two freely. I can't tell if Homebrew will tolerate me dumping unmanaged binaries and symlinks in /usr/local/bin; my guess is that it will work for now, but just lead to problems down the road. However, I also see that Homebrew's supposed to be flexible with existing file hierarchies. I'd be curious to hear what the official line on this is. Nevertheless, it's not clear that it's an attractive approach.
I want to change my mid-2010 iMac with the latest iMac of my parents. Because we both use Time Machine, well, the easiest way would be to restore both of them from the backups. However, there is a bug in Lion that causes my mac to hang just before completing the file transfer. Is it possible to just drag all contents of the backup to Macintosh HD without problems or are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance!
I got a new MacBook Pro recently and I want to transfer my old apps into my new Mac, how can I do this?
I didnt realise the yellow tint on the phone until my friend compared his screen side-by-side. There is a yellow tint on my phone's screen. I read around the net and some people state its the glue and will get better within a few days. Other sources say that its a polarization problem and will not be fixed on its own.
I just found an external HDD in my shelf and want to sell it :-) Before this, I tried to delete all the files on the HDD, but the disk utility of Snow Leopard aborted with a known error "Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory". So I used the terminal (as described here) to delete the files on the HDD. Now my question is: is there a (freeware) tool to check whether the HDD works well? I don't want to (accidantely) sell a broken HDD
My father has rented a move on iTunes, but on his old computer (which can't cope and crashes when he tries to play it). He's now on a newer computer, and logged into iTunes with the same account, but we can't find the rented movie.
A friend of mine is trying to update her iPhone's OS through iTunes but it always fails as she has only 1GB free space left on partition C, and it seems that iTunes is using it as temporary space. She's asking for help but I don't really know what I can do except using another computer with more free space to do the update. Is there a way to download iOS manually so we can store it on another partition instead of using up all space on partition C? Or is there any simpler way to do it?
My parents have both recently gotten iPads, and have found that our networked laser printer, a HP Color LaserJet 2600N doesn't seem to support airprint. Is there any way to upgrade the printer to support the protocol, to save them replacing the printer altogether? The printer works great wirelessly on my Macbook Pro (2010) and installed happily with no drivers. Thanks!
Here is the Junk Mail settings: Also, junk mails are shown in Smart folders even when the "Message is not in mailbox Junk" condition is set ("Contains messages that match" is set to "all" as well). Messages are identified as junk by Mail.app (they color is yellow and the icon is shown). My question is how to make Mail app to hide junk mails in all non-Junk mailboxes.
In Snow-Leopard: Is it possible to search in the Trash, and sort deleted files by date of deletion?
I have some books in iBooks that were opened from third-party apps, so they are not on my mac. I would like to save them in iTunes and don't find a way to do it. For example there are some apps, that allow you to copy music, photos or videos from iPhone/iPad, but i found none that could do books. Any ideas?
I have bought a new ipad 2 3G and at the present time I am using it without SIM card. I have managed to make it work barely. I can navigate the web, read emails and download apps, but I cannot use iMessages or Facetime. The device will not appear on Find my device either.
It would appear that Apple have managed to get it utterly wrong with libedit again. The version shipped with Lion is apparently broken, and consequently tab completion doesn't work in psql (Discussion here). psql is one of the few tools that I tend to use directly from my macbook rather than on a vm and it would be lovely if it just worked. I've tried rlwrap and although it functions it doesn't support psql tab completion. I suppose I could install a new version of psql from source and link it directly against readline but I was wondering if: ...anyone had found a workaround of some sort ...it was even vaguely credible to consider building an updated version of libedit and replacing the system version?
I've just plugged in another monitor into my 13 inch MBP running OS X Lion. It works fine, except for three little annoyances:
My original computer with my itunes account crashed and burned. I am trying to make sense of the account on my new computer. I was able to buy musice and movies but now I can't do anything. I changed my password but I keep getting a message that says my password is incorrect. its not incorrect. Anybody have any ideas how to fix that. I am totally frustrated.
I have found OS X's default column width to be a bit too narrow. Is there any way to make it wider?
I have an iPod with video and in the Settings there's an option to show "Radio". However, when I tell it to show, it doesn't show up in the home screen. Does it have a built-in FM radio?
While developing for the web I tend to jump back and forth between my text editor and the browser a lot. I'd like to set a keyboard shortcut at the OS level that allows me to jump to a specific, definable window every time. Even better would be the ability to issue a tell that application to execute something, but I'll save that for later.
I've got a new mac mini (the latest one mid-2011) and it has Lion in it. I have an old Epson Stylus C59 and would like to use it in this mac mini. However, the epson site has no installer for mac.
How do I view image dimensions in List View in Finder? I found this but I don't find this option on my machine. I'm running Snow Leopard; is this a Lion only feature?
When I try to delete folders/files from my External drive I get the below error after being asked to enter my admin password: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. This volume is Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and I am running 10.7.2 Permissions seem correct read/write and everything else is working fine.
In an answer to an earlier question I found out that the available columns for Finder's list view are relative to the folder path. This means that one could choose to add a Dimensions column when browsing under ~/Pictures or Artist under ~/Music or Codec under ~/Movies. Where and how these are defined? Is there a centralised file that links a path ~/Pictures, column Dimensions and action "get file's dimensions" together? Or is the column and the action defined in a centralised location and then a folder's property (like "this is a folder for pictures") enables the columns?
I can't browse to any website using Safari; yet, Google Chrome and Firefox are working fine. The Mac App Store also reports that it cannot connect. I am running OSX 10.7.2 on a 2011 MacBook Pro.
I've just upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 5.0.1 and also jailbroken it. I've waited with the upgrade until the jailbreak because there are some tweaks I don't want to miss. Now that I have iOS5 jailbroken, I want to re-add those tweaks, but I don't find them in Cydia. Looking at the sources in Cydia, I see that Modmyi.com and Cydia/Telesphoreo are listed and they do contain lots of items, but Big Boss and Dev Team and cydia.zodttd.com are also listed, but when I select each then there's nothing in there.
We have multiple computers of different OS in a network. Mine is Mac OS X and most others are Window XP or 7. I will need to help monitor what computer gets connected. In past, I use Windows and have McAfee security which products a real-time map of all connected computers including each IP and Computer name.
Im looking to upgrade my iPad to iOS 5.0 but deleting the media is not an option. I do not have access to the original computer that I used to place all the photos onto the iPad. Any suggestions on how to update the iPad and still retain the photos/ make it easy to reapply them to the updated iPad?
After iPhone 3Gs upgrade iOS to 5.0.1, all third-party apps can not open and work. Any advice?
Some websites have text that appears when you hover over an image or link with the mouse cursor. Touching the screen of an iPad does not appear to activate this text. Is there a way to see mouse-over text on an iPad?
My iPad was stolen from my flat together with other belongings during X-mas. I used it primarily as a game console for my son and as a reading device for PDFs, so I haven't synced it with iTunes for about half a year or so.
How can I map the mouse axes to my keyboard keys in the Mac OSX 10.6 Terminal? For example, moving the mouse up (positive x) triggers a keypress of W. Is this built in, or do I need a software package? The only search results I found were for mouse-driver, which I don't have on my system.
Excel for Mac (2011) should move the currently active cell when I use the cursor keys. Currently, it is moving the viewport in the document. Is there a way to switch this back to the default setting? I cannot find anything in Excel's preferences.
Let's say we have a picture. We open it with photoshop and save it a copy. If we open the folder with finder, the original picture has a white frame, but the modified doesn't. Why is this happening? is there any way to prevent this behavior?
If I lose my iPhone, and I use remote wipe to prevent my confidential data from being stolen, then can I still use Find My iPhone to locate it on a map? I'm assuming not (since it resets to factory settings), but I wanted to double-check.
Is there any software application that allows iPhone or iPod Touch to be used as an advanced remote control for a Macbook Pro?
I am trying to use an old iPhone 3GS as an iPod touch. I left in the old sim card and connected it to iTunes but it will not activate.
Is there a defaults write command to remove the dock in Lion. I tried the steps mentioned but that does not seem to work on Lion. I can still see the dock. Are there hidden defaults that can make the dock invisible or off-screen on OS X Lion?
Apparently, the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop points to the root directory but it is not showing all the contents. Some of the files and directories are the same as those which I see when I perform an ls on / dir in Terminal, but most other directories like /usr, /bin, etc are not visible.
I have a problem with the wifi on my MacBook, Late 2006 model. The problem is that I only get a wifi connection if my computer is within 1m of the router. I have tried this with my Time Capsule and with my D-Link router. If I am on the couch with it (2-3m from the MacBook) it does find the network but I instantly get the error message: Connection reached a max time limit
How do I make Firefox use Chrome's built-in Flash plugin? I assume I can simply symlink Chrome's Flash plugin in Firefox' plugin directory—which directories do Chrome and Firefox use to store their plugins?
Is it possible to dim the screen from Terminal, in a Mac with OS X Lion? Is there any command to do control brightness and volume?
I have an external sound card (Line6 Studio GX) connected through USB. I have selected this device as the output device in sound settings: Now, when I press Mute (F10), the mute overlay is shown:
I know that there are several camera apps for iOS, but what's a good one for the iPod Touch? More specifically, I'm looking for an app for taking good video.
What happens to those people who have completely switched to an iOS device and don't have a CD drive? Then, when they want to rip a CD/DVD to their iOS device, they can't. Is it possible to connect an external CD/DVD drive to an iOS device?
I know there is a similar question, but it seems that on-screen alerts are supposed to be built into the Notifications Settings and that using a third-party app should not be necessary. Even though I have alerts selected (the three options are none, banner, and alerts) in Settings > Notifications > Mail, they do not show up. Any thoughts on why?
Does GarageBand or any other Mac software make it possible to determine the notes in a musical recording? It doesn't have to be absolute, and it doesn't even have to guess the rhythm. Determining the intervals would be enough.
How secure is the file sharing feature for use over WAN on an Airport Extreme? i.e. Are the content and/or passwords encrypted when accessed over the Internet?
Every time I clear my history I am presented with a small alert window. Is there any way to avoid/disable this?
My university has a 'configuration profile' to allow us to connect to the campus secure WiFi - which is great, save for that it forces us to have a passcode (which I neither like nor want). The profile is outdated, as the network now has it's own security on top of the connection, and so it's objective (to stop unauthorised people using the network) is moot. Is there any way to modify the configuration profile / read it's contents and write my own (it's unsigned anyway) to replace it?
I use iCloud to sync music files. On my Mac, I changed some song information such as genre or artist name. How can I sync the changes on my Mac's iTunes with iCloud so that all my iPad and iPhone iTunes have the same change?
How can I hide username and computer in terminal command prompt? In Terminal it says Is it possible to show just the current folder and $ sign?
My iPhone 4 has never been synced to a computer but has music and stuff on it. I'm scared that if I sync it to my new computer I'll lose my contacts, music, etc. Does anyone know what happens when this is done?
ignoring the .class files because you can't run javac on a .class. Also when I wanted to run the file typing would result in
I'm trying to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant. Now the boot camp is on task "Formatting the selected drive" and it has been going on three hours and it is not even on the half way. How long this task should take normally, or is this normal? Or is task frozen somehow?
This happens every now and then. Just this time rebooting my iPad doesn't solve it.
Is there a way to get a digital copy of a book I have in hard copy? Some DVDs now come with a digital download, is there a similar service for books? Note: most of my hard copies are bought on Amazon.
I have trouble writing on my Mac. It happens on pages on Safari like writing an e-mail or in Facebook and even in this question box. The problem is that the page starts jumping up and down as I'm writing and if I use the backspace key the page I'm on jumps back to the last page I was on, removing all my text. How can I fix this?
Since I use iTunes Match, every few days iTunes restores some of my old playlists that I previously deleted. I think these are only the default playlists that iTunes comes with (Classical music, Music videos, Recently added, ...) but I'm not totally sure. At the same time, the "iTunes Match" link reappears in my sidebar, even though I can't do anything with it.
It doesn't sync the drafts folder so you have to finish and send a draft from the same device you created it on. Usually I want to email a photo from my iPhone, create a draft, save it and finish the email on my computer or iPad.
After installing the jailbreak app "Winterboard" just now and then rebooting as required, all my apps including settings and phone etc. only display in top left quarter of screen.
Today I upgraded my iPhone 4 to the newest iOS. In the process steps it asked something like start from new iOS, or start from your back-up in iTunes, I selected the first one and then noticed there are no contacts, nor messages! My iTunes had a problem and I thought I had backed up the files in my iTunes but I checked ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
However, there are some pkg files that are now xar archives and I need pkgutil to extract them. And there's probably other permutations of pkg spec that I'm not aware of. Bottom line is that I can always find some way to manually get the stuff out of the pkg, but I'd like a one-shot solution that would do this automatically without worrying about the specific pkg implementation, say: unpkg CrappyPackage.pkg Does such a thing exist?
I'm fairly sure I know the answer to this, but wanted to confirm - I was doing work on a customers site, and ran into a Google flag for malware (site includes portions from a site beginning proto... that I can't remember) - I continued and finished what I was doing (just changing a setting) - last I checked, drive-by infections didn't really "work" on macs. I cleared all of my cache and am about to run a clamXAV scan, but there's no cause for concern here is there? The gist of my question essentially, is whether it is possible for external scripts to operate maliciously (in any way) on my machine without my admin password / choosing to install them (obviously, neither of which I did).
I want to know when I should reset the SMC on a Mac. I have a very quirky G5 and was wondering if resetting the SMC would fix some of its problems.
My Dad just got an iPod touch and raised an interesting question. Are there security risks for an iOS device? He was planning on storing sensitive personal information on it, but wasn't sure if it was completely safe. Is it even possible to hack into an iOS device and retrieve information?
This has me doubting my always-spin approach. All the stuff I read previously was for 3.5" server drives, maybe the 2.5" drives are different in this regard and I should sleep them when possible? Or was I simply just unlucky with that crashed drive?
I'm trying to run the james smtp server on Lion. When I do this ... ... it works fine. However, I'd like to make JAVA_HOME an environment variable so it is visible to other applications too. I edited ~/.bash_profile to look like this ... ... and the variable appears to be visible from the command line like so ... But when I run james again like this, I get a warning about JAVA_HOME ...
I have been using my Macbook Pro for about 5 years, it was the first model with the Intel chip. The 100GB hard drive is starting to go and I'm ready to replace it. I went over to Cnet to see what looks good. Oops. There are about 2,000 products to choose from, and I don't even know how to determine compatibility with my laptop. What are the steps I should follow to narrow in on a new hard drive? This machine does a lot of heavy lifting: audio, video, and image processing, etc. My goals are to increase storage to 250GB minimum (pref. 500+), improve performance, extend my Macbook's life by at least 18 months, spend less than 400$, and easy home install (youtube videos look do-able). I can spend more if there's a good reason to; just wanted to make the question specific.
Is it possible to run custom apps or display long text on an ipod nano or a device that's similar to it?
I'm experiencing a vexing bug with Photo Stream (that at least some others seem to share), in which about 10% of the photos I take on my iOS devices just don't show up in the stream. I understand that I can manually import the missing photos (e.g. using Image Capture, Aperture or iPhoto) and then manually add them to my photo library, including to my Photo Stream (e.g., using Aperture). But this process is tedious and, of course, error prone: I need to periodically go through all the photos I've taken with each of my iOS devices and manually identify which photos haven't made it into the Photo Stream. Is there a way to force a re-upload of all photos in an iOS device's Camera Roll to Photo Stream? I've tried turning Photo Stream off and back on again on the affected iOS devices, but the missing photos remain missing.
ClipX is a Windows clipboard management application. The search feature would be incredibly powerful if I could find a suitable equivalent to Clipx on OS X. I'm currently using Flycut but it's a bit buggy, inteface isn't what I'd prefer and interacts poorly with Eclipse.
Is there a way to enable AHCI mode under Windows on a Macbook5,2 (white) on N-Force 730i chipset? If you want to just say 'no', please put it in the comments instead. Thanks. Advanced Host Controller Interface mode provides additional features of the SATA standard and can be implemented in BIOS on some motherboards to improve performance.
I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Air 11", and when I unplug my secondary display, some windows (e.g., Finder) are overflowing at the edge of the screen. This usually happens on the right-hand side of the [work]space, so I have access to their title bar to drag them back. But this time, the MS Word 2011 window is overflowing out of visible workspace range in a way that makes it unreachable: it's like having a big negative offset on the vertical axis. I can see the window in Exposé, tried moving it to another [work]space (and back), but the window position stays the same. The three finger drag is enabled, but I cannot reach the window's title bar. Researching through other questions, I saw that Afloat counts among it's features the ability to Move windows from anywhere, not just the title bar. just like other window management apps. But I'm primarily interested if there's any built-in solution within OS X Lion for this specific issue. Is there a key combination to move a window from an
This may not be the best place to ask this question but I'm having trouble getting vim to read my vimrc file. If I have it in the home directory as ~/.vimrc then it ready just fine but if I move it ~/.vim/vimrc so that I can take advantage of plugins and a few other things, it no longer reads the vimrc. I can't remember what I was supposed to do to make it read the correct vimrc.
How can I set the iOS 5 Springboard wallpaper to a different image than the lock screen wallpaper without jailbreaking? The answer may very well be "you can't." I just want to know for sure.
At my upcoming job i will handle many servers with SSH access. It will be like ~100-120 hosts, with different username on most of the hosts, and i'm pretty sure i will not remember each host domain name, not to mention which username is on each host. Is there a tool for Mac OS X (Lion preferably) which would allow me to define a session for each host (in a session i mean username and some ssh options), show list of such sessions and connect on click/select automatically?
I know that many apple laptops such as my Macbook 6,1 run a 32 bit kernel in OS X Snow Leopard. The kernel according to Apple can also run or "support" 64 bit applications. My question is how does the system do that? A 64 bit OS can run 32 bit apps by default because the OS has emulators that catch all 32 bit calls and translate them into native 64 bit calls. But how does the 32 bit kernel in OS X do that with 64 bit?
Update: What factors might contribute to this problem? I put the computer at the capable hands of my Apple Premium Reseller and came back empty handed not once but twice thus far as they have been unable to reproduce this problem.
I have a color printer that supports airprint but I don't want to waste the color toner on random docs. Is there a setting in iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) that would allow me to override and print black and white?
I am new to this. I am looking to get into Mac, iPhone and iPad app development. I just enrolled in the dev program. It would be appreciated if you could please let me know what low cost Mac desktop or laptop config needed to start that can keep up with current OS types in the devices and use the cloud?
In Mail.app on 10.7 Lion, When I select an email thread, it shows all the emails within that thread in the right-hand pane, with the newest message first. How can I change this to sort from oldest to newest (the way that gmail shows messages when you are viewing a thread)?
Like the OSX menu items for wifi, battery... I would like to be able to have a permanent order of the third-party menu bar items. I do not want to mix OSX with third-party menubar items, I simply want them to always appear in the same order. Setting an order for the menu extras to launch in the startup items does not do the trick.
I have a Lion 10.7.2 system (on MacBook Air 13" 2011) which doesn't boot anymore after a restart. My HD is encrypted with FileVault 2, and after I click on my username and enter my password, it appears to be logging in but the apple logo turns into sort of a "forbidden" traffic sign, and stops there forever.
I was editing the configuration for my Time Capsule, when I noticed that I had the following options for network encryption:  Why is there an option of WPA/WPA2? Is it as secure as WPA2 Personal?
For whatever reason, my iBooks dictionary is stuck in Japanese. Even when I read English books, defining a word always causes the app to use the Japanese dictionary. My iPod's language is English, so I have no idea why this might be. Is there any way to switch it to the English dictionary?
A long time ago, I found this post online with some tips for finding files in the browser cache. Specifically, Flash videos. However, I'm currently running OS X 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.2 and this method doesn't appear to be accurate anymore. I also tried the RealPlayer Downloader method mentioned in the comments on that link, but it's not detecting the videos in the browser.
On my old laptop I had a moderate-sized collection of "favorites" fonts that I've set over the past few years. The laptop is now gone, but I have a disk image with the entire contents of the hard drive. Is there a way I can copy the fonts that were in the "Favorites" collection to my new computer? Put another way, is there a file I can copy from one machine to the other which contains my "Favorites" fonts collection? Thanks!
I want to share my internet connection on 2 pcs (imac+mac mini), however, the default internet connection sharing stuff, is really unstable. Is there any 3rd part alternative, working stable? Thanks.
In previous versions of OSX I've been able to take a picture using the Photobooth app and upload it to the internet (by using a website's "choose file" button, navigating to User\Pictures\Photobooth or similar and selecting the picture I want). Now, since I've upgraded to lion I haven't been able to do this. Now the Photobooth folder in my Pictures directory is disabled and I cannot get into it.
I have a mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro (MBP). I also have a Windows Home Server (WHS) that I connect to regularly from my MBP. Normally when I connect to a share on the WHS, that mount point is listed in the sidebar of Finder under DEVICES. Under DEVICES, one share never shows: Music
If I use Handbrake, it tries to crop bits off and resizes to a weird dimension, so I have to work to switch all of that off. Also, even if I try to turn off all the decombing and deinterlacing options, including putting the :interlaced flag in the advanced options, when I play it back on the TV it has somehow destroyed the interlacing and no longer appears smooth.
I have been using my Mac Book Pro (15" Lion, latest version) for coming on a year. I used to open the cover, it would search for my wifi, and in 15 seconds I could start web surfing. Suddenly, in the few weeks though, it is doing something strange... It still finds the wifi connection in a few seconds (the Wifi icon shows all dark), but now it takes an extra 90 seconds plus until I can actually load anything in a browser. I noticed that Skype connects after about 90 seconds, then a few seconds later Safari allows me to start loading web pages, and then a few seconds later Chrome will let me start loading web pages.
I got an MP3 audiobook download for Christmas. The downloaded and unzipped files are named in this manner: 01 Prologue.mp3 02 Chapter 1 - Don't start yappin.mp3 03 Chapter 2 - Stack Exchangin your way to success.mp3 04 Chapter 3 - Don't eat that Unicorn meat and three other warnings.mp3 05 Epilogue.mp3 After syncing them to my iPhone and opening the music app I saw that they are displayed in alphabetical order by title: Don't eat that Unicorn meat and three other warnings. Don't start yappin'! Epilogue Stack Exchangin' your way to success. Prologue
When I double click a dmg file it's mounted (or so I assume) in the filesystem. I want to explore the dmg file in the terminal for hidden files (like the background for example), but I'm not sure where it's mounted - I checked /media and /mnt, but it's not there.
Edit: The majority of manga I'm reading works fine. I actually really like the app. But some images just don't work. Example of an image that doesn't display correctly: please try opening this image in your recommended comic app and see if it's readable.
In iTunes subtitles background is black and font Courier New (and rather big). How can I change this preferences?
It's not too big of a deal, but if anybody has some pointers how to resolve this, I'd really appreciate it. Btw. the issue appears on different monitors, so it's not some monitor-hardware fault or anything.
I am using Emacs (Version 24.0.50 (9.0) -- Cocoa) on OSX Lion. Whenever I type a TextExpander abbreviation, the snippet does not successfully expand. I hear the audio notification from TextExpander indicating that it tried to expand and the abbreviation I typed is erased from the buffer, but the expanded snippet never appears. I have tried this with "--no-init-file" so I know it is not a conflict with my particular Emacs configuration. Some older tips I have found suggest mapping Command-V to 'yank. This does not work for me. Does anyone know if there is a way to make TextExpander work in Emacs 24? Note: I know TextExpander works in Aquamacs and I know about textexpander-sync-el, but both of those cause other problems for me and, if at all possible, would prefer a solution that doesn't involve those two things.
Sorry I'm being vague because I don't even know where the problem can be. Yesterday I was using the internet just fine. Today on the same wifi router and on another 3G connection, I couldn't access any webpages. I tried using those exact same two connections with another laptop and it worked.
I'm having trouble getting HTTP Live streaming to work on my desktop in any browser. Sample pages like the following work fine on the iPad and others' computers in Safari, but I get a black screen and no sound in Safari and a big quicktime with a question mark on mine:
For the last 2 weeks Software Update on my Snow Leopard box seems to hang at "Installing 1 item...Writing files...". Where can I look to see if it is making progress or just hung up? It has been trying to finish today's Software Update for over 2 hours now. It feels like it is hung but I would like to be sure before I kill it.
I need to load Windows 7 under OS X. These are my Macbook Pro's features: Mac OSX 10.7.2 Mac OSX 10.7.2 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Which software would be the most suitable for me, considering that I want to focus on developing .Net Applications.
Used Migration Assistant to migrate from Mac Mini (which is without iSight) to MacBook Pro (which has iSight). MacBook Pro was installed with OS X 10.6, then Software Update(d) to 10.6.8, before downloading Lion installer from Mac App Store.
I have some books in iBooks on iPad 2 (iOS 5) that were manually transfered to iPad via iTunes (without syncing). How can I copy back a book to my PC, from iPad?
I am trying to troubleshoot battery life issues in OS X Lion on my MBA13. Is there an app (or hidden system information) that can tell me how long my computer has been on since last full charge. I am not looking for uptime, but looking specifically for Time Since Last Full Charge, just as is available in iOS.
I'm troubleshooting a relative's Mac and the Finder sees her "Pictures" folder as a bundle. When I right-click to see the package's content, I can see that the folder seems to have the same structure as an iPhoto Library. What could have caused this, and how can I turn the Pictures folder back into a regular folder?
I am having a little trouble with my wireless keyboard. In the past 3 weeks it has disconnected 3 times and then reconnected after a few moments. The Magic Mouse is working fine alongside it, and the power is up over 70%. Any advice for when this happens or why this happens would be appreciated.
I am running iTunes 10.5.2 (11) on Lion 10.7.2 and I have an iPhone 4. Several times now I have created a playlist on my phone and the next time I sync to my mbp, itunes blows away the playlist on the phone. I had expected that iTunes would copy the playlist to the computer. Is there a way that I can prevent these playlists from being deleted?
For some reason, my browser always defaults to New Zealand. I've reset my location in the Store and in the settings, but it always pulls up google.co.nz when doing a search and the default map centers on New Zealand when I turn off my location. Anyone know how I can set the region of the browser to match where I am?
I'd like to password protect a text file. Not necessarily a .txt file - just a file that's got text in it that I can edit with a standard text editor. I'd like to set a password and be prompted for it every time I open the file in any app. What's the best way?
I'm running CCC (carbon Copy Cloner) beta 3.4.4-b1 I would like to change the Hard Drive in my iMac and wanted to know if there are any hurdles, steps I should take in cloning my current Hard Drive UPDATE: Looks like my HD Dock stops the hard drive disk after a long period while backing up, Here is what I have: http://www.sabrent.com/category/hard-drive-enclosures/DSH-USB2/
I have 13" MacBook Pro (Early 2011) with Mac OS X 10.7.2. I can't make Find my Mac option in iCloud to work.
I have bought an iPad 2 a few days ago, have configured it but I am unable to use FaceTime or iMessages. After searching a while, I found this page (*=URL=* It says how I can manage my devices on iTunes Store but when I follow the steps and visit my account I don't see the MANAGE DEVICES item I should. Apparently the problem I am having is that my iPad is not associated with my Apple ID. The iPad is a brand new, bought on a store. How do I associate this new iPad with my apple ID? Another problem is this: if I try to flick the switches for automatic downloads of apps and books the same switches flick to off half second later.
I have two iPhones and two iPads. They need to sync with the same iTunes. They have different e-mail, contacts, sync information, but use photos, audio, and video from the same multimedia library on my PC and NAS. How should I set that up? Currently I have problems with the iPod Photo cash and there might me more issues that I have not discovered yet? Thanks. Thomas.
2.) Checked that Documents & Data were being synced.
I just bought an iPhone 4S and configured my mail-accounts. But for some reason, the new mail is only pushed when I open my Mail-app. I set the settings for incoming messages to "Push". Any idea how this is possible? I my former iPhone, an iPhone 3G, did the job excellent...
I'm trying to deliver as a download a collection of audio files such that the user (preferably Win and Mac) would be able to double click on the file (perhaps a DMG? / ZIP) and launch a script that would then add the media to the users iTunes library. I realize that's big on concept and thin on detail --- At the moment I see it as a number of different problems. How to create a DMG file how launch a script for the user to do the add to library when the open the DMG (or zip on Win) how to actually do the scripting (again obviously different for Mac than Win) I'm not expecting anybody to do the work for me, but I would appreciate pointers to suitable resources.
I have a wireless network based on a Time Capsule (802.11n, first generation). As wireless connectivity is rather bad in one part of the house I wanted to use an Airport Express (802.11g) to extend the network. The end result should look somehow like with the Time Capsule and the Airport Express both running in the same WiFi network.
I recently had my iPhone wiped from keyboard issues so my pictures were backed up with the iCloud in photo stream. How do I place those photo stream pictures back to my camera roll? I've tried to select all my photo stream an move it to the camera roll folder but it wouldn't let me.
My 2007 Macbook Pro has suffered from a failure of its GPU and will now only boot in Single User mode. I want to sell it on eBay for spares, but obviously I don't want a hard drive with live data on it ending up on eBay. I know you can destroy a drive's contents with a secure erase in Disk Utility, but as I said, I can't boot into any mode that requires graphics because the GPU is dead. How do I secure erase the machine's drive in Single User mode?
I'm thinking of using FileVault to secure my computer - it looks like an ideal solution for everything. However, I'm wondering - will it effect the performance / battery life of my computer significantly?
I have a problem with my Macbook Pro. I suspend it and if I should open it up and the wifi is connected and all looks pretty well. But I have no connection with my DNS Server. Other devices works well. I can ping all ip adresses but I can't resolve any hostnames.
My old 2nd generation 8gb touch played through and charged on my Boston docking station. But now my ipod will not play nor charge. Is there some kind of updated docking attatchment i can get for my boston?
Anybody has an idea why videos taken with an iPod Touch (or iPhone 4S) play upside down on my Windows PC with Windows Media Player? However with QuickTime, videos are oriented correctly.
We have an iPad and iPhone that I know we can set up to sync through iCloud. We also have several iPods. Will setting up iCloud for the iPad and iPhone affect our ability to manually sync the iPods?
I'm trying to move my time machine backup files all under Backups.backupdb to another drive. I initiated a file copy overnight. In the morning I saw that only certain backups(folders with dates) got copied over. I then tried to copy over the ones that didn't get copied...but the OS wouldn't allow me to do that. I got and error that "The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified."
I've tried some of the methods that people have suggested below, specifically using Disk Utility's restore function and it's giving me some error messages and unexpected results (at least to me). I've tried to do the restore two ways:
I have a 13" MacBook pro, which has only one 3.5mm jack. I've set it as Sound Input in the System Preferences -> Sound dialog
I configured my Time Capsule so the LED blinks when it has activity. As I type this I notice that it is blinking constantly, even though my network is idle. The computer that uses it for backups (not the one I am on) is off, so it isn't running a backup. The cable modem uplink to the ISP is not blinking -- so the traffic isn't from outside.
When I go to Preferences -> General -> Usage on my iPhone, and tap 'Manage Storage', I see my three devices that have been bound to my Apple ID with backed up data, and the sizes (1.6GB, 633.6MB, 498.5MB) total the 2.7GB that the 'Backups' section lists. Underneath, app Documents & Data only total 651KB.
If I can find the users preference file for video resolution I can try deleting it. Hooked up a monitor that doesn't support 1280x900. Just a blank screen and unable to go back to original 1280x1024.
So, my questions are: First, can I do this? Second, where can I find good documentation on setting this up? I'm fairly technical and am not afraid of getting deep into the details if it will give me a painless way to do backups and I've grown to like the simplicity of Time-Machine. (Plus I use VCS systems for all the critical files in my day to day work). Thanks!
Is it possible to customize the icon that's used for certain filetypes in Mac's Finder? I have a folder with a bunch of .mobi files. In finder, If I view by icon or coverflow, it just shows a generic .mobi icon for all the items. I'd like to instead see the covers for each of the books. PDFs seem to already do this by showing the first page of the document as the icon.
I've simply ignored this in the past, but I've always been curious. If I download a new program off the internet and drag it to my applications folder, it shows up as the default missing icon symbol, and doesn't show the actual icon until I have run it a few times, or shut down my mac, or some other similar thing. Is there any way to automatically show newly installed programs' icons?
I am using Screen Sharing to do vnc to my work computer running Linux, however the Edit -> Cut,Copy, Paste,Delete commands are all greyed out. Is there some way to enable these options ?
I just received an iPad for Xmas. I took a video through the iPad camera, which was stored in my ipad camera roll. I turned on the iCloud backup of photos previously. Last backup was before I deleted the video. Can I get back just that video without having to restore all iPad contents?
So I have an iPhone 3G, and it can no longer be updated to the newer versions of software. So, I was just wondering if there were any apps that would be compatible with my phone to convert files and movies so I can watch/view them on my phone. PLEASE HELP :)
I often hear the notification bell go off in my iPhone, but when I pull down the drop-down of alert events, I dont see anything which matches the time the alert went off. Is there a way to see what event caused the alert notification to go off?
I realised that in iOS-5 sms app, if I send an sms to my friend and he is replying, there will be a "..." showing. How is it possible that I could be notified while he is replying? How does it work?
Just wondering if there is a way to retrieve open windows and minimize them from the command line in Lion? I have an AppleScript that does this, but it kind of slow, so wanted to know if there was anything Thanks
I want to put this blackboard as the background of my notepad, so when I type, it'll look like I'm writing on a blackboard. Do you know a simple text editor that will let me use it as a background image?
It connects to my home network using WiFi. But when I try to send my old Notes written on the iPhone 3 by email or view weather or stock data, it can't access the network.
I am giving away an iPhone 3 to a friend, and I can move all the photos and videos to a computer by copying the DCIM folder of the iPhone 3 (just like a USB flash drive or digital camera). But I think the only other things are the Notes and the Voice Memos. How can they be moved to the computer? (I have been using the iPhone 4 for 1.5 years, so backing up the content of the iPhone 3 and restoring to iPhone 4 is not an option, I think, as it will wipe out my iPhone 4's content).
My iPhone 3G which is a 16GB version can upgrade to newer iOS in the past, but for merely 2GB of total usage on this iPhone, iTunes will take an hour or more to "Back up the data". I know that some slow flash memory may take 2MB/second for data transfer, but even at that speed, 500 seconds should be good for 1GB of data, and 1,000 seconds will be good for 2GB of data, so that should be 16.67 minutes only. (and, 2MB/s is usually a bottleneck speed for data writing, not for reading. The speed for slow flash memory read that I usually see is 6MB/s)
I tried to reload Cydia, which stopped working on my jailbroken iPhone 4. I downloaded "Redsnow" and "Ipsw 4.3.2", which worked, until I went to use and downloaded an app with Cydia.
I just got a new iPad 2, this is my first iOS device. What are some advantages to jailbreaking and what are some disadvantages?
I have an older iPhone 3G and the cell phone carrier is no longer available. It can connect to my WiFi, but the IP Address is showing as 192.254.xxx.xxx and subnet mask as 255.255.0.0, and no data can be sent or received.
Can I add more than one iCloud account to an iPhone? For example if I set my wife and I both up with an iCloud account, could I get her calander and mine on my phone?
I seem to have broken something in my OSX Lion install. Whenever I insert a SD/CD-ROM into the machine I have to go into Disk Util to manually mount it. This happens quite a lot and is getting on my nerves. Any ideas what I might have done or what might cause this? Thanks Gordon
Anyone got a good checklist for diagnosing the problem with a dead MacBook Pro ? I've a 15" MacBook Pro Core Two vintage machine that has suddenly stopped booting up. I can hear the Superdrive spin up, but then it stops with a black screen. Doesn't seem to want to boot from either the harddrive or the Superdrive (I've tried a Linux boot CD there). I'd like to try to figure out if it's a problem with the display, with the logic board or something simple before I decide whether or not to scrap it.
An IOS5 device is needed to create an iCloud account. I have a Macbook and an iMac both running Snow Leopard, but no IOS device nor a mobile.me account. I want to use iCloud's calendar features. I know SL doesn't officially support iCloud (yet) but there seem to be work-arounds (and the odd rumor of SL support coming later, but I won't hold my breath) and I want to try to bring it up now.
I want to rename selected files in the finder sequentially. To do this I have created an Automator workflow.
I have a soon-to-be-retired Sony Windows XP PC and I want to transfer it to my Mac and run it as a virtual machine on my Mac. I have used Parallels and VMware before on a Mac but I have always created a new image and installed a fresh copy of Windows on to it and run it successfully. I have never done a physical to virtual conversion before, especially with such a kooky PC as the Sony which has special keyboard buttons, a built in TV tuner etc and probably has many Sony specific drivers installed. I would like to know: Which virtualization software is most likely to be successful? What is the procedure to transfer the image, presumably over the network? Whether transferring such an old but patched up to date Windows installation is worth it?
I'm a very new Mac user. I just bought a MacBook Pro and I'd like to use the Time Machine backup. Unfortunately, it seems like I can only keep my laptop mobile by using an Airport router. I was hoping that I could backup to a HDD shared by my Window 7 desktop.
Is there any way to use iCloud on OS X Lion to share pictures with my iPhone without upgrading to the newest iPhoto? I know the newest iPhoto isn't that expensive but I don't use it for anything at all so I don't want to pay the $16 for an application I don't use.
In Lion, the menubar drops down way to fast when I'm in a fullscreen app. This mostly becomes a problem when I have multiple tabs open in Terminal. When I move to the top to change tabs, the menubar drops down and I click it on accident. So is there any way to add a delay to the menubar dropping down? Or maybe change the drop down hotspot to one of the corners instead of just the top edge?
Can I use my iphone charger to charge a kindle
Are there any "best practices" for deleting the content under ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iLifeSlideshow/Pictures? For example, is there any way to tell iPhoto to clear its cache rather than deleting the files directly from the Finder?
So I tried installing Lion on an old (white) Macbook, but first I wiped by my drive clean. Just to find out that I only had 1GB memory and Lion requires 2GB. Now the drive is clean, with no filesystem (I think), and it won't even allow me to install Snow Leopard. Keeps saying 'Can't install OS X' on this computer - that happens after I boot to the install Disc and choose English. I am assuming it is because the drive is not formatted for an OS X friendly filesystem....but the Disk Utility option is greyed out. How do I fix this?
I would like to share my photos that I have in my iTunes/iCloud account with another account. Ideally, I would like to be able to have anything that is in my photostream to be automatically sent to another iTunes account or that account's photostream.
I need to create a keychain that can be used by any user. When I check a keychain as shared in Keychain Acess->Edit->Keychain List, it just disappears and I can't see this keychain in the list anymore.
The Apple-Menu shows Sleep, Restart..., Shut Down... elements for all users. I would like to be able to prevent users from shutting down the system or from restarting the system. While a Restart... may not be result in only temporary downtime, a Shut Down... would lead to a downtime until someone has physical access to the machine.
My favorite text editor beeing VIM made me add the follwing line to my ~/.bashrc As expected, hitting escape lets me execute a vi command, BUT ONLY ONE ?!? For example if I do this: it jumps to the beginning of the word and then types "b" to the line instead of jumping another word back. This happens on all my osx boxes (10.6 and 10.7) and non of the linuxes I use.
I just got an apple tv (the black box). I was prompted to update and so I did. When completed, the only thing that would come on screen is the large blue iTunes icon and a white cable pointing to it from below. I am assuming it is asking to connect to itunes? Not sure what to do! do I need to but the cable? oh to note that I watched videos on it before the update (so I did set up my account and all).
Can I format my Mac? If I had one, would a full OS installation media be provided? Or at least an OEM version of it? If not, how much it costs to get one of these?
The Mac booted fine and started asking for all the registration details. After everything was entered, it goes back to the beginning, asking to fill the address etc. AGAIN AND AGAIN, endlessly.
I have an iPhone 4 that is showing its age. It will charge when plugged into the wall charger. However, when I plug the same cable into a USB port on my computer it will not charge or be recognized at all by iTunes. When I plug my new iPhone 4S into the same cable it is recognized and syncs just fine. Is there anything I can try to get the iPhone 4 syncing via USB so I can update the OS and sync with iTunes, etc? Edit: I will occasionally get the "This accessory is not optimized for this iPhone" message when I plug the iPhone into the cable connected to the USB port.
When I go to the App Store on my iPhone 4s, the password box pops up, but the keyboard to enter the password does not pop up, so I have no way to enter a password. Any idea how I can correct this?
Prior to Lion I believe moving the mouse woke a sleeping(powersave) screen, and now in Lion you have to click. Often I am in the situation where I am about to go to bed and want to sleep my imac, but am unsure whether the machine is already fully asleep or just the screen. Previously I would simply move the mouse to find out. Now I have to click, which means I wake the machine either way i.e. if it was already off, and then have to shut it down straight after. Is it possible to bring back waking power saving screen with mouse move?
I am developing a web site and would like to check how it looks on my iPad and iPhone. Is there a way I can set up my mac and devices so that I can develop the web site locally, but view it on my devices over the local wifi? I'm looking to replicate the functionality whereby you can just save an HTML file in your text editor and press refresh in the browser and the page updates, except that the browser in question will be on my iPhone.
Is there a way to use automator (or something else) to batch add keywords to photos selected in finder?
Family has a new iPod Touch for christmas... and their pictures are showing up as what sounds like infrared. I can't find documentation of a feature like that. We are fairly sure their haven't been any apps downloaded. I have an iPhone 4S and don't see anything like that, but things could be different on the Touch.
I have had an iPhone 4 with iOS5 for about 6 months. Is it good to wait for the battery to be almost 0% to recharge it? Is it good to recharge it to the fullest? Is it bad to leave the phone plugged to the computer/wall when it is already 100% charged? Is it bad never to charge the battery to its fullest? Thanks.
I'm a developer and I'm just so used to using Spanish (Argentina) as my keyboard layout on my PC both at home and at work. Now I want to develop on my Macbook Pro too, but the only Spanish layouts available are "regular" and ISO, both of which are basically the same as the one I use, except I have to press the alt key to input characters that are very common for me, like {}[].
I have a MacBook Pro with an NVidia GT 330M graphics board and mini display port output. I purchased an HDMI converter for the computer, and connected it to my TV (Panasonic GT30). When booted in OSX, the TV displays the image correctly.
In Snow Leopard, I used to use the command nmblookup -U 172.16.0.10 -R domainPC | grep '<00>' | awk '{print $1}' Blindly upgrading to Lion, I didn't realize that Apple removed SMB I am now in trouble. Is there anyway to replace it with an alternative? I see there is smbutil lookup [hostname], but I am not sure if I can add a gateway like I did with nmblookup.
I have an iPad 2 and I've noticed every time I receive a Banner style notification (the temporary pop in bar at the top of the screen) inside of a game app the game visibly stutters for half a second. Is this just how banners always affect performance? If I disable banners for an app will that eliminate the speed hiccup or is this a problem with the behind-the-scenes notifications too?
Is there any way to safely jailbreak an iDevice having the iOS 5.0.1 on it? I know a jailbreak is never going to be 100% trustworthy but there's a certain level of acceptance when some experienced users try it and those who are not, can go give it a shot. Thank you.
I have a new mp3 in iTunes, and despite how many times I sync it with my iPod, the new song will not be copied. I tried to remove all songs from that artist, and add again, but the new song is still not on the iPod. There is no message or indication of an error.
I use the ClickToFlash Safari extension, out of concern for Flash security vulnerabilities and to remove annoyances. However, I do not like its replacements for YouTube video players over YouTube's own player.
I use WingIDE for Python development and it runs under X Windows. The X11 font rendering is driving me crazy. Are there any tricks for getting better fonts in an X Server on MacOS / Lion? Sample image here. It's not so bad that I'd say it's broken, but the hinting, subpixel rendering, etc all just doesn't look nearly as nice in the X server as it does in MacOS native.
Since upgrading to Lion, I cannot access any of the local functions in the CUPS web-based interface. The response I get is "Internal Server Error". For example: *=URL=* or *=URL=* The printers are all working fine, but I can't access job queues, etc. Any ideas?
I recently got a Dell 2412m monitor with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200. But in system preferences it only shows 1920 x 1080. I had it connected, beautifully, to my spare linux machine, so that's not the issue. How can I get the correct resolution on my display? Specs: Dell 2412m Mac OS X 10.7.2 Connecting with MiniDisplay Port to VGA
Safari won't let me download utorrent, which I use and love on my MacBook pro. Any similar programs that work on an iPad without jail breaking the device?
I have an iOS 5 iPad 2 and my homescreen is a bit confused. My apps are stored in pages of like content but the pages aren't logically ordered. Is there a way I can move a whole page of apps/reorder them (not just one app at a time)?
I'm a new Mac user. What happens when I close the lid on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?
I want to correct how my 'sender' name appears when I write mail with my iCloud account. For some reason, iCloud shows my first name in all caps & I can't edit it.
When I touch the surface of my iPhone 4, it doesn't always register. How does the display work? Heat? Charge? What can I do to make the phone register my touch better?
My parents have an old printer: an HP DeskJet 812C. I upgraded the OS on their iMac to SnowLeopard before checking if the printer was compatible. Unfortunately, it isn't. There's a Gutenprint driver for this printer, but the documentation looked rather involved. I didn't have much time to dedicate to the task.
I have an iCloud account: name@me.com and I try to add it in Windows Live Mail but it gives an error message that my username or password are incorrect. I found this *=URL=* but it's online for Windows Vista, my OS is Windows 7.
Well, the title says it all: Can I edit the Info.plist of an App so that is always starts hidden?
Occasionally, when I've had my mac on mute for a period of time (eg., several hours), and then plug in a set of headphones, I get a backlog of system sounds played to me. (chirps, new email sounds, etc).
There are a couple of sounds that my mac makes, which annoy the heck out of me. However, I don't know which application that's running is making these (perhaps it's the system itself) Is there a way to identify which app recently caused a sound to play?
Recently I got a Mac mini with OS X 10.7 installed. Right now it has one 500GB hard disk.
Either on my Mac, or on iPhone or iPad, how can I delete an individual image from my photostream? I can't seem to work this out...
When I SMS my friend (iPhone 4 to iPhone 3), green messages mean that it's a Message and blue messages mean that it's an iMessage. However the messages that my friend sends me (iPhone 3 to iPhone 4) are all grey in color, How can I tell which message service my friend is using to SMS me?
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8. It has all the latest updates (except for an item each for iTunes and Safari). Having not used Mail for a week or so, I've run into some problems with it - plus similar problems with Colloquy and LimeChat (both IRC clients). For all three, the problem is that the screen is not being redrawn; it appears to be acting transparently, and so screen furniture (scrollbars etc) are leaving a trail where the application content should be.
How can we do a "full page" (full length, from first message to the last message) screenshot? For example, this should be the resulting image:
Recently my application switcher has broken. The colors looks very odd and it doesn't help to kill finder or reboot the computer (or it works for a while after reboot..) Image: https://img.skitch.com/20120103-pge8m1hh6eqakyy9qyjpd54x69.jpg
I was working on my Mac mini (Lion 10.7.2) when the power went off. When the power came, I started Mac Mini. But it keeps on showing grey screen with activity indicator forever. It wont start the system. I have tried Repair Disk, Repair File Permissions, but still it wont start. How do I resolve this issue?
I have a new MacBook Air that is connected to a Time Capsule for both internet and storage. I have a fresh installation of iTunes (up to date) and am going to preferences / advanced and telling it to find media in a folder on the Time Capsule. I have both keep itunes media folder organized and copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to the library unchecked (don't think this matters, but just in case it does). It seems to accept the setting without error, but my media never shows up. I've restarted both iTunes and the Mac with no change.
I subscribed to iTunes Match the other day (it just came to the UK) and was thinking - now that iTunes Match is backing up my library, ratings, playcounts and all that awesome stuff, I no longer need to include it in my time machine backup, right? It's matched 99% of the songs in my library and I'm not going to miss the others a great deal - I use Spotify very heavily as well, and if I don't need to backup my music (~100gb) I no longer need a larger backup hard drive :D
Is there some restriction on which device you can rate from? I like to browse the iOS app store via iTunes from my MacBook, so I often stage apps there for download on the next sync with my iPhone. I just tried to rate a so-installed app from my iPhone and (after typing in and submitting a review) it said that I need to own the app before I can review it. Is there some sort of synchronization that I have set inappropriately?
When I open System Preferences and click the Mail, Contacts and Calendars icon, System Preferences crashes. In addition, iCal crashes on launch and Mail crashes when I try to open its preferences. This just started happening today. I haven't recently installed any new software or any OS updates. I'm running the latest version of Lion with all available system updates installed.
When I create a reminder in iCal on Mac OS 10.7 and try to assign a calendar to it then not all calendars seem show up. Is this normal?
I'm using some special characters like mathematical symbols in different programs like Mail or Adobe Illustrator. Of course I can open the Symbols Table, search for the needed symbol and copy&paste it. Is there a way to define a shortcut to insert a specific special character?
Got a new macbook and trying to get the data off the old one... the old one has issues... one of them being overheating. So I connect them using firewire and start up Migration Assistant Wizards and begin transferring the data (about 180 GB).
Just switched out my SuperDrive for an SSD on my 2010 MacBook Pro and am running into whale of a time trying to get Windows 7 installed onto the SSD for Boot Camp. Initially tried installing via an external DVD drive connected over USB, but that wouldn't let me boot into Windows 7 setup. Tried setting up a Windows 7 USB stick, and that wouldn't boot either. I then tried following along here with the basic procedure of tricking VirtualBox into installing Windows 7 to your drive and going from there, but that created a non-bootable Windows partition.
When traveling, I probably will have the iPad 2, iPhone 4S, a USB backup charger, and some misc devices such as a Kindle Fire and a Sony digital camera that uses USB to charge its battery. So instead of hooking them all up to the computer to charge them overnight, in the event that I actually need to charge every one of them that night, is it possible to use Apple's 10W USB charger that Apple makes (it is 100V to 240V compatible):
I Have a 2011 Mac mini and I installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp. All the drivers are working fine, except the sound and the bluetooth. Since my internet connection is really lousy, I don't want to download a 100Mb drivers solution, I just need the Audio Controller, which I've been led to believe that it a Cirrus Logic CS4206B, but I haven't been able to find a single place to download the driver.
In order to install Windows XP on Virtual Box at my new MacBook Air, I need to create an ISO file of my WinXP install CD. My Laptop (MacBook Pro / Lion) comes with the Mac Disk Util and that app can create ISO files from CD media. The problem was, after creating such a ISO file with that DiskUtil (using New image... -> CD/DVD-Master -> renaming to *.iso) that file wasn't readable by Virtual Box ;-( I've tried 3 various options but without any success. After that, I tried it with command line only
I have a custom keyboard layout which MacOSX doesn't recognize as Latin, so it doesn't allow me to remove the US default layout. I'd like to know what would make my layout be recognized as Latin. Is the US default layout stored in a file somewhere? so I can compare it to mine and figure out what to change. My layout is a modified US-international so it should be recognized as Latin with no problems. Update: I solved it by setting the keyboard id to 1.
I had a Boot Camp partition with Windows 7 on my 2008-era MacBook Pro, and everything worked fine. I have a new MacBook Pro. I partitioned it using the Boot Camp Assistant, and then I copied my old Boot Camp partition using Winclone. After booting into Windows on the new Mac, I ran the Boot Camp Windows Support stuff, which supposedly installed current drivers. Almost everything works fine: I have the hi-res display, trackpad works fine, sound works fine, etc.
As I understand, Time Machine or for that matter, any backup solution doesn't backup your apps (for technical reasons, I know). So what's the best solution to remember/backup the list of apps you have installed on your Mac in case it just stops working one day? Apart from the obvious "manually write down the name of the app on paper", of course.
I keep getting emails from a domain, which always use the same email address; every time I mark them as junk in Mail, but Mail keeps showing those email in my inbox. Is there a way to force Mail to consider those emails as junk? Do those emails contain a header that forces Mail to consider them acceptable messages? As far as I can see, I only have the problem with those emails; other emails that I mark as junk are never shown again in the inbox. The emails I receive are not in my Google Mail account.
I'm on my first steps with OS X and I'm trying to setup Apache so I can develop a website. I configured a new alias on /etc/apache2/other with the following content, pointing to my project folder, like this:
When backing up using Time Machine, all your applications are backed up along with their preferences. I know that the preferences are restored when doing a full system restoration. However, what if I uninstalled an app along with its preferences using cleaning tools - and now I want to restore just that one app with its latest preferences?
I am using Skitch Plus to take screenshots of applications running on my Mac, and I have noticed it has an option to set the background.  What I still have to understand is when that option is used. As it is evident from the screenshot, it is not used when I take a screenshot of part of the screen, and (from the following screenshot) when I take a screenshot of the full screen.
After upgrading to Lion, X11 doesn't start. I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.0, it doesn't start either. The crash dialog mentions the following problem: X11: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libpixman-1.0.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin Reason: Incompatible library version: X11.bin requires version 21.0.0 or later, but libpixman-1.0.dylib provides version 17.0.0 XQuartz: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/*/libfreetype.6.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin Reason: Incompatible library version: X11.bin requires version 14.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 10.0.0 Unsetting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't help either. EDIT: I also reinstalled X11 from the Lion installer package as described here, but the problem is the same. Can anyone help?
The Android OS monitors the power consumption of running apps and hardware (display). As you may guess, this is a useful feature as it allows to track down energy greedy apps. Is there an application that would do such monitoring on Mac OS? It should calculate the percentages of the charge that an application/process/hardware has used.
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro from 10.6.8 to 10.7 (and now 7.1 & 7.2). Ever since the switch to Lion my Mac has a kernel panic at shutdown and I get the "You need to restart your computer" error message.
I just started syncing my iPad to my desktop iTunes and it's taking a very long time to "transfer purchases" from the iPad. I was under the impression that iTunes remembered all my app downloads and purchases via iCloud (and verified I could see them in iTunes) so I don't understand why iTunes would need to transfer anything off my physical device. What exactly is it doing and why is it necessary?
To easily download the latest episode, I selected the "Show all available episodes" option for a podcast to which I haven't subscribed. The podcast listing now looks like this:
I have some files and folders on a USB drive connected to my iMac...I would like to sync them with a folder on my iMac...how do I do that? Is there built-in functionality in Lion that allows me to do that, or do I have to use a 3rd party solution?
I bought a song from iTunes that is marked as explicit. However, the song is not actually explicit. When I try to edit the song's info in iTunes Music Library.xml, it simply reverts to the original information upon opening iTunes. Is there any way to remove the explicit label? Edit: I would prefer to do this without any third party software, but it doesn't matter too much.
I'm aware of the "poor vision" mode of OSX, but it's just a color inversion. My vision isn't that highly impaired that I would appreciate the whole operating system to look like ass at the expense of readability. Instead what I'd like to do - as I can do in Windows - is to change the UI colors to relatively neutral medium to dark colors, but so far haven't found a way to do it. As a color scheme this isn't anything new, especially lots of graphics related applications nowadays use these darker tones a lot. For example here's a screenshot Microsoft's Expression Blend 4 which is pretty close to what I'd want the UI to look like. So, how can I change the colors/styles/whatever used by OSX (preferably 10.7 Lion) to either match the linked screenshot or be fully modifiable on the fly?
I jailbroke and unlocked my 3GS (4.1, baseband 06.15.00) a few months ago to use it in another country. However, my 2-year German contract is up and I could ask my former carrier to ask Apple for the official unlock. Would this work on a jailbroken/unlocked phone? I want to upgrade to IOS 5 without needed to jailbreak to unlock the phone again (I don't use jailbroken apps, really, just used it for the unlock).
Background: I relocated my music library to a different hard drive on my Mac. In order to sync iTunes, I exported the playlist, edited all the file paths to the new location, and imported it back into iTunes. It worked fine, except:
If I start Siri and ask to send a message or email, it will ask who to, takes the name from me etc etc. When I come to saying the message I can only say a few words before being cut off. I then need to say edit to start again, or tap the message to edit manually. However if I were to create a message without using Siri, and then tap the microphone button, I can talk to the voice recognition for longer, and manually stop it listening. Is there a way to change the length of time Siri leaves after you have finished talking or a way to change its sensitivity to sound?
VideoLan VLC Media Player. I recently tried to watch a .avi movie over 1GB, and the video was perfect, but I could only hear audio from the background. Movies below 1GB play just fine. So is there a limit of how big the movies can be? I have an iPod touch 3rd generation running iOS 5.0
There some applications which I can not yet run in full-screen mode. I particularly would need the OSX Terminal app and possible the TextEdit. However, after the upgrade they remained the same, and does not have the full screen button in the top right corner. How can I enable Lion style full-screen mode for there applications?
My 15 yr old daughter has cerebral palsy and has limited control of her hands which makes physical control of a camera difficult. Is it possible to connect a digital camera to her iPad 2?
My iPhone 4S, which i got in October, just crashed out of the blue and wouldn't restart. After reading other people's blogs I managed to restart by holding the main button and on/off button together.
I've a lot of photos and videos of my children. I feel that losing those pictures would be a real pain for me and my family. In the past I use to make, from time to time, a DVD with all my digital photos, but nowadays, my gallery is just too large to make DVDs of it.
Recently I'm using my MacBook Air mostly in clamshell mode, with an  Wireless Keyboard and an  Magic Trackpad paired. Sometimes, weeks pass by without even opening the lid: connecting it at the office, putting to sleep, connecting it at home etc. From time to time, the bluetooth keyboard does not connect back on wake automatically, as the bluetooth trackpad does: I have to open the lid, type in my password, then pair the keyboard to use it. What is the problem and how can it be fixed?
Mac Mail is changing my "reply to" email address on my emails. I have several accounts set up in Mail, and when I send an email from one account, and people reply to that email, it sends the email to a different account of mine than the one I had sent the email from. There is nowhere that I can find in the Preferences to set a "reply to" address. Apple's support documents indicate that the "reply to" address would be the address your email was sent from (makes sense) unless you type a different address in the "Reply To" field. Even when I typed the address I was sending from into the "Reply To" field, the receiver of the email STILL had the different email show up when they hit reply. I also tried this in the Terminal, found on an about.com site: "defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders" The response was "The domain/default pair of (/Users/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist, UserHeaders) does not exist" which should mean that there isn't some overriding "Reply To" address set.
ssh works fine when when I log-in from OSX Lion to Lion or Lion to Ubuntu. ssh -X (X-forwarding) works fine when I log-in from Lion to Ubuntu. However, I can't seem to get ssh -X to work from Lion to Lion. How do I enable X forwarding on OSX Lion so I can run x applications from a remote machine?
If I'm off-line, and I send an e-mail, it stays as "unsent message". Is there a way to cancel or delete or edit those unsent messages? (using the default e-mail app)
Is it possible to sync between an iPhone and an iPad directly when there is no Internet connection (like a remote location or an outage at the Internet provider)? Using a direct wireless connection between just the iPhone and the iPad (without using a PC or a WiFi router) I need to sync all data (contacts, calendar, reminders, photos, ...)
How are you supposed to use Google Music on and iPhone? I uploaded a lot of my music to Google Music but I want to have offline access to them on my iPhone.
I got a weird warning message in Safari 5.1.2 : Where i can find safari_warning option to change it to false ?
Sometimes my ssh session in the terminal hangs. How can I exit the ssh session and reconnect?
I have a 2007 Mac Pro that shipped with 10.4.7, and an ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card. The card has two DVI outputs for a dual display setup. I recently updated my OSX to Snow Leopard and have never tried to connect a second monitor.
Related to: iPhone 4S stereo sound This is strange. I know people with the iPhone 4 (not the 4S as I have) who are getting audio from both "boxes". In addition, I don't get stereo with headphones either. I get stereo output but both L and R channels produce just R - meaning the R channel is outputting to both. What is this?
Every so often, I have to type some text consisting mostly of uppercase letters, but with an occasional lowercase letter—essentially, sentence case, but inverted. On Windows, I would simply have caps lock on the entire time, and pressing Shift would give me a lowercase letter. On OS X, however, if caps lock is on, I only get uppercase letters, whether Shift is pressed or not.
I want to upgrade Xcode but it tells me I first need to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.6 (I have 10.5.8). However, the links I find online all seem to expect me to use Leopard or Lion. How to I get there (without buying something)?
Will a MacBook Air SuperDrive work with a new Mac mini? The Apple website says it will work with Mac Mini on Snow Leopard server. No mention of New mac mini and OSX Lion.
I have GMail setup on my iPhone with push, as an exchange account. It's awesome. However, when I select to delete an email (as I often do - I get rather more rubbish than I'd like) it archives the email - and I want to delete it properly from my phone. This is the opposite of a lot of questions, and I'm aware that if it's setup as a gmail account I can change this setting, but seemingly not if it's setup as an Exchange account.
My 2011 MacBook just slid off the table and hit the floor face down opened. There was a message saying to reset and I did. After that it wouldn't load OS X Lion; it stays at the gray screen forever. Going into single user mode and running fsck -fy returns a lot of disk i/o errors. After several hours, it's still displaying those and some other messages. Can fsck still fix this drive? Mu windows partition is working.
My Finder sidebar has two categories: Favorites and Devices. How do I add more categories?
I know it's the spotlight indexing process, but it's been killing my HDD for the last few days and will not stop. The CPU usage is rather low but fs_usage shows that the mds process is doing something the whole time. I'v tried force quitting it with kill -9 but it will just auto re-spawn and keep killing my HDD. I'v added all my HDDs into the Spotlight privacy list as well as disabling indexing sudo mdutil -a -i off I'v done several restarts but it keeps on going. Any ideas on how to stop it from opening and running? Update: I Managed to stop mds by the following command:
I restored my iPod because it had system failures and even the settings app crashed. Now after restoring it using my backup there is no camera app despite me having it before. Do I have to restore it as a new iPod? Does anyone else have this problem?
It seems that my iPod Touch (iOS 5.0.1) will keep asking for my AppleID password every time I try to install an application from App Store. It is really driving me insane. I would be happy to add the password once at boot up instead of entering it each time. I couldn't find a related option in Settings. How do I change this behavior?
Character picker inexplicably stopped working tonight in OS X Lion. I was trying to type in Spanish but now the keys which used to accept tildes or accents are merely repeating. I tried entering the following command in Terminal and restarting my MacBook Air, but it didn't restore the Character Picker: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool TRUE
I have an Insignia 25" LCD TV and an Apple TV Gen 2 connected to it via HDMI. When I wake the AppleTV up from sleep mode or boot it up from being turned off, it makes a loud, white noise-y sound. You can listen to the noise here. The noise is most likely from the AppleTV, since the TV doesn't make the noise when it is on the DVD player input, and the noise starts exactly when the AppleTV light turns on.
Why is it not possible to have iTerm2 or Terminal app take up the full available space on the screen. Let me show an example:
I have a 2008 Black MacBook. The battery indicator says 'Not Charging' and if I remove the power adapter it powers off instantly.
Check out the image below. I cannot finger swipe to the right to get rid of the top and bottom grayed out podcasts. They are not in iTunes on my local disk or listed in the podcast section of the iPhone under iTunes. How can I get rid of them? Forcing a sync doesn't seem to work.
Using iTunes match, my collection seems peppered with songs that cut out before their full length. An example: A song would be 5 minutes long, the song timer would show it as being 5 minutes long, but after 3 minutes, the song just cuts out and there's nothing playing for the remaining 2 minutes.
I upgraded my wife's iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.0.1 and now basic tasks like opening apps like Texts/Phone dialer are now slower than before. I understand the 3GS is 2 years old, but just being able to type Text messages fluidly is a super basic task that a 600Mhz processor should handle just fine (as it did on iOS 4.x and 3.x). If not, Apple shouldn't be pushing and advertising iOS 5.x for 3GS's. Anyway, what iOS version do you recommend I revert to?
I used to use spaces for quick switching between applications (I had a space with a browser, another with a terminal and yet another with an editor). For spaces I could have a keyboard shortcut. This way, I had a quick way to switch using a keyboard shortcut.
I've recently bought a new macbook pro. Since my old backup hard drive is failing, I'm planning on buying a new one. I don't want to spend a lot of cash and I would like a decent amount of extra space, so I'll be going for an HDD not an SSD. Yet I'm wondering, what would be the best data protocol to buy (USB, FW800, Thunderbolt)? I'd say thunderbolt is overkill since the speed of an HDD won't come near the speed thunderbolt can go (and it's pricey, and has low availability).
Is there any way to set iPhoto library on external HDD instead of main HDD. I have a lot of photos and am running out of space on my MBP.
How can I turn on bluetooth via the terminal / the command line?
It's insanely annoying having the email reply pop directly over my Firefox window every time I hit reply to an email in Mail. Each time I drag it over to the vacant space on the left of my primary display, and EVERY time it returns when I reply to an email.
I use my MBP propped on one of those laptop stands, ergo my external USB mouse and USB keyboard (both generic cheap-ass Logitechs) are always connected through a powered Belkin USB hub. Yesterday I noticed the following — after trying to eject my iPod, my USB mouse started “slowing down”, the pointer wasn’t moving smoothly. Then both the mouse and the keyboard stopped working, the “laser” in the mouse went off. I noticed that the hub became extremely (!) hot and unplugged it. This is how it happened log-wise:
I use a great add-on tool called Thunderplunger to clean up my address book in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, but I need something similar for the original Mac Address Book too. Basically I have big email lists of subscribers from the last few years. By the time they got removed though and I get a lot of bounces when I try sending newsletters (which they opted-in to!), but it's too tedious to delete them one by one, especially when I want to send a newsletter after some time has passed and many mail addresses changed/got deleted.
I recently bought an iPhone 3gs. It comes with a pair of apple earbuds that have a remote and a microphone.
As per this question I've found banners to cause slowdown on iOS 5, it turns out the "welcome, you have been signed in" Game Center message does this too, and on occasion it will interupt me several times in a game if I switch in/out of the app while playing as it logs be in/out repeatedly. Is there a way to disable this notification while leaving Game Center enabled? I tried revoking the banner notification rights from Game Center but the pop up still appears.
Some apps allow their windows to be viewed in full screen, such as Google Chrome, which is really good. Wondering if there is a shortcut to do it?
Is there a combination of 2 applications which would allow me to transfer videos from my computer to my iPad and play the video files on my iPad without involving the native iOS 5 "Videos" application? I dislike the native iOS 5 "Videos" application because it doesn't allow organizing video into a file structure, and "Videos" only allows viewing a thumbnale of the video. I don't want to see a thumbnale - just text. I have 40-50 videos at a time, so the root folder in Videos gets cluttered.
I live in East TN but when I change my time settings to automatic, it says I'm in Chicago. I have to manually set it to Atlanta so that I don't get the Central time zone.
I have a folder on my Computer, "Markdown Source" with a folder action applied to it through Automator. The folder action applies a shell script, and then writes output to a different folder, "Markdown Output" (no bonus points for guessing what the script might be).
After uploading iOS 5 to my iPhone, there was a message from iTunes saying that, during the procedure, iTunes was unable to backup my data. So nothing got restored and I lost a great number of photos and other stuff with no further explanation. Is there anything that can be done?
I got a file contain extension of .accdb I don't know how to open or which software to use to read this file
I'm trying to connect to a Samba share from a laptop running Tiger (10.4.11). When I use Connect to server..., and enter smb://ip.of.the.server in the text box, I get an error saying that it couldn't connect because the name or password are wrong. This is no wonder, since there is no way for the computer to know the correct username and password - I guess that it is trying to connect with the current user's username and password.
My MacBook Pro is just 3 months old. It is 13 inch running i5 processor. Today I was working on Eclipse and connected one end of USB cable to the MacBook. I was about to connect other end of USB cable to my Android phone when the MacBook crashed suddenly.
I have the package of a Microvision Rōv bluetooth barcode scanner and the Delicious Library software and it works awesomely well to scan UPC of books, dvd, and gadgets of all sorts into the library. What I'd like to do is scan some other data using this hardware and don't know how to get at the data that the barcode scanner captures but that Delicious Library is bypassing (serial number, IMEI, etc...). I have asked both companies for assistance with this, but wondered if anyone here had an answer before I get the "official responses". I will answer / comment as I get responses from the companies. Does anyone have recommendations for software to scan arbitrary bar code data into a spreadsheet or structured text file so I can parse these other fields and use this scanner for data entry past what the Delicious Library software allows?
A friend is upgrading a 2007 Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM. This model can support up to 4GB or RAM installed, but will only use a maximum of 3GB. So, his options are to install 2 x 1GB, 2 x 2GB, or 1 x 1GB + 1 x 2GB DIMMS.
I sync my iPhone 4s with iTunes. In the past (way back in 3Gs days), I tried a bunch of apps, then removed them from the phone, since I didn't need them anymore. However, for reasons unknown, they are still in the list in iTunes. Note the screenshot:
The hinge on my 5 month old MacBook Pro is very loose. I took it to the Apple store, where I was told that it will tighten over time. Has anyone else had the same problem? Has the hinge tightened over time? This sounds suspect, due to the fact he said the spring inside gets tighter, but I was taught in school that springs lose their tension over time.
How do I get Mail.app to show a middle name in the "To:" field? Even though I specify a middle name in the address book, it doesn't appear.
I'm looking for an app that alows me to quickly update tags from imported media in iTunes. Something like itunify used to when it was free.
In the System Preferences there is the option: `Security & Privacy -> Firewall -> Advanced... -> Enable Stealth Mode Does this options significantly increase the security when networking or surfing the internet? The hint only says: Don't respond to or acknowledge attempts to access this computer from the network by test applications using ICMP, such as Ping. The hint does not explain how my work with the Mac is affected.
Does anyone know of an app that can notify me of new emails in my Gmail in specific time intervals? I mean, I want to set up hour intervals when it is ok to receive notifications. I have researched a lot and seen apps like pushmail, where you need to forward to another email address, but I wan't something that does not need my mails to be forwarded. The app will need: Gmail IMAP connection Notifications on new mail Quiet periods (or else OK-to-notify periods) Custom notification sounds Nice UI ;)
I've got a password protected Word document, and I've got the password to open it. However, I do not have MS Word or any plans to buy it. How can I easily open and convert this document to something usable on my OSX computer?
Searching for Wi-Fi uses battery, and it's annoying when the "Choose Network" dialogue box pops up when an iPhone is Wi-Fi enabled, but I don't have any desire to connect to a network. Is there any built-in function or iPhone (I have a 4S) app that enables Wi-Fi ONLY when the phone is in a certain location -- say "home"?
Does OS X have this built in? It is tedious with only one buffer.
I am not experienced with OSX but I have been using it recently. It seems to me the equivalent of an .exe (executable) in Windows is a .dmg (disk image) in OSX. And you don't install it, you mount it. I am trying to wrap my head around these terms, why do they call it this?
Today I started installing Debian Linux on an old Macintosh PowerBook G3 with Mac OS 9.2. After a long time of backing up old documents I erased the whole disk. At the end I just want Debian installed, so I did that. Than I've burned a Debian CD (DVD won't work) and inserted it into the PowerBook. I wanted to boot from this CD with pressing C at boot, but I always just get a big question mark on the screen. Please help me, because I already tried more than a hour with booting the disk and it never worked.
I'm trying to plug an external screen on my 2010 macbook pro 15", but when I set the maximal resolution, 1920*1080, the image seems a little constrained, and a big black vertical bar appear on the external screen. Here is a picture of it.
following is a problem that we have been trying to solve for a while now... we are attempting to archive a couple of rather large mail folders from within apple mail, they contain in excess of 20000 emails and the actual folders in... ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes ... are around 14GB in size. the problem is that if we archive these from within mail, the export only generates mbox files of around 4.2GB, which do not contain all emails from the original folder. is this a known limitation of the mbox format or more likely apple mail? the obvious alternative to the above approach is to directly backup / archive the actual mbox folders in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes? ds.
Problem: How do I do this without reformatting my windows hard disk? This hard disk probably has a MBR and no GUID partition (GPT). Is there a way for me to change the boot sector to GPT safely and the windows Vista SP1 will boot from it? I definitely can't run it as an external hard disk with external case since Windows Vista doesnt support USB booting. Is there a boot manager program that will add an EFI partition to my hard disk?
I'd like to be able to turn my screen off from command line. I know there's the keyboard shortcut ctrl+⇧+⏏ but I want to do it from a shell script or remotely. Is there a way?
OK, so she's started a new company, and has purchased a domain/hosting package, and needed assistance setting it up. The requirement was that mail should pool in her Mail inbox together with Hotmail, but she should have a profile widget in the New Mail interface that lets her set which email address each message should come from.
Is there a command I can execute to modify screen brightness? Interested to see if the min/max are hardware or software controlled, and what can be done for quick brightness changing without an apple keyboard.
So I have a jailbroken iPad on 4.X. I would like to use the new Netflix interface but it's only for ios 5. Is there any jailbroken app that will make it think its on ios 5 and not ios 4.X? Or is possible to edit the Netflix app files or something? Thanks for the help.
I frequently feel like Googling, YouTubing, or downloading some song playing on an internet radio station. Mac OS X's iTunes displays the song information, but doesn't provide any obvious route to copying the song's author, name, etc. I'm not interested if the iTunes Store offers relevant features because I always keep the iTunes Store disabled in parental controls.
I've heard a lot of conflicting information about how many devices/computers can share an iTunes account. What are the actual limits, and are devices distinguished from computers? My current configuration is (all using the same iTunes account): One Windows computer with iTunes One iPad One iPhone One Apple TV I want to add: Another, separate Windows account (on the same computer), that will use a separate install of iTunes Two more iPhones Another iPad I'd like everything to share the same iTunes account - is this possible?
I have a 2007 Mac Pro (running Lion) that has been on the same schedule for a long time; it is set to go to sleep at 1am, and wake up at 7am. Recently, it sleeps through its wakeup time. If I press any key or anything, it wakes up immediately - and I notice the clock is off (it quickly corrects itself). It is as if when it is asleep, it is no longer keeping time, and doesn't know when to wake up. Could this be a dead button-battery inside? I thought these were only used if no AC power was present (it always has power).
I've been using an external hard drive on my MacBook for time machine for a year or so. Now I have a Mac Mini too and have connected the external hard drive to that for the same purpose. I want to leave it connected to my Mac Mini and still backup to it wirelessly from my laptop. I have done all the steps to allow time machine to recognise network drives and I can see the drive from my laptop etc., but it won't recognise the old backups. Do I need to change the file permissions or similar to get it working?
I have a lovely jailbroken iPhone 4. Works fine. Very much enjoying being able to ssh into the device, but I can't help feeling I'm missing a few tricks with the ssh, would anyone be able to point me in the direction of where I might be able to do cool things? I'm interested to know if I can, for example:
Recently I've upgraded to Lion and in general I'm not satisfied with its performance, but what's really annoying is that the login screen always sets the keyboard backlight to the max (even when I set it to zero, after re-entering login screen, it's back to the max level). That's not quite bad, however that maximum level of the keyboard backlight suppresses my setting (zero highlighting) when I log in. So when I log in, the keyboard backlight is still very bright, as it was at the login screen, I press F5 to discover that OS thinks the keyboard backlight is off. Pressing F6 brings the backlight down to 1st level, so pressing F5 again, turns the keyboard backlight off. It was persistent at 10.7 and continues to be so for 10.7.2.
I have a mid-2011 iMac which came with 4GB RAM (2x2GB). I just bought 8 GB (2x4GB) and added it to get a total of 12GB. The current configuration is as follows:
I have an iMac (early 2010) running 10.7.2 but the problem has been seen on 10.6.x also. The symptom is simple, one of my 2 cores is sitting at 100% utilization with the Java process responsible for the excessive usage. What have I done to troubleshoot? Reboot - The java process simply restarts and the same condition is seen. Kill the Java process - As with a reboot. Uninstall and reinstall Java - Soon after installing Java the CPU is back at 100%. Using ps "process id" I can see that it is launchd spawning the process and that the command used to start the process is: java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /tmp/ics29586 Using ps "process id" I can see that it is launchd spawning the process and that the command used to start the process is: The ics29586 file is an 11mb binary file. The ics29586 file is an 11mb binary file. Deleted the ics29586 file - File is recreated at next process restart and same condition is seen Created a new user account, rebooted and logged in as the new user - Sa
I run Lion and Windows 7 on a MacBook, using Boot Camp and Parallels. Both operating systems are set to the same time zone and, presumably, use the same clock.
I am trying to add a drop shadow effect to text in iMovie. The problem I'm encountering is that there doesn't appear to be a drop shadow setting and the effect is applied seemingly at random. All the sites I have found online refer to this as the outline effect, but it is a separate effect entirely. I have yet to find reference to how to manipulate the drop shadow on text in iMovie.
I am trying to add an apple symbol to an iPhone app I am writing. It there a way to export an item in the font to an image?
My Belkin Mini DisplayPort to MiniDisplayPort cable has just arrived. I have the laptop plugged into the iMac. Everything is arranged the way I need it, except for one thing.
I'm interested in possibly upgrading my MacBook Pro's wireless card. Is this possible? Can I take apart the MacBook and install it? Is there a guide somewhere on how to do this? (This isn't because of wireless performance, just lack of stable driver support on Linux.)
I upgraded to iOS 5 and I just noticed that I can no longer control the volume level on the phone by pressing the volume buttons while the screen is locked. I recall distinctly that I was able to do this on iOS 4. Has something changed or did I miss something?
I ran the following command in the terminal of a Mac Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.8. This command resulted in
I took a profile picture for Skype using the "Capture a picture from a video camera" button found in the Skype profile dialog. Now I want to use the picture for other things but I cannot find where the picture is being stored. Any ideas? (OS X Lion 10.7, Skype 5.3)
I want to restore a picture that I deleted from my camera roll on my iPhone. I have iCloud backup enabled, with the option for camera roll turned on, so therefore the picture I deleted should have a backup in iCloud.
I'm in Lion with iTerm2, Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh but I cannot move through words when pressing: ALT+left arrow or CMD+left arrow or something instead, when I press "ALT+right arrow" it prints [C and when I press "SHIFT+ALT+left arrow" it prints D0 how I can config iTerm2 to behave like any other program when moving through words?
One evening we had a momentary power outage, causing sudden shutdown for my Mac mini and the attached Drobo (4 bay). When the system came back up, only one of the two volumes mounted on the desktop. The primary 2 TB volume is of course the one that didn't come up. But the Drobo shows no errors or problems with the unit.
I need to use my iPad 2 to look at product websites, and most of them require Adobe Flash Player to enable you to see the products. This is incompatible with iPad so is there an alternative, where can I get it, and how much does it cost?
Using the screen keyboard on iPad, is their a way to delete the character after the cursor? That is, behavior like the Windows delete key?
I have an iPhone 3GS 32GB which was packed to the brim with music. Yesterday I signed up for iTunes Match, and I noticed that the Music section of the device settings in iTunes (which used to allow me to select which playlists/songs/genres/artists I wanted synced) has been replaced with this:
I would like to try TextMate's new version but since it is a beta release with some bugs and unfinished features, I don't want to use it everyday. Is there any way to install TextMate 2 and keep Textmate 1?
At the time of the "crash", I was near the finish of a 2.5 mile run, and I was running a development build of iMapMyFitness. It was relatively cold outside -- probably between 30 and 40 degrees F.
I'm seeing some seriously slow wakeup times for my Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Wakeup times on the order of 30 seconds or more. Note that the computer is incredibly sluggish or beach balling during this time (not like dark) and takes 30 seconds or so to get going. Obviously this is an SSD with a cleanly installed 10.7 OS from the factory. I have tried restarting, clearing the sleep image, and updating to the latest software but am not sure how to proceed at this point. I am completely up-to-date with all software in Software Update. I am only running a web browser (Chrome) with a reasonable number of tabs open along Mail.app and a few other small programs like TextEdit.
I really want to find a way to disable the Apple touchpad physical tap button. My wife does not make use of the software tap functionality that I enabled. She sits next to me every night clicking away. This is very annoying when it goes on for several hours. There has to be a way to catch / trap the input from the device.
Christmas is over, and now there is a lot of Christmas music on my Mac. Is there a way to disable or hide a genre or a category, rather than individual songs, from iTunes. Basically I don't want these to play at anytime, when shuffling, using genius or when playing down the alphabetical list.
I am seeing an item called "Documents and Data" in the iCloud preference pane. I have switched it on, but what can I expect from it? I have searched the web about iCloud, syncing between Mac and iOS devices and how iWork relates to all of this, and I don't like what I see. Question: Can anyone tell me what happens when I switch on/off Documents and Data syncing on my mac? I know that there is a folder ~/Library/Mobile Documents that contains the actual documents and data, that I can muck around in there, use it like a Drop Box, that any iWork documents I put in there get mutilated beyond belief when opened by the corresponding iOS iWork app, and that Apple does not offer support on this matter, but most iCloud users owning a Mac don't, so let me rephrase: What awesome and easy to use iCloud sync feature becomes available to me when I switch on that particular item in the iCloud preference pane on my Mac?
Over a year ago I was working with the Glassfish app server. It apparently installed an "update notifier" that occasionally checks for updates and presents a dialog like this:
I'm considering getting an iMac to be an external display for my Air via the Thunderbolt cable. When you put the iMac into Target Display Mode is it still available as a headless computer without a display? UPDATE: close question, but oposite Will my iMac stay on if I use it's display in target display mode for a Mac mini?
When I am in a Full Screen application mode, the screen saver doesn't start. So I have to shift to another screen that doesn't show a full screen app. There the screen saver starts! This naturally happens only in Lion.
I have a MBP with Lion 10.7.2 with an external monitor. When I disconnect the MBP from the external Monitor or when I reconnect it, some application show incorrect gamma color.
I have various players that play videos from websites, I want to know where those videos are cached. Because it's AIR, I suppose it's caching in a particular place, but I can't find it.
I have a Late 2010 MacBook Air, and it has a 256 GB SSD, 2.13 GHz processor, and 4 GB RAM. It has been lightning fast ever since I bought it and I upgraded to OS X Lion and it was super fast. Boot time was 10-12 seconds (time to get to login screen), shut down time was 3 seconds.
Is there any shell command for getting a list of activated fonts? Something like: for getting a list of activated fonts in a form like: …or anything similar?
I love the Data Detectors in Apple Mail. Open a message that has a date or time in the content, and creating a new Calendar event is a snap. But this feature is not in Safari, so I'm wondering if there is a way to get it in there? An extension perhaps?
I don't know any specific term for these Terminal commands, so i want to give an example: defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE
Keynote for iOS doesn't show a menu bar, only buttons. Is there a possibility to show a menu bar ? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I see that iCloud can create groups. It appears that other than All Contacts, I only have another group, contacts-other that was created when I imported my addresses (I think via Outlook, which I no longer use). How can I assign contacts to a group?
In many chat clients you can get the last typed message by hitting the up arrow. It doesn't seem to work in this client. Is that not an available feature or is there some way to do it?
I am having a problem with my MacBookPro5,1 (more background below): the system will randomly lock up, with the following symptoms: Screen freezes up, no corruption System does not respond to keyboard or mouse input System does not respond to pings over the network No kernel panic message appears on screen No messages in the system log
I'm using OSX 10.6.8, and when searching on finder, it doesn't let me sort files by size, is there a way to do this?
I seem to be having the same problem as another user: "TV connected to AppleTV makes horrible noise on startup and when waking up from standby" In my case, I'm using a stereo receiver for audio playback (instead of a TV). I'm using the optical audio out, but it goes through an analog converter and goes into my receiver as stereo RCA.
I just got a new iPad2 (upgraded from an iPad1) today and I was going to do an iCloud backup, but it says there is no more data for me to use. I want to either download all the data from my original iPad onto my new iPad and then delete the old iCloud backup, but I can't find anywhere to do that. The cloud is recognizing the devices seperatly. I can't even just delete the iPad1 backup to do a brand new backup, the system (on my iPad2, iPhone and Mac) all say "Could not delete this backup at this time, try again later"... Is this even possible to download my iPad1 backup onto my iPad2?
For my old MacBook (2,1) I have a mini-DVI to Video adapter that I use to connect to the TV (mini-DVI-to-Composite-to-SCART). It works, but I cannot seem to get the right resolution for the TV display (no wide screen resolutions available at all).
Almost everything is underlined red. No matter what language I write in. I did not write paragraphs with mixed languages when checking. I used one language per trial.
I am currently trying to see if I have to make a Tiling background image outside Final Cut or not (I currently am on an Ubuntu Machine which doesn't have access to OSX). If you can, please could someone post instructions to do so. My college use Final Cut Express 7 (but I can access the Pro version if needed on some machines).
My step-daughter has an iMac with OS X Lion. She has an account that auto logs in, with no password on it. Previously, we'd been using the parental controls to keep her from getting up and using the computer in the middle of the night. It was set to limit computer use from 8:30 PM to 8:00 AM. That seemed to work.
The four primary partitions are in use by OS X, OS X recovery, BOOTCAMP (Windows 7) and EFI is the fourth. I believe "GUID_partition_scheme" is just the disk label for the entire drive. The drive is a 256GB SSD but size or type of the HD doesn't appear to be an issue in this situation. Here is the output of the command 'diskutil list':
I have a 2010 MBP on Lion, and use Spotify pretty heavily - is there any way that I can have my remote control spotify, rather than it waking up iTunes every time (which would be fine but I don't have any playlists)? Thanks!
In iOS 5 the lock screen can access the camera app. Is there a way to change the default app that is launched. I would rather use instagram for its social media connections and filters.
I want the whole surface of the CD to be burned, is there a way to do this with a image disk for example or do I have to add junk ?
I have a few videos on iPhone under the Videos app, not Photos.app video stream. I have synced with iTunes, unchecked sync videos etc, and they have still not been removed, even though they are unchecked in iTunes. The videos were bought on the iPhone if that makes a difference. Please note: I have looked at this question which relates to video files but they are through the Photos app not iTunes and the Videos app.
I'm getting timeouts on my USB every few seconds like this: How can I figure out what is going on? Which of my USB devices may be causing this issue (other than disconnecting one after another)? What other ideas are there to avoid this problem? (Note: My USB hub is powered, which was one of the suggestions I had seen when googling the issue). Thanks! Here are the devices connected ty my Mac through a powered USB hub: printer (HP Deskjet) iPhone docking station JBL iPod dock/loudspeaker (also powered) a Pinnacle DVB-T antenna a Garmin charger for my GPS watch a Garmin ANT+ connector an (unused) Logitech headset
I would like to delete all Safari cookies from terminal on Mac OS 10.7.2. I tried to delete ~/Library/Cookie/Cookies.binarycookies (this is the only file in ~/Library/Cookie), but it didn't help. Please advise.
How can I look at several processes at once, instead of just one? For example… typing in bash, shows bash processes.. how to I show both bash and say httpd?
I've been doing a ton of reading, and even found this question ( Device enrollment fails, error: server certificate is invalid ) and followed the instructions. I first installed my Godaddy certificate in my Server.app Then I enabled Wiki and Profile Manager, configuring the certificate and all that jazz. When the invalid certificate error came up, I did some digging, and found the above thread. I went and installed the intermediary certificate but didn't bother replacing the gd certificate, since it was already installed. I rebooted the server for safe measure, and tried again. Problem is, I'm still getting the same darn error... what could be up?
It appears as though you can do most things in the Lion Server WebUI (Profile Manager), but I can't seem to be able to add/remove users (or find an answer). Is this possible?
I have a 2008 Mac Mini with 4 GB of RAM. Recently (post installation of Lion), it started to behave extremely sluggishly, so I used Activity Monitor to see what was using up the system resources. Turns out that kernel_task is using 2.95 GB of RAM. Not a typo: it's using ~3 GB of RAM.
There's a somewhere in one of the Apple apps where they condense the days of the week into "weekdays" or "weekends" etc. can't find it. Any idea? I'm trying to mimic this in one I my apps but I can't find the behavior to examine it.
Addendum: It seems the block-level alignment is failing dedup. Here's my experience: Time-machine copies of two different macbooks, with lots of duplicated data among them (total 200Gb) CCC the two macbooks to two sparse images.
I was messing around with the "Edit Apps" feature in the Profile Manager. I saw the "Edit Apps" button and I uploaded an app to test it. Unfortunately it was a commercial app, so I cannot actually deploy it to an iOS device (in fact it errors when trying to add it). Now that I'm done playing, I'd like to delete it from my server, but I have no idea where to find it, and the Profile Manager doesn't allow the deletion of apps. Where does Lion Server store apps (ipa files) used for iOS deployment?
I have a disk image file containing multiple file systems, such as HFS (Journaled) in addition to Joliet or UDF. I want to mount whatever non-HFS file system is there. First, I attach the image without mounting: $ hdiutil attach -nomount path/to/image.iso /dev/disk3 Apple_partition_scheme /dev/disk3s1 Apple_partition_map /dev/disk3s2 Apple_HFS Then, the man page for mount seems to say that I can mount non-HFS file systems like this: $ mount -a -t nohfs /dev/disk3s2 /tmp But the response is mount: exec /System/Library/Filesystems/nohfs.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_nohfs for /private/tmp: No such file or directory
I'm trying to remove some artists from the iPod, but it's not working. I can remove in the iTunes, and sync, but when I look in the iPod, they are still there. The iTunes show more "empty space" in the graph, but in the iPod there's almost no free space. I've tried to remove all mp3 and synchronize, but after the process I look in the iPod and the mp3 are still there. Is there a way to remove the mp3 without need to format the iPod? (I don't want to loose some applications saved data, and I'm not sure if iTunes would correctly bkp my saved games achievements, for example)
If a launchd job has a StartInterval of 600 and it's been "some time" since the plist was loaded. How can one determine how much time remains until the next scheduled run?
In Snow Leopard it was possible to delete (i.e. move to Trash) a file directly from inside Preview.app using the cmd + backspace combination. (The same combination which is used in Finder.) This was especially useful for files which had been downloaded to ~/Downloads and were opened automatically. One could have a quick look and then immediately delete them afterwards.
I have a interesting Option Key problem but I couldn't find any solution. I am using iMac 21,5" and running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
I recently skimmed the source-code of an app on the itunes.apple.com website and noticed when accessing the app image that the underlying image is plain squared! This means Apple somehow visually "wraps" the image with some technique to make it appear as if it has rounded corners! As I'm no expert on such details, yet would like to know how Apple achieves this.
My brand new 4th generation iPod touch doesn't have the app store on it. I think it's because I restored all the data from my old iPod touch and stored it on my new iPod, and my old one didn't have the app store. I downloaded a software update on itunes to try and revert the restore, but after it downloaded, it said that it can't be un-restored, and I can't sync apps from my mac to my iPod for some reason.
I have a lot of QuickVoice recordings made and stored on my iPad (first generation) I am attempting to backup to iCloud for the first time. If this is successful, can I then delete the recordings from my iPad to create some much needed space? If so, how do I retrieve any specific recordings from iCloud for later use?
I've purchased an SSD drive INTEL SSDSA2CW120G3 and had a guy in Apple Reseller store clone the original HDD to the SSD. The problem is, that the original HDD was almost dead and there were some problems while cloning. They also cloned some kind of hidden/encrypted partition, which is required for Lion. They told me that I should use my Snow Leopard install DVD to format the main data partition and then reinstall Snow Leopard and upgrade to Lion from App Store. They also said something about having problems with cloning the hidden partition.
I recently added an iPod interface to my Accord: *=URL=* It has two connections: the regular Apple 30-pin iPod dock cable which plays back and charges and then an AUX 3.5 mm headphone connector.
I have a MacBook Pro running OS X Lion. This morning when I turned my machine on I went to log in and my password was incorrect. This frequently happens because of spelling mistakes, caps lock is on, or I'm rushing. After trying my password about 20 times it still wouldn't work. I am certain my password changed overnight.
I have a pretty long commute to work and own an iPod Touch. I figure it would be nice to do some simple programming on the way. I'm not picky on which language to code on. Also, I usually have no internet connection on my commute so developing and editing on the cloud is out.
is there anywhere a script or a workaround, or even just a .plist file, where i can manage to open a new finder window by clicking on the finder icon in the dock? When a Finder window is already open, a click on the Finder icon just shows me the opened window, but doesn't open a new one. Can anyone help?
In Microsoft Office Word, one press ⌘⌥1, ⌘⌥2 or ⌘⌥1 to apply header style 1, 2 or 3 respectively. This is also documented by Microsoft (see: Aligning and formatting paragraphs). However writing a large document, I want to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6...) but there does not seem to be a shortcut available for that. Applying header styles is not an option in the menu bar, so I cannot create a custom shortcut through System Preferences > Keyboard (I suppose). How would I add a shortcut in this case?
As I understood it Plex was forked from XBMC as some people was unhappy with the slow development off the Mac integration. Now when both applications are available on OS X what are the main differences regarding: Features Stability Support Addons
Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone have a solution? I have scoured the internets for solutions and found many different answers. I am on a Macbook Pro 6,1. The one that has worked for me is reset the SMC, switched to the integrated card using gfxCardStatus, not plugging in an external monitor and jacking up my fan speed to 6k RPMs. This has made my machine usable and has only shutdown 2x in the past 3 days. Anyone else have any insight? Solutions?
I had an email account on an Exchange server for a contract I was working on. The contract ended and my password was deleted from the Exchange server so I could no longer get into the company's email. Now, when I open my IPad it asks for the Exchange password and when I can't supply it I continue to get the message asking for the password. I can't cancel out of this error message, it just keeps coming up whether I hit cancel or supply a no longer valid password. I cannot get into the IPad desktop because I can't get by this message. I would like to delete the Exchange account from my IPad (I was able to do this on my IPhone) but I can't get to the Settings. How can I get by this message? Thanks.
I have macbook pro early 2011 MC700 model. Few days back I was using it on battery and connected my samsung phone data cable to USB port and when I was about to connect other end of cable to my phone, macbook crashed. I took it to service centre and after few days technician told me macbook motherboard has short circuted and it need to be replaced. My macbook is just 3 month old and warranty has saved me from the cost of repair. I want to know what exactly is reason of short circuit. Is it fault in that model or this kind of short circuit of motherboard on connecting data cable is a common phenomenon. Now in future I will think twice before connecting my USB cable or pendrive to USB port of macbook. What can be exact reason of shortcircuit of motherboard. Thanks in advance. Regards, Anuj
I'm trying to follow the directions on the Apple Support Page regarding Mass Deployment Step 2 of the process says On the server, install the app named "Install Mac OS X Lion" from the Mac App Store (a network connection is required for this process). The problem here is that when I do a search for Install Mac OS X Lion in the App Store, I get no results found. Where can I find this app in order to enable me to do mass deployment of OS X Lion across my network?
I'd like to revision-control my mail configuration (both the preferences and the mailbox rules -- especially the latter) but Mail insists on rewriting its preferences as binary plist files as soon as it opens. I'd like to have it keep them in text or XML format, which would allow me to keep them in revision control in a meaningful way. Yes, I could keep them as binaries, but those are awful and result in a lot of ugly changesets.
I have four disks in my Mac Pro. The boot disk and two others mount when OS X starts but the fourth one does not. I can mount it in Disk Utility and it appears to be all right. How can I tell Mac OS X to mount it?
I've got an iMac 27" paired with a Thunderbolt 27" display that's rotated to portrait mode. Both of them have integrated webcams. Some applications are screwy and inconsistent about letting me pick which webcam to use. I always want to use the webcam on the iMac and never the one on the Thunderbolt display, especially as it's rotated so the webcam image is not only off-center, but 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Is there any way (defaults setting or something) for me to disable the webcam on the thunderbolt display, but still let the webcam on my iMac to function?
I am using the iPhone Configuration Utility to set up some iPads. I'm just setting up some web clippings and one wireless network and see that the utility is keeping a nice record of all the serial numbers as I attach them and install the same profile. The export function doesn't seem to save this data so I'm wondering where it is stored so perhaps I can get it into a spreadsheet or other format other than a screen capture.
I'm running Lion and also have bootcamp Win7 installed. I haven't booted win 7 for a several month but some days ago was urged to do it. After successful boot in Win 7 I got some weird MacDrive error but disregarded it and just reinstall MacDrive. While using Win 7 I was navigating across my file system and have found that all my Time Machine backups were at the right place. After several hours I booted back to Lion and found that my Time Machine backups cannot be recognizeable anymore and the latest Time Machine copy was created just a day ago. The free space amount, however, remained unchanged as there still several copies. I don't care about those backup data, I don't want to restore them. The question I want to get answer for is whether MacDrive can break my Time Machine backups and how should one prevent it?
After setting up my router (Linksys WRT120N) and my wireless network, upon clicking on the wireless icon and selecting "Join Other Network..." a new network called SETUP shows up when clicking the Show Networks button. Where did this network come from? It is password protected, but none of the user accounts and passwords can access it. There is no way of deleting it. The network that I have initially set up is, however, working fine. (MB Pro; OS X 10.6.8)
This sounds like a pretty open, multi-possibility question, but I'm at a loss. I continually experience my mac falling behind by several words or characters. I mainly notice it in chrome and adium, but it isn't necessarily specific to those. When it happens I look at menu meters and notice the following.
Strange problem: when I import photos from my iPhone 4S (5.0.1) into iPhoto 11 (latest), MOST of the images show as all black. Strangely, almost all landscape photos are imported/displayed ok, however every portrait shot shows as black. If I reveal in finder, the modified files that iPhoto creates are 162kb black jpgs, however the original files are the correct photos.
I wonder if I can use my new MacBook Air 13" 2011 as a display for PS3 (of course with the help of some adapter, e.g. Kanex XD/Belkin AV360™)? I know it sound weird, but that's my situation.
What would be a good option if I were to transmit any video (DVD, AVI, MOV, just anything) from my iMac to a TV or beamer over the air? 1080p would be nice but is not a requirement. Setup should be simple and the required hardware should be small and have decent design that can be used in a living room.
I manage the IT for an org with about 800 clients with mixture of Windows and Mac platforms. I'm looking at getting ARD for my staff (up to 4 installations of ARD) so they can better support the mac clients. One large gotcha is that it seems each installation of ARD has to be configured individually, and there is no built-in way to share the information about all our clients that each installation of ARD has. So what would be the best way to effectively manage a large number of client machines with multiple client support staff? Some ideas I've thought of:
I signed up for iTunes Match. It matched most of my songs and uploaded the rest. I was playing one of my favorite songs and discovered it has a glitch at 21 seconds in. It is consistently there, even on multiple devices. Luckily I found I still had my copy in a backup, so I removed the song from the iTunes library and re-added it. Unfortunately it is one of the songs Apple "matched" so it keeps getting replaced with the glitchy version.
I want to find a way to delete all the useless files: binaries, log and cache files, duplicate files and app's leftover. How can I do that?
I want to delete songs from my devices, not from iCloud. Can I change settings to prevent devices deleting songs from iCloud, i.e. delete from local device but not iCloud.
This issue is about an interstate family member's iPad 2, so I'm afraid my knowledge of the issue and ability to troubleshoot are rather limited, but I'd appreciate any general help available. The iPad is (or was) connected to an Apple bluetooth keyboard. It has been working up until today when, apparently, each time the bluetooth is turned on in the settings, it immediately reverts to being off. Is there a known or common reason for this to occur? Is there any solution? I thought that it might be a power-saving thing, but apparently the iPad had near to full charge, and I can't think of much else.
I recall iOS5 beta1 does not do this which cost me scores of saved wifi passwords on my iPhone. Also another question says application keychain data is not backed up, just want to check if there's exception for Wifi password cause they are pretty often used but hard to remember.
Recently I bought a MacBook Pro Core i5 with 4GB Memory (RAM). After using Xcode and quitting it, all of my memory is committed and I have only 100 MB of free RAM. So I closed all of my remaining apps, but RAM usage is still high and I don't had much free memory.
When in Settings under Safari>Advanced I see website data. What is this? Also, what does a hard reset (holding sleep/wake and home button) do?
I've recently bought a MacBook Pro. I've migrated all the iTunes music across from my old pc to my new mac and have also downloaded more tunes since I bought my computer. Now I'm trying to sync my iPhone and iPad with the new computer - however if I sync them then I lose all the apps.
I decided to reinstall my Mac from scratch recently, and since then I've been working on ways to more effectively organize everything, image/partition my data and do recovery. I discovered Homebrew and have fallen in love (I'm very used to apt/aptitude). One thing I've discovered is that building many of the things I need from source is painfully slow ( for instance I've been building thrift for more than an hour and a half ) since my Mac is not high-end. What I would like to do is be able to create a disk image that Carbon Copy Cloner can sync to, containing just my homebrew cellar & library so that if I reinstall my Mac again next week (likely) or at any point in the future, I don't have to build all of these larger brew installs from scratch again (at least the same version).
Does anyone know a application or project for Mac OS X like Zeitgeist for Ubuntu? What is Zeitgeist? Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’ activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations had.
I have a php script that takes a filename as an argument. When I run it from a terminal window I type It works great! What I would like to be able to do is to have an icon on my dock that when I drop a file onto it, it would excute the php script and supply the complete path to the dropped file as an argument to that script.
I have a user who isn't able to open Outlook 2011 on his iMac. As soon as he opens Outlook 2011 it crashes. All other Microsoft Office applications work fine. He has a iMac 27-inch, Mid 2011 running OS X Lion 10.7.2. This is the crash report that is created, if it's any help. This same Mac was running OS X 10.6 and also had Outlook issues, but since upgrading to Lion it hasn't resolved any issues. Any help is much appreciated.
I have a MacBook Pro (Mid-2009) with a SuperDrive that reads CDs, movies DVDs but not data DVDs. Not sure what to do. The data DVDs work well on other MacBook Pros though, so i'm guessing it might be a firmware issue perhaps? I tried downloading some firmware from support.apple.com but none installed. This is my SuperDrive: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868: Firmware Revision: KB19
I have heard of an issue with using the AT-DP400 DVI-MDP Adapter with a Thunderbolt display. I heard it will output a max resolution of 720p not the 2560x1440? Has anyone tested this setup?
The latest version of the LinkedIn app (4.2.1) is able to create pop ups on my iPhone 3. Though I have Notifications on, I do not see the LinkedIn app in the Settings, so I cannot switch these pop ups off. (It is not listed under Notifications (other apps are), nor is it listed with the other apps at the bottom of Settings. Anyone know how to prevent this annoyance?
Do I really have to: Enter the event Select the Edit button Scroll down Select "Delete Event" button Confirm "Delete Event" Isn't there a faster way to delete an event on my iPhone/iPod-touch?
My mouse cursor seems to be skipping around. Could this be a virus? USB Mouse, Macbook Intel Core Duo 2
I used to keep mac, iphone and Gmail in sync via Exchange till iCloud was released. Once I started using both Gmail contacts and iCloud for air syncing I started having duplicates on the address book, whatsapp and other apps.
I have a very big downloads folder with over 200 files that haven't been properly organized. The problem is that whenever I download something, eg a zip file from github, and I unzip it, the FILE IS GONE. I'm sure it's in there somewhere but it's impossible to find as no sorting mechanism puts it first. Date Modified, date created, date opened, etc are all not putting it first. Dealing with this type of UX is incredibly painful. Any advice? Edit Sorry:
I'm considering purchasing a Mac Pro in order to save money on upgrades in the future. I know how to build my own PC from scratch and I was wondering if I could use the same principles if were to buy Apple supported hardware. Do not get this confused with a Hackintosh, that's not what I'm striving to achieve.
Is there an easy way to distribute same iOS (iPad, iPhone) app to multiple enterprise clients? We develop custom “Enterprise apps” that can be utilized by various clients. These apps get linked directly to client’s servers; but is there a way that we, as a third party, could find a solution to distribute/manage apps for our clients?
I noticed today that several of my recent contacts are not in my contacts. However, I have been texting them and their info shows up when I go to contact from a text message or recent call.
I subscribe to iTunes Match. I recently did a massive song metadata (tag/ID3) update without using iTunes itself. This appears to have updated the metadata in iCloud, but another issue appeared.
Is it possible to add a contact to the homescreen as a shortcut ?? (like the Nokia and Android phones ).
I was looking at the iTunes store on my iPad and I noticed that there is a 99c rental category. I was wondering when do these movies get rotated? i.e. when are new movies released as 99c rentals? weekly?
Is it possible print multiple pages of a Word, PowerPoint or PDF document on a single page natively from iPhone 4S? Otherwise, are there other apps out there that allows me to do so? What I mean by printing multiple pages of a document on a single page is something what we have on the usual Mac OS and Windows OS, where there is often a "handout" option to print multiple slides or pages of a document onto a single physical paper page.
I bought a couple tv shows while on my Iphone. So i plug my phone into my PC and now they are on my computer too. How can i take them off of my phone after i watched them and just leave them on my Itunes? They are taking up too much space on my phone and they don't need to be on it since i have already watched them.
I am watching some quicktime apple trailers from the website they open up automatically in quicktime. How do I download it at that point. I am assuming that they are cached temporally somewhere. Any ideas?
I am attempting to run an AppleScript every 24 hours to close a running application and restart it. I have used the following code successfully with other Apps: However, when I run this script I get the error that Kill: argument must be process or job id.
I'm not using Mac keyboard however it did work properly before. I changed the Command key to Ctrl. Until today, using this Ctrl key yield extremely odd characters. When pressing Ctrl-A yields å Ctrl-V yields √ Ctrl-C yields ç
I've been thinking about weather to use iTunes match, but not for syncing to all devices as I'm happy with what I have on my iPhone and have iPod with all songs on. What it would be useful for is to be able to download my library if my hard drive packs in or my computer is stolen.
I recently moved from Windows to OS X, so maybe I'm asking a frequently-asked question. But I did some googling and didn't find a solution yet.
I have two Macbook Pros (10.7.2) and both are missing the standby option in pmset: I've seen this guy has this option:lion pmset standby Any ideas?
I use two keyboards on the mac, the default mac keyboard and a windows default (Microsoft wireless desktop). I use the microsoft keyboard one for the left hand, and the mac keyboard for the right hand.
Every time I login to my Mac (Lion OS X) I keep getting this windows shown, even when I shut down without the option of reopening the windows when I log back in from here:  This is the window that keeps showing:
I bought a 240 GB SSD to replace the 500 GB primary HDD in my new MacBook Pro. How do I clone the current Lion system image on my 500 GB HDD to the SSD? I want to clone the entire drive not just copy data.
I own a 5th generation iPod with a lot of scratches on its acrylic-like surface and display that I'd like to be removed (please note it's not a touch-screen iPod). What should I buy (preferentially on eBay) and how should I wipe all those scratches away to keep my iPod as polished as possible?
I used Migration Assistant to transfer a user account from one MacBook to another. However, the user that got migrated is not available as a login option on the new Macbook?
My wife and I both have our own user profiles on a shared MBP, I have also set up Aperture to look at a library within the shared user folder and we both have full read/write permissions. The problem is that if I add new photos to the library on my user profile, my wife is unable to view the thumbnail previews that aperture creates, they just come up as black squares. If she clicks on one of the black squares, the image opens as normal. Can somebody advise on what changes I need to make to get the previews to show correctly for both users?
I'd like to do monitor spanning with my Macbook Pro next to my iMac, I haven't really found a good solution, anyone use anything they can recommend? I'm using Lion. Thanks.
I switched from iCloud to Google calendar. I already transferred all my calendars via export/import to Google Calendar. Now I'd like to transfer my reminders from iCal/iCloud to Google Calendar. How can I do this?
My 15" MacBook Pro 5.1 (late 2008) battery is inflating to the point of nearly breaking the unibody battery cover, so I'm really into replacing it as soon as possible. There are loads of these batteries on eBay (mostly UK sellers with high reputation) that cost less than half of the price I'd have to pay for a battery on a local Apple reseller store.
I understand how to sync photos to my iPhone but they seem to be placed on the phone in a rather random order. I've tried numerous changes to the photos but they don't appear to be organized by date, size, or alphabetically by name. Am I missing something?
Frequently when I sync my iPhone to my iMac, the size bar will report that the amount of music on my phone is nearly double what it actually is (confirmed with a manual check). The phone will usually report that it is over capacity, but I can still copy applications and more music to it (as I should be able to). This doesn't happen on every sync, and sometimes when the sync is completed, it will shrink back down to the correct size. It's a major annoyance and makes it hard for me to see how much space I actually have used/free on my phone.
I just finished the two-week trial of Coda, and I really like it. The only issue is, I am a student, and the $99 license fee is a bit over my budget. I do a lot of work on live sites, and an IDE with built-in FTP support really makes my workflow much faster.
I've moved house from the UK to Ireland so now am in a different iTunes region. I have changed store and registered new payment details so I can properly use iTunes again.
Anyone knows how to restore the print PDF to Evernote in Lion 10.7.2?
I live outside the US and would like to use some Apps that only work in US territory. Example: Square (to accept credit card payments), Paypal mobile, Hulu, etc... Is there a way to make iOS believe that it´s in the US?
I am unable to print from my MacBook pro to an Epson 5500 proof printer. The printer works with an old G4 Mac. But it stubbornly refuses to work from the MacBook running Lion. The computer knows the Epson is there and allows the setup procedure. However when I send a file, the print status goes to Printing and then almost immediately to Ready, suggesting that the job has been completed.
I'd like to be able to give certain people my IP address (24.178.XX.XX) so they can access port 80 on my machine from their browser. Right now just putting that IP address from my own browser doesn't connect to anything...just says it can't find the server. So is there some setting I need to enable? I have an AirPort Extreme.
I have a Mac Pro running 10.6.8 Server and a MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) running Lion 10.7.2. I would like to configure a mobile account for my wife to use. The idea is that she'll be able to access her user account locally on the server using Fast User Switching, but be able to log into the same account on my MacBook Pro and have the home folder sync through a mobile account. I was able to do this when my Mac Pro had Lion Server on it, but I downgraded to Snow Leopard Server because Lion Server caused a lot of issues and dropped several key features from Snow Leopard Server.
I wanted to send my iPhone contacts to Google mail and transfer back to my new Samsung Android. After changing iTunes setting "sync address book contact"-> "sync google contact", no new contact appear in my new Google Mail account and all my contacts on iPhone have been ERASED. Why has this happened?
An ongoing problem: my MacBook Pro (i5, 2.4ghz, 15") won't sleep while charging. I close the lid, but I don't get the pulsing "sleep light", it just stays fully illuminated. If I listen closely, I can hear hard drive/fan activity.
I have 43GB of music in iTunes Match on my iMac, and only 5GB available on my iPhone. (8750 songs, 51 Playlists)
I am unable to sync purchased tv shows from my MacBook pro to my iPhone 4. Instead I get an error: (show name) was not synced to "My iPhone" because you are not authorized for it on this computer This seems to be the same problem- but with a movie https://discussions.apple.com/message/16794815#16794815
If I am currently on email "A" and I right click on another email within the same account (email "B"), and "Mark as unread," the message shows it is marked as unread for a split second, then marks as read once the reading pane switched to that email (not my intention, this just happens - the switching that is). In Snow Leopard, I was able to click on any email in the message list, and mark as whatever, while not having to switch to that email in order for the mark as unread to stick.
iTunes does in fact sync all of the correct photos, in order, etc. Problem is, it only syncs with the original, un-edited versions. So, now I have all of my pics on my iPhone or iPad, but none of them are edited. They are all the originals. Which is…semi-helpful, but not what I'm shooting for. I have taken every step I could think of so far to address this discrepancy including: "Update Previews" and "Share previews with iLife and iWork: Always" in Aperture.
I am giving my iPad to my wife. How do I change the current itune login which is my ID to my wife's itune ID so she can perform the updates or download any apps?
I would like to re-order my task lists in the Apple calendar that came with my iPod Touch. Is there any way to do this besides setting times for each task?
Apple TV lets me stream Podcasts, other devices (iPad, Mac, etc.) download them. Streaming saves on storage space, and Podcasts are "throw away" videos,so why store them... So is there any way I can get my "favorites" Podcast list from he Apple TV 2 to stream on other devices?
Ever since upgrading to Lion on my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, Apple's Mail sporadically generates random new mail messages, sometimes when mail isn't even running. And example of the latest contained the following text:
I have a Early 2008 24" iMac. On my USB ports, I have my wired keyboard, my external Seagate HD (for Time Machine), and I have a joystick. For quite some time, it seems like all of my USB devices keep disconnecting, and then reconnecting. This is particularly bad when it comes to my backups. What can I do to stop this behavior from happening, and what more do I need to provide to help with this very annoying.
Why does my email not sync on my Mac if I have read it on my iPhone or iPad? I can read it in my iPhone or Mac, but it does not show as read on my Mac.
Is it possible to change the order of songs in a playlist on the iPhone? For example, if they are originally sorted alphabetically by "Artist", can I change the song order of the playlist so that the songs are sorted by "Date Added"?
When selecting Mail Link to this Page from mobile Safari, no Exchange address groups are available when attempting to insert a recipient ("Choose a contact to mail"). Also, Outlook Personal Contacts are listed as part of the displayed All Contacts view, but not the Global Address List group. Contrast this with the mail-link case with Photos (native app) or Mercury browser. Thank you. ATT iPhone 4, iPad 1, iOS 5.0.1, 3G, WiFi
Here is the scenario: I have TWO External TB drives. They are both plugged into a Powered USB Hub. That Powered USB Hub is plugged into the back of my Airport Extreme. I can only see one. They have both been formatted with OS Extended (journaled). Each are visible if only ONE is plugged in (i.e. TB_A can be seen if just TB_A is plugged in, and TB_B can be seen if TB_B is the only one plugged in)
Please provide assistance on how to get my Mac to run properly again. I've done a few permission repairs but even if verifying permissions shows up with faulty permissions and I do a repair afterwards, I still have problems with finder etc. Where do I go from here? Exerpt from system.log: As I wrote I've just reinstalled the machine - of cause I made a backup first.
Are there any apps that will toggle bluetooth on/off when the phone is plugged or unplugged from power? I only use bluetooth in my car when it is plugged in the dock so that is the only time I would like it turned on. I've searched the App Market and haven't found anything. Thanks.
The "whoosh" sound continues to disappear intermittently, especially after iTunes is opened. I've restarting my iMac restores the sound but usually not for long. I've Googled and searched for solutions and have found similar complaints but no lasting solutions. How can I fix this?
I'm trying to troubleshoot remotely for my mother and her iPad. I sent her a Canon Airprint-compatible printer which is visible/usable on her wireless network by a desktop PC and a netbook, but not visible by the iPad. After trying software updates and power cycling without success, we finally determined that her Actiontec router is not Bonjour compatible. We're about to replace her router, but I thought I'd check to see if there might be a cheaper solution to be found here.
My brother has a Windows Phone, and an iPad. Whenever I try to text him, it sends him an iMessage to his iPad, not a text message. Since he does not always have his iPad with him, he doesn't get my texts most of the time. Is there a way to choose when a message is sent via iMessage, or via SMS? Right now, my solution is to have two separate contacts for him, but that is annoying.
I like to use events and albums from iPhoto as my screensavers. Lately, only some events and albums show up when I go into preferences>screensavers. If I go out and come back in, most will then show, but once I choose an event or album it doesn't reliably show up when the screensaver should start. I get message that folder is empty of pictures and to choose a different one. Suggestions?
My family shares an apple ID, and I can't chose whose contacts I want to sync with when I set up Icloud. For example, I own a Mac and an iPhone. I want my content to only be synced between MY Mac and MY iPhone. Instead, everything including my contacts gets jumbled and duplicated together with my parents' pc and my families' iPhones. Because of this, I have three different instances of my sister in my contact book. My moms version my version and my other sisters version. Does anyone have advice on how we should go about organizing out content and apple ID?
My daughter's MacBook Pro has a problem with iPhoto. Just get a spinning wheel after opening. I've tried deleting and reloading from time capsule backups when it did work. That didnt work. Anyone have any ideas?
A friend of mine has a Macbook Pro, and an older 80GB external hard drive. She is copying files from the external hard drive (which contains all her work) to the Macbook, but slowly because she's reorganizing the data at the same time. I would like her to back up the external hard drive onto the Macbook, which has 750 Gigabytes of space, just in case something happens to the external drive.
Two times now, over the last 3 weeks my Mac Pro is failing to boot. Once on, it stays on the blue screen with the spinning icon and never gets to the login screen. To remedy this I boot from install dvd, re-install Leopard and only then will it boot completely. COuld this be my HD is getting ready to fail?
I have about 800 songs marked as "Uploaded". I would love for them to be replaced by "Matched" 256kbps AAC files.
I have an (oldish) MacBook Pro that I use with an external monitor, which requires that the MBP power adapter be plugged in all the time. Does that damage the health of the battery? I ask because my battery, replaced about a year ago, will now hold almost no charge after being used almost exclusively with the external monitor during working hours and plugged in all that time.
My console is flooded with messages like these: They always happen in this combination of three messages and around every 10-30seconds Any suggestions where this is coming from and how to fix/disable it? Edit: (additional Infos) Ok it seems to be originating from my iPhone (MAC d0:23:db:3e:0b:82)...
I have created a presentation in Powerpoint 2003 and have opened it in Keynote, however, when I veiw the presentation on the iPad the colors in the graphs have changed as well as the font alignment. Is there a way to fix this so that it looks the same in Powerpoint and Keynote? Is there a different version of Powerpoint that would work better?
After installing Xcode and I try to open it I get blocked with a message "Scanning for Plug-in failed" and that I may not have appropriate permission..I was logged-in as an administrator. Do I need "root" privileges?
I have a strange problem. I am very good with Macs and all Apple products, but this one has me stumped. I have a new (4 months old) 27" iMac (2.7 GHz Intel Core i5) with Lion 10.7.2
My iMac (late 2009) worked great with Snow Leopard. After upgrading to Lion I am loosing the Mac vs. Windows war at home. The iMac freeze except for the mouse. The only thing to do is to restart with the power button. I did a clean install of Lion but that did not help.
I've a rather odd issue I've noticed while playing this song on Youtube: When using the built-in speakers I only hear the background singing (a bit hard to describe: sometimes I hear almost nothing, sometimes the high-pitched choir, at some parts mixed with lower voices). However the moment I plug in earphones they play it just like it is supposed to. The same happens in both Chrome and Safari with both HTLM5 and Flash players, even when playing the Youtube stream in VLC, heck even when downloading the song and converting it to low-quality MP3: same result. I've never noticed that before on any other music file nor can I reproduce it with another song. Is there something left, that I might have overseen? Version information: Mac OS X 10.7.2 on the new Mac mini 2.5 GHz i5
The wireless Apple keyboard that came with my iMac has a tendency to suddenly disconnect from my iMac without no sensible reason (its not the battery). The only solution I have found this far is restarting the iMac, which automatically reconnects the keyboard. I have tried reconnecting the keyboard through the bluetooth configuration, which gives no ohther result than making the toolbar freeze. Any solutions?
I have the "Erase All Data after 10 failed passcode attempts" feature turned on on my iPhone 4S. I also have the "Find my Phone" app installed. If my iPhone was stolen, and the thief triggered the "Erase All Data" feature after failing to unlock the phone, would it erase the "Find my phone" app meaning I couldn't locate it through iCloud?
Is it possible to dial the last dialed phone number on iOS via Voice Control or Siri?
I setup a new lion server, with fully functional dns. Forward and reverse work without issue. I have a forward DNS entry for the server externally. OD is running, and there's 5 network users. Also, all the correct ports are forwarded on the firewall.
Before Lion I used Exposé daily. Now with Lion it's gone and Mission Control is in its place. Now when I use MC it groups all my open pages instead of showing each page. This is kind of a pain when swapping between applications. Is there a way I can use a Hot Key or pointer swipe to show ALL of my open pages, spanning different applications?
I back up my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 to iCloud. Is it necessary to keep my Mobile Applications Folder? There are over 12GBs of space being used by this folder on my Macbook. Could it be thrown out?
My username with Apple is a very old one. Old enough that until iOS 5 it wasn't associated with an email address. It was just a simple username. With the latest upgrade I was required to transfer to a name associated with my preferred email address. This seems to have gone well with the exception that iCloud can no longer locate my Pages and Numbers documents. Apple seems stumped and the system will no longer let me log in with the old username. Any help would be appreciated.
I am using the version of MySQL that came with Snow Leopard Server. I am running Time Machine on that server, but I know that it's not backing up the MySQL databases due to strict permissions issues. Does anyone have a recommendation for a non-commandline, easy, clean method for automated backups of MySQL data?
I use Lion on my Macbook pro 13". I would like to add a context menu item called "Move" or "Cut" (just like Copy) and when I go to the desired location and hit "Paste", it should Move the file/folder I selected and paste it there. Is this possible in Lion?
I exported two videos from Photoshop using the standard export movie tool. The dialog is the standard Quicktime Export that we're used to seeing from the beginning of times.
An app that i buy on iTunes doesn't show up in the iPhone with iCloud unless i sync it with a cable. Also the reverse applies. Anything bought on the iPhone doesn't show up in iTunes in the computer unless the cable is connected.
We´re just about setting up a McAfee MDM solution to sync the iPhones and iPads of our company with our Exchange servers. Now when I have an entry in my Outlook calender e.g. from Monday 9 pm to Wednesday 8 am it will show up in my iPhone calendar as a full day event on every of these 3 days.
I started using a Mac recently in a workplace where most people use Windows. We share with each other links to work files that exist on some server here. So I may get a URL via email that looks like that \\servername\folder\stuff.doc or even just a link to a folder like \\servername\folder - clicking it results in an error on the Mac (Lion). Is there anything I can do so that clicking such network addresses will launch the document or folder?
I have a user who is trying to setup Outlook 2011 with his Exchange 2010 mailbox/account. When entering the details for the account Outlook 'freezes'. This is the window it freezes at.
I have a set of images that are named foo-N.jpg, where N is a number from 0 to 100. I'd like to stitch them together such that I have one long image, where foo-0.jpg is at the left and foo-100.jpg is at the right. I can do this manually in Photoshop or Fireworks, but it'd take forever. Is there a way to do this in bulk, like perhaps with Automator, Terminal, or an app?
I have a 2006 Dual core Duo MacBook. It is fast enough to do basic photo editing on the go, as my job requires, however I would like to install Lion, to bring it in line with my workstation and devices. This would mean I need a new processor, minimum Dual Core 2 Duo (as required by Lion), although I would rather install an i3 or i5. Is this at all possible?
I do have quite a few extensions installed, and suspected Quicksilver for a while, but deactivating it did not solve the problem. Other extensions going up at startup are: iCal, Evernote, DoublePane, iTunesHelper, Autograph, DropBox, SophosUIServer. Sophos Anti-Virus is the only program running both in Windows and Mac OS. All software is legal, and virus scans (Sophos and MacScan) showed no Malware. Any helpful suggestions, what might cause the problem?
Having used MS Outlook for a while with my IMAP account, I thought I would try out the new and improved Mail in OS X Lion. The structure of my mailbox on the left hand panel is as follows:
The MacBook Air can share DVD drives on other Macs. For reading disks this works great. However, I want to burn an ISO to the drive. The drive doesn't show up in Disk Utility. Is it possible to burn ISOs onto a shared drive from a MacBook Air?
Does Mac OS X make use of NUMA on Mac Pros with two (or more) CPUs?
There are many hints on the net that suggest using QuickTime export, but I was not yet able to get any better quality out of it. I tested: DV output format -- blurry, and the aspect format changed even though I specified an output video size of 1280x1024 H.264 output -- extremely blurry, even on highest quality setting and with two-pass encoding So my question is: How can I tell iMovie to simply cut the input video without re-encoding it, or alternatively: How do I tell iMovies built-in exporter to use a different video format than "large" (720x576)? File size is not an issue here.
I'd like to see if one of my file is "all over the place", ie fragmented in little pieces at different locations on my hard drive. I'm not looking for a software like iDefrag but rather a command line utility. I know nothing of file systems, nodes, etc. Does such a CL tool exist? More generally, how do you know where files physically are? The file I want to investigate is ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History indexes, but that's more of a general question.
How do I extract a large voice memo file off my iPhone and into my mac. It is too large to email.
Since Helvetica comes with all Macs, and I have bought a Mac, does that mean that I can use that font commercially? For example in a banner or website header?
When I connect a PPTP VPN on Lion, it takes several minutes for DNS resolution to actually switch over to the addresses that come back over PTPP. Is there some parameter somewhere what would speed up this process? Here's some output from nslookup which demonstrates the oddity: /Users/benson/x/oap2 nslookup server Default server: 10.0.0.1 Address: 10.0.0.1#53 jira.basistech.net Server: 10.0.0.1 Address: 10.0.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: jira.basistech.net Address: 67.215.65.132 The PPTP connection DNS address is 10.1.0.50, but still opendns.com is in control here via the panera wireless, returning crap advertising pages.
I've tried to configure VPN in Lion (both L2TP and PPTP), but it never connected successfully. The same VPN works fine in Windows 7 and the iPad and other mobile devices, so I think it could be a problem with Lion. Did I miss something when trying to configure the VPN? My system is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74). Below is the log file. L2TP: pptp:
Is there a way to copy just the contents of a single event from iPhoto to another location? When I want to zip up all of the photos in a single event and move them somewhere, like to a USB drive, I have to look at the event photos, click a photo, then choose File->Show In Finder, then select, copy, and zip the folders containing the event photos I want. This seems like way too many steps for what seems like a simple task.
I somehow managed yesterday to spill some soda over part of my 2010 MacBook Pro's keyboard - it stayed mostly in the keyboard area, touching the F8-F12 and 8 through equals keys. I shut down the Mac, cleaned it up, made reasonably sure nothing had drained into the keyboard itself, then rebooted. The computer itself seems to be working fine.
After working fine for months, my wifi Time Capsule backups fail, returning a "back-up disk not available" message. Time Capsule light is green, Airport Utility reveals no problems. What do I do? Thanks.
Trying to use QuickLook for Chat transcript files isn’t working anymore on my machine. First it takes >10 seconds to load (for files <20KB) - and then when it does finally load, it’s just an icon. I can’t actually read the chat. Anybody else having this experience?
…3-4x during first the 5 minutes of use each day. Is it dying? A young 15" Macbook Pro drives it and I'm using latest Lion.
I'm trying to pinpoint the problem with a runaway process on my Mac (Lion 10.7.2) and I have a hard time finding any kind of info about that process on the Internet. It is simply called AuthBrokerAgent. I would like to know what is its function. I'm not a developer and I didn't installed the developer tools on my Mac. Thanks a lot!
My boyfriend and I shared a MobileMe family account with our own email addresses. We also had our calendars shared. To keep each other in the loop, we occasionally invited each other to events. Everything worked perfectly. Then we moved to iCloud and things aren't as smooth. We recently realized the invitations he sent to me weren't showing up in my iCal. They were still showing up online at iCloud.com (where I can accept/decline) and in the iCal app on my iPhone 4, but only as a dotted event on the day, not in the Invitation tab. On my iPhone, I can accept/decline if I click on the event. Since I have his calendar showing in my iCal on my Mac, I can see the events I'm invited to, but cannot accept/decline there.
I cannot seem to get the following rule working. Requirement: I want to run a mail filter which says: If the mail is in Account X, and has subject Y, was received less than 10 days ago, and has no MailTags, I want to move it to the Trash folder.
but get this syntax error: Expected end of line, etc. but found application constant or consideration. I've similarly tried and this simply doesn't work - the command/shift keys are still held.
I double-clicked a downloaded font and it installed itself in /Users/myuser/Library/Fonts. But all other fonts are installed in /Library/Fonts. Why does it do that by default and how do I uninstall it? I tried disabling and removing it via Font book but it still renders in a web project. (I am running Mac OS 10.6.8)
Most of my colleagues use Outlook on Windows and I need to access emails stored in .msg format (don't ask, it's complicated). My understanding is that .msg is an Outlook file format, but Outlook 2011 on Mac can't open them. When I right-click on the file and ask to open with Outlook, it creates an email with the .msg file as an attachment. Using various dragging and trying to open with the file menu also don't help.
I want to be able to take a screenshot of two windows at the same time without capturing what's in the background. For instance, instead of taking a picture like this:
How do I create a future event in a different time zone than I'm currently on? For example, I reside in Toronto (UTC-5) and I am going to Hong Kong (UTC+8). When I'm still in Toronto, I want to be able to create an event (in Hong Kong time) so that when I arrive in Hong Kong, the event appears correctly in the local time.
I broke my iPhone 3G S and bought a new one. During the setup of the new one I chose to set it up as a new phone. I gave it a slightly different name because I thought I'd want to keep old phone's backups and new phone's backups separate. I now need to restore the old phone's backup to the new phone.
My Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro 15" has been crashing more and more. Previously there were various types of screen-freezes. Now the screen-freeze is being followed by an auto-reboot, which suggests to me a serious memory fault. Auto-reboot is a 3-5 second freeze followed by sudden system reboot, that reloads the OS like normal. I have backed everything up and run Drive Genius programs to defrag and verify the drive, but the problems have come back. My current plan is to replace the hard drive. My question is: what else could be going on here? Can RAM or CPU chips be the of cause this? Is there any way to check that? Screen-freezes include any of the following: everything but the mouse freezes everything freezes but no graphics distortion all graphics distortion (whole screen; couple times with trippy mouse tracer effect) all graphics fade to an eerie pale blue color (3 second fade time) Specs Processor 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo Memory 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM 100GB hard drive (profiler does
I've exported one of my Google Calendars – 336kb I then imported it into iCal and exported it without modification – 1.7mb Is there a problem that would the file size increase so much? Is there any way to trim the fat? -- Mac OS 10.7.2
I have a number of rules in Mail.app (these ones work!) to move e-mails which are X days old to trash.
When I try to load a LaunchAgent plist from launchctl I can't find out how to run a script in the home directory. My code is:
Although it doesn't specifically mention a Macbook Air, one would believe that the machines are using similar technology, but since it's not mentioned, I cannot be sure. I'm ready to go to an Apple store, buy it, test it and if it doesn't work, then return it right there, but perhaps someone can save me the trouble. I'm looking to use Skype (and similar) apps. Does anyone has first hand experience with this combination and can confirm if the BOSE's inline-microphone will work when plugged into a Mid-2011 Macbook Air audio plug?
I've always used a larger mouse icon in Windows (made it easier to find when zipping around multiple screens :p). Recently switched to using OSX and discovered that the option to enlarge the mouse icon does just that, literally.
How can I make my Apple TV 1st gen join a WiFi network without having a TV connected? Is there an OSX utility for set up in the same way there is with Airport Express?
I am hainvg a problem with an app called Reunion 9. My dad made me a CD/GED file with data from his PC and I'm trying to load it onto my MacBook Pro. When it initially opened, it gave the screen to choose an app. I clicked Adobe, but that won't work. Now, I can't get back to that screen to try something else. It automatically goes to Adobe and tells me it won't work. Got any suggestions for how to return to the application selection screen and what application I should select?
Is there any way to control an Apple TV 1st gen either through terminal connection or a web interface (ideally using a REST interface)? By "control" I mean don't mean "control everything". One example use-case would be: Give the ATV a MP3 stream URL and have it play. If some kind of "hacking" or plugin is involved, that's ok!
If I have 2 windows of the same program open (Google Chrome for instance), and I want to get to the underlying one, how can I do that -- without minimizing the fore window. If I click the Chrome icon, in the bottom tray it justs shows me the window in the front. There is no window in the right of the tray since it it not minimized. If I command+tab, I just get one icon for the application, which focuses the window that is already in front.
My MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.4 GHZ (Mid 2010) starts up normally but after approximately one minute the fan accelerates and the system slows down dramatically. The CPU load goes up to 99% as I see it on Activity Monitor. The laptop is running without battery as it suffered a water spill some months ago. There is no virus and no other process is using large amounts of memory.
Most of what I do with my 2011 i7 MBAir could be done with 10% of the available processor power. Is there a hack to slow the processor to conserve battery for the 95% of the time I don't need it?
I'm running a Mac mini into a television set via HDMI. With the Plex application for Mac, the experience is fantastic. But I've been looking for ways to make the "computer side" more couch friendly. I'm not expecting to write Pages documents or anything, but Web browsing, or working with system settings would be great too.
I've noticed an unusual feeling associated with Mac OS X's two fingering scrolling. Any chance this might indicate a repetitive stress injury in the making? I've been trying to rotate the fingers I use for scrolling somewhat, but not terribly successfully. Anyone else found solutions to this potential issue? (related)
I'm a Mac user. I want to know which software will help me find the free app of the day in the App Store? App store always lists the free apps, but it doesn’t display the original price of the applications.
I have discovered that iOS (5) has two sound settings: "Sound effects" and just "sound" with no title. Due to this I often have sound effects muted but not other app sounds, and it's not easy to mute/enable one type of sound and not the other. Is there any way in iOS 5 to change both sound effects and general sounds using only the volume rocker?
I like to keep sent mail, I file it periodically. Unfortunately, I must have changed my settings to delete mail older than 1 month. So now I'm trying to restore mail from a backup. (Don't ask me why I can't enter Time Machine. I guess I should ask that as a separate question. I can back up but not enter Time Machine! So I'm trying to do this manually). I can find Sent Messages.ewsmbox Sent Items.ewsmbox and I can read that they have lots of good stuff in them, but when I copy them into Mailboxes, they don't show up in my Sent folder when I go to Mail.
I seem to remember photo albums that I created/edited on my iphone syncing via icloud with iphoto and my ipad. After a full restore and update, I can no longere make this work. Please help.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to do anything. In the Sound control panel, even with the Input Volume turned all the way up, the "Input Level" shows nothing at all. In Audacity, recording just records empty silence.
A friend has a Macbook Pro that had the drive crash. A new hard drive was installed in the system and the OS was reinstalled. However, when they restored from their backup (using Retrospect), the User profile folder and system sub-folders all were restored with their original permissions.
I've searched the web for a method to type an "É" character with a french keyboard layout in firefox. It appears I'm supposed to type ⌥+E, and then ⇧+E to achieve this, but as soon as I press ⌥ and E simultaneously, an
My MacBook Air (Late 2011) hangs during startup at the Apple logo, and the spinning cursor freezes. I have booted into verbose mode and it hangs after the following messages: I have tried resetting the PRAM, logging into recovery mode and repairing disk permissions, and starting in safe mode but still to no avail.
I have a desktop running Ubuntu 11.04 and a MacBook Pro. I have 2 bookmarked chats under Linux version of Skype, but it's not showing under Mac version. Any suggestion?
I have a Gmail account but access all my email through Apple Mail. I noticed in the last month or so that I'm not seeing the attachments that are being sent to me. In order to access the attachments, I have to open up Gmail through Safari. How do I fix this problem?
I don't think the iMac has an eSATA port for that type of external drive. Can one be added easily? Is video editing application intensive enough to warrant an expensive electronic drive? Thanks for the help! Craig
My machine is a iMac8,1 (24", early 2008) that I bought with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard installed. My question is: what are all the benefits and drawbacks of performing a clean operation system (OS) install? Specifically a clean Lion install in contrast to an incremental upgrade plan. What I already know:
After a spill on the keyboard of my unibody MBP 17", the ⇧ key reports as always on. Under Windows (BootCamp) and Linux (LiveDVD) I can easily get around the problem by using an external keyboard.
How can I add E-Mail-Attachments automatically to an E-Mail, without integrating them? Especially photos! Menu -> Edit -> Attachments... doesn't work! I use OS X Lion (10.7.2) and Mail (5.1). Anyone have any ideas?
I have my Google Calendar synced up to my iPhone 4S and by all the settings I can find, it looks like I am supposed to recieve alerts 15 minutes before every event. However, this has never happened.
I have had the times where I have used a usb networking card, or other device, and it didn't show up, although I was not sure if it was compatible with OSX. I just was not sure if OSX had a way to scan incase it did not recognize it, or if you needed to install a driver. Is there a way to see what hardware is on the machine, like a device manager?
I've recently hooked my MS Exchange account into Mail.app in iOS, and consequently, the list of email in my inbox is extremely long. iOS has the unfortunate habit of scrolling the mail list to the middle of the list whenever I rotate the iPad, and it takes me a very long time to scroll back up. I'm wondering if there's a way to quickly scroll back up to the top of the very long inbox list in iOS Mail.app, so that I can see my unread messages?
I changed my "Default Account" in Mail Preferences:  And this changes my default "from" address when I send an email from (say) the Twitter app But when I use the Mail app to send an email, it uses my old "from" address by default.
We're looking at buying new MacBooks for our dev team, and I have a concern about the way Thunderbolt is used in a chain for multiple displays. We're even willing to purchase new, Thunderbolt-capable monitors, but one thing I regularly do is rotate one of my monitors 90°. My understanding is that OOTB Apple displays do not rotate on their stands. I already have a DVI capable ViewSonic monitor that rotates very well, so if I get a Thunderbolt-to-DVI adapter, can I use that as the last device in the Thunderbolt chain? (Alternatively, if there is a reasonable approach to rotating an Apple display I would love to hear it.)
Can an iPhone (all current models) please be used without having to install iTunes on my home PC? Would I need to have my local Apple store activate it for me?
I just did a batch rename in Finder (using AppleScript), however the filenames in iTunes remain unchanged. I tried restarting iTunes and that did not help. I also tried iTunes >>> File >>> Library >>> Organize Library, but it happens to be grayed out, as I had already recently done this (prior to renaming the said files).
Im a huge fan of AppleJack, but I realize it doesn't currently support Lion. What is an lion supported equivalent? Im looking for a one-stop shop for all my Mac cleaning needs! Bonus marks for software that can be deployed an managed remotely (on the same LAN).. Thanks in advance! Dev
I've got a frustrating problem that seems to have cropped up within the last two months or so. Infrequently, the left (primary) click stops registering with the OS, so I can't really click on anything. My mouse moves around the screen, I can right (secondary) click, but I just can't perform a primary click.
I was wondering if it was possible to block data usage completely when a certain data transfer limit has been reached? Does an app exist for that?
My original 4s had issues with phone calls. Half the time calls were made the person on the other end couldn't hear me. Took to Apple store and they gave me a new phone. I've had it 5 days and it has more issues then my 1st one. 50% of the time I make calls neither person can hear each other. I can't even hear it dialing the #, but I watch the call timer run as it does connect. Tried restoring the phone, but still no luck. Is it a hardware issue or AT&T issue? Anyone know?
When I close my MacBook with an active SSH session in Terminal and then wake it up, the prompt goes unresponsive. In about five minutes it says Write failed: Broken pipe and terminates. This also happens when I don't type anything in the Terminal in about fifteen minutes. Can I force OS X to: Keep SSH connection alive for longest time possible Kill it immediately once it becomes unresponsive ?
What's the correct way to manage album art while using iTunes Match and have it show up everywhere? I've noticed that, typically: When iTunes Match correctly applies album art in iTunes, it only appears on the first track of the album. Viewing the album after having downloaded it from the cloud to my iPhone, I can typically see the album art Some songs on the album, when played on the iPhone, will display album art, but some will not.
Have anyone seen this message before, when accessing the official twitter app? I have an iPod Touch with iOS 5, not jail-broken. Is it a virus?
I've had the Apple Battery Charger for a good long while now. After I bought it, I also bought a couple 8-packs of Sanyo Eneloop HR-3UTGA batteries, known to be the same model of battery included with Apple's charger. They worked great until a couple days ago. Now, with the Apple-branded batteries in the charger, it works fine. But when I put the Sanyos in the charger, nothing happens. No status light comes on. Nothing. Zilch.
Basically, I would like ⇥ and ⇧+⇥ to "Shift Right" and "Shift Right" (Menu items to indent or unindent selection) in TextMate. However, I can't set them using the System Preferences GUI, as pressing ⇥ tabs to the next UI button. Is there a way I can do that, maybe using a TextMate-specific custom KeyBindings.dict?
I have just gotten an error message for every single kext file there is. the error message goes something along the lines of: If there is something I could do to fix it, let me know.
When I try to install Mac OS X there is no partition for me to choose. I tried to create a partition and got the error, "Partition failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disc."
Sometimes, not always, upon restarting my Macbook (late-2006), the chime is repeated four more times after the initial chime. It then starts up normally.
There are 3 different people, each needing to publish their own calendar, and view/edit the other calendars. Each has an iMac or macbook, and iPhone. Person 1 has MobileMe and is unable to upgrade to iCloud (iPhone 3g). Person 2 has already upgraded to iCloud. Person 3 can upgrade but is waiting for the solution to this calendar dilemma.
For many months, I chased after the cause of my computer, a late-2006 MacBook with Snow Leopard and all available updates installed, locking up, forcing me to restart. It locked with a spinning cursor and didn't respond to ctrl-option-esc, or to anything other than a power switch forced restart.
I got a new MacBook Air. I registered with iCloud purchased iTunes Match and now my whole iTunes library (originally on my iMac) shows up in iTunes on the MacBook Air, but it's all grayed out and nothing will play. What haven't I done?
I have noticed that I need to perform clicks multiple times if I want to close some window e.g. Firefox or even to close a tab. It happens frequently but not all the time. When I use the Eclipse IDE, if I select attributes options from property explorer, a few button/drop-downs are click-able, whereas for others I click on the buttons but there's no response. Is this a bug in OS X Lion? Example of clicking on Eclipse IDE fails to respond, even I have pressed the dropdown button.
Screensharing is broken for me in Lion. In Snow Leopard I connected using mobileme for verification. However since upgrading my machines to Lion and my mobileme ID to iCloud, I'm unable to screenshare using my iCloud ID.
I just recently switched from Windows and I must say that as much as I'm satisfied with the whole OS, I'm disappointed by the text editors so far (I've tried TextMate and BBEdit). So I figured I would check specifically into open source editors. I'm currently checking out MacVim, but are there any other good, maintained text editors for OS X?
I have a 24" HP LP2475w at my home and 23" Apple Cinema Display at work. Today when I turned on my laptop at work, I noticed that all fonts look perfect (after having an issue with rendering for the past two days). I thought the issue somehow got fixed and happily went on with my day.
Would an iPhone 3G delete text messages by itself? I have lost some text messages and don't know where to find them! Thanks.
I purchased music on my old computer with different email addresses ans passwords. The computer died and I need the old passwords to play some of my music. Is there an email address for iTunes support where I can request my old passwords? I have tried calling the support number but they could not resolve the issue. Many thanks for any assistance.
Is it possible to share a .ipa file between iOS device users who have purchased the app? The reason is we do not want to download the app (especially if it has a large file size, like 1GB).
I have a NAS device attached to my router. I'm using it as a backup device for my Mac Book Pro. I'm getting the following error: The backup disk image /Volumes/SHARE-1/MacBookPro.sparsebundle could not be created (error -36).
How can I change the username that pops up every time admin access is requested ? I've tried updating the account name in System Preferences -> Accounts
I've formatted my newly bought SSD and did a clean install of Snow Leopard from the install CD I got with my MacBook. Snow Leopard installed just fine and everything works, but when I try to upgrade to Lion from the App Store, I get an error saying
With iMessage there is a group chat feature similar to the feature in Whats App. But I can't find a way to add new people to an ongoing group chat. Is this possible?
While my my Mac starts, it shows about 2GB free size but after running about 5-6 hours, I use Firefox and other apps at that time, then only leave the FF running (not close), other apps also in stop working mode I think. I close my Mac not shutdown. I do this because I am lazy to reboot my mac ... after about 5-6 hours, Mac report my disk size is full. I am confuse by this, anyone also face this type problem before? My Mac is Mac OS X v 10.6.8.
I'm deploying a large number of iPads and Mac Minis in my environment, and I need to be able to enroll them so they can be managed by my server. In my server "Profile Manager" there is a setting to "Can Enable Remote Management".
In Windows Live Photo Gallery, there's an easy way to view photos by date taken:  How do I accomplish the same thing in iPhoto '11?
When I connect my Apple TV 2nd Generation to my iTunes home sharing account I see all Movies, Music etc. I can choose which photos to show, however. I would like to be able to choose which Movies and Music to show on the Apple TV (and on other connected computers) and which not. All Movies and Music were bought with the same Apple ID (which is also used for sharing).
When I set certain options for a song, such as a Volume Adjustment or Start Time or Stop time, it would be nice if those options were kept when the song is played on another device, such as an iPad or iPhone. For example, if I cut off the first several seconds of a song (say, to get rid of a spoken introduction), iTunes will do that and start the song proper, but the same tune played on the iPad will start at the beginning (including the spoke intro). Is there some way to get iTunes to modify the actual file rather than some internal database (or whatever)?
What should I do? I know the information I'm giving is correct but Apple isn't accepting anything except my Apple ID (now a disfunctional email address) and my birthdate?
My MacBook Air stopped being able to connect to the wireless network at a coffee shop I frequent. It's an open network, but requires a clickthrough on a gateway page to complete the connection to the internet. My iPhone accesses the click through page fine and connects to the network, but my Air cannot load the page, the autoconnect pop-up will load forever, and I get a timeout when going through the browser.
When I chat with two of my friends (say A. and T.), our iPhones use text instead of iMessage. It used to work using iMessage, but one day, it switched to text. A, T and myself otherwise use iMessage with other contacts without any problem. It's only A <-> me and T <-> me which uses text. How do I reset iMessage in order to re-enable it with these two friends?
Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set in a Mac Pro? I currently have two 500GB drives in a RAID 0 set. I want to add a third drive and convert it to a RAID 5 set. Is it possible to do this without wiping the current array and rebuilding from scratch? If I have to rebuild from scratch, can I take an image of the current state using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC), kill the RAID 0 set, make the RAID 5 set, and restore from the CCC image?
That is, it shows, while you type, the count of unique words. Not a count of all words. If the document had the words: The cat is in the hat which is in Toledo. It would show a count of 7.
When I plug in my iPod Classic to my car radio system, it doesn't show album artwork but when I plug in my iPhone it does. Is there a default I need to change?
The iPad has multi-touch gestures:  Is it possible to customize these gestures? If so, how?
I was wondering what ways there are to start a (shell) script from the GUI, e.g. double-clicking an icon in Finder or launching via Spotlight. This is not about opening a terminal and "manually" launching the script.
I have tried to delete what I think are the plist files for QuickTime in my log in. However, the problem still persists.
I saw a few questions asked and suggest Waterproof and a few other apps, but it seems to throttle everything outgoing on my Mac. I want to only throttle the download speed on iTunes. I normally use jDownloader to download things, and I am able to put a speed cap on my downloads, is there a way to do that for iTunes?
In our house we have two iPhones and an iPad. Each one has a separate iTunes account so we could have different versions of the games instead of sharing. We've upgraded our computer from a PC to a Mac and when trying to sync any of the iPhones or iPad, we get an error message that says that the particular item is synced to a different account. How do I sync the iPhones and iPad to the new computer without erasing all the information on the item?
I have several PDF ebooks in my iBooks. Some of them have their titles & authors visible. Some only displayed as "untitled". Is there any PDF metadata editor for iPad?
So clearly the path is incorrect. The correct SMB path is smb://192.168.1.6/music/HardDaysNight.mp3. How do I fix this?
According to the docs, to use an external monitor as the sole/primary display device, I can close the lid on my MBP. To wake it up I can either press a key on my bluetooth or mouse.
I have an iPhone 2G (1st generation model) that works fine except that it does not connect to iTunes. I have tried to fix it but it seems permanently screwed (I'm not looking for a solution to this).
I normally use the iPhone timer to sleep the device after I've dozed off to some music or podcast. Unfortunately this means that when I ask Siri to set a timer for some cooking, Siri waits the allotted time and turns off the phone rather than notify me that the time is up. Any solutions to this?
Can someone please help me out? I currently own an iPhone and an iPad and my son has a iPod touch 4th Generation. iCloud works well between them, but my wife is looking to get an iPhone as well. If she uses a new Apple ID can she still use my purchased apps? Or if we use the same Apple ID can you separate contacts or would turn it off on one device?
Vimeo embedded videos do not appear in Safari although they appear in all other browsers on the same machine. Not only do the video not play but the placeholder where the video should be on the page is blank. This seems to be Safari 5 related.
I wonder how I can get details on my iTunes Match account. Especially I am interested in how many songs were uploaded to the cloud. Even better: which songs are uploaded, wich ones were matched with iTune songs.
I originally used my Apple ID with my daughter's iPod and now iPhone so that her purchases would be linked to my credit card. I now know that wasn't necessary.
I am trying to install some software using homebrew, and when downloading and trying to install one of the dependencies, the package won't install because of an MD5 mismatch. Is it possible to get homebrew to ignore the MD5 hash of a file and carry on with the installation?
I'm sure there's a simple solution but almost daily, when I'm online or working on other programs. A humming sound will begin and gradually get louder. It only stops when I shut the laptop. Thoughts?
I have imported a lot of Music into iTunes in a folder structure: <Artist>/<Album>/<Song>. Unfortunately iTunes has not recognized these information, so that now I just have a lot of songs without artist or album information. (Actually I think that these has always worked until now). Do you have any idea what went wrong here and what I could do, to get this information into iTunes (and the iCloud)?
When I tried to add the printer using the standard OS X on a new MBP, the preferences app doesn't automatically see the printer. I have added it via IP address and manually chosen the appropriate drivers. So, the first question is -- why didn't the mac see it properly?
When remote management is enabled on a client computer, does the client computer keep logs of when the computer is being observed, when reports are generated, etc? If so, where would this log be located? Thanks for your help.
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro and my cat recently chew through that power cord. I bought a 85w adpater but I don't want to open it if I know it won't work. Does an 85w work with a 2008 Macbook pro or should I exchange it for the 60w?
Now, I know that to uninstall Growl I can just run the command it tries to run in the Terminal. But it won't solve this problem, just postpone it until another application fails with the same error (it happened before).
Is it possible to have a bash script that toggle my wifi on and off? I am using lion (10.7.2).
I'm on Lion. Everytime I try to shut down my laptop, I get a popup that tells me that iTunes has interrupted the shut down. When I try to shut down again (without quitting iTunes, or changing anything), the shutdown proceeds normally. Any ideas what's causing this?
Not sure where to address this issue, though, this Apple Mail (bug?) is incredibly annoying.
Is there a way to attach an image from the library using the default Mail app, while replying to an email? Email photo in the Camera roll creates a new message, and Reply doesn't give you an option to attach, as far as I can tell. I would also like to have the ability to attach multiple images.
I'm trying, without success, to insert a DVD inside my Mac mini DVD drive. Let me say that actually the computer is without the upper case and the HD drive has been taken from a Windows laptop (it is NTFS formatted and there's Windows XP installed on it). I'm tryng to insert Install DVD to format and reinstall a proper version of Mac OS X upon new hard drive, but I can't.
I have an old computer of mine (the first MacBook Pro model) that I'm trying to wipe clean and repurpose. But back in the day, I was quite security conscious, and my own barriers are foiling me: The account I used daily was not the administrator The admin account used a different password I set a firmware password on it
Does anyone know of an editor than can open/read SNES 4BPP graphics files? Or at least one that can convert to/from this format?
I need to select either one of the following VPNs in Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9: PPTP VPN L2TP VPN L2TP/IPSec PSK VPN L2TP/IPSec CRT VPN So which one should I select to access my iMac where I shared my screen for my tablet?
Problem: iTunes video playback is choppy only while downloading anything from the iTunes store. Video is choppy at all sizes, e.g. actual size, full screen.
I have a 2007 Black MacBook running the latest version of Mac OS X Lion. It has a strange issue wherein the Airport shuts down if the fan starts blowing, and will not start up without a reboot.
Should I move the swap location for my Mac from the SSD to the larger HDD in my laptop? Background information: I've heard some suggestions in the general PC/Windows world that if you have an SSD for your OS and HDD for your user data, you should move the swap location/swap file away from the SSD to the HDD (perhaps re protecting the hits on the SSD perhaps). Note I have a MacBookPro with SSD & HDD both in it (using the optical drive bay).
Is it possible to automate the key press of a key (such as "a" or "<") in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari (in this order)? I'd like to automate the key press of "a" for example in Mozilla Firefox for 100 times every x seconds. With x being a value between 1 second and 10 seconds chosen randomly at every key press. What Applescript could make the trick? Also, where can I find a list of all codes for each key of the keyboard?
What is the keyboard command to sleep (or turn off) a display, but not actually put the computer to sleep?
Is there anything to consider if I want to share a Time Machine backup drive between a Lion machine and a Snow Leopard machine (a USB drive that I would be rotating between the two computers)? Obviously I cannot use encryption (since Snow Leopard will not be able to use the disk), but are there any other gotchas? For example, will Spotlight behave (i.e. not constantly re-index because of the version change)?
I never use the "Reader" feature in iOS 5's Mobile Safari, and the button for it sits there in the address bar just being a nuisance when I want to see or edit the URL in the address box. How do I turn it off?
I'm on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. I just had one of the infamous 'blue screens' when the MBP freezes (known for the early 2011 models). After my system booted up again, my menu bar isn't translucent anymore (as it was before), and also, even the option to activate it (as described in *=URL=* is simply gone from my settings screen. How do I fix this?
I'd like to be able to mount an nfs NAS mount point whenever I connect to my home network and initiate an rsync to it. I saw the post for "How can I automount afp volumes at startup? ", although there are some similarities, my trigger is quite different. Would appreciate any help figuring this one out with automator. Apologies if this is already answered elsewhere.
Recently (I'm not sure when it started) podcasts that are marked as played on my iPhone (4 hardware, 5.0.1 OS), when I plug into iTunes, the podcasts are still showing as unplayed on the iphone in iTunes, and so they don't get removed. How can I fix this? iTunes 10.5.1.42 on Windows.
I am using numbers and I have a column function at the footer row. I'd like it to produce a Countif() along with a word. I tried: =Countif(Checkboxes,True) "Checkboxes" so that it would express for example 5 Checkboxes That did not work as expected.
Does archived mail in iCloud count towards your iCloud storage allowance?
I have one of the numerous flashlight apps that I wanted to recommend to a friend.  What is the easiest way to retrieve the iTunes Store link from my already installed iOS App ? The info window was helpful as I could find the App by searching for the name of the developer. And apparently the ID can also be found in the iTunesMetadata.plist inside the .ipa file. For this App its: *=URL=* Is there an easier, more straight-forward way to retrieve the iTunes Store link ?
This seems to be a common problem, but I couldn't find any solutions. I want to sync my Google Calendar with Outlook 2011 I tried this solution: Sync Google Calendar with iCal Then sync iCal with Outlook I want to get my Google events into Outlook. But I have a Problem:
I want to import an audiobook where there are 14 folders on the form "Author - CD ## - Title", and the mp3-files are on the form "### - Author - Title" (incrementally over all CDs, so the last file of 'CD 01' is named '012...", and the first file of 'CD 02' is named '013...'. However, the ID3 tag stupidly consist of "Title = Author", and nothing else. And when imported the files are scattered around randomly in the playlist. How do I sort a playlist by filename? or; How do I remove the ID3-tags of a folder of folders of mp3-files on Mac easily.
The Finder shows several particular directories in the home folder. It does not even show directory I made in the home folder.
I want to turn off the multitouch gestures on my iPad 2 running iOS 5. They make it very difficult to use around my child who is constantly switching apps on me or bringing up the notification bar.
Is there an app that can capture live video on one iOS device and broadcast it over wifi so all my other iOS devices can play it? Streaming it over the internet would be even better...
It's hard to describe the behavior, but here's a short clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KqHBA94FPI
I bought a video course on my iPhone, the app essentially launches the videos in the standard iPhone video player. I'm selling my iPhone and would like to recover the videos, or at least preserve the app data until I can figure out how to extract the videos from it.
I've just downloaded GimpShop and wanted to run it on Lion. So I've copied the app to the Applications folder and started it. It starts, I can see it's doing something with cache and bam.. it goes away. The only thing left is X11 window with bash prompt. I've tried closing the X11 app and running it again... nothing. Is there any way I could start GimpShop on Lion? Thanks
I use Safari and Firefox. To be able to view PDFs on Firefox on the fly, I use the Schubert's PDF viewer. But, I would like to block it from loading my PDFs on Safari. I like Safari's way of handling PDFs a bit more. How can I disable a particular plugin on Safari? Thank you.
I am finding that lately, quite often pushing my iPod Touch's home button doesn't generate any response - I have to push it again really hard. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the OS or with the hardware. I haven't jailbroken, and my iPod touch is a new 4th Gen 8GB model bought in September 2011. Any help is much appreciated.
How do I turn off all notifications at once and then turn them back on later (like if friend is playing game?)
From time to time (in fact very often) my iPhone will stop displaying the lock screen "now playing" info, and subsequently the controls won't be there. I can still start the music app playing something, but I can't pause or skip tracks.
Since iOS 1 I have always lost Gigs of storage to the "Other" category on my iPhone. I have cleared my Safari data, told my phone not to sync music, apps and just about every other syncable option and yet I still find myself loosing 2-4 gigs of storage after about a month of use. I have read that the issue lies in the way iOS and iTunes handle deleting data, incomplete synchronization and building the iTunes library on the Phone.
Every now and then (once per week?), my Mac Mini (2011, 8GB RAM i5) running Lion Server, stops the DNS server bringing my network to a grinding halt. The only way I have found to get it to restart is by rebooting.
I'm using Pages 09 to prepare a document and have just noticed that the Zoom level (at least on my install) is not WYSIWYG. The Page setup is correctly showing A4 as the output paper size. The default Zoom and the Zoom setting for the document are both at 125%. The computer is a Macbook Air 13.3", so has a resolution of 1440X900. As far as I can tell it the zoom level would need to be about 175% to be correct. (A quick look at Wikipedia shows that the Air has a DPI of 128PPI which may be the issue) Is there a default that can be changed to set Pages to assume that DPI is greater than the default (presumably 72 ppi)
Since upgrading to Lion, I get this error every time I start up:  I've read the answers suggested here, but they seem to indicate that it's the presence of a second device that's causing the problem. The only USB device I have plugged in to my laptop is an external keyboard. I'm not sure how that's using too much power, but it's disabled my other USB ports. Is there any way to fix this?
I have an iPad 2 running 5.0.1 and I want to transfer a video file from my iMac to edit on the iPad with iMovie. The movie was filmed on my friends iPhone 4S and I imported it to my iMac, then used iTunes file sharing to put it on my iPad. When I go to iMovie on my iPad and create a new project, there are no video files there for me to use, but the iPad says iMovie has 600MB worth of documents and data in the usage screen(I don't have any other clips in iMovie). Why can't I edit the video, and how should I transfer video in the future?
I have bought a decent number of movies off of iTunes through various sales. The issue is, they take up a lot of space on my 120GB hard drive. I want to free up space, but I also do not want to lose the movies I have put money into.
Since the last software update on my iPhone 3 all the notes that I writte on the iPhone appears in the mail.app on my mac as income mails. When I delete the notes at the Mail.app, they are also deleted at the iPhone. Do you know how to avoid the notes to be deleted? Thanks!
I just got my 4S yesterday (thanks AT&T for the early upgrade date!). I've noticed two problems with Siri and I don't know any good methods to troubleshoot.
Whenever I use Skype, my MBP displays "Not Charging" about 95% of the time. When it is charging, it is extremely slow, gaining 1% over maybe an hour or so. Additionally, if I start using Skype on battery power, with my Mac charged at 100%, the battery drains to nothing over just an hour and a half, on average. I'm literally running Skype and Safari (Facebook) and that is it. When I use battery power, the screen brightness is at 50%. I use Growl, iCloud, and an app called UnPlugged (a preference pane) that alerts me whenever my Mac is plugged in or unplugged. The Mac was purchase 5 months ago, and is well maintained. 2.3 GHz i7 4 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 Ram 750 GB HD OS 10.7.2 Build 11C74
I have been using my iPad with Numbers and would like to be able to just open them up on my Mac with Lion. I can not figure out how to connect/sync to iCloud documents. I have checked iCloud documents for syncing, but my documents don't appear on my Mac. I have even set up my mobile documents folder on the desktop. I can drag files to the iCloud that way, but then I can not open them from that folder. Frustrating.
I want to have the computer log me in so all my login items can get started, but I need it to be secure, aka it still needs to ask me for my password before I can actually use the computer.
I often have many apps running in the background. I have heard this can cause the battery to drain faster (especially location-aware apps) as well as generally slow the use of the device down. Is there a fast and easy way to shut down all running apps in iOS?
When enabled, iCloud will automatically back up your iOS device when it is plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi, and locked. This is designed so it'll very conveniently back up overnight. However, I use a night stand app, and I have it set to prevent my iPad from sleeping so I can see what time it is without having to fumble around with a passcode in the middle of the night. Because of this, iCloud will never back up automatically.
I often have multiple documents I am working on or need to keep on hand. This includes PDF, Word, Excel, Pages, etc. Sometimes I need to work on them on my Mac Mini or sometimes on my iPhone or iPad and I definitely need to view them on my iPhone and iPad. What's the best "cloud-based" storage service for my situation?
I have a Mac Pro that draws about 250 watts (so I read somewhere) when it's running full-bore. It apparently draws less than 90 when it's sleeping. For whatever reasons I like to leave it on overnight, but I'd like it to sleep for cost and eco reasons. However, something I have installed keeps waking it up. I've done a fresh reboot, and then told it to sleep once it's fully up and running and before launching any other apps. It won't stay asleep for as long as a half hour (approximately, I haven't timed it) and it certainly won't stay asleep overnight.
I have a number of audio files in iTunes that I do NOT want iTunes match to match. I do not want iTunes match to find the files and upload them to the cloud.
Can I get my Mobile Safari thumbnail view back after I upgraded to iOS 5?
What's the current advice on recharging my iOS devices? I try to maximize the long-term lifespan of the battery by only recharging to 100% and promptly disconnecting from the power, but I know many people who leave their devices docked and charging until they walk out the door. I also try to run down to zero/empty periodically. What's the best practice here? I've read Apple's suggestions too but wonder what others have found.
I am aware of AirPrint activator as a great solution for printing from iOS devices using a Mac on the network. Is anyone aware of a solution for someone with only a pc?
I use Mac OS X Mail and have all of my work contacts in Address Book. When I receive email from one contact, the "From" field just displays his email address (as opposed to his first and last name) even though I have a contact card for him in my address book. For all other contacts, Mail displays their first and last names appropriately.
I have been given an assignment to create a video in school and I would just like to know if and how you go about getting movies not recorded on the iDevice into the camera roll and then into iMovie. I have tried everything I can think of but I am stumped.
In Windows Task Manager - what is AppleMobileDevice, system user? It is running 55% or more and makes the cpu usage at 55-100%
Something like this would help me learn the keyboard shortcuts while minimizing the impact to my current workflow. Does anybody know of any applications that do this or could easily support this type of user prompting?
I bought an iPad for school and have been enjoying using iMessage and (especially) FaceTime, and I have recently acquired the new iPhone. So I'm wondering if there is a way I could add my iPhone's number to my iPad to receive iMessages and take FaceTime calls sent to that number, rather than having to rely on my phone 24/7 for these features.
I bought a Sony ICF-CS15iP docking system and my iPod will charge when I connect it, but it will not play music through the speakers. This is my 3rd docking system and I have had the same problem with the others - it will charge but not play. I'm assuming it is my iPod that has something wrong with it. Should I call Sony and or Apple?? Thanks! Note* I have a 4th gen iPod Touch
I'm trying to use a custom wallpaper as a lock-screen wallpaper on the iPhone. Can I do that without jail breaking the phone?
The Address Book application in OS X Lion is sorely lacking in its ability to sync & combine contacts from different sources. Does anyone know of a good replacement? Update - My Holy Grail: I use a personal Gmail account and a work Google Apps account. I'd like to have the same info available on my iPhone, iPad, work Mac, home Mac, and Google via a browser. While I'm at it, let's throw in connecting to my contacts in Twitter and Facebook, though those are much lower priority. I'd like a local copy of all the info in case the cloud isn't available. iCloud syncing isn't really a priority, since I use Google for that, but I could see switching what I can if things would work better. Ideally, groups would be sync-able, in addition to contacts, but I don't think google exposes that via their APIs yet.
Our household has several iOS devices, a soon-to-be-upgraded MacBook and a new Mac Mini Server. Since we're not working with many users (yet), I'd like to get things organized and working before time becomes an issue. The Mini has a local-only account that has the master iPhoto and iTunes libraries (for sharing with Apple TV's, iPhones, iPads, etc) - with iTunes I have a few options: Everyone shares the same iTunes library Master library is shared, users have their own smaller libraries Master library is shared using home sharing, users have their own smaller libraries
We're setting up about a dozen mac mini's across the city that need to be managed from a central lion-server. Our IT department is willing to open up some ports and forward them to our lion server but they are not willing to give us VPN access. What ports do I need to forward to the mini server in order to manage the devices? I'm thinking mostly of when I update a profile and need it to be pushed out to the other devices.
Before iCloud began operation I used a gmail email for my Apple ID. With the advent of iCloud I have begun using my iCloud email for everything. The one thing that frustrates me is that Apple does not allow me to change my Apple ID to be my @me.com address.
I know applications don't actually run in background but I was wondering how many applications I can leave open. Has anybody tried? Is there a limit? What is it? If you reach a limit, it starts closing applications by itself to make room for new ones?
My problem is I've got heaps of photos that I don't want to be found in finder is their any easy way to stop finder from showing them in places like All Files or quicklook.
This Christmas, I got several text messages from my Mom on her new iPhone 3G. Several of them included emoticons in the body of the text like so:
I use mplayer to watch videos. Is there a remote app that can control the mplayer from an ipad? Just like Apple's Remote does for itunes
I sometimes use a BlueTooth keyboard with my iPhone, which is lovely for writing emails, but I run into difficulties when using terminal on the iPhone - I like to edit files with vi(m), which requires quite a lot of presses of the escape key, but every time I press escape, the iPhone interprets that as a request to go back to the home screen and sends me out of the app. Any ideas?
I hope to use launchd to set a static route on a server at boot time since I haven't figured a better way to configure this sort of networking on a server. My problem is that the command seems to be running before the network stack is set up, so I'm looking for advice how to change my plist to somehow depend on the system routing being set up before it runs. Jan 16 14:39:45 server com.company.route.legacy_printer[149]: route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable Jan 16 14:39:45 server com.company.route.legacy_printer[149]: add net 10.1.1.1: gateway 10.0.1.2: Network is unreachable I get this error after a reboot, but loading the same plist as root once the mac has booted works just fine so I'm hoping it's an easy tweak or someone clueing me into a better way to get a static route reliably after each boot.
When the iPhone (4) goes to sleep, the VPN will disconnect. Is there any way to disable this behavior as it's sometimes a bit annoying. I am jailbroken, and the server I'm connecting to is Windows Server 2008 R2 which I can edit settings on.
How can Reminders in iOS5 be shared between two iCloud accounts? In other words, how can two users send or post to other users a Reminder?
Is there anything built into OS X Lion that allows you to have a backup that spans multiple disks? I've got about 80GB of files pulled down from our web servers that I'd like to get put on DVD-Rs, and would rather not have to manually fit dirs ontop the discs. Anything built into OS X or freeware to do this?
I have a custom ringtone (30 seconds in length), but it goes to voicemail after approximately 20 seconds. Can I repeat the ringtone multiple times before redirecting the caller to voicemail?
I have an iPhone 3GS, and I recently installed iOS 5 and set up iCloud. However, since then my phone crashes when I make a phone call (after about 2-3 minutes). I tried deleting my iCloud account to see if this rectified the problem but I lost all my contacts. Can anyone suggest any way to resolve this problem?
With iOS 5 and iCloud i was hoping that games would get synced across devices. If I'm playing a game on my iPad and then later pick up the same game on my iPhone, then i would like to be able to start right where i left off on my other device. Are there any games that currently do this? Or is this even currently possible?
How can you prevent ios from updating apps to newer versions which are incompatible with the version of ios running on the device? I have an iPhone 3Gs running ios 4.3.5. Some apps that show updates available, do not work with this version of ios. I accidentally updated Stanza and it stopped working. I had to find an older version of Stanza in my Time Machine backup and reinstall it on my iPhone.
Currently the wiki and the profile manager runs on port 443 (ssl). We have other services using port 443 on our network, and therefore I cannot port forward that port to my Lion Server. How can I get the wiki and the profile manager to run on a port other than port 443?
I can no longer double-tap the home button to get to the iPhone's Phone apps' favorites list. I'm looking for an alternative method to quickly access the favorites list, possibly using gestures?
My wife and I have shared calendar groups and reminders lists (both requires using icloud.com website) for things like travel, parties, and grocery list. I would love to do the same with contact group, but can't figure out how. As a workaround, we are using a shared iCloud account for (1) sharing contact groups, (2) Find My iPhone, and (3) app/music/video/book purchases.
I am looking for a note taking app with white text on a black background that works with iCloud. Apps for Mac and/or iOS will work. Any recommendation?
I recently updated to iOS 5 (I know it took me forever), and after I did, all my contacts disappeared. However, when I would dial a number, it recognized it and would show the person's name. It stayed like that for a few hours, and then miraculously my contacts reappeared after I turned the phone off and on a few times. How did that happen?
I love ssh -A, which allows me to use my local ssh key when establishing a connection from a remote server. For example, I ssh -A host1.example.com and then from there I can ssh host2.example.com (or use git) and it uses my ssh key from the original machine, which in this case should be my mac. Although this has always worked for me on Debian/Ubuntu, it doesn't work on my new mac (Lion).
I am trying change the Short Name for an account on my computer. Is there an easy way to do this?
Does it work like Aperture and store files in its own directory? If so, where is this? I'm debating on dropping Aperture to save space on my hard drive, so want to know how iPhoto works before I switch. Thanks
I work as admin in a college environment. One of the challenges is to stop the services installed by students with CS major. Some time back they got the admin access and installed launch agents and daemons on some systems.The students have also added some plists as com.apple.myprog.run. The problem is these are not present in the launchagents directory or in the launchdaemons directory.
I have a brand new MacBook Pro. When I first started the computer and set it up, it asked for my name, but the field was already autofilled with my brother's name.
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1 Strange problem I've had for a few months. Sometimes when a notification causes the iPhone to temporarily lower the volume, the volume gets "stuck in quiet mode" and doesn't resume full volume. As a result, music playback is approximately 25% quieter than normal. Sometimes getting a subsequent notification is enough to kick back to full volume. This is very annoying because I never know when the phone is going to ramp up the volume suddenly (if I get a text message for instance).
I've found Address Book's 2-panel layout in Lion extremely obnoxious because I must change modes to change groups, never remember what group I'm viewing, etc. Is there any way to restore the old 3-panel layout? If not, recommend any open source alternatives with sane layouts?
I have an old iPhone 2 (and an old 3GS, if necessary), that I'm planning to use at church for capturing sermons and uploading them to our website. I'd like something so simple that even our senior pastor can't mess it up :) Ideally, all the pastor would need to do is: Hit record when he starts preaching Hit stop when he's done. I'd like the resulting recording to then be automatically uploaded to an FTP directory on my website, from which I could write a script or something to add it to the podcast. I don't like Cinch.FM, because it doesn't appear to let you upload to your own website, and most of its competitors seem to be the same. Any ideas on an app that could do this?
I transcoded a bunch of music videos downloaded for free from the iTunes Store to audio only .m4as in the Finder, following the hint at *=URL=* After adding the audio files to my iTunes library, they still show the video icon in the library list, and the media kind in the Get Info panel says “Music Video”, with no way to change it to just “Music” like other .m4a files. How can I force these files to be recognized as simple music files?
I know add-ons such as Glims can do this, but I would rather stay away from them. Any native (or more likely semi-native) way to do so? If it matters, the engine I would like to add is duckduckgo.
I have an Apple ID, do I also need an iTunes ID to purchase music?
I heard that if I reset my iPod, I will lose everything. Is there anything I can do to not lose all my apps, information, etcetera?
I know that an IPSW is an iOS firmware restore file. When you want to install a beta firmware, Apple ships these. This website stores all old iOS versions in that format. What exactly is in an IPSW file and in what format?
Features aside, should I expect a performance increase in general or the reverse?
The weird thing is that all of this works seamlessly on Lion. If I set up her account through the Mail, Contacts, & Calendars system pref pane, everything just works. Incidentally, it was using the settings in the Lion apps that allowed me to force Address Book and iCal on Snow Leopard to connect correctly. But I can't get Mail working no matter what I try.
I've just downloaded the driver for my preferred trackball from Logitech. In the Finder, the Installer's filename is Logitech Control Center Installer.app. In the Terminal, ls shows LCC Installer.app. How did this happen?
I am getting the following error: The document could not be saved. You don't have permission
Configuring Apache for local development on Lion I've managed to clue out this much: /private/etc/apache2/ and /etc/apache2/ are symlinked /etc/apache2/httpd.conf is authoritative httpd.conf draws on the confs in extra original is a red herring of unknown origin - presumably Apache
I have an iPod Nano 6th Generation and it had been working perfectly fine, but one day suddenly my up volume button got stuck. That button can't be pressed as it has gone down completely. I searched a lot and it seems to be a common problem that the buttons stuck and also I got a useful link here but I do not want to open up my ipod on my own.
I subscribed to iTunes Match at launch and was able to run through the matching process. My iTunes now says there are several thousand songs on my account. I turned on match on my iPhone, and ended up with a strange mix of songs on there, most of which were synced from iTunes, and others which were in the cloud and would download when played.
Can anyone recommend any alternative web-browsers to the Big Three of Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox? I just want to try something new, because I'm not completely happy with the performance of those three. Maybe there's something better out there that I'm not aware of yet. I need your advice.
In Numbers, is there an equivalent keyboard shortcut to Excel's "Fill Right" Ctrl + R and "Fill Down" Ctrl + D?
Since UMTS is a lot fast than EDGE, data transfers via UMTS take less time. When downloading the same file, it would take longer to be downloaded via EDGE. Doesn't the difference in transfer time (partly) kill the advantage of saving power as the antenna pulls power for longer to end the transfer?
What is the difference between keeping applications in the global /Applications vs ~/Applications for a single user system on Lion?
I bought an iPad and bought several apps, then I bought an iPad 2. Can I copy the apps I bought to the iPad 2 and keep them on my iPad or do I have to buy them again?
I used to see my contacts' photos full screen when they called or when I called them now I only see a thumbnail when they calling and when I call them.
iTunes Match just became available in the Netherlands and I ordered it just now. The matching process is now in step 2, but it doesn't seem to make any progress. It was at 160 of about 4000 songs, than I restarted iTunes and now it is sitting at 221. I didn't actually see the progress happen from 160 to 221. It has been sitting at the same number of songs for several hours (apart from this "jump").
I have turned iMessage on and off several times. I have checked it is receiving at the correct addresses (my phone number, which is correct, and my Apple ID email address also). Sometimes this works, sometimes it fails to activate, and just says it's waiting, sometimes it does nothing except return me to the screen without making any changes, or I get "An error occurred during activation, try again". Often it will ask me to re-sign into my Apple ID, which will usually fail.
When you place an open display plastic unibody MacBook upon a closed display MacBook of almost any kind, the display will cut out when it goes past the ninety degree angle. I am thinking its a pressure point issue or a magnet issue. Though not entirely sure. Its consistent enough to see it, but infrequent enough not to worry about it, since stacking laptops is a no-no, but occurs when doing mass imaging.
I have an iPad 2 with iOS 4 and the Facebook for iPad app installed. Even after disabling all the Push Notifications from Settings > Facebook > Push Notifications, I still get push notifications. Is this a bug in either Facebook or Apple's part or is there a hidden setting somewhere to disable the notifications?
Is there a way to start one game on the iPhone and continue it going on to your iPad?
I noticed that when I close to lid of my MacBookPro 2008 edition. My computer does not go to sleep. I also observed that this occurs when the Mac is plugged in. When I unplug, everything seems to be working fine. Does it have something to do with Lion? I already tried changing the energy settings in System Preferences.
In step 2 of iTunes Match, all of my songs except one are matched (3937 of 3938) and it is stuck at step 2. Is there a way to force the final match? I'm missing artwork on my iPhone and iPad.
I recently upgraded to a Wireless-N capable router (Linsys WRT160N) from a Wireless-G model. Everything was fine and dandy with the G, but I needed a stronger signal strength in my living room and dining room. After getting the new router configured and deconflicting the channels, it's finally working great with my Macbook, Galaxy Nexus, and wife's iPhone 4.
I have googled for a solution and am not seeing any for my exact situation. I have read that this type of problem occurs when there is one router attached to a second and both are using NAT and DHCP. I understand that the way to fix this problem is to put either the modem or the Airport Base Station into bridge mode.
This question gives useful information on iOS 4.3 support. However is there a publicly available policy for future iOS versions on which devices they will support? For example, do they always support two previous generations of hardware, or does it vary according to each release? If there is no official policy, what does the trend seem to be?
Is there a way to transfer bookmarks from Apple Maps to Google Maps? I understand why I can't, but has anyone found a workaround?
I would like to get TextMate and Safari to open in the same desktop, but have looked in System Preferences and can't see where to do this? Leopard and Snow Leopard had this in System Preferences, but I can't find it in Lion. Thanks in advance for your help.
Here's the situation. Inside the music player, on the playlists tab, I touch the 'Now Playing' button on the top right, it goes to the current song that's playing, no problem. But when i go to the 'More' tab on the bottom of the screen - where it shows Artists, Audiobooks, Songs, etc... and click the black 'Now Playing' button, nothing happens, it does not go to the current song playing, like it should.
I am guessing that when disk space runs low, it automatically deletes the Spotlight index to make room for virtual memory. Then when space becomes available it reindexes. But I'm not sure about that. Since my MacBook Air SSD is only 128 GB, I often work with little free disk space and the re-indexing drives me crazy.
What is the complete list of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) that are unable to update to iOS 5.0?
Can I, as a single person, sell my apps with the normal iOS Developer Program ? What is the difference between these two ? I have the link here, I just don't understand what really differs between these two... http://developer.apple.com/programs/which-program/
Is there a way to revert back to the old version of an iOS app after having it upgraded? I like the older version of the app than the new version and as a friend of mine is still using the old version, I think it mustn't be an absolute requirement from the app developers' end.
I recently bought a MacBook Air 13", to use at my university (Technical University of Denmark). But when I am using my laptop in a place with many other laptops, OSX crashes every 5 minutes (kernel panic). Other people have experienced the problem here: Apple Support Thread Someone in the thread suggests disabling IPv6, but this does not solve the problem. Have anybody in here experienced this problem, or can anybody figure out a solution? I use: OSX Version 10.7.2, Build 11C74
The iPad calendar is much better than the iPhone version. Arguably, with the Retina Display the iPhone should be able to display a similar interface. All of the current iOS devices have different feature sets, yet claim to support the same operating system: iOS 5. As of this writing iOS 5 is available for all iPad models, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPhone 4 CDMA, the iPod touch 3rd generation and the iPod touch 4th generation.
When I open Safari, it opens in its own application desktop, instead of in one of Lion's desktops. The problem this creates is that I have to keep on changing back and forth to the desktop which TextMate uses. How can I get Safari to open in a "normal" desktop.
I have a problem with Mail and I don't know how it happened. I somehow accidentally added several names for one email address. Now these names are displayed randomly. This problem is driving me crazy. Each time I send an email I'm obligated to check three times to whom am I sending that email by clicking the name and confirming the email. How can I edit or delete the names behind and email address? Here is the screenshot when I open new mail message: Then I start typing (pressing "d") the e-mail, list of hints pops-up:
By this, I mean the dock, the "X" button for app icons, the lock screen slider, etc. Any file format is fine, but I'd like them to be at least the normal resolution.
When ever I try to launch an application that is located on an AFP share, the CPU load raises to max and shortly after that the system locks. Why is this? How can I prevent it?
My battery is a year old, but it has 189 cycles. Why is this? I always use my MacBook with the charger plugged in and very rarely without the charger.
I'm looking for an FTP client with the following requirements. File/Folder sync Sftp/SSH tunnelling Outstanding AppleScript support Runs on Lion The GUI interface is not overly important as it won't be the main interface used, however (and this is subjective) a better interface would be a bonus.
I have a GMail account (Google Apps with my own domain) hooked up as an exchange account in my iPhone. If I mark an E-Mail (as shown in the screenshot) on my iPhone, it is not regonized by the GMail Web Client aka shown in the marked folder. Do I have to configure something in my iPhone to fix this or is this not possible?
I have a Logitech webcam C615 that I'm trying to hook up with my Mac mini (2011). This may sound silly, but is there a way I can install the software without having an external CD drive? I had no idea that it came with a CD for installation or I would have made the 30 mile trip to the Apple store. :(
It often happens that I create a Pages document on my home laptop, upload it to iCloud, then want to download it from iCloud at school. For some reason, iCloud doesn't support this—I need to, at some point between those two steps, open Pages on an iOS device synched with my iCloud account. Then it'll work fine.
I'd just like to know what it is that kernel_task is responsible for. Also, what's an acceptable maximum RAM and CPU use for it?
I just bought a New Trent IMP99D external battery, to keep my phone alive while gaming during long-haul flights. It has two USB ports to connect to, one which supplies 1 amp at 5 volts, another which supplies 2 amps at 5 volts. The instruction manual says to connect smartphones to the 1-amp port, and any iPad 2's to the 2-amp port. Is there any harm, or do I incur any inefficiencies, if I connect my iPhone 4S to the 2-amp port instead of the recommended 1-amp port?
I have an old MacBook Pro that I am replacing with a slightly less old MBP. Both are running Lion 10.7.2. (The older MBP has some hardware issues.) The first MBP has a lot of music, video, application preferences, and symbolic links that I need to make sure get over to the second MBP, so that I can just swap the machines and, for the most part, be done with the swap. The catch is that second MBP has a much smaller hard drive, so I can't simply copy over the Users folder, let alone run Carbon Copy Cloner, etc.
Any newly added contacts, or contacts that have been edited are immediately sorted to the top of my contacts list on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1 using iCloud. The iPhone has not been jailbroken, or tampered with in any way. I'm not even able to use the quick select letters on the right that are above the letter R (See Example Photograph). I've deleted the contacts, and have re-entered them multiple times. I have even restored the iPhone 4 to see if that would fix the issue, and have even tried using an iPhone 3GS to test on with no differing results. Needless to say that this issue is occurring across the board, which makes me think it may be a setting that I'm unable to find. Has anyone else come across this issue? Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks a lot in advance! Example Photograph:
I have been using headphones with an external USB sound card, but the sound card broke today, and my other audio ports are messed up. I have an iPhone, and I know that a computer with a wireless card can stream it's audio to an iPhone, but can a computer without a wireless card (on an ethernet connection) use this or a similar service to send audio to an iPhone? Maybe even a tethered iPhone, because I can do that.
For a while (long enough that I almost finished writing a very long SE question about it), I thought Google Calendar wasn't syncing with iCal. Then, I realized that it in fact was, but all the calendars were cleverly hidden in the Window menu, just above Bring All to Front. If I click one of these, the calendar displays—in its own window. All the events are there, but ry as I might, I can't get any two calendars to display in the same iCal window! It's very irritating.
I have read several articles online about the most efficient means of splitting an iTunes library across multiple drives, unfortunately none seems efficient and some that I have tried do not work as advertised. So I thought I would throw this out to this community to see if anyone has a more workable solution... I am running the very latest version of iTunes 10.5.2 on the very latest version of OSX 10.7.2 on a Mac mini that has two 750GB drives. I need to split Movies from Music/Audiobooks due to the size of my library. I copied all movies to the second internal drive manually, and deleted them from my library then I unchecked the preference options to keep the folder organized and to copy items when adding to the library but each time I try to drag the Movies back into iTunes it seems to be copying them onto the primary drive as if I hadn't unchecked the options. What the .... ? Anyway can someone tell me what the secret incantation is to do this split? This is RIDICULOUS and I know t
A has 7 apps and one folder. B has 9 apps. C has 10 apps, one folder, and newsstand (whether that's an app or a folder I don't know).
If I replace the *=URL=* in Safari with webcal://, I get a “Cannot Subscribe. Could not subscribe to the calendar X from Y”.
I'm considering getting an iPod Touch for my car exclusively. Will iCloud allow the 8 GB version to play my entire library?
The current version of the iPod Nano looks a lot like it is running the iOS. Is it actually running a scaled-down version of the software on the iPhones, or is it just a themed version of the classic iPod software?
This is very annoying. What can I do? Why does sound check not work on the iPhone? I would be content with regaining my songs to a higher level. But to wich one? And can I re-upload the updated files to the cloud? Questions and questions ... any hints very much appreciated.
When I run nvram -p I get the following: The line with panic-info is actually ~9000 characters long. What does this mean? Should I be worried, as the word 'panic' implies?
We're interested in publishing our magazines to Apple's Newsstand and we're wondering how we would go about doing this? I've read you need a developer kit (which we don't have), is there a way to just publish the magazines without this?
I use 2 different email addresses, and I have recently forwarded one to the other. Eventually, I'm going to root out the first address and only use the second. But right now, in the second email box, when I'm replying to an email that was sent to the first email address (the address i'm going to root out), Mail defaults to sending mail from that email address rather than from the second email address. Is this normal behavior, or is there a way to always reply from the second email address?
Whenever I close the lid of my MacBook Pro it takes over a minute to write out my memory to disk. This is part of the Mac's safe suspend option, which allows it to restore your memory from the hibernation file if the Mac loses power (say you change batteries or they go flat) while it is asleep. I prefer my machine to go to sleep as soon as possible and am willing to take the risk of an unclean shutdown should my battery go flat. A long time ago I disabled this behavior, but have recently reinstalled my machine and OS X has reverted to the default behavior. How can I disable the hibernation action when I close the lid?
I want to run a web server on my Mac as a non-root process. Normally only root processes can bind to port 80 (or to any port below 1024). Can I open port 80 specifically so that non-root processes can listen on it?
How to resume normal iPhone volume after notification causes volume to get stuck in lower volume mode?
Quicktime Player help: With QuickTime Player you can quickly remove a portion of the beginning or end of a movie or a movie clip to make it shorter or remove unwanted content. I want to remove the portion starting at 03:08 and ending at 03:49 of the movie, preferably through an applescript like the following: Am pretty sure QT PRO can do it.
A new icon appeared between the screen orientation lock and the bluetooth icons in my status bar. it looks like a phone over a keyboard. It appeared today after changing SIM cards, I switched to a new carrier. It looks like this (the blue icon on the grey bar) :
I'm using jDownload which is great from a functionality standpoint, what it does, does it great, has plugins to download files from a lot of sites, like youtube, megaupload, and the like. But it takes too much to open, and when trying to stop a big list of downloads it most of the times hangs (at least on my machine), and it takes up a lot of resources, not to talk about the cumbersome user interface, which is the smallest problem. Do you know any OSX native equivalent that can download files from sites like megaupload and youtube?
I want to repair permissions of a user defined directory along with it's subdirectories. How can I do this?
I am getting a MacBook Pro today, in order to build an App. My question is simple (I hope):
Since iTunes is not capable of handling many video formats, I'm looking for an alternative that can replace iTunes, Quicktime and VLC. What media player for OSX is able to: organize a large music library (ACC, MP3) play videos encoded in (AVI, MKV)
I'm trying to take a screen shot (using Grab) of a quicktime video that is paused. The problem is that the video controls don't disappear, and thus are shown in the resulting shot as seen below:
I no longer have an iPhone or iPad, but still have books in my iTunes account that I would like to read. Is there a program for OS X that will allow me to read iBooks without an iOS device? I am familiar with calibre, but the main issue here is the DRM.
I'm curious about whether possible to install OS X on multiple partitions. I am already using several user accounts in one installation, putting different accounts into different installations of OS X.
I have a keyboard which is a little flaky, and occasionally one of the modifier keys becomes stuck. Realizing I’ve entered this state often takes a while. Is it possible to display — e.g., in the menu bar or in the style of Sticky Keys — which modifier keys are currently down? I don’t need the Sticky Keys functionality, so turning that on wouldn’t seem to be a solution.
My son (pre-teen) received an iPod Touch for Christmas. He has a friend that does not have an iOS device. But his friend can text. I am still at the stage and my son is still of the age that I would like to have a way to know when he is texting and what he is texting. Is there an app for that? [It could be something that allows me to setup an account and login to a website to see activity.]
I have a late 2007 MacBook 3,1 with windows 7 x64 installed on it as part of bootcamp. I can't set the function keys to behave as they would on a pc... I have to press fn each time in order to use their original functionality. I don't have any kind of boot camp option under control panel, so I'm puzzled what to do.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7. How can I know whether MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc. are installed on the system?
Occasionally once it has finally powered back up the battery percent will be more than 1%. Why hasn't it turned on ASAP?
I have a text file and looking for the single line bird. Using OS X Lion and grep 2.5.1. this works: but this doesn't
There's a setting in full screen zoom called 'follow text focus', which is supposed to cause OSX to follow the position of the text caret instead of the mouse pointer when in full screen zoom mode. The problem is it doesn't work very well.
1st gen MacBook Air.. I replaced the failing internal HD with an 3rd party SSD (wasn't hard, but replacing the fan which was also broken was much trickier - pro tip: don't try using a 00 screwdriver on 000 screws). [will update this question with SSD make+model asap]
I'm looking for a MAMP packaging = Apache + MySQL + PHP bundled together for Mac OS X (which is my OS). Where can I find it? Is there an "official" site where I can download it from?
My boss has given each employee an iPad 2 with the express permission to use it privately as well as professionaly (take it home, install apps, ...). All iPads are used with the same company-wide Apple ID, so that all devices are automatically synchronised. However, I also have a private Apple ID and I'm wondering how I could get content I purchased with my private ID on my new iPad. While we are allowed to buy non-free apps with the company's apple ID if we pay for them with iTunes store cards, I would rather buy content with my own Apple ID so that I can keep it. Is it possible to abandon the principle that all company iPads are used with the same ID and still get automatical synchronisation? Is it possible to abandon the principle that all company iPads are used with the same ID and still get automatical synchronisation? Is it possible to use content purchased with my Apple ID while logged in with another ID? Is it possible to use content purchased with my Apple ID while logged in w
I would like Safari on Mac OS X Lion to send correct geo informations to some websites but not to others. Instead sending correct location data I would like it to send either no location data, faked or random coordinates.
It looks like the OS X built-in command line tools, such as ls, du etc are rather strict with regards to the order of parameters. To illustrate, a command for showing disk usage, 'du', accepts -h as a 'human readable' formatting directive for sizes. If you run the following under OS X Lion, this parameter is ignored: To get it to work, you need to specify the parameter fist, then the location, like that:
I have my main iMac in my kids room (little house, alas) and often I have to work late at night; I'd like to connect from my MacBook to the iMac keeping the screen black, as in sleep mode. Is there any sort of magic to achieve this? What if I plug a Mini DisplayPort cable? Will it exclude the monitor? Thanks, Guido
The only thing I can change is the "Format" from "44100.0 Hz" to "48000.0 Hz". Everything else is greyed out.
In Windows you can replace the native file handler with TeraCopy, I was wondering if there were a similar solution in Mac OS X. Because the current handler is not that great. Thanks for any suggestions.
When loading a folder which contains around 500 video files (each approximately 200mb-700mb in size), Finder becomes unresponsive and displays the beach-ball. The folder in question is a networked folder (on an AvidISIS server). Network speed shouldn't be an issue as we are accessing the server using dual ethernet cards (high-end).
Is there a text editor for the iPod Touch that fills the function of the visionary-but-before-its-time Notes application on the legendary Apple Newton? Specifically, looking for something that accepts typed OR handwritten text, freely sketched graphics, collapsable outline with check boxes, etc.? In other words, is there software for our handheld devices in 2012 as sophisticated as the state of the art from 1996?
When writing in Applesoft Basic on my Apple II GS, a crashed program occasionally dumps me not at the Applesoft Basic prompt (]), but at the assembler prompt instead (*). How can I get out of the Assembler and back to Basic (no pun intended)?
I'm trying to restrict an application's traffic using Hands Off not to be able to connect to servers on the Internet respectively to servers on the LAN. But the when I try to add such a rule, the "Local" and "Local (IPv6)" option is greyed out. Why?
Does anyone know how many mAh does the iPod Touch 4th generation battery have? Seems like Apple doesn't provide this particular info.
Is there anyway of syncing my Google/Gmail tasks with iOS reminders?
I'm trying to change some of my Gmail settings on the mail.google.com site through my iPad, but Safari is always showing the mobile Gmail site rather than the desktop site. Is there a way to force Safari to not send the fact that it's a 'mobile' device, or always show the full site?
Some tweets in my twitterfeed is marked with a blue upper right corner, and some kind of bookmark icon on it. What does it mean?
I'm having a hard time removing the "Lookup in Dictionary" context menu element in Chrome for Mac (see screenshot).  I tried deactivating the Dictionary Service shortcut in Preferences / Keyboard, and I also tweaked Dictionary.app's Info.plist to remove the service. I even removed the entire Dictionary app, but the context menu item still shows. Might it be hard coded into Chrome?
I have an issue where Xcode will not launch. The blue light shows under the icon, but nothing else seems to happen. I've already grabbed the latest version from the App Store and reinstalled, didn't fix the issue. Please help. Log shows the following (two lines only, edited for easier reading):
If I have understood correctly, iPhones use Wi-Fi points to locate themselves more quickly. I was working in one location and my company has now moved to a different location. I guess they brought the Wi-Fi equipment with them. When I now open Google Maps, it locates me at the location where my company was before we moved. Even when I switch of my Wi-Fi, it seems to think I am at this other location. This is Extremely annoying.
I have recently updated my Mac Mini machine from Mac OS X 10.6.8 to Mac OS X 10.7. Since this update my system has started crashing once or twice a day. Please find my crash report and screen message below.
So, around June 2011 I finally had the chance to buy my first Macbook Pro (13 inches, i5) But recently, I've noticed something wrong with my battery! Actually with only 2 months of use, I was under Boot Camp doing random stuff when I saw something like "98% fully charged" (battery icon in the menu bar)and didn't pay attention to that until now. Now, with around 40 cycles, my battery is showing 94/95% (5412-5450 mAh)
I have foolishly managed to crack the glass on the glossy screen of my 15 inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro. While considering the option to replace the glass, I then remembered I'd always wanted to have the matte (anti-glare) option.
When I try to ssh (using ssh user@server.com) into my server at home from either the local network or from outside, I get the following error: But if I use sudo ssh user@server.com, it works with no problems: I'm sure I just need to place some kind of key in that /Users/mattlove/.ssh/known_hosts directory, but I'm not sure how or why. Any of you UNIX buffs out there have an answer? E D I T : Here are the results of running ls -l ~/.ssh/known_hosts as requested by @LoïcWolff
I've been getting close to filling up my 16 GB iPhone 4 with iOS 5. I have freed up some space and have 1.5 GB available, but I keep getting alerts that are annoying.
Here's the setting: I am syncing my entire books library on my MacBook with my iPad. On my Mac, there are 122 books (both .epub and.pdf). I also use iTunes U on my MacBook, and some of the courses I download have .pdf slides in addition to videos. However, I am not syncing iTunes U courses on my MacBook with my iPad.
Are there any Thunderbolt displays produced by anyone besides Apple? Apple charges about twice the price of equivalent monitors without the thunderbolt port. Apple may handle the cable jungle better, but that'll never be worth the extra cost.
I understand the purpose of the login is to keep nefarious people who 'obtain' your phone from knowing the whereabouts to your friends. Does anybody know how long the iPhone keeps the session open after you enter the password? Is it even user-configurable the time-out period?
It is out of warranty, has anyone had this issue? Would a new battery help? I'm also wondering if jailbreaking it might help to where there is something I can do command line to fix it (I'm proficient with Linux/SSH).
Windows when it detects an unsupported device, it requests a driver from the user. Does OSX have a place when I can find information on unrecognised devices?
I bought an iPhone 4S two months ago. In the last couple of days I've perceived an average battery life of 12 to 18 hours with a light usage of the phone throughout the day. I've followed every tip for battery preservation such as turning off Location services, I don't use Siri, I only download e-mails manually to the phone (no push or notifications), I set the auto brightness on, I try to keep only a few important applications running in background. I would like to visit my carrier's technicians in order to get a replacement, but I would prefer to run some tests first to make sure that something's wrong with the battery. Any suggestions?
So the Gmail app on my iPhone 4S notifies me with a badge that says I have 1,2,3...n unread messages. In true push format, when an email is sent to the account it notifies me fairly quickly, but when I click into the app it still has to download them so it's a bit of a pain to have to wait the 2-10 more seconds to able to READ the actual email. Is this the way it's designed or is there a setting I'm forgetting about?
I have started to get some error messages about items failing to sync. It seems to be a sporadic issue - and the error pictured below was for a sync attached to the USB cable. I do have WiFi sync enabled for this device and it also happens when I'm syncing wirelessly, so the presence or absence of the cable seems to be unrelated to the error.
I have an iPhone 4. The Facebook application was working fine until this morning. When I start the Facebook app, it shuts down immediately. I tried restarting the phone but it's the same. No jailbreak, no unlock. My phone is 9 months old.
I'm setting up a fresh iTunes library, and I'd like to have a playlist with some internet radio stations. However, I'm seeing inconsistent behavior with how these are being handled in iTunes 10. When I add The Current MP3 stream to a playlist, it does not show up in my main music list, however, when I add the BBC Radio 6 it does show up in the music list, not matter how I add it (dragging from the radio list directly, or adding the URL via Advanced > Open Stream).
My original Mac Mini hard drive is waste, so, i've replaced it with an old hard drive with XP installed on it. Actually, computer starts correctly, and Windows XP is loaded. Now I want to format this hard drive using Mac FileSystem and install Mac OS X on it. Actually I have Mac Tiger DVD in front of me (DVD was sale to me with computer) but when I insert the disc in optical drive under Windows XP it tries to read than spit it off (i've tried with MS Office CD and it works). The question is simple: what can I do to install Mac OS X if disk is NTFS partition and Win XP is installed? Best regards
I am using Mac OS X Leopard on a MacBook Pro. I must have been very careless at some point, since I managed to let some malware install in it. While browsing I get randomly redirected to different web sites than those I intended to visit, both from Safari and from Google Chrome. I have tried to clean my computer with ClamXav without any success so far.
Will Author for iBooks let us read instead of "Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that impos'd Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loos'd From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave; To all which Jove's will gave effect, from whom first strife begun Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son."
Apple has just released the free application for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Where can I find some information about its capabilities. Yes, this is a "Jeopardy" question.
I just downloaded several themes that I want to use. They are in /Library/Application Support/Keynote/Themes/ but I don't see them in the Theme Chooser screen. Does anyone know what else I should be doing to install them? Thanks!
It started with a frozen screensaver. I killed the ScreenSaverEngine process and it brought me to a stuck login screen.
So lately I've been watching online videos on VideoBB and similar sites, and I'm wondering if I can do this on the Apple TV? Also, is it possible to mirror my screen to the AppleTV and show Safari, so to play the videos right from there? So far I've looked at... AirFlick - No audio AirDisplay - No audio... ClickToPlugin - Does not work on the VideoBB, "killer" doesn't work.
I have a flash drive which I carry around everywhere which has a few standalone applications which I use everywhere installed on it. However, the majority of these leave Application Support folders behind, and I don't want to give other people access to any of my information, etc.
I have hooked a new Mac Mini up to my monitor but want to migrate data from my old Mac Mini to the new one but only have one monitor and Migration Assistant requires that I start the old one up in target mode. With only one monitor. How can I start that old one up in Target mode so the new one can recognize it?
I have been sufficiently impressed with the sound quality of the voice memos app on my iPhone. I'm planning to interview several of my family members for up to an hour at a time. I have a 4th generation iPod Touch which I plan to use for recording. Does anyone know of any reasons why the voice memos app would not be up to the task?
I know it could be done by pressing F3 button while dragging an item but I really need the five-finger-gesture for that. On Snow Leopard, I could drag an item with my thumb and then use the remaining four fingers to expose all the apps/windows to drop this item in any app/window in the current space or any other space. Is there an equivalent in Lion?
Since I tend to carry my iPhone 4S in my pockets all the time, I'm concerned about the risk of entering a building filled with some gas. If I get a call when I'm in such a building, I'm afraid I won't be around to answer the call anymore. :)
I'm looking to buy a MacBook Pro w/ SSD. I was wondering if anyone out there has noticed any significant performance drop with FileVault2 enabled for the following tasks: Small (under 2 GB) PostgreSQL and MySQL databases Ruby development Lots of grepping and text parsing
When I open apps like Textedit, Preview or MS-Word in Lion - they also open documents that were open last time I closed the application. Is there a way of stopping this? Generally if I'm opening an app I'd like it to, as most, give me a new blank document or file...
When my original HDD crashed I wanted to change it and choose a Samsung HDD (I don't not the exact model anymore). The problem with this one was that the system often hanged for several seconds until it worked again for a short time. Often the colored spinning wheel appeared and I had to wait. The MacBook Pro was unusable with this.
Due to a conflict between the mac osx lion 'file.encoding' system-property and my java application, i have to change the setting from MacRoman to UTF-8. What is the best way to reset this system property globally for all users on this machine? Regards mmm...
I recently converted one of my books into an iBooks format using Author. However when I connected to my iPad and went into 'preview', I saw my device, clicked it, but the 'preview' button to enable the previewing process was faded and I could not click it. Has anyone actually used the preview feature enough to give me some help? Thanks!
I've been playing with iBooks Author all morning and I haven't had any luck embedding code snippets. Does anyone else have any ideas? A few things I've tried:
What do these two icons represent? What is the functionality behind them? I am running On OS X Lion (10.7).
I've a refurbished late-2008 Macbook Pro running the latest version of Lion. This problem started couple of weeks ago. Whenever I detach an external monitor, the resolution on the laptop display goes haywire and displays one of those 16-color resolution on all the apps. I have to shut down each app and reopen them to regain the original resolution (dashboard continues to show the diminished resolution). If I log off and on, everything is back to normal. Is my graphics card going bad or the DVI/MiniDisplayPort connector causing problems?
I'm interested in writing a text in the sciences that requires some mathematical notation, but I see no way to incorporate LaTeX into iBooks using iBooks Author. Am I missing a feature? Is there an add-on plug-in architecture (e.g. using "widgets") that would allow me to add a tool for LaTeX editing. Are there any existing LaTeX "widgets" or add-ons? Ideally, I'm seeking something other than a "one-way" static PDF- or image-generation approach.
I want to extract all of the images out of a large pages document. I found an article about it from 2006 ( see *=URL=* ) which states you can open the pages file as a package and extract the images. Right clicking shows no 'open package' item and using pkgutil --expand mydoc.pages . errors with "Could not open package for expansion" I'm guessing the pages file format is now somewhat different.
Okay so I decided to reinstall Lion on a MacBook Air 11' Mid June/July which my dad gave me after he used it for a while. I restarted using Command + R and erased the Macintosh HD first and then tried the Lion Internet Recovery. The problem i'm facing is it downloads all the way and then in between/by the end i get this error:
I can't get pass the license screen after a restore on an iPad. After a restore in iTunes, i didn't backup, we don't have a backup so just a wipe and restore to factory settings is all she wanted. This is for my gf. I get all way to to entering her apple id and the next screen is the various software liscences to read and agree to, but lo and behold; you can't click on the blue agree button. all inpu ti ignored, i can disagree, i can click back to return to the apple id login etc. Home button gives you options to setup etc. Even using the voiceover, i can see all the elements on the screen but the agree button is ignored.
Is it possible to sync the to do list in Entourage to an iPod touch. My Dad has his whole to do list in Entourage and would like to sync it with his iPod touch. How do I go about doing this?
I can shot tethered to my MBP (using LR3) but then how do I get them to the iPad wirelessly or better yet bypass the MBP altogether? I know they have a wifi card for SD cameras but my dslr only uses CF cards.
Apple's licensing terms for iBooks Author are quite restrictive towards the distribution of work: They require the output of iBooks Author to be distributed only through Apple's retail operation. How can this work for business that create content using iBooks Author? If you export your book as a PDFs to sell for a Kindle, it would be against the licensing terms. Thus, I'm asking: Is there a version of iBooks Author with adequate licensing terms for enterprise? Here's the extract (iBooks Author 1.0 licence agreement section 2.B.)
I've been using the Mac Mini with Dell U2711 monitor for couple days and only now I've realized what is wrong: The display isn't using its maximum resolution 2560x1440 but the 1080p which the OS reports as the max resolution. I then read from the Apple's site that for some reason 1080p is the maximum resolution when using the HDMI-connector.
Are there any keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs in terminal?
I have an iPod Touch (4gen), and I listen to a lot of vocal music and spoken-word audio. Sometime in the past week or so, voice became really hard to hear. When I play music, it sounds like it's been turned into an instrumental. When I play spoken voice, it sounds like the Peanuts teacher. If I turn up the volume to the max, I can hear the voices fine, but then the low-frequency music is overwhelming, so that's not an option. Is there some equalizer setting (I didn't think the iPod Touch had these but I could be wrong) that I could have screwed up to make this happen? UPDATE:
There is a remote server that I can connect to only via SSH, and storage space have been allocated for me in that server. Is there a software that lets me "mount" a network share via SSH so that I can use it as if it is a local folder? I strongly prefer cross-platform and Free (as in Freedom) solutions, but anything you can think of I'd love to know. Thank you!
I have a macbook (2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo upgraded to 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM) running OS X version 10.6.8. I do a lot of prototyping for high performance computing on this macbook (running c++, fortran, mathematica, matlab, etc) and often work in parallel.
I realize that I can drag files from Finder and drop them in a mail message in Mail.app to attach them. What I would like to do is drag an active document window from another application, say Preview, into an mail message I am composing? I don't want to have to open a finder window and navigate to the correct folder and drag and drop from there.
It is commonly asked how to get a Terminal prompt from a Finder window. I am asking the opposite. I would like a command-line way of determining the working directory of the "current" Finder window.
How do I stop Launchpad from changing the app/folder order that I set? I have quite a few applications, so I organize most of them into folders, then I arrange the folders alphabetically to make them easier for me to access. Then, inside the folders I usually arrange the applications alphabetically for the same reason.
When I plugged my MacBook Air running Lion into a projector today the projector only displayed the desktop background. I could swipe between desktops, but it still only displayed the background (this was particularly weird for the dashboard where it showed the dashboard background but not the widgets). When I opened system preferences that window displayed, but nothing else. Any idea what happened or how I can fix it if it happens again?
I'm using my MBP as a media server, and I'm connecting to it via my MBA through AFP (settings can be found in "File Sharing" tab in System Preferences). This works fine if I am connecting locally, but I would like to be able to connect over the internet from anywhere. The other problem is that the MBP is using DHCP and I'd rather not use VNC.
I'm looking for Mac software that will make it easier to generate a chart of my personal sleeping habits. I have a system improvised with Numbers '09, but it doesn't work very well. Is there any software out there that will do this simply? I want to log my sleep/wake times and have the chart generated for a given span of time easily. (If it can project times into the future, that's even better.)
It works fine from the AppleScript editor. If I click "Run" with a blank CD inside, it burns the CD with the data from the .iso and ejects it upon completion.
My smart playlists created in iTunes are not syncing to my iPhone. I have resolved to copying the songs that are in the smart playlist to a regular playlist to get the playlist onto the iPhone. Why is it that smart playlists won't sync?
I occasionally have an issue that if I open up an email on my iphone or ipad that has an attachment, when I open it up on my macbook in mail the message will appear but without the attachment. How can I fix this? If I forward myself the message it will appear with the attachment but I'm getting tired of doing that.
I was deleting an album on my iTunes Match enabled Mac and I forgot to check the box that says, "Also Delete from Cloud" and I deleted the files themselves by not selecting "Keep Files." So now the album is entirely gone from my library and Mac but it is still in the cloud, able to be downloaded from my iPhone. How must one delete music from the cloud so it may not count towards the 25,000 song limit?
I recently upgraded my Mac Pro with 24Gb of ram, quite the nice feeling. When I booted up the system again, I got this message :
I am about to re-install OS Lion on my MacBook Pro. But before that I want to make sure that my data in other partition created, will that be lost to? Example I have 3 partitions 1)Macintosh HD (OS installed in this drive) 2)Work 3)Media So if I re-install the OS Lion using recovery mode from HD, will it also wipe out my other two partitions or only will clear "Macintosh HD" partition and install a fresh Lion copy?
I want to start a program in response to system events, such as: IP address changes WIFI connectivity changes (whether I'm connected, and/or which network I'm connected to) Volume (as in disk) changes User logs on or off System shuts down or restarts Is there anything built in to do this, or is there a 3rd party tool that can do this for me?
I installed an app for desktop wallpapers on a site called Kuvva.com. It shows up as Purchased in the Application Store but has an option to install it, even though it shows up in System Preferences as already installed. When I try to click on it, either in App Store to install or in System Preferences to send it to trash, it continues to say cannot delete because it's still open, but I do not see any options to allow me to close it. I've tried to go over to Desktop/Screensavers where the picture keeps showing up every morning, but there's no way to get rid of it or close it there either.
Is there any way to download and store app bought from the Mac App Store in an external hard drive and also being able to update them? (I'm especially interested in doing this with Xcode)
Yesterday I could play music and actually hear something, but as of today, my MacBook Pro speakers aren't producing any sound at all. Here is what I tried: rebooting (a cold reboot too) several times internal/external speakers PRAM reset Reinstall iTunes Using headphones There is no red light in the headphone jack.
I'm selling my MacBook and would like to wipe the hard drive in such a way that the current data can't be easily recovered after I reinstall OS X. Can you recommend a free tool to help me do this? Maybe I should mention it's an Air model, so something that's safe to use on an SSD.
I have iMac 2011 with ThunderBolt and MacBook Air 2011 with Mini DisplayPort. Can I connect them with a ThunderBolt cable? It is for work in Photoshop on two displays. Thanks!
One of the Lion features I would really like to use is AirDrop. It would make transferring files so much faster than using a flash drive. Unfortunately, my Mac is a 2007 Black MacBook, and AirDrop is not supported on this hardware.
I downloaded some videos that I wanted to put on my iPhone (Oredev talks, from *=URL=* so from the web and not iTunes). The videos are all seemingly in the right format, and they play using Quicktime and in iTunes. But when I select them for sync to my iPhone, only a few of the several I've tried have transferred successfully.
Some wi-fi networks require viewing and agreeing to terms before Internet access is allowed. When my MBP connects to such a network, it attempts to redirect and isn't able to connect. I tried all browsers. However, it works when I boot up Windows on my Mac. Why does it do this? I don't think my /etc/hosts file is messed up. Could anyone give me some insight? I am using Lion 10.7.2.
I just installed an application and drag/dropped the file into the Applications folder. The application (or folder) icon is showing as some grayed out icon with a crossed-out circle over it in the Applications folder's stack in the Dock. This is not the application icon obviously. When I go to the Application Folder it displays correctly.
When I try to sync my iPhone with my computer, I get the following message:  iTunes could not back up the iPhone "iPhone Name" because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone. Delete the backup for this iPhone, then try again.
I have about 1500 photos in my camera roll. Because of this, my iPhone has about 2GB worth of photos. I would like to have only the most recent 200 photos on my iPhone and the rest on my Mac. How can I do this?
I'm looking for an app (or script) that does this: I hit a global shortcut key chord. A one-line text entry box appears. I enter a line of text and hit ENTER. The text is saved somewhere, perhaps as a plaintext file on the local filesystem. I'm looking at the same screen I was before step 1, without any more clicks, keys, or delays.
I recently installed iCloud into my iPod touch 4th generation. I'm thinking about resetting my iPod because of some problems I've been having lately. Will iCloud back up/save all my info, apps, etc? Thanks!
I have multiple machines with iTunes installed (mac and pc) and a Windows server with a file share hosting my music. I would like : All machines to use one data repository but still have the metadata synced (play count, rating etc...).
I'm in YouTube HTML5 trial, and the experience is terrible with Safari. Every video is lagging severely, and the browser gets unresponsive constantly. I have zero problems with the Flash version, and Chrome handles HTML5 YouTube just fine.
I am looking for an adapter to connect my Apple display to a Sony notebook via VGA, so I need the reverse of this one:  Does such a product exist?
I just bought a new AppleTV and will be getting it soon, and I want to know how I can stream my movies which are located on a shared drive to it? Right now, my videos are in a folder which is shared by my MBP (which is running SL) and have various formats. I've been trying to find a way to show these on my ATV without having to convert them.
To stop rearranging apps (i.e. after holding the finger down on an app so that they all start to shake, make them stop shaking again), the home button is used. Is there a gesture that does the same?
I have a white 2010 MacBook, and the outer casing for the wire on the MagSafe power adapter has developed a small split. Is this something that may be covered under my MacBook's AppleCare? Is it something that a genius might give me a "one time exception" for?
We have several people using the same computer and the same user account. However, each person has a different iTunes account.
When iOS 5 first came out, I added my @me address to my iPhone and iPad. People could iMessage me at my email address, and I'd see it on both devices. This wasn't always perfect, and recently I decided to forgo this, and just use my phone number on my phone and email address on the iPad.
Will it overheat when used in portrait mode? (The air intake holes are in the bottom of the monitor when it is used in landscape mode, which provides good ventilation. When you put the monitor in portrait mode they're on the side. Will that be a problem?)
Lately I've noticed the trackpad on my MacBook Pro has been getting stuck from time to time and generally isn't as clicky as it used to be. It feels to me like there's something stuck behind the trackpad there that's stopping it from moving freely, but I have no idea how to get behind there and clean it, let alone how anything could have gotten in there in the first place. The trackpad will press all the way down on the bottom left and right corners, but towards the bottom centre it does not press down nearly as easily.
I can save in .pdf just one or two pages at one time, using default Mac viewer. But I have several hundred of pages to save. Does anyone know how to do it faster?
So far, I know how I can merge all windows with all their tabs using:  I use different windows in safari to organize them by content. Sometimes it makes sense to merge the tabs of two windows. This very easy when you have only two Safari windows open.
Based on my experience for the two minutes for which my device was jailbroken, I saw little difference between a jailbroken device and nonjailbroken device. All I noticed was a little Cydia icon. Presumably I can add software via Cydia, but I'm curious to know what else jail breaking offers out of the box on an iPhone 4 running iOS 5. Is Cydia really the only starting point, or do other settings magically appear in the Settings app or elsewhere? Are there other benefits?
I want to start replacing crontabs with LaunchAgents. My first attempt is not working.
I've noticed over the last couple of weeks (to month) that the home button on my black 4S is becoming depressed relative to the case - only a very small amount but it now lacks the feedback it had when new. Having looked at my housemate's 4S of the same age and probably slightly worse care, his is still perfectly flush. Is this normal / is the button on mine defective? I'm aware that I am probably being over-careful, but on my old i4 the home button gave up entirely after 14 months.
I get this uber annoying prompt every single time I plug my Macbook Air into my Thunderbolt display. Does anyone please know of a way to disable this? Thanks a lot!
When looking at an image in a directory with the Preview application, I'm used to the Windows behaviour of using the ←/→ keys to move through all the other viewable images in that directory. Preview.app doesn't do this - I first have to select all the images and then open Preview.app. This is a little annoying. Is there something I can turn on or install to get this behaviour? Also, how do I open an image in a new instance of Preview.app, say for comparison purposes?
Every few days Safari on my iPhone (iOS 5.0.1) reverts to "Never" accept cookies. I put it to "From Visited" but it switches back shortly thereafter. Discussion elsewhere suggests an Exchange link may be at fault (and I do download email from a work account) but nothing conclusive. This problem breaks logging in to most web sites.
What is webfilterdnsd process running on my machine? Its started by user "nobody". Not able to find any other information on it online. How can I get more information on processes running on my mac?
As the title says, I jailbreak-ed my iPod touch for about a week by myself and now I want to sync it to iTunes without unjailbreaking the iPod. After I plug my iPod touch into the computer, I opened iTunes manually and nothing happened. I then looked for information on how to unjailbreak it. I found out that I need to press the sleep/power button and the home button, after the steps, on my iPod there's a picture saying to plug the iPod onto iTunes and I did so. Then I pressed for the iTunes to restore my iPod, and it said that an error happened.
I keep telling my Dad to upgrade his iPod touch from iOS 4 to iOS 5, and his response is "but I'll lose all my data". Can I be confident that simply backing up by right clicking in iTunes and clicking "backup" from the menu will backup the iPod exactly as it is, so that it can be restored with the only difference being the new OS? I seem to remember reading that iOS devices keep two partitions, one for data and one for the OS, so in theory this should be good to go. I'm just not sure if there's anything obvious that I'm missing.
Access to a local DNS server is always delayed by ~1 second. I enabled the DNS server on OS-X Lion and it does indeed work. However when I query it using 'dig' (or nslookup) there is a delay of about 1 second before the reply is given. This delay is not reported by 'dig', which gives a response time of 0ms. So for example a query using the OpenDNS servers completes sooner than one to the local server despite the name resolution taking 135ms longer: $ time dig @208.67.220.220 ibm.com ;; Query time: 135 msec real 0m0.172s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.006s $ time dig @localhost ibm.com ;; Query time: 0 msec real 0m1.068s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.007s The delay does not seem to be in the named server, as when using named -g to view logs there is also a 1s delay before the request is printed. FYI: my changes to enable DNS were: rndc-confgen -b 256 > /etc/rndc.conf head -n5 /etc/rndc.conf | tail -n4 > /etc/rndc.key edit /etc/rndc.conf to correct port number edit /etc/named.conf to add this to the opti
Is there an application for iOS devices similar to "Announce the time" feature in Mac OS X? This feature simply announces time every hour/half hour/quarter hour with preselected voice.
I set up a Windows 7 VM using parallels (uses boot camp partition - wow its very fast), and another VM running WinXP (for legacy stuff). What I need is to automatically fire up that Windows 7 VM when I log into MacOS, but NOT run the WinXP VM. I see I can right-click on Parallels icon and choose Options > Open at Login, but I am thinking that will either (1) not actually start up my Win7 machine or (2) will run both of them - neither is my desired result.
My current workspace setup is a black MacBook that is plugged into a 21" monitor, with a Wireless Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad, both connected with Bluetooth. The issue is, I cannot take the two input components more than 12 to 18 inches away without either adding a delay or losing the signal entirely.
Is there a way to mark a podcast as "Listened to" on my iPhone/iPod? Occasionally I get podcasts that I've already heard, and I was hoping there was a quick way to mark them as played.
Are there any indications that I will be able to use my Amazon content on an iPad? I have songs and videos with Amazon, and I would rather buy an iPad to watch/listen to them. But I am being forced to get a Kindle Fire instead.
I have been editing my contacts in Lion Address Book to use the iPhone label for phone numbers. I want to create a smart group that shows all contacts that use the iPhone label. I would use this group to share iPhone tips with my contacts. I do not see a way to create a smart group like this on Lion or iOS.
Recently I was watching a movie on Netflix on my pc with no problems. I wanted to watch it on my AppleTV (2) I get an error saying Netflix is currently unavailable and to try back later. I tried back later and got the same error. Any ideas as to why I get this "Netflix is currently unavailable and to try back later" message?
I want to trick IOS to use my IMAP server so I can help my buddy retrieve his mail password (which he forgot, but is still stored on the iPhone). So he has a Yahoo Mail account configured and working and I just want to edit the settings file so the Mail app will use the IMAP server that I just set up to intercept his password. I tried modifying the file /private/var/mobile/Library/Mail/metadata.plist and "Envelop Index", changing imap.apple.yahoo.com with my server, but these two files seem to act more like a cache, they got rewritten when he did check mail.
I have this Mac:  And it's attached to an Acer P191w. It will show an odd grid of dots on the external monitor like so:
When entering a contact's phone number in the Contacts app on iOS or the Address Book on OS X, the number can be labeled iPhone rather than, say, mobile. Does doing so have any effect on how the number is treated by the OS or applications? Or is it provided for purely aesthetic purposes?
I used to be able to type something into the iTunes search bar to filter the songs. You could click on a song, clear the search, and focus would stay on that song/album's position. I've since added a good amount of music to iTunes, and now when I clear the search box it moves to the top of the list every time.
I enabled Photo Stream as soon as the feature was available in Aperture 3.2.2, yet sometimes I have to remind the app that I want Photo Stream enabled. I confirm that I want to enable Photo Stream every single time Aperture asks.
I'm working on an Apple Script that handles URLs. There's a command one can give which re-creates the list that Safari shows to change the default web browser. Anyone know what this is?
Apple has this amazing feature called 'Large Type', chiefly implemented into Address Book. When you look up a contact, you can right-click the phone number and click 'Large Type', and it will display it very largely across your screen.
Is it possible to use an iCloud email alias as the Caller ID for iMessage? When I try to enter an alias on "Receive At > Add Another Email..." I always get an error popup titled "iMessage Activation" - "An error occurred while verifying your email". I've also tried to go to appleid.apple.com and enter one alias. When I press save, the page shows some loading activity but stays the same and never saves the alias. I've tested it both on Safari and Firefox. With other email addresses it works fine.
How can I delete photos from photos on my iPad. They were copied when I did a sync with the computer. I'm talking about 1650 photos and I don't want all of them.
When i tried to unzip using the Mac default Archive zip utility and the error message: Error 1 - Operation not permitted. Then I tried using 7zx and got the error message: Cannot open the files as archive file How can I retrieve image files from the damaged zip archive file? Are there any tools to retrieve at least some of my files from the damaged zip file?
Good afternoon all, I have a simless ipad and an iphone. My iphone can connect to the internet however the ipad can only connect to the internet using wifi. I was wondering if there's any way I can setup my iphone as a wifi hub so that The iPad can access the internet through the iPhone?
I have a Bose docking station and was thinking of buying a wireless bluetooth Bose speaker as well for the living room If I play my iPhone on the docking station in the kitchen, will the blootooth still work to play the portable speaker in the living room? so music is being played in both rooms simultaneously.
What is the easiest way to add ability to go to next and previous album (not track) using media keys with modifier key (like ⌥+F7/F8 or any of ⇧, ctrl, ⌥, ⌘ or fn)? Is it possible without using additional applications?
Anybody can describe how to disable certain apps on iOS and disable access to PIM (calendar, contacts, reminders, email) data? I've looked at the Restrictions feature and find that it limits access to apps by rating instead of disabling particular apps.
I have renamed my Mac username from root login. It was done successfully and I can see the new name of my home directory but certain folders in Mac HD have a red dot with a - symbol. I tried to change permissions using Get Info and added my user name after which I can view the files but when I try to delete the files it keeps on asking for my password. How do I resolve this?
I've been trying out iBooks author, and one thing i want to be able to do is to allow text overflow from one custom text box to another. In pages this is done either by clicking the blue little symbol in the lower-right part of a text box with too much text, and link it to another, or by going to the menu format->text box->add linked text box. In iBooks Author, however, this last option is greyed out for no apparent reason, and the blue link symbol never appears. Any suggestions?
I sign in to my iMac running OS X Lion. Since this morning I am continuously seeing popups as if I right-clicked my mouse. I changed my keyboard and mouse from wireless to wired, but the problem persists. I checked all processes running and all seemed to be normal.
For some reason sometimes the numeric enter key acts as return and sometimes it doesn't. (I'm talking of the last key on the keyboard, the one with the "k" symbol tilted towards left.) I'd like to be able to use it as the regular enter.
There is a yellow tooltip stuck and it floats above all other windows. I do not know from what program it came. How can I get rid of it without restarting my computer? EDIT:
Whenever I'm trying to close a file that has been changed, I get the save file dialog  I remember that the Don't Save button used to have focus, so I could press it using Spacebar, while pressing Enter would click on Save. But now on Lion, I'm unable to find a way to press the Don't Save using keyboard only, since Tab doesn't change focus to anything, and space doesn't work either.
How do I set up password protection for an external hard drive?
I have a slight problem with the openldap server installed with Mac OS X 10.6.8 (regular, not server). When I launch slapd in a terminal, it stops itself after 1 or 2 seconds... I just have the time to see its process... It doesn't seem to crash, because when I specify a log file in the configuration, the log is created, but empty.
What is the best epub reader app for iPad? I have very complex files on which most apps I have tried time out with sudden execution abortion and control returning to the SpringBoard. I don't believe this to be a duplicate question because most of them focus on particular aspects of quality or functionality like "auto-scrolling and/or annotation support". This question is focussed on best viewing quality assuming support for complex and large files.
Looks like my 2nd HDD became a brick. I tried to partition it via Disk Utilities/booted from recovery partition/diskutil to no luck! I got vague/strange errors such as: unable to unmount, or:
I've got an original iPhone that I'm trying to find a case for online and searching is quite difficult. What's the accepted shorthand? I've seen 2G (which seems wrong, as that would mean 2nd Generation, which would be the iPhone 3G), and 1G, neither of which seem to yield good results.
I'm not sure if I should buy an SSD for my iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 alongside the internal 500GB hard drive. First Question: Should I replace the CD drive with an SSD or use an external (Thunderbolt) one? Is that hard, and is it easy to keep all the applications and system data on the SSD, while storing media on the HD? And should I buy an SSD now or wait for maybe a year until cheaper and better SSDs come out? Thanks!
I would like to watch recorded lectures at 1.7x of their original speed. Which app will allow me to do that?
Trying to subscribe to a shared iCal/iCloud calendar from a colleagues Google Calendar. Is this possible? It was easy under MobileMe but I can't seem to get it working under iCloud.
I am using a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8. I have been using a Compaq s2021a monitor with mini displayport to VGA adaptor and cable until now. I bought a mini displayport to DVI adaptor and DVI - DVI cable and connected to the monitor. The laptop is detecting the display and allows me to change the resolution but nothing is seen on the display of the monitor. There is a flicker on the screen when the resolution is changed to 1024x768 when I click on the calibrate button. Can someone help me to resolve this?
I have an image of Boot Camp with Windows 7, which was created by Carbon Copy Cleaner. I didn't realize that the image wasn't bootable until I had already deleted the partition.
I can switch between OSX, Windows and a network drive, but I cannot seem to find this option anywhere.
When you make an application full screen in Lion, you can move your cursor to the very top of the screen, wait about half a second, and the app's menu bar will pop down. Is there any way to increase the wait time between when I move my cursor to the top of the screen and when the menu bar pops down? I find myself trying to switch tabs in Chrome and getting the menu bar to pop down by accident (so far, my only real Lion annoyance =p)
Is there an approach to querying the local iTunes library to remove apps that aren't currently installed on any of your devices?
Is there a way to purchase an app from the App Store using iTunes without having to download it? I'm thinking like a hidden preference/mouse/modifier key during click, etc. I know the download can be canceled, but what I'm asking is if there is a way to prevent the download all together...
I have a game on my iPhone that always interrupts my music even if I turn the volume down to zero (every 30 seconds or so). Is there some kind of a workaround that lets me continue playing music? Thanks!
I have the latest mighty mouse bluetooth wireless thing. (Hate it.) In Mac App Store, I'd wish to be able to swipe left and right to be able to go back and forth, such as in Safari, Chrome, etc.
I can't connect to my university's enterprise wireless using my iPad. It uses WPA2 Enterprise with TTLS and PAP. When I enter my username and password it asks me to accept a certificate which is not verified, when I click accept it tells me that the username or password is incorrect (though they are correct). What should I do to fix this?
I am running 10.7.2 and would like to be able to clear the search box in Mail with a shortcut. How do I do this?
We (bafflingly) have two great guides to adding custom ringtones to an iPhone via iTunes. Is there a way to do it without syncing with iTunes?
I'd like to build a series of Keynote presentations that contain some dynamic elements. By that I mean some elements are "compiled" in later. For example if I have a code sample on a slide, I want to be able to pull the latest code sample in from an external file when it is time to create the presentation. So 75% of the presentation is static, but then 25% needs to be included at the last minute. There should be some sort of place holder that is preformatted, and then the specific text is added in with the correct formatting.
I'm repeatedly finding Safari pages cannot scroll up or down in Safari 5.1 on my MacBook Pro. On affected pages, the two finger trackpad gesture has no effect, nor does pressing the up/down keyboard arrows. This behavior happens whether I have tabs open or not. (Right now, I have seven tabs open on one window; pages in three of the tabs refuse to scroll. In another window I have no tabs open; this page also will not scroll.) Reloading pages has no effect.
My wife has an iPhone 3G, me an iPhone 4. Ever since she upgraded to iOS 4, her phone has been much slower than it was on iOS 3.
I'm working on creating a NetRestore Golden Image that will be used on about a dozen computers across our organization. I need EVERY account to boot up with the same baseline preferences (screensaver, desktop, dock applications, etc). What is the easiest way to replicate account preferences across each account?
When I started using Lion, there was this "smooth scroll animation" in iCal and Safari, so when I swiped my finders left/right the next month/week or previous website showed up with a nice slide effect. Now Lion just shows that previous page instead of sliding it in. How can I turn on that feature again?
Curious as to how I can enable the sshd to start on startup solely using terminal. The GUI is great and everything but it doesn't go well with my bash scripts.
When I give up my laptop I like to securely delete the hard drive. I would assume that since it's full disk encrypted using file vault that I should be able to just delete the real key for boot partition and be done. No need to write 0s over the filesystem. Is this true, or do I need to do something extra to make sure that I can safely part with my hard drive?
I am trying to install the Microsoft .Net Framework 4 on a Windows 7 bootcamp partition on my MacBook Pro. It always fails. I have tried installing it via the web platform installer and also the standalone download, but neither works. This is the error message from the standalone .Net Framework Installer log: Does anyone know how to get this to work?
I'm interested in a good general overview. How does iMessage actually work?
I restored my iPad today. The first, say, 30 apps redownloaded fine after the restore, but now my screens are filled with "Waiting..." icons. I've tried downloading something else and entering my Apple ID password, I've tried restarting, but nothing seems to get the other apps to download. What can I do?
Is there a way to play music on an iPhone which is connected to a DVD player using iTunes on my PC?
My Finder's file details header looks weird.  It looks translucent and not clickable :( I used many command-line tools on this Temp folder, so I could be happen from accidental deletion of some system file. But I can't figure out what actually happen in there. How can I fix this?
I am trying to install an application on my iPad 2 from Windows. Whenever I do so, I am getting an alert on iPad: Application failed to install.
Or can I not have input into the Macbook?
Is this possible to stream the audio played on an iPad to a Stereo wirelessly ? My stereo is connected to my iMac via BlueTooth. So If I can play the audio from my iPad on my iMac this will do what I want. But maybe there is another way to do it... Another question is : Can I transmit the sound to my mac using the simple connector cable ?
When using Music on iPhone the user is able to use a slider to change the audio output level. However, when the iPhone is docked in the official Apple dock, using the earphone jack in the back, the slider to change audio level is removed from the interface. I would prefer to use the docks audio jack as it keeps the earphone wire on the surface of the desk rather than floating out the top of the phone over a keyboard and getting in the way. Is there a way to make the audio level changeable when the iPhone is docked in the official iPhone dock?
This problem has been driving me mad for months and started when I upgraded to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard on my iMac. I've got a Saffire 56 external audio device connected via FireWire (works perfectly / all newest drivers etc). I get crackling, jittery audio whenever Airport decides to scan for networks, or connects to my home network. If I turn it off everything works perfectly. Why the AirPort and a FireWire audio device are remotely connected I have no idea? Does anyone have a solution for disabling AirPort scanning for networks, or better still, stop the problem completely?
We are using Adobe Photoshop on a Mac to output JPEG image files. These image files need to be rendered on an embedded output device that we have no control over. It seems that the files output by Photoshop use the Exif header format, whereas the embedded device only understands the JFIF header format. According to Wikipedia:
I was wondering whether Mail.app is able to send read receipts (or maybe it does silently?) or create emails that require those? I know such a feature is available in Outlook.
Where can I found information about the power consumption of an iPhone 4 display? Which technology is used? Does it save battery lifetime when the screen displays black or dark pixels?
I was able to connect my iPhone to multiple Google accounts and have the default calendars show up on my iPhone and iPad correctly. But how do I get the non default google calendars to show up as well?
I have some albums in my iPhoto 11, that contain personal photos. I want to password protect particular albums or the iPhoto application itself. Is there any way to password protect iPhoto 11?
The first few times I set up Lion server, we didn't plan on using the default group named Workgroup - but I now see that Profile Manager will create a workgroup with the name "Workgroup" and short name "workgroup". What function does this group server on Lion Server? Should I be adding everyone and everything to this group or should I leave it alone for Profile Manager to manage?
Once you install Microsoft Office on a Mac, you get a bunch of new fonts. This is great, except many of them conflict with existing fonts that shipped with OS X. Open Font Book. Select all fonts in the middle column. File > Validate Fonts. This is an example of what I'm talking about:
I have a number of old mini-DV tapes that I would like to import into my Macbook. All I want to do is for an app to read the contents of the tape and produce a single MP4 combining all of the clips on the tape or multiple MP4 files of the separate clips on the tape. I tried using iMovie for the fist time and found it to be overkill for what I need. It imported the contents of my tape as multiple .dv files and then I have to create a project. I don't want to deal with that. I simply want to import the content of tapes and store it on a drive so that I can watch the content on Macs/Windows/Linux/multiple-platforms.
Intel's SRT uses a small SSD (up to 64 GB) as a cache for the hard disk. Or just the first 64 GB of a larger SSD. Per this Intel document this needs a Z68 Express board and Windows Vista or 7. Various sources say the 2011 iMacs use the Z68 chipset.
I have a master table of contents that works like a charm, and each section is broken out appropriately with page breaks v sections. For each section, I would like to have another table of contents for only that section. Is that possible? I'm in Pages '09.
Hi when I pressed the up arrow to see the previous command, it rewrote the current command from half. Example: and when I press the up arrow, it shows:
I'm nearly out of space and ~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand is taking up 1.5 GB and GarageBand.app is taking up 381 MB of my hard disk space. Can I simply remove the app itself and this folder to remove it from my system?
So my 10.6.8 users have to sign in to our 802.1x network with their AD creds, using previously defined local profiles using PEAP. (I tried Login Window profiles, so that laptops would get online after signin from the loginwindow, but it wasn't reliable enough..)
I'm using wine to run windows programs on OS X, however it would like to be able to see the icons of the programs. I remember that I had something that did this on Snow Leopard, but I can't remember what it was and I don't think it is compatible with Lion. I don't want to do this manually!
I'm looking to do live broadcasts of video games, which require mixing together the game audio as well as microphone audio. In the case of an actual game system being used, I have external hardware that can mix the console audio, and my microphone. However, in the case of a game being played on the computer itself, I have a problem. When specifying the audio source, I can only choose 'computer audio', or my microphone. I believe some means to accomplishing this are Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro or Ambrosia's Wiretap Anywhere, but each of these have a cost associated that is a bit more than I'm able to pay at the moment (and in the case of Wiretap Anywhere, MUCH more than I'm able to pay). Is there some sort of audio mixing software that will allow me to create a virtual device consisting of my computer audio (or a specific application(s') audio) and my microphone audio, as one input device, suitable for using in another application?
I wanted to enable the developer libraries in Mac (RoR, Perl, gcc etc.) so I installed Xcode. I am only interested in these command line tools and will not be using Xcode (or other GUI tools with Mac and iPhone developer bells and whistles that are part of the SDK) at all, as I generally like to use a text editor and the command line.
My wife saw the folder 'all documents' in Finder and decided to move it all to the trash. Now we have over 9,000 files in the trash and I haven't been able to find a way to put back everything with one click. For some reason it will only let me 'put back' one file at a time. Is there any way to automate this?
Using Time Machine (Lion 10.7.3) [ EDIT: or 10.7.2 see my comment below ] with an Airport Extreme and Western Digital MyBookLive NAS seems to work well but then fails about once a month with the following error:  and then all the backups are corrupt and need to be recreated. Any suggestions on how to get it to work?
I bought an iPad 2 last May and used my husband's Apple ID that he uses for iTunes. I have used his ID to buy apps for my iPad 2 and even bought iTunes cards to put on his account. Well, now I have an iPhone, iMac and have my own Apple ID.
Although part of my problem is covered here - Powering on while the lid is closed in clamshell mode, it alone doesn't solve my query. I'm trying to turn my MBP into a server, and because of that I want to keep the lid closed. I'm using InsomniaX to keep it from going to sleep, which usually works for just keeping the computer awake. I want to be able to restart my computer remotely (I already have this implemented), in its lid closed state, and have it not go to sleep after the boot. I've heard I could connect an external monitor, but I don't exactly have one laying around to use, so is there a way to mimic one? Is there an app to disable the sleeping that happens on a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) after the computer is booted up with the display shut completely?
I want to find which ports depends on a given installed port (texlive in my case). I found port deps texlive, but this is working in the "wrong" direction. How can I do it?
I use the Griffin stylus and although it does the job well enough it's a long way removed from using a pen on a tablet - I find the soft nib makes it difficult to write accurately. The other pens I've seen all seem to have a similar design - presumably to make the nib appear to the iPad as a finger. I understand pressure sensitivity isn't going to be an option but a relatively hard nib would make it a lot easier to 'write' on the iPad.
I am using Homebrew exclusively (i.e. I don’t, and won’t, use MacPorts or Fink). I also want to keep manual installations to a bare minimum.1 … But how can I install GCC? First of all, I’ve of course installed Xcode but the current version doesn’t ship with a decently up to date GCC (I need ata least 4.5, but would prefer the most recent one) – in fact, it doesn’t ship with a proper GCC at all (it only ships Clang) and that seems to be a problem for Homebrew … I’m aware of a list of custom GCC and cross compilers but in fact all of those installations require an already installed GCC – at least, brewing them fails with linker errors on Lion which I attribute to Clang, and -use-gcc doesn’t work for obvious reasons. brew doctor only mentions what I already know, that there is no GCC (4.2.x) installed.
What is the keyboard shortcut to get focus inside the textbox pointed in the screenshot below? I am new to Xcode 4.1. I use Eclipse a lot. In Eclipse if we want to jump over any file we can use Command + Shift + R and we get a popup box and we can start typing filename and it shows suggestion, something similar to it I am looking in Xcode.
I'm facing the following problem: I would like to compare different fonts in a presentation by arranging single letters such as 'a' next to each other. Imagine a slide with, say, a Helvetica 'a' on the left and a Georgia 'a' on the right. The reason why these have to be images is because I would like to use Keynotes's/PowerPoint's "Gallery" feature that lets me switch between those images.
The sound volume in the menu bar and the volume button on my keyboard doesn't change the output volume when I connect headphones or external speakers on my MBP. When I go to System Preferences -> Sound the Output volume bar does work. Any clue?
I found an app on the iOS App Store available in both lite and paid version, but it has too many bugs. See the edit history for the name, but this is more about how I can get word back to Apple in general about bugs.
Plain and simple here: about one week ago, my MacBook Pro stopped adhering to its wake schedule. I have had it set to wake every weekday at 6 a.m. for as long as I can remember. It has done so with 100% reliability as long as a power source is plugged in and the lid is open. Then it stopped. I finally went and checked the power savings pref pane this morning, and all is right with the world. I tweak my computer all the time, but have not done anything with this setting, nor have I installed anything that was advertised to affect power management. That being said, should I reset the SMC? This doesn't really seem to fall under what apple would normally recommend this for. Cheers
I have iPhone 4 which currently has SIM lock. However, a law passed in my country requires my service provider to disable the lock free of charge. However, I have no idea how this is done in practice - Google only gives me guides to remove the SIM lock after jailbreaking and such. Of course, I can simply ask my service provider what to do, but they are professionals when it comes to being unhelpful and misleading when it is in their best interest, so I'm trying to ask here first.
Does Growl, either natively or with an extension, keep a history, possibly accessible through a graphic interface? (something like Jumpcut, I mean) I'm talking about OSX 10.6 (hence Growl 1.2.2), I dunno if the Lion version is different.
I have some podcasts that I've put in a playlist, the playlist is supposed to sync with my iPhone - however when I try to sync with my iPhone, the podcasts doesn't sync. I suppose this has something to do with my Podcast syncing options, options that are working well for me, so I don't want to change them.
Where can I find Growl's log(s)? Would like to use with GeekTool to display it on the desktop.
What's the way to use the free iCloud 5GB storage space? I want to store misc files in there, and access them freely from the Finder/put links to them on my desktop, etc - how do I do it? Couldn't find any intuitive way. (asking for same functionality like Dropbox/Box.net)
So, I am trying to download an app from the Mac App Store and the download is only coming through at 12-20 kbps. I noticed it was also affecting iTunes downloads as well but all other applications seem to be working at full speed. What can I do to alleviate this problem?
When I set up email alerts in iCal, a popup list allows me to choose one of my email addresses, but there is no way to enter a custom email address. How do I change the email address that iCal sends notifications to?
We have 1 iTunes account for my family. We have 4 iPhones, 1 iPad, 2 MacBooks, 1 iMac, and several iPods. I understand that each device can be configured to only sync certain playlists, so I do not have to listen to my husband's music, or kids' music, and vice versa.
I'm trying to get AirPrint setup at work. I've used it at home with AirPrint Activator with no problems. But it doesn't seem to work on my work network.
I have a couple of iPhones running iOS 4 that I want to do a restore on. These phones have never been jailbroken, and I'm using the .ipsw that is the exact same version that's currently on the phone: iPhone 4 - 4.3.5 (8L1) iPhone 3GS - 4.3.2 (8H7) When I try to restore from the .ipsw in Windows 7, I get the error:
I uploaded a file from my email to DropBox on my iPad. Then I got several more files of the same type and realized that it would be appropriate to keep all of them in a folder. I created the folder and was able to put the new files into it, but I see no option to move existing files into existing folders. Hold-and-drag doesn't seem to work. The 'edit' menu doesn't seem to work.
Where is the directory to the default screen savers on Max OS X Lion?
My sons use my Apple ID on their iPhones, but I do not want the silly apps that they download. Is there any way to prevent installing their downloads onto my iPhone?
My home button seems to be working okay to move out of apps etc, and double tapping brings up the expected menu, but on the home page, a single tap no longer swaps to the search interface, and when modifying app positions, clicking home no longer stops the apps 'shaking' - is there any way to rectify this?
How can I fix this problem? After trying tons of stuff and searching for everything I can think of, I'm at the end of my line here. I'm absolutely trying to avoid reinstalling Lion, but that's the last option I can think of. I'm hoping that someone comes up with a better solution. Your thoughts?
I have USB drive with a partition containing OS X 10.6. I boot from this drive to use an app which doesn't run in Lion (Xcode 3.2.5). Rebooting is annoying.
I am using a gmail account in Mail (via IMAP) on Lion, and it works well. My dad just set up a gmail account and he is on SnowLeopard. Does a gmail account work correctly in Mail (also via IMAP) on SnowLeopard? If not, what are the issues?
Mail in OS X 10.7 (Lion) doesn't allow me to set a default font for outgoing messages, and it's finicky when I change it in the message. When I show the font bar (by clicking the A button at the top right of the message window), the font bar doesn't retain its value if I set it before typing any text. If I change it and then start typing, it changes to what I set it as, but if I delete all my text then it reverts to default (Helvetica).
I want to alter my keyboard layout per keyboard, so my MacBook's keyboard is Dvorak and a bluetooth keyboard is QWERTY. How can this be accomplished? I can find a setting for changing modifier keys per physical keyboard, but not layouts.
Everytime, I want to copy and paste one Javascript code example from a book (in a pdf version) to Sublime Text or Textmate, any " " become “ ” >> the code doesn't work. Is there any way to fix this ? Thanks in advance. Config: OSX Lion, PDF reader : Skim Update : for Textmate : the solution is here : http://goo.gl/3r3xI
Snow Leopard came with HelveticaNeue.dfont (Truetype). iOS5 also came with HelveticaNeue. Presumably, a Keynote document created on the Mac, using this font and shared by iCloud to an iPhone will display the same. But what happens if I install and use the large OpenType font HelveticaNeueLTPro from Linotype?
I have lots of MP3 files that make 1 book. But they're all only about 5 minutes long. Is there an easy way to concatenate all of these that runs in OS X 10.7 (Lion)?
I would like to use my old Macbook that is hooked up to stereo equipment, as a media server to allow everybody in my office to play or upload music, jukebox style. The best case would be a web interface where I can change the music, an upload feature is not mandatory.
I have an 2009 Mac Pro full of disks, most of them seldom used (boots on a SSD). Is there a way to see which disks are spun down at a given time (currently running 10.6.8)?
Does anybody know a good program for Mac that can burn a .avi or .mkv movie file to a DVD to play on any regular DVD player? I am looking for something like ConvertXtoDVD for Windows.
I use a Garmin Forerunner 405CX GPS watch to track my running. At the moment I have to use an ANT+ USB dongle to get the data (GPX) from my watch on to my computer/laptop. I upload the data to the Endomondo and Runkeeper websites either by way of a Firefox/ActiveX plugin or by manually uploading the GPX file. I want to remove the laptop from this process so is there a dongle (or similar) that will allow me to perform the same process(es) directly on the iPad?
This also happens when I find a new podcast with many episodes to be downloaded. I once had to restart all timed-out downloads several times (downloading 100+ episodes for a new podcast).
I don't mean iWork docs but for example personal docs in GoodReader iCloud folder and perhaps Mac OS ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Is there any official documentation about it?
If I am in the last line of Terminal.app and enter a long command, it does not create new line, but instead overwrites the same line. How can I solve this bug?
I've a problem with full-screen mode in Lion. Let's say I opened iTunes and set it to full-screen mode. I start a video in iTunes and when I exit from the video it turns back to iTunes as it should but the iTunes window is in another desktop even though in the header I see iTunes as the active application. In order to see the iTunes window I've to click to the iTunes icon in the Dock or use the application switcher. BUT this problem doesn't appear when I don't use iTunes in full-screen mode.
iPhone 4S comes with full support of Bluetooth 4.0, which means it can work in "low energy" mode. As far as I know it's a completely different protocol on the physical level, but on the application level in many ways similar to the classic BT.
At work, I have a MacBook Pro that I use as my primary machine. I also have a RHEL6 box that has a dual-head graphics card. When my KVM is switched to the Mac, the second display that is hooked to the Linux box is not being used.
My MBP is suddenly locking up to the point that only a power down will fix it. Neither command+alt+esc or command+alt+shift+esc do anything. It started by getting some nice screens in multiple languages that told me I had to power down. That happened about four times, now I don't even get those screens it just seems to lock up. I used to get crash reports to send to Apple, the details of which were nebulous but I don't get those anymore either. I am looking at the log but see nothing. Am I missing something?
Is Share Screen even the right feature to use? In the Apple forum, users recommended creating a Powerpoint show and pushing that to user machines, rather than using Screen Share; however, I would like to control the pace of the slides (because of animations, etc.)
I "upgraded" from Snow Leopard with Homebrew and vim both chugging along happily, to Lion. Now vim hangs/segfaults, and when I invoke brew, it complains xcode is missing, and continues to do so after downloading Xcode from the app store. I wanted to install vim from source, but that requires Mercurial, which I may be able to use to create a tarball from a Linux virtual machine, but overall Unix-like functionality is broken on Lion. How can I get Unix acting like Unix under Lion?
I am struggling to find a way to allow users to connect to two different shares on a server at the same time. It seems like it should be possible, but no matter what I try I am always forced to disconnect one user to connect as another. I have tried using aliases like this: The first one connected works, and the second one ignores the name/password when connecting and just offers to connect as the first user again. Is there a user friendly way to make this work?
Software Update recently updated Java with update 6, for my 10.6.8 installation. My problem is that my bank here in Costa Rica uses a dated version of Java, and now my version of Safari (5.0.5) acts wonky when the Java applet for accessing my bank account online loads, rendering it unusable.
I'm wondering if there's any way to enable more key combinations to be used for various actions than those we can use through the standing keyboard shortcuts preference page. For instance using left shift+right shift as a keyboard shortcut to change the input language, or using fn+s for grabbing a screenshot, etc. Perhaps there's some hack I can use, or an external tool, or just some hidden preference?
I have two Macs -- on usually at home and one carry around. I'd like to keep my music, movies, iPhone apps, etc. on an external drive so that I can always use the same library regardless of which machine I'm at. I bought a 1 TB external drive for the purpose.
Firstly, let me say that there's two questions on Think Different that claim to answer this question but do not: Does the MacBook Air have a Fast User Switching (Login Window) shortcut key? The answer to this question seems to "lock" the mac, but doesn't invoke the "Login Window..." command.
Is there a way I can make a row float on top of everything else. So, no matter how many rows you add, the row will always be visible?
I have two tabs in one spreadsheet in my Numbers for iPad. Is there a way I can transfer a value between those tabs?
I recently installed a Crucial SSD into my Macbook Pro (2.66 GHz Intel Core i7), and now the performance of my battery is probably about 50% of what it used to be. I've tried to reset the PRAM, but the OS loads so quickly that it I've never been able to trigger, even though I'm quick with hitting the keys. Any suggestions for improving performance, and/or resetting the PRAM? Thanks
I purchased some music from iTunes some time ago but recently made a new Apple account when I bought an iPod Touch 4Gen. Now the music purchased on the old account will not play on the iPod set up with the new account. Any idea why? Is this because of some type of permissions issue?
My Mac running Lion was being slow, so I was decided to reinstall OS X. I don't have any Time Machine backups. Everything went file, but in the middle of the installation, it got stuck, and later the installation failed without any reason. So, I tried to reboot again, but it said that the reinstallation failed and asked me to reinstall again. I tried to reinstall, but nothing came up.
Before I shut down or sleep my Mac, I want to be warned if a Time Machine backup is still in progress. Is there such a thing? Or at least something that makes it very obvious that a backup is in progress, so that I avoid shutting down the machine before it is finished? Right now the only visible sign that a backup is in progress is the little spinning circle up in the "task-bar", it's very easy to miss.
I am having trouble getting read/write file sharing working over my local network. I have shared a folder via AFP, named 'Pictures', with a specific user through System Preferences > Sharing. By doing this I have successfully made it to the point where I can view the Pictures folder from another computer on the network.
When I'm browsing with Safari, a download of a file called "mlingos9.html" is started on some sites and I end up with several of these in my download folder. How do I stop Safari from doing this?
So I'm messing around in my .bashrc making different aliases and playing with my prompt. I'm trying now to make an alias that will move into a specific directory, make a new directory based on the date, and make a new file. All in one alias. Here's what I've done...
Is it possible to time adjust push mail on my iPhone? What I want is that the phone automatically adjust the push setting for some time slots a day. E.g. that it should push mail between 9-17, but after 17 it should not push mail for an account. Is there an app for that?
I have a folder with Docs in on a Time Capsule, I would also like this same folder to be in Documents on Mac. I want both to update whenever a file is changed or added. Do you know of an automate command or a piece of software that will do this without me having to initiate it manually.
I want to use an HP DesignJet 4000 (Not the PS version). I don't find the way to print on that device because it prints the actual postcript code instead of the image or text itself. Is there a way to send "raw" or bitmap file to the printer ?
I've pretty much uploaded everything to iTunes Match now, but my collection is across two computers and so it has merged everything together... Which is fine. However, I was planning on moving some of my items from one computer to another (i.e. from my smaller iTunes Library on the MacBook to the main iTunes Library on my PM G5).
I use a Mac Pro with Lion installed and I own a broken MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard on it. Am I allowed to install Snow Leopard on the Mac Pro in parallel to Lion? The MacBook Pro is totally dead and useless.
Will Installing Lion on a MacBook5,2 with 4GB or ram, currently running Snow Leopard, improve or decrease its performance?
Today I was scrolling through my photography gallery with Preview app. I was playing around with files rotating them etc, only to discover that it was actually saving those files (overwriting originals) without giving me a notice!
I suspect I know the answer to this, but... In 10.7, versions of a document are saved automatically. You can also explicitly save a version by selecting "Save a Version". When I wish to revert to a previous version, in the Time Machine-like display that appears, there seems to be no way to identify which versions it's showing me were saved automatically by the system, and which were (what I consider to be) the "milestone" versions that I saved explicitly.
I have a late 2009 iMac 24 (9,1) Basically, my superdrive is either dead, or dieing. I put a disc in it recently, and it failed to do anything other than make odd noises then eject it. Then on certain discs it would make an awful grinding noise repeatedly like a circular saw, then eject the disc (no apparent damage to it). Then it took a disc in, buzzed a bit, and the drive just dissappeared, even system report couldn't see the hardware, never mind the disc inside. I reboot holding option down allowed me to software eject, and since then I can repeat the above behaviour until the system seemingly abandons it. Frankly, I always thought it was a bit dodgy (I bought it 2nd hand), as it was really SLOW to install the OS from and rip CDs etc compared to a cheap USB one I have.
I need to regularly shutdown brutally my Mac, due to program misbehavior (Starcraft 2 and EVE Online), which take control of the graphics and never surrender it back. While I admire the tenacity of those embattled programs... I'd rather nuke them with a single stroke, as I would on Linux by killing the X server.
I want to create different environments on my mac, for example work 1, work 2, and at home. The environments have different icons in the doc, different desktop background images etc. Is that possible? I do not want to create different users, because some files are used in every environment.
I'm considering buying Snow Leopard Server, however, the person I'm buying it from will be providing me with the server discs that came with his Mac Mini Server and a serial number. If I have an iMac already running Snow Leopard, will I still be able to take the server discs included with the Mini and install server on top? Are the discs compatible with the iMac? Thanks.
We have a NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+) in our office with tons of free space that we'd like to connect to our Mac Mini Server, mount as a disk and then use as a Time Machine Backup Destination. This way the clients back up to the Mac Mini, while the data is actually saved to the NAS behind the scenes. Problem is that I can't figure out how to make Server.app show anything other than the two built in drives.
I know about this previous thread asking about iPad TV out. I have not managed to have my iPad 2's screen mirror from all applications to my TV. It only shows YouTube at the moment from the YouTube application.
I'm attempting to remove some video noise/grain in iMovie 11 taken in low-light but haven't found a way to do this within iMovie itself. I've looked for plugins but the only ones I've found don't have free trials and I don't trust paying for software if I can't be assured it will work. Is there a way to remove video noise/grain in iMovie?
I'd like to use the numeric keypad to select windows in tmux. Anybody do this?
I have already jailbroken my iPhone 4 with redsn0w using iPhone3,3_4.2.6_8E200_Restore.ipsw but my mom is making me sell my laptop and I need to find a way to make my jailbreak untethered. Is this possible?
When I use 'script' on a unix terminal the -f option flushes the data straight to the file - from the man page "-f Flush output after each write. This is nice for telecooperation: One person does mkfifo foo; script -f foo' and another can supervise real-time what is being done usingcat foo'."
Since iOS5, when I want to find out how much space I have left on my iPhone I go to Settings > General > Usage
I have an Mac Pro running Lion, my wife has a Macbook Air also running Lion. We have the same apps installed. I want to steal my wife's Macbook while I'm out of town on business. To do so, I'll have to bribe her, but I'll also need to give her a seamless experience using the Mac Pro for the week. How can I easily copy her profile, including all settings, mail, and documents, over to my Mac Pro so she can use it, and then send it all back to her Macbook when I get back? I know there's a migration wizard, but neither of these is a new machine, and I only want to copy one profile (hers).
Lion is crashing on me all the time and I am sick of it. I would like to do a clean install of Snow Leopard, but when I insert the dvd and hold 'c' on boot the computer just locks up and I have to do a hard reset. What do I have to do?
I want an application like TextPics on iOS, but for use in OS X. I want to use it with chat programs, web sites (twitter, facebook, et al), etc.
I have two iPhone backups available, one recent and one older. Is it possible to inject/include/simply add content from my recent backup to the older one? So that when the iPhone is restored from the older backup, the content from the recent one would be restored as well. I have some apps installed that don't give me any option to export my content but I have to restore to the earlier backup missing the app or its content.
There is a well known app for Windows named: Connectify, used to share a wifi connection between a computer that only has wifi with other devices which requests that connection from the computer. What's the best alternative for this app on Mac OS X Lion?
I'm taking a mobile phone app development class, and will be making custom apps using Xcode. I'm able to run the app from Xcode on my iPhone 4 no problem, however when I disconnect the phone from the Mac, I'm unable to run the program anymore. I'm wondering how install the app so that I can run it.
I am on Mac OS X 10.7.2. I deleted old python library folder before upgrading to newer python. But I found later that I should never delete the factory-shipped python.
I want to open all makefiles with TextWrangler. But since makefiles have no suffix so binding a type of file to TextWrangler does not work. How can I tell Mac to open any file named Makefile with TextWrangler?
I have an older Macbook, specifically this model, and when I am upgrading the standard 1GB that it came with. I bought DDR2 667 PNY Memory - 2 X 2GB. According to those specs, my unit can manage 4GB. I called Apple just to verify and they told me the same thing. When I put both sticks into the unit, the machine doesn't boot up. When I take out one, and put in the old 512MB, it boots up fine and when I get into OS X it tells me I have 2.5GB of RAM (which is right).
In iPad Safari, when a page has a link to a youtube video, if I click the link, Safari will open youtube app. Is it possible to change this behavior? I don't want to use the youtube app and I want to open the youtube page in safari. iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1.
If someone is calling you and you press "End call", does that mean that the caller is "cut" off, or does the ringing continue on the callers phone?
Is possible set the minimum swapfile size in OS X? Currently OS X allocating swapfiles on demand, e.g. when when need 3.2GB will allocate 4GB and so on. But when the swap requirements start getting low the system deletes un-needed swap files. All these IO operations are very IO intensive.
Really wanted to get Windows 7 working on my Mac for some Windows-specific applications. Essentially, I followed all instructions after having updated my Mac's EFI Firmware, and have been left with a blank screen when it should be installing Windows. Running Lion with all updates applied, and booting off an external optical drive due to my Mini not having one.
I recently tried to sync my iOS device, but I got a message similar to this one:  I tried googling around, and people generally recommended to disable syncing photos to fix this, but in my case syncing photos was already off. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Q1. Which MacBook Air models have the fastest resume-from-sleep times? In other words, how long does it take (in the most common scenario, not the theoretically-shortest) between opening the display lid and getting a keypress echoed in an open TextEdit window?
does anyone know when the arp cache in OS X Lion gets emptied? Or which automatism causes it to get emptied? Is it a time period, which can be set somewhere? Thanks!
I want to have text in one place/page, to tap on it and go to another place/page. I'm new in iBooks Author, I've tried several options and I don't know how it works.
Might sound like a subjective question, but it doesn't have to be: How does the keyboard keypress-action (the feel of the keyboard) differ between all model-years of MacBooks (the entire line including MBP's and MBA's)?
I recently bought an iPhone after using the same BlackBerry for 4 years. I have 25,000+ texts on it, that I would like to get on my iPhone. Does anyone know how I could accomplish this?
Is there a third-party accessory that plugs into the iPhone's dock connector and lets you literally drop it into a (supplied by the same manufacturer) cradle to charge by way of electrical contact? This question is NOT asking about a SYNCING cradle. ONLY charging is sufficient. This question is NOT about "charging pads" that work without electrical contact by way of RF or magnetic flux.
Apple keyboards are different than PC keyboard because the Command ⌘ and Option/Alt ⌥ keys are switched. This causes a workflow disruption for me, because I use keyboard shortcuts for everything. I can't really use a Windows keyboard for my Mac, because of this problem. Here's the Apple keyboard: And the Windows keyboard: Are there any third-part keyboards that have the Apple layout?
I have a Logitech optical USB wheel mouse I've used for years on my PC (Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7): *=URL=* I'm now using it on a Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (fully updated), but I have a problem with it. On my PC, when I move the mouse, the movement is smooth, and follow my hand moves. No matter if the move is large or small, the cursor goes exactly where I send it.
The playlist "recently added" is a smart playlist (created by iTunes) and lists quite some songs in iTunes on the Mac. The library is kept in the iCloud by iTunes match, so the songs and the playlists are synced automatically to the iPhone. But "recently added" always is empty on the iPhone (unlike most other playlists).
If I'm about to play a demanding 3D game, would closing this background apps be of any benefit to my battery or overall performance?
I'm trying to send a file to someone else via iChat, but it always fails. We're both using our Gmail accounts. Is it even possible with Gmail accounts? We also tried jabber accounts as well, but no luck. We both have Lion 10.7.2 and temporarily disabled the OS X firewall. Both our routers using NAT. By the way, video chats work (bad quality though) and iChat screen sharing works sometimes.
I set Windows 7 to my Boot Camp. Windows 7 starts now by default in the normal boot. However, I want that OSX boots by default and Windows 7 only as I press ALT and then select it. How can you set OSX to boot by default?
As you probably already know, Shazam is a music identification service. However, it is only available on mobile platforms. Is there an alternative to Shazam, but for OS X?
Settings > Store The automatic download options for Music and Apps are OFF, and whenever I try to set them ON the switch returns to OFF immediately. This is supposed to be the last step to set up the Find My iPod app.
Is it possible to download a photo received in a text message and determine the date that the photo was taken? I have an iPhone.
I have an 8 months old macbook . It has gone little slow I believe because of me installing VMware . Which I have now removed but still performance is not as good I used to be. I would like to reset every thing back to what it was. I do not use timemachine.
When you create a new playlist and select it in iTunes, it displays the following columns (renamed for clarity): # Song Title iCloud Status Length Artist Album Genre Rating Plays
In Lion, whenever I drag and drop a file to or from an external drive to the local drive it always moves the file. If I'm not mistaken the default behavior is to copy the file right? Does anyone know why it might be doing this or know of a preference anywhere that I can set it to explicitly copy the files?
How do I pause the installation of an application? I started the download and installation of two apps from the app store. Now those are showing "waiting" and I want to cancel the installation of those apps.
I have a MBP, i5 CPU and 4G ram. I run win7 using virtualbox and I allocate 2G ram for win7, only to find my Mac acts too slowly.
So I wanted to change the country on my app store account but I was told that all of the purchases made in that region will be blocked and won't work so I wanted to make a new app store account but I need to know if I won't get all of my other apps blocked when I log into this account or when I create it. So lets call my current country on the account A and what I want to change it to is B. If I made a new account and logged into the account for country B, will it be the appstore of that country? And if so then when I want to log back to my account on country A will I be able to do it just by signing out and then in again?
I use iPhoto to manage my pictures. Unfortunately I have many pictures from the 80s. These pictures are actually slides that I have scanned in during 2008. So my problem is that the creation date of all these pictures is set to the date when I scanned it in. Now I want to set the real date of these pictures. Unfortunately I don't know the exact date, but at least the year. So is there any function available to only set the year field of a date without a specific date?
I have searched all over Apple's help and documentation I can't find any built in or app store apps that provide screen recording. What prevents such an app to exist ? Are there any obvious technical reasons?
I posted earlier about this and I got an answer that told me to use a FireWire cable to connect to another Mac and load the files onto that Mac. Here is a link to the earlier question: Powerbook G4 not fully booting to login screen
There's been a couple of trojans recently that imitate the Adobe Flash Player installer one of which is called OSX/flashback.A. (More info here) I've been wary of updating Adobe Flash Player due to this trojan. How do I tell if the installer is the real thing, or if it's just a trojan? Also, where does it come from? I'm pretty sure the DMG for the trojan downloaded automatically, opened the installer, and wanted me to install it.
After connect to usb, winXP can open itunes but there is no device on left bar. I tried re-install iTunes. Reboot iPod, disable anti-virus daemon etc etc, still no go. Anything else I can do?
Just for the sake of this question. Let's say I have a file that fills my iPod completely, and I set an automated test to save this file into my iPod and overwrite it, non stop. How much time will pass until the flash drive cannot write the file anymore? I tried to Google this, but "Stress test" only means smashing your device to pieces.
This question is similar to the superuser question "How to check how much power a USB port can deliver", which is answered for Linux and Windows. How do you check the same on a Mac?
I'm finding that when streaming video or audio from either my iPad 1 or iPhone 4 to my Apple TV 2, it more often than not fails (although it does occasionally work). I'd say 6/10 it fails. I'll: Start playing the media Press the AirPlay button (either from within the app or on the task bar) Choose the Apple TV receiver and after a few seconds it'll revert back to displaying on the local device.
I am currently considering buying an iMac 27" to replace my PC, and also to have at the centre of my home cinema/media system. The iMac would be used to play DVDs, stream video, play CDs, MP3s etc.
I have a late 2011 mini and the HDMI out is set up to go to my receiver and thence to my TV. When the TV is off, I would like it not to extend my desktop to it, but it is. How can I prevent that other than plugging and unplugging the HDMI cable? Update: covers similar ground to Best practices for 2011 Mac mini connected to monitor + HDTV?
My default calendar is 'Home'. I want Siri to add appointments to my 'Work' calendar. I've tried telling Siri to "Move my appointment to the work calendar" but she merely changes the appointment location to "the work calendar". Is there a specific phrase that I can use to get her to understand what I want?
OSX asks for my user password pretty often -- seemingly whenever it needs to use Keychain. How do I make it stop asking me?
Do PDF documents in iBooks get backed up to iCloud? It is very strange that there is no answer to this on official Apple forums. Searching for this online often brings up Wifi iTunes sync or using file sharing services like box.net to do this.
I am getting a problem with fonts on my machine sometimes showing as Chinese/Japanese characters (I'm not sure which). This happens in many apps, although the ones where it is easily reproducable include Pages '09 (Mac App Store version):
I've recently started using MacBook Pro with OSX, after years of developing under Ubuntu. I often use GNU command line tools like make and watch. How do I install these on my Mac?
I tend to travel a lot around Europe, and I don't necessarily think about removing Wifi from my MacBook Air. I also keep dozens of tabs open.
iPhone has many miscellaneous animations. For example, there is a “maximize window” animation whenever we open an app, and a “minimise window” animation whenever we close an app. On Android, we can opt to disable animations via Settings → Display → Animations → No animations. How do we turn off animations on iPhone?
All of a sudden it says password incorrect. I am 100% sure of my password. I don't know what happened. Hacked ?
Due to what turned out to be a (I assume unrelated) sim card problem, I recently wiped my iPhone 4, and then reinstalled from a backup. Since then, multiple times per day, my iPhone displays a "iCloud Backup requires that you verify your password" message, and then prompts for my iCloud password. If the correct password is entered, the prompt is dismissed, only to return after a few hours (I've not noticed any specific triggering action I'm performing). How can I stop this prompt from appearing repeatedly? Presumably disabling the iCloud backup, as suggested at *=URL=* would do the trick, but I do still want the backup enabled.
If my iPhone 4 is turned off and I plug it in to charge, it automatically turns itself on again. Anyone know why this happens?
My wife and I have the same problem with Siri. In our contacts database, each person has at least one associated phone number (usually associated with 'home', 'mobile' or 'iPhone'). However, even though these numbers are the typical 10 digits used in N. America, Siri frequently will be unable to dial the number despite finding the contact and the number in the database. Question: can this be fixed without re-entering the numbers to the contacts database? What causes some 10 digit numbers (and numbers with the +1 in front of them) to be unrecognizable for purposes of making Siri-initiated phone calls?
I have a flash drive that I use for various diagnostics on macs. Most of the partitions on the drive are accessible by holding down the option key on boot. I also have one extra partition that is not bootable and used strictly for diags after the macs OS has loaded. My challenge is finding a way to not mount all the option boot partitions when trying to use the non bootable one.
It seems that you can only search for a name or a company name in iOS's Contacts app. You can't search for an address, a zip, a note or any text outside of those fields. The same holds true for searching in iOS/Spotlight. Besides the third party app for finding contacts via phone numbers mentioned before on this site, is there any way to search for an address, a city, a zip code, or a note in the Contacts list in iOS?
I'm trying to convert a bunch of xlsx files to xls (because some other software<cough>matlab<cough> can process xls but not xlsx on the mac). I've tried unoconv but it has issues (which apparently stem from pyuno's shared object not being 64-bit-compatible -- even trying to override this with
When using iPad, with Safari or some other application, once I find an interesting blog with its RSS feed, how can I add it to my google reader feeds?
I know that this has been discussed before but this is a slightly different scenario. I live in a very elongated apartment and the signal is very bad in one end. I have a D-Link 655 (or something close) and I want to extend my wireless network using a Airport Express and a "powerline" (Ethernet over main power cables). So to make it clear, the D-Link 655 will be used as wifi access point in one end and I want to use the powerline to be able to use the airport express as an extender and repeater in the other end. Will this work provided the powerline provides a internet connection to the other end of the apartment? Secondly, if all this works, using the Airport Express as an Airplay unit as well as an extender shouldn't be a problem right?
every time that my 2007 macbook with lion goes to sleep, either manually (closing the lid) or timing out, i have to restart my computer to connect to the wireless network. It fails to detect any networks at all until I restart, then it connects to my default network no problem. What can I do?
Is there a way I can get Messages to prompt when it wants to send a message as SMS rather than an iMessage ? I hate noticing that when a message fails to send, its sent as SMS instead of imessage, which I get charged for. This happens when I activate the SEND AS SMS option.
I am running OS X Lion 10.7.2 and have a bluetooth keyboard, magic mouse, and magic trackpad. Over the weekend the behaviour of the right shift key changed in such a way that if I use it to capitalize a letter or shift a number to get '*' or '(', etc. it will randomly lose focus on the window, or jump to another part of the screen (often highlighting part of it so I end up over-typing what was highlighted (say in a text entry form such as this).
I am trying to run an Applescript, but when I double-click it, it tries to open Applescript editor and informs me that it was saved as "run only". This is fine -- I just want to run it! The script in question comes from here.
I am doing well with my Mac, but I don't want to buy another computer for gaming, then I'm thinking on upgrading it. Searching in the web, I've seen that there is no way to upgrade the Mac mini's internal card, but anyone have experienced or knows if it works well with an external graphics card?
I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro with the default resolution 1280x800. I would like to know if there exists the possibility of having a better resolution?
I have a two locations set up on my macBook. One for normal use and another for when I use a proxy, which I start from the command line. It would be very useful for me to be able to switch network location from the command line at the same time. Is this possible?
I need to create a custom display resolution for my install of lion because it doesn't have the size I must have for a project. Is there a way to create a custom resolution set in lion osx 10.7?
I've found myself depending more and more on the Mail app's ability to pull down mail from the servers immediately upon their arrival, and for the most part it works flawlessly. Every now and then, however, the app will freeze and I won't know about it until I feel I haven't received new mail in a sufficient amount of time. Then re-launching the app, I find it's frozen. After a few seconds, it force closes, and I can re-open it. Re-opening it after a freeze shows me several e-mails that I'd received and interacted with at the approximate time of its last freeze, even if they're not present in Gmail anymore. Running iOS 5.0.1 (jailbroken), but it did it just as much back when I ran stock iOS. Any idea what causes this?
When I connect an external monitor to my new MacBook Air via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI, I see the extended desktop but there are snow-like artifacts. When I change the resolution to 720p, the screen looks normal. MacBook: 13" i7 MacBook Air (late 2011) Monitor: 23" ASUS VH236H LCD Adapter: non-Apple Mini DisplayPort to HDMI
I have an iPod Classic from 2007 (Generation 5.5, 80GB hard drive). Something that I've been noticing happening more and more is that some songs will play just fine but then at some point they'll just stop. The little time counter will jump to where it appears there is two seconds left in the song. And it will just sit there for several seconds and then then proceed to the next song. And what I've noticed is that it tends to happen consistently with the songs that are problematic. I've searched all over to figure out what might be causing this but I haven't had much lock, possibly because the symptoms are so vague ("some songs cut off", etc.)
I'm trying to print a 15 page document from Lion wirelessly to my HP 1102w printer. The first 6 pages print fine then it freezes half way through page 7, and I have to power the printer off/on for it to work again. I tried printing just page 7 and that works so it doesn't appear to be the content of the page.
I'm trying to transfer ownership of my iPad to a different user account on a different computer. Obviously this is basically the same thing as transferring it to a new computer.
I have a Mac Mini I usually use as a server, but sometimes I need to work on it. I prefer to use my keyboard and mouse on my primary computer, a laptop. These peripherals and others are attached to a USB hub, and I would like to be able to plug this hub into the Mac when I need to do something and then put it back. I can often do this (but not always) once, but inevitably there comes a time when Mac OS thinks there is a problem when I either unplug or reiplug in the hub.
For the background info: I have an iPod Touch [4g] running iOS 5.0.1 and an AppleTV 2 running the latest software. I've noticed that while the majority of third-party video apps do AirPlay just fine (like Crackle, YouTube, AirVideo, etc.) there are some apps (like CNET TV, and NBA Game Time) that only send over the audio portion of the video to my Apple TV. In other words, when I try to AirPlay a video it will continue showing the video portion on my local device while playing the audio on the Apple TV.
Lion's Mail app smoothly setup my connection to our company's Exchange server. However I cannot see the pubic folders anywhere. Any hints how I can integrate them into Mail?
After a few days my older emails on iPad2 stop showing in the inbox. Dont find any clue where they went.
I've made some changes to my .bashrc file in my new MacBook, mainly aliases for common commands. Shortly after, iterm2 immediately closes every new session or tab with the following cryptic message: Notes: terminal works fine. I've tried to rename .bashrc and relaunch iterm, but the problem persists.
I often have my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode attached to the second monitor. On my first monitor I have Windows machine and I use Synergy-Foss software to share only one mouse+keyboard between them. Problem is, sometimes I forget to turn on Caffeine (that prevents screen from sleeping) when I don't use Mac for a bit longer and the screen goes to sleep.
Friends, I've by mistake inserted minidisc in MacBookPro and it seems like it is stuck. What we've already tried: shaking device, hoping the gravity will solve the problem ejecting programmatically. I do realize that problem sound quite stupid, but if one have encountered this problem it would be nice to hear his story of salvation.
One side of the battery is much bigger than the other. Since it no longer works, I opened it. Inside it is 6 cells covered in metal envelopes. 2 of the 6 cells are about twice as big as they ought to be.
I'm working as a salesman and what I need to do a lot of times a day is calculating the price +VAT and -VAT which is 19% here in Germany. I found some calculation automator script but wasn't able to change it to behave the way I want it to: bc --mathlib | awk '{if($0 ~ /./) sub("\.+$","");print}'
I can sync my mail and calendar to Google from my iPhone via the GMail Exchange interface, but my GMail task list is not synced. How can I sync my tasks so that they show up in the built-in Reminders app?
iCal (Version 5.0.1 (1547.4) - Mac OS X 10.7.2) is failing to sync calendar entries for an Exchange account setup via System Preferences. While Mail and Address Book are able to send mail or sync to the server, the calendars show an exclamation mark next to the account name, which when clicked brings up the following dialogue sheet: "ical needs a valid email address to connect to the exchange account" Entering the email address of the account has no effect, and clicking the exclamation mark again simply re-opens the dialogue sheet.
I'm using MacVim and I am attempting to change the default theme. I have the following in my .vimrc file (and in .gvimrc as well):
My IT departmant does not have activesync on our exchange server(nor do they plan to get it any time soon) are their any apps out there that will allow me to connect my iphone 4s and sync my outlook email. My former phone was a Droid X and I used the touchdown software which worked great. Thanks, Tes
I have a simple network setup, and have read some initial reviews that say the new Airport Utility 6 for Mac OS X lacks some of the advanced settings that the older utility provides. I depend on those settings for my network to operate properly. Can I still keep the old utility around and use either tool or should I wait to upgrade until I'm sure all the bells and whistles I might need are added to the 6.0 version?
For some reason Dock process is using a lot of cpu and RAM ( 4GB+ at this moment ) as you can see on this image: I tried to: Kill the process Restart Mac OS Remove com.apple.Dock.plist/db and kill Dock Logout and login again
I want to troubleshoot a cron job that worked fine until a recent modification, but I can't find the cron log file, where is it?
Anyone know where I can find documentation on the various properties available for directory services on the Mac? man dscl only tells me that I can -create or -read a record. It doesn't tell me how to create them; what properties are available and the options can be set on each. I know a few (RealName, UniqueID, PrimaryGroupID, UserShell) but where can I find documentation on all of them?
I've just got a new iPhone and I want to sync my iPad apps between the iPhone and the iPad. However when I try to enable synchronization for apps for my iPad, it says that if I try to synchronize, all of my apps will be deleted.
I'm using Adium on my Mac and I wish to communicate with several people. My friend on Linux uses Pidgin. Another friend is using Gtalk client and all using gtalk service. It's possible to create a chatroom to contain these clients similar to how Skype does group room chat?
The firmware on the click-wheel iPod is very simple and doesn't have a lot of "extra" features. It also doesn't allow you to drop music on it; it has to go through iTunes. Are there alternate OSes for the click-wheel iPods?
How do you open two or more simultaneous sessions of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection in Lion? The RDC client comes with Office for Mac 2011. I work on a MacBook Pro but have to remote into Windows servers for a number of reasons.
Is it possible set a constant in Pages (iWork '08, version 3.03) to be used all over the document? For example I have some T&Cs where the company name and dates need changing throughout the document, rather than using Find & Replace I wanted to know if there was something like constants or variables I could use?
What strikes me as odd though, is that the 85W adapter isn't actually delivering a full 85W when the MBP starts pulling additional juice from the battery. It stalls at about 77W, according to the DC In sensor. This doesn't seem right to me.. why leech power off the battery if the preferred supply has energy to spare? So, in essence, my question boils down to this: Is anyone else seeing similar behavior?
Is there any technique for A/B testing CSS changes made to an element in Web Inspector? That is, evaluating before & after states (loaded vs changed) for a given element.
If I have location services enabled and only Find My iPhone checked, will it use my battery constantly or only if I go to icloud.com and try to locate my iPhone? I noticed that disabling location services saves a lot of battery but I still want to keep Find My iPhone enabled. I tried to do this but it looks like it's using location services all the time.
image capture crashes when I try to download photos from my iPhone to my MAC. It works OK with my wifes iPhone, but not mine anymore. I don't know why as I have been able to download from my iPhone previously.
On the current version of OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), I have an icon sideways on my desktop:  Any idea why or what it signifies?
I have read a few answers to this sort of question already, but don't know how to do it. I had some problems with my partitioning, it seems the operating system has been somehow installed on bootcamp, not Macintosh HD. Obviously Bootcamp is the bottom partition regardless of this and so when I decided I'd just delete the other partition and expand bootcamp I got left with about 70gb free space i can't seem to expand into.
I have been trying to find an iOS app which will let me send email from various accounts without going through Mail.app. I know about the comma trick but that is not what I am after. I also do not want to setup multiple accounts in Mail.app (which is going to give me multiple Inboxes, even if they are empty). The closest solution I have found is Ginbox but unfortunately it seems to be broken under recent versions of iOS, and even if it worked, it's not a great solution, since it requires loading each Gmail account separately when you want to send an email from a different account.) (If it doesn't exist… free iOS app idea!)
I'm hitting an error while trying to uninstall some packages in my MacPorts 2.0.3 installation, and I can't figure out what's causing them or how to resolve them. Googling around lead to nothing addressing this case, so I'm hoping that fellow users here will have an answer. Here is an example of the command and the error (where this is all done in a sudo'ed shell, so the problem is unrelated to root permissions): Looking in the file /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_registry_portfiles_sleuthkit_3.2.3_0+universal/sleuthkit/main.log reveals nothing particularly useful to me:
I have a 64GB SanDisk SDXC memory card which I would like to use with my MacBook Pro and its SD card slot. However, I am having some trouble formatting/partitioning my SD card and I can't figure out what's going on.
I lost the superuser password for my iMac and I don't have the boot disk. I already tried the second answer on this page, but every time I type su from the command prompt, it still asks for a password that I don't have anymore. Is there another way to reset the superuser password?
This most notably happens with iChat. I don't use a firewall, never have on this computer. When I first started using iChat (when Skype 5 came out and sucked hardcore) I couldn't video chat with anyone. It turned out to be the case where my firewall was blocking the necessary connection for video chats. to remedy this I turned the firewall on, put iChat on the "allowed connections list" and then turned the firewall back off (because I don't want the blasted firewall) Well after a completely fresh installation of Mac (don't ask) I forgot to make this same change and ran into a problem where iChat wouldn't even log in. So, remembering the stupidity last time I did the same thing and guess what it works!
I don't think any of the previous questions on this topic cover this particular nuance, but please edify me if I'm mistaken. I have a Macbook Pro 15" (the model that was released around March 2011) with Thunderbolt port. My office has two Dell monitors joined with a DVI splitter (which were originally connected to a Dell desktop). I have a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter that I was hoping to connect to the DVI splitter. However, the connector on the end of the splitter is different from the connector for a single-monitor DVI cable, so I can't plug the output of the splitter into the DVI end of the Thunderbolt-to-DVI adapter.
I use iJam to record my guitar into GarageBand on my iPad. iJam connects via the 30-pin connector. Before long, my iPad's battery drains. Is there a way to charge the iPad and use iJam at the same time? It seems a male 30-pin to two female 30-pins splitter cable isn't so simple because I can't find one anywhere.
I've recently immigrated from Ubuntu to Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I use the terminal (iterm2) extensively, and I am a great fan of shortcut keys. The standard shortcut keys (which work in any GUI textbox) are: ⌘+← Jumps to first character in line ⌘+→ Jumps to last character in line ⌥+← Moves one word forward ⌥+→ Moves one word backward How can I impose these shortcuts in iterm (or terminal)? Are there any standard key bindings for these operations in Mac I should know and use?
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 and to prevent Find Friends from asking for a password every time it is opened I have enabled the passcode lock and set it to the max of 4 hours. This is fine as in reality it means at most once a day BUT it is now connected to our works exchange server which apparently is aloud to force the iPhone to remove the 1 hours and 4 hours lock options meaning I have to put in the passcode lock almost every time now which I do not like. I have tried several tricks I found which apparently have been "fixed" by apple like disabling the exchange, changing the lock to 4 hours and re-enabling the exchange but this doesn't work any more. I have found a few older posts about changing the "maxGracePeriod" in some of the iPhone config files like this post: *=URL=* So I jailbroke my iPhone and using iPhone Browser on my PC connecting to my now it and also iFile directly to look for these files but it appears that ether they have moved the files or my iPhone doesn't have
I'm a windows user looking to make the jump across. I have narrowed my choices to Mac mini or Macbook Air. Looking at the tech specs I don't fully understand the sound hardware. I use speech recognition extensively is there a clear favorite between these two when it comes to specifically looking at that use case?
My iPhone earphone went bad today. I need an iPod shuffle too for jogging, so I wanted to buy one. I'm wondering if it actually comes with the same earphone as the one that iPhone comes with? Bonus: What does this mean:
Does anyone know if its possible to save an HTML file to your iphone and then open it with Safari so that you can then favourite it and have it appear on the launcher as an icon?
Is there any way, short of rebooting, to force launchd to re-read environment variables newly defined in /etc/launchd.conf? Can it be done with launchctl(1)?
I am currently using the iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the iPhoto library, however it is taking a long time. I'm uncertain whether it will even work once its completed; probably should have tested with a tiny library to see, but I didn't. Any help or references to resources would be appreciated.
At work, I have a MacBook Pro and a RHEL workstation that share a HP keyboard and mouse via a KVM switch. I do most of my work on the Mac so I prefer to change the modifier keys so they command and alt are in the same positions as an Apple keyboard. Here is a screencast to demonstrate the exact options I change: http://screencast.com/t/5mYQwMEVzwP0
I have a fresh Lion install, and to configure Apache, I've edited all of the references to DocumentRoot (and the Directory entry for DocumentRoot) to "/Users/jonathan/mirror" (with or without quotes as the original path was with or without quotes). Pointing my browser to localhost gives a 404: How can I up /Users/jonathan/mirror with appropriate permissions?
I have a Time Capsule that I am using to broadcast WiFi throughout my house. This is working just fine. The Time Capsule is upstairs and needs to remain there. I recently bought a TV that has Internet capabilities if connected by a LAN cable to the Internet. I do not want to run a LAN cable from the basement to the upstairs.
I'm using the great applicaton Prey which hopefully never has to get used, but just in case, I want to be prepared. So basically I have a request for password after sleep/screensaver enabled, but that would propably lead the thief into the direction of re-installing the OS X, all my data would be gone and Prey would be useless. Therefore I created some other users without a password, so the thief can use the Mac anyway and herewith send me some signals so I can receive his location and all that good stuff.
It appears that my iPhone 4s have silently and completely by itself deleted a number of messages from the beginning of this 2012. In the place of a longer messaging thread, there's now a load more messages button in the affected text conversations, but it doesn't actually load the previous message history.
Do these all have to be the same ID? If not, which ones can be different? Or to ask this question a different way...
At the moment I use windows speech recognition which is quite good out of the box. Specifically, I find it quite good for the following: List item Dictation for emails Macros for programming Mouse clicking and dragging Spelling character by character for command prompt/unix shell Does the in built speech recognition support all of the above?
Is Boot Camp some sort of virtualization system, or will it run Windows 7 on a Mac the same way it runs on a Dell or an HP machine? I need to run Visual Studio in Windows 7. and I need it to work smoothly.
I recently received an email from a collaborator in which I was the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy). The original "To:" recipient was another collaborator who has a very similar email address to mine. Because of the similarity in addresses, and because I didn't see anything indicating I was a BCC (even in the detailed header information), I responded back to the original sender and the "To:" recipient pointing out the "mistake." Obviously this defeated the whole purpose of being BCC'ed by the original sender.
I am unsuccessfully sending a file from my smartphone Huawei Ideos X5 with Android 2.3.5 to my iMac. I paired the devices successfully. Android phone receives successfully anything from iMac, but iMac cannot receive anything. I disabled my firewall and disabled the stealth mode too but still problem persists. How can you make iMac able to receive a file by Bluetooth from Android smartphone?
After hitting ⌘-O, how can I navigate my folders and select a file to open using only my keyboard? In particular, how can I get the focus into the folder list? (From there I can use arrows or start typing the first letters of the desired file/folder.) In some programs I can rely on hitting TAB 5 times, but this isn't reliable and I figure there must be a better way.
Now I am using iChat, have set my nickname to be Ben Potter, yet for some reason I always show up as "Jennifer Potter"... do you know how to fix this?
My iPhone refuses to switch over from WiFi to 3G when the WiFi signal gets too weak to be usable. It will sit there indefinitely, unable to load a web page because I'm too far from the router, and not switch to the strong 3G signal that is available. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there anything I can do about it? Would it be better if I bought an Apple router? Do Android phones do this? I already submitted a bug report to Apple. It seems like such a simple thing to switch to 3G when WiFi stops working.
I have an iPhone 4S with loads of music from CDs and such on my iTunes. I had an old iPod with the same account that it would all sync onto fine, however, when I try to sync it to my iPhone, nothing happens. The songs are definitely in my iTunes library. I have the settings for my iPhone to sync all songs when plugged in to the computer. Also, I have tried dragging the songs over to my iPhone where devices is shown in iTunes, and my iPhone doesn't highlight to accept songs. Does anyone have a solution?
If I add all iPhone users to a Group MMS, then they can all see each other's responses (found out the hard way). Is there a way to send out a mass text (like "Happy New Year!") and not have everyone see each other's response? I know that this isn't a problem for non iPhone users...
I need to access my library folder in a time machine backup that is from a different mac. How can I do this?
I have iPad and iPod, both on iOS 5 with iCloud enabled. I have an app which I have installed on both these devices. With this app, I create some files, which I can see in Documents folder of iTunes. How do I sync these files of that app in both devices using iCloud? Please let me know. Thanks!
I have downloaded some videos from iTunes onto my iPad. Now I want to delete them. How do I do this?
My old iPhone 3Gs got dropped into water (completely submerged for a second or two). When I took it out, the screen was barely visible. Then it went off completely, but it appears from time to time (barely visible though). Oddly enough, I can still sync it to iTunes.
I used "Data Rescue 3" to recover a folder full of files called login-00001.keychain (to 587). How do I join them? Thanks!
I'm currently using Late 2008 MacBook (Aluminum). My battery cycle is currently 111 and has went for replacement of battery 6 months ago + warrenty is ending soon. Hence I want to let the battery last as long as possible.
Any major difference between iPhone and iPod Touch except telephone function? What does the iPhone have but the iPod Touch doesn't have and vice versa?
I have an AFP server with netatalk on a Linux box, which maintains CNIDs separate from the actual files. Due to a faulty disk (or rather, three of them in a RAID6), the database with the CNID mapping got corrupted and needed to be rebuilt, which caused new CNIDs to be generated for some files. The result is that the clients' cache is inconsistent with the server state, as the clients assume that CNIDs are never recycled. I'd thus need a way to flush the cache on the clients, and ideally also a switch to disable client side caching, so the users can continue working if I ever need to rebuild the database again.
I have to do a translation of the words of a DVD, and then add subtitles to that DVD (iso file or folder). This is a professional work and it has to be clean (no change in quality, ie no "rip"...). How can I add subtitles to a DVD (file) on a Mac (snow leopard)? wysiwyg: being able to view the DVD / stop it to add the subtitle, set the duration easily if possibly, set the font, size and position of subtitles (if possibly, even add subtitles to the DVD Menu)
I think it has to do with the weather graphic that is being loaded (i.e. sun, snow, rain, etc.). Sometimes they're taller than expected by the widget and it repositions itself which messes with my arrangement.
In my dream world I have an application that uses the same sort of scheme that the Foursquare app does to suggest you might want to log into a location you've been to before. It uses the same sort of scheme the phone itself does to determine if some sort of login is necessary and, if it seems not to be authenticated, does the login by submitting the necessary form. In my daydream world it could just look at what wifi access point I'm connected to and periodically submit the form, needed or not.
I've got an odd bug on one of my machines. It only occurs on the one Mac so it's not a bug in the OS per-se, but it's very annoying and I can't work out how to fix it.
Is there an Application that lets you display an image with some alpha transparency ( either in the image or in the app ) that lets you see through the image into what's beneath? (the desktop, or other windows) I need this for tracing over (in this case under) in a drawing application that doesn't allow importing background images.
I am just wondering if it's possible to set a password to existing dmg image. There is no such option at Disk Utility.
Apparently then, this is not an issue with M-Audio devices, but with ALL FW400 devices... Although it's the first I've ever heard about it, which I find a bit odd... If there really is such a fundamental flaw in FW400, why wouldn't I have heard people complaining on Mac forums about fried FireWire controller chips?
Using iTunes on the Mac, when I click into the iTunes Store in the sidebar it hides the sidebar. I think I had to click something to make it do this. But I'm no longer on a small screen, so I'd like to turn this previously helpful feature off. But I can't find what I clicked. How do I make the sidebar visible when browsing the iTunes Store?
Don't know if this is really an OS X question, but: less seems to insist that my terminal (whether I'm using the builtin Terminal or iTerm2) has more lines than are actually displayed, and so the top of whatever I'm lessing is always off the screen. My LINES environment variable matches the number of visible lines in the terminal. I have a vague recollection that it didn't use to be this way, but has been this way for me for several months, at least. Suggestions?
The Finder allows a non privileged user to perform a shutdown assuming there are no other users logged in, however shutdown is a privileged UNIX command. Does anyone know by what mechanism it does this?
Is there any way to get any iOS app to clean up its cache etc? I heard there's a new 'cleaning' feature in iOS 5 where apps do that automatically. But I haven't seen any of my apps do that. I really need Facebook to clean itself up because it's taking up a lot of space. Is there any way to initiate an app clean up? When I go to Settings > General > Usage, Facebook is listed as using 182 MB even though the app itself is only 10 MB.
Is there a way to launch an application, such as Transmission, every time the computer goes idle (instead of sleeping)?
How can I open related windows of the same app in the same full screen workspace? For example, in Safari, when in fullscreen mode, if I click on Preferences it opens the window in another desktop.
So, I have set up a Group and Group Profile called MailTest, where I have specified the settings for the mail server. I cannot use the "Settings for Everyone" because of the issue I mentioned above, which is why I thought I could just have two profiles, one for each domain. I found this doc on Profile Manager variables, and used a few of these to set MailTest up so that it would dynamically configure Mail the way I wanted it. Everything seems to work, EXCEPT for the Email Address setting.
I have a small problem. At some point I used git but I don't remember if it was installed by default on Lion. Here is the version and path of git: I also have a newer git in /usr/local/git I would like to use the newer version but I don't know if by removing the old one (/usr/bin has precedence in the path variable) I'll break something. What is the proper way to resolve this conflict?
We have an iPhone 3G running iOS 5.0.1 (9A405), which connects to an Exchange server in Mail. Calendar is synced, and event reminders pop up with an alarm on the phone. The alarm occurs once only. Is there any way to set the alarm/reminder to repeat?
I have a single app that needs to be reinstalled. I have tried all tricks known to man in attempts to get it to work, but all have failed. There is a lot of data in this app that I'd rather not lose. It isn't explicitly iCloud-enabled, and it's not a game, so there's no hope of Game Center restoring anything. How, if possible, can I reinstall it without losing my data?
I know Apogee iJam can do this, but it's a little expensive for me. iRig can connect a guitar to iOS devices, but will iRig connect a guitar to a MacBook Pro?
When you open a video in the Photos app and choose to send it via email, does the video get compressed, or is it sent using the same resolution it was shot in? I'm mainly wondering about the iPhone 4.
I'm trying to sync my email accounts between my new iMac and an iPad 2. The problem is that if I read or delete a message on the iMac, the same email appears on iPad as not deleted and not read.
I am using Mission Control to help manage my various Desktops. Each time I request a new window for an app, the new window will open in the Desktop where the last instance of app was used. I want the new window to open in the active Desktop. Is this possible?
I have a challenge for you. I've been doing lots of research, and I've found quite a few questions here left unanswered. I know this is possible, I'm interested in hearing from people who have actually done it and learn from their direct experience.
I just jailbroke my iPhone and it went well. Why does a jailbroken iPhone always ask to restart springboard everytime an app is installed from Cydia? It's so annoying. It's like installing an app on a Mac and having to reboot the machine. I jailbroke using redsnow. Any answers?
Is it possible to use my Macbook Pro's display to receive inputs from other sources?
I am a new Mac user with an early 2008 MacBook, and I have a fresh installation of SnowLeopard 10.6. When I use CMD + TAB I can switch between running applications. But when I switch / choose between another app with this command all that appears is the menu bar of the app, current window stays the same. e.g. I am in Firefox, switching to Finder the top menu bar changes to Finder but Firefox window stays in front. Thanks for the help!
I have been playing the game Coin Dozer on my iPhone which is a free game. When I can no longer play without having to wait 30 seconds for a new coin, I just delete the game and reinstall, I have been receiving more coins than the original starting point. Are these coins from bonuses or am I being charged for them? I have not purchased more coins, that's why I delete then reinstall, so I don't have to buy coins.
I need to replace my old Mac and I am wondering which one should I get between: MacBook Air or MacBook Pro The primary goal will be to develop iPhone and iPad Apps and OSX Widgets. Is there a better one I should get for these purposes?
My wife needs her own Apple ID, so I went to this webapp, which Apple has designed to let you know if you already have an Apple ID associated with your email: https://iforgot.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/DSiForgot.woa/wa/findYourAppleID
I'm wondering how you can view the size of each photo or video in the Photos app on an iPhone 4S. I have a lot of photos/videos and want to see how much space they are using. I go to Settings > General > Usage but don't see the Photos app listed under Storage. Thoughts?
I have a web server running on my Mac and I'd like to be notified (via Growl for example) when someone accesses my server. I searched for something like that in Automator but found nothing. Do you know if this is possible ? Thank you.
What determines how the scrollbar is rendered in OS X Lion? On my home and work machine, I see the scrollbar next to the content like this:
I created a new Guest Account with restrictions and parental Controls but if I am in the guest account and I go to Finder and click on All images or documents it shows all of it..... How can I limit access to that or block it completely?
When i plug my cable into my macbook pro it will show the default home screen on the tv but it doesn't show anything from my desktop. I can swipe over and see one thing from my dashboard but nothing else. What do i need to do to get to work?
I have two old Mac Minis both running OS X 10.4 Tiger. One is a G4 so I'm using TenFourFox for PowerPC. The other has an Intel processor and I'm having some trouble with Opera 10.62. (The point is I want to use trello.com and old browsers like FireFox 3 or standard Safari from the 10.4 OS won't work). What other options am I missing?
I have an "ask for finder items" step in my Automator workflow, which produces a list of files selected by the user. I then use these files as an input for a second step. At that point I need to execute a bash command (third step).
I run the following two commands on markdown files to get a nicely formatted PDF. How would I automate this? I'd like to right-click a markdown file, navigate to services, and choose convert markdown to PDF.
I've tried the Shutterfly iPad app, which allows uploading photos, but doesn't support any other functionality available on the website. And I can't edit photos or design cards and books from the Mobile Safari browswer on the iPad, presumably because those features use Flash. Are there any other photo websites that provide either a full-featured iPad app (that includes creating cards and books and ordering prints) or an iPad or iPhone app that allows uploading photos and a website that allows one to create cards and books and order prints in Mobile Safari? Note: I download photos directly from my camera to the iPad, so I'm trying to figure out how to avoid any need for a PC.
Is there software that will balance the sound level of the songs on my iPhone so that all the songs are at the same sound level and quality?
I have Googled and visited forums to troubleshoot this to no avail; and I'm not sure where to look next. Are there any ideas on possible router settings or iPhone settings that I need to consider at this point? More info from a test: Cellular Data Off / Wireless On: Safari browse to various websites - OK Library App - Links in the app work except for the login page. Siri - Always says it can't help me right now and to try again in a little while. Cellular Data On / Wireless Off: Safari browse to various websites - OK Library App - Works properly - OK Siri - Works as expected - OK
Is this possible to start mysql from the console. I tried with mysqld start but it fails to start, how to start it? I didn't find my.cnf in Mac, I wanted to change datadir settings, if there any way to do this? Thanks!
I was working on my mac and saved a file. Continued to work on the file. One hour later, when I tried to save that file, I saw the message "The document could not be saved. You don't have permission". What??? Now I see I cannot save any of my files. I can open them, but I cannot save. Any file. But this is selective. TextEdit can save the files, Mail.app can open emails and save attachments. Xcode can create and save new projects, but I cannot modify them, or I will see the error if I try to save. This is what I have tried to do:
During a phone conversation on my iPhone (iOS5) today, I received three text messages. Each one caused my phone to play my message ringtone rather loudly in my ear.
I want to set up a media server for streaming of my music library via AirPlay and AirPort express to my hifi. Is there any way to use time capsule for this or do I need to get (yet) another device?
I want to dive into Mac OS X, but don't know any good sources to learn from. I found this book: Mac OS X Internals, but it's a bit old, and from the recessions it discusses the PowerPC, and not the Intel versions of Mac OS X. Where can I find good books or websites? And I don't mean the Apple Developer Forum, I want to know everything about from the kernel up to the Mac OS.
I erased my drive and used the Mac OS X Install DVD and all went well. Then, I inserted the Applications Install DVD to install the bundled software but it failed. Here is what the message says: The installation failed.
Can I do any damage to files if I remove ACLs from them using something like What is the purpose of these ACL attributes?
However, in the upper-left area of my iPhone screen it still says, "Sprint" and there's a little circle after it. (Circle???) In terms of functionality, the phone is still ridiculously slow as if it were still trying to use the more-or-less useless Sprint service. So is there some better way to do this that allows my iPhone to get a fast connection?
I know Cmd+Shift+4 is how screenshots are normally taken of visible areas on Mac OS X, but this shortcut does not work during a Keynote Presentation.
I don't exactly remember when this started but my iPad running iOS 5 started not doing backups to iCloud. When I press the "Back Up Now" button it starts working for a few seconds but then stops and shows the message from the title beneath the button. I already tried reseting, restoring, deleting my iCloud account from the settings, using another iCloud account and now I'm pretty devastated.
I have my Address Book configured to sync with Google Contacts, and I sync my iOS devices with my Mac. There is also a "Sync Google Contacts" checkbox in iTunes, in the Info tab for the device. After selecting it, it asks for a Google account/password.
I'm creating an Estimate template in Pages. Each chunk of the estimate (shown below as "Itemized List Hourly") has it's own table, with each row containing a task, such as "CMS Training" and a low and high number of hours. Then the footer automatically adds up the prices. So far so simple, and I've got these tables working already.
In a script I'm trying to find the Terminal.app window containing a specific tty device and raise that window to the top. Here's what I have in Applescript so far: Where I'm getting stuck is the "raising the window" part. Here are some things that are not quite what I want: set frontmost of theWin to true -- this brings the window to the front of the group of Terminal.app windows but doesn't raise it above any other windows.
My Macbook seems to be running pretty hot lately. iStat Pro is stating that my CPU temp is nearing 180 degrees F, and that the heatsink is approaching 150. The laptop is noticeably warmer than normal on my lap even as I type this. The usage patterns for the laptop really haven't changed all that much, except that my wife takes it to work with her now that she's started her new job as a realtor. Thanks for any advice.
Seems Apple is about 80% of the way there on this one but despite the fancy graphics is missing the most basic use case. No wonder people want to revert to Snow Leopard.
My iPad "synced" to iTunes once so I could set some settings. My iPad (iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1) is set to sync to iCloud. However when I set off a backup, iTunes opens on my PC and it seems that iTunes is doing the sync.
Several times the menu bar on my Mac has frozen and I've had to restart the whole computer. I know that there must be a better way to fix a frozen menu bar than restarting. How can I kill the menu bar via Terminal?
Is it possible for iTunes Visualizers to access the entirety of song data in order to display a full, un-animated waveform of the currently playing song? Perhaps the extent of the visualization would be a progress bar that sweeps over the song as it plays. Assuming this is even possible, does something like this already exist?
I frequently use the open -a command in Terminal to open applications via ssh. How do I make it auto-complete an application's name?
I have an iPhone 4 and my significant other has an iPhone 3G. They just bought an iPhone 4S and is willing to trade it for my iPhone 4. My phone is already registered under my name and all, while the new iPhone 4S isn't registered under anyone's name yet. What is the best way to go about transferring all our data correctly? Do we need to go to our cell carrier or to Apple?
I'm having a weird issue on my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.7 Lion) where ANY site on ANY browser doesn't function if it is using HTTPS. For example, *=URL=* will appear, but *=URL=* will say 'Not Available'. It doesn't matter what browser I'm using (I've used Safari, Chrome and Firefox). I've encountered the issue on many different wifi networks.
I've heard that Macbook air saves more power and boot time is very short and it is pretty fast in boot time. I know that instead of HDD it uses flash memory but how can it save more power and boot faster?
Are the downloads for OS X updates different depending on the language? Specifically, I'd like to update two computers to Lion 10.7.3. The problem is that one computer is in English and the other in Japanese. Can I download the OS X Lion Update 10.7.3 once from this page and install it on both computers?
I recently found out that you can add playlists from within the Nano. Can I do that from iTunes? If so, how?
I'd like a list, from which text can be copied. (Not a screenshot of preferences.) This information does not appear in any of the following: Safari System Profiler in Snow Leopard System Information in Lion. I wondered whether there exists an extension to list other extensions, but when I searched I could not find anything suitable. If not a command or an extension, maybe there's an app, but again: I could not find anything suitable. (I could instead have posted this opening question to Super User, where a command piping guru might step up, but I prefer Ask Different for the likelihood of someone knowing an extension or app.) Background With the extensions master switch off, the simple presence of installed extensions may cause some versions of Safari to take longer than expected to launch. For that reason and others, it's sometimes necessary to have a comprehensive list of installed extensions, including those that are disabled.
I'd like a list, from which text can be copied. (Not a screenshot of preferences.) This information does not appear in any of the following: Safari System Profiler in Snow Leopard System Information in Lion.
Whilst I like Herb Albert and his Marijuana Brass Band dropping a christmas phat one, I don't appreciate it when it's July How can I prevent them from appearing in the playlist?
I am burning by dropping the folder onto a blank DVD on the desktop, opening it up and clicking "Burn", then using maximum speed to burn. At the end of the burn finder brings up a message saying that it couldn't verify the burn, and ejects the disc. If I insert the disc back into the Mac, I get a message saying that it cannot be read.
In my house is an older black macbook. If I plug it into the house ethernet with a cable, youtube videos pause and spin the throbber and other network operations are also sluggish.
I use a 2 TB drive for Time Machine and have used the disk for about a year or two. Today I wanted to check on an old file (an old version of MonoDevelop) and found out that my oldest backup is from January this year. I checked the disk itself and found that it really only contains folders for dates starting in January.
I created a new message in Mail with some pictures attached. When I noticed it was more than 10 MB, I didn't send it and deleted the draft. But my settings included "synchronize drafts with server", which I turned off now. Mail.app apparently tries to load the message again and again, and it appears in a local folder (recovered mails) even after I deleted it several times. Meanwhile there are four duplicates of the message with about 45 MB worth of attachments in this local folder. The worst thing about it: Mail does not get new incoming emails. What can I do about it? OS X 10.7.3 and Mail Version 5.2
After plugging my headphones out, suddenly there is no sound from the internal speakers. When I press volume buttons, I see a circle-backslash symbol below the speaker icon.
I want to select multiple messages in a Mail.app folder by hand, do X, and then have a new mail message window appear with all those senders in the "To:" or "Bcc:" field. What is that magical X option?
Occasionally my Safari hangs on loading a page, and after some time shows this text: 㰡ⴭ⁌佃䅌䥚䕒区⁅慣栠汯捡汩穡扬攠灩散攠潦⁴桥⁰慧攠楳慲步搠睩瑨⁡⁣潭浥湴‭ⴾਊ㱈呍䰾਼ℭⴠ䱏䍁䱉婅剓㨠䥦⁩渠愠物杨琭瑯⵬敦琠汯捡汥Ⱐ慤搠摩爽≲瑬∠瑯⁴桥⁈呍䰠敬敭敮琮‭ⴾ਼䡅䅄㸊††㱌䥎䬠牥氽獴祬敳桥整⁴祰攽≴數琯捳猢⁨牥昽≰慧攭汯慤ⵥ牲潲献捳猢㸊††㰡ⴭ⁌佃䅌䥚䕒区⁙潵楧桴⁷慮琠瑯⁣桡湧攠瑨攠景湴⁦慭楬礮⁙潵⁣慮⁡汳漠慤搠獴祬敳⁴漠潶敲物摥⁳楺敳Ⱐ整挮‭ⴾਠ†‼協奌䔾ਠ†††⁂佄夠筦潮琭晡浩汹㨧䡥汶整楣愠乥略✻紊††㰯協奌䔾ਊ††㰡ⴭ⁌佃䅌䥚䕒区⁔桥數琠汩湥⁣潮瑡楮猠瑨攠灡来⁴楴汥⁴桡琠慰灥慲猠楮⁴桥⁷楮摯眧猠瑩瑬攠扡爠ⴭ㸊††㱔䥔䱅㻐鷐딠킲킴킰킻킾톁톏⃐닑雐듐뫑胐룑苐렠톁톂킾톀톖킽킺톃㰯呉呌䔾਼⽈䕁䐾ਊ㱂佄夾਼摩瘠捬慳猽≥牲潲ⵣ潮瑡楮敲∾਼摩瘠捬慳猽≩捯渢⁡汴㴢卡晡物⁉捯渢㸼⽤楶㸊㱤楶⁣污獳㴢瑥硴ⵣ潮瑡楮敲∾਼ℭⴠ浡楮⁴楴汥⁨敲攬⁲数敡瑥搠㌠瑩浥猠ⴭ㸊㱐⁣污獳㴢敲牯爭瑩瑬攠敲牯爭瑥硴ⵥ湧牡癩湧∾╀‼䄠楤㴢桥汰ⵢ畴瑯渢㸼⽡㸼⽐㸊㱐⁣污獳㴢敲牯爭瑩瑬攠敲牯爭瑥硴∾╀‼䄠楤㴢桥汰ⵢ畴瑯渢㸼⽡㸼⽐㸊㱐⁣污獳㴢敲牯爭瑩瑬攠敲牯爭瑥硴⵩湮敲⵳桡摯眢㸥䀠㱁⁩搽≨敬瀭扵瑴潮∠捬慳猽∥䀢⁈剅䘽❯灥渭桥汰ⵡ湣桯爺╀✾㰯愾㰯倾਼⽤楶㸊㱤楶⁣污獳㴢瑥硴ⵣ潮瑡楮敲∾਼ℭⴠ敲牯爠浥獳慧攠桥牥Ⱐ牥灥慴敤″⁴業敳‭ⴾ਼倠捬慳猽≥牲潲⵭敳獡来⁥牲潲⵴數琭敮杲慶楮朢㸥䀼⽐㸊㱐⁣污獳㴢敲牯爭浥獳慧攠敲牯爭瑥硴∾╀㰯倾਼倠捬慳猽≥牲潲⵭敳獡来⁥牲潲⵴數琭楮湥爭獨慤潷∾╀㰯倾਼⽤楶㸊㰯摩瘾਼⽂佄夾ਊ㰯䡔䵌㸊
Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 28.68 GB but only 626.2 MB are available.
Even when the volume on my MBP running 10.7.2 is set to only one bar - it is too loud for my use. When using headphones, the minimum and maximum volume configuration is just fine. This is not the case when using the internal speakers. How can I set a lower minimum volume on my Mac?
Under System Preferences > Network > VPN > Advanced > Options I can choose to "Send all traffic over VPN connection". Contrariwise, this would mean that if this option is not enabled (which is default) some traffic is treated as if no VPN connection was established: e.g. The IP address when surfing is still the same. What traffic is (not) sent over VPN when this option is disabled?
When installing Ubuntu, I choose to install GRUB on a partition other than: as this is stated in various tutorials. However, this way I end up with the error message: Missing Operating System
Passware has released the Passware Kit Forensic 11.3 which is able to steal the FileVault 2 password from the RAM by performing a DMA Attack via the FireWire port. They state that their software: recovers Mac User Login passwords and FileVault keys from computer memory and decrypts TrueCrypt and FileVault volumes in minutes. Various suggestions have been made trying to describe how to protect a Mac with Filevault 2 from such an attack: This will remove the full volume encryption key from RAM when the system is put into sleep mode and forces the system to immediately write RAM to disk and remove power from memory upon sleep. What user behavior is necessary and what steps does one have to take for maximum protection with FileVault 2 on the Mac?
I have: Windows 7 PC with latest version of iTunes connected to my network (wired). Windows Firewall is turned off. Apple TV (2nd generation) connected to my network (wireless) iPhone connected to my network (wireless) I am able to AirPlay from my iPhone to the Apple TV, but it does not work from my PC.
I have OS X Lion installed on an SSD which is encrypted with FileVault 2. I have a second magnetic hard drive that I've moved my home directory to in order to not take up space on the SSD. My question is, will it cause any problems if I encrypt the second drive (the standard magnetic HDD) using the command line? I've read through this: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13#lion-file-system
I have an app name foo.app I want to open from command line (using open). My folder structure is like this: I want to open the app located in the bar folder, however if I do open -a foo.app, the app located in the baz folder will open, even if my current working directory is in the bar folder. open -a ./foo.app or open -a ~/bar/foo.app doesn't work either.
Click on each individual song/lesson in the folder to play it, and iTunes then lists it in the playlist. This is ridiculous as I have about 4,000 songs.
I want movies to be displayed simply as movie icons. But currently, and for the past few years, Finder loads (and if it is a strange format converts) the video and then displays an icon showing a still from the movie. That is very very annoying. How can I switch that off?
I recently updated my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.0.1, and the baseband got updated to 06.15.00. I jailbroke it using redsn0w 0.9.10b1.
My Mac was shipped with Lion. Therefore I have no install CDs that I could use to run a hardware test. How can I run a hardware test?
I have a jailbroken iOS 5.0.1 on an iPhone 4S. I checked out if there is a binutils package and haven't found it. Is there a repository for it? What would be the next best way to search for strings in binary files (strings command emulation).
I've got the virus scanner from Sophos installed on my Mac with on-access-scan enabled. The on-access-scan delays the dictionary pop-up for several seconds for every first prompt after boot up. You can prompt the dictionary pop-up by using either ctrl+⌘+D or three fingers double-tab.
If Macintosh HD is not marked as Shared, why do I see that as a shared folder? I believe that having myUser (me) listed under Sharing and Permissions might be the issue here. However, if I remove myUser, then I am not able to view root folders from the terminal/console. Thank you for all your input!
How can I disable the auto mount of usb/firewire devices or basically any external disk in MacOSX? My motivation for this is that in Windows there have been possible attacks via USB trojans that would copy to the internal hard drive just after the auto mount. I thought that disabling auto mount of external devices is a good counter measure. But I'm be open to solutions that protect from such a threat using other methods. Edit I assume that a solution to my problem would have to look like the following: Auto mount disabled for all devices. Opt-in of auto mount for my private devices.
The widget iStat Pro allows to monitor different system stats like CPU usage network bandwidth in/out memory usage ... How can I view such system stats in the Terminal?
I wish to add space before a span of characters:  As an afterthought, I may realize this isn't a job for Character Styles, since those operate on single characters, not spans/groups of characters. Neither does it look to be a job for Paragraph Styles, since those operate on blocks of text (paragraphs); not inline blocks.
I'm trying to run an application as the user 'steve' with the window displayed on my desktop ( brendan ). This is what I have been doing so far.
How can I generate an iOS project (.xcodeproj) with AppleScript (without XCode)?
I don't want to have the macbook open when I am using the external monitor. Is that possible?
I have a very specific workflow that I can't find a simple solution for. I want to be able to make a list of web pages to read offline. Not articles, whole web pages. And I want to keep them up-to-date. I really want an app for iPad that does the following. Lets me enter a list of webpages and maintain that list. Hit a button in the app, and it'll update every page on that list and store a complete offline copy so I can pursue it while on the train. Still maintain links, so I can click on them (so, no PDFs or whatever). Optionally have the ability to set readable fonts.
In Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3), is it possible to create a new user account with settings identical to an existing user account? Or put another way, is it possible to set-up a user account template? I do not want to duplicate all of my documents, music, and photos. Rather I would just like to create a new user account that has all / most of the settings and preferences that I have customized and tweaked over many months in my existing account.
Does anyone know a good GUI C debugger for Lion, I looked into DDD since thats what I use in linux but i couldn't find a clear way to install it for Lion.
On my Lion installation changes in the OSX Control Panel some settings are no longer saved eg. General oder Language. After reentering the Control panel again, the old settings are still in place. Some settings (e.g. Keyboard oder Sharing) are stored correctly.
I recently bought a 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2011) with 4GB of RAM. I want to upgrade to 8GB, but I've read that MacBooks can be kind of picky when it comes to RAM and will not operate right if it is given low quality RAM. So, barring RAM that you buy from Apple (Which is $400 for 8GB of RAM), what is the best RAM I can get for performance and price?
It's logical to think, from the timing, that this is likely caused by a recently-installed tweak, but I don't understand how both things still happen even when in MobileSubstrate SafeMode! Either of these glitches causes the iPhone to restart in SafeMode, which is understandable. But what's even more bizarre is that if I provoke one of these glitches in SafeMode, it resprings in jailbroken mode! What is up with that?!
I'm trying to compile and run some very simple C and C++ code in Lion. Compilation works fine. Running the executable leads to the 'spinning beach ball of death.' Force-quitting out of Terminal works, but I cannot reopen Terminal, and have to restart.
Could I directly reset my password for VPN on mac? For Windows, I found the instruction below (source from ehow, not tested as I only has a mac): Log on to your VPN. Enter the "CTRL+ALT+DEL" keys simultaneously and select the "Change a Password" menu option.
I have noticed this since upgrading to Lion. Many times I accidentally use the pinch to zoom feature on the trackpad for Safari. Safari will zoom in a bit, but then the entire tab becomes frozen. No buttons or hyperlinks work, if you enter a new address into the address bar it will load, but it won't show up, etc. The only solution is to close Safari and reopen it. Others have reported similar problems here *=URL=* *=URL=* I have no extensions installed.
I ran into big problem yesterday night. I took out my old digital camera, and started using it without setting current date and time. All photos clicked now have date as Jan 01, 2009 I want to change the date and time (and other EXIF image meta-data) of multiple images. Please recommend some software which can process on multiple images in single click/go.
I use Mac OS X, iPad and iPhone. There are occasions when I receive mails send from people who uses Outlook written in different asian languages (Japanese, Korean, Chineses etc.). I could read them OK on my Mac, but if I reply to any of them, other people would sometime receive gibberish characters. On my Mac OS X's Mail.app, I have to set each email I reply to encode in UTF-8 Unicode to make sure the receiver can read it (note: if I am compose a new email then without setting the encoding, the receiver read them ok. Only on replying their email they receive gibberish).
Is there a way I can connect to a data source via ODBC and export the data to a CSV file on the mac? Open-source software to do this would be great, otherwise is it possible from the command-line?
As soon as I restarted the system after installing the 10.7.3 update, my wifi stopped working. It wouldn't connect. It would get a private ip assigned to it.
The Air doesn't wake up from sleep mode when the lid is closed. Have to do a hard restart by pressing the power button for 5 secs which isn't nice. Tried to select the startup disk from system preferences but it isn't helping. This behavior seems to have started after I started using the PGP disk encryption but I am not sure if anyone else has experienced the same problem.
I have a mac mini setup on a tv to monitor our network. I'd like to setup the monitoring pages we'd like to view in a set of tabs and have safari automatically cycle through them. Something like how gas stations use to change video feeds; some sort of auto-switcher.
I would like to hide the glowing Apple logo on the backside of my MacBook Pro. I'm looking for a simple silver colored sticker. And I don't want to add any message or other brand or art on my laptop. Is there any unobtrusive sticker available?
I know it's possible to disable pop-ups, and that's the default behavior, but It's not affecting the pop-unders.
I know about the other third-party options out there, this is more to do with the native stuff that comes bundled from Apple. For years Snow Leopard has had notoriously bad NTFS read-write support hence it was disabled by default. We could enable it like this, but it was dangerous at best. So, has this improved in Lion, or is this still a neglected dangerous feature?
I'm looking for one of those ⌥+? shortcuts to type a minus sign (−) from the keyboard, without touching the mouse.
I really like the view in the Faces section of iPhoto when you are identifying possible matches. You get the closeup of just the picture and you can see all of the ways the person has changed over the years (assumine you are actually looking at a match).
I have a computer on my local network for which I would like to use a nice alias, and therefore I put an entry in /etc/hosts. After a while this change is undone. The entry is gone from /etc/hosts. It happens repeatedly for several days now. Do you know why this is happening?
I use Bootcamp to install windows 7 on separate partition (200 GB for OSX & 50 GB for Windows) Now I decide to delete my windows and want my 50 GB partition back and stick to the 200 GB partition, How can I do this?
I've got a device at home I want to SSH to from work. The device has port 22 open locally and I have port 22 opened on my AirPort Extreme. However, on the AirPort Extreme it says the open 22 port only goes to my main server IP (10.0.1.100).
In terminal, the open -n ~/Applications/iTunes doesn't create a new instance of iTunes, just switches to the one already open. Why?
I don't mind ads, banners and the like. What I do mind is the fact that almost all the ads I see recently are ads for Mackeeper. Popups, banners, it's everywhere. Am I the only one that has this problem? I've recently installed AdBlock 2.5.13 to take care of the popups, yet the banners remain.
What started the whole "i" movement and what does the "i" stand for when talking about iPods, iPhones, iMacs, iPads and iCarly (woops!). I think it started with the iMac that came out in the late 90's, but still have always wondered where the "i" came from in terms of the product. Thanks.
I have downloaded a number of items from the iTunes store which are marked as CLEAN. I understand this is common in tracks (I'm looking at you, rappers!) where an EXPLICIT song has has the swear words removed or bleeped or reversed etc. However, the tracks I have are the original recordings, and are not clean versions of tracks that were originally explicit:
Is there a way to set make a file into a Stationery pad from the command line? You can do it by clicking "Get info" on a file and checking the box, but I would like to do it without clicking.
In the picture below the shouldn't the (shared memory + private memory) equal the real memory? Am I reading this wrong? What else constitutes the real memory size? I assumed that shared memory was real memory and private memory was real memory. Thanks in advance :-)
I just got a spanking new Apple Thunderbolt Display to work with my Macbook Air and I'm loving it. The one thing I'm missing from my iMac is the 4 USB ports at the back (the Thunderbolt display only has 3). I realize I can use the 2 USB ports on the MBA but it's just not very convenient (plus I don't like the idea of a laptop being bogged down by earthly constraints such as a dangling phone charger cable). I'm looking for a USB hub with the following features: good-looking (admittedly subjective) good-looking (admittedly subjective) can hide behind the display that I'd use to plug in the immobile equipment such as scanner, wireless dongles, etc. can hide behind the display that I'd use to plug in the immobile equipment such as scanner, wireless dongles, etc. Ideally, no AC power needed (but I get the feeling I won't be able to be too picky on this one). Ideally, no AC power needed (but I get the feeling I won't be able to be too picky on this one).
I would like to keep a log of what I have been doing every hour during my work day. I would like something (say, an app or menu-bar utility) that will pop-up every hour and ask me what I have been doing, allowing me to enter a few lines of text. The fact that it would automatically pop up, and that it only expects me to fill in one text field would mean that it is a very low-friction way of entering information. It would, of course, then have some way to let me view what has been logged post-facto. Can you recommend anything that will let me do this?
I have a partially corrupted HD that can not be repaired by Disk Utility, but which can be mounted read-only making the data on it accessible. I am trying to copy all the recoverable contents onto a spare HD, but every method I try fails when an error is encountered - leaving the remaining files uncopied.
When I connect my iPhone 4S to my computer, iTunes does not detect it. iPhone pops the message of USB connectivity and defaults to Mass Storage. Windows shows the message that "Device is ready to use" and I can read both drives of the iPhone in Windows Explorer. However iTunes does not detect the device and the "Devices" tab does not appear. I've tried:
Like BeTwin. For example, I have Macbook Pro with one Mini DisplayPort (for additional monitor) and two USB port (for additional mouse and keyboard). How can i implement it on Mac OS Snow Leopard?
How to group multiple images in iWork Pages so I don't have to move images one by one? That can be done in Microsoft Words, but I can't find this option in iWork Pages.
I have gone through the install process of a .pkg file and when I look for it in /Users/~/Library/Application Support it's nowhere to be seen. I've only recently become a Mac user so it might be a newbie question but, how do I get to it? MacBook Pro, OS X 10.7 Lion
How can I limit my use of some time-wasting apps on my iPhone for a few days? Temporarily removing the apps so that I would have to first go through a reinstall to use them is not an option because I don't want to lose their data. There are some Mac applications to limit access to websites and other applications: Obtract and SelfControl for example. Is there anything similar for iOS?
I have a 2010 MBP and the screen has started to wobble - not un-usably, but just enough that when it is sitting on its stand the screen bobbles around a little when I type. I took it back to a Genius at the Apple store and he said this was expected behaviour, and because it held its position, they weren't able to do anything about it. With that said, he was in a massive rush and running waaay behind - and I wanted to get a second opinion.
Unchecking "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" under System Preferences -> General doesn't work - for example, when I re-open an app (e.g. Preview) it restores a window (call it 'PDF 1') I had open before quitting that app. (At least when I quit it by logging out, even with 'Reopen windows when logging back in' unchecked.) Any pointers?
I transferred music from one PC to another using Home Sharing. The music all came through, but the ratings did not. How do I make it move my ratings over?
I have recently purchased Growl for handling my notifications. I had enabled my account from Greece since I was living there years ago before I got my mac. Now I have moved to Denmark and I followed the relevant procedure for changing country. Finally I purchased software after I switched my account to Denmark.
I just got my Mac several months ago, and set my right-command as show desktop shortcut. Now, I want to remove it, but I totally forget how to remove this silly thing. I have checked several places as shown in the images below, but both shows that show desktop shortcut is F11, and I don't know where else should I find the configuration where I set my right-command as the show desktop, so could anyone help me? PS: I use OS X Lion 10.7.2
I've uninstalled Xcode 4 to reinstall it: ...and now I don't have Terminal.app and the Activity Monitor.app and I don't know what else apps were uninstalled.
I'm running Lion (10.7.3). In any application, when I bring up the "Open File" dialog, it shows an outdated list of files — files I deleted hours ago still show up; files I recently created don't show up.
I have a problem. I noticed when writing a mail today and the PDF invoice me flashing cursor - the slow and fast movements. I am not sure what to can - you have a problem with that and you? The display has been claimed (burned pixel) and then made ​​it even now - so the display is OK. Could it Software? Mac OS X 10.7.3 LION - and made ​​it to 10.7.2 Thanks for the advice
I transferred some pictures from my PC to my iPhone 4G. I am unable to delete these pictures that were sent to my iPhone.
Terminal.app in Mac OS X Lion has a feature that took a long time to get implemented: 256 color support. The colors work fine. The issue I'm having is that when I run GNU Screen I do not have access to 256 colors. In screen, $TERM is set to "screen".
Using an iPhone with multiple email accounts is a bit confusing when my existing email addresses are very similar. I use the description for each account is distinctly differentiate between the accounts, however when I try to change the sending account while composing a draft email it only shows the similar email addresses not the identifiable descriptions. Does anyone know of a solution to modify this behavior with or without a Jailbreak? I've been examining the provided settings on iOS for a while and google searches haven't come up with any more information on the topic.
Lion doesn't seem to be giving out DHCP addresses when I turn on Internet Sharing. My firewall is off, I create a shared network with no security sharing ethernet->wifi. In Network Preferences the Wifi connection shows as yellow, with a self-assigned IP, and any device I try to connect (e.g., iPad) doesn't get an address. Help!
How  I take photo using the MBP's webcam from   command line?
The title pretty much sums up the question. I have looked, and could not find anything, neither paid, nor free. I know about the DocPreview plugin, however that does not work in Safari 5.1+. There is also the Word Browser Plugin, it was last updated in 2009, and also appears to no longer work.
I have figured out a workable shell script using osascript (AppleScript) to automatically switch to US keyboard layout when MacVim activates (triggered by Keyboard Maestro), and Swedish layout when it deactivates: However, AppleScript is truly slow and I also don't prefer to see the text input menu in the statusbar to flash open when switching back and forth. …I envision something like a defaults command or altering any .plist file as potential candidates for the job, only I don't know any specifics. Two things related to the answer(s) I'm seeking: I'm keen to have the change propagate instantly – faster than the sluggish AppleScript execution. I'm keen to have the change propagate instantly – faster than the sluggish AppleScript execution.
When I browse from my iphone 4 it takes me remote.utorrent.com/srp The it asks me to Touch screen and Move Touch the screen and move your finger to fill the progress bar below...
We are trying to set up multiple user accounts on a Mac and wish to have all the users' desktop wallpaper to be single colored (such as aqua blue). It can be done manually but I would like to know if there is a way or script out there so that when a new user is created in "Users & Groups," the default wall paper in that account will be automatically set to a single color. Thank you.
I want a third-party application which will show me the lyrics I've entered in my songs' metadata, preferably without a dock icon. Either a pop-up of some sort or displaying them on the desktop would be acceptable.
The specifications of my MacBook Pro say the maximum memory supported is 4GB using two 2GB DDR2 667MHz each. However, some say that this model can support up to 6GB of memory, putting a 4GB Memory DDR3 1066MHz in one of the slot and 2GB (or 4GB, 6GB directing in this case memory).
When I'm opening .avi files, I want to open them with VLC Media player, when right clicking the item, I see this:  As you can see QuickTime is the default player, I want to change it to VLC, so I change it:
I have both an iPhone 4 (from work) and an iPhone 3GS (personal). Today I took a cross country flight from BOS to LAX. Upon boarding the plane this morning, after having stayed up all night packing (and procrastinating from packing), I stowed my bags, put my iPhones in Airplane Mode, and promptly fell asleep. When I woke up after what felt like a long time, I checked the time on my iPhone 4 and was disappointed that only two hours had apparently passed. Then I flipped on the flight map and was surprised to see that we were soon to descend into Los Angeles.
I have a Time Machine backup of my entire system on a hard drive (the system folder and everything else seems to be there). How do I move all of the contents of this directory to another directory? There are files not shown in Finder (/etc, /usr, etc) that cannot be moved, and there are too many to move over manually by Terminal. Thanks for your help.
Like most people, I move often with my laptop, and thus I also often switch WiFis networks. There is a WiFi network I often connect to which requires the IP to be entered manually.
I want to reinstall my Macbook, but i do not want to loose all my saved WPA/WEP Wi-Fi profiles. Is there a way to back them up and restore them after the reinstall?
I do not like SFTP client applications, like Cyberduck. I want to access the SSH folder as a local disk driver, where you can read/write/copy/paste files.
I have a weird Eudora problem that I don't even know quite where to start to solve. I have three Intel Macs, (a MacBook, a Mac Air and a MacBook Pro) all running the latest update of 10.6.8 (including the most recent v.1.1 of the security update.) Eudora 6.2.4 (the last version released) runs flawlessly on two of the machines and crashes consistently when checking mail on the third machine.
Can I see the URL of an RSS feed on Apple Mail 4.5? I cannot find the option.
However I soon found that reminder syncing is still quite buggy at this stage. In particular, it doesn't seem to handle moving to-do items from list to list very well. I often got duplicate items and had other problems. (Note: This is not the topic of my question.)
Does anyone know if it's possible to install Ubuntu via bootcamp on a first gen Macbook running Lion? I'd prefer not to use Parallels/VMware due to the fact that it's only got 1GB of RAM in it and I'd prefer not to upgrade it.
I am trying to connect iMac to 2 other monitors as well as my TV. That is a total of 4 displays. HERE IS MY PLAN!!!-(I'm not rich) I have a 21.5 inch iMac that has one thunderbolt port but can also be used as a mini-dvi port. I want to connect that to a Cirago HDX3DP01 HydraDisplay X3 DP to 3 DP Multimonitor Adapter This in theory will allow me to connect to 2 monitors with an open slot for my TV. I do question the resolution output. The HydraDisplay supports up to 3840 x 1024 (3x 1280x1024). I'm not sure what that means. Which resolution is it? I know that the 21.5-inch iMac has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, while the 27-inch iMacs are 2560 by 1440 pixels. This means at top resolution of the HydraDisplay is cannot support the native resolution of the IMac 21.5 nor the 27-inch. Will this matter when mirroring or sharing the screens as one? (disregarding the TV) So, I have several questions: 1. Will this work? 2. Is resolution a big deal when sharing screens? 3. Has anyone
Can I use a ZEVO-managed USB hard disk for Time Machine backups? Will ZEVO and Time Machine give me de-duplication (which is sorely missing from Time Machine on HFS+, especially if you backup multiple machines to the same disk)?
I'm writing a document about 100 pages with MS Office 2011 for Mac. While I'm editing the content, Word would halt almost every minutes with "Word is finishing analyzing your document" message and a running progress bar.
See the two images below:   Is there a way (with meta data somehow) to arrange the movies so they show in the order of their sequal (example: X-Men, X2, Last Stand), instead of arranging them alphabetically by title?
I'm interested in getting an SSD for my MacBook Pro (2.2Ghz Early 2011) and I can't find out if it's possible to, when I first get the SSD, put it inside my MBP and then boot up with my OS X Lion USB stick which I created back when I did a clean install of Lion. Can I do a completely clean fresh install on the blank SSD? And then transfer over a few of my files from an external hard drive that I want on it?
I got this pretty cool flash drive as a gift and I can't seem to use it. Every time I plug it in, a pop up comes up that says: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.
Does anyone know where the System Preferences settings are stored on Mac OS X? I presume there's some .plist with them somewhere.
Leopard was released 2007 and Snow Leopard was released 2 years later in 2009. They both look pretty much the same, with a few minor GUI exceptions. They almost work the same, again with a few minor exceptions. I know that the whole Finder was re-written, but I want to know more detail about the differences between the two. What are the major difference between Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6)?
I've noticed that I can add contacts to a calendar appointment. What is this useful for? Will they be notified of the appointment? What can they do with the appointment? What is the whole purpose? I can invite contacts to attend, so I don't see what this is used for.
this happens to me from time to time: when I am using the Terminal, suddenly the terminal starting to ignore the capital 'B', regular 'b' works fine, other capital letter work fine. other applications in the system (browser, mail, etc) have not problems. I tried to: restart the Terminal application switch to iTerm switch to guest user and open Terminal there Write a word in other window and Copy/Paste into terminal
So far I've checked cornerstone and versionapp, neither of which allows to do that. I've also tried mounting a remote disk (SFTP) using Transmit 2, but that resulted in an error when I've tried to checkout the SVN or add a working copy later on.
I understand FileVault will encrypt the volume Mac OS X is installed on. I guess this means that Windows won't be able to read it.
I have a 2010 MBP and lately I've noticed dust showing up underneath the keys and above under the screen hinge. I've looked at the ifixit.com tutorials here but they don't have any guides on how to clean dust. I also have AppleCare, but this thread mentions it doesn't cover cleaning dust. I imagine "dusty" would be subjective, but they could give you 2 cleans a year or something. Can anyone verify that they don't clean dust from parts? In the end I'll probably open it up and use a dust-buster, but thought it'd be good to check first.
I've got an obscure cryptographic USB token that works pretty good with Lion except I need to run... ...each time I want to use it because it doesn't load automatically. How to make it load at startup?
As an developer I often have an iOS device connected to my MacBook Air when I launch iPhoto. The standard behaviour is for the last selected item in the source list to be selected on launch, except when a device is connected, in which case iPhoto attempts to show you photos ready to import from the connected device. How can I get iPhoto to ignore the connected device and just show me last item selected, which in my case is always Photostream since I'm constantly posting screen grabs of app defects?
In the iTunes App Store for iPhone, the rating is often displayed near the application's icon. Sometimes, when there are no ratings, the empty stars have an orange outline and sometimes they don't.
When I connect and sync my iPhone to iTunes it only transfers over purchased songs and not songs I ripped from a music cd. How do I get all of them to sync?
My internal drive is suffering hardware failure, so I bought OS X Snow Leopard (to upgrade my iMac from Leopard), a new drive, and a cheap external USB 2.0 enclosure. My plan is to install a clean copy of Snow Leopard on the new drive as an external drive, restore a time-machine backup to it, and then finally swap the new drive into the iMac.
I made albums for my pictures and want to keep them in the albums and delete them from the camera roll. When I try to delete the pictures from the camera roll it says it will delete from everywhere. Then I no longer have them in the albums.
Ever since upgrading to iOS 5 my iPhone(s) have problems auto joining my home wifi network. They seem to auto join it for a few days and then it just stops working. The phone can still see the wifi networks if I go to settings->Wi-Fi, and once I do it will even auto-join it after a few seconds. However; it only remains connected for a few minutes and then disconnects.
I have an iPod touch 4th gen and the software is all up to date. I've had it for about 14 months, but the other day I was updating quite a few apps (maybe 16 or so) because I hadn't used my iPod touch for awhile. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but at the same time I was downloading some podcasts from the iTunes Store (which was also having some minor problems).
I'm trying to setup a TeamCity Build Agent on a Mac Mini Server running 10.7.3. I have successfully got it running and building but only if I login and launch the process manually.
I have a MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) with the default 2GB of RAM, I want to update it to 8GBs, but I only found this model of memory to buy. The question is since the memory is more "powerful" than the slot it will work? Will I have any issues? If not, what should I buy? only PC3-10600?
Every time I want to install something, mac ports keeps on re-installing Perl, Python, etc. although the same packages are already installed on the system. Is there some setting to avoid this?
Is it possible to configure Yahoo Messenger on iChat? There are options in iChat to configure Google talk, yahoo messenger, AOL etc. So far I know it is possible to configure Google talk. But I did not get any document or evidence to configure Yahoo Messenger. I do not know why? Is it possible to fix this problem??? I am talking about Mac OS X Lion.
Right now I have far too many icons on my menubar. I know I can command drag them off of there. But I do need to use them on occasion. Is there any app that will combine menubar items into one such that I can click to drop down if I need to use any of those?
For some reason my iPod music located on my computer has re-attached itself to a very old email address and I get an error that states my computer isn't authorized. I'm then asked to provide a password, of course no success there. They can't reset the password because I don't have access to the old email. I tried to add the old email to my current account, with no success. Suggestions?
I'm desperately trying to link my user account with my Apple ID. After entering my ID and password a yellow warning sign appears in System Preferences beside the Set Apple ID button and the console shows the following error message: 2/8/12 10:07:02.936 PM System Preferences: _CSAddAppleIDAccountUsingCompletionBlock failed with -100 Any hints for me?
Basically, is there any way to trigger the native OS X spellcheck context menu using a keyboard shortcut. I know the command keys ⌘+: activates spellcheck, but what I'm trying to do is get the result of a right-click without taking my hands off the keyboard. Is there an OS X equivalent to emacs' flyspell-correct-word-before-point command.
Whenever I sync on any computer my 3G iPhone, it will recognize and sync but doesn't show my original name for the phone. How do I replace it?
I would like to know if, once I upgrade Airport Utility to version 6.0, the old version I had previously will disappear, and I want to know if I can use both of them (old and new) on the same Mac.
I have a smart playlist that has all songs with a play count over 20 that haven't been played in the last 6 months. On a computer, the playlist is set to limit it to 25 songs, selected by random.
I currently have an iPad 2 with a Smart Cover. I am looking for a keyboard that can be attached to the device so that I will always have the keyboard with me in a convenient manner. Some requirement for the ideal keyboard: Compatible with the Smart Cover Keys aren't exposed when the keyboard is "stashed away". Leaves a hole for the rear camera.
How do I move photos I loaded onto my iPad 2 from a SD card to an external hard drive using a connection kit with an USB port? Can this be done? Had no problem downloading photos from the SD card but can't figure out how to download from the iPad to the external hard drive.
I'm using OS X Lion. Whenever I wake my monitors, the iChat screen below pops up:
I can't install programs nor change system settings. I have admin privileges and I can successfully login into my account. I can even perform admin operations in terminal using sudo command. But, when I try to install new software and enter the admin password, it always give me an "incorrect password" message.
My friend, on her iPhone, wants to email me an iTunes Music Store link directly to a specific episode of a podcast. She wants to do this without downloading any 3rd party apps.
I have an 1st gen iPod Touch and an iPad 2. The iPod Touch is obsolete enough that most new apps won't run on iOS 3.1. Also, there is a growing number of apps that I own and use daily that have updates that the Touch can't run.
As I understand, the "over the air sync" is different from iCloud sync (for the contacts). Is it the case?
I have a macbook pro, and netgear n600 modem/router (DGND3700) and a win7 PC that is working nicely with homegroup networking. when I plug the macbook into the router via a network cable I can 'connect to server...' and get the the win7 shares just fine. but when I try whilst using wireless it refuses to connect.
In the office where I'm working now, my network carrier has very poor reception, so my iPhone 4 cannot access the internet reliably. I have a pc running Windows XP SP3 that is connected to internet through LAN, and it does not have a wi-fi card. Is it possibile to share the PC connectivity to the iPhone through the USB cable?
I have never backed up or sync'd my iPhone 4S and need to recover deleted text messages. Are these stored until they are overwritten? When would the overwriting occur on a 32GB iPhone?
I've got an old PowerBook G4. I've installed Mac OS X Leopard on it. Now, i want to buy a PCMCIA wifi card for surfing internet. But I can't understand, which cards are compatible and which not. Information in internet is very old, and I found information only about OS X 10.4. Also, I've read, that all cards,based on broadcom chipset are compatible. For example, does Linksys WPC54G works with my computer?
Many of the recent additions to my iTunes library, including songs that I have bought in the iTunes store and Amazon, keep having their play counts reset to zero. All are songs that I know I have listened to, and iTunes knows this as well; even though the play count has been reset, the "last played" field notes when I last listened to the song. This seemingly has only happened with songs I have added to my library after I installed iTunes Match.
I'm looking for an SSH client that includes drag and drop file transfer functionality. I'm aware of CyberDuck, but it's a bit pricey. I found one or two other programs, and they're not free. I need it for my computer science class this semester. (I'm technically ok using the Terminal, but some of my Mac using classmates are not.)
Where do Word for Mac and Powerpoint for Mac store user templates?
When trying to edit the mask, I am stuck with this blue dot that only rounds the corners of the mask and I can't get rid of it. How do I go about editing the mask borders?
Hello all I have an early '09 Mac mini 3,1 (Intel Core 2 duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD) which I need to upgrade soon as it is slowly dying (i.e., runnning an IDE like netbeans while having chrome open is becoming overkill for the poor thing). I am looking at maxing out the RAM to 8GB (from my research I believe this is feasible) and replacing the HDD with a 60GB SSD as I do not really store much (if any) media. Monetarily, I have worked the cost to be around £100 which is not too bad? I would appreciate your feedback on the following especially if you have done this or similar ease of replacing the RAM ease of replacing the HDD whether 8gb does indeed work (well) whether SSDs do work as well as benchmarks and hype suggest (in this context)
The Mail app is configured to send the downloaded attachments to my downloads folder, yet it keeps burying my downloaded attachments in my library. I've tried resetting the download location in the app settings several times but can't get it to save to the correct location.
Is there a way I can get Preview to open images in Actual Size by default and not have it fit to screen? I vaguely remember this as an option in previous versions of Preview, but am unable to find anything in the current version. System is 10.7.3 with Preview Version 5.5.1 (719.11).
I'm trying to load a LaunchAgent in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and although, from command line, it "appears" to load. However, if I try to load it again it says it's "already loaded".
I had a problem a while back where Chrome was working fine but Safari and Firefox were not. This was fixed by unchecking the "auto-discover proxy" box in the network configuration. See my previous question: Why can't I browse the internet with Safari, but Chrome is working?
It may be that it is being indexed as a dot appears in spotlight. However, it doesn't matter how long the flash drive has been plugged in, nor the size of it, it will always fail to eject on the first try. You would think that after a while it would finish indexing it and cause no problem, so that may not be the issue here. Any thoughts?
Is there a way to disable moving widgets around in the dashboard? I have a neat layout all set up, and would like to prevent accidental widget movements.
Is it possible to power on a MacBook using a wireless keyboard? If that sounds strange, I'm asking because I use a Bose radio as the sound system and the radio fits nicely on top of the laptop.
I have a CD that when the items are copied to the desktop (OS 10.6) the items are marked as read only. The CD is UDF formatted and I have read the following on another site:
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air (13"). Recently, the 45 watt MagSafe Adapter grew extremely hot (painful to touch) and smelled slightly singed while I was using the machine and plugged into the wall. It appears to still work. I am using the extender cord, not the duck-head plug, and I live in the United States.
Once every couple of days an application crashes on my MacBook Pro with Lion (10.7.3). It's also running the newer build that's supposed to have fixed these issues (11D50b).
Not all of my photos go to Photo Stream, some still go to my Camera Roll. I'm trying to get them on my Photo Stream so they will be on iCloud. With 30 photos on my camera, 10 in stream, I took 6 photos. 2 appeared in stream, 4 did not. Some of my subsequent photos also appeared in the stream, but not all. This is arbitrary behavior by the program. How to fix? Assume ios 7.0.
I use Google priority inbox so I've a Starred section, Important, and Everything else as separate sections on the web gmail. Now, I just set up my "Mail" on Mac OS X (using IMAP) but Mail will just show 1 inbox, is there a way to prioritize the mails like the web version of gmail.
I've run an iMac as an external display for a Mac laptop before, but am wondering if my new setup can work like that. I have: 2011 Macbook Air with Thunderbolt 2009 iMac with Mini DisplayPort mini DisplayPort cable
How do I make ls sort by file type (e.g. directories first and then by file extension)? The answers suggested in (Super User) Make ls sort by file type result in unknown option errors from ls.
I am unable to copy movies or videos into my iTunes library. I have had the concerned videos converted using Handbrake (version ??) with Apple presets but still when I try drag and drop to iTunes (10.1 on Windows XP) it shows no error (like "cannot be played" etc) and neither does it show up on the list. I can copy songs/ebooks/apps got a problem with video only.
In the event of finding a security vulnerability in the Linux world, the procedure involved would be to report the vulnerability... ...to the developers or the maintainers of the package in a particular operating system. ...to the security team of that particular operating system. Then patches are made and CVE's are released.
Is there an easy way to get the screens of my apps and list of their names from the iTunes App management tab? I would like to post them on my website.
Is there a way to edit a manually dialed phone number before re-dialling? Occasionally I have a typo in the number or forgot to add the country code prefix. The only ways to handle this I know so far is write down the number and re-dial, or copy the complete number, paste into a notes/text app, edit there, copy again and paste into the phone app. Not exactly user friendly.
My Samsung ML-2850D printer is connected via USB to an Airport Express. I print to it from my Mac over WiFi. I want to check how much toner is left, so I know if I need to purchase a new cartridge soon. However, when I check the Supply Levels via system preferences, it says "Information Not Available." What is the best way to reliably find out how much toner is left?
I'm managing a lot of Macs and each machines has several partitions with different OS versions. I would like to create a script that I could run to do an inventory of all partitions of all machines and take note what OS is installed on each partition.
I need to consolidate two iCal installations: the data from my old laptop should be merged into my new laptop’s iCal data. I tried exporting the old iCal data and importing it on the new laptop. Unfortunately, this would replace all my new iCal data. I don’t want this. I also don’t want to export/import separate calendars – I want to merge them (i.e. “work” with “work”, and “home” with “home”). Is there a (hopefully painless) way of achieving this? Note to self: use cloud-based calendar in future
I've noticed that downloading apps continue to download in the background as well as when the iPad is locked. Is there a speed decrease in either of these situations (assuming the foreground app isn't using network)?
I have some archive documents in .doc format, and I want to convert them to a searchable data base. I know that .pdf is searchable, but PC users seem to find .html documents more easily searchable ( I don't understand this). How can I do this conversion, preferably as a batch conversion?
I maintain a SuperDuper! clone of my primary boot drive for backup purposes. When it's mounted, Finder's "Open With" menu shows duplicate applications. When I unmount it, they go away. How do I configure OS X not to show applications from external drives in "Open With"?
How do I detect failed remote login attempt on my MacBook Pro and how do I block them? My MacBook Pro is on a network with built-in firewall, if that's relevant.
Imagine the following scenario, which I am proposing to a client for their service technicians' trucks. I have a very small wireless LAN that exists only for the purpose of providing print services for iOS devices (using a Lantronix xPrintServer, a portable WiFi router, and a mobile printer, all wired into the truck's electrical system). I have an iPad that is connected to the WiFi in the truck, and also has 3G service.
When OSX already knows an wifi network it auto connects to it, but when it doesn't know the wifi network it will auto connect depending of the setting of the "ask to join" toggle setting in system preferences. How do you force OSX to ask to join for every wifi network, whether it is known or not? I don't want OSX to ever connect automatically.
When I open Terminal I see the following: Everything seems to work but this is ugly and maybe warns of future trouble. I've installed Python 2.7 on this machine, then removed it to a virtualenv to restore 2.6 as the system default. Any thoughts on how I can debug this? EDIT:
I've got a MacBook Pro connected to an external display. Right now the notifications come through on on the primary display (MacBook Pro built in display) and not the external display. I know I can change this so that it shows on the secondary display but not the primary, but I want the notifications to show on displays. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
I have a 23' external monitor (through VGA) which always worked at 1440x900 and looked amazing. Today after I unplugged it, it still says it's working at 1440x900 but it's actual resolution is bigger.
From time to time, retailers will discount iTunes Store Gift Cards and I'm tempted to stock up since discounts are enticing ways to shop. It appears that Apple has three sorts of gift cards available in the US. I am interested in the usually colorful or music related one. Originally, these cards only worked to buy music from the iTunes Store, but now my Apple ID works with several other store fronts in addition to the expected iTunes music store on iOS, Mac and Windows: iBookstore on iOS iCloud to buy additional storage space annually iTunes match annual subscription service App Store on iOS App Store on Mac OS Apple Store app on iOS for ordering product online or for pickup in Apple Retail Stores. Apple Store on the internet at http://store.apple.com
Does anyone know if it's possible to find out what people are searching for in the App Store? I'd like to be able to pitch to a client that there is a high demand for a certain type of app. Is it possible to see this sorta like a Google AdWords Keyword Tool for the App Store?
I find the unread counter on Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac distracting. Whenever it's there I feel the need to click on it. How can I hide the unread count? Mail.app provides an option to disable it, I'm hoping there is a setting in Outlook too.
Whenever I try to shut down my iMac (3.2 GHz Intel Core i3, running 10.7.3), it closes out all programs, goes to the gray screen with the spinning ball and just hangs there. This occurs in restart or shut down mode. Any thoughts?
I'm back from trip to Egypt with 1600 pics on my iPhone. To maintain some coherence and not to lose track of everything I was seeing, I created daily or place specific folders on the iPhone. I can go back and use the iPhone as guidance for manual album creation, but if I could just grab these albums would save a ton on time. Is there any way to transfer these albums (not just the camera roll) to iPhoto, Picasa or Google+?
I think we can all agree that the "# Discover" button in the official Twitter for iPhone app is a big waste of screen space. I never really rely on Twitter to "Discover" anything other than that which is said by those who I follow. But if there was one thing I did want to discover, it would be local trends. Is there any way to access this information in Twitter for iPhone? Is there another app that better serves this information?
Activity Monitor lets me see how much memory is allocated as "wired", but I can't find a way to break the allocation down by applications or other memory consumers. Is there a tool out there that lets me get this information?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.2. Is there a way to run an AppleScript or terminal command that quickly turns on or off the "mouse keys" feature under the Universal Access tab? Ideally I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve GUI scripting the System Preferences app, although that would be slightly better than nothing. I've explored defaults write com.apple.universalaccess useMouseKeysShortcutKeys 1 and various other forms of that statement, but to no avail.
I copied my iTunes folder and changed it in preferences. Then I did Library -> Organize Library. Why doesn't iTunes see the music? (I think I used this process before). How to fix? Using iTunes 10.
Is there one of these? I could not find one with a basic search on google. If not, is it possible to make it look and behave exactly like the default audio quicklook in objective-C?
I only have one account (and will never get more accounts) on my Mac. However you often have to choose between installing stuff in /Library or ~/Library. What's the best practice? Does it make any difference for me?
The processes end up as such: "(Google Chrome)" - which seems very odd to me. I'm used to seeing "Google Chrome He" or something like this:
So, my main question is: how do I merge the functionalities of these two layouts? Phrased a different way: Why is it that, given the below XML, I run into the phenomena described above? a GitHub gist for my recreated Programmer Dvorak layout another gist, posted to save you time from downloading the whole package Note that the official layout (2nd link above) actually installs itself with a .bundle directory in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ whereas I have my recreated layout simply at $HOME/Library/Keyboard Layouts/name.layout. If there's any other information that would be helpful, please let me know; I'd be happy to take screenshots or something if necessary.
Has anyone else noticed that command line java applications in OS X create GUI processes that steal focus (ie, groovy, maven sub processes)? I'm finding it extremely annoying; probably because I've been living with it for 6-8 months since I think OS X 10.6. How can I prevent java processes from doing this in OS X?
I am laying out a long document in Pages '09 v4.1 (923), using the "Hoefler Text" typeface for the body text. On certain characters (k, e, and others) at the end of an italicized word, the advanced type features of Pages use the swash variation of the last character, though there is an otherwise "normal" italic of the letter. My client does not like the look of this, and I'm looking for a way to disable this behavior.
What is the blue section at the top of this image (above Macintosh hard drive partition)? Is it another partition, it only seems to exist on this partition when I create a new one. Where do I find the EFI boot partition?
Is there any application that is similar to Gif Text but with more images and continous updates ? I tried looking in the appstore but I don't think the keywords I used were good enough. I'm sure gif text is not the only app out there. Basically a library with gif images that I can click to copy and paste in iMessage.
I've received a bunch of MDI files which I need to open on a Mac Snow Leopard. Any way around this e.g. free readers available?
I downloaded color sample pack from *=URL=* it says i should unzip and place it into ~/.vim but where is this folder? I tried unzip it to my usr/share/.vim folder but it is not working, I don't see themes added to gvim Edit>color scheme menu, and i tried "colorscheme sometheme", "color sometheme" in my gvimrc. Both not working for new themes
I'm trying to figure out if this computer will be able to run the new Xcode 4.2. These are the specs: MacBook Pro 2.2 15'' Core Duo 2.16GHz (T2600) 2 GB RAM The full specs can be found here.
When a phishing email presents a link, they often send you to a webpage that redirects you to another webpage that they harvest your data from. Does the Quick Look feature in Mail follow these redirects? If it doesn't, can I assume that this is a safe way to do an initial quick check that a link is from a nefarious source?
I discovered the export option from OS X does not export things like: proxies, or DNS settings from the VPN configuration. How can I export all of these?
I did something wrong and now my PHP is not working anymore. I'm using OS X Lion. I can I restore it to the original configuration?
When I look into console.app I see that every 2 minutes one of the mac os programs (Safari, Mail, Keychain, Addressbook, WebProcess etc.) is giving an "Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors." error. How do I solve this problem?
The Finder's search bar is an integral part of my workflow. I am constantly using it to search the contents of files within various folders.
My network has a .internetconnect file which allows iDevices to connect to the network. However, they also have a really irritating rule which means we have to passcode our devices to get on, which is the last thing I'd like to do. I've got the file open in the or display, but I'm unclear which one defines the passcode as on - can someone help me out? It's a work network so I can't easily share the file but there is nothing that obviously defines the passcode as on. Thanks! The file can be found here.
I don't quite understand why certain websites like Twitter render text so badly in my Safari browser 5.1.2 (under Windows 7 x64). The same problem doesn't occur in Chrome or Firefox or IE. And it doesn't happen on all websites but quite often. Anyone have insight on this? I've attached a screenshot with the example.
When I insert a music CD into my iMac, iTunes opens and gives me the option to "rip" (i.e. import the content and save as files) the tracks using any of these encoders: AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, or WAV. When I insert a video DVD into my iMac, DVD Player opens, but I don't see any menu item to rip the DVD.
Is there any software or a procedure that would allow me to log out of all services (gmail, dropbox etc.) and/or delete any sensitive data remotely ...from a machine that has been stolen?
In Snow Leopard, I would routinely swipe up to show the desktop and then click on my "Documents" or "Downloads" stack from the dock in order to quickly move a file to the desktop. In Lion, if I swipe up to show the desktop, as soon as I click a stack, the windows that had been cleared return to their original position. Now if I want to move a file from a stack to the desktop, I have to open the stack first and then swipe up to get a clear desktop. I realize this may be a minor point for some, but it's a feature I used all the time in Snow Leopard and I can't get used to the change in Lion. Is there any way to change this setting in Lion so that clearing the desktop functions like in did in Snow Leopard? Thanks in advance for any help.
Is there some canonical place I can find a reference for the scripting capabilities various things have in AppleScript? For instance, I'd like to automate iTunes a little bit. Looking around on the web I see iTunes supports get album of current track and current track has several properties: name, artist, etc. But nowhere can I find a reference for all of iTunes' properties, or capabilities other than current track. That info may be on Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes somewhere, but then that's iTunes specific, I want a general reference for all apps.
I have a non-encrypted DVD (of my wedding, if you must know) and I was wondering if I could extract clips from the DVD into files in some standard video format (i.e. clip1.mp4) so I can look at them on my iMac and perhaps upload them to YouTube.
How does one change the tabstop in TextEdit.app for Snow Leopard? The current tabstop is 8 spaces. I would like to change this to 4 spaces. Is there any way to achieve this?
I'm copying an album of non-DRM songs from iTunes (where they all play just fine) to an iPad. Three of the songs on the album were downloaded through the Bandcamp purchase interface (let's call it method A), and they transfer fine, but the rest were downloaded directly as .mp3 files (method B), and do not transfer. Rather, they ostensibly do: the song appears in iTunes and in Music.app, but does not play in either and appears greyed out in iTunes with a grey sync icon next to it.
As my question states, Is it possible to virtualize PowerPC... FOR a PowerPC?
My wife's iPhone is playing up. It won't make any noise except for when it revceives a call. Messages, etc. only vibrate. Just now it made the unlock sound when I unlocked it, but I can't get it to make the sound again. When you press the volume keys, the ringer icon appears with no volume bar:
The weirdest thing happened to me. I reinstalled OSX Lion on my macbook, and when all done I noticed how I could not switch between application windows on different spaces using cmd + tab.
While i generally like the newest Mail.app, i particularly dislike that it groups all messages that i receive from a specific sender. This makes it difficult to remove a specific message and i would like to disable it. Is there a way to turn grouping off and show messages in single message mode, like the older Mail.app was doing ?
I'm on Lion 10.7.3 and every now and then, com.apple.qtkitserver hogs my CPU @ 100% for a little less than a minute, especially when there's something happening on Finder. I know that QTKitServer is the Quick Look server, but it seems its generating files unexpectedly or something of the sort. Does anyone have a fix? Note: This started happening when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.
This all just works fine. But whenever I want to watch a video on my TV (for example), I have to put the TV into the HDMI port, thereby disconnecting my main monitor. I was wondering if it is possible to daisy chain this. I want to just hook up an adapter or something like that, put my two monitors in there and then just hook up the TV, being able to use it whenever I want to.
I'm trying to reduce my hard drive space used to prepare for a move to an SSD. I've got a wonderful application called DaisyDisk that allows me to visualize data segments on my hard drives. I have three internal drives, and for the time being I'd just like to slim down the size of my startup disk, so I can move it to a smaller SSD.
I would like to be able to use the note taking feature of Siri to take long dictation for brainstorming ideas. The problem is I find that Siri can only tolerate a second or so of silence and then it thinks I am done and transcribes the note.
I would like to change the modified date of a symlink. The symlink points to a directory so it cannot be a hardlink. The following command works fine in the terminal for an actual directory, but it does not modify the modified date on the symlink. How can I do this and why does the command not work on symlinks?
I'm trying to listen to an album on my iPhone. The play plays the songs randomly. I would like to hear the album in sequence. I also have playlists that I'd like to listen to in sequence.
My friend used to have an iPhone 3GS with iOS version 5. Our text messages showed up blue being that we were on the same software. She now has updated her phone to a Galaxy S II and my phone still thinks that her phone number is operating on iOS 5 software. Her phone cannot receive messages from my phone, but my phone receives messages with no problem. No matter what I do (even restarting my phone and deleting her and reading her) her text messages are still in blue instead of green. When I send a message, it shows that it's sent but her phone never receives it. It's extremely aggravating.
Looking for a way to easily encrypt a file or a folder with a password without having to make up an encrypted read write image in Disk Utility?
I have a @me.com account and I created an Ichat account using it. I am trying to add my gmail contacts from the address book/ adding just the gmail addresses. Noone seems to get my invitations. Why so? Is @me.com account only for adding @me.com accounts?
I installed Linux on my MBP. I just told it to overwrite the whole hard drive so OS X is gone. But now I want to go back to OS X so that I can upgrade to Lion.
Any suggestions as to what can be done to solve this problem? The goal is that all content should be accessible from the Apple TV at all times. They are using iTunes 10.5.3, unfortunately I can't tell the software version of the AppleTV right now.
When I try to add a bookmark or a web page to the reading list in safari it freezes. How do I solve this problem and what is causing it? Systeminfo Mac OS 10.6.8
I've been trying to open an encrypted (FileVault 2) HFS+ external hard disk on Windows 7. Since all the software available seem not able to do it, I've tried by installing the bootcamp drivers on Windows. First manually (placing AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys into system32/drivers and adding the proper regedit keys) and then, since this didn't work, using the whole bootcamp installer. When I connect the drive, it's still unrecognized (even in the Drive Manager). What should I do? (or maybe: is it possible?)
Thinking about buying a used Apple laptop computer, and wondering if there are any manual checklist or tools for confirming an Apple laptop is working correctly via some sort of automated diagnostics. I'm not concerned about the state of any software on the computer, and the best solution would be me just running the diagnostics on boot from a thumb-drive, since I'd like to avoid having to install software on a computer I would not own at the point it's being tested. Also, it'd be nice if the diagnostics output a report and any data it was able to discover on the spec of the hardware present.
Thinking of buying a used Apple MacBook and wanted to know the best way to tell based on the hardware specs provided by Apple online by entering in the serial number for the MacBook here: *=URL=* After pulling up the specs for the hardware on Apple, how do I figure out what the feasibility of running a newer version of OS X on that used Mac is?
Suppose that we connect our flash USB drive to a MacBook, then eject this storage from Finder sidebar. Now I want to remount this storage without unplugging and replugging it into the computer, but the disk is no longer listed with diskutil list command.
I find myself doing this too often - navigate to a folder, "Open Terminal Here", then "mate .", then "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" I was wondering if it's possible to add a button to the finder toolbar that when I click it runs those two commands for me for the folder that I'm currently in? Thanks
I have a list of folders shown in list view mode in Finder. But for some weird reason the regular click to expand triangle button which is present on each folder icon has disappeared. This issue is only sticky in one of the many folders in the system. Do you know how I can re-enable it back? Thanks
I have a question about my terminal. When I started out working with Rails on my Mac terminal, I would have lines that looked like this as the route for my $: But now, I get lines that look like this: I'm pretty sure that I didn't change anything, so why does it give me the pal-nat....$ instead of the Nicholas...$?
Is there a way to tell if software on that runs on one version of OS X will run on another version of OS X without install the new version of OS X, and then attempting to reinstall the software?
I installed windows7 through bootcamp on my macbook air(2011). (and also installed windows driver from bootcamp) Everything is OK, but one problem - Sound quality is very poor. (maybe phone or radio quality?). In OSX, quality is good. I tried to change audio setting, sound quality tab, etc., but not fixed. Audio driver info shows "Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 91)". I googled for the updated driver, and found this : 2011 Mac Mini boot camp problems I tried it, but problem has not been fixed. Any idea? would be welcomed.
My mother got an iPad 2 and rarely ever uses her old computer anymore. She mostly uses it to look things up and watch video in the different Swedish TV-channels apps (like SVTPlay or TV4Play). The problem is that she has no way of viewing them on anything else but the iPad so she told me that she and my dad actually sat on the sofa in front of the TV looking at the iPad screen to see a show that they had missed. I was thinking that I should solve this problem for them for her birthday in a month.
I have a jailbroken iPad 2 and I was wondering if it is possible to stop the passcode buttons from lighting up when they're pressed. Is there some sort of image somewhere that can be changed to keep this from happening?
I often (for example on the train) want to put my macbook into a state that will maximise the amount of time I have before the battery runs out - so far example I'll switch off the bluetooth, then switch off the wifi, then alter the brightness - my question is, can I do all of this from the command line? Then I run some nice little script...
This post suggests that the command tell application “System Events” to key code 37 in AppleScript should move the mouse pointer one pixel down and to the left if run when MouseKeys are enabled. In OS X 10.7.2, however, it has the effect of generating a lowercase l, and not moving the mouse at all. Similarly, I had hoped tell application “System Events” to key code 34 using control down would sent a control click at the current point of the mouse cursor, but that does not seem to be the effect.
EDIT: I have just realized that what I'm talking about isn't a default feature in Lion. I probably added the commands via an article like this (scroll down to "Gestures and keyboard shortcuts"). So this question is more about how to make plist changes take effect immediately from Terminal.
Mac Pro freezes on blue screen on shutdown. Restart seems to work quite happily, it's just shutting down that my Mac Pro doesn't want to do. The chime has decided to become super quiet of it's own accord.
At home, my primary computer is an iMac with an external USB hard drive. The external drive is shared so that other computers can use it for Time Machine. I have a MacBook Air that I take to work every day, and it uses the shared Time Machine drive when I am at home. However, I have to manually mount the drive. How can I set up my MacBook Air to automatically mount the shared drive when I'm on my home AirPort network? Currently, I perform these steps to mount the shared drive and back up: In a Finder window, select the iMac from the Shared list Press "Connect" Authenticate with my iMac user credentials (I just saved the password to my keychain) Choose the USB drive from the list of available volumes to mount Use the Time Machine menu extra to choose "Back Up Now"
I found a box with equipment (PC Cards, cables, etc.) from my old PowerBook 5300c and I wonder what to do with it. Here in central Europe it seemed that nobody needs something like that.
I am entering the password correctly. I am able to log in to both me.com and iCloud.com. I tried @me.com and @whatever_is_my_apple_id_domain_is - there are no problems with the password.
Does anyone know of a USB floppy drive model that can read old 400K & 800K Classic Mac OS (HFS) floppies? I have an Iomega Floppy Plus, but it can only read 1.44MB HFS floppies.
My CDMA iPhone 4 (model MC677LL) running iOS 5.0.1 (9A405) doesn't have any problems connecting to my Time Capsule's Wifi Network (firmware: 7.6.1), but most of the time, the connection doesn't seem to be of any use. The phone shows good signal strength, but attempts to use that connection- Mobile Safari, Tweetbot, syncing OmniFocus- mostly time out. Note: the connection will still work for laptops/desktops running OS X while the phone is having problems. This used to happen before updating to iOS 5, fwiw. The only other thing that might be of any use in diagnosing this is knowing that I also have an Airport Express (firmware 7.6.1) in the living room which joins the Time Capsule's network so I can AirPlay right to the stereo. To fix this, I've tried: switching the connection's DNS server(s) between the Time Capsule (10.0.1.1) and Google's DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4), plus switching the Time Capsule's DNS server(s) between the default for my ISP and Google. switching the connection's DNS se
How do I restore to the normal non jailbroken state my jailbroken iphone 3G? Is there any permanent change when you jailbreak it?
There is a feature in Internet Explorer's cookie handling preferences that causes Internet Explorer to prompt you for each new cookie that is being saved. The preferences in question let you allow or deny each cookie, domain-by-domain and get IE to remember the setting for each domain. Is there an extension for safari that will emulate this behaviour? In essence, I want to be prompted when whatever.doubleclick.net tries to save a cookie and tell safari to reject the cookie, and all cookies for that domain.
I wrote an .command script that when I launch it, it just exits and it's to quick for me to see what's going on. How do I keep it open?
At the moment I'm trying to remote control my machine and command and ctrl do not seem to be working properly. Is there some type of 'keyboard sniffer' functionality so I can see exactly what is and is not being received?
As pictured this new list view has the column headers that are un-clickable, so one can't sort by clicking on the column headers. Why is the Finder doing this and how do I get it back to the way it is in the deactivated window. Any suggestions?
The documentation says that Finder replaces windows explorer. However I have gone to my home directory in a terminal and created a directory with
I've been trying to get Perian to work in Lion, basically QuickTime simply refuse to play any files other than the standard QuickTime supported file types (Perian is supposed to add this functionality). I tried uninstalling Perian and installing it again, but doesn't seem to be working. From a quick google search it seems that so many people has this problem, and some of them seems to get this working again by reinstalling but I didn't. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?
How can I set a label on a folder with a keyboard shortcut from the finder?
I have some links on a page. When I click (tap) one of these links, the gray box which shows where I tap is misplaced. It seems that the link is rendered higher than it should. Is this a known Mobile Safari issue?
I've just bought Numbers and I'm trying to open some XLS files. They're in Excel '97 format, not encrypted, and with no password set. However, when I try to open them, I get this error message:
I need software that would detect changes in directory (A) every 5 seconds or so and upload/delete changed files from/at (B) remote directory. I found non-commercial software, *=URL=* I am wondering if there are any commercial alternatives?
I am trying to empty my trash, and it keeps giving me an error message that says, .Trash can't be opened right now because it's being used by another task... I have tried restarting my computer, running Finder > Secure Empty Trash everything yields the same result and error message from above.
In Keynote and Pages (and other apps), I can set a preference in the Auto-correction pane to use smart quotes. However, I'm writing a bunch of slides that include code. When typing the code, I don't want to use smart quotes, as they are syntactically incorrect for the language I'm using. On the other hand, I often have descriptive text where I'd like to use the smart quotes.
I did a Time Machine backup on my Macbook running OS X 10.5.8. Then I installed Snow Leopard and tried to restore all apps, files etc. using Time Machine but it restored the system back to 10.5.8. How can I do this keeping Snow Leopard?
I'm running iOS 5.0.1, no jailbreaks, customizations etc. Last night I synced some of my music (I manually manage my videos and music). Probably transferred about 5.8 GBs of music.
Is there a Quick Look plugin to preview .epub (ebook) files?
is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after copying all system files to the SSD like in GRUB?
I've recently got a mac for some software development (I am been doing windows dev for 15 years) but I keep stumbling on the keyboard shortcuts. I've been using DoubleCommand to switch ctrl and ⌘, which works much better now, but my major problem is with the keyboard shortcuts to navigate text:
I've been trying to install a program for electron microscopy reconstruction on OS X 10.7 and when I execute it on tcsh I got the following message: I've been trying to change the hard limit using limit without any success.
I like the concept of hot corner actions but the trigger time for hot corner actions is too quick for me to make good use of them. I keep tripping my corner actions accidentally while reaching for objects in that general vicinity of the corner.
What command can I use to retrieve the system's serial number from the unix command line? As uname will output some information about the software and hardware, I would like to retrieve the serial number from a command to use in a script.
All lights are green except for internet and server. I can not connect to the internet. Things were fine until after my first back up.
I asked a similar question on android.stackexchange.com and I'd like to see how the answer compares for iOS devices: If my iPhone is stolen, can I remotely brick the thing, so resale value drops to zero?
At some point when I reinstalled Mac OS X Lion, the application switcher started minimizing apps so that when I switch to one all others minimize. This causes problems when working with my developer IDE and a browser. Many times throughout my day I want to look at two or more applications at once. How can I fix this?
My Mail.app program is ridiculously slow. I have several email accounts and I just checked the size of my Mail folder (~/Library/Mail): 593.2MB.
I have a DR-BT50 bluetooth headset (they are headphones) that I want to use with my MacBook unibody. I didn't use to have any problems, but as of recently I am running into gaps/skips in the sound. This happens mostly in third party music players (including flash/youtube videos) although I see it in iTunes, just less often. I know my headset is ok, because it works perfectly with my phone. Also, interference is unlikely the problem, since the headset works well with the phone one foot away from MacBook, and one would think that whatever is interfering with the computer talking to the headphones would also mess with the connection to the phone. Anyway, I know it's a Bluetooth issue because I have absolutely no problems with wired headphones. That said, I have no idea where to start debugging it. I played with all the Bluetooth options I could find, and reset everything to factory defaults (erasing all devices and re-pairing) yet to no avail.
Safari is keep refreshing itself multiple times a day which is quite annoying. It prompts a message to me: "Force Reload" and then it reloads every tab in every window. This is unacceptable. Any idea what is going wrong? (Safari 5.1.3 / OS X Lion 10.7.3)
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my MacBook with the Core 2 Duo processor. I want to use iBooks Author and as I understand I need to upgrade my OS so I can access the App Store to download iBooks Author. iBooks Author says it needs at least 10.6.6. If I upgrade to something above 10.6.6, do I first need to upgrade to 10.6.6? If I upgrade to something above 10.6.6, do I first need to upgrade to 10.6.6? Can I download an upgrade instead of buying physical product? Can I download an upgrade instead of buying physical product?
I have Adobe Creative Suite 4 running on OS 10.5.8. If I upgrade to 10.6.6 will CS4 programs still work?
I have a problem with my backup program which means that I need to delete all files and folders in a specific directory tree where the filename contains special characters, in my case the German ones such as öäüß and their capital equivalents. I'd be quite happy to do this using the terminal but none of the commands I have tried has matched any of the files. Can anyone suggest a command I could use which would match these files? For example, I've tried
Thanks to Brett Terpstra I can easily send an SMS through Google Voice in Terminal, but now I want to be able to initiate a phone call via Termainal too. There is no Google Voice API (yet?) so I know there is no official way to do it, but I'm hoping that perhaps someone else has had this same issue and already found a solution. A proper solution would have to not only let me say which number I want to call, but also which number Google Voice should use to call me. (For those unfamiliar with Google Voice, calls are initiated by your phone receiving an incoming call from Google's servers, and then you are connected to the number that you wanted to call.) I took a look on Github, but the only potential solution I found was *=URL=* which hasn't been updated in 2 years, and I'm not sure how to use it.
Can I upgrade from 10.5 to 10.7 without installing 10.6 first? And what is the cheapest way to upgrade?
I bought a used G3 couple of days ago and I want to reinstall Mac OS 9. I got the OS in .toast format. Any knows how I make that into bootable CD? Just burning with Disk Utility didn't work, although there might be a way to use that which I don't know.
I'm currently logging in to a remote server by opening terminal, starting ssh-agent, adding a key, launching xterm and then connecting via ssh. What tools should I be using for this? I've looked at keychain, but the docs don't explain how to use it for ssh.
I am currently experiencing a very strange issue regarding booting into Windows 7 64-bit (installed on its own 1TB HDD). If I restart my Mac Pro, hold down the option key, and select my Windows partition, I get a black screen and the fans spin up. However, if I completely power down the machine and cold boot it, I am able to hold down the option key and select Windows and boot successfully. So, essentially, I am able to boot into Windows only after a cold boot, and not a restart due to the aforementioned problems.
The "Gather Windows" button allows me to see the Displays window for both displays. I've used it to play around with the resolution but this did not work. Any idea what could be going on?
When I updated to the most recent iPhone software last year, my phone had trouble getting the update and after resetting it and trying to restore it, I still have a number of apps that I can't find. These apps: don't show in my "purchase" list in the iStore do show as downloaded if I try to repurchase (even the free ones) are not hidden show as an unchecked app on the list of apps on the left if I open the iPhone in iTunes, but when I check it, it does not allow it to be synched because it says it can't be found
I have rules in outlook that routes certain emails to folders. These still appear as "unread" in the mail app, but not in the inbox, so I'm not getting notifications. Is there a way to enable notifications for new, unread emails that are not in the inbox folder?
I am trying to delete a friend's old email address so it doesn't automatically pop up when I enter his name while addressing an email. I have removed it manually from the address book, but it still shows up in Mail. How do I stop this happening?
How do I connect to a remote server with a public key using Fugu? I'm using Amazon EC2, so I have .pem public key, but I'm totally new to Fugu and I can't see any form or input for the public key. In the "connect to" text input shall I enter in my public DNS?
I have several audio dramas that are in the audiobook (.m4b) format in iTunes. My problem is that when I sync my 5th gen iPod to iTunes, they don't show up in Music>Playlists, they show up under Music>Audiobooks. This is really driving me crazy, because I want the audiobooks in Music>Playlists, but the only workaround is to convert them to a different format. How do I easily convert the audiobooks to a standard audio file format that will show up in Music>Playlists on my iPod?
I just bought an used iPod Touch 4G running iOS 5 for my son. The person had a ton of legit apps & games on it. My son did not want to lose those, but he is unable to load up any music. When he hooked it up to his PC, it prompted for the iTunes password of the previous owner. Will switching to his iTunes account make all the apps and games on the iPod Touch useless? Will switching to his iTunes account make all the apps and games on the iPod Touch useless? Does he need to authorize the iPod to his PC ? Does he need to authorize the iPod to his PC ? Is there a way that he can load music up and maintain all the existing apps? Is there a way that he can load music up and maintain all the existing apps? Would jailbreaking help? Would jailbreaking help?
I am new to the Mac World, I am stuck with the fact that on my 15 inch Mac Book Pro only Firefox 10.1 uses all the screen, while Chrome and Safari only use a portion of it. Chrome is the thing I miss most because it's the browser I usually use. How do I set it to use the full screen space? I use Snow Leopard 10.6.8
How can i remove the "Eject" icon from the menubar? It's an icon that starts on login. It ejects all mounted disks (dmg/usb/etc...).
I have a Unibody MacBook (late 2008) which shipped with Leopard (specs here). When I sell it, I know I can move my data and settings to my new Laptop through Migration Assistant; for the new owner, I'd like to wipe everything except the standard software (plus all updates). Given that the machine's original OS and install disks were 10.5.5 and iLife '09, what do I have to do sell it with Lion? A) Just wipe everything except standard OS X apps + iLife? or B) Make a Lion USB drive (and give it to the buyer), and do and erase and install (or equivalent) And if B) - How do I get iLife on there?
I'm using Lion (10.7.3) on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I just got a 32GB SD card and formatted it with my camera. I'd like to transfer some files onto it from my computer, but the card seems to be read-only when I access it in Finder. And in Disk Utility, all options are grayed out so I can't reformat the card.
Context: I want to schedule various servers I look after to install various updates (both through SU and not) and restart as and when necessary but remotely and out of office hours. Not on a regular basis (daily/weekly/monthly etc) but as and when we're sure the update isn't going to break stuff...
Is there a way in which I can replicate the Windows way of going to the start of line by using home and not ⌘ + ← ? I did it in Eclipse, but I'd rather do it globally. I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I have an iPhone 4 that I can't seem to sync to our corporate Exchange server (Exchange Server 2003). Email syncs fine, however generally calendar items do not sync, and when they do, they disappear from the phone after about an hour.
I have an online subscription to a radio program that allows me to download past episodes. However when they are opened in iTunes the album name is set in the format Apr 01 2008. The problem is that there are thousands of these and I would like to change it to a better format such as 2008 01 Apr or even 2008 Apr 01. Is there any automatic way to change an mp3's metadata - or a program like a Better Finder Rename that can edit this iTunes metadata for the thousands of tracks that I have?
I have an old Time Machine backup that I moved from its volume to a folder on a different disk. Now I want to move it to yet another volume. The problem is that the volume where the backup folder is now shows about 90 GB of used space, while the folder itself shows a size of about 240 GB and I don't have that space available at the moment. My question is: how can I move this folder?
I have a CD. I copied the whole CD to another location - except for one file. When trying to copy that particular file, I get following error:
Anyone know a way to measure application load times? I've looked at instruments but having a hard time pinning down the statistic/event I should be looking for. I want to measure how long it takes for the app to finish loading, (the window appears) etc
I love OS X Lion's feature to preview some files without opening them. Is there a way to register new file extension? For example, Drupal module extension ".module", which is a text file.
Does anyone know a mac app for converting a movie (.mov) to a series of images ? I know quicktime could do this in the olden days, but that features has been deleted.
As the image below shows, I've a few applications which I keep open on my main desktop and I've another space/Desktop for applications like Twitter for Mac, Stickies, etc.  Now, the problem is that when I restart the system (I use the setting - "Reopen Windows when logging back in"), all the application windows which are opened on the Desktop 2 come up on the Desktop 1, instead of Desktop 2 where they were present originally. Is there a way to preserve their location after the restart?
I have all my papers in a .docx on Dropbox and I'd like to be able to edit them on my iPad. How do I do this? All the free editors I've tried only support reading .docx files and they don't have formatting.
Okay - so I have a relatively simple question but can't find a clear answer. Say for instance I have a large video file in FolderA named something.avi. Time Machine then makes a pass and backs this up. Afterwards, I rename this file somethingelse.avi. Does Time Machine physically copy all of this data a second time, or does it create a new link with the changed file name, which points to the data which has already been copied?
Via Remote Management (VNC) I am connecting to a virtual display on a Mac running Lion. VNC is working as expected, except Pages '09 documents show up blank. If, however VNC connects to the Mac and controls the physical display then Pages documents show up as expected. Is it possible to use Pages using a virtual display over VNC? VNC Clients that I've tested are: TightVNC & RealVNC running on Windows, or Apple's Screen Sharing app on Lion.
My Macbook has frozen on the start-up screen. I'm not sure if it's a serious fault or whether it just needs to re-start from a back-up, but I'm overseas at the moment & the back up is my Time Capsule at home. I need urgently to retrieve files from my Time Capsule. I'm aware that I could have set up my Time Capsule up to be accessed remotely before I left, & I was wondering whether it is possible to set up remote access remotely, if that makes sense? Thanks very much
Can I install VMWare Workstation in a Mac's Boot Camp partition that has Windows 7 installed in it? Is there any technical restrictions? Will there be a problem if I load the Boot Camp partition in VMWare Fusion, after VMWare Workstation is installed? Tks
I have many games on my iPad which my kids play. I'd like to remove the games and apps that aren't used but I don't know how to find this information.
I have spent a lot of time setting up a speech recognition profile which would be a pain to do all over again. I have configured this on a Mac mini. Suppose I now wish to buy a MacBook Air. Would it be possible to transfer my entire current setup including software and settings across to a different hardware platform?
The English language doesn't really include any accented words but other languages do. Yet I like to write using accents and diacritics, as needed in each language (Romanian, French, German, etc.).
I've recently migrated from Ubuntu to Mac, but one of the features that I'm lacking most is the keyboard layout for alternative languages. I don't like to switch keyboard layouts all the time, yet at the same time I like to write using accents and diacritics, as needed in each language (Romanian, French, German, etc.).
I just plugged my iPhone in and instead of it being in English which it normally is, it's using German & I've not been to Germany. What can I do to get my preferred language back?
When I switch to an application using ⌘ + tab, all the open windows for that application are brought forward (usually covering other windows in other apps that I want to see). I would like only the active/selected window for that application brought forward. Is there a way to accomplish this? I would be happy to change this globally, as the existing behavior drives me batty.
Before, with MobileMe, I was able to backup and access my Time Capsule anywhere in the world because I had my MobileMe login stored in my Time Capsule, and my MobileMe entered into my mac. So when I was at home it would backup through the local network and when remote it did it through the internet. Once upgrading to iCloud this broke (even though I entered my iCloud info into the time capsule). Apple apparently fixed this with an update: The latest Airport Base Station Update 7.6.1 "provides support for remote access to an AirPort disk or a Time Capsule hard drive with an iCloud account."
When I first got my MacBook Pro, it took less than 30 seconds to start up. Now, after several months, it takes about two minutes to startup and I can tell that it is not as responsive when using some applications (it was fast before). I am wondering if it is because I'm not shutting it down that causes the lag during startup.
There's been a lot of posts about memory in OSX. None have really documented what the screen below speaks to. Especially the difference between private memory, and virtual private memory. Also does port represent just network ports, or does it include open file handles on that screen? The link right here What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory? is not the same question. They're speaking of a different screen in OSX, which makes different measurements. The screen I'm referring to in the image below is per process, not per system. I would greatly appreciate if any one can provide information to what memory statistics in the image below represent, and what ports details.
Is PRAM stored on the same NVRAM chip that non-PRAM variables are stored. I always assumed that NVRAM was the UEFI firmware chip on the logic board. Are all of these one in the same (NVRAM - PRAM - UEFI firmware), basically are they all stored on the same chip? How do you set the PRAM variables like you set the NVRAM variables with the nvram command. Thanks :-)
I'm using Safari 5.1.3 on Lion. Each time I click the RSS icon in the address bar (or directly visit the feed), Safari will report can't open page, saying operation not permitted with the NSPOSIXErrorDomain: 1 error. For other web sites, Safari works fine.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and the wifi sync used to work properly, but due to lack of memory, I shut down some of the processes / services that would run automatically to make my computer run a bit faster. Now I'd like to sync my iPod Touch with iOS5 again but I don't know which services need to be turned on to sync again. When I go to my iPod to sync, the button for wireless syncing in Settings isn't tappable.
I restored my iPod Touch from an iTunes backup and my old password no longer works to get into the iPod. Any idea how I can figure out what the new password is? How can I change it back to the old password?
OS X Lion is quite demanding for old Macs. Even though I own a 15'' MBP early 2011 with the 'powerful' Intel HD 3000 for integrated graphics, some animations just don't feel right (low fps). This is especially very noticeable with Mission Control: It's choppy.
i have a 2006 MacPro (Dual, Dual Core Xeon) which is currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. I have read (and checked in my case) that there are 2 extra SATA ports on the mother board of the MacPro (Found them too...). Anyway, i also read that the SATA ports are turned off in BootCamp, for reasons Apple only know (cough we all know why cough). Anyway, the post i read this on was quite old, and given my Mac Pro is not actually using BootCamp (just booted from the win2k8r2 disk, and there is no Mac Partition at all on this machine) does anyone know off hand if this should work? I am hoping to take apart the machine over the weekend to see if this will actually work, but before i do, any ideas?
I have OS X 10.6.3 installed on my iMac. I would like to download a trial version of iWork but the latest version (9.1) is not compatible with my OS X version. Which is the right version of iWork for me and where could I download the trial version?
A friend of mine bought an iPhone 4S. It was a showroom model and it came with his limitations. You can't delete or move around apps. What does he need to do to get rid of this demo-modus. Or is it irreversible? EDIT: He bought the iPhone in Belgium (so, it has no sim lock)
I have a domain via Namecheap. They support dynamic dns updates. I'd like to use my airport extreme (firmware 7.6.1) to do the DNS updates, anyone know how to accomplish this?
I've seen many people using numbers to refer to the different dropdown, but I'm not sure this is good practice. What happens if Apple decide to swap the order of two dropdowns at some point? Any help would be appreciated. UPDATE: Using 10.6.8 and inspector as suggested below, I get the following:
Now when I attempt to connect to Wi-Fi on my MacBook Air, it attempts to connect to my network and connects but gives the error message "Alert: No Internet connection". I checked and it is not getting an IP address. After two minutes or so, it receives a proper IP address, but the internet is not working. Sites simply won't load. When I try to ping my router, I get timeout messages. I have verified that my DNS settings are correct. Here's what I've already tried: Turning firewall on/off/on again Removed Wi-Fi configuration from System Preferences > Network, and added them again Rebooted my router (several times) Cleared /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder Installed 10.7.3 combo update
I am on a limited functionality school account with no access to System Preferences. I am a curious child, and I opened the folder Mac HD -> System -> Library -> CoreServices ->Menus. I copied all the .menu files to my desktop and opened a few of them. I now want to get rid of the menus from the notification area. I can move the .menu files to the trash, but I can't delete any of them that I already opened. I get a "File in Use" error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My Macbook Pro's fans are running louder. I've also noticed that the average internal temperature is significantly higher. (187°F as I write this.) This didn't used to happen unless I was running full-screen video or recording multitrack audio. I've made no other changes to the computer that I can remember.
I'm trying to install CERN's root libraries on my mac os Lion. It needs me to set $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, but on checking
Is it possible to disallow iPhone/iPad users to turn off the location services on their iDevices? E.g. by configuring profiles, software or system settings, etc. I have a client that needs to track the GPS location of their employees and doesn't want them to be able to turn off the location services in the iPhone settings.
I currently use Little Snitch to control network traffic on my Macbook Pro, and see what my apps are connecting to. Unfortunately, Little Snitch only shows you the hostname that an app is connecting to. Is there a tool which will show you the full URL of the requests that apps are making? Even better if you can view the headers.
Has anyone come across a Fortran 77 emulator or compiler for iOS devices?
If lion server runs on osx lion, what is accessible from the "outside"? If I open a port and connect it to the ip of the lion server, will that traffic be intercepted by the server app and limiting the scope of the access to what the server app allows access too?
I have one email address i use to sign up for random stuff. and One that I only give out to people i trust. Over the years the one i use to sign up for stuff has gotten riddled with spam. the other one has all my important emails. I would like to get push notifications from the important email address and not from the one with all the spam. In the iphone settings it seems like you can only turn this on or off for all email addresses at once. Is there any way to turn on push notifications for only certain inboxes and not others?
My iMac goes online via a Verizon wireless device. I don't know what my "network" is called and how to use it to go online on my iPad 2.
In chat there was an emoji icon posted recently. You can view it here. I am using Google Chrome and I can't see the icon. I can, however, see them on my iPad. How can I view them in Google Chrome on my Mac? For clarification: I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
Note that I'm looking for a solution that works out of the box. I don't want a tool that can't handle new/changed/deleted files or folders without fiddling with its source code.
I would like to change the number of times my phone 'pings' me when I receive an SMS message. I'm not sure who decided that 2 pings was enough and there would be no visual indicators but I would like to at least change the number of times it tries to tell me I got a message.
I am attempting to set up multi user screen sessions on Mac OS 10.7.3 and I run into the error Attach attempt with invalid pid(xxx)!. If set it up as follows: Make the proper permisions for the screen command From <user_sharing_screen> Initialize the screen with specified session name: Make the screen multiuser: From <user_to_share_with> on the same system connect to the shared screen Then I get the error message Attach attempt with invalid pid(xxx)!
This question is an extension of this question. While my answer did answer the question, there was one part that wasn't answered: how do I share a Wi-Fi connection via a Wi-Fi hotspot?
I have just configured my Drobo FS to be a uPnP server on which I have lots of 1080p MKVs. My little boy loves his movies (Nemo / Cars / etc), so I was hoping to be able to let him watch them on the iPad streamed from the Drobo. Am I dreaming the impossible dream here? Or have I hit some hardware limitation of the iPad and/or the bandwidth limits of my wifi? EDIT The files are mostly AVC for video and DTS for audio EDIT 2
We have some NFS mounts we place in the fstab, via "vifs" which we want to manage separate of the autofs subsystem. The mounts were created in a separate location (/mnt) which should not be managed by the automounting system. But it appears that no matter where you place a mount, somehow the autofs/automount subsystem grabs ahold of it and tries to remount it when you unmount it.
Before saying anything, I would like you to know that my experience in the field of network administration is about 3 days long, so please treat me like the newbie I am. I have also been looking around 2 of these 3 days trying to find the best way to achieve my objective, and I have found similar questions around the internet, but I have not been able to do it.
I am trying copy a file up to a network drive in AppleScript. Normally I would do..
I've discovered that Apple's Remote.app on iOS has a URL scheme. Opening remote:// opens the app. Does anyone know of any other ways to, say, open a certain playlist/shared library via this URL scheme? Or is it just for opening the app?
My mom uses the Facebook app for iPad and wanted to share a post, such as on the web interface:  How does one share a post within the app?
I just installed Mac OS X Lion Server and it doesn't have the Web tab in the services pane. This looked like it was supposed to come standard. How else can I access the Web part of the server?
I would like to be able to use 2 iPhones as true walkie talkies in the middle of nowhere where there are no networks available. Is this possible? If so, would it be possible to use 3G for this?
I have created an iOS Lifestyle app. In the App Store, under the Top Featured tab in the New column I was amazed to see my app listed there. Is it organized by sales or Apple featured?
It appears that are two difference set of preferences, one for Directory Service and one for Open Directory. I always thought the latter was a implementation of the former (Open Directory implements-> Director Services). Am I misunderstanding how this works in OSX, if not why are there different preferences for Directory Service (if this is just an abstraction)? Wikipedia
Apple sells two Mac minis; one is a server edition, the other is a standard Mac mini. What are the differences between the Mac mini and the Mac mini server? I know that the server doesn't have an optical drive and runs a server edition of OS X. Besides this, what are the other differences? What is the advantage of buying a Mac mini over buying a Mac mini server? (besides, of course, that the server runs OS X Server, and one is faster than the other) Will the server last longer, be able to handle running 24/7, whereas the standard one won't?
I have my MacBook connected to an external monitor (via HDMI), and the brightness of MacBook monitor is set to 50% of max brightness . I usually put my display to sleep when I leave my computer for a break, and everytime I wake it up, the MacBook monitor will be set to maximum again. Any idea how do I fix it so that when I wake up the display, I do not need to adjust the screen brightness down again? I am running Lion on an early 2009 MacBook.
I think there is some general confusion on the relation between all four of these items scattered throughout the web. I wanted to get this straightened out.
So, I upgraded my business server to Lion yesterday - BIG mistake. However I really want the WDE that comes with FileVault 2, so I'm trying to cope with all the fuzz. One thing that I can't figure out, however, is why the web service can't start when I add a domain name twice, but with different ports.
How do I access cgi scripts from the browser if the CGI-Executables directory is above the www-root folder? I don't want to use something like ../. I tried browsing to localhost/cgi-bin/ but it gave an error. It said permission denied.
Is the iOS operating system the same thing as the phone's firmware? Basically, when reinstalling the firmware (such as with DFU mode), are the system files being reinstalled, or something else? What is the purpose of the firmware on iDevices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)?
I'd like to use a three finger swipe to scroll to the top or bottom of a web page. Is there a way to make that work?
It doesn't happen every time. The last time I connected my iPhone to my MacBook Air was last week, and everything was fine.
Is it possible to have a setup like this? What I want to be able to have is one SSD with OSX Lion and another SSD with Windows 7 in a usual dual boot setup.
Sometimes I get tab happy with Google Chrome which chews up a lot of memory and slows down the system. Is there a way to get a warning when free memory falls below a certain threshold? That way I can close some things before serious performance degradation.
Sofware update says everything is up to date, however Java Preferences says it's running Version 6 Update 29. The Java website says there is a newer version: Version 6 Update 31 with critical security fixes.
Is it possible, on a Mac, to create a password-protected zip file, that can be decompressed on a PC and on Mac without problems? Is there a free way to do it if possible?
I would like to add the release date to podcasts that I've imported into iTunes, but my applescript is returning an error about the date object. The line set release date of theTrack to date ("2011-12-23T08:00:00Z" as string) gives me this error
I live in France and have just bought a MacBook Pro. I want to by the boxed edition of iWork. But they only sell the French version, and as I do not speak the language and am English, I want the English version. Is this possible?
TotalTerminal (former Visor) is an awesome plugin for Terminal that turns it into a Quake-style console that slides down on a key combination.  This is tremendously useful for development because I can type commands while writing code or browsing without extra window hustle.
I am suspecting it may be the "Griffin TuneFlex 9865" that I am docking the phone with. Yet the the dock is designed to just provide charging power and to hold the device, there is no line out on the dock. That I could see. But every time I plug in the iPhone into the dock to charge, and then plug in the head phone jack going to a line in on the car, there is no sound.
I have a first-generation iPhone that I use for playing music at work (connected to Bose Wave Radio). It only has 8GB of flash memory.
I read contradictory information, some say it’s possible, some say it’s not and Apple’s Disk Utility is required. I prefer to use Roxio Toast for its multi-purpose but I don’t want to waste blank disks. So is it possible and if yes how to make a bootable disk (DVD or CD) from an image (dmg, iso, toast, cdr...)? I also heard that it must be burnt at the slowest speed.
For no clear reason, since a recent OS wipe & reinstallation of iTunes, songs in my music collection are ending early. This is not merely a case where the song's metadata makes it appear to be 30 seconds longer than it is; the song rather abruptly ends in the middle of lyrics/music/etc. The songs are marked "played" (their "plays" number increments, and their "last played" date updates) as though I'd listened all the way through them, but they're ending early. I'm on Windows 7, iTunes 10.5.3.3. This does happen with songs I am streaming via iTunes Match but doesn't just happen with those songs. Anybody run into this before or have any suggestions on how to prevent it?
I have Mac OS Lion, version 10.7, and after my screensaver activates, sometimes I can no longer click anything successfully. I'm using a Magic Mouse with almost full battery. These things still work: Moving the mouse cursor Right-clicking things
What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X? I have Apache's 'ab' installed, but it's buggy and there doesn't seem to be a Mac OS X package for Apache as an upgrade. I don't like compiling and installing from source because it's unmanaged. I use Homebrew as well.
I downloaded ringtones from iTunes a couple weeks ago. I don't think I ever synced my iPhone since, but I did have to reset my iPhone due to an application crash. When I got my iPhone restored from a backup, my ringtones were gone and the only way to prove that I ever had them was through the receipt that Apple sent to my email account. I tried finding them on "purchased" in my iTunes account but there was nothing there. How can I retrieve my ringtones?
On snow leopard, I am unable to move the mini-itunes player between spaces. For any other app (including the full library showing iTunes) I move windows between spaces by clicking and holding the app title then using the keyboard shortcuts to move between spaces. However when doing this with the smaller player, it's determined to be left behind. Does anyone else experience this or have suggestions on how to resolve the issue? Brief Specs OS X 10.6.8 iTunes 10.5.3(3)
When I connect one of my many iOS devices to a computer for synchronization purposes, I have iTunes running. In the iTunes left-hand area, I see an eject button to the right of the device's name. I always use "eject" after a successful sync, before unplugging the device cable. I'm presuming this is meant to be similar to Windows' "USB Device Safe Removal" feature (though iOS devices don't appear to show up there?) .. or when I choose "Eject" from the context menu of a USB-connected disk on my Mac's desktop.
I'm looking for a player with seekbar that displays the waveform of the playing song, like *=URL=* + *=URL=* Specifically, a seekBar is an extension of ProgressBar that adds a draggable thumb and also provides a waveform preview of track in the background of the bar's on-screen area.
I'm searching for an automatic time tracking tool for Mac OS X. I regularly mess up manual time tracking with timers etc., so I want something more automatic: The application should run in background and track more or less everything I do - which applications are active, which sites I browse, how long I'm idle etc.
If someone has a list of the ports that Messages uses I would appreciate that answer here. Extra votes and thanks for providing a reference.
I trying to add to my OS X configuration script a command which sets the background to the plain dark grey, however, when applied, it only sets it to the main monitor and any additional monitors currently connected keep their current background and any added thereafter still receive the default space background. What I have so far is as follows:
I am using iOS 5 on an iPad and I'd like to be able to change the user agent. Is there a web browser that allows me to do this?
I just noticed that for some reason disk usage (du) reports that FileVault in my home directory would use its allocated disk space twice: The encrypted home folder is listed twice as /.moo and /moo Is this indeed the case or is something broken on my FileVault setup?
The software for editing icons needs to run on OSX Lion.
What is the font called in Mac OS X, like the main navigation bar at the top of this site, or something like the font that shows the date at the top right of Mac OS (It has the sort of white outline)? EDIT: Never mind. Problem solved. I edited the text-shadow: attribute in my CSS so that my text was outlined in white.
Is there a way to control the numa settings on the iMac (Core i7), OS X 10.7.3? MacPorts doesn't have numactl and tbb/openmp are both slowing down since the memory is allocated incorrectly.
I am new to Mac OS X, and I have a MacBook Pro. I am developing a web application with PHP and MySQL. I already installed XAMPP on my Mac. I discovered the option for hosting in System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing, but I don't know how to use it or how to tell my friend to view my web application remotely. Can someone help me?
When I ran $ls on my root directory a file /mach_kernel was found. I'm assuming this is the OSX kernel. I always thought that OSX used the XNU hybrid kernel, so why is this file called "MACH"? I'm running Lion.
I'm confused. I just downloaded 6 supplementary packages using Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools... and I thought the .dmg files would contain .pkg files, but instead they contain programs. Where am I supposed to install these programs?
From the "Activity Monitor" I noticed that even when the computer is idle, and with all browsers closed, it is still sending data out (several hundred bytes per second). I want to know why this is happening and where all the data is going.
I know of private shoutcast servers that transmit music and I would like to hear from my iPhone on the go
I recently forgot to pay for my cellular service, and when I paid the service my iPhone keeps displaying an "Invalid sim" message, then I have to reboot to recover the service. The phone is working correctly with internet access, calls and messages, the only problem is that I need to reboot the phone two or three times a day to eliminate the "invalid sim" message.
If I have movies, music, document, Photoshop...running on my Mac. I wonder to know whether they will slow down my Mac. I use Magican to monitor my Mac, it displays the programs are take high CPU usage. If they will slow down the Mac, should I need to cut down some process?
I have a little Mac question. Is there a way to boost the cap on desktop icon sizes from 128x128 to anything larger such as 512x512? I found some solutions for Leopard but none for Lion. It would be really cool to put my high-resolution monitor to good use :/
My colleague just did CTRL + Mouse Scroll scrolling to zoom his screen and is telling me it's a default setting, but it doesn't work for me. Where do I enable that?
In an Open File dialog, I can press Return or Cmd-Down to go into a folder. But is there a key sequence to actually select the folder as the item to open? It seems I can only just use the mouse to press the Open button while the folder is highlighted. (BBEdit is an example of an application in which I often want to open a folder.)
The question is how do I run some application written in java and bundled into .app package from command-line? The main purpose of this is to run an application under JDK7. So I will start it with the java bundled in JDK7 instead of default one. I need something like *=URL=* but with java, so I can run it with a different JDK.
I really struggle working with iTunes on Windows XP Pro sp3. I have lots of mp3s, movies and TV shows, but it is a huge pain to get all the metadata into iTunes in the first place. Then I tried looking at the files in Windows Explorer, and the data is just not there, not in the extra columns, not in the properties. How can I get all the data put into the actual file properties?
Is there any way on iPad that I can write text on iPad using Touch Typing technique, as this is the way I use keyboard?
My question is, does Homebrew link these into /usr/include or something comparable? Or is this something I would need to do manually?
Is there a simple way to automatically run a (Terminal) command every time a file is changed in a specific folder? This should be possible via the command line, or a system built-in application, no third-party applications. Any ideas?
I have a company macbook with a 4 core 2,8Ghz i7 (to much power for a "laptop" if you ask me, whatever). Sadly the cooler seems not to be able to handle 100% cpu usage. Sometimes filevault stresses the CPU with the process "discimages helper". Every time this happens I hear the cooler goes crazy ... a few seconds later programs randomly crashes and shortly after the complete macbook freezes.
I'm running a local web (development) server on my mac with apache installed. I'm sure it depends on my apache config but basically I just want to run tail -f /var/log/httpd-error.log in a terminal so I can see the error and warnings that occur during the development of my websites. So my question is where or how do I find where this log file is placed since it is not placed in /var/log/
I am using Google Chrome as my default browser on Lion. What I want to achieve is, when I select handful of links from one web-page, I should have shortcut to open all those links in new tabs. How can I achieve this
I used to have a Canon LBP 5050. It is no longer connected to the network or the Mac. I removed the printer from: "System Preferences → Printers" and even removed the ppd from /Library/Printers, using Terminal, but for some reason it constantly reinstalls itself every time I reboot my machine. As far as I can tell there is no special Canon software installed or gets "called up" as a logon item. Does anyone have any ideas?
I upgraded my MacBook to Lion and am less than impressed. I figured I should re-install Snow Leopard. Can I do that without destroying the lion partition?
i've an HP AirPrint enabled scanner / printer. I would like to scan something and then send it to an eMail. This, only using an iPad. Is it possible ?
I am running an iPhone 4S through a Griffin TuneFlex 9865. After just discovering the line out jack I have helped uncovered another problem. Now, while then engine is on there is a high frequency buzz aka alternator whine, that varies pitch based on the engine RPM. Are there anyways to stop the high frequency noise, or at least reduce it. I think my volume level is quite low from the line out, and is requiring me to turn the radio volume up much louder near maximum, which might be revealing the issue. How can I fix this? Do I need an amplifier?
For three days straight, I have connected to the public WiFi network at my local library. Each day, I have seen a different prompt in Terminal. Here are some of the prompts I've seen:
I've got an iMac 27" i7, with a secondary monitor hooked up via its display port (adapted from a DVI cable coming out of the secondary display). After my iMac goes to sleep, when I wake it back up, all my windows have been put on the iMac's screen. Prior to OS Lion, I had an application called Stay that helped put the windows back in the right place, but it doesn't seem to work in Lion. Any suggestions how to prevent the windows from all being shoved back to the primary display after a sleep?
I am trying to chmod a folder in the library of my Mac but I can only get to the folders below the user level. I need Library/WebServer/Documents/..., but I can only get to user/me/..., etc. Does anyone know what I need to do?
I just updated to 10.7.3 and can no longer find the FileMerge application, which is part of the Xcode developer tools package. Did apple remove this in 10.7.3? I've checked in my developer directory, and used Spotlight, but it is nowhere to be found.
When I ask for directions and say any single digit number, Siri spells it out instead of writing it numerically. Is there away to change this, because directions does not recognize numbers spelled out?
today I tried to install the new version of Xcode. Before that I removed the developer tools with the following command: I also had other folder in /Library/Developer such as 4.2 4.2.1 ... After that I installed the new Xcode and I noticed that the folder /Library/Developer contains only the Shared folder, which doesn't contain the command uninstall-devtools. Did I install the developer tools or do I have to do something more? Another related problem is that when I try to install Flann through Homebrew it reports the following error:
I'm looking for a cocoa REST client for the OS X. I prefer something native so that I'm not in the terminal interface and not looking for any browser extensions.
Today I moved to the latest version of Xcode (4.3). I tried to open an old project and when I try to launch the iOS simulator it returns me the following error: I also tried to create a new project and there I am able to launch the simulator. How can I fix this problem and run all my old projects again? Thanks!
After I purged Xcode 4.2 and installed Xcode 4.3 from App Store, I can not find autotools (automake/autoconf) through the command line. I've tried to run find /Applications/Xcode.app -name 'automake', but apparently they are not there.. Does anyone knows what is Apple's point to remove these essential toolsets?
XKCD on my kindle or phone just doesn't cut it. I do all my other morning reading from the comfort of the ivory throne, but always have to revisit XKCD when I'm at a full blown computer with a mouse because I can't access the title text for the comic. Is there any way to display the title text on a mobile device?
When I make an app go full screen on my primary display - a 24" Apple Display - everything previously visible and accessible on my second display - my MacBook Pro screen - is hidden by the default Lion background image.  Is there a way to run one app in Full Screen mode on one display and still be able to view and access applications on secondary display(s)?
I have a Snow Leopard DVD that was copied from the original. All it says on the CD is "Snow Leopard" How can I tell what version of the DVD it is? The DVDs were only released in versions 10.6.0 and 10.6.3.
After doing a suspend I wasn't able to "revive" my early 2011 MacBook Pro. MBP does not respond to: power, long-power, SMC reset or even battery test button. the charger is showing a dimmed green when connected (almost invisible in day light) the charger does not have any problem (tested) The computer is still under warranty (only 6 months old).
My Startup disk partition is just 20 GB and I'm running out of space. What's the safe way to transfer Applications folder to the other partition? Can I just move all apps into a folder on the other partition and create a symlink to it?
My hard drive is split in three visible partitions: System, Data and Backup. I'd like to merge System (OS X Lion) and Data into one partition without data loss. Disk Utility won't let me resize the system partition:
It seems that Apple is pushing cloud integration all the way now, but also that they have no interest in providing the ability to choose between their own server-side offering (iCloud) and what other companies may have to bring to the table. That seems to make all the nice iCloud client features unusable for certain people (such as Europeans that are forbidden by law to upload certain documents to data centers in North Carolina).
I'm writing a new formula for Homebrew for some software I maintain and as part of my testing I'd like to ensure that files are only added to the correct places on install and that all files are removed on uninstall. What's the best way of going about comparing file structures before and after my test installs and uninstalls?
I am in the navy, and am restricted in the use of RF emissions such as WiFi and Bluetooth. Is there a keyboard I can use with my iPad 2 that will plug into the 30-pin connector?
I got an iMac g3 450 mhz (summer 2000 i think) and i want to upgrade its memory. I know i need PC 100/133 168 pin . I already got one 512mb from amazon with those specs although it didn't work. For some reason all the memories that say they are compatible with mac are x3/4 the price of the rest of same technology. Any suggestions as to where I should look for memory or any spec I should be looking for in order for it to be compatible ?
At the moment I have my Mac mini connected to my amplifier through HDMI. The volume button is grayed out so I can only adjust through my amplifier. The problem is the mini is significantly louder than TV, BluRay etc so I need to constantly adjust the volume when switching between devices. Is there any way to turn the volume of the mini down when connected to an external device?
While downloading an application from the Mac App Store, you are presented with a progress indicator in Launchpad, like so:  For a large install (like Xcode, as shown) this doesn't provide a terribly useful picture of the download's performance (how fast it's going / how much longer it's likely to take).
Recently, I tried logging out of my machine (rather than just shutting it down) and I noticed that a user with the name "Other ..." was present. I don't recall adding the user. I tried checking out System Preferences >> Accounts and it just lists a disabled "Guest" account and my main account. Why is this?
I own a 10.6 Macbook Pro with which I have to use a public IP (that does not change) frequently. I'm also required to idle at various IRC channels. As part of security, I use pretty strong passwords, have my firewall up and I do regular updates. I use the Google Chrome browser (again updated) for online browsing. I have file sharing turned off. Are there any more suggestions you'd make to keep my machine more secure? Are there any ways to detect if I have keyloggers installed on my machine? Any anti-viruses that you would recommend? I use colloquy to connect to IRC channels, is there any way I could mask my public IP from people who query it?
We have a family iPad that is registered to my Mom's Apple ID. I'd like to be able to use iMessage, but with my Apple ID, not her Apple ID. Is there a way to do this without deregistering the iPad?
I have a rather large (>25GB) music collection, and my iPhone is currently almost full. I just saw this option in iTunes:
I just got my new computer with system 10.7.2 and this is really bugging me. I like having a few Finder windows always open. When I shut down and then start up my computer the next day, all the windows I had opened in the Finder are closed save one. It always just has a single Finder window open. If I have 5 windows open when I shut down, I want all 5 of them open the next day. How do I make this happen? I can't stress this enough. The windows won't stay opened on restart.
After having clicked on an attachment in an email to download and see/read it... is there a way to remove it again? I don't want to delete the email or the attachment from the email server, I just don't want it to take up space on the iPhone. And also, is there a way to remove all downloaded attachments, so I don't have to go through each email and find which I have downloaded earlier?
Say for example in a program it lets me select one folder and copy it to another location, on a very basic level is that application running commands that I could run in terminal or is it using some internal OS API to make that move? Please spare me any vicious responses; I'm just curious and totally aware it can be perceived as a question a 13-year-old would ask.
DC++ and Strong DC++ are powerful applications for the PC. I would like to know if there is an appropriate software for Mac OS X (Lion preferably) which can connect to hubs in my network.
I installed a file *.developerprofile. Then I went to the keychain and deleted 3 certificates (they were expired). Everything is OK. But deleted certificates appeared when I rebooted my Mac. But why?
If I jailbreak my iPad, will I be able to use the App Store to download apps and also test the apps I develop?
Relatively recently most browsers, including Safari disabled the colouring of visited hyperlinks for privacy concerns. I do not give a damn about this type of privacy and I consider that this is a huge downgrade of accessibility. Is there a way to re-enable this via a hidden setting or extension?
I've been using macports for my MAMP projects for quite some time, but I don't think that the command line server management for Apache and MySQL Server, both from macports, is the best way to do it. I'd like to be able to control those server from one GUI. So, I was wondering if it's possible to configure Lion Server to work with macports' apache version instead of it's native version. Is it possible? What about MySQL Server? Is there a way to control it using Lion server?
My MacBook Pro running Lion boots in maybe 30 seconds. My original iPad, however, takes several minutes. Why is this? I understand the MBP has a much better processor and more RAM than iPad, but surely that can't cause that much difference—especially since OS X is vastly more complex than iOS. Related: Why do iOS devices take such a long time to turn back on?
I currently run Lion with Office 2011 and need to re-install Lion after wiping out my HD. I however no longer have the DVD with which I installed Office. How shall I go about re-installing it again having no access to the DVD anymore?
If you had a NAS and you were going to store all your applications on there, would it be safe to - on the computers accessing it - replace their application folder with a symlink to the folder on the NAS?
Today I found out that the application (malware?) might have ability to learn and find a way to always write the backup_keys_cache.db file. It could detect and delete the softlink that I made into /dev/null with the same name. I tried to delete the file, make a directory with the same name, but today the directory have been renamed and the backup_keys_cache.db file now had 1.9M size.
I have somewhat recently noticed that when I have have the Finder mode set to Tiles, that the tiles are too wide for the window. For example, it shows 7 across (in a row), whereas that makes it to where I have to scroll sideways in order to see all the documents. It, in effect makes it very difficult to use the Finder tile display. Is there a way I can fix this?
My iPhone has frozen on the slide to unlock screen. I cannot turn it off or reset it. The device turns off every minute and restarts to change the time. Is there a way to stop it? I have tried to restore using iTunes and this message pops up,
In a nutshell, I believe I'm having issues configuring iOS to connect to LDAP on a non-standard port. I've tried a quite a few different sequences, such as appending the port to the server address, but all to no avail. Has anyone been able to connect to an LDAP that runs on a different port than 389? If so, I would appreciate confirmation that it is possible and steps on how you set things up would be even better. My LDAP is apacheDS and the port it runs on is not 389, so I'm at a loss how an iPhone or iPad can connect to the LDAP.
I have an external drive which I used to do encrypted TM backups to, via a direct USB connection (i.e. the entire drive became encrypted - Lion). I would like to switch to wireless backups but without allowing the data to become accessible to other people in my network.
I want to have a key combo to refresh active window in Google Chrome, which normally would be Cmd + R. Keep in mind that (a) I am using two screens, (b) Google Chrome is not presently active window. Is it even possible?
How can i change StarDict dictionary language? I want to set it to English.
I have a MacBook with OS X on one partition, a few other partitions and a Bootcamp Windows 7 on another partition. Right now, I can boot into Windows but I cant boot into OS X. I am typing this while using Windows as the host OS. When I boot into OS X I get the prohibited sign, and boot into OS X via Safe Mode, I see hfs_mountroot failed: 5 cannot mount root, errno = 19 At first glance this seems to be an I/O issue, that my harddrive is dying or something, but the Windows partition works flawlessly.
I have a question about setting proxies in Safari for the Mac. In Network preferences one can configure a Web proxy - HTTP, which has the field: "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts&Domains". Is there a way to bypass any host or domain, but apply proxy only to one specific host? EDIT: Found a good link about that - http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/proxypac.html
I have to upload an archive for some Linux, Windows and Mac OS users. I'm using Linux so I'm sure everybody could handle a tar file, Windows users will get some problems, so I think zip is the best way. But how is it on a Mac OS system? Can Mac OS open a zip (or tar) without extra packages/software?
Is there a faster way to sort hundreds of iOS app icons on app pages than to use iTunes?
I want to assign a command to a certain key. This command will fire no matter what window is active. It will do the same thing as typing a certain command in terminal. I was able to do this in Linux, but how can I set this up in OSX Lion? I want to run the terminal command without the terminal window opening up at all.
How can I find which page and which folder an app is on Springboard?
I had a friend with a BluRay drive extract the audio from my copy of a concert BluRay disc into AC3 files which he returned to me, but now I'm not sure what the best way would be to convert those AC3 files into AAC files. I've read that it's not possible to go directly from AC3->AAC, but instead have to use WAV as an intermediary; AC3->WAV->AAC. I can probably figure out how to do this, but why should I be the one to make two steps? Is there software already available (free preferred, but not required) that will simply let me plug in an AC3 file and get an AAC equivalent out? When I say AAC equivalent, that means identical channel setup to the source AC3 files by default, but perhaps also preferences to constrain it to 2 channel or anything else I'd like. I've already tried using Handbrake and Max to no avail.
One of the common Mac troubleshooting steps everyone always seems encouraged to try first is to "repair disk permissions" in Disk Utility. This process usually finds random odd problems, fixes them, and on rare occasions it actually makes a difference. But... How on earth are random files ending up with their disk permissions changed in the first place?
My optical drive is no longer working and I'm having trouble updating from leopard to snow leopard I got this message when I tried to install "To install Mac OS X, use Disk utility to burn this disk image to a DVD and run this application again" I've tried using disc utility to copy an image of the disk and mounting and to try to trick my mac to thinking its a disk, then tried rebooting the mac while holding down the option button but nothing but the hard drive comes up. Does anybody else have any suggestions? Is there some kind of command that can make my computer recognize it as a disk? I have also tried using remote disk from my sisters macbook pro to install the software that had already had a disk image copied & burned to a disk.
I am just curious, what are some alternatives to the Mac App Store? Basically, I want something that will update my applications. Since the Mac App Store doesn't do this with applications not purchased from the Mac App Store, I need something else. In addition, I would also like to be able to browse apps.
Every time I open the MacVim, the font size of its contents are just too small to read. So I have to zoom in (with Command + +) several time before editing stuff. The problem is it doesn't remember its zoom level when next time I open the MacVim, I have to do the zoom in actions again... Any helps are welcome! mitnk
I'm trying to make a HTML page that I can save as a bookmark in Safari or Google Chrome that runs an Automator workflow, action or application, or possibly an Applescript. It's only for my personal computer and I want to use the simplest possible approach to accomplishing this.
However, the other day, I bought an album, and when importing it into iTunes, fount it had no gracenote recognition. I added all the details (artist, track name, ect) manually. A day or so later, I discovered that a couple of tracks could make a genius playlist, even when they weren't recognised on gracenote!
I'm looking for extensions to allow the Safari 6.x versions to manage a large number of open tabs better than the current implementation. In particular I'm looking for two features:
I am trying to create a simple Automator service to quickly change metadata on photos. I would like to be able to select x amount of files, run the service, and get a popup that asks for the f-number I want to change to: At the moment this is set up to grab selected files in finder, and run the following terminal command:
I have a Gmail account. I have configure it with my iChat. I can do normal chat, but I can not do voice chat with my other friends who have a Gmail account or are using Google Talk. So, how can I configure my iChat to do voice chat with them?
I can switch to another desktop by pressing CTRL-RIGHT or CTRL-LEFT. Can I also somehow take the active window with me to the new active desktop (similar to Ubuntu/Unity)?
I got an iMac about half a year ago (2011 version). It has been fine, until recent weeks. Now the iMac loses its connection to my wireless router frequently. I have to turn off WiFi on the iMac and turn it on again to reconnect.
The Finder in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion shows a new piece of file metadata, "Date Added," which tracks the date an item was added to a folder. After upgrading to 10.7, none of the items in my ~/Downloads folder have "Date Added" values. I'd like to set all the empty "Date Added" values to match the "Date Modified" values, but I can't figure out how to set the "Date Added" attribute to a specific value. My first guess was this: xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDateAdded "2012-02-19 16:34:47 +0000" myfile But that doesn't seem to work (though it doesn't report an error either).
I'm seeking a programmatic method for disabling all the sharing services on a Mac. My preference is for an AppleScript or a shell script.
I have a MacBook Pro with Mini DisplayPort and I want to use target display mode to use a Thunderbolt iMac as an external display. If this works, would I need a Mini DisplayPort cable or a Thunderbolt cable?
Is there a way for avoiding the update to my play counts when I sync my iPod?
I have an iPhone 4S, the original iPhone 4S AC to USB adapter, and a generic Dynex brand 30 pin cable. When ever this cable is connected to the iPhone sound will not play over the built in iPhone speakers. If headphones are plugged in they work fine, but when they are removed sound will not play on the iPhone's built in speaker. If I swap in the original cable that came with the iPhone it works as expected. Any ideas why the iPhone 4S thinks this cable and configuration is a line out source?
On the Apple Dashboard widgets page, the most recent app (found at the top of the Just Added section) is The Weather Channel Widget, released on February 14, 2011. Where can I find some more recent widgets?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro with Lion. I restored my files and apps from the MacBook with Snow Leopard, etc., from Time Machine. All seemed to have uploaded correctly, but after using several weeks, I did find missing files . . . which I recovered by going back into Time Machine and simply uploading those files. Recently, while attempting to back up my machine, I got an error message stating, "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 467.34 GB but only 155.61 GB are available." I realized that all the old data needed to go, except I wanted to save 3 backups from the old computer to ensure that I could recover the files, should I find others missing. Easy enough, I thought! Wrong!
I bought an iPhone 3G that is currently off and doesn't have a sim card. Is there any way I can enable the wifi without having a sim card?
I am new in mac os. I was trying to install Postgresql. Before i did not know there is a Postgresql already available with default installation. So, I downloaded Postgresql 8.4 and installed it. I changed the configuration as the instruction. [sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf]
I am thinking this is an easy question, because I know how to do it in iChat for the computer. But for an iPhone, SMS messages are shown as a speech bubble in a conversation with someone. Aside from the timestamp banner that appears before a message that is a long time after previous messages in an SMS conversation, how can I get a timestamp (or the time sent) of an SMS message?
In OS X Messages (Beta), the appearance of a given message thread can be changed by selecting submenu options from the View > Messages menu item; but this only applies to the currently displayed message. Is there a way to configure these options as defaults for (all) new threads?
Sometime in the last few months the machine began to 'spontaneously logout' - I'll be using the machine normally, there's an unexpected pause - then blue screen/login dialog. The console logs show that the window_server has crashed. I can't find a way to reliably reproduce this, other than to simply wait - it now happens daily. The problem occurs in response to some interface event, typing or moving the mouse - I (still) use Spaces, and the most common trigger seems to be switching between spaces.
I booted up my MacBook Air (running Mac OS X Lion) and the desktop doesn't have a menubar. I used option+right-click to relaunch Finder and there isn't an option to relaunch it. When I launch an application the menubar shows up. When I cmd+q to quit the application the application's window closes but the menubar then defaults to the last currently open application. Even if it's on a different virtual desktop.
I am looking for a recipe manager for my iPod Touch and my requirements are: It must not require online registration and it must be fully functional offline (it's okay if it has "cloud" features, but they must not be required) It must be either free, or under $3 (I don't do a lot of cooking—I just have some favorite recipes I would like to keep handy—and I'm not willing to invest too much) Of course, it must allow me to add my own recipes I don't really need in-app features like shopping list management, timers, etc.
I posted a question a while back regarding network mounts. But I have a more general question. If Lion no longer uses /etc/fstab how are standard mounts in addition to network mounts handled? I would like to be able to customize this. For instance how is root mounted and such? Also for instance, how is removable media mounted?
I am trying to install Gnome through Macports on my MacBook Pro running Lion. When I install it, however, I get many error messages, as described below. How can I successfully install this software on my MacBook Pro? Here's what I've tried, and what went wrong:
I have a couple of widgets in Dashboard that moved outside of the viewing area. I can only see them in Mission Control.
After reinstalling Lion, port install produces: and yet Xcode is just where it was: How can I avoid wiping out /opt and instead point MacPorts to build.pre_args, build.cmd, and gnumake?
I have configured the Mail to GMail. Now, I want to delete the mailbox. Here is what I do. Click on the Mail icon Click on Edit Click on [Gmail] Click on Big Red button called Delete Mailbox Click on Delete Mailbox prompt
I've got Windows 7 running on my computer and I would like to partition my D: volume, make it HFS+ but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this. Anyone had done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS partition tool but it does not support HFS/HFS+.
I have the following problem. I wanted to have dual boot to Ubuntu, so I've created 3 additional partitions using BootCamp (I probably created freespace with Bootcamp and then used Ubuntu installer to partition the free space, I cannot remember exactly, since this was 2 years ago). Now I want to remove these partitions to reclaim space, but the only thing I can is to reformat them to use MacOsX HPFS+. I tried booting from the Mac Os X install CD, but that did not help. When I try to remove partition by pressing - in Disk Utility it just throws some error about MediaKit. The only thing I am allowed to do is to reformat the disk entirely.
I have a MacBook which won't boot beyond the grey screen / Apple logo. With some key combo (can't remember what I did!) I managed to get a black screen with text output - see image. Can anyone offer an interpretation? I'm imagining the logic board is fried.
When I restart my Mac it quits and saves the buffers for each tab properly, since it's there again when the computer starts back up. But the command history is not buffered properly per window/tab. They're all the same buffer.
I am looking to update my iMac's Mid 2010 RAM from 4GB to 12GB and wondering if this RAM is alright to use and what is the difference between the two sets of RAM because they are the same price, both for the iMac/Macbook Pro but have slightly different configurations. *=URL=* http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-apple-macpro-ddr3-so-dimm-pc3-8500-(1066)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-7-7-7-20-150v
Upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.3 As I understand I need to back up my files. Is this a precautionary measure or do I necessarily have to reinstall all my files after upgrading the os?
I've just reverted from Lion to Snow Leopard while maintaining a time machine backup of Lion. In Lion I used to 'remember' many wireless networks, and also have configuration for connecting from my phone. How can I recover all that using Time Machine?
In the command find theres a switch called name but it doesn't exist in OS X, whats the equivalent switch for OS X?
I find Skim is a great pdf file reader and want to spend a great deal of time adding notes and bookmarks to some of the pdf files I have. I know Spotlight indexes pdf files but it doesn't seem to index my Skim bookmarks. (I just created a bookmark in Skim and search for that bookmark in Spotlight. No results). I may force Spotlight to index net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist (it is where bookmarks are stored) ?
Since about a week I have some icons in the Dock and in the Launchpad (e.g.: AppStore, Mission Control) with low-res icons.
I often find myself with 6 ort 7 parallel tasks, with each requiring several terminals. My ideal UI would be a hierarchical tab setup - a tab for each group of terminals, where I could name the tab, and it would be restored on startup. What's the closest thing to this? I'm open to using any terminal app, iterm etc, not just the default terminal.app.
At work, I have a 27" iMac with a 2560 x 1440 display. I have my windows all laid out as I like them.
I stumbled upon this interesting documentation from Apple mentioning OpenGL Driver Monitor. So I searched for that tool but is nowhere to be found. How can I get that tool?
As a new user, I'm trying to wrap my brain around iCloud for backup and am wondering if the following things are all true: Can I use iCloud to back up all the files on my MacBook? To use iCloud, do I need Lion installed (as opposed to older Mac OS)? After I've bought Lion, is there a fee to use iCloud with my mac?
I'm using the new Messages beta with my Gmail account and my iMessage account (which is linked to the same Gmail address). It's using a photo for my buddy picture that I've used before on various things, but I can't figure out why it's showing up here. It's not the picture associated with my Gmail account or my user account on this computer. I can't find the setting in Preferences where I can select a buddy picture, so it must be pulling it from somewhere in some account. So: where does Messages get its user picture from?
After rebooting, and with only Activity Monitor open, my MacBook Pro (10.6, i7) shows a very high idle % (98% or higher) but then shortly after drops down to 40% - 50%. In the Activity Monitor list of all processes: nothing accounts for this drop. What is the reason for the drop in the idle percentage? Does OS X run something that is not listed as a process in Activity Monitor? Does it shut a CPU or two down? Is there a way to force it to give me the full attention of the CPU, even though I'm not using it? For what's below, are there better ways to measure how much total system impact an app has, since the app cpu% doesn't show all the secondary activity an app causes a system to complete? I'm trying to measure the performance of a particular app, and one of the metrics, since some of the app activity is performed inside the kernel in the form of system calls, is CPU idle %. If OS X runs stuff in the background I can't see, or turns CPUs off or slows them down, then it obviously impact
I need to find some configs buried in some hidden folders and can't recall where they are to navigate to them directly Cmd+Shift+G. I did a sudo find -name Foo* (slow), but none of the returned files were in hidden folders. What is the easiest way to search all hidden files?
On a 2011 17" MacBook Pro (i7, 10.6, 16GB ram) I do not have any options in the energy saver preference panel to control CPU throttling. I need to be able to disable CPU throttling for short periods of time - or at least force OS X to a certain state and stay there so that I can get consistent results from test to test in a performance comparison situation. Are there methods or apps that allow me to control the energy saver features and particularly CPU throttling and CPU disabling for recent (sandy bridge) Macs? CHUD does not appear to support this machine (it doesn't correctly report the CPU type) and while I can manually disable hyperthreading and processor cores using /Library/Application Support/HWPrefs/CPUPalette.app it doesn't give me the option to tell OS X not to throttle anything.
Is there a way, in an 80GB iPod video (I think that's what it's called) to shuffle only the songs in my playlists? In other words, when I drop into a playlist I want the songs to be shuffled, but when I drop into an album, I want to hear it in order. Is that possible?
I can successfully tether my Mac (10.7.3) to my iPhone4 (5.0.1) via wifi, no problem, been doing it for months. However, when I try to tether via bluetooth instead, I can't seem to see the internet from my mac. Network Settings reports a green light for Bluetooth PAN, but my browser can't connect to anything at all. My Mac reports very similar IP addresses for both, starting with 172.20.10 and differing only in the last octet. Any idea why I can't successfully tether via bluetooth?
I keep my task list with rememberthemilk.com and I would like to have keep that chrome tab opened at all spaces all the time. Is there a way to achieve this? Right now if I go to chrome and Assign to All Desktop for it I am seeing other chrome windows being brought to the front when I switch spaces.
I've created a calendar in iCal that I share with colleagues, who I have given permission to edit. Everything works fine except that I see no way to receive alerts or notifications when they make changes to events in the calendar. They all report that they were given the option to see alerts when they subscribed, but I (as creator of the calendar) was not given any (that I saw). Is there a way to configure a shared calendar so that the creator of the calendar can be notified when other users make changes?
I have an early 2011 MBP powering 2 Thunderbolt displays. I have downloaded the proper resolution wallpapers from Digitalblasphemy's site (5120x1440), but can't figure out the setting to spread the wallpaper across both displays. How do I spread the wallpaper across both displays?
When I edit my address card in OS X (10.7) Address Book, checkboxes appear next to all of the entries. What are these checkboxes for?
I have these albums and songs in my iTunes Library. They should appear grouped, but for some reason, iTunes splits them up and shows them as separate albums with the same name and details:
I want to write a rule like that does the following: Optimally I would like to provide a list of rules to match. Is something like this possible?
I didn't find any iPad app that's supporting samba. What is the best way to access Windows shares from an iPad?
I have 13-inch, early 2008 MacBook running OS X 10.7.3, and recently, the trackpad started developing some problems, so I attached an external keyboard and mouse. It works great, except that when the computer wakes up from sleep, about 50% of the time the keyboard is unresponsive until I unplug and replug the USB connection. Any idea why this would be? The keyboard and mouse are attached directly to the computer, not going through any USB hub.
My default position is to stay within the OS X ecosystem unless their is a compelling reason to use use a 3rd party product. Gmail (with Sparrow) has long been keeping me from using mail.app on my desktop, but I'm thinking it's time to reconsider. I'm hoping someone can answer this to save me doing the work just to find out - Can I choose which of my accounts to reply from or am I limited to the address it was sent to ?
On one user account on one of my family macbook air machines (all with the latest version of Lion) the two finger trackpad swipe left and right to switch back and forth (e.g. between pages in safari) does not work . The three finger swipe and all other gestures work like a charm. Any tips how to make the two finger swipe work again? Others seem to have this problem, too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3313418?start=0&tstart=0
Even when I disable ALL notifications, I still get text message alerts, how do I go about disabling THEM on an iPhone 3G?
Say you plug your iPhone or iPad into a friend’s computer. If iTunes is installed on this computer (which it will be on every Mac, for instance) it will automatically open and take a full backup snapshot of the device onto the computer. The backup will be obfuscated but everything will still be totally accessible on that computer.
I went to the apple store a few days ago because of a tech issue I had with my iphone 4s. They deleted everything and had me start with practically a new phone. When I plugged my phone into itunes today, it synced up with the last time I backed up and deleted all NEW photos I took since I went to the apple store and all new messages. Is there a way I can retrieve these messages and photos?
I've got a NetBoot server set up on Lion server that pushes several NetRestore and NetInstall images. While I have a NetRestore image that already has iLife '11 on it, I want to have a NetInstall image that has iLife '11 as well. That way, I can do a reinstall of the OS and iLife without having to erase data. I've found this article that says adding some iLife packages to the workflow with the "Add Packages and Post Install Scripts" automator action, but the guy who answered did this with iLife '09, wasn't completely sure, and used the NetRestore option. Is there a way to run iLife install scripts with a NetInstall image?
We take a lot of pictures, and it would be very convenient for us if we were able to organize all of our pictures into one massive, remote "Aperture image repository." So, I got this idea to get a Mac mini server which could host all of our pictures, and possibly set it up to "replicate" (in whole or in parts) to several Macs via our local area network.
I recently had to reinstall Lion. Now, when I boot the keyboard is not backlit when at the login screen. It used to be backlit when at the login screen.
I used Mail as my main mail client on Snow Leopard. It would be really useful to manage mail templates with it. I used to send similar emails every day and I need to create 20 or 30 email templates to used whenever I need. How can I accomplish with this?
Firewire connections can be a little touchy. Since I use my MacBook to record audio - sometimes on location, hooked into an interface or Firewire mixing board - I'm often concerned that the cable will get jostled and disconnect in the middle of a critical operation. Does anyone know of any method or device that will secure the cable to the Macbook's Firewire port more effectively?
The serial looks like this a13038xxxxxxxxxx I know that I have to look for 3rd digit for the year, and 4th and 5th for week of that year to get the week when my iphone was made.
Where can I find a task manager in Mac OS X Lion? I want to see the processes that are currently being run, and I can kill any process I like.
I started using Mac yesterday, since then it stopped responding a lot. Each time it happened I restarted the system but it happens again. I also got "he's dead, Jim" error many times on Chrome. Is there anyway to get rid of this issue? Installed memory(RAM) : 4.00 GB (3.87 GB usable)
Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up to an external hard drive connected to a Mac on same wifi network?
I would like to play music from iPod in MacBook's iTunes with wireless (over Wi-Fi). Please advice how to setup to get that function.
I've had major issues with my default Apache install ever since I installed MAMP. I've uninstalled MAMP now but I'm still getting issues such as multiple Apache processes running, not stopping/starting/restarting, and the Web Sharing option not showing the correct state in System Preferences. I'm assuming MAMP has changed something within the default version of Apache, is there any way to easily replace the entire Apache install? Thanks, Alex
I'm about to sign into the Mac Apps store for the first time. I have an Apple ID -- my Apple ID is my email address. When I publish something in the Apps store, for Mac or for iPad or for iPhone, will my Apple ID appear as the publisher of the App? …This question relating to apps that I publish either through iBooks Author or without iBooks Author... I'd like the name of the publisher not to be my email.
I buy quite a few apps on my iPhone, but as of late I am noticing a weird issue: any app that cost money, 'times out' after a few days use. 'Timed out' apps don't appear on my iTunes purchases history, and I am forced to buy them again(?) and re-download them before I can use them again. When the app 'times out', the icon remains, but the app immediately exits when pressing on the icon. It seems as though my iPhone may have lost the connection to the store somehow? Any ideas?
If like me you have an iPad and iPhone chances are you want some of the apps on both devices. For some reason the iPad has lost some of the apps, notably, Clock, Calculator, Weather, and Voice Memos.
Quite simply I use Firefox sync on both my Macs and want to migrate these bookmarks to my iOS devices, not necessarly sync all the time, just migrate them as they currently are. Is it possible, and how should I try doing it?
I would like to be able to pop up a window on my Mac displaying a rendered HTML preview of selected text (ideally a completely chromeless window like that used by QuickLook, but an ordinary Web browser window could work if necessary, but the less chrome the better). What tools are available to do this?
I have two macbook pros, one summer 2009 model and a late summer 2011 model. Both of these macbook pros seem to require me to click twice just to be able to register a single click. It's almost like the app loses focus and I have to click twice. I'm not running jiTouch and this happens with both the trackpad and the magic mouse. This has been happening for months now and seems to be happening on both 10.6 and 10.7. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Is there an application for Mac OS X which would allow me to remotely send SMS messages through my iPhone? Ideally, just a simple application or maybe a full screen remote application like TeamViewer. I prefer a free solution.
I'm trying to revert the encryption on my disk, but Disk Utility gives me an unknown error, and from the command line, using It gives me this error: Error: -69741: The target disk isn't eligible for reversion because it wasn't created by conversion or it is not part of a simple setup of exactly one logical and one physical volume
I am using a Mac and I use Macvim for programming. If my program happens to go into an infinite loop and I have to quit Macvim and restart it due to this the program will restart but the program process keeps running. I realized this when I opened up my activity monitor and see "program foo" is still running at about 99% cpu usage! I can easily shut down the process from activity monitor but is there a way to prevent this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Test is the file the loop went into. I created it to show an example.
I'm kinda new to those CLI installations so I don't know exactly what I'm doing I'm just following the installation steps of the guide: I want to install Imagemagick on my Mac 10.5.8: I typed ´sudo port install imagemagick´ and I got this error in return:
Any pointers? If it can be a single service, great; if not, a service that runs when the Finder is active that accepts files and a separate service that accepts selected text that runs when any other program is active could work.
I am not sure if this question would be more appropriate for stackoverflow, but I thought I'd ask here first. The other day, I tried running one of my programs against valgrind to check for memory leaks. To my surprise, the terminal reported that valgrind couldn't be found. Additionally, there seems to be no man page for valgrind either.
Can someone tell me what this is ?? Can I remove it ? It says : Allows developers to query the list of installed apps and provide a preference pane based on that information update This is given in the the app's info. I have a feeling it has something to do with Activator, and maybe removing this will delete Activator as a whole. I don want developers scooping around my installed apps...But what happens if I remove it ? edit Haven't found anything about it yet .. Can anyone help me ?
I'm guessing this restriction involves checking if the Mobile Country Code is from the United States (310-316, I think). Since AT&T's MCC-MNC is 310-410, it's obvious the phone shouldn't be happy with it. However, with a SIM from GiffGaff (a virtual carrier on o2's network), I'm able to use AT&T in the US because their MCC-MNC is on the list, but not in the home position.
I used to hack at apps on my Mac all the time (change the icons/sounds etc... in the resources folder of the package). I have tried with apps downloaded from the App Store, but it no longer seems to be possible. In fact, even creating one empty file will stop the app from launching. I assume that Apple are doing some kind of one way hash of the application folder, and checking if it has changed. Is it possible to either bypass the code-signing check or be more sophisticated about modifying apps that are signed and downloaded from the Apple Mac App Store?
If I delete files from iTunes, does Time Machine automatically delete them when I plug in my external hard drive? And if so, how do I change this?
When I format a MS-DOS filesystem using Disk Utility in Mac OS X it takes only a few seconds, but when I format a FAT32 filesystem in Windows it takes several minutes. What is OS X doing differently?
Is it possible to access the right click/context menu of the currently selected item (not the item under the mouse) by way of using a keyboard shortcut? If not, is there any way to achieve this, either by Applescript or utility?
What would be the reason if Lion OS X installer does not show any HFS+ partitioned hard drive on the installation step, "Select a destination volume where you want to install the Mac OS X software". The Disk Utility cannot see it either! I am sure the hard drive is working fine C: Ubuntu NTFS and D: Windows 7 NTFS I can run windows or ubuntu fine. The problem is not partitioning the HD, the HD does not appear at all hence the disk utility cannot perform any operation on HD. Thanks Looking forward to hearing from you...
I have arrange by kind turned on at all times, yet sometimes I see a strange bug:  As you can see, the arrange headers: "Folders", "PDF Documents" and "Documents" do not show up properly. They are shown just as folders. I cannot select them or move them.
Is it possible to convert a lion Dvd from a Lion flash drive? Last year when Lion came out I created a lion install usb. I need to create a dvd to send to someone off site and did not want to give my trusty usb drive away. Is it possible to burn this to disc? I did a little googling there doesnt seem to be an easy way other than redownloading from Apple.
I have the Mac OS X Lion server and am able to view on my iMac, however when I go on a different computer i am unable to see it. website: wiki.piezosystems.org
Why do emoji like appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome on the same MacBook running Lion? Both browsers use WebKit, and I'd imagine font support comes from the OS, not the application. For reference purposes this is the page rendered in Chrome 17.0.963.56:
Whenever I try emptying my Trash, the progress bar freezes at a specific point. I narrowed down the problem to a folder containing a mercurial repository:
I'm running Lion (10.7.1) and the other day I started getting these Broadcast Message notices in my Terminal. I've google'd the crap out of it and the few threads i've found where someone actually offered a way to fix it haven't solved my problem. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this and I use the Terminal daily and it is very annoying. Looking at my system.log the only thing I get when this happens is:
I've seen a lot of posts out there that say that iOS 5 causes 3rd Generation iPod Touch's to no longer function. Is this true? Is is safe to install iOS 5 on my 3rd Generation? Is there a special way that i need to do it?
I have used the Bookmarks Bar for years for my main site to keep bookmarks that I use. The sidebar is far less frequently accessed. Over the past week, entire folders are disappearing from bookmarks bar, taking countless sites that I use. I updated Safari recently to 5.1.2, and security update. I am running OS X 10.6.8. I booted from an external drive with SuperDuper, backed up a few days ago, but it was missing the folders. These bookmark folders have been stable for years (as a system).
Is there any software like "Clipper" for Mac? I am looking for an application like this.
I have a new Macbook Pro 13 (I think its the 2011 issue) which has a firewire 800 port with an unusual form factor. It's different to the FW800 port on my older macbook pro 17. Can anyone tell me the name of that form factor so I can find a adapter or cables?
I've seen many books or magazines as standalone apps. You download them from the app store as one single app. When you open it, it's just like reading a book or magazine and you can turn the page and scroll pages at the bottom. Very easy to use, not fancy but simple. You might not be able to zoom it, but on iPad it's fine. There seems to be a standard framework or tools to allow easy creation for non-developers. Any free tools out there that anyone might know?
I really love Mission Control but at times some of my programs (Illustrator and Photoshop in particular) won't always minimize to the Mission Control view.
In Windows, one can create a new file using Right Click -> Add New -> Type of File. Is there an analogous action in Lion? I just want to create a new blank file on my Desktop.
My early 2008 Macbook Pro was recently fixed for the known "MLB for NVIDIA" issue. Since I've gotten my computer back, my external monitor no longer has the correct resolution available. This was working fine before. I've tried resetting PRAM and the problem still persists. Why? Computer: Early 2008 Macbook Pro, OS X 10.5.8 Monitor: Acer 19"
Quite frequently I experience cases, where the ⌘+L shortcut will not work in Chrome. This shortcut does the same in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. It jumps to the URL bar of the browser. How can I troubleshoot this problem?
When the Adobe Flash player update was auto-updated, I had to quit Safari and then continue the installation. Accidentally, I started Safari again right during the installation procedure. This resulted in a never-ending install that I had to force-quit. So, I downloaded the Uninstall Flash Player software to completely remove flash from my system and then re-install it. The (new) install failes with the folloing error report:
I have a project on Xcode and I am pretty beginner so I started designing my code of course using segues and now I realized that this project will only work on IOS 5! I guess I will give up before I even started! What am I gonna do now? Is there anything I can transform my project to IOS 4? I am so disappointed and wish I didn't have to design for IOS.
I hate to wait for Macports to update the packages that I need. I would like to learn how to create a new port and submit it to Macports server. How do I do that?
I have a mobile.me account that handles the synching of my personal data (mail, icals and contacts) on my 4 devices (iPod, iPad, MacBook and iMac). when I read the docs about iCloud, it seems that this magic synching will not work anymore on 3 of my devices (non Lion and non iOS5)... Will my contacts/calendars on my iPod (2ndGen) will never be updated anymore?
OS 10.6 How do I find where the file for a particular mp3 that I can see in iTunes is? -- How can I see what folder a track is in? -- And how do I know which file in that folder it is?
I want to install two operating systems in the same mac pro. Is it possible to install snowLeopard & Lion on the same macPro like snowLeopard & windows XP?
I'm interested in making a Service (using Automator if possible) that allows me to perform an action on a URL. If the URL exists as plain text, this works just fine. However, if the URL is a link in rich text, then my service gets the link's title, rather than it's URL. How can I obtain the URL when activating a Service on a rich text link?
In the Photos app on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5, I cannot add a photo in the Camera Roll to another album. The album is there, but I cannot select it after tapping on the "Add to" button. The album I am trying to copy the photo is an iPhoto album synced to the phone. Can this be the reason of the problem?
Just what the title says. Is it supported? If so - does this depend on application or on the system?
Both Amnesty and iCal Events are long-abandoned, but I've managed to keep them limping along. The limping is becoming rather bad in Lion, though. I was able to modify the Javascript in iCal Events to let it access my iCloud calendars, but I can no longer move or resize the window it creates, and I can't assign it to "all" desktops under Mission Control. The whole thing feels a bit too fragile now, and I need a modern solution.
Are there any other gestures implemented in Lion and common applications (e.g. iLife) besides those in the System Preferences? Are these "hidden" gestures documented by Apple in a help file or knowledge base so I can look for them as I wish to learn more? Are these "hidden" gestures documented by Apple in a help file or knowledge base so I can look for them as I wish to learn more? Let's collectively maintain an answer listing of which apps have specific functions controllable by gestures or gestures and keyboard keys.
How do I close a password-protected numbers spreadsheet on iPad to preserve security? In apple discussions there is a suggestion to put spreadsheet in trash (supposedly at bottom). There is no trash at bottom. Deleting the spreadsheet doesn't close it, it deletes it.
Upon making that change, the user can then browse to google.com etc within mobile Safari. Without the Proxy Server set the user can no longer access external webpages within mobile Safari.
Previously, I've changed the icon of an application before by manually replacing the icon file .icns located in loremipsum.app/Contents/Resources/loremipsum.icns. This time, I've downloaded some beautiful icons which are folders with the needed icon and not simple .icns files. How can I get access of the the *.icns file?
Does facetime work over Wifi only, or also over a cellular connection such as 3G?
Sometimes I want to keep an item in the Unread section of the Safari 5.1.3 Reading List after I have read the item. The All section is too cluttered to use as a place to quickly find items. I realize I am trying to use the RL beyond what it was intended to be used for. Nonetheless, is there a way to mark an item in the Safari RL?
I am not sure I can connect the two events, but ever since I connected a Cinema display to my 2009 Mac Pro it seems like it is not entering sleep mode after the indicated time has passed. It will Sleep just fine if I use the apple menu command.
How compatible or not is the new Thunderbolt connection? If I have a MacBook Air with Thunderbolt, can I use my existing mini-video cable to connect it to a VGA overhead projector? If I buy a new Cinema Display with Thunderbolt, can I connect my existing Mac Pro to it? Are there special cables, convertors needed, or are there any fundamental incompatibilities?
I've got a Mac Mini Server running Lion Server. Right now, it is serving the Netboot and DHCP services. I'd like to set it up as a Software Update server so Mac users in my office can run their software updates more quickly.
Is there a way to identify the network activity for running processes ? I'm seeing some unusual activity on my computer (late 2008 MacBook Pro )
This question Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail? seems to have an answer that would be useful for me, but I don't actually know how to use the script from within Mail.
I recently had the hard drive replaced (by apple) in my iMac (Snow Leopard). I still have the removed hard drive, which obviously has all my old data etc ... on it. I did not create a time machine backup. I would like to transfer everything from my old hard drive to the new one, so in effect the mac would b returned to its previous state, albeit with a new hard drive installed. I have tried migration assistant but it didn't transfer over any of my existing apps or settings. Could anyone please assist as to the best method to do this, any advice greatly appreciated. Cheers Noel
I want to do a video conference call. My understanding is that FaceTime is a 1:1 video chat, but wanted to confirm that.
I frequently (at least once per day) need to edit my hosts file, and typing my password every time is getting annoying. I know how to change the permissions to allow myself to write to the file, and I'm aware of the security implications. My question: will I break anything by modifying the ACLs on /etc/hosts through the Finder? I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.3. (Since someone is going to ask, I have a Windows 7 VM in VMware Fusion that likes to change its local connection IP address every time it resumes from suspend (VM pause) or reboots.)
We have a number of Mac's in a small, simple local network at the office (all running Snow Leopard or later) that I'd like to use for instant messaging with multiple participants. The trouble is, at present, they are not internet connected and we have no server machines, so I'm using iChat with Bonjour networking to chat with other users. This all works fine, apart from the big problem that you can only chat with a single user at a time in the same conversation (you can talk to multiple people in separate conversations on a one-to-one basis, but this isn't ideal).
The television we have supports the use of the internet through an Ethernet cable or wireless USB network adapter (bought separately). The television has no built-in wireless and the nearest ethernet port in the house is too far away to be practical.
I'm connecting a 13" MacBook Air to a Dell 22" screen using the Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, with an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad plugged into a USB on the MacBook and a USB mouse plugged into the keyboard. Also, the MacBook is running off external power.
Is it possible to wake up an Apple TV 2 using the Apple Remote app on an iPhone or iPad rather than using the remote that comes packaged with the Apple TV 2?
I have a third generation iPod touch. I believe that it should be possible to run iOS 5 on this, and I have bought an app that requires iOS 5. However, in iTunes, when I click on the iPod device, it says that my iPod software is up to date. It says that the software version is 4.2.1. I'm registered with Apple with a Belgian account, though I hope this wouldn't make a difference to updates. Any suggestions appreciated.
My Mac has a QWERTY keyboard. When someone with a Mac with an AZERTY keyboard shared their screen with me in iChat, I had to pretend I was typing on an AZERTY keyboard to make any text I was typing come out right on the shared screen. Is this a known bug? Is there a way to fix it? (I didn't try, but I assume I could switch the layout to QWERTY on the shared Mac in System Preferences, but then we'd have to constantly switch back-and-forth as the other person needs to type something on the AZERTY keyboard. So I'm wondering whether there's a better solution.)
I subscribe to a lot of podcast both audio and video on iTunes. I rarely have an issue with the audio but the video ones sometimes will not sync certain podcasts.
Is the 6th/7th generation iPod Nano capable of sending video out through the 32 pin connector into a suitable digital dock? If so, could the camera adapter kit be used as it can for the iPad to stream digital video out to a DAC?
When I try to cd into this alias in terminal, the terminal notes that the alias is not a folder. In Ubuntu, I can, however, cd into a soft link.
I reset my Apple ID (@me.com - Only have ONE account) as Apple asked me to update my information with a more strong password. I can login just fine into iCloud mail from the web and check, see my emails but as soon as I launch the Mail app this window keeps popping up over and over telling me that my password was rejected for user by the iCloud IMAP server. I have removed iCloud from my Mac and add it all back without any complains or issues but as soon as I launch the Mail application under my @me.com account this window pops-up. I don't know what else to do and so far I haven't been able to solved the problem. Any ideas? My machine is a 2011 MBP with OS Lion. My Mail Application configurations under Incoming Mail Server shows: p01-imap-mail.me.com and Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): iCloud (iCloud).
I would like to use the terminal to monitor the network traffic on a given interface, with a view to providing alerts when certain cumulative totals have been exceeded. The script needs to gain statistics from the point in which it is started, and there is no requirement to store values for future reference, or retain values over reboots etc. I would like the output to be human readable, so values in Gb or Mb, not packets or bytes. The intention is to be able to include this script in an Automator application that will run in the background, and open a dialogue box at set thresholds to alert me to when I nearing a download limit, allowing to choose to disconnect the modem etc.
I was given the *=URL=* address of a very large file (8 GB). I want to download it directly to my external HDD. I haven't found any way to do this other than opening a terminal and typing these commands:
I need a simple app to capture single frames from a high-res webcam. Like PhotoBooth, but saves the full resolution of the camera is what I'm looking for.
In Germany many (music) videos get blocked on Youtube because Youtube and the GEMA have not yet managed to agree on a deal for copyright fees. This struggle has been going on for years now and there exist plenty of legal solutions for Firefox and Chrome to use a proxy service - provided by an extension - that will enable you to watch the video using a foreign IP (preferably, US or UK). Are there extensions for Safari that enable you to watch Youtube videos using a foreign IP?
It used to be (for example, as documented here: How do I sync iCloud iWork documents with Lion?) that you could access iCloud documents from the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder. However, it appears that in the latest updates to Lion (I am using 10.7.3) that this functionality has been removed/disabled. FWIW, I'm trying to access the documents on my iPad stored in GoodReader from my Mac. Does anyone know any workarounds or alternative approaches for this?
I made the mistake of editing a bunch of songs at once. Now, the changes have propagated to all of my iTunes Match registered devices. I tried Advanced > Get Track Names, but I get the following message iTunes cannot get CD track names for songs that were not imported using iTunes
Is there a way to lock my screen but not sleep my network connection? I step away from desk quite a bit and I lock the screen pretty much every time. When I come back I always from stepping away for like 5 minutes it seems like my machine has to reacquire an IP. This via ethernet. This is on a 2010 13' unibody macbook pro running Lion.
Does turning on WiFi (without connecting to any wireless network) use battery?
There's a few funny things / clues here and there on the Lion recovery disk "Systems" - that indicate you can save your settings between boots. A very light smattering of persistent settings etc. Beyond that.. Does anyone know if you can enable the root account or if there is an admin password etc. on these boot drives? It would kinda be nice to be able to look around when booted to these things, possibly see what's going on under the hood etc.. Also, it might open the door to being able to SSH to the machine, which would definitely come in handy during tough installs, or other strange circumstances.
I inherited a network with 2 Mac OS Servers and 20+ Macbook Pros. My background is all Windows server so I get the concept of Open Directory, Server Admin, and Workgroup Manager, but the nuts and bolts are more difficult to pick up.
I've got a couple of DMGs that should fit on a CD (one per CD) but burning softwares (Disk Utility & Toast) say that they are 2 or 3 times bigger and thus need a DVD. Why is that ?
I'm trying to rotate an iPhone 4S vid 90degrees Counter Clockwise. I've seen lots of posts and answers that say there is an 'Edit > Rotate Left' option in Quicktime Player. I can't see it! I have QT Player 10.0 on Snow Leopard.
I'm freelancing somewhere and want to share a local (on my MacBook) site with some LAN users via IP. The network structure, time and technical ability here don't allow me get everyone to add host entries or setup proper DNS.. So.. say I have *=URL=* accessible on my own machine, is there a way that I can access this from the LAN via IP like: '*=URL=* ? I see that '*=URL=* works for the default site (where 'mbp' is my machine name) but not sure how to get other sites working? Cheeeers. Added for clarity: the name 'devsite' is added in /private/etc/hosts by me, and the vhost is added to /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Without resorting to editing the host file (as shown in this Apple.SE thread), is there any way to add a new search engine option to Safari for Windows? Glims works great on OS X, but unfortunately is not an option since my work machine is a Windows 7 box. EDIT: I'd prefer a generic solution, similar to Glims, that would allow me to add any search engine to the search options.
I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl. Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?
I used Bookmarkdog in Snow Leopard and Lion but since I'm using iCloud that app no longer works and its successor BookMaster does not seem to be doing the sorting like Bookmarkdog used to do. What others tools are using to sort Safari's bookmarks? How do you keep your Safari Bookmarks sorted?
When I ask a question about if I run too many process will slow down my Mac for Magican measured my Mac is high CPU usage. A Mac user tell me the icons on the desktop may still influence the performance of my Mac. Is this true?
I have a USB2+Firewire external disk that made a clicking noise, and Mac OS X immediately unmounted it and put up a dialog box saying that a peripheral is misbehaving. The disk made a clicking noise several times in a short interval, and each time it did, the dialog box on screen would flash. So I unplugged it, waited for a few seconds, and plugged it in to another Mac, and this time it worked perfectly. I copied all 800 GB of data out of the drive over some 9 hours, and it worked perfectly and at its usual speed of 30 - 40 MB/second.
Are there examples of malware that affects jailbroken iOS devices that doesn't require installation of shady packages (e.g. something that can compromise a device just by opening a PDF or visiting a site)?
The UI on my iPod touch 2 (iOS 4.2.1) is glitchy, where at the edges is a white split. System Info: iPod touch 2g iPod touch 2g Jailbroken Jailbroken Some LaunchDaemons Deleted. Some LaunchDaemons Deleted.
First off I know this post is about a micro sd, but I'm on a Mac.. Anyway, I got a micro sd card with my phone. It's a Cricket phone that features their Muve Music service. (Though I rooted and removed the app for it) Though the phone came with a 4GB Micro SD card, 3GB of it was dedicated to Muve Music; and the other 1GB was for the user.. Is there a way to use my Mac to access the full 4GB?
I'm running OS X 10.7.3 Currently I've found what looks like 2 possible solutions: Hot corner(s) setup in the "Desktop & Screen Savers" preferences Create a service with Automator then map a keyboard shortcut in "Keyboard" preferences
When using Mobile Safari on my iPhone (4, iOS 5.0.1) to view this site, I am not able to log in using the top right drop down arrow that is seen on the mobile view. Nor am I able to enter the full site rather than use the mobile version. Both of these buttons "click" (in that they highlight as if pressed when I touch them) but nothing happens at all. At the bottom of the page is a notice that reads "Apple requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load."
I have 2 DVD's for installing Windows. The 1st DVD contains part of the Windows 7 installation and then the DVD 2 has to be inserted. Now, when I try to install Win7 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp Assistant, it starts Windows and initiates the steps to copy the files (1st step in the installation).
I'm having problems connecting the the work wifi network. When I go to Settings the network name is listed under Wi-Fi
Usually I connect my MacBook Air 11" to a secondary display via the Thunderbolt port. What do I need to connect it to two external monitors?
I just bought my first 13" MacBook Pro. Before purchasing new games for my Windows notebook, I used to check the compatibility with Can You Run It, but that site doesn't list Mac compatibility or requirements. Is there any other website where I can check game compatibility for Mac computers? Specifically, I'd like to play Call of Duty 4 and Civilization V. Can I play these games on my 13" MacBook Pro? Edit: my system's specification Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b) Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 13-inch, Early 2011 with these specifications can i play any of these game on my system?
I defined two locations, switched between them, and set the preferred network list for each location. But when I change the preferred network list for one Location, it changes the list for the other Location as well!
Having an iPhone and iPad lying on the desk while chatting with the new Messages beta app gets very annoying, as each device beeps separately. Is there any way to have the notifications only on the current device as long as it is active?
Is there any known reason why I cannot wake up sleeping Macs with Apple Remote Desktop? I have checked the Energy Saver Prefs "Wake for network access". I have checked the Sharing Prefs "Remote Login" and "Remote Management".
I just upgraded to Lion and I'd like to know what applications support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features. Is there a searchable list of applications that support these features? Update: This question also includes Mountain Lion.
While replacing the logic board on my MacBook Pro (15" 2.4 GHz) and I stripped one of the 3.3mm 00 Phillips screws for the SuperDrive. I have found only one source online that had replacements in stock (*=URL=* and they wanted to charge me $19.99 + shipping for 5 of them. Are stores like this my only recourse, or does anyone know of a better online distributer of Mac parts? I have checked ifixit.com and I would like to avoid buying full $60 sets for one replacement.
I am really looking at getting a used Mac Pro, and there are a lot of good used machines out there that will meet my needs that are around $1500. I was wondering what options I can get to help cover the repair / replacement of a used Mac Pro in the rare event that something goes wrong with it? A lot of the machines I am looking at are used and not refurbished and are not eligible for AppleCare any more. What do you use to cover your pre-owned and somewhat pricey used Macs?
After I replaced the hard drive in my old iBook G3 (with the help of iFixit guides), it will not boot connected to mains power, only with the battery. It also always returns its date/time settings to its "zero-hour", when it left the production line.
At some point after Lion system updates, my ~/Library folder becomes visible again, in seemingly spontaneous fashion. If I make it invisible, it will become visible yet again. What could be causing this? Has anyone else seen this?
I work on a college campus with a number of iMacs hooked up to projectors. For some reason, after imaging, they all default to 800x600 resolution on both the iMacs and the projectors, despite their shared maximum display resolutions. Is there any way to automatically tell the Mac to default the resolution to something higher and maintain that for all users regardless of what it's hooked up to? Alternately, is there any way I can change the default resolution for all users after the imaging process is complete? I've found the com.apple.preference.displays file in /Library/Preferences/ByHost, but because it relies on the machine's UUID I don't think it will allow me to push that out remotely...
Under a Mobile Me Family Pack, I set up a secondary email account for myself, giving me two "username@me.com" addresses. When I transitioned to iCloud, I used my primary Mobile Me account, which I set up on my Mac and iPad. In June of 2012, Mobile Me will cease to exist, but I still need to use that second account. Is it possible to have both my primary iCloud email, and that secondary account on my iPad? (On my Mac, i just set up another User Account, and used it to "migrate" that second Mobile Me account to iCloud.) I would Only need to sync Mail to my iPad for the latter, so would not be concerned with duplicating Adress Book contacts, Calendar etc.
I have multiple external disks on my machines. They are "green disks" and spin down/power save when they have not been accessed for a while.
The first part of the question is: where are the actual files that are displayed by apache for the default web server in Lion Server? Specifically as simple task I would like to change the title of the default web page. When the address is bookmarked it shows as "OS X Lion Server" and I want to change that.
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I partitioned the HD, installed Lion on the new partition and used Migration Assistant to copy settings and Applications. I now have duplicates for most Applications, many seem to point to the Snow Leopard Applications. I can't find a way to easily identify which apps are Snow Leopard so I can delete them. The alternative would be to trash the Launchpad db, but how do I prevent Lion from recreating the Snow Leopard items?
On Snow Leopard Quicktime allowed you to easily cut clips from videos and store them as .mov with the trim function (invoked with Command+T). On Lion Quicktime, the trim function still exists. But there is no option in the File menu to save the trimmed video as .mov. The only option is to "save for device" which actually trancodes the video (instead of just putting it in a different container) and takes an awful lot of time. My question is twofold:
The program should run in batch mode to resize all files in a folder and then save new files to different folder. An option for setting jpg quality would be great, too.
Currently I'm attempting to compress a decompressed jar file that I have changed into a jar file. How can I do this via the command line? I know that there is a jar command in terminal, I'm just having trouble learning how to compress that folder. If the folder's directory (probably not correct term, but hopefully you get the idea) is /Users/Odinulf/folderone/foldertwo (foldertwo is directory that I want compressed), what would be the exact code to do this? Thanks in advance, Odinulf
Messages will replace iChat on OS X Lion when installed but it will expire at some point in the future. What will happen to my Lion's iChat application when Messages expire? Will I be able to use/reinstall iChat again?
I currently use Notify, but it has gone out from under active development and there are a few bugs in Lion. Is there something that does an identical or nearly identical thing, but hasn't been abandoned? Free would be preferable.
I have installed Apple Aperture some time ago using a serial (likely pirated) that I searched for on the internet. Now, I want to purchase a legal version through the App Store, but it is seeing the prior version as installed. When I try to buy it, the App Store will not let me complete the purchase or download. Ive tried to completely remove it and reinstall using this tutorial: *=URL=* The steps listed did not work for me and I would appreciate additional steps to help.
In my iTunes library there are many tracks that have the cloud with embedded arrow (indicating that I need to download them from the cloud), but which are grayed-out, so that I can't download them, play them, or do anything. Can you tell me what is wrong?
I'm trying to install this library called phantomjs. The instructions include this line: *=URL=* For convenience, copy the executable bin/phantomjs.app/Contents/MacOS/phantomjs to some directory in your PATH. How do I do this?
I have a DMG which I downloaded using Safari. When I double click it, the volume mounts but it doesn't open in a new Finder window.
I have used an older version of Microsoft RDC client on an old MBP with mouse on the left side of the keyboard. I had flipped the left and right mouse buttons of the mouse in preferences, which made the right button behave as primary mouse button also in remote sessions. I synced settings to mobileme from that computer.
I have a fleet of more than 10 iOS devices (iPhones 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad2...) to manage, setup, etc. Often, users are very lost with configuration and usage (device configuration, e-mail, calendar sync, Apps installation and usage... I even have question like "How can I send my photo by e-mail?", or "How to transfer this PDF?" sic.). I cannot allow me to jailbreak professional devices, so it's a prohibitive constraint. I seek a solution to guide them simplest, that in trying to explain to them what to do by phone.
What GUI or framework should I use for both 2D and 3D applications? I'd like to use C++ as much as possible versus other pseudo languages such as Objective C. I'm confused so if this question makes no sense, just please let me know.
The (unoffical) dimensions which I found are: 9.5mm slot load There is free Blu-ray player software available for the Mac and Toast Titanium 11 is able to burn Blu-ray discs. As it turns out, there are only few Blu-ray drives which are compatible (dimension-wise) with a unibody MacBook Pro and the lack of Apple support for this media makes driver support, associated software and other requirements makes reliable information on using a BlueRay drive with OS X and Macs hard to come by.
Leopard was good used to start in second but Lion is taking too much time to start it takes 2-3 minutes to start. Is it problem with my MBP or anyone experience this before? Please guide help.
I have a Lion Server with iCal enabled. Trying to set up some location and resource calendars, accessing them from Ubuntu clients, how can I work out the URL of these calendars? I have worked it out for a user already (*=URL=* is there a way perhaps to see URLs on the server?
The title says everything, how can I disable the visual bell animation in Lion? It is annoying and useless, visual bell should be fast, not fancy! I don't want to disable the visual bell, just the fadin/fadeout animation.
I am installing Mac OS X Lion on a Mac Mini (c2d, 2GB RAM). The installation goes fine, until it rebooted. After rebooting, it shows the following screen for almost 3 hours. The progress bar does not indicate any remaining time. Should I continue this or cancel the setup?
I installed an application called Air Parrot that uses air play with an Apple tv to mirror or extend the desktop. I noticed that after I installed it, I am no longer able to wake my Mac from sleep. I have to do a hard reset every time. I have also noticed the activity light on the front stays bright and does not dim like it should in sleep mode. I've reset the PRAM and done an EFI Firmware update to no avail.
I am using Transmit and the Firefox extension S3 Organiser. Neither completely satisfies my requirements as both tools lack the ability to set an expiration header.
Is there any application that can be installed in OS X (Lion) that will allow a person to run applications from the host system on a guest system, displaying only the windows for the application? In other words, can Cocoa applications display their windows on another OS X Desktop than the machine on which they are running? X11 allows you to run an application remotely without sharing the whole Desktop. I am currently using VNC (Screen Sharing), but because of screen resolution differences, it isn't ideal.
I noticed that when replying to a text message I can access and scroll through previous message from the person I am replying to so I have a good view of the conversation history and can e.g. copy some text from it. However after typing more than 7 lines of text I can no longer go back to the the message I am replying to. Is there a way to access conversation history in that scenario, or is it simply a design feature saying "keep it short"?
My battery says 0% charge, there is no x over my battery icon. The MacBook runs fine on corded power but dies as soon as I unplug. What could be the problem?
I'm in college (poor), I have a 4 yr old MacBook that has started to "bleed" into the viewing area of the screen making it difficult to see. Will Apple replace this or do I have to buy a new one? What other options do I have without spending a fortune?
I don't have a Mac or Exchange (which seem to be two ways of doing this.) When I open the iPad Gmail app (from Google) there are no Contacts and the email "to" field doesn't autocomplete. I effectively can't email unless I've memorized the email address.
I'd like to launch an AppleScript/ App after 30 minutes of system inactivity. e.g. no cursor movement or keyboard input?
How do you find the Unicode number representation for a given character in Lion? On Mac OS X 10.6 when hovering the mouse cursor over for example the ⌘ symbol in the "Character Viewer" a tool tip would be displayed containing something like: Unicode: 2318 UTF8: E2 8c 98 That behavior appears to no longer work on Lion's "Character Viewer"
I have a Mac Mini and want to connect it to my Lenovo L2230 monitor. I've read instructions about connecting a MacBook Air to a VGA monitor but I can't translate it to my situation. At present the monitor is connected to a pc running Joli OS.
I know that upgrading my MacBook with extra RAM can help boost the general system performance. Recently, I upgraded from OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.6.8. I thought that my RAM upgrade would speed up my MacBook, but it didn't. What measures can I take to boost the performance of my MacBook?
I have a Magic Trackpad that I'm using with my iMac. Everything works great, but I would also like to use the trackpad with my MacBook.
Every time I launch Chromium, a dialog box appears almost immediately telling me that "Chromium Helper EH has unexpectedly quit." Several things don't work, including the New Tab button missing the + symbol, several keyboard shortcuts don't work, and pages don't load more than halfway. What's happening and how can I fix it? (Extra phrases to help this show up for people searching for "Google Chrome": Google Chrome Helper EH, Google Chrome crashes.)
Recently bought a 13" MacBook Pro on Apple Store. I just discovered a "stuck pixel" which shines red when it's supposed to be black.
I just imported 300 AIFF files into iTunes in order to easily convert them to AAC. That part is done, and now I want to delete the AIFF files. I know how to do this from Terminal, but I'd like to find the best way to do this from iTunes. I created a smart playlist with these rules: date added is 2/24/2012 kind begins with "AIFF"
I'd like to create a user on OS X that has remote ssh login privileges where they can access a certain folder /path/to/the/goods/ and add/modify/delete files manually or via rsync while the rest of the Mac is off limits (outside their home directory). Ideally the user should not have access to run any other programs other than rsync.
I recently switched to the Unicode Hex Input to make typing technical symbols easier. It seems, though, that the way it uses the option key to detect unicode input overrules the ⌥+arrow method of navigating text. Is there any way to use both Unicode Hex Input and this shortcut?
Is there a way for non-jailbroken iOS to view the source code for a web page? Does Apple's web API allow this?
One of the most annoying things about working on my Mac is when I am using an open file dialog from any application. For some reason beyond me it shows all the files that are invalid to open greyed out. Then any files that are of the correct kind, or folders, are in black, and mixed in. Of course I can sort by kind, but it still doesn't make any sense to have to wade through all the files I cannot open. I could kind of understand it if I could force it to open one of these other files, but I cannot even select them. Is there a way to tell the open dialog to only show me folders and valid files to open?
I travel often enough that I decided to activate tethering through AT&T. I'm not on unlimited data, but I do have a fairly high limit now (tethering comes with more bandwidth) I am often downloading new podcast episodes over 3G, but find I am still limited by the 20MB file limit. So I have to tether to my Mac Book Pro to download the podcast (over the iPhone), and then sync it to my iPhone. I guess the reason for the 20MB limit was when AT&T offered unlimited data, but now it is just annoying as it requires me to take an extra step to download the same 20MB file over the same 3G network.
Due to some graphic and/or code based changes, within programs like Dropbox, iTunes, jDownloader etc. (but mostly Java-based applications), the built-in firewall keeps asking for verification.
I purchased some apps in Argentina store, and then I moved to US store, and also got some apps. Now I'm no able to automatically update the apps I got on Argentina store.
Is it possible to add the "Open with..." option to Finder, when you do a secondary click on a folder? I want the same behavior as when I'm secondary clicking on a file. Edit I do not want to open the contents of the folder with the application, but simply just the folder.
I want to use iCloud's email service (me.com) as the ultimate destination for my incoming mail, as well as the repository of all my Sent mail. And when people reply to my email, I want it to be sent to myname@pobox.com. (In other words, I want my pobox.com address to be my "official" address -- the only one anyone sees in their contact lists or their emailer's auto-complete suggestion list: anything else merely promotes confusion!)
My 5th gen iPod classic and 1st gen iPod nano both skip two entire albums. The iPod automatically skips every song in the album. These albums both play fine in iTunes. Also, both albums played fine a few weeks ago. I have deleted and re-imported the albums into iTunes and the iPod many times. The ID3 tags and the format match the other songs in my iTunes, and I do not know what is causing this problem. What should I do?
When I use iTunes to edit various song attributes, like adding lyrics, album art, song titles etc, iTunes shows that the song is edited. However, when I look in my iPhone, it is still not edited. How can I make it show what I have edited previously?
I have several playlist folders on our iPad running iOS 5. How do I play all the songs in the folder?
I recently installed a SSD on my Early 2009 Mac Pro. While searching the site, and finding many questions on the subject of SSD to HDD swapping, linking, and cloning. No one actually mentioned the folders that would be best to link. I have symlinked /Users/user and /Libray on SSD to HDD, but feel like I might be missing one. Also, I noticed that this also saves most of my app settings, as Dropbox was able to simply startup without any configurations. Would this also be the case for mail, since I linked the whole /Library folder? Currently I have Lion, and the Apps folder on the SSD. My goal is to have the data hogs linked from HDD to SSD. Would it be better to hard link them versus symlink? Edit: I am running my OS on SSD, and want to symlink to folders from OS on old HDD. Which are the best candidates?
I'd like to force-include some files in Time Machine. Specifically I want to force-include "iPod Photo Cache" and "Thumbnails" in my Aperture Library. I have checked this file: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist
Are either of rc.shutdown or rc.shutdown.local still being use in OS X, or have they been replaced with something else? I realize that launchd is replacing most of this, but I thought you could still use rc.shutdown.local to run a script. I couldn't even find rc.shutdown anywhere on my system.
I would like to set the default language of a Numbers document. I figured out how to do it for a Pages document: How Do I Set the Default Language in Pages? but I cannot find the corresponding inspector tab in Numbers.
I have a MacBook that runs Leopard and uses Time Machine to backup to a linux based server. For a long time this setup has worked perfectly, but apparently it stopped working over a week ago. It seems the sparsebundle has been corrupted, checking /var/log/fsck_hfs.log when trying to mount or attach it has proven as much.
Any ideas? I want to remove it from the Sidebar and I guess I need to tweak some properties file. What to do?
I installed the new EFI update for my MBA Mid 2011 (the software updater said it is recomended). The update went fine and restarted the mac afterwards.
Very closely related to this question: Are files saved to iCloud via 3rd party applications accessible from icloud.com web interface through browser? Is there any way to access files stored by 3rd party apps in iCloud from a Windows PC?
I installed vifm through macports. If I press enter on a file, it just opens it for editing. How can I launch a file with it's associated program?
I am writing an assignment about basic video editing software, and I need to mention video editing software that is Mac OS X compatible. As a Linux user, I personally don't have access to a computer running Mac OS X and have never used one. I would therefore like to know what software comes pre-installed on Mac OS X (I'm not sure if this may vary for each release, but say for the 3 latest releases (10.6 - 10.8)), as well as the most used paid / free software available. I'm not interested in every available application, but only the most commonly used for basic purposes.
I have an iPhone 4S that uses account "B" for iCloud and account "A" for iTunes. I also have an iTunes installation (on a Windows 7 machine) that is authorized for account A. I have many apps installed and configured on the iPhone, several of them cost money.
I have used homebrew to install the newest version of bash on my local system. I have added a symbolic link from: /usr/local/bin/bash to /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash and added the line: /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells
John Doe is someone I email often. John Dee is someone I emailed recently and will probably email again, but not nearly as often. I don't want to remove John Dee from my previous recipients, but I want John Doe to come up first again for quick compleion. (I'm sure that otherwise I'm going to accidentally send John some mail meant for John.) I can't find any way to reorder entries in the Previous Recipients window. Is there any way to make Doe come up first again? I tried adding Doe but not Dee to my Address Book, but that didn't help.
Currently doing some php in Eclipse but want to switch to something like Textmate because Eclipse runs like a fat dog. Eclipse has Esftp installed as well as subclipse. This way when i want to work on a new project, I connect to the SVN server and fetch the project from there. The project then has all the configuration already set for esftp most of the time so that you can just save changes to the server directly.
I intend to start to develop for Apple products. My question is if a Mac mini with the below configuration will suffice for this purpose. 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 2GB memory 2GB memory 500GB hard drive 500GB hard drive Intel HD Graphics 3000 Intel HD Graphics 3000 OS X Lion OS X Lion I intend to develop in Objective-C but the question is if Apple will farther allow native code apps on their mobile hardware.
Just ran Snow Leopard on my 10.4 Tiger iMac6.1 desktop. All has gone swimmingly. But now ... the way I work, I have several icons, photos, on desktop when I'm finished and I Trash them.
I have a late-2010 MacBook Air and I've been experiencing pretty slow shutdown times recently. I know that there's always the "how often do you shutdown your computer?" argument but I see that as invalid because throughout the life of this laptop it has thus far had a roughly 3-5 second shutdown time. My concern is that the slow shutdown time is an early warning sign that the SSD is beginning to fail, or that there is some other component that is beginning to fail. As an experiment I created a new user and performed a shutdown with that account and the slow shutdown issue persisted. I also have FileVault enabled, but I disabled it and the shutdown time was the same.
We have an older-ish network laser printer which unfortunately doesn't support Airprint (previously mentioned) and have been looking for ways to enable our family of iOS devices to print from it. The best idea I've come up with so far is to purchase an iMac (planned anyway) and physically connect the printer to it - would the iMac then be able to act as a print server for, say, an iPad? I have used print sharing in the past but am unclear as to whether it supports iOS (although it would make sense for it to). Thanks!
I have a collection iso images that all mount on an imac running snow leopard but not on my 2011 MBP with Lion. They are formatted iso 9660, but I don't know at what level. When I mount them with disk utility on lion, I get "No mountable filesystems" When I mount them with Toast Titanium, I get Result Code 192. On the snow leopard Machine, I'm able to mount them and convert them to DMGs, but these DMGs still do not work on my Lion machine. I am able to burn these images w/ the Lion machine, but the DVD's will not load on finder. I am able to create a new image on the snow leopard machine, and put the contents of the old image in, and have that new image work on the lion machine. My best guess is that there are some system level drivers not provided with lion. Thanks for any help
I'm an iTunes Match subscriber, and since I signed up, Smart Playlists haven't been working in conjunction with my iPhone. I have several Smart Playlists and each one has a song limit. On my iPhone, the Smart Playlists completely ignore the limit, which makes them sort of useless, because I can't download a playlist without filling up my phone. It also seems that my Smart Playlists aren't updating, even though they're all set to "live update." Is there a way to get Smart Playlists working with iTunes Match and iOS?
I currently have my MacBook Pro set up to dual boot OS X Lion and Windows 7. I am in the middle of a development project where I need to write some custom software that depends on proprietary drivers that only work in Linux. I have been using a vm but it's getting tedious. It would be nice to be able to boot up into Ubuntu natively.
How can i speed up the terminal startup in Lion? I'm not referring to the startup of the Terminal application, but to the startup terminal windows, like when i open a new tab. I don't have anything in my .bash_profile file and i run rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl every 4 hours (which clear those files that usually make terminal slow ). Currently, when i open a new tab, it takes 3-4 seconds until i can run something.
The USB connector of my iPod was broken some time ago. I was not able to connect the device to a computer or to charge it. Now - a few month later - an iPod repair store told me that it is not possible to repair the USB connector because it has a fixed connection to the mainboard. But they were able to make some pins working again. Now I can charge the device, but a connection to iTunes is not possible.
I am seeing images of iPhone white with only white background, while the front is black (or it looks on images). I am looking to buy used iphone 3gs and many images from different sellers are like this.
In OSX Spotlight, how do I find in which folder a document is? It used to be that hovering the mouse over the doc would show the folder. I miss that functionality!
I'm trying to test out how my website looks on the iPhone, but all I have is an iPad. Is there a way to force the iPad into iPhone size view window?
I just came back to the office after being away for a month, plugged my mac into the 30" Dell display I have at work (rotated 90 degrees), and it the resolution is now 1536x2048 and that is the highest resolution available in System Preferences. Before I went away, I was always using 1600x2560, which is the native resolution. If I remove the "90 degrees" rotation, it will let me use 2560x1600, but changing it back to 90 degrees drops the resolution back to 1536x2048.
If I mistakenly delete or otherwise mess up a Note that is stored in iCloud, is there a way to restore a past version of the Note?
So, I've been a Mac user for about seven or so months now. And one thing I've been wondering is how to fully remove an application.. I know a lot of times applications leave extra junk on your computer; and, deleting the app from the applications directory doesn't fully remove it. I'm just wondering how I can 'search for and destroy' the files the apps leave behind.
I have a Mac Mini (2011) with no OS installed currently (drives are RAIDed and I lost Recovery HD partition). When I boot, I start the Internet Recovery, which I am viewing through a Samsung P50 Plasma TV. The max. resolution of the TV is 1366x768 pixel. After Recovery begins, it tries to open the installer with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixel and won't let me access some parts of the screen. Unfortunately, that also includes the "Continue" button and progress bar to install Lion. Is there any way I can force a smaller resolution or get the window to move, so I can start the installation?
I download lots of lectures from iTunes U. The problem is, they usually come with video and there is no audio-only version for many. How can I, using any software available for Snow Leopard, free or paid, extract the audio from a series of video files and end up with a series of audio files? Any ideas?
The new Messages beta app (based on iChat) is stuck with one incoming message. Can I somehow reset the badge?
My iPhone is set to manually manage my music, and I'd prefer to keep it that way. However, I also like some of the features that iTunes Match offers. Is there any way that I can enable Match on my phone, download what I need, and then disable it again without it deleting my existing, manually-copied music? (The reason I don't want to switch to iTunes Match full-on is a) I have a lot of unique masterings and recordings that iTunes Match will match generically, b) I listen to a lot of one-off tracks that I don't want stored permanently, and c) it feels wrong that I can't copy music from my computer if I so wish, even if my phone is plugged into it.)
I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2. I've only had the iPad for three weeks, and iCloud is almost full. How can I free up space? I prefer not to buy more space. It looks like the iPhone is using most of the space.
I change my background in system preferences and it says my background is a picture, but my desktop is still a blank gray. How can I fix this?
I am using Messages for OS X and Google Talk. I'd like to be able to go invisible in Messages. How can I do this?
Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup? ~/Library/ contains a folder called Calendars, but its contents look complicated and I don't dare simply restore the Calendars folder from yesterday's Time Machine backup. Thanks.
I noticed recently that the YouTube app for the iPhone (4s) streams movies significantly slower (or sometimes, not at all) compared to using Safari and the mobile YouTube website. I have tested this using 3g and various Wi-Fi connections. There is inconsistencies between the App and the Mobile Website on the same device over the same connection. What is the difference in technologies between these two interfaces that may be causing this, or is this just a localized problem to my device?
I tried Meteorite. It doesn't work, just keep crashing. Any other way I can fix the damaged .mkv file on Mac?
I just switched from PC to Mac, and there's a problem with Photoshop on OS X: I can't move any layer with the Move tool. It doesn't display any error or dialog box but it simply won't do it. Whenever I drag a layer, it will move back to its original location. However, I can nudge it using the arrow keys. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Photoshop CS 5.5
I have a Macbook Pro 13" bought in December which means it is the latest available version. (MacBookPro8,1 , 2,4 Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB) I have problems when waking up from stop: for a couple of seconds the trackpad is frozen, I can see the mouse pointer but it is irresponsive form mouse movement or multi touch gestures. Everything in the mac is on,screen shows latest open programs and the writing cursor is blinking( thus excluding that for that couple of seconds the system is only showing a PNG of the latest screen before stop). This issue is very annoying, the system is so reactive that it really seems a usability problem.
I did this with pages because I thought that it would uninstalled it (I'm brand new to mac os). It didn't uninstalled it, but it did remove it from the list of installed applications.
I'm thinking of getting an iPod Nano (6th Generation) and I'm not sure if it has support for lyrics. Does anyone know if it does?
We are developing an app for a customer that will sell content. There will also be an Android and web app and they don't really want to pay Apple 30% and would rather use their own site to sell.
An Airport Extreme card that claims to work with the 2008 Mac Pro and the card that I am using in my current 2006 Mac Pro. The cards look similar and since the ram is transferable from the 2006 models to the 2008 models I was wondering if the same is true for the airport extreme card? The cards appear to be the same physically. Has anyone actually tried it before or know of a definite answer?
Is there an editor designed specifically for writers of short prose? Currently I am using Microsoft Word and it is very heavy weight. Large technical reports need indices, chapters, heavy formatting (provided by tools like Word and InDesign), and programmers desire all sorts of code hooks, definition lookups, and integration with other tools like Xcode or code control tools. I want a tool for putting out prose and haven't found good solutions for this need. Better for writers means: fast - especially on older macs without SSD or large amounts of RAM lightweight in feel as well as in visual impact Ideally this tool should be available for both Mac OS X and/or on an iPod Touch.
I have Mac (OSX Lion) and PC (Windows 7) with a shared folder. To mount Windows shared folder I use "Connect to Server" in Finder. All files and folders are copied ok except for the files that begin with dot (e.g .htaccess). In Windows these files are created with hidden attribute. How to copy file/folder beginning with dot without hidden attribute?
My company still relies on the antiquated Exchange 2003. Besides using Windows in a virtual machine, has anyone found any type of workaround to enable Exchange 2003 access with OS X apps (Calendar/Address Book/Mail)?
I have been using Total Commander as a file manager on Windows for years. There is one feature I miss a lot in Finder: a shortcut to one specific folder.
I believe that as a user of 2 iMacs , 1 iphones and one iPad the best is to use my xx@me.com account on iCloud as main account and alias my other external accounts to xx@me.com The 2 external accounts are pol@myname.lu and po1@myname.eu Can anybody confirm this approach or tell me what's better?! Thanks all! Pol
It happens to me sometimes that using iPhone or iPad, I take pictures in open air environments, but later, when photos are exported to iPhoto, they do not appear on the Map. What could be the cause?
New ipod classic (purchased 2-25-12 from Target) DOES charge on our OLD Bose dock (pleasant surprise) whereas ipods purchased 1-2 years ago do not. I am vaguely aware that the non-charging situation was deliberate by Apple (something about the pins) to avoid the possibility of the old Bose dock "zapping" the ipod (pardon my lack of correct tech lingo). We even bought a new Bose dock to solve the problem, but kept the old one too. Now, my daughters brand new ipod classic charges in the OLD dock! Has anyone else experienced this and/or know what is going on? Thanks!
I know "teleport" will work between two Macs, but is there a way to share a keyboard and mouse between a Mac Mini and an older Dell PC? I'm asking because I received a Mac Mini and iPad for Christmas but still need the PC until I get familiar with the Apples and start tranfering stuff to them. I know just enough about computers to be dangerous, viz-- I just bought a Logitec MX 5500 Desktop with software for the PC with a USB Bluetooth dongle and it does work with the Mac Mini, but I didn't realize you cannot pair with more than one computer even if the other is off. My son says I can do it with something called a Bluetooth KVM, is this true? I can use the same monitor because it has both digital and analog inputs and is easily switchable.
I had to stop using my original iCloud account (because of an uncorrectable configuration mistake I made) and create a new one. I'd like to move the contents of the Calendar to the new account. I tried exporting each calendar from iCal on my Mac (creating .ics files), switching to my new iCloud account, and then importing those files into iCal, but the import process simply hung. Exporting as an iCal Archive and then importing doesn't work, because the archive preserves info about what iCloud account it's tied to.
My friend bought me the mStand here and it is quite cool passive heat conductor, placing the screen to the right level and I can use it for books etc besides laptops. It requires a wireless kbd and the only such kbd I would tolerate is probably by Apple (because it is small and function at least in Mac). Now I have different laptops such as Ubuntus, Windows and Linuxes. Can I use this keyboard with them also through Bluetooth?
I plan to write a little program that will output a RAW audio file let me convert RAW audio format files to WAV or AU or anything else?
I'm on MBP 7,1, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3 Ram, 500GB hard drive with Lion. After the v10.7.3 update, the console has been putting a looping error message regarding Device manager and PostGre SQL (below). Can anyone help? Thanks
I have a MacBook (early 2009 model), and yesterday the SuperDrive stopped working. On attempting to push a DVD into it, it is physically stiff and doesn't want to go in, with a lot of pushing it goes further, and the automatic mechanism tries to suck it in (or at least makes a noise), but nothing happens. On closer examination, it would appear that something is catching the disks around the middle of the entrance of the SuperDrive which is preventing them from simply gliding in as they used to. I'm unsure whether its something broken, or perhaps a locking mechanism that has somehow got stuck. I did think that something might be stuck in there, but I am not missing any DVDs and I have tried restarting holding down the mouse button to eject, and while it makes the eject noise (which sounds healthy), nothing comes out. I have tried all the obvious things - resetting the PRAM and SMC, to no avail. I don't imagine that anyone has a fix for this as its probably a physical problem, but I thou
By accident, I deleted most of my contacts on my iPhone. They were also on another device, and were deleted from that one as well when they were deleted off of the iPhone. I restored the iPhone from a backup and they appeared for a minute…then disappeared again. I tried to restore it from the backup again and the same thing happened. How can I fix this?
I want to make a LaunchBar script that displays in a dialog the path of a file or folder that's chosen in the first pane and then "dropped" on a script. But I can't make it work. I've got a couple of working scripts that almost do what I want: Return contents of first pane (used with a shortcut): Display text written in the first pane and "dropped" on the script: The latter uses the handle_string() handler but I can't quite make the open() handler work for files and folders: from the LaunchBar manual: *=URL=* Sending items to AppleScripts
I am using FaceTime and calling my friend abroad. I am using an iPod touch, but my friend has an iPhone and is in an area where they have Wi-Fi access. My question is, does that "call" count toward data or voice minutes, or is it unlimited and free as it's all going over Wi-Fi?
I'd like to reclaim the many GBs that this directory is currently eating up. Any reason I shouldn't symlink it to an external drive?
I am getting this error message when I try to open iTunes: iTunes.exe - Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point A VCFAssetCreateWithByteStreamAndOptions could not be located in the dynamic link library AVFoundationCF.dll
I used Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings on my iPhone, and now incoming phone calls are displayed as the telephone number, rather than the name from my Contacts. I do notice that the telephone numbers in my Contacts app are (now?) simply a string of 10 digits, rather than being formatted. I'm pretty sure it was formatted at one point. Thought it might have something to do with International Assist, but turning that on or off doesn't change this. I don't recall having to set anything initially to enable caller i.d., so I don't know what setting might have been reset.
There are way too many app icons on my dock. Is there a way to add drawers of apps on the dock so each drawer contains a list of apps?
How to read .awz ebooks (Kindle format) on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)? Can it be converted to PDF with hyperlinks properly supported?
Once in a while (3 times over the past four weeks), I don't exist. The message in the title of this question is my response when I try to run ssh while not existing. Also, when I don't exist, if I run id, it shows my uid and not my username as it otherwise does. And I can't use sudo:
I have an USB drive with four partitions. SuperDuper uses these partitions to back up my mac. Since SuperDuper is scheduled, I have the USB drive constantly connected. But quite frankly the noise of the USB drive is driving me nuts. So I eject the partitions every time I boot the mac up. SuperDuper is configured so that it mounts the partition when it is scheduled to back up and unmounts it again.
For quite a while now, I have been looking for English and Spanish conversion dictionaries (both ways) for Apple's native Dictionary application. So far I have not had any success. Is there any free, decent quality solution such as "New Oxford American Dictionary" and "Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française"? Any links or information would be highly appreciated.
Is there any way of figuring out when a photo on my iPhone4 has been taken, without first importing the photo to a Mac or PC?
I usually have my iPhone in "vibrate mode" (ringtone off, vibrate on). However, I'd like to additionally have it turn vibrate mode off automatically between for example 11 PM and 7 AM because I don't want to be awakened (or have my wife woken up) by some spam mail that arrives at 2 AM.
Hi I stream my tv shows from projectfreetv on my mac, but I was concerned about downloading a virus or something, so I started using my ''guest account'' when I stream, because it says when I logout all history will be deleted. Is this wishful thinking or do you think it helps to do this? Thanks so much!
After a recent upgrade of iTerm2 (I'm on build 1.0.0.20120203), when I open up iTerm2, it restores all of the terminal windows I had open. How do I disable this behavior so it doesn't "remember" how many windows I had open?
This is a similar question to this one, but since I can't tell how well that translates to the iPhone, I'm asking it again. I've recently been abroad on holiday, and with very expensive data roaming charges, it's very tempting to use an open wifi, for example for downloading app updates. I expect that communication with the App Store goes over HTTPS, so it should be safe entering my iTunes password there, right?
I heard that the iPhone has some sort of counter that counts every unauthorized connect or something like that, and with said counter, Apple Geniuses can tell if it has been jailbroken and they won't fix it. I was also told that when you perform a restore on the iPhone, the counter is saved so anyone can tell if it's been jailbroken even after restore. Is there a way to fully restore the iPhone and leave no "fingerprints" behind ?
Is it possible to reset a user's/root password for a mac image running inside vmware workstation? I googled for a while and also searched on this site but didn't find anything.
My Dad wants to be able to sync his iCal calendar across a Lion MBP, a Leopard MB, and an iPad running iOS 5. Since the Leopard MB doesn't support iCloud, I can't use that. How can I sync an iCal calendar across all these devices?
Is it me, or is this a bug? What would be the purpose of being able to delete files directly from the device if they get copied back over every time you sync?
Is there a way to enable delivery reports on the iPhone on the Vodafone network in Western Europe? This is a feature I sorely miss on my iPhone, being able to tell whether a message is delivered. The functionality is available on my carrier network as I've enjoyed this functionality on my N900. Thanks.
The keyboard and trackpad on my macbook pro 3.1 stopped working after having frozen the operating system and reboot. On my Mac I have Windows installed BootCamp and neither does the keyboard and trackpad.
I have a Wii Remote and a mid-2011 MacBook Air. What do I do to pair the Wii remote with the Air, and what software can accept input from this Bluetooth device and send it to Keynote?
I am looking for an app that has some of the same functionality (ssh specifically) as the Terminal application on the desktop. What different apps exist for iOS that have this functionality?
When someone sends me an iCal event invitation over email, I can't seem to properly add it to a calendar I'm storing on iCloud and accessing via CalDAV. After accepting the invite, I get the error "*=URL=* is not a location that supports this request." and I must choose "Revert" or "Go to server..". Sometimes, hitting "Revert" will keep the event in my calendar until the next update, when it will vanish. Hitting "Go to server" will immediately remove the event from my calendar and act like I never saw the event invitation in my email. If I try to duplicate the event and store it on my mac instead of on iCloud, iCal thinks that I've created a new event and proceeds to email everyone who was invited.
There are certain times when I would like to be able to force my iPad to go to passcode lock mode immediately, rather than waiting for the usual 15-minute timeout. I currently have "require passcode after" set to 15 minutes. There is also an 'immediately' setting, which requires a passcode every time that the device is brought out of sleep mode, no matter how much time the device was asleep.
I have a Boot Camp problem. Both OSes boot correctly, but when I'm in OS X, I can't access my Windows partition and vice versa. I know that I can't write, but it should be able to read. But I can't access the partition at all. In disk utility, I can see a disk0s4 grayed out where my Boot Camp disk should be.
I want to display my iPod screen in my PowerPoint slide show, or on a projector through WiFi. How can I do that? I mean something like what TeamViewer can do.
For the past few months, attempting to close Safari normally (Command-Q) quickly closes open browser windows, but takes forever (~10+ min) to fully close, if it closes at all. A look at the Activity monitor shows that the sub-process Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher churns away, often at high CPU usage (~50%), for a few minutes, but then it and all other Safari related processes drop to zero CPU, but Safari still will not go away. I am only loading the default set of top sites, i.e. have not specified any particular top sites since the last time I reset Safari a few weeks ago.
I imported some photos from iPhoto and want to attach them to an email message after exporting them. However, Pictures -> iPhoto Library is not a folder. Where is the actual folder that these photos are stored in?
In Lion, how can I efficiently combine 10 jpeg files into a single pdf in which each image is a page? I have preview.
I fire up sudo nc -l 127.0.0.1 80. There's no errors. I then try telnet 127.0.0.1 80. It won't connect. Same thing with port 81 works fine. As far as I know, there's no firewalls running.
Does the AppleTV HDMI output include any copy protection (e.g. HDCP)? If so, is it always present, or only when playing DRM'd content? I'd like to use the AppleTV (with AirPlay mirroring from an iPad) as a cheap and simple way to record iPad activity (at a school, for their private use only) by simply plugging the AppleTV into a DVD recorder (no computer is available - so capture cards or other tools needing a computer are out).
I'm used boot camp and created a partition for windows. It gave the usual directions to insert windows CD. I did that and follows the installation instructions. When windows started up I inserted the OSX Leopard disk to install the drivers.
I screwed up while using Monolingual and removed the "AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle". Before I realized what happened, I logged out and now I can't type a password to log back in.
I bought a used iMac G3 recently and I am trying to get it at max performance. Atm I am at the phase of replacing the HDD. I read on some places that 7200 RPM drives may have overheat problems in the G3 is that true? I probably wont be stressing the drive too much since most files come from network but its good to know. Also what type of drive do I need ? The ones I am considering have : EIDE ATA100 IDE Fast Ultra DMA ATA/133
Are there any Twitter clients for iPhone that have larger font size than the one used in the official Twitter for iPhone app?
Safari (5.1.1-Lion) enervates me many times every day (= very often!): Every time when I want to go to the next tab via keyboard command (command+tab/or command+tab+alt when going to the left) the Googlesearch input window is activated first.
I have a KeyPass 2.x file (*.kdbx) that I created on a Windows computer using KeyPass 2.x. When I attempt to open the file on Mac OS X Lion using KeyPassX, I get the error "Wrong signature."
When you open the iOS's built in calculator app and rotate iPhone you get the scientific calculator. I am trying to use parenthesis ( ) to write something like (2+2)/4 but the parenthesis don't appear! How do I enter that expression?
I have a Parental Controls limit on my child so I have to type in my password when they open a new application. I have recently discovered a problem though. They have tried programming in terminal. The problem is that the Mac thinks of each command as an application, so if they want to use a new command, I have to allow it. Is there a way to allow all of the commands, but not the actual applications?
I am seeing some odd behavior when using the Terminal app to open an ssh window to a remote machine. I normally connect to many different Linux servers from my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.3, with Terminal 2.2.2 (303).
Is there any way to copy/paste actions in OmniFocus for iOS on the iPhone? If I recall correctly, there used to be a beta feature you could enable in the settings which allowed you to press and hold on an action to show the "copy" option, but it's no longer there in the latest version. Is there any other way to duplicate actions in OmniFocus without having to use another client?
Before reading further: I know about butler and similar programs. I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.
I have tried to add my signature to mail using the method described here, i.e. open the sig in a browser, Cmd+A on the browser and Cmv+V on the mail signature pane.
Currently, running an iPad 16GB Wifi only model with iOS 4.3.5. I have been noticing some slow redraw issues using Safari, generally when scrolling down length pages. I am seeing the checkerboard background, then the page renders. Would upgrading to the latest version of iOS fix this or make it worse? Is there a way to roll back to iOS 4.3.5, should I find iOS 5 latest version to be worse?
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) and I connect to my home internet thru Wifi (via Thompson router). The problem is, after I choose my Wifi from a list of Wifis and enter the password, majority of the times it fails to connect saying "Incorrect password", even though its correct. All I have to do is keep pressing the return key until a connection is established. Very few times I get connected automatically without a need to enter the password and sometimes I get the connection on the first attempt, but usually it takes around 5-10 tries. It doesn't happen to my Windows (vaio) laptop though. Anyone seen something likely and got it fixed?
Recently the tap to click on my trackpad will disable itself after a restart and I have to go into System Preferences to enable it. Has anyone experienced this and know of a solution? I'm running Snow Leopard on a white MacBook (Mid 2010).
Is there a quick an easy way to share files between two macs (OS X Lion) over wifi?
I'm trying to use Bootcamp to install a Windows partition. But it gives this error message.
When I try launching a piano lesson in GarageBand '11, it says the following: GarageBand has detected that you don to have a musical keyboard attached. Please connect your USB or MIDI-compatible keyboard to play along with this lesson.
I'm using an iPad 2, iOS 5 and trying to download apps/updates. Occasionally I get the "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" message and my downloads cancel. The iTunes store loads, all my Apple ID services work, I can view app descriptions on the App store, but when I go to download or update, I get this message.
How do I shade the region (or area) between two curves in Grapher? I'm looking for a way to do this in a 2D graph. The only example which comes close to this is the "Evaluation and Integration" example, but I can't figure it out. For example, I would like to shade the region bound by these two curves: I'm assuming it's possible based on this comment.
I'm wondering if there is a way to completely disable Safari Only mode so users cannot access it at all. I administer a network here at this business and we have internet filters on all/most of the computers here. The problem is that Safari Only mode would pose an obvious loop hole in that. I really need to be able to completely disable that before upgrading the computers to Lion. I would secure the internet at the network but I don't want to workers taking work computers home with them without filters.
As titled, is there any way to access settings mentioned in the title without going into Settings app everytime? iPhone not jailbroken, running iOS 5.0.1
I use MacOS X 10.7.3. I try to send a event invitation to colleagues. I have added iCloud to my iCal to sync my calendar with. When I try to send a invitation and choose the "business" calendar and want to invite the person, iCloud send a eMail via my Apple-ID (Which is not my working adress) and this in a not professional layout. My question is: How can I send invitations via my business Adresse? Thank you
I have noticed that when I drag a JPG file from Google Chrome to my desktop, OS X conveniently (?) renames it to <filename>.jpeg, even though the extension was originally .jpg. Is this behavior caused by OS X, and can I disable it?
It seems that in Lion, standard shortcuts were added for the Go menu items Back and Forward. The shortcuts (⌘+[ and ⌘+]) are unusable on Finnish keyboard, and I'd like to rebind them. By unusable I mean that e.g. [ is produced with Alt+8 on a Finnish keyboard, and pressing ⌘+Alt+8 does not do anything in Preview.
I want to uninstall some recently installed software which I installed using the Mac App Store. Is is possible to uninstall those programs from inside the App Store?
Something weird I've noticed with Zip files and OSX recently (both on 10.7 and 10.6.*).
I use Internet Sharing at work to create a local WiFi network (sharing the GigE connection) for my various iOS and tablet devices to connect through. After the 10.7.3 update, I cannot turn sharing off after I unplug the Ethernet cable. All the checkboxes in the system pref pane are cleared, but I am unable to join a WiFi network. After I plug the Ethernet back in, I can then disable sharing, but only while it's plugged in.
Example: If I open an image in Preview, the "File/Open Recent" menu lists the name of the file. If I then close the file, but still leave Preview running, the "Open Recent" menu still lists the file. If I quit Preview, the "Show Recents" menu does not show any files. If I reopen Preview, the "Open Recent" menu does not show any files.
I found Macs which had: 16GB RAM installed 8GB RAM installed, but running on 1600MHz instead of 1333MHz (link in dutch) 8GB RAM installed, but running on 1600MHz instead of 1333MHz (link in dutch)
In other words, if my iOS device is stolen, will the person be able to get my data by pluging it in a PC and use some trick (or by being able to jailbreak my device while it is protected with a passcode lock)? For the discussion, please assume my iOS device: is in airplane mode, so I can't remote wipe. not currently jailbroken
I have a brand new Bluetooth keyboard (replacing an old one I spilt coffee on) and I would like to pair it with my iMac. Trouble is, I can't log in to the iMac because the keyboard is not paired.
I am about to head to a Meetup, and I would like to be able to share my contact information with other people I meet. I wanted to save a "template" email on my iPhone containing my contact information with my vCard attached so I could open it up, enter a person's email address, send it to them, and then repeat for the next person I met.
How can I get all new photos/movies added to my iPhone to be auto-downloaded into a specified folder each time I connect the iPhone to my Mac? (without deleting the downloaded photos/movies from the iPhone) The "Image Capture" and "AutoImporter" apps seem to only be able to download all photos each time, which means that unless I choose the "Delete after import" option, I get many duplicates for each import.
I'm trying to safely shutdown a Mac desktop that does not have a keyboard or mouse connected to it any more, after hardware damage to the only keyboard and mouse in the house. It also does not have network access that I can get to from an iPhone, eg ssh etc is not enabled. Besides doing a force shutdown by holding the power button, is there a better way to shut down a Mac in this situation? This is anonther example of when this might be needed.
It sounds like Time Machine doesn't backup everything on Mac Server: *=URL=* So what options do I have? Ideally I'd like a backup that I can restore on another Mac Mini and have it up and running instantly. Carbon Copy Cloner sounds like it should work, but I didn't see anything on their site that said it would definitely backup Mac Server (or I missed it). Does anyone have a recommendation on what to do?
I'm using Homebrew to manage package installs on Lion (Lion Server actually but this shouldn't matter). Homebrew was installed under one user. Now a different user would like to add a package and Homebrew isn't happy:
Is there an easier way to copy a folder that contains files with (colored) labels applied and strip those labels than making an Automator droplet/application? So perfect would be having this to happen, but have it happen "by default" if I press ⌘ + D...
I have a Mac Mini that I run as a home server and I'd like to share some folders on it over the Internet. I need the following: It needs to be a client app that talks to a central server (like Dropbox), not a server software that requires a public IP or VPN. I should be able to access this anywhere over the internet through a web interface, or something else like webDAV etc. It should just be an app, not something that requires installing any kexts or filesystems. Note: I'm not looking for a cloud storage service, I'm looking to access the files on my machine remotely, but through a central third party service rather than needing a public IP to that machine or a VPN.
Eg when the power supply is cut or someone presses the power button for 5 seconds? How big of a risk am I taking to my data? Is it a 1% chance of corrupting data? I know most mac these days have a Journal-ed File system, so I am guess the risk is very small? Is this an accurate assumption? Assuming the Mac is writing data, whats the risk of data corruptions? Assuming the Mac is idling, whats the risk of data corruptions?
I just got my iPhone stolen and the first thing they did was shut it off. I have a new iPhone and I noticed you have to slide it to power off. Yes, I had no idea. I owned my last phone three weeks. My question is, if it requires you to slide it could an app or something be made to be able to require a password beforehand?
I'm trying to send mail from terminal with the help of bash and applescript. I use bash for taking care of arguments and the email message body. Then I have tried using Applescript to send the mail with Mail.app. I have run into some problems though, when I try the following I get: 4:4: syntax error: Expected expression but found end of script. (-2741) Updated version:
I want to back up my iPad and iPhone to iTunes on my Mac. I also want them to back up to iCloud in case anything goes wrong with the Mac. Is this possible and how?
I am using a Mac with OSX Snow Leopard. Sometimes I am playing some media through Safari and my Mac freezes. I basically cannot do anything. The trackpad does not work anymore as well as the keyboard. The only solution is to restart the system. The question is:
I am a long time user of a windows manager tool in osx (SizeUp) that I love as it allows me to tile several different windows on my laptop screen while having a full editing window open on my secondary screen for coding. I recently made the move up to OSX Lion and noticed that certain applications now seem to have restrictions on them for how they resize. The applications that I have noticed are, unfortunately, 3 of the apps I normally have open while working: Skype iTunes Outlook
I installed VMware on my MacBook Air (running OS X Lion) and now want to delete it. I dragged VMware into the trash and tried emptying it, but a popup notes that The operation can’t be completed because the item “VMware Fusion” is in use.
I want to use my computer's net connection for my iPod Touch via USB cable. Creating a wireless AP is not an option as I do not want to setup an AP. iPod Touch - IOS5.x Computer - Win7 Bonus - OSX option as well
I just got a 4th gen Time Capsule for my wife to use as her own backup server, and I'm potentially interested in using it as the main router and Wifi AP on my home network. My current router and AP is running OpenWrt and I'm used to it providing several useful services. Can the Airport/Time Capsule provide enough functionality?
I just bought an iPad 2. My daughter has an iPod. We set up her iPod for FaceTime. How can I set up FaceTime on my iPad using a different email address. I don't want both devices to ring. Is this possible.
Do any such switchable usb hubs exist? Could I use anything else? Since I can readily share the displays of my iMacs via a mini dvi connection to the XServes I don't really need a full blown KVM device. I saw a post on this site that recommended Synergy to do something like this, but as I don't have dedicated monitors for the servers, it does not look like a good solution for me. Any other solutions welcome. Thanks in advance.
I have a file with the following permissions on my MacBook Pro: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 101K Feb 29 17:09 apachectl
I'm using an external 27" Thunderbolt display with my 27" iMac and I want the iMac and display to have the same height. By default, the Thunderbolt display is about an inch shorter than the iMac, which is quite annoying.
Some data formats will not be automatically downloaded by Safari/Chrome. Usually there are other options: .jpg → right-click will show a dialog with an option download .pdf → when you hover over the PDF an option to download appears
I'm thinking about getting a MacBook Pro, one of the 15" ones in the low end of the spectrum. I can see two models in on-line shops that match my price range (namely, the MD318D/A and the MC723D/A). One model is 100 euros cheaper than the other, but weirdly, it seems to have the better specs: the MC723D/A comes with a 750GB hard drive as opposed to 500GB.
I'm going to be away for a few days and will be taking both my Macbook Air and my iPad away with me. Whilst we're stuck in a hotel room I may not have internet connection (I'm not willing to pay for hotel wifi) but would like to be able to share the iTunes library between my iPad / iPhone / Air
I'd like to find out the computer name of a Windows PC (like the name shown in the 'Shares' section of the Finder, e.g. bill-pc) given only its IP address. nslookup doesn't do the trick.
I have a lot .jpeg, .png and .pdf Files and I want to convert all of them to .tiff all at once. How can I do this?
I need to backup Mac data into our NTFS storage partition. Are there any issues/drawbacks I should consider?
Can anyone confirm that when a Mac Pro 2008 has 800MHz FB-DIMMs installed it displays the Ram speed as 800Mhz in the System Information and not 667MHZ. I am running OS X Lion.
I'm trying to run a shell script wherein I run the screencapture command, do a couple of modifications like file renaming, moving to Dropbox, shortening the url etc and then growling the url. Problem is, after running the "screencapture" terminal command, following commands aren't executed like so: (For the curious: The shell script is triggered from from Alfred) Anyway of returning to the shell script after running the screencapture command?
I had an old mac mini die on me, so new machine has itunes 10.5. I backed up the old machine itunes library on DVD, using the backup functionality in itunes. There is no restore from dvd option in 10.5. How do I recover my music ? This seems idiotic to not support restoring from dvd in the new product. Fine, get rid of backup, but at least allow restore.
Is there some other software (preferably free) that would let me save the PDF without the password? Some other thing I can do to the file to enable Preview to "Save as PDF"?
I was considering getting a PS3 and I'm planning to connect it to my 27" iMac (late 2009 model). What is the best way to connect the two? UPDATE: Considering the price of all the adapters and the fact that the PS3 doesn't support my iMac's resolution I decided to get an other display.
After the OS update, my wireless speeds have dropped to a crawl. around 350 to 500 kps on my home wlan. Every other device on my wlan runs between 6 and 10 mbs. I've only found posts about deleting the wireless network, recycling the router and then creating a new connection. Obviously I don't have access to every wireless router I connect to in able to do this and the connection is consistently slow no matter what network. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail.app? For example, I have a folder of mail messages containing invoices that I need to export and hand over to a new accountant. In my search so far, I've only found a way to export my entire inbox.
I have two OS X Lion systems, the desktop I use is a Mac mini running 10.7.3, the server I'm working on is a Mac Pro running 10.7.2. Note that the Mac Pro is not actually running the OS X Lion Server utilities. I am describing it as the 'server' as it is providing always-on services, and it is the remote system.
First of all, I only want to disable the standard volume buttons - I do not want to disable the buttons to change brightness, launchpad... I need this because I want those buttons to trigger scripts for finer volume adjustment using FastScripts.
I have big problem. I can' t install any application from the Mac App Store. I have message "There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (13)". I'm search for this bug in google.
I am trying to get my head around the difference between the Apple products above. To me, Apple VNC (or rather generic VNC clients) perform the same basic function as Remote Desktop implementations (Apple, Microsoft, Citrix, etc), and various Screen Sharing apps. Also, it seems that Apple Remote Desktop can push scripts down to clients, and change some settings, much the same way as Apple Remote Management, and Remote Events seem to infer they do, by name. Moreover, Remote Login is something (unless you wanted a shell) that you would do as part of a Remote Desktop / Screen sharing / VNC operation, no?
When I pack away my headset, I loosely loop the cable around my fingers and then stuff the headset in my jacket pocket. When I retrieve the headset later, it has inevitably turned into a little bird's nest and I need to spend a little while to untangle it. That is annoying.
Every time I open the App Store on my iPad, after about 30 seconds, a message appears saying that a number of apps "could not be purchased at this time." This problem seems to originate by attempting to download an app or an update, then canceling when it prompts me for my password. Even if I download it successfully at a later time, the notice persists. How can I stop this notice from appearing?
I had a hard drive crash and lost the system files, but recovered all my iTunes folders and files e.g. Books, Downloads, iTunes U, Mobile Applications, etc. The iTunes library file "iTunes Library.itl" went down with the crash. What's the best way to rebuild my iTunes library now that I have a new HDD?
How do I stop iMessages from appearing automatically on my home screen? Does anyone have any ideas?
Basically, whenever I know I'm going to be gone, or if I'm going to sleep, I change the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences in OS X (10.7.3) for Power Adapter to: Computer sleep: 1 min Display sleep: 1 min If I know I'm going to be around a while, I like to change the Energy Saver settings for Power Adapter to: Computer Sleep: 15 min Display Sleep: 15 min
When I type diskutil mount disk3 in the terminal, it says Volume(s) mounted successfully. However, the disk is not mounted and I can confirm this by opening the GUI of Disk Utility.app and also the disk does not show in the Finder. I suspect this is because the disk is encrypted and the terminal command is not passing via "Keychain" to retrieve the password for the encrypted disk.
My Macbook has crashed once or twice daily ever since I installed Lion. I am unable to return to Snow Leopard because my Time Machine is now coupled with Lion. I went through the sequence:
I have a 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3.1 -- dual 3 GHz quad-core Xeon, 6GB memory) running Lion (10.7.3) that I'm using for as a server for a business (files, print, media, etc.) as well as a development server for a pretty standard PHP stack. From time to time, but most of the time, other machines take a VERY long time to reach the machine over the network -- ten seconds to display a trivial html page, for instance. The problem seems to be one of reaching the machine -- if I watch the apache server logs after making a request, I'll initially see nothing happen, and then a burst of activity once (I'm guessing here) the request reaches the server and gets handled. But there are other times when performance is fine. Some details:
The Mac App Store is really convenient, but under some circumstances, I am confused on how it manages the installation. Here I have two questions: If I buy an app from the Mac App Store, then delete it, can I re-install it or do I have to buy it again?
I have one particular website (one that I'm developing) that as of today, I can't access it on my computer. I can access it on my phone, and other people on other computers can access it, but for some reason mine won't let me. It says "Oops, Google Chrome can't load this web page" and it gives me the option to see the cached page. Also "Safari can't connect to the server". I've rebooted (more then once), flushed the DNS as my username, and as root, by running dscacheutil -flushcache and a couple of other similar commands. I didn't run sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder.
I connect and disconect my MacBook Pro from a number of external displays each day. Each time I connect or disconnect the size, shape, and positions of windows and Desktop icons become disorganized and they end up in different places scattered all over the place. How can I keep my windows and icons from moving when connecting and disconnecting from external displays?
Is there a utility for Mac OS X that will group windows (2 separate apps)? Similar to how objects are grouped in PowerPoint or other design apps. I would like both windows to move together.
I just upgraded to OS X Lion. My HP PSC 1350 printer will print but it won't scan. HP's website says to remove, readd, etc, which I tried. It said I could get the generic driver from Apple software update, but nada. How can I scan in Lion with my HP PSC 1350?
I keep getting this kernel panic once a week and a half roughly. It freezes the computer (2010ish 17" MBP), showing this error:
I've got iTunes match, and my whole library is backed up in the cloud. Is it possible, with the service, to host my music in the cloud, delete my whole local copy that takes up a whopping 50 GB on my small hard drive, and stream to my MacBook from the iTunes servers like I can on my iPhone? Thanks!
I've got a media center running iTunes, and it has some smart playlists set up. I've also got a desktop computer running iTunes, with which I sync my iPhone.
Please does anyone know any app that I can use to to send emoticons to non-iPhone devices. All the ones I have seen are for iPhone to iPhone
What can I do to solve this problem ? On the same iMac, there are several accounts. For one of them, Youtube videos won't play in Firefox, but will with Safari. For the other accounts, Firefox and Safari can play Youtube videos!? Any hint where I can search to solve the issue ?
My wife owns an iPhone 3, and I recently bought an iPhone 4. Now I want to use the same iTunes (on my MacBook Pro) and same Apple ID as her, because I want to use the apps & music currently authorized for that account without having to buy them again.
It's well known that to run Windows on a Mac you can either use a virtual machine install or reboot into a Boot Camp partition. You can also, with suitable software like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, open your bootcamp partition whilst booted into OS X.
I've got a 27" display and, at present, I need to use the whole mousepad just to get across the screen. How can i make my mouse (Logitech MX 400) movement linear AND fast? How do i speed up the mouse with NO acceleration?
I am developing an iPhone application and I am using he iOS Simulator application to test it. However I am also using iChat to speak to someone on a video call at the same time on my mac.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Trash? I know how to create one, but I want to know if there's a built-in shortcut. To clarify, this is to show the Trash, not to empty it.
I use Mac's Text to Speech function a lot. Under Settings > Speech > Text to Speech I also have set a "Key" for quick access. Since I also want Text to Speech to read German and OS Lion offers Voices for other languages, I would like to have a second shortcut for German.
Maybe I'm missing something but from the Print dialog in Office 2010 (OS X 10.7.3) I can't find where to set orientation? It doesn't appear under Outlook, Layout, Color Matching, Paper Handling, Paper Feed, Cover Page or Printer Features.
Starting to run out of space on the Macbook Air. Since I can download any purchased app to my iPhone anytime I want, i don't need them or want them on my Macbook Air. I already have them not syncing onto the iphone. Can I delete them from the Macbook Air?
Anyone know if there is a way to search Reading List? Not necessarily the full text of the pages — but at least the titles/descriptions that you see when looking at the Reading List pane within Safari:
How can I copy my video from my Mac and send it to my iPhone via a cable or wireless?
I would like to install Filemerge, but can't find where to go to download it. Where can I download it?
It appears that my problem is due to a limitation of the how the scripts are triggered. E.g. When I use FastScript, it will not execute the script again before it has been finished. The same goes for Quicksilver.
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3", I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting. While this is annoying enough, the point of this question is to address what happens next: After the automatic restart, Lion reopens most/all of the applications that were running before the crash. This is a problem because: It takes a long time, and I think the original crash maybe related to memory use and restarting a large set of application means the computer is that much closer to hanging again. So, how can I prevent resuming all/most applications when OSX restarts silently after a crash? Unlike other posts, I would like to keep resume working for normal shutdowns/logoffs, and just prevent resume after hangs/crashes. Notes:
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3" I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting. Problem is, that such automatic restarts happen even though I have NOT selected the "Restart automatically if the computer freezes" in "System Preferences > Energy Saver" (For both power supply and battery profiles) are NOT checked. Q: Why is the system restarting automatically when it freezes/crashes/hangs? Related question: Is there a difference between freezing, crashing, and hanging, such that the check box only affects "freezing"? Here is the Crash Report (loginwindow_2012-03-02-083729_localhost.crash):
How can I script installing or upgrading apps from the Mac App Store? I'd prefer command line tools, but AppleScript or some other API would suffice. Relevant puzzle pieces: installer: note especially the -store flag which is used to simulate App Store installs for package devs. systemupdate: capable of handling updates to Apple apps, flags -i installs and -a tells it to install all available updates
I will zip a file with a password. Then, I will write a script and ask:
I am interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro and running multiple monitors when I am at my desk. Ideally, I'd like to run two 27" Cinema Displays when I am working at my desk, but would be okay with two smaller monitors.
Is it possible to force more than 4 cores in the Dock, this looks like a feature apple does not want after checking out Mac OS X: Activity Monitor shows one CPU Usage graph on systems with more than four cores On Macs with more than four cores, a single graph showing aggregate usage of all the CPU cores is shown in the main Activity Monitor window, in the CPU History window, and on the Dock icon when configured to show CPU Usage or CPU History. If I want to use Activity Monitor is my only option:
Using cmd+t while annotating an image with text in Preview I don't find all the fonts I have installed. For example there is no Verdana or Century Gothic. How can I view them?
I have five spaces that I use regularly. I was wondering if there was any way to link each space to a different location; for example, Space 1 would be Users/Me/Desktop, and the others would be locations of my choice, i.e. folders that I have created. Is this possible?
For some reason a lot of tracks in my iTunes library have senseless start and stop times set. This is really annoying as some tracks get skipped after a few seconds. There are Apple Script commands for setting them but I didn't find a way to clear all times. How can I batch clear them?
I'm looking to temporarily reduce the amount of cores and RAM available to my system, as well as the processing power. I've written a server that uses epoll (Linux) and I want to get a rough comparison of it's performance to a server I've witten using kqueue (BSD/Darwin). My Mac Book Pro is way more powerful than the Linux machine I'll be using, so I want to reign it in a bit.
Basically, I don't know how to delete podcasts that I downloaded from my iPhone. I can delete them in iTunes obviously, but then when I sync, iTunes just takes them from my iPhone. Is there anyway that I can delete podcasts (audio) DIRECTLY from my iPhone? Or some way I can prevent iTunes from downloading them FROM my iPhone?
Recently I upgraded the RAM on my MacBook Pro and did a fresh install of Windows 7 using BootCamp. I partitioned 200MB out of my 500MB drive to be for Windows 7. I then had VMWare Fusion setup the partition to be used from within it.
Somehow this doesn't work out of the box – is there an adapter I can buy that will allow me to connect the Displayport output of my Macbook to the Thunderbolt input of my 27" Thunderbolt monitor?
I know that once I have subscribed to a given app, that I have granted permissions to the author to access various bits of information. but,my question is - what happens when I delete the app from my phone and library?
I use iCloud to share a family calendar with my wife (she owns the calendar, I am the sharee). She likes to make sure she gets plenty of alarms for events on the family calendar so she doesn't miss picking up the kids or something like that. Since I'm sharing, I also get the alarms, which aren't all that helpful when I'm in a meeting at work.
I was using Tuxera NTFS for a while on my external drives but then my trial ran out. So then I installed ntfs-3g from macports. When I connect my external drive, OSX automatically mounts it, but it is read-only. But if I unmount the drive, and use ntfs-3g to mount the drive in a terminal, then I can get normal read/write access to it. The problem is that Finder doesn't list it in the list of drives that it sees. How can I get Finder to recognize the drive? How can I get OSX to use the ntfs-3g program that allows read/write access instead of whatever it normally uses when connecting an external NTFS drive? If I let OSX automatically mount the drive and type mount, this is what I get for the external drive. /dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/Expansion Drive (ntfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners)
Can you use a 65W apple charger instead of the 45w charger that comes with the Macbook Air? How will this affect the machine.
I selected View -> Tab Bar to enable tabs in Xcode. However, when I open a new file, it appears in the jump bar below the single existing tab and not as a new tab.
A while back I installed OS X Lion Server and migrated some data across from Snow Leopard Server. When I accessed the server using "Server Admin" and to my shock noticed that 5 accounts (displayed in the format of UUID) in the Access list. All the real users are accounted for. I can't see these accounts being used in any other application, other than the "Access" tab in "Server Admin". What tools on OS X Lion Server can I use to determine whether these are real accounts, or perhaps something left over when I migrated data from Snow Leopard Server?
I've set my umask in my .bashrc file to 007. Any files created on the command line after loading my bashrc file respects this setting. I want to be able to set the umask to 007 for any files created using non-command line apps.
I've been given ownership of various iOS apps to build, and submit to iTunes Connect, but have run into a very obnoxious issue. Distribution Certificates must be uniquely named, and due to various reasons I have 2 certificates with a single individuals name.
Microsoft made the PhotoSynth application for iPhone but forgot to create one for OS X. How do I stitch several photos into single one, free apps would be preferable.
I bought a MacBook mid 2010 which I have upgraded to 8GB of RAM. But now, 8GB is not enough for me. I need more RAM for my work.
It seems extremely hard to be able to drag and drop files between two finder windows with a single move on the trackpad - as soon you reach the end of the trackpad you'll drop the files,… in the wrong place. How can you solve the drag'n'drop problem without using a mouse and still be able to use gestures?
I use Synergy to share my mouse and keyboard across different computers. Now i want to lock and unlock the screen of my mac. I have activated corners, so when i move my mouse at the left corner of my screen, it gets dark.
I have one track of an album that got matched, while the other 22 didn't; therefore, I'm sure that there must be a compilation with this track that iTunes Match knows about. How can I check which track actually got matched to?
When Apple "upgraded" iMovie back in 2008 from its previous version to the completely rewritten program with a star-shaped icon, they kept the previous version available for download. Currently, I can't find the older version of iMovie on Apple's site. My question is either a) is there still a legal way to get iMovie HD or b) when did it cease to be available?
When I open the Activity Monitor, I get something looking like this: *=URL=* But why the heck is "VM size" around 100-200 GB?? Here is the capture from the apple support:
I do a lot of command line work, which involves a lot of folder navigation with cd. To make my life easier, I'd love to be able to right-click on a folder in Finder and have a context menu item I could click that simply opens Terminal and cds to that directory.
I am listening to some music on my iPad, from iTunes. Sometimes I switch to the youtube app, because I want to just watch some scientific videos (mostly text and images, no sound or useless music), but then and automatically, music from iTunes stops! How can I disable this?
I need to run a Mini DisplayPort cable from a last generation Xserve to a circa late 2010 iMac so I can directly share the iMac's display while I set up the Xserve. Apple no longer carries Mini DisplayPort cables at their stores here in NY. No one at the store could tell me if I could use a Thunderbolt cable with the hardware I have. So, a hopefully simple backwards compatibility question: Can I use a Thunderbolt cable to connect the Mini DisplayPort of the Xserve to the Mini DisplayPort of the iMac?
I recently upgraded to AirPort Utility v6.0, and I can't find where to check what devices are currently connected to my AirPort Extreme. I know that this was possible using older versions of AirPort Utility, and hopefully that feature wasn't removed. How can I find what devices are connected to my Airport Extreme?
Sometimes I notice that the process Python hung up. Then I'll kill it via the Activity Monitor and everything is fine.
How does one make the fonts that iTunes uses for things like app descriptions larger? I know about Universal Access -> Zoom, but I'm looking for something a little more app-specific, like web browsers have.
I just got a replacement for my 4S. Before, I did an iCloud backup and thought I could just restore from that. But with the new phone, it says there's no backup to restore from available. Any ideas?
I want to convert a bunch of videos to image sequence with user defined intervals, but I don't have an export to image sequence option on my QUicktime player. Any suggestion?
Hey i'm looking for a fast way to disable processor cores of my macbook to save power when i'm stranded away from a charger. I'm away that instruments can do this from it's preferences, but that's a bit inconvenient. There also used to be a "Processor" system pref, but doesn't work on lion since it's 32-bit.
I have two time capsules. They are connected via an ethernet cable and are part of the same wifi network. My devices connect to the one which has the better signal.
I'm running my 27" iMac with a 27" Thunderbolt display, and I'm having trouble getting their brightnesses to match. It seems like checking "Automatically adjust brightness" on both causes different results. What's the best way to get these two displays to always have the same brightness?
The app "X" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
How has this happened? I've restored her iPhone from her backups before without issue. How could they have disappeared?
I have the iPad 1, and I'd like to use Voice Control on it. However, I can't seem to bring it up the normal way (holding down the home button). Does the iPad 1 have Voice Control?
I'm learning to program. While following this mission, I typed git commit, which opened up vim. I don't know or want to know vim (no offense to vim lovers). I'd like to have: terminal open gedit ever time it try to do text editing from the terminal; and gedit release the terminal for further use. How do I do that? UPDATE:
Is this possible? How can I do it? I want to put applications in a folder in my dock.
How can I bring this window up programmatically, e.g. via the command line, AppleScript, or a language module?
Im buying an iphone for my friend, which knows nothing about technology, im planning to download apps for him. Can i use my apple id store and download what I already purchased with my iphone (so that I can download them for free for him)?
Is it possible to have a device connected to an Airport Express via the ethernet cable to access the DHCP / sit within the NAT functionality for Internet use? I have an existing network where a network switch connects to both the cable modem and the Airport Express. This currently works.
I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. I am not able to extract .tar or .tgz files with any of the extractor utilities (Mac OS Default Archiver or WinZip or 7zip or any other, I have tried almost all possible). Each of them give same error:
I have a MacBook Pro and a iMac. On the MacBook I see a network interface named "iPhone USB" in my Network Settings. On the MacBook the internet sharing over usb works fine. But on the iMac it doesn't work. On the iMac there is no "iPhone USB" interface and it doesn't appear a "New network device detected" window if I connect the iPhone to the iMac via USB. How can I add the "iPhone USB" network interface? Please help. Software Versions: iMac 10.7.3 MacBook Pro 10.7.2 iPhone 5.0.1
How can I find out the HFS+ filesystem blocksize for a local volume on a MacbookPro5,4. I think its 4k. I need to confirm this. Diskutil reports that the disk blocksize is 512 bytes.
I have a dual monitor setup (iMac + Thunderbolt Display). The System Preferences > Sound > Output setup only allows me to choose between one or the other monitor. This causes the sound to come only from left or right side. Any way to get both monitors to play audio simultaneously?
I am running 10.6.8 on a late 2008 MBP. I know this has been the look of the "View Options" window for a while, but I just really noticed all of the extra space at the bottom. It's now being used in 10.7.x for the new and altered "View Options," which takes advantage of the extra real estate, but was there any use for it otherwise? In other words, are there other options or preferences that can be added to this space?
I have macbook pro 15.4 2011 (Core i7, 4gb, 500HDD), Lion is running on it. The annoying thing is that the boot time is too much, it takes roughly 70 to 120 seconds for machine to boot and display login screen :( I have removed all programs from Login items. Any way I can fix this issue?
It's in my Login Items. Examining the package shows a reference to arcsoft.com. But I don't have either of their Mac products (Panorama Maker or PhotoStudio) installed, and never have.
I have a gmail address, say, x@gmail.com and a me.com address, say y@me.com. If I use the web based iCloud email client for my me.com account, and I send an email to the following 3 versions of the gmail address: x@gmail.com <x@gmail.com> "x" <x@gmail.com>
so I was trying to replace the front of my phone. I didn't need a new LED display because just the top corner of the glass was chipped. Well, I took the phone apart shortly to find out that it's impossible to remove the LED from the front glass so I just put the phone back together the way it was.
I have created an Ad Hoc network broadcasting from my iMac. Since I am on a University Campus I think it is likely that at least a few people know how to crack WEP. Is there any way on Mac to use WPA? I know it is possible with Windows.
The fix to the original problem: I took the machine to my nearest Apple store, where the diagnosis was to replace the hard drive. I got the repaired iMac back three days later. The current problem:
I have my default google calendar synchronized with my iPod-touch, and I would like to add other calendars from the same account, is there a way?
I'm looking at upgrading the memory in my mid-2011 iMac. Is there any problem with sticking in 2 4GB modules alongside the existing 2GB modules?
I have an iMac and a 24 inch Wacom Cintiq. When I put the iMac to sleep, it freezes and I have to restart both the iMac and the Wacom Cintiq. How can I get around this?
When I source my .bashrc file, however, (. .bashrc), the alias works.
I'm connecting to my work's iMac through VNC. On the client side I use JollysFastVNC (on my Mac at home) and as server I use Lion's built in VNC server. The appearance is just great but the overall performance sucks. I would prefer less quality and gain a bit of performance instead. Unfortunately Lion's VNC server only allows high-quality connections. Only thing I can adjust is the color depth. Is there a better free VNC server for Lion?
I have an old iBook G4 running 10.4.11 and I want to be able to watch Netflix instantly. The problem is that Netflix only supports intel based macs. I'm curious to know if anyone has found a work around for this problem.
There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do it's work but alert me when it makes each change so I don't have to proofread everything or focus with perfect attention to the screen to see the momentary red and/or blue underlining that alerts me to the machine override. I would love a way to turn on an audible beep (customizable of course) so that I also get a warning each time my typing gets corrected (and only when autocorrection occurs).
I've looked around for answers and can't find something that works for me. I have a unibody aluminum MacBook Pro and it just doesn't seem to want to sleep when I close the lid. The problem started after installing Lion.
When I copy a t.co link (tap/hold > Copy link) from the Twitter app, I am unable to paste into any web forms in Mobile Safari. I can still paste into other objects (e.g. the address bar, the search bar, the Notes app, etc).
I am not sure how this happened, but many of my services are now in, what I believe is spanish:  How do I change this back to English? My language in the Language & Text system pref is set to English where ever possible. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I won't be using the integrated display. Right now, one external monitor is connected through a mini DisplayPort to VGA adaptor. How should I connect a second?
I was trying to use Front Row on Lion and I couldn't seem to find it. Is it included with Lion?
I am afraid that the switch to iCloud will make life very complicated, particularly for Snow Leopard users like myself. I am also afraid that Apple will make life generally more complicated. So I am wondering if I can theoretically switch to another provide for synced email configurations, address book data and calendars.
I have a number of (background) programs that startup automatically on login even though they have been disabled (unchecked) on the Login Items pane of the Users & Groups System Preferences. Examples include DropBox, ChronoSync Backgrounder, and Boingo.
There are a lot of tutorials on how to load PDFs into iBooks, but none say how to backup or transfer them back to your computer. I understand there is a button to email them, but I probably have accumulated 100 or so useful pdfs on my iPhone.
I am using icloud, but always sync my contacts using itunes. Still have a lot of duplicates. How do I get rid of the duplicates
I am experiencing screen flicker (so bad as to be unusable) from a late 2011 Macbook Pro on an external display connected via a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter (official Apple version). Is it possible that this is caused by not having a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter? Do I need to update the adapter or should this work?
I'm using Windows XP SP3. I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4. The installation process went OK, but, when trying to restore my contents, it gives me ERROR -50. I tried all the different things assosiated with this error.
In Little Snitch, I allowed port 80 when a "google.com" popup appeared on my screen. I'm wondering if that was a good idea.
I have a broken MBP (2009, pre-unibody, 15") with a screen which I know is working. I took it apart and there's this fancy connector, attached to the screen (sorry for branding): Is it possible to 'convert' this into a VGA or DVI or anything else, so I can use the screen as external monitor?
I am looking to swap my HDD for SSD and OWC recommended methods 2 listed in this link Perform your drive upgrade. Place your original drive in an external enclosure. Boot to the recovery partition on your original drive by holding down Command-R and starting up. Use Disk Utility to Restore to your new drive. Restart or Boot your Mac to the new drive. So I was wondering if my MacBook has Lion recovery partition set up properly.
I use the built-in VPN on Mac OS X 10.7.3. It's IPSec, FWIW. From time to time, it disconnects (probably an issue with my corporate server). Is there a way to get it to automatically reconnect? Sometimes I don't notice for a while, which is kinda annoying.
When I create or update a calendar event on one device, it is not being propagated to my other devices via iCloud despite having iCloud enabled for calendars on all my devices and the Apple ID being the same everywhere.
I've been having a problem with my iMac i7 (mid 2010) for quite awhile. Any kind of restart from a software update, or a user selected restart, causing the iMac to get stuck on the restart gray screen with the rotating loading "carat." If I power down the machine, then turn it back on it, it boots up fine. Internal hard drive checks out fine. I took it to the Apple Store Genius bar, and they could not find anything physically wrong with it, and blamed it on a problem with my user (software), thinking since the OS has been transferred over from several previous machines (an iMac G4 and then a PowerMac G5), that something PowerPC is causing the freeze. I've tried doing a verbose mode, but not seeing anything. Any ideas on how to further diagnose this and ultimately fix it so I can restart without having to power down and then back on?
For example, see the screenshot below. The menu items have keyboard shortcuts associated with them, but where can I find a list of what keys the icons are referring to?
I have following case: when something bad happens with services I'm responsible for, I get email to specific email account. And I'd like to get alert about it from my phone.
I'm making an app that is supposed to sit in a public space and so I'm looking for an iPad case that can block the home button from the users. Any suggestions? Bonus: If it has an integrated credit Thanks, Teja.
After recently deciding to try out iCloud backups on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (both on iOS 5.0.1), I ran into a problem that's making it difficult to trust these backups. The "Latest Backup" for each device never goes higher than 2.0 GB, while the "Next Backup Size" is reported as a higher number — 6.3 GB in the case of my iPhone. This next backup size matches what iCloud generally matches the cloud space reportedly occupied by the iPhone backup. This problem persists no matter how many times I delete and re-back up each device. If I turn off components of the backup (photos, for example, which is the largest item on my iPhone), then the total backup drops below 2 GB and starts to match up. So, questions: Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
Here's the setup: We have a corporate Time Capsule (or series of them, rather) with encrypted backups in the server closet. My Mac currently backs up to that. I've just completed encrypting an internal disk using TrueCrypt, and set it up using a .sh executable that launches at login. For the curious, it reads: /Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/TrueCrypt --mount -v /dev/rdisk1s2 and rdisk1s2 is an internal disk on my mac, so as long as the password is correctly supplied, it should be available at all times. So far so good. When it mounts, it appears to the OS as though it were a .dmg.
First, I don't know if this is the correct place to put this question. Would Serverfault or Stackoverflow be better?
I launched "Save SHSH" from TinyUmbrella (for the first time ever), and now in Saved SHSHs for iPod Touch list i get iPod 3G 4.1 Does this mean I can downgrade to iOS 4.1? How is this possible, I never saved SHSHs before?
This seems like it might be related to my switch to iTunes Match. My Music App displays the artists out of order. Other lists, like Songs and Albums, are sorted correctly. At the start of the list they are sorted correctly, after scrolling down a bit then the headers that separate the letters are in the wrong spot, and by the time I get to the bottom of the list they are no longer sorted correctly. Additionally "Various Artists" appears multiple times (10 - 15 times). My iPhone 4 is out of warranty, so I can't log an online incident.
I realize this isn't the biggest problem in the world, as I can always change it manually. But is there a way to have the phone always connect to a designated network when it's available?
When I want to undo some typing on Notes or Pages, I have to shake my ipod-touch like a crazy (and afraid that it may throw from my hand). Isn't there a way to configure the "shake sensitivity", or change this command for, say, a button?
I am developing a push notification infrastructure and would like to test it with the iPhone Simulator on a Mac. Is this possible, or do I need to use a physical iPhone?
I could not find any relatively simple way to log out of a public use Mac quickly with many tabs open and unsaved document in the background without resorting to sudo shutdown -h now. The reason I ask is that sometimes a user will have his/her account logged into the iMacs here at school and they would try to log off and then leave, thinking it has completed but the process is interrupted by Safari and Office apps, leaving their account, mounts, and websites still accessible to the next person who sits down.
In Mail on Mac OS X Lion, is there a way to select an entire thread of messages and forward them to someone in a single e-mail? Ideally I'm looking for a simple command in Mail (press ⌘ while selecting, or something like that), but I'm open to a more complex (AppleScript?) solution.
I have 2 accounts (home and work) on my MacBook, and would like have both accounts accessing the same iTunes library. I have some success by putting the iTunes Library in the public folder of my home account, so my work account can access the same files too. However, what I would like is to have my Podcasts sync as well. So that when I plug in my iPhone, I can sync my Podcast regardless which account I am on. Any idea how to do that?
While browsing i found an interesting tool in sourceforge.net it says Mac-on-Linux is a Linux/PPC program that virtualizes Mac OS or Mac OS X in Linux. Is it legal In india?
I've seen apps like Isolator which allow one to focus or concentrate on the frontmost window by blurring out the others; I'm looking to do the opposite: blur out the main window (or the entire monitor) and be able to easily toggle it on or off. My goal: using this with digital art software such as Photoshop or Illustrator, to create the "squint" effect one does to get a different perspective on how your artwork is progressing. I'd like to be able to toggle this on so I can work in "squint" mode for a bit, then toggle it off. Would be great to be able to easily set the blur level as well. Hoping it can be accessed and toggled via Core Image and AppleScript or similar.
Two or three years ago, I purchased four audio books. I recently was forced to restore my iPod, losing all content. When I went to my computer to restore the content, I found that, although the book artwork was there, the audio was missing. I work in Afghanistan and have limited internet access. I am now in Dubai, UAE on vacation and when I went online to the iTunes store there is nothing in my purchase history. How do I get those books back?
I've seen quite a number of login screen screenshots. I've tried Cmd + Shift + 3, but to no avail. How do I take a picture of the login screen or the boot screen of OS X?
Which mouse is able connect to MBP 2011, But not apple brand. I'm looking for mouse that can connect without need to use the USB port permanently.
I have several avi-containers with exactly same type of content, framerate, bitrate and encoding match as they are coming from a camera that splitted the files. Currently I'm using D-Vision but its development stopped and starting with Lion it tends to break the files which then have to be remuxed to fastforward properly.
In my MacBook Pro running Lion, I use Command + Tab to switch apps, and Alt1 + Tab for switching windows within an app. In my work iMac, also running Lion, Alt + Tab isn't doing anything, and I can't find any setting for that. Also, I dont remember tweaking anything in the MacBook Pro to get this to work. note 1 - Alt is the same as Option on most Mac keyboards, but mine just has Alt printed.
After trying to put meaning to each of the variables listed I can't really find any definitive sources for what exactly the TERM_PROGRAM and TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION variables are used for. Man pages and Apropos are not showing anything explaining it, and Google is not as well. Clearly it is relating to some kind of Apple specific setting in Mac OS X, just not sure what?
For my backups I use an encrypted external hard disk. This hard disk has two partitions (names are: Backup, Private). Today, when connecting the backup I was prompted with the following message:
I'm using OS X 10.7.2 and there are a couple keyboard shortcuts that are just driving me crazy - how do I change them? In Chrome, "Go Back" (or Forward) is ⌘ + [ or ⌘ + ] (for forward), how do I change it to ⌘ + ← or ⌘ + → (for forward) In Chrome, "Go Back" (or Forward) is ⌘ + [ or ⌘ + ] (for forward), how do I change it to ⌘ + ← or ⌘ + → (for forward)
So, I have backuped my ipod touch ios 5, and downgraded to iOS 4.1 (the only with SHSH available) Now i can't restore my backup to iOS 4...
Is it possible to send audio from an iPad to a Mac to make use of speakers connected to Mac? Either Bluetooth or WiFi will work, it doesn't matter to me.
What is this environment variable used for? Not really finding anything about what its for and why it is set by default.
I have 2 Xserve servers running OS X Server 10.6.4 with the following hardware configuration:  They each have Xserve RAID cards and drives. I have recently moved them from a data center, where they sat behind a pair of firewall devices and they had originally been configured for failover between the two machines. At the data center they had fixed IP addresses. Now I have the machines set up at home, connected by Ethernet to an Apple Time Capsule that serves as my primary home networking device.
I was following the Github tutorial and I generated a new SSH key pair. But now when I'm online, Google keeps throwing up SSL errors (and so does everywhere else with SSL, for that matter). What terminal commands do I need to input in order to return to my original SSH key pair?
I'm on 10.7.3. I have my dock at the bottom. To the left and right of the dock, I see the wallpaper. I would actually like the app I'm in to extend all the way to the bottom of the monitor, with the dock on top of the bottom of the app. So now it looks like this:
Recently I got a quite nice pair of in-ear headphones which block noise very well (with a very tight seal, not noise cancellation). Before that, I used Apple earbuds.
Has anyone seen this? Let's say I set my screen saver to activate after 5 minutes. Well I can be typing and using the mouse almost continuously for a period of time (5 minutes? I'm not exactly sure) and all of the sudden the screen saver turns on. If I'm in the middle of typing the screen saver then goes away almost instantly but I lose a few key strokes.
I want to use my iPhone (4S) with the VGA adapter to display presentations on a beamer (projector) and control the advancement with a Trust Wireless Remote Control for iPad. The remote works well with music apps (iPod/Music, Rhapsody) and also in slideshow mode of the "Photos" app. Unfortunately iOS does not (yet) support QuickTime movies with manual advance - which would be my favorite option. Keynote for iOS unfortunately doesn't support generic bluetooth remotes (yet). The best solution I've found so far is to use the "Photos" app and start a slideshow (of a group of images), which then can be controlled by the bluetooth remote. Is there any app for presentations with the VGA adapter that supports bluetooth remotes? As I have my iPhone with me anyway, I want to use as little (and least expensive) additional hardware as possible to give a presentation using a beamer with VGA input: the VGA out adapter and the bluetooth remote are working with my iPhone - I'm only missing a decent pre
When I have my iPhone 4s on vibrate only mode (side switch down), sometimes I a single vib alert from an unidentified app. None of my apps have applicationIconBadgeNumber set, so, what the heck is making it vibrate?
I have an iPad 2 and a Windows 7 notebook. Is it possible to, without jailbreaking, share the notebook keyboard with the iPad? Maybe some application installed on Windows could expose keyboard through Bluetooth?
I got a message from my bf on my iphone and could reply as normal, but when I sent a picture, a new thread was added in my inbox. The same thing happened when I deleted both of the threads and wrote a new message. The one I sent was there and when he replied, another thread was suddenly in the inbox. Why does this happen?
I've had to reinstalled OS X Server on 2 Xserve machines. The first went fine. See this link for some background.
My keyboard backlight is fairly dim. You can definitely see a bit of light through the keys, so it's functional, but it's uniformly more dim than it was when I first bought it and definitely more dim than my 13" 2011 MBP keyboard backlight. Any ideas?
I just read about playing media files via the browser, which in turn uses mediaserverd in iOS. Is there any place(a wiki perhaps) where I could find details about which file formats are supported by mediaserverd across various ios versions? The iOS version I'm particularly interested in, is 5.0.1, so any information would be appreciated! Thanks!
I find Mail app (in Leopard Snow) very limited for my needs. I need something like Thunderbird but before switching I just like to know what's is new in Mail app in Lion compared to Mail app in Leopard Snow. Is it really any better?
I have made some smart mailboxes in Mail.app. The smart mailboxes I am using only for my Gmail account.
How do I install Quartz Composer in Mac OS X Lion?
Is there a way to limit Mail to keep only the last 50 emails and delete the older ones? I am using gmail, and most of the stuff are kept there, I do not need to have everything downloaded to the Mail client. Trying to save some HDD space, as I used to have a few gigs of mail stored in /library/mail Using OS X Lion. Thanks.
For some reason, when returning from an hibernate after i.e. battery drops to 0%, I get this:
as the title, already looking at EA store site at *=URL=* But seems they only sale PC version only. But when i go to IE site it says sale for mac too??? http://www.ea.com/the-sims-3
When I'm working on MS Office 2011, when I close a document, spreadsheet, presentation, etc., the application stays open. This is confusing (to me anyway) and I find myself having to explicitly quit these apps all the time (to get them out of the way). Is there a way to quit an app when the last item is closed? Thanks in advance!
I've got quite a problem with my Macbook Pro (late 2010, running OS X Lion 10.7.3). Since a few days ago, my wifi frequently keeps shutting down. It starts by the network not being functional and then when I switch AirPort off/on, it does not want to switch on. It keeps being switched off. Only a restart fixes the problem. But it keeps coming back. I already reset the SMC and P-RAM, nothing helps.
On OS X, is there a good application to open PS files without converting them to PDF? In addition, I want to associate PS.GZ files to this application, but retain the TAR.GZ association to my uncompressor. Is this feasible?
I never used Remote Desktop for Mac OSX so before buying the software I would like to know if I can fully control my Mac Mini with Lion Server installed without any keyboard or monitor attached. Basically I would like from my Mac Book Air to use Remote Desktop to see the graphical environment of my Mac Mini server and control it, without a KVM. What I'm concerned, and I didn't find any clue inside Apple website, is the fact that when I'm trying from my MacBook Air to open a Remote Desktop session on my MacMini server some sort of acknowledge is required to the person at the console of that machine, but in my case that machine would be fully unattended and without any keyboard and display.
Spaces seems to give you a choice of having a given software application open in a single space or in all spaces. Is there a way to configure Spaces to so that each space is devoted to a particular project, regardless of what applications you happen to be using for that project?
I have the following code in a text file (myfile.applescript): I would like Chrome to shut down each night at 9:15PM, so I added the following cron task to crontab:
I'm tried of hearing the same songs over and over when listening to songs via iTunes DJ.
In Terminal, Option + click allows me to place my cursor at any point on the current line-- great for editing really long commands. How can I do this in iTerm2?
I frequently running into strange problem on Lion: my windows constantly being locked on z position (sometimes you can see this feature in some apps as "Window->Stay in Front/Behind"). But I really don't understand why is this happening, windows in this apps haven't such a feature (Preview is example). I'm heavily using keyboard shortcuts and suspect that I'm just accidentally triggering some system shortcuts for locking windows. Am I right, does such exists? If not, what can be responsible for such a behavior?
iMessage started acting up today. If I get a message from someone and I am reading it in the "chat" window when that person sends me a new message, I have to click>Messages(1), exit the chat window and click on them again to go back into the chat and see the new message.
I'm running XAMPP on my Mac, which is just an Apache and MySQL server running as my local host. When I set it up, I found port 8000 (the default) was already taken (maybe by the Apache that ships inside OS X?) so I just reconfigured the httpd.conf file to tell it to listen on port 8080. Anyhow, it all works, and I even have put in some settings in /etc/hosts so I can just type "mysite.local:8080" into my browser.
I'm using a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) connected to two Thunderbolt displays. The displays are chained together, and one Thunderbolt connection is made to the MacBook Pro.
After installing mongodb using homebrew, and following the information that homebrew provided, I did the following: But got the following error: Mongodb starts fine in a terminal.
As you can see in the below image, my HD "Other" category is almost full. A couple of days ago, I randomly kept getting a popup saying that my disk was almost full. Then I went in and noticed the issue in the image. I ran the repair disk utility and got all my software up to date, to no avail. Haven't found any help on Google. Any ideas?
I've a lot of ancient ClarisWorks documents and I want to upgrade to OS X Lion. Is there a way to have a look at or to print ClarisWorks document on Lion?
If someone is amazed by the new iPad that Apple announced today, but recently bought an iPad 2 from an Apple Store, is it too late? Could that person return the previous iPad purchase in order to be able to buy the latest and greatest? What options are available for someone with buyers' remorse?
I needed to make room on my Windows 7 partition to install a new program, so I did some searching on how to resize a partition and it told me to shrink the OSX side and then expand the Windows one into the free space from Windows. That didn't work, so now I have a 245 GB boot partition (my main OSX one), then roughly 10 GB of free space, then a ~61 GB Windows partition. I tried to just drag the corner down on the OSX partition and click apply, but all it does is unmount and re-mount Windows 7 without changing anything. I don't really care whether I expand the Windows partition into the free space as I originally intended or just re-expand the Lion one into that dead space, but there's about 12 GB of space there that's not doing anything, and I'd like to use it. Any ideas?
I have 2 external USB drives connected to my iMac running 10.7.3. One is designated completely for Time Machine use and the other I use for data. (Nothing but a bunch of JPGs on that one.) The first spins up once an hour for Time Machine backups, great. But both of them spin up at random times while I'm doing, well, ordinary stuff, nothing disk-related. Maybe just switching to another app in the dock, or surfing to a new web page.
I am looking for sites that do a good job of reviewing / documenting current LTE data coverage in the US. Where do the carriers have coverage maps and plans for build out documented? Also, are there any independent sources that measure actual performance and coverage so that we can educate ourselves about the options available for data on the new iPad?
Now that the Apple TV has been announced and is available, will Apple be releasing a software update for the 2nd generation Apple TVs? I'd like to know if the new UI will be supported on my ATV and whether or not 1080p support will be made available as a software update or if it is dependent on new hardware/processing.
Will the voice dictation technology built into iOS 5.1 running on the new iPad be made available on the iPad 2?
I have a nice stereo system that can dock and charge an iPod Nano 2nd generation. I also have an iPod Touch 4 and a 6th gen Nano (or something). The old docks charge using the firewire pin out and the new ones with the USB power pin out (if I understand correctly).
The question is pretty self explanatory: How can one make an Automator script to restore all hidden windows at the same time?
Please don't scold me because I know I broke the cardinal rule of updating...never shut down in the middle of an update. I was updating to iOS 5.1 over the air on my iPad and after the update downloaded it went to the screen with the white apple and the loading bar. After 15 min nothing had loaded and I force shut it down. Now when I go to try and update it says "Install Now" because the download file is still in the iPad, I believe. I tap "Install Now" and it says "Unable to Install Update an error occurred installing iOS 5.1" every time. I tried installing it through iTunes and it said my iPad 2 was ineligible for this update. My iPad is still working, I can play games and what not, so it's not "broken"
I'm trying to figure out how to connect and use my PC laptop having VGA video output (female) to iMac 27 (2010). Found some articles about connecting PCs having miniDisplay port but it's not my case. Is it possible at all?
Zsh is better than bash(obviously), but for some reason, from time to time I have to use bash. I am wondering is there any way for me to use them together without changeing them manually?
Is there a way to change the restrictions passcode on an iPhone without restoring the phone? I haven't forgotten the passocde; I just want to change it.
As of today, with the announcement of 'new iPad' (not iPad 3), they squeaked out the update/new AppleTV. Does anyone have any actual details what changed? As it looks like a very nasty UI update (which I don't plan on updating to as I still have my ATV2 which is jailbroken). I looked over the store, and checked specs, but I cannot for the life of me see any difference of the 'new AppleTV' except for the software?
I'm having the following problem! My fonts get replaced in multiple programs (E.g. twitter, itunes, tweetdeck) It all looks like the screenshot I added below. I don't know how this came all of a sudden and it's really anoying, does anyone know what I can do to solve this problem? I tried: rebooting and resolve standard fonts in font-book. Thanks a lot!
I have a Cisco VPN client in OSX 10.6.8, which runs only in 32 bit mode. Are there any serious disadvantages of switching to 32 bit mode permanently?
Is that possible to replace the existing graphic card of a Macbook Pro (Mid 2010, Mini DisplayPort, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M) for a graphic card that could support 2 screen output? Or else is it possible to add another graphic card in (or outside) the Macbook so that I can use another display. What I am trying to do is have dual external screen (Macbook Pro docked and closed).
everyone. I use the Preview Application on Mac to view my PDF/JPEG/PNG files. Generally it works fine. But I've got some troubles with the "Select Tool".
I actually have a Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (I plan on upgrading to Lion). I may have to buy an Mac mini in order to have a full dual screen (external identical screens) layout (see my previous question). So I will work on a Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro, most of the time on the same LAN.
The iOS Settings app provides an URL scheme (prefs:) which can be used to open the app directly on a particular page from other apps, in particular, shortcut apps such as Launch Center. There are various pages on the web that have a list of some of the URLs, but these pages all seem to provide the same subset, and I know there is at least one shortcut that's not included. In fact, I'd imagine that every page in Settings will have it's own URL. Can anyone provide the complete list of URLs for the Settings app?
There are many external battery packs which have a USB port for charging your iPad or iPhone on the go. But they all seem to be charged via a Micro USB port themselves, rather than a dock connector. Why? Is there some technical reason or does Apple not license the female dock connector?
I am trying to install ddd debugger on my MAC. It installed fine, however when I try to run it I get the following error:
If I buy a new iPad with 4G LTE in the United Kingdom, will the 4G LTE work in Sweden (with a SIM from a carrier offering 4G LTE obviously)? I am asking not least because of statements in this article that 4G LTE uses different bands in different countries.
How could one go about viewing all the processes in an ssh session to my (jailbroken)iphone? I'm currently able to ssh in, I have bash installed, core utilities installed, shell-cmds package installed and the system-cmds package installed.
I have a simple Logitech mouse with 2 buttons and central wheel button. The central button opens some accessories (calculator and so on). I would like this button to open new links in chrome (as it does on Windows and Linux). Is there a way to configure that? I've tried Logitech control center, but it can't find the attached mouse.
I often find myself wanting to sync my iPhone with iTunes when I'm in the middle of listening to a podcast. Currently iTunes removes that podcast from the iPhone while syncing. Is it possible to configure iTunes to only remove podcasts played through to the end? For the purposes of this question, assume I am halfway finished listening to the newest episode of a podcast and there are no newer episodes available.
Does anybody know if I can create a keyboard shortcut to toggle "Use balloons to display changes"? Also, is there a webpage where one can vote for features for the next Word release? I want to have the option to show only comments in balloons and not deleted text that existed in previous versions back. Thanks
When configuring the syncing of podcasts between iTunes and a device, it's possible to automatically sync "all unplayed" and "all new" podcasts. It's not clear to me what the difference is between unplayed and new podcasts. An Apple Support Communities post explains it as follows: Unplayed podcasts, are those that have previously been synced to your iPod, but have yet to be played while new podcasts are those that have been synced to your iPod for the first time. If this is the case, what's the difference in sync behavior between the "all unplayed" and "all new" settings?
I have this wireless router I use to connect my iPhone and iPad. This router has 4 settings: 802.11b/n Mixed just 802.11g 802.11b/g/n 802.11g/n Which one should I choose to have maximum speed on my iDevices? thanks.
I’m interested in automatically extracting the content of .pages documents, preferably via a programming language on a web server. There are quite a few references around the web that say Pages documents are actually zipped archives containing various files (e.g. *=URL=* but a Pages document sent to me by a friend doesn’t seem to be unzippable by Mac OS X’s Archive Utility, or The Unarchiver, no matter what I change the extension to. Is there a way to get the content from recent Pages files?
how can I view all dates of my previous back ups & how can I restore all of my lost photos without connecting to another computer? please say this is possible and help by telling me how I can do this. thank you very much if you can help:)
I've had an SDcard lose its partition table, so I want to run a surface scan of the sdcard to make sure it's physically okay. Can you suggest a disk surface scan tool that runs on the Mac? Free, preferably. Thanks.
I want to bring my iPad to a beach to do some reading while on vacation. I am concerned about sand getting into its ports and causing damage. Obviously water would also be a concern, but I am not planning on taking it in any water. Does sand propose a significant threat and what can be done to limit the chances of a problem occurring?
In the new version of iPhoto for iOS it has a setting for "Wireless Beaming". I'm not quite sure what this even is. If I can share photos among devices, do they all have to have iPhoto installed? What is used to do the "beaming"? Do I have to have wi-fi or bluetooth on?
I have 2 Gmail accounts hooked up to Mail. One is an @gmail.com account, the other is a business account run through Google Apps. When I send an email from the business account, the email always shows up in my Inbox as if the message was sent to me. The "Automatically Cc or Bcc me" checkbox is unchecked in the "Composing" section of the Preferences.
I ran Onyx "fix permissions" and Disk Utility "Repair Permissions" with no results. With "Repair Permissions", it keeps throwing some info warnings about unexpected ACLs, but the info I could find online didn't think those would be causing issues like this.
The Address Book app adds the letter "n" to notes of contacts in most of my contacts. In the Notes field I randomly see the letter added in front of names, numbers etc.
This may be an impossible request, but I'm looking for some way, or some software to install, that lets me choose which device I want to type on at a particular moment. For example: Most of the time I am typing on my iMac. But when a text message comes in, or I want to type a long password on my iPhone, I want to use my apple bluetooth keyboard to type on my iPhone for a bit, and then switch back to typing on my iMac.
OS X 10.7 (Lion) is advertised on the Apple website as The world's most advanced desktop operating system advances even further The beta page for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) goes: The world's most advanced desktop operating system moves even further ahead
All of a sudden, my hard drive has stopped working. I can only view its contents but can't store anything new now. I also can't change its permissions. What is the issue?
With the new iPads having a retina display, what will happen to iPhone apps that are built to support retina display for iPhone/iPod touch on an iPad sized retina screen. Will the iPad use the retina version of the iphone app or stick with the normal version?
I have a afp share on my office network, is it possible if I were to add a spotlight comments field, have it show up on another machine which also has the volume mounted? The color shows up but nothing else. Any help?
I currently have my iPad set up to utilize iTunes Match for the music on there. But in my iTunes, I've got a fair amount of music videos on there from sources other than iTunes. Is there any way to allow the iPad to continue to use iTunes Match to manage audio files, but override it to include all (or a playlist) of my music videos?
When syncing my iPod to iTunes, I always get this message:  I've had my iPod for several years now and I'd like to disable that warning, so I can see what's copying, how long it will take, etc., since I already know that I'm not supposed to disconnect my iPad. I know that I can click the little triangle on the left side to see the progress, but I don't want to have to do that. Is there a way to disable that warning?
My wife and I share the same iPhoto library, which exists on a mounted disk image with each of our user accounts pointing to this same shared library. We each have iPhones and I wondered whether our respective photo-streams that seemed to work reasonably well on our individual logins could be 'automated' to copy from these streams into the main, shared library? Essentially, is there any way for two photo-streams from two users to end up in this shared iPhoto library?
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air 11". Can I add a Verizon (or any kind of) broadband card to it internally? We want to avoid having an awkward USB modem hanging off the side.
I just checked and it says the battery on my iPhone 4s is 30% charged. If I leave my phone off, how much time will it have left? What if I turn it off? I need to know if I'll be able to use this phone 6 hours later.
When I purchase an app in iTunes on my Windows computer, I get an *.ipa file that is a self-contained iOS application package. I can browse the contents of these IPA files with 7-Zip and even extract resources and other details, which suggests these IPA files aren't encrypted at all.
Currently I keep an obscurely-named text file on my hard drive which contains things like bank account and credit card details, various passwords, PINs, and other bits of sensitive/confidential information. Obviously this is not too secure and I'd really like to keep this information encrypted and password-protected. I'm thinking of something like Keychain Access, but for small amounts of free form text rather than just passwords, and it would need to be quick and convenient to access (i.e. so not something like a password-protected Word document). If it could work on both a Mac and an iOS device like an iPad, and sync between the two, then that would be a bonus.
I have local rules on my Mac to move emails from certain people into their own local folders, and sound a unique alert. The problem is that it appears that moving it causes it to be deleted from iCloud's IMAP server, and therefore not delivered to my iOS devices. When I changed the rule to copy rather than move, I'm left with duplicate emails in the local Inbox folder (not surprisingly).
I have the following equipment:  I have all my music files stored in iTunes on the pictured iMac. When I play music it follows a path from the iMac through the Time Capsule to the Airport Express. The Airport Express connects by hard wires to a stereo power amplifier (that has no volume controls, selector switch, or additional connections available) and from the amp to the stereo speakers. I control all of this directly from the iMac using the iMac's volume control. This all works great and sounds great. As the diagram also shows, I have an Apple TV that connects to the TV. In our house we predominantly watch Netflix or other content via the Apple TV. I'd like to direct the audio signal from the Apple TV to the Airport Express and thus to the amp and speakers. I know I could put in an additional device and hardwire the TV's audio outputs, stereo amplifier, Airport Express into it (essentially use it as a switching device), but it just seems that I should already have everything one rea
I have an early 2011 13" MBP, i7, 8GB crucial RAM, 500 GB Seagate ST9500325ASG. I've had it for about 4 months. Twice, including last night, the beach ball appears, concurrent with a sound that can only be described as a squeak, coming from, I assume, the hard drive. Then, the beach ball freezes and the machine can only be revived by a hard restart.
I was playing around with Coolbook and stupidly enough deleted the two kernel extensions (kexts) without saving them to a backup location. How can I recover just AppleIntelCPUPowermanagementClient.kext and AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext without reinstalling my OS?
I was using Disk Inventory X and found a file called sleepimage in /private/var/vm/ It takes up 4 GB! I also found numerous other files in the same folder called swapfile0 swapfile1, etc. What are they and are they safe to delete so I can free up space? (almost 10 GB)
I have set up my Gmail account to send and receive messages from my business email address over Exchange on my iPhone 4S. I receive all messages fine, but it doesn't send messages from my business email address unless I am logged into Gmail in a web browser.
Something is wrong with my Mac, as indicated (and still unresolved) in the question: What is the Sixth Step of MacBook Repair? One possibility is that the main disk is faulty.
I simply can't abide Lion's/Apple's dedication to monochrome sidebars everywhere in Lion. The SIMBL technique still works in the Finder, but the new 10.6 version of iTunes breaks all the previous hacks I've tried. What I'd love is to be able to edit the iTunes.rsrc file (and similar) myself but I don't know of any way to do that in OS X. Is there a way to edit (copies of) .rsrc files? Failing that, is there a way to change the depressing gray sidebar icons in iTunes 10.6?
iSync is being phased out from OS X. In 10.7 Lion, it doesn't come with it pre-installed any more.
I can think of a few reasons to do it each way, but I'd like a complete list of them.
This may sound a bit silly and I hope it's not off-topic, but... I'm looking for a specific wallpaper that was present in OS X 10.6.7 (an Ansel Adams-style black-and-white landscape with the sun hidden behind some very remarkable clouds). It is no longer present in OS X Lion. Strangely, it is also not a part of the OS X 10.6 wallpapers pack. Is there a comprehensive resource from which old OS X wallpapers can be accessed?
I have a 1st gen iPad 32GB + WiFi and AppleTV 2nd gen. I'm having issues playing back streaming content from my iPad to my AppleTV over AirPlay. An example of this is audio from Pandora (Internet), and another is playing back films from Movies (local). When streamed to my iPad and then to AppleTV via AirPlay, it is "choppy" by the time it gets to the AppleTV. When attempting the same thing from my iPhone 4S, I have no issues. What gives?
I might be able to figure out how to jailbreak and unlock my wife's 3GS (v 4.3.5 8L1, BB 05.16.02 if that matters) but she's really hesitant to "mess with it". I'd really prefer to be able to go through official channels.
I have the HD from my old Snow Leopard Mac containing my old home directory encrypted with Filevault 1. Can I mount this HD in a USB enclosure as an external volume on a new Mac running Lion, and read the contents of my old Filevault 1 protected home directory? Do I need a Keychain item, or anything other than my old login password or admin password?
My Mom wants to be able to use Firefox Sync to sync her bookmarks between her laptop and her iPad. What browsers support Firefox Sync?
Rebooting into the recovery partition and attempting recovery from TM. At least in that case the TM disk is seen, but it cannot be used because "only full Mac OS X backups can be restored". I only save user files on TM.
Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data I've elected not to send this data to Apple, so is there a way to clear or delete it?
I like the built-in time announcement in OS X. But my wife has forbidden it because it announces time at night too. Is there any way to silence during certain hours or some other utility that will announce the time? I am aware of Cuckoo, but it only does chimes.
From time to time I get my OS X bugging up like this:  I tried restarting Finder, Dock or WindowServer processes to no avail. Has anyone encountered this? May be there is a service or an app that I can relaunch to fix this? So far only restart helped. I didn't try the login/logout flow, but I'm pretty sure it would work too. So I wanted to know if there is a way to fix this while logged in.
What's the best way to import my Aperture library to iPhoto?
I'm thinking about renting an iPad for use. And I would like to know if I can put my password to download my apps every time I rent an iPad, or is there a limit?
I've got a new Mac and I've noticed on the terminal I get a null instead of some kind of name there before on my previous computer. I'm pretty sure thats not normal and occasionally it does fix itself! Why is it doing this?
Our corporate network has some web applications hosted in a nested subdomain hierarchy. A "subdomain's subdomain", as you will. For example: Root-> *=URL=* (resolves to: 192.2.2.200) App1-> *=URL=* (resolves to: 192.1.1.101) App2-> *=URL=* (resolves to: 192.1.1.102)
I had thought one couldn't upon reading the text on Apple's website, "Once a device or computer is associated with your Apple ID, you cannot associate that device or computer with another Apple ID for 90 days." Recently, though, someone has told me that is is indeed possible to switch as often as you want.
Does GarageBand iOS 1.2 support AirPlay? I see reports from Google searches that AirPlay was added to an earlier version but had lag-related performance issues. With 1.2, I see no way to select audio output. If I already have a Jambox connected, GarageBand will use it, but so far I can't get it to use AirPlay.
I had recently (a few weeks ago) added in some more RAM. But, since then, until a few days ago, everything was working fine. When strolling through some logs, I did see a reference to a missing NVRAM variable--but might have been the result of hot-swapping USB... Could an issue with RAM keep the startup disk from working? Thanks
Two months ago, I accidentally dropped my iPhone 4 into water (for 3 seconds or so). Immediately I turned it off and put it in a bowl of rice. After two days, I took it to a repair shop, in which it was dried and fixed (headphones didn't work after the accident). It was "fine" after that, but since then I've been experiencing some weird issues: GPS isn't working well for navigation (can't seem to locate accurately, tell speed or direction).
Since upgrading my iPhone 4S to iOS 5.1 (from 5.0.1), the AT&T network status indicator now reads "4G" where it once read "3G". What has changed from the previous version? Does this "4G" mean the same thing as it does on the "new iPad"?
I sometimes get a "o" icon instead of the "3G" or "E" icons when I loose my connection to the network. Why? Could this be due to a jailbreak?
I have an iPhone 4 and a MacBook Pro. If I turn 'Personal Hotspot' on my iPhone to on, then I can connect with my laptop fine and everything is great.
I see that the prices for the 64GB iPhone 4S and iPod touch are the same. Besides having a phone as well as the monthly data fee and Siri, which I see is on the iPhone 4S, are there any other difference between the two products that I may be missing? It looks like both use the same version of iOS.
I've just bought an iPod Classic 5.5, and the volume is too low. I have searched through google and, though i find a lot of people with the same problem, i can't seem to find a solution. and no, it's not the 'volume limit' option in the settings.
New version of iOS is out & I have upgraded my iPad to iOS 5.1 from iOS 5.0. I didn't realize that some other software will not work with iOS 5.1 so I would like to go back. How can I downgrade iOS version on my iPad?
I need to hand back my current MacBook Pro, and setup up a new one. What I want is to save my all user-specific data and, maybe, all the programs installed (not necessary).
Both my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are running iOS 5.1. Both are AT&T models. When not connected to Wi-Fi, the network indicator on the iPhone shows 4G while the iPad shows 3G. Does the iPad use a different network?
I have a Mac Mini with Mac OS X 10.6 Server installed. It has two external drives attached to it. One is for Time Machine and other contains data. I have bought the latest Mac Mini with Mac OS X 10.7 and two new hard drives. I want to migrate to the new hardware (the new Mac Mini and the new hard disks). Can Migration Assistant do that for me or do I have to transfer the data in the external drive manually?
I had an older macbook with a plastic shell. I broke and replaced the screen several times over it's lifespan. I now have a MacBook with an aluminum body and am really nervous about cracking the screen.
We have an iPad that is jailbroken and I'd like to upgrade it to iOS 5.1. What is the proper procedure for upgrading a jailbroken device? Do I have to back up the jail break data before upgrading? Or do I have to "un-jailbreak" it first?
I'm looking for a Mac app that has capabilities similar to Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager. The app should be capable of the following: Create and administer SQL Server databases, objects, logins, users, and permissions Define and execute SQL Server administrative tasks Design and test SQL statements, batches, and scripts Is an app like that available today?
In either Safari 5 (history intact) or Snow Leopard, is there a way to view a sent HTTP Post request? A session expired and I am looking for the data that was posted (and lost).
I had an ATT iphone and have changed to the Verizon iphone today. I wanted to sync my apps and google mail/contacts and was told that I had to connect with itunes and it would update.
I'm trying to find a way to have Mac Mail allow me to press and hold either the "delete" key or the "backspace" key. I'm on Snow Leopard with a non-Apple keyboard.
Some time ago my iPad Contacts app has begun an odd behaviour of incorrectly formatting American telephone numbers. Instead of displaying "(415)-123-1234", for example, it displays "41 5123 1234". Even when I create a new contact on the iPad, the telephone number is forced into the same odd spacing pattern.
When trying to update from iOS 5.1 I keep getting an error message reading "unable to check for update, an error occurred while checking for a software update". The update screen loads for a couple of minutes before showing this. How can I upgrade to iOS 5.1?
I'm looking into get a 27" iMac, and I'm debating whether to get the 2010 or 2011 versions. With the 2010 version, I can use the iMac as an external monitor for my gaming PC with the use of a mini-displayport adapter.
I have, in iCal two accounts: one local, one synced with my Google account. In the last 3 weeks or so, the alarms on the synced account have stopped working -- that is, I'll create an event, set the alarm, and click "done," and when I click on the event immediately after, my alarm settings have disappeared. This also happens when I add an alarm to existing event on this account. The alarms on my local account appear to be working fine. I am running 10.6.8 on a 15" MacBook Pro.
I am looking for an iPad app that allows me to map gestures to keyboard buttons and then pass these along to my PC. The idea being that I want to control Windows Media Center with gestures. So a swipe up would be the up arrow, something else the enter key, etc. I am not interested in a full RDP client, I just want to send keypresses to my PC. My google-fu and appstore-fu are failing me.
Is it possible to setup a mac mini as a central photo repository and have all the tagging and extra info follow to the other computers on the network? Or would each computer have to access iPhoto on the mini or have their own index?
I had an issue playing HD videos on my older computer and it's the main reason I bought this MacBook Pro. So you can see why this issue is very frustrating to me.
Is it possible to use iMac'27 (Mid 2011, MacOS) as an external/target mode display for the MBP'13 (Late 2011) running Windows 7 in Bootcamp? I'm using thunderbolt cable.
I'm trying to install this application from source. http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
Title says almost all of it, and no, it's not that my display sleeps after inactivity. It was 5 seconds after touching the keyboard, last time. It's done it twice so far.
Whenever I connect to a WiFi at Starbucks, I'm prompted with this warning:  After clicking OK everything is fine and I can login as usual. What's causing this error? How do I troubleshoot?
In the Keyboard settings, it is possible to set Caps Lock to other modifier keys, but it doesn't allow to put in a custom keystroke. Is it possible to set it to something like Ctrl + A? I'm using OS X Lion 10.7.3 if that's of any relevance.
Quite frequently the shortcut to "select previous tab" in Safari does not trigger. Unfortunately, I've not been able to see a pattern of when this happens. Restarting Safari usually (always?) helps. The shortcut is ctrl+⇧+⇥. How can troubleshoot this problem?
I have ordered labeled PDF files with the colors green (very good), orange (ok) and red (bad). When I order my files after labels I get: Green Orange Yellow But I want to have Green Yellow Orange Is it possible to configure finder to order labels in my preferred way?
With auto logout enabled, I experience severe display errors at the login screen. These errors do not occur at the login screen right after boot. They appear only when the auto logout is triggered.
I can't find any settings in iCal to turn E-Mail notification off. How do I prevent iCal from creating E-Mail reminders?
The unibody Macbook Pro makes disturbing creak noises when I move it around on my lap - or when I apply pressure to either the top or bottom of the case. I've applied insulating tape at places of the RAM slot which I had manually upgraded. However, the place where these noises originate from are spread out over the whole left side where the logic board and battery are located.
I have a mid-2011 27" iMac. I have realized that the screen brightness adjusts depending on the ambient light. When the sun hides behind the clouds, and the room gets darker, the brightness decreases. I have located the sensor to be the camera. When putting a finger over the camera on top of the screen I can reproduce the sun hiding. How do I turn this magic feature off?
What is the simplest a way to have the desktop wallpaper cycle through images that are in subfolders? This is not possible using the normal way of setting a wallpaper in The format of the images:
This has been happening in the last few days: Chrome or Safari on the Mac (OSX Lion/10.7.2) are unable to connect to the Internet. Other apps are able to (Dropbox...). I am able to browse through IE on Win7 on Parallels. Terminal is able to ping to www.google.com. I first thought it was a problem with Chrome, but Safari and Firefox have the same problem. I am able to connect to the internet from my wife's laptop (Windows 7) and from my iPhone (over same WiFi network). This problem gets resolved after I restart the Mac. What can be wrong?
I have some text stored on my clipboard. I want to store this text onto a shell script "variable". So something like:
I have a failing hard drive on my current MacBook Pro (it is having a symptom that I previously had on a failing hard drive on a MacBook – clicking drive noises). I'm backing up my hard drive quite regularly using Time Machine and syncing some crucial files to Dropbox, but I'm afraid about the integrity of the data, meaning that if the hard drive fails, and I restore my Mac installation using Time Machine onto a new hard drive installed to the MacBook Pro, I'm afraid that some/all recent backed up data will be corrupt. Will this happen?
How can I change the time zone on my iPod touch? Presently it shows Eastern time zone, but I am on the west coast for a bit and it still shows East coast time.
I noticed a file 'app.log' in my Applications folder. I delete it but it reappears after a couple of days. What is this and can I get rid of it?
I am about to modify the file ownerships in my Time Machine disk, which uses ACLs. Since it is my (only) backup disk, I thought I'd solicit comments on the script before I run it. The objective is to fix file ownerships so that /Vol/TM/Back/2012-xx-yy/Users/bob is owned by user bob, to make it possible for Bob to browse his TM history.
I dimly remember hearing about an OSX application that let you, for example, enable password lock when leaving the current WiFi, but I can't find it anymore. Does anyone know how it's called? Thanks!
I have a fairly large iTunes (v10.6) library of music (425 gigabytes) running on a Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit, i7 Quad Core with 8 Gigabytes of memory, Dell computer. My internal network is running over a WNDR4000 wireless N router with WPA2 encryption. I have recently installed the Apple remote App to my iPhone 4s running iOS 5.1. In trying to control the playing of music within iTunes with the remote app I have experienced less than adequate results. The app seems to become "stuck" for lack of a better term trying to switch to different tracks within iTunes. Eventually it will switch to a selected track after 3+ minutes. I have turned off encryption as an experiment to see if this will allow the app to switch to a selected track more rapidly (i.e. within seconds) with no success. The wireless router is running latest firmware. I am highly skeptical of this issue being a result of my wireless infrastructure and am more prone to see this as a result of the size of my iTunes library
I've recently realized that I probably shouldn't have done this, as various things have begun failing at an accelerating clip. Yesterday, iTunes refused to back up my iPhone and iPads; and ClipMenu started reporting that it can no longer save my clipboard history (not a huge problem, but a good example). Today many of my preferences no longer work, and I can't set/save them (e.g., Mail "forgot" my password and can't seem to remember it when I set it, Finder preferences don't stick, etc.).
Indian rupee number format is different from US number format. e.g. 1,00,00,00,000 *=URL=* How do I setup a custom number format in Numbers?
On Pages 1.6 for iOS, is there any way I can: Change the paragraph styles in the document to custom ones i.e. The default 'blank' template has Helvetica as the body style. Can I change the body style to, say Helvetica Neue Light? Or the colour of the Title style? Change the paragraph styles in the document to custom ones
I want to use a white plastic Apple remote with BetterTouchTool to control Safari, but while it works, the default button actions (e.g. skip, volume up) still happen. How can I prevent this?
I want to play all of an artist's songs that I have, on multiple albums. Making a playlist seems overkill. This was never an issue in iOS 4, as there was a track-shaped option for shuffle play. Please note that I want something that always works, so simply "pressing play while on an artist's page" won't do the trick as sometimes a song is currently "playing" already. I'm running iOS 5.1.
I have some old VHS tapes that I would like to digitize. I have seen some expensive converter boxes, that come with proprietary software, that you can buy that will auto-encode and create a DVD for you, but I'd rather be able to import the video directly to iMovie or Final Cut Pro so I can work with it how I want. Quality isn't critical, so I'm looking for an inexpensive, "do-it-yourself" solution, that would ideally allow me to import the video into my software of choice, rather than paying a company to do it for me. What is the best way to connect a VCR to my Mac, so that I can import these videos into iMovie or Final Cut Pro?
I have a jailbroken iphone 4. Is there way to play MP4 and FLV files without converting them? I'd like to play them straight on my iPhone,since it takes too spend time to use iTunes to convert the files.
Someone called me last month. I know date and approximate time, but I'm unable to see that call in my iPhone. Is there any way to do this?
I've had the Safenote app for quite a while now and have a lot of useful notes in there. But now it won't open—it's frozen on the loading screen. Is there any way of getting it working again? I'm using an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.
The specs for the third generation Verizon iPad say that it will be GSM/EDGE compatible. Does this mean that the Verizon new iPad will have a SIM card slot? Will I be better off with a Verizon iPad if I wanted the ability to connect to either CDMA or GSM networks? Edit:
I have found some resources on how to downgrade my iPhone 3GS from 5.0.1 to 4.3.3. I have saved the required SHSH blobs so I am ready to proceed.
I have a MacMini (Intel Core Solo with OSX 10.6.8) running as an iTunes Server with an external USB Storage without Keybord/Mouse/Monitor. Starting the MacMini is fairly easy, power on the USB storage, then push the power button on the MacMini.
I'm about to buy an external monitor to use with my MacBook Pro late 2008. I do understand HDMI (digital) looks much better on screen (better quality?) than VGA (analog), so I'm thinking about buying a Mini-DVI to HDMI adapter. My questions are: Does the Mini-DVI to HDMI adapter decrease video quality? If so, is it noticeable and does it still have better quality than VGA? Are there any known issues with third-party adapters?
A clip that was played in fullscreen mode will not appear in fullscreen mode. Instead, it's slightly shifted, resized and has a grey background. I've removed the Quicktime plug-in Perian, but this behavior is persistent.
I want to use an excerpt of an OS X text-to-speech voice in a song that I am recording. Is there any kind of copyright restriction for recordings of the computer voice I should know about, or are they totally free for anyone to use for any purpose?
It seems that by default there is no way to enter a whole path in the Finder, so instead one should traverse through all the tree to get somewhere deep in the filesystem. Is there anyway to overcome this problem? If there is no GUI for it in the Finder maybe launching it from the command line with the path? Something like: $ finder /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
I've seen many, many utilities for resizing windows (BST, Moom, Divvy, SizeUp...) but I wanted to know if there were any available for free. Most of these utilities have a free trial, but I'd expect there's at least one available completely free. So, is there one?
I have an existing Belkin modem-router, and a new Time Capsule. I would like the Time Capsule to act as the router and DHCP server, and the belkin modem-router to just be a modem. I connected one of the LAN ports on my Belkin Router to the WAN port on the Time Capsule and then disabled the DHCP server on the Belkin Router.
As I said in my previous question, I want to use an excerpt of a text-to-speech voice in a song. Where can I find a free or cheap service that'll let me do this without breaking their terms of use?
This is more of an "am I doing this right?" type of question...
Today, I noticed another mounted volume on my computer:  This volume is the size of my whole hard disk. I can only see it in the iStat widget. I cannot see it in Finder or the Terminal.
I have read several places, that iOS 5.1 is supposed to contain an updated version of the camera app that has a face detection feature. I have updated my iPhone 4S to 5.1, but can't find any such feature. Am I missing something, or are the rumors/mentions of the face detection false?
I'm looking to record some screencasts, and 720p (1280x720) seems to be the best choice for the resolution. It's supported by video sites like YouTube and Vimeo as one of the standard "HD" resolutions, but it's small enough that it can be comfortably viewed on smaller screens without needing to play the video back full screen.
I connected an external HD to my Time Capsule and I've relocated my iPhoto and iTunes libraries to this HD. Time Machine is only backing up my computer's HD and I'd like an offsite backup of the external HD. I'm looking for recommendations on software services that would work for me.
In Snow Leopard and earlier (or perhaps the difference was with the hardware; I don't know which as I updated my computer and OS simultaneously), there was a preference under Trackpad to change the speed needed to perform a double-click. How can I speed it up now that it isn't there?
So the text editor on Windows is crap. I realize I could find a fancier text editor that works within Windows but I'm happy with TextMate on my Mac and I'd rather not have two "fancy" text editors (one for the windows guest and one for the mach host). Is there a way I can right-click a windows (again, I'm running Windows XP as a guest operation system under Fusion) txt file and have it open in TextMate on my Mac? I woudn't mind if I had to do this manually each time but a permanent association would be even cooler...
How much, if any, has the new iPad has gained in PDF rendering speed with the A5X processor (quad-core graphics)?
I open a PDF document. It's a document I've created. I have my trackpad set on "tap to click" from the trackpad system preferences. Right now the tap with one finger doesn't work when I have the PDF document open. Physically clicking with the trackpad doesn't work. The two-finger tap for a right click works. Physically clicking in the area of the trackpad that signifies a right click works. No left click works. This is true for all PDFs I open. This is true for any file I open with TextEdit. Everything works fine in Chrome, Safari, Mathematica, etc.
I just bought a MacBook Air and a cheap Leadership USB optical mouse, which I can't get to work with the MacBook. It works fine with Windows and Linux, and the Macbook Air USB ports are fine. I checked it with USB drive and a Microsoft mouse without encountering any problems. What can I do to solve the problem?
In a few situations in Flash, tapping to click doesn't work, while mechanically clicking does. (Tap-clicking is of course turned on.) It's in some cases a Flash game, and in some cases Hulu or another video site. Why doesn't tapping work, and why does clicking work? My guess is that it has something to do with whatever the Flash equivalent is of "mouse down" versus "mouse clicked."
I have an iPhone 4, a couple of days ago the speaker when using Skype and Viber stopped working, I tried removing the apps and reinstalling them and have updated to 5.0.1 and it is still not working. I can still hear normal calls but for some reason when making Viber and Skype calls I can't hear, only the other person can hear me. What else can I do?
Whenever I want to shutdown/restart OSX I click on the menu, select shutdown, and then click the box for not saving the session, and then click OK. Then there's always at least one program that interrupts the shutdown process. Is there an easier way to do this? Maybe by using the terminal? I was thinking of shutdown -h now, but that way seems kind of "dirty." What are some ways to do it?
I own a Mac mini 2011 server which I use as workstation. Currently Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 Professional are installed in parallel (via Boot Camp). Both are 64-bit operating systems.
I'm trying to copy a large amount of files from a hard drive to a time capsule. Around 200 GB. Normally copying files in OSX is quite fast and simple, but I found this unmanageable, as before it starts copying it prepares to copy the files, And the number of files to copy slowly increases.
I have tried restoring through iTunes, but I only get "Error 37" at the end of the "Restoring iPad firmware" step. Snippets from the restore log: (It fails at 84% "restoring firmware" each time) and: I have tried pretty much everything: Different computers (both mac and win7) Different usb-cables Re-downloading the ipsw Re-installing iTunes Removing every playlist/book/movie from my iTunes library Disabling auto-sync of devices in iTunes The documentation for "error 37" indicates problems with security software (which I'm not running), and judging by the restore log this looks like more a bug in the updater/firmware itself. The iPad was running fine with iOS 5.0.1 and has never been jailbroken.
I am in my iTunes library (not a playlist) and have "shuffle" turned on (songs, not albums). If I click on "play", it plays the song currently highlighted, then stops (it does not play another song afterwards).
OS X newbie here. Many applications come with their own uninstall icons - like CS5.5, which adds three of them. Those are installed side-by-side with the application icons themselves. To me, they clutter my Launchpad and program folders unnecessarily, but I can't seem to be able to remove them: dragging and dropping them to the recycle bin does nothing.
I'm meeting someone tomorrow to purchase a MacBook Pro. This would be my first Mac owned but I had a job a couple of years ago where I was provided with a MBP. I know how to inspect basics (ie, check system window and make sure the hardware matches the description), but what else should I look for? It is the 2.2 i7 15 inch (assuming base model but its hard to tell from product description). http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD318LL/A?
I have an iOS app, and I gave all my beta testers promo codes to get free copies. Since they didn't pay for the app they are not allowed to write reviews in the App Store. One of my testers wants to know how he can purchase the app so that he'll be allowed to write a review. Is there any way to buy an app if a user has already downloaded it with a promo code? Thanks for any help.
In Aperture 3.2.2, is it possible to batch edit photos' metadata? For three days, my camera's clock was one year ahead but with the correct date, and I want to set them right all at the same time.
What are the export resolutions of a video shot on iPhone 4S and exported from iMovie app (after editing)? Also, is there a way I can export original resolution, (1080p) video to youtube from within the iPhone app of iMovie.
I'm considering buying the new AppleTV, but I'm wondering if it works in the way that I want it to work. What I would like is that my wife can take pictures on her iPhone and have them sync via iCloud to the AppleTV, but I want all iTunes purchases like videos to be on my account. Will this work on the new AppleTV or is it limited to a single iCloud account?
It is rare when I use my MBP on battery power. But is there a way to only enable automatic graphics switching when on battery power?
Lets say we have a OS X machine running with 4 GB of RAM. Is it possible to set it up so no single process can take up more than say, 3 GB, so no matter how memory hogging a process is, there's always some memory left over to keep the system responsive?
With the new iPhoto out for both the iPhone and iPad, I was wondering whether it allows face detection and assignment on iOS or is it still OS X-only feature?
I'm downloading a regular video podcast for use on my ipod. I like that the podcasts download automatically, but the problem is that I have to manually select all the videos I want to sync and then select "Create an iPod or iPhone version" from the advanced menu in iTunes. This is a real pain, and if I forget even one video then iTunes comes up with a message saying that 100+ videos aren't in the right format for the sync to work (if they were converted they sync fine though). Is there any way to get iTunes to do this conversion automatically once the download is finished, so then whenever I sync my iPod the videos will be synced automatically?
I'm looking for software that can hide incoming sms and call for certain number for iPhone. Is there any suggestion? No Jailbreak please.
I sometimes receive emails with .ics file attachments. Mail.app automatically adds these events to my iCloud Calendar as soon as I preview the message. How can I disable this behaviour and only add the event if I click on the attachment manually?
I try to add a new email account to Outlook 2011 for Mac. On the "Enter your account information" sheet the "Add Account" button is greyed out (only the Cancel button is visible). I cannot add a directory service or exchange account, I cannot add anything :-) Everytime the the "Add" button is greyed out :-( The two screenshots show the problem: the button to add a new account is disabled (even if I fill in all the values).
I am trying to make a transportable charger for iPhones, but before I can start this I need to know how much power my iPhone uses when I make an emergency call. If nobody knows this, I will be glad to have any information related to this.
How do I open a file with a .daa file extension on my Mac? Is there a Mac program that will convert it to an ISO image?
I came across an article explaining how to load your desktop before you login. Does anyone know if this works in Lion? Is there any reason I should avoid attempting it? Go to System Preferences → Users&Groups → Login Options to enable automatic login. Then, copy and paste the following code into TextEdit.app:
I have a Cannon MP560 that kept having communications errors. One of the suggestions I read was to remove the printer from the print & scan menu and re-add it. Once I did that the scanner disappeared as well and I cannot get OSX 10.7 to recognize this device as a scanner again. Does anybody know how I can get OSX to recognize this device as a scanner again?
I recently experienced a kernel panic ("your mac must restart...") due to an issue with Macfusion, so after the reboot I loaded Disk Utility in an attempt to verify the disk in case something was left in a bad state. Disk Utility claims that my main partition is unmounted, though it's clearly not.
I can create Speech Bubble-style annotations in preview - and easily change the color and font styles, but the text is always left-aligned. Is is possible to center it?
It's a 13" late 2009 model and I never had this problem up until now. Also the stop action from the  menu doesn't seem to work. (I have installed Caffeine but I don't think it's the problem because the macbook won't stop even if the application is closed.)
I have a strange little problem on my hands here. All this while, I've been using iPhone tethering via USB, and all was well. However, today afternoon, my iPhone USB interface in the Network pane keeps stating that my iPhone USB interface is 'Not Connected'. Enabling and disabling the Personal Hotspot option on my iPhone does not seem to get it back. Does anyone here have any idea how I would solve this? Machine: MacBook Pro, OS X Lion v10.7.3. iPhone: iPhone4, iOS 5.0.1
I just got a MacBook pro and will likely be getting an iPhone when the next generation comes out. That being said - I'm debating between getting an Apple TV and a Roku box. The Roku box seems like it has better channel offerings and also integrates with Amazon Instant Video. It is also around $30 - $50 cheaper (not a deal breaker but worth mentioning). So the only way Apple would win out in my mind is if the integration among other Apple products was more seamless. That being said - in terms of integrating with other Apple products, what does the Apple TV have to offer?
If I paste in an image into Pages '09, it scales the image, creating something that is either too small, or too large. Trying to resize these is driving me crazy, how can I either prevent this from happening, or quickly get it back to its original size?
This occurs only sometimes. While I am typing and an auto-correction pops up, if I click on the auto-correction, it substitutes the text immediately instead of disabling that particular correction.
I've noticed sometimes when using Mac OS X's color picker it has a clipped corner. What does it mean?
I am running OmniGraffle v5.3.6 (latest) on my 13" MBP (late 2011; Lion; 2,7Ghz; 4GB). I would NOT expect performance issues on this machine. For some reason it has significant delays when OmniGraffle is running. It would stop for 2-10 seconds, then show the spinner for some seconds and then run normal again. Q: Any ideas what to do (except for stopping to use OmniGraffle)?
Folks: I'm running Mac OS X (10.7.2) and iMovie'09 on my 27 inch imac. I'm using a Sony dcr-trv19 that is connected via firewire to the camera. The audio, overall, comes in synced (time) fine; however, there is clipping at the higher frequencies that is really annoying. The only way to describe it is that you lose anything above 15hz or so. So every "S" is flat and you get the digitized effect on most words, etc. I've listened to the source tape via the camera in playback to my headphones and do notice that occasionally the camera picked up a bit too much audio, like it is maxed on the level and it hit the red and then digitized. However, that is seldom when compared to the overall level on the iMovie version where the majority of "S"s are cut. Almost like sibilance effect on the digital side. There are no apparent audio import controls to bring the level down, when importing, etc. What are my options to try to improve my import qualities? I've considered upgrading to iMovie '11, but n
I have a large widescreen monitor plugged into my Macbook which is running Lion. Since upgrading to Lion I've noticed that I can't resume from standby if my other monitor was plugged in when I closed the lid.
I want to view an upcoming live broadcast on my MacBook Pro The URL is mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast I am only familiar with MMS with use on Mobile Phones, not desktops. Is there a desktop application which can view the MMS protocol?
I'm having a hard time differentiating between the "bold" unread messages and read messages in my inbox. I would like to be able to make unread messages a different color (e.g. red)...is this possible? I can't find a way to do it.
In the iPad 3 keynote, they mentioned that you are now (or will be?) able to redownload movies just like music and TV shows. However, if I go to my iPad I still only see Music and TV Shows in the redownload section.
My Macbook Pro will not sleep even though it is set in System Preferences → Energy Saver. I do not have any sharing options enabled (System Preferences → Sharing). I do not have "Wake for network access" enabled (System Preferences → Energy Saver). It does not matter if the Mac is connected to a power source. I've reset the SMC and the PRAM, but this did not help. I'm running OS X 10.7.3.
I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 5.1. When I go into Safari's History page, I can see my browsing history by day, but I need to know what page I visited two days ago, at a specific time. Is there any way that I can do this?
Is it possible, say with Lion recovery partition or any other way, to access individual files on the hard drive to copy them before reformatting it to do a clean install? It is not possible to boot Mac OS in "any flavor" as it always fails loading kernel - including safe mode or single user. It is an early MacBook Air, so it is not possible to use "Target Disk" mode.
I am trying to run the iOS simulator on my mac but I can't find it when i search in spotlight. I have Xcode 4.2 installed. I thought iOS simulator was bundled with Xcode.
I've been using the Preview application to view and annotate PDF files for quite a while. You can use Shift-Command-A to display the Annotations Toolbar. Then you can select the Highlight tool and choose a color (such as yellow for a standard highlight color).
I just added my Apple ID to a new MacBook Pro and tried to turn on iTunes Match. This is the error I get:
We all know iOS devices can't support Flash, but how much is just the restrictions placed on the OS? Is it possible to install it with a jailbroken device?
What types of files can I change from Mac- to Windows-based file types? What types "just work" on both systems? What types are simply non-transferable or won't work when moved between the OS types? In particular, I am interested in these three file types: .ess, .app, and .bak.
I recently got a Crucial M4 SSD for my mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13" (2.53 GHz). Since I paid some money, I would like to get the best performance possible out of it. Running a speed test using app store Black Magic Speed Test, it showed 260 Mb read and 170 Mb write, although on the Crucial website it says read up to 500 Mb. Trim is not enabled and firmware is the latest (0309). The connection speed is SATA 3 GB/s. Is this performance normal or something is going wrong? From system profiler :
In Snow Leopard, to move a window to a different space, I had to use the mouse to select the window and use the keyboard to select the target space (e.g., ctrl + 1,2,3). In Lion, what keyboard (maybe in slight conjunction with mouse as before) shortcuts can I use to move a window to a different desktop?
Are there any third-party programs for Microsoft Skydrive (but for Mac)? Skydrive offers 25GB of free cloud storage. There is a third-party app for windows that can access Skydrive.
I currently have a PC with dual monitors. This PC is on it's way out and I want to replace it with a new Mac Mini, using my existing peripherals. The current monitors are a 27" Dell (2560x1440) running on dual link DVI and a smaller, much older, 19" (1280x1024) running on a VGA cable. I was thinking that I should be able to run the VGA monitor with adapters HDMI -> DVI -> VGA using the included HDMI -> DVI adapter and buy the mini DisplayPort -> dual-link DVI adapter to connect the Dell monitor to the Thunderbolt port.
So I have just re-installed Leopard on my MacBook and recovered from my Time Machine only to find I have font rendering issues with the Helvetica font:  This happens in browser or in apps like Mail. Can anybody offer a solution?
Terminal started to ignore profile file settings, which I didn't change in a long time. How can I force Terminal to respect the file again? I tried to delete and recreate but it didn't help...
I also know it's next to impossible to unlock such a device. But I'm sure someone in this community knows a way around. I'm prepared to give 50 reputation (whenever I can) to whom can guide me to install the iPhone (so I actually can use it and see the SpringBoard) and another 50 to whom can tell me how to unlock this device. So any suggestions at all are most welcome! Here is a picture of the lock-screen:
I'm using an old iBook G4 (PowerPC) running Tiger to serve iTunes to the house. For the past week or so, the mac boots fine, and then sometime during the day starts generating errors when iTunes attempts to save its library file.
Every time I open iTunes (version 10.6) I'm asked "Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?" If I reply 'allow', iTunes works normally. (Except that I'm asked the same question again next time I launch iTunes.) If I choose 'deny' I get a similar dialog box asking me to attend to my Firewall settings the next time I open iTunes.
I work on MacBook Pro (15", mid 2010) pretty much every day for at least 8hrs. I remember my previous (non-Apple) laptops displays used to darken over time. Should I expect something similar happening to my MacBook Pro?
When trying to mount an Windows file service over SMB (Samba) in Lion I get the following error when trying to write: This happens both when connecting via Finder or mounting in the Terminal. I have no problem reading the files and my user do have permission to write to the directories in question.
I am using a Tascam iM2 stereo mic connected to the dock of an iPhone 4S. When the peripheral device is connected directly, there is no problem. Hoever, when I use a dock extension cable, a strange harmonic noise is introduced. I have tried extension cables from different manufacturers, and even the highly rated dockXtender extension cable made by CableJive introduces the noise.
I have an aluminium iMac (from mid/late 2010 I believe). I want to upgrade the memory from 4gb to 8 or 16. I'm no hardware guy, but from the info I read it would appear I can upgrade to any SO-DIMM RAM module. So just to check before I go ahead and buy... do you guys believe that this will go in my iMac? *=URL=* Thanks
The hard disk of my Mac mini with 2 GHz intel processor and 4 GB RAM crashed and so I have replaced the Hard disk. How to load Windows 7 without loading Boot camp? Windows 7 original DVD is not able to boot the computer (Bootmgr missing error) and Acronis True image home boot CD (Acronis loader) (both 2011 and 2012 versions) is not able to load completely and recover a disk image. Also please advise how to update the BIOS
I use iTunes Match to access my iTunes library at work. I added some new music to my library (back at home) recently, but I forgot to run the "Update iTunes Match" command to ensure that the songs were matched/uploaded to the cloud. Now I'm at work, and my new tunes aren't in iCloud.
I have an ipad2, and I have this keyboard case: *=URL=* Will the "new ipad" fit nicely into this case, physically? Or, if I get one of the new ipads, will I need to get a keyboard case specifically "for new ipad"?
I want to buy a new MacBook Pro, from Apple. However I want to run Snow Leopard instead of Lion.
What is the appropriate size for album art to display correctly on the 3rd generation iPad's retina display?
In the latest iOS update (5.1) Apple added the camera to the lock screen, so now I don't need to unlock the phone to take a picture. Is it possible to change which app is used for this? I realise that there are potentially privacy concerns around this which the default app nicely resolves by only showing those photos taken in the current session in the camera roll, but regardless, is this possible?
Is it possible to really delete a file (ie, bypass the Trash) from Finder? Currently, when I want to reclaim space from a USB drive, I rm files/folder from the Terminal, but I'd like to do it from the GUI (similar to Shift+Delete in Windows).
I've split a large file with the split command from a Terminal and copied it from a USB-stick to my MacBook. This results in couple of files named 'xaa', 'xab', 'xac'. How do I merge them together again from within a Terminal?
I've got a 1999 Blueberry clamshell iBook an I want to get it up and running agin. I'm wondering if I can get Mac OS 9 or OS X on it and more importantly where I could buy the software.
I'm looking to optimize scanning with OSX's native scanner. Ideally I would like it to be able to produce a multi-page black & white pdf that is under 1MB in size, however, I can't figure out a way to make this happen.
I have several Mac OS X 10.5.8 editing bays, each with at least one additional internal drive, most sized 500GB-1TB. All Macs are also sharing a NAS Isilon cluster 100TB (nfs mount) for shared media etc. Seems like each workstation is running Spotlight ad-infinitum, no matter what exceptions (or none) I add into the list. On one box in particular I stopped the service in Acivity Monitor, only for it to re-spawn few secs later. I added ALL drives to exceptions list (including startup volume), Spotlight stops, but has no index of anything. I remove the startup volume, Spotlight starts and will go on indefinitely (msg says -2183764923 hours left)(15 minutes when it restarts, then just grows). SO the issue is with that volume, but what? Activity Monitor indicates 0.0 CPU for mdworker, 0.0 for Spotlight. When I kill and restart, Spotlight goes to 0.8 CPU with 18 threads and mdworker remains at 0.0 with 4 threads Open Files and Ports yields: Sampling yields: Total number in stack (recursive 
I want to use 2 external monitors along with the MacBook Pro as one Monitor to the left of Macbook Pro, the other one on the right, with Macbook Pro in the middle. Is it possible to do that? How to achieve that? My Intel Graphics is: Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
The industry standard of protection solutions seems to be the Moshi PalmGuard. What I don't like about it is that it's permanent: you stick it onto the machine. It promises to come off without a trace, but I would still prefer a solution that I can put in place, and remove whenever I want.
When I click on the tab Purchases in the Mac App Store, I'm missing purchases that I've never removed. How can I get them back to show in the purchase history?
I'm using lightroom 3 on mac. Not long ago I did save to catalog (I don't know what it does) and apparently I didn't select all the photos I have changed.
I have a setup at home, where I have a laptop permanently connected to a screen, and another laptop that I take to work with me. Recently, I've started doing a lot of work using both machines at once - with the independent laptop sat underneath the major screen.
Is there a way to access Journals publish by iOS iPhoto, directly from icloud.com, without knowing the link already. Currently I have to "share the link with a friend" before I can access it on icloud.com, even though I have already synced it to icloud.
So, I started up my computer a couple days ago, and OS X reported that my Time Machine Drive had some damage and that I could view files, but not copy anything to the drive. After verifying with disk utility, I learned that the drive has an Invalid Node structure, meaning I have to reformat the drive. But here's where the problem comes in: Before I can reformat, I need to backup all the information on the drive. Time Machine uses symbolic links, so I can't just copy with the finder. I can't use Disk Utility's restore feature to copy everything on the drive to another drive, since that will also copy the damage (I know, I tried it...). I tried using the cp -R command in terminal, which I think will not copy the hard links properly, but it started giving me permission errors.
I have an iPhone 4 (Verizon, Model MD146LL) and I just upgraded from iOS 5.0.1 to iOS 5.1 (9B176) using Settings > General > Software Update. Immediately after completing the update, I noticed that my phone did not make the unlock sound as I unlocked my phone. "Oh, the volume must be down", I thought. So, I made sure my mute switch was off and pressed the + button to increase the volume. Unfortunately, I was greeted by the empty ringer volume popup:
I'm playing with the idea of installing an iPad in my car. Ideally, I'd like to save the storage space for video and buy a smaller model, so I'm wondering if there is a way to play the music I have on my iPhone on an iPad via streaming or an app or other means?
After a few kernel panics and an accidental hot-unplugging of my Firewire Time Machine drive, I'd like to make sure that my Time Machine exactly matches my Macintosh HD, much like rsync -a. Is there a way to force Time Machine to do a deep traversal to check that the backup matches? Knowing how to do this on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion would be useful.
I can use Automater to change the wallpaper of the current "space" im in, but I can't tell it to change another space. Any thoughts?
I don't like using the built-in iSight camera as I want to adjust the angle etc. Do external web cams still work with MacBooks with built-in camers? I have a MacBook Pro 13" with Snow Leopard
I need a high quality EXTERNAL web cam - what specs should I look for on the box? Mac Book Pro OSX Snow Leopard
I found numerous instructions to set SBFakeCarrier in com.apple.springboard plist but this doesn't seem to work with iOS Simulator 5.0. Is there any way to change the carrier name in the simulator?
The only thought that occurred to me is to reset the device but I don't want to do this just yet. How do I go about deleting the folder from my photos without touching the other data (e.g. Emails, Messages, etc) on my iPod Touch?
I want to buy an iPad charger for in my car. I have one now for my iPhone, but he won't charge my iPad. I know batteries use mAH to denote capacity, so are chargers rated by mAH or some other measure? What kind of specifications do I need to charge my iPad in my car at a normal speed (equal when connecting to the power network).
We are using a software in window environment which provides the following feature to prevent a data leak. This software is protecting a folder which contains a lot of AI and PS file in window enviroment. This software protect the file in the following way: Passive encryption when file is saved so the file can't be opened in other computer if the whole harddisk is stolen. Prevent unauthorized USB access the file is prohibited to copy to any external storage. Limit the file access only in intranet, if the computer can't connect to intranet the file can't be opened. In window, the software is based on Minifilter which is a Microsoft Technology Can someone suggest a similar Data Leak Prevention software for mac OSX?
I wonder if Apple still delivers new version of safari for PowerPC-based macs. On that computer, I'm stuck with firefox 3.6.28. Is Safari still updated on PPC system updates?
How do you remove purchased songs from an iPhone when it is connected to iTunes?
Where can I find the apps installed on the iOS Simulator? I am running Xcode 4.3.1. I have found the location of the simulator at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app but for the life of me I can't find the installed apps.
I've sent DVD+R DL to a bunch of PowerPC G4/G5 users and some said the disk was ejected after few seconds.
I'd like to have my recent files at hand from my dock, preferably via a 'stack'. I have already created a Smart Folder containing all my files that have been opened in the last 3 days and added it to the dock. However, I can not change the display mode: it is only there as a shortcut that opens a new Finder window. Is there any way to change this behavior?
I have the following (already given) scenario: The primary question is - how to setup IMAP and SMTP server on the Lion for the "mydomain.com". Lion suggesting to use the ".private" domain for the server not directly in the internet, but in the mail-server config i shoudl enter domain for what i need handle emails - so i'm confused a bit...
You can store up to 25,000 songs in iCloud (more if songs are purchased from the iTunes Store), but only what you want to play is stored on your device. So you have immediate access to a huge music library without taking up storage space. I was under the impression that this means (my interpretation):
I haven't found a definitive action that always causes a crash. They occur sporadically, but they occur most often when I am trying to purchase or upgrade an item in the App Store. How can I discover what causes the crashes?
When I plug an external monitor into my MacBook (Air, Pro... it doesn't matter), I can change the monitor's settings (resolution for example) and Mac OS X saves the configuration for the next times I plug it. Is there anyway I can reset those settings? Any file to delete?
Using the same iPad for testing and casual browsing makes the handling of the Mobile Safari Debug Console a little annoying. Is there any way to enable it on demand (ie on my test sites), without turning it on for all sites?
Is there a way for iTunes to have multiple distinct libraries? The actual problem I'm looking to solve with this question stems from my desire to use iTunes Match. It would appear that I can't use this service because my library currently has approximately 32,000 songs.
I am using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) version 3.5.1 and I want to add computers to the list. I have several virtual machines running on an VMWare ESXi host. VMWare enables screen sharing via VNC but with different ports for different VMs. So I have this: I am able to connect to each of those VMs via
in /var/root/.bash_profile, insert [ -r /var/root/.bashrc ] && . /var/root/.bashrc put my aliases in /var/root/.bashrc
I have a setup with Mac and Windows clients. The Mac users use Apple Mail and all users have an HTML signature with images. When a Mac user replies to an email the text from the initial message becomes an attachment with the name: untitled attachment001.html and the image from the signature becomes an attachment with the name: PastedGraphic.pdf.
It is a well known story about the origin of the QWERTY keyboard. For those who don't know what I am talking about: QWERTY is built on purpose to be not easy to type. I figured that no one stops me from rearranging my keyboard to one of the more efficient layouts. Before I do that, any advice or warning?
Prior to Lion, I can go to Keyboard and there is a nice little checkbox, then I can get my F1-F12 key back. How do I do this in Lion ?
I have a weird problem. A few keyboard combinations seem to have stopped responding. Among others Option-8 and Option-9 do not work. In fact everything from Option-3 to Option-0 do not work. Option-shift-8 etc. works fine though.
What I'm looking for is a way to use Vi-style keybindings throughout OS X, similar to how invoking: $ set -io vi in a Terminal will give Vi-style keybindings when using the shell. I'm guessing this doesn't exist but it would be awesome if it did! If it doesn't exist, anyone have an idea on how it could be approached using OS X's Cocoa APIs?
I'm looking at buying some extra RAM for my mid-2011 (?) MBP. OWC says that I can handle up to 16GB (2x8), though I might elect to go with "only" 8GB.
If a friend sends to me an address in a SMS or IMessage, for example "I am at 123 Main St" can I send that to the Map app to get directions there?
We got an iPad not long ago, and I noticed that the so-called "Mute" switch doesn't mute the sound for all apps. I am aware of the iPhone mute switch dilemma, but what exactly does the mute switch on the iPad do? Is it like the iPhone's mute switch or is it different?
I attempted twice to migrate my iMac (2006) to my iMac (2009), first via wireless and second via LAN. The connection was interrupted both times, but the second time left it unable to 'resume from previous migration'. Then, I figured that I would avoid interruptions by using a firewire cable instead, so I tried it all over again that way, but the target computer is now incorrectly reading that that source computer has '0.0GB', thus making the migration impossible. Both computers are running Snow Leopard, and both have an updated version of Migration Assistant. Can anyone provide some insight as to what happened and, if so, help me get this done?
Looking for an OS X add-on that will enable Windows-like (one-click) functionality for switching between different windows of a single application. Example: I have 5 maximized Chrome windows open, and wish to switch to a specific window. My current options are Exposé, the "Window" file menu, and Cmd-`. None of them are ideal because they take more than one click to execute, which is why I miss the taskbar in Windows. (For those of you unfamiliar with the taskbar, it displays a list of all your system-wide open windows similarly to how tabs are displayed in modern browsers. So basically, I want to see a list of all of my open windows, and be able to toggle between them with a single click.
I just plugged in my iPod Nano to upload my last few workouts to Nike. When iTunes started it said there was a new version that I agreed to upgrade to, and part of the upgrade required quitting iTunes. Now my last 4 workouts are not uploaded to Nike+. Is it possible to get those workouts uploaded, or are they lost forever?
I have a lot of users in my household (6 total + guest). Is there a way to wrap or stack the user icons rather than having them scroll off the right part of the screen?
From the release notes for Safari 5.1.4: Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing What? Doesn't that mean, to give an example, that if I go to Amazon in Private Browsing mode, Amazon will still know who I am, and all the things that I look at will appear as "recently visited" when I go to Amazon later (even on a completely different computer)? If so, what good is Private Browsing mode? Am I missing something here?
I'm looking for an application that can run on the background and would monitor my average words per minute as I go about my day. At the end of the day (or week) I want to see a recap of my performance and the features that I am expecting it to have are: My WPM Total number of words I typed.
In iPad there's a nice "Home screen pinch" gesture where pinching with four or more fingers acts as the home screen button. This could be useful for me on my iPhone 4 as well, since the home screen button sometimes does not react well. I am aware that for jailbroken phones it is possible (and easy to use). Is it also possible on non-jailbroken phones? (Just upgraded to 5.1).
I'm looking for an app on the App Store but I forgot its name. It is a calculator app that looks like it has been written on a noteblock. You can store the solutions of calculations as quasi-variables and then reuse them later on. I know it's available for the Mac and all iOS devices. Does anyone know what app this is?
On Lion 10.7.3, when trying to empty the Trash from the GUI the items to be deleted are counted, and the the dialog doesn't progress anymore:  Stopping emptying the Trash doesn't help much either: the only thing changing is the status on the dialog that now reads Stopping... It's reported that resetting the PRAM does the trick, and I know that I can just force the removal from the CLI, but can somebody help me understand why this is happening and how to fix it?
As some of you might know, the iOS treatment of app icons is ruthlessly strict. It forces a certain roundness of the corners and allows no transparency, hence enforcing a unified look. I think that's nice. I recently fell in love with Iconfactory's Flurry icon set and making new icons in that style made me think; what's the easiest way of applying a mask and an overlay on a custom image, and generate all sizes needed for a complete OS X icon file (icns)?
I have 3.3 gigs of space in the "other" category on my 16 gig iPad. The space for "other" has grown over time. I've synced. I've powered down. I've turned all running apps off. How do I reclaim this used space that I'm not using?
I'm running Mac OS X (think it's Snow Leopard - 10.6.7) on a Mac mini. I'm trying to connect remotely from an iMac (this has been working fine in the past, for some time). When I click "Share Screen..." in finder on the iMac, I (eventually) see the server's desktop, but it appears to be frozen. However, I've managed to determine (from closing the window and sharing screen again, on repeat) that it IS actually receiving input, just not updating the display. I can ssh into the server, but how can I restart the screen sharing service?
I'd like to backup photos taken on my dSLR camera on SD cards. Can I use a USB adapter to copy an SD card into the iPod's local memory, then attach a different SD card and copy the files to that?
Is not it ridiculous that every time you want to uninstall a program you have to google for some magical tricks "Delete files A,B,C in you /Library, run a .sh script from console, etc". Why Microsoft managed to create a simple and effective way for uninstallation via Control Panel and Apple did not ?
I have a Windows7 64-bit machine attached to a 27" iMac as an external displayport monitor It's working well, except I cannot adjust the brightness. I have attached a Mac keyboard both on the Mac & Windows side to gain access to the brightness controls, with no luck. As soon as I switch to display target mode, the screen jumps to full brightness, and cannot be controlled from the keyboard on either platform. I have searched the web but have not found the answer: *=URL=* *=URL=* https://superuser.com/questions/60145/how-do-i-use-a-new-27-imac-as-an-external-pc-monitor-with-full-2560x1440-resolu
Finder's Open/Save File dialog is actually very dumb (in terms of flexibility). When I look for a file or its location, I can probably find it much faster using Alfred.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008) that's currently running 10.7.3. I've been finding that it will intermittently freeze and then I have to shut down and restart the computer, but sometimes that will not fix the problem. If I plug in an external mouse and keyboard, then I can move the cursor and type again, but as soon as I remove them, the problem persists.
Is there an easy way to keep playing YouTube videos in the background, even if I switch to a different app? I'm not interested in using the Safari multitasking trick. I want something super easy to use.
I have a directory that is behaving very strangely, perhaps it got corrupted. I can move the directory freely, either in Finder or terminal (I'm running Mac OS X Lion). But any query on the 'internals' of the folder (ls, rm, du, etc...) hangs. Not just fails, but I can't even kill the process with ^C, I need to force quit the terminal app and restart the app. Any thoughts on what's happening and how to fix it?
How can .wav files be created on an iPhone or iPad? I want to customize the sounds that Outlook for Windows plays when certain events occur and it would be nice if I could make .wav files on a mobile device and transfer them back afterwards.
My work (Exchange) email signature has text formatting and a photo in it, as I'm sure many do. Does anyone know of a way to enable Apple Mail like signature customization in iOS? My iPhone is jailbroken, so if you have a jailbreak solution that works I'm good with that.
My company recently upgraded my laptop to OS X Lion and was pre-installed with iPhoto purchased under a different Apple ID. I have my own purchased version so wanted to update the app, but it asked for the other user's password.
I have been playing around with the View → View Options in Finder and I must have touched something crtitcal because now whenever I click on a folder in Finder it automounts a disk image located on my external hard drive. The image is located in /Volumes/elements/App/myapp.dmg.
My 15" Macbook Pro (Early 2011) has always had a problem where when I open the lid to wake it from sleeping the backlight doesn't turn on. I can easily turn it on by changing the brightness, which leads me to believe it is a software problem. It isn't a huge problem, just a minor annoyance, but I'm paranoid about backlights ever since I had to replace my old MacBook due to a faulty inverter cable which caused the backlight to not turn on.
How can I view a list of devices that are connected to my Apple laptop via Internet Sharing (when it's enabled)? If a list doesn't exist, does Internet Sharing log DHCP requests and if so, where? Thanks.
I recently upgraded to Lion and I tried to FTP into it from another Mac, but I couldn't. I went to System Preferences>Sharing and could only find AFP and SMB sharing. How do I enable FTP sharing in Lion?
Does Mac mini hardware support multiseat configurations? I don't think os x supports it, but assuming I used ubuntu or fedora, are their any hardware limitations?
My dock is positioned on the right. As I launch/quit/minimize applications, the width of the dock is always changing. This behavior either makes the dock overlap my maximized windows (maximized via Divvy), or it leaves a gap between right side of a window and the dock. Is there a way to lock the size of the Dock so that it doesn't change regardless of the number of icons on it?
For me, this would be the best of both worlds. I don't live in an area with LTE yet, but given the rollout pace from Verizon and AT&T it's very likely that Verizon will get to my area long before AT&T will. However, currently, I get pretty good AT&T 3G coverage on my iPhone, and it's significantly faster than Verizon's network. So my idea is to get the Verizon iPad but use the AT&T 3G if I can, until I get Verizon LTE coverage in my area (or I visit an area with Verizon LTE). Would this work?
I have started a Perl script from the terminal that runs in the background: If I logout, will it stop my script from running? Thanks!
my first question on AskDifferent! (let me know if I'm doing it wrong.) Anyway, I'm trying to install octave using brew and am getting the following error but unsure how to proceed:  ~/ brew install octave ==> Installing octave dependency: cmake ==> Downloading *=URL=* Error: SHA1 mismatch Expected: f218ed64ce6e7a5d3670acdd6a18e5ed95421d1f Got: 3a57f6f44186e0dba34ef8b8fb4a9047e9e5d8a3 Archive: /Users/Billy/Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.7.bottle.tar.gz (To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)  ~/ Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best, B
I have an iPod Touch and an iPad and use one iTunes account to manage them. Recently there is little space in my MacBook and it turns out there are too many apps that I already removed from my iDevices but still stay in iTunes. I took it for granted that I can remove all of them in iTunes and those still on my iDevices will be copied back to iTunes when I sync it next time.
I would like to daisychain a monitor through an external hard drive, using Thunderbolt. Are there any hard drives with an additional Thunderbolt port? Preferably compact and affordable. I would also be interested in an external HDD/SSD enclosure with the extra daisy-chaining port.
So we are having a problem right now regarding the Lion Server and streaming podcast. We already did the steps on technical note TS4126 and now we can play the podcasts made from podcast producer on the server's webpage on Safari on MAC OS X. The problem we're having right now is that we can't play it on Safari on iPad, and on iPhone (via a mobile-format webpage version) the Podcast page isn't even available. My question is that is it possible to stream podcasts from the Lion server to the iPhone or iPad, or is it even possible to view the podcasts via a different method?
Is the 3rd generation iPad carrier locked in the US to either Verizon or AT&T? Can you swap out SIM cards between Verizon and AT&T?
I want to know if anyone have also encountered this. We can connect to Profile Manager using one of our iPads (server.website.com/mydevices), but we can't connect using the rest of the iDevices we have. There are no difference between that iPad and the rest of the iDevices that we have, so we're wondering on what went wrong. The error is that the browser can't find the page. This is a big problem for us because we can't enroll the devices in Profile Manager.
I understand that private is an Exchange concept, but I was hoping Apple would have implemented this feature since they are making use of ActiveSync. If the option is available it is certainly not obvious from the calendar creation screen. A bit of cursory searching turned up this whiny Apple forum thread, but alas no solution. On the iPhone is it possible to create calendar appointments that are marked as private?
Do any carriers allow for FaceTime video and/or voice calls to pass over normal data channels directly from an iOS device? If not, what alternatives exist short of jail breaking or other gray solutions that would run afoul of the current policies of the cellular carriers? (for example WiFi devices that in turn use 3G / 4G for their connectivity)
A technical told me about the EFI partition that... ...it's only there in case your computer will do an EFI update so the update files can be loaded onto the EFI partition. This is consistant with what Wikipedia says:
I use ² and ³ a lot in e-mails. When using my Belgian Windows keyboard and a custom keymap it was easy to type this in Mac OS X as I assigned the appropriate key.
I just got the new iPad, and since I backed up my old iPad using iCloud, I restored from the iCloud backup. After restore, it restarted and began downloading all the apps.
I have an old MacBook Pro (late 2006) and he won't boot anymore. He fell down the table and ever since, he's not working anymore. When I try to boot him, the hard drive and the fans starts spinning, but after a few seconds everything is shut down with a "loud" click. Here is what I've tried: Reinsert the Ram Replacing the RAM with new ones Used the RAM in another Mac, works just fine Unchained the hard drive and used an other one Used the hard drive in another Mac and PC, works just fine Resetting everything you can (PRAM, SMC,...) Calling Apple Support won't do much since the warranty has expired like 4 years ago.
I've been trying to use an Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard with my Windows 7 PC (My own build, not Apple hardware). If I stop typing for as few as 10-15 seconds, when I start typing again and if I type continuously, there is a lag of 3-5 seconds before the text shows up on the screen. If I type a few keystrokes and then stop, nothing happens. However once I start typing again, all of the previous keystrokes are sent at once.
Recently, whenever I want to buy something from the iOS App Store or update my existing apps, I get the usual password dialog, but after a second that disappears and I see the following alert:  After clicking OK and then entering my password the app installs just fine (and gets billed correctly). Strangely sometimes the apps mentioned in the Unable to Purchase alert get marked as Waiting... on the homescreen, even though there are no updates for them. When this happens I am unable to start those apps, until later, when it magically disappears again. This happens on both an iPhone 4S and an iPad 2, running iOS 5.1.
I saw a video about the new iPad and it showed that you could disable LTE.  Apple had to increase the battery capacity in the new iPac because upgrades like LTE and the new display draw significantly more power. What's the battery life of the new iPad 4G with LTE disabled/enabled? Apple's product specs are unspecific: "Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using cellular data network."
I do not want to update my iPhone 3gs to new iOS 5.1. How can I remove this notification showing all the time on the Settings images. Please look at the image.
In iPhoto '11 (latest version, on Mac OS Lion), can I make a smart album for all photos of a certain size (e.g. 960x640)? Can I make a smart album containing photos of multiple sizes?
So I have this large cardboard box full of hundreds of cassette tapes with music I absolutely positively had to buy in the 1980s and '90s. If I wanted to listen to the music contained on those tapes on my iPod, I imagine I could follow a process something like this: Put new batteries in my old Walkman® Put new batteries in my old Walkman® Connect some sort of cable between the headphone jack on my Walkman and the audio jack on my mid-2011 MacBook Air Connect some sort of cable between the headphone jack on my Walkman and the audio jack on my mid-2011 MacBook Air Play tapes on the Walkman and record the incoming music on the MacBook Air using some sort of software. Play tapes on the Walkman and record the incoming music on the MacBook Air using some sort of software. Use iTunes Match to upgrade the quality of the resulting audio files. Use iTunes Match to upgrade the quality of the resulting audio files. Put the iTunes Match audio files onto my iPod. Put the iTunes Match audio files ont
I have the original 2010 iPad 3G, and when I purchased it I also got a SIM card for Rogers 3G data service here in Canada. Can I simply remove the 3G SIM card from my original 2010 iPad, and insert it into my new 2012 iPad when it arrives? i.e. is it compatible and will my data plan continue to operate as before, but on the new iPad?
I have the latest version of the Mac Mini with the updated software on my Apple TV 2. It can see my Mac Mini but when it try to access it's information with iTunes open I says it is loading but eventually errors out. I can ping successfully from my Mac Mini to the Apple TV. I have the latest version of iTunes.
I tried F2 on OS X and that didn't work. I also tried Enter, which can be used to in-line edit file names in Finder, but that didn't work either :-/ I'm interested in renaming files with the keyboard only because I have a ton of songs imported with "Artist Name - Song Name" titles to correct.
How can I remove an individual name from a Group on the Autofill feature of Mail? I can remove the individual from the Group in Contacts, but when I use the same Group to create a new email, it keeps adding the removed address anyway!
I have a third generation iPod classic from 2005 (20GB). Nothing catastrophic has happened to it, but it has sat in a box in the basement for the past two years. When it went into the box, it worked, but now when I push the power button, nothing happens. When I plug it in to a charger (even when I leave it for an extended period of time), I don't see anything happening. Is there either anything useful I can do with this device or the parts it contains, anything useful I can do with this device or the parts it contains, anyone else who could benefit from my donating it to them, or anyone else who could benefit from my donating it to them, or a responsible way to dispose of it? a responsible way to dispose of it?
This question about converting cassette music for an iPod inspired me to ask: Can the iTunes Match service provided by Apple recognize songs recorded from an analog source, such as recording via analog line-input from a cassette player, an LP turntable, or any other device's line-out .. say, even FM radio?
I have a new MacBook Pro 13 inch 2.4GHz and I am noticing that the start up timeis about 60 seconds from power on to launching Safari. Is this an average start up time?
If one holds down Option and Control whilst clicking an icon in the Dock, the resulting menu contains a Hide Others command, such that only the clicked application is visible on screen. This is helpful when making a presentation, recording a screencast, or in other circumstances. The one problem is that the programs running in the background can still generate errors, etc., that might awkwardly cause them to reappear during the screencast, presentation, etc. Would it be possible to create some sort of command (or Service, or something) to "Quit Others" -- that is, a command that would quit all applications except the frontmost one?
When opening a new tab in safari while not browsing in full-screen mode, the safari window expands, in order to preserve the content of the webpage shown. I think this is quite annoying, is there a way to prevent this?
I use a Logitech MX310 Optical Mouse. It has 6 buttons and I think it's the greatest mouse ever invented and I own a few (one is at the office). What I especially like are the back and forward buttons.
When I try to load footage onto final cut pro, it says that i do not have enough disc space. Before I start loading, I have 320 GB of free space. In total, I am trying to load 5 hours of footage. What can be the problem?
Each time I open System Preferences, I authenticate and turn on Enable Location Services. The check box appears to turn on, but if I close System Preferences and look, it's off again. When this happens, this is logged: What do I need to do to turn on Location Services?
Is there any version of the game Civilization that will run reasonably well on a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air (1.7 gHz core i5; 4GB RAM) that shipped with Lion but now runs Mountain Lion? PowerPC software won't run on Lion or Mountain Lion, and the graphics performance might preclude the latest releases, but is there any version modern enough to work with Lion/Mountain Lion but old enough that the graphics on an MBA will handle it?
I'm going to get an SSD, making that my boot drive and moving the existing hard drive to the optical drive bay. I will keep my data on the original hard drive. MacPerformanceGuide.com says "If the Boot drive is a fast SSD, moving the home directory can be self-defeating for performance."
My machine is booting fine, but it acts funny in the Disk Utility. First, an overview of my disk: 0: GUID_partition_scheme (*250.1GB / disk0) 1: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD (230.0 GB / disk0s1) 2: Apple_Boot Recovery HD (650.0 MB / disk0s5) 3: EFI (209.7 MB / disk0s4) However if I attempt to "Verify Disk" on my disk (not on a specific partition) via the Disk Utility the following error is shown:
Suddenly, this morning, I open a Terminal window and I get this: ** I am not a number! I am a human being! **
This question is an extension of Daniel L.'s question and my own question. I upgraded to Lion after asking my question. I'd like to be able to view emoji in Chrome when using Lion. So stuff like this: I'd like to be able to see in Chrome. How do I do this? If possible, I'd like to use the system font that's already included on OS X Lion.
Sadly, I also understand the MacBook Air does not enjoy this dual-purpose audio output port. I tried, and I checked the specs, and I was disappointed it is simply plain analog stereo. So, what I'd like to know is:
I've found lots of videos on how to eject the SIM card holder from an iPad 2, but the location is different on the New iPad, and no matter whether to put the pin in parallel to the screen surface, or at the sort of angle shown on the card that holds the SIM eject tool, I just can't seem to make the the card holder actually eject! I haven't yet been able to find any video demos online, yet, for the new iPad. I'd appreciate any tips, to avoid my breaking it.
If I created a service using Automator, how can I delete it if I no longer want it?
Does Mac OS X support running digital signals to multichannel audio systems beyond 2.1 sound systems via optical audio outputs. Eg 5.1 surround sound, 7.1, etc speaker systems?
I bought an iPad 2 and Apple smart cover last year, before they updated them and got rid of the orange color. Now I'm thinking of upgrading to the new iPad, will my Smart cover work on the new iPad or do I have to shell out another $40 for a new one?
I want to copy just my music (not films/tv/etc, so I cant just move the iTunes folder) on to dropbox, so I can listen to it from anywhere for free, but without copying the music as my hard drive space is becoming limited and I don't want to have to recopy everything, everytime I add a new track). Is there anyway to make Dropbox include the music folder inside the Dropbox folder? If you create a shortcut in the dropbox folder it will just sync the shortcut itself, can I make the shortcut actually be the music folder?
In itunes (latest for for windows) can you set podcast download location on disk to a different location that just the media folder set in preferences?
I live and work in the UK, but I am in the US for 2 weeks, and was wondering if I buy the new iPad from the Apple Store here in the States, will I be able to replace the AT&T or Verizon SIM with an O2 or T-mobile (UK mobile carriers) SIM? Or are the iPads sold by the Apple Store locked to US based carriers?
With AirDrop it seems that my MacBook Pro can have multiple Wifi Connections, so can I connect my iPhone to my Macbook at the same time as the macbook is connected to a Time Capsule's Wifi network. I have both 5GHz and 2.4GHz Wifi in my house, and the 2.4GHz only just reaches my room, whereas the 5GHz signal is much better. Sometimes my iPhone cant connect to the 2.4GHz network without moving closer to the base station. Is it possible to use my MacBook as an extender, so that my phone can connect to the Macbook and then use it's 5GHz connection, and it won't drop out and become unconnectable?
My iPhone 4S doesn't show in the left column in iTunes. I'm running iTunes 10.6. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
I'm using Maverick (a offline mapping application) on my Android device which has thousands of files in the tile cache with a size of 168 byte. The SD card is formatted with a file allocation unit size of 32 KB. This results for each file in a huge waste of space:
To find details about a files size, you can right click and select "Get Info":  When I select a large number of files, and want to get information about all if them together as a single selection, such as the combined total size, I get the same window for every individual selection, and not a single view for the selection as a whole. How can I get total file sizes for file/folder selections?
The Dictation feature on iPad (3rd generation) insists that Clare is spelled Claire, and I have been unable to find a way to correct this, other than manually placing the cursor, which is fiddly and rather defeats the point. I have looked online for tips, and have not found any useful information so far. There is this Apple page iPad (3rd generation): Using Dictation, that has a very short "Dictation tips" section, but it currently only covers selection of different languages. Is there any way to have control over the vocabulary, or spelling, of the Dictation feature?
I have an iPhone 4S, and I recently upgraded to Spotify Premium (it's awesome) and want to clear all the music off my iPhone (through the normal iPod app). Thing is, I use iTunes Match so plugging into iTunes won't let me wipe it all out - and there are a lot of artists that I want to delete - it would take a long time. Is there any way to expedite the process?
There have been a number of questions for removing the muted sidebar icons and replacing them with the older coloured versions. It's well documented that the coloured versions still happily exist and can be seen by simply looking in the Go menu of the finder app.
I recently found out about the "Stationery Pad" feature of the Finder in OS X. For those who are not familiar with it, it allows you to select a file (usually a document of some sort) and in the Get Info window tick the Stationery Pad button. This allows you to use the file as a template for future files which will be based on this one. In essence when you have a file that is marked in this way, when you double click the file instead of opening it it will create a copy of the file, called your-original-filename copy and then immediately save it in the same folder as the template file you double clicked on. This is incredibly useful, but has a couple of annoying features: It puts the copy file in the same location It immediately saves the file with a name that you are guaranteed to want to change
I created a service using Automator and I'd like to assign a keyboard shortcut to it. How do I do this?
the rubber-like material sticking out a bit at the edges made the case absorb some of the shock of a side-impact drop (helpful if you have a four-year-old .. though she's five now and is more careful!), it is tight fitting, and it could be cleaned easily. I already tried putting my new iPad into the old iPad case/cover, and some things don't line up (power button, notably), and it's lacking the camera hole at the back, and it's no longer a tight fit since the new iPad is slimmer.
I can nslookup and dig an internal hostname, and I get a rapid response, but I cannot ping or ssh to the server. All external hostnames work fine for both ping, ssh, dig or nslookup.
I am given the option to download a US Letter or A4 formatted PDF - Which fits the iPad screen better?
Most of my older gear with belt carrying cases have a closed loop. In all but one (shoddy) iPhone case I've seen, there is no closed loop, only a clip that can slide off. Are there any iPhone holsters/carrying cases which have an old-fashioned closed loop or other hardware that would prevent the case from accidentally sliding up and off my belt?
I am wondering if the increase in weight and thickness throws off the dock connector or the alignment / balance of the iPad dock connector. I am asking about the part MC940ZM/A which is listed as the iPad 2 dock on the bottom sticker - but everywhere else says iPad dock without reference to which generation.
I'm trying to import the m4a files that iTunes synchronized from the Voice Memo app, but the files are not showing up in the GarageBand app in iOS when I open it. Any idea how to import these sound files?
Basically, it's still in great condition, and is a 32gb ipod. Everything works, except that the wifi is grayed out and doesn't work, at all, ever. Is there any way to fix this? I read somewhere that it was because it has iOS 5 on it, which doesn't like 2nd gen ipods. Would anyone know if this is possible to fix in any way, such as downgrading the OS or an even newer update?
Is there any way to automatically sort all apps across all screens?
I can't seem to find a straight answer to this. Do I have to authorize iOS apps I have purchased on my iOS devices to run on other iOS Devices? For example I have an app that I bought on my iPhone - can I sign into my friends iPad, re-download it, and then sign out (of the iTunes store) and use and update the perfectly? Or do I have to authorize it in some way?
I have discovered that some personal contacts that I'd created (using the iPhone's built-in Contacts app) were created in the Exchange (business) group. How can I move them over to the "From My Mac" contacts? (Preferably into one of the Address Book Groups that I've created there.) And how can I prevent this from happening in the future (perhaps by specifying which group to use when creating a contact)?
I'm looking to do some light recording of voice conversations and field recordings on my iPad using the built in microphone. GarageBand seems to be the obvious Apple solution, but is too heavy for my needs. By the time I set up a new project, turn off the metronome, etc..., I find myself wishing I just had Voice Memos running on my iPad. I don't mind paying for the app, but wondered what people are using for both light voice recording as well as longer and more numerous recording / light editing where some tagging and filing might be possible.
Suppose I have a graphic file (a .png, for instance), and I want to make that graphic the icon for another file or folder. Previously, I would copy the image to the clipboard (either in Preview, like in the instructions in this post or in the Get Info window in the Finder), then open the Get Info window for the target file, select the icon, and paste the image in as the new icon. In the past, this has worked for me.
I have a smart playlist that pulls the latest podcasts, however when I try to sync the playlist to my Shuffle 4th gen, nothing happens. Smart playlists with "normal" audio files, syncs fine. Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?
Needing to migrate an original iPad user to an iPad 2, I used the backup and restore mechanism in iTunes (on a PC) However, the following steps resulted in many of the apps being missing on the destination device: Backed up an original iPad to iTunes on a PC Factory-reset an iPad 2 Connected the iPad 2 to the same PC, and restored from backup
I fiddled with my $PATH and now it's not working correctly anymore. So I thought, well, just remove the last things I added. However, I can't seem to figure out how. I added things like so
For those of us who dabble in penguins and apples, it seems very worth while to be able to use /home paths either out of habbit or for those odd cases where the value may have been sync'd somewhere along the line in some file you use on both machines.
Is there a (non-brute-force) way to remove the clip-part of the iPod nano 6G? I find, I don't use it and it add clunkiness. Also it's a bit scratched since it's the only part not protected by a silicone wrapper.
Recently I moved from Russia to New Zealand. And now I'm experiencing an issue - all the applications I purchased in Russia cannot update here in NZ. I see there is a number in front of Apps in iTunes but when I click on "Check for Updates" it says that no updates are currently available. If I take my ipad and see the apps needed to update, after that download all the applications MANUALLY from app-store - it "solves" the issue. But I need to do that each time any application I've purchased being in Russia updates. It is really annoying. How can I solve the problem and get the automatic updates really automatic? There is a question here: iTunes shows App Updates Badge, but no updates are available with no answer though UPD: well, looks like there is no good solution... UPD 2: I was insistent enough in my emails to support and among 2 pages of other irrelevant lines this is what I see: I have regranted all available Apps back to your account as a one time exception. So, well, probably t
I mistakenly hit the 'x' button while editing a photo from the Camera Roll, and now I can't find the flagged menu to un-hide it as illustrated in the help. Fortunately the photo is still in my Camera Roll, so how do I get it back into the iPhoto app?
Since installed iTunes 10.6 on my MacBook whenever I update an app, the download is speedy but it is taking between 4 and 8 minutes in the indeterminate 'processing file' state. I've never seen this behavior before. What could be causing this?
The Macbook Pro speakers have a very crisp sound. I like to play them at almost max. volume very often. Will the speakers suffer a loss in quality? Will the speakers suffer a loss in quality? Is this save to use on the long run? Is this save to use on the long run?
TextEdit can read and edit all of the formats I need it to: Word 2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx), RTF, and TXT. The problem is that it seems to only be able to zoom in on some of them:
I've tried to save a pages document as a *.docx for Microsoft Office. Pages is able to open, edit and (auto-)save existing *.docx documents. However, there is no option to export or save a duplicate as *.docx? Is this a missing compability feature and are there plug-ins for pages to add that functionality?
A friend sent me a Voice Memo recorded on their iPhone, to mine through MMS. How might I go about getting this audio from my phone to my computer?
I would like to monitor who connects to my iMac's WiFi hotspot. I have protected it with a password, but WEP is easy to crack. Is there a utility for OS 10.7.3/Lion to see who is connected?
I have iMessage installed on my iPhone and both of my macs - but when I've read a message on my iPhone, it remains unread on both macs - although this does not happen the other way around. I get quite a few messages and its getting tiresome going through telling it I've read them - is there any way to force a sync between all the machines?
I just bought a Time Capsule, and the lack of modem is irritating, as this means I have to buy a seperate one which is another box, won't be as easy to set up and I have to choose one. Does Apple make a modem themselves, that can be used with a Time Capsule simply and easily? If they don't is there a suggested one for a Time Capsule? EDIT: I live in the UK, my ISP is TalkTalk and it is ADSL.
I have MacBook that was running Lion. On a journey into finding the perfect operating system for me, I installed Arch Linux. Whilst doing this I wiped the disk (/dev/sda1) and created some Linux partitions. Now, for reasons beyond my control, I'm in need of some Mac OS capabilities.
I do heavy web development/web design and run my software on a MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) 2.8ghz model. I use Adobe products, run virtual machines in Parallels, have multiple browsers open, text editors and sometimes IDE's. That's how I typically use my machine. I'd like to upgrade my RAM and possibly get a larger capacity hard drive, but I'm not sure what brands to buy.
I use Spaces to organize the task I'm pursing. In that vein, I often will have a browser window on each Space, with open tabs relevant to that task that Space is used for.
I'm looking for an iOS program that can calculate some statistics for me. I want a program into which I can enter a bunch of observations, then the program uses multivariate linear regression (ordinary least squares) to find coefficients and standard errors for the line of best fit. I know of plenty of programs that do this on the Mac, but not any iOS programs.
Can the hourly backups by Time Machine be stopped? I'm on Lion and if it matters, each hour it tries to backup about 30GB (I don't know where this 30GB comes from, as today I've only modified a few text files and browsed the web). This results in the computer slowing down noticeable and beachballing more often. Or even better than stopping them completely change the hourlys to every 2-4 hours? It is backing up to a TimeCapsule, so I think the network might be the reason it is slowing down noticeable, that and it's a late 2008 MacBook Pro.
I have been delaying switching to iPhoto on OSX. A quick experiment had shown that the overhead (actual storage / bare file storage) is too high, although I do not have a concrete number to mention at this time.
Sometimes, I require a lot of bandwidth but do not want to disturb other's browsing experience. At the university I'm often connected to networks for multiple users which requires me to limit my download speed. How can I limit my download bandwith?
My iphone has ios version 4.3.5 (8L1). I want to jailbreak/unlock it. I see that the latest jailbreak is for version 5.0.1 (by redsn0w). Itunes only allows me to upgrade to the latest version which is 5.1. But if I do that the jailbreak would be undoable. Is there a way to upgrade to 5.0.1? If not, is there a jailbreak available for 4.3.5?
I'm trying to install the command line tools to get gcc, make, and other goodies after a Lion upgrade. I went to Preferences → Downloads in Xcode and attempted to install the command line tools. At the end of the installation, an error box appears with the following message: The package “BluetoothSDK.pkg” is untrusted. When I open up a terminal window and try to run gcc, the command is still not found. Does anyone know why the Apple Developer Tools installer is broken?
I had a few problems downloading a few tracks from the iTunes store direct to my phone. As a result I seem to have placeholder versions of the songs that will let me stream them but not play them. In the library they have a grey icon next to the song titles a circle with a small square inside, very much like a stop icon but it seems to do nothing. What is this icon and what does it indicate?
I've been using the new(ish) GarageBand on Lion for a month or so now. Early on, it prompted me to download instrument sample libraries and loops of around 1.5 GB which were not included in the initial installation. Then, it wanted a similarly-sized download to support iOS GarageBand files. I just recently found another download to enable more loops and MIDI voices. What is the total size of all of these extra downloads, and where do they go?
I've just bought a new iPad, but it's so annoying when I have to click the arrow on the top left of the page to navigate back and forth using Safari. I wonder is there a gesture for navigating that I'm not aware of?
I am looking to insert a special character or symbol into my documents, which are intended to be markdown formatted text files. The symbol is intended to be used to represent a tick box or other tick/cross visual symbol (either empty, or actually ticked). Examples provided below (inserted using Edit > Special Characters in Safari) ☐☑☒✓✕❏ Once I have used it in a file, I want the symbol to be readable regardless of whether I view the file through an app in either OS X or iOS, as well as capable of being inserted from any source including the iPhone keyboard What is the best method of ensuring consistent input and viewing of such characters works across the board, is there a particular font family or Unicode code that will enable portability across my devices, and is there a simple way to insert them, possibly via text expander or autocorrect if they are not on the main keyboard?
Sometimes I have to leave my phone in a hot car and don't have any other options other than leaving it in a locked car in the summer heat. What are ways to keep the phone cooler and not overheat it or worse cause damage to the batteries, etc.
Is there a simple way to determine what is using disk space on a Mac OS X installation? Obviously single files and directories is straightforward, but how about at a slightly higher level customisable overview for the whole of your drive? Is it possible to get a sort of "management overview" of your drive that for example shows % space used, and than breaks that down into something simple to understand like: Bonus points is there is a simple way to also track this information over time, for example: Obviously all figures are pulled out of a hat.
In any web browser in Mac OS X, how can I choose a drop-down form input box using the tab key? When I need to input many forms including a drop-down box, I preferred to use tab key and shift+tab to move between input elements in Windows systems. Why is it impossible in Mac, and how can I do it?
My specific need came from using a plaintext editor (Plaintext, although the issue is similar in IA Writer, Byword, etc.) where I can create new folders to organize my .txt docs, and I create new docs in them, but I can't move existing ones into or out of folders.
More and more of my favorite apps are beginning to include support for document syncing via iCloud. I like the idea of using iCloud to store my documents, but for several reasons I'm not ready to switch over completely from Dropbox.
The new iPad supports voice dictation for voice input, but apparently only sometimes. I understand that some things should not support it, such as password inputs and URLs, for example. What dictates (excuse the pun) where this functionality is offered, and where it is not?
When I save a document in any editing program, it pops up a save window where I can choose the desired save location by clicking folder names. Instead of mouse-clicks, I like to input the path name directly using keyboards. For example, when I want to save a document in the folder of \Users\myusername\Dropbox\myfoldername, I want to actually type it. when I want to save a document in the folder of \Users\myusername\Dropbox\myfoldername, I want to actually type it.
Does the the new iPad's voice dictation require a network connection? I ask because Siri does require an active network connection and I am wondering if voice dictation works in a similar manner.
I do mean stop, not pause. If one navigates to, say, the iTunes Store, the Pause button changes to Stop, but I want something that always works no matter my location in iTunes. Workarounds (such as AppleScript) are acceptable as long as they aren't too difficult to set up.
I've been enjoying March Madness from both my iPhone and iPad via the March Madness Live application. In fact I've enjoyed the app so much I purchased an Apple TV so I could watch games via AirPlay. Unfortunately, when I attempt to send the games to the Apple TV the commercials play but the games do not and instead the Apple TV just displays a spinning icon. Some quick Googling turned up the March Madness Live FAQ which contains this disappointing tidbit:
I currently have several thousand (15GB) photographs stored on a PC. I would like to move them all to the cloud somewhere and use the iPad to manage them - change names, put in folders, etc. I also want to be able to copy pictures from the iPad to my collection in the cloud. I'm not committed to where in cloudland I should store my pictures - maybe PicasaWeb, dropbox, Amazon S3, or something else. I'm happy to choose based on what would work the best with an iPad management app.
I tried using iTunes, but it only seems to have downloads for iPhone and iPad only. How can I get a version I can play on my iMac?
I had to restore my iOS 5.1 iPhone from iCloud after recieving a replacement. Many of the thumbnails for photographs are now black. Is there a way to regenerate them?
Is this key the same as shift? If so, why don't people just call it shift? I spent a long time looking around for what this key means. Google returned no results. My MacBook Air keyboard does not have this symbol either.
I have heard this as a factoid from somewhere, and I'd like verification of it before I use it as a factual piece of information. The new iPad (2012, 3rd generation) has a super high pixel count. Does this make for the highest resolution of comparable tablets on the market (i.e., those with similarly sized screens)?
Apple's website merely identifies it as a "5 megapixel iSight" camera. MacRumors claims that Apple is reusing older parts. I recall reading that the new iPad has a better camera than prior models, so I'm confused. Which one is it? Advanced optics or not?
I am trying to figure out how to change the Kotoeri Romaji keyboard layout to the Japanese default layout, using an external Apple US keyboard. I'm currently running OSX 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro 6,2. I live in Japan and purchased the laptop along with the OS in Japan. The default language for the OS is also set to Japanese.
I've just updated my wife's 3GS to iOS 5.1 from iOS 4. The restore seem to only restore the messages/photo roll and some other settings. I don't see most of the apps but the most important part is the contacts are missing. This is why I'm looking for the iPhone backup that iTunes creates before updating the software. I currently have tried the following: Turn off iCloud Turn on then off iCloud Adding a Contact Restoring from the last backup file(without timestamp) Reset to Factory defaults and restoring Copying from Sim (Has some older contacts, not the recent ones) Using iBackupBot to browse the backups (only iOS5 backups seem to be there)
I had approx 50Gb of Windows VMs on my MacBook Pro internal SSD (128Gb) (OS X 10.7.3). I copied them to an external drive, then deleted them from the internal drive, then emptied the trash. When I look at disk usage in Activity Monitor it shows the same level of usage as it did prior to deleting c 50Gb of files. Any ideas why the space hasn't been freed up?
I am planning to upgrade my late 2009 MacBook Pro (running Snow Leopard) by replacing the 250GB hard drive with a new 1TB drive. I have been maintaining Time Machine backups.
Is there any application or any way to make me unable to open a software on my Mac for a determined amount of time (a self-imposed block)? Why this? It's a poker software, and when things are going bad I want to exclude me from play for a certain amount of time (like 2 hours) to prevent the "tilt effect". Thanks in advance!
I'm considering buying VMWare Fusion 4. On vmware.com it's available for $49.99. MacUpdate is currently also offering a bundle which includes VMWare Fusion and 10 other apps, for a total price of $49.99 (MacUpdate Spring 2012 Bundle). I'm not particularly interested in any of the 10 other apps, but they might be nice to have. I'm wondering if there's a catch to this offer though. For example, I seem to remember that a similar bundle offered in the past didn't include the right to discounts when upgrading to future versions. So is buying VMWare Fusion through this bundle fully equivalent to buying it through VMWare.com?
If I use iPhoto for iOS to edit a photo from my photostream or one of the albums which is synched from my desktop iPhoto library, it shows up in a special "edited" album in iPhoto for iOS. Is there a way to have the edited version sent back to my computer? Or accessed from the iOS Photos app?
Ever since I installed osx and xcode on my new macbook (about a year ago) I got this weirdest problem I can't get rid of. Anytime I press Esc key in xcode, one character gets printed. I can't copy paste it here (it won't paste anything), but it looks like upside-down question mark. When I paste it to the Pages app, it looks like ordinary exclamation mark, probably because of different encoding or something.
I know that one of the big innovations in the MacBook Air was in the battery (which gets most of the internal volume of the computer!) What is a normal loss of battery life (change in usable time on battery starting from a full charge) for a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air? After how many charge cycles does one expect to see a substantial reduction in usable time? Is there any recommended course of action for someone to take to slow or reverse this degradation once it begins?
I have a MacBook with OS X Lion, and an iPad. I use IAWriter for keeping track of notes. In addition to standard file-based storage, it supports live syncing using iCloud.
I love the "Hot corners" concept. However, it happens very often that I trigger them accidentally.
I am under the impression that there are devices that can be attached to a regular parallel or USB printer which will enable network printing. With this in mind:
Can I download apps larger than 50MB while using Personal Hotspot? If so, isn't the limitation on iOS itself rather arbitrary? I can just use personal hotspot to download larger files to my computer and then sync them back over to my device. So, is this possible?
I've noticed that at various times, the status bar in SpringBoard will occasionally change colors. When using the Voice Memos app on iPhone, it will be red. While in a call, it's green. Using personal hotspot, I'm seeing a blue. Is there any significance to the colors, or is this a totally arbitrary choice by Apple?
I've gotten an new iPad with 4G (yay!) and I've set up the VPN connection to connect to a VPN which I'd like to use to connect to my computer. However, I've noticed that my once VPN is on, my iPad doesn't do much except show an indicator in the status bar.
I have a 2005 PowerBook running 10.5.8 that, in its previous life, was my personal, full time machine that I used all the way through graduate school. It has been relegated to very light duty in the past year, and serves its purpose well. There is one minor annoyance that I'd like to get rid of, but have been unsuccessful so far. The problem is this: it is on most of the day, every day, and roughly twice per day I get a pop up window asking me to select a drive for Time Machine backups. Like I said, this used to be my full-time Mac, and I backed it up regularly so this seemed (at first) to be an artifact of its previous use/state. I do not need to back this machine up anymore and therefore do not need Time Machine on. I cannot get it to stop this behavior. Here is what I have done so far:
I do not mind writing a program to remove Album Rating from wherever iTunes stores it, and based on Google searches such a tool would be popular. Is iTunes library format documented? Does iTunes generate Album Rating dynamically, so even if I were able to erase it from the disk, it would come back?
I recently invested in a digital surround sound system, and have been enjoying digital surround sound through the TOSlink port of my Macbook Pro (Mid 2010 and Late 2011 models). However, I've noticed that when I'm playing two-channel sound (for instance, spotify), three of my five speakers are silent.
Googling for terminal tweaks shows sites this one which show how to tweak OS X via the Terminal. Are there any Apple or exhaustive lists of these settings anywhere on the net?
I know that storing the iTunes library on a Time Capsule isn't recommended as it won't be backed up. But with iTunes in the cloud and iTunes Match this isn't as big a deal. So I figured I'd move my library to my Time Capsule.
When looking at an app's documents with iTunes (in the Apps tab of the iDevice), it is possible to view folders of the documents created by the apps. How can I look inside them? Double-clicking does nothing. Here's a screenshot showing what I mean:
I'll give a bit of back story so this makes more sense: I was pre installing and configuring some stuff for a family member's new Mac mini. It was shipped to my place so they haven't ever used it and in the process of setting things up I had to run iTunes and other included apps.
I want to watch my air broadcasted TV with VLC Player on a Mac. I have a standard European TV connection (free air-broadcasted TV), and I would guess I need some sort of USB TV tuner to connect the antenna cable to my Mac. Can I just buy any USB TV tuner, or do I need to get anything specific?
My friend purchased an iPhone 4 that cannot be unlocked so the store sold him a new cell phone service called H2O Wireless. You simply pop in the sim card and it works without needing any unlock or chip. Does anybody have a clue on how it works?
I am looking to collect a set of songs from my iTunes Library and build a custom playlist to eventually burn onto a CD. I want the songs to be in a specific order and have the same album title when burned onto the mix cd... but I want to preserve the original album titles and track #s from their albums of origin in my iTunes Library. Is there a preferred approach to the above scenario?
I was comparing the Twitter web app to the native app, and noticed a couple of differences in how they perform. I observed that scrolling was not as smooth in the browser as the native app, among a few other minor quirks. I believe the web app could perform just as fast if not faster in the web app version, so its hard to me to understand the difference. I believe WebKit is baked right into the core of iOS. Apple initially wanted to keep it as web apps only, but now I wonder if their focus shifted more towards native.
I went to my iPhone in iTunes, clicked the "Photos" tab at the top and selected a folder. After synching, that folder now has a subfolder "iPod Photo Cache" with one file "Photo Database" that is 892 bytes.
This may be a question for the developers of those apps, but I figure there may be a public API or something which I wasn't aware of, making this question on-topic. iOS apps and websites such as AppShopper and AppZapp have the ability to monitor changes to the App Store, such as price drops and updates. How can they do this?
I am looking for a remote desktop client to connect to both my Mac and PC. I would prefer not to install any software on the remote computers and just take advantage of the built-in protocols. What are some of the best remote desktop apps that you have tried?
Does the new iPad support higher resolution tapping, or just more pixels for display. Stylii and the existing iPad feel like writing with a big marker on a big index card. Will the new iPad feel more like pen-and-paper when using a stylus?
I know you can use ⌘+O to open a folder, however when you do that on an application it opens the application. Is it possible to either make ⌘+O always show the contents or is there another shortcut for that?
Why does the top of the keypad show an exorbitant amount of numbers when I press the paste button? At the bottom are all the websites I visit. I can get rid of them. I have cleared everything and not signed into anything.
I'm looking to be able to select the current word my text cursor is inside on OSX (10.7.3). For people who have used vim before, I want to be able to do a similar thing to the 'ci_' command, where '_' can be 'w', '(', '[', etc. to specify deleting the word or contents of a parens/bracket and enter insert mode.
I notice the "NS" prefix in all the class names in iOS. What does that mean? (e.g NSMutableArray)
I just rebooted my system and right now Activity Monitor is showing over 500 threads running. Before I rebooted it was over 900. Is that normal?
What are the pros and cons, performance-wise, of enabling and using FileVault? Is there any at all, or does it slow a computer down significantly or on the contrary speed it up? Also, what effect will it have on Time Machine-backups (performance-wise)?
I would like to use my laptop as the syncing point for my iPhone, but I don't like having my music collection on the laptop. Is there a way I can sync my iPhone with my laptop and still be able to add music files to the iPhone while maintaining my music on the desktop?
I have a 2008 macbook with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I am in the process of upgrading to Lion. I currently have 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM What's the maximum amount of RAM I can put in and it have an effect?
I have a one set of speakers, 2 macbooks (girlfriend and I), an iPod touch and a XBox. Now, I struggle with the audio because anytime I want to listen music or use the xbox, I have to switch the RCA cables plugged into the speakers. It seems that Airport Express could be a solution and airplay seems really nice, but I don't know how/if it will work with the XBox? Do you see a solution to simplify that situation?
I'm a developer, and I'd like to be able to distinguish blocks of code from regular text, when I write emails. Is there a way to do this with a shortcut, or macro, etc so that I don't have to reach for the mouse every time and change like 20 font attributes?
I have two iTunes libraries, a complete one on my home computer and a partial one on my work computer. All of the songs on my work computer have ratings. How can I transfer the ratings from the work computer to the home computer without destryoing or replacing the home computer's library?
When I run an iPhone app which supports retina displays on an iPad, does it have increased clarity when shown at 2x size? I've noticed text appears pixelated, but photos do not. Is there a complete list of how iOS handles this scaling?
Safari has a feature which removes duplicate first words of page titles from tabs, which is useful when sites' pages all begin with the same word or two. "Site Title | Page title 1" and "Site Title | Page title 2" show up as "Page title 1" and "Page title 2," for instance.
I know the icons representing programs that end in .app are really a specially treated folder, and not a single file. And inside that folder, there is a folder called Contents, and in that folder lies all the guts of an application.
I have been trying to setup the console version of vim to save any changed files when the Terminal window loses focus. Following these instructions does not work.
Normally this would merely an inconvenience but lately I've noticed a few key programs crashing as the result of switching between single and dual displays (I have to first minimize them on my PC prior to switching to my Mac). Plus, I've had the desktop service irrecoverably crash and been forced to hard reboot.
Newsstand seems to be a fancy folder, contianing specific apps. Normal folders on iOS have a limited number of apps which they can contain.
I know that there are several ways to browse the App Store. You can see the featured apps, which I assume are featured by Apple staff. There's genius, which is based on your prir purchases. Then there are the Top Charts, which I guess are based on consumer choices. Categories allows you to see apps by category.
Is it possible to use the Apple remote to control Keynote presentations? How so? I have a mid-2010 white plastic unibody MacBook. (I've been told that this isn't supported, but perhaps there are third party solutions.)
I was viewing another answer on this website and one of the links lead me to a malicious website. I have Sophos Antivirus installed, and a warning immediately popped up telling me that a threat was detected:
I'm trying to use the Launchpad feature in Mac OS X, but my icons keep on getting rearranged. I'll manually move icons around to my liking, but then after a restart, many of them are automatically rearranged to a different order than what I specified.
For Adium, a single window holds many chats. from official link (*=URL=* "A single window might contain 10 different tabbed chats" Is there any setting where I can force Adium to open new chat in new window?
When you go to update your Mac software via Apple Update, each line item contains the size of the file. Is this the size of the download or the actual size it will take up once the update is installed?
The title say it all... Is it possible to use an apple TV2 with standar tv (composite). The apple tv 1, the original have a composite connector, but the tv2 dont. You will ask me to get an HD tv, but i dont watch TV, i like to use it for music only.
I have an Apple Remote that I used with a white plastic MacBook. I no longer have the MacBook, but still have the remote. What current Macs have an infrared receiver and can work with the Apple Remote? What current Macs do not have an infrared receiver and cannot work with the Apple Remote?
Is it possible to see the size of the download from the App store when updating an iOS device? As some users have a limited amount of online data they can use in contracts, It would be useful to know the size of the download. Currently the only way I can find out is if the update is larger than 20mb. This then tells me I have to update over a WiFi network.
I would like to know if the Preview application (last release) is able to open PDF files that are DRM protected, for example by Adobe DRM system.
Is there any reason to be concerned that showing flashing time separators would slow down my Mac, since the computer now has to keep flashing the separator? What about showing seconds? Why or why not?
Often, when I log out of my computer, I'll enable "Reopen windows when logging back in". One of the first things I'll do when I log back on, is swipe over to my fullscreen Xcode project.
For some reason, ever since Apple released QuickTime X, QuickTime won't open files with an associated .srt file anymore. I get the error QuickTime can't open it and if I would like to open it in QuickTime 7. And the strange part is, the .srt files are working with Preview. I have Perian installed correctly.
I'm having a problem to connect my Macbook Air to my NAS. The NAS has Debian installed and can be reached by any other computer in the network.
I have a Mac mini (2011) which doesn't produce any sound through the audio out. I've tried with speakers, headphones, etc,... but no sounds to hear. What can be the problem?
Is there any way to disable Command+W in the terminal? On several occasions I have accidentally closed a terminal window containing important information when I meant to close a Safari tab and did not realize that the terminal was the active window.
I have an account on a school system where they won't allow us to mount virtual images. I can run arbitrary programs as a user, though not as root. I've tried mounting it from the command line using diskutil and hdiutil (or somethings like that), and I have an application to convert it between .iso, .cdr, .dmg, and .img. I don't want to have to use Disk Utility to burn it to a CD each time to open it and don't want to need additional hardware (i.e. a CD-R or flash drive). I just want to get files off it. The particular image is Chrome for Mac.
I don't have to be connected to the internet to view them on my phone. Is it storing the current ones on my device?
I was at the Apple store yesterday and I wanted to purchase an HDMI out adapter for my new iPad. Oe of the employees said to wait becaus they're getting in newer ones for the new iPad, which should handle the retina display better.
The cinema and thunderbolt displays are expensive. As such, I'm thinking about a third party display to attach to my MacBook. I currently have a Dell 24" monitor, but the color is waaaay off. The IT guy at work was telling me about this other 27" monitor that has the number of pixels and IPS, just like the 27" iMac. (I'm still wondering about color temperature etc.) So, are there any third party monitors that are similar, if not identical (casing and stand/mount aside) to the Thunderbolt display?
I've recently been given the task of securing a small network. One of the things we want to have happen is to have the computers lock down after a period of inactivity.
Is the connector the only difference between a Cinema Display and a Thunderbolt Display, or are there other features that changed between the two models as well?
I have a MacBook Pro late 2008 (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB memory) and am considering getting a second 24" monitor. I understand having a dual monitor setup may decrease performance, but how much would that be? How can I know if a 24" second monitor would in fact have significant impact on my MBP performance without having to go to a store and test it myself?
The new iPad supports voice dictation, which, to me anyway, is a clear indicator of at least some of this earSmart technology making its way into iPad 3. Additionally, the new iPad has some sort of access token to Apple's servers, given the voice dictation feature. As discussed by answers to my question here, the new iPad is connecting to Apple servers for voice processing. Additionally, Voice Dictation would imply that the new iPad has access tokens for Siri's servers.
I just installed Lion over Snow Leopard. I was trying to rearrange the icons in Launchpad into folders/groups. It worked for a while, but sometime in the middle of rearranging I could no longer take previously foldered/grouped icons out of the group I had previously put them.
Is there any way to install and use PowerPC applications on Intel based macs? I have older Adobe software that I would like to use, and cannot use on my new iMac.
Can the third generation iPad play 2048×1536 videos in its native resolution? I've converted some 4K footage to 2048×1536 mp4s using Apple Compressor. These files play correctly on my Mac, but iTunes refuses to sync them over to my iPad. How can I achieve 1:1 pixel perfect Post-HD videos on my iPad 3?
I have an apple account and I have downloaded Xcode on my Mac. If I download Xcode on my friend's Mac because he doesn't have an account yet and he would be on the iOS program later, would he be able to upload his app (saying he downloaded Xcode with my account and he now has an apple account)? Should he download Xcode again (with his account)?
Thinking about using File Vault 2 on 2010 macbook air. I have a windows 7 virtual machine using vm fusionware that is 13 gb large. What/how will File Vault 2 handle this large space?
I want to hide some local disks from left pane (Devices section) in Finder. I want to remove them from the list of all disks at root level. What is the command in terminal? PS: I can't unmount them because they must be accessible for the system.
I'm looking for a good FPS (read like COD4) on Mac OS X Lion. I'm particular about this point as some of the old games don't install or even don't run at all even when copied from a previous install due to the missing rosetta layer in Lion. I already own all the steam play FPSs on steam, Modern Combat domination, Uberstrike and Red Crucible 2.
I have some files in WriteNow and WordPerfect format. The WriteNow files go back as far as 1987 and the WordPerfect files are from 1998 - 2001. Some I can read, others I can't open at all. Those I can read lose most of the formatting.
In one iPad, Is it possible to download an app and susbcribe to its content with an apple id linked to one country and then use it while logged with an apple id linked to anohter country?
I would like to automatically mount remote AFP shared drives. The ideal solution would be to auto mount the remote drives even before the session was opened. Edit: I currently use login items, but as stated above auto mounting before the session or even without the session starting would be ideal. Examples would be very appreciated.
What is this microphone image from? It appeared on my friend's MacBook and she can't figure it out.
Fairly simple question, is there a way, either through existing functionality or by jail breaking that you can add Stacks to the iOS dock. EDIT: There are three different formats in the way that Stacks work on OSX, Grid (iOS Folder View), Fan and List. Is there any implementation of Fan or List views?
I'm really new to command line and I'm trying to access my Applications directory within Terminal. By default, I am stuck in my user directory but Applications is a child of the "Macintosh HD". Any tips on how to get to this directory as opposed to username>Applications?
Has anyone tried to test the maximum frame rate one an iPad 3 connected to a 120Hz screen for example? I would like to know if it's possible to achieve more than the 60fps using the any benchmark/test application or a custom test app using CADisplayLink on an external monitor. Please report the application or game you tested with - I am leaving this wide open in terms of which app so as to get some initial data on what frame rate the hardware is capable of pushing.
I have configured ssh keys for github. I have multiple ssh keys configured already. I need to add new ssh keys for bitbucket. But it does not seem to be working. How do i restart sshd in OSX Lion?
Hi I am migrating my Parallels install and VMs to a new machine. Is there an easy way to do this without having to reinstall all my software on my VM?
I just saw this blog post about Sparrow, and I was wondering about one of its features. On the website, it says that it has the following feature: Quick sender switch - switch sender account by tapping the top bar when composing a message.
FileVault allowed me to create encrypted user directories, so that if I handed my computer over to the Apple store for repairs I could give them a clean admin account to do the necessary repairs without worrying as much that they may be browsing my personal files. (Unless they had truly malicious intent and backdoors, etc.)
I have a limited 3G plan on my iPhone 4S and I also have iTunes Match service. In order to keep the phone from downloading songs from iCloud, while under 3G connection, I had set 'Settings>Store>Use Cellular Data' to OFF. This seemed to work just fine until I downloaded the iOS 5.1 update. A couple of days ago I was surprised to find that while listening to shuffled music, I had ran out of credit because the Music App had been fetching songs from iCloud using 3G, even though the Setting was still OFF. I've been forced to turn off my 3G every time I want to listen to music on the go, which is really annoying.
I was using (Legacy) FileVault on Snow Leopard and when I upgraded to Lion, it kept me on Legacy FileVault. I notice that FileVault uses a lot of disk space which is then recovered once I log out. Sometimes this can be in the range of 5-8 GB. I'm thinking about switching to the new FileVault in Lion, but I'm wondering how the disk usage is compared to Legacy FileVault.
I cannot remove any devices from the list of devices in the 'Find My iPhone' app. I have also looked on iCloud.com and cannot seem to remove them there either. Is this possible outside of MobileMe?
I was digging around for fun, and found that my system.log was flooded with errors. Here is the output of sudo cat system.log | tail -8:
Every time I make a new playlist on my computer, then sync my iPhone to my computer, the playlists never appear on my iPhone.
I've been doing quite a bit of searching, but I'm only turning up commercially licensed packages. I don't need something as fully-featured as Photoshop, but something in that genre is sufficient. These features are of most importance to me: Basic photo editing Some filters Layering Text tool I want to be able to make simple posters/flyers by combining multiple images and text.
How can I change the settings for OS X Lion so that the combination of Shift+End results in the selection of text from the current cursor position to the end of the current line? Specifically, I would like to be able to do this in Firefox, but if there is a general method that works for most/all applications, that would be ideal.
I would like to add memory to my MBP, but I am worried that if I do this myself I will be in jeopardy of voiding my warranty. Is there an authorized way to have memory added that will not void my warranty?
Other than ifconfig, is there an app/script for OS X Lion that produces similar output/info to ethtool? Specifically, I would like to be able to query the following: driver info online/offline speed duplex Output from ethtool looks like this:
What tweaks can be made to the existing presets for iPad output in Handbrake to optimize for new high resolution of the iPad 3rd Generation?
I've noticed that when I tap near the top of the back of my iPhone 4S, there is a audible rattling noise. I've tried this on someone else's iPhone 4, and it is the same. It seems to be coming from the area around the rear-facing camera lens and flash. Does anyone know the part responsible for this, and it it normal or should I investigate having it repaired?
I'm using the 64 bit Mac version of iTunes and my device appears in the sidebar for an instant before disappearing again. I've successfully connected and stored files using iExplorer and so forth, so it's definitely an iTunes issue. Any thoughts?
When you enable iTues Match, you have a "Show All Songs" option. When it's on, the label text states: All music that has been downloaded or that is stored in iCloud will be shown. When you turn it off, the text changes to; Only music that has been downloaded to this device will be shown. The extreme benefit of the latter change is that songs won't hang up when only part of an album has been downloaded and the player advances to an undownloaded song. Is there another way to download music even if "Show All Music" is turned off?
I want a set of Beats by Dre headphones and have seen that they come with a control on the cord. Does this have a Mic? and can it be used with Siri in the same way the official Apple ones can? I have looked at online reviews etc, but little is mentioned with iPhone voice compatibility.
I've noticed that I'll often get an email about 24 hours after my purchase took place on iTunes. Does Apple have some sort of billing cycle, or does the withdrawal frm my account actually happen immediately?
I'm sure Apple has published something similar for Siri, but now that the iPad dictation is out, where can I find a list of commands for dictation? Can I do things like hit the enter key, or type symbols? I'm obviously able to enter periods and question mark's, but beyond that I'm not so sure. So, how can I type out the words question mark Without actually getting a question mark?
I have seen in shops that you can buy external Hard drives in both Windows and Mac format. I was under the impression that an external Hard drive will work across both platforms, however having seen this and the fact that the Mac formatted one was £20 ($32) more expensive for the same capacity. I wanted to know what the difference is and what the benefits of a pre-formatted hard drive were.
Is it possible to search for text in iBooks or the Kindle app? I'm deciding whether to buy electronic copies of some of my reference books, but I would only be purchasing them for the ability to search through the books for specific terms and words.
getent is a Networking utility which is widely available on Unix, *BSD and Linux-based systems. This tool is commonly used by Sysadmins and power users to lookup network information (IP addresses, etc). As far as hostnames go, getent is one of the few tools which use both /etc/hosts and DNS. As Wikipedia says: getent is a unix command that helps a user get entries in a number of important text files called databases.
Both Aperture and iPhoto have a setting of whether to open "when a camera is connected." I want this option to be checked, but I don't want it to consider my iPad a camera. How can I enable it for some devices but not others?
I have to restart my Mac all the time because I'm using Boot Camp and switching in between Windows 8 and OS X. Every time I restart and come back to OS X, my screen gets flooded with open windows, every thing from Firefox to text editors. Is there any way to set it up so that there are no open windows upon restart?
I decided to "give a hand" to Boot Camp and partition my drive, setting aside a FAT32 partition for installing windows (through Boot Camp) in the future. Can one do this or does Boot Camp Assistant need to be handed a single-partition drive and do the partition itself?
Suppose I want to fill up a flash drive with the most recent photos in my iPhoto Library. I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders) I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders) Those photos that have been modified, I want the modified version of the photo to end up on the drive. Those photos that have been modified, I want the modified version of the photo to end up on the drive. Those photos that have not been modified, I want the original version of the photo to end up on the drive Those photos that have not been modified, I want the original version of the photo to end up on the drive I want to start with the newest photo and work backward in time, so when the drive fills up, the latest photos will be included on the external drive. I want to start with the newest photo and work backward in time, so when the drive fills up, the latest photos will be included on 
I can find official documentation about how loud the operating noise on a MacBook Air is  and information about the speakers
I installed the Developer Tools way back in Tiger or Leopard and I'd like to uninstall them now. I have Xcode 4.0.2. How do I uninstall them manually?
I would like to setup my computer (Macbook running snow leopard) so that it will maximize and minimize the windows slowly. I know that this can be done by holding on the shift key while minimizing but can I set it as default so that I don't have to hold the shift key down?
I want app for iPhone or iPad, which can search for people within 100 meters (probably need to use Bluetooth), and is able to exchange information with them or talk to them directly. Does anyone know of such an app?
I've just bought the Ipad 2, all my existing passwords that I need to use (mails web services etc) are in Arabic characters. I have added the Arabic Keyboard and am able to use it in normal text fields, but I cannot switch to it when I try to type into a password field. If I already have the Arabic keyboard selected when typing a username, it switches back to the normal keyboard when I move to the password field. Because of this I am unable to log into anything which uses an Arabic password. I tried with Safari and Opera Mini browser. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I've bought EyeTV Hybrid from Elgato, an USB TV tuner to watch television on mac. I've plugged to the USB stick my tv antenna cable (free air-broadcasted analog television). It works, but the image is a bit pixelated, not very good quality, like in the normal TV.
I use my iPad for lectures. During this, it is connected to a Big Screen that the students can see. Every now and then, I forget to turn off the "auto lock" feature meaning that I have to wake it up and re-enter my passcode. Or I might want to show the students some resource on the local intranet which requires me to enter my university password.
I forward my university email address to my GMail account, so I don’t have my university IMAP set up as an account on my iPad (and I don’t want to, because then I’d receive those mails twice). Still, I want to send email using that address, via my university’s SMTP server. Is there any way to add another sender address to an account and assign it a different SMTP server than the account’s default SMTP in the iPad’s email client? If not, can you recommend another email client for the iPad that has this capability?
After the recent iOS upgrade, my iPhone flashes every time I receive a text message, and I can't find a way to turn it off. I checked the setting but there are no options where I can disable it from flashing. It is very annoying.
My iPod Touch 4G got stuck while syncing with iTunes on a Mac Mini. I canceled the sync using the slider on the iPod but "Canceling sync" remained on the screen. I was able to open some apps, but Music would not launch. I tried to restart the iPod and now it just shows the Apple logo and is stuck on a progress bar. It cannot be rebooted.
I'd like to know, in people's personal experience so far, about how long the new iPad takes to start up (in seconds), especially when compared with other devices running iOS. For the purposes of uniformity, I'll define "startup time" as the time between the depression of the lock switch and the moment the lock screen appears.
A feature of having an Apple TV is Dual Screen with an iPad. I would like to find games and apps that use this feature. How would I specify this within the app store? or is there a list online somewhere.
I just opened up Angry Birds Seasons today and the graphics looked blurrier than usual. I don't know how reliable a screenshot is but here is one I took and you can see it looks blurry. (Also, the image came out at 800x534 pixels, but apparently the Retina display is 960×640.)
I just got an iPad and I'm trying to sync all of my Email addresses across all of my devices, including my iMac and iPhone. I already had an Apple ID and had iCloud set up for my iPhone and iMac, but when I went to set up my Email on my iPad it prompted me to create an @me Email address. So I did. But none of my Emails are syncing up with my iMac, and I thought the whole purpose of creating an @me account was so that all of my Emails would sync up through iCloud.
I use Sparrow for iPhone with Gmail. Sometimes it confuses me because the unread count for some of my labels doesn't match with the one shown in the Google Mail app (it's lower, presumably because Sparrow doesn't download all mails). The thing is, that I know the expected unread counts of most labels, and if they differ from the official app, I can't quickly see whether there is something new in or not. I think for this to work correctly, Sparrow would have to download all mails, or update the unread mail counts from the server instead of the mails it already has on the device. Is that possible?
I don't understand why Apple does not use SSD drives in the Macbook Air like some other manufacturers to (e.g. Asus, Samsung). The technical specifications of the Macbook Air on Apple's website never mention the use of SSDs. Apple only speaks of flash memory in the Macbook Air.
I'm running Lion in French and have had the following bug in my Dock for the last couple of weeks. It doesn't go away if I reboot or kill the Dock. Have you ever seen something like that before?
I suspect that apps that use system services might take time to register each app in the appropriate places at startup. Is the boot time of an iOS device affected by the apps that are running at the previous shutdown or the number of apps installed?
The 'save as' option in iWork has changed when versions and Lion was introduced. I often open up a doc make some changes - names, dates, prices - and then wish to save the doc in another location and under another name. Currently I have to create a duplicate first and then save it with another name. Is there a simple way of doing this?
I've been searching for a while on this one and the only answers I can dig up are "use X11"...so I thought I would bring it to the experts. Is there a way to configure mouse gestures/actions in the OS X Terminal app such that single-clicking on text copies the text to the clipboard?
How can I get export the call log (incoming and outgoing calls) from my iPhone, preferably as a CSV file? I found MobileLog Jailbreak needed, $9.99 PhoneView $19.95 calLog Doesn't work with iOS 5, $9.99 but none is free and/or open source and none offers a command line interface to automate the process.
I've got two Macs sitting right next to each other and I'm logged on to both of them. Is there some app that will allow me to drag and drop across the two of them? Specifically, I'm trying to share snippets of text. I could upload the text to a website or put it into a file and sync it via AirDrop or DropBox, but if there's an app that would "combine" the desktops while allowing me to remain logged in to both machines, that would be phenomenal. Is there such an app? Edit:
I have disabled the "shuffle on shake" feature of my iPod Nano 5th gen, yet occasionally this still happens. I've noticed, for example, if I have it connected to the aux jack in my car while driving, if I hit a speedbump or pothole, it activates shuffle mode. I've double-checked the setting to the point where I'm beginning to feel a bit OCD. I know this is older hw, but is there some way to permanently disable this feature on my specific device?
I am responsible for keeping the software on our Mac at home up to date, and some software is updated rather frequently. This includes Firefox.
I am often looking to dig deeper than the overview technical specifications that Apple provides and miss the old Developer Notes that used to be published as Apple Hardware Documentation in HTML and PDF form. 2004 ADC - Developer Connection - Hardware Reference Library
I was thinking about buying an iPad 3 in the US for use in Canada (I travel back and forth a lot) and wanted to know which one would be compatible with the Bell Network in Canada. I've compared the specs and honestly just don't understand the differences. Anyone know whether the AT&T or Verizon iPad is more likely to work with Bell?
Should some buyers in the US be concerned which iPad they buy? Assuming you don't prefer AT&T over Verizon while in the US, but instead want to be sure the device will have the correct antennas, not need messing with APN settings, configuration profiles and/or jailbreak the device when the time comes to use it outside the US of A.
Do refurbished Macs come in the standard boxes when ordered from the online store?
I have multiple Windows Workgroups on my network, Does 10.7 have the ability to add more than one Workgroup at a time? I open up System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> WINS (Tab) -> Workgroup I select/toggle between the Workgroups I need but wanted to add multiple workgroups. Any thoughts?
Don't hate on me too much for this one... I put Win8 on my Mac Mini using Bootcamp, and all was well. I switched back and forth a couple times between the two with no problems. The problem started when I was trying to update drivers for my touchscreen monitor on the Win8 side. I think somehow the Bootcamp drivers 'went away'....now I can't get back into Mac.
A recent iBooks update (1.5, I think) mentions a new "full screen reading mode" that gets rid of the junk on the top/bottom of the screen. How do I actually get into this mode on the iPhone? I can't find an option for it in themes or font option. Or is it only available on the iPad?
When I connect an external hard drive with storage space and also time machine on it, in activity monitor it shows a process call fseventsd taking up 100% CPU and it slows down my computer to a halt and i have to unplug and do a hard restart. How do i connect without this fseventsd?
As the question says, what other web browsers are available on the iPad? I would ideally like Chrome or Firefox.
With the advent of the new iPad, which has a retina display, I started thinking about what exactly a retina display is. I know it has higher resolution, but what exactly is the definition of a retina display?
I heard my computer's fan spinning fast, so I checked Activity Monitor and saw that a process called InterCheck was using close to 96% CPU. What is this process and why's it using so much CPU? In the Inspect window, it said that the parent process is launchd.
Is it possible to run a script when and only when a user is logged out? Why I want to do this is so I can change the login message (sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "Message"). Is there a way to do this?
I realize that opening up the iPhone can void the warranty, it's already out of warranty, so I'm okay with that. I was wondering where I could get a screwdriver that will open up the 2nd generation iPhone 4.
By default the iPhone alarm sounds both through the headphones and speakers (understandably), is there a setting somewhere to set the alarm to only go through the headphones? (The use case is I want to wake up with the alarm but not wake everyone else in the house)
I want sync over wifi. Stream is a nice feature, by syncing over wifi is a must
My C++ professor has had us use Terminal for editing code. Is there an app or program that will allow me to send and receive email via Terminal, so I can stay in one window?
My iPhone 4s with iOS 5.1 started to present overheating very often: 2-4 times a day and this happened while the outside temperature is only around 18-20C and the phone was not under heavy use, in fact in half of the cases it wasn't even used. How can I debug these?
On linux systems, one can check for available entropy (useful to know if you're tapping /dev/random for any PRNG purposes) with However, there is no equivalent of /proc on a Mac (AFAIK). How can I check for available system entropy on a Mac? I'm running OS X 10.7.3 (Lion)
I downloaded something that came as three large files: One was a *.dmg (a disk image file, which I expected) and two more were *.dmgpart files, which I haven't happened to see before – I never downloaded something so large on my Mac! I suppose these *.dmgpart files are just the parts of a single disk image, but spanning three files so each can fit within a target size for media backup purposes. For instance, the first two parts of my download were 4.3GB each, conspicuously the capacity of a single-layer DVD-ROM. Is my supposition about *.dmgpart files correct, or did I miss something key? Is my supposition about *.dmgpart files correct, or did I miss something key? How long ago were these multi-part disk image files introduced in Mac OS X? How long ago were these multi-part disk image files introduced in Mac OS X? Is there a logical limitation to the *.dmg file format itself requiring images over a certain size to be made multi-part, or is it an optional facility for spanning media onl
I would like to know if I can accept a call without me or any person hitting the accept button? It can happen immediately after receiving the call or after any number of rings, but automatic it should be.
So, my house has Wifi that works pretty consistently with all of our computers, both macs and PC's. However, we just set up our iMac (which runs Snow Leopard) for the first time in a few months, and data just trickles in. It usually connects to the router, but if a page loads at all it will take at least a minute (which is obviously entirely useless). I've tried playing around with AirPort settings a little bit, but nothing has worked. I've also done a good deal of internet searching, but nothing particularly helpful has arisen. So, does anyone have any possible suggestions?
I have a UK account but have relocated to Australia. I'm trying desperately to change my account details but the system won't let me as I have £10 credit on my UK account. I don't mind losing the £10 I just want to change my details to my new Oz details.
I am using Finder list view in OSX Lion 10.7.3, and I want to size the window to the contents. I click the zoom (green) button which according to the web 'toggles the window between the “user state” and the “standard state”'. However, I find that OSX miscalculates and makes the window about 2.5 lines too short to fit the whole file list, unless the list is very small in which case it goes no shorter than a minimum size. How do I avoid this behaviour and size the window to the list correctly?
If I'm say, editing a file in VIM, the state of the remote machine needs to be sent to my Mac. I know that browsers cache images and such. Does SSH do the same? Are there any programs for Mac that do that? Would I be able to use that data to recover remote files?
Is the increase in heat noticeable? Is it only when playing games and watching videos, or is it just from using it for extended time?
I want to restore a couple files from a time machine chronicle of backups, but I don't have the mac to restore them to. How do I search for files within just using the folder structure
I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro with AppleCare. I've had a few minor/cosmetic hardware issues:
As an iPhone and iPad user I have many apps in common and I spend a lot of time swiping back and forth on one device looking for an app that I know was in a certain place on the second screen... only I was thinking of the other device and it's actually in the third screen. One scheme I thought of is to map the iPhone's 4x4 grid of icons onto the iPad's 4x5, showing the apps that appear on both devices on the same relative screens on the iPad with iPad-only apps displayed in the bottom row. That way when swiping between screens I could have the same apps on the same numbered screens, with the iPad apps that don't appear on the iPhone in a position that won't confuse things (in the fifth row, assuming portrait orientation - I realise this comes unstuck in landscape but I don't use that much). Of course I could sit there for hours arranging manually or doing it the somewhat faster way in iTunes (though I find myself not doing a lot of device syncing since iOS 5.0).
When I use an app such as Safari, I can choose to "Tweet" a page and it uses my Twitter account. How do I sign out of that Twitter account so that if I give my device to someone else, they can no longer tweet things on my behalf?
I want to install Chrome on my iPod touch 4th generation. How do I do that?
I have a number of Flurry icons on my desktop linked to applications I use frequently. I envision an almost identical looking icon, but instead of an icon and filename, it displays the album art and track name of the currently playing song using Bowtie.
I'm trying to switch over from Excel to Numbers. Is it possible to save a file as a CSV in Numbers?
I'm thinking about trying the Messages Beta on OS X Lion. I'm wondering if I will be able to uninstall it if I don't want to use it anymore. If so, will I be able to use iChat again?
I know that I can highlight text from another window without changing the focus to that application by holding down Command and selecting the text. Once I have the text selected, what are my options in regard to copying the text without changing focus to that window? It seems that when I press Command-V, it copies text from the application which is currently in the foreground.
When I open a CSV file in Numbers, it "helpfully" converts fields it recognizes as numeric by stripping leading zeros, converting things it recognizes as dates, etc. Take for example, you type a UPC code into a Numbers spreadsheet 005566778899, Numbers will automatically convert that to 5566778899. This is not what I would want...
We have a Mac mini running OS X 10.7 Server which has a number of shared folders/drives using AFP. We have a user account called fcp setup as sharing only which coworkers use to access the shared files. Whenever a coworker clicks on the machine in finder we get prompted for a Kerberos password:
I use SSH tunnelling extensively to gain access to remote machines that are behind a firewall. So to access a development server I use something like *=URL=* which is forwarded to port 80 on a remote host.
Is there any way to temporarily disable applications from starting up at login? I'm referring to both Lion apps that are started due to the resume/reopen feature, and also to applications set to launch in the Login Items setting. I know that I can disable the apps from launching in Lion by unchecking the relevant checkbox right before I shut down, but what if I forget to do this, or if I decide I don't want them to start up right before I login? To clarify: I'm looking for a one-time, temporary solution rather than something that will disable them all the time.
For some reason, Mail takes significantly longer than most of my other apps to quit. It might become unresponsive for a period of time after I hit [command]+[q] before it actually quits. What is taking Mail so long to quit?
Background info: I've locked down my /Library folder so even the admin group can't write (only root can). The Adobe update app opens the password dialog when I click "install". Is it possible to install without giving root access to this executable?
Since the launch of the iPad 2 I have been using a cover that I painted so I am reluctant to replace it. However the inside surface of the cover seems to be thinning or just becoming generally less fuzzy and it is doing less to clean the screen. In particular it is leaving vertical stripes that don't get cleaned. What kind of time are people getting out of their covers and is there any way to rejuvenate them or is there any material thin enough and effective at cleaning that can be bonded to the inside of the cover?
I recently uninstalled all dev tools from OS X after having issues with gcc and realizing both Xcode 3 and 4 were installed - but not before saving an Xcode package file to the desktop. It's over 3 GB and I assumed that in some way I could use that to re-install it. How can I use it to re-install Xcode? The purpose for re-installing is so that I know for certain that the latest version of Xcode is being used for any future attempts at compiling code which I call from the terminal (for a local build of Google's V8).
Whenever spotlight begins indexing my files, my computer's fan starts spinning like crazy. Is there any way to essentially tell spotlight that it doesn't need to finish as quickly as possible, and that I would rather it take longer and use less of my CPU percentage at a given time? (I.e. reduce fan noise.)
I have ~350 GB of music. I recently bought a iPod Classic (160 GB). When I try to sync the iPod with my computer, it produces a "Not enough space" error, and copies no music to the iPod. I would expect it to sync some portion of my library, and ideally rotate the synced portion every time it is connected. Is this normal behaviour, or is something broken? If it is normal behaviour, is there any way to make itunes sync a random subset of the music in my library, until it fills the iPod?
If I have Find my Mac set up and Bootcamp is installed as well, will my computer be trackable when I'm in Windows? What happens if a thief steals my computer and remains in Windows all the time, will I ever be able to track the laptop?
Is there a way to prepare predefined/canned messages in order to quickly send them by SMS/iMessage on the iPhone or iPad? I find myself quite often using the same 4-5 templates: I'm in a meeting, I will call you later! I'm on my way Ok, drop me an email! Is it a good time to talk?
Is there a way of increasing the width of the LaunchBar bar? Especially when I enter something that results in a web page, this width is insufficient for showing the full title, not even talking about what I entered.
My disk space usage doesn't add up. I should have used only about 80 gigabytes, but according to DaisyDisk about 25 gigabytes is taken up by hidden space. The mystery disk space seems to be classified as other in the About This Mac window.
I noticed a strange thing since updating iOS to 5.1. Pretty much none of the apps I buy or update get installed instantly. They are often left hanging in "Waiting..." mode for several hours until they get installed. I can stop the "Waiting..." process by removing the app and trying to install it again, but it still waits for a while until it installs.
Is there a simple way to sync starred photos from Picasa to my iPhone/iPad? I don't want to sync entire photo library and I definately do not want to share them online.
Good morning all, I would like to be able to turn the system sounds on my mac off (and back on) with an applescript activated as an extension for Alfred. I have little knowledge of applescripts but I have found that I can open the system preference pane. How do I check and uncheck the "Play user interface sound effects" and "Play feedback when volume is changed" check boxes? The start of my code is as follows Thanks guys
I recently noticed a strange service in the Network preferences called "SAMSUNG_Android", which seems to be configured as a modem:  I don't have an Android or Samsung device and I've never plugged one into my computer. The only things I've recently plugged in are an iPhone, iPad, and Sony camera.
Is it possible to have iTunes match turned on, on my device/itunes. And then sync songs from my iTunes Library to the device. At the moment my internet connection is very slow, so downloading all the songs I want to listen too takes time, it would be easier if I'm near my computer to sync with a local library.
One morning I found that one corner of my iPhone was hit and there is a scratch on the metal and the small plastic border around the glass. The glass is in perfect shape. Now, I encounter an overheating problem with the phone and I want to go to Apple but I'm wondering if I could have problems with the warranty due to this.
In Lion you can hold down a key to show its variations.  However, when using my custom keyboard layout in .keylayout format, this functionality is disabled. I assume Lion’s default keyboard layouts have the special characters that appear when you hold down a certain key hardcoded somewhere, and my old custom keyboard layout (based on the default Snow Leopard-layouts) lacks that data. My question is: how can these “key variations” be defined in a .keylayout file?
Is the 'Find My Mac' feature of iCloud supposed to work while the computer is sleeping? I use this feature to check on things every once in a while, as well as show the feature off to other people. Every time I show them though, it always lists the machine as being offline.
iOS seems to refuse to allow me to email "long" voice memos, and I'm unaware of any way to extract them from iTunes backups of my phone. How can I retrieve entire voice memos that aren't really short?
Can I make a custom keyboard layout (one that wasn’t included with OS X by default) the system default — even for the login screen?
MacOS asked me for update to EFI 2.7, I said ok. After rebooting I came up to the login screen. When I use my password for a moment I could see grey screen with mac's progress circle but then It returned to the login screen. In case if I use a random password, there are no this grey screen. I used disk utility to verify that the disk is ok. It had some minor problems so I used "repair". And now it says that the disk is ok. I tried to go to the single user mode and reinstall this update It wrotes: Any ideas?
Suppose I want to compare two situations via two pie-charts. I know I can grow a pie-chart per part in an animation or on click. But I would like to be able to transition that pie-chart to new numbers and it grows or shrinks the appropriate parts automagically. Clarification: I would like to animate between these two pie-charts:
Is it possible to remove or disable one of OS X Lion’s default keyboard layouts? I’m using a custom keyboard layout, and now that I managed to set it as the system-wide default keyboard layout, I’d like to be able to uncheck or remove the built-in “U.S.” keyboard layout that came with OS X. Here’s a screenshot — note that the checkbox is disabled:
When I switch between spaces, after the transition effect the files on the previous desktop fade back in, so that the same files are on every desktop. Is it possible to keep separate files on separate Spaces desktops?
I type /tmp on the window and it opens /private/tmp (???? why ?)
When I open Newsstand on Apple iPod, I don't find any magazines other than the featured ones, is it possible to find more magazines using the Store part of Newsstand?
Through a cydia tweak or otherwise, is it possible to enable over-the-air mirroring for unsupported-by-default devices, i.e. iPhone 4, iPad 1 et al.?
I downloaded cinemagram on my iPad2 running latest iOS5.1 - now I want to install it on my iPhone 4S running latest iOS5.1, the install is greyed out I even deleted it on my iPad - that did not help. UPDATE iCloud had instantaneously downloaded it onto my iPhone but on the other screen I never look at.
I have a Perl-based audio player that runs on OS X, and I need to update how the audio files are played. I'd like to use AppleScript to control the QuickTime Player, because it will do what I need, but am running into a couple of problems.
There are many places where the "linen" texture is used in Lion, from the Login Window to various app backgrounds like Safari and so on. Is it possible to replace this image with something else? Let's say I have a nice hessian weave pattern from a lovely house I lived in that hasn't been decorated since 1979, or some sand, or a patchwork quilt depicting the transperambulation of pseudo cosmic anti matter? Whatever I wish to change it to, a) can I change it, and b) will it change it for all instances where the linen appears, or does each application have it's own resources which would need ammending one by one with differing methods, and c) is there a particular size/fileformat/other feature that any replacement image must have, for example must it be a 200x200 PNG that tesselates etc.
I know what a VPN is, and I've done a little reading about how to set up VPN on demand. However, I'm confused.
I have an RSS screensaver, but at the moment it only displays a few articles and then loops. Is there a way to make it display more articles?
We have an iMac in the office, and I have been getting inconsistent access when trying to log in to it. The firewall isn't going down, since I can connect to the VPN. After discussing it with the people at the office, we suspect that the iMac is going to sleep.
I took a picture to add to my account on Mac. Now I want to use it on messenger, but I can't find it. On the account config, it's too small. I need to find the original. Where are the accout pictures stored on a Mac?
I have a new Mac Keyboard and I've successfully connected my mouse to it, however when I connect my iPhone nothing happens. The iPhone doesn't go into a charge state and my MBP doesn't detect the iPhone. I've tried three different cables with no difference. Connecting directly to the MBP works fine. Why would the keyboard support the mouse but not the iPhone?
Using an IMAP email account there is an option to delete "Deleted Messages" : "Remove after one week". I want to do the same with Sent Mail since I CC: all sent-mail to my inbox and it is stored on my main computer.
I've configured iPhone 4s to use our office wifi and specified a squid proxy and its authentication data (tested and working on computers and my colleague android phone) but when I connect to office's wifi a "Login" completely white screen appears. How can I solve this?
I want to find all songs or tracks which don't have Album Art associated with them in my iTunes music library. I want to do this so that I can fix Album Art problems in advance of a backup. How can I have iTunes show me just these tracks? My iTunes library is on a Windows 7 PC.
Is there a way to make an object in the Build order appear, disappear, then reappear on the same slide? For example, I want to show a blank slide. Then, when I click, I'd like a circle to appear. When I click a second time, I'd like the circle to disappear. Finally, when I click a third time, I'd like the circle to appear again.
I've installed BF2 with CrossOver, and so far it's working. Now I like to play online but I can't login with my e-mail because of the "@"
I have some custom text substitutions set up in the Language & Text pane of System Preferences. But in order to activate a substitution, I have to type the shortcut and then press the spacebar. This results in the replacement text followed by a space character. So if I want the text to be at the end of a text field when I submit a form, for example, I have to type "[shortcut]space⌫↩" instead of just "[shortcut]↩". Is there any way to make the replacement instantaneous, so I don't have to insert and delete a space that I don't want?
OS X by default supports emacs key bindings, for example Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of the line, My problem is when I switch to a different language these Ctrl key bindings stop working. Is it possible to either modify the keyboard layout to send English letters when the key is pressed with Ctrl. Or add new binding to OS X that accept the Ctrl binding with the correspoding letters in the other input source. Or is there a third choice?
We are required to use Office Communicator at my work for instant messages. I am currently using the multi-protocol client Adium for my other accounts (AIM, Gtalk). I don't see a way to add an account for Office Communicator, so I'm wondering if there is any 3rd party support for this?
In Chrome I often toggle between open tabs using Ctrl + tab to go forward, and Ctrl + Shift + tab to go backwards. For some reason, I can't get the reverse navigation working (using Shift) when using this keyboard. It does work if I use the key combos directly from my laptop's keyboard, however. It's also not working in Messages, to go between conversations. My Apple wired keyboard (full size with number pad) is plugged into my 30 inch Cinema display, but to be honest, it still doesn't work if I plug directly in to my laptop. Any ideas?
I'm running iTunes 10.6 on OS X Lion 10.7.3. I've tried multiple times to download this one song, and it keeps failing. All other songs I've previously purchased downloaded with no problem the first time. Here is the error:
When I delete an email message in Mail on my iPad, everything works normally—unless I'm offline. When this is the case, it deletes from the iPad, but the message on the web interface (in this case FastMail) retains it in the Inbox with a strikethrough line:
I have a large collection of photographs and I want to synchronize a selection of albums, totally around 2500 photos, ranging in file size from 400KB to 7MB, with most of them around 5MB-6MB. Only about 1300 synchronize.
I would like to block ports and network traffic when using my jailbroken iOS device as a Personal Hotspot. The reason is I don't want my backup program, computer updates, or any high bandwidth usage applications to be able to download or upload too much data. Is there a way to do that using iOS itself or an application?
I would like to access the files of the iPhoto library bundle to retrieve just some of the files to help solving this question about corrupted iPhoto db files properly. In time machine mode there is no way to show the content of the bundle.
Sometimes, my Magic Mouse suddenly disconnects. It has a strong battery level, so I know it isn't that. Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
In looking to make some room on my MacBook Pro's Hard drive, I ran the excellent Disk Inventory X As I expected, movies, my Aperture Archive and other media-intensive files took up a ton of my space. But I was surprised to find that files that Disk Inventory X categorized as "Mail Message" took up a whopping 22 GB.
All window tiling apps I've seen are designed to make windows snap to preset screen areas, such as "the left half of the screen" or even "this size of rectangle specified with a grid." Is there one that would let me do, say, this:
I occasionally mail screenshots to colleagues and clients from the official Google Mail app on my iPhone. Apparently, it automatically scales them down: The image originally was a 1.9 MB screenshot from the new iPad. I checked the app and the settings but was unable to find a way to disable this behavior.
I need OS X Lion on a new HDD that I am preparing to install in a MacBook. Since I don't have an existing disk to boot up and Apple isn't selling flash drives with it (or are they?), how do I use it for booting? Something to keep in mind: I may ultimately be restoring a partition with a Time Machine backup, but I need to boot in OS X first to get to Disk Utility or the Time Machine restoration interface.
I have some app data that I'd like to preserve when the time for a new iPhone rolls around. This app does not (seem to) have any cloud-syncing functionality. I regularly sync my iPhone to iTunes via USB on a Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.8. How can I ensure that this app's data is backed up, so as to re-use it on a new device?
When clicking my trackpad physically, I want the double click speed to be as fast as possible. When using the tap-to-click feature, though, I want it to be a tiny bit slower. Is there any way to set this, either natively or with third party apps?
I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and Ubuntu on separate partitions. I use rEfit to choose which operating system I want to boot into. I would like to upgrade to Lion, but I'm concerned this will cause major problems due to my partitioning scheme. Has anyone else done this?
Is it possible to use an iOS browser for Mac such as Phone Disk to apply a jailbreak tweak to a non-jailbroken iOS device?
I have multiple mobile devices (2x iPhone, 2x iPad) in my home, all which share the same iTunes account between them. When iMessage is used to exchange messages between two of the devices (e.g. the two iPhones), the messages appear to be sent from and received by the same identity. The only way I have found to correct this by turning off iMessage on one of the devices and only using SMS. Is there a way to associate iMessage with a different iTunes account than other apps on the same device?
I make Java programs, many of which require input from the command line before they actually open a window. When I'm using the Terminal in fullscreen mode and I run java Program, it jumps over to an open desktop and then does nothing, causing me to have to switch back to the Terminal to do the stuff it's asking and then switch over. I know it's a really simple fix of not using fullscreen but is there any way to let the focus stay on the command line until the program is ready to open the window?
My StarTech sv215micusba KVM requires that I use Scroll Lock, Scroll Lock, Enter, but my Apple keyboard doesn't have a Scroll Lock key. I found this reference: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1216
Lion introduced a new feature called look up:  ... which can be invoked by double-tapping a word with three fingers. This works fine most of the time, but I've noticed that it fails many times in Google Chrome (I'm running 18.0 beta).
I have Windows 7 VM in VMWare Fusion and I often copy the file from my macbook to my IMac. Fusion ask if I copied or moved but any answer will made Windows 7 ask activating again. I tought that Fusion was virtualizing hardware so Win7 should not recognize any hardware change between machines. How can I prevent activating again?
Where can I find the cached files or logs from which Mac OS X restores to its current position after the force shutdown (hard freeze problem)? Moreover, same question with Google Chrome: from where does it restore previous tabs after the crash? Thank you in advance.
I'm using the US wall adapter that came with my iPhone to charge it: When I travel to Europe, is it safe to use this with a simple US-European adapter, or do I need a transformer or some other device to step to the appropriate voltage/current? Do I risk frying my device?
I posted a question earlier about using Find My Mac while my computer was sleeping, and after doing some research I noticed that I had 'Wake for network access' already enabled. So when I went to check iCloud again, I noticed it saying this (Find My Mac already in use):
I'm accustomed to ctrl+x, ctrl+v combination to move files and folders using only the keyboard. Can I get the same functionality on OS X Lion?
At home we have two iTunes accounts. We do not wish to share our purchases as, for example, we have very different tastes in music. We are looking to purchase an AppleTV that we can both use to stream our content from iTunes. I've already read on another question that the standard way to handle this situation is to set up home sharing using one of our Apple IDs for all of the devices.
I am new to mac dev world. every where i try to download or do something i find "you should pay $99". I want xcode to develop these apps, and test them before putting on the market place. how much i should pay in total and from where I can download this xcode to start programming? please provide me with links.
Now that you can sign up for Netflix with your Apple ID and use that for billing, does that allow you to get it billed to your iTunes Credit rather than credit card?
As you can see, the problem is that the Mac OS now also uses these keys for mute and volume down respectively. You can hold down the 'fn' key and get access to these, and sometimes that doesn't even work directly, you have to hold down Command too. This slows me down quite a bit. I have built up some serious muscle memory for Visual Studio key commands, and would like to replicate them as close as possible through Remote Desktop. I am looking for a workflow that will: Allow me to RDP into a Windows machine (Windows 7 if that matters) Customize key commands JUST for that application, so that if RDP is the current application, hitting F10 will interact with the debugger in my RDP connection, and not mute my Mac If I can't map those exact keys, at least have a way to map two unused keys to the similar function key in the RDP session (as in, if I could map F10 and F11 to F16 and F17 respectively, that could work.
I want to try this "Digital Copy" to iCloud movie deal but when I pop in the DVD it says: You can't open the application Up because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. Is there any other work around besides using Snow Leopard or a Windows PC? I just want to watch Disney Pixar's Up on my iPad.
Is there a video player that remembers where you left on each video? Pretty much like listening to podcasts in iTunes, but with videos.
I have an iPhone 4S, and an unlimited data plan, so I text. A lot. Apparently, it has been cutting one to two words off the ends of my text messages to my (non-iPhone-user) fiancé. I've always stayed under 160 characters - it splits those texts. Lately, I've taken to trying to stay under 100 characters, and still, the last 1-2 words get chopped off the end and sent as a new text. I can't find any answers online, and this is getting really aggravating for me and the recipients of my text messages. How do I fix this???
I know that iOS has two partitions, but I've never found anywhere that gives clues as to where they split. Is one partition on / and the other on /var/mobile/, or are all the user profiles (/var/root/, /var/wireless/, etc) on the second partition (at /var)? Is it possible to resize these partitions? On the same note, is /var a symbolic link to /private/var/ or is it the other way around?
app A stores passwords in keychain programmatically. One password is stored in one keychain item. Keychain item is a class of type Generic Password. app A is installed & used in idevice1 & idevice2 (ios4.0 & later). Now take the encrypted backup of device1 and restore it in device2. Does it overwrite the keychain items of same match in device2 or stores the keychain items from backup alone?
I have the opposite problem of this one; I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and while I do have the Applications folder in the dock, I don't have links to any of these applications in Launchpad. How can I get these application icons in Launchpad? I'm aware that Parallels has the following knowledge base article which says that there is going to be a folder in Launchpad, but that's not what I want. I'm looking for a way to get all the applications icon to be visible in Launchpad, similar to this:
In iTunes, from the Advanced menu, I selected Photos to Share. I then picked a folder and the hard drive cranked at full speed for good 5-10 minutes.
When I try to change from using Legacy FileVault to the new FileVault in Lion, it says that I don't have enough disk space. What are my options besides having to delete bunch of files? (20 GB in my case.) Is there any way, for example, to hook up a a large capacity USB thumb drive and tell it to use it for temporary disk storage? What about an external drive?
iPhone records nicer videos than iPad, but working with iMovie on iPad is more pleasant than on iPhone. How can I easily transfer recorded videos from iPhone to iPad, preferably without using a computer? There are many ways to share photos easily like Photo Stream and direct device to device beaming using the iPhoto app, but these do not work (yet) for videos.
Each time (at the beginning of the session) I buy or update an app in the mac app store I have to sign in. I want to be automatically signed in, like I am in the iTunes Store.
I need to backup all my computer data. I'm thinking of buying 3 External Hard Drives and connect them to Airport Extreme. Can I do this?
Is it possible to use an Apple Keyboard Dock as a keyboard for a computer, rather than an iDevice? As I can, obviously, connect it to a computer via USB, I think it'd be great if I could as I love Apple's keyboards but I don't really want to fork out for a wired/wireless Apple keyboard if I've just got this sitting here.
I am looking for a shortcut to change desktop in Mac OS X (10.7.3) I am used to awesome WM in which you can do + to go to desktop #
Is there a tool for mac to measure the frames per second ? Or Could I just know how many frames per second are displayed on a MacBookPro ?
I had the sirusxm app on my phone and everytime it would give me problems I would delete it and reinstall it. I forgot that I had just recently changed my email password from my laptop, which is synced with my phone. When I went to download the app after having once again delete it due to having problems, the column which you click on to download quickly changes to purchased. The app is not on my phone. How can I get it?
There are apps like Instant Heart Rate and Cardiograph which claim to be able to measure heart rate by reading color changes on arterial pressure change. They generally require you to place your finger over the flash led and camera. From my tests the values don't quite match rates measured traditionally (by feeling arterial pressure changes, counting them over 10 seconds and multiplying by 6) but I'm not a physician so I might be measuring incorrectly. So, are these apps more precise than I can be or is it the other way around?
Update: The answer from gentmatt does let me set the Explicit flag on the files as I was hoping to do. I thought this would solve the problem, but it does not. Also, I noticed that various other albums, with explicit lyrics, do actually sync correctly. The only problem albums I have are a Kanye West album, and a Jay-Z album. But with this question being related more towards how do I get them to work correctly in iTunes Match, im continuing to look for answers.
Just updated the iOS to 5.1 this morning and now I cannot connect to the internet. WiFi is not available to me right now...
I'm looking to ditch my iPhone for my iPad. Apps I've tried are: Skype, Google Voice, Talkatone & Whisper. I've solved the incoming call problem, all that remains is the Bluetooth hurdle. When connected via my car's (Scion xB) bluetooth connection it pauses the music that is currently playing, but no audio from the call is received, nor is the car's microphone being used. I'd love to hear your story on how you're using an iPad as a phone if you have one as well.
My iCal details are showing up in my wife's Gmail account! I shared my personal and work calendars with her, as a courtesy, but don't understand how they've wound-up subscribed into her Gmail. Not popular at present! Any advice welcome?
I am trying to save a file but get the error message saying file could not be saved. This happens only after the first time I save a new file. That means, if I create a new file saving works. BUt if I try to save the second time, I get the error message.
I know the camera connection kit can be used with USB microphones, but I'm wondering if USB headsets will work as well — both the speakers and the microphone — and whether this requires special applications (as with a MIDI USB device) or if they work natively with all audio apps?
I have a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort. What cable do I need which will transmit both audio AND video?
I've installed Windows 7 on 10+ Macbook Pros and never once run into missing drivers after installing the boot camp driver pack. Everything seems to be working fine: display, ethernet and wireless, sound, track pad, eject button all function perfectly, but the ! in Device Manager are driving me crazy. Any ideas?
There doesn't seem to be a way to attach photos to an email in the Mail app on the iPhone. I can send photos from the Camera Roll in the Photos app, but I can only attach one photo per email? Is there a trick I'm missing? Or is there an app for that?
I finally moved my old Mini into the back room on a TV. I use Air Mouse to control it from my iOS devices.
I can't justify buying an Apple TV while I have an old mac mini around to hook up to my entertainment center. I'm currently controlling it using Air Mouse with my iOS devices, but I'd really like to be able to use it more simply. Air Mouse simply extends the mouse and keyboard, but doesn't really give you a remote-control style of functionality you might have with a dedicated streaming device like the Apple TV. Front row seems only to care about music and movies on iTunes. Can I use Front row and the tiny white apple remote with Netflix, Hulu, and other online services, or is there another software package that would allow me to do so? Is there a better option for remote control than the little white apple remote?
My iMessage continues to show Verifing status on iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1). The phone number displayed at iMessage verifing screen is wrong (old one) The Settings > Phone displays the correct number iTunes shows correct number The phone can successfully send or receive SMS messages I already tried the accepted answer from *=URL=* but it does not work.
I have two video tracks and one audio track of a bass player testing his instrument. I've been able to put in sync the main video track with audio and now I'd like to add the second video track just in some phases.
I just upgraded my Macbook Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion, and now when I boot into Window 7 using Bootcamp I get the error "Operating System not found." Following the advice at *=URL=* I found that I had MacFUSE installed, so I uninstalled it. The problem still persists. That article also suggests the possibility that there could be too many partitions on my drive, but Disk Utility says there are only two: Bootcamp and my OSX partition. I can still access the files on my Windows partition through Finder. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
I have some playlists which exist on my iPod only; I lost them in iTunes the last time I did a backup. How can I get these (non-smart) playlists out of the iPod, and restore them to iTunes? I have a 2nd gen iPod Nano, which I connect via USB to iTunes (v10.6.0.40) on a Windows 7 PC.
I'm trying to connect my 3rd generation Apple TV to iTunes on Windows 7 via iTunes home sharing, but when I "click" the Computers icon on the Apple TV, it shows an error message stating that it can't connect to my iTunes library. Connecting to the iTunes library on my Mac works. The only thing that doesn't work is using home sharing to get data from my PC iTunes to the Apple TV directly: Here's what works: Streaming data from my Mac to the Apple TV via home sharing Streaming data from my PC to any device except the Apple TV (Mac iTunes, iPad Music and Videos apps) Streaming data from any device to the Apple TV via AirPlay
I have a few leads, but wanted to know what people feel is an excellent stock price data-visualization and data-exploration app on a retina iPad display. Excellent would include: very clear data with multitouch features for zooming, selecting price points or data ranges. more native iOS features than simply a web view app (unless that web view stands on equal ground with a native stock app) is equal to or better than the iPhone stock app in terms of features, polish, ease of use and data viewing function. some basic import / export capabilities for portfolio management (extra credit - not mandatory) simple averages and overlays to see trends and not just the open/close/range volume data (extra credit) no ads or the option to pay money to avoid advertisements on the screen Excellent doesn't necessarily mean: Real-time data feed (although a solution that required a lot of steps to refresh the data on a daily basis would be far less useful than an app that could tap into a feed of data th
I currently have all my contacts and calendars on my Mac, but would like to sync them over the air with my other devices (iPod, iPad and Android phone). I also want it to be multidirectional: being able to add, edit or delete from all devices.
I have a Logitech C615 web cam with a built-in microphone. I want to use a headset with earplugs and a microphone for more private conversations. There are phone out and mic in plugs on my Mac Mini.
Last night when I was testing another question I have open here, I was using the AppleTV remote and noticed that it was affecting iTunes running on my laptop. Basically what was happening is that I was trying to navigate through the on-screen menu on the AppleTV, but instead the input was affecting playback in iTunes. Note, though I do have AirPlay enabled, iTunes was not streaming to the AppleTV at the time. Is this expected behavior, and if so, what must I do to prevent it?
Many, many times, I accidentally press ⌘+Q when I meant to close a tab or window, or switch applications. When I saw the option in Google Chrome to require the shortcut to be held, I was overjoyed. Problem is, I use Safari. So, in short: How can I make the "hold command-Q" shortcut universal across all of my applications (or at least Safari)?
I'm planning to sell / give my old iPad to a friend. I've already saved everything that I want off of the old iPad. How can I restore the old iPad to factory default settings so that my friend can start fresh? It's a first-gen iPad, in case it matters.
I have groups in my Google Contacts for sending emails to sets of people via the web interface on a browser. I sync Google mail and contacts onto a couple iOS devices via Microsoft Exchange.
I saw a super deal where I could get an iPhone 4 8GB for such a small amount that I couldn't resist. Does someone know if it's possible to change the flash storage for a 16GB or 32GB ? Would iTunes recognize the device and/or enable me to reset it to default iOS and settings ?
I connect to my Windows computer with my MBP using Connect to Server (using smb://192.x.x.x). For a reason I can't explain, it works well when I do it but if I close my laptop (meaning closing the screen, not turning power off) and reopen it, almost 90% of the time, I won't be able to access the remote computer.
The main reason a Mac won't go to sleep is because of a 3rd party app. If there was a list of popular apps that have been known to cause sleep issues, it would make debugging this issue easier. Which popular 3rd party apps are known to cause sleep issues?
I don't have a problem with the button itself, it seems that I need to push deeper to make it work. I don't have to push harder... just deeper. I remember someone talking about the "fact" you can reset sensitivity for the Home button of the iPhone. Does this software sensitivity reset really exists ?
As we all know, the new iPad has a gorgeous new Retina Display. And yet, it's advertised to have battery life just as good as the iPad 2's.
There's a page I frequently access on my iPhone that's protected by HTTP authentication, and I'm finding it annoying having to type in my username and password every time I want to access it. I tried saving the logged-in page as a home screen icon, but I'm still prompted every time. There isn't option to save my password when I'm logging in, and I can't find one in the settings either. Is this possible?
Every time I'm near a Genius Bar I see a lot of ENT (ear, nose, throat) microscopes peering down the headphone jack of various iPhones. I asked about it and found that the moisture sensor is down there, and if your device got wet then it turns red, and the purpose of that is that you don't have a warranty and don't get a free new device if it has mysteriously died but the cause is moisture.
I have a number of photo albums on my iPad. When I connect my iPad to my macbook air and go to iPhoto I only see the photos in my camera roll.
Is there an easy way to run an AppleScript or application immediately (or a brief delay of X seconds) after waking up from sleep? I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve a 3rd-party app.
Photo Stream automatically reduces the resolution when it transfers a photo to an iOS device. Does this down resolution process only apply to photos transferred to a different iOS device, i.e. a photo taken on the iPhone is full resolution on the original iPhone but would be down sampled if Photo Stream transferred it to a different iPhone?
I have 4 different email accounts in Mail; therefore, there are 4 different inboxes. When I select the unified Inbox, I should see all emails listed from all accounts. But I don't.
I need to know how I can lower the volume on my phone ringer without lowering the volume for messaging alerts. At night, I need Messaging to be LOUD, but I want my phone ringer to be barely audible (note: ringer still needs to emit some sound, not completely turned off).
I'm trying to download a specific episode of 24, that I have previously bought and I keep getting an error message that is completely out of place. I have tried to download many previous purchases and all result in the same error:
On Windows, Photo Stream works in a way that all the files are automatically copied to your 'My Pictures' folder or the like. I currently have Photo Stream working in Aperture, but every once in a while I think it would be nice to have direct access to Photo Stream in the Finder, so I could possibly script something (i.e., copy photos to Dropbox, add automatically Evernote, etc).
Sometimes, there's an auto-correct suggestion I want to accept, but I don't want to type a period or space followed by a delete. Nor do I want to hit down arrow, return. (That's incredibly lazy of me, now that I think about it.) Is there any way, barring macro apps, to do this with one keystroke?
I've just upgraded to OS 10.7.3 and Docksend in Transmit 4 by Panic no longer works. I drop files on the dock icon and nothing happens in Transmit.
I see most of popular iOS apps allow only upload one picture at a time to the service's backend storage. Is there any reason why they don't support upload multiple pictures in one shot?
Lots of people are complaining about this issue on the Apple Support forums. Some people have some work-arounds but there aren't any explanations of what's going on. I've checked out permissions of the file and they all seem fine. I haven't delved too deep yet but I was wondering if anyone over hear had any ideas. I myself have suffered from the same problem since the iOS 5 beta on my iPhone 4. iOS 5.1 (but I've been experiencing the issue begining with the iOS 5 beta) iPhone 4s (but I've been experiencing the issue begining with iOS 5 beta on my iPhone 4) Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Live Photo Gallery (used for import and editing)
In Finder's list view, you can click the little triangles to the left of folder icons in order to reveal the contents of the folder. In 10.7 Lion, this reveal/expansion is accompanied by a vertical sliding animation. My problem is (a) the animation slows me down and (b) the animation will often hiccup even on my new i7 Mac Mini with external video card (especially on folders containing many files). I've searched high and low on the googlesphere for a solution to this, but I've only come across these terminal commands, to no effect: No effect on Finder, info panes don't seem to have reveal animation anyway No discernible effect on Finder This does disable the zoomimg new window animation in all apps, but doesn't affect my issue
Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and at the same time transcribe the text therein?
If I use PhotoStream to sync photos from an iOS device and my Mac, will it transfer videos too? Are the higher resolution videos from the new iPad treated any differently than other devices?
I'd like to exclude all podcast-type items from a Smart Playlist my iTunes library. How can I identify podcasts so that I can exclude them from results?
Is there any way to easily know which setting a TinkerTool option relates to in Mac OS X? For example, the Show Hidden and System Files setting seems to be related to com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles. What about all the other settings?
If I change the Media Kind option on a track to Audiobook, what does effects does that have on my iTunes library? How does it change the presentation and functionality of the track?
A few months ago, my 1st generation iPad fell on the carpet and started having issues with charging. Note: it wasn't plugged in to anything when it fell. When I tried charging it, it didn't show any indication that it was charging.
If one has a New iPad and uses it to shoot video, is there a way to wirelessly transfer videos off the iPad and onto my Mac? We've established that PhotoStream is for still photos only, so that won't be the solution.
I'm helping a friend checking if a DVD was burned properly but he's saying that under Panther there's no Images menu in Disk Utility.
I'm trying to manage my mobile account settings after migrating my local account to a network account. The problem is that the settings button is greyed out.
Is there any way to press a single button in Skitch and have it save the current image to a folder of your choosing (e.g. Documents). This is as opposed to using the drag and drop feature and having to open up finder and only then dropping the picture there. I'm looking for something simple like the Save to history button on top.
I have a MacBook Pro. When it senses the ambient light is low, the backlit keyboard turns on, and there are keys that let me control its brightness. But when enough light reaches the ambient light sensor, the backlight turns off and I can't adjust it:
We would like to know if Apple keeps track of iOS App opening by users. For example, Facebook keeps track of Facebook app opening to collect data of Facebook Insight.
There are complaints that non-retina apps look terrible compared to retina apps on a retina iPad. Is this purely in comparison with high-resolution apps, or does it actually look worse than it did on an iPad without the retina display, i.e. do four pixels forming one big virtual pixel on a retina display look worse than one big pixel of the exact same size on the old display?
I'm in the process of buying a new MacBook Pro. My actual notebook is a MacBook Pro Core Duo which dates back to July 2006. My actual operating system is Snow Leopard, and I have a Time Capsule unit in place since 2010, so my backups are OK.
xpdf on Linux:  This is a document produced by Adobe, so I'd expect them to get the PDF stuff right. I therefore attribute it to the renderer rather than malformed PDF. Here's the specs for the PDF: I got the document from the wayback machine at *=URL=* As a mathematician, the appalling rendering of the formula is extremely worrisome.
I am not planning to manufacture any Hardware. I wanted to create an app for an existing MFI certified devices. Is it possible to get the API details and protocol details from an MFI certified Accessory Manufacturer? EDIT: I plan to develop an App for an existing MFi certified hardware and release an app in the store.
I want to get windows running alongside Mac OSX, just so I can run one program not available om Mac OSX. what is the cheapest way to get this set up?
How can I automatically login to captive portals on OS X? A captive portal is used by (often not password-protected) wireless networks that present a web page as soon as you connect to them, requiring you to login.
I have many many apps running in the background some are infact two or three windows of same program, i.e. Firefox 3-4 windows and Xcode 3-4 windows etc... I know that I can switch using ⌘+⇥ but that only switches on programs and I want to go to each individual window.
I have created a number of desktops in which to keep Safari, Mail, iCal etc. These are all kept in full-screen mode and I have unchecked the setting to automatically rearrange spaces, yet whenever I restart my Mac the Spaces have changed order. Any ideas why?
For some reason, Image Capture doesn't always update the list of devices after I plug in my iPhone. Sometimes restarting Image Capture works, and sometimes it does not. Does this have to do with the number of images on my iPhone, which is several hundred? The fact that there's a passcode on my iPhone? Is there a steady way to make my iPhone appear? Edit:
I'm starting to get more messages about MobileMe ending, but despite all the info people have been posting online, I'm still confused as to how to deal with my own situation. I currently keep all my contacts, calendar, and probably a few other things on MobileMe, and have my devices tied to that account's Find My iDevice function.
After purchasing a new computer (Mac Mini w/Lion) and migrating my settings from old one (Macbook Pro w/Snow Leopard), the system shortcuts for beginning-of-line and end-of-line text navigation commands (Cmd-left/right arrow) just don't work anymore, anywhere. Curiously, this happens only in a single user account, and in other accounts on the same computer it's OK. Other shortcuts with the Command key (like Cmd-up) also work just fine.
How can I convert my (unfortunately) obsolete Mac G5 PPC case into a PC? It only supports Leopard OS-wise and I'd like to keep the beautiful Mac Case and reuse it with PC components inside.
I have so many apps on my iPhone, when I install a batch of updates it takes a while for them to complete. Given how many different screens my iPhone has, it's difficult to determine when all of the updating apps are done installing. Is there a different view/screen I can pull up to track the progress of all apps currently being installed and/or updated?
I just found out that Siri can do complex calendar schedules, such as scheduling something for every three days. The calendar app has a very limited interface for complex scheduling, so I'm wondering what other calendar scheduling I can do with Siri that I can't do with the regular calendar interface?
How to understand why Beautiful Screen of Death1 appeared?  When I tried to find what happened using "Console" I couldn't find anything useful in logs? There's no 'panic' or 'SIG*' in logs, so what should I look for? Where does OSX writes the cause of it's death?
I found that there isn't any FTP options in Lion Server. How can I setup it up? I would like to restrict ..... Which user can login with FTP server? Which folder can permitted user access? I found that I can install vsftpd via homebrew, but I can't find the vsftpd.conf file...
I'm considering getting a SDXC card to extend the drive space of my Macbook Air. I just want to make sure both the 64 GB and 128 GB SDXC cards work on the 2011 Macbook Air.
This is not a duplicate of this question as it does not work: Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid? I have a Macbook Pro 2011. I want to be able to close the lid without the Macbook Pro going into sleep mode. It seems InsomniaX is not doing anything. I've seen people with MacBook Air having the same problem. Does anyone have an alternative suggestion for that?
My iPod Touch is synced to my work Mac. My iPad is synced to my home laptop. I want to move the Touch sync/backup to the laptop. If I copy the latest Touch Mobile Sync backup to the laptop will it clash/interfere with the iPad backup? I don't care about music just apps and preferences. I realize they're different numbers in the file name but is that enough to distinguish them?
I'm slightly panicking here. I don't keep local copies of songs in my iTunes library, instead streaming them on demand via iTunes Match, to save space on the SSD drive.
Every time I quite Mail or reboot my computer, all of my mail accounts are gone and I'm prompted to reconfigure my accounts (6 of them). This is incredibly annoying and I'm not sure where I've gone wrong.
Apple stores print receipts from their iPod touch credit card readers. They probably use a custom solution with a server backend. Square has a few wireless receipt printers it can work with.
In Sharing, my iMac is called 'iMac Quad'. But right below it, its now saying new-host-3.home as well.
How do I stop Numbers from being the default program when a financial file is downloaded or imported?
I back up to an external NAS drive with 2 partitions, one using time machine and the other superduper to make a bootable copy of my mac. I would like to encrypt the data on there but from what I've read I will need to move the data, format the drive and then move the data back.
iTunes will export a few different kinds of playlists, including .m3u8 and .m3u types. What is the difference between these two file types?
I have a first generation MacBook Air that heats up a lot when playing videos, and almost grinds to a halt after a few minutes of playback. Is there a way I could turn off the video during FaceTime calls so that the audio could continue smoothly?
I just got a Mac and I'm a complete newbie, so this may be kind of a really easy question, but I wasn't able to solve it with Google or F1. I was trying to run a C program from the Terminal that comes with mac, but when I used gcc test.c, it said -bash: gcc: command not found. I looked up the error on Google and discovered that I needed to download Xcode. I did that and installed it (I think, after all it runs), but I still don't have gcc in my Terminal. What can I do?
I just found a really great application: Mini vMac, a Mac Classic emulator (simple and one that actually works). Is there a place where I can find some actual software that was meant for the original Macintosh? I think someone I know might have some boxes of floppies, so would it be possible to copy files off of them? I don't want modern software that was made for emulators. Would the Apple website have some hidden like how they have old System 6+ downloads?
Background: I have an iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.1, and a 3G data plan that I keep enabled. I also keep "Location Services" (GPS) always on, since I use applications that take advantage of it. However, I make a point of keeping Wi-Fi turned off because it's a battery sucker and I seldom use the phone within range of a base-station for which I'd be authorized – and I dislike the practice of hopping onto unsecured "free" networks, even briefly. Scenario:
Is there an app available to help tune Wi-Fi network settings? My local air space is starting to get congested and I want to make sure I'm using the optimal channel and settings on my router to avoid collisions and keep my WiFi as speedy as possible. I'm looking to run it on a 2010 MacBook Pro that supports up to Wireless N but I'd like to be able to tune the N and G protocols on my router (a D-Link DIR-655).
I really don't want to free up more hard drive space. I already have a 128GB SSD which is small enough as is, and 16GB RAM should be plenty enough for the OS' memory needs. Thoughts? Thanks!
The auto-complete features can be nice, but somewhere along the line my iPhone has learned some questionable language. How can I get the iPhone to "forget" certain words from its auto-complete settings / dictionary?
I need to be able to develop a custom form so I can have workers go door to door and collect survey information. Think census workers, but geared towards the upcoming election. While I could develop a custom app, I expect to have to customize it heavily for each area, and make changes to the forms throughout the process. In order to control costs we're not going with 3G service, so all the form data has to be collected on the device and saved until it's uploaded via wifi network (or any other method) later. Are there any apps that let me design my own custom fields for form entry, and save the data on the device? Simple database apps with custom forms or similar? If I had my wishlist, it would also: Automatically download the latest collected data when in range of a network.
But I'm having a hard time finding any concrete details on how that port works and what it really supports. D-Link's product page is lean and so is their brochure. Can I connect a drive array to this port such that multiple Macs in my network can do their remote Time Machine backups to that attached storage space? Can I connect a drive array to this port such that multiple Macs in my network can do their remote Time Machine backups to that attached storage space? Will it handle a HFS+ formatted file system? Will it handle a HFS+ formatted file system? And as a bonus: Will it handle a Drobo? I know none of the above is possible with the DIR-655 I have now. Some clarifying points: I realize I could do this with a TimeCapsule but I have all the disk on hand already with the Drobo and I happen to really like the features of the D-Link firmware (see my comments in Kyle's answer below for details) I realize I could do this with a TimeCapsule but I have all the disk on hand already with the D
I'm trying out Mail.app on Lion (10.7.3) for the first time and, nice as it is, I'm frustrated that I have to use the mouse to jump to the top of my inbox after using the search function. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here's a quick demo: option-command-f to search your inbox for something a couple weeks old tab out of the search field and navigate mail in the mailbox with the arrow keys option-command-f to go back to the search field and delete your search terms now tab back into the mailbox view- the old email is selected, and you're miles away from the top of your inbox
For some reason Adobe Bridge is opening on login, even though my Login Items shows that it is unchecked. Without uninstalling Adobe Bridge, how can I stop it opening on login?
I am finally making the switch from Windows to Mac and one big impediment/irritant is in the switch from Word for Windows to Word for Mac. I do a lot of mathematical work and have a large number of Word documents with equations in them from the Word 2010/2011 equation feature. In the Windows version, this is just a Pi symbol that I click to start typing an equation, and I can insert functions, summations, fractions, exponents, things like that really easily. I have Word 2008 on my Mac right now and none of those documents will even open. I could try updating to the newest version of Office, but I'm worried that I'll do that, they still won't work, and I'll be out a lot of money.
I'm looking for a FREE chat client that supports Windows Live network (Messenger) and is designed for iPad. The iPad Windows Live Messenger application is designed for iPhone, so when you install it on iPad, you get a iPhone screen application. Can someone help me?
The only application I have on my Mac that works with PhotoStream is iPhoto. I'm wondering if my Mac grabs the images from PhotoStream constantly or if it only downloads them when I launch an application that uses PhotoStream (such as iPhoto).
I'd like a quick way to start tethering using my iPhone, hopefully just using the keyboard. Using the bluetooth menu, I can choose the Connect to Network option in the submenu for my device, but is it possible to automate this? Ultimately I want to assign this to a shortcut in (the very awesome) Alfred.app, but anything using the command line or AppleScript will work.
Since Apple released the new Airport Utility with the simplified UI, there doesn't seem to be an option to "Disconnect All Users" to kick all users off a hard drive to safely remove it when connected to an Airport Extreme. See the screenshot for this button in the previous version of Airport Utility.
Is there any way to completely disable the caps lock key without using any third-party apps? (Virtually, of course—I don't plan on jamming something under the key.)
Now that iOS has Twitter integration, and many apps use these credentials rather than asking you for the Username and Password, I was wondering if there was any way to tell each app which account to use. For example, in Settings > Twitter, you can sign on to multiple accounts. Now let's say I use 2 apps that both have Twitter integration. Is there any way App A could use one account on Twitter and App B could use my other account?
I know that Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Mac are extremely similar. So similar that I only notice one difference for the Mac version: the green + button doesn't maximize. However, that can be remedied: *=URL=* According to Google - I'm not sure where - there's only one difference: dragging highlighted text. I didn't notice this, but I don't usually drag highlighted text.
Does the new iPad have the same form factor / dimensions as the first two iPads? Can I re-use accessories from the first two iPads?
I know that Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Mac are extremely similar. So similar that I only notice one difference for the Mac version: the green + button doesn't maximize. However, that can be remedied: *=URL=* According to Google - I'm not sure where - there's only one difference: dragging highlighted text. I didn't notice this, but I don't usually drag highlighted text.
If I enable the new FileVault feature in Mac OS X Lion, will it also encrypt my existing Windows bootcamp partitions? (And/or any new bootcamp partition I create?)
I have an iPhone and it's jailbroken, running iOS 5.1. When using WiFi, it drains very quickly. The rate of discharge is about 1 percentage point every minute. Is this normal? Any suggestions? As usual, all push options are turned off, location services are off and only Safari is running.
Is there anything that could cause the battery's "cycles count" in the Power section of System Information app to report number of charge cycles greater than the actual number? I ask because the number of charge cycles displayed for my MacBook Air is greater than the number of days I have owned the computer, and I certainly have not used it every day, nor charged and then used the battery more than once a day. What could cause the number to be so high?
I have the system pref "Automatically illuminate the keyboard in low light" disabled. However, when I wake the computer from sleep and the login prompt appears, the keyboard backlight turns on. Despite the fact that I didn't ask for this, it's actually somewhat useful, so I don't object to that. But, once I log in, the keyboard backlight stays on. AND, to make matters worse, the machine seems to "think" that the backlight is off, because pushing the backlight dimming button (the one shared with F5) doesn't dim the keyboard backlight. Instead, I have to first increase the backlight, then decrease it, in order to disable it. So, I'm looking for a way either to: 1. ensure that the auto-enabled keyboard backlight self-disables upon login, or 2. completely, 100%, totally disable any auto-enabling of the keyboard backlight (an acceptable alternative to 1, since I don't really need it auto-enabling at login).
Back in the day, I remember having an e-mail program (perhaps it was Eudora?) that could schedule the sending of mail, so when composing a message, you could set some preference for when it would be sent. The message would be composed and queued up, but would not send until the computer was connected to the internet at or after the schedule time.
On my Mac, I can log in to the developer center to watch the videos from the website, and that I can log in on iTunes on my Mac to browse and download them. However, is there a way to browse and watch WWDC session videos directly from my iPad or AppleTV?
Could someone who has, or knows someone who has, used Colorware for an Apple product comment on their experiece? I'm thinking about getting an third-generation iPad colored through Colorware, as they seem to be a solid coloring solution. Are the devices returned in factory condition? Does Apple accept colored devices if, say, a pixel died in the first month or so? Does the coloring look professional?
I can't find an answer to this one here or elsewhere, so here goes. I have a friend who would like to maintain some school-based email lists using an iPad. She doesn't use any computers for this purpose and would like to keep it that way. As one of the people who organises social activities and volunteers among the school community it is often necessary to send an email to a group of people. The groups are typically between three and 20 people - think "3rd grade mothers jogging group" or "classroom volunteers". Ideally the groups would be created on the iPad through Contacts, from existing Contacts send email without exposing the complete distribution list in the To: line easily add or remove recipients as required
I rented a movie and actually was able to watch it, but in iTunes it still shows up as a download in progress with an error and when I tap the icon it just says I don't have enough memory to continue the download (for the movie that I already watched and the rental time expired for). It is taking up a bunch of space and I want it gone! Please help. I do not have a computer I can get onto at this time and don't want to lose my 100+songs currently stored on my iPhone.
This question is baffling to say the least, as I'm just not sure how to diagnose where the problem is happening. Here's the problem: when I am connected to my network in the office (but not on other networks), the iPads or iPhones (all running latest iOS) sometimes don't show all of the images in Safari, and you have to reload the page (sometimes several times) to get all of the images to load. This was never an issue with prior iOS builds (prior to version 5). This never happens on any other network - for example at the Apple Store, or cafe wifi networks. Our office setup is as follows: D-Link 4 Port Modem Router DSL-526B connected to ADSL2+ service connected to: D-Link NetDefend SOHO UTM Firewall DFL-160 connected to: D-Link 16-Port WebSmart Gigabit Switch DGS-1210-16
I have used "Find my Mac" to find our Macbook Pro. It was pretty accurate and was able to place the computer within 10 feet of its actual location. I started thinking about how it actually works, since the MBP doesn't have a GPS. How does "Find my Mac" work?
I primarily work with gedcom files for my genealogy. What software is available for the mac which allows me to view and edit gedcom genealogy files? If there are several options, I'd like one that interfaces with ancestry.com and/or other similar sites so I don't have to quite as much work managing searches and downloads of gedcom files. Icing on the cake would include apps that have ipad counterparts so I can take it on the go for at least viewing, and hopefully editing. I'm fine with apps that have their own database or file format as long as they import and export gedcom as well.
I was wondering if I could offer (paid) trials of my App in the Mac Appstore using in-app purchase? So I have a $49 value Mac app, but I allow downloading for free, the app needs a $1.99 in-app purchase to activate the trial for a month.
Today I tried to use the iTunes-cover screensaver (for the first time), but my screen (and the preview area in the system preferences) simply stays black, nothing else happens. Has anybody experienced this too or has an idea what to do?
In TextMate 2, how can I create a new Bundle? I´m using a programming language which so far doesn't have a bundle (so no syntax highlighting, snippets and so on). TextMate 1 used to have a Bundle Editor, but where do I get started in TextMate 2?
I'm considering buying DayOne, a journaling app for iOS and Mac that syncs through iCloud's Documents and Data feature. I already own the iWork app suite on iOS and Mac, and I do not want to use iCloud syncing for the iWork apps. Is there a way I can turn on the Documents and Data syncing on iCloud for use with DayOne without having the iWork apps sync through iCloud?
This is the thing : I have Xcode 4.3 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion) I am stuck with 4.0.2 on my iMac (running Snow Leopard) Given that I would really like to retain a SnowLeopard-running machine (for development purposes), is there any way I could get anything 4.1 or above, to run on my iMac?
I would like to delete and permanently delete a file in finder using del and shift+delete (windows style). Is there any way to remap this in OS X lion?
If I make the switch in handling my photos on my Mac, from Picasa to iPhoto, then I need to have a way to have all of my photos synced and stored on cloud servers, for photo sharing online. (note, all photos, not just the most recent 1000.) What is the most effective way for an iPhoto user to have their entire collection synced, stored, and shareable on a cloud server?
I've been using Sublime Text 2 for Windows and Linux because it's simply the best for those platforms. However, when using OSX I have the option to use TextMake, which is where Sublime Text 2 seems to get its inspiration from. Which editor works more seamlessly with OSX as far as speed, ease of use, OSX integration, and naturally intuitive keybindings?
I and my wife own three Apple devices. MacBook Pro, iPad 2 (only Wi-Fi) and iPhone 4S. All of these are registered with the same Apple ID and Gmail account. With FaceTime I can call to IPhone, but I cannot call from my iPhone. Probably because iPad or MacBook do not have a unique id. How can this be fixed so I can use FaceTime in any direction? I do not want more than one Apple ID as it makes trouble in App Store and iCloud.
Took Mac to Genius Bar at local Mac Store. They made thorough checks and diagonstics and reset "PRAM" etc. They couldn't reproduce my problem on a VGA monitor in-store Tried to link the issue to hard disc activity or activities on other devices (DVD, blu-ray burners attached, USB3 Express card) but drawing no conclusions.
The process of provisioning portal, certificates, provisioning profiles, etc are still confusing me. I read apple's documentations and googled a lot about it.. Nothing helped me..
I've had this 24" Al iMac since it came out in August 2007. 2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo (X7900 Core 2 Extreme) 2GB 667 DDR2 The machine has never been rebuilt, and the profile is the original profile from my original iBook G4 back in 2004 (migrated to a MacBook and then to the iMac) I'm loath to spend any money on the machine since it is coming up to 5 years old, and I want to save up for a new one later this year. I want to know what software tweaks that I can use to speed up the iMac as it is now slow for much of anything except the basics. I'm looking for ways to speed up the boot time, runtime memory efficiency, and responsiveness. Edit for clarification purposes: If you have any quick fixes, they would score higher for me than say having to rebuild the system (sorry Stuffe)
I have a mac mini server running OS X Lion Server 10.7.3. It pretty much runs unattended without problems. However, the server is under constant "attack" according to the logs. The firewall and security is holding up it seems. Is there any application/script that can send me an email whenever someone/anyone logs into the server using SSH, Admin Tools or ARD?
In Lion, Quicktime can do screen recordings. Is there a way to capture system audio also and then sync the two tracks into a movie with both system video out (The screen) and system audio out? I own WireTap Studio, which I just upgraded to work with Lion, if that helps. I'm fine using any of the tools that ship with the system and any software I already own (like WireTap) but would rather not go out and buy more software.
There is a wifi in my home (run by landlord - I have no control), which is called "Default" and has no encryption enabled. I can manually connect to the network from my two iphones - but whenever an iphone loses connection, it does not automatically connect again when in range. What can cause the phone to not automatically connect to a know access point? Both my computers connect and reconnect with no issues. I have not seen this behavior with these phones with any other wifi access-points. I have tried resetting the network settings to factory defaults on one phone, but it did not make a difference. Both Iphones are up to date with latest IOS updates (5.1), are not jailbroken or anything out of the ordinary.
I would like to mirror my Windows PC to my Apple TV via AirPlay. I've found a few options which enable Windows Media Player to receive video via AirPlay. I've also found an application named Airfoil which allows you to stream audio from Windows. I know that the beta of Mountain Lion supports AirPlay mirroring, but is there a Windows option?
My girlfriend and I are getting really irritated with how quiet Skype is on my new MacBook Pro. Even with the volume turned up to the max, I can still barely hear her even with my air conditioning and fan off.
I have multiple network access in the same area. How can I reorder the priority to which the connections are made ?
I've been nagged to update an iPod to iOS 5 for weeks now. Since it's not mine, I want to be as careful as I can. I'll follow the procedure exactly as Apple recommends, and the device has never been jailbroken. For all intents and purposes, a normal iPod.
This will always have to be an approximation, but on a Mac Book Pro with the 2.8 GHz processor, plugged in, and with the engine set to the maximum strength setting, what Elo is it? I don't have direct access to the engine as far as I know, so I can't set it up to run tests against other engines, and doing that manually would be a real pain in the neck. Does anyone know what its Elo is, or if there is another way I could find out? This is assuming that Apple wrote its own chess engine and didn't just use one that was already out there (there are plenty of free, open-source chess engines). I'm also assuming that they don't rewrite the engine with each new version of Lion.
It's relatively common knowledge that the Chinese government blocks certain content in China. Most of this won't affect Chinese users. But does iChat censor messages with said content in them?
I can adjust a few things, such as the Dock, but I don't see a way to say, "I want 1080p resolution, but I'm sitting 5 feet away and want bigger menus, fonts, etc across the entire system." This is for a computer to be used as an entertainment center, mac mini 2007 running OS X 10.6.8. I can upgrade to Lion if that provides a useful solution. How do I increase the sizes of everything system wide so it's readable from a distance, while keeping the high resolution I desire for movies and games?
I'm interested in doing this in the fastest possible time. However, I right now all I have are 2 PCs around. However, I'll soon get access to a Mac.
I just made the switch from Windows to Mac, and one thing that's been bothering me is that on a Mac, I can't see multiple Word documents that I have open. On Windows, they all appear in the taskbar (after checking the option to not collapse instances of the same program) and I can quickly switch between them, which is useful for a variety of reasons. On a mac, I can't do that. The best way I've discovered so far is to go into mission control, but then I still have to make two gestures instead of one, and it's hard to see which window is which. What's the best way to do this?
To disable secure virtual memory in 10.7, one does the following: However, are there any benefits to disabling secure system memory? I'm not concerned with security as much as I 'm concerned about system speed.
Why do I get the following message in iTunes when syncing my iPhone(s)/iPad(s) to iTunes wirelessly on Windows Vista Ultimate? An iPhone has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPhone, then try again. Whenever I sit down at my Windows machine after being away for a while with iTunes running, I get several of these popups I need to dismiss before I can do anything in iTunes.
I need to install Intel's ifortran and Math Kernel Libraries (MKL) on OS X 10.7 Lion, available (for non-commercial use) here. Has anyone experience in doing so? Or should I rather setup a virtual Linux instead?
I bought a new iPad and I want to download all my photos from Photo Stream there. How do I do that? Currently, it only syncs newly taken photos, but not all those taken in the past which are available in Photo Stream through my other devices.
How can I let sudo use my existing aliases in my .bash_profile (or .bashrc, .profile …)? For example I want to be able to use ll instead of ls -laGF as sudo.
I have a PDF file on my Mac and I want to copy it into my iPhone and then read it. How can I do that?
When there is a new update on the iPhone, I get a number next to Settings, emails or App Store icon. I like to see the count when something changes but when I've checked it, I would like it to disappear. For instance, I know there is an update for iOS 5.1. But as my iPhone is jailbreaked, I want to wait until the jailbreak is done (which can take weeks or even month). That said, each time I login my iPhone, the first thing I see is this red circle displaying '1' to tell me "hey check here, we have something new!". Is there a way to acknowlegde it to stop displaying it ?
As an example, I have A Taste Of Things To Come from the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack.:
I recently purchased a Macbook Pro. I had an SSD from my last computer which I formatted, installed into my Mac, and used as my one and only HD (I don't need that much space so I didn't opt to do the upgrade where people pull out their optical drive).
I bought a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" used from someone and it doesn't have the install disc for Snow Leopard which is currently installed. If I have to restore the computer someday can I use a friends Snow Leopard Install Disc?
One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, Bonjour has caused an error of some sort.
I usually have several tabs open in Safari in the background, and sometimes I see it taking up an unusual amount of CPU (PluginProcess or WebProcess). How can I figure out which tab (or tabs) is causing this? If there are no easy GUI solutions, I'm also open to Terminal-based techniques for finding the culprit. I hope not to have to do this very often. (Note: I realize this is similar to an old question, but Safari has been updated since then and perhaps there are new techniques available.)
I will be traveling long haul over a few times over the next few weeks and would like to watch some TV series I have on DVD, using an iPad, but do not want to have to purchase it again on iTunes. So, is it possible to burn a DVD into iTunes for later viewing on iPad?
During an install of XCode 4.2 for Snow Leopard (this is on a brand new install of Mac OSX that has been updated to the latest OSX version), I'm getting the following error in the /var/log/install.log file. The installer indicates a generic error and suggests to try the install again or contact the vendor. Based on the entry in install.log, I'm guessing that there may be a way to force the OpenGLApps package to ignore the cert check. This install was downloaded today from apple's developer website under Other Downloads.
Sometimes when connecting to a screen sharing machine in Finder, the authentication dialogue hangs indefinitely. The only way I've been able to get rid of it is log out. So far I've tried killing a number of processes including: Screen Sharing Finder Dock SystemUIServer
I commonly use iTunes to add items to iPods and iPhones. However, I'm using Ubuntu more and more and I'm really liking it.
Then a year or two ago, I installed DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT160N router. I installed it so I could add a guest wireless network, but I probably shouldn't have, because the technical specifics of networking that I see everywhere on the DD-WRT site and forums are mostly over my head.
Is there a way to set Sublime Text 2 (running under OSX) so that it can identify MATLAB (.m) files and Objective-C (.m) files automatically? Meaning that ST2 would be able to differentiate between each one and apply it's special syntax highlighting rules. I have already seen this behavior in the all mighty VIM and Emacs.
I generally turn off Bluetooth on my Macs and iOS devices when I'm not actively using a Bluetooth device. My assumption is that this saves battery life, but I realize that I have no fact to back that up.
But when i click on one, the video App is launched and quickly disapears. As if it was an unsupported format. I then imported those same files (from Handbrake's output folder) to iTunes and organised them (Right click > more info and filled a few fields in the Info tab, added an illustration photo etc..) then passed them to the iPhone and everything was fine.
Clearly it isn't completely automatic, as many icons don't have a reflection, but is there some sort of checkbox when creating an app to determine whether the gloss is applied?
I bought a MacBook Pro yesterday, and it's "wobbly". My front-right leg is about 1 mm or so shorter than my back-left leg. Is there a quick fix for this (I was thinking of just making it bigger by myself) or should I send it back to Apple?
Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see *=URL=* but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect to ForkLift instead of PathFinder?
I created a screencast using Snapz Pro X that gets saved in .mov format (H.264, AAC). I want to just cut a few seconds off the end of that file. The only video editor I know of that's installed on my Lion machine is iMovie '11. Can I use iMovie to remove part of the end of the video, but maintain the same dimensions (1146x1057)? I tried to import the movie, create a project with just the parts I wanted, and then export via "Share -> Export Movie", but this: makes the resolution worse alters the aspect ratio increases the file size
I purchase all my music through iTunes, yet I can never get the genius feature to work on my iPhone 4S. Whenever I press the genius button in the music app it says "This song does not have enough related songs to create a Genius Playlist." But with 15 GB of music all from the iTunes store, I'm doubting this. For example, it says this with Skrillex's new EP, but there are at least half a dozen other albums in the same genre that it should easily be able to find.
I've downloaded m4v videos (legally if you should ask*) and played them with Quicktime, VLC and MplayerX. They have the audio only in the right channel, is there a way I can equalize the output so I hear it through both channels? I've tried equalizing from Audio Preferences but it obviously just decreases the volume of one channel and increases the other, but doesn't move the output from one channel to the other. * http://www.atheist-experience.com/videocast.php
So, I have a folder in my ~./Trash folder, and I can't seem to delete it. It's named __MACOSX, and I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it. Finder won't start at all because of it (it starts for a bit at login, but then crashes/freezes), the terminal freezes up when trying to remove it (both as me and as sudo), and it even freezes up when auto-completing (tabbing) after typing the first few characters of it. Any suggestions? Update: doing a normal ls lists it just fine, but an ls -l to try and find out more about it freezes the terminal: (Pressing ^C doesn't do anything) Another update: Onyx's trash utility freezes while deleting trash or secure deleting trash, SuperEmptyTrash crashes,
I listen to a podcast* which is in Atom RSS 2.0 format. I subscribed with iTunes, the feed presents 5 entries in each page, and pages are accessible by appending ?page=n, n being the page number. But iTunes doesn't seem to see farther than the first page, is there an option for iTunes to retrieve the whole podcast instead of just the first page? Is there another RSS/podcast reader that can? * http://venganzasdelpasado.com.ar/posts.rss
I have a MacBook Pro (10.7.3) and an iPhone 4 (5.1). When I'm trying to conserve outlets, I charge my iPhone at night by plugging it directly into my computer.
Are there any viable Wireless display solutions for MacBook Air (with Thunderbolt port). I know I can connect to HDMI-compatible TV or Monitor using cables and convertors. Is there any way I can avoid using wires?
I just changed my previous Mac (MacBook Pro dual core running Snow Leopard) to a MacBook Pro i7 with Lion, and after it is still migrating after 3 days (and according to the migration bar is about 60%, even if it indicates since it started between 60 - 80 hours. I wasn't aware of the reboot with one key (guess T) to use firewire, so it is using wifi... It has been the worst nightmare I have gone through with a computer with any OS (yes, even Windows)
I restored my iPhone 4S from iCloud after recieving a replacement one from the Apple store. It took many hours for The applications and photos to come back but once restored, all of the photos on the iPhone are now low resolution. How can I restore the photos, which were backed up to iCloud, back to my iPhone in their original resolution?
My mac crashed and I am trying to install Xcode 4.2 again, but it doesn't work. The GUI shows an 'The Installation Failed' error.
I drag a movie onto the iTunes icon. iTunes imports the movie, and then begins playing it for me automatically. How do I stop it from playing the movie automatically?
My iphone takes photos, automatically uploads them to the cloud in a cool way and then they arrive on my iPhoto without me having to do anything - that's excellent but is it also possible for me to view the photos online through a browser or similar? Apologies if this is a particularly easy question - my google-fu is failing me today...
I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010). Ever since I purchased it, I have noticed that it has quite a delay waking from sleep. It takes sometimes up to 5-10 seconds to fully wake up and allow me to do anything. What is causing this, and is there any way to prevent it?
The iTunes connect site has a link for the native app, when you browse from an iOS app. On iPhone the download link works fine, however on iPad it opens the iTunes app (rather than the app store) and doesn't seem to ever load anything?
Are iCloud backups encrypted, both when transmitted and stored? Is it possible for someone at Apple to access any backup made to the data enter? I have heard that when apps have been pulled from the app store they have also been removed iCloud backups, so if they can be modified by apple then surely they aren't stored securely? I have a lot of my passwords for websites and apps saved, so I assume these are stored in the backups as well?
Basically, I'm looking for Lightroom for iPad :) but until then, I'm trying to find an alternative. To organize and tag pictures I'll be using Photosmith which integrates with Lightroom.
I am running Lion with most recent version of iPhoto. I can access the memory card in Finder without problem, but when I launch iPhoto the card does not show up to import photos it contains. I have tried rebuilding my entire iPhoto database and settings by pressing option+command while the app is in the process of starting and selecting to rebuild. Any ideas?
I don't get this sense of confidence from iTunes. iTunes has an option under Import Settings to Use error correction when reading Audio CDs, but that seems to be the extent of reliability-oriented settings in iTunes. Currently, I'll use iTunes if the disc I'm ripping appears pristine and without scratches – otherwise I turn to EAC.
My MacBook Pro is so slow that it would put a Windows XP laptop to shame, so I am considering a fresh installation of Mac OS. I have Time Machine backups of the system, but I don't want to restore system files, preferences, applications, etc., because it would probably reimport stuff that was slowing down the system in the first place.
I own a MacBook Pro for some months now, it came with OS X Lion pre-installed. Since then, surfing the net with it is painful due to slowness. I also have a MacBook with Snow Leopard on it, there the internet works at normal speed. Based on this I conclude the problem is inside the MacBook Pro - it shows full WLAN connectivity but loading Google takes forever. My Router is a AVM Fritz!Box. What I tried so far to optimize the speed - unless (noted) the changes made below don't affect the measured latency or speed at which pages render: Resetting the router, turning WLAN on and off Switching WLAN channels, trying 802.11n+a and 802.11n+g Deleting all Wi-Fi networks in the system preferences Resetting PRAM and NVRAM Re-starting the MacBook Pro multiple times in a row Disable iCloud in system preferences Using another Browser than Safari Renaming the network Disableing "Use channels optimized for 300 Mbit/s" in my router (this helped, but still not to equal the speed of Snow Leopard)
I have some songs that are encoded in Apple Lossless on my MacBook Air. They are in iTunes Matched.
I recently installed unDock Lite from the Mac App Store but was not satisfied with its functionality and uninstalled it the same day. But from time to time the App Store opens the unDock Lite product page. Is this some very rude advertising from the unDock Lite creators, or could there be a shortcut registered for example, and OS X takes me to the product page associated with it, if it's not currently installed?
In the night the lowest brightness setting on iPad (1st gen) is still too bright. Is it possible to set it even lower somehow? On iBooks it's possible but it works only on iBooks itself and not on whole iPad. running the latest iOS 5.1
I just noticed that my iPhoto lost all of the "Faces" data (reason unknown). It must have happened fairly recently. I sync the entire library with my iPad, and the faces are still on the iPad. And I definitely have Time Machine backups of the library on the computer (though I don't want to just restore to an earlier state because I've added photos since).
I haven't run into the permissions problem (yet) reported here. Using the curl command here I don't think it's necessary to do the staff group thing but am running into other problems. At first I ran into problems because the ruby 1.8.2 in /usr/bin didn't support the RUBY_PATCHLEVEL variable. I downloaded the ruby one-click installer (1.8.6) and moved it to /usr/bin and now I am getting this error when running 'brew install git': (I tried installing newer ruby versions first but RVM now requires gcc 4.2 which is not present in the newest Xcode (2.5) that will run on tiger.)
I use GMail for push mail on my iPhone. I need that feature to sync my contact, calendar and email with Google. Setup is done using Microsoft Exchange following official tutorial from google at http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740
So Walking Dead season 1 was a welcomed recent gift, it isn't The Sopranos but it's not bad. But it's pretty graphic. With a couple of hundred hours of Left 4 Dead 2 I don't mind but I don't think it is suitable for children. Is there a means to hide either selected video, or ideally, all episodes of a show in iTunes?
I created a new piano project in Garageband. When I click the on-screen keyboard, it plays notes. On a normal piano, one of the pedals causes notes to continue playing even after they are released (I believe they eventually begin to slowly fade away). How can I get this same effect in Garageband?
I set up a /etc/bootpd.plist so as to protect my wireless network, and to manage statically attributed IP addresses. Unfortunatly, when I start InternetSharing, this file is overwritten by a plist which I didn't find the source of. How may I avoid InternetSharing overwriting this file? Where is the source of this file overwriting /etc/bootpd.plist?
I want to delete a game from my iPhone in order to make room for other apps. If I try to do so, it warns that all of the app's data will be deleted.
I read that flash memory has a certain amount of read and write operations which can render it unusable after it has exceeded the threshhold. Is this something to be concerned about with regards to the Flash memory used in my iPhone, or is there a way to mitigate any ill effects of using it too much?
On the screen on my MacBook Air, there are some little square marks from the keyboard. Are they permanent, or can I clean them off? How can I prevent this from happening in the first place?
I'm considering buying a solid state drive for my Unibody White MacBook 2010. The trouble is, I have no idea what to look for. What kind of connector am I looking for? (SATA?) What size? I'm told to get the kind that Apple uses so that I don't void my AppleCare warranty. What model/brand(s) would that be?
My internal 250GB failed on me the other day, so I replaced it with a new SSD and HDD combo. I have the failed disk connected via USB/SATA, but it will not mount. However, it shows up under System Profiler. The following is from System Profiler: USB to S-ATA: Capacity: 250.06 GB (250,059,347,968 bytes) Removable Media: Yes Detachable Drive: Yes BSD Name: disk4 Product ID: 0x0731 Vendor ID: 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.) Version: 90.94 Serial Number: 37007 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Genesyslogic Location ID: 0x24130000 / 4 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 192 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
I have heard broadly about the so-called "rise" of the Mac viruses. Apparently, there is a "whole new deluge" of Mac viruses. So far, I have gotten nothing that I can see.
I manually put music onto my iPod by dragging albums over from the library in iTunes. For some albums, I don't want all of the tracks to copy over to the iPod - for example, audio commentaries and dialog tracks. Short of deleting these tracks from my iTunes library, how can I prevent specific tracks from being copied over to the iPod when I place albums?
Some of my music in iTunes won't get Album Art via "Get Album Art". (These might be tracks from physical CDs, or that I've purchased a long time ago from other MP3 stores.) I'd like to use the iTunes Store's Album Art whenever possible, because when it exists, it's usually a better quality image than from those from web searches.
I recently started using a MacBook Air and find some of the gestures such as the double click zoom in Safari extremely useful, I'm aware I can zoom normally using cmd - (+) but find the gesture zoom much better. Can I simulate the touchpad or another way to do this on my iMac.
In some applications, such as nvAlt, the Dictionary popup (accessed by double-tapping with three fingers or by using the Look Up command in the context menu) won't go away once called. The only solution I've found to make it close is to quit the program. Is there any way I can do it without quitting the application?
I've seen and used many laptops, and one of my favorites is the MacBook Pro. It has a nice, clean design - but most of all, it seems quite sturdy.
Since way before Mac OS X came on the scene, we have been able to ask the Finder to Calculate all sizes in order to determine the sum total of readable file size space contained in each folder for the Finder window in question.  I have tested List view sizing of folders on several Macs where it doesn't matter if an SSD is present or not, but Lion is so fast at calculating sizes I am curious if there is some new caching data structure or if Finder is using the metadata information from Spotlight or a similar database to speed up this calculation immensely.
I'd like to have a flash drive with my common programs on it. That, combined with SkyDrive, allows me to be productive anywhere.
My 8GB iPhone 3GS claims, in iTunes, that it contains 3 GB of audio files. However, in "Music" only 1 GB of files show up, in "Podcasts" are another 72.8 MB and there is nothing in "Books" and "Movies". Where are the remaining 2 GB of audio files?
I have pages of PDF notes which I want converted to spoken audio to aid revision. There are several suggested workflows online, but I'm still not getting the results I want. I used this model from Macworld hints (see comment from chrischram). An RFT file in TextEdit gets converted happily, but when I try and add a PDF, I get errors. If I select the text myself, the workflow functions perfectly… What have I missed? Current workflow (translated from German): Get finder items Extract PDF text (as RTF, save to folder) Get TextEdit document contents Convert Text to Audio, Save Import data to iTunes Add imported data to Playlist For any help, I'd be grateful!
I am connecting an external monitor to a MBP with a MiniDP-DVI adapter to which I connect a DVI cable going to a monitor. The monitor usually doesn't wake up from sleep. I have been unable to use the monitor and gave up for a couple of months. I then used the exact same cable combination and the monitor successfully for two days in a row (a couple of days ago). Now I can't get it working once again. The monitor in question is Dell U2311H. I noticed a couple of things: once I connected a USB mouse to a MBP, there was 2 seconds of blue screen on Mac screen (not sure but it might have also been blue on the external monitor). if I disconnect the DVI cable from the adapter and reconnect, 2 seconds of blue screen are shown on Mac, but external monitor doesn't react unplugging and plugging the adapter-cable combination does nothing resets don't help
What do I need to code on a jailbroken iOS device? I think I've already got all of the programs that I need - Xcode 4.3 (and iOSOpenDev), the iOS 5 SDK, theos, ldid and dpkg.
I have a 2006 Mac Pro running an ATI 1900XT graphics card, but since it is acting as a server (Windows 2008 R2), 99% of the time it's running headless (Remote Desktop does the job) and the graphics card is producting quite a LOT of heat (can heat a 2 liter bottle of Coke in about 40 min) I would like to replace this card with something cooler and quieter. I am wondering is there anything that needs to be done to a graphics card that would allow it to be used on a Mac? I would prefer not to spend 2x or 3x the price of a bog-standard PCI-Express "PC" graphics card for a machine that wont be connected to a monitor all that often. I am seeing Mac-specific graphics cards (Nvidia GeForce GT 120) for about 120 EUR on Ebay, but can pick up an NVidia GeForce 210 Graphics card for 30 euros.
I’m trying to install Windows 8 from USB on my MacBook 1.1 (early 2007). I have tried booting using rEFIt (on 10.6): Partition my USB key as MBR: the Windows 8 logo fish stays stuck forever. Partition my USB key as GPT: same problem. I didn’t try to boot Linux EFI from USB but I think it would be the same fail. I’m really wondering if the problem comes from the MacBook firmware or the way I try to load the Windows installer. How would you proceed on the Apple generation of MacBook?
Many years ago I believe Apple included a copy of Hypercard with it's OS. That's before my time, and I have never used it.
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro, which runs Mac OS X Lion. I have reset it back to the Setup Assistant.
On Windows I can use Utilu Firefox collection (there also ie collection on his site). How can I use multiple browser versions to see how my website works in different versions of different browsers in OS X? For example I want to install browsers with biggest market share: Internet Explorer Firefox 3.6, latest and previous Google Chrome latest and previous Safari (any older versions possible) Opera
I know on iPad you can press and hold the new tab button to re-open recently closed tabs, but is there any similar functionality on an iPod/iPhone?
My Macbook Air (Summer 2011, i7) tends to think it's running way hotter than it is, and permanently ramps up the fan. Closing the computer and reopening resets the mistaken sensor, but I'd rather not have to do this half the time after I open the computer. I'm using Fan Control for the temperature reading.
This may be just something that I'm going to have to lose with the conversion from PC to Mac, but: On the Windows version of Word 2011, when you click equation, the program immediately goes into equation mode and you can start typing the equation right there on the line. Once you're done, you just hit the right arrow key to exit. If you want to edit the equation, just click in it and the cursor will move inside it. It's incredibly convenient for someone who has to use equation mode every ten seconds to add an integral or something, like me.
When I am browsing a long list of items, and have one of the items selected (whether above or below the current viewing area/viewport), quite often it jumps up or down to show the currently selected item - which is super annoying. I have unchecked Spring Loaded files and folder in preferences but with no avail. Is there any suggestions as to how to fix this? Thank you!
There are a lot of apps that show which song iTunes playins in different fancy pop-ups (using Growl i guess) but I need only a song name in menu bar and nothing else. There are NowPlaying and emcee but they are non-free. Then, there are free apps like CoverSutra but those don’t do what I want exactly. Is there free app which shows name of the song that VLC or iTunes plays in menu bar?
Ever since I updated Safari to v5.1.4 on my MacBook Pro (Lion) I've been unable to load Google Reader. I can load and view Google Reader in Chrome on my MBP, but not the latest version of Safari. When browsing to Google Reader, the normal yellow Loading box displays, but eventually this is all that shows up:
I was sshing into my iPhone, and I added an app from my computer. Then I switched computers and was going to fix something in it, and it gave me a semi-disconcerting error message... What exactly has just happened, and why?
Will an iOS reinstall Work on any jailbroken-iPhone and Make a jailbroken-iPhone "unjailbroken"? Make a jailbroken-iPhone "supported by Apple"? Similarly, does such an iOS reinstall reset the iPhone (jailbroken or not) back to a "clean, factory default" state? My near-term purpose: I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1 I'd like to jailbreak to at least install better Google Voice integration like GVIntegrated.
I'm using Google calendar, and I subscribe to my Google Calendar from multiple computers. Whenever I set an event with (an) email reminder(s) on Google calendar, I'll get multiple emails because (1) Google calendar itself sends me the email reminder and (2) each computer that subscribes the calendar tries to send the email reminder (when the computer wakes up). It's very annoying.
I am interested to know if a newer generation iPod classic uses a standard hard drive or flash memory. Do you know what type of memory an iPod classic uses?
I am running out of hard drive space on my iMac which I use to serve my AppleTV, AirPlay stereo and second iMac with music and movies. I have a time capsule and tried using that to store the library but it didn’t work because it is not always mounted.
I'm looking for a screen capture tool working on MacOSX that will export the capture to animated gif.
I want to see the raw XML of an RSS feed for a podcast. In Safari, as of Lion formatted XML files is supported. But RSS feeds are not formatted that way and instead presented in Safari's RSS Reader mode. A view source on that page doesn't display the RSS feed as I expected, instead the HTML and CSS used to put the viewer together.
Chrome 17 on Lion has inertial scrolling like Safari 5 does. However, sometimes it reaches a point where the top/bottom edges are not bouncy anymore. This happens on a user profile in Chrome without any installed extensions.
Can I move the Dock using a keyboard shortcut? If there is no default keyboard shortcut, is it possible to set this up using a program?
I have an older iPhone that I was thinking about selling soon in order to get a new one. I've set up iMessaging on the device. Normally I would just erase the phone a couple of times and be done with it. But recently, there has been exposed a glitch in iMessaging whereby users continue to receive other user's iMessages, even after the sim card is removed, and the phone is erased. So I'm curious: is there any way to prevent this from happening?
Is there a way to set a site-specific user-agent for Safari? A website for school says it needs Firefox 3.x, but I have found that Safari 5 works fine. The problem is that every time I tried to log in, it warned me that my browser may not work. I set the default user agent to Firefox 3.6, and it worked fine. Now, big sites like Google and Pandora won't allow me to use certain services. (In Gmail, it just goes back to HTML. In Pandora, it blocks the whole site.) I don't want to use a different browser just for one website, and use another for everything else. I also don't want to manually change the user-agent every time I try to go to another page. Is there a way to do it automatically?
Getting to know my new iPad and I really like the voice dictation, but I can't figure out how to activate it from my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. My workaround is to turn off the keyboard so I get the onscreen version. Is there a better way?
Need help to create a new user to apache web server and assign root privileges to newly created user. Or how to login as root user in apache server because following php script showing you are logged in as nobody.
All of a sudden, this functionality has disappeared. I haven't been playing around with my computer preferences, either.
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1. I'd like to use iCloud, but my Macbook Air only has OS X 10.5.8, which is too old for iCloud. Is there a web-based interface for iCloud that I could use to edit iCloud-synced things like contacts?
After keeping my MacBook Pro open for an hour or so, it will creak loudly when I close it. Is this normal? If not, what should I do about it? It's a late 2011 MacBook Pro 13".
Most but not all of my videos in my iTunes library (in iTunes on my Windows XP desktop, and on my iPod Touch 4th Gen running iOS 4.3.5) show inverted colours in the still preview thumbnail. They play properly, and it doesn't seem to be related to the origin of the video file. (I think it is iTunes related because it also occurred on an earlier iPod Touch 2nd Gen running 3.1.3).
What's the best way to place 4 pictures on a A4 sheet using the mac ? (or iPad / iPhone) ? I need to create a pdf.
I would like to convert a large collection of WAV files to AAC using the "iTunes Plus" setting in iTunes. iTunes describes this setting as: 128 kbps (mono) / 256 kbps (stereo), 44.100 kHz, VBR, optimized for MMX/SSE2. I would like to automate this import process.
I carry my iPad everywhere, and now that I've got the new one with the high resolution display, I'd like to use it as a second monitor for my Macbook Pro. It would be great if I could occasionally use it as a second display for my various windows computers as well, but primarily the Mac.
I can play 1080p videos I've loaded onto the iPad using the video player on the iPad itself. Before I invest in the HDMI adaptor, I'd like to know if the HDMI output actually displays 1080p on the external display, and shows the video at full resolution? I'm worried that either the output will be something lower (1080i, 720p) or that it may be 1080p output, but the video will be resolution reduced to 720p or 480p even though displayed on a 1080p device.
I get mail forwarded to my OS X Mail from an Outlook account at work. I use my Mac to reply to messages directly from Mail.app and now I want to forward all my sent mails from Mail to my Outlook account for filing.
I've been using iPhoto since many versions ago ... probably since version 1. In that time, the file structure of its iPhoto Library has changed a few times, and I suspect that some of the files in there now are no longer needed. I'd like to clean it up to save disk space. Do you know if the following are needed?
I foolishly forgot that renting a movie on an iPhone meant you had to watch it on that phone. Is there anyway to just watch it on a Mac (which is authorised on the same Apple ID)? Not neccessarily to transfer it? I have airserver app on my Mac, but when I try AirPlaying it to the Mac, it opens a window that looks like QuickTime (but isn't), and says Can't play Content not authorized. Or is it possible to delete it from my phone and redownload it on my Mac without paying again?
I have the VGA and HDMI adapters for my Macbook Pro 2011, but can only connect one display at a time - neither adapter has a female Thunderbolt connector to act as a passthrough. My understanding is that I can use two Apple Thunderbolt displays by daisy chaining them and have three displays - the native notebook display, and two Thunderbolt displays - at once. Is there a way to connect two non-Thunderbolt displays to the laptop, via a splitter, or some sort of Thunderbolt cable or adapter? Is there a way to connect two non-Thunderbolt displays to the laptop, via a splitter, or some sort of Thunderbolt cable or adapter? If I buy one Thunderbolt display, can I then use the VGA or HDMI Thunderbolt adapter daisy-chained off that display to drive a non-Thunderbolt display and have three monitors that way? If I buy one Thunderbolt display, can I then use the VGA or HDMI Thunderbolt adapter daisy-chained off that display to drive a non-Thunderbolt display and have three monitors that way?
I accidentally deleted the Notes app and cannot find it (although when I do a spotlight search it does come up). Any ideas how I restore it to my screen? Thanks!
I just saw this question and answer: My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s... So apparently it's possible to erroneously hide system icons. How can I do this? I'm sick of the Weather and Stock icons taking up space. My iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1 isn't jail broken.
Sometimes I took a photo using my iPhone, and then later on, I wonder how long I have been there at that location, I thought of checking when the last photo was taken, and can tell the time when I arrived, but I found it wasn't easily possible to see what time the photo was taken. Is there really a way to see the time that photo was taken, be it 1 hour and 20 minutes ago, without using any third party app and without importing the photo to a computer? I thought this might be a simple photo info thing that might be invoked by some easy way?
Is there any way to use iMessages on an iPhone 3G? I believe the latest OS it can upgrade to is 4 something, so that might rule out official support by Apple, but what about a 3rd party solution?
Is iTunes shuffle function is just a programming language random() function or it's smarter than that? Does it use play count, skip count and other parameters to play better songs first?
I realize that the answer is probably no; Apple isn't much for hidden features/preferences in iOS and there are no BTT equivalents. So, I'm willing to explore alternatives. Are there any other web browsers for iPad, preferably as similar to Safari as possible, that support gestures?
I have a 17-inche Macbook-pro, the resolution is at the moment 1920x1200, the font size of the system looks very small. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the resolution? It seems that we can't parameter it via System Preferences... PS: the OS is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C2002)
For an office with mostly Windows workstations and a few OS X workstations, what's the easiest way for the Mac users to translate to and from a Windows-style file paths? For example, to automatically translate \\fileserver01\client-files\client01\comp.psd, if sent in an email, to //fileserver01/client-files/client01/comp.psd?
I am using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, often I like to display 2 windows side by side, does anyone know if there is any application which makes it possible to tile windows by simple keyboard shortcuts?
My internet connection is very slow, and I need to update my OS to 10.7.3. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions as in how to download from another computer and install it on my MacBook?
It's not always sunny and 73° where I live. Is there any Weather forecasting app for iOS which will change its icon to show current conditions? Or even a way to make the standard Weather.app behave like this?
I have a MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.2, and I am going to install VMware to run virtual Windows. I would like to use Ubuntu at the same time; is it technically possible? Do I need to install another virtual machine for that? In this case, which virtual machine is a best choice?
As a Windows/Mac/Ubuntu/Fedora user, I have seen many different ways to manage windows. Some of these, like the Windows taskbar and the OS X Dock, are very interesting and highly useful.
Does an iPad consume more battery power when there are multiple applications open compared to let's say, having only one application resident in memory? If there are differences between the different versions of iPad, then I am specifically looking for the answer for the new iPad.
Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible? Can I run simple non-GUI app compiled for OS X on PureDarwin (or vice-versa)? (Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X)
Which Macs, both desktop and portable, support HDCP on their native displays? The web is awash with information on connected displays, and which support it, don't support it, and stories of people who weren't warned that theirs don't support it, paid $15 for a movie, and are now screwed.
Is there an alternative to distcc on Mac OS X Lion? Apple recently removed distcc from Xcode. It's a feature I use a lot. If I want to update to the latest version of Xcode I will have to give it up. Do you know of any alternative software that would allow me to distribute compilation over LAN (preferably directly from Xcode)?
I know that in iOS, several parts of the iDevice's functionality can be accessed from the lock screen. This is useful when you don't want to fumble with a password.
I am getting used to Mac, I have a french keyboard, and can see Character Viewer and Keyboard Viewer, but I still don't know how to type some characters, for instance [ and ]?
As a Windows/Fedora/Mac/Ubuntu user, the menubar at the top of the screen has always bugged me. It doesn't go away and you can't move it. I've tried dragging it away in vain several times. It would look so nice on the right, just like my taskbar.
One of the first customizations I make in Windows is to install WinBubble, an awesome piece of software that lets me add an option the the right-click menu of the desktop: 'Turn Off Monitor.' It's really quite awesome.
This is my situation with quite a few apps: I've contributed to their development and I don't want to be nagged with ads or otherwise. One, in particular, embeds a mini-browser to display ads. Is there any way I could block such ads using ABP or other OS X software?
I have used the iOS development account for creating apns ssl certificate for sending push notification to iOS device for development purpose.I can get the device token using objective c sample code in iOS device.Then I can use that device token to send push notification for that specific iOS device. Now I am going to implement MDM and for MDM iOS Enterprise account is required.There are some questions, which I want to confirm if someone has already done. 1.So I want to know can I use iOS Enterprise account for creating "apns ssl certificate" for development purpose? 2.Can I get device token for iOS device using the same objective C sample code, so that I can send the push notification to that specific iOS device for testing purpose. Please help me.
I have one iTunes instance (v10.6.0.40) a Windows 7 PC. I'm having problems copying playlists from there to my Macbook Air's iTunes instance. Here's what I do: On the Win7 machine, I right click the Playlist, choose Export, export it as a .m3u8 file, and save it in my Dropbox. On the MBA, I grab the new playlist from the Dropbox, and drop it into the Mac's iTunes library. After that, instead of a list of songs from they Playlist, I just get this:
How do I increase the significant digits in Grapher?
I get PDFs to revise course content which I want to convert to MP3 files and take with me as spoken audio. Automator offers 'text to speech' conversion and it's great. When I try and build a workflow around it, seemingly everything happens except what I need. I want, as a folder action: To extract the text from a PDF dropped on the relevant folder To get this text turned into spoken audio To provide details for iTunes Import this into a playlist of my choosing I currently have variations on this sequence, which does not work: Extract PDF Text, save Convert text to Audio, save Import Audio Give iTunes info Add title to PlayList
I've tried looking for an app that caches map data, so that it doesn't need an active Internet connection on the move. The built-in one doesn't work well in that aspect. Caching the satellite maps turns out to be a nightmare because of the zoom levels involved. Only the road maps (the non-satellite ones) are somewhat easy to cache, depending on how large an area you want to cache. Is there a way to cache areas in the Maps apps?
My iTunes library is huge, so I am dragging music I no longer listen to, but I'd like to keep out of this into an archive folder. The problem with this, is that the folder structure isn't preserved, and since many songs have the same name, I may lose some things if they are copied over. It also makes it hard to find artists or albums I want to retrieve. I'm looking for something like iTunes which will be able to watch a folder (or even manually import) and then create a folder structure to organise the music based on artist/album/track or something similar. I've tried 8 iTunes alternatives so far, and they either rely on iTunes existing library, or they simply create a structure within their own app and leave the folder unorganised. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
I have some old devices in storage on their sides. They are otherwise completely normal - well ventilated, etc, etc. except that they could only fit when they are on their sides. After being reminded of them by a certain comment, I wondered if they were OK. So: Is is safe to store an iMac on its side, assuming every other aspect of its storage is normal and safe?
I want to ask what is the average life of your iPhone 4 running iOS 5, with Wifi turn on, and what you are doing is just surfing through Safari. I'm getting 1 percent decrease every 3 minutes.
I would like to use my jailbroken iPhone as a hotspot for my MacBook. It works well when my 3G internet is enabled. But when I disable it, the hotspot menu becomes unavailable... even if my iPhone is connected on the WiFi network. I disabled the 3G to make sure it wouldn't use my 3G data plan. Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on WiFi (instead of 3G)?
I am searching for some of the apps in App store, which have been developed to get data from External Accessories. Is it mandatory to have an MFi device, to download an app for the Mfi device?
I "accidentally" muted the iPad (four finger up, slide to the left, push mute button). After that in iBooks an interactive book didn't play ambient audio, which is OK if you remember the muting. But it was playing other sound effects which was confusing. I thought that something is wrong with the iBooks app. After hours I noticed the muted button... (My mute switch on the side is changed to screen locker.)
I don't like to switch languages with ⌘ + space. Is there any way I can use more common keyboard combinations: Control + Shift or Control + Opion or Caps Lock
I have several applications in my dock that can have multiple instances open (eg. Chrome, iTerm, Sublime, etc.) When I click on one of the icons, I want a new window to open (this is what happens if no windows are currently open) However, if an instance is already open it just takes me to that instance. This gets especially annoying when the instance is on a whole other desktop instance and cause my desktop to change. Is there a setting you can set to make it so when you click the icon, it opens a new window instead of redirecting you to an already opened window?
I have an iPod Nano (6th generation). I bought it 10 months ago. I fully charged it and it started to work. Since then, I left it 10 months without using nor charging. Now, when I connect it to PC, it charges, but after detaching from PC, it says 'Connect to power'. What is the problem? Is its battery damaged? What should I do?
I recently purchased a Drobo, and in looking over some online documentation, I encountered this support article which states: If a FireWire 400 device is also connected, it will pull down the overall performance to match FireWire 400 (FW400) instead of FireWire 800 speeds. I realize that if I attached a FireWire 800 device to a 400 device, and then that 400 device to my computer that obviously I'd only see 400 speeds from the 800 device, but this KB article seems to imply that connecting a 400 device to the other FW port on my Drobo, and having my Drobo connected via 800 to my Mac, will cause the Drobo to communicate at 400 speeds.
I love using the keyboard in Windows. It's an integrated part of the OS, and it feels like it; nearly every mouse action has a keyboard equivalent.
My original battery died. I purchased a replacement battery. While this battery DOES hold charge, when it is on the charger, MacBook still states "Not Charging."
I have an Apache module, compiled from source, which works just fine with the stock Apache 2.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.7. However, under the Apache 2.2.22 installed by MacPorts, running /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -t errors with Symbol not found: _sqlite3_bind_text.
When I'm on a public Wi-Fi network and my photos are being synced to Photo Stream, is there any way for someone on the same network to be able to see them? What about anyone else on the way to Apple's servers?
My hands were a little wet when I touched the touchpad on my MacBook Pro 15". I think that a little water went into the cracks, or the tiny space around touchpad. The "click" mechanism stopped working properly. Multitouch still works perfectly.
The Settings page says that Photos will automatically by sent to Photo Stream when I am connected to Wi-Fi, however I've waited several minutes and don't see them in iPhoto. I believe they haven't been sent to iCloud yet. Is there any way to force them to be synced to iCloud from the iPhone?
I'm looking for a To-Do list application with with following features: Due dates Notes Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date Prioritization Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School Badge for items due today Projects (which incorporate other to-do items) Can anyone recommend a to-do app with this functionality (especially the first 4 bolded items)?
There is the overall locking password, which prevents the phone from being used. Is there a way to pasword-protect on a per-app basis, e.g. lock mail, but not photos. This is under iOS 5.1 on a iPhone 4S. The password doesn't need to be different between apps, however. EDIT: This is with a iPhone 4S, not jailbroken.
I've been using iPhoto for my photos and videos. However, it's become so slow, I'm lucky if it can download my 2 or 3 photos/videos when I leave my computer on overnight. And then I have to often force quit iPhoto even after unplugging my iPhone because it just makes my computer unbearably sluggish.
What is the best way to clone a disk between two Macs? I ask this every couple years or so and every time I get the same answer. "Use Carbon Copy Cloner", they say. But the unfortunate fact is that CCC is a file-level copy between disks. When I migrate to my new Mac, sure all the files are there but there are quirks here and there (including file dates being different etc). So, really now, once again: how do you clone the disk over byte-for-byte?
Every day a new "SophosUpdate" folder/package will appear on my desktop (see screenshot). When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button. When I drag them to the eject button nothing happens. Also nothing happens when I right click one of them and select "eject". The only thing that got rid of them once was starting up in safe mode but they keep coming back after that.
I received a text with a picture yesterday. I am testing EXIF Wizard. When I saved the pic to my camera roll (iPhone 4) and view it in EXIF Wizard, it gives today's date. How do I get the date the original picture was taken?
One of the iPhones in our household is associated with an iTunes library that no longer exists. The computer that the iTunes library was on had to be wiped clean due to warranty maintenance. There is data (music, photos, contacts, etc.) on the iPhone that we do not want to lose by associating it with a new iTunes library. How do we create the new library association without data loss?
I'm currently AirDroppping 3 very large files and I need to know if the files will continue to transfer while I'm not using one of the computers.
I have an old iPad (the first generation), and over time it has become unbearably slow. Now I understand that I cannot expect apps designed for faster iPads to work perfectly on this old device. However, it often responds slowly even to trivial actions, such as typing.
Based on the responses to my earlier question about memory replacement, I plan to upgrade soon. That said, once I've acquired and installed said memory, what is the recommended Mac software I should use to burn in and test the new memory? Are there any free options?
I've been enjoying my mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro for almost two years now, and am quite satisfied. However, I never knew what the computer's display's exact specifications are (other than it is LED backlit and has resolution of 1680x1050).
I'm looking for an app that will periodically plot my coordinates on a map which I can directly or through an export/import, put onto a google map. Is there something that does this?
If I have an iPod touch, which will only connect to the internet via Wifi, how will it work with email? If I write an email on the bus, will it send when I get home? If I check an email with an attachment, will it download the attachment when it's connected, so that I can read it offline?
In this particular instance the corrections are unwelcome when I try to use Firebug Lite within Safari. I'd like to turn off the correction options but then it would be globally off so I don't get them in any other apps. Can I do it for just Safari?
There are hundreds of camera apps on the App Store. I always feel that using the default camera app provides the best results, however some camera apps contain features that I like (burst mode, etc.). I was wondering if apps such as Camera+ and Awesomize have an impact on the quality of photos?
We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America. Is the power supply in my iMac auto-adjusting, universal? Can I just buy a new IEC cable for it to match the local plug standard and run it straight in to the wall? Or do I need a transformer?
Is there a way to have multiple partitions on a hard drive plugged into an Airport Extreme? I have a 3TB hard drive, and would like a 2TB partition for storage, time machine backups (mac formatted), and then a 1TB ntfs formatted for stuff accessible to windows computers. However, if I have more than one partition, the disk doesn't show up at all in Airport Utility or in Finder. Is there a way around this limitation?
I'd like my Mac to be able to save a Time Machine backup even when I have it in sleep mode. Is there a way I can have my Mac wake up at a certain time automatically in order for Time Machine to run?
I'm not looking to hack resources or use SIMBL plugins, but I would like to be able to show custom icons in the Lion sidebar. As far as I've understood custom icons on the folder no longer show up in the sidebar and the "built-in" icons that are there are hardcoded to resources pathed in: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources However, I notice that the new versions of Dropbox now update the "Dropbox" sidebar icon to be a custom icon and it seems to be able to do this: Without using some code injection thing like SIMBL or needing root access Without the actual Dropbox process being running So this leads me to believe that Lion sidebar icons are customisable, but this metadata is stored elsewhere? xattr -l ~/Dropbox doesn't seem to list anything interesting:
Is there a way to export album/track information from an iTunes music library into, say, a comma-separated values (CSV) file, or another spreadsheet-friendly format? I'd like to be able to grab a snapshot of at least basic metadata – being artist name, album name, and track name – and copy into a spreadsheet or database software for reference, cleansing, & analysis. (If you want to call me a music nerd for wanting to data-mine information about my CD collection, go right ahead! :-)
When I add a movie or other video to iTunes, it appears that iTunes selects a video frame from somewhere near the beginning of the video file as the default cover art — and most of the time this is a terrible choice. Many of the shows and movies in my collection have an opening sequence containing frames where a title is plainly shown (e.g. "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"), or at least there's some scene in the video which is distinct & identifiable, a scene I would clearly recognize when scrolling through my collection with the Cover Flow view.
I have an iPhone 4S 32 GB model. It is not jailbroken, and I do not have any camera-specific apps installed.
I have an AT&T iPhone 4, which may have antenna problems when held in some positions (i.e. the "grip of death"). To help with this, Apple gave away bumper cases which worked around the problems when the phones were new. Unfortunately, my old iPhone case broke, so now I'm looking at new cases. What properties must my new case have to be to avoid these problems with the iPhone 4's antenna?
There are some programs that require a case-sensitive filesystem, and others that require case-insensitive. Even though Apple warns against using case sensitive file systems, in some situations it is useful. What programs have trouble with Case Sensitive (HFSX) systems? What are the work-arounds?
I have an eMac I bought in 2004. I just used the system restore CD to re-install Panther, iLife '04, Internet Explorer for Mac(!), etc. I don't have any timed specs from "back then", so I can't answer this definitively, but the machine feels slower than I remember it feeling back in the good old days.
I downloaded Google Chrome and it automatically changed my default mail reader from Mail to GMail in Chrome. I went to the preferences section of Mail and didn't see an option to make Mail the default reader.
I have my iPhone plugged into my Mac via USB. Is there anyway to check on the charge status? I know iTunes does give you a small battery indicator, but I am looking for something a bit more detailed, like % charge. I thought it is something nice to have and I am a bit lazy to reach for my iPhone to check every time I charge my phone.
I need to find the link to install the Xcode 4.3 developer library (237 MB) and the iOS 5.1 Library (Apple iPhone OS 5.1) (395 MB). Since I have a slow internet connection, I am unable to download it from my Xcode, so I will have to download it from another machine and copy it to my Mac. So, does anyone here know the direct link to the above downloads? Note: I am running OS 10.7.3 and my Xcode version is 4.3.1.
Sometimes, I want to reload a page in Safari, but I submitted a form on the previous page. Is there any way, short of entering the URL bar (either with a mouse or with ⌘+L and pressing return), to reload the page without resending the form?
Pages has a feature that lets you "merge" information into the document (e.g. custom fields or from address book), which would be perfect for this, because you'd just set the metadata for the file once and never have to touch masters. Powerpoint offers "hierarchical" or "inherited" masters (not sure exactly what they call it), which means you can put the basic info common to everything on a single master, and then set up layout slides based on that master, so changing the event or author is at least a single edit of the master(s). Another method I can imagine would be to allow multiple masters applied to a single slide, so you apply the base for the metadata and then a layout master for the arrangement of titles/columns/images/etc.
I have an existing playlist in iTunes, and I'd like to move some tracks to the top. But when I drag them up, the cursor get a "+", and the tracks don't stay where I put them. How can I move these tracks around in a playlist? In case it matters, I'm using iTunes (v10.6.0.40) a Windows 7 PC.
The last time I have performed the Apple Hardware Test, my MacBook Pro was running 10.7.2. As of today, I'm running 10.7.3.
I have an iPhone 4S, and I've noticed a delay receiving messages. When I've noticed the problem, I've always been on 3G, not Wi-Fi.
In another question I asked, Graeme suggested using alternatives like Skype instead of FaceTime for its support for audio-only calls. Skype has the advantage of being cross-platform, but is there a way in which I could actually make Skype auto-login when my iPad starts, and keep it running continuously like FaceTime? Or is this functionality restricted to in-built apps only?
I just won a 6th generation iPod nano at an auction, so I didn't get the box or the instructions. I've mostly figure it out, except I can't figure out where they hid search. I had it on my old nano and it was handy. Is there some arcane double tap or funky gesture I need to use? Unfortunately, trying to search for "search" on the web hasn't been super fruitful.
I am almost done coding my webapp-game. It runs on all modern browsers. However, I want to establish some minimum requirements for it.
One of my main problems with Numbers is the fact that it has much less of the functionality of Excel. That's why I barely use Numbers.
I have a friend who managed to lose some photos a while back, but they "appear" in his iPhoto library. The thumbnails are there but the photos aren't. The photos seem long gone, but the thumbnails seem fairly large- large enough to maybe be useful for some of them. Is it possible to retrieve the thumbnails?
I installed the app Brightness Slider on my MacBook because the lowest brightness setting in the System Prefs isn't low enough at times. When I choose a brightness setting below what the System Prefs allows, does the laptop in any way actually consume less power? Or is it using up the same amount of power?
I just wanted to make some input where I press a key and the auto-repeat function engages so I don't have to press the 0 key many times to make a long number. 10000000000000000000000000000 This has always worked without fail in the past, but it's not something I do often and I'm not sure where to look next to figure out what might be preventing this.
This seems so logical to me that I'm constantly surprised that this problem doesn't seem to be solved. Aperture "vaults" appear to be just a backup copy of the entire library; they don't let you delete the high-res versions from your main computer.
I know that I can use open command to open a URL in a default browser like: But what I would like is to execute a similar or same command to open different URLs one after the other, but reusing the same tab of the browser. Something similar to the HTML version of what I'm trying to achieve:
I'm trying to auto-run SickBeard on login python /Applications/Sick-Beard/Sickbeard.py When I run launchctl com.sickbeard.sickbeard.plist it gives me the message: launchctl load com.sickbeard.sickbeard.plist launchctl: no plist was returned for: com.sickbeard.sickbeard.plist launchctl: no plist was returned for: com.sickbeard.sickbeard.plist nothing found to load
I have a mate's 5th generation iPod 30gb from 2005. It kept popping up saying "check for errors" on my Windows 7 so I finally ran the check. I then loaded it up in iTunes, but it froze and I shut it down. Now it's not showing up in iTunes at all! It shows up in Windows but not iTunes, any ideas? I've got all the most up to date software. Did all the error checks, service checks, emptied temp folder etc and still no luck.
I have two Macs running CrashPlan. In one of them, one day, a CrashPlan icon appeared on the top menu bar that informs me when backups are being done, how much is backed up, etc. In the other one, I don't have that icon. Any ideas how to get it to appear?
After installing skype it will always start whenever I login. I'd rather it didn't do that. How do I stop Skype from automatically starting?
i don't kwow why, but i can't able to open Preferences settings options like Desktop and Energy. It show me this error:
A few days ago I read an article how iOS app developers can uniquely identify my iOS device using its UDID. The thought of various apps being able to track me (with an ID attached) is somewhat unnerving. Also, I do not feel that I am getting a service of higher quality in exchange for letting developers learn about my preferences and habits. While Apple is apparently moving towards deprecating UDIDs, it will take time. Thus, my question: can I somehow restrict access to my device's UDID?
We changing our internal infrastructure and replacing old Linux server with an OS X Lion server. One crucial thing is email - need migrate it without interruption. Currently we have Linux/Cyrrus, with zilion of stored emails for tens of local users. Here: How setup Mail.app IMAP to migrate Mail Server is recommennded doing it via local mail client, what is ok for external imap-server for one user, but not practical for the full server-migrate.
Whenever I delete an app from the Applications folder, its shortcut stays in the Launchpad. In order to delete it, I have to click on it (a question mark appears), and then drag to the trash can. Is it a bug, or does this mean I am doing something wrong?
When I was in the middle of teaching class, using Keynote, my presentation was disrupted when TextExpander discovered there was an update available and threw up a dialog box asking if I would like to download the update. Obviously, this was the wrong time to ask me. In the past, I've had a similar experience with Time Machine ("It has been 10 days since your computer was last backed up with Time Machine").
Is there a way to change the color or appearance of the mac menu bar from the standard gray?
One thing I miss from Windows is that I always had a Skype icon at the bottom of my screen that would tell me when I had new messages. Right now, the Skype icon in the Mac taskbar only lets me click on it to change my online status. Is there an app out there for a better Skype icon or would there be a way to customize it to do what I want? On Windows, it turns gold and there's a number with how many new messages you have.
Is it possible to change the microphone sensitivity (input volume) on the iPad? If so, how?
In Mountain Lion, I know that some applications, including all applications on the Mac App Store are digitally signed by the developer, so that if they are modified, the signature will not match, and it will raise all sorts of errors (and the situation will escalate with the next release of the operating system...). My question is what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? If anything in Appname.app/Contents changes (including metadata, like the modified date for the Contents folder), does that break the signature? Is it just the binary in Contents/MacOS? Are the .plists included in the signature? The Resources? As an end user, what can I hack (if anything) without breaking the signature?
Scheme: So, need set up encrypted tunnel between my macbook and Linux firewall and want connect into the internal Lion via Apple Remote Desktop. Looking for a simple, bulletproof - verified solution (so, from someone who really use it) for using ARD via VPN (road warrior config). Probably here is a way setup tunnels with plain ssh(1) or with SshTunnelManager, but never tried it yet - so any advice and/or real experiences is welcomed... Asking for real experience because here Apple wrote:
What's a good method to copy lots of high resolution photos from my iPad using WiFi directly to some sort of cloud server without having to use a Windows or Mac computer as an intermediary? Plus, once they're in the cloud, I'd like to delete the originals from the iPad and then use the iPad to organize/manage the photos on the cloud server: sort them into folders, rename them, and view them, etc.
For whatever reason you cannot browse your iPhoto library from Photoshop. I had hoped CS6 would have added something but no. I have been looking for years and can't believe no one has written a plug in. Best options for browsing are media browser in Finder or an app called iMedia Browser but I wanted to do it from within Photoshop or Media Bridge. Any ideas?
I was had to reinstall Xcode 4 and now I'm getting message Xcode appears to be installed but xcodebuild is unusable; and xcodebuild exists but failed to execute all the time when I try to install anything using ports: xcodebuild exists but it wants to another one xcodebuild or it just wants to be in /Developer folder?
It is well documented that you cannot stream to more than one AirPlay compatible device through iOS. (In an early developer build of 4.0 the functionality was put in but was taken out in the GM). I am aware you can stream iTunes content to multiple devices and even use the Apple Remote App to control multiple devices. However, I am looking for a solution that allows me to play a Pandora/Spotify/Slacker/Songza app on my iOS device and allow me to stream that music to multiple devices. The only solution I have found right now is a complex solution using Rogue Ameoba's AirPlay Speakers app on the iMac but there is about a 4 second lag and additionally, once you have captured audio, you have to manually go to the computer to cancel the connection to allow for other connections. Does anyone have other workarounds or solutions to this challenge?
I have a ~2009 MacBook Pro (model MacBookPro5,3) with OS X 10.6.8. I'm trying to use a Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter to connect to an external monitor. I've tried two different monitors and two different VGA cables so far, and no luck. Both work fine with my ThinkPad; simply plug and (dis)play.
I have used the mount command to mount non-primary drive storage in to my the file system on my primary hard drive. So the path /remote-mounts/some-directory actually places me on a USB-attached drive when I change in to it.
I'm having an issue editing all day events on my iPad calendar. If I reschedule an event to the following day, it now spans the two days instead of just one.
I'm fine if there is a terminal command that can do the copy and compare for me as well. (although being able to see the amount of time left on a copy is a very nice feature... additionally, I want to make sure I get ALL of the file - resource forks and all)
I need the following Portuguese characters: ã, õ. I write in Spanish/Portuguese all the time, but I am used to the Spanish keyboard layout. I can do anything but write the mentioned characters. I do NOT want to constantly switch between Spanish/Portuguese layouts.
I'd like to swipe a credit card on my iPad and have it autopopulate form fields on a web page. Does anyone know of an an app and card reader that do this? I found a few for desktops like SmartSwipe, but I'm having trouble finding something similar for iPad.
In a standard corporate environment with PCs they are replaced approximately every 36 months on a revolving schedule. In introducing Macs into the corporation, the IT department appears to be unable or unwilling to make a schedule for standard replacement, and thus the Mac users are getting upgraded ram and such, but their machines are older than the PCs.
Is there a GUI app on Mac similar to Task Manager on Windows? My MBP is running slow this morning and I would like to see what it's doing. I know I can open a terminal and run 'ps' and 'top', but what can I use from the desktop?
How can I run PL/SQL in Mac OS X Lion. I couldn't find any compatible application for mac to run PL/SQL. Please give some suggestion.
This is a interesting one. I use a KVM switch on my Mac Pro and Cinema Display. While the display is on another computer, the Mac switches to a different resolution (not seeing a monitor). I know it does while switching back to the Mac as my screen windows have changed places, to the lower half of my screen while the resolution is back to normal.
Lion introduced the new "Double-tap with three fingers" to Look up, which pops up a small definition of whatever word you double-tap. Is there any way to invoke look up without the trackpad? For example, if I'm on a desktop Mac (with a normal mouse) is there any way to quickly look up a word by using this same look up feature?
My App Store on iPhone (iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1) is stuck, I already contacted the support from apple. But maybe there is someone here with a similar experience.
Whenever I log in to my Mac, the following programs automatically open up: Firefox, Excel, Word, PPT, and VLC Media Player. I went into System Preferences, Users & Groups, and Login Items, and the only thing in there was the iTunesHelper application. Any idea on how I can or where I need to go on the Mac to stop these programs from automatically opening up after I log in? thanks -Paul
I tried rebinding my keyboard with Ukelele to switch the return key with the ' key. This works fine most of the time. There are just a few websites (that I've found so far) that aren't compatible with this change: Facebook: Sending IM messages no longer works. Google Docs: Does not allow you to insert new lines when editing word documents. StackExchange: Pressing shift+return at the end of a bullet list does not insert a new bullet. How can I get this rebinding to work flawlessly everywhere in the operating system? I'm using Chrome 18.0 beta. These are the applications I've found which don't recognize the return key after rebinding it: Chrome
I tired to do the following: Select the original US Keyboard layout as my current keyboard. Launched Ukelele Chose New > From current input source Swapped a single key Saved the file in my keyboard layouts and chose it as my input method.
I discovered that when you create your Game Center account, it will use the name on the credit card associated with your Apple ID. Changing the name in Game Center application does not update your visible name for the other users. What sequence of steps is needed to get my new name displayed on devices that had friended me before I changed my display name?
I have a recent MacBook Pro that was running OS X 10.6 but was recently updated to 10.7. My work email switched from Gmail to Exchange and they said to use the built-in Mail app. Overall, I like it, but I can't figure out how to see my drafts folder. According to the help, it only shows up if I have something in it, but I tried composing a message and saving it, and I still don't see my drafts folder in my list of folders. What am I supposed to do about this?
If I close the lid on my Macbook Air (OS X 10.5.8), will it continue downloading files - say from Firefox or Dropbox? Is there any way to make it do this?
I am writing a script for Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and I would like to know how I can search for files based on their SHA1 hashes. I would like to search the whole file system for the file(s) I will be looking for. For example the SHA1 value 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8 corresponds to the file MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg How can I search the hard drive for the file with its SHA1 value without needing to compare the file?
On my MacBook, with 10.7.3, if I go to ~/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary, no images show in the Finder, though it does say "size 4.01GB". If I double click on iPhotoLibrary, iPhoto opens up — is this the only way to view images and drag files, etc? Can't I view them in Finder?
In my backup software, iPhotoLibrary is greyed out, so I can't select it to back it up. How do I select the iPhotoLibrary to back it up? (My back up program is Workspace Desktop (a Godaddy program).
I'm currently downloading another series of 24, and I'm also downloading photoshop cs6 beta in Safari. iTunes is steadily downloading 24, several episodes ahead of where I'm watching, but photoshop CS6 is downloading much slower (if I pause 24, then it speeds up significantly)
iTunes match is on but I can't copy songs already downloaded to my PC to my iphone without redownloading them on my iphone from the cloud. Is this by design or am I missing something. Seems like an odd thing.
As I understand, with Time Machine I need to provide a drive to back data on to. Is there also an option to use a server managed by Apple to back up on to? Either using Time Machine or another program.
It recently started happening that the icons in Google Chrome started freaking out, and randomly look weird:  And they don't always look the same, either:
I'm trying to find out if I can get iTunes to do something complex, but don't know what can be scripted. Is there a way to find out what applescript commands an app will respond to?
In Keynote '09 on the Mac, how can I create a list of bullet points such that: At first, the bullets are all dimmed or grey When I click, the next bullet becomes undimmed or black
One of my favorite features in Windows is the built-in Power Plans. I can change how much energy my computer uses - whether I want it to drain power like there's no tomorrow and get incredible performance or whether I want it to run like a turtle and use 1% CPU at the max and barely use any power, or anything in between.
With the new iPad being released with the Retina display, many apps are being updated with new graphics and images to enable native resolution images to be displayed. However, with increasing resolutions comes the resultant increase in image file sizes. Your definition of what constitutes double resolution or not may vary, but when it comes to pixel count and associated image size we are looking basically at an approximate 4x increase for any bitmap style image resource. Take the following snippet of information as a basis for my question: App (Pre-Retina) Post Retina Pages (95Mb) 269Mb Numbers (109Mb) 283Mb iMovie (70Mb) 404Mb I would like to know if there is a resource anywhere on the internet that tracks App versions so that I can check which apps have been updated to Retina graphics (and/or are likely to be in the future based on either previous update history or developer statements), and includes such metadata as download size, so that I can work out whether my previous rule of t
I've got a mid-2009 Macbook Pro running Lion over 802.11n with an Airport Extreme and cable internet. I've been seeing drop-outs while using video chat (be it Facetime, Skype, Google Chat) and doing anything else (gaming, Hulu, Netflix, etc) on the network.
I got Homebrew installed, but: FYI, ~/.bashrc does not exist, and
I have some family members with iPhones. They have figured out how to send text messages to multiple recipients: start a new Message, and add multiple contacts in the To line. Unfortunately, they have not figured out that replying to these replies to everyone who got the original text message.
In my country Economic Crimes Bureau1 checks organizations for legality of installed computer software, sometimes. I'm still not a busyness owner (but I may became one) and it is scary for me to.
I have a MacBook Pro and have been single-booting Linux on it for some time. I now need to do some iOS development for work, so I need access to OS X in some form. I could dual-boot or virtualize Linux on OS X, but I'd really much rather keep Linux as my main OS and not have to reboot to start doing iOS work. I've read that Lion's license explicitly allows virtualizing on Apple hardware. Does that permission extend to virtualizing within Linux? If yes, how would I go about setting that up?
The only feature I might want to keep is the icon in the status bar which lets me launch applications. The main feature I want to disable is the indexing every single file on my hard drive. I never use Spotlight to access files, I only use it to launch applications.
I've had an ongoing issue (since Snow Leopard and now on Lion) with my MacBook Air. After a restart or when I boot the machine up, I type in my password to login, and then about 25% of the time it freezes.
I have iTunes (10.6 40) and Match on my mac, as soon as I enabled match my "genius" playlists no longer work. If I click genius on a track that is playing it says: Genius is unavailable for the song "Don't Drop It" I click "Update Genius" and it says that the results have been updated, but never makes it available. I have over 10K songs, so surely it can find a genius result for a G-Love or Jack Johnson song... but it never does. Thanks.
The text-to-speech function on Mac OS X Lion is quite good, although sometimes it misses the just-right pronunciation of a word. Is there a way to specify a pronunciation for certain words or phrases in Lion?
I've got a Mac Mini running Lion that stores my iTunes library. It's hooked up to my receiver and speaker system, so it's the preferred machine for playing tunes from. I'd like to be able to control iTunes from my MacBook Pro, also running Lion, connected to the same WiFi network.
I'm setting up a Mac mini for my entertainment center, and would occasionally like to be able to play games withough having to set up the keyboard and mouse. Are there cheap Bluetooth game pads that would be suitable for moderate action games, such as Portal 2? I don't need fast twitch gaming, and if it could double as the remote for plex or mythtv that would be better.
There are two problems with VMware installing Windows in ~/Documents: Multiple OS X users cannot use the same Windows installation. Even one inadvertent omission to exclude ~/Documents from the Time Machine backup means that a heavy penalty will be paid on the TM disk. How does one install Windows through VMware in a more neutral fashion, perhaps in a separate partition, to make windows accessible by all OS X accounts? At the risk of getting the two-question police after me, I will venture with a sequel: can one move one's ~/Documents/Virtual Machine.localized/ to a new partition or is it necessary to restart the installation of windows?
Every few days my iPhone (4) and/or iPad (3rd generation) lose their ability to "see" my iMac and/or Apple TV on the network. This means: The Remote app shows zero sources available for Home Sharing (normally will show both the iMac and the Apple TV) AirPlay cannot be used to send audio or video to the Apple TV Wi-Fi sync will not work (states that it will resume when iMac is available) Power cycling my router (a Linksys E2000) fixes the problem temporarily, but it always comes back. Thanks for your help.
My friend has an iPhone 3G, and is wondering if there's any way to record video on the iPhone 3G. I believe the latest iOS update available for the iPhone 3G didn't enable the video feature and that it was only introduced with the iPhone 3GS. Are there any good apps which enable this feature? Ideally, my friend is looking for a free solution.
In Windows, I often use the keyboard commands to navigate through the menus in a program. For example, in Photoshop, I can do Alt+F, then D to quickly Save for Web & Devices. Or Alt+V, then D to Clear Guides. This is great when there is no keyboard command for a menu item that I want to use, or the existing keyboard command requires too many fingers.
I'm looking for a good app that I and kids at my home can use to draw pictures on the iPad. I've used many of the free apps, like Chalk Pad and so on, but I notice that each of these comes with a lag.
So I install two Windows 7 VMs through VMware fusion 4. The desktop resizes very nicely in the first: Windows senses the resizing and uses smaller icons. In the second VM Windows simply magnifies its desktop to a rather ugly one: the desktop uses more real estate, but it's just a magnified image of a low-resolution desktop.
I know it doesn't make any sense (at least, it doesn't to me), but I have the strangest situation over here: Upstairs: I use a MacBook Pro (mid 2010) with a i7 2.66 GHz processor and 4GB of DDR3. The notebook is on my desk on my right side. I've connected a 23" ACD as external screen. When the screen is connected, the lid is closed. Downstairs: AirPort Extreme (4th generation) which sends a signal (n-standard) to my Mac (and all other devices in our house).
My iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.1 (although this also happened when running 4.3) keeps interrupting whatever I do with it (I might be playing a game or browsing the Web) with a dialogue asking me to enter a password for some WiFi network the phone appears to have found in the vicinity. It's very annoying. In the Wi-Fi Networks settings "Ask to Join Networks" is set to "off". Why does my iPhone do that and how can I get it to stop doing that?
I'm working with UTF-8 files, but TextEdit seems to not fully support the BOM. When a BOM is present, it DOES render unicode characters correctly. However, upon saving the file, the BOM is removed, so subsequently opening the file in TextEdit causes 'the wrong' characters to be displayed.
My iMac, Macbook Pro, and Mac Mini all have only one stereo audio output each - none of them have digital audio output either (though perhaps other models do?). Does OS X support surround sound? Does OS X support surround sound? Are there surround sound output devices (USB, presumably) for OS X, or does the HDMI output (via displaylink adaptor) of later models support surround sound? Are there surround sound output devices (USB, presumably) for OS X, or does the HDMI output (via displaylink adaptor) of later models support surround sound? Does iTunes, Quicktime, or any other video software output surround sound for SD or HD movies, assuming you have an appropriate output device? Does iTunes, Quicktime, or any other video software output surround sound for SD or HD movies, assuming you have an appropriate output device? I know this could be three separate questions, but the base question I'm really interested in knowing is: Can I use a Mac as my primary entertainment device and easily g
Setup: Macbook Air (2011) running Lion with BootCamp (Windows 7). Problem: I have somehow screwed up my partition table. When I boot I only can select Windows instead of Windows and Lion. However Windows gives a BSOD regardless of safe mode option selected.
I have an 13 inch MacBook unibody Alu (early 2009, before they started to be called MacBook Pro) that I use every day for many hours (it's my work and life computer). Few weeks ago within few days I upgraded the RAM to 8Gb and the harddrive to Samsung 1TB HN-M101MBB (I cloned my old drive to the new one with SuperDuper). These were the first changes to the hardware (apart from new battery) I did from the original configuration. After using computer for few more days with Snow Leopard, I upgraded to Lion.
Apparently on many modern macs the 3.5mm headphone audio jack supports Mini Toslink. How can I tell whether my mac supports it, whether it supports surround sound (4 speaker or better), and whether the microphone input acts as a mini toslink input?
As titled, is there anyway I can disable it? Sometimes when I close a TextEdit window or whatever application, I really want to purge it. But when I open the application again, the same text that I didn't want appear again, and that is really annoying. Thanks.
I've heard it is possible to add tags to a file's meta data in OS X, and have Spotlight search through such tags. In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder – not Spotlight (Command+Space) – but the adding of tags themselves? In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder – not Spotlight (Command+Space) – but the adding of tags themselves?
I had to reinstall OS X Lion Server 10.7 on my Mac mini (late 2011) due to partition and boot record corruption. Since reinstalling, I have not have sound. The only sound device that shows under Utilities > Sound is "Internal Speaker". Previously, "Headphones" also appeared. I have a Harman Kardon Soundsticks 2.1 sound system. It has only one sound connector. I always plugged it into the green port on the mini. It worked fine. Since reinstalling I have no sound at all. Any ideas out there? Solutions? I've been through the Cmd-P-R deal, reinstalled OS X Lion Server - all to no avail.
In MacOS X 10.6, is Internet sharing over AirPort implemented as NAT or full-blown routing? The backing wired network is a corporate one, Ethernet with DHCP.
One of my earbud tips has been lost. I'd like to replace it. I'd prefer not to use a third-party service, as the quality of the material is never as high as Apple's. Do you know if Apple will replace them?
I'm following these instructions to use my mid-2009 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. The keyboard and trackpad are paired with the computer and I've got the external display hooked up, but the computer is going to sleep when I shut the lid. I have Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer checked in System Preferences, so I can hit some keys to wake the computer while it's closed. It wakes up and shows me the lock screen, where I start typing my password... only to have the computer go right back to sleep after a second or two. Why won't it stay awake? Clamshell mode behaved properly when I was using a USB keyboard. I'm currently using NoSleep to work around this problem, but I'd like to know the root cause.
I've just bought my first Mac (long-time PC user) and am attempting to solve the problem of the missing easy-access has (#) key. (I know it's there - either Alt +3 or Shift + 3 - but I want to access with one button push). I've installed Ukelele as recommended in answers to this question but I was wondering whether anyone has any tips or recommendations about where to remap the has key to. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you!
I'm looking to enable color syntax highlighting in vi. I just enabled colors in Terminal via here. Any ideas on how to enable this? NOTE: Usually on Linux when I open vi with vi file.txt and it opens in black and white on default, I can open the same file with vim file.txt and it will show the colors, but this does not work here.
As the new owner of an iPad, it was disappointing, but not surprising, to see a "not charging" in the upper right hand corner of my iPad when I connected it via USB to my Apple Keyboard from 2007. However, connecting it directly to my MacBook Pro from 2010 does charge the iPad, so it seems it's just a simple matter of my USB keyboard not drawing enough power.
Clarification The two users are two accounts on the very same MacBook. The two users share the same OSX, and so it seems reasonable for them to also share the same Windows VM.
I am curious if anyone has measured directly or found an authoritative reference that documents at which point the various iPad will display charging and not "not charging" in the menu bar while operating. Apple publishes great information on how it's Computers and Displays will over supply power to select Apple devices well past the normal USB standard, but I can't find iPad specific information. I presumes this notification is based purely on a set amount of current being detected and not simply a net power surplus (since the load of an iPad can vary based on CPU/GPU, brightness and radio power consumption) calculation.
I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case. Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?
I want to be able to write the current list of Wifi networks in airport, and their respective strengths, to a file. I would like to use some sort of bash script to do this, but I am unsure how to access the data in Airport.
I have some mail messages that OSX Mail puts in my junk folder but does not show the header saying "Mail thinks this message is Junk Mail" and so does not show the button allowing me to mark the mail as not junk. How do I get Mail to allow me to mark the mail as not junk. These emails are put in the junk folder by me.com/iCloud so I would hope Apple would allow control via their apps.
Alternatively, is there a better way to create a fake web browser that takes the input and puts it in the pasteboard than Automator? Or is there any other way that I can achieve my goal without a custom application / script?
For some reason, one Rails app I'm trying to ruin is trying to use iODBC instead of unixodbc installed through Homebrew. Is there something I could do to switch my default ODBC driver to unixodbc? I'm on Lion 10.7.3.
I had been a Windows guy for a decade and I am planning to buy a used Macbook Pro (2009 model). What should I look for and check when buying a used Macbook Pro?
I am starting to dislike the Finder. Does anybody know of a good Finder replacement, something Unixy or Nexty which will still work with all Mac OS X applications?
Sometimes on my Macbook Pro when I have a lot of icons in the menu bar, if I start an application which has a lot of menu items, some of these icons get automatically obscured by the menu items. For example, when running iTunes, the Twitter icon gets obscured...
I am looking to change the functionality of the buttons on the Apple Remote. What software is available to do this?
That's what I told him, his answer: "Well, that could work, but my Mac will automatically detect this and wipe the drive before anything gets copied." The main question: Is this bullshit? From what i would expect, this would work like: BIOS --> Linux --> Mount Disc --> Copy --> Start OS X --> Detect and wipe
I tried Lion a few months ago, but had to revert to 10.6 because of the "coreaudiod bug" – where audio via QuickTime would stop working every few minutes, requiring a killall coreaudiod each time. Since I'm a video editor, this would interfere with Final Cut and After Effects, making Lion unusable. Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed yet in Lion?
I was exclusively a PC man (specifically Dell, Gateway, and HP), but I am now planning to buy a Mac, because my sister has a Mac, with a battery life (much) longer than mine, and I would like to benefit from that. Could anyone suggest the best Mac to buy if I want the longest battery life possible. I mean really the longest, even if it sacrifices other things to achieve it.
When starting a new Screen Recording in Quicktime Player in Lion 10.7.3, as soon as I click record I get this following error message:  Here's a video demonstrating the issue: *=URL=* Here are the settings under the triangle on the right:
Until recently, I've been using the excellent VLC media player to do this on Windows. VLC on Windows has commands to speed up and slow down in fine increments. Witness:
I run a small home network, and have configured my DHCP server to provide a domain name with all responses. My MacBook Air (running 10.7.3) places the provided domain in the DNS search path, but does not set the local domain accordingly. Note, the actual domain name has been replaced with my.example.com in the output below, and IP/MAC addresses have been stripped. Diagnostic information below. I've poked around in System Preferences -> Network -> Wi Fi -> Advanced with no luck, other than statically setting the hostname, which obviously doesn't work if I roam between networks. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? The search domain is set correctly in /etc/resolv.conf: However, hostname -f doesn't reflect the domain in the FQDN: Running tcpdump and forcing a DHCP renewal confirms that option 15 is present in both the DHCP request and reply, but seemingly isn't being used by OS X other than to set the DNS search path.
One of my favorite parts of Windows is the ability to selectively turn features on or off. For instance, on a tablet you can turn on Tablet PC components; on a desktop you can disable these and potentially enable other features as well. It provides you with a list of checkboxes that lets you choose which programs and features you want to disable or enable. So: Is there any Mac equivalent of Windows' Turn Windows Features On or Off? I'm looking for a central place to see a list of checkboxes that display a large amount of features that I can turn on or off.
I'm a web developer that makes webapps that work in all modern browsers. Amazingly enough, I use 100% valid HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Occasionally, I have to release interesting fixes, to say the least, because my webapps don't work in the latest versions for some reason.
I've been noticing some issues with my Mac lately and decided to repair permissions (with Disk Utility). However, after getting through a few files I am presented with: I've never encountered this before, so wanted to check if this is serious and how I might be able to rectify it.
I'm trying to swipe a couple photostream pictures onto a borrowed windows laptop, but I can't find any way to do that via the web. Can I access my photostream in any way other than iTunes? I'd rather not install it on someone else's PC.
How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies? My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.
I use my MacBook Pro plugged in to power and an external monitor 90% of the time, and thus the little charged battery indicator in the menubar is useless. However when I'm not on wall power, is there a way to have it show up? When I have that menu item disabled, my MacBook doesn't give me any low battery warnings, and just shuts down (it's happened several times).
I like using my macbook pro's sudden motion sensors as an accelerometer for small at-home experiments. There are applications such as Seismac that already let you do this.
When iTunes is playing songs from a Playlist, sometimes I just want to play a song from later in the playlist. Is there a way to load songs into a queue, or to tell iTunes to play another song next? I'm using iTunes 10.6.0.40 on Windows 7.
My Mom accidentally moved some system files on her Macbook Pro and did something so they can't be restored back to where they were and now some apps aren't working anymore. Is there a way to repair the installation of Mac OS or a way to figure out where these files should go? She doesn't have Time Machine set up by the way so that isn't an option. Here is the list of files that she moved:
Many times when I'm on Safari on my iPhone and I choose to switch to a new tab, instead of just displaying its contents, it reloads the entire tab. Is there any way to switch to the tab and prevent it from reloading the tab? I tried turning off all network connections, but it still attempts to load the tab, fails, and shows a blank page.
There have been countless times where I run into a problem after I edit HTML on a Mac. The issue derives from me uploading the updated file to my server through FTP, and I'll navigate to the website in Safari. The one thing that didn't act properly was that Safari had already cached the webpage (the old version), so it would display the old version. I thought to myself and decided to clear the cache in Safari hoping it would solve my issue. Clearing the cache merely let the website appear to reload. It still came up with the old version of the file. To prove that the file on the server was actually updated, I got on another Mac on the same network, and it displayed the new version of the file. No matter how many times I refreshed or cleared the cache or reopened Safari, it would always deliver the old file. The only other solution I could come up with was to reboot. After a reboot, Safari reloaded the entire website and displayed the new version of the file.
My friend's iPhone's sleep/wake button no longer works. Is there any way to turn off the screen besides setting up auto-lock and waiting a few minutes?
I've been happy with my jailbroken iPod touch and didn't want to upgrade beyond 1.1.4. However, since late last year, perhaps September, the YouTube application hasn't worked, giving the uninformative error "Cannot connect to YouTube". Likewise I cannot reach Google using SSL, only straight HTTP. The error with *=URL=* first successfully redirects to *=URL=* but then gives this error:
Many programs for OS X simply ask to drop the executable into the Applications directory. This obviously means that copying the executable onto another machine is possible without problems.
I'm looking to get a Mac for iOS development, and with about $700 to work with, a Mac mini with upgraded RAM seems like the way to go. My problem is I never work strictly in one place (i.e. the office). I'm always at different locations, be it at home, with clients, or simply sitting outside at a coffee house. I always bring my laptop along and have looked into using VNC to access the mini remotely. However, I've read snippets of other users experiencing less-than-stellar speeds/performance when using VNC.
I have a well-worn battery on my 2010 MacBook Pro. After 467 charge cycles, I get about 3 hours of the normal 6-7 hour range.
When I type in something incorrectly, or if I'm in the middle of typing, the iPad sometimes shows up an auto-correct suggestion. If I click on the suggestion to choose it, it disappears. And then, when I type the word again, the auto-correct doesn't appear.
I forward all email from my gmail account to iCloud using POP3 but when I delete emails in iCloud some go to the trash folder, which is where I want them to go, but sometimes a folder called 'deleted messages' is created for the deleted emails. What could be causing this?
I recently purchased a 15" MBP. The unit is set up and fully operational, but I am uncertain about Outlook set up. I have MS Outlook '11 installed with 3 POP accounts created and receive mail into the inbox folder. I have imported my old .pst files from my Windows PC and those folders appear below the inbox. I would like emails to be automatically delivered to the relevant folder for that account and not all collectively in the inbox. Is there any way of setting this up?
I’m using my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.6) standing in a shelf with an external screen on my desk so I don’t use and need the internal screen. But if the internal one is on it’s shown in spaces.
We have a MacOS X Lion server with a 140TB external RAID array mounted via a Fibre Channel interface. Whenever anybody logs in, it appears that they own all of the files. How do we set it up so that the partition is mounted by the system on boot and ownership doesn't change to whomever is logged in? We also see this strange behavior when people "ssh" into the server: I think that this has something to do with the 'no owner' mount flag, but I'm not sure. The thing that has me confused is that we have another system where this isn't a problem, but it's running XServe RAID and this is a RAID from another vendor.
Upside down is probably the wrong phrase here, but whenever I start an app that uses landscape (e.g. a game) or watch a video, the first orientation is starts at is with the phone rotated left. In other words, with the volume controls on the bottom.
But it has some serious issues: it's dos utility so it's tricky to use on Mac (but it's possible) it may not work with Intel SATA controllers, you may need to put the HDD in an external enclosure to make the utility see that drive. latest version is dated 2006 and it's probably abandoned by author
A while ago I stumbled upon an app that made it possible to change the device that a Bluetooth keyboard is connected to. This would allow me to quickly switch the keyboard between being connected to the iPad, or iMac or MacBook. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of this utility.
I have a new imac with Lion. How can I transfer my imap mail from my older imac with 10.5.8?
I have lost mail between certain dates for no apparent reason on my imac with Lion using mail.app. Can I find the lost mail and restore it to the respective folders both sent and received?
When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time. However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others. How do I start up my Mac silently?
I have Lion on my Mac Air. I wrote some aliases in ~/.bashrc file, which looks like:
Guess I'm getting old and set in my ways using Spaces and Expose on my Macbook Pro. I like my hotspots as they are and flip through the four screens with ease (option-arrow). My work recently bought me an external monitor which I'd like to try and incorporate into my daily activities. So, in my ideal world, I'd love to do the following:
I have some ideas (i.e. certain software algorithms) which I think could enhance the user experience if implemented in the next version of Apple's operating systems. I'd like to connect with somebody from the company to discuss this in more detail. I'm not sure where to start because I know I'm going to get nowhere talking to customer service. Can anybody here point me in the right direction?
is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore? I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password
Can I connect the Apple Thunderbolt display to any PCI Express graphics card with Mini DisplayPort v1.2 Eyefinity technology?
I remember there used to be a play button on my music files on my Desktop. I would click it, and it would play that song without opening anything up. Now I can't. I have to make do with opening Finder, switching to column mode, and then playing it. I don't want to use Quick Look, because it disappears when I move away. I may have switched view settings, updated Quicktime, etc. Do you know of a way that I can do this again?
I need to work on both: Mac Pro and Ubuntu PC. I would like to use one keyboard. It is more less simple to do with external Mac keyboard, but how to do it with build-in one? External is not convenient, because I use 3 or 4 screens (including laptop one) and the whole 'work env' gets either too wide or too deep.
I am trying to add an icon into my iPhone application. To do this, I need to add an icon image via the Xcode interface into my plist option labeled "Icon List."
I'd like to use iTunes to extract Album Art into standard image formats (such as .png or .jpg), so that I can back them up in a location external to the iTunes library. How can I do this in iTunes?
I am looking for iOS apps for the Stack Exchange network that support the iPad. This is very similar to this question, but the difference is that I'm looking for apps that run on the iPad (not in 2x mode). What different apps exist for browsing the Stack Exchange network on the iPad?
I have been using time machine to back up to a wireless external drive since I got my mac. Today I used filevault to encrypt my hard drive. Will this affect how Time Machine backs up my files? Will the new backups be encrypted on the external drive? I am running Lion on the mac. I found this on an apple support page - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/21241.html
In Preview, when I drag a PDF document from my laptop screen to an external monitor, Preview zooms in the view by a large amount--enough that I have to click the "minus" button a couple of times to get the view back to where it was. Likewise, if I move a PDF document from the external monitor to the laptop screen, Preview zooms out by the same amount. This behavior happens with all PDF documents unless the view is set to "automatically resize", in which case moving the document doesn't cause zooming, but does cause Preview to scroll the document down about a quarter of a page.
I regularly create documents in Pages, then convert them to a PDF using File → Export. I always save the PDF versions in the same folder as the original document.
I recently received a iPod Nano 6G for my birthday. I very quickly found out that headphones/earbuds are required for radio reception. My dad proposed the idea that the iPod uses the headphones/earbuds as the antenna. Is his hypothesis correct? Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna?
Can OS X share a printer on a network using the exact same protocol that Windows uses to share a printer, or is it necessarily different? If there are protocol choices, how to choose?
I purchased a Macbook AIR July 2011 model about 2 months ago and I noticed in the last few weeks that animations have a lot of screen tearing. I thought at first it was Flash animations but I notice it in HTML animations as well. It might be a browser thing since dragging around the windows quickly doesn't show any tearing. What's causing this and how can I fix it? You can test this yourself.
I have my Gmail account configured via Exchange on my iPhone 4S. When I add a new contact, it only adds it to my phone. I have to add separately to Gmail and then merge duplicates, which seems like too many steps.
What's a good (paid or free) download manager app for the iPad? I tried using iDownloads+ Free, but it seems to unreliable when the connection is spotty.
Might a simple file copy of the application folder work? Or, is something like this not supported and I just need to accept that buying apps this way will necessarily consume N * download size worth of bandwidth for each purchase and update?
I have a VPN to my office and would like to route only office traffic over the VPN while maintaining my default route for other traffic. I have attempted the following: Routing table after change: When this happens, I can get to 172.0.0.0/8 but I can't get anywhere else. If I add a default route back such as: Then everything starts working again. Starting Routing Table: Any ideas?
It seems that the best advice for battery longevity on my MacBook Air is to keep the battery cool. It doesn't have powerful fans like the MacBook Pro, so I would think that overheating is even more of a problem on an Air than a Pro. What are the best ways to keep the MacBook Air cool? Note: this isn't a duplicate of this question since that question (and the answers) deals with how to prevent the fan noise.
Someone just helped me install VMWare Fusion and Windows 7 as virtual machine. And I realize that the disk BOOTCAMP (C:) for Windows 7 is just 39.90 Go, which will be too small... The disk Z is the shared folder with Mac OS. Is there any way to increse the size of the disk BOOTCAMP (C:) for Windows 7?
Someone just helped me install VMware Fusion on my Mac with Windows 7 as a virtual machine. And I just realized that the official language is French, instead of English. Although I can read French, but I definitely prefer the whole system to be in English. I don't think the “Region and Language” control panel is the right place to fix this, because I have already done as follows with English, which does not work:
Failing that, is there a third party tool I need to add to the multitude I installed already? In the olden days on Windows XP, I used to have a tool called Taskbar Shuffle that permitted rearrangement of icons in the taskbar and system tray .. anything similar for OS X (but for the menu bar)? Thanks!
I have this very strange issue with my iPhone 4's (iOS 5.0.1 9A405) Contacts app. As you know, there is this "bar" on the right which allows you to touch a letter and have the table directly "jump" to that letter:
I would like to share my music with my girlfriend. Can we share a single apple ID?
I am using Windows 7 as virtual machine under Mac OS... The keyboard shortcuts of Windows become difficult because of the Mac keyboard... For instance, I am used to tiling scenes in Windows by Windows icon key + right arrow or Windows icon key + left arrow, which moves the scene to the right half of the window or the left half... However, I can't find Windows icon key now on the Mac keyboard... So, could anyone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut to move scenes in Windows 7 as virtual machine?
I want to know how to control (specifically turn off) the networking (specifically AirPort - I want to turn off the radio) from the command line (specifically from bash in Terminal.app, being run by me) as a user (no sudo privileges or admin priviliges). You CAN turn off AirPort as a user, but I need to do this from the command line – as a user.
When I lock my screen, sometimes it shows my iTunes library, other times it shows a screensaver, and other times it shows photos. I don't want it to do any of these things, I'd like it to just show a black background or maybe a picture. Is there a way to customize it?
In case my iPhone is turned off/out of battery, will I be receiving messages as iMessage or text message?
This question is related to both iMac and Windows, but since it is happening on an iMac 27 inch model, so I hope posting in the Apple forum is more relevant. Basically, when an iMac is connected to an HDTV, part of the screen is missing near the margin (about 3% to 5%). If running Mac OS X, the issue can be solved by using "underscan" in the System Preferences. But what if the iMac is running Windows 7, can a similar solution be used? (I don't see such options for the graphics card...).
I love using touch with Windows 7 and 8. Especially on Windows 8, the touchscreen finally feels like it's respected just as much as the keyboard and mouse.
As a Windows user, I've seen my share of BSODs. I've also seen some errors from Macs, but as I haven't used them as long, I don't really know what the Mac OS X error screens are like.
Animated GIF images seem incredibly slow since iOS 4.3ish. Prior to that, animated GIFs worked just fine and had the same speed as on a computer. I don't mean loading the GIF, but the speed of the animation. They are the same on the iPhone 3GS and iPad 2, so it's probably not hardware based. However, they work fine in the Simulator. I suspect the libraries were changed at some point. Can anyone confirm this, and/or provide a remedy. Animated GIFs hosted at senorgif.com are the main culprits. EDIT: iOS 6 seems to have fixed the issue; probably a memory allocation related, since each frame used to get slower and slower :P
I use my MacBook Air for FaceTime calls, while a friend calls me using an iPad 2. Since I don't always keep my Air turned on all the time, my friend's calls often end up unanswered. However, it's very rare that I see these on my Mac. It was only once that I actually saw a missed call in my FaceTime.
I'm looking for a few freeware alternatives to Dreamweaver that I can use in my Mac that runs on OS X Lion. Shoot the best free, website development applications you know?
If I buy a iTunes card in Europe, Holland, could I (or anyone who has the key) use it in Australia?
I often download videos from online courses on the Internet. When I need to transfer them to the iPad, I have to connect them to a Windows or Mac running iTunes, and drop them in there. Is there a way I could bypass connecting to the computer, and directly have the videos downloaded to the Videos app?
I was going to replace my HDD with a SSD - but I need to install Lion for my SSD. Do I need to install Leopard on the SSD first, then go to the Mac App Store to update?
Does the Time Capule support Time Machine backups from multiple macs out of the box?
I just got my new iPad and installed the apps I wanted without first syncing it with my computer. When I connect it to my computer and choose to sync apps, iTunes wants to add all my 400+ purchased iPad apps to the iPad, and I don't want that.
I am writing a script which should backup my Documents folder onto a USB stick. I want the script to be executed every time I connect the USB stick. I found a solution here. But it seems like I can't find the folder where to put the rule. So does anyone know where I could find a udev or rules folder?
I need to access a DVD using my MacBook Air, and am planning to buy an external drive. I'd prefer going for an option cheaper than the SuperDrive. However it looks like the SuperDrive doesn't work with other machines, and this worries me that other drives won't work with this machine. If I get a recently manufactured non-Apple external drive, can I expect it to work with my MacBook Air?
I have been trying to restore my iPhone 4S over iCloud since yesterday. Invariably, it will fail with the message that the iPhone is no longer connected to the internet. The wifi over which my iPhone is connected is also being used by four other computers that have no problems maintaining their connection with the internet.
I'm trying to help a blind friend of mine, to get her up and running on a mac. As her text editor of choice, she'd like to use pages, but there, the bullet points aren't shown on her braille display. She has also tried openOffice, but there, VoiceOver doesn't read anything, probably because of the use of a non standard UI kit. How can we either solve the pages problem, or what's an editor that will read everything correctly?
I recently purchased my first Mac. It's a mid-2010 MBP (bought it off craigslist). At first, I absolutely loved the simplicity of the OS. When I decided to upgrade to Lion, I began to loathe the system. More times than not, the machine won't wake up from sleep. The keyboard lights up, the HDD spins up, but the screen is dark.
I let my friend sign into Twitter on my iPhone and we deleted her account afterwards. After that, all her notifications, such as mentions and messages still come up on my iPhone. It’s really annoying. How can I get it to stop doing that?
I would like to ask, where could I find all my rated music, apps and etc. on the iTunes? Moreover, how could I unrate those items? Thank you in advance. Regards, Arthur
I'm trying to avoid having to sync my iOS devices with a computer for any reason, but so far haven't been able to come up with a way to find a youtube video and cache it locally so when I leave an internet connected area I can still view it. The methods to do it that are most common all involve a computer:
I can feel current leakage on my mbp when it is being charged. And it seems a lot of people in my country report the same problem. Is this because of the voltage(220V) we use? What's the solution?
After looking at various models of Macs and looking at Apple's iLife and iWork pages, I'm more confused than where I started. Originally, I thought that nothing - just Lion - came with a new Mac. But then I saw something here that says that iLife is a part of every new Mac.
I'm looking for a way to input the EOF char into the command line on my MacBook Pro with Windows 7 running in Boot Camp. I've tried several suggested shortcuts and the on-screen keyboard but none of it works.
Is there a way to download/export iMessage history somewhere? If I deleted messages on a local device, is it also removed online on iCloud?
When i purchased a new Mac book and turned it on for the first time, there was a pop up where i had to enter my name, address, email etc. I skipped the email field, and now in xCode, my name and my company name gets displayed as comments and not my email address. So how can i get my email to get displayed in xCode in the comment section ? note: I only want my email ID to be displayed in xCode and not in other applications.
None of these work. If I close the MacBook to suspend it, then bring it back up, that fixes the problem, but is less than ideal if I have, e.g. a big download going.
Does anybody know of any alternatives to GeekTool that allow you to put content on your desktop sourced from shell scripts, files, etc but that makes the content interactive? A few use cases I would really like: A list of recent tweets where any links in the tweets are clickable A calendar widget that allows me to navigate forward and back in months A search box for google or wikipedia An app launcher
The iPhone has a touchscreen with a slippery surface which is important as the user can slide his/her fingers easily. The touchscreen's surface of my one year old iPhone has become rough. How can I restore the smooth surface of my iPhone? Can you recommend lubricants that restore the slippery surface of the touchscreen?
It has been a week since I purchased my MacBook, and I don't have any money at the moment to purchase the AppleCare package. Is there any possibility for me to purchase it in 8 months? Will I then get the 3 year warranty from the original date I purchased the MacBook, or from the date I purchased the AppleCare package?
I have an iMac running Mac OS 10.7.3 which is connected to wifi network, there is also a linux laptop connected to the same network. I want to share a folder with this laptop, I cannot use ftp since it was removed from system preferences. I don't want to share everything, so remote login is not option, unless there are settings to restrict it, so what is the best way of sharing this folder?
I have an old iMac G4 that's well beyond being supported in any capacity by Apple. Two years ago, when taking it apart to upgrade the hard drive and CD drive, I accidentally severed the connector on the logic board for the display. At the time, I looked around to see if I could find somewhere I could purchase a replacement logic board, but pretty much the only place I found were some people selling them on eBay from unknown origins for wildly varying prices. I ended up dropping the matter, as I didn't have a need for the machine anymore, but it got me thinking:
I am using Mac OS X 10.6 configured for English. I am using iCloud configured for English. Why are iCal invitations sent in German?
Is there a way to hover over content in a web page when viewing it in Safari in the iPad? Specifically, I was trying to hover over the individual avatars at Ask Different iPad Contest home page. On a Mac or PC, it shows when the individual completed their level on hovering, but I couldn't get to see that in the iPad.
I'm getting used to working on a MacBook Air this week and find myself wondering if I can systematically change the default system shortcuts to use the power button as a direct substitution for the shortcuts that employed the eject key on previous keyboards. I figure there is a really good reason why Apple didn't just enable this by default, but it would be nice to use the one such combination that I am most familiar with: control + shift + eject which shuts off the main display immediately An answer that addresses this one issue narrowly would be great if there is a longer wait for a more general, comprehensive answer.
Today I was mucking about trying to uninstall macports when I noticed an error being thrown up whenever I used sudo. I killed Terminal and tried to restart it which failed with the error message "You're are not authorized to run this application" and "The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value." How can I fix this?
I am archiving my CD collection onto an external hard drive. I have been using Toast to create bin/cue files so that I will have an exact copy of each CD. However, many of the bin/cue files are being copied with gaps or dropped sound in them. When I rip the same CDs into MP3 or Apple Lossless, the music transfers without any drops/gaps. Is there any way to ensure that the bin/cue file is copying the CD bit for bit? And how do I know whether the problem is Toast or the CD drive?
I'm using Siri in German, and one of the examples mentions the command: Meine Mutter ist Diana Pelzl
I've been looking through the user interface of the 2012 AppleTV and I can't find a place to see what has been downloaded to the device (e.g. movies or TV shows)--or the progress in-process downloads. I just purchased a season of a TV show and I want to see how many of the episodes have downloaded and to make sure they're downloading, without actually going to watch a show and see what the scrubber bar says.
The weird thing is, the F-keys do work and function correctly (brightness, volume, etc). If I change those keys to perform the F-key functions in the control panel (ie. require holding Fn+F1 to change brightness), the F-keys work correctly.
I just captured a video with my new iPad, then used the iPad's built-in tools to upload it to youtube. I selected "high quality" but it appears to be only a 720p video on youtube (caution: kids and baby chicks herein). Is there a way to upload a 1080p video from the iPad to Youtube?
I've gotten so used to the Lion natural scrolling that using (for lack of a better term) unnatural scrolling in Snow Leopard and earlier is very annoying. Is there any way I can reverse it for OSes before Lion?
When I try to access a Gopher site in Safari it opens OmniWeb to open the site. Where does Mac OS X or Safari store which application to use for Gopher sites? (I assume Safari doesn't support Gopher itself?)
I use the Notes app for keeping track and sharing the extended notes with fellow physicians in cardiology studies. There are a lot of pros to this app and I would find it very much useful if I could insert pictures into specific areas within Notes. (a video would make it even better). How is it possible to customize this for a such purpose and is there an alternative to this solution?
I was deleting Skype from my login items and noticed that iTunesHelper showed a warning under a unmarked column. What does it mean and how do I fix it?
When this happens, it takes quite a few hours before it will operate normally without grinding the hard disk for a minute or more at a time. Most applications freeze or become very unresponsive while it does this.
I have two e-mail accounts on my iPhone 4, one of which is my "work" Exchange account, and I therefore have two sets of address books ("From My Mac" and "Work"). From an e-mail, and also from the Phone's Recents list, if I select an e-mail address or phone number and then select "Create New Contact", I am not given an opportunity to select the address book that it should be added to. It always adds it to my work (Exchange) address book.
I am delighted with LTE tethering on the new iPad with personal hotspot. What are the speed ramifications of selecting Wi-Fi over Bluetooth or connecting via USB and the dock connector?
Any thoughts? This is a brand new Apple TV, brand new iPad, and both Macs are running the latest version of iTunes.
Sometimes, I want to save a file somewhere in ~/Library/. I can think of two ways to do this: either go to it in Finder and drag the folder to the dialog, or use a tool such as Default Folder to make the folder a favorite. Is there any way to navigate to ~/Library/ within a Save dialog on Lion without using a third-party app?
My MBP mid-2009 is starting to slowly fall apart, so I figured I need a new one. I got an SSD for my current macbook, which has OS and apps installed, etc.
I have a 2nd gen AppleTV unit. I would like to know if there is a way to use the AppleTV remote to put the unit to sleep (e.g. hold a key down)? Currently, the only way I know to do this is to traverse the menus back out to Settings, and then select Sleep Now.
I have themes in almost every browser that I have installed on my PC. Most themes on the Internet are absolute crap - blurry, inappropriate, racist, or all three. However, I've always managed to get some good theme that I'm happy with.
[Update: The Gmail.app and accessing the account through Safari, on the iPhone ONLY, is now working again. However, on the iPad, it still does not work.] [Update2:
Since April 2012, one user of my MacBook Pro can no longer load the Security & Privacy pane. When I click the icon, a sheet drops down:
Is there an app which shows contents of a .pkg file and shows which files an installer copies to my mac, what scripts it runs and so on?
MacBook Pro 17" 2009 Lion 10.7.3 iTunes 10.6 Unlike a lot of posts on the internet, my Mac actually goes to sleep just fine, usually. However, if iTunes was playing something, and then I either explicitly stop it playing, or the movie/track/playlist comes to an end, it runs down the battery to zero! I understand that iTunes doesn't let the Mac go to sleep if it's playing something, but if I explicitly press the stop/pause button, or the media stops playing, shouldn't the Mac go to sleep as per usual?
In Addressbook I want to create a keyboard shortcut for the Menu entry Delete Group using the key combination option-command-delete. So I went to System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Keyboard Shortcuts and added an app-specific shortcut entry for "Delete Group". But when I tried to assign the key combination option-command-delete, my input wouldn't get accepted. (Combinations with letter like option-command-D work, though.) How can I enter a shortcut combination involving the delete key?
I recently got a replacement iPhone 4 (under warranty to replace my old iPhone 4), and just before returning the old iPhone 4, I did a backup. When I connect the new phone to my iTunes, it only gives me the option to register the phone and does not offer me an option to restore. My new phone's iOS is 5.0.1; I can't recall if my old phone was on 5.1 or 5.0.1. I'm worried to update the iOS of the new phone to 5.1, in case my old backup wasn't on 5.1. Can a backup done on an older version restore to a new phone on a newer version?
I'm heading out internationally and do not want to drum up a large phone bill by taking calls while I'm away, yet I would like to have the phone to use over WiFi - FaceTime, iMessage etc. Is there a way to turn off the phone function while keeping the ability to receive SMS messages?
I have an app in /usr/local/bin directory and can not drag it onto the dock and have to open Terminal everytime I want to run this program. Is it possible to run a macported/homebrewed application from the Dock?
Google only allows image search from the camera directly (and not the gallery), but doesn't allow iPad users to search by uploading an existing image or typing a specific URL. How can I search by image from an iPad?
Every time I log in to one specific account on my mac the hard drive icon, usually in the top right, has moved to the top left and is partly off of the screen. Even when I drag it back to the right it has moved on the next start up. Any ideas how to fix this?
I have made a bootable backup of my mac on an external drive using superduper. Is it possible to make this backup secure? Either by encrypting the backup or adding a password to it?
If someone was to steal my external hard drive would they need to input my password to be able to read the TimeMachine backup data on there?
I would like to try Intel's EFI shell. How can I (build and) install EFI Shell on Mac? I've seen prebuilt binary, but I'd like do build it myself and I don't trust stuff from file-sharing sites. There is EDK but isn't it for Windows only or maybe I can built it on OSX somehow?
The application Disk Utility /Library/Utilites/Disk Utility.app which is part of the applications that ship with the Mac OS allows to reformat an external disk. Options include: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (journaled HFS+) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) MS-DOS (FAT) ExFAT
I'm searching for Windows software to fully back up an iPad. iTunes only saves those files which were transfered from the same Apple ID.
So I got this weird situation probably because of my own stupidity. But here goes: I am on Lion (10.7.3) and decided to install FaceTime from the App Store. When trying to install the App Store app says that I need to move current FaceTime.app to trash. When trying to do so the OS says that I cannot remove FaceTime app since it's required by OS. Being confused I open the terminal and go all sudo rm -fr on FaceTime.app. Getting back to App Store I try to install the FaceTime again, but this time I get message saying that MAS version of FaceTime is too old for my OS. So basically my question boils down to - how do I get my FaceTime app back?
My friend has sent me a gift app from the Singapore App Store whilst I'm on the Australian App store. I encounter the following: "This code is only valid for customers of the Singapore Store." How do I redeem this?
I have an old MacBook that can't run anything higher than 10.4, due to hardware limitations. Is there any decent modern browser I can run? Opera, Safari and Firefox all need at least 10.6.
I guess the title says it all. I've the restriction code long time ago, and when I wanted to do actuall in-app purchase it turned out I cannot recall the password. Worse, now after 10 tries I have to wait 60 minutes before each consecutive tries.
Is it possible to force an OpenGL app into a window instead of fullscreen canvas? I'm using two displays and would like to use the other, while playing a game on one display. Since fullscreen makes the secondary display go black, this it not possible by now.
I have updated my MacBook Pro (Core i5, early 2010) with system update to new EFI version, and now after startup it just shows the gray screen and doesen't react on keyboard (just plays the boot sound). I cannot open boot menu (Option key) and cannot boot from other device. Command+S does not help. Only thing that it reacts is Command-Option-P-R, but then it still won't boot. Tech details: Installed 8 GB memory and 120 GB vertex2 SSD drive
Randomly my external hard drive freezes the main thread in OS X as it's waiting for I/O when in power-save mode. Everything is stuck. It freezes for about 1-3 seconds.
I need to know where is the back space in a MacBook Pro keyboard. I am new to the Mac, and not familiar with the keyboard layout.
The hard disk in my wife's iMac, which was running Leopard, just died. She has an up to date Time Machine backup. I want to restore the backup to her new MacBook Pro, which is running Lion.
Recently, I've been having problems with my late 2009 MacBook Pro crashing several times a day. How can I fix it? I'm running OS 10.7.3 with 8 GB of RAM.
I need to find a way to output, or possibly make an internal recording of, a screencast of everything on the iPad screen, so that I can record demonstrations of an app my company is developing. Of course I could position the iPad on a table with a video camera over my shoulder, but there must be methods available now for providing video output that can be captured by another device, or making an internal screencast.
If I'm using Pages '08 and trying to draw a border around a paragraph that is inside a text box, I go to the More tab of the Text Inspector and select a solid line and full rectangle under Border and Rules.  The border that results, however is a top-and-bottom border, and not a full rectangle:
Though I'm comfortable using either a trackpad or mouse for most tasks, there are some things that I prefer to have the precision of a mouse for. On one such occasion I was traveling with my MacBook, so I decided to toss my Magic Mouse into the bottom of a bag with other loose things. When I took it out, I noticed that the surface got all scuffed up and felt different.
By default, Siri often "answers" questions by producing a result from (amongst others) Wolfram Alpha. Often these results leave me wanting to drill down further to expand on parts of the answer provided, but I can find no way to use the answer to allow me to link from it to more complete information elsewhere on the web.
As per this marvellous screenshot on another question, is there an App available (preferably an iOS app, but a Mac OS X one might do) that will take a series of screenshots that are produced by taking snaps of various sections of a scrolling App or Webpage display, and automatically create a conjoined single image file. The example below was done in Photoshop, but the effect is what I would like to achieve.
I'm a Ruby on Rails developer and I've seen a very intriguing video of a developer using Dragon Dictate on Windows to do software development. I'm a long-time OS X / VIM user and I am wondering if anybody uses Dragon with MacVIM. Googling doesn't seem to turn up any results.
I'm not sure what's going on here, but whenever I go to a new line, tab doesn't work. It doesn't work in other lines of the same paragraph either, but if I go back to a previous paragraph, hit tab, delete the tab in that paragraph, and then go down to where I want the tab, it lets me do it. But then the problem will pop up again in the next paragraph. How can I fix this problem and what is causing it? After further experimentation, I've found that just clicking into another paragraph and clicking back does the trick, most of the time anyway.
My Brother in law has an IPhone 4 (not 4s) with a special kind of durable cover. however this means that the home button gets pressed a lot in his pocket and switches on voice control which does all sorts of weird things. Can you switch off the long press home button voice control? Is there any other solution other than get a new iphone cover?
There are a lot of options to make ntfs mountable for read and write like ntfs3g, tuxera, paragon but isn't it like rw support worked in some older OSX versions? How to put drivers from older OSX in Lion (Mountain Lion) to make it read and write to ntfs with native drivers.
Is it possible to set two independent columns in Apple pages, so that the text in the left column continues in the left column of the next page and not in the right column. And the text of the right column continues in the right column of the next one. What I'm trying to do is to have some text and its translation, side by side.
I love the 'say' command in OS X. It's quite possibly the most fun little part of the Mac that I've seen in a while.
I have been using a new iPhone4 (replacement phone) for 2 months. Yesterday I connected it to my laptop to copy over photos. iPhoto said only 1 photo of 500 was imported. So I went to iTunes to import, selected "import all" hoping it would pick up everything. I chose the option "Keep Photos on iPhone" since I wanted to share a few recent photos yet with friends. No luck with the transfer of photos. So then I asked it to sync. Still nothing transfered to the laptop. After I unplugged my phone I noticed the photo library on the iPhone had changed. All the pictures I had taken were simply gone, and photos from prior to 2 months ago were in their place. It had restored a previous backup rather than transfer the new photos. I hadn't clicked "delete" photos but I think it just did it as part of restore sync. Is there any possible way to recover the pictures now — after a restore, without any previous backup?
I recently received an iPhone 3G from a friend. She took out her SIM card, so I don't have a SIM on my iPhone. I heard that you can now text on iMessage using your email instead of a phone number. I went to Settings > Messages, and I put in my email address, but my friend's number is on top. I'm tying to delete it, but I can't. I also have no SIM.
I have an iPod touch 4th generation Jailbroken 5.0.1, and today I started getting this "unsupported URL" error within apps, and on the home screen safari shortcuts. I have noticed that the url's start with "o" so it looks like "o*=URL=* I have no idea how to fix this so any help would be great!
I'm syncing my iPhone's Notes to iCloud. If I delete one of these notes, is it permanently deleted, or is there a way for me to recover it?
Does the Notes app handle sync concurrency issues gracefully, or does it only decide to keep one version of a note if 2 clients modify the same note? For example: Turn on airplane-mode on an iPad Modify a note on the iPad Turn on airplane-mode on an iPhone Modify the same note on the iPhone Turn off airplane-mode on both devices
I completely erased my hard drive (DOE compliant 3 pass secure erase) that had OS X Lion on it and reinstalled it from the recovery drive earlier today. To my astonishment, I saw that the Bluetooth preferences remembered all my 4 previously paired devices, albeit, with only their MAC addresses and not device names.
I want to load some of the PDFs I bought from the internet to my iPad from my PC (Windows 7). How can I do this?
I don't like that Finder shows me "All My Files":  It also delays Finder start a little.
Please advice a free application for Pomodoro time management which: Can be minified to menubar and shows remaining time there (like tomighty):
I bought a Griffin guitar cable when I picked up my iPad 3. It plugs into the headphone socket which I assume is supposed to act as an audio-in jack.
I use Time Machine to backup to an external hard drive. That external drive also has a lot of other photos and unique info on that drive, too. I'm not sure my Time Machine backed up my whole computer because of the computer turned off in the middle of the first time I used it (recently). Questions: Is there a way to confirm that the backup on the Time Machine is complete?
I'm wondering whether or not it's possible to put all ~400 users on each computer so that the grades can use each others' Macs interchangeably. Is it possible to put this many users on a Mac? And how many of these can be logged in at the same time?
Example: Dock 1 has Finder, Mail, Safari, iTunes, Chrome, Trash on it; Dock 2 has Finder, Firefox, Trash, Opera, and Dictionary on it. I press Command-Option-0 and it switches to Dock 2. I press it again and it switches to Dock 1.
What's a quick way of copying the path to the directory that's currently open in Finder? Copying that path is very easy in Linux and Windows file managers - you just need to copy it from the address bar. I don't see a corresponding option in Finder.
My Mac OSX Snow Leopard got exploited by the Flashback malware. There's a summary by F-Secure that I'm trying to follow in order to remove it. This link is similar, and provides a little more detail. The first step is to type the following:
Consider the situation where I have two spaces screens. From the second screen I open a terminal and make it fullscreen. By doing so I expected cmd+3 to take me to the terminal app, but it doesn't work. Any ideas on how to make it work? Thanks
In changeable desktop pictures I use the pictures in iPhoto. Occasionally there shows a picture that I'd like to see in iPhoto. Is there a way to get the picture info while it shows as the desktop?
I've set up a brand-new internet connection with a Wireless Router. The thing is that : It works all the time for my iMac It stops working at times on my MacBook Pro (either when connected via wifi, or using an ethernet cable), so I have to "Turn Wifi Off", then "Turn Wifi On" and reconnect, or simply re-plug in my ethernet cable. My iMac specs Model : iMac11,2 - Intel Core i3 (3.06GHz) OS : 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) My MacBook Pro specs Model : MacBookPro8,1 - Intel Core i5 (2.3GHz) [early 2011] OS : 10.7.3 (Lion) My Router specs Brand : ZTE Model : ZXV10 W300 v5.2 I'm sure it may have something to do with my connection settings, but I'm not sure what it is... Any ideas?
Is there a Finder plugin (maybe SIMBL plugin) which allows one to see the directory structure in the Finder's sidebar (instead of Favorites, Shared, Devices) or in an attached window? Something like this:
With genuine Lion install media being a rarety (and only included on certain newer Macs), there are a lot of queries by users on how they are best able to re-install (or even simply install) Lion on their computers. I think it would be very useful to have a single canonical answer that is able to present every sensible install option on a single page, from which machines include the USB install media to how to use Internet Recovery, and all the homebrew options of self burning an image to DVD etc inbetween. So, what methods are you aware of, or have you used, to re-install Lion on your Mac?
After upgrading to Lion, all my virtualhosts stopped working. They redirect to "It works" main apache page on my device for some weird reason. Example: /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 myhost.com
The only use I ever had for iTunes was updating and syncing my iDevices, but since the introduction of over-the-air updates and iCloud, I no longer have that need. My question therefore is if I can safely remove iTunes from my Mac? Or are there other applications that depend on iTunes being available? Thanks!
I downloaded a newsstand app, and purchased a 1 year subscription in-app. Now I need to download the magazine. However, I currently have no access to WiFi and the magazine itself is 300MB. Is there any way to download the magazine on a computer and transfer it to my iPad?
I safely removed Front Row, Chess and Face Time which else system apps are safe to remove and which I should never touch? I think it's a bad idea to remove "Dashboard.app" and "Launchpad.app".
How can I reinstall some system apps? There could be different reasons for that: I've removed some of my system apps and now I regret (actually not). Before I brought my computer to service center to replace corrupted memory it caused erratical disc writes which not only damaged some documents that I worked on but also corrupted some system apps (the part about documents is true).
I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I like my dock to contain only running apps, so I’ve removed all other icons from there (by clicking and dragging them out of the dock). However, every time I restart my computer, the icons for Facetime and the App Store re-appear in the dock, even though the apps aren’t running. How can I remove them from the dock permanently?
I have the only one computer with OSX (wife hates OSX) so I have no other computer to bonjour with. I never needed neither network zero-configuration nor printer sharing or whatever it does. Windows it causes MDNSResponder problems.
Now on my phone (3GS running iOS 5.1) I have on Settings > iCloud all options activated (including Mail and Notes). If I go to "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" I also see there my iCloud account registered, and Notes is as well selected. In Settings > Notes I only get an option to select the Font.
I recently subscribed to a newsstand magazine. The confirmation e-mail stated that my subscription will be renewed automatically. I don't want this, but I can't find the option to turn this off. It's not under 'Purchases'...
How do I place my fingers to press Control, Option and Command buttons on Apple keyboard? What is the default and correct way to press these buttons? I'm using these keyboard shortcuts: Command-C, Command-V, Command-Option-V, Command-Shift-V Option-Shift-Left Command-Spacebar Option-Spacebar
After selecting "music" and listennig to an album, every time I wake my IPad3, there is a giant album-cover splash screen which remains until I unlock the IPad. I really don't like that. How do I convince the IPad to cease and desist with album-cover art when I'm waking it?
I want to use Viber for my calls and text messages so I turned off send as SMS. Do I still receive texts?
I use the iPod almost exclusively connected to the aux input of a car stereo (aboard a boat, actually), rather than with headphones. I normally charge it via the USB mode of the same car stereo.
I'm used to "3G" and "E" on my AT&T iPhone 3GS, and I understand I may see "4G" on my new iPad when I enter a 4G area. However, I recently saw "o" on the new Verizon iPad, and had no idea what it meant.
I come from Android and one of the little apps I used to use that was very handy was Custom Maps. It allows you to create a map from any image by selecting a few points on the image and defining their location. Is there an app in the App store that allows this?
A few days ago I noticed my iPhone is overheating and after a few minutes its charge was reduced to 18% from 80% while I only read some texts during that period. What's the problem? I did find over a thousand responses to this question from Google results but I don't know which one is correct.
I use freeappalert to find iOS apps that were made free each day. I'm not interested in apps that are already free, just those that recently became free.
I have to turn out some network topology maps for very large networks. I'd like the format for the maps to be something other people can also edit and contribute to regardless of what software I'm using on my Mac to build them. I don't mind spending money on my end for software, but I can't require that my clients spend any money. I also can't promise my clients are also using OS X -- they could be running Linux or Windows. Is there best software application on OS X for producing maps that I can share with other, non-OS X, users? Is there a best format for sharing topology maps that I should use when exporting the maps to disk?
This is very useful, because that way you can just start typing the new name, without worrying about accidentally changing the file extension. However, this only seems to work for “known” file types. If you try it with an unknown extension, the whole file name (including the extension) gets selected:
I use a unibody Mac laptop to read recipes or listen to music while in the kitchen. The wireless disconnects sometimes. How can I prevent this?
I installed Xcode 4.3.1 two days ago. I need to access the iOS 4.3 device simulator, but it is not available in the new Xcode. So I went to Xcode > Preferences > Download (tab) and downloaded the Xcode 4.3.1 developer library and the iOS 5.1 library, hoping I could add the 4.3 simulator.
Nearly every time I see updates available on my iPhone (4, iOS 5.1) whilst browsing the app store, the list of updates is empty even when the badge says there are some. Selecting update all will successfully do the updates, but I have no idea what was updated without hunting them down as they download.
Now that the Mac App Store exists, if an app is available there I prefer to buy it there instead of on the developer's site. This has several advantages, but the one that I've been enjoying recently is the ability to sign into the store on a new or freshly wiped Mac, go through my list of purchases, and click "Install" next to each app I want to reinstall. Leave the computer for a bit, come back, and they're all installed and waiting for me in /Applications.
I just bought an iMac and want to max out the memory on the machine. I have received two conflicting answers to my question so I'm bringing it to the community.
I installed and ran Barrel 2 on my iPhone and set the new effect. I also needed to move a group of apps and made my icons toggle. Then all my apps stopped working. I uninstalled it but the issue still remains. What should I do?
I have been trying to send an email with a picture attached from the Photo app on my iPhone 3GS, but every time I hit the option button for the photo the app crashes. Its been frustrating. Does anyone know what is the problem?
I notice that the autocorrect in Lion uses the character positions in order to suggest which correction to be made: For example, if I type thst really fast, it will correct it to that but if I type thet, it corrects it to they.
I'm connecting a late-2006 MacBook Pro with the Apple DVI to Video adapter and an S-video cable (4 pins) to a high-end but outdated TV. Unfortunately, the output via the S-video cable seems to be only black and white, whether I'm using PAL or NTSC (the TV can switch). Via the composite video output and a S-video adaptor I can get color on the TV, but I'd like to get the pure S-video output, as the quality should be better.
Someone else had updated their iPhone on my computer in the past, and now every time I open iTunes, it automatically shows their phone in the Device column and not my own (when neither their phone nor my phone is plugged into the computer). How can I stop this from happening? How can I make my friend's phone disappear from my iTunes completely? I have already wiped iTunes off my computer, and reinstalled it, but this problem still occurs.
I would like to wipe my entire hard drive and reinstall Lion from scratch. I try to use the Lion Recovery tool but it does not wipe the disk so I still have all my installed programs that I don't want. I do not want to delete them by hand just want to do a clean install of the OS.
Will an iPhone with no service plan be usable as a development device? I don't need any functionality except a working device running iOS that is a GPS receiver. Since GPS is passive, I would think it would still work without a service plan. Unless iPhones get locked down or something, which is why I ask.
While just browsing through apps like the CoreServices in both Mac and iOS, I found that most (all?) of the pictures have sizes and memory, but don't show anything when I quick look or open them. What is going on?
I have my iPad set to manually manage content (i.e. drag and drop, not sync). I'm trying to add some PDFs to iBooks, but it refuses to let me copy them to my iPad. I can do this with epub books just fine. Is this a known limitation in iTunes, or a bug? Is there any workaround (to clarify: still using iTunes) that doesn't involve having to use the sync option (which forces me to sync videos as well, which is not workable)?
Need help with downgrading an iPhone 4 (GSM) from baseband 4.12.01 to be able to unlock it for use with other operator than AT&T. Have tried this guide (Downgrade iPhone 4 Baseband 4.12.01 to 4.11.08 / 4.10.01 / 01.59.00) but I only end up with an lower iOS version but no baseband downgrade Do you know how to downgrade the baseband?
Brief Description: I need my Ethernet card (en0) to see all traffic under 192.168.2.xxx. However I also need to use WiFi card (en1) for all other traffic. OS: OS X Lion
I've heard conflicting info on this - seems like a good place for an option on startup. Any ideas? I just want a clean slate and find it annoying.
I got my new iPhone today and ofcrouse made an Apple ID right away. Everything goes ok, I get sent a verification email, but there is no link in it. It has the instructions and they mention a link, but there is none. I tried sending the verification email from my iPhone and from the apple site (*=URL=* but still nothing. Here is a screenshot of the email I received:
I wonder how the battery level in the magic mouse is calculated. This question about battery problems raised another one, I would like to know how the electronics in the magic mouse work and evaluate the remaining energy left as it seems quite inaccurate with some of my batteries. If you don't know how the magic mouse does its calculation maybe you know how other electronic devices calculate the level?
Whenever I perform a search in Safari it takes me to google.com. I am in the UK, so results for eShops etc the results are not relevant - I need google.co.uk.
I know this is possible as I did it once before. How do you set the login background wallpaper to something else using terminal?
Lets say I want to save my screenshots as a .jpg instead of .png. How would I do this? Is there a bash command I can enter or a setting I can toggle?
I want to change the notification sound for each event like email, FB, SMS so it plays the sound I like and differs for each one from the other, is there a way to do this? Searching for it, led me to the fact that I can do it but I'm not sure how and there was nothing which seems the right thing to do.
I have a 13" white unibody MacBook from 2010 which I'd like to use with the Apple remote, to control keynote presentations. According to this question, I need an external IR reciever for the remote to work with my MacBook. Would an IR receiver actually work, and if so, what are my options?
I have a video clip that I want to convert to an animated GIF. I used GIFBrewery.
My friend got an iPhone from her uncle and started using it without wiping out all the data. Now she wants to delete all the existing contacts on the phone (over 500) but doesn't want to reset the entire phone. Is there any easy way to delete multiple contacts at once?
I used ITunes to download to my new IPad3 a variety of songs and albums I had already purchased. However, in some cases, I have two copies of every song. When I play an album with the "Music" app, I can see two copies of each song - and yes it plays both copies as it moves forward.
Is it possible to transfer all my contacts from my old phone to iPhone via Bluetooth?
Does anyone know of a solution, from the iPad side of the equation, for this OneNote syncing problem?
Is it possible to use the =today() function (or something else) to insert the current date but then not update each time the file is opened? I want to create a numbers template for my invoices. I'd like it to auto fill invoice date and date due then, when I save the document, store the values, not the function.
Now that I know how to lock the iPhone if the lock button is broken, I was wondering how I can restart the phone or turn it off. The lock button is completely unresponsive and holding it down does nothing. Are there any workarounds besides replacing the button?
Booting down the linux VM, removing the share, disabling sharing, followed by enabling sharing, adding the share, and booting up the linux Vm finally followed by reinstalling vmware tools do not make the shared drive appear under /mnt/hgfs. My question is: I'd like to use old-fashioned scp to copy a tar archive. On the linux VM: scp FROM/dir/file.tar ~/. What should FROM be?
I've just bought a new MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Lion. The problem started when I tried to divide the hard disk into more than 3 partitions, so I erased the existing partition and tried to divide the hard disk using Disk Utility. So, I opened the "Partition" tab and chose "3 partitions" and when I hit "Apply" it says that "Couldn't unmount partition". Can anyone please tell me how to fix that or how can I partition my hard disk?
I am trying to record a lecture using Photo Booth on my Macbook but I want to be able to record what the professor has on the board. Unfortunately, photobooth seems to have a mirror image, so that all the writing is reversed. How do I get the camera to be a normal non-mirror camera?
I have Macbook Pro 2009 model. I have been travelling with it in tropics and slowly trackpad performance has gotten worse and worse, to the point it is almost unusable. The symptoms Mouse pointer movement gets "janky" and it jumps around, not responding to movemements smoothly Mouse pointer movement gets "janky" and it jumps around, not responding to movemements smoothly The trackpad works ok after reboot, even if it was totally unusuable few seconds ago before the reboot, so the software must play its part in this issue The trackpad works ok after reboot, even if it was totally unusuable few seconds ago before the reboot, so the software must play its part in this issue
I'm getting tired of fighting with Apple's iTunes to get it to play my non-iTunes media. I've tried the 32-bit trick, and MOV files I remove from the library and add back no longer show up in the Movies or TV Shows categories, so that trick fails, as well.
And bam, that solved it. But the question is why? I mean, I periodically manually close the running apps and as much as I know this clears them out of the memory. Is there a bug which leaves stuff sticking around which slowly but surely clog the device's RAM? Just wondering... :)
I have a mac book pro late 2011. It has a very powerful hardware. But it is very slow. For example when I'm making expose geisture, there appears 'loading circle' and mac lags for 4~5 seconds. Same as I'm trying to switch to Safari or other program. I can't even sometimes type text normally while I'm having skype call.
When I bought my first iPod, a 4G model, in the box there were also a dock. Can I use that dock, connected to a wall plug, to recharge my iPhone 4?
How can I see the list of routes and its corresponding gateway in a Mac ? The command in linux is route -n . For a particular IP address, I am able to get the routes for an particular IP address via route get 10.0.0.0.
I am accessing my colleague's work email account (on gmail) using IMAP. The problem is that whenever I read one of the messages first, it is marked as read on the server and he often misses it. I would like to keep it unmarked on the server and mark it as read only at my Mail app. Is there any way how to setup Mail app so that this behaves like this? I am accessing his email because he often gets information that is important for me as well and this saves time because he isn't always online and he would have to forward most of it to me anyway.
I'm looking for a solution that starts a timer whenever I sign in to my office wifi and stops it when I've left. It should essentially log the hours I've spent at the office. I'm aware that there's iOS software for this, but I like my battery time as it is. Extra bonus would be if the solution could log the hours in iCal automatically.
I would like to ask you, do the trash files gets deleted from the safe mode if I put them in the trash in the safe mode (but do not empty the trash) and empty the trash in the normal mode? Regards, Arthur
In iTunes you can play videos in a seperate window. Is it possible to make that window stay on top? Preferably without any 3rd party apps?
I would like to know weather the smart cover on a 3G iPad covers the sim-tray completely partially or not at all. A photo would also be really helpful
I'm trying to making an iBook for educational purposes, and in that book I linked to web pages, embedded a video, embedded an image. I want to link to an installed iPad app in my iBook, is it possible in iBooks Author?. If so, then can someone guide me how to do this or provide some link for that. Any help should be appreciated.
iTunes refuses to copy some photos to my iPod with the following message: Some of your photos, including the photo “somefile.jpg”, were not copied to the iPod “iPod” because they cannot be displayed on your iPod
Is messages version 6.1 (11D1069) stable for someone that doesn't mind iChat and FaceTime currently? I am happy with iChat and FaceTime on my mac and don't really need the iMessage integration presently. I back up with Time Machine regularly and know the general risks that beta software can have glitches or worse, lose data. I've researched all the features, so I'm not looking for why or why not the program is better - just the stability aspect of it in use.
Is it possible to interact with an ODBC connection within AppleScript? Or must one break out into another process (e.g. Python, Perl, etc)?
In the middle of installing a tool called mrtg, I bailed out from a perl script to set various configuration parameters for use of snmp because it became clear that I had no idea what I was doing. I also explored some snmp commands myself, but didn't keep a record, unfortunately. I come back to ifconfig and notice it shows three new interfaces (not there just before the previous adventure): My laptop on the same LAN has a different new interface called p2p0 that I hadn't noticed before, as well as gif0 and stf0 but not fw0.
I wonder what kind of connector is used in the latest MacBook Air for the SATA drive. When I first saw the gumstick SSD drive I thought it was using a SATA Express connector. But when answering a question yesterday I decided to get a bit more documentation about it and appeared SATA Express along with µSSD is not a released standard yet.
This happens on both my MacBooks running 10.7.3 and has done at least since 10.7 and with iCloud. My calendar seems to work fine from my iPhone.
I would like to open the MBA, I don't have the screwdriver that fits:  Is there a way to remove the screws without the 5 points pentalobe required? The ideal solution would be to do this without damaging the screws.
I'm researching the best way to make a 9 monitor video wall (3x3 grid). Anyone have any experience doing this with a Mac Pro? Anyone know the maximum amount of monitors I can hook up to a Mac Pro?
My media are taking most of my internal hard disk drive. I wanted to know if there is a way to automatically transfer music that I do not listen to regularly on my iTunes folder to an external hard disk.
This question is almost the same as my previous question, but with one major difference; I want to turn on/off Bluetooth from the command line (bash or similar), NOT from AppleScript - the answers for this I saw on superuser all used AppleScript. I would guess that networksetup might be useful but have no idea what interface(s) to interact with - I would like an answer including a complete command I can run (and understand) - if device model matters, it's Snow Leopard on MacBook2,1 to MacBook7,1, except MacBook5,1, and if you can only do for 6,1 and 7,1 that's fine.
Now for the twist: this appears to only happen when I'm signed onto Google Chat through iChat. I have never seen it happen otherwise (I guess it could just be coincidence, but that seems pretty unlikely since I've been observing it for about a week now).
I own iPhoto on both platforms. Is it possible to keep the photos synchronised between the phone and mac?
I've verified that at least some of my contacts are not properly syncing between my iPhone running iOS 5.1 and my Mac running OSX 10.7.3 (both the latest OS versions currently available). Here, you can see that the contact named "Android Standup" is available on my iPhone but not available on my Mac:
How do you remove the default open with application for a file extension? Not change it but remove it so when I try to open it a popup says "There is no application set to open the document “file.blabla”.
Is there a way to view Amazon Instant Video content on the XBox 360 via OS X? The official solution on Amazon's site utilizes a Windows PC, which we don't have: *=URL=* Any other way?
The Contacts App on my iPhone 4 (with IOS 5.1) has no '+' in the top right corner to add a contact and no "edit" in the top right corner to edit a contact. My friends do have this. How to it get these buttons to show up?
I know there are at least 2 questions about this here, but the solutions detailed there don't work. Nor do the other solutions that I have found on the web. I must be doing something stupid or overlooking something, or else I am probably going crazy, but it's not working. I've tried all the usual stuff: In /private/etc/apache2/users/<myusername>.conf, change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and restart the web server In /private/etc/apache2/users/<myusername>.conf, change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and restart the web server Additionally, in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf, change any/all occurrence(s) of AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All -- I've tried it in all the various places where these directives are found Additionally, in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf, change any/all occurrence(s) of AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All -- I've tried it in all the various places where these directives are found Try basically all possible combinations of values for
I'm trying to get a working copy of MAMP. But I once installed the MySQL server seperately, and I can't find a way to uninstall.
Just bought an Apple TV and connected to my TV and all looks good. I'm having an issue with Home Sharing, however. The library is found, I play something from the library, it plays for about three minutes, then drops. I then cannot find the library in the "Computers" section of Apple TV. If I then quit iTunes and start it again, it shows up again on the Apple TV and I can start again only to be dropped three minutes later. I have seen some posts blaming the router not supporting Bonjour. I am on the phone now with Belkin. Using: Apple TV connected via HDMI to a Panasonic LED TV, streaming from a MacBook Air 2010 I really think this is a Home Sharing issue.
Note: this is not a duplicate of How can I get Safari to reopen my last closed tab? I am familiar with the shortcut ⌘+Z working when the tab was just closed. However, I often do something else that I don't want to undo. For instance, I sometimes close a tab, write half and answer on Stack Exchange, realize I didn't want to close it, and am then stuck with accessing the history manually. So, is there any Safari shortcut or menu item specifically for reopening my last closed tab? Update: This isn't a fix, but if your only problem is not wanting to undo anything besides closed tabs (and you don't care about having something that'll always work), setting a shortcut for "Undo Close Tab" in Keyboard preferences will filter the shortcut to closed tabs only!
I have the CloudReaders app on my iPad. According to its release notes and other reviews of it, it supports tagging of books to allow for filtering. However, for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it - only how to search based off tags? Does anyone know how?
How to list all files that was installed by some MacPorts package? For example in Funtoo (or in Gentoo) I can achieve the same with a command: equery b [package name]
Without installing ITunes, and without attaching my IPad3 to my PC, I want to synchronize my IPad calendar with my Outlook calendar. I thought I could make this work by creating the following Outlook rule: "Send an alert to my mobile device when I get messages from someone" With the option: "Which is a meeting invitation or update" I then specifiy that I want the invite forwarded to my gmail account, which my IPad is linked to.
I've got a late 2010 MacBook Air that came with OS X 10.6.6 installed; I have never upgraded it to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or to 10.7 Lion. I dual boot with Windows 7 installed using boot camp. I use rEFIt as my boot loader. Disk Utility in OS X shows: Macintosh HD is partition 2 partition 3 is an empty FAT partition Windows HD is partition 4
The Mail client (that comes with Mac OS X) has an "Apply Rules" menu option, but I don't see any option to create a rule like most other mail clients have. Two part question, what rules does the "Apply Rules" menu option apply, and how do I define new rules in Mail?
I am looking for a solution that would automatically load multiple RSA keys at login, some of them having passwords stored in the Keychain. Example: first keys would be obviously in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and let's say that the second cone would be in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.2. I want them to be loaded automatically, without having to enter their passwords.
I am having a hard time finding documentation on this behavior. The negative response received from this user on everythingiCafe makes me think that this is a bug. Basically, what happens is: When you have a string of text that overflows behind the visible input box, or have a string of text which wraps inside the input box, if you move the text cursor around (using the magnifying glass), sometimes the text before the cursor will start to be deleted if you continue to hold the cursor. It is worth noting that this rate of deleting characters is much faster than holding down the Delete key.
I have recently upgraded an iPhone 4 to iOS 5.1 and when asked i registered it with Account A for both iCloud & iTunes. However i also use Account A on my iPhone 4S and thus wish to switch the the iCloud account to a brand new Account B (keeping Account A for iTunes as all the apps are purchased on it).
I am a pilot that has my logbook on the windows side of my iMac. Windows has been failing to boot up gives me an 000021a error every time. I have tried booting in last known good configuration and is safe mode but nothing gets windows to boot. I am trying to find out if I can access my logbook file even though windows is not booting. Anyone with any words of advice?!
Is there a way to leave a Keynote slideshow running on the second attached monitor while doing other things on the computer? I use my MacBook Pro to run the projector at my school assemblies and I'd like to be able to switch away from the slideshow without it disappearing.
My daughter shares a mac with me and we often want the same songs but have separate iTunes accounts. How do we share our music so we don't pay twice for the song on the same computer?
I noticed that my MacBook's keyboard has the word enter above the return key. I also noticed that on Mac OS X, there's a special symbol for return ↩, and another for enter ⌤. How would I send the enter key if my MacBook has no numpad? Is there any difference between these two keys?
I have downloaded Lion and created a bootable USB flash drive, a colleague wishes to use this. If I give this to my colleague will it be linked to my account or is it account independent?
The problem is that Software Update suggests me to install Application Loader 2.5.1, but each time I'm trying to install it, 71.4 disturb is downloaded and then installer throws an error "The update "Application Loader" can't be installed. An error occurred".
I have an applescript application that inputs a username and starts a download based on that username. In the app I use the code below to check if a file exists already and then rename the file if it does.
I want to use different gcc versions easily (to build some whimsy python library). I've installed gcc_select-0.1_6… but it doesn't contain "gcc_select", is it a bug or gcc_select is just a stub now an I should use some different method to select default gcc instead? What should I do?
Short version: Does anyone know if X.509 client certificates are supposed to work on the iPad for IMAP mail? Am I wasting my time trying to get a feature that doesn't work to work? If the built-in mail app doesn't support IMAP with X.509 client certs (ie: they only work with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts), are there any 3rd party apps that do? Only iOS 5.1 or newer is of interest; 5.1 is the version I've been testing with.
Just wondering what minimum Bluetooth version does the Magic Mouse need?
I have a 2011 MacBook. Along the left edge (looking at it from the normal typing position), near the front, there is a small silver button which is flush with the rest of the case. When pressed, a small series of tiny lights beside it flash green before going dark again. Nothing else happens. Can anyone explain what this button does?
I deleted all the music on the iPhone using General>Usage>Music. They are still there.
I am trying to compare & merge two text files in FileMerge (using it for the first time). The thing is that the files contents are not shown in full. The contents of the files being compared are clipped. Why is this happening?
The volume on my iPhone decreases randomly. I'm afraid it is a hardware issue. Sometimes I listen to music and it decreases for no reason, then I push up volume button, and it increases a bit, but if I leave the button it decreases again (like if I'm pressing the down button as well). Is it a bad news ?
With OSX Lion 10.7 Apple has introduced resume: Restore the state of the computer when shut down. Reopen the used windows of applications. While both are quite useful, the option to "reopen windows when loggin back in" causes the login items to be reloaded with a significant delay.
With SnowLeopard, I was using spaces, with two spaces. On the second space, I was running a fullscreen application. I created a shortcut to switch from my first space to the second space : Cmd+1 goes to space 1, Cmd+2 goes to space 2 (displaying my fullscreen app). I recently upgraded to Lion and cannot reconfigure it to have the same behavior I had with Snow Leopard :
First let me say this is my first Mac so i know nothing of anything as far as Macs go. I notice that the Macbook Pro, unlike any Windows laptop I've ever had, from what I see, doesn't have any air vents. Is this possible or am I missing something? I'm a bit tense because when I travel I put it in a tight sleeve case and I'm paranoid that it'll suffocate and burn out if it can't breathe when its on.
i work for a company with a 'Mac' department (they are creative/graphics). At the moment they are using an old server mac with a shared Hard drive formatted in HFS+; i would like to buy a NAS with full compatibility with HFS+ partition. I know Synology and QNAP offers compatibility with Mac World (using AFP), but i'm sure they use EXT filesystem as main partition. Is this correct to use Ext partition either for 'existing' Mac datas ? Thank you!
I used to email myself some .epub files (using Gmail), and then on the iPad, in the email program, click on the .epub file and then choose to open in iBooks, and read, highlight, and add notes to the ebook. What is amazing is that all the highlighting and added notes will sync across my iPad and iPhone whenever I have the same .epub file on that device. However, recently, I tried doing the same for the new iPad (3rd Gen), but it can download the .epub file alright, showing it as 5.5MB, but when I click on that file after the download, it won't ask me to open in iBooks any more (and won't open anything or ask what application to open it).
This may be a general Unix question rather than a OS X question. I want to log general file transfers on OS X, whether it be from and to the same system or to another system, but to keep it simple assume that this is all internal to one computer and file system.
/edit All her content in iTunes, and that synced to the iPhone, is ripped from the original CD. She is not using iTunes Match. /endedit
I'm thinking of getting a "household" iPad (the new iPad) to be shared. Can the iPad have multiple users? Or is there another way to keep email accounts, Safari bookmarks, and Angry Birds scores separated between users?
I find the iCloud product to be confusing. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a read only copy of a document pushed from one user to another user both on a mac. This would seem to be really straightforward to set up on a mac but it doesn't seem to be. Also thinking of using Dropbox but want to see if it can be done in iCloud. Any ideas on getting this to work? Or is iCloud really only for syncing amongst devices from the same user? thx
How do I make different applications like Safari, Chrome, and Mail all use different SOCKS proxies. FireFox has it's own proxy settings, but Safari, Chrome, and presumably Mail all use the system proxy settings. I need them to all use different SOCKS proxies, all running simultaneously under the same user and login. I have all the SOCKS proxies set up on different ports already, each is proxies into a different company in a different country using ssh -D.
I originally installed Xcode via Apple's developer website (not through the App Store). Later on, I installed Xcode via the App Store.
I can't seem to make my Mac partition utilize the full 500 GB that I have available. It only uses 243.47 GB. It looks like my hard drive is somehow split into 2 sections:
I run Google Latitude on an iPhone 4 with background updates turned on. How can I distinguish between when it's actively grabbing the location vs when it's using region monitoring to wait for the phone to move? As far as I can tell, both icons look the same in the status bar.
Has anyone seen this issue and know how to fix it? Look at the free space reported by running "Get Info" on my hard drive (Macintosh HD) in the Finder, "About This Mac" from the Apple Menu, and Disk Utility. Running on an early 2011 MacBook Pro OS X 10.7.3.
I received an ical invite through gmail, which my IPad3 added to the calendar. But now I'm trying to delete the event, and there is no option to do so.
For older Mac OS Versions like 10.4 or sometimes 10.5 you can find lots of themes, which change the whole UI. Now my problem is that I'm using Mac OS Lion (10.7.3) and I want to change the UI, because I don't like the current one very much. I looked around in the web, but I couldn't find anything. So is it really like that, that there isn't any other, alternative UI for Mac OS Lion?
Now the new iPad has a retina screen, does that mean we can't see dead pixels anymore?
Does Apple have a policy regarding how long they will continue to release and support security fixes for each OS X release? I've looked around the Internet, and found some forum posts that claim "only for the current, and most recent previous, versions" but none appear to have an official reference. Further confounding the issue are some relatively recent posts claiming they still receive security updates for versions as old as 10.2.
A classmate asked me if the US MacBook Pro adapters are usable in the Bahamas. It boils down to the type of electricity and outlets there, but being that I have no clue, I'm asking here. Does a USA compatible MacBook Pro adapter require an adapter for the Bahamas?
I am a part-time projectionist, and we use DVD Player to show the movies on the projector. Sometimes, though, I need to do something while the movie is playing. Unfortunately, if I try to switch applications, DVD Player exits full screen mode. Is there any way to retain full screen mode? The computer in question is a Snow Leopard-running iMac connected via VGA to a generic projector.
This is my first Mac computer (a MacBook Pro) and loving it! What I'm not loving though is the inconsistency of networking files between my main system and the Mac.
Now that Amazon has sunk the usability flagship among e-readers, Stanza, I am looking for a replacement. I am not asking for an app recommendation, but I am asking how to find a good replacement?
I was thinking about this earlier and thought I'd ask. Can third-party remotes be used with the Apple TV (any and all versions)?
Once every day or two, iTunes seemingly randomly displays a 4002 error:  This is particularly puzzling to me, as the majority of the time (if not always) iTunes is in the background, and has been for a while. What exactly does the error signify, and how can I fix it?
Pixie, the additional Xcode app for magnifying pixels of the screen and finding their values, takes up 406 KB of space. Finder, however, says that it's zero bytes in size. In the below screenshot, you see that under Size it says "zero bytes", followed by "406 KB on disk". What does this discrepancy mean?
I used to have the double-tap-to-drag working, where I would tap the trackpad, let go, then tap-and-hold and it would begin dragging. I temporarily disabled the Tap to click setting in System Preferences, and now after I reenabled it, I no longer have double-tap-to-drag. Tap to click does work, it's just the dragging that no longer works. I don't see any setting to enable double-tap-to-drag. Is it automatically supposed to work when Tap to click is enabled? I've tried it with Three finger drag both enabled and disabled, but nothing works.
I'm just curious if Apple keyboards are multi-key rollover or not? And if yes then which models (or how to determine that in OS X)?
I saved a file in an app's application content (right clicked the application file, and then clicked Show Package Contents) for security issues. However, during the upgrade to OS X Lion, I completely forgot it was there and subsequently the app was updated and the file is gone! It was the application Stickies, in case that's helpful. Does anyone know if there's any way I can recover it? EDIT: No longer looking for a solution, files have been found using diskdrill.
I recently installed Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.3) on my early 2008 MacBook. I know many of the color changing options in Mail and iCal have been taken away (probably due to app syncing or Cocoa issues). I can live with this as long as the result is legible.
I'm trying to move files around in Finder by using my trackpad to drag and drop files. The problem is that I'm using tap to click with dragging enabled. So, when I decide to drop the files onto a folder, there is a brief delay between when I release the trackpad and when the files actually get dropped. (This delay is in place in case the user wants to temporarily lift their finger and tap-and-hold again to move the dragged items again.) During this brief delay, what often happens is that the folder I am hovering over is automatically opened up into a new window, and the file is not necessarily dropped where I originally wanted it to be dropped. This automatic window opening can easily be seen by doing the following: Launch Finder Drag a file onto a folder and don't let go until a new window pops up.
I restored from a Time Machine backup onto a new HDD, this was using a disc with OS X Lion Upon boot, in verbose mode, the text hangs after initpool: offset = 0x08000000 size = 0x0800000.
So I bought a new iPad, 64GB + 4G. And since then it seems like every time I pick it up and go to use a network feature (Hero Academy, Tweetbot, Safari etc.) I get this message "Could not activate cellular data network".
I have added .bash_profile, .bashrc, .profile exeuctables in the /var/root dir. However, unlike the normal users which execute their .bash_profile(s) and change the path. There is no difference in the profiles but the root user one does not work.
I recently bought a new Macbook pro to replace my last one, and since I got it, it has been having some issues when I wake it up from sleep. a) The display freezes for three seconds each time, so after it switches on, it takes three seconds before it shows the correct battery life and allows me to type. b) Despite connecting to the internet OK (Sparrow works fine), Chrome and Safari both report no internet connection until the laptop is restarted (a pain in the ass) (happens on several networks) c) VLC player wont resume play of a DVD (or rather, it will but with no sound). My previous laptop (2010 gen, Lion) didn't do any of these three and I'm wondering - are they common / easily fixed, or should I head back into the Apple store with it?
YouTube has a pretty decent mobile website, however any link to YouTube I see on the web always opens the link in the YouTube app, not there in the browser. Is there a way to change that? It would be nice not to have to keep switching apps all the time. I checked in Settings and couldn't see anything. Echofon actually does it in its built in browser so I'm sure it must be possible.
Before I ask my question, an impassioned plea. Please don't let this devolve into a "use the command-line or GTFO" flamewar. Yes, I know about scp and friends. I have a VPS running Ubuntu and I'd like to mount one of its filesystems on my Mac so I can use all my local tools and copy files via finder, etc. I'm using Fuse/MacFusion now, and it's particularly slow. Any better way?
Performing the EFI firmware update to version 2.7 these days, I noticed that my 15" MacBook Pro (bought March 25, 2012) resets for five times before booting effectively. Even then, I can notice that EFI firmware 2.7 is still available in Software Update.
I have a cart of iPads in my high school classroom. Each iPad is shared by several students in different classes throughout the day. A clever student in one class decided to lock one of them. We have already unlocked it by restoring it, etc., but I'd like to prevent this from happening in the future. I was noodling around with the new Apple Configurator this morning to force no passcode, but I couldn't find such a setting. The best I could come up with is to set my own passcode, device lock to never, and grace period the longest available (4 hours). That would mean, though, unlocking every single iPad for the students with my secret code at least once a day. Ugh. Does anyone know of a way, official or unofficial, to prevent a user from setting a passcode on an iOS device?
For months I'm having problems accessing this link *=URL=* from caixa.gov.br It only works when I use Opera, but it fails on Chrome, Safari and Firefox. I don't know if it's the SSL or Java. I have already removed Java, but it didn't work. Does anyone have any clues? [Edit] All browsers are in their latest versions. [Edit] The Beginning of the crash error is:
Now that Amazon has sunk the usability flagship among e-readers, Stanza, I am looking for a replacement but it turns out to be very difficult. It seems every app praises itself beyond reason. Every forum peddles whatever app has their fancy. How can I find a good e-reader app without installing and testing them all? Many aren't free and it would be silly to pay for many of them, only to find them all lacking.
I use jDownloader which works great, but takes a lot of time to load and surprisingly takes a lot of time also to start and stop downloads. I'd like to have a similar functionality* but with a command line tool or a really light-weight GUI App. (but command line preferred) * It mainly processes pages and links to known download sites and gets linked files and manages its downloads.
I'm out of space on my Macbook Air and thinking about ways of removing things. One idea is to put all my music (~100GB) on a big thumb drive (y, and back it up). I pretty much always have my keychain so this is only a slight inconvencience. I would symlink that directory to a folder on the thumb drive. Has anyone done this? I know some people won't like the idea due to thumb drive irreliability but I have had good luck. thx
Xcode has a preferences window that allows you to set keyboard shortcuts but many of my shortcuts are conflicted. I've looked through all of system preferences for anything using these key combinations and came up with nothing and I closed down all third party apps like Alfred and still no luck. Any ideas?
I have installed both moria and ettercap using MacPorts (via pallet) and I can't for the life of me find out where the things were installed to run them! Where is the install directory?
In other words, if I go to Smart Folder > Other... there's a list of search attributes that varies by system, but where do they come from?
Could you please tell me how I can keep whatever apps I download to one of my iPads from downloading to the other iPad? Thank you very much for your help. NOTE: I am disabled, so the easiest answer, the better. Again, thank you. iPad 1, 64 GB, WiFi-only iPad 2, 64 GB, 3G and WiFi
I currently have an AppleScript app that opens Terminal windows and completes commands. I would like an app icon badge to appear on the Terminal icon in the Dock when a command completes. I need this because I often have to restart the commands when they stop. Is this possible? Essentially my AppleScript application takes a user-provided variable and plugs it into a Terminal command. Every time I use the application it opens a new Terminal window (intended). I would like to have a badge appear when a Terminal command completes.
I've gone through this document, but it's for iCal 3.0, Lion has 5.0+. *=URL=* Here's what it looks like, I'm not sure if it's a bolt or a tilde:
My 2011 MacBook Pro has been having a problem occasionally where I put it to sleep, but it continues to run. Later when I go use it again, I realize that it was on the whole time (usually inside my bag), and by this point it is blazing hot and the fan is running at full power. It is unresponsive at this point, and I have to hold the power button to restart it. This happens I'd guess every few weeks on average, sometimes more often, sometimes less.
I only know about this: But it’s only for the Desktop…
Probably because OSX uses different naming conventions for devices files and because OSX uses Core Audio audio subsystem (not ALSA or OSS) there are no devices such as: /dev/sdp /dev/audio /dev/mixer /dev/snd/* So, where are audio devices file in OSX?
After recording a video in the "new" iPad, and transferring it to PC (via email or Dropbox), the resolution is 568 x 320. Images are 2592 x 1936. I can't find any information about what resolution to expect, except that it should be 1080p, but I don't really know what that means.
i am working on a asp.net web app.This app is mainly related with media in which user have to upload images and videos.It works fine on other browsers rather than mobile safari. I had solved one problem here by using picup app but now problem is how i can upload videos here thanks in advance
I have set my 27-inch iMac on a desk on a wobbly floor with a thick carpet. When people walk in the room, the desk tends to shake, and so does the iMac.
I recently deleted my MS Office 2011 and decided to use only iWork or Libre Office or LaTeX. The problem is, now fonts on all browsers look worse than before. I have no idea why this is so, it only started after I deleted Office and its fonts, and I don't even remember how they looked like before I installed Office.
i have inserted a high frequency audio (more than 18000Hz) into a Movie, it is to test if children can hear that frequency during my video presentation. However, iMovie does not allow anything above a certain frequency to be exported. I have tried exporting as Quicktime: I used the following sound settings Linear PCM but when i click on preview and use a sound analyzer, it still doesn't detect the frequency. Someone please help
I want to get a SSD for my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" and I'm not sure what SATA interface it has and what it would be the best price/performance blend.
I would like to see if there is a way of getting TRIM support on SSD drives gotten from other manufacturers. As far as I know, Apple does not produce SSD drives so if I get a similar drive not from them it should work? Or maybe they have custom firmware?
I'm trying to copy everything on an External hard drive to my Time Capsule. I figured plugging it into the Time Capsule would be quickest. But if I start the copy on my Macbook (wireless) will the data go through the macbook and be much slower than just copying directly over USB? Airport Utility lets you archive the Time Capsule to the external HDD, but I want to do the opposite. Also if I start the copy on my Macbook I'm guessing it will stop copying when I close the macbook?
Is there a leading alternate theme solution for OS X? I'm not looking for anything tacky - I'd rather just endure the grey if there aren't any good solutions out there. However, if there is anything really nice, I'd love to know about it!
Here is a Python script that clears cookies from Safari (OS X): Is there a similar API to clear Safari's Cache and LocalStorage?
My sister bought an iPod touch yesterday. Everything seems to work fine except for FaceTime and iMessage. In both applications, after she signs in with her Apple ID, she can see the next screen for about a second before it automatically reverts back to the 'Apple ID sign in' screen. No error message is shown. While we couldn't find any information on our specific problem online, we did find some general iPod touch/FaceTime troubleshooting tips which we followed: We've updated to the latest version of iOS and iTunes We've verified her Apple ID via the Apple website We restarted her iPod touch We made sure there are no active restrictions under 'Settings > General > Restrictions'
How to remove a self created daemon user named '_denyhosts' from group 1025(workgroup), 403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2), 404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3) and 405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4) using Lion Terminal? Background To create a reduced privileged daemon user account, to run denyhosts.py using launchd, the example on *=URL=* has been helpful. However the created Lion daemon user account "_denyhosts" seems to have to many groups assigned: In my opinion the groups membership of: 1025(workgroup) 403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2) 404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3) 405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4) can be removed. I have been trying to accomplish to remove the user its groups memberships using: I guess that these commands fail because group "workgroup" is not located in a local directory but an LDAP directory: But that is not all, because com.apple.sharepoint.group groups are /Local/Default, there $ sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d _denyhosts -t user com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 doesn't
My iPod touch was stolen. If the person type the wrong password 10 times, it will erase all my data. And, if that happens, will I receive the notification ("find my iPod") I requested in iCloud when it goes online?
My friend receives an email at a Gmail based account. It has an attachment that can be seen when using the Gmail Web interface. After accessing that email via Apple's Mail.app (OS X, Lion... not iOS) the attachment can no longer be seen (it's there in Gmail, just not in Mail.app). This friend then forwards me the email from Mail.app and lo and behold I can see the attachment fine.
I'm visiting my relatives and trying to get my MacBook on their network. If I connect over Ethernet, everything works fine and I can get online without a hitch. But if I connect over WiFi, I can't actually get on the Internet.
Some of my friends have jailbroken their Apple devices, but I'm not sure myself. Here, I'll give you some background info: I got my Ipod 4th Gen. as a Christmas present last year from my parents, and I am extremely reluctant about messing up my device. I have recently updated my Ipod to Version 5.1/ iOS 5, and I have done some reading on multiple sites, stating that they have just jailbroken that software. I've seen the benefits of jailbroken Ipods, but I terrified about messing up my device. Please notify me of trusted websites and useful information. Thanks!
I'm using Google Maps in the Maps app on my iPad but I cannot find a scale bar. Where is the scale bar for Google Maps in the native Maps app on an iPad?
Is the recent Java update of OSX (Java for OS X Lion 2012-002) to 1.6.0_31 also a bug fix for the Flashback malware? The update is described here as:
I have 13" MacBook Pro (Late 2009) model that is refusing to play sound on the right audio-channel. Without any speakers connected it still plays fine but once I connect earbuds or a headphone, I only have sound in my left ear. In my right ear I hear a very low white noise sound.
I've loaded the kindle app onto my IPad3. I've made notes and highlights within that app, and I've given plenty opportunity for those to sync with Amazon...so that I can download those notes onto my kindle app on my PC.
This question could technically go on meta, but I think it makes more sense here on AskDifferent proper. So the new iPad contest was awesome. I even won something.
I use my iPad for note taking in my statistics class and I need to create an overline for the sample mean (which has a line over an x called x-bar) and I can't find a way to get it to work in Pages. I was able to get the Greek keyboard for all the other math symbols I needed, but this one I can't figure out.
I can print a test page, but that's it. Anything else I try to print just hangs at "sending print data...".
On a MacBook that connects to the Internet via wi-fi, how can I prevent one user account from accessing the Internet (with no effect on other accounts)? Note: i want to block ALL access, not just Safari.
I've got an iPad 3 on iOS 5.1. When reading occasionally my screen will dim before I interact with the screen; it doesn't turn off and lock but it dims.
I don't want to re-download the 1.4GB of file, and the app itself is free. We're both Apple developers. Is there any way I can copy mine to his machine? This is the current version of Xcode that doesn't download the "Install Xcode" file.
I see that my Mac is called "A's MacBook" on the network. How do I rename it (i.e., change the hostname) to "C's MacBook"?
I know that I can do this if I open a text file and use Xcode but often when working on a project, I want to have a temporary place to write something (usually stuff that I'll be copying into the Terminal). Any way to do this in Xcode 4.3?
I'm wondering if anyone has put an iBank file on dropbox and accessed it from different machines. Are there any gotcha's or will it work just as if it was residing locally but with the benefit of accessing one file from multiple machines ?
I have small company and we have custom software that is written in Java. I am planning to buy a tablet. Originally I intended to get an Android tablet, but I am really impressed by the resolution of the new iPad screen.
In Finder one is able to group the files by kind. For example "Movie" kind groups .avi, .mov together. I would like to add additional file extension .mkv to the list of "Movie" kind. Is it possible? As a bonus, it would also be interesting to know if, similarly, it is possible to add additional "kinds" of files.
I got a Mac mini last year and now I want to update the ram memory. I was looking for it and I just found this (spanish). The guy is selling what you see on the picture and I'm worried if I get those memories my Mac won't run ok. The guy says it works without problem on Mac Mini (Mid 2011) but I'm not sure because the image says "Laptop memory". This info is about my mac: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 2 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 And running OS X Lion.
I try to connect with a iPad (iOS 5.1) and the AnyConnect app to connect to a OpenVPN server on a Debian server. But this warning always appears in the OpenVPN log: WARNING: Bad encapsulated packet length from peer (5635), which must be > 0 and <= 1560 -- please ensure that --tun-mtu or --link-mtu is equal on both peers
I really love my iPhone, and much as possible, I want to do everything from there. I'm a software engineering student and, when I'm away from my PC, I'm planning to use my iPhone as my programming machine (meaning that I want to program directly on my iPhone). Are there any available IDEs for iPhone that will let me program in C++?
I need to know if I can make a warranty claim on a MacBook if there are oxide deposits on its motherboard. I live in a cabana close to the beach, so I am worried.
I'm shopping for a new Bluetooth headset for my iPhone 4 and noticed that some headsets support the apt-X codec for "CD-quality sound". Presumably this is better quality than plain old A2DP that I've been using so far. Which iPhones (if any) support apt-X audio over Bluetooth?
In iBooks, we can see a list of our highlighting and added notes to an ebook, but when we email it, so as to keep a copy for ourselves, only the added notes that we wrote is emailed. The highlighting is not.
I have written an alias in ~/.bashrc to compile my tex files into pdfs. I am sure that ~/.bashrc is sourced.
error, but I don't have a /Developer directory. Brew works fine and other compiling, too.
How do I rip out the apple's m4v video format's subtitle for reading? Personally sometimes I just want to read through what the video said rather than having to go through the video. Does any one knows how to do this?
I click "OK" and instantly I am presented with the first dialog above, the one that says, "This computer is no longer authorized..." Then it just enlessly cycles between those three dialogs, never letting me authorize the computer. Any ideas? Mac OS 10.7.3 iTunes 10.6.1 (7)
I just discovered that if I Turn Hiding On and right click on the iTunes app in my dock and press Show Recents, then my dock will no longer appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen until I log out and back in. I have the latest version of Lion and I was wondering if this was only me.
I am trying to set up my iCloud (@me.com) account in Adium. But it never logs in, and it says that my password is wrong. However when I set it up in iChat it works fine. I have googled for this sort of problem a bit, but found no answer. Why is it happening?
I'm on Lion and I like to use the multimedia Next Track, Play/Pause, and Previous Track keys to control iTunes. Every once in a while, these keys basically stop working. Sometimes they just don't work and sometimes the action is delayed by minutes. I'll hit the key out of habit and then nothing will happen, so I'll go into iTunes and pause. Then maybe 5 minutes later, it will unpause (presumably because the key event finally made it to iTunes.)
I am trying to remove all cookies in safari 5.1.3. In firefox/chrome this is controlled by command+shift+delete
I'm both a (newbie) developer, student and a gamer. Right now I have Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 installed on my box. I usually run Ubuntu for my everyday chores, but when I want to play games or type a damn report, I have to switch over to Windows (Sorry, I'm still trying to get accustomed to OpenOffice :)) Since I am going to reinstall my OSes, I want to look at all my options. Seeing that some games I play - StarCraft II, LOL, Diablo III - already supports Mac OS, so I am thinking of giving it a try as well.
I'm trying to make my Mac as mouseless and possible. My three last big hurdles:
I'm looking for a scanner that works similarly to the Microvision ROV which has worked very well for me in the past when connected to a Mac and Delicious Library.  Is there anything comparable on the market for iOS bluetooth scanning?
Some TV Shows that are available to re-download on iTunes is not showing up on my Apple TV. Now I understand that not every show I purchased is available for re-download (2, exactly) - but those that are available on iTunes should theoretically be available on the Apple TV as well, right? Here are some screenshots to show what I mean: Apple TV: iTunes:
There is a way on iPad to go to top of the page or list, in email's list of emails, or in iBooks's highlighting and notes, for example, by tapping on the top status bar of the iPad screen. But is there a way to go to the end of page or list? For example, on iBooks, when the highlightings and notes are shown, sometimes a user may want to see the last highlighting or notes, but in some cases, the list is 12 pages long. In this case, is there a quick way to go to the end, or will a user just need to scroll the 12 pages to reach the end?
I have all permissions organized and a single backup in the correct folder. I have 23 GB of space. I have an Iphone 4. I recently synced it and updated to the latest IOS. My contacts were lost, and I knew that Restoring from a backup could fix that and return my old contacts. However, I am receiving a seemingly common error message that the backup could not be saved. My USB is fine, my "Lockdown" folder is fixed according to the specifications on the apple support site. Please help.
Is there any way to enable spam filtering on iPad mail?
I've tried 4 or 5 remote desktop apps, the most notable being Jump Desktop and Splashtop Streamer. Most of these remote desktop apps have some sort of on-screen keyboard for typing with the IPad, including special keys like shift, control, alt. The special keys act like "sticky keys" meaning they stay depressed until another key is pressed, to make it easier to do key combinations. Even non-standard keyboard combinations like shift+enter work, in this sticky sense.
I very rarely synchronise my iPhone with iTunes. Because every time I do it all apps are re-arranged on the phone to like they were at the time of my last synching. Apps that I deleted on the iPhone are transferred to it and folders and location of the icons are out of my preferred order. How can I avoid this?
I am looking for a way to check the current health of a battery for iOS devices, similar to how coconutBattery works for OS X. How can I check the battery health for an iOS device?
Any suggestion for a non-Apple monitor to connect to MBA (mid-2011)? The display has to reach the same resolution without flickering. Does a non-Apple Thunderbolt display exist?
I recently had a mishap with my music library, resulting in the untimely termination of hundreds of innocent music files. These songs were not removed from iTunes, so there are many tracks that are seemingly normal, but upon closer inspection are actually gone, never to be seen again. Is there any way I can make a smart playlist or something that'll show me only tracks whose source file can't be found?
I have installed the beta of messages. I understand the software is beta and I have searched all the Apple messages forums and Google around for a solution but could not find one. I have set messages to launch upon startup via the icon in the dock as follows:
Recently I've been trying to become more efficient at the command line, and stumbled upon iTerm 2 a couple days ago. One feature of iTerm 2 is that windows can appear from the top of the screen, so if I press Contol-Command-T while I'm using any other application, I can have a transparent command line appear from the top, which has proven itself to be quite useful.
Whenever I closed my smart cover or otherwise dismiss the Remote app, attempts to reopen the app result in a "reset", acting as though it was the first time remote was opened and "forgetting" where I was in the virtual iTunes view. The track playing shows on top of the iTunes view, but my track/album pane is cleared, and it is asking me what I want to connect to, just like when you first open the app. Apple TV 2, iPad 2 with latest iOS
What should I do? Is there any way to revert the firmware back to pre-Lion, so that I may install Snow Leopard and then upgrade? Note: I only have a Windows machine working, not another Mac.
If I receive a mail in the iPhone with the text "tomorrow morning", this text turns into a link for "tomorrow morning" in the calendar app. The same doesn't happens on the iPad. Is there a way to enable it?
It seems that Apple doesn't want us to use locate, at it is making it so hard to setup. If there a way to use finder database from the command line? Maybe I can make an alias. I would appreciate solutions that would not require system reconfiguration, just because I don't want to repeat the process each time I upgrade the system of switch computers.
I got my MacBook Pro on October 2009 , here are the specifications: Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 Lion 10.7.3 15-inch, Mid 2009 Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,3 I want to add more RAM, hopefully add 4 GB more. What are the required/recommended manufacturers?
My meetup.com account allows me to subscribe to an iCal calendar that displays all meetups that I have RSVP'd "yes" to. All of the events appear as expected, but none of them have an alert setting (e.g., display message 2 hours before). Is there a way to set an alert for events in a read-only subscribed calendar?
I'm considering switching out my Windows-based HTPC for an Apple TV unit that will stream media off a Mac in my house. This will work out okay for me as long as I can jailbreak the unit and install Plex on it. I may just opt to transcode my existing media library but I'd like to explore both options before I decide on a best solution for me.
On OS X Lion I use smcFanControl to increase fan speed. What application can I use on Windows 7 on MacBook Pro?
I have iTunes (10.6.1) running on a mac mini with home sharing enabled. It also syncs to 3 1st gen Apple TVs. On my Apple TVs, the shows are sorted properly by series name, with the episodes listed when I select a series. However on my iPad (1st Gen, running IOS 5.1), when looking at my shared Library, I see an image for each episode, which when I click it, shows a list of the episodes for that season of the series. I can select and watch an episode from there. The problem is, I have way too many episodes to make this efficient, even to get to the Ds takes a lot of scrolling, and my list is cut off at the Ds.
In the app store is there any easy, ideally universal way to tell whether an app supports Retina graphics? A great deal of apps have a What's New entry that says "Added Retina Support" or "Support for New iPad" but as time passes that won't be a good measure.
Is there any OS X app similar to TeraCopy in Windows? I like where I can resume copy from external drive after someone accidentally pulls the USB cable and put it back again.
I want to hide a user folder from any other users from seeing. The user should still be able to log in through the login window using their username and password. Is this possible?
With OS X malware increasingly in the news (see the Flashback Trojan issue), is there anything that I should do to increase the security of my Mac and reduce my exposure to malware? What I'm doing so far: keep up with OS X system patches installed an antivirus package and kept up with the associated updates separated my regular user login and the admin login keep third party software up to date (Firefox, Flash, etc.) research, scan, and limit the things I download use adblocking and JS block browser extensions
I am thinking about retiring my portable for an iPad + keyboard. (With Amazon/Linode/etc as server.) I tried the iSSH app and ran Emacs in a terminal (not X Windows), using the Apple external keyboard.
I would like my bit torrent client to continue sharing data even after my session times out and goes to the login screen. Running Lion.
We're in a process right now to register 100+ company-issued iPhones. Right now the process of creating an Apple ID for each iPhone to be used for Find my iPhone is very time consuming, so my manager is assuming we can use just one account to manage it all. He wants to know if this is possible, or how many iPhones can be registered with Find my iPhone using only one account.
Is there any way to enable Windows-style AltGr symbol shortcuts on Mac OS? I.e., AltGr+V should be mapped to "@", AltGr+F to "[" etc. AltGr being, in this case, the right Option/Alt key.
Does iOS support a built-in firewall like macOS does? I don't see anything about it in Settings.
I’d like to have automatic spelling correction in MAC OSX 10.7 for all words ending with certain letter sequences. It would help me a lot in my typing if all words ending with "...ao” were substituted by “ão”, for example. Is it possible, or do I really have to add every word in Text and Language —> Text menu?
I'm a little concerned that I have a bunch of drives from other people's computers showing up in Finder whenever I'm at a company site. I don't plan to access those at all.
I'm considering buying a used MacBook (mid 2007 model) with 2GB of RAM and Mac OS X Lion. I am going to use this as a secondary computer to learn iOS development and to become more familiar with Mac OS X in general. Will this hardware be usable as a secondary machine, or is a 2007 model to slow to run Xcode and Lion?
I changed the keyboard layout of the Mac to Turkish F keyboard layout. But three keys (x,w,q) are not in their default places. I want to change the layout on my keyboard. Is this possible?
At home, I have an ADSL router, that shares Internet connection by WiFi in NAT mode. I'm using WiFi to connect it. Router gives out addresses from 192.168.1.* range and all settings are also set up by router's DHCP.
I'm rather confused about the 'proper' way to use Photo Stream and an iPhone and iPhoto. Here's how I use iPhoto and my iPhone: (This workflow was as far as I can tell the correct way to operate before iCloud)
I'm on 10.7, and I want to alter the broadcast power (so my wifi network doesn't extend beyond 10 ft radius or so). Also, if there's a way to change the security to WPA, which windows 7 can do, I'd like to know.
My company is running a fleet 200-ish iOS devices which are assigned to managers and executives. We heavily rely on Find my iPhone/iPad to, well, find lost devices when needed. Our network spans more than 150 offices around the country and some of them don't have (or can't have) internet access so that the device can communicate freely with the service. Is there any way of routing the service through the company headquarters (all offices are P2P connected to HQ and HQ has unrestricted access to the service) so that we don't have to open offices to the internet? Thanks in advance! Edit: I forgot to mention that the network on each of the offices is automatically routed to HQ, so there's no need for VPN in that case. What I'm asking is how can it be possibly configured so that an internal service exchanges traffic between iCloud and the devices.
Recently AT&T has begun officially unlocking iPhones which are out of contract. But I know this doesn't mean that all carriers are supported, because some carriers use different frequency bands and simply aren't compatible with iPhones. After this official unlocking process, which carriers can be used with which models of iPhone devices?
The half-size arrow keys on my MacBook are a little small for me. The keys I'd prefer to use are: fn + J to move left fn + K to move down fn + L to move right fn + I to move up I badly want to use the "fn" key for this, both for ergonomic and practical reasons (ie: avoid conflicts with other apps).
I have Xcode installed, but when I type gcc in terminal I get "command not found". Maybe I messed up the $PATH variable? What is suposed to be the default value? EDIT:
My magic trackpad seems to have gotten dirty in the button. I've tried swabbing around the button with alcohol but I still, at times, have to lift the trackpad to release the mouse click. Do you have any clever ways of cleaning it?
I'm aware that you can sync an iPad with up to 3 different computers, but if you have multiple iPad devices with the same iTunes account, how many devices can you sync an app to?
I want to change the trackpad tap-to-click property from the command line. Graphically, I can do it by clicking System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Tap to Click. How can I do it from the command line? I have tried:
I have a 2011 MacBook Air running Lion. I have setup a small Boot Camp partition for the sole purpose of copying files on to NTFS hard drives. (NTFS is the only file system my media player supports that can handle large files.) My main partition is encrypted using FileVault - this is not optional as I travel with the MacBook and my email is on there, so it has to be encrypted. My problem is that when booting into Windows there doesn't seem to be any way to mount the FileVault protected partition! Am I screwed or missing something obvious? How would you move files from a FileVault encrypted Mac onto an NTFS storage device?
I recently bought an iPad 2 for my parents, and I'm looking for an app that allows me to share photos (JPEGs) on my Windows PC with them. I imagine myself dropping the images somwhere, and they can see the photos by opening the app. I would like something simple to use that doesn't require sending a link or opening a browser, and that the pictures be private. I would also accept an app that only stores pictures temporarily (they are not meant for long-term storage).
I use an Exchange server for work email and calendar, and I use an iCloud/iCal calendar at home and freelance business. I want to sync all my iCloud calendar items - not contacts, email or anything else. How can I do this?
I'm an engineer developing a captive portal system for use at hotels. I know Apple devices do captive portal detection upon joining a wireless network to see if the user is behind a captive portal by attempting to load *=URL=* If this URL does not load, or is redirected, the device assumes it is behind a captive portal and loads up the terms or login page in a websheet browser.
I own a 2011 model of MacBook Pro with a Core i7 processor and Snow Leopard. I have found out there is a trojan horse which now controls 600,000 Macs. How can I find out if my MacBook is being controlled? How can I remove the trojan?
I have just tried to rent Iron Man, first on my MacBook, but then for some reason the AirPlay button dissapeared when I tried to AirPlay it to my new Apple TV. So then I just decided to rent it straight on the Apple TV (3rd gen) and I had 2 free rentals from a previous problem, the rental on the MacBook used the first credit, and bizarrely the rental on the Apple TV used the 2nd, so I guess I would have been charged twice.
We have a small office network with a Mac server, and all employees have their own Mac laptop they take home at the end of the day. I am looking for a way to automatically log the employees' time at the office. Theoretically, it should be possible to periodically check for other auto-discovered Bonjour hosts on the network and deduce their time at the office from there. Now my question is, is there an app or other readily available solution for that? EDIT:
Is it possible, on a brand new MacBook Pro, to use two external Thunderbolt displays under Windows booted from Boot Camp? I found this KB article, which says no. I also found this thread, where there's a hint that booting first to OS X then to Windows can work, but it's from late 2011. Have the drivers or firmware been updated to allow this more easily?
It looks like iWork's Pages supports Open XML - however, I can't find any good information on this on either developer.apple.com or on the web. Is there a good resource for this that I'm not aware of? I see *=URL=* but this is clearly MS-specific. Is there a comparable resource for Pages?
I set up the airport express(AX) in airport utility and I have it extending my network from my airport extreme. Shows connected and everything but when I plug in my AV receiver it does not get the signal. Furthermore when I connect my macbook to the AX via ethernet cable and assign the network to ethernet it does not connect to the internet? My question is how to I configure the AX so that I can receive the wireless signal from my airport extreme and convert it to ethernet connectivity? Thanks for your help!!
Sometimes, I leave my MacBook Air on for thirty minutes. When I return, and move my mouse around, I see the cursor on the screen moving around, but the screen is extremely dim. In fact, I could barely recognize that the computer was on. I could still click on icons and interact with windows though. Why did that happen?
My family has used a Sony Cyber-Shot camera for several years. A few months ago, we replaced it with a newer model Cyber-Shot. To our dismay, however, the videos the camera records are not in the old familiar ".mov" format, but rather are in some strange ".mts" format that does not open when we double it. Is there a way to enable iMovie, iPhoto, QuickTime, etc., to play said video files (and copy them from the camera automatically, as happened with my previous Cyber-Shot?
TL;DR: Internet Sharing is preventing my Mac from sleeping. I need to manually sleep the system on a regular basis. I want a way to configure Internet Sharing to stop preventing sleep. I have an iMac at home in my bedroom too far away from my router, and I can't use wireless, also, 3G coverage here is awful, so I've enabled Internet Sharing so I can use my iPhone/iPad connected trough my iMac. At work I am on a corporate network and wireless is somewhat lame and too restrictive, so I've enabled Internet Sharing on my MacBook Pro there too, so my iPhone can reach internal stuff. The problem is: When I hit ⌘+⌥+⏏ (or  > Sleep) neither computer goes to sleep as desired; that is unless I disable Internet Sharing first. At home I want the computer to sleep while I sleep (saves power + more silence) and at work when going home I want it to sleep too, so I don't have to close all connected apps (Adium, Colloquy, etc) and reopen again the next day. How can I configure pmset or Internet Sharing
It's been a while since, every now and then, I see a pop-up window appearing for a few milliseconds, that then disappears. I don't even have the time of reading what it says. Any idea on what could that be?
I have a 1TB external drive which I want to use as a bootable backup of my Mac. I want to use this same disk as a backup destination for Crashplan backups too. Is it possible to do this without creating two partitions on the external drive? I would also like to encrypt this disk using disk utility, would this affect the backups?
Sometimes, but not every time, when I open my MacBook Pro to wake it from sleep, the keyboard doesn't respond, so I have to reboot my Mac using the power button. There's a good chance that it happens when I close the lid without the laptop being plugged into power (the MagSafe plug), then plug in either power or headphones before I wake the computer again.
Is there any keyboard shortcut to open applications stack on dock bar? The idea is I want to be able to open any app without using mouse.
I'm looking for a very simple app to allow me to track my time on particular user-defined projects or tasks. However, my requirement is slightly different to those in questions such as Is there a good time automatic time tracking tool for Mac OS X as I don't need something that will automatically track my time spent in particular applications such as Time Sink or Time Track Pro. Rather, what I want to be able to do in a rough "must have" to "nice to have" order is: Add user-defined projects/tasks to a list each with its own timer Manually start and stop project/task timers as I switch projects Idle timer to stop recording activity if I leave the computer for a period of time Access the app from the menubar (ability to hide dock icon would be a bonus too) Create subtasks from the main project/task So, apologies in advance for the following, but in my head the interface might look something like the following, but again I'm totally open to suggestions:
I have a MBP in a dualscreen setup with the laptops display as secondary. I'd like to know if there is an application that dims the display's illumination when there is no window drawn on the laptop.
I'm looking for a device in the form of a bracelet/watch that vibrates when I receive calls and text messages; any recommendations?
I’m looking for a command (defaults write …) to enable right-click by tapping the bottom right Trackpad corner. This can be enabled as follows: System Preferences → Trackpad → Point & Click → enable Secondary click and select “Click in bottom right corner”. However, I’m looking for a way to do this programmatically. To find out which settings to modify using the defaults command, I usually do something like this… Disable the desired setting in System Preferences and close the preference pane. Then: cd /tmp defaults read > before Then:
I prefer to use the Gmail app over the standard Mail app on my iPad for reading my personal Gmail (I delete a lot of mails, newsletters, etc., after reading and this is one tap in Gmail and several in Mail). I have them set up so my personal Gmail uses the Gmail app and my work email is set up to use the standard Mail app. This all works fine except for one problem. If I'm in Gmail or Mail and send an email it sends from the relevant email address as expected. My problem is that when I share something via email from Safari or another app it sends from the email address configured in Settings for Mail (the work one) and I would prefer to do such sharing from my personal email address.
HD movies that I buy from iTunes appear in iTunes with the movie's name and a little "HD" symbol next to the movie. However, movies I've ripped from my BluRay discs, which are HD, aren't recognized by iTunes as being "HD". Of course they play fine via iTunes or AppleTV, in HD and everything, it's just I'd like to somehow edit the metadata or whatever it is that iTunes uses to identify a movie as being HD. I know it's just cosmetic, but it irritates me!
I have a 2010 MacPro which I'm multi-booting (OS X, Win 7) using Parallels and Bootcamp depending on what I'm doing. I can't see how to change the audio setting so that the line-out on the back of the 'Pro can be used as the default output. Do I need a new driver or something? I've tried using Windows Update but it tells me I already have the best available driver ...
Attempts to mount with write access continued to fail with the above error. I can't be sure whether this is new since I changed over. Read/write succeeds for a TrueCrypt container formatted as Mac OS Extended.
I think on the iPad's iBooks, if we purchase an ebook, then in another iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then that ebook is automatically downloaded into our bookshelf. However, what if it is a .epub or .pdf purchased, say, from O'Reilly? Sometimes the ebook is $29.99 on iBooks store but $25.99 on O'Reilly. It seems that the book won't be automatically downloaded to the bookshelf, but we can use Dropbox or Box.net to transfer to iBooks, and all the highlighting and added notes will be there on each device (sync'ed).
I've been using an IBM SpaceSaver II very successfully with my Mac Pro through one of those cheap PS2 > USB converters for about the last six or seven years. Recently, possibly after upgrading to Snow Leopard, a wizard popped up telling me the keyboard type was not detectable and asking me to type the key to the right of the left Shift key (KTTROTSK).
I have somehow managed to delete Safari from my iPhone and I can't get it back. It's obviously still on my phone, because when I search for it, I can find, and use it. Is there a remedy for this? Is it just a case of downloading the latest version of software?
I'm looking for an iOS app that will offer features similar to that of Instagram. This app should be designed specifically for the iPad. Feature I'd like to have are: apply filters to photos take photos within the app itself export photos to social networks or camera roll Can you recommend such apps which have been made specifically for the iPad?
In OS X I can use extensions in most browsers to block ads. This offers an distraction free browsing experience.
I accidentally typed cpp Scriptname.py DestinationDirectory, intending to copy the Python script into the folder. I realized afterward that I should have used cp, but now my Python script is completely gone. I have tried the locate command, but it says that it's still present in my user directory. When I type ls in my user directory, it is nowhere to be found.
This is a hybrid hardware/software question with a few more factors than the typical "freeing disk space" question. I have an older iMac with (I think) about a 250 GB hard drive. It's been running out of disk space for a while, and each time I find some way to recover a bit more room. I've used DaisyDisk, etc. to identify large unused files, moved my iPhone/iPad backups to cloud, etc.
I've done some Googling and nowhere do I find where you can log the shutdown process. The best I've found is a log where it states when the shutdown process begins but that's all. My computer is hanging on the end of the shutdown process and I'm trying to troubleshoot it. Have any ideas?
My setup at office is: Internet -> AirportExtreme --(wifi)--> AirportExpress --(eth1)--> MacPro1 --(eth2)--> MacPro2 MacPro1 has Internet Sharing enabled, allowing MacPro2 to be online. But MacPro2 does NOT see any of the shared Macs on the network. I tried changing the IP address manually on MacPro1, so it's the same subnet, but that didn't work. I tried changing the DHCP server on AirportExtreme from default 10.0.1.x to 192.168.2.x (to match the IP that MacPro2 was getting from MacPro1), so then MacPro1 got a 192.168.2.x address on eth1; but then MacPro2 became 192.168.3.x !
I was trying to listen to some music on MySpace, and it told me I refreshed the page, but it still came up with this. I restarted my browser, but the same thing happened. When I tried updating my Flash Player, I noticed that it was version 10.3.183.18. When I tried installing it, it told me that it wouldn't install because I had a newer version of flash installed.
I normally back up my mb to an external drive at home with time machine (it's been about 3 weeks since my last full backup). Recently a co worker sent me a file by placing it on a time capsule we have at the office. I grabbed the file and thought nothing of it. Today I noticed that the time machine icon was spinning like it does when preparing for a back up and after investigating I found that my mb was trying to back up to that time capsule.
As you probably already know, iTunes Match is a paid service provided by Apple. With iTunes Match, all your music — even songs you’ve imported from CDs — can be stored in iCloud. So you can access your music from all your devices and listen to your entire library, wherever you are.
I've heard that Apple didn't change the touch input part of the new iPad's display when they upgraded to the Retina screen. Is the touch response accuracy pixel-per-pixel perfect on the iPad third gen or is it lower?
Is there a way to set Instagram as default camera app on iPhone? So that I can open it from the lock screen?
I would like to use a secure VPN configuration in my iPhone (iOS 5.1), to be able to use Internet thru hostile wifi hotspots. I have already configured an IPSec tunnel to a server I control. I can manually activate the VPN in the phone and be "quite" sure nobody can snoop the WIFI data to/from my phone. But this scenario has a few problems:
I want to play videos in iTunes faster (1x, 2x, double speed, etc.) or maybe slower. How do I do that?
There are many handy shortcuts for exotic characters in Mac such as Option + 7 for ¶ and Option + G for ©. Is there one to yield the command key ('⌘') sign?
According to the manual for my Prius, the contacts from a paired BT device, including an iPhone or iPad, should appear under the "Phonebook" tab in the car's navigation system, with entries containing addresses enabled for selection as destinations. This much works as expected with my (successfully paired) iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1. But none of these entries work as destinations: selecting any of them results in an error stating that the address is "not navigable".
I just installed TextWrangler 4, and now when I try to use BBAutoComplete version 1.5.3, I get the error message seen below.  Is there a workaround to make BBAutoComplete work with TextWrangler 4?
I've deleted apps from my iTunes. Can I transfer them somehow from my iPhone? Or I should re-download them one by one? When I try to sync my iPhone, iTunes want's to delete apps…
Is there any way to get Mac OS X to save iTunes/App Store login info (ie username and password) to the Keychain? It's strange that pretty much all other application and website passwords are stored there, but not for iTunes. Note: I'm not asking about iPhone/iPad etc.
I was wondering if I send a message to two (or more) people using iOS5, will the message automatically be a "Group Message"?  So, does that mean that in the above picture, John would know that I've sent "msg" to Peter, and Peter would know that I've sent "msg" to John?
I'm using a macmini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard to share a cable internet connection. Sharing works fine except that security is limited to 40/128 bit WEP that is insecure (can be hacked in minutes). Is it possible to share the connection via wifi with stronger WPA/WPA2 security? Maybe using some third-party internet sharing app?
This is my first Mac application. I would like to send emails by comparing the current date and saved date of clients by the user in sqlite only one time- every day depending on the condition, asynchronously.
How can the verbosity of logging be increased for SASL authentication failures? To be more precise, to include the failing user name in a log file on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Server? Linux hosts have logging like: Where Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Server it's logging granularity is no deeper than: How can the user name be logged too? Help on how /usr/sbin/saslauthd is invoked by postfix/smtpd is also welcome and/or where its configuration is stored.
There are a few different states an iOS device might be in when one wants to capture a memory really fast: Power off, with a PIN or password screen Power off, no PIN or password, but need to "slide to unlock" Power on - on springboard (no app running, looking at app icons) Power on - in an app
I have enabled web sharing in System Preference. Still when I try to access my machine from outside the LAN using safari url: *=URL=* I get this - "Can open the webpage" Why?
A friend of mine bought an iPhone 3G from some T-Mobile cell phone vendor. The vendor had installed a custom 4.2.1 ipsw with the iPad baseband because iPhone 3G's wasn't unlockable at the time. That was great at first, but then my friend tried to restore the iPhone through iTunes. Because of the baseband, in the middle of the restore (the bar on the iPhone was partially filled) iTunes would vomit an error and axe the whole process, essentially bricking the device. He usually takes his computer issues to me, so I managed to fix the issue by reading forums and by finding an ipsw online with iPad's baseband. That iPhone's been working for a while now, but if this happens again, is there a way I can revert from the iPad baseband so he can restore through iTunes without my intervention?
On my iPhone, I can go to Settings > Mail > Any Account > Account > Advanced > Sent Mailbox and select which folder I'd prefer to have my Sent mail stored in. How can I do this in Mail on a Mac? I am trying to change which folder the sent messages are stored in when saving them to the server.
When I close the lid of my Macbook Pro (Lion), it goes to sleep, which is good: it powers down without closing my applications. But if I just leave the computer unattended for a while without closing the lid, it attempts to shut down instead. It usually fails at this, because there's often a program such as Photoshop (which doesn't use Lion's autosave feature) blocking shutdown with a "Save as" dialog. But it does always succeed, annoyingly, in closing my browser etc. It does this even when the computer is plugged in and fully charged. When I leave my computer unattended for 15 minutes, I want it to behave exactly as if I had closed the lid: it should go to sleep, not shut down. How can I do this?
I am trying to change the name of an iPod I bought off the Internet. I changed it in iTunes, and that seemed to work fine, but when I look at "About" in "Settings" it still has the old name. Any ideas? It's an iPod 5.5
In Lion Mail there is supposed to be a "show format bar" button at top right of a new mail window. It is not there for me. How can I get it to show?
If I want to stream music to an AE when someone else is connected, I get a message "The speaker XXX is currently used by someone else". Right now, both my flatmates are not connected to the AE but I still get that message - the AE seems to be stuck. It appears all I can do is unplug the unit and plug it in again. Is there a way for me to kick the current user, or at least see who was last connected to it?
I am really digging Apple's iTunes Match and would love to get it. However, I am living in Sweden where you can´t subscribe to it at the moment. I have found that there is a workaround for it, by buying a US gift card and singing up with a US iTunes Store account.
I wonder if anyone has had success or failure in attempting to use the Apple Configurator with normal gifted app redemption codes. The FAQ clearly states that you must be in the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) to import a spreadsheet from the VPP portal - however, I wonder if it would be possible to assemble a DIY spreadsheet with valid gifted apps for use. Apple Configurator: Using Volume Purchase Program (VPP) Redemption Codes My guess is no, but figured perhaps someone may have already tried this.
Oddly, in Print & Scan preferences, there is no "scan" option. I think that's the bit I'm missing. Hints? Thanks!
I installed a 30-day "test drive" of QuarkXpress, but got pulled in to other projects and didn't have time to test it. I now need to test it, but the 30 days are up. So I want to install the "test drive" again, but it won't let me. So far, I uninstalled the old copy, signed up under a different account, and downloaded a new version. I know there has to be application data somewhere, but I am a PC person and don't know where to look in the Mac OS. HELP! Thanks. Oh, and if necessary, I am using Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) Version 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro.
When composing emails I get suggestions for who to send to based on previous received and sent emails. Is there any way to see this list? I'd like to add them to my actual contacts list.
Seems to be too much gray in Lion. Status bar, title bar, scroll bars, links bar, tabs, everything blends into itself.
I already have a Verizon 4G LTE phone with a LTE SIM card (or whatever its called). If I purchase a Verizon iPad 3 from Craigslist, can I put my own SIM card in there and use my current data plan?
Is there an easy to use Bible program, preferably with dictionary, concordance as well as text for maybe more than 1 translation. My PC has PC Study Bible and it's great but I've grown to hate Parallels. Tried Macsword and bombed out, too complicated for me.
When I installed Microsoft Outlook 2011 Lion asked me if I wanted to use it as my main Mail client. How can I make Outlook be my main contact manager in OSX? For example when I open FaceTime my contacts are empty, but I have all my contacts within Outlook through Exchange (Office 365). Is it possible?
Is there a way to detect single-user mode in OSX (Lion, specifically) from the command line? I've tried who -r, which returns 3 in either standard or single-user mode. I've also tried nvram boot-args, which does not work either. Google isn't helping much with this...
If a second hard drive is mounted in the optical drive bay of a MacBook Pro, will it be affected by the Energy Saver setting for "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"? If it is affected, is there a way I can instruct the OS to sleep one drive, but not the other?
When I connect my iPhone 4S to my computer (OSX v 10.4.11), iTunes (9.2 61) does not detect the device. The phone displays the green battery meter indicating it's charging, System Profiler detects an "iPhone" connected to the USB bus, and iphoto automatically opens and prompts me to import new photos. The phone also does not appear in my devices. I have tried: using a different sync cable using a different USB port restarting the phone restarting the computer opening "image capture" and selecting "itunes" as the default application to open when "camera" is connected.
I want to hum a tune and have the notes be converted into MIDI notes… is this possible?
For example, I'm a developer, and my app is released with a minimum iOS of 3.0 required. If I release an update requiring iOS 5.0, what happens? Can existing customers running 3.0 attempt to update? What error message (if any) do they receive when attempting this? Will customers running 3.0 get the 'Update' notification in their app store app?
It seems that on iPad, iBooks, Kindle, or Kobo won't show any user highlightings? For example, just go to *=URL=* and you will see at the top right corner to download the PDF file. Right click and save it into your Mac or PC, and use Acrobat 10 or Mac's Preview to highlight the word "Objective-C" on the frontpage of the file. We can close and re-open the file to see the highlighting.
I like the app GoodReads, and I'm looking for something similar for movies. Is there any app you can suggest me? It should be able to make a collection of the movies I saw/own and to share lists, items,... on social networks (Facebook, Twitter,...)
Some time ago, I installed Sophos Antivirus on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard and came up against the "computer stops responding after reboot, with Sophos Antivirus installed and FileVault enabled" issues. This required me to forcibly power-off the computer by holding down the power button on every restart and having to boot into single user mode to manually remove the application files before I could use the computer again.
I need to connect to Ubuntu Vinegar VNC and Windows UltraVNC. I can't find one that sync's the clipboard so I can past from my Macbook to the others OS. It works fine Windows to Ubuntu and vise versa so the VNC servers are fine. A low cost solution would be preferred as my countries currency is a quarter of the value of the US$.
I'm using iPhone and MacBook. Both there are a default English-English dictionary, which is convenient. However, I'd prefer a French-English dictionary, while I'm learning French on iPhone or Mac. Is there a way to change the default dictionary on iPhone or Mac, to a French-English one?
I want to find some music videos and rename them, but I can't figure out how to do that? I am using iPhone 4S - iOS 5.0.1 - a jailbroken phone and using iFile And iFunBox.
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) I have a problem in using the fortran compiler g77: any program I try to compile, it gives me this message: "g77: installation problem, cannot exec `as" I've downloaded and installed the latest release of Xcode, but nothing changed... Thanks in advance for any help, Marco
Every time I download an image from a site, using Safari, as soon as the images finish download, it opens Preview to show me the image. Other browsers don't do that. Try this link. How do I prevent Safari from launching Preview?
I have the latest version of Mercurial installed on a fully patched Lion and the Mercurial client cannot be accessed from the terminal ("command not found"). The command line client is installed in /usr/local/bin and I've checked that this directory is in my $PATH variable.
How do I disable the auto-updating of the Top Sites in Safari? I don't want to turn the feature off altogether, I just want to prevent auto-update. I know this may seem like an attempt to defeat the purpose of Top Sites in the first place, but I find that if it auto-updates any of the Top Sites that are forum-based, all of the unread topics are marked as read. So, an even better solution would be the ability to exclude the auto-update of certain URLs/domains, etc. Does that functionality exist?
I'm trying to do examine some apps and what kind of network traffic they're using on my iPhone. I've set up Charles (including SSL certificates & provisioning profiles). Then, I tethered my laptop to my iPad to get a connection, and then shared that internet with my iPhone via WiFi.
I am looking for cases that fit the full size iPad with retina displays (3rd and 4th generation) and function similarly to the original black case from Apple for the first generation iPad. The aspects most appealing from that original design were: slim - visually and form fitting without adding the bulk of an Otterbox product. wedge for two angles (yes the vertical placement wasn't the most stable) no covers on the screen or the ports letting all charging cables and controls work well light drop, scratch and bump protection durable (having seen over 25 case designs wear over 6+ months - the Apple one is surprisingly durable) reputable warranty service (you can call for an exchange without hassle if it starts tearing 6 months into use)
I'm working on another Mac remotely, via the Screen Sharing app. Is there a way for me to send my swipe gestures and "hotkey" keystrokes to the remote machine?
I'm trying to add a few files into a dmg. How do I create a DMG file from a directory?
I have tons of photos on my mac (Lion) and an external harddrive. They are not organized using iphoto, just sitting in different folders.
I exchanged the HDD in my 2007 MacBook Pro and removed the DVD drive because it was making a terrible noise every time I booted the MacBook. The new HDD is a Corsair Force F120 SATA SSD. I formated it as HFS+. Every time I try to launch an OS X Lion installation disk or USB stick I get the grey prohibitory sign and the machine shuts down after a while. When I connect the old harddrive (with OSX still on it) I'm able to boot it up successfully. Any ideas what is wrong?
Ist it possible to see the settings of my known WLANs stored on my iPhone? I only know that I can access the settings of the current network when I am logged into one. Edit: The iPhone is not jailbroken and I do not intend to jailbreak it.
When an iMessage comes in, I want to disable vibration. I just want the tone play. But when a call comes in, I want both vibration AND tone play simultaneously. Is there a way I can set that up on my iPhone (iOS 5.1). The reason I want no vibration with iMessages/SMS is to conserver battery. Let me know if vibration does not sap away my battery in which case I would not worry about this issue.
I have a 23" iMac running Lion (10.7.3). I've checked that the "Enable HiDPI display modes" checkbox is enabled in "Quartz Debug" (it was checked the first time I opened it), but there are no HiDPI resolution options in my display settings. Has anyone had success with using HiDPI display modes on a 23" iMac?
In the next few days I'll have to reinstall my Mac OS/ Snow Leopard computer. I'm trying to figure out what to backup first. I’m not talking about the user data but rather OS specific things like in windows ini files, applications settings, some of the registry entries etc. I'm rather a windows guy and all the Mac stuff is a bit new form me.
After trying to install an application on my iPhone 4, I just saw this popup for the first time: Security Info Required To help ensure the security of your Apple ID, you must confirm your password and answer your security questions. [Cancel] [Security Info] Why is this dialog popping up?
On Mac OS X Lion, whenever the computer is to be turned off or restarted, the default is that "Open all apps" again after the next start up, and the user has to "uncheck" the box so that the apps won't run automatically. But every time, I have to uncheck that box. Is there a way to default to not to run those apps next time?
After only 4 months of use my Smart Cover no longer turns my iPad off/on. Apple in Brasil says they are not the manufactures, so I would need to look for XDA. How can I fix or exchange it?
Today I got my iPhone replaced by Apple as it was presenting some weird symptoms. I upgraded the iOS and restored from backup but few hours later I discovered that the hotspot password was replaced with something I never wrote soaked4963. Is this a bug in their iOS upgrade and/or restore mechanism?
The main or phone backup of my iPhone happened to my PC, but I had iCloud backup enabled for a number of apps (like WhatsApp, and others). My iPhone crashed and burned last week and Apple gave me a new iPhone, and even though I named it the same, and used the same AppleID on the new phone, it obviously has a different serial number and IMEI.
After each session, I put the laptop to sleep. You can say that I shutdown my OS once a month. Unixes after all aren't created to be rebooted. OS X Snow Leopard was pretty sleek, I don't know but it looks it is a Lion thing (maybe due iOS brought to Lion features).
I happen to have a TP-LINK TL-WN821N (it's a WiFi USB stick) around. Is there any chance to get that working on a Mac mini running OS X Lion? There are no official drivers but it seems there are some kind of drivers for the ATHEROS AR9170+AR9102 chipset from other vendors like Ralink.
I plug an external disk to the laptop whose system is Mac OS, but I can't create files/folders, or rename files in the disk... The Sharing & Permissions is You can only read. Does anyone know how to modify this permission?
I am using a MacBook Pro running 'Lion'. I would like to make one of my calendars in 'ical' available to one person for at least reading. If that is not possible, I would like to publish the calendar. Apple's website fails to explain these necessary steps: How do I publish a calendar that responds to my newly added schedule items; How do I inform the other person(s) how to access the calendar;
The tethered RedSnOw jailbreak for 5.1 worked like a charm. I ran into a problem when I installed winterboard however. Following the automatic reboot, I couldn't get my iPhone into DFU mode to use the "just reboot" function. What am I doing wrong?
If I'm not paying for cellular service on my 4G iPad, and it's not in range of a WiFi network it knows about (or is open), then will the Find My iPad service still work through the cellular network? I notice that I can sign up for service without being in a WiFi area when I haven't already purchased service, and it still tracks what type of cellular network I'm attached to and the signal strength when I'm not paying for cellular service. It would be nice if Apple and the carriers threw in Find My iPad for free so that even if I lose it (or it's stolen) in a month I'm not paying for service then I can still find it. Unfortunately, I already activated my service recently, so I have to wait another few weeks before I can test it.
I have an iPhone 4s that I want to turn into a Wi-Fi hotspot. I don't want to use the 3G connection to do this. I want to use the Wi-Fi coming into the phone as the source. How can I do this without jailbreaking? Anyone know of an app. It can be free or paid.
I have a 22" external monitor connected to my MacBook Pro (late 2011) via Thunderbolt to VGA. When I boot into Windows 7 x64, the screen seems to work and is mirrored during the boot screens, then it goes blank at the login screen. It stays blank after I log in to Windows. The built-in screen on the laptop works fine. The monitor works fine in OS X Lion.
I am not talking about connecting a VGA monitor to a Mac. I'm referring to plugging in a VGA output in to my Mac. I want the VGA to show up as a video device, so that I can run a projector's feed through UStream. What hardware is needed to digitize a VGA input in real time to send for broadcast?
Some iPad cases (particularly those that look like book covers) provide a feature that when the cover closes the iPad enters suspended mode and when the cover opens the iPad wakes up. The one provided by the link claims it provides this functionality through a magnetic strip. Does this mean iPads have the ability to sense nearby magnetic fields built in? Why and how does this work?
When updates are available you have the choice of install or show details. When you click install the updates are installed then you have to close the updater. When you click show details then install after the update it checks again for updates then shows you the updates you just installed but they are unchecked.
I have a MacBook Pro, bought 3 years ago, I'm not sure of the model, but the processor is a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 4 GB of RAM, nVidia 9400M 256M. I am using MacOS 10.6.6. Next week I will do a presentation in a conference, and they suggest to use a 1280 x 720 resolution, as the conference will be recorded using the 16:9 format.
I have about 10'000 pictures with iptc tags. Aperture shows this tags after the pictures have been imported.
Is there any iOS map app that works completely without WiFi/3G connection and supports (at a minimum) viewing your current location (on GPS-equipped iOS devices) and searching for an address? My intended use case scenario is mostly navigating around on foot in a foreign city.
I'm routing dns requests through dnsmasq so that domains I'm using for local development point to 127.0.0.1. This works great when I'm connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or ethernet, but I start to have problems when I'm not connected to the Internet at all. In dnsmasq.conf, I have this setting: Turning off all network connections, I run:
It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot. I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password between logins.
We have rolled out a small deployment of iPads to our Enterprise using iPCU and with a little sweat I'd say we were pretty successful. Our company is pretty large and our demand for iOS solutions is growing. We're currently under a trial license with McAfee EMM (MDM), so we're still getting our feet wet with that.
I would like to find an application that reproduces the functionality of PSR on OS X as closely as possible. Thank you.
I get Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. when I do ssh to other machines from my OS X machine which has X-server installed. echo $DISPLAY returns something like /tmp/launch-4eEyr6/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 Inside ~/.ssh/config I specified XAuthLocation xauth but I still get the errors. If I replace the line with full path to xauth (/opt/X11/bin/xauth), I stop getting the errors but the problem is that I do share the ssh config file between several machines, so I cannot put a path that is specific to Mac on it. I would prefer a solution that would not require me to create a symlink on Mac from /opt/X11/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth.
I have an Early 2008 13 inch MacBook updated to Lion. According to this Apple KB the max RAM I can add is 4GB.
Just thought of a concern on the MacBook Air. Flash drives / SSDs have limited read and write capacity, right?
I have a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard. In a wide range of applications I often need to use a straight edge to compare different values on charts, even sometimes charts generated by different applications. To do this I have made do with clumsy solutions like creating a floating and transparent Sticky or using Shift + Command + 4. I've also tried a small app called Crosshairs.
How do the three tethering options for the iPad compare in the following areas: Range Security Speed Power usage (both laptop and iPad) I'm mainly looking for the difference between WiFi and Bluetooth, as USB is pretty obvious except for the speed category.
I often keep all my personal files within a sparsebundle image, and notice that the built-in Preview often freezes while viewing jpeg/gif/png/pdf files. You can see the candy spinning for a good 30 seconds before it resumes working again. Looking inside the console, I would see the following error message It comes with full report below
I need to add a image of myself in the login screen (when user credentials are asked). How can I do this?
I have my iPad now with iOS 5.1. In the email I have a .epub but when iPad's email program download the file, there is no way to open it on iBooks? Tapping or double tapping on the attachment downloaded will have no reaction. Can this be solved if I don't have a PC to place that file into Dropbox to open in iBooks?
I'd really like to be able to play sound through both the headphone jack and my internal speakers on my MBP. Is this possible? If so, how?
Recently I have been getting popups on my iPad2 when using Safari. They say: Increase database size? Do you want to allow "*=URL=* to use up to 10 MB storage on your iPad? Cancel Increase where Cancel and Increase are buttons.
Apple has released this support document for FileVault 2 in Lion which says: FileVault 2 uses full disk, XTS-AES 128 encryption to help keep your data secure. With FileVault 2 you can encrypt the content of your entire drive. I understand that full disk encryption requires me to enter the login password right upon start and before the boot process. But why then can I boot into the recovery partition without entering a password?
How can I specify through the browser when to use the mobile stylesheet for a website, and when not to. This is a specific issue for me on the ipad running Safari. If this can't be done through the browswer, are any generic User-Agent spoofing tools for ipad that I can employ to accomplish this?
According to apple, Xcode in the Mac App Store has been repackaged, and is now distributed as a stand-alone application.
I'm planning on travelling out of the country and will bring my iPhone along. There will be WiFi access at my destination and I only intend on planning on using my iPhone for that. Is there anyway to sever all communications (data and voice) with the cell tower and keep WiFi connectivity?
Something in Mail itself? AppleScript? Automator? I am using OS X 10.7.3.
I called AT&T and asked them to unlock my iPhone 4 for international travel. They agreed. The support agent created a case, gave me the case identifier, and gave me an expected resolution date of April 18, 2012. Today (April 13, 2012), I received an email with a link to the unlock instructions. The instructions I received are: Open iTunes on your Mac or PC and verify that you have internet connectivity. Connect your iPhone using the dock connector to USB cable that came with your iPhone.
Scenario: I'm trying to mirror my iPad to my iMac using the Reflection app. Everything works fine but the reason I'm doing this is to record myself making a real time mix using the app Djay.
I know I can download apps such as Wunder Radio or iHeartRadio that tune in to the same signal over the internet as is being broadcast over commercial FM stations, but I want to use my iPhone to receive input from a real FM tuner. Many times smaller stations do not stream and often other services, such as audio of TV on a Gym, some museums and traffic warning stations as well as conferences where live translations in several languages are broadcast over different FM frequencies. Is there a particular app for this or maybe a third-party device I can purchase?
In Safari on an iPhone 4, how do you select/copy text? I've tried holding down on the text but nothing happens.
I have installed Mac OS X an additional HDD. So my MacBook now has two copies of OS X, and I can select which one to boot when it starts – great.
Searched for the answer, apologies because I'm sure this must have been covered. In 2012 we'll see desktop motherboards (and I suppose laptops but let's ignore that) to build Windows boxes that have Thunderbolt connectors.
When I download an app on my iPhone, it is automatically downloaded to my parents iPhones. It is extremely aggravating when my little sister shows me her iPod with all my games. How do I stop this? Everything with iCloud is off.
How do you attach a picture to an email you've already started composing? Instead of going to the picture first and sending it that way. I want to be able to attach it while I'm writing an email.
I want to print stuff from my iPhone or IPad. My printer is connected to a PC. I saw there is an app called PrintCentral that after configuration should do the trick. It is a bit pricey, so I want to know:
I'm running the registration after turning on my new macbook pro for the first time. I've chosen my national keyboard layout and now I can't write @ or + signs. I don't know how to change keyboard layout, some shortcuts like cmd space or cmd alt space don't work. Please notice that I also need to write national characters, so going back and choosing english keyboard layout won't work.
I enabled Russian input source, and am having problem disabling it. How do I disable it?
I had my first iPhone synched with my Macbook, then I bought a second iPhone, a 3GS, and I still haven't synchronized it with my Macbook. In fact, I'm not sure I set this 3GS up with any computer at all: I don't remember setting up this new 3GS with any computer (is there any way I can doublecheck this from the iPhone itself?).
I want to convince Siri to properly pronounce and recognise some of my contacts. I know that I need to tweak the 3 fields: Phonetic First Name, Phonetic Last Name and Nickname for that. Still, I am missing some very important information: What phonetic language does it use as it does not seem to be IPA Where can I find the list of possible sounds and their letters
I want to disable the light on the apple behind my screen. Besides covering it physically, is there a program or setting to disable it? Reason being - to make my MacBook Pro as uninteresting as possible to hyperactive two-year-olds.
I just bought a new ipad, and need to move everything from the old one (an ipad 1) to the new one. I made a sync to the computer. Then made a restore to the new ipad. And then I found it did not copy over my music. Some of those music files are not in my HD anymore. So if I lose it it might be gone for good. Is there any way in which I can get them out of the iPad in my HD memory.
Sometimes when I go to play a song on my iPhone, it skips over it entirely and goes onto a song after it in the list. The same happens when I try and play it in iTunes directly from the device - it gets a exclamation-mark-circle icon to its left when I try and play.
Since I upgraded my system from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion, I have errors in the display of system fonts, and in the spacing of characters in documents. An image of my old system under 10.6 Snow Leopard was restored from a Time Machine backup onto a new system running 10.7. I get unusual results: Like this in the Spotlight window And this in my battery display This in my Safari bookmarks not to mention errors opening documents - this is a .docx doc with Times New Roman, as seen in Pages '09
I cannot delete remove applications on Lion. When I delete some application in launchpad it disappear and reappear. Situations are quite the same as in this clip( *=URL=* ) I found. I could delete applications and I do not know what is wrong.
I am looking to upgrade the RAM on my Early 2009 iMac from 4GB to 8GB. According to the memory specifications it accepts PC3-8500 204-pin SO-DIMMs. However, will the iMac accept faster RAM (e.g. PC3-10600)? Supposing it does, is there any benefit to doing so? For reference, here are the two types of RAM I'm considering: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)
My professor asked me to help him out to find some information about the iPad. We are going to buy like 10 iPads to give it out to our senior of the school board and we want only the PDF file that we are going to sync it to be appear on the screen. I know this is almost impossible without jailbreak, but the iPad wouldn't be able to jailbreak and the people who going to get the iPad they don't really know how to use them, and if they sometime press on the home button they will mess it up and don't know how to get back to the screen that have PDF file. So I heard of Kiosk Pro but really I don't know how it works and I don't know if they will spend that much of money to buy the license again to this task. So I want to know some information from you guys if there is any demo app like what Apple does put the iPad 1 beside each of the products to show the specification of the product and have the case cover the home button so no one can go back to home screen? Thanks.
My 2008 macbook pro won't turn on. I replaced the battery less than six months ago, but it seems that it died again.
Is it possible to stream television programs from the iTunes store to an iPad, like you would do with an Apple TV, or is it only possible to watch them by downloading first?
Is there a safe way to find out if a used iPhone is intended to work on a particular carrier or is factory unlocked VS. having been unlocked by a third party? I'm on the Rogers network. I'd want a phone intended to work on the Rogers network, or intended to work on any network, rather than one that might become relocked by a future update. (Also, I had a third party unlocked phone once before, and it liked to spontaneously restart. I don't think that was a coincidence.)
I have a persistent problem where my MacBook Pro cannot access the folder shares on my Windows 7 computer using smb://[server name] at seemingly random occurrences. I am able to access the shares perfectly fine, copy items to and from the share with no issues, then once my MacBook Pro goes to sleep or is disconnected from the network it cannot access the share anymore, with the error "There was a problem connecting to the server [server name]". It seems to come back after I do a few restarts of the Windows 7 computers and the MacBook Pro.
When i turn on Bluetooth in my application it didn't detect other bluetooth devices. I wonder if there's a fault in my iPhone device or i didn't configure it properly.
I need to run an app that uses Adobe Air, but the installer for Adobe Air requires admin permissions. On general security principles, I limit what gets installed as admin user, and Adobe has a bad history when it comes to security, so it doesn't get exempted from my policy. I found that Mac OS X has a feature similar to Linux's LD_PRELOAD, called DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, which changes the search path for libraries. So I'm wondering if this can be used to fake out installers that unnecessarily require admin permissions so the installer will install to the current user's directory instead of the system level directory. Or is there a better way to accomplish this?
A few months back my mum spilt water on her laptop. Not knowing much about what to do, she turned it back on a few hours later rather than let it dry. Since then the left shift key does not work. I do not know if it is related but now the mousepad occasionally stops working. Is there anyway i can fix this? It is a Macbook PRO SnowLeopard
I have a couple of old Macs that run old versions of Mac OSX and I want to protect them from the recent Flashback malware. Has Apple produced a java update for systems Prior to 10.6 (snow leopard)? Can I get such an update anywhere else? Link:*=URL=* This link seems to say the latest update is only for OSX 10.6 I think there is an update for Lion (10.7) as well, what about leopard (10.5) or Tiger (10.4)?
My mums laptop is not very well managed and I would like to clean it up and perform a fresh install on it and teach her the ropes from scratch as she is having a lot of performance problems with it at the moment. Is there anyway i can reinstall it? It is a Macbook Pro
Lets say I want to place the camera without photographer, and take some time to move into the picture. Is there an app for iPhone to make pictures after a delay?
A friend of mine just bought an iPhone. She imported all her SIM contacts using the regular method: Settings > Contacts > Import from SIM All went well.
I have an iPhone 3GS I no longer use as the battery does not hold and I have a new iPhone 4. I was thinking of using it from time to time at home just to browse or read emails without cellular network (i.e., with no SIM). After a long time I switched it on initialized it and realized that I need a SIM to activate it (although I already activated it years ago).
There is already a question on reordering of items in the reminder app, but I want to go one step further and move existing items from the device to iCloud. Is that possible at all?
How to add reminder to ios 5 Reminder app from my windows 7 PC? or it will much better to sync Reminder to google calendar. I like location based reminder of Reminder app.
Many character sets provide single special characters for fractions like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc. Can these be typed on an iPad? I have found GlyphBoard that lets you paste them in but it dates back to 2009 and I wondered if native support may have been added in the interim.
Can I disable the sleep mode for a specific application so that my mac won't go on sleep until the app is closed?
I recently started at a new job and now work at home four days a week (I only go in to the office once a week for a company meeting). Because I'm no longer commuting regularly and obviously have wifi in my house, I'm using almost no data on my iPhone 4 anymore. I'm already on the cheaper $15/month data plan with AT&T, but I don't even max that out anymore; as of today, which is halfway through my billing period, I've only used 26 MB out of 200.
I'm considering getting a new iPod and a new mobile phone. iPhone 4S sounds like a really attractive option, but it looks that iPhone 4S has serious battery issues. Some people are charging their iPhone 4S twice a day, according to articles on the web.
For the last few days Safari has simply stopped remembering thing, like my login id for several Web sites (but not all, not StackExchange for example) and form data that is stored in cookies (like my name and address on the pizza delivery site I use). Private Browsing is not active. What might have happened and how can I fix it? This is Safari 5.1.2.
Looking to speed up Growl notifications on a per-application basis (doesn't seem possible within Growl's own GUI), I'm sceptical but still curious if this is possible via GrowlNotify: Does anyone know whether it's possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification?
Using the application Monolingual, is it safe to remove the Intel architecture on a Late 2010 MacBook Air and just leave the Intel 64-Bit architecture?
I did not check off the option to sync my voice memos, yet I still see my voice memos on my itunes. It does not give me an option to delete it from itunes. however I have already deleted it from my phone. How can I get rid of it?
I'm new to OS X. As per title, I'm having trouble connecting to my web server through SSH. My server accepts keys and we don't use passwords. I've come from windows, and on windows I used PuTTY to connect to my server using a .ppk file generated using PuTTYGen. On the Mac, I've generated using ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 and made a key.ppk file in ~/.ssh and pasted the contents of my Windows .ppk file into it. I also made a config file with the following contents...
I've been using Xcode on my Mac Mini for a few months with large app storyboards etc. To do this, I need to constantly zoom in/out of the document to see what I need to. I've increased the size of my monitor to a 24-inch display, but I still find myself needing to zoom a lot.
I want to symlink my user folder in Lion from my SSD to my HDD. However, I've read that this is not such a good idea as there is library folders containing caches in the user folder. I've had a look and in the user folder there is one folder named for my user name containing no library folder, and one folder named 'shared' containing a library folder. Can I just symlink my named folder and leave the shared folder as it is, or as I install more software and use my mac more will there be a library folder with cache files created in my named user folder? I don't want to symlink the wrong folders and not get the most out of my SSD. Cheers Ad
On Windows, if I go to a web site that needs a file upload, I can paste a URL into the "Open" dialog box that pops up, and Windows will download the file and upload a temporary version of it to the web site. Is there an equivalent on the Mac? If I hit ⌘+⇧+G, and type in a URL, it says 'The folder can't be found'.
In the second reward tier, it says it will give a full version of the game for free. I see 98 backers.
I was wondering if videos are played in HD when viewed on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S .. Does anyone know ?
I have a hobby organization that records sign-ins on a weekly basis. I would like to find an app that allows me to take attendance and have each attendee sign that they were present, then be able to generate a printable sign-in sheet that can go in the printed records.
How is RAID1 is supposed to work? If so, is Apple.. just saying there is no improvemnet to cover their asses, or
When I sync my iPhone 4S to my PC, I'm able to transfer pictures to my PC drive to make more room on my iPhone. Why can't I transfer user made videos to my PC? The user made videos take up more space than my pictures and so I would like to free up some space for other save data.
I've changed my default font for message to be Georgia 12 Normal. The trick is, to have the message formatted this way (Georgia 12 Normal), so when the recipient open the email it is also formatted as Georgia 12 Normal. Can anybody tell me how to have Mail format new messages to Georgia 12 Normal.
On my mac, i deleted a bunch of songs and checked "delete from iCloud" checkbox. On my iPhone (10 minutes later), songs are still there.
I know, from within iTunes one can chose to remove an item from iCloud. Is the same possible from the iPhone? Say you imported an album full os songs and don't like one or two and would like to delete it from iCloud directly from the iPhone. Can this be done?
Picasa is a good start, too bad it doesn't support eps or pdf, which makes it less than ideal for older LaTeX stuff. Just realized it also doesn't support smart folders... Big fail ! I guess I'm spoiled by Apple but I would have thought this would be pretty much standard in any app by now... Any other suggestion? Also, this might not be the most appropriate SE site for this question but it's pretty generic and since I'm looking at something on the Mac, I thought I would start here... Thanks in advance !
After having removed a song from iTunes (and having selected "remove from iCloud") checkbox, my iPhone believes it still can downloaded from the iCloud. I wonder, if it's possible to view one's content from the stand point of Apple. Do they have the song I removed or do they not? If they do, under my account, I'd like to be able to remove it.
How can I get links (boh from web pages within Chrome AND from external apps) to open in a new window rather than in a new tab in the active window? This has been answered for Windows, but I cannot find a solution for Mac.
The EU has recently forced Apple to abide to the two-year warranty period mandated there. As I understand it, this is not a maker warranty, but a retailer warranty, so to keep things simple, assume for the following that I bought the product directly from Apple. Does it also apply to the online Apple shop, or only the retail stores? Does it also apply to the online Apple shop, or only the retail stores? Does it only apply to Italy (where a complaint was originally filed)? Does it only apply to Italy (where a complaint was originally filed)? Is this equivalent to a one-year extension of the normal one-year Apple Care you get? Is this equivalent to a one-year extension of the normal one-year Apple Care you get? Can I claim warranty (for a product bought in Europe) in Apple Stores outside of Europe (as I can with Apple Care)? Can I claim warranty (for a product bought in Europe) in Apple Stores outside of Europe (as I can with Apple Care)?
I can't update or downgrade my iPhone 3GS, Firmware 4.3.5 tethered with redsn0w. Whenever I try to update it, I get a "device isn't eligible" error. I researched on how to do that, like changing host files, but none of them worked for me. I use OS X Snow Leopard. This is my host file – not sure if it's the orginal one or not.
The UI on the application does not look like it is using native components. It seems like it's running Java or something similar.
I'm testing an iphone app someone has developed for me. It seems that some of the files the app downloads are too large. Is there an app that monitors the network to allow me how much data my app consumes?
AT&T now throttles the connection speeds for those on the unlimited plan. How can I know if my iPhone's connection is being throttled or if I'm just getting poor speed due to other reasons?
Is it possible to "un-install" from the appstore. How?
When I download a zip file through Safari it automatically extracts it into a new folder named as the ZIP file is. Is there a way to disable the auto extract feature and just leave the file as is in ZIP format?
Processor: Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Memory: 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM I can only start with a safe boot.
I have an Apple Wireless Keyboard - French. Could anyone tell me which shortcut is for the number lock? clear or F6 as suggested somewhere does not seem to work. Also, where are number keys when the number keyboard is on? Finally, how to press control+alt+KP4
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3, and I have installed VMware to run virtual machines: Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10. I have also installed VM Tools.
Is there a way using iTerm2 to give the active tab more contrast compared to the rest of the tabs?
Is there a way to either pipe the sound output of the computer to a file or record what the computer puts out? I know I could use a headphone to microphone cord, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution. Google doesn't give very good results.
While working on an existing document (a simple three-column Word table), the document has stuck on the "Table Layout" tab. When I try to open another tab eg Home, or Document Elements, the toolbar sort of bounces up and down and stays stuck on "table layout". I've tried closing down Word and re-opening it. No luck. I tried shutting down my computer and restarting it. No luck. Any other ideas?
I just noticed that a folder containing personal documents was still on my main disk. I copied to my personal disk (password protected), but I want to also delete the copies which are stored in the multiple backups that Time Machine has made over the years. Is this possible?
I have just discovered that System Preference panes such as Mouse and Keyboard cannot be locked, this is a problem as one user could log in change the strings and then another user would log in and could become confused as to why they have changed. Is there anyway of blocking or locking these preference panes? I need access to them as an administrator but I want all other users not to have access just like any other preference pane.
I am (trying to be) running Xcode 4.3.2. on Lion 10.7.3 I noticed that when I stop watching Xcode and walk away from the computer for a while (like half an hour or so), Xcode in the mean time stopped running and has to be started again.
Is there a way to tell OS X Lion to disable auto-termination for a given application that you do not want to auto terminate? FYI Lion is a quitter if you did not already know, what if you don't want it to be for a certain Applicaiton.
If I wanted to use an iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad) to gather data from RFID chips on equipment in a motor pool, what would I need? Is it even possible today?
When I synced my phone to microsoft exchange account, all of my contacts, reminders, and calendar dates were erased. This is what I did: Settings mail, contacts, calendars add account microsoft exchange put in my school email
Preferably Wirelessly. Any apps for that? Obviously I'm talking about the more recent iOS powered little black box AppleTV, not the original model.
I noticed recently that new programs (newly installed or downloaded) are not opening on first try on my MacBook Pro, or on my wife's MacBook. Both are running 10.7.3.
I'm trying to run sudo port selfupdate to but part of the build process seems to be generating errors. I've run it with -d, and here's the output:
When you have a Windows partition on your system, VMware can see and boot a virtual machine from partition. However, with other OS X and Linux partition, there's no such option. Is there a way to make a virtual machine and "link" the local partition?
I keep getting email's notifying me of my upcoming meetings. This would be fine, but i never asked it to do this.
I have installed iTerm2 and was hoping I'd have something like guake (Yes I just switched from Ubuntu). I mapped the hotkey to a button of my choice and it works fine, but I miss the slide-down-from-top animation like I had in Ubuntu.
Before I buy a new SSD, I wanted to see if the following is possible: I have a 500 GB HD in my MacBook Pro that is using only 240 gigs. Can I clone this to a 256 GB SSD drive? (My goal is to replace the boot spinning drive with an SSD drive.) Then use the 500 GB HD as a second drive in the SuperDrive bay. Can I clone to the SSD if it's in a USB enclosure as well? And what is the best cloning software? I'm running OS X Lion, if that's useful.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a native Mac OS X application. I would be OK with an online application, or a Unix application to install or compile. In other words, anything that works somewhat decently would be OK.
I'd like to have all email that I send formatted with my font and size and color, like the way web based email does it. I'd just like to set a default font and have all email I send formatted this way. Can anyone tell me how to do that?
It seems like Lion supports NTFS (by plugging in a USB Flash drive which is NTFS). So for hard drives such as the WD Passport or Toshiba 1TB, which are made for the PC (running Windows XP/Vista/7), they can be used on the Mac running Mac OS X Lion as well?
Is there a way to wirelessy transfer the videos I made on iPhone or iPad to my Mac (to iPhoto or Logic Pro), or is the only option to use a cable?
I am trying to help someone sync their IPhone 4 to their desktop computer, in order to make a backup of their info (contacts, their numbers, calendar dates and such). This person has an IPhone 4 running IOS 4.3, and is using Windows XP. Unfortunately, whenever we try to sync, Itunes gives a message box saying that it could not sync to the IPhone (error 13019). Does anyone know what this code means, and if so, anyway to fix it? Please note that this most likely isn't a problem with ITunes, seeing as we just downloaded it specifically for this, about 5 minutes ago, with the latest software from the website. Thank you.
I recently noticed that some sites/blogs I visit using either Safari or Firefox are showing fonts incorrectly. My site is included which is why I realised this was a problem. Instead of the correct styles the main font of the page is displaying bold and italic. Is this a problem on my system? How can I fix it? Here is a picture of problem — fonts are showing in bold and italic when they should be unstyled.
My MacBook running Lion doesn't always connect to the strongest hotspot - and though it claims to be periodically "looking for networks" (at least when I hit the WiFi network symbol) - it won't connect to a stronger one. If I turn WiFi off and back on, I always get the better connection.
When I'm accessing a remote machine with multiple desktops or full screen applications running, via OS X Lion's built-in screen sharing, how do I change desktops/full screen apps on the remote machine? The usually Ctrl-(#, left arrow, right arrow) modifier keys change the desktop/full screen app on my local machine only.
I'm trying to play a presentation with Powerpoint without seeing it in full screen. (my goal is to take notes on the presentation in a separate window/app).
You may have noticed I did not actually wipe my iPhone and set it up as a new device. That's a huge pain, because since I would not be restoring from a backup, I would loose lots of stuff. Instead, I just rebuilt the iTunes library, which made it look like a different library, which caused iTunes to wipe and re-create my iTunes library on my iPhone. And on my iPad. And it turns out I'm having the same problem on my iPad 3. Which would seem to point the finger at either the podcast publisher or iTunes on Snow Leopard. But probably not the publisher because jsd said he did could not reproduce my problem. Episode downloaded directly to the iPhone via App Store, on the iPhone: Has title like 04-11-12 Marketplace Has album art Does not have release date Has running time Episode downloaded to Mac via iTunes then synced to iPhone, on the iPhone: Has title "Marketplace" Does not have album art Has release date (shown in bottom right) Has running time On the iPhone, it's possible for me to down
Are my assumptions correct which lead to the conclusion that Find My iPod/iPhone/iPad is basically useless on any non-3G device? Am I missing something? Is there any way to increase the chances of locating your iPod touch in case it does get stolen? (Preferably one which doesn't involve connecting to a bunch of random networks (i.e. in order to have them be "known" networks) in hopes that one day the thief will travel by one with the same name and have it auto-connect to that.)
I just clicked on an EPUB file and instead of Stanza it opened with "Application Loader", which asked me to accept some terms of service. What is "Application Loader" and can it really be used to display EPUB documents?
Apple's update on April 17, 2012 detected and deactivated the Flashback trojan. Yet two weeks ago I had following the instructions here. After concluding that my Mac is not infected, I disabled Java. I don't understand how Flashback could have sneaked in, especially after my guard has been up after an Arstechnica article, but that no longer matters.
Most Mac OS X releases have very nice security configuration guides, but Lion is not in the list. Is this document available somewhere else on Apple's site, or is there a roughly-equivalent document available somewhere on their site under another name?
On startup, I eject my external USB disks with the following AppleScript: This works as expected: the drive powers down. However, when my MacBook wakes from sleep (through not being used), the drive spins up - no partitions are mounted, but the drive is nonetheless on and humming. If I check the Disk Utility app, I see that the USB drives are all greyed out. If I right click one of the partitions and select "Eject Partition" (even though they are gray and thus symbolize that they are ejected) then the drive powers down.
With the URL <file:///Library/Fonts> (for example in a note in NV) I can open the finder with the given location. Can I do something similar for the terminal? That is, if I write for example (doesn't work, that is the question!) <terminal://Library/Fonts> the Terminal.app should open a new window and cd to that directory.
I had installed the new Google Chrome update and after I restarted the browser, it stopped using my Keychain credentials. Is it possible to solve this problem somehow ?
I am trying to configure a printer (Canon Pixma mg3150) to my mac... everything looks fine, I can print a page of 1 side. The specification of the printer shows auto duplex print, but the Two Sided is not permitted from the PDF viewer as follows: Does anyone know if the printer really permits auto duplex print?
Some of my apps are for scrapbooking and are over 100 MB and have cost a fair bit of money with all the add-ons and in-app purchases I've made. My songs will be ok. My photos will be ok. But what about my apps? I am terrified I won't have access to all my apps after I upgrade. Or maybe I'll only have the 48. I cannot use sync because obviously I am a control freak; I mean, obviously the new PC is an issue and the amount of storage space on the iPod and need to swap is an issue and WAY too confusing and time-consuming to have to use the checkmark method. I have to do it manually.
Is there an easy way to do this? I have several folders with music files that I want to join. So it would be good if there is a batch solution to this problem.
I've just installed pypy, and I've made a symlink from /pypy to my pypy installation. How can I turn this into a command, so that I can just type pypy myfile.py instead of having to type /pypy myfile.py?
I'm preparing an old Macbook Pro for resale. I want to setup the Lion installation in a way so that the Welcome video plays when the buyer boots the MBP for the first time. How can I accomplish this?
I know that I can move files at the command line, but I'm looking for an elegant desktop solution besides the traditional drag-and-drop of the Finder. Basically, I want to right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location.
What is the best way to send a video from the iPhone to another iPhone or to a PC - Windows ? I tried dropbox but it is really slow (probably because of my internet) .. BUMP doesnt send videos, and I tried itunes but it syncs to "Videos" .. I want the video to appear in the camera roll without the need of using iFile from cydia. Any ideas ? Regards.
I've been using an iPhone 4 for a while now and have a bunch of apps, each with its own data. I just got an iPod touch and I wanted to have the same apps/data on it as well. The iPhone 4 is synced and backed up to iCloud.
I have a Macbook and a Thunderbolt display. The Thunderbolt display is connected to a network with a very tight firewall. I also have a WiFi connection that is always connected at this location. The WiFi firewall isn't as aggressive and every now and then I need to connect to it to connect to a SOAP web service that operates on a blocked port. Is there a ways (hotkey or system preference) that I can toggle so that I can remain connected to both networks, but force my MacBook to connect to the internet through the WiFi, rather than the local network?
My new iPad has a scratch that produces a rainbow effect on the screen. I have read that cerium oxide can be used to reduce the appearance of scratches on Gorilla Glass which is similar to the iPad/iPhone 4 glass, but it is hard to find step-by-step instructions on how to use it or any examples that it works. Does anyone have any experience removing scratches using cerium oxide or something else?
I am on my office network, trying to access our Intranet via iOS Safari. Our Intranet URL is *=URL=* (no domain or prefix). Safari never opens this. Is there a way to get to this address on an iPad?
I have a 27" iMac. Its original 1Tb drive failed a few days ago. I decided to replace it with a 2Tb drive and replace my CD/DVD drive with an SSD drive. The SSD drive is small - 128Gb. I intend to only have the OS and install apps there. All user data will be on 2Tb drive. Restoring all data on OS drive and moving it over is not an option - complete backup is 465Gb. Is there a way to force TM to restore my files where I want them?
I need to fill in a form that was sent to me in .lwp format... So far: The App Store couldn't find any compatible apps; I found out it's a Lotus WordPro document; By using Word's Recover text from any file, the content is all messed up; I don't have access to a PC to use WordPort nor Kvlotus.exe; I read the solution is to install IBM Lotus Symphony... ...but before I download a 250MB+ package and install it for a one time thing, did anyone here face the same problem just to come to a more elegant solution to convert this file to a more useful format? Later edit: installing Symphony doesn't support it either:
I have a MacBook Pro that I would like to use while I'm at work, but am reluctant to actually take to work because the environment is quite dusty. I have been provided with a IBM Thinkpad running Windows 7 at work and would like the remote control the MacBook Pro from work over an existing VPN tunnel. Ideally, the laptop would just be connected to the power and the lid would be closed to prevent any dust or anything building up on the screen.
I have a long image that's about 8 inches wide by 20 inches tall. It's open in Preview. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the top half of the image to print on one sheet of letter paper, and the second half to print on the second sheet.
I held off upgrading my Mac Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion until I had replaced all the important apps that would no longer run. So far it's OK, but one thing has me baffled is that my Smart Searches in the Finder sidebar all display a ".savedSearch" extension. I've gone to Finder prefs and unchecked "Show all filename extensions" and I've done a Get Info… on the search themselves and made sure "Hide extension" is clicked. Neither made a difference. This doesn't happen on my MacBook, just the Mac Pro. Any idea how to stop it?
I am trying to downsize my iMac 640Gb disk to make it fit onto a 120Gb (113Gb usable) SSD. The total size of use files is currently approximately 340Gb, of which my home folder accounts for 265Gb (which I intend to not put on the SSD, or at least not all of it). Very rough calculations suggest that my OS and application files are taking up roughly 75Gb, which puts me approximately 2/3rds full - not bad. But, I would like to reduce this a little further if possible, to ensure that as and when I continue to use the computer (and I have a number of large apps that do not currently have installed including music production apps with a lot of data) I am not worried about running out of space on the boot drive.
I attempted to install an application this afternoon, and was presented with the below security screen stating: Security Info Required To help ensure the security of your Apple ID, you must confirm your password and answer your security questions.
I'm looking for the file that corresponds to my account photo (this is also my iChat icon).
It seems that the default shortcut for switching to the next window in Lion is ⌘ `. Is there any way I can rebind this to something else? (Preferably using built-in software.) I tried looking for it in System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, but I couldn't find anything.
When I open the App Store on my iPhone, it opens my Australian account by default. How can I change the settings so it opens my US account (which I do own legally).
Snow Leopard Preview does not show some PDF (Version 1.7) although these can be viewed in Lion. Is there an upgrade? After all Version 1.7 is a 2006 ISO Standard
I have a folder of several hundred JPGs. All of them are either big (640x480) or small (350x250). I'd like to delete all the small images in one batch.
Is it possible to delete a song from a playlist with a 'swipe to delete'? I thought this was possible, but I am not able to do this. I'm running iOS 5.0.1.
How can I get back to the location I was at before I clicked the link? I can't find a back or forward button anywhere.
I have read from Has anyone ever tried to use an iPhone as web server?, there is an app called ServersMan that can turn Phone into an web server. But it is not available in my local app store. Do you have suggestions of alternatives for turning iPhone into an web/app server? Hopefully, it can provide tunneling-like function so that it can be used in 3G network.
Where does Mac OS X store TextEdit's unsaved documents? I want to programmatically: increase/decrease that size flush the cache provide configuration option to control the frequency of auto saving/caching
When I connect my MacBook Air's 45 W MagSafe power adapter to my MacBook Pro (which came with a 65 W MagSafe power adapter), and the Pro uses lots of power (such as installing updates and restarting), the power adapter whistles. The whistle is high-pitched, reminiscent of fast wind past a window with a tiny crack in its casing (or very slightly open), and audible from several feet away.
I have an early 2011 15” MBP (2.3GHz i7 8GB) and I’m annoyed about the sound of the fans. I know how a defective fan sounds, but these do no sound abnormal, but what what is abnormal is that I hear them even when computer is almost not used. The fans are running at ~2000rpm and ~64 C. I do have a SeeThrou Satin Case which I bought from Apple, so I suppose it should have a major effect No signifiant HDD or CPU activity observed with Activity Monitor Yes, usually I do keep it on my lap, eventual on bed and have to use a pillow or something else to isolate me from its heat. This annoys me because I would like to have a quiet work environment and not having to to start music just to hide the FAN noise. What can I do to solve the noise problem?
I need the dimensions of the "gum-stick" SSD (solid-state drive) used in 2011 MacBook Air models, preferably in cm or mm.
There is a mesh above the camera on top of the display. Is that it?
I am buying the new iPad in US. I am going to be sending this to India for my mom. Now, what do I have to do to ensure that if and she purchases Apps from the App Store, the currency is in the local currency, i.e., INR and not US $. I understand it really does not make a difference other than the fact that the credit/debit card will be making the payment but it would still be useful for me to see the pricing in the local currency. Is this based on the Country/ Region that I specify when creating a new Apple Id? Is this based on the Country/Region we pick when we setup the iPad for the first time (I cannot remember exactly if we do specify the Country while setting up the iPad or just the language).
I have found countless blogs and tutorials how to encrypt an external drive using Mac's extended journaled encrypted format, but I couldn't find anybody stating the standard behind it. I know that FireVault 2 uses XTS-AES 128 encryption, but is that the same used for the external format or are the hard/flash drives simply assigned with a mounting password? Any link for clarification or simply a statement would be very appreciated.
I'm using my iPad to show several presentations. I use the Apple Keynote App. But it's not handy to run back to the iPad and flip to the next slide. Is there any Hardware-Presenter (Bluetooth) for the iPad which works fine with the Keynote App? There are quite a few for the Macintosh, but do they also work with the iPad? There's an App for the iPhone, i know, but i haven't one at the moment.
First I've noticed it on my activity monitor: As you can see Free ram color is set to bright green. And in the activity monitor itself shows color somewhat between green and yellow. Now also as you can see in bottom left corner, the dock icon's color is ok. But in the Terminal I get the same crappy color instead of green… Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?
I've an Apple ID already, which I got after registering at developer.apple.com. Now when I sign-in using iTunes, it says the id has not been used with iTunes and needed to review. When I click on review button, it asks some information and my credit card details. Since I am not purchasing anything, I put a card info which I rarely use. On Clicking submit, it doesn't accept the card info. Why apple need Card info just to sign-in to iTunes, and will it deduct any money for signing in??
When I got my 27" thunderbolt display, set it up with my 2011 lion MBP was working as it should, my desktop backgrounds was being shared or extended across the displays, when I hit mission control I can see on both displays exactly the same 6 desktop spaces with the pictures I set for their backgrounds, when I draged google chrome or fusion 4 to the external display I was able to make either one full screen just as normal and keep on working on my laptop with other apps(note: my dock & toolbar were on my MBP screen all the time). Then close the lid on my MBP and went to lunch, when I came back I found that my perfect set up was turned into the nightmare everyone else is living thru the forums all over the internet,the background and mission control backgrounds were the stock lion galaxy looking thing on the external which seems like my MBP desktop wasn't being shared or extended over to the external display any more, and when enable any app to full screen mode on the external display t
I found out that I have some Eigen file in /usr/include/eigen3/... Is Eigen provided by deafult with XCode 4.3 or were them installed by me with a package manager like macport or homebrew? I'm asking it because I'd like to remove them and build a new installation. Thanks!
I have my iTunes library on my external hdd and added a track to an playlist. Everything goes and works fine in iTunes, I can play the whole song from begin to end (also in other applications on MAC/Windows), but it get's stuck and prompts me the error that the file is not readable when I want to sync the song with my iPhone.
While doing web development I often need to refresh a site I'm building with the cache ignored. What are the best ways to do this?
I'm trying to download the Denwacho Kantan Copy app for iOS so that I can transfer my contacts to my new softbank iPhone. However, I am being told that I can't download this app with my American Apple ID account. I have downloaded countless apps in Japan without having this problem. Please help! Kantan means easy in Japanese and this has been anything but easy. I have already tried changing my apple ID to a Japanese one, but this cannot be done without a Japanese credit card...which is very difficult to acquire here for foreigners. If I was able to purchase this phone using the security of my American credit card, why shouldn't I be able to do something simple like transfer my contacts?? Everything else works fine!
I believe this to be a serious bug having to do with the root account malfunctioning badly. I have reproduced it several times. I have restarted the machine, verified the hard disk, and repaired permissions. It is still reproducible. Steps to reproduce: Enable the administrator (root) account. Go to Login Window.
I want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive, and boot from it when needed. Is this possible on a Mac? I have heard from some sources that it is not possible to boot Windows from external drives, at least on the new Macs. I found this quite surprising. Any idea if this is true?
I did my first website today using iWeb and I placed it inside the sites folder. From what I understand, this should enable me to show other people my site with this address:
I need to connect my Mac to my iPhone and send a picture via Bluetooth. Can someone give me step by step instructions as in how to do this ? note: if there's any other way i could do this, then please share it with me
At the end of the day, I unplug my speakers (and a few other things) and take the laptop home for the night. I leave VMWare running, since there's no performance hit.
My daughter bought a new iPad and gave me her old iPad. However, her old iPad has her Apple ID associated with it.
I want save all files from iTunes U in a device. How can I change the destination folder only for iTunes U and continue using the actual folder for all other files?
I am using the Mac's fax function and that works just great. I would, however, like to make an Applescript that gets called from a Mail rule. For example, when the Subject is something like: "FAX:12345679", the rule should take the fax number from the subject and use it to fax the attachment via the fax-modem printer. Is this possible?
I would like to create an Automator workflow (or some similar function) that will close down Safari after a specified period of time. For instance, I simply want to run Pandora in Safari during the night, but have it close out after 30 minutes to 1 hour, as sort of a sleep timer. I am a very new Mac user so detailed instructions would be great. I have familiarized myself with creating some simple Automator workflows, but I have no experience using AppleScript.
I have a dream! I wish I could import my photos in Lightroom, process them and add them to several different collections/published collections that would then show up as events in iPhoto. Think "Italy 2009", "Wedding", "The Children" and so on. I can get part of the way today but some very important steps remain to solve. I import my photos into Lightroom I organize and edit them into published collections I publish the collection to disk I import it into iPhoto and I have very nice event that I can sync with my iOS devices Here is what I can't do after this step Edit an image and re-publish and have iPhoto replace it's version with the new one (if possible really replace it so that metadata like faces and locations remains)
When I run this command in the shell (in a non-empty directory): I get this: (and so on for each file)
I know in a regular situation (without iTunes Match), the music is stored in /User/Media/iTunes_Control/Music. However, all of my FXX folders are empty. Does iTunes Match cache files in a different location than the regular iOS iPod storage place? I am running iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S.
I'm searching for a web-page + iPad app which I can use as a collaborative whiteboard. Specifically I would like to draw on the iPad and share (in real-time) what's drawn on the web-page.
My friend has a circa 2006 A1212 Macbook Pro 17inch. It has issues starting up but when it boots everything works fine but the screen is all pixelated, flashes randomly, and some parts have a red tint. I think the video card is dying and that was the general consensus on the internet (note: external monitor has same effects). Is there a way to salvage this machine or get it in a better working condition without replacing the logic board?
Trying to restore a new Mac Mini which just crashed from its Time Machine backup which is on a Promise Pegasus R4 drive. On first boot up the repaired Mac Mini does not see the Pegasus drive, so cannot restore.
Today an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician has installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my OS X to the SSD using the OS X Recovery, where the OS was installed using an Time Capsule Backup. Afterwards I did an Erase of the old HDD in Disk Utility to get the old OS removed and my data has now been transferred to new, clean partition. The name of the partition on the SSD is Crucial M4 SSD and the name of partition on my old 1TB HDD is Storage. Please see this output from diskutil list:
The reason I am raising this question is security concerns. Applications like Twitter might access a user's browsing behaviour by checking the cached history on user's Safari browser for example if inter-application access is somehow permitted through coding. Since I don't program in Objective-C and do not have the time to delve into its documentation, would someone be able to shed some light on this in general terms? This question is geared towards the new iPad, but I think the answer, if any, probably applies to all iOS devices.
I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the "standard Unix" fonts. I'm particularly interested in the AmericanTypewriter font. Is there an existing tool to do that or perhaps an Apple Script? If not, are there any other ideas?
I recently unlocked my AT&T iPhone 4. Before then, I was always preserving the baseband when doing jailbreaks.
By default iTunes and App Store are remembering your password only for 15 minutes and this is really annoying for someone that keeps the access to his computer safe anyway. I am almost sure that these could me change by tuning a plist files from the command line. What is the secret command to make it -1 instead of 15? ;)
How to create a "smart" Applications folder that unifies the content of other three folders? In my machine I have three versions of OS X installed (for testing purposes) in different partitions, each having their own /Applications folder. How can I create a single "unified" view of these three folders that contains a union of all three? Preferably filtered to only those applications that can run in the current OS X version (as in the one currently running). Thanks in advance.
I have a numbers formula used in invoice generation: Which returns: Invoice terms: 14 days, please pay by ...
I wish to see who created a file or who has ownership of a file within the list view of Finder. Specifically I'm looking at a network Samba volume and can see the owner and group within Terminal.
My Address Book won't restore contacts from my address book archive (.abbu). I sync my address book with iCloud.
Sometimes, when I am in a public Wi-Fi an exclamation mark appears in the greyed out Wi-Fi icon. I can connect to the Wi-Fi (I get assigned an IP address), but I cannot establish an internet connection - while other Mac users can. Every network where this has happened, I have been connected to before.
I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to create isometric and flattened designs. I'm looking for an application that allows designing of engineering projects for wood working. I've spent a lot of money looking for an app but most are tools for sketching and artwork orientated. Some features I'm really looking for are: Easy to use Isometric and flat views for same design to be shown Vector based design, allowing me to resize, move objects individually Measurement and scale support, allowing me to specify a scale and then size elements based on that scale (in metric notation) Layers support would be preferred to allow measurements to be supplied on a separate layer I don't want an overly complex tool, I just want a nice tool to do the job of creating designs alleviating the need for me to use pencil and paper.
When using mail.app with google mail (google premier apps) over imap, i have a problem where e-mails come through without showing attachments sometimes. The odd thing is, if i look at the "All Mail" sub-folder under the "Gmail" folder(shows up further down the left side column of mail.app), the e-mail is in there and shows the attachment. Why is it then that when the e-mail is in the apple mail "inbox" view, it doesn't show the attachment?
I have an iPhone 4S that I can't seem to sync to our corporate Exchange server. Email syncs fine, however calendar items do not sync at all. This is happening since 2 weeks ago.
I feel sick... I just accidently deleted the www folder of my phonegap app in xcode 4.2. It's not in finder or trash. From what I read, its actually deleted. I have tested on my ipad.
I'm looking for software to generate pretty 3D diagrams and graphics for scientific publications, for example something like this: *=URL=* Ideally, the software should also allow me to somehow allow me to place objects programmatically, if I would like 100s of spheres.
I have Time Machine set up on a FireWire 800 external drive on my MacBook Pro. I have another USB external drive (formated NTFS with Paragon drivers so that I can store files bigger than 4 GB and access them from Windows) with iMovie media etc and TM has been backing that up successfully (I can see the files in TM disk).
I cannot just swap the drives over, as it's not like the MacBook Pros that use 2.5" drives. I have done a lot of Googling that suggested a firmware fix for MacBook Pros solved the same issue on those machines, but no luck for my iMac.
Lately my iPhone 4 has been getting to 19% battery and then dropping straight to 1% and shutting off. Once I plug it back in and start it up it immediately shows up at 19%. Is this a battery or software issue?
If I have a directory of PPTX files I would like to save as PDFs. How do I script this operation?
When I delete an email in Mail on my iPhone, it creates a new folder in Mail on my Mac called "Deleted Messages". Why is it doing this and not putting them in the Trash? I am using iCloud mail on both devices.
securityd spams my console with the following : repeated 563 times (after disabling the default mps_limit of 500).
I have an issue when entering fullscreen mode in any application on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7.3, a white horizontal line always appears at the top of the screen (as shown in the picture). What is causing that? I've never had it before and I can't figure out what I've done to cause it. Anyone that got the same issue or know what's causing this?
I ordered the new iPad for my husband and used my Apple ID & password. How can he change to his ID when the iPad gets here? He will want to set up his own since we do not share the same taste in music and movies.
This happened right after I have upgraded to 10.7.3 via Software Update utility. Or maybe even 10.7.2 unfortunately cannot recall now. Before update I saw nice page saying that Safari cannot connect to remote host.
I read a number of magazines and newspapers daily on my iPad, using a number of different apps. I generally start out in Flipboard, then read the New York Times using the dedicated app in Newsstand, then often read bits from The Week UK, again using their Newsstand app. I usually end up in Safari, reading something further on a regular website.
Yesterday an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my OS X to the SSD using the OS X Recovery, where the OS was installed using an Time Capsule Backup. Afterwards I did an Erase of the old HDD in Disk Utility to remove my old OS and my data has now been transferred to new, clean partition. Afterwards I inserted my Lion DVD and did an reinstall of the OS X to get the OS X Recovery partition created on my SSD. The name of the partition on the SSD is Crucial M4 SSD and the name of partition on my old 1TB HDD is Storage. Please see this output from diskutil list: Why do I have an Apple_Boot on disk1 after the entire disk was erased? What is the EFI and Apple_Boot? Is it normal that the type of the Recovery HD is Apple_Boot?
So what I'm trying to achieve is using my iPad 2 as a media player and I want to be able to control it from my iPhone so I can leave it playing music/movies and I can control the volume, play and pause it without having to manipulate the iPad. Is this possible? Is there any app that allows to control an iDevice from another iDevice? Please advise. Thanks in advance.
When in non-full-screen mode, Safari lets me use the ⌘+| shortcut or View > Hide Toolbar to hide the URL and search bar, etc. However, when I'm in Full Screen mode, this option is greyed out. Is there any way I can hide it without exiting Full Screen?
I have a 2011 unibody MacBook Pro, and have been gathering kludge on it for some time, and on previous machines (2007 MacBook Pro, 2004 Powerbook) whose data I've migrated over using the Migration Assitant. I'd like to, at some point soon, do a fresh install of Lion, grab my data from backup (or a disk image clone), and reinstall my applications (only the ones I'm currently using, with no detritus from other apps I've installed, used, and since uninstalled). However, I use a Time Capsule (1 TB) for backups, and wanted to know two things:
How is possible send all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop.app (ARD)? Some working, some not, especially don't works gestures: mission control (4 fingers up) exposee (4 fingers down) swiping left-right with 4 fingers - switching screens.. These gestures interpreted in my local machine, when i'm in windowed mode of ARD, and does nothing when i'm in fullscreen mode. Is here any way use all gestures for example in full screen mode?
touch(1) can only change modification and access times, but has no options for creation time. This does not work, at least not on Lion.
I'm looking at the "Manage Storage" panel, (accessible from Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage) which shows a list of all the items being backed up along with a total. Or at least that's what it appears to be... the problem is that the total shown is about 50 times greater than the sum of its parts. Like this:
Since you can't send data via Bluetooth from an iPhone to a MacBook, I need to know if there exist any external bluetooth alternatives that you can use to transmit data to a MacBook?
Is there some sort of app that will let me, preferably toggleable with a keyboard shortcut, hold down the left mouse button? (Not click fast, just hold down).
In Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, I'm trying to edit the Hyperlink and FollowedHyperlink styles so that they don't modify the text's color that I'm hyperlinking. For example, let's say I have the following words: red blue green all written in thier corresponding colors. Next, I decide to highlight these words and hyperlink them. By default, all the text will be turned into blue. That's not what I want; I want all the text to be the same colors, but with an underline added. That is, I would like the word red to still appear in red color, not blue. When I edit the style, it shows this, as you would expect: Underline, Font color: Hyperlink, Style: Hide until used, Priority: 100, Based on: Default Paragraph Font.
I recently brought Western Digital's Passport Essential, and will be using with my MacBook (running Snow Leopard), MacBook Air (running Lion) and Windows 7 Desktop. I should be able to read-write data using each machine/OS. Moreover, I need to store and move files larger than 4GB.
Is it possible to map to save in vim in a standard terminal? I know how to set it in my vimrc but am not sure if it is possible to pass it from terminal to vim instead of attempting to save the terminal.
After several weeks now and still in dialogue with Apple third tier support still haven't resolved an upload problem, can anyone help? I have around 12,500 tracks out of which iTunes Match found purchases, matched and uploaded a significant number leaving me with around 3000 tracks in 'uploading' status. Then the whole system slowed down. At the present rate it will take over twelve months to upload the remaining tracks. iTunes gets to around 10 uploads (on a good day) and then seems to just stop uploading but leaving iTunes itself unaffected - not crashed. On some occasions but not all I get an error message -9810 which Apple Support have no note for. Any one cured this one before?
In my locale digits are represented like this: 100,90 (instead of 100.90 as in the USA), but, even using a PC keyboard, OS X 10.7 is replacing the . in the numpad with a , via software This is REALLY annoying, for example: I type IP address: 192,168,1,1 I type IP address: 192,168,1,1 I type terminal commands: ,/myscript.sh and so on I type terminal commands: ,/myscript.sh and so on
My uncle bought a brand new iPhone 4S last week and it is suffering from an annoying problem, side b (not him) hears himself with echo. The error does not occur while using headset or speakerphone, only when using handset. Is there a fix for that problem?
I use my iPhone 4 to go jogging and at some point the built-in mic has gotten damaged and the only way to talk to people is via an earbud with mic. I am looking for a desk charger which also has a high-quality mic so that I can take calls from my desk, hands-free. Does anyone know of a suitable product?
I have a .vpn file that I use on Windows with the Shrew Soft VPN Client that has the connection details (excluding the username and password). Is there an equivalent client for Mac OS X that will allow me to take this .vpn file and import it and connect to the VPN? I have tried a few, such as Cisco's, to no avail unfortunately. When I look at it in a text editor, I get this (host intentionally removed):
I'm using the Messages Beta on Lion to receive iMessages on my MacBook Pro. I also have my iPhone set up with my iMessage account.
I receive almost 99.99% e-mail spam in Russian. I'm not sure why, but it makes it really easy for me to tell spam apart from real mail. I use Apple mail 4.5 on MacOS 10.6.8, and I'd like to make a rule that somehow catches mails written mainly in Russian and marks them as junk. So far I made rules that catch individual russian letters, but is there a more generic and efficient way of filtering it? Actually I don't read Russian and don't receive any real e-mail in Russian.
Does an iTunes iOS device backup include all of the application data on the device? I assume it doesn't include a second copy of your iTunes data as this is already on your Mac anyway. But I downloaded a lot of videos with the TED app on my device, while the size of the device's backup (*) seems comparatively small. Are these not included in the backup? If so, what other data might not be included? Is there a way to know what exactly is included or not (other than restoring from the backup)? (*) = the folder ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
When I click F3 on my macbook to view all open windows some or all of the windows disappear or show as a small white line. This can be seen in the screenshot attached. Any ideas if this is normal or how to fix it?
I would like to bind a shortcut to Google Chrome and another shortcut to Finder... I configure as follows, but neither of them seems to work: Could anyone help?
This is my first Mac and I'm wondering: is there no Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac OS X? I am a web developer and I need IE (not really lol) but so as I Google it, I see some questionable websites coming up on my Google search but none of them the actual Microsoft site. My main reason is that I need it for browser testing and whatnot and so I see Firefox, Chrome, Safari obviously, but no IE. So the question is: is there/where do I get Internet Explorer for Mac?
I have a 27" iMac and I'm using Samsung SyncMaster SA850 as a second monitor (connected via a displayPort cable with a mini DisplayPort adapter). Everything worked fine until yesterday - the Samsung screen turned black and now it only works with max resolution 1280 x 1024 (native is 2440x1440). I think I upgraded Lion 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 (I don't remember for sure though).
I am trying to write an AppleScript to connect to a VPN service. Once connected to the VPN, I want to display the VPN icon in the status area of the menu bar. I've gotten as far as connecting to VPN displaying the Network section of System Preferences
As far as I know WindowServer process is used by all apps to draw windows that we see. And a lot of people are reporting a problem when their WindowServer is using a lot of CPU. Is there any way to find out what process is interacting with WindowServer besides looking at the precesses at the ActivityMonitor, shutting them down and looking at the result?
I want to allow programs running in the terminal the ability to interpret the keyboard short cut Cmd + S I have already Remapped the Terminals' default binding of Cmd + S to Ctrl + S via the Keyboard System Preferences in OS X Lion, so this has stopped the Terminal App itself from interpreting that key press, e.g. the save dialog no longer comes up when pressing Cmd + S . However something is still grabbing the key input before any terminal program can. For example when running bash typing Cmd + S in the X11.app terminal results in: being printed to the screen.
If I don't have screen rotation lock turned on on my iPad 2 (OS 5.1) and am trying to use it in portrait mode, it's constantly rotating to the right when I don't want it to. Since it felt overly sensitive, I did a test to see how far it would have to tilt off of flat to rotate to a given direction.
I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes: A google search shows that I'm not the only person to experience this. But I haven't found a definitive cure. A popular google hit suggests moving the LaunchAgents .plist file from the System LaunchAgents to the User LaunchAgents, but that made no difference for me. I'm wondering if anyone has actually solved this.
You can set your Mac OS X account to automatically lock the screen so that the password is required after a certain amount of time of inactivity, but can you do the same thing using a schedule (say at 5:30 PM every day)? Kind of like how you can have the computer turn on/off or go to/wake up from sleep at a certain time.
I currently have 2 Apple IDs, one that uses my Gmail account and I have been using this one for a while now, this is the one I want to keep. When iCloud came out, I registered an @me.com email for free to reserve my name. But when I did this it registered a separate Apple ID rather then attach to my other Apple ID. This is ridiculously frustrating, all I want to do is remove or delete one of my Apple IDs or @me.com email to make it available to my original Gmail account.
vim escape & arrow keys are inserting strange character (the letter q in my case) but works perfectly if launched in a tmux session or with terminal.app Someone having the same problem?
I am tired of seeing the "You are not connected to the internet" message from iChat every time after I open my macbook. I use iChat for screen sharing. Is it possible to disable the annoying popup or should I just use another app for messaging and screen sharing?
I currently backup my iPhone and iPad to iTunes. I’m considering switching the backups to iCloud, but I am not ready to purchase one of the additional storage plans.
Are Photos from the Photos app in iOS backed up to iCloud? I basically make albums in iPhoto and they are saved in my Photos app on my device. I really hope these are getting backed up to iCloud. Can anyone confirm?
I am a French developer, used to the French keyboard layout. Being a developer, I invested recently in an Apple international keyboard. Having a french keyboard, typing in the tilde '~' character was quite simple since it was printed on a key as far as I remember, although I don't remember where. Now with my new International keyboard, the layout is very different, missing accents and other special character (which is ok since I use that keyboard only for development on my mac) but I am facing the issue that I need to type in the tilde character very often, and I don't have any clue on how to type it in in a simple way. (PS: To type in the '~' character, I am actually using the "character display pane" coming with Macosx, which is quite cumbersome when you need it often ...)
I am writing an AppleScript in which I need to get the number of the current window of Google Chrome and open a new tab in it. I want something like this (pseudo code): How do I do this?
I am trying to use the Network Link Conditioner preference pane included with the Hardware IO tools in the developer tools to throttle Internet speeds. I can open and load the preference pane, but as soon as I try to turn it on, System Preferences crashes. Why is this happening and how can I fix it? I have a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 running OS 10.7.3. Here's the log entry for the NLC crash:
I want to make a small application that will type the number 1, wait an interval, type the number 2, wait an interval, type number 3, wait an interval, etc. This works for typing one number over and over: But I'm struggling to get more than number to work:
I am looking for an optimal configuration for a MacBook Pro that was converted to have two disks: primary one one SSD of around 100-200 GB and second one of 500-750 GB (the original drive that was moved to the DVD bay). Objectives: Maximize battery life - the secondary HDD should be used in such way that the OS will use power management on the disk. Keep big files that do not need fast access to the HDD, this includes: pictures, music (iTunes), movies, downloads. So, what mounts should be made and how?
I am a programmer and I like my new iPad because its screen is fantastic. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Adonit Writer Plus for the new iPad in the mail.
I have an "Artist" user and a "Developer" user. I'm wondering if there is a way to make system wide applications only accessible to certain users. For example, I would like Pixelmator to only be accessible by the "Artist" user and for XCode to only be accessible by the "Developer" user.
My macbook pro running OSX 10.7.3 will fire up the heavy fans even if left idle with all major apps closed. In Activity Monitor, AddressBookManager is shown as taking 110% CPU, even though I have only two address in my address book (mine and apple's) and I never open the application. I can kill AddressBookManager from Activity Monitor, but it comes back again in a few minutes.
if the GPS is enabled, but the app doesn't use it, does it drain battery? (I understand that GPS drains battery because it requires a different component to be charged up.) Or the fact that the GPS is enabled only means that the App can use it?
There are several GB of data on my iPad which I do not need to have on my MacBook Pro. I want to sync my iPad with iTunes on my Mac except for... iOS apps iBooks But whenever I try to sync, I am prompted to first transfer all the purchases to iTunes - otherwise the apps will be removed from my iPad.
I've recently switched from Windows 7. One Windows feature that I'm missing is the possibility to merge folders (the German version of Windows is calling this "integrate") when copying & pasting them.
I have two applications (Microsoft RDP Client and Parallels Desktop) that insist on creating their own folders in my Documents folder. They use those to store user-specific files, settings, profiles and such.
I've got my mac mini hooked up as a media centre - using Plex - and it's great! I control everything with a Logitech Harmony One.
Other applications just come as an app bundle, which you can move to a desired location, in my case this is the /Applications folder, since I like all apps to be in a central place. But when user A moves an application there, there's no need for a password, but a application will be owned by user A, and read-only to user B. A lot of things that are supposed to be user-friendly break in this situation, for example: applications that upgrade themselves stumble over this, and instead of replacing an old bundle with a new one, I have to manually delete the old one before putting the new one in place. It's not the end of the world, but I wouldn't exactly call this user friendly.
I've downloaded a game from iTunes to my PC and want to install it in my iPod Touch. I've synced it so many times, but can't install the app. Can you tell me how to do it?
I find the default background of Dashboard in Lion quite boring. I know how to change the defaultdesktop.jpg for the login screen, and I was wondering if there was a similar process for Dashboard. Thanks. Current Background "Texture:"
I have the latest MacBook Pro and am finding that it is randomly shutting down when switching users. This does not happen every time but has happened 7-10 times since I bought it. Should I get it checked out or is this a common bug in Lion?
I just installed a new AirPort Express today, and connected a MacBook Air and an HP EliteBook to it. While browsing the web feels, to use an unscientific term, sluggish, I could verify serious latencies when pinging the computer from each other. While sometimes the latency is as low as 2ms, most times it is around 300ms, spiking randomly even higher, and timing out from time to time. This article suggest switching to 802.11n exclusively and setting the Multicast Rate to 2 Mbps. While I tried changing the Radio Mode with no real success, I don't have an option to the the Multicast Rate on my device (Firmware 7.6.1). When did this option disappear (or has it never been included in European models), and what other settings could help get the latency down? Update: Using the trick from this question I got the response times down, and will now test how it helps with real usage:
I can't sync my favorites from my pc to my iphone 3G through icloud, they say it will will do it through the air, yeah not happening? Please HelpI've tried everything even deleting and it goes back to the origional computer that I set it up on??
My sister's MacBook Pro often shuts down at ~20% battery. It won't turn on again until it has been plugged in for about 10 minutes.
I've made a symbolic link from my SSD to my HDD incorrectly and want to keep the folder on my SSD. How can I delete or break the symlink? Is there a Terminal command that will delete every symbolic link on my Mac?
Every time I open iPhoto '11 (version 9.2.3, latest version), it displays a dialog box that asks me to repair inconsistencies in my iPhoto library. After I click Repair, it takes 5 minutes to finish and after closing iPhoto and re-opening it, it displays the same message. I've re-installed iPhoto from the Mac App Store already and I can't see why iPhoto is doing this. It's a hassle to have to repair the library after every time it opens, and even when I cancel the repair, it works fine. Is there any way I can fix this?
I constantly use the brightness, mission control, volume, and iTunes playback shortcuts on my keyboard's function row. However, a handful of apps I use make heavy use of F1, F2, etc. for keyboard shortcuts, and it's annoying having to use something like Fn+F7 all the time for something that was intended to be a single keystroke away. I can think of a few ways to get around this problem:
My desk is a little too narrow for the long type of Apple keyboard -- the one that has the keypad and the Home ↖, End ↘, Page Up ⇞, Page Down ⇟ keys... (it will take up the space for the mouse). So if the small (wireless) keyboard is used, is there a way to simulate these keys: Home ↖, End ↘, Page Up ⇞, Page Down ⇟? (Home ↖ takes a user to beginning of page, End ↘ takes the user to end of page).
App Store Application data including in-app purchases (except the Application itself, its tmp and Caches folder). Application settings, preferences, and data, including documents. Home screen arrangement. ...
Say if I clicked open 10 image files, and 2 PDF files, and quit Preview, then next time when I click on 1 image file or just start Preview, all those 12 other windows will open too... I was playing a clicking game to close them one by one... is there a quick way to make Preview not do that or "Close All"? (while keeping other apps to open the previous state).
Recently, when attempting to make a purchase (or free download) on the App Store iTunes was requesting I update my security info. This is not the 3 digit code on my credit card, but the 3 security questions and a backup email that help with account recovery; as referred to in: Is this "Security Info Required" prompt legitimate? I tried entering new security answers and a backup email but repeatedly (across an iPad, iPhone and iTunes on a Mac) got the following error:
I'm trying to export a video in OS X Lion to either 480, 720, or 1080 but it only exports the audio file. After the export, the file is in .mov format but, when I play it, the file shows nothing, only the audio is played. Before I updated to Lion, I could export videos just fine. How can I resolve this issue?
Audio MIDI Setup -> Audio Devices -> Built-in Input has four configurable audio parameters: Sample Rate Sample Size Channel Volume Hardware Rate Converter The Hardware Rate Converter has three options: Automatic Enable Disable
I have Mac mini 2011 and Samsung Syncmaster 710v (old TFT monitor) connected through mini DisplayPort to VGA. The monitor shows something only when the login screen appears (no boot menu, no boot-loading, just black screen, BUT no info that the monitor isn't connected).
I downloaded a LaTable Mac Version but when I clicked on the file, the GUI did not show up. I am using MacBook Pro 10.6. I am wondering if anyone is having similar problems or knows how to fix this? This is where I downloaded the package. *=URL=* I also downloaded Darwin that supposedly help Mac run some Windows based program. *=URL=* http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/
I have the latest Apple iPod touch. I just received a iTunes gift card and started downloading free apps. When I try to download apps that are $0.99 or higher, it asks me for my billing information. After I hit clicked 'done', it asks me if I still want to buy the item. I say yes and it starts asking me for my billing info again and then if I'm sure again and again... Can someone tell me what to do?
I recorded a long and important voice-memo on my old iPhone which is not synced anymore to any iTunes. I wanted to retrieve the memo using the advice here, however choosing Sync Music in iTunes brought up this warning:
Why is this? Is there an internal counter that keeps track on how many times you have clicked a/any given user account, and after a certain threshold it displays the "Others"? What is the logical reasoning behind this?
I recently brought an Android phone and I'm trying to move my contact list from my iPhone to the new phone. Someone suggested using Exchange so I added Exchange to my iPhone using my Gmail details and selected Mail, Contacts, and Calendars.
I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it. For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it. My friend who also has Microsoft Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro has his keyboard shortcuts working fine. This situation really hinders my work, what could be the problem?
Is there any way to create a file which, when clicked, opens up Terminal and types in and executes a specified line? (eg: say hello world)
I tried to install Ubuntu by following this tutorial, however finding out that when I tried to boot Ubuntu it gave me the message operating system missing. Does anyone has an idea what I should do now, or maybe help in providing another solution?
I use Outlook to access Exchange. I store old mail in an Outlook Archive folder. I know that Outlook 2011 stores data in /Users/<user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data but where exactly are these Archive emails stored on my computer? The reason I'm asking is because I want to provide the path to my archive files to my cloud backup program and exclude all the other Outlook files that are available/stored on the Exchange server.
I've got a lot of song in iTunes music library and would like to know for which songs there are music videos available. But, the only way I have found to do that is to manually search for videos for each song and this process is simply impractical. I figure there must be an easy way to know if there is video which I can purchase for every song in my library.
I used redsn0w to get an untethered jailbreak on my iPod touch. And now I want to remove it.
I installed Windows 7 using BootCamp but I can only choose the 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution. Can I get any other resolutions? Is there any driver I need to install. These resolutions don't look good on my screen, in fact, they look very bad.
Im a bit surprise about few things in IPhoto for iPhone. 1) I cant create albums or group pictures into events. Is it true?
So I just learned of these security questions, I canceled out of the prompt yesterday and I managed to download some apps. Do I absolutely have to add these? If I don't add them is it just going to keep nagging me every time?
On rare occasion I'll want to type a whole word in capital letters, but I can't get the iOS keyboard to "stick" it's shift down. In Android I can hold the Shift key and it'll stay in Shift until I hold it again.
My native iPhone Contacts show not only my contacts with phone numbers, but also any email address I’ve ever sent an email to or received an email from. I really would rather not have email contacts save into my contact list automatically. Is there a way to stop this from happening?
I have a big (one hour) mp3 file and want to make one mp3 for song or section of the big mp3, without re-encoding. Would be great to have a UI that permits the selection of the sections that I want to save as individual mp3s. I want to know if is at all possible to do it without re-encoding the file section again.
I'm trying to install brew but get the following warning: I have no idea how to amend the path. I've explored several files from this stack overflow post (*=URL=* but can't find a relevan path to edit. The only file that I do have that exists is my /etc/profile file which currently looks like: I wanted to just uninstall python then reinstall it through homebrew, but am a little nervous about breaking too many things at once.
When I choose to install a new version of iOS on my device via iTunes, the installation file is huge (e.g. 750 MB). Where does iTunes save this file, and does it get deleted after the installation is done?
Is there an alternative/customizer app for cmd+tab that does not show minimized/hidden windows and apps? Sometimes I have many apps running (Calendar, Mail, Twitter, etc.), but all of them are minimized and my focus is on, say, two apps: my IDE and the browser. So I want cmd+tab to only show my browser and IDE. Is there a way to achieve this?
I have recently purchased an Windows Phone 7 (Nokia Lumia 900). I would like to use it alongside with all of my other Apple products. I have an iPhone 4S (I need 2 different phones for work), an iPad 3,an iMac, and a Macbook Air. All the Apple Device are using iCloud to sync Mail, Contacts, and my Calendar.
I just updated my iPod Touch to iOS 5.1. During the process, iTunes downloaded a 750MB file: ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/iPod4,1_5.1_9B176_Restore.ipsw. I have no use for this file anymore, and it's just using up my limited disk space, so I want to get rid of it. Questions: Will this file ever get deleted automatically, or will it stay there indefinitely? Will this file ever get deleted automatically, or will it stay there indefinitely? Is there any GUI command in iTunes that will delete all such files? Is there any GUI command in iTunes that will delete all such files? Is it safe to manually delete this file? Is it safe to manually delete this file? If I manually delete it, will I be able to easily download it again if I ever do need it? If I manually delete it, will I be able to easily download it again if I ever do need it? Update: Ipsw files now appear in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Software Images, and they take up 1+ GB.
I am using Photoshop as the external editor, but when I select a series of photos (more than 4) within iPhoto and choose "open in external editor" only the first four of the selected open. It's pretty annoying because I don't want to have to keep going back and forth between the programs to see what i have open in Photoshop. I just want to select (holding control and selecting) different images to then edit outside of the program.
Is there a way to auto-delete apps from iTunes that aren't on my iPhone? I have about 200 of them and don't want to do it manually. Thanks, Kevin
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of contents item in Preview or Skim, it doesn't jump to the page containing the content for that item. In contrast when I save the same document to PDF in Word 2010 (the Windows version), the PDF table of contents hyperlinks are created and works fine both on Windows (Acrobat Reader) and on the Mac (Preview and Skim).
Is it possible to run custom software on an Airport Extreme base station? I've read it has a MIPS processor inside. So, can one put some software compiled for MIPS (addtionally to the already present printing and file-sharing services) on a connected hard drive (or install it), and then run it in the base station? I'm thinking about the possibility of running a torrent-client on the base station, or an FTP-server, or, perhaps, a Coda filesystem server, and the like.
I am being offered an iphone 4 but it is locked to orange and I want to use my O2 sim in it. The thing is that I want the phone so I can go into app development and have heard that working with a jailbroken phone can be a problem. I have read here that jailbreaking and unlocking are different things but unlocking needs jailbreaking however jailbreaking can be reversed but there's no info on weather that will undo the unlocking so I am really confused :S So can I unlock an iphone and still develop apps with no problems assuming I have a developers licence and update regularly?
My sisters iPhone needs to get unlocked. A previous topic didn't help me out, despite the great answers and suggestions. So a colleague of me advised I should buy the iphonejailbreakunlock.com. It's a $27,99 software bundle which claims to be able to unlock any baseband on any device on any cellular network with a 100% money back guarantee... If you ask me, it's a bit to good to be true. So, is there anyone with experience concerning this software (or any other paying service to get your iPhone unlocked)?
Traffic will be light. We are a small company (and cheap), and do not expect more than 3 or 4 people to be connected concurrently. However, we need the solution to be reliable. Many of our clients and consultants are abroad.
I have the iPhone 4S. This morning, I had 2 unheard voicemails. I attempted to listen to them but no sound was delivered and the progress bar did not move. A few minutes later I looked down and my messages were no longer there. Is there any way to recover these deleted voicemails?
Some applications located in /Applications require a password in order to move them to the trash, others don't. Then there are also apps which cannot be deleted because they are required by OS X (a warning pops up).
When I use "Grab" to take a screen shot and then print it I have to manually adjust the "scale %" to make it fit on one page. I'm looking for an "fit to page" option. I'm also using the "awesome screenshot" app but it doesn't have a print feature
In iTunes, under the Artists list (brought up by ctrl+b in Windows), I have an unwanted 'Compilations' artist. In it are several tracks where the part of a compilation box is checked when one goes to the get info --> info tab. I can go through individually and uncheck this, but when I select multiple items at the same time, this box doesn't appear in the info tab anymore. Is there a quick way to uncheck this box for multiple items?
I occasionally work with iTunes Music Store packages. These packages have a .itmsp extension. Like .app, .itmsp is essentially a container directory. .itmsp folders contain XML and media files.
I am using Mac OS X 10.7.3. ⌘+tab is used to switch among different applications, but sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I guess it is because some applications are hidden or minimized. Is there a way to really switch among all the applications by shortcuts no matter whether they are hidden or minimized?
The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file. Where does Preview store the image file for this signature? Is it possible to extract the signature for use in another application like Adobe Reader?
I'm trying to add a reminder to a shared list in iCal, but I do not see the list as an option in neither the "Get Info" window nor in the "Calendar" menu drop down list. This shared list was shared with me in iCloud; I am not the creator, but I do have view/edit privileges. If I log into iCloud.com, I can add the item there. I can also add via iOS. Also, I can see items in the shared list, and I can check them off, but I just can't add to that list. See screenshots below, notice in 1 that the shared "To Do" list is missing but can be seen in 2.
I've got a macbook pro 13" mid 2009 and I upgraded to OSX Lion immediately when it came out. Never had any problem with it. Also I upgraded to 8 Gb a few weeks ago (because I use a virtual machine (win 7) + Adobe applications at the same time) and that seemed to work just fine.
I am possible going to install windows 7 on my iMac using the standard bootcamp setup and have a question about this setup. I will store all of my large movies on the mac and will need good access to them, once windows 7 has been installed is it able to access HFS+ partitions at a reasonable speed and more importantly, will i be able to create an SMB share of the folders on the mac through windows? Thanks for any feedback.
In iTunes, when selecting an iOS device from the left pane, the user is presented with a bar graph along the bottom of the primary pane showing the used space and available space of the given device.  In this example, the iPad in question contains no songs. My music is all synced through iTunes Match and I have not downloaded any songs (because of my lack of available space). How can I know what that 8.3 GB of audio is? On my iPhone I had assumed it was things like downloaded Audible books, but that can't be the case as Audible's app is not universal, and I haven't installed it on my iPad so there are no Audible books on my device. I do have podcasts synced to my device through iTunes ("Automatically include all unplayed episodes of all podcasts"), but the total size of all synced episodes (~2 GB) is far less than the stated use of 8.3 GB.
On my system I have Safari and Chrome installed, and the Develop menu in Safari enabled. In System Preferences (also, Safari's options) I am presented with those browsers as well as the apps Versions, Evernote, and Skitch as available browsers.
So I'm debating whether or not I should encrypt my MacBook Pro's HDD. Is the account password enough to keep my files safe? If my MacBook got stolen would the thief be able to access the files? Would encrypting slow things down significantly?
So I have been reading some articles today and I see the 1Password app coming up a lot. Is there anything special with it? I am currently using Wallet for both OS X and iOS and it does its job quite well. I was just curious because Wallet got 23 reviews while 1Password seems to be a lot more popular. Is there anything making that app better than its competitors?
Ho can I change my Apple ID primary email address. I do not have access to the one listed
If I want to view images I made with my camera using Preview, I have to select all files separately. Because when I select all files (cmd + a) all the videos I made get selected (and opened in Quicktime) too. So I was wondering how I can select only the images in a certain directory?
What are Tun and Tap (ether tap stack) in the startup items folder? Are they legitimate ones used by services like Parallels or HPTrap monitor etc or are they installed to bypass services like Little Snitch? I found them while looking at space hogs on my computer.
What are com.apple.ubiquity.... certificates in keychain? I have three of them and the Keychain access warns me that their root certificates are invalid. I previously had little snitch asking me about Ubiquity(ubd process) wanting to connect to configuration.apple.com. Anybody has any ideas about it? There are also other processes like AWACS that try to connect to Apple servers.
The button on my wife's iPhone 4 has become unresponsive and I would like to get it repaired. Like most people, the phone contains important emails, documents and photos which she would not like to fall into the wrong hands (identity theft etc.). Due to convenience I probably wont send it into Apple and will take it to a local repair shop instead (not that I would trust Apple much more).
This app was taken down because of licensing reasons. People have reported that they were able to get the app loaded on new devices such as the new iPad (which was released after this app was removed) because the ipa was saved in their iTunes.
I made a swap partition to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air 2011, but now I want to clean all the partitions up. However, I can't delete the "swap partition" in Disk Utility. Can anyone help me?
After the latest update Mac OS X Lion, I think that Apple disabled Java applications by default. When I try to run one, I get the following dialog:
I just bought a second monitor which I've placed on a stand above my macbook. It seems to be working great but I can't move any application windows on to it because it's also above the menu bar. Is there a way to be able to move windows above the menu bar to the secondary monitor without having to put the menu bar on it too?
I think my son was trying to guess the passcode! What do I do? I can't wait 42 years!
It looks like we don't need to keep different files like on Windows 7: So on Lion, we can just use "Save a version" and all versions will be there later on to "revert" to any version... The functionality introduced with Lion's "Save a Version" is cool, but what if we want to email somebody but don't want the earlier versions to be sent?
I am so used to "Save As" on the PC, so that for example, if I remember I removed a line two months ago on my resume (also called CV) and now is April 2012, I can go back to and then get those text back, and paste it back to my current resume.
On most occasions, when I try to connect to a new wi-fi network, after I enter the password and click "Connect" the connection dialog says "Connection failed" after a little pause, but in fact the connection is established, the menubar widget displays the network and everything works normally. Except the network is never saved to the list of known networks, so every time I have to enter the password again. What may be the issue here? OS X 10.7.3, Macbook Air 13" late-2011
Ever since I encrypted my MacBook Pro I am seeing this error right after I type in my password at the initial screen. Any ideas what this means, how serious it is or maybe even how to fix it?
Spotlight Search on iPhone 4s doesn't show any results. Everything is checked under Settings -> General -> Spotlight Search.
When setting up a new iOS device or installing the Messages Beta on OS X, you can log in with your iMessage account to start receiving & sending messages with iMessage. One advantage of iMessage is that these messages are received on all your devices — meaning that as long as you have iMessage configured on a device, you can see the history of a conversation.
Is there a way to define the default application for a file extension via an Apple script, command line command (like defaults write [...]). I know that you can change it manually via the information panel or by using RCDefaultApp but as I have to setup many machines and user accounts I would like to find a way to automate the process.
Trying to read PDF on a mobile screen is a pain, be it iBooks or Adobe Reader. Neither of the apps properly format the content for reading on the iPhone. I was wondering if there is a "Reader" feature, similar to Safari's reading feature, on a PDF reading application that with a tap renders the content perfectly viewable on the tiny mobile screen. If there is no such application then I would like to know how I can convert a PDF into any other format that would allow me to format the contents better for viewing on the iPhone.
I have a Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.3. It has an SSD with 2 partitions: the OS is located in partition 1 and my user home is in partition 2. Everything was working fine, but some days ago I had to restart the notebook and now the OS says that it can not access to my user folders, I cannot navigate (via terminal) to the OS folders, like Library and others.
I love my Mac and how things generally just work. Now and again, however, one finds a few annoyances. My latest one is that I cannot find a refresh button anywhere to update a file listing in a Finder window.
I have two Macs at home which use Time Machine to back up to a shared Time Capsule. Does anybody know of any tools or methods for other operating systems to perhaps make use of that back-up facility? That is, does anybody know of a Windows or Linux client for a Time Capsule? (Even if it's a very limited one.)
How do I access Google Tasks on my iPhone or, even better, sync them with the iPhone's Reminders app?
Is there a way of keeping the footnotes made in a Pages or MS Word file when importing them into a new iBooks Author book?
Despite some googling, I can't find any information on the hardware limits of the camera in the iPhone 4S. What ISO and shutter speeds are possible from the still camera?
I've some text files (a few thousand lines each) on my PC. How can I transfer them to the iPhone so that I can do my reading on-the-go? (Sure I could simply email them to myself, but I'm looking for a more convenient and less time-wasting solution.)
My current carrier does not allow the Personal Hotspot feature for iPhone 4 so this option is missing in the menu. Is there a way I can enable this? I don't mind jailbreaking it. I don't want to use MiWi or any aditional application. I want to use the native one. Thanks
For instance, I have a GPS navigation app that is currently using 1.8GB on my iPad. The update is 1.43GB. I have 1.9GB free.
My son loves drawing comics. He wants to do it now on my iPad 3. Does anyone have experience with using a Stylus for such an activity?
I am aware that when I press ⌥ or ⇧⌥ on my Mac, I can type a variety of special characters. I also know that I can insert special characters using the character palette. Is there a way to expand the number of special characters I can type while using the keyboard? I am particularly interested in solutions that work in Lion and Mountain Lion.
I am receiving this message when I'm trying to shut down my computer and I don't have any Finder windows open. What could be causing this message and how do I fix it so that I don't have to perform a hard shutdown?
I need to access a password stored in my iOS Keychain, but can't find a way to do that. I have full access to my devices, it's passcode and all of my backups.
I recall that the Character Viewer showed me the Unicode value of any character I selected, but now it doesn't show it anymore.  How do I make it show the Unicode value as before? If that makes any difference, I am using Mac OS X 10.7.3.
Whenever I start MacVim, a window opens that is not a buffer and doesn't seem to do anything - it doesn't react to any input at all, even - and that is the annoying part - the Mac OS X close button doesn't do anything. The window is just there and silently stares at me.
The attached image(s) should be a visual reference to what I am attempting to verbalize. My issue is that last summer I was playing with theme management on OS X 10.6.x and all was well but lately programs like luxrender & virtualbox show up with clear/transparent backdrops and viewing the dialog boxes is difficult sometimes impossible. I'm wondering if anyone is aware of the file(s) I might need to replace/alter to correct this issue as a reinstall seems a bit heavy handed to rectify this situation... (When viewing the image(s) please note that when I view the actual program my desktop or whatever is behind the window bleeds through) Any and all help with this matter would be welcomed & appreciated! (ANNOTATION: images aren't allowed by new users so please ignore references)
I just found out today that Google is opening a cloud storage engine (a potential competitor to iCloud) called Google Drive, and I was wondering if there might be some way to backup your iOS device to it, short of jailbreaking it.
Working in a tech shop, and being an Apple fan, I deal with ALL the Apple-related products. I'm seeing products from 10.4 to 10.7, and I have made a bootable flash drive from 10.6 (since it's the most popular). I have the disks (and a disk image for 10.7) for each of these that we will use if the OS ever needs reloading. Is it possible to put a disk image of all these disks onto a flash drive so when we boot with the single flash drive, it asks which OS X version to install?
Is it ok to place an AirPort Extreme base station on top of a Mac mini, or could this cause problems (like overheating or interference) with either device?  As depicted, they do fit together pretty well...
I am getting a weird error with the mvim script that is supposed to start the MacVim interface. See below for the issue. /bin/sh is just fine, mvim was chmod +x'd, other /bin/sh scripts run fine... I'm at a loss here. Below you can see that /bin/sh scripts run fine...
I just got an SSD for my White Unibody MacBook. What's the fastest way to get back up on running on 10.7.3 with a Time Machine backup (on an external disk via usb 2.0) and a Lion 10.7.0 DVD?
I have an iMac with a large format display set up as a secondary monitor that we use as a television for watching movies. When I am just using the iMac, I would like for the secondary display to display something interesting rather than just the wallpaper. Is it possible to set up a screensaver that appears on the second monitor (I really like the iPhoto slideshow) while allowing me to use the primary iMac monitor?
I send a lot of emails to myself from my Mac to my iPhone containing logos that I am designing, normal pictures or otherwise. However, I have a problem with the Mail app. Whenever I send too many photos, or photos that are very big, I have to go through the message and save each photo individually to Photos. Whenever I send small, or just a few pictures, when I hold my tap on the picture, it will give me a prompt to save all of the pictures in the email.
I was asked to add a short section describing why DropBox is not a solution: 1) Documents are confidential, third-party is not an option 2) Dropbox is not reliable enough (better uptime/SLA is needed) 3) Dropbox becomes crazily expensive for large scale 4) The FTP/WebDAV/CMIS interface is actually provided by "Alfresco", an enterprise document management system which has many other features (not just file transfer), and is integrated with other critical enterprise systems. So my question is really about client-side only.
I've been having a weird problem on a MacBook Pro; My source files disappear. It can happen when the files are not open in any application (although they are referenced by active projects in Xcode and the compilers are reading them…). I can start a long build, walk away, and along the way the compiler complains that it cannot find an #include at some point in the build (the file's disappeared at that point). I then revert from git history. Fortunately, I've not lost any data (yet!), but it's quite an annoying issue. I do use git clients (specifically, SmartGit and SourceTree), but the problem appears unrelated to these clients because I can work with either for extended periods and the problem still arises. As far as I know, other files have not been disappearing from this machine, but I use it almost exclusively for development. And maybe it's not at all related to Xcode…
The Apple website states that there is "Documentation" included in the box and several unboxing videos on YouTube clearly show some kind of physical documentation - but don't state what it is. What should this documentation include?
Is there any Dropbox sync alike app , that can -use own ftp server -sync like Dropbox(if there is a change is local drive then auto upload to the ftp server)
I have a gmail account setup as IMAP in Apple Mail and recently some new emails coming through have displayed the plain text version instead of HTML. If I check the same email through gmail.com it shows the HTML fine but back in Mail I can't even change it to HTML under View -> Message -> Next Alternative. This solution did not work for me: defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE I'm running Apple Mail 5.2 on Mac OS 10.7.3 I have just found that the same email message will show HTML when viewed in the All Mail Folder but not when viewed in the Inbox.
I vaguely remember hearing about disk wiping, and that you have to flood the disk with zeros, flood it with ones, flood it with random data, and repeat this quite a few times. This is just a general question, as I am not going to have to wipe spy files or other top secret information off a disk. I figured I could use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskname dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/diskname
I have an AppleTV2 (4.4.3) which I have jailbroken and am running XBMC on. I want to upgrade it to 4.4.4 so it can support mirroring, and jailbreak again, but advice on the internets is split about whether XBMC will run reliably on 4.4.4, so in an ideal world I'd like to create an image of my current setup so I can restore it somehow if 4.4.4 doesn't make the grade. Is this possible at all?
I have been an iOS developer for quite some time now, and I am still using Xcode 4.2, because the new version is now only available for Lion. My problem is that after reading the reviews for Lion in the App Store, it looks like Windows ME would be a great OS compared to Lion.
My iPad 2 is jailbroken and running iOS 5.0.1. When I open up Cydia, it shows me a message : The package com.teiron.pphelper needs to be reinstalled. But I can't find an archive for it. How can I fix this problem?
I have a lightly used server that no longer will show me the settings for Web services in the server app. I see the progress spinner when selecting "web" from the list of services - but after a little while, servermrgd logs an error message and I see "Error Reading Settings" displayed where the Server app normally shows the web settings and controls in the main pane. Here is what's logged to /var/log/system.log when select web... Where do I look next for a clue as to what is wrong or what might need to be fixed so I can resume using Server to manage the web sharing service?
I recently ordered Western Digital My PassPort Essential. I will get it by tomorrow evening. It comes pre-formatted using NTFS file-type.
I've noticed this behavior in Lion's Terminal.app: Let's say I have some text selected in a non-active terminal window. Meaning, another window is active - it could be another terminal window, or another app's window. If I click on the window with the selected text without clicking the selection itself, the text remains selected when the window is activated. However, if the click happens to be on the selected text, the text becomes unselected.
Simple question. In iWork's Numbers, is there any way to move a row of data between two rows, as opposed to just plopping it on top of existing data? You can easily do this in Excel if you hold down the Shift + Command key or some simliar combination when moving a row or even a group of rows.
I like the basic idea of Appsfire Deals: tag applications you're interested in, get a push notification when they're offered with a discount. But I don't like that the app frequently notifies me of promotions for apps I did not tag. (I already turned off the “Daily Recommendations” in the app's push notification settings, the only other option offered there is to turn off push notifications completely.) Is there an alternative to Appsfire Deals which limits its push notifications to apps you're actually interested in?
I'm used the app Global.AQ Lite on my iPhone to send an anonymous text message. I used my home Wi-Fi network while sending the text, and I used fake Global.AQ account details. I now have a different account logged-in on Global.AQ.
I'm experiencing the problems described here, basically the trackpad has spurts of spurious input, but the problems are fairly intermittent. I've kept the system usable by deactivating many non-critical gestures, like zooming, three finger drag, etc.
I am using an Apple Wireless Keyboard - French. Could anyone tell me how to type \ { and }?
When I add the system preferences to the dock and click it, it opens in the common view. How can I open a specific pane at once from the dock?
I am looking for an app capable of merging duplicated contacts and updating my iPhone contacts with Facebook and Twitter friends information. What's the best app out there for this?
I noticed my MBP got really slow, which must be strange with SSD and 8GB of RAM. So I opened the Activity Monitor to discover a process called ubd keeps its CPU usage very high, about 120% most of the time:
My MacBook Pro (8,3) often gets fairly hot (see current sensor readings here: *=URL=* even when it isn't closed. I'm about to purchase a DualHead2Go (or a TripleHead2Go) so I can use my MacBook while closed to push two 1920x1080 displays. I'm worried a bit about the heat generation, however. Is this a recommended and/or safe thing to do?
When I am using the tweet share sheet on latest iOS for iPhone and iPad and I @someone it starts to prefetch matching names but certain names never show up. Any ideas what makes some show and some not?
Why are there no small torrent trackers for Mac? I want to share some things privately with a couple of people. I've tried a webserver, which works, but there is no indication on my end that any transfer is taking place. I'd like to be able to run a server, seed a torrent with a client so I can see upload activity, and share the torrent with select people. uTorrent for Windows has an embedded tracker feature, but it is not present for Mac.
I'm Venezuelan, so my native language is Spanish. But I have my MacMini and my MacBook in English because that's the way I like to work, it's better for my (and my job). Usually, when I access Dictionary app (mostly with Alfred), I can just look out the definitions, synonyms and whatnot in English, but not in Spanish.
I am sure Apple engineers have thought of and decided not to do it -- if from the Activity Monitor, I see out of the 4GB of total RAM, 1GB is not active, and the Mac has been idle for 1 or 2 hours, then if I start a new app, it is still very slow due to "not enough RAM" -- looks like the Mac is swapping things out to the pagefile so that the new app can run in the RAM space. But if the Mac has been idle for 1, 2, or even 8 hours, why doesn't Mac OS X swap the inactive RAM to the pagefile first, so that there is 1GB of free RAM, so that when a new app is started, it is very fast, just like there is extra RAM there free to use. Maybe it is so that the user knows the RAM is getting used up and we don't want the pagefile getting bigger and bigger and out of control? But why not limit the getting bigger and bigger just to about 6GB total, or 8GB, and then start not swapping the inactive RAM automatically? In other words, for the first 1GB or 2GB of inactive RAM, swap it to the pagefile, so 
Is there anyway to do a Firebug style 'inspect element' on an iPhone? My site works fine with Safari on my Mac but has a layout issue on iPhone.
I have been a Windows user and have recently started using OS X (I have Snow Leopard on my machine). I wanted to learn about the basic applications in OS X (e.g. Terminal) and other commonly or some important utilities used in OS X. I know a lot of important apps come bundled or pre-installed with OS X, but I am not aware of a lot of them. Could someone please point me as to where I can learn about such apps and what are the important apps which I should know about?
I have an iPhone 4s with the latest iOS. It seems that when I wake it up from standby, it switches from 3G (or EDGE) to WiFi. Judging from that, I suspect it turns off WiFi when in standby, and only uses it when activated. However, I don't know if that's purely coincidental, because a few friends of mine couldn't confirm it.
If I use any of the AppleLoops supplied with Logic 9 in my project, will I be subject to an liability or royalty? If yes, how can I reach those persons who lent their voices to the loops?
I'm trying to switch to MacVim as my main editor, and I'm liking it so far, except for one issue: I got really used to the Mac shortcuts control-A to go to the beginning of a line, and control-E to go to the end of a line. However, these two don't work in MacVim (control-A does something weird -- it seems to increase the last number in a line by 1 or something, and control-E seems to scroll down the screen by one line). Any way to make these two shortcuts go to the beginning of a line / end of a line respectively instead?
I tried two-finger-click and drag. Nope, doesn't work. I tried clicking in the bottom right corner with one finger, but can't seem to drag. I'm on a early 2011 Macbook Pro running Bootcamp 4 and OS X Lion.
I have this script lines from my ISP: It works if I paste line by line into Terminal. I want to create a *.command file and run it by double-clicking. But all I get is password prompting and then empty bash window. The resulting "options" file is empty. I tried this: I get: /etc/ppp/options: Permission denied I think I need to use some command to get root privileges from inside bash.
The SSD especially makes things very fast; I can boot from the boot selector (this thing) to my Lion desktop (ignoring password entry times) in 23 seconds and to my Windows 7 desktop in 26 seconds. Both are a marked improvement over booting to just Lion with my 500 GB, 5400 RPM Scorpio Blue hard drive, which took some 45 seconds.
I want to print all files which are dragged to a folder. Easy to do with Automator. But I want to specify more settings for the print, namely to print the items two times, to use paper tray 2 instead of 1 (standard); the file should be deleted afterwards (This would also be easy with Automator)
I'm about to replace my iMac's HD (250GB to 1TB). I'm planning to create an image of my disk right in m Time Capsule, and after the transition I need to clone the HD back.
I have setup a System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Services item to allow me to use a hotkey to "Open in TextMate". It works fine on files, but does not work on folders.
There appears to be a few small metallic fragments clinging to the magnet around the port where the MagSafe power connecter attaches to my MacBook Air. I can still get the cord to (mostly) seat, enough to charge the computer, but it's not as snug a fit as it used to be. How can I clean my MagSafe port?
There are several PDF files which I imported into iTunes to read using iBooks. However, I cannot manage to remove them. By default, iTunes handles the its media library automatically. The PDFs and iBooks are stored in: When I remove the PDF files here, they will still show up in iTunes. How I remove their entries in iTunes?
I have Time Machine set up. Everything seems to be backed up smoothly. I have changed location of my user dir in the Settings -> Users&Groups. Also I have created a symlink /Users/sergio that points to /Volumes/MacintoshHD/Users/sergio (where actual data lives).
I have seagate external portable hard-drive 1 TB, and I will be using with following Mac's. 13" White MacBook (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Snow Leopard 13" MacBook Air (Intel Core i5) running Lion iMac running Lion What partition map I should use, GUID or Apple when formatting external portable hard-drive?
I've tried the D-Link DWA-131 and Ralink-based generic adaptors available on Amazon.com such as the Rt 2571/2573. After installing the driver, they all require you to use a separate configuration utility to see/join wireless networks. I'd like to be able to select a wireless network in the Network System Preference Panel like you can with an Apple-endorsed wireless interface. Thanks.
There used to be a checkbox when I import pictures from my camera that said "delete after import" or something like that. It's not there anymore. Any ideas?
I am fairly new to Mac OS X and I am wondering why some of these pop up boxes have a blue in them, but others do not. For example, on one website it looks like this (look at the little "Select site" box):
I'm having trouble getting one Mac on my home LAN to talk to another - let's call them Red and Blue. Red can't connect via Finder (under Shared) to Blue. But Red can open a Screen Sharing session to Blue. Blue can open a Screen Sharing session to Red, and connect to Red via Finder. Both Red and Blue are using WiFi, connected to the same router. Both are running OSX Leopard, 10.5.8.
I did something stupid, and I think it broke my airport extreme base station... My airport extreme base station was working just fine. I was using a cheap USB hub to share a few external hard drives on my network. I was doing some changes so I unplugged the power to the external hard drive and the power to the USB hub. While reconnecting, I accidentally swapped the power cables and plugged the external hard drive's power cable into the USB hub while it was still connected via USB to the AEBS. I think it was too much power and it overloaded the AEBS. Now it won't turn on (no lights, can't find it with software).
I have an Amazon Kindle Keyboard, an iPhone, and an iPad. I have purchased a load of eBooks from the publisher, O'Reilly, and have downloaded them on to the Kindle via USB. I note these do not show up in my Kindle account on the Amazon website, and nor do they show up on my iPhone's or iPad's Kindle apps. Is it possible to put non-Amazon eBook purchases into my Kindle account so they show up on all my devices?
I use the Mac Terminal with a hand full of tabs each assigned to a different working directory. I have configured it to open new windows with the same working directory. Nevertheless, when I am quitting Terminal, and restart it it rebuilds all the tabs, their names, even shows me the last output in the window but stays in the user home directory and does not restore the latest working directory of each tab.
I'm running an Early '11 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM. Currently, OS X Lion runs in 32-bit mode by default, and an important piece of software I use for work requires this mode (Cisco VPN client). Most of the work I do is inside a VMWare Fusion Windows 7 64-bit VM with 4GB RAM. The RAM upgrade is fairly recent, which is why I am bringing this up now. I've also considered pushing the VM to 6GB or 8GB, but I'm hesitant as I thought VMWare might have problems loading up all that memory in a 32-bit space. Am I missing out on any performance gains by running in 32-bit mode?
What are open source video editing softwares available for the Mac? I have used Pitivi, AVS on other systems.
I understand that Address Book, even on Lion, doesn't support syncing multiple gmail contacts. Is there a third-party app that I can use for this purpose? I'm looking for an app that gives me a combined view of all my address books, like iOS or Android contacts apps. I'm not okay giving my gmail passwords to a web site. Thanks.
Time Machine on my computer is trying to backup onto a external hard drive, but the only thing I get is the famous beach ball of death which makes my computer extremely slow. When I go to cosole.app I see with regular intervals following messages: Why does time machine have problems creating a directory if I was able earlier to make a full backup of my computer and what do those lines mean from the service helper? I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a MacBook 1.1 (late 2006) (I know, it's a little bit old, but 1 day ago it was able to do TM backups)
Started a few months ago, and it's definitely not to do with sleep mode as I've checked but my MBA will drop the backlight then shut the screen off completely. Never had anything spilt on it, seems to occur most frequently when it's being opened (but that's not guaranteed). Hardware fault or something else? Nothing in the Console logs suggesting software weirdness. EDIT: Because I was an idiot I didn't post the most useful info ;) Macbook Air is a 2010 Core2Duo, the release just before the Core i series ones. Running latest Snow Leopard.
I feel stupid asking this, but my thorough troubleshooting and Google searches rendered no clues… I'm trying to get to grips with Vim (MacVim) and I've set up Keyboard Maestro to automatically switch to US Extended when MacVim activates – conversely switching back to Swedish Pro when leaving MacVim. (Works flawlessly and is very neat since Vim's default shortcuts poses a fair amount of discrimination towards non-english users.) Dismayingly, however, when using US layout I couldn't find a way to type a simple + character… Anyone out there (presumably swedes but others too) who can shed some light on this?
I was reading a great answer to how you can extend the list of characters Lion shows you when hold down a key for a few seconds. The in answer he says: choose the keyboard file relevant to your locale if you are using a different keyboard layout
Is there any way to force the Startup Manager menu to appear on every boot? Rather than me having to remember to hold down Alt if I want a different OS.
Is it possible to setup an internal update server for iPads similar to the likes of OS X Server's update service (SUS)? Current issues: Bandwidth concerns Do not want to jailbreak iOS updates
What is the difference between the sudo and su command? Why does OS X handle these different than Linux?
I was playing Trine 2 yesterday and checked the inside temperatures with iStat Pro after playing. It showed the GPU Diode at being 107°C hot. Is that bad for the GPU Diode or other components inside the MacBook Pro? I was using it at normal room temperature and the MacBook Pro was sitting on a wooden desk. Right now the GPU Diode is at 6°C and the GPU itself is at 25°C, and all I'm doing is browsing with Safari. I have the late 2011 17" MacBook Pro.
I just got an iPad 2 and I find the keyboard difficult to use, because the keys always show as caps. Is there a way to modify the keyboard to display lower or upper depending on what the what the case of the next typed character will be? Or better, is there a way to change the keyboard to a better one, perhaps with numeric keys accessible from the main keyboard?
I'd like to write messages using Apple Mail using inline links, as opposed to the "naked" URLs, so I can do something like this: Have you visited Ask Different? Unfortunately, the best I seem to be able to accomplish is to add the "naked" link after the text, like this: Have you visited Ask Different: *=URL=* I've tried using ⌘ + K (or Edit → Add Link... from the menubar) to add a link, but it only gives you the option to add the "naked" link itself, and not the substituted inline text. I'm aware that you can do this in Outlook for Mac, and the difference seems to be that Outlook formats it's messages as HTML whereas Apple Mail formats them as RTF. Is there a simple way to accomplish this?
Silly question, but does the MacBook Air not actually have RAM because it uses Flash or what? Does it make application loading faster than the MacBook Pro?
I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?
The important stuff: My Mac got stolen in a public library (unsecure Wifi). All I have is the MAC address and the serial number.
I use my MacBook with an external monitor at work and home. Unfortunately, they are both the same model and this seems to confuse OS X.
What are some better solutions (apps or any ways) to manage files (folders and subfolders with PDFs, docs, video, audio etc.) on iOS device (iPhone or iPad) that can sync with OS X?
I recently read about the WordPress.com Twitter API released in 2009, and I want to test it out. The API requires you to use a Twitter client that supports custom API URLs. The example iOS application that they listed was Tweetie2, but it's dead now. Are there any other iOS app that allow custom API URLs to that I can test this out?
I have a 8gb High Performance SD card that I would like to use as swap (virtual memory). Is this possible in Mac OS X Server, and if so how do I go about doing this?
My Windows Phone's keyboard displays the characters on it depending on the context, i.e, if I am currently typing lower case characters the keyboard overlay is lowercase and ditto for upper case. I just got myself a new iPad yesterday and found that the keyboard is always stuck on uppercase. I mean when I type it works fine but the overlay is always uppercase. Anyway to change this?
I'm talking about the field accessible with command+L, then Tab. I search Google a lot. On Windows and Linux this is usually accessible with Ctrl+K.
Anyway to set a idle timeout on VPN? I want my VPN connection to drop automatically after idling for 5 minutes. Using Lion 10.7.3 and built-in VPN Client (Cisco IPsec).
I need to remotely grab the Bluetooth ID from multiple machines throughout my network. What are the best ways to remotely obtain the Bluetooth ID in OS X?
I have installed BYOBU via Brew and all the F keys work except for the F9 key which happens to be the key used to get to the menu. I have worked around this by editing the ~/.byobu/status files manually. It would be nice to get this working. Has anyone fixed this? I don't think it's a $TERM issue.
My dream scenario is where I can: Take photos with my iPhone Then press a button that uploads them to a server (ideally one which I own, but I would also subscribe to a service) and then deletes them off my iPhone. The photos then should be easily accessible via a web client where I can decide which ones to keep, print or delete forever. Any recommendations as to services which do this or come close?
Is there a way to get a user-defined launchd task (i.e. like the one in this question) to get user confirmation before executing the task? A popup like the one for scheduled sleep (with yes/no and a timer in case of no user input) would be great, otherwise a simple yes/no popup would work.
I have a smart album in Aperture which contains a steadily growing set of pictures, which I want to share with others. To do that, I use Dropbox and export the smart album every now and then to my dropbox, which then creates a web album for the folder.
Apple has registered a ton of MAC address ranges for its products. Does anyone know whether it's feasible to reliably identify which Apple product (particularly iPad, iPod, iPhone, and MacBooks) a particular device is in network traffic via specific MAC address prefixes? In other words, is there something about the MAC address of an iPad that is distinguishable from the MAC address of a MacBook, for instance?
When I use VMware Fusion with an Ubuntu guest (it worked long ago, but this problem has existed over several generations of ubuntu, at least including natty, oneiric and precise) and shared folders using vmhgfs, no matter what I do, many of my symlinks are broken. The ones that are broken are symlinks that point to files in subdirectories, such as foo -> bar/blah. They're broken because they're presented to linux as foo->bar.
"This Apple ID has not been yet been used before in the iTunes Store. Tap review to sign in, then review your account information."
The question (and answer) Can you disable rubber-band scrolling in OS X Lion? is very useful, so I would like to learn how to find these settings. How can I find out what these variables are so I can turn them off without needing to find a question here one by one?
Is there any way to block access to some particular file or folder in MacOS X, so that it can be protected by password?
A friend of mine has iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0. I can iMessage him using his apple id fine. However, when I try to use his cellphone number, I never get the light blue send button. It stays green all the time. This seems very strange to me. Any explanations?
I've been hunting for the answer to this, but I have not found it. When I back up my laptop using Time Machine to a remote Time Machine server (Time Capsule, or Mac Mini with an external drive), is the data on the network encrypted? Note that I don't care about the encryption of the data on the hard drives at either end, just about the ethernet/wifi in the middle.
I had a bunch of songs on iTunes that didn't have artist names, so consequently, I didn't have artist names on my iPod touch. I added artist names to all the songs I have on iTunes and now the artist names are not even showing up on my iPod. It just says "Artist Unknown" I really have no idea what to do. Can someone help me?
Does anyone know if there is public data App downloads from the iOS App Store? Not so much how many downloads has a particular app had, but data like: how many apps have zero downoads. how many apps have a hundred downloads. how many app have a thousand downloads. what's the download numbers over time for apps on average. That kinda thing.
Back in the Windows world there was a Device Manager control panel that would list all the devices that were connected to your computer. There was even an option to show "hidden devices", basically a list of items like thumb-drives, SD cards, etc. that were once connected to your PC.
I use a Mac mini as a music centre connected to my stereo system (among other things). I control it remotely using apps such as Remote by Apple, Rowmote, and Remoteless (for Spotify), both on my iPhone and iPad.
I have a 60W power adapter from my old 2008 MacBook. Can I use this power adapter on a new 13" MacBook Pro, which also came with a 60W power adapter? However the two power adapters have two different modell numbers. Can there be a problem using the old one on the newer 13" MacBook Pro?
I was under the impression that the iPhone received timestamps along with GPS location data. While I can't say its not true for the internal database, it seems to be for the EXIF data attached to photos taken by the iPhone's camera. I ran a test by turning off automatic date/time settings, ensuring my correct timezone was set. I took a photo (IMG_1692), rolled back the time by two hours and took another (IMG_1693). Using Phil Harvey's EXIF Editor, I retrieved this output: You can clearly see the two hour difference in the file timestamp, as well as the GPS time!
When the Info window of Finder is used to associate files of a particular type with an application: the preference is effective immediately. When Terminal is used to make a comparable addition to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist the preference is not effective immediately. Why does Launch Services not immediately respect a write to the user's com.apple.LaunchServices.plist? An ideal answer might be a reference to a page in the Apple Developer area. Answers need not involve running a command. Wondering whether a daemon or agent makes changes to that .plist effective, I ran: sudo launchctl list In the list, under the label heading, I see nothing that might relate to Launch Services.
In the past when I have plugged in external hard-drives they would always show up on the desktop. I'm not sure if it is because of a software update or the drive itself but it's no longer showing up. The drive is working because if I go to Finder I can access the drive. How can I change the settings so that drives show up on the desktop when they are plugged in? I'm using OSX version: 10.7.3.
I have been searching and I didn't find an optimal solution for my problem. I have some apps purchased from the Mac App Store (Pixelmator, GarageBand), and other ones installed (Xcode). I want to know is there an efficient way to backup this apps, and reinstall them after I do a fresh install of my system.
I don't want to lose all the stuff on my device. Any way to stop my iPad from automatically syncing with iTunes when connected to the Mac? I turned these features on when I bought it, but in the long run it's not such a great idea.
I've developed a proof-of-concept that I'll need to demo on a projector (VGA) and I'd like to use the iPad to demo it. I'd like to mirror the page with as little lag as possible, as the proof uses a lot of CSS transitions - the perception of the app may be degraded if it looks laggy.
When I connect to some wifi networks my computer hostname changes in the terminal - is this normal? Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?
I use Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and here's my problem: Stack and grid views of folders very often look like this:  These empty boxes are not very useful for finding files quickly. When I open a such a view, I notice high processor usage by processes
Both my husband and I have an iPhone 4. When my husband tries to use his ID on his phone mine will pop up and he can't change it. When he goes into his settings his ID is there. This only started when I plugged my phone into the PC. Can 2 ID's be run from the same PC?
I subscribed to a google calendar and all was going well until today that I saw an event on iCal and when checking on the web the event isn't there. I synced with ⌘+R and ⌘+⇧+R and the event is still showing, the event is a repeating one on google calendar that in the date it shows on iCal was deleted on Google. iCal version 5.0.2
Apparently this eMac shipped with OS X 10.3 Panther. The restore discs claim to have Panther on them. But the eMac won't boot from the restore disc, even though it boots from the Panther Upgrade disc.
I found this presumably hidden feature by accident; my keyboard fell so I picked it up. When I did, my background looked like it was in space, the Finder window was open and in the middle of the background there was the sun. On the side a new menu bar showed up; one option said "Today" and the other option, I think, said "Tomorrow." It just looked like my background was traveling through space, it was cool; kind of like when you reboot your computer and it gives you that Apple outerspace show. My question is: how do i open that feature or application and what is it for?
For some reason, after I installed many apps (because a company made them free Apr 27 to 29), and then, the icons don't appear at all, and there was no warning. And I started to wonder, are there maximum number of pages? And so I created some folders and put existing apps in them, and the other apps magically appeared. (I forgot if I restarted iPad in order to see them). And there seems to be maximum 20 apps per folder.
I once read you could force the color of visited links in Safari by adding a:visited { color: #6611cc !important; } in the .css file under Preferences < Advanced. In this way, it will turn every link you've clicked on purple and by so override the actual web design.
I would like to use hot corners to move between desktop/spaces. Right now, the only way to move between desktop with a mouse, is to go via Mission Control and clicking on the desired desktop. I want something faster without using keyboard shortcuts. Is there any programs available or is there a code I should edit?
This has infuriated me since I got my iPad. If I am buying multiple Apps the iPad takes me to my Desktop after I buy each app, meaning I have to go back to the app store. Is there a way to tell it to stay in the appstore when I buy an app?
I've clicked "Erase all settings" on my iPhone 3GS and it went into a locked state where I couldn't get to the login screen in any way. I then decided to upgrade to 5.1 but forgot to save the SHSH. Is there any way to downgrade to 4.2.1 or at least something different than 5.1? Thanks!
Like the title says - how similar is Microsoft Excel for Mac to Excel for Windows? Is it confusing when you have to keep switching from one to the other when working on a complicated excel file? (For example using a Mac at home and Windows at work). Are the formatting and formula inputs exactly the same? Thanks for any answers!
Anyone knows any application that will allow me to share my OS X Lion screen with an iPhone? I don't care to have it over the Internet, WiFi is sufficient.
I am trying to draw a button in my iOS app which would look exactly like a button in camera App of the new iPad (like on this image) Since I don't have the new iPad, I can't check it by my own. But what I want to know is, how does this button look like if the background is dark, and if it is some complicated image behind, not just smooth blurred single color as on their screenshot. If somebody has the screenshots of camera app when background is not so ideal, I would appreciate if you share them. Or maybe somebody has values of colors, gradients, sizes, which are used in this button, then it would also be great to see. Thank you.
I once installed Adobe CS 5 as a Trial but now I pre-ordered the new suite. I've deleted the Adobe CS 5 suite, and installed the new suite. But whenever I try to open photoshop for example, the Software Setup pops up and tells me my trial of CS 5 has expired and I need to enter a serial. I don't know if it will accept my CS 6 serial, but I first want to get rid of all (!) the CS 5 files.
I have two Apple 24" LED Cinema Displays and a mid-2010 17" MacBook Pro. I've used one display with the computer for a long time, but recently acquired the second display.
I've just purchased a 27" iMac and am planning on installing a SSD (256 gig) to act as my boot drive. I was wondering if it would be possible to: 1) Install Lion on to the new iMac 2) Create my user account 3) Move the new user account to the HDD that came with the iMac 4) Use Migration Assistant to migrate my old user account into my new iMac? The current Home folder/Music/Photos and home movies is nearly 400 gigs of information. I've read here where users utilize migration assistant twice (once for apps, then move home folder, then data) or manually move the data
When saving an AppleScript as an application, you can view the source by looking in the package contents. Recently, ruddfawcett posted his AD search application he made with AppleScript and the source was closed. How do I do this?
I like my iPhone, but one thing that REALLY bugs me is that EVERY time I create an event I have to manually set an alert. (One has to wonder why Apple thinks that I would add an entry into my calendar and NOT want an alert. At the very least this should be configurable - to do some default.)
Is it possible to disable trackpad gestures I don't want to trigger on a particular workspace? I have virtualbox fullscreen on one of my workspaces and I'd like for mouse gestures to not trigger when I am on that workspace.
I have a 6th-gen iPod classic (the first model classic) with an 80 GB hard drive. I have recently purchased a Sony Dockstation for iPods but I cannot make it work. Every time it connects to the dock, an Apple symbol comes up. Can anyone explain what should I do to make it work?
Until recently, I left my iMac (27" late 2009) on all the time. I now want to sleep it when not in use, but also wake it remotely via my AirPort Extreme. All this is working fine. The iMac is set to sleep after 6 minutes.
I have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro and I use it almost like a desktop. I leave the power cord connected all the time. Is this OK? Am I ruining the computer or diminishing its lifespan?
Does anyone know what the requirements for running the iOS Simulator? I've got a MacBook running 10.6.8 and ADmitMac 6. Whenever I'm logged in as Active Domain user (that has no /Users account on the machine) the simulator crashes upon startup. Actually kernel panics, forces a machine restart. But when I use a user that has a /Users account (admin or not) the simulator runs without error.
I have two windows open (so far I think this has only happened when at least one of the windows is a Finder window, though I'm not sure if that fact is essential to the problem), and I click the one in the background. The previously-focused window changes shade to show that it has lost focus and the now-in-focus window also changes shade to show that it has gained focus, but no matter how many times I click it, it doesn't come to the foreground. I have to try cycling between the windows in order to successfully move-to-background the out-of-focus window and move-to-foreground the in-focus one. Why would this happen? I've never seen such behavior in older versions of OS X and don't think it's a Lion "feature" either. EDIT: Screenshot attached showing behavior in 10.8
Is it possible to run a Minecraft server using an OSX Lion server? I know that this is a very basic question.
I regularly need to decrypt a gpg-encrypted file (always the same) to simply view it in TextEdit. I have a very simple shell script for that. It looks like this:
Is there a way to group 2 or more windows so that they act together? If I drag one, they all move. If I hide one, they all hide. If I alt-tab to one, they all come in focus, etc. These windows might be in different applications
Is there a way to get OS X 10.5-type Expose for windows, on OS X 10.7? I've found the new "Mission Control", but I haven't figured out how to get it to show me all my windows, like before. It shows me all my applications, but all the windows are piled on top of each other. If I "swipe up" on one of the piles, the windows scoot apart a little ways, so I can see about 3 of them, but of course that means the one I'm looking for is invariably on the bottom of the pile, still. Is there any way to get Expose for windows (rather than applications), like OS X used to have?
Forgive me for my ignorance but, I recently purchased an eBook only to find that I also had to download Adobe Digital Editions in order to be able to view it on my Mac. The PDF that I downloaded in the process is encrypted. Does this mean that I can only view it using Adobe Digital Editions, or can any ePub Reader (including any that I install under Windows) be able to read it? I know that there are many (better) ePub readers out there, the prominent ones of which are listed in the following post. What could I use to read epub books on OS X? If I now were to install Calibre, for example, would it interfere with Adobe Digital Editions?
I have an iPod classic (160GB) which I sync with iTunes 10.6.0.40 using automatic syncing. Generally, when I plug the iPod into my PC via USB, all of the Play count and Last played statistics update properly. Yesterday I listened to 5 albums on my iPod, in the following order: The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God Apples in Stereo - Fun trick noisemaker Joni Mitchell - Court and spark Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman However, when I plugged the iPod into my PC, iTunes only showed that I had played the last 2 albums (Led Zeppelin, Underworld) and it was as if the other albums hadn't played (their Last played dates were back in 2010). Any idea what may be causing this? Why doesn't iTunes respect my diverse taste in music? Edit: I have since upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1.7 and I am still seeing this issue, so I am now offering a bounty to anyone who can help me solve this.
I'd like to know if the photos were uploaded yet, but an indicator isn't apparent. I'd like to know without resorting to checking a desktop/laptop. Is there one I'm missing?
I've been trying to run windows 7 on my MBP on parallels so that I can test different browsers. Trouble is, it is just slow, I mean excruciatingly slow. Like booting it up takes 15 minutes. It's ridiculous.
I'm working on an OS X 10.6.8 machine, for which I do not have superuser privileges. I'd like to imitate the effect of adding an entry to the hosts file, i.e. have a certain domain resolve to a certain ip.
I very frequently use Command ⌘+Shift ⇧+Control ⌃+4 to take a partial screenshot and store it in the clipboard. However, the arms of the crosshair which appears are very short, making it hard to select the right area on the first go, especially when I want to select a large area with no border. So, I'm wondering whether it's possible to extend the arms of that crosshair, perhaps to span the entire screen?
I'm running Lion and trying to restore a Snow Leopard system archived in a DMG file. The restore destination is an external Firewire disk (160GB) and the original system was installed in a 250GB disk. The compressed DMG has 90GB, and uncompressed it takes 120GB.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a selected email to PDF using Automator. Example - iTunes invoice arrives as email text (not an attachment) and I want to save it as a PDF to a specified folder for tax time. How do I print a selected email to PDF using Automator?
Itunes adds all movies to my itunes movies folder (not the actual folder in the filesystem, but the one inside itunes), including movies from trash and personal stuff I don't want in itunes. How can I limit the movies itunes display to the one's that are actually added to the library and/or "reside" in specific folders?
I have 2 Apple IDs but I think I read that if you use a second ID, you cannot use the first again for 90 days. Is this true? If so, I need another solution!
I would like to record each good thing someone in my contactlist or maybe not in my contact list did to me or record a happy time we did togethers. So i can read all the happy memories. See the list when i get angry at someone who might ever did a lot of good thIngs to me or send this list to them at the approprite time. I saw that there is a note section in my contact list. But i wonder Is there any apps that are more suit than this like organize by date and Save Photo.
I'm using Mail with Google Apps (Gmail). My goal is to archive automatically the email I've just reply. Leaving me with a clean inbox. How can you that exactly? (I'm using MailTags and Mail Act-On a lot.)
Can you have multiple Apple ID's on the same iOS device? My girlfriend and I have both got an iPad and an iPod Classic and may well be getting iPhones at some point, we each have our own apple ID and I was wondering if I could have both Apple IDs logged into one of our iPads to avoid us having to buy Apps twice. I would have thought that Apple wouldn't allow this, but I just wanted to check as I can do this on my current Android phone (Two Google accounts rather than Apple IDs obviously).
Everywhere I look I see that in order to change the Font size in Xcode I simply click on the "fonts window button". However, I can't. I have a default install of Xcode, just started trying to use it the other day. The fonts window button looks like this:
I read this question and was wondering if I need to have a SIM card that has previously activated an iPhone in order to activate an iPhone. I'm inheriting my mother's old 3Gs to use as an iPod / for development purposes, and I was wondering if when I restore it to factory settings I'll need her old SIM card to activate it.
I was used to automatic syncing via the Internet from MobileMe. Does it not work like that with iCloud?
Whenever I reopen Pages or Numbers, all documents that I had open when I last exited are reopened. I have the "restore windows" checkbox unchecked in System Preferences > General, but all windows from my previous session are always reopened every time I re-launch Pages or Numbers. Is there a way to force iWork apps to behave as expected?
The typeface used in Safari's "Reader" mode (on both iOS and OS X) seems to be some form of Palatino, which, while certainly not the worst screen face, isn't the best either. This used to be a limitation in iBooks as well, until the addition of excellent screen faces like Charter and Athelas. Is there a way to change the typeface used by Safari's Reader mode?
I've recently got a new black iPhone 4S, but in iTunes and Xcode organizer it is shown as white (see screenshots below). I purchased this new within the UK (model MD239B), but I'm not sure if it was refurbished. The search request says it is a white one. Could it possibly be a refurbished device? I've checked the serial number on support.apple.com, there is no single word similar to 'refurbished'.
I've literally looked all over Stack Overflow, Superuser, I cannot find a solution to my problem that I'm experiencing right now, when I want to start MySQL, it produces this error: ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql/My-Username.local.pid). with the sudo mysql.server start command, however, if I simply use the mysql command, it will produce: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Which is also another problem I cannot fix, I did touch /tmp/mysql.sock, nothing. I've chown'd the /usr/local/var/mysql with mysql:mysql recursively, but that didn't help at all.
So, I acquired a water damaged Macbook (Late-2008 Unibody / 5.1) to cannibalize for parts for my existing macbook of the same model. I've taken everything I need off it, so I'm looking to part out the rest of the components to recover a few dollars from what I paid for it. The logic board is pretty obviously fried - absolutely no life in it if I attempt to power it on.
When I VNC into a remote OS X machine (e.g. my office machine), the remote screen is showing everything I'm doing. It also unlocks the screen so that if I'm not watching that screen, someone can use the machine and get access to things I'd prefer them not to. The usual method is somebody in the office pranking me by loading up a browser with cuteoverload and full screening it. This bothers me since it isn't very secure.
I have purchased Cars 2 HD movie on my iTunes. I can't find it and/or play it on my Mac now. the only option is to buy it once more. I have just one iTunes account. when go to the movie bar in my library, there's nothing there, just the intro screen. Please help.
I am going to be buying a MacBook Pro within the next few months (hopefully an updated version if it comes out) for university this autumn. I am wondering, due to the Uni halls having only wired Internet, whether using the hotspot feature of the mac is appropriate for extended periods of time? This would be for the use of my iPhone and iPad which do not connect via Ethernet obviously. I know I could buy a wifi router but was just wondering as this method (via MacBook) would be cheaper and more portable.
I have a 2012 Mac Mini running OS X 10.7.3. On another PC, I have created a USB boot disc with CentOS 6.2 on it. The goal was to install CentOS onto the Mini. The USB drive is MBR partitioned and boots fine on BIOS based PCs. However, not so on the Mac Mini. While holding down the option key, I see the USB drive offered as a "Windows Drive" however selecting it to boot into causes the screen to go completely black and the words "Boot Error" to be displayed with a blinking cursor underneath the words.
Is it possible to get the search function of iPhone (when you go at the first screen on left) to work as the spotlight works when you put in words and display a dictionary ? If not , is the same dictionary app which is installed on OSX, available for iOS? Thanks !
I have recently installed Octave, a MATLAB clone, onto the following directory: I want to run it from a shell command prompt from a different directory, say, from my home directory ~. I know that I can type the full path to the octave executable, but that is very cumbersome. I know that on linux computers you can edit your .bashrc file to include paths to special directories with executables. How do I accomplish that here in Mac OS?
I am writing an AppleScript and I'd like to be able to format text in a display dialog box. For instance, I want part of the text to be bold or italic. How can I do this?
What is this folder? It's huge and I can use the extra room. I've read sleepimage isn't necessary—is this true? Should I just deal with it? Is the "private" folder emptied automatically, or would I have to do it manually? If it isn't useful (or needed), is there any way to prevent it from reappearing in the future?
My late-2011 13" MacBook Pro generally doesn't automatically detect external displays. At work or at home, I plug it to either a 23" Cinema Display (2005) or a 24" LG display using a Mini DisplayPort / DVI adapter. Sometimes auto-detection of the display works out-of-the-box (notably, the first time I plug a display after a reboot), but most of the time I need to manually click "Detect Displays" in system preferences.
I was playing around with my in-laws 2nd Gen Apple TV and I couldn't find any way of getting to these services. I'm fairly sure I remember seeing iPlayer and the like in the old UI when I was playing with one in an Apple store but the UI seems to have been updated since then and I couldn't find any features aside from streaming from a computer on the network. Have these features been removed are are they just well hidden?
I am trying to copy/drag a .pdf file into a powerpoint presentation for Mac PPT 2011. I do the following:
I want to be able to start an app or script, leave it running for a few hours, then come back and see a log of what processes started and stopped in that time. This is not the same as Activity Monitor or Top which will only show me a "live" view.
I am using iCloud but I also have a Nokia phone that I use for emergencies. Apparently it has a calendar and an address book built-in. Is there a way, using some software to sync the Nokia phone with iCloud via PC or mac?
I have a 2009 Mac Pro with a ATI Radeon HD 4870 (option). It is connected to a 2009 24" Cinema Display. If I want to add a second monitor (non-Apple), what type of monitor/connector/cable do I need?
I have a set of PDF documents that each have a few extra pages. I'd like to remove the first two and last pages from each of them. Preview only lets me look at and annotate a PDF, not edit one. Can anyone recommend a (free/freeware) tool to do this? I'm using 10.5 PPC so that does limit some of my options. Command line or GUI is fine.
Is there a way to download an audio file, such as a mp3-file or a Quicktime-file from the iOS Safari browser to the device so I could listen to it later when I'm offline? Is there a way I should program the web site to make this possible? I'm not looking for an additional app to help me achieve this.
In the default camera roll you can't see the time and date of your photos. Is there any app I can install to have my photos displayed like camera roll just with dates? It's quite annoying to search through over 2000 photos. A date selection or sorting would be nice.
I am trying to see if I can SSH to my iPhone using the 3G network. So, given my IP, I am trying to make contact through SSH, using the defined port (which is no longer 22, I changed it).
Example: In Terminal, I fire up elinks and browser to a web page. I try to use the trackpad scroll gesture and the page up and page down to scroll up and down the web page that elinks is showing me. But instead of scrolling the web page, Terminal scrolls the entire scrollback buffer. In Ubuntu, elinks will scroll properly when you press page up and page down and the scrollwheel. This also applies to other console-based POSIX programs like Vim. Any suggestions on how to get these programs to accept trackpad scroll gestures in OS X?
Is there any way that the rounded window corners can be disabled in OS X Lion (10.7.3) ? Update: It's the bottom two corners that I have problem with as they show up even in full screen mode.
On booting the new Macbook Pro, holding the option key allows the choice of boot device to be made. Selecting rEFIt then allows Linux to be chosen, which works the same way as on the older Macbook Pro. However, on the late 2011 model, following the selection of Linux, all I get is a screen saying that no bootable devices were found.
When creating either an Aggregate Device or a Multi-Output Device in Audio MIDI Setup and setting it as the default audio output device, the volume control is greyed out and locked at maximum intensity. Why is that and how can it be bypassed?
I have been able to reproduce a bug that makes the iOS5 browser crash and stop unexpectingly. I am unable to reproduce that bug outside of our web application so I was thinking to send a crash report of when it happens within our application as a bug report. Is it possible to get a crash report of any kind for the Safari application so that I can send it as a bug report ? If it's possible, how do I do it ?
I have been using Mail and I really don't like it. I have tried Thunderbird, Entourage and Postbox and do not like any of them either. I need a clear and unified way to check all my mails and also a very non-intrusive spam filter. Edit: The thing, that I hate about Mail is:
I have installed the Gmail app for iPad, and configured my gmail account. However, the inbox does not sync at all. It always shows 'No offline messages'. But I am able to see the messages under All Mail and Important labels. I have enabled the POP and IMAP settings for my gmail account (under settings).
My iTunes was set to make copies of all the music that it imported and keep it's own library within the iTunes folder. I wanted to delete my original files but deleted my iTunes copies instead. Now I have an exclamation mark beside all my music and since iTunes renames the files in it's own copy according to the ID3 tags, I can't simply replace my iTunes folder with my original files as the filenames and folders don't match. The brute force alternative is to manually point each missing file to the new file location but this does not seem like a very clever solution given I have over 5000 tracks.
About a year ago, the SuperDrive in my 2010 MacBook appeared to stop working. When I insert a blank CD or DVD, the disc does not show up in the Finder. The drive appears in Disk Utility, and I am able to eject it from there. I assumed this was a hardware problem with the SuperDrive, so I just purchased an external Samsung USB DVD drive. I am seeing the exact same behavior with it. This leads me to believe there is some kind of OS X problem rather than it stemming from the drives. What steps should I take to troubleshoot and try to fix this?
I'll admit that I am kind of rolling multiple questions in to one here so please forgive me and try not to knock me for it. I am new to Mac but I'm trying to port one of my Java applications to OS X. On Windows, it uses the hard drive serial number for something and I'm looking to do equivalent in Mac using the Terminal!
If I have a really high resolution image in Keynote, and I shrink it down to start out small, and then use the scale up action (animation) to make it big the resulting image is pixelated and low quality, even if the image was scaled up to its original size (before it was scaled down). This is the same for both vector and raster images. Is there a way to scale up an image without losing image quality?
When I am trying to update my iPad 2 to 5.1 using Wifi it says the update size is 206mb. But when I am trying to do that same thing by attaching it with my PC(itunes) the update size is ~767mb. Why is this difference in size?
I recently got my MacBook Air, and the battery cycles is already at 12. Is this good/average? I don't know if I am not charging it properly or something, because I don't want to ruin my battery in the first year of having it.
I have an installer file 6GB in size, and I need to burn it to DVD, but I only have single layer (4.7GB capacity) media. How can I split this big file into pieces that will fit on my media? I am thinking of making an ISO, is this the correct approach? I only want free or open source solution please.
I can't download from the update of my iPad 2 through iTunes. My internet connection is unstable. iTunes is giving me a hard time.
I have been searching for a photogrammetry application for Mac. Can anyone tell me where can I get them?
I have been using Ubuntu since few years and have stored many notes on the Tomboy note application that comes pre-istalled with it. Now, i've migrated to Mac and finding it difficult to install Tomboy Notes app on Lion. The instruction given on Tomboy's website doesn't work for me. Could somebody please help me out?
In Windows 7, we can easily arrange two windows with these shortcuts: Option (Alt) ⌥ + ← maximizes the window to the left side of the screen, and Option (Alt) ⌥ + → maximizes the window to the right side of the screen. I'm using a 27" iMac now, and I'd really like to do this. Does Mac OS X have this functionality?
I got a new iPhone, and I want to give my old one to my son. Naturally, I want to disable my Apple account and iMessage on the old phone. How do I do this without affecting my own account?
I have this one condition: The boss is using mac, the secretary is using PC. The boss keep all the schedules in iCal, and now the secretary cannot manage and see the schedules because i dont know how to open or view iCal in Windows. Is there any third party software that can do this?
I have defined a NFS mount point in Disk Utility. The target machine is running Linux. I don't see the machine in Finder (preferences/ shared / servers is checked) I also can't drag the folder to the Finders Favorites. All of this is possible if I mount the NFS share manually through the command line. Is there a setting to have the NFS mount points behave like the other folders on my system (OS X 10.7.3) ?
Is it true a screen guard reduces the clarity of an iPad 3 retina display? I dont want to risk scratching such an expensive investment. Any recommendations on screen protectors which satisfy the following criteria? Fingerprint resistant Retains the clarity of the retina display Anti-glare Does not interfere with the screen sensitivity Does not interfere with swiping (you know.. that resistance you get when you swipe on plastic)
My prompt in Terminal currently looks like: I want it to be as short as possible, maybe at least no hostname there. How do I change my bash prompt?
I'm planning on getting an iPad, but it very much needs to be childlockable - that is I need the ability to lock it so only one app can be used unless a user has a pincode or password. I'm presuming I'll have to jailbreak to get the functionality but I'm not sure where to go from there - any ideas? This is the only feature I'm looking for - the app I'm wanting to access is likely 'prologue2go' but that's the only reason to purchase - I'm presuming I'll be getting an iPad2 simply because they are, and will be (I pressume) more stably jailbroken.
I'm trying to copy a .avi movie-file that I ripped from a dvd that I own from my PC to my iPad. I've tried doing this with iTunes, to no avail, and frankly I'm sick of iTunes so I'm looking for alternative methods. So far, I have found none.
I have an encrypted disk image (sparsebundle) where all of my private documents are stored; I mount it to a custom mount point with: Other users see the mounted disk image in the Finder window sidebar and maybe also on their Desktops (according to Finder preferences), but they cannot access the volume because of unsufficient privileges. In any case other users can eject the volume, and this is bad. Is there a way to prevent other users from ejecting my volumes, or even seeing this volume if they don't have enough privileges to view its innards?
I have a contact, Niels; he has an iPhone too, and he uses iMessages, just as I am. For some reason, I've got 2 conversations going on with Niels although the contact card both contains the e-mail and the phone number.
I have a iPad 2. In my credit card printout, I have a cost from an app I bought in the AppStore. But I've only installed free apps.
As a group (work, family,...), you produce an Aperture library on your computer. Others (spouse, coworker...) in the group now want to access and edit this library from other computers. Any solutions?
Knowing little about OSX, a friend has asked me to help upgrade their machine from OS X 10.5.8 to 10.6.3; what are the risks of doing so, if any, and what is the best way to mitigate them?
I don't see any obvious options for small caps in Pages, either under styles or text formatting. Do I need a special font, or does Pages have small caps capability at all?
I need to record me using an iPad while I am drawing on it (with Penultimate). I usually use ScreenFlow to record onscreen actions on my desktop Mac, so I need a way to display iPad on my Mac. Is there a way to do screen sharing? Or, I suppose I could do a screen capture right from my iPad. Any suggestions? Thanks, UPDATE: One solution for 10.7.3 and iPad 3 is Reflection + ScreenFlow, no cords: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22358199/testRef2/index.html
Also, just out of curiosity, what does the Recovery HD partition do? Disk Utility seems to imply it has something to do with the bootloader but that doesn't make sense to me. Edit: Partial duplicate of Can I repartition my primary hard drive without removing the Lion recovery partition?
I am unable to login to my corporate Lync 2010 server. I'm up to date with Microsoft updates to Mac Office 2011. I've tried automatic and manual configuration. I've tried with and without Kerberos authentication. I know I have proper credentials because I can login to the Windows version of Lync from a Windows session in Fusion.
This MacBook had milk spilled on the keyboard a few months ago. It's continued to work, with a few of the letter keys no longer functioning, up until this point. Now, upon start up, the MacBook just displays an error screen and performs no other function. The error message:
When using an iPad if you download and use an iphone application, an iphone outline will appear on the screen with the application inside.  I'm looking for a way to switch between viewing websites normally as they would appear on the iPad and iphone view. What would be the best way of going about this?
I am trying to get a URL via AppleScript, then displaying it as a clickable link via a window. How do I do this? (if I need to use Xcode for this, please add the answer, but provide detailed instructions, please)
I am trying to develop a WordPress theme locally on my Mac (running OS X 10.7.3) running MAMP Pro, and am having trouble utilizing FTP. I know in 10.7, FTP has been deprecated, but was able to get FTP up and running via this tutorial: *=URL=* Now, it accepts the FTP credentials, but says it cannot find the wp-content directory.
I'm writing a thesis in LaTeX with TextMate. I want very simple, very automated version control. Nothing complicated! Just, every time I save, a new version is created so that I can easily go back in time and look at previous versions. Lion's "Versions" feature is perfect for me but doesn't work with TextMate.
My iPad 3 is noticibly less sensitive to my stylus than my iPad 2. (For instance, on my iPad 2, barely brushing my stylus against the screen, even in the slightest, has an effect; on my iPad 3, I must apply enough pressure to visibly deform the tip of the stylus.) My question is: is there a setting to change this sensitivity?
On Windows there are several third-party applications that can be used to improve the standard Open and Save dialogs. I am looking for features like: Being able to delete files from the these dialogs. Being able to move files. Remember dialog size or common directories per application (not all apps are able to do things like this). If the solutions are commercial, please mention the price.
Many people are not aware that on Windows you can copy the whole text content of a MessageBox by pressing Ctrl ⌃ + C when the dialog is focused. This is an essential feature for reporting error messages, and in some cases these could be huge. Still, it seems that on OS X, that Command ⌘ + C does not work and I'm wondering if there is another method for doing this. Doing screenshots is not so convenient, especially that they are not searchable :p
I know iPhones (and iPads) run on ARM processors, which are little-endian by default (and iOS on itself is little-endian according to the Wikipedia page); however, ARM processors supposedly have the ability to switch between little-endian and big-endian. How possible is this and how does it work?
Do I need to purchase them separately for every iPad I have?
I am looking for a music applications that integrates with my iTunes library and plays songs something like this: Playing a song: Screenshots from SoundCloud.
This started to happen some days ago, but it's pretty annoying, my podcasts aren't been updating too. When I click in iTunes Store it just show 'accessing itunes store' (the loading bar) and just keep this like forever. I already try to remove iTunes completely like it says here:*=URL=* And here: *=URL=* But still with same error, any adivce ? Here it's all the programs that are installed in my computer now: *=URL=* *=URL=* My computer is a : DELL Optplex 790 Windows 7 x64 8gb memory RAM Thanks.
I've done some searching and found various websites. For example, *=URL=* has a lot of scans. After listening to the Open Apple podcast, I think it would be helpful to have a definitive place (ie here) with a list of websites with Apple 2 scans.
I am a sole trader and I have developed an iPad app that I'm going to sell to several companies independently. They are small companies (<50 employees) that have nothing to do with IT and it would be a nightmare for them to register with the Developer Enterprise Program. That's why I'm probably going to register for each of them. 1- Can I register for several Enterprise Programs with my Apple ID, or does it have to be done by someone inside the companies (with a different ID each time that then adds me as as admin)?
Does anyone know of a resource that lists the Preferences files/plists (pertinent to OS X and Apple applications, not third-party apps) found in ~/Library/Preferences (and the other locations too, but that would be a start) and what they're used for? I've been looking around and can't find anything. The closest I found was this chart compiled by appleexaminer.com — but that only covers a few items, and the obvious ones at that.
My (bilingual) mom just recently bought an iPad. When typing in Korean, her native language, she became irritated by the autocorrect feature -- it would often suggest incorrect spelling corrections, forcing her to pause typing to press the 'x' button to cancel it. However, because she's not proficient in English, she found the autocorrect feature very useful when typing in English.
I've a rather complex task to solve. I don't use OS X, but now I have to provide some colleagues with a simple application that automatically copies a certain file to a network folder. Normally I'd use a shell script, but some minimal GUI is a must-have thing in this case. So I thought I could use AppleScript. I'd have to perform these steps: Connect to a network drive (smb://myserver/public, where every user has different login names and passwords, so wiring the usernames and passwords in the code is not an option). Navigate to a folder on the network drive (every user has a different folder on the network drive). Copy a certain file from the user's desktop to the opened folder on the network drive.
Back To My Mac (BTMM) used to require UPnP or NAT-PMP on your router to work, but at some point this changed and it can work (albeit slowly) without those. BTMM (usually?) works by setting up an encrypted IPv6 tunnel over IPv4 between the two hosts, and with UPnP/NAT-PMP, the appropriate ports are forwarded on the router at each end, allowing a direct connection. But how does it work when there's no UPnP/NAT-PMP? I noticed that it's much slower if either end doesn't have UPnP/NAT-PMP (I get a ~40ms ping if both ends have the automatic config, and about 1000ms if they don't), so I'm wondering where the traffic goes — presumably it has to go via Apple servers if a direct connection can't be automatically negotiated? But even with just plain old NAT, is it not possible for a 3rd party to arbitrate a connection between two NAT'ed hosts?
I just downloaded 40+ chapters of a medical reference book onto my ipod touch. They were not available to download as a whole book so I had to download them one at a time. I put them all in a folder in ibooks. Instead of being labelled "chapter 1" or "chapter 2" etc, they are all labelled by the name of the book (that is, they all have the same label). This makes referencing them much harder. I want to be able to find certain chapters quickly. Can I rename these pdfs so they can be easier to reference? Thanks
I have just bought an iPod Touch second hand. I tried to update it's firmware to the latest version using iTunes. The update failed and now I cannot access the iPod either directly or in iTunes. Turning the iPod ON the screen shows a 'connect to iTunes' looking icon and does nothing else. Connecting the USB does nothing and the iPod does not show up in the iTunes side bar. The iPod turns itself OFF after a minute or two. What now?
I have a copy of an old folder holding a file that has been hidden on Mac OS 8 or 9 (using resedit, if my memory isn't failing). Is there an easy way to un-hide it in OS X?
I have a Macbook Pro with an OWC DataDoubler drive caddy replacing the Superdrive (installed at an Apple premium reseller, when I bought it, so I can still have my warranty). The main drive slot has an SSD, and the Superdrive slot has the original 750GB hard drive. It all works great, and I have Lion installed on the SSD - blazing fast :) I also have the Superdrive on an external USB enclosure, also works fine.
I own a Japanese version MacBook Pro, that of course has the Japanese keyboard with the particular keys (around the space bar) that are used to switch between the various forms of Japanese (and English) language input. This is running OSX Lion FYI.
I would like to know how to use Automator or AppleScript to create a droplet that would compress/uncompress (tar.gz) and encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL files and/or directories dropped in it. The workflow on what the droplet will do to encrypt would be something like this: Files/directory is dropped on droplet Files/directory is compressed A password prompt is presented OpenSSL is used to encrypt file, file is renamed to *.encrypted To decrypt: File is dropped on droplet
I see that after installing a software that ships with documentation in OS X’s help document format, the helpd process uses 100% CPU for up to 5 minutes or so. I also see this when you first install OS X. I assume this happens because of indexing of the new documentation that was added by the new application. Is there a way to make this indexing a bit less resource intensive?
I will be travelling this weekend and I will be carrying my iPad as well as my office laptop. Now, the iPad is set to sync with my home computer. I want to transfer images I click while on travel to my iPad without any reduction in quality (they are RAW files). Any way to do this without a camera connector? Oh and since I am travelling, access to wireless hotspots are not guaranteed.
I know you can use command + ` to switch between windows in one program in one space. But this is only in the one space, if you have other windows from the same App in different spaces ... it won't switch to that space.
I just got an Apple Tv yesterday and I've purchased apps that say they are compatible with Apple Tv for playing games. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get them to work. I've double tapped the home button on my iPhone 4, and it only displays the itunes apple tv / iphone option not the apps apple tv option.
I have a Mac OS X Lion(10.7.3). Now I want to install PhoneGap in my XCode. My XCode version is 4.3.2.
I have a separate wooden board on top of my desk that covers the desk's entire area. (The board is made of nice wood, making the desk look more classy than it actually is. :)
3 finger tap triggers the English dictionary, but it only works to explain English words in English. Is there any way to change a 3 finger tap to show the translation of an English word into Spanish, or a Spanish word into English?
I already set up the iPhone tethering to have Internet on my Macbook via the iPhone phone-line. I'm using it via USB because I want to use the Wifi from the AirPort for a connection with my printer - which works as well.
In our local university network, I have (obtained by DHCP) the following setup in /etc/resolv.conf: The settings are the same in System Preferences as well. The following problem occurs:
In iOS Wifi settings, each Wifi connection has a Search Domains section, usually blank. What is this used for?
Just curious if it is important to have anti virus for a virtualized operating system I got to thinking, that operating system is actively connecting to the Internet, so I thought maybe it had vulnerabilities.
I am implementing an application and my app needs to crop image based on background contrast. I have seen similar behavior in document scanning applications where they automatically pick up image borders for crop. Can someone help me figure out how to achieve this functionality?
I have several plist files in the folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents. They all have the same permissions but two of them (dotjs and pow) are not launching at login, even if they have the key RunAtLoad set to true. Does anyone know why they are not loading? (I'm using Lion 10.7.3.) EDIT: I am able to launch the files manually with the command: launchctl load -w cx.pow.powd.plist for example.
I am running OS X Lion, VMware Fusion 4.1.2 which points to the Windows 7 installation created for Boot Camp. When I am in my Windows 7 VM, I want to double click on files (.pdf., word .docx, .pptx, etc) and have them open using my MS Office for Mac and other native files. I think that this is doable but cannot figure out how.
Is there an app for the Mac that will alert me if my Internet connection is lost? Sometimes I work from home and lose my connection without knowing it.
I just want a lightweight antivirus for my Mac that doesn't keep running on background but only scanning a file by request. Is there any?
My bash is white and black and I would like it to look much more colorful, how do I do that?
The iPad 3 is a big step forward in screen resolution from earlier models, which is good. However, I'm curious about how this interacts with webpages that specify the size of elements in pixels. If it took such instructions literally, presumably you would need a magnifying glass to read the results (or more practically, to use the zoom function on every page). Does the iPad web browser take this into account and multiply specified sizes by some reasonable conversion factor to end up with element sizes that work well on the high-resolution screen?
whenever my computer (which is a MacBook Pro bought in 2012) is sleeping or off, and i login with my password, it is always on a different wifi then my home wifi. My home wifi is Skritty, and the wifi my computer is always on is BronzeMaple-Guest. I just waited 10 minutes for a software update and when it turned on, it went to the BronzeMaple-Guest login website and it totally lost my software update. I was trying to play MineCraft and had to update Java so i could play it. IF YOU HELP I WILL BE VERY THANKFUL! sincerely, Braden
It seems there's no built-in keyboard shortcut for "Show Path Bar" in Finder. How can I create one?
I find that iTunes management of backing up Apps isn't ideal for a number of reasons. It will happily keep a copy of the most recent App in it's own area within the iTunes library, but it's archival process is very much against your "current" applications, without necessarily keeping a history of previous versions. There are various reasons for keeping previous versions of an App, from being able to simply revert when a new version is buggy or makes changes which you do not wish to use, to the App changing it's minimum requirements to need hardware which you just down own therefore making the App unusable. My current manner of archiving old iOS applications is both manual and therefore dysfunctional.
I currently use a code editor called Coda. It uses Bonjour to offer collaborative code editing over a local network.
I have installed HardwareGrowler, which displays a notification every time something is being mounted/ejected, connected/disconnected, etc. It tells me that at the start of when Software Update the Recovery HD is mounted and after something like 5 seconds it is ejected. Is this because it needs to check the version of your Recovery HD, or is it used for something else?
I don't like how in Finder, you can drag a folder and drop it anywhere, even overlapping on another folder. For example:
I'm running different applications for development purposes: Apache, MySQL, Tomcat and a couple of other products. I would like to set up the logging verbosity of all applications to debug, but when doing so, the disk gets a lot of activity. Therefore I would like to create a RAM disk, for example 512 megabytes and get it mounted at boot time, so I can set the path of the log files to the RAM disk. I looked into /etc/fstab, but there is a notice that this file is deprecated.
I have MacBook Pro 15-inch, early-2011. I want to upgrade my RAM from 4 GB (2+2) to 6 GB (2+4). Can I use Kingston RAM (Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 Bus SOD)? Or is there specific RAM made for Macs?
I AppleScript quite a bit and I'd like to start working with Xcode 4.3.2, so that I can expand the functionality of the things I'm writing. However, I have no idea how to use Xcode, nor how to AppleScript within it. Where can I find some good resources for learning how to AppleScript with Xcode 4.3.2?
Moving files manually and running a command line instruction repeatedly is inconvenient. Therefore I'm guessing I would need to used automator/AppleScript to execute this in two steps:
I have a iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2.1 which hit the ground too many times. The thing is that it doesn't ring when someone calls me but it play the sounds on some games or when I try to change the ringtones in Settings->Sounds menu. All the ringtones are the default ones.
The iPad calendar app only sends alerts two weeks ahead of time. I want to send an invite now for an event in August.
I am looking or a website, which will monitor the price of an application on the Mac App Store and send me an email notification when the price of the application drops. I have already tried appspy.com, but they did not send me email when the price dropped.
Is it possible to upgrade memory to 8 GB my model of MacBook? The manual says no, but on the web some people have made some videos about the upgrade. I don't know if any of them are fake.
I am looking for a Safari extension similar to Update Scanner (for Firefox) and Page Monitor (for Chrome). Any suggestions?
Using the open command from terminal I would like to be able to specify the chrome the specific chrome user to open the url with? Local Chrome users are outlined here. Essentially I have a local chrome user which I use for testing but the user which the local Chrome user which link opens with is the user which has the last selected window and jumping back and forth between chrome and the terminal often the link I am opening for testing end up opening in the chrome user which I use for practical purposes (not testing).
I'm trying so send photos from my Mac onto my iPhone. I don't want to sync whole folders.
Is there a way to find a list of available printers on a given server like you can on a PC? For example, my school hosts all of their printers on one server. When I run windows, I can do a run command for the address of the server (ex. \server.school.edu), and it will open up an explorer window with all of the printers that are available. However, when I try and connect to the same server via OS X, it simply asks what drives I would like to mount and there is nothing there.
I have been searching for a diary/journal application for the iPad that will encrypt the contents of the journal. Though there is no shortage of journal and note taking apps I have yet to find one that specifically mentions that the user content is encrypted while on the device. Does iOS provide APIs to allow for AES or similar encryption (Blowfish etc ...)? Is it difficult to encrypt user data within an iOS application?
When I print from safari on 10.6 and 10.7 sometimes the top half of the line is printed on one page and the bottom half is printed on the next. This seems to be independent of the printer as the pdf output is also chopped in pdf output. How can I fix this?
I have several MPEG files (technically "MPEG 2" I believe). I want to do some very simple editing, mostly deleting a few frames here or there. I do not want to have to re-encode or transcode the video, or do anything else which would decrease the quality of the source. The only software that I am aware of which does this sort of editing is MPEG_Streamclip, but surely there must be others.
I would like to know how to remove the songs with this shape next to their title because they seem to mess up the song play. When they appear the music app stops playing music.
I am playing a game that's called Bookworm on the Mac, and it runs in full screen mode. If I press ⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+4 to capture part of the screen, it won't work. Usually, I can press space and click to capture the whole window, but that doesn't work, either. ⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+3 works to capture the whole screen, but I'd like to find out how to take a partial screenshot.
I am playing a game called Bookworm on the Mac, and it starts as a full screen game, and the only way seems to be from its Options to choose not to run in full screen. What if a game doesn't provide such option, is there a way to make it become a window? (force the game to run in window mode instead of full screen).
Many a time and oft I get confused between close tab (⌘+w) and close (⌘+q) in Google Chrome, closing dozens of tabs at once. How do I specify a close prompt before closing multiple tabs on Chrome (version 18.0.1025.168)? I have tried chrome://flags/, and the wrench menues but found no such option.
Is it possible to determine if my phone is unlocked without buying another SIM card? I don't know where it was originally purchased or what the original terms of the phone service were. All my relatives are on the same network, so it doesn't help to borrow their SIM.
Here is the information about Flash plug-in in Google Chrome: It's able to load & stream videos on YouTube but the problem is, after about 10 seconds, the videos paused unexpectedly, even when it was buffered a lot more. When I tried to move the seeker to an other position, it continued to play but again, paused after 10 seconds. The video which I've encountered errors: *=URL=* Highly appreciate any helps.
I use my iPad a lot as I teach, showing the students slides, videos, etc. Having a words with friends, draw something, or email notification, especially with personal content in the first line, show up is always distracting.
My home share between my iPhone and Macbook is not working. My macbook music will show up on my iPhone but it doesn't work the other way around. Someone please help! I've tried basically everything.
On Windows and Ubuntu I can use ⌘+1 to start the first app in the Dock, ⌘+2 to start the second app in the Dock, etc. How can I achieve same effect in OS X? Is it some built-in functionality or third-party extension?
Hi i'm a newbie to Apple products, I installed MAMP on my Mac and now have no idea where the default folder where all the html files are put go to. Also new to web development. Anyone help?
I want to upgrade my OS to a new level so that I can download Google Chrome. My computer is pretty old and is running Version 10.4.11. The Mac store won't let me download Lion because I need a higher version than I already have. Where can I find that intermediate version so that I can then upgrade to Lion?
Recently I changed my HDD, and used SuperDuper to clone the drive. Each time I boot it up, however, Terminal and Chrome start once I hit the desktop, no matter what programs I had open when I last shut it down. At first I was worried it was booting to the same state again and again, but new files I create are still present on the system if I shut the computer down and start it up again. Is there any way I can stop my computer from booting up the same two programs as though nothing has changed since the clone to the new drive?
For prototyping / mockup needs, I want an iPad app where it's possible to draw, save and drop 'templates' on a canvas. Something similar to balsamiq mockups, where there is a collection of components that can be placed on canvas, but with the ability to create my own components by drawing and saving for later reuse.
Is it possible to open or convert a Mac Office 98 PowerPoint file (.pp)? I don't need to edit it, just either convert it to a more recent version or save as a pdf. I don't have access to anything before OS X, but I still have a PowerPC laptop. Recent versions of PowerPoint refuse to open it, and I haven't been successful finding a converter. Alternatively, is there a service that would do something like this?
I do use a SSD+HDD setup on MBP but from time to time Finder is trying to access files from the HDD and is waking it up. I'm not saying about usual cases, this happens even when I do nothing. Doing a lsof |grep /hd/, hd being the mount name of my hdd shows me that Finder is the cause. Also, I do not want to disable Finder for the entire drive, and btw, I heard that this could not be the solution.
Is there a way to sync between macs and iDevices in a way you specify which device has the most recent data? I mean, suppose I make some modifications to a contact using my Mac or I buy some apps for my iPhone using iTunes on the Mac. When I sync the iphone, the sync is always made as the iPhone is the priority. So, the app will not be transferred to the iPhone and not even the change on that contact. Some times I want the reverse to occur. How do I manage those situations?
I have an Automator service that adds selected photos to iPhoto. I would like it to also add a specific keyword to these photos. How can I do this? I found this question, but the only answer does not set the keywords via automator.
I should mention that I have no idea what I am doing :) So, sorry if this is confusing. I am trying to install Homebrew with this command using the directions here *=URL=* After installing i ran brew doctoras it said to, I got these errors: In trying to fix these errors, I ran git clean -n git clean -df git init then git clean -df again. So then when I ran brew doctoragain, it said -bash: /usr/local/bin/brew: No such file or directory. After that, I tried to reinstall Homebrew but now I get /usr/local/.git already exists!. So, how do I fix these problems and get Homebrew installed? Thanks in advance and sorry for my confusion.
You can assign the application in the dock to a desktop. But can you hide the application in the dock in the desktop where it is not assigned? That is, the dock in each desktop should show only the app icons that are assigned to that desktop. Possible? Within OS X or via an app?
Matrox Dualhead2go makes it possible to have 2 external screens for a Macbook Pro. It performs that by splitting a very large screen in two smaller screens. I am very worried as to how will the applications behave with that:
Just recently I ran into an issue where my network program couldn't bind to a port because it was already in use. I opened the activity monitor and realized it (named "server") was already running from previously, even though I had closed the window and it was supposedly terminated. Quit or Force Quit on the process do nothing. I even restarted the computer but it was still there! This hasn't happened with my program before. I even typed in the terminal kill 4517 and nothing happened. Help?
I want to get statistics of key and shortcut usage to remap them lately. Is there any software or convenient methods?
I'm considering buying an iPad to read comics, so I am looking in to my options for purchasing digital comics. I see Barnes and Noble sells "Nook Comics", and their site indicates these can be read on the color Nook tablets and the Nook app for Android.
I need to reformat my 2007 OSX as it is now returning kernal errors. I want to install everything fresh but I have a lot of software and don't want to sit here making a list of everything installed as it is all unorganized. For windows I usually accomplish this with Belarc Advisor: *=URL=* Is there something similar, whether a method or an app that will allow me to do this on a mac?
My question is as title stated. Why mac osx user directory located at /Users, but not /home? Because /home is the default directory of user's home of Unix and Linux.
Is there an easy way to lock my mac and then immediately sleep, all in one command? I know I can show the login window and then choose the sleep button, but I'd prefer one step rather than two (and a wait in between). There's also the Lock Screen command in the Keychain menu, but that (stupidly) offers no sleep button that I can see. Could a script work for this, or would the script also get stuck after one command? Update: Forgot to mention that I don't want to always have to enter my password after waking up from sleep, only after I explicitly lock the computer.
With the latest Lion security update, Mac OS X 10.7.3, Apple has accidentally turned on a debug log file outside of the encrypted area that stores the user’s password in clear text. How can I determine whether my system if affected by this issue? If so, can I work around it, and also determine which users’ passwords have been exposed?
I have installed an NFS File Server on Ubuntu 11.10, and that is working well. I am only able to connect to the NFS server from my Mac with this command:
In my computer at work, my bash shell remembers history from previous sessions, even if I just opened a new terminal. In my computer at home, this doesn't happen. I have the same OS 10.6.8 in both machines and I don't have any history related setting in .bash_profile. How could I set this up on my home computer so it remembers history across sessions?
OK, I have a very interesting case. I have a custom DNS server that is vending out IP addresses to varying servers in my test network. If I use dig, nslookup, or host, it tells me that it's properly resolving the IPs. If I ping or curl the hostname, it resolves to the actual external internet IP.
or: Does enabling auto-login in OS X add any additional security risks? How does this auto-login work? I'm not a security expert, but I imagine that such a procedure would require the password to be stored somewhere in plain text, right? But then this specific location could be exploited by malicious software. Where is the password for the auto-login stored? The setting I'm referring to is located at: Users & Groups → Login Options → Automatic login
I need to be able to generate a kerberos ticket for my MacBook Pro each time the machine restarts. I can manually run KINIT with my credentials to generate a ticket. What is the best way to automate that process?
I have a 2011 Macbook Air and I find that the ambient light sensor does a great job of setting an appropriate backlight brightness level. It's particularly good at not blinding you when you open up the machine in a dark room. However what I noticed is that it tends to set the keyboard backlight in much the same way as the screen backlight, that is to say it turns it up when ambient light levels are high.
How is possible to add new spellchecking languages to Office 2011 for Mac? I am referring to languages that are not listed in the relatively small (~20) default list of languages.
There was a question about removing the Flashback malware from your OS X machine, but I'm still not clear on what it does. What exactly does the Flashback malware do once it is installed on your Mac?
I need to install a font in iPad2, and Safari must be able to use it. Is it possible? Solution:
My iPad 2 (32gb) is about one year old and he is getting very slow. I've tried restarting the iPad and quitting all apps but with no real success. There is about 5 GB of free storage space. Any other ideas on how to speed things up?
By default Safari has Java disabled, but places a “plugin content” placeholder or something similar where the Java Applet would be. However, if you enabled Java and then disable it again Safari no longer adds placeholders, opting to just remove the Applet from the flow of the webpage entirely. Is there any way to restore Safari’s default placeholder?
There is lots of advice that suggests using a shared Apple ID for purchasing things (so that all devices using that Apple ID for purchasing can access those purchases) and to then use a separate Apple ID for iCloud for each "user". This makes perfect sense to me, but what should be done if there is currently 1 Apple ID (my account) that is used for all the purchases and also is used for my iCloud, and I want to add another user to the mix? What problems will there be if my Apple ID is used for the purchases on all devices and also used for my iCloud account for my user, while a different Apple ID is used for iCloud for a different user? Note: The places this would apply to would be my iPhone, another iPhone, and 2 user accounts on an iMac (one for me and another for the other user)
May 7 02:36:17 echo mcook[70156]: mcook cron job PATH is /Users/mcook/local/bin:/Users/mcook/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin:.:/Users/mcook/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11/bin
I have Mac mini (mid 2010) server running Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b) At some unspecified point in time (which could have coincided with the installation of Logitech Media Server to serve a SqueezeBox in the next room, but I can't prove that), all the icons in the System Preferences turned into the default icon of System Preferences itself.
My MacBook Air w/Lion is getting sent in for repairs, and IT gave me a MacBook Pro w/Snow Leopard. I have a current backup of my Air, and I'd like to get this MBP to run Lion with all my apps, files, settings, etc...
It's packaged into every Adobe CS install I've ever done, and I never use it (directly?) so it's a waste of space for me. Can I kill it? (Will it cause any harm?) What's the best way to trash it?
~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Storage can get admittedly huge. I can't tell its contents due to the folder scheme. What are its criteria for storing things? Spotify also invariably stores more than I asked it to (in its settings). I saw that it used to cache local music (already on my hard drive, copied again), does it still do that? What else is in here? Is this remnants of a premium-only offline cache, or is Spotify caching everything I listen to anyway?
I updated to iOS 5.1.1 today, and now the voicemail button on my phone calls Sprints old, audio voicemail system. I no longer have access to visual voicemail.
Keynote uses the ►ll, ►►, and ◄◄ keys to play/pause, go to previous slide, and next slide, respectively. This causes the keys to no longer control iTunes.
I use the "My Wish List" feature in the iTunes Store to keep track of music, movies, and apps that I discover via various RSS feeds, curating them for later purchase. Can I view my "Wish List" in either the "App Store" or "iTunes" apps in iOS? If so, where can this feature be found?
I recently noticed that when I fullscreen an app, it opens as a new space all the way to the right, after all my desktops. I don't think this is how it worked before -- I seem to recall that it used to open the fullscreen app immediately to the right of my current desktop.
I tried to find some files in a network volume mounted in OS X Lion over SMB using Spotlight. Didn't work. But, when I tried the same search from OS X Snow Leopard it worked perfectly.
I have created a new iTunes account. When I open iTunes and sign in with my new account, it says I need to review my account. After doing so and filling in all requirements for my account, the following error pops up all the time. Please contact iTunes support to complete this transaction. How can I get rid of whatever condition that causes this message?
I've just recently switched from Android to Apple, and I'm wondering how I can make my Alarm Clock volume louder. I was late to work today because it didn't wake me up.
My kid dropped my first generation iPhone and now several parts of the display only show grey. Looks like some pixels died. There are no cracks on the screen and touch works in the areas that are grey.
I've recently switched from Android to an iPhone 4S, and while it's great, there's a few annoying issues. One of them is when I'm viewing long web pages. On my Android I could flick the screen and it would scroll at speed, allowing me to quickly get to the bottom of a long page with minimal finger strain.
As the title says, I would like to understand if iOS devices (iPhone, iPad mainly) support the IEEE802.11e (IEEE802.11-2007) protocol? This protocol enhancement enables QOS support on WiFi.
I need to access my iCloud email from a command line. Is there a command line client for Mac OS X (and/or Linux and/or Unix) that can connect to Apple's (I assume it is IMAP) servers?
My personal vCard has multiple email addresses. When I use the autofill feature from Safari I always get the wrong email address filled into the web form. How can I get Safari autofill to use the right email address?
Let me know if you have had this specific scenario or one very similar to it. I can leave things as-is and restore files as I find them missing, but I'd rather just get to the previous state. This should be totally possible, as these two backups (plus dropbox, forgot to mention) represent 100% of the machine's previous state.
I am trying to install Wunderlist (pick any other App), the App Store asks for my password which is fine. But once I key in my password, I get this prompt. Security Info Required
When my mom creates a new message, she is able to pick my contact and Message turns to iMessage and "Send" turns from (hulk) green to (blue). However, it fails and comes up with the red exclamation mark. Any ideas what could be the problem?
I'm asking at Webapps SE, and not e.g. Apple SE, because I'm pretty sure the iPhone app doesn't have any related settings. The only FB notification setting I see is this one:
I have an AirPort Express linked to an ADSL modem with Ethernet cable. Statement 1: ADSL modem is set up as a router with DHCP, so any cable connection to it will provide an Internet access. If one just plug the cable from modem directly to laptop everything is fine, Internet works, no visible dropouts.
Whenever I try to open a new terminal window in iTerm, it closes right away after displaying this: Does anyone know what is causing this? Thanks! The terminal is working fine The default command for new iTerm sessions is set to Login shell
My iPhone's lcd is crashed last night and I want to get a new one. I just wanted to know what people's though are on normal iPhone vs refurb iPhone. What's the real difference?
With every Mac OS X I've ever used, hitting command-backtick (`) cycled to the next window. I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 (on top of a perfectly fresh 10.6), and command-backtick does nothing at all. Did this feature go away?
I have a cable tv settop box capable of recording the MPEG-TS bit stream on to a USB-drive similar to what I can do with EyeTV on my Mac. Unfortunately I have found that XBMC and VLC are the only OS X tools which can cope with these files, and I would like to have something simple which can convert this into a normal MPEG-PS file compatible with QuickTime for further processing. I am well versed in Terminal.app, and can compile from source. What should I use for this?
Every now and then, some application (usually TextEdit) starts showing dialogs like this when I try to close or save any document: The document “2.txt” could not be autosaved.
How can I hide the address bar in Google Chrome? I found this article but I am unable to find a solution for macOS. Ideally, I would like all toolbars to disappear similar to how they do in QuickTime. see images:
I've seen advice on an per-application basis, but is there a standard approach like Add/Remove Programs in Windows?
I have a 3gs with iOS 5.1. I backed up my data, and wanted to restore to my new iPhone 4, with iOS 5.0.1. Somehow, I was not given an option to restore my backup. Is it possible to restore backup to a device that has older firmware?
I have an Early 2011 13" Macbook Pro (i5 2.3Ghz). I've upgraded it to have 8GB 1333 ram and an OCZ Vertex II (120GB) SSD. There are a couple of heavy lifting apps on my mac that take roughly around 10 seconds to launch (WebStorm being one of them). I was hoping that having an SSD in the machine would increase performance (and it has) but I'm still too impatient for these waits. I'm considering installing a second OCZ Vertex III (120GB) SSD into the superdrive slot and configuring it in a RAID0 in hopes of increasing disk performance even further.
Is it possible to import samples into the iPhone version of Garageband? I have see that its possible to do this on the iPad & mac version but I am not sure if I can do it on the iPhone.
I am developing an ipad app and wish to publish it to the appstore. The problem is that the application currently is not very impressive as it's still in ongoing development.
When I install software from a .dmg, the verification window pops up, which I suspect is normal. When it's done, though, the Finder window - you know, the "Drag to Applications to install" box - pops up under everything else. This is crazy-annoying. After reading this other thread explaining how to craft a DMG with a script to surface the window, I now believe this is the normal behavior on Lion. How might I "fix things" so I get a DMG to pop up without needing to reprogram each one?
On OSX Lion, iTunes keeps prompting me to enter my username and password to "sign in to enable this computer for automatic downloads." In the past I tried checking the box to remember my password but it kept forgetting, so now I just disabled the "always check for available downloads" option in Prefs -> Store. It still prompts me. It drives me crazy. Is there a way to get it to stop prompting for my password, so it will just behave like a well-behaved offline music library manager, and only ask me for my username and password when I open the iTunes store?
When I open two Lion-supported-fullscreen apps in dual-monitor mode, one monitor shows one app while the other monitor shows a "fabric" pattern/texture. The other fullscreen app is available by swipe or Mission Control as another view, but I'd prefer to have the two fullscreen apps up simultaneously (and no cloth pattern texture on the other screen). Is there a way to customize my setup natively or with apps to accommodate? Moreover, is there a way to disable the second screen's "fabric" pattern/texture altogether (showing the desktop or other apps in that view)?
I have a 27" iMac (2009) running the OS X 10.6.8 and using the Apple Wireless Keyboard. Since around March or early April, I noticed that the function keys (F1-F9) have stopped working. I think it started with one of the recent software updates.
I recently purchased this projector that has HDMI, VGA, and S-video inputs. Also, I have one of the first versions of the MacBook Pro, from around 2007/8. Currently I have connected both devices vía VGA using the Apple DVI to VGA adapter. The thing is that even at 1440x900, I have trouble making out text. This is an 1152x870 picture taken with iPhone:
I haven't been successful getting iCloud to work with Outlook 2010 on my Windows 7 PC. My iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are iCloud synced. Is it hopeless to get all 3 together: iPhone, iPad and Outlook 2010? I get into iCloud on the PC, start the sync with Contacts and it fails. Should I just give up on PC/iCloud and just use iCloud for the 4S and iPad?
I am looking for an Automator action (or an app with Automator support) that can adjust the volume on audio files (something like set to 150% of input file volume), preferably free.
I know how to use the menu items using only the keyboard. Is there anyway I can access the icons in the top right as well?
I’m using Mac OS X Lion with iCloud. My address book ‘lives’ on iCloud and I’ve gat a number of groups in the address book. Under Snow Leopard I used Automator to export addresses from a group using the following actions: Get Selected Address Book Groups (Get selected “groups”) Get Contact Information (Export Format “Spreadsheet (tabs)” with all fields selected, and Add Labels checked) New Text File (Save as: “addresses.txt”, where “Desktop”) – this worked like a charm, but since I got to use Lion, I only get the header filled with the labels, no addresses.
I am wondering if it is legal and/or possible to buy a copy of Final Cut Pro X and then share the disk and the cost with five other people?
My /Users folder is on the boot drive. On another drive, I have a folder (F) that I want to protect by providing no access to other users. How can that be done without encrypting F?
As it said, i recently got a new apple mac and I want to backup my old iPhone onto it because i have a new iPhone 4S which i would like to get up and running. I have all of my music and photos onto an external hard drive but i don't really want to loose my contacts, messages, apps, calendar entries etc.
I have: a 3D projector with: HDMI, VGA, S-VIDEO one of the first MacBook Pros, with a DVI port (with an ATI X1600) DVI to HDMI cable (and a DVI to VGA) Active glasses, not the red/green (anaglyph) ones I would like to be able to watch 3D movies being played on the MacBook and watched on the projector. Question is: Is the hardware I have enough?
I do a lot of terminal work, and today had the experience of typing Before finding out that I did actually need fileInQuestion.txt. If I'd deleted in the GUI then I would have just gotten it out of the Trash. I'd like to know if it's possible to overload 'rm' in the Terminal in such a way that it sends the file/files to the Trash on the way out.
I use two keyboard layouts (input sources) in my everyday work - the standard US and Russian-PC. In System Preferences/Language & Text/Input Sources I have activated the "Allow different input source for each document" option. Incidentally, I also have English as the top language in System Pereferences/Language & Text/Languages, even though that is not relevant to this particular problem. I also have Input Menu enabled at login window and experience no problems with that.
I understand that PDF reader in iPad can be a security loophole for virus to get through; but beyond that, how easy ( or hard, or even possible ) is for a virus to sneak through iPad safari browser? Any well publicized exploit concerning it?
The local DNS servers, where I work, stink. They're absurdly slow and often completely fail to resolve web domains during certain periods of heavy sunspot activity.
Is it possible to set the text-size and possibly other formatting of the actual values/formula input field in Apple iWork Numbers? Comparing these two screenshots, it seems possible to set the size of the text to something larger. Too small text-size for my taste:
If I take a screenshot with Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 + Space, then I get one of the two images: Either way the saved image is surrounded by the shadow halo. I could then edit it out by hand (using Preview) to discard the shadow, or I could use Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 and try to pinpoint the boundary by hand, but neither lets me get a pixel-perfect boundary easily. Is there a convenient way to save a window without its shadow?
Now that Photo Stream lets you delete pictures, I find myself frequently deleting pictures from both Photo Stream and the Camera Roll manually. Is there any way to easily delete the same picture from both locations at once?
Normally when you press the top status bar on the iPhone, it will scroll the main list component all the to the top. When you are on a call, though, the status bar becomes a bit bigger and when you click it, it goes to the phone app. Is there any way to scroll all the way up on whatever page you are looking at without having to manually drag the page while you are on a phone call?
This one drives me crazy... If you search in Apple Mail, you likely end up way back in time in your list of emails. When I am ready to read new email I have to scroll, scroll, scroll to the top of the list again. There HAS to be a key command or something I am missing to instantly jump to the top of the list. Is there?
I'm starting to use Photoshop CS 6, coming from CS 3. The older version has an option to use multiple windows (one per document) with floating palettes. Is this arrangement available in Photoshop CS 6?
I am using Skype and have noticed that the tint is kind of strange and the contrast is sort of off. How do I change the settings for the MacBook Pro's built-in webcam?
I am unable to ping outside of my mac from the Terminal, and yet the internet connection (as seen from Safari) is otherwise just fine. Where do I start to debug this issue?
I know that Apple charges fees after accepting the device (a fee for every device sold). Are there any costs associated with enrolling to the Apple MFI program?
Is it possible to do that? I currently activate the text-to-speech feature by hitting CMD+SHIFT+S. However, while reading textbooks, I sometimes need to go slower to increase understanding, or pause. How do I achieve that? Thanks!
Lets say the WiF network uses LDAP to authenticate users with a user and password and the users login to the OS using the same LDAP credentials. Is there a way that this WiFi connection can be always connected, even when no one is logged in after powering on?
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups, and recently my iMac has started to randomly eject the hard drive, preventing backups. It tends to happen while the display goes to sleep, but I have my Energy Saver settings set to not put the hard drives to sleep, and the computer is set to never go to sleep.
Installing development tools is not too hard these days, with the likes of Homebrew - *=URL=* ... So I thought I would try to write a script with the homebrew installation and various tools, which I could use whenever I set up a new Mac. Some people have already done something like this, see some examples here: http://www.justinball.com/2011/12/03/script-your-development-environment-setup-on-your-new-mac/
I know that keeping the battery of a MacBook Air in a hot environment is a bad idea. But sometimes I have to leave it in a hot car. Are there any recommendations as to what to do in this kind of scenario?
Right now the iPad and iPhone can sync with each other for any Notes added or edited, so one note added on the iPad will go to the iPhone automatically, and I think this is done by sync'ing with the Gmail account. How about when using the Mac, if there is additional info, is there a way to add it to the note on the Mac (or on PC)?
I have a relatively new iphone 4s and suddenly the other day when i rotate the phone nothing on the device (pictures, etc) don't rotate anymore. What is the best way to figure out what is going on? I tried rebooting the device but that didn't seem to fix the issue. any suggestions ?
SoundFlower can let us play the system's audio to the SoundFlower 2 channel and record with this SoundFlower 2 channel, so QuickTime on Mac OS X Lion and record exactly what the system is playing for a game play. And it works for 16 channels as well.
I just put a bunch of songs on my iPod, and most of them worked. But now there’s two more that I need to download and when I drag and drop the files to the "Music" section of my iPod, the songs show up there, but they have that symbol next to them that suggests they are still syncing, and they are gray. But it's been like that for like three hours. So I know they are not actually syncing. Why is it doing this and how can I fix it?
Related to this question: I have used several accounts to purchase/get for free a lot of iOS Apps. I'd like to sort them by account that was used to purchase them, since clicking through all those Apps with the Information Window is infeasible. The problem I really want to solve is the following: Sometimes, there are updates for apps purchased from other country stores (other accounts) - these show up in iTunes, but only as nonzero number next to the Apps Category.
If you think "designing a chest of drawers", that's about the level of sophistication that I'm looking for. What TextEdit.app is for words, I want for 3D objects. SketchUp is almost what I'm looking for, except it's kind of awkward and not entirely Mac-like, and to do any CSG you need the $500 "Pro" version (which I might get eventually, but it seems like there could well be something better and cheaper). I'd almost be happy with something like POVRAY: the CSG is nice, the price can't be beat, but unfortunately it lacks any interactivity. * (It involves whiteboards, paperboard and glue, and listening to old Yes albums while trying to visualize how things will fit together in space.)
Is there any way I can restrict my iphone from using the internet? Basically all apps should be blocked from using the internet, in one go, but I should still have the provision to make/receive phonecalls/messages.
I've just installed Sparrow on my brand new iMac. I found the Aliases pane in Sparrow:
My Apple Remote was not working with my iMac which is running 10.7.4. When I attempted to pair the remote to the computer, by holding down the menu and the next track buttons, the following symbol appears in the center of my screen.
I was wondering if anyone has experience with Sparrow mail app? I've just downloaded Sparrow and it seems to do something funny. First the volume thing self disabled and when I tried to flip the screen to another screen back and forth, it enables itself again then it disable again and like that on and off for some period of times and I've tried to restart it like 5 times and now the volume problem seems OK now.
I've received a huge iMessage and now the App hangs. I can't remove the App, because it's only possible via the menu item which is not responding. Removing ~/Documents/iChat/* and ~/Library/Messages/* didn't help either. Any ideas of how to remove it or at least its accounts?
I am new to mac and was following a video and typed export PATH="$HOME/opt/git/bin:$PATH" I believe this messed up my path and I am not able to install MySQL now. When I tried to install homebrew I get -bash: brew: command not found. I tried restarting the terminal and I am still getting this error.
I have a 2011 13-inch entry-level MacBook Pro, which was upgraded almost straight away to Lion. I consider myself a careful, conscientious user, not installing things I don't need. However, recently, my MacBook Pro has started taking a very long time to wake from sleep.
Does anyone have any idea why Gimp is crashing here and how I can use it to add text layers again? I need to get some work done here and it just crashes as soon as I have selected a font and tried to add some text. I also wonder if the PS and Gimp errors are related.
I've got a lot of bookmarks in Safari on my iMac. How do I get the same bookmarks show up in Safari on my MBA? Both using latest OS X with iCloud. I have checked Bookmarks in the iCloud settings, but no sync is taking place.
I have a program that quits after a time with "too many open files". How can I trace which files are opened and closed? I know I can set this limit a higher value, but that would only defer the problem. I remember using a program like dtruss or dtrace for that purpose but I can't remember how I invoked it and --help gave to much confusion. I run that program with a wrapper script based on nodejs, so I need to follow the child processes. Question: what is the best strategy to find out which files (descriptors) are opened and which are closed?
I didn't accidentally drag and drop my desktop folder into this folder (as .tsclient is hidden), I never type in an admin password for something if it pops up without exact knowledge of why it's there, and I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary so I have no clue why and how it moved. But it has, and I want to move it back!
Is there any way to use the Mac App Store without the administrator password? IE change it to install the app at ~/Applications instead of /Applications?
I upgraded my MacBook Pro (Early 2009) with a Samsung 830 SSD with 256GB and an iFixit hard drive bay. After cloning my harddrive with Carbon Copy Cloner to the SSD I put the SSD into the MacBook Pro and booted from it. It runs smooth, but Software Update and iTunes (and other apps) can't connect to their servers. Even Dropbox failed, while Google Drive gets a connection after reinstallation. Browsing and mailing havn't problems, too. Someone could point out a possible reason and fix for that?
I removed HWNetMgr, HWPortDetect and StartOuc startup items from /Library/StartupItems. They were from a Huawei 3G modem. In blog it was said that this would speed up my shutdown time. Now shutdown goes from 10 down to 1 second.
I am getting some foreign language (Portuguese?) items appearing in my Safari 5.1.5 context menu, when I right-click on an element in a page (see below). My OSX 10.7.3 language is set to English. I have only 2 plugins enabled (AdBlock and UK Search), neither of which has caused problems before or coincided with this appearing. Why is this happening, and how do I remove or translate these menu entries?
If I try to delete an event on iCal, it offers me these options: Cancel Delete and Notify What if I want to delete without notifying? I'm running iCal 5.0.2 on OS X 10.7.3 using an Exchange account. Edit: Using an Exchange account.
I just want to add my own list of Search Domains but without overriding the ones returned by the DHCP? As anyone would imagine I already tried to add them to Network > Advanced > DNS but adding them there it will override the ones from DHCP, which is not my intend. It would be perfect if I could add them after the ones form DHCP, but I would also accept a solution that adds them after. 2nd try would be /etc/resolv.conf but the message from the file is as clear as it can be:
Is it possible to add a flag to a bash alias you create yourself? e.g.
How can I access the iCloud backup app data, i.e. the app data from my iPhone? E.g., I would like to make a local copy of it on my computer (without accessing the iPhone directly, i.e. really just the iCloud backup app data).
I am a kind of person who likes to keep their phone out without a case most of the time (except for outdoor sporting trips), so I have a full body invisible shield which does NOT work well with any cases I try because of the added size on the antenna sides. The best solution I found was the Defender OtterBox, but that renders the invisible shield ruined after applying the case. Does anyone know of cases designed with full body shields in mind?
I have the Require password 4 hours after sleep ... option in Security and Privacy System Preferences set and am running a script with launchd to suspend my session at a certain time of day (see this question for details). The result is (when the time span and specific time of day overlap) is that my account is doubly-locked, one for each action, requiring password entry twice. Is there a way to check (for example in a shellscript or Applescript) whether or not my account is already locked before calling /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend command?
At work I normally use a Windows laptop. My group recently bought a Mac mini to start playing with mobile. A monitor was not purchased. Instead it was deemed that we would access the mini with ultraVNC viewer.
Apparently this option is now gone in the keyboard settings on OSX Lion, or maybe it does not appear because I am using a Dell keyboard  Now, I am not particularly concerned about it. If I press F12, I get the dashboard. The problem is that I have no keys to set the volume anymore. How can I set the volume, considering I can't create a keyboard shortcut (there's no menu name to bind) ?
For the past few days I've been trying to move my iTunes library to an external hard drive, so that when I get a new PC in the future (as I'm doing right now), it's not a nightmare to get everything onto the new machine. This, of course, means that it's a nightmare to get it all onto the external drive.
Can I make watch me do it feature work in the background? so that it doesnt take my mouse controle.
On Lion, if I am in Chrome and click on an alert from Outlook that says I received an e-mail, I get a new window from Outlook with that e-mail on top of Chrome (I can still see Chrome immediately under my Outlook e-mail window). When I close the e-mail, I would expect the OS to re-focus on the Chrome window (since that's where I came from), but in fact it pulls the Outlook window out and gives it focus instead.
I want to have ll as a shortcut for ls -ll. How can I add it to my Termianl application? I use iTerm as my primary Terminal application. I wish there was a single line command solution for it.
To make an alias for the Terminal in OS X, you can either put the aliases in .bash_profile or .bashrc. What is the difference between the two and why would I choose to put aliases in one and not the other?
I noticed that in the HTML of icloud.com there are meta tags for creating a webapp on iOS devices. However it is impossible to get to just icloud.com on the iPhone, instead it redirects you to icloud.com/iphone_welcome.
I'm trying to play around with vectors in Grapher.app, but I'm getting an error when I try to A: multiply two vectors (specified as a vertical matrix) together, and B: multiply a vector by a scalar value. Here's my dilemma in picture form: Any ideas?
Recently I've been getting this error in Chrome when I try to access Gmail or other google sites. In Firefox it's
When I have a monitor plugged in at work (dual monitor) and I go to About this Mac -> More Info it says Graphics Radeon HD6770. But when I unplug the monitor and just use the laptop display (17") It says Intel graphics. Is this normal? This is a brand new machine.
I've started virtualizing Windows 7 on my Mac and I've realized 4GB of ram simply isn't enough for listening to music, surfing the web, virtualizing Windows, and running a compiler all at once. The first thing I did was look on Apple's site and see what specs I needed to look for..I bought my iMac in the spring of last year so the specs for new ram are as follows: 1333MHz DDR3 (PC3-10600)
As you can see whenever an iOS app tries to authenticate me with Facebook the dialog is in Indonesian (I think). I've never set anything to that language, and in iOS and on Facebook my language is set to English. I figure Masuk is something like "allow" but I don't know what kind of permissions I'm granting the app, so I would like to get these dialogs in English.
I had that option before and the recent update messed all my settings up:( now I can't hide my texts. I don't want people at work seeing my texts. I have my phone locked but everyone still can read them. I also don't have the option hide preview which was there before!
If my Mac Air has been water damaged, can I still retrieve the data from the flash drives even though the machine will not start at all?
One of the neat things about OmniFocus is that you can add tasks to it by calling omnifocus:///add?name={query} from a browser, or launcher (like Alfred or LaunchBar). I'd like to know what other functions there are to call for it, and other apps as well.
However if I copy the edit command into /usr/local it won't launch textwrangler. I can see the "edit" process running but text wranger isn't launched.
The item image212_tmp1987326278 can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted. I don't know how that file appeared on my desktop but as I try to delete it I get the above error. Does not let me rename, move it or use "Get info" either.
I've developed an iPhone app for the company I work for. At the moment there is no need to update or bring out any new apps. So I thought I could let my apple developer license expire and extend the license when we need it again.
I want to run Diablo (Windows/Mac game) on OS 9 but without using the CD. After installation, the user is required to insert the disc for the game to start. Making a .dmg image didn't work (as suggested by a website), as OS 9 doesn't recognise the format. Anyone knows something that might work?
I'm trying to make a book with iBooks Author on my Mac by customizing the "Contemporary" template. When I switch the view mode from landscape to portrait, the section title color is red - I want it green! Since I can edit the section title in landscape mode I can't understand why I'm not able to edit its color as well. Am I missing something?
I have hundreds of ebooks stored on an external drive of mine. I don't want them on my MacBook Pro because I don't want them taking up space due to the fact that I don't read ebooks on my Mac. I just bought the new iPad so I can read these books. In iTunes, I tried creating folders to put the books into in an attempt to organize them properly but they all just appear in the same huge list within the iBooks app on the iPad and I have to manually create collections and put the books in there.
I have created a file exchange permission that both OS X Lion and Ubuntu 12.04 can write to and read from. This partition is formatted as...
In a Lion Server (10.7.3 and 10.7.4 tried) system with multiple drives attached to an HPT SATA controller, there is some process that keeps accessing the hard disk drives exactly every 20 seconds. As a result the drives will never sleep (and power down). The drive access pattern is not in parallel, but sequential within a 1 - 2 second time frame. Resolution Even when the disks are unmounted and ejected by diskutil, the disk access continues at a rate of 3 times a minute.
I changed my Apple ID, and I have to confirm my old mail @me.com to my new id. But the *=URL=* will always redirect to "find my phone" (maybe some issue with my last iPod touch that was stolen).
Is there any way for a Mac user currently running Snow Leopard or Lion to check, maybe from the Terminal command-line, whether some application downloaded from the net was digitally signed with an Apple issued Developer ID? If so, what might be the benefits for a Mac user to do such checking now? Apple has been encouraging Mac developers to digitally sign their Mac applications with an Apple issued Developer ID, which Apple announced will be used by the Mac OS at some point in the future.
This problem happens occasionally frequently with my Macbook Pro. When I plug in one or more external monitors, the main monitor goes black. When I try Detect Displays it does not register the monitor. I assume that this is something to do with a docking port or something like that, but I have no idea how to fix it.
I am trying to stream with ffmpeg a webcam. I am on a MBP mid-'09 running Lion. I know that you can not have direct access to the iSight (Although open-cv seems to be able to...) so I have an external camera. I know that the camera works, since I use it on Linux and that OS X recognizes it since it pops up in Photo Booth. I am looking for something to the effect of /dev/video0 but can't seem to find any.
I have a a MacBook Air that works fine except popping up a shutdown dialog if left untouched for a couple of seconds (seems to be a consistent duration around 3 seconds or so). Hitting Cancel or Esc prevents the shutdown.
Could you link to data in one spreadsheet from another using Numbers for iPad?
I have an item in iCal that shows in grey rather than the (blue) colour of the calendar it belongs to. It also has an interrupted border rather than a flawless border. What does that mean? Update: It shows up in the correct colour (blue) on the Web interface.
The Mac OS X Internals book states that the maximum process identifier is 30,000 and after that the kernel will start re-using pids. But checking on my own system, via: ps a | grep ps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
I don't want my computer play any sound through it's own speaker during work hours in weekdays. But I want to be able to listen to music using my headphones. I guess something can be done with Automator to schedule a bunch of commands in order to do this.
I have a (non-Thunderbolt) 17" MacBook Pro connected to an external display. I want to project both screens (from MBP and external displays) each onto separate screens.
I just got an iPad (not an iPad 2) and I would like to see the list of messages in the Mail app full screen and not just in the side bar, like they are now. Is this possible?
I have Lion 10.7 and Windows 7 64 bit (Boot Camp) installed on my Mac Mini. They both boot fine. But when I tried to run Windows 7 from Parallel using existing Boot Camp, I encountered problem stating PRL_ERR_DISK_FILE_OPEN_ERROR (0x80021014). After some googling, I found it is caused by GPT and MBR misaligned and can be corrected by using gptsync tool of rEFIt. I installed rEFIt in my Lion partition and Partition Inspector shows a report with GPT and MBR misaligned. The problem is when I boot Mac mini in rEFIt and run gptsync in shell it only shows So...
When my wife's 2012 macbook pro is doing it's photostream sync, it slows my internet connection to a crawl and gives me 500+ pings in various video games. If I knew the ports that Photostream uses, I could set up a QOS rule on my DD-WRT router- what ports does it use? Another possible solution, is there a setting in IPhoto or the photostream agent to tell it to stop using all available bandwidth to sync? Thanks!
For some reason, I keep getting an error when I try to install an OTA update on my iPad. The update downloads without any issue, and I have over 1 GB of space free. I am currently facing the issue with the iOS 5.1.1 update. Screenshot of error below.
It seems that all disk operations are 50x slower. Reboot time = 15 minutes. Dekstop freezes every time disk accessed.
I wanted to have more free space on my MacBook Air’s internal hard drive, so I moved drives iTunes media folders (i.e. Books, Mobile Applications, Movies, Podcasts and TV Shows) to my external hard drive. Then I used symlinks to link the old locations to the new ones. Accessing my media is not a problem in any way, but when it comes to updates or new podcast episodes this will simply not work out.
I can share my Ethernet Internet connection to WiFi clients using System Preferences, but I'm wondering if/how I can make that network secure (WPA) and not broadcast the network name?
I just enabled FileVault2 with my personal account. After the necessary reboot my user is not able to unlock the disk which just started to be encrypted. The only way to get access to my computer is to quickly lock in with another user account to unlock the hard drive, log back out and now log in to my normal account.
Whenever I want to share something on Facebook using another app on iPad, the Facebook login page show in Chineese. I can change this by choosing English at the bottom of this login page but after I login the following pages would be still in Chineese. How can I change the default language?
I wonder why the sum of all processes' real memory listed in Activity Monitor is not equal to (MUCH less than) the used memory?
It only seems to occur when I move the laptop quickly or if the computer gets bumped for some reason. I put a bigger HDD in the laptop, could that be the problem?
Whenever I connect to the company network, I can see the ping latency go from 20 ms to 600 ms for the ADSL leg. And is not just from my machine, but for every machine in the house. Which should mean the problem is in the Airport. I have of cause been looking at all the usual sites, but cannot find anything similar reported before... Without the VPN connection: With the VPN connection:
I have these stats, but is the system really using almost 4GB?  This Inactive memory... Can't I use it? How should I interpret these stats?
It should block only TCP packets to that IP and reply with a RST packet. It seems to be blocking the packets properly, but instead of returning an RST packet, it is silently dropping the outgoing packets. This is causing the app to hang while it waits for the connection attempt to timeout.
I have an iPhone 4S with plenty of space on it but I keep lots of voicemails...to the point where sometimes people can't leave me a message because my voicemail is full. Is this an iPhone thing that I can adjust or is it strictly a Verizon thing? Most of the voicemails I keep are of my kids...and I know I can save those off as audio files...but I'd rather just use the space on my phone.
I don't want a digital asset manager but rather I'm looking for a Mac app that has similar features of iPhoto/Picasa but let's me work at the file level instead of a separate database. I tried iPhoto '11 with the "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" unchecked which takes me most of the way there but what I would like is that when I change a photo, I want that change applied to the photo file instead of on a duplicate. And I don't want to Export to the file to see changes to my photos files. I have 1000s of photos already on my drive organized the way that I prefer and I would I would like the photo files on my drive to be the master copy. I was used the "Windows Live Photo Gallery" app which provided core photo management and editing capabilities. Is there something similar on the Mac?
On my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.4, there seems to be a keyboard issue. I first noticed this problem when I tried to use the default keybinding to execute mark-sexp and query-replace-regexp in emacs, which are bound respectively to C-M-@ and C-M-% by default. As I use emacs a lot, I really miss these two powerful features a lot. As I don't have experience dealing with terminal types etc, I did some simple debugging within emacs:
I am trying to use afconvert to convert a .mp3 to .m4r. I am entering the following: However, this gives me an error:
With Lion, I know that, in order to change the lock screen background image, I have to change In particular, I used an image with the same size as the resolution of my MacBook screen (1440x900).
When i start writing text on my iPad in Numbers, i have to stay in one column and can't overwrite the next column. For example: I write something in Numbers on my Mac, the next column gets filled when i reach the end of the other. How can i manage this on my iPad?
I've been happily using Legacy FileVault on my Macbook since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Today, I decided to switch to FileVault 2 and went ahead and clicked the "Turn On FileVault" button. Everything progressed as described in the Apple OS X Lion: About FileVault 2 support document. However, I didn't turn off Legacy FileVault before doing this and was never prompted to do so by the FileVault 2 process.
I'm trying to compress 5 files into an Archive.zip Selecting the 5 files and using Finder's built in Compress feature, the resulting Archive.zip contains a root level folder name "Archive", which in turn contains those 5 files. How do I create an Archive.zip that unzips those 5 files without any containing folder?
I had an unfortunate incident with boot camp assistant last night. I was trying to get hold of the windows drivers as an iso and when it asked me where to save to, I just selected my account folder in /users. Imagine my horror when it says it is formatting. No idea why it tries to format a directory, but needless to say it has made a mess. I now can't login with this account, I get the login prompt and it accepts my pw but after sitting there a while the spinner remains but I get a no entry sign and it just sits there spinning. Is there anyway I can try and retrieve what was left of my user data?
my friend has an iPod Touch and she cannot use it with iTunes anymore. is it possible to save those songs somehow on another computer and then reset iPod and copy songs back? or in general have a backup on a computer?
Is this possible? Basically, someone I am working with has a bunch of HTML documents. He would like to put them into an e-book usable in Apple's iBooks. Is that possible? If so, a general pointer to the appropriate documentation would be helpful. Thanks
I've got a Time Machine backup from an old machine. I don't want to over-write all the content from the backup, I'd just like to retrieve a couple of applications that were on my old machine - TextMate and Microsoft Word. Is it possible to retrieve those applications singly, without over-writing all the content on my new machine? Thanks for your help.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4S on AT&T in Cambridge, MA. My location has unreliable AT&T coverage, and I can't use Verizon or Sprint (too much coverage = pilot pollution). It's got to the point where I can't even reliably initiate a call, and if I can, it'll get dropped within 10 minutes. AT&T has been no help. I get 2-3 bars on AT&T, so I can't use an AT&T MicroCell; those work best with no coverage, and they have handoff problems when you already have some reception.
I have a folder on Drive 1 called Music, and it is 100GB. I have a folder on Drive 2 called Music, and it is 116GB. It's the most updated version. How do I copy the Music folder from Drive 2 to Drive 1 without having to rewrite every single file?
Besides Siri, are there any applications which integrate with OmniFocus. For example, in my RSS reader or Twitter client, I would love to send items I wish to read later to OmniFocus instead of Instapaper or Readability.
Have read Using timed access control in airport extreme base station but the fix described has not worked. Clicking "+" reverts the times back to the default "09:00 to 17:00"? Any suggestions?
I tried to use mount_afp afp://user:111@127.0.0.1/home ~/Documents to mount the ~/Documents folder to the shared folder, but it shows the error like below: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 62, errno is 62 What am I doing wrong?
I have MacVim running full screen in Mac OS X Lion, and I want to switch to the MacVim screen when I hit e.g. F15. Is there a way to accomplish this?
I setup a few profiles in the profile manager and when I remove them from the profile they still seem to be applied on the clients. Like to test around I made a change to the dock size and then un-applied it so it isn't even listed but yet the client cannot change their dock size anymore. How do I completely revert a change made?
In Terminal, how do I go from Macintosh HD to places such as johnsmith that contains Downloads, Desktop etc. In a Finder window, it seems they are independent of each other.
An earpiece of my iPhone headphones felt into a glass of water for 10 seconds last week. Now the sound volume form both earpieces is lower and it seems the basses are not that strong anymore.
After upgrade my system to 10.7.4, the XBMC Eden (latest version) shows green lines all over the screen. Does anybody have this issue?
Recently when I'm away from home, my MacBook Pro keeps displaying the following message "There was a problem connecting to the server" and the name of my AirPort Extreme with a hard drive connected. I'm running OSX 10.7.4, and it's only done this for the past two weeks or so. The only thing I can think of which has changed was the 10.7.4 update itself.
You can export formulas from Grapher with drag&drop. Which font is used for this? I want to write some stuff in the same font in Keynote, but I cannot find the correct font...
My MagSafe adapter has suffered from strain relief and the insulation is completely frayed off near the tip (it is the newer L-shaped adapter rather than the old T-shaped adapter). It still seems to charge the computer. Is there any risk to my physical safety from continuing to use it?
Does anyone know of any emulator / VM / anything that would allow Windows Mobile 6.5 applications to be run on an iPhone or iPad? Ideally on the iOS device itself but failing that on a hosted server with the iOS device as a dumb terminal.
iTerm2 is immediately closed after launch with the error: If I switch from login to command (with bash -l) I'm getting the following error: I'm running OSX Lion. How this can be fixed?
Somehow I can’t execute files in /bin or /usr/bin without providing the full path. This isn’t happening when running from Terminal, but, for example, iTerm can’t run bash (only /bin/bash), OnyX can't run sw_vers.
When SSH'd into my work machine from iTerm2 'ls -G' also makes no difference. Still no coloration on ls output.
Quick question here. I'm not really familiar with the requirements of CoreStorage so I'd like to confirm with you guys before I start working.
Is this possible? I'm using a Mac Pro as a home (Lion) server, connected via ethernet to a gigabit switch. One internal drive is reserved for network backups from local users via Time Machine. All running Lion. Can I use the 2nd (currently redundant) ethernet port exclusively for backups to the internal drive, and so save the other port for other network traffic / file serving?
I downloaded Path Finder and like it a lot, but Finder still takes over some functionality that I'd prefer Path Finder to do. For instance, if I open a folder on my desktop it opens in Finder, and when I mount disk images, they open in Finder. Is there a way (short of going in low-level and replacing Finder stuff with Path Finder stuff, which I don't really want to do) to make Path Finder do everything that Finder does by default?
I am having problems with applications re-launching from scratch, rather than continuing where they left off, when resuming my Mac (alumimum MacBook, fall 2008) after its battery runs low. This results in losing any unsaved work and very slow resume times. How can I prevent this?
I've got an 4th-gen iPod Touch with thoroughly smashed glass. What are my options for repair? It sounds like Apple charges about $200 There are third-party repair-by-mail services that charge around $100, and You can buy parts and do it yourself.
How can I generate a monochrome pdf file from a color pdf file? I have tried ImageMagick's convert, but with bad results. A direct conversion convert -monochrome file.pdf file-bw.pdf produces dithered images. Going through png convert -monochrome -background white -geometry 2048 file.pdf file-bw.png stubbornly keeps the background to some shade of gray.
I'm staying at a hotel and want to use my Apple TV. My problem is that because there's no browser on the Apple TV I can't get to the proxy web page where I can accept the terms of service. I found a link explaining a work-around using a Mac as an ad hoc airport, but I don't have a Mac or other wireless router with me, just an iPhone and iPad. I also found some advice about spoofing MAC addresses, but the instructions involved a lot of command line jujitsu that I don't know how to do on iOS.
I'm looking for a QR code reader that doesn't utilize iSight but instead, allows me to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen which it will then scan for and detect the QR code. I'm having trouble finding one because most QR code readers for mac that I can see uses the iSight which is not what I am after.
When I attempt to SSH to anything from my iMac (SSH, git, etc.), SSH freezes at debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received. This only happens on my account; I created a new account as a test and everything worked fine. I did reinstall SSH, but both accounts use the same executable. I can SSH to my computer from other computers, so I'm assuming that the problem lies with ssh and not with sshd. SSH version: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 OS X Version: Version 10.6.8 build 10K549 Log: *=URL=* (I use a custom port, 7742)
In my git (Xcode) project, I committed a filename with improper case. Now I went to try to rename it, but when I commit, I get: fatal: Will not add file alias 'MyProject/MyFile.h' ('MyProject/MyFilE.h' already exists in index)
My iPod, iPad, and Mac are all used for sending iMessages. However, when I send a message from one device and have a conversation with someone else, the sent and received messages don't usually appear on the other devices. This makes for strange breaks in the conversation thread when switching between devices. What could be a reason for this?
The ingredients I picked to make this work are Jenkins, Git and a Mac mini. Day to day I won't have physical access to the mini but the build light is controlled by ethernet - no problem.
Since I've installed a few jailbreak tweaks, my iPhone has been crashing fairly regularly and I would like to know exactly what's causing it. Does anyone know the direct path to where the crash logs/reports are stored on the device (/var/mobile/, for example)? This way I can clear all current logs, to start afresh, and I can extract them for viewing on a bigger screen, etc. Or does anyone know of a more advanced way to interact with and analyse the iPhone's Diagnostics & Usage data, in general? Thanks
I've written a simple-minded "take a break" reminder which just opens a PDF notice. This works fine, but I wish I could open the PDF file in full screen mode from the command line. Does anyone know how to do that? Perhaps some osascript magic?
From what I can gather, the Sennheiser i300 headphones are Apple exclusive headphones, not available anywhere else, but they appear to be identical to the Sennheiser MM70i. Can anyone shed any light on this? They look the same, are they the same internally? I can't even find the i300's on Sennheiser's site! Here's some links: i300 on Apple.com: *=URL=* MM70i on Sennheiser.com: *=URL=* Thanks for any info on the differences!
EDIT: I know iPhone/iPod/iPad headphones are compatible with MacBooks. But these are headphones. What I read today and for sharing
Where is my login picture saved? I would like to use it for other apps but cannot find it under pictures or in any other document folders.
Okay, so I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro (unibody design) and I have the typical problem with the keyboard. My shift key function is "stuck" so everything WILL COME UP LIKE THIS> (hence the > instead of the period). I booted into a flash drive to update to Lion and the keyboard still typed like the shift key was pressed. Well, we went to Apple to see what they could do. They said that the top case has to be replaced. The problem is, that runs a whopping $250+ and that's out of my budget right now. I have been searching around and haven't seemed to find much of a solution anywhere. I have seen that (at least on here) that the keyboard itself can be replaced without having to replace the entire top case. Nothing has been spilled onto the keyboard and it is not dirty as I have taken a few keys off and checked underneath. So if I replaced the keyboard only, would that fix the problem? Anyone have any experience with this?
I just realized, that few months ago I converted my disk to FileVault. I am afraid of loosing access to my data. I still have access to the machine: login, password, administrator account.
Every time I connect my iPad, iTunes wants to back it up. I don't want to back it up, I just want to transfer some files into an app.
I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some better alternatives to the built-in Activity Monitor.app?
Got Mac mini 2011 Lion Server today. Fitted extra RAM. Started up fine. Put in first bits of info. Then it does the restart and duh! Didn't write down user name and password. Did connect to internet via LAN Ethernet but cannot use wireless as needs the MAC number for to use as I setup router this way.
New iPhone 4S. When I set up my e-mail exchange account all my contacts are deleted. I have restored from back up twice and turned off the sync with contacts, calenders and reminders but it still deletes the lot. Help?! The prompts on the phone are insufficient to resolve. Currently I can either have my contacts or my e-mail working but not both.
Here's what I have: 2011 15" Macbook Pro (with Thunderbolt) 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display 27" Apple Cinema Display From what I've read, I cannot connect both displays by daisy chaining: What are my options for connecting both displays to a 15" Macbook Pro?
I have an iPad2 and an iPhone 4s. My daughter has an iPhone 4, my son has an iPod 4th generation, and my husband has an iPhone4s. We all share the same iTunes account but all have our own emails.
On Windows, I use standard software (Zune) to transfer files to my Nokia Lumia 800. Is there any way to transfer mp3 files from Mac to Lumia? Lumia is running Windows Phone 7.
I've tried deleting from the web interface, but it only recreates it immediately. I'd love to be able to click the new note icon in the middle of the taskbar but it defaults to this Unfiled Notes section. I'd prefer to be able to choose which notebook it goes into it. Any advice on this workflow? Also, is there a way to create a new notebook in the iOS app or am I relegated t the web app?
Is there a better way to discover where my apps are being installed than by having to use find each time? Shouldn't I be able to predict it with rules of thumb something like 'all database apps should go in /Library' so that's where I know to look for postgres, and 'all compilers and languages go in /usr/local/bin' so that's where I know to look for v8 after it's installed?
Which requires the least total storage to run Windows 7, configuring an MBA for dual-boot with Bootcamp, or using a VM (Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox)? For the smallest solution, how many free GB would be required for a standard minimal system Windows 7 install? (such as just for testing web pages on MSIE, and such.) Can a VM boot and run Windows off of a USB connected HD or SSD well enough to be "usable"?
I'm a long-time Mac user, but for some reason I can't get my mind around this. Maybe I'm missing something incredibly obvious.
The can't format part means I can't format to any filesystem. It shows "read only". The erase format is not enabled.
I read the Question Is there a way to password protect individual apps? - but the answers focused too much on security issues.
One thing I really hate about Final Cut Pro X is the inability to add basic text, like you could on all previous versions of Final Cut Pro. It seems all text has to be entered as "titles" - and although you can edit these titles to look like basic text, it really isn't the same thing. Is there any way to get basic text in Final Cut Pro X?
When I click on the Documents or Downloads folder in the Dock, a Grid comes up. Is there a way to get it to just open in the Finder? Instead of having to click on Documents and then click on Open in Finder.
I have a Mac which is connected to the Internet via Ethernet. I've used the "create network" facility on it to create a Wi-Fi network. I opened up my iPad's settings and connected to that Wi-Fi network. But when I try to connect to browse using Safari on the iPad I get, "Cannot open page -- Safari cannot open the page because it is not connected to the Internet". Any way I can get on the Web with this iPad?
After upgrading to Lion, I cannot connect via SSH. I get a timeout: In /var/log/appfirewall.log I get this: I have specifically added sshd-keygen-wrapper to my firewall rules and set it to "Allow incoming connections", but I still get the same message in the firewall log.
I'm in Spain for a few months and I have an Orange prepaid SIM card, and I'd like to install Orange's "mi Orange" app for checking my balance, usage, etc. The app is only available in the Spanish App Store. Can I install it?
The question is very simple as the topic suggests. (How) Can a company buy multiple "licenses" of publicly available apps on the App Store (for example paid Angry Birds app) and distribute those to its employees? Does the company get .ipa files directly from the developer (Rovio) and distribute them using the company's iOS Enterprise Developer program? I would say no, because Apple would be omitted in the transaction and in that case, what is the way? The distribution would by handled by an application called Afaria (which is a client of Afaria Mobile Device Management solution) via its own App portal (more info in iTunes). I've read about the Volume Purchase Program, however this is not a solution, because I'm in Europe.
I am trying to enable and disable the screensaver password requirement from the command line. shows a variable askForPassword set to either 0 or 1, depending on whether I configured a password requirement in System Preferences or not. and enable and disable the password setting, or so I thought. What I find instead is that the commands indeed check and uncheck the checkbox in System Preferences under Security but do not affect the screensaver at all.
So this is a slight design whine, but it is a question. When I put my headphones into my iPhone the jack sticks straight up and keeps getting caught in things in my pocket and has broken before. I'd like a headphone extension/adapter that was a right angle so the idea is that there is a adapter that you put into the socket, such that the adapter's socket is 'pointing' at the power button rather than straight up... that way there would be a slight buldge at the top of my case, but the wire would come out of the side and my headphones would be less likely to snap off. Any ideas?
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro that got a new HDD, top case, and RAM within the last week. The previous HDD failed and was replaced by Apple. Using Carbon Copy Cloner and restoring various directories manually to my home folder from Time Machine, I was easily and quickly able to get the computer back to what I believed was its state at the time just before the HDD failed. Now, however, Time Machine is not working properly at all. The incremental backups, which previously were running at what I would consider excellent speed (most were small, in the KB range) took seconds. Now things are much different.
I have three doubts regarding USB pendrive formatting. Is there is any simple/quick way to format the USB pendrive from MacBook Pro? Now, I am doing this by Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility -> Selecting the disk -> Tap on "Erase" tab -> Tap on "Erase..." option. I remember, I can do this by right clicking on the Disk's name and by select "Format" option in Windows. But, Mac shows the below options when right clicking on the disk in Finder.
While reading an article, I like to keep the bibliography pages at the tail of the article visible at the same time as I am going through the pages of the article. Two obvious ways for doing this are Open the pdf article twice, once with Preview and another with Adobe Reader. Temporarily make a copy of the article and open both with Preview.
Just a few months ago, I bought the latest 2011 MacBook Pro. Now, a few months later, I have a problem. It seems like my notebook is rejecting my hard drive (which is an SSD).
I have a MacBookPro7,1 and the color profile for it is just horrible. All yellow and wrong looking.
When I try to restore, I get message: haven't seen anything like this on the web
In Safari, I use two finger dragging with my trackpad (on a MacBook) to scroll through websites. I've noticed that whenever I try viewing a PDF document, (i.e. the URL in the address bar ends with .pdf) the scrolling sensitivity is very different than the normal Safari scrolling sensitivity. It scrolls way too fast (i.e. it's too sensitive).
When I open a PDF document in Safari and then go into Mission control, I see a window with different kinds of artifacts (e.g. horizontal black lines on a white background) and it's titled AdobePDFViewerNPAPI (Safari internet plug-in). This window is probably related to the Adobe Reader plug-in that Safari uses. Is there any way to have this window not show up in Mission Control?
Since I bought my Time Capsule (only a few months ago) the AirPort Utility app has been changed/upgraded and the instructions that I got with the product on how to setup a guest wifi network no longer apply or make any sense.. So my question is how do I setup a guest wifi with apple's current software: Airport Utility v 6.0 on OS 10.7.4
What are the options which would be faster than opening Finder and browsing the folder, to open it? (I like to keep the desktop completely clean so will avoid Desktop shortcuts if other options are available)
Is it possible to install OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in VirtualBox on an iMac (i3) running OS X 10.6.8? I have the 10.6 install CD, DMG, and ISO, but can't get any of them to boot from VirtualBox.
OSX 10.7.4, MacBook Air I've noticed that when I select text and attempt to replace it with additional text, some text areas will maintain the selection and cause me to errantly delete data from my text area. I can easily reproduce it in Chrome 19 or Sparrow 1.5, but I cannot reproduce this behavior in TextEdit or Textmate, however. To reproduce: Type some text in a text area in Chrome or Sparrow: "This is a test" Select "This is" "This is" will be highlighted
Is the serial number (of a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.7) ever sent to Apple? For instance, is it automatically sent during system updates or app store connections?
I have a 2011 13" MacBook Pro and I'm using Snow Leopard. When I program, I use Eclipse. Recently, I installed a plugin and I wanted to use a key shortcut rather than navigating 3 menus every time to do the action. The default shortcut for that action is Command + #. I have tried changing it, and that does not work. So I am wondering, how can I execute a key shortcut that uses a key like #? I tried Command + Shift + 3(#), but that did not work.
How can I change the Finder keyboard shortcut command + shift + D to open my Dropbox folder instead of the Desktop folder.
The answer is not as simple as you might think at first glance; please read the details of my question. I know the difference between Standard Function keys and Special keys. Standard Function keys are F1, F2, F10, etc. whereas the Special keys are "Decrease Brightness, "Increase Brightness", "Mute" and so on.
I've just started using VMware, and I am admittedly a novice Mac user. Anyways, I installed Windows 7 on my iMac, and I've been playing this little indie game that requires the use of the insert and home keys. My keyboard doesn't have those keys available.
I just bought a new (refurbished) iPad2 3G, and it came with 4.3.5. It seems I can't jailbreak it because: There's no jailbreak for 4.3.5 There's no untethered jailbreak yet for 5.1.1 I can't change the firmware to any other version because the signing windows have closed and I don't have any SHSH blobs saved
I read in many places that you should always do a "Verify Disk" in Disk Utility and resolve any errors before upgrading to Lion (currently running the last version of Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro mid 2010). I get the following error(s): "Incorrect number of thread records" and "Incorrect volume file count"
I have to install a fresh new drive into my MacBook pro 2009. I haven't formatted yet, nor do I have a USB dock to do so from my current osx installation. If I install the new drive and boot from the osx DVD that came with my Mac, will be able to do what's necessary to get every running ok?
What I want is for my Mac to go back to exactly as it was, which was with lion. Of course, there's no lion disk, so I've done a clean reinstall with snow leopard (new drive). Should I restore from a lion timemachine onto snow leopard, or just install snow leopard, re install lion from the Mac store, and then restore from the time machine?
I have a 24 inch, mid-2007 iMac purchased used. I don't know the original owner and it's out of warranty.
I did not receive any verification email for my Apple ID. I already repeated the procedures more than twice. What am I going to do?
Is there a Reading List extension for Chrome? I have a deep, dark hatred of Safari, but Reading List seems more convenient than Pocket of Readability. Or, is there a way to access it by any non-safari means at all?
I'm using MacBook Pro and it will be in charge nearly 12 hours in a day. I set the battery indicator to Percentage, so it is displaying the battery charge in percentage.
I know that I can hide all extensions but how do I hide just one, say webloc? I don't want to hide each the extension of each file individually.
I am trying to upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard. After beginning the download/install process from the Mac App store everything seemed normal. However after about 20 minutes my entire MBP is frozen. Trackpad and keyboard do nothing, and the mouse pointer is not visible on the screen. The screen is stuck at where it was before: looking at the Lion page in the Mac app store.
Whenever I research this question on my own, Google results are saturated with transcoding utilities (both paid and free). Sure, transcoding makes for a simple "one click and it magically makes my home video play on my iPad" solution, but for my library it presents a few problems: Loss of quality Significant investment in time and computing resources
I'm on a Macbook Pro (mid-2009) running Lion 10.7.4. Everything has been awesome these past few years, but something weird started happening a month ago: my copy/paste has been acting oddly. Sometimes I copy text and when I paste, it would be something I had copied earlier. I chalked this up to an incorrect keystroke on my part. But even when I pay attention closely this still happens somewhat infrequently.
I regularly use MATLAB from the command-line instead of launching the full graphical user interface. Ever since I made the last update of OS from 10.7.3 -> 10.7.4, I started getting the following errors, whenever I would launch something with a graphical interface within MATLAB: This is how I usually launch MATLAB from the command line:
If I want to listen to a Youtube video and work on another app, such as Safari, is there a way for that audio to run in the background like iTunes does?
A friend has been having problems with Mail. Notably, Time Machine is no longer working within Mail, and Mail says it has huge and seemingly arbitrary numbers of messages in the title bar.
Whenever I open the lid on my Macbook Air running Lion and and try to sign in, it takes a really long time for the sign in form to appear. (This is the sign in form you see when the Mac is on but the lid is closed, not the one you see after turning it on after being powered off.)
What are the default processes that would run in a freshly installed copy of Lion? I want to know which ones that I have are third-party processes so I can remove them.
Latest Lion update broke a simple Geeklet osascript that used System Events to lookup of Background picture names. Running the associated command from the terminal returns the same name, every time, even though the picture is changing every minute. The code below worked for the primary display on my two headed Mac until this last update: The secondary display has a hard-coded id where "default" goes; I've used the numeric IDs, everything I can think of.
Is there way to set the watch face as the default display? I wear the iPod Nano as a wrist watch and I would like it display the watch face first when I press the power button. Note: I'm asking this question here mostly because I found this form post so comically high with noise vs signal.
iPhone4 Sony XAV-622 How to play videos stored in iTunes playlist on iPhone4 to play in car stereio( Sony XAV-622) ?
My MacBook is acting weird recently. It starts to show flashing folder with question mark during bootup and spinning beach ball when it wakes up from a long sleep. When these happens, I will have to power it down, then it works perfectly again. They occurs quite frequent, about once in every 5 bootup/wakes up.
I have just recently upgraded from iOS 4.3.5 to iOS 5.1.1 on my 3rd generation iPod touch, but it seems that my iPod is slower and a little unresponsive, so I want to downgrade back to 4.3.5. I want to know how to backup the data (mainly game saves) so that when I restore to 4.3.5 my game save is still there.
My Mail.app is configured for Gmail and Exchange. For some time now the program has been running out of control. It's pretty much constantly burning 100% of CPU (but only 100%). It's got an astonishing number of threads going (sometimes more than 20). I ran lsof (below, somewhat edited) and it seems that it's got an inordinate number of files open. It just makes no sense.
A colleague of mine just got his new MacBook Pro and he ran through the set-up process. But as it turns out, he got the wrong MacBook Pro, so now, he needs to completely erase the already present data and account...
Activity Viewer seems to have been removed from Safari 5.2. I used it to download streamed content. Is there a workaround to do that without Activity Viewer?
AirPlay is very convenient to bring up the sound on my big stereo speakers, but I am wondering whether the AirPlay protocol preserves audio quality, e.g. bitrate?
A client of mine had a website hosted on mobile.me account. I received credentials and was prompted to upgrade to iCloud. I asked her to do it on her own machine (there might be some issues with iTunes, sync, etc). Right now, upon logging to iCloud I see only mail / calendar / contacts but NO files / websites... Any idea is it possible to access previous "WWW" directory from iCloud? Thanks for help, if you you need more info put it in the comments...
I'm thinking of doing an alarm clock for iPhone with music as alarm sound. I have also evaluated similar apps. They all seems to share the same limitation. If the app is not active when the alarm is triggered music cannot be played. So the question, is this a limitation in iOS ?
If I browse podcasts in iTunes on my (iOS 5.1.1) iPhone 4, most listings of episodes don't even fully load, with the download buttons (or sometimes the entire listing) failing to render. The exact same podcasts on my wife's iPhone 4S on the same wifi network work perfectly. There's almost 20 GB of space available in my iPhone, and I've tried ending all apps & rebooting the phone multiple times.
I've registered with Apple for a Paid applications contract about a year ago and the contract renewal is due in late June. Since the initial application (registering as an individual) was done manually (and sent via Fax - as a Greek national), I'm not sure about the renewal process. Is the procedure automatic? Will I be notified (hopefully) in time by Apple itself so that I resubmit my initial subscription application or what?
The only thing stopping me from using Rdio exclusively is the fact that they still don't have the rights to stream music from bands like Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Tool (bands that no human being should have to live without). So I've still kept a huge mp3 collection on my local hard drive. I'd love to be able to just delete all those files if I can find an easy way to stream them online.
I was wondering - is there a way to force how a push notification will appear to the iPhone user? There are 3 options in settings for the user to choose - none, some kind of top banner that dissappears after a short time and an alert with buttons.
I tried to type a table with one column in Arabic numbers and the other one with corresponding Western numbers, just like this one: *=URL=* But when I copy the table and paste it (or when I write a new one from scratch), all the Arabic digits turn to Western ones when I move to another cell. The problem does not appear on Textedit (which handles right-to-left scripts and otf Arabic fonts much better, by the way).
So I want to prevent anyone from messing with iTunes, or anything on my MacBook actually. How can I password protect it without losing the sound?
I just upgraded to OS X Lion (10.7.4) and one of the new features I read about was the ability to arrange the Applications folder by Application Category in the Finder. I did this and the applications are properly broken out by category, but they are not sorted alphabetically within each category. For example, in the Utilities category, the apps are listed as "Font Book, Automator, Launchpad, Dashboard, Mission Control" etc... Is there any way to use the "arrange by category" feature and sort alphabetically within each category?
I have a iPod touch 4, paired to Boss 758DBI in-dash car stereo. Why can't I use Bluetooth on iPod to pair my phone?
Back in 2008, Linus Torvalds famously said in an interview that "OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." I've looked for more details about why he feels this way about the OS X filesystem (HFS+ presumably) but I haven't been able to find anything.
My MacBook was stolen. I just want to know if I can find it even if the thief shut it down permanently. On my MacBook I have an automatic session opened and the Airport is turned on by default. I want to know if I can trace it even if the Airport-detected WiFi hotspots but the thief didn't connect it to the Internet. What will happen if the thief turns off the airport and only works offline?
I own an Early 2008, white MacBook (MB403LL/A) which still has Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, installed. My understanding is Mountain Lion will not support my MacBook. If this turns out to be true then I would probably want to upgrade to Lion since it will be the last supported (for a bit longer) release which I could use.
Here's the setup… Computer A - Running Transmission - placing files in a Dropbox folder - Uses iTunes Match to load music from Computer B's iTunes library - Is always running Computer B - Shares Dropbox folder with Computer A - Is "master" computer for iTunes Match account - Is not always running
I have a first generation iPad 32GB WiFi model (MB293LL) running iOS 5.1.1. I haven't used the Music app for some time; I generally listen to Pandora. However, I recently bought some music on iTunes and wanted to listen to it. I cannot get the Music app to run. It opens, but all I see is the basic app frame and controls - no content - and then it crashes. I've tried rebooting the iPad and it doesn't fix the issue.
I am running OS X Lion. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab: //darren:q@acid/home /acid smbfs nodev,nosuid,auto If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the computer, the drive does not mount. The drive in question is an Ubuntu SMB share. Can anyone advise?
I'm trying to help a friend fix their MacBook, and I've run out of ideas. I've gone through every resource I can find, so hopefully someone has some insight into this problem.
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and am trying to get Homebrew installed. However after the installation, I run brew doctor per the installation instructions, and see a series of errors indicating that /usr/local directories aren't writable. For example: I get these for a bunch of directories: I can't figure out why this error is coming up, as it appears that I am part of the Unix group that has write permissions to these directories: What am I missing?
I have a large (750GB) FAT32 formatted USB hard drive and two computers - a MacBook and a PC - and I want to keep synched and duplicate versions of my work folders (images, word documents, videos etc) on each device: the hard drive, Mac and PC. To achieve this I imagine a folder synchronization software running on both Mac and PC (ideally the same software) which would sync selected folders between the computer and hard drive. Does anyone know of such a piece of software? Many thanks!
I have a problem with a seemingly unremovable directory/bundle. I moved Spotify.app from /Applications to the Trash and later tried to empty the Trash.
Apps launched via Finder seem to not respect the PATH as set in .bash_profile. So when I try to run code from an IDE (Intellij) I no longer have access to programs in /usr/local/bin, which is normally added to my path in the Terminal. Apparently .MacOSX/environment.plist used to be the way to do this, but it no longer works in Lion. How can I set the PATH for Finder-launched applications?
Is there a way to select icons (using the keyboard) that aren't directly touching? In Windows, I'd press Ctrl+Down, but it doesn't work in the Finder view. I've tried all the usual keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't seem to work. I can multi-select other icons just fine, but I can't multi-select these two.
My husband and I share a computer. We both have our own iPhone, mine a 4S and his a 3S. My husband also has a new iPad.
I have an iPad 2. Sometimes, after I stow it away into my bag, it will start playing music (using the music app) at the most inappropriate times: during class, in meetings... This behaviour seems to be connected to the screen saver feature, but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off!
I am looking for an OS X application that would block you from accessing certain websites, like social and entertainment one and even hide applications. The entire purpose is to create a working environment that allows you to focus on your job. I have to mention that, the web-browser cannot be banned because it is required to normal use. Also, the solution I am looking for should provide a way to harden the switching from no-distration mode to unlocked. This question is about a software solution, so please refrain from recommending books to read regarding productivity. I realise that using Parental Control and having a managed account would solve some of these but there are some essential problems: Applications are not hidden, the system just asks for admin password, yuck.
How do I fix this database? Is there any way to make the software scan my iPod to properly update this table? Preferably without using iTunes. I'm using Windows 7 64bit, if it makes any difference.
I'd like to have a notification displayed in the dock every time a new song is played. Unfortunately, this doesn't exist as an option in the program preferences, but there are ways to do it, see this article for example.
I have an AT&T family plan. My niece has an HTC smartphone and hates it. I have a 3G iPhone. I want to give her my iPhone and get a newer one with my upgrade. I don't know how to transfer ownership of my 3G iPhone to my niece. Do iPhones have SIM cards and if they do, how do you get to it? Thanks so much for any help.
I'd like to create a desktop shortcut to a specific folder, buried deep within ~/Library/. Library is Hidden by default in Lion, and I'd like to keep it that way, for a variety of reasons. Is there a one-step, command line action I can use, to create a desktop shortcut to a given path? I'd like to avoid solutions that involve unhiding the Library, creating the Alias using Finder, and rehiding it. I know how to do that, but for my purposes, a single line that can be pasted into Terminal and be done with it would be preferable.
I have a programmable Logitech mouse, which allows me to assign different configurations to different applications, but ONLY .app files, but I wish to assign a profile to Java, which is a binary not enclosed in a .app file. When I nosed around into its preference file, it only refers to some sort of identifier associated for that app. For example, instead of saying /Applications/Safari.app, it would only reference it as com.apple.safari.
Whenever I try to buy new apps, my iPod asks me to type in my user name and password and answer some security questions. I tap OK to continue, but nothing happens. I have tried using a different account and even resetting my iPod but nothing seems to be working. What can I do to fix this?
I am on OSX Lion. After I Control C the building of Atlas under MacPorts Clang I can no longer get it to run. It start taking around 2GB on startup and even does this after a reboot. After killing the terminal the first time an error report was sent to Apple. The second time killing it did not trigger such a request. What do I need to do to get the terminal to run again in a normal fashion?
My mac is apparently working fine, no crashes of any kind, but my kernel.log is full of errors and that is worrying me, as I never saw it with messages like that. This is a sample of today, since I booted the machine: as you can see, a lot of stuff failing to load, errors of all sorts... how can I fix them and make these messages go away? This is Mac OS X Lion, 10.7.4, running on an iMac mid 2011 (iMac 12,2) thanks.
I've recently switched from Windows to a MacBook pro. In Windows, there are the following shutdown options: Standby - the machine goes into a "light sleep" from which it can awaken very quickly (like, in a few seconds), but plenty of energy is consumed. Standby - the machine goes into a "light sleep" from which it can awaken very quickly (like, in a few seconds), but plenty of energy is consumed.
I installed Windows 7 using bootcamp on my Early 2011 MBP. I gave 130GB to Win7 and rest to Mac HD. Once all was done, I created a new partition within Mac HD. The partition was created successfully but when I restarted computer and pressed "option" key, I was not able to see the Windows(boot camp), only Mac HD and Recovery HD.
I am trying to create a script that performs various conversions between formats of audio files. In one particular step, I use afconvert in Terminal to convert an mp3 to aac(mpeg4/m4a), but in this process all of the info attached to the audio file (name, artist etc) is lost. I tried to id3cp to copy over the info but this doesn't work (I think because aac files don't use ID3 tags...).
I think I messed up my bash file /bin/bash when trying to create my first script, it displays a message saying "process completed" and locks my terminal, if I switch to another shell e.g sh, then it's fine, is there a way to restore the contents of bash file or anything like that, i don't have a backup as I never managed to use time machine. Thanks for the help
The Macbook Pros come with two graphical processing units, one is made by ATI and the other one by Intel. Is it possible to use them both at the same time, to render one image/3D model/whatever on one GPU and at the same time another one on the other GPU?
I installed a program to try it out, and decided I didn't like it so I moved the app to the trash. Today, in my shell, I noticed that there are a couple of PROGRAMNAME_BLAHBLAH environmental variables set. I'd like to remove those, too.
mac os x lion; Using Iterm2; I wish to change my iterm2 color profiles if I do ssh on terminal. Can this be done ?
I just bought a new AirPort Extreme and set it up as my main wireless network. I also have a 1st gen. Time Capsule and a 1st gen. AirPort Extreme in addition that I want to connect like this: Main AE --> TC 1st gen --> AE 1st gen
Often I'm listening to the songs being imported during the import, using the new tracks in the library. When iTunes completes the import there's an annoying finished chime that sounds loudly because I'm listening to music.
My iPad won't rotate the screen anymore when I turn it. It just happend (like all problems of course) without any cause. I've done everything I can think of. Double tap on the Home button, swipe left and toggle the switch Toggle the switch on the left side of the iPad with 'rotation lock' set to on Reboot the iPad Restore the iPad
I use taglist vim plugin in iterm2 when I use :TlistToggle, the first time is ok
Hi I am trying to create a bootable USB for Windows 7 (I have superdrive removed). I went the rEFIt + Microsoft Bootable USB Tool route and keep getting "Operating System Not Found". I also checked the USB in Disk Utils and it shows as MBR. USB also shows up if I press "Alt" when booting, but same "Operating system..." error. How can I fix this? Spent half a day already...
I am trying to connect an analog subwoofer to the line out of my MacBook Pro 17. Apparently, contrary to the smaller models, the 17 inch's line out minijack switches between analog or digital, depending on software control from OSX. When you plug in some earphones, contrary to all other computers I have used, there is a lag between the moment in which the electrical connection is made and when the signal is sent to the phones (and loudspeakers muted).
When online my webpage becomes unresponsive, particularly when I click on a link, is there a fix? I have a MacBook-Pro osx 10.7.4 about a year old. This is not a new problem and I have been blaming it on my router but the signal is strong and disconnecting from wi-fi and then reconnecting seems to get things going again. It happens intermittently and I can't figure out what is causing it. Thanks for any help
Not long after updating my main OS X installation from Snow Leopard to Lion, Spotlight stopped working on that partition, and I'm desparately trying to get it working again. It will find no files for any search, though it is working normally for other partitions and network volumes.
According to apple's latest documentation (at the time of writing), the cap on the 2012 MacBook Pros is 8GB RAM. The Mac Pros, however, can take up to 32GB RAM.
I just bound my MacBook Pro to my Active Directory domain, so when I opened Mail and set up my email account, it asked if I'd like to remember in the keychain. Doing this on my other Mac on a local account, I said sure. It could not find nor create a login keychain using my network password. I have tried to make keychains, and they do not show up in Keychain Access.
Ever since I enabled iTunes Match, I feel like Music.app on my phone has become somewhat unreliable, and cumbersome at best. When polling for the full list of artists or albums (much less songs), it sometimes takes a full 15-20 seconds of frozen, iPhone-lockup that I don't experience anywhere else. Once I give the list enough time to load, it's more or less good, albeit with noticeable stuttering while scrolling, or lag. Occasionally the whole app will appear frozen and crash. Switching between album and artist view is unfortunately an exercise in patience. This is the only thing that's slow on my otherwise fantastic 16GB iPhone 4, and if there's something I'm missing that could fix the problem I'd be glad to hear it.
Again, I just want to know if this bug is universal for all. Got any large folders with, say, 1000 mails in them? Do you see this huge message skippage if you scroll down in the inbox several pages?
After installing Win 7 on my macbook via BootCamp I get a black screen on booting my macbook. And the brightness is very low on Win 7 I cannot see any thing on Windows. But On mac all thing is fine and I have no problem. How can I solve this problem. I really appreciate any suggestion.
I have a wireless network in my apartment. Because the apartment is large and walls are concrete, it was very hard to get wifi coverage throughout the whole place. Therefore I have one Airport Extreme, and then multiple Airport Expresses, and I have configured the airport expresses to join and extend the wireless network that is created on the main (airport extreme) unit.
I am trying to send an email from my AOL account from my iPhone 3G, however everytime I try and send a mail I get the following error: Cannot Send Mail
I am planning to buy an iPad 3. My choices are, iPad 3 - 32GB with wifi iPad 3 - 16GB with wifi + 4G I'm so confused to select my best choice.
I followed all the steps as suggested for backing up and restore iTunes library in the apple support website: *=URL=* but I have problems with the 'choose library' part in the last step. I clicked it and located my iTunes Media folder but all that happened was that it just opened the folder and showed me what I have inside and not restore it.
I recently lost one of my SO-DIMM memory modules on my 20" iMac (2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo alu), and now my iMac is back on 2GB memory from 4GB. Both were ValueSelect (DDR2 667MHz 200-pin) modules from Corsair.
If SATA channel 1 (used by the hard drive) is damaged, could it be that SATA channel 2 (used by the SuperDrive) is fine? I would like to know if I can use a hard drive on the SuperDrive channel even though the hard disk channel is damaged.
I can't sort Spotlight's search results - sorting by Name, Date Modified, et. al appears to be disabled. Google seems to be useless in finding a resolution to this - although I suspect a previous installation of Quicksilver had something to do with this. I have forced Spotlight to reindex, but it still doesn't work. Finder otherwise functions normally.
I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I leave my machine for an hour. When I return the machine is asleep and all the applications have been shut down. It is almost as if it has spontaneously restarted. Any ideas what could be causing this?
The idea is to use each iPhone as a speaker for one track of music. Picture it: you are in the park, having a picnic and you would like your music to be played louder. Why not sync all the iPhones to play the same song at the same time? Does such an app exist?
I am using MacBook Pro for the last 1.5 years. Here is my configuration. Would you recommend upgrading to SSD for fast processing or would upgrading RAM will be better?
I have just ordered a Visa reLoad card where you simply put money on your card before you buy something. Will this work with an Apple Developers subscription?
I bought my Macbook Pro new this year in Jan 2012; it is the 13" Core i5 SKU. The USB port furthest from the screen on the left does not work with storage devices, though I have tested it with a USB Mouse and it seems to work. However on hard drives, USB keys, and an Arduino it doesn't work. I cannot sync my iPod touch with it either. Does anyone know what this may be?
I plan to use time capsule as a file server into a production environment with 3-4 mac clients. Can you give me some information about possible drawback with this choice? What are Time Capsule performance?
Sometime within the last week or so, I noticed this really weird glitch with my trackpad. I have always used the three-finger swipe to navigate forwards and backwards on web browsers, between tabs in my terminal, from the album view to the main iTunes display, etc. However, for some reason my trackpad is not responding to this gesture when I first select a given window, but as soon as I use the two-finger scroll in any direction, it suddenly starts working as normal.
I'm looking for a plugin that will display me the text of HTML files in QuickLook rather than a preview of the rendered HTML. Does anyone know of such a plugin?
I manage an environment that uses portable home directories for users with 10.6 for both the client and server. I've setup syncing via Workgroup Manager of pretty much entire home directories except for ~/Movies and ~/Music directories. Unfortunately I have a particular user that insists on downloading a lot of media (movies, tv shows) on the company provided laptop and leaving it in hierarchical folders on the Desktop, which then syncs multiple gigs every day to our fileserver when she gets on site. How do I specify the exclusion of .avi and .mkv file extensions within just the ~/Desktop directory using Workgroup Manager?
Tried plenty of other cables and plugs but it won't charge. I tried plugging it into a Mac and it's not even detected. It has had no major water damage; it just simply stopped working. Replaced battery with new battery, also replaced the dock connector with a new replacement but still no change.
I am trying to get my new HP ZR30W working at full 2560x1600 with my mid-2010 MacBook Pro through a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable. I have seen people saying they have it working, but I can't seem to get it to accept anything but the 1280x800 res, even with SwitchResX. I know the current Mac solution is a $100 mini DisplayPort to dual-link DVI adapter, but that seems rediculous to me when the monitor has a DisplayPort input. Anyone have this working and have tips?
I have a Mail.app rule script that worked fine in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It is simply a script that allows for AND/OR boolean logic combined together to trigger one (rarely two) of the following actions: Move message to archive folder Delete email message (move to trash) Forward the message to someone Color the message (to signal importance)
I have a VirtualBox VM set up on OS X Lion. How do I have it automatically start when I log into my account?
Can you point me to a good guide on spotting and getting rid of running Agents, Daemons and Processes that aren't useful to me anyway and are taking up memory and CPU cycles?
Whenever I carry out an action in Keka, such as extraction or compression, I receive three Growl notifications. All are identical, but only one has the correct icon (Keka's icon) while the other two seem to display a missing icon.
I'm traveling overseas and I wish I had a regular iPod touch so that I can just use WiFi to check emails without paying a roaming fee. I have an iPhone with an AT&T sim card. I was wondering if I could remove the sim card and turn it into an iPod touch without having to pay a roaming fee? Does the phone still know it belongs to me even without the sim card?
I want to be able to run RubyMotion on Windows 7 computers. But RubyMotion only runs on Mac OS X Lion. So it seems like the only option is to run a virtual machine on the Windows 7 computers which run Mac OS X.
Recently the colors on my Iphone 3g have started looking inverted or negative, I havent dropped my phone or had it damaged, but I cant seem to make it go back to normal. i have also done some research on this and found out that you can purposely do this through accessibility but my phone doesnt give me that option....HELP!
I use Entourage for my email accounts but I keep getting a pop up saying "translate wants to use your confidential information stored in "[my email account]" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?" By always allowing I found the location through keychain - /usr/libexec/oah/translate but I can't locate it through finder. I am worried that this might be malware, does anyone know what it is?
I'd like to setup dual screens on the new Mac Mini OS X Lion server, however as I understand it you need to use the HDMI port and the thunderbolt port. The only problem I have is I'm already using the thunderbolt port for a thunderbolt drive.
I use Windows 7 and I've just got myself a lovely new iPhone. I've installed iCloud and it synchronizes my iPhone's calendar with Outlook, which is great, but I also prefer Firefox over Safari, but iCloud only apparently supports Safari or Internet Explorer (yuck). Is there any way to sync bookmarks between Firefox/iCloud/iPhone? Edit: A bit of research brings up a thing called Firefox Home - How does this fit in?
Trying to use the Google Street View in Safari is crashing in the new iPad. Here's a link for reference: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/mobile/gallery.html#!/id=258
On a 24" display, there is enough space to display all the toolbar icons of my applications. But on the MacBook 13" display some of them are not displayed. Is there a way to scroll the tools bar in order to see the entire set of icons?
What is a good quality, and ideally free or cheap, RAW file processor for Mac OS X 10.7? Until I switched to Mac from Ubuntu, I used RawTherapee, which served me well, but unfortunately it's not supported on Lion.
When coming across certain youtube videos (on a Mac) I don't have time to watch at the moment, I wish I could get them saved for later offline viewing on my iPad. Is there some simple setup I could make that with just 1-3 clicks the video will get saved to the iPad?
I work in an IT department and I am moving large amount of people from their iPhone 4 to a new iPhone 4S. What currently happens is the person who is getting an upgrade comes in, activates the handset and I can then update it. I then add everything that they need on the phone from the iphone configuration utility and the appstore which involves them needing to be there to enter usernames/passwords.
I'm looking for an app for tracking activities like walking, running or bicycling. Lots of people I know with Android or Nokia phones use such apps, but I don't know what's a good option for iOS. Requirements: Can track time & distance covered (using GPS) Should be very simple to use: 1) start the tracker 2) go for the walk/run/ride 3) stop the tracker and see the distance & time
I have a Windows server (Win 2003) not using AD, just a simple local file server. My Mac clients can log in fine to the server using SMB in the Connect To Server window on the Mac, and they can access files fine, but I can't find any way of changing their server password from their Mac. A few years ago, we would go into the Mac's Terminal and type:
The right channel output cuts off and on when using headphones. The laptop speakers work fine. I have tried 3 known working headphones, a USB headset (connected via USB not using the audio jack), cleaning out the audio jack, nothing fixes the problem. The only fix I have discovered so far is twisting and moving the cords for all the headphones I have used, only problem with that is all these headphones work fine with other devices such as a PS3 a different PC ...
I would like to use a Time Capsule as a file server for 3-4 Macs in a small network. I've 600 GB of data, and a lot of small files. My colleagues work a lot with Spotlight to find files. I would like to ask you: does Spotlight search work if I use a Time Capsule as a file server?
I have an automator action that downloads file from our server. Easy enough to setup but can't quite sort out how to set it so it will operate automatically at a certain time everyday. Tried hooking it with iCal but that didn't seem to work. Any assistance or pointing in the right direction is appreciated
I have an Airport Extreme Base Station (7.6.1) which has a public ip address on the WAN side. I have many hosts on the LAN side. I would like to configure the AEBS such that pings sent from the Internet are returned by a specific host (or not if the host is down). I have a static ip set up on the LAN side (192.168.15.2), but since icmp ping does not use a specific port (tcp or udp) I do not know how to configure port mappings. Can anyone please direct me?
Can auto glass chip repair kits such as this item repair cracked iOS device screens? If so, what should I watch out for?
When I'm in a Finder window and enter terms in the spotlight search box (top right of window) and then press the TAB key the search location bar appears just below and the focus moves to the first location (usually "This Mac") shown (as it should). But then the focus seems locked in place and no keyboard key or combination I've found will get it to move (most of the time, that is; at times it's possible to select one of the shown locations with the keyboard and sometimes I've found it possible to tab to the Save button or Add Option [+] button and on to the options themselves but most times it just gets stuck [like now!] and I need to use the mouse). I've been annoyed by this for years now and am running out of new key combinations to try! Is there a way to continue with specifying the search info using the keyboard?
I usually get a low (2G) signal when I enter one and a good (3G) signal when I come out. Together with all the apps I have, the phone finds itself using my Internet connection when on GSM, causing calls to be dropped. I'm effectively unreachable.
I recently found one of my long-running text conversations cleared. I may have deleted it accidentally, but I would like to know when I did. Is there a system log that logs information at this level? Maybe in /var/log/ ?
I have a desktop Mac and am getting a laptop, and I intend to use the migration assistant to copy software from the existing Mac to the new one. I would like to obtain duplicate license keys for the software on it: Serene Screen 3, Microsoft Office, VMware Fusion, Windows XP (guest OS), Windows 7 (guest OS), and possibly others. I don't know that the procedure for purchasing and installing duplicate license keys will be the same but how, for the software listed, can I purchase and install a duplicate key?
It's almost as if it refuses to overwrite the old backups. It wants to start an entirely new backup or something. How can I make it pick up where it left off without having to delete that entire backup and start anew? I don't like deleting backups!
Is there a way to change what font is used to display the 'suggestions' list in OS-X 10.6+ when using the Chinese IME (simplified)? I've looked around in the preferences (particulary 'Candidate Window'), but found nothing. The font used is not the standard new and pretty one, but the old blocky one with slightly ugly/odd looking characters. I assume this will take some plist editing, but have no clue which one to look at. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.inputmethod.SCMI.plist doesn't have it ~/Librara/Preferences/Input Methods is empty Update:
I recently received a MacBook Air (Summer 2011, Lion) from work and I'm in the process of configuring it to work like my personal MBA (same model, Lion). I was happily setting keyboard shortcuts when I came across a rather interesting problem. On my personal MBA I use the combination ⌘+` to open a Total-Terminal window. This combination is usually used to cycle through windows, in the opposite direction of ⌘+tab. When I was attempting to set this shortcut in Total-Terminal on my new MBA I got the error: The key combination "Command + `" can't be used because it's already used by the menu item "Cycle Through Windows".
I'm very interested in buying Coda 2 (a web development IDE) when it comes out on the 24th. My concern is that the App Store version will have less features than the non-App Store version. Will Apple's new sandboxing policies be likely to limit the use of an application like Coda? Is there any reason to not buy direct from the developer?
The AirPort Extreme's manual says the following: Create a guest network with or without password protection, to provide Internet-only access to wireless devices, such as computers, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.
The Apple dock cannot take the bumper, you need to take off the bumper. I need a dock for work and at work where I can just slip my phone in (bumper and all). Any ideas?
I'm searching for an iPad App where i can write and proceed SQL Statements. I want to connect to my own Server.
The Skype app requires me to constantly launch it if I want to receive any messages on my iPad. Switch away, and a couple of hours later it goes offline and stops receiving messages/calls. There is of course no indication whatsoever of whether it's still running in the background.
Is there a way to force full screen applications to show the menubar without having to mouse over it? I am irritated by the way that full screen chrome will have its tabs sometimes covered up by the lowered menubar when I didn't intend to open the menu.
I've setup an OS X Lion server at the office I work at, and would like to set it up so all the other Mac's in the office have to login when they want to go on their Mac and it connects to their user I've created on the server. Can someone give me some resources (tutorial, link, information) to help get me started?
I'm a long time windows/Ubutnu user who have recently migrated to Mac OS X and running 10.7.4. One thing which i'm unable to get used to is that while the red button closes a window, the program will remain open until you quit the application using the Menu Bar. One option to bypass it is use the key combination Command+Q but by doing that all the instances of that program opens up the next time I open that application. Is there a way out?
I can hear the person on the other side, but they can't hear me. In System Prefs, the blue bar reacts when I clap, but the same bar in Skype Audio/Video settings doesn't react. I've had this problem using Cisco WebEx as well.
/System/Library/Framework/JavaVM.framework and /System/Library/Java have been deleted from my disk. I thought of making things back to normal by running the last Apple Java update (Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 as of this writing) but unfortunately I'm facing the following error message: I still have java from oracle but I'd like to have the official one as well. Any idea how I could get over this error message and proceed the install?
I am getting Out of variable memory error alert in iPhone 4S. I have tried resetting all settings. But this alert keeps on popping up with accept or cancel buttons. I was also not able to find anything from usage logs. There is also a badge in Setting icon but i am not able to find out from where this badge comes. Th version is 5.0.1. This alert comes frequently. Please Help.
Is there a place to install command line programs on OSX without an admin password? I've tried /bin and /usr/bin, and I have permission for neither. Like a ~/Applications, but for the command line.
When syncing photos through iTunes to my iPhone 4, I am finding that certain photos are not syncing. In one event there are 600+ photos yet only 200 are syncing across. Does anybody know why?
I've been putting all my music into a folder 'Music' then going to itunes and importing into library. The copy to itunes/media setting is enabled.
Is there a difference between updating iOS via OTA or iTunes? I have done some pretty good mucking around with my iPhone 4S's filesystem (e.g. deleting my Music folder). I have an inkling that the iTunes update is more thorough, and will reformat my entire filesystem, while I'm not so sure about the OTA update. Does anyone have any in-depth knowledge they'd like to share on the matter? Edit: I'll be going from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1
Would the MacBook Pro be able to reasonably support these use cases (Final Cut Pro and Diablo 3)? I define "reasonably" as: no choppy frame rate, responsive interaction, and not having to be set the game at the absolute minimum specs just to play (also, the computer not becoming as hot as the sun would be a bonus, but not a deal-breaker).
When I use the command line history ( CtrlR , CtrlP ) The command line screws up like this: The cursor is supposedly located at the end of the line ( just pressed CtrlE )
I have a scenario where multiple clients access the same NFS share, where they work with inDesign, Photoshop and such. They have problems with files and dirs going read-only (not in Terminal, though), and I have found the reason to be locks/extended attributes/resource forks. Over samba, it seem to work fine for them all, although they're not happy with the speed we've managed to squeeze out of the samba setup.
There are a bunch of pages out there for making a bootable Lion disk (either DVD or USB drive). However, the problem is that they all will only work on the machine they were created on - Apple is trying to be helpful by only downloading what you need for your current machine. What I need to do is to create a Lion install disk on a Mac Pro which I can use on a Mac Mini. I do not have physical access to the Mini at this time. Do I have any options? Is it possible to create a universal Lion install disk? Thank you.
I am with a school and we have several iPads that have been synced to our iTunes account. I do not have these iPads in my office. Can I tell by looking in my itunes account which iPads have been synced to my iTunes account?
When I open System Preferences and click on an item it says 'Loading Users & Groups' at the top of the window, but will not load the pane. I've tried deleting the property list file:
I've got a MacBook Pro (Early 2011) set up with Windows 7 64-bit on a Boot Camp partition. I'm using a mini DisplayPort adapter and an HDMI cable to connect to an Asus VH232H monitor. The problem is that using the native resolution (1920x1080) in Windows results in a black band appearing around the edges of the screen. I know a lot of people seem to have run into this in the past. How do I actually fix it? Some additional info: My research tells me I need to adjust an "overscan" setting, but can find no way to do this with the display drivers provided by Apple.
However, I need my calendar, notes, and contacts. In particular, my calendar on my main computer has reminders and to-dos years into the future for legal and regulatory deadlines as well as historical records of when I made such filings, so I have to preserve that. Plus I want day-to-day usage of the calendar to still work.
I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode. When I import photo to the iPad using the camera connection kit, it imports both versions of each file. Is there a way to only import the JPG version?
Why is it that my Mac (running 10.8 Mountain Lion) would rather swap than clear inactive memory? I know people say that the Mac OS manages itself and whatever, but there is a serious performance dip when my MacBook starts swapping out, even though it would have over 1.5 GB of inactive memory that isn't being cleared out. I have a launcher for the purge command in my dock - thats how severe it is!
I'm currently using Keynote to layout a web design, but I've made my slide too short. When I try to resize my slide, all the text increases in size, destroying my layout. So my question is, is there a way to resize my slide without resizing the text?
Today, out of the blue, my iPhone kept poping up a message that said my password was incorrect for my email account. I went to settings and reentered the password (I'm 100% sure this is the correct password). But the message kept popping up.
I have two Mac computers that I connect to using Screen Sharing and when the Mac Mini's wifi is disabled I get great performance out of it. The problem that occurs is when I enable wifi on the Mac Mini and use screen sharing it appears to bypass the ethernet connection and use wifi instead to connect resulting in a slow connection. Is there any way to force the iMac to connect to my Mac Mini via ethernet instead of wifi when wifi is enabled on the Mac Mini?
for some days I am experiencing a very strange behavior when my MacBook Air (newest generation) wakes up from the standby modus. Instead of the login view there are just many white and black lines across the screen. When I shut it down (pressing the off button for 5 secs) and start it again, everything works fine again. Does anyone have the same experiences or know a solution to this? Thanks and regards.
I purchased a Mac Mini Server (2x500 GB) with Snow Leopard Server. I upgraded to Lion (not Server). The Mac Mini should act as a Homeserver for my development. My needs are: Time Machine on HD2 for the Minis HD1 and for my MacBook (I'm sure 500GB are sufficient) MAMP installed from macports.org 24/7 uptime ssh from dynamic DNS screen sharing from local network I use Lion Server at work and figured I don't need it for the Mini at home, since I have no user management, don't want to use the built-in Apache and have read numerous discouraging reviews.
I can get the laptop display onto the screen but when I click Mirror Display it doesn't work and loses the signal. I have a MacBook Pro and the TV is a Samsung. I'm connecting via an HDMI cable. Any ideas? After all the videos I have watched when I click mirror display it should work.
I moved from MobileMe to iCloud. So my iPod2gn blocked in iOS4 is not part of the sync anymore. Well, it's a technical and commercial shame, but well, ok, enough said. I wanted to be able to have my Calendar and Address book sync by iTunes when I plug my iPod to my iMac. It works for emails, photos, calendars BUT not the AddressBook. Is this a known issue or am I missing some basic stuff here?
I'm working with a language file, with columns for different languages. My first row is the language names.
The Situation I work in an IT department for a law/property/ifa firm and we have iPhones rolled out to many of the important staff members. It is a UK firm, and as well as the permanent staff we also have consultants who may work for many companies come in who also get iPhones. We have a profile setup that allows our firm's mail and contacts to be synced with the phone. We also prohibit the use of iCloud as using it will breach the Data Protection Act as the iCloud severs are US based. The consultants who come in also have mail from other addresses they use to go to the phone. Our configuration we place on the phones disables the use of iCloud. The Problem
I've created an applescript application (in automator) to open ssh urls. The application is bound to the ssh:// url.
Is there a reference of keyboard shortcuts for System 4, so I can use a Macintosh SE with a keyboard and no mouse? I found a Macintosh SE and a keyboard on the street several years ago. It didn't have any cables, so the only thing I could do with the Mac was use another power cable and turn it on. Yesterday, my ADB cable arrived, so I can use the keyboard, but I still don't have a compatible mouse. According to my Googling, the Macintosh SE runs System 4 and Finder 5.2. Is there a reference of keyboard shortcuts for System 4, so I can play around with the system?
Is the iPhone 4 antenna problem fixed in the iPhone 4S? Was it secretly fixed for all new models or just the iPhone 4S or none?
I'm attempting to fix my friends old iMac G5 running OSX 10.4. There are a bunch of updates she needs, but she doesn't know her admin password. I'm attempting to reset it with her 10.4 install disc, but when I attempt to boot into it, the machine just runs and runs and runs and never seems to make it to the installation screen. I thought maybe it was the disc, so I downloaded an ISO of 10.4 and tried to boot into that, but that didn't help either. OSX seems to recognize the discs when I view it's contents in the folders, but booting into them just don't seem to work. Should I try booting from a USB version? I wanted to show her what Ubuntu might look like (so she doesn't have to pay $200 for Leopard, the last version of OSX her iMac will support), but booting into that LiveCD fails too.
Is there such a built-in shortcut for doing such action pairs? (e.g. accept+move to next, using a single shortcut) If not, how can I define such a custom shortcut?
Is there a command to find the date and time at which a Macintosh computer last entered the sleep mode?
I've got a kind of working solution to the first item - create an automator workflow using the action that splits a PDF into odd and even pages, repeated several times. In my case I repeated it 6 times which produces 64 pages in the end, although most of them are blank and can be trashed based on their size. This takes a while to run though, so I'd like to know if there is a more streamlined way of accomplishing this. The second one I've got nothing approaching a solution so far.
I am trying to read for an exam and I want to download exercises to my iPad. I have downloaded the exercises from here. I have no Mac laptop or desktop computer. I am tired of clicking every pdf one-by-one.
Since installing an unsupported video card typically means you don't get a boot screen on OS X, does that also preclude selecting boot drives on startup by holding down the option key? I'm looking at getting a Radeon 6870 for a MacPro3,1 for use on OS X Lion. I've filled all the drive bays and sometimes have different OSs installed. I'd also like to know if I'm going to loose access to the recovery drive if I happen to need it. If unsupported cards do prevent the boot drive selection screen from displaying, could I install a second 'supported' card in one of the PCIe x4 slots (the other x16 will be blocked) and get the boot drive selection screen back (by plugging in a monitor to it when necessary)?
The problem is that when you sync iPhone with google contacts through Microsoft Exchange all numbers with custom labels just don't sync to iPhone. So is there any solution to this problem?
I've an external HDD of 500GB and in HFS+ format. It works normally on my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. After I plugged it into a machine running Windows, I found a vacant partition of 128MB and formatted it to NTFS. I used Paragon HFS+ for Windows to read and copy files.
Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content (in particular posts comments) and it sometimes doesnt retrieve the posts at all? The website works quite well and fast but the app is significantly slower, using the same wireless network. Is something wrong in my phone or does anyone have hints how to debug something like this?
There is a really intuitive behavior in windows or linux systems: when I reduce a window, it vanishes to the corresponding "dock" icon. Then, when I click on the program icon, the window shows up.
We're running Wiki Server 3 on Mac OS Lion Server. I'm curious to know if there are any plugins for this wiki. I'm particularly interested in a code formatting plugin... Cheers, Nick
I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option. Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
I'm a (semi-new) Mac developer. I've been working on a component to my app that - in order to function properly - needs to download a fairly large file from the internet. I thought this file would be stored in memory (and would be automatically removed once the app no longer needed it via ARC), but it's actually stored in the /var folder. I've been running and debugging this component for numerous days, which means roughly 20GB of unnecessary files have built up. Of course, I quickly changed my code to remove this file once it's no longer needed, but now I have a big, single 20GB file on my system that I must get rid of. I have a 64GB MBA, so I need all the space I can get. This is the path: /private/var/folders/9r/s6cf1dsj0_30tbz14vmhxj1r0000gn/T
I'm new to iTunes and I was wondering how I get it to play just one album? At present I have "Grid" view enabled. I select the artist I feel like listening to, and it switches to Album by Artist view (songs and artwork). I double click on the album and it plays through, but then it continues down and plays the next album by the artist... Quite annoying! How can I get iTunes to just play the album I've told it to?
As seen from some of the youtube videos I tried to record a video playing on my mac but I couldn't hear anything. I chose File -> New Screen Recording in Quick Time Player. Any other software to do it or any other suggestions for how I can do it? Thanks
I have a ~50000 pictures: located in multiple folders not organized, there are duplicates source contains videos, but I need only pictures I would like to organize all of them into subfolders automatically as: targetdirectory/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/*.jpg either original filename or renamed something like YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.ext would be ok.. Should merge from multiple sources and should skip duplicates... I tried iphoto and aperture but it wasn't working 100% Thank you !
My /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup is 5GB and I'd really like to reclaim that space if I can. I back up my iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch to iCloud, so is there any reason not to simply delete the 9000+ legacy backups in this folder?
How do I disable the music player controls on the iPhone 4S lock screen? I've tried setting the "triple click home button" to "off", but it didn't help.
My MacBook Pro won't start up anymore. Here are the symptoms: displays only folder with question mark icon on startup
Then I installed the 600 GB SSD back in my Macbook Pro and started up the system. Everything works fine, with the exception that it seems to take forever for the computer to decide what partition to boot from - before the early password prompt (I use full disk encryption) I now have to stare at a white screen for about 10 seconds. Disk Utility reports that something is wrong with the partition table that might cause trouble when booting the system:
When I'm browsing a website on my laptop, I'd like to capture my laptop's screen with the iPhone's camera and be redirected automatically to the corresponding page. Can you recommend an app that automatically can recognize a URL in a picture?
All the instructions I can find for running CPAN on Mac OS X (eg. 1, 2 & 3) say to start by running this command in terminal: However when I do so I get this error:
I'm sure that my Wi-Fi router is fine because my MacBook is the only one with this issue. I see this happen especially when I use Skype, FaceTime, etc. This has been going on for a month and can't really find a fix.
I use TextMate for all my Python programming, but recently it stopped highlighting my Python code. I have also tried YAML, which isn't highlighted either. When I click Bundles, I only see the "Blogging", "HTML", "Hyperlink Helper" and "JavaScript" bundles.
I'm looking for an audio meter tool that will attach to any input or output on my Mac and show me the audio levels on that channel. I need it to show me independent levels for stereo sources so I can tell if a source is playing only audio on one channel or another. Does anything like this exist?
In the calendar app (iCal?) in iOS, is it possible to set a default calendar? Every time I go to add a scheduled event when I am at work, it picks the wrong calendar to add it to, and if I could just set a default I could save alot of time on that.
Any suggestions? I can buy an app or script something using PHP or AppleScript. I do not want to use just an SSH or VNC client because I want my kids to do this easily as well.
I have a 1st generation MacBook Air running Leopard 10.5.8. Recently it's not working very smoothly anymore. I've my Lion 10.7.4 retail DVD with me. When I boot up to the Lion CD, it shows that I can't update from the current OS. So if I use Disk Utility to format the hard drive, then will the installation install a new, clean Lion to my hard drive?
I have OS X 10.6.8 and I run MS Word:Mac 2011. I programmed the keyboard to allow me to jump from word to word in a document by hitting Control + Arrow key. This makes word processing much faster. However, I lost this ability after an update some time ago. Now, when I hit Control + Arrow key OS X cycles through what I believe are Spaces on my desktop.
I can't find any equivalent of the Excel Pivot Table or Open Office Data Table features. I'd like to sum up my data grouped by values in various columns. For example, if I have I want to be able to get
Is there any software available which would allow me to use an iPhone 4S' camera as my MacBook Pro's iSight camera? I am specifically looking for something that would allow me to use my iPhone as New Movie Recording via QuickTime Player. Anything would be appreciated, really. Thanks!
Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo? It washes out every picture I take.
I just picked up 16GB of RAM for my MacBook Pro, running the newest OS X. According to the NewEgg reviews, it should work in it. However, once I boot up, it shows the Apple logo and, after a few seconds, the spinner just freezes.
I've recently purchased an Apple Thunderbolt 27" display and having connected my second monitor side by side, I can see the DPIs between the two displays are different. My other monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster is 92dpi, so what DPI is the Thunderbolt display (and by inference) the Cinema Display? Apple's site just lists the the dimensions and the panel size and you can estimate using basic math that the DPI is approximately 109. However being the fact fascist that I am, 109dpi just sounds plain wrong; so either the assumption that the pixels are square is wrong, or the dpi is wrong (say 108 or 110) and the display is not quite 27" Is there any empirical evidence of the display's DPI or pixel structure that will cement the DPI figures? Is there an official statement from Apple (perhaps a slide in a Keynote somewhere) thats shows the actual DPI, or tech document I've missed that states it.
I'm curious if there is a way to re-order email accounts in Mail on iOS without re-setting all the accounts up (I haven't tested re-creating all the accounts). I know someone that has a ton of email accounts on his iPhone, and he would like to re-order them - ones he uses most at the top, with the other further down the list. Any ideas?
I have a longstanding issue with Application Shortcuts (ie. in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts). I can set up a new shortcut to a menu item of a specific application, eg. VoodooPad, and it shows up as expected, like so: This works correctly in the application.
Some time ago I used a piece of software that had a particularly nasty bug which corrupted the tags on all of my songs with non-latin characters. I've since updated and re-run the same piece of software, and as I play songs previously corrupted, I see their tags update and become correct and intact again. However, after some amount of time, it seems that the tags revert back to their corrupted state. This seems to manifest itself in other songs where no corruption has occurred, but the comments and some other custom keys I encode into the files disappear, or revert, as well.
I have a Mac Pro with a DVI display, and I got a new DVI display for it. I want to unplug the (only) display, and plug in the new display to that DVI port. And/or, unplug the existing display, and plug it into a DVI port on another (slower) graphics card. (Does that make sense?)
I wonder if there is a good way to memorize the Option key ⌥. I almost always think of it as the Shift key, because it looks like a lower level and a higher level (the small hyphen elevated).
I have a 32 GB iPad 3 with WiFi. If I try to follow an app store link, like from Safari or AppShopper, it will activate the running instance of the App Store but will not navigate to the link destination. If I force close the App Store and try again, it will launch the App Store and navigate to the right destination.
In Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows, I can duplicate a table simply by clicking its handle at the top-left (which selects the entire table), copying it and pasting it. When I do that in Word:mac, the table and contents is duplicated without any of the table formatting. This kinda sucks because the original table has a number of merged cells and all sorts of formatting going on. I'm basically using the source table as a template. I just updated Office:mac 2011 to SP2.
My computer -- with its attendant photo library -- was stolen, and now the only copy I have of many pictures is on my ipad. How can I transfer those photos to my new mac? I tried the instructions from here but these only found photos in the "Saved Photos" album, not all photos.
I am on the lookout for an IDS/IPS solution for OS X 10.6. I tried compiling snort for 10.6 and I'm having trouble compiling a dependency, DAQ. The error I get is: Any hints on how I can solve the problem? Any links you can point me to where I can get a build for snort that works on OS X?
I bought an iPhone4 from ebay, and it was marked as UNLOCKED, but in fact it was not.. After couple of emails, I gave this up, and I want to sell it. It is AT&T. The questions are:
Presently I am attempting to back up my whole computer's primary hard drive to an ISO file. When I attempt to do this using Disk Utility, I perform the following steps: Open disk utility and choose the disk I want to create an image from in the left pane. Click on File->New->Disk Image from "MyDisk" Then I choose Image format->DVD/CD write master Disk Utility runs for a long time, then as it nears the end of the operation it gives me the error "Filename too long" and quits. As an alternative, I attempted to create an ISO file using hdiutil, but receive an error after the file reaches a size of 2 GB: If I try this alternative command, I receive a different error:
I have the latest iPod Nano and I use it when I run. I have created several playlists for that purpose and sync'ed them to my Nano. Some of the playlists are 70-90 minutes long. However, the Nano won't let me start a playlist from a song different than the 1st song or let me shuffle songs within a playlist. So, for example, I want to run on a specific music album which is 70 minutes long and I always have to listed to the songs from the first 45 minutes of the album (because I run for 45 minute sessions). Is there a way around this? Regards,
I've been led to believe there's a difference between how a MacBook and an iPhone/iPad consume power: when a MacBook with a fully charged battery is plugged in, its components draw power directly from the charger while when an iPhone/iPad with a fully charged battery is plugged in, its components still draw power from the battery which is frequently recharged to keep it at 100%. Hence, it doesn't make a difference to the battery's overall lifespan whether the iPhone/iPad is plugged in while you use the device. Or in other words, if I'm using an iPhone/iPad and am not worried about battery life, there's no point in plugging it in anyway in the hope of prolonging battery lifespan? Is this correct or have I been misinformed?
Does any know why the -exec does not work on mac os x lion terminal? It works on linux and other variants but not on mac os x
I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website. But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.
I just bought a new Samsung SSD 830 and installed it my 13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) in the hard disk bay, replacing the drive that was there (I actually have a second drive in the optical drive's slot). Unfortunately, when I started up my computer (from the other drive I have), I can't see the SSD in System Information (formerly Profiler) or Disk Utility.
Is there any way to see the battery level of bluetooth device (eg, magic mouse) on bootcamp+windows?
Sometimes my conversations get long and unwieldy over time, but being so sentimental I'd like to keep them around on my devices (and not just leave them in iTunes backups that I might not be able to access again later). In the Messages app, can I start a new conversation with a person under the same number or Apple ID, while preserving our previous conversation on my iOS device? Or if not, is there a feasible workaround (somehow involving switching numbers in the person's contact card or something)?
I just added a second monitor and my display is mis-sized. My macbook air monitor extends partly onto my external monitor. There are parts of the display that are off-screen - if I move my mouse to each side, the display will shift slightly with it, like the display is too big to fit the monitors. I've tweaked with the display resolution to no avail. Any ideas?
Is it possible, using Preview (or maybe some other tool if not doable with Preview, but Preview preferably) to remove all annotations from a PDF file, without manually deleting every annotation?
I need a credit card reader for an app I'm developing. Since this site is more about the hardware than the developer side, I'm looking for a hardware piece that I can buy that reads credit cards. Most of the CC readers I see on iTunes or amazon come with an app that can read them: Square, Credit Card Terminal, Mobile Smartphone Magstripe Reader Are there magnetic card readers that work with iOS that consumers / makers can experiment with?
I have a problem with my display, at loading time I can't see Apple logo and when I press option bottom to change the booting device I can not see any thing except a dark screen and my Mac comes out all thing is fine and I have no problem.
I have a new MacBook pro (I just switched from PC), and an older scanner (a Mustek A3 USB). The scanner comes with drivers for OS 9 (I assume that's a non-starter on OS X), and Windows XP. I have Parallels Desktop 6 running a Windows 7 installation on my MacBook.
I get some long emails in which the important stuff is at the bottom after many pages. It is tedious to scroll down. Is there a way to get to the bottom quickly? Either for iPhone iPad or both.
I am using Fake to automate some web tasks. I have a CSV file on disk that contains rows of data which I'd like to use to fill out forms in my Fake Workflow. How can I iterate thru the rows in the CSV file and access the values found in each column in my Fake Workflow?
I want to run an Automator script every three weeks that sends an email. I know how to create an alarm in iCal to run the automator script that sends the email. The problem is that the iCal event gets synced to all three of my Macs and they all try to run the script. The script only exists on one of the computers so I get error messages on the other two. How can I create an event in iCal that doesn't get synced to all my Macs?
I have some mp3 files on the computer of podcasts I want to hear. I can simply sync them to the iPhone (4, iOs 5.x) like any other music file but I wondered if there's a way to treat them differently - I don't want them to appear in my music (for example, when shuffling songs I don't want the podcasts to appear).
I'm looking to expand my internal 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD that came with my 17" MacBook Pro (mid-2010) running OS X Lion. I'm interested to hear from other MacBook Pro owners who've upgraded their HDD with hybrid (SSD + hard disk) drives, especially if they're using the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5" Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003.
When annotating a PDF in Preview I regularly highlight text then add a note to that highlight. This is a frustrating process as I can do the first bit with a keyboard shortcut, but must then right-click the highlight to add a note to it. I want to be able to do all this with a single key combination. Any ideas how to make this possible?
A few weeks ago I bought a book in the iBookstore. The title of this book is "Der Aurora Effekt" (German). Then a few weeks later I bought the book "The Tributes of Panem" (German version).
I have an iPhone 4 with some slight water damage. The only issue is that when I am listening on headphones, occasionally it thinks that it is docked (which silences the headphones), then half a second to 10 seconds later, it thinks it has been removed from the dock that it was never connected to and thus pauses the audio. Since all this happens in the OS while it monitors the status of the headphone jack and the media dock, it would be very easy to write a program to tell it to stop polling the media dock, and thus the faulty dock detection switch would be ignored. So, has someone already written an iPhone app that is on Cydia that would let me turn off the dock detector switch?
I pass en0 or en1 as the sole argument to the script and run as sudo. When I do this, the MAC does change, however I cannot restore connectivity until I reboot and the new MAC is lost. Initially the interface displays no IP, but after a few minutes it displays an IP and claims to have DHCP information. However, I believe this is a cached data and not an actual renewal, as I cannot ping, load pages, or otherwise connect to the Internet. I have appended this snippet with no improvement in results.
I have an iPhone that was dropped in water. Once the backlight level goes below a certain point, the screen is completely black/useless. I need to go in iFile or some other file system browsing software to set the brightness level to 80% or something high. I've looked around and found the backlight level for SB Settings but I'm not sure if that will work. Anybody know where that setting is?
I have a Macbook and an iMac, generally I work on my Macbook, but sometimes I need that information on my iMac. My OS is Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
I have my iPod set up to only sync certain playlists, so that I don't fill up the whole thing. However, iTunes keeps on losing my sync settings for my iPod across syncs. It doesn't remember any of the settings I set at all and I have to go back and check all the playlist again...etc. How can I fix this, as it is really annoying (and a big hassle)? I've tried restoring the iPod, repairing permissions. There are two other devices synced to my iTunes, an iPod nano, and an iPad. Update: The recent update to iTunes (10.6.3) doesn't seem to fix this issue.
If I drag a file into an OmniFocus task, it will create a link to that file. Is there a way to actually place the file inside the task instead of just creating a link?
Does anyone have any experience trying to get an Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64? Note: This isn't for a Bootcamped Mac, it's for a Dell XPS Laptop. Is this even possible? Thanks a lot.
Is there any way to view the width and height of image type files in Finder's column view? I am runnning Snow Leopard. There isn't a checkbox for dimension in the Finder's view options:
I have one iPod touch and my dad has a iPhone and a iPad. I use my dad's Apple ID. My dad has many apps and if I want a game/app that normally costs money he mostly has it, so I can install it for free. Now I want to make a new account but my dad says that I can't install his apps anymore so that I have to pay the apps again. E.g: My dad has cut the rope and I want it too, can I just switch accounts and install it or do I have to buy it myself on my own account? And when I make a new ID, do I lose my apps than?
i've a lot of files (1000+) in a single directory, and i would like to organize them into sub directories, according to their first letter. So i've 200 files starting with A, and i would like to move them into subdirectory "A", then all "B" files etc. etc. How to do ?
I've got a co.uk domain set up in Server Admin on an OS X Lion server for mail. It's all running fine. I'd like to also set up a .com domain to run through the same mail server.
I've set up port forwarding on both Netgear DGN2000 router and airport extreme base station. I've checked with Network Utility that the port 8888 is open. Yet I don't seem to be able to make the (Wordpress) site accessible externally (according to client). Also, is there a good way to check this myself from home, apart from using the browser on my phone on 3G?
My iMac loses its Wifi connection from minute to minute. To make it active again, I have to run "Assist Me..." from the Network preferences panel. This is really, really annoying. Does anyone know what's going on? I'm running Mac Os 10.7.4.
I've got an older iHome iPhone dock model which, among other things, has an alarm clock feature that I use regularly with my iPhone 4S. My standard procedure for setting my alarm is this: I open the app I want to play as an alarm, then lock the phone, then put it in the dock. Most of the times, this works well: at the alarm time, the app gets the play signal from the dock, and the app in the foreground starts playing music.
I received a PDF by e-mail which is unreadable on my Mac (Lion 10.7.3) and on my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1) but the same PDF renders perfectly on Windows. If I use Chrome on my Mac, (which has its own built in PDF renderer and doesn't use the OS X one), it renders correctly as well. So far it's the only PDF I've ever encountered with the problem, but others are having similar problems.
I have a 1st generation iPad and it is doing a very strange thing. All the installed 3rd party apps are muted. Video and music playback works and audio is ok, but all other Apps are muted.
I lost the tab key on my macbook and since i rarely use the uppercase key i'm wondering if it is possibe to use it instead by remapping or else? *=URL=* I installed KeyRemap4Macbook but can't figure out how to do it. Thanks a lot
Do I need a step down transformer to charge my Iphone 4 while traveling in the UK? What wattage transformer is safe to use with my Iphone 4?
I've been using Mail.app to read my email since 1992 or so, back when it was called NeXTmail. I'm generally pleased with it. Lately, though, I've been having a problem with the IMAP implementation, and specifically with Dreamhost. The problem that I'm having is that Mail.app sometimes doesn't notice when new mail is added to a mailbox, and the only thing I can do is "rebuild" the mailbox. This is a problem. Why does it happen? Is there an email provider that doesn't have these problems? Well, gmail doesn't have the problem, but it has bother problems.
I have bought Lion on the AppStore and burned an installation DVD from the DMG file (and subsequently lost the DMG file). Since DVDs are a bit clumsy and not available on all systems, I want to buy a 4 GB USB Stick and turn it into a Fresh Lion Installation DVD. I found some questions about how to create a Recovery USB Drive, but I don't want recovery, I want a fresh install, like the Lion USB Drive on the Apple Store. Is there a way to do that from the 10.6 DVD and the Lion download?
Why would a volume get mounted twice like that? Is there some other place I should be looking to find the duplicate mount setting?
I upgraded to 10.7.4 and my dock on the bottom (with no enhancements) received this light/shadow box effect on startup. (It used to have no background.) I don't seen an option to remove it—is this a bug or a permanent change, and how can I easily revert it?
I want to export ALL the audio tracks from garageband to audacity. I searched on the internet and it is apparently not possible ( here for instance), or better it is possible but one track at time. It seems so weird that nobody found a workaround or wrote a software which performs this acrion... So, my questions are:
I know that administrators should be installing such binaries in /usr/local/bin, but what if a user doesn't have admin access? And/or what if a user wanted said binaries to travel with their home folder? Naturally, it would seem that any such location would have to be manually added to the $PATH, but I'm curious to know where other people are putting these?
In xcode you can go back and forth in your program by swiping the mouse. Is there an additional keyboard shortcut for that? In visual studio 2010, for example, you do so by Ctrl - and Ctrl Shift - How do you that in xcode with the keyboard?
It's been bugging me for quite some time that switching desktops means the application stays at the desktop you're leaving, then pops up on the desktop you switched to. In Snow Leopard, the application stayed where it was and just floated with you when switching desktops, making it a lot easier to keep working in the same window or even to keep watching a movie. This of course applies only to applications you've assigned to all desktops. I hope this will be fixed in Mountain Lion and if so I will update to that immediately, but is there any way this can be resolved right now, in Lion?
I have a word doc saved as an attachment in my inbox. I can read it using my iPhone 4S, but I can't edit it, and anyway, I want to edit it on my MacBook Pro. But there is (was) no Internet where I was, and so I couldn't access the file on my computer. Is there any way to transfer the file from my phone to computer using USB?
I've looked everywhere for the answer to this. And it is honestly a important question. Is the iPad Smart Cover flammable?
My iPad 1 charger was burned because of high voltage, so it stopped working. Currently, I am using an iPhone 3GS mini charger. It charges the iPad but only very slowly when the iPad is on but the display is off. Will it make any problem if I continue using mini charger for charging my iPad 1 or do I need to buy a new charger? If yes, what is the price of new charger in India?
I'm looking for a way to include the username and password to an auto configurated setting for proxies on iOS. Any ideas?
I recently got a Mac and I synced my iPod shuffle with it. I have around 300 songs on my iPod but despite the fact I set the playing order to shuffle, the iPod doesn't shuffle the items very well. It plays 3 songs from every album in a row. How do I make sure it shuffles well?
I've recently purchased an iPad and I'm looking for an app that will allow me to resize and crop photos to specific dimensions. There are plenty of editing apps that I have seen but nothing seems to have the ability to edit to set dimensions. For example I have a photo that is 800x600 and I need to edit it to be 660x300.
Finally upgraded my MacBook Pro (Unibody late 2008) from leopard to snow leopard, with a view to go to Lion when it finishes downloading. I've now noticed that hitting the single button on my Etymotic HF-2's no longer play/pauses the media in the active player but launches iTunes if it's not running, and play/pauses iTunes content if iTunes is running. Historically on Leopard, pressing this button would cause the active player to play/pause, be it Spotify, VLC or any other media player (Though spotify and VLC are my most used players) Anyone know how to return to this behavior?
I am endeavoring to use the MacBook Pro to broadcast its Ethernet Internet connection as WiFi, in order to access this connection through my iPhone. I have made the following configurations:
i've formatted an external hard drive in HFS+ using Ubuntu, and i've copied into 600 gb of data's. Now, i've connected it to a Mac OsX Lion and shared it to a lan with 4 mac's. The problem is that users can't create, copy or change any files! So i need (i think) to change all permission and owner of the hard drive files: but how ? The problem is that i try to change it (chmod, chown etc) but no change's is possible. All files and folder remain as admin:staff ! How to do ? Thank you!
Suppose some file "Any File.pdf" is in the Trash (aka ~/.Trash). How can I determine its original location?
I need install an older version of XCode. I tried a lot of thing, but the XCode aways show a message saying I can't install it.
Whenever I try to do a software update on OS X Snow Leopard, it gets to the point where it says it needs to restart, goes to the spacey background, and then sits there indefinitely. I've tried booting from the OS install disk and doing permissions and file repairs (which did find and supposedly fix problems), but it still hangs.
I have a following script that I have been using for years to paste selection or a whole line from TextWrangler to R. I got it from some website, slightly modified, and it has worked perfectly: Now I wanted to do the same, but pasting to Terminal window instead of R. However, when I modify the relevant line (3rd line from end) of the above script to:
Is there a way to make the Stock Widget in iOS's Notification Center to display percentage change instead of price change? Any Cydia tweak? In the Stocks.app you can switch between those and market cap by pressing the price change tile on the right.
My child has been sharing my Apple ID for years in order to buy music for her iPod (now iPhone and iPad). For years, we had our separate devices and PCs where our music libraries resided. However, recently, I activated iCloud for my new iPhone and iPad and now all of our data has meshed. I have her contacts, she has my contacts, music, etc. My question is how can I set up a distinct Apple ID for her but not have her lose her contacts, music, settings, etc.?
I created the /etc/launchd.conf file but at start the content is never read. The content of launchd.conf is: load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/KillVuze.plist (I run on OSX 10.7.2 ) If I load the plist by command line the "launchd list" show my plist as registered, but not after reboot even if I proper set the /etc/launchd.conf Is this loading of non-default plist files (those stored outside the normal locations) best accomplished in this manner?
Is there any possible way to avoid these long "Re: AW:"(and so on) in the subject field of Mail? I know that Thunderbird can replace e.g. AW: (that is the German version coming from Outlook) or SV: (Danish) with the proper Re:. Up to now, I could not find anything similar for Apple Mail.
I have an iPhone and a MacBook. My wife the same. Is it possible (and how) to specify which devices should be called? For example, when one of us travels, we want to be contacted on the phone, from the computer, and when the other travels, the reverse.
The more I try put on a CD and the closer I get to the 80 minute mark, the longer it takes to burn with it on occasion never finishing, the time rises exponentially. I never try and burn more than 80 minutes (not sure it will let you anyway). Is this a known issue? I'm using the standard 'burn from playlist' method. Also sometimes it goes nuts and starts generating random 'time remaining' times, changing every couple of seconds (see below).
I've read in quite a few places that sales trend reports update anywhere between 3AM - 5AM Cupertino time once a day. But what about other stats? When do app ratings update? When do app ratings update? When do customer reviews update? When do customer reviews update?
Is there an application or command-line utility for Mac OS X to query a hard-disk to see if it is 'asleep' or 'awake' right now? (i.e. as controlled by Energy Saver / pmset disk sleeping preferences). Note that I'm after the current sleep state, not just whether the system will put the disk to sleep when its idle. I have two hard drives in my MacBook Pro, an SSD for the System and a much larger "regular" mechanical drive for various large files I don't often use.
I am using Windows XP, now I want to install Mac OS X Lion (10.7). My problem is I want both operating systems. Is it possible? Will it be possible to use Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and XP simultaneously?
I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 on a late 2011 MBP. I use a Logitech mouse with it, and rely on the Logitech Control Center software to configure the mouse speed/acceleration (I prefer it over the Mac OS X mouse acceleration).
I happily use mail with several accounts. When I send a new email I often forget to choose the correct 'From' account. Is there a mail plugin that allows to set the default 'From' account using some rules. One example could be: if the recipient ends in '@example.com' use the work account.
Is there any way I can get the battery health of an iPod, specifically a 5th gen Nano? I've done a little bit of googling and I don't think there is a way, but I though I could give it a try here. I would like to buy a used iPod Nano (5th gen), but I am worried that the battery might not last very long, so I was wondering if there is any way I could check that (other than playing a song over and over again). Thanks
What is the best electronics circuit simulator app for iPad where I can draw a circuit and monitor its behaviour?
Is there any way at all to use the mouse cursor to move the cursor in terminal, like click where you want it and press a key to move it there? This is one of the most annoying things I've ever found using the terminal I know Ctrl+A will move to the beginning of the line but sometimes these commands are so long
If you have the Facebook App on your iOS device, and you download the Facebook Camera App, the first time you go into Facebook Camera, you get: Continue as David W. (or whatever you're name is)
I am trying to print a business card design, and the printers recommend using the 'Coated FOGRA39' ICC color matching profile. At first I thought I didn't have this profile, so I downloaded it for free from Adobe. It turns out that the same file already existed in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Recommended.
I recently upgraded my MBP to Lion, and now the battery indicator in the menubar at the top of the screen constantly shows "(Charged)", even when the indicator on the side shows almost empty. Any ideas on what's going on or what I can do to fix it? Edit: It does have an internal battery.
I have a system with Snow Leopard and iMovie 09. If I upgrade my system to OSX Lion, will it also upgrade my iMovie 09 to iMovie 11?
My super old desktop is currently having problems connecting to the Internet. Is there a way that I can update my iPhone to the new operating system without my computer connecting to the internet?
I have noticed that I can receive skype calls and messages on my iPhone for a while now. Does Skype simply stay sign-ed in until I restart my iPhone and does it use the same amount of battery as other apps with notifications WHEN running in the background.
I've got (I think) an late-2009 Mac mini. (It's the last mini before they removed the optical drive) Recently it crashed, and when trying to reboot it, it hangs at the Apple logo.
I took my iPhone 4 to the Apple store based on this problem. The iPhone crashes during calls, when spawning new apps, when navigating an existing app. They suggested it was due to too many concurrent Apps running. Since that time I have sought to keep the number of apps down, but continue to experience crashes. Any suggestions?
I'd like to copy the current directory to the clipboard, something like: pwd | pbcopy. However, pwd does not escape the space, so something in "Application Support", for example, doesn't copy correctly. I don't seem to remember this always being the case, so I could have boffed something. Using iTerm2.
I need to add some line to nano .bash_profile in Terminal. Then: 1) I enter with this command line: nano .bash_profile 2) Add the line I need 3) now I don't know how to Save and Exit
I've setup the profile manager and locking a laptop works great while on the same LAN as the Lion server but if I'm outside the office it will never get the remote lock request. The Lion server is behind a NAT. Do I need to forward ports to the lion server?
Is there a way to (temporarily) view another user's file on OS X other than to change the permissions of the file? I'd like the OS to ask for the user name/password.
I'm currently running the old version of Apple TV (4.4.4) but I've been considering upgrading, now that the new version has an untethered jailbreak. I use the Apple TV primarily for FireCore's Media Player (files off my NAS) and Netflix.
I've been trying to ditch Google Chrome and start using Safari both on my MacBook (OS X Lion) and my Windows 7 desktop. After setting up iCloud on my Mac, I've set up bookmarks sync with Safari via iCloud on the Windows machine, as suggested in this question. The initial sync went well, and all of my bookmarks appeared in Windows Safari.
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on an early 2010 15" MacBook Pro. After restarting from scratch (what I don't do often usually) my trackpad is set back to "click" instead of "touch". This started happening lately and I suspect this came with an update. Is this a known bug and/or is there a solution to this?
Macbook Pro Running 10.7.4 attempting to share ethernet connection via Airport(Wi-Fi) and trying to serve 192.168.1.x addresses to connected clients. I've tried the guidance provided here (Dead link as of June 2016) and the article Mac OS Hints: Change the default subnet for Internet Sharing My com.apple.nat file has the following:
My Mac is connected to internet using WiFi and its working fine. I want to share the internet connection via LAN but I am unable to select the port (Ethernet) to be used for sharing in the internet sharing menu. Please see the screenshot attached.
For some reason—presumably a sync by my iPhone that overwrote my iPad’s more recently downloaded library—the majority of my iBooks were deleted. The books I purchased can easily be restored, but I had downloaded a bunch of samples to, well, sample, before I bought the books.
I have some PDF files on my computer that I'd like to read on my iPad on the go. What free software can I use to read any PDF file I want? I would obviously need to transfer these PDF documents somehow to the iPad device, correct? I prefer something with nice turn pages effects, if possible, but free is a must.
I have a Macbook Air with Lion. "Most of the time" / "Intermittently", when I plug in a USB device, the built-in keyboard/pad stop working. I find this fairly frustrating. Does anyone know what's wrong?
I want to make a bootable Windows 7 USB in OS X Lion. How can I do that?
I have an Apple ID that I can not longer access, so I wonder is it better to create a new one? Let's say I've purchased apps and other products using my old Apple ID, some of which are still on my PC, but are linked to my Apple ID. Can I still retrieve those if I create a new ID, or should I purchase the content again?
Safari is fast at everything, except "Find". When I hit command-F, I get the beachball for 5 to 25 seconds (and then the Find bar appears as normal and everything's good again). I have plenty of free memory, and the system disk is an SSD with plenty of free space, and my CPUs are almost completely idle.
Xcode not submitting to iTunes flawlessly has ALWAYS plagued me! I just don't understand what's going on, ever!
My iPhone is asking me to enter the password for the CalDav account "Yahoo". What does this mean? Do I have to do it? Can I stop it from asking for it?
When a context menu opens how do you know which keys are mapped to which entries in the menu? Is OS X just guessing or is there something that the developer specifically defined for these. In this particular menu when pressing E it jumps down near the bottom. Took a screenshot to show explanation.
The keyboard on my iPod malfunctioned, and I couldn't get onto it. I then backed it up and restored it. After it was restored, I tried to put my previous files back on it, but only got my pictures and bookmarks on. It says the "other" category is using 2.5GB of space! I am wondering what possibly is going on? (If it helps, it was jailbroken and now is upgraded to iOS 5.1.1).
I’m fairly new to Automator, in that I’ve used it only once before. What I’m trying to do is clean up a bunch of Android app assets, which are named like so:
Some of my software will be loaded at login, but I don't want it to be loaded as-it-was when I closed it. How can I disable this feature?
My iPod touch does not respond since yesterday. I cannot see anything on the screen and the buttons don't do anything, no backlighting either. The problem started when I wanted to plug my iPod into the wall to charge it (it was almost empty). When I plugged in my iPod, the screen went out and I have had no response since. I think the battery is broken, but I am not sure. How can I fix this? Or should I contact Apple?
I tried to use Keep in Dock option with a Java application that is started from the command line but when I try to restart the application it will fail - and this is happening because it will start java without any parameters. There are two ways of starting the application on OS X but both of them fail if you want to use the Keep in Dock option. start it using the shell script olv.sh start the jar file logview.jar by clicking on it in Finder. In case you want to debug, the application is *=URL=* but I know that the same problem applies for other apps too. How can I solve the problem so I can start the application from Dock and eventually from Finder also.
Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS for use on Mac OS X? Some of them are not quite clear and I would like to see their base meaning (I know that you are free to use them, still as the glyphs they should have an Unicode name).
I purchased a refurbished iMac "originally released May 2011" from Apple (*=URL=* ), hoping it'd still have Snow Leopard on it. Ended up having Lion on it. My Googling says it originally came with 10.6.6, so it definitely supports Snow Leopard, but I guess in the refurbishing process they upgraded it to 10.7 and now I can't get it to go back. How can I downgrade an iMac12,1 from Lion to Snow Leopard?
I'm slightly confused under Lion as to how to get dependencies in place for Homebrew. It wants Xcode in place, and I can go to the app store and click on "Install", and it dutifully says "Installing"... and stays stuck on "Installing" after several minutes. I can find Xcode but apparently not get to "Installed", in the past indicative.
No matter what I do, I can't get new items that I add to Outlook 2011 calendar to actually show up in iCal. Is this a bug? Does anyone have a fix for this?
Assuming Finder --> View --> View Options --> Show Icon Preview is enabled, is it possible for a .webloc file icon to show a preview of the referenced web-page? I think the browser would have to do this, when I drag from the browser URL box to the desktop. But so far, with multiple popular browsers, I see nothing but not-very-informative standard icons. For example, the Safari compass. Does any popular browser support this, say, through a preference setting or an add-in?
A friend has an iPhone and they need to wipe it and remove the jailbreak on it. They don't need a backup. The problem is they don't have access to a computer with iTunes on it to do this.
Borrowed a laptop from a friend and would like to clear all internet history and clear all flash caches etc, and forget passwords from the keychain (if it stores these?) Been using incognito mostly but yeah, and weird cookies stored in a random subolder or anything? Thanks in advance!
I have an iPhone 3Gs and the latest iPod Touch. Neither have 3G data connectivity and are only connected to the Internet via WiFi. When either device spends a while not being connected to WiFi (for instance, when camping), the Location Services turn off on their own.
I'm a long-time Windows "power user" and developer who has recently decided to move over to Mac OS X. On OS X Lion and indeed previous versions there seem to be two main options for scripting and automation in OS X: AppleScript and Bash script. The latter is of course a direct consequence of OS X using the Unix "bash" shell, while the former is Apple's own innovation. The syntaxes are clearly very different, with AppleScript having a pseudo-natural-language style.
Is there any way that I can get auto-correct on my iPhone 4S to stop changing the word "Yo" to "To?" I have tried adding a keyboard shortcut for "Yo" as well as adding Spanish to my International Keyboards, but its still happening.
I use SelfControl quite frequently for completing homework and such, but at school, while I was away from my keyboard at the white board, my friend thought it would be funny to set the timer to 10 hours. I am currently using a proxy to ask this question. Is there any way to disable this useful, but inflexible application?
I found some icons that would be a good fit to my iPhone app based on the features/scenarios that the app will provide, but noticed that an app in the App Store already use those icons. So question is, is it ok to use those icons again? Or in another way, are the icons from the App Store apps allowed to be copied and used in other apps that are owned by different organizations?
I have a 24" iMac at home which at the max resolution (1920 x 1200) is very comfortable for me to see my desktop and read text. Now at work I have a 27" iMac with a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 which with my poor eyesight makes text extremely tiny and hard to read. If I decrease my resolution to 1920 x 1080 it's back to being very easy to read, though it makes text in some instances (most notably in terminal) quite blurry and hard to read. So, how can I increase font sizes for all applications without decreasing my resolution?
Disk Utility reports the S.M.A.R.T. Status as not verified for external disks, and by default Mac OS X only seems able to access S.M.A.R.T. information on internal hard drives. Is there a way to get SMART information on external USB or Firewire hard disk?
I'm trying to change my voice on Skype using this tutorial *=URL=* which I got working with GarageBand '09. However, I just bought GarageBand '11, and there doesn't seem to be any vocals software instrument. Where can I find them, please?
When I record the screen on a Mac, how can I show keyboard typing in the same image (as shown below)?  Is there particular screen recording software or settings that will do this?
The main reasons seems to be that I am running Mac OS X on a completely external disk (firewire); I am reserving the internal disk for Windows. I believe it’s the reason for my trouble since you can find many people have similar problems when they are running os x from a second internal disk (usually when they replaced a MacBook or iMac SuperDrive by an SSD drive).
I have a "server" with OS X Lion and a shared hard disk, and some clients with various version of OS X (10.4 to 10.7). When a client search for a file, I would like to limit the search to the file name and not the content of the files. Is there a way to do this?
My 4th gen ipod has not been used for some time, I have a new usb to jack cable for charging it. The shuffle shows no signs of life, no lights, when I plug it into the wall or computer(different docs, different computers). I left it to charge for a few hours, but nothing. I followed some instructions on the trouble shooting pages of ipod shuffle... bla to nop avail.
I know it's a bit weird, but I received a Pages document. I'm currently on a Windows machine. Can I have some kind of preview/quicklook of the document or print it?
I have an iMac running OS X 10.7.4. I successfully managed to get the Mac into my company's Active Directory forest using dsconfigad -add example.com -domain example.com ..
I just setup dual monitors for my Mac and keep accidentally typing into an app in monitor 1 after I've moved my mouse to an app in monitor 2. I can't be the only one who runs into this with dual monitors so any advice for how to handle this?
Recently, I was working on an Excel file when the program closed unexpectedly; luckily, my work was mostly saved by the recovery feature of Excel. However, Excel created a file on my desktop, titled "FD4C0910" that cannot be compressed, deleted, or moved. Upon attempting to "Get Info" (both with the keyboard shortcut, ⌘+I, and by right clicking and selecting "Get Info"), nothing happens. Double clicking the file, or even highlighting and pressing ⌘+O, does nothing. Here is an image of the phenomenon:
I have my MacBook late 2008 sometimes running Windows 7 via BootCamp. The keyboard has a German layout. Pretty much like the Wikimedia image below except that the blue symbols in the lowest line are not accessible.
When creating contacts, you can enter nicknames. Is there a way to make these nicknames appear when your contacts call/text you as opposed to their full names? Thanks.
In Keychain Access it looks like you can only untrust/delete certificates one at a time. But there are a lot of certificates I want to get rid of. How can I take care of them all at the same time?
How can I use iPhone GPS and share it with an OS X application to get live position on Mac? Note: I am looking for a way of seeing current location, live, in Google Earth, Google maps or something similar.
Since one of OSX Lion's software update I'm facing a strange behavior with some of the apps installed on my mac. For example with Onyx - when launching it by double click on Onyx.app I'm getting the following error: AppleScript Error: sh: sw_vers: command not found (127). If I run Open Onyx.app, it works OK. I've been trying to re-install OSX from Mac OSX utilities, and it was OK but after the first OSX software upgrade that error occurs. I'm not sure is the default path setting issues since cat /etc/paths yields the following: /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin What is wrong with my system?
Is there any way to automate a bunch of terminals starting up at once. I find myself opening several windows and running the same sequence of commands in various tabs. I'd like to stick all this in a single shell file (so I could keep it in version control, share it, etc) rather than have to add it all to a GUI. Ideally with iTerm, but automating with any terminal program would be interesting to hear about.
How can I get the songs out of my iPod and move them to an iPad? I thought I could just copy the music to my computer and then transfer it to the iPad, but didn't work (I couldn't see any music file on my iPod). Any other methods?
Date being set to 2001. (As a programmer I know this is a default NSDate.) Microsoft Word keeps on bringing up random popups. Warning that apps may behave erratically because of the date (maybe why Word does that). Safari always needs to confirm some Facebook certificate keychain signing thing. Quite slow/buggy
I don't know if this is normal, but about 10 minutes ago my MacBook Air shut down. I plugged it in and pressed the power button and my screen looked odd for about 20-30 seconds. I decided to take a picture of it because it does this every time my battery dies and I plug it in, so here it is:
When I pull down the Notification center on either my iPad or iPhone, it displays 5 emails (I have it set to that), but they are not the unread emails at the top of my inbox. They all appear to be drafts! When I click on them they take me to that particular draft, and I can't seem to find a way to locate and delete that draft. I have looked through all of my accounts and mostly cleared out all the drafts that are listed, but none of them have been the five that show up in my Notification center. It has me stumped as to how that is happening on both of my iDevices. Note that it isn't the same drafts, but only the ones that were created on those devices. Also, when new email comes in, it does display on top of the others. This is a somewhat recent problem, and both devices have worked as expected before. So my questions are: How do I access a list (and delete) of drafts that have been created on the iPhone, or iPad itself?
Sandboxed apps have to declare their entitlements. Of course, that doesn't do me any good if I can't tell what entitlements it declares. A text editor that has entitlements for Core Location, Network Server, and my Address Book, without my knowledge, could be much worse than an unsandboxed app. How can I see what entitlements an app has?
Our kids each have an iPod touch and share my iTunes account. My son now has my daughter's Game Center info on his iPod touch.. Can we get a separate Game Center ID for him?
Surely there must be some process, server, daemon on the remote machine that I can bounce? Something short of rebooting?
I'm having a problem with dragging and dropping on my Mac. The icon is picked up, but it doesn't let go most of the time; it's almost as though I've still got the button down.
I've got some (non-DRM) videos in iTunes that I'd like to transfer to my wife's iPad. She bought the iPad and set it up without ever connecting it to a computer, so it's never been synched with iTunes anywhere.
I can't enter my password at the boot screen. Some key-presses seem to be registered but obviously not the correct ones. For example, pressing the N key once doesn't show a keystroke, but pressing it twice does. It feels like there's some function/alt/ctrl/shift key that might be constantly pressed, but I can't tell which one, or make it behave differently by pressing those. An external keyboard (either bluetooth or usb) doesn't behave differently
I've got a list of times and ages, and want to extract ages for a particular range of time values. So I've used an 'if' formula to copy the age for an entry if its time is between two values. The problem is the value for entries outside that time range. I'd like value to be 'empty' or 'null'. I've tried including no argument in the 'if' formula and also and empty string (""). A check with 'isempty' returns true. For example: both of these produce values that aren't 'empty'.
I would like to know what date some of the photos on my iPhone were taken. Does iPhoto for iOS let me do that?
I can't start Inkscape and Gimp. I have the latest Xcode and the latest xQuartz installed. My logs shows:
when I view a page on my iPad and there is a YouTube video embedded, if I click it I can watch it directly within safari. This way, though, I cannot favorite the video, I cannot know the title of it or share it. Only thing I can do is watch it. I'd like to be able to open the link to video in native youtube app, or at least open the YouTube web page of that video. Is there a way to do it?
My optical drive doesn't work on my MacBook Pro, and my Internet connection is too slow to use the recovery partition to download Lion. I have a disk and a Windows PC I can use on the same network. I installed the disk sharing software from Apple on the PC, and used the remote install program that comes on the disc.
I'ld like to use ZEVO (ZFS) on my Storage-Device. There shall the Aperture-Library be stored. Are there any issues using an Aperture - Library on ZFS formatted device. Thanks allot
I want to be able to SSH into my Mac, but it's disabled in System Preferences (Sharing --> Remote Connections, I believe). The administrator disabled this, and I'm looking for a way to re-enable it without an admin password. Is there a way I can re-install SSH to enable it, or something along those lines?
Using Automator, I tried to create a simple application, but I don’t know how to move ahead. I want to combine PDFs into a single file. The current workflow is: Ask for Finder Items Combine PDF Pages ? What should I do to ask for a menu to save the combined PDF using a specified name?
My phone is currently riding around New York City under the seat of a taxi cab. I'm watching its progress with the Find iPhone app. My concern is the phone may soon die and a rider or driver will not see the messages for assistance being sent. Does tracking my iPhone with Find iPhone deplete the battery?
I left my iPhone in a taxi cab. I locked the phone to make sure nobody finds it and makes expensive calls. But does locking the phone prevent someone from seeing the texts I am sending? What if the battery dies? After the phone is recharged, will the texts I send still be readable if the phone is locked?
Will the location of my iPhone be updated if the battery is dead? Is there any way to know if the battery on my iPhone has died?
In late 2011 there were refreshes to Airport Extreme and Time Capsule. At the time there was speculation that there would be a second generation of the Airport Express 802.11n model.
There must be thousands of people in the same situation as me, so I find it hard to believe there isn't a solution. But I've looked all over and have come up dry.
I have 250 songs marked Ineligible, and I can't figure out why. They are all 128kbps or greater, way less than 200MB, all Protected AAC audio files purchased by my ex. I am authorized on his account and can play the songs in iTunes just fine. In most cases only one or two songs from an album were rejected, while the rest were Matched, though some entire albums were rejected.
My iPhone 4S is currently in someone else's hands. I can see it with Find My Phone. I have sent a number of messages to the phone in the hope that whoever has it will return it. But since the phone is locked, does that mean I have to include contact information in the messages I send? Or is there some information in the message that lets this culprit know how to get in touch?
Here's my situation: I have a Klipsch Promedia 2.1 system and the left channel died. The left speaker works fine when plugged in the right speaker output on the sub. Right now I have both speaker wires in the right speaker output in the sub so I get the right channel on the L and R speakers. Is it possible to play both the left and right channels on the iMac through the right channel so I at least hear everything from both channels?
On my system when I check Keychain Access I often find new certificates. They get put there behind the scenes. Is that normal? When does this happen? Is there a way I can get alerted when a certificate gets added to the keychain?
It's strange because I've had Diablo III for a couple weeks now and I've been able to play it just fine without any performance problems. Starting today though, I've experienced some serious performance problems. I can play for at most a minute, during which time the computer will get hotter and louder, until the frame rate completely drops off the map and I'm forced to quit. It's a similar story with HD youtube videos.
I'm confused as to how to use Safari's Bookmark feature. There are three different options when you go into "Show all bookmarks" view: Bookmarks Bar Bookmarks Menu Bookmarks (Located on the left beneath the "Collections" section).
I'm trying to find a way to add a keyword or group of words/tags/strings to a set of selected iTunes tracks if they haven't been added. A use-case would be to add extra metadata in a comment such as (live) or (remix).
Which tools to use for detailed performance analysis of disk access? per disk per process queues latency data volume/throughput errors characterisation (read Vs write, burst, etc.) Tried iostat, iopending, could use a syste
I have an iMac and MacMini on my local network. From the Mini the iMac appears as a "mac' icon in the finder window - but the Mini appears as a "generic PC" icon from the iMac. Anyone know why this is and how to fix it ? I'm starting to get a few weird sharing issues cropping up but thought I'd address this first. FWIW, I'm running Lion 10.7.4 on both machines and have an airport extreme base station.
I find myself spending a lot of time moving through the menus to re-connect my iPad to my iPhone to tether the network. It would be great to be able to perform this task (or at least speed it up) from the notification center. Now that iOS 5.1.1 has been jailbroken I have SBSettings toggles working in the notification center on my iPad3 so I can toggle the bluetooth on and off from there, but I cannot get it to connect to my iPhone.
I have an Audio to IR accessory for my iPhone which works very well with most of the TVs and DVD players as the app that comes with it supports them. I was wondering if it would be possible to write an iPhone App + Mac App that would let me control my MacBook Pro similar to how Apple remote works. Is the IR sensor on MacBooks accessible to third party applications ? Any Open Source Projects, SDK's or hacks you nice people can point me towards ?
I've had a problem for 5 months :(. I open a new tab in Chrome and begin searching by typing something in the URL bar. Then, Chrome begins to freeze. I Force Quit Chrome. I open again and begin typing the URL bar again and again I get the same freezing. I tried to update, do a full remove and clean install but I couldn't solved this problem. A video of this problem: http://www.screenr.com/du08
I would like to have a dual screen setup with my 21" iMac, but I'd like to avoid the expensive 27" official monitor from Apple. Is there a specific 21" screen that would fit well in size, resolution, disposition and colors with the iMac screen?
So I followed the instructions on TeamSpeak forum itself. Everybody there seem to put this to work, and I'm the only one who gets simply no result at all. Since people in TeamSpeak forum are more windows users, and some are linux users, and just one or two actually use mac os to serve teamspeak, I am now asking here for the help.
I've noticed that more and more websites are disabling the ability to zoom on an ipad using Safari (or other mobile browsers, it seems). Is there a setting to turn this ability off, or some other way to prevent this?
I have a Launch Daemon running, happily logging to a couple of files specified using the Standard(Error|Out)Path entries in the property list file. Now, the problem is that the particular program that is running doesn't include a time stamp when logging messages. Consequently, the log files show a long list of otherwise helpful messages, logged sometime between now and whenever.
I just got involved into a new project at work, and I added all my colleagues to my iPhone contacts. In the middle of the process I got the idea it would be better to add the contacts to my iCloud.
Is there a way to lock the keyboard in Lion? By "lock keyboard" I mean some way to make the computer ignore almost any keypresses, except some special "unlock" sequence. Maybe an OS X feature or utility? It's a laptop, so I can't just unplug the keyboard.
Is there a way to regulate Internet usage on iPhone 4S? I'm looking for a program that enables me to put a limit on the time spend online (on certain sites).
I am having an issue with Java in my Mac (OS X 10.7.3). Previously I installed it and it was working fine. After some changes in the .bash_profile and .profile file in the course of time, I am having an error like Unable to locate an executable at "/usr/bin/java/bin/java" whenever I try to run "javac" or "java" in my terminal. echo $PATH gives an output like: My .bash_profile looks like:
How to install Mac OS X as a guest OS in VMware Workstation 8 (running in Ubuntu host)? The author of this askubuntu question (in the question) claims to have done it, but doesn't say exactly how. Haven't yet succeeded, tried various procedures (also with Virtualbox with no success) to get Mac OS X guest OS to run on VMware-Ubuntu host.
I've jailbroken my phone, and I'd like to execute some commands on it from my phone, namely, the Say command. That, unfortunately, does not work. What commands COULD I execute on the iphone, other than the standard ls and cd? Thanks.
I have storage for something called JishoPlus in my iCloud storage breakdown. I can't find anything definitive about it online. I know how to delete it (and I will), but what is it from?
I am looking to purchase a printer, but more fundamentally, I don't know what features or technology translate into easy printing from my iPhone. How can I determine which printers do or do not work well with an iPhone?
I almost always boot up in Verbose mode so I can see what's happening during boot up/shut down. Usually critical errors make themselves obvious, some lesser errors aren't so obvious but can be cleared up, and yet other errors aren't really errors at all and should be expected. I've fixed a bunch of things on startup, and now I'm trying to figure out messages I see on shutdown. I'm basically just wondering if anyone can be an interpreter and tell me if any of this is bad or should not be happening, or if it all just looks normal.
Is there an iPad app that that can open Mac files over WiFi on the iPad? I'm looking for something like Dropbox, I really like the feature it has where you can open the files in Dropbox in other apps on the iPad. I need something like that, just for regular files that are not on Dropbox. Something like Air Video but sends the files to the appropriate application instead of just playing videos in the app.
To add an custom mail-signature in Lion you had to add an signature via preferences, and then replace the contents of the webarchive with your own. In Mountain Lion, Apple replaced the webarchive format for signatures with an new format: .mailsignature. When I open such an file, I just see HTML (!). But when I change it, it doesn't take effect.. Does someone have an solution to perform this?
As already known, it's not possible for iOS users to select image files to upload from Safari on iPhone, because the browse button to display the "select file"- dialog is disabled. It works fine on Android, but not on iPhone...
I have a working NIS/NFS server environment here, with multiple servers. One is the NIS server, that works just fine with Lion. But I can't figure out how to get the auto home mounting working. Do you guys have any hints, make this working?
What would be the best place to manually install llvm/clang binaries in OS X 10.7 without conflicting with existing/future versions shipped with xcode? Thanks!
When i sync my iphone, I am getting an error message saying it can't do a backup because i have more than 5GB of space used. I went to: Settings --> iCloud --> Storage and backup --> Manage Storage.
My setup is a 30" Cinema Display (2560x1600, DVI) from around 2007, and a 17-inch, Early 2011 Macbook Pro. I'm wondering if I can add a second external monitor via a USB adaptor or any other solution. Ideally another monitor of the same size and resolution.
I don't know much about servers so I figured that this would be the best place to find out more about them. I have a friend who has 3 Apple Xserves with Xeon Nehalem 2.26 quad core processors. So my question is can this Xserve be configured to work just like a normal apple computer? My friend tells me that it can be set up just like any other computer. If this is possible is there some documentation out there that would explain how to do this?
I'm trying to press a button in TeamSpeak using applescript, here is my code: and here is an image of me hovering over the button in accessibility inspector
I'm thinking about getting a Libratone sound system that plays music via Airplay. I would have an Apple TV connected to an LCD projector. My question is whether I would be able to wirelessly stream a movie from my iPad with this setup, such that audio goes to the Libratone and video goes to the Apple TV... I couldn't find any information on this kind of setup.
I have a MacBook Pro with two harddrives, an SSD in the main slot and a larger, normal drive in place of the superdrive. Because of power consumption and noise I managed to get my Mac to not automatically start and mount the second harddrive when booting up, but it still spins up the drive when waking up from hibernation / standby / sleep (don't know the correct terminology here).
Most of the external speakers I've seen have either AirPlay [B&W Zeppelin] or Bluetooth [Bose Soundlink, Jawbone Big Jambox] but not both. Anyone know of an external speaker system that has both?
I have access to the company's general email as well as my own. Both are Gmail accounts. Seemingly randomly, even when I send from my own account, the other party's reply is to the general email account which everyone sees. How can I prevent this on my Mac Mini running Lion?
I have a 2008 MacBook Pro (last one before the unibody ones) and have been monitoring a the laptop temperatures for almost a day. I used Temperature Monitor to graph the changes in temp and correlate them to my typical usage. Aside from obvious considerations (GPU getting HOT while playing 3D stuff), I noticed that when I unplugged the laptop from the AC adapter the temp dropped down by 15-30 °C.
I've been try to download Xcode for work, but for some reason the Mac App Store is giving me a bit of trouble. Activity monitor shows some network usage, but in Launchpad it seems the download isn't moving. When I go to the purchases panel of the Mac App Store, I see this.
I have (3) 2009 2.26 Xserves and I am wondering if it is possible to tie them together so it acts as one computer?
I upgraded my mac to use an SSD for System and Applications and moved Users to a second HDD. iTunes will not allow me to authorize. Here are my paths: Currently permissions on Pig are 755 system:wheel on /Pig, /Pig/Users, and /Pig/Users/Shared. Error on starting iTunes: Error on authorization attempt:
Is there a way to set a global DNS server that will be used for all connections (both Wi-Fi + cellular data)? If there isn't a uniform manner to specify DNS, can I just change the DNS used by the cellular connection? Ideally, I am looking for an answer for vanilla iOS; however, I'd welcome any solution, including one that requires a jailbreak.
Say I have two photos (or any images), for example with the following dimensions: I want to combine them into a single image, side by side. So the result should be
I've noticed a pattern with some apps not logging into my Google account when they are hidden. After some digging, I think I have identified a common thread - the LSUIElement which is basically a flag telling Mac OS X to not show an "agent" app in the dock.
I have a file in the abcddb format. This file was saved on a Mac. I am trying to open in Windows 7 in either Excel or Access. How can I do this?
I want to run an applescript whenever a certain person signs onto my Messages buddy list Exactly. Thats exactly what I want. Pretty self explanatory. I am aware you can run applescripts for messages events, however I don't know how to check if it was that person who signs in.
I have several different mail accounts setup in Mail. Is it possible to define which account to use on a contact by contact basis? I'm trying to avoid sending mail from the wrong account, to the wrong person.
I ran the "Verify Disk" tool in disk utility on my main disk called Macintosh HD, and it came up with this log: Do I need to follow the instructions at the bottom of the log? Is it necessary or can I forgo it? Thanks
[Disclaimer: I'm not an avid OS X user so I don't probably use the exact terminology or language] I had a Mac Pro with Snow Leopard at work and I usually don't turn it off when going home. The next day, I always found my applications in the exact state where I had left them. Now, I have a new Mac Pro with Lion and every time I come back to work in the morning the system is locked down (i.e. I have to put my password), which is fine, and all applications are closed. They do however re-start and try to recover the state as I left them the day before. Alas, some applications crash (e.g. Mendeley, Quicksilver, Word), others don't succeed but let you recover the previous state (Chrome, Firefox), others simply dissappear (Emacs, scripts running). The thing that worries me the most is that when I leave work, I usually leave some simulations running that can take more than 12h to finish. I have lost work when I come back in the morning.
I am looking for some study/comparison on how battery-consuming are specific services/sensors (3G, Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometer) in the iOS devices. Has anyone stumbled across something like that?
My MacBook Pro isn't charging, the light on the charger isn't lit, and the battery image indicates it is not charging . The computer is approximately a year old. I've tried multiple outlets, so I know that's not the problem. The connectors look clean, but I cleaned them with a toothpick just to make sure. What can I do? Thanks!
Ideals: protection of home directories should be better than in Lion (for multiple administrators: FileVault 2 alone is less secure than FileVault 1) protection of home directories should be better than in Lion (for multiple administrators: FileVault 2 alone is less secure than FileVault 1) resizing a file system should be simple and nondestructive. resizing a file system should be simple and nondestructive.
When I'm in range and connected to particular Wifi, having cellular data transmission enabled at the same time, will the iPhone always use the Wifi connection? Or can the app developer choose which network has priority (e.g. always use cellular data transmission and not Wifi)?
This issue occurs on any machine with Lion in my environment. I install Lion and connect to OpenLDAP for authentication. I enable FileVault. Some users were reporting that when they'd wake their computer from sleep or reboot, the only available account to unlock FileVault was Administrator (not their local cached OpenLDAP account any longer). In an attempt to reproduce this issue, I shut down all network interfaces on my test MacBook Pro and rebooted -- sure enough FileVault will only allow me to unlock my hard drive by using the Administrator password, just as it occurred for my users. Also, when I tried to check to see if my user account was still enabled in FileVault (by accessing System Preferences -> Security & Privacy), System Preferences crashes.
I have been using time machine with the same disk for a year or so and until now it was fine. But since yesterday, it gets stuck at "cleaning up" and if I say "stop backing up" nothing happens. I tried repairing the disk with the disk utility and it seemed to be ok. I also tried a "full reset" (*=URL=* to no avail. Time machine buddy shows me the following:
I've looked in: System/Library/Screen Savers Library/Screen Savers ~/Library/Screen Savers
How do I recover a HFS Plus partition that somehow I've managed to delete or replace with a Linux command? I didn't do anything else, I mean, I didn't put any files or folders on the drive, so it is "intact". I just want to recover the partition, like I did once using Acronis Disk Director Suite, it was painless, easy and fast, but wasn't HFS+, was a NTFS formatted drive. I use Lion on may Mac and Linux Mint 13 on my PC.
For several years I was Windows-only at work and used a great utility that resized and locked my Explorer windows. I'm surprised I haven't come across this for the Mac as I am always repositioning, sizing my windows. Does anyone know if such an app exists?
I have a Macbook Pro 15" 2011 2.2 i7. Was running like a dream until I tried to add a second drive with an optibay. To cut a long story short a puff of smoke came out of the airport card. After the initial shock I rebooted to find no airport and the machine was running super hot when plugged in running off the mains. My dilemma is the machine works perfectly but is a potential fire hazard. As I soon as I plug into the mains the temps hit 70 quite quickly, too hot to touch underneath. When switched off it comes on by itself when plugged in also. So it has become a big silver coaster. Apple say they will replace the logic board and airport for £465 (which is actually not a bad price) but could it be something simpler. Any help would be appreciated. My household insurance will not cover 'mechanical' parts. If I had spilled coffee, dropped it or was stolen I would be fine. Any help would be much appreciated. I have Applecare also which makes it worse.
Besides small differences like a minor camera, fundamentally the difference between the iPhone the iPod touch is the GSM/CDMA antenna and I guess more battery to support the antenna. Yet the iPhone costs $650 and the iPod touch $200 which is quite surprising to me. Is it because Apple has a bigger margin on the iPhone or are the components of the iPhone really that much more expensive?
My MacBook Pro internal speaker has crashed, as it does every few months. I'm sure a reboot will fix it, but wondering if there's any way I could restore the speaker without rebooting? (Setting things back up again is time-consuming.)
When I hook up my new iPad to my MacBook Pro (running Snow Leopard) with iTunes, I can sync contacts and my calendar but not music or podcasts. There is no error message, it just doesn't transfer the data. I have checked the boxes saying that I want to sync music and podcasts.
Is there any way of asking for a password before picking up a call? The iPhone's lock screen password works for not allowing people to access the iPhone main screen, but it allows anyone to pick up incoming calls.
I'm considering using several iPod Touch devices as mobile computers in a retail setting. If I did do this, I'd have to provide some measure of security for them. I'm thinking of using the retail anti theft towers.
So far I've just chosen to not show them in the Finder sidebar, that way at least they're a bit harder to eject. However that isn't very ideal because: (1) I need to go to my Mac in the sidebar to access the drives rather than have the drives accessible directly and (2) the eject buttons still show in open/save dialogue boxes for those drives. Ideally, I'd like a way for them to behave the way internal drives do: no option to easily eject from the finder, but still possible to unmount through disk utility.
I've had a problem for awhile with a Gmail account linked to Mail, which arose last summer after I upgraded to Lion. When I try to send a signed message (signed, in terms of security, not a signature at the end of a message), a small error message pops up for no more than half a second (way to short for me to read), but I've been able to make out the message based on a well-timed screen capture:
I have connectivity problems and I suspect the latest firmware version 5.1.1 is the source. I think it's impossible to revert back to the previous firmware, but my last backup was from before the update so I have an idea and two questions: If I restore from the pre-5.1.1 backup will the firmware be also restored, i.e., to pre-5.1.1? If I restore from the pre-5.1.1 backup will the firmware be also restored, i.e., to pre-5.1.1?
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7 with an Apple IR remote. Since I create my presentations with LaTeX, which generates PDF files, I cannot use the remote to control my presentations (it only works with Keynote out of the box, not with Preview).
Every time I open iPhoto on the iPad, I get an "updating photo library" dialog that sometimes takes minutes to process. I often get it again after editing and sharing a photo within the app. I do have a large number of photos on the device - probably close to 10k, but other photo apps seem perfectly capable of opening my photos and loading a given album when I select it. iPhoto seems to need to rebuild the entire database at every open. Most of the time, almost nothing has changed (safe for a handful of new photostream pics. Is this a direct function of the number of pics on the device?
I like to compose my email messages first and then add recipients. I created a smart group that I would like to add to the BCC line after composing a message, however I can't seem to find a way to do this. I am using the default Mail application.
Over the weekend I upgraded my iPod 3 to iOS 5.1.1 and jailbroke it. Today I noticed that artists and albums are not properly sorted and it doesn't display everything. However, all the tracks are on the iPod and in iTunes I can see all the tracks/albums/artists in the correct order. This is what it looks like:
On my MacBook Pro, when I hit the F11 or F12 to change the volume, a tone is played I presume to preview the volume. That tone can be rather intrusive when watching a movie or listening to music. You can hold the shift key down to surpress that tone. But is there any way to just disable it permanently?
I recently bought Lion for $29.99 for my iMac on the App Store, and now want to burn a disc so that I can make another white Macbook that has Snow Leopard dual boot to Lion as well (Apple allows installing Lion on more than one machine that a user owns). Also, I wanted to create a disc so that if there is an need in the future, there is a disc to boot to. But I followed the instructions on *=URL=* *=URL=* which are both linked from Can I dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion?
I am playing games on my Mac. and the machine gets red hot. I'd like to get a cooling pad for it to keep it calm. After doing a lot of searching I'm thinking of getting a CoolMaster Notepal Infinite Evo
I would like to use both Skype and FaceTime at the same time (not while calling just having them both open). When I start FaceTime it switches on the camera and keeps it on. If I hide the application the camera seems off (green LED is not on). But if I use Skype the camera is not available since (even if the LED is off) the camera is still in use by FaceTime.
It seems that either one of these commands can be used: But when it gets to /Volumes, it actually look at all the back up files by Time Machine in the external hard drive. (and another hard drive for data).
I've been watching lots of .MKVs lately, opened from the Finder. In Column View, when you single-click any file, QuickLook will load a viewable thumbnail into the next column over. This causes noticeable and repeated momentary hangs in Finder responsiveness. I have a feeling this is related to a non-Apple-kosher file-type like Matroska Video giving QuickLook some problems.
I use Apple's iMessage across several devices, including my (OS X Lion) Mac, using the recent Messages beta. However, the application has some undesired behaviour.
I installed MIT/GNU scheme and am trying to add the directory to my $PATH variable so that I can run it from Terminal. The app name MIT:GNU Scheme.app is a veritable "perfect storm" (for path names) as it includes a colon and a space. I've tried adding each of the following to my ~/.bash_profile, none have worked:
The superdrive in my late 2008 4,1 macbook has passed on but I need to upgrade the HDD with a larger one meaning a reinstall of 10.6 snow leopard. Can I use an external optical drive to do this on such an old macbook or will I need to replace the internal? If I can what key do I need to hold down at boot to access the USB optical drive. Alternatively is there some way I can make a bootable USB, preferably without having to upgrade to Lion. Thanks.
This had never been a problem until around an hour ago. A friend texted me and it showed up on all 3 other iPhones my family has (we all use the same Apple ID). I tried turning my phone off and on, then turning off iMessage, then sending it through my own email (which didn't work, because her texts just sent to everyone but me). This has never happened before, please help!
Finally the odd thing about when the phone shut down, the rotating circle did not appear. Just a black screen appeared and I don't recall a 10% warning coming up either but I am not certain of that.
Well, my MBP cable has gone yellow after a while. I've tried cleaning it with water, and also toothpaste (with whitening) and that doesn't seem to have removed the yellow stains. I guess I'll try mouthwash next; I may have to gargle that myself first. Anyone have the same problem? I haven't been keeping it in unusual places, in my bag and on the desk. On the left is the whiter clean cable.
If you cancel your iTunes match subscription, what exactly does happen? Can you still download the songs you matched already, but cannot match any new ones? Or can't you download any song anymore? Will the matched songs you already have downloaded on your Mac or iOS device be deleted or will they be kept?
I have a "MyPictures" folder in which I keep my photos. I do not want iPhoto to manage my photos for me by copying them into its "Library", I just want to use the program "pointing" to the "MyPictures" folder. As I take photographs, I add them to the "MyPictures" folder; every now and then I'd like to update my iPhoto library "adding" the new photos just by "reimporting" the "MyPictures" folder. Whenever I do that, iPhoto re-imports the whole set of photographs, unable to detect obvious duplicates. Could you kindly help me fix this, please? My settings: Operating system: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) Application version: iPhoto '11 iPhoto library location: $USER/My/Application_Data/iPhoto, same problem when using defaults Home folder: uses FileVault, same problem when switching it off iPhoto preferences: Importing (Copy items to iPhoto library): No, but also tried saying yes to that Look up Places: Automatically, but tried many times to switch this off to no avail Failed attempts: Repairing li
Is there a way to force websites, when browsing them on your phone, to go into full desktop view? For instance, when I go to the NASCAR website on my phone, it displays a mobile version. But the mobile version doesn't give everything the full desktop site does.
I have found the following repository on GitHub... https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
I have 30-pin-to-USB cables that came with iPod touch 3rd generation, 4th generation, and iPad 3rd generation. Are the cables different? If so, how can I identify which is which? I notice differences in the width of the cable, color of the plastic part on both sides of the connector (gray vs. white), and the length of the rubber tube that covers the connector, but am not sure if these are just minor variants or they are different products. I know that the newer models accept 2A current, as opposed to 1A on older models, and the AC adaptors are designed differently accordingly, but was not sure whether the cables are also different.
I have my Macbook pro 17 (early 2011, OSX 10.6.8) set to turn off the display at 30 minutes on AC, and 10 minutes on battery. I've noticed recently that if the battery is charging (the little battery icon shows a lightning bolt and has a countdown timer to full charge) then the display goes to sleep at 10 minutes, even though it's plugged in.
I use an iMac at work and recently have been upgraded to Lion. I've used Lion at home since it came out. I've switched iCloud on on the iMac, but none of the calendar events are visible on my other devices.
I want to play a cool game called Just Cause 2. I have a copy, but there is a problem because it needs DirectX 11. Anybody knows how I can install that DirectX? Because I think it's only for Windows, but I don't know WinOnX is emulating Windows 7.
Does anyone know of a GUI way to search mounted network volume without using Spotlight? We use a cluster roughly 80TB and need a client-side way of searching for files without indexing the entire thing every two seconds...
So I've only had my iPhone 4 (previous Droid user) for about 3 months or so now. Yes it has some great features that my Droid didn't, but one thing I really do not like is the ringtones. On the Droid, I could download an app, find a ringtone, download it and set it within a minute or 2, no problem at all! But with the iPhone, the only way to get a commercial ringtone is to sync it through iTunes? Which might be all fine and dandy if I always had my iPhone cord and my laptop on me 24/7. Another thing I ran into was finding the song name and artist have to be the same for the ringtone to sync? Does this also act the same for music? So what it all comes down to is pretty much this, what is the easiest and non-confusing way to purchase and install ringtones on my iPhone 4?
I used to use Save As… to remember the directory I was saving a file in, but that seems to have disappeared with the latest OS. I have a file open in TextEdit. How does one go about finding the directory that this file is currently being saved to? I can see the name and I can "open recent" (which just displays the name), but, once open, I can't actually figure out how to determine where this file is located.
I am a French expatriate in Dubai and I would like to be connected to the French Apple Store instead of those of the United Arab Emirates. If I enter one address in France, the system requires a credit card number corresponding to a French bank account and I don't have an account in France anymore. What can I do to solve this problem?
A quick question with perhaps no answer, How can I enable push notifications of emails? What currently happens when I get an email is that my phone vibrates or rings, then I look at the locked screen and no information is displayed. I'd like a preview of the email in a notification window with at least the sender. I currently have 3 mailboxes, one in google, one in hotmail, the other a private work exchange server. Is there a solution to receive push notifications for all of my mailboxes?
I can't seem to get new users to access VPN on our OS X Server. If I use my login credentials with the VPN connection, everything works. But when I change to a recently created user I get a error window: "VPN Connection Authentication failed.". OS X 10.7.4 VPN are set to L2TP. Are there any hidden settings pr anything I am missing?
So I've found this wildly helpful blog (*=URL=* and managed to muddle my way to step 5 (after leaving ridiculous comments after getting stuck on step one) I've gotten the "your system is raring to brew" message. However, when I entered the string to install the rest of the libraries, I got a fatal error message and when I ran the brew doctor code again I got the error message:
(Note: web sharing is working generally. If I visit *=URL=* it shows the default local Site that I never touch.)
I see the "Manage Push Notifications" option in the app's settings, but there are only four choices for the notifications you can toggle on and off: "Close friends list activity," "Group posts and comments," "Tags you in a post" and "Mentions you in a comment." My problem is that I'm getting notifications every time friends (usually close friends, not always!) post anything on their profile. I'm also getting notifications when someone leaves a comment on a post after I do (regardless of whose post it is). I don't see options to turn these things on and off but they're driving me crazy!
I have three 2009-era Xserves that I need to assemble into a compute cluster/render farm for Blender. The Xserves do not have any operating system on them. What OS should I use for best results with Blender? Do I need OS X Server or can I get away with the client version or even Linux? I've never assembled a cluster, nor do I have any server experience to draw from. Hardware: 3 Xserves (specifically, the Xserve3,1 model) 5 CPU (20 cores total): 2.26 GHz quad core Intel Xeon 5500 series “Nehalem” processors (two CPUs each on two Xserves) 6 GB RAM on one of the dual CPU servers, 3 GB RAM on the remaining two Xserve no Fiber Cards or Raid cards to complicate driver selection no PCI cards each server has a built-in NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with a mini DisplayPort output and 256 MB of video RAM
Why does sudo ask for a password when one can sudo su without a password and perform the same commands? Is there a way to make sudo not ask for a password when you're logged in as the an admin anyway?
I have customized text editing bindings in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict but they all stopped working in TextEdit.app when I upgraded to Lion. They still work fine in other Cocoa apps like Safari. The system default bindings like ^F for moveForward: work as usual.
Sometimes I see the iMac with 4GB of RAM having a few MB of swap file only, and after I left for a few hours and come back, the swap file is 2.7GB. Looking into the Activities Monitor, the Finder is using 796MB. How can it use so much memory -- could it be due to some "Search" that was left over in a Finder window?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut in Numbers to edit the current cell via the formula bar (if that is the right word). Screen shot:
Now if I use the "cp -r -p [source] [destination]" option, I get errors with some permission issues, but I find files with the same basenames but a prefix of "._" on the destination disk. These files seem to contain regular font file resource fork data. The logged errors were for each file: cp [sourcefilepathwithprefix] : could not copy extended attributes to [destinationfilepathwithprefix] where prefix is "._"&[filename]
While working on chrome/firefox/finder, I open several windows. Each window has some leftover blank space on right side. This is a huge problem while panning the page using the blue scroll bar. Often I click outside the scroll bar and inadvertently switch to background window. To overcome this, I have to manually drag the current window as right as possible to remove blank space. Is there a more elegant way to do this?
So I live in Sweden and since a couple of days ago one of my neighbors are broadcasting country code "US" from their AP, rendering my newly awaken MBA 2011 confused, so after a couple of seconds it changes the country code on the wireless interface to "US" and my own network SSID disappears. Apparently this functionality is according to the specifications of the 802.11d protocol and simplifies manufacturing and country specific regulations for wireless equipment. This so called "feature" is making my life a real pain for the moment and I'd rather not re-configure my own AP to a channel which is included in both the US and SE/EU array of accepted channels for a number of reasons. Is there a way to disable this country code switching functionality in OS X 10.7.4?
I bought an iPhone 4 in France. When moving to Belgium, I've put a belgian SIM card but I noticed that the phone is SIMLOCKED. I contacted the person who sold it to me and explained everything. He proposed me to contact Orange France to UNLOCK the iPhone. I tried to contact them but couldn't reach them. If someone experienced the same problem, please tell me how you fixed this? Thank you in advance.
I'm looking for a tool that could help me understand the layout of a closed source Mac OS applications in term of Cocoa controls. I saw this for in Firefox with the 'inspect' feature (for HTML/CSS); I don't expect it to work for every application because of the variety of programming languages and custom classes.
My iPhone 4 (going on 19 months of love) has recently started having a bit of an issue knowing the percentage of its battery it has remaining. I will be using it and it will jump from 31% to 19% and pop up that annoying "Low Battery" notification. A few moments after I dismiss it, the percentage jumps back up to 27%. This happens at least ten times, reliably, before it starts hitting 11% and then I know it was "real" and it needs charging soon. This feels like a NiCad issue… I know we've advanced past those days.
I know that the Mac commandline is very similar to that of Linux operating systems, so it would be nice to use some features of Linux in my Mac, specially installing Linux packages. For example, in Linux we can install a package by simply typing sudo apt-get install "package name" at the prompt. Is it possible to do something like this on Mac?
Do you know if it's possible to give a static IP when creating a ad-hoc network on OS X?
User Story: As a MacBookPro user I want to run a script that ejects my USB drive when I disconnect the power source so that I don't have to remember to eject it before grabbing my laptop and hurrying off to a meeting. Acceptance Criteria: NO third party apps
I've been a Mac user for a few years now. Thinking about if it would be a good idea to set up a Mac for my parents, I came to think of the awesome feature of System Restore in Windows where making a System Restore point once a day would make it really easy to roll back any mistakes or installed software that made the computer not work well. Is there anything like it, perhaps a third party application or some cool github project, for Mac OS X?
By default the Back/Next gesture works with two fingers (in e.g. Safari) on the trackpad. Now it often happens to me when scrolling through iframes (with two fingers) I accidentally activate the back gesture. Now I changed it in settings to 3 fingers, but the animation is gone, and in Safari it's not anymore like dragging the page before from the left to center but like hitting the back-button (without animation)... Is it possible to use the real 2-fingers gesture with 3-fingers?
My title is pretty clear: I'm going in Canada for a trip with my father in July and I wonder if I should buy a new iPod touch there or wait until the new one comes out around September and buy in Europe? The 8 GB version costs 199€ (roughly 256 Canadian dollars) in Europe and 199 Canadian dollars in Canada (roughly 154€).
I've just bought the Logitech K400 keyboard/trackpad combo. The volume buttons above the keyboard works just fine. But the home button (that has a small "house" icon) doesn't do anything on OS X Lion.
The iPod Classic (and maybe others?) refuses to sync with more than one iTunes library at a time. This is very frustrating when I keep my music on multiple computers.
I switched over to iCloud and syncing still doesn't happen. My guess is it's because I have two Apple IDs the one I use to make iTunes purchases is not the .mac Apple ID that became my iCloud account.
I bought this small OS X Lion USB stick for $69 today. The guy in the Apple Store said that I can simply upgrade from my 10.5.8 to Lion with this thing. Well I plugged it in and hello, I'm not able to upgrade.
I usually have 4+ fullscreen windows open whenever I use Xcode 4. When I quit Xcode, and reopen it, only one or two of the windows open as fullscreen, and the rest all open in a single desktop as normal windows. (I think the behavior is the same with Chrome and probably other apps to.) Is there anyway to fix this?
I bought an iMac from the online Apple Store and now, 2 days after purchase, it broke down. I want to return it/exchange it, but would like to avoid the tremendous waiting time, as this used to be my working tool (I work at home) and make the exchange at an iSpot, is this possible or must I bear that waiting time?
I feel like I've read 7 or 8 different articles on the Messages beta, but I'm not seeing my question's answer. So, is it possible with Messages for OS X, to receive SMS texts sent to my phone number?
I have an external disk which (for other reasons) is formatted using FAT32. On that disk I have created a sparse bundle image formatted using HFS extended (journaled). This image is then mounted on /Volumes/TestDisk. Whenever a file is created on the mounted disk, it gets me as owner – also if I create the file as root: If I try to change the file owner afterwards, nothing happens: Changing permissions apparently works fine but the owner/group cannot be changed. I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. What did I do wrong?
I am currently in Norway. My Mac mini is in my apartment in Australia. I can access screen sharing via Back To My Mac. It connects fine, but the screen has only linen - no menu bar, no dock, no anything else. I am fairly sure that is what is actually on the screen and that it isn't a problem with the connection or anything like that (it's happened once before while I was sitting in the same room...)
On a couple of servers I work on, despite having access to edit files and all else, there is the occasional need to gain elevated privileges (like running sudo) with the file to actually save the changes. That said I like working with my files in Coda 2 and not the Terminal directly. So is there either a way to sudo the file open through the explorer when viewing the remote files, or is there a way to trigger a file to open through the built-in terminal in Coda 2 so I can make the edits, save, and move on. Currently when I double click on a file to open it, if I would need elevated privileges, the file will open only in a read-only state.
I hope this is not too obvious, but I would like to know if this is possible. I made an email account without renaming it. So it has the boring name Exchange. How can I rename this email account on my iPad without deleting and re adding it? I would rather not type all that info in again.
In Lion OSX, changing the keyboard layout "Input Sources" setting in the "Language & Text" only changes the setting for the current user. Is there a way to populate the setting to all existing, and also all future new users to the same set of language keyboard layouts?
When I use Terminal my computer says That was the default account name on the computer when I bought it. I have been using it for 2 weeks now and I am pretty much set with the OS and I really don't want to do a reinstall. I deleted the John Doe account but that did nothing. How do I change my Terminal so it doesn't display that any more?
I know that if I boot my Mac while holding down Shift, then it does "safe mode" which causes it to boot without either login items or extensions. I often want to boot the computer and not load login items but still load the extensions! Any keyboard shortcut whiz know what keys would have that effect at boot?
I have multiple versions of Ruby installed on my machine. By using RVM, I am able to use Ruby 1.9.2 on the terminal. But whenever, I use Sublime Text, the text editor of my choice, it defaults to using Ruby 1.8.7. How do i change this behavior?
How do I prevent my iPhone from giving me the "slide to unlock" screen every time I turn it on? In other words, when I hit the lock or home buttons, I want to be taken straight to the homescreen, without having to "slide to unlock".
On iPad, there are some useful multitasking gestures such as swipe between applications. How do I enable multitasking gestures (a la iPad) on iPhone 4?
Is there any way to get a real screensaver on iPhone? I realize this drains the battery fast, but that actually is no concern to me. Here's what I mean: after X minutes of no touch input, a pretty screensaver comes on and just goes until I touch the screen, at which point it instantly returns to where I was.
I haven't personally noticed any differences, but is there a toll on normal usage of iTunes and syncing it with your iPhone if you fit a developer profile by having Xcode on your system including relevant mobile components (Mobile Device Framework) that ask to be installed? I'm curious because during installation, iTunes is asked to be closed. I'm not part of the Developer Program yet and as such my phone is not yet marked as a development device.
I have setup a wifi network in a cafe. Some clients with iPhones have an issue. They connect to the network, then lock the screen and after 10 minutes (about) they unlock the screen. When they unlock the screen the iPhone is not connected to the wifi and they have to manually select the same wifi network and connect again. This is strange because in other iPhones this doesn't happen. Does anybody know the reason for this behavior?
I use the Apple Configurator to craft a Mobile Configuration Profile able to configure some settings such as the LDAP Directory as an example. When exporting the profile, I check the "Sign" checkbox to sign the profile with the Apple Configurator certificate. The problem is that when installing this profile on an iOS device, it is flagged "Non verified" and displays an alert when proceeding further. Q: How do I change this obviously self-signed certificate with a valid one of my own?
I have an external LCD hooked up to my MacBook Pro 5,5 running Lion. I have major aliasing on the external monitor in every application. Using the commonly recommended defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int x (with any value 0-4) has no effect on restarting applications or rebooting. The monitor is running at its native resolution, 1440x900, although I had to use SwitchResX to get OS X to recognize this resolution. Any suggestions?
On OS X, can I rsync selectively based on the file label as set in the Finder? e.g. rsync all files and directories labelled "green".
I'm trying to connect remotely to a family member's new MacBook Air from my own iMac. Both machines are running OS X Lion. I can connect to the files on the remote machine and I can see the screen of the remote machine. But I cannot interact (mouse or keyboard) with the remote machine.
(This question is a spin-off of another question I asked on this site.) When creating a new disk image from Disk Utility it is automatically mounted. If you then select the volume in Finder and press Cmd-I (for the info window) you will see this at the bottom of the window:
I tend to find out about unique OS X terminal commands piecemeal. As problems arise, or as I read askdifferent, I'll find out about handy things like mdls and mdfind. Is there a place that lists all the unique OS X commands and gives me an overview of what they do?
I want to change the login screen background in Lion, but I can't seem to figure out how. I've followed instructions for changing it, but even after restarting, the changes don't show up. I've also tried Loginox, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions?
For example, I have a MBP connected to an external monitor. I use both screens but hate the fact that I have to go all the way to the left side of the external monitor (which is huge) in order to go back to my primary screen. Say that I'm on my primary screen and I move my cursor off the left side of the screen, I'd like my cursor to appear on the right side of my external monitor. Also, if I moved my mouse off the right side of my primary screen I'd like my cursor to appear on the left side of my external screen. I'm sure that functionality isn't built into OSX, but are there third party products that do this?
After backing up my iPhone 3GS and then updating to the new iOS 5.1.1, I lost all my apps and saved notes/data. How can I get all the apps back?
Because I lost my iPhone 3GS headphones (those with microphone and remote control), I now tried to use the latest ones (from iPhone 4S). The microphone is working, but somehow the iPhone doesn't react of the remote control (Accepting calls, stopping the music, or changing the volume doesn't work at all). Are the new headphones generally incompatible with the iPhone 3GS, or is it a different problem?
I am trying to do network rendering in Blender3D using Loki Render across my 3 Xserves. I have no experience in setting up network rendering and the instructions that are given on the Loki Render home page do not help me. Any help would be appreciated.
For example, I'd like to use ⌘ Command + 1 to switch to my browser, with different numbers for the applications I switch between most regularly.
I have an early 2007 Macbook Pro. The trackpad isn't multitouch - it doesn't support any of Lion's new many-finger gestures - but it does support two-finger scrolling. It obviously can keep track of two points of touch, so is there any way to get it to support pinch-to-zoom as well?
How can I create keyboard shortcuts in Mail.app that do not require modifiers? For example, I'd like j/k to scroll the message pane. Maybe n/p to navigate between messages. Maybe N/P to navigate to unread messages. Maybe a to archve a message. The key point here is that the shortcuts should not require modifiers: No Command, no Ctrl, no Option. The gmail shortcuts are different, but similar in that they don't require modifiers.
My computer is set up to require a login after its been put to sleep and it has a fairly complex password, so I'm not worried about anyone guessing it. The MacBook was stolen, and I'm wondering if there's a way for that person to access my files, or will they just have to wipe the drive (hopefully).
I frequently work with large numbers of image files to be used in websites. I'm currently using Photoshop's 'Save for Web' tool to find the most efficient way to compress images, but that takes some time and isn't always perfect. I'd love to find a nice utility that can automatically go through my images and optimize each one. Requirements: Compression should be lossless.
It's fine when you are clearing all your unread messages in a laptop or a desktop PC; but in iPhone? No good. You see, at present, I mark my messages as read by individually tapping their checkboxes.
I need a menu-bar app* which will show me the output of a terminal command, and run that Terminal command every 60s or so. Or I need a menu-bar app which will read the contents of a file, and update whenever that file is updated. (The output would be no more than 3 or 4 digits) Are there any such apps?
I know the common sudo languagesetup to set the system language. Does someone know how to get the system language or the language that was selected when Mac OS X was installed?
I installed princexml for Mac. With ls -alF, I have -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 prosseek admin 14190120 Jun 8 16:11 prince*. What's the meaning of @ in -rwxr-xr-x@?
I've been using Synk from Decimus off and on for a few years to sync files between two Macs. Since upgrading to Lion, Sync 6 has started hanging during the process of scanning before the sync. Upgrading to version 7 is $45 which seems like a lot.
Considering that the iPhone is three times more expensive than the iPod touch and that the iPod touch is much thinner than the iPhone, it would be quite neat to use an iPod touch as to send and receive phone calls. What would need to be done to enable an iPod Touch to send and receive phone calls (either Wi-Fi only or better interfacing to cellular data through an accessory)?
Just curious: Is it possible to use a backup from an iMac on a Time Capsule to restore a MacBook Pro with the same items? It seems like it would be possible given that all it really backs up is the software, files, etc., and not the actual system drivers or anything.
My iPhone has had problems and they have had to delete all its contents - addresses, etc. Even if I have no back up on a PC - how can I download my contacts and apps from iCloud to the repaired iPhone.
My MacBook Pro (Mac OS X Snow Leopard) would not start up and the apple service guy suggest me to take the internal hard drive and back up the data to another computer using an external hard drive adaptor. I did that and connect the "Externalized internal hard drive" to another PC. The hard disk is named "Macintosh HD" and I can only see system and application files but not any other directories or folders. Is there some special way to read data off a Macbook pro hard disk?
On a sheet of Mac keyboard shortcuts for booting, one of them says, "hold down shift while booting and the computer will not load login items or extensions". Am I wrong, or are Mac OS "extensions" something that were phased out a long time ago? (In other words, with OS X Lion, the shift key simply cancels loading the login items, period?)
I have an iPhone 4S (v5.1.1, jailbroken with Absinthe). I have been having lots of trouble with iTunes Match lately. Sometimes when I download a song, it will not play in the iPod player. I tap a song, and it plays the next file instead of the one I selected.
I'm looking at a replacement battery A1175 for my 2007 15" pro (specs here: *=URL=* which is listed as 60w. My original battery charger was 85w. Is this going to work?
I've tried Spotlight, Quicksilver, and Launchbar, and don't see where any of them handle this well. (I use sidekick to change all my other settings, so something that integrates with that could work.)
Would it be possible for an app to be able to automatically keep a trail/log of iPhone actions? E.g., I could see all phone calls, text messages, emails and other actions I had taken in a day (all in one timeline/journal type display)? Ideally being able to configure the app to choose which actions I wanted to take a trail of? Is there an app that does this now?
In Lion's Mail app, I can subscribe to RSS feeds and have them show up in the inbox. Can I do the same with the Mail app in iOS 5.1.1?
How can I copy or reveal email password dots to text on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1? I have tried going to Settings -> Mail Accounts -> Gmail -> Account, but it only shows my password in dots and also does not allow me to copy it.
I noticed that when I started a Terminal window by accident and tried to close it quickly by pressing the X on the window, I got a dialog box like this: My computer was under heavy load at the time and slow. I hit cancel, and tried it again, it closed quietly.
I had my iPhone die on me yesterday to where it would not respond to anything, would not turn on, would not do a thing. Then about 30 min later it turned back on and has worked fine since. Should I be concerned about this and are there probable causes that could cause this behavior that I should look into?
My iPod touch 3rd-gen won't play videos in Safari. It shows a play button with a line crossing it. It used to play but now there's this problem. What can I do?
I would like to add permanent subtitles to a videoclip. I don't want to use .srt files or similar formats, I'd like to attach the text I want to the movie. Is there a program that can do this easily on the mac?
I travel to two different homes and spend six months at each one, taking my desktop 27" Mac with me. I travel by car, and always pack it in the original shipping crate so it's well protected. Will all this driving cause things to loosen inside or anything else adverse?
I have a Mac desktop that is not always on and a Mac laptop that is usually on the same network. I have a new Synology drive that is always on and I'm considering making use of the LDAP server on it for the Mac accounts. Ideally, I would like to have the laptop and desktop's home directory syncronized through it as well. I'm aware of Portable Home Directories, but I don't have Mac OS X Server installed and my desktop isn't on all the time to sync with the laptop. Are there any other alternatives for keeping accounts on two computers in sync similar to Portable Home Directories?
I'm trying to install Kitabu on Mac OS X 10.7.4. When I tried to use gem install kitabu --pre to install kitabu, I got an error And the preinstalled ruby is not version 1.9.
I've got a MacBook Pro from mid 2010 (6,2) and there is 2GB DDR3 RAM at 1067 MHz installed. I want to upgrade to 8GB but with 1333MHz as speed. Is this possible? Can my Mac support this kind of speed or will it generate a lot of erros and kernel panics? I already saw there were multiple topics about this, but none of them seem to answer the 1067-1333MHz clearly... EDIT: Will this memory fit my Mac with 100% certainty and without any issues?
I have a hosted Exchange 2010 (Office 365) mailbox and use it together with Lion/Apple Mail but I was wondering how I can change were Mail stores Junk Mail to as well as its 'Archive' folder (the one it uses when selecting a mail in my inbox and click the 'Archive' button)? For the Junk Mail one there already is one by Exchange / Office365 but Mail does not use this one (and selecting the correct folder and trying to go to 'Mailbox' > 'Use this Mailbox for' fails because all entries (incl. 'Junk') is greyed out so no way I can't Mail stop from creating a new Junk folder every time I run Mail and it decides a mail is spam & moves it there. For the 'Archive' functionality it is somewhat the same - I have my own 'Archived' folder (in a particular subdirectory) and while I could certainly change my whole way of managing & archiving mails, it would be quite surprising if the 'Archive'-folder Mail creates & uses is hard-coded.
I'm used to navigating through my code using Ctrl+Click. In OS X this function still works in my IDE, but it opens a context menu as well, which is very annoying!
Strangely today the orange/green light isn't working when charging my MacBook Air. Why might this be please?
Yet I see no mbr partition, so I assume there must be some traces left by the windows installer on the mbr of the disk. Is there a way to clean it up ? Or does the error message come from something else ? EDIT : bmike's suggestion worked
I'm trying to record a screen capture with Quicktime, but whenever I zoom in, it doesn't translate to the video taken. I've seen videos with screen zooming in them, so I know it can be done. I repeat, I can see the zooming while recording, but it doesn't show up in the video later on. Thanks for any help.
I have an iphone 4s and I got an error message saying it can't do a backup because I have more than 5 GB to backup (more details listed on my question here). When i go into the detail i see that the Camera role was taking up 5.1 GB itself so thats why it can't do any more backups. I got suggestions on this answer to download files onto computer and then delete them off my phone. The issue is that i just went and deleted all of my videos (which must have been over 1 GB) but when i go to the iCloud settings page it still shows the Camera Roll as having 5.1 GB. Is there anything that i need to do to have it realize that i just freed up a lot of space?
On iPhone 4S initially when I selected in 'Photos' application option 'Email photo' I was asked about suggested size of photo to be sent. Then I selected not to ask me any more and now the photo of last selected size is inserted all the time when I want to e-mail it.
Related question on Unix/Linux: How should I install software from source so that I can make my configuration manageable and reproducible? However, I've tailored this question more towards the Mac OS X ecosystem.
So. I've looked on the internet and here but came up short on how to effect a switch.
I have several videos that are taking up a lot of room on my iPod Classic, and I would like to delete them. The problem is that these videos do not show up in any of the listings from which I can delete them; this "listings" I'm referring too are Music, Movies, Podcasts, and Books. (They do show up in playlists, but this does not help my cause; selecting these videos through such at list at most lets me delete them from the playlist.)
I would like to remove the Job Title and Company from every contact in my address book using AppleScript. Any ideas?
I am carrying out some research into Apples product sales over the years. Where can I find information on their sales figures to date? I am looking for information regarding the number of products sold to date, sales of Apple accessories, their market demographic and any other details on who buys Apple products.
I'm running SickBeard on my Lion installation, but I can't figure out how which Python version or script I should add to the Firewall rules allow connections from outside. In Console I get this message:
The slider in the bottom-right corner of Finder windows doesn't change the icon size for me. This is of course with "Icon View" selected. What am I doing wrong? It worked before, up until Lion.
The iOS and Mac OS AppStore terms are strict on links to outside sources and shops. If I would link from my iOS app to a page which contains a link to Facebook or Twitter, would that violate the store's terms?
In order to sign up for a developer account, I'll need my parents credit card. However, after going through the signup process, my Dad's name shows up because he is the credit card holder. How can I publish an app under my name, if I don't have access to my own credit card? Should I buy a prepaid one?
I want to bind a certain command to show a terminal on screen without window frame with the command of my choice. I plan to use it to quickly launch network monitoring tools (trafshow) when I use a certain key combination. I should be able to specify the position of the terminal window, make it non-interactive, etc. I can specify the position and options through config file or command-line. Is there any software I can use or does any of the popular terminal applications have this feature?
My mac (OsX 10.7) try to connect to a disabled server at startup. How to remove /delete this auto connection (that fail each time) ? Thanks
I would like to share a folder within a small lan (5 client mac). I have a partition with a folder 'Office' inside. I would like to assign to all folders and files the same ownership ('UserOffice') and use the same username for all my colluges. I've shared the folder with the following permisions: UserOffice read/write UserOffice read/write Administrator read/write Administrator read/write Everyone read/write Everyone read/write The problem is that a user can connect as 'guest' making it so, the permission doesn't work. Is it necessary to remove 'Everyone read/write', or am I missing something else?
OS X is showing me some folder and filenames, per default in reverse alphabetical order. Why?
Can we use this technology on Macs? Intel's WiDi software is only for Windows users.
Just today I noticed something new covering my iPhone camera lens. It looks like a shutter or aperture blade over the optics, but knowing that the iPhone has neither, I'm really confused. The camera is able to take pictures still, but I can't imagine this would help. I have not dropped the phone to my recent knowledge and I do not believe this "blade" was covering the optics yesterday.
Is it possible on iPhone to stop sending SMS while it is still in progress? E.g. Accidentally pressed send. Or spotted a typo just after pressing send.
The obvious solution of backing up the entire iPod, and restoring it later, is not an option, simply because at the moment I do not have a sufficiently convenient 150GB of disk space that I could use for this. (In fact, the problem that motivates this post arose as I was trying to make some room in my hard drive.)
I just want to use this shortcut for one other application.
I'd really like to draw more on my iPad but I like to rest my hand on the screen doing so, which registers as a stroke along with the pen. I've been looking around for a proper gadget for this problem, some kind of drawing glove for the iPad, but haven't found any. I tried a couple of gloves myself but they're either too thick (clumsy) or too thin (hand registers with screen). Anyone here drawing frequently on the iPad with a good DIY glove suggestion or link to a product?
My wife and I are set up on a single laptop and I have our iTunes libraries stored on an external HD. I'm writing an applescript to auto eject that drive when we want to take the laptop elsewhere (we normally use iPads around the house), but I'm having trouble getting the script set up to also quit iTunes for both of our accounts when run. Here's the basic script right now which is obviously missing the magic to quit iTunes for all logged in users: Any suggestions?
When I save a screenshot I want to be able to specify any name I want (and maybe destination directory). Sharpshooter for mac does this, but it's a ridiculous $15. Cheaper alternatives?
I don't want FaceBook to put any notifications on my iPhone's home screen for anything, ever. I've gone into the iPhone's "settings" app and turned off all notifications for FaceBook. I've gone into the settings within the FB app itself and turned off all push notifications. But I still get notifications. What more do they want from me?
I am trying to locate cgi-bin folder for Nginx, which I installed on Mac OSX on my iMac. I am not sure where is it located? I saw another post but it was about the Lion Server. Can somebody tell me where is it on Mac OSX?
I upgraded my iPhone from iOS 3 to iOS 5. It is now blocked: it shows a USB icon and the iTunes icon. How to proceed?
I saw there is a new version of MacBook Pro is out which has Retina Display. This means there are more pixel per inch. Does this imply that text is smaller?
From my bash shell (latest version of Lion) if I issue the command... The bashmarks.sh script will run and the functionality it provides is available. However I don't want to manually run this script so I have tried to put it into my ~/.bash_profile (the above command is the only thing in the file). If I quit Terminal and then restart it, the ~/.bash_profile runs, but it reports...
Is there a built-in text editor in the terminal on Lion? (Like, for example, nano on Linux.)
When I open the Outlook window, the topmost message (the most recent) becomes selected. I've got Outlook set to automatically mark messages as read when selected, so it becomes read. This is a problem if I accidentally open Outlook and don't notice this has happened; I've missed emails before because of this. How do I make Outlook 2011 keep the selected message the same between closing and reopening the message window? Basically, I want Outlook's mail selection to behave like Mail.
I'm interested in purchasing the new MacBook Pro with Retina display, but it's not clear from the tech specs page whether the RAM is user-upgradeable or not. Do I need to take into account future RAM usage when customizing my MacBook Pro order, or can I go with 8GB RAM and upgrade it later?
I have done some searching on Google and found some tests saying HD 4000 is a great improvement over the previous generation, but I didn't get any tests that compared it with discrete chips. Could any of you guys that are more into hardware tell me if the Intel HD 4000 will be better than Nvidia 9400M? The integrated graphics is in the Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro with 2.9 Ghz Core i7, while the Nvidia part is in the 2009 13" MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz Core 2 Duo.
In iOS 6, we now will have a Do Not Disturb feature that prevents the phone from making sound when it receives notifications. How is this any different from using the silent switch? Or is it just that it can be scheduled, unlike silent mode?
I have an Apple ID and I have purchased some songs. My sister likes the same songs and wants them for her iPod Touch. I was wondering if I logged in with my Apple ID on her iPod and downloaded the same songs - would I have to pay again? I know Apple doesn't encourage ID sharing but my sister does't have a credit card or iTunes giftcard.
I'm looking to buy a 15" Retina MacBook Pro, I'm looking at the website Models and they seem to be pretty inflexible (for instance the 2.3 GHz model you are locked into a 256 GB HD). So I know this is a little preemptive, but I want to know how the hard drive is configured. For instance, on my current MacBook Pro I swapped out the standard hard drive for a 480 GB SSD. If the new thinner model has a standard SSD I will buy the 2.3 GHz model and add larger hard drive. My worry is it will use a proprietary hard drive like those found in the Air in which case I would be forced to buy the 2.6 GHz model just to get the larger storage I suppose. Does anyone have any info on this?
The AirPort utility app for the iPhone allows you to share documents between a computer and an iOS device.  What kind of documents, if any, would I share between my Mac and the AirPort utility app?
I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro after today's refresh, and I am wondering if OS X handles simply pulling a drive out of one MacBook Pro and putting it in another. I know that in the Windows world this is — most of the time — possible, but I have never tried it with OS X. Does the OS handle the sudden change in hardware, or does it 'sh*t bricks' and abort mission? In theory you'd think it could handle it, but anyone with definite experience would be good.
I'm considering purchasing a MacBook Air for my primary "home" computer. Given that it won't have enough storage for an iPhoto library for all of my photos, I'd like to also purchase an Airport Extreme and put the iPhoto library on a network drive.
I know, that there is a possibility to delete selected versions in Mac OS Lion. Is there a way to securely delete versions?
This is a question that could be better on Stack Overflow or Programmers, but I thought I'd try it here first. As a programmer, I need lots of screen real-estate for the IDE and files that I'm editing. If I need to work from a laptop, I currently use an Acer with 18.5" screen and 1920x1200 resolution. It's old, heavy (almost 4 kg) and in need of replacement. Most of my work is on Windows, but the ability to do Mac and iOS development would be great, so I'm considering a MacBook Pro with VMware or Parallels instead. The new MacBook Retina sounds great, but I'm worried that the ultra-high DPI won't work well when used with Windows on Parallels, and text will be so small it's unreadable (many Windows apps tend not to scale fonts well, and my eyesight isn't 100% any more).
Today took my iMac out of sleep (9,1) and it was not loading anything over the internet. So I looked into it, and noticed my wifi indicator has gone missing from my menu bar.
The "Date & Time" System Preferences pane has an option to "Announce the time". I'd like to be able to turn on this preference option by invoking a shell script. Is this possible? (It's fine if this involves invoking a separate script written in Applescript).
Installed Lion on a brand new HDD. Boots fine, but when I run Disk Utility on the Media, it reports
I have unpacked MacBookAir 13". How to check using serial number or other information from the box if MacBook is equipped with English keyboard layout or with other?
I have had Lion for a 2, 3 months on the iMac 27 inch purchased last October (2011). Last night I chose to update the system, and deselected iMoves update because it was 1GB, and chose only 4 updates, including iTunes, Safari (i think)... But the update says error, and ask to restart the system (it won't restart itself, so I waited 30 minutes, and then pressed the Power button for 10 seconds, to let it power down, and press Power again to power it up). However, after that, the system failed to boot up, showing a
The Macbook Air's SSD can be manually upgraded. The RAM of the Macbook Air and retina MBP however are soldered into the logic board. Is the retina Macbook Pro's SSD soldered into the logic board as well?
Is there a way to convert a downloaded Keynote (from slideshare) file to a PowerPoint file (or an open format like Open/LibreOffice) online?
What I want: Linux on an Intel iMac (Core Duo). What I have:
Does anyone know how to delete line breaks after text please? I used to place the cursor after the last letter or symbol, take the page down to the bottom, and on the numeric keypad, hold down the delete key until the line breaks disappeared. I've tried fn and backspace, but that doesn't take out the line breaks.
I have Xcode 4.2 installed, but I need Xcode 4.3 so I can test an app on my iOS 5.1 device. However I have run into problems attempting to download the latest version from the Mac App Store. Initially when I went to the store I noticed in the 'Purchases' tab Xcode was there, but back from when it was 4.2, so I removed it from purchases and then went to the Xcode page and clicked on the 'Install App'. It certainly doesn't appear to be doing anything though, and the 'Purchases' tab now looks like this (clicking on the blank button does nothing):
I have an HP 1022 printer attached to my Mac OS X Lion. When I try to print a 4-page PDF file from Preview or Adobe Reader, it prints pages 1 and 3 and then all 3 lights on the HP 1022 printer start blinking. I suspect that perhaps the printer or the system is in some kind of manual double-side printing mode, but I could not find where I can turn it on or off using the Mac OS printing dialogs. How can one control manual double-side printing on a Mac OS X Lion?
What displays are capable of displaying 2880 by 1800 pixels from the new MacBook Pro with Retina display? The current Apple Thunderbolt Display is only capable of 2560 by 1440 pixels.
When I talk on my Blackberry with a headset, it echos what I'm recording back into the headphones. This helps me hear my own voice when I'm talking, so I can regulate my volume. I'm wondering if it's possible in Mac OS to echo what the mic records back into the speakers and even adjust that volume. If not, should this be handled at the application layer instead of the OS level?
When I send a pictures from my iPhone (which has a SMS/MMS plan), does it impact data if I'm on a 4G network, and send it through iMessage? Similarly, if I disable iMessage, then send an MMS over 4G, would it still use some data?
If the system doesn't boot up (it was due to this issue), is it better to reinstall OS X Lion, or restore from a Time Machine backup? I do see a Time Machine backup from 3 AM last night, so if that is used to restore the machine, will it read all 600 GB from the external backup drive and copy it to the iMac's hard drive, or will it just do the selective restore, kind of like Windows 7's setting a restore point, and any rollback should be partial - i.e., it only needs to restore a few files to make the system work fine again, but is it the same as on OS X Lion's Time Machine restore? Is restoring a better approach than reinstalling OS X?
The company I work for uses an Exchange 2010 server, and we have a fair number of users that have iPads/iPhones as secondary devices. We use a custom signature rule on the exchange server to sign each outgoing email that is not a reply (first-sent emails). Unfortunately, the iDevices seem to only send in plaintext. Is there some way to force them to always send as rich text, or alternatively, some sort of cheap/free alternative app that would do this? Currently, we are unable to implement the signatures for the whole company (only IT has them at the moment) because they will look like trash coming from iDevices.
While on my home local network, I some times want to access images and plain-text files stored on an AFP network share. But I have not found an app for iOS that allow me to do this. Can someone recommend a solution? I do not want to use a service like Dropbox.
Additional errors: Any ideas what's going on here?
I need to connect my 3rd-generation iPad to an older monitor. I already own an Apple Digital AV Adapter. Other than the need to purchase an HDMI to DVI cable is there anything preventing me from hooking my iPad up this way?
The new MacBook line has a new turbo boost added to the processor: 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
Safari suddenly can't connect to any HTTPS site because it "can't establish a secure connection". This is on an administrator account, not a managed account. A different administrator account is able to use Safari with HTTPS, so must be something specific to my account, but I have no idea what. Google Chrome has no problems connecting to HTTPS sites. Things I have tried: emptied Safari's cache deleted Safari's preferences reset Safari entirely repaired Keychain (no errors found) deleted Keychain (didn't help) repaired permissions in Disk Utility rebooted hoped it would suddenly fix itself All of the google results I saw suggested either repairing the Keychain (which I tried and which did not help) or were only applicable if there were "Parental Controls" involved, which doesn't apply here.
For some reason, OS X thinks it's a good idea to reindex my entire hard drive (which takes it a few hours) about twice a week. This is really getting annoying, especially since it does this on battery, and drains it quickly. There's nothing suspicious in the Console, when I grep for mdworker it only gives: There's also a huge number of these errors (about one every 5 seconds): (I posted a different question about that here)
I just looked in the OS X Console, and noticed that there's a huge number of errors looking like this: There's one almost exactly every 5 seconds. Any ideas?
I've been running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 for months. For some reason today I lost the ability to "regular" empty the trash. When I right-click the trash from the dock and select "Empty Trash" I'm presented with the "are you sure you want to secure empty the trash?" dialog. When I open the trash in Finder the button in the upper right corner says "secure empty trash". How can I regain the ability to regular empty the trash?
I've managed to finally get wireless sync working between my iPhone and main server in my house. Now I'm trying to manage what syncs to my iPhone from the device itself rather than having to do it from iTunes on my machine. I checked out the Remote app, and while that hooks up to the library, I'm not able to select anything to sync. Is this even possible, or if I want to add any media from my library to my device do I need to select it in iTunes directly and then launch the wireless sync?
Ok, so just bought myself a dock so I can wipe some drives and use others as storage. Most of these drives originated from windows Machines and thus are formatted NTFS and not FAT/FAT32
I'm looking for something either like this security white paper for iOS except for OS X or even better, some kind of security audit report from an independent expert. After reading through documentation like the Keychain Services Programming Guide I'm even more confused about what is vulnerable to an adversarial attack on an unencrypted backup of an OS X System.
Can I stream things from an iPhone to an Apple TV with no additional equipment (i.e. no wireless router)? Will they be able to talk to each-other just like that (like Lion Mac Books apparently can for Air Drop), or do I need to also set up a WiFi network? Assuming latest versions of all devices and software.
The new Retina MacBook Pro has an astounding 2880x1800 pixels. Naturally, the "native" double-detail resolution is 1440x900. But what other resolutions can be used? And how crisp are they? (Are they just up-/down-scaled @2x graphics?)
Not sure if this is better suited for here or for Stack Overflow - a commenter on a post dealing with similar (though not identical) topic on SO suggested that it would have been better to post it here. If this is wrong then I apologize.
I'm doing like here is described http://hunterford.me/mongodb-startup-item/
I have a home wireless setup running on TimeCapsule (network on n). I would love to have AirTunes and it happens that a friend of mine can give me an old AirportExpress base station. However, this being an old b/g version (model A1088) I am not sure whether I can use it.
Pressing space in Mac OS X on a file name, lets say on a CSV file, it shows me a preview of the file, which is a great feature. When using LogMeIn to remote control other macs, this function is disabled.
I would like to find a way to hide all the *~ files in Finder, which are used as backup files by Emacs. Is there a general approach to make Finder hide all the files with their names matching certain patterns? Thanks.
Is it possible to change the font, specifically the size of the font, in the formula bar of Excel 2011? I've found a number of resources to do this in the Windows version but none of those instructions seem to apply to the Mac version...
I couldn't find an Apple doc stating Firmware Password complexity limitations, e.g. length and allowed special characters. Does anyone know if Apple states this information somewhere? I don't want to be in a situation where I try to enable a complex password to find out that for some reason I'm locked out and I need to turn to Apple.
Is there a possiblity to get / exctract alert and ringtone sounds (sound files) from iOS 5? I was also trying to find them elsewhere on the internet, but without any luck. Thanks
A question I've had in my head since I first saw screenshots of the display preference pane on the new Retina MBP is this: Can it be made to run with what you could call a 1.0 UI scaling factor (same amount of pixels for the same widget as you'd get on a regular MBP or say, an iMac)? To clarify, the preference pane appears to allow you to select between several predefined scaling factors from "Like 1920x1200" (UI scaling factor = 1.5) through "Like 1440x900" (UI scaling factor = 2.0) to "Like 1024x640" (UI scaling factor = 2.8125) and there is also a radio button for "Best for Retina display". Does this radio button for "Best for Retina display" set the UI scaling to 1.0 or does it simply set the scaling to the "default" 2.0?
We have two Mac computers running iTunes, mine and hers. I sync my peripherals to my MacBook Air and my iTunes account, while she syncs her peripherals with our home iMac. Historically, we each maintained separate Apple IDs and iTunes accounts. My computer belongs to my former company and is going away, so going forward, "sharing" will not be an option. How do I move my music over to the family iMac? How do I avoid creating duplicates on the family iMac?
Running OSX Lion, I have no "connect to server" option listed in Finder > Go menu. Everything I've read about connecting to a Windows file share references that option. Why would it be missing and where did it go? I am trying to connect to a SMB share at work from my personal laptop, so there is no corporate policy file disabling that option on it. The network admin knows of no reason why it would be missing. I hope someone can help with this.
In the recent weeks I've noticed each morning that my clock would be behind by 2-3 minutes. I've noticed that opening the 'Date & Time' dialog from System Preferences will trigger the clock to resynchronize to Apple's time servers. I am running OS X 10.7.4 Lion on an 8,2 MacBook Pro. What might be causing this lack of automatic resynchronization? EDIT: I compared my /etc/ntp.conf file to a peer's also running Lion, and we noticed that my file contained: while his had:
I want to prevent the user from being able to stream to remote speakers with any client on their laptop. Is there a way to globally disable AirPlay on a Mac OS X (10.6 or 10.7) system?
I have a new MacBook Pro 13-inch (mid 2012). I have never liked the backlit keyboard. I am completely a touch-typist and I never look down at the keys. I just find the light going on and off to be annoying. I have heard about Lab Tick, which provides a slider to control the level of the backlight, but what I really want is a command-line defaults write to simply turn the lights off. Does anyone know of a means to do this?
I have just noticed that some items in the click-right menu and in the keyboard shortcuts settings are displayed in a different language now (Portuguese). The system default language is English and the OS is 10.6.8.
Since the pixels in the new display are dense enough that they're imperceptible at a normal distance, doesn't that obviate antialiasing? (Assuming that the game is running at full 2880x1800 resolution, of course.)
Is it possible to automatically back up iChats to Gmail? There used to be a program called Chatalog but it's discontinued now. Some details about Chatalog:
I'm trying to update Growl, however App store says "To update this application, log in with account which was used to buy this application". The thing is that i don't have any other Apple ID. Is it possible to find out what account was used to bought this app?
As can be seen in this screenshot:  Siri seems to be able to list all of the relationships which it understands.
When an app freezes on my app, I will press Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Esc ⎋ to open the Force Quit window. However, this will often take minutes, and clicking on the Force Quit button freezes the Force Quit window and makes the beach ball appear. The window confirming the force quit only shows once the application unfreezes. Also, if I right-click the Dock icon while the app is frozen, then the Dock will freeze, but it doesn't freeze when I just pass over the icon. It is also possible to move the application's windows.
I love Gmail's features, but I'm increasingly wary of having my entire email history depend on Google. Every Mac email app I know of, other than Sparrow, insists on being based around IMAP folders. Different clients integrate with varying levels of smoothness with Gmail, but at their cores they still use the file-it-or-delete-it paradigm.
Can I sync my Windows Mail contacts into iCloud? I don't use Outlook for Windows, only Windows Mail.
I have a MacBook Pro computer and I will be traveling abroad to Hong Kong for studies. The electric sockets and voltage are different than here in the US so I would have to use a converter but it is a big hassle carrying around a power converter everywhere I go... I'm hoping to find another solution. If I purchase a HK MacBook Pro power cord will it work with my computer which I purchased in the US?
Due to the Thunderbolt 1.2 update, I had to restore from a Time Machine Backup, but after that, Time Machine won't do incremental back up any more. The hard drive has 250GB of free space... It was 1TB and is used for backing up the iMac 27 inch which has about 700GB for the Mac partition (the other 300GB is for Bootcamp).
I have my neighbor's phone number and he said that I could let him know if I needed any help moving. When I went to text him, it seemed like his phone required my name or it wouldn't let me text him. First of all, how would his phone do this? And, second, why would I have to give a name? Is this my iPhone 4 doing this or his phone?
I'm trying to burn 1.4GB of data into a 4.7GB DVD using Finder in Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. The biggest file is 300MB. Here are the steps I take: Insert blank disc Open Finder and drag files to disc Go to File -> Burn However, I get this error message
Do Apple devices ship with a TPM chip? My Mac doesn't have a TPM chip, but does an iPhone have of a TPM chip or how do I determine if the iPhone has a TPM chip or not? On my Mac, I use this command to check if TPM chip is there or not: ioreg -x | grep TPM.
Update 07/10/13: I have traced this problem down to symbolic link corruption. Eventually a symlink in one of the system components (frameworks, etc.) gets corrupted, which could explain the unusual (and in each case different) system-wide failures. This see to affect a fair number of people. Current working theory is that there is a bizarre bug introduced around 10.7 Lion that affects volumes greater than 2 TB in size, that eventually causes symbolic links associated with most frequently used software to corrupt themselves. Third party software does not seem to affect this, people have seen this problem even on "vanilla" systems. The only commonality appears to be volumes >= 2 TB in size. Repartitioning to volumes < 2 TB seems to do the trick. Here are two threads discussing the issue at the Apple Forums. Mac Pro (Early 2008), 2x Intel Quad-core Xeon 3.2 GHz (8 cores), 14 GB RAM, 3 TB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 and/or ATI Radeon HD 4870), OS X Lion 10.7.4
Under Windows 7 I have installed the Samsung (Wizard) software that came with the SSD. In this software I've applied all of the recommended optimisations under 'OS Optimisations', however, the Samsung wizard software is informing me that AHCI is not enabled at present and for best performance, this should be enabled.
So there is prl_disp_service, a Parallels 7 background service that periodically wakes the internal hard drive in my Macbook Pro although it`s unmounted most of the time since I boot from an SSD I replaced the DVD drive with. For reference: *=URL=* Is there a way to apply some sandbox-exec profile to this process so it will continue functioning normally but won´t see /dev/disk1* and do stat or something else on it that causes it to wake up?
I don't know what would happen if I tapped the image, neither do I know if this was just an image or an executable. It's kind of funny that the ad says to push OK (YES) button, but there is no such button on the screen. I decided I don't trust this interface because of strange arrow positioning in the top left button so I didn't tap Cancel. My phone is not jailbroken. By the way, there has been a similar question without a screenshot but I'm not sure it is exactly the same thing.
Does anyone know from a trusted source if the new MacBook Pro 13" (2012) has SATA III? On Google, some places said SATA II and couldn't find any info on Apple's site. I also have one more question: if I connect an SSD (external case) on USB 3.0 will it be faster than a 5400 RPM on USB 3.0?
I have a Mac OS X Lion 10.7. I downloaded a zip file from the internet which shows up in "Today". However, after extracting the zip file, it puts the contents in "earlier". is it possible to show the contents in "today" ? This is very unusual because for some extracted files, it shows the files in "today" and other files, it shows "earlier"
I have no idea what's the problem, but Java3D isn't rendering in applets. For example if I go to this page: *=URL=* and I see the first applet but not the second one. Also the java console gives the the next code:
What do the other resolutions look like? I know in OS X you can't go down (for now) to really (non retina) at 1440x900 and also in Windows (for no new bootcamp driver) you can't; but I see how in the gaming sessions you can choose the 1440x900, how does it look compared to a standard MacBook Pro display with a 1440x900 native resolution?
At night, in the dark, even at its dimmest setting, my iPhone 4S is still bright enough to annoy my wife. I've searched all over for an app or setting tweak that would let me go "dimmer than dim". But no app seems able to do that and the only tweaks I've seen are for jailbroken phones (mine is not). Does anyone know how I can make the screen dimmer?
I use Fluid apps that are pinned to my status bar. If I click on the icon in the status bar, the Fluid app will get focus. I'd like to be able to give an app focus from Quicksilver instead of having to click on the status bar icon. Is there any way to do that? Executing the corresponding app in /Applications doesn't have the desired effect.
I have two Wi-Fi networks in my house, one at one end of the house and one at the other. While signals crossing from one side of the house are usually audible on the other side, they are generally fairly weak and quite nearly unusable - something in the house's construction attenuates signals traveling through certain walls. So, to enable good connectivity while roaming the house, I have to have my Wi-Fi clients configured for both networks.
Can I customize Package Explorer to treat a folder as a file? Actually, I want to keep a .app file in my project as a file. But when I keep it in Eclipse, it is treated as folder.
Every time I try to download or save a .tar.gz file, I get something like this:  The popup is simply wrong, I've used the right .tar.gz extension. Clicking on Use .gz saves the file as .tar.gz, and clicking on Use .tar.gz saves the file as .tar.tar.gz. Is there a way to fix this?
I have iPod Touch 4th generation with iOS 5.1.1. I am using the function that puts multiple icons together in a single folder/directory-like icon by moving an app icon on top of another. However, for the "Newsstand" icon, I cannot do it. Is there a restriction on the apps for this function to work?
Whenever I pick up my computer and it's on, it makes this horrible scratching sound. Where is this sound coming from? Am i wrecking the computer when this happens? How can i prevent this from happening?
I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro. I will use it mostly to write code when I'm not at home and I've read that non-native apps look horrible due to the resolution. I was wondering if someone has tried using Eclipse or Zend Studio and if they work well.
On Lion and iCloud, the old MobileMe and Snow Leopard mDNS naming has changed and no longer works. I'm wondering how to use command line tools to find out the DNS name that Apple has assigned to my Mac. I want to use that dns name on other devices that are not OSX (like Prompt on my iPad/iPhone) to ssh back to my Mac when I'm out and about.
I have opened the Console application to find the last error messages raised from the Apache server, and I found this entries, in the "All Messages" section (the default one selected when the Console application is open).  I would like to find what is causing the error, and avoid it is executed. How can I find the cause of this error message, and stop it gets executed?
I just bought a Time capsule. At home I have a USB hard drive that I typically use to read divx from connecting it to my tv that is able to play avi files. I'm wondering if I can connect it to the TC via an Ethernet port (that the external drive has) so that it can stay connected to the tv and I can manage movies wirelessly through the capsule. So: Hope this makes sense :)
I have an early 2009 iMac (24" version). It has a mini display port in the back. Is it possible to use it as an external screen? If so, how do I do it? And can I attach all kinds of devices, e.g. a Raspberry Pi (with an appropriate adapter cable)?
Is there any functionality in Chrome, iTerm2, or a keyboard shortcut app that will let me open a new window (Chrome or iTerm2) in a global environment? It should open a new window regardless of whether previous windows exist or not.
Over the course of the day, I often open many tabs/windows open in MacVim, I forget exactly which files I've opened etc. Then when I try to open a file I have already opened somewhere, I get something like the following:
For some reason, since Monday iMessage on the iPhone 4S always tells me it couldn't deliver my message but the messages go through. Anybody have the same problem? Any idea how to fix it? I'm not the only one, a couple friends have it too, but Google didn't help.
When I start the X11.app then it launches an xterm automatically. I've long since switched from the "ordinary" xterm to rxvt-unicode so the initial xterm just hangs around like a wallflower never being used. Whilst it's not particularly bad, it spoils the look of the place so I'd like to stop it launching. How do I do it?
Every now and then, mostly with USB sticks, Finder decides to copy forever, either at the end of the copy process (i.e. the files are already copied), or at the very beginning. Stopping the process in the little window will make Finder announce that it is "stopping" and it will do that for a few hours.
I just tried to update some apps but it's telling me apple Id or my password I entered is wrong (it isn't). My Apple ID is same as before.
Does Java support the retina display with high definition rendering of, for example, text? Or is it treated as an unmodified application, and therefore subject to scaling?
How does the GUI interface for force quitting applications (⌘+⌥+esc) work? e.g. Does it work like killall Finder which would send a TERM signal by default?
I installed the iTunes U app on my iPad and subscribed to a couple of courses. Now my iPad is in repair and I wonder if I can see the courses somewhere in iTunes? When I click on iTunes U I can just see the video collections, but not the courses.
Will the mid-2012 Macbook Air models be compatible with the MagSafe power supply of the previous generations?
I have three 24" (1920x1200) Dells that I would like to use on a single setup. With the 15" retina MacBook Pro having two Thunderbolt ports and one HDMI connector, would it be possible to connect them all up in addition to the built-in display?
I'm not sure if this is possible, but I've looked around for a solution, but never got any where by chance. Basically I need to rip or extract audio files from an PC executable file (.exe), there is Resource Hacker for PC but there isn't an equivalent one for the Mac. It would be great if there's a decent app that can do what I wish to achieve - so, is there an app out there that can do this? I'm using OS X 10.7.3.
I am ready to buy a new MacBook Pro. I am drawn to the portability of the 13" and the better specs of the 15". If you take money out of the picture I would really like to know where I would see the difference in performance between: the 13" i7 Duo Core 2.9GHz and 15" i7 Quad Core 2.3 or 2.6 GHz?
Is it possible to make a podcast out of any flash video on the web that I can listen to on my iPod?
EDIT 2: According to this post, HiDPI can work on the 30" Cinema display (2560x1600 becomes 1280x800), so that's not the problem. This screenshot shows HiDPI modes and an "Arrangement" tab (indicating multiple displays), so that's not the problem. It even shows the mythical "1280x800 (HiDPI)" mode!
The file is clearly there, and this kind of functionality has been fundamental for our application for a heck of a long time. The .net framework throws some exception about a 'bad pathname' or something similar.
I just purchased a new Iomega NAS IX2-200 4TB. I need to regularly backup this NAS. Time Machine would be the best option. How do I setup so the Time Machine will backup this NAS to my external Hard Drive?
I am planning to buy a MBP 13" in the coming days. Although as soon as I buy it I will remove its HD and replace it with Crucial M4 256 SSD. Will that stop me from getting free update to ML? If so, backing up the HD on TM and then restoring from that on SSD would solve the problem ?
currently I am reading more and more about multi-core processing (threading) and parallel computing. So I was curious about how to use my 4-core processor to calculate parallelized algorithms using Thread-Libraries etc..
In an effort to upgrade security, a recent iTunes update broke functionality to Calibre - my favorite eBook management tool. Now I am without a way to effectively manage my eBook collection in a organized fashion between my iTunes library and my iPad. I find that although iTunes handles music well, it doesn't manage eBook libraries very well at all. Here is message board post describing the iTunes security update. Does anyone know how I can manage my eBook collection so I can keep track of what I have on my iPad and easily sync and manage my hundreds of books?
Second, the whole reason for me wanting to wake my display remotely has to do with how Lion's power savings settings changed. The Apple infrared remote no longer wakes the display. This is a huge deal for a machine I originally bought to be a combined desktop/home theater pc, since it defeats half of its purpose. So, does anybody have any ideas/suggestions what to do about this? This is open ended, I know.
Is it possible to use boot camp on external drive? I would like to install windows on an SSD connected using USB 3.0 and boot from there. Has anyone done it ? Any problems with that ?
My old app is made in Xcode 3.2.6 and now I have purchased a new Mac with Mac OS X version 10.7.3. Now when I'm trying to install Xcode 3.2.6 it completes all the process of installation but after it is done it doesn't create any folder of that SDK and it doesn't show Xcode symbol.
I was wondering if anyone has tried running one more screen off their MacBooks by closing the lid of the MacBook. This is a common practice of many Windows laptops that support only 2 screens but have multiple video outputs. Since this is a hardware limitation of the number of video out ports and the number of screens that the video card in the laptop supports I would assume that any these combinations should work, if not in OS X but in Windows under Boot Camp at least. Retina MacBook Pro: Supports two screens through any combination of HDMI and Thunderbolt/DisplayPort; lid closed: three screens though the same any combination of the video out ports. MacBook/MacBook Pro 13"/MacBook Air/MacBook Pro 2012 (non-retina): Supports only one external screen with the internal one on, but when lid closed should be able to connect one more Thunderbolt display.
I have a 23" Apple Cinema HD Display, and it has a couple of dead or stuck pixels (don't really know the difference). I am wondering if there is some way to fix these pixels, like some kind of software/app?
From the answers to this question: How does Eclipse work on new Retina MacBook Pros? It seems that Eclipse on the new Retina a display appears pretty bad. Is there an IDE that currently works well on it? I'd like to do Javascript / jQuery / PHP on it.
Quick Look fails to work on many file types that actually have Quick Look plugins and I fear that some file clobbering has occurred during my last two OS upgrades. When Quick Look fails, the Quick Look preview is a blank page with: foo<TITLE></HEAD.... Has anyone else run into this issue?
Simple question (I could try, but I haven't done that yet): is it possible to create a full account that entirely resides on a removable HD? The use case is that I have a machine at work on which I don't want to install personal stuff, yet I have a personal account that I need to access from time to time (with my personal email, for example, or some apps I purchased). So I'm imagining that when I really need the personal account, I would plug in my removable HD, and otherwise, the machine stays the office machine, without any of my stuff.
There are two places that a permissions fix is mentioned, needed after Time Machine restored the system: story 1 and story 2. But what is a permissions fix and why is it needed? What if you don't do such a fix, then what will happen? (why is the fix not built into the Time Machine restore?)
I have searched the web for any indication of why this area of my Add Printer dialog is unusable, but have not been able to find any clues. Any tips to get this thing unstuck are appreciated.
I am short of space on my 128 GB SSD so I've been using Grand Inspector to see what has been using up all this space. I found that in Library/mail/v2 there is 8.2 GB of email. What is this and how can I get rid of it considering that I use Gmail and have all my email in the cloud?
I love the "Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder" in Safari and use it all the time. The only minor annoyance is that it takes a few steps (cmd+P -> click "PDF" -> select "Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder") to use it. Is there a way to setup a hotkey/shortcut for it so that it just takes one quick key combo?
Is it possible to have a pre-retina Application have good retina text. As in MenuBar text, and textbox and textfields and other text locations as long as the original developer used native OS X text handling API's. For applications that do their own graphics and text rendering we know that there is a difference when trying to run on a Retina display as noted by the MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis (see AnandTech comparison picture below).
I've a Kinesis Advantage Pro Keyboard and am using OS X Lion. I want to bind the function keys to what they are on the MacBook Pro - i.e. controls for brightness, mission control, etc. How can I do that?
I'm trying to route just specific traffic (a specific domain) on my Mac over my company VPN. This seems to be the most recommended way to do it,
I think when we are using the Mac, we can't choose "Repair Disk" in Disk Utilty to repair the current hard drive, as the drive is being used. If "Verify Disk" is used, it only takes about 3 to 5 minutes for a 120GB hard drive, so it seems not the whole drive is scanned.
Having both the video and audio going to the display would be optimal, but if I can just get the video on the display and use headphones plugged into the Xbox, that's perfectly fine and probably easier to achieve. I have an HDMI to mini DisplayPort adapter, so I tried using that and plugging it into the Thunderbolt port, unfortunately I didn't get sound or video that way.
Mountain Lion has a SWEET new Dock look that I'd love to replicate into my Lion install. Has anyone found a download link for any kind of fan art resembling it accurately, yet?
On a particular wireless network, most internet access is blocked by a captive portal but certain websites are not blocked, e.g.: *=URL=* is redirected to a captive portal login page. *=URL=* is accessible without having to log in.
I have been reading through all these resources here and here, but I couldn't find an answer. My question is simply: can the DisplayPort on a MacBook take a video input source? More Details: I have: Macbook Pro Model 6,2 (Mid-2010) that has a DisplayPort output A camcorder that has HDMI output and NO FireWire outputs. A HDMI to DisplayPort adapter.
When I tried to build a custom iOS 5.1.1 firmware (ipsw file) using redsn0w 0.9.12b1 almost in the beginning of the process I receive a message: Custom IPSW creating failed Memory Exhaused
Is there a way to preserve the backups from all my iDevices stored into the iTunes folder - photos, audio notes, SMS etc. and move them to the new Windows installation.
I'd like to use "say" in the terminal to create audio files with a custom phonetic dictionary, or at the very least, say things how I think they should sound. From my understanding, this can't be accomplished through the "Voice Over Utility" configuration screen. So to have say "speak" things correctly, I'm willing to: use a custom phonetic dictionary or change my input text to some phonetic variant For example, I'd like to be able to have the word "colossians" said as I expect it, which is phonetically something like "kuh LOSH uhnz" without the pauses that the spaces cause in the word.
Since there will be iOS 6 / Xcode 4.5 Beta or Preview and Mountain Lion Beta or Preview, I wonder if using an iMac with 1TB of hard drive, can it be partitioned using its Disk Utility into 4 or 5 partitions, and install Lion on each of those partitions except one partition for Mountain Lion Beta? Or alternatively, if it is a Mac Mini with 500GB and it is partitioned into 3 partitions?
I am huge fan of Apple, and I just bid on one a 1990-era Macintosh Classic. The bid is going higher, but I only want it if the computer has the signatures of the original Mac team.
I would like to do 2 things in the xCode: enabling spelling correction in the comments. unrolling the lines of code/comment, I mean like when I have a long line of code xCode won't break it to 3-4 lines and it all be in one long line.
In Xcode when I go to commit files, I get a sheet with "Cancel" and "Commit" buttons, where the latter is the default (colored/pulsing) button. I can hit Escape to Cancel, but I haven't found any way to Commit with just the keyboard.
I visited the Wikipedia page about Final Cut Studio, which is apparently aimed at professional movie studios. The page says that it's now only available via a 1-800 number, but the link to the official page for Studio at Apple now points at Final Cut Pro X. Also, the prices are wildly different. $299 for Pro X. Around $800 for Studio according to some results on Google. Is Studio an old, retired product and the high end editor suite is now Pro X (with an apparent huge slash in price), or am I missing something?
I want to sync the apps of my iPad on my iMac. iTunes warns me about the loss of the data stored on my iPad. Is this real? Can I make a backup of my iPad, Sync the Apps and then get my data back on my iPad?
I'm having issues with my just-purchased Time Capsule (2 TB). I have it in my room connected wirelessy to an existing network. I think this means I'm not taking full advantage of 802.11n, right? I'm doing the intial backup of some files. It is taking 20+ hours to transfer 40GB of data.
Is there an iPhone app in the App Store which allows scheduling of text messages? For example, I would like to setup birthday messages, so I don't forget them, or reminder messages. I know of such apps, but they run only on jailbroken devices.
I have a Google Apps account, with 2-step verification, set up in Apple mail. Typically it works great for several weeks, or a month, but then the SMTP server has (Offline) next to it, and it will refuse to send from that email address. I still can receive mail into that account. I believe deleting the account from Mail.app and adding it back in fixes the problem for awhile, but is there something that I should look for in the configuration of this account that has problems in particular?
I tried download some video podcast episodes a few days ago but the iPad displayed a message saying it can't download them because they were in a format it couldn't read. The problem is they are now still on the download queue in the iTunes app. Any ideas on how to fix this ? Thanks
I'm thinking of buying the new Macbook Air and I was wondering whether the Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter will work with my 23" Samsung LCD with a 2048 x 1152 resolution.
Is there an app that allows me to search the mac dictionary from the menu bar? I thought spotlight was able to do this but it doesn't seem to work (in Lion) (I noticed Dictionary isn't even listed in spotlight preferences).
I really love the way latest Apple TV front-row works. Its easy, clean and fast. I've been trying many different Media Center applications for my Mac Mini, but none of them are just like the one Apple TV provides. I could buy an AppleTV, but I really don't want to have yet another device at home, so I think there should be an application that replicates Apple TV menus/workflow.
I ran the Enlightenment e16.dmg file from here, *=URL=* , it works pretty good, but it runs on top of the mac osx default Window Manager (Quartz Compositor? i think its called). Is there a way to just run the enlightenment manager?
In netbeans, it highlights changed lines of code in green, blue or red and lets you revert changes per line. Is there a plugin that enables this kind of feature in Coda 2?
I currently have Snow Leopard and do iOS development. I'm wanting to play with the new iOS 6 SDK, but I need to have Lion installed. Is it possible for me to pay for a Lion upgrade now and later get a Mountain Lion upgrade for free later?
I rented a movie on my iPad but there isn't enough space on it to download the movie so now I'm trying to either watch it on my AppleTV or laptop through iTunes, but I can't seem to find how to do that. Is it not possible?
I have an Apple TV and it works great. I can stream my movies and TV shows from the cloud and watch them on my TV.
I've looked on Apple's site and I can't seem to find any information on whether having an iPad engraved will add a substantial amount of time to the shipping. Does anyone have any first hand experience?
I would like to be able to send email from utility/batch/launchd scripts via my gmail account and the mailx client that is bundled in OS X Lion. I cannot find how to configure this. I found *=URL=* which describes doing this for mutt, but I'd rather not have to install mutt. I do have Thunderbird installed and use that to read/send mail (instead of Mail.app). When I run mailx -v -s subject myemailaddress@gmail.com < file.txt I get no errors, but instead of getting an SMTP transaction log, mailx tells me Worse, there is no /var/mail/David folder, so this report appears to go into a bitbucket.
I take a lot of photos and videos with my iPhone, and like to have most of them on my iPad. However, often, I take and combine videos with iMovie eliminating the need to have 10-20+ videos of whatever that was in my Photos app. Right now I sync through iTunes into iPhoto, but that has become an immense space hog for two reasons. One is the videos, (I have the one completed video, and don't need all the clips) and two, iPhoto likes to create Photostream events that downloads all my Photostream pictures into separate Events(resulting in loads of duplicates as well). To finish the loop, I have my iPad sync the last three months of events. Is there a better way to manage pictures and videos? I would like to use something like a (iPhoto) Smart Album that only imports media, and then lets me delete whatever out that I want to.
We paid for and downloaded an album from iTunes store and 3 of the tracks have an exclamation mark next to them and we cannot move them to the playlist to sync with the ipod. Does anyone know what we can do about that? Thanks
Is the grounding wire forwarded to the Magsafe connector? There are these 2/3 pin adapters and it's so much easier to convert a 2 prong connector while travelling than the bulky three prong ones. I do know the dangers of not grounding an equipment that needs grounding but -- does the Macbook Pro need it?
I've just created my first Command Line Tool in Xcode. What do I have to do, or where do I have to put the final output file, so that I can run it from anywhere from within terminal, without having to go to the directory the actual Unix Executable File is in. An example of this is the Java and Git executables, which I can run in the terminal regardless of the location I'm in.
I subscribed to iTunes Match yesterday and let matching process run overnight. This morning, most of my tunes were matched. I wanted to upgrade my matched 128kbps bitrate tracks for iTunes Store 256kbps bitrate tracks.
Preface this by saying I will be launching this script whether it be applescript or bash script with Alfred.app. Sorry to be so blunt and unknowledgable but I need to run a couple lines of bash in an applescript. I think a simple bash script is capable but I do not know for sure. Here are the details (note that the commands should probably be different so if you have suggestions, please feel free to state them as they are probably correct): I want the script to rm ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf' unzip ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf.zip' launch Vidalia.app Step below I do not believe is possible since the Vidalia.app is not scriptable and I don't want the applescript/bash script to be running until Vidalia quits... but if it's possible to implement without the script needing to stay open: 4) On quit of Vidalia.app rm ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf
I have a Wifi-only new iPad, which uses an Exchange-type account for my Gmail. It connects just fine when I'm at home. But the last time I was out and about, I found I had a new email, but only the title and sender appeared in the Mail app. I had to connect the iPad to a public Wifi network to download the whole email. How can I force the iPad to always download the whole email message (attachments can wait) so I can read the whole message when I have time?
The Dock on my MBP Retina is constantly using 70 - 80% of CPU. This happens on the two account on the machine, both of which were migrated from my previous Lion MBP. I don't have Parallels installed, which can cause this issue apparently. I've deleted the Dock's plist and restarted it I've rebooted several times Any ideas on what may be causing this?
I got some home brew videos from my webcam, and I got a couple movies on the drive I'd like to burn to DVD. The thing is, I don't know what's a good product for that, being a recent Mac convert and formally a heavy Windows user.
After getting a Mac with Lion and creating a partition to install Lion again (to have different versions of Xcode and Xcode beta on different partitions), how can Lion be installed on the new partition? (Since Lion doesn't have an installation disc). (update: the Mac already has Lion and so in App Store, it doesn't list Lion as "purchased" but need to pay $29.99 for it)
The title says it all, but to give a little more detail. What I want to be able to do is to sit on my sofa, and select music via my iPhone or iPad and then that music is played on my TV (which is connected to my Hi-Fi).
I installed an Intel 330 SSD (120GB) in my MacBook (4,1) a few weeks ago. I reinstalled a fresh Mac OS X Lion (10.7.4) to make sure there are no issues with the new drive.
How can I quickly edit root owned files like /etc/hosts and /etc/apache2/httpd.conf in a text editor such as TextEdit which would let me do modern text editor operations, without actually running the editor in sudo -b mode first, or without using nano, vim and other terminal based editors? Ever since Lion came out, doing no longer works - the file remains locked when TextEdit opens it.
I just got a new iPhone as my old one was broken. My old one was a iPhone 4 and this new is a 4S. Now I purchased songs from on my old phone and when I look at these songs on the iTunes music store it says they are purchased but they are not in my iTunes library, how do I get them there?
I use Lion and I'm trying to make a folder action that copies the content of a local folder to a Samba share, but when I execute the action at Automator it copies the folder and not only its contents to the remote location. I created a new Folder Action and used the Copy Finder Items with the Replace Existing Files checked. What did I do wrong?
Can anything else be done to fix the white screen on a 3G besides restore/upgrade and DFU/restore? It sat in a box for ages, so was completely dead. I plugged it in to charge, got the white screen (oh noes). Left it like that for a bit. Tried a home+lock 15 second reset, screen went black, came back up to white.
My iPhone 4's button has stopped working properly. I went to the apple shop today to get it repaired, and was told I had to pay £119 as it was 22 months old and outside of the one year warranty. I then asked why it was not covered for a two year warranty due to EU law enforcing this, which then turned into a pointless argument of the guy at the genius bar continually saying "we only cover a one year warranty" in which I gave up and left. I just do not understand however if I am right or wrong - should it have been covered?
I have various calendars from iCloud and Google and it's very often that an event will be deleted from Google calendar but the iPhone will still show it. The same calendar is on iCal on my Mac and it shows it correctly there. If it doesn't, I can ⌘ + R or ⇧ + ⌘ + R to update it. Maybe I'm missing the place or configuration to do the same on the iPhone calendar application.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Air with an SSD and Lion. I used it for a while and then I activated FileVault 2. Now the data is encrypted, but I need to securely erase it so I can sell the computer. I thought about erasing it with gparted by installing it on a USB. Any suggestions?
I'm in the process of downloading a rather chunky iMovie update (1.89 GB), and I'm wondering if the "Retina support" described about the update is something my non-retina MacBook must have lingering around? I, like pretty much every other person, have a non-retina Mac and are these unused retina graphics are going to be present as inactive redundancies of all interface files/graphics in all retina supporting apps?
I recently installed MAMP from their website. It's a good way to test out site building. But today, when I tried installing a python package using easy_install, it just doesn't accept the request. Here's the error - I checked out the folder at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config/ and guess what, it's Empty!
Just curious: Why do some icons have a small arrow pointing at them in the Dock?
I've written some Objective-C in Xcode before, but I can't find any free software for writing HTML! I need to create a small website for an online course I'm taking, and figured that HTML is the way to go. Thank you for your help!
My MacBook Pro just started acting up. The screen will flicker and I end up having to reboot my computer. I can still move the mouse around, but that's just about it. Would you have any ideas what the problem may be?
I have iPhoto '11 with Photostream set up on my Mac Mini and on my Macbook Pro. I'm getting rid of the macbook pro, but have a photo book I've been working on on it that I want to move over to my Mac Mini (to finish up the work and print it). Is there a way to do this? I have the same pictures on both computers, I just can figure out how to move the project...
There is about a half-second to 1 second lag between pressing a key and displaying on the screen. This happens even if I use an exernal Bluetooth keyboard paired with an iPad. My friend has a similar issue with SSH on his Android 4.0 ICS tablet.
My Mac has gotten pretty dirty from all the stuff I've installed and the files I have accumulated these past months. I have tried reinstalling by holding Command-R and following the process. However, doing so has not cleaned up my file system. In fact all it seems to have done is broken some of my already installed programs (e.g. Xcode and MacPorts). Is there a way to reinstall Lion so that it will behave like its just been taken out of the box? I have previously been an Ubuntu user, and in Ubuntu I think I was presented with the option of scraping the existing file system when I do a reinstallation.
clicking a link in an email from linkedIn which linked to an article on Forbes.com. When the article loaded, it was replaced (or a link popped up in a new window - not sure now) with a site that was surely not a forbes advertiser. using the twitter app, I clicked a tweet from spitsnieuws.nl, it opened a pane inside the twitter app with the article, once it had loaded, it was replaced with a site surely not a spitsnieuws advertiser.
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Outlook for Mac 2011 that allows me to jump back to the main Inbox folder? Under my Inbox, I have a long list of folders that spans more than a full screen. If I'm at one of the folders close to the bottom of the list, let's say Sent Items and want to quickly go back to the Inbox folder, I have to use the mouse to scroll up in the folder list and then click on Inbox.
We are a small team of developers and we would like to buy a Mac mini in order to develop for iOS. We would like to know if it is possible for several users to log in remotely to the Mac mini (using VNC or something similar), each of us having his own desktop (not as VNC does by default).
How can I get iTunes to show at a glance which items are already on my iPhone. I'd like to add some new tunes to my iPhone, but find myself adding songs that are already on the device. I start looking through my collection, but I can't see what's already on my iPhone. I'd like to be able to see what's not currently synced to my phone, so I can focus on adding them.
My computers do not have sufficient hard drive space to store my iTunes library (movies rake up space so fast!), so I have stored my iTunes library on an external hard drive. I would like to sync some of my music to my computer's internal hard drive (say a playlist) to have music while on the go and away from my external hard drive. Any solution?
I had a near death experience this weekend. After purchasing a new 13" MacBook Pro I migrated all my data from my old MacBook Pro over to the new one and in the process with iTunes auto-backup/auto-sync I almost lost all of my iPhone data. By going back to a full back up that I preformed right before the migration I was able to recover the iPhone data but it was too scary for comfort.
I first upgraded my operating system (Windows Vista) and then iTunes. During the upgrade, I accidentally chose contact syncing should prefer my Windows' contacts over my iPhone's contacts. Now I've lost my phone's contact directory. How do I revert the iTunes contact sync so I can get my iPhone contacts back?
I was given an old G5, and the existing installed OS is locked, and I don't have the password. I don't care about erasing its whole content. I have a bunch of CDs, and I want to know how can I restart this machine so it boots from the CD and reformat the whole system. I am very new to MAC world. I realise this is a MAC 101 question type, but I need to start somewhere...... Thanks :-)
Over time I end up with a lot of completed reminders, and I haven't found an easy way to delete them out. Right now I have to go into each reminder and delete it - something that is particularly cumbersome on the iPad, but easier on the iPhone. Is there an easy way to delete completed reminders, or have it do that automatically?
I buy music on a regular basis, so it's important to me to be able to see what albums I've just added to my collection. That way I can listen to my new purchases easily, without having to remember some obscure band name that's buried deep within my collection. I used to be able to do this in the Zune software, is it possible in iTunes 11?
Click "Send to YouTube" when viewing the video in the Photos App. I get the error that the "Video is Too Long" even though my iOS is up to date, I am on WiFi and YouTube has a 10 hour limit.
I would like to know more about basebands. Does it change when updating iOS? Do all iPhones have the same baseband? If not, how do they differ? And ... can I unlock an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1? I would be very grateful for an explanation.
The new retina display MacBook Pro is advertised to have a native display resolution of 2880 by 1800. On the Lion 10.7.4 build, the system preferences limits the highhest resolution at 1920 by 1200.
How long does it take between calling Verizon to set up the Hotspot feature until you are actually able to use it?
I get an error when trying to run sendmail. I am on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
I am having an issue with my .bash_profile script. If I simply have the line the bashmarks.sh script runs as expected. However, if I add an alias I get the message:
Whenever I set a custom keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X (10.6.8) for a menu item, I cannot use it until I open its menu by clicking on it at least once. This happens every time I launch an app and affects services too. Is there a workaround?
On Windows, I've been using Switcher and the one feature that I really like is being able to switch to applications by typing in portions of their title. Is there an application for Mac OS X (10.7) that provides similar functionality?
The GitHub setup page at *=URL=* has a section on password caching. It states to download the osxkeychain and copy it to /usr/local/bin. I downloaded the file, but get a permission denied error when I try to copy it to the directory specified. How can I get this file copied?
I'm running Windows iTunes and have copied my DCIM folder to back it up, now I want to delete all the pictures like I would on a digital camera, but the folder appears to be write protected and unchangeable. What's the easiest way clear out all the pictures in lieu of doing it one-by-one. I'm sure it's obvious, but it appears to be non-obvious.
My email replies default to my Gmail account even though the "from" line and the "default account" in the Settings are my main (preferred) account address. How do I fix this?
With iTunes popupmenu  I have just restored my iPhone from a backup from March 2012. However all my apps made with Xcode was sadly not restored. How can I back up everything? Besides Xcode apps, which other things does iTunes backup not backup?
I want to back up my iPhone 4 photos and have been just downloading them into Aperture and then deleting them from my phone. No desire to do any of the various sharing options, I just want to make sure I keep a copy of the photos in a safe place. Would it be better to use Dropbox? I'm thinking I need to choose one or the other.
But that doesn't appear to have resolved the issue. I would like to be able to add movies or music without losing the existing content (state of apps etc.)
I've begin to construct a simple website with TextWrangler, and I have a question. In the online tutorial I'm following, the guy previews his website in Chrome. However, he is using Notepad++. Is there any way I can preview my code in Safari using TextWrangler? Thank you!
How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions? e. g. Does it support three cinema displays?
I have a MacBook Pro that is just being ridiculous, so I'm planning on erasing the hard drive and restoring from a Time Machine backup. I hear that Time Machine will only restore from backups that have been made from the computer. If I erase the hard drive in Disk Utilities will it think the Time Machine back up is a different computer?
I need to outfit some of my field staff with iPhones. They will primarily be used as hot spots. On Verizon, is there any appreciable gain in OTA network speed between the 4 and 4S? I know the AT&T version is faster, however I need to stay on Verizon.
I put my MBP next to the new Retina MBP today, and although the new display was incredibly crisp, and normal usage distance, it's just not that much better than mine as I'd opted for the high res (1680x1050) display. I'd thought I could for a lot more on the display, but it's not enough of a difference to justify cost, so I'm sticking with this, and going to upgrade the HDD to SSD instead. I've heard that some of the early 2011 SandyBridge models had a problem with the SATA controller and that they didn't actually support SATA III. Is there a way to check this out without actually just installing one to see if it works? Intel 6 Series Chipset: Vendor: Intel Product: 6 Series Chipset Link Speed: 6 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported I see from the system info that it has a 6gb link speed, but obviously the standard HDD is only SATA II, other than that I'm at a loss to see how to tell. Any ideas?
I'm an iOS developer and have been searching for devices running older versions of iOS to use for compatibility testing. (the iPod touch I have been using for this purpose recently gave up the ghost) You wouldn't believe how hard this has been, even on the used market -- either sellers don't specify the iOS version in their item descriptions (meaning you have to take your chances), or they "helpfully" upgrade to the latest iOS before selling it. Anyhow, I thought I finally hit pay dirt when I found an iPhone 3GS whose auction prominently listed iOS 4.x as a selling point. Well either the guy was outright lying or he didn't know what the hell he was talking about, because when I received the device, it had iOS 5.x on it. I know I could probably file a Item not as described claim or something to that effect, but I am not in the mood for a long drawn out battle, hostilities, negative feedback war, etc. and so at this point I was ready to cut my losses and live with it running 5.x.
I used to download new podcast episodes by going to the podcast on my phone and pushing the "get more episodes" button. I have done this for years now and had no problems.
I'm sort of generally curious about this, since pre-Mac App Store apps one could simply open the font file from within the app's package contents and install it through Font Book to allow use outside that particular app. When I use Add Fonts from within Font Book to add the fonts, I get the following 2 "serious errors": Corrupt font name - Font basic parsability - System Validation
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 running Lion 10.7.4 (11E53) I have installed an SSD instead of the optical drive, and encrypted both hard drives with FileVault2. For some time now I noticed I can't access the apple.com servers, not even in Safari/Chrome/Firefox. If I try to ping www.apple.com it doesn't find the host, but when I do a dig apple.com I get the informations. It's very very strange, any ideas?
I have a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro. I have purchased a mini DisplayPort to DVI-D adapter onto which I have connected a DVI-D to VGA (D-Sub) adapter which then connects into my new monitor. The Displays screen seems to recognised the monitor, but the monitor says "No Signal Detected". Is it valid to connect mini DisplayPort -> DVI-D -> VGA?
I use the Sleep Cycle app almost every night, but am concerned about the "health" of the accelerometer in the phone. For the app to work, I set a time frame for it to wake me up, then I lay it on the mattress (not under anything to protect from heat buildup - I've never felt it get warm), and it uses the accelerometer in the phone to track my movement. Nice idea. Does this kind of 7+ hour per night wear matter?
I accidentally deleted the files in /etc/ (yes into /private/etc) and my iMac gets stuck on a blue screen after the initial apple logo now. I tried to boot from install DVD but it hangs at the apple logo when I do that. Any suggestions on how to fix or reinstall the OS? This is an iMac with OS X Snow Leopard.
I have vertical lines showing up on my 2.16 GHz 2 GB RAM Core 2 Duo iMac. Any idea what's going on and what I need to do to fix it? My computer is also freezing frequently.
How to execute a Folder Action or another Automator script when I make changes to a folder? And by changes I mean not just deleting or inserting new file, the most important for me is when the content of a file is changed the action will be triggered.
It used to be possible to log in to ICQ accounts with iChat by using your ICQ login info as an AIM account. However, that functionality seems to have been removed - if memory serves, with the introduction of Lion. Is there any way to use ICQ with Messages under Mountain Lion?
I am wondering why some mobile phone company other than apple doesn't make their phone sync up to a Mac in the same way that the iOS devices do, and sync their calendars, music, etc. We can ignore the sync-by-wifi method for now -- even just using the regular cable to USB would be fine.
Is it possible to transfer an app from one app store account to another? I want to be able to update some apps that my father bought on his account that are currently on my iPhone, but I'm pretty sure that I'd have to transfer those apps to my account first. Do I need to transfer the apps to be able to update them? If so, how would I do that? From looking at this question, I guess that the only option that I have is to transfer app account ownership to my account in order to update those apps.
In the last few weeks my iPhone occasionally makes some kind of notification sound. It's not any of the built-in sounds, and I've gone through all the "Sounds" settings just to make sure. It's a two-step tone on a marimba or something like it, but not the built-in one. It happens about once every 10 minutes.
For a long time, I have had two accounts on my Mac : an administrator account that I normally don't use, and a "normal user" that I use for day-to-day work. I did this because it should be more secure to work in an account with fewer privileges.
In Windows and Ubuntu one can move the cursor to the end of the next word in text by pressing ctrl+ left or ctrl+right. What's the equivalent of this on the Mac?
Is there a corresponding utility similar to the Windows Zip-to-Exe utility? I would like to compress an archive with a flash presentation (containing a lot of files), and make it executable in Mac, so it starts with a single click. Is it possible?
It seems my Safari is not resuming correctly. I open some tabs, then quit and when fire up Safari again it's opened like wasn't have any tabs opened before. Is it some version bug, or i should look for something in Safari prefs? Safari 5.1.7 (7534.57.2) MOX 10.7.4 (Build 11E53) EDIT: In reaction to Michiel i've checked whether i have Resume turned on.
Yes, I know there is a solution available from Apple for Thunderbolt. Yes, I know there is a solution available from Apple for USB 2.0 to fast Ethernet (10/100). I am looking for an adapter to plug into a USB 3.0 port, providing me Gigabit (10/100/1000) LAN capability via wired ethernet.
Apple has published a paper on security controls in iOS, which specific version is this referring to?
I would like to make a presentation from an iPhone or iPad using an AppleTV and projector. Is it possible to do so without either a WiFi or LAN network in place (like in a bad hotel)? Is the AppleTV able to act as a WiFi/Bluetooth access point so that iDevice can connect to it and show the presentation? Or is that not possible? Are there any workarounds for this, or do I have to bring wireless router with me as well?
I have files and directories on an FTP server that I want to copy to another directory. I select them, and option-release to copy into another directory on the same FTP server. However, Transmit starts "Downloading dir/" for the files, instead of just copying them.
I read that Power Nap coming with Mac OS Mountain Lion will require a Mac notebooks with flash storage. Do they mean that by upgrading an early 2011 MacBook Pro to a Crucial M4 SSD would allow Power Nap to operate? Any hints towards this new feature and whether it'll be available to all SSD users, or only the ones that purchased the new 2012 MacBook Pros is greatly appreciated.
I am using ipad 1 and I have some charging problem in it so,I want to ask that is there any problem if I charge my ipad in power off mode. If yes yes what can be the problems that can be seen in my ipad Can I use Chinese chargers for charging it.
I use Lightroom and not iPhoto, and I'm on a MacBook Air, so HD space is premium. I want all my PhotoStream photos to find their way into Lightroom. I've set up a Hazel rule that looks at ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters and searches all the subfolders for images and MOVES them into a separate folder that Lightroom then scans and processes, moving photos into its own folders based on date stamps.
It's probably worth mentioning that someone who steals a FileVault-enabled Mac can never shut down or restart the machine without losing access to the booted machine's startup drive. (Although they probably wouldn't realize this until after shutting down or restarting.) This also means they can't install updates that require a restart, let the battery run down to zero, or even wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall the OS to get a "working" computer.
I use parallels and vm software to run Windows and Linux on my Apple machines. When running Windows (or Linux) on a Retina MacBook Pro, what resolution does it report?
I am facing this issue whenever I am trying to run Play 1.2.1 in my system. Previously, I had Play 2.0 in my system. I exported the $PATH variable so that $PATH contains the path to Play 2.0 directory. Now, I am trying to run Play 1.2.1 in Mac OS X 10.7.4. My PATH variable looks like: After exporting the $PATH for play 1.2.1 my $PATH looks like:
The "com.apple.security.pboxd" process is taking 10-20% CPU, and has been for a while now. From searching around, it seems that this is responsible for showing the "open file" dialog boxes on behalf of sandboxed apps. It seems odd that it needs 40+ MB of RAM and 20% of my CPU to do this, especially since there don't seem to be any such dialog boxes visible right now. Is it safe to kill this process?
Use case: I often want to toggle between a podcast and a music playlist in iTunes. Say, while ironing I listen to a podcast, later when I do computer work I switch to music, then when unstacking the dish washer I want to go back to the podcast and after this, music is on again, etc, etc…
My MacBook's internal Bluetooth stopped working.* My MacBook's System Information says "no information found" under "Bluetooth". Is it possible to use some kind of USB to Bluetooth adapter to connect with the wireless Mac keyboard and Magic Mouse? * (The problem was not solved by doing any of the highest rated tips: restarting, reinstalling, etc.)
First, I understand that I'm walking a fine line but, to be clear, I am sticking to the FAQ and I am not asking for hardware recommendations. Instead, I simply want to know if there are any car stereos out there that have AirPlay built in. If not, why not?
(Assigning DHCP IP range served 10.9.8.*) Network client with Problem
The problem is that both Disk Utility & Disk Warrior want to unmount the volume before making repairs. Both apps then produce error dialogs. Is there a way of running these utilities on a Fusion volume?
I hooked my MacBook up to an Apple server for testing and I created a mobile account on the unit. I've since decided to go back to just having a local account on the MacBook. The process I did was to the following: Create a new Admin account on the MacBook. Log into the Admin account. Backup the home folder of the network account. Delete the network account from System Preferences -> Users. Create a new local account with the same name as the old network account. Restore the backed up home folder. Reset all permissions on the restored home folder (sudo chown …). Logged into the newly created local account. Now everything has been working fine on my system and I'm not having any permissions issues, or weird ghosts coming out of the closet except for one thing.
I noticed that the application Better Touch Tool is preventing my Mac from going to sleep. The screen will shut off, but the computer won't go to sleep. Is there a way to disable any of the settings to not cause this behavior, or do we need to wait for a fix from the developer? I'm hoping to avoid a solution such as running Please Sleep. (I reported this bug to the developer.)
Why is the Apple logo upside down when the lid is open on the older Apple notebooks?
For some reason, when I plug in a wired mouse to my iMac, and then plug in a wireless mouse, the acceleration of both are totally different. The acceleration curve for the wired mouse seems to be about the same as it would be on a Windows computer, while a wireless mouse has the typical annoying Mac acceleration curve that many are aware of, which is an increased acceleration—when moving the mouse slowly, the acceleration is low, and when moving it quickly, the acceleration is high. I noticed this years ago but only recently switched back from a wired to a wireless mouse after it finally died, and I decided to take the jump back to wireless mice since they are far more common than wired ones these days. Is this just me or do other people have this happening to them as well?
I have Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. Whenever I go into Windows 7 and then go back to OS X Lion, and then run a Time Machine backup, Time Machine is stuck on the "Preparing Backup" stage for a long time (roughly 30 minutes). It usually takes 30 seconds in this stage in most cases.
I outsourced the storage for my "iTunes Media", "iTunes Music" and "Mobile Applications" using symlinks onto a network drive. I didn't outsource the complete media library because of performance reasons with iTunes. It would be nice to connect to my network drive when I launch iTunes as it fails less than gracefully when the network storage isn't already mounted. Is there a way to mount a network drive prior to a particular application launching?
I've just received my new MacBook Air. (my first Apple computer in 15 years!) Unfortunately, I had it sent to work on a day I wasn't in, and it was mistaken for the new intern's computer. He proceeded to do whatever it is one does with a new mac when one first receives it. I have the admin password he created, but I imagine I need to do a full wipe to be sure the computer hasn't been tampered with - i.e., a login script exists that maliciously exports my data.
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-01-29 on bob.porkrind.org on a MacBook Air. Can I set Command-H to hide Emacs? I currently use M-x customize-group ns and set Command Modifier to no value. I already have a standard key binding to iconify-frame, but that is different from hiding; I'd rather use the native OS X hide capability so I can unhide by clicking on the Emacs icon in the dock.
Does the new MacBook Air (mid-2012) support Daisy Chaining to two Thunderbolt Displays? I'm trying to decide between a fully-loaded MacBook Air and a Retina MacBook Pro, and this is a big breaking point for me.
I take my MacBook Pro with me to work and meetings. I do most of my design and development work on the Mac Pro. I currently use Google Drive and sync my documents and other things to the cloud.
Using iPhoto 2011. I was going to export my slideshow as a Quicktime movie, then burn it to DVD in iDVD.
Can I share the screen of one iOS device with another iOS device from app? Is it possible to implement above functionality using iOS SDK? Does Apple allow this type of app? If anyone know about this, kindly let me know. Thanks in adavance.
Iphoto was acting strangely, and was unable to open a valid iPhoto library that worked just fine with another copy of iPhoto on an external drive created with Superduper from my original disk. I'm running a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
The situation: My HDD crashed, I didn't have any backups. I get a new SSD. I had my iPhone synced with the old HDD as usual. The problem: How can I sync Apps/Music/Podcasts from my iPhone (where everything is normal) back to my Mac (where iTunes is clean)? If I just check the boxes for synchronisation in the "new" iTunes, it will override the data on my iPhone. The solution: ?
I have just updated my Mac to Lion and started using iCloud. Next thing I want to do is update my phone to iOS 5, but I want to backup all my purchased TV Shows first. Some of them are purchased on my iPhone and I would like to transfer them to my Mac.
I have installed OS X Lion and I was trying to resolve error libxml2 missing for Ruby programming purpose. I tried to install latest version of Libxml2 that is libxml2-2.8.0 Because of incompatibility of this version Mac is throwing errors while opening XCode, Chrome and some other application with the error.
I have asked a similar question to this elsewhere on this site, but I thought I’d give this another go in simpler terms. I am new to Dreamweaver, and I am currently trying to create a simple table of 14 columns. I want them to be the same size.
I am planning to install VMware software in order to launch another OS while running my current OS. I have research something about it but still would like to ask questions on the common installation problem? Hope you'll share your personal experiences.
One of my friend bought his MacBook Pro with preinstalled Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2). Afterwards, he installed the Mountain Lion (10.8) developer preview in it.
This is the first time I've ever used apache, so there's a pretty good chance I'm doing something horribly wrong. I followed some instructions online to edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf make my web root folder at ~/Sites. I have a couple projects that I want to have inside that folder, so I looked into it and saw that I had to set up virtual hosts.
I am using the CLI version of Vim on Mac mini, with OS X Lion. I use Vim as my main code editor, and one thing that bother me is lack of Home and End keys for moving to the Start and End of lines, respectively. (On my laptop, the arrow keys left and right are home and end, with the Fn modifier) I know Control + Arrows move screens, and Command + Arrows move through windows, so any way I can I can get Option or Fn + Arrows to do this? I would really like something like this across all applications. EDIT: I answered this myself by basically following: theandystratton.com/2009/… I used the values supplied in the second comment too, which worked in both Vim and in general terminal too. I wonder is there any drawbacks to using this...?
Is it possible to see the date of a photo when I'm confirming additional faces in iPhoto? It's nearly impossible for me to tell my kids apart in some of their photos, but since they were born three years apart, if I could see the date a photo was taken it would make things much easier.
I've been looking for it, but I can't seem a way to enable it. Is there a way to enable code completion in TextWrangler? I need it for C/C++.
I just read this review in the New York Times about the Samsung Galaxy S3. Apparently, the phone comes with the ability to communicate with TecTiles:
I'm after a simple way to back up the directory created by iTunes when it rips a music CD to add to its library. Is there any way to have iTunes use AppleScript somehow to copy the directory across once it's finished ripping? Update: For clarity I have multiple systems to play my music, I rip CDs using my Macbook so I can listen via iTunes when I'm not at home, but I also have Sonos installed which plays music from my NAS, so when I'm not at home the family can still listen to music. I'd like to rip a CD, & copy it to the NAS automatically so it's available to Sonos (and via DNLA for the PS3 or other clients I might have in the future)
I'd like to migrate into a new MacBook Air I bought this week, from the previous version of MacBook Air. SSD size is the same. Can I somehow image my older SSD and "move" it to the new SSD?
While fishing for free books, I tapped purchase for a book which is larger than 500mb. I've noticed the size only after buying. I paused the download by tapping on the book.
Is there a way to configure my keyboard layout in Lion to match the Windows "Français (Canada)" (or French (Canada) if you prefer!) layout?
I've just enabled FileVault 2 on my mid-2012 MacBook Air and am worried it has crashed. I've entered all the details and clicked "Restart" and now have a greyed out System Preference pane with a spinner. If I try and manually restart from the Apple menu I'm told that System Preferences are stopping a restart.
I would sincerely love a new MacBook, but I can't justify spending the prices that are being touted by Apple what with life to pay for and everything. I upgraded my memory to 2GB a while ago, but am thinking of now upgrading the HD to a SSD seeing as the MacBook is still performing OK, just a bit lagging behind the times.
I'm looking for some good disk imaging software, so I can store some of my Mac's applications on a flash drive and then export them to a newer machine. Any recommendations? Also, are there any free ones available?
I got AppleTV and it came with a remote. Since the remote triggers action on both the AppleTV and iMac (they are in the same room), I disable the iMac from taking remote signal already.
I have an iPod Classic (the 160 gig one) that I use, and I want to have album art for all of the songs. Problem is, I cannot just use the "Get Album Art" option on iTunes, because that will only find art for songs currently on that particular computer, and I have many songs on my iPod that are not on my computer. Short of manually adding the art to every album (like I have been doing), is there a way I can get iTunes (or any other program) to go through my iPod and find the appropriate album art for the songs there?
Is it possible to connect two external monitors to a Retina MacBook Pro without using Thunderbolt displays? For example, one connected with HDMI and another using Apple's DVI connector and also use the screen on the laptop.
Both iPad and iPhone's Personal Hotspot mode allows 3 ways to connect: WiFi USB cable Bluetooth
I recently ordered a new MacBook Pro and a One to One membership online. I got an email saying that my MBP will arrive in "3 or 4 weeks". I also got an email saying "Thank you for joining One to One. Please activate your membership online". Does my one-to-one membership expire 12 months from receipt of this email or 12 months after I activate it?
I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order. I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so?
We need to build a static web page with an iPhone on it containing animated views to showcase our app. To start with we need an iPhone 4S skin, better to be a white one to hold the rest of images, so I was wondering where can we find such skin. Can anyone help?
Is there a command I can run from the command line in OS X to get the current CPU temperature and/or the fan speed(s)? To be more specific, I'd like to be able to get the same info available in the iStat widget under the Fans and Temps tabs on the command line. I'd like to be able to find these values at the command line so it could be scripted and plugged into a monitoring setup on my Mac - I have a data-nerd desire to collect and graph these values (and other stats) on my Macbook over time. On Linux, it seems like this would be possible by reading a pseudo-file under the /proc directory, but I'm not sure how to do the equivalent on OS X (if it exists).
The new battery is an A1175 on a MacBook Pro (2008). The specs are that this battery should hold a capacity of 5600 mAh. OSX Lion System Information reports: Full Charge Capacity: 4936 mAh Manufacturer: Sony Cycle Count: 6 Condition: Normal
Can you log in more than one account as long as you log off the one that is signed on before signing in another? For instance, if you buy an AppleTV and your house has two other members with different Apple IDs, can each person use the AppleTV as long as the one that is logged on is signed off then another person logs in? Or does it only allow one Apple user use the tv? Would each person have to own the AppleTV or can more than one family member share one?
I tend to assign keyboard shortcuts to the services I use most often. Occasionally, I need to access one from the toolbar menu. When I dropped the menu down today, I noticed that some of the items were in Spanish. All of the aforementioned items seemed to be the core services - ones I had installed or built myself are still in English. No idea how this happened. Please see the screenshot below.
I am an indie game developer. I am in love with the Mackbook Air [13 inch], and want to buy it. I was wondering: Will I miss the DVD drive, and upgradability if I am choosing a Macbook Air over Macbook Pro or a Thinkpad Machine? Will I miss the DVD drive, and upgradability if I am choosing a Macbook Air over Macbook Pro or a Thinkpad Machine? Is the form factor and battery backup time worth the choice? Is the form factor and battery backup time worth the choice? Is it good for iPhone/Android Development? Is it good for iPhone/Android Development?
My guess is they're defined for something else globally. But I can't find where. Another guess is they're probably defined for 'Switch to Desktop 3, 4' since I've been using old version of OSX and upgraded to Lion. Like DMan pointed out, after removing 'Switch to Desktop 1, 2', Command ⌘+1 and Command ⌘+2 work just fine.
Is there a way to display a song's ratings from the iTunes Mini Player? I know that I can right click in the display and view/change the ratings from there.
Is there a global hotkey or keyboard shortcut to change ratings in iTunes for the current song? Some other applications (e.g. Amarok on Linux) have this and I'm missing this functionality from iTunes.
I frequently use and edit config files inside /etc on OS X Lion. I would like to be able to access this dir in Finder easily, but don't want to unhide hidden files system-wide using defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles. Anyone know how?
UPDATE: It seems that this is not possible, nor is it necessary, since Apple seems to forward all payments in USD. Can anyone answer if this is true? Does Apple pay European developers in USD?
After owning an iPad for a couple of years, last week I purchased my first iPhone. I've been well aware of the feature where you press the power button + Home key, and iOS will take a screenshot of the display.
I use option and command to navigate text (which is awesome). I've read somewhere that you can specify the characters that constitute a word stop (underscores for example). However I can't find this anywhere. Does anyone know where to set this?
I would like to ask whether it is possible to develop OS X application (especially for Lion) on a Mac mini, being able to test how the performance would be on a lower speed CPU. For example: development machine is a Mac mini (Intel Core i5 dual-core at 2.3 GHz); emulated test machine similar to a MacBook Air (i5 dual-core 1.7 GHz).
Could you recommend an iPhone Google Reader client with updating home-screen badge for unread item count? I'm interested in an app that's able to update the badge while the app is not running.
On my new Retina MacBook Pro I'm finding I can't show the time remaining next to the battery icon on the menubar. The option is available in the right-click menu on non-Retina laptops. Any ideas on how I can get this useful indicator?
Is there any RSS reader with a built-in adblock or a plugin to an RSS reader? I would also be preferable if it had Google Reader integration.
While using Mission Control and pressing Control ⌃+↑, I get the tiled view of all the applications in that particular desktop. Is there a keyboard shortcut to choose an application in this view?
EDIT: I just noticed that actually, Time Machine "sees" the Windows partition. Does it means that I will be able to restore it without any pain?
The podcast page format changed recently. I was getting a format that listed the episodes in order and at right would be "download" button to download that episode to the Music app. Now it's a down arrow (but it does the same thing). I could press the episode title to listen, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Also the new page format has a subscribe button that wasn't in the previous format. What's happened?
I have 10.7 running on my personal laptop and 10.6 on my work machine, and recently noticed they act differently on hidden apps. In 10.6, when I hide an app then hold down Command ⌘-Tab, it shows a list of all the open apps and the hidden app will be at the end of the app-switcher. This way, if I just press (instead of holding down) ⌘-Tab after hiding the app, it will not switch back and show that hidden app immediately. However, in 10.7, Apple changed things up entirely: that hidden app will stay in its position after I hide it, so if I hit ⌘-Tab, I'll immediately unhide the app I just hid, which seems to defeat the point of hiding the app. So I am wondering if there is a way I can get that 10.6 hidden app behavior back on 10.7?
I have GPS Drive App Motion X-GPS. I tried to use this app with my iPhone/iPad cigarette charger plugged in, but the battery is keep draining even with the charger to make this app almost useless for long distance driving. I used the charger without any problem with other apps.
I just bought a SSD for my MacBook Pro and installed Lion on it and restored from a Time Machine backup. After a few updates and configuring a few things I am mostly good to go. However, Xcode and Aperture have a ghostly barred circle over their dock icons. I needed to download some components for Xcode to get it to run, but it seems fine, but the icon is wrong:
I noticed that under heavy CPU load, the temperature differences between the CPU and CPU heatsink are very high:  picture from iStatPro; 2.0 GHz quad-core i7 (2635QM) Sandy Bridge; Macbook Pro 8.2
I am looking forward to migrate my c++ code to C++11, which might requires at least g++ 4.6. So what is the GCC installed on Mountain Lion?
I just got the latest MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz i7 Quad Core, 8GB RAM, non-retina). But the packaging and overall appearance looks just like the older 15" one (I don't see any HDMI and stuff). Are the non-retina 2012 MacBooks supposed to look like this? Whenever I search for the unboxing/review videos of the newest model, they only review the retina one.
As of late I can't uninstall any Mac App Store apps once they've been installed. I follow the standard procedure of opening Launchpad, pressing Option ⌥, and clicking on the little x on the top left corner of the app's icon. What happens is that the icon vanishes for a second, and then reappears in Launchpad. This is a typical error I get in the Console right after trying to uninstall an app: LaunchPad: Uninstall failed Error Domain=com.apple.uninstalld.request Code=2 "ErrorMissingBundle" UserInfo=0x7fa12509b4f0 {Missing bundle string=/Applications/OmniFocus.app} file://localhost/Applications/OmniFocus.app/ I am running Lion (10.7.4).
Recently, I opened my Gmail application on my (brand new) iPhone 4S. I've been using the phone for a couple of weeks, and I downloaded the Gmail application a couple of days ago.
I've got 2 applications that I installed via the Mac App Store that are still in the "waiting" mode. How do I get these applications to finish installing? Or how do I remove them and try again?
When I plug in a USB drive while my VM is running, Parallels offers a dialog lightbox asking whether the USB drive should associate with the Mac or the VM. Once this choice is made, Parallels tends to remember/respect it on every subsequent reconnect. Sometimes I want to change this association, but I don't see how I can. Is there an easy option to change the USB drive's association on the fly? Or do I need to select something to make Parallels forget all USB associations and start over?
An associate of mine has managed to associate all his Voila files to Finder, and now he just has a bunch of folders for them. He wants to revert this but, when he does, at Get Info he has no option to re-associate the folders/files to Voila. How can this be fixed?
I have an iPhone 4S. No Facebook push notifications are activated on my phone. Nevertheless, several times a day I receive a push notification that I have been invited to X event or Y person is in my vicinity. I can't seem to figure out why I'm receiving these notifications and I would rather not get them. Any clue what's behind this mystery?
On my iPod Touch, the Default Alert Time is 9 AM. This would be fine, as I can change it per event if necessary. But the time for birthdays cannot be changed as the birthdays are retrieved from my contacts and the event cannot be edited. Instead of manually creating each event for my contacts, how can I change the Default Alert Time?
This happens from time to time: the "hide" option is just grayed out and the usual shortcut doesn't work. I'm not doing anything special or stuck in a modal window—it just isn't available.
Same with Apple-F in Finder ... it causes Finder to hang for a minute or so. Cannot search.
I have been using MobileMe to sync emails from my two comcast email addresses from Outlook on my PC to my iPhone and iPad. With MobileMe being turned off at the end of this month it will be necessary to migrate to iCloud. It was my understanding that I would no longer be able to get email from my two Comcast email addresses synced to my iPhone and iPad after moving to iCloud, rather, only email send to me at my me.com email address would only be synced. Am I correct in assuming that email from my two Comcast email addresses will no longer be synced after MobileMe is gone?
(This is not so convenient, as we need to change the path for music and then for videos, but at least it may be a workable solution. My library is about 550GB on iMac so I am afraid it may mess things up if I change it to the external drive and change it back and all the references to songs and videos, and the indexing for search are gone).
I have 2 partitions on my computer. One with mac os x, another for Windows XP. I want to replace the disk with another one and I wanted to know if Time Machine will be able to restore the Windows partition too?
I have a Macbook Pro 13" and pretty much all the requirements asked on the Mac App Store are met in order to play AC2. It says at the top of the page though, This app is not compatible with Macbook Air and Macbook Pro 13" Will it still work?
Why is my SATA controller capping the link speed? This is what it says in my System Profiler under the Serial-ATA page:
I've bought the New iPad and have been using iPhoto to upload my pictures to Facebook. However, when I view them the quality doesn't look good. When browsed from the desktop Facebook site, the site does not provide a high quality version to download either. How can I upload high quality images to Facebook from my iPad?
I want to know how to enable all HiDPI modes, particularly the 1280x800 mode for my 1440x900 MacBook Air. How can I do this?
The findsmb command present in SnowLeopard and older, is not available from terminal in Lion. Is there an equivalent?
I have recently moved my blog to another hosting company. The problem is that I cannot access my blog from my macbook pro although at the same time I can see it from my sony vaio. Going at the terminal and running : nslookup blog.myblogname.org I get the following results: Server: xx.xx.x.xxx Address: xx.xx.x.xxx#53 ** server can't find blog.myblogname.org: NXDOMAIN (Server is my isp's domain name server)
I just got a new Apple MacBook Pro 13", mid-2012, which has a dual-core Intel i5 Ivy Bridge CPU. When I run Activity Monitor and turn on the Floating CPU Window, it shows a 4-bar graph (indicating 4 cores). On my older MacBook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo dual-core processor, Activity Monitor only showed a 2-bar graph (indicating 2 cores). Why does Activity Monitor seem to indicate that my Mac has 4 cores, when clearly it does not?
Sparrow for iPhone seems to only search the same fields that the Mail app does: from, to, subject, or all of them. Given that gmail (sparrow's data source) and the sparrow Mac app both allow full text searches, and presumably the "work" is done on the gmail server side, it seems odd that you can't search the body of messages.
I have an iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 and baseband 5.16. After reading various blog posts and threads, I was told that in order to unlock it, I had to first upgrade it to the iPad baseband (6.15) and then downgrade it. Well, when I tried upgrading to 6.15, it took me halfway through the process and then said I had to first activate the iPhone. Not having a SIM card yet, I couldn't proceed. Now, WiFi doesn't work, Bluetooth doesn't work, calls, tons of things. The modem firmware is blank. The top left of the screen just says "Searching", and iTunes won't even recognize it. I think it may be bricked. Any suggestions?
I have a MacPro running Mac OS X 10.7.4 with a Time Capsule connected by Ethernet. When Time Machine runs a verify of the backups it seems to stall at 72%, and if I let it run a LONG time I think I have seen it jump up to something like 92% done. But I am not at all sure I have seen it actually complete the verify (I typically end up doing Skip Verification.) Right now I have a verify running that has been stuck at 72% for maybe an hour, and I have waited 12 hours and a good bit more without getting to completion. Granted there a pretty good number of files and folders, and the backups go back over a year and half - Time Machine prefs shows 193 GB out of 998 GB available on the Time Capsule
If we have an iMac and an AppleTV, is it better to use the AppleTV to pull content from the Mac to play it, or is it better to start from the Mac and use AirPlay to push to the AppleTV?
Specifically, I would just love to use the trackpad to do "three finger swipes" and switch between Linux workspaces (desktops), that would be extremely slick. I imagine this might require a plugin or some such thing, in addition to the disabling of the underlying Mac OS's responding to the gestures, which is what it currently does.
I'd like to get a list of all the applications currently running on my machine using the command line. It should be similar to what you get when you open up Activity Monitor and choose to save the list. I noticed that the ps -a command does something similar, but it cuts off the names of the processes. I'm only interested in the name of the processes, so I don't need all the columns that Activity Monitor outputs.
I have ensured that the electrical outlet is working properly. I have tried both of various factory resets (soft, hard). No lights. Nothing. Time to hit the Apple Store?
Is there a way to make my sent emails show up in my inbox on the iPad, similar to how it is shown in the gmail web view? I can do this in the Mac app by creating a smart mailbox that includes both inbox and sent messages. Is there something I can set up, either on the iPad or in gmail, that would let me do this?
I just synced my rEFIt partition tool and now I get an option to boot from legacy HD when at the moment the only bootable disk is that cotaining Mac OS X. Has anyone got any idea of how I can get rid of this option from the rEFIt menu?
I am getting repeated kernel panics. I have run many disk repair routines using Disk Utility and Techtool (6) but still happening. It seems to happen when I am using a particular application (Sonuus i2M Editor) which is a USB Pitch to MIDI converter. The kernel panics are hard to know what if anything will help narrow this down...
I got my retina Macbook Pro this week and have been waiting for my Thunderbolt to DVI adapters to get here so I can hook them up to my external displays. In the meantime, I am using an HDMI to DVI cable to hook up to my monitor.
I accidentally (!!) deleted a synched IMAP folder on iCloud from Mail.app. It was a large project folder with many clients in it but none of them show up in deleted messages.
What is the fastest way to connect two MacBooks? In my case I want to connect an MacBook Air (2011) with a Retina MacBookPro and use Screen Sharing. Options I'm thinking of: Thunderbolt/Ethernet and connecting both MacBooks directly? something else?
I'm trying to find a command to make a shared folder with the terminal to integrate in a shell script. But i couldn't find anything for making a shared folder on a MAC OS X client. Can you guys help me with this?
Sometimes, after I wake up my MBP from sleep I get the screen shown in picture. Once I click somewhere in the middle of the screen I get the log in window. When I log in all the windows/apps that were open before sleep are closed. This doesn't happen always but it happens quite often. Any suggestions? Has anyone had same problem ? This started happening after installing SSD. (Crucial M4)
Right now I have a Hitachi 320GB 5400rpm and a MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 superdrive connected to the Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller in my MacBook Pro 5,3. The link speed of the hard disk drive is negotiated to 1.5 Gbps as, according to this answer the device is a SATA I (1.5Gbps) device. This is what my system profiler says about the SATA controller: Now I'm wondering the following:
I've previously connected to a wifi network on my iPhone but I've no way of finding out the password. So is there any way to view saved wifi passwords on the iPhone?
I was thinking of subscribing to iTunes Match. I share my computer with my sister who also has a iTunes library. She has no interest in iTunes match what so ever but I don't want her songs in my cloud. Can I: Make a separate library under the same user account (on the actual computer) and only match one library leaving the other one unaffected? Make another account on the computer, having the two libraries under different accounts, and only matching one library leaving the other one unaffected?
I'm clicking through the internet and start being confused a little bit about if the mobile Safari Brwoser is HTML5-capable now or not. I wanted to open the webqr-Site on my safari Browser on iPod Touch 3rd Gen with the newest iOS and they say, I have to open this site with a browser being capable of HTML5. But actually the mobile safari browser should support HTML5, (Link1, Link2). I'm not into HTML5, that's why I get confused. Does that mean, that the mobile Safari browser started being compatible to some Tags of HTML5, but still not supports the whole functionality? Is there any reliable source for that? I need this information for my thesis.
I have a few different applications on my Mac that ideally I would like to run with different network settings. One app for work I need to run over my work VPN, but at the same time, I have another app I need to run over a proxy for testing. Currently, I can only work with one app at a time with the required network setup. Stop working with it, then setup my other network config. Is there an app, or a way to specify via settings that an application should use a particular networking setup?
I am going to buy the high end MacBook Pro mid 2012. I want to get an SSD, but the BTO options given by Apple are too pricey in my opinion. Which third party SSD (512 GB) are recommended (for performances and prices)?
I would like to buy an external hard drive that I'll use on Mac OS X and on Windows, but I don't know the best file system for it (reading and writing on the both system). I know I can used FAT32 easily, but I have files bigger than 4 GB so I can't use this file system.
Is there a Mac program resembling the Windows program 'Fences' (see screenshot below), which allows you to group icons on your screen?
How do I view comments in Microsoft Word 2011 for OSX? I can turn on the review pane, but that shows me every edit I've done to this document and it's impossible to find the comments. I just want a quick view of all the comments in the document.
I got a new router that is ridiculously good and has exceptional range. A side effect of this is when I go for a walk, I have to be walking for at least 5-6 minutes at a brisk pace, before the WiFi connection on my iPhone 4S is lost. Basically, beyond 100 yards/meters there will be 1 WiFi bar and it will be all but unusable (e.g. Web Browser times out, Siri doesn't work, etc...). Under these conditions, I'd rather use 3G (ahem, 4G). Is there a way to automatically disconnect from the WiFi when it gets down to 1 bar?
All in all: I need members to 1) help me out and simply list which QL plugins they have in their system/library/quicklook folder (everyone should have the same.) 2) If Icon.qlgenerator is not supposed to be there, does anyone have any idea where this could have come from? Did previous versions of OS X's /System/Library/QuickLook directory contain Icon.qlgenerator?
I have a script that reload the active tab of an open browser, but I want it to do with all opened browsers. Is there a way to make a list/array and use it in this code? This code works with one browser only: I've tried to create an array/list but I think this is no the way because it doesn't work:
I have an iPhoto 11 Library on an old Macbook Pro. I just received a new Macbook Pro with a clean copy of iPhoto 11 I put my iPhoto Library into Dropbox and synced When I try to import my iPhoto Library on my OS X Lion MacBook Pro I am unable to select the iPhoto Library because it is greyed out. How can I import it?
I would like to know if anyone has an idea or suggestion to what's happening on my SSD. I was using Lion on my Vertex 3 SSD 240GB - MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) and everything was running well until this week, when the system got stuck at Apple screen logo with that "loading" icon.
How can I export photos from iphone4s using itunes without icloud? I need this feature because I'm using Windows XP and I don't want to jailbreak.
Is it possible to cause any damage to the hardware due to jailbreak? Also, will it void the warranty attached to the device?
Current situation: I have a large sparse bundle image whose size is reported as 91GB (cmd+I from Finder). Its contents, instead, are only 80GB. hdiutil compact does not shrink the image: So there are 11GB of space that I cannot recover.
I deleted a game from my iPad and was wondering if i could retrieve the data somehow, because the game was backed up on iCloud and when i reinstalled it all my data was gone. How do i retrieve the data specifically for this app from iCloud.
I am replacing a PC in my house with a Macbook Air, and there are two primary functions that the Air won't replace: Streaming music to a whole-house audio system. A home-base for my main photo/video/document hard drive.
I have an unreliable 3G tethered connection. It breaks when shut window blinds, close a door or when I'm moving around the place. What I'm really looking for is an icon / indicator whether I'm connected to the internet. Actually I tried some solutions such as Surplus Meter and iStatNano desktop widget but this is not what I'm looking for. Ideally I would like to ping some service every 5 secs to see if I'm still online... Are you aware of any solutions providing that feature?
Are there any apps which can stream my audio output (either all of it, or from a specific source/program) via DLNA so my DLNA-enabled products (TV & DVD surround-sound system) can pick it up and use it? I've looked at Airfoil (not DLNA) and Serviio (wouldn't start on my Lion macbook air), and all the other "usual" servers just serve files on the machine - mainly I want to stream my audio for those times I'm watching youtube videos (talks/presentations mainly) and internet radio.
I've installed a Samsung 830 series 256gb SSD into my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro, and running 10.8 DP4, and 10.7.4 via a firewire 800 drive. I've used Trim enabler on both installs as it doesn't enable itself, and both installs seem OK. (I'd read about Trim Enabler causing problems in the early days, but can't find anything else to say it's likely to cause problems recently, feel free to correct me if I should do something different/better) I'm just wondering if there's anything else I should be aware of using an SSD on OSX?
On a recently installed (from internet via Recovery Disk) 10.7.4 Lion system the system.log is filled with multiple "com.apple.dock.extra: ... Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication" message. Have tried creating a new account, with only 2 icons in Dock: Finder and Recycle bin, though that also generates these "com.apple.dock.extra: ... Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication" messages in system.log. System.log excerpt:
I couldn't find any information on how to set up wildcard rules in iCloud mail. I want to forward mail from any sender of a certain domain to another address. What exactly is the syntax of the message is from field? @domain.com or *@domain.com? Do I need to set up another rule to remove these messages from the inbox? Thanks
"The service has encountered an error. Try to refresh the view (127.0.0.1/Server). (kReceivedUnkownError). Followed by a:
I connected my new Cinema Display to my MacBook Pro and the audio output device shows "LED Cinema Display" in Sound Preferences, and the volume controls work, but no sound is output. I tried unplugging and plugging back in the USB cable. Is my device incompatible, or is something wrong?
So my friend locked his Mac with his iPhone using Find My iPhone. Unfortunately there seems to be no way of unlocking it. I have provided a picture of it below:
I'm really interested in purchasing an iPhone, but I'm usually in a Wi-Fi area, so I don't see a reason to waste money on a plan I don't need. Is there any way I can buy an iPhone through Apple without signing up for a service plan?
I installed XP SP3 in iMac 17 inch (Late 2006), also installed all drivers from BootCamp 2.0 drivers bundle, all works fine. The question is, I have two displays, and the video card of this iMAc is ATI X1600 mobile, it's able to set the external display to be the primary one (I did it on OS X), I checked the display setting in XP, for the second display, the checkbox is gray so it's unable to set to primary one. I googled a lot also, seems all solution mentioned it should install the full-ATI drivers (includes control panel), but I didn't find any place to download this driver for iMac, I did download some drivers for XP, but it's not working.
My workflow involves a lot application windows, mostly terminals. With a very large dual screen setup, I find myself regularly looking for the currently active window. More than often I type in the wrong terminal, or even start typing in a browser window, because I thought the active window was somewhere else.
The (Lion) Server Admin.app has a nice ability to apply firewall rules to ip address groups without having to edit ipfw config files. But having to enter large and long lists of IP addresses using the Server Admin GUI is a tedious task. Therefore I am wondering how can a firewall IP address group be made from the command line? I know there is a /usr/sbin/serveradmin which has the ability to output settings, like using $ sudo serveradmin settings ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:* which outputs:
At some point in the past 2 weeks, my MacBook Pro (13", early 2011) began running hot and getting poor battery life. The battery life used to last 4-5 hours even when I was using it regularly. Now, it will die within 2 hours of idling. When I say 'running hot' - I have noticed it on my lap and the fan comes on more often.
My Mac mini is picking up the same remote signals as my apple TV remote. How can I turn off Front Row so it doesn't start playing music / videos when I am browsing my Apple TV?
I have one iTunes account and I have one iPod. My daughter now has an iPod too. How do I get the music from my iTunes library to her iPod?
Moving to Austria in two weeks. AT&T is going to unlock my phone for me before I leave since my contract is in good standing with them. Will I be able to use my iPhone 4 with European carrier sim cards once I get there?
I'm using AppleScript and calling Growl notifications and I notice that it ignores my choice of using Bezel as my system default style. It only changes if I manually change it in Growl's preferences. How can I choose a style through AppleScript? I ask this because different styles would be better for different notifications type.
Moving to Austria in two weeks. I have an iPhone 3GS that has been unlocked by AT&T. Will I be able to use my iPhone 3GS with European carrier sim cards once I get there?
My hard drive died after files started disappearing for a couple days. I ended up getting a new Mac since the computer was old anyway. I'm worried that the last couple days of Time Machine backups will be bad due to the dying hard drive, so I'd like to use an earlier backup date from before it started dying with Migration Assistant. I don't see any way in Migration Assistant to select the date of the backup that I want to use.
I'm sending my system's audio to Soundflower, but I want to send it to my headphones at the same time. Is there any way I can achieve this?
I have been exploring the OS X accessibility option to control the mouse from your keyboard (as described here) and I am curious if there is a way to make it go faster.
What method of browsing the root filesystem is least likely to make any modifications to it? Hooking to a pc is an option. Jailbreaking is not an option for this question.
I deleted AppDelete from my computer because I used it once and it sat on my computer for like forever. Now every time I click on something in finder, it gives me the option to delete it with AppDelete. How can I get rid of this?
I got a new Mac mini and Macbook Pro, and hope to burn a Lion installation DVD-R if it needs to be used in the future. But I searched for any file greater than 1GB on the hard drive and didn't find any. Since we can use command r to boot up a partition for reinstallation, is there a way to mount that partition and burn the image to a DVD-R?
We have a blog on OS X Lion Server with about 750 Entries and would like to export them in order to migrate to a different platform (Confluence). Although I found a solution to export a Snow Leopard Blog/Wiki to CSV, I couldn't find anything to export the Blog Data of a Lion Server installation.
For the last couple of hours, I have been trying to find and install a gcc compiler so that I can compile C programs using eclipse C/C++ IDE. Eclipse doesn't come with a compiler, so I tried to find one but I haven't found a way to get one. I looked up Xcode in the App Store and I heard from some sites that it can compile C programs. Can it compile C programs? Is it better than Eclipse? If not, does anyone know where I can find a gcc compiler for my Mac? I'm running Mac OS X Lion. This is the version of Eclipse I am running: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers-includes-incubating-components/indigosr2
Why finder application is showing move to trash on ~/.Trash folder? If you will click on move to trash it will show an indefinite progress indicator that will never ends.
I've just reinstalled Lion after having replaced the stock HDD with an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and everything is fine apart from the Finder, which does not expand folders anymore..see the following screenshot, it happens only when you are in that view mode and click on the arrow before the folder name:  In the image above, the folders should be expanded but they aren't... if I change the view mode and return back in this view mode, they are expanded:
I'm having a serious problem with wifi on my imac 21.5inch running os x lion up to date. Everytime, it keeps disconnecting and then i reconnect it, then disconnect again, sometime it stays on for like an hour or 2 then disconnect again and sometime i have to restart my wifi modem. I check my phone, wifi stays on all the time but only my imac that keep disconnecting for no reason at all.
I always thought my iPhone 4 was only 8GB in size, does this mean it is 16GB?
I have quite a lot of startup items, because when I open up my mac, I want everything to be ready to go. In my preferences, I've put them in the order I need them, so for example, the first thing I do, is browse to arstechnica and stackoverflow, so chrome starts first. next up are iTunes and spotify. iTunes to make sure that all my podcasts are downloaded, and spotify for my music, and then, my text editor of choice, and some other stuff.
Does the MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) output 2560x1600 to the HDMI port? The reason I ask is that I would like to drive 2x30 inch 2560x1600 monitors while still using the Gigabit Ethernet adapter. (My backup plan is to get the USB 2 to 100 Mbit adapter and use that and then just use the Thunderbolt for graphics). So I would appreciate any additional caveats to this plan as well.
I cannot seem to find any good Subversion client for my Mac! I use TortoiseSVN at work, and it's awesome, but it's for Windows only. My colleague uses Cornerstone for his Mac, and it is not bad and has a good interface, but it does cost money. I could stick with Terminal, but a GUI makes it easier when a lot of merging is needed. So, any suggestions?
Will a hard drive having OS X 10.7.4 which installed on a mid-2011 Sandy Bridge Mac just work if plugged into one of the mid-2012 Ivy Bridge Macs? Will all binaries, including those installed by Macports/Homebrew be fully compatible?
Is it possible to speed up the transition between spaces? I often open my applications in full screen mode but I would like the transition to be a bit faster, is there a way to speed this up (i.e. when I hit Ctr rightarrow it moves one space to the other quicker than the default setting).
Is there a simulator that I can run iOS on a Mac that would allow me to launch and use apps as if I was on the device? This is for consumer testing not for development.
I now use Simplenote to take notes. On iOS I write directly in Simplenote.app and on OS X I write in nvAlt which syncs with Simplenote.
I use a ramdisk to speed up a git repository with a lot (> 60k) of small (~200 bytes) files. Is there a way to create a ramdisk with a smaller block size?
I bought a MBA with an SSD advertised to be 256GB. The actual unformatted capacity, according to the system info tool, is only 251000193024 bytes.
Is it possible to manually put an external hard disk to sleep? Right now, I've already got "Put the hard disks to sleep when possible" checkmarked in the Energy Saver preference pane, and so they should sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity, but I'm wondering if it's also possible to do this manually whenever I want. I just bought an external hard drive and it's already spinning constantly, compared to my current external which is completely quiet, so I'm wondering if I can put it to sleep when I need to to stop it from spinning all the time.
I'm trying to play Battlefield 2 with CrossOver on 10.7.4 but it produces a graphic glitch:  I've already checked the software updates for new graphic-divers but can't find any anything. Is there maybe a way to update the drivers without the "Software Update..." seclection from ? Does anyone have ideas how to fix this? Thanks for every answer!
I use the Day One regularly and love it. I also write a lot (for work) and have found that Day One serif font and style making writing such a pleasure. I'd like to use the font in my other word processors (particularly Scrivener) and am willing to purchase it but can't figure out what it is. How would I go about finding out what it is? I've emailed the app author but got no response from him. I've poked around the Contents/Resources folder in the application but only found a fixed-with font.
The over-the-air updates on iOS must come from some server similar to where the ipsw files are stored, does anyone know where?
I use Little Snitch on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and noticed a connection that seemed suspicious to me. The snitch reported ntpd trying to connect to: "$host 94.23.243.53 53.243.23.94.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer asgard.syari.net."
I have Mac OS 10.7.4 and I'd like Finder to use "Is Folder?" as its first sort criteria, or in other words, group folders before files regardless of the sorting method. Windows and Linux both do this by default.
I'd like to isolate the vocals on a track I have using Logic. Can anyone provide some advice on how to do this please?
I recently bought a Retina Macbookpro and want to make sure I can keep it in good condition in the event I need to sell it in the future. Assuming the keyboard is not much different from the integrated keyboards of other computers in the product line; do you think I should buy a keyboard cover? It's not the type of thing I really want, but if it means avoiding wear on the keys' texture, I'll have to go for that. I know that the keyboards are back-lit, but do any of you with Macbooks or apple keyboards experience significant degradation of the keys into that oily look?
In Mountain Lion, iCloud is "integrated" in every program. So when i open or save a document i have an iCloud option available.
I use Qt Creator as my main IDE for cross-platform C++ application development. In doing so I had set it up so that it depends on a set of environment variables that I define in .bashrc.
I noticed that a new File Vault 2 Backup volume first is backed up to, than encypted (for a few hours). So the first backup is unencrypted??? I already didn't like that about a new install of lion.
I've got a little business with around 1000 customers and I like to take advantage of a mobile plan that lets me send a lot of SMS messages per month. I've got my customers' emails and phone numbers on a spreadsheet. I'd like to export that phone list to the iPhone and create a "customers" group on my address book, and from there be able to send this group offers and news through SMS from my phone. Is there some iOS app that would let me this, or maybe another parallel solution that combines my desktop PC on my iPhone to perform this task?
When connecting to my college's open WiFi network my iPhone attempts to open the pop-up login page over it's mobile data. The issue is that this page is obviously only available over the internal WiFi, and thus the page cannot be displayed. To fix this, I disabled the mobile data, connected to the open WiFi, logged in, and then re-enabled the mobile data. I was wondering if anyone had any tips to make this a bit easier? Thanks
I'm completely new to development for Mac OS X but I want to have a Mac desktop app for my own small project. What I have in my mind is to have web application (will use the same app running on the web) running in some kind of wrapper window and pack everything in .app file so it could be run just by clicking icon and will not run in a browser.
I was quite surprised to discover that both releases and beta versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org do crash on OS X 10.7 when you try to access the preferences screen. I even payed to get a copy of NeoOffice which I was able to use, quite well in the last week but ended up finding an ugly bug: bibliography references from inside frames are not numbered, they just use [0] but they are listed in the bibliography list. You end up having a bibliography like: As the maintainers of NeoOffice ask a 100$ payment to be able to post something on their forum, I do not feel that my 10$ investment was quite well made.
We have a problem with Safari on a 'white' iMac running OS 10.4.11 Basically, it gets slower and slower with longer and longer periods of 'whirly ball' pauses. Then we restart the iMac and is OK for a few days.
Currently in emacs/terminal, I have to press ESC every time I want to send an escaped keystroke, eg: to go forwards two words, I have to press: How do I change the system so that I just have to press and hold ESC once?:
If I have a system with FileVault 2 enabled on the system and on the Time Machine drive, what happens if I change my system password? Is the encryption based on my login (being able to log in) or is the encryption tied to the password (somehow hashed to the password value so if it changes, the new password can't decrypt the files?) 10.7.4 running FileVault 2, migrated from 10.6.x installation, if that makes any difference...
I am trying to install the rpm package using MacPorts, but this is what I get: What is the exact problem? How can I fix it?
Here's my setup. I purchased a HD movie (my first ever!) from the iTunes Store onto my Mac mini. iTunes on this Mac mini is configured for Home Sharing. Now, when I launch the Videos app on the new iPad, it lists my Shared Library correctly together with the movie that I just downloaded. However, when I tap the Play button, the screen goes blank for a moment before displaying a "Cannot Open" error message. I am bedazzled by the fact that I can't play this very same movie on my HDTV which is connected to the Mac mini via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable (HDCP error, but that's another story for another question), I'm now totally flabbergasted that I can't even play this movie via a channel that Apple has been shouting about.
I'm a long time Windows and Linux user giving an old Macbook I brought back to life a fair shake. I'm running Snow Leopard. One of the frustrations I've had over the past couple weeks is that I can't easily navigate large numbers of windows.
When I released my iOS app on the App Store, how can iPhone user know that this new app is released? I mean, I do not advertise my app anywhere.
This is driving me a bit nuts. I created an AWS instance and I can't ssh to it from my Macbook. I can ssh elsewhere. I can ssh from other machines on the same network to the AWS instance. So it's not my firewall, and it's not my AWS instance. What on my Macbook might prevent me from being able to SSH outbound to a particular IP or range of IPs?
Basically my MBP started giving me messages (out of nowhere) about how my Memory was too low and that I needed to shut down a few programs before continuing. In the end I was left with only Finder running, so I decided to restart it. When I did, it simply gave me a Progress bar which loaded to about a tenth, before the computer shut down entirely. I have already tried to reset my PRAM/NVRAM, and booted through CMD + S, which in the end gave me the answer:'Invalid Leaf Record Count 12414 instead of 12416' ... I have also tried the /sbin/fsck -fy protocol which did not do anything. Any suggestions please? Thanks!
I want to use a custom app dock icon, and followed instructions found online, which specified the following: Find image in Finder cmd-i on file to "Get Info" Click the little icon in the top corner cmd-c to copy ... something. Open the Applications list in Finder cmd-i on the application to "Get Info" Click on the little icon in the top corner cmd-v to paste ... something.
I have an iMac and a second display - an LG 24" panel. Using any colour picker (eg Digital Color Meter) on exactly the same colour gives a different result depending on which screen I pick the colour from. As an example - on a web page, the body colour is defined as #c00202.
The contact folder in my Gmail disappeared, both on iPhone and iPad. How do I get it back?
If I try to navigate to any of the following pages: *=URL=* *=URL=* I get an error message in Safari saying: Safari can't open the page "*=URL=* because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server "encrypted.google.com"
I have a Macbook Air running 10.7.4 and I'm trying to connect to ethernet using the official Apple USB to ethernet adapter. However, the mac never detects the new network interface. It never displays a dialog asking me to set it up. It doesn't show up in network preferences. As far as I can tell, the mac doesn't know it's even plugged in.
Started X11 on Lion today, now it keeps crashing over and over - can't get it to stop. Cannot establish any listening sockets 1) is there any way to stop this over and over again? 2) is there a fix for it? I cleared /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.X0-lock
Sometimes I'm working on something in the terminal, and then go away. When I come back, I want to resume what I was working on, but sometimes I forget, and hit command-Q, which closes all the terminal windows automatically, no questions asked. Is there a command that can "hold" a Terminal tab so that I don't accidentally close what I was doing? As an example, what I want can be hackishly accomplished by running sleep LARGE_NUMBER in the tab I want to keep open. Then if I accidentally hit command-Q, it won't close directly, and rather present me with the following, which gives me an opportunity to cancel and resume what I was doing:
Once in a while, the yellow minimize button on some windows is greyed out, and the Window → Minimize menu entry is likewise disabled. Right now, for example, this is the case with two open Terminal windows. If I open a new Terminal window, it can be minimized, but the old ones remain unminimizable (if that's a word). I tend to think of this as a bug. Or is it a feature? If so, what causes it, and what can I do to enable minimization of these windows?
When working late, I'd like to lower the screen brightness further than the OS X allows in using the brightness keys. While you can use ⌥+⇧+F1/F21 to change the brightness in smaller quaterish increments, this does not have an effect between 0 and 1 bars.
When I run kextstat, it gives me a list of the currently loaded kernel modules. How to I go about using the information gathered from this command to unload a kernel module?
All I am running OSX 10.6.8 I have enabled root login through Directory Utility. I have assigned a password. I get an error when I try to ssh root@localhost.
My contacts are arranged by last name first in my iPad and iPhone and I want to have them first name then last name. Where do I access the address book preferences?
I have a Late 2009 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (with all updates installed). I have started my move from Windows to OS X as my everyday computing platform and I am trying to connect my external Samsung Monitor (that was used with Windows) to Macbook Pro using the mini DisplayPort to VGA connector.
I want to share an internet connection that my iMac gets via Ethernet over WiFi, so that I can connect to it with other devices. I went into System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing on the iMac and turned it on for sharing Ethernet over WiFi, but I'm finding it unreliable.
Our Mac OSX servers sends me this message every day: (in which, SERVER1 is the old host name and 2 the new host name of our server). What does it mean, and what could I do to solve this (get rid of this message). The server seems to work just fine, just as it did before.
I have just signed up for the Apple Developer Program (ADC), and did all that is necessary to make an app run on the device itself. I created an empty project and succeeded in running it on my device.
Usually when I use Preview, it is when I see a .jpg or .png and I double click on the file to take a look at the file, but sometimes Preview will open up all the .pdf and .png I opened previously, possibly taking up a couple hundred of MB and opening 7 or 8 windows. So it is a case I hope an app will not open all previously opened files. I know it can be done by clicking File, pressing Option, and then choosing Close All, but is there a way to tell an app not to open all previously open files such as for the case of Preview?
In the iOS Mail app I have two accounts configured. It is possibile to have notifications (banner and sounds) turned on only for one of the two accounts, or the setting in Notification under Settings is global for all the accounts? I'm using an iPhone 4 with the latest version of iOS 5.
Cmd-s or Cmd-v - This switches to black screen and show the text in my attached image. The most notable thing was the repeated message 'Still waiting for root device'
I have two Apple IDs and would like to close one and move the apps from one to the other. Is this possible and how?
I am trying to setup OS X 10.7 Lion to work as an a NIS/NFS client but without too much success so far. I tried to add the NIS domain using System Preferences > Users & Groups > Unlock > Login Options > Join... > Open Directory Utility... (yes Apple did a great job on making this as hard as possible to access). There edit the NIS record and add the NIS domain uk.example.com (not the same as DNS domain) and the IP address of this NIS domain 10.80.16.129 and obviously checked the Use NIS for authentication.
Well, I'm kind of new to this support communities as this is my first time to make a discussion here. So, as most of all iDevice users knew that a late-2009 iPod touch 2nd gen 8GB MC model was referred by stores as the 3rd Gen 8GB.
I would like to buy an external Blu-Ray drive. I have a specific model in mind (the LG CP40NG10), but I'm open to suggestions if anybody has a different one they recommend.
as Mac OS X in part is an *nix operating system. Will the filesystem of my computer be checked periodically? How to check when the next check will be triggered, if it is checked periodically?
I currently have iTunes set to sync all unplayed episodes of all podcasts to my iPhone. (I'm a bit behind - there are nearly 70 of them.) Today I downloaded Apple's new Podcasts app, and was pleased to find that it "picked up" the podcasts that were already on the iPhone. I have listened to a few podcasts today, and just now synced to my Mac (twice). I was disappointed to find that the podcasts I had listened to were not marked as played, either in iTunes on the Mac, or in the stock Music app, and therefore not removed from the phone.
Is there any way to have different "little snitch" rules set for different networking profiles ? like for HOME one rule list for WORK another etc ...
Additionally I'd also like a screenshot of the same Application with normal font sizes but using the full 2880x1800 resolution. You can turn that on using SetResX from *=URL=* Post full sized screenshots, please.
I've been looking over the release notes for Xcode and can't find one that says it's been enabled for HiDPI mode and the retina display MacBook Pro. By enabled, I mean that Xcode will run on the new retina hardware - not that you could make an app that will then work on Retina. Either: I missed it in reading the notes All versions of Xcode on Lion already have this so it's not called out as new. No versions (publicly available - not prerelease or NDA) yet support retina displays Has anyone figured out which versions of Xcode do not support retina?
I am using OS X 10.5.8 and in spite of having 5GB of RAM memory, I face a lot of inactive RAM, and go to the terminal and purge it via the "purge" command (of course without quotes). I do this almost every two days, some application(s) is(are) probably not freeing up memory. I would like to know if this command is harmfull/if it can "damage" anything in the system/in open applications?
I own a 2006 iMac, which, alas, has a known manufacturing fault. Because of the poorly-designed cooling system, the graphics card (soldered to the motherboard) has become defective and the system shuts down spontaneously minutes or seconds after being turned on. I have used a different computer for three years and I have really no need of this iMac at the moment.
It becomes annoying because I'm working on a 13" MacBook Pro and an external 23" monitor at 1920x1080 that I use at work. When I want to bring a window over from the 23" monitor to the 13", I have to always manually re-size things.
I'm using several virtual machines that take time to be paused when I want to reboot the system. It prevents OS X Lion from shutting down properly, because the VMware process is still running seconds after the reboot has been initiated. How can I tell OS X Lion to disable this shutdown interruption and simply wait for the process to be terminated? I know that I could manually pause the VMs before doing the reboot, but I really do want to change this behavior instead of using this kind of workaround.
I've created a Folder Action in Automator and applied it to a folder. But it only gets triggered when a file is added to the root of that folder, not to one of its subfolders. Is there any way to get Folder Actions be trigger when changes occur in subfolders? (And, no, I do not want to apply the Action to each subfolder; they are always changing, so I need it to be dynamic.)
I wanted to search inside a PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader for MacOS (or the one built in with MacOS). I want to search, for example, for the capital letter "U". Is it possible and, if yes, how?
Ever since updating to the latest version of iTunes on my dual core mac mini, iTunes can only perform one task at a time beach balling the entire time. For example if it is downloading a podcast, and I try and watch something off my apple tv via home sharing on this library, it fails to load. Same thing if it is syncing my iPhone. Importing new media into my library also seems to take much longer than it did before, for instance importing a 700mb movie takes ~20 hours. What can cause such a degrade in performance?
Quite often my computer has trouble connecting to my home WiFi. Sometimes once started, the computer does not find the WiFi on available networks. Sometimes it will find it, try to connect, then get "connection timeout" and WiFi disappears. Only way to fix it is shutdown and hope next time it will work.
I was checking out a MacBookPro with Retina display a few days ago in the mall, and I noticed something: Photos look awesome Apple apps had super sharp text All other apps that I tried had awful looking text (Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat)
Is there an easy way to see my iPad screen from my MacBook? I have Mocha VNC Lite and I can see my MacBook from my iPad, but I want to go the other way.
I am getting a new Macbook Pro retina display with 256GB flash storage. The capacity may be a little bit too tight, but I should be able to manage it. I am considering to get a 128GB SD card as a secondary storage. I'd store files that I do not frequently use in the SD card. It would be less bulky than an external HDD.
I haven't been able to find any documentation that would indicate this is possible, but is there any way to pass the hostname you'd like to connect to as a command-line argument to Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection for Mac? Some background info for those interested:
When watching youtube on my iPhone 4 I've noticed that by default the videos in the youtube app load at "HD" quality levels. As my ISP throttles YouTube traffic, this makes watching them impossible. This question: YouTube App streams much slower than YouTube mobile site on iPhone shows how to work around this with mobile Safari, but I'm looking for a way to continue to use the YouTube app. Is there a way to choose video quality while using the iPhone YouTube app?
Walking in to a Apple premium reseller's store today I was told that there is no difference range-wise between Express (the June 2012 model) and Extreme. True story?
I bought an oldish MacBook 13" Unibody (late 2008) and when I got it one of the first things I did was to install Mac OS X Lion. Everything was working fine, until I applied an update that made the trackpad stop working (it only accepts clicks, no touch is recognized). This is the "Trackpad Firmware Update" from the automatic updates.
I moved to different continents a few times (Europe -> North America -> Asia -> Europe) and ended up with a stack of DVDs I can't play now. I looked around for a firmware update for my iMac, but it doesn't look like it exists: http://www.rpc1.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=49450
I am changing jobs and so I am giving back to the old company an iPhone 3GS running iOS 5. I am searching for a To-Do list for things to copy from the iPhone to a Mac computer so that I don't lose anything. Here are the things I could remember: Photos: copied to the Mac using the Preview. Music: All are already in Mac using iTunes. Email, Contacts and Calendar: from iCloud account are still available in Mac Mail and Clendar programs. Apps: the apps installed are downloaded in iTunes, but, as far as I know, the app data will get lost. Maps bookmarks: would be nice to copy them from iphone, but I have no idea whether this is possible! Are there any other things to copy from my iPhone?
Through the day I work on both a Mac and Ubuntu. What's the best option for mapping the Mac keyboard (an external, non-Mac one) to Ubuntu style keys - when using the Mac (OS X). Basically I want to have: Control on keyboard to trigger Command ⌘ keystroke on the Mac Alt on keyboard to trigger Option ⌥ keystroke on the Mac Windows on keyboard key to trigger Command ⌘ keystroke on the Mac
I bought Mac Pro, I have been trapped with Java. I am a Unix and Windows user.
I'm working with an ancient PowerPC Mac running Tiger. I managed to migrate the POP email from Apple Mail 2 to Thunderbird 3, but I now need to migrate it to a newer machine with Thunderbird 13. How would I go about doing this?
I have a simple backup shell script that runs daily at 1:00 AM. It uses rsync to copy twelve different directories onto my Windows computer's external hard drive. Here's an example:
I'm trying to use the Display Calibrator Assistant in OS X Lion (10.7.4) with my Samsung 2494HM HDMI monitor, but the assistant appears to be missing some reference calibration images: *=URL=* However, the slider images that appear later in the calibration process (with a solid grey apple logo embedded in an array of grey horizontal stripes) do display properly. Any idea why these brightness calibration images are missing on my system, and how to resolve it?
I lost my data on my Mac and now I don't know how to recover it. Do I have to go to a recover shop and pay for the costly recovery?
I've recently asked a question regarding fitting a Crucial 256GB SSD (Part No : CT1742109) into my 2007 MacBook (model MB061LL/A), however when researching the transfer process something isn't too clear. I have had to replace my hard drive a couple of times since I purchased the MacBook so I know I used to boot from the DVD and re-install. With Snow Leopard, I used to insert the disk and select 're-install from a Time Machine Backup' or something similar and it would go through the process. Why couldn't I do this using my most recent (albeit 'Lion') backup? I wouldn't be re-installing Snow Leopard, just merely using the DVD to access the option to re-install from backup.
That's what I'd like to do: use my Logitech g15 multimedia keys (stop, pause etc) with Apple Logic 9.
When entering the administrator password while starting up the mac mini, the login screen keeps appearing again and again, prompting me for password.
I currently have a MacBook with Lion (fully updated), using the network account from a Lion Server (also fully updates) and I'm able to login to the network account just fine. However, when I'm offline (away from my home network), I can't login to my account. How do I make the MacBook cache the network account login information for posterior offline use? I'm able to login at home, put the mac to sleep and use it without any network, but if I reboot it for any reason, I'm locked out (only local accounts are "loggable").
I got the new rMBP and tried importing my stuff to it via an external HD. Seems like it didn't work. And Migration Assistant didn't either. Has anyone done this successfully?
Sometimes when coding I use TextEdit to copy and paste some snippets in it, buts it's not efficient. So I look for some personal recommendations for a fast easy OS X app to copy and paste and store and retrieve code / text back fast?
I'm running Lion with the latest updates, and the X11 clipboard has been working for some time now - Select some text in a terminal, press ⌘-C, change to for example Firefox, and press ⌘-V. This simply doesn't work anymore. I've tried enabling and all of the X11 Pasteboard preferences, but no luck. It will take some time to get all the terminals up to speed if I have to restart X11, so "restart/reboot/reinstall" is not an option.
Is it possible to have an url that links to an individual email message on my local machine? So that if I click on osxmail://759847982 my mail client will open that specific message. GMail can do this, but I wonder if it's possible in a native client. I'm open to any application, it doesn't have to be Apple Mail.
I just took a look into /Library/LaunchDaemons and was wondering how many different things I opened up there :) Can I easily remove strange one? How can I disable them during system boot? I see the next list
So, I had a MacBook Pro 15", Late 2011, that I've been using daily since I got it last October. I set up time machine and every day after work, I would bring my laptop home and plug it into my time machine disk and let it do it's thing. I even used my backups from time to time, when I deleted some bit of code on accident (or on purpose) and decided I wanted to use it after all.
I'm wondering how GPU memory works on the iPhone and iPad. After reading the Apple tech specs on the iPad 3 (*=URL=* it says the A5X is a system on a chip with a dual core CPU and quad core GPU. Do they share the same system RAM? How does the GPU do fast operations if it has to work in system RAM? I'm sure it's my lack of understanding of the system on a chip architecture that is confusing me, but if someone can chime in with their knowledge that would be helpful.
In Mail, when I've selected a message, I would like to have a shortcut to copy the message_id (see my previous question) to the clipboard. How do I manage that? Applescript, I presume?
Is there a way that when you cycle through the last Space, it cycles you back to the first one? And, if you cycle backwards and get to the first space, have it cycle back to the last? Right now, it stops as at the end and beginning, and I'd love to just keep on swiping to cycle.
I have a jailbroken iPod touch 2G running iOS 4.2.1. I tried City Maps to go and oMaps. First on did not work, second one did not offer much functionality. Is there any other app that I can try?
My iPhone 3GS has decided to pause music playing when the headphone plug happens to move a bit or to start playing music without warning for the same reason. Sometimes it also skips to the next song or podcast. It's very annoying. Is there some way to tell my iPhone not to do that?
Assuming it is locked, if I get it unlocked in a phone shop, what's the downside? Or should I just send it back, and buy one that is actually unlocked? Unfortunately the network it will be used on is not the same as the one the phone appears to be locked to. I'm leaning towards just getting it unlocked unofficially, as it's too old to get the latest iOS releases anyway, and it just needs to work for SMS and calls.
I have the recently released Apple iPhone app "Podcasts", released June 2012. Is there somewhere that gives more than just a cursory explanation of how to use it?
Every day I come into the office and plug my mac into my Thunderbolt display. It says the name "yourcomputer" is in use and renames it "yourcomputer-2" (or -3 or -4 ...). How do I make it stop?
For some reason, the BootCamp Assistant app won't let me delete my BootCamp partition. How can I do so using Terminal and the diskutil terminal app?
Does Thunderbolt support the same kind of network architecture that FireWire does? If you have a Mac with two FireWire ports, you can daisy-chain FireWire devices in a loop with the Mac at both ends of the chain. Then you can disconnect any single connection in the chain, and all devices will continue to work so long as they're ultimately still connected to the Mac. Now with the Retina MacBook Pro's two Thunderbolt ports, it's possible to try this out, but does anyone know if this should work?
I bought today a SSD hard drive (Kingston HyperX 3K 120Gb) and the problem is the negotiated velocity speed is set to SATA I (1.5 Gigabit), but the negotiated velocity should be SATA II (3 Gigabit). My MacBook Pro is a late 2008 (5,1). What is going wrong?
After taking a look at this question Does Thunderbolt support a net topology like FireWire? I was wondering how FireWire works when it's daisy-chained with multiple devices between a Mac on each end of the chain?
I know Apple likes us to think everything works by magic, but... To use Airplay one needs Airport Express. To backup wirelessly one needs Time Capsule. There is, in particular, no way to Airplay music through Time Capsule, as one can do with Airport Express. I hope there is a better reason for this than selling these two devices. (Note also that the 4th-gen AppleTV + Time Capsule are also not a satisfactory solution for those whose HiFi lacks HDMI.)
Some people have reported to me that messages that I send them that originally contained diacritics were garbled, or the diacritics are replaced by boxes/stars etc. Is there a way to make Messages send all messages without diacritics? (I guess this could be achieved also by making the autocomplete not using diacritics, since I never actually write the diacritics, they are there only because the autocomplete changes some of my words.)
Here is what I want: I click a button in the app, and I start dictating. When I am done I press OK, and it either sends the sound-file directly to a predefined email or at least prompts me to do so. Think of it like dictating something and sending the wav/mp3 of it to an assistant straight away.
I have a logitech wireless mouse hooked up to a macbook pro running 10.7. Whenever I middle-click the mouse button, the laptop's display brightness decreases. It behaves just as if I had pressed the F1 key. The middle-click still works in applications (e.g. Firefox opens a new tab), it just has this annoying side-effect. How can I correct this behavior?
It's about the size of the standard unlock form in System Prefs (i.e. what pops up when you press the unlock icon and it asks for you password), but as far as I can tell, it doesn't have the two text boxes at the bottom.
I'm using Mac OS X lion. In Finder, I use the column view. I know how to set up the width, but the thin line you use to drag the columns has suddenly become thicker and very visible. I know this isn't a huge problem, but I don't know how it happened and don't know how to change it back. I hope you know what I mean and how to get it back to default.
I'm running Xterm in a Linux VMware Virtual Machine. I can copy out of it but I can't figure out how to paste into it. On a desktop computer, the middle mouse button or shift + insert does the trick. How about on a MacBook Air?
Firmware password protection1 is nice, but would the Genius Bar actually mind my "lost" status noted online if my computer ends up in a store to reset the firmware password (which is the easiest method to reset it)? Do they match the serial this way?
I want to update the schedule in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I have unlocked the file in Finder but the Property List Editor is giving me: The file "com.apple.locate.plist" could not be unlocked.
I don't want to save anything—just wipe out the Roll like one would reformat a digital camera's memory card. Is there any easy non-computer route? If there aren't any system settings, do any apps do this? Assume I have too many to delete individually (1,000+).
I have an iPad with it's own charger that has 2 components: a USB connection cable and an electrical adapter that outputs 5.1 V and 2.1 A. Also I have a car charging device that is suitable for phones that can be charged via the USB data cable. This one has the fallowing output specifications: 5.1 V and 1.0 A. My question is if it is safe for the iPad to connect it to the car charging device and if the difference in the current output would affect it's accumulator.
I'd like to know how much I paid for a specific iOS app. Is there any way to do this? I realize that you can see your order history in iTunes, but its really hard to find a specific app using that interface.
I bought the new Retina MacBook Pro, which has an HDMI out and two Thunderbolt ports. I have an external display that I've been using that has a DVI input. Should I get the Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter or an HDMI to DVI adapter? Presumably, an HDMI adapter would be cheaper, because I wouldn't have to buy the Apple one. Is there a reason to go for mini DisplayPort instead? I remember reading that DVI and HDMI are the same as far as video quality is concerned. Any other pointers or recommendations in this area are also appreciated. I guess one consideration could be that they are on opposite sides of the computer so I could pick the one that is on the side I plan to put the monitor. And yes, I do know that my old display will look like crap next to the retina display.
I was using Lion's conversion feature to change .MPG video files to a compatible format (set by OS X). The files are now viewable in QuickTime and iMovie, but the audio is completely gone. Has anyone else come across a similar issue? Would I by chance be missing a codec required to convert .MPG files correctly? Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
This is an example I found on wiki that more or less describes what happens when I scroll up down. Effect is not so pronounced and clears when I stop scrolling, but it is sure annoying hell out of me.
When right-clicking on a document in skim there are two very useful options: Single Page (good for presentations) Single Page Continuous (suitable for reading)
I'm about to purchase the new Macbook Pro with Retina display and I want to get the cheapest version. But it only comes with a 256gbyte hard drive. I probably use 30gbytes for all my data and 500gbytes for home videos (growing fast too).
I have an iPad 3 with personal hotspot turned on. I also have a Macbook Air connected to my local wireless network (the Air is not connected to the iPad personal hotspot). However, when I plug the iPad into my Macbook via USB, the iPad personal hotspot turns on and I see the blue bar at the top with one connection. Can you explain why this is happening?
What's the keyboard combination to use to go to the very beginning of a text field? Tried Fn+Up and it scrolls the document up but doesn't move the cursor.
I created a new user account that I needed for a specific program, but it doesn't represent a regular user. How do I prevent this user from showing up as an option on the login page?
I have an iPad that has never been synced, It was just set up with an iCloud account originally. I now want to sync it to my laptop to get my photo albums on it, but when I plug it into itunes I am given the option to restore from a backup (taken from my iPhone, so I don't want that) or to set up as a new iPad (I also don't want that, because it sounds like it will wipe the contents (any iCloud data and any apps, etc.). How do I go about syncing it to this computer without wiping it?
Are there any shortcuts to label a file in Finder? The fastest way i know is to place an icon in the menubar, but it would be much better when i can do it with the keyboard.
I'm zeroing on buying the 2012 MacBook Air. My usage of the machine will be mostly for development work (MySQL, Eclipse, Xcode, Android, etc.). I will also be running Windows 7 with SQL Server in a virtual box or by using Boot Camp. My question is which upgrade will result in the most bang for the buck: more RAM or a faster processor? Does putting higher memory/processor make the machine run hotter?
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2012) with Lion and Windows 7 installed on the internal HDD. I use Bootcamp to swap between them when booting the machine.
I have two external drives, one for data and one for Time Machine backups. Time Machine backs up both my internal HD and my external HD. My external HD is dying, so I bought a new one and plan to migrate the data over.
We're trying to convert a user's email mailbox from Apple Mail to Outlook 2010. We copied the files off the mac, and they are mostly directories that end in .mbox and contain a folder called Messages containing .emlx files. The .mbox extension on the folders initially made me think that these messages were in the mbox format, but after some research I found that the mbox format is actually a single file, so that rules out it being in that format.
I need to transfer large files (9 GB) from my Mac to a PC. I bought a 64 GB flash drive, and it wouldn't work because it was in FAT 32 format and I couldnt transfer such a large file.
I'm using iOS 5.0.1 on an iPad 1 and want to look at the APN settings. This article from Apple *=URL=* says that I should be able to see them through Settings > Cellular Data > APN Settings. But when I go to Settings > Cellular Data, the only options are to turn data and roaming on and off, to view the account (which opens AT&T's account info) and an option to set a PIN on the SIM. What is the APN information for an AT&T 3G ipad and/or how can I see it on my device?
I am very rarely able to close Google Chrome on my Macbook Pro without force quitting the application. Is there a way to detect why this is happening?
I bought an iPad off of Craigslist, I wiped it clean and set it up as my own. Is there any way that the previous owner can view my location? Either with MobileMe or find my iPad?
I have a Samsung Android phone and need to transfer my iCloud contacts to that phone. How do I accomplish this?
I recently changed my MBP 13" 2009 to the newer MBP 13" 2012. I decided not to recover from Time Machine and install everything manually as to make a clean start.
How do I add a system link to the Applications folder and have it show up in spotlight. Alternatively how do I add a specific folder to spotlight search priority. Easy to rearrange but I can not add anything.
Some apps, like Remote.app, can broadcast to multiple Airplay speakers at once. Others seem limited to one speaker at a time. Is there a way to enable apps that use Airplay to have the option to broadcast to multiple speakers at once, like Remote app can?
My MacBook Pro, for some reason, detects the wireless connection and I can open my Skype account without any problem BUT I cannot go to a web page. This happens on both Safari and Firefox. My HP computer is working fine on this network and has no problem going on the Internet!
I have Fedora 17 installed on VMWare Fusion 3 on my Macbook Pro 2009. I run Fedora 17 in CLI mode and find I cannot enlarge the window size. The small terminal window size causes text to wrap and hard to read. But when I try to size the window it doesn't let me. How to resize host windows in VMWare fusion?
I recently got a new MacBook Air and used Migration Assistant (henceforth abbreviated as MA) to transfer my stuff from my old MacBook Pro. However, until MA actually worked all the way, I had to abort it and restart both machines three times. This resulted in around 50GB of wasted space in my new macbook (but no extraneous user accounts, as I read elsewhere) that I don't know how to eliminate. I assume there are some cache files that MA creates & uses until the entire migration is complete. Where can I find these files, to delete the leftover ones from the incomplete migrations?
I am looking for some current, high quality Apple product images for my website, anyone know a good source?
If you have two remote locations in Transmit 4, say an S3 and an FTP location, and you move a file between these two locations, Transmit will automatically download that file, and then upload it. Where does Transmit 4 store these temporary files?
I have moved my (smallish) iTunes library off my MacBookAir onto a NAS drive. This works fine. Now I want to move songs from my large iTunes library into the new library and just have one library shared across the two computers I'm not afraid of the command line, but I wanted the easy way to do it.
I would like to find a combination of keys to clear the contents of the clipboard or better yet an application that can configure a timer to clear it automatically one minute after last paste operation.
I want to scan old color slides using a Nikon Coolscan on Mac OS X Version 10.5.8. I want a program that will allow me to index these files and add descriptions, dates, locations and other information. I would like this program to upload to an image sharing service like Picasa, Flickr, or Shutterfly so that I can print them out and share them with others but also keep them private. I don't want third parties to be able to copy and print them.
I purchased an exercise DVD that was created by a local health practitioner. Whoever created the DVD for her used some wonky settings that prevent me from being able to go into fast forward mode on my DVD player. The DVD is not copy-protected Is there a Mac program that I can get that will let me make a copy of the DVD but without silly settings such as "no fast forwarding"?
I'm looking to either find a better method (visually) to show running applications on my Macbook Pro. The easiest method would be to increase the size (or make more prominent) of the running program indicator(s) that are present on OS X dock:
Is this a problem? Should I rebuild the system? Add a new user account?
I now have a 2011 iMac running Lion and Windows 7 and I am gradually migrating to this machine. I'd like to be able to keep applications on the internal HDD and data-- documents, photos, and so forth-- on an external HDD. I have considered buying this drive and partitioning it (half for Windows, half for Mac), but before I throw any money at this I thought maybe I should ask the wise folks here what they think of this idea.
I am running out of some disk space, and noticed Mail has about 30GB of emails stored. What is the best way to delete these emails? I don't need them as a server has a copy.
I wanted to upgrade the software to iOS 5 through iTunes but I've never been able to get past iOS 4.2.1 so I waited for a year to see if Apple release another update yet. I purchased the iPod touch 3rd Generation 8GB 2.5 years ago as I saw in Apple press release that Apple was releasing a new iPods model lineup. My local authorized store did advertised it as 3rd Generation 8GB. The part number was MC086ID/A, yet the seller assured me that it indeed was a 3rd Generation, because the 2nd Generation 8GB had MB part number. As I recalled, the 3rd Gen iPods may receive upgrade up to iOS 5.1.1.
I have found myself in quite a difficult position; before travelling I transfered some movies in the .MKV-format to my iPad-app CineXPlayer, unknowing that that app could not play that file. Now I have no computer that I can use to transfer to another app, OPlayer for iPad, but fortunately, CineXPlayer offers an easy way to transfer files from device to device - unfortunately for me, I don't have two devices. It works by letting you access your files through your iPad's local IP-address via port 8080, and accessing it from an iPhone works fine, but not from the same iPad. Any ideas how I can do this?
I keep accidentally dragging windows into other workspaces on my Macbook Air running OS X Lion. Can I disable dragging into other workspaces or make doing so more difficult?
I upgraded from iOS 4 to iOS 5 and after it installed, I realized my contacts and apps were no longer there. I'm not too concerned about retrieving my apps, but I would really like to retrieve my contact list.
I want to install additional RAM to my early 2011 MacBook Pro. I originally was only looking at the official Apple guide, but then while searching for a better screwdriver I found the iFixit guide, which tells you to disconnect the battery.
I have my MacPro booting into Lion off a 3 disk (software) RAID 0 array. I want to dedicate a fourth drive to Windows 7 via Bootcamp. However it won't run at all on my system, exiting with a 'RAID is not supported' message.
I have seen in many tutorial videos people zoom in and out on Xcode to show the code a little better. I tried with 'control' + 'two finger swipe on trackpad' but this does not work on Xcode. What is the shortcut for zooming on Xcode?
When typing in feet and inches, the prime ′ and double prime ″ symbols are used, e.g. 5′ 5″. How do I type these characters?
I installed an SSD in the optical bay of my mid-2009 MacBook Pro. I formatted it and copied most of the files from my HD and it works fine but wound up having no Recovery partition. I followed the instructions at How can I create or recreate a Lion recovery partition? but at the end of the process I get this error: diskutil list shows me this:
*=URL=* "The problem is Apple doesn't provide a Boot Camp driver set for the Retina MacBook Pro yet. I had to use the Broadcom wireless driver from my SNB MacBook Pro to get WiFi working under Windows."
The following was taken out of Photoshop. But I have seen many applications showing the symbol on the left as part of a keyboard combination. Which key is it?
I installed MySQL but I am unable to see if it is running or has stopped. How do I see what are the currently running services corresponding to the "Services" interface in Windows?
I'm quite amazed that Safari is the only browser in OS X that manages to get (nearly) perfect inertial scrolling. Even with lots of flash content on a website, Safari's scrolling is smooth. There are websites with lots of content to load and Safari will continue to scroll smoothly while the content is being loaded and rendered. Installing several extensions does not have an effect on the scrolling performance.
I cannot find the documentation for them anywhere.
I very frequently get the beachball and occasionally the wristwatch (as in every minute or so if I'm using the machine multi app) as I use my Mac. This appears in all apps, especially Apple core apps. This most often happens in Safari, but can happen unpredictably in anything. It's not reliably reproducible, though doing almost anything in Safari will soon create it.
Ok so on computer 1, I have setup my iPhone, authorised computer 1 and downloaded some content from iTunes, and put this onto my iPhone. I have just authorised computer 2, can I transfer the data on my iPhone to computer 2 or do I need to re-download everything? It seems a bit of a waste having to re-download everything (a couple of gigabytes) when all of the content is already sitting right there on my iPhone. I'm not trying to do anything dodgy, just trying to transfer some purchased apps/music from a non-jailbroken iPhone to a properly authorised computer, why does Apple make this so difficult? This is my first apple device so I am new to the whole apple ecosystem, can somebody help me carry out this simple task? Thanks
I have a dual-display setup (27" iMac and a 30" Dell monitor) and I like to be able to have diferent types of work going on, in different Spaces on the machine. This means I would like to have web browsers for work related stuff in one Space, browsers for personal stuff in another, and browsers for maybe some other project, in yet another Space.
I am using OS X Lion 10.7.4. The Google Chrome application seems to work fine and the icon appears normal the Dock and Launchpad. What does this error icon mean?
I'm new to OS X and I have an older Snow Leopard system. I need to compile a few simple C programs for some analysis work. It seems that gcc et al are part of a package called Xcode, and that many free software programs are in a package called Macports.
I saw *=URL=* where they tell that the L2 in Apple A5 is 1MB, however, I could not find any official reference or white paper or research publication of it, even though I searched both Google and Google Scholar. Would you kindly give an idea of or pointer on how can I search for that. I would be grateful for your help.
The headphone jack on my MacBook Pro stopped working. It was working fine, then just spontaneously stopped while I was using external speakers plugged into the output jack. Now, neither speakers nor 3 different headphones have sound. The internal speaker on my MacBook Pro still works.
Is it still possible to switch from the default (Macbook UK) keyboard to the US layout in Lion? Everything I've read says there should be an international option in System Preferences, but there isn't.
I'm trying to install windows 2k8 R2 on an old MacBook Pro (5,1). Thats the first unibody macbook with core2duo.
Due to an issue regarding the creation of Guitar Tracks in GarageBand '11, and that none of the reported fixes (here and here) have worked, I am looking to re-install. However, I don't appear to be able to re-install just GarageBand '11 from my iLife DVD. I have navigated to the 'Customize' part of the installer, however it greys out the tick boxes for iLife Support, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD (both skipped by default), and GarageBand.
Sometimes when I connect my MacBook Air to the charger, the charge light on the MagSafe connector does not come on (and System Information says the power is not connected and the battery is not charging). I tried using a different charger and the MacBook charges fine. What might be the problem?
Macs have long been able to boot from external FireWire hard drives. I don’t think they’ve been able to boot from external USB 2 drives though.
My computer was working fine until last night when I restarted. When the computer booted up and I logged into my account, I suddenly got the beachball whenever I tried to open an application. For example, I tried opening Safari and the window opened, but then the computer froze. I then restarted and logged in again. I tried opening iTunes and the computer froze. I did this for Finder and for iCal too, and none of them responded; the window would open, and then the system would freeze up. I tried to fix this by: Booting into Lion Recovery and repairing the disk (twice + verified twice) Booting into Lion Recovery and repairing the disk permissions (twice + verified twice) Resetting the PRAM Running a Hardware Test (results said hardware was fine)
The new Podcasts app is pretty swell. I'm particularly fond of the 'Unplayed Episodes' button that generates a playlist of all my unplayed podcast episodes, on which I can just hit 'Play' and let a half a dozen episodes of different podcasts just run in order, without having to actually edit or manage a playlist.
With Google Chrome available for iOS now I'd like to know if it's possible to make Chrome the default browser? I find "open in browser" type options from other iOS apps still take me to Safari.
Currently I have one portable external hard drive which I use for Windows. It's 1TB and over 300GB is used space. I would like to partition it so I can access the unused space from my Mac. Can you all recommend any partition software which does the job? I am afraid that it would wipe out my current data that's why.
I also noticed that the same games run much better in Windows 7 under Bootcamp on the exact same hardware. These are OpenGL apps and do not use DirectX. Windows also runs much hotter. The case is hot to the touch and the fans run at their max 6,000 RPM pretty much the whole time Windows is running.
I like to adjust my terminal window size to fit whatever I'm working on at the moment—sometimes a tiny screen just to tail a log file, and sometimes I stretch it all the way across the screen to read some wide output. Whenever I open a new tab in the Terminal it resizes the window, losing whatever sizing adjustments I've made. How can I make it preserve the current window size when opening a new tab?
Is there a universal streaming protocoll that both, Android and iOS devices can play, within HTML5 video objects? It looks like even HTML5 could not "force" a universal solution to simplify publisher's work.
On Windows-based machines, whenever a dialogue box pops up with multiple choice options (ie 'Abort', 'Continue', 'Retry'), you can use the 'Tab' key to cycle through those options without using the mouse. On OSX, there doesn't appear to be an option to cycle through dialogue boxes using a key rather than the Trackpad. Is there any keyboard shortcut to do this?
Most browsers have a "search" or "find" function (accessible through CtrlF) which allows us to search the webpage for text. Does iPhone's Safari browser have this functionality?
I need to allow Steam for someone's Parental Controls'd account, I've tried allowing steampowered.com and *=URL=* and allowing the copy of Steam.app in the applications folder. Also, I recursively changed Steam.app to 777 such that this user doesn't have issues with Steam Update complaining about admin access. This was the easiest way to do this though now anyone can edit it, I know, but all users of this machine are trusted and remote login (SSH) is very carefully disabled. Steam.app is allowed through the Parental Controls prefpane as the admin. Also, upon first run (and subesquent, post-update runs) of Steam, I allowed 'steam', 'ipcserver', and a few other little bits as dialogs popped up. Previously, I temporarily disabled all parental controls on this account, logged in, opened and logged into Steam, downloaded all wanted games, and it Steam -> Go Offline; upon re-enabling Parental Controls and logging back in to the user account I got a 'Could not update - Updates must happen whe
I have labels, archive, trash, respond, etc. but can't find any way to tag a message as spam on the iPhone version.
The Problem Users are unable to change their password using System Preferences -> Users & Groups on a Mac that is connected to an LDAP server (specifically, OpenLDAP).
I want to connect to my time capsule using my iOS device (iPhone or iPad) and show all files from it. Please describe what should I read, how can I do this.
I have a desktop mac with multiple users and I would like to erase just one user from the computer but when I open system preferences and click on the accounts area, the minus sign to delete the account is grey and cannot be clicked. I checked all the other users on the computer and they are the same way. Everything is unlocked and I have the administrator password so I shouldn't have any problems but I am unable to click the delete key. Is there another way to delete a user account without damaging the computer or any other accounts?
Sometime last week my dock stopped showing up. I rebooted and the problem persists. I can get it back if I go to dock preferences and disable autohide, but I like to keep my screen real estate and would like to have the autohide working. Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?
I'm one of the many haters of the new music app because of its useabiliyt. I have an iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 installed on it. Is there any way to download the old iPod app from iOS 4 onto my current device?
I've noticed that when I'm running a full-screen Terminal.app in Lion, the display does not go to sleep. This left me with a nasty case of burn-in over the weekend with a magenta message box from an Ubuntu upgrade. I want screensaver and sleep to behave normally even when my Terminal is in full-screen mode. Is there a way to override this behavior?
I am using iMovie '11 on my MacBook Air. I am editing two video sources (used to capture the same action from different angles) together into one video, using the audio from one video source as the source throughout. This involves inserting Video B in place of Video A, and then detaching Video A's audio and expanding it so that it syncs up with Video B. I always detach Video A's audio, thus muting the clip's audio and creating an editable version of Video A's audio that I can then stretch out to sync with the inserted Video B footage.
I have a home office network comprised of: 1 Time Capsule 2 27" iMacs with dual cores running Mac OS X 10.6.8 2 XServes each with 2 quad cores running Max OS X Server 10.6.8
I'd love it if I could somehow make the Finder color-label all folders containing a .git directory so I could tell at a glance if the folder is a Git repo. Any ideas?
I have an '08 Mac Pro. If I try plugging in my Belkin N150, it works. Then if I plug in my iPad to the slot beneath it, the wireless kicks out. Then if I plug the wireless back in, they both work. So I think the slots are competing for power? What are some solutions?
I have an iPod touch 3rd Gen 8GB capacity MC086 model which was purchased from an Authorized reseller. I purchased several games from iTunes on my PC which was compatible with iOS 4.0/4.1/4.2.1 and iPod 3rd/4th Generation. However when I installed the games, they were revoked by iTunes with "NOT COMPATIBLE" message. I found that I will put those games to waste if I don't install it. My question is : How could it possible that a 3rd Gen iPod won't be compatible with games that was supposed to be supported the device ?
It's very possible this is an easy solution, however I haven't been able to find anything pointing me in he right direction. It's definitely a little convoluted as a beginner, but I'm trying.
I have an iPhone 4s, iPad2, and AppleTV3 My problem is that, my iTunes library on my PC doesn't consistently appear over all my devices (on my phone and ipad, I am referring to Apple's Remote app). Sometimes, my itunes library will be visible by my apple TV and not my phone, or not my ipad, and vice versa. It's very random how some devices can see it and some cant. Even more strange, sometimes, a device will see it, and connect, and control it, but then shortly after, it's as if a connection is severed. And the device can no longer see my library. Any ideas why this would be? Here are some things to help you form answers. - Everything is on the same network. - They are all as up to date as possible. - it DOES work, it just isn't always working.
I unplugged my iPhone without clicking the eject button. Now the computer doesn't recognize it in iTunes. I have followed everything in the help section but still no luck.
I have a third generation iPad ("the New iPad"). I am looking for software I can use to make a piano keyboard appear on my iPad such that when I press the keys, they play notes and sound like a piano. I'd like to be able to use it to plunk out a tune when trying to compose music away from home, and to let my children practice their beginning piano lessons when we're visiting relatives but they don't want to forget what they've learned. I am looking for the following features: good responsiveness (no noticeable lag between touching the keys and hearing the notes) no ads ideally in the $1 - $10 price range (lower is better unless the program is particularly great, but I'm willing to pay for quality) doesn't take up too much memory (sorry, GarageBand -- 800MB is too much space to part with on a 16GB iPad) key size comes close to that of a real piano reasonable number of keys (perhaps a way to shift octaves if necessary to expand range) no crazy gimmicks (notes arranged like a piano, not i
My wife and I have iPhones. We have separate Apple accounts on the phones. Can we share the same iCloud music and pictures?
I'd like an application like Readability for iPad, that will download and cache videos on the iPad for offline viewing whenever it syncs with the Internet. A qualifying application would let you do the following: Flag a video for later viewing with a Google Chrome extension Avoid having to use iTunes at all Automatically download all new videos wirelessly to the iPad whenever the iPad app syncs (just like Readability) Is there anything out there that's close? It could be desktop software or a web application, it doesn't matter.
I have a number of audiobooks that are very long (10 or more CDs). I don't like having them all in separate files because when you leave and come back, you're scrolling through hundreds of files to find the one you were on. Instead, I used an audio editor to combine them in to 3-5 hour files. However, if you are scrubbing through the file and accidentally slip (lift your finger, etc), you've now lost your place in such a large file. I have seen in some podcasts that have chapters, allowing you to use |<< and >>| to skip around, and keeping the scrubbing to within the chapter. Can these be applied to audiobooks? If not, can I tell iTunes that my book is a podcast and set them there? I tried that once but couldn't see how to set chapter markers anywhere.
How do I archive an active calendar so it's still in iCloud but doesn't sync with any devices. I can do this in Google Calendar but not sure about iCloud.
Before this machine I had a late 2008 MacBook Pro, 15.4" (Lion) with max resolution of 1440x900. Through the mini to HDMI adapter I attached a second display (TV/Monitor model 19LG3000) and I was able to set a resolution for both displays at 1440x900, it looked very nice and sharp on the external. One thing I caught is that this TV has two HDMI ports, and depending on where I connect the cable (coming from the old MacBook) I get a list of different resolutions in Mac OS X settings and one of them (the port labeled 1) presents the 1440x900 resolution, which does fit in general on this kind of display. Now the monitor port (HDMI 1,2) doesn't matter at all if I connect the Retina, it will always display the very same resolutions: 1080p 1080i 720p 1600x900 1344x756 1024x576 which I recall being the same list when I connect the old MacBook Pro to HDMI display port 2.
I've been put down by iCloud when it came out and kept using Dropbox instead. I mostly need to synch files between macs and eventually sneak-pick them on mobile devices. I don't take lots of pictures, I'm not an iWork user and most of all I need to share PDF files, Illustrator / Photoshop files and source files as I'm a programmer. Will the upcoming "iCloud Document Library" work like Dropbox allowing me to sync and share any kind of file even when not directly supported by an iCloud-linked app? Thanks. EDIT
Does backing up the single VMWare Fusion virtual machine file sufficient to backup the entire virtual machine? Meaning if I use that single file on other Mac or PC, will it run as it is?
I have a large-ish photo library on my home network server of over 20,000 pics. I am considering syncing it to my iPad 2nd generation 64 GB, but I am not sure whether the built-in Photos app would be capable of managing that many photos. I know they woudn't fit in the memory, but I am willing to make some kind of selection. My question is not about the raw size (that's easy to compute), but about the following: Can the built-in Photos app handle several thousands of photos? Can the built-in Photos app handle several thousands of photos? Is it still usable and responsive? Is it still usable and responsive?
I have bought a new HD and I want to remplace the one I have in my MBP. In wonder if I will be able to restore my current backup made by Time Machine, since I've upgraded my OS to Lion (Using Apple Store). So the only DVD I have is the one I got with my laptop. I think it's Leopard. Are those 2 versions of Time Machine compatible?
I'm looking for a certification as an "Apple developer" but I don't know if that exists. I found *=URL=* but it only offers certification for OSX and Apple software like FinalCut.
Can I open a Visual Studio C++ project on Mac OS X and run the app?
Note: I would prefer to use iPhoto but I also have Aperture if that is usable in some way. Or open to other suggestions
I recently installed a new hard drive in my Macbook Pro for a fresh installation of OSX Lion. How can I get my dashboard stickies from the old hard disk without using migration assistant?
I have both Safari and Mail installed - ever since a fresh OSX Lion install. Also, I have never removed or reinstalled them or messed around with them. So this "error" message is quite a surprise to me.
I've successfully been using Internet Sharing on a MacBook Air to share a wired connection via WiFi to local devices. As of yesterday this stopped working, which may or may not be related to the recent 10.7.4 update (there are forum posts here regarding problems, but they report connection drops, not this altogether more bizarre behaviour).
We are currently using Mac OS X 10.6 and snomURLHandler to convert tel: uri's to a http GET request. This computer telephony integration let us click on a telephone number in Address Book.app and let our desktop phone dial the number. As snomURLHandler version 1.0 by Alastair J. Houghton (2004) is compiled to PowerPC code, and the Rosetta component to run PowerPC code is no longer available in 10.7 (Lion), this situation is blocking upgrade to 10.7 (Lion). What alternatives are available for snomURLHandler, preferrably a script or application that can be used as a general tel: and sip: protocol handler (to call links starting with tel: and sip: from a web browser) and also be used from Address Book.app?
My question mainly is: which is the newest Mac mini that has 3 USB busses? Also, with the new one is there any decent way to expand that somehow?
Is there a way, directly on the iPad, to find out which phone number is associated to the MicroSIM which it is using? I can't find it in the menus, currently. Is there an easy way to find it directly, like on an iPhone?
I use Fuse4X and ForkLift to mount a remote directory (a dev server). I use PHPStorm to open projects and source (/Volumes/dev/project_path), but sometimes it happens that Forklift freezes (in Activity Monitor 100 and more percent cpu). To solve this I have to kill Forklift, remount and reopen project. Any idea or tip for better mounting?
I recently dropped my iPhone 4 in the bath. Whoops... Knowing Apple's stance on water damage, I simply upgraded (I was due an upgrade as part of my contract) and got a new phone.
How can I go to my home folder in finder? and/or how can I navigate up a folder tree in finder I am used to Ubuntu and finding /home/name easily in the gui
For example if a directory 'blob' exists and I just type 'blob[return]' then the system cds into the blob directory for me. In Linux (Ubuntu) I can add shopt -s autocd to my .bashrc file, but on OS X this gives an error: -bash: shopt: autocd: invalid shell option name
When I wake my Mac mini from sleep, it occasionally comes up with a dialog saying "The name of your computer "whatever" is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to "whatever (1)"" (or (2), I'm up to (4) at the moment).
When I type w at the terminal I see myself logged in two times.  What are console and s000? Is it possible that one of these neos is actually somebody else?
Does anyone have any recommendations on how to use Ubuntu on a Mac machine alongside OS X? It's OK if I switch between them by booting, if that is best. The two options I'm considering: Run Ubuntu in VirtualBox Run Ubuntu in VirtualBox Dual boot into Ubuntu Dual boot into Ubuntu I suspect #2 has better performance but may involve more hardware driver issues.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to restore a minimised application window from the Dock? Almost all Apple Mac OS X applications respond to the Apple + M command which minimises the current application window to the Dock, which is fine. I can then use Command + Tab to cycle through my running applications - including the minimised application, but selecting the application with the minimised window neither restores the minimised window, nor sets focus to the minimised application window in the Dock so I can restore it without having to reach for the Mouse. Update: Thanks for the answers, however the consensus seems to be to use the 'Hide' feature (Apple + H) instead of minimising, as it's easier to get the window back using Command + Tab.
This question relates to an earlier question, but as it seems a unique and contained problem I thought it merited its own. To review I have a home office network comprised of: Time Capsule 27" iMac with dual cores running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 2 Xserves each with 2 quad cores running Max OS X Server 10.6.8 All networking by Ethernet
As you might know, you can add some notes for every slide in Keynote. Since I want to talk quite a lot about one specific slide, there are a lot of notes I want to add to this slide. In the moderator view, I can view this notes, but since they are so long, I would have to scroll if I place them all on one slide.
In perusing varying sources I have not reached a definitive answer on the ability to use a product such as the Headset Buddy on my MacBook Air. Apple states...
Restoring my iPhone backup ate about 30 GB of hard drive space. I had to keep up with it deleting files the whole time it was running. Not much fun.
When setting up Profile Manager in Lion Server, there are a few web pages that are generated for web management of both devices and profiles. Is it possible to edit these pages in any way? I am just looking to customize the look and feel without changing the functionality.
I just purchased an iPhone 4S and I am using iOS 5.1.1. Only one of my Google calendars is syncing. I've searched the web and have tried every suggestion, nothing is solving the problem.
Is there a workaround to get my Siberia v2 headset microphone to work with OS X or Boot Camp Windows XP? In OS X, the microphone is recognized but will not let me switch to it in Steam. The built-in microphone still picks up everything. I tried to switch to into in the Sound options.
I am able to sync when the iPhone is connected by cable, although its not possible through WiFi. On my previous mac, the iPhone would be visible in iTunes at all times while both connected to WiFi.
Can the Educational Volume Purchase Program work with apps developed and distributed through the B2B program? The WWDC session video on it mentioned education once, but it only talked specifically about distributing the apps through the regular Volume Purchase Program, which requires a DUNS number.
On a fresh install of Leopard when I look at the root certificates this is what I see when I order them by expiration date.  I find the names, dates, and number of certificates suspicious. Is this all normal?
This question is related to this other question. After you have jailbroken your device, you have root access to your device and so do apps that you install.
I've plugged the monitor into both an iMac 2006 and a MacBook 2008. Red shows up as black. I've set up the monitor in System Preferences and on the monitor itself. The color red simply shows as black. Is there something I'm missing or is the monitor likely broken? I've searched online and can't find similar issue. Edit: Now I'm *really confused: can't be the monitor, because I tried plugging a different monitor (from a friend's computer) and I have the same problem.
I have recently acquired a first-gen iPod touch updated to iOS 3.3. I'm having trouble installing apps from iTunes as it appears most require iOS 4 and above. So far I have managed to find two games that are still compatible with iOS 3. Not even the Facebook app will install! iTunes says I have the latest iOS available installed.
Is it possible to set certain non-Retina enabled apps to not scale up (in other words, run at a native resolution) on the new Retina MacBook Pro?
How can export pictures on an iOS device to an SD card or a USB memory stick without using a computer?
Months ago I drowned my MacBooks keyboard in water and it died. I'm using an external keyboard now the Mac works as before. However, there is this interesting feature that if I just close the Mac (sleep mode?) then it runs hot and the battery drops to 0% within about 15 Minutes. So now if I don't use the Mac, I just keep it open so the battery doesn't go away. What might be the explaination for this new property?
I've got more than one person downloading apps to my iTunes, and so I'd like to list all apps purchased by one account (meaning the same email address). How can I separate apps like this? I can't seem to find any columns that I can add to the Apps tab to sort apps in this way.
Sometimes I quit Xcode with only a tiny window I was editing something else in. Now whenever I open my project again it will open the window but not the IDE. Is there any way to physically open the IDE so I can work on my project again?
I am running Snow Leopard on my Mac which I am happy with. I will upgrade to Mountain Lion later but I want to bypass Lion.
I'm using my Caps-lock as "CTRL" on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4. On Linux and Windows I can easily close and open tabs via CTRL+W and CTRL+T.
I intend to buy a MacBook Air. I already own an AirPlay enabled receiver/player from Denon. It features both WiFi and Ethernet network interfaces. Will AirPlay work over a wired (Ethernet) network (no WiFi at home).
I know Address Book metadata is stored in Library/Application Support/AddressBook. I wonder, however, what's up with Address Book "Groups".
I recently switched to another text editor from Coda. The feature I miss most from Coda is that it can monitor any folder and publish any changes made with a click of a button. I have been looking for an FTP application that offers this functionality, but haven't found anything. Most apps will "synchronise" a remote and a local folder by scanning them and looking at the size and/or timestamp of each file. Since many of my projects contain thousands of projects and I'm on a slow connection, this is not a good solution for me. So I'm looking for an app that can: Monitor files in a local folder (don't care about remote changes) "Mark" these when they are changed Offer to upload the files that have been changed since the last upload
I know using the fb://URL scheme I can open certain links in the Native Facebook App, e.g. fb://page/137947732957611 will open the Apple Facebook page. Is there anyway I can open pages without knowing the pageid though, eg so I can just open *=URL=* but within the Facebook App?
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I can't find my TimeCapsule Wifi network from a Ubuntu machine I want to share some files with. The name of the connection simply doesn't show up among the available networks. Any help appreciated.
My younger brother, while playing with my iPad, switched on the restriction passcode for in-app purchase and when asking him he had forgotten the password. I asked some of my friends, they told me that there is no other way than restore. Upon hearing them I was really sad to know that I have to lose all my work.
I can start postgres with: Where can I put that to start up when I start the machine up? I can put it in my .bash_login file but then I get a new instance of postgres each time I do a new window which is not good. I only want it to happen when I initially log in to the machine. This is for OS-X Lion, Macbook Air bought Nov 2011
I moved my /Users directory to a separate disk/partition (to get it off my SSD boot disk) as per this post. However, some things (like double-clicks of .html files to be viewed in a an Opera browser) still look for /Users in /Volumes/Users, which doesn't normally exist. Can solve by manually making /Volumes/Users -> /Users symbolic link, but said sym link file apparently gets auto-deleted (possibly at reboot), or at least, it disappears without my deleting it. How to prevent this autodeletion?
How to get Time Machine disk to backup itself (ie, non-Backups.backupdb on the Time Machine disk)? Specifically: I moved my /Users folder to a separate parition, a parition that also houses Time Machine backups (for my boot-SSD parition in /Users/Backups.backupdb). I also want to Time-Machine backup the /Users/ folders, but Time Machine won't (thus far) let me backup folders/files on the same disk where the Time-Machines backups are stored.
I'm using a Cherry G80 (excellent 'clicky' keyboard btw.) on my Macbook Air. Everything works fine, I can use and remap all keys using Ukelele1 or directly in Emacs. The only key behaving strange is the Context Menu2 Key. It returns the same Unicode sequence as Control-P. This is the output of Key Codes3 when pressing the Context Menu key: This is the output for Control-P: (Notice the difference in 'Keys')
Scrolling is no longer smooth on my iMac, neither is resizing windows by clicking the (+) button. This is happening just to my user, I created another user for testing, and everything was smooth with the new account.
Seeking small bluetooth keyboard with Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys that has same "feel" as Apple wireless keyboard. Found these: keyboard1 (Apple-copy-cat silver, which I like) keyboard2 (regular black, not as aesthetically pleasing)
I recently changed from a Mac back to a PC. I transferred all my music via bluetooth to my new computer. The new machine will play all my music, but it will not sync with my iPhone. Any advice?
I saw this message and I'm not sure if it is a sign of harddrive issues (corruption, etc) or anything I should be concerned about. It popped up in Photoshop when saving. Might also be worth noting that it is a file in my Dropbox folder.
10.6 Aluminum iMac w/wireless keyboard and trackpad. Working fine long-term, no recent change to the h/w or system software.
I have a 48 by 36 inch poster in Pages. I can see size in Page Setup. The print people want the poster as a pdf so I export it to pdf. When I open the pdf in Adobe, and look at Page Setup, it tells me that the page size is 8.5 by 11 inches.
Although I reside in Austin, TX, I'm currently in Europe and wanted to send my father in New York a birthday card. As soon as I enter his address in Cards, the price changes to $4.99! Even though both the sender's and recipient's address are in the USA, Cards (via Location Services) probably wants to send the card from France, which is absurd!
I tested out the Gmail App on my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1.1) and have now stopped as it keeps asking me for my login details. I haven't deleted it. It is continuing to send notifications even though I have switched them off for the app in the Notification Center Settings. How can I stop the notifications? I don't want to delete the app.
Howdy its quite known among TeXies that under MacOSX the pgfplots manual brings Preview down on certain pages (with a lot of 3D content). Heres the (significant part of ) the log. My question is: which one of the functions (classes, whatever) listed below is responsible for the crash and is there anything i can do to stop preview form crashing when comming to a bug in the pdfkit?
I'm most interested in approaches that compare both: the original file the backup – after the time of backup.
We are using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) 3.5.2. on 10.6.8 to ARD control remote 10.7.5 Lion machines. When the remote Lion machine is in its "inactive" stand and at the "Login Window", the result when controlling the remote computer is a completely black screen. This happens with both ARD versions 3.6.1 and 3.6.2 Only when the time updates, that tiny upper right rectangle of the screen is refreshed and correctly filled with time display. A workaround that refreshes a part of the screen, is to hover the pointer over the center of the screen to screen to refresh the part where login items appear. Is there a workaround that refreshes the whole screen with less hassle, or even better how to fix?
I am using my laptop with very limited battery availability. I need to save as much battery as possible. I would like to disable Spotlight indexing, how do I do that?
I have an iPad 3 and a iPhone 4S both logged in with the same Apple ID. I have downloaded about a dozen apps on my iPhone 4S and would like to transfer these over to my iPad 3. I have connected my iPad to my PC with iTunes, however I cannot seem to find the setting that allows me to transfer the apps I have previously downloaded with this Apple ID to my iPad. I am using iTunes 10. How can I do this?
I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini as an inexpensive development server. I want to install MySql and get up and running quickly. Can I : Use my existing AirPort to create a wireless LAN so that my Windows PC can use the Mac Mini as a database server? Use my existing AirPort to create a wireless LAN so that my Windows PC can use the Mac Mini as a database server? Use my existing iPad to remote access the Mac Mini so I can install and configure the MySql instance? Use my existing iPad to remote access the Mac Mini so I can install and configure the MySql instance? If anyone knew of any books or documentation of how to do this, that would be cool.
Is there a port of gnome-terminal, or a way to compile it, or some other program that is typographically comparable, under Lion? There is a typographic difference, and I can't duplicate it in Terminal; I can't even get Terminal to serve up anti-aliased text.
I recently changed my password and promptly forgot it :P What is the best option for resetting it? I can still access the mac via SSH (ssh key auth method), can I do anything with that?
I have an iPhone from another age (pre 2008) which is ready to be commissioned as defunct and replaced with a new 4S. My question, is how to back up the contacts form the old iPhone and transfer them to the new one. The question of backing up iPhone contacts could seem simple at first sight, but in my case it comes with a headache.
I've got a directory tree set up in my Dropbox folder. For redundancy, I'd like to duplicate that entire tree in SkyDrive. I'd like everything to update and sync automatically (from Dropbox to SkyDrive) so that any changes I make in the Dropbox folder (add/remove/change to files or sub-directories) get reflected in the SkyDrive folder.
I have a iPod touch WiFi and would like to use Google Maps with GPS for driving. Question: is there an external bluetooth GPS antenna that will allow for this?
Have you encountered an OS X text editor capable of indenting both the line and the lines in the following html?
I've installed an SSD as my main drive, and installed an HDD in the optical bay with a caddy, however I would like to blank the optical bay with an aluminium panel or something which I would assume could just be pushed into the slot. I can't find anything by searching for a blanking plate, so just wondering if they even exist?
I'm looking for a simple tallying / counter app for iOS that supports data export, and assigns dates to the different counts. It should also support multiple counters with titles. Does anyone know of an app like this?
If I use LaunchBar can I disable Spotlight? Does LaunchBar do all of its own indexing and never use the Spotlight database? Or does it rely on the Spotlight database for some of its search awesome-sauce?
I want to know how to stop screen sharing in Mac OS, once I've enabled it by clicking "share screen" in the dialogue that pops up. I don't want to disable screen sharing, since I'd still like to allow future requests for sharing. I just want to terminate the current sharing session.
If I restore my iphone to default factory settings will it remove the ios firmware updates and leave ios in the state it was in when I got the phone?
I have the new iPad2 and am wondering if intead of buying a new microsim/connection from AT&T, I can just use the microsim from my iPhone4. Please advise. Thanks
I'm looking for a way to automatically log off a user after 30 minutes of inactivity, as well as close all open applications. As of now, there is really only one user to deal with. I'd prefer an easy (free) way of doing this, but am open to using a program that might accomplish the same thing. Thus far, I've come up with the following Applescript to close all programs and log out:
I have an iPad2 3g with at&t. Now, Will I be able to pop another SIM into it when I travel outside the US and use the data plan available in that country/service provider?? Is the iPad2 locked to AT&T's network just like the iPhone?
My Mac has this nifty "zoom" function that kicks in when I hold control and scroll in and out. If I zoom all the way in on black text on my screen, it is made up of many different colors. Why is this?
The answer to an earlier question, Access and control home office network, iMacs, and Xserves, left me with a new problem. To review, I have a computing environment comprised of: 27" iMac with dual cores running Mac OS X 10.6.8 2 Xserves each with 2 quad cores running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 All networked over Ethernet to a Time Capsule. As this question has more general application than the earlier one, I thought it merited its own post. I need to launch and shut down a service (in my case Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager but this really applies to any service, program, or application) which needs to run on a server (or more generally, any other machine) attached to my network (or again more generally, any network to which one has authorized access). I need to have that script: Access and log on to 2 Xserves on my local network and there Launch a script on the Xserves that will in turn launch Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager
Home/office environment: 27" iMac with dual cores running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 27" iMac with dual cores running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 2 Xserves each with 2 quad cores running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 2 Xserves each with 2 quad cores running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 Time capsule. Time capsule. Networking by ethernet Networking by ethernet Can I "fix" the IP address of the Xserves on this network so that even if the servers get turned off and on they will always have the same IP address? This would seem to simplify some SSH it looks like I need to do to run scripts remotely.
I've my iPhone set to "never auto-lock":  I am aware that this will mean I'll have to recharge the phone more frequently. But besides the inconvenience, will the "life" of the iPhone be affected in any way?
I have a new 2012 Macbook Air (with 10.7.4) which doesn't connect to my own local network automatically after it wakes up. I have to choose my network manually and it works instantly. Any ideas how to solve this problem?
My wife and I both have iPhones, we also have separate Apple IDs, but we'd like to be able to share and edit documents. We've looked at a couple of options: Google Docs - Since it's lacking a native app, it seems to be difficult to edit on the phone especially for spreadsheets. Page/Numbers iOS app - It appears that documents created by one user can not be shared with another one. We both have dropbox accounts that we could use to share the docs, but is there app to edit them?
I just installed a second hard drive, and I'm wondering if that voids my warranty.
I've read many posts here and on other forums about installing Windows 7 from a USB stick, and I really don't want to start messing about with the VM Ware Fusion or Parallels options. Last resort will be sourcing an external superdrive, but I thought I'd ask if there's an updated way to achieve this. I'm running a 15" MBP early 2011 and have a 256gb SSD in the main drive bay, and a 500gb HDD in the optical drive bay. I've edited Bootcamp's info.plist to enable it to create a bootable USB stick with the Windows installer and drivers on, but upon reboot, it comes up with the missing operating system error. I've also tried creating a USB stick within Windows with Microsoft's own tool, and used rEFIt to try and boot with the same problem. And finally I tried booting with a USB Freecom DVD drive and the original Windows 7 DVD, but that ends up just flashing a _ on a black screen. Are my only options really either using an Apple external superdrive, or a lot of messing about with VMware Fusi
I'd like to count the occurrence of unique items found in one column of about 120 items. I can't find a way to do this in Numbers.app
iCloud and other background services that I use seem to assume that Internet bandwidth is unlimited. As soon as I launch my Lion MacBook, hundreds of megs of updated documents, software updates, mail, notifications etc are downloaded. This is desirable when I'm on broadband, but when I'm travelling and tethered to my iPhone, it's expensive.
Since Time Machine will back up new data as a higher priority, what if the Mac's hard drive is 800MB full, and the back up drive is only 500GB? Since the OS system files are the "old data", will Time Machine back up the newer and newer data and therefore "forget about" the older data including the OS X system files, and that a "restore", if it is ever needed, will not be able to restore the Mac into a bootable condition?
I'm looking at replacing my DVD drive in my Macbook Pro with an SSD. The Optibay and OWC solutions seem awfully expensive compared to "knockoffs" found on Amazon and eBay.
If I have a resized OS X partition of 500GB on my 750GB HD (250GB unallocated free space), and I install Windows 7 through bootcamp on a 300GB partition, can I partition the 250GB free space on my HD from Windows? or can I only work with the 300GB that was partitioned for it through bootcamp?
I've been unable to transfer XCode 3.2.6, a 4gbyte .dmg file, from a USB flash drive to 2 snow leopard MacBooks. It stops at 2.2gbytes with an error. The flash drive is formatted with NTFS from a win7 machine.
Is there any way to share the sound output of a mac to other macs nearby either by wifi, or bluetooth or something? At work we want to all be able to listen to the same playlist, but through headphones. There's three of us sitting in a pod and we can get a headphone splitter, but its a bit tedious. So I wondered if anyone knows a way to share the sound output to other macs so that we can each listen through our own sound card? Many thanks
Somehow my harddrive seems to fail, I am not able to startup anymore. When I started in verbose mode, I noticed that the harddrive return I/O Errors and the B-Node-Tree seems to be corrupted. I was able to use the single-user mode to backup files to an external harddrive, but when I tried to repartition the harddrive from the recovery mode, after failing to repair the partitions in single-user mode, I get an error, that he is unable to unmount the drive. (DiskWarrior 4.4 doesn't even recognize the Macintosh HD and the S.M.A.R.T Test results are alright) I first thought maybe something is actually used on that drive, but even after trying to repartition from the Disk Utility on a Mac OSX Lion Installer DVD, he keeps telling me, that he is unable to unmount the drive. (I had a bootcamp partition on the harddrive as well, that is still highlighted, so that seems to be the issue) The system is an early 2011 MBP.
One of my friends has forgotten his Apple ID password and is attempting to reset it. I told him to go to Apple's password reset page, which he has done. He opted for email authentication/reset since he's also forgotten his security question/answer. When he does this, he receives this email. Dear Xxxxx Xxxxxx, The password for your Apple ID xxx.xxx@xxx.co.uk has been successfully reset.
I'm aware that I'm probably some kind of technological dinosaur but I love my click-wheel iPod. Now that Apple had stopped selling the click wheel games is there somewhere else I can get them? Is there an equivalent to cydia / or jail-breaking my iPod classic to get home brew or the like games on it?
What is a simple solution, and preferably free, for cropping and printing a photo to 35x45? Somethink that would ease the generation of a photo that does match: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@motor/documents/digitalasset/dg_078280.pdf
Can I play The Sims 3 on my MacBook? It has only an Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics chip.
On my account, web browsing works fine. I don't have a significant iPhoto library. I've looked at errors in the system console, and I've found and fixed a few problems that appear to be unrelated... some Chrome errors relating to extensions, which I have removed, and a bad print driver spewing log entries.
I would like to use a newer version of Xcode (current version on my system is 3.2.4) and the command line tools (gcc & make). I have tried to install Xcode through the Mac App Store, however I am prompted that my OS X version is too old. I then tried to download the respective tools and Xcode from developer.apple.com but all the provided packages are not suited for my system. So my question basically boils down to Is there a way to update Xcode so that I might use gcc & make? If not, is there a free way to upgrade my OS so that I could use the Xcode that is provided on app store?
One of my Xserves has a amber flashing LED. I've pointed out the LED in question in the below image:
I have two displays. Mac OS X frequently "forgets" the digital arrangement of the monitors and defaults them to a horizontal side-by-side arrangement. This does not correspond to the physical arrangement of the monitors. In this arrangement, my desktop is extended upwards, not to the left or right. How can I save the arrangement?
Is there any simple application (or built-in in Mac OS) that allows me to record sound on a Mac? I'm referring not only to voice input through the mic, but also to sounds issued by the system.
Is there any way how to use laptop as a hands-free "headset" for my Android phone via Bluetooth? Actually it's very nice to answer on calls directly from computer.
Is there a list of key-symbols that I could reference?
I bought a refurbished iPhone that has the Cydia icon on it. Does that mean it is already jailbroken? If so, can I just go ahead and use the apps? Do I have to jailbreak to use it? Also the iPhone is used on my Tmobile provider and I was told not to update the iOS on iTunes or it will get locked to ATT and I will not be able to use it.
I want to place my iMac Snow Leopard Users Folder on a separate external HDD. It is already populated with data in my Documents, Downloads etc., and Media Folders. My problem is I have already named the HDD using Disk Utility. Is it possible to rename the disk without having to erase the data it contains, Just the name?
I want to try Windows 7 under VirtualBox on my Macbook Air, but I have no optical drive. Rather than going out and buying one, can bypass the optical drive installation by making a Windows 7 VirtualBox image on my Linux tower and then copy that image over to my Mac via rsync? And are there any VirtualBox configuration settings I may need to use to accomplish what I have in mind?
On Windows there is a utility which opens the command prompt on a particular folder. Basically you right click a folder and select "open command prompt here" and it open the command prompt and puts user in that particular directory. Is there any utility similar to this on mac?
When I start a new screen, the aliases that I have set in my ~/.profile do not seem to be sourced. Does anyone know where I can change this or which file is actually read when starting a new screen?
By mistake, I moved a file in to a Finder window that I previously did a search in, so it was open on "All My Files" which is not really a folder. Yet when I moved the file in to this Finder window, the file disappeared from its original location. Now when I search for the file I cannot find it.. What happened to it?
My time capsule is disappearing from my Finder list (left side) occasionally.. it is very odd. I have my iMac plugged in to it via Ethernet cable. How do I force my iMac to connect to it when it misbehaves like this?
I have about 23,000 MP3 files which I have imported into iTunes with the "Copy files to iTunes media folder when importing" setting unchecked. Now I need to move the location of these files - just moving the whole parent folder onto a new drive. Is there a way I can update the location of the existing library items in bulk?
Google mostly returns Apple's accessibility API and other programming resources. But I'd want to know, for example, what is Mac OS X version 10.7.4 equivalent of 'sticky key' in Windows. Any other productivity tip for using OS X with only one arm?
I work in multi monitor setup. I have some important information available in the dashboard and want it to be always visible on one of the monitor. Is there a way (w/ external software or not) to do so?
I have old plastic white MacBook 13'' 2007 mid late. In previous year I have bought SSD and replaced old one (HDD). Everything was Ok, but in last month i started seen how sometime OS become stuck for one-two second, and then everything is ok. Today I have download Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Very occasionally when using my Mac, I notice my internet connection slowing down. Using Activity Monitor I can see that it's because something is downloading data at the full rate my connection can support --- but I don't know how to tell what's responsible for it. It can be caused by several different things (Dropbox syncing; some app doing an automatic update; most recently it was a video buffering in a browser tab that I'd forgotten about) so it'd be really handy to have a way to tell which app is responsible for the network use. Is such a thing possible in OS X? Ideally I'm looking for a free solution. (Command line is OK.) I'm on Snow Leopard if it makes a difference.
I take a lot of photos and use iPhoto to manage everything. I also have a Premium Flickr account where everything gets sent to in order to have an online presence.
I need to reinstall Leopard on a computer although I don't have the install disks. Leopard is still installed on the computer. Also the disk drive doesn't work. What options are there? Can I create a bootable USB somehow?
Some ISPs do MAC-address port locking or/and use DHCP to assign IP-addresses to clients' network interfaces. Assuming you don't wanna bother calling them, what are your options then? If ifconfig's is the only one, where should it be called from so early during boot time that no Ethernet frame would ever went to wire with its original MAC-address?
My neighbors just setup a Wi-Fi network, and my MacBook is now automatically connecting to it. I've never manually connected to it It has a single bar ("dot") of signal, my network has all 4
I have an iPhone 4 which I tried to install Cydia on, and everything worked well. However, when I tried to put it in DFU mode, it shuts down. I attempt to power it back up but nothing happens. What could be causing this problem?
I just loaded Lion on my Mac and now cannot access certain files. How can I change the permissions of a certain file? I've tried to find the HD in Finder but it doesn't show up.
All I can find on the Internet is a one line bash command to activate a ramdisk. It is only 550mb and I would like to be able to create on with more space? Is there a way to configure how big they can be? If not, why are they limited in the first place?
I have Sage (math program) and I want to execute it through terminal. I know I can go to the directory and execute it with -
Dictation on the iPad is great. I can use Dragon Tree etcetera but would like to use an iPad like voice dictation program instead for simple tasks. Can I do the same thing on my OS X 10.7.4 iMac?
I need to re-install OS X Leopard on a computer that has broken DVD Drive. Also I don't have firewire cable.
I can swap/remap (only) the right command with right alt using Keyremap4macbook for the built in Macbook keyboard, but would the same be possible for the Apple's external Bluetooth keyboard?
I want to replace my scratched up screen (GSM iPhone 4) and been looking into the options. I've seen that there are 100$ 'Official' replacements and the much more common eBay 30$ replacements. Is there a quality difference between the two or is this a case of which side of the factory these came out of? (ie. the Apple approved front door or out of the back door).
So I have set up my calendar on Google. I am trying to get it to sync those changes to my calendar application on my iPhone 4S. I currently have under "Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars" the following accounts: iCloud (Contacts, Calendars and 5 more..) Exchange (Mail, Calendars, Reminders) Gmail (Calendars, Notes)
I have an SSD with two (bootable OS X) partitions. I don't want to have duplicate installations of most of my applications. So I made some OS X proprietary aliases in one of the two /Applications folders to the .apps in the /Applications folder of the other partition. I disabled Spotlight indexing on "the other partition".
I have a Mac Mini mid 2011, 500GB HDD with dual boot Windows 7. I tried prepping this drive so that i can clone it to a smaller 240GB SSD using gParted from this tutorial.
Is there a simple way to listen to iTunes U audio in the background? Switching to another app turns the audio off except in this very specific case:
When I send a picture to a friend (e.g. via Messages, Mail, or Tweet), is the location information in that photo preserved? In other words, can they see where I took that photo? What about when I use 3rd party apps such as Facebook?
i have a video podcast that i've synced to my iphone. when i browse the iphone through itunes, it shows that the podcast is on the phone. when i open the 'Music' app in my phone, the podcasts don't show up. the video is H.264 encoded .mp4 files, and my phone has 5 GB free. how do i get the videos to show up and play?
EDIT: I don't know anyone who has a Mac, and the Mac store is in another city. If I somehow do get the "Mac OS X Install ESD.dmg" from someone, is it possible to burn this into a bootable USB using Windows 7?
In earlier versions of OSX I've set the label color of the /Applications/Utilities folder so that it's easy to spot (visually). Lion disables the labels for this folder. (Why?) I've tried changing the permissions on the folder but that didn't work. Anyone have a fix?
router was the name I gave to my network share drive. Attempted Fixes:
I have completely messed up my Mac OS X Lion 10.7 on my 2011 Macbook Air (Refer thread : Is there an alternative to downloading Lion from the net?) Recovery Parition attempts to install from the internet. This is not an option since I have attempted atleast 6 times, It takes 18-20 hours for each iteration and fails somewhere in between because my net connection is not reliable. What I need to do : Install Mac OS 10.7 Lion on my MacBook Air Here is what I have : InstallESD.dmg file for MAC OS Lion 10.7.4 A PC with Windows 7 32-Bit 2011 Macbook Air (Without CD Rom Drive) Disk Utility in the Macbook Air Recovery partition USB CD-ROM 16 GB USB Thumb Drive How do I accomplish this ?
I've been using the Japanese keyboard layout for a while, but only recently I have noticed there are two options for the software keyboard layout, namely "Kana" and "Flick only". Can anybody tell me what the difference is, since they look and behave identical, as far as I can tell. This is on a 1st generation iPad running iOS 5.1.1.
Is it possible to find out what devices have been registered to receive iMessage with my Apple ID? I can only see my phone number and Apple ID in iMessage settings, but not what devices are registered.
I am trying to connect microphone to my early 2011 17" MacBook Pro, but I cant get it working. MBP 17" has 2 audio jacks so I supposed the second one is for microphone but just doesnt work (Mac or Windows) and I gotta use USB audio card shipped with my headset. Am I doing something wrong or the other jack is not supposed for audio input with classic 3.5mm microphone jack?
I'm trying Google+ hangout from my iPhone4 and the new iPad. I found that the mic volume is too small, participants can't hear my voice. Is there any way to adjust the mic volume?
I want to use an iPad as an electronic 'Program' or Agenda for a conference. We would like to have a single document serve as the Agenda where one can open it, see the time and day of the presentations, the author and title. Then, select a hyperlink to open a copy of the presentation and/or written paper.
If anyone can help me with this it would be the best! I have just installed 150 Mac minis in a hotel and I'm using remote desktop management to control them. Now I need to disable DVD player auto start when a DVD is inserted. I would like to know if it's possible to do this by using Terminal?
Are there any version of Spotify that will run on a PowerPC Mac? Which one(s)? Where can I get one?
I noticed this problem earlier today, pressing left shift + W to type a capital W does not work. I can get a capital W by using the right shift key, or the caps-lock, but not with the left shift, which works fine for all other letters. Basically, left shift + W does not do anything.
I can't figure out why Finder isn't letting me delete files under my home directory without providing my password. Here's a listing of some files on my desktop: When I try to delete a file from Finder, I get this:
Short of writing an AppleScript (which I'm somewhat resigned to doing), is there any solution? Literally all I need to do is to export the library to a folder structure.
On my Linux machine I have autocomplete for branches with Git. [Note we are talking about git branch completion, not bash completion (e.g. commands, files, etc). Thus NOT Lane's answer at all] For example I can type git checkout+TAB and get a list of branches. Or I can type git checkout feb*+TAB to get all branches that begin with "feb". How can I get this functionality on a Mac?
During a Mac's ShutDown, a window shows:  Is there a way to find out more info, such as who the user is (username), the IP of that user, and machine name? The Terminal app can show some info by using w or who, but only another username is shown. Can more info be obtained by using another command line or another app? (correction: seems like w and who are showing the local users only)
someDir is owned by user abhilash.goje (that's me) and group wheel. I have tried giving following permissions.
Does anyone know how to set the Book Type when burning a DVD (DVD+R DL in my case) in OS X? I'm making a backup copy of my car's navigation DVD, and it will only work right if I set the booktype to DVD-ROM. I'm using a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, with a "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-898" SuperDrive, and I've confirmed that it supports the Verbatim DVD+R DL medium I'm planning to use.
I use a VirtualBox machine with Arch Linux as development web server. I want to improve rsync transfer speed via smb://. What kind of configuration is best to improve file transfer/synchronization? Which network configuration is best for speed between the host and the guest? My config: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Adaptador em ponte (bridged), en1: Wi-Fi (AirPort))
I know newer Macs are more user-maintainable but it seems like a lot of that changed during 2008. Can I upgrade this model's internal components myself, esp. the RAM? Have done lots of upgrades on PC cases, new motherboards, CPU/Fan, power supply but Mac is new to me and not sure about this model.
I need to upgrade the ram on an old macbook. It takes DDR2-667Mhz. Although those are quite expensive (guess they are not made anymore?). If I get higher MHz DDR2 memory will it still be compatible and just run at 667? Are there chances that it won't work? Also what about 1067 DDR3?
A good friend of mine woke up one day to discover that someone had changed the admin password on his mac. It seems the same attacker also broke into his Yahoo email. Assuming he was on an unsecured network is there some kind of Mac OS X vulnerability that would allow an attacker to login remotely and change the admin password, even if remote management and remote login were disabled? How could someone without physical access to the machine do this?
Since geolocation info is usually preserved when I share a photo from my iPhone, I was wondering what the simplest way is to remove this geolocation info from an existing picture. To be clear: I don't want to take a new photo, and I don't want to disable the option that geotags my photos. I just want to take an existing photo, remove the location info (e.g. by duplicating it, while retaining the original size), and then send it to a friend.
Can one in principle get Apple TV to join/extend a wireless network even if that wireless network is from a non-Apple wifi router? Edit: By that I mean: Can one control an Apple TV from a Macbook if the network that the Macbook has joined is not broadcast by an Apple router?
From the previous releases of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, how long is the gap between the devices being released and appearing on the Apple refurbished website?
It used to be that pressing the space bar in Quicktime Player would pause a video. However, beginning with Lion, it seems that it sometimes pauses the video, but other times it skips or jumps the video to a random location.
I'm looking for an app which will store the incoming SMSes encrypted. Is there any?
Recently my OS X Snow Leopard has been taking a really long time to boot up. Suspecting that something might be wrong with the HD I did a disk verification using the Disk Utility. It showed me an error message stating that i need to repair the disk using the disk utility from the installation disk. However, my CD ROM does not function properly and I am unable to boot from the installation disk.
Just got an Ipad3 and want to transfer files from PC/Win7 to Ipad 3 with out using Itunes.
I'm having some strange problems with my year-old iMac running OS X 10.7.4. After clicking on a menu item on the top menu bar, the drop down menu that appears disappears instantly. This also happens when right clicking on the desktop or on an application in the dock. It's as if single clicks are getting counted as double clicks.
I've created a TOC for my Pages document but without knowing how this happened now my toc looks like this: instead of having the title aligned to the left and the page numbers to the right like this How can i align the page numbers to the right?
Using the iCloud server, is it possible to remove multiple rules at once (instead of selecting each rule individually)?
I tried to find a solution to video record my screen (video of my iphone's screen). I need to show to my friend how a certain app looks like on iphone. However, I was unable to find a tool.
tmux wants me to press Command+A (or Command+B by default, changed it by having set -g prefix C-a in my .tmux_conf file). I have already switched Control and Command, so, in general, Control+C will now do Command+C, etc. So how can I make tmux also use Control instead of Command ?
Is there an app that allows one to control the music playing on my iPhone using the Function keys along the top of my Mac keyboard?
I have an iMac i7 that's got a collection of files, settings, etc. that's the culmination of being transferred from past machines (originally an iMac G4, then a PowerMac G5).
I have a machine. I want to configure it so that it can only talk to 192.168.1.1 (gitserver) and 127.0.0.1 (localhost). This machine is meant to be pure work, no distractions. I'm on OS X Lion. I'm familiar with iptables on Linux, but not sure how to configure this (or if it's even possible). What do I need to read up to make this work? PS: configuring the router is not an option; it's some simple $30 router.
I have MBP from early 2011 and Wireshark 1.8rc2 does not recognize it (under Lion). What adaptors are compatible with it? Alternatively, specify if there is a another software that I can use to monitor the traffic on a specific WiFi network (not encrypted).
Anyone know if / how it is possible to launch a custom application via the Active Screen Corners (aka Hot Corners) ?
I am interested in buying Office for Mac 2011. I am in Sweden. Whenever I want to buy it from a website it shows like Office för Mac Hem och Student 2011 - 1 Paket (Svenska). Does it means software language is Swedish? I want it in English, as I am not Swedish. And my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) language is English. Should I buy this one?
I've noticed on an old iPhone 3G I keep around for testing that the Set Automatically option in Date & Time doesn't work. This iPhone has a SIM card, but it has been deactivated by the carrier after upgrading to a newer model which uses a different size card.
I need to know how to create client file folders and reference or matter subfolders to be saved within each client folder from within the Open File dialog. For example, "Smith Manufacturing Corp." would be the master client folder. Within that folder, I would like to create subfolders for each matter the lawyer is addressing for that client, for example: "Agreement with Jones Demolition Co." or "Purchase of Main Street Property" and so on. I was able to do that quite easily with Microsoft Word on my PC. Folder structure diagram:
Searching for the issue, I found this Q&A: How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder? [...] you could create a symlink to the file in its directory, omitting the dot in the name: open Terminal, cd into your folder ln -s $PWD/.htaccess $PWD/htaccess
I am going to update my iPod to the newest software and was wondering if this will delete the files? Most of my songs are from my old computer which I now longer have, so I no longer have the songs in iTunes. If I try to back up my files will it only do the ones from my current iTunes and delete the rest?
I am a longtime Windows user, recently switched to Mac. I replaced folder with another folder (they had the same name) thinking that OS X will merge the contents of both folders. But OS X deleted the original folder and replaced it with the new one. Windows merges both the folders (I do this often in Windows). I have now lost hundreds of files. I haven't enabled Time Machine. I've tried using Finder's Undo, but that doesn't work.
From times to times my Messages on OS X Lion gets crazy and will not load when I try to run it. When that happens I need to restart OS X and it will work again.
I have got both an 27" iMac and a Samsung 40" TV in the same room for kids. They are only 10ft away from each other, and I'd like to get a mirror image of the iMac onto the TV. I've seen this work in a computer shop but I'm unsure if it was a Samsung TV.
In system preferences> CDs & DVDs I have everything set to ignore. Yet iTunes still opens every time I put in an audio CD - is there a way to turn this off? As a follow up in iTunes > Preferences > General > When You Insert A CD: I have the following options Show CD (The selected option) Begin Playing Ask To Import CD Import CD Import CD and Eject There is no ignore option within iTunes - is there some other way to disable iTunes opening?
Can an iPad somehow connect the iPad Camera Connector AND be plugged into power simultaneously? I need to use the USB port AND have the iPad connected to a power source. Possible?
In Windows (Linux too), you have the very useful "Power saver" mode that limits the maximum frequency at which your CPU runs.  Is there something similar in OS X?
I use both Macs and PCs. In the PC version of Word, I can modify the equation options directly from the Equation ribbon bar. One option I need is the ability to copy the equation as plain text. Does this option exist on the Mac Word 2011?
I would like to have some way to specify that when I am focused on Spotify.app and I press the j key that it will translate into a ↓ key and be sent to the app. I would like this because I like vim style navigation but Spotify does not support remapping keyboard shortcuts.
I am trying to copy a large number of files to an NTFS formatted Windows 7 machine from a Mac OS formatted external hard drive. I am mounting the drive by attaching it to my Airport Extreme Router. This gives me access to copy files, however, it chokes on thousands of files that have names with various characters that are not supported in filenames on Windows.
When I'm stumbling around trying to find the keystroke for lowering the screen brightness in quarter-segments (which happens to be Option ⌥+Shift ⇧+Brightness-down (F1)), I usually wind up hitting Command ⌘+Brightness-down, which puts my multi-monitor setup into mirrored mode, thus messing up my window arrangement and sizing. I'd like to turn off this keystroke (which is, specifically, ⌘+Brightness-down and definitely not ⌘+F1. If someone can come up with a way to permanently disable display mirroring under all circumstances, I'll probably put together a bounty for you. I'm running OS X Lion on a sufficiently recent MacBook Pro.
Trying to connect to company Jabber/XMPP with iChat, I get stuck at password entering screen. Connecting with the very same info in Adium, ticking "Force old-style SSL" setting it work flawlessly. Guess it's got something to do with a self-signed SSL certificate or likewise.
I just decided to upgrade to a USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure. I regularly use my Airport Extreme to share the hard drive using an older enclosure. I know that the Airport Extreme won't have USB 3.0, but I expected it to be backwards compatible. Am I wrong, or is something else amiss? I'm using this Thermaltake Max 5G, and it mounts when I attach it to a MacBook Pro running Lion.
This is one of the scariest, vaguest warnings I've ever seen. In my case I don't mind if it erases all of my songs and re-syncs with my new computer, but I sure as hell don't want it erasing everything on my iPhone. Why on earth would it need to do that? Why is this error so vague? I'm definitely not willing to just try it and see what happens.
I have a few email accounts set up in Mail. One of them is my xxxxx@mac.com email address. At some point (maybe after I switched to iCloud), Mail started including the xxxxx@me.com address in the list of potential from: addresses. Is there any way to convince it to not include the @me.com address? I don't ever want to use it. Edit
I'm looking for a more efficient way to manage my tabs in Safari. Specifically something that allows me to move multiple tabs at once to a new window.
I am trying to create a new partition so I can install Windows through Boot Camp. I boot into recovery mode using my Recovery Assistant USB and no matter what I do, when I try to resize my drive and create a new partition, I get this error. What am I doing wrong?
I was previously hit by the Thunderbolt Update that made the iMac not bootable, so as a precaution in the future, I may check and see the release dates of all the Software Updates, and if the update is more than 2 to 3 days old, then I will install it -- if less than 2 to 3 days old, then I will not install it. This is because if a software update has any issue, by the 2nd or 3rd day, it will be known and any correction will be made, or the update may be pulled from the update list.
My wife uses her iPad (first generation) a lot, but never syncs with her laptop. So she never updated to IOS 5, because she never got a message to do so.
How can I set my /usr/local/bin/bash (which is the 4.2 version that allows auto-completion of 'cd to directory with directory name') to be my default bash for a new window instead of my regular (v3.2.48) version. I can type /usr/local/bin/bash and get into it but that's not the default for a new Terminal window which is what I want.
I'm thinking about buying a macbook pro (latest 2012 version) and it seems sensible (from a financial point of view) to buy the standard built in hard disk and do the upgrade to SSD myself. In order to get the most bang for my buck, I'd like to know what the maximum read/write speed of the SATA interface in a macbook pro supports? i.e. is it worth getting a 600Mbps or 300Mbps drive? Is it SATA 2 or 3?
When I turn on Wifi on my MacBook, it always selects some open network. Can I somehow force the system to choose another network (it is password-protected but I have the password stored in the Keychain and it keeps choosing the open one)? I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.4.
My router's IP address is 192.168.1.245. I tried to access it but without success, because my WIFI address is 10.0.1.10 and my Ethernet address (via the Thunderbolt port) is 169.254.xxx.xxx. How can I configure my router without having internal IP addresses?
I copyied files from my MacBook, mainly files from /usr. The one and only user on my computer is called 'Julian' (like on my MacBook). A lot of the copied files are now owned by '501' (id of "Julian" from the MB). Is there a way to change the owner of all files owned by '501' to 'Julian'?
I read with interest this post about setting up a flash drive with multiple OS X installers. It confirms what I've suspected by my tests with just one OS (Lion).
I used ATV USB Creator to jailbreak my 1st gen ATV. I was able to remove all menus that I wanted by deleting the entries from the info.plist files. All, that is, except the 'All HD' item under TV shows. Why can't I delete it? It did not have an entry in the plist like all the others.
There is an app that I currently have that I like, an update is available, but I haven't updated the app because while the new version adds some features I like, it also removes some features. I would like to run both versions on my iPhone, so that I can use the old version when I want the removed feature, and run the new version when I don't. Can I, Clone an App to a new name/directory on my iPhone, and then run the update, leaving me with two icons on my home screen, one that launches the old version, and one that launches the new version?
I'm trying to play two HD TV Shows on my jailbroken 1st Gen Apple TV. When I try to play them, I get the 'authorizing' message and then I see 'Your Apple TV is not authorized to play this content.'
I've had this 3GS for nearly three years now, and just recently (last few months) it has started to vibrate briefly (under 1 second) with no alerts or other indication onscreen as to why it's vibrating. It happens a few times a day now, even after a reboot of the phone.
One thing I do a lot is Command ⌘-Tab over to TextEdit, jot down some notes, and then decide to throw them away. I can close the window with ⌘-W, but is there a way to not-save it from just the keyboard?
My machine name is set shiny in System Preferences/Sharing/Computer Name. From another machine on the network, I can only use shiny.local to refer to this machine. In the past, I used only shiny. In a terminal, I have new-host-7 instead of the machine name.
I have a folder of .mov files that are all part of a video tutorial session. The directory looks like:
I wanted to purchase the new rMBP, but I was waiting for Mountain Lion to be released so that Mountain Lion comes already loaded on my computer. Now, I am going away to college on August 16th, so really, I'd want to be able to have my computer by the time I head off to college and as of now, Apple Store's website says 3 - 4 weeks (I need to order it online because I want to upgrade my RAM from 8 GB to 16 GB).
I have a volume that is encrypted with OS X Lion's full-disk FileVault. When I enabled FileVault I was given a recovery key, which I wrote down. I'd like to verify that the recovery key that I wrote down is correct before I store it somewhere safe. How can I verify that a FileVault recovery key is correct?
I want to be able to manage my music manually on my iPhone, but it's currently synced with a no longer available computer and won't let me re-sync with another computer without completely erasing my iPhone, apparently. Is jailbreaking an option or will I still be limited by iTunes and this ridiculous restriction?
Every time a backup completes I get this message - 'Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.' I am backing up to Lacie Network Space 2 drive via wifi. Does anybody know how to correct this?
mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51
I can't get my 2012 13" MacBook Pro to standby (note: NOT regular sleep, see *=URL=* My pmset -g results are:
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I've recently got myself a "new" iPad (aka iPad 3), and I was wondering if it was possible to convert DVDs I own in order to watch them on it? (Let's set aside the legality discussion since A) laws vary based on jurisdiction and B) the Internet isn't a good place to get legal advice.)
When I copy it over, OS X puts today's date/time as the last modified, and so the date of the video capture is lost - at least in the file meta data. I haven't checked to see if it's also encoded in the MTS file (perhaps someone here knows how to check this?)
I have an Xserve G4, dual 1.33 GHz processors, 2 GB of RAM, 1 CD-ROM drive, 2 internal Hard Drives (read: Nowhere really to back them up to). I also have 1 EXTERNAL Hard Drive, Firewire, but just like the internal drives, I can't reformat with any sort of ease, too much data.
I'm deciding to buy my first MacBook Pro for developing iOS application. I never use any Apple desktop or laptop before, and also never develop any application. I think if I want faster result when I compile an application, higher CPU and RAM are better. But I'm not sure about storage type, does SSD significantly results faster compilation time than HDD? Pros of SSD: faster read & write speed Cons of SSD: expensive! Is it worth to use SSD instead of HDD?
In OS X Lion there was the preference (via a Terminal command) to enable iTunes track notifications that were displayed as a popup in the dock. So far it seems as though Mountain Lion does not allow this, I was wondering if anyone knew whether the command had changed or if this is just not possible in OS X 10.8. The Terminal command I had been using in Lion was: defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE; killall Dock
I want all my mails to stay on Google server (as I read them from multiple clients and from the web), being able to delete then from the client (deleting them on the server as well) and do not retrieve all 3GB of them when first configuring the program. When trying to add a new Gmail account, Mail doesn't ask how to configure it, so it’s not the Exchange configuration I'm after. How do I configure Mac Mail app so that it works with Gmail like iOS's mail application does when configured with Exchange server?
I'm looking for a solution to monitor the refresh rate of the OSX. In several reviews like this one about the retina Macbook Pro by Anandtech they report actual fps to discuss the performance of scrolling in Safari in Lion vs Mountain Lion.
Apache does not recognize the local zone .dev -- returns 404 Not Found. If Apache is restarted it will recognize the local zon. If inactive for ~1hr it no longer recognizes the local zone -- returns to 404 Not Found. Configurations Used wildcard subdomains to enable this feature.
All network preferences are frozen on my macbook. This problem happens when I do the following: Fast User switching is on. At least two users are logged into the system. I've switched from one wifi network to another.
My mom is a devoted Apple laptop user. She's 95, and she finds it increasingly hard to find the cursor, so she lets her thumb wander around on the trackpad until she can spot it moving around. While doing so, she wreaks havoc with her dock and other things. Is there a way to make the cursor larger, red, or something so she can see it better?
I'd like to add other mail message as an attachment to a new one but Mail (On OSX Lion) does not allow me to do that. Any workaround? Gil
I need to find the password for a Wi-Fi network that I am already connected to. I'm using a MacBook Pro that's running OS X Lion. Any guidance is appreciated.
The leading solution of using a Cloud service may be too expensive. It would be great if I could transfer between just an external hard drive and my iPhone.
My default iCloud backup is almost full at 4 out of 5 GB, and I strongly suspect it's not the photos (I don't take that many) but a few giant videos in the Camera Roll:  Is there any way to disable backing up videos only to iCloud? I can only find a way to turn the entire camera roll backup on or off, which I don't want. I definitely want the photos to be backed up to iCloud, just not giant oversize videos. Yes, I can copy the videos off and delete them from my phone, but I still want the videos on the phone, I just don't want them backed up to iCloud at all.
Why do I have 2 of every picture side-by-side in my Photo Library? I don't edit or rename pictures at all. All I do is take pictures. Then sync phone to my Mac with iTunes. But Photo Library on iPhone shows 2 of everything without a trash can to remove them. What is going on?
When is a Mac excluded from a this feature? Is it a hardware limitation? I ask because I learned that AirDrop for example is excluded from some Macs as they don't support the ad-hoc Wi-Fi networking which is required to use AirDrop over Wi-Fi.
I enjoy the Mac OS X brightness auto-adjustment on my MacBook Air, but I would usually prefer the screen dimmer than the level it decides on. This would also conserve some charge.
Today I noticed something unusual on my MBP's audio. When I played some music on youtube today, I noticed that something was different. The sound is noisy, like when in a car, you put the volume very high, it starts distorting. But, on low volume on my Mac, it creates the same effect.
Can you help me figure out what my hostname for my google account would be? I'm setting up Fetch (FTP) and I need my hostname for my gmail.
I wondering if I put my 1600Mhz 8Gig (4gigx2) modules in a Macbook Pro 17" 620m (2010 model) if the speeds would be automatically reduced to 1066Mhz? I'm just asking because I don't want to damage the computer. I've read that this will happen, but I just want to ask around before hand :).
I've been installing some linux distributions onto an SD card from my MacBook, although they take over an hour to transfer a few hundred MB (using dd and /dev/disk1).  If you look at the above output it's working at roughly 0.31 MB/s! The SD card is a Class 10, and my MacBook Pro is the 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, and OS X Lion 10.7.4. Here is the hardware report for the card reader: Built in SD Card Reader: Vendor ID: 0x05ac Product ID: 0x8403 Revision: 1.00 Serial Number: 9833 SDHC Card:
Is it possible to somehow create a new column in iTunes for "Play count/skip count" ratio? I usually use Play Count as a way to determine what songs I like the most, but this typically excludes newer songs (unless I limit the playlist by date). However, if I had a new column that took a song's play count and compared it to the song's skip count (such as 50 plays to 2 skips, 25:1; versus 20 plays and 5 skips, 4:1), then it'd be easier to see what songs I truly like, regardless of its age. So, can this be done in iTunes at all, or is it absolutely not feasible?
I commute using the subway so this means 20 minute stretches of no internet. To give me something to do, I often open a bunch of web pages, say 3 or 4 before I'm offline so I can read them while I'm without a signal. If I check my pages just before losing a signal, they show up perfectly and the internet icon doesn't show, hence my thinking that it's not reloading when I check. After loosing internet, sometimes my web pages will display fine, other times they try to reload. Is there a way to have them not reload so I can read them? Any other alternatives?
On Snow Leopard 10.6.8, TimeMachine keeps backing up the same files over and over again, as if they were not backed up the first time. As a result, each time I get a full backup of 300 GB!
I haven't found any shortcut or application on my Mac which provide such functionality. I would like to know the keyboard shortcut.
When I open my terminal it shows this: I just curious what the wpa-2-602 means? "david" is my user name, and sometimes it was something else. What makes it change?
I'm not too computer savvy, but I want to know if there is a way to transfer my mobile apps on iTunes to an external hard drive? I am trying to free up space on my PC's internal space. And if so, how do I go about doing so?
I have Mac book pro with OSX-10.7.3, which has to be give back to my company. I bought a new/personal mac book pro and I'd like to copy all the data including bootcamp images.
I'd like to geo-tag some already-imported photos in Aperture. To get the correct location, I'm using Google Earth. However, when I copy/paste the coordinates into Aperture Places, the maps shows a completely different location.
There are various OS X approaches to using the WebDAV service provided by Microsoft SharePoint. Answers to this question focus on integrity: when a file is used by a single user when a file is used by multiple users. Whilst some parts of an answer may be generalised to WebDAV servers in general, this question focuses on SharePoint – where Microsoft's server and client restrictions cause people to seek alternatives to Microsoft Document Connection. Some overlap with an earlier question: Is it possible to mount SharePoint as a volume in 10.6? Drafted in May 2012 a table: File open/lock protection for multi-user use of Microsoft SharePoint Key points from that draft: restrictions in SharePoint make Microsoft Office 2011 incompatible with file system integration Microsoft Document Connection lacks file system integration. If any reader can draw a conclusion that differs from what's tabled: I'll welcome discussion in Ask Different Chat, or add your answer below. Some parts of that table wil
I use a mac install before by another user. This user install some application like Xcode with this appleID.
Is there a way to show the desktop from full screen apps? I'm used to do it with F11 but it doesn't work if you are running full screen apps. The same is true for hot corners. I need this functionality for example when I'm writing a mail and I need to drag and drop an attachment from my desktop.
I am looking for a command line solution to change Safari default stylesheet. This can be configured manually by going to Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Style sheets. Still, I need this in order to be able to reconfigure a system or deploy the settings.
I would like to boot BackTrack on my MacBook Pro from a USB drive but it seems impossible. I'm holding the Alt key on boot, but the mac only displays "Macintosh HD", i.e. it doesn't recognize my USB. Anybody knows if booting a Linux distro from a usb possible? Thanks.
I have 3 accounts set up on my mac. I went into the user folder on the main admin account, the names for the other two accounts in here were different to the ones on the login screen (they were the old names of the accounts before I changed them in System Preferences). I then changed the names to match, now when I log into the other user accounts they have been reset as though they have not been used before. As far as I can see the files from those accounts are still in the user folder, they just aren't linking up to the correct account. How can I fix this?
port selfupdate fails with the following error message: What can I do to fix it?
I know there are a lot of ipad/pdf questions out there, but one of the things I don't see explicitly answered is the ability to transfer/merge pdf annotations from a pdf to an update pdf (only pages added). Seems like a unpopular use-case for pdf annotation, but this is the case with alot of legal related documents. The court allows for access to the pdf, of course the lawyers need to take notes on the pdf, exhibits are added, then the court sends lawyers an email to download an updated pdf.
We have deployed Thunderbolt Displays in my organization, which is almost entirely Mac-based. As you may already know, Thunderbolt Displays have internal Ethernet adapters which is very convenient in that a user can now connect their wired network connection to their display rather than their MacBook, and when they come in to work in the morning, the only thing they need to connect to their MacBook is the MagSafe adapter and Thunderbolt cable, both which come from their display. Essentially, the display is now acting as a docking station with all of the most commonly used ports on the display sent over the Thunderbolt connection to their MacBook.
We have a VP who wants to print from his iPad. We have a few printers shared off our DC running Windows Server 2008 r2. All of the iPad apps that I've found have not worked very well. Has anyone had any success with getting iOS devices to print on a Windows network?
Maybe I'm confused. I'm using Mac Leopard, so I have to use the iCloud website in order to post appointments on my calendars. The appointment times show up on my iPhone and my iPad, but don't show up on my iCloud Calendar. There is just a solid dot as if it were and "all day" appointment. I can't seem to find anyone who has asked this question before anywhere on the web. Ideas?
I was looking at a companies that to do repairs to iPhones to decide if I wanted to DIY or just pay someone to do it, and noticed one company that listed a service named "Remove Passcode". This was concerning to me since I assumed that the iOS passcode was secure; meaning for example that it was part of the boot/build, and without it correctly presented, the phone's data was not accessible. (Yes, I know, silly to think that would be the case.) Anyway, at this point after quickly researching the topic, it appears it's possible to delete one file, turn the phone on, have complete access to it, replace the file, and no one would be the wiser. Not asking for a how-to - just confirmation that the passcode is meaningless security-wise.
For some reason, Apple has imposed a most absurd restriction where the only way to get an iPhone (or other iDevice) to sync with a different computer is by erasing it first. I haven't verified first-hand that this process actually erases the entire iPhone, because, naturally, I'm too afraid to try it.
After selecting a file or application in LaunchBar, how do I get it to show it in the Finder? (I'd like the equivalent of right-clicking on a file in a Spotlight search and selecting "Open Enclosing Folder" in the pop-up menu.)
Gmail offers a feature called “mute” that silently archives future email that arrives in a thread. It makes reply-all threads way nicer to work with. Is there an add-on or something that enables this behaviour in Mail?
I want to install some version of Linux on my 1st gen Apple TV. What Linux variants can be installed on an Apple TV?
Running Lion 10.7.4 The .php and .txt extension have a preview of the content in Finder.
Whenever a backup is run, Time Machine says "Preparing Backup...". During this stage, it looks for what files have been changed since the last backup by comparing changes in the Event Log (I assume) with its cache of files on the system.
I just opened my new Retina Display MacBook Pro and everything worked fine, but when I tried to go into System Preferences to make the key repeat speed faster, none of the keys repeated, not even numbers and symbols. If I type defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false into terminal, it works, but it disables the accented key popup when holding down keys such as A and E, which I use often.
I have both a 1st and a 3rd generation Apple TV (a.k.a. the Apple TV 2 with 1080p support), so any solution, old or new, will do.
2 Mini to 2 VGA and one DVI - This results in the VGA monitors having a max resolution of 1920x1080 but defaulting to 1600x1200 due to the aspect ratio. All monitors have a 1920x1200 resolution, but only the DVI port is giving this resolution
I'm not sure what's going on here. I just got this iPad 2, and from the moment I connected it to my wireless network, my other Macs were kicked off, and haven't been able to pull IP addresses from the router.
My iPod fell on the ground this morning. Since then, I can hear the music but not the singers anymore! It sounds as though they were in the next room during the recording. As I listen almost only to Podcasts, it's a real problem, because I almost hear nothing except jingles...
I have been trying to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a OSX volume using the s3fs command line tool (installed from Homebrew). The issue is that although I run the s3fs command as per the instructions (here, for Mac-specific, or here more generally), and it returns no errors, when I attempt to cd to the mounted volume the I get the following error:
My daughter accidentally deleted the Camera icon from my iPhone 4. I have since reinstalled everything, updated to IOS 5 and have sync'd the phone via iTunes etc. But I still can't see it and can't find a way of adding it to as an app, if that's what I need to do. How to get the Camera icon back?
I am trying to write a program in Python that will rename a USB drive (from the standard "USB DISK" to my custom "MYDISK"). However, I can't find any way to do this neither in Python nor in OSX Terminal. (I figured, if I can make it work in Terminal, I can simply use os.system("command") in Python). The USB drive is a FAT32 formatted flash drive on filesystem /dev/disk2s1, and it is by default mounted on /Volumes/USB DISK What I have tried so far: (from http://techbu.com/2009/06/28/renaming-usb-drive-labels-in-linux)
How to install new font on OS X to be used across OpenOffice, iWork, OfficeForMac, mail and other word processing applications?
I want to install Ubuntu on my 1st gen Apple TV. How should I go about doing this, using as little third-party software as possible?
I have made a chart in Numbers '09 and now I want to create another very similar chart but with different data, so I have copied and pasted the chart and now I want to make it take its source data from a different table. When I select the chart I can see a blue box with a grey header indicating the data-source in the table, but I can't drag this into another table - so how do I change it?
Title mostly says it all. Nothing about my system has really changed that I can think of. I've been running Lion since shortly after its release, and I'm up to date on software updates.
I'm using iPhone 4, iOS 5.1. Can I block or disable hotspot mode in iOS 5.1?
To reproduce/debug an issue exclusive to OS X 10.5, i was trying install Leopard on my Mac Mini (model "macmini3,1", came with Snow Leopard). However, when trying to boot from a Leopard install medium (tried both from DVD and USB stick) the machine just hangs: when manually choosing the boot medium: hangs with the boot medium selection screen still displayed when running the install app from Snow Leopard and letting it restart the machine: hangs with the bright grayish screen and no logo or progress indicator Does anyone happen to know what could cause this / how to work around it?
The screen anomaly doesn't look like other dead pixels I've seen before. Does anyone know what's causing this? It's a 15" MBP, early 2011, hi-res, matt display. You can only see it on light backgrounds.
In the OS X Terminal, there is a command that allows me to drag Dashboard widgets onto my desktop. In OS X Lion, the Dashboard became a Space. I am no longer able to use this command. What is a workaround to this? The command is:
Are there apps or appliances available for iPad (or iPhone I suppose) that would allow me to backup the content (photos etc) of my iPad without a PC? I was thinking of something like Carbonite/JungleDisk or the Apple Time Capsule.
I am setting up an old iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.5.8 as a computer to back things up from my network. I.e. it uses SSHFS to mount network shares and back up their contents (about 120GB) to a connected external LaCie rugged hard drive (the iconic orange one).
Why are some emails I send to others received in gibberish- containing dozens of extra characters? What settings can I change to prevent this?
I'm interested in using a variation of Markdown for my work, but my target format is Word files (this is what my clients use, it's non-negotiable). Most implementations of Markdown would leave me with a circuitous route at best to get a Word file. Perhaps more importantly, I'd want to be able to format things like footnotes/endnotes, which don't have any representation in Markdown or Multimarkdown, as far as I know.
Boot Camp (Bootcamp.exe) regularly seems to unload itself with Windows 7 64-bit Home Edition. I usually find out when I try to use fn + Volume keys (f11, f12) and it doesn't work. Then I see the Boot Camp losange in the tray area, and when I mouse over it disappears. As a workaround I have it now pinned to the task bar so I can use the handy Win + number shortcut to reload it quickly, but I'm still puzzled as to why it disappears like that. Could this have to do with permissions?
I listen to a lot of indie music and so have a lot of songs that were released as singles and have their own album artwork. I always use the list view that displays album artwork on the left. I also combine a lot of the singles that I have into albums which I use to sort them. iTunes seems to randomly choose one of their artworks to display as the artwork for the entire album, is there any way I could set one artwork for the album and also have separate artwork for the individual songs?
My iMac has an external USB hub, and it has 3, 4 or sometimes 6 or 7 USB Flash drives plugged into the hub. But during the boot up of the iMac, there seems to be 20 seconds or 25 seconds before the spinning wheel of the Boot up screen shows up. During this 20 to 25 seconds, the light of the USB Flash drives can blink for several times. If I unplug all those USB drives, then the boot up is faster.
Anyway, I also have a MBP that I use for development. 100% of my code is in my DropBox folder. That folder is also on the iMac. So when I update my code, the changes get synced to the iMac.
My MBP15 (8,2, Late 2012) doesn't normally charge or draw power from a 45W adapter (from a 2008 MBA), with one exception: First, plug in the 85W power adapter; Second, switch the adapters quickly. Following this procedure the MBP15 draws power form a 45W without any glitch for light usage. Q1: Why is this procedure necessary and how does it work? Q2: Is there a way to skip step (1)?
I have cookies set to 'Allow local data to be set (recommended)' and yet, whenever I restart Chrome, I have to re-login to sites like reddit/facebook/google which should be keeping me logged in.
I'm currently using the command to create a file listing of all files that are on the drive. How could I modify my command (or what would be a better command) to have the list not include any dot files, for example ._Filename or .DSstore?
I installed the update for the official iOS Twitter icon a couple of days ago and noticed that even though the update advertised a new icon, the icon didn't change when the update installed. Today I just looked at my phone and the new icon is there. Is there usually a delay between update installation and icon update? If so, how long is it supposed to be and why does it occur?
Since trying to install Windows 7 on my iMac with Lion 10.7.4, using Boot Camp, I noticed that the login screen where it asks for the FileVault password is taking a lot of seconds to be displayed. When I turn on the computer, after the sound only a blank screen is shown for a lot for seconds. Even after removing the Windows partition using Boot Camp, this slow down persists. Anyone with similar problem, or solution?
How can I contact my friends that have no Apple products (iOS or OS X) in similar manner to using FaceTime or iMessage?
What is going on here? Surely, lots of computers have names shorter than 16 chars? Is AU showing DHCP Client IDs for them?
I have written a Ruby script that I need to run every 12 hours. Is there an easy way to do this in OS X (specifically Lion)?
If you click a separator in a menu, such as the right click menu in Finder, it closes again. Why? In all other environments it does nothing, why has Apple decided to close the menu? Is it to avoid accidental clicks? EDIT:
Just did a fresh install. I can't seem to run any bundle command. Always get an error like: Running Textmate 2, latest build on Lion 10.7.4
I'm looking for anything that can be deleted and that don't required by system to work properly. So far I'm delete DVD Player.app, Chess.app, Photo Booth.app, Stickies.app, Dashboard, Launchpad.app and Mission Control.app (still works after reboot with gestures!) What else ? If you want to free up some disk space: How can I free up some disk space?
I've recently upgraded to OSX Lion and I find the long press menu with accented characters very handy when I have to type in french. The only problem is that it's slowing me down a lot having to long press THEN select which character I'd like to have.
I often ignore invitations to office events on my phone, and then answer them later from iCal on my Macbook. Sometimes there are old invitations for events that have already occurred. However, the only options in iCal are Maybe, Decline or Accept.
I'm running a technical demo - it requires altering a SQLite database on an jailbroken iPad. At the moment I'm pulling the database off via SCP and altering it with a GUI I have lying around, (very new to SQLite). This takes time so ideally I'd like to be able to alter the SQLite database from the command line within the iPad - any recommendations for how that might work out?
I have seen that is a common problem: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=112661
I have two airport express devices. Is it possible to extend my one airport express with another airport express.
Is it possible (natively, or with a 3rd party tool), to lock the position of fullscreen apps in Lion? My problem is... whenever I click on a fullscreen app in the dock, it takes me to that app, but it jumps to the front of the queue of fullscreen apps. I would very-much like these apps to be locked in-place, so their positions can't be changed.
I frequently have to print a 3-page document. Wanting to save paper, I print it 2-to-a-page, double-sided. So I end up with the front having "1 | 2", and the back having "3 | ".
I have two monitors. All of the sudden my second monitor has switched blue for red when it is at the full resolution 2560x1600. However, white is not black, so it isn't totally inverted. If I use the same monitor on a different thunderbolt port at the full resolution this problem doesn't happen. How do I fix this?
After some time I gave up and decided to restore it but even that didn't work. Each time it just stuck on the progress bar. Here are things I have tried: different USB ports
I'm taking remote control (from Linux / Chrome) of an OS X system using LMI ("Log Me In"). I have two users account on this machine: one for when I'm physically in front of the system (the "main" user account) and one for when I'm connecting using LMI.
Whenever I start up my old Mac Mini, I get an error indicating that it can't connect to an SMB share that I set up a long time ago:  So that this question is findable via Google, the text of this error message is: Connection failed
Any open windows still respond, but I can't right-click on the desktop or launch anything from the dock. The dock is still there, and I can click on icons to restore minimized windows, but clicking on something that isn't running, won't run that program. System-level shortcuts like Command ⌘-Tab and Control ⌃-F2 don't do anything, but I can still hit the Exposé key F3.
How to format a MacBook Air 2012? This laptop has no installation media.
My MacBook Pro (2008) will not boot, so I want to copy some files before reinstalling Lion. How do I do this from the Recovery disc?
After updating to 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’ I’m wondering how I can rebuild everything I have installed through the packaging system Homebrew (similar to MacPorts) to ensure all dependencies are installed optimally for the new system. How can it easily be achieved? The help file offers no hints as to how I can accomplish this.
I have many web projects that I develop on the localhost. Normally to get to these one has to navigate from the root directory or bookmark the url.
'say' has both -o and -n arguments for various ways to direct the output, but I don't see any way to simply pipe the output to another command (say, sox). Is this a limitation of say, or is there a basic Unix shell feature that will do this?
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, when running the command "virtualenv env", I get: Any ideas? Edit: I now get: More messages:
My idea was that for our Smart Playlists (My Top Rated, etc) we could simply add a criterion that the song must appear in our personal playlists. But lo and behold, iTunes told me that Smart playlists that reference other playlists are not supported by iCloud, and will not be uploaded. Well, that's just great. We could buy a second iTunes Match account for my wife, but then she would have to start using her personal account for all Store purchases, meaning we'd have to buy all her apps, books, and other non-music iTunes things all over again.
I have created 3 partitions on a hard drive. I've tried renaming the partition with a dot in front, however it seems that the OS doesn't allow that. How to make one of the 3 partitions hidden to the user?
I don't mean browsing the Internet is preventing us from sleeping, that's obvious. I've disabled Safe Sleep to reduce sleep times from 20 seconds to 2, but Chrome doesn't want to play nicely. Here's the log with Chrome: And without: These lines from the Google Chrome Helper are the reason: What does that mean? This is a relevant question: Why does my MacBook Pro take so long to go to sleep? Deja vu: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1112715
I finally talked my mum into updating her iphone to iOS5, however now there is a hitch. When she sends a message to me (also on iOS5) it does come through as an imessage, but from a totally different phone number.
I do a clean install whenever I upgrade my OS to a new major release. I know Coda 1 is no longer in the App Store and isn't supported by Panic anymore but I'd like to keep using it because it works for my needs. I am curious whether Coda 1 can be re-downloaded on the Mac App Store under "Purchases" after I install a clean OS (particuarly Mountain Lion later this month)? If not, can I copy the App to a USB drive and put it manually in to a cleanly installed OS and will it work?
On the Apple website it is said that Camera Connection Kit support standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW, along with SD and HD video formats, including H.264 and MPEG-4.
I just got my first MacBook Pro (retina), so I'm new to OS X. It does not have an optical drive, but I notice there's a "Remote Disc" device in Finder.
I have been trying to install Lion OSX but it fails with a kernel panic. I was trying to erase my disk and reinstall Snow Leopard as before, but the disk erase failed with an unmount failure error. Can anyone help?
I have a long list of apps I've downloaded for my iPhone on a single PC. I would like to export a list of these apps to a text format. How can I do that?
I did enable it before on my 2011 MacBook Pro, but I not sure whether I really needed to. I never had problems with it enabled.
I'm working on a script to manage my "queue" playlist in iTunes and wanted an easy and fast way to quickly delete all songs in that playlist. Applescript seemed the best option and I created a little script executable with a keyboard shortcut. However it doesn't seem to work. This is the relevant part:
Earlier today my 2009 iMac emitted I/O errors trying to copy files. So I ran disk utility, verify disk to see if anything was amiss. It was. But as it's my startup disk I couldn't repair it, so I tried safe mode. Safe mode worked the very first time, but when I rebooted it shows the progress bar filling up, before halting. Every time I turn it on now, the same progress bar then crash happens. Booting in verbose mode reveals fsck is failing with signal 8.
I Know OCZ has released an SSD for the MBA, what other brands sell this kind of hardware?
I migrated from a 2011 MBP to a 2012 MBP via Migration Assistent and Time Machine. Now, when I boot the bash process goes to ~20% and stays there forever, with it launchd for root and my user. I also notice, that the trackpad really gets unusual responsive. If I force quit the bash process, it restarts and does nothing and the system gets back to normal. What can I do? I already checked the permissions.
My iPhone (3GS, 5.1.1) has decided that certain new podcast episodes simply cannot be copied to the phone. When I move them from the iTunes Podcasts category in the library to the phone, nothing happens. This applies only to the newest one or two episodes of each affected podcast. Other episodes copy nicely. I tried deleting all podcast episodes on the phone, rebooting the phone and restarting iTunes. Any ideas?
I have a number of NFS automounts in my Local directory node on 10.7. I am using a laptop and when I work at home I don't have access to the servers. As a result I often get beachballing Navigation Services dialogs for example, and logs are flooded with NFS error messages on this and that server not being reachable. Is there some simple app (preferably a GUI one but scripting will do as well) which will disable the mounts when I am on WiFi or just not at work?
I want to be able to uninstall Little Snitch over Apple Remote Desktop. I came across the script below here: http://fromtheadmin.com/kill-and-remove-little-snitch-application-via-ard-script/
I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8 and use Apple Mail version 4.5. I need to access specific parts of specific emails programmatically using Mathematica (others of course could do this more generally with any other programming language, I need to use Mathematica). I need to find the specific eMails, which I can arrange to identify by either the: "From" and/or "Subject" fields. I then need to read either a string of numbers and characters from either the: "Subject" or "Body" fields of the eMails. So, Can one do this? If yes, how are emails in Apple Mail kept (flat file, database file, csv, unique format, other)? What is the name of the above file? In what directory can I find it? How do I access the file and the relevant information in the file? Thanks in advance.
I can press Command-R to easily hide the ruler, but is there a way to make this behavior consistent every time I start up Pages?
I'm having trouble removing items from the sidebar in the finder window. I can right click on Applications, and ill have options for it saying "remove from sidebar". However, I have a lot of things on my sidebar that don't even let right click on them and remove them. How do I go about removing things from the sidebar?
First my phone said "No wi-fi" so I reset everything on the phone, the phone now has nothing on it & asked me to set it up again. I opted for 'restore from back-up' instead of 'new phone', now it is instructing me to connect into itunes but it syncs all the songs & stops & the phone still instructs me to connect to itunes - I'm going around in circles. I don't know how to get my phone back to how it was. can anyone help please. I don't have Ninety something dollars to call apple for help.
Does anyone know why Skype requires Flash? Is this new? Are there any "recent" versions of Skype that do not? I'm guessing it requires it solely for it's "Skype Home" section, which is pretty annoying since I don't need that section in Skype and it makes me have to run flash (which in turn makes me sick and my battery unhappy). thanks!
I had a 2011 MBP and I just purchased the new RMBP. I used the startup migration assistant to port all my data, easy. But I'm getting weird issues, when I opened programs for the first time I was prompted to put in my password. Now, I am unable to update my apps (so far IMovie and IPhoto) through the mac app store, I get this error: I only have one account and I am logged in to that account. I've followed the instructions regarding repairing disk permissions and re-indexing spotlight found here
My Mac gets stuck during bootup quite frequently recently (no entry sign and flashing folder). Every time it happens, I have to press the power button to shut it down and press the power button again to turn it on. Is there a software reboot key combination like Window's Control + Alt + Delete?
Apple lets users who occasionally want the use of Mouse Keys to enable/disable it by pressing Option (⌥) five times. I use Maya, so I'm constantly using the Option key to manipulate the camera, and this usage often triggers Mouse Keys. Unfortunately, this disables the rest of my keyboard (see this Apple KB page) and I can't use other helpful shortcuts. I can of course disable it again, but it's annoying when I have to do it again and again.
Just wondering whether the two ports on the rMBP are sharing the same bandwidth. If so, does the single-port, non-retina MBP have the same bandwidth with just one port instead of two?
In my iPhone settings where I'm supposed to turn Wi-Fi on or off, it is just grey & says 'No Wi-Fi'. I have reset network settings, restored phone, re-synced everything, but still have this problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?
What screwdriver size is needed for MacBook Pro mid 2012 back cover? According to iFixit's teardown the Philips #00 should be used for the "lower case". Is the lower case a synonym for the "back cover"?
The subject says it all: Can I publish a podcast at Apple for only one country? Where can I find documents regarding this? Thanks.
I tried to rename the hard drive of my Macbook from "Macintosh HD" to something else without the freaking space. However, after renaming it, many of my applications showed errors immediately and I stupidly restarted my computer.
I made a journaled, Encrypted Partition on 10.7.4 Now every time in startup it asks for the partition password. I would like to unlock and use this partition when ever I want not every time. So I want Mac leave it and do not ask me the password automatically at the startup every time iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I would like to launch a Genius playlist for the currently playing song in iTunes via an AppleScript. A prerequisite would be for the script to work when iTunes is in full screen. And ideally, it wouldn't : bring iTunes to front leave an error message when genius isn't available for that song depend on the system language
I had to restore a mac mini server I use for web and mail hosting. Since the restore was due to a software problem, I had to do from scratch instead of recovering from a disk clone. I copied from the old mini backup all the mail accounts directories under /Library/Server/Mail/Data/..., and I've got back all received mail for every account, but NOT the sent mail. I guess sent mail is stored in a different location, but can't figure out where. Does anyone know what I have to copy to restore also sent mail?
I've just installed OS X Lion, and found that the default fonts (Menlo and Monaco) are quote uncomfortable for Shell prompts and the Eclipse IDE. Is there a good, general-purpose fixed width font for developing under Mac OS X?
I tried adjusting my repeat rate for the keyboard, on Snow Leopard, by using the following: I wish to set the InitialKeyRepeat value to its default setting, how could I go about doing that? Could someone check and let me know the value of the InitialKeyRepeat they are using? Thanks
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to modify PATH for single OS X user but have the PATH available not only to console applications but also to GUI applications.
I'm trying to install a Samsung SSD 830 256 Gb disk as main disk on my macbook late-2008. I had several problems with my disk due to a couple of wrong choices (you can read the story here). I booted the machine from a Lion disk and I didn't succeed in formatting the disk in HFS due to a cryptic "Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed" error from the disk utility (both from GUI and terminal). Then I tried booting with a Snow Leopard disk and the disk utility refused to format the disk with another cryptic message "POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Cannot allocate memory". From terminal wasn't better "Error: 12: POSIX reports: cannot allocate memory". My conclusion is that Samsung SSD 830 is not supported. That's the story. Of course, there is a question: any suggestions?
With a 2010 iMac I would be able to connect an HDMI to mini DisplayPort cable from a GPU to the iMac and have the iMac act a monitor using Target Display Mode. However, after some research I found that the 2011 iMac cannot do this and its Target Display Mode only works if you are connecting from a Thunderbolt device. Is there any cable or converter or even a GPU with a Thunderbolt-output that I can use to get around this?
I have three albums by Jack Singer. They are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Jack Singer/SongName.
I use a Bluetooth keyboard with my iPad. When I am sending messages through the Messages app, the enter key does not initiate a "send" the way I expect (it, instead, just returns down to the next line). Is there a way to make the "enter" key send the message instead of dropping down to the next line? Some magic key combination perhaps?
How can you create a files on a Mac that have a specific creation date (different from the current one)? What I have found so far, touch can only alter the modified at time...
I found some ICC files and tried them and found things like reds not being bright or strange gamma and contrast problems. I tried suggested brightness and contrast settings and RGB values and reset the monitor back to factory settings.
I really like the idea of location based reminders, and would love to use them more. When I first tried them, they worked great. I had it setup to remind me to do something when I got home, and the alert would fire when I pulled into my driveway. I have my home address in my address card as being my actual address, which routes correctly.
The command line utility screencapture claims to be able to capture a single window without requiring interaction, but I can't figure out what to pass it. It's not the process id of the the application.
How do I find out the files that are consuming a lot of space on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?
I read about some ways to more closely monitor my disk activity on another question, so I tred using sudo iotop. It revealed that something called 'Microsoft Datab' is the culprit for all these writes while Outlook is open.
How can I find the command triggered by a keyboard shortcut without activating it in any given application? When I press a keyboard shortcut, the top-level menu is highlighted, but, beyond that, I don't get much information about where the command is located, or what exactly it does. Sometimes I discover a key combination (by accident or guessing) that does more or less what I want but I can't find the details in documentation because I don't know the name of the command.
I have a 500 GB hard drive, and I need more space - I want to go up to 1TB of space. Is it possible to swap out hard drives and carry all my installed software, documents, images, settings, etc. over to the new hard drive?
I copied a file from my Mac to a server on my LAN. In the Finder window for the destination, the filesize is slightly smaller, and is dimmed. What does it mean that the filesize is dimmed?
I sometimes need to edit pages on WikiDot, but WikiDot overrides the ⌃+E shortcut (and many others), which is a system-wide shortcut I often use due to the lack of an end-key on my keyboard. Is there a way to stop all webpages from overriding any shortcuts?
I am trying to use airmon-ng on Lion, but getting this error msg. I installed aircrack with ports. I heard it is possible to use it with lion, but cannot find a solution for the "Wireless tools not found" problem. Also, used KisMac as an alternative, but it seems to hang after fetching some packets (~50000).
I tried to rename the hard drive of my Macbook from "Macintosh HD" to something else without the freaking space. However, after renaming it, many of my applications showed errors immediately and I stupidly restarted my computer. Right now, I cannot log in to my user account because of an error. Everything is blocked...
I have a 2008 MBP with 10.7.4. I use a WIFI and ethernet connection. I cannot purchase or download anything in the Mac App store on my computer. I can, using other folk's computers. After putting in the password, I receive a red "Connection Failure" message. Despite this message, I can click on apps in the Store to read about them. I turned off Little Snitch to no avail. Everything else on the internet works just fine. No useful assistance from Apple. Any ideas?
How do I add a button to the Safari toolbar that, when clicked, executes a given AppleScript?
The company I work for had people out in the field doing data entry on their iPads. We would like them to be able to print from the iPad to a bluetooth printer in their car, but I'm not sure if this can be done. We tried using the HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer, but while we can connect using bluetooth we have been unable to print.
When a video file (.mov recorded on iPhone) of resolution 1080x1920 is trimmed in QuickTime and saved as 1080p, the saved video resolution is 607x1024. Is there a way to trim video and keep the original video resolution?
Connect to server on new account, then try to access it on the broken one. Drops connection to the server and dissapears from finder.
What software can I use to artificially increase the volume of my Macbook? I know Boom and Audio Hijack Pro are solutions but they are pricey. Any other recommendations?
I have a mac mini with 2GB RAM and want to buy another stick (since mac mini only have to memory slots) of 4GB (all other specs are the same), will it cause a problem? Thanks, Matt
I have a late 2008 Macbook with Core 2 Duo and plenty of RAM and HD space. (8GB of RAM, max for my machine)
I forgot the passphrase to a WiFi network but my phone still connects to it. My old iPhone3 used to be connected there, then when I migrated to an iPhone4S the settings were magically transferred through iTunes. I guess the WPA2 key is therefore in the backups (which are not encrypted)
I recently aquired a Mac Mini 1.42ghz but I get no video out. It chimes on and everything but nothing on the monitor. optical drive seems t work
I'm experimenting a little with Automator at the moment and often get stuck with some pre-recorded automation running very slowly while the whole Mac (an 2010 iMac in my case) doesn't respond to any input - either by keyboard or mouse. For now I connect via SSH from another machine and issue a killall Automator to get controls back. Is there any solution available which enables me to halt / freeze a Mac and issue commands using a terminal?
How can I print source code in OS X (HTML/PHP) with number lines and without long line truncation? I was used to Gedit on Linux, but here it seems I can't obtain the same with applications such as TextWrangler or TextEdit.
If I have: 2011 27" iMac (running OS X) 2012 15" MacBook Pro (running Windows 7 via Boot Camp) and connect the MacBook to the iMac via a Thunderbolt cable, can the iMac use Target Display Mode to act as the display for the MacBook? According to Apple's FAQ this does not work if the iMac is running Windows but I cannot find a definite answer on if this works if the MacBook is running Windows.
I'm trying to install gtk+ through brew. It requires glib as a dependency and brew seems to try and install patches that don't exist? How can I install glib? UPDATE: I had tried to do a brew update prior to installing glib, it seemed to go fine, I think... I just tried it again, however, for fun and got this response: Tried that several times..
I have systems running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 that I would like to schedule some cron jobs for with the Cronnix GUI application. I prefer those computers be asleep until the scheduled jobs start. I know the Energy Saver System Preferences pane lets me schedule daily wake up times for the computer, but my cron jobs run at different times in the day.
I didn't set up our server, but I know we tried to enable all the permissions we could for every user. Thanks for your help.
I know the data antennas (3G, WiFi, etc.) power down to save battery, but push notifications still seem to come almost immediately. My iPhone and iPad will chime before the email shows up on my desktop. I'd hooked up a TCP/IP sniffer on my Wifi iPad and noticed the push notifications didn't come via TCP/IP. I understand the sending and receiving of push notifications from the App point of view (register the device, send notification to Apple, who sends it to the device), but would like to know more about this last leg of the trip. I see that Apple says port 5223 is involved somehow, but much in the way of details.
My new retina MacBook Pro(with 16GB RAM) keeps receiving this "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory" message. I have 300 GB of free space on my hard drive, and 16 GB of RAM. This shouldn't be happening.
I am using an ICS-based solution for Mozilla Lightning, using FTP to access and modify an ICS file. How can this be integrated into the iPad? My URLs are of the form: ftp://username:password@domain.com/calendar.ics
I have the following workflow that I need to execute on a daily basis for a period of days:  The computers start at a specified time, Mathematica and a specific Mathematica notebook launch and evaluate. Then I need to quit Mathematica programmatically and let the relevant schedules shut down the computers. I've worked out everything here except the highlighted step to quit Mathematica with an Applescript application. To start with I created a simple application using the Applescript Editor:
My husband and I share the same iTunes account but when we sync our iPhones to the same account, we can no longer text each other. I've tried starting my own account in which the iTunes will sync but all of my contacts and calendar events are no longer on my phone. What can I do?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro (Retina) which I mostly use on my desk. The computer is "docked" via a Thunderbolt display, and additionally a third-party DVI display, which I have hooked up via an Apple Mini Display Port to DVI adapter (the active one, doing 2560x1440). I use the MacBook during the day with the lid closed. So I work on the two external monitors. Via the Apple menu I put the Mac to sleep in the evening. Sometimes, later in the evening, I like to take it downstairs and use it on my lap, so I unplug everything while the Mac is still asleep. I take the computer down and open it up.
I have a Macbook Air I bought in November 2011, v 10.7.4 and I have issues connecting to the internet. Though the wifi symbol shows that I have a strong connection, I have no internet access. The only way to get it is to shut down my laptop, and reset my router by turning the power off and waiting for a bit then turning it back on. I know I don't have a problem with my router/internet access as other users in my flat have no trouble. Anyone have any idea what the trouble is?
Using PuTTY on my Windows laptop, I am able to ssh into my Mac desktop, but once I've logged in, I can't find any sshd process running on the Mac. E.g. running the following right after ssh-ing into the Mac:
In Calendar app, I clicked the + button to add an event. When I'm done filling all the event details out, I click the blue Done button in upper right corner. It adds my event but it won't leave the Add Event page. I'm stuck on that page whenever I'm in the Calendar app.
If someone I am iMessaging with on the iPhone-4S sends me a message and they delete it; will it also delete on my phone??
I am new to Mac, Mac OS X and iCal. In the monthly view of iCal, I found it very inconvenient to read only the first 10-12 characters of an event's title. To read the full length title, I have to do one of the following: go to full screen reduce font size to "unreadable" open the event edit dialog go to the daily view None of the above options satisfies me. Is there a way to have iCal display additional info (full title, comments...) when mouse stay over an event for one second or so? Alternatively, is there a way to make a long (> 10 chars) title wrap to a new line rather than being cut with ...?
I cannot turn Bluetooth off on my MacBook Pro. I am running 10.7.4 and the option to turn it off is grayed out, both in the toolbar and in System Preferences. I used Onyx to reset permissions but to no avail. Help, please! I am not using any Bluetooth devices and I'm not sure when or how it got turned back on, but I've always made sure it was turned off. My battery is paying the price!
I know there's probably a setting in preferences, but I need to be able to do it without Word being open. The problem is one of my docx has become corrupt, so every time Word opens it immediately stops responding and I can't access preferences. Is there a way to clear a cache or something somewhere so Word forgets about these files at startup?
I've been attempting to install Windows XP using Boot Camp with Lion 10.7.4 following the procedure in Pogue's missing manual for Lion. I have partitioned my internal HD using Disk Utility and booted to my original XP installation disk. All goes well until the Installer requests that the Enter key be pressed to continue.
When looking for directions, Google Maps says "first of three suggested routes." It shows the first, but I can find no way of finding out what the other two suggested routes are. I've searched the screen and can see no way. How do I do it?
I'm connecting my MacBook Pro to a router which uses WEP security. It shows a Connection Timeout error every half an hour. The security level of the router can't be changed, since its a common router. Other Mac systems are having no problems with it.
I've tried deleting and reinstalling AirPort Utility, but I can still manage base stations without being asked for a configuration password. I'm thinking of selecting not to back up data from AirPort Utility, then making a backup to iCloud and wiping and restoring the device. Has anyone tried this?
I'm unable to save hosts file after adding websites to block,as well as unable to flush cache. I am not a techie, just researching on the web, and trying to follow directions for terminal and Text Edit. Did the problem start here (this is how text edit opened): Host Database
By default, iTunes video podcasts display their album art as preview frames, rather than the embedded album art that ships with the file. I have been manually replacing the image with each new episode, but that is very tedious. Is there a way to prevent iTunes from displaying preview frames in this manner?
A few years ago, Apple released software glossaries (bilingual files) for each of the localizations available for Leopard. These older glossaries can be found here: *=URL=* or on the free download section of developer.apsic.com. This is a valuable reference for anyone localizing applications for the Mac OS platform, so that they are consistent with the terminology in the platform. Since Leopard, more languages were added to Mac OS, and obviously more UI changes and additions have take place. Is Apple providing newer glossaries (Lion level) to the development community via is $99 Mac OS Developer program or some other channel?
I would like to see if there is a possibility of streaming a full screen app or a space onto Apple TV with MacOS mountain lion. The implication of this is that I could stream for example a tech talk on to my TV while I browse on another screen space. I believe that mirroring would just show the stuff that I see on my screen.
I recently bought a MacBook Pro Retina. The first day I was able to connect my Huawei E352 3G USB modem and it worked all the day. After a couple of day I needed 3G connection again, but my MacBook Pro Retina does not recognize the modem anymore. There is a micro SD card in it, and it also does not mount. The modem works with my iMac flawlessly. All the MacBook Pro Retina USB ports work flawlessly, and recognize any other devices (pen drive, Blu-Ray writer, USB 3 external hard drive). Any ideas as to why the modem doesn't work anymore?
I have a late 2011 macbook pro. I decided to upgrade to SSD. Here are the steps I took: Connected SSD via USB Formatted using MAC OS Extended Journaled (using disk utility) Cloned HDD to SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner (during this clone, I was prompted to create a recover partition which I did)
I installed Microsoft Office 2011 yesterday on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I already had Microsoft Office 2008 on this device and simply added 2011. Now for some reason, many of my fonts have changed to rectangles as if I don't have the fonts installed. Also when I am in Mac Mail, the spaces are replaced with rectangles with "A" inside of them.
Is there an app out there that lets you see what files were created by a program? Basically I need to figure out where a lock file for a Java program is.
I've noticed on my mac, in a few programs (Safari/Preview) when I'm looking through a PDF that the scrolling speed sometimes changes. I'm not sure what it is exactly. At first I thought It was how fast I scroll. Sometimes it seems like its scrolling further while the page is already moving due to momentum. I'm not sure what causes the fast scrolling is there anyone who knows what I'm talking about and knows how to control the scrolling speed (im not talking about the settings) What exactly triggers the speed difference
I'm converting a shell script which xclip and similar tools on Linux, to use pbpaste and pbcopy on Mac. The problem is the default pasteboard ('general' according to the man-page) for these tools is not the one being used by Stickies / Safari / TextMate / all the GUI apps.
I've seen a variety of solutions to check how long my machine has been idle, and I know I can check how long since last reboot with uptime, but I'm curious if there's a way to see how long since my computer was last idle. Maybe since the last time the power save settings kicked in, or last time since the screensaver turned on / monitor turned off, etc? I'm fine using an applescript or shell command to determine this, if those are the best solutions.
Is there a dhcp logfile available in osx (snow leopard or lion) where I can see when a new ip-address was received from the DHCP server?
I want to use the command line with -e and -t to export the graphics to a specific directory so that pdflatex can put them in the pdf. (http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/re01.html)
I'm trying to create commands for a specific website context (Gmail). However, the commands aren't being recognized. I have tried the following URLs for the website context: I watched this video for instruction, and I don't see where I'm going wrong.
I'm trying to create an AppleScript script that resizes the columns of Finder's list view (e.g. Name, Size …) to their optimal width (i.e. the minimum width where all text in the column is visible) on Mac OS X 10.6. This can be accomplished by double clicking the divider between two column's headers. But I can't find a way to do the same using AppleScript. This is what I've tried: Finder's column class has the attributes width, minimum width and maximum width but there doesn't seem to be a way to use the width attribute to resize the column to it's optimal width. I also tried to use UI Scripting to simulate a double click in the small region around the column header divider using the following script: This should simulate a double click between the headers of the Name column and the column to it's right but it is instead processed by Finder as two distinct clicks on the header of the second column which just changes the sorting order of that column twice. The Accessibility Inspector al
Though the basic information about the outgoing server --the server name and port settings-- is the same for both accounts, I think one must set --and later, maintain-- the account name and passwords individually for each account, even though the common server information is the same. These are not simply copied from the incoming values for the same account,yes? (I do not recall seeing an email account in which these credentials differ for the incoming and outgoing servers, and I'm fairly sure some client apps automatically use the same for both.) I cannot seem to find a method in mail.app's UI to set and later reach these unique settings. Reference: this thread gives the general method for adding the second account, but is not sufficiently specific, and refers to mail.app on MacOS10.6.
Is there a way to make a window in OS X Lion always initially appear on a select screen? So that when the window appears, it'd automatically appear on the screen I select?
i replaced my old keyboard (german layout) with an us keyboard. It works fine but the backlight seems to be misfit a litte. Is it possible that they using different kinds of backlights?
What might cause quicklook to 'freeze', as it were. quicklook has gone south to some degree, some files are QL-able, other not, and we're speaking of the apple plug-in type (pdfs, txt, jpg, etc.) Even whilst running the Topher 'fix', terminal hangs after either the qlmanage -r or qlmanage -r cache.
I just installed Prompt on my iPad so I could possiby do some real work on my iMac via ssh. so far Mutt and Vim and emacs seemto work responsively enough for me. I've made a few tries at emacs before, but am essentially relearning it.
So you would hold the phone with the camera facing down and walk the track. The app would trace the moving surface and infer where it is going, using the gyroscope and accelerometer to help correct for tilting the camera. It would also use the gyro and to a lesser extent the compass to help correct and detect the turns in the track. The height of the phone off the ground I don't think could be sensed or inferred but you could just enter that and hold it carefully at a consistent height. The LED could be on to aid detection through shadows. If you happen to be walking in a track that finished where it started, you could mark that in some way to close the loop and it would try and correct it if the ends didn't meet up, and if you walked a long way, perhaps over 50 meters, it could also use GPS data to calibrate the scale of the track, but probably not really contribute much to the details of the track's geometry.
I'm using 10.7.4, and I use multiple desktops (in Spaces). When I switch between desktops, the dock does not change. I open an application in Desktop 1 and its icon remains in the dock after I switch to Desktop 2. What I want is I open an application in Desktop 1, its icon remains in Desktop 1's dock, When I switch to Desktop 2, Desktop 2's dock only has application icons that I open in Desktop 2. Is it possible to do that; to have different desktops with different docks?
I need to reset or delete my master password to FileVault 2. This is the password found under System Preferences > Users & Groups > Service gear > Change Master Password. It's a backup in case a user forgets his or her account password. (I accidentally set said password before writing it down in an awkward keyboard fumble.)
Is there anything else I can try to repair the volume? Is there a way to create a bootable DVD/USB from a running system so I can try running the Disk Utility app?
Why is the preview icon for one image larger and the other smaller?  The images should be the same size. Css_cursor_pointer.png was opened in Photoshop and saved as cursor.png.
we want to develop some iOS apps in our company. Since we use windows-pcs, we think about buying only one Mac and all working remotely from our windows machines on this single Mac. Is this possible? What type of Mac do we need for this scenario (Mac Mini or something bigger?). It would be enough, if only two users could connect at the same time to the mac. Or do we have to buy a Mac for every developer in out team? Thanks Konrad
This is really bugging me on Mac OS X (Lion): When I save files to the Desktop (for example downloads from Web browsers, etc. -- which in my workflow happens a lot), they are placed in a seemingly erratic order: sometimes at the bottom left of existing icons, sometimes in between existing icons, etc.
So, I'm abroad and I want to stream my music library, I use subsonic on my main desktop (iMac) to stream music to my MacBook Air. So far it's been working fine, but it seems that the subsonic application on iMac has stopped working. The problem is with subsonic only, I can still access my shared files etc.
I ran the script went to bed and found that it worked!!!!
so, my sister and I both just bought the ipod touch 4G. She installed and downloaded her apps from the Itunes. I've purchased some items in my ipod in the store where I bought my Itouch. Then, the problem is that when I try to transfer purchases of mine to the Macbook (that my sister use), it kept give a warning "Some of the purchased items on the Ipod "my name", including "name of certain apps", could not be transfered to your Itunes library because you are not authorized for them on this computer"
I have about 25 Mac users that I admin for and I can't seem to find a volume licensing/purchasing program for Macs. Does one exist?
I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro 13" (running Lion - OS 10.7.4) which I use with a dual external monitor setup. I have two 21" LCDs that I use as external monitors. One uses the built in Mini Display Port on the Macbook Pro and the other is connected via a USB to DVI adapter (Diamond DVILink).
It looks like sed that comes with Mac OS 1.7.4 is the original one, without the + metacharacter. Can I get the + metacharacter functionality?
I am at the command line and I have . /this/set/of/directory/this_command "parm1", "parm2", "parm3"
How do I install this program so that I can do postscript printing? Currently I get -bash: a2ps: command not found
When I export a bunch of images to Flickr by using the built-in share to flickr, I see the images getting exported but they all appear as max 1024 pixels on either side. I did select "Actual size" when exporting so it should use the full resolution. And I think it did work fine in a previous export.
Is it at all possible to setup Time Machine so that it backs up to a disk image on my external Mac? Here's my setup: My MBA which will be backed up MBP which is connected to the wireless network External drive connected to the Mac which I want the data to be backed up to MBP is running Snow Leopoard MBA is running ML
I have had to restore my iPhone 4S to factory settings - wiping everything on the device. Fortunately I have frequent backups so I was able to restore most of the settings and stuff.
Context: I purchased a Mac mini 2011 (lower end) last year to move from PC to a Mac. I went for a Mac mini because I wanted to reuse my old PC's peripherals. Later however, I developed a liking for the Apple Touch Mouse, the Bluetooth keyboard, and the external SuperDrive and supplemented my Mac mini with them. Now I am wondering if the Thunderbolt display is any good (I am currently using a 20" LED display from Samsung). Obviously, this leads me to wonder if I would have been more cost effective to go for the iMac 27" to begin with.
I have my router on one end of the house and my xbox on the total opposite side. My mom won't let me run an ethernet cord down stairs and won't let me reposition the router in the middle of the house. All i have is a first gen apple tv and since it has wifi and an ethernet port, I thought I could use it in some way to get the wifi signal and repeat it through the ethernet to my xbox. I have seen people put leopard on the first gen aTV and I thought maybe I should do that as a last resort (the sharing internet option). I come to this amazing community for help incase there's an alternative to my last resort.
I just got a Zagg keyboard and it is great for typing long sections of text on the iPad. But a big drawback is that it does not have an Escape ⎋ key. All the top row keys are mapped to iPad-specific features. This is bad when using vim or remoting into a Windows machine. Does anyone know how to get the Escape ⎋ key to work? Or is there a better iPad keyboard out there that has the Escape ⎋ key?
I tried exFAT in order to use my external hdd on both mac and windows but I found it's so much slower than HFS+. The speed is noticeably different when I tried to fast forward movies (over 4gb). exFAT was recommended in this question.
For instance, I've found quite a few bugs while working with the Mountain Lion Golden Master. Is there any chance Apple might fix these in the public release? Thanks!
My GMail account is configured on my iPhone 4S as a GMail account (which I access using the "Mail" app), not using the Exchange template. This evening I was using that setup for composing an e-mail and decided it would be better composed on my computer, so I hit "cancel" and, when given the option, "Save as Draft."
When I update iTunes match on my Mac it tells me 8,257 songs are available in iCloud. My Mac's and iOS devices all have 8,238 songs. • A smart playlist of "matched" plus another one of "unmatched" totalled = 8,238 songs • A smart playlist of "location=iCloud" AND "location=is not on this computer" = 0 songs • A smart playlist of "location=iCloud" = 8,238 Any idea why the update process continually insists I have these 19 extra songs ?
I want to be able to check if a word appears in a terminal window running a java application and then display a notification. Any ideas?
Is there a way to install mencoder on Lion, preferrably using homebrew?
How to use SSL tunnelling on OS X to give full internet access to some applications while you are on a restrictive corporate network? Details: you want to be able to access some restricted destinations and/or ports with some applications from your computer but you are on a restricted network (corporate) - Even using a Torrent client. you have an AWS machine running Ubuntu that you can use as a proxy (and you can SSH to this machine) You cannot create a full VPN because this means that you will loose access to your intranet and you do not want that.
I want to be able to hit escape and then use vi navigation keys like b (back a word). I can do this in my regular terminal sessions by setting set -o vi in my .bashrc file.
On Windows (7) my Adobe products have all their tabs and tab groups in the same window. On Mac (OS X Lion) my Adobe products have all their tabs and tab groups separated floated every which way. Is there a way on the Mac to group all these tabs like on the Windows machine? See the different windows flung about the desktop:
Just using lp filename.txt and it's going to my local printer How can I do something like lp filename.txt -format=landscape or lpl filename.txt
When I copied a movie over the Network, via Finder, back in 10.5 I could simply open it in VLC during copying. However on 10.7 it tells me the file is used by OS X and could, therefore, not be opened. Is there a way to do this in Lion as well?
My recently bought iPhone 3G (from a third party), is not connecting through the 3G network (Virgin Mobile in the UK). Everything is switched on, 3G, Mobile data etc. but it just wont seem to work. I am using a SIM card taken from my BlackBerry phone. It's really frustrating because I can't use the intternet whilst I'm outside and must wait until I connect to a WiFi.
Is there a way to rip DVDs so that iTunes plays the DVD exactly like as if you playing from a disc. I mean so that it has the menus, and extra features like audio, commentary, subtitles, and deleted scenes etc. I would like to store my DVD collection on my iTunes server, but don't want to have the features as extra files or not at all. I've downloaded movies from iTunes which have iTunes extras so it is possible, but is it possible to convert DVDs to these format?
I've configured a Lion client machine to connect to my OS X server and use it for network logins. The diradmin works okay, but I tried to use a regular user, and it doesn't allow any other users to log on. Where can I start to troubleshoot this?
I want to replace my current TimeMachine backup disk with a new disk, but I also want to copy the existing contents to the new disk after encrypting the new disk. How can I best do that? Are there any pitfalls waiting for me?
I'm interested in upgrading my old MacBook to using an SSD and moving the data drive to where the DVD drive is using an optibay. Often SSDs come with a licence for NVELO Dataplex software (which is windows only). This software is basically a windows driver that keeps track of commonly used files and moves then to the SSD, thereby giving you a hybrid SSD. Is there anything like NVELO Dataplex for OS X or should I just put OS X and applications on the SSD, and put home folders on the HDD using symbolic links?
A friend sent me a PDF with a UI mockup claiming it is 1024x768. It is, indeed:
I have a mid-2007 Macbook Pro running OS X Lion which I connect to a Dell external monitor via the DVI port. Recently, the screen has been constantly turning blue (which seems to indicate that it is readjusting) when I plug it in, with about a one second delay in between adjustments. The cable itself seems to be secure, and the problem persists even if I turn the screws on the connector to secure it to my laptop. As a result, my external monitor is basically unusable! Any ideas why this is happening and how I can fix it? Thanks in advance!
There's this network at my school which I know requires a username and password. If I access it on my PC, it asks for it, and I give it, and I get access. Works great.
If someone has an unlocked, jailbroken phone, what will happen if the update button is clicked in iTunes? Will the phone be updated and work? My friend wants to do that.
I just tried installing an update on my OSX(10.6) and I got the following error :- Some of the selected updates couldn't be saved. The file “SUBaseSystemCombo10.6.8.pkg” couldn’t be found on the server “swcdn.apple.com”. The file “iTunesX.pkg” couldn’t be found on the server “swcdn.apple.com”.
I'm trying to empty my trash but everytime I do it gets stuck.  The only way to get it off the screen, even after hours is to force quit.
I have purchased iWork from an apple store couple of years ago. The software it has is the latest, same with those found on App Store. Is there anyway that I can make my account able to download Pages,Numbers and Keynote from the App Store? I do have the box of the software and even the receipt.
I use Fluid.app for particular websites, such as a bug tracker, or a Wiki. However, when I receive notifications in an e-mail with that URL and click on it, I'll get the page opened in the default browser. Is there a way to open a website in the Fluid.app instead?
I was quietly working on my Macbook Pro today when my misguided colleague (what goes through some people's heads sometimes, I'll never understand) decided to have some fun with the plant water sprayer, he wasn't aiming in my direction but a few drops of water ricocheted off the plants and onto my Macbook (and on me - but that's less worrisome altogether), on the screen, the case and the keyboard. Now we're just talking a few stray drops, and everything seems to be working just fine but is there anything I need to do to prevent potential damage? This was more than six hours ago and I've since turned the MBP off and back on and haven't noticed anything unusual. Any word of advice would be appreciated. Also is there anything I can use to protect my MBP from similar incidents in the future?
I have AKG headphones with a USB or dual prong jack that I want to use with my MacBook Air. I can plug them into the USB port but how can I get the sound to come through the headphones instead of the laptop speaker?
This apple article explains it. But it no longer hides all open windows for me under 10.7.4. What could be causing this?
I'm trying to give my server a static IP address (it's connected directly to the base station) but it's an old base station, (Airport Extreme 802.11g) so there's no obvious way to reserve an IP address (equivalent to the DHCP Reservations panel on the more recent base stations.) For example, the information here is very clear, but my Airport Utility shows no such reservation panel.) Am I out of luck, or is there another way to do this?
How can I record audio using a lavalier mic and MacBook Pro OSX Lion?  I have just opened my brand new Audio-Technica ATR-3350 Lavalier Omnidirectional Condenser Microphone. I tried to connect it to the jack just next to the earphones jack and record sound using quicktime player. Recording works well without a mic, but when I connect the mic and choose Built in input: line in instead of Built in Microphone: internal microphone, only silence is recorded. The microphone was tested on a Windows 7 notebook, and it works well.
Does anyone know how to create a private network over bluetooth that a couple of macs could use for screen sharing? Our wifi router doesn't seem to like screen sharing (kicks us off after a few minutes and we need to get a new address - weird). We currently use firewire but would love a wireless solution. Suggestions? The docs on google are mostly about connecting to your phone. Thanks
In console I see "Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication" for Dock. however KillAll Dock does not fix it. In my case though none of the UI widgets respond to any clicks.
I have this MacBook Pro (3,1). I know there are maximum temperatures at which the system will shut itself down in order to prevent damage. I know this because I have seen it happen a couple of times
I'm trying to set up a Saved Search of my Mac that will exclude files in a folder called 'XYZ' from the search results. The reason is because I'm getting a ton of false positives from that folder that are difficult to sort through.
I have a MacBook Pro that I use in two different 'modes', mobile and desktop. Mobile is for when I'm using just the MBP with the integrated trackpad, keyboard, and display. Desktop is for when I'm using it with external displays and an external keyboard and mouse, usually in clamshell mode. A couple of facts have led me to look for a way to configure a different Dock to appear in each mode: The resolution of the external displays is higher than that of the internal display, so I have more room for extra apps/folders/spacers in the Dock. I generally use a different set of main apps in each mode. So, is there a way to configure two different Docks in OS X and switch between them either automatically based on the presence of an external display or manually?
I can no longer connect to the iTunes Store on my Mac. My iTunes is from 10.6.3 (now updated to 10.7.4). When I try to connect to the iTunes Store, the following error is occurring and indicating no access to the store.
I use SecondBar to add a menu bar to an external display. I've added it to my login items, but I don't want it to open when there isn't an external display. How do I open SecondBar when a secondary monitor is connected?
I was trying to get Bonjour bookmarks to show up in Safari on iPad and I came across this post from 2008 - "Safari for iPhone currently doesn't support Bonjour bookmark browsing": *=URL=* Is this still not implemented 4 years later? Thanks.
Nothing I have tried gives me read/WRITE access to my SD card from my Canon camera. How can I secure-delete before selling the card on eBay? (the lock switch is on: unlocked - tried the other position too, just to make sure)
I've just installed XAMPP on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and everything is running correctly and setup completely well. However, I want to install an open source project that requires PHP 5.3.2 or higher. I visited the official PHP website and downloaded PHP 5.4.5. How can I update my PHP version so that it runs with this latest version? I visited:
My question is the following: how could I just reduce memory usage simply as I do not need any eye candy transitions or such new features that may be consuming the memory I have. what are the obvious things to do to be on a memory diet?
I have a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for my 3rd gen iPad, which is a Bluetooth keyboard. Is there any way to remap the caps lock key so it acts as the control key instead?
I have a projector with HDMI connection and speakers with analog audio jack. I've bought Apple TV and I'm going to connect the projector with HDMI. However, I'm afraid I need to buy an adapter for the Apple TV optical audio interface to connect the jack of my stereo.
I am a Windows user, but my superior colleague is a Mac user (he has a MacBook). He has asked me to send him some images that I used in a PDF report. He would like to include these (original high-resolution) images in a presentation that he will make (almost certainly using either Keynote or PowerPoint for Mac). Since I'm very unfamiliar with Mac (embarrassingly, I have not owned a Mac computer since 1997!), what file format(s) do you think that I should send these images in? In Windows, here are some common formats: JPEG for photographs
If I opt to "Set Up Other Time Capsule" it takes me to the Airport Utility (6.1) in which I find no options mentioning any kind of Time Capsule setup. It lets me share or un-share the disk, that's about all I can find.
First of all: I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.4 on a recent MacBook Pro, have a local USB hard drive (1TB) Time Machine is configured to use for backups – this works perfectly fine. Additionaly, I once tried to setup a network share to use for mobile backups so I wouldn't have to plug the USB drive in to have a backup ready. I setup Netatalk on my Ubuntu machine which works as some sort of NAS in my local network, chose a Folder I setup on a 750GB disk, tried to use it as a Time Capsule on my MacBook but it would not work, so I reverted to using the USB disk instead since I did not have the time to figure out what went wrong.
I bought a MotoMaster Eliminator Mobile Power Outlet Digital Power Inverter rated for 400 W. It has thoses specs: AC output voltage: 115 V Max Continuous AC power: 320 W AC Output frequency: 60 ±1 Hz AC Output waveform wave: Modified Sine Wave I can plug my little iPhone adapter in the inverter AC outlet and it charges.
I am a Windows user, and I would like to send a compressed archive/folder to my colleague who is a Mac user. I do not want him to have to download any additional software to open and extract it.
I want to be able to one-click email links from apps such as Twitter, Safari and Instapaper. Is this possible if I'm using Gmail and not Apple's Mail app?
I am a Windows user, and I have never used Keynote or PowerPoint on Mac. My colleague would like me to send him a video/movie file that he can incorporate into and play during a scientific presentation. He will use either Keynote or PowerPoint for Mac to create the presentation.
I've uninstalled the blackberry software from my mac using the original uninstaller utility. This software did not work properly, so it left a login item called called "Blackberry Device Manager" appearing on the "Users & Groups" tab at "System Preferences" with a yellow triangle signaling an error. How can I delete this faulted login item?
I plugged in my 5th gen iPod to update during the latest iTunes update, but my computer crashed while in the middle of it. Now I can no longer turn on my iPod. Rebooting shows me the sad iPod face with a link to Apple support, iTunes does not recognize the iPod so I cannot do this: *=URL=* Is there some other way to reformat the disk so that it works again? Thanks!
I clicked "Accept", but it's nowhere to be found in Settings - General - Profile (the only thing there is my Straight Talk Prepaid APN which I put in a while back myself). It looks like this: [1] https://forums.happylatte.com/threads/service-unreachable.833/page-2
Firefox downloads my PDF files straight to "Downloads", Safari opens them "in-page". I need PDF files to save to a file, not to open. Is there a setting make Safari download PDF files instead of opening them in-page?
I am trying to sync my Ipod Classic with my new PC, and my iTunes account is the same username, login, etc. My iPod has frozen in the "Connected- Eject before disconnecting" screen. It isn't syncing, and it's not registering on iTunes, but my Spotify application is picking it up. However, the PC doesn't recognize it when I try to "safely eject it" on the bottom taskbar of the desktop/browsing window. I did get one short message from iTunes stating my Ipod is corrupted, but I have gotten this message before and it fixed itself. So right now my iPod is frozen on that "Connected" screen, but it is not registering on iTunes. any ideas? Thank you!!
I can't empty the trash of my removable drive. At first it appears to empty it correctly (no error message, the sound is played), but the folder in question stays there. I tried: which gives errors like the following: Anyways, I narrowed it down to a .svn file that can't be deleted:
Is there is an app for iPad that will emulate basic CD deck functionality using iTunes tracks? All the DJ software I've seen (or bought) seems to include mixer/deck/additional features I don't require (I have a vinyl-based DJ set-up and just need an additional player for music I only have digital copies of).
I am currently using an HDMI adapter (and a cable for audio) to connect my Macbook Pro (2009) to my HD TV (no smart TV) and I use a wireless keyboard and mouse. Is it possible to achieve the same result wirelessly? Note that I'm not looking for something like Apple TV. I want to see my desktop on the TV, possibly with audio as well.
I am using iTunes on a Windows 7 system. Is there an easy way to bath rename the tracks?
I experienced a kernel panic. When I run Android emulator on a MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini, I sometimes get a grey screen for unexpected shut down and instructions to press and hold the power button to restart the Mac. When I run Android emulator on a MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini, I sometimes get a grey screen for unexpected shut down and instructions to press and hold the power button to restart the Mac. After I upgraded to OS X Lion, only this grey screen came; it was working fine when I had Snow Leopard. After I upgraded to OS X Lion, only this grey screen came; it was working fine when I had Snow Leopard. When I update software, the issue disappears for week or month but then it starts happening again. When I update software, the issue disappears for week or month but then it starts happening again. Do I need to do something special to prevent these unexpected shut downs? Should I downgrade it to Snow Leopard?
I got a new MBP and would like to transfer my certificates and profiles from my old computer. According to TN 2250, under "Transferring Your Identities," I need to transfer three sets of items: all iPhone Developer certificates in your keychain all iPhone Distribution certificates in your keychain all Provisioning Profiles in the Xcode Organizer > Devices tab > Provisioning Profiles section under "Library" TN 2250 suggests I click a link entitled "Transfer Your Developer Profile to Another Computer" to find out how to do said transfer, but that link effectively gives a 404 and refreshes to a page called "About Xcode" How do I transfer my developer profile to another computer?
If an iPad is connected to a PC, then in My Computer, there is a iPad device containing a folder with all photos and videos. But on a Mac with Lion, this won't happen... Finder doesn't show such device or folder -- even when I choose Preference of Finder to show every device -- is there a way to see the folder like on the PC? (I just want to edit one video using HandBrake, so won't like to use iPhotos or iMovies to import the video, but just take the video file "as is".)
On my iPad, there are many apps that I owned once, didn't enjoy much, and then deleted. However, if I go to iTunes and then open up the section pertaining to my iPad, I still see these many old apps listed (just that their check-boxes are unchecked, symbolizing that they are not copied over onto the iPad.)
How do you copy or export bookmarks and home screen web apps/bookmarks from iPad to PC/Mac?
I have a new MacPro5,1 running 10.6 with the ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card... Today I was using it and the resolution just shrunk to 1680x1050 and thats as high as it will go. I also get "formatBus" errors when running several programs? (Shake,Etc) Any idea whats going on?
So I got my first Apple laptop, a Retina MacBook Pro. I heard that its best to let the laptop discharge until 0% in order to restart the battery cycle or something like that. However I know that lithium batteries have no memory effect and the only thing I would be restarting is the time estimator that shows how much time is left for use. I may be wrong so I want expert advice from you guys here, do I need to do anything regarding charging my laptop?
Following on from my previous question, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have a new iPad, so technically capable of displaying HD movies. And I own plenty of Bluray discs. So I was wondering if it was possible to convert Blurays I own in order to watch them on it? (Note: Let's set aside the legality discussion since a) laws vary based on jurisdiction and b) the Internet isn't a good place to get legal advice.)
I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro (13", basic spec) which since I got it (I only just stopped to think about it) has had a massive amount of sleep battery drain. When the laptop is on and in-use, its battery lasts pretty much as I'd expect (5-7 hours) but if I put it to sleep (no apps running in foreground, RescueTime, Dropbox, Delibar and Droplr in background) it'll flatten its battery from 100% in about 24 hours.
Can the graphics on this 2008 MacBook1,1 be fixed? I believe the OS version is Leopard with all Leopard updates installed. Everything looks fine through entering your password at the login screen, then the wallpaper appears, and the mouse, but all the graphics are corrupted after that, like so: It is very hot here right now, could this be overheating damage? I tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM, next I will try some kind of restore with the Leopard DVD...
I have a question for service engineers here. I wonder if and where I can source top case (with keyboard) from any pre-unibody MBP for my beaten and torn A1150 one (Core Duo original MBP)
You would expect all mails with subject test to be grouped together, but they aren't. I would expect that it respects the "In-Reply-To" header. These are the relevant headers of the first mail with subject [#VZB-74211-323] test: Second mail: third: fourth: Surely there MUST be a hack somewhere or some plist to edit to fix this?
I've searched around for an answer to this, but I can't seem to find it. Perhaps someone here can help?
I've fixed this in my local data, but that means I have to export the .ics file manually to process it. Is there a way to either:
I have an iPhone 4. I take a picture, send it to a friend, and regardless of how I sent the photo...the size I send, the orientation of the camera when I shoot the photo... most of my photos arrive to the friend's email upside down or sideways. Any clues from you folks? UPDATE:
I tried to make an alias to edit my bash profile, but when I save and relaunch a new window, I get the following: My .bash_profile looks like :
I have a Company name in my Address Book with an e-mail address assigned to it. The name is Blast Corporation and I want to enter that into the "TO" field in Mail. Even though Address Book clearly shows it, it does not appear as a suggested address in Mail.app How can I fix this? This is in OS X Lion.
Now I would like to use the same cable for my iPhone 4, however it doesn't work. It seems that apple changed some pins in the connector. Is that possibile?
I have a particular app that uses its own Ad Library aside from iAd. If I remove the correct folder prior to launching the app, No ads will be shown during that session. However, upon closing and relaunching the app, the folder is recreated and ads are shown. Trying to restrict access to the folder causes the app to crash upon launch. As such, my question is this: Can I make my jailbroken iOS device run a command (in this case, rm -rf bla/bla/bla) and then launch an app, all from the touch of a homescreen icon?
I'm currently running OS X version 10.7.4 and iTunes 10.3.1 -- I noticed iTunes 10.6 has the coveted full-screen mode, but I've updated everything in Software Update and there is still no mention of any upgrades to iTunes. Is it possible my hardware doesn't support iTunes 10.6? I'm using an early 2008 Macbook with an Intel GMA X3100, but that shouldn't make a difference to iTunes. Any other possible reasons why I wouldn't be able to update?
My Father died last year and I inherited his Mac Mini. My wife has retired and we are trying to set up the mini for her use but the changes we want to make require admin access and we do not have the information my father used to set up the machine.
Adobe Reader has N documents open. One of them has a known filepath and title and it needs to be programmatically closed. How to go about doing this in AppleScript? Specifically, how can I: Talk to Reader Access a list of documents currently opened
I'm trying to get my Mac to boot from a USB flash drive. I know the drive works and is bootable, because it works with my friend's Windows PC.
I have a lot of software installed from sources other than the Apple Store. Is there a service to check which app have security updates ready to be downloaded? Opening each one on Fridays for a routine check sounds inefficient. For MacPorts, there is a script but I have stuff that comes from other sources too. Is this an unreasonable expectation to have? It seems technically feasible just to maintain a DB and query it with a list of package/version, package/version... getting back a list of update/version/url, update/version/url...
I am looking for an app that can take continuous photos. In other words, I should be able to set the interval (e.g. every 3 seconds) and for how long (e.g. 2 minutes) and it would just snap photos. Does something like that exists?
I'm looking for a 360° iPhone app that models one object from either a level path around the object or perhaps even a true 360 view from any angle looking in at the object. This is different than the usual panorama 360° that captures what you see from one point in all directions, but one that allows the illusion of a central object to move and not the point of view (camera) moving.
I had a Smart Search for my Photo Stream files located at ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/, searching for JPG and PNG files. I found that not all files were showing up. So I went looking for them myself and was able to locate them.
I created 288 different earth renders depending on sun position (one for every 5 earth minutes) based on this file from blendswap. It the image sequence starts at noon and ends at noon. I would like to set at each time of day the correct image as background image on OS X (eg at 12.00 it should be image No 1 at 18:00 it should be image No 72 ). How could I do that.
Is it OK if I keep charging my iPad and iPhone using the Mac USB ports? Or is it better to charge them with the supplied chargers? I understand that charging slowly is better (though I'm not sure why), and I don't think it can get any slower than 1 day for the iPad using the USB port.
I've read many questions and answers here about moving iTunes libraries between computers and drives. My situation is a little different though. I have (had) Windows XP with iTunes installed on C: and my iTunes library on a second drive (E:). Drive C: crashed recently.
MacBook Pro 2008 motherboard failed. Upon sending it to an Apple authorized repair center, they confirmed this. They gave me the laptop back so I could open 'er up and get the hard disk out, which I did. The hard disk should be undamaged.
After making the switch from Windows using WAMP and sendmail, to Mac using MAMP Pro and hopefully Postfix I am having issues getting the emails configured correctly. I have fully configured the Postfix Smart Host to use a live email account to send the emails. When I check the mail.log status=bounced : Sender address rejected: not owned by user mail@mysite.co.uk (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Which applications on Mac AppStore build HTML5 (drag and drop)?
I want to change some settings related to restrictions on my iPad but I don't remember the code I used to lock changes to restrictions. I have a few common variations to try, I'm certain it is one of them, but I noticed that the device counts the attempts I've already made. Will I be blocked from further attempts at some point or is just an informative counter?
I'm setting up an older MacBook Pro (it still has the button on the trackpad) and after upgrading it from a fresh install of Snow Leopard to Lion last night my external mouse is not functioning properly. Left clicks with the mouse are not registered. Right clicking is fine. Moving the mouse around is fine. But left clicks do nothing. I can click with the trackpad button (but this button sticks, which is why an external mouse is required) and that does work.
In a Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) system with two internal SATA drives, the internal drives are connected via a Highpoint Rocketraid controller and are configured without any RAID thus operating in legacy mode. Both locally attached SATA hard disk drives are not mounted after the Mac is powered up after a power failure/interruption (unclean shutdown). On the next clean reboot the two local volumes are mounted.
I want to make an Automator app that will do a couple of things for me with Final Cut Pro: I want it to ask me to name a the new project (we will call it test1) Then I want it to make a new folder and name it test1 Then I want it to launch Final Cut Pro and make a new project and name it test1 This is what I have accomplished so far: Run AppleScript on run {foldername, parameters} display dialog "Please choose name" default answer "untitled" set foldername to text returned of result return foldername end run Run AppleScript Set Value of Variable foldername Set Value of Variable foldername New Folder foldername Run AppleScript on run {input, parameters} application "Final Cut Pro" end run Run AppleScript I just can’t find any script on how to create a new project, let alone name it.
I'm using Pixelmator and Autodesk Sketchbook for drawing and I'd really love to have "lazy mouse smoothing". This is a feature found in an application called LazyNezumi, for Windows, that adds lag smoothing to the mouse. Does anyone know of a solution for OS X?
The only answer I have found online is to do brew update beforehand. I did this, and deleted the previously-downloaded package, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect: What’s going on?
For 3 days, I now got a new rMBP. I am a first time Mac user.
I'm using Apple Mail and have noticed that the ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder is using up over a gigabyte of space. I'm guessing that a lot of that is stored attachments for my email messages. I've already set the Keep copies of messages for offline viewing setting to All messages, but omit attachments, but how do I delete all of those attachments that have already been downloaded? Note that I've already found out about the Remove Attachments option, but I want to simply delete my offline copy of the attachments, not delete them on the server as well. I've seen the [my account]/INBOX.mbox/[alphanumeric string]/Data/[#]/[#]/Attachments folders; is it safe for me to simply delete all of these folders? Thanks in advance!
I'm getting some strange results in my LinkShare affiliate report for sales made through the iTunes Store App Store: multiple sales of the same SKU but for different Sales amounts. I'm not aware of any sales on that item, so I'm wondering if someone else happened to pick the same SKU. (That's awfully coincidental b/c this SKU is 1/2 of the total items we've sold.) So, I'm wondering how I can search for what products have that SKU.
Find my iPhone is nice, but that doesn't really stop savvy thieves from syncing the device back to factory settings.
I shuffled my home directory around and moved it back to my spinning platter drive in my MacBook. Ever since, Time Machine has been running my machine hot (the fan comes on when Time Machine starts up) and the backup data size estimates shown by Time Machine in the menu bar are huge. Many gigabytes.
I want to buy headphones that I will primarily use on my MacBook Pro Retina. I read that I should not buy headphones with high impedance because the volume will be really low. I want something I can use with my MacBook and my iPad. I looked at these headphones, but I'm afraid they will not work well for my purposes: *=URL=* Does anyone have experience with this stuff?
I get this error and was wondering if anyone knew what the issue might be.  It is supposed to be backing up to Time Capsule but not sure if it's ever worked. It's actually not mine but if there was something quick to check, I'd appreciate it. thx
I'm trying to subscribe to an Apple RSS feed. Thunderbird keeps telling me that Apple RSS feed URLs are invalid. For example, I can't subscribe to feed://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss Can I fix this problem, or is it just a problem with Apple's feeds?
I often have my iPhone connected to my PC and now I have a question about something like a status app. I thought of something like this information: - a big clock - signal strength - mobile signal technology (2g/3g) - charge status I thought of something like an overview/status app because I connect my iPhone through a 6-cm cable and so I could see the infos from about 30-40 cm distance.
I have a 2 year old MBP. I'm using Word 2008 and if I create a PDF using Save As... or Print > PDF, the resulting PDF will look fantastic when viewed with Preview. However, if I open the same document in Acrobat it looks heavily pixelated.
I occasionally receive an iOS notification (an Apple push notification) that has sound only and no text. Because it has no text, it does not appear in the notification center and I therefore cannot determine what app is causing this. Kind of annoying. Is there anyway to identify which app is sending an audio-only notification?
I have an update for iPhoto available in the App Store but whenever I click the update button the following appears:  The account belongs to my wife, and as far as I know it's never been used on my laptop with the exception of, maybe 2 years ago, I created a guest account for her to try out OSX before she bought her own Macbook. But that account was deleted a long time ago, and since then I've updated tons of apps...so it's very strange. Any ideas?
I use a Mac Mini on a 46" 1080p TV and using native resolution the UI is too small, and using HiDPI the UI is too big. Is there a way to hack the OS X to enable 150% scaling instead of 100% and 200% ??
Maybe more noticeable in Lion and Mountain Lion, than in Snow Leopard and earlier versions of the operating system: in safe mode, an unexpectedly large amount of wired memory. Why might more memory be wired in safe mode? Screenshots of Mountain Lion in safe and normal modes on a MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory: with a safe boot, more than 5 GB is wired after login with a normal boot, less than 2 GB. Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? What is wired memory? Mac virtual memory: how to make OS X create swap (page) files as freely with a normal boot as it does with a safe boot (swapfile1 etc) XNU questions in Stack Overflow
I cannot enable Guest Account. Logged as admin, I got at Users & Groups, select Guest User,and tick Allow guests to log on this computer. Even when ticked, "disabled" appears bellow Guest User account label. When I switch to the admin account and then back at guest account (within preferences) the box is now unchecked. Any ideas what can cause this? p.s: I don't have FileVault
How do you import AVI Files to iTunes? I know there is a program that lets you do it and automatically names tv shows and stuff, but I cant think of the name, Does anyone know of a program that does it?
I have an iMac. Since yesterday, it has been making sounds where it seems like a hard drive is starting up then shutting down immediately. However, that can't be possible of course because the computer technically works fine—the sound occurs while I'm using the computer, and it doesn't lock up or anything like that. (Also, I thought it was an external HD but I put my ear to the back of the iMac and it is definitely coming from there.)
Consider a Windows 7 x64 installation on a physical machine. How can you take a snapshot/image of a Windows installation, and end up running that system in Boot Camp? Is there a P2V for Windows to Boot Camp? The goal here is to save time and effort, rather than going through the OS installation + updates + application installation process after creating a fresh install in Boot Camp.
Is it possible to downgrade a Mac App Store app? One of my apps has an update showing today, and I want to know if it's a one-way street.
This is a quite straightforward question. I have read about the jailbroken devices having some problems receiving push notifications.
So I'm trying to run the Apple Hardware Test. I start the computer up and hold "D". It boots into OS X like a normal startup. So, I plug in the Ethernet and hold option-D to do the AHT from the Internet. It tells me "Apple Hardware Test does not support this machine".
The screen has seemed dim for most of the laptop's lifetime. Not long after its first birthday I even disassembled the screen looking for the problem. I found a blown capacitor and supposed a backlight power issue, but later discovered that wasn't the case.
Mid-2010 15in MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.7.4. Sometimes when trying to restart or shutdown the machine, it won't work -- the screen turns gray, the spinning wheel shows, but the machine doesn't power down so after several minutes I have to shut down the machine by pressing the power button.
I searched for an iPhone 3GS replacement battery on Amazon and while many items claim to be original/genuine, a lot of reviewers still complain that they are not/not as described/do not work well. Is going through Apple the only way to get a genuine battery or is it possible to order one online?
Mac OS X 10.7.4 has a Sharkoon Quickdeck Pro USB enclosure attached. That USB enclosure contains a 4TB Advanced Format hard drive which has 4096 bytes (4K) sector size. The drive is GPT/GUID partitioned. When listing the properties os the drive, it is being seen as "512 bytes per sector": Or when formatting the disk with newfs_hfs the drive is being seen as "512b sector size". How to make/force OS X to recognize Advanced Format 4K sector size drives as 4096 bytes per sector using command line tools or which USB drive/enclosure natively supports 4K sectors on OS X? PS When reading the source code of newfs_hfs the sectorSize value seems to be derived from this function call ioctl(fso, DKIOCBLKSIZE, &dip.sectorSize)
I'm looking for an app that let me copy multiple items from different locations and paste them at once, I have tried many clipboard managers but none of them let me to paste my whole clipboard history at once and I have to paste the items one by one which is not good at all. Please help me if there is a clipboard manager or app (for Lion) that let me do that, thanks.
Is there a device (sketch pad?) that can be attached to a MacBook Pro so that you can make use of sketching software in OS X? Like for example using Skitch, it would be better if you have a sketch pad at hand rather than using a mouse for using the app. If I'm not mistaken, are those devices sold by Wacom the ones I might be referring to? Cheers!
I have a 1st gen one and I'm thinking about selling it to get a new one. People on ebay seem to want the old one. Why are 1st gen Apple TVs selling on ebay for over $100 while a new Apple TV is sold for $99?
I am thinking about purchasing QuickTime Pro for Windows, but I have not been able to find a list of video file formats that it takes as input. Does QuickTime Pro for Windows convert .mpg files to .mov? Thank you!
I just bought an iPad for my mother and now I would like to turn on Photostream so she can see them. Is there a setting I can change to make this possible?
The iTunes on my secondary computers (i.e. the computers I don't sync my iPod and iPhone to) are now prompting me twice to 'log-in to my iTunes account to enable automatic downloads' before I can play any music - first when I open iTunes and again when I go to actually play a song. While I have music in iTunes on my non-primary computers, I don't need or want them to be connected to my overall iTunes account - I buy almost nothing through iTunes and just don't want or need them to be connected. This is the box that pops up twice (that has somehow autofilled my email address even though I've never used the account on this machine's iTunes):
I bought a MacBook Pro Retina, and it's my first OS X computer. During setup, I had a brain lapse and entered my mom's email address instead of my own. I don't remember what it was I was setting up, but I believe it had something to do with Apple ID. My mom has a MacBook herself.
And does it vary with 128GB or 256GB size hard drives?
I went to the Apple website, and they only talk about the upgrade to 10.7 from its previous version, 10.6.x. (and I know 10.8 is coming out soon).
Since a few hours, I have a big problem with my Mac: I can't print anything through my network printer, send mails with attachments or upload files to my DropBox. At first I was thinking it's a problem with my ISP - but then I discovered the printer problem which has nothing to do with my ISP.
Okay, so I got a new iPhone and I got some music from my Mom's iTunes library onto my iPhone with no problems, then I tried to sync some songs from my own iTunes library and I cannot. Do I need to activate homesharing or something, because I don't have this problem with my iPod. PLEASE HELP!!!
I am trying to figure out how can I disable/hide the App Name in MacOS X Lion dock. I've also attached an image so you can see what I mean.
EDIT #2 - A client has a VPN that I connect to using Juniper Network Connect. Rebooting my machine fixes all network issues, but the second I open Network Connect, it kills it. BUT, if I sign out of Network Connect and close the VPN, the network is still broken, so whatever it changes, does not revert.
I know a minister with a graveyard with significant historical value. He would like to create an audio-guide/map. Is there an iPhone application for this? Ideally, it should be: Free Have an Android version as well
Many of us will upgrade our existing machines to Mountain Lion, which should be out tomorrow. In my case, to be specific, I have new Macs so I don't have files to keep. In general, is there a preferred way to upgrade for power users? E.g. doing a fresh install instead of whatever default upgrade solution Apple provides?
I have a phone service that sends me emails of voicemails in .wav files as attachments. How do I get them to play on my iPhone 4 (and 3GS)?
Do you know any iTunes controller application which uses its own dock icon as a GUI widget to include play/pause, next, previous buttons? Or is it possible to build one easily? If dock icons does not allow placing buttons (I've seen some advanced usages of dock icons like a progress bar or near-real time preview of virtual OS on parallels etc.), we may try to just design a dock icon containing a UI image skin but trying to receive mouse click events by other means (coordinate estimation, etc). I'd also prefer that to have Last.fm support (love/ban the song), rating functionality on dock menu.
I am looking to buy a used iPhone for use on the TracFone network. I am pretty sure that it will run on the network. According to eHow, I can do it with a jailbreak and according to another eHow article, AT&T phones work. Can someone point me in the right direction? Which version of the iPhone (AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint) do I need? How do I get it on the TracFone network?
I'm a first time Mac user. Aside from checking out the installed applications on my Applications folder, are there other ways to find out what applications have been installed on my OS X Lion?
I'd like to be able to get the same view into iTunes U in a web browser, instead of iTunes. Major reason - to be able to open multiple tabs, make bookmarks etc.
It's been over a year since I successfully connected my external Samsung SyncMaster monitor to my MacAir as a mirror or dual display. Everything worked fine. Yesterday I took my MacAir and the VGA adapter to a meeting room and connected to a projector which mirrored my MacAir desktop. When I got back from the meeting and connected my SyncMaster monitor, my MacAir display goes black and SyncMaster becomes primary.
I'd like to have a go at jailbreaking my iPhone 4. I've backed up the phone in iTunes and transferred my apps to my computer, as I understand that the jailbreaking process is much quicker and more reliable on a totally wiped phone.
I gave my old iphone 3 to my friend and have realised he is receiving my imessages that i receive on my new iphone 4S. Please can you tell me how i stop this so he stops received my messages? thanks Caroline
I sometimes find that the frontmost of three ports on a 2009 MacBookPro5,2 is less capable than the other ports. This frontmost port with an independent bus seems: good enough to charge an iPhone 1 sometimes problematic for devices that have their own power sources sometimes problematic for simple bus-powered devices, for example a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical. Maybe more problematic when the laptop is booted from something other than the internal drive (Serial-ATA). In some problem situations, reconnecting the device to an alternative port might work around … at least temporarily. I read of comparable problems with: a 2010 MacBookPro6,2 a 2011 MacBookPro8,1. One port should provide up to 1100 mA at 5 V subject to the conditions given in Apple article HT4049. Why might just one USB port of a MacBook Pro be problematic with a device that draws little power, or with a device that has an independent power supply? MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory, checked twice with Apple Service Toolkit (
I have noticed that the "direction cone" in the Maps app sometimes changes its acuteness: sometimes it will get wider or narrower. The cone seems to represent some sort of accuracy/confidence. I'm particularly interested in what factors (environmental?) alter it.
Console results df -h disk utility results What explains the large difference here in capacity as well as used memory? And which is more reliable.
I'm struggling on how to enable Apple ID and reset password. I open itune and try to sign in and it pops up this message:
Experimenting with Lion, newfs_hfs and smaller journal sizes it appears that 512k is too small for its journal size because kernel hangs occur. Google results show kernel panics for journal sizes of up to 8M: For now the 512k journal is disabled to prevent further panics. What is the real world minimum HFS+ journal size for a 4.0TB hard disk drive? What is the real world minimum HFS+ journal size for a 4.0TB hard disk drive? And is there a way to increase the journal size without having to copy/move/clone all data? And is there a way to increase the journal size without having to copy/move/clone all data?
Is it possible to burn a DVD (or usb bootable drive) out of the Mountain Lion app store install?
This question serves to share and collect the enhancements which are not documented by Apple, or documented poorly. Please justify your answer; if it is something that is well documented by Apple and elsewhere on the web, it does not belong here. Your answer should put the feature into context, explaining how to use it. Add a picture if necessary.
I'm rarely an early adopter of new software, but I'm taking the plunge today and buying Mountain Lion. I don't know if it will break anything important (I run a few rather obscure programs on my mid-2011 Macbook Air), nor if I will like it. I have a current Time Machine backup, but no bootable clone. I can afford to be without the use of my computer for a few hours should things go horribly wrong and I need to restore it.
I have a slow internet connection. I want to download Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) from the Mac App Store and resume the download if it gets interrupted because of my internet connection. Does the Mac App Store allow resuming broken downloads?
I have two hard drives in my MacBook Pro: one is a solid state drive that holds the OS and Applications, the other a spinning platter drive that holds my home directory. I currently have /Users/ian as a symlink to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian. And in my user profile my home directory is /Users/ian:
I have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 installed in my Macbook Pro. When I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion from Snow Leopard I did a clean install since some applications weren't compatible with Lion. I am planning to Upgrade to Mountain Lion now. Is it recommend to do a clean install? What are the advantages of doing so?
Do I have to perform all system updates to Lion before I update to Mountain Lion?
Is there any straight forward way of preventing an iOS device from sleeping? The only way I found so far is to open the "Music" app and start playing (and muting the volume if I don't really want to listen to anything), but this feels like a hack, and I'm not sure if it works when the device is running on batteries.
Can anyone who has upgraded to Mountain Lion confirm that software updating is now done through the App Store and no longer through the Software Update utility? If this is the case, does this mean different family members must sign in to the same account or use the same account just to update the OS? In my case, purchased OS X Lion with my Apple ID, one of my family signed to my account once in order to download Lion, but they can update their system using the the classic Software Update utility afterwards. Now it seems they'll need to sign into my account every time for any update, or we'll have to create a new Apple ID just for this purpose.
I have OS X 10.8, and there is an empty list of notes on my Mac. But I have some notes on my iPhone, which are not in iCloud. Instead, they are local notes in the "On My iPhone" folder. How to move them into iCloud?
In the System Preferences panel for Spotlight in OS X 10.8, it claims "Spotlight is located at the top right corner of the screen". On my system, this no longer appears to be true; the Notification Center menubar icon has claimed that particular piece of prime real estate. There is precisely one pixel that is "at" the top right corner. Spotlight is still near the top right corner, but the top right pixel no longer triggers Spotlight. Has anyone discovered a way to make the Spotlight icon appear where it used to (preferably without disabling Notification Center, which is indeed useful but doesn't need that particular spot)?
When you first try and load a Java application (eclipse, run mvn commands etc) Lion prompted you to download a JRE/JDK. From my understanding this is still Apple's version of Java and not OpenJDK. Will Mountain Lion still have Apple's Java available the same way or will it prompt you to download OpenJDK?
In my newly-installed Mountain Lion system: when I try to run CrossOver, which requires X11, I get the following error message: Apple's Web Page indicates that this is not the expected behavior:
In Lion (and previous releases) it was in .MacOSX/environment.plist. After upgrading to 10.8, the file is still there, but the variables aren’t taking. I’ve also tried adding them to /etc/launchd.conf and they’ll show up in Terminal, but not GUI applications (like my IDE).
As everyone already know, Mountain Lion was released today. I am eager to get my Mac ready for Mountain Lion, but I know that a number of Macs do not support Mountain Lion. Is there a list of Macs that won’t support OS X Mountain Lion?
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and now gcc, make, g++, etc. are not found when trying to launch them in Terminal. So I went to Xcode Preferences, Downloads, and clicked "Install" next to Command Line Tools.
The Mac Pro 1,1 2006 is not officially supported for OS X Mountain Lion, are there any work arounds to get it to work? Your Mac must be one of the following models: ... Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) ...
edit: As discussed in the comments, I've made a TM backup, and made a Lion Recovery disk. I went forward with Mountain Lion's install. I see in the Mac App Store, that I have ML available to redownload, but there's no option there for Lion (which I was sort of expecting, but now have confirmation). Looks like the only way to reinstall Lion at this point is to use that recovery disk.
I am downloading Mountain Lion, I know I can monitor download progress through the Mac App Store purchases screen but I want to know if I can monitor progress through Terminal.app using a shell command.
In Mail (connected to my work Exchange server, if that matters), when I forward an email which contains inline images they are preserved. However, if I reply to the email then they are not preserved. They are instead replaced with something like this: Is there a way to preserve the images in a reply?
In Ubuntu, ifconfig lists all the USB devices with the header "usb0, usb1, ..etc" I need to know the IP addresses of all the connected USB devices. It would be really helpful if on Mac it displayed the same thing...but it doesn't.
I'd love to be able to take advantage of 10.8's Notification Center features in AppleScripts and shell scripts I write. Is there a built-in command or a third-party library I can use from either an AppleScript or shell script? Ideally the type and icon of the notification could be controlled, but even just the ability to trigger a basic banner with a stock icon (but custom text) would be appreciated.
I've decided I'd like to use only my @gmail.com email account. I configured Mail.app to access my Gmail account and I can see the 'inbox' just fine.
I've installed rEFIt on my mid-2010 MBP, currently running Lion. I'm going to buy an optibay, fit an SSD and install ubuntu on it. Will it be possible to get the ubuntu installation to appear in the rEFIt boot menu? Also, is it possible to get my existing Windows partition to appear in the rEFIt boot loader? The windows partition was installed before I installed rEFIt. Thanks.
My only copy of my (large) iTunes library (and all my personal files) is on my MacBook, and I was thinking about using Time Machine to back it all up to an external hard drive (a Western Digital MyBook plugged into the USB port on my Airport Extreme). My question is, when Time Machine makes a copy of a file (say, a song) to the hard drive, since that file never changes I'm guessing it will never get updated by Time Machine. But will Time Machine regularly review the file to make sure it had not become somehow corrupted? I've had trouble with hard drives going bad in the past, and I would hate to be trusting Time Machine for a months and months only to find out that some hard drive partition got corrupted and the file was actually gone long ago. Any thoughts?
I just installed Mountain Lion, and I notice that the icons for Launchpad, App Store, To-Dos and Notes cannot be removed from my Dock — if I try to drag them off my Dock, they float back in. Is there a way to hide or remove these icons?
I have an old iMac (circa 2006, Intel Core Duo) which is running Snow Leopard (somewhat slowly) and cannot be upgraded to Mountain Lion, so there's no iCloud on that machine. I also have 2 MacBook Pros which will both be running Mountain Lion very shortly.
The official feature list for Mountain Lion says that individual notes opened into their own windows from the Notes app (1.0) remain "pinned" open "even if you close Notes", but this isn't true. Closing Notes closes any notes that have been opened into their own windows. How do I get the Notes app's note "pinning" feature to work as described.
How does an organization upgrade to Mountain Lion? Is it possible to create a generic Apple ID and purchase multiple copies from the Mac App Store? Are there any other available methods? Once one Mac is upgraded, can a DVD be created and used to upgrade the rest? How many license are needed? Individual upgrades seem to be good for 5 installs, however I suspect that does not hold true for organizations.
I want to set my mouse's customisable button to open Notification Centre on OS X Mountain Lion. Is this possible?
I've bought a Macbook Pro Retina display before Mountain Lion was released. I have signed up for a copy of Mountain Lion for free, as promised by Apple if you purchase an Apple computer after June 11, 2012. When I finished the application form, the page said to wait till I get an email from Apple.
In previous versions of OS X the battery indicator in the menubar included options to show the remaining battery life as percentage or time (or nothing). In Mountain Lion, there's only an option to show the percentage?!?! How can I get the missing option back?
Is it possible to configure Messages for Mac in such a way that it receives text messages sent to my mobile phone number? Currently on the Mac I can receive only messages sent to my Apple ID, but on my iPhone I can receive messages sent to both.
This is an extension of this question. As noted by that question, Apple discontinued support for many of their older computers, notably the plastic MacBooks. What is the reasoning for leaving out this hardware? Is it due to hardware restrictions or is it just a push for owners of older hardware to upgrade?
A bit of googling about also reveals that apparently V6.0 will only manage Wireless-N networks. Seems anyone with older Airport kit, or a need to do anything slightly advanced in ML is screwed. Anyone know how I can either view logs in 6, or install 5.6 on 10.8?
I know Mountain Lion has some cool new features that Lion did not have, but will it overwrite any of Lion's functionality?
I am using Mountain Lion. The only advantage (for me) over the gesture is that Option + clicking the button enables/disables showing alerts and banners (toggles the switch in the notifications center). Is there a way to hide the button in the status bar that opens notification center?
I have some songs that are not synced with iCloud. I reset the iPhone, removed all the songs in iPhone to resync, but it doesn't work. What's wrong with this and how can I fix it?
I was kind of confused when I wasn't redirected to the Twitter page, to allow ML using my Twitter account for several things. In this case I had to input my username + password in the pure Mac gui and it just works.
Since re-installing OS X (10.8), every time I plug in an iOS device iTunes opens up and shows an error message: iTunes could not connect to the iPhone "..." because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be used with iTunes.
I'm trying to download previous iTunes purchases to a computer. The following warning comes up.
I've searched the net for this, but nobody seems to have the answer. Anyone knows where the "page source" gets saved when I select Debug - Save page source to disk from within the Mac App Store? Thank you.
After upgrading to Mountain Lion I have noticed this message being flooded into my system console: Anyone know how to fix this?
Just recently, a new trojan for OS X was discovered. Apparently it only affects Snow Leopard and Lion. Whether it does/doesn't affect Mountain Lion is still unknown. The trojan sits on your computer and hides, doing nothing so far. How do I check to see if this trojan has been installed on my system? If it is, how do I remove it?
I was trying to reorganize my desktop and had a folder dragging into another folder. When I did this, the folder just got stuck in the toolbar and didn't copy over to the new location... It's not a clickable button as if it were a favorites in the toolbar itself. When I try to drag and drop it away from the toolbar, it doesn't work. I then right clicked and went into "Customize Toolbar" and it wasn't in any of the lists for me to take it off. Obviously its a 'favorites' feature, but how do I get the thing to get off all my finder toolbars now?
I backup my Mac laptop to a volume on an external Thunderbolt drive using SuperDuper. This drive gets removed every day when I take my computer to work, then reattached when I get home. Because it's a clone of my hard drive, I would like to exclude this drive from being indexed by Spotlight, to avoid getting duplicates in my Spotlight search. I have tried adding the drive to the "Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations" list on the Privacy tab of the Spotlight Preference Pane. Unfortunately, MacOS seems to forget this setting every time the drive is removed (every workday, in other words). Is there some way to prevent Spotlight from indexing the drive that will endure even after the drive has been removed an reattached?
So, I have most of my data on a NAS. Can I configure time machine to backup both my iMac's internal drive as well as my data stored on a NAS? All of the backups are to be stored on an USB drive attached to my iMac.
Ever since I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion and installed OS X Server, I keep getting prompts for my Keychain password from a process called assistantd. I'm pretty sure that it's an OS X process, but don't want to give access to my keychain to just any process. So, my ultimate question is: does anyone know what assistantd is and why it would need access to my keychain?
When I try to download the Xcode 4.4 update I'm presented with this error: But the change log says that the update is for Lion and Mountain Lion.
I purchased Mountain Lion on App Store and start downloading. It shows an icon the the task bar and a progress bar on the Mountain Lion logo.
In previous releases of OS X, you were able to remove an icon from the dock by just dragging it off. However, this does not seem to work anymore. How can I remove a program's icon from the dock?
Some people are reporting that Airplay mirroring doesn't work on their Mac running Mountain Lion. Which Macs support AirPlay?
Do I have to wake up a Power Nap enabled Mac to stream media off of it or can I leave it sleeping?
Just upgraded to Mac OS X Mountain Lion, and I'm loving it so far. One thing I don't care for though is that now, three-finger tapping links—or anything, for that matter—brings up popups with the definition of the word that was tapped. This is less than convenient since I'm using MiddleClick to set that particular tap gesture to act as a middle-click. Is there any way that I can disable this behavior?
I am considering upgrading my Mac to the new Mountain Lion operating system. What steps should I take to make sure the process goes as smoothly as possible?
I'm testing an iPad application that requires an Internet connection. I'd want to simulate a situation when the connection isn't stable and can be suddenly lossed. If it's possible I'd want to control this process and "hit a button" that will abort the connection for a couple of seconds. I'd want to abort/resume connection quickly to test that app will resume it in case of connection abort. How can I simulate non-stable Internet connection? I know that it's possible to just turn Wi-Fi off on iPad but will it be the same for application as abortness of connection because of other reasons?
When I write a search query in the url bar in Chrome, I want the focus to go on the search result. In Chrome I can search for something, then hit tab and select the results with my arrow keys (and open the link with return). Is there any option/shortcut to focus the page after search?
I'm about to download OS X Mountain Lion from Mac AppStore, and I wanna know if downloading Mountain Lion will resume if I restarted/shut down the computer?! Thanks... Muhammad.
I previously installed Herald for Mail under Lion. When I rebooted after the installation of Mountain Lion, Mail told me the plug in was incompatible and it is now disabled or inactive. Was the mail plug in properly uninstalled and is it just disabled? Should I try to uninstall the mail plug in properly?
I have downloaded Lion and I want to install Ubuntu as VM. I found this one: *=URL=* Is there any updated tutorial for it?
I’m trying to connect to a Linux machine via SSH. The problem is that my Mac is in a different network, behind a proxy that routes HTTP and HTTPS through port 80. How can I access the Linux machine via SSH from terminal? Connecting with -vvv returns the following result:
I have MacBook Pro and in Lion for zoomIn I used control + trackpad up. now it has changed. How can I changed it back?
I generally find myself using two or three tabs in my Terminal on OS X. A minor inconvenience is that, by default, the tabs don't share their command history. So, searching for a previous command that I ran on another tab by typing history | grep thingIamlooking for does not find it. Is there a way of forcing Terminal tabs to share history, or is there some other "history_of_all_tabs" command?
Lion Mail Server component postfix/smtp 100% reproducible blocks inbound smtp mail delivery on first boot after a panic or power failure. Error messages from mail.log are like:
I was wondering if Microsoft is planning to release Office 2012 anytime soon ? Shall I wait for it or purchase Office 2011 ?
I just bought an iPhone 3G secondhand from a friend. Under Settings the version is listed 4.2.1 but it's missing some of the iOS 4 features. Double-clicking the home button doesn't bring up recent apps, and there's no option to set this function in the home button settings. There's also no Game Centre on the home screen. Does anyone know why this might be?
Is it possible it increase the font size when using lookup functionality after performing a three finger tap on a word?
I am looking for a recommendation for a replacement RSS reader for Mountain Lion. I have used RSS feeds in Mail.app for semi-important alerts, like maintenance announcements from my webhost or new posts on rarely updated blogs. I do not want or need a full dedicated "news reader". Occasional messages in my inbox were perfect.
I am using a mid-2012 MacBook Air (eligible to Power Nap support) mainly connecting to the internet with an ethernet Thunderbolt adapter. I am wondering what kind of network interface Power Nap can use: wireless, wired, wired via ethernet adapter (USB or Thunderbolt)? I am wondering what kind of network interface Power Nap can use: wireless, wired, wired via ethernet adapter (USB or Thunderbolt)? Will Power Nap also be able to connect to the internet via the adapter? Will Power Nap also be able to connect to the internet via the adapter?
I have tons of them, mostly in Delicious. I've tried a couple of desktop clients, like Delish and Delibar, but they don't really work well for me. Delibar, while cool-looking, is nothing about managing bookmarks, just consuming them. Delish is better, but why can't I select multiple bookmarks, drag them onto a tag to add them to it, just open the bookmark without having to right click on it...
has anyone tested the new Mountain Lion on a 2008/2009 macbook?(aluminium) I've heard that with Lion some problems occured like mac becomes slow, battery life is halved etc. I'd like to know specific problems regarding updating from snow leopard to mountain lion on a 2008/2009 macbook pro with intel core 2 duo and 4GB ram, thanks!
I have an iMac running OSX Lion. I also installed bootcamp and Windows 7. During the install of Windows 7 I wasn't paying complete attention and deleted and formatted the EFI partition. I didn't really realise the significance of this as the machine continued to work fine, booting both into Windows and OSX. I did notice that the EFI firmware updates failed to install, but paid this no mind.
Drag and drop between drives defaults to copying the files not moving them. I know holding ⌘ along with the drag will move the files, but I'm looking for something more permanent like a defaults command, maybe? I'm using Lion.
I want to view the all (sub-)directories on my Mac partition in Finder. Both hidden and unhidden directories. How can I do this?
Is it possible to let Spotlight find files and directories from all over?
I'm seeing the exact same thing w/safari and gmail. the alerts pop up correctly and I can see the notification show up in notification center. But as soon as the alert "bubble" goes away, the item is removed from notification center. If I open the mail application and configure the gmail account those email alerts show up in notification center fine. answered Jul 26 at 15:03 JDR
Using chrome, firefox, and safari gives me this type of warning: "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.about.com". I tried checking the host through terminal and I get a response from about.com tells me ip etc. Also about.com works fine with iphone and pc at home on the same network. Firewall is off, and not having any issues with any other sites. I had little snitch at one point and uninstalled it. I tried connecting to my Verizon Mifi and am Getting the same error. Checked /etc/hosts and I get this which is normal from what I understand: Host Database
As you all know, Dock icons can be removed by simply clicking them and dragging them out of the Dock. As soon as the “poof” animation appears, you can release the mouse button to remove the icon.
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I find that when I attempt to launch VMWare Fusion 4.0 I receive the error: You can't use this version of the application "VMWare Fusion" with this version of OS X
I just got my new Retina MBP that I ordered online. I noticed a minor squeaky/creaky sound whenever I apply some pressure on the bottom right corner and beside the right speaker. The sound also generates when I press on the trackpad on very few occassions.
There's no menu bar, so I can't get to my Display icon to Detect Displays. No, I don't want the MacBook screen to be the primary when I'm on the external.
However, I didn't seem to reclaim any disk space, which I thought was odd. So I checked and the deleted user's folder was still present in /Users.
Before installing Mountain Lion and using iCloud for the first time, I would like to know how it can be configured. My iMac has three standard user accounts and one admin account. If I understand correctly the John Siracusa review, the install procedure asks for an Apple ID for iCloud. Here are my questions: Does that Apple ID apply for the whole Mac, for the admin account alone or for one standard account to be specified? Does that Apple ID apply for the whole Mac, for the admin account alone or for one standard account to be specified? Is it possible to assign a distinct Apple ID to each user account? Is it possible to assign a distinct Apple ID to each user account?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion today, I'm noticing the Reminders and Notes apps now having been added to the dock. Great way to discover those apps if you're not aware of them, but I'm not going to use them. As such, I tried removing them, which seems to work (both dragging them off and right-click and remove from dock), but after logging out and back in, they're back. What's the quick-tip to get rid of those from the dock permanently?
It's a white iMac, I think perhaps 2007 model. Here is the keyboard currently:
I'm not sure why Chrome wants this access, but since prior to Mountain Lion there wasn't a prompt for this, it makes me think that it must have been looking at them this whole time. Right?
I am trying to fix a MacBook Pro (one of the earliest Intel processor models) that spontaneously gets into a state where stripes would appear in a checkerboard pattern all over the display. Please see attached image:
I just purchased a new 17" MacBook Pro and I am using it with my 23" Apple HD Cinema Display. I have both displays set to 1920 x 1200 but all the windows and text are smaller on my MacBook Pro. How can I make onscreen elements the same size?
On Lion I installed an extension which game me the ability to use middle click to open and close tabs, and I used Better Touch Tool (BTT) to use a 3 finger tap to act as a middle click. Since using Mountain Lion DP4, and subsequently the final release with Safari 6, I am only able to open tabs with a middle click, and I have to use keyboard shortcuts or by clicking on the tab close X. Is there anything which will give me middle click to close a tab which works on Safari 6 under Mountain Lion available now?
Running this on OS X Lion. I'm batch converting several hundred home movies using Handbrake CLI. I'd like to set the last modified date and created date to that original file. I'm using the following script: I execute this script by running: Does anyone have thoughts on how I can set the last modified and creation time of the original file to that of the $newfile? If I don't figure out how to do this I will have a difficult time knowing when these videos were actually created. I appreciate any help or pointers
I'm on Lion and am learning Android development. I have Eclipse Indigo Service Release 1 version and the lastest SDK installed. If I upgrade to Mountain Lion does it mean I have reinstall the SDK? I have folders in the root Macintosh HD such as android-sdk-macosx, are these deleted?
As described in my write-up on custom keyboard layouts, in some situations it can be useful to re-run the Setup Assistant (the app that you get when you start a new Mac for the first time, or do a fresh OS X install) to change some settings for the current user. This used to work fine in OS X 10.7 Lion and earlier versions: However, in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, this command exits early with the following message:
First time Mac user here. I'm quite aware with all the posts here about repartitioning hard disk but I'm quite confused if repartitioning would erase all my data on my hard disk.
When I open new tab or window in Safari 6 in ML it doesn't focus on the search bar - what should I do to make focus automatic?
I'm specifically looking to design a custom action for LaunchBar so that I can initiate a tweet from that utility. Since Notification Center has a "Click to tweet" button, I wondered if Notification Center has any hooks that would allow me to script this without waiting for the developer of the program add a function to perform this action.
I have this strange problem with using vi as the editor for git commit -a. Normal flow is: I type git commit -a, vi appears, I enter my commit message, and then :wq to save & exit from vi.
I could only find 7 Game Center games on Mountain Lion. Are there more places where Game Center games can be found, or is it just that more will be added along the way?
I've looked in Game Center on Mountain Lion and in the Chess game, but I can't seem to see a way to play Chess over Game Center. Does Chess for Mountain Lion support turn-based play? If it does, how can I enable it?
In Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari preserved the state of my tabs when it closed. This functionality seems to have disappeared in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there a way to restore (no pun intended) this feature from with the System Preferences or perhaps a Terminal trick?
I have an iPhone 4 loaded with data (apps, contact, and photos) iOS 4.x (not using iCloud), This phone was synced with my iMac and worked fine... Suddenly, my hard drive crashes. All my data was on a server, so no need to backup the mac, just buy a ned hard drive and reinstall all the apps.
I know that I can save a pages document in the cloud in Mountain Lion and then open it in Pages for iOS, but how do I access something saved in iCloud on TextEdit or Preview. For instance, with Preview on Mountain Lion I could save a pdf in the cloud, but is there anyway to view that pdf on my iPhone? Is this coming with iOS 6?
One of the apps I miss most from Linux when using a Mac is the Gnome calculator (gcalctool). I like that I can type out a full expression before evaluating it:
I have an iPhone 3G. Recently I am facing a problem with my phone. When I set a wall paper, it is not showing behind the icons. Of course it is showing the picture when my mobile locks. The background behind the icons is plain black. How can I change the wallpaper behind the icons?
Is there a way, with the current AppleTV, to watch a bunch of Youtube videos without having to select each one by hand? That is, either by entering some keywords to search for, or by providing it with a 'playlist' somehow.
I'm installing Mountain Lion on one of my Macs and I'd like to test it (under virtualization) on another. This other (for a variety of reasons) will continue to run Lion.
The swipe gesture for accessing Notification Centre is the same as for going back in Safari (amongst others). How can I consistently get it to do one or the other to stop me using the wrong gesture?
I know it isn't in Apple's list of supported Macs, but I want to know if anyone has tried it. Also, my Mac has 4GB of ram and plenty of disk space. It currently runs Lion.
The new Notes app is great but How do I create a new note without switching to the Notes app first? Same goes for Reminders.app.
It looks like Lion supported OpenGL 3.2 (see *=URL=* Does anyone know what version of OpenGL Mountain Lion will support?
I have a mid-2007 MacBook Pro, the one with the trackpad that had the physical button on along the bottom edge. The trackpad is not well and using it can cause it to stick and freak out OS X.
In Mountain Lion, my full name is displayed at the right of the menu bar (between the time and the search icon, to be specific). As it takes a lot of space, I was wondering if there is a way to hide this?
I installed the Safari 6 beta a few weeks ago. Now that Safari 6 has been released for Lion, I can't seem to find anywhere to get it. The Safari download page redirects to the main Safari page with no download link. Apple's developer site, Apple's downloads and even the download for Safari 5.1.5 all link to the Safari download page (which as I mentioned doesn't have a download link). It is not listed in Software Update. Here's my Software Update history showing that it hasn't been installed without me noticing: Here's the Safari build I currently have: Am I missing something?
I just upgraded to ML and my Time Machine says "Waiting to Backup". Is the cause of this got to do anything with Spotlight indexing?
Has anyone tried just buying generic RAM (which is 1/2 the price) such as the Kingston or Corsair brands? I figure if it works just as well as the $200 pairs, why not! I am open to other suggestions as well.
On the iPhone and presumably applies to the iPad as well, running iOS 5.1.1. Right now, I've got my iCloud and Gmail account on my phone syncing everything including notes. When creating a note using the stock Notes app, notes are saved to my default account (which happens to be my Gmail account). However, I would like to save some notes to the phone itself and not synced with any account. I do not see an option to explicitly enable this option. But I've also discovered a funny quirk that seems to allow this option to unexpectedly show up: Disable the syncing of notes for all accounts Add a note (which I'll refer to as "the note") to the Notes app (making sure there are no existing notes) Re-enable notes syncing with accounts Go back to Notes and the option to save to the iPhone only will show up Quirk: Delete the note, reopen the Notes app, and that option to save to your iPhone only disappears.
I heard that the new filesystem only allows one level of folders. How does it work exactly ? Will my existing beautifully organized folder-tree be collapsed into one folder when I upgrade? As a software developper, I really need to work with multiple level folder hierarchy, and I can't imagine living without this.
Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion? The text is too small, I would like to see big characters when I create a new note instead. UPDATE:
I would like to use SMTP server that requires (beside password) also installed certificate. Since it's my private server and I don't have money to spare, that certificate is self-signed. Without the certificate installed the mail application won't let me complete configuration. The question is: How do I configure that SMTP server in Apple's mail application on iOS (iPhone, iPad)?
This blog post by Jeff Atwood about the amazingly cheap and sketchy, but awesome 27" 2560x1440 Dual-link DVI Korean monitors got me wanting one. I have a 11" 2011 MacBook Air and a 13" 2012 MacBook Pro. These monitors are typically no-frills no-thrills Dual-link DVI only, so I would be purchasing an Apple-branded Dual-Link mini-DisplayPort to dual-link DVI adapter and connecting it via the Thunderbolt port on each laptop. The specs for both of these say that it should be able to drive a display with this many pixels without issue. Is there anything else that I should be taking into consideration other than poor 3D performance at that high of a resolution, or should this setup be fine given the proper adapter?
The shortcut ⌘+⌫ normally deletes a line of text in a text field. But in the new Messages app in Mountain Lion, this is the shortcut for "Close Conversation…" (or, if you choose "Save history when conversations are closed" in the preferences, it's "Delete Conversation…"). Is there a way to disable this shortcut such that ⌘+⌫ can again be used for deleting text?
I have mountain lion and Apple TV. iTunes only displays the option for AirPlay. But it doesn't display on the OSX top bar. I have a MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
I have recently installed Mountain Lion and noticed that 'Sharing' via Facbook and Twitter are missing! I have checked the System Preferences to enable this feature but I am stuck. Can anyone help me?
iChat had the ability to auto-join jabber chat rooms, but Messages 7.0 seems to have lost that functionality. Anyone know if there is a defaults write … command to either auto join specific chats, or to re-enable the auto-join feature?
In Safari 6, tabs became very wide. I don’t like this new behavior.
I have updated my Mac to Mountain Lion and now wanted to install XQuartz. However, the installer tells me that the installation failed and that I should contact the vendor. Did anyone else have this problem? Thanks, Christoph
Hello I just got my first ever MBP Retina and I was wondering if this is normal : Sometimes I try to scroll upwards or downwards (natural way) and the mouse moves instead of scrolling the page up and down. Im not sure why this happens, is there a specific way how I should position my fingers on the trackpad ? Or perhaps the distance between each finger ? Regards
When a row in a table from a webpage is copied to the Numbers app, such as and another row is copied, as some "deltas" (minor addition or subtraction):
I have a hard time thinking it's a hardware limitation issue. Could also be from some old setting, but the iMac used to use the old dialog too. (iMac originally ran Leopard, was upgraded to SL some time ago; same basic upgrade path as my MBP). Any ideas?
Upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Time Machine backups continue to run without any reported errors. (Backups are to a HD shared by a Lion Server on the network).
Since the upgrade to Mountain Lion, I get blurry fonts system-wide. It doesn't matter where it is: I've seen them on the log-in screen, Safari, Mail, Xcode, and Skype. Every font is very blurry. It seems as though a non-native screen resolution is in use, but, in System Preferences, the "built in screen resolution" option is chosen. I have a 15" MacBook Pro (Model A1286) with the High Resolution panel (1680x1050). Can someone confirm or help here? Some screenshots:
I'm running a clean install of Mountain Lion. I have my Caps Lock key mapped to a second Control key.
I have an app on my iPad that is basically a flashcard app that has questions and answers. I want to put these questions and answers into an excel spreadsheet. How would I extract the information out of the app?
I found a bug in the latest version of Safari, how can I report it to Apple? They no longer have the menu option to submit bug reports. I've tried searching Google but all the results are outdated.
If it helps at all, when it happend I was attempting to open my DropBox folder. I am often switching between a Windows PC and my Mac. I've been on my Windows computer lately and am used to opening DropBox by double-clicking the icon in the task bar. It was somewhere around that time this screen appeared. It disappeared when I clicked anywhere outside the file icons - which I unfortunately did pretty quickly. If there is any other information I can give to possibly identify this screen, just let me know.
On my IPad i have 1300 photos and small movies so I desperately need more free space on it. My computer is being repaired theese days, and I normally keep all pictures on an extern harddisc - that is not possible to use at the moment due to my broken computer.
This question arose from the comments page of The Nifty Minidrive's Kickstarter page The Nifty Minidrive is essentially a microSD card adapter that fits perfectly into the SD-slot of the MacBook Pro / Pro Retina / Air so that a microSD card can be used as additional storage. However a backer came across this apple support document which explains that for a Mac to be able to enter Standby mode one criterium is that it must "Have no SD card inserted". This is a potential deal breaker for many backers. Is there a way to enable deep sleep mode even though an SD card is inserted?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, now when I open the lid to my 2010 13" MacBook Air, there is a 3-5 second delay between when the screen powers on and when the keyboard will respond to key presses in the login dialog box. This did not happen for me under Lion. Is this a known bug?
Of course, the proxy was functional as I could see other calls go through such as Safari, App Store etc. Also, these numbers were not in my address book originally.
With Safari 6, the omnibar fades the non-server part of the URL, so that the actual server name is more visible. Presumably, this is to reduce phishing attacks. However, I find that the remainder of the url is hard to read, and to be honest, when developing websites, that is the part I care much more about. Is there any way to have it so that the whole url is the same?
I am currently trying to install Mountain Lion and everything was going fine until it was time to reboot. First I tried rebooting then it said i needed to close applications so I clicked the button to close applications and it hung for a few minutes then the installer crashed so I ran the installer again as it didnt restart on its own after clicking reopen application. The installer immediately gave me the restart button as im assuming the file caching process was completed. Now, whenever I click the restart button it just restarts my macbook and the installer never kicks in. I've done this around 4-5 times now exact same thing each time.
I was using VMWare Fusion 3.0 in Snow Leopard before upgrading to Mountain Lion. Now I cannot open or upgrade VMWare Fusion, the icon is blocked, and if clicked, a pop up comes out and if click help, another popup telling me that nothing is available. How to upgrade and use VMWare fusion again?
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the Click to Tweet button that appears at the top of Notification Center (when the requisite option is selected in the Notifications settings pane), but if it happens to have other shortcuts (either predefined, or definable in System Preferences - I couldn't see any) those would be useful as well.
Anyone that has used Launchpad aggressively knows that (at least on Lion) it would re-arrange the icons upon reboot. There was no way to save or lock the order and location of the icons. Is this fixed now in Mountain Lion? Or did they just add a search bar and call it good?
I would like to install Windows 7 with Boot Camp on my 20 Inch iMac 8,5 from late 2008. My Superdrive seems to have failed, inserting a DVD or CD just results in it spinning a bunch clunking about and spitting it out. So I need to use the USB method to install. I have tried the following methods of creating a bootable USB to various USB devices in s 4GB & 8GB and had zero success in booting them: Boot Camp USB Creator directly from Boot Camp (I edited the .plist to allow this) Unebootin (Linux distros won't boot either) Windows USB Maker from a Parallels install of Windows 7 (the same ISO) Terminal "sudo dd..." Disk Utility converting the ISO to an IMG and successfully restoring it to the usb partition WinToBoot and various other Windows applications to wipe and write the iso via Parallels Windows installation rEFIT both directly on my mac and as a bootable usb, the bootable usb is recognized and sees the Windows usb but when launched it simply says no bootable device
In some of my folder, I found something quite interesting: .DS_Store files are not on the network store. Any reason? Thanks.
I'm trying to make an alarm clock for myself with AppleScript after my old (physical) one crapped out. I've got a script that'll schedule a pmset wakeup at the requisite time. There's just the matter of making the script actually make noise at that moment.
Since: I got iPhoto included with my MacBook Pro, not from the Mac App Store Mountain Lion is replacing Software Update with the Mac App Store
I had neatly sorted the applications in Launchpad when I was running Lion. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, none of my custom folders are there any more, and it seems Launchpad is back to the default layout (the first page being all Apple apps).
About a year ago I downloaded the "<3 Sudoku Daily" (click for MAS link) app from the Mac App Store. After a while I decided I didn't want it anymore, so I deleted it by putting the application file, in the Applications folder, into the trash and emptying the trash. However, for almost the past year, the MAS has persistently shown an available update for the application, exactly as if it were still installed on my computer. Things I have tried: Installing the update (which reinstalls the app) and then deleting it again. Deleting the app using App Zapper and Hazel to erase any associated files. Signing out of my account and signing back in. Contacting the developer. Rebuilding LaunchServices per this other question. Reindexing Spotlight. Disconnected any external storage devices that could even possibly have a copy of this app installed somewhere.
Do you have any ideas what can cause this? In Lion I had no problems. EDIT: Apple released the following update *=URL=* hopefully this will fix the problem. EDIT: Nope, didn't help.
I am using VPN (Cisco IPSec) through the default Mountain Lion network preferences. In Lion (and also in Snow Leopard), I did the following to change the routing back to using my default gateway for all traffic, and thne set up a few routes for the specific IP-ranges that needed to go through VPN:
If I'm typing a tweet in Mountain Lion's new Notification Center panel, is there a way to send the tweet without moving my hands to the trackpad to click the "send" button? I've tried return, enter, ⌘return, and other key combinations, but nothing obvious sends the message.
I had created a test user upon installing Mountain Lion, now I want to import my regular user from backup, but only that particular user and no other users nor applications. However in the Migration-Assistent window all check boxes are greyed out for my most recent backup (both for my carbon copy clone and the TimeMachine backup) even though I could change the selection for a much older backup. What can be done to allow me to make a selection instead of needing to import everything ?
I have the same iMac twice at two different locations. On one location I have a good internet connection but on the other one I have internet over satellite and it is limited to 3GB / month. I would like to know if there is a way to download software updates at one location and apply them at the other one? (I've already managed to download the mountain lion install package and copy it on an USB stick, but now I'd like to the same for the iPhoto update for example).
Verification should be nondestructive. There's a possible answer in Super User, but it predates Lion so: I don't know whether badblocks run from a live CD is applicable where Apple_CoreStorage is amongst the types on the device to be checked. If not applicable from a live CD, then one answer to this question might involve: libfvde with an installation of any compatible OS that can run bad blocks. Less exotically, I'll offer two answers that do not involve libfvde. Whilst I mention troublesome disks below, I don't seek help with those disks. This question seeks answers that may be generalised to anyone who would like to check a disk. I typically use Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) 5.1.1 to run HDAT2 4.5.3. Good for some purposes, but not for what I want from HDAT2. If you know of a way to make HDAT2 run with, say, a MacBookPro5,2: that'll make a great answer.
I accidently merged my BOOTCAMP and Mac OSX Partition via diskutil. Is there any way to recover my data from the Bootcamp partition?
I install a linux (Fedora) distribution through VMWare (4.0) on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The the virtual machine open up at the top of the window and hide its taskbar underneath the apple task bar as shown in below image:
My Question is I want to erase a file in OS X Securely (like the function of "Secure Empty Trash") so that, the file cannot be recovered by using recovery tools. I don't want to empty the trash. It is possible to erase Files Securely in OS X without moving the file to Trash ?
In the new Messages application introduced with Mountain Lion, I cannot see my own avatar. This is happening even though my Messages.app email is linked with my contact in Contacts.app. No Avatar appears when I text in Messages:
I have tried using two different Apple IDs: one a simple MobileMe account (ending @me.com) that has been transferred to iCloud; the other an old .Mac address (ending @mac.com) with which additional non-Apple email addresses have been associated and verified. The computer is connected to iCloud with the former account; and I have previously used the latter account successully with Facetime on the same computer (when running Lion) and with iMessage on my iPhone and iPad.
I set my input source to be US English. And the flag showing on the taskbar is also an American flag. But whenever I type something in Mail.app or Notes.app the spell check still corrects my spelling to British English:
I'd bought MS Office which was allowed to use on 3 Mac OSX with same product key. It was/is working fine when I'd installed it on 1st Macbook Pro. When I'd installed it on my iMac then MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel are working fine with same product key but MS Office is not working and getting alert for buy it.
This has been this way since 10.6. There is no .bashrc file in the home dictionary but the environment variable PATH indeed exists as the result of this command shows: Anyone know how/where OS X stores environment variables?
I have a few issues with Mountain Lion that mean I need to have occasional access to a Lion installation. I have bootable clones of my old Lion install before I upgraded, but sometimes I only need to run a single application and rebooting from another disk is a pain, so I would like to be able to fire up an instance of Lion as a virtual machine. The Lion license allows for VM installs (up to 2 I think), so there should be no issue from a licensing perspective, but I don't know how to go about actually doing it.
I also have an old iMac with 802.11g Airport Extreme card which is being revived to work on some old files. This is in a separate room to the router.
I have a me.com address that works on my iPad and on my Mac. However, I am trying to set up iCloud to sync all of my devices on my Mac using the instructions found here, http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html
imagent is constantly consuming CPU cycles and a couple of GBs of "real memory" on my wife's MacBook Air since upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion. I believe this is part of the Messages app. Is there anything that can be done to make it behave more acceptably, or is it just not practical to use on these devices?
After upgrading to Mountian Lion on both my MacBook Air and my wife's MacBook Pro, I recieved a prompt asking to install Java (I did not get this on my iMac). I was wondering what triggered this event for it to ask for Java. Was it because a Java runtime was there previously? I don't remember installing one (and not sure why my Air would ask, but not my iMac, many more things are installed on my iMac).
I'm using OS X Lion. I'm a PC user and just recently tried out using a Mac. I'm used to installing a handy app in Windows named TouchCursor. It allows me not to release my fingers in the "home" keys of the keyboard, which helps increase productivity (IMHO) because I don't need to reach out for the arrow keys anymore.
I had a script that I used to use to activate my screen saver, and it no longer works in Mountain Lion. It was a shell script that called an AppleScript script: This is what the lockscreen.scpt file looks like: If I bring up lockscreen.scpt in the AppleScript Editor, I get the "Choose Application" dialog popping up asking "Where is ScreenSaverEngine?" Anybody know the Mountain Lion-y way to activate the screen saver?
I understand there was a uninstaller for Safari 6 beta (is that available anywhere?) but it seems no longer available in the Apple Dev Center, and I am on Safari 6 release version. I need to remove this and revet back to 5.1.7.
Are there any wireless hard drives to use with a mac? I need to copy paste files from and to this hard drive, when the disk on my mac is full. Do I need to look for a specific Apple drive or will any network writable drive work for basic file storage?
Is there a way to connect my iPhone 4S to the Internet with WiFi when the connection is using the PPPoE protocol?
I'm having some problems trying to join our university's Active Directory. Some of the errors I'm receiving are: The plugin encountered an error processing request. Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation. Unable to add server. Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation. (5202) Unable to add server. The plugin encountered an error processing request. (10001) Any ideas?
I've got a mid-2011 Macbook Air running Mountain Lion. Power Nap is enabled. My Time Machine back up goes to a USB external hard drive. My current workflow is to sleep my computer when not in use, and now that I'm running Mountain Lion I'll then attach the hard drive. Overnight, the system will use Power Nap to make a backup and all the other stuff Power Nap does.
There is a new feature in Mountain Lion, Dictation. When I try to enable it in the System Preferences, I get the following dialog:
In previous versions of Safari the JavaScript console in the Developer Tools (aka Web Inspector) had a little 'clear' button at the bottom that emptied out console items, which was useful for getting rid of clutter between debug sessions. As of Safari 6, the new Dev Tools don't seem to have such a button. Manually using clear() and console.clear() doesn't work either. The 'Clear Console' item in the contextual menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. Short of console.log("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"), is there a way to clear the console in Safari 6?
The rMBP dropped the infrared receiver making Apple Remote useless with it. It's a shame, since Airplay + Apple TV + Apple Remote would have worked as a perfect combo.
My "plan of attack" was to download the 5.1.7 installer, delete Safari 6, and install Safari 5.1.7. After the installer finished downloading I ran sudo rm -rf /Applications/Safari.app. As expected that deleted the application file. However, when I opened the 5.1.7 package installer I get the following error.
Before you raise your pitchforks, this is NOT another "How do I change my $PATH variable value?" question. I had installed Oh my zsh on my machine(Macbook Pro), and didn't like it. So I uninstalled it. Ever since I installed it I get the following when I run the $PATH command:
I just upgraded to mountain lion and noticed that I can only see notes in iCloud in the "Notes" application. I have several notes related to a mail account that I would like to see on the Mac or move to iCloud. Now: notes are no more visible in Mail.app (as expected) the notes in the mail account are visible on my iPhone and iPad but I cannot move them (there is no such functionality) the Notes application shows the mail account on the left pane with a sub entry "Notes" but is empty in the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" preferences the checkbox "Use With: Notes" is checked Any way to move the notes to iCloud on iOS or better getting Notes to synchronize everything on the Mac?
I have a Macbook Pro 8,2 and really want to make the switch to something a little less stubborn and a little more flexible than the proprietary Mac OS X. I am a bit frustrated with MacPorts lately and Homebrew. I also would like to make the transition to a tiling window manager such as Awesome, RatPoison, or Xmonad. In the past I have had problems getting the Mac's wireless card working as well as setting up the EFI installer to boot to GRUB or LILO. So, I am curious if anyone here has had any experiences with running a Linux Distro like Slackware, Archlinux, Debian or a Unix OS such as FreeBSD on their MacBook Pro.
For me, Mountain Lion always seems to sleep whenever there is no user action, even when the computer is still doing something. In my case it always sleeps in the middle of running a batch operation in Lightroom 4.1, and it has slept while Time Machine is still cleaning up.
I have a Mail.app rule that copies certain incoming messages into an archive mailbox. I'd like those messages to be marked as read in the archive mailbox but remain unread in my in-box until I actually read them. I tried adding "Mark as Read" to the copy rule but that marks the message as read in both the archive mailbox and my in-box, so I never have any unread messages in my in-box. Any ideas?
I'm not very experienced with Macs, so please pardon my mistakes. I'm assisting a coworker with a client of ours who recently let go of one of their employees, and in the resulting meeting the person deleted all their documents & threw the laptop onto the floor, cracking the screen and likely damaging the hard drive.
I am trying to migrate to a brand new install of Mountain Lion. I am trying to migrate select data from my old Lion install. Does anybody know where the text replacement definitions in System Preferences > Language & Text > Text lie? I would like to migrate them to my Mountain Lion install.
same font size finder:  Blender also always seems to get the straight lines in a font aligned with pixel lines. The problem is still there when working with the lid closed. I already tried to read to get the current setting but it tells me it the setting does not exist.
On Mountain Lion, I don't get email notifications in Notification Center when Mail.app isn't running. This is not the expected behaviour (it is inconsistent with the Mail.app behaviour on iOS) and makes the notification feature redundant (Mail.app shows a new email badge and also has an email-snippet view). Is there a setting or third-party solution to fix this?
Are there shortcut keys for moving a Desktop in the array of Desktops in Mission Control? I can now do this manually using the mouse by dragging and dropping, but I would like to do this with shortcut keys. Sometimes they even get re-arranged on their own (not sure how that even happens).
I try to install the most recent (july 25) version of Command Line Tools (xcode44cltools_10_76938107a.dm), downloaded from *=URL=* but are stopped with the error message "This package can only be installed on OS X 10.7 Install a version of the Command Line Tools that supports OS X 10.8." But I can't find any better version; if such exist why isn't it on the Developer site?
Just upgraded OS X to Mountain Lion and noticed that Terminal.app version has changed from 2.2.3 to 2.3. Unfortunately, can`t find any information about what has changed. Do you know if there is any place that provides very detailed changelog regarding OS and Apps?
I'm a little new to the whole iPhone / iTunes world, but I'm planning on eventually jailbreaking my iPhone 4S with Absinthe. The instructions tell me to erase all data from my phone, then restoring from a backup after jailbreaking to get my data back. But what would I have to do in order to actuall remove the jailbreak again? The Absinthe README doesn't mention this at all, and the website doesn't seem to have that info either.
I know is possible to have multiple versions of Java on OS X but i find it difficult to understand how it works. I upgraded to Mountain Lion and now echo $JAVA_HOME is empty. However in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ When I go into 1.4.2 and I execute java - version or ./java -version Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_33-b03-424-11M3720) So why all those versions are used for if they have same version of Java? Then I downloaded the JDK 7 from Oracle and installed it. Where a new JDK is usually installed? And final question : How can I choose which version should run by default by all applications?
I'm currently running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I never upgraded to Lion. However, the features in Mountain Lion have me intrigued and I'd like to upgrade. Am I allowed to upgrade straight to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, or do I need to somehow upgrade to Lion first?
When I go to the network browser (in the Finder, hit command K, then click the "Browse" button, or just shift-command K), I see three domain names from a network I used to connect to six years ago. The appear in a list with dropdown trinagles to the left: example.org example.biz example.com
I just updated my MBP to OSX 10.8 and am trying to start a new project with brunch.io which by default uses coffeescript and I prefer javascript so I need to clone the simple js skeleton. So something like this:
I come from linux and gitg. That allows me to do the git pull and git push to the remote using the graphical gitg tool with a right-click option. However the gitx tool doesn't seem to have this functionality. Can I pull/push using gitx or do I have to use the command tool? I couldn't find anything on the screen:
When I use the pagination at the bottom of Google search results pages to browse through the results, Safari 6 on OS X Mountain Lion automatically scrolls to the bottom of the page. Doesn't happen with every page, just most result pages. Why does this happen?
Mail.app used to have the ability to hide the unread count badge, as shown on this 37signals blog post:  It seems that Apple has removed this in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there any way to restore this functionality and remove the badge?
I have an applescript that I run like a cron job. Within this applescript, i have variables that act like boolean switches (i.e. on/off values). With subsequent runs, depending on whether the boolean variables' values are on/off i need to take certain actions.
This is probably a duplicate. I can't imagine I'm the first person to notice this. It seems that Safari 6 has removed the appearance tab from the preferences, and with it, the ability to change the default fonts. How do I change the default fonts for Safari 6?
I have been trying for about a day now, and no matter how many times I pause/resume or cancel and retry, my download of Mountain Lion is freezing at 53.25MB. Why is it freezing and how can I resolve this issue?
Under Lion I had Spotlight set up to index .as (ActionScript) files using the general instructions here: *=URL=* but installing Mountain Lion seems to have broken it. I went to /Library/Spotlight/ to try again and found that RichText.mdimporter no longer lives there. And the alternate location, ~/Library/Spotlight/, no longer seems to exist at all. When I follow Apple's instructions here: *=URL=* to check which Spotlight plugins are installed by typing "/usr/bin/mdimport -L" in terminal, I just get a blank list with NO plugins.
I really like being able to send tweets on Twitter from Notification Center, but I can live without the sound that plays when you click Send. Is there a way to disable or customize the tweet sound?
When I use Chrome I like the feature that enables me to open Chrome with a list of websites I always want to open up once I use it. Is this feature available in Safari?
I just reinstalled my Mac, thinking I'd give OS X Mountain Lion a try. In my system, I have both a regular HDD with a partition Storage and a SSD. On the SSD, I've installed OS X, and now transfered /Users/kba (my home folder) to /Volumes/Storage, so that the Storage partition now is my home folder. For the most part, this works great.
I had an error while downloading OS X Mountain lion from the App Store. It tells me this message "An error has occurred" and nerver wants to start downloading again.
I have a retina MacBook Pro and I noticed a laggy/choppy magnification effect when hovering the mouse over the dock. I thought Mountain Lion would fix that, but apparently its a bit more laggy now as well. Is there a fix for this? Also, the default settings had the magnification effect turned off, does Apple acknowledge they have a laggy dock or what? Update
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I get the following error message when I launch Calendar.app: "Calendar Cache couldn't be moved because you don't have permission to access "Calendars".
When I accidentally pressed delete on mail in Mail it removed the incoming mail permanently! How can I change this behaviour so that when I press delete on the keyboard, it will remove it from the inbox to a trash folder, and not delete it forever(it was deleted it from my gmail server, so I couldn't restore it!) I'm used to such behaviour from Outlook.
I'm trying to launch 3 tabs and run a script in each with AppleScript. So far I haven't been able to get this done. Currently I have: This will launch three tabs but the pings don't execute in the last two tabs. I'm probably missing something basic here.
Under Mountain Lion, syncing Reminders to iCloud is linked to syncing Calendars for some reason:  In contrast, under iOS (version 5), you're able to sync Reminders to iCloud separately:
I have a Lion installation dual-booted with Ubuntu using refit. Upon trying to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I reboot into the mountain lion installer, and get a message about OS X not being able to be installed on this disk since it can't be booted.
I bought the iBoostUp app when I was using Lion, and one day it suddenly stopped working, I uninstalled it, and yesterday I got Mountain Lion hoping that it would get magically fixed, but it didn't. Any clues on how to restore the app?
I can't find /usr/bin/otool any more in Mountain Lion. Does anybody know why otool is removed? Is there any alternative for otool in Mountain Lion.
If I save files to iCloud in apps in Mountain Lion that support such saving, where on my drive can I find these files if I want to run command line utilities on them, edit them in other programs, etc?
I have a 13" MBP (Early 2011) plugged it to a Dell U2711 monitor via DisplayPort. I have successfully enabled HiDPI mode, using Quartz Debug the problem is that the screen won't run at the HiDPI equivalent of the screen's native resolution. i.e 1440x720 HiDPI (2560x1440). The screen's maximum resolution of 2560x1440 is recognised & working.
iCloud documents live in ~Library/Mobile Documents. But if I try to drag said folder to the Finder sidebar, I get a "do not enter" sign, and it won't add. How can I put my iCloud documents folder in the Finder Sidebar?
Is it possible to dismiss a sticky "alert" (from Notification Center) from the upper-right corner of the screen by using the mouse?
I've upgraded to Mountain Lion and since then many sites including Google (and all of its related services), facebook and many other sites are not opening. i can't even open gmail.com. the name resolutions seem to be working fine. dig gmail.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> gmail.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24840 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
I had web sharing enabled in Lion and a web site at *=URL=* where user is my User directory. When I upgraded to Mountain Lion, web sharing (Apache) remained enabled and I can go to localhost and get the "It works!" default web page, but I cannot access my user page anymore. The error is Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~user/ on this server. How do I re-enable my user directory's web page?
Just updated the mountain lion, and download the latest Eclipse 4.2 to upgrade the old one. However when opening the application, it shows that it is from an unidentified developer and the gatekeeper refuses to open it.
I'm trying to log in to Game Center using my Apple ID but it just won't let me do it. Actually, nothing happens: no error messages, just nothing. I think there is an issue, because I also get a pop-up window where I suppose a new registration could be done within the same program, but it's blank (Annulla means Cancel):
I've got a PDF open in Preview (5.5.2) and I want to know where it is located in my filesystem. How can I find that out in Preview? In MS Word, there's a command called Document Properties which gives detailed information about the active document; I'm looking for an equivalent. Aside: I've been able to do this in a roundabout fashion from the command-line by piping lsof through grep using an expression that contained a word in the document title.
I recently unistalled Xcode using Sedo developer in the terminal. The reason I uninstalled is because every time I searched for something in finder, millions of .h and .m files would show and crowd my search. After deleting as much Xcode files and folders as possible the .m, .h, & .c files are still showing in my finder window when searching. They are a different color now but still there. I want to delete them badly, I just don't think I should, but I desperately would like them to not appear in my searches. I don't understand why I still have the .h files after uninstalling Xcode. Please help
In Mountain Lion it is now possible Pinch To Zoom in files within TextEdit. I think this is a new feature in Mountain Lion. I'd like to know whether it is available in Lion?
Is it possible to first enter a command and then choose "run in Terminal" in Quicksilver? Is there another way of doing it other than Quicksilver (though I would prefer Quicksilver)?
I would like to change Safari Safe List of type files which open immediately after download. Any ideas how?
Still no go. Do I really have to reinstall the full HD?
I want to try out the new version of OS X (Mountain Lion), but since I'm so comfortable with my current installation of Lion, I do not want to do a normal upgrade and install/customize all my programs from scratch. Instead, I'd like to be able configure my MBP to a dual-boot system, so that I can switch to whichever OS I want to use at the moment. Whats the best way to proceed, without screwing up my installation of Lion?
Is it safe to just copy the Xcode 4.4 app from a machine to another or does the Mac App Store download an installer, rather than just a bundled app, and some Xcode 4.4 pieces get installed somewhere in the system?
I have just downloaded Mountain Lion and I would like more than one desktop (the default setting) how do I change the number of desktops?
The first time I tried to use Java on Mountain Lion, it installed automatically. Unfortunately, it installed Java 6, so I installed Java 7. If I navigate to Java in System Preferences, only Java 7 is listed. How do I switch to Java 7, or remove Java 6?
I recently bought a new Retina Macbook Pro and I would like to know I could in some way recycle the old one into a external display. So is there some way to use a Macbook Pro as an external monitor? I know I could use ScreenRecycler, but I'd prefer a "wired" solution.
Is it possible to downgrade Safari 6 to 5 in Mountain Lion? I tried to install 5.1.7 but it says it only works with OS X 10.7. Is there any workaround I can try?
Just upgraded to Mountain Lion (of course). I use Java on a daily basis so I asked Mac OS X to install it right away. It installed "Java 6". I am more than OK with it.
After I installed Mountain Lion the other day I've noticed something very annoying. Almost every time I wake my iMac (27", mid-2010, CI7) from sleep: it seems that something DNS-related is broken. When I try connecting to other machines using their IP (v4 & v6) addresses I can SSH and send pings, but resolving host names isn't working very well.
after using Lion I was frustrated by the lack of multiple display integration it had. When I swiped between spaces, the secondary display served no purpose but to display that gray linen pattern that we're starting to see appear everywhere.
I'd love to learn what I'm missing. In the meantime, I've decided to try to side-step the problem a bit by locking the .DS_Store files for the folders in question so they always maintain the settings I desire.
In Mail.app 6.0 with 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has chosen to make it impossible to drag-select text in a message that has been sent or received. In previous versions, you could do as you can with every other single program that handles user-created text anywhere in the operating system (!!!) and put your cursor anywhere in the message, drag to highlight the text you want, and then, voilà, there'd you have a discrete selection of text that you could, say, copy.
I have several Mac each with its own USB hard drive, holding a Time Machine Backup. I am wondering if I can move all of them to a Time Capsule. I have seen tutorial about single time machine backup, and as I understood, it's not a standard or official procedure. But I didn't see any tutorial or advice for moving more than one backup. Don't know if it's relevant, all the backups have been made under Lion, then Mountain Lion, and Time Capsule will backup ML machine.
Mountain Lion introduced a feature where you can save your documents to iCloud instead of local storage.  I don't ever see myself using it, is there a way to disable this (but I don't want to disable iCloud entirely)?
I had a lot of important files on my iPhone in an app called Documents Mobile Office. During upgrade of the application, the upgrade failed & the application does not reload. Hence I can't access the files in the application (.doc, .csv etc). As I thought all files would be auto uploaded to the "cloud" I did not back it up in iTunes.
I'm trying to add an Apple Script to my Download directory. From what I read on the Internet I need to copy the script to Macintosh HD -> Libraries -> Scripts -> Folder Action Scripts - however, I don't see this directory on ML, what should I do? Thanks.
Whenever my rMBP wakes up from sleep, it shows a log in page with my user name. The page has a metallic gray background. After I enter my password, another page opens up with my wallpaper along with my user name again, and I have to enter the password one more time. Output of diskutil list for /dev/disk0 is: How do I disable multiple login windows each asking for a password when my laptop starts or wakes up from sleep?
I started with Leopard OSX, then upgraded to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion. Now Mountain Lion is unleashed. Is it recommended to make a fresh install or upgrading is just fine? Does OSX suffer from bad performance over multiple OS upgrading processes?
I'm using Mac App Store on Lion, But there is a problem with download resume. After every system restart I can't resume my previous downloads and I have to download them from the beginning, I also checked and I have no AppStore directory at this path ~/Library/Application Support/ AppStore store the temp files at a directory in /private/var/folders/s1/ ... /com.apple.appstore/ But after restarting the computer and opening the AppStore it deletes all the contents of this directory, and I have to start the downloads all over again. I also tried restarting AppStore in debug mode but it didn't work. I'm wondering if someone have a solution for this issue. Regards
I just bought two iMac's at an auction, they were both wiped clean before the sale. The problem is when I turn them on I'm getting a screen with an icon of a folder with a question mark. So the guy wiped them but didn't reinstall it, or so I believe.
How would one check how much battery an application uses from a full charge of 100%? Are there any applications out there or is this impossible?
Anyway, it's iLife 11 so technically I could install it from disc but I like the app store experience. Do I really have to pay $15 again for iPhoto in order to get it from the app store? Or is there another way?
I've followed instructions to set the noatime flag in Lion so I can reduce SSD usage but it isn't working for me on Mountain Lion. I'm still seeing this after restarting: Has anyone got any suggestions how to mount the startup drive with mount flag noatime?
I'm wondering if anyone has gotten Mountain Lion to run on any hardware in virtualization (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox or other...). If so, it would be interesting to know how well (if at all) attempting to run the 10.8 OS on Mac hardware that normally wouldn't allow an installation of the OS. Has anyone taken a Mountain Lion VM and run it on older hardware?
Is it possible to drive three external displays (3x 22" inch monitors, each at 1680 x 1050) on my MacBook Pro with Retina display under BootCamp / Windows? A couple of guys have shown that it works under OS X. Can this work under Windows as well?
When I take a picture with my iPhone 4 and I want to upload them to a site like craigslist or etsy, the upload or browse button is always gray so it doesn't allow me to do it. I try going to my desktop but the pictures arent there. I have the cloud and wifi enabled but the pics don't go onto my computer. So I try emailing them to myself through gmail but I cant get the pics to completetly come off the email when I download them. I am at a complete loss and this is way more complicated than it should be, can anyone help me?
Following an update to Mountain Lion on my client machine where I have Apple's Remote Desktop running, attempts to control other remote machines still running Lion fail with "authentication failed" errors. The passwords I have for the remote machines are correct, and I can ssh to those machines without issues.
I've updated to OS X Mountain Lion. Update has removed all of my python and apache modules including mod_wsgi. Now I'm trying to recompile mod_wsgi (it compiled without problems on Lion). I use source code from here: *=URL=* ./configure creates Makefile without problems: But make returns error:
Where does OS X store the language files (.lproj, .strings) for displaying times and dates? Edit: I'm precisely interested in the terms like «Monday», «Thuesday», «November», «May» etc. from the system itself, not 3rd-party-apps. I guess there is one place where OS X is storing such translations (where apps like iCal/Calendar, the Time/Date-Menulet, and others access the names/translations)
Is there a way to copy to clipboard the current directory I'm at? (I'm running ML). EDIT: There is an option to simply drag the file/folder from Finder to the Terminal and it will automatically enter the path name.
In the Mail, Contacts & Calendars Preference pane, you can have Notes synchronize with a Gmail account. I've already got it setup to work nicely with iCloud, but.. Where do I go in Gmail to read these Notes? They don't appear under the "notes" label.
I have synced my photos from my iPhone to my Mac but now I want to remove the photos from my phone. How do I do this? It won't let me delete the "events" or some of the "albums".
Its a MBP Retina, 2.6/16/512, with the SMC update from yesterday applied. No optical bay. Graphics: Intel HD4000 integrated, and a discrete Nvidia GT650M.
Is ipfw available in Mountain Lion? The reason for asking is that they introduced pf in Lion, but kept ipfw, however there is a chance that ipfw would eventually be removed. I found this: Can I use ipfw on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but that was asked before releasing Mountain Lion and there is no answer.
I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion and installed JDK7. java -version in Terminal returns java version "1.7.0_05" correctly, still Java Preferences and some other Java programs (such as Eclipse) result in prompts to install Java SE 6. I can start Eclipse perfectly from the command line with Java 7. Is there a way to get this working without having to install Java 6?
I use CMD space a million times a day to find files, launch apps, etc. Wouldn't it be cool if I could press a keyboard combination and get a box to send a tweet? I know I can do it through notification center but I'm looking for a method that doesn't require me to leave the keyboard.
What is the difference between an SSD and the flash drive in the latest MacBook Pros? The only difference I've noted is the price, because MacBook Pro with retina display costs $2799 with a 512 GB flash drive. At the same time, MacBook Pro without the retina display costs $2199 plus $800 for a 512 GB SSD, for a total of $2999, and a difference of $200 from the MacBook Pro with retina display. So what is the difference between the two types of drives?
With Mountain Lion providing integration it is possible to have a contact's twitter username listed as a part of the contact. I don't see any way to manually do this before an account has already been added.
rMBP OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion While chatting with friends on facebook, the text randomly disappears and appears at random intervals. I cannot induce the effect manually. It is very frustrating to see the text suddenly disappear yet show when I press enter.
Several months ago I received a new Mac Mini from my employer with a pre-release version of Mountain Lion in one of the partitions. Running in the pre release, I went through the App Store and purchased the release version of 10.8. It downloaded the 4Gb in about 3 hours. It then copied some files, then rebooted and seemed to go through the installation process for over 30 minutes. The normal login screen appeared. Going back into App Store, it shows 10.8 with the download button, so it seems that the install hasn't worked? Shutting down, rebooting and restarting several times has not helped. The apple menu / About this Mac / More Info / shows: Software OS X 10.8 (12A269) *=URL=* suggests the build is 12A269 (GM), but I don't know if the GM is significant.
I had Google Chat and Facebook Chat linked to iChat, but since I upgraded to Mountain Lion I can't see who's online through the bar that used to display along side messaging window. Any ideas?
I know, the answer should be 64, as Apple dropped support even for their early 64 bit models BUT: while on the other hand: Could someone please explain this to me?
Safari 6 integrated an address bar and a search box together. So when you want to search a keyword, you just type into the address box. That's maybe good.
I've been using the Microsoft Intellipoint software with Leopard, Snow Leopard, and currently Lion, to provide mouse cursor movement that feels a lot more like Windows. Has anybody tried installing this on Mountain Lion, and found it to be compatible or not?
Any time I open a new terminal window (independent of terminal app), the console stderr displays dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/login) is setuid or setgid before the first bash prompt. The start of this error coincided with my install of 10.8. How can I get rid of that message? Below is my .bash_profile:
Over the course of my ownership of a MacBook Pro running Lion, I've had an extremely odd bug occur somewhat sporadically. It rarely occurs, but when it does, the following effects become apparent: I can no longer switch spaces using trackpad gestures, but I can using keyboard shortcuts. Dashboard becomes inaccessible without using Mission Control; only the main spaces can be moved through with the shortcut keys.
Is it possible to set Spotify as the default program when the "media" keys (play, pause, previous, next, etc) are pressed on the Mac keyboard? For the most part when Spotify is open, the "media" keys work fine. But every once and a while iTunes will pop up when you hit them. It'd be a lot nicer if you could just specify that Spotify is the default program when these keys are triggered, as oppose to iTunes. If it matters, I'm using Mountain Lion.
I have an ongoing but intermittent problem with iTunes. Sometimes after starting iTunes or after plugging in an iPhone, iTunes will cause my Mac to become unresponsive. I'm having trouble reproducing this problem, and it doesn't seem to leave any traces in the system log. How can I figure out what's causing this problem?
I'm trying to set up an Airport Express with a home network based off of a DSL wifi router (model SE567) that came with a Telus internet connection. The Airport Express doesn't get a valid IP address from DHCP on the router. I can plug it in with ethernet and have it work, but it's not very convenient to have to have it plugged in all the time. What could be causing it to go to a self-assigned IP instead of getting one properly from the router?
For Mac OS X, what criteria should I use to decide whether to store a document or file in iCloud or on my local machine? What are the tradeoffs and considerations to be most aware of?
I'm running Mountain Lion on a mid 2011 MacBook Air. I'd love to be able to set type in the oldest Macintosh system font, Chicago. Is this font included anywhere in OS X Mountain Lion? If not, what is the most recent Macintosh operating system to include the font, and can the font be purchased anywhere?
Just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and wanted to make PHP work on the built-in version of Apache.
I'd like to pin a URL to the Dock and have its icon be something meaningful or recognizable. By default, the icon/shortcut is a generic spring icon, and in Yosemite it shows a globe.
Ever since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, my MacBook Air doesn't wake from sleep when I touch my trackpad. I have to physically click it in order for it to wake up, which can be quite annoying sometimes since I'd rather not have to press the physical button underneath the trackpad (and it's easier to just tap it when your finger or move your finger on it, as if you're moving the cursor around on the screen). Does anyone know why it doesn't work the way it did on Snow Leopard?
I had Contacts integrate data from my Twitter account. It worked, but when I look at someone's Twitter name in Contacts, it shows their real name, not their Twitter handle.
When I click the green plus icon in any window, I would like it to expand to the full size of my monitor, instead of having to drag the corner of the screen. I have seen paid ($10+) tools that do this. Is there some sort of Terminal hack or free program that would do it?
The product page for AirPlay states that advanced hardware acceleration is used to make mirroring to an Apple TV possible. The footnote shows that only Mid 2011 Macs and newer can use this function. The graphics capabilities of many recent Macs are very capable, so has anyone figured out what exactly is being done or required of the hardware to do this sort of network mirroring? (Might the GPU be handling the encryption for the OS or some other very new feature of a graphics system?)
In Mountain Lion, many of the day-to-day apps like Preview, TextEdit have been upgraded with some very useful features. (For instance, you can now insert a page into a PDF document using your scanner in Preview - see here, and pinch the trackpad for zooming in on to a document - see here). However, as far as I understand, these apps are free, and features like these are features of the app themselves, not the OS.
The Dock (as of 10.7+) allows you to drag files over an application icon, invoking application exposé which allows you to drag the file over the window of choice and drop it in where you want. The delays set for these actions are rather long for me. I already checked the Secrets prefpane, no luck. Is there a hidden preference to speed them up?
I want to schedule a nightly restart of my OSX media server, but I routinely have other machines in the house connected to this machine remotely (since it's also our TimeMachine system, iTunes library, etc.) It's trivial to set a scheduled restart, but it always fails if other users are connected, which in my case they always are. How can I schedule a nightly restart of this machine, that will automatically kick any connected users, quit all apps, and restart?
Using Keychain Access app - started from command line sudo when both exporting and importing - imports cert but not key. I don't really want to spend another £35 on a new CA-signed cert relating to new private key. Key and certs all show in own keychain on backup machine.
Is it possible to add attachments (like photos) to Calendar events? For example, I gathered the flyer of an event I want to attend. It is far in September, and having added the event to remember about it, I'd like to attach the picture I've taken of said flyer. I don't know if the problem is the Italian version of Calendar, but I can't find the "Add Attachment" link - it is missing while editing.
In the past, Disk Utility was the best starting point for the vast majority of disk-related tasks. As technologies within (or possible with) OS X have developed – without equal development of Disk Utility – so it may be useful to have: a shortlist of actions that are best attempted/begun without Disk Utility. I'd like answers to form something like: a shortlist of things that appear illogical or impossible in Disk Utility. I'll seed at least one answer to exemplify what I have in mind. For some of the things mentioned, there will be answers elsewhere in Stack Exchange – so here, commentary may be minimal. Maybe more noticeable with Mountain Lion than with Lion: some capabilities that are integral to the operating system are misrepresented or impossible within Disk Utility some capabilities that are added by third part software are misrepresented within Disk Utility … and so on.
I've recently purchased an assembled desktop (it has an i5 processor, and a intel DH67CL motherboard). Is it possible for me to install OS X on a separate partition, just to understand the experience of working in OS X? I don't mind if its a trial installation (which won't work after X days), but I need to understand whether working on OS X would suit me. I'm 60+, and have used Windows all my life, hence the hesitation before buying a MacBook.
I downloaded the Mountain Lion installer on the day it was released on the App Store. If I now wait some time before doing a clean reinstall: Does this installer receive updates? Is it updated only with 10.8.x releases, or is it independent of those?
I have bought my mac last month, so I am eligible to get a free upgrade of Mountain Lion. As Apple stated - I have requested for my upgrade and it said you will be notified with your upgrade code. It's been 24+ hours and I have not received any mail from Apple. So, how much time they're taking to send a mail usually? Thanks
Problems following an upgrade to Mountain Lion on a 13-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,1 with Intel HD Graphics 3000). With Google Chrome, I was watching YouTube video fullscreen – Flash content. In the middle of video, I wanted to exit full-screen mode but neither the keyboard nor the trackpad worked. The video continued playing fine. At last, I forced the system to close and restarted.
My internet service provider has its own broadband portal and the session lasts only 12 hours after which I need to relogin. While relogging the download of the Mountain Lion gets interrupted because the connection resets.
Apple gives a free upgrade to Mountain Lion if a new Mac is purchased in a nearby time frame. I got a redemption code. Will I be able to download Mountain Lion again next time, for example in two months from now, will I need it?
When using Mountain Lion's AirPlay Mirroring in the guest account, all I see on an Apple TV is some flickering scrambled image. Sometimes I shortly recognize some text, but that seems to be from the screen of another account. However, I am only using Mirroring in one account at a time.
Some people are suggesting client-side-only approaches like ClickToFlash. These are good but the problem is that any particular Flash based video service / wrapper needs to be explicitly supported by it so by definition cannot catch 100% of all content, only a dedicated server-based Flash renderer like iSwifter can do that. Here are some concrete example videos that require Flash which most solutions don't handle: *=URL=* http://www.gamespot.com/deadlight-2012/videos/video-review-deadlight-6389587/
I would like to make Option+clicking the Volume icon in the menu bar show me all AirPlay output devices. Right now, only "Internal Speakers" and the last used AirPlay device are listed, so either only my Apple TV or AirPort Express:
I'm the only user of my MacBook Pro 5,3 (mid 2009, Core2Duo 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM). Is it worthy to turn on File Vault 2? Any performance penalties considering my hardware specification? I'm running Lion (upgraded from Snow Leopard) and considering upgrading to Mountain Lion.
I want to turn on iTunes notifications on Mountain Lion? Anybody knows how I can do this? Growl dosn't work :/
Is there a way to show more details in the Finder copy window? I'm mainly interested in the speed.
There are certain applications I use that required me to boot in 32-bit mode in OS X 10.7 (Lion). I could do this by holding down the "2" and "3" keys upon startup. This no longer works since I have upgraded to OS X 10.8. Is there still a way I can force Mountain Lion to boot in 32-bit mode?
I just installed Mountain Lion, and of course I've had to set up Xcode Command Line Tools, reinstall Git, and do other things to get up and running again for programming. Naturally, PHP was pushed back to 5.3 from 5.4 that I previously had installed when my MacBook Pro was running Lion. I ran through the process downloading PHP 5.4, unzipping it (tar xf php5.4), configuring it (./configure with and without options), making it (make), running the make test (make test), and installing the make (sudo make install). When I ran configuration with options it did not allow me to make and when I ran without configuration options it failed to pass make test a few times (when this occurred I sent the information to Zend). When it did pass make test though, it said that it installed successfully, but when I would check the version (php -v) it still comes up with PHP 5.3. I've done this almost nine times with restarts and re-downloading the package every time; no sauce. Does anyone have any ideas 
I have hundreds of RSS feeds saved as bookmarks in Safari, but the latest version (6.0) has disabled RSS feeds, and suggests getting a dedicated RSS reader from the App Store:  Is there a simple general procedure for transferring all of my saved RSS feeds from Safari to a new reader?
I want to bring a window (QuickTime for example) to frontmost, without focusing it. I can do it in OS X 10.7 using the following code in Applescript. This is a Python equivalent.
I have an old but perfectly usable iBook G4 (1.33 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB disk). I am currently running Mac OS X 10.4.11 but I'm wondering what sort of update should it take. What is the most recent and recommended version to install in it?
I'm having some problems with entering sleep and wakening, so I'm considering making a fresh installation of Mountain Lion. How can I make a fresh install of ML? I have Bootcamp partition which I'd like to remove also.
After i upgraded Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, i haven't any Sites folder in my home-folder. On my Mac Mini there is still my Sites folder with all my local sites in it. How do i get it back? XAMPP is installed XCode is installed Developer tools are installed
When I drag an existing icon from one place to another in Mountain Lion I cannot click to release it. It just remains 'stuck' to the mouse pointer. Anyone know how to fix this?
Are there any published safe temperature ranges for Mac Book Airs? Is it safe leaving one inside a dark part of a very hot car, think 32°C / 90°F ambient temperature, plus sun and car effects.
I have a directory within my iTunes folder structure that has an accent character in it which I am trying to delete. If I do an ls on the directory I get this:
Is is possible to set up a reverse SSH tunnel on an iPad? I'd like to be to do basic nmap TCP scans and use some other tools that the iPad doesn't have on remote networks. So my idea is after I've connected to the network, ssh to my home server. Then from my home server ssh back onto my iPad.
The dictation in Mountain Lion on my iMac does not record many of the words I speak. I cannot get it to make a paragraph, either on my desktop, nor my MacBook Pro. Why does dictation on my MacBook Pro records my words fine but not on my iMac?
After downloading, and upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store shows a "download" link for it; it doesn't show "installed." Secondly, although I have downloaded it twice, it does not show between my applications. Why does this happen?
I have a .bundle that is digitally signed. I can verify this by opening the bundle by selecting "Show Package Contents" and indeed there is a _CodeSignature directory underneath the bundle.
Dictation in Mountain Lion is a nice little feature that works great for me. However I often need to switch between dictation languages, so going through the System Preferences is way too many clicks for me all the time. That's why I wrote a little utility that sits in the menu bar, which lets the user switch dictation languages. The problem is: it doesn't really work. At least not without logging out and back in. My utility changes all the plist files that should be necessary to change, these are: (the last one actually just contains a BOOL value to turn dictation on/off)
when syncing my contacts between my iPhone and itunes/gmail, although i'm warned about how many contacts are going to be added/modified/removed, there's no way for me to know what is actually going on. So this is useless. I'm currently annoyed by the fact that syncing with itunes will contanstantly remove contact photos from my iphone. What methods of sync will preserve contact photos and work with google's cloud services?
I keep seeing Time Machine doing a full backup of my ~80 GB hard disk. I see this a few times a week, when I first turn on my mac. During the day, I see Time Machine doing small incremental backups of ~100 MB, hourly. Why does Time Machine does these big backups? I also see the large backups in the logs here.
I have 4 Macs that need TimeMachine backups; they all run Snow Leopard, and it's unlikely that they will be upgraded to Lion/Mountain Lion anytime soon. Currently, they are all backed up to a bunch of drives set up in a RAID array, but it causes me a fair amount of pain every time a drive fails (which happens somewhat frequently).
Is it just me or common to everybody that all the header files that was in the /usr/include is no longer there? Which is causing boost bootstrap to fail with this error:
I am suddenly being asked to sign into itunes on my computer before the download procedure can continue on my ipad...why is that? It has never happened in the past.
I work on Macs for over two years and still haven't done anything useful with the "clear key" (this one). Do you know of any useful stuff it can do? Other than with the built-in Calculator app, that one doesn't count :) EDIT: Anything you use on regular bases.
I have two screens. I have a MacBook Pro and just installed Mountain Lion. When I close the lid, instead of completely sleeping, it simply moves what I'm doing to the secondary screen. Please explain?
While typing afplay danger.mp3 in the Terminal will play the .mp3, doing sudo afplay danger.mp3 or sudo su and then afplay danger.mp3 does not. Any idea why is this? How can I use the afplay command with sudo/su?
FinePrint is a program that allows you to print multiple pages of a document's printout per physical sheet by shrinking the printouts, and merge several documents' printout into a single print job. Is there an equivalent for OS X?
On OS X 10.6.8, I made a small script file in my home directory and tried to make it executable. Surprisingly, I found that chmod had no effect until I ran it as super-user. I own and have write access to my home directory directory and the script, so what prevents chmod from working?
After the upgrade to 10.8.0, whenever I do a sudo, I always get this message: dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid I have checked my .bash_profile, .zshrc all I could think of, and I don't see anything related to the DYLD_ environment. After googling for hours, I tried to put these two lines in my .zshrc: But the annoying message still appears.
“When you dictate text, what you say is sent to Apple to be converted to text. To help your Mac recognize what you’re saying, other information is sent as well, such as your contacts.” The Apple site also states:
I recently purchased a Crucial M4 SSD 256GB for my Macbook Pro Early 2011. I bought the transfer kit that includes the USB to SATA cable. After I initially format the new SSD to be Mac compatible, I will use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my HDD to the new SSD. Now my question is before I install the SSD internally in my Macbook Pro, will SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, clone everything I need for it to work? Do they copy the OS and literally everything my old HDD had?
Performance/responsiveness is a common concern with new software, especially on older machines. In general, upgrading from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7) wasn't too bad, but now Mountain Lion (10.8) is adding even more features such as Notification Center. What will be the performance impact of Mountain Lion on Macs which are nearing the lowest end of the system requirements?
I want to get rid of the clock menu display in Mac OSX. How can this be done?
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine: It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook Trackpads for the root user, which would also affect the login screen. There are similar commands to enable it for Bluetooth-based Magic Trackpads as well.
I formatted my hard driver and reinstalled ML. I'd like to know whether I need to reinstall the latest SMC update or that once I install it is saved forever on the system. I think that I don't need to reinstall it, because power sleep is enabled, and if I'm not mistaken it updates this feature, am I wrong? In other words: Can I check which SMC I'm using?
I've upgraded to Mountain Lion und also upgrade to the latest Version of XCode (V 4.4). I use the iOS Simulator mainly for Webdevelopment and not for iOS Development therefore I'm not that into this matter.
I have retina MacBook Pro with 256GB and a 1TB external HD. That external 1TB hard drive I want to use for several things, one of them is to backup my system. Is it possible to partition using Disk Utility the 1TB external HD, so that I can use the external HD for some other things? If so, what is the size of the Time Machine partition I need to create?
When I plug my iPhone headset into my Macbook Air, the operating system recognizes both the headphones and the microphone. As a "side-effect" it disables the internal speaker and microphone.
I have two monitors and I would like to handle the virtual spaces separately on each. I.e. changing the space on one monitor shouldn't change the space on the other. (I wonder why this isn't even the default because it seems to me like it makes more sense.) Is there any way to do this?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion, use an iPad and iPhone. All syncs effortless over iCloud. Just bought an Android phone (Ic sandwich) and want to use Gmail for TASK syncing. But step 1 is iCloud to Gmail sync (and then Gmail to phone). Contacts and Calendar work well this way. In other posts about iPhone/Gmail syncing is mentioned that Task syncing does not work. Is that also true for iCloud/Gmail syncing? (all my switches are on in iCloud for Gmail syncing).
I used to be able to login with my Active Directory Credentials at boot time. But after the upgrade to Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) I can't see the remote login anymore. I have to log in with a local account and then logout in order to be able to log in against the AD. Any clue how can I make remote login available every time?
I have a MacBook Pro and I need to install Windows 7 besides Mac OS X so I can play games on it. The problem is that I don't have a USB stick or DVD to copy the Win7 iso image like Bootcamp requires. Can I install Win7 using an internal partition of my hard disk?
What is the best free software for OS X Mountain Lion for enabling write support for FAT32 and NTFS?
Google search reveals that "/etc/environment" can be used in OS X to set global environment variables (like JAVA_HOME etc, in key-value pairs). I have tried to add following string to this file on OS X Lion: But after rebooting OS X, echo $FOO displays empty string. Am I doing something wrong or is the information on the internet misleading and "/etc/environment" can't be used in OS X, and am I limited to "/etc/launchd.conf"?
See screenshot: This username "***" is already taken, please choose another. Another has been provided. If I enter a different forum username it tells me that the account is already associated with another user ID (I suspect the first one I tried). How am I supposed to continue?
Speak Notifications is set to OFF but it still will break mid paragraph and say "new notification from..." or "new text message from..." then I have to start the reading all over again. This seems like a bug to me. It's especially annoying when the block of text is huge and can only be voiced in entirety.
Which keys can I press to bring up the locked screen save while I walk away for a few minutes? I have an external keyboard (MS Comfort Curve 2000) thru a multi pc switcher box so I have ctrl-cmd-alt keys but no option key and everything I've tried so far doesn't work.
One of the major features in Mountain Lion is the ability for almost all programs (certainly all the pre-installed ones and any newer MAS based apps) to store the files that they create and/or edit in iCloud. I think this is a great thing on the whole, and I will be using a lot for certain apps from now on. Ignoring the argument about (for example) having a txt file that you can only open in Textedit because it is in the Textedit ubiquity container for example, I think it's a good system for those files that are not inherently truly portable between apps.
How can I configure OS X Mountain Lion to scroll one 'page' at a time? OS X's Scrolling Speed in Mouse preferences doesn't have the effect of what I'm looking for.
I have Lion, running on a 64 bit kernel but I have a number of 32 bit apps (among which, to my surprise, Google Chrome) that run perfectly fine. I am not overly concerned about Chrome, but there are a few things I'd loathe to lose, either because they cost me money (Photoshop CS3, which should actually work), or because I like then (Luna menu, RapidoSerial, which are not on RoaringApps). Is there a final yes/no answer to the question, will a generic 32 bit intel app run on ML?
I would like to know if iCloud uses client-side encryption i.e. all data is encrypted on client side and even Apple can't decrypt the data and read it. Is this true for iCloud?
I know to secure safety it is now not allowed anymore to open apps that were not downloaded from the mac app store. But surely there is a workaround for this to open an app that you know is 'good' but just isn't in the app store. Preferably allowing only that app and not allowing all downloaded apps to be opened.
I currently have my Time Machine backup on my network and access it wirelessly. This means a complete backup of half a terabyte of data can take a significant amount of time. So, I'm concerned that when I upgrade to Mountain Lion, I will be forced to start from scratch on my backup. A secondary concern is the possible loss of previously backed up information.
I configured a bunch of iPads at my previous job, and I had to do it one at a time. Granted, there were only like 6 of them, but I am wondering what I would do if I needed to configure a whole bunch of iDevices. I know at the Apple Store they apply updates on a bunch of them without taking them out of the package, so there must be some sort of way to do this.
I had my Mac mini connected to a TV using VGA (with the mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter) running fine. After upgrading to Mountain Lion it simply doesn't work anymore.
I like how with inertia scrolling you can swipe harder to scroll further down the page, but what I don't like is how the scrolling speeds up quite a bit as you scroll. This was not the behavior in Lion, and it is causing me headaches while scrolling around my text editor trying to edit code as it will consistently scroll right past where I'm trying to go. I can't find any settings for this, any ideas?
Has the ability to create aliases to folders inside the iPhoto package file been disabled or removed? I used to sync up my LightRoom library with iPhoto by using an alias to the Originals/Masters folder inside the iPhoto library package. But it now appears as disabled in the finder file menu and completely gone in the context menu and cannot figure out a way to create aliases to these type of folders. Am I going to have to ditch iPhoto completely or is there a workaround for this? Edit: Example of what I mean
How do I switch between open windows? Command+Tab switches between opened applications, but for example, when I open preferences-window of BetterTouchTool I don't get it shown via Command+Tab.
I bought a used iMac with OS 10.4.11 installed. It also has Microsoft Office 2004 on it. I'd like to upgrade the OS to 10.6 but don't want to lose the Microsoft Office applications. I do not have the original disks or any codes, serial numbers, etc to reinstall Office 2004. Is there any way I can accomplish the OS upgrade without losing Microsoft Office? I was hoping to transfer to an external HD and then transfer it back after I upgrade the OS.
If I use Ctrl + 2 to get into Desktop 2 it's much faster than swiping three fingers to that desktop. Is it possible to disable the animation with 3 finger swipe?
I am currently running dual monitors from a Gateway desktop. I would love to upgrade to a MacBook Pro, but would like to keep my two monitors. Is there an (easy) way to dual monitor non-Apple monitors from a MacBook Pro?
After I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that apps have started asking for permission to access my contacts. Very cool. When Skype initially asked for permission to access my contacts, I decided not to grant it. However, when I loaded Skype this morning, I noticed that my Skype contacts screen was still getting populated from my Address Book. I double-checked in the Security prefpane, and Skype still does not have permission to access my contacts.
I have tons of notes on my iPhone. When iCloud came out, I created an account. Now I have the Notes App in Mountain Lion, but only notes added after the iCloud account creation date are showing there. In my Notes iOS app I can see three 'Accounts': All Notes, On My iPhone (old unsynched notes) and iCloud (new synched notes).
For example, if my contact's phone number is 555-0391, I will discover (after sending a few texts to a complete stranger) that her number is actually stored in my phone as 555-0319. A few days after I've fixed the number and obsessively checked to make sure it's still correct, I notice that it has changed again, this time to 555-8391. I'm totally willing to accept that this is a case of user error, but I just want to check to make sure this isn't a known issue, being caused by a sync bug or malware, etc.
On Snow Leopard I already have NTFS-3G (2010.10.2) and FUSE (MacFUSE Framework 2.2.1). I managed to install them and it works like a charm. If I upgrade to Mountain Lion, does the operating system pick it up or I have to do it again from the scratch?
On Snow Leopard (10.6), the screen recorder on QuickTime Player worked just fine. However, since I have upgraded to Mountain Lion (10.8) QuickTime screen recorder has been making my 2010 MacBook Air extremely slow/laggy while recording the screen but once I stop recording my computer is no longer slow/laggy.
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and thought the Notification Center would be quite handy, however I've had a look around the web and it seems to me that emails only appear in notification center while the Mail app is open, or after it has been opened. Is this true, and is there no way around it? Surely the notification center must be able to check for new emails on its own, otherwise would the mail feature not be near enough useless?
I am downloading OSX Mountain Lion via the App Store however it is taking a while, will it continue downloading in sleep mode?
In a work environment, I'm trying to "lock down" a mac computer so that files can't be transferred via USB storage device. Problem is, keybord and mouse are plugged in through USB, but I would still need those enabled, plus the keyboard has two more USB ports on either side. I could use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to get around that, but then how can I disable the USB ports (And later re-enable with admin access)?
During iPad setup I configured Gmail as email on iPad, now I want to remove Gmail from my iPad email, how to do it?
Up until Snow Leopard I was using a simple shortcut to navigate through Spaces (Desktops). Two fingers plus click would present Spaces and allow me to select desktop and/or window effortlessly. So my question is, how can I do that and start Mission Control instead? Thank you for all your help in advance.
When I went into my trackpad settings and de-selected 'tap to click' I was unable to click on the trackpad! I had to use the keyboard to reselect it. It is working right now.
I just bought the latest MacBook Air 13". I run Parallels with Windows 7, but I'm running out of disk space quickly.
Say an application has a menu selection Export in the File menu. On mouse over, a sub-menu extends with the export options. Is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut for one of those nested selections?
This is a very weird problem I'm having with my Messages app on Mountain Lion. I have two accounts: a Google Talk and a Jabber account that is linked to my Facebook chat. Whenever I open my Messages app, my connection to Google Talk works just fine, but there is always a connection error with my Facebook account. But my Internet is working fine (like, I'm able to browse to www.facebook.com just fine). It's not an account authorization problem (incorrect username/password), trust me. To fix the problem, I need to go into Preferences -> delete my Facebook Jabber account -> recreate the account -> boom, connection is working fine again.
Apple says only 2011 Macs/MacBooks Pro can use this feature, but I'm hopeful that there is a way to bypass this.
I have used Boot Camp to create a bootable usb of Windows 7. But when I hold Option to select the drive all I get is my Mac OS and the restore drive or whatever it is.
Im looking for a quick way to bring up a compose mail message dialogue. Either a keyboard shortcut, or even a little tool within mountain lion's new notification center would be cool. Anyone got anything?
I have a Macbook Air that I would like to allow remote SSH access to without a password. I have created a user called remotepair that I have logged into and verified I can used the Mac with. I have also added this user to the "Remove Login" service's allowed user list and turned on the service. This was all done in the "Sharing" control panel.
I recently got a new MAcbook pro, and while I was exploring features on the Apple site and learning to make the transition to a Mac from a PC, I noticed there was an up-to-date program. I do not have any receipts or the papers from the shipping to prove when I bought my mac and they denied my first attempt. I would like to get the new software, but i need to know if there is any certificate installed to help me prove I bought my mac.
Is there anyway to delete the NSLog lines from the app by any trick/tool? I usually use NSLog's in each & every method to understand the flow of control & to know about the values of the app's variables. I also use lots of commend lines to explain the nature of methods and variables.
What is the "Previous System" folder I now have have in my root directory after upgrading Mountain Lion and is it safe to delete? It's 172MB of mostly random font files
I've been using iCal (now called Calendar.app) to view my Google Calendar calendars for a long time and generally haven't had a problem. However, in the last few weeks or months I've noticed that when I hit the "Snooze" button on iCal alerts, they never come back again like you would expect.
Preferably without having to reboot etc, use magnets, or open/close the lid + waking it via USB peripherals I would like to have my MacBook display in "projector only" mode. Ideally, I'd like to be able to move already-on MacBook from the lounge to my desk, plug in the external display, and have it work with minimal fuss while still using the MacBook keyboard and track-pad.
I'd like to log the hours I'm at work using the GPS on my iPhone. (It'd start logging when I get to work, then stop when I leave for lunch, etc) If possible, I'd like to be able to log the time at multiple locations, so I could see for each day time at home ~12h, work ~9h, commuting ~3h
I can't find any way to enable read receipts for messages on Mountain Lion. Read receipts are the iOS term for acknowledgements that show wether or not a message has been read yet or not. Does Messages for Mountain Lion support read receipts at all?
The title sounds very wired, but it is true :-) I have three different external monitors (in different offices) and two of them run very well. Only one (a Dell U2711) causes a strange behaviour on my MacBook: it logs off my user non-periodically! While I'm working, suddenly I see the login screen and after a login, all my programs are closed. When I open the applications again, they say "was not closed normally", for instance Google Chrome asks me whether it should re-open all tabs. This happens only, if I use this monitor. It is connected via DisplayPort.
I play a lot of games, including this same one, and I have never seen the GPU this hot before, and almost never hear the fans running so loudly and so rapidly. (I can't even recall a time when I could very clearly hear the fans running.) Could all this be a sign to a more bigger problem?
I often use the "Library" folder in my home folder ~/. The Library folder there (~/Library/) is shown (unhidden), and that is not the question.
I am considering setting a firmware password on my Retina MacBook Pro for security reasons. If I do this and later lose the password (or other such extenuating circumstances), how can the data be recovered? Is it even possible?
It's not written on the DVD itself and I don't have the DVD sleeve anymore.
I thought best is to delete the ActivePerl by running its uninstaller. I did that and also removed the 5.12.4 as well as the site_perl directory in /opt/local/lib/perl5.
In Mountain Lion's Preview.app the toolbar was changed quite drastically. While I can see why they did it, I found that it misses the Hand tool that one can use to move enlarged documents around with the mouse. How to get it back?
I see that if I use Preview.app its new method to move files to the cloud, I am not able to access it on my iPad or iPod. I have only one Mac, and an iPad and iPod touch. I use MS Word, Excel, etc., not iWork. Given the above, am I right that iCloud does not really serve me, with regards to hoping to shift some of my documents and work into the cloud, for nicely synced access and consumption on other devices?
When I ran into this problem previously, certain songs were having trouble uploading. I had resolved the problem by creating an AAC version via the right-click options and deleting the original version. In these cases, I think the files were ALWAYS mp3.
I want to set a master password for the whole machine, but it appears this can be easily bypassed. It is possible to reset the Mac OS X Password using the OS X installation disk and Password Reset utility. Isn't this a security flaw? Can this be stopped by other than encrypting the whole hard disk?
The new Safari 6 Web Inspector UI is a usability nightmare for me due to loads of tabs/panes with small icons and no labels. It also seems to complicate common tasks like showing a list of XHR requests and their responses. Is there any way to revert the look and feel of the Web Inspector in Safari 6 to (more) how it was in previous versions?
Setting aside pushing a physical power button, can I prevent non-administrator users from initiating a software shutdown? In Mac OS X Lion all users are allowed to shut down the workstation. How do I allow only the administrator to shut down the workstation?
In results of top commands, I sometimes see stuck. Apple's top(1) OS X Manual Page does not explain this use of the word. How, if it all, does stuck relate to the following? not responding – may be seen in Activity Monitor, in the Force Quit Applications dialogue of loginwindow, and so on .hang files – may be present at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports .spin files – may be present at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
What I need from all you amazing readers - 1. What is your analysis? How can this issue be resolved? Is there a way that I can restore all my personal info and my apps from my Time Machine backup but not the App Store or the System Prefs apps, so that they have a pure, clean install? Is there a way that I can restore all my personal info and my apps from my Time Machine backup but not the App Store or the System Prefs apps, so that they have a pure, clean install? If anyone needs to see a crash log, I have one sitting in a droplr note, so if you need to see how my System Prefs app crashed, just ask in the comments. If anyone needs to see a crash log, I have one sitting in a droplr note, so if you need to see how my System Prefs app crashed, just ask in the comments. Apologies - If this seems to be a very common problem and my question is repetitive, but StackExchange's filters showed me nothing specific to ML, so I asked.
I noticed that whenever I add files and delete them, their physical space remains on the disk drive. I uninstalled NTFS Tuxera and I still have the same problem.
I use Mountain Lion. How do I prevent Mail.app (6.0) from marking a message as read automatically, just because I have looked at it in the preview pane?
Im trying to mount files to an NTFS format drive, I read on the internet that either Tuxera NTFS or MacFuse work for such things. However TuxeraNTFS filled my USB drive with space that should be free after file deletion, and I had to use windows to access the drive and delete the hidden folders created by Tuxera. MacFuse never installed correctly and states that "MacFuse does not appear to be installed".. Is there any other reliable program that 100% works with NTFS drives ? Platform : rMBP Mountain Lion OSX 10.8 Thanks
I have some serious suspition that my boss installed some kind of spy software. Maybe a keylogger, screen capture or something to know what I do when he's not at the office. I have nothing to hide so I don't know if he doesn't tell me anything because he didn't find anything out of place or because I'm being paranoid and he's not spying me. Either way I want to be sure if I'm being spied because: I don't want to work for someone he doesn't trust me me It's illegal and I won't allow anyone to store my passwords (I do access my personal email, homebanking and Facebook account during lunch breaks) and personal information.
Have loved my Magic Trackpad since it first came out. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the system fails to recognize the Trackpad after a reboot. I need to pull the batteries, reload them, and power the Trackpad on... then the Mac sees it. But even then, it won't accept any clicks, it just moves the cursor around. I also tried an old fashioned USB mouse... it needs to be unplugged and plugged back in, but like the Trackpad, that allows cursor movement, but it also won't accept clicks (which makes me believe it is not a Trackpad problem). The machine is a MacPro 3,1 dual quad-core (2008).
I know Quicksilver has a plug in for quickly sending new mail messages without opening the Mail application. But the Quicksilver plug in doesn't work under Mountain Lion. How do you send a new mail message from Mail using Mountain Lion similar to the Quicksilver approach using preferably free application?
I have two computers -- the newest, a MacBook Pro, came with OS X 10.6, and the oldest, an iMac, is running 10.5.8. In order to upgrade from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion, one has to first upgrade to 10.6, so I thought I could just try the DVD that I got with my other computer to get this first step done. And it's not working (the installer says "Mac OS X 10.6 cannot be installed on this computer" although the computer appears to satisfy hardware all requirements--I wish this error message was a little more helpful).
Is it possible to choose a window and force it to be sticky (stay in front) if I switch to another application?
I want to move my Mail.app filtering rules from my old 10.6 machine to a fresh 10.8 install. I've seen people talking about moving these by copying over MessageRules.plist, but I haven't seen anyone address whether these are compatible between 10.6 and 10.8. Thanks!
Is it possible to use Time Machine such that I can restore the machine to a specific date in time? By "restore" I mean fully restoring the exact same files system wide.
One of the keys on my keyboard is non-responsive after cleaning it. I want to get the keyboard repaired rather than buy a new one. What is the Apple store policy for keyboard repairs? My iMac is out of warranty due to being 4+ years old.
Made the upgrade to Mountain lion when it came out, but since the upgrade I have noticed something occurring when my laptop goes to sleep be it idling or me putting it in a sleep mode, when I go to wake the laptop almost every time anything hooked into the USB ports don't respond and remain dormant as if the laptop was still in a sleep mode. Example one of the places I hook my Mac up has a wired USB keyboard, and a USB to VGA monitor connector which doesn't respond when I wake the laptop. Or another place where I have 2 USB Monitor connections, a USB based harddrive toaster. All of which stop responding after the laptop sleeps. I have to pull the USB's out and plug them back in to make them work again and only after I wake the laptop.
I've recently upgraded one of the machines in our office to Mountain Lion. Since doing so, when connecting to (or browsing to via Finder) our Windows 2008 R2 file server, some shares no longer appear in the list of available shares on that server. Not all shares have disappeared, only five out of approximately fifteen shares are not visible.
I have the following AppleScript, which is triggered by iCal to act as my alarm clock: I've also used 'play front document' and 'play document 1' for the block marked with dashes. The problem is, System Preferences wakes up the computer on time (from sleep, 5 minutes before the script is triggered). The script works, opening the file and turning up the computer's volume.
Does anyone know where you can disable the join/leave messages in group chats in iMessages? In low-traffic chats it's utterly annoying to have scrollbacks full of 'xxx joined the chat.'/'yyy left the chat.' Thanks.
It's unclear to me how to acquire and manage podcasts in Apple's Podcasts app, especially how the syncing of podcasts using iTunes works with that app. As others have reported elsewhere, the relationship between these two methods of subscribing to and tracking the "reading" of podcasts can be confusing.
I understand that DHCP server features will be "removed" from OS X Server with Mountain Lion and that there will be no way to manage these using the only remaining app for managing server features (Server). However, I also gather that it is possible to not only preserve DHCP server settings, but continue to manage them under Mountain Lion Server, if one is careful to follow certain steps. But it's not entirely clear exactly what those steps are, and I don't want to undertake an upgrade at the risk of loosing (even for a second) critical settings and functionality (my entire network has static IP addresses assigned by Lion Server).
Is it possible to remove/uninstall Quicktime Player 7? I installed it back when my system was running Snow Leopard and now I'm on Mountain Lion I no longer need it but I can't see a way to remove it.
I have both an internal and external keyboard but the key-repeat has stopped working. I've tried changing both 'Key Repeat' and 'Delay Until Repeat' as shown below but no setting seems to be helping.
When I login to iTunes or Skype the fonts all show up as boxes. No fonts were removed on installed; none are disabled and all the normal ones show up. Doesn't happen on any web site; only seems to be locally installed programs. Uninstalled and reinstalled and programs still don't work. Example Image
I have a lot of bookmarks, and I'm used to navigating by typing in the first few letters of each bookmark and using the arrow keys to select the correct one. In Safari 6, however, only the first two results are bookmarks, then there are around 7 search suggestions, and then the rest of my bookmarks. Is there any way to disable these search suggestions?
I'm doing more and more of my web browsing on my iPad these days. One of the downsides is that many of the sites I frequent force me to click through a "please install our iPad app" nag screen before allowing me to visit the site. At first it was just a few sites. Now it's becoming almost intolerable.
I have an old Apple TV ("2nd generation") and have just purchased a new one as a replacement. How do I move all my settings from the old one to the new one?
On Snow Leopard (10.6), I could wake my Mac by connecting a USB device - in my case, switching on a USB external HDD. Now, after upgrading to Mountain Lion (10.8), when I connect the USB device, the Mac wakes up and then immediately goes back to sleep.
I would like to have a (Mountain) Lion VM that I configure in a specific way, and store that in a particular place on the the system hard drive. This is simple enough.
For some reason when the icon for the home folder is clicked it opens up photo booth. I changed what application it uses and the finder stays open.
I'm planning to buy a new high-end macbook air and found that there're different part numbers for the same product: MD232LL/A and Z0ND0002Z. What is the difference between these two? Is it just about the released country or do they have different specs actually? I appreciate your help in advance!
I am interested in purchasing a projector that has native resolution of 1024x768. The projector has HDMI connector and VGA connector. I want to connect it to my Mac Pro computer which has only DVI connectors. Can I simply connect a DVI cable to my Mac and then attach this cable to the projector with a DVI/HDMI adapter? Will this maintain high quality video?
I'm trying to mount a RAM disk on startup with this: /Users/Aram/Development/Tools/ramdisk.sh com.aram.ramdisk.plist And then running: sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.aram.ramdisk.plist sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.aram.ramdisk.plist But I get these in the console: It works if I set KeepAlive to true, but then it creates a RAM disk every 10 seconds. Is there a way to delay the script for 10 seconds before running?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion, there are a lot of differences in Safari 6. Have the four features below been relocated? If not relocated, are there fixes? Activity window (previously: Window -> Activity) is gone. Bonjour access from the bookmarks menu is gone. Ability to empty cache (previously: Safari -> Empty Cache) is gone. delete/backspace key no longer works for going to the previous page.
Sometime I just open a doc for viewing, Mac office 2011 keep asking me to save doc that I didn't make change. I've been experiencing this gimmick for the last 12 months. And it got to stop since it was so annoying. My office build id 14.0.0 (100825) FYR
The album artwork is not appearing on my iPhone (6GB, 4G) but it appears on my computer. How do I fix this?
So this happened a while ago, and I thought it would resolve itself eventually, but it hasn't, so I'll just ask here. I was updating my apps and clicked the "Update All" button in the App Store. However, the applications didn't update; the loading bar showed up on the applications but no update progress is being shown. Additionally, below the loading bar is the name of the application which is unusual, as when an application updates, "Waiting...", "Loading...", or "Installing..." are shown. Here's an image:
Currently I have no way to know if my machine is being remotely viewed by our tech support, and would prefer to know, given the massive privacy breach that would entail should this be happening. I am running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Running I know this service is running: My knowledge of administration of Macs on a network is limited, so I don't know what tools allow this.
In Mountain Lion the OS X internal dictionary that you can fire up by right clicking a word, or by using the dashboard widget, seems to have gained at least one new language: German. Since German is my main language, but I also read a lot of English texts and website, I'd like to switch the dictionary languages on the fly. How can I do this?
My OS X does not allow me to update to current XCode software. With the new XCode and iOS SDK, the sourcecode is compiled with a newer compiler which has some new syntax options which are missing on my old platform.
If I create an OmniGraffle document, add a text box with “Test” in red in size 28, I can change the text with this snippet of AppleScript: But this will also change the color, font size and other styling attributes to some defaults. I have an old AppleScript script which did something like the one below to change the text without changing the styling attributes by setting the “text” property of the “text” of the “solid”. The AppleScript dictionary of OmniGraffle Pro says that the “text” property of a “text” is the “The actual text content.”
I would like to install Mac OS Mountain Lion in my Intel Core i3 processor. I have: a Mac OS .DMG file Windows 7 OS Is it possible to make installation disk of Mac OS in Windows 7
When I look into Console (/Applications...), I see a lot of entries that talk about programs I have uninstalled a long time ago, for instance The "launch2Net" was uninstalled some years ago! The same thing for "Carbon Copy Cloner", a program I tested some time ago... how can I avoid the causes for those entries? Is there a cleanup?
I have searched endlessly on the Internet to find a solution, but haven't found a single useful thing. So I'll ask you guys. Is there any way to share iPad 2's 3G Internet with my MacBook ? If possible without jailbreak? If it is impossible, does anyone know ways around it to make it possible?
If I have a document open in full-screen mode in Preview, and other documents open in windowed mode, I can switch FROM the full-screen window to other applications with CMD+TAB, and I can cycle the other windows with CMD+` , but how can I, with the keyboard, switch back to the fullscreen window?
I'm wondering if is possible to restore the "new book" tag that you can see on the top right corner of the new books uploaded or bought within iBooks (iOS) (visible on the following image)  My use case, is that often I upload a book in whatever format I have it and checks if it has been uploaded fine, however as soon as it was opened for the first time the "new tag" vanishes and since this is still a book I will read I would like to restore the tag. Does any of you know if there is a way to do that?
I installed server and fiddling around settings and I unchecked administer this account and the server crashed immediately. Now I am listed as standard user and cannot perform any changes:
I am trying to sign some code for an application. I can log into my Mac (Mountain Lion) and do this easily: '/path/to/appfile/mounted/elsewhere.app' is the path to the .app file which is actually hosted via Samba on another server. However, if I ssh into the Mac and run the same command I get:
I tried to remove spotlight form the menu bar with the following trick: Unfortunately if I repair disk permissions and reboot at some point (or just simply reboot some people tell me), the annoying spotlight thing is back in the menu bar.
I'm from a Linux background trying to get used to the differences with Mac OS X. I've gotten resigned to the fact that to switch from one window to another I first need to switch Apps via CMD+Tab and then windows via CMD+`. This isn't too much of a problem as the majority of my windows are under X11 anyway.
Background: Story: A colleague of mine told me about 1Password and it seems good to me. I am always trying to use tools which Mac OS X itself gives me, so I've given the Keychain a try. It seems satisfying, but I don't know how to tell Google Chrome to use my specific keychain. I need it to separate saved stuff for work and for private (syncing private to work, but separated from work data). Stuff: Google Chrome 21.0.1180.57 (Fully updated) Mac OS X Lion (Fully updated) OS X Mountain Lion (Fully updated) Question: How do I tell to Chrome to use a specific keychain and to save data from/to this keychain?
I've bought a (very cheap) dock for my iPhone 4, the dock has a line out jack on the back. I have noticed that when the phone is in the dock, the sound comes out only from the line out and not from the internal speakers. This makes impossible to use any third party alarm application because no sound plays without connecting some external speaker. Only the ringtones play, so the default Clock app works and plays the alarm sound. Is there any software option to force the iPhone to use the internal speakers also when connected to a dock with a line out?
I wonder if it's possible to open a program in Lion fullscreen mode via the Terminal. I want to write a short script which starts a bunch of programs in fullscreen mode, so that I only have to click once to start my working environment.
When I take a picture on my iPhone, the photo is going to PhotoStream and to Camera Roll. My way of importing the pictures to my Mac was just to go in the PhotoStream folder of Aperture, and copy the pictures into some particular project, that way, the picture is "disconnected" from PhotoStream and will stay forever in my mac. But that means I now have 1000+ pictures in my iPhone, and the backup to iCloud is not working anymore.
I have to manage a shared OSX workstation that is used by a rotating cast of characters throughout the year. The login screen quickly becomes cumbersome when users that aren't even around for a while are listed and cluttering up the clumsy horizontal scroll. How can I clean up the login screen without nuking accounts that would need to get re-created at a later time? Additionally, when somebody is gone for an extended period I would like their account to be locked so it can't be used locally or remotely, but I don't want to nuke users passwords, when they come back a quick admin action should get them back into the system again?
I recently did a clean Mountain Lion install, after which I restored some important Pages documents from a backup HD. Now, when I try to open these documents in Pages, I get the following error:
I recently bought a set of Logitech H800 headphones for my Mac. Any time I connect them via bluetooth, iTunes launches. Is there a way to stop iTunes from launching just because I've connected a bluetooth device?
The following command entered in Terminal will enable the Debug menu in iCal (Lion): defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu YES I would like to accomplish the same thing in Calendar (Mountain Lion).
In Calendar, I have a number of "iCloud" calendars that I share with my wife. ("Family", "Me", "Her", etc.) so we can see when we're both free/busy.
Btw, Apple authorized service provider confirmed, GPU is the culprit and cost me Logic board upgrade. To add oil to the fire, they also said battery is dead too (Service status)
I work on a Mac, but most of my users are on Windows. What's an easy way to test my websites in IE 7, 8, & 9? Wine seems kinda buggy and unfriendly.
I am looking for a password manager that is compatible with open-source password database files, such as those used by KeePass (.kdb) or PasswordSafe (.psafe3). Both of those projects have terrible Mac clients - I'm looking for something a little more polished, but can still share password databases with Windows and Linux users.
I'm going on holiday and downloaded some offline maps app, I was just wondering if the location services (GPS?) work without any data i.e Wifi for 3G on the iPad 2?
I'd like to have a way to auto-deleted item in the basket, based upon the time they come in (oldest to be deleted first)...
I'm pretty sure that the title is unclear, I'm going to explain it: We have to update 11 Macs, so we bought 11 copies of Mountain Lion (from the online store, not the App Store) and we received the Redeem codes. We have just a little doubt, we don't know if we can download just one installer and use it for every Mac we have or we have to download the installer (via the app store, using the code) for every Mac. Can you let me know?
How can I install US International Keyboard Layout in Mountain Lion (step by step, please!)?
How often does Power Nap check for updates or back up?
I have 5 email accounts on my iPhone 4S. One is my work email and is on a Microsoft Exchange. The other 4 are personal accounts and are Gmail accounts. I have turned on notifications so I will be notified of incoming emails. The only account that sends me notifications is my work email.
I tried installing the python27 and python32 packages via MacPorts in Mac OS X 10.6.8. It includes the standard IDLE, Python Launcher, and Build Applet applications. However, when I start them, their icons would bounce briefly in the dock then disappear. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem so the IDLE (and other applications) installed via MacPorts can start and function correctly? Thank you! BTW, having only one Python version installed by MacPorts didn't help.
When I run the strings command on the executable file in most OS X apps (•.app/Contents/MacOS/•), I get a list of routine names, possible hidden preferences, etc. When I run the command on the Dock executable, I get garbage. What makes the Dock executable different from most other Mac programs?
I've decided to start using my Google Calendar through iCal on my Mac. Although I've got a question regarding an annoying issue I'm having.
Is there something wrong with Logitech's device in this case, or is there something I can do in the scope of Apple that can help with this issue? I would think the bluetooth connectivity is pretty standard across the board, so I'm hoping for the latter. Essentially I currently can use either input or output, but not both. Is there a way to force the devices to not automatically change when I manually change the other devices?
I'm looking for a Mac (and/or iPhone) app that allows me to post to both Twitter and Facebook in one action. The trick is that I only want the app to push data. I don't want it to pull down any content from either services. The reasoning behind this is that I want to be able to make a post without moving the reference point in Twitter for the last thing I've read (a la TweetDeck). Does such an App exist?
Is it possible to increase the size of my Windows partition without having to wipe the entire thing?
After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion, my MBP does not show icons for external drives on the desktop any more. In the Finder preferences, “External disks” is checked under “Show these items on the desktop”. Any ideas?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I'm receiving new email notifications. I previously turned these off in the Mail application. How do I turn them off now?
I love the new Messages app in Mountain Lion, but there seems to be an issue while using it with a Yahoo account. My Yahoo account does not reconnect after the machine goes into standby or after a restart, I always have to manually connect that account, while other accounts work fine.
I just got a new Mac and it comes with Safari 6 installed. I've opened up the Safari 6 web inspector tools and now I can't find some of the tools I used before in Safari 5.
So I updated to Mountain Lion recently, and as far as I can tell everything has been great. Except that Dock doesn’t really function as it is supposed to. It shows up, but when I launch an application from it, it does not recognize that the application is running. The only app that it recognizes as open is Finder. Also (and I’m assuming that this is coming from the same problem), when I do ⌘ + tab it only shows Finder as an open application (like the Dock). Is there a way that I can maybe restart the dock? Thanks, Asher
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion I have had endless problems with Apps and firefox. My current issue is that I am unable to download files using firefox ever since the update. I get a messagebox saying the error /Users/username/Downloads could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred. Try saving to a different location.
The directory that was dragged will then open in the application it was dragged to (if the app accepts the path). What happens at the low level?
I have a simple AppleScript that works exactly as expected when run on its own, ether as an app, directly from within ScriptDebugger or Script Editor, or as an element of an Automation from within Automator:  However, when I attempt to run this Automation as a Service, for example by saving it as a Service and running it from the Services menu
I am trying to update MacPorts but get the following error. When I follow https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
When I delete Mac App Store apps in Launchpad, does it delete related files in the Library folders too? I mean files like preferences, application support files etc.
If every registered Apple developer have a certificate for signing their apps. Is that certificate also good for signing mails? And by this, I also mean if their certificate is backed up by a root authority CA recognized by other operative systems.
Whenever I want to reply to an iCal event it opens up Mail.app to send the response. I don't use Mail.app and use Sparrow instead. Sparrow is set as the default mail client but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there any way to make iCal not open up Mail.app and use "Insert any other mail client here" instead
I upgraded my MacBook (mid 2010, 13.3in) to Mountain Lion, and ever since then iTunes Match has been stuck on Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes library. It will fill up about 60% of the progress bar and then either stop or restart step 1 again. I’ve tried quitting iTunes and reopening it, and also restarting my computer, both to no avail. Is there anything I can do? Thanks EDIT: It finally finished step 1 (after hours of waiting and starting it again when it stopped), but now it stops and has to be manually started again after matching about a thousand tracks.
I'm still on Lion, and recently noticed that a lot of my apps are being updated with Notification Center support. Since I'm not on Mountain Lion and therefore don't have Notification Center, I won't be able to use these new features. However, I do have Growl, and was wondering if there is some tweak or hack that I could use to forward these notifications to Growl instead. Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to play videos from my Mac to my Apple TV and am getting the error "cannot proceed. vlc not found". I've tried running older versions of the software and updating VLC both to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. linked from: Can I stream any video played with VLC player to Apple TV?
I've created an Automator service that creates a reminder based on the selected text. What I really want is to create a keyboard shortcut that gets the same result that you get by dragging an email into the Reminders.app. The service I have just uses the text to create the title of the reminder, but when you drag an email into Reminders.app it uses the subject of the email as the title and adds a link to the email its self. Is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut for this action or an Automator service?
The pictures should be accessed directly from the server. No manual downloading or syncing back and forth.
I'm having trouble installing a PHP native extension: GnuPG. Here's what I've tried so far. First: Output from the second command ends like so: So, I tried installing manually, guessing at some values based on output of port contents gpgme and port contents gnupg...
A friend is having trouble with her email on her iPhone and iPad. If she reads a message on her computer, it doesn't show as read on her iDevice and vice versa. She's with Bell/Sympatico, and from what I understand, Bell uses POP3 for its incoming mail and POP3 doesn't sync across devices. Are we hosed, or is there a way around this?
I got an iPhone 4S not too long ago, maybe a month or so. I already have it set up and I bought all of my music on iTunes. I am getting a MacBook Pro soon, and I want to load the music I have on my phone onto the MacBook without deleting all of my data on my phone. Is this possible? It would be really helpful.
I use Google Voice as my main line now adays. However, having to leave Google Chrome open and logged into Gmail is getting in my way...
I am trying to use SSH and log in from the terminal into a Linux VPS. I have tried a few variations around the following: and keep getting: I have verified that my VPS works fine logging in from Windows with Putty, so I am sure I have something mixed up. What is the format I should write this SSH command in?
Besides the app's package, is there a way to find where it stores its other files from during installation? Are they only allowed to install into the "Library" folders, or are there other places? I want to wipe my drive and do a fresh install when I upgrade to Mountain Lion.
After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion the Wi-Fi on my 2010 MBP basically stopped working. It would stay connected for a few minutes at a time and then drop the connection, connect, drop, etc. My Wi-Fi access point continued to work with all other devices - it just stopped working on this one machine. It appears that this issue is also in Lion - there are many threads on discussions.apple.com with users complaining about similar issues: *=URL=* *=URL=* https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3235078?start=0&tstart=0
I’m experiencing a number of issues with the Mountain Lion Notification Center and Dock. Just wanted to check whether anyone else is having similar problems.
I am wanting to buy a MacBook Pro Retina but am currently really nervous about doing so. I've read that everything seems to run well on the Retina and is usable as long as you have the latest graphics drivers and you bump the font to 150%.
So in trying to create an MBR partition of my hard drive which I could then use to boot a solaris-derivative OS using rEFIt, I messed up. Rather than a hard drive with a primary GUID partition map scheme to boot OS X 10.7 from, and an auxiliary partition with an MBR scheme for non-Mac OS's, I now have a hard drive that strangely enough, is formatted with an MBR scheme. Additionally, the very helpful recovery HD is gone, and I don't think i'll be able to reinstall it (*=URL=* without a normally formatted HD. In Terminal: In Disk Utility: Not surprisingly, this initially caused some problems in that neither Macintosh HD nor the Recovery HD were being seen by EFI, but I was able to erase the hard drive, and restored my OS via Time Machine.
I'm trying to do a clean install of Mountain Lion but I'm not being able to format my partition. I previously had Lion, encrypted the disk, then upgraded to Mountain Lion, then booted into recovery mode to format & reinstall Mountain Lion.
In Activity Monitor, there are a couple fields: "PID", "Process Name", "User", "%CPU", "Threads", "Real Mem", and "Kind". I'm not familiar with the inner workings of computers and the related technical terms, but I've always thought the "%CPU" and "Real Mem" would be synonymous. However, when I look the running processes in Activity Monitor, I see this:
I have installed MySql on a Mac Mini that I want to use as a dev database server. I have created a toy database on the server. I have created a wireless network using Airport. I now want to connect to the database from a MySql client on my Macbook Air. I am using the root user with no security at all (hey, it's a toy database), but cannot connect as the Macbook is not allowed to connect. What do I need to do to configure my WLAN so that the client can see the server?
I downloaded Mountain Lion from App Store and installed it. I have not set Time Machine and I installed Mountain Lion one hour ago (since posting this question). The dmg file is not in Applications folder anymore. How to recover Mountain Lion's dmg file after installation?
Whenever I open an application not downloaded from the App store (or a trusted vendor) I get a warning. The warning reminds me a bit of the awful window popup that comes up every time you want to open an executable that says something to the effect "are you really sure you want to open this?". What else about Mountain Lion makes it more security conscious?
Is there an app for iPhone/iPad to record the audio output streaming of any other app ? I need to record the audio streamed from other apps and not the audio from the microphone. thanks
I have got a MacBook pro with retina display. Now I want to use a trackpad and keyboard and an external screen on the MacBook. Can I close the MacBook now to keep working or does this initiate the standby so I can't use the external devices anymore?
I'm listening to music on my iPhone. For some reason I need to pause it, so I press the button on my iPhone earbud thingies. Then when I start the music up again, it very often lags like crazy. The music played fine before, but after I resume, it's just impossible to listen to. Take up my phone and turn on the screen and lagging often goes away. Turn the screen off again and lagging sometimes comes back. Sometimes not.
I am running my Windows 8 RP on my MacBook Pro Retina. Everything's going smooth, but I have problems with my keyboard and trackpad drivers because I can't make any changes to them since BootCamp control panel won't start (some error with insufficient privileges for the startup disk). Now, are there any possibilities to configure my keyboard (F-keys) and trackpad (tap to click and so on) without using Boot Camp Assistant?
How to I block a Yahoo messenger contact that is spamming me in Messages application? I tried Buddied > Remove buddy but it has not effect.
I have a bunch of .eml files that contain the message part encoded as Up to OS X Lion, Mail and Quick View both happily displayed the message. The new Mail 6.0 included in Mountain Lion seems to ignore this part of the message and shows only a blank sheet (same for Quick View, of course). Any ideas if that is intended or a bug and how I could resolve this?
I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the solution I'm looking for), so: how can this behavior be prevented? (I'm on Mountain Lion)
MBA 11" 2012 model, ML upgraded from Lion User accounts: admin admin normal user guest
I don't have a Lion license and I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard). If I buy Mountain Lion, can I downgrade to Lion?
This may be obvious to many , but is it possible to have a current generation Mac Mini with Nvidia graphics card option . I looked into the spec sheet on Apple website which says that it ships with AMD graphics card . I am looking for the one that has Nvidia graphics card. I've searched over Google and did not find a plausible answer (but I'm a bit rushed and may have mislooked the answer).
After recently upgrading to Mountain Lion, I had no problems with my settings or personalization of my environment. However, all of a sudden (yesterday) and for no reason I've been able to discern, Safari (and Safari alone) is now minimizing to the dock in a very different way.
I've found myself switching between the 1440x900 and 1920x1200 "effective resolution" setting depending on what I'm doing (need more space on screen, etc). Is there a way to toggle between these two modes with a keyboard shortcut? Can I invoke one mode with a keyboard shortcut? Alternatively, can this be done via an AppleScript (and therefore bound to a keyboard shortcut)?
I'm using Mountain Lion. My default calendar is "Personal". But I also have a "Work" calendar. I'd like to be able to create a new event on the Work calendar by doing something like Cmd + click. In Calendar, is there a way to create an event for a specific calendar rather than having it first get assigned to the default calendar, then clicking to edit the event and then changing the calendar?
I'm using Remote Desktop for Mac on my base Retina MBP. Remote Desktop is incredibly slow for connecting to my Windows 7 PC.
I noticed that its possible to add custom apps to the launchpad by dragging apps to the launchpad on the dock. However I removed it from dock, but still want to add an application without dragging it all the way to the dock. Is there a right click option or something similar that allows such feature ? Platform : rMBP Mountain Lion V 10.8
I upgraded Safari to version 6 on OS X Lion 10.7.4 The browser is really fast but with one problem, it keeps suddenly crashing and closing. Relaunching it wont prompt with the usual suspects: "Ignore" and "Report to Apple".
How can I directly access apps with single hot-keys? Possible solutions which I don't get to work:
I updated to Mountain Lion from Lion and I noticed that my network drives are no longer shown in Finder's sidebar under Devices. Under preferences I have all checkboxes ticked. And when I click on "My MacBook Pro" I see the Network drives mounted but when I drag them to Devices (like I used to in Lion) they don't "stick".
Now I can't see or mount my data partition. I'm wondering if there's a problem with the MBR. In Disk Utility it shows up as "disk0s4", but it's greyed out. Any ideas on how I can mount the data partition so I can get my data off it? For diskutil list disk0 the result is: Here's the result of diskutil info /dev/disk0s4
Prior to version 6.0 Safari had no features for managing passwords distinct from the system wide support provided by Keychain:  but Safari 6.0 adds a new tab in its Preferences dialog for saving and managing passwords for websites:
I've been using iMessage with a friend of mine over the past two days. When I get the message on my Mac, I also get the message on my phone. That's great, BUT why all the alerts and buzzes on my iPhone? It's very annoying. Should iMessage not see me receiving the message on my Mac and silently update my iPhone?
I have a Time Capsule that I share with others in the office. I control the base station and create accounts for others to backup their machines with Time Machine i.e., using I create accounts and a password for them (or they're free to enter it on my machine), but I also keep getting requests for password resets or changing passwords, which makes it a pain — people need to come to my machine to do it. Is there a way to allow users to change their passwords whenever they choose from the convenience of their machine? I'm using the Time Capsule with Mountain Lion (as are most others, and some with Lion).
I know that 10.8 is out now, but we have older Macs that will not work under 10.8, as they do not have Intel processors. Can we still buy and get 10.7, which I believe will support older CPUs?
I've used Time Machine on my Mac to perform backups of my Lion install. My SSD failed and I installed Mountain Lion on my machine. Now, I want to recover my private key from my backup so I can continue to sign my iOS apps without having to regenerate all of the certificates and provisioning profiles online.
My old, black (irony), pre-unibody (2009?) MacBook won't properly turn on. The screen just stays black. I can't hear the startup sound and the keyboard caps lock light won't shine, either. The power light, hard drive, and fans both start and work. I tried connecting it to TV (via mini-DVI to HDMI adapter) and I can't see anything, although TV thinks that there is some signal coming.
Does anybody know how can I prevent a TrueCrypt volume from dismounting after "fast user switching" on Mountain Lion?
I am trying to use soundfonts with GarageBand '11 (version 6.0.5). I downloaded 2 files from HammerSound, I put them in Library > ...Banks, and, in GarageBand, I created a new project, went to the right side and set "DLSMusicDevice" below "sound generator".
If I upgrade to a new iPad will all of my Amazon content be moved over?
The play/pause keyboard buttons always launch iTunes. I want to use a Subsonic client, Thumper. The buttons control Thumper correctly, but I want to prevent iTunes launching. There was a hacky solution available previously, but that no longer works. Is there a way to disable this iTunes behaviour?
Seemingly randomly throughout the day, my mac will "whoosh" at me. I set up Messages, but whenever I switch to Messages after the whoosh, I don't have any new messages and usually my buddies are set to Away status anyway. Notification center is empty with "No new notifications."
My folks are using a PC running WinXP to control a non-Apple wifi-router. The PC crashes often, bringing down with it the wifi network. They no longer actually use the PC, just the iPad, but they keep the PC to control the router.
I have a gesture for Exposé so I need another button (the F3) to do the same. I'd love to replace F3 to show/hide the MacBartender app.
Text in the address bar of Safari 6.0 is displayed differently than in previous versions. Prior to 6.0, all text was black
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion. So far, so good. Great upgrade. I also upgraded to Pages '09 latest version: 4.2.
I'm a little concerned about upgrading to Mountain Lion right now because I'm not sure how some of the data I have on my machine will get shoehorned into Mountain Lion's new apps and features. Does "Notes" start out clean? Does it import your To-Dos from Mail (the way Notes would sync before iOS 6/ML)? Or does it import notes from Stickies?
I'm running Lion, soon to upgrade to Mountain Lion once I can ensure compatibility with installed apps, on an MBPR, and in the meantime I'm being driven crazy by the keyboard backlight. Here's the deal: you may have heard about people who have issues with an undersensitive ambient light sensor, viz.: people turn on "automatically illuminate keyboard in low light" in System Prefs -> Keyboard, and then find that the light comes on too frequently. They are helpfully informed to disable the automatic illumination, and manually to turn the light off using the F5 and F6 keys (actually, technically, the keyboard light down and keyboard light up keys when not using fn modifier). Here's the funny thing: I have the "automatically illuminate" setting turned OFF, and I use the keyboard light keys to turn the keyboard light off. Yet within a second, the light is back on. Seriously! Procedures to reproduce: Be doing anything Keyboard light is on Press keyboard light dim button -- but whatever is rep
I toggle the "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" setting very often and would like to automate it via a script (or a keyboard shortcut). Is it possible? I've tried to Google the right arguments for defaults write ... but unsuccessfully.
There is an iMac in our lab at university, running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. It is never used, so we have taken to using it to play music, as we can SSH to it, and it does not require any permissions to play music (using afplay). Is there any way to stream radio, or any other music stream from the command line?
In Lion I always used Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏ to put my display to sleep when I walked away from my computer. The system would continue running and not go to sleep. Now in Mountain Lion when I put the display to sleep, the system sometimes decides to go to sleep as well.
I am attempting to create a switch on my iPhone charging wire so that I can use my device to test iOS applications I'm creating on my Mac without actually charging the device. When I'm working on an app my devices are often charged to 100% and have to be kept charging while I'm working, often for days on end.
I was trying out the Magic Window timelapse wallpaper app and noticed that GfxCardStatus changed to discrete as soon as I loaded the application. It consumes 79.7mb of real memory. Does this mean there is a big impact on battery life ? How can I know for sure ? rMBP Mountain Lion OSX 10.8
So last night my wifes laptop died big time. I could only boot up in safe mode and clearing pram / smc wasn't helping so I decided to wipe the hard drive and install Mountain Lion. I booted it in safe mode and copied any important files over. Then I wiped the drive and installed ML, which has now fixed the problem.
I generally switch between my 4S and a Windows Phone; however, it isn't practical to have a Spotify paid account and a Zune Pass, although I much prefer the desktop software of the latter. I love the way a Zune Pass lets you download music and adds it to your phone library. Spotify (on ios and windows phone) keeps the music contained to your app and is way too playlist focused for my tastes. Is there anything for iOS that interfaces with your library?
This just started happening today. I have no idea what is causing it. No useful system.log information. I tried rebuilding the envelope files to no avail.
Thinking of buying the 27" iMac---I've given up waiting for the new desktop. Only to be used for my images, files up to 1GB, no gaming, no video production. Will the 6970 card be worth the extra money?
How do I move from text item to text item using the keyboard in Powerpoint? (Apologies for the Windows keyboard terminology in the following)
If a small business wanted to share a common database between all of its employees, is it possible to create a single iCloud account for a specific App rather than for all the iCloud related software on the iOS device?
How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion? I want to use my knowledge of regular expressions to make my search results more exact.
I upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion today and found that I no longer have autoconf installed, is there a specific way to restore that or will I need to manually compile it etc? I have XCode 4.4 installed with Command Line Utilities downloaded and installed as well. Thanks for the information!
I'm a developer and often times I need to compile some packages or maybe even run some codes for couple of hours. Recently I have noticed that whenever I use Homebrew to install something, it defaults to source, and compilation causes my CPU temp to go around 98 Celsius . Some of the compiles are quite long, couple of minutes, and I'm worried this might harm my MacBookAir. Should I be worried about this 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir? And if so, how can I fix that?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I cannot run my workflows with Automator Runner anymore. The option to do that in the context menu is still there, but nothing happens, no errors, no console logs. Opening them with Automator itself and running them from there still works. How to make my workflows run with Automator Runner after upgrading to Mountain Lion?
I am looking for a stock notifier for osx (macbook pro). Is there anything available ? Perhaps, integrated with Growl or Osx notifications.
Apple provides and recommends use of Install OS X Mountain Lion.app that is, "the app" – in its entirety. For Build 12A269 for OS X 10.8, the version of the app is 1.3.12 (351). Ignoring parts of the app – with InstallESD.dmg alone: installation may succeed. (The same is true for Lion when parts of Install Mac OS X Lion.app are not used for installation.) The full list of: things that do not occur, things that may not succeed, when installation is attempted or performed with something other than the app. My initial plan is to accept an answer that provides either: the fullest list; or the best set of evidence for a partial list. com.apple.Boot.plist(5) OS X Manual Page – page dated March 17, 2011 for 10.7.4, the same date appears on the page within 10.8. For Mountain Lion on some types of hardware, there may be a unique distribution (ESD). Food for thought, just part of the Lion experience: June 2012 discussion of Downloading Hardware Specific Lion Installers (cache)(copy).
I frequently use grep's context command line options (-A, -B, and -C), but occasionally I want to view the whole file with matching expressions highlighted. To accomplish this currently I simply specify -C 999999999, but this seems silly. Is there an option within OS X's bundled grep that will allow me to easily take advantage of grep's matching and colorizing features, without hiding any file content?
I have used many iterations of iTunes to download videos on Windows platform . However , only one iteration of iTunes the pause option did what it said , it paused the video to the point where I downloaded and restarts downloading where I left off ; something like the downthemall addon on Firefox . Now is that a feature or a bug of iTunes software on Windows platform or this is how every downloads using iTunes is supposed to work. I often have to download large files ; and restarting from the initial position is a havoc .
Backspace/Delete ⌫ no longer works as a back button in Safari 6. How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6?
As a newbie, I decided to use Migration Assistant to copy my files from my Sony Viao windows platform to a newly purchased macbook pro. Within the process the connection was interrupted, as it is taking ages to copy 300GB. The decision was made to copy them on a HDD and manually move them to the Mac. However, I kept on looking for the files which were processed halfway, I am not sure where I could find them.
I have some automated tasks in the form of AppleScripts which I would schedule to run overnight via an iCal event. The event would simply be set to "run script" at "0 minutes before the event" and I'd select the various scripts to run. Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion, however, "run script" is now just "open file" and the scripts don't run, they just open in AppleScript Editor. I tried compiling the scripts into applications to see if I could select those to be opened instead, but they're not available to select from the event (they're greyed out). How can I get Calendar to run my scripts? Conversely, is there a better way to schedule scripts to run?
The article Force your Mac to sort folders on top of files (windows style), lets the Finder change its sorting order to first show folders and next all files. This trick doesn't seem to work with Mountain Lion, InfoPlist.strings seems to be a binary file. Do you know how to edit InfoPlist.strings in Mountain Lion?
Immediately after pressing "purchase" for an album in iTunes, a number "1" quickly flashes next to download icon at bottom of screen. However, album never shows up in "purchased" or "downloaded" files or in my library. I hit "purchase" twice, same thing both times. I'm scared to keep trying, what if all of my purchase attempts suddenly go thru and it wipes all of my money from my iTunes account?!
It seems to be bad design that I can not just scroll down on the month view of Calendar, so that the grid just moves up. Going prev/next through the months is very uncomfortable any time you are dealing with periods of time that span from one month to the next!
Ever since iCloud Calendar became publicly available I have used it to arrange my schedule. I meet with people from other countries on a regular basis and I'd like the Calendar reminder emails I send to people when setting up a meeting to be in English. Unfortunately, that's not the case. iCloud always sends my meeting invites in my native language (the country my AppleID is assigned to). It seems that iCloud is ignoring my OS and iCloud web interface language choice, as they're both set to English. Is there a way to change the default language of Calendar reminders somewhere?
System Preferences > Mail Calendar, select the iCloud account and check the sync notes box, then click add. It unchecked itself after I quit system preferences.
I use Gotomypc which is either a Java applet or an App. The Gotomypc applet will launch under Firefox or Safari but not Chrome. When I launch the app under chrome I get the yellow status bar at the top that says: "Java is required for some elements on this page". When I click the install button it simply takes me to this generic page *=URL=* How to get Java applets working with Chrome?
Messages.app is a one of my favorite applications now-a-days because it allows me to reach my friends portable devices and computers with great ease and speed. But it didn't really hit the bar with looking as great as messages did on iOS. Images sent don't have proper padding in the bubbles, the typography is awful, and you know what - the whole bubble thing isn't that great anyways.
In Mountain Lion there is a "tweet sheet" when sharing from either notification center or an app. The default hotkey for "send tweet" is CMDShiftD. I'd like to use something like CMDRETURN. Is there a way to remap this?
I have a MacBook Retina running Windows 8 RP, with the driver that comes with Boot Camp. I understand why running in a none native resolution like 1920x1200 is grainy. But 1440x900 is exactly half resolution of the native 2880x1800 resolution, meaning that there are 4 pixels to paint 1 pixels (aka pixel doubling), and thus should look great. When running 1280x720 on my 27" Cinema Display (exactly half of 1560x1440) the picture is sharp and crisp, so why is this a problem on the Retina display?
Growl notifications can be styled using css. Has anyone made any inroads on styling the notifications in Notification Center in Mountain Lion?
I used the Unsubscribe plugin for Mail.app, but it is now a part of TrustedID (*=URL=* so now I can't use it anymore and want to remove it. When I want to uninstall the plugin from inside the Mail.app preferences, nothing happens when I hit the button Remove Unsubscribe Plugin. There's nothing in /Users/MyUserName/Library/Mail/Bundles that looks like the Unsubscribe plugin. How to uninstall deprecated Unsubscribe plugin from Mail.app?
So I'm working on some javascript and I want to set a breakpoint on the line that I'm working on. It seems reasonable that I should be able to go into the Javascript debugger and jump to that line number without having to scroll to it manually.
I recently bought a MacBook Air with OS X Lion. I have an iPad (iOS 5) and my wife has a iPhone 4S. We each have our own iTunes accounts and that's the start of the problem!
On my home network, I have a NAS I regularly use for storage. I have set my Mac to automatically mount it via a login item to open the directory on the System Preferences/Users & Groups pane. I also use my Mac at work, though, where I can't access the NAS any more, because it's on a different network.
One of the great things about Lion was the Virtual Display, whereby when screen sharing you could login as a 2nd user rather than just take over the physical display. In effect it was like turning your Mac into a (limited) multi user system, whereby 2 people could simultaneously login and use it. When using the Screen Sharing feature in Mountain Lion (to research whether there were any changes that might answer this question), I noticed it has seemingly been removed. Is there any official documentation showing it's removal, or is it still possible to achieve perhaps through other utilities, like Apple Remote Desktop? I should add that I am using ML at both ends of the screen sharing.
I sent an iMessage to a friend, and at the bottom it doesn't say "Delivered" as it usually does. It doesn't say "Not Delivered" either, it just doesn't say anything at all. What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"?
This isn't a new problem with OS X Mail, it persists into Mountain Lion.  The badges are quite obnoxious; I can go into that [Gmail] folder and right-click and Mark As Read. But they start piling up right away again. Is there a way to never have a badge beside any non-Inbox folder, or have a way for Mail to automatically clean up?
Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page. in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take. instead I always get this: *=URL=* I want to know how to get rid of this and get my preference working instead.
First of all when I dropped the files on my droplet it showed reassuringly the green "plus" sign, so I thought it was actually providing the droplet a copy of the file. Isn't this a sign of bad user interface?
Is there any technical limitation or engineering reason that could possibly be behind the inability to RELIABLY use a connected USB drive with Airport Extreme for Time Machine?
The Time Capsule has limited space, and the price difference from 2TB to 3TB is absurd: another $200 for a single additional terabyte. (I'm sure they'll increase that with the next round of Time Capsules, whenever they release those, but I don't know when that'll be, and I'd rather vote with my wallet to tell Apple their Time Capsule is overpriced.) So how hard would it be to crack open a Time Capsule and upgrade the drive to something a little larger?
I got the new Apple TV and noticed that it takes ages to stream a video from my iPhone. Moreover, streaming videos directly from youtube on my iphone over airplay may cause the video to be very blurry for a few secs and then back to normal (HD), this might be due to buffering but im not sure if the internet connection has an impact on that. Is there a way to improve the efficiency and speed of the device?
I've been having intermittent fan speed and high CPU temperature when my CPU usage is nearly 0%. I don't run any weird apps. If I put my computer into sleep mode and wake it back up, this fixes the issue. I think this is an System Management Controller(SMC) issue, but I'm not sure. Anyone know how to fix this permanently?
With English not being my first language, I usually need support for at least two languages when using features like auto-correct and dictation. Is it possible to toggle the language which is used for dictation via a shortcut?
I screenshare with my friend everyday. It was working well until he updated to Mountain Lion. Now there is a significant delay regardless of network activity. Is there anyway to fix this?
Since I've got ML (Mountain Lion) installed, I've got the feeling that my adapter (Magsafe-2) is not getting as hot as before? Since this is my first Macbook, I really wasn't familiar with the adapter's temperature. My rMBP's adapter seemed to get so extensively hot, that I could actually smell it when holding it somewhat close to my face and could almost not keep it for longer period of time in my hand.
Having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion a few days ago, I find that most of the 'man' entries from section 3 (programming functions) are missing. For example: Exploring with the terminal shows me that all that remains in man3 directories within the 'man' search path are things related to Perl. Is there something extra that I should be installing to get the reference information back?
I'm updating our catalog and one of our products is available for the iPad. I'm looking for the log for that. I've found "Made for iPad" but I'd like just simply "iPad".
Is there a way to make Mac OS X ask for my password less frequently? For instance, I frequently have to re-enter my password into the Mac App Store. Are there any tools or tweaks to tell the system to remember my password (maybe in the keychain), or to make the system ask for my password less frequently in other situations?
Mac OS X comes with a guest account enabled by default. Are there any security risks with leaving it enabled? Are there reasons to disable the account?
I've installed Parallels Desktop 7 and I believe it's the reason I have duplicate application entries. It might not be, but otherwise I'm not sure. Is there a way to remove them?
I'm planning on buying a mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter to make use of my unused Samsung 20" monitor. I'm planning to use it so that I can extend my desktop in my MacBook Pro.
How can I hide text messages from the locked screen of my iPhone 4S? I find that having a password is useless as everyone could read messages from the locked screen.
How do I install MacVim on Mountain Lion? I want to get the MacVim application, as well as the new command-line vim.
I have macbook pro early 2011 and i have upgraded the os to mountain lion. Today key 'p' is doing strange things. p0p0p0 --/p0p0 -/-/p0 \p0
I recently wiped my os x partition to reinstall a fresh mountain lion. I already had windows xp installed as a bootcamp partition, and it seems os x copied windows font (tahoma, verdana, surely others...) to /Library/Fonts/ They now appear in webpages, and for example Tahoma does not look that good, and I'd like to this not happening.
On Audio MIDI Setup there is an option to to enable/disable audio drifting for any sound output device? What is this and how should I use it? I do want to enable sound output for multiple devices: HDI TV and normal jack as I do not always know which one is connected.
In Mac OS 10.7, when I right click a file in Dropbox folder, there's a "Dropbox" option which could share files or get the URL of the file. Also there's a "Dropbox" button in Finder's toolbar. But in 10.8, that feature disappeared. How can I share files using Dropbox by right clicking in Finder?
So long story short, at work I use my MacBook Pro and I connect it to another, bigger monitor. I use a shared screen setup so I can drag windows back and forth between the two monitors, but when I get home I use the Mac by itself, with no external display.
I'm just editing a time lapse video I shot and have to change the exposure on about 1000 files. Is there a was in Apple Aperture to batch edit files?
I encrypted a Lion partition called "Storage" and it worked perfectly. I needed to decrypt it momentarily because I had some issues, but now I want to encrypt the same volume again and it says "The Core Storage-targetvolume is already encrypted".
When you buy a new Mac you get a digital copy of all important information relating to your hardware. These are located in the 'User Guides And Information' folder on your hard drive, or more specifically \Library\Documentation\User Guides And Information\. If you need to reinstall OS X nowadays, these files aren't placed back. I assume you could restore these files for pre-Lion Macs, since these Macs came with full restore discs. But Internet Recovery sadly doesn't restore these files.
I have a folder with a bunch of photos taken by two different cameras, with one camera having been set to the wrong date. I managed to correct the EXIF date using Picasa (see photo.stackexchange), but apparently, it only adjusts the "Date Created" of the file, and not the "Date modified". How can I make the "Date modified" (shown by default in the Finder) equal to the "Date Created" for a bunch of files? I've looked in the touch terminal command, but couldn't find an answer there for my specific issue.
I am trying to upgrade my mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro with a Samsung 830 SSD but I am experiencing a lot of issues. The issues starts at installation time, when I sometimes get a kernel panic when I try to setup the system with the SSD in pace of the original HDD. If the installation succeeds, the game is not over. I can still reproduce I/O errors running BlackMagic Disk Test Speed. I never tried to go on since I feel that the system is unreliable for day to day usage.
My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted. Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found some project files to be missing. How can I recover back my all data?
I want to remove Twitter and Facebook (in the future) from Mountain Lion. Is it enough to simply remove Twitter.sharingservice from What about all these other entries:
On my iMac, I have a 1px white vertical line all the way on the right of my screen on my wallpaper. I can confirm this is not a hardware issue nor dead pixels, because when I change my wallpaper alignment to "fit to screen," the white line disappears. It only shows when I have wallpaper that extends to the edge of the screen. It also shows up in screenshots of my screen. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
Just wondering how, if at all, Versions on Pages for Mountain Lion (10.8) works with iCloud, specifically in relation to iOS 5 devices. My own testing seems to indicate that a Pages document created on the Mac saves versions in iCloud that you can revert to but only on the Mac (can't find an iOS interface for Versions). However, if I create a document on Pages for iOS (forcing an upload to iCloud after each edit) I can't revert to previous versions made on iOS, even on the Mac. One time, when I tried to do this, I saw a message saying the file is stored on a volume which doesn't support permanent version storage. However I have been unable to reproduce this message.
I had installed wine on my computer with then 10.7.4. It worked perfectly. Then I updated to 10.8 and wine did not work, so I uninstalled wine and macports. It gave me an error that winetricks (I installed it) could not be removed. Then I reinstalled it (and also installed X11) with the new Mountain Lion macports and, while installing wine with the terminal command: sudo port install wine i got this error:
I can’t create more than one level of folders in iCloud Documents from iWork. I really want to move my Documents folder (which is all iWork documents) to the cloud. It’s neatly arranged in folders on my disk, but I can’t just drag the folder to cloudify it. Is there any workaround to this problem?
I erased the SSD drive in my MacBook and was reinstalling Lion when it failed about 75% through the install. Now in Disk Utility, sometimes I see the SSD drive and sometimes I boot and it's not there but I can never erase or partition it. I get an "error 6988 couldn't unmount disk".
I have the AppleTV connected via WiFi. I tried AirPlay via WiFi using my iPhone and it mirrored perfectly. The next day, the AppleTV was sleeping before I turned it on using the Apple Remote. However, the option to mirror my iPhone (or even my iPad and MacBook) is not there anymore! I tried using the AppleTV via the remote and works fine, it's just that the AirPlay option is gone. Why is that?
The wish is to manipulate images from the command line using the ImageMagick tools. No package manager because: The MacPorts port and Homebrew brew package managers have Xcode dependencies. Xcode is a 4.1GB download for version 3.2.6 and I am not willing to wait for that. Loads of dependencies exists in the packages themselves. For example ImageMagick using homebrew depends on pkg-config, which fails to download: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host. The ImageMagick.org supplied precompiled binary release is also no option as that ImageMagick-x86_64-apple-darwin12.0.0.tar.gz binary is compiled for Darwin version 12 (Mountain Lion) which results in "segmentation faults" when being run on Snow Leopard (10.6.8). How to install ImageMagick on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using a precompiled binary (without a package manager)?
I recently lost my iPhone 4 so I went and bought a new iPhone 4s. I set up my new phone with the same iTunes ID and password that I have always used. I soon realized that whatever songs I had bought on my old phone were not on my new phone. How do I get those songs back? I thought I had subscribed to the cloud but apparently that didn't include my music? All of my old contacts and pictures showed up on my phone but the only music I could get was what was on my computer. Help please! I have quit a few songs missing!
I am unable to upgrade my iMac to Snow Leopard even though it seems to meet all the requirements. The iMac has: Intel Core 2 Duo processor DVD drive 4GB RAM 185GB of storage available. When I try to install, it simply says "Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this computer."
After upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Adobe Photoshop gives an error message on every start of the application: "One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder, necessary for running Photoshop, are missing. Please run the Phtoshop installer and re-install Photoshop." How to fix this Photoshop CS3 on every launch error "One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder" message that start occurring after upgrading to 10.6?
I have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air (MacBookAir4,2 with Intel HD Graphics 3000). Since installing Mountain Lion I sometimes encounter a problem when I move the mouse cursor over the dock to click something. Sometimes I get pinwheeled, sometimes I don't. Whenever the problem occurs: there appears a 75% transparent label for a dock item I can continue to move the mouse the computer does not recover, I resort to a forced shutdown. There doesn't seem to be any common denominators yet, other than it always happens as I mouse over the dock. Is there a log or anything I can look at to rectify the problem?
With iChat, i used to be able to view my contacts and know, for example, who is online. Using Messageshow can i get a list of those google contacts, currently online?
With Safari 5 in Lion, I used the Activity window to save video files. Safari 6 has no Activity window. With Mountain Lion, what is the best way to replicate what I could do before?
I have a folder called ~/Documents/Work and I'd like to make the Finder shortcut cmd-shift-W go to that folder, similar to how cmd-shift-H goes to the Home folder (and the equivalent shortcuts for Applications, etc., all under the "Go" menu). Is it possible to do this? And if so, how can I do it?
Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
I'd like my Mac OS X machine to automatically install updates for any software where it can, with no interaction from me. System updates, updates to applications, security patches -- I want them all. I'd prefer to not have to do anything. I'd like the machine to simply download and install them in the background, automatically, without requiring me to click anything, approve anything, or take any further action. Is there a way to do it, on Mountain Lion?
If I enable FileVault on Mountain Lion, will it make my machine ask me for my password more often? For example, right now I have my machine configured so that when it goes to sleep, if I wake it up within 15 minutes, I don't need to enter my password when I wake it up. Can I still do that, if I enable FileVault? Or will FileVault force me to enter my password every time I wake up my machine, period?
I'm connecting using CoRD to a remote Linux system running xrdp. On that Linux system, I'm running VirtualBox. To escape from Virtualbox, I need to hit a "right control" key. Trouble is... I don't know how.
A brand new Magic Trackpad has been paired to a 2011 Mac mini with OSX 10.8. This mini has no other bluetooth devices. OSX was upgraded in-place from Lion to Mountain Lion. The trackpad doesn't perform the gestures.
Since I can't find thousands of other users reporting this I'm thinking it's got to be something wrong with my system, but after I updated to Mountain Lion I can't connect to Apple file servers anymore. Not even a Drobo FS. The servers still show up in my sidebar but they never successfully connect. I tried creating a new user and connecting from that one, but still had the same problem. The OSX servers are running 10.6 & 10.7.
What is the best way to protect my privacy when using my Mac? Assume I am a privacy-sensitive user, with Mountain Lion. What software configuration should I do, to protect my privacy? Is there any software you would recommend to protect my privacy, e.g., when using the web or other applications? Which web browser is best, and what extensions are available to protect privacy while browsing the web?
When I google for images of "apple sauce" (without the quotes), Safari's location bar just displays "apple sauce" (without the quotes) rather than the URL leading to Google searching for apple sauce images. I want to send someone the search URL. How can I get it from Safari?
If a machine is periodically waking up to check for updates with Power Nap, does this also mean the disk encryption keys are always in RAM? If so, this makes a DMA attack against a "sleeping" Mac possible.
The issue I am facing is bandwidth is very expensive where I live, I pay by the MB so if I need to install Final Cut on 10 different computers it would be murder to download it 10 times, is it possible to install on one computer and then move the files over and just pay for it on the other computer without having to get the files again? Or is the installation tied to a computer? Thank you.
Example: Just as it's pasted here, all three lines are of the same color. I would like to have "cookie:~ j$" or at least part of the string be of a different color than the rest. I know that I can specifically enable color coding for specific applications like ls or git, but I haven't found anything like this. Is there a way to change the coloring and format of the static host/path/user string in the Terminal or iTerm?
I've created a custom keyboard shortcut for entering and exiting fullscreen in the keyboard preferences menu. This stopped working for Safari 6.0 after I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I had the beta version of Safari which I got from the developers' site before I upgraded and the keyboard shortcut worked on that one.
How can we play a DVD with an HVDVD_TS folder and EVO files inside using DVD Player? DVD Player says, "There was a problem opening the media. The media type is not supported." The DVD plays with DVD Player on a Mac Pro 2008 with Mac OS X Snow Lepoard to OS X ML, but does not play on a Retina MacBook Pro with Lion or Mountain Lion.
I have a problem with Wine and Steam on my Mac. I recently updated to 10.8. When I had Lion Wine and Steam worked perfectly, but because of some problems I had to re-install Wine. The thing is, now that Wine is re-installed, I can't install Steam. First off, when I run the installer the console shows:
I have a 2011 27" iMac that currently has Mountain Lion installed on it, and I am trying to get the AirPlay mirroring to take up my entire 1080p widescreen TV. How do I get that to happen?
I just upgraded my macbook to SL and wanted to upgrade iMovie too. But the system requirement for the version available on App Store is 10.7.4 or later. Where can I purchase one that would work on a SL 10.6.8? Thanks.
I always used to save my Chat logs because I use IM in the professional environment. Now I find that I can’t save chat logs anymore. That option is gone. Is there any workaround or hidden preference to enable saving chat logs again?
We have ⌘B to bold, ⌘I to italicise, ⌘U to underline, but we don't (as far as I can tell) have a shortcut to strikethrough selected text in any OS X rich editor. I added a keyboard shortcut into System Preferences, but that way doesn't work very consistently. I also tried using TextExpander, but it doesn't support rich text formatting. Has anyone come up with a way to do this?
Is it possible to create a keyboard shortcut for a contextual menu item and if so, how? I'm not sure if this functionality was available in Lion, but if it wasn't, maybe it is in Mountain Lion.
I have a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8. I am connecting to the Internet via a USB Internet Key. I enabled internet sharing via WiFi. My friend has a MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I already have lots of media on my iMac. I don’t want to eat up the HD space on the MacBook Pro, but I also want to be able to use iTunes on my MacBook Pro with all my media. What’s the most elegant solution to the problem? Here’s what storage I have: An NAS server An external HD A 16GB USB3 drive My 64GB iPhone Here’s what I don’t have: Access to iTunes Match Access to anything like iTunes Match
I have a MBA connecting via HDMI to Samsung Monitor. Problem is desktop background for Samsung monitor is not showing. There is only grey desktop and doesn't have any changes even I try to change the image of the desktop at System Preferences. Changes for the MBA desktop is ok. Is that a mountain lion bug?
I am using Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). I have a lot of stickies, but have been unable to find a simple way to export all the stickies at once as either text or HTML.
I would like to change the entire title of the terminal window for a particular bash script. I googled out but I couldn't find much more than this suggestion: After running the line above, my terminal window's title becomes so: ft1 — My Custom Title — bash — 80×24 But I would like it to become just like this: My Custom Title Any ideas?
I'm trying to create an Automator Service that will act on selected text, converting dashes to spaces, and also making word caps for all the text. A friend gave me this python script (I know nothing about python or shell scripting):
I was wondering if it's possible to make Launchpad a space? Just like how you can get the Dashboard to show as a space (System Preferences -> Mission Control -> Show Dashboard as a Space).
is it possible to move a reminder from one reminders list to another? For example I have two lists: Today Tomorrow How could I move for example "call cindy" from "Tomorrow" to "Today"?
This is my first Mac and I've had it for less then a day. I downloaded an iPod to Mac a transfer program and after using it I wanted to get rid of it. For some reason the icon stays in the launchpad but the actual program does not exist on my Mac anymore. It also doesn't show up when I look for it in my files through the Finder. I'd like to get rid of it as it is cluttering up my launchpad, but how?
With the new combined address/search bar in Safari 6, I'm wondering if there's a way to quickly choose an option from the Bookmarks & History suggestions using the keyboard. Or some way to have bookmarks titles match as Top Hits the way URLs seem to.
I would like my IRC client to only use a WiFi connection and all other programs to use WiFi or wired connections. This is because every time I plug in my Ethernet cable my IRC client automatically reconnects over wired, and then when I disconnect the cable it reconnects me on wireless. So now I have multiple users logged into IRC.
Is there a better QuickLook plugin than the built-in for quicklooking applications? Something that would show more of the info define in Foobar./Contents/Info.plist, like version number and bundle identifier for example would be ideal.
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Now when I open my application folder via the Dock there are different programs present, e.g. Automator, which I moved to the "Utilities" sub-folder on Snow Leopard. If I try to move them again to the sub-folder I get the message that the application cannot be moved to this sub-folder since the sub-folder cannot be changed.
I want the Dock completely gone. I haven't used it in the past three releases of OS X (10.5 to present). I want it completely gone, and LaunchBar there instead. Is there a way to kill the Dock so that it does not load or run?
I am really reckless and just dropped my ipod touch second time in past year and the screen is broken, I am not very keen on trying to replace it with flat fee, bacause I am sure it would happen again, what i want to ask is how resilient are the screens of iphone devices : iphone 3gs or iphone 4s, I am not sure about 3gs but it is fairly cheap where I live and 4s is too expensive howeever I already have shelved a lot of money trying to replace my ipod touch, I have a two year old wp7 device which is showing it's age so can anyone suggest a screen comparison, or buying a conver , protector is the last resort.
I'm trying to update Infinity Blade 2 on my New iPad. I have 1.7GB free The existing app is 1.2Gb The new version is only 1.03GB But it won't let me update it, and says I have not enough free space? I already rebooted, and I can probably delete and install, but would like to know the problem anyway.
I can't seem to find Icon Composer on the Xcode versions at run on Mountain Lion.  Where is it? Has it been taken out? How to get it back?
I'm trying to create a project folder for some woodworking I will be doing over the next few weeks. Among the first items into this folder is a collection of ~25 emails containing photos and measurements of components on a similar project. Is there a quick way to copy each of these emails to a specific folder rather than copy/paste'ing the contents of each one?
Apple seems to have taken the brilliant decision of not showing progress indicators when you are checking for new emails. This is annoying, as you get 0 feedback when you press the "Get new messages" button. Is there any way of getting Mail to still show the "checking for email" progress indicators?
On OS X 10.8, users can disable Notification Center for a single day. Is there a way to check if it is enabled from the command line?.
Is there a command I can use just to get the hard disk temperature in the terminal? Is this possible without a third party app?
I use Dropbox to backup all my important files, but I'm running out of storage space on my computer. Many of the files are video files that take up the majority of my storage, and it's not imperative that they're stored on my computer. Is there a way to configure Dropbox so some selected files (in my case the videos) are stored in the cloud so I can stream the videos when I need to watch them, but otherwise they don't take up space on my local drive? Or is there an alternative cloud service that provides this functionality?
When I had Lion, I used Houdini to show hidden files and folders. But after I upgraded my OS to Mountain Lion, it seems like Houdini is not working correctly. So I deleted Houdini.
Here is a screenshot of my Finder sidebar with the non-functional duplicate Dropbox folder shortcut:  How can I remove this non-functional duplicate Dropbox folder shortcut from the sidebar? I have tried uninstalling Dropbox and deleting the following directories: My /Library/Contextual Menu Items is empty despite what is written in the Dropbox uninstalling instructions.
Since there's a lot of apps that support Growl, and only a handful have been updated yet, I'd like to know if there's a way to convert those Growl notifications into Notification Centre notifications. e.g. some kind of add-on for Growl or a 'proxy' of sorts so that the notifications all come through ML's Notification Centre.
I got the "service battery" message when clicking on the power indicator of my MBP the other day, only my battery appears to be fine. Then today, it's gone away by itself, I haven't taken it in for a service but now it shows battery condition normal...? Anybody else experience this or have any idea why this would happen.
I have an iMac running OSX 10.6.8 that automounts a NAS share from a D-Link DNS-320 2-bay Network Attached Storage. On the NAS, both users "user1" and "user2" are members of group "group1".
I found many screenshots for Mac App Store or iTunes App Store using pictures like this, I want to find a Mac App can do this work.
I'm using a calibrated version of my monitors color profile. The monitor is calibrated inside of the OS X System Preferences on a Mac Pro. The standard color profile of my Samsung monitor "Syncmaster" is very yellow/dark and pretty much unusable. When I boot up, the login screen looks horrible because OS X loads the unmodified color profile, when I type in my password to log in the color profile changes to my calibrated profile ("SyncMaster Calibrated"). How do I force OS X to always use my calibrated color profile?
I recently purchased an iPhone 4S in India. It has international keyboard for Hindi language. But is there any way to add Tamil language to the list?
I frequently have to copy over documents to and fro iCloud and my Desktop. It’s really tedious to open each iWork app, search through the list, copy my file and repeat. Is it possible to view all my files at once or at least in a single window?
I have a Mac OS X Lion (10.7) server, and I would like to administer it remotely from a client running Mountain Lion non-server (10.8). I naively assumed that I could install the freely downloaded Server Admin Tools 10.7 on Mountain Lion, however it does not let me install Server Admin Tools 10.7.4, and does not let me run Server Admin Tools 10.7.
I saw multiple videos that the iPhone 4 screen can not be scratched by keys, coins and is even quite resistant to dropping. What are the drawbacks to adding this layer of protection (in general or perhaps for a specific film you have used) so I can weigh whether I wish to use one?
I want to connect and run bash script on Linux server automatically by using Applescript and iTerm or Terminal on OS X. How can I connect Linux server with Applescript use iTerm or Terminal?
I have a MacBook Pro (6,2; mid 2010; 4GB DDR3, 2,66 i7) And for a while now, I've been thinking about building in a SSD in my Mac. My first plan was to switch my 512GB drive with a 512GB SSD, but the prices of those things made me think again. Then I learned about OptiBay, a company which allows you to switch your optical drive with a secondary hard drive. So I came up with the plan to switch my drive with a 128GB SSD where I'll install Mountain Lion on and by so keeping my 512GB drive for all the data.
Deleting windows font which were copied from my bootcamp partition I'd like to clean the installed font list because there might be a lot to deactivate by hand. Is there a way to confirm which fonts do not originate from a Mountain Lion default installation?
I have 5 different email accounts: iCloud, GMail, Hotmail and two others which my iPhone does not give the option to sync its contacts. So, I have only synced my contacts with iCloud and since barely a month ago, when I edit a contact it appears immediately a copy of it and if I delete one, both of the are deleted. Does anyone know what is going on?
I have an internal SSD running Mountain Lion and my apps and an internal 5400 rpm drive with most of my other data (pictures, movies, music). I've put my Parallels (using version 7) virtual machine files on my non-SSD drive so that Mac OS is running off the SSD and Parallels is running on the non-SSD. I use Parallels primarily for development using Visual Studio and I was just wondering if it would be better to put my virtual machine files on the SSD or if that would slow down both the Mac OS and the virtual machine?
I have a 2011 15" MBP, that uses a 85W power supply. My old 2008 MBP 15" also has a 85W power supply, but I cannot get it to work. Shouldnt it? Its the same watt power, and the adapter fits.
I have tried the following. But none does what I want with this disk. All will hang at some spot and apparently never recover, even if left overnight.
My 13-inch MacBook from 2008 will not connect to the wireless network. It worked last week, and then they installed a new router and it stopped. My coworkers (with Dells) are fine. There is no new password or anything. Any suggestions? I've got Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 as my software right now. My computer will still connect to other wireless networks, so it isn't a problem that I can tell with my Airport.
All right. I've played games on my MacBook Pro using a crappy Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad for years, plugged into my USB port. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion a few days ago, though, and for some reason, I can't get any programs to recognize my controller's button presses. System Information (not System Profiler anymore, I guess) will tell me it's plugged in, sure, but no programs will actually register button presses. It's rather odd, and extremely frustrating since I would really like to, you know, use the controller.
Here's a screenshot. I think it may be Mac-Sparrow-specific, as I'm not seeing them in gmail or on my iOS devices (including in sparrow for iPhone). They seem to generally replace links, and are a new problem (possibly since Mountain Lion install, but I"m not sure).
I already know that Pages can add .doc files too, but my knowledge ends at that. Does anyone have an exhaustive list of files that can be added to Documents in the Cloud through Apple apps (Preview, iWork, TextEdit, etc) only?
My friend never had a sim for her iPhone 4. She uses the phone as a skype device and camera (and she loved it that way!). I recently persuaded her to update to iOS 5.1, created a new iCloud account (she never had one), enabled iMessage. However, she does not receive any iMessages. She can send out iMessages but they do not reach me (I have a working iPhone with iCloud, iMessages). I have restarted her machine several times and did a clean install of iOS 5.1. Can anyone tell me what might be incorrect here? (I see that a lot of people have an iPhone without sim working as an iMessage device.)
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I can no longer see certain sites, when connected to certain networks. I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro (Quad-Core i7) which came with Lion (actually I think it came with Snow Leopard and a free upgrade to get Lion form the Mac App Store).
When I try to enter my rMBP into sleep mode while downloading file via iTunes U, the downloaded file is aborted. Is it possible to enter sleep mode while keep downloading the file?
I read that if you want to put your display into sleep the keyboard shortcut is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏, but what is it in Mountain Lion or Lion using a retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without an eject button?
Recently I purchased a Mac Mini base model and need to access several CD to install software (for a Dell S2230MX monitor and the wireless router) As is known by some, the Mac Mini does not come with CD / DVD. I searched the site search how to install software on the Mac Mini but came up blank. As I understand it, but with a Macbook can install programs on the Mac Mini from it's DVD drive.
How can I enter Screen Saver without wating few minutes? Is there an application I could run, keyboard shortcut maybe? I'm using rMBP running ML. EDIT: All I found was using Hot Corner as explained here: https://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#quickscreensaver
I've got error which is generated by PIL when I trying to process jpg-images: Python Imaging Library (PIL) Decoder jpeg not available. How to fix this problem?
By default I know that OS X does not allow you to do any modifications from inside the open dialog, like rename files move files delete files tag files/folders Is it possible to tune the system in order to enable this functionality?
This past weekend I "dropped a pin" on restaurant X using Maps and then "Shared the location" via Message to a friend. I had no idea what kind of phone this friend had. I assumed she received the destination and I waited, and I waited, and I waited. Turns out she was waiting for me at a different restaurant X location -- the one across town. We cleared this up the old fashioned way (via voice), and when she finally arrived, I looked at our chat history on her Android. Where there should have been a map link, there was a blank sound or video file. Clearly, "dropping a pin" doesn't work when there is an Android on the receiving end.
Following the update to Mountain lion, I can no longer "trust" a certificate associated with my JNLP file. This worked previously. Following going through the "trust" dialogue, the next screen is still stuck on "deny" as the only option. Any Ideas?
I'm quite sure I'm typing it properly, because now I will very slowly and deliberately type the password with the intent of watching this bug happen. Typically it will happen, and then I will type the underscore again and it will register.
I have a Gmail IMAP account in Mail, which up until installing Mountain Lion has always worked smoothly. Now after the upgrade, I find that if I have Mail open for a while in the background or I put my computer to sleep while Mail is running, when I return to it, Mail shows the error: "Unable to Connect
I have found that when my mac wakes up from sleep, sometimes there is no airplay icon. The only way I can fix this is by doing a recycle of my MacBook Air. I was wondering if there was any other way to have the airplay icon back on my MBA without having to restart it. Perhaps there is a command I can type on the Terminal. Anyone has a clue? (FYI - Restarting the AppleTV does not solve the issue so I believe its a Mountain Lion part of things.)
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, audio playback in iTunes stutters, as well as video playback and other minor system hangs. How can I solve this without a downgrade? Is there confirmation of it being a ML bug? There's a thread on this problem, still unsolved and the problem seems pervasive: *=URL=* My specs: Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro i7 with 16GB of OWC RAM. EDIT CNET has made an article about the issue
So I know some questions have already been asked about this like Is there a QuickLook preview for plain-text files with unknown extensions? and QuickLook for files with no extension or an unknown extension, but those questions are regarding fixes as oppose to Apple's reasoning behind not supporting QuickLook for some file types. Text files seem like the simplest file type, because unlike .rtf files, they lack elaborate text ornamentation and (sometimes) complex formatting.
I'd like to have one clock in my status bar set to the same timezone as my servers. I've found three applications that will allow me to add another clock: Day-O MenuCalendarClock iClock
2) I can get a Time Capsule. I do not have the option to use it as the router (other guys won't like messing with the router). I can connect it via Ethernet to the router but since the router is not in my room, I'd rather not. Is it possible to connect it wirelessly to the router for backups? If so can I access it from the outside network? Which of the two options is more feasible?
When I create new Keynote presentations on my Mac they are not showing up on my iOS devices. I noticed when I open a document from iCloud there is a dotted iCloud symbol in the file viewer.
Will we ever have BBM service on the iPhone ? Is it possible to port such feature from the blackberry to the iPhone ? I know they use their own servers for verification, but isn't there a method that can divert users to such servers from a stand-alone app made on the iPhone ?
I am looking for a script which will allow me to disable one specific USB port on my Mac mini. It would only serve a purpose if it works in real-time and didn't require a reboot. I've found scripts for various Linux distros that seemed to do something similar - however most required a reboot.
Perhaps this is an obvious question, but will the Mountain Lion installer from the App Store work on any Mac? E.g. if I download it and put it on an SD card on my MacBook Pro can I use that SD card to install Mountain Lion on a family member's white MacBook? I know that the OS discs that the laptops came with were hardware-specific. I'm just trying to avoid downloading and burning the installer again.
Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died. I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids etc in my Contacts and am looking for a recommended way to flag those records to indicate that the person is dead. I am interested to know how other people have dealt with this.
I currently have a process that is running some shell scripts that then a call to an API. When it makes the calls, there might be like 10-15 seconds when the script is waiting for the external API to send a response. This is when I notice that the process is run again. So it will get to that point and then run another process for that. Is there any way for me to prevent this from happening? I need to run this process every 30 minutes.
I am working on one of the first 15" Unibody MacBook Pro's (Late 2008 - MB470LL/A - MacBookPro5,1). According to EveryMac (and other sources), this machine really only supports 4GB of RAM. It looks like higher may work, but unsure.
I am looking for a free programming editor for my iBook G4. I was going to to get the lightswitch trial until I looked at the sys requirements (needs Intel CPU). Can someone please point me to a free editor that will work with a G4 iBook running 10.4.11 and supports html, css, javascript, php and c# syntax highlighting?
I've read that the EULA now allows to install Mac OS X in a virtual machine, and I'd be interested in doing it. However, since I forgot to back up the Mountain Lion installation program before using it, I'd like to be able to do it from the recovery partition. Apparently, Parallels can do that, so it's probably not impossible from VMware Fusion. This is what I've tried with VMware Fusion: Mount the Recovery HD partition, then find the BaseSystem.dmg file on it and assign it as an OS installation disk: the system boots, but it says "This copy of the Install OS X Mountain Lion application is damaged, and can't be used to install OS X" when I try to install it. Dump the whole Recovery HD partition to a disk image and try to boot from it: does not boot, the Apple logo gets replaced by a Ø symbol. Considering these two failed attempts, I'm not too sure how I should proceed from here. How can I install Mountain Lion in a VMware Fusion virtual machine from the recovery partition?
I had a Mac under OS X Lion. I upgrade it to Mountain Lion, and buy the OS X Server software in the AppStore. Since the beginning, I use the Apache version bundled in Mac OS, and it work fine. But after solving some problems (like the change of location of the main directory from /Library/WebServer/Documents to /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default), I can't figure out how to configure UserDir to work again! As explained here: Please note - the Mountain Lion install removes the contents of the directory /private/etc/apache2/users so if you counted on those configuration files working for you, oops. So, I follow advices found here, and finally my file /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf look like this: But, event after some sudo apachectl restart or reboot, impossible to acces again to my UserDir /Users/utilisateur/Sites/ through http://127.0.0.1/~utilisateur
I've a lot of softwares on my Mac, so, I've forgot to check some of them before upgrading MacOS to Mountain Lion (from Lion) Since Mountain Lion, VirtualBox throw this message when I try to open it: You can't open the application "VirtualBox.app" because it is not supported on the type of Mac What is the better (not the simpler but really the better) way to update VirtualBox without breaking anything?
I already have Mountain Lion. I started installing it again (it warns you that you already have it). I realized I don't need to install it again. The install is halfway finished. Can I just quit the install, or is it actively overwriting files?
After upgrading Lion to Mountain Lion, the MacPorts system seems broken. Refering to the MacPorts's migration page, the best solution seems to unistall all and reinstall all the ports. Is there a simpler/less drastic solution?
After my recent upgrade to Mountain Lion I accidentally dragged the "Recent Applications" stack off the dock and it "poofed" away... not that big a deal, I just went into Terminal and used the following command defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }' followed by resetting the dock with killall Dock exit Then emptied the trash, shut down, and reboot for good measure...
I signed up with iCloud and I see that there is an @me.com email account associated with my account. I don't have any interest in using email with iCloud - I use gmail for email. Is there a way to remove email from my iCloud account all together?
I've updated to Oracle's 1.7 64-bit beta, and this is what my Java Preferences window looks like (you will note that the webapp checkbox is checked and I've restarted my machine since checking it):  I've tried unchecking SE 6 32-bit, 64-bit, and both, as well as disabling SE 7. Doesn't do anything. I've rebooted after installing. No dice. I've checked Software Update. Nope. java -version reports: java -version java version "1.7.0_05" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_05-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.1-b03, mixed mode) This test page in Safari returns a blank, Chrome asks for Java plugin, and Firefox says "Java is broken": *=URL=* which java says /usr/bin/java
For example, I'd like to automatically run YUI Compressor whenever I edit a JavaScript source file to output a compressed version. Ideally the process does not run in the background but in a dedicated shell, so I can easily terminate the process at the end of the day. What would be the cleanest and most flexible way to watch specific files and/or directories for file changes and perform a custom action inside a shell?
I try to find a way to make an archive of my ~/ directory so that I can go back in case I've lost something. I've found several recommendations for this. The first being OS X Hints saying a simple ls -aR or re-writing a tree. The problem these two solutions have is that the output doesn't help very much in terms of getting an overview where something was.
With all the ruckus surrounding the Mat Honan debacle, I'm curious: When you remotely wipe a Mac, is it a secure wipe or does it just lock down the machine with a code? From the Wired article:
With all the news about remote wipe I am wondering if having a backup on an external disk that is connected to my Mac is OK. Or if someone did a remote wipe, would they wipe that disk as well?
I need a way to just auto-copy AVCHD from my memory card to the Mac. The Image Capture and AutoImporter apps both work great for still photos and for MP4 video. Image Capture completely ignores AVCHD, while AutoImporter seems to hang when I plug in the memory card with some AVCHD clips:
In Lion I could just press Ctrl+Shift+Eject to turn off display on iMac. In Mountain Lion it looks like this shortcut turns off whole computer. It looks like sleeping mode. So my downloads stop when I press Ctrl+Shift+Eject. How can I download something with turned off (Ctrl+Shift+Eject) display?
I have a handful of Calendar Alarms I created in Automator to run at various times on my MacBook Pro (mainly overnight). However, it looks like if the machine is sleep then the Calendar Alarm is simply skipped. Is there a way to set it to execute any missed Calendar Alarms when the machine wakes?
One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the Messages app - and the "fact" that all your Messages threads are consistent across all your devices. I would really like to have my the threads that I have going on my phone, automatically sync to my iPad and ML Mac. I understand SMS messages will not sync. The one caveat that I noticed is that it must be started on my Mac. How do I get iMessages in sync across an iOS 5 (or older) iPhone, iPad and Mac?
My OS X (Mountain Lion) is in English, and I want to keep it like this. But, for some softwares in the AppStore (not necessary all), I would like to turn it in French when supported (like OmniFocus) because all my colleagues are working in French, and it's hard for me to tell them what to do when they have a problem: The translator of the software does not necessarily use the same words as me, and it become difficult to navigate through the menus in some cases. So, is it possible to configure just some software (or all of them as a last resort) to use a different language that the one used by the Mac OS?
Following an upgrade to Mountain Lion, Xcode 4.3 no longer functions. I need 4.4. I've not been able to get a link for Xcode 4.4, has anyone else found it? I don't own a Mac, so I can't copy from one to another.
Goal: To selectively route traffic over a VPN, so that general browsing/downloads goes via the normal primary connection, with my business VPN traffic going over the VPN. I have tried a similar method mentioned here, but no matter how I changed the details it didn't work. The VPN works, I can connect and route all traffic over it, so that is not the issue. Home IP: 192.168.34.X IP from VPN: 192.168.1.X IP's (via VPN) trying to access in the internal network: 10.4.X.X, 196.220.X.X How to selectively route traffic for one specified IP adddress through the VPN tunnel (not all traffic)?
I am trying to get the parent file path of a selected image thumbnail in Adobe Bridge CS5.1 to pass it on to a shell script. An Applescript wraps a tiny javascript command in command like this:
I have FileVault enabled with two users: AdminGuy OtherGuy. I want AdminGuy to: have the ability to unlock the HD, and therefore only he can enter a u/n + p/w at boot to start boot up have the ability to log in not be logged in automatically. In other words: can AdminGuy just unlock the drive, but then have a login screen popup so OtherGuy could choose to login instead? 10.8. Per @DeepanshuUtkarsh's link, this is the behavior I want to change: The user account that unlocked the drive will be logged into their own account after start up completes, without needing to log in again.
EDIT: 5a. Possibly, everything is normal, and no lockup/freeze happens. EDIT 2:
I have an 80GB Fujitsu 2.5" hard drive that died about a day ago and had nothing backed up. Is it possible to retrieve data off of it somehow.
I am having an issue for multiple (but not all) users whereby AFP connections are taking 4+ minutes to connect to the share. Some never connect. The spinning progress bar sits there but no auth window appears. So far I have: Tested the network cable in a MBP which could connect instantly with correct credentials. Power cycle Ping AFP share - working Ping server IP - working Check DNS, added manually PRAM reset Tried connection over SMB and NFS, SMB would bring up the Auth window slightly faster but still a good 4 min wait Created new local user account which was able to connect to the share instantly
What defines a "shared" calendar? I have a bunch of iCloud calendars, and a Google one, and I share them all with my wife. Does that make them shared?
I want to keep the mail applicaton fullscreen in the far right space. Every time I open a fullscreen application it moves to the far right. How do I lock a fullscreen app in say the far right space?
In Mountain Lion, when I drag a file to the desktop, it's automatically moved to a neat grid in the upper left of the desktop. But I want it to stay in the spot to which I dragged it (usually because it's one I can see, so I can drag it to another window). I thought it might be the "sort by" setting, but it's set to "none", so that's not it.
I would like to display and hide the Keyboard Viewer using a shortcut. Is there a way to display the Keyboard Viewer via a keyboard shortcut? Is there a way to automatically display the Keyboard Viewer once I switch to a specific language?
I'm getting a new MacBook Pro, and I am wondering about the relative merits of: installing Mountain Lion on the new laptop before migrating my account from my old MBP; or migrating my account and then upgrading to Mountain Lion Or are the two methods functionally equivalent?
I have a few Exchange accounts set up in Mail that are working fine. Deleting sends the mail to the Trash folder, archiving sends the mail to the Archive folder. However, one of the accounts won't let me archive. The mailbox has a folder under the "Archive" section on the sidebar, and I can manually drag messages to it, but when I click Archive I get the following: The message “[subject]” could not be moved to the mailbox “(null)” The destination mailbox does not exist. I would assume this means that Mail can't find the appropriate folder to put the message in, but since the account has a folder under the Archive heading, I'm confused. Any ideas?
Is there a way to prevent iTunes from performing Genius updates each time it launches?  I don't use this feature, and the process seems to slow down the process of getting access to the store and to my connected iOS devices.
I'd love to know when Kairosoft gets a new game released on iOS. Is there an app or site that monitors the daily release list against a user supplied criteria?
Find My Mac is a useful feature of iCloud to locate your computer. As recent events have shown, however, if bad guys gain control of one's iCloud account, they can wreak havoc, including remotely erasing the contents of your Mac. Is there a way to enable "Find My Mac" to find one's computer but not to enable the remote wipe feature?
I need to put a desktop Mac OS X Lion in the domain of a corporate network - Linux LDAP. The Mac is already picking up the IP and the DNS name released. But I can not log into the corporate network. see pastebin, too large to include here Thank you!
I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments. I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup - when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens with a window for setting up an account - which I don't want to do - I never use Mail.app - I use gmail. Is there a .eml email file viewer (including extracting attachments)?
What are the best possible RAM tests that can be run on a MacBook Pro (Early 2011 running Mountain Lion) after upgrading RAM from 4 GB to 16 GB? I see there a quite a few tools out there and the Apple CD hardware test itself. I figured I'd ask here hoping to get a much more educated, experienced and consolidated answer.
I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?
I just got a Mac after many years on a PC. Migration Assistant did not work when I was setting up the computer, so I ran it a few minutes later instead.
I regularly get around 30 iPads that require 10 - 20GB of images putting into the PhotoData folder. As you can imagine this takes quite a while to do, I'm trying to investigate ways of speeding up this process. I used to use an application called i-FunBox on Windows which would allow me to plugin around 10 iPads at a time and then I could scheduel the transfer of the images over night. However I've recently started using Apple Configurater and would like to be able to do this process on the Mac. There is a version of i-FunBox for the Mac but it only allows 1 iPad to be plugged in at any one time. Can anyone else recommend an application or process I could follow? Thanks in advance.
So my Question is, how do I troubleshoot this problem? What information is needed to solve this? Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Would it be possible for me to proxy example.com to *=URL=* through my jailbroken iPhone? I would tether my connection to my laptop, so to my laptop it connects to Google's IP address, but my phone then rewrites it to the actual destination. On my computer (connected to my iPhone's connection), I type *=URL=* My iPhone connects to yahoo.com, gets the contents, and sends it back to my computer. To my computer, it appears I've being connecting to google.com, but I'm actually connected to yahoo.
Is there a way to change the menu bar font/font color/font size? I don't want to change the menu bar color, just the font.
I was wondering how big a document (picture, voice, video) can be "iMessaged" from an iPhone. Also, would the iMessage data size be any different if you are iMessaging from within Mountain Lion.
So I had thought that my AppleCare lasted until September, so today I visited the Geniuses to try to squeeze a new hard drive out of them. Unfortunately, my warranty ended a couple weeks ago, and so I am shopping for a new SSD instead.
Love the idea of two-factor auth and was pushed to do it finally by the issues that plagued the Gizmodo author. I enabled two-factor auth and it was all going really smoothly. I used Google Authenticator and two-factor setup to create some application-specific passwords, scan the Authenticator QR code with my iPhone to set it up, etc. etc. However, now my iPad is reporting that it can't connect to GMail via Google Sync (Exchange) on the iPad. I've taken the following steps:
I managed to add a shortcut for keyboard viewer via BetterTouchTool. However, once I run Keyboard Viewer and close via the red X button, I cannot re-open it again via a shortcut. So I checked activity monitor and realised that it is actually still there, although I quit the application !
I just got my MacBook Pro with Retina yesterday and I bought a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter to setup dual monitor, it worked fine. Today I tried to connect Retina with my external monitor, I tried again and again. My Macbook Pro just can't detect the monitor why?
System is Mountain Lion, these steps will reproduce the problem: Select a primary resolution in System Preferences pannel, Displays. Select the 'Best for Retina display' (Other resolution in this pannel is also OK).
I have set up a simple Print Plugin in Automator. It renames the file, then moves the file to a particular directory. No matter how simple I make the plugin, it only triggers every other time I run it. In other words, I go into Print > PDF > then select the automator script from the dropdown box. The first time, it appears to "print" but nothing happens; the second time, it runs as expected. I've looked through my logs, and it appears I get an unrelated error log about Automator Runner on the second time I run the plugin -- it is as though the Automator script isn't getting run in the first instance. I'm using Mountain Lion.
According to Apple's page on Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store is supposed to send you notifications: The Mac App Store notifies you when updates are available for OS X or purchased apps.
What should be the troubleshooting procedure, if this happens again? Does the new 2012 Air require any sort of different procedure or equipment for mirroring your display onto an external projector?
Should I use the same Apple ID for iCloud and the iTunes store? My immediate assumption was "sure, of course, keep it simple", but today I read the following recommendation:
Running OSX 10.7.4 I wrote a script to swap Apple Magic Mouse secondary click. The following simple bash script do modify the system preferences (can be seen in System Preferences GUI), but the mouse secondary click is not really swapped.
Safari will remember my password on most sites, if I ask it to. However, some "high-security" sites disable this functionality. I want to override their override, and have Safari remember my password on that site -- even though the site doesn't want me to.
Can you add an app downloaded from Cydia to iCloud, so it will sync to all your jailbroken iDevices? I wonder what content iCloud does sync and does not sync, is it folder specific?
I have Snow Leopard. I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion. I've setup PHP as mentioned here. Will upgrading to Lion affect my PHP setup or any other setup like MySQL for that matter ?
I started download Xcode 4 within App Store, it made some 200MB, then I had to move and closed my MBP. Afterwards it didnt restart the download and I was getting nervous clicking around. End of story: App Store shows Xcode as "ready to install" (which is aboslutely impossible since there have been over 1G still to be loaded with not a too good broad band connection) Clicking on install just yield and endless "wait.." I also used the Debug view to "Reset Applications" - still shows as "ready to install" Under /Applications there is no install X Code folder to delete Viewing the download folder (from debug view) there is also nothing to delete So the question is: how the hell am I supposed to fix this broken download?
I have an old Mac with one (admin) account. The mac can boot without any problem, but I don't remember the admin password. A friend of mine had the 'brilliant' idea to create a new (non-admin) user and set it to load by default.
I just bought Mountain Lion in the App Store and it shows the download link. But after I click it and correctly enter my password it does not continue to download. Nothing happens. It just remains on the "download" button. I have installed every update imaginable, including Java and the latest Lion compatibilities, iTunes, everything from the App Store. I checked if my Macbook (2010) is compatible and it is, including the space on the harddrive, 64 bit etcetera. What could it be? Why is isn't it downloading?
I received an email from cdhhospitals.org/upload.htm and opened it. I immediately was redirected to a waiting screen. I immediately closed the Safari app. I tried to track this site down and the search states that this site may damage your computer. Did I expose myself to information-theft or anything alike?
Initially there will be two items: file and folder. Click the disclosure triangle next to file. Click the disclosure triangle next to text because you're interested in text editing. The two most interesting subcategories are sourcecode and scripts.
In full-screen mode, Chrome reveals all open tabs when you move your mouse to the top of the screen. Except when it doesn't. Sometimes clicking on the content of the currently open tab seems to jolt Chrome and make it start noticing the mouse-to-screen-top movements, sometimes I have to do Command-L to reveal the search/URL bar to force the tabs to show.
I upgraded my Mac from Lion to Mountain Lion and ever since then, Python stopped working. So I re-installed Python and his setup-tools. Now everything seems to work fine except for iPython. iPython requires readline, which in his turn requires the Mac OSX 10.6 SDK.
I have a Mac mini and the sound has disappeared. I have also lost the sound icon off the toolbar. I went to preferences for the sound and see that mute is checked. I can't un-check it because it is in gray-scale. Any ideas?
I love the Notification center gesture and would love to be able to glance at my full Twitter stream that way. How can I put all of Twitter into that notification area?
Also, I applied the PDF fix from Cydia and changed my SSH password immediately after jailbreaking. I don't know if that info is important, but is given here for completeness.
Is there a way to change the default "Basso" alert sound in Mountain Lion's Notification Center? What I'd really like is support for application-specific notification sounds, so I can tell without looking at the screen whether a notification is from, say Mail vs. iCal. Is this possible, and if so, is it something the application controls or NC controls? If not, at least the ability to change the sound from Basso to something else would be an improvement.
Just recently I'm being asked by the Mac App Store to log into a different account to update my apps. I've never had a second Apple ID and this computer has always belonged to me, meaning there's never been another account logged into this Mac. Screenshot of the message attached.
I am able to ssh to my Linux computer which is on the same network as my Mac. From the Linux machine, I can ssh to my Macbook.
When I try to open an unsigned application by double clicking it in OS X 10.8's Finder, it rejects it. When I right-click the application and select Open, it shows a confirmation dialog. When confirming this with "Open", I can open the application the next time. How I can reset this behavior, so OS X 10.8 will again reject to double-click this application? I need this to test our application in a default environment without having to reinstall a backup.
Is there a way to view iTunes Store purchases without using iTunes? My bank account shows several music purchases I'm not aware of and I would like to verify them but currently don't have access to my main computer.
Currently part of my build process is as follows; Start Utilities/Disk Utility Select New Image Set Save As to widget Set Name to widget Set Size to custom size 50 mb Set Format Mac OS Extended but is it possible to do all this from the command line ?
Although I see an option in System Preferences > Notifications to enable applications to pop a sound on new notifications, Mountain Lion is not actually playing those sounds. Has Anyone run into similar problem?
I'm using a 2011 13" MacBook Pro. For the past few days the brightness always resets to full on boot up and just when the spinning wheel stops loading (before desktop loads), it dims automatically to the level I've set it at. The brightness level is sometimes maintained during boot up but its very sporadic. I've already tried resetting SMC and PRAM but neither seems to have helped. I thought my new Mountain Lion install had something to do with it so I reinstalled Snow Leopard but the issue still persists.
I have a 13'' MacBook Pro from early 2011. Suddenly it can't find any WiFi Networks anymore. It used to find networks (including mine) at my home, but now it doesn't. I cant remember when this happened, most of the time i'm using ethernet. I installed all updates, repaired the permissions, tried do de/activate Airport, deleted
What is the best way of using iCloud at work, and retaining privacy? I have work computer, an iMac. Management requires the login password to be known, so that others can use the computer when I am away. That's fair, they bought it. But I want to use my personal iCloud account.
On my Linux computer, my keyboard switches from English to Serbian when I hold the Caps Lock key. For example, to write č all I have to do is hold Caps Lock, and press the key where č is on the Serbian keyboard (in this case, they key is ; on the English keyboard). When I release Caps Lock, the keyboard "switches back" to English, so that if I press ; I get ; as desired. Super useful. Is there a way to replicate this behavior on OS X?
Using the Keyboard Preference Pane, I've assigned shortcuts to the items in the share sheet in the Finder. Command-Option-Control-M for "Email" and Command-Option-Control-C for Message. The keyboard shortcuts actually get listed next to those commands when I click on the share sheet.
I am using an external (generic) keyboard. I just switched from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. On Snow Leopard, I could pull up Expose by pressing F2 on my external keyboard, but now I can't. Is there a FN key (or a way to enable the right FN key) to show "Mission Control"?
I would prefer to do this through the command line rather than downloading Macports. Any help appreciated.
Does anybody know a way to sleep the Thunderbolt display if I don't need it for a short time? Like if I'm going to watch TV, normally I've just got my MacBook Pro's display turned on, while my old external then got turned off. I'd like to do the same with the Thunderbolt display - to sleep it, or at least turn off the display, but still keep the screen on in my MacBook Pro.
My iPhone 4S was stolen and I reported it to the police and my network. By my iCloud account through Find My iPhone, I had request for remote locking. I don't know if the remote locking worked because I didn't get any mail. After 1 week when I checked my iCloud account again, I saw contacts that I don't know and there are none of my previous contacts. (How is it possible if it's my iCloud account?). How can I track my stolen iPhone 4S phone?
Is there a way to hide the icons in the dock and just show text of the app name instead?
At the time it shipped, the System Requirements for the Apple USB SuperDrive said it worked with precisely three models of computer: MacBook Pro with Retina display MacBook Air computer Mac mini computer The questions and answers linked to from its page are fairly explicit that it only works with Apple hardware that ships without the option to include an internal Superdrive.
I am trying to troubleshoot printer issues and I figured it would be best to see all the printer drivers (and versions thereof) as a starting point, before I try reinstalling said drivers. I would like to see all the printer drivers I have installed on my Mac. Where are they installed? What directory? What is the best way to uninstall them, if I so wished?
I'm using Retina Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is it possible to use QuickTime to capture both audio and screen ? If not, what are the free apps that can do it?
I've been wanting to get Windows on my retina MacBook Pro for a while now but there are so many softwares that I simply gave up. I recently found out that VMware Fusion, Parallels, and Boot Camp are the best ways to get Windows running well. I want to use windows mainly for Steam related games, and some other applications not available on OS X.
On sharing from Mac to Windows I get access denied. My setup: 1 - Windows 7/64 bit 6GB 2 - OSX 10.8 - Mac mini 8GB 2TB external USB drive formatted exFat
Today, I downloaded the latest stable versions of three largely unrelated programs: Pixen, Tiled, and Gideros Studio (free Gideros pack). All three of these programs have crossed out icons, and return the same CoreServicesUIAgent pop-up alert: "You can't open the application [Pixen/Tiled/Gideros_Studio] because it is not supported on this type of Mac."
When I open my application on desktop 1. I can't open it in desktop 2, it will jump back to desktop 1. Can I directly move the application to desktop 2 without exiting the application?
Apple's talagent(8) OS X Manual Page (2010-09-01, long before Lion was released) mentions but does not define the Transparent App Lifecycle feature. Some time before Lion was released, I understood that the TAL comprised: auto save versions resume.
My MacBook Air late 2010 worked perfectly before the Mountain Lion upgrade. After I updated to Mountain Lion, the Internet stopped working on my WiFi network. It detects the network and connects to it with no problems, but cannot access the Internet. On my home network, my Windows 7 PC, iPhone, and iPad all connected to the Internet with no issues. I took the MacBook Air to a local reseller and they connected to their WiFi network and it works perfectly fine. I also connected to other public networks and it works fine as well. I also brought it to work and it works perfectly too. Just no internet on my home network. I tried disabling the firewall, but that didn't help.
I have a Mac with FileVault 2 enabled, and recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Apple automatically enables the option to unlock my system account using my Apple ID in Mountain Lion, and because I have FileVault 2 enabled also hides the option to disable this feature.
I live in Norway so I have my iPad 2 language set to Norwegian. Most of the books I read in iBooks are english. The dictionary is English which is great, however I often try to look up words that are not part of the dictionary. I am then provided with a "search on Wikipedia" option.
I just batch edited some pictures with Preview and changed the name of one file in the Preview window. Minutes later, Finder still didn't show the changed file sizes (not even when opening the Info dialog) and changed names. Switching from list view to icon view or so didn't fix it. I restarted Finder and then the names changed.
"There was a problem enabling FileVault." Error Message. FileVault won't encrypt a previously decrypted system volume. A screenshot of the errors when I try to enable FileValut:
The highlight function in the Mountain Lion version of Preview.app is now directly accessible from the toolbar, while the other annotation functions keep their usual location. The problem is that Apple reduced the number of colours for the highlighting function. For example, red and orange are missing. The number of colours stays the same for the other annotation functions.
I have a jailbroken 3.1.3 iPhone 3G with a faulty power button. I would like to upgrade it to the newest version of iOS possible, but obviously it needs to be done without using said power button - can it be done? And if so, what would be the best way to approach it?
I have too much fonts installed on my Mac, so photoshop (or indesign) can take a long time on operations that involve them (program startup, selecting them on the character palette etc) I'm looking for a simple software, with an interface similar to Font Book (better if more compact), that allow me to view all the fonts inserted on it (but not in the system), and install temporarily on the system a desired font as I need it. Thanks in advance :)
I appreciate that Notification Center is in its infancy but I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to intercept clicks on the "bubbles" that are generated and run your own actions. Specifically, I'd like to be able to launch a local Twitter client rather than the website when clicking on a tweet notification?
Does anyone know how to have Office reminders pop up in front of any application? Now, if I'm working on something, they silently pop up in the background. It's one of the few features I miss from Outlook on windows, and I keep missing appointments. It's driving me nuts (not to mention generating hate from colleagues whose meetings I miss). Or should I just junk Office reminders, and use another application?
How do I find out what mobile phone frequencies an iPhone supports? My wife has an old Australian 3G iPhone and we want to use it on a trip to the US, but we're not sure what mobile phone frequencies it supports and that may affect whether or not we can use it over there.
Simply put: Is there a way to show the notifications on github in the notification center of the new Mountain Lion?
I am using OS X 10.8 I wish I could change the order of input method. How do I do that?
I need to be able to download updates to Parallels on one machine and then distribute the update to multiple, other machines, on a separate network. Is there a way to do this? I've tried to both search kb.parallels.com, as well as Google this. I can't find anything explicitly stating whether this is or isn't possible. If I can download updates from an external source for manual installation, where do I go to get these updates?
On my user I have my keyboard backlight set to off pretty much all the time. But it seems like the default setting is 'on', because when I go to the Login window, to lock my laptop when I leave it for a bit, the backlight is on again. When I log back in, it still doesn't adjust to my previous settings (even though it seems to store it) I need to adjust the backlight to +1 (because it remembers my previous setting as 0, or off) and then back down to off to make it turn off again. Any ideas on how to fix this minor annoyance?
I'm having issues when trying to connect my new MacBook Pro to my iPhone 4 via Bluetooth. I'm trying to connect my iPhone to my MacBook so that I can use the iPhone as a hotspot through Bluetooth and not wi-fi or a cable.
I have a desktop PC with a pretty small hard drive. I bought an external hard drive with 500GB of space and now use that for all of my pictures, music, etc. Its almost full.
Some GUI apps use OS X location services, but I want to retrieve a Mac's physical location from the command line. This could be useful for running scripts, switching settings etc. The mechanism should be CoreLocation, not a Geo IP service (data too low-res, needs online connection).
Recently, I have acquired a MacBook Pro Retina. Previously, I had always used Windows, and I still need it, because of Visual Studio. Hence I installed VMware Fusion and Windows 7 as a virtual machine.
After mounting an smb shared drive and putting in my username and password, OS X will ask me if I want to save password to keychain. I can say yes but it will not save it. The drive has also been added as a login item. My username requires the domain, so it's like: mydomain\firstname.lastname On login, the window pops up and has forgotten the mydomain\ leaving firstname.lastname and the password field is, of course, blank. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I run rails servers at ports 3000 and 5000. What do I use (or how do I find) the IP address of my Mac? Not the one used for web browsing which is my companies host supplied IP but rather my local machine one. I imagine it would be 192.168.x.x?
A certain website that I sometimes frequent for Oracle information uses a lot of Courier New. This looks horrible in Safari. Is there a way I can always force Safari to substitute Andale Mono or Monaco when a page calls for Courier New?
Is it possible to use the windows shown in Mission Control? For example, let's say I have Safari window opened and I want to scroll the page up/down while in Mission Control - is that possible? If it isn't possible - do you know an app that can do something similar?
I carry my Macbook Pro (15" Retina, Mid 2012 with Mt. Lion) between my work and home. It is connected to an external HDD as a Time Machine. I always forget to properly eject the HDD before putting my notebook to sleep (I rarely shut it down) at my office. Is there a way to have it prompt with a custom reminder or warning when I try to put MBP to sleep, using Automator or something?
When I get either a Calendar or Reminders notification, I have the option to 'snooze':  I would like to be able to say something like 'remind me in 10 minutes' or 'remind me in 2 hours' (much like the iCal notifcations used to allow in <= 10.7). Is this possible?
I managed to broke something on my iMac's internal HD. I have now done a successful restore using DiskDrill, but just in case I want to make an exact copy of the internal HD. Not just some partition, but everything, even "free" disk space. I have tried creating a disk image with Disk Utility and CCC, but they both seemed to clone the only working and empty partition, not the free space where all my data is. I should also mention, the internal HD is 1TB, and the external one where I planned to put the disk image is 2TB with some (about 150GB) used space.
I am trying to submit a podcast to iTunes for the first time, and thought everything was going well, but I just got a rejection email: Dear podcast owner, The podcast located at the URL shown below has been blocked or removed from the iTunes directory as a result of technical problems with the feed. Name: In His Word Feed URL: http://joshburnett.org/podcast/rss_source.rss
I'm having an issue on my Mac since I installed Lion and now Mountain Lion (I thought that the Lion problem could be because I've put an SSD in my Mac and did not make a fresh install but a carbon copy to the new disk, but it still happens with Mountain Lion with a format/fresh install). What is happening to me is that, when I put my Mac to sleep and the battery dies, it does not restore the state like a normal sleep that it did when I was on Snow Leopard. Now when the battery dies, the computer restarts: I need to put my password and the programs open again but some of them lose the previous state (like VLC, Chrome has the "restore" option, etc.) it is exactly like a restart with the option "Reopen windows when logging back in" selected. Is this normal or should it happen like in Snow Leopard?
I need the lowest-impact way to allow more than 10 AFP sessions on my OS X Server running 10.5.8. If I buy a boxed retail copy of 10.5.4 Server Unlimited, will I just have to enter the new license key in Server Settings? Is it OK if the version numbers don't match up exactly on this type of upgrade?
I just want to change the dock icons instead of system wide. It it possible to only change the icons in the dock, and not elsewhere?
If my iPhone gets stolen and I try to use Find my iPhone while it's off, I am given the option to be notified by email when my iPhone is found. I believe this sends an email to my iCloud account. I see 2 problems with this:
I just recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8. On 10.6 I could set the terminal to close the tab/window when the shell exits. Mountain Lion's terminal just says the process is completed and the tab/window stays open:
I've been looking at spicing up my Terminal experience by among other things, adding some color. I used the tput command to build a nicely looking prompt. This is part of my .bash_profile: Notice the ${REVERSE} (or $(tput rev)) at the end of the prompt, which makes the commands I type stand out by adding a background color.
I would like to have Safari open any links in email messages. However it seems that Opera has hijacked this and I can't see any property that can change this. Any ideas?
Is there a way to mount disks in Mountain Lion that works with cron? The following command works fine from the Terminal:
I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and find that when my 2 year old iMac comes back from sleep it finds the router and connection but fails to allow internet connection. In other words it indicates the machine is connected but I cannot access Mail or use any Internet browser. I have two PCs in the house that have no problems, so I assume the problem is neither with the modem or the router. There was never a problem when I was running Lion, it began only after installing Mountain Lion, so once again I assume the problem is with the new operating system. My iMac is circa early 2010. My son's iMac (2012) is not demonstrating the same problem. The most reliable way to establish an internet connection is to reboot my router (NetGear N300). When the computer reconnects after the reboot, it invariably finds the Internet. I have occasionally been successful Turning Wi-Fi off, and then back on, but most times not. I see that other users are reporting similar difficulties. Even if no one has an
I am using Terminal and have looked through directories. I just can't find where my USB drive its directory is. Which directory is my USB drive mounted in?
In my iPad, the cookie setting for Safari is set to "from visited", which should block all third party cookies. But if I am not logged out of Facebook, then from any third party webpage that uses the Facebook Social plugin, I can see which of my friends have liked that page. That means Facebook knows that I am visiting that page, so its third party cookie isn't blocked. What am I missing here? (I use Chrome with my Desktop computer, and this does not happen, i.e. with its "block third party cookies" setting, the Facebook social plugin cannot see who I am, even when I'm logged in to Facebook.)
When I connect my MBA to Apple TV it adjusts the MBA resolution to something else which makes everything smaller but gives me more screen real-estate. I don't want to do this often but sometimes its nice when an app window is large and not scalable. Is there a way to do this without connecting to ATV? Preferably a script to run that makes the adjustment and then one to set it back? Thanks,
Reducing the number of files (say to 170) solves the problem. I have not tried anything higher than this.
I just finished upgrading to Lion from SL and Safari won't open. When I click it, the app bounces in the dock for a moment then a box pops up and says Safari quit unexpectedly. I tried going to the apple website to download safari but *=URL=* doesn't contain a download link on the page (to me, at least) and *=URL=* just redirects to *=URL=* I can't find a Safari version for Lion anywhere.
I want to show the wrap column line for all files, how can I do this? I checked the .tm_properties file, but I don't see any mention of it in there.
I have a MacBook Pro and I am planning to do a fresh install of Mountain Lion over my existing Lion partition. I have Windows x64 installed on another partition (I installed it using BootCamp). My question is whether I have to remove BootCamp windows partition before installing Mountain Lion? Or may I just install a fresh copy without disturbing Windows partition?
When I use my iPhone 4S's touch screen while charging, sometime it is not working correctly. For example; if I touch something in the middle screen, it acts like I touch some bottom in the border. Is this normal behavior or should I go back to the Apple Store?
I am looking into getting an Apple laptop. I took a look at the MacBook Pro (regular versus retina display). After reviewing the specs, it seems the MacBook Pro with Retina display has the following benefits: Lighter (by about 1 pound) SSD The display, of course
I have an issue with my mac book pro (15") I connect to the WiFi at home but when I take it to my work WiFi it cannot connect. I get no errors or messages. Does anybody have any idea what can resolve this issue? Thanks in advance.
I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to run several VMs on my MacBook and am unable to use the trackpad to "two finger swipe" to the previous webpage under Win 7. I'm guessing this is a driver issue. Since my mac never came with a CD, or anything else, where can I download the Win7 drivers that will allow me to properly "swipe" under Win7? (The OracleBox drivers do currently support two finger scroll, but not the "go back" macro in IE)
I'm new to the Mac platform and need to figure out which virtualization platform is best for me. Is there a comparison list of features (and missing features) for each of the major virtualization platforms? (VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, Microsoft VirtualPC, or VMware ESX?
Where can I find a list of new or updated terminal commands or features for Mountain Lion? Lacking any list, does anyone have a sugguestion on how to generate that list? (some combination of ls & diff)
Is there a way to pick which song should play after the current song finishes? I often browse my music library while listening, and I'll want to play a specific song, but not stop the current song in the middle. Is there a way to queue up a song to start after the current one?
If I disable Gatekeeper on ML (I mean I allow apps from anywhere) is code signing disabled too or the Mac App Store will continue checking if apps are unmodified preventing from upgrading them if they don't pass the signature check?
I have: Favorites Shared Devices I'd like to create something like: Cloud Files My Favorites is getting a little cluttered with shortcuts to a DropBox folder, a SkyDrive folder, a Google Drive folder, an IDrive folder, etc. How can I create a new group for items in the Sidebar in Finder?
Do the videos you take on iPhone go to the iCloud? If so where do I find them on my computer? It didn't go where my pictures are.
So I seem to not have my Snow Leopard DVD available anywhere. I can't use a newer version like Lion. What can I do to repair/recover Snow Leopard now that the installation DVD is not available?
How to implement shortcut commands to the "Share > Email" under contextual menu in Mountain Lion?
I wanted to exclude some directories from the results of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb by editing /etc/locate.rc. Unfortunately if I edit locate.rc locate.updatedb runs forever and does not actually terminate -- I have to kill it, and then the database for locate is an empty file. Any ideas on why locate.rc is not respected? I'm on ML (OS X 10.8), using bash from Macports (bash 4.2.37(2)-release), and my locate.rc reads:
Amazingly, a year after Lion has been released, iWork still does not support Lion / ML's global text substitution settings. I use these widely for special technical symbols. Although global text substitution is not supported in iWork, Keynote and Pages do have their own local text substitution function, which performs the same as the global one, but doesn't use the global settings.
I have Mail Version 6.0 (1485), Mountain Lion 10.8, build 12A269. When composing messages in Mail the keystrokes are delayed. This makes typing awkward. I have not had this happen under Lion and it does not appear to be happening under any other application. How can I fix keystroke delay while typing in Mail on Mountain Lion?
For years I've been using this AppleScript to toggle the sort order of a Finder window: (You can replace size with kind, name, modification date, etc.) But ever since Lion, this no longer works! The little arrow in the column header DOES change, but the items do not re-sort. Any way to get this working?
I am looking for an app on iphone to do this: I can select a bunch of photos into the app I can select a bunch of photos into the app I click a button I click a button Then the app will randomly pick a photo from what I have selected and show up in the screen. Then the app will randomly pick a photo from what I have selected and show up in the screen. If possible the app could quickly slide through all the photos I have selected and randomly stop at one of them. This app is very useful in a party and when people want to do a raffle gift drawing. Is there such an app there?
When my Mac (running Mountain Lion) goes to sleep, it turns off my apps. For example, I was listening to music with VLC, and when it goes to sleep mode, VLC stops playing. What can I do?
When I click on a link to a PDF file, sometimes the PDF document opens in the Safari browser window, and sometimes it opens a new window and opens the PDF document in the Preview application. Is there a way to predict which will happen, before I click on the link? If I want it to always open in Preview, or always open in the browser, is there a way to configure the browser to do so? I'm using Safari on Mountain Lion, if that is relevant.
In Lion I enabled the "Top sekret" debug menu and checked the box to show 14 days in the weekview. In Lion it worked quite nice.
When the .bash_profile file is read when the terminal is created and I try to execute MathematicaKernel, no such executable is found. However, if I create an alias: in the .bash_profile file, then when I run math the kernel starts up as usual.
In my SMTP server settings, I tried manually adding 587 both with SSL and without without any success. My mail server only accepts on 587. Restarted Mail, restarted MacBook Air, flushed DNS entries.
I have a problem with finding my music again in iTunes after the IP address was changed of my NAS where all my music resides. After switching internet providers, I changed the layout of my home network. Formerly my NAS could be reached on IP 192.168.0.12, but the new modem demands another IP range, so my NAS is now at 192.168.1.200.
This time, I wanted to use the "Intel SSD Toolbox" to do a "secure erase" of the drive to get it back to full condition. However, to do this, there can be no partition on the drive, and currently the EFI partition is still present. I searched on AskDifferent and via Google, but it seems removing this partition makes Mountain Lion complain while installing.
I have an iMac with an external USB 1TB harddrive, running Mountain Lion. Under File Sharing I have added this external drive to my list of "Shared Folders". I have a MacBook Pro also running Mountain Lion and I want to be able to access the external drive on the iMac, but it's not showing that drive when I access the iMac via Finder on the MacBook Pro. What am I doing wrong?
I have a PowerPoint presentation created on Microsoft Windows. When I play it on an iPad there are great typography distortions. There are a lot of fonts not found on the by iPad. Could I install my own fonts on an iPad, or solve this in another way?
I've been exploring the versions functionality of the new document model in Mac OS X 10.8. It's mostly similar to what was in Lion. In the title bar of a supported document choose "Browse all versions…" from the drop-down menu.
I downloaded and ran the Mountain Lion Installer today for my mid-2007 iMac. After rebooting and preparing to install, I receive an error message that the hard disk was damaged and the installer could not run.
I wish to no longer log on automatically to a wi-fi network that I once logged on to access the internet. I have tried everything in the advanced tab of the Network preference panel to no avail: the computer never "forget" the WEP password no matter what I do. Any further reaching solutions I would not be aware of? THanks. Paul
Is there an easy way to extract metadata from iTunes? I want to know how much a certain artist has been played (for each track, playcount * track length.)
As per title, I'm using a external NTFS hard disk for storage (guess it doesn't matter the type, but I can give more informations if needed). It happen many times, however, that I receive Finder error -50
Is there a way to use curl to download non-sequential images with a wildcard? I want to download all the panoramas I upload to my account at 360 Panorama to a local folder so I don't have to do this manually each time.
I'm trying to convert a P12 file to a PEM file. When I execute the command, the terminal asks me for three things: P12 passphrase (I type it in, hit enter) PEM passphrase (type it in, hit enter) PEM passphrase confirm (type it in, hit enter) I know I can execute a sudo command all in one shot by using the following: How can I add all three values in one shot?
After installing Photoshop CS6 extended yesterday, I noticed that I have multiple versions of Adobe Photoshop and related programs (like Adobe Bridge), and they take up a lot of space. I don't really use Adobe Bridge, but I have CS3 (came with Photoshop CS3 extended), CS4 (came with Photoshop Elements 8) and CS6 on my mac, is it safe to remove the older two versions and just keep Adobe Bridge CS6 without affecting the functionality of Photoshop CS3 and Elements 8? What's the best way to do a clean uninstall of the programs? Thanks.
Unfortunately I used a shitty VPN service called VPN OneClick Pro. When you uninstall the app it does not remove the VPN configuration files it creates in Network in System Preferences. So in other words, when you open System Preferences and then click on Network, to your left you always see your Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Firewire, etc. VPN OneClick Pro places about 28 VPN Configuration files. The minus button "-" has been greyed out so removing them is impossible. I'd post a screenshot but as a new user, I'm not allowed to. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds questionable (just how much can you possibly speed up Mail on a quad-core machine?), but at least that couldn't possibly hurt since such memory can be treated like free memory! Actually, it can: In OS X, when the number of pages in the free list dips below a computed threshold, the kernel reclaims physical pages for the free list by swapping inactive pages out of memory. This makes me question whether OSX' memory handling is in fact superior; after all the same page mentions that
Now I've upgraded to Mountain Lion, when I look at Calendar in Day view, there's a ruddy great list in the middle of the window. I have 30 subscribed calendars that I need to be able to see and the list is not at all helpful. As it only shows in Day view, can I change Week view to be a week of one day? Anyone have any other ideas?
I have a Huawei E3131 3G modem and it doesn't work on latest 2012 MacBook Air. It works with older versions of OS X with USB 2.0 so it looks like the only problem is USB 3.0.
Since I upgraded my MacBook to Mountain Lion I have the following problem: in the Mac App Store it's not possible to log in or to buy/download anything. Clicking on log in just doesn't do anything, no error massage. What to do? Edit: The following error messages are in the log file after trying to download some app:
Some time ago I had a user called "xy" on my system. I have deleted the user but in the /Users directory there are folders called "xy" with a Desktop, Library etc. in it. Why are they not deleted and can I delete them manually?
I installed Charles Proxy to do some testing, later I disocvered that any traffic going through Personal Hotspot is also routed though to a local port. I've remove the Mac OS X proxy settings, but unless I have Charles open, I cannot connect over HTTP.
I'm trying to buy new laptop, and one seller has three different laptops, but I can't figure out what the difference between new (2012) models of Apple MacBook Pro: MD104RS/A, MD104Z/A, MD104LL/A ?
I want to set the "Homebrew" theme to be the default in Terminal. I've changed the setting in the preferences: I chose "on startup, open" : "new window with settings" : "Homebrew". Here is a screenshot:
I've been toying around with AppleScript and Automator to get this thing to work, but I just can't seem wrap my head around it. If anyone could show me an example or give me some tips on how I can set an application to close at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep or shutdown, it would be greatly appreciated.
I recently downloaded an Xcode 4.4 DMG file in Apple's Developer site and then opened it and ran Xcode. I then copied the Xcode app to my Applications folder. By doing that way, can I assume that it's already installed? When I type "xcode" in Spotlight, it does see the Xcode app. Your thoughts?
I'm quite the newbie at operating systems etc., so forgive me if my question is dumb. Is it possible to install Linux and Windows on a Mac, to run side by side with OS X? I'm about to start a new study, and I would like the new retina MacBook Pro for it, but for my study I'm definetely going to be programming C# and for that I'll prefer Windows. And I've recently started exploring C++, and I really love Linux and would like to make some apps for it, so that's why I'd like to have Linux on there as well. Question summary: On a new retina MacBook Pro, is it possible to install Windows and Linux next to Mac OS X so I can choose which OS I want on boot?
What does the presence of a file named .com.apple.timemachine.supported denote? Is it safe to delete? I find about a dozen of these scattered across my local hard disks, not the TimeMachine volumes...
I have a strange problem: I installed XAMPP long time ago and created a folder with an index.php file in my sites folder. When i start XAMPP and go to the browser localhost/~username i can see the folder-structure. I click on the folder i created some month ago, and safari shows me the index.php file. But now i create a new folder, with a new index-file in it, and navigate to it, i'm getting an 404 Error. Both folders are in the same Directory: ~/Sites Open localhost/~username and i can see all folders in the ~/Sites - Folder Clicking on the folder created long time ago: works Clicking on the new folder created few seconds ago: Error 404 I think there is a problem in the apache-config file, but i do not understand why apache finds only the new file.
I have iPhoto library in which all my photos exist. I want to pick a photo from iPhoto library and apply it to a contact. But I don't find any such option in new Contacts app (picking a photo form disk). It seems very simple thing to do but yet I cant find a way. Please can you me how can I do it?
I am about to get an iPad. My only other apple product is the iPod, and I do not have any windows computer (all Linux). The iPod has been shelved for some time: I don't sync it very often with my music collection (which is on a NAS). My question is: can I use the iPad as an interface to sync my iPod with my album collection in the NAS?
I've installed iTunes Match and started to stream some songs. I was just wondering, where are they stored during streaming?I have a MacBook Pro, with Mountain Lion.
I have set a wallpaper to my desktop, now I want to consolidate all my wallpapers into a single folder so the system can cycle through them. How can I find a currently set wallpaper's location?
I'm using macbook pro mid 2009. Everything is working good but my camera. The problem is camera stops working after 1-2 minutes in skype chat. And during the conversation I can't close my camera because camera icon is not working. Is that problem about camera or skype? And how can i fix it ?
I have a Mac Mini with OS X Mountain Lion Server installed. I've turned on Time Machine in the server app and selected an internal disk to backup clients to. On my iMac, I have turned on Time Machine and selected the backup share listed on the server. But, I recieve the following error dialog box:
When I want to open a new window of a program already opened in another workspace the opened window gets automatically focused in the other workspace. Thats annoying because I always have to get back to the previous workspace and use the context menu in Dock to force a new window. How is it possible to turn that off? I am using OS X Mountain Lion.
I am looking for clarification since I am seeing large allocations of RAM on my Mac. I have 16 GB of RAM and recently installed Windows 7 on Parallels. When the machine runs, I see 3.55 GB Free memory and 8.39 GB Inactive memory. I do not want my RAM to be hogged by Windows if I only need it for a small task and am concerned about a slowly running Mac in this case.
I have a playlist of 180 songs that I downloaded from the internet. I imported it into iTunes, but all the data for the songs was put into their name. for example: 001 - artist - song title was put into the ‘song name’ section and the rest of the data fields were left blank. I tried getting track names from gracenote or whatever iTunes uses, but it said that I need to import the songs through iTunes in order to do that. So basically, what I want is a way that I can burn the 180 songs (1.5gb) onto a virtual CD and then have iTunes import from the CD. I have tried using Toast Titanium’s burn to .dmg function but it has a 99 song limit for burning CD’s. I have also tried using Virtual CD-RW but Finder wouldn't let me burn the files to the virtual CD it had created because there was ‘not enough space on the disk’ Is there an app that can create a virtual CD (CD-R/CD-RW) that I can burn 1.5gb of music to?
I am interested about an iPad for my mom and can't decide whether to go for 16GB or 32GB. Assuming no movies on it, and minimal amount of apps (she will use it mainly for browsing and skype) how many photos can fit on a 16GB?
Most (all) of my PDF's I read on iBooks are actual novels or textbooks. Is there a way to force iBooks to use the generic book cover rather than the first page of the PDF document? I'm tired of trying to find a book I want to read when all I'm seeing for thumbnails are the start of the copyright information...
I've just installed Mountain Lion, Xcode 4.4.1 + command line tools, and MacPorts for ML. It's working for other packages but I can't get figlet to install. When I use sudo port install figlet in the terminal it stops quickly and outputs:
I just found out that when you share a picture in iPhoto via email, the email screen does not go away until the photo has been completely emailed. This means, if its a large photo that I am trying to 'share', depending upon my bandwidth, it takes quite a while to send, during which, I cannot browse any other picture in iPhoto. Is there a way I can background the sharing via email process such that the email screen goes away as soon as I hit the send button and I can proceed on to share other emails. I am fine with the system queuing up the pictures to upload.
I am a web developer and am wondering why os x comes a long with a lot of gnu tools (nano, bash, vim). How can apple provide them in their closed-source system when the GPL forbidds this? Regards, Bodo
I've just upgraded my 2011 17" MacBook Pro with a brand spankin' new SSD hard drive and 8GB of RAM. In order to fully maximize the potential of the system, I'd like to install Windows 7 to take full advantage of the specs.
Which is the best strategy to save the batteries of your macbook pro, to watch a movie that is stored on an usb hard drive (powered by the macbook) ? 1) Plug the usb hard drive and watch the movie from it. 2) Copy the movie on the the macbook hard drive, unplug the usb harddrive and watch the movie? I personally think the 2) is the best, but can't say I'm sure 100%
I’d like to use the osascript shell command to run some AppleScript, but I’d rather avoid the GUI password prompt. Instead, I’d prefer to run the script as sudo from the command-line, so no GUI popups/prompts are needed. The command is the following: Running this command has the same effect as going to System Preferences → Accessibility and checking Enable access for assistive devices. If it doesn’t prompt for your password, try the opposite: For either one of these commands you’ll get a password prompt in the OS X GUI:
Is there something like *=URL=* or *=URL=* but that could replace the default Mac OS time and sit in your menu bar?
I'm running Mountain Lion, and I'm trying to install Ruby; however, I get "bad CPU in executable" error. Not sure how to fix this . . . ideas? Sorry for the bad formatting - "code" doesn't really format this Terminal output properly. [06:51 AM] ~ 2 $ curl -L *=URL=* | bash -s stable % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 185 100 185 0 0 293 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 345 100 9979 100 9979 0 0 11662 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11662 bash: line 30: /sw/bin/gtar: Bad CPU type in executable Downloading RVM from wayneeseguin branch stable % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 125 100 125 0 0 502 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 531 100 1045k 100 1045k 0 0 925k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 1543k bash: line 161: /sw/bin/gtar: Bad CPU type in executable
Well, I just spilled some sweet liquid in my aluminium wired keyboard and few keys are hard to press now. What is the best way to clean the keyboard out of the sugar? I guess I could just clean it with water and let it dry few days but I am worried about the membrane.
Sometimes when I text other iPhone users, messages don't deliver as iMessages and say "Sent as text message". What causes this to happen?
My VPN service works perfect until last friday and still working on a DD-WRT router. I'm using OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. Here is the log output *=URL=* Others connections works fine also another VPN connections. All started playing with this
I am running a MacBook Pro on Mac OS X 10.5.8 I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but cannot download it as I do not have Snow Leopard.
Since updating to Mountain Lion I lose my internet connection every time that my 24 inch Mid 2007 awakens from sleep. It doesn't occur when going to sleep or during but only on activating it again. 100% of the time. Any ideas?
When I click with the right mouse button on the Messages icon on the dock bar, I see there is a "Show Recents" menu item.  When I click on it, the only thing it seems to do is showing me a Finder window. It hides the other windows, and when I click on the desktop, the window I was seeing before re-appears. In my case, I had Safari open, and its window was hidden until I didn't click on the desktop.
Is it possible to find the location of an iPad via Dropbox activity? We are looking for a 'lost' iPad and don't have any other app that might be able to give us information.
Does anyone know if there is a way to disable iCloud for documents only? (I am using DropBox and would like all my documents to be in the same place).
When I installed RVM, it turns out that it created .bash_login with this: [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session as a function
I started using TotalTermianl on Mountain Lion. But the background have Missing Quartz Composition error. I have found some people had the same as mine here
When I activate Mission Control and try to drag drag, say, two windows to another desktop, the first drag works fine. I can drag the window to the other desktop's thumbnail, which darkens, and then release the mouse, and the window moves to that desktop just as it should. When I try to drag the second window, however, the recipient space won't darken—it doesn't register that I'm dragging the window over it—and when I release the mouse button, the window will snap back to its original position as though I'd dragged it to some other part of the screen.
How can I make PNG files be automatically opened after being downloaded from Safari?
I see that Mountain Lion has come preinstalled with 4 versions of the Dvorak keyboard layout. I do not think these versions are "Programmer's Dvorak." I found a version of this layout here: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
I was using Afloat 2.4 on my Mac with OS X Lion. Now all of a sudden it stopped working. The Afloat items disappeared from the Window menu, and reinstall does nothing. Anybody here have seen a similar case? How do I get afloat back? Or are there any other app which allows me to keep certain window on top?
The keyboard shortcut "Show Notification Center" you can set under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Mission Control stopped working for me after a restart. I tried resetting to defaults, changing the short cut and finally exiting all running apps and processes - nothing seems to bring back the short cut. Does anybody know how to debug this or a plist where I can manually edit this?
I know that whenever we add an icon to the dock, it gets added to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist file. So, when I wanted to remove a dock icon from a program, I removed the corresponding entry from the plist file. However, I am seeing some issues in Mountain Lion(only). Sometimes, when I delete the entry from the com.apple.dock.plist file and kill the dock, the dock icon is still present in the dock. I am not sure how this can be possible. I confirmed that the application is not running. Is there any other location where dock information gets stored? Has anybody else faced such issues?
Is there any way to have multiple installs of the same application (in the same user account)? Basically, I have several google reader accounts, and I want to be able to have multiple instances of Reeder. As it is, changing accounts at the moment involves restarting the app, and manually typing the different account info in. At that point, you have access to only one of the accounts, and switching involves the whole rigamarole again. Is there any way I can have something like a sandbox for each instance, with it's own keychain?
In Safari 6.0 the 'Appearance' tab from 'Preferences' was omitted. How can I now switch “Display images when the page opens” on/off ?
I cannot successfully connect to any of the shared windows folders on any of the network-connected PC's since the installation of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.
In Safari 5 you could just change the Reader.html file inside of the Safari.app to use a sans-serif font. This Reader.html does not exist in Safari 6. How do I manage to change the font of Safari Reader (6)? I hate to read serif fonts.
Is there any 3rd party app to enable special character input on holding key for Snow Leopard same it is at Lion? Thanks a lot.
I like to run all my own data services (for security and confidentiality). I'm wondering whether anyone has tried to replace iCloud with a personal server. I presume that a combination of server side WebDAV plus jabber might do the trick together with some client side scripting and sculpting of the hosts file. The aim would be to as completely as possible replace Apple's services but still use the OS X and iOS integration for documents and messages between a single user's devices.
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I don't get the full search results when searching my Mail. Mail is now coming back with only 2-3 months worth of search and I'm not sure those are complete. I've tried highlighting old messages, changing the order, etc. Other people are experiencing this too. Does anyone know how to fix it?
I'd like to turn off my iMac display while connected to it via a remote desktop session. I'm using TeamViewer or LogMeIn, and unfortunately the screen stays on during those sessions when it really doesn't need to be on. Is there any way to set the screen to off while in use? Note: I don't want to put the display to sleep because that will only last until I start typing or move the mouse.
Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups. Seems like an oversight that I would have to go back to my Mac, or delete a contact and manually recreate their card in a different group, in order to do this.
Running Mountain Lion. I added a partition with Disk Utility and then had second thoughts about it. I'd like to remove the partition i created, MacSSD2 and hand over its space back to MacSSD. As you can see, the "-" button is disabled even when i select the MacSSD2 partition.
My wife and I both recently discovered there was a select few of our contacts missing on our iPhone4. I think 5 or 6 from mine and over 30 from hers. This happened a day or so apart. Neither of us have done iCloud or synced with contacts or any of that. The contacts just went away. Starting a text and typing in the first few letters does not work for this. The contacts are gone. What may have caused losing 5-30 of our two iPhone4's contacts without using iCloud or any other sync?
I have a couple of decades experience using Emacs, so the Emacs-like keybindings for text editing on Mac OS X are very nice. Unfortunately, some websites (ahem) choose to override these with Javascript. For example, one of them makes controlB insert the text **strong text**, rather than going back one character. Is there any way to make Safari ignore Javascript keybindings that try to remap the standard OS X keybindings?
I have MacBook Pro at work. It has the glossy glass screen and I'm able to see everybody behind me by just changing the focus of my sight. It's a bit weird. How do you get used to this mirror/screen?
I'm a developer and often dealing with unusual file types. If I want to open one of these files in TextEdit, I have to start it first and then open the file with it, or drag the file to the TextEdit icon. Is there a way to permanently put the TextEdit.app into the Open with... menu list no matter what file type I'm looking at? Of course this procedure will be useful for whatever text editor you choose if TextEdit isn't your cup of tea.
Is there a way to display sent/received iMessages in a vertical format rather than the current left/right bubble formate?
My friend's mother-in-law upgraded to Safari 6 and is now panicking because she doesn't have separate address and search fields. Is there somewhere on apple.com where she can download a Safari 5 installer? She's still running Lion so that shouldn't be an issue.
I have a 3rd-gen Apple TV. I recently started ripping and adding some of my TV Shows from DVD and I've stumbled into a problem.
Is there a way to display sent/received iMessages in a "horizontal" format rather than the current "vertical" left/right bubble format?
Upon testing a within a standalone network with just a DHCPv6 server on it and several client computers with different operating systems, OS X 10.7.4 fails to automatically obtain an IPv6 address from the DHCPv6 server. Settings are set as the following for IPv6 System Preferences > Network > Ethernet > Advanced... > Configure IPv6: "Automatically" Is there a way to make OS X Lion work as a DHCPv6 client for a full IPv6 network with a DHCPv6 server? Or a way to add a 3rd party DHCPv6 client? As of now each Macs has to be manually set to a static IPv6 address to get them on the network, which is not ideal.
When changing my mac HDD to an SSD I ran into the following problem: I've created a DMG image of my old HDD which has a capacity of 320GB. The DMG file remembered and saved the capacity in the image, and the problem is my SSD is only 120GB.. So the DMG can't be used if I can't decrease the capacity somehow.. EDIT: The total amount of used space on the image is only 15GB.. I've looked at hdiutil but I'm actually a ruby on rails developer so I don't really get this stuff.. Is their any way with this or another util to decrease the capacity of the DMG? Thanks!
I'm trying to uninstall MAMP and MAMP pro from my mountain lion macbook and don't know how i should do that. I tried dragging the icon from my launchpad to the Trash, but it doesn't work. What should i do?
Is it possible to create a new note soley by logging into iCloud.com? Also, though I can see my existing notes synced up there, I cannot edit them. Is this the default behaviour or a bug?
I have connected an external drive to my Airport Extreme, but it doesn't show up in Finder, and it doesn't show up in the list of drives when I connect to the Airport Utility. The same drive worked previously, but I have since reformatted it. The drive works fine when connected directly to my Mac via USB cable.
I'm trying to automate the construction of a document, and am looking for a way to insert images into a Pages document with AppleScript. For example:
I have both Oracle Java 7 and Apple Java 6 installed. Apple Java 6 is disabled in Java Preferences.
If Mac Mail can make it easy for Exchange users I assume that it can also make it easy to get their mail from OS X Server? But how?
Is there a way to share a file over AirDrop via Terminal on Mountain Lion? How so?
I have OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installed on my Macbook Pro. I want to use my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 webcam with it, but Logitech does not include drivers for OS X. I need an camera that is not on the laptop. Is there third-party software I can use to make this work on my MacBook?
I learned that the retina MacBook Pro has a Deep Sleep Mode that is initiated when left idle for a long time. This, however, causes my laptop to take about 3-5 seconds to wake up after it sleeps, such as opening the lid. Can I disable this Deep Sleep Mode?
I have a useful wireless network, and then my Time Capsule's wireless network, which overpowers the other network when the computer is next to it. I don't know if it's misconfigured, but the Time Capsule's wireless network lets me do Time Machine backups and nothing else.
/Users/Abby is the home folder of a user account that has been deleted. Check out the screenshot:
When I open the launch bar the dock is always there taking up spaces. Is there a terminal command that allow me to hide this?
Well, I "cleaned" my Apple keyboard (2010 model). I used a wet rag to clean the well-used keys. It looks great but it doesn't work. I hate to toss it if I can fix it. Is it possible that I've pressed a combination that has deactivated the keyboard?
Like the title. How can i setup macbook Pro 13" earlier screen resolution 1440 x 900? I tried from system references, the max resolution is 1280 x 800. I use OSX Mountain Lion.
My Mac is very slow. My Mac is running OS X Mountain Lion after an upgrade from Lion. How can I do a fresh install the OSX Mountain Lion, with a clean HDD (all of my documents deleted), so it feels like a new MacBook?
I forgot the answers of the security questions. Not that I seriously need to do it now, but there might be a problem if I need to answer those in future. I still remember my password. How can I reset the answers of the security questions?
How can I make my wallpaper image an animated gif?
I have 2 different OS X partitions on my Mac. I use ReFit to boot them. But since they're both the same OS, it shows the same icon for both of them, which isn't their disk icon that I can change.
I like to listen to podcasts while driving - but I can't use the iPhone's touch interface to play/pause podcasts because it requires looking at the iPhone long enough to cause an accident. I'm looking for a physical pause/play button I can operate by touch and I've found this product on eBay Cable Remote Music Control for Apple iPod Nano 6 Touch 3 Classic iPhone 4S 4 3GS I've had issues before with a car's built-in iPod control that would mark a podcast as completely played even if I listened only to a short part of it and that made that car's iPod control completely useless for me. Does anyone here has experience with that iPhone remote and knows if it works well for podcasts? Recommendation for alternative products are also welcome, as long as the alternative is cheap if it makes any difference the iPhone is connected to the car's radio speakers with a cable connected to the phone's earphones jack.
I'm on Mountain Lion. Every time I double-click on a pdfd (pdf bundle) document, I get the alert saying that I'm opening Skim for the first time (which is, of course, false).
When plugging in an external monitor on every OS X < 10.8 you could set the monitor options to show up on the menu bar. How do I get this option on Mountain Lion? I connect a DVI monitor via the hdmi ouput on a retina MacBook Pro and I am unable to find a way to enable this option.
In Snow Leopard, at least, I could press Cmd + L to select my name and then press Enter to get the password prompt, but I can't get that to work in Mountain Lion when I've left the computer locked for an extended amount of time. How do I unlock my Mac without having to click my name when I've locked it?
Mountain Lion allows one to encrypt any disk by right-clicking on the disk in the Finder and selecting Encrypt from the contextual menu. Is there anyway to check on the progress of this encryption process?
I'm doing some software tests in my company and one question is wether old files can be opened in new programms. According to my google-fu it is possible to open Logic Pro 9 projects in LP 8, but is the opposite possible as well (open LP 8 projects in LP 9) - that's where my google-fu left me?
I was using my iPhone with both data enabled, 3G enabled and inside my hose, where I was connected to wi-fi. I just saw that I exceeded my monthly limit and I was billed $10. So when data is enabled, will it always be used? I understand that 3G is only used for data, so I am not billed for it separately. right?
If I double tap the home button I will get the recently used apps. I have an app which I must keep on but I don't want other apps to send any data in the background and increase my data usage and my billing amount. If an app is currently running will it 100% be in that group?
Good morning- Is it possible to delete the contents of ~/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups? This seems to be where backups were stored in older versions of iTunes/iOS? It appears like it is every backup of iPods, iPhones, etc. I've owned since 2003. It seems like backups of an iPhone/iPad done locally are now stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync and that it would be safe to delete the contents of the other folder (~/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups) but would appreciate any confirmation that this is accurate :) Thanks in advance for your help.
After updating a Pages/Numbers document in iOS, I can go back to the app's file browser to get the list of all of my docs in iCloud. At that moment, the document that I had just updated displays a progress bar with the message "Uploading...". If I exit the app, will the upload complete in the background every time?
Since installing Mountain Lion and configuring Messages, I've noticed a trickle of network activity that is basically constant. I installed Little Snitch and discovered that a process called "imagent" is connecting to my work Jabber server, pushing about 45Kb/s up and pulling about 75Kb/s down. Research seems to indicate that imagent has something to do with chat or Facetime availability.
I'm using AirDisplay to allow me to use my iPad as an external monitor for about 10 hours a day. I have it plugged into my Mac the entire time (so the battery doesn't completely die).
When I press and hold a key (i.e. a) in most programs (such as a web browser, Evernote, etc.) I see the accent character pop-up menu.
I have rather a strange issue when I try to connect a dell monitor to MacBook Pro. Firstly the Dell monitor won't detect the signal from MacBook if I connect it immediately after the laptop is booted. It takes a while (I didn't measure how long) for the monitor to detect the signal from MacBook after lot of attempts.
I need to use the Mac Mini Server running 10.6.8 as an access point for my team at the office. When I go under System Preferences>Sharing there's no Internet Sharing Option. What to do?
I formatted the iPad and lost my songs. Is it possible to re-download songs I bought via iPad?
I am on a rather low monthly limit with my mobile phone plan. When travelling, I usually write mails and browse the web on my Macbook Air via iPhone Personal Hotspot. However, I do know several system services send and receive data "in the background" when a network connection is available — but I don’t want my Mac to download hundreds of MB of system updates or similar through my costly mobile data plan.
My wife synced her iPhone 3G and installed two new apps yesterday. While my son was playing with one of the new apps in her company (ie no dropping or water) the phone went blackscreen. Son says the rotating gear icon etc did not appear. The app was a Disney game. The phone does respond to 60 seconds of pressing of the home and on buttons together (ie hard shut down/restart) and attaching it to various Apple brand charges and computers never produces the Battery Charging screen. Is there anything to be done short of locating a repair shop?
I can't seem to browse my hard disk for a custom image to use as my account picture anymore since installing OS X Mountain Lion. The new popover shows that I can now only choose from the default set of pictures, pick something I've recently used, or take a new one with my Mac's iSight camera:
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and all of a sudden my scrolls in the browser window (chrome, Firefox etc) have reversed. I need to scroll up to go down and vice-versa. Is there a way to change the direction ?
Boot using the aforementioned partition on external USB hard drive as startup disk to verify the clone. Verified.
Periodically, my MacBook Pro 17" stops recognizing my headphones. No amount of unplugging and replugging seems to help. The sound settings never show headphones as an output device. How can I fix this? The only thing I can find elsewhere on the Internet are people saying, "Reboot!" This works, but is impractical and annoying.
On other Unixe,s I can use top and then hit K and type the process ID. How can I do that in OS X?
Is there a way I can set a background image in ReFit boot loader? I'd like to use my 1280X800 desktop wallpaper, is that possible?
I've recently got hooked to listening to white noise at work because it helps me focus amidst all the noise. I use the brown noise generator from SimplyNoise for this. I was trying to measure if it was safe to actually listen to noise for around 6-7 hours a day. For evaluating this, pretty much the only references I've found was that listening to noise at 64dB for 6-7 hours a day is considered "safe" which lead me down this road.
I recently started using Filevault 2 to encrypt my hard drive. I read that due to security vulnerabilities, it was recommended to change the sleep settings via sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25
I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, both on separate Apple ID accounts. What would happen if I added the iPod Touch email to the "receive at" on my iPhone (in addition to the separate email already in place) and confirmed that email address? I would like to recieve messages for both email accounts on my iphone, but have my itouch only get the messages from one of those accounts.
The Top Hits section of the suggested results list that appears when I type in the Safari address bar proposes sites that are way off base.  Is there a way to remove Top Hits from the address bar's suggested results, or at least "demote" the Top Hits section so that it is not the default?
Today my MacBook showed up some wheel of death and I waited and waited and then after a long time (10 minutes) decide to force shutdown. Ok, I know its not a good idea but I've done this before and then put in the installation disk and with Disk Utility I could easily repair the boot, if it's crashed. But this time Disk Utility could not find my hard drive.
I have an iPhone with my own Apple ID and my daughter has an iPod Touch with her own Apple ID. Am I able to set iMessages syncing so I get my messages AND all of her messages sent to my iPhone, without having any of MY messages sent to her iPod Touch? (shes 8)
Today while working my system suddenly had a kernel panic. I tried to restart in safe mode and the meter went to about 1/4 and no further (did this twice). Since that didn't work I restarted normally without any issues until I open Mail.app and all of my accounts and mail had vanished. I even looked for the kernel panic log and couldn't find any trace of it.
I downloaded Eclipse and stuck it in a folder I called Android, then downloaded the Android SDK and stuck it in that folder as well. The next step of these instructions says this:
I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion and, when I started the Messages app for the first time, it imported the iCloud account, a Google Talk account and to old iChat accounts I used in the past. I removed all the unwanted accounts and only left the iCloud one, but the problem is that it is someway duplicated.
How to properly increase ulimit -n on Lion? Too Many Open Files
Just got a MacBook Air, and it is running OSX 10.7.4. Is it possible to upgrade to 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? Are there any benefits to doing so? What is the process?
I just purchased the base model (i5/4gb ram) MacBook Pro 13' 2012 computer. The reason I purchased the base model is because I already had an SSD drive and 8GB of memory compatible with this computer. Unfortunately, Apple does not give the Mac OS X DVD any more, they load it as an image on the hard drive. Since I need to remove the existing hard drive and replace it with the new SSD drive, how will I load the Mac OS image?
On Mountain Lion's Mail, I am having a problem with the messages I send to a particular coworker from my work account not appearing in the Sent mailbox. The messages are going through. (I got her to Fwd: the important one back to me.) Messages I sent to my other accounts, even from that account, are correctly appearing in Sent. Messages I send from another address (even using the same SMTP server) are appearing in Sent. Things I've tried so far:
I'm looking for an app to manage copy and paste tasks. What I need is to have shorcuts to the last copied text. Let's say I copy these 4 lines in 4 times:
I'm using Clipmenu application to manage copy and paste tasks. It seems to me that you can use the shortcuts: cmd+1, cmd+2 to paste the copied texts, but it doesn't work though. Let's say I copy these 4 lines in 4 times:
I'm running Mountain Lions built in Apache2 server. I have started the server and I can see the web pages but I can't see any httpd process in the Activity Monitor. Same goes for MySQL. I can't see mysqld process in it either. I used MAMP before and those processes where shown in the Activity Monitor.
On Mountain Lion, I've got Gatekeeper enabled and set to allow Mac App Store apps only. Now: if I download any app from the internet (and I'm talking about apps I've never run before) it just runs, Gatekeeper seems to be not working at all. Does anybody know what's happening?
Any suggestion of how to convert tens of zip files to rar format? App or command line tool are welcome.
I have Control+Return key bound to a function that I use very often. This works when i run emacs in x-windows. But when I run emacs in iTerm2 control+return just has the effect of line-feed (i.e as if I have just hit enter without holding the control key down). i have tried different variation of this in emacs (global-set-key (kbd "<C-return>") 'duplicate-line) (global-set-key (kbd "C-RET") 'duplicate-line) (global-set-key [(control return)] 'duplicate-line)
When an application is not responding I force Quit and Restart it. But, is there a way in which I can save my data before quitting? Is there anything I can do to confirm that the application is really dead?
I have a new macbook pro with mountain lion. I want to use the notification center for my Facebook/gmail, but when I'm logged into both facebook and gmail, I never get alerts.I have safari available in my notification center, but it won't work. What do I do?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I noticed that I can't install ports via Macports. I get the following error: I have Xcode version 4.4.1 + command line tools, I tried upgrading ports, and selfupdate, but I still get the same error.
I got a lag when I switch between workspaces (four fingers left/right). Can somebody confirm this?
There seem to be two layouts for Swedish (not counting Sami) and I don't understand the difference.
What was the point in the Lion guest account, I heard something to do with helping to locate the Mac if you lose it, but I don't understand how having a guest account enabled and not normally in use helps? If someone finds a Mac, and happens not to steal it, how would logging into the guest account help? It seems like this is a very small use case, and not really enough to warrant having the feature, so I'm sure I'm missing something?
How can I open a file in its default application from the command line? For example if I have a file foo.doc, can I type command ./foo.doc into the CLI and have that file open in Word? Note: on my linux machine, I would use xdg-open but that doesn't work on my Mac.
I was kind of expecting that when I Build, I would be able to see compiler or lint output in some kind of window or console. And when I Run, I would see stdout and stderr output. Does this feature exist in Chocolat currently?
Device : iPod Shuffle 2nd Second Generation OS : Windows 7 64 bit My steps were as follows
I searched a lot and I am still in doubt about which microphone to use in MC815BZA Apple Mac mini with Inte Core i5 2.3GHz, 2GB, 500GB HD, HDMI and Bluetooth. What microphone will work with this computer? I prefer to use Audio line out / headphone minijack (digital / analog) than USB 2.0 port.
I'm confused by the variety of methods for encrypting drives in Mountain Lion. There are at least four methods, FileVault in System Preferences; Finder's "Encrypt..." command; Disk Utility's "Erase" command, specifying an "Encrypted" format; and Disk Utility's "New Image" command, specifying an "Encrypted" format; but it's not clear to me what the differences among them are.
My swapfile has been growing fast lately, and I think I know which app is responsible, but I'm not sure. Is there a way for a non-developer to check something like that, or would you need a version of the app which has debugging enabled?
My Mac seems to keep forgetting the following settings: I have to type my wireless password everyday (and checking "remember"). I couldn't permanently set a particular app to be the default opener of a .php file. When I wake my Mac up from sleep, I need to reconnect the mouse before it can be used. Why could this be?
I'm looking to make a script that quickly toggles the Natural scrolling settings, so I need a way to do it from the command line. I think I found the correct defaults command, but I'm not sure how to apply it without logging out. Here is the command I'm using: defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool
The App Store on Mountain Lion pushes update notifications through Notification Center. Unfortunately, this also happens for users that are not system administrators (and so cannot run the App Store). How can I turn this off? Notification Center has preferences, where applications can be vetted, but App Store does not appear in this list.
is it possible to use a USB hard drive with the iPad 3? Do I need to download an app to use it (assuming I have the camera connection kit)?
The white does not appear in top sites in safari 6.0 in Mountain Lion.
I can run the network test inside the settings menu. But at the end I only see "Network test successfully complete".
What is the wisdom of storing the following reference files in the user's directory? Might I have done something when installing XCode for them to go to ~/Library instead of, say, /Library ? 1.8G ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/ 0.3G ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.ADC_Reference_Library.DeveloperTools.4_3.docset 1.0G ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleLion.CoreReference.docset 0.5G ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiOS5_1.iOSLibrary.docset Pseudo-solution Aside from the wisdom, if any, the solution suggested by Anne Onymous below works. Doing so will significantly reduce the number of files in your home directory:
I'm trying to get Xquartz to work in Mountain Lion, but when I click it, it starts up, then crash, then starts up again etc. It loops like this until I reboot or logout. My console says this for every loop: I don't know anything about Xquartz, so I'm not sure how to diagnose the problem. I'm using Xquartz 2.7.2 found here http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
I just bought a new MacBook Pro overseas. I currently own a MacBook Air and I need to bring a backup of this current computer to US, so I can restore it on my new computer when I arrive.
I lost my iPhone 4 and mistakenly wiped it using "Find my iPhone" from *=URL=* Can i even track it? It was locked by password.
I can't use safari and continue using chrome only because of 1 reason: chrome doesn't hides tabs (when there are too many of them) I just want to act safari like this And not like this
I heard that photos stored in iCloud are automatically erased one month after the upload date. Can someone please explain the retention period for photos, songs and other information to iCloud? Thanks.
I have set up iChat with different accounts: Facebook Jabber, Google Jabber, iCloud and an AIM account coming from MobileMe. My AIM account regularly stops working where Messages will indefinitely get stuck at "Connecting...". I only experience this with my AIM account, the other accounts work fine. I also only started experiencing these problems since Mountain Lion.
When I was using my notebook at the very beginning it was running on batteries until almost drained. At about 1% I rebooted it, but instead of rebooting it presented me a nice empty battery pictogram (just one you may know from iOS devices). I pushed power-on button several times just to see the very nice pictogram again. I left the notebook then and started looking for a charger. Accidentaly after a few seconds MBPr powered itself (!) on. Still on battery! I pressed Option and waited on boot screen until it turned off again - but this lasted for long minutes.
I've recently gotten a mac and during my coding sessions, I'm really missing the usage of home/end to go to the front/end of each line. There are various answers to this which talk about creating a .dict file in the Library folder (eg the below) but these don't seem to work in Mountain Lion. Would someone mind confirming if this should be working, or whether a new method is needed in the new OS? Remap "Home" and "End" to beginning and end of line I can't tell if I'm performing the fix incorrectly or the older answer no longer applies on Mountain Lion.
I can see that the 13" version of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air is same $1199, but the Pro is more feature-loaded than Macbook Air. Why would anyone buy MacBook Air? What's the catch in this? I was thinking of buying a MacBook for development purposes, and worried if there's any problem in the Pro version, because it comes with more features (like more storage). Edit: Thanks for the answer guys, I bought a MacBook Pro a week ago and already loving it.
For the last 4 weeks or so, I get the "This apple ID has been disabled for security reason... bla bla bla" notification at least two times per week. All my devices are up to date and have been updated to use the new password.
I was trying to follow the instructions given on the page *=URL=* After running the final command when I reopen the iTerm i find that only the background has changed to black and the text to cream color, it doesn't apply variable colors like blue to folders, some red colors for other file types. Please tell me how can I do so. Is there any other thing I can do to have a beautiful programmer's terminal.
I'm currently running Mountain Lion, but I'd like to redownload Lion (to create a bootable install drive). However, when I click the download button in the App Store, I receive a message telling me my current OS X is newer and the download will not start.
I'm trying to sync my Last.FM last played track with my iChat status... right from the command line. I've come this far: which results in the currently or last played track like Is there a way to forward this string as the iChat / Messages status now?
In Apple's recent iOS Security paper here *=URL=* They speak about the Secure Boot Chain, my question is has iPhones/iPods/iPads always had this feature?
Here is a short description of my situation - I need a portable machine for CUDA and iOS development, so any of the newer MacBook Pros with NVIDIA GPUs seemed like a no-brainer at first. However, the CUDA-requiring project already has a huge code base from a large number of contributors that is developed on CentOS 5.x/6.x. CentOS is also the only platform that is officially supported.
Is it possible to load Twitter.app instead of opening Safari when clicking Twitter notifications in the Notification Center? The current behaviour really annoys me because it keeps making me sign in and I don't want it to remember my credentials.
I've seen this answer, but on my Italian keyboard I've got < between Z and Left Shift instead of the ~. So, how can I type it?
I found this awesome tutorial on how to send emails on localhost that will open your Mail showing you the email that was sent from PHP, however this is slightly annoying getting Mail to open when an email is sent - I have some tasks that run in the background which sends an email for development reasons for my site so I can test the emails. I want to be able to not get annoyed by getting popped up with emails, instead I would like it to pipe it to Mail and show in my inbox when I click "Get new messages" so I can look into the email whenever I want not at the instant when the email is sent. I've looked into where Mail stores their email ~/Library/Mail/V2, I was wondering if I could adjust the script to add the email there, but it looks quite complication so I don't want to risk having any confusion or corruption happening. Is there any possibility to store the mails without any problems so Mail can add it to my inbox list via PHP? Anything?
I've recently bought a rMBP. I've heard I could ask for an OS update for free. Im not sure what that means as I'm new to the Mac. What should I do?
I have got guidance on how to create a new Apple ID that wont use a credit card, but could not find a way to associate my existing Apple ID (with my main email) to App Store without inserting a credit card. I have tried the OS X App Store software, the OS X iTunes software, and logging into the Apple Site.
According to the forum link, if I block their creation, MacOS will freak, but that information is quite stale. Can someone point me to an up to date summary of these files? Will deleting the files have bad consequences when files return to OS X?
I need to know which characters I can use in a (complex) passcode for iOS I'm not 100% sure, and couldn't find much online but I'm guessing something like: Uppercase characters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters) Lowercase characters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters) Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
I've got 5-6 desktops going in mission control and I have a random wallpapers on each that change every 30 minutes. I've become very annoyed with the fact that OS X doesn't change the desktop on a space I'm not using until I switch to that space. I'm getting tired of seeing fading wallpapers every time I switch to a desktop. The only thing I've come up with is running killall Dock but that's pretty brutal and I don't want to run it all the time.
So I’m about to ditch Outlook for Mac because I’m missing too many meetings. I’m not sure if anyone is experience the same issues but when using Outlook on Windows, if I get a meeting invite sent to me it automatically gets added to my calendar as “tentative”. When using Outlook for Mac, unless I physically accept, decline, or tentative the meeting it doesn’t show up.
New to Lion when you sort a folder by "Kind" it groups file types together in a wonderful compact display with a "left-right" scroll capability if there are too man files/folders to display one line. There is the "Show All" option at the top right of the Finder window. Is there a way to set "Show All" as default so I don't have to click it every time.
How is Windows RTM running on Retina MBP via BootCamp? Are all the Windows 8 touchpad gestures working? How well does Win8 display on the retina screen resolution? Are there any other serious incompatibilities that you've found?
Is there any way to create an image of a brand new "unconfigured" MacBook? I want to get an image of this box before the OS installs just in case I have any issues.
I have two accounts set up in Apple Mail. The second account is for backup purposes and because at times the primary account is unavailable. When that happens, I send from the second account but would like the reply-to address to be that of the primary account. Is there a way to set things up this way in Apple Mail?
I use my iPhone for work. Our IT technician formatted my hard drive and re-installed the operating system and now my iPhone no longer syncs automatically. Any suggestions?
Is there a time tracking that integrates with Alfred, so you can start/stop time tracking using typed commands?
Apple Mail is not showing Sent Items in Gmail. The mails sent from Apple Mail are not in Gmail.
It seems like every once in awhile, when using Handbrake to encode a DVD rip to x264 with either the mp4 or m4v extension, I can't add the resulting file to my iTunes Library. When dragging and dropping, the Library window highlights like it's going to accept (If you try to drag an unsupported file, the window doesn't highlight, and the thumbnail you're dragging flies back to the original folder).
I have a retina MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion with a 23" external display attached through the Thunderbolt port (DVI/Display Port adapter). I have the monitor configured as an extension to my internal display (arranged just above as it actually is placed on my desk).
I have no interest in ever using them, although I do use iPhoto to store my photos. Will deleting the entire Themes folder mess anything up?
I have an annoying new behavior on my MBP 13" running Lion (10.7.4) that I don't know what I did to provoke. I am familiar with so-called visual bells in terminals, but I've noticed a similar effect happening in any window in my OS X session - not just in Terminal. I've researched this and there appears to be a setting in System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Hearing where you can enable a screen flash in place of an alert sound. However, this is unchecked on my system.
I'd expect that when I paste a new link in the new tweet window the link would be auto minified or I'd have the option to minify... but this doesn't happen. Am I doing something wrong or is this expected behaviour?
I recently learned that I can modify the time at which Standby mode is activated automatically when the laptop is sleeping. However, I would like to know the default value before changing anything. How long does the laptop stay in hibernation before it goes into deep sleep / standby mode ? Platform : rMBP Mountain Lion OSX 10.8
I am writing a slide with Maslow's Hierarchy on it, and I want to build in from bottom to top. How do I change the animation order or otherwise make it build in from the bottom of the pyramid, on the bottom of the page, to the top of the pyramid, on the top of the page. I know how to do it in PowerPoint or use LibreOffice but the inspector won't let me break apart the build in ordering.
I'm trying to get my three-finger tap to middle-click functionality in Mountain Lion since MiddleClick seems to have been broken in the upgrade. However, in order to let BTT react to tap gestures, "Tap to click" has to be unchecked in the Trackpad preferences panel. But by doing this, you remove the ability to either one- or two-finger tap on content to interact with it. I'm 99.9% certain I checked everywhere in BTT's settings, but I cannot for the life of me figure out where to find the options for those (though single-finger gestures do allow for taps in quadrants, I don't like having to tap in specific places on the trackpad—it's more convenient as it's implemented in OS X).
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, opening the print dialog in Safari. Printing was fine before the upgrade. Also printing still works in my VMs under Parallels. How to fix Safari print preview crash after upgrading to Mountain Lion?
I've recently resumed a small OS-from-scratch-in-Assembly project I started several months ago in Lion. Part of the project involves compiling a binary file with NASM (the one that is pre-included), then creating a disk image based on that binary. The important point comes from the fact that the binary is written to the first sector of the image to be bootable from other hardware (the binary is compiled with a FAT16 BPB), which I test with VirtualBox.
I know that Angry Birds is available as an online HTML5 version at *=URL=* I have an iPad, but I cannot install apps onto it, so I'd like to download the game so I can play it on my iPad (I think the iPad can render HTML5).
I'm following this tutorial *=URL=* to install Xmonoad on OS X through Xquartz. When installing some of Xmonad's dependencies through cabal, cabal install "X11 >=1.5.0.0 && <1.6" It outputs the following error: config.log file:
I have AquaTerm and Terminal both. Whenever I do a search in the spotlight with query "term" it shows up AquaTerm before Terminal. Terminal matches better, so it should come first. Why does spotlight search for "term" result in AquaTerm before Terminal?
How can I change the username that is used to connect to a SharePoint site in Microsoft Document Connection. When I try to connect to a site, it's showing the authentication screen, but only allows me to enter the password. The username is defaulted to my Mac login user, but I can't change it (it's greyed out). Connecting using these credentials does not work, it always displays "You do not have permission to connect".
I am getting this message every time I start mail.app. I've read this tech note, but neither checkbox is selected. I've run Keychain First Aid, and no problems were found. How do I fix Mail.app in Lion that keeps asking for keychain password?
I'm trying to put a link to Outlook Express in my dock but can't see how it's done. When I right-click on the application icon in a finder window, "Make Alias" is not one of the options available, so I can't make a shortcut and then move it down to the dock. If I drag the application icon itself down towards the dock it simply makes another copy of the entire application on the desktop. For some reason I can get a "Make Alias" option from this version (why would the right-click options be different depending on whether the same icon was in a finder window or on the desktop???). And I can then move the alias icon into the dock. But when I then delete the unneeded copy of the application on the desktop, the alias no longer works because it was linking to that copy rather than the original. I'm sure this must be simple but can I find any information on the Help files...? I'm running OSX 10.6.8, so no I don't have a launchpad icon in the dock.
I had a Dell 21.5" monitor, which was previously connected to a Windows PC via its DVI port, which has no problem with DDC/CI which allowed me to control brightness and Contrast of the attached display via Windows. My question is: through Apple's adapter, can I control a non-Apple display within System Preferences?
Is it possible to have a different password for SSH access than your user password. I would like to have a strong password for remote SSH/SFTP access, while having a password that is fast to type on my user account.
I'd like to install a new OS X on a MacBook and I'd like to know what needs to be done to backup only the iPhoto pictures. I definitely do not want to backup the entire /Users/Cedric/ directory. All I need is my iPhoto pictures and all the iPhoto "folders". Ideally I'd like to do this over the network using ssh / scp.
I tried changing the Standby mode settings using the command sudo pmset -a standbydelay 5400 . I set it to 5400 so that it is delayed to 1.5 hours compared to 70 minutes as default. However, I get the following message right after I changed it :
This article, Recover Lost Data From Your iPhone, in its "Method 1" suggests a promising method to backup iPhone's entire state, that is iOS settings, apps, email settings, media files, that is everything to the least detail, using Unix/Linux dd utility that makes an image of the iPhone's hard drive. This allows treating iPhone backups akin to snapshots of a virtual machine or global restore points, which is very useful. However, despite of the article's title, it doesn't explain how to actually restore an iPhone's state from a file produced by dd utility.
"All My Files" option in Open/Save dialog get 100% CPU on Mountain Lion for a couple of minutes? How to solve this? Mainly this happens twice: once before drawing anything on screen and once again after displaying the files. After about two minutes you can use the dialog, but the problem reapers every time you click on All My Files.
Trying to change my command prompt in OS X 10.8 / Mountain Lion. Changes to ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile do not make any difference. Like:
Open Performance Information and Tools by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, and then, in the list of results, click Performance Information and Tools.
I have the following problem with Spaces in Mountain Lion: 1) Open Safari (or Chrome) 2) Open Terminal 3) Give Terminal window focus 4) Switch to Dashboard Space (or any other Space) 5) Switch back to Space with Terminal Expected: Terminal still has focus Actual: Safari gets focus
I am using the Generic RGB profile instead of the Color LCD profile (in Display → Color Settings). But when the generic profile is active, my color picker picks darker colours.
Ever since I've updated to Mountain Lion, the screen brightness keeps changing automatically. I don't have the setting enabled in Energy Saver.
My son, who's now an adult, has been using my iTunes account (I don't use iTunes) that I created for him many years ago and he's accrued a large legal iTunes library. He will be leaving home in the near future. The problem is how can I transfer everything he's purchased into his own iTunes account?
What terminal command shows the type of display that I have on my MacBook Pro? I used the following command in terminal and it didn't work:
Several Macs are able to connect to a printer on a Windows 7 machine, but there is one Mac that I can't get to hooked up. When I go to add a printer, I can browse to our domain, but no computers are listed in the domain. Other Mac's list all the shared printers in the domain. This the only Mac with the problem.
My playlists on my iPhone are no longer showing the edit button at the top. Is there a setting for this or anything to get them back?
When I attempt to boot from an external drive that is an encrypted SuperDuper! mirror of my internal hard drive, I get a login screen that's missing my account an instead has an account called "[Update Needed]", with no user picture. I understand that this is a known issue with FileVault, but it is not clear from what I've read whether it is necessary to do anything about this, or if it can just be ignored (after all, the disk is a backup, and the source seems fine).
I want to create an AppleScript for Apple's Address Book (Contacts) app that will look at two Groups, and if a contact is in one Group, it will remove it from the other Group. Specifically, I add potential clients to my Address Book so I can color-code their messages in Mail.app. They are added to a "Work - Pending" group. Once the project goes forward, I add them to a "Work - Current" group. The AppleScript would compare the two, look for duplicates and remove them from the 'Pending' group.
If I eject an encrypted (with FileVault) drive in Mountain Lion, has it been locked, or is there more I need to do (like physically unplugging it)?
Apple TV stores a number of passwords (or some kind of credentials) needed to access services like Vimeo and YouTube, as well as the Apple IDs needed to access the iTunes Store (and the now defunct photo galleries). Where are these passwords stored and how secure are they? Are they stored in a keychain like the ones used by OS X and iOS? If so, what are the "settings" for the keychain (expressed in terms of the corresponding settings on OS X)? Can anyone with access to the Apple TV hardware see the passwords it stores?
My mac often doesn't respond after sleep mode. What can be the reason?
I understand that it is possible to reset the administrator password on a Mac, allowing someone with physical access to a machine to create a new password that gives them access to all files unlocked files remaining on the machine after the reset process. But what else do they have access to? Specifically: Are all user accounts still present? Are all keychains still present, or are they reset or cleared as part of the password creation process? If the keychains are still present, does the (new) administrator have access to the contents of existing keychains. Are any files (other than keychains) erased or reset as part of the process? I assume that FileVault protects against using this technique in an attack; would a firmware password confer any protection?
Is the iPhone capable of receiving more than one attachment at a time? Trying to find a solution didn't work as almost all results are for attaching images on the iPhone and not to it.
Attempted to use the Camera App today and was presented with a closed shutter screen in the Camera app as pictured below. No tramma or anything happend to the phone no recent OS update, just not working out of the blue.
I am trying to move from VMware Fusion to VirtualBox since Fusion 3.0 is not working since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. VirtualBox is working but I cannot connect to the Internet on my guest OS (Windows XP). I am new to VirtualBox, so any help will be appreciated.
I want to be able clear out the whatever is cached in find (command-f) from the command line, is there a way to do this? Whatever is in there seems to carry across between applications.
Is it possible to clear out Chrome's history from the command line? I know that this history is also cached online, ideally it would be good to do this from the command line as well.
I am helping a friend with his computer. He purchased 10.8 through the AppStore. However, the internet at his location is iffy at best, and we've tried for days to download with no success. Can I use my own saved copy to install on his system, or will we run into update issues?
Is there any positive (or negative) to checking the power management option "Put hard disks to sleep" when I only have a SSD drive installed? Is there any difference if I'm connected to another external drive, or Mac in Firewire taget mode?
The source of this problem is that Jar Launcher (/System/Library/CoreServices/Jar\ Launcher.app) runs the jar just perfectly (as far as I know, the Jar Launcher app is the one that runs jars which you double click in finder), but I need to set a memory buffer limits. So I've tried to run the jar like: And when I run a jar like this, I get an exception:
I have a folder with Finder aliases and symbolic links (i.e. created using ln -s original.pdf link.pdf). How can I make sure Finder displays previews for these instead of the standard icon? This related to folder/icon view (CMD+1), not any QuickLook view.
I had sent my MacBook Pro for a hard-drive replacement which was returned back with a fresh installation of the OS. But there is no password set when I need to "click to unlock". How do I set my password ? How do I retrieve my sudo password ?
I can find this here but I cannot find it in iPad. How can I use Google Voice in iPad? Perhaps related Can the iPad 2 be used for everyday telephony? Can the iPad 2 be used for everyday telephony? Is the 3G network used by the iPad the same as the 4G network used by the iPhone? Is the 3G network used by the iPad the same as the 4G network used by the iPhone?
It's cumbersome to sync with iTunes to get a crash report. I'm looking for an app that can view and copy/paste or email crash reports from any other app on my iPhone. I want to see the full stack trace from the crash. Is there an app for that?
I've just upgraded my bootcamp partition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 RTM on a MacBook Air (2011 Core i7) and have been utterly and entirely unable to get the touchpad to work. Things I've tried: Uninstalling and re-installing the Bootcamp package Removing and adding the specific two touchpad devices in Device Manager The touchpad worked correctly under Windows 7 and works under OSX, so this appears to be a Bootcamp/Windows8 issue, rather than a hardware problem. Any solutions?
I've read several people doing this, but the ebay description page warns against using with a Mac. For ex. -> http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-YAMAKASI-CATLEAP-Q270-SE-27-LED-2560X1440-WQHD-DVI-D-Dual-Computer-Monitor-/140738200221?pt=Computer_Monitors&hash=item20c4a6829d
Just added an Apple TV, right next to my Mac Mini, taking over its TV functions. Of course, at first, "Play" on the Apple TV remote would cause the Mini to start playing random iTunes selections. So I paired the remote with the Apple TV, and paired the old remote with the Mini. Nope, Mini still responds to "Play" from the Apple TV remote. Then, went to the Security & Privacy menu and selected "Disable Remote Control infrared receiver" on the Mini.
I've installed Windows 8 RTM (available to MSDN subscrbers) on my Core 2 Duo 13" Mac Book Pro. I've been trying to install Visual Studio 2012 on my MBP and it keeps freezing up during install. Given that I've successfully installed VS2012 through Parallels on the same box, I can't help but think it's specific to an interaction with MBP and Windows 8 through Boot camp.
I have the current version Mountain Lion and set the Screensaver to 30 minutes, but since I am the only person that have access to this computer, I would like to turn the password off, but there seems to be no such method?
Is the directory /cores in OSX Mountain Lion important? It's empty on my machine and has been for some time, so I was considering deleting it, but I'd like to not mess anything up.
I recently got a 2009 macbook 5,2 as a gift from my uncle. When i tried to install MAMP it says i need to upgrade my OS. What will be best option for my mac. I am very new to these mac things & i like it so much. My conf is Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook5,2 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.13 GHz Memory 2 GB I am not sure is it enough to suggest an option, so please don't hesitate to contact me if you need more info.
I love Byword.app and there's a very handy quick key (⇧-⌥-p) that, recently, started showing the uppercase Greek character pi (∏) instead. I'm not sure what I changed, but it's very frustrating, as I have never needed this character in the past, nor as easily. I have looked through all the Keyboard and Language preferences, keyboard and character viewers and so on, searched online, and I can not find a way to disable this. Please, help me get this key combination back! Thanks! UPDATE:
I have upgraded my Mac Book pro MB991 (13-inch, Mid 2009) to OS X Mountain Lion. After that the system does not show any reaction on inserting or ejecting an SD card. The card itself works well with my camera. I checked Disk Utility and About my Mac but it's not displayed there: iStat Pro doesn't show it neither: I have Parallels Desktop 7 and Vmware Fusion installed on my mac so may be problem is related to the drivers supplied with those software. Does any one know how to fix this or at least how to dig deeper to get any new information?
I know its a simple menu item somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere! I really want the sidebar to always show when I open a new Finder window. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
I'm sorry if this a redundant question but I'm really desperate. I recently bought a used Macbook (5,1) from ebay that came preloaded with snow leopard, my main goal of this purchase is to start developing for iOS. it's been a while now and I'm ready to dig in, as I was trying to get the latest OS release from the App Store I've been getting this weird glitch or bug;
I am trying to bring up LyX on a mac. One of the first things in the tutorial is to go look at the file named example_raw.lyx.
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. It is Jailbroken, and the time on the lock screen won't update unless I unlock the phone. My friend's phone is also Jailkroken (a 4S running 5.1.1) and she has the same problem.
Assuming I have an MP4/M4V file of a TV show. The file has the necessary metadata so it can be imported into iTunes and you'll see the all the relevant information. Using AppleScript, one can extract that information using iTunes. How would one obtain the show name, season and episode of that file using AppleScript without having to import it into iTunes first? In essence, I have an incoming folder where I can "drop" my movies and tv shows and I'd like to use the script to organize the files without human intervention so that files will follow a naming convention so they are easier to find in the future.
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro with Retina display. I always struggled with different kind of problems when I was an owner of other laptops like ASUS, HP, DELL, etc. I wanted something more reliable.
To drag a window on a Windows laptop I could put my mouse in the title bar area of the window, double tap and hold the second tap down (instead of letting off). As long as I hold this down I can drag the window wherever I want and let off of the touch pad to release the 'hold' of whatever the mouse is over.
On occasion, our 3rd Gen ATV will display the screensaver while playing video. Once it starts doing this, the only way to get it to stop is by restarting. I love my ATV, but this is quite a distraction.
I am mystified: first, I have an iMac and a MBP, both running mountain lion. In System Preferences > Security > General > Require Password after sleep or screensaver, I can adjust the time to 4 hours on the iMac, but it goes only as far as one hour on the MBP.
I need to run cabal install X11 >=1.5.0.0 && <1.6 But it fails when configuring: This is my config.log file
I am trying to troubleshoot playback of discretely encoded 5.1 audio on Apple TV. It is apparent that Apple TV can "pass through" Dolby Digital (aka AC-3).
I noticed this with TrueCrypt volumes. Before 10.8, whenever I mounted a .dmg on my iMac, I could access it automatically from my mbp over the network with afp sharing. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, apparently this is not working anymore.
I know how to create a link to an app in the iTunes App Store (iOS apps), but how do you create a similar link to an app in the Mac App Store?
Is there a cover that is designed for standing up the iPad 3 in portrait as well as in landscape orientation? I'm not talking about the Apple official Smart Cover. Something, possibly, in leather.
Adding 128 MiB of padding between partitions solves the "Verify Disk" error. Unfortunately, I still get the same error message when I attempt to enable FileVault 2. Interestingly, "Verify Disk" started returning errors as soon as I attempted to "Repair Disk." Disk Utility seems quite adept at corrupting its own partition tables...
The only iCloud backups that show up in the list when choosing to restore a brand-new iPhone (4S) are ones from November last year. However, I know that there should be much more recent backups than that. If I look at the list of backups on an iPad that uses the same iCloud account, there are more recent backups listed (as well as the older ones that show up in the restore options).
What is the right way to install font from sources on OS X?
I have got an external hard drive (A) that contains my iTunes & Aperture libraries. It's not always plugged to my MacBook. What's the best way to make a backup of it on another external hard drive (B) ? Wanted features : fully automated (that executes itself hourly, or something like that) incremental (in order to be fast) only activates when both disks (A & B) are plugged in works with multiple backup disks (in order to have a backup at home and another at work) discrete indication that a backup is in progress ability to pause or stop backup (useful if I am in a hurry and have to disconnect external drives) It would be nice if backup disks could be networked, but that's not mandatory. I would have loved to use Time Machine in order to have an history, but it doesn't seem to work well with external hard drives that aren't always connected and I don't trust it for that use case (my internal SSD is backed up thanks to Time Machine, though). Online backups aren't adequate because I have a
I have MacBook Pro: When it plays a video, the CPU temperature goes over 90 degrees celsius and the fan makes loud noises. Is this normal? Or should I change speed of fan and make it faster for better cooling?
I want to grab server url of each application that is online with that. Ex. twitter app -> *=URL=* Ex. Tweetdec app -> *=URL=* Ex. itunes app -> itms-apps://itunes.com/...
For instance, Ask Question page URL on this site is shown as apple.stackexchange.com, but when I focus on address bar, it becomes apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask. I tried resetting and restarting Safari, disabling extensions and dragging the default set into the toolbar but nothing helps.
What's the best way for renaming all the pictures of an event or an album in iPhoto?
I am a PC user who switches between many applications and now I use many full screen apps on the Mac (aka multiple desktops) I find the "three finger swipe" animation very distracting. Actually I've been switching so often between desktops I feel a bit nauseous. (no joke) I'm sure this effect is exaggerated since I am using a 1680x1050 resolution on a 15 inch Retina display on a Macbook Pro. My short-term solution is to use windowed mode for now, but I really want to use all my screen real estate. I think that speeding up the transition animation, or making it act like a "jump cut" would help a ton.
I have an AirPort Extreme base station with firmware 7.6.1 and would like to access it remotely using a dynamic hostname registered with dyn.com (e.g. example.dyndns.org).
I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second partition where OS X and some files I do really like are stored. The ISO image I accidentally wrote with dd was 600mb in size so the total damage would be a maximum of 400 MB since I dd from sector 0 until I hit Ctrl + C and EFI partition was gone. I tried running fsck -fy on that partition but it's a no-go.
Apple asks to register products in the installation but I am unsure whether this is a good decision. If I sell the Apple -products later, does it cause some problems? What is the point of registration?
Is it possible to attach a third hdd to a already created mirror consisting of two hdds with ZEVO? I run an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with native ZFS support. When I attach the third hdd it works flawlessly. When I import the pool to Lion, ZEVO argues that one pool is missing even though it is there and gets resilvered at the moment. On Ubuntu: On Mac OS X (Lion): For some reason ZEVO stores the pools in /dev/dsk/ but since my third hdd isnt a pool yet and will be attached to existing zfs mirror pool it wont get recognised How can I attach another disk with ZEVO? EDIT: Here is some log information from the Console application: And the partition table from parted:
There is a nice possibility to bind each keyboard layout to separate keys combination and switch between them. So you can assign, for instance, shortcut Alt-Shift-0 to "Select English", Alt-Shift-1 to "Select German", Alt-Shift-2 to "Select Arabic". How to make this on MacOS 10.7.4?
In Mail.app, the "Apple Developer" emails I get have a blue background, in the message list. Why? And how can I turn this off?
Here's the context: I have about 400 students with Time Machine backups from Lion computers. We wiped and re-imaged their laptops with new software AND with Mountain Lion. We just discovered that you can no longer use Time Machine to "Browse other Backup Disks" in Mountain Lion. (The option is there, but the functionality is broken.) The students will have to navigate in Finder to their most recent backup and manually drag the files to their new computer. However, the Library is hidden on the disk, and they can't access it without unhiding it. I know how to unhide the folder using this method in Terminal: cd ../../Volumes/WhateverTheyNamedTheirBackupDrive/Backups.backupdb/Student's MacBook Air/2012-07-30-192502/Macintosh HD/Users/StudentsUserName ls chflags nohidden Library
I'd like my iPod Touch to play an alarm sound whenever the battery is low (for example, 10% power remaining). Is it possible to do this?
I've been running into an odd behavior on 10.7 where editing Terminal preferences to launch a new window setting via "On startup, open" doesn't result in the changed terminal after a quit/launch. Any idea what I may be doing wrong and/or how to trigger the new style?
I love the new messages app on Mountain Lion. Ideally, if another iPhone user sends me an iMessage, I'd like it to appear on both my Mac and iPhone. Currently this only works if someone sends a message to the email associated with my Apple ID. Since Apple does know both my phone number and email, is there a way to have all iMessages appear on my laptop? Since Apple does know both my phone number and email, is there a way to have all iMessages appear on my laptop? If not, is my only solution to ask people to text my Apple ID email so it appears on both devices? If not, is my only solution to ask people to text my Apple ID email so it appears on both devices?
I recently installed OSX Mountain Lion and as you know, the default install removes any java VM, offering you to install it if something needs it. After login in, something does try to launch 'java' and brings up the "To open 'java' you need to install Java SE 6 runtime. Would you like to install one now?". Problem is, I have no idea what is trying to launch java and would like, instead of installing it again, to find out whether I need this or not.
I've upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, and have noticed as a result of the upgrade, besides my screen saver saying it won't work on this version of OSX, Apache is displaying the private web dashboard I run off of it, but instead of executing CGI scripts (no special directory, but a .cgi extension), it is displaying the source code. My present /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, edited after apparently being overwritten, has: How can I tell Apache that for any webpage it serves under /Users/jonathan/mirror, or better /Users/jonathan, if it has a .cgi extension, it should be executed as a CGI script instead of having the source displayed as plain text? --Edit-- My httpd.conf file, if you can spot an error, is:
When erasing a drive with Disk Utility, you have a couple options. An insecure wipe, a single pass of zeroes, a "DOE-compliant" 3 pass, and a DOD (Department of Defense) 7 pass.
I have an iMac running Mountain Lion and just bought an external Lacie Thunderbolt drive. It seems to work, but does not appear in the Finder. Does anyone know a fix for this?
I am a student in college and just started to learn C++. I have an iPad 2 and no computer (it broke and I will not buy another one). So I want to find an app that seems like codeblock for Windows. The ability to run code and maybe can fix it is a big plus. Thanks a lot!
As the title describes, sometimes, but not too rarely, when I have an incoming call I cannot fully slide the lock to answer. It will get to like 20-30% and then jump at the start. Sometimes after many tries ill make it while other times i just lose the call. There seem to be lots of people with this issue but couldnt find an answer.
I was trying to use File Sharing to transfer a rather large file (6 GB) from my Mac mini to my MacBook Pro over WiFi, but the file would get constantly stuck at 6 MB and stop transferring. Is there a file size limit when using File Sharing?
I use Outlook and have my contacts under categories, e.g. home, clients, family, etc. When I sync from Outlook to my iPhone I get all the contacts, but I cannot find the categories. How can I search in my iPhone the contacts for categories I have in Outlook, for example 'family'?
My Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion slows down dramatically when the battery is below 4-5%. All the applications running are very slow to respond, and several have the "Application not responding" message when I right-click on them in the dock. Now everything works fine when the battery is above 5%, so I'm wondering what goes on when the battery is low that causes the performance drag. Basically, I have two questions: What is causing this lag (for the sake of curiosity)? How can I fix it (for the sake of practicality)? System Info: Device: Macbook Pro (Spring 2012) 13-Inch running Mountain Lion (10.8) Memory: 8GB Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 Storage: 500GB SSD Drive with more than half free
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a laptop which cannot mount or connect to any shares, AFP or SMB, through Finder. I can, however, connect through terminal bash commands and is able to mount them this way; Once mounted through terminal commands, Finder can then browse the share.
I'll try to make this not be an opinion or a preference question. I am previously a PC owner and I am looking for a new computer. A school of thought around Macs being better for designers than Windows computers keeps coming up on various Internet sites.
I've done a bit of research on the Internet, and it looks like I'm at a dead end. My goal is to minimize cost, and be able to send and print documents automatically (approximately 10 or 20 pages per day) to a laser printer in a remote office.
Sometimes when I switch through programs using the Command+Tab shortcut certain programs appear to be greyed out. I can switch to the program in question with no problems nor is there anything happening with the program to indicate why it would be greyed out. I'm just curious as to what it means... (its a little heard to tell due to me having to screen capture with my phone :p but the quicktime icon is greyed out)
How do i decide what RAM is allocated to Windows. Can I change that on the fly in the future after that decision? Once I do this (lets say i allocate 8GB of RAM to windows), either through BootCamp or Parallels, does that mean that my Mac only will be able to leverage 8GB (since i have a total of 16GB) regardless if I am running Windows at that time or it only "takes" 8GB away when i start up windows.
Most of my iPhone usage is data - Google Voice, WhatsApp and Twilio Client. These run just fine over WiFi, so most of the time the cell network is redundant. I've noticed also that connecting to the cell network runs down the battery considerably faster than running in Airplane Mode.
OS X 10.8 TextMate 2 -r9283 How can I permanently force TextMate to to always default to soft tabs (use spaces, not tabs)? I want to know how to make TextMate default to this setting so that I don't have to constantly convert tabs to spaces while working on a file. How do you permanently tell TextMate 2 to prefer soft tabs?
I've downloaded a bunch of my Instagram images but the Date Created of the files is set to the time that I initiated the download. What I do have though is the Date Created in the filename. What I want to do is take the date in the filename, which I've changed to YYYYMMDDhhmm, and set that as the creation date of each file.
I had a large list of reminders in OSX (Mountain Lion) sync'd to iCloud (i.e. my iPhone). While editing the list on the Mac and trying to delete (not 'checkbox') one work item, I accidentally deleted all the items in that list! Having a horrible delete user flow didn't help :(
My mac mini with OS X Lion Server 10.7.4 is running headless in a data center so its not physically accessible. As administrator, I can connect to the server using SSH and other administration tools, however, I'm unable to connect to the server from OS X Lion 10.7.4 using screen sharing. It refuses to accept my credentials. I tried to reboot the server, but it still doesn't work. The logs indicate the following (server name, username and ip address obfuscated):
What will happen if I let Time Machine take backups on that disk? Will it erase everything? Can I use that for time machine without erasing the stuff on it?
Can this be achieved on the iPhone / iPad? How about the Apple TV?
iOS supports 3 VPN solutions: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec and currently I'm using PPTP connecting to a Ubuntu server. Also, there are several problems: PPTP configuration has to be tunned on both ends in order to make it work and also I heard that PPTP can be broken in just 4 hours. Is any other better solution for setting up Apple compatible VPNs that would not require buying some commercial software.
I tried to import an H.264 video into Final Cut Pro X without success. The software tells me that the file is not importable. VideoSpec shows me the following video track parameters: Format: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Microsoft Office for Mac does not have Retina support, which is a pain to look at while working on documents. Is there a similar application that delivers the same efficiency and experience as Microsoft Word that has Retina support ?
Basically, vim behaves strange under iTerm2 (it works normally in Terminal). It sets the cursor in a non existing lines, it displays garbage (content from other lines) when I try to edit a line in a file etc. It is completely useless :( I changed "reported terminal type" to "linux" as suggested in some post, but it didn't help EDIT iTerm2 version: Build 1.0.0.20120724 (very latest) running with env TERM=xterm vim and env TERM=xterm-256color vim does not help
During my first day with a Mac, I imported some pictures from a SD card into iPhoto. After a few days I have decided not to use iPhoto and switch to Picasa instead.
The home button on my iPhone seems to work on and off. It does take me back to the home screen but it feels like there is a loose connection and does not trigger on every press. Is there a fix to this besides Apple support?
I am having trouble with keeping my Contacts sync'd with my Google Apps account. In "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" there is no Contacts option:
I've had some odd behavior on my OS X mail client. Heres' my inbox:
I have a Mountain Lion Server I just got to play with (learn server). I understand I can use it for Open Directory services. I believe I can migrate users off their laptops onto the server, and sync'ing (I forget the name, but it makes the user account available on whatever mac they use that is connected to the domain). 1) Do I migrate the users off laptops and on to the server using migration assistant?
Somebody gave me a 6-mouse button. I want to make full use of the extra buttons as opposed to just using the basic 3 ones (left, on-scroller, and right buttons). First of all, I want to know where the buttons on the mouse are mapped to currently. I'm having trouble finding an app that will let me see what functionality they are mapped in. Next is how do I actually remap them? I'm on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
According to "Mac users left wondering if OS X Snow Leopard's retired" from Computerworld and "Where are the Safari security updates for Windows and Snow Leopard? Users left exposed" on Sophos's blog, some believe that Apple has already, quietly retired Snow Leopard. However, those pages have some contradictory information (Tiger was updated in 2009).
Is there any way I can tell if anyone has set up my laptop to where they can see what I'm doing remotely whether it be the camera or surfing? Maybe there is a way I can just look at what programs have been installed recently or what programs are set to run on startup, so I can make sure they all look legit? I don't have a password set on my laptop.
How do I get the public key for Panic's Prompt app to setup auto-login to my Mac? I have disabled the option to login with a password over ssh as that would be a security risk. I have tried copying both the public and private key from my Mac to Prompt's Documents in iTunes, however it failed to connect. If there is no easy way to retrieve the public key in Prompt, can I log all ssh connections to my Mac and get the public key from that log?
I have a MacBook model A1181, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory. It's running Snow Leopard, and running fine including speed wise. I want to upgrade to make use of iOS simulator and XCode 4. Saw that App Store has only the newest 10.8 Mountain Lion for upgrade, and saw a few reviews saying it slowed down their Macs, even w/ 16GB memory, wonder what it will do to my machine.
After upgrading to ML, my iMac freezes when going to sleep. The fan goes off but i can't not wake it up. Its that weird i need to unplug the power, and then i can start it again. Keeping the power-on button pressed is not working. It does wake-up from the screensaver, but then the mac isn't asleep (yet).
I'm working 95% of my time with AC power and Thunderbolt Display. Since macbook pro retina's battery are no longer easily switchable I'm concerned about it's life and would like to maximize it. Before macbook retina I used to charge the battery to 50%, then after removing it I used the macbook without battery on AC power. But it's no longer possible. I googled a little but didn't find a clear guidance about how to use your macbook mainly connected to AC power and not doing damage to your battery. From what I know : Full discharges should be avoided. Keeping you battery charged to its maximum for too long time is also bad.
I have an existing four monitor set up connected to my PC via two video cards. If I move to a Macbook Pro retina, what is the most strait forward way to preserve this monitor set up? These monitors are all Dell monitors that only have connectors for DVI or VGA (although my largest appears to support HDMI).
In Lion, TextEdit used to open with a blank file by default. On Mountain Lion, it launches with a file picker by default — either for choosing to store the file in iCloud or for opening a local file. How can I make TextEdit launch with a blank file by default in Mountain Lion?
As a user (not a developer), what are the license terms governing use of the included wallpapers on broadcast media, for example, a website? Could I, for example, use the mac wallpaper as a starting point for building a banner to my website?
I have a Time Machine backup of my MacBook running Lion. My install of Mountain Lion just failed, and I'm going to format the drive and install Mountain Lion anew. Will I still be able to restore my files from my Time Machine backup onto the new version of the OS?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8 I have noticed a lot of rendering issues in Gmail, and Google instant. It seems related to JavaScript. Has anyone had this problem and is there a solution?
I'm not an idiot, caps lock is off, num lock is off, I am using the correct password. When I type in an incorrect password, the screen shakes as it's supposed to. When I type in the correct password, the screen changes as if it is about to log me in, but goes straight back to the login screen in a second or two.
Unfortunately, Valgrind does not support OS X 10.8 yet. After some Googling, I came across some forum posts where people were able to get it to compile and "almost" link. Does anyone know of any good alternatives to Valgrind for memory leak detection?
I purchased and downloaded Mountain Lion from the App Store for my own personal use. I created a bootable USB stick using the Lion Diskmaker utility to make it easier to install and for any future reinstalls. My boss has also purchased a copy of Mountain Lion from the App Store for her own Macs, but the download is taking forever.
Preview copies aliens! Literally. Here is a screenshot:
I have a Mac Mini with no attached camera. I would like to use the feature of Preview that allows you to insert a signature. This relies on taking an image of your signature using an isight/facetime/webcam. I do not have on.
Whenever Time Machine finishes a backup and says its "Cleaning up" other applications start to hang until its finished - worst of which is Chrome - Chrome won't open a new URL until Time Machine is done. Today this happened after Time Machine backed up only 65 kb of changed files - after that tiny backup it spent 5 minutes cleaning up. Very frustrating.
I had an iPod touch two years ago, and it had voice control features for simple things like "next song", or "what time is it". Is this functionality still present in the current version of iPhone, or has it been replaced by Siri (which does not work off-line)?
I need to configure a Mac Mini and OS X for use in exhibitions so that it: boots when power switches on (or wake on LAN) starts Safari in full-screen mode suppresses closing Safari and/or showing its menu (or only after password input) How is this possible?
Is there an app for iPad/iPhone that allows me to save an entire webpage including JavaScript, AJAX actions, images, etc., and open it when offline?
When I boot my Mac up with a network cable plugged in (connected to my router), the network works fine. But after the connection has been physically separated once (and the cable reinserted), it fails to get an IP address from the router (via DHCP). Mac OS just assigns a seemingly random IP address, and I can't access the internet anymore. After a reboot (with the cable plugged in), it works again.
I need to use Kerberos to connect to my network at work. The built-in kinit and ssh in Lion work fine for me. However, I need to get a new ticket and re-enter my password every time I restart the computer. Is there a way to make it remember the ticket after reboots (until it actually expires)?
Many times I've seen videos of people talking while presenting their slides. How is that done on a Mac? I know that I can do a screen recording with Quicktime, and I notice there are two options New Screen Recording and New Audio Recording. But there is no New Screen+Audio Recording. Thanks for any help.
On OS X it is possible to associate Apple IDs with user accounts. Apple lists three consequences of doing so: The Apple IDs can be used to reset the user account The Apple IDs can be used to access the computer for file and screen sharing The Apple IDs can be used share files and screens with other computers
I'm working on securing my Mac completely and utterly. I may be going to China for a business trip and I've been advised to do this but not provided steps that work for a Mac.
I've installed macvim via homebrew. This is working fine.
I'm currently using Diigo for saving my bookmarks and reading them later on the iPad offline. However, it allows only the 20 last for reading. Does anyone know an app that enables reading older history items offline?
Which is the best free app for browsing and displaying pictures that are stored on a network hard disk?
OS X Lion 10.7.4. I did work on a Microsoft Excel 2011 spreadsheet (saved in .xls format) and noticed a file on my desktop that said it could not be trashed. It disappeared when I re-started the Finder. But the next time I opened the Excel spreadsheet, the work I had done had been lost — except for a 'sum' field which displays the total from the lost fields but says it contains the function '=SUM(#REF!)'. Perhaps the Excel file on my desktop was a temporary storage file for the new data I added to the spreadsheet. Getting rid of this file may have trashed the data it may have contained. I've just done work on another spreadsheet and a new 'non-trashable' Excel file has appeared on my desktop. I hesitate to re-start the Finder in case I lose the work I have done. Has anyone else experience the same problem, and is there a solution?
I've installed an SSD into a new Mac mini. I've installed ML, and used the migration tool to copy programs and user settings from the stock 500GB drive.
The default for Terminal.app profile Pro is a black background with ANSI colors. Since the background is black the preferred color setting for Vim is background=dark. In this combination red text (emitted from syntax highlighting) is indistinguishable from grey text (at least for me):
I've searched through the site but it seems nobody asked this. Basically, my question is: When ordering a new 21.5" iMac, is it possible to choose a different graphics card other than the listed ones?
I've updated to Mountain Lion, and I'm having some DNS problems. I always PPTP/L2TP VPN connections on my macbook. Recently after a while of working with Mountain Lion, VPN stops sending and receiving data and I have to disconnect/connect again to make it work again. I'm not having the same problem with iPad, iPhone and PC.
After swapping my HDD to an SDD (and using CarbonCopyCloner to clone the disk), there's this weird "Network" folder appearing on my sidebar. If I click it, it shows a folder for a split second and then it goes back to the previous folder I was in. I can't remove it from the sidebar by right clicking it (it shows no menu).
I have an office environment with 2 iMac's. We are using an Windows 2008 R2 server in workgroup mode for simple file sharing, DNS requests, and to run an application that requires Windows. I am trying to use Apple Remote Desktop 3.6 (470.93) from iMac1 to connect to second (iMac2).
I would like a nice new keyboard with mechanical switches. Pretty much every high-end keyboard I see is a "Windows" keyboard, with the Windows key. And no Command key. I imagine that I could use a combination of remapping keys through the OS, and paint "Command" on one of the keys, in order to make my new keyboard just like the one built into my Powerbook. How to map the Command key to a "Windows" keyboard?
I'm a recent Mac user (MBP) and the booting time really surprises me. Within few seconds, from complete power down, the OS prompts you to log in, then the rest just flies! And even faster recovery from sleep mode. I believe Mac OS is based on Unix BSD, so I'm wondering why we havent see such thing on Unix/Linux with similar hardware?
I’m looking for a way to create a Smart Playlist in iTunes that contains only songs without lyrics. Or to be more specific, I want to be able to create a Smart Playlist of songs that I haven’t put through Get Lyrical and then run it though the app so that it gets lyrics for the songs that I don’t already have lyrics for. I’m using iTunes 10.6.3 (25) on a mid 2010 MacBook running Mountain Lion.
I have a tourist web site I want to archive for off line view on my iPad. I want to crawl and save it in 2nd and 3rd level depth. Which application can be recommended to save a whole site recursively off line?
My Dad has a Parkinson's like disease. His fingers move very slowly and so he gets multiple repeats of lettttters, like that. Is there a way to slow down the keyboard response to that he can get his fingers off the keys before the letters repeat?
(Apologies in advance if the menu names aren't exactly right -- I'm not using Mac OS X in English, so I'm guessing at the translations.) I was curious what the "screen sharing" shortcut had in it, so I opened up my ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing/ folder, right-clicked on the "VNC Internet Location" (*.vncloc) file there, and chose "Open With Application -> Other". Then I chose TextEdit.app.
I've just downloaded and installed the Mountain Lion update from the Mac App Store, but when I can't find it in my applications folder. I want to copy installESD.dmg to be able to perform a clean installation. How can I find "Install OS X Mountain Lion" (installESD.dmg) in the applications folder?
Notification Center is pretty great, however, it's very annoying that I have to click the menubar icon or make a gesture to actually open the notification pane. How to make the Notification Center menu icon glow, (like Twitter does) when notifications are present, or something similar?
I've written the following script in Applescript in Snow Leopard, and I tried to use it in Mountain Lion, but to no avail (doesn't work). The script watches a folder for added files, and if the filetype matches, it will scp it to a server.
I bought Lion a year ago, but I downgraded to Snow Leopard because I wanted to play Starcraft, which is not supported on Lion. After Mountain Lion was released, I can no longer find Lion anymore. Does it mean that I can't get the Lion installer anymore?
I just want to emphasise I'm not accusing the developer of anything. Maybe it's another app just piggybacking off [this app], or maybe there's a completely legitimate reason for this that I don't know about. I just want to understand if there's something I need to be concerned about or not.
In Windows I use WinSCP. How can I do this?
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard (a retail version) into my MacBook, but seems like that the MacBook can't find the boot disk over USB. I guess this is related to the fact that I mounted the .iso of Snow Leopard via Linux, using dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx and this rewrites the boot sector. Is there a way to copy the ISO into my USB disk via Linux and make the MacBook recognize this?
I ran iDefrag last night because my MBP was running sooooo slow. I barely ever use it and it has 300 GB of free space. I used to use OnyX to optimise the disks on Snow Leopard but I didn't see that option in Lion. I let iDefrag run and went to sleep. This morning I woke up to the Do Not Enter sign and the spinning thing below it. I made sure I left it plugged in so I don't understand what happened.
I recently updated Pages, Numbers and Keynote to the latest versions, and my OS to Mountan Lion. I went ahead and tried the "documents in the cloud" feature by saving a Pages document on iCloud. As a long time user of the now shut-down iWork.com beta, I was surprised and pleased to find the following menu on the iCloud.com iWork web app:
On my iPad, how do I stop emails highlighting dates (with links to my calendar). I find this distracting.
My 6-year old kid uses the family iMac for his Kodu-projects, which require Windows. He wants the real deal with Boot Camp and won't accept any virtualization :)
A desktop pager is a little program that sits in the corner or the dock, that allows me to switch desktops with a click, and drag windows between desktops. Something like KDE had with kpager:
My iPhone contains pictures from camera roll and pictures I synced from my previous Mac to the iPhone album. The hard drive broke on my Mac and I couldn't recover the images stored on the iPhone albumns. On iTunes or iPhoto I can only recover pictures from Camera roll but not the albums.
For a few days now I've noticed that the PID keeps going up quickly, at a rate of over 200 or so an hour. I'd like to make a log entry of every process that starts (and quits) so I can figure out what is happening. I've looked in the logs and with Activity Monitor but I haven't seen anything obvious. Whatever is happening doesn't appear to stop the MBP from going to sleep though. Currently using Mountain Lion 10.8.0 on a late 2008 MacBook Pro
I want to install a fortran binary from here GCC wiki GFortran binaries, but the binary for Mountain Lion is not yet available. Would the binary for Lion work, or would it be a terrible mistake to install it?
I've just re-partitioned my hard-drive using Disk Utility. I shrank my Mac OS X partition and created a new one with the available space. However, after rebooting, the option to start under Windows is now gone. I only have the option to start Mac OS X. Basically, my partitions were like this: Mac Windows Data After shrinking the Mac partition and creating a new one I get: Mac Fat32 Windows Data
This was been question for a long time for me. How can I click "Do It!" button? Do-It button means, a button will trigger destructive changes. So usually, that's not default button, and I don't know how to click it with keyboard. I'm asking this because I got a real fantastically suiting situation for need of this.
I have synced a folder which contains some pictures to my iPhone. The synced photos are successfully copied to my iPhone. But I can not see any "delete" option in my iPhone to remove the synced photos.
What is the difference between iPhoto/Photo Stream/ Image Capture? I hope, all the three is using photos. But WHAT is the difference?
I want to develop for the iPhone and I have installed Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 on my laptop. However, I don't have any driver/kext for wireless with Realtek 8191SE that runs on this OS. I have tried to install drivers/kexts from this family but they will not run.
There's an option in MS Office 2011 for Mac programs that allows to send current document as an e-mail attachment. However in my case this option is inactive:
Why don't older Macbooks (Macbooks with a physical button on them, I think up until 2008) support multi-touch when upgraded to an operating system that supports it? They are able to distinguish two fingers opposed to one for scrolling and secondary click along with also being able to identify more than 2 fingers. Is there a hardware limitation of some sort, or is it just restricted for some other reason?
I want to peek around where I'm not supposed to, specifically, I want to have a look at what "documents & data" is being stored in iCloud by some of my apps. I can see them in Manage Storage on the iCloud preference pane, but not in ~/Library/Mobile Documents or anywhere else on the system. The app is iOS only, does this mean that the Mac doesn't store this data, or have I just not found it yet?
Point 1, "Synced Apps" option provides the functionality to sync the Apps between your iPhone & iTunes. If you uncheck this option, there is no sync will happen between your iTunes and iPhone.
Then, he unsealed the box to open it and picked the unit to another room (he said that he wanted to activate it first). 5 minutes later, I received the unit again and noticed that the iOS was 5.1.1 (I thought it was supposed to be 5.0.1 considering it was released in 2011)
I bought a used Mac from someone who was using VoiceOver on the login screen. I don't have any handicap, and I would like to disable VoiceOver, which I personally find annoying.
I wanted to test the Mouse Key functionality on my MBP and so went ahead and checked the enable mouse keys option under Universal Access settings. As expected the trackpad was disabled and I was able to use a combination of Number and alphabet keys to move the pointer around. However, for the life of me, I just couldnt figure out a key to uncheck the box with the pointer right over it. I tried the return key, spacebar.....what not. I ended up doing a force power off and power on.
Does anyone know of a way to create a Contact list with a defined amount of contacts? They can be dummy entries, but I just need to create an address book with > 2000 entries. An Automator script is what I have in mind, but I'm not sure how to go about this.
I want to create an AppleScript that gets the Finder selection and displays a list of applications that are capable of opening it. In other words, is there any way to get the list of apps that appears when you use Finder's "Open With >" contextual submenu?
I discovered that on 10.8 the Applications folder does not allow you to change the sort order, it's always listed by name. How can I change the sort order?
I prefer my time zone to be UTC. While I could simply choose my location as Reykjavik, Iceland, for which the official time is UTC, I would much rather have a way to use UTC without changing my location setting that way. Is this possible? I'm on Lion if that matters.
Xcode is showing in the Mac App Store, ready to be updated. Clicking update results in an error:
I have a HP Officejet 7210 printer/scanner. I used to use Preview to scan, using File/Import from scanner. However, since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the option is greyed out.
I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion. Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview. It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed Open the same file a second (or a few more) times Eventually preview will hang, then crash For me, opening the same file 3 times is usually plenty. Can other people reproduce this problem? Any ideas for causes/fixes? This seems like a big bug; im surprised it would have made it this far (especially from Lion). After duplicating the problem, having Preview.app hang, and force quitting, my 'problem report' is at *=URL=* (too long to include, don't see another way to attach a file...)
I took a video on my iPhone 3GS, and I don't want anyone seeing it because it's personal to me. Now I'm worried because of iCloud. I sold my friend my 2-3rd gen iPod about a year ago, and in worried he might be able to see this video through iCloud.
I use Clean My Mac to periodically clean out old log files and caches. Right before the clean, it asks me permission and I have to enter my password to authenticate. Is there any way I can authorize the app once and skip this step every time?
I have a new Mac Book Pro (MBP) retina connected via HDMI to a Dell U3011 display. Every few seconds, but irregularly, the display pops up "MESSAGE Unsupported audio format. Please set the audio output on your audio player to Pulse-code Modulation (PCM) if available"
Occasionally, when trying to connect to open Wifi spots (unknown to me)...  ... my iPhone gives me a warning about the server identity...
I want to install and override the current vim version in Mountain Lion due to me needing +ruby & +python support. I am particularly interested in using the brew commands from Homebrew but I haven't seen a current best practice procedure for it (or even a bundled recipe covering vim). I am open to other ways to accomplish buildig +ruby and +python into vim.
My SSD is formatted case sensitive, so when I attempted to install I got this: Installation on case sensitive volumes isn't allowed. Please choose a case insensitive location. But I can't select the install location.
I want to be able to keep a group of contacts on my Mac only, while keeping the rest of them synched to iCloud (as they currently do). A bit of background: I'm wanting to do this since I'm dabbling with a bit of scripting involving the Address Book, and I want to be able to create test contacts without disrupting my real Address Book, and risking the wrath of the sync gods. My workaround has been using a second account that only has local storage, but it's disruptive having to switch accounts to test something.
I'm trying to configure a lab of OS X workstations to print to a Ricoh Aficio MP C5000. The Aficio is configured to require user authentication (a 4-digit passcode) in order to print.
The differences come in charging speed. The more amperage, the faster a device charges. USB provides "Unit Loads" of amperage for each device based on need.
I have a MacBook Air which is an awesome computer, however I am curious what my options will be when the battery finally kicks the bucket. Can it be replaced?
My 2 year old daughter goofed with my son's iPod Touch and locked it out. The message says that he can try again in 22,566,234 minutes, which is a heck of a long time.
I'm experiencing a bug in Mountain Lion. I have 2 desktop spaces open. When I change the desktop background picture, it only changes for one of the spaces and not the other. Rebooting solved the problem.
Things in my iMac are failing, most notably the hard drive. I can only reliably boot to the Recovery Partition. Booting to the regular system, either normally or in Safe Mode, does not work, and causes the machine to power off midway through boot.
I have recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. I like the Notes application but my notes do not sync with iCloud. The Notes checkbox is checked under System Preferences as is my Calendar and Contacts.
I have a 2nd generation iPod Touch and I can't get it to play any media files. Everything else seems to be working fine on it, it just can't play music or videos.
I've recently "activated" the web sharing in OSX 1.8 « Mountain Lion ». It works well with PHP & HTML. But I stuck with 403 errors with images (jpg, png). Do you have any idea why ? Thx
I am currently running OSX Lion on my Mac and I do a lot of Rails development. I am wondering if upgrading my system to OSX Mountain Lion is going to really mess up my Rails/Ruby work. I run Ruby off of RVM.
Is it possible to create multiple encrypted backups with different passwords in different iTunes? For example, if I create an encrypted backup in iTunes 1 with password 'abc' and then plug the device into into iTunes 2 on a different computer and try to create another encrypted backup. Will I be able to set password 'xyz'? From then on, when I return to iTunes 1 will the backup password on that iTunes be 'abc' or 'xyz'?
I tried install homebrew on my Lion, and got this What is this? How to get this working?
I need to either: restore a deleted iOS Safari history; or, find the date/time that the Safari history file was cleared. Can anyone direct me to simple directions to do either/both of these tasks?
How do I install the mainstream Microsoft Hebrew true-type fonts (David, Arial, Times New Roman Hebrew) in Mac? I would like to use these fonts both in MS-Office and Latex documents.
I have the new iPad and I'm using at work and home. When I sync something at work (by adding some books or music) and after that at home I want to sync games but the iTunes shows me the warning when I plug in the iPad.
I purchased an app on app store using my VISA debit card, the app cost is 1.88 dollars. my fund in my debit card is only 1 dollar, the purchase was completed/succesfull, how could that be possible? and what would happen next? will apple collect the amount when I added fund to my debit card? EDIT:
So here's the thing. The rMBP is on Mountain Lion with all possible updates. When I open the lid I can see the login screen just fine but it is unresponsive for several seconds, can't enter my password or move the cursor. Sometimes it makes the 'pop' system sound like it's getting a new mail or something several times in immediate succession, like pop-pop-pop-pop, just after opening the lid. Now this might make you think it might be related to power nap but this is happening before power nap came along. If I remember correctly, this happened before I installed Mt. Lion too.
I've just got a Kernel Panic. I'm trying to find the source of the problem. I thought it could be the RAM memory but not pretty sure though. This is the report of the kernel but I'm not able to spot the problem in it: This part seems interesting: Could it be a problem with Airport ?
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with OS version 10.7.4 Recently, the wifi connection stopped working on my home network: it fails to get an IP address. Everything's fine if I assign an address, the other devices on the network are working fine and the Wifi connects without problems to other networks. Ethernet connection to the same network gets an IP address and works. It's just WiFi on that specific network (which used to work, too). Wireshark shows that the client is sending out discovers and the server is answering with a lease, but the dhcp client seems to ignore the lease.
I use Time Machine to make backups of my computer. Now I would like to mirror the complete backup to a remote machine for added security. Here's my rsync command: I use -a to preserve timestamp, -z for compression, -v to get verbose output, -H to preserve hard links (essential to copy Time Machine backup), --progress to see what's happening, --partial keeps partially transferred files, --delete removes files on remote that are deleted locally.
My MacBook won't boot past the grey screen (white unibody MacBook 15", Intel-based, dual core). I installed an illegal copy of Snow Leopard onto my Mac (as legal copies were not available in my country at the time). It doesn't boot up anymore, but sometimes when I hold down the option key it boots.
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I have an image of the Installation Disk in a USB Hard Drive (Snow Leopard Partition). Then to boot the system and start using the Hardware Test software I did this: I change the Starup Disk to the 'Snow Leopard Partition' I restart holding down the 'D' key
I am using iTunes 10.6.3 on OS X 10.8 On my second generation AppleTV there are 8 podcasts showing that I have long since deleted. When I look in iTunes there is nothing there. I then created a smart playlist that would show only podcasts and it listed the 8 podcasts just as the AppleTV did. The problem is, in the smart playlist all 8 of the podcasts have exclamation points showing that iTunes does not know where the actual files are.
So I got a samsung galaxy s advance and found out that it can stream stored music and videos wirelessly (via WIFI) to my TV. It is very efficient with no buffering time and full HD quality. I use an AppleTV for my iPhone, however the connection keeps dropping (the icon disappears), the buffering time takes ages to load a video stored in my iPhone, and the whole experience is very dissatisfying.
On my iPhone, I can try messaging someone by tapping on a contact entry or enter a phone number or email address. If the person has iMessage enabled, the text entry field will say "iMessage" instead of "text message", and I'll know if the person can actually receive iMessage.
So, crashplan themselves say it can't and shouldn't be done, because of hard links and how TM works... But can't it, really?! Isn't there any way around it? Reason I want to use CrashPlan is because it does everything else I need - except easy recovery, which TimeMachine provides. PS: "Nope, it can't be done" and a very detailed answer on why, or "do it with rsync" or something are both ok here.
I need spell-checking in different languages such as English, German and Norwegian. I currently have only German spell-checking and it is quite irritating that it messes up with other languages' words. Is there some easy way of having spell-checking in multiple languages on the iPad?
My professor posted a reading assignment via PDF, and my iPad isn't rendering the website he set up so I can't download the PDF to iBooks. I have my MacBook with me, but it's not the main computer to which I sync all my devices (which is my mini at home). I can email the file to myself, but that would only work for files below 20mb, which if I need to read a whole book, would be too much to email. Is there another way to get the file to my iPad for reading without having to go all the way home to sync my iPad to my mini?
I had a nice background, a photo from the internet. It had been there for quite awhile. Then I tried to set it to a different one, another picture from the internet, by right-clicking and doing "Set as desktop background...", but it instead set my background to blue. And now I can't change it.
I went into Disk Utility and clicked "Verify Disk" and I get this: Verifying volume "PROSHOW DVD" Checking file system fsck_udf: Cannot read directory entry at offset 236: Undefined error: 0 fsck_udf: Directory Checking was bad! ** Checking Hierarchy ** Filesystem is dirty and non-repairable Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
After I updated to OS X 10.8.1, I keep getting this error message when I execute purge: [ERROR] The device-file for this operating system, 'osx-12.1.0.xml', was not found. An attempt to revert to a previous revision of the OS device-file: 'osx-12.0.0.xml' has been made. Please file a Radar report with Apple, on the 'CoreProfile' component, version 'X'.
The program Calendar.app clearly has some preferences that are settable.  However, when I type defaults read com.apple.Calendar (and various permutations on capitalization), I get the message Domain com.apple.Calendar does not exist. Additionally, I don't find a file in ~/Library/Preferences with a time stamp to match the changes I made. Where does the Mountain Lion Calendar program store its preferences?
I am using the following script to cycle through a list of IP addresses and report back on the % of packet loss. I'd also like to have the IP address printed first, then its % of packet loss. But I can't get the syntax right to make this work. Ideally, it'd look like: Here's my script:
I have a 4G mobile hotspot for when I travel on business. It makes NMEA GPS data available to connected clients.
I am having an issue where my retina MacBook Pro (10.8.1) will sleep when uTorrent is actively uploading or downloading. I have tried my old go to programs like "Caffeine" and "InsomniaX" to no avail. I was about to try Jiggler, but when I am finished working at the machine for the night, I like to sleep the display (using a hot corner) and I want my display to remain off/asleep. Jiggler would wake the display every 5 minutes with the password prompt, then the display would sleep and this would repeat till the morning. I have read this question and the best answer was helpful but left me wanting to know more.
I have an old macbook with some photos on it that I'm trying to sell. I want to keep the OS on there so that someone new can use it, but I have to wipe it through terminal because the screen is mostly broken. How can I delete all accounts on my Mac and leave it with a fresh install with no DVD and a mostly broken screen?
==== System info: Model Name: MacBook Pro Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz Memory: 16 GB System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) Network: GB wired/100MB Wi-Fi ====
I have a MacBook Pro A1260 from 2008 and I want to upgrade to the fastest SSD I can get, as long as the rest of the system isn't the I/O bottleneck. Where can I find information on compatible SSDs, and how many MB/s my system can handle?
My workflow is as follows: Open PDF on Mac using Preview Annotate PDF using the annotate tools within Preview Send PDF to iPad
I'm looking for a gps based altimeter app that records elevation to the phone. I will be out of cell range so it needs to store data on the phone. Do you know of one?
I am trying to sync some MP3s to my iPhone 4S and keep getting the above message. I have seen some replies to this kind of query but only in relation to photos or videos. What more information am I supposed to be looking for?
When I access the Storage report via About this Mac > More info... I am noticing some strangeness: I see quite significant amounts being reported for file types that I don't have a lot of on my hard disk i.e. 1.26 GB Audio; 9.94 GB Movies; 4.72 GB Photos... Using Disk Inventory X I noted that the most significant consumers of my disk space at the moment are the backup of my iPad (which is categorized as iTunes Document by that app and mostly consist of iOS apps and a couple of books) and my DropBox folder (which has some pictures and movies but not that much given I only have under 12 GB of DropBox space). How does the Finder categorize file types and indeed what is 'Other' which is currently consuming 29.44 GB of disk place? cheers
Is there a way to prevent Mail.app on OS X from auto inserting your email signature when replying to a message?
I have 6 courses in iTunes-U loaded into iTunes on my iMac. The latest is WWDC 2012. I can see all those courses on my wife's MacBook, but only the other 5 using the Video app on our iPad. Can anyone explain this and help me to get all the iTunes-U courses so that I can watch WWDC 2012 on the iPad?
I'm currently traveling abroad. Sometimes when connecting to a very old or a heavily used router, the connection will timeout after 2-3 seconds. I think some of these routers just need more time to respond to my connection request, I would like to increase the wait time to 10-12 seconds before the wifi times out the connection.
Mountain Lion doesn't include X11 any more, and XQuartz is the substitute. Having installed it, I see that XQuartz 2.7.2 installs in the non-standard (though commonly used) directory /opt. It also installs symlinks from /usr/X11 to /opt/X11. I would prefer having XQuartz only use /usr/X11 and not create /opt/X11. Is there a way to change the installation directory of XQuartz on Mountain Lion?
I am trying to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I can't find the place of keychain in Mountain Lion anymore. Even if I will find that keychain file location: Will it be enough just copy keychain database file? Or is the database file from Snow Leopard not compatible with Mountain Lion? How to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?
I recently upgraded a 2010 MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion, and it's worked fine for the most part. Today, however, upon waking up from sleep, the laptop won't go past the login screen. I enter the correct password, hit Enter... and the focus on the password box goes away, and nothing happens.
I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2009) that I just installed Mountain Lion on. After the install everything appeared ok, but a day later it goes straight into sleep/hibernate whenever I turn it on. This happens even when I press Command+R during startup - before it gets to the menu screen it hibernates. What can I try to fix this?
I've been trying to hookup this MacBook I have to an external monitor, but I don't know which adapter to buy. I bought a VGA adapter on eBay, but the connector is really thin. Can someone direct me to what port this is, and bonus points if you can find me an ebay listing.
I have an iPhone 3GS that has a data plan and tethering enabled. It is running iOS 5.1.1 Being an iPhone 3GS it only does tethering over bluetooth and USB, not WiFi. I also have iPhone 4, a 1st-gen iPad, and a year-old MacBook Pro.
In Mountain Lion, I have iCloud activated for Documents. I'd like document-saved-in-the-cloud to be an option, but not the default, as in "if I choose iCloud from the dropdown, save in iCloud, else save in my current folder". Is it possible? If it is not, I'll disable the "Documents and Data" switch in System Preferences > iCloud, but it raises the question: how can I list all information currently stored in iCloud, and save them to some real-world folder?
I have one Mac that sits at calculating changes and won't start copying files to the backup drive. Both the Mac and the external drive pass Disk Utility checks (repair / verify of the drive and the volume) and this machine has been happily backing up since February every few weeks when the drive is connected. This drive also has worked to back up two other Macs from time to time (both of which completed a backup with no issues three days ago). Here is the message that gets logged when the Time Machine UI says "Calculating Changes" The tmutil status simply shows -1 for the Percent and I expect a NumberOfDeepScannedItems to count up as the changes are "calculated". Does anyone know if this "malformed base path" is an actual problem or can be disregarded as something not necessarily causing this issue?
I have a router at the moment that keeps dropping Airplay connection between different iOS devices. I'm trying to find a better router that can withstand the amount of interference from various devices such as multiple iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Windows laptops, AppleTV, and a TV.
I am using the notes functionality in iOS as well as MacOS. My notes sync through iCloud. Works super.
I recently bought a Mini DisplayPort to DVI and DVI/DVI cable to connect to my monitor. However, when I connect my MacBook Pro (late 2009) to the monitor it doesn't work - laptop screen flashes blue, but monitor stays idle. The laptop recognises the monitor ('Displays' in System Preferences shows 2 monitors); but the monitor does not seem to recognise the laptop (it just continues to scan and eventually goes to sleep).
One folder, exactly the one named "Download" any time I reboot the system reappears. So now I have two "Download" folders and I'm not able to delete the one on the SSD (the original) anymore, precisely anytime I use
I have 2 mail accounts configured. When composing a new message, it will default to the account for the currently selected mailbox, which is fine. However, when no particular mailbox is selected (when viewing the combined Inbox for example), it will default to the first listed mail account.
I've just done a clean Mountain Lion install, and one thing bothers me a lot: How can I move passwords from my old keychain to the one created by the installer when it performed a clean install without a migration of data?
I've noticed the error "Failed to upgrade encrypted tmbootpicker.efi: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=-50 "Could not find any Apple_Boot corresponding to the encrypted volume..." UserInfo=0x7fdc3cd65580 {NSLocalizedDescription=Could not find any Apple_Boot corresponding to the encrypted volume...}" showing up in the backup logs on my system. The Time Machine backups appear to be finishing without error (I didn't noticed it except for a widget I use for monitoring backup progress which parses the log files; from the end user perspective, Time Machine just seems to hesitate a bit at the last step of the backup then finish when you just view the animated time icon from Finder.)
From a script run as root I copy a LaunchAgent .plist to /Users/xyz/Library/LaunchAgents. If I load that via launchctl logged in as user xyz it works without problems. If I try to load it from the script with the following command:
Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password. Reboot But when I try the step 4, it says launch_msg(): Socket is not connected.
Is there a way to clean up the ~/Library folder of a user? My folder is about 32 GB! What the heck is all in there?
I want learn iOS development, but I don't have enough money to purchase a Mac. Is there any way that I could learn iOS development on Windows, perhaps using an image of OS X?
My iMac has a 1TB internal hard drive, and 300GB is allocated for Windows 7 using BootCamp. Of the 700GB, right now the space remaining is only about 20GB, and I do hope to create a new partition and install Mountain Lion on it (or install Lion on it and upgrade the current Lion partition to Mountain Lion). Since the majority of hard drive space use is: and since Mac OS X is UNIX and can create a "soft link", how about creating a soft link (using the Terminal app) using: and the same for "iTunes U", so that two soft links are created, and they point to the external hard drive ("My Passport", which is a WD 1TB drive). I probably will do it by rebooting the system, move the Movies folder from the internal drive to the external drive by Finder, using drag and drop, and then create the soft link, and then do the same for "iTunes U", and then create the 2 soft links, and start up the iTunes app and see.
I have an xml file output from WordPress. I have BBEdit as my main search tool. I am on a Mac running 10.7.4 I am trying to find a muli-line block of text that starts with <item> and end with </item> In the block, there must be <wp:status>publish</wp:status> and <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type> Does anyone have any idea how I would find that using GREP or Automator? (Sorry I don't have enough rep to make better tags)
I have the new MacBook Air which only has a Thunderbolt output (no HDMI or DVI) and I have 2 external monitors. How can I get this all hooked up (at the lowest cost, if possible)?
There's an application called ShadowKiller that seems popular and supposedly works for Lion, but it just seems to die as soon as I try to start it on Mountain Lion. I'd like to get around of the shadows surrounding a window.
Certain music downloads in my iTunes library appear with an "!" to the far left. The download has 6 songs, with only one song transfered to my iPhone 3GS. Five songs had the "!" and they will not transfer or sync.
I lost the installation cds from my MBP. Is that possible get a copy from apple? Or can I use a installation cd from another MBP? Thanks
I was trying to launch a few Java applications using the terminal. The command that I was instructed to launch it with (I was following a guide) was the following:
I was browsing the Lua source code and I did "make install". It worked perfectly but I could not uninstall it! How can I install Lua 5.0?
I'm wanting to add specific Websites to notification center (the stack exchange network, for example) and I want to be able to see various notifications that the website would send me. Is there a way to add a website to be checked in notification center via terminal or some sort of script that can be written?
My iPhone 4s is giving me the option to set up as new phone or restore via iTunes or iCloud. I have pictures on my previous phone that is now destroyed. I am unable to maintain a stable wireless connection.
Can I hook up a MyBook Thunderbolt Duo external drive (only has Thunderbolt ports) with a Thunderbolt cable to a late 2009 iMac (with mini DisplayPort) and use it for storage (at a slower speed) until I can buy the new iMac comes out and I use it with that? Will the data still be accessible then?
I don't have an AppleTV (yet), but I do have a Mac Mini hooked up to some decent speakers. Is there something I can run on it, so that it acts like an Airplay audio receiver? (Video support isn't important to me.)
I used to see Word and PDF attachements with my GMail account in Mail. Recently I added my new Outlook account to Mail and found that attachments are missing. So I asked my friends to send attachments to my GMail account and they are also not showing up. All I see in attachment is a winmail.dat file (no matter my friend sends a Word or PDF file over). This happens only after I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Just wonder if there's some setting I need to tweak, hopefully this is not a 10.8 problem. Thanks for any help.
I have an app called "UPAD Lite" that keeps appearing in the "updates" tab of app store. I have installed the update multiple times, but when the app store checked for updates, it would appear again. I have also tried deleting the app and reinstalling afterwards, and it still appeared in updates. I have also tried closing and reopening the app store, and it was still there.
-- If it's not possible to buy windows via 100% download only, please let me know your favorite online stores to buy the physical legit versions. The only one I have learned of that didn't seem incredibly sketchy is *=URL=* -- Anything important to know about whether aiming for an "OEM" version would be smart, foolish, frugal, risky... Can they not be re-installed a second time if the computer crashes, or some other kind of risk?
I've got an issue with my iMac... Let me explain the configuration: The router is connected to the internet, the WiFi is turned off. Time Capsule is connected to the router with an ethernet cable, it's in Bridge Mode, the WiFi is set to 802.11 n only, the 5GHz is set to channel 36 and the 2.4GHz is set to channel 8. Airport Express is connected to the network created from Time Capsule, it extends the network in 2.4GHz (this AirPort Express doesn't support dual bands). Apple TV is connected to the network in 5GHz. iPad 2 is connected to the network in 2.4GHz. iMac is connected to the network in 5GHz. iPhone 4S is connected to the network in 2.4GHz. MacBook Pro is connected to the network in 2.4GHz. The printer is connected to the network in 2.4GHz. The trouble is:
I have following setup: I have a sparsebundle on an external disk containing steam (it wouldn't install on my internal disk - something about the format). But by now I depend on this approach as this bundle got much larger as my internal disk. For this I have written a simple LaunchAgent that mounts the bundle (if available) onto ~/Library/Steam when I logon.
The Address Book quits when closing the window. Did anybody find a way to prevent this behavior?
I am worried about downloading so many things: Here what is I have: A macbook Pro, with Mountain Lion installed (Upgraded from Lion) Things installed Xcode, Eclipse with android, RVM, GIT, And lot of another developer tools. A lot of another things like spotify offline songs, emails, some 30-40 applications downloaded from app store. Now here is the thing: Do I need to download xcode, Mountain lion, Eclipse etc again to make a fresh install on my new SSD. Whats the possible way to minimize the download?
Does the speed at which the battery of an iOS device charges vary depending upon whether it is being used or not? For example, when I am charging an iPhone in my car, will it charge faster when not in use?
I have a Linksys dual band router. Near the back of our house (which is where our computers are mostly located) only the G network really comes through so when I'm working in the front of our house, I like to connect to the N network for the extra speed. Unfortunately we are unable to move our router. If it is possible, I would like my Mac to automatically switch networks depending on the signal strength. Is there a way to do this? Our Macs are running 10.8. Thanks
I recently purchased a new Macbook Air (2012) and it came with Mountain Lion pre-installed. I've noticed that Mountain Lion does not show up as 'Purchased' in the App Store and indeed when I search for the app, the store offers to sell it to me. Is this a bug or by design?
If I move an app in Launchpad and then I "killall Dock" from the terminal, the Launchpad sometimes gets its previous configuration so my changes are lost. How can I restart the Dock without losing the Launchpad configuration?
I use Safari on Mac OS Lion, and one behavior I find rather annoying is that it insists on automatically un-gzipping TGZ archives when I download them. It doesn't untar them; it just uncompresses them, which is virtually useless. Ideally, it wouldn't uncompress them at all, but if it would uncompress and untar them I could live with that.
When I create a smart playlist that should only have podcasts, a "ghost" podcasts appear then disappears when I am updating my podcasts subscriptions. I've tried downloading the podcast again and then deleting it, but it keeps coming back. I've also searched through my library, and these podcasts do no t exists. Please note that I am not using the Podcasts app.
I am using Find my iPhone on a Jailbroken iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. My service does not have a data plan. It is T-mobile with only voice and SMS.
I have installed spotify on my mac quite some time ago, and I'm very happy with it, except for one thing: the local files feature. When I select iTunes as a source of local files, it also includes podcasts, which I don't want in spotify.
When I click the Downloads item in the Finder, it does nothing. The previously highlighted item remains highlighted.
How could this happen? Should I be concerned?
Since I don't have an optical disc, and no USB thumb drives are available, but I do have a second mac, target disk mode over FireWire seems like the only way to install Mountain Lion (since this 2010 MBP doesn't have that permanent recovery mode in its firmware, and I was dumb and formatted the whole disk, instead of just the system partition, thus deleting the recovery partition). But I'm thinking, when you install on a local disk on a MacMini, is some aspect of the installation MacMini-specific? After installing from the MacMini, will the OS be missing some MBP drivers, and include superfluous Mac Mini drivers?
I recently upgraded my router (TP-Link TL-WR1043N) so now my wireless network is broadcasting in 11b/g/n mixed mode, and my 1st generation AirPort Express is having trouble joining the network. I have done a factory reset several times, and each time everything seems to work fine but then when the APE tries to reset, AirPort Utility bombs with the message AirPort Utility was unable to find your AirPort wireless device after restarting. I'd love to keep this working just as an AirPlay device.
My brother will soon be going to South Korea to teach English and he is wanting to make sure that his phone will work properly with a local carrier. The phone is SIM unlocked (we verified it with an Orange UK SIM card that I picked up last summer in England). So, does anyone know of a South Korean carrier that supports iPhones? The iPhone 4S is from Sprint in the USA originally and they unlocked the GSM SIM slot for me because I was going to spend some time in the UK. Will this GSM-unlocked CDMA phone work with any South Korean carriers?
My computer recently crashed with no backup of Time Machine. I'm having issues getting a clean install to install on my hard drive (it won't let me do a fresh install from my Boot USB disk). I am however having more luck using a Time Machine backup from my girlfriends MacBook Pro. Am I going to run into any ownership issues when restoring Lion from another computer its Time Machine backup?
Is there any way to sync a txt file on the windows filesystem with a Notes file on the iOS device- iphone or ipad. I regularly take my notes on my PC but want them to be viewable on my iPhone. Could be through a cloud technology such as iCloud/dropbox. Any suggestions?
I am planning to get a external HDD for time machine backups for 2 macbook pros. Can both of them backup to the same HDD Can the disk be time machine encrypted and still be accessible to both?
I have a printer HP deskjet f4210 connected to a windows 7 system, I am trying to connect my macbook pro os 10.7.4 to it, however I get the message authentication required. I tried entering guest/guest as I found this tip from another forum, and it connected. However it goes through the print process and nothing is printed. There are no errors, it shows the progress bar and then the job is removed from the queue as if its printed. What is the fix?
I changed language on the iPad3 from english to italian, but I noticed that a few things remain in english. For instance, day and time in locked screen, as well as in the calendar. Is there a way to fix it?
I maintain my husband's contacts database up to now on a PC using Outlook. I switched to Mac for my own use (Mountain Lion) and use Apple Contacts for my own Address book.
Occasionally, answers on this site include software recommendations. Let’s assume a "legitimate developer" pretends to have created a useful application that is (secretly) capable of doing harm. How can I be sure I do not install something that contains malicious code or a root kit, especially if it is closed-source software?
I would like to change the directory for the screenshots in a way that dropbox uploads it automatially. There are a lot of tutorials on MAC OS but I cannot find it for IPad. Does someone knows how to save screenshots in directory that dropbox can uploads?
There are numerous websites online which offer an actual genuine factory unlocking service if you provide the iPhone's IMEI code. They advertise a service which whitelists your iPhone's IMEI code from Apple's database. As far as I know, only certified carriers can carry out this service.
With OS X Lion, the 'New Email with Attachment' option is missing from Finder. It is supposed to be replaced with the new "Share Button". Unfortunately, the only two ways I can share a file are Airdrop and iMessage. I use Mac Mail and this isn't present. I checked 'Services' under 'System Preferences' and didn't see any option to add email to the share menu. How do I customize the share to items?
I am Abhimanyu, located in Singapore. I have a question for you all: Can I configure MacBook Air at one of the Apple Premium Resellers?
I was using web-sharing and accessing some webpages that I had developed using localhost. I messed up a PostGreSQL installation and deleted anything related to PostGreSQL and in the process appear to have damaged my apache installation. If I run ping localhost the result is --- localhost ping statistics --- 794 packets transmitted, 794 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.033/0.076/0.920/0.055 ms I then tried running apachectl configtest and recieved the following output: I also tried
How do I change the color depth of a monitor in Lion/10.7? I vague remember it being an option in the display prefs or the display menu bar in an older OSX version, but it seems gone in 10.7?
Is there any Mac utility that will allow me to: Take a screen shot Annotate it (arrows, text, etc) Upload it somewhere Put a link directly to the image on my clipboard (i.e., not to some Skitch sharing page or whatever)
Safari keeps asking if I want to save passwords whenever I submit a login form. Is there any way to disable this password saving feature completely?
My wife and I use a blog on Blogspot to post pictures and videos of our kids for our far-flung relations. Recently, we have had issues with posting videos from iPhoto to the blog. The blog uses a standard browser interface to get to the content.
When I was installing OSX 10.8.1, when the install when to reboot Finder refused to shut down citing a mount point problem. I force closed Finder at which point the post-reboot install started without the system having fully rebooted. Is there anyway to verify that nothing went wrong with the install?
Scenario: Drag a file to "Dropbox" folder. Finder shows active window of copying a file. Once the transfer is done, I look under the folder (from a server side via VNC) and there are no file's.
We bought this computer second hand without the disks. Some of the applications were accidentally removed. The trash was emptied before realizing they were in there. We are trying to find someone with the disks to recover what was lost. Where to find the installation disks or if we can use other disks that are more available?
I want to connect my PlayStation3 to my Retina Macbook Pro so that I can play my games using the MBP's display, is it possible to do it with HDMI port or something else?
OS X Server 2.0.23 (aka Mountain Lion Server) already has python 2.7.3 and wsgi installed. What is the procedure to install a python web application on that server to run under its own domain? Assume the web application has no other dependencies other than what is already installed.
My situation is: 2 iMacs (Lion), one displays a slide show and the other one a video. If a user comes to the iMac and wants to play the video again, he should be able to play the video with one click (mice or keyboard). It should only play the video and disable every other feature/software on the Mac. I could imagine theres already a software like that, and if you want to come out of that "presentation"-mode you have to press a special keyboard shortcut to do that.
I successfully installed the latest Boot Camp for Windows 7 on the latest MacBook Air 2012. My only problem is with one driver for USB controller, which it couldn't be found. Any attempt from device manager to find this missing driver searching automatically or inside the Boot Camp folder was not successful. Where can I find the missing driver?
On Lion I used to see the next space wallpaper while pressing Control + → to switch desktops. But on Mountain Lion I see a Black Screen until the transition is complete. Is it just me who is facing this issue or is this the new behaviour in Mountain Lion?
It looks like the search attribute "Tags" is no longer available in the Mountain Lion Finder. I used this to quickly find Open Meta Taggged files on my Mac by means of a Smart Folder. Is there an alternative way?
I guess this might be related to mail.app Smart mailbox synchronization over iCloud, since I have desktop iMac and Air, and I'm using both. However, I failed to make a synchronized configuration which would be the same on box mail.app instances. Could you please advise how should I configure this smart mailbox to avoid irritating bug?
I have been looking for answers since and have seen a few that say I need to do a fresh install and whatnot. I am simply unhappy with the fact that I just bought a brand new laptop that got a free Mountain Lion upgrade and now regretting it because the startup time is over 1 minute.
The trackpad on my Macbook Pro just started acting oddly. It's randomly clicking (which might cause me to switch programs), right-clicking and even once my screen even showed the swiping animation as if I was trying to switch to a different desktop.
I have my own personal mail account (a gmail account) and my academic email account (a university account) as different profiles on my Mail application in OS X Snow Leopard. I sometimes forget to switch the outgoing account to my university account when emailing my students and it will send from my gmail account instead. This is not a huge deal but I would prefer to have my students never get mail from my gmail account. Is there a way to have Mail warn you when sending to a certain address (or an address that has a certain keyward in it?)
I have a networked drive on the XP side of my MacBook. I use a VPN and then can login to the drive. Nothing too special going on. I believe the server uses Active Directory.
I have an early-2011 MacBook Pro that will not charge. The green light on the MagSafe connector is barely green.
I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion. control + D does not exit Python as it does in Lion; instead it splits the screen. Meanwhile, I also haven't figured out how to continue writing after having viewed the contents of a text document - the terminal doesn't allow it. So far, no matter what I push after this, I get a nasty little beeping sound
I can configure emacs under OS X so that the key nearest the space bar (the key labeled Command ⌘) is my Meta key by running How can I configure the same key to be the emacs Meta-key when I run emacs under Windows, and Windows is itself running in VMware Fusion? For some reason even if I run the above line on Windows-VMware, my Meta key remains the Option key.
Are there any free standalone presentation tools that shows which keys are pressed on screen? KeyCastr is not available as build for users without Xcode. Only a community fork (git://github.com/bignerdranch/keycastr.git) is working on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Mouseposé is commercial. Related to the Windows 7 Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3529329
The latest Safari version (6.0 (8536.25)) now hides the URL path from the address bar. Instead, it only showing the hostname (e.g. right now I only see "apple.stackexchange.com"). Clicking on the bar to edit will revert it to the full URL (e.g. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask).
I've purchased a bracket to replace the superdrive in my 2009 Unibody MBP, the kind with the latch that pops open rather than the entirely screwed down bottom panel. Now that I've put in my second hard drive, the drive constantly has to spin up when I stop using it for any seriously length of time. I presume this is meant as a power-saving measure for the old superdrive.
I use my iMac as an external monitor for my MacBook Pro via mini DisplayPort. But, sometimes, it fails. The iMac went black for some seconds when I plugged the cable in but it went back into the normal mode instead of displaying the MacBook Pro's screen. Today I couldn't get it to work any way. I restarted the iMac, removed and reinserted the cable, but nothing helps.
I have about 80 GB of songs on my Macbook Pro and my PC Desktop. I sometimes buy music during my travels and import it to my Macbook. When I process my DJ Tracks, they're added on to my PC. I want the ability to add songs to either my Macbook or my PC and have them synchronized with each other on all attributes in iTunes (including Rating, Comments, etc). I need to do at least once a week. How do I make this possible?
I'm looking for technical details on how the Notification Center is architected on Mountain Lion so I can make the most use of it as a user of OS X. Specifically, does it receive messages directly from Apple's push notification service? The high level overview documentation on Apple's developer site for Notification Center mentions UDP delivery of a notification so it seems a network trigger is provided but I can't find a reference to or example of this being implemented on Mountain Lion. If not, can it receive messages from the local network or just from other programs that run locally on OS X?
I am trying to sync an iPhone 3GS with Outlook calendars on my PC (Windows XP, MS Office Professional Plus 2010). In Outlook we have several profiles set up for different emails. At first the sync didn't appear to be working - until I realised that iTunes was syncing with the calendar from the default Outlook profile.
My Cron tasks stopped running after I installed Mountain Lion. How do I get them to run again?
What are the risks, if any, of leaving medium-strength magnets (not weak, but not any kind of industrial super-magnet), sitting on top of an iPad? Assume that the screen is covered, so I'm not worried about scratching the glass.
I have a Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and a mid-2012 Macbook Pro (non-Retina). I normally have a lot of USB devices that I need to have plugged in so when I got my Macbook Pro I just continued to use my mouse plugged into my USB hub along with my other devices. But recently I was out somewhere and I just wanted to bring my mouse along with me and when I plugged the wireless dongle straight into the usb port it wouldn't recognize my mouse. I messed around with settings and tried to reinstall the drivers but that didn't work. When I got home I plugged it back into my USB hub and it worked. It's not really a big inconvenience but it's kind of strange and I'd like to fix it. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a solution?
I have performed an upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard and now to Mountain Lion (10.8.1). Post upgrade my desktop background isn't no longer changing. The background will not change when I try and select a different background via system preferences. Even if I reset it to the default background the same behavior persists. My system has exhibited this problem for almost 7 months now, I have this ugly plain blue background I cannot look at any more. Can anyone offer a solution that might resolve this?
My iTunes library has well over 25,000 tracks in it, and so I have to use this workaround in order to use iTunes Match. sigh Fine. So I've created the dummy library, and now I have to populate it with the tracks that I want to sync with iTunes Match. I don't want to do this track-by-track, so I'd like to create a Smart Folder of tracks that I can then import into the dummy library.
I signed up for the (free) Apple Developer ID and downloaded the latest Xcode release from here. Is it any different from the App Store download/installation? If it's the same, why does the App Store keep asking me about billing information (credit card and other details) every time I try to use the App Store to install Xcode?
I would like to have a button or configurable keyboard shortcut to send the image in active Preview app to Adobe Photoshop. It will also be useful if I can specify which version of Photoshop to open with. Does anyone know how? Using OS X Mountain Lion.
I've been reading several articles on the Internet how to "optimize your Mac with an SSD". I'm not sure whether or not to agree with the articles because I think that Apple knows what's the best settings for a computer with an SSD drive. My question is: should I be worried about disabling hibernate to "save" my SSD from wear?
I encrypted my Time Machine backup (A Western Digital 2tb external drive) then realised that Airport wont mount the backup over wifi, so am currently decrypting the drive (via Disk Utility). I found the command: which shows me the progress of the operation (it took a while to register at the under the the menu-bar icon). Here's a snippet from the output: Encrypting the backup took about 24 hours, and the time machine icon currently shows 'Decryptig Backup Disk (28%)'.
I watch a lot of movies streaming online. Should I keep my computer on the power cord, or should I charge the unit completely, remove the power cord, then wait till it gets to a low battery and plug it in again? My main concern is that if I keep it plugged in, it will degrade the life of the battery, but if I keep plugging and unplugging, it will cycle through the battery life anyways. My question is essentially: Should I keep it on the charger when doing something that would cause the battery to drain faster than normal?
Anyone run into "There is no connected camera" message while using any of the camera applications (Messages, PhotoBooth, Skype, etc.)? I tried force quitting all the applications that use the camera but with no luck. Even tried sudo killall VDCAssistant without any luck. Restarting the machine fixes the issue, but it is highly annoying to do so every day. I am running 10.8.1 on 2012 MacBook Pro.
Would love to know if there is a way to switch all my current Terminal.app tabs to a different profile on the fly. The use-case being to change Terminal profile from a dark to a light theme, and vice versa, depending on a user's current mood/preference. This can be achieved manually by right clicking on a Tab header and choosing "Inspect tab", and then changing the theme for each tab. The other option is to close down all the open tabs and reopen them with a new theme, again suboptimal IMHO. Hope someone has a better way :)
Right now it's stuck at Running packages scripts And here is the log:
Is there a more convenient work-around for Apple's decision to drop the "save as" command than clicking on duplicate, then save the copy which then displays the file structure? I have tried the app "Default Folders" and it does not solve the problem (at least in my hands). thanks for your assistance
I have a home fileserver running Windows 7. I have a directory with PDF files. I want to view the PDF files on my iPad 2 over WiFi and not locally store them on the iPad. Is there any app which can help me? I tried to read the Goodreader docs and could not find much information without buying it on the iPad. Can someone help?
Is there any possibility (default write, or something else) to copy text directly from a quick look window? It annoys me that I cannot select and copy text snippets directly from Quick Look.
Often when my Macbook Pro Retina has been asleep, I get the following upon waking up:  It is irritating because I get the bouncy iCal icon in my doc and have to dismiss the error message every time. Anyone know how to prevent this?
I have a weird issue with my MacBook Pro that I bought about 3 weeks ago. I noticed that when I start playing VLC player or even when opening up certain websites that the color saturation seems to automatically change on the machine. I don't think that this is related to the "automatically adjust brightness" in the system preferences because I disabled that and the issue remains.
How can I type a "§" in a Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) window? I am using the OS X client software to connect remotely to a computer running Microsoft Windows. In OS X Option ⌥+6 produces the symbol I want to be sent to the remote computer.
My tribe like to switch their control and caps lock keys. I know how to do this† from the GUI. I'd like to go one step further, and put this step in my nascent dotfiles/osx file. Does anyone know how to do this from the command line, say using the defaults command?
I am running OS X Lion/10.7.4 and have set up a network disk hosted on an Ubuntu server using directions I found online. Time Machine recognizes the disk and backs up to it. However it backs up as sparsebundle "bands" files. I would like to be able to read the backed-up files from the Ubuntu server. Is there any way to tell Time Machine to back up to regular files instead of using sparsebundle/bands files?
I'm searching the right way to identify which pid/process ask to mDNSResponder to resolve dns query. In other terms I want do identify which process do which dns query through mDNSResponder and in some way correlate it. In another term again I want to know the pid of every dns query made through mDNSResponder. Is there a system administrator approach to do it or I have only a programmer way and so I need to patch mDNSResponder ?
I would like to know is there any software that will make my Macbook Pro's iSight camera work as biometric authentication by capturing my face? Any free or paid software are welcome (preferably free). I have tried to google it but I found only some forums with posts from 2004 and nothing helpful.
Every time I log in to a remote server with SSH, OS X keychain prompts me to remember the SSH passphrase. I type in the passphrase and check the box to remember it. I then connect ok to the server but then the next time I get prompted again and so on...
I have the Windows 8 consumer preview .iso which I plan to copy to a DVD to use with Boot Camp. Though my question is - when I burn the image to the disk, will I need to make the disk bootable to use it to install Windows?
I know option o comes out to ø? So I have been using that as my theta. But I would love to know how to type Theta for a mac?
Is it known how the Mac App Store detects that there is a eligible Mountain Lion on the disk? Any Ideas? I'm very comfortable at the shell level, solutions using the commandline are welcome.
I linked Mail.app to my Gmail account and to my surprise it downloaded all of the 300000+ (!) messages that are on it (I looked in the Preferences for a way to limit the amount of messages downloaded but to no avail, if anybody has any directions on that please post them in a comment).
I have a Retina MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion and Boot Camp with Windows 7 and the Boot Camp 4.0 drivers. I'm also using the Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter.
I'm using Mountain Lion on a new MacBook Pro (retina) with a local USB drive for backup. From what I've read searching around (including other questions on here) I should be able to encrypt my time machine backup on this local USB drive, but the option is greyed out.
I can't copy into my own Public folder neither with my finder nor from terminal 'sudo cp ~/temp/gyongyinek/* ~/Public/' If I execute the above command from terminal I got this: Operation not permitted If I want to copy from finder then the crossed out mouse cursor appears suggesting that the operation is invalid... This is my Public directory access flag: drwxr-xr-x+ 3 boti staff 204 Jan 11 2012 Public If on finder I hit Command+I then I have the following access rules: Fetching: Read Only Fetching: Read Only boti(Me): Read & Write staff: Read Only everyone: Read Only
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, my Macbook Air 13" (Intel Core i5) has become extremely noisy. The CPU cooler starts going crazy after just 10-20 mins of internet surfing. Before I could only make it loud and crazy when I used Xcode or similar 'heavy' apps. What I can see from the Activity Monitor, is that the securityd process is consuming 12-15% CPU at all times:
Is there a way to open a file straight from QuickLook? I have a directory containing symlinks to the PDF files I usually refer to. I cannot copy the files locally and I must use symlinks. When I need to open one of the files, I can't rely on Finder icon previews as these do not show for symlinks (I think that's absurd, don't you? Is there any reason why they would not?). Not knowing how to pick the file I am interested in, I select them all and press Option + Space. Immediately following Option + Space, I press Command + Enter and finally see them all tiled across the screen (Note: Command + Enter is not bound in Finder as far as I can see, why not allow users to press that directly?). Once I choose the file I want, with the mouse or the arrow keys, I don't see how I could open just that file in the corresponding application (say: Adobe Reader).
I am looking for a script that will recognize when an email is flagged and then turn it into a Reminder using the Reminders app.
Using iOS 5.1.1 I have installed an app with an iTunes account which is not currently logged-into the 'App Store' in my iPad 2. In addition, I do not remember which username (email address) I used for that account. How can I find out, in my iPad, which account was used to buy that app?
Apple's Thunderbolt displays, I understand, have stereo speakers in them. How does it work if you have two Thunderbolt displays plugged into your computer? Do both displays play the same sound, so you get left-and-right sound from your left display and left-and-right sound from your right display? Do you get sound from only one, so you get left-and-right sound but only on one half of your desk? Do both speakers in the left display become the left speaker, and both speakers in the right display become the right speaker? I'm curious how this works.
So far I've been able to find only outdated clients, which are either abandoned years ago or they are currently developed but only for newer systems, or commercial. Is there a free1 client actively developed for Snow Leopard? 1 Free "as in beer", though, of course, I'd prefer if it was also "as in speech".
I'd like to use the RSVG for SVG processing in ImageMagick (the included library is fairly incomplete). RSVG is a supported delegate but needs to be installed separately.
I have tried downloading and running JDiskReport 1.4 a few times now, and after unzipping it and clicking on the executable I get the message: Why is it not working? I'm running 10.8 Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.
Is there some way to import the settings of an OpenVPN client into the built-in VPN client in Mountain Lion? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?
I would like to know if it is possible to add the due date checkbox shown in my screenshots to the OS X version of Reminders. I am not looking for the notification option, just the old fashioned due date option.
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Now whenever the machine sleeps for a long time (more than two hours or so) while disconnected from the mains, it won't wake up. I had to hold the power button to reboot the machine. Is there a solution to this problem?
I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion (upgrading from Lion). Exported my calendars to a "Calendar Archive" on Lion and then imported them on Mountain Lion.
Since Mountain Lion Time Capsule can now backup to encrypted sparsebundles. This is great and easy to setup for new backup locations, just select 'encrypt backups'. However, I have backups for around a year now that I want to keep. If I go through the setup, I can only erase the current (unencrypted) backup and start over, or keep using the current (unencrypted) backup. So how can I work around this issue and encrypt my existing backups?
Apple offers the MacBook Pro with two processor options -- 2.3 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz. I'm wondering if the more powerful CPU drain the battery more quickly by any significant degree. (And incidentally, would additional RAM consume additional power?)
I want the "Downloads" folder not on the system drive but on my second internal drive. In Lion I just deleted the "Downloads" folder and replace it with an alias with the same name (pointing to the folder on the second drive ofc). In ML I get ""Downloads" can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X".
I have a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.7, and an external display screen attached to my Macbook, which is working fine. Sometimes, I have to switch the second display to a projector (because I want to give a presentation).
I have an AirPort Extreme home network that is extended with an AirPort Express. Because some legacy devices within the household do not support WPA/WPA2 Personal, I would like to keep my AirPort Extreme network secured with WPA2 while allowing devices that can connect to the AirPort Express to connect via WEP. Is this possible? (knowing in advance would certainly help, as I do not want to mess up the current configuration for the AirPort Express.
I am trying to share photos on fb with my ipad 3, but the photos are not showing up. What could be the reason?
After upgrading to Lion I keep noticing strange spamming of mdworker on the logs, even though there doesn't seem to be any noticeable CPU or IO work being done. The machine is snappy but I just can't figure out why these logs keep periodically appearing:
Mountain Lion here. I can select text using the Three finger swipe. But to drag that text (for copying into another window, for example), I have to resort to the old fashioned (:)) press-click-on-trackpad-and-drag-with-second-finger. Is there is some way I could drag the selected text via the same three finger movement (maybe by pressing some modifier key to signal that I wish to drag and not select)?
Does anyone have any idea on how to keep text in sync with audio such that as the audio progresses, the lyrics that are being sung are what is being displayed onscreen? What I actually want, is my audio file to be playing playing and at the same time the lyrics of that audio file will be highlighted. (Similar to a karaoke machine.)
I have recently upgraded to mountain lion and every time I start a new tmux session, I get the following warning: │warning: unsupported new OS, trying as if it were 10.6-10.7 Is this anything I should be worried about?
How often does Apple.com update their refurbished stock? Is there a schedule, is it based upon product availability, or a combination of the two?
Everytime I open Terminal I need to set the PATH using: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
They look the same and get mixed up. My iPad 2 can't charge with the iPod's cable but vice-versa works.
I made a partition with Boot Camp on my wife's Macbook Pro and installed Windows, however after being installed I can not find the Boot Camp control panel. I have looked in the control panel and the task bar. The program is simply not there. I can't get the Macbook to run OS X at all at this point, but can verify that the partition is only 40 GB in size. At this point, I don't care if I can get the partition working. I'm more worried about getting the OS X partition back up. I do not have a OS X install disk — the computer didn't come with one.
In system preferences, if I click the "lock" icon to allow me to make changes as the administrator, no dialog opens. The message "Authenticating..." appears momentarily, then disappears, and the lock stays locked. I'm on OS X 10.6.8. Any idea what could cause this or how to fix it?
With the following folder structure on a file share: Whenever I add an ACE to the Department directory, it's also added to all the subdirectories. So if I want User1 to be able to see all the directories inside "Department", it also adds that ACE to all the User# directories as well. I'm trying to set it up so that all users can see the User# folders, but only have access to their personal folder.
As of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) one can move Preview documents to iCloud, how do I access these documents from my iPad?
I'm using jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 and am looking for an app or setting that enables true caps lock. Meaning, once activated, caps lock behaves like it does on a PC and stays enabled when you switch to numbers or even between apps. As it is right now, caps lock is disabled when you go to the home page, switch apps, or even switch to number input.
In OS X 10.7 Lion: Mail.app in "classic layout" (Preferences > Viewing > Use classic layout), would display a very helpful "N Messages Selected" label in the empty bottom pane when you selected multiple messages:  But in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the helpful label is gone and replaced by some terrible (slow, choppy) animation of individual messages flying around and being added to a stack of overlapping messages. Question: is it possible to get the old "N Messages Selected" label back on OS X 10.8?
I want to restore the hidden user Library folder from Time Machine but I am unable to see it when I enter Time Machine. Read on.
I have many photos managed by iPhoto that are over 16 megapixels, much larger than I need. I'm running low on hard disk space and I'd like automatically resize all images over a certain size/resolution by 50%. This is somewhat similar to how iTunes can downsample all your music files above a certain size on your iOS device. I'm guessing an AppleScript is necessary for this?
Configuration: Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8 Active Directory Server 2008 R2 Binding using AD Plugin or dsconfigad -add mydomain -username myuser -ou "OU=Computers,OU=Sites,OU=Mysite,DC=mycompany,DC=com" Works fine. First login happens fine. Creates mobile account, no issues noticed. However, after I logout, the next login attempt fails, and after only shaking one time, their AD account is locked out. opendirectory.log makes a vague mention of account being expired but honestly I don't see much in the logs that pops out as useful. Any help?
For whatever reason, I created a folder on my Mac called customer.app, and it contains a python module. I want to open that folder and it's files in applications like BBEdit and GitX, but the open dialog shows this folder as greyed out and won't let me select them. Are there any settings or properties I can set on this folder to tell my Mac that it is just a regular old folder?
I believe plutil could tell you if there's a syntactical error with the file, but again, how was the error introduced? I'm unclear on the usual source for these corrupted files. Thanks.
The operative word here being "completely". I recently found a nearly flawless (cosmetically and functionally) AEKII (Alps, not Mitsumis) on eBay and won it for $30. It's an awesome keyboard and it gives me fond memories of my typing classes in elementary school, but I hate the lack of modern media keys; I used them all the time on my wired Aluminum keyboard. My current "hack" involves some custom AppleScripts (I've only implemented volume up/down) that I imported as Alfred Extensions and bound to some custom hotkeys, but this approach has some downsides:
I have a multi-function USB printer, Brother MFC-8440. Before buying a Time Capsule it was connected to a USB port on the Mac. After purchasing a Time Capsule I attached the printer to the USB on the Time Capsule. This allows printing to the networked printer from other systems on my LAN.
I have an MBP 8.1, early 2011, 13 inch, Mountain Lion. Whenever I leave it on for more than a couple hours, I get serious execution lag on every command. For example:
Today, Mail.app fails to login to the mail server at all. My assumption is that the old server has now been decommissioned. To me, it seems as if Mail.app has some sort of bad DNS cache, causing it to 'look' at the old server rather than the new one. Steps I tried to resolve the issue: Restarted Mail.app. Rebooted computer. Cleared OS X DNS cache. Synchronized IMAP account with server. Deleted email account from Mail.app, and recreated it. Rebooted cable modem. Not a spot of difference.
I have Server.app installed on 10.8.1. The only service that is configured is file sharing. No DNS, no OD. After every single reboot I get a push notification and email with the following: Network change notification for computername
When it is a switch between applications, we use Command+Tab, and when it is a switch within an application, we use Command+`. Can I just use Command+Tab for all cases, as in Windows?
I have problem when I used brew to install aircrack-ng. I found out that it cover path but it couldn't find commands after I tried tab-completion in path
I just got an heavily commented pdf, when I open it in Preview, all annotations (highlights, notes) are "hidden", i.e. do not show up in the left margin. I can display them by clicking on them but I would like to see them all at once without having to click on each of them individually. I couldn't find a menu item but maybe I missed it? Or is there a keyboard shortcut?
What does this "dotted-line" cloud icon next to a file in the iCloud file browser mean?  This is a plain-text file saved to iCloud from Byword, and it refuses to sync to my iPhone. But I'm having the same problem with subsequently-created files in Byword, and they don't feature this icon.
I used WineBottler to install Beyond Compare on my Mac. It runs within an X11 environment. (It works great, by the way.) But it cannot access many folders to which my user account does not have permission, e.g, in the /System folder. How can I run BC with "sudo" permissions?
Is there any way to figure out where my MacBook was sold and what the price was, by serial number only? I know how to get information from Apple based on a serial number, but they did not tell me where it was sold or how much it was sold for.
I've turned file sharing on both my Macs here at home. One is an iMac, the other a MacBook Pro. I'm sure there's more to it but I can't seem to figure that out. Both are internet connected through WiFi.
I've noticed something strange in Finder since upgrading to Mountain Lion; any hidden folder or files (that I've already run defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE for) can only be opened by manually Ctrl-clicking the it and selecting Open. Is there a way I can modify Finder's behavior to be able to double-click and open hidden files and folders as was possible on Lion?
I have been running Time Machine for about 10 months with no problems. Now when I try to enter time machine, nothing happens. Just like in other posts I have read. I run Lion with no apparent problems and the backups work fine as I can see them in Finder and access the files there. The problem is that clicking to enter Time Machine does nothing, with no error or anything.
I don't know if anyone has this problem which is: When I connect my headphone or disconnect it from my macbook pro. The video, music in Chrome don't work anymore ( it's mute ). I have to reopen Chrome to make them work. Do we have any solution to fix this ?
I have been syncing Mac OS contacts (Address Book) with Google for a long time. For some reason, though, that option is now grayed out in Contacts preferences.
I'd like to make some backups of my software DVDs that I can use to install the software again in case they are lost or get damaged. What's the best way to do this? Is it creating a .cdr disk image of the DVD using Disk Utility?
I have the following issue on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) after mounting a network drive (⌘+K in Finder. When I disconnect the laptop from the network without dismounting the drive, I get the Finder notification that the drive is no longer available, where I usually click "Disconnect All". This still leaves a leftover directory in /Volumes, which doesn't get deleted.
I have two Apple IDs: One (lets say A) associated with my old email address (lets say old@xyz), which is the one I actually use Another one (lets say B) associated with my new email address (lets say new@xyz), which I created when I was in the US.
I have some basic questions in my mind and ofcourse, I should ask them to know the things. Can I import/export contacts from/to sim card? Is it possible to view the contacts that are stored in sim/iPhone separately? Is it possible to choose the default memory storage for contacts? Is it possible to delete all contacts from sim/iPhone (or maybe both)by one click?
I use a microSD card in my macbook air for additional storage, using a flush adapter (homemade, similar to the nifty minidrive). To save battery when I'm not using it, I disabled auto-mount using /etc/fstab. But sometimes, I accidentally eject it instead of unmounting (because that's what the finder gui does).
I currently have a MacBook Air 13" 2011. I want to connect two external Displays. Does it work? I think it can speak to two Displays. When the internal Display is closed, it should be possible to connect another display to have two one! I want to buy a Dock where i can close the display and have two external ones. Does anyone know if this solution works?
If I know I'm about to click on a link that will pop up a window that I want, is there a modifier key or anything I can do to temporarily allow the popup to appear, without going into Safari's preferences window, unchecking the box, opening the popup, then checking the box again (and getting the same warning every single time)?
I have my applications arranged on three different desktops (formerly known as Spaces) to avoid cluttering. The only problem is that Adobe apps such as Photoshop or Illustrator always spawn windows in whatever current desktop I'm in. It works with all the other apps. Is there a way to make Adobe apps respect my settings?
Is it possible to connect to a Windows 7 adhoc wireless network without jailbreaking from an iPad 3 running iOS 5.1? I have tried these instructions, including the Manual IPs (with my own IPs and subnet mask etc) The iPad can see the network but will not connect (unable to connect or similar generic error).
I have Chrome and Safari both installed on my Mac. My underlying need is wanting to use Chrome on my MacBook Pro and to have all bookmarks I create to sync to mobile Safari on my iOS devices. Yes, I could just use chrome on my iPhone, but I don't want to as iOS directs other apps to always open URL in Mobile Safari. Is there a way to have two way sync from OS X Chrome to iOS Mobile Safari whether through a cloud service or my Mac which can run 24/7?
Just acquired an azatom Tune-Stream Bluetooth dongle which turns 30-pin iPod docking stations into Bluetooth devices. However, it doesn't work when I insert it in an Apple Universal Dock (connected to a TEAC micro hi-fi system via a small jack). My iPod Touch works in the Dock, and it pairs with the Tune-Stream remotely when that is in place, but no sound. Azatom instructions say doesn't work with speakers with "digital signal interface", but why would Universal Dock have a different interface from usual iPod docking station?
I am interested in writing an application which runs in a pre-login environment, i.e. right after a user enters their username and password, much like how OS X does the initial account setup:
I've tried putting in both .bashrc and .bash_login but neither works, i.e. when I open a new terminal window I am in my home (/Users/my_name/) directory. No error messages, just not cd'd into the directory as hoped when starting a new terminal window.
I have been using my calendar fine but this afternoon when I click on the tile it briefly opens (1 sec) and then closes itself. I have waited 30 mins, I have turned iPad off & back on and still no joy.
I want to add some common building names for my college campus to my keyboard dictionary, but in the General tab in Settings, I only see an option to reset the dictionary. I tried typing the words, expecting to see a red squiggly underneath them and then an option to add the words to the dictionary, but only a suggested edit was there. It added one of the buildings =, but only because it tried to auto-correct to something else but I corrected it and it added itself to the dict. But other names that have no auto-correct don't get added.
My understanding of reading apple security document below *=URL=* is that using iphone4s or ipad3, and setting a complex passcode, the data on the iPhone/ipad is encrypted when iphone/ipad is locked. If iPhone/ipad is jailbroken, does it mean the original data is lost ?
I have a Mac, running Mountain Lion, which does not have internet access and cannot be given internet access. I would like to take an app, which is only available on the App Store, and install it on this Mac. I do have another Mac with internet access and can purchase the App on it. However, when I try to copy and install the app on the other machine, the app won't launch. How can I accomplish this? I have no intention of using the App on the Machine on which the purchase was made.
Recently I installed Mountain Lion (I had Snow Leopard), I used to share files with a PC enabling the file sharing and use Filezilla in the PC to download and upload files. Now with Mountain Lion for some reason I can't connect to the Mac computer. Nothing changed; I'm using the same credentials. This is exactly what I did: *=URL=* Is there some kind of new security policy or something similar in Mountain Lion?
I have a MacBook Pro (13") from Early 2011 and want to use 2 external monitors (And not the actual display). I've seen the Matrox, but that appears to make one BIG display out of 2 monitors, so I can't really have 2 desktops. Is there any way for me to have 2 external displays and have them recognized by the OS?
I put the battery back in and because it would not turn on, I began charging it. The iPhone started booting up, but then it shut off and restarted. It did this several times before it finally brought up an image showing me to plug it into iTunes.
I use BBEdit for my coding. I know how to tell all my .cfm, .php, etc. files to open in BBEdit. But The icon is just the plain Jane (what did she ever do?) dog-eared document icon. Instead I'd like to customize the document icons by file extension so that .cfm and .php look distinct from each other. Any way to do this that doesn't involve me editing BBEdit's plist or periodically repeating the process so newer documents now have the right icon shown?
In my Mac Mini running OS X 10.8, the tabs shown from Dictionary are the following: All American English American English Thesaurus Apple British English Thesaurus Wikipedia British English I would like to change their order, as follows: All American English American English Thesaurus British English British English Thesaurus Apple Wikipedia I tried dragging them, but nothing happens; I also tried selecting them pressing the control keys, but all I got was a contextual menu that allows me to edit the labels, which is not what I want to do. Is there any way to change the order that labels are shown?
I have a long running script at the remote computer. I don't want terminate my ssh session, and need enter it into a shell script. How is it possible to prevent my Mac from falling into sleep from the command line?
I'm using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool with my MBP retina to connect to a Win7 system, but I can't get the resolution over 1440 x 900, even in full screen mode. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong? Changing the Retina display scaling didn't seem to make a difference. I tried Cord instead, and while that seems to support other resolutions, the quality seems terrible.
I have a car USB adapter and can charge my 3GS with it. However using the same cable and adapter my friend's 3G cannot be charged.
When the ambient light changes around my workspace, my MacBook Pro laptop responds appropriately. However, I find that when the screen brightens or dims, it is too quick. Is there a way to increase the duration of the fade between brightnesses?
I know that it is possible to completely disable Java in OS X, and to disable its use from within a given browser. I use just one or two applications that require Java, and would like to enable it for them, but prevent it from running in all other cases. Is there a way to enable Java only for certain apps that I specify?
I added some lines to my /etc/hosts file to resolve a private hostname, but every time after rebooting, the lines I added get lost. Should there be any setting options to make these changes take effect?
I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get some back...
If I am out of my service area can I still read a book in iBooks on my iPhone? If not, is it possible to download part of the book and read it while I am out of the area?
I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion on a new drive, and I would like to import some, but not all, of my files from my Snow Leopard system installed on another drive. For example, all my Safari Bookmarks, some installed software, but not everything because something there was an issue with my profile under Snow Leopard and I did not whant those issues to to be copied over with my profile. Is there a way to do this ? Thanks a lot for some help
When selecting multiple items in the Finder and hitting the ⌘+I shortcut, OS X produces one window per file, which is painful when attempting to view a summary of, for example, the total size of a number of files at once. How can I view info for multiple files in a single window?
On my MacBook running OS X Lion 10.7.4, after a few days the startup items automatically get removed. I find this really annoying, as then I have to add them all back again. What are the possible causes of this?
I have enabled Parental Controls on my son's MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8.1, Mountain Lion) and have restricted the applications his account can use. Everything works fine with the exception of Minecraft (of course the application most important to him). Minecraft is marked as an application that he's allowed to use in the parental control settings. When I try to start Minecraft under his account, a message pops up saying that he's not allowed to run it, giving the following three options: Always Allow Allow One Time Cancel
I pinged google.com to see that ping times ranged from 54 ms to over 2000 ms on my MBA. After a quick isolation and testing, I figured that it was my MBA only issue. I log into safe mode on my MBA with Mountain Lion and I suddenly get ping times of around 15 to 30 ms, which I think are normal from my place and thus okay.
I have a photo camera which store the gps data for each photo. It seems to me me that iPhoto is not aware of the gps data when I import the photos. Is there anyway to make Places to work with the gps data of the photo?
I just bought my first MacBook Pro a week ago and this morning, I installed the Java for OS X 2012-004 Developer Package at *=URL=* Right now, I'm encountering a bunch of weird errors in my code and I wonder if what I just did is to blame, since this machine came with Java built in. So when I click on the .jdk file in the Developer Package, this is what I see:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.  I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it - how can I do that? To pre-empt some answers, no, this is not a folder that exists in either Gmail account, it's something that Mail.app has made up for itself, much like a Smart Folder.
I'm a bit surprised nobody has asked this question yet, but a search for maximising Safari showed nothing. Please do point me to it if I missed it!
Similar issue to this has been reported for WiFi situations but my iMac (previous Snow Leopard up to date software recently updated to Mountain Lion) fails to allow we access to the Internet after going to "sleep" mode. I have to run the network diagnostics but it fails to fix anything just asks me to "reset the device" Which is a Westell Modem working perfectly for all other machines except mine with Mountain Lion (never had this problem before with Snow Leopard).
I've recently bought an OCZ Vertex3 480 GB SSD (VTX3-25SAT3-480G) for a drive upgrade. This is what I did after I purchased the drive: Backed up my system with Carbon copy cloner Installed the SSD drive Install OSX Mountain Lion (fresh install from USB drive) Installed some basic apps and tested the speed (500m read, 250m write) (I've enabled TRIM via TrimEnabler) Attach my backup drive (where I backed up my earlier system) and started copying my data (something like 130GB) OSX turned the screen off after 5 min (not sleep) Went back to check and the system froze (beach ball + black screen) Force shutdown pressing the power for 5 sec Reboot and found out that: my brand new SSD had 19 "retired block" and 3325114 of "total error"
Several years ago, I had a Microsoft Windows application that would offer to add a contact to Outlook if I copied it from anywhere into the clipboard. For example, if I received an email containing a person's home address, I could simply copy the address to the clipboard, then click the app sitting in the lower right of the task bar. The app would parse the address and offer to add it to Outlook as a new contact. I cannot remember the name or I would search alternativeto.net.
I heard that one of the two USB ports provides more power, decreasing the charging time. Still, I forgot which one is the powerful one. I would be nice to give a hint that's easy to rememeber ;) It is does matter, this is a MBP from Early 2011, not one of the new 2012 series which has a very powerful charging port.
i'm using ENVI + IDL software on a windows xp virtual machine. That software is too heavy so i can't work as well on that virtual machine so i need to boot that virtual machine on boot so to have all cpu and memory allocated for windows. Is there something could i do? Thanks!!
If I register and actually sign with an unique Apple ID on iTunes and main account, on iPhone, in order to use different accounts between iTunes and main Apple identity (without having iTunes available on my PC), how should I change the account without losing backed-up data?
My Apple Magic Trackpad has started to move the pointer on the screen with a jerky and jumpy way, that makes it difficult to use it (compared with the macbook pro mid 2010 17inch touchpad). How can I fix it, and why it appeared so suddenly? My operating system is Mac OS Mountain Lion. Thank you.
I've an old iPod Classic with 80 GB of Storage, suddenly it stopped showing any music. I can still access the files on it (with Windows Explorer). Copying all files is possible but it stops at a certain point. I need help, I don't have a backup of my music. Is there still something you can do? (Maybe a program which skips bad files or sth.)
Now that Perian is closing its doors (and thus ending support), I'd like to know if there are any alternatives to Perian - specifically alternatives that add Quicktime support for more filetypes (and thus all the benefits with Apples Video editing/burning applications) Of the alternatives that Perian themselves have suggested, none have Perians integration with Quicktime: Niceplayer - standalone application that relies on Perian(!) VLC - standalone application that doesn't integrate with Quicktime MPlayer - standalone CLI program that doesn't integrate with Quicktime
I have deactivated Spotlight, because the mdb process used a lot of memory and I use Spotlight not really often :-) Today I searched some emails in Outlook (Office for Mac 2011) and the mails could not be found, but they are there (I can see them!). Is this only by accident or does Outlook use the Spotlight index?
I have a ton of mail to catch up on and a flight coming up. Does Sparrow (for Mac, not iOS) support an "offline" mode? If I read, respond to, label, and archive GMail messages on Sparrow while unconnected to the internet, will Sparrow correctly "sync up" to GMail once an internet connection is re-established?
I have a Mac and a PC at home, and I am thinking of getting a NAS like (GoFlex Home Network Storage System or Western Digital My Book Live) to back up both machines. If I were to use Time Machine to backup on the NAS system, would the Windows be able to backup to the same NAS? If you know of any good ways to backup both PC and Mac, do let me know as well.
I just updated to Mountain Lion. My documents were prepared in OpenOffice and contain many mathematical equations. After updating to Mountain Lion, the documents open in TextEdit instead of OpenOffice. This is an issue because TextEdit doesn't render the equations properly. How can I re-associate OpenOffice documents with the OpenOffice apps instead of TextEdit?
I keep company with night owls. Also, I have an iPhone 4s. Oftentimes, my friends include me in group ichats that start at a reasonable hour, but continue into the middle of the night. Every time I get a group ichat, or any text, my phone vibrates. I want to keep it this way -- except for late night group chats. Is there any way to mute or leave group ichats?
I really don't want to mess with iTunes, I just want to copy all music files to the external HD. Bash script maybe?
I have a user who is using a Mac to connect to our corporate network. He is attaching to a DFS share on a Windows Server 2003 machine using the IP address. He created a folder a few weeks ago that has 800+ MBs of data in it. Now, whenever he selects the folder, he cannot see the contents of the folder, instead he sees a "Preview" pane showing the name of the folder, the size of the folder, etc.
Whenever I plug my MacBook into my external keyboard at work, the keyboard viewer window automatically opens up. How do I prevent the keyboard viewer from automatically showing? If possible, I'd like to keep the input sources menu bar item visible (the little American flag on the menu bar). EDIT: i'm on mountain lion, i've got the viewer un-checked, and i'm still getting the viewer:
My 8 year old iMac died some days ago. Fortunately, I have everything backed up on my Time Capsule. I just tried to get my photos from iPhoto off it, but realized that all my shots have been compressed down to something between 30 to 80 kB instead of the couple of MBs they should be. Is there any way I can retrieve my photos at their full quality? All my SLR shots just look horrible now.
Before switching to the Chrome browser app from mobile Safari when I would click a link in a email it would automatically open the page in Safari. Now clicking a link does nothing and I have to copy and paste it into Chome. How to have it open like before but in Chrome instead of Safari?
I recently moved on Mountain Lion. It seems that the OS does not allow midi playback in browser anymore. I can't find more informations but this threads: 1 ; 2 Can you help me to find a solution to get back my good old midi files in web pages?
In my /Library directory I have two folders of fonts - Fonts, and Fonts Disabled. Would deleting the Fonts Disabled folder cause any issues?
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro and I started noticing a weird bug in my Spotlight system preferences. It looks like every time I open preferences -> Spotlight an assortment of icons and labels are missing from the Search Results tab.
I am running a late 2010 MacBook Air running OSX Mountain Lion with latest update. Looking around in my system folders I found a file called Logger.bundle and it's in my /System/Library/SystemConfiguration directory. The file logger.bundle was apparently created Monday, June 25th 2012 (so very recently). If I "view package contents" inside the /Contents/MacOS directory is an executable called Logger. Is this Logger.bundle some sort of trojan or something like that, or is it a normal part of the file system?
Being a programmer, I often work with text files. As you probably know, file extensions are more or less meaningless; therefore, many text files I work with don't have the standard .txt extension. Usually I use the Terminal so all is well, but it's a huge pain to open these text files outside of Terminal, because OS X doesn't think they are text files based on the extension. So every time I have to do right click-Open With-Other-look for text editor-Open. Is there a way to force OS X to always display my text editor in the Open With list?
How can I get an iPhone to work in Israel and also transfer to it all the music and apps from my iPod? I bought an unlocked 3GS iPhone and brought it to Israel. Initially, I put in my SIM card (from the company Cellcom) and it worked. Then, in order to get my apps and music, I restored the phone through Apple's service. After I did that, the SIM card no longer worked on the phone. I had no success unlocking the phone, so I am returning it to the seller. My question is: what kind of phone should I get, and how can I transfer my apps and music to it without losing the ability to put in a SIM card?
The gyroscope (not to be confused with the accelerometer or GPS) in my iPad (3rd generation) works wonderfully both when standing still on the ground as when moving at high speeds in a car on the highway. However, as soon as I try out the gyroscope while in flight on an airplane, the gyroscope returns non-sensical data!
I know the IP address of my iMac and I have been able to ssh into the computer successfully, but I want to be able to control the desktop remotely from my Windows machine as well. How do I enable my iMac to do this? Is there a special program I need to use on my Windows 7 machine to do control the desktop remotely?
In Mountain Lion, Safari has a new method of "Email this Page" which opens up a new mail message where the web content can be shown as a page, pdf, or a link. If one chooses "Link", the font type and size for the link text is the default the user has chosen for messages in the Mail.app preferences. However, any text that the user can add to the the message now defaults to Helvetica 12 pt. Is there a way to change the default for text size, either in a preference or through the terminal? Here's an example of what I'm talking about, where the link text is Helvetica 16 and any additional text added defaults to Helvetica 12. http://www.qwip.org/pictures/EmailLink.jpg
The following is an extract from System Information (under power): Is this simply an example of the charger not topping up the battery to conserve cycles, poorly calibrated battery or an issue with my machine's battery?
I have not found anyone else online who had this problem, which is troubling. Here is all I know: I closed my macbook (running Leopard, a few years old). I opened my macbook. The display had changed completely.
I'm new to Mac. I have deleted many files from my applications folder, downloads, music, etc. to make clean Mountain Lion installation. After installing Mountain Lion I can still see in About This Mac > More info > Storage That my hard drive has 2GB+ of music files and 12GB+ of other files.
As I got a new computer recently, I've been trying to get back the stuff that I need for work. However, a few applications (Hotspot Shield is one of them) that requires an installer to install it doesn't seem to work. It gets stuck midway through installation, saying "Waiting for other installations to complete..." I've enabled Gatekeeper to allow any applications, but it's still stuck. Why is this and is there a workaround? Edit: Here's the output in console:
My Security settings are set to "Mac App Store and identified developers". I'm still getting this problem though I've allowed the app to run more than once as an Administrator. Specific apps that are experiencing this problem are Coda 2 by Panic, PDFpenPro by Smile Software, and Firefox.
Hello everyone and thank you in advance. I have just downloaded Linux Ubuntu and put it on a disk. What i want to do is to hold C during the Mac startup so that I can choose to boot my mac through the CD with the Linux Ubuntu operating system. However, I am worried about what will happen when I run my Mac through this CD and I have some questions How do I change back between operating systems? Will the startup commands work the same?
Spotlight has stopped showing any results for my Applications. I've tried reindexing and removing the index so it rebuilds it. No change. I've tried adding Applications to the Privacy tab and removing it, no change. I tried repairing disk permissions and redoing the above, no change. I've tried removing everything from the index except Applications and then I just get nothing for any search at all (except dictionary entries). I tried adding a symlink in my homedir to Applications and reindexing, but no change.
How can business users update to Mac OS X 10.8 on existing machines? My question regards a business with about 2 dozen Macs currently running 10.6.8 in Germany. The licenses would need to be floating licenses, i.e., licensed per seat, not per user. Similar issues have been discussed here and here, but the answers are not applicable to the German market.
I want to save my favourite application in a textfile and then install all of them using homebrew later. How can I do this ?
I have an iMac(27" from 2010) and while running Lion I tried to HiDPI modes that gives me 1280x720 and larger text. I did change back to 2560x1440 long before upgrading my system to Mountain Lion.
My parents would like to have a copy of most of the photos that are stored within iPhoto. I can't find the files on the hard drive, and don't know the best way to transfer them to an iPad that isn't mine. (There is no iCloud account in common between the devices) What is the best way to send iPhoto images to an iPad?
I recently installed an SSD and made it my boot disk, and installed a 1TB HDD on a Caddy, where the DVD-ROM used to be. The one drawback is that having a second drive actually lowers the battery life quite a bit, so hence my question:
How can I change it so when I search using the omnibar it searches google.co.uk and not google.com. For example when I want to look at prices for a product, I use the omnibar to search google but it shows me prices in dollars as it is looking results in google.com. I would like to show results from google.co.uk to get localized search for the UK.
I have a Mac Book Pro Early 2011, with upgraded RAM (Mac manufactured) and i7 processor. It is currently connected through the miniDisplay Port to a second VGA monitor (using the miniDisplay Port to VGA adapter).
I don't want to copy all of my pictures and i dont want to setup ongoing sync. I simply want to do a one time transfer of pictures in a certain folder from my windows PC to iPad
Using Pages ’09, I would like to vertically align a block of text at the bottom of a page, in Text Edition mode. The idea is to have a series of paragraphs that should behave as a block, and always be at the bottom of a page, and be pushed to the next page whenever the content above does not leave enough free room. The behavior would be just like tab stops, but for vertical alignment; a “bottom align” tab stop, so to speak.
I would like to export all of the projects from Aperture to a directory in my computer. Since I have many projects (100+), I don't want to export them one by one. Is there a way to batch export them to a directory? For example, my projects might look like this: 2011-11-23 Thanksgiving 2011-12-24 Christmas 2012-07-07 John Wedding I would like to export them to: ~/Pictures/Exports/2011-11-23 Thanksgiving ~/Pictures/Exports/2011-12-24 Christmas ~/Pictures/Exports/2012-07-07 John Wedding
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to add some songs and videos.
Is there a way to let Windows know that I'm using a 2880 x 1800 display? Do I have to install a monitor driver in Windows?
The problem is that the staged files are pretty big - 1.49 GB, 980 MB and 312 MB. According to the Finder's timestamps, they were created back in June, and haven't been modified or accessed since.
I know that there's Window>Scale>100/75/50% but the scale of the retina iPad simulator is still too big for my screen to be able to test anything. Is there a way I can scale the size of the iOS simulator smaller than one of the default values? I need it to scale down at least to 25% for my screen size to accommodate the window.
While I am using that IP, how this IP can assigned to someone else? Note: this happens only when I use this IP on my macbook. This never happens when I use my windows pc.
I've noticed that on 10.8 QuickTime takes control over the AVCHD content folder on my cameras memory card, turning it into a package and requiring you to open it up in QuickTime and convert the videos to mov files. Is there any way to disable this? I would much rather have raw access to the .mts files so I can work with them in FCPx. Thanks!
Lion requires MacBook Late 2008 Aluminium or Early 2009 to install/upgrade. How can I find out whether my MacBook is capable of running Lion if I forgot when I bought it?
I just downloaded the iAntivirus app from the Mac App Store. I wanted it to scan my whole hard drive for viruses, so it presented me with an Open dialog box pointing at the root of the hard drive (so that the computer can get access outside of its sandbox). I clicked ok, and the app started.
Is it possible to have app launcher(Alfred or Spotlight) to launch a new instance of an app(Finder, Terminal) instead of taking me to existing instance? I know this question: How to make clicking on icon in dock == open new instance addressed an issue for the Dock, but is there a way to achieve the same with app launchers?
Couldn't find any similar questions. So I like that my iTunes music automatically pauses when I accept a Skype call, but usually during a Skype call I turn up the volume. Then when my Skype call ends, my music comes back, but blasted in my ears. Is there a setting I should know of to prevent this? I am on a Mac Air running Mountain Lion.
I'd like to put some spare disks in enclosures and use the Thunderbolt interface. Does such a thing exist yet? I can't find any. Are there technical issues or licensing restrictions that have stopped this? My searches have turned up no general purpose enclosures and I find that surprising. This seems like a ServerFault issue but I was sent packing here instead.
I have a MacBook with a Momentus XT hybrid SSD+HDD drive. It have a 500GB HDD plus 4GB SSD which, as I could check, it uses as a cache for read operations. It uses some kind of black magic to determine the most used data and let it easily accessible through the SSD storage. I wonder if I can enable FileVault 2 to encrypt this drive and if it will kill these feature of the hybrid drive. I know that FileVault always lead to a performance penalty, but my wonder is if the drive will become unable to determine the portion of data that can be SSD-boosted due to the fact that it will become encrypted.
I am travelling in the States at the moment. Upon arrival I immediately bought a local MicroSIM card from Simple Mobile. However, the connection speed at times is intolerably slow even when I am in the San Francisco city center. A google page can take 3-4 minutes to open. Simple Mobile uses a different technology called Edge (denoted as E on my iPad instead of the 3g that I am used to). I am not familiar with this.
I.e., could I configure a client such as AIM, Jabber, Skype, etc. on my phone and completely switch off SMS altogether? Would the sending party be alerted that their SMS won't go through?
I imported an Excel spreadsheet that contained a few cells with black lines as their border. Is it possible to remove these outlines through Numbers (iOS)? I have tried copying and pasting, the Format > Cells > Border Style, and deleting the contents, but the black border always remains (and actually spreads if I copy and paste the contents elsewhere).
Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS? I'd just like to change the text or background colour depending on the cell's contents.
I'm running Snow Leopard on a Late 2009 unibody MacBook. At the moment I was trying to do some late spring cleaning, and clearing up some HDD space. Now here's the weird part:
I have both a Mac and iPhone: the AirPlay icon to stream video and music to AppleTV randomly appears and disappears on both of them. I think it is a network issue, but I don't know how to solve it, since it might work perfectly one day and the next no device can find the AppleTV.
I assume this occurs in more terminal functions than just top. Is there a way to view the information without resizing the console window? I currently have my console window set to open at 80x24, which is far too short in both columns and rows to display all the information.
I want to use iMessage on Mountain Lion for my Google Talk buddies. However, the main chat window just shows recent contacts down the left bar, and not my online buddies. I can bring up a seperate window to show my online buddies by pressing Command ⌘+1 but this is lame, I want it all in one screen. Is there any setting anywhere I'm missing or do I have to return to Adium?
I have an iPad 2 and have used iMessages many times. For some reason now I can't message. The send button is not active. I'm trying to message a friend who has an iPhone and who I have messaged many times in the past. Any clue as to what to do?
I have created a Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 presentation (a .ppt file) using Windows XP. My colleague has a Mac computer and PowerPoint for Mac. I would like to share my presentation -- including animations -- with my colleague. Is there a way that I can save my .ppt file to a form that PowerPoint for Mac can open, and retaining all animations?
I am completely new to Automator. I have a folder action setup to copy my Camera Uploads folder from DropBox to iPhoto. Currently, this only occurs when I open Automator and execute it. Can I set this up to run on a schedule, i.e. when the computer starts up, once a week, etc.
I have configured my Gmail account with OSX Mail Client. The problem is that the drafts on the Mail Client aren't stored in draft on Gmail. And all the drafts are going in Trash of Gmail. I had mapped the Sent, Trash and Drafts folder to the corresponding mailboxes.
I have a set of earphones with full inline controls (mic, play/pause, vol up/down) but they only seem to work with iTunes (and I'm not sure the mic works at all). How can I make them work with VLC/Spotify?
I just got Mountain Lion. On previous versions of OS X, I could choose a photo from the filesystem as my account avatar. This doesn't seem possible under the Users & Groups section of System Preferences.
I disabled the built-in samba server in OS X 10.7.4 and I installed Macports' smbd, because it is much more reliable. Unfortunately, the daemon does not start, I get this in console log:
As I've now got a few different Macs in the household, it's become painfully apparent just how much hassle it can be making sure that everything is sync'd properly across multiple systems. Music and other downloaded files as well as documents and photos are easy enough, but when it comes to making sure that installed apps are sync'd, I'm not so sure that it's that easy. It may be, and I may just be paranoid, but I'd like a second opinion: Is there anything special about the "Applications" folder that apps have their install path defaulted to, or can apps be installed into a folder (say a Google Drive folder) and sync'd across multiple systems?
How can I get rid of the Reading List column in Safari when I read a webpage? It takes up too much space on the page.
All My Files is often painfully slow, long beach ball spins when I open a new finder window. The thing is I actually like it... and I'm wondering if perhaps it's because of all my GIT and SVN repos (many of which have 100's of thousands of small files. Last time I full TM backup I had roughly 2 million files.
I have been having problem with installing gettext package from macports. When I am launching
I'd like to sync my notes in the Mac OS (Mountain Lion) Notes app to plain text files. E.g., if I have a note called "shopping list" in the Notes app, I'd like to find a way to automatically export this to, say, shopping_list.txt. Is there a way to do that?
My iPhone 4 won't turn on or do anything after using the Find My iPhone app to find it. I already tried to fully charge the iPhone and pushing the power button, but nothing works. Any suggestions?
I plug my machine into a projector/sound amplification setup regularly for teaching. Often, when I get back home afterwards, the sound volume controls no longer work. Neither the dedicated volume keys in the function key row, nor the volume slider in the menu bar have any affect on output volume. Also, the keys changes don't affect the slider position, or vice versa.
I just got a mac and i need to use windows sometimes. I plan on buying parallels. Someone mentioned that even though i plan on using parallels (so i don't need to reboot to run windows) that I should still do a bootcamp partition and then call up that partition from parallels.
I have developed an application and I want to test it in a fresh environment (e.g. as if this is a clean OSX, no custom /usr/local, a fresh ~/Library, etc.). What would be the simplest way?
My wife has had her iTunes connected with her parents and sister's account since middle school. She hasn't ever synced her iPhone 4 with iTunes in that time, but she wanted to upgrade to iOS 5 to be able to upgrade some apps (pinterest, I think). We created a new iTunes account, and obviously now I can't sync her old songs and apps. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get all of these songs again? She has thousands, so it is not feasible to burn them all to CD then rip them all again (in addition to the quality degradation), and I can't buy them all again. Thanks, Tim
I'm trying to import a calendar event from an ics file into iCal/Calendar: Event details SUMMARY:Class: ACCT 1001 1 Lecture(1829) Start date and time: 30/08/2012 and 3.00 PM End date: 12/12/2012 and 3.50 PM MO,WE,FR only these days need to set in the date range(doesn't need to set all day). ics file Problem
I've setup a WiFi network to allow iOS devices (such as my iPad) to connect to other devices on the local network, but I want to be able to use the 3G functionality on my iPad at the same time to connect to the internet. How can I setup the WiFi so that the iOS device doesn't think there's an internet connection through it? I've tried setting the DHCP Gateway to 0.0.0.0 but this just seems to confuse the iPad - the spinning circle next to the Wifi network never disappears even though it has an IP address from the DHCP server. Update: I was able to set the DHCP Gateway to 0 and the Router entry now appears as blank, but the spinning circle still doesn't disappear.
I have an iPhone 4, sometimes I get the green sms bubble and sometimes an iMessage bubble. At times it states sent as text message and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't does that mean the message has been sent out?
Is it possible to stream movies via old version of iTunes (iMac G4) on Apple TV 3 or is the latest version needed?
I have recently updated my Mac OS X to 10.8 version. The iCal application is changed as "Calendar" app in OS X 10.8. The problem here is, I lost all data which I stored in iCal. Any suggestions to retrieve those data's? Thanks
I use an external hard disk as a backup for my programming projects. Now a lot of files in these projects are hidden files. Like .git or .svn etc. I have been able to view the hidden files but I cannot do a copy paste for the hidden files. Is there something that needs to be activated to allow copying hidden files and folders.
I am trying to create a service that grabs the URL of some link, then create a blank iMessage with that URL in the body. Basically, I want to recreate that Message share feature in Safari in Mountain Lion, but with Reeder.app, specifically. "Copy Link" from the context menu doesn't always work, esp. when sending to a iphone, the URL drops, and all you get is the alias.
Is there any way to allow public (ie no user/password prompt) access to samba shares using the mountain lion built in server? Even with Everyone set to read/write in System Preferences and the guest account enabled for sharing a password is always required when trying to connect from a windows computer (I've tried both 7 and xp).
I recently bought a MiniDisplay Port to VGA to make use of my unused monitor. So far I'm using it but one thing I notice is that when I try to use the fullscreen option of a certain application, Safari for example, OS X Lion only seem to use the main display (my MBP's monitor). When I drag Safari's window on the extended display and then fullscreen from there, the fullscreen window still returns back to the main display. Is there a way for putting the fullscreen window to the extend display? Cheers!
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and now it looks like I need to reinstall the SVN client binary. I realize I can do this via Homebrew, but isn't this also included in an Apple package in the Mac App Store? I heard it was removed from the XCode package...
I have a TV and an AV-receiver which are DLNA-capable and which are attached to my home network together with a Windows 7 desktop and a MBP running OSX Lion. I can access audio from both computers using a DLNA-server software on either computer (built in DLNA-server on Windows, PS3Media Server on OSX). So far this setup works fine and i can browse through my audio on the receiver.
I have itunes setup with my music in the Music folder on my mac book pro. I am now realizing that i am going to run out of space soon so i would like to change this to point to an external hard drive. First question is what is the best way of doing this? Second question is does this cause a full resync or does it realize that i just moved from one place to another without a required wipe and download?
I setup itunes on a new mac and downloaded all of my purchases songs. I now copied all of my music from an external hard drive onto the directory: I then restart Itunes but it doesn't recognize any of the new music that I just copied over. What is the best way for itunes to detect all of this new music?
When I click the right side of the trackpad it doesn't press down. It's stuck, but the left of the button works perfectly. What's the issue here and how do I fix this?
Chrome throws many errors, and after a few minutes my Mac freezes. What can I do? Here is the error message.
I am using Xcode 4.2 with iOS 5 to develop an application. This application doesn't include any new features provided in iOS 5.1. So, if I submit this app to App Store, can the users download it and run it on their iOS device with iOS 5.1? Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
It is possible to keep opened chats in Messages in order i sort it manually? Because it always resorts it chronologically, so it's changing all the time and it's kind of confusig to me.
If and only if my MBP is plugged in to both AC and an external DVI monitor, it will hibernate instead of sleeping. If it is not plugged in to the monitor, it will sleep like normal.
Running a general query (mdfind 3DMF) seems to do the job, but it's overkill and returns a lot of false positives. Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong here?
After migrating from one computer to another, my iPhone now automatically appears under the devices list in iTunes on both my old and new Macs. I don't want to accidentally sync my iPhone with my old computer. Is there a way I can make it forget it knows my iPhone? I've tried: Turning off wifi sync on the old computer, but this is a device-level setting, so as soon as you turn it back on on the new computer, the iPhone shows on both.
iPad CalenMob -calendar is able to sync many Google calendars of the same user such as Facebook-imported-calendar etc-etc. The iPad calendar for some reason only gets the default calendar, not other calendars in the same Google Account. So how can I get CalenMob -style features such as importing many calendars to iPad?
I've connected my 2007 Mac mini to a vizio TV display using a dvi to VGA adaptor. OSX correctly identifies the display so the DDC is working, yet OSX is also providing several resolutions which the display can't actually support. When someone changes the display resolution, usually inside a game, the display stops working and I have to go through a bit of effort to make the system usable again. I'd like to force OSX to only display 1920x1080 in the available resolutions. Is there a way to only permit OSX to display one available resolution for this monitor?
I have a Belkin N+ Wireless router. Up until recently, it was reliably connecting my husband's Mac Pro (wired), my Mac Mini, our iPad, and a couple of video game consoles (all wireless) to the Internet. The problem started when we bought a network storage drive (wired), mainly to back up my husband's computer. After we got it set up with Time Machine, the router started requiring daily hard resets. After checking around online, I tried updating the router's firmware and eventually got it to accept the latest version. The need to reset to router has decreased since then, but we're still need to do it from time to time. The bigger issue is that our connection speed on the iPad is ridiculously inconsistent. I've been getting anywhere from around 25Mpbs - where it should be - to well under 512k.
This is my first time trying to put together a recording of something which will become a podcast, and it seems like I have 10 "post processing" steps which I am currently doing manually. It's entirely possible (in fact, it's likely) that I'm doing this in a way which is much harder than it has to be, but I don't know how to automate and/or simplify it. I'm hoping others who know more about this process might chime in and tell me how to make it simpler.
I have some image files that mysteriously showed up on the desktop. When I go to move them, they show a copy (+) icon and they are unable to be deleted. When I select either one and press space bar to preview, instead of a preview, the message "No items selected" is displayed. I also noticed that they do not show up in a regular finder window of the desktop, but only in the desktop itself. Upon relaunching finder (CMD+OPT+ESC > Finder > Relaunch), the symptoms vanished.
My mid-2009 Macbook Pro, running Mountain Lion, very often does not wake up from sleep. When I open the lid, there is a black screen, but the fans are still running. My only option is to force reboot by holding down the power button. When It finishes rebooting, only half of the installed RAM is recognized - System Information shows that Bank 1 is empty when there is actually a stick of RAM installed. I have tried swapping out the RAM, booting from other disks, reinstalling, and searching for evidence in the log files, but the problem persists. The Apple Genius Bar didn't even know what was wrong with my computer. I am at a loss - what could be the problem?
I'm in the process of procuring a used iPhone 4. What are things I should ask and know about prior to closing the deal? Someone mentioned to me that I should ask: - If it's still under warranty - If it's new, replaced (for $200), or refurbished What else?
Normally I subscribe to podcasts from my Mac and it downloads the latest ones automatically. I was told that I can now just download podcasts from my iphone directly. I didn't see any ability to subscribe to podcasts directly from the iphone. Is that possible so when i wake up in the morning i automatically have the latest episodes downloaded?
I'm taking yet another run at Emacs. I've installed Cocoa Emacs, and so far so good. Now I'd like to use Cocoa Emacs as my editor for Mutt. With MacVim, it's trivial to use Macvim, i just put: set editor="vim -o -f" # editor to use when composing messages
I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer my data from a Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air. I'm told that I need my product key for MS Office 2011. Is there a way to find my product key on my mac?
So is there a way to install it on Mountain Lion? I think it is more robust if the app is installed on Mountain Lion instead of relying on an old partition. (what if the old partition is to be deleted a year from now?). If I Optionclick the "Installed" word on the App Store, it will not do anything. (I also don't want to just "copy" the app from the old partition to the new partition, as it is some what a brute-force copy and may not be too robust that way).
Out of curiosity, I set the permissions on my hard drive from "everyone" to "no access". The drive then turned into a blue folder with a red circle on it. I restarted and now I’m stuck at the gray screen with the Apple logo. What can I do to get it back to normal?
I have a set customized keyboard bindings located in a plist file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.Dict which works with Hex keys like.. "\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */ or for "Non-Printable Key Codes", like so.. Backtab ( ⇧tab) \U0019 I'd like to add a new keyboard shortcut for the start dictation commands in Mountain lion, aka, ⌘⌘.
Can I setup Time Machine to backup my Mac and then install Bootcamp? Then after installing Bootcamp, can I go back to that restore point so Bootcamp will be gone?
I am in a situation where I really need to have multiple windows to be active simultaneously. I know it is against the optimization principle of most operating systems, but is it possible?
In Mountain Lion's Notification Centre, I don't like having a notification pop up with the contents of an iMessage text I just got, but I do want to have notifications about it happening. Is there a way to make it just show a notification without the content, similar to the iOS setting to not "Show preview" that hides the text content from the iOS notification center?
I just ordered a Mac that will be shipped with Mountain Lion. Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on my other Macs? Or do I have to buy an upgrade in the App Store?
Is there any way I could configure TextEdit to close the window (through keyboard shortcut) without asking me if I want to save an unsaved file? Can be another script/program configure globally when triggered with a certain shortcut or just a script for TextEdit. The reason for doing it is that I have a lot of temporary notes in TextEdit's window and I want to close them as fast as possible.
I recently purchased a MacBookPro which I synced to the same iCloud account that my iPhone is synced with. When I did this, the birthdays of all my contacts showed up as a day late on my MacBookPro. So I decided to resync them.
I have an AppleID and paid $99 dollars to enroll in the iOS Developer program. I tried creating new thread in iOS Developer Forum but end up in blank white screen. I couldn't see anything on the screen. Has anyone a suggestion on what the requirements (or how to troubleshoot) the developer forum web page when you run into issues?
I have imported a bunch of photos from my iPhone into iPhoto. I notice that it saves my full photo library as a single file (12 GB in my case) and when I open iPhoto it works fine. I now want to open a particular picture in Photoshop (CS 5) on my Mac and I cannot figure out how to choose a specific photo (given my whole library is just a single file).
I'd like to have some portable OS X installation that I'll be able to use with different machines (MacBook at home, MacMini at work, etc.) I installed Mountain Lion on my 32GB class 10 SD card recently. On disk intensive applications this setup feels a little bit sluggish.
I recently moved my music via USB from my windows to my macbook. All the songs were on iTunes and were arranged by Date Added. Once I moved them to the macbook, they all scrambled around with incorrect dates !! I thought iTunes saves the META data in the files so that they can be read again using another device. Is there a way to arrange my songs by the correct Date Added I still have the songs in my Window's iTunes if this helps at all. Thanks
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to use color highlighting to a set of important output messages inside iTerm terminal application. Things to highlight: application logs file warnings, errors and fatals (apache, nginx, tomcat) compiler output other similar errors/warnings
The app should support offline editing of documents, spreadsheets and sync them back to Google Docs.
Snow Leopard: My Mac doesn't recognize my Samsung Galaxy S2 over USB, and it's starting to drive me nuts. I've tried the following: Connect Storage to PC Settings > Wireless and Networks > USB Utilities > Connect Storage to PC I've tried this several times on my phone, following the procedure stating that I should only connect after the phone asks me to, but it does not work.
I travel a lot, so often rely on WiFi for calling. On the iPhone, I use MagicJack to get completely free calls over WiFi/VoIP to US numbers. I'm looking for a similar app to enable me to call UK numbers for free on the iPhone. Does anyone know of one? Note: I'm talking only about apps that allow completely free calling to regular chargeable numbers - primarily landlines but ideally also mobiles - the Apple app stores are full of apps that allow "cheap" calling. Suspicious apps that require credit card numbers upfront, etc., aren't as interesting.
I would like to be able to take advantage of Kerberos without having to join my machine to the domain. Why? Because this is a personal machine and we are not allowed to join them the corporate domain (nor we can).
Separate the addresses by commas (like "me@example.com,­me_the_pro@example.com"). After you have closed the configuration dialog and saved the new settings you can send mail from all these email addresses.
As a former Windows and Linux user, I've been challenged several times to have hardware devices not share some particular IRQ line. If I understand correctly, IRQ lines are part of the hardware architecture (x86 for example), and Operating Systems (such as OS X) provide some means to configure peripherals and inspect current usage of interrupt lines. This can be found at /proc/interrupts on Linux systems and on Device Manager on Windows systems.
Is there anyway to move the notification center alert/banner to bottom right instead of top right?
I have had ongoing problems with TM since installing a new HDD in late May. The problems have been varied, and for a while all backups were taking about 2 hours. Now things have "stabilized" and backups take between 15 and 20 minutes, tending towards the latter.
Can anyone enlighten us with what a hacker could use one (or a list of) UDID for? The leak reported September 4 of 1 million UDID's by AntiSec makes me worry. But should I? What is the worst case scenario with a hacker who has a million UDID's?
Every time I try to sync my iPhone to the songs on my MacBook it constantly keeps re-syncing the same ones over and over. I have my songs compressed before they are synced so this ends up being a lengthy process. The songs in question are all from one artist, the hundreds of other artists I have on there never re-sync. iPhone 3GS 5.1.1 MacBook Pro 2009 OSX 10.6.8 iTunes 10.6.3
I've two Macs: one MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo with 10.5.8 (Leopard) and the other MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo with 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). How can I upgrade the Leopard Mac to Mountain Lion while leaving the Snow Leopard Mac as it is for now.
I have a late 2011 Macbook pro, and lately it hasn't been sleeping properly. If I close the lid for less than a minute and reopen it, it doesn't go to sleep while the lid is closed. The screen is still displayed immediately after reopening. Also, a few seconds after I open the machine, it will go to sleep on it's own. I have had the software checked and that doesn't seem to be the problem. What could be causing this and how do I get it fixed? It is still under warranty.
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I'm perplexed to find that neither iTerm 2 or the standard terminal will not receive Control ⌃+← or ⌃+→, which I typically use to jump words on the command line. I can, however, use ⌃+↑ and ⌃+↓ which I'm finding odd.
I'm running OS X 10.6.8. The App Store won't sell me Keynote, insisting I need at least OS X 10.7.4. I don't see any other need to upgrade the OS, don't care to spend the money, and don't have time to upgrade right now anyway. Is there any way to get Keynote for my OS?
Since updating to Mountain Lion, the keyboard shortcut for cycling through windows is not working for me in Terminal (and is driving me nuts!).
I need to accomplish the following tasks from a script: Initiate a screen recording (with system audio). After a set delay, stop the recording. Save out to a file. Close the recording.
So I moved to a new place for my university and I attempted to connect to the wifi network. My HP laptop was able to connect instantly once I put in the wifi password. My Mac recognizes the network but when I put in the same password it says the password is invalid.
I have the default Ruby 1.8.7 on 10.7 (Lion), and I'm wondering if Mountain Lion upgrades this to the 1.9.x series.
You'd think A) I'd know this by now, and B) that it's readily available info, but apparently neither is the case. What I'm looking for is where the config files (colors, etc.) that ship with Terminal are kept on the system. It'd be really handy to point to these in a /dotfiles/setup.sh file.
What does AirPlay over WAN do? I have an AirPort Express 802.11n. This was the last generation to hook directly into the outlet.
I'm sharing a computer with my sister and she has her iTunes completely disorganized. I created my own user account on the computer, and am wondering how I can move the music from the iTunes to my user account. I go to file, library, export library and save the file but that's not working.
I am moving from Thunderbird to Mac mail on my iMac running OSX. If I uninstall Thunderbird will the local folders I created in Thunderbird remain on my computer for importing later? I don't want to bring all of them over now, but would like to have the option of doing so at a later date. I don't want to uninstall Tbird and then have the local folders disappear.
This isn't a huge deal, but it is kind of bugging me since I actually like the smaller ones that were introduced in Lion better than the bigger ones. In all other apps, the "traffic light" window controls look like:
Now, I'm pretty stuck. I tried just checking my bash profile and I get a permission denied error on that too! I've ran "repair permissions" in disk utility for posterity and getting the same error. Anyone run into similar issues?
I bought an AirPort Extreme to use in my college apartment. The ISP is technically my university, so the device is set in "bridge" mode to avoid double NAT errors. When I check the network diagram when firing up AirPort Utility, however, I can see other AirPorts that my classmates are using in their rooms. I want to know if it is possible to hide my AirPort from them so they cannot see mine like I can see theirs. People get bored and nosey at the university. Technically I cannot access their devices because they are password protected and so is my device but I would like to be safer if I can.
When you save a new iWork document under Mountain Lion you are given the default extension of .pages-tef or .numbers-tef. These files appear to be directories and a different format than your standard .pages or .numbers file (I haven't had the chance to create a new Keynote preso yet).
I realised that on my 13" MacBook Pro (mid 2012), Google Chrome renders fonts with opacity in a different way than other browsers. This is what it looks like in Chrome:
I need to give out a USB pen drive with my music on it to a load of editors, but I want the drive to be read-only on both Mac and PC so that no one can inadvertently delete the originals. Is that possible? I was thinking formatting it on a PC as NTFS read-only and then Macs will only be able to read from it, is that the best way?
In Apple apps with a search feature, how do I only search for one letter? Let's say I'm reading a math paper, but forgot what the variable "s" meant. In Windows/Linux apps I could just include spaces in my search (" s ") and it found all instances of the lone letter "s". This does not work with my Apple apps and a search for " s " returns all occurrences of the letter "s", ignoring whether the "s" is part of a word or not. Thanks!
What's the best Windows-like taskbar for a Mac?
I recently upgraded Mac os 10.5.6 to the new 10.8.1 (Mountain Lion). So far, everything seems to work fine except Mail.app. When I open the application for the first time, it begins migrating and then freezes. How can I solve this?
The current Mail attribution line reads: On [Date], at [Time], [Sender Name] [Sender Email Address] wrote: I would like it to read: Hello, [Sender Name] -- on [Date], at [Time], you [Sender Email Address] wrote:
I understand Windows Server 2008 (and presumably 2012) works with Boot Camp. But I am wondering if it will be able to access the second hard disk in the Mac mini server. Can a Boot Camp Windows use the second hard disk as a NTFS volume?
Looking for way how to carry always an USB stick (16GB) what allow me live rescue boot for different OSes. Is possible manage multiboot USB stick with 3 or 4 operating systems: Windows 7 Mountain Lion Linux Freebsd
I think I've found the reason why a GUI can't be launched by a daemon; Mac Developer Library, Daemons and Agents. An agent can do that. In my case, it needs to communicate with the daemon in order to display information whenever the daemon has updated macports. Now the question is, How do I make the agent ask and the daemon answer?
How I am supposed to configure Kerberos on OS X 10.8 ? I heard that this should work by default, just by calling kinit once. Still, I am on the corporate network (not joined any domain) and run kinit. All, I got was kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL Note: I do want to make it work without having to join the Windows domain. /var/log/opendirectory.log shows:
I have deleted the first partition on my external HD such that it now has 100GB of free space at the beginning of the partition. I'd like to reclaim that space, but Disk Utility doesn't let me create a new partition there (it just does nothing when I click 'Apply'). Is there a way to accomplish this with diskutil? I’ve only found ways to change (or erase, or split etc.) existing partitions by e.g. entering disk2s2 as device ID, but the free space has no such device ID. Outputs:
I purchased a MacBook Air from someone 4 months ago and everything was working perfectly. There is no user name or password needed to log in and I've never had problems using it.
On my Snow Leopard iMac, X11 is broken. I get: dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_DGifGetLine Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libGIF.dylib in /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO when trying to run an OpenGL executable and *=URL=* when I try to run X11 directly. I've reinstalled X11 from the original discs and the same thing happens, so I install XQuartz: This fails as well and I get *=URL=* I update to Mountain Lion, the problem persists, any ideas?
Java applets freezes every browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox). Java version: 1.6.0_33 Software: OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
If I try to archive an email using the toolbar 'archive' button I get this error message: "The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Archive) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: No folder Archive (Failure)."
I had a old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), then I bought the update to Lion (OS X 10.7). Then I bought a new MacBook Pro that already comes with Lion and sold the old MacBook Pro. So, technically, I have two Lion licenses.
If I have my iPhone connected to a wifi connection, then put it on personal hotspot, is the device I'm connecting to my iPhone with using cellular data bandwidth, or the wifi bandwidth? You'd think it's a silly thing. But I'm JUST out of range of a wifi signal with my laptop, so my plan is to put my phone in a window not too far from my desk, and use it almost as an extender.
I have finally successfully managed to install Mac OS X in a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop using VirtualBox and a tutorial from Lifehacker. Performance is very slow, with Mountain Lion reporting that it is seeing just 4MB video memory (I didn't manage to load the Intel HD3000 driver). Youtube is essentially unplayable, with even the audio potion stuttering. That said, the interface and general UI is pretty acceptable.
I would like to find an iPhone app that is able to show the GSM or WiFi signal strength. Does it exist?
If I remove an app then will the preferences/caches/logs be deleted as wel?
I don't know the rhyme or reason to it yet, but random calendar event notifications in Lion turn into drafts in my Mail.app drafts folder. I usually find these when I wake the machine up after it's been idle for some time.
Using Mountain Lion, I want to add or change the dictionary used when I tap with three fingers to define a word. The goal is to use a spanish-english dictionary in place of the english dictionary.
So I have a Late 2008 unibody MacBook. I recently bought a caddy to replace my optical drive with so I can fit a secondary drive in the laptop.
I've tried installing postgresql, used the install pkg from EnterpriseDB 9.1.5, now psql isn't working. Seems to be a path issue, but now, there's the matter of libssl. Seems there is a new version, but how does one go about updating without MacPorts? Thanks
I have 380GB left on my SSD and was wondering how much space my applications are using. Is there a way to check this?
I know a lot of people have previously asked this question. However my problem still has not been solved. I have iMessage on. I am using iMessage via my Apple ID. Now where it says "receive at:", it shows my email, and it won't even let me remove the email. Plus it doesn't even have an option that shows my phone number. I have an iPhone 4S. I have tried opening iMessage without an Apple ID, however it says "Verifying" for hours and hours.
I am trying to enable webmail for my Mac OS X Lion Server (10.7). I have enable both the Web and Mail services in the Server application, and have checked the box for WebMail under the Mail service.
I'm fairly familiar with the mdfind utility. I find it's very useful when I can't find a file or when I need to find a file with certain contents. The problem is that I need to exclude some files from mdfind searches. I don't want to exclude the files from a single search (I know you can do this with mdfind -onlyin /path/to/directory/to/exclude) but from all searches. The mdfind man page says this: The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query.
I installed parallels on my macbook pro and i installed windows 7 iso via a DVD. at first everything looked fine exception now I am now trying to compile an asp.net-mvc app in visual studio and i get this error over and over
I bought a iHome IP90 off a friend for really cheap, and I thought I got a deal. Once I tried to use it my iPod wouldn't connect unless I tilted it towards me, and sometimes it would would say that it wasn't supported. I just would like to know if there is anything I can do to fix this problem?
How can I add a shortcut to "MyComputer"/"This Mac" (container of all drives) to the Finder.app sidebar (section: "Favorites), please?
Is there a way to still use Control+# (e.g. Control+1, Control+2, ...) to switch to a particular Desktop? In Spaces' parlance: to a particular Space? I have difficulties swiping the trackpad and could use the old shortcut? Also: Could I configure a particular App to open in a particular Desktop number, like in Snow Leopard?
When I'm lecturing I want the exact same stuff that shows on my MacBook Air's screen to show on the external screen. How do I do that? For just slides the regular settings are fine, but when I'm coding/compiling/debugging live they are a hassle like no other.
I often have a bunch of terminal windows with some various tasks. My problem, however, is that I have a hard time seeing which one is on top. This leads to me often typing [arrow up] + [enter] in the wrong window, one time leading to the execution of "git reset --hard HEAD", trashing a full days work. So, is there a way to make the inactive terminal window look more... inactive, like changing its background color or something like that?
A friend has just bought a brand new Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion OS. We are going to install an SSD to replace the standard HD that it shipped with, however, it looks like Apple don't ship with the OS on DVD any more. They have informed him there is a backup of the OS on another partition of the drive that his MBP shipped with. My question is, bearing in mind this MBP hasn't been used yet - there is nothing to back up, we just want to install his fresh OS on the new SSD drive, what is the best way to go about this?
I was checking my directory and found out that the Folder Backup in Library > Application Support > Mobile Sync > Backup, is taking 13GB of my Harddisk ... What is this and why is taking so much space .. Can I delete it ?
I have this annoying problem with Safari 6, each time I go back or forward (both the toolbar buttons or two singer swipe) the tab refreshes. Here is a quick video to illustrate the problem: *=URL=* Normally I wouldn't really mind, it kinda grown on me over time (I'm not really sure this started when I updated to Safari 6 or to Mountain Lion - there was about a week between the updates), but my client found a bug in the web app I build (some buttons stop responding when he goes back - he is still on Lion) and I can't reproduce the problem because my Safari refreshed every time.
I'm using iCal on Lion to sync with my Google Calendars. I set up iCal to use Google's CalDAV server and it successfully syncs my primary calendar, but not my others. How can I get it to sync the other calendars I have as well?
I completed a Numbers document on my Mac, saved to iCloud and now tried to open/read it on my iPhone 4S. I can see it listed in Settings → Manage Storage, but how do I retrieve it?
I'm trying to run a well-coded algorithm that tries to solve an NP-Hard problem via NetBeans but I'm running out of heap space. Is the heap space I'm running out of specific to Netbeans? If so: how do I increase the heap space available to Netbeans?
I had an issue where my MacBook Air would not start a couple days back, so I reinstalled the OS. I ran the reinstallation from the recovery partition. Ever since then, almost all of my files show as type "Document", as you can see. Even music does. I do not understand why this is. I even tried reinstalling again and have the same issue. Does anyone know of a fix, this is extremely annoying. I did not have this problem before the reinstallation.
Is there any Mac OS software that supports properly Windows Terminal Server RemoteApp? By Properly I mean with an experience comparable to Windows Remote Desktop, that is, the Remote App Window is resizeable, etc, as if it was just another application. Most tools (RDC for Mac, CoRD) seem to simply open a desktop for the application, but it does not have a truly windowed behavior.
I am having trouble trying to understand Apple's Timezone Support features. Taking the following scenario, can anyone explain to me what I can expect to happen with my calendar and alerts: Timezone support is turned On and set to Central Time for iOS/iCloud. iPhone > Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically is On Create an event on my iPhone for 6pm Eastern Time with a 1 Hour Before alert Travel from Central Time to Eastern Time What I expect to happen is that, while I am in Central Time, the event will be listed as 5pm, and then automatically change to 6pm when I travel to Eastern Time, alerting me at 5pm.
Is there a native/third-party utility (or native trick) to move large, frequently-used files closer to the center of the disk? I was under the impression that the OS tried to automatically optimize frequently used files to be closer on the center of the disk, but I don't know how "frequent" is "frequent enough" and would like to force an entire project directory to be moved closer on disk. The reason: I'm using Logic Pro for several projects, but on one particular project, I keep tapping out the Disk Activity (as evidenced by "System Overload" messages from Logic and spikes in the Disk Activity view of Activity Monitor). I've seen some users of Logic and Final Cut have performance improvements after a defrag (using iDefrag), but was wondering if there were any other options other than a forced defrag.
In my user folder is a file with the name "1". When I open it in a text editor like Xcode, there is one line of text that reads:
Can I use the Keyboard USB Port for a second External Drive on my iMac? I've seen warnings to not use the keyboard port for external drives, but no explanation. How do I use 2 external drives, if not using keyboard port?
I have a new iMac where I need to install OS X Lion. The HDD is erased, but the newer iMacs don't come with bootable CDs.
I can double-click the file and a browser preview opens that looks like excel.... but it is basically just a browser preview feature and it is read-only. The file came from a Windows machine.
The lowest volume I can get by pressing the volume keys is still too loud when I'm wearing headphones. How can I make it even lower? I have a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) running Mountain Lion.
I have my retina MacBook Pro running a Dell U3011 monitor via the HDMI port. Periodically, the monitor shows an error message: Unsupported audio format Please set the audio output on your audio player to Pulse-code modulation (PCM) if available.
The default configuration in /var/pgsql/postgresql.conf says that listen_addresses defaults to localhost, but it doesn't let me connect over port 5432. Connecting (as root, using sudo) over a Unix domain socket works fine, but I need to enable network connections. I tried uncommenting the listen_addresses = 'localhost' line (to make it explicit), and restarting the Postgres process (with sudo serveradmin stop postgres, sudo serveradmin start postgres), but that didn't help.
When I used Ubuntu, I remember that the output of make/gcc/g++ had nice colors, which were particularly helpful when needing to quickly identify errors (they were red). Is there a way to enable colors for make et. al. on OS X as well?
I recently got a retina Macbook Pro and I am loving it except for one thing. When I go to System Preferences > Sound > Output and select AirPlay while playing audio, the sound will often just stop or stutter for a period of time from less than a second to 6 or 7 seconds. The music is not just pausing because I can see on iTunes, Spotify, or YouTube that the audio continues to play. Yet on my iPhone 4 when using AirPlay, it never stutters or pauses. What gives? I tried switching the wireless channel on my router without luck.
If I go into the Time Machine preferences, I see the external NTFS drive (as well as all other NTFS/HFS+ drives) inside the exclude list. I can also remove the NTFS drive of interest from this exclude list - thereby including it into the backup list.
I have an iPhone 4 and a 3rd generation iPad. They connect to my local home network over WiFi but I cannot use their machines names. I have an app on both devices that exposes a web server, but I can only connect to them using their IP addresses and not their machine names. If I try to ping their names from a Windows PC I get the following: How can I enable their machine names to be accessible via DNS on my home network?
Will a USB 2.0 5400RPM External HDD for Time Machine slow down my SSD? I am new to Mac and I don't know how often Time Machine works with the drive.
After turning on encryption with FileVault on my MacBook Air with Mountain Lion my login screen went gray. Is there a way to go back to the default one? The grey one
I have transferred my system from Mac to Mac for over 15 years. I have preference files and other plists lurking around in my system for programs I tested years ago. Is there a smart program that could point me to these orphan files knowing that the application that created them is not on my system?
I'm buying a MacBook Pro soon but have a Dell IN2020M widescreen monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio. Can I hook up my MacBook Pro to this? The supported resolutions for MacBooks seem to be as follows. Supported resolutions at 16:10 aspect ratio: 1440 by 900 (native) 1280 by 800 1152 by 720 1024 by 640 800 by 500 pixels Supported resolutions at 4:3 aspect ratio (stretched and non-stretched): 1024 by 768 800 by 600 640 by 480 Supported resolutions at 3:2 aspect ratio (stretched and non-stretched): 720 by 480 pixels
I run Mountain Lion on my macbook pro, and experience an unusual effect: sometimes system sounds happen, without any visible reason. Does anybody know, why it could be? Or, if it is possible, how to monitor the audiu subsystem to find out what application and when plays sounds.
A few weeks ago I put a bootcamp partition on my 320gb HDD in my mbp early 2009. However, a few days ago I bough me a 1tb hdd and exchanged it. Of course, I don't really want to re-install windows all over again, and just "copy" over my installed version.
I am using BetterTouchTool to set the gesture "Single middle click" to "Middleclick". I have problems hitting the small middleclick-area of the mouse at once :-/ So is there a way to increase the middleclick-area? (Alternatively I use a two finger tap as middleclick, but I'd prefer the real thing :-))
I have an iMac which I sometimes use as an external display for my Macbook Air. Normally, I want the iMac to go to sleep after about 30mins except when I have the Air attached.
I am looking for a way to change the default JVM memory settings on OS X, not for a specific application. And, yes I know that each application can override this. Currently running Java 1.6 on OS X 10.8
Do you know a method to play three (QuickTime) videos in sync on three different machines? At least I would trigger the space bar to start them in sync.
I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX). Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it finds my placeholders?
I just migrated from Wndows and imported all my pictures from my external hard drive into iPhoto. I have around 100GB of photos. I wanted to see if this is going to scale or if there is a way I should organize this (multiple libraries) to deal with the large amount of pics and videos? I basically have a few questions: How well does iPhoto scale with large libraries?
When I am using the Terminal, I can select a URL in the text and open a context menu that lets me "Open URL". What I would like to do is customize the behavior of this "Open URL" action or add another alternative action that lets me run a custom bash script that takes the URL as an argument. Is this possible?
When i download images and video from my iphone everything shows up under pictures in my iphoto library. When i open iphoto i can scroll through pictures and videos but when i click on a video, i can play it but i can't see: how to upload to youtube (surprised this is not listed in the share section) how to email directly from iphoto (get a messagebox saying "Can't email videos" can someone please advise on the best way to do the 2 things above as i thought they would be supported out of the box.
I work for a software company that is just starting to develop for the iPhone and we have a few clients that each want their own app developing and adding to the Market to sell. My question... is it possible to create 'sub accounts' for each client so that they have access to information for their app and payments will go straight to them?
I'm writing a series of lectures where I use a different font to indicate code. Is there any way to assign new shortcut keys/key combinations to select the two fonts I want?
I borrowed a Core 2 Duo Mac mini. I want to back up the HDD and wipe off the OS Leopard that it has so that I can later re-install it back. Then I want to upgrade to OS X Lion. Can this Mac mini run Lion? What steps should I take? specs here: mac mini 3.1 Intel core 2 duo 2.26ghz 4gb ram
Assuming the battery got fried, I ordered a new one from iFixit (the phone's out of warranty since a long time) and replaced it; of course I also cleaned the logic board in the process. Though I couldn't see any corrosion despite the water indicators being pink. The only difference now is that when connected to a PC, the Apple logo appears, but the phone reboots infinitely after several seconds. iTunes recognized it when entering DFU mode, but shows no additional data besides "iPhone" (capacity, iOS version, serial number).
I have a bunch of files I want to compress to stick in my dropbox account (as a single archive file.) When I select all the files in Finder and right click, I get the choice to "compress", which does create an archive.zip file. But the file isn't any smaller than all of the individual files put together. Is there any way to change the compression settings on the archive utility?
All I'm seeing in the iBookstore are titles in English. Are there any non-English (specifically Russian) public-domain books in the iBookstore?
In my Lion local web sharing folder, I noticed that I cannot change any of the files without typing in my password. I also noticed that there's a folder called postgresql there. I don't remember having these behaviours before with Snow Leopard, are these new changes that Lion OS brings?
I was able to import all of my Gmail contacts into my iPhone but my Mac doesn't include them. How can I get all of my Gmail contacts into my Mac contacts app?
I'm trying to export a 2 second sound from GarageBand, and I've seen other posts here (please link to them) that recommend turing on the cycle region button and adjusting the yellow bar that appears above my tracks. My problem is that the yellow bar will not shorten to less than 5 seconds. I use GarageBand on iOS version X.
I've already disabled "IDLE Command" so it won't push emails as soon as they arrive in my IMAP (Google Apps). I have set my mail check interval 1 hour (the longest available). I can close my Mail App after finishing with my email routine but I sometimes forget that. Is there a plugin or a command line script to extend the 1 hour mail check interval to, say, 3 hour or 4 hours.
I downloaded glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh from glassfish.java.net. To install I did then i tried to run it : Any idea ? Thanks
I use mathematical notation a lot. Therefore being able to cntrl+cmd+"+" and cntrl+cmd+- to write super- and subscript is a productivity boon. However, to return to the regular font baseline I need to use the mouse and menubar. Is there a keyboard shortcut that lets me return to using the regular font baseline?
I have done a lot of processing to my iphoto library (organizing events, etc) and I want to export my iphoto library to a external hard drive but I want others to see the files so i don't want to just store the iphoto library package. Is there any ability to export in certain patterns like or something similar to this?
I've recently installed a VPN on my iPad (newest version) and when I start the VPN and try to use Google, I get a message that states I am unable to access Google due to my computer sending automated queries, which is against Googles Terms of Service. What does this mean, and how can I correct the issue?
For an exhibition I need a minimal Apple TV setup that enables me to connect an iPad to an Apple TV via Air Play. → Ideally I don't want to bring an extra router or computer. Is it possible to connect the iPad to the Apple TV directly without having both joined to a wifi network?
Touchpad shape is more or less like to the screen shape. Isn't there a way to map each position on touchpad to the position of mouse on the screen, so you simply tap at any point on the touchpad and got the mouse in the correspondent position on the screen?
Because of missing native equalizer on OS-X (Snow Leopard) I had to use third party app Soundflower in combination with AU Lab. Everything was going right, but once I restarted OS X, the sound stopped working. When I changed the volume by the keys on Macbook I hear the system sound, but in iTunes, Vimeo, some videos on YouTube, Quicktime, etc., I hear nothing. I tried to remove Soundflower and AU Lab and reboot, but without any change. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
My iMac has OSX lion and cannot be upgraded further. How can I transfer iWork documents to my new MBA using mountain lion?
Until MacOS 10.7, I used to put a png file in a read/write dmg, then I set it as its background picture, then I hided it and converted the dmg to a read-only one. Everything just worked.
When I submit my research papers to an online review system, I prefer to upload all files (manuscript, figures, etc) by a single zip file, so that the review system can unzip the file. Otherwise, I have to upload many files one by one; time-consuming.
I create shadow copies of a directory containing 50K+ images (I don't remove them from the card until they're in three other places). Every time I add images to the master, I update the shadow copies using cpio (find . | cpio -pdmv destination). On Leopard, the above command gives me a list of all the (new) images being added to the shadow copies while silently ignoring the images that haven't changed.
When a local file is opened in Safari or -- more important to my situation -- a custom application that uses a WebView for display, what decides on the MIME type to associate with the resulting file URL? I see that there are MIME registration files associated with Apache and CUPS but experiments seem to show that neither of those is used for direct file access.
I am trying to hook up my Dell u3011 to my retina MacBook Pro using a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort connector, and finding myself a bit perplexed as to why it doesn't work. Basically the top resolution that Mac OS X allows on the external display is either 1080p or 1280x1024(scaled!), while monitor's native resolution is 2560x1600. I Googled around and people recommend using SwitchResX tool, to fix the issue, but I am curious if there is a way to force the correct resolution with native tools(cli or some obscure settings?).
I have a Mac Mini. I also have a cheap optical mouse. The two do not seem to be able to co-exist.
I have ML and SL installed as dual boot OSes and want to share a user's home directory (on an external drive). I wonder, however, if I rather should use different users for each OS as ML might write content to the user preferences which SL might confuse.
I'm having issues sending messages/texts to my to wife's iPhone but she can send them to my iPhone and they show up with my ID? Can anyone tell me why and how I can fix it?
Perhaps it was due to some conflict but now when typing git I get a blank line, it doesn't say command not found, just goes to the next line If I press return, it exits, and does nothing How do I reinstall / remove everything and start from scratch? I'm a new mac user, so please don't assume I know anything obvious
In Quicksilver, in the Catalog for the iTunes plugin, under "iTunes Controls" I want to enable "Show playing track" while disabling "Play/Pause". However, even after checking "Show playing track" and unchecking "Play/Pause", they both still appear in my catalog (even after refreshing the catalog). If I completely uncheck "iTunes Controls" then both actions are removed from the catalog. What can I do to disable "Play/Pause" while keeping "Show playing track" enabled?
I am trying to create a service in Automator in Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The command that I want to use is as follows: And here is a screen capture of what I did:
I have two Mac book Pros (10.7) at home, and no current back up plan at all. Since I expect the older one to start having problems shortly, I decided I should get my act together and set something up.
Similar question to this, but my other computer is a PC. (PC seeing external hard drive from the Mac over the Internet.)
I am trying to find a way to make my mac see .dSYM files as hidden. I know I could do:
I'm trying to enable FileVault 2 in Mountain Lion, but a few steps into the process of turning on the encryption I get the error "Boot file not written" and the encryption fails to succeed. Anyone with similar problem or even better has a solution to the problem? I've done some googling and the only thing I come up with is some long-shot advice to wipe your entire system, but that's not really what I had in mind. Suggestions?
I'm considering putting in an SSD for extra space and faster boot times and such in my MacBook Pro Mid-2010. Due to losing the sudden motion sensor if I move the existing mechanical HD to the optibay, I'm considering just putting the new SSD there and booting from it.
Recently i have imported my pics from iPhone in iPhoto and it asked me for deleting duplicate pics and i chose yes. But the problem is it has deleted some pics which i wanted but according to iPhoto they were duplicate. So is there any way i can get those deleted photos back? Thanks for your time.
What is the best alternative to Fraps for the Mac? What should it do: In-game screen capture. Record audio from both microphone and system audio at the same time Fast (Optional) Video compression. (Optional) Ability to display framerate (FPS)
[Post shortened and updated with an answer.] Ruby 1.9.3 compiled on OS X 10.7.4 with MacPorts crashes in my Rails apps when using SSL in http.rb, e.g. when authenticating to Facebook:
I have my MacPro Quad and upgraded to Mountain Lion. I have cloned the system hard disk to bootable external HD. I have tried it and works fine. Now when I have put the external HD in the BAY I to use it as my main HD the booting time is very long. How can I reduce the booting time? Many thanks in advance for your assistance. Michel
I want to use the yellow "post-it" style comments in my document to show when I'm presenting slides, but they disappear automatically when I start playing the slideshow. How do I keep them there when presenting?
I have some services like this that I'd like to run almost immediately after files are modified. Even if ThrottleInterval was set to 1 or 0, they are only run at most every 10 seconds. man launchd.plist only says that programs aren't run more than every 10 seconds by default, but doesn't mention that ThrottleInterval couldn't be set below that. You could keep the program or script running for 10 seconds and watch for changes every second: Or the same in Ruby:
I set up my Contacts in OS X Mountain Lion to sync with Gmail. I just went to Gmail and made some contact changes. How can I determine when this will sync?
Just got a Mac for the first time... Under System Preferences > Users & Groups, I have a user profile set as the Admin.
I organize my 100+ apps in a very particular order, only to find out that a few days later they are completely out of order. Imagine your iPad or iPhone doing that - would be very annoying. Is this a bug or can this "feature" be turned off?
Recently my Mac mini became quite slow without a real apparent cause. I'd really like to be able to trace down the cause of this slowness, and I'd like to do it myself, not using a program. Is there a good Mac OS X resource website that could lead me to that?
It is still showing up. How can I get rid of it?
Back on leopard there was a extremely useful application called "accentuer" which would through a service add all french accents to a given text. I was doing an almost perfect job at it too. Would anyone know what happened to this application, if it has been ported to OS X Lion or better an alternative? My queries on google does not return anything suitable for this use.
Is it possible to configure OSX Mountain Lion to go from suspand-toRAM to suspend-to-disk after certain amount of minutes? The default sleep mode seems to be suspend-to-RAM until the battery is almost empty. This makes it troublesome for traveling with the laptop as the battery is guaranteed to go to empty after closing the lid and putting your computer to the bag for a day or two.
When I commit my code from Xcode (File -> Source Control -> Commit), is there a command (that can be assigned a shortcut presumably) to jump to the next change in the commit view? This will allow to quickly go over the changes spanned across multiple files being committed. Otherwise there is some mouse work to do, which is not very productive.
There seems to be a connection between CodeRunner's console output and your actual terminal prompt script, that is, if such prompt code is sourced from e.g. ~/.bash_profile (which CodeRunner reads by default).
When I attempt to open a a file with Preview (and some other applications) via the Open With open I get the following error:  You can't open the application "Preview" because it's in the Trash. To open this application, move it from the Trash. If I open Preview from the applications menu or Spotlight it opens fine.
The title pretty much sums it up. I often feel like having notifications on my iPhone are a lot easier to notice, especially if you step away from the computer for a few moments to do something and come back. Ideally I would like an AppleScript or something similar that forwards my Notification Center items to my iPhone using Pushover or Prowl (ideally Pushover). Anyone have any experience with this?
I have been working on my computer and my Mouse has stopped working. Its optical light is still on, but the cursor is not moving.
I want to downgrade Safari by using a command line script. With a GUI I used the Pacific tool (*=URL=* in order to work around the OS 10.6 requirement. Right now I'm search for a way to downgrade completly with a command-line solution.
I burned a CD with pictures and PDFs on my Mac Pro but my Windows machine cannot read the CD. Should I have burned the disc differently to make it Windows-readable?
I cracked the screen of my 3GS so I ordered a repair kit and installed it using some directions I found on youtube. It seemed to work fine at first, but I've been noticing some dead zones in the touchscreen (which worked fine earlier when it was cracked), and I'm trying to figure out what I might have done wrong with the install, or if it's just from using 3rd party parts. I used DrawSomething to map out the dead zones, because I already had it installed. When I first noticed it, the main problem was a missing stripe along the left side:
I see by default iphoto orders events by the earliest date inside the event. That being said, i see you can drag and drop events to come up with your own ordering. Is there a way to reset the ordering back to "by date" if you have done a lot of drag and drop of events to different places
I use Gmail with IMAP on the iPad. I can only find Drafts and Trash folder to configure in the Settings, how can I specify the Sent folder? Trial with Gmail account: cannot find Sent folder
I have little snitch installed and every time I resume my macbook pro gs-loc.apple.com on port 443 wants to connect. I'm thinking it's to find your location so that iCloud can display it. the exec is called locationd. I pretty sure that my guess is right. I just wanted to see what the community thought.
I paired my 3GS for network tethering and it worked fine until I closed my MacBook. Now it says that I'm connected to my phone when I am not. Clicking the 'Disconnect from Network' button does nothing. And in the Bluetooth preferences I can't delete the device. Can anyone tell me how to force the removal of the device?
I have a aging iMac with 10.6.8 server, user accounts in OD, and user shares. We have a newer mac mini with 10.6.8 server that I want to transfer over to. Can you tell me the steps/document to help me accomplish this? I see the apple doc for xfer to Lion, but not 10.6.8
I am trying to setup NIS on OS X 10.8 but it fails for some reasons. I tried to add the NIS domain using the Directory Utility.app but when I go to Directory Editor tab and select my NIS node, I do get an error: Connection failed to node '/NIS/uk.example.com' (2100) On OS X 10.8 machine uk.example.com is the domainname (does not solve in DNS) nis2.uk.example.com is the ypbind server (does solve in DNS) I am already on corporate LAN and I can ping nis2.uk.example.com domainname returns uk.example.com ypbind -d prints 'ypbind: returned from 10.80.16.129 about uk.example.com' but it does not return, I need to press Ctrl-C. dhcp-3-130:~ sorins$ rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100000 3 udp 111 portmapper 100000 4 udp 111 portmapper 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper 100007 2 udp 845 ypbind 100007 2 tcp 1009 ypbind dhcp-3-130:~ sorins$ sudo automount -vc automount: /net updated automount: /home updated automount:
In older versions of Safari and Chrome you can filter http requests to only show xhr requests for example. This seems to have been removed in the Safari 6 developer tools. Am I missing something, an undocumented hot key?
I am wondering if I can have use two Cinema Displays in Windows using daisy chain.
When I save a file that I've written in TextEdit, it saves to iCloud by default. If I close the file, and close TextEdit, the only way for me to find that file is by searching it in Spotlight and opening it. I can't find a folder on my computer that contains those files. When I right click the file that shows up in Spotlight there is no option to open enclosing folder. I tried going on icloud.com and logging into my account but I couldn't just get a simple list of the files I had saved on the cloud.
So iCal has "Work" and "Home" as two of its default event types associated with the colors green and blue respectively. How do I add a third event type, say "School", and set its color to be something other than blue or green, say red?
So I want to use two different desktops on my two different monitors in Mac OS X Lion. The only options I can find are extended desktop and mirror desktop.
I've been using the Kindle reader app on my iPhone and it was working as advertised for a while. However, yesterday for no apparent reason it has stopped being able to download books. I bought a book, went to my list of books in the Kindle app, and tapped the "download" control. The message reads "Downloading 0.0%" and just stays there. I tried downloading another recent purchase. Same deal. I tried restarting the Kindle app, and then the iPhone, but that didn't help. I tried going onto the Amazon and "sending" the books to my iPhone with no result. I made sure the iPhone is connected to my home wi-fi network.
I'm looking for an iPhone app with which users can use the zoom in and out to write down characters in all kinds of scales. To be more specific, if the user zooms in, the whole canvas would become larger to the user, making it possible to write relatively small characters.
Is there a tool that will allow me to set the sleep settings on a per-drive basis? I've recently done the optibay mod on my MBP so I have an HD+SSD setup and I'd like to be able to make the magnetic drive sleep as much as is possible (I boot off the SSD) to save battery. The machine's power consumption has ramped up since I did the mod.
Do you know how mail.app makes it easy to add address info from an email sig into the Mac's Address Book? Well, I don't use mail.app, but I'd like to find a similar way to do that with gmail. Basically, when someone sends me an email with their name, address, phone number, etc, I want to easily add that info to my address book.
This is not a duplicate of Why is my hard drive still full after deleting files? I have of course attempted all methods mentioned there. Via the terminal I can see nothing listed on the drive. I was able to list all the hidden (.named) folders using ls -a | egrep '^\.' which then showed me the expected hidden folders, all of which I sudo rm -rd I've ran a Verify/Repair with Disk Utility (not sure of the effectiveness on an external RAID) but it had no effect.
I have an old iPhone 3G which had iOS 4.0 installed. I had apps such as Starbuck's app running on it without a problem. I just didn't get the latest incompatible updates.
Like the title says, I want to share files between two Macs with password enabled. I've tried to disable the access of guest account and using the account with password. But it doesn't work, the username and password from other mac doesn't match. Information about my macs: Mac Pro - Moutain Lion Macbook pro - Lion What I've tried: Enable sharing folder and remove everyone's right to access the shared folder on Macbook. Using Mac Pro to get the shared files. If I don't remove the everyone's access right, I can use the shared files / folders normally
I have this awesome MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM. When I open up Activity Monitor it would seem that I have plenty of RAM available, but my computer seems to prefer to use virtual memory for many things. Why is this? Is there a way to change it? Would it be wise to?
Is there any way to turn on/off active corners? I want to use it but someone is coming fix something and they are going to use my comp and they have big troubles with active corners (Windows users). I am on 10.6.2 and I do want to keep the settings so when they leave I can start using it right away.
It just irritates me a little bit that when I scroll in Windows, I have to scroll normally, but on Mac OS X, I have to change back to the other scrolling (Inverted), I prefer the Mac OS X way, is there a way to have this setting on Windows using Bootcamp settings or such?
I should be restoring like to like (10.7.4 => 10.7.4). I can see all the files on the drive, should I just do a file copy? Is there something i'm missing? Or should I do migration assistant - i didn't see the volume on Migr.Asst. before, may have been an issue with encryption. My guess is no, but is there any way of removing encryption?
My friends told me,while I am moving to other places, I can just close my rMBP without shutting down the computer. Is it a right concept? Will it damage hardwares?
I am new to iCloud. When I open iCloud.com and login with my Apple ID, I couldn't find my photos there. Is it possible to view photos on iCloud.com itself?
The problem I am experiencing is that if the battery is not present, the CPU is automatically throttled. I have done some searching and have found that this is apparently by design, "in case the power supply cannot supply enough power, so the machine won't shut off."
Basically, I want to be able to save a copy of my iCloud documents that I made in Pages (on both mac and iOS) to my documents folder, where all my pre-iCloud documents are still stored. to note: I still want to be able to save a pages document to iCloud, but I would like to have a way of getting to them from the documents folder. I hope that makes sense :) Thanks!
Seems like a strange question, but here is the situation: when I arrive at work, I want to recharge my iPod. The easiest way to do that is via the USB connection on my computer.
Using a new MBP Retina at work with Mountain Lion. I always used the sticky dashboard widgets to organize my oh-so-chaotic life on my Lion MBP. Now that I use them in 10.8 (around 16-20 stickies) I noticed that all of them now have their cursor "on" which is really distracting! Has anyone else experienced this?
How can I change the default highlight colour in Sublime Text 2? I know I have to find a highlight key in one of the theme files but I don't know where these theme files are kept. Are they in the library somewhere?
Basically if an app is allowed notifications, it never asks again even if the app is deleted and reinstalled. Where is all this data stored?
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Lion I see the CalendarAgent process occupying a large amount of 1 CPU on my late-2008 MacBook Pro. To fix this (as suggested by a Google result) I tried removing all online calendar accounts then re-adding them. This seemed to work for a while, but now the problem has returned (perhaps due to me either deleting some iCloud calendars or adding an additional Google calendar delegate). I don't really want to have to remove all my calendar accounts each time I add or remove a single calendar, so can anyone point me to the root cause of the problem? In case it's useful, the call graph from the process is pasted here.
How to install rpm tool on OS X? Brew doesn't have it yet and the binaries I found so far are too old (not intel 64bit).
I'm running vmware fusion 5 under OS X Mountain Lion. My virtual machine is running Ubuntu 12.04. I have two fastidious shortcuts which I would like to disable: When I press Command ⌘, Ubuntu opens the dash and shows under the text field a set of icons.
I'm having trouble resolving issues I have on my iPhone 4S with regard to WiFi. It is unable to scan for networks. I live in Sri Lanka and technical support for iPhones is very limited. I was wondering if in case I'm unable to solve it, will I be able to tether my phone to the WiFi on the laptop? That is, use WiFi on my iPhone through my computer?
I am currently putting together a template document in Pages and would like the date to update each time it is opened. However, I would also like to display the date as an ordinal number (for example, today would be 11th September 2012) which isn't in the list of available formats. Does anybody know of a way to set the date to auto-update in this format or do I have to manually set it each time?
I am looking for a solution to create a binary plist file from the command line on OS X? I want to create the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and setup the PATH there.
I would like to know how to define custom sorting criteria for reminders. For instance, I would like to define a sorting criteria that does the following: Sorts reminders whose due date falls within the next 7 days by day. Assigns equal sorting priority to events within the same week if those events are beyond 7 days from today. Assigns equal sorting priority to events within the same month if those events are beyond 1 month from the current day. How can I do this (if it can be done at all)? An answer that provides a general indication of how to define custom sorting criteria would also be sufficient.
I tried all methods I heard of for setting environment variables on OS X 10.8 but none of them seems to work. To test, run a bash script from inside a gui application like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA. Things I tested and that are not working even after reboot: /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/something /etc/launchd.conf ~/.bash_profile ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist (binary plist made as recommended)
Am getting an error message when trying to reinstall TextWrangler from the App Store. The message given is An unknown error occurred. This is not terribly helpful. Where can I look to get more information about this error? Does the App Store application have a log file?
I'd like to not have to buy it twice.
Occasionally some of the ribbon tabs in Office/Word/Excel 2011 become unclickable so you can't choose that tab. It's usually the ones on the left in my experience like Home or "Header and Footer". The only way around it I have found to date is to close and reopen the document.
When we install an iOS configuration profile for Cisco IPSec "VPN on Demand" (using certificate based machine authentication), a switch appears in the Settings > VPN Settings page: "Connect On Demand ON/OFF". We don't want to give our employees the option to turn off VPN on Demand. Is there a way to force VPN on Demand to "ON" all the time for MDM (mobile device management) deployed configurations? Or alternatively, is there any other way to force user traffic to a proxy under our control?
I have the most recent 2 TB Time Capsule to which I connected (via USB) a 1.5 TB Seagate hard drive. I expect the hard drive to be visible under "Shared", but nothing appears, except the Time Capsule itself.
I'm trying to setup my iMac running 10.6 to be a wireless bridge. I have it working, but I need to disable DHCP and let my network's DHCP server provide an IP for the connected device(s). I can't seem to find a way to disable DHCP in Internet Connection Sharing. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm guessing there's a key one could set in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist, but I can't find it. I checked the man page for InternetSharing and it doesn't mention anything useful, except changing the subnet that the DHCP server uses.
I have a Mac Network controlled by Mac OS X Lion Server and a bunch of clients on Snow Leopard, with many network users. I want to force them to all have the same background (that is custom) by some form of preference. I can't find a way of doing this - is it actually possible? The network users do not have access to System Preferences.
How can I make my Macbook automatically shutdown after a Time Machine backup? I have a 40GB worth backup to do but I keep having to cancel it to go to bed. Would be great if I could leave it on to do it overnight. Any suggestions of how to do this in ML?
Without modifications, can a user turn on satellite images for iOS 6 turn-by-turn navigation use satellite images rather than just a simple interface and monochrome 3D buildings—although it may be distracting?
Occasionally I wish to send a photo or file to open with the message text and at times I wish to send as an attachment that needs to be opened by the receiver. How can I determine this?
However, when I checked the Java version from command line, the version that I use is Java 1.6. The system directory doesn't have the 1.7.
I have made purchases on my iPhone from iTunes, and that was all well and good, no problems there. My problem is, why do I keep being debited a dollar each month even when I haven't made any purchases? Is this a recurring fee for purchasing on iTunes or something?
Since Mountain Lion, the highlight tool in Preview allows one to select among a small number of colors. Is there a way to customize the colors (add to or change)?
So a question that I've always been curious about are devices that contain two cameras (one for video chat, etc., and one for everything else). Of course, it wouldn't be such a big deal on devices with low-resolution displays, but because of the advent of the iPhone 4 and new iPad (/iPad 3rd Generation), those crummy VGA quality cameras really detract away from an ideal experience. Using this article at PC Magazine, we can see that it could possibly be the price difference... ...The new camera is three times more costly than the earlier model... Because looking at the teardown photo from iFixit really doesn't make it appear to be a physical size issue (not downplaying the cramped quarters of the real estate inside an iPad, but the VGA and HD cameras appear to be roughly the same size). So at this point in the game, why not use the same higher quality camera for both sides of the iPad?
I need to know which drive is the System drive. Is it safe to assume that / is always the system drive ? Or in some situation (for example booting from a FW drive) / is not the drive were the system is. thanks.
I downloaded Bingo Bash, which links to their server. Whenever I delete it and re-install it back, it will come back to the level that I was last playing.
We've all gotten the popup dialog box that says "[Some App] wants to make changes, type your password to allow this", but is there a way to get more information about what those changes are? It's always from an app I "trust", but I'd still like to know more about what it's doing that it needs my password for. Seems an aweful lot like Windows Vista's uber-useful security popups.
When using Photo Stream on the iPhone, you have access to the last 1,000 photos taken, or the last 30 days of photos (source). That same rule applies to all iOS devices, and beyond the 30-day window, no photos are actually saved to your device unless you specifically select and save them to your Camera Roll.
Over the past years, I have removed plenty of songs from my iTunes library, but not deleted the files, and now my Music/iTunes folder is double the size of what iTunes reports as my library size. I don't care about any of the songs I have removed from my library. Is there any way to delete all of them? Thanks in advance!
Could someone please briefly explain to me the difference between launchd and folder actions? Do folder actions use launchd? Is one more efficient than the other? Is one more powerful than the other? Is one used more over the other? What is the difference between launch and launchctl? Thanks!
I use Remote Desktop Connection on my 10.6.2 to connect to Windows XP and Windows7. I can share clipboard between mac and Windows XP but Windows7. Any idea how to make it work for Windows 7?
My MacBook had been acting fine. I applied the latest update to Mountain Lion and closed the lid. When I opened the lid, it wouldn't wake from sleep (dark screen with whirring fan for ~5mins). I held the power button and it rebooted to a dark grey screen. I reset the pram using Cmd+Option+P and it booted to the grey screen with flashing question mark. So I rebooted with the install disk for lion (I didn't make one for 10.8). Disk Utility doesn't see my root partition, it does however see the Mac OSX Base System 1.4 GB partition (I'm not sure if this is actually on my HDD or if it is a virtual file system created by the install disk). In any case, I swapped out to my OEM hard disk and rebooted. Disk utility still only sees the Mac OSX Base System. diskutil list reports the same. I can't reboot to recovery via Cmd+R or via holding the Option key. I also don't hear the hard drive spin up. At this point I'm thinking that I have a bad motherboard. Is there any way to confirm that the mother
I have a new battery that has only 3 or 4 cycles on it, that I got as a replacement a year ago. The battery and the machine it's in, a late 2008 MBP, has been sitting for the last year unused. I tried to boot it up today and it appears the battery is toast. OS X reports it as "Replace Now". I tried to charge it for a few hours but the machine shut off as soon as I unplugged it. Is there a way I resurrect this battery?
When opening some folders, the Finder takes a long time (30-60 seconds) to load all the files in it. Specifically, these folders typically contain 10-50 PHP files (which are text files), each about 10 kb.
Is there a plugin (for any browser) anyone can recommend? An app? It seems like all browsers got rid of this easy resource tracking feature (Chrome too).
I am looking for fake webcam solution for Mac OS 10.7.4 64bit running as a Virtual Machine. What I tried: ManyCam - only works with 32bit Browser and then not with all flash applications CamCamX - crashes on startup CamTwist - Crash Is there any other solution out there?
I know that iOS devices have the h.264 instruction set on chip, which helps to dramatically reduce processing (and thus, power, battery drain, etc.) when watching native video. Has this been added to Intel CPUs, or ATI/nVidia GPUs, in Apple's Desktop/Laptop hardware?
I need to run some sort of performance benchmark to measure how slow my MacBook Pro is (and why)—a 15" MacBook Pro (late 2008) with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB of DDR3 memory, and running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 very, very slowly. Most of the tasks I perform (e.g. deleting a file or folder, typing letters, switching desktops, etc) can take more than an unacceptable 10-30s response time. I also have a second, 22" monitor.
I'm traveling to Hong Kong and I want to install an app on my iPhone which will allow me to text for free to non-smart phones in Hong Kong (specifically, to this provider: +852-90207 XXX). Is there any app or service that would allow me to do this?
I have my iMac set to set the display to sleep after 15 minutes. I notice at night that, even when no one is touching the computer, the display will come on for a while and then to go back to sleep after it's usually set time (10 minutes). Is there any way to find out what's waking it up? Or even better, to force it to keep the display asleep?
I'm very aware this question is probably about to become obsolete with the release of iOS 6 at some point soon, but thought I'd ask anyway. I have an iCloud account set up on my phone with the email address (Apple ID) of myfullname@gmail.com.
I've purchased and downloaded an app to a computer that I do not sync with my iPhone on a daily basis. I would like to download the same app to a computer that I do sync usually and then sync it. Is it possible, if no - is there any workaround? I've purchased the app on a Mac and I wan't to do the sync it from Windows (both computers have the newest version of iTunes).
I have installed iCloud Control Panel on my Windows PC. During setup, I was asked to create folders for both the PhotoStream and my uploads. I've done all that, but the issue is that I can't see my photos. The folder is even empty. On my iPhone however, all photos are listed in the Photostream. How can I view my photos on my Windows PC?
First day when I launched my Mac mini (OS X Lion) and started to use Safari - at some point it asked me (during the login procedure to the Gmail account) if I want to auto configure mail/calendar/contacts for this gmail account. I think that I clicked "no".
I've made a very simple Automator service (moves some selected files into a new folder). It works fine via the Services -> menu.
I frequently want to paste a URL and page title into a document or email message. When I drag and drop a URL from Safari and other browsers (by dragging the URL icon) I see the page title being dragged with the cursor. However, when I drop it in Terminal or in a Gmail message in plain text, I get the URL only and when I drop it in Textedit or in a Gmail message with rich text, I see the title only (with the link). Can I get both?
I started bringing my 2011 MacBook Air to work and hook it up to an external monitor for dual display setup. But when I unplug the display, the desktop wallpapers on the built-in LCD disappears and just show a solid light gray desktop. I have to log out and log back in to get the desktop wallpapers to show again. Is there a way to fix this?
All members of my family use the iPad primarily for browsing the Web or playing games. It is basically a living room computer. But I use it also for my e-mail.
I have two 27" iMac connected via a Thunderbolt cable. I press Command+F2, the target computer joyfully becomes a second screen for the primary iMac. Joy of joys!
My MacBook started to get really slow recently. Now it can’t start up properly anymore. All I see is the Apple logo and then it shuts down. I've tried rebooting multiple times, but I've seen the same result over and over again.
I have two networks, a WiFi and a cable LAN. I want use them together, but I want to force the iOS Simulator to use only WiFi, because, the LAN is under proxy, protected, with a lot of limitations. Any ideas?
Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes? You know, that what you might click and add in TimeMachine Settings > Options ...
I am trying to figure out if there is a way to combine workflows in Apple's Automator application. Basically I saved out the automation as an application and it works like this: I can drag a folder of images onto it and it scales and renames them. At the end of the automation I would like to trigger another workflow. The issue is that the previous workflows images are taken as input to the new workflow. How can I run multiple workflows without using the output of the previous workflow as the input for the current. Thanks
I noticed the difference in Safari 6.0 in Lion and Mountain Lion. In Lion it is Safari v 6.0 (7536.25) where as in Mountain Lion it is 8536.25.. The way safari works is also a bit different, for instance the tab view. I liked it when I used it, but I want the same in my Lion as well.. Can I copy the Safari.app from my office laptop running Mountain Lion and put it in my 13" MBP running Lion? Would this work?
I'm not sure what it is called on the Mac, but when I open my Downloads folder (or any other folder), I'm referring to this file explorer window that shows me my file structure. I know there are options, like I can view my files and folders in panes, or in a detail view, etc. But what I hate is that I can't modify the current path location easily, nor can I cut and paste the current folder path. This really drives me nuts, I wish it could be more like Windows's file explorer as it is so easy and intuitive to use. Is there a hidden option for these 2 issues that I am missing?
To make certain modifications to system preferences, you first need to unlock the preference pane. Some of these changes are done on a system level and the command-line equivalent would need to be invoked as the root user (via setuid). However, running sudo has an expiration (typically 5 minutes) before needing to re-authenticate again; how do system preferences assert their "open lock" state?
My iPad with iOS 5.1.1 (with home screen is activated) plays a "beep beep" sound (as if I had gotten a new e-mail) every 10 minutes or so, but no notification is shown. Can I find out what causes the beeps?
I am very, very new to using AppleScript. I need to enter text into the search box. So far the script looks like this:
On Lion, Xcode quit on its own when it was downloading documentation with no windows open. Is it safe to have Xcode download documentation in Mountain Lion or will it still quit on its own if all windows are closed?
To work around this, I've tried the following: I created another smart playlist which contains tracks which have a play-count of less than 2. This, at present, obviously contains only tracks with a play-count of 1, which is most of my music. I set shuffle to "Album" and then select this playlist. As I listen to tracks, their play-count increases to 2, so they fall off the list in future. When I return to the playlist the next day, for example, and the iPod selects a track/album, I presume it will then play only from the first track of that album in the playlist? Example
The iphone 5 is going to be my first iphone. Since I've never purchased one before, I'm wondering, who else besides Apple offers preorders in the United States? Does anyone offer them on the same date that Apple does?
The 9-pin "Lightning" connector used with the iPhone 5 and 2012 iPods offers many advantages over the old 30-pin connector, including a smaller size and reversibility. However, does it offer faster data transfers? Was this update only for aesthetics? Or does the 9-pin actually offer something more?
Are the two male Lightning to female 30-pin adapters that Apple is selling functionally equivalent (other than the fact that one has a 20 cm cable between the endpoints)? Part MD823ZM/A Part MD824ZM/A
I can drag and drop all day long, but it won't let me so much as touch the data source. Whether I'm dragging cover art around on the Bookshelf or moving rows in the List view's table, there is a major piece of missing functionality. Titles and art will duplicate, leaving some PDFs apparently gone, but as soon as I leave the app (or even just change the view), it reloads and gives me the random-sort that I really don't want. List view works for finding sometimg to read, minus the completely ineffective reordering action, but it has absolutely no influence on Bookshelf view, which is the one I want.
I have a Mac Book Pro and I am running two external monitors, I am having issues with programs that are running minimizing themselves into my dock at the bottom of the screen. Example: I have Safari open and running on one monitor and Outlook running on the other monitor, if I am working in Safari my Outlook will minimize itself after about 45 seconds. In order to get Outlook back up, I need to click on the icon on the dock.
I lost my password to my Time Machine backup. It's on a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive. I don't mind losing the data, I just can't figure out how to format the drive. I found this thread, however, the "Erase" tab that's mentioned doesn't appear when I select the drive. It's also grayed out for the partition. I've tried running VirtualBox and accessing the drive in Windows, but the FreeAgent drive is grayed out as one of the available devices. I've also tried hooking up the disc to a Windows XP machine and running the EaseUS partition tool, but that tool doesn't give me the option to format (as if it was grayed out). Any thoughts or ideas?
I've installed a TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-216AB Device on my PC (the only DVD drive). Now I installed iTunes and it shows up the known Error Message
Over the years, I've collected a few iPhone 4's and 4S's, as well as a couple iPad 2's and a new/third generation iPad. They're all equipped with an ambient light sensor that darkens the display in dark settings or brightens it in bright settings. All in all, this has proven to be a boon to me over the years, and made my experiences with the iOS family of devices a generally positive one.
While using Windows 7 (via Bootcamp) I shutdown my 27 inch 2011 iMac. After it was shutdown I pressed the power button to turn it back on, it proceeded to play the startup sound and then froze on a white screen. There is no cursor or anything else on the screen. I tried unplugging all cables, including the power, reconnecting only the power and attempting to turn it back on with the same result.
Is there any way so switch between windows in Mission Control without using the mouse? In exposé you were able to switch windows with the arrow keys, but in Mission Control is not possible, even disabling the "Group windows" setting.
I'm trying to install Jenkins on 10.6.8 and part of this requires that modify the plist launch daemon. org.jenkins-ci.plist which is owned by root. I was using admin and I gave admin permission to write this file. I used this permission to make the admin the jenkins user and set the home directory to be the admin user directory. However now I cannot run the launch daemon.
There are several ways to display folders in the OS X finder: Folders as icons you can arrange List of items you can expand (collapsable triangles) Graphical "flip" display A column mode where you can arrow left and right
I need to have started Chrome without the build in Flash via console you add the Parameters --disable-internal-flash which works fine, now i would like to have a Dock Icon which passes this parameter along I have an Automator.app which encapsules the start up, but how du i get it somehow automatically to the dock.
I was watching the keynote today and noticed that the fifth generation iPod touch has a wireless window. This was also on the 3rd and previous generations, and also on the cellular iPad. But why doesn’t the fourth generation iPod touch have a wireless window, but fifth generation does?
My color profile seems to be switching when I launch random application. It seems to be doing it every time I open Illustrator or VirtualBox. If I go into the color Profile setting it's on the same setting all the time.
I have been using Virtual DJ on my machine. The setup is where I want audio to play over the headphones and use a USB sound card to play audio into my headphones so I can listen to music before I play it for everybody.
After listening to MacBreak Weekly #316: The iPhone 5 it was mentioned, but not confirmed, that the new Lighting 8-pin adapter may be magnetic in attachment similar to the MagSafe adapters for MacBooks. I can't really find evidence either way to determine if this is true or false, so can anyone else provide any proof either way?
I'm working on a server that was configured by a former employee and I need to restart Apache. Unfortunately, it's not the default install and it's in a different place and apachectl doesn't exist and launchctl doesn't even seem to know that this apache is installed or running. I don't want to break anything and was wondering if there was a graceful way of restarting this custom Apache instance in order to update the configuration files to account for new SSL settings.
I'm Korean and I like reading web comics on the web. Korean web comics (or as called here "webtoons") tend to have large images, and something like 500x12000 JPEG images are not uncommon. But as you know, Safari on iOS downsamples JPEG images larger than 2 MP (or 5 MP in iOS 6) and even 5 MP is not enough in this situation. I tried several alternative ways to view large images in my iPad with no luck. "Save Image" in Safari and view it in Photos app Use other browsers (Chrome, Opera Mini, Terra, Mercury, Puffin, etc.) Use other apps (GoodReader, Evernote) Download the image in PC, share it using Dropbox, view it in iPad using Dropbox app: the worst quality ever I haven't tried the iPhoto for iOS yet since I don't want to pay for something that I'm uncertain whether it can solve my problem or not.
Is there a way or a 3rd party application which would let me specify, for example, that I want it to send a keyboard event (so that it has the same effect as physically hitting the key on the keyboard) every 5 seconds? So, for example, I could tell it to hit K every 5 seconds, 15 times in total? Basically, I'm looking for something like AutoHotkey but for OS X.
The windows I'm talking about are the system administrator password request popups, the wireless network web sign-in popup, and other system request dialogs, such as "Application was downloaded from the Internet" confirmations. Often when these popups appear for me there is no focus on the input/buttons. I need to remove my hands from the keyboard and mouse over to them. These popups do not appear in the application switcher, and seem to be immune to these focus-grabbing keyboard shortcuts: Command ⌘+` Command ⌘+Tab Control ⌃+F1 through Control ⌃+F12
I have a default automatic login account, User A. The Dock renders all it is responsible for (Dock, Launchpad, Mission Control) correctly for User A, but when I Fast User Switch to User B or C or the Guest Account, the Dock process doesn’t render anything properly, as shown in the screenshot. This doesn’t happen when I disable automatic login and login to either User B, C or Guest on boot. I did not have this problem on Lion. If it matters, I have an Sapphire ATI Radeon 5450 HD. Why is this happening and how do I fix it?
My mid-2010 MacBook Pro keeps rebooting after upgrade to Mountain Lion. The crashes are happening in different applications but seems to happen most often when scrolling inside of an email or Safari, opening iPhoto, or opening a video from Youtube. Not sure who can review the panic report and offer assistance. Thu Sep 13 12:30:25 2012 panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff7f9bf61c85): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80baab7000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4 Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff80973ab040 : 0xffffff801b81d5f6 0xffffff80973ab0b0 : 0xffffff7f9bf61c85 0xffffff80973ab140 : 0xffffff7f9c05b5b7 0xffffff80973ab1a0 : 0xffffff7f9c05b62b 0xffffff80973ab210 : 0xffffff7f9c370883 0xffffff80973ab350 : 0xffffff7f9c08175d 0xffffff80973ab380 : 0xffffff7f9bf6b9e6 0xffffff80973ab430 : 0xffffff7f9bf670b8 0xffffff80973ab620 : 0xffffff7f9bf67b3a 0xffffff80973ab710 : 0xffffff7f9cfd2c51 0xffffff80973ab760 : 0xffffff7f9cfcffad 0xffffff8
I have open-ended tags stored in the Grouping field of my (iTunes) mp3 collection. I also have information written in the Comments field. A lot of my music is also BPM'd. How can I search by/sort by/access these fields in iOS? The Music app and the 3rd party apps I've looked at so far don't provide this.
I've noticed that with Mountain Lion (running on a mid-2011 iMac w/SSD) that once a download has started in Safari, or iTunes or Finder (AFP), etc. that any subsequent network activity is severely bottlenecked. It's as if the first download is filling my entire pipe and subsequent requests are given a lower (or NO) priority.
Mac running OS X 10.8.1, and iPhone 4 running 5.1.1. Since upgrading to OS X 10.8.1 from 10.7.4, I can't sync Calendar events from the Mac to the iPhone. The opposite direction works just fine. I am using iTunes for the sync via USB, all calendars are checked in iTunes to be synced. Any idea what may be going wrong?
When opening an application installed from the App Store (TextWrangler) I am prompted to sign in. After entering the correct Apple ID and password I get an error, An unknown error has occurred. This only happens with one app, other apps installed are OK.
I asked this question for the iPhone 4S. Now that the iPhone 5 is announced, will it do simultaneous voice and data on CDMA (not data on WiFi)?
I just purchased Lenovo T430s laptop with Thunderbolt and I'm wondering if I should be able to use my 27" 2011 iMac with Thunderbolt as an external display using target display mode. So far, no luck. What I've done: I connected computers to each other with Apple's Thunderbolt cable. I booted T430s and made sure that Thunderbolt is enabled in BIOS What I found out: iMac says that there's nothing connected to Thunderbolt Pressing Command+F2 to enable target display mode does nothing Windows 7 in T430s does not detect any additional displays and there's not a word about Thunderbolt anywhere in Windows. Windows device manager is not showing any devices that are not functioning properly or missing drivers Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.
I couldn't get my TimeMachine backup to restore, so I just used rsync. What are the flags I should use? I just used: rsync -av /path/to/backup /path/to/restore Can it be that simple?
About once per day, TextEdit starts showing dialogs like this when I try to open any file: The document “test.txt” could not be opened. You don’t have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info. There's usually messages like this in system.log:
My Library appears to be intact. All the events and albums are normal in thumbnail view but when I open a picture I get this exclamation point error icon that fills the screen.
I hope to upgrade replace my existing iPhone with the new iPhone by pre-ordering through Apple, but I'm uncertain what effect this will have on my existing data plan. Are there any advantages to purchasing the phone through my carrier instead? Will I be given different service options, or will different features be available?
I'm trying to reboot Mountain Lion but it will not allow me. It just keeps saying Waiting... without anything happening. What can I do? See this image:
I'm considering switching to Verizon for my family's new iPhones (partly due to cost, and partly due to free hotspot capabilities). The current Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S can not access data while on a voice call. Has this been improved over CDMA or LTE for VZW with the iPhone 5 hardware?
Recently, the user interface of my Mac Mini started to freeze. I can move the mouse, but mouse clicks don't have any effect: I cannot select a different window, right-click on the desktop doesn't open any contextual menu, and the menus on the top bar are not opened.
Under iOS 6, what features will I not get if I were to buy an iPhone 4 vs. an iPhone 4S today? What I already know is the new navigation (continuous navigation on the lock screen, if I understood that correctly), which will be available in 5 and 4s, and won't be available in 4. Anything else?
Has anyone else had the issue of it taking forever to calculate the size of a folder? I have a folder of about 500 GB on an external USB drive, and it seems to never finish "Calculating Size" when I click on "Get Info," so I have no idea how to find out the exact size. Does anyone know of a workaround or how to prevent this?
I use Lion, and the svn /usr/bin/svn is 1.6 version. As I need to use subversion 1.7, I installed svn from brew to be installed in /usr/local/bin/svn. How can I disable the svn* files so that I can use svn from brew?
I just got an AirPort Express and it's great but I don't have the audio port hooked up to any so it is useless to select it for AirPlay. Is there a way I can keep it from showing up in the list of available AirPlay devices?
I have another terminal window minimized next to it in the dock and it doesn't have the ellipsis. Also it doesn't have any running processes. What does it mean?
If I prefer to hear US/Canadian Siri, will she understand my Australian accent? Sorry Australian-voiced Siri, but you sound too much like the Telstra automated bill payment system voice. And I'm used to hearing the US/Canada Siri so I would rather select that language option in Settings. Apple's Siri FAQ page says:
Update: The problem seems to be coming from a system process called AuthBrokerAgent which is responsible for proxy authentication. When proxy credentials are entered for the first time, it stores them in the user's login keychain and automatically adds itself as an allowed application for accessing those credentials. A workaround can be created by removing it from a list of allowed applications, forcing the program to ask for the keychain password when accessing those credentials, then changing the keychain password so it's different from the user account password, but this is extremely cumbersome as it must be configured on every account individually. A better solution must exist. Deleting the AuthBrokerAgent preference list broke proxy authentication in Safari completely.
I recently installed an SSD (m4 crucial latest firmware) with TRIM enabled on my late 2011 MBP 13". I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.1, enabled FileVault 2 and everything was working fine for about 2 weeks until Finder just started randomly killing itself every time I mounted a DMG or just launched some random app. At the time I was getting this error:
All of the approaches that I have seen for changing the background color in Terminal use applescript; is there an escape sequence? All of the hints that I've seen, like this one, use AppleScript. I want to put it in my .base_profile and in the 'ssh' command so that when I hop from system to system the color changes properly. (I sometimes have to hop multiple systems in due to connectivity issues)
I just took Backup of my mac via Time Machine, the problem is : I can't see my file in Time Machine which i deleted it from mac. Is it true that if i delete some files from mac they will be deleted from Time Machine also (on next back up)? Secondly, Does Time Machine takes complete Back up every-time or it just add updated or newly added files to old backup? Thanks for your time.
I want to buy the new iPad (iPad 3) in Korea with both the WiFi- and cellular service, but I was wondering if this configuration will work on the Verizon Network in the US? According to Korea's Apple Website the WiFi + cellular specs are: Wi-Fi(802.11a/b/g/n) Bluetooth 4.0 기술 UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) 4G LTE (700, 2100 MHz) Also, I was wondering if it would be unlocked?
I am considering buying a Macbook Pro Retina as a developer machine (and dual boot it into Windows 8). The thing is I love big monitors, and lots of them. How many and how big external monitors will a Macbook Pro Retina support?
In the past I had my network drive as a favorite in all Finder windows. Nowadays it doesn't work well.
On a PDF created with Office for Windows, special characters are not displaying and not printing correctly in OS X. The rendering is correct on Chrome. The issue is the same as this one: Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save-as-PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS / iOS The file (created on Windows with PDF Distiller): *=URL=* The file (extracted from a document using print-to-PDF): *=URL=* How can I resolve this?
I'm running iTunes 10.6.3 on a macbook. All my music is held on a remote synology NAS and appears as a shared device. I'd like the music Column Browser and Album columns visible by default at startup, but I have to manually select them every time. I copied one track to the local itunes library, and that seems to preserve the view settings - bue even when that is set to show Column Browser the shared device still defaults to a plain list.
Apple said the new Lightning connector is 8 signals design but is there an additional ground aside from the 8 pins? Because this would mean it could support USB 3.0 in the future (USB 3.0 uses is 9 pins). (It could not support Powered USB 3.0 that is 11 pins). *=URL=* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
I dislike the effect of ls=1 (launch App Store.app or iTunes.app) so I never share URLs in that format – I habitually remove that part of the URL. I also habitually remove parts such as ?mt=8 and ?mt=12 – they seem superfluous. So for example: *=URL=* *=URL=* Does either ?mt=8 or ?mt=12 add value to the end user? If not to the end user, how do those things add value?
I have just configured my iMac to backup my external USB harddrive in addition to the internal drive. I have just tested restoring some files from the TimeMachine backup, by selecting the USB drive down the LHS under TimeMachine, selecting the file I want to restore and that all works fine. However, I'm wondering, what if my external drive one day dies - It won't show down the LHS as a device under Time Machine (I simulated this by simply disconnecting the usb drive a moment ago) - How do I then point to the files that I need to restore? I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this, but am a newbie to TimeMachine.
My sister in law would like to synchronize photos from her iPhone to her Mac. When she connects the iPhone to her Mac, iTunes starts up but photos don't synchronize.
I understand that for certain iPhone models it is necessary to get a new SIM if I want to exchange them. If I have a 4S and want to exchange it with a user who has just purchased a 5, is this possible to do by simply following the same straightforward SIM-transfer procedures used to exchange (for example) a 4 with a 4S.
I am looking for a note taking application that needs to be integrated with MS Exchange, because i am using an iPad, a notebook running Windows 7 and MacBook Pro. I want to be able to take notes, create tasks and access them from all devices. Is there any program that meets these requirements?
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, Sparrow (email client) places notifcations in Notification Center. I'm happy enough with that but when I read the email in Sparrow, the notification remains in Notification Center until I manually remove it which is a pain.
Has anyone tried putting Ubuntu on the new retina MacBook Pro? If so, were there driver issues?
I'd like my Mac laptops to shut down completely when I close the lid. This is partly for convenience and partly for security reasons.
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I have experienced some weird problems with network share permissions. This network share is a Windows server which I login to like so: smb://DOMAIN;USERNAME@networkshare.address/folder
Nice to have: Daily view (i.e. show all reminders for a given day) Does something like this exist?
I have an email account and get emails in my Comcast email list, and on the list on my IPhone and IPad. So, if I want to delete a message, I need to delete it on all three. Is there a way to sync the deletion of a message so if I delete it on one device it is deleted on the others?
The materials from Apple say that the following features are not supported on the Lightning to 30 pin dock adapter and cable: Video and iPod out. What exactly are these features?
I like Notification Center, but banners linger a bit too long before auto-dismissing. I'm aware of the popular two-finger swipe trick to immediately dismiss a banner, but I'm looking for an automated approach. Growl, for example, let you customize how long notifications stayed on the screen, but I don't see a similar option in the Notifications preference pane. Is it possible to adjust this, like perhaps through a hidden preference?
I was trying to use DigitalColor Meter to find the color of a pixel on my retina MacBook Pro, but I found that it was impossible to get the color that I wanted because the smallest that I could move the mouse by was two pixels (in either direction). If you zoom in using the control-scroll trick and disable pixel antialiasing (in the Accessibility preferences), you'll also see that this is the case.
I am new to Automator. What I am trying to do as first experiment is automating the process of decompiling a Java class file and immediately after open the decompiled file with its default editor. Following these instructions I managed to decompile a Java class file using this shell script:
I have given these changes a good try and they irritate me more than they should. I want "auto-save", "revisions" and "restore-windows" and all of the rest of it to go away, to nerver come back, and hopefully to not cause instability when software updates arrive in the future. (I know this last one is impossible to guarantee so I'll have to have good backups and avoid updates in general)
I use Mac Mail on Lion with two IMAP accounts. The main (local?) inbox works great; all received messages are synchronized. The main sent box only shows messages that have been sent from this computer.
Since Apple recently announced the new EarPods to go along with the iPhone 5, I've wanted a pair. The only thing is I'm planning on buying an iPad in a few months, and if the iPad comes with EarPods I'm fine with a wait - it's not urgent. So, will the iPad come with EarPods?
My 2011 27 inch iMac will not boot, it plays the startup sound and then freezes on a white screen. I am fairly confident I could fix it myself if I could get it to boot from a USB drive or external disk but holding Option ⌥ during boot does not bring up the boot selector. Is there another way to get it to boot from a different drive without using Option ⌥? For example, if I attach an external drive with OS X installed will it automatically boot from it?
If I go to the Apple ID support site and try to change my security questions, or password, it tells me that it is sending email to the registered email address. This is a working address that gets dozens of messages every day. But nothing from Apple comes through. Yes, I've checked spam. That is, I log into appleid.apple.com with my Apple ID and password, and click on 'change security questions or password'. The support link lands me at support for hardware, so that's no help. Is there anywhere else to turn?
I am posting this for a friend who is having this problem but obviously can't post this himself as his computer will not boot up. He started having problems after a video game crashed during online multiplayer. The game is Minecraft, which is written in Java. He was able to send me this from his iPad.
How would you dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 on a MacBook Pro with the following specs: 13", 750GB hard drive, Intel Core-i7 processor, with 8GB RAM.
I am trying to ID the wireless card on my MBP. How do I find this information? I've trying looking on EveryMac, but to no avail. How do I find this info?
When I wake my MacBook Pro (mid 2012 - with Mountain Lion) from sleep, sometimes some complicated gesture doesn't work anymore with the Trackpad or Magic Mouse. Changing screens (with 4 fingers with trackpad or with 2 fingers with the mouse), getting Mission Control with 4 fingers, dragging windows with 3 fingers: they all don't work. Clicks, taps, two fingers gestures still work though. I have tried to change the configuration of the trackpad but it doesn't work. Changing screen with Ctrl + Left Arrow or Right Arrow still work too. What can I do to restart these features without restarting the computer (when I restart of course it works again like a charm)?
My iPhone 4 runs iOS 5.1.1. When I go to settings > iCloud, the Photostream option is not available. I've tried to restore my phone, but the option is still not available.
I have a first generation iPad with many documents in iBooks. This iPad is still synchronized with a laptop that is no longer in my possession. This means I can't sync to my new laptop over Wi-Fi. How do I remove the Wi-Fi sync connection to my old laptop?
The MacPorts directory /opt/local/var/macports/software is really full of "stuff": Can all the .tbz2 files be deleted? I am running out of space on the SSD.
I have earlier used AirDroid but its quality is unexpected, more here so now looking alternative solution. I have iPad but I have no other Apple products. Can I somehow get the images from iPad to my Debian computer with the iCloud.com website? If not, how can I get them from iPad to my computers?
My old 13 inch (2008 or 2009 model one of the first unibody models) macbook works fine in connecting external monitors with my VGA adapter. My new 15 inch has issues with the same connector. I have to reboot in order for it to work. When I plug the adapter with a cable in the new macbook - nothing happens. When I unplug it, the screen goes to blue and then goes back.
Some water was spilled on the table and came in contact with my wife's Mid 2009 MacBook Pro near the MagSafe adapter causing the MBP to shut itself off. Based on some recommendations from the internet, my wife put the MBP in a bag of rice over night to extract the water. Note: I would be careful so as to ensure rice doesn't end up in any ports or crevices.
I have a mid-2009 white MacBook. About a week ago, I switched the aging and failing battery for an identical new battery I got off eBay (supposedly original part and new - looked legit both in description and packaging).
I have some global shortcut that does nothing apparent, but is overriding the combination in all applications. The shortcut is Command+Alt+F, which overrides the "Google Search" in Safari, and the Replace in Sublime Text 2. Is there any way to determine which application this shortcut is actually being handled by, or what action it is triggering?
Is it possible to spell check PDF files? In Preview.app the "Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Document Now (⌘;)" is disabled. I'm working on a LaTeX document in Emacs and would like to use the OS X spell checker. A solution for accessing the built in spellchecking dictionary from Emacs would also be acceptable.
Then yesterday I discovered (well, finally signed up for) iTunes Match. After a bit of searching for various "power user" techniques, I found that I was able to reliably de-duplicate my library in a huge and automated way, bringing it down to the current state of about 15,000 items. Not all of these are "music" however, many are audiobooks, podcasts, etc. iTunes Match was able to match up about 5,000 songs, and uploaded a few thousand others.
It's almost like stuck pixels- except they're moving down the screen...? Recently, after turning on a 4th generation iPod touch for the first time in two or three months, I noticed that lines were running down the screen! Rebooting is not helping. Is a restore recommended for this kind of situation? Is it a hardware or a software issue? With iOS 6 due in less than a week, should updating fix this problem? How exactly did this happen to the hardware? Would replacing the screen resolve this issue, or would the problem lie deeper in the hardware? edit restoring did not help; the lines were shown even when booting at the Apple logo and when showing the 'connect to iTunes' image.
Quite a while ago I downloaded an Indie/Rock Playlist and added it to iTunes, and it was all good. There weren't any doubles of songs or anything, in iTunes. But just now I've noticed that in the folder where iTunes saved these songs, there are additional copies of the files with a 1, 2, or 3 appended at the end of the file name.
I just made the switch to Mac. In PowerPoint, I used to be able to select a certain slide theme or design but choose a different color of it. How can I do that with Keynote? I've been googling for hours just to do this.
I have a Macintosh SE FD HD running Apple System 6. Is there a Terminal application? What programming language(s) can I run on System 6?
I just can't find the "Use dynamic global hostname" option in Apple Air Port Utility 6.1 (610.31). Where can I find this option now?
Whereas on Windows it's possible to use Netstat -b, which tells you what connections are open and what program has each one open, on the Mac it seems that Netstat does not allow this. Is there another way to get this information if Netstat isn't the tool for that job?
I'm new to Mac and I'm trying to setup a simple webserver. I have configured apache, turned on websharing and turned off the firewall. I can connect to the ip address locally via a web browser but can't establish a connection to port 80 via a web browser or telnet from any other system. It's OS version 10.7.4. Is there anything else that may be blocking port 80 on in OSX that I'm unaware of? \
I had an Eclipse environment all wrong, than I decided to install another (newer) version from scratch. After I "uninstalled" the older version, I downloaded the Eclipse for Java Developers 64-bit for OS X (version 3.8) from eclipse.org.
What are the ways I can regain control over my computer when I have terminal in full screen mode and type: cat /dev/random
I got a 2007 Mac Mini off eBay a year ago. Now it won't start. It will show the Apple logo and then when it gets to the blue screen where it would normally show the desktop, the DVI cuts out.
Suddenly when I text a message on my iPhone it shows up on my wife's new apple computer. I would like messages that are sent out on my iphone to only go to the number text message is being sent to.
Is it possible to enable autoscroll (scrolling on mouse wheel press) in mac os? In windows it works out of the box, in mac id does not. Macos 10.6.8, Chrome v21
can someone who owns a Retina MacBook Pro tell me how the rMBP performs in current IDEs like RubyMine, Eclipse or Netbeans? I am worried that it cannot handle long text / source files very well when scolling. Videos welcome. Cheers
I'm looking for a simple text comparison tool. Something which just compares two quick text, I don't care about file comparison, just quick text side by side comparison.
I recently went to open an audio file, and wanted to open it in an editor instead of a player. I right-clicked it, hovered over 'Open With...' and was met with a very unsightly list.
It looks like that the data older than 7 days are automatically wiped from the iphone. What's the database that stores that data, in case one exist, so that by jailbreaking my iphone i can have direct access to it and hopefully, extract the data i need? If i did this yesterday, i would not have had this problem... :(
I would like to use my MacBook Pro (2010, with mini DisplayPort) as an external monitor for my Windows 7 PC. Before I buy an adapter, I want to know if it's even possible.
Could it be that a Playlist on iPods has just a certain capacy for titles/hours/GB? Or what could be the problem? Any idea?
I'm looking for a small app that will let me move any selected text (ie in a text box or another app) into my chosen text editor (in this case Sublime Text 2), and when I save will move it back to where it came from. I remember reading about such a thing ages ago, and google has failed me. Please tell me what I can do to solve this problem.
I've got an iMac that was set up by Apple when we bought it. My wife and I have seperate logins. We share applications but are separate users. I have an Apple ID and use iCloud for the iMac, an iPhone and an iPad.
Is it possible to auto-join device-based networks on Snow Leopard (i.e. preferred)? For example, by device-based network, I mean either a printer or an ad-hoc network.
I dumped my old Dell for a new MacBook Pro. Firefox looks gawdawful on my retina display, so I'm trying Safari. I had 20+ bookmarks in FF's Bookmarks Toolbar. Each had it's own icon, either grabbed from the target domain or from a picture I had saved... so I was able to give each one a one or two character name, so I easily could see them and select the ones I wanted. Upon the import, Safari ditched the icons. Is there any way to move bookmarks with icons from FFx to Safari? Is there any way to even show icons on the Safari toolbar?
I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro and I just got a message saying that I should service my battery. I tried to reset SMC and NVRAM but the problem persists and I fear I'll have my battery replaced. How much is Apple going to charge me? My Mac is out of warranty and I see that the battery capacity is less than 80% than it was originally but apart from that it is working fine
I would like to add login and logout sounds to my Mac. How can I do this?
I find that several times a day I save a file then compose a new email, click the add attachment button, and try to find the file. Does anyone know of an app or applescript to make it easier to simply save and email?
I have a couple of websites I have to use that require Java so I am leaving it on in Java Preferences.app, disabling it on all browsers bar one that will only be used for those sites. Am I safe to leave JavaScript on in Safari's preference's checkbox?
With iOS 6 due the 19th of September, I was wondering if it will be available over-the-air (OTA) like iOS 5.1. Is the Software Update in Settings only for minor updates, or can Apple push out major releases through it, too? Assuming an OTA update, will it require a restore/resync?
My ipod touch's volume button on the side to increase the volume doesn't work, no matter how hard I press it against something. The volume down button works.
2) Slightly related: is there a way to set up two independent sets of spaces between the laptop screen and the external monitor? Again, having separate control of these two sets would be key.
Are lightning cables that are not manufactured by Apple (off-brand or generic) legal? If not, when does it become okay to sell them? Because obviously the 30 pin adapter is everywhere..
I am an indiviual developer (I also have a company too). Some of our clients want to publish apps that can support their business. We have created a template app for one of the customers, and for others I have had the idea to change the look, appearance and a few bit features for each and publish them on the App Store.
For example, I have Xcode 4.4.1, and now Xcode 4.5 Golden Master (GM) version is available, but it is also called Xcode (when the .dmg is mounted as an disc image, it shows only one app (or folder), called Xcode) I think the way is just to double click on the .dmg file, and then drag and drop that app into our Applications folder. But since the current Xcode and Xcode 4.5GM have the same name, can the new one just be renamed and so we can have both versions on our machine? I was worried that what if the app writes back data to the /Applications/Xcode folder, then the GM version can write unexpected data for the 4.4.1 version. And will it work with other software, such as Xcode 3.2, Xcode 3.3, or even different versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop?
I can't change iMac (2011) display brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7. When I press F1 it shows icon and even fill the bar, but nothing happen to display. What have I tried: Reinstalling support files Installing fresh drivers from ATI site. Changing screen brigtness in windows "Power Options".
I'm looking for a FTP client that supports sending notification when transfers have completed. Does anyone know of one? I'd like to trigger an email when files have finished uploading to a server.
I want to know that the progression of the progress bar in OS X is based on which factors by the Finder? Time (passing or estimated) Number of files remaining Size of files remaining If possible, can we change the factor used in any way to match our choice?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 10.7.4 with Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. A few days ago, I tried to boot into Windows 7 and it just froze after I selected the Boot Camp volume on the Select Drive screen and the processor fan went into overdrive. This now happens every time. The only way to make it functional is to force-power-off and restart in OS X. I don't understand what's happening - Windows 7 works fine when I use it via Parallels, but won't boot to the metal.
I have this issue and from what I discovered a lot other people do - my pointer disappears. I can see stuff beneath reacting to the movement, but the pointer is gone. It happens rarely, but is confusing enough. Cmd + Tab to Finder fixes the issue, but then when going back to the browser, the pointer is gone again.
Therefor my question is why and how this MacBook Pro is still being tracked in my iCloud account after a complete reset/reinstall? Is it being tracked by MAC address whenever it comes online? Do I have a chance of locating my iPhone in a similar way later on? I'd really like an authoritative answer on this, as this observed behavior raises additional questions on abuse of Find My Mac after buying a second-hand computer for example, as it seems you need to rely on the seller removing this device from his iCloud account.
I want to use my new 27" Display in full resolution. I've tried two different cheap mini displayport to hdmi adapters but they only work with a max resolution of 1080p. Do I really need an expensive Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link-DVI-adapter or should i try a mini displayport to displayport adapter to get the full 2560x1440 resolution?
My iPhone backplate was broken. So, to make something good out of this, I want to create an effect like this:
Has the content that people made publicly accessible at *=URL=* been moved somewhere, so that it can be accessed from the web? Can the content still be accessed with WebDAV as before?
My company deals with a specific technology and we're looking to submit a limited functionality proof-of-concept app to the App Store as a sort of advertisement of our experience and capabilities. Is an app like this likely to be rejected? Edit: my original question above sounds a little subjective and opinion based, so to clarify: I'm looking for case history or documentation from apple that clarifies this scenario.
My iPad is configured with GMail (using an Exchange account, not IMAP. But I don't think this is relevant). I would like to create and manage folders in the Mail app. I noticed that: it is sync to my GMail label. this feature is not possible in the native Mail app, neither in the official GMail app the only way to do it is to use a PC or a Mac (with the GMail desktop version) in the GMail mobile web version, I cannot find any button to force desktop version. What is the simplest workaround?
Today I have a problem on my iPod Touch where there is a problem with internet connection using browsers (e.g. Google Chrome and Mobile Safari) but I also use Skype and it is working normally with no issues .
I didn't touch my phones settings, and all of a sudden (3 days ago roughly) my phone is making a sound when I get a text message, or login to my phone (entering the password), and receiving text messages etc. Previously, my phone always vibrated for phone calls, and receiving text messages. Sending text messages made no sound at all, nor did entering my password to unlock the phone.
I'd like to run a script (removing non-OSX .* files) on a USB drive whenever that drive is ejected - is there a way to trigger a script automatically when a drive is ejected from the Finder?
Is there a way to playback (true) stereo audio (with seperate left and right channel) files during a phone call? I'm not trying to make the callee hearing any of the stuff playing on my phone. I just try to playback a song while being on the phone (headset plugged in). It seems that the iPhone switches to some kind of "joint stereo" mode, where it mixes L and R channel into a single one while the call is taking place.
I've recently installed Homebrew on my Mac and it's complaining that /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin in my $PATH variable, meaning that system-provided programs will be used instead of those installed with Homebrew. My .bashrc is configured in a set of separate files, as per this screencast. This means that ~/.bash_profile looks like this: ~/.bashrc looks like this: and ~/bin/dotfiles/bashrc looks like this: ~/bin/dotfiles/bash/env, which is where I set my $PATH variable, looks like this: I've added some/path/at/start and some/path/at/end for debugging purposes, since when I try echo $PATH I get this: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/jim/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:some/path/at/start:usr/local/bin:/Users/jim/pear/bin:/Users/jim/bin:/Users/jim/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:/Users/jim/bin/bashscripts:some/path/at/end:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
So far I have ruined the headphone jack of one iPhone and one iPod with the the trauma from the frequent yanking of the heavy cable of my Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones:  I think the damage mostly happens when I keep the iPhone or iPod in my pocket and walk around. Not only will my leg push the plug, but the heavy cord will also yank it slightly with every step. Because the plug is much larger than that of Apple's ear bugs, it becomes a larger lever, gradually loosening the jack.
The iCloud.com Contacts interface orders the name fields as following: Last name, First name On the iPhone, the order is reversed: First name, Last name. Can this be adjusted so the order matches?
I am wondering if there is any software or any way that the iPhone can can be made to speak the name of the person who is calling. The reason I am asking is because I use a bluetooth headset all of the time and need to know who is calling so I don't need to look at my phone all of the time.
My ISP requires me to login to their server and keep the login page up so I can use the Internet, which makes me uncomfortable while I download some big files. After some research i found a script which is supposed to run on Linux environment, which you can find here. Can I make this script run on my Mac while I log-in? Also the script provides some keep-alive functions, can I make them work in my Mac? Can I add these features with script? Automatically connect to Asianet Dataline without having to sign in via the browser. In startup and free mode the script will keep the connection alive. The script will automatically reconnect if connection breaks because of a power failure or a line problem. I am using a Macbook 5,2 running Lion 10.7 Please let me know if you need any more info.
I'm leaving my current company and want to clear saved passwords from Safari. I go to Preferences -> Passwords, select all of my accounts, and click Remove All. Doesn't work. I try to do them one at a time with Remove. Doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Using Safari 6.0 (7536.25) on Lion 10.7.4.
I'm trying to use Messages instead of Adium, but it won't let me chat with some of my contacts. These aren't iMessage accounts, but gmail users. If I try to message them, I get a "address is not registered with iMessage." alert. There doesn't seem to be any reason or method to it, either. I've tried restarting iMessage as well as rebooting my machine.
I've bought an 11" MacBook Air a month ago. The 9 came out from the keyboard after few hours and I couldn't believe it. They gave me a new MacBook Air. One month later I'm using it and today the T is too strong to press and I can hardly type it.
I can't make my MacBook Pro mid 2009 play audio on my Samsung LCD TV. I am aware that only recents MacBook Pro have audio out through the Mini DisplayPort and mine doesn't have it. This is why I bought an adapter that includes digital audio. I can see the video on the TV but can't hear anything, the sound is still going out of my laptop. I tried to go in "System Preferences > Audio > Output" but I can only see "Internal Speakers" from here.
I'm getting these log messages repeatedly: How can I stop this?
I changed the default mail client to Sparrow yet every time I try to decline a calendar invite, Mail.app launches to send the decline message. Any ideas?
If I run spctl --master-disable, then ssh works as expected, but obviously my security settings are diminished. Any idea how I can get ssh to work without disabling GateKeeper entirely? UPDATE:-
I have 16 AppleTVs connected to a Video Wall, we want to share the iTunes/iPhoto libraries from a Mac mini containing family photos so we can show different photo albums in each screen (up to 16, one for each AppleTV in the video wall). Does anybody know how many simultaneous connections iTunes can support? We will showing personal media, no movies or music bought from the iTunes Store.
I have a 3-year-old Mac and either the battery or something else is broken (does not matter because it's not worth fixing) and due to this the trackpad keeps getting stuck. Now my question is: can I disable the MacBook trackpad click function but keep tap enabled? This is so that I can still use the mac even though the trackpad is stuck.
We use external FW/USB drives as portable diagnostic and installers and even though the partitions are named and have a custom icon, they show up as "Mac OS X" with a generic USB/FW icon when option booting. How do I make the names and icons "stick" so they appear as I named them? In System Preferences I've tried setting a partition as the startup disk and restarting when prompted; no change.
If my MacBook (2011 MBA) is sleeping (with the lid closed) is it possible to connect to it via SSH?
I don't know why, but about a week ago I started seeing a lot of errors like this in system.log: It would occasionally take about a second for files to show up in the result list. Deleting the Spotlight index didn't help, but then I noticed that the usage tab didn't display any statistics either:
How do I use the Command ⌘+F find to get only a in the text a apple, instead of highlighting both a and a in the word "apple".
I have an environment with multiple iMacs (OS X 10.7.4). Every iMac has an administrative account and several user accounts. These accounts are the same across all the machines. To browse the web, they go through a proxy server. The intention is for all the iMacs to behave in the same way.
Can anyone recommend a screen capture tool that can: save a capture as a file, and... save a capture as a file, and... copy the path to that file to the clipboard? copy the path to that file to the clipboard? The first part is easy, but I can't find a utility that does the second part. I dont need another app if there's a way to configure this using the built-in screen capture tool.
I am getting errors that mds cannot be started: 9/18/12 9:04:45.262 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds[4720]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11 Crash Report: PasteBin I ran cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons sudo launchctl load -w com.apple.metadata.mds.plist which returned com.apple.metadata.mds: Already loaded but when I go to my Activity Monitor and change my filter to All Processes and search for mds I don't see anything, is there a way to force mds to start? I've tried everything on these sites: *=URL=* http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/15/spotlight-wont-work-fix-a-broken-spotlight-menu-with-these-troubleshooting-tips/
Have an Automator Application as a 'Login Items' to 'Connect to Servers' (AFP). On login it runs, connects the servers, but does not add them to the Finder Side Bar under 'Devices'.
How many different email addresses can be associated with one Apple ID FaceTime account?
I just got a new numeric keyboard for my Mac Mini but when I press Shift + 2, I don't get the at sign (@)--instead, it's a double quote. Then, Shift + 4 shows a euro instead of $, Shift + 6 an ampersand (&) instead of a ^, etc. How do I fix this?
I am using a commandline script to add items to the dock via scripts http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23653/add-item-to-dock
Yesterday I was looking through my mail, then suddenly I no longer had connection to my router. My son's iPad 2 was working well and any other computers and laptops could still access the Internet fine. Thinking this was only temporary and was late at night already, I waited for the next day to see if it resolved itself the next day. It did not. I hard rebooted the iPad 2, restarted the router, and tried to refresh the WiFi list by making the iPad 2 forget my home network and retyping the password. No success. I did an All Settings reset through the General menu and the problem continues to persist and I am thinking I might have to reformat the iPad 2 or sent it to the Apple Store as a last resort. When I check the WiFi settings, it is able to see the name of my router and many others, and when I attempt to connect to it, it simply is attempting to connect, but is simply stuck there. Any other methods to try would be appreciated.
Is there a way to add new data to the maps ecosystem introduced in iOS 6? For example, is there a way to add my own business to the map so everyone can find it? Also, can I add other point of interest like landmarks or a café that isn't on the maps to the publically visible maps? If this is not possible, can I do the same thing just for me and share it with friends? Update
I'm having issues with Mountain lion in which I am unable to use my non-Apple keyboard's function keys, i.e. F1, F2 etc. Upon firing up System Preferences ➤ Keyboard, this is what I'm greeted with. In prior versions of the operating system there had been an option here to Use all F1, F2 keys as standard function keys... ...which enabled me to utilize the Functions keys, as expected, instead of triggering whatever "Hot Key" usually hijacks that binding ordinarily.
I'm looking to purchase a HDMI cable online for use with my AppleTV. I asked the seller just to be on the safe side, would this cable work with an AppleTV and he said it will not work.
I am notice some games using Apple Magic Trackpad do not respect tap to click as opposed to the physical button click. I run OS X 10.8.4 and specifically Endless Space running on Steam fails to respect tap to click. The only click it registers is the click with pressure in the lower area of the apple magic trackpad. Is there any way to get tap to click to work inside the games?
I know how to tell Finder to show hidden files, but when I try to open a file in Sublime Text, the GUI that pops up do not let me see hidden files. How do I tell it to show me hidden files?
I am looking to restore my current iPhone from iCloud because I've accidentally deleted WhatsApp and want to recover the conversations. I am nervous to do a reset in case I lose more than I bargained for. Does everything come back to your phone if you reset and restore from icloud. I have a back up as of yesterday and have now turned it off so that it doesn't back up again before I can restore. I have googled this and everything is to do with new set up. I saw your post re this but wanted to double check before I click "reset" thanks
In Mountain Lion (at least, maybe elsewhere too): Enter Mission Control to see all windows, and all spaces. Drag a window or a stack of windows to a space For me, the first attempt at this fails reliably; the space doesn't get darkened focus appearance, window springs back to original location on mouseup: The second attempt succeeds reliably; space darkens, window moves on mouseup:
Im a new OSX user, and coming from Windows if I click a menu item which has a child popout menu I expect it to open the child not close the whole menu. This seems to be system wide This seems to be within the main menu bar and not context menus, is there a setting I can change to stop the click closing the menu?
When pressing cmd + Tab the mouse can steal focus of a program icon. This is frustrating. Is there a setting to make the cmd + Tab ignore the mouse?
In the iTunes Store, specifically in regards to movies, what does this mean? "When purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud" I'm seeing it on the individual movie page for the new Indiana Jones bundle Can the movie only be downloaded once? Can I download the 720p version now, and then download the 1080p version later? I don't really care about streaming from the cloud; I have a Mac mini setup as an iTunes "server", I'm just concerned that I'd only be able to download one version, one time.
I'm using Davmail as my way of connecting to Exchange 2003 on my corporate network, however while others are having success. I am unable to set it up to work with iCal and Reminders because I receive the error that "iCal cannot connect to the server "localhost". I am able to connect to it during the setup process and it "sees" the calendar. I can also connect to localhost in Thunderbird w/ Lightning installed.
While reading "Is it possible to hide the dock on a per-application basis?", I noted that according to the documentationLSUIPresentationMode, setting LSUIPresentationMode to value 1 or 2 (in an application's Info.plist) should mean that "system UI elements in the content area of the screen are hidden", and (it is implied) that this includes the Dock. In practice setting this key to values 1 or 2 appears to do nothing (neither the dock nor anything else disappears), while values 3 and 4 behave as documented.
Can you create an Apple ID with the iCloud email address it comes with? (if I enable it)
I'm using an external monitor, so most of the time I've got the MacBook Air's internal screen dimmed to 0. But it doesn't switch off completely at 0 brightness as I can still see some graphical elements. They're hardly discernible but still there. I was wondering if this is normal. Unfortunately I couldn't find any other way to disable the built-in screen.
I see as of 2.0 MacPorts is hosting pre-built binaries, which it would install by default if licensing is present and compatible. I'm looking for a more current version of rsync than ships by default with Macs, and has the necessary patches (which I believe are missing in the rudix makefile) and I would then distribute it like a regular install, for example nesting in a NetBoot or pushing out over a patch management solution instead of installing locally. Where can I download the prebuilt binary, which I'm assuming I could treat like a package install, including man pages?
I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac mini, both running Mountain Lion. This problem, however, started when I had Lion. I can remote in to my MacBook Pro just fine from my iPhone and iPad. But I can't remote into my Mac mini. It started out just fine and I could remote into the Mac mini from my iPhone, iPad as well as my MacBook Pro. Later (I was still on Lion), I could still log in from my iDevices but no longer could from my MacBook Pro. This behavior continued after installing Mountain Lion. Now, I can't remote in from anywhere. I want to avoid doing a clean install, but I will I have to.
This is probably just something I have to live with, but with Safari 6 Apple made the address bar different from every other text field on the OS, in that a single click (at least when it's displaying a URL) selects the entire contents of the text field rather than placing the insertion point. It's probably a long shot, but is there a defaults write command or similar that fixes this?
I'm running Mac OS 10.8.1 and have a (personal) Gmail and a (work) Google mail account setup inside Mail client. Every few days (weekly?) Mail seems to forget my personal gmail password and I have to re-enter it again.
Whenever I try to run a Java program with a GUI through Terminal using the `java' command, I get the following error: Note that this doesn't affect the program at all (as far as I know). It compiles and runs fine, but it just blurts out this error as it boots. I tried a bunch of different things, such as re-installing Java or changing permissions for that file, but nothing worked. I've done some more research in the mean time, and correct me if I'm wrong here, the megazoomer thing has to do with the green magnification button of windows, right? I run on OS X 8.1, with my Java version being: So yeah, if any of you know what this is, what's causing it, and how to fix it, then any and all input would be greatly appreciated!
I have a Microsoft laser mouse, which was nice and smooth in OS X, until I installed IntelliPoint for OS X in an attempt to make the scroll wheel nicer. The result is I hate the mouse movement/tracking now, no matter what I set the speed to in the settings it's horrible. I uninstalled IntelliPoint, but it made no change.
I would like to run a screen saver as my desktop background. How can I do this?
I am in college studying software development and working towards my college degree thanks to the United States of America Veterans Administration Vocational Rehabilitation program called Chapter 31. My old original Macbook Pro is near dead and no longer upgradable on the software or hardware side. The VA has offered to purchase a PC laptop for me (Because my syllabi says computer required), but I do not want to go backwards. I have a lot invested in OS X software and Mac peripherals, not to mention I prefer to program in that environment. PC vs. Mac costs are so drastically different that I must validate my request for a new Macbook Pro. In my request to the VA, I stated the above and some other topics but they requested more validation. Can anyone recommend issues, reasons, etc. to help me validate this purchase by the VA for school?
I just installed byobu on mountain lion by running The install seems good. But byobu is trying to use 'readlink -f' which is an illegal option with OS X and any other BSD system (I think). Is there any kind of hack I can do to get around this?
I have a household with an iMac that has 1 account that automatically logs on, and 1 iTunes account. The itunes account has 2 different libraries, although the only difference is some of the (non-DRM) music. There is an iPad shared by many people, and a phone used by one person. What is the easiest way to sync things like music between all machines while keeping things like notes on the phone private, but still being able to back them up to the iMac? Would prefer not to use iCloud if possible, as it looks complicated for the people I am setting it up for.
I have a problem with my contacts synching between iPhone and iCloud. There is a number of contacts that appears with the tag iCloud in my phone, although they arent on the iCloud website or my contacts app in OSX. Here is how the contact looks on my iPhone. That same contact does not appear on iCloud. On bottom of contact says:
Is there a way to set up Mac OS X (10.7) to automatically reboot after kernel panics? Yes, it shouldn't kernel panic, I know. But it does. I've replaced all the RAM in the system, ran memtest and smart test but it still crashes about once a week. No 3rd party kernel modules loaded. It would be almost not annoying if it was automatically rebooting, hence the question.
I wrote a patch/utility that disables OS X's default functionality of starting iTunes when the play button is pressed. This utility basically modifies the Remote Control Daemon (rcd) and comments out the Apple Script command to start iTunes. This has worked fine until 10.7, but with 10.8 rcd now has code signature. The patch now causes Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid) after the executable is patched.
I want to enter a short film in a NZ student film competition. I want to include a scene where a girl works on an Apple MacBook. Is it okay to show the Apple branding/logo in the film?
I'm running the latest OS X (10.8.1). Yesterday I discovered the Spotlight Comments feature, so I went through many of my Applications and put useful comments in that field. For example, on Music Manager.app, I put the spotlight comment "google music", since it's Google Music's manager app and I would want that to appear in my search results.
I use OS X 10.8, I type the following but still I cannot see any hidden files like .bash_history, .Trash, .cups, .gem etc. in user directory.
As far as I understood Apple provides only Java 6 for Mountain Lion. Here I found how to install and use Java 7.
On my ML MBP, '/opt' is somehow 'hidden'. In the finder, it shows in gray. In various applications, it's invisible from a file selection dialog box. Get Info and ls -l show now flags that corresponds to this behavior. Is there any way to turn it off?
It seems to be that in OS X, whenever you are out of ram the system happily swaps to disk. This easily becomes an disaster due to the fact that the swapped out memory eventually fills my drive. On my Macbook Air with 2GB ram and 64GB disk this is a major problem.
When I click on the Reminders icon in the dock it will not open. The console logs only one entry:
I learned that a MacBook Air's built-in screen turns off when I close the lid so I can continue working on an external display set to be primary. But the MacBook Air has a heat system that requires it to be open to work properly. Heat accumulates faster when it is in clamshell mode. Is there any way to turn off just the built-in screen without closing the lid but keep the external display active?
I would like my WiFi to automatically disconnect when I plug an Ethernet cable into my Mac. How would I go about this?
So if I am not using Homebrew, I can safely remove it?
OK, I'm having a similar problem to: -bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but it's not the same problem. I'm getting the same result. I've already verified that it's not the com.apple.quarantine flag.
I am using Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and one of the finder features that really annoys me is that when i try to sort files by 'Date Created' in icon view it separates them into sections such as 'Yesterday', 'Previous 7 Days' etc. and uses a cover flow like effect to browse through them. These sections mean that to browse i have to scroll along each section then move down to the next and scroll along that one. Is there any way to stop finder from using this feature? Thanks in advance, Ben.
I'll soon be traveling to set up a Mac for my elderly mother. I'll need to later be able to control it from outside the network. I already use Apple Remote Desktop to control other Macs on my network, but i don't know how to penetrate the remote network to get to her computer.
I have a brand new external hard drive which frequently ejects itself on a regular basis (every ~20 minutes or so), seemingly only when I have Aperture open (my Aperture library is located on the external hard drive). The disk works perfectly fine for long periods of time when I am not using Aperture.
I'm running fsck_hfs on a very large volume. Unfortunately, there's an issue it appears to be unable to fix -- it reports it, loops back to start with Rechecking..., and reports it again, ad infinitum. I've tried adding the -r ("rebuild catalog btree") flag to fsck, but the issue still recurs.
This is the required hidden gems questions for iOS 6. Here are the rules: One feature per answer Also include how you use the feature or why it is useful
How do I delete a TV episode off of my iPhone that I downloaded from iTunes. I don't want it to stay in my iTunes and I don't have a computer. So please what do I do? It has filled almost all the space on my phone.
Let's say your work situation isn't going so well, and you suspect the end is near. How would you prepare a script (or similar) to remove your personal files and applications from your work computer (OSX Lion) if you only had a few minutes to gather your things and leave the building? Of course, you want to leave the machine functional, and all your work files intact, because the situation is bad but you aren't a jerk.
My Downloads folder in my dock has been showing a download/progress bar at 50% since yesterday. There aren't any half-complete files in my Download folder, Google Chrome isn't awaiting any action to accept or discard an upcoming download nor am I copying anything into that folder. Here's a screenshot of my dock. The only files in my Downloads folder are OS X generated dotfiles: A few things that I tried to fix the problem (unsuccessfully): killall Dock repairing permissions rebooting removing the icon from the dock and putting it back in downloading something to see if the new progress would overwrite the problem How do I get rid of this progress bar that seemingly does nothing but exist? I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.1 on a MacBook Pro 9,1.
I instructs my Apple friend to get Sshfs, i.e. to mount an outside target, to home -directory but he cannot find sshfs for Mac. Dose there exist some substitute or some Apple-compiled version for Sshfs? If it exists, how can my friend install it?
It has been reported that the contract between Google and Apple to supply maps for iOS has not been renewed (or perhaps already has or is about to expire). Furthermore, it's clear that Google charges significant amounts of money for businesses like Apple to use the maps API so it's not clear to me that this data feed can continue to older OS indefinitely.
On any contact in iPhone, when I tap on the Facebook category, it opens my Lloyds bank app. Why?
In iOS 6, the built-in Maps application no longer provides public transportation information. Instead, it kicks you to 3rd party apps that provide that functionality. I'm currently running iOS 5, and won't update until I know there's a way to easily look up bus routes under iOS 6. How can I determine if there are 3rd party transit apps that cover my region? I'm being deliberately vague on the region I'm living in, as I want a generic answer that will be useful to public transit users in all regions.
Lately I'm spending a lot of time in London, even though I'm not British. I rely heavily on the iPhone Google-based maps for transit information, I tell it where I need to get to, and it recommends a bus, tube, etc.
I want to rename multiple files at once. For example: into I am quite familiar with the terminal, if there is no app which is quite good in renaming files.
My Apple friends says that they cannot compile LaTeX. I don't have a Mac at hand to test what the problem is. How can I get something like pdflatex to get LaTeX compiled on a Mac such as a MacBook or iMac? How can I get something like pdflatex to get LaTeX compiled on a Mac such as a MacBook or iMac?
I have periodically noticed that my display has been a bit dim, and have brought it up to maximum brightness... only later to find that my display was about halfway on brightness. I can't rule out a stray keystroke, but it seems to be several notches down a lot more often than I would accidentally hit F1. As far as I can tell this happens when the computer remains on and I remain logged on.
I've just upgraded to iOS 6 and Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Since it should be one of the new features, I've successfully set up my iPhone and my iPad to receive iMessages, so that I can now read on the iPad what a friend of mine is writing to me on my phone number.
I've just purchased a 2012 13" MacBook Air. I hope to run Windows 7 in Parallels 8 to access Office 2010, including Outlook 2010.
I have a 2006 Macbook running Snow Leopard. I suddenly noticed that my computer's battery would be at a different level when I woke it up than it was when I closed the lid to put it to sleep. After leaving it on a table next to my bed a few times, I realized that my computer was randomly waking up (evidenced by the Apple logo lighting up) when it was laying on a flat, level surface with nothing on top of it or anything touching it. I tried switching the settings so that I have to click the "sleep" option in the menu rather than relying on it to automatically go to sleep when the lid is closed, but the problem persists. Why won't my Macbook stay asleep?
Any ideas? The keyboard was paired with another MacBook Pro (I don't have access to it anymore). Is there any method to 'reset' the keyboard to factory settings?
I just updated to iOS 6 and I have this springboard app that I cannot delete. I've tried restarting, and opening the app just ends up in it closing itself. Any advice? By the way, I am using an iPod Touch 4 that has never been jailbroken.
One of the new features listed in the iOS 6 release notes is automatic movie mode for improved video sound quality What does this feature do?
is there an easy-to-use karaoke training software for Mac OS X? My point is, I select the .kar file (or the vocals-only .mp3) and I sing against, then I listen to what I've actually sang?
My wife's iPad, which has been working perfectly since she bought it almost a year ago, has, as of a few moments ago, stopped connecting to our home WiFi network. My laptop (2010 MBA) and her laptop (2012 MBA), both iPhones (4s) and my iPad (New iPad WiFi) and my brother's laptop (2011 MBP) all connect to our WiFi perfectly.
I recently upgraded to iOS 6 on my iPhone 4, and since then I am unable to connect to any WiFi. When I try to connect to WiFi, it briefly connects, then brings up a dialog to a bogus Apple website. What is going on? I don't have a proxy server setup, or anything like that. So far I have: Rebooted access points Restarted Phone "Reset Network Settings" on my iPhone Here is what is brought up:
I did an Over The Air update on my iPhone 4S this morning to IOS6. But it has showed me someone elses phone number after the update.
I am choosing to download and utilize the OS X 10.8.2 dmg update method, since I have multiple Macs to update. For one reason or another, the download did not finish completely through the web browser. I continued and completed the download with wget --continue <url> in a terminal.
Backstory: There is a drive that comes to mind out there that has two FireWire 800 ports. My question is related to performance of the second port. In my case, I would like to hook up an external sound card to my MacBook Pro. I am already maxing out my USB ports with other devices and I and using Thunderbolt to power another display. So my only option is to use FireWire, which is the choice anyways. Question: Will using a dual FireWire 5400 RPM HDD with the additional port (daisy chain) affect the stability, quality or bus speed to the external sound card?
I just downloaded ios6 and the latest version of podcasts app. when i look at all of my podcasts, subscriptions is turned off. Is there anyway to keep my subscriptions in sync between itunes on my computer and iphone podcasts app?
I'm willing to use numbers to create a chart. Unfortunately it is creating the chart using the rows of my data source and I can find how to tell it to use columns instead. Do you know how I could set that?
I made a huge mistake of upgrading to iOS 6 today. I hate the release and I want OUT. When I try to downgrade by restoring to IPSW for 5.1.1 it tells me that the device isn't eligible for the build. What do I have to do to make iTunes accept this IPSW file and run the install? You can read how to downgrade to iOS 5.1.1 on my blog : http://antonpug.com/blog
I use a MacBook Air with the Mountain Lion(10.8.1). After upgrading from Lion, my Reliance Data card which is a ZTE AC2373 has stopped connecting. Is there a solution?
When I add an event to my iCloud calendar, all the colors but purple have been dimmed for some reason, is there a setting I need to change to get the colors to stand out like they used to?
A newly bought Mac mini was working perfectly for 4 days with a single user. Now when I tried to login, the screen turns blank (the Apple icon appears when first started, with that background color) for a moment and jump back to the login screen again. When I try the wrong password entry, then I get the known shake-effect as expected. What is the reason I cannot login and how can i solve this?
OS X > 10.8 When right click a file, select 'Open With', some applications are duplicate. See screenshot below:
I would like to upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS6 but I'm wondering if I will get performance loss (as when I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4 : terrible). Can someone confirm that it won't affect my day to day use?
I cannot click anything in Midnight Commander now. If I do it - it selects some area only.
I access my Synology NAS via AFP and can open/edit all of my files directly on it. But when I copy a file to my desktop I can't open it. Finder tells me I don't have appropriate permissions. When I look at the permissions (CMD + I) on … (unknown): read & write everyone: no permissions staff: read & write everyone: no permissions ls -l will print (for both paces): ----rwx--- 1 suntrop staff 35354 4 Jul 10:32 File.docx Is this a problem on the Mac or Synology or my settings?
When I launch a command from the shell as super user I always get back the following message: I tried to unset all the DYL*** variables and verify it with the set command, as suggested here. However it doesn't fixed my problem. I'm running 10.8.2 with Xcode 4.5 and the command line tools updated today. Please find below my .profile, I don't have a .bash_profile To be noticed that also if I comment the line in which I export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH the problem persists.
Last night, my hard drive crashed and it is dead. I don’t have any single iTunes backup – I use my iPhone to sync apps music, photos, etc.
iOS 6 is finally out, and so is Xcode 4.5 that comes with the iOS 6 SDK. Unfortunately, after upgrading to Xcode 4.5, all the previously installed SDK versions have been removed and are to be re-downloaded manually. Same goes for the CLI tools.
I'm trying to merge two folders with the same name but different contents in Finder on OSX Mountain Lion. The folder is located on my iMac and I am dragging a dropping to my External Harddrive where there is a folder with the same name. I was getting the option to "Merge" previously but now it only shows "Replace". I've tried holding down the option key and it still doesn't work. If i drag it the reverse way (from external HD to my iMac) it works. I also created a new user profile and it works fine both ways on there, so it's making me think I've changed a setting on my current profile but I can't see any options in any of the preferences. It sounds like a little thing but it really bugs me and is an inconvenience so if anybody can help I'll be very grateful. Thanks
I have downloaded some third party software, should I just put under /Applications or should I put under my home folder, e.g. ~/MyApps/?
This must be a bug, or Apple has completely separated iTunes podcasts from podcasts on iOS6 devices. If that's the case, I'm not sure what the 'syncing' option in the podcast app settings is for.
I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and cleaning up my almost full hard-drive using the free tool Disk Inventory X. I stumbled upon the /data/db folder which weighs more than 600Mb. Before deleting some of its content I'd like to understand: what is it? Is it system critical? Note that I'm a web developer and I often create databases on my computer. It seems that the name of the files matches some of the databases I previously created, but not sure it's a 100% match.
I have Contact cards for my father- and brother-in-law, let's call them John Smith and Johnny Smith (he's a Junior). My father-in-law doesn't use Facebook, but my brother-in-law does, and since he goes by John Smith on Facebook, Mountain Lion associated my father-in-law's card with his account (even though I had birthdays for each card - now my father-in-law has two birthdays...).
Is there a way to enable Air Play Mirroring on the iPad without (!) double tapping the home button?
The helpful companion to the OSX notifications center Growl per default logs all received notifications. You can define how big the log may get or disable logging in the application. Since the latest update Growl offers to forward all notifications to the OS X Notification Center.
I have a development machine that another employee (who has left) purchased Xcode on. Now I want to update Xcode, but I don't have that employee's apple ID information. I signed out of the App Store and back in with my account, but it won't let me update or re-buy the app because it was originally bought with his account. Any ideas?
After the 10.7.5 update to Lion, I'm getting my name to appear in the menu bar. I don't particularly like it there. Any way to remove it?
Suppose I didn't have access to a Mac with pages. How can I convert a pages document to a word document using only a windows environment? Is there a freeware converter available?
I'm looking to close a deal on an iPhone. What I am having difficulty understanding is the difference between 16GB and 32GB. When does it matter if you have 32GB and 16GB?
I would like to ask you is it possible to somehow access all of Siri's history to view it or delete it?
For some reason I can't use MacPorts. So the question is if it's possible to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Snow Leopard w/o using MacPorts? Please don't offer MAMP or other bundles. Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know how I would create a user, maybe by email address, that would only be able to access a specific wiki on lion server? I'm trying to allow access for clients (not OS X clients) that are associated with a wiki for a project we are collaborating on.
Is there a way to perform unit conversions from within Spotlight? For example I want to convert 1 ft^3 to cm^3 in spotlight.
I have an .ipa file in my Windows 8 Laptop. How can I run it on my Laptop.
I recently did a fresh install of 10.8. Prior to this install, I could rapidly tap twice on my touchpad and, on the second tap, drag the pointer to highlight text. Now, with this new install, that feature is missing. I tried looking in the trackpad settings but couldn't find anything to re-enable this feature.
I have been trying to use /usr/bin/security rather than hard coding login/password information into scripts. For example, here's how you get the password for 'pinboard.in' (Note: Someone who is better at grep/awk can probably combine those last two lines, just be sure to consider for when a password may have a " in it — or a space.) What I can't do is figure out how to retrieve the password for a Wi-Fi network if all I know is the SSID. I have even tried specifying the kind of data I am looking for with -D: security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -D "AirPort network password" -s MySSIDhere but all I get is this security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain. All I have found via Google has been about adding SSID password information on the CLI, but I want to retrieve it.
I want to use an iOS device as a field recorder for an XLR microphone. However, I need to buy an adapter to plug in the mic via the headphone port. Which iOS devices support mic input (with the third band on the jack) via the headphone port?
I also have an Ubuntu Desktop computer with Latin American keyboard layout. Latin American Spanish keyboards have the acute accent character ´ right after the P key. In order to insert an accented vowel, you type first the acute accent, and then the vowel. Similarly to insert the ñ/Ñ characters, one would type the ~ character and then the n/N letter. Everything fine until here.
I saw that mountain lion now allows full screen mirroring over airplay to an Apple TV. For awhile when I want to play something on my tv from my computer I've just run an HDMI to DVI cable to my laptop, especially since some things I can't stream through my PS3 (doesn't like anything purchased in itunes) And I know the Apple TV would not stream just any file from my computer. But since I can mirror audio and video am I now able to stream anything to the Apple TV by playing it on my laptop screen and using mirroring? I just saw this thread which would imply that even if this would work, it won't since both my Mac Pro and laptop are pre 2011 macs.
Immediately before I downloaded and updated to iOS 6, my phone charged in my computer's tower front USB port. Immediately following, it will not. I plugged it into my wall charger at home and it charges fine. Has anyone run into this and/or solved it yet?
I always used MacPorts to install and maintain my GCC compilers and other programs. Now I've heard about Fink and Homebrew. It seems these two utilities are gaining ground in the Mac community, but I don't understand the difference between them.
I've updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and now I can no longer play music when connected to my car stereo via USB. In the past, the stereo gave me the option to use either "Head Mode", where the function of the iPhone/iPod is controlled through the head unit, or "iPod Mode", where the device functions normally and just sends an audio signal through the USB cable to the stereo.
I am trying to use the Kindle iPad app as a storage base for all of my PDFs. But I'm disappointed that I can't seem to find a way to search the text within a PDF using the Kindle iPad App. Am I missing something? Seems like a critical, missing feature.
The iTunes App Store on my laptop computer opens in English. The credit card tied to my iTunes account is a US address. My iPad an I are in Mexico. My iPad is set to English for language in the general setting, but when I open the iTunes app on my iPad (iOS 6.0), it is all in Spanish with no way to change it. What do I do to get the iTunes app to appear in English?
I have an app that won't die: it's gone from the dock, but the window remains (with a beachball, if I mouse over it). It's using no CPU, but I want it to go away. Is there something stronger than "Force Quit", to really really kill an app?
My brother has an iPhone 3GS. The upgrade to iOS 5 has considerably slowed down the device. Will the upgrade to iOS 6 slow down the device even more? Will iOS 6 work well (not any different from iOS 5) on an iPhone 3GS?
Not sure if this is suitable for Stack Overflow or here. I'm having some problems with GDB in Xcode and I wonder if it isn't a problem with what version I'm on. I have Snow Leopard and Xcode 3.2.6. The GDB version that I believe is being used by Xcode is: My version in Fink, for example, is: I believe I can't go any higher than Xcode 3.2.6 without at least upgrading to Lion.
I am used to RedQuits as I like Chrome to behave the same way under different OSes (i.e. closing last window quits application), but I can't make it work on a new iMac with Lion. Others have similar issues with RedQuits and Mountain Lion.
My father updated his iPhone software to iOS 6. Now his wife is recieving his text messages. We tried going to settings and turning off iMessage but that just stopped his phone from getting some of the messages.
I have a user connected via iCal to an overworked old CalDAV server (running OS X Server 10.5.8) who was doing fine in OS X 10.6.8. The data (from a number of groups, and his own individual calendar) would sometimes take a while to refresh, but it always came down eventually.
Didn't realize I had ran out of home screen space on my iPad and I purchased a new app. The App store shows it is installed, and if I search for it I can find it, but I cannot find it on any of my screens. I've since deleted some other apps and consolidated some into folders, so there is space, but I still cannot find it to place it. 1st Generation iPad iOS version 5.1.1 Suggestions?
I speak English with most people but correspond with my mother in Spanish. Is there any way I can get autocomplete on my iPhone to work for words in both languages?
I've recently setup a CardDav account with a hosted Atmail Cloud account. It works perfectly on iOS, and seems to pull in some of the contacts, however every time Contacts re-syncs I am getting the following error:
So I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS6 today (using the built in updater on the iPhone). The phone did some stuff for a while and then rebooted with a progress bar which never updates. If I leave it long enough it reboots and then shows that bar again.
I have two Dell DVI-D monitors that I'd like to use with my new Macbook Pro (not Retina). I have a single DVI-D -> Mini DP adapter, but obviously that only accounts for a single monitor.
I have an iPhone 3G I've purchased from a neighbor a few days ago. After he gave it to me I wanted to update it to the newest firmware (4.2.1 and I wasn't sure what firmware was on it before).
Is there a list of which cities have 3D flyover data that is actually 3D and not an attempt to map a satellite image on false perspective? If not, could we crowd source this in a wiki-type answer?
If I have an iPhone running iOS 4 that I want to run iOS 5, but don't want to lose Google Maps by upgrading to iOS 6, is this possible?
I found most of the below on *=URL=* but I believe it relates to OSX10.6 (or earlier) given that Mission control seems to have replaced expose and spaces. I am looking to modify it to turn off all Mission Control functionality, if possible. I tried to modify it to tell "Mission Control" preferences but couldn't even get that far (One of the errors was "Expected end of line but found application constant or consideration"), so hopefully someone with a better grasp of Applescript / the objects available in OS X 10.7 can help me out.
I do not have Internet where I stay, so I want to download all of my photos in my Picasa album to my 32GB iPod for offline viewing. How would I do that?
I have iPod Touch 8GB 4th generation version. I got a notification that iOS 6 is available for the iPod. I have downloaded new iOS 6 but it's not getting installed.
I am trying to compress the Mail database by running the sqlite3 vacuum command. But I get the following error: SQL Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
After upgrading to iOS I don't see any iCloud playing list in my iPhone. The lists are OK in iTunes on my two OS X devices but not on the iPhone. In the Music settings: iTunes Match is switched on show all music is also switched on Any hint?
I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility. This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save to the Desktop regardless of the setting of location. Here's what defaults says:
I've been having a problem with installing and updating apps after upgrading to iOS 6 on my iPad (3rd gen). When I click the Install or Update button the button, it turns inactive with "Installing" word on it, while the app's icon on the SpringBoard says "Waiting".
I set a global sockets proxy via 'Settings'-'Network'. Then scutil always tries to revert my setting, then prompt a dialog to ask my password to allow this change. I can cancel it, but it will be popped up in few seconds.
I just updated my iPhone from iOS6 beta 4 to the final release, I restored via iTunes. I made an iCloud backup right before doing this, seeing this is what iCloud is for I figured I didn't need to backup using iTunes. The restoring process went fairly smooth, but after I started restoring from iCloud the problems begun, restore my settings took almost 2 hours, even though the Time Remaining said it would only take 45 min. Once my iPhone booted up all my apps popup up, waiting to be downloaded, now I'm not sure what they're waiting for, but they've been waiting for hours. I noticed a few apps started downloading, I also saw a few apps which downloaded very quickly and then just got removed from the screen ... Now one app is just stuck on "loading", preventing other apps from starting. I've already tried all the solutions given online, but nothing is helping. Anyone else experiencing this?
Since I have to use Outlook from now on (policy of my employer), I have deleted all my accounts in Mac Mail. Nevertheless, there are a lot of files in the folder "~/Library/Mail Downloads". Why aren't they deleted as well? Can I delete them manually?
Can I access the contents of the "Data" folder on computers other than Macs? For instance, can I access the Time Capsule from my Android phone?
Is there anyway to remove or hide the new VIP folder in the native Mail app on iOS 6? I use lots of filters on my Gmail backend and have no use for it.
I have installed Mountain Lion recently. I have been using 4th generation iPod Touch for development, and it was working fine.
I wish to use my iPhone without having a computer. However, the iTunes music store is not available in India. So, is there any way for me to directly add music to my iPhone Music app without using a computer? I do not want streaming solutions, or any 3rd party apps to store the music. I couldn't find any way to do this, but thought I'll confirm here once.
As I understand there is no official software to work with HTC phone on the mac. So how can I manage my phone contacts, create backups of my phone and so on?
Typing adsfsadf on this edit box now... and there is no spell checking. But in the context menu spell checking is activated, and the correct language is selected. The same issue exists on about 90% of the sites I visit.
I'm processing images put into specific folder. For that I run script with launchd.plist put into ~/Library/LaunchAgents Everything work smoothly. But I want put resulting files into subfolder of that folder. Folder is not empty, it has subfolder, so my script is run over and over again every 10 seconds. There is nothing to process. But launchd runs script ten times a minute wasting resources. How can I hide from launchd subfolders in folders from QueueDirectories parameter? Filenames are arbitrary so I can't use WatchPaths parameter. I believe parameter like maxdepth should exist. Any solution?
I noticed that things in my clipboard survive a reboot - love it, very convenient. But I'd guess that's written to disk, and if I had physical access to your machine, I could reboot it and access the file the has the clipboard contents in it. It's gotta be secured in some way, right?
I can’t figure out how to view show notes in the iOS Podcasts app. Previously, I could just tap on the album art in the now playing screen, and it would display the show notes just like lyrics to song. But now, tapping the album art brings up a tape deck. Where from can I read the show notes?
I have a scanned PDF document on an iPad 2 (iOS 6) that I need to rotate but cannot find any easy way to do this. How would I engage such an endeavor?
Here another reason #4, but on the bssid. No idea what this means yet.. I tried resetting the main Cisco Router, the extender and or both and reconnecting, but for the last hour or so I have been unable to reconnect. Also get this error a lot:
I'm trying to mount an Ext3 external USB hard drive in OS X 10.7.4. I installed OSXFUSE (with macfuse compability layer), which worked fine. After that I tried to install EXT2FS but the install processs always aborted. Any ideas?
I'm looking for a software for designing 3D graph (graph with x,y,z axis). I found OmniGraphSketcher but it seems that it allows me to design only 2D graph.
My machine (MacBookPro2,2) doesn't support 10.8 and I would rather hold back on doing the upgrade (possible with hacks). So is it possible to stay on 10.7/Lion and get iMessage working?
I made the mistake of using my personal app store account when setting up my school's computers. Of course, there didn't seem to be a choice... now that I've done that, how do I permit the users of each of the computers to use their own app store accounts to run updates?
There are lots of wireless mice out there that work with Macs, but most require an extra USB thingy that takes up a USB port on my Macbook (and most Macbooks have few USB ports). What search terms should I use to look for a wireless mouse that uses Mac's built-in bluetooth?
I am about to replace the hard disk of an iBook G4 (a 12" 1.33 GHz model) with a SSD. The guides I find online, such as this one, describe a rather long procedure where both the bottom and top covers of the case are removed. However, the disk itself should be accessible from the top. Is the removal of the bottom cover really required? And, if so, why?
How can I set up a dual Thunderbolt on a 2012 Mac mini server? I daisy chained them but the second stays black. Do I need a Thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor, from which vendor, how can I not lose resolution? Or does this setting work only with the non-server Mac mini with the AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics card? http://www.apple.com/macmini/features.html
I just upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 6. I am trying to access the App Store for the very first time ever (trying to get the free iBooks app). It keeps telling me I'm using the wrong password. I did not enter a password during the upgrade to iOS 6. I think the problem has to do with the fact that the original password I entered (in iOS 5) is still stored somewhere on the iPad 2 because, using my notebook computer (not a Mac), I can sign on to Apple ID maintenance site using the new password I set up there. I tried setting my Apple ID on the web (via my notebook) to the one I think is saved on my iPad 2, but it says it's not complex enough (it had two identical characters in a row). How do I change the Apple ID password that (I think) is stored on the iPad 2? I have made a few changes to the iPad settings, but not many because I am just starting to use it.
I just got my first Macbook Pro yesterday and one of the first thing I did was to download and install Mozilla Firefox web browser onto my laptop. After I dragged the firefox icon to the application folder, everything was fine except I was left with a "Firefox 15.0.1.dmg" file that I didn't know what to do.
Is there a recommended solution for when Guided Access fails to respond to triple-click of the home button? I set this up for a kids app for my son, and despite triple-clicking the home button several times, I am failing to get a response to prompt for my guided access pin number.
Previously I asked if it was possible to do something similar to alt+tab or command+tab using the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard to quickly switch between apps like one might do on a desktop computer. That question related to iOS 5. The short answer was no. Now that iOS 6 is out, is there anything in iOS 6 that would make this possible?
What exactly is the difference between using logger and syslog -s? According to its manpage, logger provides interface to the system log module, but I can't really see the point given that syslog(1) seems to be just that, only much more powerful.
On OS X 10.7, I could press the Return key while in preview to see hundreds of little thumbnails of the pages in a pdf document. I can't show you a screenshot now, since I'm not running Lion, because in Mountain Lion, this feature seems to be missing. I used this feature for navigating through long books. For example, if I read a few chapters on another computer, I can remember the page number (or general location), then I can press Return on my Mac, and scroll through the book to select the correct page. I'm guessing there's an easier way to do this now, or that at least Apple gives us the option of turning the thumbnails feature back on. If not, I will be seriously pissed.
I accidentally asked iTunes to download all my music from match to the iPad. There are 2500+ songs in the queue now and they won't download before my flight tomorrow. The music downloads are blocking more important app upgrades. I can't cancel each one individually since it would take hours. How can you cancel all downloads in one go? (iOS 6)
I live in a duplex, and my address is of the form <Suite Letter>-<House Number> <Street Name>. When I search for my address in the new Apple Maps app, it only seems to locate my street, dropping the pin at some arbitrary location. What's going on?
In iTunes (Windows 7) Encrypt local backup is checked, and I can't remember the password. I don't need to restore my iPad; I just want to be able to back it up. If I attempt to uncheck this, iTunes prompts for my password. How can I start clean (without losing any data from my iPad, which has not been upgraded to iOS 6)?
I have iTunes 10.6.1 installed on my Mac. My mac is version 10.6.7, and I cannot upgrade it because it is on an image with software update disabled. I just updated to iOS 6, and obviously can't downgrade. iTunes 10.7 is the first version of iTunes to support iOS 6, and iTunes 10.7 requires Mac 10.6.8. I have access to both Windows and Linux (unrestricted, unlike on the Mac), but my library is stored on an external HDD formated to HFS+ (OS X Extended), meaning it won't work with Windows (I believe the same problem would occur with a Windoes VM in Linux). iTunes doesn't support Linux, so I can't use it there. Is there some other way I could sync them?
You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X. You have Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085). It can't be used on Mac OS X version 10.6.8 (Build 10K549)
How do I stop Mountain Lion from asking me to put in my password everytime I want to move/change folders/files etc? An example is "Finder want to make changes. Please enter your password to allow this"
I have upgraded to the new iOS 6. This is a new iPad.
I'd updated my Macbook to Mountain Lion, everything works fine. In fact, iPod Touch 4th generation is also visible in iTunes but iPod touch 3rd generation is not appearing in iTunes. Please find below use case: When I connect iPod touch (3rd gen)
I have been using a script that does not work anymore in mountain lion even though I have changed the words "address book" to "contacts". If you select all the contacts, and then use the script, it will find all those contacts that are not in a group for you. The short script is available at MacOSX hints: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051126084705352
I'm using iOS 6's new remote web inspector feature, which is pretty nice. Is there a way of forcing a page refresh on the remote iOS device from the desktop - it's just a bit easier then reaching over and refreshing the page on the device itself.
How can I reconfigure a LaCie Big Disk Extreme so that Mountain Lion will see both of its disks? Once, years ago, I accidentally did something bad to a LaCie device. Where normally its two disks appeared to Mac OS X as one larger disk, the accident caused the two smaller disks to appear. At the time, I chose to resolve the issue by reinstalling firmware with a LaCie-provided utility. Now: I probably need to 'break away' from that RAID-oriented firmware – intentionally, not accidentally. I don't want to create two volumes, neither can I place the disks in different enclosures. I want to work with the two separate disks with the current enclosure, so that I can experiment with things such as ZFS. When I last checked, in 2012, LaCie's firmware utility for this class of drive could not run on Lion. Data in this enclosure is, always will be, disposable.
Is there any method to make Safari (6) trying to connect to a website with HTTPS connection and switch to HTTP if HTTPS is not supported? (See HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox).
I've imported a document from Word. I have a problem removing the imported page numbers and adding mine. This is what I got:
I have both Facebook and Facebook Messenger installed on my 4th generation iPod Touch, and Facebook messenger doesn't seem to receive push notifications. The setting is on in the iOS settings, but it doesn't seem to affect anything.
I just got a macbook pro and i am trying to figure out if I should create multiple users for my family or just share one account. I like to keep all photos organized in one library and share access to music, videos, etc. Right now we are sharing 1 apple id (although we have different iphones) The issue is that if i want to use messages or other apps that are particular to a specific phone number then it would be nice to have each family member use their own solution. If i setup different accounts on my macbook can I still share all of my applications and data (like iphoto library, etc) ?
There are different solutions regarding the definition of environment variables that are stored in the launchd process, namely over at StackOverflow and Superuser. How do these solutions differ?
After the 10.8.2 update, keyboard and mouse input is hanging intermittently on my 2011 MacBook Air. It occurs in several applications (have tested with Safari and App Store). The keyboard input and mouse just stops working for a few seconds, then some of the typed text is input at the cursor. Does anyone know a solution to this or tip to help me find one? More details Here is a video of the problem by someone with a similar issue. Console log shows a lot of these
I am updating my address book on my MacBook, and filling in all the information on the cards for each contact. My contacts have both work and home email accounts listed under their name. I'd like to ensure that both are copied when I send out a mailer to them. Is there an option that will activate all emails on their card or only the one in first position?
On Mac OS X 10.8.2, shift-clicking the volume control menu extra causes a slider to come up. This slider's value is persistent, but different from the usual volume control's value. What does this other slider control?
The ringtones show up in iTunes, but iTunes says that it cannot find the songs in order to restore them to my iPhone. How do I get these ringtones back without having to go and redo it again?
Some time back I added some network disk mounts as Login Items for my MacBook Air (Mountain Lion). When I'm away from my network, though, I'm constantly bothered by warning boxes saying "Can't connect" to those mounts.
When I start Braid on my Retina Macbook Pro, the game will sometimes start normally, and I can play it, but other times only the bottom left corner of the game is visible, and the graphics look really ugly. The same happens with Trine 2.
I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 6.0. Every time I open Passbook, then touch the 'App Store' button, the App Store app is opened, but then I see the error "Cannot connect to iTunes Store". The App Store app works fine for other purposes if I open it from the home screen.
Bought my father a 64GB Macbook Air as an upgrade to his old Macbook, and thought it was wise to move his ~60GB photo collection (heavens knows why it is so big, bigger than my own collection on Flickr!) to the time capsule. Didn't realise iPhoto on Mountain Lion would need to upgrade it making it impossible for the old Macbook to access it.
I want to profile the execution of a program to see what in particular is slowing it down - whether it hits a memory cap or if my CPU is not powerful enough. Activity Monitor (the one that comes with OS X) is great, but I don't think it can record data (i.e. I think you can only see current RAM and CPU usage, not usage from the past). I want the usage broken down by process if possible, so I can control for other things spiking in usage. Do you know of any application that has this functionality?
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the display sleep function appears not to work, and the screen saver is flaky. I can leave my machine for a couple of hours and when I come back the screen is as I left it.
I recently acquired an early 2008 Macbook Air with a completely wiped hard drive, so there's no OS currently on the machine. It boots up into Recovery Mode I think it is, and a window comes up saying 'Mac OS X Utilities' and has the following options: Restore from Time Machine Backup Reinstall Mac OS X Get Help Online Disk Utility
After upgrading to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro, I noticed an update was available for iPhoto '11 (version 9.4) I went to App Store -> Updates and it downloaded and than hung. The message I received was iPhoto failed to download - Use the Purchases page to try again
I just updated my iPad 2 to to iOS 6 yesterday. Today when I tried to buy an app the usual way from the App Store, I got the message "Your account is not valid for use in US store. You must switch to the Indian store before purchasing." I am unable to update my old apps as well and am getting the same message. Any idea how I should switch to the Indian store?
I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 6. I suddenly activated Siri (because finally it comes in my language) and in this days I noticed that my iPhone battery life is less than previously.
I'm not sure if this was intentional, or if this is a problem, but when I open the App Store or Messages, they don't show up at all in the dock, but they run just fine otherwise. Why is this and how can I change this behavior?
Recently I got hold of a Mac OS 9.2.1 retail CD and would like to test drive it in a VM. Is that possible?
I have 2012 model mac book air. At home i want to have a 22"-24" screen for work purpose. I was wondering if i should just buy a dedicated monitor or a 24" flatscreen tv with HDMI input? My work is generally related to coding with some photo editing of family photos and watching movies. Also, are there any specific points which i need to consider while buying the monitor/tv so that it is compatible with my air.
Is it possible to map mouse buttons 3 and 4 to control system volume on a Mac? KeyRemap4Macbook doesn't seem to have the functionality, nor SizzlingKeys. I have them both. Is there some way to manually bind these buttons to control system volume?
I love using gmail through Google Sync on my iPhone because it supports PUSH through the Exchange protocol. See: *=URL=* Essentially, they provide an Exchange compatible server through m.google.com. I would like to setup Mail on OSX To use exchange as well, but have not been able to set it up properly.
When opening Safari I get this error:  Now I want to uninstall this extension, however it doesn't show up in the Extensions preferences:
I've been calling it the "keyboard dismissal button," but I'd like to know if it has an actual name. keyboard dismissal button http://id.khakionion.com/img/dismiss_keyboard.png
My 2010 MacBook Air shows a max display resolution of 1440 x 900. If I attach to a display like the Apple 27" with 2560-by-1440-pixel resolution, will i be limited to the what the macbook air can put out? I never understood if this is a video card limitation or a display limitation. I am looking to get more on a screen, not just bigger that I see on the MBA. Also, should i be looking for a monitor that is displayport or mini displayport since this is what I have or should i not worry since I can use a mini displayport to hdmi or dvi adaptor? PS, I also have a Lenovo that has displayport out on it that I will use the new display on too.
I am trying to find a replacement charging chip for my MacBook pro 5.5 (mid 2009). I have looked on eBay and can't find them. Does anyone know of a site that sells parts like this? Thank you.
I'm having an intermittent problem in which my Macbook Pro has been working fine for several days and many sleep/wake cycles but then it has a problem waking up from sleep. The disk spins up and the computer seems to be running, but the screen backlight doesn't light up and the computer is unresponsive.
Recently got a new macbook pro as an upgrade from an older macbook(white). I remember that there were restoration disks containing the installed OS in the packaging with the older machine. However, with the new machine there were no disks or any other storage media. In the future, if I needed to reinstall the OS, would I be forced to buy another copy from the App Store?
I want to put together a slideshow but i want to use pictures across multiple events. I see you can click on Slideshow on a particular event. Do I have to copy these picture all into a new "event" just to do a slideshow on it ?
Real quick, I own a Macbook Pro 2010. I recently purchased a new Razer Naga mouse, and aside from using it for gaming, I've been adding various keyboard shortcuts into my mouse's side buttons. Whenever I try using the buttons to control my Macbook's volume and for controlling music play, I'm noticing that the buttons register as F7 - F12 rather than what I'm intending. I was wondering, would anyone happen to know the exact keyboard commands in order to control the volume and music playing?
I see that once i put in my facebook credentials, i can see that when i go into albums it shows all of my facebook albums (when i drill into the album i see it then downloads the images). I can't seem to use any of these pictures for another album though. I get the following error:
I have four drives inside my Mac Pro. Bay 1: /dev/disk1s3 Bay 2: /dev/disk0s2 Bay 3: /dev/disk2s2 (also, my boot drive) Bay 4: /dev/disk3s2 and /dev/disk3s3
I have a MBP (2009 unibody) with Mountain Lion. I have iTunes Match, iCloud, blah blah blah. Now when I open iTunes, I'm able able stream down my music but I can't stream movies or TV shows like I can on my AppleTV. When I go to movies or TV all I get is a screen telling me how I can visit the store. How can I stream my purchased movies and TV shows? Thanks
I want to make a new game center account for myself, because I share one with my mom and brother. Does it delete your progress in games if you do?
I have an app for Al Jazeera sports. I have a subscription with them on the app, and now I'm going to the USA to study and I need to watch the games on my iPad since I'll have no TV access when the games are played. Is there a tweak that I can do through iFile to trick the app to think that I am in the Middle East? It works if I change the IP address to a Saudi web proxy, but its not reliable, not always online, and becomes slower. If you want to test the application, you'll need to get it from a middle eastern Apple Store.
I recently clean installed Mountain Lion to my mid 2011 iMac, and ran into a frustrating issue when joining my Wi-Fi network. All my other Apple devices have no trouble accessing the same wifi, except this very iMac. The typical error message is either "See network administrator" or "Connection time out" I did try to update the iMac to the latest (10.8.2 at the time of writing), and I still can't join the WiFi.
After upgrading my 3GS to iOS 6, I had to make an urgent phone call. Thus, when the iOS 6 setup wizard showed, I just hit "skip", "continue", and "accept" whenever possible.
I have been using AirPlay to stream stuff to my Apple TV for months, and it's been great. In the last week or so it stopped working for 3rd-party apps.
Even though I've explicitly set the Finder preference to display all file extensions, I'm still finding that some apps do not show the file name extension in their Spotlight result.  Here are some examples. I'm running Mountain Lion.
I would like to clean up the massive amount of junk in my contextual menu. I have VM Fusion 5 installed and it is one of the main culprits, showing multiple entries of Windows Apps within my context menu of the Mac OX. Example of 'junk' in my context menu for a txt file = Notepad listed 5 times, Textpad listed # times, Visual Studio listed 6-7 times, and more .
I have a Mac set in English (US) with an US keyboard. I'm european so I want to have 24h in my calendar and not AM and PM. How it is possible to enable that? I enable that for the hour of the computer, but this didn't changed the calendar...
Can I use automator to launch a keystroke (cmd+R) when program PremierePro CS6 is idle for 1 minute. This keystroke would start program to Render videofiles. Many Thanks, Jan.
I understand that Steve Jobs tried to minimize the number of physical buttons on iOS devices, and I am sympathetic with that idea. It is understandable that the power button, which has to be accessible before the OS is running, has to be physical, and it also makes sense that the volume or mute/rotation lock buttons, which require rapid access, are physical. But I cannot think of a reason why the home button is physical. It is also known as one of the most fragile parts in iOS devices. Is there anyone who can suggest a possibility of why the home button was designed to be physical rather than a touch icon or some gesture? Is there anyone who can suggest a possibility of why the home button was designed to be physical rather than a touch icon or some gesture?
The new retina MacBook Pro is boot so quickly that if I don't use it for even 5 minutes it doesn't make a difference to me whether I shut the computer down or sleep it. What is the best option for computer preservation? Will a lot of rebooting in a day will ruin the computer?
I've had my new Mac for less than a week, and screwed it up. In trying to create a dual boot, I made noob mistake in choosing the wrong partition to format to NTFS for Windows (the partition with boot camp).
So I got a new shiny sparkling MacBook Pro retina and Windows 8 just downloaded from MSDNAA. Reading success stories on the web that this runs even though Boot camp says Windows 7 makes me want to try it. I start the boot camp assistant and run through the wizard with all options checked, creating a USB installation media.
In OS X (both Lion and Mountain Lion), I notice that when I select text and type over it, not only does it yield the expected result of replacing that text with the typed text, it often also replaces a few characters to the right. When that happens, I notice that after the first few keystrokes, some text remains selected.
I have a 4 GB Micro SDHC card and I use a Micro SD adapter sleeve to read it with the built-in SD card slot of my 15" mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It's been a while since I tried to use it, but I just realized that my Mac will always treat it as read-only, no matter the position of the physical lock on the adapter sleeve. I can't even format the partition because all the options in the "Erase" and "Partition" tabs of Disk Utility are grayed out for the SD card. Why is the card read-only, and more importantly, how can I write to it?
I purchased a new Macbook Pro and have since downloaded a ton of applications and add ins. I think some of these apps are responsible for draining my battery too quickly. How do I identify what applications are responsible for this, or otherwise experience what a "clean machine" feels like?
Some of the tracks in my iTunes library which I have downloaded from the iTunes Store are incomplete. I understand the recommended solution to this problem to delete and re-download the track.
Before upgrading to iOS 6, I can just watch iTunes U videos with all other videos from my Mac's iTunes library in the Videos app on my iPad via Home Sharing. However, the first time I open the Videos app on iOS 6, I was told I should watch iTunes U contents in the iTunes U app. But I see no videos in the iTunes U app.
I wonder if there is someway of sharing the screen on my macbook pro (which stands on the right of my iMac) to the iMac, so that I can use the same keyboard and mouse for both computers. I believe there was someway of doing this between windows and linux a few years ago using a kind of SSH-tunnel, but cannot find the application or what its called. Any help?
I'm on Windows XP and wish to plug in my iPhone and have all new photos imported into a folder on the hard disk. New photos I'm simply defining as those that it hasn't imported before. Simple, eh? The default Microsoft Image Aquisition tool seems to read all photos rather than just new ones. Any ideas out there? If I could see the iPhone photos as a drive letter I would write my own little application in Java, but this doesn't appear possible. Edit: Found this similar question: here
Obviously, with Mountain Lion, users may define VIPs in Apple’s Mail.app. I would like to see which contacts are marked as VIPs outside of Mail – for example in Contacts.app (smart list??), or in Terminal. Is there a way to do so?
I noticed that usually when you download multiple apps on iOS 6, it will download 4 at a time. I had to restore my phone from an iCloud backup twice in the past week. The first time it was only downloading one app at a time. The second time it began downloading 4 apps at a time but then switched to downloading one at a time again. I'm not sure if I did anything to change its behavior. Is there any way to have it download multiple apps again during this restore process?
Does anyone know any good programs for making ball and stick molecular models on the Mac? I'm looking for something to produce high quality 3D models with nice lighting, like this on
I'm unable to enable web sharing via System Preferences > Sharing. When I click it to turn it on the light turns yellow but then goes back to gray.
When you have a file open/save prompt box open, you can hit the / key to open a GoTo dialouge to navigate via the file path. Is there a shortcut that does this action but automatically adds the ./
I have seen other people with this problem, but their Mail icon was moved out of the applications folder. My Mail is and has always been in the Applications folder, so the problem is not that. I reinstalled the original Mail from the original Snow Leopard installation disk and then installed the system combo update, but it still won't open. I am at the end of my rope!
I had one crash yesterday and one tomorrow on my iMac running mountain lion while the computer was hibernating. In both cases the computer restarted alone. The messa is always the same: mountain lion your computer restarted because of a problem In both cases I had an iPhone 4S attached on the USB port. This are today's crash log.
Many apps are installed by the "drag it into the Applications folder". Is it true that usually, if you copy that app (which is a .app folder`) onto another Mac that you have that has the same OS X version or higher version, then the App should work too? (unless it is not supporting Rosetta apps due to backward compatibility).
I can remember the old version of the Airport Configuration Utility. Back then it was possible to display graphs for WiFi devices and such. So the timecapsule pretty sure can do more than there is in the frontend of the new utility. Is there any software that provides those hidden functionalities to the hands of a user?
I have ActiveSync enabled on my Exchange 2007 server, and it works just fine with all the other iPhones (4S and below) in the office. However, I have two users who have just gotten iPhone 5s, and neither of them can connect to the Exchange server.
I've got a macbook pro 2011 and am using a mini-display to dvi adapter to hook up a ViewSonic monitor (Viewsonic VX2450WM-LED 24-Inch). Problem is this greenish shadow showing up for certain hues of white, I'm not sure what it is or how to fix it.
I have iOS6 and OSX 10.8. Both bring Facebook integration. It was smart enough for some of my contacts to merge (or "link") them. However for some on my iPhone I manually edited the contact card and linked to the facebook account. Not so bad.
I've heard anecdotal evidence of iOS 6 seriously impairing the performance of the iPhone 4 (and had a poor personal experience with it on iOS 5). I was wondering if anyone has had any problems upgrading older iPads to iOS 6. We've got an original iPad and an iPad 2 and aside from not wanting to lose Google maps I'm worried that the update will negatively affect our devices. Is this worry backed up by reviews or experience of those who have upgraded already?
I am a university student who leaves his Macbook Pro at home and uses an iPad in lectures. I thought it'd be great if I was able to wake my Mac back at home if I needed to remote control it using TeamViewer from my iPad. My Macbook is running Mountain Lion (Latest) and is connected Wirelessly to a Virgin Superhub.
My husband and I just got iPhones 4 running iOS 6, what we're looking for is to share ITunes and Calendar entries. We have one computer and right now have Outlook for a calendar. I want to be able to make one entry on the calendar and have it show up on both phones. Can I use Outlook to accomplish this? Or is there an app out there that will sync the computer calendar with both our phones?
I see these tiny colorful pixels on my screen which (seemingly) do not go away. The reason is probably me wiping off smudge with paper or whatever I had around the house.
So, I double click on my jar file and it just blinks a window with white screen then it disappears. After that, I right-click and select "Open with jar launcher" it is the same. too. I opened up Terminal and type java -jar "System FRONT.jar" then it opened up perfectly.
Is it possible to set the magic trackpad options with the menu topics: Point click, scroll & zoom, etc. by using the Terminal?
I'm suffering at irregular intervals on my network with:  Does anyone have some practical advice how to limit this? I don't understand what the problem is. The new Macbook Air with Mountain Lion has no problem pinging 192.168.1.2 (the Time Capsule) on my home network.
We have a Mac, iPad2, 1 iPhone 4, 1 iPhone 4s and now have bought an iPod Touch for my son. What is the best way for the iPod Touch to be able to sync previuosly download apps and music but enable Facetime and iMessage using his own details as my wife's details are used for her FaceTime/Apple ID? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have a room full of Windows XP machines and I want to shutdown all the machines remotely with my Mac (10.8.2). Can this be done and if so, how?
I have this keyboard case for my 'new iPad' (which I had originally bought for an iPad 2): *=URL=* (In fact, this was me: Will the Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard Case "for ipad2" work with the new ipad? ) Before I upgraded to iOS6, when I hit the "square" button on the keyboard (the same button as the single button on the front of the iPad), if the screen was off, it would bypass the lockscreen and take me straight to the homescreen (or whatever app had been running when the screen went to sleep). After upgrading to iOS6, when I hit this button when the iPad screen is off, it dumps me at the lockscreen instead, where I have to "slide to unlock" to continue. Is there any way to restore the previous functionality?
Apple Remote Desktop has a "curtain" feature that a remote client can use to lock the screen of the Mac that's being remotely controlled. I use this when I connect to my work Mac from my home Mac. My work Mac's screen shows a big lock icon and a message while I'm remotely controlling it from my home Mac using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD).
I recently opened the Notes app and found that about a month's worth of notes are missing. There is a gap between August 5th and September 3rd.
I'm running a MacBook Pro (late 2011 model) that has a recent OS X upgrade to version 10.8.1. For some reason, when the MacBook Pro is docked to the Thunderbolt display, it no longer sends sound out the Thunderbolt display, but instead uses the tinny MacBook Pro speakers. I looked in Preferences to see if there is some way to get the big display to handle the sound. Any ideas?
On this page Apple lists 3 different models of iPhone with different LTE support. My question is, if I buy an iPhone in one area (e.g. Canada), and take it back to another area (e.g. the UK), what network compatibility can I expect on my device? (both LTE coverage as well as just working for voice and data at any speeds)
I want to (automatically if possible) upload the content of my Photostream to Flickr. How can I accomplish that?
Is there any means of retrieving the current pixel coordinates within an image where the mouse cursor is? (Failing this, are there any stock OS X tools that can easily do this?)
I've recently refreshed my iTunes library and, as a result, decided to delete everything in iTunes Match and re-upload just to make sure it's all current and correct. It's a large library (nearly reaching the 25,000 song limit), so the process understandably took a while and there were some duplicates to get rid of, etc. The iTunes Match status icons helped a lot with that in terms of sorting and finding what needed to be addressed. After a few days, however, there are still a number of songs (27 to be exact) with no discernible pattern among them which perpetually have a status icon of "Waiting" for iTunes Match.
Dock Exposé was a Snow Leopard feature which allowed users to click on an app on the Dock and, holding that click, windows of that app would be exposed. On Mountain Lion, Dock Exposé doesn't seem to be available anymore. Is there a way to get it back?
There are some preinstalled apps that came with my laptop that I know I wil never ever use. Apps like "Notes", "Stickies", "Game Center", etc.. that were preinstalled in my Macbook Pro are apps that I don't plan on ever using and it's taking up too much space in my Application Folder.
Can I have some Safari bookmarks synced via iCloud to other computers and at the same time have some that are just local to my computer? If so, what is the best way to do that?
I've noticed that contact photos on the iPhone seem to appear in one of two modes: Thumbnail: A small square image shown next to the contact's name or number Full-Screen: The image takes up the entire display, overlaid by the caller ID and Swipe-to-answer controls
I want to use a personal sound file (currently an mp3) instead of the system alert sounds (sosumi, basso, etc.) I remember this being really easy on Macs a couple of decades ago, but can't figure out how to do so today.
I have 5 spaces. I assigned Chrome to Space 2. When I encounter a pop-up in Chrome, Mountain Lion automatically switches to Space 3 and prevents me from switching back to Space 2. I'm forced to quit Chrome to make Space 2 useable again.
So I changed my email notification sound to a custom sound uploaded to the phone via (iTunes). The weird thing is, even though I have the tone selected, and the phone shows it as being the active tone, it still plays the default email notification.
Since updating to iOS6, every time I text my husband, the text comes to my phone. Any idea how to stop this?
iOS allows me to reset my location settings, causing apps to have to ask me again if they can use my location information. iOS 6 allows me to reset all location and privacy settings globally as well:
When my iOS device doesn't have synced music but instead shows songs that are matched and available from iCloud, I've noticed there are only buttons to download groups of songs and not one song. What is the new way for downloading just one song from the cloud to the device?
I do intend to re-rip some of my source material (the music I listen to most often) at the higher bit rate. I don't use iTunes itself for my ripping; I use another ripping tool.
I read somewhere in iOS 6 you don't need to enter your Apple ID password for downloading free apps and updates to already installed apps. However I see that I am still being prompted for my Apple ID password. Is there any solution for this? Is this expected behavior?
I am not wise to the ways of apple. I've had an iphone for about 6 months, and this is the first time I noticed this occurring.
Currently in About This Mac, I'm seeing 43.05 GB of 128.47 GB of Backups.  However, in Disk Inventory X, I do not see these backups:
While using the application CodeRunner with C#, whenever I try to "run" the program it gives me this error: bash: Run Command: No such file or directory. How can I resolve this?
I currently have my Facebook account linked up to my Notification Center on my Macbook Pro - great! However, I do have a Facebook page (relatively low traffic) and I'd like to receive notifications from it as well as my personal facebook page in Notification Center. I am the owner and sole admin for this Facebook page. Any ideas?
What determines whether podcasts are played individually or sequentially on an iPod? Basically, I have a lot of podcasts on my iPod. At one point, it would play just one podcast, and then stop. There was a period of a few weeks where I didn't listen to podcasts, and now when I go to listen to a podcast, when I finish one, the iPod begins playing the next.
I have upgraded to iOS 6 now every time I try to download a new app it asks my password and then asks me to set up security questions when I finish and hit one it tells me it timed out. I have tried the reset in Settings > General. This did not resolve the problem!
I have been using Mile Tracker app for logging business miles. Today when I updated my phone to iOS 6, that app disappeared. It also no longer appears in the phone app store or in the iTunes 10.7 store app section. i assume there is no iOS 6 version. I have found instructions for reverting to iOS 5. I am wondering where to find my Mile Tracker data?
I don't know much about Macs, so when my girlfriend asked me to repair her old Macbook, I tried to swap out the hard drive from my junker laptop. I got it all changed and now the boot manager shows a single partition for Windows. However, I am a little stuck on how I am to boot into Mac OS X to reinstall it?
OKay I've noticed that when I play an WMV on my Mac using VLC player the quality is terrible in comparison when i play it on Windows I have tried "unchecking skip frames" on VLC, but no change at all Anyone have any idea how to fix this on VLC? Thanks
I just upgraded to the iPhone 5 and plan on selling my old iPhone 4. However, I want to make sure I don't keep any personal information (photos, emails, contacts) on the device. Since both iPhones are synced with iCloud, I'm not sure that I am safe to just start deleting stuff without those same changes being synced to the new device. What is the appropriate way to clean up the old iPhone to be ready to sell?
I have created a partition of MS-DOS FAT on my Mac, then created a Windows 7 Install Disk on my Flash Drive. When I try to boot using the Install Disk via rEFIt. It just says no bootable disk found. Why would OS X display a message like that if I used Bootcamp to create the Windows 7 Install Disk?
Using the default Photo/Video application. Tried to find any info regarding this on Apple's web site with no success. Does anyone have the specs on this?
There is a way from App store to send an email containing the information about an app. However there is no way of just copying the app URL in case I want to send that URL on other services like Line or whatever. Or is there?
I just set up my brand new iPhone 5 running iOS 6. I set it up as a new device. I have been using Exchange to sync my contacts with Google (Gmail) Contacts for the past few days. Today I stopped doing that and started syncing via CardDAV.
I have a non-Unibody MacBook Pro running 10.8.2. After I installed Mountain Lion, the keyboard backlight does not light up any more. Is it a connection with the new OS, or is it a defect of my Mac?
Aside from the prefs issue, Mac mail runs fine. She has 10.8.2 installed. When she called Apple, they suggested reinstalling the OS by using the recover option at bootup.
I'm doing some Apple iTunes Connect reporting via the Autoingest tool. It requires that I not only specify login account info, but also a "vendorid". I have no clue what our vendor ID might be. Where can I find such info on Apple's site?
The second problem is that the phone came with iOS6 installed on it. Although I was told that it was a beta, I was also told it was official (Grand Master build), and in any case, I managed to (somehow) wipe out and reinstall the official iOS 6 from iTunes.
I don't often hear my Macbook accelerate and start heating up, but today I was installing mariadb through Homebrew and it required compiling. I have a mid-2012 15" Macbook pro with a high-resolution screen (the version released alongside with the Retina Macbooks) The charger was connected but the light was green, so the battery was done charging already. When the compiling phase began, I heard my fan rocket to a very high speed. The charger was still connected (could that have had an impact the temperature?). When I installed smcfancontrol it registered temperatures of 100–105 °C (212-221 °F) and the fan was running at more than 6000 RPM.
I've had my iPad 1 for almost a year now. For the past few months it has been charging EXTREMELY slowly.
Do you know if there's a way to have fingerprint authentication on Mac? If so, is there any scanner compatible available?
I use a MacBook Pro with a Cinema Display and every time when I wake the MacBook Pro, the cinema display wakes first and the MacBook Pro display seems to stay in a sleep mode until I press the Detect Displays button in Displays Preferences. The most annoying part is that I need to rearrange all open apps' windows every time I wake my Mac. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this problem?
Another possible solution is simpler -- I'm assuming it is somehow possible to reboot the computer from this sleepimage, but I can't find any documentation as to how you would proceed with that. Some other users (macrumors) seem to have encountered this, but for all the forum questions I've found, none of them have responses. The OS X version is Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.
Of course, I'm using SpamSieve, but this crashes before and after its latest update. And the IMAP folders of each account is scattered as indicated. OK, which one? So I get Info on each of the folders listed above looking for a date within the last two days. Nope, the most recent is several months ago. I've read the V2 is Lion Mail, but as you see above I have more than one. My question, is after all this time, which folder does what purpose and what files in them should I start yanking to pull the most recent messages out?
Is there any way I can make anything that is currently shown on the screen of an iPhone 5 to be displayed on a regular TV or projector that has the usual HDMI, composite video, DVI, DSub inputs via a simple cable or adapter and without Airplay/Apple TV?
I'm using my MacBook Pro for programming. I have a virtual Windows 7 machine running with VMware Fusion. When I switch from OS X to Windows 7, my keyboard layout changes. It's really annoying because I type lots of braces and parentheses.
After I upgraded to Mountain Lion my MBP (late 2008) started to boot extremely slow. Last time it took 2 hours 46 minutes to boot, now it's already booting for 40 minutes.
On my iPhone, I sync with my business Exchange account on one side and with my private Gmail account on the other side. This runs smoothly.
I have six Macs in my house, all running the latest, greatest version of Snow Leopard. I also have an eMac (PPC) running Leopard 10.5.8. I use the eMac as a file and print server. The eMac has two external FireWire drives, 1 TB each. I partitioned each one so that there is a separate partition for each. I've shared each of the partitions.
Here is the situation I get confronted with once in a while. I send an iMessage to more than one person. After a while, I get 'Message send failure'. I search for the reason and I figure I have input a home phone number of the person instead of his iPhone or email address. I go to 'Edit' message but the OS does not allow me to delete that phone number. Is there any other way to remove that number from the 'To' field so that I can resend the iMessage? I don't want to recompose the message (including cut, copy, pasting into a new iMessage) I am on iOS 6.
This is new behavior within the last month. I have the iMac set to never sleep so that I can access it via Logmein remotely. But the last several weeks the machine goes completely to sleep. Any recommendations on some sort of re-set or other method to get this system preference to work normally?
I run Bootcamp on my Macbook and want to be able to run iTunes in both OS X and Windows 7 with the same library. I don't just mean having access to my mp3 files on both OSes, I mean things like ratings, play counts, playlists, etc. will be the same. Can I do this?
I am not sure why my iPad will not charge in India which I got in US. Did the power fluctuations kill the charging part or do I need to charge it in some other way? How do I test or find out the reason why the iPad wont charge? It was charging well for a year and now it does not.
I have a non-retina mid-2012 Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard and this issue has been plaguing me for a while. During regular use of the laptop, while connected to my home WiFi network (to which no more than three other devices are usually connected), I keep experiencing sudden and complete drops in connectivity. It happens more than once every hour, usually while I'm browsing the Internet on Chrome and I'll see my loading tabs hang there with no response. The OS does not seem to notice this drop in connectivity, and keeps showing the WiFi icon as connected. To get the connection back I either have to wait till it returns (usually after a minute) or disconnect and reconnect the WiFi.
They gave me macbook for development, it's quite powerful, but I need to upgrade i to OS X Lion because otherwise I can't run Xcode 4.X. How to upgrade but to save existing data somewhere on the hard drive? Thank you
I found some of the pdf files has some page marks(or three holes I don't know the official name for the marks) as is shown:  Most of the iPad pdf viewers can't recognize this to show the marks, only the good reader app can show only the area inside the marks. I wanted to stick to the good reader, but it sometimes doesn't show the pages properly, so I need to find a way. I was trying to use crop method : Crop multiple pages in a pdf file to cut out the marks in Mac, but Mac pdf viewers (Preview, Skim) are smart enough to show the region inside the marks. Do you know any way to resolve this issue? Do you know how to show the marks so that I can crop them? Do you know any smart iPad pdf reader that shows the region inside the marks?
I've had this issue twice today and is troubling me a bit. As the title already summaries; without notice, the keyboard and trackpad seem to get unresponsive. The system is actually still running (seeing animations and other stuff still happening). The keyboard power button does actually work, pushing it will summon the screen to logout, restart or shutdown, but I can't actually hit any buttons (ofcourse). So I eventually hold down the power button to power down and then power up again, after this, the problem seems to be resolved.
I have an AirPort Extreme (APE) with the Wi-Fi setup for guest account and this works just fine. I was wondering if I could also provide a wired ethernet guest access without letting this user see my computers AND without me having access to his computer while plugged into this network as well.
In OS X Mountain Lion, is there an easy and fast way to scan to PDF, with multiple pages per PDF? I know this can be achieved with Image Capture, but in my opinion that is just a terrible application. For my purpose (quickly scanning handouts), it is very slow and painful. (Overview scan, then select the part of the page I want, even though I always want the full page, restart it every time I want a new PDF, etc.) It seems to me that it was designed mostly for scanning things like photos, as it really does a terrible job for documents. I'm open to using a 3rd party app - for example, Linux has the remarkably good and simple Simple Scan app, which would be perfect for my purpose.
So this may be a misunderstanding as I am still getting to know my MacBook Pro, But can the majority of an internal drive be occupied by Time Machine backups? I was looking at the space taken up on my 250 GB drive, and noticed it was down to 43 GB free. I was perplexed to say the least. So after a bit of digging I went into About this Mac -> Storage, and discovered 180 GB taken up by backup. I was even more confused because I use time machine on an external drive. I am not certain of the logic, I have tried to solve this myself but I no idea as to how to remove this dumb backup on the mac's HD. Maybe I am the dumb one, anyways could someone please explain to me how to fix it.
I have a lot of photos on my iphone from a recent trip. The filenames are all similar (Nikon irritatingly only counting up to 1000, and I took 5000 photos), and while I've ensured there is no collision the filenames are not sorted in time order.
I even created a brand new YouTube account without 2 factor auth and it does the same thing. Using a simple password even. Reset All Settings on the AppleTV
I have some Visa points which I am considering spending on an Apple TV. According to my bank's website, Apple TV model they offer is MD199C/A. This seems to correspond to what Apple calls the Order Number (which is not the same as what Apple calls the Model Number). Using Mactracker, I found that the latest 3rd Generation Apple TV's Order Number is MD199LL/A, which is a bit different from what the bank's website is saying, although quite similar.
I'm using a 2012 Retina Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.7.5. I am a Windows power user and a OS X neophyte. While many of the keyboard and mouse shortcuts I am familiar with in Windows have functional equivalents in OS X. A feature that I find particularly useful in Windows is the ability to middle click to close tabs (works across the OS Firefox, Chrome, Visual Studio etc.). This saves a user from having to click explicitly on a tabs X icon. Is there a functional magic trackpad click equivalent to middle clicking a Windows mouse?
I've read a couple guides that talk about restoring the iPhone to it's base operating system, then syncing three different full playlists of music in order to overwrite any previous personal data that might be on the phone and recoverable via basic forensic methods. I want to believe there is a better way, maybe a simple program that allows you to write zero byte files until the OS is full a couple times over. What is the best way to format/erase an iPhone for resale?
I have a website - www.birupakhyadash.com - which I am not able to access. The traceroute to the address returns the error: unknown host. I have tried to clear the dns cache and disable the adblockplus browser extension, but for some reasons I am still unable to access the site. How can I fix the "unknown host" error?
I have just updated to Mountain Lion 10.8.2; I have done a clean install. Now after I have installed all my apps and configure them I would like to create a Time Machine backup; so I could have the image of a fresh clean mac :D The problem here is that I have only one external HDD (1Tb, NTFS formatted and MacFuse installed, so there's no problem in read/write the volume) and half the disk is used with my docs, pics, music, etc. Is it possible to create a Time Machine backup without erasing the previous contents ?
I am moving to Europe (Norway) soon but I am considering to buy and Apple TV in Canada because it's cheaper. I'm not worried about power outlet compatibility since I can just use an adapter, but does anyone know if the Apple TV from Canada will be fully functional in Norway, or will certain services, Apple accounts, etc. be restricted? Many thanks in advance.
Is the displays menu dead? Or did I break my computer somehow? I don't terribly miss it, other than the detect displays command (I never change the resolution from the default).
I have material such as images, PDFs, DOC and DOCX with a lot of duplicated items but in different format. I may have a paper in PDF and then I have it also in DOC and DOCX. I want to somehow categorize all material according to the content of material. If PDF and DOC have the same content, they should be categorized to the same folder. My first idea was ssdeep and Adope PDF's search for PDF -files but slow solutions. Does there exist some method that would categorize a massive directory with duplicates according to their contents? Does there exist some method that would categorize a massive directory with duplicates according to their contents?
Say I have the following outdated packages: foo bar baz I want to update as many as them as possible, so I try to run: However this fails with: How can I make macports try to upgrade bar and baz, if foo fails? I would like to generally make macports try to install/upgrade other ports if installing/upgrading some of them fails and just continue. From the man page:
Open the Wikipedia URL in the web browser. Ideally in a new tab or new window. In the past, I could do so quickly – without multiple steps.
After upgrading to iOS 6 on my 4S i'm seeing that after I delete an email in the mail app itself, it was SUPPOSED to remove it from notification center. Now even after i've deleted messages without reading them from the mail app, they are STILL in notification center and I have to clear them OR I wait until another email comes in to clear out the ones that were already previously deleted from the mail app which removes them from the notification center. If I open them, then they go away from the notification center. I shouldn't need to open emails to remove them from the notification center.
I have the very same configuration for messages on two different Macs (home and work). At home I have no problem in connecting to the Facebook chat via the jabber protocol, while at work it simply doesn't connect and rises an error saying that it cannot connect to the host chat.facebook.com I have no proxy problems here: I can chat from the website and even using my iPhone connection via Hotspot it doesn't solve the problem. I'm sure the settings are ok because they are the same I use on the working computer. Any help?
I'd like to run applescript to control Excel on a headless Mac. I want to do it from the command line via ssh, and I cannot - there is no display to run applescript on, so osascript throws an error. I know there is on a Linux machine with X11 - I'm hoping something similar is available, but how to do this on a Mac?
P.S. Actually I didn't replace the Documents folder but the Downloads folder. Here are the full pathes to the directories: - Original Download Folder: /var/mobile/Applications/734.../Documents/Downloads -> renamed that folder for backup purpose. - created a link with "ln -s /var/mobile/SharedDocs Downloads" in /var/mobile/Applications/734.../Documents
I've tried Parallels and it's great but I still find it quite "expensive" so I would like to try out VirtualBox. Is there a way to migrate my Parallels installation to VirtualBox? The versions: MacOs X 10.7.4 Parallels 7 VirtualBox 4.2.1
I just recently bought my MacBook Air 11" this summer and it is currently running on OS X Mountain Lion. I purchased it in the United States and had very minimal problems with it. I bought it for the purpose of using it for my work in France for the next 8 months. I just arrived this week and have been unable to connect to any WiFi networks whatsoever. I have not set up a personal connection at my apartment but it continues not to work when I bring my laptop to the school I work which has a very strong unsecured WiFi connection.
I bought a used Mac that only had Windows 7 installed. The seller didn't have the original OS DVD, and the hard drive only had a single NTFS partition. I downloaded Lion from a torrent, burned it to a DVD and attempted to install it. When I create a user, it errors out and continues to ask me to create a user again and again. How do I get past the user creation step?
I am using DeployStudio to distribute my Mac images and when I create a new image the recovery partiton seems to be deleted on the new Retinas. I have followed this in the past, *=URL=* and it worked fine on older models. On the Retinas it will create the partition but not let me boot to it. I get the "no" symbol.
I have searched high and low looking for an app that will do a very specific thing. I want to take a photo from my camera roll, apply a pre created shape mask to it (not freeform) and then save it back to the camera roll with a transparent background. It appears that the iPad camera roll does not handle transparent .png files so well, it adds white where the transparency would be. I have tried photoshop touch as well as a handful of other apps - but nothing seems to work. I know I can do it on a Mac, but I am looking for a mobile solution. Can someone please please help me.
I'm trying to find out if it is possible on the iOS Developer Enterprise Program to remotely add a home screen bookmark to a website. For example: a user can visit a website and add a shortcut to that webpage to their home screen in Mobile Safari via the Share context menu and picking "Add to Homescreen". I want to be able to reproduce this remotely to all the devices under my control as a matter of automation.
In Keynote '09, is there any way to move the focus between the slides drawer on the left side and the main window with the slide itself, without using the mouse or trackpad? E.g., when I have made a new slide with shift-cmd-N (then this is automatically selected in the drawer), can I start writing in the slide without having to take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse?
Whenever my graphics adapter changes, whether intentionally or automatically, i notice the colors changing.They get definitely brighter, more blueish when on the high performance card. Is this normal? Different graphics cards mean different color? MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz (Late 2011) MBP Unibody 15" AMD Radeon HD 6770M Intel HD Graphics 3000
Yesterday I opened my mid 2010 15" i7 MBP (model 6,2) in order to replace its HDD. Everything went perfectly fine. Except that I noticed a broken little piece of plastic a little above the battery, which is fixed by two screws, which I have no idea on what purpose it had.
I am thinking of purchasing an older Airport Extreme (A1143 model) as they are considerably cheaper than buying a new one. Are there any serious issues with an older model as far as performance is concerned? I am not looking for anything cutting edge, mostly just internet browsing and video (netflix) streaming. I notice that the A1142 model is "Single 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz" rather than the newer models which are "Simultaneous 2.4 GHz and 5 GH".... what sort of difference does this make.
Is it possible to set by default to show hidden files and folders in Open and Save dialogs ? I know it is possible to trigger to show hidden for dialog lifetime by press Command ⌘+Shift ⇧+..
When installing something via the Mac App Store, Launchpad will happily show a progress bar but it's a very limited view. Is there any way to see how long, even if the estimate is inaccurate, the app will take to download and install?
Anyway, my question is really to see if you have any tips about copying or otherwise sharing photos between machines. If you've got any insight in what went wrong for my scenario above, I'd love to hear that too! Machine B is a Macbook Air and has no ethernet port, hence the wireless tag.
The goal: I've got a server sharing files via AFP. On the server, these files have ACLs. When I mount this share with a client, I'd like for the files that appear on the client to retain the original ACLS, as they are on the server -- but instead, the files on the client do not get ACLs. On the client, I've tried mounting from the command line with afp_mount, but that doesn't appear to give many more options.
I wish to get rid of the Lion 10.7.5 AddressBook book-like interface a.k.a. leather appearance a.k.a. skeuomorphic design. Usually this kind of setting can be change from the debug menu. However $ defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool true does not enable the debug menu in AddressBook. How to enable this debug menu or make addresbook look like 10.6 Addressbook?
I sent a message to several people, and one of them indicates that they never got the message. Is there a way that I can email a copy of the message showing all the phone numbers the message was sent to?
I have a factory unlocked iPhone 4S that I bought in France. I am coming to visit in California. Will it work on the Verizon network?
All my photos are in iPhoto and I want to be able to search for photos taken at a specific time. Happy to use an app or command to search at file system level from Terminal if I need to. Smart Albums will let me do date, but not time. Smart Albums will let me do date, but not time. Spotlight will let me search meta data, but I cannot figure out how I can do a fuzzy search on the kMDItemContentCreationDate field. Spotlight will let me search meta data, but I cannot figure out how I can do a fuzzy search on the kMDItemContentCreationDate field. Any ideas?
To restate the question, why is my iPhone 4s Videos app displaying TV show episode and series titles as "Unknown" and Season as "(null)" and how do I fix it? I have already attempted to reboot, access the files directly in PhoneView, and through iTunes. I cannot make these dead files go away and syncing doesn't help.
Initially, I am running OSX Mountain Lion on a mid 2010 6,2 MBP. I wanted to enhance my boot time a little, maybe by disabling some official apple kexts. Has anyone played with that, knowing which ones would be harmless to remove from startup? For instance, I was considering removing "com.apple.kec.corecrypto" because in my case it seems responsible for some many seconds of boot time. I do not have any encryption configured in the SO level, can anyone say if there will be any problem on "removing" that kext from boot?
The new ios 6 has Podcasts broken out into their own application. I've got a bunch of old podcasts there for some reason. I can figure out how to delete all the episodes, but I can't figure out how to delete the podcast itself from the app. Is there any way to do this?
I got an iPhone 5 and restored it from the iCloud backup of my iPhone 4. Now when I look at the iCloud backup settings for the iPhone 5, it says "Backup options will be available when your iPhone is restored from this backup." It seems to think it is still restoring, but I believe it finished yesterday. I can click "Stop Restoring iPhone", but I'm afraid I will lose some data; is there any way to check what's going on?
I got an app a long time ago (called SourceTree) that adds an option to Finder's context menu. The way I installed the app was by simply moving it to my Applications folder, and it didn't come with an uninstaller. I transferred all my stuff to my new computer via Time Machine, and the option in Finder is unfortunately still there. How can I get rid of it without re-installing the operating system? See the last option in this context menu:
I have an old Apple ID that I've lost access to because I deleted the email address it was tied to and I can't remember the security answers to anymore. I have some purchases tied to it, but the credit card info has been long removed -- it'd be expired by now, anyway. I called Apple Security, but was unable to regain access. Still, I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and how they went about recovering their account.
Some time ago, the automatic detection of external displays stopped working when plugging in a display via Mini DisplayPort to my 13", late 2011 Mac Book Pro with Lion installed. This is regardless of whether the external display is connected via DVI or VGA, and it doesn’t work either when I plug a display in, nor when I remove it later.
Since updating to 10.7.5 both Spotlight and Time Machine are very slow. To index a normal system drive Spotlight calculates to need several days. As a result Time Machine takes up to an hour or more for an incremental backup of ~100 Mib. What solution is there for these slow Time Machine backups and Spotlight indexing?
We build and sell a SaaS application, our clients have asked us to produce apps which allow this application to be accessed from their phones. We have developed and submitted to Apple a version for the iPhone and this has been rejected as it should be distributed as a custom B2B application via the "Volume Purchase Program". Having reviewed the "Volume Purchase Program" this is far from ideal due to a wide range of reasons: Clients want the iPhone version of the app for personal phones, business phones are largely Blackberrys. As our clients don't already have an account it will be necessary for them to register if their meet the requirements of the program or are able to due to internal policies. It will then be necessary for the organisation to purchase (a free app) and manage the distribution of the app internally via a spreadsheet. We will also have the overhead of granting additional clients access to the app. Has anyone got any suggestion to over come these issues?
I'm running 10.7.5 and I have noticed a problem with associations between files and applications. The main symptom is that Finder shows more than one copy of the same application to open a file.
I would like to get some answers on how I can stream music from Spotify on my iPad to my home-cinema receiver. Exactly what hardware do I need to invest in?
I'd like to be able to search for words within the notes that I write in Notes.app. Since the search bar only narrows the list of notes, and doesn't actually highlight the word, I'd like to be able to open the notes in an external editor to perform searches. Are the notes in for Notes.app located on the filesystem somewhere such that I can open them in an external editor?
I am running OS X Lion on a late 2008 model Macbook (not pro). From time to time, usually when left on and unattended, the battery gets low and it goes into sleep mode. I kick myself for letting it happen again, plug it in, and power back on. My session is restored as expected, but with some additional interesting graphic effects:
I usually have to launch different instances of the same application (in my case of Eclipse). I launch them from the terminal as follows where ${workspace} is different for each invocation. Everything works well but for the fact that I cannot distinguish among instances in the Dock or while switching applications with command+tab.
I've just bought Reflection app for Apple TVize Mac. It works when playing video. Now i've discovered i have also AirPlay Mirroring icon in task bar on my iPod touch (see picture). I've been expecting i'll see screen of my iPod on my Mac. Are there any further steps to do on the iPod to stream the screen?
Is it possible to force Dropbox on iPad to sync all files? (That is, to make it working it the same way as it does on a laptop/computer.)
I don't have the battery/AC icon turned on because, for the most part, there's no reason for it to be there - I typically get cord-free 5 or so hours at a time, so it seems redundant. Still, occasionally my laptop will just turn off due to the battery having been depleted.
I've deleted apps that were purchased through the Mac AppStore. I used "CleanApp" to delete the parts left in app support folders. But I still see notifications of updates in the AppStore app. I know I can hide the app name in the Purchases tab, but is there any way to remove these notifications permanently?
To date I've been using Google Sync as an Exchange account to synchronize contacts between Gmail and my iPhone. However, Google very recently announced support for syncing Gmail contacts using CardDAV, and that now seems to be the suggested method according to Google's help page.
I just moved to Apple, being an experienced (i'd like to think so) Windows user. Recently I started using GMvault (gmvault.org) to backup my Gmail account locally, but it's become a pain having to manually launch a terminal and type ./gmvault sync -t quick myemail@gmail.com
I am familiar with using Automator, but I do not know what code should be used to accomplish the feature. Can anyone provide the code used to lock my retina MacBook Pro? I want a function similar to the one in Windows when you press Windows+L.
My HD died on my MacBook pro so I decided to change the HD myself. I didn't have the original snow leopard disc so got a copy from a friend. When I try to boot from disc (holding c) is runs the DVD drive, followed by apple symbol. After a short while, the apple symbol is replaced by a no entry symbol. Totally at a loss as to what to do. Tried different copies of the copied disc, but same issue. Any thoughts?
I am primarily concerned if this will drain my battery if I leave personal hotspot on. Is it worth the mental time to turn off the hotspot in order to conserve battery? I run iOS 6 on an iPhone 4s.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to send an invitation to connect using the iPhone app for LinkedIn. Is it not possible? I'm using iOS 6.0 and LinkedIn's app version 5.1.
Would I get LTE from a Verizon iPhone 5 on Rogers? According to Apple's LTE page I won't be getting LTE?
Occasionally my macbook pro (15-inch, Early 2011 with mountain lion 10.8.2) displays random garbled blocks. This happens on external Apple displays and the laptop display. See photo.
When an iOS app seeks permission to access my addressbook or calendar, what is it that they can do with my data? I am thinking of these things. Do they transfer the data from my device to their own servers?
I've successfully changed the background image for OS X login screen, but cannot do it for the FileVault login screen. This makes sense as the contents of the disk are still encrypted at that point in the boot process.
I am having a problem with my 2TB (I think Gen 2) TC. It was connected directly to a cable modem and was working fine for over a year. A few days ago, I started to get connection errors (no IP) on both the Ethernet and wifi ports. The wired computers are connected to the TC through a hub. I changed the connection to link to the net through a spare router, and changed the TC to "Bridge Mode".
My parents and I all have iPhones. My mother and I used to have them both authorized to the same account which was mine. Now they want to authorize their phones to there own accounts. They have done so with there new iPhone 5's but it is still asking for my Apple ID. What can I do to fix this?
I use todo.txt as a todo list manager, and so my todo list is saved as a text file. I'd like for there to be a widget that monitors text files, so that it's not on my desktop, but in my dashboard. Is there a widget for this?
I just updated to iOS6 yesterday. After the update, I cannot connect to the App Store and iTunes on my iPad. There are no options to click when I'm prompted by this message "Cannot connect to iTunes/App Store". What should I do?
I have a current time machine backup on USB from an older machine running snow leopard 10.6. How can I selectively restore applications and data from this time machine disk to a new mac running Mountain Lion 10.8?
I need a tasklist/ToDo/Reminders app that lists out my current tasks in the notification center. I know that Reminders will if I add a time or alarm (I won't want this). I know Things can if I jailbreak (I don't want to). I just want a list of things I need to remember to do, right there on the Notifications page.
I previously had Memcache running on my localhost/127.0.0.1 port 11211. Unfortunately, I rebooted my computer and now port 11211 isn't open and I don't know the command to open this port. Can someone help with this?
The title has it... What is the physical size of the new Lightning connector? That is, what's the size of the tip of the connector that gets plugged into the device? I want to use this information for comparison of physical size of micro USB and Lightning.
According to this appleinsider.com article, Apple has introduced new privacy functionality that can limit ad tracking in iOS 6: Apple was not happy to see third party developers and ad networks using iOS users' UUID (universally unique device identifiers) to perform sophisticated tracking of individual devices (web cookies, unlike UUIDs, can't track a specific computer, and can be deleted by the user), particularly when they tracked UUIDs down inside Apple's headquarters to spy out new models.
My 2008 MacBook Pro suddenly stopped booting the other day and now the screen looks like this each time it attempts to boot: The boot time sound still happens, but I just see the dodgy pink with the apple in the background for a few seconds before it reboots. I can hold alt as it boots but bootcamp and recovery fail to start in just the same way.
I know how many USB ports the Mac Pros have, but what I can't find is an answer to how many dedicated USB buses they have. Reason being, I'm involved in developing an app that uses 3 Kinects to track motion, and each Kinect will require a dedicated USB bus. Will a stock Mac Pro have 3 separate buses, or will I need to add an extra USB controller card?
I can't access certain websites from either my MacBook nor from my iPhone when connected to my WiFi network, but the same websites can be reached from a Windows computer connected on the same network. Three days ago everything worked, but then it stopped working. This is what happens when I try to ping it: And when I try to traceroute it: I've flushed my DNS cache but nothing changed. This is quite dramatic as it seems to depend on 85.205.25.174 hop and I don't know how to avoid it.
Where can I find something like description, specs, details etc for MacBook Air 11's motherboard (logic board)? I need full information about all parts of motherboard. I tried to google it, but it didn't help. Any ideas?
I am looking for a simple app (ideally free) for OSX that allows you to edit PDF documents, essentially providing you with the ability to add text onto a PDF document, save or print it. Similar to *=URL=* but as an app. Does something like this exist?
I wonder if there is some way to customize the lock screen feature of my MacBook Air (running Mountain Lion) in such a way that: 1: When I close the lid, and then open it, the screen is not locked (that is, I do not have to type my password). 2: When I explicitly put the MacBook Air to sleep (with Power Button + Sleep option), and then wake it from sleep, the screen is locked (that is, I do have to write my password).
I was looking to disable some startup daemons and apps on my Mountain Lion iMac, and I noticed that inside /Library/LaunchDaemons there is a file called cn.com.zte.PPPMonitor.plist which point to an application at /Library/Application Support/ZTE/PPPMonitord.app. Does anybody know what this is, or at least if it's something internal, or installed by third-party applications?
I have a problem with Lion 10.7.5.: the system does not remember that I already opened applications before. After every reboot, every time I open an application it displays the warning as if it's the first time I'm opening it. After various tests I think the culprit is lsregister. Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Or as an alternative, anyone knows if there is a plist file that can be edited manually to tell the system that the application has already been opened? Thanks in advance for your help.
"Your account is not valid for use in the Indian store. You must switch to US store before purchasing." I am getting the above error while updating apps (I have recently installed iOS 6). My Apple ID was created with country as India. I followed the below steps: Open the Appstore. Go to Featured (scroll down to bottom until you see your Apple ID). Click on Apple ID. View Apple ID. Enter your Password. Once you login it will say your account is transferred to the respective country. Since the store somehow thought my account was from the US, I approved "the change" to India and signed out and signed in again, still I get the same error.
My MacBook Pro screen constantly dims and brightens. The automatic box is unchecked. The brightness adjustment button is constantly moving back and forth.
I have an iPhone 4S with Verizon, and I wanted to know if it would be possible for me to buy an iPhone 5 for the off-contract price and then ship it to my brother in Austria and let him use it there on the GSM network. The reason I think this might be possible is because the GSM part of the Verizon iPhone 5 comes unlocked. One obstacle that might stand in the way is if I have to activate the iPhone 5 with Verizon before I send it to him.
I want to sell my iMac (2011) and I want to reset the system and remove all my data. I tried the Command-R method. It wants me to enter my Apple ID and password but I don't want to do this! I want to pre-install the fresh OS X and let the new user finish the set up as he would after buying a new iMac (enter/create his own Apple id, time zone, etc.). Any ideas how I can do this?
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion (10.8.2), I'm having an issue with my Calendar. It seems like all of the new meeting invites I receive are incorrectly associating with old meetings (2009 and 2010) on my calendar. I'll receive an invite for a new meeting. I'll click on the attached .ics file, which will take me to an existing meeting from several years ago instead of creating a new meeting on my calendar.
I believe the title says it all, but anyways: I would like to recreate the OSX behaviour of auto-creating mount points in /Volumes with sshfs mounting remote folders and auto-deleting these mount points. I prefer this to have mount target folders hanging around with no other sense then waiting to get something mounted on it. ;) Is there a way to achieve this with sshfs?
I have manually created mailboxes in Mail and would like to create a rule that moves all future email from those senders who currently exist in one of those mailboxes to be sent to the same mailbox. That is: Any incoming mail from a sender who already has a message from that sender in ManualMailbox_A should be moved into ManualMailbox_A.
I'm a VMware Fusion user and am trying out Parallels since VMware has some quirks that are annoying on Mountain Lion on a retina MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM). I'm wondering about the baffling Parallels recommendation (when configuring a VM) that there is a maximum cap of 4 GB of RAM for a VM with Parallels (indeed, it recommends 1.5 GB for Windows 8). (See this forum thread.) Granting anything more would, in fact, slow down both the host and client, but I have no problem assigning 8 GB of RAM to a VM in Fusion; before really committing to Parallels, I'd like to know the rationale behind such a recommendation (and no, the Parallels forums don't shine satisfactory light on the subject, at least from what I've been able to dig up).
I'm a big iTerm user with 3 split panes on a 30" monitor. The only issue is that I sometimes want to add a Safari window as the left most pane. I can achieve this by using any of the window sizers out there and setting the window to float on top. However, this means that I have to Command ⌘-Tab to get to the Safari window while I ⌘+arrow to switch between the panes. Is there a program that not only uses a grid for positioning/sizing, but also provides directional navigation between panes?
Is there any way to get the final version of Messages.app installed on Lion? For reasons I'll not get into at this point upgrading to Mountain Lion is not possible. I had the beta of Messages.app but removed it because it was buggy. Is there any way to install the 1.0 version on Lion?
I was trying to download and install a new app, when a badge appeared on the screen. Apparently I have to choose three security question (and the corresponding answers) to improve the security of my Apple-ID. I clicked on "Not now" but in this way I can't install the app.
Furthermore, every once in a while I read people recommending fresh installs. The point is that I HATE wiping my O.S. out for reinstalling it. Hence, my MBP initially had snow leopard, which was updated to lion, which was updated to mountain lion. I NEVER did a fresh install. That concerns me in two ways: Could my data be too much fragmented on the disk, without my knowledge (call me paranoid..)? Furthermore! Am I losing too much performance? For instance, I never achieved those incredibly low boot times that I constantly read people reporting (even with similar specs and almost no login itens or additional kexts loaded). My MBP performs well, it is not as if I NEEDED a fresh install because it is annoying me. However, I am a little perfectionist regarding performance/organization sometimes, I have downloaded installed and removed several applications, libraries, frameworks, they all leave some minor and annoying configuration files and stuff. But I do not know if a fresh install would
I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and have only one problem. Time Machine, which worked under Lion on a WD Sharespace network drive, not gives a message that it cannot find the drive. Despite that, it can "enter" Time Machine with no problem and read all the saved backups. Time Machine itself shows the drive as available to be selected for backup. Finder also sees the drive. Lastly, the Time Machine backup volume which never had been visible on my desktop under Lion is now always there under Mountain Lion.
I am attempting to view a large internal webpage in safari, and some of the content overflows off the screen. In desktop browsers, ctl+'-' would do the trick, but the touch interface has me perplexed. Pinching and scrolling were my first impulses, but neither worked.
my friend can copy files to my public folder, but when i try to open them they are all read-only (showing as "nobody - read & write, staff - read only, everyone - read only). not sure why it says "nobody". user permissions are set to read & write for my user, staff, and everyone for the public folder in system prefs.
Can I partition my portable 2.5 hard disk into 2 parts and then have one part as a Mac (ext journal) partition and the other as a NTFS filesystem?
I know there similar questions on how to enable the Java 7 JRE on Mountain Lion when Apple's Java 6 JRE is installed as well. But I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion, installed Java 7 JRE - not Java 7 JDK - and it is not being detected.
I would be interested in knowing which programs advertise themselves using Bonjour on my machine. Is there a way to do that?
How would I do this? I have attempted double clicking on it (obviously) and I get an error of it saying that its not recognized.
I don't know why i can't seem to find any info about this or even anyone asking the same question. I have an iMac and a new iPad. I want to mirror my Mac display on the iPad, so I can sit in another room with the iPad, the wireless keyboard and mouse. Since I'm using the keyboard and mouse, I don't need touch events to be translated. Also, since the iPad's resolution in landscape mode is 2048x1536, the Mac's resolution of 1920x1080 should fit in it without scaling. Letterboxing is okay.
Here's the error message: Anyone know what I can do to rectify?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.0.1 with baseband/bootrom 05.16.02. I want to upgrade to iOS 5.1.1 but also make my device unlockable. With that baseband, however, I can no longer unlock my phone. I know I can install baseband 06.15.00 for the iPad WiFi+3G that Apple bundles with iOS 3.2 to 3.2.2 and then unlock, but that breaks GPS functionality.
I had a Mac mini. Then the HD broke. So I took an HD from an old Windows notebook. I moved this HD from the Windows notebook to the Mac mini. Now Mac mini correctly starts with Windows XP (what a mess).
When I try to sync my iPhone or iPad via Wi-Fi it happens very often that the symbol of the device disappears after iTunes is telling me that it's searching the device. After a couple of minutes the symbol re-appears. Syncing via USB works flawlessly.
I used the Terminal to unzip a file by typing Unzip then dragging the file to terminal. The file unzipped successfully and a few GBs were used from my SDD. However, I have no idea where the files are !!! I can't find them in the same folder of the zip file. Where would they be ?
I know I can use Disk Utility to secure erase a disk. My question is: I have a disk half empty. I would like to know if there's a way to secure erase the empty part of the disk. I mean, an app/command that can identify those empty sectors of the disk and give them a secure erase treatment. thanks.
I have 2 x 1 TB drive that I use interchangeably. 1 holds Video and the other Photos. I only have 1 connected when I'm working (using Premiere or Lightroom). I have a 2 TB NAS for making redundant copy of the other 2 drives.So far I've been doing the copying manually.
Is there any way to force iCloud to download all data on IOS? For example, before boarding a flight, I'd like to be able to tell my iPad to download all keynote, numbers and pages documents to the device without having to manually click on each one.
I'm handling a migration from an on old Mac server to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a 12 TB (10 usable) RAID 5 server. It's using an SMB share and now the OS X 10.5/10.6 users can search - sometimes it works, but takes up to 10 minutes. The OS X 10.7 machine seems to be fine. I've looked in the root of the shared drive for a .Spotlight-V100 file (ls -a) but it doesn't seem to be there. mdutil says indexing is on for that volume and I have cleared the index using mdutil -E /Volumes/MeSharedVolume numerous times. Any ideas?
From my MacBook Pro, I use a Java program that allows me to remotely connect to my Windows computer. I use Outlook on this Windows computer where normally I use shortcut keys like ControlF2 or ControlF4 to categories emails in Outlook.
I was upgrading Node.js node through Homebrew's brew upgrade, and it didn't link correctly. $ brew update (snip-snip formulae were updated) $ brew upgrade (snip-snip other upgrades) ==> Upgrading node ==> Downloading http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.11/node-v0.8.11.tar.gz
I'm looking to record lectures with my MacBook Pro this year. Is there any good, free software that is capable of producing recordings from a potential distance?
I have a bare WD1002FBYS and am wondering if I can place this into a MacPro1,1 (the first Desktop MacPro).
I have an iMac Late 2006 with Lion installed. I don't know since when, but since 3-4 weeks ago I am having this problem. The point is, every time I restart my iMac or boot it, Spotlight starts to reindex again.
Seems like one cannot create playlist of starred songs on your iPhone without going it through iTunes on your computer. Can someone verify this please? Or is there some way to do it on the phone itself?
I've got an iPhone 4, and for a while now the home button has been quite unresponsive. Sometimes I need to press the button around 5 or 6 times for it to register. However, I noticed that once I restore it to factory settings, the home button goes back to normal.
I just purchased a ticket for a movie tonight using the Fandango app on my iPhone 4S running iOS 6. I know that Fandango is one of the current few Passbook supported apps. What I don't know is how to ensure that my tickets will show up in Passbook. Is there anything special I have to do? The Walgreens app prompted me to put my card in Passbook so I was expecting similar behavior from Fandango. Will the tickets just show up in Passbook closer to showtime?
When I click on App Store, which rests below all of the features that Apple touts for the service, I am given an error where a prompt tells me that my phone can’t access the App Store. The error looks like this:
I have recently downloaded the new software on my iphone, iOS 6. My mother and my sister also use my Apple ID to download their apps too.
Can I move ENTIRE folders (Pages documents, Numbers spreadsheets, photos) to iCloud, or do I have to move each separately...documents to Pages app, spreadsheets to Numbers app and photos to iPhoto? I have 10.7.5 OS...can I move entire Folder on new Mountain Lion OS? Thanks.
I just recently did an upgrade to all apple products and have a retina Macbook Pro, an iPhone 5, and an iPad. I hate having to carry around 3 different chargers. I was wondering if there is an adapter, or something else that I can carry around instead. I wouldn't mind having 2 adapters that go into 1 charger, since that is better than 3 chargers. Basically Any help on this is greatly appreciated, since I haven't really found anyone else with this problem.
An old MacBook still running 10.4 just showed up. Unfortunately, 10.4 isn't new enough to run the software it needs to run, so I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade it something newer.
I just purchased a cloud ftp usb adapter for my ipad so i can access my data. What these companies dont tell you is that the ipad must sync or download the files from hdd to ipad to access the data, which makes it ridiculous if your trying to watch video or listen to music. My question is: Does anyone know how to stream the data from an external storage device so that accessing feel natural like a laptop?
I was familiarizing myself with some of the hidden files in OS X (while cleaning house) and I came across a hidden folder inside the /Users/Shared directory. It's name is "." followed by a 32-character hex string, which (I googled the string) is the MD5-encrypted version of the name of my user account on this computer.
I checked the specs, and the i5-3427U CPU has 2 cores. But the Activity Monitor shows 4 little charts for the CPU, so it looks like 4 cores.
I can't find the trashcan icon anywhere. I'm using OS X 10.7.4. I'm not sure when it went missing. I can still move items to the trash, but since I can't find it I can't empty it. Is there a way to get the icons back, or an absolute path to it? Note: I'm not using Time Machine.
I can't seem to find how to open the network preferences from the Terminal. What Terminal command will open up the Network preferences window as if having gone by System Preferences > Network ?
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and reconfigured my apache2 (https.conf) file in the terminal to load PHP and start automatically. My localhost/~username/phpinfo.php page comes up to show my PHP configuration (php.ini). I see that upload_files is set to ON and the max_size_upload is set to 20MB. However, the upload_tmp_dir isn't set (it says NO VALUE). I assume the default tmp directory is "/tmp". When I do goto the upload_tmp_dir and I remove the ; in front of it and enter the value /tmp (save and exit).
Ever since I installed Lion on my late 2009 MacBook Pro, it crashes several times a day randomly during some operation (open an application, browse the net, add photos, etc.). I read the answer about updating Show Crash Prefs in System Preferences and tried to do it, but it doesn't work. I updated Info.plist file with text editor exactly as in the answer, but the Finder still doesn't give the option of selecting new Show Crash Prefs? Am I missing something?
I would like to have a script to delete all my groups in my Contacts. Somehow I got a kind of replication bug resulting in over 500 groups. Delete them one by one is not an option. Tried this script, but it does not do the job, I have to enter to many group names and after a while the sript stops even when not all groups have been deleted. Any help will be much appreciated.
Is there some application, which allows you to open just 2 blank panes and paste there text manually, so I don't have to save them into files before comparing them and I can edit files directly in panes? And I would like comparison like Kaleidoscope or something similar, which can hilight what's different in particular line, not just hilight that this line was changed and I have to spot the difference manually Meld for Linux is capable of doing so, but I didn't find any native apps for Mac
I've got a Macbook Pro 15" 2,4GHz i5, medio 2010. I would like to upgrade to a solid state disk. But will I benefit from a disk with read/write speeds of 500 mb/s? Or what is the max speed that is supported by my SATA controller? Thank you in advance
From time to time, I get a system dialog box that asks if I want to install Java. I always say No. Is there a way to get it to stop asking me?
I've been recently getting this message when I try to eject my external HD, I only use it for Time Machine backups. How do I stop this message form appearing?
Occasionally, and with no apparent correlation with what is going on on other devices where I have Messages enabled, I get a negative count for my unread messages in Messages on OS X:  What could be causing this, and how can I prevent from happening in the future?
I have tested many apps and I would like to review them in the Apple Store. I use an iPad. I don't want to review apps under the account my credit card is tied to. How can I review apps anonymously?
I have an external drive formatted with FAT32. Is it somehow possible to share it using SMB in Mountain Lion? It appears on the client but with nothing on it. I have read that on older OS X versions, it was possible by editing /etc/smb.conf but is that still relevant? I don't seem to have one of those on my hard drive.
I'm a native English speaker and I can only understand English. For some reason, every email notification I get from the Find My iPhone service (such as a "locked" or "alarm" confirmation) is in French. At least, it looks like French. Before today I've never set my locale to anything other than English on my phone or iCloud. I tried switching my locale on my iPhone 4 and on iCloud, but the email notifications from Find My iPhone are still in French.
I want to see a list of my rewiews so I can keep track of apps I have reviewed and perhaps share them to my friends. So, how can I preview my reviews, i.e. the feedback, feature-request and such things for developers to get better, in iPad Apple Store?
How can I contact Apple directly? At what times can I do so?
I would like to get the Xcode-developer things to my Macs. I noticed that Apple has started to offer some terminal things online, more here. I am still lazy to get the CDs, to get all Xcode-developer things, is there some easy way to do it online without the Xcode CD? Is there any way to get all Xcode things pre-installed so not to waste time for their installation?
Is there a quick way to switch between iTunes accounts in AppleTV? The Apple TV Software Update 5.1 supposedly supports 'Save[ing] multiple iTunes accounts and switch quickly between them.'
Are there any Postscript (.ps) viewers for iPad? Secondly, having used Okular on Linux that can read .ps, .pdf and .djvu files, is there anything that does all three or more? Finally, I am looking for a plain interface rather than the interface from such items as iBooks. Thanks a lot!
I just noticed that Time Machine is backing up 15 GB (it's been running for a few hours; this means that Time Machine thinks that 15 GB of data changed in one hour which is absurd). I've only been doing some programming in the Terminal, and the usual web browsing/iTunes etc.
I'm trying to install Windows 8 with Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro. Sadly it won't let me get past the disk partition choice (even after formatting the Bootcamp-drive). It says:
I'm seeing entries related to VPN access in my iPad's system log (via an app called 'System Console'), but I don't know why they're appearing. I've never used a VPN or any form of remote access Software and VPN is not turned on in my Settings menu. I've tried to remedy this by resetting my iPad network settings to the factory defaults, but no luck. Does anyone know what is causing this and how I can resolve it? Here are the relevant log entries:
I had an app on my MacBook that I never used. I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion on the same MacBook (not using the Migration Assistant or anything to copy my old data). I reinstalled the apps that I wanted from the App Store (and obviously didn't install the ones I used to have that I no longer wanted).
I was moving some files from one external hard drive to another, while the system froze, and I had to reboot the hard way. When I logged in again, the folder was looking semi-transparent (as it is when it's moving files, I'm guessing Finder puts some sort of flag to it). I would have done the operation back from the start, but the source folder was smaller than it was originally, which meant that some of the files were already transferred, albeit inaccessible (at least from Finder).
Apple TV was working fine up until yesterday. I had rented & watched Men in Black 3 and it was all good - that was my first day experience wi Apple TV - great! Now it's all gone downhill... Nothing changed on my network - connecting wired directly to my router/modem to the net. Apple ID is fine as i've tested it on other iDevices. I have the iTunes Store set to Australia with correct Time Zone. I've got Home Sharing turned on with my Apple ID on the Apple TV and it's working. The problems ...
I hadn't backed up to Time Machine in 20 days, and now that I am trying to do so I have yet to succeed. It got stuck a few times with a few KB; other times it took forever do everything, from preparing the backup to actually transferring files. It's supposedly trying to backup 40GB and after 8 hours not even 1 GB is done. I have to stop it because I have to take my 2009 Macbook running Lion out.
I was using my iPad 2 today and everything was behaving normally. It had 90% battery and is running iOS 6.0. Then, suddenly, it displayed the Apple logo boot screen for a couple seconds and brought me to the device activation screen.
This has started happening several times today. Lasting for 20 seconds or so, the keyboard and touchpad on my Macbook Pro stop responding to inputs. Everything else is working fine and I can see movement on my screen. I'm running the latest Mountain Lion, and I think this may have something to do with it:
I'd like mail to be automatically be sent from an account based on domain the domain of the recipient. Details:
I tried to update my apps today, and there appeared a notice said that "iTunes terms & conditions have changed. Before you can proceed you must read & accept the new terms & conditions". I selected OK and agreed the terms and conditions. Then there was another notice said 'download now: ***will now begin to download'. I pressed Ok. Then the first notice about the iTunes terms and conditions appeared again. All the process repeated then and it became an endless loop. I cannot download or update apps.
Has anyone attempted this before? Are there any installation guides to follow? I attempted to install before but I wasn't able to boot into the fedora partition when i was done.
Unfortunately this version of google is often extremely slow or doesn't load at all here, most likely because of the Great Fiewall of China (clicking a search result also asks google's server first, therefore it also takes a very long time). In contrast, google.com works fast and reliably most of the time.
At work we use a Mac mini running Airfoil as an endpoint to stream music through the speakers. Ideally, I'd like to query that machine to ascertain the name or address of the current client streaming media to it.
i installed xcode directly from a dmg that i downloaded from developer site at apple, now on the app store shows up as it were not installed,(it shows install button) How i can tell to the app store that is already installed?
I cannot reach a certain remote IP address from my Mac. Pinging it gives "Request timeout" and after 4 or 5 pings "No route to host" and "Host is down". The weird fact is that other Macs on my same local network can access it without problems. I don't have any firewall active, nor Little Snitch or similar, nor proxies, nor /etc/hosts tricks (which deal only with host name resolutions, anyway, but I have to reach the IPv4 address). I have a 2011 13" MacBook Air with OS X 10.7.5. Can you point me to some other obscure network settings or blocking lists that may be active on Mac Os X or maybe some software that may interfere with network settings? Thank you.
I recently noticed that the normal cycle through windows command was not working in many of my applications — Terminal is about the only one left that would work. I went to go check, and the Cycle Through Windows item in the Window menu is gone in multiple applications. I attempted to assign a cycle command ( Command + `, as is normal ) via the Keyboard preference pane (in some vain hope that the missing menu item would have just been invisible), but that did not work either. I am completely at a loss here, especially as cycling through open windows is part of my normal workflow.
I currently have a standard MacBook Pro from 2010. I bought an SSD drive and a caddy and I want to do a fresh install of Mountain Lion on the SSD, and stay with the other drive as secondary boot option.
I just bought a 1 TB WD passport (external hard drive) to backup my Mac. I'm currently operating on a Mac OS x 10.5.8 (Leopard) with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. To format the drive I erased the contents of the drive with Disk Utility and formated it as Mac OS X extended (journaled) set the volume scheme to one partition, formatted again under Mac OS X (journaled) with GPT
It is probably best to first describe the ridiculous network setup I have: I have a time capsule connected via Ethernet to my university's network. It is sharing this internet connection with a group of Macs over AirPort. Some of the macs are old Mac Pros and do not have AirPort, so they are attached via Ethernet to some of the Macs that have AirPort. The daisy-chained Macs get internet, but they cannot see other computers with file sharing on the LAN. A diagram: I have noticed that the Macs directly connected (Wi-Fi and Ethernet) to the time capsule have IP addresses that begin with 10, but the daisy-chained machines have IPs beginning with 192. How can I get the Daisy-chained machines to appear on the LAN?
and it does not get rid of the "iPhone4s" prefix. I checked the System Preferences > Sharing and the name for the computer is correct.
Seems the notification is not working, or do I need to buy the Growl from App Store in order to use it?
Is there a way to display the currently-playing track on my Mac? I would rather not use a 3rd-party app.
I really like when I go near to a wi-fi connection and my iPod-touch automatically connects, send the Outbox e-mails and download the new ones. Is there a way to do the same with twitter? Automatically download the new tweets and send the "drafts" when connect to the wi-fi?
I live in MA but my iPad thinks it is in Clarksville, Indiana (both in Maps and other apps). This becomes annoying if I try to post in Facebook and all friends ask what I am doing in IN. This has been happening in both iOS 5 and 6. I've read on the web where people claim this is because of the Apple location database thinks my wireless router is in IN but if I post a comment to Facebook on my wife's iMac (also on wifi) it correctly identifies my location. I've also used my iPhone to determine my location while connected to my wifi which is supposed to update the Apple location database but it's had no effect. Any ideas on how to fix?
MacBook Air running 10..8.1. I have a script that I'd like to add to the Login Items for a managed account. When logged in as the Administrator, the Login Items button is present. When I select the managed account, the Login Items is missing. Parental Controls are enabled for the managed account. How can I access the Login Items for a managed account?
What security does iMessages provide or is it open and subject to the security of the connection used to send the messages?
I am doing, or trying to do, a 'find /' which I would like to recursively list every file the user has permission to access under the volume "Macintosh HD" and nothing else. I am presently filtering out the output of the find to exclude files under Backups.backupdb. This is a partial solution at best because the system is bogging under attempts to access flaky NSF mounts. Is there a shell command that I can use that will stay on "Macintosh HD", recursively list file paths, and leave other volumes alone?
I have two Logitech wireless devices (keyboard and mouse) that work well on my ppc mac (running OSX 10.4.11). Each has a little USB unifying receiver that came with it, each receiver being paired with the device it came with. You're supposed to be able to pair both devices to a single receiver, but Logitech wants you to download the Logitech Control Center in order to do so. I just finished "cleaning house" on my system, removing unwanted and residual third-party stuff, and I'd rather not install some "bloatware" if there's a way I can manually pair both devices to one receiver. Add to that the fact that Logitech no longer offers a version of LLC that runs on 10.4.I've seen some people mentioning SteerMouse and USB Overdrive, and might check them out, but is there any other option? I don't care about customizing the buttons, just pairing both devices to one receiver.I hope this isn't considered off-topic. I realize the question centers around Logitech, but I'm hoping there's a way to a
We have Macbook Airs running 10.8.1. These are exposed to students in a k-12 setting. I'd like to restrict their ability to change the wallpaper of the desktop. Is there a setting to configure?
If I stop the backup it says: "now encrypting...", is the data saved "not encrypted" before being encrypted? Can I make it "always encrypted"? Non-encrypted transfers are a problem for me.
I have a Mac and a jailbroken iPad. Jailbreaking is perfectly legal where I write this. I can scp and rsync to the device (i.e. I can file-transfer), how would I best transfer some movies to watch on the iPad? Which folder on the iPad?
Is it possible to disable Airplay on an iPad? I recently bought a Denon receiver that supports Airplay. The other day my 2 year old niece decided to stream what she was watching on the iPad to my stereo at an extremely high volume level. As you could imagine, trying to tell a 2 year old not to do something can be impossible at times, so I'd like to disable the Airplay feature from the iPad so my niece, and others, can't use it.
My brother updated his iPod today but because he connected with my Apple ID, he is receiving all my iMessages and FaceTime calls on his iPod. How do I stop this from happening?
After successfully dual-booting fedora on my Macbook Air, i have noticed that the Macbook tends to heat up a lot faster than when I am using Mac OS X. Is this normal?
I have something like 1450 songs on my iPhone 4S, and I have iTunes transcoding the files to 192 kbps as I don't have enough memory. The only problem is that the sync takes from 3 to 4 hours! Is there any way I could speed it up? My iPhone runs iOS 6.0 and my computer, Windows 8 Dev Preview.
I just synced my Mountain Lion Mail app with my Exchange work email account in order to have it locally on my machine (rather than continuously going through the web interface). However, now Mail fetches all the mails since the very beginning (which are a couple of years). Is there a way (like on iOS devices) to tell Mail to only sync the last month or something configurable amount based on message count, download size or other similar restriction to prevent all messages from being stored locally?
The only reason I use the Notes.app and not Stickies.app is iCloud sync. I enjoy the customization (colors, fonts, minimized view) and minimalism (plain background, thin borders) of Stickies over the skeuomorphismic approach which generally requires much more space on the desktop. How can I safely remove the background lines and change the line spacing in Notes.app?
How can I launch an app in Automator periodically, like in 15 minute intervals?
I have a 2011 MacBook Air with OS X Mountain Lion (I've upgraded from Lion). And ever since upgrading my escape key randomly stops working. And it's not that the keyboard on the laptop would be damaged as the same happens if I use Apple's Bluetooth keyboard. So I'm guessing it's a software issue. Also in some cases pressing ctrl+esc achieves the same thing as just esc so I'm 100% it's not a hardware problem. Does anybody have any idea what this might be all about and how to fix it? edit: the escape key stops working completely but it starts working again after I restart the computer.
I'm trying to use the Finder to search my code base. For example I would like to find every files that ends with ".m" and contains "keyDown".
I was wondering, how to enable the F12 shortcut key on OS X for Firebug? I don't really use Dashboard, so I'm more than happy to disable it.
How can I set up iCloud as the default email provider in my browser? I am using Linux and if I click on a mailto link in a web page it goes to my Gmail account. Can this be changed to make it go to my iCloud account?
On the Mac side, the kernel logs don't have much useful information. Just a lot of lines like this:
I installed iOS 6 on my iPad and went looking for Passbook and didn't find it. I checked the AppStore and no results are found for Passbook. Where is it?
In Google Maps and the iOS-5 Maps app you can search for co-ordinates such as "loc: N 42 14.768 W 071 02.156" (note the lowercase loc). In the new Maps app this fails with No Results found. Is there another way to enter GPS co-ordinates or is this another missing 'feature'?
I don't have an Apple computer, only iPad and Debian computer but I still would like to add a feature to iOS app here. Earlier I found out that I can download Xcode, more here, from Apple Store. Now I cannot find Xcode from Apple Store in iPad. I want to get this one here for iPad so how can I get Xcode for iPad?
I have two Apple devices which flat out refuse to connect to our company WiFi, an iPhone 5 and a 'new iPad' (3rd gen). Both are running iOS 6. The iPad could connect while it was on iOS 5, but not since upgrading to iOS 6. When selecting the network, I'm prompted for the password, but once I've entered it (correctly) I get the message 'Unable to join the network "network name"'.
I replaced a hard drive in a 2011 iMac (Core i7), though it was a standard hard drive and didn't have a location for the S.M.A.R.T. cord. (Or at least I think that's what it was.) Since then, the internal fan has constantly been running. I don't want the fan to burn out, and it is becoming quite a distraction for the user.
I have an unused, approximately 1.5-year-old, iPad 2 (32Gig with 3G). It has a slight crack in one corner of the screen - it's noticeable but not a complete hindrance to anyone using it.
I have an application for mac and I use the following applescript code (exported as an AS app) to start that app periodically: I use [NSApp terminate:self] in MyApp to terminate itself after it finished its work.
The initial release of Apple Maps is... challenged with regard to business listings, and lacks transit directions. But most of the other apps Tim Cook suggested in his apology fail to solve the problem: the straight-up GPS nav apps lack transit directions and have mediocre POI data, and the webapps are slow and lack many of the features of the native ones. What's the best workaround until Google releases an iPhone native app (likely months) or Apple's databases catch up (likely years)?
I'm trying to give the new podcasts app by Apple a go. Every morning I listen to a podcast and then pause it when I get to work. When I want to keep listening a few hours later and just press on play again in my earphones, I see that the podcasts app is no longer the active playing app and I have to open it again. This used to work easily in the regular Music app, but with Podcasts it's like the fact that it's the last-played app gets lost after sometime. Any help?
We have 2 iphones between us, both running iOS 5. Is there a way to share reminders between them? They have different apple IDs associated with them. It looks like this was possible via iCloud, but I cannot find that functionality.
Recently upgraded an old iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 5. Shortly after plugging in the iPhone to a new Windows laptop (usually under 10 minutes), the entire USB hub will reset, disabling all connected devices. (A USB thumb drive once was the sole survivor, and continued operation even though an external hard drive and USB mouse shut off.)
Had a quick question about having emacs-like word skipping in my terminal. I had set this up pre-upgrade to Lion and had ctrl-left & ctrl-right set to \033b & \033f respectively. Unfortunately post-upgrade ctrl-left & ctrl-right don't seem to be working any more. I have seen this solution which makes alt-left & alt-right behave as above, but I was hoping to get ctrl-left & ctrl-right working as before and I was wondering if folks here had any solutions. PS: As an aside this behavior is not working correctly in my VNC client as well - which it did previously.
EDIT: I have discovered where SuperDuper does this... kinda. If you have a Scheduled Job (run backup at 2am) and you run it manually (with the "Copy Now" button) then it will mount an unmounted drive, do the backup and then unmount the drive. However, if you do it this way, SuperDuper will not quit automatically. This feature also does not seem to work when the job runs at it's scheduled time.
I am buying an iPhone 5 in the US to use in Spain. Should I go for the AT&T's A1428 GSM model or the Verizon's A1429 CDMA one? Spain does not currently have LTE band, so the only concern is whether the CDMA works in Spain's GSM and 3G networks. Thanks!
I'm looking for a way to add an Active Directory user to a Mac and let them administrate the machine, without making more than just that user an administrator. Right now, I'm using Directory Utility to add an AD group, we'll call it Domain Devs, to the Allow Administration By: list. This would allow Bob, Nancy, Paul, and Bill to administer the computer. But this machine is supposed to go to Bob, so I only want him to administrate it. I then have to go to the login options and tell it to only allow Bob to log into the computer. So while Bob, Nancy, Paul and Bill can administer it, only Bob can log in. There is a concern that other users will be able to log into or gain access to the machine through another method of login or security breach and have administration rights to the system. We're looking for a way to do something similar to what happens in Windows when you take a user in AD and add that specific user to the local Administrators group, so Bob could be added to that specific c
I am looking for a vector image creation/editing tool for the Mac. My primary focus with be creating/editing images (mainly icons) for application development. I think I will be purchasing the full icon set from *=URL=* as a starting point and them go from there. I already have pixelmator for standard image creation/editing so diffidently looking for a tool that is geared specific for vector based images. A few basic things: Support SVG format Be able to export to png file format Support Illustrator file format (nice to have)
During a Time Machine backup, is the backed up data at any time unencrypted? If yes: can I disable that at the cost, perhaps, of time/space? If no: why does the system say "Encryping..." when I stop a running backup before returning the Time Machine state to "waiting for next backup"?
I had a user that was set up to administer an OS X machine. That user is an AD account, with mobile accounts enabled. The user's AD group is set to allow administration using the directory utility.
I somehow ended up with an Apple email address. How can I use my '@me.com' email in my email client (Evolution in Debian)?
this is my first post here but it seems like a helpful place. I got a used 2010 MacBook pro last weekend, and have had a hell of a time trying to transfer data from my older MBP via Migration Assistant and Firewire. On the first attempt, I left the two computers running overnight, and my roommate unplugged the power adapter from the old one so that it died before the transfer finished.
Is it possible for me to change the text to speech voice (For example, right clicking any paragraph or text in TextEdit, clicking Speech --> Start Speaking) from the default American version to the UK voice (Daniel Compact, for example)? I've tried to do this in voiceover but it does not affect the voice for Text to Speech. Thanks in advance.
I'm importing iPhone images uploaded to the DropBox "Camera Uploads" folder. But I can't believe it has to do with anything related to this.
They are nearly identical but they are not identical. For example, Google still seems to offer some features to Gmail users before Google Apps users. Until recently, Google Voice was not available for Google Apps, and so I created my Google Voice number through my Gmail account.
I am running OS X Lion and my laptop has a 320GB drive. I bought a larger drive (750GB) and cloned the entire device from the old drive to the new using GNU ddrescue. After cloning everything looks fine but of course I have a lot of free space.
I got my iPhone 5 this week. While browsing with Safari, on WiFi (which I am using to post this question), my battery life drops at a steady rate of 1% per 5 minutes. I have been timing it from 64% to 56%, and its been exactly constant for each percentage point. All widgets are off and I have double-tapped the Home button to make sure Safari is the only app running. 5 minutes times 100 percentage points comes out to about 8 hours and 20 minutes, but Apple says it should last up to 10 hours browsing on WiFi. Am I just being OCD or is my battery a little weak? How much deviance from the estimated time is normal?
WebKit browsers aren't loading images, css, or JavaScript properly. In some cases I have to refresh a couple of times for all resources show up properly. There is no clear pattern; it is random. I have the idea that my HD is failing to write the resources in some cases. Or might this be the RAM? Or is this maybe software related? Does anyone have insights on issues like these? Here are some examples:
I'm trying to understand which device has better audio capabilities. I tried to do independent research, but the Apple site only has generic information for the MacBook Pro and the Thunderbolt Display What are the detailed audio specs of each device and which one is better for Audio?
I would like to configure my Mac and Thunderbolt display for the best Audio output. The "Audio Devices" tab allows me to choose Audio Format in Hz Audio Format in Hz 2 channel xx bit Integer or Float 2 channel xx bit Integer or Float
I have a small apartment and have one Thunderbolt display, a retina MacBook Pro, and am considering a second Thunderbolt Display. I plan on purchasing VESA kits for each display, but am getting hung up on what kind of hardware to buy to handle the rotation of screens and what I should do with my MacBook, and still make the small space aesthetically pleasing. What options are there to rotate a monitor 90 degrees (so I can view long documents) and to rotate it back so I can multitask or watch videos? What should I look for in a desk that would work well with this setup?
On previous versions of OS X I used to be able to go to a file in Safari, click and drag on the favicon and take it over to my downloads window, which would then download that file. So for instance if i was listening to this file and wanted to download it in Lion. All I had to do was drag the icon in the address bar over to the download window.
iTunes 10.7 is pretty awesome compared to nearly all media players/browsers I have experienced. But, just a quick question if I could have some option to get "Now Playing" list with "Enqueue" option to my audios, similar to what we have in Winamp? It would be of great help.
This is driving me crazy because I see this in notification center in a lot of a screenshots for iOS reviews:  What is the app that adds weather to the notification center?
What I have to do is manually turn off Wi-Fi, then launch Chrome. When all tabs get loaded with "Unable to connect to the Internet", I turn on Wi-Fi. This helps me not waste memory on unused tabs.
I want the menubar to display the date and time in the menubar as follows: which translates into Year-Month-Day 24hr.min.second What I've tried: Gone into System Preferences > Date & Time > Clock Selected: Digital; Display time with seconds; use 24-hour clock This gets me close to having the time right. Gone into System Preferences > Date & Time > Date & Time > Open Language & Text > Formats > Dates > Customize Changed every date format (short, medium, long, full) to have yyyy-MM-dd Gone into System Preferences > Date & Time > Date & Time > Open Language & Text > Formats > Times > Customize Change every time format to kk.mm.ss The problem: It still shows the date like: in the menubar. Details: I am running Mac OS X 10.7.5 Any help or suggestions you can give, much appreciated!
So when I'm asked if I want to turn off iCloud Camera Roll backups and delete the backup data from iCloud, will I still have the pictures somewhere? I don't get it...
I have installed iOS 6 beta, when it was released, in this summer. Yesterday, I have a screen on my iPhone, that activation is required. But, it is impossible to activate, because "servers is unavailable". https://discussions.apple.com/message/19837016?tstart=0#19837016?tstart=0
I clean-installed Mountain Lion 10.8.0. Now I am at 10.8.2 and I want to do a clean install again. If I boot to the recovery partition and do a restore, will I have 10.8.0 or 10.8.2? Does the recovery partition get updated when OS X gets updated?
I reset the settings (all settings) on my new iPhone 5 today, to try to troubleshoot some problem. Since doing so, my screen seems dimmer.
Could someone tell me how much Ampere the retina macbook pro can deliver over usb. I thought that one should be able to charge an ipad with a retina macbook which would mean, that it should be about 1A minimum (Probably rather 2-5A for an Ipad3). However when I plug in my Android phone to charge, it does charge slower than on an 1A USB-Charger.
I was recording my screen whilst giving a presentation. Instead of stopping the recording cleanly I closed the lid of my laptop. Later, when I opened it again, the recording had stopped, but there was no sign of the resulting file. Can anyone tell me where the recording may be stored on disk so I can recover it?
My Uni course requires me to use Qt Creator for our coursework but I would like to also put it on my Mac so that I can do more work at home. I had assumed it was available for free but when I tried to download it, I was told to register for a 30-day trial, which I took to mean that the software isn't free. Can I get Qt Creator for Mac for free and where from?
iCloud offers the service to remotely wipe (erase) a mac, as you can remotely erase an iPhone. Where can I change this setting, e.g. disable it?
I usually have to copy/paste test from web pages (or other places) and paste it into HTML forms (usually Chrome). The problem is that ofter I do end-up with a text that has additional leading or trailing spaces.
This "phoning home" reporting is something I would like to completely disable.  How can I make sure I never see this dialog again and no info is sent to Apple?
I'm using my mum's Apple ID on my new MacBook Pro, so, because of iCloud, I'm receiving all her emails, I have all her contacts, etc. I just want to use her Apple ID for iTunes, the AppStore and Facetime. Can I stop sharing all her data?
After upgrading my device from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 6, iTunes doesn't allows me to restore from an old backup, saying that it is an incompatible backup. Why is this? Is there any way I could restore from this old backup? And, if not, is there any way I could retrieve the data from this backup?
Is their a way to sync just the music from my iTunes library to my iPod classic? Right now it also syncs videos and I don't want them taking up space on my iPod.
I have an application which looks for its data (*.txt) files in a folder. I have two folders containing text data that I need to keep separate, but it would be useful to have the application see the text data files as residing in one folder (containing the two sets of files). I can create a script that maintains symbolic links to the files in the two folders in a third combined folder. Rather than reinventing the wheel, I'd like to use a proven solution if possible. The solution would have to deal with the case of file name clashes in a sensible way.
My daughter gained my contacts on her iPhone. When she noticed this she deleted all of my contacts from her phone and now I find that when she performed that, I lost all of my personal contacts and am left with only the contacts on her phone. If I restore how do I know I am not restoring back to her contacts? How do I make my phone the primary and RESTORE to get my contacts back and not hers?
I'm struggling to record a high quality video of my iOS app. There are several similar questions out there, but my focus is on high quality. To my knowledge there are only two options to record a screen and both have some serious limitations. Screen recording in the simulator
Obviously if I initiate a FaceTime call then the recipient will see the caller ID that I've selected in my FaceTime settings. However, if someone calls me at one of my alternative addresses, is my chosen caller ID revealed to them in any way? Or will they still only know about the address/number they used?
I accidentally hid a bunch of login items, some of which I meant to delete. How do I unhide these items once they're hidden?
If I find a MP3 audio on the internet, or a MP3 video (or even YouTube), is it possible save this on my iPhone somehow so I can listen to it? Not sure but I believe iTunes has a special format.
I have never seen the "read" tag before, however I have seen "delivered" and nothing. What does the "read" tag mean?
I'm not fully versed in how the EFI booting process happens. If I want to install Linux in a partition formerly used by Windows, why can I not simply use LILO, installing the boot section in the "root" instead the MBR? Thanks.
With OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.2) there is a UI problem. Calendar + Reminder + Sticky Note apps have truncated title text
I am going to try and consolidate all of the questions I have here: Can I use the Verizon iPhone5 with a GSM carrier in Europe (Vodafone) and in India (Airtel or Aircel) with both calling and cellular data working properly? Can I use the Verizon iPhone5 with a GSM carrier in Europe (Vodafone) and in India (Airtel or Aircel) with both calling and cellular data working properly?
When I have a giant Thunderbolt monitor plugged into my MacBook, I want windows arranged a certain way. No full-screen apps, some apps are shown on my small laptop screen, other apps are shown on my Thunderbolt display. When I unplug the Thunderbolt display, I would like programs arranged differently, e.g., the browser is a full-screen app. Is there any program that will let me "save" my window state when I have an external monitor plugged in, and save another layout when I don't have any external display, and automatically switch between the two when it detects that external display has been plugged in or unplugged? I'm on Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.
Question Which process is answering to this ports when no other process is opening them? Which is the purpose of this behavior? Edit
I have an old MacBook Pro (pre-unibody) running OS 10.6. I am annoyed by the traditional Macintosh bootup sound, which I want to mute permanently. I've tried some proposed solutions:
My trackpad is broken so I can tap-to-click but i cannot drag and drop. This is really a problem when it comes to doing certain things. Does anyone know how to program a sticky key to turn a click into a click-select that can then be dragged about? I can't resize my browser or open window and I can't drag applications into the folder when installing etc. free solutions only please.
Since iOs 6 and Mountain Lion I'm able to receive iMessages sent to my cellular number both on my iPhone and my Mac Book. Is it possible to do the same with FaceTime? I would like to receive FaceTime calls dialed to my iPhone number also on my Mac Book. I tried to configure it in FaceTime preferences but it only allows my to add email addresses.
I have the following Apple MacBook Pro Power adapter: 60W MagSafe PV85 Ouptput 16.5v--3.65A ADP-60AD T
I have my iOS 6 phone synced with iCloud. I had a storage shortage on iCloud so I deleted pictures from my phone, however this does not solve the problem - my phone still complains that it doesn't have enough space on iCloud. Sure enough, I checked the "Next Backup Size" (it's 5.6GB, I am on the free tier), the Camera Roll takes 4.2GB of this.
specify to the spellchecker that it should only use one dictionary (i.e. French) for this document.
First shortly after upgrading my iPhone 4S and the new iPad to iOS 6. I upgraded, downloaded some songs and about a week later all my devices (inc. PC and a MacBook Pro) got iTunes Match turned off. This wasn't a problem for PC and MacBook as iTunes doesn't erase the music from them, but I had to download all the songs on iOS devices again.
On my brand new Mountain Lion setup, the Messages app behaves weirdly with remote Adium clients when using a Google Talk account: I appear offline in my friends Adium contact list These Adium-using friends don't get my messages I don't get their messages either However, it works well with other iChat/Messages clients and Gtalk-in-Gmail clients. Messages also works well with the same account on my other MacBook running Mountain Lion. I tried removing the Gtalk account, launching the app while pressing the Option key, recreating the Gtalk account, and aslo using the default options, but nothing seems to work.
Can someone help me with this. As I am new to iPhone and itunes. I have couple of songe (audio format) downloaded from internet and added into "My Music" in itunes. I have synced my iphone 5 with itunes in my PC. But on iPhone where these songs would have been downloaded?? When I go to the itunes tab on iphone 5 it takes me straight to it main page and if I go the downloaded ones then that one is empty.
My instinct says that installing the actual development tools, like Mercurial, git, etc. directly via the projects' recommended method, and then installing the server-side components like MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc. into a VM is the best route, but what are the pros-cons of doing this vs. going with something like MacPorts? Note: I realize that this is a rather programming-centric question, but the central issue is that OS X is different from Windows and *nix when it comes to setting up a development environment and I'm not sure how to navigate in these OS X-specific waters.
Why does this happen? Am I using applescript improperly here?
I'm looking for a good case for my macbook air 13" that is compact, but still has room for a charger and mouse. I found this one like I liked, but the reviews I have found say the pockets aren't big enough to hold a charger. Has anyone found a good compact case/sleeve that will meet my needs?
I want to be able to wirelessly sync my iPad with iTunes how I do this?
Is there a way to lock out all apps except just the phone app in order to make calls? I understand "Guided Access" isolates you to a particular app and not let you move out. This works fine but is annoying as you cannot lock the phone (in other words "The hardware buttons are always off") when its on. Is there a way for me to enable just the lock button? Please advise.
I'm currently traveling for an extended period of time with an iPod Touch running iOS 5. I don't always have wi-fi access and I usually use the Maps application to look up my destination before leaving and then once I arrive the map is still cached in the app, even without connecting again to wi-fi. It helps me get around a new city and find my hostel or hotel.
Does the iPhone 5 have an oleophobic (fingerprint-resistant) coating? I searched but could only find info on the 3GS.
My iPhone 5 has a slightly "loose" power button. Not like its going to fall off or anything, but it visibly wiggles a little bit, and if I stand the phone up and then quickly turn it upside down, or bump it, I can hear and see it move. As this is my first iPhone, is this normal?
My Retina MacBook Pro has died spectacularly after just over 30 days with what appears to be an SSD fault. No boot, no recovery, and after internet recovery, Disk Utility can't see the SDD at all. I've persuaded Amazon to extend the returns period, so a replacement machine is on the way - but is there any way I can wipe the SSD before the returning the dead machine to remove personal data? I'm 99.99% certain the answer is 'no', in which case what precautions can I take in future to make sure personal data stays 'personal' in the event of SSD failure ?
In Terminal, pressing Shift+Command+K opens the "New Remote Connection" dialog box, which includes SSH, SFTP, FTP, and Telnet in the Service list and all Back-To-My-Mac systems in the Server list. How can I add another Service, for example Mosh, to the list? OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Macbook Air 13-inch, Mid 2012 13-inch, Mid 2012
I'm looking for a free spreadsheet editor that is simple and lightweight. I don't want to install OpenOffice just to use a some spreadsheets every once in a while.
I just upgraded from 10.6 to Mountain Lion. Prior to the upgrade I was using an Arduino and talking to it via /dev/tty.usbmodemmfa141. That device does not appear to exist anymore.
I don't have a computer, so I've been using someone else's to do the software upgrades to my iPhone 4. Later this year, I'm getting my own computer. I want to delete my iTunes on his computer and put on my computer (when I get it). I'm scared I will lose my music, movies, and apps. And what if I want to give him some of my songs as a thank you? I don't want to lose anything.
I have a 3rd generation Apple TV. Will it be possible to use it to watch the US presidential debates live? I would prefer to do so without using AirPlay, if possible.
Outlook 2011 on a Mac (OS X 10.7 Lion), on a (mostly PC) office network using Microsoft Exchange server. In Outlook 2011, in the network "Sent Items" folder, all emails are listed showing the sender's name (my name), not the recipients' names. That means every single email is headed with my own name, like this:
My guess is that the drivers I installed are not being picked up by the OS and instead it's using some generic driver. Any suggestions on how to diagnose and fix?
I am essentially looking for a way to upload files from my iPhone that it does not recognize or can handle with the goal of keeping them for later use on my computer. I see lots of ads for Dropbox, Skydrive, etc, that would let me grab files on my iPhone and keep them safe until I can get to a full computer (especially limited-time-availability files that must be downloaded within a timeframe.) So my question is, can't I do this directly with iCloud?
I am using Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and Coda 2.0.4. I want all my .js files to open with Coda (currently js files are assigned to Safari). When I do a 'Get Info' and change the 'Open with' application I try to select Coda 2 but it immediately bounces back to Safari.
I came across this question about tools that amplify sound in OS X, but they're not free. Are you aware of a free tool that boosts the volume?
I use iCloud / iTunes Match and have just discovered that all my lovely songs with explicit lyrics have been replaced by versions with clean ones. In some instances it's fine, and it doesn't bother me, but other times it just sounds strange. I'd like to force iTunes Match to find the explicit ones. How can I do it?
I just installed xcode 4.5 and need to install the command line tools. The apple documentations says (with very little detail) that there is a download section in the preferences pane. I have yet to see anywhere that allows you to download anything, specifically the command line tools. Did Apple change xcode drastically, I do not have a downloads section.
Is there a way to selectively chown the files/folders owned by a particular user, while leaving other files/folders untouched? I'm in the process of migrating to a fresh user account on my machine. I copied what I need from the old user's home directory and chowned it recursively, as described on an Apple support page. The support page makes no mention of chowning files/folders elsewhere on the machine, but I've found plenty of stuff in other locations that are owned by the old user: /Applications (lots of stuff) /Library (lots of stuff) /private/var/tmp (a small lot) /private/var/vm/app_profile/ (2 files) /usr/local/clamXav/ (1 easily replaceable file) /usr/local/lib/codec/ (4 files/folders)
I am trying to enable external VNC access to a Mac mini on a small network. I have a static IP address (67.41.xxx.xxx) reserved through my internet provider and the Mac mini has a reserved IP 172.16.5.9. How can I setup Apple Airport Extreme through Airport Utility (software v 6.1) to route traffic from the external IP to the internal IP? Thanks
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever done a thorough probe/exploration of the interconnect board in late-2007 Mac Minis. I'm specifically curious about the 14 unsoldered pads on the back of the board (J27 if the silk screen is to be believed?), to the left of the audio ribbon cable connector.
Is iOS 6 compatible with my iPhone 3GS model? The model number of my iPhone is A1303.
I use a Windows 7 installtion in Virtual Box. The magic track works fine for scrolling up and down but scrolling sideways doesn't work. Does anyone know how to get it working?
I'm a big fan of the Facebook integration in iOS 6, but it brings with it birthdays for all my Facebook contacts. I've figured out how to remove it from my calendar (de-select the calendar) but it still shows above my regular entries in notification centre. Any suggestions for getting rid of it?
In the app Reeder for iPhone, when I tap on: "Settings" > "Sharing Services" > "Mail", there appears to be a "Default Recipients" section, with four rows: "Link", "Article", "Text Selection", and "Image". Tapping on any of these rows doesn't seem to trigger anything.
I have several external hard drives which I would like to search for files with Spotlight. They cannot be all connected at the same time. How can I get Spotlight results for offline external hard drives ?
The Eject key on my iMac (OSX Lion) is no longer working. It was working fine until a few days back, and I remember sleeping my display using the Ctrl+Shift+Eject shortcut, when I first found out about the shortcut, a few days back. But it is no longer working. I have checked that it is not set as the shortcut for 'Speak selected text' option I have tried resetting the NVRAM I have tried switching user to check if it is a software problem How can I fix it?
When I switch to Safari from Chrome I really miss the mouseless navigation plugin that highlights every link and input with a letter ("A", "B"... "AA", "AB"...) and typing that combination + Enter follows the link. I've found out gleebox, that seems to be a multibrowser alternative, but it is not as fast and most of all the project seems abandoned.
I have an enclosure Hornettek Dual Bay SATA Case with removable disk trays, and RAID0, RAID1. USB3.0 and eSATA dual bay case with two 2T WD drives. My idea was to set them up as separate drives to have 2 backup drives.
Recently, this drive has not been showing up every time I connect the USB hub. Yesterday I noticed that the last Time Machine backup was a few days prior. Last night I waited to plug it in until my computer was out of sleep, and this time I switched to a different port on the USB hub. The drive mounted without an issue.
I can establish a connection to my university VPN (Cisco IPSec). In addition I have to set a proxy, in this case I have the URL of a .pac file.
This seems like one of those dumb questions, where the answer is, "that happens automatically, silly!" But as far as I can tell, while my podcast subscription shows the last 10 or so episodes, they don't seem to be saved on the device. I came to this conclusion when one stopped playing as soon as the buffer ran out after losing signal, and the others all became unplayable (greyed out). Is there some way to save episodes on-device int he Apple app?
When I'm working with certain applications / windows in Mac OS X (I'm using 10.8, although I'm not sure that's relevant), I sometimes see a black dot in the centre of the red window close button. What does this mean? I've seen it most often in Terminal.app, although I think it also happens in other applications too. I'm talking about this:
When configuring an LDAP addressbook with older iOS versions, the phone connects to port 389 for plain text and to port 636 when SSL is enabled. Our secure LDAP service runs on port 636 and before, it was connected. Now, with iOS 6, it no longer connects. It is difficult for me to find out if it is attempting on another port (due to company firewall) but certainly not on 636. Has this been changed? And to what port number?
I would like to open a book and everyone will have the same view of the book when I turn pages, I want to work with my friends as a team. It would be cool if everyone could add notices. So how can I read the same book with my friends on iPad?
I have experimented with a bunch of static and dynamic settings. This is what I have currently:
I can't seem to uninstall Mac App Store purchased applications. I know that holding down the Option key or clicking and holding on the app icon to make the icons start jiggling so you can uninstall the app by clicking the “X” shown in the corner of icons only works for apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. But I my case, not even apps downloaded from the Mac App Store show the "X" button when in jiggle mode.
The FBI issued a warning regarding hotel Wi-Fi access points, and any other public access point. I'd like to make sure my apple device always uses a VPN when using Wi-Fi. That way even if an attacker were to see my data, they would only see an encrypted jumble of bits. Note that this hack can also be applied to HTTPS connections.
Trying to install Ubuntu server on my MacBook however the CD drive is not working. All the guides I have seen so far use the bootcamp process (same as for windows) to achieve this.
I seem to recall making animated GIF from Preview.app on earlier OS, but can't find the options to make a GIF on the latest version of the app. Can I use 10.8 Preview to make animated PNG or GIF?
The system.log contains: applepushserviced[408]: : Stream error occurred for : Error Domain=APSTCPStreamErrorDomain Code=-65554 "DNSServiceQueryRecord() returned no such record for push.apple.com" UserInfo=0x103b21420 {NSLocalizedDescription=DNSServiceQueryRecord() returned no such record for push.apple.com} This repeats between twice a second and once every 5 minutes. Other logging for "push.apple.com" is: How to fix this Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion Server) machine?
I usually use several different spaces (desktops?) for various different tasks. Unfortunately, cocoa emacs 24.1 (9.0), even when using emacsclient (I do a server start in my init.el file) always opens a document or email response in the space emacs was originally started in. Aquamacs seems better behaved in this respect, but I prefer cocoa emacs. Is there a way to change this behavior? Best, JRV
I'm using on online TV recorder to record TV shows. Those recordings are downloaded as a podcast to iTunes. My following Applescript should just grab those podcasts, update some info fields and finally mark them as "TV show" to have them show up under "TV Shows" in iTunes. It works very well, only the part where I want to set the video kind to TV show doesn't seem to work. I also had a look at this Doug's script that does something similar and I can't find any difference. Here is my full script:
I have different screen resolutions I need for various situations, for example: Mac Retina while mobile: 1680x1050 Mac Retina while mobile: 1680x1050 Mac Retina + Thunderbolt: default (equal scaling on both monitors) Mac Retina + Thunderbolt: default (equal scaling on both monitors) (optional) Mac Retina 1680x1050 + Thunderbolt: default (equal scaling on both monitors) (optional) Mac Retina 1680x1050 + Thunderbolt: default (equal scaling on both monitors)
Buy me a Pie! - Cannot categorize items in web app. Web app is very "bare bones" I certainly don't mind paying for a good application so it does not need to be free.
1) In the Apple Podcasts app, one of the subscription options is Keep Most Recent Episode. Is this the most recent unplayed episode or the most recent episode in the feed? If the former, is there any way to get the latter behavior?
I have found this an annoyance since converting to Mac in February 2009. The problem has persisted through Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion.
I'm having a few issues with syncing pictures, which I haven't really nailed down enough to ask a question about exactly, but the rough version of it is that I think that my Mac running iPhoto has already downloaded most of my photos (but not any of my videos) using photostream before I get a chance to sync using a cable, and this results in the following behaviour: iPhoto finds a lot of duplicates when I choose the iPhone device and choose to sync iPhoto offers a chance to remove photos from your device that you just synced, but because it did not sync these particular photo duplicates over the cable because they already existed via photostream it does not offer to remove them So it keeps finding the duplicates on my phone, and I have no easy way of removing the photos en-masse. Now, the above is just background really, but any thoughts of a workflow for Photostream and cable syncing in tandem would be appreciated.
I want to do a presentation with keynote and with Crazy talk 7, but i would like to know how to lay the animation over the entire keynote presentation, how can i do that?
I suspect a faulty drive. Anything that could perform a hardware scan (bad sectors?) built into Mountain Lion or available for free off the 'net?
Once upon a time I used Corel Draw to edit vector graphics. Now I'm looking at using Sketch. I previously converted all my old CDR files to PDF but Sketch doesn't seem to like to open PDFs containing vector graphics. Is there a free command-line program I can use to convert PDF to SVG?
Trying to use a 3TB disk for my backups, still running into what seems to be a known issue with "block sizes". When will this be fixed or how can I fix it myself before a downstream update?
This is my first Mac, it's Mountain Lion, and I know how to enable Apache through Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing, but how the hell do I do it in Mountain Lion? I find that that button no longer exists, so what's the Ternimal command to turn it on manually?
Periodically my screen sharing stops working. When I try to connect nothing happens. telnet 5900 connects but I don't get the normal "RFB 003.889" prompt back. reboot seems to resolve it, but it stops working soon. I tried killing SCreenSharingAgent and it restarts, but still doesn't work. Any advice on how to make it work remotely via ssh? (11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2)
My last resort idea is to setup a script that parses the XML and checks for non MP3 Location strings. When one is found, attempt to re-construct the filename based on iTunes's automatic filenaming convention (e.g. Lover's Spit above becomes 11%20-%20Lover's%20Spit.mp3. This likely would get me 90-95% there. The remaining items could be manually fixed.
I use my retina MacBook Pro with an external monitor, but the area above the function keys gets pretty hot, especially when playing video. I'm kind of worried about the heat damaging the screen and was wondering if there was a way to turn off the laptop screen without closing the lid. Right now, I'm just turning the brightness all the way down but it seems pointless to render 2880x1800 on the laptop screen without actually using it.
I have bought Talking Ben app on my iPhone. I also have an iPad, how can I transfer this purchase onto my iPad?
I frequently connect different external USB hard drives and flash drives to my computer and I would like to facilitate deleting files and regaining disk space from them. If I simply delete the file, it will be kept in a hidden trash folder on the external drive until I empty the Trash. This also forces me to empty my local trash simultaneously while the external disk is still connected to regain the disk space, which is undesirable.
I know how to change default program to certain type of files, but I've been running to situations where I could use 2 defaults. Lets take .html files for example. I have assigned Chrome to open all .html files on doubleclick, which is nice. As Im web developer, I usually need to open .html files also in textmate. For this to happen, I need to open context menu and select program from Open With menu. Wouldn't it be great if one could Command+doubleclick to open that file with secondary program? Is there a way to achieve this?
The replacement for my dead Macbook Pro Retina arrived yesterday, and the Mac side of things was restored from a Synology NAS in 30 mins, which was great... But on the BootCamp partition, it's a different story: I was using Acronis TrueImage for my Windows backups, and a recent backup was indeed sitting happily on the NAS - but, how to restore it? The Acronis Recovery CD won't run on a Mac, apparently (and, I have no superdrive...) After some thought and experiment, here's what I ended up doing Installed Acronis trial version on a 'real' PC Connect a USB disk to the PC Recover the bootcamp partition to the USB disk Connect the USB disk to the Mac Install WinClone on the Mac ($20 well spent...) Create a WInClone image file from the USB disk (slow...) Create a FAT partition on the Macbook SSD Restore the WinClone image onto the FAT partition Reboot, and pray... Now, while this worked, and the bootcamp partition was successfully re-added to VmWare fusion, it feels like a really long-winde
I am trying to find an iPad app which I can use to keep track of my personal and business finances. I am currently both employed by a company and self-employed working on my own projects in my spare time which make a little money. It's a hobby business really but turns over enough money to warrant keeping track of. I would like to be able to have one section for business where I put income and expenses for that and then a separate personal bit where I can put the income from my business as well as the income from my 'real' job and then be able to make note of my own personal spending and bills. So far I've only been able to find 2 separate apps. Edit Must be able to work in the UK!
I am unable to create a new playlist for my iPhone4. When I right click the iPhone in iTunes the option 'Create New Playlist' is greyed out. I'm using the latest version of iPhone OS & iTunes. I can create new playlists in iTunes itself just not on the iPhone. Any ideas on what this issue is ?
Is it possible to save or forward texts from an iPod touch? This is for a kid who is being bullied by a class-mate, and I want to keep a record of the texts sent.
I have installed a current bash version via MacPorts and changed Terminal.app to use /opt/local/bin/bash. Unfortunately shell applications won't launch from Finder and Spotlight anymore. (OSX 10.8.2, Bash 4.2.37)
I recently upgraded my iPhone 4 to IOS 6 (from 5.1.1 it had before), and since then I'm having lots of signal troubles: the signal is always low and unreliable, and the iPhone continuously switches between 3G and GPRS (also draining the battery in the process). Internet access is almost unusable, and sometimes I can't even make or receive calls. I'm in Italy, my carrier is TIM; however, this is not a carrier problem, and is unrelated to the actual place I'm in: I'm having these signal troubles in the very same places where I had full signal strength before the IOS upgrade. I've been searching around for a while, and looks like this is quite a common problem; various solutions have been proposed (including downgrading to IOS 5 on the assumption that this is caused by some bug in IOS 6), but no agreement has been reached about how to actually solve it. How to fix this?
I'm using 10.8 on a new retina MacBook. At home, my external monitor (an HP) is located to the left of the laptop stand. So I want it my display arrangement to be [HP] [MacBook].
Is there a way to prevent the iPhone's mail app from marking messages as read automatically when I view them? Thunderbird on my computer has a way to do this and I find it useful.
IOS 6 on iPhone 4. I enabled Facebook integration and it correctly associated many contacts in the address book with Facebook friends. There were some errors (a contact got linked to a person I don't know which not only is not on my friend list, but with which I never even exchanged a single message), but I corrected them manually.
On my iPhone, I know I can set up a VPN. But if I understand it correctly, it is a global setting. How can I use a VPN only when checking a specific IMAP account?
I noticed the iPhone's photos app lets you uncrop images even after they've been saved. Does this mean it uses sidecar files to store the actual edits? Is it non-destructive on JPEGs?
Is there a Terminal command or something like that to batch rename files in a certain folder? Basically I want to change all the files that have a .txt as a file type, and change it to .md (for markdown). Is this possible? I am comfortable using the Terminal, being a developer, so don't hold back on solutions. :) Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
I can change the shortcut, but I have a whole system in place with how I launch things and this breaks that system. I would really REALLY prefer not to have to change my shortcut for this one silly reason.
I have a retina MacBook Pro and I noticed that when I plug in the iPhone headphones and click the button on them, iTunes starts. However, I am using Spotify for music. Is there a way to reconfigure that button so that it works in Spotify?
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and all of a sudden my key bindings for Sublime Text 2 multi-selection editing are no longer working. Specifically, I had key bindings set up for Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrow.
Having read the answers to Is it better for iOS to sync Gmail contacts using Exchange ActiveSync or the CardDAV protocol?, I switched off Contacts on the Exchange account, and set up CardDAV following Google instructions. Google is set as the default account on the iPhone. I have nearly instantaneous updates from the iPhone to Google. But I've waited a couple of hours and have yet to see a new contact and an update to an existing contact that I made via web Gmail show up on the phone. Is there a setting I'm missing? Per Google help, I already checked that the Account is on, and that I am using SSL. I'm on iOS 6.0.
I have an old Windows XP desktop with no wireless capability, a wireless router, and an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1. If the iPhone is connected to the desktop by USB, (how) can I use it to access the router (and the internet) without incurring 3g network data charges?
I've bought some movies in iTunes on my Mac. Now I want to download them to my Windows XP PC in iTunes. (Both machines have the latest iTunes version installed.)
I discovered today that there are a lot of non-Apple low-cost iPhone (and iPad) chargers. The cost is very low, so I am concerned about the quality of such chargers.
i have small problems with my keyboard typing umlauts. On Lion i could type umlauts with " followed by the vowel This is no longer possible. The only possibility i noticed is to type umlauts now by alt+u followed by vowel. Can i revert this to " + vowel
Dealing with numerous iPads (3G and LTE), all with the same telco. If I go to Settings, General, Cellular Data Number, some iPads display the number fine (e.g. +11234567890). On others, it shows "Unknown"
Often I find myself at the command line wanting to copy files to the clipboard, so that I can paste them as attachments in Mail. If I have an image file, image1.png, I can accomplish this with
I am looking at using a setup of multiple webcams (5+) to recreate the bullet time effect. However, I have no idea how to simultaneously capture photos from all the webcams hooked up to my computer. How do I do this? I can't have any delay between the pictures; they all have to be taken at the exact same time.
Is there any RDP client, that allows to copy&paste files to/from host machine. RDC for Windows (at least the last one) does it, RDC for Mac 2.1.1 does not.
Ok, I realize this is asking for the impossible. I habitually have about 4 Chrome windows open. On linux, I have a system set up so I have a different keyboard shortcut to switch to each window, so I can jump to the correct one really quickly.
I don't want anybody turning on my Mac seeing my name and user account picture (all user account configured on the computer, actually!) just because it defaults to choosing a user to unlock the drive.
If I would like to attach a second monitor to my MacBook air is my only option the Thunderbolt Display? Everything I've found online points me there, but those are a cool grand, so I'm wondering if there are other options out there that I just don't know about.
Sorry for this newbie question: I want to do something like in a column there are numbers 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.4, 0.2 occur 2 times, whereas 0.3 and 0.4 occur once, I want to make make histogram that first bar show 0.2, the y value will be 2, and 0.3, 0.3 only 1
I am looking to start refurbishing MacBooks with the intention of reselling them. If they come with the original disks, then I can’t see any problems arising, as I should be able to restore them to as factory release and resell with the disks.
I have Dropbox installed on my Mac with OS X Lion 10.8.2. I don't use it often, so I eliminated it from the login item list. However, every time I open Dropbox from the application folder, it automatically add itself to the login item list. Is that normal, even if I locked changes? Can I prevent Dropbox to add itself to my item list every time I open it?
Also, can AppleCare be registered after the warranty expires? Because Apple says on its web site to buy AppleCare before warranty time is over. It does not say anything about registering it.
I have a Mac that is slow when using the internet, but other PCs on the same connection aren't as slow. I suspect there are too many AV scanners running concurrently, or there is some process that isn't installed by default slowing the whole thing down. Question
Every time I delete it from the desktop, I get the same file ".DS_store" created after some time. Is there a reason why this happens ? And can I permanently stop it from being created ?
I have an iPad 2 with iOS 6.0, and iTunes 10.7. I'm trying to copy music from iTunes to my iPad. Everything seems to act fine, but it doesn't actually copy the music. If I select the destination playlist on the iPad, it lists the tracks, but they are greyed out with a stationary grey sync icon to the left. iTunes does not show any activity in the top area.
Is there a way to can an image on OSX using only 256 colors rather than millions or billions? I am scanning maps which only use a few colors, so I think I want to keep the color depth low so there is clear separation between lines and background (kind of like B&W vs. Gray Scale). Note I want to do this at scan time to improve the scan.
I want my battery to remain healthy. I used to charge it full then remove the charger after it's done, then put it back on when it goes down to 10% .. However this is becoming hectic and I was wondering if I can keep it plugged in the whole day and probably remove just an hour or so before going to sleep. What is the best way to charge and discharge my Retina Macbook Pro while keeping the battery healthy ?
I have two movies where I downloaded the digital copy (using the standard redemption method) to iTunes. They are mpeg-4 files, but unlike other mpeg-4 files, I cannot sync them to my iPad. It says, for example: "Paul (Unrated) [2011]" was not copied because the video format is not supported by the iPad "The Oracle". If I try to double click and play it on my iMac, it says: This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes.
I have two machines this week that I needed to install Lion on and both were shipped with Lion and subsequently upgraded to Mountain Lion. I tried wiping the drives, but Internet Recovery only offers a choice to download and install Mountain Lion. Is there a way to get Lion reinstalled instead? I tried running the Install Mac OS X Lion app that I saved when I was using it to upgrade several Snow Leopard Macs to Lion last summer - but Apple has built in a check to prevent me from installing Lion onto an external drive while my mac currently runs Mountain Lion.
In general, I'm more than pleased with the changes in Mountain Lion, but in any release there are a few niggling things that bug me. One of them involves the behavior of the Messages app which replaces iChat. When you give focus to the app by clicking on its icon in the Dock, it opens the unified Messages window even if it's closed if you don't have other windows (like the Buddy List) open. I'm not a fan of the behavior, and was wondering if there's any way to change it.
iOS 6 has a new feature that allows my facebook contacts to be synced as a separate group. I would like to extract the contacts, is it possible to do somehow?
How could I block "Twitter’s Promoted Tweets"? I use the official iOS client. I also use the official OS X client, but so far didn't notice on OS X "Promoted Tweets".
I have mac mini and I bought an original apple bluetooth keyboard from ebay. The problem is that the DELETE key always do 'DELETE' action and not 'Backspace', even if I use the function key with it. The same problem is occurred on both windows and osx 10.8 in my mac mini. Please help me guys. Thanks!
Text messages from my iPhone to my friend's Android phone do not stay in the 160 characters as sent. Sometimes they appear as two or three separate texts when they are received.
I have my iTouch (4th generation, up to date) syncing with Google's Exchange service, and mostly it works fine. The problem is that some of my calendar events just seem to disappear, sometimes eventually coming back if they're events that are set to recur. I have found no rhyme or reason to which events refuse to sync or when, but this is a problem I need to resolve somehow. I do have several calendars syncing through the Exchange service, but I'm not missing entire calendars, just some events from various calendars, including my main (default) calendar.
I don't mean to sound whiny. I am asking this question because my MacBook cost me quite a lot and its exterior aspect is an important part of the experience: seeing parts of the keyboard starting to wear is somewhat frustrating.
I have gotten this error every time I have upgraded my OS since Mountain Lion (10.8 -> 10.8.1, 10.8.1 -> 10.8.2). However after clicking the restart button on the error dialog and the computer has restarted, I have the newest version of the OS. I can see this in the "About this Mac" dialog and that the App Store doesn't show any updates. What is causing this and is there an error log where I can find details about this unexpected error? Edit: Here is the errors I could find in install.log: Edit 2: Result of doing kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } ':
I have some files backed up on an external HD, and according to Finder they're all owned by my standard user account. According to Terminal, however, they're owned "unknown" if I look at them using sudo. If I don't use sudo they agree with Finder. I still seem to have normal access to them, but can anyone tell me what's going on here?
I have a 2007 Macbook Pro with a Superdrive. However, whenever I insert anything other than a DVD-ROM, it waits a moment and then ejects it. It should be able to read and write DVD-R, -RW, etc. - below is an excerpt from System Information: Thanks in advance!
I just sold my MacBook Pro. It originally came with OS X 10.6.6 (snow leopard). I since upgraded it, through the App Store, to OS X 10.7.5 (lion).
Recently upgraded to Mountain Lion, noticed my screensaver has stopped coming on (on mains, my laptop will quite happily sit awake and idling for 4+ hours. My power saver settings are on 15 minutes to sleep, sharing is disabled on everything, and for some reason my screensaver time has been greyed out - I hadn't noticed that before and was wondering if it had any fundamental causes?
A while ago, I asked a question regarding the reason behind my computer slowing when it had ~5% battery or less. I was told that it was either CPU speed stepping or the Macbook Pro automatically scaling back the processing power to conserve battery power.
Should I be able to install software after booting up in Windows, because that did not work? So I burned a Visual Studios 2010 Express to a DVD on OSX and then booted up Windows, then tried to install from the DVD but that didn't work either.
I have experimented with absolutely every possible scripting option I can find on the web, and no matter what I do I cannot move a FaceTime window to my secondary display. This works... but with one fatal flaw that it always stops dead in its tracks, at the right edge of display #1 (the left display). If I set the X coordinate to anything less than 2560 (my width on both screens) then it works perfectly, but any attempt to move it further to the right, and thus onto display #2, will not work.
I have this problem that I can't understand. I have osx 10.5.4. The time in the computer is 06 october 2012 at 23:59 hs. When the time runs to 00:00 hs on 07 oct 2012, then the hour change to 1:00. I tried to put the hour in 12.00, but the day change to 6 oct, then I tried to change the day to 07 oct, but the our change to 23.00 (11.00 pm). I have the zone at Buenos Aires, and I don't understand why I can't set the time at 07 oct 2012 at 12.00 hour. I see that the same situation is on 06 oct 2013, or 02 oct 2012. Can anybody helpme?
Doesn't work. When the terminal is closed, the process dies. Same here.
I am a Windows user, so I have no idea what the Mac equivalent of different locations in Windows are, but they still came to me for some reason... The folder I am trying to find for them is their equivalent of C:\Users\taj1994\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Cockatrice Where would they be able to find this folder?
Since all apps are now sandboxed when purchased from the Mac App Store, what does this mean for the install process? Do you literally downoad the .app bundle, which gets placed into /Applications, and then the process is complete? Is it possible for an application that is sandboxed to install a Quicklook Plugin for use with filetypes it supports?
I'm not sure if it occurred after I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 6 but since some days I hear an echo of my voice when using the Apple headset on phone calls. It also seems that when I simply plug in the headset without calling or listening to music I hear some noise trough the earphones.
Is it possible to tether my iPhone in some way to my Airport Express (latest generation) so that my tethered connection is served to all my computers connected to my Airport Express? I can easily connect each of my computers wirelessly to my iPhone, however, doing so means I loose that local network. If it can't be done with an Airport Express, can it be done any other way? Thanks.
Here what happened with me today. TimeMachine asked me whether I want to set a backup disk, I've answered yes, but then, when I've realized that in order to backup anything TimeMachine will clean the disk, I've changed my mind and canceled everything. And my disk suddenly became read only. What I've tried before Googling: But I've failed with both of this, getting "read-only file system" messages. What I've tried after Googling: Open Disk Utilities Click Repair Disk Permissions But this button is disabled, and I have no idea what exactly should be done to enable it.
Starting on Lion, Apple decided to annoy the users hiding the ~Library directory. I was forced to type this on terminal to bring it back: the problem is that every new OS update makes the folder hidden again, forcing me to type the command every time. Is there a way to make it read-only so Apple cannot change it back?
I replaced my HD with an SSD (256 GB), and restored the contents from my Time Machine backup (external HD 320 GB). Now, after a day of working, I plugged in my external HD to make the next backup. Time Machine now started to scan my files, prepared the files etc. (took rather long, because it somehow needed to scan everything), then entered the "Deleting old backups" phase. Everything looked normal, but just when it was about to finish, it failed with "This backup is too large for the backup disk.". Only about 200 GB of my SSD are used, so this should easily fit on the external 320 GB HD: Not many files have changed since the time I restored the backup.
I downloaded the free trial of BBEdit editor and I tried it on a new MacBook Pro with retina display. Surprisingly the text looks pretty bad, like if it is not focused. I doubt this is normal. Is it a problem of the free trial version only, or a problem with the software? Is there any method to make it look like other applications (TeXShop, TextEdit, ...)?
When I setup my computer I named it "Scott's MacBook Pro". And so when I go to System preferences->Sharing, it says Scott's MacBook Pro there as my computer name. However, opening up a terminal gives me this prompt:
After spending a long time debugging Sublime Text 2, I discovered the bug is in OSX. The Finder does not dynamically update changes in the file system for the Projects folder and subfolders. Why not? How to fix? OSX 10.7.5
Any thoughts? Any place to read layman's DMZ info? Anyone using a third router as the main DHCP server? Why does everything come with a router? Is my setup just too complicated?
I was viewing an article and taking random screenshots from interesting parts and pasting them in Notes. Today I open Notes and the pictures are gone, and Notes crashes if I try to select the missing pictures. (Their area is still there taking up space.)
Is there a way to disable the Google Play Music icon in the menu bar, while keeping Google Play Music running?
Just wondering if anyone know how to play .wmv file with a MSS1 stream encoded?
The syntax coloring definition for PHP in Xcode (as of 5.0) is pretty poor: probably some 30% of PHP keywords are missing from the definition and are not highlighted as such PHP blocks in the middle of HTML tags, also within <script> and <style> blocks are not recognized
I currently have the sensitivity level to the max, but I still feel its kind of slow for my liking. Is there a way I can make the trackpad on my rMBP even more sensitive ?
I would like to measure the size of the margins and other distances in a PDF without having to print it out. I would like the results in "as printed" units (e.g. inches or cm once printed) Is it possible to measure PDF margins or other distances with Preview? If not is there another (hopefully free) application that can?
Any ideas ? I tried one of the answers but I still have the same problem .. UPDATE
I have a registered Apple Developer account. However, I cannot view the following pages: iOS Provisioning Portal *=URL=* *=URL=* Do I need to join the iOS Developer Program ($99/year) just to view those documentations?
I have a huge .doc (Microsoft Word) file (several megabytes) and I need to search it on my iPhone. I have tried like 5 different editors and readers to no avail. Is there any application that allows searching in .doc files?
Is there any way to get notes from the iOS 6 Notes app off of an iPhone without requiring an internet connection (or thus iCloud)? iTunes Sync, which did Sync Notes on iOS 5 to Mail app on OS X Snow Leopard, no longer works for notes on iOS 6 and Mountain Lion.
I have some very large, high quality music files that I have downloaded from other services (e.g. Beatport) and these files are 1411 kbps, or about 10 MB per minute of music. I have been considering iTunes Match, but am somewhat confused about the upload process. Would the service irreversibly degrade my tracks to 256 kpbs? Will there be a limit on how many of these large tracks I can keep in the cloud?
I would like to use the "arrange by date" feature of Finder on Mountain Lion (version 10.8.2, all current system updates installed) and view the result in a consistent manner from "newer" to "older". In this thread there is an example for what the "arrange by date" option does:
I had a mistake in windows 7 in my mac. I want to change the size of the partition of my hard drive to my windows 7. I know how to use boot camp but how do I change the windows 7 partition? I don't really understand the other websites instructions.
The scenarios are, The iPhone is locked/unlocked The iPhone is in normal mode/silent mode
I have a Late 2011 27" iMac that once a day loses all bluetooth connectivity. (Very rarely it will drop just the keyboard or just the mouse, but 99% of the time, it's everything) This is a huge problem because I only have the iMac bluetooth keyboard and mouse, so this basically renders the entire computer useless.
Is there a way to save the download queue in iTunes ? I had to reboot my Macbook, and to my surpise, the queue was empty when I restarted iTunes. Is this behaviour intended ? Edit:
I have been copying and pasting lots of contact info into a Textedit file. I have been saving as I go along and it saves as .RTF Now suddenly it says:
In Windows it is possible to configure system so, that user runs only some list of applications (for example Word, Excel, PowerPoint...) and user can't launch anything else. How can I configure OS X the same way? (For example permit to launch office applications, Mail, Safari and forbid to launch any other application).
Note: I would like to use the same, stable, version of Chrome for both profiles. It would be OK to have the same version installed twice as long as they can be kept separate and the dock icon distinguished.
I posted this question on Stack Overflow, and the one response mentioned, "I guess from your mention of opendiff that you're using Mac OS. The recommended way to get sshfs on Mac OS used to be macfuse, but it looks as if that is no longer supported, so you might be better off with FuseX. (Only being a very infrequent Mac user, I can't personally vouch for either of those.)" I followed the FuseX link and it said basically, "This is dead; you can subscribe to the Google group," and I followed that link, and it said basically, "This group is dead; do XYZ if you really want to be able to access it." Is there any good, currently appropriate way to ssh mount an Ubuntu filesystem?
How can I keep my whole music library on my NAS and comfortably access it and manage it there and at the same time have a music selection locally stored on my MacBook that I can manage while away and that gets synchronized with my NAS library when I get back. Is there way to do that? My Setup: a Synology DS412+ with DSM 4.1 and a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion
I have a new iPad and upgraded to iOS 6. When I send an iMessage, it looks like I sent it from another person's phone. The picture is not my profile picture. Why might this be?
I work with a large collection of mostly-text files subdivided by series, periodically mirroring them from an upstream repository and repackaging them using a shell script from a slightly chaotic source organization into more orderly and compact forms. The sources are collected in directories of files for each series numbering from a handful to hundreds per set, with a semi-orderly human-oriented naming convention dating back to the 90's with this general pattern:
What's the difference between these (100) and (101) indexing processes? Having finally created a successful backup to Time Capsule using Time Machine under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63), I'm still experiencing longer than expected indexing wait times. These are recorded in Console ("backupd") as "Waiting for index to be ready (100)" and "Waiting for index to be ready (101)." While the process/function is being performed, a related entry is recorded in Console every minute (example follows). My curiosity is specific: what is the difference between "101" and "100"?
My networked HP6310 suddenly stopped working today from my MBPro running Mountain Lion. Other laptops in the house (MB running Snow Leopard, MBP running Lion) can still print. I can connect via USB and print, so I don't believe it's the driver. I deleted the networked printer, intending to reinstall, but found that the printer is not found by Bonjour. I can access the printer on the web using the IP address, but not by using the address HP4xxxxx.local. I tried adding the printer by IP, but got this:
I need to do a few tests and I will need a tool to check which Airport base station I am connected to. I want to be able to monitor any changes (switching from base station to base station, signal, speed...) in real time. The switching between base stations remains the primary focus of this question. What are the tools for that?
What are the steps to properly setup a WiFi network with 4 or 5 Airport base stations? I have a mix of Airport Extreme and Airport Express base stations, a switch and a modem/router with VoIP and other features which require to keep the modem configured as a router. Of course the modem/router is connected to the switch and so should be all the base stations.
My MacBook is stuck on the boot screen like this:  I have tried multiple things such as launching it in safe mode and pressing some buttons as soon as the computer boot logo shows up.
My Mac book pro was stolen. ML 10.8.2. I successfully restored all system from Time Machine backup. I remember having turned on FileVault on my user account on original system. But on restored system that account has FileVault turned off. Does it mean account on original system had FileVault turned off as well?
I'm setting up a basic time registration form for declarable hours spent on a project. The layout is easy: date — time from — time until — description. I want a cell-value to contain the sum of hours worked on a project (time until - time from).
I've had a work Exchange email account on my iPhone for over a year and recently wanted to sync the calendar as well. I go into account settings on my iPhone, turn on Calendar syncing and opt to keep my local iPhone calendar. The calendar events (and the actual additional calendar) never appear, any ideas? We use Outlook 2003 and Kerio Mailserver, however this setup works fine with my iPad (where I have the additional calendar).
Up until I updated my iPhone a few days ago, I could go to "edit" in my email and "mark as unread" when I need to come back to the message later. This feature has disappeared. Is there anyway to get it back? How do I mark an email as unread?
I have about 31,300 emails in 4 different inboxes in Mail. Sadly to say, it is extremely slow.
Every time I open Photoshop, here it is, the annoying and obtuse timeline box. I hide it. I create my own workspace and save it. But every time I run Photoshop CS6 the timeline window is there. I close it, and open a file. Every time a file opens, the $&&%#$ window is back. How do I get rid of this disgusting window? thanks.
Using Mountain Lion and the Airport utility I can't find a way to activate SNMP on any of the Airport base stations I have. Even the old ones which were configured to use it don't have the option anymore.
I have two Safari windows, I put both of them into full screen. When I switch to another app (let's say Finder) by cmd-tab, then the next time I switch back to Safari by cmd-tab, I will be in the last full screen window that I was on.
The F3 button on my rMBP has a figure which shows 3 rectangles, pressing the button without the FN key initiates the Expose function. I want to modify that key for another function. However I cannot directly modify it via preferences because pressing that button does not register as a specific keyboard shortcut.
I had used CandyBar to change my Mail.app icon. After apply the 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 1, the Mail.app icon has reverted. How can I prevent that from happening in the future?
I couldn't find Mac OS X Lion in the App Store. Can I go from Snow Leopard to Lion without migrating to Mountain Lion?
Using the iTunes Link Maker, is there a way to have the "Available on the App Store" image show up localized? The image (the one with the black background below) always show up in English and having it localized all way would be nice. I know Apple provides localized graphics for download, but it'd be nice to have work on the fly with the iTunes Link Maker.
Yesterday I unboxed a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) and I am disappointed that the battery has less than its "manufacturer capacity" and has 2 cycles already. Is that normal?
I have two Macs on the same network, both plugged into my internet router. I have screen-sharing set up on one of them, so I can connect to it using command-K in the Finder with a vnc:// URL, and that works great. My router assigns IP addresses using DHCP, which in general is a good thing, but it means if a machine gets restarted or a DHCP lease gets renewed, I don't know what IP address to connect to (without walking over to the other machine to find out).
I just did a fresh install of Mountain Lion on an empty partition. How can I prevent the programs of the previous install from being shown in the contextual menus in Finder ? I already asked Spotlight not to index that partition, but I still have references to them in the Open With menus.
I have a 20gb file that I need to back up and I don't have an external drive or access to any high-capacity cloud storage but I need to format/reinstall OSX Lion on my MacBook Air. On Windows and Linux it's possible to make a partition and just ignore it when formatting/reinstalling but being as ML will get pulled down through the App Store I don't want to risk losing the file. So, my question is: How (if at all) can I make a partition that the OSX installation program won't delete when I format and reinstall OSX?
Is it possible to put two colors, representing two people, for one event on iCal? For example, if both my wife and I are included on a calendar event, I would like to see both her and my colors against the calendar event.
I am using Fail2Ban to dynamically add rules to IPFW. The offending IP addresses are added into IPFW, but for some unknown reasons they can still get through to Apache and make requests.
I'm using iTunes 10.6.3 64-bit on a 13-inch Mid 2010 MBP running Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.1 When I pause a movie in full-screen mode in iTunes, the resume/play button remains greyed out. The only fix is to exit full screen mode then resume from a regular window, and then switch back to fullscreen. How can I resume playback when watching fullscreen content?
If I right click on a bookmark in my shortcuts, there are no options to modify it. Usually in other operating systems, you can change a bookmark with the right mouse button. (The only way I found out to modify them is via the main menu.)
My music/iTunes icon: is present in the Dock has gone from some panes of System Preferences. This first screenshot is from the Spotlight pane, the icon is expected to the left of Music:
The goal is to insulate a code base from potential problems with new port upgrades. So maybe if a port upgrade outdated command can be amended not to use the freshest of the fresh ports, you can avoid tracking down errors in ports affecting your code. As far as I see, port info port_name doesn't have any extra release date options:
I had an iMac running Snow Leopard. When I upgraded to Lion, iPhoto didn't recognize the photo database and I spent a year organizing it again. The error message I received was something like: "iPhoto didn't recognize your backup".
I purchased two of the current model Airport Expresses while I was in the US a few months ago. Now that I'm back in Australia, the only options I have when setting the country in Wireless Options are in the Americas. How can I get the Airport Express to allow me to change the region to Asia-Pacific, which would allow me to select Australia as the Country? Note: The reason I want to set the Country is that I've been having reception problems, so I want to be able to ensure that my WiFi setup is running on the right channels for other "Australian-configured" WiFi gear.
I did a backup on my MacBook Air as I had lost admin rights and thought my best option was to carry out a reinstallation with the original disc which I obtain on purchase would assist. When done, I loaded the updates etc, all was well until I restarted after some updates. I lost admin rights so only had limited access as visitor, cannot go back to reload the software as keeps asking admin password. Took my mac to BTOption supposedly Apple Authorized Service Provider (info@btoptions.com) in Colombo Sri Lanka, they are as stumped and as lost as I am, any suggestions greatly accepted. They say I need the firmware password to reinstall the system.
I have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts setup for Pages, Keynote, and several other programs. Is there a way to export and then import these shortcuts? I just reformatted my home computer and am now going through the painful process of re-creating all the shortcuts. Paul Irish's dotfiles got me thinking about this: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles
I am using Safari 6.0.1 on OS X 10.8.2 and Safari does not remember my toolbar arrangement or other setting like the default search engine, homepage, etc.
I am absolutely new to Mac OS and can't determine hot to issue a right click on my Mac. If I want a shortcut menu to appear I can ctrl + click to get the same effect or I can use an old mouse that has two buttons. How would I right click if I don't have a mouse and I have only track pad and my laptop is dual boot with Windows or Linux?
I use virtual credit cards to perform online purchases with my debit card, and I usually create a new one for every purchase (with a charge limit equal to the purchase's value). I was trying to add a new one today to buy an app on the Mac App Store, and I got a message saying that it couldn't be added, as there were already too many credit cards associated with my account. I did a live-chat with support, and they told me that there is a 5-card limit every 30 days, so apparently I can't perform any purchases for 30 days.
Is it possible to use two different iPhone numbers for receiving iMessages on my iPad?
So, I plugged a USB drive. Then ejected it.
Under Mountain Lion, I wanted to create an AppleScript that would essentially restore my OS X install to "mint" condition, if possible even to the point of showing you the ML welcome screen asking you for your name and timezone, yet preserving the apps I have installed, but remove any settings, configurations, or state. (I wanted to create an image I can re-use later with out any of the temp files, settings, or customizations). Is this or something close-to possible?
When using disk utility to verify/repair permissions (or verify/repair the disk itself), I've never been clear whether I should perform operations on the disk ("WDC WD1200BEVE-00WZT0" in my case) or on the volume nested beneath it ("MacintoshHD"), or both. I usually do both, but is this necessary?
I want to give a demo to people remotely. I want them to be able to use any VNC client to view my current Mac desktop. Can I use the built-in screen sharing features to do that? I'm using Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I don't want to set up a special "guest" account. I don't want to share my account password with them. Everything I try under "Screen Sharing" gives the VNC user a Mac login screen, and doesn't connect to the existing desktop. When I enable the "remote management feature" it connects directly to the existing session with full control. I don't want all the viewers of my demo to have full control of the desktop, although that may be an acceptable work-around. (Note: I posted this on superuser.com, and I think it should go here instead, but I don't know how to "move" it.)
Chrome's spellcheck has become cumbersome as of the new auto-correct spell check in Mountain Lion. I love that I don't have to go to the mouse and use a context menu for spell-checking---EXCEPT IN CHROME. Is there any way to replace Chrome's spellcheck with Mountain Lion's?
I work at a private school, but also do freelance video work on the side. I own a copy of Final Cut Pro X through the App Store, and was curious if it were legitimate for me to install this on the computer that I control at the school. In Apple's Terms and Conditions, there is a specific line that states the following:
Is it in principle possible to swipe the hard disk out of a MacBook, swipe a new (blank) hard disk in, install the OS on the new disk, then swipe the old disk back in and find the machine operational again? I would like to tinker with a new hard disk (bootcamp and perhaps rEFIt), but if that fails, I'd like to continue from the installation I have right now.
Is it possible to link (run as one machine) my G5 PowerPC OSX 10.4.6 machine to my G5 INTEL running OSX 10.6.x or higher simultaneously? I want to run differing versions of OS X, and be able to use my Classic apps while still keeping up with Flash Player requirements. How can this be done?
I have just been enlightened on what I previously thought was a short-coming of the whole Mac OS X platform - that like Windows, a user may select a block of text and drag it. This is particularly useful in developing.
I'm using OpenVPN through Viscosity. Is it possible to set it up in such a way that all traffic would go through the VPN, except traffic to a domain I'd specify (and all its subdomains, etc.)? So only that one domain I'd specify would not use the VPN.
I would like to create a keyboard shortcut to Clean Up Folder by Name. Which can be done by right-click > Clean up by > Name What is the Automator code needed to achieve this ?
[Also posted in the Apple Support Communities, where it has not received any responses so far.] iTunes crashes very consistently whenever I try to convert songs to AAC format. Sometimes I can get one or two songs to convert before it crashes, sometimes it's on the first song.
My girlfriend is a lab technician at a small pharmaceutical startup. She created a very important Excel file and placed it in a shared folder on a server that the "IT" guy set up. The server runs Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2).
At some point I misspelled my name when I typed in my email address to one of the those log in boxes. Now the misspelling always comes up and fills in and I have to delete it and start over. I have tried clearing history and cookies and the auto fill feature but it still happens. How can I clear this and why will it not use my correct one after I type it in.
I've configured iTunes to use a library on an external drive by going to Preferences > Advanced and setting the "iTunes media folder location". It was working fine for months. Then last night I didn't have the external HD with me and I needed to do something with iTunes so I temporarily pointed it to the default media folder location. However, now I can't get iTunes to go back to the external HD. I set it in the preferences, but when I launch iTunes none of the songs, movies, or playlists from the external drive are present. So iTunes is configured to use the media folder on the external HD, and looking at that filesystem I see that my stuff is in there, but I can't get to it. I tried restarting the machine. Mac OS 10.7.5. iTunes 10.
I am looking for an iOS app that can plot several points (a.k.a. drop several pins) on the map at once. I would like to import the locations from a csv file or kml file and see all the locations at once.
I am trying to burn a bootable CD to update my harddisk firmware. This is what I have tried:
I should also note that when I select IPs to give to clients in the VPN settings pane of Server, a slide-down dialog notifies me that there is an "Unknown Network In Range". I have the range set to 10.0.0.120 to 10.0.0.130.
Specifically I'd like to attach a folder action that would pass to the Notification center a timed alert that would go off after 60 days... possible?
I'd like to change how my Chrome starts up (specifically, i would like to add some options --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install How can i do it please?
On my iPhone 3GS, iMessage recently started sending it via email. I've tried everything and I've checked Send & Receive and it won't even let me click on my phone number as an option. It also says "waiting for activation", under the option of turning iMessage on. How do I fix it to where it says my phone number and not my email?
I've made a mistake of moving my .vimrc file from my home directory and now I don't know how I'm able to locate it. I'm still new to Mac and navigating and finding files seems so foreign to me.
I just upgraded to 10.8. Finder windows used to show me how many files were in a folder; where is that info now? Apple didn't get rid of it completely, did they? Please tell me I don't have to manually count files now!
I've been trying to make a sharing folder with my PC for so long and it seems to complicated. In windows 7 there is Homesharing and the configuration is so easy. I would like to make a folder which will work both ways (Windows input will appear in mac and mac input will pop out in windows)
I have entered the birthday for several of my Contacts, and these birthdays show up in Calendar. I know that I can enable or disable all birthdays by selecting or deslecting "Birthdays" from Show Calendars in the top corner of the Calendar app. But I only want to see some of my contact's birthdays in the Calendar; for example, personal contacts but not ex-coworkers. How can I prevent the display of certain birthdays?
I am newbie Mac user and I recently stumbled upon this annoying F6 problem: when I debug in Xcode or Eclipse, I must use fn+F6 to run the debugger. By default, F6 is the function key to adjust the keyboard light. How can I reverse its functionality, in order to use F6 for the debugger and fn+F6 for the keyboard light?
I am using a key ring app on my iPhone and would like to see an improved or alternative version that makes additional use of security through obscurity in general, and steganography in particular. What should happen is that the app allows me to select an image (or video segment, say) locally or in a Cloud (on flickr, say), and would then store my account information in there using steganographic techniques. The actual image would not be remembered by the app and would thus be obscure to any brute force attacker. This should work well, because its quite natural for many images, etc., to be stored and accessed on mobile devices. The app should still encrypt the key ring, and it should be careful about not creating a suspicious signal when placing encrypted content in the carrier medium.
I recently did a clean install/upgrade to Mac OS 10.8.2. I did a final update of my ongoing Time Machine Backup and verified Disk Integrity. After reinstalling and restoring my files, I have learned that some of my files and file changes are missing from the Backup.
Edit: iTunes either via USB or Wi-Fi is used for synchronizing. Nothing in the settings has changed since upgrading the computer to 10.8 and the iPhone to iOS 6 (at least not changed by me, the new versions of the operating systems may have changed something).
EDIT: I gave in and burned the DVD from a windows PC and I was able to install Windows on my MacBook Pro with Bootcamp. Sorry, that I don't have a satisfying solution.
We are in the process of assembling iPad kiosks. We are not writing an iOS app, iPad will just have a bookmark to a web application that will be hosted on our server. As far as the user is concerned, he won’t be able to really tell if it is an app or a website.
I am syncing one of my keychains over Google Drive. Unfortunately things which I add on Snow Leopard I am unable to see on Mountain Lion. Is it some common issue, which could be easily fixed? Or can I fix it at least as make it visible on Mountain Lion?
I moved my download folder on to an external hard drive and then deleted the folder on my Mac. I clearly had folders I had pinned to the side bar with a root folder in the download folder I deleted. As a result, when I click on one of those items in the sidebar, it does not respond. All I am able to do is ctrl click which gives me the option to open sidebar preferences. How can I unpin these from my sidebar?
I recently rebuilt my iTunes library by creating a new one, and simply dragging & dropping my "Music" folder (with about 1,000 MP3s etc.) into it. The folder that contains the music files is organized in sub-folders by artist, and then sub-folders by album.
How can I change the way Macbooks roam on the WiFi network? I would like to speedup the roaming of Macs (and maybe other devices). Is there a setting on the Airport base stations or in Mac OS to speedup AP switching for example? Currently the network is built around 1 main Switch interconnecting 1 router and 4 Airport base stations using the same SSID: 3 dual band Airport base stations 1 Airport 2.4GHz base station On the 5GHz band, there is no overlap as each base station uses its own channel. On the 2.4GHz band there is a very slight overlap between 2 base stations which are at opposite sides and at different stories of the building.
It used to be that I was able to use the lock switch on my iPhone to mute all alerts and sounds (with the exception of any music, video, etc.); and this included the camera's shutter noise. Then when I went to set the switch to the un-mute setting, I could get the camera's shutter noise back. This was especially useful when I needed to inconspicuously take photographs. It seems now, though—perhaps even as early as iOS 5.1, I can't recall—the camera noise goes off each time I take a photo, regardless of other mute settings. And I've already toggling the Settings » Change with Buttons setting, it has no effect. Is there some sort of hidden option I've lost track of to let me regain this functionality?
I know it's possible to tether iphones to use their internet connection on the computer, but can it be used the other way? I want to use the computer's network connection on my Ipod Touch through the usb cable. Is it possible? Thank you!
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1, and the other day I found that it had downloaded on its own the iOS 6 update and it was sitting there in my phone, ready to be installed and taking about 2 GB of space. Since I have no interest at all in iOS 6 right now, I'd like to delete that update, but I don't know how. Does anyone know if it can be done?
I recently broke my iPhone 3G screen. I've had it replaced, and I still have the broken screen. Seems like the digitizer on that screen is fine and could be reused. I would like to separate the digitizer from the glass and try to do some hacks with it.
I'm not able to share network from Ethernet to WiFi (AirPort) on my 10.8.2 (MBP 13", 2012, MacBookPro9,2) I'm able to create both protected and unprotected networks, and authenticate from Win XP. But then there is no DHCP running, and neither on Static IP Setting I'm not able to share the network. Those two scenarios are described below. In my situation I cannot test it out with Windows Vista/7, as I don't have any available.
I was adding a $PATH to .bash_profile: So I could install PEAR on MAMP. That all worked, but now I have an this error each time I start up: I tried a lot of solutions from people with similar problems, such as: I messed up my bash configuration on mac These are the files possibly containing the problem: /etc/profile /etc/paths ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile launchctl export printenv Files in '/etc/paths.d/': 40-XQuartz I dont have a bashrc directory at location /etc/bashrc. I also don't have ~/.bashrc. Maybe it is also useful that before I installed PEAR I added a symlink to /usr/bin maybe that is part of the problem?
My father-in-law has an original iPad and is having trouble with apps crashing. He lives 6 hours away and is not at all tech savvy so it's difficult to troubleshoot over the phone and email. So far, though, I've had him do a restor through iTunes and that didn't seem to work so I'm unsure what to do next. Any ideas? It seems to be all apps, not just a specific app.
I am using Apple's Contacts app and I have hundreds of entries. Some are no longer valid (name change, incorrect phone, etc)
2012-10-10 10:15:08.758 Preview[45884:707] PVPDFPageContainer initWithURL:out.pdf -- file://localhost/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/ failed, error = Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “out.pdf” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo=0x7f99f2c6d590 {NSFilePath=/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/out.pdf, NSUnderlyingError=0x7f99f2c6d500 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"}
On a MacBook Pro, a wrong decision long time ago still causing numerous problems. In a nut shell, I run bootcamp and OS X together on the same drive and the OS X stopped booting a while ago (I was trying to resize so that I make space for Win7). Today I fixed some issues but along the way, I messed up the boot system and moved to GPT (mistake!). Here is my existing partition table: I like to solve the following problems: Notice the number 5 that is missing, that is 50gb, recover this and make this seen from Win7. Somehow see my main OS X partition from Win7 (this was the case before I move to GPT, now windows just says protected GPT) Merge my existing 50G Bootcamp to the newly minted 50Gb so that I have a decent windows machine with a single drive letter. Directions appreciated, especially 1 and 2 are more Mac specific, I think I can figure out 3, if I can solve 1 and 2.
I don't have Mountain Lion and I don't feel like paying 20 bucks for it. I have an older mac using Snow Leopard and I want to install Lion on it. I already bought Lion for a newer mac with my apple account, so I should be able to install Lion on the older one right? I can't find Lion on the appstore, how do I install Lion? Thanks.
My iPhone 4 doesn't lock automaticaly anymore. It seems that it is since iOS 6 update.
Once in a while I need to use my iPhone 4 for work related tasks that require a lot of bandwidth. When doing this I will connect to the wireless network at work, do what I need to do, and then disconnect so that any personal activity goes over 3g. Currently my choices are to either leave wifi off while at work, only turning it on when I need to do work tasks, or join the work network every time I need to do work tasks, then forget the network. Turning wifi off is annoying since I have to remember to turn it off before I get to work, and then turn it back on after I leave work. Constantly joining the network is also annoying since I need to enter my username, password, and proxy information. Is there a way to have my iPhone remember my work network so I can manually join it without entering all my information, but not connect to the work network unless I force it to? I haven’t found anything obvious on either the phone or the iPhone configuration assistant so I’m pretty sure the answer 
Hi is it possible to configure a fixed IP on my iPhone? I'm interesting in something like the location provided my the "apple" menu in OS X.
Can I somehow have a video loop as a screensaver in mountain lion? I remember the Save Hollywood app that worked for leopard, but nothing since then. Is there any way?
I've just re-installed Growl and noticed it's version 2.0 and for some reason cannot get growl notifications whilst in fullscreen applications like Chrome, Safari or iTunes. The notification is displayed on the first desktop space though. Has this always been the case and I only just noticed? Using growl 2.0 and ML 10.8.2 Thanks!
I think do not disturb is a great improvement in iOS 6. I have a super annoying persistent caller but I need to hear their voicemails. Is there any way to have calls from their phone number forward directly to voicemail?
My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal, Safe mode nor Single User). I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD. The scenario was the following: Computer was asleep (lid down). Lifted the lid then connected USB mouse. Mouse nor trackpad nor keyboard responded. Closed the lid, removed the USB mouse then opened the lid again. Trackpad and keyboard responsive once again, but after trying to close some programs computer freezes. Shutdown computer by pressing power button for 10 seconds. At restart computer doesn't boot anymore. When booting in verbose I noticed the following: After that it just gets stuck and never gets past that.
I know that I can globally swap the Control and Command in Mac OS and this is not what I need. What I would like to do is keep both buttons as they are and only and make Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Ctrl-X work as if they were pressed with the Command button. What is the easiest way to do this?
I want to install iOS 5.1.1 on my iPad 2. Currently it's running on 4.3.5. iTunes just shows me a popup with the option to install iOS 6.0. How can I install 5.1.1?
In iOS 6 the Reading List features has the ability to cache pages for offline viewing. I'd like to know how long these pages stay in the ever-growing cache of articles. Since I use this feature quite a lot I wondered if I have to delete this cache every so and so often. That's not very practical though since it will also delete the cached copies of unread items.
I have a Wahoo Fisica Key I use for sports. It’s is a small dongle that enables sports apps to connect to heart rate monitors, pedometers, etc. It goes into my iPhone 4 classic iPhone 30-pin-connector.
I have a local Outlook calendar on my Desktop. Is there a way I can sync those items on my iPhone ? Something like local outlook calendar -> Google -> iPhone. Any help on this will be much appreciated. My organization does not use Exchange.
Once in a while it may be useful to add some reminders to Reminders.app from the command line — especially because they are synced to iCloud. Is there any way to do so? A solution that does not rely on AppleScript is preferred: a) for performance reasons (probably silly) and b) AppleScript solutions often feel clumsy or overly verbose to me.
My Feb-2011 MacBook Pro hangs with three beeps. I noted the first strange thing a few days ago. The MacBook was in standby (as always) but very hot (not usual). I thought some process must have stopped the mac from switching to stand by and kept the processor busy, so no big deal.
Does time machine work well for hd upgrades? Looking to go to ssd but don't want to lose things like custom plist settings, init.d items, .profile items and all my brew installed items. Is times machine going to help me here or do I need something like superduper?
I have an iPad 2 GSM with iOS 4.3.5 that I would like to upgrade to iOS 5.1.1. I tried to upgrade using an Apple 5.1.1 image, without success due to the signing window for 5.1.1 being closed.
Using Lightroom 4, when opening a catalog file on an external hard drive, I get error Lightroom cannot launch with this catalog. It is either on a network volume or on a volume on which Lightroom cannot save changes. As is suggested on the Adobe forums, the external hard drive is NTFS which is not compatible with my MacBook Pro. Is there anything I could install on my computer so that the catalog is usable?
Is it possible to set iPhone mail fecthing time < 15 minutes under iOS 5? The current configuration only allows 15 minutes data pushing, but I need to react to my mail fast. Is there a way to get around this or an application that could help this?
I've recently bought new iPad 3 and I'm new to use an iPad. I'm trying to find a way to set password asterisks by default while currently when I type password each character is display for 2-3 seconds. How can I set password at asterisks by default?
My iPhone is synced with my daughter's iPad. My iMessage texts are appearing on her iPad. We thought we had deleted them from the iPad but they appear to be still there in some sort of "history" section. The screen they are appearing in has no ability to delete; they are just sitting there. I would really like to delete these totally off my daughter's iPad. Any suggestions?
I've got an iPad and I was searching for new applications with new features. Currently I'm searching for an application by that I can remotely access another iPad screen just like Teamviewer. Is there any iPad application available which can be useful to access another iPad's screen.
Given the increasing number of reports about malware for Apple computers, I am concerned by the fact that there's no simple way to physically block the camera while I'm using my MacBook Pro. Is it possible an OSX virus or maybe an exploit in Flash could be used to activate the camera, without turning on the green recording light at the top center? Or is this impossible due to the hardware of MBP?
I would like to clear all output from a Terminal window (including all historical output) to get it back to a clean state as if you had just opened a new Terminal window, or a new Terminal tab. I can use the clear command to clear just the current screenful, but then you can still scroll up to see all the historical output. I'm using the Terminal to trace program output and at the end I would just like to do ⌘ + A to select all the text so I can grab the output from the just last run, without having to scroll up and see where it started. I could also just open a new tab, I was just wondering if this can be done in the same window?
I would like to configure an alert for a recurring reminder in Reminders.app on Mountain Lion. Currently the only options I have for repeating the alert are "Every Day", "Every Week", "Every 2 Weeks", "Every Month" and "Every Year".
I want to desperately locate my lost iPhone 4 (factory unlocked). It does not have an Internet connection—no 3G, no 4G and it is not in a Wi-Fi zone. The bell rings when I call which means that SIM is the same and battery has some juice left. Can somebody please help?
I have an AppleTV in a local network that is connected by WiFi but it cannot find the iTunes library in my Mac that is connected via LAN to the router. If I connect my Mac via WiFi, voilá, AppleTV is connected to my Mac without any problem. If I connect both the AppleTV and my Mac via LAN, then they can connect without problem also. The same issue occurs with an iPhone and the Remote.app. I've opened ports, I followed all the advices from Apple support help and I test the connection via telnet but nothing has been useful for me. I think the problem is related to Bonjour but I need an experienced opinion that can help me. Why can't my devices on WiFi see my devices connected via ethernet?
I have this strange problem with my early-2011 MacBook Pro, running on OS X 10.6.8: as of a month or so, sometimes it does’t wake up from sleep unless I press the power button for a longer period (5-10 seconds). However, when I do that, it starts waking from hibernation (the grey screen with the progress bar appears) and then it restarts. Usually the battery shows half full, so theoretically it shouldn’t go into hibernation.
On my MacBook, I frequently end up with lots of overlapping windows on the screen, obscuring the desktop. I recently discovered the five finger 'swipe outwards' gesture that displays the desktop. Unfortunately this doesn't do exactly what I want; as soon as I select an application (typically a Finder window) from the dock, all the windows swipe back into place. Normally I am wanting to copy a file to/from a Finder window that's already open, via drag-and-drop, to the desktop - but I can't do this as the desktop is once again obscured.
I'm looking for explanation of memory usage on my machine especially in light of the example in this screenshot below:  I understand what is Free and Active means But what are the meanings of Wired and Inactive? Especially inactive, why does it use so much memory for something that we do not use?
I have a proprietary java application which used to work under Snow Leopard but fails under Lion with the following backtrace: The call to setFullScreenWindow only passes null, i.e. it attempts to restore from full-screen to windowed mode. The error only occurs when a beamer is connected and thus the screen resolution is adjusted to 1024x768. Looks like a bug in the Java VM to me.
Is it OK to use an iPhone 4 that is fully charged while keeping it plugged to wall outlet? I am worried about stressing battery too much since it is charging and discharging at the same time. Any issues here?
Could someone explain in simple terms exactly how to back up iPhoto and iTunes (and if possible keep it synced) using Dropbox, please? I have purchased some additional space with Dropbox to do this, but I am not very technically minded and I don't know how to do it. I am using an iMac with Lion.
Every time I open up Messages, it asks me to locate iChat. This is on a new machine that I migrated from an old one on Lion and then upgraded to Mt. Lion. I don't have iChat on this machine any more, as far as I can tell. How do I stop it from prompting me? (It seems to happen only after a restart.)
I don't want to use keychain for my passwords so I have not added any passwords to keychain. This means that every time Outlook checks for mail it creates a popup window asking for my keychain password. I have seen this question but this seems to require that I use keychain for password management. Is there a way to get Outlook (actually everything) to stop looking for my keychain password? I am using OS X 10.5.8
My Magic Mouse at work looses right-click functionality every day, although System Preferences says it's enabled. I usually leave the computer at the "Login window" before leaving, and authenticate again to resume the session the next day. When I do that, right-clicking doesn't work anymore. I have to turn the mouse off and back on again to re-enable right-click functionality. I'm running OSX 10.7.5, but the problem is present at least since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion (an year ago, maybe?).
I have two 21" monitors at work which I attach to my early 2011 MBP (running 10.8.1) and I move various windows between the monitors. Sometimes the windows coming down to my laptop's screen are larger than it so they fit the maximum height (but are over the maximum width) of my built-in LCD. I can resize the width of a window by clicking its left or right edge and dragging, but when I try to resize the height, and it shows the up-arrow (or even in the corner where it shows the diagonal arrow), I can click and drag as much as I want but it doesn't resize the height, it only moves the window left and right if I move my pointer either direction.
I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard and newer MacBook Air running Lion. If I buy the Mountain Lion upgrade through the App Store on my Air, will I be able to use the same App Store purchase on my older MacBook? Or are OS upgrades not multi-machine friendly (somehow different from other apps that are pay-once download-many)?
I went from low usage of data on an average to over my limit and I do not know why. How can I tell? Does streaming music count? I have AT&T, so I think I have unlimited texting. Do photos on my phone count? Or just when you send them?
I have some FileMaker databases being served for dev purposes and I keep bumping into occurrences where the database/file is locked and I can't make changes to it. How can I determine what application is touching/using this file so I can kill it?
I've got a Macbook Air that is starting mysql on boot. I've looked in LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, .bash_profile and .profile and login items. It's also not in /etc/rc.local. Where else can I look?
I've got two macs, both on the same network, both using Tunnelblick to connect to vpn. Both with same settings. Both connect fine and both have the same settings for DNS and search domain applied after connection. The only difference actually is that one is Lion and second one is Mountain Lion. That's the end of the differences.
I have a MacBook Pro with two connected displays. I keep windows on all three displays, and I have found Stay - which I discovered thanks to this question - to work very well for remembering what windows go where on all three displays after I've disconnected and reconnected my monitors. However, it's not quite what I need.
I'm surprised that the Macbook Pro Retina has only one 3.5mm audio jack. It seems that port can be either headphone or mic in depending on what's connected but I need BOTH at the same time for Skype! My Skype headset has 2x 3.5mm jacks - one for output (headphones) and one for input (Mic).
I'm trying to install eclipse RCP 64 bit version on my Mac (10.7.5).  Whenever I tried to launch eclipse, I got this crash screen.
When iTunes mounts my iPhone (this has also happened with my iPad), it's unable to recognize any of the content on the phone, so any changes to what it should sync are added on top of everything that it lumps into the "other" category, as if it doesn't recognize the data that's already on the device. What's going on, and how do I fix it? I'd like to sync my phone without iTunes forgetting everything that's on it every time. Screencap: All usage is "other", even though it's definitely not. Screencap: Audio accounts for 4.9GB of its usage anyway – it seems like it just doesn't recognize the audio that's already on the device.
Basically, how can I fix the permissions on these files so that I no longer need to enter my admin password? The files are the same, if I try to save one of them, I also need to enter the password. Update: TextWrangler is giving me the error -5000.
I am using a mac and I use parallels as i need to use windows as well. One thing that keeps bugging me is that on windows i use Control+C and on mountain lion i have to use Command+C.
I have the trash dialog box up, and it's frozen. What process needs to be killed in order to remove it, without having to restart?
I have an issue with my iPad; it is locked up with the message that iCloud Backup has not been done in over 2 weeks. It won't do anything or go any further even when all conditions for backup are met. I cannot even turn it off because I cannot slide to power off and I get no response when touch "OK" button on iCloud Backup notification. Any ideas on resolving this issue?
Is it possible to completely disable the built-in keyboard on a MacBook? No input should be possible from that keyboard when I connect an external keyboard. This is sort of possible with the trackpad and the mouse, is there an option (or indeed a hack!) to do the same with the built-in hardware?
I got an error message saying something like "System clock reset to Jan 2001" and then many things stopped working. I has my laptop in standby mode and the battery must have gone completely flat whilst on standby. How would you go about fixing this and generally perform hardware troubleshooting on a Mac? (on a PC I'd look for the CMOS clock and battery, among other things..)
A person will be sitting next to me, working together with me on my Mac, and I would like the make sure none of my personal notifications appear during that time. I would not want to lose my carefully chosen notification settings though so a "temporarily do not disturb me" would be perfect. Note: this is for OS X, not iOS...
I currently have dock to auto-hide and would like it to stay hidden until I explicitly show it using a keyboard shortcut such as the "Move focus to dock" or "Turn Dock Hiding On/Off". I basically don't want it to inadvertently pop open when I move mouse to the edge of the screen (e.g., to access a scrollbar in a fullscreen app), and get in the way. I tried moving it to the left, which slightly reduced the inconvenience, but I am still ending up triggering it, as I use many apps in fullscreen mode, and tend to reach out to all sides. Since I am a heavy keyboard user, I don't mind occasionally using keyboard to select something in the dock (I map Ctrl+Esc to move focus to dock, and type the first one or two chars of the app to select it and press to run it).
I would like to trigger a notification with AppleScript. I have seen How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script? but I would like to have a native AppleScript solution if it exists.
I ordered my brand new Macbook Air with 8 GB RAM and picked up from Apple Store two days ago. However after fully running out of battery for first time, I recharged it to 100% and coconutBattery says the capacity is 97%. I think 3% is considerably high for Macbook batteries, they can still last at 70%-80% capacity after 2-3 years.
In iOS 6 and with the iPhone 5 is there any way (even if it is a 3rd party app) to do the follwing things? 1) Lanch a certian application when
I'm using a prepaid wireless carrier with my iPad. I can buy codes for the carrier that add credit to my account. On a cell phone, I'd dial these codes using something like *101*(digits)#. The iPad doesn't appear to have a "dialer" -- is it possible to enter this sort of code somewhere?
I've tried everything. reinstalling iTunes restarting Apple Mobile Device bought a different cable restarting my laptop restarting the iphone checked for iTunes Helper Services uninstalled and reinstalled Apple Mobile Device USBdriver and still, my iPhone wont come up in iTunes but it does come up as my iPhone in My Computer as a portable device.
I started using the Nike+ GPS app on my iPhone 4 (not 4s) to track my running in summer 2011. The GPS measurement of runs was pretty consistent: runs on the same course would vary as much as a tenth of a mile from run to run, but I know GPS is not always as accurate as it is precise, so that doesn't bother me.
This is the notification that pops up from the App Store on Mountain Lion:  As you can see, the only options are Details and Update. Most of these banners have a 'close' button, to dismiss the notification without taking an action. On this one though, it seems like the only action I can take is opening the App Store with it. Just clicking the x in the Notification Center list doesn't get rid of this actual notification. How can I close this without taking the time to open up the App Store?
I've noticed that when I get a calendar notification (alert) and close it in Mountain Lion, the OS X Mail application opens automatically. I don't use Mail and I have Mail notifications turned off in notification settings, yet it still happens. What pops up is a screen basically trying to take me through the configuration of Mail, which I'm not interested in. Any ideas why Mail insists on opening on its own?
Is there a way to batch transcode video files to mp4 and webm for HTML5 videos in OS X? Our video department needs to hand over a lot of videos in multiple formats consistently. Workflow current consists of utilizing Adobe Media Encoder for the MP4s and Miro Video Converter for the WebM files. The video guys are all very familiar with Adobe Media Encoder, so the ultimate solution would be to have everything run through there, but Adobe doesn't look like any time in the near future they're going to support WebM -- still pushing Flash player. Miro Video Converter works great, but is lacking a way to queue/batch files. I've Googled but have yet to come up with a good GUI-based solution the video team can use for batching the multiple formats need to ensure videos work on the web everywhere.
This it what I did Select the recovery partition erase your whole disk using disk utility...importany you erase all partitions. After deleting all the data, select "Reinstall Mac OS X". Maybe i did something wrong with erase options,i really don't know, after the reinstall all partitions removed and (Mac OS X Base System ) only remain, with this screen
I know how to delete a podcast subscription form the iOS 6 podcast app (How to delete a podcast from new iOS 6 Podcast app?) but I'm having trouble deleting multiple episodes within a subscription.
I now this may sound quite lazy, but I connect to a VPN several times a day (since the laptop gets disconnected from time to time). I am aware of the "Show VPN Status in the Menubar" option, but is there a way I can make it a keyboard shortcut?
I know applications are just folder bundles - I assume specifically formatted, and some metadata. I did a copy of my iPhoto Library from another disk - at first it was just another folder, then once I ran iPhoto, it became special again.
This is NOT a rant about maps or its data. I live in New York City, and when I ask Siri for the weather, the results seemed a bit... optimistic. I think it unlikely, for example, that it will be 84 degrees here in NYC on this brisk October afternoon. After getting the same (much too warm) results when asking for the generic "weather here" as well as "the weather in New York City, New York," I clicked through the Yahoo button to their webapp, which confirmed that while Siri "knows" I'm physically in New York City, NY, that somehow results in a query to yahoo for New York, TX. If I go straight to the Apple Weather app, it works fine: both the current location and a directly-typed entry for New York, NY report the correct high of 57 degrees. So the problem appears to be somewhere between Siri's text parsing (which is working) and Yahoo. I've tried this on two friends' devices with the same results. Has anyone found a fix?
Our fix right now is closing ARD and reopening it. It's a problem because a bunch of our workflows require restarts and can't complete without our manual intervention. Any ideas?
Sometimes, when need restart my Lion server, it warns me about the "connected users". How is possible to show who is connected?
In general it's when I have VirtualBox, Safari, Sublime Text 2, Terminal and Spotify running, but it'll be fine up until some unknown point and then thats it. Occasionally it'll unfreeze and I'll have messages about UI updates being suspended by (insert app here), but most of the time it forces the fans on high and starts trying to crunch on something.
For insurance purposes, I would like to keep a list of the following: All of the movie files on my Mac All of the music files on my Mac All of the applications on my Mac
I've seen many questions posted here about how to setup a dual display on a MBP, and the answers all cite Thunderbolt as the best option for image quality. My MBP has a Thunderbolt port and currently I'm using it with a mini-DP to DVI converter into a single 24" HP monitor. I'd like to buy a second, 24" monitor and use them side-by-side. I've read that this can be done by "chaining", but I'm unclear on the requirements for this. Is that feature ONLY available through displays that have a built-in Thunderbolt hub? And, are the only monitors with this feature made by Apple?
I see that the Photos app let's me create Albums, but is it possible to create and manage Photo Events on the iPhone without iTunes or iPhoto* on a Mac/PC? *I say iPhoto on a Mac/PC because the iPhoto iOS app doesn't appear to allow it either:
I have a new iPhone, which is synced with iTunes for music. I have around 200 contacts on here - I read somewhere if I now sync my iPhone with Exchange, it will overwrite all my contacts, leaving me with only the contacts from my Exchange account. Is this true?
I'm pretty sure this used to work... I can play a movie in iTunes on my Mac. When played on "My computer" I get the little speech bubble icon and can choose to have subtitles or not. But when I choose Airplay, the bubble icon disappears and no subtitle appears on the screen. I tried holding down the middle button on the remote but no subtitle options appear on the AppleTV either. What am I missing?
I want to remove the automatic ratings from my songs:  However, they don't disappear after right-click->Rating->None
I'm wondering if there's a way to get QuickLook open up files it doesn't recognize. For example, I'd like to be able to have QuickLook view .mailsignature files in the basic text viewer. Any suggestions?
I've got an iPod Touch 5. I have a few calendars in Google Calendar, all which sync to my new device. However, some events from my primary calendar (the one with the same name as my email address) are missing on my iPod. If I add a new event to that calendar, then it appears immediately on my device, and as I said, some events from the calendar do indeed appear.
I'm writing this question on my iMac. It's connected to the internet via WiFi as my modem/router is in another room. My iMac has bluetooth running for my magic mouse and apple keyboard. I've also got a PC here at home, running Windows 8 (I'm an MSDN subscriber) and it has a Bluetooth adapter and an ethernet port. Currently, I can't connect the ethernet adapter because we're waiting for the wiring to be connected up. Can the Windows PC share the Mac's WiFi internet connection via Bluetooth?
I have an Airport Extreme that was previously connected to a, well lets say not great modem. So I replaced the modem with 'Nucleus Connect', which is Fibre I think. (I live in Singapore and they installed this here). And I have a problem, my airport extreme just does not work anymore! I plug it into the modem and power source, but it flashes amber. Here is what I have done: Factory default reset Power down computers Power down airport extreme Power down modem
I use Time Machine, with an external hard drive connected by USB, to back up my MBA. If Time Machine is in the middle of backing up my drive and I close the lid of my computer, Time Machine will stop the backup and (as far as I can tell) will not resume backing up until I wake my computer back up.
Is there a way to add an SMB share to the sidebar in Finder, such that when I click on the alias, it mounts the share and opens it up like a regular folder? You can do this in Linux and Windows, and if I recall correctly, OSX Lion.
My Academy's wi-fi requires me to log in via a web-browser portal page before I have access to the internet. Safari on my iPhone doesn't save my username and password for it. Is there a way to manually force it to save them?
I tried to share my Internet connection with another Mac but it failed. I could before I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
I have a sparse image file with some important data in it I would like to retrieve. The only problem is I've forgotten the password. I have a good idea of the parts of the password and managed to generate a 3000 line file with a list of possible passwords.
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down? (The drives are not being unplugged.)
I've lost my phone and in order to access iCloud I need my Apple ID however I don't remember the one that is linked to my iPhone. What can I do to find this out?
If it means watched, then I saw the check box is over there even though I selected unwatched column. Does it mean downloaded? There is no tool tips and it's kind of silly to have 2 columns expressing the same thing.
I used to have an iPhone, but I changed to an android (shock, horror!). Unfortunately Apple refuses to let me go and whenever friends message me the messages get sent as iMessages (unless they remember to specifically chnge the format). I never get these messages. They never get resent as SMSs automatically as is supposed to happen. How can I get my phone number deleted from the iMessage list. I've turned off iMessage on the old iPhone.
I recently stumbled upon Pentadactyl. Its power is making me think about switching from Safari to Firefox. However there are some Safari extensions I really find useful. ClickToPlugin Reddit and MacRumors Minimal
I use a mac install before by another user. This user installed some application like iphoto with this appleID.
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What am I going to lose by this? Right now it adds what I feel to be unnecessary time to syncing (I like to sync podcasts, music and have a backup on my Mac), and I often get apps restored to the phone that I want deleted!
I'm wondering if there is a way to display all the 'note letters' on the keys in the Keyboard on GarageBand for iOS. At the moment it only displays the 'C notes' - for example C2, C3 and C4. I have no 'music-based technical knowledge' or expertise and would appreciate any help in being able to see all the notes displayed. Thanks for your help!
I like to display my own images using the Mac OS X screensaver, but it seems that Mountain Lion has shortened the duration for which each image is displayed. The duration is too short for my tastes – that is, the screensaver changes images too quickly. I searched online but could not find an explanation of how to change the refresh rate; I also looked inside the likely preferences files (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect.plist) and none of the properties there appear relevant. Is there a way to change the rate at which images are shown?
I live in an apartment complex with a single network connection. The address is given to me from the complexes shared router as a DHCP address - this is where the ISP has our complex's modem. My neighbor also has an AirPort Express and I think I may be getting conflict with his... in my AirPort Utility, I can see his "horizontally" in line with mine connecting to "Internet", not vertically.
I would like to be able to create a link on my iPad's home screen that will open up a specific PDF either in iBooks or some other app. I need to be able to access the PDF even when Internet access in not available.
I've Googled for this a little bit, and I wasn't able to find an obvious answer, so is it possible to hide the Finder sidebar completely? So that it never comes back until I tell it to? The same goes for the toolbar.
I know I can teach the Apple TV to "learn" a 3rd party remote, but thats not what I'm looking for. I want to add the Apple TV as a device, and I know it's possible, but I don't know where to find the right device in the harmony menus. I know it's possible, as i know others who have done it in the past, but am no longer in touch with them. Anyone know how to do it?
Is it possible for a restored iPod touch to recover former apps that had been installed on an iPod touch? Is it possible for a deleted app to be re installed containing the same information from its previous use, and also still be signed in?
I dont understand why this is not working. If anybody knows how to resolve this issue: Applescript does now show an error but when I see in iTunes, the "Comments" field is still empty. Thanks!
I've got a MacBook running OS X 10.5 and an Apple TV sitting next to each other. The remote for the Apple TV is being picked up by the MacBook. I want it to only control the Apple TV.
Is there a way I can force safari to start youtube videos at 720p by default ?? I was wondering if there is an automator code that can achieve this ? Or maybe an extension that solely does that ? (I have found an extension that controls your youtube or whatever but I prefer something that only has one feature). Although I have the settings already activated as the first answer suggested, I still have that problem.
Like the title says but with a twist. I DO NOT want to use localhost, but my internal IP instead so I don't want to use all the tutorials I have seen to restart/configure Apache from the command line to get localhost working. Reason:
We have some Google Contacts with Customized Fields (not customized email titles) such as: Certifications Attained: Years Experience in this Field: Among other customized fields that show up toward the bottom of the contacts details in Gmail. What we need however, is to be able to VIEW (or see) these Contacts' Customized Fields (and their answers) on the iPhone or iPad. We have tried syncing with the recently made available option of CardDAV, but that only shows Relationship fields (in addition to their regular contact info such as phone number, address, etc...).
For whatever reason, the tracking speed of my mouse resets to the midway mark every once in a while. Running Mountain Lion (10.8.2), and I've got two mice connected: Magic Mouse, WoW Legendary Gaming Mouse, as well as the Magic Trackpad. What causes this, and can I keep it from happening? No additional specialty software is installed.
rMBP has 10.8.2 installed. Both TB display and rMBP are brand new as of last a few days ago.
In windows I go to file, and then recent files and it'll show my most recently seen movies or document. How do I do so in iTunes?
I have my Mac running OS X 10.8 set up so that I can see the contents of its iCloud repository at ~/Library/Mobile Documents (see this question and this question for more information on how that works). However, I'd like to be able to see / visualize / understand the sync state of my Mac: Is my Mac in sync with iCloud? If not, what is being uploaded / downloaded / how long will it take? Are there any utilities or built-in features of OS X that will allow me to see any of this? These are valid questions even without iCloud explicitly exposed in the filesystem, but are obviously more useful if you copy bulk numbers of files in/out of the iCloud repository explicitly.
I've recently upgraded to Lion 10.7.5., though not sure if my problem is related. In spotlight, I can't get the "Displays" system preferences option to show up in the results. I've tried re-indexing spotlight, but still no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I want to copy a big amount of data from a harddrive to a time capsule controlled drive.so I put the harddrive via USB to the capsule and connect to the capsule server with a Mac. But when I then move the data to a folder on the time capsule drive by drag&drop it seems to me that the copying goes over WIFI instead of the directest USB data connection way. This takes aeons! Isn't there a way to tell the capsule server to copy the data over their USB connection? thnx! (I asked the same on stackoverflow, but maybe this is the right place for this kind of question?)
Direct attachment of some external HDD to Macbook is not an option, because I think I will forget attaching it very easily, so it won't effective to me. Backup disk should be connected to my Macbook automatically when I connected my home WiFi network.
I have an external WD USB hard disk attached to my MBP which I use for backups etc. I've noticed that even when it's completely inactive, but the drive is mounted, that the disk is spinning constantly and the unit never goes to sleep.
I've 2 laptops at home, 1 is fine & 1 is affected while the site stated that both of those are clean. The affected laptop gets limited access through wi fi. Connection is pretty normal using LAN but yahoo.com is still firewalled. I've scanned the affected use HitmanPro btw.
My OSX calendar app is configured to show all the birthdays of my contacts (they are displayed as this special calendar with the parcel icon in OSX). It seems that iOS (6, on iPhone 5) does that too but doesn't recognize that this is the same calendar as the one in OSX.
I'm trying to restore iOS 5.1.1 on iPhone 4 GSM that currently has iOS 4.3.3 and is jailbroken. I'm using "redsn0w" to get into pwned DFU mode and then trying to restore from iTunes using custom IPSW file stitched with the 5.1.1 shsh blobs (I have my shsh blobs saved locally). It works until iTunes reaches the point Preparing iPhone for restore.
I recently recorded an interview on my iPhone 4, however i trimmed it (before syncing with my computer) and shared the trimmed section with a friend. Is there any way I can get the full voice memo back?
From a Mac running Mountain Lion, a share "Multimedia" served by QNAP NAS is mounted as root via SAMBA in the Finder. Let's say I create a symbolic link of a directory on the NAS such as: It works: I can also mv and cp files without problems to and from symlink when logged on the NAS. This is the situation on the client-side, a Mac running 10.8.2: Strangely, the client doesn't recognize symlink as such; it's a normal directory instead (please note that according to the output I have rwx permissions): The same happens in the Finder, where the folder symlink doesn't appear as an alias, but as a normal folder.
I have 3 eclipses installed on my mac eclipse jee, eclipse for android and eclipse for php. all three eclipses are cooming in launchpad with the name eclipse. Is there any way i can rename app name like eclipse jee, eclipse php, eclipse android in launchapad?
My MacBook Pro fell and is kinda cracked so since I have warranty from BestBuy, I want to do a complete wipe of the HDD and essentially restore it like it was brand new before I return it. (They’ll probably do it too, but I want to do it myself just to be sure.) I’ve backed up all my data and all I need to do is wipe it.
When I make a phone call, the add call button is disabled for 15 seconds... I.e. it's grayed out. Then it becomes active and works as I expect. But how I can set up conference calls without this delay every time?
I have a ton of new pictures in Aperture (from a vacation.) I am trying to figure out the most productive way for me to crank through them and add a comment or new title. What I have seen calls up a dialog box for each image which will take a long time. Thanks
I can easily create a smart album with the 5-star rated images on a certain date. I would like to share those with a Facebook photo album but the share command is greyed out when I have a smart album selected. What are some other techniques I could try?
I don't know the root password on my system and I'm trying to start Apache. ------- or ----------- (same results)
My 2008 iMac is having trouble booting—it never gets past the initial grey screen with the Apple logo and spinner. After letting it try to boot (spinner working) for upwards of 10 minutes, I'll get the kernel panic "You need to restart" message, then a minute later it will go black, then restart. In addition to this, the screen has "noise" pixels all over (not dead, but graphical noise). I've tried doing a Safe Boot (holding Shift while booting), but it never made it all the way through the boot. I've also tried booting into single user mode, but the pixel noise all over the screen limits my ability to read the output. Out of desperation (since nothing else was working), I did a RAM swap, but that didn't help either. Is there another way to approach this problem?
It takes about 90 seconds to boot and shut down my MacBook Air. I have got it this year. I have checked numerous things on the Internet but they don't help at all. What do I do?
I opened my contacts, clicked my friend's name and using his email, sent him a message. My friend's email is associated with an apple account. Yet when the message was delivered, it turned green. Does it mean that I was charged for the message? Is it necessary that the sender is charged whenever the message turns green? I don't have an SMS package or any other prepaid options. I have a simple AT&T plan with limited talk time and 300 MB of data. My friend lives in a different country and uses an iPod through his home wifi.
So, I am running a bit of a different install. Here's the background: I have installed wine before with MacPorts. Later, I decided to install homebrew. Then, wine didn't work so I tried brew install wine, but that didn't work. So I try brew install wine: Then, I try again with MacPorts: How do I get wine to install on the Mac preferably with Homebrew?
So connecting to a computer does not work. Unless there is a way to wall-charge and USB-sync at the same time?
On my iPhone, I normally turn off Location Services on the Camera for privacy. I turned it in today for a specific event, but not before I had taken several photos without location information.
How can I open a pin in Photos > Places, with the Maps app? Places doesn't support satellite view or 3d. I want to be able to see the satellite images of the photo locations.
Is there a way to search for an exact phrase using the mdfind utility? For example, I created two text documents titled "test1" and "test2". The contents of "test1" are: I love Apple And the contents of "test2" are: Apple love I When I type this in terminal (I placed both files in ~/Documents): mdfind "I love Apple" -onlyin ~/Documents I get: ~/Documents/test1.txt ~/Documents/test2.txt How would I search for the exact phrase "I love Apple" so mdfind only returns results containing those words in that order (in this case only "test1.txt")?
I've got a MacBook Air that has been successfully backing up via Time Machine to my Time Capsule hardrive. Since I updated to Mountain Lion I'm getting the following error: When I google around it looks like this is a common error for non-apple hard drives (b/c they're formatted in FAT, or something else non-compatible), but I'm not finding anybody else having this problem with a Time Capsule drive. Other than the backups not working, the drive (and router) seem to be functioning perfectly. Thanks!
I have a Windows 7 computer that I am trying to print to from a Mac. I have added my printer using a smb:// protocol and it works and says Idle, however when I try to print I get the following: Status: On Hold (Authentication required) Job Message: Session setup failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
If I fill out a PDF form using Preview.app on Mac OS X, and email it to a Windows user, it appears to be blank when they open it in Acrobat. The same applies to some (most?) annotations.
Ok, so this summer I was in Korea. I used a Korean SIM card in my iPhone 4S while I was there. I ended up losing my iPhone before I came back to the US.
I would like to use a VPN to access all sites external to our local intranet, but preserve local routing so that I can still access sites on the local intranet (e.g. in 10.0.0.0/8). I am using the Mac OS X native L2TP VPN client. How do I configure it to set this up? I have tried something like route add 10.0.0.0/8 [local router address], which works fine, but I would like to automate this process so I don't have to look up the local router address and run the command each time.
I want to keep stackexchange site as a notification so that whenever I want to open the site I just need to scroll down from the top and click on link of the site. Is there any way to do that?
I move around from the office and elsewhere quite a lot. When I'm in the office, I need a static IP, elsewhere I don't. I have network locations set up, but it's extremely tedious opening up Network Preferences to change it essentially every day. Ideally I'd like an app where I can just select from the taskbar menu, like I can with Wireless networks, or a way to apply the IP config whenever I connect to that specific network.
I want to improve the performance of my MacBook white by donating it a Solid State Drive. Because the prices are too high and I don't want to get stuck in space shortage, I thought of replacing the optical drive by my old 320 GB HDD and place a new 128 GB SSD in the original place of the HDD. This way the SSD can use the SATA III connection while for the HDD the SATA II connection of the optical drive will be sufficient - I assume. But since my Macbook has no recovery partition I was wondering:
I have a new 16Gb USB key and want to take advantage of Disk Utilities feature to encrypt it, however I do need to move data from Mac to Windows from time to time. Is is it possible to have one FAT partition and one Mac OS Extended Encrypted Partition on a 16Gb drive? I've tried a number of times but cannot figure it out. Thanks.
I have little space on the iPad and I need to do the following: On work days: sync a books collection that relates to work On off-word days: sync a books collection that is "just for me" Short of creating 2 iTunes profiles, how would you solve this? With music, I can just create "playlists" and selectively sync those...
I have a clean and formatted SSD where I want to install Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive containing a OS X image from a (not the one it came with) original install-DVD. But for some reason it wont boot from the USB. I though this was the way to do it? When I created the image I chose "compressed" format. Maybe that's the reason? What to do?
I have an iPod 4th generation which is never jailbroken with iOS 4.1 and want to update it to 5.1.1. I downloaded the .ipsw file. On clicking ⌥ alt/option + Restore in iTunes (10.7) and selecting the .ipsw file, I get the following error: This device isn't eligible for the requested build
Repeat After Me uses a distinct phoneme representation (shared with the command-line tool "say"). For example, the word "repeat" maps to "_rIXp1IYt." There is a small appendix of certain vowels and consonants provided here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/Phonemes/Phonemes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004365-CH9-SW1
I am currently preparing for an Ignite style talk (5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds auto-advancing). So, due to the talk format, I have set my slides in Keynote to autoplay (Inspector -> Document -> Self-playing, 15 seconds). However, I've realised that after a couple of slides, the timing starts to be off - such that the entire presentation will be ~5:05 (instead of 5 minutes) Was wondering, if anyone knows if it is possible to tweak Keynote such that the autoplay delays are more accurate? Some details: Using Keynote'09 v5.1.1 Tried using automatic slide transitions with 15 sec delays, same problem Borrowed laptops from friends and it seems like Powerpoint and Mac Powerpoint seem to be spot on 15sec/slide (total 5min) Thanks!
We have about 50 Macs connected to our Windows Active Directory server and they work ok, they are bound up just fine using the built in functionality. However, the time has come, we need to install a piece of software across all of them and going around each individually would take forever. What software/route should I take to achieve this? Also, if there is an easy way to run scripts or automate that would help as well. Thanks.
Since yesterday, when i'm running my computer, it shutDowns after 5 seconds of running. In order to make it work, i need to press continuously the escape key so the popUp alert who close the computer can dismiss.
I understand that this is a pretty basic question but I cannot find a direct answer anywhere. I have two computers running Snow Leopard: a Macbook Air (2011, pre-thunderbolt) and MacBook Pro 2009, which can both run Mountain Lion. According to my programmer / Apple friend, I can download Mountain Lion once from the App Store and use it to upgrade both machines. Is this true? I'm using one 'account' I guess but it's still two different machines, but my (trustworthy) friend was insistent I could. I can't find confirmation in any of the reading I've done here or on the Apple website.
The iPhone 5 supports a wideband audio protocol for phone calls dubbed HD Voice that is supposed to improve the clarity of phone calls when it's used. Not all providers support it, but I've verified that my provider, Telus, does.
How can I make the autocompletion for files and folders in the bash shell work case-insensitively? Ideally, cd ~/doc + tab autocompletes to cd ~/Documents (correcting the case as it autocompletes), but if that's not possible autocompleting to cd ~/documents is acceptable too.
I formated my Mac after a few years of work and forgot to do books backup because iPad was lightly used. As a result all my books stuck on the iPad and if I want to add some new from a computer it wants to erase the existing books. With iFile, I tried to copy books, but there are only folders, not epub files.
Does any one of you know a solution to either read or edit on an iPad files stored with Textedit on iCloud ?
I updated from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2 last week and since then I have yet to get certain vhosts working on my local sandbox. Some of them work fine while others just don't work at all now when they did previously. Is there anything I can do to get those working again? Working Vhost: Problematic Vhost: Finally saw something in my Apache configs: I know for a fact that I have Include /etc/apache2/other/httpd-vhosts.conf in my httpd.conf file and that I have confirmed that that is the correct vhosts file that I'm using.
I've already checked I've selected the option : "Use the same input method for all documents" is activated. So, I'm a bit stuck here. Any help ?
I'd like to know to see which files are getting backed up by my time machine? I often see a large amount of data being transfered and I'm not sure sure what it is.
Is it possible to add a column in the list View in Finder, that displays the dimensions of image files ?
Is it possible to add a copied (via Cmd+C), for example, vector arrow to a letter in Pages? If so, how?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, running 10.8.1 and Java 1.6.0_35 I need to install some older versions of Java in order to track some bugs that my customers are seeing on older versions of Java. I tried finding installers for older versions of Java from the Apple Developer Network, but none of them will install on Mountain Lion.
There is a general problem when the operator supplies the wrong time. Mine supplies 7 minutes behind. My mac syncs using NTP and this is by default, which is far more accurate and dependable.
I'm using OS X 10.8.2, iOS 6.0, and an iCloud calendar shared between the two. I have timezone support enabled. When I accept an emailed ics calendar invitation, it shows up in iCloud calendar with "timezone: floating". The invitation originated from EST and I am on PDT, so it shows up on my iOS and OSX calendars three hours late.
in finder's open with menu are a lot of dups. I am running latest OX X and patches.
The Reminders application understands the reminders: URL scheme, so that you can invoke it, for instance, from Terminal as open reminders: (use of // is optional). What I'm looking for is documentation of further elements of this scheme. Specifically, I want to construct URLs that allow me to do the following: open a specific list open a specific reminder I've tried things like reminders:74771907-EA34-4848-A935-0C839AE123CC using both list and reminder-item identifiers, but to no avail.
I have an application that produces an iCalendar feed (RFC 5545). The calendar feed works on Google Calendar and on Android but I have been getting reports that it isn't working on OS X Calendar (aka iCal). The calendar feed currently uses the RDATE element extensively and validates. Does iCal support the RDATE element? UPDATE
I'm divorced now and I've updated my name in iCloud but when I send an email from @me.com email my hyphenated name still comes up. How do I change that?
Twice now I have apps fail to install during an update and then been unable to restart the process or use the app. I am using the Update All function in the "Apps" App.
Inspired by this question I started looking for apps that allow to read the data saved in my Mac’s Parameter RAM. Aside from a very antique (pre OS X) application for Classic, I could not find any. Is there any way to access the info stored in the PRAM on current Macs?
I use iCloud to sync 4 calendars between my iPhone 4 (running iOS 6.0.1), iPad 2 (running iOS 6.0.1) and MacBook Pro Mid 2012 running Mountain Lion (10.8.2). All events for 3 of the calendars sync correctly across all devices, however for one calendar: All events show at *=URL=* All events show in the calendar app on the iPhone and iPad Hardly any events appear in Calendar.app on the MacBook Pro, some future events appear until after the date of the event and disappear from this calendar while remaining on the iOS devices and iCloud.com.
How can I sync the pictures from my iPhone (5, iOS 6) to the Mac (OS X 10.8.2) (but not vice versa) via WiFi but without going through the cloud? In case it matters, I am using iPhoto on the Mac.
In prior versions, you could simply swipe to switch between lists. The default setting in the iOS 6 version has eliminated this gesture, which means that you have to click on the lists icon, then click again on a specific list. Is there a setting somewhere that lets you turn swiping back on to switch lists?
I have a few users that work with me that needed to reload Mountain Lion on their laptops. They had no connectivity so I let them borrow my bootable thumb drive.
I'm getting some strange behaviour from Time Machine since upgrading to Moutain Lion using the Iomega Home Cloud Edition NAS as the end point for the backups. Getting the first backup to complete took some effort and the problem I'm facing now is that automatic backups don't start. When I right click the menu bar icon and select Back Up Now I get the following error from Time Machine:
iPad iPhoto journals are great... If my photos live primarily on my iPad. In my case though, they are on my iPad when I am traveling but end up on my Mac at home for long term storage. So if I make a pretty Journal on my iPad I would like to continue working on it in Aperture (or iPhoto) on my desktop. Sooner or later I want to remove the photos from my iPad because I need the storage. Is there anyway to update and change my iPad/iPhoto Journals directly from my Mac?
On my Retina MacBook Pro, the Python IDLE development environment has blurry, non-retina text. Is there a way I can make the text retina? IDLE:
So I attempted to set up dual boot (Boot Camp) on my new MacBook Air (Mountain Lion) with Windows 7 and failed spectacularly in the process. The Mac just boots straight into Windows now. There's no boot menu and I can't seem to find a way to boot to Mac OS X. Hoping someone here can help. Here's how I got into this mess: Created a bootable Windows 7 USB key with an x64 Windows 7 ISO using Windows USB/DVD download tool. Ran Boot Camp on the Mac, unticking the option to create a bootable Windows disk. Chose a partition size of 64 GB for the Windows partition.
I have not been able to figure out how to map PageDown to Option. I have KeyRemap4MacBook installed, but the options they have in the "Change Key" pane don't allow me to do this. How can I map PageDown to Option?
This is a question from Wil Wheaton's google+, but I would like to get an answer too, stackexchange style. Suppose you have all your music in a folder called /iTunes/Music. When you add files to iTunes, it puts them inside this folder, so it looks like this: /iTunes/Music/artist/album/track
I believe I have too much security on my mac. Whenever I try changing a file name or install a program I have to enter my laptop's password. Moreover, I cannot quickly access downloaded programs because they are from unidentified developers, and I must right-click > open in order for me to run them. That is really frustrating. Do I need to my laptop to be THAT secure (due to recent malware attacks on Macbooks ? ) Can I chance the settings to have it a bit more flexible ? Platform : Mountaion Lion Retina Macbook Pro
I'm wondering if there's some application that allows you to simulate mouse-down events? I looked at BetterTouchTool and it can bind to specific actions, but I can't do something like Hold Down a mouse button which simulates "3 fingers being pressed down, then moving the mouse sideways to activate switching between spaces, or moving the mouse up/down to simulate mission control/show desktop".
I just got my iPhone 5, and I deactivated my iPhone 4. I am wondering if I can keep my iPhone 4 as a iPod that I run with. Question is can, my Nike+ app still accurately track my runs? I would much rather continue using my iPhone 4 running equipment (special case, armband, etc) instead of going to buy new stuff.
My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.
I currently own an iMac G4 that I bought from someone online. But now that I try to update it, it won't let me. The Safari doesn't work and I really just want to clean it up and really start from fresh.
I am trying to help my uncle reset his iPad. He has not had it long and has forgotten the restrictions passcode (to manage restrictions in Settings). He is OK with putting it back to the factory settings. However, the restrictions code is required to do the reset. How do we bypass it and reset it? The restrictions passcode is required to set and enforce limits on age restrictions, categories and other parts of the iPad's interface in Settings.
Is it possible to share a kind of "hotspot" from my macbook so that the iPhone and iPad can connect with it? Just like there is a "personal hotspot" feature on the iPhone I want it the other way around.
My late-2009 iMac will get a new hard drive this week (thanks to Apple's replacement offer. Backup is on Time Machine so I'm not worried about data loss right now.
I'm on an iPhone 4S, running a fresh install of iOS 6 and I'm encountering a weird problem with my APN settings. Every now and then, about 2 twice a week, I'll be out and about when suddenly my mobile data stops working. When I check my APN settings (apn, username, password), those fields are empty. I enter my details and then I'm back online without further issues.
Is there a way to have multiple sidebars in Finder? The Finder sidebar is useful for storing shortcuts to different folders. However it becomes lengthy quite quickly. I want to have a different sidebar for each project I am working on, so each sidebar can contain different shortcuts to different folders. Pathfinder does offer this functionality, but I find it a bit klunky to use and the program is quite expensive for just this one feature. Are there any alternatives?
I have had continuing problems with apple's bluetooth wireless trackpad. the first one had strange performance problems -- I got a friendly apple agent to exchange it for me. The new one was better, but after a while its front rubber feet (which act as its press-to-click switch) stop clicking correctly... I want to replace this!
I recently reinstalled my MacBook from a time machine backup (because I installed an SSD) [*]. Now syncing my iPhone via iTunes doesn't seem to work anymore: At first, it displayed "over capacity" by 3.4 GB (which makes no sense, as I haven't added anything) Then, after deleting several apps from my iPhone, the "over capacity" message is gone, but syncing doesn't work: At first, it appears to work normally, and the capacity bar starts to fill up green on the left (green = apps) Then, after it finishes, the capacity bar turns yellow: I'm trying to sync a few files (just one song, and a few books), but they all keep the sync icon and are grayed out I can't access the files on my iPhone. Also, my iPhone seems to believe that the last backup to my computer was in September (according to Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync), whereas iTunes says, that the last backup was today.
When I right-click on a file on my Mac OS desktop and then in the contextual menu, I move to the "Open with...", the list of potential applications to "open with" has applications listed multiple times, sometimes three or four times, right next to each other! Why does this happen? How do I fix it? how do I stop it from re-occurring? See this snapshot of the contextual menu showing the doubling up:
iOS calendar add birthdays but no anniversary. How can I add them from the contacts to the calendar?
I'm using the plotting package Veusz and when I last used it I had my mac plugged into an external monitor using VGA, with Veusz on the external. I just have my mac at the moment, and Veusz is still opening on a second desktop, even though there's not one. I have tried 'Detect displays' and this doesn't help, since my mac appears to know that there is not a second monitor. How can I move the window back to my desktop without having to plug it in to another monitor and drag it across?
I just updated my version of Mountain Lion and then when I try to open my Mail app I receive this message :  I tried to reinstall Mail but I don't know how to do it. Anyone know what the problem is?
I use network setup to modify my search domains which works fine so far, but it only does it per device. Once I VPN somewhere, it no longer uses those changes. Is there a way to set the search domains globally (ie. for every device: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and VPN) on Mac OS X Lion?
I preordered some music last night via iTunes on my computer at home. I have an iPad at work that is bound to the same iTunes account. I go to the "Purchased" section in iTunes on the iPad and my preorder isn't there. The preorder has been released and i received my confirmation from Apple this morning that it in fact has. How can I download my preorder?
I'm handling the IT for a Mac based design studio and they're having weird issues with files on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. They should have complete access to everything, they can create, delete, edit files but sometimes they can't move them or rename them. It seems to be limited to files they created but I'm not 100%, anyone come across this before?
I have an old MacBook Pro lying around that a friend left with me. I believe it is the 4.1 model, it should be the last one before the Unibody models came out (can't access About This Mac and the serial number rubbed off as well). I knew it wasn't working before but I tried booting it up to see if I could get it working.
For some reason, my iSight wasn't working, so I used USB Prober.app to reveal that the device was suspended. Is there a way to resume the device (without rebooting)?
On iOS 6 on my iPhone the tap to tweet/tap to post buttons are located on the bottom of the notification center causing me to either have to scroll down or clear some messages before I can see them. On my iPad it is on the top, which makes me think that is where it should also be on my iPhone. Is this normal expected behavior or has something gone wrong with my phone? Any possible fixes would be appreciated.
While setting up new Mac Mini I checked the option to move files and settings from my old Mac to the new Mac. The old Mac was a 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.3 Panther.
I'm trying to compile a file using Python and I receive this message: Why is the permission denied? How can I fix this?
When I try and log into discussions.apple.com I see this message: So I do that then I see: It says that's available and I hit continue and then I see:
My 2012 MacBook Air has problems with Wi-Fi – random disconnections, every few minutes. The problems occurred with Lion, and persist after an upgrade to Mountain Lion.
I want to edit Info.plist for TextEdit. (Here's why.) I'm running OS 10.7, and I do have Xcode installed. But every time I try to edit the file, it's locked and I can't save my changes.
Our company has a small office but we often work remotely. One of our service providers requires that we access their customer service portal from a known IP address. We don't all have dedicated IPs for our home connection so we were hoping to use our Airport Extreme base station to setup a forward. I expected to find this in Airport Utility->Network.
I'm working on an iPhone DIY dock kit, that exposes the serial connection for controlling the music playback controls through the serial port (Apple Accessory Protocol). Does anyone know if the AAP serial commands still work with the new Lightning connector, or even better, with the dock adapter (since I'm not going to be shelling out for Apple's hardware developer program just yet)? I've had a hard time googling it successfully, other than that the adapter works with some other hardware and things like the MintyBoost DIY charger.
Running the most recent version of OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6.0, I'm able to sync all my Reminders between all my devices. However, though the Reminders themselves will sync across all my devices, their completion state will only cross the same platform (that is, if I complete a Reminder on OS X, all my Macs will show as complete, but not my iOS devices, and vice versa). Is there a setting that I can check somewhere to fix this, or is it working as intended?
I have trouble running Firefox and Chrome on my Mac. Firefox is crashing from time to time: *=URL=* Chrome crashes right after installation, it couldn't run it even once: http://pastebin.com/3PQq88XC
Slightly different than what I'm seeing in search: If I have my iMac booted into Windows 7, can I (via Thunderbolt) use the iMac as a target display from my Thunderbolt MacBook Pro running OS X?
How do I change where iTunes is installed to on Windows? For example, on my PC, iTunes shows up on my husband's user name but not mine.
If I have my iPad and my iPhone synced through iCloud and I can see that my text messages are being received/sent on both. If I send an iMessage on my iPad and immediately delete the entire text thread on my iPad, does it in turn delete the text threat off of my iPhone? If not, does it show the iMessage I sent from my iPad?
iPad Console Logs & eMail headers from the Future What does the "-700" mean in an eMail header when next to Date/Time Stampt? I've noticed some of my iPad Console Logs display as +7hours AHEAD of the time they were collected.
What are the differences with respect to battery life between using the regular Gmail setup as opposed to the Exchange setup? I know that the Exchange allows for push, but is battery life affected much?
I want to be able to use an HTML5 WebApp, but my iPad won't cache the manifest. The WebApp works on Android and BlackBerry devices, so I know it's not the code. And is it different for the various iPad versions? I have the first gen. iPad, but I will need to be able to help folks with more recent iPads.
Looking at the specs, both the iPod Touch 5th gen and the iPhone 4 have five megapixel rear facing cameras. Why, then, is the iPod Touch 5th gen able to record 1080p while the iPhone 4 is only able to record 720p? Is this a software limitation, or is there something better about the iPod Touch's hardware?
My hard drive failed on my computer and I can’t retrieve the original iTunes library. I lost all my music and photos that were saved on the computer as well. I still have 190 photos on my camera roll and about another 500 photos on iCloud.
What licenses are required to connect and communicate over a non-Apple hardware to and from iPad/iPhone? I have non-apple hardware which I want to connect to iPad and communicate with it by writing a program. Hence I want to know all steps to be able to do that and how much will it cost.
I am on a Mac Book Air, OSX 10.8. I am trying to understand why these two snippets do not print the same output. sh -c 'echo -n 1' outputs -n 1 whereas bash -c 'echo -n 1' outputs 1 as expected. Could you help me explaining why and how to make them output the same (if at all possible)?
i have new macbook air 13". There is "><" button under Esc. I want to rebind this button to semicolon ";". How? Or please tell me, how can I find Hex for this button, than I can change it by my self in defaultkeybinding.dict :) Thanks
I just purchased a second hand, 2-Week old MacBook Air. I downloaded the Mac Office from Amazon. When installing, I'm prompted to enter an Administrator Password, which I still don't have, as the guy who sold me the computer has not yet given it to me.
During the past 3 days I have experienced the following issue: when returning from sleep, I see an extremely garbled version of my desktop. The only thing that seems to help is a reboot.
Ever since upgrading to iOS 6 if I stop in the middle of listening to a podcast and a few hours later start playing using the lock screen buttons, the double-home-and-scroll-left buttons or a physical play button that connects to the iPhone (that I use while driving) one of two things happen: The podcast app starts playing a completely different podcast (always the same one, even if it's already played, I guess it's because it's the most recent podcast in the entire library) The podcast app starts playing a completely different podcast (always the same one, even if it's already played, I guess it's because it's the most recent podcast in the entire library) The music app starts playing music The music app starts playing music Is there any way to get the new smart dedicated podcast app to remember where it left off like the old music app that is obviously not suitable for podcasts because it always worked perfectly? Alternatively, can anyone recommend a podcast app that just works?
I'd like to open a Safari tab based on a bug number that I have on the clipboard via a hotkey. The url I want to launch has the form *=URL=* where nnnn has the number that is on the clipboard. I use tools like QuickSilver and TextExpander but I wonder how I can automate opening the tab in the quickest way.
I just opened an image in Preview, selected a rectangle, hit delete and then quit Preview. Now I have a grey rectangle missing from the middle of my image but at no point did I get a chance to say whether or not I wanted to save my changes. Is this normal?
I'm going to format my iMac today and I've just backed up to an external drive using Time Machine. But I am using encrypted backup, so Time Machine needs to encrypt the whole drive (after it has backed up). Right now, it says "Encrypting.... 35%". So it will take a long time.
Unable to receive mail. There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account “Hotmail” or try again. The server returned the error: The server “pop3.live.com” cannot be contacted on port > 995. I've tried sending mail and it shows that both gmail and hotmail are both offline. I have been on multiple forums with this problem and it seems the whole world is having the same problem with no fix. I've already tried the following to no avail: I've checked all my info is entered correctly. I've checked all my info is entered correctly.
I have just realized that a sync is not a backup. I synced my phone days ago, but backed it up months ago. Is there anyway to get my synced text message history back? There was some really important info on there.
I have an extended keyboard as in the image below  When connecting to a Windows machine, which key is Num Lock? For future reference, the key on this UK keyboard does not say Clear, it has an image of a horizontal rectangle with an X through it ⌧ but it is the same key and provides the same functionality in OS X.
Is there a way to assign some shortcuts for setting the label colour of the selected item in Finder, like it is in Aperture for example? In Finder menu there is no particular name of the item related to the label which could be used in Keyboard Shortcuts section of Preferences.
Is there really noticeable reduction of noise from fans in new MBP Pro 15" Retina compared to original MBP Pro 15"? I'm curious if the asymmetrical blades configuration of fans really makes that significant difference which Apple is stating.
I tried to install Windows 8 on my MacBook using Boot Camp. Because the normal installer did not recognize the partition that was made by Boot Camp, I opened up the command promt and ran DISKPART. I selected my drive, selected my partition and entered CLEAN – and boom, my entire hard drive shows up as being totally empty. I do have a 1 week old backup and rolling back to it would not be too terrible, but I wonder: is there a way to restore my files?
Yes, the OSX already supports ⌥+← and ⌥+→ for moving the cursor word-backward and word-forward, but reaching for arrow keys is annoying. So, why not rather have ⌥+B and ⌥+F do this? I mean, not once have I (intentionally) wrote the integral sign ∫ with ⌥+B (apart from now). In short, I'd rather have Emacs-like behavior (not just, say, ^+F for character-forward) throughout the OSX. Related question: Stop using Mac keyboard Option as a modifier to character
I've got a time capsule with 2 printers and a hard drive connected via a powered USB hub. When the unit is restarted, The indicator light on the front of the device remains yellow and never turns green. I can't connect to the device via the airport utility.
I use vim a lot, and like the keybindings. I'm aware that I can get vi-like keybindings in the shell in Terminal.app by adding the following to my ~/.inputrc: set editing-mode vi
How can I play music that resides my computer on my iPhone (plugged in to my stereo)? I am at home, they are on the same wifi network. The computer runs Windows 7.
I cannot hear any audio from my MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.7. Pressing F10/F11/F12 shows the volume overlay, but it stays at max volume with a (/) icon below it. In the Sound control panel or from the sound icon in the menu bar I can adjust the volume, but the Mute checkbox is greyed out. Rebooting does not resolve the problem.
I just installed the latest Java update from apple (Java for OS X 2012-006) and I was looking to have a look at what's going on with my java(s) with Java Preferences app (which used to live in /Applications/Utilities though it seems it has now disappeared. Any idea on whether there is a problem with my system or did the update clobber Java Preferences?
Recently I discovered that my iTunes Library contains songs with the MPEG-1, Layer 2 format. It's impossible to sync them to my iPod. So I want to convert them to AAC or MP3. But therefor I need a list of all songs that have that format.
After my 13" MacBook Pro (2010) has been on/sleeping for a day, the changing desktop animation and mission control gets choppy. Only a reboot fixes this problem and it stays good for several hours. I've already reset the SMC but it didn't work. I have 8GB RAM and 4GB is always free. How can I fix this problem?
My company is primarily a Windows shop and uses WebSense to filter Internet traffic. WebSense uses Active Directory to authenticate the user for Windows. On a Mac, it opens a authentication dialog every 10 minutes or so. Any ideas for making this go away?
How can I hide the Menu Bar? I am on mac Osx moutain Lion (10.8)
I have enabled dictation in the preferences, but it fails to start. When I tap fn fn, the Icon with three dots appears, and quickly disappears. I don't see a microphone.
When I right-click on a file and select Open With option, I see many repeated applications:  How do I get rid of these repeated options?
I have 3 Macs, 1 iPad, and 1 Apple TV (using HD Netflix, mostly). I need to keep an eye on bandwidth usage. What is the best way to monitor the bandwidth usage (preferably per device) that passes through my Airport Extreme router? Thanks! Rob
Pretty straightforward question: How can I find out FPS of a video file on Mac OS X? (QuickTime does not open the video because of not installed codec; but VLC does, though.)
There's someone in my neighbourhood that keeps cracking the WPA2 password on my Airport Extreme router, connecting, and using between 5 to 15 Gigs of bandwidth a day. I've read online that with utilities, even a complex WPA2 password can be cracked within hours or a couple of days. Is there a way to configure my Airport Extreme router to block connection attempts from a machine after X number of failed password attempts?
Lately I'm finding that I am not able to use any software that utilizes Game Center. In iOS 6 on login (or opening any game) it says, "Could not connect to Game Center server." In OS X Mountain Lion on login, it says, "The data couldn’t be read because it has been corrupted."
I was planning on getting a new iPhone and I want to give my old one to my younger brother, both of us have different Apple ID. The question is, can I retain my old apps on the old iPhone while syncing/installing my brother's purchased apps in it?
I cannot access www.lubuntu.net from my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. I have an idea as to what the problem is (see my opinion), but I did all the usual things anyway (see basic troubleshooting), just to check. Basic Troubleshooting
I have had a few different things told to me on this situation. I have a wifi local area network set-up with NO Internet connection. I want to know if AppleTV will work at all with a PPC Mac mirror my iPhone ie AirPlay work at all without Internet (again Mac and iPhone on wifi LAN). I do connect to my Mac from iPhone 4S for a number of things now , and sync via USB (although I've heard that's not possible).
Is it possible to add label, tag or notes to Time Machine backups. Lets say after fresh reinstall of OS X - label it as "Base System 1" then after few days (at some point with more software/work) "Designer Workstation - Base System 2" etc.
Inspired by this I am Ricardo Lopez, Test Manager for Surface RT. After the OS, OfficeRT and a bunch of apps, you will still have more that 20GB. As you say, you can always add an SD card and while you cannot add apps there, you can get music, movies and photos there.
In iOS6, on iPhone 5, how can I disable sound and vibration for a specific mail account only? I have one mail accounts that is a bit to highly frequented, which results in a lot of ringing and vibration. However all the other mail accounts behave just fine. Unfortunately I only see one global setting for the whole mail app.
My camera names its images IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, IMG_0003.jpg, etc. I have about a thousand images and would like to rename them without having to do it manually if possible.
I have a MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (mid-2011 model) running OS X 10.8.2. I upgraded to an SSD which I bought from Crucial and works just great. Crucial sent an email recommending I upgrade my firmware to get even better performance from my SSD.
I own a vintage "LC II" (a.k.a. "Macintosh Performa 400") with System 7.x installed years ago. Unfortunately I'm not able to log in anymore, because after the initial boot the screensaver fires up and locks the screen with a password. I would like to know either if: there are any key combinations or such to "unlock" screensaver/log in? there are any key combinations or such to "unlock" screensaver/log in? there are any key combinations to "reset things"? there are any key combinations to "reset things"? there is a easy–to–follow guide to create installation floppies to re-install from scratch? there is a easy–to–follow guide to create installation floppies to re-install from scratch?
I have an iPad 3 (16GB, no 3G), running iOS 6. Three times recently it's got into a state where when I've turned it on (from sleep, not from completely off), and I haven't been able to enter my password. I can 'slide to unlock', but when the keyboard comes up, the cursor flickers, but all the 'keypresses' don't do anything (although, for example, the 123 key on the keyboard still works). I've also noticed that the orientation sensor doesn't work when I rotate it in this state (the lock switch is off).
I read this question in which the user asked how is it possible to install the version 1.7. They said that this is possible through MacPorts. However I'm using Homebrew as package manager. It provides Subversion 1.7.7
I have a mid-2010 MBP with Mountain Lion. I performed a format and re-install (2 times). The first and only thing I installed was XCode (most recent version is 4.5.1). I have tried to run some of my projects, also just a plain blank project fresh after the create menu (all target iOS 6). Compilation is fine, but when I try to run on iPad/iPhone simulator, as soon as the iOS simulator is launching the screen goes black and the system restarts. Any ideas on how I could fix this? From Googling I've not seen anyone with quite the same issue, but have tried things such as deleting plist files, changing the debugger used, using no debugger, but it still crashes.
This sounds like an absurd question, I know, but when I go to: http://www.apple.com/safari/
My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk and I am getting this error: (Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.) So my question is how do I backup my files if the hard drive won't mount? The only way that I have been able to see the hard drive is through disk utility. I just want to be clear that I am using mac os x snow leapard.
I'm moving from an old 2007 MBP running Leopard OS X 10.5.8 to a new MBP running OS X 10.8.2 and I want to keep the new system as clean as possible. Therefore, I chose not to use the Migration Assistant. I'm wondering if it's possible to manually move specific applications by copying files from a Time Machine backup? In particular I'd like to move Cinema 4D R12.5, but may also want to move other smaller applications. Thanks for any suggestions.
How can I force an IMAP folder list refresh in Mail.app? Setup: Mountain Lion Mail.app Gmail over IMAPS I have already tried: Hide/show from folder sidebar (does not trigger a refresh of folders) Various "rebuild" commands, at different levels of the folder hierarchy Switching selected folders a few times Selecting "Synchronise Tino Sino" from the Mailbox menu Sending myself a message (as a last resort) Any ideas, please? In Thunderbird.app, there is one such command available through right-clicking...
What software are people using on a Mac to create nice-looking presentation slides, notably, with custom drop shadows on text?
I have 5 terminal windows open, and would want to bring one of them in front. Is it possible that Cmd-Tab would be window-switcher instead of app-switcher. I know I can switch to app's next window with a shortcut, but I would want to have all the windows in the switcher, regardless of what the app is.
I'm buying a Mac mini with 16 GB of RAM on board. The other Mac I have is a 4 GB MacBook Pro. I'm wondering if it would be possible to shuffle the memories between both of them, so I have a single 8 GB RAM stick in the MacBook, and in the mini I would put a 8+2 GB RAM? The specific models in question are: a Mid-2010 model MacBook with 2x2 GB of DDR3@1067Mhz. a July-2011 model mini with 2x8 GB of DDR3@1333Mhz.
Say I'm on desktop 1 and a click an app in the dock for a window on desktop 3. It will reorder my desktops, moving 3 to 2. How can I keep it from doing this?
I'm using Disk Inventory X to help open up some space on my hard drive. I found some disk images in my users folder, each taking up more than a whole gb of space: the files : http://i.imgur.com/A5K7L.png
I’m showing the address book birthday’s in the calendar app but I hate that every thing I can see ist “xx. birthday of N…“ and not mor because the labels are to narrow. To see who’s birthday it is I need to click on the event.
As from iOS 6, I can ask Siri something like "Don't Disturb Me", and it replies confirming that Do Not Disturb is activated. However, I have not been able to deactivate Do Not Disturb mode by voice. What verbiage should I use?
I have a mid 2009 15" 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro with 8 GB RAM and a 250 GB HDD. Recently, I purchased a WD 1TB 2.5" 5400 hard drive to upgrade. I used SuperDuper! and made a clone of internal drive to new drive via USB. After swapping the two drives, my laptop became very slow. Spinning beach ball appeared very often, almost everywhere. Did extended Apple hardware test, all ok. Then I put back the original 250 GB HDD in my MacBook Pro and took out the new one and things are fine again.
I have an iPhoto library of about 2100 photos. It's iPhoto 11, v9.4.1 (701.67).
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz with 8 GB RAM and a 320 GB HDD. I'm running OS X Mountain Lion on the Macintosh HD (260 GB capacity, 100 GB used) and a Windows 7 on the 60 GB BOOTCAMP Partition. What I want to do: Install an SSD of 120 GB, move OS X there using Time Machine - don't see any problems here. Keep the original 320 GB drive by moving it to the SuperDrive slot, erase the existing OS X system (since it will be migrated to the SSD) Keep BootCamp unchanged on original (320 GB) drive.
I have a Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, and I frequently use an (external) Apple USB keyboard with it. In the Keyboard sys prefs, I set the "caps lock" key to be "^ Control", for both "Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad" and "Apple Keyboard" (i.e., external).
Apple provides instructions on how to restore from manually exported iCal archives. It sort of defeats the purpose of Time Machine, where backups are created automatically. By contrast, Time Machine works directly in Address Book in Lion.
I just installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro, I then installed the Windows Support drivers and everything works great except for one thing, the audio. It doesn't recognize the audio device in my Macbook. I've tried downloading the Cirrus audio drivers and installing them manually, but it still won't work. Has anybody had any success getting audio working on a late 2011 MacBook Pro running Windows 8?
I think I don't have anymore space. So what do I do now? Help?
I foolishly deleted iChat Application from my Mac with version of 10.6.8 for free disk space. Now am trying to download the .dmg file for the iChat app. Can anyone help me in this by sending any link to download the file?
Ok at work I received an appointment invite from a colleague in Outlook which I accepted. This event is an out of hours social event so I thought I would forward the invitation as an iCal event to my iPhone and add it to my Gmail calendar to keep things synced up. But when adding to my calendar my phone decided to send out an invitation to everyone who was invited to the original event inviting them to this event that had just been added to my phone. So now not only does everyone in the office have my personal email address they also have a confusing second invitation from a random Gmail account to an event they had already accepted or declined. Is there any way I can forward calendar appointments like this without my phone emailing everyone attending?
I manually restored the files in my User directory running cp from the Mac OS X Mountain Lion restore disk. Now I can not access my files anymore, and ls -l prints this:
Is there a way to disable the Notifications for a specific Account in Mountain Lion's Messages App?
I've set up iMessage on my iPhone correctly (apple id) with Messages on my Mac (OSX Mountain Lion), and it syncs. But the syncing isn't flawless.. Everytime I wake up my Mac after hibernation, it won't update my messages. I first have to restart the app a few times, to get all my messages. Sometimes even the order of the messages isn't correct. From my experience the syncing is still quite buggy. Does anyone have the same issues, and maybe a workaround? ps: I don't use wifi on my Mac, if that's relevant.
I just discovered that my iPhone4S/IOS6 battery drains too fast after I use the camera. So: After the fresh restart the phone lasts 3 days - when not taking photos or videos. Even if I take one photo (and of course, stop the camera app) the phone will drain the battery in 1 day. The GPS (triangle icon) disappears after I stop the camera app.
Is there a way I can hide a running app's dock icon Mac OS X?
I'm looking for a free or if not cheap solution to a situation we find ourselves in. Currently we have 5 designers all doing artwork throughout the day and then periodically, or when the mood takes them, burning it to DVD-R then running it through an ancient X11 Disc Catalog app we have. The problem is each person does it "their own way" and the disc numbers get mixed up from time to time and lost etc.
I have a mirrored display setup with a 17" MacBook Pro and an Apple LED Cinema display. When I plug in the monitor, sometimes the mirroring does not kick in properly and some items are half on-screen.
I have installed XCode 4.5. During the installation there was an error about downloading the documentation. I did not pay much attention, but I think the error was same as that mentioned in: this question. I tried the solution as mentioned in the post, but there is no file named as: "com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleOSX10_8.CoreReference.docset" as stated in the answer.
I have multiple virtual machines setup in VMware Fusion. Some of them are only servers (like Ubuntu), which I want to run without seeing the VMware Fusion icons or windows, a little like VMware Server does. Does anyone have a solution?
I have notice lately (in last two months or so) after disconnecting my iPhone 4s (with iOS 6) from the charger in the morning after an entire night of charger it immediately drops from 100% to 98%. Is this a sign of a problem or normal battery aging. I do perform the monthly battery drain til power down as recommended by Apple
I assigned the commandL keyboard shortcut to this script. I recently discovered the built-in ctrlshifteject, which is better.
I have Mountain Lion 10.8 on VMware 8. I am using auto-bridging (vmnet0) for internet service. The internet works find until I pause or turn off the virtual machine. When I resume or restart it, the internet connection does not work. I pinged localhost, but there was no response. When I restart the host (Windows 7), then the internet connection inside guest OS (Mac) works fine again.
Is there any way, short of a third-party application (I'm quite fond of the baked-in functionality of the screenshot system in Mac OS), to change the filename that screenshots get named with when they're created? Failing that, are there any notable screenshot apps that give you better granular control over your screenshots, without nuking the process too much?
The SystemUIServer process is taking 30% of my CPU. Searching around reveals a Snow Leopard daylight savings bug which is solved by removing the clock from the menubar. I am on Lion and I have tried this without success. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I want to know how long I used my external HDD. The HDD is WD My Book model. How can I know that?
I have no router and the firewall is turned off in System Preferences. If I go to *=URL=* not matter what port I verify, it is closed. Why are my ports closed even though I have no firewall or router?
I recently bought a NAS drive (WD Personal Cloud) and it seems great - for everything but streaming video, it is very quick. However, when playing video files (480 and 720p) despite there being no other network traffic, VLC still occasionally pauses for about two seconds, then continues to play. This happens about every ten minutes, and I was wondering if there is a) a better app, b) a way to tell VLC to cache ahead of time or c) something I'm doing wrong. I'm on a Wireless N network, zero other traffic - I was thinking it might potentially be the mac doing other internet related stuff in the background, but that's just an idea. Thanks!
Is there a way to disable the boot from CD/DVD? I don't want to disable it permanently, just when it automatically checks on boot for the presence of a CD/DVD.
I've got a curious problem with my computer, which is set up with 2 spaces. I use the Move left a space and Move right a space shortcut to switch between them.
I recently switched to Verizon. My wife's phone was a 16GB AT&T iPhone. Verizon had the 8GB version for free with the contract. Is it possible to restore from the 16GB backup to the new 8GB phone? Both are iPhone 4s.
I want to download the videos from iTunes U, such as iPad and iPhone Application Development. Lectures of previous semesters were on YouTube, so those of us with slow Internet connections could download/watch them without having to wait too long. But the latest videos are only in iTunes and seem to be, high quality, large files only. They take too long to download. Is there a way to download these videos faster, or download lower quality versions just like YouTube?
I have a late 2010 Apple MacBook (If that matters) and when I had OS X Snow Leopard installed, I created a keyboard shortcut that I seemingly can no longer reverse. After upgrading to OS X Lion and now OS X Mountain Lion the shortcut is still carried over. The keyboard shortcut is: whenever I click the 'fn' key, it will 'show desktop.' I have searched all of the 'Keyboard' section of System Preferences to see if I can deactivate anything there. I do remember that when I made the shortcut originally on Snow Leopard, it could be changed back. I remember when I had OS X Lion, I wanted to change it, but I couldn't figure out how (like now) I have tried the 'restore defualt' option in System Preferences > Keyboard, but that didn't work. If anyone knows how to fix this or even has some sort of guidance to help me try and fix it, it would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming an increasingly inconvenient and frustrating problem.
I have an 4th Generation iPod Touch, running on iOS 6.0 and my Safari has vanished. Regression: It is not shown on the home screen When I try to tap links to web pages, they only become highlighted (as they should), showing I am tapping them, and when I take my finger off the screen, nothing happens.
I'm copying my question from AskUbuntu (Part of stack exchange) to here, I think they'd prefer me to go here, since I seem to be getting no activity on my question: So Ubuntu 12.10 came out today (Actually, now yesterday), and ever since I got my Macbook, I haven't really been able to try Ubuntu again (I got it in September and have been using Ubuntu since 8.04 on my old computer). I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion installed and Windows 7 installed using Bootcamp. I also have rEFIt installed and both OSes boot up fine... now I just need to figure out how to install Ubuntu with both OSes being happy. Because Windows uses MBR there isn't really room for another partition (Now there is a Recovery Partition starting with Lion... so EFI + Recovery + ML + Windows = 4 paritions). Has anyone had any success in Triple Booting?
I use iA Writer enough that I would like it to open in fullscreen on login, but unfortunately the developers have disdain for preferences. I decided to write an AppleScript that I could add to the startup list, but I can't get it to work properly. I'd like to open a specific file using iA Writer on login, in 10.8 fullscreen mode, but without changing focus from my normal desktop, or a least automatically returning me to my primary desktop after launch. EDIT: Here is my code after suggested edits: This code successfully opens the file with iA Writer in fullscreen, but switches to the new, iA Writer-controlled desktop, waits a moment, and switches back to my main desktop. Since OS X's change from spaces to desktops, I don't even know if it is even possible to open an application in Mountain/Lion fullscreen without it stealing focus and forcing a desktop switch. Many thanks to @Lauri Ranta for your help thus far!
It is possible to connect a USB keyboard to an iPad (3rd generation) using the camera connection kit. However, my Apple keyboard does not work so which ones do? Yes I know I could buy a wireless keyboard.
I have a backup of my OS X Leopard on Time Capsule. In the meantime I've upgraded to Mountain Lion. When I try to restore from Time Capsule in full it takes me back to Leopard. In Mountain Lion they want you to use the OS x restore which I did and got me back to leopard or if I use Mountain Lion time capsule feature they want you to find each file and restore it separately, which would take forever. How would I go about restoring all my information and files from my old backup to have on Mountain Lion? Should I take another backup with my time capsule, so it has an updated OS X or shoule I just do them separately? Any Ideas?
I have a number of local Windows, Linux and Mac machines on my local LAN, but no matter what, Safari will not resolve them by name. How can I get this to work as there is no "server" on my network? I use the machine names only without suffixes.
I've just migrated from an old MBP to a new one. I had a folder Transmachina in the root in which I keep a large SVN working copy. I just copied this over with cp -R but on the new machine this folder is greyed out in Finder, and I can't navigate into it. In terminal, I can access it fine as my user (no sudo) and the permissions are:
Recently my couple year old MacBook Pro has been acting up strangely. I generally use it for watching videos. After about half an hour or so of activity, the screen starts to look like this:
Does there exist an excellent reader for DjVU with the the key property i.e. the support for DropBox so I can download DjVU files easily to it from my DropBox and upload stuff to DropBox from it?
How can you modify the output folder of the Extract PDF text action ? I made a basic workflow to extract the text of PDF files, but the output folder is stuck to Desktop. I can change it in Automator, but the changes are not saved. It reverts to Desktop when I reopen the workflow.
I have updated to Mountain Lion on Mac Mini (mid 2011), and now my Mac is very slow after sleep. I am waiting for several minutes before the next selected program is working properly. I have tried: resetting SMC, check disk and permissions, disable disk hibernation but have no result. When I put it to sleep manually everything okay (in 1 minute), but when it going sleep by timeout I have hyper-lags and slow and low-low-low performance.
On my iPad 3 (The New iPad), is it possible to switch between different versions of iOS (iOS 5 & iOS 6)? If so, how?
I've transferred some VOB files to my iPad via FTP—I used UbiDisk, which stores the files in a “local” folder. Anyway, now that I have the files on my iPad and I’m trying to play them with viPlay Lite, but I don't know how to find them. Is there are a way to browse for files?
I am looking for free alternatives to download youtube videos in Safari.
OK, here's my situation : I am a developer needing to debug under different OS X versions I currently own 2 macs : a MacBook Pro and an iMac the iMac has Snow Leopard (10.6) on it - it came pre-installed the MacBook has been upgraded to Lion and then to Mountain Lion (10.8) I have purchased Lion & Mountain Lion via the App Store. What I need :
When I just opened iTunes and authorized my Mac against it for purchases, it told me there were two machines authorized against my iTunes account (therefore, one other one). However, I can't think which that other one would be - I've had various virtual machines etc. configured against iTunes in the past. Are there any ways to find out any more about it (hostname, OS, etc.) so I can check out the situation and potentially deauthorize it?
My Aperture is showing 2.5k Rejected photos (count), but when I view the album, there are only 3 there. I tried rebuilding the database.
I am running an event for my community soon an I need software where I can see the contants of the two projects when they are in "No Show" mode. Is it possible to see what is being displayed through the two displays (being powered by two Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapters on my rMBP) without having the projectors on?
I tried to send a message using the iMessage beta that I installed on Lion ages ago. The message didn't send, and then I noticed the prompt looked like this:
Mountain Lion and later OS X releases have a very useful feature where Time Machine can alternate between multiple backup destinations. I use this to back up to both a network share at home and an external drive I keep offsite. Because I only have physical access to the offsite drive occasionally, I don't back up to it often. After 10 days, OS X gives me a message around the same time each day, such as: Time Machine is still backing up successfully to the network share every hour, so this message is unnecessary (and the second sentence is incorrect).
Check your settings and try again. (-3906) I tried with a bad password just to compare the difference and I get this message:
On a Retina MacBook Pro some Java applications (such as IDEA 11.1.3 that is supposed to support it) won't run in HiDPI mode. When I got to "Get Info" on the app, I can see that the "Open in Low Resolution" checkbox is checked and disabled. Is there a way to change this? I have Java 1.6.0_37 installed.
I got a mid 2011 MacBook Air 13.6" and its keyboard and mouse freezes very often after I leave it in sleep mode for some time and it wakes up. Only the power key and the lid detector are still responsive. It’s also possible to connect to it via VNC or SSH.
I recently had my hard drive replaced. I made sure my Time Machine backup was up-to-date prior to the handing it over to the Apple Store so I could simply restore, but I made one mistake: /Applications was not being backed up with Time Machine.
It’s not possible to change the settings to the correct resolution before rebooting. Any settings will look bad on the screen. And, interestingly, the display settings change after the reboot. (Before) (After)
The title pretty much says it all. I currently have an Airport Extreme Base Station and I want to be able to use the USB port on it to hook up an external hard drive and use it as a wireless means of backing up my hard drives, and have Time Machine act just like it would with Time Capsule.
How do I force Time Machine to perform a deep traversal? I've had this happen when I needed to once before, when it took about 120 minutes to go through 500 GB and Time Machine found about 10 GB worth of data that changed, which was exactly what I wanted at the time.
For some reason my files are getting locked in my Time Machine backups. I mean, when you "Get Info" on one of them, the "Locked" box is checked. Folders are NOT locked, though.
Will I see some speed improvment by replacing the original 5400-rpm with a SSD on a MBP Core2Duo with Filevault2 enabled? Or it is a waste of money? I ask this question because I know Filevault tend to kill performance of SSD on Core2Duo since this cpu doesnt have the AES-ni instructions as i5-i7 have... I didnt find many benchmarks results... My current HDD stats with Filevault2 enabled are (measured with XBench): UPDATE: I installed a Crucial M4 here is the new stats: As you see, a nice boost even if it's only a non-AES-NI Core Duo 2.26 with Filevault2 enabled
With the introduction of Mountain Lion, Preview acts up whenever I need to save a file. It does this regardless of whether I use File > Save or Command+S. The logs tell the same story:
I just made the switch from an Android and I had this option there. Does the iPhone have it as well? And a second question: will the alarm activate when the phone is off?
When I first installed MS Word for Mac on this MacBook Air, pressing and holding characters such as o and u produced a little menu of accents for that character - wonderful! But all of a sudden, this no longer works - the character just repeats like with an ordinary word-processing app. I tried disabling the Press and Hold to Repeat function in Apple preferences, but that just stopped the repeating, it didn't bring back the little accent menu. How can I reactivate this really useful feature?
I have two versions of Java installed with Mountain Lion: Apple's Java 6 Update 37 (Java for OS X 2012-006) Oracle's Java 7.
My macbook (feb 2008 white) sold on ebay, but I haven't shipped it yet. I'm concerned about my privacy. I can't wipe the hd clean because I sold the computer with valuable software on it. What files should I remove so that the person who receives the computer can't log into my accounts? And what other things should I do to ensure my privacy is safe?
OK, so I own 2 macs : a MacBook Pro (running 10.8 with the latest Xcode on it) an iMac (running 10.6 on one partition - Xcode installed and all - , and 10.7 - just installed - on another partition) Note : all of Xcode versions + OSes have been purchased via the App Store Now, here's my problem : I'm signing in with my Apple ID I'm going to My Purchases Xcode is obviously there, BUT with the "Install" option, not the "Download" option
I am trying hard to avoid signing in to Game Center, but the interruptions and pop ups make this hard to do. My impression is that after the third time I don't sign into Game Center, a pop-up asks if I want to disable game center. The text implies I want to be really sure as disabling GC means I'll lose so many wonderful features. It also tells me I can always enable it later in Settings. Each time I'm offered to opt out, I say yes intending to disable GC. If this worked, I'd think it great, but the next time I launch a game, the now allegedly disabled and definitely signed-out-of Game Center (into which, by the way, I've never signed in) is back asking me to sign in. What can I do to avoid this?
I am copying using cp or mv on the command line a large amount (>500gb) of files each sized between 600MB and 2.6GB to an external drive (a Thermaltake BlacX Duet), but after a significant but inconsistent amount of transfer (e.g. 121gb) the following happens:
The Apple technicians told me that I needed a specific device to use Time Machine... namely a wireless device that had a relatively small hard drive. Since I use Oracle Virtual Box and have very large files, I think it would be best to backup using Thunderbolt, instead of Wifi. Can I use a normal Thunderbolt harddrive and have Time Machine work with that?
I'm looking for a way to mount a Thunderbolt Hard Drive to the back of a Cinema Display. I remember seeing a way for a hard drive to be mounted to the original monitor stand, but I am using this Sanus monitor stand below. Can anyone think of a way to mount a hard drive to the monitor or stand and still keep the ability to rotate the monitor 90 degrees? http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6017LL/A
My friend has the following kit in the house (although not all at the same time): His MacBook Pro 15" with 500gb HD Her MacBook Air 13" with 256gb SSD Daughter's MacBook white with 500gb HD His and Hers iPad 3 His and Hers iPhone 5 Son's iPod Mini Nanny's iPhone 4S Grandpa has an iPhone 3GS AirportExpress for the bathroom speakers (niiiice) Apple TV in the lounge XBox 360 in the lounge Samsung Smart TV in the lounge TimeCapsule 1TB Western Digital dual-drive 4TB USB drive (formatted as mirrored 2TB), connected to the TimeCapsule.
How can I add a name or title to the voice memos that sync from my iPhone to iTunes on my Mac? All I get in the playlist is the date and duration of the memo - right click, left click, nothing works.
the whole conversation overview is split into two conversations, one conversation only with my messages and the replier's Group MMS with his/her reply. No overview about the whole conversation at all
My iphone 4 was backing up to the cloud. I got a 5, and did the entire restore process. I was irritated and inconvenienced to discover that my email account passwords and my google 2-step verification tokens in the google authenticator app did not come back from the backup. I had to re-enter account passwords, and then tear down and re-set-up the google authenticator tokens.
I have around 15 email accounts, if i setup all that's 15 emails in iPhone with IMAP method. Will it cost more battery than i just only setup 1 email account?
I have an older mac that has iTunes 9.2.1 and my new iPhone 5 does not appear in the device list. Are iPhone 5s compatible with iTunes 9.2.1? My Mac is on an older OS X which is not capable of running the latest iTunes.
I installed Power Plan Assistant (and Trackpad++), and the "Turn Off backlit keyboard" option doesnt do anything. I thought if I clicked on it, it'd toggle whatever setting it is it uses to actually turn it off, and I could use that to turn it on. As far as I know, I have the latest bootcamp drivers (i update anytime I get an alert about that), and the latest windows drivers on the bootcamp install.
I find reminders pretty useless because once you're reminded once it doesn't remind you ever again, even if you haven't completed the task yet. It would actually be useful if every time I looked at my phone it displayed the reminder until I completed it.
It don't know if a solution exists or not but I couldn't find anything on Google or Ask Different, so here goes: I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6 and when developing and testing I always have to enter a passcode to test my applications. Is there any way to make sure I dont enter the passcode every time when it's connected to Xcode 4.5. I know that I can disable it during development, etc... but that defeats the purpose of phone security if you need to rush out quickly for work, etc... It would be great if anyone has the solution for this so it just works!
I have updated my Mac Mini to Mountain Lion. I had iMessages beta installed on OSX Lion but after upgrading it's disappeared and now I don't have any iMessages.
Here's the scenario: My phone holds my music list, and is synchronized with my home computer My work computer also runs iTunes, and I plug my phone in there to play music by first having told it not to sync automatically, then selecting the device in the left pane and clicking on a song or podcast
I have a friend with a mac pro 2008 model - which is failing to boot. Windows 7 was the predominantly used OS on it, and she hardly ever booted into OSX Snow Leopard. She did change the graphics card at one point, but I dont think she booted into osx once after installing the replacement gfx card (xfx 6870).
I need a solution that will work without jailbreaking. On Linux and on OSX, I use ssh on the command-line to open ssh tunnels so I can run client-server applications securely. I need to do the equivalent on ios (run some kind of tunnel in the background, while I run a client application through that tunnel).
I have to admit, I never thought that I'd see the day I preferred a different desktop browser to Chrome. But with the latest release of Safari, I'm a believer. It (to me) performs faster, looks better, and having that baked-in sync functionality with all my iOS devices and other Macs is... well, insanely great. That being said, there are a few features that I miss from Chrome, but the one that I really miss is the multiple search engines you could invoke from typing the name of them and then either Space or Tab (e.g., type "imdb" and then Tab to search using IMDb's search query functionality). Is there some sort of less-advertised extension that I can get to bestow this upon Safari, or am I out of luck?
I use two separate backup drives to backup my iMac and MacBook. I call one drive Time Machine and the other drive Mobile. On Mobile, it shows a folder called Backups.backupdb and inside it has a folder for the iMac and the Macbook. On the Time Machine drive it has the same folder but it is greyed out. When I click on it to try and verify the two folders inside of it, nothing happens. Any thoughts on why this is happening? Thanks!
Is there any way to mimic Chrome's behavior of selecting specific tabs with a Command-# combination (e.g., Command-1 selects Tab 1, Command-2 selects Tab 2, etc.)?
I'm having a problem installing an application (vuze). I've gone into the regular settings tab and I can't find anywhere to change any particular setting. I looked online and I just randomly see the same security tabs I found myself so...not sure what I have to change. Any ideas as to what I have to change in order to install this app? I'm new to the Mac game so not sure where I have to go. Thanks in advance. Edit: The message I get is Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the mac app store and identified developers.
When I send a photo to a friend via iMessage and not MMS, will the geotag location be sent along with the photo? If so, is there any way to remove the location before the photo is sent for privacy reasons.
I just did a full restore from Time Machine and noticed that my Spotlight Privacy tab was empty. Am I correct in assuming that this information is not backed up by Time Machine? I believe it's stored in /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Exclusions.plist, and therefore it shouldn't be backed up because Time Machine doesn't back up a lot of the hidden files, especially in the root directory (/.fseventd being the example that comes to mind).
I haven't got a screen protector for my MacBook Pro, and I am wondering just how easy it is to get a scratch on it? Is it using the Gorilla Glass like the iPad? If so, I might consider not getting a screen protector at all. Anyone with some experience? Update:
Is it possible to create custom image of the Mountain Lion with the certain third party applications (Chrome , Adium , Firefox) pre-installed with the operating system. This will not require me to separately download and install these software. This should be similar to installation of the iLife along with the OS installation from the DVDs which came with Macbooks.
Safari for OS X only offers three search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing I want to use *=URL=* as a default search engine to search directly from the unified URL/search bar. Is this possible?
She's running OSX Mountain Lion, latest updates, on a 2012 MacBook Air 11"  I've searched quite a bit and had no luck. We've rebooted (obviously) and removed the calendar from the dock but it didn't help (as the calendar icon itself seems to me borked). Weird!
I have an Airport Extreme (will find actual version number later, as it's not able to tell from Airport Utility any more) that runs a 2.4 and 5 ghz network. The 5Ghz one is almost always fast, but the 2.4Ghz one can produce some woeful speeds. The following screenshots showing me using my ISPs speedtest tool from the same iMac on each network:
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, some pictures in my Aperture library are unreadable. Aperture says the format isn't supported.
As a warning: I'm no specialist at all. I work as a student here and trying to help to fix the Mac environment. I might use the wrong terminology at times but I try to be as clear as possible.
I am having problems with connecting to the internet via WiFi on my iPad (3rd Gen). It works, however, when I connect using Bluetooth. Any ideas on why this is and how I can get my internet working over WiFi?
I have a iPad 3 or the new iPad and it's 3G. I plan on using this at trade shows so I can mirror what's on my iPad to the TV using Apple TV. We'll be using a local router instead of wi-fi because it's a fortune to purchase internet at shows. My question is once I access an app that requires 3g connection will I lose my connection to Apple TV?
I found there is some differences between the utility command I used on the mac OSX and linux. I want to make my experience united. How could I replace all my mac utilities with GNU utilities?
Trying to print on canvas with an Epson Stylus Pro 3800. When I click the PRINT button I get the printer in the Dock for about 5 or 6 seconds and then it disappears and no printing. have tried resetting the printer by using that option using CTL +click in Print and Fax and reinstalling it.
I deleted a contact from my iPhone. However when I type that person's name when sending a text message, their contact details still show up as their name and other: 111-111-1111.
There is a Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) desktop, it stores Time Machine backups on a separate partition. Also there is an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) server with NFS daemon running, it exports a /BACKUP disk. This disk is mounted by Mac OS desktop and I'd like to copy Time Machine backups to this network disk. Which tool shell I use to store backups properly with all associated metadata, hfs extended attributes and forks?
I bought OS X Lion through the App Store long ago and installed it to my Mac Mini (Early 2011) which came with Snow Leopard bundled. The Mac Mini was having some issues so I decided to format and reinstall using the Recovery Partition created by Lion. However, the process of downloading installation files was getting stuck and the installation did not advance, so I decided to install Snow Leopard instead and make the upgrade to OS X Lion from the App Store, like I did originally.
When breaking up a table in order to comment on each section separately, I cut and pasted the sections, which worked well, but then I tried to include introductory paragraphs and these seems to be caught in the table formatting, which doesn't allow me to tab, indent, etc. How can I get the table formatting turned off for these paragraphs located before and/or after the sections of tables I split up?
I'm following the instructions to create a bootable Ubuntu 12.10 USB stick on OS X found here. I can do step 3 and hdiutil appears to work fine, but when I go to mount the resulting ubuntu.img file I get the same "no mountable file systems" error that I get when I try and open the ubuntu.iso file. No correctly sized volumes show up in diskutil list either. Any ideas? Using the most recent ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso on Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I tried this with 12.04 LTS and got the same result.
When I right click on an icon in the Dock, I get a menu as usual (New Window, Options, Quit, etc.). When I right click an an icon in the Dock in Mission Control nothing happens. How can I enable the right-click menu for Dock app icons while in Mission control?
I can easily create a "Web App" on my iPhone by going to the "arrow" menu and attaching a website to the home screen. Is it possible to do this on OS X with, say, Gmail or YouTube or anything else?
A friend of mine recently bought a new laptop and passed me his old Macbook Pro 6,2. I think he had Lion on it, but the installation CD has been long lost. I put in a new disk (he kept the original one), but how do I install OS X now?
I use Voice Over and Dragon Dictate. I have figured out how to make Dragon Dictate press Control-Option-A, which makes Voice Over read a page of text, and now I would like to figure out how to tell Voice Over to stop reading through Dragon Dictate. The trouble is that the Voice Over keystroke is just Control. I have never been able to find any AppleScript key code for this.
Is there any way to find out when exactly an un-timestamped chat was sent? My friend Max swears I didn't promptly inform him of my whereabouts this past weekend. I remember the exchange differently. A screenshot:
Some websites make safari go crazy, and use 70% CPU! This causes everything else on this desktop to grind to a halt. Is there a way to restrict safari to never go beyond a certain amount of CPU? (btw - It's not just flash)
Mac Mail every few days i find that it's downloading my entire account all over again. That's like 8 years work of email - which is really beginning to annoy me. Can I configure mail to only get recent mail?
I want to update my iPhone on iTunes but it says that it will delete all of the apps and media on my iPhone that I purchased. I synced it but I don't know what to do next. It says it will only save my content.
I was running the Tweetbot for Mac Beta, and still had it installed when I installed the full release from the Mac App Store. Now I have 2 entries in my preferences for Notification Center, and I don't know which is which. I have removed the Beta application, and only have the real thing installed, but oddly whereas the Beta had the 'Egg" icon rather than the bird, both set of preferences use the bird icon.
I'm trying to use webex in Chrome. To click on webex links, I need the java plugin. However, it appears that a recent OS X Mountain Lion update removed the java plugin from my computer. When I try to install the java plugin in chrome, I see the following error:
My ATT Microcell works for a few hours and then stops. The configuration is: Internet -> Comcast Modem -> Time Capsule/Airport Extreme -> MicroCell Note that the Comcast Modem is providing both my telephone service and a single RJ-45 network connection into the Time Capsule.
When I only have one unread message (or all from the same person), it opens that thread when I open the Messages app. I don't want the thread to open automatically when I touch the message icon, and would rather it opens the list of message threads. What can I do to stop this automatic action of opening the thread?
I come from a Windows background and I have gotten into the habit of hitting the Space key every time there's a popup on my screen that I want to close. But on the Mac, it doesn't do anything, but hitting Return does. Does anyone know how I can get Mac to let the space key act like the Return key on modal dialogs? I tried to find something in the Keyboard preferences but don't see anything related to popups.
I have two identical Macbook Pro Retina laptops. How can I transfer files between them? I have looked at the AirPort utility, but don't see a way to "create a new network" let alone make it discoverable by the other mac. I tried enabling File Sharing, but I don't know how to tell the other mac to connect to that share (they are both on the same Wifi, where should I look for it?) Also I tried the Bluetooth file transfer wizard but don't see the other device.
In the never-ending quest to track down odd errors on my late 2008 MBP, running 10.6.8, I have recently noticed that I have several .plist files are created anew several times a day. The list varies, and more importantly is not always dependent upon my changing anything.
Whenever I plug my 13" MacBook Pro into my TV (via DVI) iTunes spontaneously starts playing. If I quit it, it reopens and starts playing again. I ended up having to rename iTunes.app to get it to stop.
I am trying to restore a DMG image of a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition back to Boot Camp. (I know that I should have used Winclone, but I didn't have that option because the drive was already dying and so I couldn't even access OS X anymore.) So far, I've gotten to the point where I can start up the computer, hold Option, choose Windows, but then when it boots up, it shows a black screen with a blinking cursor.
I've recently been listening to a ton of music on YouTube via iOS. I'd like to be able to start playing a song, go search for another song (while the other song is playing in the background), and add it to the queue of songs. This is very similar to the playlists feature of YouTube itself, with the exception that it's just a local queue and I can add/search while music is playing. I'm looking for a third-party app. Is there such an app?
Where is the system.log file actually located? I know of course that I can view its contents in Console.app, but I just want to know where this text file is actually located. Or is it an almagamation of multiple files merged together or something, so that's why there's no actual location for it?
How can I use Finder's search feature to find all files that do not match a certain criteria? For instance, all files that don't end in ".txt" in the current folder.
I received this Mac as a gift. Everything worked fine, now in the App Store the default applications GarageBand, iMovie and iPhoto refuse to update, since it asks for the Apple ID of the previous owner.
One package I want to install (lua-posix) needs glibtoolize, where do I get that? I installed XCode and that Development Console Tools stuff, brew doctor is happy, and according to the them, glibtoolize should somewhere come from Apple. What do I need to install?
I have a table with measurements of the runtime of different sorting algorithms. This data should be shown in a chart, with the number of items on the X axis and the runtime on the Y axis. To make the X axis on scale, I used a dispersion chart.
I've really stuck on how to do this, I thought it would be easy, but maybe not! I want to create a small thumbnail image from the first page of a pdf in automator so I can batch convert a load of them at once. Is that possible? If so, what actions do I need to set up?
It can tell me the current status of a process, for example, whether it is still running or has been terminated.
I would like to have in my MacBook Pro a functionality which execute automatically some actions according to my current location. This actions could be for example Change the default printer Change the network location (for setting for example static or dynamic IP like in this question) Open an application or a specific file Activate/Deactive file sharing Run shell scripts The current location could be inferred for example by using the current network (Wi-Fi network name) or other localization services. Is there an application that provides this functionality?
I have an old Mac Mini on which I installed Ubuntu to be used as a test server. I completely formatted the hard disk before installing ubuntu, installation went fine and everything is working; so far so good. The problem is that when I access the machine via ssh, and do a reboot, it doesn't reboot.
My company is still running Snow Leopard and we're thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion soon. We are developing iOs and MacOsX applications and have a small break between the old projects and the new projects. What this means is, that we can start over with the new applications on the new version. But what happens to the old versions? They don't have ARC, Storyboards etc... I know you can switch off ARC but we want to make sure that we will still be able to commit updates to our old projects and we can't efford to put lots of time and effort in the conversion process.
When joining a domain one of the AD I can set following options:  If mobile account is selected, where does my account get stored? Also, does a mobile account have special properties that a normal local account doesn't have?
This thread is a part of the major thread about using iPad for education purposes here. When I do my homework, I often need to recap lecture notes and at the same time do assignments. Before my printer broke, I printed everything -- now with my iPad, I use only the screen. The problem is that I have only one iPad and so I am looking for a software using which I could read many PDFs at the same time. Does such a PDF reader exist?
The earphones that I have received with my iPhone have 4 metal connector jack. By the size of it, it looks 3.5 mm in diameter. Unfortunately, the white earphones are not of the in-ear type and slip out from my ears quite frequently.
Lets say an AppleID is created with the iCloud email address somebdy@icloud.com (misspelled). Is there any way to correct the iCloud email to somebody@icloud.com? Creating a new AppleID would lose old purchases and is not an option.
The App Store is telling me I have an update to an app that is currently installed, and it shows the new version. How do I see the version I currently have? The closest thing I was able to find is a Cydia app called AppInfo, but I can't jailbreak yet (nor am I comfortable doing so).
At work, I've got a new 21.5" iMac. If I leave the machine alone for 20-30 minutes, the wired network will lose it's connection. After I do something on the machine, the network comes back (usually after a minute or so). Is there a setting that I'm missing that turns this off automatically?
I accidentally removed Terminal from the apps folder. Any ideas how to get that back?
I develop on Windows, but I need a Mac for iPhone development. So I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini or a MacBook for the Mac part, and connecting to it as needed from my Windows machine. A mini, in particular, doesn't come with a monitor or keyboard or mouse, so this would be the only way to use it.
The date in my menu bar is in "DAY MONTH" format (e.g. 23 Oct) but I want it in "MONTH DAY" format (e.g. Oct 23). How can I do this? Also, it shows "Tue" as the week day when I'd prefer seeing it in full (e.g. "Tuesday").
Is there any reliable way to force Messages to refresh or reload the current conversation? Or make it receive messages reliably in the first place?
I know that I can purchase apps, music, movies etc. using the credit that's on my Apple ID. But is it also possible to purchase hardware from the online Apple Store, using that same credit on my Apple ID?
I have an iPhone 4S and my son has an IPod 4th generation. When I set up his iPod, I just synced it with my iTunes music that I selected from my library. However, now if he uses iMessage, it sends it from MY email address and I also get it in my inbox to me as well.
So, now I have a DMG file containing Windows 7. From what I understand, it's much more difficult to restore Windows Vista/7 than it is to restore Windows XP because the boot method has gotten more complex.
My iPhone, running iOS 6, used to autocorrect ill -> I'll for me and I liked that. It has, very recently, stopped doing this. I suppose it makes sense given than ill is actually a word, but it is a word I rarely use and certainly use far less frequently than I'll. Is there any way to add a correction mapping back to the iOS 6 dictionary such that typing ill autocorrects to I'll for me?
I usually use Android, but my girlfriend landed me with the above task to solve, and I have found no way to solve it myself. When we go to Camera Roll and select single or multiple images, we used to get an interface allowing us to select the size of the selected images, including the phrase "Actual Size".
Basically, how does the system save every state in the workspace (windows, desktops, open programs etc) when you do a restart ? Does that affect the efficiency of the software in the long run ?
Firefox 16 does not have retina display support out of the box. Is there a way to enable it?
If I'm using the device, I'd like to see banner notifications from other apps. When I unlock it, I don't want a swarm of banner notifications bothering me and hindering my ability to use the top of whatever app I'm using. I'd rather just check the notification center at my leisure. EDIT: But I still want the rest of the device to operate as per usual; in particular, I don't want to turn on Do Not Disturb b/c I want to be disturbed by whatever else I've set to disturb me. Is this possible?
I understand that Ctrl + F8 can be used to access the built-in Apple menu and Ctrl + F2 can be used to access program menus (e.g. this existing answer).
This happened after a wake from sleep. And rebooting doesn't solve the problem! Has anyone encountered this problem before? Every item in the bar, for example Safari, has no previous and next arrows for the button, and Finder is missing sidebar icon.
I can fine tune the sound level by shift + option + volume up/down keys in Mac OS. Is there any similar way in iOS?
I have a contact with iMessage, AIM and Google Talk accounts. When using Messages to open a new chat with her, I'd like it to always default to Google Talk if she's online -- instead, it seems to pick a contact method at random. How can I make it use Google Talk by preference (without deleting the other accounts, since I want them to be available as well)?
With the phone raised to my ear conversations are fine, but as soon as I put it on loudspeaker, there's a time lag. The same goes for the phones in the conference rooms at work. Why is this and can I fix it?
I have a problem with Jettison, that tries to remount a samba drive, that is protected by a password. It uses the following command line: Of course it fails since the password is not present (nor the -N switch)
I want to edit a part of an Apple Script to quit various applications at once: Over all there are seven entries just like above. Is there any way to write this more compact?
Is there any way to use a normal USB-keyboard on an iPad3 with iOS6? I saw a demo on YouTube where a normal USB-keyboard was connected to an iPad using the USB-connector. This iPad had iOS 5 on board. I later read that this wouldn't function anymore under iOS 6.
If I manually delete a .DS_Store file from a directory, what's the worst that can happen? What important information might I lose?
Can some one please let me know what my problem is? If my hard disk is busted, how comes it works (almost) problem-less in bootcamp? Can the problem somehow be solved? For example if it is a bad sector on my hard disk, by isolating that area or so?
So my Macbook Pro early 2011 13inch won't go to sleep. I've tried both manually and closing the lid. Also tried in Safe Mode, which worked as normal. Seems to be a software problem.
Like this the picture below. For the record, I did install some cracked apps which isn't available for demo from MAS to try them out. Could this be problem?
I bought a new computer recently and have not plugged my iphone into it yet. I had my phone synced with my old computer which crashed and cannot retrieve any information off of it including my music. So if I plug my iPhone into my new computer will everything be deleted or since I have iCloud will everything be saved? I want to know this information before I would plug into my new computer.
When I go through the bootcamp process, then get to the windows 7 setup screen. I format the bootcamp partition like the instructions say, then click next with that highlighted and get the error:
How can I handle several languages at the same time in Spotlight ? When a word exists in several languages including english, Spotlight gives me results in english. I would like to have all the results.
I have an account that I want to receive but never send email from in Mail.app. Is there a simple way to disable this one account? I'm running Mountain Lion.
I am running instruments via Terminal: for several test scripts. But I keep getting sporadic crashes and this is interfering with the workflow I have set up. Can anyone tell me what this means: Thanks!
I've been looking for situations similar to these before posting, but failed to find any. When trying to install Windows 7 (64bit) through Boot Camp Assistant on Lion, the Windows Support Software download failed. Thus, I followed the instructions from this post and from this cafe-encounter.net page and downloaded the suitable package for my model (MacBookPro9,1). I then installed the package and all the drivers seem to be working properly. The problem is that now I can't install the 3.1 (and consequently the 3.2) Boot Camp updates available from Apple Downloads website. When trying to run the update, an error message stops me from proceeding:
I've got a number of windows open, including several browser windows. One of them is playing an annoying advertising video. How can I easily locate which window is playing audio?
I need to edit a photo on my Mac. I wish to take two photos and paste them together to create one that's larger, containing both. I couldn't figure out how to do this with iPhoto. For Windows you have Paint.NET. For Linux you have Kolourpaint. What would be the equivalent on OS X?
The title is sort of self-explanatory. I wanted to group some icons into a more logical and useful layout. This question was last asked (afaik) during Snow Leopard days. Perhaps there are new methods. Currently, my menu bar looks like this:
I think I set this up some time ago and it looks like a search or something but I want it to just be like my apps folder where I can sort. My mistake but very unintuitive how to remove this:
I am trying to install Windows 7 using the Boot Camp Assistant. I have downloaded the ISO, however I don't have a CD drive as its a MacBook Air and all my USB drives are too small. I am trying to install it using an SD Card as I read that they are handled in the same way as USB drives, however I can't find a way to get the assistant to recognise the SD card. Can any one help?
Using the following scenario as an example: I have a Macbook Pro connected to my LAN via its Airport. I enabled Internet Sharing so that the Airport connection would be shared among any devices connected to the ethernet port of the MBP. I plug a Raspberry Pi into the ethernet port of my MBP and boot it up. How do I determine its IP address so I know what to SSH into?
A friend of mine has an iPad that she uses only once a day for about a half hour. I told her to turn it off completely in between uses to conserve energy - no point having the device run in standby for 23.5 hours a day. (So no standby, but a real "swipe to turn off" shutdown.)
I recently upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro HDD to an SSD. I went from a 500GB HDD to a 512GB SSD (Crucial M4). I formatted the new SSD using Disk Utility into Mac OS X Journaled file system. I then used Super Duper to clone the original drive over by selecting "Backup - all files" from the dropdown.
I recently changed code editors from Coda to Sublime Text 2. All in all, I am finding that ST2 fits my web development workflow almost perfectly.
How to make a bootable USB key from any .iso image on Mac OS X?
I'm currently running Safari 5.1.4 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3, and after bringing it out of the fullscreen mode, I quit safari using Command+Q. When I restarted my Mac, for some reason, Safari won't return to fullscreen mode despite attempts to click on the icon on the upper right hand corner or by going through the View menu manually. ( I've also tried the short cut keys as well, Control + Command + F, to no avail). Is there a way to fix this?
I have a Mac Mini with two drives: a 256GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. From what I've read, the new Fusion Drive does all of it's magic in software, using the Core Storage APIs.
Hi I am using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), i5 processor and 4 GB RAM. I recently updated to Mountain Lion and now it takes more than 2 minutes to boot up. Is this normal for the MacBook Pro with this specification? I have checked, there is no login items, and I have also run the checks against the hard disk in Disk Utility and found nothing that might be the cause.
But it seems that ipfw is disabled (no /etc/ipfilter) and sudo ipfw list is 65535 allow ip from any to any. pf is also disabled.
If I change my Apple ID password, will that disconnect or block all devices from accessing my FaceTime through my Apple ID?
I am using iCloud to sync bookmarks from my iMac to my iPhone. But one bookmark folder is not appearing on the iPhone. On my iMac (OS X 10.7.5), in the iCloud pref pane of System Preferences, I have verified that Bookmarks is checked. On my iPhone (iOS 6.0), in the iCloud section of Settings, Safari is marked as on. One difference which I believe is insignificant is that OS X shows the account name as @me.com and iOS shows the account name as @mac.com. The iMac has a bookmarks folder like this: Bookmarks Bar > travel > New Zealand > (approximately 15 bookmarks) The iPhone has: Bookmarks Bar > travel and: New Zealand > (empty) The top-level New Zealand bookmarks folder does not exist on the iMac.
I have a folder in my Dropbox that I keep my eBooks in it. I want to find an app for the iPad that can do these to me: Let me open a PDFs file from my Dropbox Let me annotate on that file Annotation getting applied to the Dropbox version of my file, instead of creating a local copy that its changes does not affect the Dropbox version
I would like to access my photos in iCloud from a webiste running Asp.Net. Is there a way to access them outside of the web interface?
I have had a dual-screen setup (27'' iMac + 27'' thunderbolt display) for a while now; having recently acquired a MDP->HDMI adapter I'm struggling with mirroring the secondary display onto my TV.  The screenshot above shows an arrangement where the desktop is extended across all three screens. Now, if I select "Mirror Displays" then I get all of the displays mirrored i.e. same image on my iMac, thunderbolt display and the TV, which is not what I'm after.
On old Macs before OS X files already could have two "forks" - a data fork and a resource fork. According to Wikipedia, at some point the HFS+ filesystem of OS X gained the ability to have an arbitrary number of forks, much like Microsofts "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS). HFS Plus permits filenames up to 255 UTF-16 characters in length, and n-forked files similar to NTFS, though until recently, almost no systems software takes advantage of forks other than the data fork and resource fork.
I have tried many ways but failed to view a full list of my purchase. Does any one know how I can view them all? My first purchased should happen in early 2010. Thanks very much,
I want to install XP with bootcamp on my Mac running Lion. The only choice that it gives me is to install Win7. Is there a way to install XP on Lion ?
Does my computer (Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro mid 2009), have a recovery hidden partition? How can I access that?
My iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) has started playing out of the left speaker only on my car stereo. Before the new software release, it was playing out of both speakers. When I switch to radio mode on my car hi fi, it will play from both speakers so it appears to be an iPhone problem rather than a problem with my car hi fi.
I bought a USB to Ethernet adapter from Apple, and I downloaded a lot things this afternoon. After dinner, both my retina MacBook Pro and the adapter felt very hot, so I unplugged it. Now the MacBook Pro seems to be frozen and I have to hold the power button for several second to force shut it down. And later that day, the adapter refused to work. Here is the log in my /var/log/system.log:
I buy quite a few ePub e-books from sources other than the iBooks Store. I used to use iTunes to sync these to my iPad and iPhone. However, I’m trying to set up my iPad and iPhone to purely sync through iCloud, as syncing with both iCloud and iTunes gets a bit confusing.
I have a very similar problem to mikekmcguire's question about clamshell mode. When connecting my MacBook Pro (Mid 2009 | 5,3) running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) to an external display in clamshell mode, the MacBook's display does not become inactive.
I've been stationed in Japan for the next three years, and they've got some ludicrous speeds on their fiber Internet over here. That being said, speed tests (using the SpeedTest.net app) are noticeably slower on the iPhone 4S than they are on the iPad (third generation, if it matters) than they are on my MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac. Is this just the app not reporting the speeds correctly, or are there physical limitations to just how quickly data can be transferred? I'm more computer literate than most, but the exact science of these things eludes me. Thank you!
I have heard that defragmenting SSD drives will shorten the life span of a drive. Just wondering if there is any truth to this and if so could someone elaborate as to why this happens.
A lot of applications say something to the effect of "get the current song title from iTunes for your status", so is there any way to have those pull from Spotify instead of iTunes? I'm willing to jump through a few hoops, and I'm a software developer so I don't mind some hacks, but I would love to be able to have those apps pull from my Spotify playlist instead of iTunes (who even downloads music anymore? Savages! :p )
I shoot a photo in iPad. I want it will be available in iCloud. How can I do it? I cannot see the PhotoStream in iCloud. I can see all Pages, Numbers etc documents but not photos, I find this very confusing.
I used to have an iPod Touch 3, then I upgraded to the latest iPod Touch 5 a few weeks ago. I noticed that there is no master volume. For instance, now, when I am just browsing Safari, and I change the volume, it changes the volume for "sound effects" (background noises from notification). But when I open a game or listen to music, and I change the volume, this is for "games/music". So the two volume sliders are different.
I want to install my own Net-SNMP because the preinstalled Net-SNMP is too old. But when I install a newer Net-SNMP via Homebrew, my path doesn't use the latest Net-SNMP.
When I open terminal, I'd like the up arrow go to the last command I typed within nslookup. Instead, I get a strange escape sequence. What must be done to allow me to up arrow in nslookup?
At the moment, I really need a Mac to run Logic Pro, and I reckon my cheapest option is getting a Mac Mini. It would be very convienent if I could use the screen (and optionally keyboard) of a current working Windows laptop with the mini. Can I do this? (Update maybe like Apple Remote Desktop on Windows?)
I have 22" external monitor that has a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. When I open the display preferences I don't get it as an option. I've tried rebooting. That didn't help.
I have a badly cut sim that was converted to Nano but it was cut slightly too small and damaged. I subsequently went to the Apple shop and they activated the device for me. If I perform a "Reset All Settings", Will I need to reactivate the phone with a sim card, or will wifi only be enough?
I bought iPad 2 but it is very poor during lectures, very poor camera and storing A4 papers very imprecise. I have over 100 Apps, done all email settings and other things -- probably over 10 hours' tuning. I don't want to do it again. How can I get my settings from my old iPad to my new iPad?
Suppose I would like to have over 20 iPads. Is it possible to get the same settings to them fast? One iPad would have a lot of paid apps, I am trying to find out how I can get it so that everyone is using the same apps and same iPads with the same settings -- and only email/etc personalized.
Is there a good PuTTY (free telnet / ssh client) equivalent for OS X? I know that I can just use terminal and an ssh command, but I want some sort of application that will store connection info, passwords, logs, etc for me, much like PuTTY. Does this exist?
Recently, my iPhone 4's headphones won't stay seated in the jack. I'll push them in firmly, and then a few seconds later (without touching the phone, the headphones, or anything else), they'll pop back out – just enough to no longer make contact, pausing audio playback. I first I thought it was the headphones themselves, but I've tried an older pair of iPod headphones (without the clicker), and the same thing happens, although not as badly. If I fiddle enough with either pair, I can eventually get them to stay seated, but I can't tell what it is that makes them stay in on one particular attempt vs. another.
How do I backup a complete iPhoto ('09 version 8.1.2 (424)) library with all its metadata from iPhoto of OSX 10.5.8 and then after a clean new install of the latest OSX 10.8.2 on the same machine, restore that library into the latest (then empty) iPhoto. Is there a simple tutorial somewhere? Are there any pitfalls I need to watch out for? It would be a real shame if the photos and/or the metadata get lost on the way.
I want to set cron to capture the current desktop every hour: I tired this method but it seems doesn't work on Mountain Lion. I also tried Lingo but with no luck. Any ideas?
I have an "old" MacBook Pro with the following specs: It currently runs OS X 10.5.8 and seems a bit laggy from time to time, which might (also) be due to the loads of crapware on it. I have a two part question now:
I have an iMac with 10.7.5 running fine with Windows XP installed with Boot Camp that works both as native boot and with Parallels. I want to install 10.8 over 10.7 and I have read that XP cannot be installed from 10.8, but will XP/Boot Camp survive the upgrade?
I have about 20 apps that are are all paid apps, and I want my team-member to have them. He wants to use his own iPad, but we are tired to individually get apps from App Store. Is there some easy way like restoring from backup or something like that when I only want about 20 apps to the iPad? Suppose I need to do this for 10 people, is there any easy way that I say 'go to this site with your iPad and then you will get the apps and configured desktop for your work'?
I just got a new iPhone 5 from work today, and good heavens! There is 3 accounts for this thing! My boss has the iCloud account, I'm supposed to hook up my existing iTunes account to it, and now it's asking me for this Apple ID thing...
I've noticed there are several ssh apps on the apple store, I am trying to access my schools unix machine from this ssh connection and use this to write code and compile c++ code on my unix drive. Is this possible to do from from ipad?
I have a Time Machine backup of my MacBook Pro pro that's encrypted and saved on a Synology DS212j NAS (OS X detected my NAS as a possible location to save my backup). Right now I'm on my MacBook Air. Is it possible to browse the MacBook Pro's encrypted backup on the NAS? All I see is a "sparsebundle" file. My MacBook Pro is currently being repaired so I don't have access to it.
I have a MacBookPro5 with OS X software version 10.5.8 - is it OK to update it to 10.6.1 or higher?
I have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter for a MacBook Air and I need to assign a static IP address to it. I assume the MAC address is embedded in a given adapter... and by convention I would assume that the MAC address would be written somewhere on the device, but it is not. Does the MAC address have more to do with the adapter of the MAC itself?
A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of my events in Calender was not showing up on my mac (which is running Mountain Lion). I looked and they show up fine on icloud.com and they work fine on my iPad and iPhone. I tried removing the calender from my mac and rebooting and then readding it and the events still did not show up. I noticed that events that I would add or change since then are showing up, but there are a few that still will not show up, only ones that have been recently updated will "reappear". I have tried quitting and restarting Calender on my mac as well as removing icloud calender from my mac and readding it which did not fix the problem. I have also checked that the calenders listed were correctly trying to link with icloud and that tried to manually refresh those calenders. I also checked to make sure my software was up to date. Nothing seems to be working. Does anyone have any ideas?
So, I broke Java Preferences.app. I'm on Mountain Lion. I had Java 6 SE (the Apple-distributed JDK/JRE) and Oracle's Java 7u10 preview. Trying to get a stub app to launch with Java 7, I unchecked the Java 6 SE checkboxes in Java Preferences.app. Now not only will my stub app not launch, but Java Preferences.app won't launch (it says there's no valid JRE 1.4+ available). I understand this is probably because Apple's Java launcher stub is not compatible with 7u10 -- not sure how to manually re-enable SE 6, though.
I have an iPod Touch 4G and my software is updated to iOS 6.1. I was messaging someone then suddenly it gave me an error saying the message was not sent and I had to re-try sending the message.
Why are there 4 disks showing up in diskutil list? I only have the two physical drives connected... what do the * characters mean? Ultimately, which disk should I be re-partitioning?
I am using a Magic Mouse on Lion and I have scroll direction set to natural. Google Maps: Scroll Up zooms out Excel: Ctrl + Alt + Scroll Up zooms out OSX Zoom Dekstop: Ctrl + Scroll Up zooms in I find the inconsistency annoying. Thus, I'm wondering whether Apple has an official usability rule regarding what direction constitutes the recommended scroll direction for zoom in?
I would like to have an App that shoots a picture every minute, so I can carry my iPhone in my breast pocket to have a photoblog of my day. A perfect solution would be if that app could create a video from those photos directly.
I'm trying to install Homebrew (to then install RVM, then Octopress). Homebrew is installed but when I run brew doctor I get the message: Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin occurs before /usr/bin in your PATH. I have changed my ~/.bash_profile to export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:$PATH". ~/.bashrc is empty. etc/paths has echo $PATH states /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/deadlyhifi/.rvm/bin
I see this error when open jnlp file via javaws manually: java.lang.AssertionError: Threading violation: not AppKit thread Is there anything I can do with it?
Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on a MacMini 1,1 (Mid 2007)?
The 2009 Mac Pro uses SATA for its optical drive bays. I have an older IDE (PATA) DVD burner I'd like to use with it.
Very similar to this SuperUser question, I'd like to know if there's a way to know when the SMS is actually engaged. Note that I do not want to know if the sensor is enabled (which can be done from the Terminal with sudo pmset -g). Specifically I want to know when the sensor trips and forces the hard drive's head to park, and when it senses the danger is clear and allows the head to move again. In an ideal case a Growl notification would be fantastic, but even a log would suffice.
I have two Macbook Pros in my office. I would like to send a link to a file (specifying its path) to another user, using that other MacBook Pro. We have a commonly mounted network drive. So I would just like to send the link to the file I'm asking her to reference. I can see that the 'add link' feature lets people attach URLs. But what about these semi-private files on the local network?
This would be expected behavior except for item 2. I think it's a bug.
I did not have this problem, until today. A new episode of Cult of Mac came out (#39). It was put into a different podcast folder, even though the episodes before it, have the same metadata. I tried many things; Editing the sorting fields, deleting and re-adding, downloading the #39 again, but none of the methods worked.
Is there any way to assign hotkeys to switching to particular keyboard layouts directly, without having to cycle through them one by one? I am quite new to OS X. On Windows (which I used before) it is possible to set keyboard shortcuts for witching directly to particular keyboard layouts. For example, I set it up so that Shift-Alt-1 switches directly to English, Shift-Alt-2 switches directly to Hungarian, etc. This is very convenient when one has several layouts installed (I regularly used 4 different ones on Windows), and much faster than having to cycle through layouts one by one, especially when writing multilingual documents and needing to switch often.
I really don't have much experience with Terminal and I believe I may have caused a problem when trying to download and use wine on my Mac. If I try to type in anything I simply get "Command not found". After reading many forum posts I believe this has something to do with my PATH, but again, I don't really know exactly what that means.
When Apple moved from Snow Leopard to Lion, all the Finder window graphics became much duller. The enabled states of buttons in the Finder, System Preferences, all over the GUI, became much harder to determine.
I am buying a router. But it says 2.4 GHz is that not that great. So I want to know if it supports. Just curious what types of WiFi it supports: A, B, G, and/or N.
I continually hit ⌘-P and ⌘-S while Terminal is in focus, due to alt-tabbing between my text editor and other programs. Does anyone know how to disable these keys in Terminal.app?
I have OS backup .dmg installation file. The problem is I have Windows 7 on my MacBook Air, and I do not have access to OS X to use Disk Utility to burn/restore the OS X image. Is it possible to burn/restore .dmg file on usb stick from Windows?
I have a new dual-band AirPort Extreme base station (v7.6.1). I've used it to create a wireless network, and I also connect my Mac Pro (Early 2009, running 10.8.2) via ethernet. When I run a speed test on my iPhone (to test the wireless speed), I get an upload speed of 1.45 Mbps (not super fast, but I only pay for 1 Mbps so I'll take it). When I run the same test on the Mac Pro (to test the wired speed) I get only 0.13 Mbps. The AirPort Utility (v6.1) doesn't provide a lot of options, so I've been unable to resolve this. How can I fix my ethernet upload speeds? In summary: AirPort Extreme Wireless Upload: 1.45 Mbps Wired Upload: 0.13 Mbps
I have a mid-2010 MBP, with 8gb RAM and an aftermarket 7200RPM hard drive, running Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been using this SL install for about 10 months, and the desktop is barely usable for 3-5 minutes after Finder appears. I've pruned my LoginItems down to the minimum (which is still a lot...) but I'm betting there's some cruft elsewhere that I can trim.
I'm wondering where I can download the source code of the kernel of Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2: Darwin 12.2.0. I googled it, but its hard to find. And yes, I tried http://www.opensource.apple.com.
My rMBP 15" just shut down by itself when idling, screen turned off. When I rebooted it, I checked the Console to see why it shut down, and found this message: 10/27/12 1:21:36.000 AM kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -108 What is Shutdown Cause -108?
Is it possible to stop the iPhone from retrieving old emails from my mail account? I have about 5000 messages in my Gmail inbox and would like to keep them there. Currently, my iPhone fetches about 50 at a time and displays them in my inbox. Is there a way to setup iPhone mail to fetch only future emails, or a workaround?
I've installed the newly released Windows 8 Pro on my MacBook Pro, and I'd love to get multi-touch gestures working such as pinch to zoom and 3 finger middle click tapping. I'd also like to reverse the scrolling so that it's like Mountain Lion. Has anyone got any ideas of what would work, or what was great in Windows 7 so that I could try?
I don't really know if it is like that for everyone or if there are some bootcamp driver issues on my machine, but: Every time I plug in headphones, a mini-stereoplug or a optical mini-TosLink cable and want the sound to be played via the attached device, I have to open the output devices settings and choose the desired one and "set it to default". (windows 7 64bit, bootcamp w/ most recent drivers) Is there some possibility to have an app do this automatically on (un-)plugging the cables or at least something that changes audio output device via a hotkey/combination? Or should it change automatically out of the box and something is nessed up with my bootcamp drivers? macbook pro 15", i7 late 2011
My ipod was stolen, and using icloud I was able to track it. I used the "Lock" function, but I'm wondering if it would have been possible to take a picture using the front camera.
I have a macbook pro and planning to (finally) upgrade to Lion and currently have snow leopard. I am also planning to swap the hdd to something bigger. I wish to still be have the option of booting it from the current drive still. Is there anything in particular I need to consider and whats the best of software to help me with this?
Microsoft Word on Windows has this really handy feature where you can move the current paragraph up or down. I think you type alt+ctrl+up or alt+ctrl+down, though I don't have a Windows PC in front of me and I can't test that. The shortcut is far easier than selecting the paragraph, cutting it, moving to the start of the previous (or end of the next) paragraph, then pasting it.
How can I sort videos into folders/categories using iTunes ? I've tried adding info to the sorting field tab when I click on 'Get Info' after right clicking on the video itself. But the videos always appear in a list on my iPhone. I just want to nest some videos into folders. How can I do this ?
I have a piece of software that formats source material and produces PDF files. These resulting files may be any length and are broken into pages according to a selected page size. (In other words, very standard paged output.) Since these files are not intended for printing, what I would like is to have them converted to take up one page only with a length that matches the total length of the content. Does anyone know of a method for reformatting PDF this way on a Mac, or of an "editor" that can perform this one function? Alternatively, if there's a program that can convert a PostScript file into a single-page PDF by calculating the necessary page size, that would work too.
I was trying to save the calendar data on my iPhone to my Outlook calendar. I connected via iTunes and the sync caused all my iPhone calendar data to disappear, overwriting it with the data from the Outlook calendar. How can I restore my iPhone calendar data?
I'm searching for an OS X program that will open a plain text box, and allow me to type either a directory path, a file path, or a shell script, and have it open/execute my input. Are there any programs like this on the market?
They have announced a number of different CPU options for the late 2012 mac mini. I'm interested in the 2.6 Ghz Quad-Core i7. Should I assume that's the i7-3720QM processor? Is there an official document that I missed that details this.
Any configuration of ram that uses bank 0 on my MacBook causes a kernel panic after about an hour of use. The slot looks fine: all the pins are there, and are straight (no visible bends or breaks) it's not a RAM problem; I've tried four different modules in total, all of them leading to the same results. My EFI/SMC is up to date PRAM and SMC resets don't help OS X reinstallation doesn't help How should I proceed to troubleshoot/fix this?
I want to do a dual boot with Windows 7 (the eventual goal being Windows 8 but to upgrade I think I need to have a version of Windows on my Mac already). I meet all of the system requirements and I have the Windows 7 disk. But it says I also need to have a Mac OS X 10.6 installation disc - which I do not have - it didn't come with the iMac. How can I precede with installing Windows?
I returned a MacBook to Apple Store, however apparently I forgot to sign out of iCloud and the latest tabs I was browsing still appear in Safari iCloud Tabs of my new MacBook and existing iPad. I removed the device from icloud.com -> Find My iPhone but it didn't work. Tabs list from my old computer is still there and I am trying to remove it from my devices list. I appreciate any ideas.
I have enabled my firewall on Mac OS X Lion. And now every single time I open iTunes I get this warning:
I have a Java applet that I need to paste lots of text into. However, the paste options doesn't work (neither keyboard shortcut, nor right-button menu). I'm looking for a way to emulate a keyboard and write automatically all the text I'd like to paste into the textbox in the applet.
I was just reading the Apple Thunderbolt Wiki and stumbled upon this: 25) If I eject a Thunderbolt device using the Taskbar tool or disconnect the Thunderbolt cable, can I reconnect it again without restarting?
I bought iWork 09 at the Apple Store and it is installed on my MacBook Pro. However, since I didn't buy it on the Mac App Store, when I go to the Mac App Store purchased tab the iWork apps are not listed. Is there a way to register them on Mac App Store?
I have had a hunt around the net for this, but cannot find an answer - how do I type a backtick on Mac OSX Snow Leopard? I have a Macbook from late-2010. The backtick character is one I use on a regular basis on StackExchange.
I have an app that has been radically changed (Skitch) and I'd prefer to not see any of the updates that the developer has made available to that app on the App Store. I'm lazy and like to use the "update all" function. When I forget I don't want this app updates, I then have to delete the newly downloaded app, restore the old one from my backups, etc... Can I go in and change the package receipt or something else to trick the App Store into thinking this app isn't a lower version of the current program?
I'm trying to convert a .iso to a .img using Every time I run the command it creates the file on the desktop, then when it finishes running the file's gone. It's clear that there is an error somewhere, but I get no information. Whats going wrong?
Worth noting is that I see my OS X Recovery volume presented along OS X and Windows. My guess is it should be there but it could also be an indication that there is something wrong.
Tonight the clocks change in the UK from BST to GMT. Officially at 2am BST going back to 1am GMT.
I have a program, InstantShot!, set to launch at logon and start taking a screen shot every 10 seconds. Unfortunately, when I close the lid, it stops taking screenshots, rather than just being suspended, so I have to manually have it start doing so again each time I reopen the lid. I'd like to create an automator app or Apple Script that would do that automatically every time I open the lid. Can that be done?
Assume I have ip blocks for China, Russia, North Korea etc. How would I configure pf to allow those IP addresses to only access ports 80 and 443, and be denied access to other ports?
Recently my apartment was burglarized and my employer's iPad that I was borrowing was stolen from my apartment. I'm located in the US. My employer didn't setup Find My iPad. I used the iPad a few times to view web sites in Safari on my network and connect it to my computer to update it to iOS 6. I've reported the burglary to the police. I have the iPad's serial number and the device backup in iTunes. Instead of waiting around, is there anything I can do to find the stolen iPad?
I'm able to select the new networked TimeMachine drive on our Mac's and choose it as the hard drive. But when I try to run a backup, I get the following error:
I have installed an application that is associated with a particular file type. When I double click a file of that type in Finder, the application starts, but does not open the file that was clicked. If, within the application, I use “File » Open…” to open the same file, it opens it just fine. At first I thought this was the fault of the application (Simple Comic); however, I have installed an alternative application (Sequential 2) and the behaviour is the same: when double-clicking the file from Finder, the application starts up, but fails to load the file. However files are being opened just fine if I use the “File » Open” dialog.
I've got a strange problem with the SD card reader on Bootcamp. It reads some of my cards fine (one 8GB, one 4GB, and one 512MB), but it has problems with some others (64GB SDXC, an identical 8GB). When I try to read a file from the 64GB one, it usually freezes the application trying to open it, or sometimes it says an unknown error occurred. If I try to write to the card, it takes forever and is almost always corrupted when reading on another computer. This problem seems to be with the built-in card reader drivers for Bootcamp, because it works perfectly on the Mac side and also works perfectly when I use an external card reader in Bootcamp.
I'm looking for a video player that doesn't stretch my 640x480 video files to full screen (1024x768), which degrades the quality IMHO. Is such an app available?
I have a PowerPoint presentation that I am converting to Keynote to distribute to students; however, I do not want other users to be able to edit the presentation. Is there a way to make a Keynote file read-only, non-editable? I don’t want to convert it to PDF files as I will lose the animations, or to convert it to a video file as the students would lose the ability to read the presentation at their own pace.
I have a PC with a big monitor and a 13" MacBook sitting on my desk. I have to do some development in PC environment and also some iOS development on MacBook. Is there a way I could use my PC's monitor, mouse and keyboard with both PC and MacBook?
I am having intermittent wifi connectivity issues with two Macbook Pros (mid 2012) on my wireless network. I have slow connectivity (request timeouts, dropped packets, etc.) that is always accompanied with a drop in the number of available wifi networks in the wifi drop-down menu. There are usually 10-15 or so visible. When the connectivity problem occurs, only 2-3 will be available, and sometimes the only visible network will be my own. The connectivity issues persist until other networks appear.
I have a late 2009 27" iMac. The iMac runs the default OS X version, 10.6.
Before the upgrade, I could pull files from the other laptop on to mine with apple file sharing. Now I can't see any machines in the network view. How can I pull files from the Snow Leopard laptop onto my Mountain Lion laptop? Steps I've taken: Files were put into the snow leopard's shared folder
It appears that the display drivers (and perhaps a few things, related to MacDrive) don't seem to be loading properly at all times? For some reason, I can seem to fix this if, when in Mac, I quit all applications first before booting up Boot Camp. I don't know how they could be related, but it so far seems that way.
My automatic backups for my Macs have recently started failing with the following message (same error if I attempt to "Backup Now"): Every other attempt or so I also get a warning that it was a while ago that a backup succeeded. If I open Time Machine Preferences there is a red icon with an exclamation mark next to the backup disk which if clicked produces the following message: I just tried to re-select the backup disk from Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk, which worked without problem, but now Time Machine seems to have forgotten all my previous backups (I can still find the backups on disk using Finder, but Time Machine claims that I have no previous backups). Now that I have reselected the backup disk, how do I get Time Machine to find the existing backups? Is there another way to get Time Machine to find the backup disk?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4S. The current time options for a passcode lock are: Immediately After 1, 5, or 15 minutes After 1 or 4 hours
I am attempting to clone a 120gb Mac disk to a new 500gb hard disk. The hard disk has previously been used as an external disk on a PC, but has been reinitialised for Mac. However, it seems that no matter what method I use to clone (tried SuperDuper, CCC and Disk Utility), it seems as if the system thinks the disk is in the wrong format.
Is there a way I can avoid having to stare at the bottom of the screen while creating lengthly .txt documents? Is there a way to get the cursor to behave as it does in Pages for example: i.e. when it reaches the bottom of a screen full of text, it automatically scrolls and moves to the top of a new blank screen? Failing that, can anyone recommend a good minimal plaintext editor for Mac which has some kind of auto scrolling feature when the screen is filled with text?
Any software to draw "Rich Pictures" diagrams of Information Systems Analysis? I searched for a stencil for OmniGraffle but didn't find anything.
I have my Google calendar syncing properly, but it doesn't bring in my web calendar feeds. For example, I have Facebook events coming into my Google calendar via web calendar feed, but those same Facebook events don't come into my iOS 6 device (iPhone 5).
I followed Apple's instruction to reset PRAM ("Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.") and the only thing that happened was that my Mac rebooted repeatedly until I stopped holding the short-cut. After releasing the keyboard OS was loaded but without any startup sound and my original problem remained (see Original problem)
I'm fairly technical but without any experience with Macs or iPhones. Reading around a bit I learned the following: There's no straightforward way to backup email messages (you can backup email account settings but not the actual content). There's no straightforward way to backup email messages (you can backup email account settings but not the actual content). There's no way to mark all messages on the device and move them to an IMAP folder so they would sync up to a new mail server. There's no way to mark all messages on the device and move them to an IMAP folder so they would sync up to a new mail server.
I have an iPhone and obviously I always use iMessage with friends that have an iPhone. I want my SMS to be sent also if iMessage is not available, so I switched on "Send as SMS" option.
I installed an SSD (Samsung 830) as the internal drive of a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro, then attempted several times to clone the (now external) bootable OS X Lion drive using either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to this new SSD. All attempts failed with disk writes failures (I tried two different SSDs with the same result: write failures). So installed Lion onto the new SSD using the OS X DVD installer and all went fine; then upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion from the App Store. Again, all went great.
So I'd read a service advisory on the Parallels site warning users not to upgrade to Windows 8 due to it damaging their virtual machine and associated files therein. That being said, is it currently possible/safe to upgrade to Windows 8 from Windows 7 on a Bootcamp installation through typical upgrade means, or are there any notices to hold off on this as well?
I am trying to stream a DVD from my MacBook Air to my TV with the Apple TV. When it comes up on the screen, it only shows a checkerboard design. If I disengage the Apple TV, the DVD shows perfectly on the MacBook Air screen. Apple Support says it is because of copyright on the DVD that won't let it show on the TV. I don't know why it would be any different that showing it on a DVD player. Is there a way to work around this block to be able to stream a DVD?
I have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard connected to my 2011 MacBook Pro. The keyboard's normal keys (letters, etc.) always work fine; however, there is a problem with the various function keys.
So the device is jailbroken, and I'm trying to sell it so I'd like to update and wipe it. It works perfectly, all my apps, music, videos, etc. are on the device, and even after trying to flash it clean, restore from itunes, etc. the device still boots up just fine when I try and use it. It's the strangest thing.
I just tried to start Terminal.app in Mac OS X 10.6.8, and got the following error: I have MacPorts installed, so I suspect somehow the libiconv version is messed up. However, since I can't start a terminal session, I don't even know how to troubleshoot or correct this error.
Is it possible to create a bootable USB drive for installing Windows 8 without access to a copy of Windows? I know I could install a VM and install Windows there, then make the bootable drive and use Bootcamp to actually install that way, but honestly I would rather not have to put the extra software on my system if at all possible. I checked the Bootcamp documentation and it says I may have the option to "create a windows installation disk" but I don't have that option (unsure why?) Additional information: USB Key capacity: 1 16gb and 1 30gb OS ver: OSX Mountain Lion Machine: Late 2010 MacBook Air
I'm using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2, with Microsoft Office 14.2.4. Problem: Ever since I installed new updates of OS X, Excel can no longer display the thousands separator. How can I get it back?
In iChat version on Snow leopard I could view all the previous chat messages of a user. But since the current version (iChat 7.0.1 Mountain Lion) I cannot see that chat History. All my previous messages are saved into ~/Documents/iChat by previous version. So how can I view the chat history like in previous versions?
When using the dictionary lookup shortcut Ctrl + Cmd + D when using Chrome it works for some websites but not for others. Does this have to do with Chrome itself or is it due to the fact that some websites are using Javascript and this is affecting the shortcut?
In Snow Leopard (10.6), I had an applescript that toggled iTunes between "maximised on Space 2" and "mini-player on all spaces": That's based on scripts from *=URL=* . This doesn't work on Lion. Does anyone know the equivalent to "assign this app to all spaces" and "assign this app to space 2" in Lion?
I just installed xampp on my mac os x. When I tried start mysql it displays a message that mysql is already running on this computer. In order to start mysql stop first mysql. I tried following ways to stop it but neither of them works. when i use which mysql command it shows this path and when I issue ps aux | grep mysqld command I get following output How can I resolve this issue? UPDATE When I issue this command launchctl list then I do see mysqld in the list as follows Secondly when I tried to issue below command as mentioned by @PunjCoder
erasing the disk and making a new recovery disk. The MacBook could not recognize the disk.
Are there any advantages in setting up a new iPhone from scratch over restoring a backup of the old one? I have now my third iPhone and I always used the backup of the predecessor to get it set up. Do I carry any clutter with me that makes it better to do a fresh install?
As you see. I have accidentally pressed something that change my iOS sound. When I try to volume up or down my sounds. It says sound effects. If I watch a video. It does not say anything. Is it in the iOS or did press anything? If I did, please help me.
I'm thinking of changing to a new MacBook Pro 15" (the one with an 256GB SSD), 256GB is enough for my files and OS, but I also want to have about 50GB for a Windows 7 (BootCamp) partition. So, taking note of this extra requirement, 256GB will be rather small.. I was thinking, because I don't use the Windows 7 that much, I can install Windows on a 64GB SanDisk Cruzer USB flash stick and then boot from that. Is this solution compatible with BootCamp?
Hi please I have problem with my MacBook going into sleep mode after I close lid. The screen turns off, but after few seconds it turns on again (apple logo starts glowing) and tikes additional few seconds before it goes to sleep..When I open the lid again when the apple logo is glowing, there is just only black screen with cursor until it goes to sleep.
The situation: I work in a very quiet office using MBP Spring 2011 with an i7. The problem is that when I put an intense but short workload for a few seconds on the CPU the fans spin up heavily, disturbing me and especially my office mates. I elevated the MAC to get some air flowing under the body but that was not sufficient. So I found a solution to limit the fan speed, currently limiting it to 3500 by using: The question: How dangerous is doing this?
I have some process(es) performing a lot of drive access from time to time, however I've hitherto been unable to isolate which process or processes are performing the access. What shell command can I issue to isolate the most disk access intensive processes?
From what I've heard, Windows 8 is only available in its upgrade form. Having never installed Windows on my Mac before, is it possible at all to dual boot Windows 8? Would using the upgrade version give me a full install if I don't previously have Windows?
I got a new iPhone last weekend and have a problem: why can’t people hear me on the other end of the phone when I call them? Any tips on what the cause could be?
I've read that there is a settings file (/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist) that stores the value of the iOS version which can be changed (at least on Jailbroken iOS devices) temporarily to fool apps (or the app store) into thinking a device is running a different version than it actually is. (There even is/was a tweak that changed this for you, FWChanger.)
Today a customer asked me how it comes that there is an iOS app for purchasing from Amazon while this seems to violate Apple's App Store review purchasing guidelines (Apple Developer login needed). I could give him no answer to his question – it seems that there is a small number of allowed ways to do purchases in apps that Apple permits, even if they do not get a revenue from them. What kind of purchases does Apple allow in an app that do not go through their purchasing system but through a custom one?
I've just purchased a new non-retina MacBook Pro 13" with the latest version of OS X (10.8.2). I want to connect my two 22" displays (Samsung and LG) to my MBP and have a 3 screen workstation (laptop screen + 2 screens).
I have a MacBook Pro, running 10.8.2. I'd like to give Windows 8 a go, using Boot Camp. Now, I've probably done a b Boot Camp install of Windows close to 10 times, on multiple Macs, but I'm stumped right now. This computer previously had full disk encryption on, which I disabled last night. Now, it seems as though a lot of the free space needs to be... defragmented. Following are 3 screenshots, the first of Boot Camp, complaining of no free space, the second of all of my free space, and the last of the disk's partition map:
I was trying to send a text message consisting of an abbreviation I had set up, but I would type the two characters and the abbreviation was not appearing. Is there a cause? In the past, I have restarted my phone and it has worked afterwards, but I'd rather not have to do that if there's another way.
However, being a "cunning" Linux user I decided that I should try and see if I can access the phone from the Linux part of the computer, and indeed I can. Being able to browse through the files it hit me that it might be possible to fix the problem through manual tempering with some file (or removing some leftover files).
First off, let's begin with some research that I did before asking this question. Now, in my situation, I was using my Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion) with an Apple USB keyboard connected to the computer. Also, a USB mouse (Logitech) was connected to the computer via a USB port on the keyboard. The computer was plugged into the adapter. I had to step away from my computer while using it (I left the lid open while I was away). Whatever I had to do actually took me away from my computer longer than I thought; I took a three hour nap. When I returned to my computer....it was neither in screen saver nor in display, much to my dismay because I had set the previously brightness to high. I certainly do not want to damage my screen by leaving it on for long periods of time and there could've been an extra risk from not going to sleep had the computer not been plugged into the adapter.
My Magic Mouse is going bad and sometimes detects a double click when I single click. I know that there is a setting which allows you to set the upper threshold for double click speed, but not a lower threshold. How do I set a lower threshold for double click speed?
Let's say I have an disc or ISO of Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro. And I have a Macbook Air (with Leopard). How can I install Mountain Lion on the Air?
My Macbook Pro is about 22 weeks old and I keep getting this error: 0x80020022 (communication with drive failed) when trying to burn DVDs or "attempt to burn a disc failed"/unknown error -3 in iTunes. I read the usual "venting-anger-and-sharing-solutions"-thread, but I'm expecting that, just like the last time my SuperDrive failed, it's just a bunch of voodoo solutions, ie.: Nothing works for everybody, everybody tries everything and if it happens to work right after, they believe in it until it fails again.
Because I thought the gorilla glass of the iPhone 5 is pretty tuff I decided to omit a screen protection. Unfortunaltey now I have a very thin and subtle but very long (6 cm) scratch on the front glass. It is very hard to see and can only be seen at bright light and from a very specific angle and only when the display is turned off but it is still there, so ...
I read that is possible to set up a Network Hard Disk in order to connect it to the router and perform wireless Time Machine backups on the Hard Disk. What are the pros and cons of using a Network Hard Disk rather then Time Capsule?
A while ago I had a crash which wiped all the music synchronisation settings from my phone. Until that point I'd synced based on selecting albums and artists in iTunes when the phone was plugged in, however having lost all that I decided it would be better to create playlists and sync those - that way if it happened again I just have to select half a dozen playlists to sync and I'm done.
I have upgraded to from a 2011 13" MBP to a 2012 13" MBP... found serious software slow down and wheel of death after installing Mountain Lion on 2011 MBP... Upgraded to 2012 MBP and used Migration assistant... dont have the huge slow down, but dont know if new machine is performing slower than its could. Question: Is there any way that Migration assistance could copy problem software to new MBP or does it automatically honour newer software?
I'm looking for the source PNG image files for the browser checkboxes used in Safari. Specifically, these guys:
I'm trying to understand what the best way to set up Google mail, contacts and calendars on my iPhone and iPad. There seems to be plenty of options, all of which have downsides spread over lots of different postings and websites. Here are the key issues I've found so far consolidated into one place: Google mail
I'm used to write technical documents with LaTeX and use SVN as version system. I really would like to be able to do the same with my iPad. The first problem is found a good App for LaTeX
I'm using an iPod Touch 3 and I saw in the AppStore that it is possible to use it as a controller via Apple TV to play games on it like Modern Combat and Real Racing. Because I don't have neither an Apple TV nor a TV, I was wondering if it could be possible to play these games on my computers monitor via bluetooth or wifi. Is it is not possible by Apple, maybe there's something in Cydia (under jailbreak) to do this?
In my office I have a surround-sound receiver, and I have my MacBook Pro (6,1) hooked up via a TOSLink cable and adapter, and it works beautifully, except this: if there are no sounds playing for a short time, the optical out port 'times out', and then the optical signal to the stereo receiver is shut off. It's immediately re-established if something happens to make a sound (I start a song in iTunes, receive an IM or mail, etc) but it takes about 1.5 seconds to sync up with the stereo receiver, so the first 1.5 sec of sound is lost. After that the optical out port stays up for about 60 seconds, and then goes down again. So I tend to miss IM/email if I'm not looking at the screen when they come in, which is why I have sound turned on in the first place.
I use both Chinese (pinyin) and Japanese (romaji) input and am used to having them mapped to a standard US keyboard layout. However my regional setting is Switzerland since I'm studying here and “internet services may vary according to region”. Strangely, the Japanese input uses the US keyboard layout, but Chinese uses a European layout (not sure what, but z and y are switched). (Irrelevant to problem). My inputs are, in this order: English (US) German Japanese (Kotoeri) Chinese
How do I get back the iLife suite? Are they lost without shelling out more money, which seems a ridiculous thing to need to do.
I have an Exchange account that is set to Email, Contacts and Calendars, but for some reason it won't work correctly after upgrading my iPhone 4 to IOS6. I've deleted the account and added it again, just to make sure I start from nothing. After adding the account the calendar events won't show up. If I reboot the phone, they show up, but after maybe 15 minutes (Which is what I set the update interval to. I've also tried using push), the calender has been unchecked. If I check it again, the events won't reappear, and after some time (maybe 15 minutes, haven't timed it) the calendar is unchecked again. Any ideas?
Since I installed iOS 6 on my iPhone and iPad, iCal shows Sunday as the start of the week, rather than Monday. These iOS iCals are synced over iCloud with iCal on my Mac OS X desktop, which has a General Preference for "Start week on" and which I have set to Monday. How do I make a similar setting for the iOS 6 devices?
I use Aperture for photo editing and processing, but prefer iPhoto for keeping a gallery of my pictures. For a long time, I used the built-in tools in iPhoto to "Import from Aperture Library". What I didn't know was that this only imports the preview image, which is at a quarter resolution and badly compressed. I now have a couple of years worth of albums with lots of metadata but crappy image quality. I'd like to replace the images with higher-quality versions from Aperture, without losing all of the metadata (tags, descriptions, faces, etc). What's the easiest way to do this?
I would like to automatically import a folder to iPhoto (eg. with Automator). The Event Name should be the name of the folder with the images. Is this possible with automator?
I hope someone can help with some basic advice: My wife has used a MacBook Pro since 2006, and I want to get her a new one, or at least a newer refurb. She has OS X 10.6.3 and wants to install it over the older system. She has so much data, she doesn't want to have to reinstall everything (she's pretty clueless technically). Can she reliably install the new OS over the old one without major corruption/glitch hassles (I’m a Windows guy and in Windows, this is never very wise; I always just backup, format and do a clean install of everything). Is this a wise strategy, to try to upgrade the old MBP first, then clone it onto the newer MBP?
In OS X Mail.app (version 6.2 from OS X 10.8.2), I can see how to automatically add a signature for all new messages, but I do not want it automatically added when I reply to a message. Is there a way to achieve this?
I am very annoyed about safari 6 doing away with the google search history. Is there anyway to get it back? Just to be clear I am talking about when you google something and then you need to go back to that same search. In safari 5 you could click on the the arrow in the google search bar and it would give you a drop down menu of all your latest google searches.
External hard disk seagate is not readable suddenly and when i click on "Initialize", i am taken to Disk Utility which among other things also says "S.M.A.R.T status" isnt supported. What options do I have now?
I have suddenly started getting the error message and exactly the same time there is now a loud fan noise on the left side of my Mac Book Air. I have tried the safe boot mode I have seen on other threads and the message has gone but the noise is still there. Everything also now loads really slowly. I can't get a genius appointment until next week so if anyone can help that would be great!!
I use Preview on OS X and GoodReader on the iPad for reading and annotating pdfs. GoodReader allows me to 'view summary' which is a plain text list of all highlighted sections and comments added to the pdf.
After having reset Photo Stream on icloud.com and turned off Photo Stream in the pref. on my iPhone, deleting all photos, I still got a total of 423MB worth of images on my iPhone. According to the usage data I've got: 0 bytes - Camera roll, 42,3MB - Photo library, 381MB - Photo Stream.
Hopefully this is an easy one! :-) I am working in Mail.app these days in Mountain Lion and I have two mail accounts within. I'd like to disable all notifications for one of those accounts. This means no popups or items in Notification Center. Is this possible?
I have a second user account on my machine that is only used for iCloud syncing for my wife's apple id. In order to consolidate photostream photos I'm going to set up a process to pull new photos out of her photostream folder and import them into my iPhoto library.
I'll provide a little bit of context that's not completely required but might be useful for those wanting to understand my motivations behind the question, otherwise skip to the last paragraph. It's been 21 days since my Macbook Pro [mid-2010] running Mountain Lion was stolen. Despite having several software based tracking/geo-locating bugs installed on my Disk, it hasn't showed up on find my mac or any other service that would have sent me an IP if/when my device accessed the internet [assuming it wasn't wiped]. That really leaves only two options, either my Macbook was never [inexplicably] used to access the internet since the theft, or it has been used to access the internet after my hard-disk was wiped. Since I had no firmware based tracking that would report to me, it seems clear that it's no longer inevitable that I shall get some information in the future from my device communicating with me directly.
I upgraded to Mountain Lion a couple of months ago. But only just today did the VIP mailbox show up in Mail. I'd like to get rid of it. But apparently there is no way to get rid of it.
I try to install wine with osxwinebuilder. When I do, I get the following error:
I'm a happy user of f.lux, but sometimes when I plug in my external monitor on my macbook air it returns to full brightness. This also sometimes happens if I unplug my external monitor and switch to the laptop screen only. I see f.lux switching on and off for a brief moment. What I wanted to do about this is to somehow detect a screen resolution change, so I could use this to write an applescript to restart f.lux whenever this occurs. All I could find until now is this discussion about detecting resolution changes: *=URL=* But hopefully someone has any pointers how to achieve this in an easier way or has a different solution to my problem?
I have two photos of a group of ten people. Unfortunately, one person has the eyes closed in each photo. I would like to merge one person from one photo into the other so that everyone's eyes are open in one picture. Are there any tools or applications that are provided with OS X by default that will allow me to do this?
Anyone using a Kodak ESP 7250 with OS X 10.8? Everything worked fine until I upgraded to 10.8. I have two computers and they both systematically stopped printing and scanning immediately after updating OS X. I've tried Kodak support a few times but they are absolutely NO help. I've installed the latest updates for printer and computer. I have followed Kodak's troubleshooting steps. I have tried USB and WiFi. I have played with my firewall.
I have a very simple automator action consisting on a shell script that should be executed in a selected folder in the finder. When I execute the action I get the message: "The action "Run Shell Script" encountered an error".
Using the automator is possible to execute a shell script that requires input from the user (a password) ? The shell script should be executed in the currently selected folder. I wrote a "Run Shell Script" action like in the following figure:
I have noticed that when I try to post to any forum threads on *=URL=* it fails. I type my Apple ID details at the login page. Then I am prompted to reconfirm the details for security. I am then told there has been an unknown problem. I am given the option to manage my Apple ID. When I click the button to do this, I am prompted to type in my login details. After I do this I have to delete the email address that is in the box and retype it otherwise I will go back to the unknown error. Once I am at the manage page and have logged in, I load a seperate tab and try to visit the threads I visited earlier but I am prompted again to enter my username and password - which I can not get passed.
I will be upgrading a MacBook Pro (late 2008) from leopard to mountain lion soon with a a complete wipe by booting and installing from a self made mountain lion USB stick. That MacBook Pro has created quite a lot time machine backups during its leopard time onto a separate external drive. Will I be able to access these old leopard time machine backups in mountain lion, after doing a clean (wipe) install of mountain lion?
I have just got an Iphone 5 and love Siri, but, it is annoying that it only works when internet is available. ... I was surprised to see that when I turned Siri off, the phone went back to the standard voice control that was on previous devices. As I spend a lot of time on the underground/transport where there is no internet connection, and, when standing/holding on, it is not very convinent to get the phone out and start messing around - I used to love the fact I could say "play song x"... well, you know! After going through the options, I saw that when you switch Siri off, it says it deletes your whole profile/history and more which is not ideal - nor is switching every time I get on the train.
I am using my Macbook Pro with an external display, and a external mouse and keyboard. This is a Microsoft wireless keyboard 800 with Spanish layout. Is it possible to reconfigure the keyboard to set a spanish layout? because, the OS autoconfigure to English layout (same as on Macbook)
I seem to remember that right clicking on the title of a document in an application like TextEdit, Preview, or Pages would allow you to jump to the enclosing folder in Finder. But this no longer works on my computer. I am afraid it is because I installed Path Finder. I uninstalled path finder Following their instructions. Does anyone no how to reset this functionality? Odd note: Right click still works for some 3rd party apps like Text Wrangler How can I fix all of Apple's apps to Open folders in finder again?
As a follow up to my previous question, I reinstalled my MacPorts and want to try its newer version of bash again. I installed the newest bash via MacPorts on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 system, but when I start a Terminal.app session, the "sh --version" command showed I was still using the old bash 3.2.48. This is even when "which bash" points to the newer 4.2.37 installed by MacPorts.
For some reason, gitk always starts under all other apps. How to make it start on top of all other apps, like a normal program?
I have an iPod touch. The Facebook application was working fine until three days ago. When I start the Facebook app, it shuts down immediately. I tried restarting the phone but it's the same. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling, but it will not allow me to reinstall stating the app requires iOS 4.3. How can I make this work? Why would it have all of a sudden stopped working?
The icon for this new drive, both on the desktop and in the finder windows and sidebar, is the generic orange USB device. How do I get it to look like the hard drives seen in Time Machine preferences? I'm talking about the greenish-blue hard drive icon with the counter-clockwise arrow on it.
I just upgraded the RAM in my MacBook Pro (15" 2 GHz Intel Core i7 - early 2011 model) from two 2gb modules to two 4gb modules. Started up just fine and ran great for about 10 minutes. Then the screen froze and the computer started beeping. After some google searches I found that it is caused by either a) bad RAM or b) the RAM is inserted incorrectly. My guess is that the computer shouldn't start if it's bad RAM. Others online report their computers beeping on startup. I tried repositioning the RAM to make sure it's in tight. The same thing happened.
As of an unknown moment, I cannot add custom keyboard shortcuts anymore. Isn't there supposed to be an add button somewhere here?
I have a little understanding of GLONASS receiver and together with GPS, it's more accurate than the phones equipped only with A-GPS. Here you have a video which compares A-GPS only iPhone 4 with iPhone 4S that has A-GPS+GLONASS. My question is, if I buy an iPhone 4S (as iPhone 5 Maps in India is next to useless), will I be able to see my current location on an offline map if both these receivers are present? (say for example CityMapsToGo) Nokia is claiming the same with its Lumia 820 and 920, as it is equipped with both GPS and GLONASS receivers.
I love the Mail application on my Mac and want to centralize and administer my Mail account here. However, I can't configure the Mail program to synchronize my inbox, the sent box and other folders I have defined.
I am using Mac OS X 10.8.2. I don't know exactly when it started (might have been after the upgrade to 10.8.2, but not sure), but now, any zip file I try to open starts up 'Archive Utility', but then it just hangs and I have to force quit it. The zip file is never unzipped. As a workaround, I can go to the command line and use the 'unzip' command, but that is not very convenient. Can I re-install this application to see if that would help or is this part of the OS and thus cannot really be re-installed separately?
How can I force Outlook to move all incoming messages with certain recipient to the Junk folder?
I have a mac from mid 2010. I want to know if I can upgrade the processor from the current 3.6 Ghz dual core i3 processor to a quad core i5 or i7.
Context: Mail.app in OS X 10.7.5, connecting to MS Exchange Server 2007. For whatever reason, my company has two domains where I can access the Exchange server. I was using one of them, but for some reason address book sync was broken.
I'm trying to set up our server so that file permissions make sense. We have a mac mini running OSX 10.6.7. Through our desktop Macs, we connect to shared folders on that server and save files on it, in Finder, TextEdit, etc.
I have some episodes of a TV program in itunes (on my ipad) that I didn't download for a long time. If I try to download them now it says "download error. Tap to retry". A pop up says "Unable to download episode 13 - it could not be downloaded at this time". So I can't download them to delete them.
It looks like the Apple Mail application is not using the system's proxy settings. I have configured the proxy in the network system preferences, and all of my web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) are using these settings, but Mail.app doesn't seem to.
When I visit my Facebook page I see several random videos that I didn't upload. iPhoto has done this several times to me- scared of what it will post with my knowledge! I try to close it and sometimes I can not even close the application because it is still synching with FB even if I click quit. Why does it do this?
I have read this question Does an iTunes iOS device backup include everything on the device? but it doesn't seem to be explicit/succinct enough and I can't find a clear list of what exactly is and isn't backed up anywhere that I would trust. Specifically I am asking which of these things are backed up ( and if there are any others which I am leaving out ) Settings inc email settings and and wifi passwords Applications and their settings Photos Videos Songs Notes Reminders Calendar Voice Memos Contacts SMS's Firmware ( which I gather is not backed up ) I have a feeling that various parts of the backup are stored in various locations so maybe that might be explained, and also I read somewhere that the backup only includes the media items if a sync has been performed so could this be explained ... ie do I have to also do a sync to ensure a full backup. I have an iphone4 and I am backing up to my computer as opposed to iCloud.
I have started using Launch Center Pro and I'd like to create a shortcut for a playlist on Music. Is this possible using the URL scheme of the app? If so, how?
I'm storing backup of my Gmail account in a disk image, to cut on number of files on the main HFS+ volume. This makes Time Machine ignore the existence of this volume, just because it's in a disk image. Is it possible to get Time Machine to treat the disk image as a regular disk, and get Time Machine to back it up as if it were a "physical" volume? This is on Mountain Lion 10.8.2, on late 2009 white unibody Macbook.
Currently I finally - way too late - noticed that still in iOS 6, the Apple Mail app is not sending me push notifications - or any notifications for that matter - for any of my e-mail accounts except the first one, which happens to be my GMail account. The other ones (of 6 total) are: Another GMail account, a Nate(.com) & Daum(.net) account and two domain names I bought (one via GoogleApps, the other not). My settings are: Push and "Fetch every 15 minutes", with Fetch activated for all email accounts named above. So as I get no notifications (and thus today missed an important e-mail in the afternoon, even though I kept an eye on my phone), I wonder how to troubleshoot this?
Specifically, I have the newest headphones which were released with the iPhone5, however if you have an answer for any of the headphones they released, this may be a good place to centralize the information. I've found I'm constantly not double-pressing fast enough to cause the phone to go to the next track while listening to music, not to mention if I want to go back (three-presses). I would love to be able to increase the allowed delay between presses so I don't constantly pause/un-pause my music instead of going to the next song.
I want to read eBooks on my iPhone 4. Those eBooks are heavy on mathematical formulas and sometimes diagrams. I have some problems though: When I convert PDFs and DJVU to ePub format and download the ePub file to iPhone, then I open it with Stanza, mathematical equations do not show correctly. When I convert PDFs and DJVU to ePub format and download the ePub file to iPhone, then I open it with Stanza, mathematical equations do not show correctly. When I open PDFs and DJVUs using Stanza without converting to ePub format, the text appears fuzzy and when I zoom in or out I lose the ability to flip through the pages – and I can't change or close the book. When I open PDFs and DJVUs using Stanza without converting to ePub format, the text appears fuzzy and when I zoom in or out I lose the ability to flip through the pages – and I can't change or close the book.
How do I set default background color in Textedit? Preferences -> New Document -> Font doesnt help. That black on white isn't too good in nights.
I read an interesting article in the iOS twitter app about a week ago. I forgot to star or retweet it and now I have no idea how to find it. Is there some way to view a web history in the Twitter app? I posted a related question on programmers trying to find specific article, but it got closed :/
We've got a Sky ADSL router which we have running a wifi network, and we've got it connected via ethernet to iMac/TV/PS3/etc. As the wifi coverage isn't great upstairs we've bought a Time Capsule which we want to plug in to the ethernet that's connected to the router, and we want to have the Time Capsule provide wifi coverage upstairs.
I have 69 folders of jpegs I want to turn into 69 quicktime timelapse movies. Rather than doing this one-at-a-time in Quicktime 7 Pro (Open Image Sequence, select first frame, choose 30 fps as the frame rate, wait for frames to assemble, save result while selecting "as reference movie", change the name of the resulting Quicktime from "Untitled.mov" to the corresponding jpeg folder name, repeat) -- is there an easy way to automate this?
I need to run a dual 27" 2560x1440 mac-mini. I already have a thunderbolt display and I tried connecting a Dell Ultrasharp with 2560x1440 to the HDMI port of the mac mini - that doesn't work. There is a spare Thunderbolt port on the back of the Apple display, so do I use that and connect to the Dell? If so, what port on the Dell do I use to get the full resolution - HDMI, DVI, Ethernet?
I note that on the loudest volume, the sound from my iPhone to 3.5mm stereo jack is distorted. Above what volume is sound distorted/compressed?
A command line tool is preferred, but not required. Preview and PDF Pen and dozens of other apps can delete arbitrary pages from a PDF file and save the result. The key problem I can’t solve is how to systematically detect a blank page and have it deleted. Blank is defined as no visible line or text or content. Do you know of any tool that can detect and remove blank pages from a multi-page PDF file and be controlled by automation (script / Automator / something other than click, look, click)?
EDIT: Thanks, Dave K. Comparing checksums is a good idea. I've just done the same: I checked the checksums before and after playing a few tracks, and none of the checksums changed. However, Wuala still uploads played tracks. On this screenshot, one can see that Wuala uploads tracks the checksum of which has not changed: Wuala upload http://i47.tinypic.com/kd4o3o.jpg
I am not sure what I am missing. I turned the feature on, then went into Notifications, set it up. The moon icon appears in the top status bar and then the next day (or day after), the icon is gone. I go back into Settings and sure enough, the feature is OFF. What am I missing?
(Edited after rebooting everything again.) I'm unable to get my MacBook Air (mid-2011 model, running OS X Lion 10.7.4) connected to the internet. I've tried to get online through tethering both an iPhone 4 (through USB, wifi and bluetooth) and a Samsung Galaxy S2. I can use the internet connection created by both of these phones on other computers. I'm mainly testing on wifi as that is my primary network connection source, but bluetooth and USB are also failing. The same applies to Ethernet.
My OSX Mountain Lion will no longer atart up. After the logon screen it spins forever (the Apple logon is replaced by an error sign). When I run in single user mode I get a "still waiting for root device" that repeats every few seconds.
I've been over the tech specs for both the high-end mac mini with the fusion drive and the mac mini server (*=URL=* and I cannot find more than a single difference; the server has two HDDs (oh, and it ships with os x server installed). Am I missing something or are you paying $200 more for a second HDD? Or $150 more for a 1TB fusion drive vs 256GB SSD and 1 TB HDD?
I have a lot of contacts and many of them have already got pictures that I have chosen myself. The contacts (and pictures) are synced with my Google Apps account.
I have not been able to find any official word from Adobe on this. A Google search only turns up comments from disgruntled users (such as myself) who complain about lack of support in Acrobat X. So: does Acrobat Pro XI support Retina display?
I'm trying to turn on spotlight for my NAS drive. I have it mounted in OSX 10.8.2 as the following: mdutil returns the following: When I try to enable it I get the following:
I have a problem with Lion (10.7.5) not able to see anything in Display Arrangement window when having Matrox DualHead2Go connected with two displays. Resolutions are fine but not able use external displays as Arrangement window is empty! How to reset it, to get all in same window? What file stores/remembers display information id?
I really like this picture that i took for my account and wish to use it for other purposes. Where is it stored? I use Mac OS X Mountain Lion, so, none of the questions have my answer. Please help!
When you receive an HTML mail in Mail.app, how can you select a part of the text of an hyperlink in order to copy it to tha pasteboard ? The only way I found is to display the mail is to diplay the mail in another form (raw source, plain text alternative), search this and copy ? Is there a better way to do this ?
I downloaded a port knocking script from *=URL=* It downloaded a file knock, which is a Unix Executable File. When I double click on it, it runs the Terminal, where it writes
iOS 6 added the ability to use a song from your music library as the "Sound" for an alarm. Whenever you use a song - it stays in the list of songs to select in the future. Is there anyway to clear this list or remove a song from the list?
Is it possible to force all TrueCrypt mounted volumes to eject when my Mac goes to sleep or to have TrueCrypt quit (causing them to unmount)? I'm looking for a little extra "easy" security when I move my Mac around.
I have a problem in iOS4.0.1 on my 3GS where not all contacts I have saved show up in the "Contacts" app or tab within "Phone". However, when I enter names in a new text message contact field, they automatically show up - the same happens when I manually dial a contact's number in the "Phone" app.
I want to export specific address book groups to mailchimp from a clients Mac computer. The client have version OS X Lion (10.7) and the Mac she has is faulty and will be scrapped soon. Therefore it is not feasible to upgrade it. It would be perfect if I could use Chimport but it appears that I need OS X Mountain Lion to use Apple Mac Store to get it. Alternative do you know any programs that can export to CSV?
My graphics card has malfunctioned and is preventing my MacBook Pro (2011) from booting. Based on my research I will have to otherwise have the logic board replaced. The defective ATI graphics card is preventing my MacBook Pro from booting because it gets stuck on a gray screen sometimes even when using the recovery CD.
I am wondering if it is bad or unhealthy to always put my Mac to sleep or should I shut it down instead? What I mean by putting it to sleep is that the display and hard drive are sleeping. The reason for asking this question is I have heard from several computer literate people that sleeping the hard drive is not good for it.
The primary location for my contacts currently is with my company's Exchange server. I've sync'd with this since I got my first iPhone 3G in 2008. This is my last week with this company and I need to start using my contacts elsewhere. I've exported a copy of my contacts using the OS X Addresses app as a backup. Options that I can think of are: Starting to use my iCloud account (which I've never done before) Transfer to my gmail account -- but that'd get mixed in with a huge mess of less useful contacts
I want to add the new 2012 Turkish Lira currency symbol, U+20BA, to Character Viewer as shown at *=URL=* What can I do?
I have an arbitrary Dell USB keyboard that I use with my MBP running Snow Leopard. Everytime I plug the keyboard in, or reboot my computer, Keyboard Setup Assistant pops up saying the keyboard needs to be identified before it can be used. Once I follow its instructions, I can proceed to use this keyboard. Is there some way my computer can automatically identify this keyboard in the future so I don't have to run Keyboard Setup Assistant?
Given some applications that can be installed natively as well as through MacPorts (such as MacVim, iTerm2, Gimp, etc.), what are pros and cons for choosing one installation method over the other?
However, I see no way to delete Reminders in bulk. I don't see a way to do it on the phone, nor do I see a way to do it in icloud.com.
Just recently added an SSD drive replacing the optical drive. Carbon Copy the whole partition and now left with 2 bootable drives. How do I make the old partition no longer bootable? I've changed the default boot using Startup Disk utility, but want to make the partition completely non bootable Thanks
I've got Windows 8 installed on a bootcamp partition. Just recently installed an SSD drive and would love to move the the Bootcamp partition to this drive too. Is there anyway I can move it without reinstalling Windows 8 (which cant be easily done since I no longer have an optical drive) or spending $20 for something like WinClone?
When I list the currently running services, I see a service I'd like to remove: % launchctl list | grep -i spotify - 13 com.spotify.webhelper Launchctl allows me to stop it via launchctl stop com.spotify.webhelper but it does not allow me to completely remove it (uninstall it) unless I specify the .plist file. How can I derive the plist based on the label?
Can Aperture be migrated or reinstalled a new MacBook Pro which has no DVD drive? Would target disk mode work to simply copy the file? I think Aperture usually runs an "installation" rather than just drag onto the Applications folder. But I can't remember since it has been years since I installed it on my iMac.
Is it possible to change the default settings in the Terminal App (OS X 10.7.5) such that when the app is launched, no windows are opened by default? As a shot in the dark, I tried closing all windows, and then creating an "empty" window group and setting that as what should be "opened" when the app is launched, but it is still opening a bash window when the app is launched. (The reason I ask is that some other apps I use occasionally launch Terminal with a bash prompt in a particular directory, but I always get two windows open: the default one in my home directory and the one the other application opened.) Any suggestions?
I am trying to setup Sublime Text 2 so that the build command correctly runs Python3 / Python3.3 scripts. I have installed Python 3.3 via the installer obtained from python.org and installed Sublime Text 2 via the Sublime Text 2 installer. Following this I added a custom build entry called: into Sublime Text 2's Python folder with the following contents: I'm getting the following error when trying to run the script: I have read somewhere that symlinkng python3 from /usr/bin might fix the issue but after creating the symlink in /usr/bin through Finder, Sublime Text still cannot build as it gets a permissions error. What is the best way to set Sublime Text 2 up to allow for running Python3 scripts? [edit] If I place the PATH for the python3 simlink generated by install, Sublime Text 2 can build the script,
I can't find a list of compatible graphics cards anywhere at the Apple web site and I can't find a list of compatible Apple machines anywhere at the nvidia web site. How does someone go about finding out these things? In particular, does anyone know what the best performing CUDA-compatible graphics cards, compatible with the Mac Pro (MacPro5,1 and more recent) running Mountain Lion, with off-the-shelf drivers, are?
In iOS5, whenever I'd receive a meeting calendar invite from a co-worker (working in Outlook), I'd get a pop-up notification as well as an email with the calendar invite attachment. If I accepted the meeting, the email would get automatically deleted. Since I installed iOS6, the emails don't get auto-deleted anymore. Why? Is there any workaround, either on the phone or Exchange?
For the past several weeks, this has been happening. I put the computer to sleep at night, and when I wake the computer up the next morning, my computer has restarted itself.
I used iPad 2 a long time before getting iPhone 4S so all my music is on there. Now I cannot get the music from iPad to iPhone. How can I do it?
I know and have been reading a few ideas about how to "import" the features of xmonad/tiling window managers in OSX. I don't care much about the X11/Xquartz windows, but about conventional OSX windows. Now, all the solutions I have seen around lack the one feature I'd really like to have: not to worry about windows anymore. Let me explain:
Recently, after extending a wireless network on a setup with one Extreme and one Express (both AirPort base stations), I've been experiencing issues regarding which base station extends which on a certain iMac. Note that when it actually works, it works great.
I can look up the definition of any word that I can select in iOS. However, once the dictionary is open, I can't figure out how to further look up the definition of a word that appears in the dictionary definition. This seems like basic dictionary software functionality. Is there a way to do it?
In this question, I learned that the "dotted-line cloud" icon in OS X's iCloud file view means "Waiting to upload". While writing a document in Byword today, I saved it and found it had been marked with this icon - there were several other documents, months old, that still had the "Waiting" icon as well. Is there any way to, if not force, gently encourage these files to upload to iCloud?
I have a 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display and a ShiMian QH270-IPSMS monitor (2560x1440). The first pitfall I ran across when setting this up was that the HDMI port doesn't support my display's resolution. Instead, I am using a Monoprice Mini DisplayPort to DVI Dual Link adapter, which supports the display's full resolution at 60 Hz.
I was viewing a site that asked for permission to access my location which I declined. Since then the site never asks again, it seems like the iPhone has remembered my choice so automatically declines.
How do I auto-mount a SMB share on OS X ? I know how to mount it using GUI: Cmd-K on Finder but I want a solution that would restore them after reboot/relogin. This questions applies to latest OS X, 10.8
I have long settings in iPad and I would like to get them automatically to devices such as iPhone and poussible to Mac in the future. How can I get the settings over all devices?
I'm looking for a Portable Monitors for my macbook pro (possibily a 14'') Do you happen to know some model that is working on a mac? I found this one (ThinkVision LT1421) but it does not work completely.
Is there a way to switch the iPhone’s functionality to a phone-only mode. In this mode only incoming (and possibly outgoing) calls and SMS messaging would be activated. All other services (location, push, mail) would be disabled. So it would be just like your average seven-years-ago mobile phone which you could leave on during the night (*) without getting awakened by facebook push messages and without fearing to oversleep because the battery drained from downloading all the spam mails you got during the night. Note that I’m not speaking of do not disturb functionality, which would also silence SMS messaging (which I’d still like to receive) and yet drain more power than needed by having activated location, push and mail services. (*) alarm clock functionality should also work in that mode (but this could well be the built-in alarm, no other apps should be activated or running in the background)
I've recently been assigned a static IP by my ISP provider (Sonic.net). My previous setting was with the modem configured to connect using static IP and the Airport Extreme as a bridge. NAT and DHCP were done at the modem, but I couldn't get WOL (Wake On LAN) to work (an Apple technote specifies that this setup won't).
As by the title! I have an update notification: I try to update and I get:
I googled a lot and read many documents. But I can't understand the concept behind iPhone's Bluetooth technology. In my knowledge, Bluetooth was used for: Transferring files between devices Wireless communication for things like video gaming and earphones
About two weeks ago, I had a sudden drop in gaming performance on my 27" iMac with ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics. While before I could play games without any problems at high graphical settings, suddenly playing Diablo3 for example became unbearable with around 10FPS at the lowest possible settings. Oddly enough I simultaneously started having similar problems when playing games on my Windows Bootcamp installation on the same machine.
I have burnt a set of data DVDs on my Windows PC. These read fine on the PC, but for some reason OS X misbehaves. I have Hardware Growler installed, so when I insert the disc I get a notification that the drive has been mounted (with a label I set during burning). The problem the disc doesn't appear on my desktop along other drives and in Finder it is greyed out and not accessible.
Can I downgrade an iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to iOS 5.1.1 using iTunes if I have a 5.1.1 restore.ipsw file? I have watched this video on YouTube and was wondering if that works for downgrade. I dont need to sync the phone with any of my files afterwards. I just need to have it as new with 5.1.1 software.
sorry for this, i'm very confused and frustrated as to why this just happened. and my backup is old and i don't know if i backed up any system settings so i don't know if that will even work. Anyway...
Someone else at the office was attempting to help me setup the laptop before I started, so now my MBP has their credentials for some apps. I can uninstall and reinstall the app, if that's all it takes, but how do I remove this user from the system so it quites prompting me?
I have a Mac OSX Lion file share over the AFP protocol in our office and users are having trouble saving to it. Here's the process: Open an existing file on the server Make changes
Is there a way to make Transmission on OS X automatically resume seeding/downloading when it's launched?
I am wondering if there is a utility for the mac that allows you to see the details of an SSD like the health of the drive, TBW (total bites written), how many running hours etc... In researching for an app of such a kind I found (SSDLife) for windows? It looks like to me that a program like this would be exactly what I would need. The most important information that I need to know about is the TBW (total bites written) on the drive. Because I have heard that once an SSD drive reaches a certain amount of writes it becomes a read only drive, so this information would be invaluable to me.
I have a daily reminder that is set to trigger at 3am. However, they seem to be triggering around 10pm on both my Macbook, my iPhone, and my iPad. Why? How can I stop this?
When I use TextWrangler, I can use the beautiful, crisp bitmapped 10 point Monaco font:  In TextMate, when I select Monaco 10 as my font, I get a much fuzzier rendered vector graphic from the TrueType version of Monaco:
Will I break MacPorts ability to manage and update that same app? Would it even allow me to do so?
Ever since installing iOS 6.0.1, it appears that all my Google Calendar events appear as invitations. Is this happening to anyone else? Is there any way for me to fix this?
I saw an image on a rumor for a new Apple connector to attach the new iOS devices to my Mac using the Thunderbolt port. This would be great because the one port on my MacBook Air that isn't in use all the time is the Thunderbolt port. The image looks badly doctored, however, and I can't find any substantiated evidence that this product exists. Is there a way to connect new iOS devices to the monitor port on new Macs?
When I try and search for something using spotlight, all application results show the .c file extension icon instead of the actual app icon you would expect to see for FireFox, Safari, Mail etc. Very annoying. I have tried Cmd + I to change the file association there, but it does not address the problem correctly. Any ideas?
I know it's possible to turn off sound alerts app-by-app in notification center, but is there a way to turn them off altogether. I hate all system sounds!
So I've wanted this for a really long time but I'm not 100% sure how to do it. I basically want to be able to have iTunes play a radio station when I come home.
I considering to replace my old wifi router and purchase AirPort Extreme. Why airport extreme feature that make it price is higher than common router WIFI?
Suddenly a lot of my apps are not working on my iPod Touch 2nd gen. Many of these are telling me that I need iOS 4.3 for them to work. I've tried updating software in iTunes - but it says my current version 4.2 is the latest and there are no updates to install. Any ideas? Please answer Thanks
So far I've successfully launched the configure, but when I type make, I get the following error, after some time (there's a lot which compile successfully): Is there a way to tell gcc not to compile itself for the i686 architecture? Here's my uname -a if it can help: PS: I know gcc-4.0 is ancient, but I do need it.
After creating a "DIY Fusion Drive" using the methods below in 10.8, I'm now wondering how to add a RecoveryHD partition to the internal drive. Here's what I did to create a Logical Volume Group across two physical volumes (128G SSD/750GHD)
My question is similar to this question. I have a USB drive that contains an old encrypted backup. I don't remember the password and don't care about loosing the backup - I just want to be able to use the drive. When I select the volume on the left, I only see two tabs: "First Aid" and "Partition". I don't see an "Erase" tab.
On the Mac if you three-finger tap a word, a dictionary definition appears. I'd like to know if I would be able to get this on an iPad specifically for the Japanese dictionaries.
I'm looking for something similar to MediaMonkey on Windows, for things like: batch editing of metadata automatic tagging based on folder structure creating folder structures from metadata (the opposite of the above) Any suggestions?
I have a mac mini 2.3Ghz Intel Core i5 running 2GB 1333 MHz DDR3. The mac keeps freezing. Sometimes while I'm working on it, but often just when I leave it and it won't wake up and I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn on again. Any ideas on how to sort this? Should I just upgrade the RAM or is it likely to be a different problem? When it freezes nothing I try including force quit seems to work. Thanks in advance, David
I followed this simple guide to resize images in a batch with Automator: copy copy file to resized folder on Desktop add suffix _S (for small) resize it to 25% of its original size
Why do versions differ? Should we trust Oracle's verification routine? In some cases, the version verified by Oracle is different from the version shown at the command line.
I have over 200 apps on my iPhone 4 (32GB). No one needs that many apps, right? I want to organize my installed apps based on how frequently I use them, and/or how recently I last used them. I could probably take a qualitative, subjective stab at this myself, but I'd like to have some data, just so I don't toss an app that I may have used, but don't remember using. Yeah, I know that deleting isn't forever with apps-- but having geeky data makes me feel good.
I have a MacBook AIR without IR and an Apple remote control (bought without knowing my laptop didn't have IR). I am looking for an IR adaptor. Can you please recommend me one that works on Mac?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion recently. My email changed as well. I used to have my 40K emails in different mailboxes and now I realize that the new way to do so is with 'smart mailboxes' (I actually like it).
I just purchased a new Mac Mini, replacing an ancient iMac with AppleWorks. I use that software for email, web-browsing, word processing, spreadsheets and an occasional database. Is there a package like Appleworks?
I unplugged my Time Capsule today to tidy up the wires. After plugging back in it refuses to start. Have tried resetting by sticking pencil in the back Tried leaving, it's been stuck in Amber for 3 hours now I believe it's third generation, that's about it. Any ideas?
I have a MacBook Pro (MacBookPro6,2) running OS X 10.7.5. Once every few days, on average, my screen goes black and it stops responding. Before these incidents I'm mainly browsing, random web pages with Google Chrome. The keyboard remains lit but no sounds, no response to the keyboard, etc.… I have to force a shut down (press and hold the power button) to get it going again, and when I do, I am presented with an problem report dialog (kernel panic details below). Might it be an NVIDIA problem? What can I do about this?
I am using Lion on a late 2009 13 inch MacBook, with external monitor and an external Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad - German (MB110D/B) while keeping the MacBook lid closed. Some of the applications I run use the F-keys. This works fine for F5 and F6 but the other key are used for things like muting and so on.
People say it is possible but I am suspicious. I want to clean install and start fresh with nothing. Then I can access my Time Capsule that has my backup and copy any files I want. How easy or difficult is to use my Time Capsule as a external hard drive from where I can copy stuff? What I am particularly worried about is: 1) Will my new, clean and fresh Mountain Lion installation be able to recognize and mount Time Capsule on Finder? 2) Will I be able to easily locate, browse and copy the files from my last backup to my computer? 3) Will I have any permission problems to copy the files?
My old computer in which I had iTunes on is broken. So my question is, are there any other ways of updating an iPad without having iTunes? If not, are there any stores that will do it?
This seems like it should be easy, but... My partner and I use a single Dropbox.com account to keep all of our joint projects synced up between our computers - and this has been working great for years. We've now added a MacBook Air to the mix, and we each have accounts on it and can grab it and go when we need to do some remote work.
With Third Party software, or manually mounting the iPhone to your computer, it's possible to access a limited amount of information. Music, Photos, and App Data. Without breaking the Sandbox, you can never get to the OS itself, and certain data stores.
In Terminal.app on Snow Leopard, the key combinations Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ don't get passed through correctly. Instead Terminal.app receives a single ↑ or ↓ key stroke. I have verified this by running cat -v, which prints the code ^[[A for both Ctrl+↑ and ↑, and the code ^[[B for both Ctrl+↓ and ↓.
Is there any way to get text displayed in white and the background be black in TextEdit in plain text mode?
For what ever reason the Solver add-in for Mac Office's Excel 2011 produces the following dialog box when attempting to add a constraint to Solver:  Does anyone have a similar problem? Or know how to rectify this? Many thanks.
On my iphone, I use the Podcasts app and I have all of my podcasts set to auto subscribe and auto download. When I check the app in the morning, I see new podcasts showing up but there is a button with an arrow button next to them to show me there is something new that i can download. (see picture below). So the autosubscribe is working but the autodownload is not.
I'm aware that there has been a similar question that points towards Apple's own guidance on sharing iPhoto Libraries. Apple's solutions aren't compatible with Time Machine - it can't be used to back up an external drive and a disk image appears as a single file, meaning the whole image would have to be backed up every time it changes, rather than just the changes.
I have few GBs (5,38 GB at the moment) of free space on my hard disk (MacBook Pro 2010, 10.7.5). Few hours after I turn on/reboot my computer, the free space slowly goes down to zero and the system hangs. I've found out that these 2 programs cause this problem: xCode, Google Chrome (both programs are memory-consuming I believe), although I think the problem is related to OS itself. I've found similar questions but they all seem to be related to vanishing some of the disk space, where in my case I slowly loose all of the disk space. What I've tried so far: Using OmniSweeper to clean my disk Disabling Mac OS X Paging/Swap as described here Deleting sleep image
I am trying to figure out a way to share my screen with someone else. I wanted to see if Facetime had that feature or if there is another recommendation for screen sharing on Mountain Lion.
I have tried command that I found and it works for second and after that second client closes. Other command that I tryied with the same resul. What command I must use to have multiple Mumble instances open?
I'm not asking to know now, but wondering if Apple has a status page that lists if Game Center is having problems. I'm aware of the iCloud system status web page but it's not clear to me if that is the place where Game Center would be listed if for some reason it was not operating fully or correctly.
Is there a way I can open Safari in a new window directly from dock ? For example, CMD + Safari on dock reveals the application in Finder. Is there another key combination that can open a new window ?
I used the Up-to-Date program to update OSX to Mountain Lion. Now I'd like to create a recovery disk, but I can't use the same code to redeem installation package, and from the Apple Store it seems that I don't own a copy of Mountain Lion and that I should buy it to be able to download it. How to get the InstallESD.dmg file? Or how should I create a recovery disk without this file?
I bought an app called "Air Display" which allows me to use my iPad as a second monitor. I've noticed that while I am on my second monitor whatever is on the other monitor will minimize after about 30 seconds.
I am trying to copy some files from my local drive to a SMB share I have set up on my home network using Terminal, but I keep getting this error: The share is set up on a Freenas server and the folder permissions is set to 777. I can copy the files ok with Finder so I don't know why its not working in Terminal.
What command line command do I use to lookup a domain address? When looking at the man pages for nslookup and dig I can see a section saying that these utilities do not use the Mac OS methods of finding names. So, what command should I be running?
Open Keyboard Preferences Set modifier keys (I like to reverse option and command) Log out Log in Modifier keys have been reset to defaults I just upgraded from 10.7.5 to 10.8.2, might be related. Every time I open Keyboard Preferences, I see the following in my console: System Preferences[570]: [BluetoothHIDDevice][initWithHIDDevice] Unable to get Object ID from IORegistry .. so that might be related.
Is there a tool like iStats Menu 3 which could show me the same kind of information (hard drive statistics, sensors state, network usage) for every machine running OS X on my network? Or even better, for every machine running any OS (or at least some kind of Unix)?
I've been searching online, but I'm confused and cannot really figure this out. Would it be possible to stream audio to an apple TV using an ipad or an iphone? What abouta 2009 mbp? And which apps do I need?
Is there a way to add arrow keys to an iPhone keyboard under iOS 6?
I copied GarageBand.app over, and then it complained about missing "Application Support" and "Apple Loops Index". I've started copying these files, but my network isn't the fastest (the set of Loops is pretty big).
Every time I try to sync music from my iPhone to my computer it says that it has synced with a different iTunes library before. However, I've never synced it to a different one. I once synced it anyway and I lost all my music and had to redo my whole iPhone-music, so I would like to avoid this. But now it's complaining about the same thing. How can I fix this permanently?
I like being able to see facebook events on my calendar with iOS6. I don't like that it shows me events that I have been invited to, but haven't responded to, or sometimes events that I have rejected. Is there a way to only sync events that I have specifically RSVPed "yes" to? If not, why not?
What does this option in Terminal do?  It seems to have no effect on anything.
I have a couple of old applications which I adore, but really don't want to have on my iPhone at the moment, because they're terrible in iOS6 / iPhone 5 and haven't been updated for over a year. I'd like to get rid of it so it's not taking up space, but would like to monitor its updates still.
Is there a problem with the specs on the iTunes help page regarding 1080p requirements? I have Windows 7 64-bit, an i7 quad-core, iTunes 10.7, 16 GB of RAM, NVIDIA GT 540M 2GB, and a 1080p display. iTunes refuses to play these videos, giving this error:
A few days ago, I synced all of songs from my iPhone 4s to iTunes. After it finished, I found that some of them have duplicates. I thought maybe I transferred them to iTunes before. Now I want to find and delete them from my iTunes library. What is the easiest way to delete the duplicates? Thank you very much in advance.
I want to sell my laptop (Macbook Pro late 2011). I have erased my disk drive but it seems that I cannot reinstall Mac OS without an Apple ID. At the origin my mac was shipped with Lion, I have upgraded to Mountain Lion and now my recovery partition contain the installer for Mountain Lion. When I try to reinstall Mac, it asks for my apple ID. Since I want to sell it, I don't want to put any of my information in it. How do you do that?
I want my web-service to be accessible from out side of my local network. I am using MAMP and I have also started web-sharing on my local machine, but it is working only locally. I want any file to be accessible from another machine which is not in network.
While changing my 'file directory' preferences on Vuze, I accidentally created a folder in the .fseventsd-folder on my Seagate external hard-drive. I can't even find the .fseventsd-folder using search Spotlight, in fact the only way I can see this folder is when I go back to the file directory preferences from Vuze and I can't edit anything from there. Is this going to damage anything, delete my data or anything weird like that? Is there any way of deleting this folder (the accidentally created folder not the .fseventsd-folder)?
I'm wondering if it's reasonable to use a MacBook Pro Retina as a desktop replacement with power-cord plugged in all the time? Or does the battery suffers from this kind of use?
I'm trying to send a 36 MB .mp4 video via Messages, but I'm not exactly sure if it's working. After sending the file, the CPU usage of the processes VTDecoderXPCService and IMTranscoderAgent goes up very high (~300%) and then only about 11 MB of data are send.
I recently bought an LG monitor to use as a 2nd display but my iMac (mid 2011, running Mac OS X Lion) doesn't detect it. It's connected using a Thunderbolt-to-HDMI-cable (which I bought from The Apple Shop the other day). What could be the cause of this bad-detection behavior?
A very nice feature of TimeMachine is the possibility to configure a new Mac automatically. Nevertheless, when you switch from OS 10.6 to OS 10.8 using TimeMachine during installation, there are a lot of files that are not needed anymore in 10.8. Unfortunately, the setup does not recognize this and I have to remove them manually. Is there a possibility to remove all system files that are only needed for < 10.8 automatically?
My newsstand has two subscriptions: New Yorker and Economist. When a new issue is available for either one of those, the period required to download the issue is super slow, and unreliable - it will seem to spin along well, showing the download numbers increase, but then simply halt. The iPad will then go to its lock screen, and when I go back, zero additional downloading will have progressed in the meantime. In fact, sometimes it pops back to the previous downloaded amount prior to the last little progress session.
I was fiddling with several settings a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure I did something that disabled the "Cut" option in Finder. Anyone know where I can re-enable it?
I prefer to keep the dock "auto-hiding" setting on so that the dock is always hidden unless I mouse over it. I am aware of both the setting in "dock preferences" and the keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘D).
I thought with Mountain Lion that Messages are shown on both my Mac and iPhone (so I can start a chat on my iPhone and continue it on my Mac). What is weird is that I seem to get an arbitrary set of messages on my Mac but it's definitely not fully in sync with the iPhone. A number of iPhone messages never show up on the Mac at all, or 1/2 of the conversation shows up. Do I need to set something up specifically to make this work or is this as expected?
Any one know how to block all network traffic with the Network Link Conditioner on Mountain Lion? Here's the custom offline profile I made that's not working. I'm trying to block the network for the iPhone Simulator. Thanks.
I wanted to create a smart-search for my R-files, including both files ending in ".r" and ".rmd". Obviously, files can't end in both. This yields only files that satisfy both criteria This yields no files because the criteria are mutually exclusive.
My computer seems to be waking up periodically when I am away from my desk. I keep the MBP in clamshell mode on my desk at work with two Thunderbolt Displays connected. I put the computer to sleep when I leave the office via the Apple menu, but I frequently return to my desk in the morning to find messages in Adium from people for whom I appeared to be online. My hypothesis is that the trackpad is not going to sleep or shutting itself off properly, and that is both draining its battery and causing my computer to wake up periodically.
I've got an RFID device that tries to simulate a keyboard, but it doesn't work on Mac OS X as far as I can tell, and I'd rather have com access anyway. Is there something software related that I can do to get it to act like a virtual com port, or would I just have to use different hardware?
I'm trying to run Imperialism 2 on Crossover (WINE), in virtual desktop mode. The game nearly works except that the screen doesn't update.
Is there an LDAP Server running on my OS X Snow Leopard deployment? How do I find it? Can I connect to it over the standard LDAP port of 389? The simple telnet test results was not encouraging...
KeePass will not copy and paste, let alone do autotype. I have installed the KeePass 2.18 Mac package from *=URL=* I could not find a more recent Mac package for KeePass, so I also replaced all of that package's files with those from the Portable KeePass 2.20.1 (ZIP Package). That was from the page *=URL=* link to actual zip: *=URL=* So I'm successfully running KeePass 2.20.1. I'm running Mono version 2.10.9. I'm running OS X 10.7.5 on a MacBook Pro.
Is there any app that allow me to stream audio, video (including YouTube and Vimeo) to iPhone and iPad simultaneously from a MacBook? I've searched for this and I found an app called "AirPlayit" but I think this application doesn't allow me to stream also from Youtube or Vimeo or SoundCloud?
I have iPad 2 and writing has become totally bad with it now. Something is hooking up the resources or it is getting old after 3 months. How can I make it faster?
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and I seem to be missing one bit of functionality that I used all the time in Finder. I could press Command+Shift+F and search for files by file name. Now pressing Command+Shift+F takes me to the "all my files" folder. Did they reassign the keyboard shortcut for search by file name?
I cannot connect my iPhone to my automobile's USB port after recently upgrading to iOS 6. I first noticed this in a rental car (and assumed the rental car's USB was malfunctioning). After returning home it no longer worked in my vehicles. BTW, the ports will no longer charge the iPhone, either. Then when I returned to work and connected the iPhone to my Windows 7 PC, Windows 7 no longer recognizes the iPhone.
I am running OS X Server 10.7.5 on a Mac Mini and I cannot get MacPorts’ Apache2 to start on boot. I have ensured that the Apple-supplied version of Apache is not launching and I have also ensured that the MacPorts-supplied apache2 LaunchDaemon is loading, it just isn’t actually starting Apache. I say that the LaunchDaemon is loading because after boot when Apache is not running I get this: Then if I do the following Apache2 will start Because the machine also runs OS X Server’s DNS server with an internal-only domain name I am starting to think that the MacPorts Apache2 LaunchDaemon is attempting to run before the DNS is fully up and responding correctly thus causing Apache to think there is a servername mismatch and thus failing to actually start Apache. I would like to find a way to delay the loading of the MacPorts Apache2 LaunchDaemon in order to give a little more time for DNS to be ready to see if this is indeed the problem. Is there a way to add some sort of delay to that Launc
I'm on the road and have the need to update my CV which is a Microsoft Word document. My CV is accessible via WebDav but I've also got it stored on the iPad using the Synology DS File app.
Safari 6.0.2 randomly crashes on me several times a day. Today I checked the console logs after it crashed, and only found this: objc[2339]: Object 0x7f9b7b41cab0 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
I am SURE ZTE is not blocking connections because if I plug in computers directly to ZTE, they can see each other just as they should. I already went trough all airport possible configurations, googled for the whole day, and found nothing about this configuration being possible or not.
I've been having a persistent problem where my 2011 MacBook Air abruptly loses its network connection for 30-60 seconds before regaining it without action on my part. This doesn't seem to be a problem with my internet connection, as the MacBook loses both internet and its AFP connection to my NAS (the NAS is wired to my router via a wired switch, while the MacBook connects to the router via WiFi).
I had a solid state drive running Snow Leopard in a 15' Macbook Pro, unfortunately I fried the logic board and got a new computer. I'd like to use the SSD in the new computer (which is set up to run 10.8).
example: I have two open Chrome windows. One is minimized on space 1, and the second is open on space 2. The currently active space is 1. What happens by default: I click the Chrome icon in the dock, and I am switched to space 2 to the open Chrome window there. What I want to happen: The minimized window on space 1 is restored and made active.
How do I change the default font size for reading the body of messages in Mail 6.0? I know that I can use ctrl++, but I want the reading pane to default the body of the message to a larger font without lowering the default resolution.
I have the following code : I want to press ALT + TAB automatically after I activate application so that I can start typing right away .. Reason to do this is because the keyboard becomes the foreground running application and the webpage or typing area the background.
Does it have limitations of the type of media that you are playing? For example, heavy games in full screen, downloaded videos with subtitles (not from iTunes!), high resolution videos, etc. Is the quality exactly the same of connecting the MacBook to the TV via HDMI? Do I need a router for this or will it create a wi-fi network between the notebook and the Apple TV?
I'm putting together a presentation in Keynote '09. I've embedded a movie (created by exporting a keynote slide, so that I can continuously loop the animations). I'd like to skip the beginning and end of the movie, since there are undesirable acceleration/decelerations in the animation. I've gone into the Quicktime tab of the Inspector window, and set the start and stop points appropriately
My .MobileBackups folder is 32GB. I've plugged in my Macbook Air to the power and have already forced time machine to backup. However, the folder is still 32GB even after restarting...Did Time Machine properly back up the 32GB so I can delete it?
In other words, I imagined wrong. The preference may be app-specific, not volume-specific. Please: how do I regain the warnings in Preview? Already I sped through ~/Library/Preferences sorted by modification date, and opened a few files including com.apple.finder.plist but at a glance: I can't find any .plist with content that includes the string revision If the preference is elsewhere in com.apple.finder.plist: where? (I'd prefer to not abandon that file – it's 35 KB with 3,417 lines.)
I have an iPod touch 1G running iOS 3.1.3, and I really want to get iOS 5 Apps on it. Is there a way to do this? Can I do it without using a computer?
Suddenly my Mac started to have kernel panics, about 1-2 a day. I am running latest OS X 10.8.2 on a 15-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro 8GB RAM with Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB, Intel SSD + HD. I mention I did no recent hardware
I made an ISO image from Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installation DVD using PowerISO on Windows machine. The ISO file size is 7.6GB, but when I mount the ISO using PowerISO, what I can see is only the files for Windows (900+MB). How can I convert it back to Mac format ISO?
I use Gmail's labels a lot. How can I get the same effect in Mail? Smart folders? (I do wish smart folders synced to iCloud.) Note: I am not asking about replicating + maintaining Gmail labels in Mail — I don't need to replicate + maintain: I'm leaving Gmail. I just need a system with a similar functionality. Something I could use on both my Mac and my iPad would be ideal.
I often use dual heads on my MBP, and I was wondering if there was a way to have separate applications running in full screen on each display? So for example full screen mail on one display and then my other application running in full screen on the other?
Since upgrading my MBP from Lion to Mountain Lion, every time I restart (planned restart, with nothing abnormal - I even close all applications before selecting Restart), my MacBook briefly shows the message "Your computer restarted because of a problem" when booting. Then, once I've logged in, I also see a dialog that says "Your computer was restarted because of a problem". As far as I know, there is no problem; everything seems to be working normally.
I've been running a python script from the command line that's inserting data in a database for a couple of hours now. It will take at least half a day more before it's finished. However, I want to take the laptop with me to somewhere else. My sleep at closing lid settings (if they exist) are at default (I've never looked at them). If I close the lid and open it in 4 or 5 hours, will the python script resume from where it left off? If not, can this be set to work in the preferences somehow?
I'm on Lion. I have a client who sends meeting invites from her Outlook account (I think also Exchange server). If I click on the .ics attachment it goes into iCal and I can accept/decline/maybe. If she sends a notice of a cancellation I can't do anything to it. I have to go into iCal and manually delete the meeting (of course this is doable) but if it's a recurring meeting, it's not a delete but rather a decline.
I have a Question: Which Ports should be open on iPad 2 by default?
We lost a .dmg file on an harddrive. Our tech guy was able to recover files from the drive but not one of them is a .dmg file. But they are a lot of .apple file. Can the .dmg file we are looking for be one of them?
I'm looking at the output of top to view my system's load average. I want to understand whether the load average is reporting processes just waiting for CPU, or whether it's reporting processes that are waiting for either CPU or IO. This article suggests that most unix systems report only CPU in their load, but that linux in particular reports both CPU and IO. I'm guessing that OS X probably does not include IO in its load reporting, but I'd like to know for sure.
Having an .ipa file, is there any way I can get its source code? It was possible when iOS apps used to be .app
When I create a reminder that is set to repeat, for example: it pops up on my phone and on my desktop.
During its "Cleanup" phase, Time Machine has recently been deleting backups from several months ago—even though these aren't the oldest backups, and my backup drive isn't full. My backups go back to January 2012, yet just today, Time Machine deleted backups from May 21, June 11, July 2, and July 23 (all in 2012). And plus, my Time Machine drive still has 200 GB free.
I have an OmniGraffle doc that is like 30 pages / canvases long. I'd like to organize the canvases into groups rather than just a long list. For example, I'd like to have 'Menu' below, under which the 'menu-' canvases would be grouped. This is what it looks like currently:
As I understand it, active Apple Mail rules automatically get applied when mail comes into the Inbox. Is there a way to prevent rules from being applied automatically, so that they are only applied when I click the "Apply Rules" menu item (or use the shortcut, cmd-option-L)?
I downloaded a podcast directly to my iPod, decided I didn't want it, and now it will not go away. I can delete it from my iTunes library but the iPod just automatically copies it back in when I next sync it. I monkeyed with the podcast settings so only selected podcasts are synced on to the iPod, but it is still there (despite no longer appearing on the list in iTunes). Any ideas?
I have a new Retina Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and an iPhone running 6.0.1. On my iPhone I can send and receive text messages from my email test@example.com and +1 (555) 555-5555. On my phone it has iMessage turned on, Send Read Receipts is on, Send as SMS is on, Send & Receive (2 Addresses which are my email and number), new texts sent from my number. On my Mac iMessage I'm logged into my Apple ID and it says I can be reached from my email address or number (which are same as on my iPhone). If an iPhone user texts me, it shows on my Phone and Mac and I can respond on my Mac or Phone.
I'm having a serious problem with WiFi on my iMac 21.5 inch running OS X Lion, up to date. It keeps disconnecting and when I reconnect it, it disconnects again, sometimes it stays on for about an hour or two, then disconnects again. Sometimes I have to restart my WiFi's modem. I check my phone, WiFi stays on all the time but only my iMac that keep disconnecting for no reason at all.
I received a message yesterday asking something about my Apple ID and concerning one of our other lines that used to be shared on the Apple ID with my phone. We stopped that later and used individual IDs. Since I was in a hurry I just clicked yes and went on. As soon as I did it, now my texts keep coming to myself and when I text that other line it shows in a group message it is from me instead of the other line. And the other line gained my contacts mixed in with that line. What do I do to stop it? It is driving me crazy!
If I turn on Do-Not-Disturb, will it also silence my phone alarms?
How can I find out if my iOS device has been jailbroken (with a drive-by exploit for example)? Is there an app for that?
I have problems with my Word files when I try to open them on Windows machines. So, I checked the file and got that Word file has Unicode symbols. How to fix it? Thank you.
One reason I don't like using my iPad for email is that I can't find a way to move a junk message without its message body being automatically displayed when selected. While viewing a mailbox, tapping Edit then selecting a message will show the message body.
Okay these are my problem scenarios: 1) I'm cooking something and my hands are covered in animal fat. I'm listening to a podcast on my iPhone, which is sat on a counter nearby. It's been playing for some time so the display has turned itself off. Someone comes in and asks me something and I need to pause it quickly, then play it again when the person has gone.
on my Mac 10.6 (MacBook Pro Late 2009) master volume control for both Line-In built and for external USB Microphone is disabled (grayed out) Nobody really wanted to help what is the reason and how to bring back such behaviour. Googling didnt provide answer.
Will the new Mac Mini (mid-level, quad-core) support the following two monitors simultaneously: one an Apple Cinema Display 30", 2560x1600 resolution, connected to both the Thunderbolt port and one USB port via the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adaptor (this thing: *=URL=* -adapter) and the other monitor a Samsung with 1600 x 1200 resolution connected to the Mini Mac by the hdmi port, using the hdmi-to-dvi adaptor Apple gives you with the Mac Mini? I have read in some places that hdmi cannot output better than 1920 x 1080, but 1600 x 1200 is actually fewer pixels and I have read differing accounts of whether it will work.
I've got headphones plugged into my desktop, and a laptop nearby that I use for work as well. Whenever I touch my MacBook Pro with the noise-canceling on my headphones turned on, it makes my headphones go nuts, creating a lot of buzzing, crackling, and popping. I assume this has something to do with conduction between my hands and the computer, but is there any way to get around this?
I want the ability to send an email to an iOS users iPad's POP account and have them instantly recieve a notification. For example, on my Android devices, since gmail is built into the system, if anyone emails my gmail address, I get a notification about 1 second after they hit send on their end. If its a pop account, then I have to wait until the next pull, every 15, 30, etc minutes (whatever the user has it set to).
I remember this used to work, at least for a couple of applications (and my own, if I edited the Info.plist file accordingly). Is something broken on my system, or did maybe an update remove this feature for non-retina-MBP Macs?
Ever since I got my MacBook Pro this year, I do not get any reminders via gmail, to my desktop PC (or Android phone, it seems). I rely heavily on the reminders so I really do need this to start working. Every time I wake my MacBook Pro, I notice that my gmail inbox in the browser, as well as my Mail inbox, are full of all the reminders I missed!
It seems that Apple doesn't provide a way to rename desktops from the default "Desktop 1", etc. Renaming desktops would be great for my workflow. Does anyone know how to do this manually or with a third-party app?
I just finished a fresh install, started installing apps and signing in again. Every time I login to an app it crashes within a few seconds. Going back in stays there, sometimes crashing again. I'm new to troubleshooting iOS - what's my next step?
I use cmd+tab, cmd+W, cmd+A a lot and I don't remember how many times I hit cmd+Q accidentally. Is it possible to change the shortcut for quitting applications from cmd+Q to something else (not to disallow using keyboard to quit applications), ideally for applications all at once (not to do it for individual application one by one)?
Here's my iOS 6.0.1 log after about 9 hours off the charger. "Standby" seems to be including "Usage". I've had the phone off the wall for only 9 hrs, but the sum of Standby and Usage are over 15 hrs. What is "Standby time" on iOS 6 anyway?
I want to use TextExpander to activate when I type the specific text "attached", and have the AppleScript type out the word "attached" (since TextExpander will remove it), and then invoke the keystroke Control-Z I can get each to work individually, but not together. Here is the code I am using based off of code I found here:
I've installed win7 on mbp using bootcamp by creating additional partition - so now I have 2 partitions (win and osx) My question is: will win7 boot normally if I delete osx partition from windows (using tools like Acronis Disk Director) ? picture of my partitions from win:
My friend's iPhone 4 has a strange behavior. When on 3G, going to an IP detection website, his IP seems to be changing pretty much on every request! His phone is supposedly traveling all over the world at every http request. It's not the carrier, because we tried to switch SIM cards and the issue is attached to the phone. On Wi-Fi it seems to be OK.
I go to a university where there is a weekly network usage limit, and I don't want uTorrent sucking it up. I know the simplest way to go about stopping it is from working is closing it when I get to school or stopping my torrents, but this can result in me forgetting about it. Is there an automated way to block uTorrent while I'm connected to this specific network?
I have Retina Macbook Pro 15' connected to an external monitor. Is it possible to close the MBP's lid and still use the external monitor without entering sleep mode?
This is one feature of Windows 7 Start menu that I haven't been able to replace in OS X ML. In Windows: Press Windows key Start typing, for example: H:\folder\phot Use arrow keys to highlight the "search-complete": H:\folder\photos
How can I view iCloud.com/#mail on an ipad without setting it up on the device? I want to check my emails on an ipad that isn't mine. I can normally access it on a PC but don't have access to one of them right now. Whenever I go to the website it just shows me the setup icloud on this device screen. Thanks!
I'm using MBP and external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I'd like to be able to zoom in the text in Safari. Safari keyboard shortcuts for zooming text areCommand +/-. I would like to use Ctrl+scrolling with the mouse. This works in Windows 7 for instance. Currently, Ctrl+scrolling is zooming the entire screen, not text. Can I zoom text in Safari using a mouse?
Is it possible to have the trackpad scrolling direction different from mouse connected to the MBP? EDIT: Found the solution, check my answer below.
Followed solution here - Java for OS X 2012-006: How to re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 applet plug-in and Web Start functionality to restore browser java plug-in, works fine now. But still can not launch jnlp application. If I launch it by simply double-clicking in finder I get message that I need to download Java Runtime Environment. At the same time if I use terminal and write javaws myapp.jnlp it launches correctly. What the issue may be and how can I fix it?
It happens in most of the sites I visit, and it's happend for the last months: two-fingers swipe to go back or forward don't work. However, from time to time, there's some sites in which they work. I have installed BetterTouchTool, which I thought might interfere, but I deactivated it and the same still happens.
My MacBook was stolen last week, and I have just realized that I had set up iCloud and "find my iPhone". It is currently showing up as off-line. I do not know whether it will connect if the thief has already wiped the system. I've set up to get an email alert if it connects. If my MacBook has been wiped by a thief will the "find my iPhone" app still work to locate that hardware?
My company recently upgraded their XMPP server for internal chat, and now require the Jitsi client. I don't know if Jitsi is nice on Windows, but the Mac version is like having bleach dripped in my eyes. After Apple's Messages app, Jitsi is a travesty. Messages connects fine, does everything Jitsi does, but gets disconnected with a "this is an unapproved client" message.
I just bought this computer in August -- i have been the only one to use it, have only used it under my itunes/apple account. But ever since the first week or so that i've had it, i've had update available for iMovie and iPhoto that it won't let me use because it says i'm not signed into the account i bought them with. Any fix to this problem?
I hoping I can access my secure notes again. I want to mention once I do a restart it seems like my keychain secure notes resets it self and I have no secure notes in the keychain anymore. I hope someone can help. Thanks
At the moment I have to log into a console, use a spare admin user to remove /Users, then zfs mount my /Users. All very irritating. There are several system LaunchAgents for Parallels, but not very descriptive. OS: 10.8.2 Parallels: updated Parallels 7. ZFS: ZFS Community Edition Updates for Graham: Looks like DesktopControlAgent isn't loaded. Following Graham's pointer to wait4path I updated com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons to:
How can I set the transmit queue length for a network interface on OS X? On linux the command would be:
Mac mini 2009 Intel SSD 330 60 Gb IcyBox IB-AC603a USB 3.0
If keyboard shortcuts are enabled in gmail, pressing / will focus the search bar from anywhere, so that I can simply type /stuff to search for "stuff" no matter what is currently focused. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut to focus the search bar within applications (not spotlight)? Note: I'm looking for an alternative to hitting tab repeatedly.
When I attempt to open iPhoto (9.4.2) on my MacBook Pro (10.8.2) iPhoto crashes and it reboots my laptop. iPhoto will open if I boot the MacBook Pro in safe mode. What could be going wrong?
I'm on a Mid-2009 MBP. I use an amplifier with an internal USB sound card to listen to music. That's ok for most times, but sometimes I like to listen to music with headphones plugged directly into the MBP, not into the amplifier. Is it possible to make the MBP change the sound output device automatically to Headphone Jacket when I plug them in, even when a sound device other than the internal speakers is in use?
This morning I am hearing an occasional periodic quiet clicking type noise from my macbook, from roughly the lower right quadrant, underneath the arrow keys. I have no CD/DVD in the optical drive. The noise repeats 5 to 10 times and then quits for a while, and it repeats at a regular rate of less than a second.
I attempted to use the fast user switching menu to switch to a different account on my mac (it's a new Macbook Pro with OS 10.8.2, but I migrated users and settings from my old mac). I misremembered the password and entered it incorrectly 4 or 5 times, after which it closed the password entry window.
I have a dual-display setup, and I have many open windows on each of my displays. When I disconnect the display and reconnect it, all the windows are positioned on my native display in an unordered fashion. To avoid having to continually redistribute my open windows among my two displays after disconnecting the external one, I'd like to have two "profiles," one for when the display isn't connected and one for when it is, such that all windows have a state associated to one profile and they are automatically changed back to that state when that profile becomes active. Does anyone know of an app that can do this? Note: I'm looking for an alternative to Stay; it didn't work properly for me.
Various programs have stalled on me trying to copy to the disk (cp, scp, dd, etc), and in the case of the Finder, it will freeze entirely while the operation is stalled. Programs with stalled disk operations show up as U (in uninterruptible wait) in ps, and if I try to use ^C, E appears too (trying to exit).
Obviously having the same movie multiple times in iTunes it not acceptable. I can't fill my library with duplicates.
I have a thunderbolt to ethernet cable on a MacBookPro Retina on Lion. Sometimes the thunderbolt to ethernet connection does not work. It seems to occur when I switch network locations (e.g., I move from my home network to my work network). Restarting the computer fixes the problem, however, I don't want to have to restart my computer. How can I force thunderbolt to ethernet to connect without restarting the computer?
I have a new Mac (Mountain Lion) with iPhoto '11. I want to share photos on the web. In the past, I would launch iWeb and build a little photo album web page. My understanding was that if I subscribed to .Mac/MobileMe I could share my iWeb page that way, but instead I always FTPed my web page to my own web site.
I currently have a large collection of short movies from Youtube and quite a large selection of home movies. What is the best way of managing all these files? I need to keep them separated from my iTunes purchases and DVD rips... I'd like to sort them in separate pools (movies, shorts, home movies) but also categorize them even the home movies (vacations, weddings, paintball events...).
I have an iPhone 4S. When I send a text message it sometimes sends to the contact's email address rather than their mobile, if within the contact I have both email and mobile included. How do I prevent this - I always want to send to the mobile number. Also, I can't tell whether it goes to email addr or mobile number - the receiver tells me eventually.
Each year I teach a subject where the folders are organised subjectname/2011, subjectname/2012, etc. I want to be able to search subjectname 2012 because 2012 is not unique.
I tried updating my iPad to iOS 6. I plugged the iPad into my computer and it showed that is was backing up, however the update never showed up on iPad. What do I need to do?
I am trying to find where the icon file is located for certificates on OS X. This is a picture of what I'm looking for:
I have a home network that contains computers with both Macs and PCs. I'd like to use the same iTunes library on all of the machines, so I moved the library folder and all of the media to a network drive.
My iPhone 4 (iOS 6) has stopped syncing wirelessly (with my Mac) over the course of the past few weeks. When I connect it via the cable, iPhoto pops up and I can get the photos off, but it doesn't start syncing the music / apps automatically. I have to hit the "sync" button, and even then, it doesn't appear to be pulling the "last played" data off the phone.
I've grown to really appreciate the ability to press space twice on my iOS devices and have a period manually inserted without having to switch keyboards. Though I realize the need isn't quite there on actual keyboards since the key is accessible at all times, I'm curious: Is there any way to get the same behavior using baked-in functionality on Mac OS X? This is assuming the most recent version of Mountain Lion is installed.
So i have a MBP retina 15" that has a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. The other day I noticed my screen was a little dirty so I took the screen brightness all the way down (fn+ f1) and did this while Windows 7 was locked. I now cannot get the brightness back up.
I am trying to install gnuplot on my mac. after trying brew install gnuplot, I get the following errors: You must 'brew link lua jpeg' before gnuplot can be installed And when I try brew link lua jpeg I get the following error:
Even when I unlock the Fast User Switching functionality, using an admin account, the menu remains disabled. What could be causing this? And, how could I solve it?
Edit .plist will hide both menubar and dock icon. Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon?
Is there a way I can use Safari to list the contents of a folder? More like of an "index" page where you get to see the files and sub-folders inside a path/folder. Like this one:
I need to do remote checks to verify OSX has filevault enabled. When you enable filevault, does it create / change something on the HDD that I can check for on VPN login using my posture assessment tools?
Sometimes a note in Notes suddenly disappears. It usually (always?) happens just in a few seconds after the creation, while I'm still editing the note. What causes this kind of behavior and how can I fix this? (Technical details: OS X 10.8.2, GMail sync is on.)
I have a new iPhone 5 (iOS 6.0.1) and successfully configured it with a backup of my old iPhone via iTunes on my Windows 7 PC. This basically transferred all my settings, media and apps.
How can I sync my MP3 collection on my Windows 7 PC with my iPhone 4S without having to use iTunes?
I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, so I could put it on a bootable USB using a program. When I tried, it said that Mountain Lion was not found in applications, and I could not move it into applications because it was not found.
I have a strange discrepancy in the amount of free disk space that's being reported. The finder says:
Pretty much every application I use in full-screen (including Firefox, MacVim and the Terminal) have tabs on the top of the screen. The problem is, when I move my mouse to reach the tabs I'll often accidentally touch the top of the screen, bringing in the OS menu OVER the tabs:
I'm in need of a translator for ⌥ ⇞ This screen shot below is from the TexStudio and Texmaker latex editors.
I guess everybody here knows about the character palette of Mac OS X.  Is it possible to create a new symbol, using an image or a vectorial shape made in Illustrator, and add it to the character palette? If so, a brief outline of how this would work would be ideal since I'd like to actually do this to extend my Mac's usable characters with some custom designs.
I'm using Pages' Invoice templates, and it's been grand so far. Now I need to send an invoice to Europe, and the sums need to be in euros rather than dollars. How can I change the currency type in the table?
In Mountain Lion’s Mail app, I can delete attachments from mails others have sent me, but not from the mails I sent to others. In the mailbox, the messages I have sent are not marked with the small paperclip, even when then have a attachments (however, their size is correct and includes the big attachments). When I select an individual message (or many), the "Delete attachements" menu item is grayed out. How can I deleted attachments from mails I sent?
Every hour the Time machine pops up a dialog window. It takes the focus off of what I am doing and is generally a nuisance. The external disk drive is connected via a thunderbolt cable. It is an apple thunderbolt powered 1t drive. It is primarily used by time machine. I could care less that it cleans up its own space, just do it and don't tell me about it. There is nothing I can do or should do. Text of dialog below:
I have somewhat of a weird issue. I have a client who wants to send their audio out from their MacBook Pro 15" Retina to their TV from the headphone jack output on the MacBook. The TV has a 1/8th audio input, so that all plugs in very nicely. After it's plugged in, the audio stops coming out of the MacBook's speakers, just like it would if you had headphones plugged in, but there's no audio coming out of the TV speakers.
When I send an email to somebody I get this dialog:  But when I click on "Connection Doctor" and then "Try With Selected Server" it works. How can I fix this?
I got an old MacBook Air. I know very little about it, because I got it as a workstation in a new job and nobody has any info about it.
I upgraded my iPad to iOS 6. Now all my apps appear to be gone. Am I missing something? Have they moved to a new place? How do I get them back? (I don't sync my iPad to a computer, if that is relevant.)
There are a bunch of computers on my network that are not on the DNS server. They broadcast their name using Samba or are Windows Workgroup machines. When I run either ping or try to access them over the browser, it does not work. However I am able to do a smbutil lookup thathost and get their ip address.
I am interested in restoring my Mac (i.e. wiping the OS X portion of my harddrive back to factory settings). However, I also have Windows 7 installed (via bootcamp) on my Mac (using 60GB of my hard drive).
Finder has started to crash constantly such that I can't click the icon in Dock. I can't click Apple in top-left corner of the screan (Finder also crash), I don't have any menubar icons from Apple like a Time Machine, Spotlight and the system is unstable. Safari crashes but what is confusing Google Chrome, Sparrow and other 3rd party apps works as normal. Only Apple menubar app that is working is Notification Center.
Here is my setup: Macmini Genius 120-degree webcam with internal mic 55" LED TV
My iPad 2 and has iBooks and I'm trying to send a PDF "book" to a friend of mine. The sharing button is shaded so I can't do it!
Is there an extension or a plugin that allows for marking different tabs with colors ? I want to be able to group together a bunch of tabs that are relevant under one color using Safari.
When I send plain text emails with Mac Outlook, line breaks are automatically inserted. This is annoying for several reasons. (1) long URLs are split over multiple lines which confuses readers; (2) personalised line formatting breaks. Others share the problem (e.g., here and here) How can I prevent Mac Outlook from inserting line breaks in plain text emails?
I need to assign a secondary group membership to a user on a client machine running 10.7.4. In CLI When userA or userB logs in to my Isilon cluster, he is denied access (does not have QC privileges) So I try this: Again, users denied access. Getting more details: Funny that QC group lists members with secondary membership but no primaries listed in any group (except system groups) Again digging for more info:
My friend stole my iPod but I can't prove it. But he knows my account information, and I have the device on my Macbook iTunes, and the name is all of a sudden his name. Is there a way to be able to tell if he changed it or if I were to plug it in my computer would I be able to tell if it's mine? Also is there a way I can get Apple to tell me what my iPod Touch name was in March and to see if it's the same as what he changed it to?
I updated Mail.app that comes with Mountain Lion and it seems to be unable to identify "Spam" folder located in my Gmail account as a spam folder. Consequently, it treats "Spam" as a regular mail container and shows me junk mails in Spotlight search results, even though the checkbox "Also search in Spam folder" is not checked in Mail.app's Preferences. Is there any known way to make Mail see that Gmail "Spam" folder is in fact for spam?
What video player for iPad mini supports mkv format best?
Final update I just received an email from Apple confirming this bug has been fixed in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I've been having rendering issues with Safari 6 on different systems all running Mountain Lion, and I'm unable to find a solution. I've attached some screenshots to describe the issue. Update Further investigation suggests that this might be a problem with 2012 Mac models only, specifically the ones with HD4000 graphics. Update It appears the artifacts don't always show up immediately, requiring some reloads and/or closing/reopening tabs before they show up. Update The issue is confirmed as not a WebKit bug, and has been filed as a bug at Apple (problem 12750455 by Simon Fraser).
I have six virtual desktops and want to change a desktop wallpaper for all of them at once. There is no such option when using System Preferences, so I have to change a wallpaper only for one desktop and repeat this six times. Is there any way for process automation?
I often have five or six Safari (and Chrome) windows open, each containing several tabs. I often lose track of where a live tab is when I want to return to it. I can use the Safari window menu option from the main menu to list the names of the active/front tabs in all the open windows, but this doesn’t help me if the tab I’m after is not active/at the front of its window. Is there an AppleScript or extension that expands on the 'window' menu to list ALL tabs within a window as a child menu item / drop-down?
I've got a hard disk of 120GB (20GB free space). I'm a developer in XCode and sometimes I get the "low disk space error"-message that I can't even save my coded files before cleaning some of the space. I don't know why this happens because without performing anything I'm losing about 19GB of space. This lost space regains if I restart the mac. I asked around with my friends, and they don't get this kind of behavior, so it seems I'm the only one.
I have a iPhone 5 updated with the latest IOS (6.0.1); when going to the cellular options, there is no "Enable LTE" option. Could this be because my carrier (TIM, Italy) doesn't currently support LTE/4G? But shouldn't at least the option be there? My carrier will start implementing LTE/4G in the next weeks/months, it should be available shortly in major cities, at least for testing; but if I can't even enable it on my iPhone, how am I going to test it?
I am using Coda 2 coming from Dreamweaver, and it all seems great. However, uploading a file or 'publishing' (what's actually the difference here?) seems to stick the file in the root. Even when the local file structure maps directly to the remote structure. VERY annoying!
I'm looking to script using the unix shell the retrieval of SSD (and HDD) data that disk utility shows in the information window.  I'm immediately interested in the Power On Hours and Power Cycle, but if all the data comes from one data structure or tool, so much the better. The usual tools diskutil info disk0 and ioreg -l are not producing the "of interest" values listed in the screen shot above. Is this information available from any of the built in OS X terminal tools or do I need to locate an open-source package that makes the same API calls to get this level of detail about a Mac drive?
I'm fast-user switched to the login screen. However, when I start to type my user name and password the keyboard input freezes before I am finished and I get the spinning beach ball and can't log in. Sometimes if I hit any of the volume buttons the keyboard unhangs and I am able to log in, but this time this isn't working any more.
I need to secure some work on my laptop and an encrypted disk image fits the bill. I don't need to hide the file (diskimage) just the contents. I like a sparse disk image since it will expand as I add content but a Truecrypt volume "feels" more secure to me. Is it really? I'm not hiding it from the NSA, just someone that might steal my laptop or access it, etc. Is there really much difference?
I'd like to connect my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Stock JellyBean) to my Macbook Pro (early-2012, running OSX Lion) via an access point created by my Macbook Pro. Sadly I can't even see the access point on my Android phone. Does anyone know a possible solution to this problem?
Having a problem since I installed either 10.8.1 or 10.8.2 (can't be sure which one -- I don't often let it get into hibernate). Problem is that when the battery runs out and it hibernates to save the state of RAM, when it wakes up there is no mouse or keyboard. The screen is responsive and stuff is happening (like reconnecting to WiFi). Any ideas?
Why does fn-⇧-→ (or others) do a home/end in Terminal but a ⌘-→ works everywhere else? So just to be clear the question is how to make Terminal take Command + ← and → for home and end?
I've got a problem with my installation of wine. (OS 10.8.2, XCode 4.5.2)
Let me preface this by saying that I am not looking to set music in the built-in iOS Clock app. I have tried that and I had problems with it. I usually keep all sounds muted, so it won't work. I also tried Alarm Clock HD, which plays music as an alarm but it won't work for me as I needed to be running in the background. I am also using an iPod touch, so bmike's suggestion isn't feasible. Here's what I'm looking for: an app that will allow me to a set a song for an alarm and will play that song even if the app is in the background. Alarm Clock HD also had a nice volume feature, which automatically turned up the volume all the way (which is really nice). Is there an iOS app that will do this?
The still from this video (see image below) shows non-standard window maximization control options. Upon mouse hover on the + in the normal close, minimize, maximize controls (top-left of each window), a pop-up bubble is shown.
When I open multiple Finder windows in Mountain Lion, I find that, no matter what virtual desktop I go to in Spaces, all the Finder windows remain where they are. However, when I open, say, Skype, for example, the window only stays in one of my virtual desktops, as expected. When I 4 finger swipe to another Space, the Skype window disappears. Why doesn't Finder do this? It's really bugging me.
I want to give my older iPhone to someone else, but they only want to use it as a basic phone, and use data only over WiFi, not over the 3G / LTE network. However, when their SIM card is put into my phone, the network charges me automatically for a data plan. How do I show a iPhone as a non-smartphone to the network?
I encountered a strange problem today. I downloaded FileZilla and on first launch the title bar was above my mouse pointer's reach. Making the window unmovable. Here is a screenshot of my situation.
I'm looking to turn over some older Apple hardware I have and all of the gear has been upgraded to the latest Mountain Lion using the App Store version of Mountain Lion and my Apple ID. Section 2.B of the EULA for Mountain Lion makes it clear the license I purchased for Mountain Lion via the App Store is non-transferrable:
Whenever I update my status or post anything from my iPhone 5 it does not show "Sent via iPhone" whereas my friend's iPhone does that. I even contacted Apple but they said it's related to Facebook and not the device. Please let me know the settings to fix this problem.
I noticed that MacPorts contains lots of software that are already present as part of a stock Mac OS X installation (I am running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard), such as coreutils, tar, etc. Is there a benefit to using the MacPorts versions?
I've been working with Apple Configurator in its various versions (now 1.2.1) since its introduction and it is a powerful tool to manage and supervise iPads & other iOS devices. One glaring omission is the inability to duplicate an existing profile in order to make small changes and save as a new profile. Without this function, one must create a new profile and recreate all the settings. With complicated profiles this becomes a tedious and potentially error-prone exercise. One cannot simply export the profile, rename the file in the Finder and re-import: it merely replaces the original because the original profile's name is coded into the XML, and I can't figure out what to change in the XML code to get this working, if that is indeed what must be done. The iPhone Configuration Utility (latest v3.5) has the function I need, but it cannot process new iOS 6 configuration details and strips them out when imported. Has anybody figured out how to duplicate profiles?
My friend gave me a macbook air to try to fix it. I'm pretty good with any Windows machine and the common troubleshooting steps. Like safe mode, malware scanners, startup applications and stuff. But I'm not really sure where to start on this macbook air. It doesn't have the dock on the bottom. Hitting shutdown took like a minute for the prompt to come up. So, it's behaving really slow. And I'm sure there's other things, but what should I do to start troubleshooting? Also, I've noticed the screen go black for a split second every like 5-10 minutes.
I'd like to create a Safari bookmark that automatically scrolls to a specific position on the page. The page in question is not under my control, and has no in-page anchors. I have a vague notion of something being done via a bit of Javascript saved inside the bookmark, but don't know if even possible, how to implement.
I wonder if it is possible to restore one partition to another in command line? The similar operation can be performed with Disk Utility, but unfortunately I cannot boot in graphics mode (even safe mode does not work). Man page of diskutil does not describe such option. I use Mac OS X 10.7.
Does iOS 6 support Live wallpapers? Are there any apps out there?
When I had a iMac (about 3 years ago), I tried connecting my Microsoft 4000 keyboard to it and I remember that there were some issues with key mappings. I do like Mac keyboards, but at times I like the more relaxing feel of my 4000. Is it possible to make the keys match 1:1 so there is no difference between which keys I press for each keyboard?
Had to erase and restore my internal drive on my MacBook Pro. I selected restore from Time Machine my settings, User accounts, and Applications after doing a fresh install of 10.8. Now my Time Machine volume does not show the old backups I need to finish my restore.
I started screen-casting for YouTube but stumbled upon a dilemma. When viewing one of my videos on YouTube, the text is impossible to read because my monitor is too big. Of course there's the option of full-screen HD, but only some users like that. My question is, how can I record for YouTube at the best possible quality without having to go into full-screen mode? Thanks for your help in advance, Mikey
I want to buy a MacBook Pro Retina 15" and install Windows 7 or 8 (boot camp) to play games. Obviously games aren't ready for this 2880x1800 resolution, so I hope I can set the games to run at 1440x900 and, since this is 1/4 of the native resolution, have a perfect view (perfect scaling) of the game. This is what I dream about... from this, come some questions:
I have a MBP with an external monitor running ML. When I enter full screen mode, the other monitor isn't usable. Is it possible to have the full screen on one monitor and to use the other monitor as well?
The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings.
I dropped my iPhone 5 and it left a dig on the shiny edge of the phone. I was wondering what they best way to try to remove the ding would be.
I am correctly getting notifications from Facebook in Mountain Lion's notification center, but when I click them expecting to be brought into the browser (Chrome is my default browser) to see the subject of the notification, nothing happens. Instead, the notification just disappears from the notification center and I'm left there with no clue about what happened.
How can I pass content I've bought on Amazon to my Amazon Kindle (Paperwhite)? Because it turned out that it is not that easy. Actually, it is really hard. What I've tried so far:
My macbook air start up is acting weird. I press start button, I hear the apple sound and a blank grey screen appears Then the apple logo shows on the grey screen with a loading circle below it. Then a blue screen appears and then the grey screen appears with the loading circle (the loading circle doesn't spin though. Then the mouse appears on the grey screen then the blue screen comes up and then the login box with the desktop image.
I want to retrieve data from my old Apple ID. I have signed in my iPhone with my old Apple ID, but iTunes displays an error:
I have a MacBook Pro 2010 where I've installed Windows8 using Bootcamp. When I install Visual Studio 2012 with WindowsPhone8 SDK, it says me that my hardware does not support hardware virtualization, so that the emulator cannot be used.
What can I do to search for a multi-word expression such as "little bug" in Preview? I want to return only words together and in that order. My first reflex was to try double quotes, but it looks like Preview is searching for them instead of ignoring them. Some googling turned up this question where someone mentions the double quoting working as of 2010. I'm running 10.7.5 and Preview 5.5. Is this a relatively new "bug" in Preview? I find it weird that I haven't noticed it before...
I'm using curlftpfs with macfuse to mount some ftp sites through automount. The mount directories for each share is in /Volumes folder. Now iTunes on each startup tries to read /Volumes/Curlftpfs_Share and hangs. Is it a bad practice to mount network/slow shares under /Volumes, where should I mount it instead? Why does iTunes check all mounted shares on startup — can I switch it off?
I have 900 apps on my Mac because I sync both my iPhone and iPad. There are a lot of apps that I deleted a long time ago which are useless. I have amassed 40gb of apps. Is there a quick way to delete all the useless apps?
Time Machine in OS X does store local backups (snapshots) on the local harddrive if you have Time Machine enabled. Even if you backup regularly, the size of the local backups increases steadily. In a SSD-only setup I therefore disable local backups to decrease the write activity and used space of my SSD using: Should I do this in a fusion drive as well?
From what I understand, the implementation of the Fusion Drive is at the OS level (coreStorage). Yet, I want to know if it's possible to manually interfere in the management for a specific file or directory.
I would like to see all the windows, including from the same app, when I switch between them (command+tab). See an example from Ubuntu (image attached).
I was messaging a friend then suddenly it gave me an error saying the message was not sent and I had to re-try sending the message. Since then, my iMessage freezes if I go into that same message. I cannot delete that conversation because if I go back (does not freeze if my screen is not in a conversation) and press edit then delete, it reappears every 5 seconds. This one conversation seems to be the one with the glitch.
I was using ios version 4 till yesterday, and I just upgraded the version. Some apps which I purchased before cannot be found in the app store or in the itunes purchases section. what is to be done??
Over time, I have created quite a clean list of all my contacts across various IM networks - Faceboo, Google, MSN, ICQ - where every contact has their respective IM network account merged into one using Adiums "contact merging" capability. Since I plan on starting with new system installation from scratch, I was wondering if there was an option for exporting those contacts to Adium-readable format, or maybe combining them to some already existing contacts list solution like Google Contacts.
I have a big file compressed in split .rar archives. There are 68 archives named .rar, .r01, .r02, etc., annd the problem is that .r36 is corrupted resulting in an Unexpected end of archive. I've looked around and I have found nothing. There is no way to repair the file.
So the question in the title “Can I extend my MacBook Air 13.3 A1369 SSD to 512GB?”
I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. I have eight email accounts set up in Mail.app. Some of my SMTP servers support SSL and some don't. But now Mail.app turned SSL on for every server (except the one using a custom port) and it won't let me turn it off. When I uncheck "Use Secure Sockets Layer" in the Advanced settings, it just automatically rechecks itself. How can I get it to go off and stay off?
The finder in Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) suddenly stops showing the shared section. It might show up again in a couple of days or in might not. All completely spontaneous with no apparent cause. Any clues?
So I use Logitech and Wacom mouses and tablets. Is there a way to enable scroll momentum / inertia with non Apple devices across all Mac OS? Or at least Chrome...
If you have work files on your laptop that are sensitive, what measures can you take to keep things secure? is it possible to encrypt the entire drive?
When my Windows laptop is connected to my network via Wi-Fi only, I can see and play to various AirPlay speakers in my house (an iHome AirPlay speaker, an Apple TV, and an Airport Express). When I plug in the ethernet cable, though, they're no longer available, even when I'm still connected to Wi-Fi. The ethernet connection goes to the same router as the Wi-Fi.
Previously in the menu bar when I click on the "Refresh" icon it use to say Sync Now and now it says No Devices Syncing. Is this feature now obsolete due to MobileMe not available anymore?
I have an iPhone 4 that I wanted to use for my daughter to play on. I updated it to the latest software iOS 6 and it's telling me to put a SIM card in to activate it. I don't want the iPhone activated. I have wifi in my house and I just want her to be able to play games on it. Is it possible?
How can you force the computer (in this case a laptop [rMBP]) into the "hibernate" state where it writes the RAM to the HDD/SSD so that the battery can last for the advertised 30 days. I know that this can be achieved by waiting 70 minutes (4200 secs) after it is in sleep mode (if you haven't adjusted the default time settings), but is there a way to force it into this state? I am having wake problems, and want to test this state of waking from.
Next, I ran Micromat TechTool Deluxe that came with my AppleCard protection plan to check my hardware, all tests passed. I also held the D button during boot to run the Apple Hardware Test, again it found no problems. Finally, I tried to reset the NVRAM with no success, and I used Disk Utility to verify the internal hard drive which produced the following message:
I've been learning the shell for a few weeks and have installed several packages. I know/remember what some of them are, like oh-my-zsh and emacs 24 (which was a nightmare to upgrade to), but not sure sure about what else. I've used different methods like curl, wget and Macports.
Can I turn the iTunes EQ on/off using AppleScript? I found a way to change the preset, but not turn the EQ on or off.
Is there a way that, when you switch language inputs for your keyboard, the onscreen keyboard will automatically show up?
There are many common apps available to show total system RAM usage and free. However, my understanding is only a jailbroken phone has access to the APIs to access PER PROCESS memory usage on iOS. How can one do this most effectively? This link has a few example tools but they all seem outdated and no information if they work on iOS 5 & iOS 6. http://www.ifans.com/forums/threads/troubleshooting-memory-issues.142660/
I want to add Adobe PDF as a printer in Lion. I know how to use the "pdf" button in the print dialog, but that unfortunately won't work for the task I have in mind. Does anyone know how to this? I'm an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber so have access to the latest version of Acrobat. Alternatively, does anyone know if its possible to add a different, not-necessarily-Adobe PDF printer?
I just created an icloud account and i am backing it up and it says it will take 3 hours. I have no pictures on my phone so i think its just backing up contacts, reminders, etc. Does anyone know why it would take this long? Is there something that i could be configured incorrectly? Any advice would be great.
I have made an iPod nano appear as a flash drive by going to iTunes and checking "Enable disk use." However, I am short of a large enough USB key to hold a bootable Windows 8 installer for use by Boot Camp. Because Boot Camp needs to wipe the drive used, can I create a partition in Disk Utility of the iPod and install to that? Does iPod still work after creating a new partition for use as a flash disk?
In Chrome, where the autofill list can be shown with two down-arrow keystrokes, or with clicking the mouse once. I'd like to be able to open the Chrome autofill list with some other keystroke rather than having than having to shift my hand over to the arrow keys or the mouse.
I am looking for a good Aperture tutorial and would appreciate some recommendations. Which tutorials can you recommend?
I'm using my Google account to sync my calendars. The iPad shows duplicate entries, but my phone and Mac do not, as you can see:
iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 have the same settings but the new iPhone 4S uses 10 times more battery in standby than old iPhone 4. Why?
My MBP (13inch, late 2011) sometimes loses it's startup disk when I have powered it off by holding the power button for 10 seconds. Not every time, but one time out of 5. (See my other question on my MBP locking up when entering clamshell mode for why I have been having to do this.)
Sometime recently -- maybe in the last month or so -- a glitch came up with Google and Safari 6. I don't know if it happened when I upgraded to Safari 6 or if it's the result of encrypted search results on Google.
I don't like how images downloaded from Safari and photos taken from Camera app are both dumped into the "Camera Roll" folder in Photos app. How do I configure my phone to automatically segregate the two types of images for better organization?
Given an html5 application that I have access to, Is there a way to get a screen shot of how it would look on the iPhone 5. I do not have an iPhone 5, so is this possible?
I know this is not a new problem, but I haven't seen a solution to it so I figured I'd go ahead and see if anyone has come across a solution here: Sometimes iTunes grays out menu bar options such as Quit iTunes and Add to Library. I never noticed any pattern about when this happens, but I've read that others experience it after editing tracks in their libraries. I've also checked for open dialog boxes somewhere, but I don't have any of those.
On my iPad 3, if I check Usage the system reports that Camera and Photos, and specifically the Photostream, is consuming nearly 5GB of space. I have turned off the Photostream to verify but it only frees about 100MB. I do not even have that many photos so don't see where the space is being used. How can I regain all this used space? Update: I have also tried to simply delete the entry by swiping and choosing "Delete" but, despite some freezing of the screen, it does not appear to do anything.
I have an iMac G3 that I'm planning on playing around with but need advice on handling the CRT and how to make sure I don't kill myself. I have read quite a lot about discharging the CRT and the one thing I'm not sure about is how to make sure that when discharging you have the tool properly grounded. Do you keep the computer plugged into the mains, but with it off, so the earth connection is still attached and thus used when discharging. Where is the ground lug, which seems to be referenced in a few resources, such as this one, as I want to ensure I'm connected to the correct bit, so I don't become the ground. Will wearing electricians gloves (or gloves suitable for handling high voltage) help protect me when doing this, or will they end up being cumbersome and give a false sense of protection? Is it a good or bad idea to wear rubber soled shoes, will this also help insulate me, or again give a false sense of protection? I guess the more precautions the better, but just trying to figu
Have latest iPad 4 and latest iMac with OS Lion and have a wireless connection. iMac system preferences checked for internet sharing ethernet to wireless device. BUT iPad Safari cannot open page as unable to connect to internet. The iMac ethernet connection is via Cable and internet connection ok. Any advice as to how to connect the iPad correctly. I've tried re-start after checking all settings are correct.
I am a video editor and I have seen 2-display video setups a where one monitor is used for the editing software, and the secondary monitor is used to preview the edited footage. How would I be able to set this up on an iMac, if at all possible?
On my Mac, I'm having trouble with a UDP port (500) that is "already in use", but it doesn't have an associated process anymore. shows But lsof doesn't show a process on port 500 (ie "sudo lsof -i:500 -P" reports nothing). Note that I am using "sudo" for these calls, so it should show all resources. How can I figure out how to unbind the resource attached to port 500 so I can use it again?
In Mac OS X Mountain Lion at least, if you Option+click ( Alt+click ) on another a window of another app, this will make the other application to gain focus, and the current app to be hidden as if you'd pressed Command+H. Is there any way to disable this behaviour? Perhaps with some defaults write like command entered in a terminal? I'd like to use Option+click for some different behaviour (moving windows by Option+clicking anywhere on them, using a third-party tool, Zoom2), and having Option+click trigger the hiding behaviour instead is very inconvenient.
Every time my family and I try to download an app, the AppStore pops up saying my Apple ID or password is incorrect. So the first time I reset the password. It happened again and I did reset it a second time. The third time I wrote down the password, so I knew it was right. But AppStore still doesn't accept my Apple ID or password. I've changed it about 5 times now. What do I do?
If so, how? I happen to use Spotlight a lot for looking up definitions. Basically, I'll be reading or writing, find a word I want to know the definition of, press Cmd+Space type it up and then... I'll have to move my hand to the mouse and drag it over to hover over the "Look Up" section in spotlight for the popup to appear.
I have enabled Home Sharing on a PC (Windows 7). I am successfully streaming Video and Music to my iPad.
Before I've upgraded to iOS 6 I did my facebook contact synchronization with an app called "phone+". It synchronized all my contact pictures (and some other things as well). The photos were in large scale. So if somebody called me, his/her picture would be shown on the whole phone screen.
I bought an iPhone 4S. I am trying to download apps from the App store but it is not letting me do it. Every time I try to download an app, a window pops up asking me to type in my Apple ID password. When I enter my password another window pops up asking me to answer to three security questions. If I click on continue it keeps on asking me to enter the password. I have already answered one security question (as there is only one question) by going on appleid.apple.come manually. It still is not working. Any advice appreciated.
Has someone else this kind of problem after yesterday's update for July'12 Macbook Pro?  I have tried all the typical things like Reboot, Restore Disk Permissions, killall SystemUIServer. The one thing that does fix this issue is making a new user account. When I log in to that account, the icons are revealed.
Me and a friend have Mountain Lion and iPhone with IOS 6. When I launch Messages on Mac, I have to select either his email or phone number to send a message. I don't get this. Why do I have to select one or another? The worst thing is that both have different behaviors: selecting email will tend to deliver to his computer before the phone while selecting phone number will tend to deliver first on the phone and generally doesn't go to the computer. I don't understand that if it shows him as able to iMessage on both iPhone and Mac, why do I have to select the destination source?
I have been using Skim for a while as my standard PDF reader. After migrating to a new MacBook Air with Mountain Lion (currently running 10.8.2), I can no longer launch Skim from Mail.app. This same issue was reported to the Skim community ( *=URL=* ) and closed as invalid, as it was considered a problem with Mail.app, not Skim. Does anyone know how to get this to work again?
Recently, when I try to quit Mail, the Quit menu option is actually disabled and the keyboard shortcut doesn't work (it "beeps" just like when you try to do anything that isn't permitted). Screenshot for proof:
I am trying to automatically save all email sent to one address (let's call it test@example.com) to this folder /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ (where /Users/luomat = $HOME). Here is the rule that I am using in Mail.app:
I have a Mac Pro with 3 hard drives in it - Windows XP, Snow Leopard and Lion. I have been using the Snow Leopard one as my startup drive and working from it. It's about time to move to Lion and I'd like to take the iTunes library with me, it is used for streaming to my Apple TV, lots of my play lists are based on play counts etc. How can I do this? Migration Assistant won't work as it can't see the Snow Leopard drive, it's not actually in another computer. Copying the iTune library files has given me some odd results as well, does anyone have any advice?
I have a roommate with a mid-2010 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. I would like to experiment with OS X 10.8, but don’t want to make them upgrade their Mac since 10.6 is still receiving security updates and they subscribe to the "if it isn’t broke don’t fix it" computer philosophy. Is it technically possible to run OS X 10.8 in Virtualbox with 10.6 as the host OS? If so how do you do this, and what is the legality of doing so?
I been using iPhone for almost 2 weeks and i am unable to pinch and zoom in the video camera whereas I am able to use pinch and zoom in camera. Is this multitouch functionality disabled on iPhone 5 running version 6.0.1(10A525) of iOS?
I need to extend my Wi-Fi and would like the type that just plugs into the mains. I cannot find a repeater or extender that does not use Windows to configure. Is there a repeater or extender which can be configured with OS X?
How can I get information if my HD format is case sensitive or case insensitive? I want to make sure my Mac running Mountain Lion has a case sensitive file system.
The iphone 3gs went off (did not use it for a couple of days). I attached it to its power cord but all I can see is green screen.
I would like to use the iMac for external display and would like to connect MacBook Pro as a source. What kind of cable do I need and how to I setup the display?
I am searching a command line tool collection like iproute2 on Linux. Network Utility is OK, but I would like it on the command line.
Everytime I restart, I get two crashplan icons in the menu bar. If I close one of them, the other still remains. How can I get rid of one of them?
I was wondering what kind of technique does iOS use? Single contiguous allocation Partitioned allocation Paged memory mangement Segmented memory mangement I believe it is partitioned allocation, but I'm not sure...
We are trying to set up printing for a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion (10.8.2) using an HP Color Laser Jet 3550 as a network printer. It seems to find and recognize the printer just fine, but upon submitting a one page print job it proceeds to print multiple copies of the page until the job is cancelled at the printer.I have checked, and it is set to only print one page in the printer dialogue.
When I use silent mode, I expect no sound and hence I expect alarms to be silent as well but they are not; ring/silent switch has no effect on alarms! On iOS 5 this used to work and in silent mode alarms did just vibrate. How can i put alarms in silent mode without reconfiguring each of them one by one when I need silent mode? Thanks
When I check out the Graphics on 'About this Mac' it says that it is using the Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB even if I also have an AMD Radeon HD 6750M. Also when i click on 'Displays'-tab, i see the Intel HD Graphics 3000. I am note sure which one is used, and how do I change so the right and better card is used? I am using OS X Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro 15" late 2011.
I started to use the default Notes app over iPhone, iPad and Macbook. After it sends me an email about the note, the note gets removed. I want to keep the notes. My friend suspected a time-drift bug in Apple but I checked and the devices are in the same time. It is very hard to believe this is an intentional feature. I use sync over iCloud. I have OS X 10.7.5, iPhone 4S and iPad 2. How can I get notes unremoved?
I understand that .DS_store files serve a purpose. That said, they are a nuisance when auto-completing with the cd command. When I type cd in Terminal and press tab twice it lists all directories in the working directory. Is there a way of removing .DS_store from this auto-complete directory listing in the terminal?
After a little exploration, I learned that if I switch Full Keyboard Access from "All controls" to "Text boxes and lists only" (in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts), it only takes one tab keypress to activate search results. However, in general I like to have full keyboard access.
In Microsoft Outlook I archive my mail by creating various archive files on the local disk. Can I do something similar to this with Mail.app? I would like to archive some of my iCloud email on my local machine.
If I have an application open in desktop 1, what's the simplest way to move it over to desktop 2? In snow leopard I could do this by dragging the window to the edge of the screen. After leaving it there for a second or so it would move to an adjacent desktop. This doesn't seem to work in Lion. Does anyone know how to move windows between desktops in Lion?
I made this iTunes account on my iPod Touch 1st Gen. and that was like 3 years ago! So when I was buying an app (On my iPad. Because I didn't like the account name my Dad made so I just used my Old one) that costs 7.99 it was asking for an answer to a security question. Which I don't remember because that was a long time ago. I tried resetting my Security question on Appleid.apple.com. So It was telling me my Old apple id needed to be changed because it was a long time ago. So I did. To my Email adress. Then I went to Security and it says "I forgot Answer to Security question Send answers to: *@blahblahblah.com" I clicked that but I didn't know what email they were sending that to! UGH. It's so confusing! And when I tried to buy something on my iPad that costs .99 it says wrong Username. Can I just transfer money from my Account that I have trouble with to another account? I have 15 bucks on this account.
So I was texting one of my friends and I sent him about 700 emojis characters and now whenever I try to open the app, it just freezes for 15 seconds and then crashes out. What can I do to make iMessage work again?
My machine awoke from sleep, and third party apps as well as Finder, Preview and Safari's toolbar only shows the blank buttons similar to the image below. After restart the machine, the problem persists. I also tried using Disk Utility to verify / fix the permissions on the Apple installed software to no avail. How can I troubleshoot or fix this?
I'm running Windows 7 from within Parallels running on MacOS X Lion. I've also setup a local apache server; I can access this server from MacOS X via any browser. I've configured this using a combination of /etc/hosts and configuring the vhosts file: typing in *=URL=* into my browser brings me to the expected website on the MacOS X side. Doing this on the Windows side doesn't do the right thing. I am able to access any other web resource.
The JRE is installed but javaws can not find the JRE. What can I do on the command line to re-enable the web plugin for Apple's Java 6 in Chrome or Safari?
I'm an addicted vim user so I'm finding a way to navigate within texts without using arrow keys. Is there any app or hack to do this ?
I have a dilemma, I have over 80GB of music on my computer and I want to free up some space. I am looking at using iTunes Match as storage for my music instead of having it on the laptop but I have a couple of questions about it? Once it is all uploaded to my iCloud and I delete it from my hard drive, will iTunes still work or will it be constantly be looking for the physical files. If I can delete it, how do I upload new music I acquire, do I have to physically put it on iTunes, then upload and then delete?
I dont know what has happened, but today user control with mouse and trackpad on my macbookpro is screwed up. I rebooted twice, it made no difference. The trackpad moves the cursor okay, but I cannot get tapping or clicking the trackpad have any effect.
I'm trying to connect a remote serial port to my MacBook Pro (and potentially other devices such as Windows or laptops, and Android tablets and smartphones) wirelessly. I've come across Serial-WiFi and Serial-Ethernet adaptors (the latter could presumably be connected to a router and accessed via my existing wifi network), but I don't know how to access the serial port from my Mac. So far as I can tell tese devices rely on drivers which simulate a COM port on the computer, and so far as I can tell none of these adaptors come with drivers which work on OS X. I see that there are also Serial-Bluetooth adaptors, which I guess would also suffice for my purpose if they could be made to work, but I assume the same issue exists with these.
There's a little niggle about the OSX finder that's been irritating me for quite a while and now I want to find out if it's a feature or a bug and if I can do anything about it. I have an open finder window in list view with lots of folders, I scroll down to the folder I want and whenever I drag and drop a file into an opened folder, showing it's contents (doesn't aply when the folder is closed!), after dropping the file, instead of staying put, the contents of the window suddenly zip up to the top of the list and I have to scroll all the way down again to see the folder where the file was dropped into. What's that about??
I'm looking for a way to change the default "send" shortcut in mail to "tab + enter" (like gmail) I've found a way to change it to cmd + enterwith the following: defaults write com.apple.mail NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Send" "@\\U21a9" but doing something like: defaults write com.apple.mail NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Send" "\\u21E5\\U21a9" Does not work. I've followed this answer, but I am unable to add the tab key in the shortcut dialog, and would prefer to do it from the command line. Thanks!
I am running extremely low on disk space and trying to clean up my Mac. Disk Inventory X shows me having over 20gb of space in .pkg (installer package) files in /private/var/folders/pj/_(random)_/C/com.apple.appstore/*
One of my pet hates with OSX at the moment is that whenever I close an app (i.e. clicking the red button in the top left) then attempt to open it again using alt+tab I can't. I need to use my mouse or launch Alfred to open the app.
I'm setting up a MacBook (2009 unibody, for the record) for a friend. There's currently a regular HDD in the machine, and I'm going to be putting a fresh install of Mountain Lion and iLife on it, along with fully updating the machine and preinstalling some useful third-party apps. I've also advised said friend to put an SSD in the machine, so my plan was to do the long-winded part of this on the current HDD, then when the SSD gets delivered, clone the contents over using CCC so it's good to go.
When I receive an exchange meeting invite, it appears in my email inbox (with controls to accept/decline) and also in my calendar (under the small invitations icon). When I accept from one, the other remains. To clear them, I have to accept in both applications, and two replies are sent to the organizer.
I sync all my music with my iPhone. But for some reason the Genius mixes are different. This upset me because my Mac has an awesome Classic Rock mix and my iPhone doesn't. Is it possible to sync Genius playlists between my iPhone and my Mac?
I'm trying to set up an Applescript to add the sender of a selected message in Apple Mail to a specific group in the Contacts app. By reconfiguring the code provided in this answer, I worked up the following but it isn't working. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?
I have a macbook air running OSX 10.7.5. I have had a problem with the App Store not connecting. Apple could not resolve it, so I have done a clean install. Now I wish to restore various folders from Time Machine, but not the most recent Applications Folder, as the App Store program is not working. So, how do I restore an older Applications folder to my clean SSD and import all the necessary support files that are not stored in the Applications folder? Also, where do I find, and how can I import all my user defined files (my Application preferences) that will allow the programs to have the settings I had stored for them before I had to wipe and reinstall the OS?
I'm looking for an (preferably free) audio player on OS X that supports gapless playback. It doesn't need to be fancy, I don't need any bells and whistles. I just want gapless playback. Unfortunately VLC doesn't support this, and though I've tried about half a dozen other players, none of them seem to implement this, or if they do I don't know how to enable it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to avoid iTunes if at all possible since I organize my music by folder and the ID3 tags aren't necessarily up-to-date... and I generally hate iTunes.
In Finder, if I try to move a file from two different remote SMB share that are hosted on the same machine, the file first gets downloaded to my local machine, and then uploaded to the remote target folder. Consequently, it takes a ton of time to move remove files.
Does Mac OS X have a facility for 6 key (Perkins) Braille typing? That is using F, D, S, J, F & L to type in the various Braille cells (mapping respectively to ⠁, ⠂, ⠄, ⠈, ⠐& ⠠) on the keyboard. I don't want to have to use the character palette as that would really slow me down. If OS X doesn't have it out of the box, what 3rd party tools are good? An answer for 8-key input is also acceptable.
Been using an iPad's speech synathesis for a project and we're finding that the volume just isn't loud enought - are there ways of boosting the loudness without just adding external speakers? The iPad is jailbroken, and I'm willing to consider approaches that reduce the lifespan of the device.
I've got a non-Apple app which is supposed to use AirPlay to stream both video and audio to an Apple TV (or other AirPlay-enabled device). Following the AirPlay setup instructions on Apple's website, I turned on my Apple TV, and then, having started playback on my iPad, switched the output from the iPad to the Apple TV. The Apple TV plays audio, and responds to all of the iPad's playback controls, but there's no video. In fact, when the media shows up (as "now playing", under computers), it's shown to be an audio track: the Apple TV shows the default iTunes graphic for albums with no artwork. I'm using the original iPad running iOS 5.1.1 (the latest this model supports)
Are there any dual monitor adapters for the Mini Display port that support true multi monitor mode? For example the Matrox Dual Head To Go just makes your computer think it's connected to a 3360x1050 display rather than 2 1680*1080 displays and you have to do lots of work arounds to ensure that the dock doesn't span both monitors and alerts don't show in the middle of the monitors etc.
I just got a new 15" Retina MacBook Pro (rMBP) for a friend and looking for a good keyboard guard/ cover. I know shopping questions are off topic, but I'm wondering if the sizing is something that differers between Mac models.
I would like to be able to create charts in Excel using my keyboard only. Is there some way of moving focus to the Ribbon with the keyboard?
It says I have to update the software but there isn't an update for garageband on the App store.
Whenever I wake my 2012 MBA 13" from sleep, all apps that were accessing the internet before going to sleep crash. This includes the streaming software Zattoo.app, Chrome.app, Firefox.app, etc. None of the apps that do not access the internet are affected, such as Pages.app, MS Word, etc. All software is up to date, including the OS that currently is at version 10.8.2. I have repaired disk permissions.
I am stucked: I have a poor rasterized image. I have 10.7 OSx. How can I vectorize this image like with Vectormagic, dropping unnecessary basis vectors, and do small image manipulation?
I use a circa-1987 IBM Model M keyboard (with a PS/2 to USB adapter) on my 2011 Mac Mini. For the most part it works well, after some tweaks in System Preferences and third party software.
Is there a way to disable the wifi popup window that was introduced in OS X Lion. I know I can remove it from known wifi networks, but sometimes I do use this connection (It's the Starbucks free wifi next door). The problem arises when I am using Ethernet and maybe it flakes out, or OS X is doing something else, but It pops this window up to let me connect to the free wifi hotspot. I'd much rather have to do this manually (Using my web browser) rather than the "always on top" popup window it gives me. I've looked around on the internet and have found no solutions, I was kind of hoping some network guru for sound defaults write blah.blah to disable it. See image below for the popup window I'm seeing:
I bought an iPhone 3GS and tried to activate iMessage on it, but it won't work. I tried everything to activate it, but it still says "waiting for activation". What should I do?
Checking file systemError: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk. Verify and Repair volume “Server HD” Checking file systemVolume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
My data carrier provides USSD code to check the voice & data balance in the sim & iPad3 doesn't seem to have a way to dial them. So how can I send USSD codes without jailbreaking my iPad? Is it possible at all? USSD codes are like this: *123*1# for data balance.
Is there a way to type a tab space to text within a webpage? (without copy pasting a tab) The normal behaviour of the tab key in an internet browser is cycling between input fields, buttons links etc but now with online document edotors (like Google Docs), how can a user add a tab to a document?
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, i've the feeling my Mac (early 2008 iMac) goes to sleep randomly when i'm connected through SSH. It's there a way I can prevent my Mac to go to sleep when i'm connected over SSH ?
I am not working on an Apple computer, but I know people who do. I want to create a shell script for them which allows them to create a larger number of messages automatically. It should look like this:
I have a MacBookPro5,1 with an NVidia 9600 GT running OS X 10.6.8 (64-bit). In the Linux-world there is a nvidia-settings command to control various OpenGL specific settings, however under OS X I can't find such a tool. How do I control the NVidia settings on my Mac?
On my MacBook Air, running Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I have received (from thalys.nl) bookings of train tickets in .ics format. The point, obviously, is to click them so they get added to my calendar.
I want to enable app-synchronization between the iPhone and iTunes on a new computer. I already transferred the apps from the iPhone to iTunes but when checking the box for synchronizing apps, iTunes still displays the warning message that the phone apps will be replaced by the iTunes apps. The last time I did this, I still had all my apps but the in-app purchases got lost as well as any saved progress in my games. This meant that I had to re-download the maps of my navigation app (skobbler). I'd like to avoid this as my monthly data volume is currently very limited. Is there a way to synchronize without losing the application data?
I have created an administrator account on a Mac OSX 10.5.8. At first, the user name and account name were called "kaleb". However, I later changed the name (is this account or user?) via System Preferences | Accounts to "apple2".
I have a primary iCloud account that has a numbers spreadsheet in it and I would like to have a copy of that same numbers spreadsheet in a secondary iCloud account. It doesn't seem like this is possible unless I am missing something.
I don't return to the same working directory, and while I can see the command history, I cannot use it (I can't use ^P to move up, e.g., and the history command returns nothing). So I believe somehow this is not working with tcsh, as opposed to bash. My colleagues assure me that they don't lose the working directory upon application exit.
I've got a 15-inch MBP Retina. I am using both Thunderbolt ports to drive two third-party monitors via DVI.
For some reason my internet sharing has decided to stop working. It was perfectly fine about a day ago, no issues, no hiccups, but today it differs. It won't work at all.
I have one specific podcast (Reasonable Doubts Podcast) that used to work correctly in iOS5, but since the upgrade to iOS6 with the standalone Podcast app, all the episodes are missing their dates, and sort in alphabetical order (fairly useless). I've unsubscribed, deleted, and re-subscribed, and the problem still occurs. Is this a bug? User error? Something the Doubtcast folks need to fix with the feed on their end?
I have 100 GB of music on my MacBook Pro and I have an iPhone 4. If I sign up to iTunes Match will all this music flood my phone?
Sometimes I need to access a document from TFS on my iPhone/iPad (for example, in a meeting), but the web interface is so clunky, it's nearly impossible. Specifically, I can't bring up any attachments.
Is there any way to avoid this? For example, can I cause the windows to have a preferred location that they could snap back to when possible?
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.1. I want to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 5, but iTunes will only let me upgrade the iPhone to iOS 6. I'd prefer not to, since many important apps don't work in India, especially Maps. Is it possible to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 5?
I have an iPhone and my friend has a regular old dumb phone and an iPad. At school, she has no cell service, but she does have wifi on her iPad. Everywhere else she has her phone, but doesn't carry her iPad, so I have no idea which device to message. Is there an app or service I could use that would message both at once and keep the conversation intact on all of our devices?
I have a VM (VMware Fusion) with enabled VNC access. I want to be able to access it from the network. Unfortunately, VMware requires VM to be running to be able to accept VNC connections and vmware-vmx is the process that listens on VNC port.
iOS 6.0 brought iOS calendar syncing with Facebook, which is very convenient. I can see all my Facebook events on my iPhone.
Is there any way to make my iPhone 5 like a simple iPod touch? I'd like to disable all cellphone functionality but keep the wifi.
We use Excel 2011 for OSX at work and we are consistently encountering the following problem. When we have a multi sheet(page) workbook(document), with both landscape and portrait pages, an error occurs when we try to go to export to a PDF file (file > print > pdf). Instead of generating a multipage PDF file Excel will generate each sheet as a pdf. We can of course combine these back into 1 PDF file once generated in Adobe Acrobat,but it's a fiddly work around for something thats pretty basic and works fine (generates a single PDF file with all pages) in the Windows version of Excel.
I have multiple local domains (i.e. localtest.local) that my iPad cannot see. My machine name, alpha.local, has Apache directives to a "site" I have on the box. All are in /Library/WebServer/Documents/, and I have other directives to many local domains. I have an Airport Extreme router, which I think the iPad should get some answers from, but it doesn't have anything where I can shove this reference to.
I want to be secure. Therefore, neither of the two approaches above is satisfactory.
I ran a command to make my external hdd bootable knowing that it was risky considering the command itself did not allow me to specify a partition to which to write. (In hindsight, I would now call this a stupid decision - but at the time, I tried this command:) For which the output I received was:
I have a problem with my MacBookPro, the left click button on (any) mouse and the trackpad doesnt respond to any clicks, so the only thing that works properly is the keybaord. I havent been able to solve the issue so I am taking my labtop to an Apple store on Friday, but I fear they may need to send it away and may wipe the disk so Id really like a backup of the machine.
Consider this scenario: A thief stole my iPhone. I disable my iphone on www.icloud.com The thief in the meanwhile reinstall iOS Does Find my iPhone is useful in this scenario?
I need a way to move a window between desktops in Lion/Mountain Lion with a keyboard shortcut only (i.e. no mouse involvement). From this similar question, I'm aware that it can be done by holding down the title bar of a window and activating the Move to Left/Right Space shortcut, but that doesn't meet my requirements. I don't much care how it's achieved, as long as it's relatively efficient and can be activated by a keyboard shortcut (if it's just a script, that's fine, I can assign a keyboard shortcut to it another way).
I just successfully unlocked an old AT&T iPhone 4 and 4S using AT&T's unlock process. They are not jailbroken. As I've gone online to sell the phones, the selling phrase is "Factory Unlocked." Is there any difference between factory unlocked and my successful "carrier unlock"? If so, what are the differences?
I replaced my optical disk with an SSD for startup and Mountain Lion and upgraded my HDD to a larger one. I also moved my home folder to the new disk. But one thing is still bugging me.
The first time my iPhone backed up with iCloud, it took 26 hours. It seems like a really long time but I do have a lot of video. How long should this take?
I have an iPhone 4S and lately I've been seeking a way to record some class lectures. Today, I decided to try out using the Voice Memos app on my iPhone and I was absolutely stunned by the quality.
Yesterday I bought a 500Gb external USB drive for the sole purpose of backing up my laptop, which has 45Gb of data. After turning on Time Machine, it began the first backup, but after an hour or so reported there was still 4 hours to go. I had to pack up, so I aborted the backup.
The software is gone. I can reinstall it via App Store or other methods. Where have I missed? Pls advise.
I have Garageband on iPad, iPhone and OS X. How can I transfer the music between them? I have enabled iCloud with iPad and iPhone but cannot understand how to get the music from there to OS X? I have tried iTunes and the file sharing option, but it is too slow, I am trying to find some faster way — I want that the sounds to be available between all of my devices without too many manual changes, hopefully automatically. Basically: I create a song with the iPhone or iPad, I want it immediately available on OS X for processing, how to get it there?
My laptop was fine just yesterday !! But today, I found this on my screen :
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 17″ It does not have a Thunderbolt port. I believe about a year ago Apple released a 17" that had a thunderbolt port. I was thinking about upgrading to a newer 17" model but there is now 17" macbooks in the Apple Store. I want a new Mac, not anything from the refurbished section.
When viewing a DFS share in OS X 10.7 or on a system that has been upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8 the sidebar is missing in finder. However if a system has had a fresh install of OS X 10.8 the sidebar is visible in finder. Is there a way to get the sidebar back in 10.7 or a system that has gone from 10.7 to 10.8?
Unfortunately I just learned that Apple is has already discontinued the 17" MBP and Apple marketing has this quote: But if you’re looking for a reason why Apple offed the 17-inch now, you need go no further than the 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro. Not only does it offer the most cutting edge technology of any Apple laptop to date, but its 2880-by-1800 pixel display outstrips the 17-inch’s 1920-by-1200 resolution with room to spare
Is it possible to use the special characters window only with the keyboard? i.e., I know in textedit for example you can activat the special characters window with Alt+Cmd+T. But: How do you bring focus to this window with the keyboard? How do you perform a search only with the keyboard? How do you select a symbol from the list using the keyboard?
Now, this is quite different then programming such a system. the dev docs are quite detailed. The man pages also are quite good, except for most of the admin pages. Of course, much of the info links back to earlier versions.
I recently asked a question: How to navigate the Special Characters window with the keyboard? However, it seems to me that OSX has a class of dialog boxes that seem to be inaccessible to keyboard activation. Finder - View Options TextEdit - Fonts TextEdit - Special Characters OmniFocus - Inspector
I have a problem with my MacBookPro, the left click button on (any) mouse doesnt work and the trackpad doesnt respond to any clicks, so the only thing that works properly is the keyboard and Mouse Right Click/Middle Click. I was looking at the Accessibility preferences and can see there is something call Enable Mouse Keys, does this option allow you to effect a left-mouse click with a keyboard combination, I also Speakable Items. Both would make my life easier until computer fixed, but unfortunately without a working mouse there seems to be no way of selecting these items. Is there a way I can set these values from the commandline, because mouse right-click and middle-click work I can open a Terminal Window and enter commands from there.
I am using iCal. I have a strange problem. If I make a task in my Google calender, iCal automatically shows that task on the calender. But, if I put a task in my iCal, Google calender does not update that task. I do not know why?? For your information I am using Mac OSX Lion: 10.7.5 iCal: 5.0.3 Thanks, in advance.
I think I'm finally annoyed enough with my mouse pointer disappearing as I start typing to want to do something about it. I want to move the mouse. I want to click. I want to start typing, but I want the mouse pointer to stay as is. I end up having to move the mouse just to figure out where the pointer is and I hate that.
I get the "install" button... I click and nothing happens. I have a loader spinning during few seconds at the right of buttons Prev/Next in the top bar... but nothing else.
2nd FOLLOW UP: If I have to re-boot, do you think a safe boot would suffice? Would that mean I could avoid having to re-install software, e.g., Word & Powerpoint? 3rd FOLLOW-UP: If the swap files again get SO big, will re-starting the computer clear them? Apologies that my questions are sort of pathetic -- I probably shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer ;-)
My Apple TV (3rd generation) doesn't connect to the internet any more because it doesn't succeed in getting the network time from my router. I tried restarting, updating, resetting both – the Apple TV and my WLAN router (TP-Link 1043ND), I double checked the network time in my router, tried out an alternative firmware (DD-WRT), put down all security settings (no password), tried direct connection per cable (LAN) on Apple TV – but nothing worked: I always get the screen that Apple TV tries to fetch the network time (I'm in Germany) – the manual selection of Berlin as time zone doesn't help. It all worked a few weeks ago – after an update of the Apple TV Software it all went away ... my Apple TV got useless because it needs the correct time settings to connect to the internet. Does anyone have an idea what I can do?
I had just installed new SSD on main bay and move HDD instead of SuperDrive on my 2011 MBP. All works perfectly but Time Machine. It freezes entire mac when I trying open Options on Time machine preferences pane. I already removed old time machine config but its doesnt help me..
What are the physical dimensions of one iPad mini box? I want to order two iPads mini and then have them shipped in one box but I'm worried about the width, height, depth & size of the outer box because I'll do international shipping. Precise measurements are very much appreciated as I wish to be specific about the rates & costs.
I see my emails and can read the 3-line tags in my inbox, but when I go to open the message to read the full text, it is just blank - regardless of the size, number of recipients etc. What causes this kind of behavior and how can I solve this issue?
If I cancel the sync with iCloud, most of my history disappears. Thus my question is: How do I move the calendar entries that I currently have with iCloud to Gmail?
Is there a free audio tool where I can just grab a snippet from a mp3 file and save it as a new mp3?
I recently deleted (Oops!) my swap files and thanks to some great help on this forum, I was able to re-start my Mac and there is now a new swap folder. I had used Grand Perspectives in an attempt to clear up some RAM, and that's how I even found the large swapfiles.
I bought new 1 TB WD My Passport and format it with NTFS on windows XP. and now when I connect it on mac, I see the drive but I cant add files to it. what is the issue? Thanks,
Can I change to the US store in iTunes and purchase iTunes Match and then after the sync switch back to Swedish store in iTunes and still have access to iTunes Match?
I want to switch from Mac Thunderbird to Mac Mail. To do so, I compressed all folders of the account in Thunderbird and after that, I used the import wizard of Mac Mail. Unfortunately, a lot of Mails are missing. A folder that contains hundreds of mails in Thunderbird, contains only one message in Mail, but I get no errors or warnings. How can I migrate my local folder? (I cannot switch to IMAP, thank you ;-) )
I'm using the VPN Express app to setup PPTP and L2TP connections. It automatically sets the VPN profiles up successfully for me. When I try to connect, get error messages telling me that the server did not respond.
I have an archive of .doc/.docx files, which I'm frequently using to pull some information. I'm looking for some software that would allow me to search through the content of all these files (Mac OS X 10.7.5). Note: I haven't tested Spotlight because I've turned it off some time ago (because of power consumption related to file indexing; I also didn't need it before).
I recently bought several ePub books from the Humble Bundle and from Smashing Magazine, hoping that I would be able to side load them into iBooks and then use iCloud to sync position, bookmarks, highlights and notes. I read that this should be possible here: http://blog.robertsalsbury.com/2012/08/15/ibooks-annotation-epub-and-icloud-syncing/
I recently installed VMWare Fusion and added Windows 7. Now when I right-click on a text file and choose Open With, there's an option to open with Notepad in Windows 7. This is not something I want enabled. How can I remove this choice?
I recently started dividing my Aperture work between my home iMac, and my MacBook Pro. The problem here is that, whenever I want to do a makeshift sync, I export the edited photos from one Mac as an Aperture library (to keep all adjustments, as well as the original image format), and then import the library into the second computer. This is slow, inefficient, and needlessly cumbersome. I considered using Photo Stream, but the 25 GB I have on my iCloud (which will shrink to 5 a year from now) is nowhere near enough to house my colossal Aperture library, which should break the 100 GB milestone in a month or two; not to mention, using Photo Stream uses up Internet bandwidth, and flattens the images (merges the adjustments, instead of preserving them as editable ones).
I like the Apple Earphones (the iPhone headphone with audio, mic and remote) but I hate to keep plugging it on and off my Macbook Air. So I heard the only way to fix that is to buy a USB headphone so you can switch it on and off through software. Problem is that I like my Apple Earphones and I want to keep using it but now through USB. Is there a USB adapter that will work with the Earphones, in other words, that will make both headphone and mic work at the same time for a phone conversation?
I've created my font and installed it. I've tried with the font in either ~/Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts.
I have new Mac mini for a few weeks. Lately I noticed something strange. From time to time, during regular usage (web browsing, reading PDFs, listening to music etc.) the screen turned black for a second or two and everything got back to normal state. Today for the first time the screen went totally dead. I got a snowy image, the one you get on an analog TV when no antenna is connected. However, the music I was listening to was still playing. I just put my Mac to sleep with the power button and woken it up. Everything is OK now, but I'm pretty concerned with this. What could it be?
Changing the selection to: no input, files, files or directories, etc. makes no difference. Changing the application to Evernote.app makes no difference.
I'd like to add a little bit of consistency between editing text in the terminal and editing text in normal OS X programs. I use iTerm2, but I imagine any solution would involve using readline and .inputrc which probably would work in most terminals. Specifically, I was thinking of adding: Command-Delete: Delete to start of line before cursor Option-Delete: Delete word before cursor Option-Left/Right Arrow: Move cursor between words Command-Left/Right Arrow: Move cursor to start/end of line How could .inputrc be configured to support these keyboard shortcuts? Would any of these shortcuts generate conflicts with existing terminal or command-line shortcuts? Are there any other shortcuts that would be useful to create consistency with standard OS X text editing keys?
I have a mid-2012 MacBook (non-retina). Recently I've noticed that after closing the lid to put it to sleep, once it's sleeping if I pull or attach the MagSafe connector to it it will turn on from sleep, with the lid still closed, and go back to sleep after around 30 seconds.
I'd like to know if I could factory restore my iPhone 4S, insert a SIM card and see if that would make it activated in the other GSM network. The phone was bought from a regional CDMA carrier but they're being extremely shady in confirming whether or not it's SIM locked and if they'd be willing to unlock it for me.
Ubuntu automounts USB -fs to /media/usb/something. How is this in OSX? I cannot find anything in /media below.
I am trying to mount private keys from USB stick. OSx does not allow me to change their permissions, why? How can I change them? In other words, how can I add private keys from random USB stick to ssh-agent?
I'm a luddite and have a hardwired keyboard on my iMac. Booting into Windows is never a problem. A family member has an iMac with a Bluetooth keyboard and a Mighty Mouse. Never having used these, I find booting into Windows to be troublesome.
When I go into Photoshop and then I look at performance in the preferences, it says that I have "3240 MB Available", whereas I have a 4gb RAM MacBook Pro. Also, it often crashes, and I frequently have to restart it. (minimum once a day)
I was wondering if it is possible to have the following: In my Downloads folder, I have 2 subfolders : IMAGES and VIDEOS. Is it possible to automatically move every image downloaded to the Downloads folder to the IMAGES folder, and if VIDEO files are downloaded in the Downloads folder, it should go into the VIDEOS subfolder? I thought I could do it with Smart Folders but it does not seems to be working.
I'd like to have something that I can run from Alfred or the command-line that can run "clean up desktop". What is a command-line program or apple script that will cleanup the desktop? Preferably there would be an option to do it by name or some other system (i.e., at least all the options that are available when right clicking the desktop).
I've recently gotten a 2012 MacBook Air 13". It is wonderful, however, I've been stressing about the life of the SSD. I understand that Apple probably would not sell an SSD machine with defaults that would ruin the SSD; however, I have some concerns.
I have this strange problem where a single text file (Notes.txt, where I keep random notes) is, as of yesterday, not being backed up by Time Machine. It exists in the many backups that I have dating several months back, but since yesterday, it hasn't changed in Time Machine even though I edit the file almost every hour.
Both iTunes on Windows 7 and the Apple TV 3 are updated to the latest versions. My PC is connected to the router via Cat 5 and the Apple TV is connected on wireless. I can AirPlay with my iPad or iPhone. I've had this work just fine before with other computers. Home sharing is enabled on both devices and connected to the same account with the correct password. I can't figure out what's going on.
I know that you can lock an application to a certain desktop, and if you select that application(either through the dock or command+tab), then OSX will change your desktop to the one where the application is on. Can you set it to pull the application to you?
I am using a Macbook Air with a 64GB HDD and Mountain Lion installed on it. When I reboot my Air, it shows that I have 7GB free disk space. But after a couple of hours, the system says my disk is nearly full (less than 1GB free space). What can I do about this? Is it about Sleep Image?
I've just noticed that my mac has loads of sudo processes running – why? What is causing them?
I get bunches of files I need to rename. The original filenames normally have 7 digits - plus an optional character (or two), followed by a space then a whole string of other characters. I need to rename them to be such that the space and everything after it is replaced by '-z'. For example: (original filenames) 3543679 ggry Hugh highs Bhutto.jpg 6789456 hfghh hfghh death.eps 8753674a hfryg gyjbff hfghh.png 4686536c Guggenheim.jpg Would become: (renamed filenames) 3543679-z.jpg 6789456-z.eps 8753674a-z.png 4686536c-z.jpg Anyone got any ideas how to automate this?
I'm trying to send a document to email as a PDF. To do this you'd normally go to 'Print > PDF > Email PDF' but when I do this I get an error message: The document mail PDF could not be opened because it is damaged or incomplete.
If my laptop is sitting with the screen open, live, and plugged in, and I unplug it and keep working, a moment later it will go to sleep. Even as I am typing at it. The only solution is to close the cover, count to five, and reopen. Is there a real solution? I asked pmget for some log and got the following: I've got 10.8.2 on here.
I have an Time Capsule set up in 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g/n Automatic mode. I have an Airport Express set up to extend this network. Does the Airport Express just share the 802.11n part of the network or the 802.11b/g too?
My client's Mac Book Pro is not starting. He wants me to check it out - and the immediate signs are as follows: When on button is pressed lightly (not held) - Mac does nothing - this is normal as far as I can tell. When on button is held down, the Mac seems to start to turn on - I hear the fan, and the little "Joot-joot" sound. Whenever I then let go of the button, immediately the Mac dies. If I keep the button held down, the Mac continues for about 5-15 seconds, a white light on the front panel lights up, and then after a short bit, the Mac dies.
I've got a 2011, 21.5" iMac with a 1TB hard drive (likely Seagate, although I don't think I can check right now). After it froze, I did a cold restart by holding down the power button for a few seconds. On restart, the machine produced the startup chime, and then froze, with the loading wheel spinning under the Apple logo. This cycle seems to last indefinitely.
Not really an iPad user so thought I would ask here. As an organisation we want to place some presentations on iPad minis (much in the way that iPads are used in the Apple Stores as information sources next to other products). We want the user to be incentivised to view the entire presentation so ideally we don't want them to be able to leave the presentation.
I've had my 3rd generation iPad for only five months, and I've tried hard to keep it in pristine condition. I always had it in its case, and was very mindful of what I did with it. Unfortunately one momentary lapse of concentration is all it took for this to happen:
I used Bootcamp (5.0) to create a Windows 7 install USB. It successfully created the install USB but when I reboot the system and hold down the option-key to boot from the USB drive, the boot-loader doesn't give me the option of booting from USB.
My magic mouse suddenly stopped tracking on the mousepad I have been using for a month now. Everything about the mouse works (gestures, clicking, etc) except tracking. Strangely enough, the mouse tracks perfectly on my MacBook Pro's surface. I have checked the battery contacts, optics, and have replaced the batteries, to no avail. This issue only appeared after I updated to 10.8.2. The mouse only has issues tracking with non-reflective surfaces, everything else works as smoothly as before. Any help is much appreciated!
The 3rd party RSS Feed alternatives to Safari that I've found are cumbersome...in my opinion. Any simple, and good looking ones out there? (using NetNewsWire and it looks/feels bloated). Perhaps there's a Safari Extension?
I was trying to restore my jalbroken Iphone 4 today, and after a couple fail attempts I got it to what redsn0w is calling 'soft dfu mode'. Any idea how to exit this mode? I tried holding down the home and power button for 2 mins but no luck.
The original problem with the Time Machine drive was "stiction", they put the drive into a clean room to fix that, and as they were reading the data from the drive one of the heads failed. Needless to say, the data recovery took 2 weeks, but I think we finally have all the data (in the form of raw files) from the Time Machine Backup drive now.
What are the possible causes for this? Is there any concrete way to prevent this from happening, besides being super careful when ejecting?
On my previous computer I had Xcode working nicely; on my present computer, with Homebrew installed, gcc and make are present in /Developer/usr/bin but not /usr/bin. On the whole when I try to download and build *=URL=* I can find bits and pieces of the tools used to do things, but when invoked from its present path it doesn't recognize #include <stdio.h> type includes. How can I reinstall Xcode, Homebrew, and anything else to get a fresh and working build so I can run make && make install?
Ever since I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS6, I'm not able to connect to the internet except when I have a WiFi signal to connect to. Any suggestions about the cause or solution?
Ever since I started syncing my Contacts and Calendars on my Mac with iCloud, I've noticed that stuff sporadically disappears. I've had to re-add an event to my Calendar 3 times now, and many of my Contacts mysteriously vanish after a couple of days. The only other device that syncs with iCloud is my iPhone, but I still lose events and contacts even if I don't make any changes on my iPhone. What is going on, and how do I prevent this data loss?
As you know, Apple's own podcast app started syncing podcast subscriptions and their metadata through the air. But it seems that the app automatically uses the Apple account designated for store purchases; not the user's personal iCloud account. Since in my family we've a general store account and a single iCloud account per user, this situation makes syncing podcast behave bad since all of us listen different ones.
Is there a way to enable auto nick complete in chat rooms on Messages? I would like to avoid having to install another client just to use for jabber.
I've been trying to get my Cisco ASA management software working and on Snow Leopard, it ran fine. However, even after installing Java manually on Mountain Lion (on my new Macbook Pro), I continue to receive this message:
A few years ago when I had my iPhone 3GS, and wanted to see the battery displayed as a percentage (before this was implemented as a feature of iOS). I achieved this via jailbreak. Now my issue is this: I can't turn it off. I am several versions of phone and iOS beyond where I was when I implemented the jailbreak, unfortunately I (incorrectly) figured that when I migrated hardware this issue would resolve itself. I am wondering is there somewhere I can go in the filesystem and remove a file or flag or something to resolve this? The accepted answer to this question goes into more detail regarding this jailbreak hack.
If I paste a link/URL into the notes app from my iPhone, it works fine, I can tap on it and have it open in Safari. When I try to paste a link from my Windows computer, via icloud.com, the note shows up fine on my phone, but when I tap a link, nothing happens (it highlights briefly). In this case, I am forced to copy and paste the link into Safari manually.
I have a late 2009 macbook which has the trackpad with division, unlike the ones that are in market right now. I upgraded to Mountain Lion(10.8.x) but I forgot how to enable the Secondary two fingers right-click. Can someone help to get it working. Thanks, uDaY
A lot of people, myself included, cannot use their gmail account with the iPhone anymore because of an annoying iOS 6 bug. It will not send anything no matter what you do. If you switch to IMAP type then it works, but IMAP type is much worse than the gmail type which has flags, keeps sent messages synchronized and other nice things.
I have Bonjour installed on my Windows 7 PC, and the installer appears to have poked all the necessary holes in the Windows firewall. However, I can't ping windows-pc.local from my Mac. If I completely disable the Windows firewall, I can. How do I configure Windows firewall to allow Bonjour hostname resolution?
Java is consistently listed as using 700MB of real memory. That is a nice chunk of change on my 4GB iMac. I don't even know that I am running a Java Application, ever. Any ideas?
I have two Mac Pros and as one is primarily utilized for storage, I thought connecting the two directly under a different subnet would be a worthwhile endeavor that would directly transfer data without having to pass through the switch and therefore augment speed. Everything seems to work properly in the sense that I can connect via the static IP on the private subnet between the two machines and I likewise I can connect just fine outside of this subnet to the LAN and Internet by the 2nd ports that are connected to the network infrastructure.
On occasion I get files that have names mangled (mis-encoded, often from an archive file) by the senders. How do I fix the encoding on an Intel Mac?
What, precisely, does destroyfvkeyonstandby do? For example, if I delete a file I can recover it because it is not wiped. Does destroyfvkeyonstandby perform a memory release (delete) or a wipe (overwriting the memory that was being used to hold the key)?
I have a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and I purchased a Logitech C615 webcam because I read it is compatible with Mac. I installed the Logitech Camera Software, opened it and the camera worked for that first session, but when I opened the Logitech software later it immediately crashed and output a diagnostics log. I've tried uninstalling the Logitech software, restarting and re-plugging in the USB with no luck. I've tried plugging the camera's USB cable into my D-link USB hub as well as straight into the Macbook Pro itself. The camera goes undetected in all cases. Any idea as to how I can fix this? Thanks
I am considering Apple TV for a trips, but usually the hotels' wifis' connections are separated. I came up with using my Vodafone branded Huawei R201 mobile wifi router for that purpose, but I am not sure if that hardware is powerful enough for sending Full HD video from my iPad/iPod/Mac to Apple TV. Is there some parameter on wifi routers (I am opened to buy another one), which say "Yes, it WILL work"?
I'm using Macbook Air (mid 2011) and there is one problem with it. After macbook waking from deep sleep, it has some "artifacts" (i don't know how to name it correctly) on the screen:
If I am sharing an Apple ID with my son, can I change my Game Center name without messing up his games on his iPod?
I'm a Dvorak user but I also need to use international keyboard too. The problem is - when I use international phonetic keyboard it's based on Qwerty. When I have hardware support for Dvorak (on typematrix keyboard) it all works perfectly, but when I'm on my laptop, I can't use combinations of two layouts.
Is there an existing utility app or pref pane to accomplish this?
For some reason, from time to time, I'll have this issue where the first time I click something, nothing will happen. But, the second time I click the exact same spot, it will work as normal. This usually lasts about a day, then it goes away. It can return in a day, or in this case, after a 3-month hiatus. It is extremely annoying having to double-click everything (or tripple-click where a double-click is required). What might be causing this? It seems like the same issue described here, but I don't have jiTouch or BetterTouchTool. It is not resolved with a reboot, or even an SMC reset. Macbook5,2 (2009)
My girlfriend has a Macbook Air. The power supply is smaller and lighter than the Pro. It has an output of 14.85V and 3.05Amps. My Pro Retina has a power supply that is 20V and 4.25 Amps. Both supplies have the same Magsafe adapter, so the power supplies seem interchangeable at a physical level, but what would happen if one of us plugs in using each other's adapter?
Does anyone know the distribution of the required iOS for apps on the App Store? To clarify, I am not looking for the version distribution on devices (like this question). Basically, I want to know how many apps I would be unable to use if I bought an older iPhone that no longer gets iOS updates. Thank you!
Everytime I lock my mac and log back in two minutes, It has disconnected the wi-fi network. Is there a setting to disable this? Model: Mac Book Pro - 15-inch, Mid 2010 I lock it by clicking 'Login Window...' after clicking my username on top right corner of the menu bar.
Is there a shortcut for toggling the behavior of the function keys between standard and the media functions printed on them? I know I can do this in the Preferences, but it would be great to achieve this quickly from the keyboard.
I'm not sure why this is, but my Apple remote won't obey the decoupling set in System Preferences (see the pic below). This is important because I have an Apple TV 2, and there are times where my MacBook Pro is between me and the ATV2. Using the remote starts up iTunes, which means I have to manually stop iTunes and move the laptop to keep it from happening again. I do use the Apple iPhone/iPad Remote app, but there are times when I need to use the physical remote, which is when I have this problem. Anyone else observe this behavior?
I like to read books in PDF Expert while waiting busses. When I go home, I would like to see the iPhone screen on iMac or Macbook. I have VGA -adapter but I have no external display with male-VGA so cannot use it. So how can I show iPhone display in more large screen such as Macbook or iMac?
I keep having this issue where I will Add a note to Notes Close the app Come back later and open it and its no longer there. There is no Save button on the so assume that once i click "+" and add a note (type something in) and close it that it will be there when i open it up again. Am i missing something here?
I attempted to ask this question at superuser.com but so far I have not received any help. So for the past couple of days I've been trying to get my Logitech Dinovo Bluetooth Keyboard working on my Windows 7 partition. Unfortunately it is not finding any bluetooth devices. I have no issues whatsoever on the OSX partition so I know it's not a hardware issue. Additionally, it seems that I can find Bluetooth settings when I right-click on "Apple Internal Keyboard and Trackpad" but when I try to "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this computer" I receive this error. I also don't see the Bluetooth icon in the system tray. This issue has been really frustrating so any help would be great!
How can I add a Table of Contents to a Keynote presentation that shows pages and titles in some hierarchy.
Is there a way I can change the current menubar to an active application while on another desktop ? Example : Safari running on desktop 1 While on desktop 2, activate safari so that the menubar changes from "Finder" to "Safari" WITHOUT switching back to desktop 1 Is there an automator code that can help achieve this too ?
I'm attempting to save some space on my new Mac, which had iLife preinstalled. I can confidently delete GarageBand and iMovie for now, since I can easily reinstall them later from the App Store should I need them. However, I'm trepidatious about removing their associated data (which are quite hefty) from /Library/Application Support/GarageBand and /Library/Audio/Apple Loops. Since these are outside the .app, I'm worried that they won't be included along with the App Store bundles. Does anyone know for sure one way or another?
I have a lot of data on my macbook pro retina laptop and i am looking for the best backup strategy. I have previously had a windows desktop with an external harddrive connected all of the time and a backup program that copied to the external harddrive incrementally. I am trying to figure out the best backup strategy given its a laptop that i move around with and travel with alot (so can't really have a external hard drive always connected) What is the recommended backup solution for map laptops?
When I'm moving files to a folder with another set of files named the same, it doesn't give me the "keep both"-option. However when I move the files one by one, I get this option. Any tips on how I can move large amounts of files and still get the "keep both"-option?
In our environment we have a bunch of iMacs running Mountain Lion that are bound to Active Directory for authentication, and we also have a Windows share that we would like all Active Directory authenticated users to be able to access. The share is setup so that all members of the "Authenticated Users" group has read access to the share.
I live in a country that blocks most types Internet access and protocols so I need to utilize Tor from the command line. I haven't come across much useful information in this regard, so any information would be helpful.
I observed that my custom bash prompt does not work on mc. How do I customize it?
I just puchased an iPhone5 and want to use my current SIM from my existing phone. Is there a way to convert my existing SIM to nano-SIM?
I have a mail account with lot of e-mails stored on server (around 100 thousand). I would like to clean it using Mail app and delete all unnecessary messages. But so far no luck
I have Mountain Lion on an 27" iMac, and recently, for some reason, the Mail app launches every 10 minutes or so, and I have to quit it every time. In the Preferences of Mail, I already tried every possible way to tell it not to start itself, but every 10 minutes or so, it still launches and I have to quit it manually. I don't know whether it is because I set in Gmail calendar to send email alert on some special events in my Google Calendar, but that should be handled by the Gmail server, not the Mail app... I don't know whether it is related to the Notification Center, as the last few times, I notices messages popping up at the top right corner of the screen, and the Mail just started to run all by itself as well. Is there a way to stop it from running automatically?
My computer doubles as a server, so I leave it turned on and not asleep, but logged out, most of the time. In 10.6, if I logged out of the computer for an extended period of time, I could log back into it without touching the mouse or without the screen having come on yet by pressing any key to get rid of the screen saver, then typing my password and hitting return.
I'm trying to sync Notes from mac to iPhone. But when I turn on Notes in iCoud, it says that I require an iCloud email address. This is unexpected since my Gmail account is alreadyh linked with my iCloud account. Why is an iCloud email address required to sync Notes? (I'm able to sync Reminders with no problems.)
My mom purchased an iPad about 18 months ago. She set up an Apple ID and then connected it to her PayPal account and purchased about 18 apps and games over a few months. Her PC crashed and had to get a new one. She installed iTunes on her new PC but kept telling her the Apple ID was wrong. Come to find out when she set up her Apple ID she typed in her email address wrong by leaving out 1 letter. So she just recreated a new Apple ID with the her correct email address and went on buying apps/games. A few months ago her iPad crashed and needed reset. The problem is that I can't get the games she purchased originally with the 'wrong' apple ID to play. Is it possible to play these and I'm just doing something wrong? They are on the iPad but when you open them they ask if you want to purchase to continue, but we've already purchased them, jut on a the other apple ID. Thoughts?? Thanks!
I'm trying to install libgit2 on OSX, and I keep running into issues. Ultimately I'm trying to get pygit2 installed, which fails because it doesn't recognize libgit2 being installed. libgit2's instructions are the following according to their github page: They then say that in order to build the universal binary for OSX, you can use the following when configuring: To me that means do the following:
I understand the OS needs some free disk space for running. So does windows or any *nix. But OS X is regarded as a very polished system and my question here is more like, shouldn't it already reserve all disk space that it needs so it won't ever complain (or bug out) about not having enough space?
I gave a friend a new SIM card for her unlocked direct from Apple iPhone 5. She put the SIM in, and went through the setup process, restoring her iPhone 5 from an iCloud backup. At this point, her old phone lost all signal and refuses to connect to any carrier. She did not go through any activation process specifically as you would on a new phone, but I think that what has happened is that the activation has occurred as part of the restore process, and that this has somehow deactivated her previous phone. Can anyone clear up what the activation process does, if it can be done automatically as part of a restore, and if this is what happened tell me how I can re-activate her old phone without a factory reset?
I just purchased Microsoft Office 2011 for MAC and installed it on my rMBP OSX 10.8.2 running Mountain Lion. The installed version from purchase is 14.2.0. I tried installing 14.2.3 but it failed due to a specific file that was not found :
This annoying behavior is that from time to time the additional calendars on my google account get repeated in the gmail account section and then in the Delegates section. I don't mind where they appear, at my account section or the Delegates, but the problem is that they appear on both sections and the events get duplicated.
I'm planning to add a Samsung 830 (256GB) SSD to a MacBook Pro 13" (Mid-2012 model). It'll be installed into the default HDD area and the existing HDD will be moved into the optical drive bay.
What is this icon on the far right of the status bar? It only appears so far in this one app, called Carpenter by iHandy. I've emailed the manufacturer but so far nothing. It "pulses" slowly between bright and faded. The close up: close up of icon *=URL=* The whole screen: http://psychologicalselfdefense.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/photo-2.png
I would like to open a new tab in Terminal with custom scrollback history. The primary use-case is to "fork" an existing tab such that both tabs contain the same scrollback history, but more generally I would like to have some custom scripts save and restore Terminal sessions. I know about the history restore functionality already in Terminal but it doesn't suit my needs; the main one being that I have a system built around the script command and some zsh hooks to save history and output for all terminal sessions for later auditing purposes (recalling changes that I've made).
I would like to track album releases for a group of artists. I could just loop over all of them and check to see if they have any releases since the last one, but it would be much more efficient if I could select future releases.
On my Mac, suppose I imported a 200 photos. I edited 87 of them. How do I quickly export just the edited 87 photos? Imagine that I don't remember which photos I edited. If exporting edited photos is not possible, is there some way to search for edited photos?
Is it possible to change where alerts in the notification center appear on the screen? Alerts appearing in the top right tend to cover up work I'm doing more often than not and I would prefer, say, the bottom right corner of the screen. If this is not possible, is it perhaps possible to change which screen the notifications appear on?
I've been using my Logitech Anywhere MX with my Mac succesfully for a couple of months, but suddenly last week the functionality of the back/forward buttons changed from navigating to previous/next page in history to switching to next/previous tab in Chrome. How can I restore the previous functionality? I've already checked the Logitech Control Center, and there the buttons are still defined as back and forward. Note: If I remember correctly, the buttons have never worked in Finder.
Would like to disconnect my external monitor without unplugging the Mini DisplayPort Adapter. Any ideas? Running Mountain Lion, mid 2012 MacBook Pro. The scenario:
According to this article, one can upgrade iOS using the following methods via Wireless via iTunes So, is it possible for user to download the iOS as a file (and not via iTunes) and later copy to the iPhone and update it from the phone without having the phone to connect to the internet?
With OS X Server Websites, how can I make example.com and www.example.com to go directly to *=URL=* I have wikis setup correctly. I want visitors that come to example.com and www.example.com to see *=URL=* directly. How can I do that?
I recently found my old iPhone 3G with iOS version 3.1.2. I'm planning to let my 4-year old nephew to use it. But then, I'm having a problem on installing apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. because these apps only support iOS 5.0 or later. How can I install the apps I mentioned?
I want to do a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I bought my MackBook Pro before Mountain Lion was out. Later I got my free download voucher and used it to upgrade. Now I want to do a fresh install, but I'm unsure how to download Mountain Lion again without paying for it. I tried redeeming the code again in the App store, but I get an error saying this code has already been used. Any ideas?
I am using Word 2011 on my Lion iMac. Sometimes as I write, when I hit the "double-quote" key, I don't get double-quotes, but another symbol that looks like "double-less-thans" or "double-greater-thans" (see the word "gains" in the screen capture below). My work-around is to delete the unwanted symbols, use the "copy-formatting" command and copy the format from some other paragraph, and then add the double-quotes back.
I've got a 21.5", late 2011 iMac which has been acting up lately: after a normal shutdown, the computer would hang at the Apple logo, with the spinning 'loading' wheel below it. I managed to fix this issue the first time by booting into Recovery HD and, through Disk Utility, verifying disk permissions and repairing them (diskutil found about 30 errors at that time). That made the computer work for a few days, but after restarting again yesterday, the problem returned.
I wish to use mp3blaster (installed through MacPorts) via Finder. I want to double-click an mp3 file and get it opened in mp3blaster. But I haven't been able to do so. I created an app and, in another try, a service in Automator, using the following script: Any ideas?
I have a couple favorite podcasts that I subscribe to in iTunes. I'm using You Control (so I don't have to open iTunes to play my music). I'm using Keyboard Maestro.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab and a Time Capsule providing my home WiFi network. I would like to connect the Tab to the Time Capsule using some file manager to transfer files to/from the Time Capsule. How do I do this?
Can I install an app on my MacBook pro similar to the the stop-watch/alarm-clock app on iPhone?
I am a university student who has been trying to write a compare and contrast paper between how Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X manage memory. For instance, with Windows, it's physical memory (RAM) and virtual memory (paging file). How does a Mac do this?
Which Macs support HDMI with ethernet, either natively such as the 15" retina Macbook Pro, or via a Mini Displayport adapter? My Samsung TV can connect to the internet, but has no Wi-Fi access. However, it should be possible to share my internet access via a HDMI connection and update the TV's software, right?
In iTunes I went to Library / Apps and found the app but the only menu items are 'get info', 'show in windows explorer' and 'delete'. I want to write an review.
So everytime I change my background on my desktop, I go and delete the image. The next thing I almost always find is that the next time I turn my Macbook on, the whole thing freezes and I always have to safe boot my laptop. Once I do manage to boot up again, my original background completely disappears and my desktop goes back to the "universe" background
I generally work with a terminal window with a half-dozen tabs open, and that window lives for a week or so. Every once in a while, tabs (running emacs) become corrupted or something [every other line is missing, new text appears as blank spaces, first few lines are missing, etc] --- where emacs no longer accurately displays what's in the file, and modifications don't appear correctly (while the files themselves always seem to be fine). Only individual tabs are effected, and I've only noticed problems in emacs. New tabs always work fine, so closing the tab and opening a new one effectively works-around the problem. This has only happened since I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Along with the screenshots of my app, I'd like to include a screenshot that shows what my app delivers e.g. an SMS message (picture is just for reference):
Most of the forums I have seen are really lame pirate-oriented sites. I am interested in joining in a discussion with programmers about building iOS software that breaks the rules, but not illegal stuff.
Even though iTunes is backing up all my contacts while I'm syncing, the backup still exists on a computer. So I would like to make a backup on another physical medium, just in case my computer or iPhone gets destroyed, lost, stolen, etc.... How can I do this?
Problem My iMac is one which falls under a hard disk replacement program due to a possibly faulty disk made by Seagate in 2010. Because of that I will be soon sending it off to Apple for the disk to be replaced. When I get it back the new (replaced) disk will be empty and I will have to re-install the OS and restore my backed up data. Question 1
So I was reading the FAQ for Apple's bug reporter site and I came across this: I got curious about this, and I went back to bugreport.apple.com to look at one of my pending bug reports and I didn't see any way of explicitly asking for a status update. I feel that I'm missing something obvious, because I expect the FAQ to be correct, but so far I haven't got the faintest. Any help?
I just downloaded Open Office to my Mac Book Air and installed it. When I tried to open it a message came up saying it's developed by an unidentified source and my computer settings only allow installation of programs from Mac App Store or identified developers. I don't know anything about code. What can I do?
Last week my OS X Calendar stopped syncing to Google Calendar. Past events are still there, but new events aren't pushed to Google anymore.
I am watching Quantum of Solace on my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.0.1), purchased from iTunes. I noticed that the subtitles were in Spanish. I thought maybe the setting was wrong, but it was set to "Off". I then tried to switch the setting from "Off" to "US English", and now the subtitles disappeared. So, "Subtitles: Off" gives me Spanish, "Subtitles: US English" gives me nothing.
I do web development and I would like to have dnsmasq running and handing my local dns requests. However I work in a lot of different networking scenarios and I need to DHCP updating my networking information multiple times a day. I already have dnsmasq running and I can have my laptop always use it by setting the DNS name server. It's not too bad, this way, I can use the location management (in the network preference pane) and just switch location between 'Automatic' and 'Automatic (dnsmasq)' when I need to, however what I really want it something linux has.
I bought a CSR Bluetooth 4.0 dongle, when plugged into my computer, initially my iPhone 5 could not detect it, but if I set the dongle to broadcast as Headset mode in the Bluetooth settings, the iPhone detects it instantly. I am wondering how to configure the Dongle so that if I plug it into a USB car jack (for example), the iPhone can detect it right away? Are there any tools or software that I need?
I've just bought a new 3rd Gen iPad as a gift. I assume it comes with iOs 5.1 installed on it. I want to install iOS 5.1.1 on it as I'd rather not use the Maps app provided in iOS 6. I know that iTunes will only offer the latest version of iOS (6.0.1 at this time.)
I have the AutoFill option enabled in my Safari settings, and I am not doing Private Browsing. However, Safari will not offer to save my Ebay password no matter how many times I log in. I have also tried clearing cookies and history. Anyone have any ideas?
As of the latest Apple TV software update, YouTube is no longer showing up on the home screen, apparently replaced by Vimeo (which I like, but which has a very limited video selection). Is there any way to get YouTube back on the Apple TV home screen?
Every time I try to open the .dmg to install XQuartz, a window pops up saying the following disk images couldn't be opened and the reason shown is not recognized. I don't know if I need another application to open it or if the file is corrupted, or if it's some other problem entirely.
I want a disk image (for installation). I've checked here and the 'Darwin Technologies' link there but couldn't seem to find anything. I want the Darwin (not any derivatives) and would much rather it from an official Apple source, sorry I'm so picky.
I'm currently having a late-2008 Unibody Macbook with Snow Leopard installed. It runs really great!
This problem has been with me for a while, but recently is popping up every couple of minutes.  I've a MacBook Pro mid-2010 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 (which I upgraded, don't remember where I bought them)
Also, in addition to that, I have some sub-calendars (e.g. for birthdays). Mostly they show up in iCal, sometimes also twice (and then I have all entries double) and sometimes they completely disappear.
I would like to swap the right-⌘ key with the right-⌥ key.  KeyRemap4MacBook's EventViewer shows that Alt Gr key acts as the left-⌘ (Command_L in EventViewer), whereas I'd like to be the right-⌘ (Command_R). This is what it look like in EventViewer: first 2 lines are from left-⌘, next 2 lines are from right-⌘ (with the same 0x37 code): How can I get the right-⌘ key to register as Command_R (0x36) instead of Command_L (0x37)? It's the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with its drivers installed and setup like this: I'll try my luck with uninstalling the drivers (which don't cause kernel panics anymore, as described here).
I was trying to install Microsoft Office 2011 when the installer hanged (and it is not going anywhere, I waited about 12 hours before trying to reboot this macbook). Now I can't restart this macbook until the installer finishes. Is there a easy way to locate what process is preventing my mac from restarting?
I'm looking for an app similar to Fahrenheit, that gives a notification badge indication of the current temperature. A problem with Fahrenheit that I have is that it's too slow in updating. I need something that updates the badge at least every 30 minutes (so I don't have to open up the app to get it to refresh).
In Apple Mail is there a way to edit the subject line of an email that's in the Inbox? This is just for internal filing reasons.
Update: Twitter for Mac is now supported by Retina and available through the app store. As many have noticed, the Twitter App doesn't render sharply on a Retina display.
The whole family uses the same Apple ID. I have been told this is not good. Now, my kids and wife are receiving all my iMessages. Is there a way to stop this without having access to their devices? Long story short, separation and ugly divorce under way.
I cannot log in with my credentials using Remote Desktop Connection v2.1.1 (up to date) session to windows server 2008. Error states there's a problem with licensing. Tried from two different machines, both running latest version of RDC both running on OSX 10.6.8. This connection tested OK and ran for about two weeks. No updates have been made on either machine, or the remote server I'm trying to access. However, I can do this from a Windows machine using same credentials and IP address without a problem... Any ideas on what to check?
Is there an official way provided by Apple or a workaround so that I can install or update Mac App Store apps through Terminal?
I am wondering if there are wearable computer kits for the iPhone or iPad, or are there resources on how to do it. I would like to be able to, at a bare minimum, type text while walking, possibly do more like read text documents.
In Safari in Google Voice the text box typically gets garbled when replying to messages. Switching tabs seems to help it redraw. Switching applications (browser to finder to messages etc) does not. I'm mentioning all these instances so that people having similar issues and searching online will be able to find this issue (and hopefully solutions to it).
How can I negate the search criterion: "is flagged"? I need all messages in a given mailbox, whose flag is not set (i.e. they are not flagged).
When bringing up the Inspector (⌘I) in Terminal.app to edit the title (⇧⌘I), there are actually two titles that can be entered. The first is known as the Tab Title and affects the terminal window title (but only when that tab is selected). The second is the Tab Subtitle and affects the text in the tab header only. [The naming seems strange, with Tab Title affecting the title of the window, and Tab Subtitle affecting the title of the tab.]
My 2 TB, 3rd generation Time Capsule just started making a beep-like noise today. I bought it about 30 months ago.
My friend asked me to repair her Macbook Air (I swear I'll never touch it again) and while removing the panel surrounding the LCD screen with a razor blade (as shown on iFixit), I inadvertently sliced the display cable near the bottom of the screen. What is the name for this cable? I can't seem to find a replacement - and I don't really want to bring it in to the Apple Store if I can help it. Also, how easy is it to replace this cable - it's not soldered to the logic board or anything, right?
Currently (i.e. Mountain Lion, 10.8.2), in Finder, column view, I can arrange the files/folders thus:
I have no idea why COMMAND + C doesn't always register from the first time. I sometimes try to copy something off Word, but I have to press COMMAND + C more than once for it to register, otherwise COMMAND + C just prints what was copied in clipboard before. This becomes very irritating. However I realised that if I press COMMAND then pause for a second, THEN press C, the command always registers. EDIT
Not sure if this was the appropriate place to ask, but it is Apple related so here we go: This is Apple's 2nd year of doing Black Friday sales, does anyone have any information on what 3rd party accessories were discounted by last year during the sales? I have a few things I'd like to get, but if the discount isn't too great or non-existant it might not be worth fighting the crowds for. I'm aware that the iPhones / Macs were discounted for < $100.
I paste filenames/etc into Terminal all the time, and occasionally the contents of the clipboard isn't what I expect. Often the result is several hundred lines of text (eg, source code) pasted into the command prompt, triggering god only knows what nastiness.
My colleague has a cheap Cisco Access Point on another floor. He is using a Mac Pro and the the Wi-Fi is very spotty. Can an Airport Express be used to extend this network?
I'm trying to install a program called CSIM (neural micro circuit simulator) and one of the steps is as follows: Step 2. Run: configure; make; for Linux/Unix(/Mac OS)
A few months ago I bought the new Macbook Pro Retina 15" with a 2.7GHz I7 cpu. So far it's been working fine, but as soon as just 1 of the cpu cores is at 100% the thing heats up like crazy. Heating the keyboard area up to the point of being uncomfortable to type on. Is it normal for Macbooks to heat up to the point of being painful to type? My previous laptop (IBM Thinkpad) would only get this hot when running at 100% cpu + 100% gpu load in the burning sun... otherwise it wouldn't get close to being this hot (and noisy...).
Are there any statistics available about failure rates for MacBook Air by time? For example, what are the chances of failing within 1, 3, 6, 12 months, etc.
My app currently doesn't work on iOS 5, but it does for iOS 6. Will it still be accepted to the app store?
I'm going to be permanently moving abroad in two months, and I've decided to get an iPhone to bring with me. I pretty sure that I'll be on a plan with unlimited texting and 2GB of data, but it will NOT include texts to the USA. No-one in my family has a smartphone.
The fix does not stay, guess I'll wait for Apple to releases a fix. It usually shutdown in 2,3 seconds while I was on Lion. I upgraded to ML recently and this happened. In launchd-shutdown log, I found this Things I have tried but no luck: I have reset PRAM
I want to build the latest maccore from source. Problem: I have searched everywhere but can't find any build instructions. Question: How to build maccore? I am a Mac newbie but intimate with UNIX.
Both my MacBook Air and iPhone are connected to the Internet using my home Wifi connection. Whilst my iPhone loads up google, YouTube, Maps an other apps that use the Internet just fine. My MacBook Air will not maintain its connection to the Internet and when it does it is very, very slow (1.7Mbps). I've set the service order correctly in System Preferences > Network.
I often need to move files from one location on a server into a set of hierarchical folders. The filenames are usually 7 digits long - sometimes with some extra characters at the end.
Is it possible to install a .pkg using a terminal ? (I wanted to install an app through ssh).
For testing purposes I would like to choke the performance of the network on my OS X 10.8.2 machine. I have currently Little Snitch installed, which I can block access to certain hosts with... however I would like to lower the network performance as if I would be using an 56k6 old-school modem. How can I accomplish this?
My non-jailbroken iPhone 4S needs to go for a warranty repair, and I want to restore its data to an older non-jailbroken 3G or to another even older jailbroken 2G, but of course itunes refuses to comply :). Is there a way to do this "innocent" operation? Thanks a lot
In the Finder, the Applications directory has an option to sort by "Application Category," which splits apps into groups like Productivity, Social Networking, Music, etc.  I have a number of apps listed under "Other" which I would like to assign to one of these other less-generic categories. Is it possible to change this? I looked in the Get Info window and don't see anything about the category listed.
Ultimately what I want to do is attach the images with a shadow file, to mount the read-only images as read-write. But this also fails the same way:
TCP port 5901 is open on my machine and is causing some mischief, and I want to know which process is opening it. When I run lsof -i -P I see that launchd is the process that opened the port.
with the release of OS X 10.8.2, Facebook notifications have been introduced. But so far, I'm having problems with the reliability of those: they only appear randomly. Compared to the amount of Notification Center pop ups I should get, I estimate I only receive 10% of all notifications.
I've recently bought ScreenFlow, but I noticed that the recording quality is horrible, and even worse when uploaded to Youtube. After some research I have to the conclusion that it records using Mac OSX Mountain Lion's screen capturing script that most programs use to record the screen.
⌘W always worked in my Safari like this: it closes all tabs if there's no tab, it closes the window. Now, #2 is not working anymore. Any clues?
Is there an app/program for OS X that will "split" the list of open apps that appears when you hit ⌘-tab into multiple rows? This is the default behaviour for Windows 7 and it's really quite useful when you have lots of windows open, navigating with the arrow keys.
These messages appear in Terminal, how can I get rid of them? Here's my whole bash_profile:
I have a MacBook Pro that I installed Windows 8 on via Boot Camp. I've managed to boot to it, before, but since then I've made two new partitions on the disk, and I'm afraid it's messed things up since I can't boot to Windows anymore.
I recently found out that the iPhone keeps (at least on older versions) your location data in a data file: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#faq
I'm not sure if solid state drives need defragmentation. Can anyone tell me if this requirement goes away with the new technology?
So I've purchased a new 15" MBP and I've had issues with fan speeds, graphics switching, and the temperatures. No matter what I do, just by having internet browsing using Chrome, my idle temperature stays around 50-57 C. I've checked activity monitor, both CPU and Memory usage is nothing out of the ordinary. Additionally, it always shows my active video card as the discrete card, even though the switching is checked - It should show the Intel Integrated Graphics in "About This Mac" when on that, correct? If so, I've never seen it say Integrated.
This thread here mentions MacTex but it is 2 GB in size and I am trying to find something as small as Apple's open command for modularized preview. How can I get something like pdflatex in OS X? Something like open-style modularized create for OS X?
In OS X 10.8.2, I create a new folder by right-clicking in the Finder and selecting New Folder. When I open this folder, the size of the window is not the size of the foremost window. The window size inherited by the new folder is always the system default window size, and apparently can not be changed by any means. Is there a preference, possibly through Terminal, to have the windows of newly created folders open in my preferred window size?
I have many iTunes U videos that take a lot of space on my disk. I don't really need them on my disk but I would like to keep their reference in my iTunes U library so I can re-download them when needed. How can I do that?
I am running a server on port 8080, which I can access fine as localhost:8080 or 127.0.0.1:8080. However, assuming my IP address is 192.168.1.15, how can I access the port using 192.168.1.15:8080? The Mac firewall is disabled in System Preferences.
The previous question provides answers for Windows and other addons are for older versions of FF, or do not answer the question. This is a specific question for OSX.
I upgraded to Chrome Version 23.0.1271.64 and Command + w is now closing the active window instead of closing the active tab only. Is there a "hidden" shortcut for closing the active tab only?
Does anybody know if any VM software can boot Windows from the other partitions on the internal HDD? Here is what mine looks like: HDD OS X partition Windows Boot Camp partition OS X partition Windows Boot Camp partition Objective: Running OS X, but booting into windows through a VM environment from the HD installation.
I've seen this asked around the web quite a bit, but nothing recent, so I'm hoping someone has an answer. I've got Windows 8 loaded with Boot Camp, and a Magic Mouse. The mouse left and right click works fine, but I'm hoping to have middle-click functionality. It's 3-finger click in OSX (I don't remember if that was with MagicPrefs or built in), but I'm trying to do the same in Windows. I've seen something where you can do a middle-click by doing Ctrl-Click or something like that, but I'm looking for a regular mouse solution. Thanks
Is there a method to unzip .exe file on a Mac OS X without downloading and/or buying applications that do this for you?
I am using a Macbook Air. I used system("cls"); and system("clear").
Usually, if you hold down command while dragging a file (or folder), the Finder will move it rather than copying. This works if you want to quickly move something between volumes (the default is to copy.) However, if you're dragging from a folder you can't write to, command has no effect. Is there a way to make the Finder always try to move something if you hold down command, or an equally fast way use the Finder to move an item out of a read-only folder?
My iPhone 4S always showed a notification in banner (that is, the top of the iPhone screen) when a new message/mail came to me. Those notifications can be viewed in any state(Means, Even if I am playing a game or I am seeing some other apps, I can see the notification in the banner if a new message came).
It is supposed to be a 2880 x 1800 pixel display, but System Preferences won't let me set it higher than 1920 x 1200.
So I was just using my MacBook Pro with an external display last night and it was working beautifully. For some reason, though, today it isn't working at all. I have a TB-to-HDMI cable which is hooked up to an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. I have just tried it on an HDMI tv and have gotten nothing except a "Not supported mode" and a mouse flicker. By the way, it's not just the tv and monitors not working. In the System Preferences it doesn't show any other displays or an option to extend or mirror like usual. I will be getting another cable tomorrow to see if that is the problem.
Sometimes, when I'm working with Finder (Mac OS X 10.8), with a folder in Column View, I suddenly notice that the separator between columns has changed to a thick one like this:  When this happens, I cannot drag the separator to resize the columns. I haven't found a permanent fix apart from it seems to go away again after a while. Edit (clarified question):
First off, I have disabled iCloud as default location for Save As dialogs in TextEdit.app: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false … But still, I have one critical beef in TextEdit:
I want to activate iAd Network in iTunes Connect but with no success, iAd network is still in "Contracts In Process". I've entered contact informations, Bank Info is alreday entered for paid apps and Tax Info I don't have since I'm from Croatia. Here is ss of "Contracts": And when I go to setup "Bank Info" I see next: .. so this means that I don't need to do anything here. And when I go to "Tax Info" I see next: .. so that also means that I don't have do anything here because I'm from Croatia and that step applys to Canada and US. What do I need to activate the iAd Network?
At our institute, we have several Macs (from 10.6 to 10.8) but not one is running a server version. In the one running 10.8 there are 4.5 TB of hard-drives from which 2 x 2 TB are raided together (mirrored) with to goal to use them as a Time Machine backup for all other Macs. All the Macs are connected over the institute network. Now, how do I set up everything such that all Macs can use Time Machine to backup to this one Mac? I've read that this might be easier when the target Mac would run OS X Server. How is it also possible without installing OS X server?
I'm owning a MBP 15" early 08, which I bought (and use) in Germany. Recently, I decided to switch to US International layout, bought new keyboards (an internal one and and external Logitech diNovo Mac), both having US 104 keys layout. The internal keyboard is working fine, I'm able write the ` and ~ characters.
When is an eMail attachement automatically downloaded in iOS? From my expierience iOS downloads an attachment up to the size of about 50 kB automatically when on a 3G network, on a WLAN larger files are downloaded automatically (up to around 150 kB). However I cannot find this documented by Apple and I have users complaining with high roaming bills that tell me big attachments get downloaded automatically. Our users are connected to Microsoft Exchange 2010 by ActiveSync. The problem is difficult to reproduce and I'm looking for ways to nail or solve this?
All, In the mail settings of my iPhone 4 running iOS 6.0.1, I've configured my Mail/Exchange to "Mail Folders to Push Inbox + 10". These 10 folders sync with the same folders I have in my MS Outlook 2010. They are Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, FH (my initials), Client Name 1, Client Name 2 etc, etc.
I have a MacBook Pro 13 late 2008 for which I just replaced the HD with a WD Blue notebook 500GB, 5400rpm, model WDBABC5000ANC-NRSN. After replacing the HD, powered up the MBP, the screen displayed a flashing folder with ?. I think this is normal since there is no OS loaded.
I'm relatively new in the Mac world, and right now I'm having a problem with Terminal. Every time I open Terminal (new tab or new window) I have to insert the SSH pass phrase.
Is it possible or recommended to have the iTunes library on a non-permanent external drive? What will happen if I e.g. sync my iPhone while the drive is not attached? Or what will happen when iTunes thinks it should download the music I have bought on my iPad while the drive is not connected?
I'd like to buy a mobile broadband service, but there's a limit in gigabyte per month I can download. Before i buy, it would be great to know what i currently consume, bandwidth wise. Is this statisti available anywhere on a vanilla OS X system? Should I get an additional application?
System Report will display the system's Hardware UUID in the format 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef. Using the shell we can retrieve the same UUID: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep -E '(UUID)' Is it possible to get this UUID in Python without resorting to executing a shell command?
On my iPhone running iOS6, I have the following accounts configured: iCloud - Contacts, Reminders, Safari, Passbook, and Find my iPhone Exchange (my work email) - Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders Gmail - Mail and Calendars I would like to keep my personal contacts (in iCloud) completely separate from my work contacts (in Exchange). When I add a contact directly on my iPhone, it immediately shows up in Outlook but does not exist in my iCloud contacts (verify by looking in iCloud.com or Contacts app on my Mac). I would like it so when I add a contact on my iPhone it gets added to my iCloud contacts, not my Exchange contacts. Is this possible?
On the form where I am supposed to fill my credit card information, there's a link which says to redeem your gift card click here. Unfortunately, if I try to enter the code of the gift (mentioned at the beginning of this post) it says that the gift card has been already redeemed.
Is there a way to bypass the automatic updating of faces in iPhoto (OS X Lion 10.7.5.) My iPhoto is full of "faces" of people it has picked up from the backgrounds of my photos, making it so slow and having to delete so many photos afterwards that I stopped using it. If not, can you suggest any other similar software I can use to index and sort my photos?
I've found that with my iPhone 5 the following happens. When i give out my phone number to other people who also have an iPhone they can see my email address. I would rather this didn't happen. How do I stop it?
My generic Dell mouse behaves pretty strange compared to all other mice I have used with my MacBook. Almost every single-click is treated as if it were a double-click. Both the right and left button. The same mouse does not exhibit this behavior under Windows nor Ubuntu Linux.
Java 6 for Android development on Mountain Lion. Is it possible? What can I do? I've looked everywhere for a way to do this and am unable to find any solution.
Is there a way to create styles like all nokie cell have? I would like to create for example 3 styles: Normal (normal rington with vibration) Silence (another rington with vibration) Reunion (no rington no vibration)
I have an old PC that used to house my entire (several hundred gigabytes) photo library internally and backed it up nightly to an external hard drive. I have a MBP that travels between home and work (250 GB HD), and recently bought a MacBook Air (120GB) for home. Neither of these has enough storage to be "home" for my photo library. My requirements for the setup are: Must be large enough Must be backed up somehow Must be fast enough (> 100 Mb/s so USB 2.0+, Wireless-N or wired gigabit) when accessing it from one of the laptops. I have considered a few different options: Keep the current setup (yuck, computer is slow and loud). Network attached storage (few highly-rated options on sub-$500 systems) Airport Extreme with attached external HDD (would need a backup solution, I haven't thought of one)
On my Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) all the birthdays from the "Birthdays" calendar are showing a day early in Calendar. E.g. When I browse to contact Joe Bloggs in Contacts it shows his birthday as 12/03/1987. When I go into Calendar, there is a full day event for Joe Bloggs' birthday on 11/03/1987.
I am attempting to create an Automator application that will launch Quicktime, create a new audio capture, start that capture, and then save it with a specific filename after the stop button is clicked in the capture window. Although I was able to do this in Lion without any difficulty, I keep running into problems with the Start Capture action in Mountain Lion. Even though the "Wait for capture to complete" checkbox is checked, the action doesn't seem to detect when the stop button is clicked in Quicktime. Any solutions, tricks, or workarounds that would get this working properly would be greatly appreciated!
If I take a photo using the camera app, and then want to share it by email, the default is to send from my icloud email address. I have my gmail set up on my phone using exchange, and that had always been the default until recently (with all that icloud stuff). How can I set my gmail address as the default send-from address when sharing a photo?
So, is there any OS X software I can use to have these nice diagrams? And, is it possible to use the Nike+ FuelBand without syncing to the cloud?
Spaces lets you set up certain applications to open in a specific space, no particular space or all of them. Sometimes though I wished to have a space where my apps that usually would appear in all other spaces wouldn't go.
The native OS X scrollbar obviously completely defeats the purpose of Sublime Text 3's Minimap (which is a scrollbar by itself). So I want to disable OS X scrollbars …!! "overlay_scroll_bars": "enabled" doesn't work (only hides it when not scrolling). (I'm currently on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.)
Is this possible with an early 2009 iMac without Thunderbolt and a 2011 MacBook Pro? My dream solution looks like a Apple Thunderbolt Display!
I have downloaded the linux distro knoppix. I have snow leopard and i want to make a bootable usb with the above distro with the disk utility. I put the source to be the iso of the distro and destination to be the volume of my usb. When i click restore it throws error : invalid argument for the destination.
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion it happens to me every day when I enter the screen saver while having lunch it tries to restart the computer. I don't have any clue why this happens. If there is some process running and OSX can't automatically quit it, OSX will tell me that it couldn't restart. But if there's no process like this running it will restart. I don't really want this behaviour and searched in system settings as well in the Console in order to see why this might happen but I don't have a clue as of why. OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2 - MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011
This might be a bizarre but crucial question, can I fully trust leaving my laptop in repairs (Genius Bar) while they have full access to it ? I recently went to the genius bar to get my display fixed, and apparently they asked for my laptop's password just in case they need some "testing" after they're done. Can't they do that as a guest account ? I got sensitive information on my laptop such as passport copies etc, as well as passwords saved in Safari's keychains for my bank account, paypal, amazon etc ..
I'm new to Apple Mac OS, just Bought a new Macbook pro 13" Mid 2012 a month ago. Yesterday everything was good and working fine. I shut down system and went to sleep. Today when I Started my system I found some significant changes.
3.51 GB.... Photos 26.7 GB.... Apps
I'm trying to set up an IPv6 tunnel through HE, using an Airport Extreme (7.6.1). I got it to work once, but have a real chicken and egg problem: I'm on a PPPoE internet connection, the Airport Express being the primary router/dialup device. Every single time it dials in, it receives a different IP address. I have set up an automated script on a machine that's permanently on, which will update HE with the current IPv4 address, but I'm running into timing issues. It seems the Airport Express only tries to establish the tunnel once after rebooting. If HE hasn't been updated by then (very likely), it will fail and apparently never try again. To make it try the IPv6 tunnel again, I need to reboot it, which makes it assume a different IP address etc etc.
Here's what I got, a Panasonic docking system without aux in. I want to use an AirPort Express and turn it into a AirPlay-enabled speaker, so I need a cable that has a female 30-pin connector at one end, and 3.5mm jack at another.
My parents have an iMac circa 2007. Documentation says that this model should use this type of RAM: Memory: DDR2 PC2-5300 Memory Type: DDR2 PC2-5300, DDR2 (non-ECC) Maximum Memory: 4GB
I tried to enable Calendar sync at Settings > iCloud > Calendar and a message says "Activating Calendar sync" but it ends up in Home screen with no changes. When I go again to iCloud setting I see Calendar option is not enabled.
Do you know if it is possible to hide/show the menu bar similar to the Dock? I found about Menu Eclipse , but I think you can't use the menu bar space, and additionally it costs $1.99. Do you know other alternatives?
If I create a new note on my iMac (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion), it will not appear on either iCloud or my iPhone 5 (updated with the latest iOS). However, I CAN edit existing notes and those changes do sync to the cloud and to my iPhone. Very Annoying. I can create a new note on either cloud or iPhone and it all syncs. I just CANNOT create a new note on the Mac and have it sync to the cloud.
How do I sync the pictures I currently have in Picasa on my PC with the iPhoto app on my new iPad?
My OSX 10.8.2 crashed recently, I think I got a very good chance to replace my Hard drive as I need more storage. My question is: Can I seamlessly transfer my data (Include my iTunes music library and music playing history, iOS device synchronization record) to the new hard drive after replacing the hard drive WITHOUT using Time Machine? Because I got have no additional external hard drive for backup. Thanks.
I have a 2010 13" MacBook Pro that someone inserted one of those Mini CD type discs in to. The SuperDrive happily ingested the media but now refuses to spit it out. It does not show up as a mounted drive in Disk Utility. I tried starting the machine up while holding down the Eject key and the SuperDrive makes a few clicks, but the media doesn't eject and the OS boots as normal. There does not appear to be a hole on the outside of the Macbook where I might be able to insert a paperclip to push the media out. Is there any way to get the disk out of the drive or am I destined for a Genius Bar appointment?
I haven't found any useful info about what to do when asked for a password whilst sharing files between Mac and Windows. My scenario: I have ONE user on my Mac (somebrit) and no one else, not even guest. I have ONE fileshare located at /Users/somebrit/share.
I have been looking into buying a web cam to serve as a document camera. I have read a lot of conflicting reviews on the Logitech C615. Does anyone know if the webcam is compatible with my OS?
I use my iPod Touch to playback music. I have it plugged into a music system. When an e-mail is received the iPod notifies me by beeping and lowering the volume. This is undesirable for me. How can I make my iPod play music and never lower the volume?
I shot my first two video with an iPhone 5 last weekend, and both suffered from the same flash of purple banding you can see in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLWJKDj1fE
Since the update to iOS 6, my iPhone (or iTunes) does not copy the photos I have on my Windows system to the iPhone. The update to iOS 6.0.1 doesn't seem to have helped. I have removed all photos from both the iPhone and the sync area on the Windows system, but when I return the photos to the sync area, nothing gets copied to the iPhone. How can I get my photo sync to work again?
i have a nice iPhone 3GS which has a curious behaviour. I'm not using it often but when i'm doing CPU intensive things like a game, it just shuts down suddenly, screen becomes black an i can't restart it without putting it on the charger. It's not hot. Then i plug it, and it just boots and is runs ok with the same battery level as before the crash. I thought changing the iOS would fix that but it doesn't .. i'm on iOs 6 and it's still the same behaviour
I'm trying to sync my college email with my iPhone 4s. I used to have an android phone and I had the gmail setup through my college's email. It's hosted by GMAIL. If I try now, I get invalid un/pw for imap.gmail.com.
Using iOS6 is there a way to show or display music controls inside the notifications bar for quick access? Note: I am looking for a native way to do this. If there is not a way I would welcome 3rd party apps that do this function, however, I prefer the standard music player and do not want to change the music player.
I am trying to get the hang of Quicksilver. I have actually used it for over three years, but entirely as a simple launcher. In connection with another task I found that I needed to use it to execute an AppleScript via a hotkey. By having the features of Quicksilver brought to my attention, I have been motivated to put a bit of effort into decoding some of its other functions.
Currently clock menu bar item shortens day of the week like Sat instead of Saturday. Is there any way to change this without additional software? (tried regional formats but it ignores any custom changes for some reason, OSX 10.8.2)
I'm going to add a SSD drive to my macbook pro. I'm wondering if the optical drive adapter can have any influence on the disk speed, taking it down from a SATA III to a SATA II or I.
Typically, my kernel_task process uses 1-4% CPU and 100-700MB of memory. However, sometimes when I have the power adapter plugged in, the CPU usage jumps to around 500% (8 cores) and stays there until I unplug the power adapter. I can plug it back in and everything is fine for a few seconds or a few days, then it eventually happens again. How can I stop this from happening?
For example, I have a service that I want it to be started automatically when I open Firefox. I know how to write scripts as services in automator, but I don't know how to make a hook that when Firefox is openned, it started the service.
This might seem like a strange question. Is there some sort of way for an app to launched by pressing the screen for a few seconds on touch screen phones? the reason why I ask is because this would be a great feature for like a panic button. of course the app will have to calibrate to the owner's thumb to prevent accidental pressing from objects in purse or pockets.
I have heard you can mirror an iPhone 4 so that whatever happens on one phone you will see on the mirrored phone. Can this really be done and if so how do I go about setting up the two phones? I am very technologicaly challenged, but I'd like to monitor my daughter's iPhone.
I recently moved to a new MacbookPro and migrated my old computer's files/settings over to the new one. For some reason I am unable to disable the ability to look up the definition to a word by using a three finger tap gesture. I have unchecked the "Look up" option in the Trackpad preference pane. I have unchecked the "Look up" option in the Trackpad preference pane. I also disabled option to "Look Up in Dictionary" within Keyboard preference pane > Keyboard Shortcuts > Searching > Look Up in Dictionary. I also disabled option to "Look Up in Dictionary" within Keyboard preference pane > Keyboard Shortcuts > Searching > Look Up in Dictionary.
I have two different Apple IDs, associated with Apple Stores in different countries. On my iPhone, some apps were purchased with one ID, some with the other. This used to be really painful in iOS 5, but it's not so bad in iOS 6: the system detects all apps that need updates, no matter what account I am currently using for the App Store, and it asks for login information for the other account when it needs to update an app purchased with it.
I've tried installing beta graphics drivers, re installing the operating system, re installing the bootcamp support software, and freeing up space (I have about 20 GB free). I can't figure out what suddenly caused this other than some obscure difference between the consumer preview and the retail version.
Is there a relatively straight forward way to make a note of all applications/programs installed on my mac for future reference, without having to note down each application one by one via word etc
If I were to install Windows 7 or 8 either via Boot Camp or Virtualisation Software on my Mac would my Magic Trackpad still function in the Windows environment or is the ability to use gesture control inherent to Mac OS X ?
Does Mac OS X allow for the creation of iso files (similar to that of Windows) and if so can they then be run on a virtual drive within the operating system ?
Can I download applications/programs, dmg image files etc that are Mac specific on my Windows PC when and where necessary, and then transfer them to my Apple Computer, with no loss of function ?
I see adverts for this particular app all over the place. Is it true that people should stay well away from it, as it could potentially do more harm than good to your Apple Computer, and to your wallet!!
I have noticed that many Apps require at least Mac OS X 10.7.4 to be installed on an apple mac and some apps even require Mac OS X 10.8 to be installed. Cant apps be made backward compatible for those users who may well be on earlier versions (ie Snow Leopard & Leopard). Is this also therefore a very good reason to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system ?
I have an external hard drive connected using USB3 to my macbook pro retina and I am running time machine for the first time. It is going very slow and estimate says "3 days". I don't understand why its taking so long because my hard drive is 335 GB and I would expect a backup to take a few hours tops maybe. Can anyone explain if this is normal or if i am doing something wrong?
On the Dock I have two folders, Documents and Downloads. I was used to drag files from the Downloads folder and drop them on the Desktop or somewhere else.
I have a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display that doesn't work with my USB 2 hard disk. It doesn't mount, doesn't show up in Disk Utility, and doesn't even show up in System Information in the USB section.
For the past few days, I have not been getting notifications when I receive a direct message on my Twitter account. I keep changing the notification settings to the way that I want them, but they keep resetting back to default. I have tried uninstalling the app and reinstalling it. I have tried installing the app from the App store and from the Settings menu on my iPhone 4. Any help to the situation would be greatly appreciated.
There were several updates affecting the recovery partition. Is there a way to create an usb memory stick containing an up to date Mountain Lion recovery partition?
In particular, I receive update notifications for printer drivers where my current drivers work and I don't want to update them. I'd like to clear the updates from the store and stop receiving notifications about them.
My oldest daughter lives in England and is returning there after the upcoming holidays. Her Mother and I live in the USA. She desires an iPad Mini as a Christmas gift. She is an iPhone 4S user with O2 as her carrier in England. Two questions seem tied in my mind: If we buy her an iPad Mini equipped with a 3G/4G radio and she intends to buy some sort of data plan in England, which one should we buy...the Sprint, the Verizon, or the AT&T model? If we buy her an iPad Mini equipped with a 3G/4G radio and she intends to buy some sort of data plan in England, which one should we buy...the Sprint, the Verizon, or the AT&T model? Are there advantages/disadvantages to setting up the iTunes account for her new iPad (a) in the US, with a US-based credit card; (b) in the UK (her home), with a US-based credit card; or (c) in the UK, with a UK-based credit card? Are there advantages/disadvantages to setting up the iTunes account for her new iPad (a) in the US, with a US-based credit card; (b) in the
I own "mydomain.com" (actually something else!) and have a catchall to receive all emails sent to any xxxx@mydomain.com Earlier this week I received an email from appleid@id.apple.com asking me to verify annepearson@mydomain.com. This person is unknown to me. I did not verify. I have now received this email: Dear Anne Pearson, The password for your Apple ID annepearson@mydomain.com has been successfully reset.
Apple lists the iPad mini models on the Identifying iPad models web page and lists two cellular models: A1454 on the iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular A1455 on the iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM)
I was given a used 3g iphone and iTunes updated the phone. It is on 4.2.1 with firmware 5.15.04. What do I need to do to jailbreak it, so that I can download apps?
I have no idea why. But apple have not earthed the stubbly plug for the macbook pro transformer. So on the short lead the only way the charger is earthed is when I touch it or the macs unibody which gives you a sort of vibrating feeling on your palms.
The problem is the keyboard layout is not the same. For instance when I type:
How can I create a keyboard shortcut for something that doesn't have a keyboard shortcut? Example, I use Airparrot to mirror my iMac to my Apple TV. I'd like to assign a keyboard shortcut to the airparrot menu selection that enables display mirroring to my TV. That way I can just use a remote on my iphone while I'm sitting on my couch to mirror my iMac remotely, without having to go upstairs to the computer and back down. Any ideas? To me airplay mirroring is pointless if you can't enable it remotely.
I have tried numerous ways to fix this problem : Clean uninstall and re-install of Office 2011 Download individual updates Download older Office updates
EDIT: Yes, there is space on the disk for another partition. diskutil list: EDIT II:
I have a brand new Mac Mini. It came (last week) with OSX 10.8.1 installed. Software update is reporting an update for iPhoto to version 9.4.2. When I try to run the update, it fails with a message saying that I need OSX 10.8.2. Then when I try to download the OSX 10.8.2 release, I get a message 'OSX Mountain Lion is not compatible with this computer'.
I want to be able to access my Macbook Air (Late-2011, Mountain Lion), when the lid is closed (in sleep mode), remotely from my iPhone 4GS. I have tried using LogMeIn Ignition App but it does not allow you to wake the laptop from sleep. Is there any other way/solution people are using currently?
I noticed that my iPhone's Wifi performance sometimes lagged and so I did an experiment. From exactly the same place in my living room, within seconds of each other, my iPad showed around 6Mb down and my iPhone 5 showed less than half that, around 2.5Mb. Can someone suggest why they think this might be?
How can I open .VCE files on Mac? Is there a free software product I can download?
I have a bunch of music I ripped from CD myself. I haven't played all of it recently, mostly listening to my iPhone instead. I went to play some old tracks only to be told by iTunes "this movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes". It's not a movie.
Back when I was a Windows user in another life, I faintly remember a nice shortcut when browsing a directory: type the first letter of the file name you want to be highlighted, and keep pressing to iterate through the rest of the files that start with that letter. So for example if 10 files were listed that all started with the letter 's', I'd just keep pressing 's' to go through each file.
I acquired a backup program - SuperDuper! - recently, and ran it, backing up Macintosh HD to another partition. It seems to me like it just copied everything. My question then is: What is the difference between using a backup program and just copying all the files with Finder?
Both my cousin and I have backups on my PC and we both have the iPhone 4. However, she has Sprint and iOS 5.1.1 and I have AT&T and 6.0.1. Could I use her backup to downgrade my iPhone to iOS 5.1.1?
In university I normally SSH into the computer sciences server. However today I keep getting the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. SSHing with -v flags gives me the following.
I'm trying to run Minecraft on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I downloaded the zip file (link here) from minecraft.net and unzipped it. Double clicked on the icon and it tells me,
my webserver software is nginx which runs very well on macbook air using mac os x 10.7.5 when i go to *=URL=* on my macbook air, i can access my website perfectly which is running on localhost.
I have a macbook pro laptop using mountain lion. I just setup time machine onto a WD My Passport and it worked fine (took about 2 hours over USB 3.0 for 333 GB of stuff). My question is, given its a laptop, i will not have the external hard drive plugged in all of the time. Is there anything i need to worry about with regard to Time Machine config, etc given the fact that i won't have it plugged in all of the time.
I used to find the location of cached flash videos by lsof | grep Flash, the result is something like this Pepper flash player deleted the files so you can not see or copy them, but the process 38571 still hold the files open. Normally I can save the cached flash video by copying /proc/38571/fd/74 to another location. However on Mountain Lion I find out that /proc is not there anymore!
I like keyboard navigation, so I frequently use Shift-Command-G to Go to Folder… when saving files. I type the first few letters of the directory I want then key Tab to complete the rest. This worked consistently on my old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. On my new one with Mountain Lion: tab completion works about half the time the other half, keying Tab is ineffective.
I used to use nautilus . command to open the graphical folder / file viewer in red hat linux. Now I moved to mac and it seems that there is no nautilus support in it. Is there any equivalent command that I can use. My scenario is like this, I open a Terminal, go to the folder I want let's say /Users/user1/myapps and I do want to use a command that by typing it in Terminal, it bring me the graphical folder / files view where I am.
I'm hesitant to fork over €29 to continue using my existing iPod sound dock with a 5th gen Touch. I've found some generic brand Lightning-to-30-pin adapters on Amazon and eBay at much lower prices, but I don't know if they work at all. I'd use them for charging, audio playback and syncing. What are your experiences with this specific adapter in terms of quality and function as compared to Apple's adapter?
I've inadvertently put my iPhone 4 in "recovery mode" and now it insists I restore without even a chance to backup. Is there a way to exit recovery mode?
I have an 8GB iPod Touch 2nd Generation that runs iOS 4.2.1, and currently it is not jailbroken. I want to jailbreak it using redsn0w version 0.9.6b4. I have found these instructions, but I will lose data if I follow them. I have backed my data up using iTunes. How can I jailbreak it without losing my data? Or can I restore the backed up data without removing the jailbreak?
In iTunes, I want to be able to pull up a list of played podcasts from time to time and select some for deletion. I don't want to auto-delete podcasts marked as played as a) I share the library with my wife and don't want podcasts to disappear if only one of us has listened to them and b) I want to be able to keep some favourites.
I started to use Pages. I want to change spell check language. But I don't find Turkish in the language menu (inspector of Pages). How can I add Turkish into the language menu? Thanks.
I am moving to the Cayman Islands, which uses the same power source as the US, will I be able to use my MAC desktop there using a US adapter? Thanks
My MacBook will often sleep while I take a break, and when it wakes up, Messages doesn't consult Keychain for passwords. Instead, I'm prompted for all of my passwords again.
Are the applications located towards the right side of the menu bar next to system icons automatically active upon boot up of an apple mac. What decides which apps sit there & is there a way to choose which apps are active and sit in the menu bar by default at startup ?
Is there a way to disable the screen lock on my Mac, only when certain conditions are met? I'm looking for a way to have it stop locking when connected my home network (i.e. at home)
Is there a CLI front-end to the Contacts.app (formerly Address Book.app) database? Example:
Is there a list of compatibility issues? Has anyone any information on compatibility issues between Google Drive and other Mac software?
I have iPhoto 9.4.2 set to open automatically when a camera is connected to my iMac. When I connect the PowerShot A40 to my iMac via USB, iPhoto does open. But there's no sign of the camera in the left side bar and no way to import any of the photos off the CompactFlash card in the camera shown in iPhoto. How can I get this old camera to show up as Device in iPhoto so I can import the photos off of it?
Is there a way I can get more details on the strength of my Wi-Fi signal? I'm looking for either an app I can download or a system command that I can run in terminal that will expose the noise of other signals that aren't mine and may be occupying the same channel as my current network.
I just recently switched to a macbook pro with mountain lion from macbook with leopard. I had no problems with safari opening pdfs before, but now, what it does is that it opens the pdf, but it remains vertical (an otherwise landscape document) and there isn't even a control bar to zoom, or rotate it. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thx
The only thing I can do after this happens is restart. I'm completely at a loss as to what might cause this as this does not seem to be a common error. A Google search hasn't revealed much.
I've just got a new laptop with Mountain Lion. The calendar has the old color coded options of 'Work', 'Home' etc, however it also has my email address as an option. If I select 'Work' and create a new event it automatically changes to the email account, meaning that I get email alerts for events, which I dont want. How can I change this behaviour?
I have the occasional need to scan and/or convert scanned images into PDF format. OS X Mountain Lion does this natively, but as far as I can tell it's just an image wrapped in a PDF, so text selection, search, and signing the document isn't possible.
My apple ID on my iPad is not the same as my ID on the App Store. How do I change the ID on the iPad for the App Store?
I'm looking for a way to protect my data files on my macbook air 2012 I'm a sales rep with sensitive client data. Always moving with my laptop in sleep mode. So far I have my password set up, firewall enabled with all incoming connections blocked. What else can I do to ensure data safety if someone gets an access to my mba SSD? FileVault 2 is not secure (cracked in 40 minutes by security professions) TrueCrypt looks promising but I'm concerned about battery life. Any advice?
Or download the full movie on my iPhone, and then transfer it across to my Computer at home. As when you download a movie on your iphone doesn't it download a smaller (lower resolution) version that fits the phone's screen size?
I have a Macbook2,1 with 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz and Leopard 10.5.8 and I need to upgrade it to Lion. I've downloaded Lion installation dmg file and restored it to a USB disk using Disk Utility.
I need a database of all Mac models produced within the last decade (at least). Something like EveryMac or MacTracker but as a table in SQL or a similar format, to be put into a RDBMS. Does anybody know where I can get / buy one?
I have several versions of Python installed, some through MacPorts and some directly via the python.org installers. I have modules installed through MacPorts and via PyPI, for the same Python version (3.2.3), but there are no ports for some of the PyPI modules I'd like to use. I tried just copying the files from one site-packages directory to another, but it didn't work. Is there a way to create one "true" centralized location that will accept packages from both MacPorts and pip/easy_install?
I've succesfully built a fusiondrive on my late 2009 iMac (256Gb Samung830+2TB HDD). I set the size to 100%, so I have no recovery partion. However when I boot with the option key I get two identical volumes to chose from. Clicking one or the other brings me to the desktop. I've seen this reported elsewhere, but is it normal on a DIY fusion drive? My iMac runs fine and snappier and the drive shows up as one in Disk utility. Could indicate that some kind of special firmware on the SSD is needed to get a "fully" functional fusion drive?
Is a new iMac 27" 2012 a viable upgrade compared to my current Mac Pro 2008 (quad core, 2.8Ghz 14GB RAM)? I am a professional photographer and my workflow (Lightroom 4.2 +Photoshop CS6) has become increasingly slow over the last year or so. The specs of the new iMac seem promising – although I am a bit skeptical about using an iMac as a workstation. I currently run OS ML and apps off an SSD (128 Gb) and store the LR catalog + RAW files on an internal 2TB 7200 HDD (WD Caviar Black). So, my question is, in theory, will the upgrade to a maxed out iMac provide a significant performance boost? Thanks!
In mountain Lion, when you have multiple monitors, if you have multiple desktops enabled, how do you move an application in Mission control to another desktop on a different display. I can move an application from one desktop on the SAME display, but not on a different display. I either have to move it to a different display, unclick, then move it to the appropriate desktop, OR move it to the appropriate desktop, unclick, then to the appropriate display. Ultimately I am trying to rearrange my applications when moving from my laptop when in use by itself, to when I am at work with my multiple screens, and cant get it to have a "Profile" to remember the correct assignments, as described here.
I am using bluetooth headphones with OS X Lion. The headphones (like most bluetooth headsets) have built-in play/pause and back/forward controls. Using the play button will always launch iTunes, even if another audio player is running.
When trying to download songs from iTunes to my iPhone, a message pops up saying I have to delete and sync. Will this delete all my photos, contacts, and apps from my phone? Or just the music part of my iPhone?
Does any one know how can I remove items that I never use from the context menu? e.g.: Burn "yadda yadda" to Disk...
I install things in all kinds of different ways on my Mac... App Store, DMG's, PKG's, Homebrew, Rubygems, Macports, etc etc. Is there an app out there that can show me my entire history of installing things through all these different channels?
I am unable to pair my Apple Remote, which otherwise works perfectly, with my MacBook Pro. My Mac responds to all the commands but the pairing one (I hold menu and next for about five seconds, but nothing happens). How can I get my Mac and my remote paired? I am running Mountain Lion, but I don't know if it is relevant to my issue.
On my MacBookAir the applications starts. On a second system with the same OS and the same Java installations I always receive the well known error window (with the corresponding English message like "you have to load the Java Runtime Environment for Web Start...) A click on "more information" delivers the java.com web page that offers the JRE download that is already installed. The corresponding console error message is: System: Mac OS X 10.8.2, Intel Core Duo Installed Java: Apple 1.6.0_37-b06-434 Oracle Java SE Run Time environment:7u9) Oracle Java SE jdk-7u9-macosx-x64.dmg) Output of /usr/bin/java -version is: Java SE runtime environment 1.7.0_09-b05 The java.com website signals on the installed version web page): Version7 Update 9 installed. The Java Control Panel also says: "Version 7 Update 9 installed" The Java Control Panel offers no choice to "enable the Java web start". Any suggestion is very welcome! Best regards, Werner
I have a 13-inch Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion installed. I bought an HDMI - Thunderbolt cable months ago in order to watch movies, TV shows and whatnot on my TV (Sony Bravia). The cable had been working out great for me since I bought it; the audio and video quality was exceptional and it gave me an almost perfect HD experience whenever I watched shows on my TV via my Macbook.
I like to keep my itunes neat and organised, so naturally I like to keep the correct artist name for each song. Unfortunately, I have a problem. This only happens with one song, it's in a compilation so the artist originally listed on the song was 'various artists', and while I have no such issue with any of the other songs, when I change the artist name on this particular track, the song is suddenly listed as 'unknown album' and the only way to change it back is to change the artist back to various. All of the songs in the album share the same album artist so I don't know why this would happen, particularly with this one song. I cant find anything about this issue anywhere so it would be great if someone could help.
I just replaced a 1GB RAM stick in my 2007-era Macbook Pro with a 2GB RAM stick. It already had Mountain Lion installed on it. Is there anything I need to do like configuring something in System Preferences or running a command in Terminal in order to make sure all applications and behind-the-scenes stuff take advantage of the increased RAM? I'm asking with the assumption that some applications might have made a note of the machine's original amount of RAM when the app was installed, and may still be optimizing itself to the old RAM amount.
I just got a Macbook Pro Retina 15". It is sweet.
Just moved to a new place and so I reinstalled my HTMacMini (2009 nVidia 9400M model) in a slightly different configuration. My wife wanted it more out of sight so I put it in a drawer which had some ventilation but maybe not enough. After a week, tonight, it became impossible to wake up the display with the keyboard. I connected to the Mini via screen sharing and everything seemed fine. I rebooted the Mini and while I got a signal on TV, the picture was now flickering pretty regulary (as much as once per second). Again, connecting to it via VNC/screen sharing works fine. Did I screw it all up by not allowing enough ventilation in the new setup? Any way I can diagnose exactly what's going on? Could it just be the miniDP connector? Could I replace this?
I was given an iphone 4 to fix. I've replaced screens before, but this guy tried to do it himself but he couldn't do it. When I got the phone, the flash lit up. It wasn't a full "flash" like you get from some flashlight applications, it was just dimmly lit.
I use OS X Mountain 10.8.2. I used Automator and added AppleScript, copying the command from the old app's developer at the Iconoodle - Convenient ICNS to PNG image conversion (Iconoodle isn't supported by OS X 10.8 by being a PPC app). I saved the workflow as an application. I selected the images and dropped them into the application, but the images weren't converted to ICNS. I also copied from the question Convert image to .icns file AppleScript Obj-C from StackoverFlow and it didn't work either.
I have a 3GS running 5.1. Memory management is key to keeping it running smoothly. I've tried:
I am doing a series of text correction for a game, and recieved the pdf of corrections from the customer. I use preview as a pdf reader. On windows, I can freely copypaste the content back and forth, but for some reason, when I try on my mac, the sentences gets jumbled around. As you can see from this screenshot, i copy the text from the right, and paste it in the tool on the left (Smultron) and the lines have changed order.
It used to be in Safari 5 and such I could open the Activity Viewer with ⌘⌥A, but no longer in Safari 6. How then do I download embedded files such as Flash Video from a website for offline viewing in Safari 6? Is there a Safari Extension (my Google-fu hasn't turned up anything useful on that front)?
With regards to purchasing Apple Mac Software: Is the Majority of Software available for the Mac now available for purchase from the Mac App Store ? Are there Pros & Cons to Mac App Store purchasing ?
I have a different passwords for: www.example.com/foo/login and www.example.com/bar/login It seems as if the keychain only saves the passwords in relation to the sitename as it does not make distinctions by the subdomain. When I visit www.example.com/foo/login the keychain will save the password correctly, but when I visit www.example.com/bar/login afterwards it uses the password of the first page and doesn't let me create a new password for the subdomain. Is there any solution to this problem?
I'm having a sound output issue on my mac when both my Apogee Duet 2 and Logitech H540 headset are connected to my Macbook pro at boot. Every time I restart my mid-2012 Macbook Pro my volume control icon in the menu bar is greyed out. If I unplug the Logitech H540 headset and reboot the volume control is solid (dark) and everything works fine. But when both devices are connected (which I need them to be), the volume control is grayed out so I can't make any adjustments from the menu bar.
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Retina MBP and whenever I use Quicktime to fast-forward and then return to normal speed, the audio is skipped and doesn't work properly. The only fix I found(which isn't a fix) is to reopen the file, and not fast forward. Have you encounter this problem?
I have switched Cmd and Ctrl in System preferences. I have the following key bindings defined: But they are not being used, instead of selecting the next word it selects until the next end of line. PS I used the instructions here http://benogle.com/2010/01/18/windowslinux-developers-remap-your-mac.html
I have Macbook Air 2012 model (128 GB SSD) with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and I am having difficulties trying to configure the mail.app. When I first tried to set-up my gmail account it started to sync my Macbook with my whole gmail account which is very huge (about 10 GB). Is there any way not to sync whole mailbox? Given the limited capacity of SSD I wanted to have something like we have on an iPhone where for instance only 1000 (or less) of emails messages would be stored locally.
While a similar question was raised here, it doesn't seem to be a solid answer but more of a theory. In addition my case is a bit different as you will see below.
There are certain menu items in the Safari 6 Debug menu which I want to understand. First, I’ll list the menu items; then, the information I would like to know for each of the items; and finally, I’ll post screenshots of the Debug menu and its submenus for context.
Is there a way (preferably stable —doesn't matter if it's difficult to configure— but you forget about it once done) to make Safari displaying images centered? I mean, if you are viewing an image www.blah.blah/blah.png (or .jpeg, or .svg, or any image), Safari aligns it at the left top corner. I would like it to be centered on the screen. Is that possible?
The first time you log into a new account with Mountain Lion, a special iCloud login screen is shown. Once you "skip" this screen it is never shown again.
I would expect one of: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate2 Or maybe: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Macromates What's the story here?
I want to use iMessage on an old Macbook which cannot be upgrades past OS X 10.7. Apple provided an iMessage beta software, but it has expired and no longer functions. I'm wondering whether there is any way to keep using the iMessage service on the Lion OS?
iMessage is very confusing as my email and phone number keeps receiving different messages at random occasions rather than having all messages sent to both. This is very apparent in group messages. I would like to use my phone number, is this possible ?
I am running OS X 10.8.2 on a MacBook Pro with a 27" Cinema Display. Just this week I noticed that when I switch over to Safari the Main Menu Bar (not the Safari menu bar) disappears. I have checked to make sure that I am not in full screen mode. I also checked the desktop settings and don't see anything that would turn that off. The menu bar shows when I am in any application other than Safari. Again, this is the main menu bar, not the safari menu bar. Thanks in advance for any help. Screenshot:
With the Notification Center in Mountain Lion, I get an alert when software updates are available. The problem is, my only options are 'Details' and 'Update'. I don't want to interrupt my work to install the update and I don't want to launch the App Store to see what the update it. I just want to dismiss the alert so that it doesn't come back again. I know about the tip that swiping the notification off the side of the screen to make it go away, but it seems to come back a few minutes later.
I running OS X 10.6.8 on a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro. I would like to standardize the size of icons seen in Finder (I use Icon View). Currently, every folder has its own icon size, which makes it less comfortable to use. I am tired of trying to "guesstimate" using the icon slider. Ideally, I would like to either revert all folders to default sizing, or be able to specify, for example, 48px. I would also like to, if possible, revert the dock to default icon size (or at least be able to specify by pixel, and desktop icons also. Is there an easy way to do this?
In Mountain Lion (10.8.2) the 'Center' option does not scale and centre wallpapers correctly. The preview is correct, but the wallpaper is the same as 'Fit to Screen'. All other options work as expected. Desktop with 'Center': Desktop with 'Fit to Screen': The screen resolution is 1024x768 and the image size is 3200x2000.
I want to send "Happy Thanksgiving!" to 35 different people, but I do not want it to be treated as a group message. How can this be accomplished on the iPhone 4S (with or without jailbreak applications, such as biteSMS) with iOS 5.1.1? The reasons that I would not want it treated as a group message are: I do not want the recipients to see the numbers of other recipients I do not want the recipients' replies to go to multiple people I do not want the recipients' replies to be grouped in a group message, but to instead be part of each individual thread depending on the message, I may specifically not want a given recipient to know that other recipients received the same message. Optimally, the solution would also allow pictures to be attached and would automatically send iMessages instead of text messages to iOS users - but those parts are less important than being able to send plain text messages.
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.0.1. Whenever I resume the phone from idle, I see "LTE" quickly change to the wifi icon in the status bar. This makes me believe that wifi is off when the phone is idle. Is this also true when I have Pandora playing music and I power off the screen? I have a limited data plan and would like wifi to be on when the screen is off.
Is there a way (perhaps using a third-party app) to make one of my Spaces permanently locked to a single app (in this case, TextEdit)? I want to have all my TextEdit windows and nothing else in one Space, at all times. I never want TextEdit to open windows anywhere besides my TextEdit-dedicated Space.
the question is almost identical to the title: i just got an iPhone 5, coming over from a blackberry. on my blackberry i was able to receive all my text messages and emails from both of my accounts (one personal gmail, and one work email address) in one app. is there a way to do this on the iPhone?
I like the iOS PageCapture here. I want to find it for Desktop. Where can I find such whole-browser-page-screenshotting app for OSx?
Error message "could not unmount disc" Only tried Time Machine one day with new Snow Leopard install on MBP. Have been happy with CCC & want to use the space for a bootable CCC clone.
I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro and want to remove all of the data before doing so. I have the OS Lion installed but my machine came with Snow Leopard. How can I remove everything and restore it to basically just the OS without losing Lion? I want to sell the machine with Lion. Thanks.
I ran repair permissions a few days ago, because other accounts on my computer couldn't open system preferences (this problem persists, but I don't care about it very much). What does bother me, however, is that it seems to have messed up numerous network permissions. Specifically,
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal. I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be able to see the directories I have created under / in the Finder. How can I be able to make my main hard drive visible in the Finder?
I write iMessages in different languages, depending on who the message goes to. Text input is very difficult if auto-completion/correction is using the wrong dictionary. Is there a way to assign a language for my contacts, so that iMessage will pick that up? Or if not, is there at least a quick way (without leaving the app) to switch languages manually?
I'd like to have a visual indicator of multitouch finger positions as I record the iOS screen of an iPad using AirPlay. This seems like something that would require a jailbreak. Luckily I do have my iPad JB'd but my searches have not turned up anything.
I use a 2009 Mac Mini. I almost thought it had died but false alarm. Regardless, it got me thinking about the future. I currently use my Mac Mini to, in no particular order: watch the occasional DVD (no longer Netflix but RedBox from time to tie) stream TV shows from Hulu, Netflix download stuff via torrent watch said stuff via VLC (it's usually a mix of mp4 and mkv) do some web browsing
I would like to know how I could add a USB eject button or battery power indicator to my menu bar on Mac OS X. I remember going into my Macintosh hard drive but I can't remember which folder to find it in. I know to drag out an item from the menu bar by pressing the command key and at the same time dragging the icon onto the desktop, but how do you add icons to it?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" A1150 (MA600LL) that will not boot except in safe mode. It gets almost all of the way through the boot then freezes with two vertical checkerboard lines and the trackpad-controlled pinwheel for a cursor. Also, the chime works at the beginning, but after boot in ANY mode the sound preference pane says there is no sound output device. What should I do? Regards, Don
When I receive a message there will immediately be a notification, however when opening the Messages app, the message will usually take about 5 seconds before it appears. If there a known issue with the OS or a quick fix for this issue?
I would like to export and save the Notes and Reminders documents or texts as PDFs and RTFs, keeping or preserving the formatting and the background of Notes or Reminders, but the Notes doesn't have the option. I would like to know if it's possible to use Automator and AppleScript to export the Notes and Reminders as PDFs and RTFs.
I know that it is recommended that I backup my data, but if I upgrade to an iPhone 4S to iOS 6, does everything in my iPhone get deleted? Or does it keep original data, except when some errors occur?
I have a brand new Nano, and was wondering if I can use the same electrical connector that I've received with my iPad2 to charge the Nano? Will it be armfull for the Nano?
How can I toggle magic mouse one finger swipe pages gesture via terminal? The command defaults write -g AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool NO triggers checkbox in System Preferences, but doesn't affect swiping gesture.
I haven't noticed exactly when it happened but previously I was always using spotlight to run Xcode. Now if i'm typing "Xcode" in it, only folders containing this name show up, or some xcode projects, not all though. I've tried search in finder and even choosing kind of files - Application, still no luck. Did Anybody face this problem before?
At some point, I've noticed strange behavior of Terminal app - now on opening new window i get this as normal: but can't see the "~" sign afterwards and window title shows "Terminal - sed - 80x24" which means that sed is running. After hitting two times "enter" key, everything goes normal, but now after every new command i enter, i have to hit twice "enter" after it. This drives me insane! Have no idea what happened. Maybe there is some startup-configuration script for terminal/bash? I've checked .bash_profile it looks fine as it used to be. Here is my .bash_profile file:
I would like to open a new message Outlook window from terminal and ideally prefill the message body too. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Txn!
How can I open a file with an application, other than the default, using a keyboard shortcut? I don’t want to change the default application for the filetype.
I have followed a guide to set up the core storage logical volume to use one SSD and one HDD. Since then, I have encountered multiple errors such as: 69822 Couldn’t rediscover disk after operation 69780 Unable to create a new CoreStorage Logical Volume ... When created my Fusion Drive, I inverted disk0 (HDD) and disk1 (SSD) in the first command to create a Logical Volume Group. If I boot normally (not in safe mode), the machine hangs at Apple logo ... even if I try to boot from an external drive or a Mountain Lion startup drive. Could this be a problem of the EFI version (2.7)? Hardware: Macbook Pro 15" early 2011 (8,2)
I use vim inside terminal and trying to share the mac clipboard with vim. Compiled vim with xterm_clipboard support and installed XQuartz. But,am not able to get Mac clipboard content inside vim using "+" register "+y. Now,clueless on why it's not working..Need pointers on how to debug this?
I have been noticed unique behavior between virtual desktops on my Macbook. For example, Mail is in Space 1, my browser in Space 2, and Autocad in Space 3. Seemingly at random intervals, it will change Space 2 and Space 3, so I end up with, basically Space 1, 3, 2 (but they are labeled space 1, 2, 3). I'm not sure if it is related to the question, but I have also noticed that sometimes when I do the four finger swipe to change spaces, it jumps two spaces.
I have a Macbook Pro 13 "(late 2009) with a screen that just stopped working. In the technical assistance they told me that the problem would be the logic board or the display, any of them quite expensive to fix. So, I bought an mini display port to HDMI adapter to connect to my TV until I buy a new laptop.
I recently updated my 3Gs to the new iOS 6. However after doing this I've noticed that a lot of my contacts are gone. However if they call me or I type the number in, they pop up and will stay in my recents tab, but if I then go back into contacts they are still not there!
What I want is to install rEFIt so I can triple boot Mountain Lion, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I've done this several time before and am aware of the process I need to go through, including how to handle the presence of 5 partitions on a system that can only handle 4.
Is there a way to open two views of the same PDF in Preview (without creating two copies of the file), or perhaps split the window and show two different pages at the same time? This is very useful when reading a paper which refers back to equations on previous pages.
A couple of years or so ago, I modified a script, according to a forum message, which would (I assume) automount the folders found on my Synology server, ie web, video, public, music, photo at startup time. This would then show these folders in the Finder window. I no longer have the Synology server running so as a result, whenever I restart my IMac (OS X 10.7.5) there are messages that pop up for each folder: "There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.xxx.xxx". Now I can't remember what script I changed so I can comment out these commands. Can anyone help me?
Recently, my MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 15 inch, 10.8.2) has started going into what seems to be hibernate mode after several hours asleep, whether it's plugged in or on battery. When I unplug it, it wakes briefly without me opening the lid (I can tell because the CD drive cycles). If I open the lid, I see it loading the hibernate file before becoming active again. I looked at the output of pmset -g, and see the following settings that might be relevant to this problem:
I've gone through the adding procedure and it all verifies and looks good there. However, it will not receive or send any mail (nor sync up contacts/tasks, etc). It's just throwing the terribly uninformative "An error has ocurred" message. I'm running the latest iOS - 6.0.1 - on this iPad 2.
I normaly listen to music on my iPhone while working, and regularly I also have to be able to make calls. What tends to happen is that I google for the contact details of the place I'm calling and then have to type the number into my phone. It stikes me that there is probably a much more effective way of doing this - is there a utility that either lets me select a number on my browser and automatically call it? Or even just a shared clipboard between my phone and my MacBook?
I have a Raspberry Pi connected to my Macbook Pro with a LAN cable. The network from my Mac is shared with the Raspberry Pi through this cable. Is it possible to ssh from my Mac to the Raspberry Pi through the LAN connection?
Using a macbook pro, with a thunderbolt cable connecting to an iMac, and using Target Display Mode [TDM] to mirror the display. I choose the optimal resolution for the external display, which means more pixels than I have when using the native display. (This is the point. :)
I have Vmware Fusion 4 on my Mac. I used it for work for awhile and had windows 7 installed and was joined to a AD Domain. When I left the company I had to un-join it from the Domain. Now, I cannot delete files that were shared between the mac (iOS 6) and Windows. How can I change the permissions so I can clean up my mac?
I just created a "Fusion Drive" on my MacBook Pro by following "How to make a Custom CoreStorage Drive in OS X". It was created with a 256GB SSD and 320GB HD, with the SSD set as the "primary" disk in the logical volume. However, I'm not seeing much of a speed increase, and I'm not sure my data is being stored to the SSD. How do I confirm that most of my data is stored on the SSD within a Logical Volume? I was hoping I could simply see disk usage for each disk within the logical volume, but it looks like diskutil cs list doesn't report that.
I'm moving a whole folder from one volume to another (both HFS+), using sudo mv, and thought ACLs would be preserved. However at the end of transfer I see that they haven't been kept, and since mv deleted the files in the original volume I can't restore them. Why did this happen, and how to do it right next time?
Is there a way to connect a Thunderbolt hard drive to an AirPort Extreme?
I was deleting some old episodes of a podcast I like—just to get them out of the way in the episode queue—and I accidentally deleted an episode I wanted to keep. Problem is, it seems to be gone forever.
I often use my iphone to scan through presentations that are stored as pdfs. Often, the information on the following page of a document is the same as the previous page plus some extra information. What I find annoying is that the pdf readers I have tried so far all "animate" the scrolling to the next page. All I want is an instant "next page", like one gets when one makes the presentation. I have looked at myPDFs and Adobe acrobat. Can anyone suggest an app that has ability?
I have OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) on both my Macs, which comes with Safari 6.1. A couple of my clients have been reporting minor CSS errors using Safari 5.1, which I obviously can't install. This makes fixing these errors very, very difficult.
Upon booting a MacBook Air for the first time (OS X, Version 10.8), I was prompted to create an AppleID. I selected a username and a default domain name was added automatically to this username.
Image Capture on Snow Leopard says the "iPhone is locked with code", and asks to unlock it before importing images. The most weird thing is that it can import just fine using iPhoto and it syncs through iTunes. Seems it is a problem with Image Capture, any ideas?
Recently my Mid 2009 15 Inch (2.66 GHz) MacBook Pro's audio-out headphone port has gotten physically "loose". When I plugin anything it easily slips out changing the audio output from "Headphones" to "Built-in speakers". My audio-in port has not been used very much, and the same mini-jack plugged in there sits tight. I might be wrong, but I always thought that the audio-in/out ports did not differ much from each other hardware wise, so I was wondering if it is somehow possible to configure my MacBook Pro (software wise) to reverse these ports.
I had an iPhone 4 with iOS 5 which I regularly backed up using iTunes. Then I used a Android device for a little over a year. Now I'm back on iOS with an iPhone 5. So I'm trying to setup it with the Restore from iTunes backup option. But I get the following error:
I have a program which uses Mac OS X's Grand Central Dispatch queueing technology to handle multi-core programming. However, I notice that, in the near future, Microsoft is expecting to roll out cloud-based multicore programming where you can run your parallel programs on a ridiculously large (8,000+ core) setup with a pay-by-the-hour setup.
I have on my computer a file that as been compress with the .xdi extension. Is there a way for me on my Mac OS X to open it?
I have a 2TB Time Capsule (version 7.6.1) and I want to connect a USB disk formatted as HFS+ with encryption enabled (on MAC OS X Mountain Lion). When I connect it directly to my iMac, it asks for a password (if it's not already in the keychain) and then I can see it mounted. Is there a way to give the password when it's connected to the Time Capsule or it doesn't support encrypted disks at all?
I've pretty much stated the entire question in the title: I'm looking for an iPhone application that can call an online API (preferably RESTful but I'll accept anything) as a reaction to triggering a geofence.
I’ve captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on Stack Overflow, actually), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is there a tool to quickly do this?
I have this issue on my Macbook Air that happens often if I select a gadget on the dashboard. I get forced away from the dashboard to the Desktop. I noticed if I previously selected one gadget and I select a different gadget it will do this. For example: I use the dictionary gadget Move away from dashboard to do something else Then go to the dashboard again to use a calculator Forced away from dashboard
So I have a set of pictures taken along the way of a road trip. They were taken with an iPhone so they're geotagged but we could be dealing with manually geotagged pics, doesn't matter. I want to publish the equivalent of what I see in the Places section of Aperture. A map (any provider is fine) fully scrollable and or zoomable, with my set of pictures on it. Pics could be thumbnails or pins until you click on it, it doesn't matter.
I inserted the USB end of the lightning to USB cable that came with the iPhone 5 into a D-Link USB hub. When I tried to unplug the cable, it seemed impossible to remove. I tried using a screw driver to pry the connector out, but it didn't move with a reasonable amount of pressure. I tried using a piece of rubber to improve my grip on the connector, but that didn't work. How do I safely extract the cable from the hub?
I discovered in Activity Monitor that I have several leftover processes running in the background that shouldn't be there anymore. I deleted these preference panes long ago with an application that was supposed to find all the extraneous files. So how do I get rid of them?
How do you convert the iChat transcript files that Messages creates into human-readable text files that can be opened without the Messages app? For reference, these are the conversation files located in ~/Library/Messages/Archive.
The room where I'm staying has an ethernet connection, so when I'm there I turn on internet sharing so that my Kindle and phone will have a WiFi connection. But when I'm at work I have to use Airport to connect to the internet. This means that whenever I arrive at home or at work I have to open the internet sharing pane in order to switch sharing on or off.
My dad's computer is running OS X 10.5.8, and is almost always unable to open secure web pages from his account. It's not that he can't log in—it's that the servers never even send a reply. This is true from Safari 5.0.6, Firefox 12.0, SeaMonkey 2.13.1, and telnet to port 443. All three browsers report that they are unable to establish a secure connection to the requested website. But when I'm logged into his machine on my own account with those very same browsers, I can get to secure pages without any problem, and web browsing in general seems to be faster from my account than his.
I have a dual-screen setup, which works fine, but there's one annoyance, the window shadows. If I maximize a window on one screen (or just make its edge touch the edge of one of the monitors), the shadow from that window "crosses" the screen and goes to the other one, creating a useless visual effect which just looks weird, since the monitors are not exactly touching, so the shadow has no usefulness or relevance there. Is there a way to disable it (but not disable all window shadows)?
I have a MacBook and an iPad and see dirt and fingerprints all over it. What kind of cleaner do the people in the Apple store use to clean all the Macs and iPads on display? I figure that anything strong enough to handle that abuse (being in a store used by so many people) should be good enough for use at home.
Does anyone know of an OSX (Lion) Socks5 proxy that allows chaining to an HTTP(s) proxy with authentication? I've been searching the web, but can't seem to find anything.
This happens when previously the game would work just fine on the same settings. This also happens under the Windows 7 partition under Boot Camp so I know it is not a software issue.
I own a MacBook Air. I've recently been having this problem where I'm not sure what I click, but after viewing a document it will stay at the top of my Finder window. I have no idea how to get rid of it (not trash it, I mean just take it off the window). Here's a picture of the problem:
I bought an app and it is so bad despite its low price that I am willing to spend time on getting a refund. How do I get the refunded after an app purchased through the Mac App Store?
If I delete an imessage from someone in IOS6, the moment i send them a new text/message, the entire chain of previous messages reappears.
I used to get SMS alerts in lock screen which showed a blue box with the option of "close" or "reply". Now I get a green slider box with a white bubble. How can I change this back? I have set the notification to "alert" .
I have my first experience with an iPhone, so really need some guidance and advice. I have got a second hand iPhone 4S - OS 5.1.1. I was told that it is SIM locked to a certain network.
Hi can anyone tell me why emails originating from one company cannot be viewed on our companies iPhones / iPads but can be viewed in Outlook it shows the following screen:  In Outlook the message body will appear just fine. Hope somebody can help.
To run some syncs to remote servers to have their data included in TimeMachine backups I used to use a script like the following to avoid syncing while TimeMachine runs and not get half synced backups. The detection part of the script that waits until TimeMachine stopped working on 10.8 so I'm looking for a working replacement for it.
I am trying to plug into an external display through a VGA -> Component and need the resolution to be lower than 800x600...is this even possibly with Mountain Lion?
My laptop was distributed by corporate IT. I have two items in my Login Items which cannot be hidden or removed. See screen shot...
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini won't boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin with) from either the bootable main volume or recovery partition. I.e. it sees the drive, so I'm hoping it isn't a hardware problem. Isn't this supposed to work? I seem to recall having changed bootable drives between machines before and it being able to adapt to the new hardware, but maybe I'm confusing it with booting from an external drive. At any rate, the goal is to restore the exact system I had, but on this new machine.
I've a big problem with an export applescript. I would like to export many keynote files to powerpoint files. I found this script below, but there is an error that tells that the menu item "Exporter..." ("Export..." in English, my version is in french) doesn't exist. When I change "Exporter..." by "Fermer", it works very well!!!? below the script I've written: ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' And here the error description
I have demo that I want to conduct and it requires two computers, the place where I am doing the demo will not have a router available for said demo. Is it possible to configure two MacBook Pro's to communicate with each other directly over wifi without having a router involved?
I have had the iPhone 5 for couple of weeks now. I am looking to confirm whether or not the iPhone 5's new 8-pin lighting connector when used in conjunction with the 5W USB power adapter that comes with the iPhone 5 charges the phone faster then previous iterations of the iPhone and their legacy 30-pin connector. I can go from a 12% remaning charge to a 53% charge in less than 60 minutes. This seems substantially faster than my previous iPhone's (4, 4s) with the legacy 30-pin connector. I understand that Lighting actually cable itself is obviously architecturally different but does the iPhone 5 itself have a different type of battery charging mechanism, the Lighting cable, or some combination therein?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro (non-Retina) running Lion and two Magic Trackpads - one for work and one for the home office. If I'm away from the office for too long (say a long holiday weekend), my office Trackpad won't reconnect to my MBP when returning to the office without removing the pairing and reconnecting it.
I've downloaded audiobooks from OverDrive Media Console to my computer with no problem. When I sync my Iphone 4 to my computer, the book chapters don't sync in chronological order: what can I do to have the chapters sync identically to the order I have on Itunes, instead of erratic order I get on Iphone?
On a newly installed and fully updated Mountain Lion system, I see the following problem: After a few minutes of using Mail.app (or even just letting it sit in the dock), the inbox becomes empty. More precisely, the inbox of an Exchange mail account becomes empty. If I let the program sit in the dock, I receive new mail notifications, but I can't read the messages because the inbox looks empty. Restarting Mail.app is a temporary fix, but the problem will come back in a few minutes.
I've created a calendar event in Automator that creates and sends an email message then quits Mail. It creates and sends the message fine but then gives an error when attempting to quit Mail. I've had it running for months under Lion and recently upgraded that machine to Mountain Lion 10.8.2. The error happened under both versions. The error is -1700 which is errAECoercionFail. Mail isn't putting up any alerts that might keep it from quitting. Any ideas as to what would cause this?
I am using a MacBook with Mac OS X 10.8.2 and connect to my company's network via VPN. Everything works great when establishing the VPN connection via LAN or WLAN. However, when I use a dial-up connection (Huawei HSDPA USB Stick) host names are not correctly resolved in applications (e.g. Web-Browser). Command line tools like host name will correctly resolve the IP address, ping name will not resolve.
My iPhone syncs with my PC. The music from my PC syncs - or rather, did - with my iPhone. It doesn't now. Actions I took that probably caused this: I transferred music from 3 CDs to my laptop Deleted the music on my phone Synced the phone with my laptop and got the music (copied from the CD to laptop) on my phone.
When I run the following command in Terminal.app: I should get the following output (using a 40-column window so that lines don't wrap here, and replacing tabs with spaces so that the correct amount of space is shown here): But instead, I get this output: As you can see, the f and g are missing.
I am unable to "pinch-to-zoom" on my magic mouse in mountain lion. I am using better touch tool (but have tried disabling that and pinch-to-zoom still doesn't work). In better touch tool under mouse > other gestures (zoom, etc.), it talks about changing sensitivities for normal predefined actions (which I think is what I want) and keyboard shortcuts (not what I want). I have tried setting these higher and lower, but I still can't pinch-to-zoom with my magic mouse (like I can with my trackpad). If anyone has any suggestions, I would much appreciate it! Thanks, Kevin
The remote screen sharing feature of OS X is extremely convenient. I can access my office machine from home when I need some software that can only be installed on on-campus computers.
I have a rMBP and a Thunderbolt display, and I love using both displays simultaneously. I also use Mission Control to have several separate work spaces.
i just got the iPhone 5 and connected my Gmail account to the mail app. however Verizon charges through the nose for data, and i realized that the most data that i chew up is through email attachments. this would normally not be a problem, but the iphone seems to download attachments automatically! i know this because i opened an email with a JPEG attached, and then set the phone on airplane mode. after that i was still able to open the photo from the email app when i went back in, so i know it downloaded to my phone somehow. is there any way to stop this somehow, and save myself the data charges?
I have a latest model (2012, 2.4Ghz/5Ghz simultaneously) Airport Express serving WiFi for my house. I have an older model, 802.11n, Airport Express set to "extend a wireless network". On the new AE I have both the 2.4 and 5 GHz networks with the same SSID. The difficulty is that the older AE, which can only do one band at a time, always chooses to extend the 5 GHz network instead of the 2.4 GHz network, which is what I want.
It worked like a charm, but now that I'm back I want to disable this ability, and can't! I've tried to use: defaults delete com.apple.FaceTime AutoAcceptInvitesFrom And though it reports to have done its job:
Anybody an idea what might have caused this??
If I were feeling insufficiently geekish on any particular day, and thus found the GUI Chess App to lack an appropriate amount of tech credibility, is there a way to play chess on my Mac from the command line?
I would like to be able to use Command arrow keys to navigate by word like you can with Ctrl. I've disabled the Mission Control mappings already. What's the easiest way to remap?
Is there a way to write a custom apple script or any other way to get a Alert or Desktop notification when the battery on my Macbook Pro reaches a certain percentage of charge?
We recently launched a weather balloon into space which used an Apple iPhone 4 as a camera. In any case, though, we have about 8 minutes of corrupted video footage in the form of an .mp4 file (the last 8 minutes of footage, that is. The other ~4-5 hours were completely intact). We believe there must be a way to salvage some video from this file. As such, we would like to ask if anyone can help us salvage this video file. Thank you very much for your time, advice, and/or help. http://www.mediafire.com/?o00mz0ke2his991
I use a social network site that attaches location information to posts made on iPhones or MacBooks. When I post from my desktop, no GPS information is available and this field is left blank (there is no provision for user-entered data, unfortunately). Is there some way to spoof GPS on a desktop Mac?
Apple has a keyboard with a numpad. What does the clear key on the top left of the numpad do? Is it different from the delete key, if so, how is it different?
My MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz, Santa Rosa with infamous nVidia card) acts strange. I replaced a cracked screen with a new and since then I have been loosing my mind over this problem:It shows the normal gray screen with Apple logo and animation flawlessly during start up but the internal display goes black without any rendering at all when all is loaded. (shining a light on display show nothing) If an external monitor is connected through the DVI port it will remain black during start up and then show the desktop as the internal display goes black. This happens both while booting to Mountain Lion and Windows XP. I have checked "About my Mac" and only the external display is listed. The same is the case if I use the nVidia Control panel in Windows XP. The mirroring works in Windows XP although with distortion.
My iPhone 4S is just 2 weeks old and since the last week it enters this weird mode where the screen goes blank and I can't access the phone, but if someone tries to call me, it rings, proving that the phone isn't turned off. The store guy said that it's happening because Im using the phone too much which is causing the phone to overheat and go on a sleep mode.
I'm looking for some one who may have configure the Asix AX88179 to work with OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. This chipset (AX88179) is embedded in most of the very new the USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
I accidentally deleted the .localized file from my mac desktop and then emptied my trash. How to I recover it?
For example:I subscribe emails to Huffington Post,and they send daily mails.How can I keep images in those mails so I can read them offline?
Is it possible to synchronize notes with different accounts? For example, if I write something in my notes - my friend will open his notes with his account and see the change. Is this possible?
I subscribe to a podcast with weekly episodes. While downloading one episode of the podcast, iTunes crashed. Now I cannot download that episode anymore - if I try to, it errors with the (!) symbol next to it. I can download any other episode of the podcast without issues.
We have a mac with a broken graphicscard (Lots of stripes etc.) Is there some way to run it remotely without being disturbed by the graphics card? This is a iMac G5 (PowerPC with everything in the screen). The question is more for apps than the whole desktop.
I'm doing some testing on a mobile site in development and there are many updates and changes happening to this site. In order to test afresh and clear any JavaScript or what-not that is held in the cache on my iPhone I need to clear the site from the history.
I'm new to OS X, I was using Ubuntu till now. All my data are stored on an external drive formated as ext4 system file. Is there any other way to acces this data than installing Virtual Box? I'm using OS X 10.8.2. I was trying solution form How can I mount an ext4 file system on OS X? Terminal output: I was trying also this, with the same result (dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib) I found also this, where it's said that most of available solutions don't work for Lion, but this solution says how to mount ext2 or ext3 file system, and not ext4. I don't know how should I load this library and if the problem is in the library or the solutions which don't work for my OS X distribution. Thanks
One of the permanent features on an iPhone turns off the screen (display and the touch receptors) when during a phone call you press the screen against your ears and cheek. The screen would almost instantaneously turn itself completely "on" when the phone would move away from the cheek and ears.
The numbers that are no longer in my contacts still keep popping up when I try to compose a new message. Why is this happening? Is there a way to purge the contact list so no already-deleted-contact remains?
I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. I own a scanner that was discontinued a couple of years ago (a Mustek A3 USB), and that comes only with drivers for Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS 9.
I'm using Eclipse JUNO and ADT 21 on a MacBook Pro Retina 15" and the eclipse app itself looks very sharp (code blocks, images and texts). However, things are blurry in the Android Emulator.
I currently have a 2010 15" MacBook Pro installed with OS X Lion and wish to downgrade it to Snow Leopard. However when trying to boot into the Snow Leopard installer for a clean install, it hangs at the grey apple screen (and no spinner appears). The DVD drive in the MacBook is faulty so I imaged the Snow Leopard DVD onto a USB drive using Disk Utility, which boots but hangs. I have tried going into the Recovery HD and wiping the HD and trying again but this has not helped.
We have a Mac Pro running Lion that ha no screen attached. It is set up so it can be accessed using screen sharing (VNC). It works with a 800 by 600 resolution. How can I change the resolution while being connected using screen sharing?
When trying to boot a 2012 Mac Mini (purchased from apple.com) with the SSD drive from my previous system (a 2009 MBP), I get "This version of OSX is not supported on this platform". The version of OSX is Mountain Lion with the latest updates. I have attempted another drive from another system, and this wont boot on the Mac Mini either. Just for comparison, I can boot the 2009 MBP with the disk that came with the Mac Mini just fine, and that disk still boots on the Mac Mini as well. My question is, how can I get my SSD working? I really dont want to reinstall all my apps, settings, etc.
I have tried to copy an ISO file to a USB drive. I am unable to do it with Disk Utility. How can I copy the ISO file to a USB drive?
Click Cmd+q to quit it, it just takes a couple of minutes and it fixes itself. Just gotta reopen the browser and it goes great for another couple of hours. Open Activity Monitor, if I manage to do that, it completely fixes itself, then I just gotta restart the browser and it works for another couple of hours flawlessly.
We need a way to disable the microphone so it cannot be re-enabled, at least by an unprivileged user. And preferably via the command line, so it can be scripted. On some Macs, we've been able to remove kexts, but on others, that also disables speakers, and we'd like to keep sound output.
Is it possible to downgrade from iTunes 11 to 10.7 using Mountain Lion? I tried to replace it by simply installing the 10.7, but it says that i can't replace a newer version.
I am afraid to update my Mac to iTunes 11 since I still use an original AppleTV (the old one with the hard drive) on one of my televisions. Does anyone know if the original AppleTV is compatible with iTunes 11?
Installing and tweaking around some settings on the new version of iTunes 11 today, and when I was messing around in the "Store" settings, I clicked it to prefer 1080p downloads, only to be presented with this error message:  A bit of background on my specs: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Core i7 2600k O.C'd to 4.5 atm, base is about 3.7 20GB RAM Nvidia GTX 580 Ti Monitor: Acer 24" LCD 60hz @ 1920 x 1080 through DVI Monitor: Dell 19" LCD 60hz @ 1280 x 1024 through DVI As you can see, I doubt my computer specs are the issue for 1080p. Is there an explanation why I would be seeing this error message?
How do you access the equalizer in iTunes 11? Or is just gone?
At the moment I use Dropbox to share PDFs between my MacBook and iPad. It works very well, except sharing annotations in the PDF-files. I open the PDF using Adobe Reader on my iPad and add some annotations. How to share this annotated PDF-file with my MacBook again? Is there a better way to do that?
With iTunes DJ gone from iTunes 11, how can I go to replace or even enhance the lost functionality?
In iTunes 10, I had the Column Browser (the list of Artists/Albums) going down the left side of the main iTunes window. With the install of iTunes 11, it is back to the top.
Ever since it supported devices, iTunes has had a "sync" button, which seems to have vanished from version 11. Where did it go? How do I sync my iOS devices with iTunes now?
In other words, my son has a limited usage timetable set with parental controls. If he does not log out in time (e.g. if he forgets and walks off), I predictably find the Mac in an unusable state when it wakes up from sleep. This is what I see
Is there a way of sorting albums for an artist by year in iTunes? For example: "Coda" is actually Led Zeppelin's last album, but it appears first for me in iTunes. I'd prefer it if it sorted albums by Year, so "Led Zeppelin" was at the top, followed by "Led Zeppelin II", and so on (and "Coda" was at the bottom). Is this possible?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to queue up a selected song to the "Up Next" playlist that was introduced in iTunes 11? I like that new feature but having to alt-click or select from a panel isn't fast enough to queue up a few songs rapidly.
I had some hard drive problems a little while ago, so installed a new drive system, and restored data from my Time Machine Backup. However, the mount point is very different from the one originally backed up.
Ok, unless I'm missing something, I can't see my podcasts anymore? The only place they appear is in a new "Podcasts" playlist, which isn't much use to me for keeping track of episodes and subscriptions.
The iTunes 11 redesign has pretty much ruined usability for those of us whose library consists primarily of classical music. Both iTunes 10 and 11 allow two values for Composers in addition to the normal Artist
In iTunes 10.x, if you searched for items (top right) it would filter the column browser to only show values that matched your search query. Now when I search, it filters the list of items, but not the column browsers. Is this an option somewhere?
How can I view the artwork in the sidebar in the latest version of iTunes 11 ?
My rabbit chewed on my Magsafe 2 power adapter. I can see the silvery wire where the rabbit peeled off the isolation yet it still works. Can I just duct tape it and continue using it or is there any danger of damage to my laptop? Edit: Rabbit was objurgated otherwise he is fine.
I'm having a problem with Office not installing correctly and not being able to update. I have one last resort which is Backing up and formatting my system. However I would like to know how effective is Time Machine for the following two points :
I noticed that I have well over 100 songs in the iTunes Media folder that are NOT in my actual iTunes. These would be songs that were loaded into iTunes then deleted because I didn't like them, want them, whatever. They are taking up hard drive space and I want to flush them out w/o having to go into each and every single folder and finding the songs that are not in my iTunes. I would have to sort through over 6,000 files to do that. There has to be an easier way! Thank you! I wanted to add that I am using a PC (Windows 7) and not a MAC.
The first time I noticed this, it occurred for one or two sites I tried to visit. I was still able to use facebook and google. Later in the day, the error extended to facebook and google as well. After rebooting, those sites became accessible again, but later on I became unable to access other sites (stackexchange.com, surveygizmo.com). Some other notes: I can confirm that this happens on multiple wireless networks and VPNs.
I'd like to access my iPad mini file sharing via iTunes 11. However, I cannot see the iPad mini on the left hand Sidebar (View > Show Sidebar). I also pulled out and re-inserted the USB cable a few times, quitted and restart iTunes 11 a few times.
I can't find a way to do this. There's only binding to open an application. But the apps I want to use this on, (chrome, terminal, and finder) are always open. I just want to open a new window in the current work space. I can Command + Tab then hit Command + N. But Command + Tab can change my workspace if a window of that app is already opened in another work space.
I just bought a bluetooth Headset (this one). I paired it with my iMac and set it as "use as audio device". Now it works with some application but not with all applications: I want to use the headset as the device for Input and Output audio. Do I need to set those app (Chrome, Skype...) something like to grant permission to use the headset.
The company I work for has recently purchased a couple of iPads for the sales team and will be purchasing more over time. We're tasked with the job of keeping all of our catalogues and video content up to date on the iPads and I wondered if it would be possible for all of the iPads to be synced on the same cloud account and push out the PDFs/Videos from one computer to keep it all up to date that way rather than having to manually connect each iPad when the sales team are in the office. Unfortunately the ideal solution looks like it would have been the Apple configuration utility but we are running Windows based systems rather than Mac OS.
I'm having an issue with forcing a file of a certain type to always open with a specific program. In this case, it's .indd (Adobe InDesign) files. I have Adobe CS6 installed, and also Adobe InDesign 5.5. I would like to always open .indd files with InDesign 5.5. I've tried using Get Info > Open with: > InDesign 5.5 > Change All... but it keeps automatically switching back to CS6, immediately after clicking Change All.... Is there perhaps a way I can force this in Terminal?
I really miss iTunes DJ. Its all I use, and I'd like to roll back to iTunes 10. I guess my Library has been upgraded (didn't see a notices) so I'm not hopeful, but does anyone have a suggestion? I have a timemachine backup, but thats all. (I've seen the worthy answer: With iTunes DJ gone from iTunes 11, what's a good replacement solution?, but I had a groove, and I want it back!)
I like to see the album art for each song as it comes on; in iTunes 10, I would have iTunes DJ playing, hidden under my other apps, whilst the current song's cover displayed in a floating window on my second monitor... Can I do something similar in iTunes 11? (at the moment, I'm using the iTunes DJ replacement suggested here, but the thumbnail is tiny!)
I'd like to be able to display a notification window in OS X from within a script. The script will be running in background, so the notification should not go to the terminal but instead be displayed in a dialog window.
I just got iTunes 11 and coincidentally just discovered that supposedly there was an option to "Create (or make?) iPhone version" in the older versions for movies and TV shows and such.
I have a large external hard drive that I am using as a time machine backup volume. Since I don't need all the storage space for backups, I'm considering storing additional data on the drive. Is there any danger of this usage interfering with the backup system or is this an always-safe storage spot?
I have 887 songs in my iTunes library, and last night I deleted some of them right off my iPod touch, 4th generation. At the end I got 769, and in the morning I connected my iPod to iTunes, I did some changes that had nothing to do with my music, because they were fine, but then I clicked sync and again, the songs I deleted from my Ipod were again in my iPod! how do I sync my iPod to actually "update" my iTunes library, I don't want to delete the music again or do I need to delete the same songs from my iTunes library too?
How useful or necessary is it to calibrate the battery on a MacBook? If it is, should it be carried out when first purchased and does calibration of the battery mean it will also last longer?
A friend of mine wanted to use an Exchange account additionally to his normal profile (POP3 email, calendar etc.) in Outlook 2011.
I know that there is a window where time machine can display its current progress, along with an estimate about how long it will likely take till the current backup is complete. This window did somehow appear during my initial backup. However, I currently can't find a way to manually open that window for a subsequent backup. Yes there is the Time Machine tab in the Control Panel, but that will not provide an estimation of remanining time. Neither does the context menu of the menu bar icon. So how can I get that window?
When I start the mini player in iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion, I do not see the expected track information which, when moused over, is supposed to change to playback controls:  Instead, the playback controls are permanently displayed and I can't find a way to show track info (aside from album artwork). Also, as shown in the screenshot below, whenever the mini player is the active window, the rewind button has a blue highlight.
Anyone else experiencing this? I can't find any acknowledgement from Apple that this is even an issue. Anyone shed light on this be appreciated, as well as fix or work-arounds for doing proper merge when (almost identical) subfolders exist
I'm running Time Machine on a new NAS. Until today, I used to run it on an USB drive. I am reusing the old job using the new 10.8 feature that allows me to add new backup targets. When I configure the backup job in the system settings - there are some things like VMs that I want to exclude - Time Machine estimates the backup size to be 109 GB.
I am grand-fathered in the AT&T unlimited data. I sometimes like to stream Netflix, Hulu, etc while on lunch break. Is there a way to airplay it over to my iPad mini, or do some type of internet sharing without paying the ridiculous data rates for sharing and AT&T?
In the Mac (mountain lion) mail.app (v 6.2), when composing a new message, I'm looking to hide the default font/styling bar that appears beneath the standard toolbar at the top of the window. I've checked the view menu and found nothing and have also tried to customized the toolbar to no avail.
A few weeks ago, after installing the Safari 6.0.2 update, Quicktime started stuttering (Music playback in iTunes stutters, playing those silly quicktime videos on Apple's website stutters, etc.). Every now and then the system also freezes for a second or two, and I get a Beach Ball of Death. I tried reinstalling Mountain Lion on top of the current installation using the installer from the app store, which seemed to have fixed things for a few minutes.
I am currently creating a list of terminal commands to set up a new mac system according to my needs. Now I would like to add new keystrokes to Preview (normally in the system settings => keyboard) from the Terminal. This is probably possible using the defaults write command but so far, I haven't found the concrete plist or path I would have to change. Has anybody already tried this or knows a good resource for such settings?
We are trying to have a simple drive mapping script start up for ALL users on a Mac Mini. What's the simplest way of going by doing this? I've tried creating a .plist in Lingon and adding it to the Library LauncherDaemons and LauncherAgents folders, but it's not starting up. Any ideas? Is there a way to do this in the Terminal? The script by itself works fine and works if we add it to the Startup Items in System Preferences, but we want this to be automatic and for all users. Thanks.
New iTunes bumps up the font size and adds Genre images to Genre column view. I make custom Genres for sorting and don't need the visual hinting. Anyone know how/if I can disable this? I'm not able to find anything.
I have a 4TB Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) hard drive hanging off a Mac OS X Lion (soon to be Mountain Lion) Server that is dedicated to networked Time Machine backups. I'd like to be able to mount the drive on startup before any user logs in. Right now it's necessary for a user to log in first so the password can be retrieved from the keychain. The reason the drive itself is encrypted is in the event it should ever be separated from the server. I don't mind putting pwd into a boot script (launchd?, fstab?) of some sort if that's even possible?!?
It's pretty popular to replace ones optical drive* on the MacBook Pro with a HDD, but how serious are the risks? *In most cases, you'd do this when installing a third-party SSD, but I'd like to leave any of those benefits out of this and isolate matters of the HDD and Superdrive. I mean things like: Overheating Performance issues Battery life Warranty status Weight increase Upsetting Steve
Our Mac is broken and we are contemplating not replacing it. One need we can't see a solution is replacing an iPhoto library with many 10 G of photos. Obviously we'd need to go for the 64 GB iPad if we wanted lots of pictures. Most of our pictures are in the 5 megapixel range (JPG between 2 and 4.5 MB each) and we expect to have between 5 and 10 thousand pictures to start.
My father bought an Apple Macintosh II CX in 1990 and it survived until 2010, when the main harddrive broke down and despite trying multiple times, booting from floppy disks failed for an unknown reason. The main concern is the external 800 MB SCSI harddrive that is intact and hosts files that need recovery.
I upgraded from iTunes 10 to 11 and the view for my podcasts has changed. Is it possible to bring back the old tile view of my podcasts?
I have an older macbook pro - purchased in 2006. Where can I purchase a mini-vga to HDMI adapter so I can watch movies from my macbook pro on my tv? Thanks!
I recently upgraded to iTunes 11 (v 11.0 (163)) and the show duplicate feature has been removed. What tools or alternatives exist to display duplicates in iTunes?
all...I'm having trouble with a song I downloaded from iTunes. I fixed it once before, but I can't remember what I did.
When installing a HDD instead of the SuperDrive: Does the bracket, which holds the HDD, seal off the optical drive slot in the unibody?
2) Space-filling caddies that mimic the SuperDrive's shape:  Are these heavier? Do they ompede ventilation around the SSD/HDD and promote overheating? This is how the iFixit and MCE OptiBay enclosures look like, as well as the cheaper ones on eBay.
When I look at my Apple SSD TS256C (Toshiba) in the System Profiler on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011), I see: Link Speed: 6 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
I upgraded to iTunes 11 today and my iPhone rarely shows up in iTunes. It almost never does through wifi (even though wifi syncing is on) and if I connect it with a USB cord, I have to restart the iphone for it to recognize that it is connected.
I've just moved to OS X form Ubuntu. I'm using OS X 10.8.2 unfortunately I'm not able to say what TeX distribution is installed on the computer since it wasn't me who installed it, I guess it was installation form tug.org.
I have quite a few login items on my Mac, mostly Apps that I want to have idling in the background (like Tweetbot or Reeder), but that I don't use immediately. I would like to give these Apps an initial niceness of -20, since I care more about a snappy system start than Apps that I don't use right away (but still want to have started automatically with the system). However, after some time they should automatically be reniced to 0.
I forgot I just closed the lid of my MBP the last time I used Windows/Bootcamp (instead of shutting it down) and that triggered hibernation. The next time I powered my MBP on, OS X started automatically and I opened some of the same files that "were already open" in the hibernated windows (on OS X main/boot partition, using MacDrive in windows).
In the new version of iTunes 11 the find duplicates option is gone and I don't want to revert to iTunes 10 to get that function back. I know I had 1 GB of duplicates in iTunes 10, but I can't have iTunes show them to me anymore. My first thought was wondering if iTunes 11 finds/delete/merge them automagically?
My Mac tends to pause every now then when preforming simple tasks such as right clicking, opening menus and typing (It actually just froze when I started typing this question.).
On a Mac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 I have attempted to encrypt an external drive using Disk Utility. Since this is 10.7, there is no option of right-clicking to encrypt in Finder. Also, there's no option to create an encrypted partition when formatting. So, here's what I did: I reformatted the drive like this: /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk1 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS Heap 1.7 TB disk1s2 3: Apple_HFS Time Machine 300.0 GB disk1s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data EXCHANGE 49.5 GB disk1s4 I reformatted the drive like this:
Inserting a SD card no longer opens iPhoto. When I open iPhoto, it does not show the SD card in the left pane. This program has done this without a problem until recently. The preference under iPhoto is set to SD cards to open iPhoto. I have also gone to Utilities/Photo Capture and ensured that iPhoto was selected in the lower left corner. I am at wits ends because this should work automatically but is no longer doing so. Any answers out there?
I'm trying to find out what the equivalent Mac SSH client is and set of commands are that would achieve the below. In Windows we use the Putty CLI utility 'Plink' to set up a SSH connection to a SSH server for web proxying purposes.
I am running Mountain Lion and notice occasionally a weird thing happening in the finder. I will be navigating through folders and notice that at the top of each folder that there is a folder called "Name". I can't click into that folder and there really isn't a folder of that name that should exist.
Since iCloud now offers a way for me to download apps directly from the cloud and I only want to keep updating the apps I use on my iOS device and not all that I have, I wanted to keep all my apps only on my iPhone. So I followed this page, but apparently on iTunes 11 I can't unsync my apps. If I want o sync with iTunes, I need to sync my apps (at least the ones that I have on my device).
I have an iPod touch 4g on iOS 6.0.1; 8GB. The others section in iTunes takes 1.99GB. I don't have more than 20 contacts, no email accounts, and not more than 5 notes.
I have backuped my apps, books and songs in iTunes, but how about the data in apps, such as the saved angry birds' progress, the pdf files in adobe reader and so on?
When I open the Mail application (vers. 5.3, OS X 10.7.5 Lion), it contacts all mail servers (several POP3 and IMAP), which is reported in the Mail Activity section in the lower left. However, I recently experienced that it also reported 'outgoing message(s)' there on this occasion, even though I haven't written or drafted any message.
I'd like to write a script which will move watched iTunesU videos to another folder. There are two questions:
I installed the new iTunes 11 on my Mac and I accepted to share my iTunes library with Apple. There were some initial welcome screens and I opeted in when I started the new version of iTunes the first time. How can I cancel this sharing of data with Apple?
A relative who has difficulty with mouse control keeps inadvertently removing items from his Dock. I enabled Parental Controls to prevent him from doing so, but Parental Controls has a bug that prevents access to secure websites, including any banking site. How do I lock the Dock so that it cannot be modified, without making use of Parental Controls?
My wife is getting an iPhone 5 next week and I have the iPhone 4S. I will use the new phone and she is going to use my old 4S.
I have tons of windows open, and would like Mission control to only show the windows for one application. How can I do that? Note: I know that I can "scroll up" on the bundled windows for a particular application in Mission control, and the windows will "expand" a bit, but it isn't great.
After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion, it seems like internet sharing no longer works. With the settings: Share network from: WiFi To computers using: Ethernet
I wonder if the 2 cameras inside an iphone 4S are of the same type?
I have scanned 58 pages into a PDF. The file size of this orginal pdf was 8 MB. Unfortunately the page order was a little messed up when I scanned so I used Preview to reordered some of the pages by simply dragging the pages around in the thumbnails bar. After doing this and saving the pdf the size had increased to 23 MB! What happened? And how do I reduce the file size? I tried the reduce file size quarts filter but it reduced the resolution which made the pdf unusable. I see no reason for the file size to increase from just reordering existing pages, is there?
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions (or know if its even possible) to remote upgrade a fleet of Macs from 10.6.8 to 10.8 remotely. I presume I can push the installESD through ARD, but I want it to run completely unattended. If it is not possible through "traditional" methods does anyone know of any tools that might help automate this process? Thank you for your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions.
I would love to auto start Bartender (by the way, excellent app that hides some of your notification area icons) when I unplug my external monitor from my Mac. Is there any app or script that could do that?
Recently, I've started listening to more podcasts on my iPhone. I've found a few that I like and want to listen to past episodes. Ideally, I want to just download. I can't seem to figure out a way to queue up all unplayed episodes for download in iTunes. I found in the settings for the podcast I can have it automatically download all new episodes, but this doesn't apply for older episodes. Ideally, I don't want to have to click the download button for each episode (there are a couple hundred episodes).
I have connected the mid 2011 IMac to the early 2011 macbook pro via thunderbolt. Nothing happens. Command / F2 on the IMac doesn't do anything. Any thoughts?
I replaced my hard drive and upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Some of my songs were in one (or perhaps a few) folders which no longer exist. The songs exist in a new location. I know I can just add the new location to my library, but all my playlists with those songs will be broken. Any ideas on how to approach this? Maybe there is a file I can open in a text editor, and then replace the beginning of a lot of path names with the new path?
Current Information: Software: Mac OSX (10.5.8) Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM I want to get my computer moving faster, specifically around safari, itunes, iphoto, etc. Would it be easier to just erase my entire Hard Drive (backed up of course) and buy Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8) since I would have to upgrade to snow leopard (10.6) before upgrading to Mountain Lion anyway? Trying to be cost effective and keeping it simple and not compounding the issue of responsiveness and freezes.
At some point earlier today, I lost the ability to connect to a site via my wireless network, powered by an Airport Express. When I try to load the page in Chrome 23 and Safari 6.0.2 on a MacBook Air and an iMac, I get their generic "Chrome Cannot Connect" and "Safari Can't Open the Page" messages.
I am looking for a way to kick me off of My iPhone periodically for set periods of time to avoid getting distracted. Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? PS: Inspired by http://xkcd.com/862/
If a person adds a new e-mail account to imessage would it then come up as a different thread or contact in my iPhone? I received a message today from somebody I imessage and text daily, today when they imessaged it came up as a completely new text and an email address instead of a continuation of old conversation as it normally does, does this mean it is coming from a new phone number using e-mail account for messaging? are there any other possibilities as to why this would occur?
I am positive that Dictation is setup correctly, it works great system-wide. Reading output from Terminal
I've downloaded muCommander and find it better than Finder. When I open folders with QuickSilver it still uses Finder, though. How do I change this behavior?
Im kind of stuck with this... im following this link? I get these errors that are in the image. aka they timed out for some reason. im upto 5b, stackexchange wont let me put a image... image link... here
I recently had to do a complete reinstall of my C: drive due to a catastrophic hardware failure. Unfortunately, the iTunes database and play lists and play counts were lost with no backup. Fortunately, my iTunes media files were on D:, so I can re-import those songs and movies, but my playlists and other sync settings were lost.
Is there a way to pull the audio from an iphone phone call to a mac either via bluetooth or USB? In other words, use the mac and a cellular phone hybrid? I'd like to be able to record a phone call or voice mail to the mac. I realize i could do this many other ways including using an true phone hybrid, but I'd like to keep the amount of equipment i have to take when traveling. I'm sure i could also use a TRRS Y cable from the headphone/mic jack into my mac, but i'd also like to keep it in the digital realm.
I have a 2007 white Macbook here, of which the trackpad gradually became less responsive to the point where you can't press it down anymore at all. Neither the left nor the right button will physically come down, and it's not making the clicking noise either.
Is there any software like Photoshop that can also open .PSD files? I don't need an enterprise / extremely feature laden editor, but I do wish to have the following required features at a price point less than a Photoshop license: Able to crop JPG compression optimization Work with layers Able to open PSD format files Save in PDF format
This is my 3rd rMBP, and the other 2 have only ever turned the fans on while playing Civilisation V on the highest graphics settings (understandable). So this makes me thing something is wrong. I've tried resetting the SMC and it has reduced the number of times the fans turn on, but still they turn on at low temperatures. Also do the fans turn on based on temperature, or based on something else? (Also I've actually swapped the machine 4 times at the Apple Store (display issues), and the Manager told me this is the last time I can do that, so is there anything I can do without going to the Apple Store, like email someone at Apple?)
I turned on the click sounds for my mac. Now I am able to hear a typewriter like sound every time I type.
Speech recognition is very useful - when I'm driving I always use it for dictating text to my iPhone 5. However, before sending the message I like to check that the text was recognized correctly. Reading the text while I'm driving is not safe. Is there a way to ask Siri to read the dictated text?
An Apple Store employee told me that it's possible to check out of an Apple Retail store using an app on your iPhone (is this true?). Is there a similar app for Android, Blackberry, or any other device/platform?
The Contacts app on my Mac has separate "On My Mac" and "iCloud" groups, but I really just want one set of contacts on iCloud that will be accessible on both my Mac and my phone. Is there a way to merge the two sets of contacts and/or disable the "On My Mac" group?
I added a new album to my iTunes (version 11). It has been copied to my Media folder and it plays fine. But it's not listed in my Albums, Artists and Songs sections. I would like to see the artwork in my Albums or list of songs.
I just installed iTunes 11 on Windows 8. As far as I remember, I've always kept my music files on a data partition, E: drive on Windows. First iTunes run, I set the library folder in the settings to E:\, enable the Keep the media folder organized option and the Copy files in the iTunes media folder option and stuff, everything seems to work fine. But when I tried to import some music I found out the files were being copied to E:\Artist Name, not to E:\Music\Artist Name, as it has always been. "Fine, let's set E:\Music", so I set E:\Music as the media folder and try again, but this time the files are being copied to E:\Music\Music\Artist Name. Yes, double music in here. I need iTunes to put music files in E:\Music, so that if I need to consolidate or I import something it doesn't make a mess. How do I do this?
So I got my first Apple laptop, a Retina MacBook Pro. Since macbook pro retina's battery are no longer easily switchable I'm concerned about it's life and would like to maximize it. I have few questions below.
I have an iPod Touch 2G, I have been trying to switch it on for a few days but it won't. When I plug it in my laptop a green screen appears then it is stuck on the apple logo. I tried to start it in DFU mode but I see nothing at all on the screen then when I plug it in there is the Apple logo. What steps can I do to recover from this situation?
Forgive the long story, but I have a mix of old knowledge and unfamiliarity with Mac so I don't know what might be relevant. The tldr version is my iMac won't boot.
I have an external 500 GB hard drive that I used to use for Time Machine backups with my PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.5 (Leopard). However, I now use it with a white MacBook running 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The PowerBook backups are still on the drive (each machine gets its own directory by default), but I have not backed up the PowerBook since I started using the drive with the MacBook.
I recently bought a new hard drive and it is not indexed by Finder. I tried to get it re-indexed by following this tutorial: *=URL=* and I even tried something with commands in the terminal, no luck to get it indexed. My previous external hard drives (Western Digital SE Elements) that crashed were indexed, but I was using Leopard and Snow Leopard back then. I am using a Macbook pro 13" mid-2009 edition and my external drive is a 500Gb Toshiba Stor.E Canvio. Does it have to do that I uninstalled software I used back then on Leopard to be able to read NTFS drives?
I've just donated a secondhand iPad 2 to my grandmother, with the intent that she can use it as her first foray into email, and possibly other things, given time. She has very limited experiences with technology (she has used typewriters, but nothing really more modern), so I'm trying to keep everything as simple as possible.
I would like to sign PDF forms using Preview but I am hesitant that the signature can be copied by the receiving party. Has it been ensured that it cannot be copied? Of course, I realise that it could be printed and scanned, however the more troublesome, the safer it is.
I upgraded from OS X 10.6 to OS X 10.8 a few days ago. I find that when I use the keyboard shortcut (⌃ ctrl + ⌥ alt + ⌘ cmd + ⏏ eject) to shutdown, on startup all the previously open applications are reopened automatically. When I shut down from the Apple menu, there is an option "Reopen windows when logging back", but there isn't one when I use the keyboard. So how can I shut down my Mac Pro using the keyboard shortcut and not reopen windows on login? I don't wish to disable the feature as described here but I will if I have to.
I just upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8 a few days ago. I notice that every now and then my file associations are reset on start-up. I get a message from chrome that it is no longer the default browser. My media files get associated to esoteric video editing software. I can't figure out what is causing this issue.
I'm trying to replace my Sonos system with old iphones. I can stream Pandora with the iphone app but also want to be able to control the music remotely from my Mac. Is there a way of doing that?
My MacBook Pro 13" fell down from a coffee table and its getting heated up after that. Although the laptop is working with no problem of memory or hard drive, sometimes it makes a strange noise and gets hot pretty quickly. Can I analyze/fix this issue myself or do I need to contact Apple Support (and if the later, would this be free)?
I can't seem to figure this one out, there must be some really easy trick. I have a bash script which sets my environment for an app and launches it with the correct parameters. How can I put this script (or any script) on the dock? Thanks,
I foolishly logged into someone's iPad with my Apple ID. This person is now receiving my full communications on iMessage. I know I can remove my account from that iPad but I don't have access to it. How can I stop the device from getting my iMessages without physical access?
Where do Safari and Chrome store the flash media files? For example, I use Safari/Chrome to listen Pandora during work time, and all my work is done through ssh to other computers. However, in such scenario, my time machine still needs to backup several hundred MB data for every hour. Btw, I've already exclude ~/Library/Caches directory from Time Machine.
on windows, you'd use something like ipconfig /all to see the dns server you're hitting. What would u do on an iphone or mobile device?
I'm porting some simple X windows/bash scripts to Mac OSX, but I cannot find a build of Zenity (a Gnome app for basic GUI dialogs) for OSX. Is there some other command line driven dialog utility I can use? Basic operations: notification dialog List item
I'm just wondering why does the Activity Monitor or Free Memory app says that I have 867 MB free (while writing this question). Currently I'm running the following apps: Chrome (1 tab), Skype, Activity Monitor.
I am fixing my mother-in-law's computer, and when I ran software update I found that the computer was looking to *=URL=* to get it's updates... Clearly she has brought this machine to the Apple Store for some help at some point. What is the correct URL for OS X 10.5 to get updates directly from Apple? I know how to set the URl using: Thanks for your help in advance. Bill
I'm debating on whether or not to get a Mac Mini, install OS X Server, run it headless, with storage attached v. Thunderbolt and use that for network access of photos v. a stand alone dedicated network attached storage device. I'm not interested in streaming videos. Thoughts about the speed of one configuration v. another?
We have a consultant who has a MacBook Air. He connects that to one of our printers via USB. The Mac recognizes the printer and we can print from his documents etc. He then remotes to his office computer which is a Windows PC. He needs to print stuff from his office computer on the printer that is connected to his Mac. The documents will not print. We can't get the remote computer to recognize the printer that is connected to the Mac. (It actually did work for a while, I have no idea how we got it working, but now that it has stopped again, he is getting mad at us for not being able to get it to work.) I have spent hours on his Mac, trying to get the printing working and can't.
I have an external monitor with a VGA connection. What is the best adapter to use for my Retina MacBook Pro? I think I've seen Thunderbolt to VGA, or USB to VGA? Or HDMI to VGA? What are the differences?
I see tons of people who have asked this question in the past, and the answer is always the same.. "Use Afloat". But since Afloat hasn't been updated in ages, and has only support for certain applications (and questionable support at that), I'm afraid that it is not an acceptable solution.
Today I opened mail.app and my mail attachments showed up as "missing plug-in". I faced this issue before, at that time I quite the mail.app and opened again were fix the problem. Now that also not working.Please help me to fix this issue. The Following are the content types in the mail: This is how my mail look like:
I have a 1 GB SD card that I have been using with my zoom H4n recorder. I literally recorded onto the card, inserted it into my Mac OS x computer, pulled the recordings, and when I tried to delete the files, the card switched to read only. This has happened to two of the exact same 1 GB cards, and now I have no way of using them anymore. Does anybody know what the problem is, and how I can fix this? I appreciate any help! Thank you.
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (5,5); also identified as the A1278 (EMC 2326). I can spend about $150 either taking it to the Apple Store and having them replace it or buying all the stuff from iFixit.com and doing it myself.
One problem I have with my 2009 MBP running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard is that I can't boot from USB (well, I can, but only OS X in certain formats). I would really like to be able to boot linux from USB at will. I have heard this is possible on newer macs. Would this be possible for me if I were to update?
I am trying to quit all the active browsers using the below code, but am unable to get the list of all active browsers to quit.
I tried the ways i know: Get Info - 32bit Mode - Start ==> runs in 64 bit Get Info - 32bit Mode - Start ==> runs in 64 bit arch -i386 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOs/Safari ==> results in error arch -i386 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOs/Safari ==> results in error
In TextEdit there is this submenu (see the image) that I want to define a shortcut for. I can't define a shortcut for the "Right to Left" item, I assume it's because there are actually 2 such items in the submenu, under different sections. So how do I uniquely identify this item? Thanks.
The Mac Pro has 2 DIMM "boards", one of which is full (4 slots) and the other which has 2 slots free. On the brief power-up, all 4 LED's are lit on both DIMM boards, they're not on long enough to do anything else, is this normal? We've reseated all the RAM and the boards, but no change. We've even removed components such as the graphics card, and sticks of RAM individually but no change. I've read that if the system detects no RAM it will beep 3 times, we removed all the RAM but no beep, I think because the system is not powered up long enough.
Just purchased an audiobook through iTunes on my iPhone but when I tried to download the book for my living room iPod Touch iTunes said I needed to repurchase it? Can't I download Audiobooks to two devices?
I can't play any type of media or hear anything (with or without head/ear phones) on my iPod Touch 4th gen running on iOS 6. I press play on the selected item but the play button immediately turns into a pause button.
I've got a Mac Pro coming in today. I ordered it with a typical 1TB HDD in the default configuration from Apple. I purchased a Crucial 512GB SSD that I want to make my primary drive for the OS and the user data (and just use the the 1TB HDD as an additional storage disk). So, what do I need to do to get up and running with Mountain Lion on the SSD?
I want to calibrate my display using the built-in calibrator (Preferences > Displays > Colors > Calibrate). This worked great in the past, but since last week it behaves strangely. When I start a calibration and move the value-sliders (like in the "can you see the apple" step) the display automatically re-calibrates after I release the slider. That means: I set the slider to make the apple vanish, but when I release it the display flickers and is recalibrated, so that I can see the apple again.
For some unknown reason, my color profiles are messed up in way that whenever an application (e.g. pixelmator, Preview, Xcode, etc.) tries loading Adobe RGB 1998 color profile (probably any other color profile too for that matter), that application will crash miserably.
I work on a 13" MacBook Pro and also have an iPad and iPhone 4s. I edited my Photo Stream photos down to a tight collection of 220 pictures and fully expected that to reflect on my iPhone and iPad, however, it simply is not the same. The iPad has more than 400 pictures in Photo Stream. I want to set the standard collection my MacBook Pro and have that reflect across all devices. Any suggestions on how to make that happen? Running 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro and 6.0.1 on iOS devices.
I'm using iPhone4 and the latest iOS. I've created albums and categorized my photos into the albums. Question is, how can I then sync the photos WITH the albums into iPhoto?
I have a time machine backup of my early 2011 macbook pro OSX system with mountain lion, I want to remove it's hard disk and replace it with SSD, I have a spare memory key, is there a way to restore data from hard disk to SSD without downloading full mountain lion image, I tried downloading it but Apple servers are too slow, I am getting a speed of 50kbps for a 4.37 gb download, my internet is fine and I have a 10Mbps connection.
Can MacBook Pro's successfully support and fully exploit RAM of a higher MHz rating than that which they ship with?  For example, take my 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2011) that ships with 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory. I'm considering buying 16GB of the same clock speed even though Apple says that it can "support up to 8GB" — but we know that Apple is wrong.
I want to set up a smart mailbox in Mail that contains messages from any sender who is not a member of a particular group in my address book. There's an option in the smart mailbox rules for "sender is member of group," but I don't see a way to negate it. Is this possible?
I plugged in my iPhone to attempt to sync so that I could update my software. The sync was not working. I looked up problem on internet and they suggested that I restore the settings on the iPhone. I followed the directions. When I did so the phone rebooted and I lost everything (contacts, calendar, photos). Is there any way to recover this information?
I'm trying some of the tips from the Cult of Mac iTunes 11 tips blog post. I don't see Options > Assign To > All Desktops when I right click my iTunes 11 icon. Any ideas? Using OSX 10.8.2, that matters.
You would think it would make some kind of difference...
I have two access points for the same network in my house, with some overlap. One runs on 2.4GHz only, and one transmits both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. I have an iPhone 5 (running iOS 6.0.1), which supports the 5GHz band and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to determine which frequency band it is connected to.
On an iPhone running iOS 6.0.1, I used Settings → Notifications → Mail to set different "new message" sounds for different mail accounts. Now I want to make all mail accounts again follow the default sound set under Settings → Sounds → New Mail. How can I do this? When I change the "New Mail" alert sound, the individual mail accounts no longer change.
I've got a mac (OS X 10.8.2) that's accessing files on an Win7 SMB share. About half the time the Mac comes back from suspend it can't connect to the SMB share. The Win7 machine is on and the password hasn't changed. But when I try to connect to the SMB server it asks for the username/password. When I type it in, I get told it's wrong. Then I restart the machine (Mac) and it can connect to the SMB server fine. It's an annoyance really, especially when I've got 8 different terminal windows open and they're all named the way I like etc. Anyone got a suggestion/tips for re-connecting to an SMB drive after suspend?
Currently I only see about 12 songs in upnext, not so great when I want to create a 3 hour playlist, but I can't find a setting anywhere to increase this. Does such a thing exist?
I have some problems on my Macbook. Whenever I close the screen and I open it up again, the problem starts. Sometimes I am able to login, but once I am inside, the computer freezers. Other times I am not even able to log in, because the login screen is frozen already. I would like to know what are the possible causes of this and how could I potentially solve it. I know the question might be a little bit vague, but that is basically what is happening. EDIT:
I have a MacBook Pro which switches dynamically between discrete and integrated graphics. I get a notification about the switching using gfxCardStatus.
I work at a small international NGO. We are looking into file sharing options. The Apple Time Capsule has come up as a suggestion. However, the catch is that we have people in NY, Argentina, and Thailand and we are all on different networks. I would need something which we could all share/upload/retrieve files from/to. We need a lot of space at low cost which is why we are looking into the TC and not file sharing options such as sugar sync, dropbox etc. We are looking at 2TB of storage. Are there any other low cost alternatives to the TC? In terms of being able to share and backup files AND most importantly everyone from different networks have access to the same information.
Suppose that I develop an app for the iOS platform. The app is a huge success and 80% of my target audience buys it. My customers understandably expect continuous development of the app, but my situation is difficult, because with the market saturated, I can hardly acquire new customers.
Do i need to press eject button on iTunes before unplug my USB cable? Since after that i still want ipad able to sync via WIFI. Or please inform what is the purpose that eject button? It is for safely unplug USB cable from MAC or make the device is will be not anymore synchronise with iTunes?
Buying an unlocked iPhone makes it cheaper to find a iPhone 3/3GS than a 4 than a 4S than a 5. Please assume that I know and am aware of all the other benefits of newer hardware like cameras, running iOS 6 (in the case of the iPhone 3), more RAM/faster CPU so that cheaper hardware will likely be both older and slower. However, functionally with the network connectivity, is there a difference? But for someone that will only call, text, use maps and very lightly use Safari, my thinking is that I shouldn't spend any extra money and get the oldest phone for a friend that is constrained to T-Mobile. Does the T-Mobile network / infrastructure only work with 3G or am I incorrect in thinking that newer phones don't work any better with T-Mobile's 2012/2013 network frequencies?
I've always had an Ethernet cable to connect to, until now. There is a wireless Internet signal at my location but I think this computer may not have the hardware to connect? I don't see the antenna icon that would normally appear in the bar at the top on Wifi equipped machines. What do I need to purchase for this computer so it can connect to a wifi?
My iPhone's power button is broken. How can I still turn it off to send it in for repairs? I found another answer, but it does not really help.
I need to print web pages from Safari to a mobile printer in the field using an iPad. I can't seem to figure this out - any ideas, suggestions? As I understand it, I cannot connect to a printer via bluetooth - iOS does not allow this. I won't be in an area with WiFi - so I can't connect that way. I have two thoughts....
I am having this issue on my MacBook Air but not on my Windows machine or even my Windows virtual machine on the Macbook Air. Client uses Microsoft SharePoint for documents and logs. I was given two links. I will replace client name with the word "client"
I've just ordered the 27" iMac, which has user-upgradable RAM slots. There are four slots, and the default configuration that ships is two 4GB modules, and two empty spaces.
I've just upgraded to iTunes 11 on Win 7 Home Premium x64. No matter how I try, I simply cannot find the synchronization setting for pictures/podscasts/music/movies etc. Can someone please point me in the right directeion?
Can anyone explain the "wake for wifi network access" setting in energy preferences for me? I do not understand it.
I just updated my iTunes to 11.0. I just want to know how I can make the songs in my playlists in shuffle mode, but not the songs in my Library. Before with iTunes 10, you can have that option where you only shuffle songs in your playlists but not the library. But with iTunes 11, I can't seem to find that option. When I have songs in my playlists in shuffle mode, it also shuffles the songs I play from my Library. So, can shuffle only affect a playlist and remain unset for general library play?
Since a single small change to a VM file should (I think) cause the entire multi-gigabyte file to be backed up again, are there any ideas I can use to more effectively backup my machine? Assume that I only need one copy of a VM, and changes made to the VM don't matter. For example: Backup the VM using time machine once, then exclude the folder that contains all the VMs Backup the VM using time machine once, then exclude the folder that contains all the VMs Exclude the VM's altogether and manually back up the VMs Exclude the VM's altogether and manually back up the VMs Let Apple's software do it's thing, it will be effective at managing the disk space Let Apple's software do it's thing, it will be effective at managing the disk space
I have found that I need to run both Quicksilver and Spotlight. I consider this to be a waste of CPU and memory and would like to eliminate one of them probably Spotlight. The reason I would like to retain Quicksilver is because it is a tiny bit faster and much more flexible.
When looking at usage stats in iOS (data sent/received), are the megabytes/gigabytes in base-10 or base-2? The docs are not entirely conclusive (since it doesn't address usage specifically) but suggests base-2 is used for iOS device capacities. So which is it?
Now, I just discovered that Finder has context menu items stemming from BetterZip, which is now in my Downloads folder, having been copied over from my PREV folder. I did not install BetterZip.
I started up my computer in Target Disk Mode and erased it from a friends Mac thinking that I could then install Mountain Lion without installing Snow Leopard. Do I have any way of getting my machine to work again? It currently powers on and display a blinking folder with a question mark. What can I do to install an OS? I have a Mountain Lion install disk which gets spit out. I also made an Ubuntu disk as per instructions on their site, but that gets spit out as well. Any help?
I have an iPhone 5 and now my husband has my old iPhone 4S. For some reason everytime I have a message on Facebook, he's also getting them on his phone under the "Facebook Messenger". How can I fix this, so he doesn't get them?
I am running OS X server 10.8 ClamXAV is built in. I have installed and am running squidman (Squid proxy server). I'd like to install HAVP and get it up and running. The error I get when I ./configure in the HAVP directory: The location of clamav-config: mail:local everett$ cd /usr/local/clamXav/bin mail:bin everett$ ls My path: So, what is going on, and how do I make this (the HAVP install) work? EDIT New error after ./configure succeeds, and I try make:
Sometimes either randomly or after waking my late 2008 MacBook Pro from sleep, I won't be able to access google.com or any of the services. It's mildly annoying, but fixed by turning off my wifi, and then turning it back on.
When I run brew doctor I get this warning: Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin TONS of people with the same problem, but they solve it by running this: PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" Which fixes it once, but upon closing the terminal windows and opening a new one and running brew doctor, the warning re-appears. Is there a permanent fix for this?
Seems to me like this only confuses, since conversations are separated by address/phone number. Are their any advantages, or is it safe to remove all email address from my iMessage?
Is there a permanent way to keep youtube playing when I tap the home button or close the lid of my iPad? I know that if I double click on the home button, slide to the bottom list of apps to the right and press play, it keeps youtube playing. But I do not want to mess with it everytime. So, do you know a way to keep youtube playing without doing this everytime?
Tryig to delete a quick style set from Word 2011 for Mac. This link claims the styles are in "/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Style Set" and the save dialog seems to confirm that. However if I try to go there with the Finder, there is no visible or hidden "Office" folder in the "Microsoft" folder. Any ideas?
Since I installed iOS 6 there have been many issues with my iPhone 3GS. I now have 6GB of "unknown" stuff in the iTunes breakdown, and the phone became much slower, could there be a connection between the two? Is it possible to do a clean install of iOS6?
I want to replace Superdrive in my MBP mid 2010 with Otpibay SSD. I have 2nd revision (rev 2/rev B) of mother board replaced due to GPU problems.
I have my Gmail account setup in Mail 6.2 (Mountain Lion). From that account I can send mail with one of five different addresses (4 other accounts forwarding onto Gmail). Is there a way I can set up a different default signature for each address, rather than a single default signature for all addresses? I have 5 addresses and 5 signatures, I just can't link them together.
Is there any keyboard shortcut to turn on and off shuffle and turn on repeating on iTunes? They aren't mentioned on iTunes help section Keyboard Shortcut.
OSX seem to offer open -t command line shortcut to open arbitrary files in the system default text editor. Where is this default text editor set? Where is this default text editor set? Can I change it from the command line (if possible) or otherwise programmatically? Can I change it from the command line (if possible) or otherwise programmatically? The default choice of TextEdit is limiting.
I'm a big fan of multiple desktop spaces on OS X 10.7 (see image).  I'm wondering if you can hide desktop icons on just one of the 4 spaces I have setup. Is that possible?
Are there any iPad accessories that vibrate, to permit the same kind of silent notification iPhones can?
I would like to add a new TextExpander snippet to do the following: I will add a url from the clipboard in the form of: This is my text with a link [1] and one more link [2] [1] http//link1 [2] http//link2 I wrote this: But the problem is, I don't know how to add the 2nd link after the first. I get this instead this: This is my text with a link [1] and one more link [2] [2] http//link2 [1] http//link1 How can I add text in the last line?
I'm running Lion on Macbook2,1 and after I've upgraded from Leopard, I've noticed that some folders including Pictures are shown empty in Finder. Size of folder says otherwise and in Terminal I can see all my files and folders. Any Idea what's going on? Terminal: In Finder's Get Info, there isn't much to tell, everything is normal, except for Kind: Folder which is missing.
Starting with GIMP 2.8, the application is no longer visibly dependent on X11, so suddenly all the advice I'm aware of for adding fonts to GIMP don't seem to work. (This worked with GIMP 2.6)
I connected my HP Pavilion F1903 monitor to my MacBook Pro using the Rocketfish adapter I purchased from the Apple salesman at Best Buy. The monitor is turned on, but what's showing up on my laptop screen is not appearing on the monitor. How do I get my laptop to talk to my external monitor? PS: My monitor is probably 7 years old, and my MacBookPro is less than 2 years old.
I didn't have a free outlet to plug my iPhone charger into, so I plugged it into the USB port of my work computer (Macbook Pro) to charge. Anyway, iTunes 11 and iPhoto opened up! I forgot that iPhones automatically sync with iTunes (as I never sync with anything -- I don't back anything up -- my contacts and calendar are synced to Google, and that's all I really care about on my phone). I was able to disable iPhoto from opening, but I can't do that with iTunes. I did click on the Preference to "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" but this was after I think some syncing took place. How can remove whatever data was synced? I think it was just the apps that got synced, but how can I be sure? Is there some folder hidden somewhere in the system that I can check? And if it is only the apps, how do I remove that information? This is my work computer, and I don't want any information from my personal phone to end up on it. I learned my lesson -- don't plug anything pe
I would like to create some Mac OS X 10.7 Windows "simulations" in Photoshop. I would like to learn about the window's shadow parameters, like size, spread and distance.
I've set up a few email aliases in iCloud under pseudonyms. If I receive an email to one of them (e.g. "Alias Name <pseudonym@icloud.com>), and I try to reply in Mail for Mac, it uses the right email address, but instead of putting "Alias Name" in the from field, it appends my real, full name: No doubt that's very frustrating and unreliable. In the drop-down, I can select Alias Name <pseudonym@icloud.com> but that's a hassle each time — I have already forgotten and compromised my pseudonym a few times.
I'm receiving this error message periodically:  Photos for the iCloud account "name@email.com" cannot be accessed. Review your account information in System Preferences.
I was thinking about migrating a majority of my text-based notes from Evernote to the built-in Notes app. Evernote wants 4.99 a month to store off-line notebooks on your mobil e device. I currently use a Macbook Air but was thinking about consolidating my notes onto my iPad so I'm not referencing two devices. But I don't want old notes that were sync'd to the application to disappear or somehow be lost to me.
I'm looking for a way to change the minimum number of files required to 1 so I can make a folder from a single selected file rather than having to have 2 selected before it becomes available. To see what I mean...
Is there some way to know the arguments passed to xnu at boot from within the system?
After latest iTunes (11.0) upgrade there is no sidebar where devices are supposed to appear. How do I rearrange the apps on my iPad2 via iTunes now?
I remember a message after installing the iBooks app on my iPad telling me that I would have one free book to download. I never used it but now I am interested and wonder if this coupon is still active. How could I know without spending money accidentally?
I'm trying to make a Fusion Drive with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a 3 TB 3.5" HDD (connected via SATA to my late 2012 Mac mini). I'm able to create the Fusion Drive, but when I start to install Mountain Lion, it fails because it's unable to create a recovery partition. I have tried Fusion with a 640 GB or 1 TB hard drive, everything is working fine. Only the 3 TB (either Seagate or Western Digital) doesn't work: it can't create the Recovery partition. Why could this be?
I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Despite my initial concerns relating to the new gestures, I am actually getting on pretty well and many of the new features are welcome.
Is there a possibility of disabling the trash-bin for a drive and deleting files instantly? I'm using DVD-RAM as a backup solution and trashing files is producing a lot of additional, unnecessary writes on the backup discs as the files are moved to a new location and then overwritten on delete from the trash bin.
So, is there a good solution? Why might this happen? Is re-building the library the only way? I'd rather not lose my date-added and play-count data.
I have a macbook pro running Snow Leopard. I have Tuxera NTFS drivers.
On my keyboard layout, the M key is right next to the W key:  This can be problematic at times because occasionally I will accidentally press Command-M instead of Command-W, causing the window to be minimized rather than closed. Since there's no keyboard shortcut to un-minimize a window (well ok, no easy keyboard shortcut), this is even more annoying because then I have to switch to my trackpad to un-minimize the window and then try again to close it. Is there a way to disable the Command-M shortcut for minimizing a window?
Using automator, I have navigated to a website that required a password, pulled up a page and need to search that page for a word. Let's say the word is "flowmaster" for example. I had Automator do a 'watch me do' and typed Cmd-F to search that page. I type in flowmaster and it returns in the spotlight command line 0 matches.
How can I put my VirtualBox on my Dock in Mac OS X Lion. I want to have it on my dock so I can click on it to launch it.
And is there anyway to save the workspace that we setup? I mean, its all cool and nice after setting up organizing your applications in the way you want it. But everything is gone after shutdown. Is there anyway to save it and auto load the setup on startup?
I have a flash drive with all the files from my old PC. How do I access / find this flash drive after it is installed, and can I save and use these files (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook primarily)?
When clicking on the Profile Manager service in the side bar in Server.app, I receive an error: An error occurred on the server while processing a command. The error occurred while processing a command of type 'exportIdentity' in plug-in 'servermgr_certs'. Running the 'syslog -w 10' command at the same time I get the following log:
I'm running into a sync behavior that I need to find a way around. Here's how it worked before (in iTunes 10): Using iTunes, I would download a podcast from the internet onto my computer. In iTunes, I would transfer the podcast to my iPod. In iTunes, I would delete the podcast from my computer. Then I would unplug my iPod and listen to the podcast on my iPod. If I replugged my iPod into my computer, the podcast would remain on my iPod. Here's the problem I'm having now (in iTunes 11): I download the podcast to my computer, transfer the podcast to my iPod, delete the podcast from my computer, and it also deletes the podcast from my iPod. How do I stop it from deleting things from my iPod when I delete things from iTunes on my computer?
I have a iPhone 4s, the last version of 17" macbook pro, mac mini 4.1 purchased in early 2010 I think, with multiple trackpads and multiple Apple BT keyboards. When using a keyboard with the 4s (which I know is BT 4) my keyboard battery lasts for months, the same with my macbook using external keyboard and trackpad (I thought my macbook was BT v2.xx but cannot find the product page for some reason), my mini (which I use most often) the batteries last about a month or less. From system report My minis BT firmware is v41 c822, the macbook is v41 c821, not really my main question but have these machines been upgraded to BT 4 via firmware update? So now to my real question, when looking for BT devices how does one know if the device will take advantage of BT 4s' low energy features.
When I open my MIDI driver in System Preferences I get the following message: "To use the “YAMAHA USB-MIDI Control Panel” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen."
I have several images at 5184 × 3456 (confirmed by the info panel in iPhoto), but when I Right-Click + Show File, it opens a version in finder that is only 1296 × 864. The path it's taking me to in Finder is obviously not the original.
I want to install a dmg file on a remote server. All I have is an ssh access. Since a DMG is a disk image, I tried to mount it, but mount does not seem to recognize its format. file says my dmg file is a VAX COFF executable.
I do have one software(.exe) file which I need to run on my macbook pro. For that I need cross platform application just like wine in Ubuntu. Can anyone suggest me the application?
Is it possible to upgrade the SSD at all? I have heard rumours that they are soldered in after 2010, and are not replaceable.
First of all, I haven't used any Mac computers before. And now I'm considering buying a Mac book pro retina 15 with 256 or 512 Gb SDD as my travel laptop. I need to run both MacOS and Windows 7. The problem is that 256 and even 512 Gb is not really enough for me, so I'm considering buying an external HDD. I'm thinking about 2.5 inch 7200 rpm HDD with at least 750 Gb capacity with an enclosure which supports USB 3. I'd really like it to be very portable so I can use on a plane. It should be both accessible from MacOS and Windows. At first I thought that I would install Window 7 on this external HDD, but after reading some blog I found out that it is almost impossible because of Windows limitations. So my goal is to insert both OSs on the internal drive and keep the rest on the external HDD. Can I get some advise about this setup? Can I get some advise about this setup? Any pitfalls like driver problems on Mac? Any pitfalls like driver problems on Mac? Any suggestions on particular hardw
I use pages on my iPad for documents. Apple says that I can have everything that is in Pages on my iPad shared on my iPhone using iCloud. How do I configure that?
Do you think that my hard drive is failing? if so, why I can still read the HFS partition from windows?
I own a macbook pro 17" late 2011 which has a 1920×1200 display with a pixel density of 132 ppi. Yesterday I tried hooking up the display to an Apple Thunderbolt Display, and to my great disappointment a window, when split across the two screens, was larger in the external Apple display than on the internal screen, due to the difference in the pixel density. I own a 24" HD display, and there I also notice the same issue. I've spent some time researching, and I haven't been able to identify a potential candidate screen that has a display with comparable pixel density, and finally, size. I see that some have suggested (in other questions) to lower the resolution on the internal screen, but that is, in my opinion, defeating the purpose of purchasing such a laptop and I would never consider such an idea.
I have just set up the Notes.app on my MBP (Running OSX 10.8.2) to link up with my iCloud account so that I could begin working with synchronised notes. I make a lot of notes while I am out and about using my iPhone, so it seemed great to be able to have them all appear on my mac so that I can edit them or simply just to copy and paste into a document, or whatever I so please.
See the following mvn version. I'm wondering why "which" command does not give you the correct info.
When I open my iTunes it will say iTunes cannot open because of an item
Can someone clarify what these different synch settings in iTunes (v11) actually mean: What is the difference between "sync only checked songs and videos" in the "Summary" tab of the iPhone and "Sync Music -> "Selected playlists artists, albums, and genres" in the "Music" tab of the iPhone? I dont see any changes in sync behavior when I check or uncheck "sync only checked songs and videos". Also what does "Manually manage music and videos" actually mean?
Within iTunes 11 on Windows, they removed one of my favorite features from iTunes 10 : Searching for music within a connected iPod For example, when listening to music that is on my iPod via iTunes, I could type in a search for "Pendulum" and have all my Pendulum songs right there. One of my favorite things was that my shuffle would stay within the research range, making that, for an afternoon, I could listen to only Pendulum if I wanted to. Now they seem to have removed that feature, but is it just hidden somewhere and I'm not finding it? BTW: I have no choice but to listen music from my iPod, I'm at work and can't just transfer all my music on the computer.
Recently the power button on my iPhone 5 has become hard to press, and slow to come back up after being pressed. Update : As I was typing this I was repeatedly pressing the power button. It eventually returned to its normal position. I am adding this question anyway because I want to know if anyone else has experienced this issue and if so did they had to take their phone into Apple for repair (or talked to a Apple rep that recommended they take it in). (i.e is it a symptom of a bigger problem>)
I have a 2008 iMac running OS X 10.7 with its mini-DVI output port connected to an second monitor via a DVI-D adapter. It's nice having a second monitor, but it's sometimes superfluous and I would like to turn it off to conserve power.
I want to know, is there any shortcut for creating new tweet in OS X Mountain Lion? If not, how can I define that?
I’m unable to use Autofill to add songs in iTunes 11 and I’d really like to use it. Following the help guide in iTunes, it says I should be able to see an “Autofill from” pop-up menu at the bottom of the music pane: Unfortunately, this is what I see instead: Attempting to set my iPhone to have music be manually added also seems like a no-go: Any ideas how I could see that Autofill pop-up menu?
Is there a way to hide a key (i.e. a wifi WPA key password) from being listed in Keychain Access but still have OS X be able to use it? We're a school and we we don't want users to be able to access keychain and see the WPA key of the wifi password. It doesn't even have to be hidden as long as the user can't get access to being shown the password.
I'd like to use screencapture -l to do automated screen captures of Google Chrome. This requires knowing the windowid of the Google Chrome process that's running.
Title says it all: how do I lock the screen using a keyboard shortcut on OS X Mountain Lion with a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000?
I have been using Pages to wrote TV Show scripts, as I've found it to be less restrictive than celtx, and cheaper than final draft. It's been working really well, I just defined a bunch of custom paragraph styles, and I select the relevant one as needed. This doesn't take much overhead, but there are a few things I would like to be able to do.
Ok, let me start by saying that I just started using a Mac about two months ago. Yesterday I was doing something that kicked off about 500 emails to my email account. When I tried to open my mail app, it pops up and then the cursor turns to a beachball that spins. After this I have to do a force quit to get out.
I have two older Macs in which I want to erase the hard drive. Secure-erase is a plus, but not a show-stopper at this point. I don't have any Mac OS X discs so I can't use disc utility. What I'd really like to do is download or buy and download a utility that can create bootable discs so I can boot each computer and erase the hard drives. Any suggestions on utilities?
I just added two songs to iTunes. They are long songs (60 minutes long) and are about 150 MB each. (The iTunes Match limit per song is 200 MB.) I added them to iTunes, and when Match tried to upload them (because it couldn't find a match) it uploaded the first one for about 10 seconds, then failed and started back at Step 1. I assume the problem is the song's size; I also heard that iTunes Match, when uploading, tends to "choke" on its own upload and subsequently fail. Is there anything I can do to fix this, so that I can add these two songs to my iTunes library?
Would someone who has a fusion drive that they bought directly from Apple please provide diskutil output sufficient to describe the choices they made? I've seen lots of different sets of advice for how to DIY it, and that's fine, but I'd like to know how Apple is doing it on the ones they sell.
When selecting March 2013 in the Month view, Calendar crashes. Does anyone know what could be the cause of this ?
Lately I have been receiving a lot of emails that have an embedded audio. The main cause is that my phone system is set to forward voice mails to my email. But this issue applies to any source of embedded audio. In looking at the raw source, I see that it is an mp3 in MIME encoding.
Does anyone know of any calendar software/approach, so that I can use my calendar from both Mac OS X and from Linux? I use both Mac OS X and Linux regularly, and I'd like to be able to both view and edit my calendar from both platforms. Does anyone know of any solutions?
The plan is to use iCloud to restore my phone (contacts and apps) in case of emergency, but to have a main backup on my Mac to restore all photos etc. Am I on the right track here? Thanks for reading.
I had a question "How do I run a jar when double-click it?" But now I know that my computer is not set to open jars by default. Is there a settings in the mac that open jars by default? All the jars that I tried to open is not working. Do I need a program to make it open by default? I use terminal to open it
I have a huge collection of movies (over 2,000) on my external hard drive, and since my girlfriend doesn't like those old movies, she would like to make distinguish between the old movies and those from the last 5 years. At this moment, every movie has it's own folder containing a movie file and a .srt file. Consequently I have a very long list of movies. What I would like to do is to make two directories in the root, organized: by year by alphabet The 'by year' folder would contain folders like "2012", "2011", etc., and the alphabet folder would simply contain all the movie folders in a long list. Maintaining both these folders is obviously a very hard thing to do, not to mention the extra space it will require to have every movie-folder duplicated. Is there a way to do what I want without duplicating every movie folder?
I have pretty high storage needs, which are constantly increasing. Fortunately, the largest drives available seem to be scaling with the amount of space I can occupy. The 1TB disk I currently have sitting in the Superdrive bay of my 15" Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) is making me nervous with its loud seeking. I'm going to replace it for sure, but it seems as though laptop disks above 1TB are not yet readily available (besides the 15mm tall form factor, which is no good for MBPs). I noticed that Other World Computing is selling this drive, Toshiba part no. MQ01ABD150, but I can't seem to find any info outside of OWC. I know they carry some specialist products not always readily available elsewhere, but am I right to be skeptical of this drive? Anyone know anything about it, i.e. whether it will truly fit a 15" unibody MBP? Update
I've just read the licence for the Hoefler font (see their EULA). It says explicitly: You may not create Embedded Documents, except as expressly provided in paragraphs 3.2 and 3.3: and "Embedded Documents" includes "ordinary" PDFs.
I am using one Apple ID for two iPhones which seems to be fine,however when I download an app on one iPhone it gets downloaded on the other too. even if I upgrade an app it gets upgraded on the second iPhone as well. How is that possible and can I disable it ?
I wonder if someone can shed some light on this. I live in the UK but am travelling to Austalia for Christmas. If I buy a cellular iPad mini in Australia, will that work when I bring it back to the UK? Obviously I will need to put a UK SIM card in there, but apart from that, will there be any issues? Many thanks in advance Charlie
Related to this question: *=URL=* Via *=URL=* I find out that you can use 'get info' though Finder to find out where a file was downloaded from. For example - Now - my question is - can I get the same information from the command line?
I am syncing photos through iTunes to my iphone but I am seeing 40 events with the same date show in the Events selector. The same photos are included within a single event in iPhoto. How can i get iTunes to see these events as one?
Since I upgraded to iTunes 11, my iMac (27", 2011) goes to sleep during playback to my Apple TV. This didn't happen before the upgrade, so it has to be related to the upgrade. Does anyone what I could do to prevent this from happening? It's kind of annoying. Standard standby time for the iMac is 10 minutes. Thus, after 10 minutes of playback my iMac goes to sleep. Both, my iMac and my Apple TV are running the most up-to-date software.
I have bought this hard drive: Seagate ST3000DM which is a 3TB 3.5" hard drive. When I connect it via a USB2 docking station, here is what OS X sees:
There are two computers authorized to play my iTunes library; one is my main laptop and I sync my iPhone and iPad to this. The second laptop is an old one which I gave to a friend when I upgraded. I have no objections to her playing from my library. However, I am concerned now that she has bought her first iPhone.
As of Mountain Lion, Preview has been "upgraded" with a ridiculous font choice for its Notes (Control-Command-N). I use them all the time in PDF files and suffer from the Comic Sans feeling of Marker Felt. Is it possible to change the font used by Preview to show notes? It does not seem that the question has already been asked.
I'm renaming a long series of file one by one while previewing them. UNFORTUNATELY, Finder re-sorts the file list, so that means that each time I rename a file, it changes the current selection to the end, so I need to quickly go to either the first file or the last in the list.
Suddenly, my yahoo on iPhone won't let me respond to or delete any email? What have I done?
I'm looking for a way to add a printer to my MacBook that prints using the lpr command on a remote server. I have passwordless logins set up, and I found a script that appears to do what I need it to: SSH-LPR Backend for CUPS. The only problem is setting it up. I figured out that on Mac, /usr/lib/cups/backend is actually /usr/libexec/cups/backend, and I added, and chmod'd the sshlpr script to that folder. Then I went to *=URL=* after cupsctl WebInterface=yes, but I don't see an option to add an SSH-LPR printer. What do I do next?
I have added my favorite stores, Coffee shops, and addresses I go to a lot, into my contacts list, so I can say to Siri "Remind me to check the mail when I arrive at mom's house." However, Siri responds with "I am sorry I can remind you at work, home, or gym." So what am I doing wrong?
I have read several questions (here and elsewhere) that look for applications that can save in a format instead of export in a format. What is the difference between saving in a format, and exporting in a format? Is it just that there is an additional dialog box, or does an exported file in some way behave differently? Is this a style over substance issue? I have no problem with people wanting things the WAY they want them, I just want to understand if there is a fundamental difference in the function of an exported over the function of a saved file.
I have old software (will run from a CD) in both a Mac OSX (10.5.8) and Mac OS9 version which I would like to run on Mt Lion, MacBook Pro 2012. A very similar question has been asked and answered here, my question differs in that the software is on a CD and is run from the CD, local installation is not required. Does this change the answers that can be found at link below, addressing installation of the old software on the same machine running Mt Lion. Thanks for any feed back. See Is there a way to install and use PowerPC applications on Intel Macs?
I updated from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2 for my MacBook Pro Retina with my external 27" Thunderbolt display. When I connect to my Thunderbolt display both screens are black. I can only see my mouse pointer and sometimes little boxes of display. Any idea what's wrong?
I used "kextstat | grep -v com.apple" to find active extensions, and found the following listed extensions. I want to unload them with kextunload in order to reduce kernel memory usage, but there are not any org.virtualbox.kext.* files present in my /System/Library/Extensions/ directory. Any suggestions on how I can find where these are being stored and unload them?
I have a thunderbolt display that is connected to a retina MBP (13"). I would like to connect my Dell monitor (which has a gauntlet of inputs, most notably HDMI and DVI, but not DisplayPort or Thunderbolt) into my Thunderbolt display so that I don't have to plug two monitors into my laptop every time I sit down.
Running 10.7.5, I've got a fairly new iMac (6 months old) 27", set to never sleep, yet when I got in to work this morning it was asleep. How to fix this? Output from pmset -g in Terminal: And the contents of the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration:
Suppose I have 2 computers attached to the wireless network in my house, one a Mac and one a PC. Suppose I want to continuously sync a folder on the Mac with a folder on the PC. What options do I have? My first thought would be to use something like Dropbox, but in this case I don't want the files to leave my network and go to the cloud.
I want to run a script every 15 minutes between 12:00 AM and 4:00 AM. Is there a way to do that with launchd?
I have noticed that while I can safely change the name of the Logical Volume (LM Volume) in /Volumes (currently: Apple SSD), I cannot find a way to change the name of the Logical Volume Group (currently: Crucial M4 SSD). The latter is a legacy from my previous Macbook Pro's hard drive. Can I change this name?
The other day Safari 6's "Show/Reveal in Finder" command in the downloads window suddenly stopped working. Whether right-clicking or clicking the magnifying glass/loupe button, I can't get the Finder to jump immediately to the file in question. Double-clicking to open the file works, but I don't want to do that immediately with all my downloads. What can be done about this?
I misspell "maintenance" all the time. I usually ignore the autocorrect suggestion and just send it. Recently my iPhone (and iPad and MacBook - thanks iCloud) have started suggesting the misspelling of this word as a correction.
I have installed the update shown from the App Store. I have since started and used XCode. Why does this update still show up in the updates list for App Store? Is there some extra action I need to take to complete the update? Link to screenshot: http://d.pr/i/dp3z
My holy grail right now is an iOS music app that meets these two criteria Supports iTunes Match Works with my car's Made for iPod radio
I have a ton of songs that I classify in named playlists, and would like to have an easier way of knowing if a song has been previously classified or not. The thought occurred to me to make a Smart Playlist that will show me songs that meet the following requirements: Media Type must be Music (excludes Music Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts, etc.) Must not exist in any playlist within the parent Classification folder. Must not exist in the "Unclassifiable" folder. I can't get the Smart Playlist to populate with all remaining songs:
When no music is playing and when a song in album view is selected, how can I quickly play this song, but only this song, and not the following songs in the album? I found out you could use Up Next via the context menu (right click), but that takes two mouse clicks and after that you manually need to press play to start playing. Is there a faster way to do this (preferably using a shortcut)?
There is something I don't understand. I have a macbook pro 15' retina display.
I know this problem has been around for a while. With the release of Mountain Lion Macs got the bad habit of falling to sleep when they are not used by a human.
After upgrading to iTunes, I can't seem to find a way to know how much time the selected songs take to play. This used to be at the bottom of every window of iTunes. The only way I can find this now, is in the playlists, shown as for example 29 songs, 1.2 hours. Any way to get the old bar at the bottom back?
The Help Topics say that Ctrl+Alt+F should go to the search field, but it don't here. I'm on Windows 7, with iTunes 11.
If you switch to an open application in Alfred, it only brings up only the window on top of the windows stack for that application, i.e. only the most recently focused window of that application. Is it possible to replicate this behavior using command+tab?
Even in iTunes 11, there is no fade out when pausing playback or fade in when starting playback. How can I achieve this?
I have a website at JonathansCorner.com, which for the most part is a static collection of files, mostly HTML5, served up by a Linux Apache server. Maintaining it is mostly a matter of creating new HTML5 files and of updating existing files on my computer, used partly as a staging site, before being sftp'ed over to the server. Technologically the site is not particularly interesting; it's the content if anything that draws people. Moving from maintaining my website on a Linux server to keeping it on a Mac was a piece of cake; Mac is my favorite Unix.
I recently created a Pages document on my Mac (OS X 10.8.2). I then opened it in Pages on my iPhone (iOS 6.1) to email it to someone. iCloud downloaded the document as expected when I opened Pages, but when I tapped the Edit button, and selected the document, the "Share" icon was greyed out. The "Duplicate", and "Delete", icons work as expected. I also tried duplicating the document before sharing it, with no success. Is it possible to share Pages documents that were created on a Mac and synced over iCloud from an iOS device?
I was playing an album the other day and noticed that none of the songs being played are incrementing their play count. I am running iTunes 11.0 and would like play counts to work like before. What is happening and can I fix this?
Over the last year, I've replaced (and expanded) my library of programming books from physical copies to ebooks. In each book, I have a host of bookmarks. Unfortunately, I didn't save them in one front-to-back read through so my bookmark lists are all out of page order. Is there a way to sort/organize them by page number?
We have looked in the original location, Trash, userfolder/Microsoft userdata/Office 2011AutoRecovery etcetera and there is no document except for the original unedited version. Spotlight doesn't find it either. Since we have a running Time Machine backup we have lots of backups from yesterday but all the same locations are also empty.
My system is Lion 10.7.x My Internet Sharing is greyed out with: You cannot start Internet Sharing because you have not selected a port to share your connection. How can I enable internet sharing? The internet sharing panel is totally disabled, I can see the drop down but unable to select, I'm using a customized version from corp, they may disabled this function, since I have root permission, I might be able to restore it, do you know where to enable the panel?
In Safari 6 - I know have a single search/address bar. I like it mostly, although as I'm developing sites locally, when I type in a local address such as site.local it searches Google for site.local, I'm wondering if I can config it to look at the local DNS first, or turn this search off.
I would like to type in Maltese (using Maltese letters) from my iPad and iPhone. Unfortunately, the Maltese langauge is not listed with the default European languages on iOS devices. What can I do?
This is driving me insane... All of a sudden my mouse cursor starts jumping and clicking around by its own. It doesn't look like somebody is remote controlling it. It rather is jumping around randomly, executing clicks or context menu commands just without any obvious aim.
I figure it was best to switch everything to iCloud except my email. But that still requires me to be syncing two accounts on my iPhone and iPad (one exchange account for email and one account for iCloud) which I assume would drain the battery alot. Is there any way I can have this setup such that I am only syncing one account and everything is pushed to my devices and in sync?
I am on OSX Lion, with a MacBook Pro. I am using the DisplayPort for an external monitor and two USB Diamond BVU195 for two extra monitors. Each time when I turn my computer on, the two monitors get mixed up/reversed - so instead of going from left to right, like this: It shows up wrong like this: It is easily fixable by going to System Preferences and reversing them, but next reboot, they are mixed up again.
Is it possible to turn off the new invite badge and the list of new invitations within the Calendar application on the iPhone? My boss has his assistant review his invitations and accept/deny them for him, so he has no need to do this from his phone. He therefore doesn't want to see the red badge on the Calendar app icon on the home screen, or the red badge in the bottom right hand corner of the screen within the Calendar application that says he has six new invitations, and he doesn't want to see the list of new invitations upon clicking that button.
The filter/search in previous iTunes worked on a word-based matching system. If each of the words matched anywhere in the song info (title, artist, genre, etc) then a song was returned. It appears that the new default in iTunes 11 is for it to be a phrase-based match.
I know that I can see the data usage of my iPhone 4(iOS 6.0.1) under: Settings → General → Usage → Cellular, Usage , but the counter has a bug - now it's showing over 16GB(for 2-3 hours tethering). Any Idea of the reason for this bug? If I use some app for counting the data usage, would it show the right usage?
I set up Time Machine in Mountain Lion by plugging in a newly formatted 500GB USB drive, selecting that from the Time Machine dialog, and checking the box to encrypt my backups. A window appeared that said "Preparing disk [diskname] for encryption." The progress bar quickly filled to about 80% and then stalled there. It's been about 22 hours now with no sign of progress. I know encrypting a drive can take a while, but is this too long? Should I force quit or unplug the drive and start over? Notes: I checked the system log to verify that the computer's been up and working all night; it didn't go to sleep.
I want to do two things when my Mac boots up: Any suggestions for how I can accomplish this? FWIW, this is app I haven't written so I can't change source or pass in command line params.
I like the fact that sync downloads voice memos to my Macbook Pro. But I do not like the fact iTunes includes my voice memos in my general music library. It's a bit goofy to be listening to my music on shuffle and all of a sudden have it start playing my voice speaking! Is there a way to prevent them from showing up there - but still have them synced?
Is there some easy method for installing bookmarklets on an iPad/iOS device that does't involve syncing my bookmarks with a computer somewhere? Examples showing the sync with computer installation. *=URL=* https://support.pinterest.com/entries/21033321-how-do-i-install-the-pin-it-bookmarklet-on-an-ipad-iphone
Using the Cmd-` shortcut to switch between windows in an application is inefficient for me when there are more than two windows since they are cycled through in a fixed order and there is little visual feedback to show which window has been switched to. Is there a way to change the behavior so that it works more like Cmd-Tab? Specifically, I would like to be able to switch between windows in most recently used order and/or display an icon or preview to show the window being switched to. I'm using OS X 10.7.5.
How do I change the default artwork for an artist in iTunes 11?
So I went to download and install McSolitaire thinking it might be a fun game. Well, something went wrong during the install process. Now I've got a half-downloaded app in my Applications and the Purchases tab encourages me to re-install it, noting in red that an error has occurred. Deleting the app from Applications and returning to the App Store causes the app to reappear in Applications, still with the small slider indicating still copying.
I have been attempting to resolve an issue with AirPlay from an iPad to AppleTV. Here are the details: Playing media (audio or video) originating on the iPad sent to AppleTV via AirPlay does not work. With audio-only media, the result is mostly silence with occasional very short bursts (less than 100ms) of sound. With audio-only media, the result is mostly silence with occasional very short bursts (less than 100ms) of sound.
I had a kernel panic about 2 years ago, and another one a few days ago. I haven't had any other problems besides minor software bugs, and I was able to harmlessly reboot after both. I've been told this can mean many bad hardware-related things. Could it just be something relatively harmless, since it doesn't really seem too persistent? Is it worth having it checked out?
I would like to share photos on facebook. However, it is required to sign in, after which all facebook contacts will be downloaded. Would it be possible to avoid downloading contacts from facebook?
I have done all the things you can think of, change hard drive, tried with external monitors, reinstall from scratch to Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion, do the NVRAM dance, etc. So apart from the video, it works, and I am not going to go for a new logic board, not worth the hassle and the expense.
I recently got my iPod Touch, and a couple days ago, I was signed out of FaceTime and iMessage (not by my own doing) and I haven't been able to log back in. I have already tried changing my DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, I have logged in and out of my Apple ID on my iPod Touch, I have changed my email address and then changed it back, and I have used a different WiFi connection. The message that pops up (after it fails to log in) says, 'FaceTime Activation Could not sign in. Please check your network connection and try again.' This happens for iMessage, as well. I am using the right password and email, and I do not use an iCloud account. What should I do to be able to log in again and keep my email the same?
I've been playing on my iPhone and iPad, and it appears that in order to do a "cloud save", I need to actually find a save point on one device and then do a save. Then, on my other device I need to manually load that save.
I want to use the photo of a contact in the Address Book/Contacts in another app. What is the easiest way to export the contact photo in Mountain Lion to an image file? Dragging it out to the desktop does not work for me: I always get the photo Resize window instead.
I have many audiobooks in my itunes, some of which are in their appropriate place, but some of which are categorized as songs. I've moved them all to playlists and unchecked them in itunes so that they do not play on my computer, but they still appear in my songs on the iphone, so that when I shuffle my songs, I often get random book chapters. It's not a huge deal (I just skip them), but it is annoying, especially when I'm driving. Can anyone help?
With earlier versions of iTunes, if I updated an app OTA, the next time I synced my phone, iTunes would download the new version to my local library. However, this does not happen anymore. I have to manually check for newer versions of apps in iTunes and then download them again. Is this by design, or am I missing something? I am on Windows 7, 64-bit.
I've been trying to save up space and for this reason I'm using the "don't keep copies of any messages" option. I was thinking though, can I instead choose to save all emails and attachments, but an external hard drive? I'd like the best of both options: when hard drive is not connected it behaves exactly as "don't keep copies of any messages", when connected it has the possibility to search all mail. Apple seem to want me not to find where mail is stored, and does not have an option in the preferences to do what I want (that I'm aware of). Any suggestions?
It's a Mid 2012 version (full spec here). I play the game with the lowest graphics setting possible (with Shader Warming turned off, texture quality set to low etc.). The game runs smoothly. The fan spins quite loudly and the machine gets hotter while I play, even for a short duration. Should I be worried that playing the game for a long time would do some physical damage to the processor core and/or do some other harm to the hardwire?
How do I completely uninstall Java from Mountain Lion? I wanted to run Minecraft so I followed the system promps and I think I installed Java 7 and then Java 6. I couldn't get Mincraft to work for other reasons so I deleted it and now I want to get rid of Java. Not sure if it's relevant but typing "java -version" into Terminal gives me "java version "1.6.0_37" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-11M3909) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)" Any help would be appreciated.
it is just me or did apple increased the size of the window shadows in mountain lion way to much? This is annoying when you've 2 windows side by side - is there any way to turn them off / to scale them down?
I am not sure how to word this or even if there is an answer. I have a iPod Touch 4th generation that I upgraded to 5.1.1 last week. Since then I have not been able to play tunes through my docking station. It 'sees' the song and I can see the play count but there is no volume/song heard. I can put my daughters 2nd generation iPod Touch on and it works fine so I know it isn't the docking station that is the problem. Anyone know how to fix this?
I'm going to buy a new 27" iMac, but I think that the RAM on the Apple Store is really too expensive. My plan is to buy with minimum (2x4GB) RAM and replace everything with 4x8GB. Are all 4 slots designed to be user accessible, removable and replaceable?
For a pretty long time I have the problem that the auto correction in Safari doesn't always work as it should. So it often happens that I write a word, and on pressing the spacebar it replaces the written word. Sometimes it also replaces the word after I have written the next word, and it jumps back. Really annoying as I often have to put the cursor back to the end of the textfield. I've already tried to completely deactivate and reactivate the autocorrection but after a few days it happened again..
Is it possible for me to use Google's excellent CardDAV contact sync service on my OS X (10.8) computer? It works very well on iOS, but the same settings do not work on a computer.
I have forgotten the password used to encrypt my iPhone 4 iOS 6.0.1 backup. Is there any way to recover it?
Lately I've been witnessing this weird visual glitch on the screen of my MacBook (non-retina 2012, hi-res screen):  I have had to take a picture of it because whenever I try to take a screenshot it goes away right before the screenshot is taken. I thought this glitch only happened when I had Adobe Illustrator open, which is when I would see it appear more often, but I've now also caught it in situations where the application was not running (the picture above is one of those cases).
When I send messages from my iPhone (A) to another iPhone (B), the responses from B keep coming to my Mac and do not appear on my phone (A), even when I have iMessages closed. This is maddening. How can I prevent this from happening?
Got the June 2012 13" base MBP, and wondering if anyone knew (or how to find out) the horizontal sync and vertical refresh values for this display? I'm trying to set up the correct resolution for the Linux Mint partition, and I've found with other installations (on other hardware) that having the incorrect hsync and vert refresh values will prevent the OS from listing all the available resolution options. I rang and asked Apple Support but they weren't able to assist in this matter, but suggested that there might be a command to query the hardware directly. edit: I tried the command listed at this question but it seemed to produce no output, and returned immediately.
I like to use the fullscreen mode for as many apps as possible (Mountain Lion). When I start my apps, they usually go into fullscreen mode but then grab the focus. I'd like to be able to essentially start fullscreen mode apps "in the background" and then switch to the window when I am ready to use the app. Is this possible?
On Mountain Lion, I have three desktops. What I find is that the sequential left to right order of these desktops keeps changing. Is it doing something based on usage ? and how can I disable this ?
In Calendar 6 (mountain lion) when I use command E to bring up an edit window after I make changes I haven't been able to find a keyboard short cut to close that window and keep whatever info I've entered or changed. I've searched quite a bit on this question. I've seen using Esc suggested, but that cancels the info/changes. I think that may have worked for older versions of (iCal).
I am trying to install a JDK 8 on OS X Mountain Lion (to experiment with the new lambda features). A machine recently updated from OS X 10.6 to 10.8, with and this folder from the OS X 10.6 era: In ~/.bashrc I've set So I have Downloaded the .tar.gz file from *=URL=* and unpacked it into /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home (I created the folders jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home manually) Downloaded the .tar.gz file from *=URL=* and unpacked it into /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home (I created the folders jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home manually) Changed the symlink /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/Home to point to jdk1.8 Now I have But the java_home utility doesn't seem to care: It doesn't even know that there is a JDK 8 available: I'd like the /usr/libexec/java_home utility to find my installed JDKs, so I can use something like this:
I have a MacBook Pro 17" early 2009 running Snow Leopard, I've recently upgraded Windows 7 running on the bootcamp partition to Windows 8. All works fine apart from the trackpad.
I am using Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) within Mac OS X 10.8.2. I would like to know how to set Safari so that, whenever a new window is opened, the status bar is always turned on. I think this used to be a preference setting but it doesn't appear to be available in this version. Whenever I open a new window, there is no status bar.
I have a mac from 2002 or so, and want to wipe it and give it away. No idea where the original disk is. Any idea how to wipe it?
Is it possible for an application to close my OSX firewall? Several times I have opened the security pref and I find FireWall off while I do not remember turning it off. For antivirus I use ClamXav which doesnt have a firewall so it should not be it... Is there a way to check if some application is closing the firewall ?
I'd like to use my mail app as an outgoing service only. I recently discovered a trojan in an incoming message and I prefer to read my messages online anyway. Is there any way to accomplish this? Regards /M
If I change the contents of a PDF file that is open in Preview, it automatically reloads it when I switch to the program. Is there a way to make it do this without explicitly switching to the program?
I Have some mp3 files in my iTunes library that will not go through iCloud, i.e., the cloud icon has a line through it. When I disable iTunes Match on the pull down menu, iTunes still has "iTunes Match is on". Please Help!
I receive ical event invites from my boss all time. Once I accept the invite and it goes to the ical on my mac, the color of the event changes into the default blue on my mac. My question is, how do I keep the original color of the invite reflect on my calendar? For example, if the color of the event on my boss' mac was orange, how do I keep it's orange color once I accept the invite and it appears on my calendar?
I am fixing my friend's '07 MacBook Pro. The superdrive keeps spitting out discs and the harddrive is corrupt. I want to run Disk Warrior 4.4 but can't because of the Superdrive problem. The computer has two partitions. I erased the second, XP one and now it's available as a Mac Drive. My question is, can I mount the Diskwarrior program on this drive in such a way that I can boot into it as if it was a Boot CD? I'm a PC technician and so am a little lost with the finer details of Mac.
Or is this page outdated? As man launchd.conf still shows the man file as before.
I'm using both a 3 year old iMac and a Windows 7 laptop. 80% of the time I am getting an "Invalid URL" error message. Problem exists with IE, Safari, and Chrome. All other sites (yahoo, netflix, amazon, etc) load up perfectly. I can also go directly to gmail.com and access my mail. Problem also with iPad2,iPad mini, and wife's 2 year old iMac. After being unable to get on I will come back a few hours later and be successful.
For some teaching efforts, especially running through tutorials, I'd like to zoom in on parts of my screen to show a room-full of people small text from the projected screen. Is there an OS X utility that will magnify sections of the screen as I move my cursor over it? I know about OmniDazzle but the magnifier is somewhat clunky.
I'm looking for a calendar app for OS X that shows available times for meeting attendees, and allows me to propose meetings and accept such proposals from others. I've been trying Mac calendar and BusyCal, and neither of them meet my needs. We're using Google app as our calendar server and although I can always use their web interface I prefer to use an installed application.
My question is related to Remove link to something that is not a folder in the Finder sidebar, but my problem is fundamentally different. I still have file links appearing in my folder sidebar. But I know how to remove those links, I just right-click and choose the option Remove from the sidebar.
Is it possible to serve Mac applications like iPhoto over a network to X Window clients? Our problem is that a broken Graphics card is causing a lot of stripes etc on the screen. Other remote solutions doesn't circumvent the problem. This is a G5 PowerPC.
How do I allow Safari to generate logged-in thumbnails of HTTPS pages? Maybe there's a hidden setting for this?
I use git with some of my documents and wonder if the autosaved versions created by Mountain Lion could interfere (or even break) git versioning? This is important for me as I do not work on Macs exclusively. Do I need to edit my .gitignore file to account for the native versioning system in OS X?
The standard sync function seems to sync applications between my iPhone and Mac (That is, the applications seem to end up on my Mac.) I don't understand the point of this: they can't be run on the Mac, and if I lost my iPhone, I can download them again from the App Store. Is there some way to prevent applications from being synced?
I have purchased/rented a movie (SD) and it is not playing... I have downloaded 1GB and the alert "ready to play" does not appear. Besides this, a doubleclick opens the Quicktime window and the player icons, but the movie does not start. The correct time is displayed and when I scroll the timeline I can see the pictures, but the play-button does not start playing the movie... I have the same problem with another movie :-( EDIT: I used the native Apple iTunes Store (is there any other store?!)
Does anyone know how to generate a sphere of icons like Apple has done in their keynotes. Such as: *=URL=* or http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/19391158/2/stock-photo-19391158-media-technologies-concept.jpg
I have a Macbook Air with 128GB SSD. It's used to be a best practice to put the OS on a separate partition from data.
I'm working using LaTeX, since I compile the document in the terminal, it would be much easier for me to open it in pdf viewer directly from the terminal. I'm using OS X 10.8.2 in Polish, so I'm not sure of the English name of the viewer I'm using, but it's the default one, I guess it's Preview in English. But the command preview <filename.pdf> results in -bash: preview: command not found.
Let's suppose i have an application in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp. When i use cd to reach the directory 'MacOS' and then issue the command myapp it says command not found. But when i issue the command with the full path like /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp it works. I had the same problem with mysql inside xampp. Why is that?
I have the wireless bluetooth connecting keyboard for the iMac and it continues to disconnect even when the batteries are brand new. Is there anyway to enhance the bluetooth connection so that it will stop disconnecting?
I'm looking for a way to run an AppleScript after my 3G modem is successfully connected to the carrier. The modem is using the standard OSX network panel to connect, so it's not using any crappy carrier software.
I installed amarok through macport. It doesn't playback the mp3's (actually it doesn't playback anything). I looked at the console and it says among other things .... [0x0-0x2b02b].org.kde.amarok[35766] com.apple.console WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded Any idea?
How do I control iTunes Sync to control exactly what I would like to upload to my iPhone or iPad? Note: I am running iOS 5 on the phone, and iOS 6 on the iPad.
I don't know how I got these shortcuts on Finder's bar (look on the right). These shortcuts are on every Finder windows. How to remove them ? What's those shortcut called ? This picture is worth more than any description.
When I log in as a Guest user on Mountain Lion, i get a transparent dock with no background 'surface': I can seem to find the settings that would make the dock in my own users' desktop look like this. Is it even possible for non-guest users?
I have a script that needs to run every so often, but only if the screensaver is active or if the screen is asleep (to make sure nobody is actively using the computer first). I need to have a way to determine whether the screen is asleep from the command line. (One-liner preferred) I'm using "ps -acxw | grep ScreenSaverEngine | grep -v grep" to determine if the screensaver is running, which always worked fine in previous OS versions, but in Mountain Lion, the screensaver is disabled when the screen goes to sleep, so I need a way to determine that as well now. Help is appreciated...
Variation of already asked question: I now understand that I can add two matched 8 GB sticks of RAM into the two empty slots, even though the other two slots are filled with two 4 GB modules. But is there a problem having one pair 1.5v if the other pair are 1.3v?
Why doesn't the repeat alerts work on the iphone 5 for text messages? After the initial alert. It doesn't make any sounds to notify that you have an unread text despite me setting it to remind me up to 10 times in the notification center.
My father in law is considering getting an iPhone 5. There are some specific apps that he is interested in; are all apps available for iPhone 4 also available for iPhone 5, or do developers have to port them?
my Ethernet (LAN) connection works fine in the Mac Mini. However it doesn't work once I boot into the Recovery HD. Any ideas on why it would work in normal partition but not in Recovery partition?
I just bought a new iPhone 5 and used it before restoring the backup from my old iPhone 4. Now I would like to restore the backup from my old phone without loosing the text messages already on my new phone. If I back up the new phone first and then restore the backup from the old phone, will the content from the new phone be lost?
Similarly, can I plug in the old drive, somehow use Time Machine to back it up, and then run the restore from there? Or does anyone have a better method?
I always wondered why skype don't put all my accepted downloads in subfolders with the name of my contacts! If anybody have own solutions, share)
I painstakingly delete all my iMessages from my Mac (Mountain Lion) but every time someone sends me a new iMessage all earlier messages of that person AND others get downloaded. Is not there a setting that allows me to delete the iMessages permanently from my mac?
I have a MacBook Air running Lion. Issue is I cannot delete things from USB sticks. The icons disappear but if I try to copy something on I get a not enough space error message. I can format the stick to delete everything, but it seems I must do this every time. Can anyone help me out?
Before iTunes 11, I was able to simply select my view options for the playlist, highlight my songs, hit copy, and paste them into a blog post. Now, with iTunes 11, it seems I am unable to do something so simple. I found a workaround for now, printing the playlist as a pdf and copying the contents into a blog post. This is irritating to me, as I need something much quicker and more efficient.
I'm having issues with my macbook pro OS X 10.7.5. It used to connect to the wifi router (D-Link N300, DIR=615) no problems. But for the past several weeks, I haven't been able to at all. What pops up when I select my wifi network from the list: "Failed to join "network" A connection timeout occured". What happens when I try to enter my password manually: "Connection timeout" What I've tried to do as solutions: Google Restart router by pressing reset & refresh button Delete System & User (Login) Keychain access Network > Gear symbol by the + and - bottom left of the screen > Set Service Order > Drag Wifi to the top
i have a MacBook Pro (2012) with a 500GB hard drive. I would like to install a 250GB SDD drive and i want to reinstall via Time Machine. The problem is obvious : my Time Capsule contains more than 250GB data. Will it prevent me from installing or will it allow me to choose what to take or not take ? Thanks
One of Apple's calendar features on every device is that it takes the birthdays from the contacts and show them as a separate birthday calendar. This is a nice feature, but has a huge drawback in my workflow:
I use Mac Mail to work with an IMAP account. Is it possible to subscribe only to a set of folders, e.g., synchronize only the folder "current" and all its subfolders, but not the folder "archive"? I tried right-click on folder > Account Information > Abonnements/Subscriptions but there no folders are listed.
There are times that I'd like to browse the OS X App Store from my iPad - to get info for future reference. But when I try, I get a message that I have to use a Mac. Is there a way around this?
Previously in 10.6.8, I was able to start Google using open /Applications/Chrome.app --args --kiosk *=URL=* Now, on newer systems, that does not work anymore correctly. The only way to get rid of the address bar seams to be using of the presentation mode. Does anyone know the switch to call that mode? I use the shell script for a presentation computer to start the browser on startup automatically in fullscreen mode. Any help is appreciated.
The location indicator in the top bar of iOS seems to have two states: hollow and solid. Hollow:
Does iTunes sync per song settings like Volume Adjustment, EQ, and Start-Stop times?
There is an annoyance in the iPhone 5 that the camera sensor is 4:3 but the phone display is 16:9. This makes photos not cover the entire screen. Apple has now begun running a Thanksgiving commercial where they show the person viewing their photos and it takes up the whole screen of the phone. Is there some setting configuration that I can change to display pictures fullscreen? You can see the commercial here.
Is it possible to view play counts on iPad, or iPhone, in the Music app, like one can in iTunes? I am running iOS 6.
I'm wondering if there is a way to change the OSX system font size per monitor (e.g. larger for Retina and smaller on external display) ?
On my system (Mountain Lion) Spotlight doesn't do a full-text search for comma-separated values, but I can search them with Spotlight if I rename them to .txt for example. Is there a way that I can get full-text search in .csv files with Spotlight as well? It doesn't need to be smart (ie. guess the field separator or anything), the behavior I get when I rename to .txt would be just fine? Other search apps are of course an option, but right now that feels overblown.
I have tried to re-index my external drive by removing it from Spotlight's privacy settings and putting it back there. I tried with mdutil in the terminal and I've got the following log: I tried it with the root password and when I look for files on my external drive I still cannot find them through spotlight even though I know they are on the drive and I can find them by browsing folders. Is there another way to index my drive?
I have a Late 2011 Mac Book Pro with 256GB SSD, and I run a lot of virtual machines and apps that do disk io, database, development environment, application servers. I usually only have about 15GB of free disk space on this machine.
I am experiencing a strange problem: after I installed a bunch of updates, the Mac AppStore badge was not reset. When I go to "Updates", I get the message "no updates available". I tried to delete the AppStore cookie rebuild the Spotlight index (found a recommendation to do so somewhere) logged out and in the AppStore delete some of the updated Apps and re-installed them
I have an iPod Touch 4th generation running on iOS 4. For various reasons, I don't have a copy of all my songs on my computer running Windows 7 with iTunes 11. Is there a way to export my whole library, which contains both songs purchased on iTunes and songs ripped from CDs, to iTunes or elsewhere on my computer?
It fluctuates, but often goes up above 1400 mA and never lower than 750 mA. I never paid attention to this value before but I know two things: I used to get > 6 hours battery life in normal usage (emails, browsing) and now I get < 4. My friend's MacBook idles at around 450 mA. My fan speed is 1800rpm during this normal usage.
What is the cheapest and reliable way to unlock iphone 5? Is there any reliable free solution? The phone is now locked to U.S. Sprint service.
I picked up an LG soundbar a few months back, largely as it allowed me to stream audio using bluetooth which seemed a great idea for streaming from either my MacBook or my iPhone. Since i've had the soundbar i've had issues with this feature though. The streaming is flaky at best, at times it will stream for hours but other times it will drop out endlessly. No matter what dropout I get the device remains paired according to both my MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) and the LG Soundbar. I tend to be streaming using Spotify but i've had the same issues with iPlayer and iTunes also.
How do i customize the "title" on the first page of Wiki Server 4 on OS X Server Mountain Lion? The title says "OS X Server" and i want it to say something else... How can i do that?
In Wiki Server 4 on OS X Server the first page includes four images that link to other pages. How do i add more?
My question is about the removal of the Activity Window in Safari 6. Is there anyway to accomplish the same results in Safari 6? Is Apple working on a fix for this? I'm using Mountain Lion
I have iPhone 5 and iOS 6.0.1 updated. Device prompts for password even while updating the apps. What is wrong with the device? Am I missing any settings?
I am randomly losing CMD+V functionality. Is there a shortcut which might trigger this? So that the keyboard goes into some kind of different mode? I am working with cmd/shift/option a lot in gfx apps, like Illustrator. I thought, maybe the CMD-key is broken, but this happens with both CMD-keys. After some time using the system it starts to work again. I am on Mountain Lion, to which I recently switched, never had this problem prior to Mountain Lion.
At present, many websites (if not most) suggest to do it this way. However, I am concerned about the safety to the spinning HDD (hard disk drive) when in the SuperDrive slot.
I'm looking to make a board book for my 2 year old son. I don't see any obvious settings in iPhoto that lets me choose the paper thickness. It is pretty important to me because my son loves to tear "normal" books apart and so far his board books have held up.
It is common to replace a MacBook Pro's hard disk drive (HDD) with an solid state drive (SSD), however, that may pose a threat to the HDD if installed in the optical bay instead of the SuperDrive.* Therefore, that leaves the option of: Leaving the existing HDD where it is. Then installing the SSD instead of the optical drive (SuperDrive) with a bracket. While still using the SSD as the main boot drive. Some websites mention that there may be issues with sleep and hibernation if this is done.
I have an iPod touch for development that I'm keeping on 4.3. However, it has downloaded the seed for 6.0. Is there anyway to tell it not to download 6.0 and to recover the memory that the seed is using? It's a fairly substantial amount for an 8 gig device.
Like all tools, an SSD will wear out from use and eventually fail. Are there data on roughly how long the SSD's that Apple ships in it's portable line last? From my research, it seems that the Toshiba OEM drive that comes on Apple MacBook Pros is much slower than the others on the market, but might this have an advantage in terms of longevity? Basically, is Apple SSD durability longer than third party drives like Crucial, OWC, or others?
So I have a cracked ipod touch 4 Gen screen. Is there any use for this now? Is there possibly a way to get an adapter to HDMI or something similar? The screen works fine besides the cracked glass.
Having 30 or 40 windows of different folders open, is there any way to close all of them at once? I tried to relunch Finder, and I was happy for a second having no open window anymore, but it reopened all the folder windows again :-)
Is there anyway to move some files/folders on Mac OS X as easy as in Windows? The only way I know is to side the two source and destination folders, and drag and drop the files from one to the other. However in some cases we like to cut them when only the source folder is open, and paste them later.
I do want to add file view support for media files to midnight commander and I something that can be called form the command line that would start preview but that will return to my terminal when I press ESC. Note: I already found half of the solution here *=URL=* - the only problem is that it doesn't close Preview with Escape. So there are two possible solutions: Find a way to map ESC to Cmd+Q only for Preview (I want a command line install solution) Find a way to open Preview in the special mode used by the Finder (the tiny preview), which by default is closed with a simple Esc.
First of all, I know I can manually configure the firewall through IPFW but I hope that the OS X firewall system has an option for this by default. The problem I am currently having is that when I'm doing web development with Django I get a 'Do you want the application "python" to accept incoming netowrk connections?' every time I save a file within the project.
I have seen there are several jailbreak and unlocks are available for earlier models. Is there any trusted unlock and/or jailbreak available for iPhone 4S? I am not sure about the iOS version as I don't have the phone in my hands now. If your answer provides information which versions can be safely unlocked and/or jailbroken (with links to the instructions) and which are not would be amazing.
I've got a little bit of ruby that sizes and repositions windows to a saved layout. It uses a snippet of AppleScript to actually do the positioning: There are two problems though:
I use the Listary software everyday (most of the time) when I use Windows. Its features are find folder and files as you type (in the current folder) smart commands like open this directory in command prompt access Listary from anywhere favorite and recent file and folder from anywhere support (of above features) for various application You can see the features in action in this Listary features video screencast. Alternativeto.net does not give any interesting alternative for mac. I would like to know is there any app out there like that one for Mac?
I have been successful in managing contact groups with OS X's Contacts.app and iCloud.com, but haven't found a way to do this as of iOS 9. Is there a way to manage contact groups on iOS (iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch) ?
I have a thunderbolt display that I use as a docking station with wireless keyboard and mouse. Is there a way to turn on bluetooth when connecting the display and turn it off when disconnecting the display?
I have a 2009 white MacBook that doesn't seem to be waking from sleep properly. I close the lid at night to put it in sleep mode, and when I open it the next day, the display backlight doesn't turn on – I just get a black screen.
I am wondering if it is possible to specify which of my contacts will see if I have read their messages. I know I can turn on "send read receipts" in iMessage but that allows everyone to see if I have read their messages. I would really like it if there was some way to just have certain of my friends see that I have read their messages.
I need to generate several cryptographically random numbers in OSX and save it to a text file. How should I go about doing this?
Is there a plugin for Coda 2 that interprets the Markdown langage please ?
I am actually using the sweidsh keyboard with an estonian layout, so the backtick key itself produces ' and while holding Shift, it produces –. Is there maybe a way to create a global keyboard shortcut?
Sometimes a piece of software will automatically update itself, and I'll abruptly get the "type your password to allow this" dialog. Is there any verification going on behind the scenes before the OS gives me this dialog? It seems like any random trojan could tell the OS that it's called "Update Adobe Flash Player" or something else official-sounding. For that matter, is there anything stopping a malicious program from popping up a dialog that looks just like the OS X one?
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of GSview that will run on OSX? I have already tried the following:
How can I remove dictionary results from Spotlight results? I've typed "chrome" into Spotlight and looked up chrome in the Dictionary one too many times, and now opening Chrome takes an extra keystroke. I've seen comments about defaults write com.apple.spotlight DictionaryLookupEnabled NO, but this doesn't seem to work with Mac OS 10.8, even after a sudo killall -u _spotlight.
I've noticed that my time capsule continually whirs away and never seems to take any down time. This can't be good for the drives or for my power bill! Is there any way to manually force the time capsule to go into sleep mode, powering down the hard drives and awaiting instructions? Cheers, P.
I am trying to get my music NOT purchased from itunes into a new itunes/computer (the music I purchased from iTunes is on the new computer). i authorized it but keep getting an error message that says "authorization is needed to access "insert song name here".
I have a MBA 13" mid 12, OS X 10.7.5. It often completely ignores my Wi-Fi network, not showing it in the list of available networks (my Linux boxes and Android devices are connecting perfectly). I tried to remove my network from the list of known networks, rebooted my router and notebook many times, tried to change encryption standards (now it uses 802.11b/g, WPA/WPA2, TKIP), but network still was not visible. My router is TP-Link TL-WR340GD.
I've had a problem with my Wi-Fi connection to a TP-Link router from MacBook Air. It has been solved by manually changing Wi-Fi channel on the router from "Automatic" to an average value.
The question relates to something similar to cue sheets in iTunes that from my understanding is not available. However if I were to buy a continuous play DJ mix from the iTunes store it must be handled in some other way, right?
I was trying to modify my ssh.plist file, but as a noob I overwrote my backup file with the modified one. I am looking for the content of the original file from the install. Can anybody give it to me?
I can connect to the PC via Remote app on the iPhone, but the iPhone can't see the PC to Sync and the PC won't recognize the iPhone. I've done syncing over WiFi before. I'm using iPhone 3GS w/ iOS 6 and Windows 8.
I've got the most recent version of Mountain Lion installed, as well as the most recent version of Chrome. When I've got Chrome set as the default browser, and if I close out all the tabs before I quit Chrome itself, if I click on an external link (e.g., from within an e-mail, Tweetbot, etc.), two Chrome windows launch—one with Google (my set homepage) and one with the target of the link. Not closing out all the tabs before I quit Chrome does the trick, but what specifically could be causing this?
I have integrated both twitter and facebook account to my macbook-pro. I am getting notifications perfectly. The only problem I have is that I can't post via notification center. There're 2 buttons Click to post, one each for twitter and facebook, which used to work fine previously. Now suddenly they stopped responding. When I click on them nothing happens. I can see click animation(pushing of button), but it does nothing, no edit area to post my updates, nothing at all. How can I get the functionality back?
Every so often (usually when I have a ton of windows open) I trigger mission control and I get this:  I have to do a complete restart of the computer in order to resume. This happened to me on both OS X Lion and now OS X Mountain Lion.
Years ago when I got my first iPhone, AT&T transferred all of the contacts from my old phone. My old phone didn't have a birthday field in the contacts. Instead of leaving the field empty on the iPhone, AT&T's system set them all to Jan 1, 2000.
I tried following the excellent instructions on this gist to upgrade my Mac to PHP 5.4, but before I do, I need to know: Is there an easy way to find out which php extensions do I have installed currently? I'd like to have the same list for 5.4. I tried port list | grep php53- but got way too many responses...
After updating to iOS 6.0 my iPhone will not charge on the wall charger. My phone will charge in the car and on a stereo dock. My wall charger still works and charges my iPod touch fine. I have even tried my husband's wall charger and my phone still won't charge. When I plug it in the wall charger just starts blinking and my phone starts alternating charge/off/charge/off. I have restarted phone, held home and power key, even updated to the new iOS 6.01 and still nothing! Help!
I would like to use QuickTime Player to create a screen recording of the iOS Simulator running an app. I need to simulate taps on the simulator with the mouse, but I don't want the standard arrow mouse pointer in the recording. An alternate appearance of the mouse pointer (such as a circle to represent the tip of a finger) would be preferable to hiding the mouse pointer entirely (I still need to see where it is so I can use the app correctly).
I have a 1TB Maxtor OneTouch III. This is the drive that comes with two 500GB disks and software to configure RAID 0 (mirroring) with 500GB of storage, or full use of both disks for 1TB of storage. Way back when I set it up with RAID 0, and now I want to switch it back to no RAID.
Applications for Mac only. Sadly, it seems like almost every toddler application these days is made for the iPad.
Is there any way I can transfer files(songs) from my computer to my iPhone without using iTunes?
I bought some songs on iTunes with my iPad and want to transfer those songs onto my iTunes on my computer. If I sync my iPad with the iTunes account on my computer, it will just erase whatever on the iPad now and import what is in the iTunes library on my computer. How can I get these newly bought songs in my computer's iTunes account?
I'm having a major headache inducing issue with iCloud sync. My wife and I have shared calendars for a long time and it has helped us a great deal. The problem now is that my wife's iPhone has stopped syncing it's calendar with iCloud. If we log onto her account at iCloud.com and add somehting, it syncs to my iPhone as usual, but not to hers. If I add something to my calendar in my iPhone or iCloud.com, it does in fact sync to her iPhone with some lag. What seems to be cut off from iCloud is her own calendar. I have tried all possible settings with iCloud and calendar app etc, nothing works. And yes, I've tried turning it off and back on again. Did a soft reset, didn't help. Please, any ideas as to what can be causing this? Regards, Martin
When I change my input source to US Keyboard and I want to press this key: ` I get some British key. My keyboard is this one:
I've been trying to install Ubuntu server on my Mac mini 6,1 with no success. However now I'm stuck and can't even reinstall OSX from a USB key. I've created it on my MBPr, and tested it there : it works fine. Now when I try to boot from it in the Mac mini, I get a grey crossed-circle and the Mac mini shuts down.
Anybody knows any Mac alternative for Linux's APLAY program? I would like to run this script: Which makes great sound effect, but I don't know how, since Mac OS doesn't have aplay. EDIT: Link to Wikipedia, which describes the functionality of aplay.
We use Gmail (Google Apps for business) at my work. I have set up my Mac (OS X 10.7.5) address book to sync the local address book with my gmail account, however this only syncs "My Contacts" but all my work contacts are in a group named "Directory" (a readable LDAP style group). I would like to sync my Mac address book with the Directory group but I can't find a way to do this.
In Finder the file VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool is greyed out.  I want to delete this file, but I'm prompted by a message that the file is currently in use:
How do I restore Mail.app after it was accidentally deleted? I have complete time machine backup of system, but can't find Mail.app in it. I tried optional install from original disks, but Mail.app was not recognized on there - possibly because it is out of date? I also tried updating Mail.app on top of original Mail.app, but that failed with an error message something like: "Update couldn't recognize original app."
At one point, the display seemed to loose its mind. It was registering multiple taps, responding to taps in areas we didn't tap, etc. I tried restoring the device, but that did not fix it.
Somehow I have a problem (previously everything was ok), hosts form /etc/hosts can't bre resolved. I have local domain in /etc/hosts, like It's loading in browser well but too long, from firebug i see that biggest part of time spending for DNS lookup. I tried nslookup test.local I see but ping test.local working well :) my DNS settings are next: I did not modified that file manually, it just represent GUI settings situation.
I'm using 2 WiFi networks with my MacBook Air. I need to switch between them sometimes. The problem is one needs completely different settings from the other, and it looks like I can only make settings for the particular WiFi network I am connected to at that moment. Is there a way to set them separaely for specified network?
For some reason there are some e-mails that I get where I need to scroll down a lot to see the entire message. The message is filled with "missing plug-in" errors (and they do not include the small error to fix it).
Can anyone tell me if adding a file under /etc/resolver will work for DNS resolution using a DNS server other than what is handed out via DHCP ? My issue is that I want to use OpenDNS for a clients home DNS resolution in order to take advantage of the filtering and anti scam capabilities but the massive disadvantage is that here in Australia things such as Apple content are delivered by a CDN (Akamai) which will then server content using a US based delivery point. What I want to do is have the DNS server address handed out via DHCP to be the local router address (DNSMasq using OpenDNS DNS servers) and then, for example, place a file called apple.com under /etc/resolver with the following line: The idea is that any DNS request to apple.com would be resolved by a TPG (my ISP) DNS server rather than the local routers DNSMasq daemon using OpenDNS servers. So I have done this and the output of scutil --dns is: Now the output of an nslookup on apple.com is:
So I recently joined the Mac world and bought a MacBook - which I love, by the way. I'm having some trouble getting all my dev tools up setup properly and am not quite 100% familiar with the differences in the Linux CLI and the OSX CLI. Right now, I'm trying to install a few different versions of Ruby via RVM.
Online stores sell DDR3 memory from companies like Komputerbay for a fraction of the price that Kingston, Samsung, Crucial, OWC, etc. charge (not mentioning Apple OEM).
I want to buy an app, but don't want to waste money on something that's not gonna work for me. Is there any way to test drive one?
With Mac applications I can double click on the title bar of the application and then it will minimize. iTunes 11 lost this behaviour. Is there a way to restore it? I'm on OSX 10.6.8 and using iTunes 11.0
I have a VMWare virtual machine of 256GB. The HD capacity on the Mac is 750GB. In terminal under the Volumes folder, I see Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD1. About 300 gigs seem to be wasted. How do I cleanup the hard drive and why do I have 2 HDs?
I have an old iPad and want to give it to a friend. I plugged it in with a new lead that charges another 1st gen iPad I have, but it's not coming on.
On the iPhone under the Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage Data > log aggregated, what does this mean? Does it mean the number of text sent or received or both?
Someone who has the new iPhone 5 said you can charge it from a regular Micro USB port but he's not tested it. Can you?
If it does indicate a deeper problem, I guess it's time to reinstall the OS. If that's the case, can I restore the system from a time machine backup or will this just reintroduce the original problem? Thanks for reading - I'd really appreciate any input.
Strange, when I'm leaving my Retina Macbook Pro alone, and it starts going to sleep (despite my setting it to not sleep), it tries to close all the apps that I have open. Why would it do this and is it possible to fix it?
I wish that Finder show video thumbnail for all kind of formats and containers. *.flv doesn't get a preview, some *.mp4 not, *.mov not.
I have an iPod Classic that needs a new battery; the old battery will no longer hold a charge. I've been told that if I send it to Apple to be fixed they will restore the device and the music will be lost. My question is this: If I replace the battery myself, will the music/data stay on the hard drive? I shouldn't have to restore it if all I do is replace the battery, right? I would copy all the music, but there's some older music that I want to keep that iTunes won't let me sync (something about permissions, etc).
When I connect to various VPN servers (Windows PPTP, Cisco IPSEC) the hostname of my laptop gets updated. Is there a setting somewhere that will stop this from happening?
We are purchasing computers in the next week on our Enterprise network and will have a mix of Macs and PCs. We are currently running our AD server on Windows Server 2008R2. We use folder redirection and mounting for all of our users, and would want the folder to automount on login for Apple. We have a LAN and also a radius authenticated wireless network on PEAP. I have successfully joined the AD with my MB Pro, but cannot login to AD due to the wireless not working before login. Has anyone ran across this issue before or know of a fix?
Every now and then, on my Mac, I hear a bell. I have no idea what app it is, or why it's beeping at me. My first thought was that it's coming from the Notification System in OS X 10.8 (I never heard such a thing on 10.7), but I turned off the sound notifications for every app listed in the Notification preferences. Is there any way to tell what app is doing this to me?
I upgraded to 10.7.5 through software update, and it appears doing so broke the paste command. I can cut (and perhaps copy) text out of fields, but when I try to paste, the Edit menu lights up, but nothing happens. This occurs either when I hit Command ⌘ + V or when I choose Edit menu -> Paste.
There are DDR3 RAM modules sold on Amazon (branded by KomputerBay) where it is specified that they are "PC only" and not for Mac. They cost around £41.99 ($68).
I'm having trouble connecting to the wireless network at my home. My brother recently picked up a new wireless router and provided me with the password. When I locate the SSID and enter in the password he told me, it waits for a few seconds then says "Connection Failed."
I forgot my Encrypt Local Backup password for iPhone4S. I tried to transfer contacts, photos, etc. to my new iPhone5 through iTunes with operation "restore from backup" but it always asks for a password that I can't remember.
I have an iPhone 4S. Whenever I try to send a group message to people who have iMessage and people who don't, I either get replies from 1 person but I recieve it as an individual text message or I don't get any replies at all. Everybody else in the group who has iMessage is able to see the replies as they would in any other group message. Please help! *I have tried resetting it to the factory settings, turning iMessage and Group SMS off and then back on, and turning off my phone.
I'm searching for a tool that opens apps / programs when an active internet connection is established - or better: when the Mac is connected to a specified WLAN. Examples On my way to work: no internet, no WLAN = nothing to do At work: internet access, "Work" WLAN = do not open chat program but open Mail automatically At home: internet access, "Home" WLAN = open chat program and Mail automatically Does anybody know a simple tool that does this?
Im looking to buy an ipad here in the US as a gift for a friend in India. I have looked at the 4G LTE bands and am not betting on if Indian carriers may end up using the same bands, but what concerns me is the following: Is the iPad(AT&T or Verizon) locked to its respective network? Since the GSM/HSPA+ use similar frequencies in India, could I possibly plug in an Airtel (local carrier) SIM and expect 3G to work well at least?
I had a heck of a time with the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.npvdata.client. Looked like it was some kind of cryptographic key file, and when I went to edit it, not only could I not change it, but also while I was editing it the file com.npvdata.client.swp and com.npvdata.client~ showed up, even though I was editing it in vi which doesn't create backup files. I had a really hard time deleting it, too. I'm guessing this is part of some kind of copy protection or licensing scheme, but I'd like to know for sure where it is from, what it is for, and what danger there is, if any, of someone else getting a hold of it.
Silverlight crashes in Chrome with the error "Silverlight Plug-In has crashed." and in Safari/Webkit nightly build with "Plugin Failure" but works fine with Firefox. I've verified that both Chrome and Safari are up to date, as well as Silverlight itself. I had read some other message board posts about this issue possibly being linked to Mac Pro or the video cards used, but no solution is ever provided.
When I first joined iTunes (just a month or two ago) I made a new Apple ID and iTunes account. My sister had an Apple ID/iTunes account that my mother, sister, and brother used for their devices, but I, not ever having owned an iPod, figured that I could make my own iTunes account so that when I do purchase an iPod, I won't be pestering my sister (the first one in our house to have an iPod) for her Apple ID info. (She's recently left for college and I didn't want to be dependent on her.)
Trying to record videos using the built-in camera in my 27" iMac (mid-2011, fully updated Mountain Lion) up until recently got me video that had out-of-sync audio. Once I switched from 32- to 16-bit audio, the audio then came in sync on my end, but uploading it to Facebook (or Vimeo or YouTube for that matter) ends up with the audio once again being out of sync by a second or so. What exactly is causing this, and how can I fix it?
When I try to SSH to my computer, ssh fails with this error: This also happens when I attempt to SSH to my user from another computer. This message appears in Console when I attempt to connect: Relevant information: I'm using a different version of sshd than OS X provides, installed via brew install openssh - but this error occurs with both versions. /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib exists: Mothership:~ kuyan$ ls /usr/lib/libsandbox* /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib /usr/lib/libsandbox.dylib /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib exists:
The Disk Utility detects some hard disk errors(inode problem, size mismatch). I am going to upgrade to a new hard drive and use Time Machine to restore the system, but I am worried that these existing hard disk errors may get copied over to the new hard drive. Does anyone know whether Time Machine restore will inherit these errors?Or will it be smart enough to restore the files cleanly to the new hard drive?
When I say to Siri "When is my Birthday", the response is May 20th, which is correct. However, when I say "How many days until my birthday" the response uses September 16th as the birthday. How do I fix this?
I have an item in my "Login Items" list (System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items) that refuses to be removed. When highlighted, the minus button grays out. The "hide" toggle is also grayed out. There is no option in this specific app to disable load on startup. Why is it showing this way and is there a general way (override) to remove such apps?
Ok my problem is pretty much the same as above, please contact Itunes to complete this transaction, however I have in credit 8 dollars so the credit is there, but when I click to buy or upgrade something for not even 1 dollar I get that message. Can someone please help?
I messed up my Apache config file, httpd.conf. I followed this article, *=URL=* to try and find the original httpd.conf inside Install OS X Mountain Lion.app. The article says that the Bom files ("Bill of Materials"), "describes what is in this pkg file and where they will be written to." Install OS X Mountain Lion.app -> Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg -> Packages\***.pkg -> Bom
The address bar of Safari all of a sudden has stopped displaying full URLs, and is instead only displaying the hostname part of URLs. The full URL is only shown when I make the address bar active again as shown below. images: address bar and active bar
I have been looking for some anti-theft applications for iPad, like the wonderful Cerberus application for Android which enables a lot of features to recover your lost or stolen Android mobile for only 2/3€. Avast anti-theft also worked perfectly in my Android phone and its free.
I upgraded to iTunes 11 and it destroyed my entire music library in one fell swoop. After the upgrade to 11, many of my mp3 files got moved to Unknown Album folders. If I looked at the files in Windows Explorer, I could see the album name, track number, and track name still in the ID3 tags. Why iTunes couldn't read them at this point is a mystery.
I want install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro after I formatted Snow Leopard. The Macbook is now empty with no OS on it. How can I install Windows 7 on my MBP that has a formatted hard drive?
I want to change the default settings for iTunes U in iTunes 11. I can not find anything however relating to podcasts or iTunes U in the preference window. Now I need to change the Episodes to keep property for every course. I want to change it for all the courses at once. How do I do that?
I'm using track changes to edit a large table (several columns, many rows spanning multiple pages). Some columns have only one or a few words, while others have two or three paragraphs of one to three sentences each.
I just want to know if I install a new hard drive without a temp connection like the default apple installed drives, do I need to do anything with the unused temp connection cable/wire in the iMac? I'm going to using HDD fan control to control the fan, but am wondering if I have to disconnect the temp connection cable from anything else on the iMac??
The following produced text with different color on terminal in Lion, but not in Mountain Lion. Why? What can be done to echo in color on Mountain Lion? In mountain Lion it just prints as if -e wasn't given as an argument to echo.
I was trying to permanently disable a 3rd party daemon, so I deleted its plist file from /Library/LaunchDaemons-- and then I realized that I hadn't done a launchctl unload on it first; trying after the fact yields "No such file or directory/nothing found to unload". And, of course the daemon is restartable, so when I kill it, it gets recreated. I tried doing launchctl list in hopes of getting a label to use for launchctl remove but the daemon is no longer listed. Short of rebooting, is there any way to get launchd to forget about the daemon and/or re-scan the configuration files?
edit: I'll be adding my results with step 4 as soon as I can do it. It is a new idea from Gerry.
I just backed up my iPhone 4S and restored it onto my iPhone 5. Now, whenever I open "Find My Friends", I get a continuous stream of these messages: Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications "Find Friends" Notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges.
I commonly edit .txt files on my PC (Notepad) and my Mac (using TextEdit) and store them in Dropbox. I would like also like to be able to edit these .txt files on my iOS devices. Every app that I've tried breaks the Windows-style line breaks; if I edit a .txt file, all line breaks are lost when I open that file in Notepad.
I just updated my iPad retina (3rd generation) with iOS 6 and now my Apple ID has been replaced with someone else's ID.  And its not jailbroken either. How did someone manage to do that? This is a serious security breach, I think. I logged out of that Apple ID but how can I be sure that they are not tracking anything and won't be able to purchase through my account?
I have the screen saver on my Mac password protected, but unlocking the screen saver does not unlock the login keychain. I know this because I get asked to unlock the login keychain shortly after unlocking the screensaver. Yes, my login password and keychain password have been synchronized. Yes, I've run Keychain First Aid and confirmed there are no problems. The workaround is to change the Keychain Settings so the login keychain never automatically locks, but I'd prefer to have it lock automatically, especially on my laptop when it goes to sleep, but now with Mountain Lion and iCloud that means typing my password twice every time I wake my laptop: once for the screensaver and once for the keychain.
This might be more a Google Earth issue, but here goes. I've paired my Mountain Lion laptop with a Garmin Bluetooth GPS, and can confirm getting NMEA data over the serial channel with cat /dev/tty.GarminGPS10-Gps10 However, when I try to connect to the GPS inside Google Earth, I see the message Reading /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
On my previous MacBook Pro iMovie was slow, but stable. On this new MacBook Pro retina iMovie is fast, but extremely unstable.
Most Windows desktop browsers utilize the keyboard combination Ctrl + F5 to force a page specific cache refresh. Mac OS X based browsers tend to use Command + R. Is there an equivalent cache refresh for a single page in Safari running on iOS? I realize I can manually clear the browser cache, but I'd prefer to only refresh for the page I am currently viewing.
At the risk of getting a big NO, Is there a way to use SIRI to invoke navigation on Google maps as opposed to the default Apple maps? I have tried "Navigate to Chicago using Google maps", but Siri just treated "Chicago using Google maps" as the location itself.
I have an Early 2011 MBP on which I installed an SSD (in the SuperDrive's bay). After that I enabled FileVault2 encryption on both the SSD (which has the ML 1.8.2 install) and on the original HDD that's currently mounted at boot-time on /Users (so all the storage for the users go on it and it's still encrypted no matter what).
I have the Soundflower driver installed, so all I need is a program where I can select both my USB interface and my internal microphone for input, and select the Soundflower device for output. That way, I can select the Soundflower device as input in Audacity to record the pre-mixed audio. Is there such a program, and am I on the right track (no pun intended)?
After upgrading to iTunes 11, I miss the "Play higher rated songs more often" feature available in iTunes DJ from previous versions. Is there a simple way to restore this feature? I used to use a complex series of smart playlists like The Ultimate Smart iTunes Playlist before this feature came around. I suppose I could do that again, but I'd rather have something simpler.
OS X 10.8 removed Java 6 and the Java Utilities switcher and made Java 7 the default jre making it hard for engineers like me who work exclusively on Java 6. How do I get back my Java 6? Note: I tried Google but many of the supposed solutions are outdated.
Despite un-checking the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox when turning off the computer, applications reopen sometimes at the next start-up. Furthermore, this happens also when I quit all the applications manualy before, which is strange. This issue occurs in Mountain Lion (10.8, 10.8.1 and 10.8.2), never actually happend to me in Lion. Maybe it's worth noting that this is not a clean install, but an upgrade from Lion. Is there any solution how to prevent this (maybe from the Terminal)?
I have routinely had drives with backup, bootable partitions attached and mounted (when running Lion); e.g. a 1T drive with 400G bootable backup and 600G data. I never have seen this behavior. Is this normal or dangerous? Might I have gotten inconsistent settings onto the 'clean' new system via Migration Assistant? Any other possible causes? Edit: I later (Feb 2013) discovered a partial solution for this problem provided in a July 2012 post by Martin Bay *=URL=* which I quote below: I’ve just installed Mountain Lion and wondered how the new dock would look like from a fresh installation – so had to figure out how to do that – no problem! To completely reset the dock back to the original settings do the following:
I want an app on my desktop that lets me route my keyboard to my iPhone via bluetooth. The main goal is to type with the keyboard when I get a text. I don't mind having to click a button on an app. It would be nice if I can share it via bluetooth? So i can register it as a keyboard on my iPhone. Is this possible?
I have the brand new $99 Apple TV - 1080HD I want to stream internet videos from my 2011 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) to my new HDTV using Airplay and AirParrot. Neither the Macbook nor the Apple TV is connected via ethernet cable -- they are both connected to the internet via our wireless router (currently, there's no ethernet jack near the TV).
Is there a way to do this? I know I can use Stylish for adding arbitrary CSS to pages on a per-domain basis. Looking for something similar to add Javascript.
My daughter has an iPod and I have an iPad. We both have separate Apple IDs. How can I see her text message history on my iPad along with my own message history? If I change the Apple ID on my iPad between my ID and my child's, will the iMessage history show up each time I switch IDs on my iPad?
I've accidentally created a group in the Contacts app, below 'All Contacts'. How do I delete it?
I have an imac running OS 10.8.2 with a bluetooth keyboard. I have had it for about 8 weeks. When I hit the right shift key, all the open windows run off the screen and I am looking at the desktop. When I hit it again, the windows come back. I have taken the batteries out of the keyboard and restored the keyboard shortcut defaults. I don't have a trackpad and nothing seems stuck. Suggestions?
I recently upgraded iTunes and my iPad to the latest versions. (You can deduce the version from the timestamp of this question.) Now, when I try to manually add a video to my iPad by manually dragging it to the "movies" under "on this iPad" I get an indefinite spinning ball; iTunes immediately "stops responding" (in the sense that "Force quit applications" lists it as "not responding") and I have to force quit it. I have a new and otherwise blazingly fast iMac. Why can't my iMac handle manually adding a movie?
I'm wondering whether there's an iPad notes app that either: doesn't back up to "the cloud", or backs up an encrypted version of the notes such that the notes are unreadable in the cloud (i.e., a Dropbox employee couldn't read the notes). Is anyone familiar with an app that allows for encrypted notes?
Im using the option to stop a song at specific time. However I realised that the Play Count does not update when this option is applied.
I recently acquired an older Mac and am trying to copy an iPhoto library from a newer computer to it. However, the older version of iPhoto refuses to open, telling me "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto... Pease quit and use the latest version of iPhoto." However, upgrading to the latest version of iPhoto isn't an option.
I have MacPorts installed on my Mac and a lot of ports that were put on my machine years ago by my sysadmin for various purposes. There is quite a lot of garbage out there, but worst of all, the MacPorts system itself is fried.
This time, the backup size was about 20GB. However, still no 3rd party apps were transferred except a few apps I had re-installed since the last restore.
Ok, I got an iPhone & iPad, only I use two different libraries on iTunes. I got Google installed on both devices (plus desktop). But for some reasons only part of my contacts are on the iPhone, while all of them are on my iPad. What the simplest way to sync (and merge if necessary) these between devices? iCloud, Google (chrome/calendar/gmail), bluetooth, other app?
I've swapped my dvd drive with an HDD drive on my MBP 2008 non-unibody. I can read it from MAC os but not from Windows. I did configure it to be PC compatible... Anyone knows why it's not seen as an addtional hard drive?
I set up both CalDav and CardDav on my iPhone 4S using iOS 6. It does sync new entries both ways but it fails to sync any of the existing ones. Google search queries did not shed any light on this question, so: Is this service meant to sync existing information either one way or two ways?
I have a 27-inch iMac late 2009 desktop computer and i'm looking to upgrade my ram. The best RAM I can find is a Kingston 2GB, DDR3-1066, PC3-8500, CL7, DIMM. What I currently have is 4GB 1067 MHz Ram
The Cydia tweak Browser Changer lets you change the default browser on iOS. Is there a similar tweak for changing the default maps app? I'm specifically asking if there's a way to make the new Google Maps app come up when any type of navigation links are clicked.
I have been trying to download Instagram onto my Ipod.I have had it previously, but i deleted it and now i want to reinstall it again. The problem it that it keeps saying that it isn't compatible because of the version. I think it might be because my ipod is old and the apps are iOS versions...Are there any ways that i can get the previous version of Instagram? Thank you!
I'd like to get as much technical information about my MacOSX's video card as possible... technical details, even serial number if the card has a unique identifier. I intend to use this information do research what GPU specific commands I can run on a given laptop.
I am a music fanatic, with well over a terabyte of music stored in iTunes. I also have an iPhone, an iPod, and an iPad, each with a different storage size.
While testing WordPress 3.5, I took the old copy of a site, and copy pasted the 3.5 from the zip file. Part of a WordPress install is the folder wp-content containing all the uploads and themes plugins etc. This folder now no longer contains all of that stuff because I clicked replace.
I've found here that imac12.1 (mid-2011) unofficially will support 32 GB of RAM. Questions: Can I mix 2x2 GB with 2x8 GB of memory to get 20 GB of RAM? Will this model work with imac12.1? Thank you very much.
I've been having a persistent "too many open files in system" error on my machine (OSX 10.7.5). When I run sysctl kern.maxfiles and sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc, both output 2048.
I am looking for the best combination for working on a structured document and sharing it in Markdown format. My favorite editor is Pages, in full screen mode. There I can see how the finished document actually will look like. Unfortunately, there is no direct export to markdown.
Is there a way to make the case statements in a switch be folded? I am using the Xcode 4.5.2
Currently I can't test this myself so maybe somebody could tell me based on their experiences. If you have installed BootCamp on your MacBook, how fast is it ready for usage when you open the lid? Is it comparable with OSX?
I just noticed a great deal of activity with my backup disk, and found Time Machine copying some 30 GB+ of files. A routine (~100 MB) backup had just occurred an hour before, and I hadn't made any major changes, or done much beyond answering a few emails. When the backup was done, I launched TimeTracker to see what had been backed up. It turned out to be more or less my entire Applications folder, plus about 7 GB from my root-level Library folder, and about 3.5 GB from the System folder, and a bunch of other assorted folders. Here's a screenshot from TimeTracker showing what was backed up in that session:
My understanding is iCloud uses server-side encryption of customer data. I am no expert but what about the data e.g. of an app like 1Password which can syncs very sensitive user data to many devices via iCloud. Since 1Password purposefully encrypts data before sending it to iCloud, does this mean the data cannot be looked up by Apple employees?
I want to compose a message, but rather than clicking "Send", I want to schedule a future delivery date and have the mail sent then without my taking action as long as the computer is still running. I'm currently using Apple mail with Google apps configured using IMAP syncing.
I've created an iTunes library - around 1000 songs. My wife has an iPhone and has downloaded her own music to it. She recently connected the iPhone to our home computer (where my iTunes library resides) and all of her music was automatically added to the iTunes library. However, our music tastes differ considerably.
Using the bootcamp drivers, I am able to use an Apple Magic Trackpad on my PC running Windows 7. Everything seems to work fine. When I'm in Google Chrome (and other applications), I can use the two-finger swipe to scroll left and right. However, when I try to use the two-finger scroll (left and right) on Adobe Photoshop/InDesign/etc, it doesn't work at all (scrolling up and down works fine). Any ideas?
I have scanned my signature and can insert it just fine, but at the wrong angle! How can I rotate it (90 deg)?
It used to be that when I saved Open Office files they would stay Open Office files. Now, they change to Terminal files, as it keeps opening in my dock. How can I remove or stop Terminal opening (I'm running a Macbook Air '11)? I'm so used to seeing my writing in Open Office files!
I can't put anything on the hard drive. Finder gets stuck at 'preparing copying files'
My harddrive crashed last night and since then I have not been able to access it on my Macbook Pro. I've restarted both my computer and hardrive multiple times and I've experienced the same result. It does not show up on my desktop (yes, external disks is checked in finder preferences) nor in Disk Utility but it shows up in System Information. The harddrive is also still blinking its light per usual and has not made any abnormal sounds. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A follow on to this question about extracting the signature image. Is it possible to just copy the plist file containing the signature from one Mac to another? Is there a recommended method for exporting and import signatures from one Mac to another I should follow instead? I could "sign" a blank PDF and take a screen shot of it but but I really want the same password to go along with the image so it's 100% the same signature on the other Mac as the one I'm using on this Mac.
I got this AT&T iPhone 5 purchased overseas for $800 plus tax. As soon as I got it, I tried to restore it to bypass the activation screen required by AT&T. But restoring didn't go smooth as planned. Now the phone is stuck in recovery mode. And every time I place it in DFU mode, then restore with iTunes I get an error 21, if not in dfu mode 1603,1604, 1611 errors come out.
When I connect my iPod or iPhone to iTunes on a MacBook Pro, it will look like this picture attached. When I right-click on a song to delete it, there is no delete option. What am I doing wrong? This new iTunes has been so confusing.
There's a good discussion in Apple Support Communities – Disk Utility: for bad blocks on hard disks, are seven overwrites any more effective than a single pass of zeros? (2011-04-21) A highlight: Maybe a better way of phrasing my original question … defocusing from Disk Utility, considering the secureErase verb of diskutil: is a random fill pattern — or the first pass of any type of fill pattern associated with level 2, 3 or 4 — any more likely than a pattern of zeros to trigger spare block substitution? The October 2010 post by Grant Bennet-Alder seems clear enough re: the effect of a pattern of zeros. Still, I'd like to leave this question open/unanswered for a while, in case people have anything to add concerning fill patterns for spare block substitution purposes. Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
My wife has a Windows laptop (I know) and since installing iTunes 11, she can't access the content on her iPod (click wheel) when it's connected. iTunes reads the iPod, but will not allow her to add or delete. How can she delete content from her iPod to make room for new?
I am more used to the Javascript style event handlers, but is there a similar thing in applescript that listens to system events like logout or shutdown to execute code or is there a way to have an applescript run on shutdown or logout? I know about script timer but I would rather have something free. All my script does is mute the volume for the next startup.
Does anyone know if Apple scans e-mail for marketing purposes like Google does with Gmail? Or maybe the iCloud e-mail encrypted all the way from client to server/database such that Apple couldn't even read it?
Why does pressing the red X close some windows, and seemingly minimize others?
I am used to Windows because I simply go to computer and can click my partition and see my entire file structure right there. I can go to users, and then view my documents, and I also have the handy address bar in an explorer window. I just got OS X and I can't figure out how to navigate the file system, and I never know where I am in the file system. Can anyone give me tips on these two problems?
I realise that the Boot Camp assistant might not cooperate as the drive is "external", but the assistant is just for partitioning. You can prepare the disk's partition table manually, so the main question is if the Mac's firmware will boot an MBR-based OS from a Thunderbolt drive.
I'm a newb of OS X (or any flavor of *Nix for that matter) so this came to mind lately.. As the Console.app logs every single process that's running, does to also mean passwords & such are also logged aside from Keychain? I noticed for example, when creating a Workflow in Automator and telling it to follow your moves; it will also log any password you enter along the way in plaintext.. Is this the case, and if so, isn't this a security risk? Thx in advance!
I change my front panel on my MacBook late 2007. I'm on mountain Lion.
I've had trouble getting my macbook air (with 10.7) to wake up. Sometimes, when I open the laptop, it doesn't wake up - no matter what buttons I press, how many times I open or close it, or what I plug in to the USB port (though I haven't tried plugging in much). However, so far, I can get it to wake up by plugging in the power adapter. Any idea what is causing this, or what I can do to wake it up if I don't have a power adapter handy?
Very low volume when headphone is connected to my Macbook pro, even if at max. Headphone works correctly on my iphone and other devices. Tried Audio MIDI setup, settings seem to be correct 44.1KHz 2ch-16 bit. Can anyone help me?
Does my Apple TV bought in America work in european countries? Like Spain and Portugal? Does the video format change in anyway? Or will everything work just fine?
I want to stream videos (several formats) but I don't want to convert it before to Apple format (H264). Is there any free option that supports subtitle files? How to stream using VLC?
I have a number of iTunes users in my household, and most of us choose to share our extensive iTunes libraries over the local network. This is all well and good when I want to listen to something on a shared library when I'm at my computer, but doesn't work at all on anything iOS.
I have connected my iPhone to my Mac.. When I open XCode Organizer, the New Screenshot button is disabled.. Any idea why??? XCode Version 4.3.2 iOS 6.0.1
I'm slowly recovering from the problems described in this question, and I've run across a couple situations where I know the track numbers and that a set of MP3s came from one album, but I can't figure out which album they were on. The free MP3 taggers I've found haven't done a great job of figuring out what's what.
Since upgrading to iTunes 11 with it's wonderful interface I've run into an issue. I have several TV shows with multiple seasons. It's great that the interface now groups the seasons all into one icon for the show. However, if I select a later season (eg. 2) and watch an episode, when it finishes and iTunes goes back to it's window, I'm back on Season 1. Quite an irritation to have to scroll back up to the top of the show, go back to the season I'm watching, and then scroll back down to find the episode I was on. Is this just a bug, or am I missing a setting somewhere?
I know Objective-C is the recommended language for mac app store apps. What if I would like to write a mac app with python? Will my app be rejected when published?
i have had an iphone 3 for a year. no problems! i recently updated my iphone to ios 6, it was fine for a day, and then suddenly, my facebook, instagram and whatsapp/kik stopped working, i was still able to access twitter and snapchap though. Why isn't my iphone allowing me to access certain internet based apps? it simply won't load. please help!
i've an issue with every dedicated software used for virtualization. My macbook pro 5,3 (2,66ghz P8800, 8 gb ram, ssd ocz agility 3 120 gb, hdd installed into the cd slot; mac os x mountain lion 10.8.3, windows 8 pro, linux ubuntu 12.10) runs parallels 8/vmware fusion 5 so slowly when i restart from the bootcamp partition. (Not only parallels bootcamp, but every vm i have installed. (backbox 3, ubuntu)) Obviously i keep only one virtualization software installed, and now i'm using parallels. When it happens, the only thing i can do is to restart again my mac, and 2/3 of times the virtualization works again with all the performance i know. Do you have any idea about what's going on?
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2012 and I love the easy way of putting it to sleep when closing the laptop. I have never used the SuperDrive.
All my downloaded spreadsheets are going to Excel which is totally corrupted. I want them to open in Numbers instead and ditch Excel if possible.
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified. Here are some similar issues I found when browsing through Apple discussion forums, all with the very same Agility 3 SSDs: Macbook late 2009 - SATA III SSD issues SSD beach ball freezes occasional stalling
But this seems to happen only because some of the sectors are corrupted on the disc (and not yet marked as defective) or there are some buffering errors sometimes, because if you try often enough it will eventually write the whole file without an error. But especially with big files this is pretty annoying as the error occurs a little later every write until the whole file is written to disc (flawlessly btw. it reads and checksums perfectly then)
The 10.6 Server manual says this:  but it doesn't work on 10.8. Even a Terminal command would be great.
The youtube video is subtitled, how can I turn it on on my Apple TV? I tried configuring languages and closed caption, but didn't work.
I'm using a Mac laptop with German set as the preferred language (the keyboard, however, is a standard US keyboard). With this setting, some keyboard shortcuts include the characters Ä, Ö, and Ü. E.g. ⌘Ä (command-Ä), ⌘Ö (command-Ö), ⌘Ü (command-Ü), etc.
I recently upgraded my memory, but I notice that while the OS does NOT page out at all (from what I see in Activity Monitor), the machine pages in regardless. Why does that happen? Is that a problem?
I tried to FaceTime my brother (who is using an iPhone 4s) from my MacBook Pro using the FaceTime app. The iPhone is on a 3G network, the MacBook is on my own Wi-Fi network. The FaceTime app doesn't say that the iPhone is unavailable; it just keeps trying to connect, but the iPhone doesn't ring or do anything. What might be the problem?
I have some audio recordings and would like to transcribe them into text files. I was wondering whether there is a command line tool that could use the built-in Dictation to do that? And if so, is there a known duration limit?
In this case, I only need help with the contextual menu which appears when you right click on a folder in Finder. I would like to delete this two items: Burn "folder" to disc... and
I understand it is possilble to connect an external monitor to my MacBook Air. For photo editing can I have both screens open at the same time ?
My computer is a 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display, and I'm on OS X version 10.8.2. I have had this my computer for several months.
Summary. Automation changes desktop background for all (virtual) desktops, but no all monitors. How to do it for all monitors? Details. This blog entry discusses how to automatically change background for all (virtual / Mission Control / etc) desktops with following script:
I recently got the Mo+ GV iPhone app to replace talkatone and it's a thousand times better. The problem is is that when I'm logged in (It connects to GTalk/voice) my gmail status is changed to an annoying ad. something like "I'm using Mo+ get it now at blah blah", and I know a lot of other apps do this too. Is there a way to disable this from happening? (Its not in the app settings)
Why do Microsoft Office Word, Excel, et cetera open automatically upon login although I've disabled the 'Open at login' feature?
I checked the Activity Monitor and noticed 2 processes called sh that were eating my CPU. What apps are related to these processes and how can I stop them from eating all CPU?
It appears when you sync pictures or bookmarks that it syncs in both directions, so if my iPhone (4s) has a bookmark that my PC doesn't have it will will be once synced, or if my PC has a bookmark then my iPhone will get it once synced. If I want to delete a bookmark, or photo, do I need to delete it in both places so that it doesn't come back when I sync. I find it annoying that I delete it then it comes back, or that I have to look at my phone and PC when I delete things. How to sync in one direction (which I've done with mapping CRM software)?
A screen keeps popping up whle i'm trying to use Snapchat that says "Snapchat Push notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges." And it doesn't matter how many times I click OK it won't go away. I have already turned Snapchat push notifications completly off, yet the dialog keeps appearing. What else can I do here?
I just purchased a used 2006 MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6.8. I went to the Mac App Store and tried to load Pages, Numbers and Keynote, and it said it could not load them unless I had 10.7. When I try to upgrade to Mountain Lion, it says my computer does not have the requirements. I can't find Lion—not sure if I could even upgrade to that? My question I guess: Is there an older version of Pages, Numbers and Keynote that I could get that would work on my machine as-is, without any upgrades?
I run muCommander on Mac OS X 10.7.5. I would like to set a copying options when I copy a folder/files: file mask, attributes(hidden). P.S. The problem is when I copy one project to a different place muCommander copies it wit h SVN files, which leads to problems while committing. Is it possible to exclude in muCommander?
Any thoughts on that matter? How can I ensure that my Mountain Lion Automator app is backwards-compatible?
Have a MacBook Pro 15 (Oct2009 vintage), and am running 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Is there an easy way to search for and replace chars in JPG file names in a folder file list?
So I'm looking for the command to change from 12h to 24h. Is there even such a command? I mean I can do it with the GUI but I need to be able to do it via terminal so I can put it in a bash script.
I'm using the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout and found that the Control key does not work in iTerm 2. Emacs is unusable as a result, and I can't interrupt processes with Ctrl-C. Interestingly, the only thing I have found control to do is that Ctrl-Z still sends SIGTSTP.
I use an Apple Thunderbolt Display with my Late 2011 Macbook Pro, and more often then not when I plug it in, one of a few video errors will occur. The most frequent issue is that the display will blink anywhere from once every second or three, to once every 10-20 seconds. It is severely annoying, and my only solution so far is to unplug and plug the display back in until the lock screen no longer blinks. It usually takes at least twice to stop, sometimes more.
The new iTunes 11 finally contains a list with the current and to be played titles. I'd like to add multiple files from the Finder to that list. Is that possible somehow?
The new iPad chargers are sort of a brick containing the transformer, with a detachable corner piece containing the appropriate mains plug for wherever you bought it.  The corner piece looks like it connects to the brick with a standard unpolarized C7 socket / C8 plug:
Can anyone recommend an iOS text editor (iPad and iPhone) that can open arbitrary text files from Dropbox? I've used a few, but they tend to be restricted to a specific subdirectory of my Dropbox root, e.g. Elements only lets me work in the ~/Dropbox/Elements directory.
How on earth do you get Siri to remind you to do something when you arrive at a location in iOS 6? It worked fine in iOS 5 but I've never got it to work on iOS 6 - it just always seems confused about what I'm trying to do. What is the correct syntax? Siri has been pointed at my own contact record in settings and that record contains my correct address under "home".
I've noticed that from time to time the speakers on my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.8) make a strong and harsh crackling sound instead of, or over the top of, a sound effect they are supposed to be playing. In particular, I've noticed this happens with Lotus Sametime notifications (i.e. the ping when I get a new message), but I've also noticed it happening with other applications. It only seems to happen with short sounds, not continuous ones - for example, playing videos always has perfectly smooth and error-free sound. It seems to happen most shortly after I've booted up/resumed, and goes away after a while. What might be causing this, and how might I fix it?
My MacBook Pro 13' (mid 2009) won't boot. It doesn't get past the initial grey boot up-screen - and nothing I've tried seems to help that. The only way to get the computer started up is via the installation disc. And through that I've been able to verify that the Hard drive is not corrupt and still functional. But unfortunately I only have access to terminal there - and me being a terminal newbie -I have not been able to send the most critical of my files to another computer. This would have been desirable as I plan to reinstall the OS to (hopefully) solve the problem.
So clearly something's there. Yet, if I hold down option, all I see are the two copies of the fusion drive (does anyone know why home made fusion drives do that and Apple's don't?). I attempted to but that didn't do anything.
The new Google Maps app seems like a good substitute for the inbuilt Maps app, as has been discussed ad nauseam. However, one drawback it exhibits over the inbuilt app is that it doesn't seem to directly integrate with your contacts - and doesn't seem to integrate with any contacts you have stored with Google Contacts/Gmail either (in my case, I sync them with my iPhone, so they are the same set). Are there any workarounds or hacks which can be used to get it do this? The best I've found so far is the obvious - to open the contacts app, copy the postcode (I am in the UK so that's typically precise enough for navigation) and paste it into Google Maps. Is there anything simpler/quicker?
In the last few days I've had a sudden flash of gray in the background. I'm on MacOS 10.7.5. I'm not able to provide a screenshot because it only happens for a split second, but here is a more or less accurate mock-up:
I've had this iPod lying around for years. I'm about to sell it and I'd like to erase all the data. Is there a way to do this without installing iTunes? I was particularly hoping that there might be a magic combination of click wheel presses and switch toggles, or maybe a menu item I'm missing somewhere that would perform a factory reset including wiping all the data.
I was used to download PDF from Firefox and open them with Preview PDF. Yesterday I installed Adobe Reader and now each time I click on a PDF link Firefox tries to open the PDF with Abode Reader. And it doesn't work even. See the picture below.
In my room I can only connect one device to the wifi router. In order to connect all my devices, I thought of connecting my macbook air to the router, then have a USB dongle connected to the macbook air, which would share the internet connection with the rest of my devices. Is this possible, and should the USB dongle have any particular features I need to look out for?
I purchased an expensive technical monograph (> $100 (US)) from the iTunes store for use on my 1st generation iPad. It downloaded correctly and I used it for several months with no problem. A little over a year and a couple of iOS upgrades later, I tried to refer to the book and found it was not visible on my iBooks bookshelves, and not found in search either.
I'm wondering if there is a car-friendly way to play music on the iPhone without any type of car kit. Specifically, I am looking for a way to change tracks without unlocking the phone. I'm okay with pressing the home button, I just don't want to worry about unlocking the phone.
I need to see the value of a cookie in Safari on an iPhone. How do I do this?
Many projectors still only accept a VGA connection, especially in fixed installations. And while older Windows notebooks usually have a VGA port directly available, Macbooks always need an adapter, as far as I understand it.
I'm going to resell my iPad 3 to buy a new one. I need a simple way to backup everything from current iPad to be able to restore to the new one. This includes iBooks library with pdfs added from e-mails, Apps, App data, photos, etc.
I have a MacBook Air (Late 2012), which has the new Magsafe 2 power connector. I would like to use the power adapter with my 15" MacBook Pro (Mid 2010).
I have 5 total contacts currently, including Apple and "Me". Not sure what I did to add the other 3, but they cannot be modified or deleted, nor can I add any new ones.
Is there an easy way to Convert an entire iTunes library to MP3 format then delete old version? I know you can do it manually, but then you have to go check every other song and delete it, is there a fast and easy way?
I've got a pretty specific need - to disable unmounting a network drive through the regular Finder eject function (accessed either by right-clicking the mounted drive on the desktop, or clicking the eject button in Finder). This is on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
I want my Google contacts and my Exchange contacts to sync through my iPhone as follows: Google contacts <--> iPhone <--> Exchange contacts
I'm looking for a non-tedious way to make the Messages application in Mountain Lion silent without killing the audio output of other applications. Any ideas? Is this a job for AppleScript or defaults?
I was trying to run a Word macro on a Mac. That macro contains the split() function. When I run this it is throwing an error saying function or sub not defined.
Is it possible to do the equivalent of "Hide other Applications" for Windows of the same application? Say i have around 4 main windows open for Chrome and each has 10 tabs. I would like to switch to Window 3 of Chrome and hide the other Chrome windows (Window 1, 2 & 4). Essentially i want to hit a CMD+M on the other "windows". (this is different from Minimize/Hide other Applications that would allow me to switch to Safari and hide other applications like Chrome). A keyboard shortcut would be awesome, but cursory googling tells me that i'll have to settle with an applescript? Cheers.
I've got a tool to normalize WAV audio files, but it only works by dragging and dropping the file either onto the GUI or onto its dock's icon. As far as I know the app doesn't have any option to pass from command line, so I was wondering whether there is a way to pass the file from a terminal in order to use it in a bash script.
I have a question about VPN Access on my iPad. After every time I lock it for more than 15 minutes, when I return to using my iPad, it reconnects to WiFi but doesn't re-establish the VPN connection automatically - I have to do it manually. This means my iPad is connected to insecure WiFi, so it's possible that some application can send secure data in background over the insecure connection. How can I avoid my data being sent over an insecure connection?
I use an iPhone 4S with iTunes 11 on Windows 7. I still haven't found a way to change the syncing direction with Outlook: The first time I used sync, I checked the option "Sync from Outlook to iPhone" (contacts, calendar), and now I'd like to sync both ways. But it seems to be impossible!
I have successfully paired my iPad Gen 3 to my Mid-2012 MacBook Air. What can I do with this connection?
Im thinking about building a custom hackintosh. I currently own a late 2009 iMac, the one which theoretically support video input from mini displayport.
In Windows it is possible to load and instantiate COM/ActiveX components, e.g. PowerPoint, and use them to render in your UI of choice.
I use OSX 10.8.2 and OpenAFS 1.6.1a. Even I have checked "Enable auto-renew", the ticket allways expires. My settings: Seconds before expire to renew: 4000 Ticket renewal check frequency: 3600
I'm trying to install a x11-enabled version of Firefox on my OSX 10.8.2, so it can integrate nicely with xmonad. My problem: Firefox in macports is extremely old (7.x) and building 17.x from source fails with some cryptic error: Any idea what can I try now to get firefox working with x11? I'm using the same configure switches as firefox-x11 from macports, namely:
I've seen many iPad whiteboard apps but all seem to be either iPad only (eg Whiteboard Mojo) or are read-only from the web (Jot) or require local connection via wifi (splashtop) or make you pay for every Internet session (whiteboard HD). I don't mind paying for the app, but I want to use this for business, and nickel and diming per session isn't going to work. (How would people get reimbursed?) So I want an app I can buy once and use for as many Internet whiteboard sessions with other iPads and desktop machines as I want.
I have a lightly hot-rodded, early 2008 MacPro 3,1. Boots from an SSD mounted in the lower optical bay and attached to the second optical SATA port. Each of the four internal drive bays hosts a 3TB drive which I have configured as a striped and mirrored ZFS partition. Unfortunately, all my 2012 drives are running at 2008 speeds and are limited to 3 GB/s. Looking for insight from anyone who has replaced the stock hard drive subsystem to 6GB/s speeds via a 4 or 8 channel PCIe SAS/SATA card with an internal SAS connector and connecting it to the built-in SATA backplane with an "extension" cable.
I recently upgraded to Apple OS X 10.8 but I observed the following folders in /Developer/SDKs: MacOSX10.5.sdk MacOSX10.6.sdk I googled and found out that I should run sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all.
I have a Synology NAS D213+. When I want to connect the NAS to my Mac, Finder mounts a new volume which behaves like a normal partition.
I've brought a Macbook Air few months ago. I didn't get to test its camera when I brought it. I'd gotten too busy with works and today was my first time running the application Facetime to test my camera. I was really taken aback. Here is a photo I captured with Photo Booth.
When a display is attached to a CUDA capable graphic card, a run time limit is enforced on CUDA kernels run on the card. Is it possible to use the integrated graphic card to power the display and, at the same time, exploit the discrete one to run long running CUDA kernels? I tried gfxCardStatus, but if I force the use of the integrated card, the discrete one is disabled completely and isn't recognized anymore by the CUDA driver.
I just built a new windows 8 PC with a GA-Z77X-UP4 TH motherboard so I could have a Thunderbolt port for my Apple LED Cinema Display 27" . Unfortunately, the display isn't working. I have read that it will work on a "hackintosh" so I would assume it's a driver issue and not a motherboard issue.
After I upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, I can no longer find "Address Book" in the application but only "Contact". The application "Contact" does not allow me to add or remove groupings of contacts. Where is the good old address book?
Simple question: How to install CPAN modules on OS-X like normal Linux/Unix way? I just want to type in cpan something like install Perl6::Say for example.
I have the Macbook Pro and use the Calendar program that came with it. I have reminders come up an hour before my appointment but it does not allow me to "CLOSE" or "SNOOZE" it and when I put my cusor over it it shows the system bust WHEEL turning. How can I correct this without losing all my calendar data? I have to RESTART my system in order for the reminder screen to reset. This started happening after one of the last system updates Mountain Lion OSX
I want to preload a 58 minute youtube video on my free home wireless and listen to it later while i'm jogging (so that i can listen without streaming on my limited data plan). Can this be done? Will the youtube app let you prebuffer an entire video and let you watch it offline?
My wife has been trained for years with the desktop metaphor of a file living inside one (and only one) folder. iPhoto uses the "label" paradigm that Gmail has where photos can live inside multiple albums. But she hates that.
Looking for validation that Profile Manager in Mountain Lion Server can be used to keep Portable (Mobile) Home Directories on multiple Macs in sync with one Network Home. Users have "main" desktop iMacs and "secondary" MacBooks. We would like to keep their ~/Documents and ~/Library in sync on both machines. (Also need to sync /usr/local/, ~/.bashrc, ~/.rvmrc, etc. etc.) Wondering, among other things, what happens when both machines are on and try to sync at same time?
Is it possible to change the primary screen for a Mac through command line? The traditional way of doing this is from System Preferences > Displays and dragging the white menu bar on the top, between screens.
My girlfriend and I both have iPhones and we both want to use my apple id but have separate numbers. I just bought her an iPad and it only has my phone number under iMessage. Can I add hers to my apple id or the iPad?
How can one use system dictionary ^+⌘+D in .pdf's opened in Safari 6 (using Acrobat Reader)? Is perhaps Adobe Reader at fault (i.e. does the dictionary work with Safari's default .pdf reader)?
I have a mid-2010 15" Macbook Pro with 10.8 installed, and I use a Wacom Bamboo tablet (one of the older ones, it's model MTE-450). I've noticed that whenever the tablet is plugged in, many hover states for the mouse no longer work for the trackpad and generic plug-in mice.
The new iTunes version has brought some changes. And I just realized that it won't show anymore how much music do I have.
I need to search some words in many PDF documents. It worked very well when I searched over old documents but my OS X has not indexed yet the new PDFs. How can I search over the new PDFs?
I'm living in Germany and recieved an unused iPhone 5 A1429 without SIM or contract as a gift. I'm planning to use it abroad, likely with prepaid SIM cards.
I bought a brand new MacBook Air from the apple store in Sydney last week, but no matter where I go to connect to a wifi source, it never connects. Wherever I try an exclamation mark shows up and I don't know why this is. I've tried a few things in the system preferences but still unsure. Can someone please help me??
Q: Is it possible to set a secondary preferred language on the iPhone? Background: On the Mac Desktop it is possible to select a "Language Preference" order, so that if your favorite application isn't localized for your primary language, then it will prefer the second best (Good example here would be a German user who speaks fluent french, but not English trying to use an application that has been localized for English and French should be able to specify they prefer the French to English):
Does anyone know of a way to detect that a shell script is running within ARD (vs. running the same script locally on the machine)? I looked at detecting that we are running in interactive mode - that fails, since both are noninteractive.
Staring at the guts of my dated phone, I was curious how feasibly I might remove the logic board, swap it with another, and resume normal operations. As such, I've been hunting for pics detailed iPhone innards but I've found nothing more than an obscure forum post or the iFixit teardown.
I want to create a user(say, hera) that can only be used in terminal. That is this user does not appear in the Mac welcome screen. This user can be su - hera by other users. Can I do this and how?
Here's the thing, the right shift key of my macbook is stuck, so it always boots in safe mode once I turn the machine on. Worse, I cannot log in since my password has lower case letters. I tried resetting the NVRAM by holding Command - Option - P - R and also went into the disk utilities, however nothing I can do there helps. I looking for a way to disable the right side shift key or alternatively enable the bluetooth via command line, since I have a wireless keyboard, but I cannot make either work. UPDATE:
The last week or two my iphone 4 started dimming it's screen to almost black whenever I lock it. Then when I unlock it I have to get to the brightness slider and move the slider to restore light to the screen. Can anyone explain why this is happening and how to fix it?
I deleted a contact about two years ago and it now appears under another person's contact. I have deleted all numbers for the contact I no longer need, but when I sync to computer Gmail the number appears with a different name on the number.
So in the spirit of this question I was wondering if it is possible to disable automatic 802.1X connection via terminal as well. Am I right to assume that this is a computer setting (meaning that if I run this script with no user logged in it still disables it for all existing and future users)?
If I buy 6 different Airport Express' to have one in each room will they all work together or is there a maximum number of receivers you can use at once? For example if I want to choose between the six rooms or play the music in all the rooms at once will that work?
I have a lot of friends who move countries and jobs frequently. I want to keep their old email and street addresses their Contact card, but not have it appear in the autofill.
When I try to toggle the on/off button in iCloud apps (like Contacts, Notes, Safari, etc) in my iPhone (by Settings - iCloud), It always show the HUD (like "Turning On Notes...") for a long time. But nothing happens.
I have a serious problem with right clicking. When ever I try to open the contextual menu in certain applications like the iWork Suite, MS Office or Evernote, I get the beach ball.
My 10.8.2 MacBook Air is having constant connection errors in Mail.app when the computer has been sent to sleep or hibernate. A small alert triangle appears next to all account names (I have several) in the sidebar. Mail reception only resumes after quitting and relaunching Mail.app.
I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail contacts and not the local phone contacts, which is annoying. The solution is to keep my iCloud contacts, which currently sync between my Mac and my iOS devices, in sync with Google as well. What is the best way to do this? It appears that I can sync my computer's local contacts using Address Book, but that won't help with my contacts which are stored in iCloud.
I have a lot of tracks in iTunes where the files are named "music-NNNN.mp3" with NNNN being the year the track was recorded. How can I use Applescript to automatically set the year tag for these files based on NNNN?
I'm building an automator application that acts on a folder that needs to be specified. Until now, I've been using the "Ask for Finder items" action to ask for a the folder to be used, but I would like to be able to just drag 'n' drop the folder on the application icon.
Is there any way to tell iOS mail app to put emails from specific senders in a special folder automatically?
I have a number of calendars on the Calendar app on my MacBook Pro (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2): along with the three standard iCloud calendars (Calendar, Home, Work) I have 7 subscriptions. I have tried a number of things, but it seems none of my calendars except the three standard ones want to appear on iCloud.com. Is this an irreparable bug with the Apple software/servers, or is there something I can do to fix this issue here?
I have a MacBook which is connected to the net via an ancient DSL router (NAT enabled). I want to SSH into the server from elsewhere, but my ISP assigns new IP address every once in a while. I would like to use a dynamic DNS service for "finding" my Mac, but the router does not support any dynamic DNS functionality.
I'm reading that a lot of people have this folder under their ~/Music/iTunes/ folder called Automatically Add to iTunes that lets them put files in and have iTunes reorganize them within the library and remove them. I don't have this folder for some reason. Here's my command line list of files in that folder: I've tried manually adding a folder with that name and restarting iTunes, but the process still doesn't work. Why am I missing this folder, and what I can I do to get it in place and working OK?
This example was shown earlier: Is there an incantation instead of "Random" to display a slideshow from the selected folder in the screen saver preferences?
I created and added two computers to a Qmaster cluster in Qadministrator so that a Compressor export would be faster. However, the cluster doesn't show up in Compressor! What do I do? I have no clue how to fix this, but I really need the extra processing power from the other computer.
This is my first question to apple.stackexchange, hopefully it's on topic :) As a developer, there are frequently things written to log files (exceptions or other status information) that I'm interested in. My current workflow is that I simply tail -f /path/to/log when I know that I'm doing something where I may want to see the output of a log file. But because of the nature of Magento development in particular, and I'd imagine most development work in general, many times you're not exactly aware of which log file might be getting written to, or even if you are, you may not remember to tail it and get stuck scratching your head at why something is happening or where to get some feedback on what's going on in your system.
How can you disable Gatekeeper via Terminal Commands in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? I am looking to replicate the Security & Privacy preference pane selection to allow applications downloaded from Anywhere to run:
I have a new iPad And am trying to restore it from the back up of my old iPad. iCloud storage shows 3 backups - my iPhone, my old iPad and the new iPad (empty). How do I get the old iPad backup on to my new iPad?
I have an iPhone 4 that's currently on AT&T. My 2-year contract will be fulfilled in January, and at that point (if possible) I'd like to switch my service to Straight Talk or some other less expensive alternative, since I hardly use up my data/voice/text allotments on AT&T. A few questions:
I'm currently using XCode in conjunction with Unity. When I initiate a build in Unity, it automatically runs XCode. XCode will then steal focus from whatever app I happen to be in. Is there a way of disabling apps stealing focus in OSX?
I got frustrated from turning on my Retina MBP and waiting a few seconds while the systems loads from Deep Sleep Mode. I disabled it using sudo pmset -a standby 0
I am running Mountain Lion (10.8.2), and when I attempt to copy a bunch of files from Directory A to Directory B (which contains some files with names matching those from Directory A), I get this dialog:  In Lion, there used to be the extremely handy “Keep Both” option here. It would copy the conflicting files over and append a “1” or “2” or similar to each one’s filename so I could have them in the same directory. For my purposes here, this is exactly what I want. But that option is now missing, and all I get is “Skip,” “Stop,” and “Replace.”
I am trying to quit a annoying iMessage conversation. You know, when someone send messages to multiple users, so everyone receive the same messages. It's like a group chat. How to quit a conversation?
I own an app. I want to purchase an additional copy of that app for a friend using iTunes' gift functionality. In the iOS App Store and the iTunes store on a Mac, the gift option doesn't appear for apps that I already own. I can't believe that Apple doesn't let you purchase an additional copy of something that you already own as a gift for someone else. App that I own App that I don't Am I missing something, or is app gifting really this half baked?
Is there a (decent) Mac app that I could use to learn one handed typing?
I manage a Time Machine backup for a photographer. We had a 2TB drive for photos and a 2TB drive for the Time Machine backup of those photos. The Time Machine backup drive has run out of space and we realized that it's time that we can remove photos from the main photo drive (and burn DVD backups) anyways. Since Time Machine keeps deleted files, simply deleting them from the main drive won't help us in freeing up the space on the Time Machine drive. What is the correct way to handle this problem?
ClamX is finding phishing infection in the Backup folder on my MacBook Pro with 10.7. ~Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup/xxxxxxxx Does this mean that either my iPhone or Mac is infected? I realize I can delete these files, but is that enough? What's the risk and what's the resolution?
I was wondering how good thunderbolt is for adding a beefier PCI graphics card to my MacBook Air. If I use a PCI enclosure like this, will the card integrate with the Mac to enhance the performance of the computer or a display?
I will be giving my three children three iPads as their christmas presents. I am now currently using my iPhone 4 with my only one Apple ID for the App Store.
man tar says that OS X's tar implementation should be able to extract .iso files. tar creates and manipulates streaming archive files. This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, jar, ar, and ISO 9660 cdrom images and can create tar, pax, cpio, ar, and shar archives. However, tar gives me the following error: What's with the discrepancy?
Basically, tonight my mac crashed so I re-started and got a flashing folder. I have searched around online for the commands that I need to press when I first hear the chime to get into the disk utilities so I can do a fresh install. What are they? I have not got the fresh install disks, however, I do have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 installed onto the system. Hope someone can help.
Finder is taking forever to move, rename, etc. files, especially when moving to the trash or emptying the trash. Here is a video *=URL=* It takes 80-95% of my CPU and spins 13 threads to think about it for a few minutes: About my Mac:
On Japanese keyboards, there is a Reconversion key beside the space bar, which when highlighting some Kanji in Japanese will allow you to convert it to different Kanji (shows a dropdown of options). Apparently this was at one point ctrl+1, or ctrl+2, but neither work for me now. Ideas?
In iTunes 11, let's say I'm playing Song X by Artist A. I have a few more albums by Artist A, and decide I want to hear some more of their stuff, but I'd like to hear it at random. If I switch to the Artists view, I can select Artist A and hit Shuffle, but that will immediately start playing random tracks by the artist, eliminating whatever I already had playing. I can also pick Add Artist A to Up Next from the context menu, but this will add all their songs in order to Up Next.
In previous versions of iTunes, it was possible to sort songs by Artist, and then by Album By Year, so that albums would be shown in the order they were released, rather than alphabetical order. I can't find a way to replicate this behaviour in any of the various views in iTunes 11: In the Songs view, I can only sort by a single column, and in the other views where songs are grouped by albums, the albums are always displayed in alphabetical order. Is there an option I'm missing, or is sorting by Album By Year no longer an option?
When I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it sometimes has to recover from Safe Sleep, even though the power is connected. I have installed 16 GB (2x8) RAM myself on my MacBook, however 8 GB is the max supported RAM. Could this be why it fails to wake from sleep quickly? Is there an error log stating why it had to recover from Safe Sleep? By recovering from Safe Sleep I mean this:
We have a cellular data network connectivity problem. In our app, we are using both a Wi-Fi ad-hoc network and a cellular data network connection. The ad-hoc network is used to connect to a small Wi-Fi device (internal IP-address 192.168.0.12). This works great.
I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on MacBook Pro. A few days ago I found my free disk space is too low, so I tried to clean un-necessary files form disk myself and using some programs like CleanGenius.
I had two email accounts assigned to my Mail application to be synchronized: my Gmail and the academic email account. I just removed Gmail from the Mail application and at once 40GB was restored to my free space!!!
I often listern to music on my macBook - when I unplug my headphones occasionaly forget to mute the speaker - so the whole office gets an earfull. How can I set my mac to be muted unless headphones are plugged in. I'm interested to know if I can simply deactivate the built in speakers... This has become more obvious recently when I use a bluetooth headset or similar - I walk away from the machine forgetting the headset is attached and as soon as I get far enought away my computer starts making noise....
I got an iPad 2 running iOS 6.0.1. and I really have no idea why my FaceTime cannot be activated. I always got an error while log in (username or password is incorrect) But actually the Apple ID and password is correct and it can be used for downloading apps and iMessage.
Is there an application for customizing mouse-keys, specifically choosing which keys to use? I don't have a numpad so I can't use the built-in mouse-keys.
So, I've done some searching.. and still haven't found a solution for this. I'm not even sure what has caused it. There are no DYLD_ or LD_ flags being set at all, but I always see this when I open the terminal up. Would definitely appreciate help with this.
How do I get disk usage information on my 'Machintosh HD' icon on my desktop? I did it on my old computer, so I know it's possible, but can't seem to find the option again. I am on MacOSX 10.8.2.
On a Mac running Lion, in the Save As dialog boxes for seemingly all applications, there's a white popup box that appears and disappears on pressing the space bar. I notice it a lot as I use a graphics tablet with one of the pen buttons set to pan / scroll the page, which in adobe creative suite applications on a Mac, maps to the space bar everywhere in the application including OS dialogs - so I often trigger it by accident when trying to scroll through directories when saving files. Here's an image of it:
Is there any thunderbolt SSD which can be as fast or at least not much slower than internal one from OWC? I want to use is as system disk. It will be good to have two thunderbolt ports on this thing to daisy chain display. It will be also a big bonus if I can buy it in Europe (because of specifics of organization where I am working).
If I create some playlists on my iPod, is there a way I can import the same playlist on my iPhone? So that if there are the same songs on the iPhone it would play them.
I have a bunch of PDF files named, say, chapter1, chapter2, etc. I would like to combine them into a single file and create a table of contents where each file gets an entry. If memory serves, there used to be a tool called CombinePDFs that could do that, but it was written as a RealBASIC application and does not seem to work on OS X 10.8 anymore. Any alternative suggestion? Note: it's really about the automatic table of contents feature; I know how to merge/join/combine PDF files without one.
I've dedicated my old iPhone 3G as a Bluetooth audio player. It works great except for controlling the audio. I find that the previous and next buttons are too close to the play/pause button on both the lock screen and in iTunes. I often jump to the next song when I just wanted to pause the current song.
On my MacBook Air in Lion with the iMessages beta I was able to set up iMessage to read all incoming messages automatically with text to speech. I can't find how to turn that on with Mountain Lion. I see how I can make it announce or I can select text to have it read out loud but I had it just automatically reading incoming messages out loud with text to speech before.
I have a folder in my dock full of aliases to applications. When I add a new alias, the icon doesn't usually show up in the Dock folder:
I can tether fine to Windows 7, but on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion, it does not recognize the USB network. I can install Easy-Tether (Lite) but that comes with some restrictions (e.g. no secure web pages, so no gmail), so I'd like to use the built in tethering of Cyanogenmod 7 that I have on my Android phone. Is there anyway to fix the Mac OS X Mountain Lion install so that it properly recognizes the USB network connection?
Everything looks fine in iTunes. The problem is when I sync them to my iPhone, when I look in Videos, under TV Shows, it shows "Episode One" as the name of the show. So for example, on my iPhone, under TV shows I might see: Breaking Bad (4 episodes), Mad Men (2 episodes), House (3 episodes), Episode One (6 episodes).
I'am trying to set up a wireless connection to my HP OfficeJet printer. For this I need to enter the password to my WLAN which I forgot. How and where can I retrieve it?
Scenario: working away in Terminal, get an error message. Want to google it so I select text and use right-click and "Search with Google". Opens Safari every time. Google Chrome is my default browser. I've restarted the machine twice since I confirmed that.
Sometimes on my macbook my wireless icon looks like this. In the past I've only seen this when connecting to my iphone's hotspot, and I pressumed it was something along the lines of "we're using bluetooth as well" but when I took the screenshot I was connected to a normal everyday wireless access point. What causes the change?
I'm wondering what is a logic of sleep/hibernate of the OS X System. On the lid closing MacBook should go to sleep - it is obvious but.. What if the machine is running only on batteries and it is in sleep mode for a long time (until complete discharge of the bateries). Does OS X will store RAM on disk to keep user work safe?
In Apple mail for OSX, I have pictures enabled for both the mail list view as well as in the message itself. This works fairly well, grabbing pictures from my contacts except for one person. Their picture doesn't show up and I don't know what makes them unique.
My new 13" MacBook Pro rarely recognizes a third-party display. The display works fine with a PC. It is connected via a third-party Thunderbolt/VGA adapter. Worked beautifully the first time. Now I get a "no signal" on the monitor. MacBook partially freezes. Tried rebooting, etc. No luck.
I got a Mac Mini at about summer in 2011 and I'm looking to use it along with my main PC using a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M monitor. The monitor's DVI is used by my main PC, so I picked up a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter (at the time I didn't actually know the monitor had a DisplayPort on it, but I'd still need a Mini DisplayPort -> DisplayPort adapter) and tried it. But I can only set the Mac Mini's resolution to 1920x1080 in System Preferences. I tried modifying my com.apple.Boot.plist file in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration, and it currently looks like this :
I'm trying to decide between purchasing a iPad mini or an iPad 4--this will be my first tablet. I went to the Apple Store and was struck by how heavy the iPad 4 feels in comparison to the iPad mini, but also by how gorgeous the iPad 4 screen is. The main question is if the weight and heft of the large iPad is worth the retina screen in comparison to the smaller, lighter, but not so crisp iPad mini. My primary uses of the device will be ebooks, rss reading, document viewing, social networking, streaming video, light emailing, occasional gaming.
I have a 160GB iPod and it only syncs old music to my iPod. I buy new songs and it will not sync them. I have probably 150 songs that will not sync (purchased songs). I did run diagnostic and it says iTunes helper is not working. Not sure what that is and not sure if it has anything to do with it. How can I fix so that all songs sync to my iPod?
I want to change my Apple ID, simply just because I don't want to use that name or that email address anymore. Will it affect any apps that I have purchased in the past with that old Apple ID? If I have deleted one of those apps that I purchased, will I have to repurchase that app again with the new Apple ID?
I have a MacBook, an iPhone, and an iPad all using the same iCloud account to sync photos, among other things. There are photos on the iPhone in its Camera Roll, Photo Stream, the iPhoto app, and Camera+. On the iPad, there are a bunch of photos in iPhoto that I've processed and modified.
I have an iPhone 4, and I have the switch on the side set to switch silent mode on and off. I'd like specific contacts (for example, She Who Must Be Obeyed) to ring when they call, even in silent mode.
My iMac 27" went in for hard drive replacement but now I can't seem to get anything to restore. I've put Snow Leopard back onto the drive but then apps are missing and the second install disc that contains apps just ejects when I insert it.
I am using iTerm2 (with zsh), and for some reason the history is shared between the different tabs and windows that are open. In most of the cases for me, this is annoying, since I have tabs per specific task, and if I have to redo some commands, I just want to be able to go back (up) in history to retrieve the last action for that window/tab only. I have no idea how to disable this shared history, I read somewhere that you can enable shared history in zsh, but afaik I have done no such thing. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
I would like to know how much power would a mac Mini consume per month/year if: always powered, but under very low load web server OS, probably Ubuntu two drives: one SSD and one HD. model Early 2010, Core duo 2 I know that the manufacturer specification says it would consume between 11W-85W. How can I convert this to Amps?
Sometimes I accidentally move messages to the trash in Mail.app when I hit backspace. I tried to find what the 'Backspace' shortcut stands for, but I could not find it in the Mail.app menu. The only thing I could find was Command-Backspace:
I have a share on Lion Server, and a symlink pointing to a directory outside the share. The symlink is working properly when user is logged into the machine via ssh (so permissions are fine), but when accessing the filesystem via AFP or CIFS, the link is broken. Is there a setting that allows to follow symlinks outside shared folders?
Is it better to keep apps closed (double tap home button, hold the icon, and exit the app), as much as possible on iOS devices? I know the more apps one has open, the more RAM, for example is used, but would that same principle apply, in measurable effect, to iOS? For example, would my iPhone (4S in this case), or iPad (3rd Gen) run any faster, or have longer battery life, or do better in any particular way if I had only 5 apps open, versus having 50 open?
How can I get rid of zombie entries in Login items? In this case BambooCore App doesn't respond to the - control even when I select it. Also the hide checkbox is disabled on this item, just like the delete control.
I installed Windows on my Mac and Bootcamp installed NVidia Control Panel. Today I received a notification in the Control Panel about a new driver.
Every 2-10 minutes Safari pauses with a spinning beach ball for roughly 10-90 seconds, sometimes asking if I want to reload everything, making Safari almost unusable. I've installed several safari extensions that mess with pages to prevent cross site attacks, scripting, cookies, etc. In particular, my active extensions are : AdBlock, ClickToFlash, Ghostery, JavaScript Blocker, and JavaScript BlackList. Anyone experienced conflicts amongst these before? Additionally, I've installed but disabled Disconnect, NinjaKit, and WasteNoTime, but presumably disabled extensions cannot contribute to the problem. I'll experiment with disabling these active scripts piecemeal, starting with JavaScript BlackList, who's role is presumably superseded by Ghostery and JavaScript Blocker.
I'm not going to have access to my iTunes on my home computer nor my iPhone today. But I would like to download a few apps that are on sale today only (like this one). Is there a way to do that? Or maybe not download them, but earmark them in my account to download later?
I have a 4th gen iPod touch that recently managed to escape my hand and embrace the floor. While the situation was rather comical, now the glass screen is broken. Everything else works fine, including the touchscreen, but it has the so-called "Spiderman" cracks all over half the screen.
I'm using iStat Pro Dashboard widget to get live system data of my mid-2010 27" iMac. Under temperature readings it lists Ambient. Where the sensor is approximately located?
I just got a 2TB external hard drive, and I want to use it to backup my 3 Windows computers and my MacBook Pro. If possible, I would like to create 4 subdirectories on the external drive - one subdirectory for each computer. Can I tell Time Machine to put my MacBook Pro backups into one subdirectory, so that it doesn't affect any of the other stuff on the external drive? BTW, I will be installing one of those NTFS drivers for the Mac OS X, so that it can write files to the NTFS-formatted external drive.
I know that I can share my internet connection with other devices using my MacBook Pro's Airport as long as I'm using ethernet (wired) for my connection to the internet. But if I'm using the airport for the internet connection itself, that option to share it goes away. I'm considering getting a high-powered Hawking USB wireless adapter to use at my cabin in order to be able to get a wireless signal from my uncle next door (with permission, of course) since a built-in wireless card isn't quite powerful enough to pick it up. Will I able to then share my internet connection with other wireless devices using my MacBook's Airport similarly to sharing a wired internet connection, considering that I'm not using the airport for the connection itself, but am using the USB adapter?
I've got a macbook air (10.8.2) and want to use an external monitor with 2560x1440 resolution with a Linux (Debian) virtual machine. I want to use the vm in fullscreen mode, with 2560x1440 resolution. Will that work in virtualbox or vmware?
Here's the situation: My GF's MacBook Pro broke, OS would not start at all I inserted Knoppix Live CD, booted and just copied all of the files from her HD to folder on external HD I've reinstalled OS on MacBook pro
On my new iMac /w a 1TB Fusion Drive, I tried to install Windows 8 (still technically unsupported) using the following method: *=URL=* alling-windows-8-on-a-mac-with-boot-camp/
I have a collection of image files grouped into folders named Project_01, Project_02, etc. Using Automator, I have composed a workflow that asks the user for a folder, and combines the images in that folder into a single PDF document. The destination folder for the output PDF file can be determined with a variable; however, the file name field of the action expects a constant string.
I am still running Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. Are there potentially any benefits of still using this version of the Mac OS, or am I more disadvantaged by not being on the latest version - Mountain Lion. Some people have informed me that Mountain Lion is very iOS-eque in nature, and they feel that this really should be kept to iOS devices such as the iPhone & iPad, and not brought into the "computing environment", such is the case that if they were able to downgrade to Snow Leopard they would - however they inform me that their brand new iMacs are of an "architecture" that does not permit this. Another person informed me that security updates for Snow Leopard ended some months ago, and it is now officially an unsupported OS (although I dont believe this to be the case), thus Lion is now the oldest supported OS. Any clarification on the above is very welcomed........
Some time ago the hard disk inside of my family's Mac mini (Mid 2007) failed. We purchased an external disk (Some iteration of the Western Digital 'My Passport'), installed OS X onto it, and have been using it as the boot volume through USB. The computer has been running fine, albeit very slowly, though the computer now needs to be used more intensively and the bottleneck of a USB boot drive has made it impossible to do so.
The gray area I'm referring to is the area that's not used, say from 12am to 6am. I want to get rid of this area entirely (It's not the color that's the issue). I don't use that space at all, so it means I have to scroll down to schedule something every single time -- seems very counter-intuitive imho. Edit: Simplified to one question.
This may be a popular question, but I have not seen a very satisfying answer for it. It is unfortunate when one accidentally deletes iMessages because all of the history of that message is gone, and there appears to be no way to get it back on the device itself. Are there existing apps that would recover messages onto the device?
I have also been using a file share on the Mac Pro as a time machine backup drive. With a router in the mix my Macbook will backup to a shared drive without a problem but directly connecting via Internet Sharing gives some very odd results. It says it cannot find the disk and I can no longer use any of the Mac Pro drives as time machine disks. Time Machine throws "The backup disk is not available." at me each time I try. The final problem I have noticed in this setup is that Airfoil on the Macbook cannot find Airfoil Speakers on the Mac Pro.
Every time I tab on one of the numpad keys to move the cursor with mouse keys it doesn't move enough. Is it possible to customize how much it will move with one tab on the key? I want it to move like 10-30 pixels by doing a quick-tab on the numpad.
I have two people in my contacts with the same first name (let's call them John). One person, John Appleseed, I talk to all the time. The other one, John Doe, I haven't spoken to in years.
Why do I have to enable 'Notes' in both "Settings > iCloud > Notes" and also in "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" > [iCloud account name] > "Notes"? If I do not set both of these 'Notes' to 'On', the iCloud Notes account does not appear in Notes.app > "Accounts". I just have "On my iPhone". However, if I do set both to 'On', then I have 2 Notes accounts under iCloud.
I have a MacBook Pro with SSD drive. I am concerned that leaving it on (closing the lid when not in use) will wear out the SSD drive quicker than fully shutting the system off. The boot up time is really not too big of a deal considering that when I'm away from the computer it's usually for many hours at a time. The way it is right now the unit is up instantly when I turn on the power button. Which mode will best prolong the life of the SSD drive?
I see so many pictures that I have took with iPhone on iPad Photo Stream. But today I also wanted to activate PhotoStream on iPhoto on MacBook. So did I ! but the images it has downloaded are just around 20 photos, there are so much more if I go to PhotoStream on iPad or iPhone but on PhotoStream on MacBook there is just a few of them. Shouldn't they all show the same thing?
I'm trying to implement AirPrint through static DNS, like documented on *=URL=* The iPad gets the dns search domain "lan" through DHCP, and I verified that in Settings-WLAN. I think I created all necessary entries in the right places, the iPad however doesn't find my printer or if it happened to find it, it showed a lock after the printers name and didn't print. (iOS version is 6.0.1) Has anyone here a clue, as to why iOS does not find the printer or if it finds it, why it shows it as locked? This is my setup (simplified with example domain)
I have this Twitter application that shows on my Mountain Lion available updates list but I don't have any twitter app on my Mac. I had, but I have deleted it times ago. Since then, every time twitter updates their app, I receive a notification that a new update is available. How do I get rid of this ghost app update entry that haunts updates list in the App Store app?
I don't want to update my iPhone 3GS from iOS 5 to iOS 6. I think this happens automatically via WiFi update. How do I stop it from downloading and installing itself?
I want to clear description of more than 100 songs. It is tiring to clear one by one. Can I clear the description in other ways?
I want to make smart playlist that contain more than 1 artist. Example: I want to make smart playlist which artist are: Matchbox Twenty, Savage Garden, and Train. If I fill the box like this: The playlist will be empty.
After storing data on a Fusion Drive, is it possible to downgrade your Mac to use the hard drive (HDD) by just removing the solid state drive (SSD)? In particular, I was wondering what happens when the SSD fails for one reason or another. Under the hood, is a Fusion Drive's SSD just a clone of operating, system, applications and most used files? If so, are all files safe on the old HDD and can it still boot? Or do I need to format the HDD and reinstall operating system, every application and move files back to HDD?
I am a Linux user and have never used OSX before. Someone asked me for help with installing some software on an OSX "Lion" server. I asked him to give me an SSH shell, assuming that would be sufficient. However things are more tricky than I thought.
I'm currently having a Linksys router which gets an IP from my ISP. I have 2 Macbooks which are getting a DHCP lease from this router. When I connect a Time Capsule to the router, the Time Capsule will get an IP from my router, which will be in the same subnet of my Macbooks.
When a contact is associated with a birthday in ios contacts app, I see that person's birthday appear as an all-day event in the calendar app. However, I don't see how to update the event so that a custom reminder may be set. For example, I would like to be reminded 2 days in advance. I am using ios 6.0.1.
My wife and I share a laptop at the house. Because iCloud works best when each individual has their own account (in particular reminders and photos), we each have our own iCloud accounts and therefor our own photo streams.
I am considering buying and using iTunes Match. Is it possible to configure which songs will be available as a cached download on my mobile devices? It so, how? As a smart playlist or via "download me" clicks on the songs? I use my iPhone to play songs while I commute and I do not want to waste gigabytes of mobile traffic on streaming songs.
I am a Linux user and very new to OSX. I have an OSX 10.7.5 "Lion" server that I am configuring as a webserver. I only have shell access.
I want to burn .flac files directly to an audio CD. Is there any (possibly free) OS X application to do this?
Every time I enable my Gmail account (Google Talk) in Messages, I get a message asking if I wish to continue with an unsecure Jabber login. This message reappears every time I open Messages on OS X Mountain Lion, and every few minutes if I keep the account on.
Recently bought an iPhone 5 & iPad Mini. Today tried to message a non-iphone user and got a red name icon in the addressee box that came up as "...is not registered with iMessage" that came up" with an option to "Remove". Did a little web search and discovered that the Mini iMessage" option page in Settings does not show a toggle for "Send as SMS". My new and older iPhones do have that option and don't show the error message..even when I turn that toggle off. I called Apple Help and was told that there is a fix for it, but that I would have to purchase a three month version of Apple Care for them to address it. I really love my new Mini, but at $600+ if they won't fix a basic function, it's headed right back to the store. Any help would be appreciated Thank you
In iTunes, I have purchased some apps and books that are very large in size. I only purchased them in order to own them, taking advantage of a temporary low price, but I don't plan to use them any time soon. My internet connection is not very fast and those downloads would take hours. After purchasing I stopped the download but iTunes will try to download them again when it finds a chance to do so. I have even deleted the downloads from the downloading list. But every once in a while iTunes begins to download these gigantic apps/books again. How can I tell iTunes not to download these purchases EVER unless I explicitly tell otherwise ?
When trying to copy an application into /Applications, I accidentally copied MyApp.app/Contents into /Applications, turning it into an executable package instead of a folder. I have removed /Applications/Contents and made the app accessible as it should be (/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents), but /Applications did not revert to its former glory. Currently, if I navigate to Applications in finder, it opens a terminal into /Applications :(
I updated iTunes to version 11 recently on my Windows 7 machine and now when I add Handbrake encoded movies (.m4v) via "Automatically Add To iTunes" it is moving those movies to the "Home Movies" section instead of "Movies". Prior to iTunes 11 I could add an .m4v to that folder and it would put them in the "Movies" folder. Is there a way to revert that behavior?
Is the Apple Thunderbolt Display just a display, or something more? The thing that confuses me is that they say it has a Thunderbolt cable and it helps data transfer between your Mac and Display to be much faster. What data transfer? Isn't it just a display mirroring whatever is already showing on the MacBook display? Does it have a hard drive or something?
How can I restore an app on my iPad that I thought I didn't want, and deleted? The App Store only lets me "open", not install. I want to know how I can get the icon back on my iPad.
A family member today updated the Facebook app on a 3rd generation iPad (retina display) running iOS 5 and now the app crashes every time one tries to launch it. We've tried rebooting the device, deleting and reinstalling the app, and angrily glaring at the machine.
I accidentally deleted system apps like the App Store.app and the Calendar.app. How can I restore these? I've tried the combo update like suggested for 10.6.6 systems, but that unfortunately doesn't seem to work on 10.8.
I am having this problem where I open up iMessage on my iPod Touch 4th Gen iOS 6.0.1 and it freezes after 3 seconds. There is a specific message that is causing this. This app opens up at this conversation by default. Before the three seconds passes, I can press back to the list of conversations and do stuff on that screen normally. But when I try to delete that specific conversation it reppears! I have tried to sign out and sign back in but the problem still remains. I have tried every possible method I could think of. If anybody knows how I can delete this conversation or fix this problem I would be grateful.
Traveling with Macbook running 10.6 (recent upgrade from 10.5.8). It was a gift and does not have iPhoto. My Sony camera is jammed with images I would ordinarily unload to the big iMac at home (which has iPhoto). Without upgrading to the latest OS (which seems problematic) is there someplace I can acquire (buy, beg, borrow) an older version of iPhoto such as 8.1.2? The Apple site itself has some very unhappy reports from users of the new iPhoto. Upgrading this entire laptop to the latest OS just so I can download some images seems excessive. Or am I wimping out here?
I will be setting up one apple id to use for all the apps for all my three kids on their three ipads, will they be able to facetime each other using the same apple ids? Or do I have to create different ids for them in order to facetime each other? Thank you.
I've just run a very long Matlab simulation on my Mac Book Air. It uses Mac OSX. The simulation has practically finished, but seconds before the end, Matlab appeared in the activity monitor as not responding.
I'm about ready to release my first iOS app. While I was going through the steps to register in the development program I became unsure.
My iMac 27" from 2011 has recently been experiencing random freezes. It either restarts or I am forced to reboot (holding power button several seconds). When frozen the iMac does not respond to pings and nothing at all is written to the system logs.
Is it possible to be notified of new emails whilst on Power Nap, e. g. via a glowing Apple Logo or some LED (e. g. the LED on the charger)?
Text that is copied from a web browser and pasted into the native Stickies app often brings text highlighting along with it and I haven't been able to find a way to remove the highlighting within Stickies. My current workaround is to paste the text into MacVim and then re-copy and paste it into Stickies.
I have updated iTunes to version 11 and I can't Find the spot where to upload and sync documents anymore (to use in iAnnotate for instance). I don't have a WiFi connection so iCloud syncing is not an option. How can I sync documents in iTunes 11?
Xcode 4 has a Focus code blocks on hover setting in Preferences > Text Editing. When you hover the mouse on a Code folding ribbon, the mentioned setting has the effect shown in image below. Also, the effect stays put when you navigate with the keyboard (even when you move focus to Assistant editor, Navigator, Utilities, ... but not to, say, Organizer or Version editor). How could you add a key binding for this?
I am running a first generation iPad with iOS 5.1.1 (the most recent version it will ever have) and I just noticed today that the application Shazam has just dropped support for iOS 5 on the latest version of their app. Seeing that this is probably going to be a first of many apps, is there a way to hide updates that can't be installed on your current version of iOS, so that only updates that is compatible with iOS 5 (and my iPad) will be displayed in the list of updates in the App Store?
The fourth number gives us max turbo when only a single core is active: 5. Five bins is 500MHz, which on top of the 1.8GHz base frequency gives us 2.3GHz. (Edited text from AnandTech to fit my CPU.)
I just purchased four albums with a total of 6 CDs. Four of the CDs work just fine. Two of them will not load on both of my laptops. When I push them into the CD slot, I hear the drive spin up and down a few times and then the CD is kicked back out.
Im a rapper, so all I want to do is import a beat onto garageband and record my vocals over that. Problem is I don't have a laptop, just the iPad. I have downloaded instrumetals on other apps. Is it possible to import these files into garageband just using the iPad(as this is all I have at my disposal)?
From time to time, I spot that the folder icon in the titlebar of one of my Terminal windows has a question mark overlaid on it, e.g. this one:
I read of someone using a Mountain Lion Recovery System to attempt repair permissions of an installation of Lion. I understand that for repair of permissions of Lion, it may be preferable to use OS X 10.7.5 or Recovery OS 10.7.5. A question remains: for repair of permissions of an installation of Lion, is it safe to use Disk Utility in a Mountain Lion Recovery OS?
I'm running iTunes 11 on a retina MacBook Pro, and when I try to download HD movies, iTunes shows me a dialog alert saying "This cannot be played in HD on this computer." The dialog goes on to imply that I have a choice to proceed or to but the standard def version, but I don't see a way to buy the HD version.
Does iTunes put my iTunes account information in track files when I import CD albums? I never shared any music because I prefer to buy original CDs but if someone stoles some files of mine can my account be traced back? I imported my CD collection last year.
My computer has this annoying whistle sound that goes and comes back. Does someone have an idea what it might be? Do I need to take it to the apple shop? 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
I recently bought a store return macbook pro 15 retina, in perfect condition on eBay and Apple's 1 year warranty has not expired on it. Now I want to addd it to my list of Apple products for support. "It" asks me for the original purchase date. What can I do to add it to my name / apple ID?
I'm currently remapping some of the keys on my MacBook using KeyRemap4Macbook - in that process I need to remap the keys using this xml-file, namely private.xml, that is referenced here:*=URL=* This is an example of how private.xml looks like: Does anyone know where I find a chart of the keycodes referenced in the XML, the capitalized words (SPACE, TAB)?
When using a tutorial to clear Launchpad of its mess I had in /Applications, I accidentally cleared Dashboard's list of widgets when I click the (+) button to add downloaded widgets at the same time, kind of like Launchpad's viewing of apps. Here is my Dashboard:
I have a Mac used as a test server and it restarts daily automatically. Occasionally we connect to it to grab files, but if we forget to disconnect, the Mac fails to restart because it waits for confirmation for this dialog:
Why my iPad cannot find the wireless printe? When I am using my laptop it is working fine because I installed the printer cd.How can I print when using my new iPad?
Now that podcasts can get auto-downloaded directly to my iphone, i no longer need to sync with my mac but when i use itunes on my mac, i constantly see podcasts downloading. Given that i never listen to podcasts from my mac, is there any way I can stop these from downloading to my mac without causing issues with my iphone?
My 3G can't seem to handle Netflix streaming; it stops to buffer constantly. The quality seems to be way too high -- it seems to be trying to do HD, without the connection for it. Is there a way to lower the quality, down to maybe YouTube-level, so I can actually stream anything?
I have an .AVI file that I got from a windows machine and i am trying to run it on my mac and i get this error. The Tell me more button doesn't really give me any useful info. Any suggestions on how to be able to view this from my macbook.
As a web developer, I need to make a domain redirect to localhost. I modified the hosts file to do that. But I don't know why it always took so long to do the lookup. How can I solve this?
About a month ago, my iPhone 3GS just stopped working with docks in terms of playing music. It can still charge via docks and I can still connect it to my computer and iTunes for syncing, but it just will not play music through the dock connector. I have upgraded to an iPhone 5, which is why I have not gotten around to try and fix this issue yet, but I would like to see if there is a solution as I would like to enjoy using my 3GS as a permanent iPod for my car (via the car's dock connector obviously).
I have seen this question on retina display issues while working with Eclipse on Macbook . I have a latest personal Intellij Idea License and would like to know your views of retina display support for Intellij Idea 12? I am planning to buy an 11 inch Macbook Air and main purpose is normal net surfing + Java development on Intellij Idea . Are there any gotchas that I should take into consideration before buying? P.S: I am not an Apple user and hence would like to make sure that I get inputs from experienced people before I make this investment.
I have recently synced my partner's iPhone to my computer because his computer crashed. He has his own iTunes account so we backed his phone up to iCloud, wiped it a re-synced it to my computer.But when he tried to access iTunes through his iPhone (to download music or new apps) it takes him to my account and asks for my password.In settings on his iPhone under iTunes account it still has his user ID. How do we get access to his iTunes account from his iPhone back?
I need to make a bootable usb with windows 8 files on it, I can't think of easier option than creating it via help of bootcamp, but Will it work for pc (I want to install files on my pc)?
Using iTunes 11.0.1, I tried to add some newly converted movies to my library for consumption on my Apple TV 2. This used to work well: ripping some movies from my DVDs, converting them using HandBrake with the AppleTV or AppleTV 2 setting and adding them to my media library. However, now nothing happens when I add the movie using Cmd-O in iTunes or via Drag-And-Drop from the Finder. Opening the movie via right click in the Finder in iTunes works however, and I can even stream to the AppleTV then. So what's wrong? I checked in the console logs, and can't find any iTunes related error messages.
As an iPad users sometimes I need to open .msg and .eml files. Sometimes email files types come as attachments in email messages. How do I open such type of mail in my ipad?
While Mail.app offers a menu item for removing attachments from e-mail, I find myself wanting to make a rule for removing attachments from e-mails. Anyone knows how that can be done? AppleScript, perhaps? So basically, a Mail.app rule that works like this: If sender is suchandsuch and attachment type is executable (this is already possible). Remove attachments from e-mail
My problem: iPhoto opens automatically, when I: Copy and paste any kind of file to my Desktop Save any file type to my Desktop Create a screenshot (which is automatically saved to Desktop) iPhoto doesn't open when I: Move any file type to my Desktop Copy and paste a file anywhere in documents (not Desktop) According to this I think the problem is with creating a file on the Desktop. When the problem first appeared:
I installed an SSD in my 2011 Mac Mini to run alongside the stock 500GB HDD. After carefully reading through a number of tutorials, I used Terminal to merge them into a single "Fusion Drive". I cloned my data back over, and all seems to be running perfectly. I'm seeing a very nice bump in speed in starting up and launching apps, and other disk-intensive activities.
I've downloaded IOS 6.0.1 from direct link(not using iTunes). My download can't complete in iTunes as my internet disconnects before completion. So, guys, can anybody help me how can I install downloaded IOS on my iPhone 4S?
I've moved into a new area of the city and it would be nice to feel like I've explored the area properly. I'd like to be able to say that I've walked down every street within, say a mile. I'm looking for an app that might help me track any I've missed.
Is there any way for a user to customize how OSX chooses where to place new windows? It would be great if I could create rules for how that's done, especially if I could do it per-application.
There are some notes that I created on my iphone and i can't see them on my macbook pro. I have icloud turned on everywhere and I do see certain notes synced across my devices but some are just on one.
I'd like to delete specific messages from a conversation in Messages 7.0.1 – is this possible? The messages in question originated from iPhones where you can tap "Edit" and select individual messages for deletion, which I've done, but I can't find a way to delete them from Messages on my Mac (where they appear because I have iCloud syncing turned on form Messages).
In Numbers, I've seen how to change the default cell colour and font, based on table styles. But how can one change the default number formatting? The default "American" formatting for dates, for example, drives me nuts, and it's often the first thing I change in every new spreadsheet I create!
5 yr old MBP Intel bought for video editing ran fine for 4 yrs, using Tiger & FCE 3.5. Past year has been stormy. Onset was unrecoverable crash dx'ed as not-worth-fixing logic board failure by genius at Mac Store.
How can i handle to see the VLC playlist beside my main window? Example: I have a bunch of movies which i created a playlist for. But on my 27" iMac, i don't want to see every movie in fullscreen. For that, i want to see my playlist beside my main window. Is there a skin or a workaround to do this?
our two kids have got ipod touches for Christmas. I tried to get them separate Apple ID accounts but it said because we had the same email address we could only have the one Apple ID. Is there a way to have two separate Apple IDs on the same email address? If not how is the best way to keep their itunes card money separate?
So, I needed to reformat the HD in my mid 2011 Mac Mini (done) and plan to reinstall Mountain Lion on it. I created an SDXC install disk to do this. I'm curious to know if the disk2 partition with the Mac OS X Base System that appears in Disk Utility (as well as any other hidden partition) is the original boot partition from the previous installation of Mountain Lion carried over or is it all new from the install disk I created?
I think it's already known issue that old applications look blurry on the new retina display, but some look ok, just worse quality. As an example I want you too look on the image below:
I have a Sony DUALSHOCK 3 SIXAXIS controller, I can use it as a USB controller on my OS X Mountain Lion MacMini and it works perfectly. I have it set up in Bluetooth so that when it is not connected via USB, I just press the Playstation Logo and it connects instantly via Bluetooth. In my humble opinion, Sony DUALSHOCK 3 SIXAXIS controllers are overpriced, so I bought a gioteck PS3 VX-1 Wireless Controller for $29.99. It is identical in every way to the Sony controller except the shape and that it doesn't come with a lithium ion battery and instead takes two AA batteries or a battery pack like the ones you put in an XBox 360 controller. The "Cheap" controller works identical to the Sony controller when connected via USB. My goal here is to play four player games with the whole family without spending nearly $200 on PS3 controllers.
I would like to completely remove Apple's Java 6 and make Oracle's Java 7 default for every program. For example, with Eclipse I had to fiddle with eclipse.ini to specify JAVA_HOME for Java 7, and the same for TunnelBear. No luck for Aptana, though (it still wants Apple's Java) Is there a way to make Oracle's Java default in terms of PATH?
I tried switching off and on the 'live updating', restarting iTunes in between. No luck.I copied the playlist, and the copy showed the same stale set of podcasts, not the newer ones I verified existed.I changed the filter settings for the smart playlist, but no change. I have the same issue with a smart playlist for 'music' (in this case, podcasts downloaded as regular MP3s, where iTunes doesn't recognize them as podcasts but as music, where I filter-out 'songs' I've already heard at least once).
Using Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on a MBP (13" mid-2009) I have times when applications launch during startup even though they have been exited before the last shutdown. This seems to happen on the order of 10% of the time. These are not applications that have been set to automatically run on login. When it happens, the restoration includes all the application from some given time...perhaps 30 seconds before shutdown. If I were guessing, I'd say that the system takes snapshots of what's running and sometimes restores from a stale snapshot but I haven't heard of anything like that. Any explanations or fixes?
While browsing on my Ipad2 we'd like to take notes and save whole websites (not just bookmark them). The Evernote add-on on Chrome (on my PC) gives the exact functionality that I'm looking for. Is there an equivalent app for Ipad? Note that for a special accessibility reason we use Chrome instead of Safari. Thank you.
I'm going to spend my holidays in New York and I would like to buy an iPad Mini 32GB Wi-Fi. (I'm from Italy) However I talked with two guys at the Apple Store and they told me
Here are some tests I have when I ran Apple Hardware Test from original Tiger install disc. My issue is recurrent worsening inconsistent kernel panics.
In earlier versions of OS X (Snow Leopard, maybe?), middle-click on an open application's icon in the Dock would have the same effect as right-click -> show all windows.
My iPad will not send messages or receive I'm connected to wifi I can send them but the send bar at the top will go almost all the way then stop and say about thirty seconds later not delivered
I have a tutorial CD-ROM that consists of flash videos presented in a standalone player. I'd like to "rip" them to my computer so that I can play them without the CD-ROM itself, and without the standalone player entirely. I'd like to be able to play each flash movie individually, and even copy only the specific ones I want to take with me. This means that simply making an ISO image of the CD-ROM, is also not sufficient.
I have an iMovie project (stop motion animation). Everything is fine, except for a dark scene. The photos get pixelated and blocked, and really ruined. The original image is very sharp and clear, yet the one in iMovie and the exported video files is ruined.
After replacing the harddisk drive in MacBook Pro with a Solid State Disk I am wondering which settings I should change and how. Thinking of things that are supposed to protect the SSD like enabling TRIM support disabling suspend to disk disabling the shock sensor (if no standard harddrive is used anymore - does that make sense at all?) Update: Swapping the harddrive with a SSD was just the best decision - totally different, much better experience, almost like a new, much faster MacBook Pro.
Whenever you try to copy an HTML table to the pasteboard, it will select by row. Sometimes, I'd like to select by columns. Is there a way to do this? If not out of the box, any extensions that enable this kind of functionality.
I have three iOS 6 devices among which I would like to selectively share apps. I have an iPhone and my wife has an iPhone and an iPad. I understand that by using a common Apple ID for the App Store, we can purchase apps once and use them on all three devices; no problem there. However, I'd like to be able to manage things in a slightly more advanced way, if possible. Here's what I would like to happen: If my wife purchases an app on her iPhone, it will automatically download to her iPad, and vice versa. If my wife purchases an app on her iPhone, it will automatically download to her iPad, and vice versa.
I put all my music on a playlist seperate from the rest of the music on the iTunes library, so I could easily get to what music I wanted to listen to, instead of my brother or sister's music. My brother recently got an iPod nano, and didn't know how to use iTunes, after explaining it to him, he deleted my whole entire playlist. I didn't know, so when I hooked my phone up to the computer to sync some songs I was going to buy, all the music on my phone disappeared. I've tried re-doing the playlist and syncing all of it to my phone again, but it won't work. I've also tried turning off my phone for certain periods of time, still nothing. I lost about 200 songs (thankfully not more), and I don't know how to get it back.
I'm trying to play a game that I just bought that uses the Game Center on OS X Mountain Lion. This is the first time I have a game that uses the Game Center. I'm able to log in with my Apple ID. It asks me to set up my Game Center account. I choose create a nickname and I check the tick-boxes if I want want my profile public or not and to add my contacts. After I click continue I get a window that says saving but it never saves, never gives an error message. How do I get this to work?
I've got a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini, and I want to keep them in sync: all files and folders, all settings, all everything. Here's what I know won't work: Dropbox, iCloud. Here's what I know might work: install Mountain Lion Server on the Mac Mini as my "main" computer in an admin account, then use that to create a separate network account / portable home directory / mobile users / something like that, then make that account the default one on my MacBook Pro. The problem is that I have absolutely no clue how to do this and I'd like to get some help. I'm aware that I may have to use a few different things to do the full sync - like setting up OS X server to do most of the work, but still using Dropbox for certain files and something like Chronosync for others. Please tell me where to start.
Maybe I am going about this the wrong way... open to other solutions such as airplay if the speaker is small (haven't seen any small airplay speakers). Currently our bluetooth speakers streams to the one that was paired first. If the second phone is streaming and you start playing something from the first phone it overrides the current phone if in range (which it is most of the time) so it gets annoying especially because it does phone calls too. Would like to have one speaker in each room (2 total) instead of buying 4 and pairing each phone to one speaker in each room.
I need to install Windows 8 on my MacBook. So I am hoping to install VMware and then install Windows 8 on top of it.
I was wondering if there is a Cydia App or some other way that provides a way to browse and choose different available networks in a very fast manner ? I hate going through Settings > Wi-Fi > Network - I would rather have a drop down list from notification center or something similar. Any suggestions ?
This started two days ago and I can't decide if my MacBook is at fault, my router is at fault, or I have a hacker. My MBP will throw an error saying the IP address I've been using has been assigned to another machine and blah blah blah reset the router or contact my local admin. (Which is me; this is our home system.) I'll renew the DHCP license and the error immediately comes up again. Also happens if I am HARDWIRED to the router itself. (So if wi-if is on I get two errors simultaneously.) I tried changing my MAC address to something else, thinking it was a possibility the MAC address was being spoofed, but the problem continues. I have a linksys router and a cable modem.
Does any web browser that runs on Tiger 10.4.11 (PowerPC) have a "quick view" mode for PDF documents? Google.com in Firefox 3.6.27 used to (that is, clicking on "quick view" next to xxx.pdf brought up a Google PDF viewer that ran under Firefox), but Google seems to have stopped supporting Firefox 3.6 and quick-view too.
I've read on Tom's Hardware that Intel HD Graphics 4000 supports three displays. Is that information valid for 2012 Mac Minis too? Does anyone have any information on what the Mac Mini's capability is with regard to maximum number of displays, resolutions and port limitations? With regard to display ports, what would a DisplayLink type of connection be categorised as?
The Facebook app (version 5.3 from Dec 13, 2012) running on iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 crashes at launch. It always used to work then I restored to factory settings whilst upgrading to iOS 5.1.1 now it crashes on launch and returns user to home screen. I have deleted the app and all it's data, restarted the iPad and re-installed the app. Other apps from the store and that account run fine, but I'm at a loss what to do next?
I upgraded my iTune to iTune 11, and no longer find the option to synchronize note. I do not like to use iCloud (no WiFI or Cellular), but cannot figure a way to synchronize (or download) the note on my iPad to my Mac's Note.app.
I have two scanners accessible from my machine (using Lion): a USB flatbed scanner, and a multifunction network printer. Whenever I launch Image Capture (either directly, or indirectly from Preview), it selects the first scanner (USB) and runs an "overview scan". Whenever I change the selected scanner (e.g. from the USB scanner to the multifunction printer), an "overview scan" is performed again. This automatic overview is irksome: It is slow and takes several seconds. It is noisy. Most of the time, it is totally useless (especially when I want to use the "document feeder" of the multifunction printer, since then the overview is done with the flatbed source of the printer, so I get a blank overview). There is a nice "overview" button that I perfectly know how to click, if I really want an overview. Is there a way to deactivate this automatic overview scan ?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009, It came with two DVDs: Application Install DVD and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Installation DVD. Since DVDs have a short life, I want to back up these two DVDs (Especially the OS X Installation DVD).
I'm relatively a novice when it comes to computers. I recently upgraded my MBP to the new OS X 10.8.2 and noticed that it's running much slower now. I purchased this laptop in the summer of 2009. Here are the basic specs:
Is it possible in some way to modify conditions when OS X will go to sleep? In my opinion the time delay of system sleep is insufficient.
My iPad 3 doesn't want to connect to my cellular network. When i want to go onto the appstore or internet it says I'm not connected. We have taken it to our local iStore and to the network providers but it hasn't done anything, probably made it worse. We have turned it off and on, reset network settings and even changed networks. its second hand and we haven't used wifi on it yet. What could it be and what should we do?
I'm learning Omnigraffle and am ok with most shapes. But I want arrows with heads at each end, like this (done in Pages.app):
I use a third party app for alt-tab, so when I hit alt+shift+tab+Q, the operating system doesn't recognize it as quitting the app. Instead it recognizes it as the log out keyboard command. (The native OSX alt+shift+tab+q will quit the app, however.) I figure this could easily be resolved if I could change the keyboard shortcut. OSX 10.7.5, Macbook Pro mid-2011.
I'd just like to know why if I "tar -czf" a file/directory, osx adds a: ._ for each file? I see these when I untar in linux. Or when I work with the uncompressed project in eclipse as it doesn't like them at all. I use 10.7.5.
I'm going to attempt to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my new Retina Macbook Pro. Since it's lacking an optical drive, every tutorial / walkthrough that I find says I need an ISO version of Windows. I can't seem to find any sort of direct download links / stores that don't seem shady though? Where can I get a legit copy of windows in ISO format?
Upgraded to Mountain Lion a few weeks ago, didn't have the problem. A few days ago I replaced the hard drive with a SSD and did a clean install of Mountain Lion then manually moved my background images to the new drive. I added the folders to the sidebar in the System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver panel. After closing it and reopening it, every folder but the last selected folder is gone. I tried removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist then rebooted and the problem remained. Steps to reproduce: Open System Preferences > Desktop Add Folder A to panel Add Folder B to panel Open Folder B and choose image from it to set desktop Click Folder A to browse it Close System Preferences Reopen System Preferences > Desktop See that Folder A remains Video screenshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qy01PS0aT0
I want to develop for iOS and I want to do some real testing of my apps on the cheapest device. Looking at the hardware they are the same except for the screen. They are both IPS but the iPod has a retina resolution. Here are my concerns: with the iPod touch I'm sure that my apps will run well on the iPhone 5, with the iPad mini I don't know if it will be fit to test for the Retina displays in both the 4th Gen iPad and iPhone 5. Will one of them be better for testing apps?
I have a 2,26GHz mid-2009 macbook pro with 8Gb Ram and mountain lion (mac os x 10.8.2). Recently my computer doesn' t stop freezing and I have to force the computer to shut down. Then I cannot boot at all the computer shows a flashing folder with a question mark. When I run disk utility from the installation cd then I am able to boot from the drive again but it will eventually starts lagging after a few minutes of utilization with software's such as safari, skype or even the finder. I wanted to get a ssd recently. Will it fix this issue or the problem might lie elsewhere? I tried to boot from different sessions it always freezes at a moment, I have been able to run a virus scan disk and I didn't find any virus nor trojans .
I am looking for a macintosh program that can find and replace text in a very large text file (7MB). I've tried TextMate, TextEdit and nano (command line) but both take a very long time (I've waited over an hour and still didn't finish). Am I being impatient, or is there a more efficient solution?
I'm looking to build a NAS box and putting ML on it. I currently have two drives that are configured as RAID one that I am pulling out of a NAS box. I have one drive that I'd like to add to the two already RAID drives, but I'm not sure if that's possible. And is it even possible to have one drive with data on it and then create a RAID with another diver without it removing/formatting the data that is currently on the main drive?
In my disk utilty, I have some unused space left over. I want to resize Macintosh HD to use this space.
Is it possible to watch youtube videos on a Mac using QuickTime as it is on iOS? How to force Safari to render youtube video stream in QT plugin.
I have an iPad v1 and need to plug in its IP to a program on my computer to test files. The problem is every time I connect, the IP is reset and I have to enter a new IP. Is there a way to have it permanently on one IP?
I'm supposed to use DDR2 5300 (667MHz) RAM for my MacBookPro 4,2. The max is 6GB, and I already have 4GB (2 x 2GB), so I only need a single stick of 4GB. So far it looks like this spec RAM runs about $100. 4GB of DDR3 RAM runs about $20.
I'm trying to install Yeoman.io and part of it requires Homebrew to be installed. I am on Mountain Lion (10.8) and things seemed to install correctly except when I run $ homebrew doctor it complains with the following message: Here is what my ~/.bashrc looks like: and my .bash_profile looks like: I use RVM so it's written in its own stuff in case that affects the homebrew installation.
So i have an iPod Touch 4th Generation that is iOS 6.0.1 and i recently bought an Apple Peel 520 2nd Generation. I could be wrong but im pretty sure that the Apple Peel 520 2nd Generation doesn't support iOS 6.0.1 and if it doesn't which Apple Peel Device (or something similar) does? I looked up some stuff and so far what i found out is that the Apple Peel 520 2nd Generation supports iOS 5.1.1 but here's the catch. I bought my iPod Touch 4th Generation a few months ago at Walmart and it already had iOS 6.0 and a day or two later iOS 6.0.1 came out and i downloaded that. But that was BEFORE i found out about the Apple Peel 520 2nd Generation. So does that mean that i can't downgrade? And if i definately cannot downgrade, does anyone know of any other Apple Peel Device (or something similar) by Yosion or other similar companies that will?
For apps like Instagram or Snapchat, when my screen is on the lock screen and a notification shows up, there is no sound. Can I enable notification sounds for Instagram or Snapchat?
How can I create icon stacks on dock? For example, I want stack the icons of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Next is can I rename an application category in Lauchpad?
I was told that iOS devices defaults to 802.11a which runs on 5 GHz band when 5 GHz 802.11n is not available. Have anyone experimented with that? How does negotiation between access points and client devices work?
I have one of those little remote control helicopters and it needs to be charged via USB. It takes 45 minutes to charge.
I did Repair Disk Permissions, reindexing files for Spotlight, and remove cache folders but it's still broken. It takes 30 seconds to several minutes to files to show up in local, not remote, folders. Also tried to boot in Safe Mode but it was the same there.
So I know how to create a webpage with dashcode (3.0.5). If I start a new project I can create a webpage/website by simply using the GUI, drag and drop items, resize WITHOUT coding. However, if I open an .html file with dashcode after I create a site the code opens. I cannot figure out how to edit the page as I can when I first create a page. I'd like to use the IDE that allows me to drag and drop things with ease, not manipulate the HTML.
The hard drive in my mom's MacBook (2,1) was dying so I got her an Adata SSD and replaced the original hard drive with it. I booted it up with her original Mac OS 10.4 install CD and used disk utility to format the SSD to have a single HSF+ partition and successfully installed Mac OS 10.4 on her laptop.
What is the protocol used by iPod/iPhone when connecting to a stereo via USB? Is it PTP or some other proprietary protocol?
I would like to save some space on my laptop and to do so I was thinking of moving my Pictures folder on an external hard drive. As OSX doesn't want me to mess around with the main folders in my home, how can I do this and is it safe to do so? (this follows from my original question, which was closed as it wasn't a real question https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76019/can-i-point-one-of-the-user-core-folders-to-an-external-hard-drive)
I have a western digital 2TB hard disk (wd caviar green) connected through a unitek sata hdd docking station with my macbook air (10.8.2). When I try to backup with time machine, the backup fails with an error. I went into console.app and got following log entrys for backupd What is the reason for this backup failure and how do I resolve the problem?
The real problem comes later, when I need (I believe I need) to use sudo and it eventually says that org1 is not in the sudoers list. I don't care for org1 I want me. @Patrix EDIT
Ok here it is, when I updated my 3GS to iOS 6 there are times that my iPhone is freezing (when I used the "Tap to Tweet" button) and my iPhone just auto restarting for a couple of seconds. Is this auto restart thing is a new feature of iOS 6 or just a bug?
When I was installing windows 7 on my mac I allocated 55GB to my bootcamp partition, I now realise that it is not enough for me. is there a way to extend it, without loosing any data and re-instaling windows?
I have tried libraries/mobile sync. I located the backup folders but it only has 4 contacts. I need my old contacts and I have tried iphonebackupextractor. But it also shows only 4 contacts.
I inherited a Mountain Lion Server system that hosts a PHP web app. Among the things this app does is send email using the php mail() command, which executes the sendmail binary. In addition to being able to do this, from the command line you can send email using /usr/bin/mail, in the standard way, and logging appears in /var/log/mail.
I would like to create a new user account for the wiki server but with read only access to the content. The admin guide says that it can be done but it doesn't say how! Do you happen to know?
The alarm to ever NOT make a audible sound, regardless of any other volume/sound settings (e.g. if the answer is "flip the toggle switch on before you go to sleep and flip it off when you wake up," that's not good enough because I know I'll forget to do that and miss my alarm)
On my computer I have two accounts: geoff and admin. I want to do gacutil.... Doing it in account geoff (where I need it to be done) I get the message: When I login as admin this seems to work fine. So I go back to the geoff account and try sudo gacutil... and putting the password for geoff but it tells me that geoff is not in the sudoers file.
I have a 6th gen iPod Nano (software version 1.2) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 6.0.1) . On the iPod, I have options to listen to podcasts at ½x, 1x, and 2x time. On the iPhone Podcasts app version 1.1.2 (209), I have options for ½x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, and 3x time. If I listen to a podcast at 1x speed on both devices, it unsurprisingly sounds the same. However, if I listen to a podcast at 2x speed on both devices, it sounds more sped up on the iPhone. The voices sound more natural on the iPod but more like chipmunks on the iPhone. Is there a reason for this difference? Why do these two Apple devices handle audio speeds differently?
I had a customer come in (regular) and brought me a mac his son screwed up by deleting partitions and installing windows. Somehow in the bootcamp process he screwed it all up. So now there's a fresh windows 8 installation on it, but I cannot for the life of me find proper drivers for his wireless card and other items.
How can I change the American keyboard icon my menu bar from a colored icon to black and white?
I applied OpenDNS server addresses to Network Preference > Advanced > DNS. These were applied first under user account, then believing I needed to apply as Admin. Yet upon reboot they're replaced with 127.0.0.54 Why don't OpenDNS server addresses continue to apply after reboot?
I want to leave my Mac awake overnight so it syncs 4GB of data from Dropbox. I need to prevent the machine from going to sleep because that pauses the Dropbox sync I've been using Caffeine to keep the computer awake, but it also keeps the computer unlocked which is insecure.
There are 50gb of free space on the SSD, and RAM is maxed out at 8GB. The computer is otherwise fine, though seems to freeze a lot when using Chrome (I hear this is not uncommon). Update: I had the same problem on a clone of my hard drive running on a standard HD (non-SSD), so the SSD is irrelevant.
I recently set up a CardDav account on my iPhone 4S which is running iOS 6.01. It synced with my GMail account just fine, however, the Contacts app only shows those that are within the My Contacts group. I have a handful of other groups that I've created to organize my contacts, so not all of them are shown under My Contacts (what they call a contact group seems to be just a label).
I want to charge my iPhone 5 and listen to the music using AUX in my car. How can I do this using one cable? I have such a cable for my iPhone 4. Is there any good option for iPhone 5?
I am trying to find out where Ruby expects to find its openssl CA list. My environment is: Mac OS 10.7.5 OpenSSL from homebrew Rbenv from homebrew Ruby 1.9.3, installed using rbenv and CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`" Confirmation that my Ruby is using homebrew OpenSSL (note: /Users/me is a redacted version of the user directory in all examples below): To test, I have written the following script: If I manually specify the path to my SSL_CERT_FILE, it works: If not, it breaks:
On my OS X 10.5.8 system, the man page for 'file' says: -h, --no-dereference and also: -L, --dereference For me, the default seems to be the "-L" behavior (i.e., always traversing symlinks and reporting the type of the target file), regardless of whether I have POSIXLY_CORRECT set or not. The "-h" option does the right thing if I explicitly specify it, fortunately.
How can I set a video background in iMovie? I have a video and the background is black. How can i change it to white in iMovie?
After upgrading from MacOS 10.6 to 10.8, I keep getting alerts on my MBP saying "There was a problem connecting to the server xyz". The thing is, there is no longer a machine called "xyz" on my network (I've renamed it to something else in hopes of eliminating/diagnosing this problem).
Being the local geek, friends and family turn to me for upgrading RAM in their computers. They provide the new sticks and I keep the old ones. As such, I have accumulated quite the collection of DDR3 SODIMMs, consisting of pairs of 1GB and 2GB sticks.
I want to verify the files, and configuration settings for my OSX installation against a known good reference "base". Assuming I have two identical Macs (hardware), with one being factory installed and up-to-date in patches versus another as-is Mac.. how do I compare the differences between them? Where do I look? Although some people may use this answer as forensics, I'm looking more in the sense that I installed a few python libraries and am not sure what I did with them, and want to do some housekeeping.
I just authorized iTunes against a laptop and I was expecting it to be my third of five computers authorized on my iTunes account. But iTunes said it was the fourth. How do I find out what machines are authorized against my account?
I end up with quite a number of duplicate pictures on my iPhone because of Photostream. For example, I take a picture which is saved in the Camera Roll. It is then automatically uploaded to my Photostream. Then, I share the photo to three different Photostreams. As a result I can see the same picture in 5 different places. I'm really tight on space on my device and wondering if this would make it more pronounced?
I found this tutorial here but I am unable to find such type of buttons in iPad. I am also unable to slow down videos in OS X. I am trying to watch this video here but it is too fast educational video. So how can I watch slowed-down videos?
My laptop displays the time correctly in the menu bar, but when it records an activity, like the creation of a file, a sent message in iMessage, a reminder, it always shows the time as 7pm with whatever minutes are accurate. So if I send an iMessage at 3:22pm it would appear as sent at 7:22pm. And if I make a folder at 10:00am it appears as created at 7:00pm.This is driving me crazy. How can I solve this?
My Apple TV 2 is configured to use my single iTunes account. When I use my Macbook Pro to login into that account in iTunes, I can't play a move I bought (and can play) on the Apple TV. I get this error message: This computer is already associated with an Apple ID I've tried "Store -> Authorize this computer" in iTunes, but it makes no difference. Shouldn't I be able to play this movie on my laptop?
I deleted and reinstalled a game on iOS. The app still knows my account name. According to another question there are no leftovers when an app is deleted.
How do I download songs to my iPod Shuffle without deleting the songs that are already on it? When I try to download songs, it gives me this message: Are you sure you want to remove existing music and audiobooks from this iPod and sync with this iTunes library? [Remove and Sync] [Cancel]
I dont know much about computer thing and just knew that mac has a built-in backup called time-machine? what is that? can it help us recover the lost data in my mac. and why people still need some third party mac data recovery tool like minitool mac data recovery software used by my friends for a couple of years?
Setting a filetype to always open with a specific application works only until I restart my computer. Macbook Pro Retina under OSX version 10.7.5. Why?
I have about 40 apps that need to be updated, mostly iOS but also some OS X. Some are free and some are ones I bought previously. I have only ever had one apple account and am still using it, but when I try to update any app I get e following error "You can not update this software since you have not owned the major version of this software". I can however download new apps. My account is based in Canada, I am currently in Australia on holidays for 5 weeks. How can I update the apps while I'm here?
I don't have a single clue how my Mac OS comes to be like this.. Whenever I'm prompted to enter my password for admin rights to make changes to the system, my Mac OS seems to have a hard time finding the correct characters to represent the Roman alphabets it wants to display. Here are some screenshots regarding what it shows:
If I have columns that sum at the bottom, how can I have the sum function automatically include a newly inserted row. Then when I add row 5 the sum function should be
I’ve just erased all data and settings in my iPhone 3GS. I’ve upgraded to the latest iOS (6.0.1) before that. Will erasing all data and settings affect my previous upgrade?
The only way that I have been able to use the machine again is to hard-reset it (which I never like doing); but upon rebooting, shortly after authenticating there is a kernel panic. The machine then starts normally after the consequent soft-reboot. Grateful for thoughts on how to identify the cause and/or resolve the problem. Having continuted to search around, I discovered a post in which a similar problem was resolved by: disabling safe sleep; rebooting; removing the hibernatefile; rebooting; re-enabling safe sleep.
How do I set Caps Lock to behave like shift, working only when down, without memory?
I've currently got around 700 apps installed on my desktop PC, and 500 installed on my iPad. I'm trying to remove all of the apps from my iTunes library that aren't on my PC, but it seems the only way of doing this is to delete my entire library and sync them back across which I have to be honest and say I'm not very keen on. It's a nightmare to have to keep clicking between them, especially in the new iTunes. At the moment I'm taking a screenshot every time I delete an app, which is far from ideal. I'm wondering if there is a way to have one window open with a list of apps, and one window open with a list of my syncs within iTunes?
I currently have have 692 IPA files on my Windows 7 machine, but only 598 IPA files actually in my Applications section of iTunes I'm guessing this is a result of me pressing the wrong key when deleting apps, and not removing them from my machine (annoying how 'keep files' is always the default selection) Is there anyway I can remove all of the files that aren't in applications, without having to manually check each one?
Is there a simple way of copying video files (taken with the camera, so they are .mov) from iPhone 5 right to desktop using the USB cable? I thought of adding them to Goodreader, but Goodreader compresses the files before adding them. Dropbox would maybe kind of work but I guess it uploads to the internet dropbox first which is an unnecessary and slow roundtrip, especially since WIFI on iPhone 5 is (still) broken.
Do external batteries for iPhones work well? I have an iPhone 4S For example, is it true that I can charge up to 6 times my iphone with this product?
On iOS 6.0.2. Can't see nor search my Sent emails other than the ones I actually sent from the iPad. I'm using Yahoo Business Mail on IMAP settings.
I have a Mac that runs Snow Leopard and I intend to upgrade it to Mountain Lion and sell it on ebay. However, I only have one hard-drive, and I'm sure I can't use something in my OS to delete my OS and all user data. Is there something for this that's built into the firmware that I can do on boot, or otherwise?
How do I disable that? I definitely don't want any app to know my location (and send it back to god knows who), with or without my consent.
I wanted to post a cropped image on FaceBook. I scanned the image into preview (import from scanner), cropped it and when "save in the cloud" was suggested I was quite happy to save it there.
My rMBP has the following specifications, how much shall I give bootcamp ? or is it decided on it's own ? 2.6 Ghz i7 16GB DDR3 RAM OS X 10.8.2 GT 650M 1024MB
I'm trying to install Office on my mother-in-law's MacBook. The installer fails every time with:
In a few weeks, I will have the iPhone 4. I won't take data with SMS-call hours. But I love taking pictures wherever I go, and the geo-tagging feature is a great thing. Does the iPhone 4 geo-tag pictures usefully even without data?
I want to delete an episode from my iPhone so I can watch a different episode (because I took up so much space with music and such). If I do, it won't permanently delete, will it? Will it still be on the iTunes account, but not on this device?
This is a stupid question, but I just got an iPad mini for Christmas. I have an iPod touch, and want to sync my app data for my games, etc., across devices. Does this happen automatically through iCloud?
I was using my MacBook air after returning home. The network was down, so I put it down, closed the lid, and went to reboot the router. Upon returning to my MacBook Air, opening the lid, nothing displays on the screen. Pressing the power button does nothing. I've now attached it to a charger, but still nothing happens, other than the yellow light to indicate that it is charging. The apple on the top of the laptop is not illuminated either.
Finally upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am noticing an annoying behavior in Preview. When I two-finger scroll too quickly with my 2009 MBP trackpad, the scrolling is jerky and can skip many pages in a document. So you're scrolling a 25 page document, you are at page 2, you scroll quickly to get to page 10 and suddenly you are page 22...
Also : do you have any idea which of those parts (specifically the cpu) IS upgradeable? and up to what?
Seems the most common relationship to this error is using Windows on a separate partition. Here is my problem. I have a 1 TB external disk that was used half for Time Machine and half for general storage, partition called Mac Swap. In order to make a more elegant back up, I replaced my Time Machine with a full 2 TB external disk. This allowed me to delete the old half (just rendered obsolete) and extend the Mac Swap half to a full 1 TB. But that is where I got stuck. I can't extend the partition, Mac Swap.
I just bought my first Mac (to learn to build apps!). I have the June 2012 non-retina display 15 inch MacBook Pro. Does any 16x10 aspect ratio montior technically work (monitor with VGA and DVI jacks)?
Currently, I'm not at home so I must use the hotel's hotspot. Unfortunately, the majority of ports are closed, except 80, 443 and 22, and I would like to connect to my FTP, or connect Steam to play my games, etc.
I have just gotten the New IPad - my first foray into the world of Apple. I'm eager to make the most of it that I can, for both personally and for work. In order for me to be able to use it for work, I really need to find a solution that works seamlessly with DropBox to provide client-side encryption for my files.
I'm new to iTunes and everything doesn't make sense for me. I need to do backup of contacts, photos and music on my iPhone. I've tried to follow several manuals how to do backup on my Windows PC but can't pass few steps. My iPhone is connected by USB cable and is detected by iTunes I can't select anything from iTunes -> File -> Devices as all functions are grayed out
I have an iPad retina and would like to load data from a MS Duo memory card (the proprietary format for Sony digital cameras). What are my options? Unfortunately, using the USB port of the digital camera is not an option as my camera does not have one. EDIT According to several forums, using a USB memory card reader with the camera connection kit used to work, but recent CCKs apparently do not supply the necessary power for USB memory card readers anymore, so a normal reader might not work.
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard), I have noticed that always when I wake up my MacBook Pro, a window from the previously active application is moved to the front. What causes this? Can I turn this "feature" off?
I recently moved by itunes library from my pc to an external hard drive and updated to itunes 11.0. After doing this, when I click on my music I can see two separate libraries. One is just under Library as music. Then there is a second one listed below that says Shared Library and refers to the external hard drive. Some of the songs from albums are missing in the main libary but are present on the Shared Library. Do I need both of these libraries and if so is there a way to update the main library to get these missing songs from the shared library?
I've seen descriptions of running an RDP client on the iPhone. I've also seen descriptions of using the iPhone as a touchpad/mouse replacement for a PC. But I haven't seen a description of a combined application that shows the remote desktop screen via AirPlay (to an Apple TV) on a TV while enabling the iPhone to act as a touchpad for that remote desktop. It would make the iPhone/AppleTV/TV combo a complete remote desktop solution without additional hardware (other than a network).
When using my kindle I can make all manner of annotations, which I can then view on the book I have anotated. This is also true of my kindle iOS app.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant won't let me increase the Windows partiton's size above ~45 GB. I've got 200 GB free out of 500 GB on my SSD.
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina display (currently running Mountain Lion v10.8.2). Every time I wake it up from sleep (open the lid), it doesn't seem to automatically re-connect to the Wi-Fi network. If I manually click on the connect button, it works fine. I'm fairly sure this used to work. How can I fix this?
How can I make it so that each space has its own isolated dock? Basically what I'm looking for is: The dock in one space should not show the icon of an app that was open in another space. The dock in one space should not show the icon of an app that was open in another space. If I have the same program open in two different spaces, clicking on the icon in one space should not go to the app in the other space. If I have the same program open in two different spaces, clicking on the icon in one space should not go to the app in the other space. Is this possible natively, or with a third party program?
I just started out using tmux, so I figured I would set my Caps lock key equal to the Ctrl key. Though sometimes I do need the Caps lock key. I don't care if it requires playing with the Terminal or system files, I'm not afraid of that. However it would be nice if I could just run Terminal commands so that I can put it in a script. Also, if possible, it would be nice if it doesn't require extra software, although if it's necessary then there's no problem.
I have an iPad mini, updated to iOS 6. I can use my Facebook app well in every department apart from messages. In both the top display and side display, when I click on the messages option the Facebook app will crash. I have tried uninstalling the app, restarting, installing and restarting, but nothing improves or changes. Also I have tried the proper restart by holding down both the top lock/unlock button and home button but that has not worked either. Is there anything else I can do to fix this crashing problem?
I created a named album on my iPhone and placed photos from my camera roll in there. I would then like to delete these photos from the camera roll. However, when I try to do so an error messages warns that the photos (which currently reside in the the camera roll and named album) will also be deleted from the album. Is there a way to delete the photos from the camera roll and leave them in the specific album?
I have collected all of my photographs onto one hard drive. I'm looking for software that runs on Mountain Lion to assist in finding similar photos so I can review and eliminate redundant files.
I have to install Windows XP on my mid-2012 Mountain Lion MacBook Air (base config: 4GB RAM, 128GB SDD, 1.8 GHz) but the BootCamp doesn't support anything except 7. I can't afford to set aside sth like 15-25 GB for Win 7.
I recently had a Macbook Pro stolen. I used Find My iPhone "Erase" feature which after two days claimed to have worked. But how reliable is this? The computer had a 500Gb SSD in it, and warns that it could take up to a day to complete the erase. Does anyone know if the "Erased successfully" message is sent after the erase has complete, or at the start of it being instigated by iCloud, as presumably someone could pull the power / turn it off, and prevent the erase completing (if the message were sent at the start)? NOTE: There was (stupidly of me) no security / encryption on the drive but I did set the passcode when I used the erase feature of FMi
My mac was stolen and I went on find my iphone to take the next steps : I tried to locate it, but it was offline (probably because there was no battery at the time it was stolen).
I want to update my jailbroken iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 to iOS 5.1 or any other iOS which is best for it. But I havent synced my iphone since a long time and that device I synced it to is no longer with me. So there's no backup. PLease help me:(
Does Google have an iPhone app that supports Googel Talk \ Gmail chat? Google says:
I have iCloud set up on all three devices, but email messages deleted on one device don't also get deleted on other two devices. How do I fix this?
I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me for some different Apple ID I've never heard of. How can I get rid of the update showing up?
I recently upgraded to Mac OSX Mountain Lion and everything is running great. However, I liked the outlay of notes in PDF much better in the old Preview (Preview 5.0.3). I was wondering if there was anyway that I could get the old version back and overwrite the new version?
In an effort to shut down the httpd server, I was going to execute this command: Instead this was executed:
We have a family iTunes account. My son wants to have his own Clash of Clans game on his iPod, so we created his own Apple ID and he logged into Game Center from his iPod with the new ID to download the game. However, it automatically reverts back to my husband’s game and the family account. How do we get it to download under his new ID?
Please help. I updated my iPhone 3GS and have lost all my contacts/data. I did not make a backup as I am on a borrowed computer. How can I restore my old settings?
Reminders app in iPad mini doesn't allow for typing in reminders, and dictation through Siri doesn't work to set reminders either. Also, when the edit button is pressed in the reminders app, it closes.
I have an iPad 3 which I would like to use to play music to Bluetooth speakers in the background while I play various games and the like. The problem is that the foreground apps interrupt the sound of the background radio app. In Windows you can control which programs are allowed to output sound with the volume mixer; similarly, is there any way to lock sound output on an iPad to one background app?
Which iOS jailbreak apps implement a notifications system that most closely resembles Android's implementation?
Bought an iPod Touch for my son which I then discovered is a 2nd gen which doesn't support lots of apps and games. Currently I either have to try downloading a game to see if it fails or read the blurb for each one, which is a complete pain in the ass. Is there any way to sort or filter iTunes so that the only results I see are the ones which will actually work on 4.2.1?
I have several clients who have Airport Extremes and Macs at their houses. They all have dynamic IP address from their ISP. I want to have their Airport Extremes register their IP addresses with my server, which has a static IP. Does anyone have a guide to set this up? For example, if my domain is xyzdomain.com I'd like to register clientA.xyzdomain.com on my server. I realize I need to host my own dynamic IP server, but I'm not having much luck finding instructions for OS X server (10.8).
Is it possible to put my AirPort in access point mode, so it creates an infrastructure (ie, non-ad-hoc) network from the command line on OS X? Similar to using System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet -> Share from … to computers using WiFi.
A member of my family has a 16GB iPad which keeps reporting that it is out of space. One big occupier of space on the iPad seems to be Photostream pictures. Is there a way to a) figure out how much space Photostream is occupying on the device and b) limit or reduce that space without disabling Photostream entirely? I'd prefer something easy like a preference box I've just overlooked, but some sort of script-based hack that inserts a bunch of minimal-sized photos into the stream to take up space in the 1000 most recent but not take up much storage space could be an option.
I have a 1st or 2nd generation Time Capsule which acts both as the WiFi Access Point and the Time Machine backup store for our laptops. In the last few weeks we started to experience various problems like WiFI throughput getting reduced to practically nothing, Time Machine backups failing and the Capsule itself getting inaccessible. These situations can be resolved by power cycling the Capsule (and on the long run by replacing it with a new model).
I'm using iTunes Match on my computer, but I have some titles in my library that are missing the actual media. Here is my process: convert a cd to mp3 put an album in my iTunes iTunes Match makes the match after that match, I delete the source because it is in the cloud
The built in pdf viewer of chrome is rather nice, but I like (and more used to) skim. My ultimate goal would be to click on a pdf file and to have it opened in the tab (within chrome) using skim as the backbone.
Back before I used iTunes Match, I enjoyed being able to search my library via spotlight. Now it seems that this doesn't work anymore. I guess this is because the music is not stored locally, but certainly there has to be a way to duplicate this functionality.
Is there a simple tool that will convert .cr2 files (Canon RAW) to .jpg? I know Preview does it well but I'm looking for something directly accessible from the contextual menu.
Safari hides the *=URL=* *=URL=* so how can I tell if I'm viewing a page over SSL? Some pages show issuer information in the URL bar, but not all of them. So the ones that show issuer info are secure, but I'd rather not have to reload the other pages in Chrome just to determine whether I have a secure connection to it.
I installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp. Now I've figured out I should have made the Windows 8 partition bigger. Is this safe to attempt using Disk Utility? If not, how do I go about accomplishing this?
Here is what is happening. My driver is not installing at all. Even when I go in and try to manually try to install the driver, it comes up with an error that says "install failed". I have tried everything, including removing all drivers, and reinstalling them, and all of the other basics.
Theoretically, is it possible to run iOS on a device that doesn't ship with it? I know that Apple signed iOS so it only runs on Apple devices, but is there any hack that could potentially change that?
However, I am now trying to sync a brand new iPad with this Retina MBP, and can't do it. I get the error that my iTunes library cannot be found.
The older iPads have 10W power adapter (charger), and the iPhones supposed use only 5W chargers. But the iPad 4th gen, probably due to the larger power consumption, uses a 12W power adapter / charger.
Is there any way in the Finder to sort each column in column view by different criteria? When I select a sort order, it applies universally to every column. For example, I would like to sort a particular folder by kind, but the contents of a subfolder of that folder by date.
I have an iPad Mini (64gb wifi only model running iOS 6) and it will periodically drop the WiFi connection and will take some time to reconnect. My other devices (laptop and iPhone 4 [iOS5]) do not seem to suffer from this issue. (I wonder if the iPhone does have this issue, however, when wifi drops the cellular data kicks in and I do not notice the drop). I am left to wonder why this is happening and what I can do about this issue? My router is an Actiontec C1000A (ISP is Century Link).
Can I bring my Macbook Pro car camping in temperatures that may reach -5 degrees F? I have found a lot of information on high temperature tolerances but not on the low tolerances.
I ask this anticipating the answer is 'no', but - is it possible to forward graphics windows on mac the way you would forward X11 windows, i.e. via ssh? I'm thinking specifically of the python display windows generated by matplotlib, which I'm guessing use cocoa or something similar. A workaround for this question is to use Screen Sharing with ssh tunneling, but I'm asking if the direct solution is possible.
My 1 year warranty has just ended within the last week and my daughter dropped my iPad 2 which has resulted in a cracked screen. Is there a one-time physical damage replacement policy in Washington state, as there is in others?
After I recently moved my data from a Mac Mini '09 to a new Mac Mini with Mountain Lion, I find my print options no longer allow me to print "fast" (on Canon pixma mx712). The print quality options now are "draft," "normal," and "best" but "draft" is greyed and not available. Are there any settings I could look for and change?
The black plastic casing around the display joint has been broken (has a crack). Is it possible to get a replacement for the same?
If someone has my Itunes password and phone number/email address, are they able to set-up their iphone/ipad to see my imessages without my consent? If so, is there a way for me to trace this?
I'm planning to replace the optical drive in my MacBook Pro 9,1 (mid-2012, non-retina) with an SSD and make the two internal drives into a fusion drive, and I know that creating a boot camp partition on a Mac without an optical drive can be a challenge. So I want to create my boot camp partition before I create my fusion drive.
Will "Find My Iphone" work without wifi connection? For instance, if someone were to steal my iPod they wouldn't be able to connect it without my passcode on the lock screen. And if they can figure out my passcode, what if they don't connect it to the internet? Would the app still work?
I do a lot of work in the terminal. Sometimes, after a week or two, start up gets a bit slow (I'm talking about an extra second or two, not the end of the world but it's slower). I did some Googling that suggested clearing the logs in /private/var/log/asl/*.asl ought to speed things up, and it did. Is it a problem if I added a little command that just cleared those logs when I exited terminal?
I'd like to be able to use a little bit of the space in my Dropbox account to create a backup of Evernote. This way if anything happens to Evernote cloud service I'd still have access to the Dropbox backup. Any ideas?
I am looking for an offline scriptable tool that makes an existing PDF file searchable by running OCR on it, replacing the original non-searchable file with the searchable version, and can run unattended. E.g., www.pdfscannerapp.com - does exactly what I need, but it's GUI only - not scriptable. I am aware that Evernote makes PDF files searchable, but they remain searchable only when within Evernote. I am not looking for perfect OCR, even a moderately acceptable OCR is fine, but I would prefer a small utility rather than a bulky software package. (I am aware of a similar, but different question on AD: Looking for Software to Scan or Convert to Searchable and Signable PDF - however, I don't need to sign or fill PDFs, and my requirement is that the solution is scriptable) EDIT: 1) Several utilities allow structured text extraction, however in order to be extracted, the text must be there; I am mainly referring to PDFs that are wrapped bitmaps, as is the case with plain PDFs generated by 
I want to share live GPS data from an Android smartphone to my iPad (4th generation wifi-only). I've read about BTstacks and other jailbreak tweaks, but I don't want to jailbreak! I have also read that there are some GPS receivers that are compatible with the iPad, so I think that maybe there is a method to connect the phone to the iPad that would allow the iPad to recognize the phone as a compatible GPS Bluetooth receiver. Is there a good way to share GPS signal without jailbreaking the iPad?
It seems that making edits, annotations, or even just opening and saving a PDF file in Preview will cause a significant increase in file size. I've noticed that for some books I've scanned this also happens to improve page rendering time.
Will my iPad 4 Wi-Fi only (or an iPod touch) get live location data for navigation purposes if I connect to an Android mobile phone that is enabled as a Wi-Fi hotspot?
I'm trying to edit some values of an info.plist file that is located in an .ipa file. First, I open the .ipa in Winrar and drag the info.plist to the desktop. Here, I edit the file using the Properly List Editor that's included on OS X. Finally, I drag the file back into the .ipa, but when I try to sync the file to my iPad, it says that there is an error. Any suggestions?
I am setting "Use audio port for" option (System Preferences > Sound > Input > Use Audio Port For) to "Sound Input". Doing this changes nothing on the device list. "Internal Microphone" still exists in the list and type is set to "Built in."
I've got a Mac Pro that I use as, among other things, a Time Machine server. This is currently backing up three machines, including itself. Can I install two disks into the server and have Time Machine back up some clients onto Disk A and some clients onto Disk B? I'm not looking for redundancy (which I know I can now get with multiple Time Machine disks in 10.8); I'm just trying to spread the single backups across multiple disks. Any advice out there?
Every time I click on a application, both Apple and third party applications refuse to open. The little blue dot appears below the app on the dock, and then it disappears. I've restarted the computer multiple times and no luck. It's a late 2008 MacBook. Any ideas?
I have three children with three iPods and recently gave them all their own Apple ID accounts so that their iTunes money would be separate. However, now they cannot buy apps to add on to their games because the games were bought on our original Apple account. How can I get the purchase to go through?
I got for a few years a hotmail account and get my mail into outlook with POP setting.... everything is fine... But now i got a iPhone and iPad and there is some setting to get IMAP hotmail (m.hotmail.com) wich work fine for ipad and iphone, but NOT for outlook... How to make outlook sync hotmail as IMAP ?
I'm trying to set up my Macbook Air to share an OpenVPN connection for use while I'm on the road and don't want my iOS traffic to go over the open Internet. Sadly, Mountain Lion's Internet Sharing feature doesn't include the VPN interface in the list of shareable network interfaces, so I assume I'm going to have to emulate Internet Sharing from the command line. I've figured out some of the moving pieces that are put in place by the InternetSharing wrapper: ifconfig to set up the bridge interface ipfw to set up forwarding of traffic bootpd to offer DHCP service to clients natpmpd to handle port forwarding named in a cache configuration to handle DNS queries
I have installed an application (dsniff) using brew, but when I try to run it I get a "Command not found" error. I even tried going to the directory it was installed to: /usr/local/Cellar/dsniff/2.4b1/sbin/
I recently got an iPhone 3GS without a SIM card. I upgraded it to iOS 6 from 5.1.1. However, the phone is stuck on "Activation error" after successfully connecting to my WiFi. The screen says:
I need information and explanations how Ipad 4 with mobile card can work in Europe (Alcatel,, Wodafone or others)? Can somebody help me and explain what and how I can change its settings in order to work with the local providers?
I'd like to delete all calendars and contacts on an iPod Touch with iOS 5.0.1 without affecting calendars and contacts in OS X. I've read guides that instruct to disable calendars for accounts in order to delete calendars. In my case none of my accounts have ever had calendars enabled. Calendars have only been transferred by cable using iTunes.
Recently, I lost 1,7TB on videofiles on my external hard drive. A terrible loss since it took me many evenings categorising all this data. With a deep-scan with DataRescue 3, I was able to recover most of it, but they all have the same awful filename "M00001.avi", "M00002.avi",...
Yesterday my squash buddy created an event in his own (Iphone) calendar and invited me. I accepted this and it now shops up in my own (Iphone) calendar.
I've got a load of albums that I made on my iPhone to organize my photos. But when they get imported into iPhoto (which I do over Photo Stream), they lose their albums and come in just as one long stream. This also seems to happen if I just bring them in using iPhoto and the USB lead. Is there any way to bring them in and preserve the albums, or do I have to rebuild each album again inside of iPhoto?
Is it possible to use hardware-based full disk encryption (perhaps on a Samsung 840 Pro SSD) on a Mac, specifically a Macbook Pro 8,2? If so, how? My understanding is that this will be handled in the BIOS or possibly EFI, however I think Apple's EFI is generally quite locked down.
I would like to stop messages on my Mac from loading up all the messages I have on my iPhone when I plug it in. Scenario: receive 10 iMessages on my iPhone during the day. I then delete them. So messages inbox on iPhone is empty.
Is there an UnTethered Jailbreak for IPad 3 with IOS 6.0.1? I've been searching for a while but couldn't find one. UPD There are some news on the topic
On my Macbook pro (OS X 10.8.2) the hotkey combo to lock he screen is Ctrl+Shift+Eject. I don't like that combination at all. I'd like to make it Ctrl+Command+l is there some way to do this?
We have 2 wifi networks quite close to each other in our workplace, but I need to connect my iphone or ipad to 1 over the other out of preference. It's fine for myself as I can simply change wifi networks, but if my boss's device connects to the wrong one (which connects to a seperate subnet) he want's it to just work? Is there a way I can simply order them, or get it to pick one over the other?
After a reboot of OS X, I often need to re-enter my Apple ID password in order to use the apps I bought in the App Store. Sometimes I have to re-enter my password only once and all the apps work (until the next reboot), but often I have to repeat this for every single App Store app I open. For example, I might get this dialog the first time I launch Reeder after rebooting OS X:
I recently sold my MacBook Air, and I deauthorized iTunes, wiped the hard drive, and reinstalled snow leopard (the os version that came installed with the MBA). I stumbled upon this shortly after, which made me very nervous since I didn't do it. *=URL=* This is what I didn't do: Turn off Find My Mac and sign out of iCloud To turn off the iCloud service on your Mac:
I'm running on 10.8.2. All of a sudden, traditional nameserver lookups are failing on my machine: But operations that use name services work fine:
I have shared a photo album iPhoto 11 (using Preferences > Sharing > Share My Photos > Share Selected Album. I have an Apple TV (3rd generation) and I'm trying to view the shared photo album on it. How do I view my shared iPhoto album on my Apple TV?
I am grasping at the straws here... I am trying to read the iPad Mini US warranty, but I can't make heads or tails out of it. Does it cover accidental damage?
If I upgrade my iCloud storage subscription, do I basically lose my previous upgrade? As of today, Apple's iCloud storage upgrade options look like this: 10 additional GB (15 GB total): $20/year 20 additional GB (25 GB total): $40/year 50 additional GB (55 GB total): $100/year
Is there any way to get the wifi performance using the Wifi Diagnostics? I have a 802.11n network running on Apple TimeMachine. The Wifi Diagnostics created diagnostics report but I don't know which log file would have this information? Can someone point me to the right file?
My sisters and I all have iPhones under the same account. I also have an iPad under the same account. I am trying to get the iMessage on my iPad compatible with my phone number, not email address.
The play count in my iTunes library has somehow become incorrect. It shows some songs as never been played while I know that I have played them many times before. These songs do still have a "last played" date though. Also, some songs are being listed as only played once, while I know they have been played multiple times.
I work in an office where all user accounts are on a server, the admin has access to all the screens and devices though the network. How can I protect the drive I connect to my system from my snoopy admin? Encryption is useless since when I enter the password and mount the device, it becomes available when the admin logs in my system remotely.
I did a clean install of mountain lion using a bootable disk. Went into disk utility and erased the lion partition before the re-install.
Is there a way to work offline on a Google Drive document on an iPad? I'm aware it's possible on a desktop or laptop when using Chrome, but I can't seem to see an option for such a functionality in the Google Drive app.
There is a VPN switch in settings that often appears below the wifi option in settings on iOS: (the above image is from a website and not my iPad, as I can't seem to get my iPad to show VPN right now) The trouble is, it seems to be missing: (this image is from my iPad) VPN switch present: in all circumstances prior to installing an AT&T sim card, including when a Telus sim card was installed
How is Safari updated in OS X? I know this seems like a simple question, but I cant find any good documentation on it. I know of a software update tool that would prompt you for updates on windows, but I would like to know how this is currently done on OS X.
I have a dream: The dream of using my MBP inside and outside my office, and having it backup to my 2TB Time Capsule when on its wireless network, or postpone backups when not on the Time Capsule's wireless network. Unfortunately, if I've been on a different wireless network for a few hours worth of backup attempts, bringing the machine back onto the Time Capsule's wireless network doesn't clear up the problem. I can select the disk as a backup drive in the Time Machine preferences, but the disk remains unavailable from the Finder, and any backup attempts yield the standard: There was a problem connecting to the server "Max Time Capsule"
I have iMessage on my iPhone 5, and I signed in to iMessage on my iPad 2. Will it cost extra to have iMessage on my iPad 2? I think iMessage might be free but I'm still curious.
Here is a screenshot of a problem I am having. The wireless connection is mis-labled as Ethernet and my wired connection is mis-labeled as Wi-Fi.
My 2 terabyte Time Capsule used to allow a guest wifi network but since I had to switch to bridge mode to accommodate my cable internet provider (while installing an Exchange server w/o a static ip address) I no longer have the guest option. Why? Is there a workaround?
In OS X Mountain Lion's Finder, I can see a grayed-out /etc folder, but cannot see inside. Using Terminal's ls command, I can see the existence of a file that one of my programs is trying to find (Free Pascal's fpc program has a fpc.cfg file in /etc). How can I change parameters for this folder to enable more open access?
I have a Mac, a Power PC G5 desktop, running MAC OS X 10.5.8, the last release made for this machine. I've been having a lot of problems lately with Safari; when I launch it, I get a spinning disc, and then Safari becomes unresponsive. My only option is to Force Quit. Ideally, I'd like to resolve whatever is causing the issue.
I am using YAHOO email on my MacBook Pro and my iPad and iPhone - but when I open an email on my iPad it is not showing up on my laptop or iPhone. How do I get all of my emails on all of my devices? Also - when I send a message via my iPad it also is not syncing to my other devices, so when a friend replies, it shows on my iPad but not my iPhone.
I have some bullet points and I want to animate a change to some of them. For example: first bullet point the second one this is the third Then I want the first to animate off the screen and be replaced by some different text, then the third one (the second one would stay the same).
I am wondering whether it is possible to use built-in services (menu bar options) of specific applications in Automator. For instance, I want to create a service to launch Google Chrome and open a new window (the effect of Command+N when Chrome is active). Is it possible?
I received an iPhone 4S as a gift, branded by Orange UK. It runs iOS 6 (6.0.1(10A523)). I didn't unlock it yet; I'm using it without a SIM and I'm enjoying the apps, but I want to jailbreak it.
I used my nickname on iPhone 5's Game Center before I changed my Apple ID to [appleid]@cloud.com. After changing my Apple ID to an @icloud.com account, I then deleted my old Apple ID from my iPhone. Now both my nickname and scores disappeared. Is there any way to get my nickname and scores back?
Just pure curiosity! Last year, the bug is fixed on Jan 2nd too. Both are those days are Monday. Is this just coincidence? What kind of programming mistake that lead to this bug?
Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"? I am referring to this situation where the "Show All" is collapsed by default:
All my iPhoto events are empty. If I open a event there are no photos in it. But when I use the Photos perspective I can see all my photos! In Aperture I see all my photos in the Photos perspective and in projects (= iPhoto events). How I can repair my iPhoto library? I already tried to repair and rebuild my hole library with iPhoto an Aperture!
I want to be able to delete songs off my iPhone by swiping in the Music.app. I know having 'Manually Manage songs' lets you delete songs without them returning after you re-sync everything, but I want it to delete songs from the playlist I have.
How can I create custom colored icon font as Apple did for emoticons? I'd also need a font making tool that imports .svg images.
Optional: On Linux, top also updates the command when displayed, i.e. if a process writes in it's own argv during runtime, the updated command will be shown.
I am planning to buy the Navionics app for iPad: does it require a Wi-Fi or cellular connection to use the Navionics maps for navigation?
I know at least three ways to monitor a folder/file for changes and execute a shell script on change. First, use "Folder Actions" of Automator First, use "Folder Actions" of Automator Second, the launchd.plist approach but it seems the folder been monitored couldn't go through recursively. Second, the launchd.plist approach but it seems the folder been monitored couldn't go through recursively. Third, use native FSEvents API on Mac OS X. like the modified fswatch utility Third, use native FSEvents API on Mac OS X. like the modified fswatch utility My question is that which one cost system resource (CPU or memory) less ?
I tried to save a window arrangement but when I open iTerm it opens two windows: one with my saved arrangement one with no arrangements How can I make iTerm2 remember my Window/tabs layout?
Is it possible to access an external HDD or USB drive encrypted on Lion, through a Mac running Leopard? In other words, is FileVault 2 encryption on volumes/partitions backwards compatible? (It really should be.)
We can create a resource/room that shows up in the location option when creating a new event. That works just fine. However we would like to be able to view this as a daily/weekly/monthly view using iCal (10.7) or Calendar (10.8).
I have a small Sony TV which is colour balanced for video editing. Note: it does not have DVI or HDMI ports. When I plug it into an iMac using VGA and the Mini Display Port adapter, it is fine (using the native resolution).
I need to increase the size of buttons and front on the format bar in numbers '9
I have EEB-40S-U3 with 500GB Seagate Momentus inside and 2012 MacBook Air 13". When I connect HDD case to laptop nothing happens: I don't hear any sound from HDD itself, volumes does not appear in Disk Utility.app, nothing changes in USB section in System Information.app and no new lines appear in system.log. I suspect that MacBook Air just does not supply enough power for drive. What are the possible solutions?
I've made sure I'm on the latest DisplayLink driver. What else can I do to fix this so I don't have to frequently disconnect the DisplayLink device?
On Linux you can use update-alternative to change the version of a command. Which command in OS X (10.8) will switch the alternative of the current command?
I get that question pop-up on my screen a few times per day. Sometimes several times in a row. If I say Yes, a long EULA document appears for me to accept, then a window with a progress bar that reaches about half the way before I get this:
I have an old 100 GB hard drive from a windows laptop that I would like to make use of as a portable, external hard drive. I ordered a cheap case on Amazon and it works fine. However, the disk is still unreadable by my iMac. How do I reformat the hard drive (in Disk Utility?) so that I can use it to just store files for me?
I have a mac laptop that I want to back up to an internal drive on my Mac Pro. The drive I want to back up to is blank and not the OS drive. They are connected via ethernet, but I do not see the drive on my computer. How would I be able to recognize it?
I bought an album yesterday from iTunes on my PC, downloaded it, and synced it with my iPhone. When I later tried to play the songs on the phone, I noticed that they wouldn't play at all. I also noticed that they wouldn't play on the PC. So, I tried to follow the suggestion in this other question and deleted the songs, thinking I could just re-download them. I can't seem to actually re-download these. I locate the album in the iTunes store from iTunes on my PC. I click "buy" for the album. I see a pop-up box from iTunes telling me I have already purchased this item and can redownload it from my Purchases. I click the "Purchased" button on the pop-up dialog. iTunes takes me to "Purchased" screen, but I do not see the artist or any of the songs from that artist in my purchased music list. Also, when I try to download it from iTunes directly from my iPhone, the album shows up with a "purchased" box next to it already and is unclickable. I am using iTunes 11 on my PC and have iOS 6.0.1 on 
I'm not sure what the cause is, but I never had this issue until I installed Mountain Lion. I had the iMessage Beta prior to installing Mountain Lion and I did not uninstall it after. However, I get disconnected constantly and its been going on and off. I have a lot of difficulty connecting to AIM, but GTalk is disconnecting frequently. I am not sure where to start.
I am unable to install any software packages using homebrew. I get the following error when I try to install any softwares.
Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?
There seems to a be a dead area in the middle of my iPad 4's home screen that prevents me from moving app icons below it. Some more details: I hold the iPad in landscape mode, with the button to the right. Holding my finger on one of the icons makes them wiggle. I can move all of the icons around The one exception is that there seems to be a line in the middle of the screen where I can't move the icon below that line.
By mistake I updated my jailbroken iPhone to iOS 6.0 from iTunes. How do I get the iPhone working again like it was before? It suddenly asks for activation.
I connect my Mac via an HDMI adapter to my TV to watch films. Is there a way to turn off my Mac's screen while watching those?
I use NTFS-3G in order to let myself read and write to my external hard drive in the correct format. My Mac is also bootcamped with Windows 7 on the other side. Every time I startup my Mac I get an error saying that /dev/disk04 could not be mounted, and it asks me to force or abort it.
I have a problem with my iPhone 4S. Its gyroscope doesn't work. But not at all. Sometimes it sets in vertical position and sometimes in horizontal. I read about it on the Apple's website and they suggest to make a back up and restore the initial settings. I've done this. At first everything was OK, gyroscope used to work. But then I started to restore all programs and at some moment I noticed that the gyroscope doesn't work again.
I am using a Mac Mini running Lion (10.7.5) and zsh 4.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin11.0.1) with oh-my-zsh installed. In the Terminal.app I retrieve the UNIX timestamp using the following command
When I connect my EOS 600d Camera from Canon with my Mac Book Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.2), it doesn't get mounted as a drive... Nothing is happening. I googled the problem and was able to get my pictures on to my Mac by using a SD-Card reader. Anyhow, it's not recommended to open the camera every time I want to transfer some pictures and EOS Utility isn't compatible to Mountain Lion. Did anyone come across that problem?
It is not a mini DisplayPort. I tried that and it doesn't fit. As far as I can tell, Apple don't make them any more.
I just got this phone yesterday and was checking my yahoo email account. I can read mail from individuals, but he reply/forward/trash buttons are missing from the page? How can I restore them?
Right now I am using Logicity on my PC. I would like to know if there is a way to see Crystal Reports files on iPad. While there are ways to boot into windows and then run my file (use iTap / TeamViewer to log in to Windows and then run Logicity), I would like to know if there are any native apps, web services, which would make the process of running this .rpt file easier.
Some PDF files containing high-resolution scans of the score take a long time to display. The degree of lag is a function of how the PDF file was made. In some scores it seems like the page starts off blurry and comes into focus.
Tweeting through Notification Centre share buttons plays "Tweet sent" bird whistle through my iMac's internal speakers. This only happened when I re-enabled the option to select internal speakers themselves by unplugging the speakers, installing more RAM, restarting the computer and plugging the speakers back in.
I am trying to understand the process of switching out my HDD for an SSD and then replacing my optical drive with the same HDD just removed in a late 2011 Macbook Pro 15.4". Is there any benefit to doing this vs. just replacing the optical drive with a new SSD and leaving the HDD where it is at?
Is there a way to have the Apps on my iPhone sorted based on usage frequency? I found another thread, but it appeared to be focused on the MAC OS platform, not iOS. In simple terms, I want the apps that I use all the time to be auto-sorted to the front.
I'm trying to do things legit and purchased a copy of OSX Server to go along with my OSX install. I am running a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion... so I'm OK from a hardware perspective.
The battery in my late-2008 model aluminium 13" MacBook became extremely swollen in early to mid-2012 after only 283 cycles (as per Cycle count under Hardware → Power), and the button on the multi-touch trackpad stopped working due to the expansion of the battery. I have since had to remove the battery to get the button working again, but the battery itself hasn't leaked, just expanded very heavily to nearly 1.5× the height (perhaps ≈0.2 each on top and bottom). After removing it, it's basically nearly impossible to put it back in and still close the cover.
What has changed in OS X (or QuickTime, or WebKit) to cause this? How do I work around this regression, without breaking functionality in other browsers?
Two of the iPhone's default apps, Weather and Stocks, create little widgets in the Notification Center. They aren't exactly notifications, can display graphics (weather) or animations (stock ticker), and don't disappear after being tapped.
I recently moved computers and don't have all my music in my iTunes (and honestly don't need it there anymore). I have all my music on my iPod and while I know how to get the music files off of it, they are encrypted. Is there a way to decrypt my music files to their original names so I can then back them up to my external hard drive? Currently all the file names are seemingly random 4 characters. I'm currently using Windows 7.
I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011) with Mountain Lion installed. Is there a way to prevent my Mac from going to sleep even on lid close?
I figured I'd just try to reinstall Windows. Surprisingly, my system booted to my Windows install disc, which was in my original optical drive (which I had put in a USB case). But, Windows refused to install, giving me a an error 0x8030024. It seems the solution to this issue is to disconnect all drives but the one on which you want to install Windows, which is something I would dearly like to avoid. It would be a pain, but more than that, I'm afraid it would bork my fusion drive, even if I'm careful to never boot to OS X with the SSD disconnected.
I'm already using the Dropbox iPhone app, but it only backs up my photos. Basically, I'm looking for the iPhone equivalent of the Android "SanDisk Memory Zone" app, which automatically and regularly backups my contacts, docs, files, etc to my Dropbox account. *=URL=* Preferably, a solution for a non-jailbroken phone. Can anyone recommend an app that will backup other data to my Dropbox account?
A relative of mine got an iPad about a year ago and has not updated it until November after he asked me to help him with the update. We had updated it to the most recent iOS possible at that time using his apple account. Later, after the update was completed, he asked me to show him the iCloud. I logged in using my Apple ID to show him exactly what it is and now apparently his iPad is locked for 90 days. Has anyone heard of anything similar? Is there a fix?
iMac (mid 2011) Mac OS X (V 10.7.5) 2nd generation Apple TV - Airplay icon not appearing and not appearing in settings. No security software running. Any tips?
I'm getting two errors in the console at the same time TimeMachine is running and taking FOREVER to make any progress. The second entry is : It has the following details: When I run the above mentioned SUDO command I get Based on the "access denied" error and that I've only backed up 3GB of data within 30 minutes on a firewire port makes me think something is broken. Can anyone tell me where to go next in troubleshooting this? Update: I found an article that says I should modify system.sb (located in /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles) to include: Can anyone help me understand what is going on and if I'm lowering security in any way at all?
I hate my finder opening slow because of loading all those icons for video files. While I still want thumbnails for PDFs, documents, music, I don't want previews for video files because they're useless anyway (most of them are simply black but take time to load). I managed to do it on previous OS X versions but on my Mountain Lion I can not locate /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/Generators/ folder where I was able to delete generator for video files in the past. How to turn video icons preview thumbnails off?
I'm offering my Internet to somebody living in another apartment and used an Airport Express to extend my Airport Extreme signal. Since the Aiport Express only extends the "main" network, the other person is using the main network whereas I'm using the "guest" network myself. I recently got an external hard drive and connected it to the Airport Extreme's USB port because I want to use Time Machine to automatically backup my MBA.
Once some time ago, I had SSH access to my iPad (3rd generation running iOS 5.1.1) and had changed the root password successfully. Now however, I can no longer access it via SSH. I have gone back and reset the password numerous times (currently back to the stock password of "alpine") but try as I might, all I ever get is "incorrect password" when trying to su from terminal on the device.
My messages on iMessage won't send. It allows me to type the message and hit the send button but it won't deliver. iMessage is on in settings and I've tried reseting network settings on my recently purchased iPad mini. And I have setup my email on it and so has the person I want to message.
How do I stop GarageBand from always popping up with the message "The Number of Midi Inputs Have Changed" Every time I unplug or plug-in my Midi keyboard GarageBand always pops up with this message box:
We just sold my wife's MacBook Air, and we're going to try sharing my MacBook Pro for a while. So I set up a new user account for her on my MBP, and I am wondering if it is possible to restore her time machine backup onto her user account without losing all of my stuff. Is this possible?
I have tried Wondershare PDF editor to edit text in PDF files; it works but not so well. Is there any other alternative?
I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders. Therefore, when I need to delete such a document, I need to check multiple tag folders to remove the aliases, which pains. Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder (or preferably, a particular folder)?
My friend has just got an iPhone 5 for the first time and she is having problem with turning off the EDGE/GPRS connection. She would turn off 3G connection in the setting but there seems to be nowhere to turn off EDGE or GPRS.
In the past (iOS5 and earlier) clicking on a link for directions within a website opened the separate maps app and provided directions. How do I force links in websites, that would normally open a google maps link in a "desktop" web browser, to open the new external google maps app? I do not find the current google maps website adequate (can't figure out how it would provide dynamic (voice) directions) and the new apple maps app is not opened by those links.
Currently it is only possible to view the next 20 tracks in Up Next, how does one increase this to 100?
When I browse to Google Apps for iPhone with my iPhone and click on Google Maps, I'm redirected to the App Store but receive the following note: Your request could not be completed. The item you've requested is not currently available in the Israeli Store, but it is available in the U.S. Store. Tap Change Store to view this item. When I click Change Store, I get: Cannot connect to iTunes Store How come?
I have a Gmail account in Mail.app that behaves a bit weird: whenever I send an email, Mail tells me that it created a local "Sent Messages" folder and changed my settings. The sent email messages are correctly saved in the Sent Items on the Gmail server (this is the behavior I want), but they are also saved in this local folder. Is there a way to prevent Mail creating this local folder and save sent messages only on the server?
I had a problem when I turned on my Macbook Pro, I would just get a flashing "?" when I booted up.
I'm new to iTunes and I don't like that it lists all files ever played in the categories "Songs" or "Albums" for example. I only have a few albums on my mac, but I have listened to a lot of stuff, mostly from external drives.
When I installed iTunes 11, for some reason it re-downloaded all my purchased "in the cloud" songs even though they were already in my library. So now I have duplicate songs, one that matches the cloud, one that has my rating, playcounts, etc. For example:
I want to make pictures with the iphone 5 and want the position information (GPS) in it. Is it possible to tag pictures without any internet connection?
I have seen a lot of related questions/answers but it seems that there still isn't a working solution for it. So I have sum up all related info that I found and maybe we can find a solution to it.
A user's iPad shows a message sent but the user did reply or respond to the email received, and did not send a reply back to sender. The user believes that someone accessed their Yahoo mail account, sent a reply, and signed sent message from the user's iPad.
When somebody sends me a URL in an email, it is opened by Safari. But often people make a mistake when copying the links (how I do not know) and the URL starts with ttp:// instead of *=URL=* Is there a way to teach Safari to feel responsible for ttp URLs as well and open them as http URLs?
When I add new songs to iTunes and Match needs to upload them (on step 3), it restarts back to step 1. So it gets stuck in an infinite loop by reaching step 3, trying to upload but failing, then resetting back to step 1.
My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5. However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what is even better, it plays them fluently even remotely, so I don't need to download those videos. All I need to do is open network file in VLC and paste here link to YouTube .mp4 or .flv file. Works like a charm.
Reading articles in foreign languages is a good and fast way to perfect language skills and I am sure the same thing must have occurred to others before me as well. I am searching for iOS app for iPad built for reading texts, where, apart from the "define" option for certain words that are available systemwide, one also has the option to translate the word to a given language - in case I am reading foreign text and do not know any particular word. Ideally the app should support this for PDF's with selectable text, for most of my texts are in those, but if there is no such, I could also convert my PDF's to desirable format. I checked a number of such apps but so far, but the only one I found with a "translate" option is PerfectReader, which uses Wiktionary as a dictionary; the problem is its vocabulary is practically unusable.
Is there any way to force that the Eject Key behaves as the Insert Key? In particular I would like to be able to send the key combinations Ctrl+Insert and also Ctrl+Alt+Insert to the following two applications using Ctrl+Eject and Ctrl+Option+Eject: a) A VMWare Fusion image b) A RDP connection with CoRD or Microsoft RDC
OS X Mountain Lion comes with Text Expander as an option, but it only seems to work in Safari and not in iMessage and other applications. Is there any way to enable Text Expander throughout the entire OS?
I would like a make some sort of Apple Protocol HTTP Audio Stream that would be available to my local network. So if I typed in "192.168.0.2" or "192.168.0.2:8080" on Mobile Safari it would recognize it as a webcast. What software would do this on a Mac?
I luckily managed to record the odd sound especially considering it plays at random. Two weeks back it played about 4 times, one minute apart. Then there was nothing for a long time and now it has returned again. Two times so far today at roughly a half hour apart. I have the following third party tools running in my top right toolbar: BetterTouchTool Screenflow Skype Dropbox VMware BootChamp I have the following programs running in my dock: Chrome Minecraft iTunes Skype ScreenFlow Finder (of course) Is there any app that would help me track where the sound is coming from?
Video H264 Animation DV - PAL Apple VC H.263 etc.
I am running iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion, and I am subscribed to several podcasts. All of them work except one: With that one, new episodes are found, but every time I try to download one I get an exclamation point next to the name. If I copy the URL from the episode and paste it into a browser, I can download the file so I don't know why iTunes is failing. Is there a way to see an error message? I looked in Console and did not see anything.
I have what seems to be a common problem with iPhones (mine is an iPhone 4), a recovery loop, so I try to restore it but now I get this error: "Unable to restore iPhone. Unknown error -1" And it fails to restore after saying "Restoring iPhone firmware"
My MagSafe 2 cable for my 2012 MacBook Air stopped working. Took it into Apple store where I had bought my MacBook Air, and sure enough it was the excessive cat chew marks that had degraded it*. Can some old pros give me some advice on whether or not I should bite the bullet and pay $80.00 at the Apple store for a new one, or are there 3rd party alternatives that work reasonably well? I have already been told that I might as well get a 85 watt cable in case I get a MacBook Pro in the future (That is a possibility!).
So I'm trying to load a Lion DMG onto a 16GB flash drive according to this tutorial, but I only get as far as step 9. The data starts to restore to the flash drive, but right as it gets to the end, when it's only initializing, it gives me the following error: What do I do?
Am I way off-base here? I'm pretty sure I now "own" a copy of Mountain Lion, and Apple is in the wrong. If this is correct, what are my options?
I dragged folders in finder to Favorite in sidebar. Folders from system volume survived after system restarts but folders from non-system volume are gone. This problem happens since I upgraded from Lion. Any idea? Thanks.
I'm in a little over my head. MacBook Pro, OSX 10.8.2: I just created an encrypted image (128 bits read/write), that Image Disk mounts fine...I can see the number of files and folders, but none of the files are visible to me. I can see the subfolders, but none of the files at all. Seems like using encryption for the partition was NOT good.
As I'm waiting for my new gleaming iMac to arrive, I'm considering buying OS X Server since it's only $20 now and offers Open Directory. We have two MacBook Pros, so I'd like to have all of us able to log into any of the 3 Macs with our ID. Can I simply switch from a local user to a network user without losing my home directory contents?
When I plug one display in to the Thunderbolt port I get 2560x1440 and it looks sweet. Before I purchased another display I wanted to make sure the Mac Mini would display at 1920x1200 via the included HDMI to DVI adapter. But I can't get this to display at that resolution just 1920x1080.
I'm in my office and the the network access is limited, would this causing this two process taking too much memory? I use my Mac mainly for developing, would it be safe to kill this two process?
By mistake, when using Notes, I started killing and yanking instead of cutting and pasting and it worked. Same seems to be true for Pages. What gives? I don't think I have ever tinkered with the standard settings (at least directly).
I tried to look up related problems with this, but I haven't been able to find a solution. After leaving my computer on, charged, and step away, sometimes it logs my account off. When I come back, log on, all my applications have been turned off. I have adjusted the settings under "Energy Saver" and allow the computer a longer sleep time, but that doesn't seem to work. OS X Version 10.8.2 Any suggestions?
Is there any way to transfer licenses bought through Apple's VPP from one iDevice to another? (aka. I don't want to make apps a gift to the employee) And what are the prerequisites if such a thing was possible?
I have a mid 2009 MBP. I am going to install Boot Camp beside Snow Leopard. I would like to have a third partition, DATA, and format it FAT32, where I will keep my data files easily and safely accessible by both Snow Leopard and Win7 on boot camp partition.
In Decemeber 2010 I purchased Goodreader for iPad, was emailed this statement: I installed Goodreader on a new iPad just a few days ago. I was notified I'd been charged again for it: I don't understand why and it's hard to find any definitive info about this (aside from forum posts).
I have a Yamaha amplifier 473 series and an iPad 1 with 5.1 iOS. There is no internet connection nearby, so have to use aux but want it wirelessly through the iPad. There are av, aux and usb inputs in the front of the amplifier. How do I connect the 2 devices to play music wirelessly without AirPlay?
I know there are programs I can download to do this but I have done it before without them. After about an hour of searching I still can't find how I did it. I have Hidden files enabled. "Enable Disk Use" is not available as it is an iPod touch. And while I can transfer purchases most of my music is not purchased from iTunes.
My friend has an iPhone 5 (Verizon), she hears a low battery alert tone when on a call at 10% and 20%. My iPhone 5 (Sprint) has no such tone, anyway I can't find how to enable it if it does.
Is there an app that saves (when I quit the application) and restores the window size and position of an application the next time I start it? I found apps like Optimal-Layout, Breeze and Simple Window-Sets but all of these apps only give the option to save states for specific apps or globally. What I would need is an app that saves the size and position of a window by its title. For example:
I have a 64GB USB (3.0) drive that is "compatible" with Mac OS. I can copy files from/to the disk at will. However, I want to move a file that is about 6GB to the disk. To my surprise, an error message appears saying that the file is too large for the volume's format !! Now I know I have 50GB left on the disk, so can someone tell me a way that can just force the file into the disk and ignore the warning message ?
Ok, in the /Users/Shared/ folder I have my DropBox folder. I have read/write permissions set for me and my wife (shared computer). However, if she creates a folder/file in the DropBox folder, I can see it but I have to type in my password to delete or edit it. And she has to do the same if I create something.
I have iMac (mid 2011) with latest OSX (10.8.2). Seems impossible to install windows without superdrive (it just doesn't work works fine on windows).
In either the iOS app or the Mac app for Facetime, you are given the option of selecting any contact listed in the corresponding device's Contacts app, regardless of whether they are capable of using Facetime (they own an iPhone or a Mac with the app). Are there any methods of determining this besides manually keeping a register of it or guessing?
I believe followed the directions on how to create a bootable USB drive from the Ubuntu website. My question is how can I get my Powerbook to boot from the USB drive? I tried doing the command+control+o+f and it just shows me the file icon with the question mark I also tried booting it holding the option button and it directs me to a screen with two buttons a refresh and a next button, I click on the next button and nothing happens?? kinda stumped.
I have a early 2011 macbook pro with mountain lion 10.8.2 installed in it, I have sleepawake installed and disabled energy saving option all set to forever.  the problem is the system is still going to sleep randomly without any sort of common behaviour , I reinstalled ML and still no luck, this problem was there before but it happened maybe once in several days, now it is much more frequent and can be triggered even by spacebar press or nothing at all, what can be reason for this. here are list of kexts in my system
I have a 500GB drive and have less than 50 GB free. Console is reporting several interesting errors saying I'm too low on space and it's cleaning up "stuff" 1/6/13 4:49:51.475 PM com.apple.mtmd[452]: attempting to thin because of low free space on Macintosh HD (/) by removing 2013-01-06 15:50:13 -0500, estimate 0 bytes to recover, 1 snapshot can be thinned Why should I have sufficient free space on my drive?
In Mountain Lion, how do I rip only the audio from a DVD as losslessly as possible? I have several concert DVDs that I would like to listen to on my iPod. I have an extensive music library, which is mostly ripped from my own CDs in Apple Lossless format, so my best-case scenario is getting lossless audio off of the DVDs and converting it to ALAC.
How can I create a folder for the pre-installed apps that come on my ipad that I don't use?
How can search email in outlook? my outlook seems didn't have search bar like in this video *=URL=* Here is screenshot of my Outlook:
I just got back to school today after using Ethernet at home. The WiFi claims to be connected to my Macbook Pro, but I can't get any internet out of it here after an entire semester of working.
I installed Windows with Bootcamp and have an Airport Express. Every time I boot from Windows to OS X it connects to the wireless network but not to the internet. Other devices still keep their connection to the internet.
I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 with two ATI Radion 5770's driving 6 Dell U2412M's. Problem is, when even just one of these displays is rotated to portrait, the entire system grinds to a halt. CPU usage spikes to about 85%, I have 12gb of RAM installed and when this happens, about 512mb is free. And graphics performance is all but completely dead. At first I thought this may be because I am driving six monitors at once. But this is illogical be cause for one, it only just started occurring since I upgraded to 10.8(which as a power user, I absolutely hate). And two because this also happens with just one monitor hooked up. Any ideas?
So I recently wiped my computer clean because it had some problems, and did a clean install of Lion from a flash drive. I then restored my user from a time machine back up originally made from my laptop. When I transferred the account over, my password didn't work. The same password I used to log onto this account on this computer I'm using (my laptop) did not work on the account on the desktop I restored this laptop to.
I want to keep my iMac on tonight and seed/leech torrents. I usually leave it there until, after 5/10 min or so, the iMac turn the monitor off. I can still hear the hd working. uTorrent has an option which "prevent sleep when transfers are active" so I guess if the iMac goes in sleep mode I can't seed/leech torrents.
I tested Power Nap on my MacBook Pro Retina (Aug 2012) and my Time Machine backup hasn't made any progress. Even the hard drive light is out while the machine sleeps. Energy saver is at the default setting of sleep after 15 minutes and Enable Power Nap is checked.
Is there such an option in Mac App Store? I know in iTunes Store we can manage reviews and ratings in personal account.
I have an older iMac, without a true retina display. I want to be able to scale the user interface like the retina macs do, but I can't seem to find a way to do that.
I am located in China and just installed proxPN on my MacBook. But it does not connect to the server in Dallas, it always hangs there. What can I do? Thanks!
I'm copying a link from Safari, via "Copy Image Link". When I'm pasting it to some places, like Messages.app, or some input fields on the Web (not every one, but many of them), I just get a file-name:
I am migrating from Windows as my desktop operating system, but will still need to interact with Windows file servers. Is there any OS X software to help with copying files from file servers. I am specifically looking for an analogue of Robocopy that will copy files from a directory on a Windows file server, and retry any files that fail. I'm happy using either a GUI or command line.
Coming from the Windows world, I was initially used to using Cmd-Tab to switch between open windows. On OS X this switches between applications, so I had to learn to use Ctrl-` to switch between windows in an application. However, even this doesn't seem to switch to minimized windows and (for better or worse) I am in the habit of minimizing windows. The only way I have found to unminimize them is to long-click on the icon in the dock and select the window I want, which is annoying. Is there a key combination I can use which will switch between windows and unminimize them at the same time, or any related keys which would help? I am using OS X 10.8.
I've got the new MabookPro retina. I want to install a dual boot Windows OS.
Is there any way within iOS, or via iTunes on a computer, to see the date when a particular iOS upgrade was installed on my device (iPhone/iPad)? Not the date the upgrade was released, but the date that it was actually installed.
I have a USB sound card hooked up to my Mac. This worked fine until this morning for some reason.
Step 6 is not working, as the sequence starts over every time I select two new files. So it says 'name already exists', after that it stops. Questions: How can I make step 6 work?
I am getting (seemingly random) disk I/O errors on my bootdrive. At first I thought it was caused by a faulty hard drive, but now I've replaced it and I still get those errors. These are the steps I have followed beginning from the first time I noticed something was wrong: Laptop hangs with just Google Chrome and Postbox (an e-mail application) I restart the laptop, but it never gets past the screen with the grey apple.
I am running Mountain Lion 10.8 and use Mail.app for my email mostly.* I recently purchased a product from Amazon, somewhere I order from frequently, and noticed that I didn't receive the usual sales receipt - or so I thought. I looked in Gmail's All Mail folder and noticed it there. Mail.app had deemed it Junk and put it in the Junk folder (which I don't believe is accessible from iOS devices with typical IMAP email set up on them). This is what my Junk Mail preferences look like when this happened: Is there a way to tell Mail.app that a certain sender (preferably something such as "all senders from @example.com are not junk" vs. the actual xyz@example.com) is not Junk without actually putting the sender into my contacts? * I now use AirMail because Apple Mail was using a lot of disk space (among other reasons).
I am looking for a simple To Do or Task app that will sync across iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro automatically. What app will do this?
I enjoy the feature of creating reminders from a web page with one click. similar to how Omnifocus does this. Can Apple's Reminders do the same by apple scripting or other addition/short cut?
I recently needed to show hidden files in my iMac 2011 and had to relaunch Finder to do so. Every tutorial I saw, said to ctrl+click on the Finder icon and then click "relaunch". The trouble is: I don't have this link. In the end I went to the Apple menu in the top left, and Force quit Finder, which had the same effect.
I am building a default 10.8 image for our corporate Mac users. We have a local Wifi network which should be set up by default on this image. I have used PackageMaker to set up all the other deployed software and settings, and would like to keep it that way. I am using InstaDMG to build the image (another reason to prefer the modular packaging method I have in place). I have tried deploying a .keychain file to /Library/Keychains/, but the AP is not picked up; I am also aware of /Library/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist but after deploying this, the system still does not result in the expected behavior. How can I deploy system-wide Wifi settings to a unbooted images using packages?
Recently upgraded corporate computers to Mac running on a premise Exchange Server (2010) from PC. 8 of the 9 computers have no problem synchronizing between the Exchange Server and Outlook.
I do have a linux machine (Ubuntu) which has no filters and a client machine which is behind a firewall that have even web traffic filtering. I can properly establish SSH connections from the client to the server. What is the correct command line for establishing a tunnel which would allow unfiltered browsing (via socks proxy) and also P2P traffic. Currently I used something like this, but it seems not to work with P2P (uTorrent in my case):
I have an encrypted disk and when I boot I'm offered the ability to log in as a guest and get a Safari only shell. This appears to be different from the guest account that is offered in the login screen on most non encrypted macs I'd like to add additional things to that account that will assist me in recovering the laptop in case it is lost or stolen. How can I customize this safari only guest account?
I have a Mac Pro that needs a lot of updates, but my home internet is very slow. I have a laptop, however, with access to better internet.
I am running Keynote '09 (5.0) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. Everything was fine until yesterday. The problem is that I can play a slideshow after opening it with Keynote, but if I try to play it again, I get an ambiguous error saying: "Keynote cannot play your slideshow because an error occurred."
I have a Logitech mouse that is supposedly "unsupported", but I'd like to be able to click the mouse wheel left and right to switch spaces left and right. I figured out that Mountain Lion is interpreting these clicks as control + page up (click mouse wheel left) and control + page down (click mouse wheel right), because my IDE (Eclipse) switches text editor tabs when I click left and right. (See *=URL=* How can I map control + page up / control + page down to change spaces left and right?
Is it possible to monitor all messages in Console.app for a string and then notify the user when this string occurs? I have the problem that I'm getting disk I/O errors and I suspect that it's not a HDD failure, but somehow is caused by a piece of software. The only way I know that I have disk I/O errors is that I sometimes look through all the messages in the Console.app out of curiosity. Of course this does not give me real time information. Therefore I want to receive a notification when the following message occurs in the Console:
Using Chrome v20 on OSX 10.6.8 on two boxes. Chrome Print dialog opens without the color/b&w option, always prints in b&w regardless of which printer I choose (I have several available). If I select to use system dialog to print instead, without changing any setting, the document prints in color. How can I get back the color option so I can print from Chrome without the extra steps? According to Chrome help docs, the option should be there...
How do I clear multiple entries of the same application from the "Open With" context menu?
One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the fact that one can sync iMessages across iOS and OSX devices. I would really like to have a thread that I start on my iPhone automatically sync to my Mac and iPad so I can reply easily from either device. I do understand that SMS text messages will not sync, and only iMessages. This question applies to iOS 6 and Mountain Lion devices as I am running an iPhone 4S and 3rd Gen iPad with iOS 6 and a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8). How can I enable this feature so that my iMessages stay in sync across all my devices?
I'm considering getting a new MacBook Air computer and would like it to drive two external monitors at 1920x1080 resolution. What cable or adapter would I need to run such a configuration? A related question for MacBook Pros mentions some solutions that might apply here: Would Two Apple Thunderbolt Displays work? Would a DisplayLink adapter work with standard 1080p displays?
When reading larger spreadsheets, it would be helpful to highlight the row and column that the currently selected cell is in. I'm not talking about conditional formatting or anything in the spreadsheet itself, I'm just talking about a viewing option. I couldn't find a similar option anywhere.
All the articles I've read suggest that the correct technique to make a local backup of my iTunes 11 library is to: Connect the pertinent device (iPod) Go to the Summary Tab Click "Backup Now" and follow the instructions.
Using Disk Utility to repart the drive. It just ends with an error and tells me to backup my data and re-install (or something like that).
I created a new Apple ID for my iPad. I did everything on the iPad. Now when I connect it to iTunes on my Mac, it asks to register my device and does not allow me to use the ID I created for it. Instead, it wants me to create a new one. Does anyone know how to solve this?
The only choice Safari asks me w.r.t keychain access is "deny" or "allow" or "always allow". Why doesn't Safari offer me an "always deny" option in Safari? How can I make the system "always deny"? Will the "always allow" or always deny apply to the computer or to a specific website?
I'm running Apple Mail 6.2 on OS X 10.8.2. I'm wondering how to clear flags easily, maybe a button exists or a shortcut is possible? Currently I need to press the down arrow in flag button and click "clear flag", which is really inconvenient. I think AppleScript is highly promising, but I don't know how to do it.
I started an account on Game Center when I was the only one with an iPhone. When my oldest got an iPhone, he got his own log in account to games Center. When my youngest got an iPod touch, I logged him into my account so I could better monitor what was being played and downloaded. But now I have an iPad and want to play Clash of Clans with my kids. So the three of us play together on different devices. Oldest with his own account! Youngest and I are playing off the same games Center account from different devices.
I have about 300 gigs of ALAC files (m4a container) with well groomed metadata, album art, etc. (Original source: CD rips with dbPowerAmp). I want to convert my music library to 128kbps AAC (still m4a) to save on hard drive space on a small server.
I am new to OS X and have been using it for 5 days. Whenever I launch an application, it shows up as a mounted drive in finder and on the desktop. This looks useless and annoying. Is there a way to prevent apps from showing up as mounted drives?
Is there any way to force iTunes 11 to rescan the music library and update the information for any tags that have been changed outside of iTunes? I know that selecting a single track and then 'Get Info" will force an update for that track, but it doesn't seem to work with multiple tracks.
I couldn't figure out where the settings I change with the "Mouse" system preferences are stored. Neither plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple..plist nor /Library/Preferences/com.apple..plist changes significantly if I change the mouse pointer speed.
I just downloaded an update to an application as a zip file, so I extracted the file in the Downloads folder. I now have the old version of Foobar.app located in the Applications folder and the new version Foobar.app located in the Downloads folder. I would then like to replace the old version with the new version by dragging the new version from the Downloads folder to the Applications folder via the Dock. This doesn't work if the app has the same filename, so I have to either first delete the old version using Finder or just move the new app to the Applications folder using Finder.
I need to know how I can revert back to 10.6 while not losing my documents. I upgraded to 10.8 ML and I did not do a back up prior to upgrading. I do have a current 10.8 Time Machine backup.
I've enabled Parental Controls on a new Nov 2012 iMac being used in a school for public access (OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion) and have restricted the applications this account can use. Everything works fine with the exception of Avid Media Composer (the main reason we purchased the iMacs...). Avid Media Composer is marked as an application that the account is allowed to use in the parental control settings. When I try to start Avid Media Composer under this account, a message pops up saying that this user doesn't have permission to use the application, giving the following three options: Always Allow... Allow Once... OK
Currently when I set a HTTP Proxy for iPhone/iPad it proxies the localhost traffic as well. Is there a way to stop that?
I've recently purchased a band from Lunatik to use my iPod Nano as a watch. To do this, I've gone into Settings > Date and Time > Time on Wake and put this ON.
While trying to make a Genius Bar reservation, the name appearing in the reservation is different from the one appearing in my profile—I modified it at some point. Why is that and how can I update the one from the reservations page? Also, when I’m trying to edit it from the reservations page, it redirect to the account page, where the name is correct. Genius Bar reservations page: My account page:
I upgraded from OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion 10.8, and then to 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. I only have a few installed applications (Photoshop and Microsoft Office), VLC movie player and Firefox - the rest of the system is intact. All fonts required for Photoshop are installed within Library's Adobe/Fonts folder so all Adobe apps can use them. However, I've had spinning beachballs on using apps, and choppy video playback when using VLC - it did not do that in 10.6.8 with any DVD or video played; and my previous movie player of choice (MPlayer OSX Extended, now uninstalled) was not compatible with Mountain Lion as far as I'm aware - it just crashed or I had to end it. Adobe Flash Player does not work, well, except for some Flash-based sites and Google Maps etc - Streetview, and flash-based adverts on Firefox, but it's a bit on-and-off, working on some sites but not others like YouTube - where I get the sound, but not the video, only the spinning grey wheel, and then Firefox crash
I have selected a received email in Mail.app and would like to create a rule to redirect all emails from the same sender to a specific folder. I know how to create such rules manually from the preferences menu. However, I wonder if there is any way to do this more efficiently by having some information from the selected email being filled in automatically? I checked the menus and in-app help, but couldn't find anything in this direction.
Is it possible to set or disabled Mail notifications on a per-account basis on mountain lion's notification center? I have shared email that gets a lot of email that I only neet to check once in a while and it would be great is I could disable notification for this email. I can't find any settings to do this on Mail preferences or Notifications preferences.
I've just changed the screen on an iPhone 4S with iOS 6.0.1. Everything went fine until I noticed that the phone was not detecting any SIM card. It doesn't matter what you do with the SIM bay, the phone is always showing "No Sim" at the top. I've tried to reboot several times with and without the SIM card inserted, different SIM cards, all that stuff with no luck.
I don't seem to have any other wireless problems generally speaking, just openVPN seems to drop randomly. Any advice or troubleshooting steps will be greatly appreciated.
When presenting a PowerPoint (.pptx) document, I'll likely have a clicker but cannot count on having visible access to the notes I've written inside it for each slide to help me present. The presentation will be running on a Windows machine. Is there an app for the iPhone where I can not only open the PowerPoint document, but easily read the notes only, slide-by-slide?
Since upgrading my hard drive (and reinstalling OS X), doing an OS X "Migration" to the new drive, and finally re-logging into Dropbox, I now show 700 files have syncing issues. This shows up when I click on the Dropbox icon in my top bar.
Last Dec (2012) my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) started freezing, say 3 or 4 times a session. I ran both the Apple hardware diagnostic DVD (ran for hours, no problems), and I ran a disk scan, no problems found. The kernel.log message turns up these messages, at every single crash:
How can you send out calendar invites in the iPhone 5 Calendar app? I have synced my phone calendar with one Gmail account and Outlook. How can I create an entry on my phone and invite attendees without using iCloud?
I have this 15 inch Macbook Pro (Mid 2007) with OSX Tiger 10.4.11. I am trying to upgrade OSX to Snow Leopard (10.6) but all CDs and DVDs keep getting ejected without my doing anything. How can I prevent this automatic ejection of install discs?
Remember how on iChat you could block certain people or just allow certain people? Is there a way to do that on iMessage?
My iPhone's recent calls list correctly shows all the calls I've made or recieved, but some of them apparently have timestamps from the future:  This screenshot was taken on Jan 7th. The call labelled "1:15 PM" was made that day. The ones at the top of the list, labelled 1/12/13, were actually made sometime the previous week.
I have bought a new external harddrive to use with my Macbook Air running OSX 10.8.2. I renamed the device to "750GB External" and started using it, for example to store some photos which I edit with Picasa. This worked fine for about a week. Suddenly this morning when I plugged in the drive, Picasa could not find any of my photos, because the device now have the name "750GB External 1".
I have recently started a job as a project manager. Equipped with an I pad I am currently going to site and taking photos of issues then manually writing out emails to associated colleagues. I was wondering if there is an app I can install with a check box system so I can easily yes/no each point and also add photos and write notes if need be. An app in which I could customise to suit questions eq Scaffholding around chimney sufficient... Yes/ no then being able to email report off to who ever I want would be great. Any suggestions?
I've recently upgraded to OSX 10.8 and have discovered that the Contacts Application can no longer access our Active Directory 2003 domain via LDAP. I have confirmed that the exact same settings work for OSX 10.7 and Mac OSX 10.6 which are [generalised to]:
My sent emails show in my inbox on my iPad. I have looked but "always bcc myself" is not checked. This problem has started only recently, but I am not aware of anything I may have done to start it. It doesn't happen when I send emails from my Mac computer using the same account.
-- I already tried configuring my computer's entire Mac OS to also connect to the proxy . Did not fix the problem. Note that normally, I am leaving the Mac's OS NOT connected to the proxy but rather only having my web browser (Firefox) use the proxy. Partially because having the Whole Mac configured to proxy did not fix the browser... And it did not help matters when I saw that the Preferences control panel for the proxy was reformatting the port number of the proxy to display the number like this: 8,080. Uhh... You think apple might have fixed that embarrassing bug in its last update.
Is there a way to set up users on Mountain Lion to be available in the FileVault boot screen if the users are Active Directory users managed through Quest Authentication Services (QAS)? I would like to have the following working: User is managed through AD using QAS FileVault encryption is used for the whole disk, not just the user's home directory The AD user is used in the FileVault boot screen Is this possible or does anyone use a similar configuration? Update
I've been using the X-Fi for some time on Windows and it works great. However, on my MacBook Pro I can't get the volume control to work.
I recently switched from Sparrow.app back to Mail.app and added a whole bunch of accounts. Now I am trying to sync them with my iPhone 5 via iTunes 11, since I am everything but keen on adding them manually in the iPhone settings. But iTunes seems unable to find my accounts:
I have an old MacBook which cannot run anything newer than 10.7.5 Lion. I do regular Time Machine backups to an external drive. I plan to buy a new MacBook Air, but I want to make the migration as smooth as possible, with all my apps, configs and files copied and set just like on the old Mac. I was thinking of re-installing Mountain Lion on the new Air and selecting the old Lion backup as "from backup" source during installation. Will it work? Has anyone tried this and can share experience/problems?
When I use the dictation feature in OS X, sometimes some of my text has got dotted blue underlining below it after entry:  What does this mean? Am I able to use it to correct the mistakes in the text more easily? I am using OS X 10.8.
When I open PDFs in Chrome that contain words like "files", the "fi" is replaced by a square block. Opening the same PDF in Adobe Reader or Preview works fine. Anyway to fix this?
How can I minimize total cost of ownership (primarily means low monthly rate) for an iPhone if my voice and data usage is light?
I've got two Macs, and I only use one keyboard and mouse thanks to Teleport. The problem is that I have to activate it every time I turn my computer on. Would it be possible to do it automatically?
Is there an easy way to tell the Mail app (OS X 10.8) to take my signature from a file ? I can manually edit it in the config, but I have a rotating signature and the signature file is updated automatically, so I'd like Mail to use that. Many mail programs allow the signature to be taken from a local file, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this for Mail. p.s I'm aware that I could dig into the configuration subdirectory, but the information stored there is an HTML-ized version of the signature, and while I could probably write a script that converts my file into the desired format and then copies it over there, it's a pain because it's not compatible with the signature files on my other systems (I use mac/windows/linux systems in different settings)
Whenever i import a large folder into iTunes i have the problem that if in one of the subfolders there is a playlist, it will auto start playing. How can i prevent this?
Any Spotify desktop user has likely noticed their pervasive notifications: whenever "one of our friends" joins Spotify, there's both an in-app notification as well as a red badge that appears on Spotify's icon in the Dock.  Is there a way to disable an application's ability to show a badge on its Dock icon? I'm using Lion (10.7.8), and therefore don't have the 'Notifications' prefpane that was introduced in Mountain Lion. I tried digging around in the app's resources and .plist file to see if there was a setting to enable/disable this... to no avail.
I have just formatted my drive, and performed a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion from USB flash drive. When doing my first Software Update, within the App Store application, under the Updates section, the first listed update is the weird looking string "DAHSoftwareUpdate" with title field having the value "DAHSoftwareUpdatesPage.OSUpdates.Title".
I'm trying to share my MacBook Pro's internet connection with my iPad over Bluetooth. The MacBook is running Snow Leopard.
I have a bunch of video recorded and stored in Dropbox from another iOS device, I'd like to move this onto a new iOS device. So far, the only way I can see of adding these videos to my Camera Roll is to put them into iPhoto on the Mac, add them to an album, then Sync that Album to the new device. Any ideas?
I want to replace the DVD in my old 2010 mac mini with a SSD but first I would like to know if the two SATA interfaces are equal when it comes to speed. I would prefer to keep the harddrive on the first interface as it is much easier to change it than is to change the one in the DVD location.
Sending a pdf as an attachement leaves open the original file according to lsof | grep my.pdf How can i prevent this rather unpleasant behavior ? OSX 10.6.8 - Mail Version 4.6 (1085) UPDATE: I filed a bug at apple and the guys at apple actually responded saying this is a know bug (duplicate of #4023875) which is still open.
How can I add the division symbol on OpenOffice Writer (Word) on Mac OS X? I cannot seem to find a way to add this symbol.
I'm trying to run an application named "Test.4a". The icon has a line going across it (similar to a "No Smoking" sign). And it says "You can't open the application Test.4A because the Classic environment is no longer supported". Any ideas on what to do with this? I'm on Mac 10.7. The application was created with "Supercard". That's all I know.
I have an external hard drive (Drobo 2nd gen) connected to my Mac via Firewire. It used to appear on my desktop and in my Finder sidebar, but now it won't show up in either place (I do have "Hard disks" and "External disks" turned on in the Finder sidebar options).
I made the mistake of upgrading itunes software and when I plugged in my iphone 4 it erased all of my music. I have since tried to resync but it is stuck on the 2nd song copy and I cant seem to figure out why? All of my songs are still on my computer and on a separate hard drive but I dont understand why it wont sync?
I just successfully replaced the front glass of my 3th Gen iPad WiFi, but when I cleaned up my desk, I found out I forget to use the 4 LCD screws:  Is it worth it working another hour to open up the iPad again and place those screws in place? Or are the adhesives strong enough to keep the LCD in place?
I wrote a simple AppleScript that saves data to a Database Events database. I see the database (DBEV file) in my ~/Documents/Databases folder, and I am wondering if there is a simple graphical utility that I can use to view its contents.
Right now my system.log gets recreated every 24 hours or so with a message like: Can I change a setting such that it will get rotated every month? Or every week? Having a much longer time would allow for better visibility of the progression of some errors.
From the command line, how would I get the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants (not just 1st-level children)? This is useful when you want to monitor the memory usage of applications that are not monolithic. For instance, Google Chrome spawns a whole bunch of workers and renderers, even though to the user, it's all in only one GUI window. Another example is Firefox, which has separate processes for its plugins.
I usually use my MacBook Pro for programming purposes and is mostly open about 14 hours a day, with 2-3 hours being plugged in until the charging is complete and then I disconnect from power afterwards to cycle the battery. When I leave for home, I just put the machine on Sleep Mode by closing the lid and not actually shutting it down. I only shut it down every Friday for the weekend.
Is it possible on the iPhone to share the screen live? In other words I would have an app on the iPhone that would allow a person to see my screen live while they watched via a secure URL. I have seen some apps that allow for screen sharing of files from the iPhone but not the actual screen. If it is not possible to share the screen live is it possible to record a video of the screen?
So far, I read on MacRumors of: Files at /Library/WebServer/Documents will, by default, be shared as the root Web site when Web sharing is turned on. These files can be accessed at *=URL=* or http://<yourIPaddress>.
The tip of the headphone jack got stuck in the headphone socket of my MacBook Pro and I have the following question: The "Sound" option in the System Preferences displays sound output through the "Headphones" However as the headphone's jack is broken, the headphone doesn't work. If I pull the headphone out, the "Speaker" icon in the menu bar greys out and sound seems disabled. If I plug in the headphone in, the "Speaker" icon in the menu bar appears as working however as the headphone itself is broken, there is no sound. Where I live, it is not possible to buy a micro screwdriver to open the MacBook Pro and push away the headphone jack from the headphone plug. As a temporary solution I would like to use some AppleScript or other program code to force sound output through the MacBook Pro's speakers instead of the headphones, while the headphones are plugged in.
Some custom fields of contact cards in Contacts.app are really annoying. For example, nicknames always appear in Mail.app. To make things worse, there seems to be no menu option to delete custom fields from cards once created.
I have this irritating issue with the latest version of Chrome on my Air running Lion. At least once a day it ceases to work. It doesnt freeze or crash, it just will not search or go to any sites. If I enter a URL into the browser and hit enter nothing happens. I have to completely quite the program and start again. Does anyone know why this would be happening?
I have automator running several applescript commands that I want to happen sequentially. For example, I have an empty trash command, then a shut down command. When I run the script, the computer shuts down before the trash empties more than a few files. How do I make sure that automator completes one task before moving on?
I can change all of the usual ulimits via (for instance) ulimit -n 8192 and launchctl limit maxfiles 8192 8192. Somehow, this doesn't seem to work for -u, the maximum number of user processes:
I'm having problems using Back To My Mac from work to my home network. Initially, I thought it was something to do with the way the work network had been set up, but recently I realised that I have no problems connecting to my Time Capsule… It's just that I can't connect to my MacBook Pro. It is showing up in the devices on the left panel, but when I try to connect to it, I get this message: So why is it I can connect to the Time Capsule HD okay, but not the Mac?
I know changing the IMEI number of the phone, is illegal in most countries. I'm basicly curious about two things: Is that possible?
I opened my mac mini to switch the DVD with another hard drive and I forgot to take a picture with the ways the 3 thermal sensors are connected. THeir codes on the mainboard look like: J5550 - left one, when you look from the front of the mini (dvd opening towards you) J5520 - middle one J5560 - right one - the closest to the two sata connectors J5560 - right one - the closest to the two sata connectors One of them is for the DVD One of them is for the DVD One of them is for primary HDD near the connect One of them for the primary HDD on the other side (glued)
I started installing Homebrew on my Mac Lion v10.7.4 but got the following error. I ran the following command as mentioned on Homebrew website:
I have seven 10.6 machines connected to active directory, all work great. We have a new 10.8 machine now connected to active directory which is working for all users except one (the main user of course). Everyone but him can login using AD credentials, which he can as well until they change...which leads me to believe that it's actually authenticating against a local account.
I have an iphone 4 that is stuck in restore mode after trying to update to ios 6 wirelessly. Unfortunately, I do not have a recent itunes backup of this phone.
Could someone give me instructions on how to share the books I actually have in my iPhone to my iPad, possibly via WIFI and without connecting the iPad to iTunes. With music I did it, but not with books. The funny thing is that since the iPad iBooks application display the titles of the collections (eg Technical, Novel, etc.), it doesnt show any books inside them.
We have multiple users that are assigned MacBook Pro's who we know never take them away from their desks. We need some sort of proof to repurpose this hardware and issue them an iMac. We would really like a terminal command we can send or a script we could run to determine the last time the laptop was unplugged. So far everything we've found just tells you its current state, but not "timer"?
I had a catastrophe last night. I accidentally erased my computer from my iPhone using find my iPhone. So I am wondering if my computer gets securely erased like zeroing it out or does it just erase it?
I tried installing Win 7 into my Mac so I can dual boot and use Win 7 but then again changed my mind about it but i have already partitioned a separate drive for windows. I deleted it and tried resizing my start up disk but failed in doing so. I'm using Mountain Lion OS and my lap is a MacBook Pro.
I'm trying to get all my Messages (not E-Mail) and connected attachments out of a iOS 6 backup. I know there are tools like Wondershare Data Recovery for iTunes but they are not cheap and I'm trying to do this by my self with a self written python script. I already know that the backups are stored here: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ And in a specific backup (XY) the messages are stored in this file: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/XY/3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28
I'm trying to make a script that ejects all connected external drives and does not move on until they are all disconnected. The main problem I'm having is being able to set the variable vol_count to the result of the following script: I also have not tested that script, but I assume that's how you run a terminal command from within an applescript. Follow up question: How would I then have it eject all but two disks (my hard drive is partitioned into two disks)?
I swear I've done this before, but either I am forgetting something or the behavior of iTunes 11 changed: In the past I've only kept about a dozen or so albums on my local (work) computer, but I have networked storage containing my whole music collection. If I connected to the networked drive and copied albums into iTunes, the albums would appear in iTunes but remain on networked storage. When I left my local network, the networked music would still appear, but there was an icon (red x?) to indicate that it was offline. When I reconnected at home, the icons disappear and I can play the networked music again.
I purchased Macbook Air 13 in late 2012. It is advertised as having 7 hour battery life. After a few months of use, with maximum charge it gives me only 2 hours. Is this normal?
I’ve got an iMac Mid 2011 with 4GB RAM preinstalled (2 x 2GB) and want to upgrade to 12GB. Is it ok to add a single 8GB RAM or is it better to add 2 x 4GB?
Once a week or so, Mail.app will not display the contents of a mail message. Selecting Mailbox -> Rebuild fixes bandaids the issue until next time.
In my car i have a 3.5mm jack that I want to connect to my iPhone 5. I currently am just running a standard 3.5mm cable from my phone to the port, but that audio volume isn't that great. So I thought a neat way would be to get a Bluetooth module with a 3.5mm input - like this one - *=URL=* - and use that. But I'm not sure if that would connect via a line level output from the phone. Is is possible to do line level out without needing an expensive lighting to 30 pin cable -> 30 pin to 3.5mm cable into the car port?
Can't shuffle playlists and then sync that shuffled playlist to my iPod. I was able to do this in the previous versions of itunes just by clicking a button. That button is not there anymore. How can I shuffle specific playlists and have that shuffled list transfer to my iPod in the shuffled order?
I just copied Garageband on a memory stick from a friends new iMac to my older Macbook Pro which I recently updated (clean install) to Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, during the upgrade I lost GarageBand. After double clicking on GarageBand within the memory stick on my older Macbook Pro it is now coming up with: "Thank you for purchasing and downloading GarageBand from the Mac App store." It then proceeded to download the rest of the app.
After reinstalling OS X, then migrating my account over via Time Machine, I cannot ssh to localhost. It asks me for a password, but doesn't take my actual user's password.
This question was locked in an older post, however there was no resolution to the problem. I had a similar issue and was able to resolve it in the following manner with the help of the Account Security Adviser Team at Apple. Try these steps, and if they don't work, try calling apple. This may only work if you update your apple id to your new email address before losing access to the old address. In my case, I still had access to my old email address, but using the password recovery options provided did not work. Here's the sequence of what happened to me:
I've just bought my first Mac, a Macbook pro(with an hdd), and I'm thinking in buying an ssd and replace the hdd. But the computer came with no dvd of the OS. I know that in the hdd there is a restore partition, but if I remove the hdd, how can I install the OS?
I am looking for the keyboard shortcut to place the current window in half of the screen, either to the left or right. This functionality is performed in windows by typing the windows button plus left or right. How is this done on Mac OSX?
My Macbook Pro ran into a problem and reported Error: -50. I cannot open applications such as Chrome, Word, and others. I cannot download content or move content to the trash because it says the disk is full, even though it still shows 80Gb of free storage. The Ram is free and I cannot run ClamXav to see if it is a virus. Disk Utility verifies the disk but the permissions have all changed and cannot be repaired. Some permissions errors include "user differs on private/var/at, should be 0 user is 1"as well as various others. I cant even see/open external drives I connect. Any idea how to solve this problem?
It's convenient to use dd to write image file to USB sticks. But I find sometimes people write dd of=/dev/disk1 and there is alos dd of=/dev/rdisk1. e.g. The arch wiki dd if=image.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=8192 The Raspberry Pi instruction sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian/2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk3 What is the difference?
Since upgrading to OSX 10.8.2 from 10.6.x I find that when I lock the screen Adium logs out. Upon unlocking screen Adium logs back in. It used to just set to away when screen locked and I have pushover scripts that rely on this. How can I get it to behave the way it did before I upgraded?
When you send an SMS message to a turned off iPhone then check say an hour later and the SEND button is blue, does that mean the user at some point has switched on to check messages? Cause I tried to resend as iMessage and it went green again?
I upgrade my brand new late 2012 Mac Mini's drive to an SSD and changed the RAM. Now when looking up the serial number in "About this mac" or System Profiler it just says "System serial#" :
I'm using Mac Lion Mail app with Gmail IMAP and when I drag and drop or command-click to move messages from my Inbox to a folder called Personal, it appears to work in Mail. But when I look at Gmail, the message remains in Inbox. Instead of actually moving the message, it simply gives it the label, Personal.
It is straightforward to configure a Gmail account being accessed through Apple Mail to Archive messages when you "delete" them from the mail client. With generic IMAP accounts, however, the only options for deleting messages are: Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox (which, when unchecked, leaves them in the Inbox) Store deleted messages on the server (which, when unchecked, stores them in the local mailbox only, I suppose) Permanently erase deleted messages when <time interval>... Is there a way, through a combination of server configuration and, perhaps, Apple Mail rules, to move messages to an IMAP "archive" folder when I Trash them? (I note that there seems to exist no condition in Apple Mail's rules to take action when a message is deleted...)
In iTunes 11 I use the artist view. In artist view, I see the artists on the very left, then the album covers and the track multi-columned at the right side of the cover. Is it possible to also show the genre of the album? The only way I know to access the genre is to right-click the cover or a track, open "information" and look at "Genre".
Well I am very disappointed with Apple Mail. Its checking for new e-mails automatically from time to time regardless the options. In General options I set "Check for new messages" to "Manually" In each e-mail account I turned off the option "Include when automatically checking for new messages" In each IMAP account i turned off the option "Use IDLE command when server supports it" Mail still downloads new e-mails from time to time.
I want to shared some photos stored on my Mac to my wife's IPad (the old one, 1st generation). I have created a Shared PhotoStream album. My wife correctly received the invitation/notification. She could open this shared photos on her iPhone 4 (iOS6) but it's seems not working on her iPad (1st gen / iOS5). How can I make it work?
Is it possible to keep the full iOS twitter integration (tweet from anywhere in iOS, get notified on lockscreen/notification center etc.) and uninstall the official Twitter client and use TweetBot or Twitteriffic instead?
I am using Mountain Lion on my MBP, my external TFT monitor used to work great at its native resolution (1920x1080) when connected to the MBP. However today after shutting it down and powering it up the resolution on the external monitor was on 800x600. In system preferences the 'Best for Display' resolution output was selected (wasn't that supposed to be 1920x1080?) when I clicked 'Scaled' and chose 1920x1080 the resolution indeed changed, however it is not taking up the whole screen. There are 1 inches to the left and right of the monitor that are not being used. Its as if the viewport is "shrinked". I tried downloading SwitchResX but it did not help, when choosing 1920x1080 again the viewport is missing about an inch to the left and right. Any thoughts?
OSX Mountain Lion, Mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro. I'd like to know what is the best practices about closing the Macbook Pro lid (sleeping) verses shutting it down? I often simply close it during the night, leading to long uptimes (4 days right now). Sometimes I feel it's not as snappy as it is when I rebooted it a few minutes ago.
I have a late 2012 27" iMac as my primary monitor also connected to a late 2009 27" iMac as a secondary monitor via a mini-display port to mini-display port cable. I also have a Dell 24" monitor connected to the late 2012 27" iMac as a third monitor. I can change the brightness on the Dell monitor manually with the Dell hard buttons but I cannot change the brightness on the late 2009 iMac using the keyboard attached to the late 2012 iMac Is there anyway to change the brightness on the iMac which is serving as a secondary display? Other details: I don't want to use the software Shades as it’s a memory hog and leaks memory I'm using a wired Mac keyboard connected via usb to the late 2012 iMac control + F1 or control + F2 does not work.
Is there an alternative to Adress Book that works both on a Macbook or Imac and on Iphone? I always get stuck on managing contact groups on all my apple devices. Or is there a strategy to keep contacts data consistent on 3 apple devices at the same time. I'd rather like to do it without cloud services due to privacy concerns. edit for clarification: I use an imac (Snow Leopoard, early 2008) at home, a MBP (early 2010, Lion) for work and an Iphone 4 (iOS 5).
I have an iPhone with iOS 6 which has an Apple ID bound and from this iPhone I usually set alarms for the calendar. My brother has another iPhone with iOS 6 too, and we are sharing the same Apple ID. The problem is that he gets notified for my alarms. How do I disable calendar alarms just for his iPhone and keep getting notified on mine?
I purchased Corsair RAM memory (2x4GB) CMSA8GX3M2A1066C7 from Amazon.com. According to the description it "Works with any Mac computer that supports 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs". My MacBook supports 6GB officially and 8GB with the firmware that I am running. However when I inserted my MacBook sounded three beeps at start-up. I tried inserting only one stick in both of the slots but that didn't help. I also tried it with both sticks but that does not work either.
How would I copy all of the text from a powerpoint presentation and paste it into a word document?
I had an iPhone 4 stolen from me and there is an associated iCloud backup with tons of data I want. Is there any possible way to access this without the iPhone 4? I also got an iPhone 5 recently but don't think the restore will work (but haven't tried).
How can I downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion ? I need to download Lion again... thanks
I have a 15inch MacBook Pro circa 2009 (model number A1226) Over the last week or so it has shut down unexpectedly when there is battery power and when its plugged in. It restarted fine and then worked for another few days before it did it again.
I have a weird problem on mac (OSX 10.7): any theme or font I choose - all fonts appear in bold. I sync all settings with Dropbox and on Windows 7 and Ubuntu the fonts are normal. Don't know if it's an OSX problem or sublime, but did anyone run into this issue?
Is it possible to set the iPhone to play music/audio while asleep? If so, how do you configure it? EDIT:
In short, I need to kill all httpd processes so I can run a particular program. When I go to Activity Monitor and Quit all of the httpd processes, a new one is immediately spawned. I'm not sure what is causing this, and would like to know how to effectively kill httpd without it launching again. I'm guessing something else is requiring it and thus the automatic spawning, so maybe you can help me determine where that's coming from. I'm running 10.8.2, and trying to run Tiny Umbrella to store my SHSH blobs so I can downgrade my dev phone after upgrading to iOS 6.
Is it possible to take an Apple factory-created Fusion Drive and downgrade it into two separate volumes? I understand this would also necessitate reinstalling the OS and Recovery Partition etc. The reason to do so is that the company-mandated Sophos SafeGuard disk encryption software won't work on a Fusion Drive (unsurprisingly), and FileVault 2 is prohibited (for now).
I'm trying to create a sym link to a network directory when i log in. This is working for a couple of other directories without spaces in the name, but for the life of me I cannot get this one director to work and I'm assuming it has to do with the space characters. in a terminal window I can successfully create the link manually with my current applescript looks like this
I set out to execute the following steps on OS X Mountain Lion to mount an NFS share- After creating, when I tried to list the mounts, my mac air stopped responding. On restart, when I log on to my account, it freezes on a finder window without loading anything else. I can't seem to kill it or start task manager or do anything else. I can log on to the guest account but not with my own account.
Is that possible to turn off default SSL/TLS negotiation with mail server at Sparrow mail client? I want to analyze IMAP protocol work with my IMAP server but can't do this due to TLS encodes negotiations in my Wireshark sniffer.
A few days ago, Time Machine on my Mac reported an error: ‘Sparsebundle already in use’. Manual unmount of the Time Capsule didn't help, nor a reboot of my machine. Removing and re-selecting my Time Capsule from the Time Machine Preferences window didn't help either.
My Reminders app is showing 6 reminders, but as far as I know, I have none. I've checked the completed file, checked in iCal on the Mac. Any ideas how to delete these reminders?
I would like to erase everything on my Mac's hard drive as I'm going to recycle or sell it. Is there a way to do it without OSX disc?
I'm developing an app, and one of the requirements is to connect to a computer with the URL scheme: The problem, however, is that I can't connect to my Mac remotely. Let's say my public IP is xx.xxx.xxx.xxx. I have a Time Capsule setup as my router, and I enabled port forwarding for port 24001, mapping it to my computer's LAN IP, 10.0.1.10 (DHCP reservation). So, I saved the settings in my Time Capsule, then attempted to connect like so: That didn't work, so I tried just connecting the following way:
How could I create playlists for all of the albums in iTunes for which I have all of the songs? Assume that track number & track count metadata is accurate where specified, and don't worry about catching tracks which lack that metadata. I assume this will require AppleScript.
I would like to search within an individual email message using OS X Mail version 5.3 or above (Lion, Mountain Lion). I would like this search to include the email header.
I need to install Homebrew. I am unable to input the password when prompted in the Terminal - nothing happens when I type, only when I hit enter. I follow the instructions specified in the book I'm reading (Byte of Python). First, I enter: I get: Any ideas how to enable me to enter my password?
I recently read about a device that reported its "minimum CPU speed" (which was 50MHz; max was 1500MHz) and I wondered if my MacBook Air (and other devices like iPhone/iPad) slows down the CPU when not plugged in.
I have an iPod Model #A1238 in which the battery is low. I tried to connect the power adapter cable which was provided to try to charge it but no luck. I thought it was the power cable so I bought a new one but tried to charge the iPod with it, still nothing. I then used the new cable and connected it to my daughter's iPod, that one charged just fine.
I'm running OS X 10.8.2 with TotalFinder. Recently, when launching Finder from dock stacks—for instance, the Downloads folder—by clicking the "Open in Finder", the toolbar and sidebar are both hidden (I have them visible by default).
I bought this Mac several months ago, and when it first installed by the people in the Apple store, they set the password to blank. At first it was ok, but now I can't install any programs because the Mac keep saying that the password is incorrect. Please help me. Thanks!
I use Logitech USB speakers with my computer. They are set as the default output device as well as the default alert output device.
Is it possible to use "Time-Machine" with an external hard-drive through an IP? I have an external HD connected to a Raspberry Pi and I have installed SSH. What I am hoping to achieve is this:
I want to do the comparison of image quality of 2 lenses, with different settings. For this purpose I need to do the pixel level comparison. But Aperture stores originals of the files internally showing to the user only previews, that are generated according to the Aperture preferences. Currently I have it set to maximum quality and half of original resolution.
I use 1Password1 to store not only my own information, but also my sisters home Wi-Fi information. Since she does not have a 1Password licence, I printed out the information for her to store in a safe place. Now, I was just thinking of using the printing dialog (under "Security Options...") to create a "password protected" PDF. But what does that actually mean and how secure is it? Does this encrypt the whole PDF? What encryption is used? Is it compatible with Windows and Ubuntu?
I have a 2011 generation Macbook Pro, upgrade to 16gb RAM and a 128gb SSD drive - running Mountain Lion and iTunes 11. During playback (approximately 20 times per song) it stutters, stops playing for a few seconds, and then resumes from where it left off. It seems to co-incide with my using the keyboard or performing any file operations - and at the same time the file operations freeze up. The following screenshot was taken about 3 seconds after a skip and doesn't show any signficant CPU activity:
I have a new macbook with osx 10.8.2 Every time I want do delete a file, open a downloaded file, and numerous other actions I have to enter my password. Is there a way to turn this off?
I wonder how to edit the following two files, so that I can change the system keyboard layout. It seems they are binary resource files, but I'm not sure. I could use Ukelele to create a custom layout, but I would like to know how Ukelele reads the current layouts, and more over whether it is posible to edit the system layout directly.
I often find myself creating the same structure by hand in finder for new projects, how can I quicken this process with a single Terminal Command? Example of structure & command: Terminal $ cf Project_Name //cf for CreateFolder Creates a folder in the current Path with current Date -> YYMMDD Project_Name In that folder a custom structure: _CI _layout _layout/_screens _material
Previously, on Windows, iPhone was recognized as a camera and I could browse image folder with Explorer without a need to import/download/tranfer photo files to the computer. Is there a way to do the same on Mac OSX? I mean, all approaches I have ever read are somehow connected to import procedure (iPhoto, Preview, iTunes, etc.) or to hacking the iPhone and installing some apps that will allow to mount the phone as storage drive work. What is the easiest and most straightforward way to view that files without transferring them to a computer?
Deleted /var/vm/sleepimage and let computer generate a new one. Used "Restore Defaults" in Energy Saver. Repaired permissions is Disk Utility. Still encountered issue.
I got, for the first time in my life, a Mac this Christmas and I was wondering if it is possible to create system-wide keyboard shortcut. No matter what app I is using, is there a way to configure a combination of keys so that the new email screen in Mail.app opens? Or, to have the Compose message screen from Gmail? I understand that I can use command + N in Mail.app, and C in Gmail web interface, but I would like a global shortcut.
I want to reset all my configurations trying to install MySQL & other development stuff through the Terminal on my MacBook and start fresh. Because it was my first time doing this and I think I made lots of wrong stuff. So, do creating a new user will do this or I need to make a new "fresh" install for the OS?
Is ther a way to hide the blue location circle on the iPad maps? I know I could disable wifi, but I still want to be able to access the maps. What I am trying to do is to zoom all the way out in satellite mode and see if I can find things without any labels.
I'm using a MacBook Pro and I decided to try using my WD Passport external HD wirelessly by connecting it to my Airport Extreme. I had previously used this external HD for storing things as well as for my Time Machine backups. I'm showing my ignorance here, but now there is a folder on the external HD called "MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" with a little red minus or do not enter symbol on the icon and when I go to run Time Machine it says, "Oldest backup: none," and "Latest backup: none." But I can plainly see the backup right there on the external HD. I'm sorry I ever tried this and all I want is to undo whatever I did so I can go back to using Time Machine normally. I just re-formatted this external HD and backed up, and then did a bunch of changes on my MBP. I don't want to start again at zero if there are options for me to continue using the sparsebundle.
In Mac OS X 10.8.2, I have this curious problem. Every time I install a new updated version of one of several applications that I use, my system adds a new duplicate entry in the "Open With" contextual menu:
I removed a program from my MacBook Pro by deleting the app. I also found a few other things in the file system and removed them. Is there a way to ensure no additional information is left on my laptop? Perhaps from command line?
On my iPhone, until iOS 6, anytime music is playing a play symbol appears (and disappears when no music is playing). How can I achieve a similar effect in the menu bar of OSX Mountain Lion?
While there is a similar question how to make Mac keyboard like Ubuntu, I would like to raise the reverse question: How to make Ubuntu keyboard like Mac? I like for instance cmd ⌘ to work as ctrl (i.e. To press cmd ⌘+C for copy in Ubuntu). This makes the life easier when using an Ubuntu virtual machine on Mac, no need anymore to think if you are doing on Mac or virtual Ubuntu. Since my brain works out of OS X all day long and I'm running ubuntu and other OS inside virtualization (like virtual box), making these guest OS run more like my host OS would save me confusion. How to make Ubuntu's mapping of my Mac's keyboard be more Mac-like?
I have a unibody MacBook, late 2008 I think. The optical drive failed and I wondered about adding a second hard disk. Is this simple to do?
I am basically wondering if there is any tool(s) that can generate a push notifications on OS X and/or iOS from terminal entries. Idea here is you could connect via SSH and make a custom push notification like "WiFi is turning off in 5 Minutes" or "Go to bed!" (lol) appear. Anyone have ideas? My iOS device is jailbroken, hence OpenSSH is installed.
I am looking for something that does the same thing as Airdrop that would work on Windows/Mac/Linux. Because of hardware it would most likely have to be LAN-based, but I am perfectly fine with that. Anyone know of such a program? Thanks :)
Can two people with different Apple IDs play the same game on one iPad? I am already playing a game, and my son would like to play, but he wants his own game, is that possible if he has his own Apple ID or Facebook?
iTunes has a field named "Last Played" that tells me when I last played a track; is there any way of finding out all the songs I listened to on a particular date? I'm using iTunes 11 under OS X 10.6.8.
I've recently become nigh on obsessive with cleaning out extra space on my hard drive, and I'm trying to delete a program called "Rowmote Helper." Whenever I try to delete it, it says it can't be deleted because it is open. But when I open the "force quit applications" window, it's not running. What can I do to quit the program if it's running, or force delete it anyway? How do you force-delete an application that says that its running, but when you try to force quit it, it doesn't show up?
I'd like to monitor my bandwidth usage on my Macbook pro, and keep logs of it. Ideally, I'd like to view/monitor them via the Terminal. Can anyone recommend me some applications? EDIT: To clarify, I want to keep a time-series graph of the bandwidth I/O
I have a mobile Internet stick that is connected through the USB. The annoying part is that the connection program automatically launches when I plug it in.
I got a strange image from the output of brew like this . I'm curious about this behaviour. Is this a feature of brew or the image comes from some special character set? If a character in some character set, I think it can be employed to customise the terminal (prompt, etc.). Thanks and Best Regards!
Whenever I eject the external drive that I use for Time Machine, I get this prompt:  However, in actual fact, this particular drive has got only ONE (1) partition, so it's rather annoying that I have to click on Eject All when this should have been a no-frills process.
I've won a 4gb RAM Macbook Air yesterday. I know that the RAM is soldered to the motherboard, so therefore non user upgradeable.
I ran disk utility and looked for errors on a NTFS drive that was working fine but had been ejected abruptly after the computer was forced to shut down. After that a bunch of errors just appeared in red and the disk became "empty". The only folder available is named "found.000" and cannot be opened.
What is running my machine down? This is iotop output...I still can't tell what is driving my system to a halt. Command+i on the SSD shows my "used space" slowly changing. It does this for about an hour...then freezes. I still have over 112 GB of free space on the drive...yet it yields me a... Beach-ball Of Death...any ideas? If I listed what I've tried it would be two pages long. iotop iosnoop kextstat kextunload on all Virtual Box drivers removed Virtual Box Beach-ball-of-death Discovered Virtual Box is not the problem Created another user...logged in as other user...same problem... Beach-ball-of-death Reinstalled OSX 10.8.2 from apple website.... Beach-ball-of-death here is a gist of the output.... https://gist.github.com/4524724
I am looking for an OS X application to nicely format and print source code from a variety of programming languages. Line numbers would be nice Constant width font Printing the contents of the clipboard would be a real plus Does something like this exist (besides the obvious programmers' editors), free or reasonably priced?
What happens if I forget to turn off hotspot tethering on my iOS device and connect it via USB to a computer that is already connected to the Internet via Ethernet? Which internet / network gateway gets priority?
I used ssh-keygen -t ecdsa to generate an ECDSA key, but I got the error unknown key type ecdsa. man ssh-keygen says: Does anyone have any insight on this?
I need to run an applet that requires the latest version of Java. Whenever I try to run that applet, it asks me if I want to install Java. So it sends me to the Java site and I download it. Then I restart safari, but when I try to run that applet again, it asks me again to install Java, and the applet won't run.
I'm not sure when it got there, but there is what looks like the icon for a time machine volume in my favorites sidebar for finder, but its name is gibberish : "_fTz328nSUG4ZgV4k5KaRm." If I click on it the name flashes the top of the finder window with the body blank then goes back to whatever the window was displaying before. I can't right click it. I can't drag it into the trash, although I can drag it around the favorites bar. I don't know where it came from, but I would like to get rid of it so I don't have to look at it any more. I am running OSX 10.7.5 on an early 2008 Macbook Pro.
We have a build process that is now doing the common layout for distributed DMGs. This is done in a way that I've seen in many places -- the DMG is attached, then Finder does its job via osascript. However, the script must refer to the mounted image by its volume name, and AFAICT, these are not unique. Since the machine that is doing this work is not dedicated for that, I worry that it might already have a mounted image by the same name (likely, since the person who works with this machine is a client of the generated DMGs too).
I would like to have certain pictures as a slideshow on my Desktop background. Currently, to do this, I am moving default pictures to a backup folder and putting my images there. Isn't there an easy way to do this? (I found an answer posted below)
Does any one of you know if it's possible to call a script right after opening a file. For example : I want to relocate QuickTime in the top-left corner right next to my dock. I know how to do it with AppleScript (the location thing) but how can I call this script automatically ?
I'm using a macbook air with mountain lion 10.8.2. An interesting problem has recently started occurring with using the built in trackpad.
I'm on an 27" iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed. Whenever I play Halo, after a few minutes, I get "npvhash=4095"—system freeze, until I hold down power button. Of course, I've validated all the fonts with no result.
Is there any way I can log everything of what happens in Mac OS X snow leopard and not just what I can see in the console? I can barely see errors logs there, I would like to see which applications asked for which resource in my computer and log all of this activity.
I haven't partitioned this drive myself, and I didn't get this message before a few months ago. According to Disk Utility, there is only one partition occupying the entire drive.
I'm using Cmd-Option-1 .. Cmd-Option-5 to go to different desktops, on Moutain Lion. Besides changing my global defaults, how else could I enable the google doc shortcuts for Cmd-Option- to set a paragraph style? I want some sort of program that will take Ctrl-Option- in chrome and send chrome Cmd-Option-num (and not change desktops).
In Mountain Lion (10.8), when you connect to a wireless network with a default login page - a special window pops up showing that page. This pop-up is set to always in front, and also doesn't store any passwords / login information (unlike chrome, firefox, etc). This is really annoying. Is there anyway to make this popup window store passwords and login information or just disable that visual step altogether?
On my MacBook Pro, I am planning on removing the optical drive and adding an SSD to the mix. Since Apple doesn't support this configuration, I don't find any official documentation covering SSD in the optical bay or HDD in the optical bay. I presume the energy saver setting would spin down any spindle-based drive when it's idle (like in a Mac Pro), but would like to ask others that may have experience with this configuration in a recent MacBook Pro. When booted from OS X installed onto an SSD, will the internal HDD be spun down when not in use?
I've recently migrated to Mountain Lion. Every now and then I get a Growl notification saying that a new version of Growl is available. The new version is a paid app, which I don't want to buy, but I can't find a way to disable the update message. It's particularly annoying because unlike a normal Growl notification, this one doesn't go away until you explicitly close it.
I have an ipod and have two accounts with Apple. I was wondering if I started to download an app with one of my accounts and then logged out of that account and used the other one, would the download still continue?
So I bought this keyboard. Armaggeddon Black Hornet MKA-3 mechanical gaming keyboard. Here's the link to it. http://armaggeddon.net/gaming-keyboards/black-hornet-black/
I have a thunderbolt duo which is used with my Macbook Pro, but I want to use it also with my 2009 iMac. I've tried to connect using the thunderbolt/ethernet adapter, first into my gigabit switch and then straight into the iMac but it doesn't pick up?! Can anyone help with this, so I can use the thunderbolt duo with my iMac until it's time to get a new iMac.
But it still works if I manually copy fonts there. These empty files have the following permissions: --wxr-xr-x 1 mcb staff 0 7 Okt 2011 Lekton-Regular.ttf. What could be the problem here?
I use an iPod 4th gen and I text my boyfriend on iMessage to his iPhone- either his number or email. Everything was all good until it came up with a red exclamation mark, I deleted the conversations to start fresh but then it said he's unregistered with iMessages. But I can still text my other friends, it's just him that I can't.
I have an applescript : When I execute it a dialog box is showing up and ask me for my password. I would like to automate this process and put directly my password in my script and validate automatically the dialog box. Is there a way a to do that ?
I need to install Leopard OSX on my mac. When the mac starts, I hold the alt button and I load the Leopard Installation DVD. Afterwords I can only see the Apple logo on the screen and everything seems stuck (waited for 8 minutes so far). How much am I supposed to wait to see the first istructions when loading the Installation DVD at boot time ? thanks
I've noticed that on some compilations I own, the following can be seen:  According to this question the two symbols mean "Duplicate" and "Available for Download".
In PCSX, (ps1 emulator), I'm trying to automate the steps to play an ISO. So, I'm doing this:
I have an original Mac Pro with 2 GB of RAM in it. Running Mountain Lion on it is a bit painful - lots of paging. I happen to have 4 GB of PC2-4200 ECC FB-DIMMs kicking about. What I wanted to know is will the Mac run with the slower memory, or will it throw a hissy fit? The Apple tech specs at *=URL=* say 667 MHz, but nothing about slower.
I read on the HFS Plus Wikipedia page that the default sector size on a Mac is 512 b. However, I also read that Macs support 4kb sectors. How can I determine which I have, 512 b or 4 kb sectors? I think 512 is the right answer, but I would like to be sure.
I've just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I've realized that in my Messages app I have 4 accounts: A @mac.com account which I remember creating and using with iChat (I haven't used it for anything else, not even for emails) A @gmail.com account, which I use as my main Apple ID A Bonjour account A @me.account
What is the proper way to install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X? Stable builds are a must, beta builds or nightlies are nice to have.
After the update to Mountain Lion I see that I have four accounts in my Messages app (see this question for more information). I am a bit confused about what happened here, namely: The @mac.com account has always been used for iChat, but now in the Messages app it looks like it is used for iMessage My Gmail account was used on my iPhone and iPad (I say "was" because I haven't used iMessage on my mobile devices for a while), but now it looks like it is used for GTalk in the Messages app I have never used Bonjour for message exchange, why does it appear now in the list of accounts?
I have Xcode installed using an Apple ID that I want it to be detached from. How can I login to the Mac App store using a different Apple ID and then have Xcode reattached to the new account in order to be updated? Not too sure if Mac App store and iTunes are using the same Apple ID.
I'm trying to move a window so that I can see part of the title at the top of the dock, basically the text in between where the individual icons on the dock stick up. I am fine with this as basically it is an e-mail window, and all I want is the ability to glance over and see the status in the title.
My setup is iPhone 4 and Bluetooth in my 2012 SUV. I have a 80 minute highway commute. I have real trouble hearing the other party at highway speeds around 65 Mph or higher.
I have three installed versions of php on my Mac. When I check using phpinfo() via a web browser, the one that is being invoked is version 5.3.15. I would like to switch it to the installed instance that is version 5.4 for the apache module (not needed for the CLI). The reason I would like to do this is because I have used MacPorts to install php_geoip, but it is for the 5.4 version. Background When I use "which" I see the following: Then checking the version of each of these gives the following:
I want to be able to search through text in my screenshots that I made. Prizmo does the OCR feature pretty well and also has an Automator action provided. Unfortunately, though, I have no idea how to implement it in a way that Automator remembers the images filename and renames the document created by Prizmo again. Any ideas?
I had installed a trial version of Drive Genius. Now I want to delete it.
I just bought an macbook pro several weeks ago, it should be Mac OS X Lion, 10.8 I guess. This morning, after I press the power button, it keeps staying at a grey screen with an apple logo and a spinning progress disk, and refused to log in, I've been waiting for a long time. I forced to shut it down and use shift key and press power button again, it did not work, and I shut down again and with option key pressed and I start up again, and it did not work.
Having recently upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion, I realized that there is no iChat app anymore and that everything ended up into the Messages app. I've been using a @mac.com account specifically to access iChat, so what happens to this account now? Has it become useless?
When I enter my Messages.app settings for my iMessage account, I can see that I can receive iMessages on the two emails that I have entered. Is it possible to add my iPhone number to that list too? Until now I have only found a way to add email accounts.
There are a lot of Getting Things Done (GTD) tools out there I can use to manage my tasks. Additionally, most of them include synchronisation capabilities I can use to synchronize my iPad, MacBook etc. There is only one problem: they all use the Amazon Cloud/a Cloud located not in Europe... But I'm only allowed to use a Cloud that is located in Europe (data privacy aspects etc... this is a constraint of my employer). Does anybody know a GTD tool that is hosted on an "European Cloud" or that can be installed on my private cloud?
I am thinking of buying a Time Capsule with a small hard drive and upgrading the drive to something larger. There is ample documentation on the web as to how to do it, but I am having a hard time finding any details as to what the upper limits of drive size are. It's especially confusing since there are four generations of Time Capsule, and each one may have a different upper limit. So, what is the upper limit of each? And, if you only know the answer to one specific one, that would be great, too.
I dislike Flash intensely (from a security standpoint, plus constantly nagging me to install security updates) and would love to uninstall it in its entirety but unfortunately YouTube requires it. Is there an easy way to disable flash in Safari 6.0.2 for all sites except *.YouTube.com ? I'm only concerned about Safari, not so much Firefox and Chrome which I only use on rare occasions. Running Mac OS X 10.8.2 Thanks.
So this is a strange question, but I'm starting to get really organized and stuff, and I want to make sure my computer shuts off at 10:00 (I'm in high school). The problem is, being the only admin on my computer, I would be able to get around it. Is there any way I can have my parents choose a password to enter, without me knowing it, and make it so I can't bypass it?
I'm looking for a way to have a script running on my desktop that will check a certain webpage for changes every x seconds, and if a change is made, it gives me an alert. I understand that with high-end websites, some changes will be made almost constantly, but what I'm looking for monitoring now is a bare-bones HTML page that I'm waiting for a link to show up on. Is there a way to do this? Edit: Would it be a command to download the html and store it, and then a recurring download-and-check command?
I'm not sure when it has been started to make clicking sounds randomly, but it has been bugging me a while. Any idea that what could be cause this problem? I'm using MAC OS X 10.8.2 and late 2009 13 inches macbook pro.
I'm a LaTeX user in OSX. I use TexShop primarily. LaTeX automatically creates lots of helper files with various different extensions (.log, .nav, .aux, .out, etc).
I have a client that has Outlook 2007 on Windows 7. He's unable to right click and paste into the notes section of an appointment (the contextual menu doesn't even appear). I've seen other people having this issue on the Apple support forums and the Microsoft support forums, but no one has posted a resolution. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I am getting the "disk full" error message and my computer is running painfully slow. When I run OmniDiskSweeper to find out the culprit it shows that I have over 800GB in "Backups" most of them are incremental backups. This is weird because I have Time Machine turned off and use a Mozy for my back ups. Can I simply delete the incremental backups? I tried running the disable script in Terminal but it didn't do anything. I have an iMac and run osx, verstion 10.7.5
Recently, my Apple wireless keyboard has been pressing the command key by itself repeatedly. It's stuck like that until I turn off then on the keyboard. Anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?
I have a great many directories where I've latex'd my notes on various topics, so many that I'm beginning to have trouble finding things. Is there a way to display thumbnails of all the pdfs (under a given parent directory) in a single window so that I can browse my notes?
I am trying to repair a friend's USB drive that got a virus. All directories became .lnk and the original ones were hidden. I don't know how to permanently show the folders. I've used sudo chflags nohidden /path but it doesn't work permanently.
I'm thinking of getting rid of my old gaming PC and just bootcamping / virtualizing on my Retina Macbook Pro. I've tried using a VM (VMWare Fusion) and the performance there was pretty awful, has anyone tried both Virtualization (either VMWare or Parallels) and BootCamp?
Is there a way to sync my iCalendar to my Google Calendar? I use the iCal application as my primary calendar resource, and I need to share that data via GoogleCalendar with my colleagues and I cannot figure out how to do this. I am able to get the data from my GoogleCalendar to show up on my iCal, but I cannot do the reverse (I want data created on the iCal to upload/sync directly to the GoogleCalendar).. I have OSX Lion and iCal 6.0
There is no lack of to-do apps designed at least somewhat around Getting Things Done - just see the answers to this question, for example. I'm a user of Things on iOS and have heard a lot about OmniFocus, but I've never gotten a good recommendation for an app that can manage to-dos for more than one person. My wife and I are looking to adopt a GTD-inspired workflow for a variety of personal projects, some shared, some individual, and it would be ideal to manage these projects side-by-side. Short of us each running our own instance of a given app on our separate devices, and including iOS / OS X synching among my requirements, do any of the flagship GTD to-do apps offer the concept of projects and to-dos that belong to a specific person of several?
Mac OS X has a feature where if you use any search box in any app, it automatically overwrites every other search box with the text you searched. I find this rarely useful and it often interferes with any workflow where I expect an individual app to stay pre-filled with what I last searched in that app. Is there any way to disable it?
Is the three finger gesture supported for the 2007-2008 nonunibody macbook pros? Wondering if I can change spaces on Mountain Lion.
How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)
How do I lock iPhone 5 in landscape mode? I see how to lock it in portrait mode, and I've tried locking it in landscape mode using the assistive touch feature, but that isn't working for me.
I have some nested lists (XML/OPML file) and I am looking for a (automated) process to create Keynote presentations from them. Use case: I write concepts for presentations in an Outliner, then would like to transfer the structure directly to a Keynote presentation for further editing. The structure may be something like this:
I have internet connection and I can access every website. But when I try to ping any website ( be it www.google.com or www.stackoverflow.com or any site ) I always get Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 (I tried to ping and traceroute from terminal as well as network utility but faced the same issue). Moreover if I try to ping any website which is on VPN then I get correct response ( All packet transmitted and all received no loss ) I am on VPN and behind proxy too. What can be the issue and how to fix it?
Is it possible to run 32-bit only screen savers in Mountain Lion? Just opening /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app in 32-bit mode doesn't run 32-bit only screen savers.
I'm creating a presentation with my MacBook Pro and Keynote. I'm using the theme Blackboard which uses the font Chalkboard. When I import the presentation on my iPad Mini via iCloud the default font becomes Chalkduster and the presentation is messed up. I noticed that the font Chalkboard is present in the iPad, however it would take a lot to change all the text fonts manually.
When I am working on something else on my iMac, I tend to get a lot of messages via the Messages app. For some reason, when I click once on the messages app window, it does not get focus right away: Therefore, I usually double-click (Perhaps its a habit from MS Windows). When you double click inside a chat area, it opens up that specific chat conversation into a new chat window - which is extremely annoying (IMHO). Is it possible to turn off the feature of opening that chat conversation in a new window? I am running 10.8.2 and Messages version 7.0.1 (3314). EDIT: So some further testing - This happens when: A different chat session is selected Messages does NOT have focus I click into a different chat session inside of my Messages window this requires two clicks, 1 click to gain focus, 1 click to change chat windows. this requires two clicks, 1 click to gain focus, 1 click to change chat windows. All I am looking to do is disable the chat session from opening up in a new, independent w
To avoid covering old ground, I'm already aware of this little tidbit, and this list of selectors, but I'm not aware of any API in the Cocoa Text System for subword selection. Maybe there's undocumented API in there somewhere?
Not only that, but whenever I sync for the first time after connecting, the photos will mysteriously disappear from my iPhone and I'm forced to resync them, even when I don't make any changes (not even outside the Photos pane). The photos then stay on my phone as usual, but once I connect and sync again, the same thing happens. I don't have a large photo library so it's only an extra couple of minutes of waiting, but it's still something I shouldn't have to put up with every single time I connect and sync my device.
I have 2 accounts on my Mac Pro both are using the same color display profile however on my account it is clearly a lot brighter. I can test this by switching between the 2 accounts with the same image open in both accounts. On account A you can see the light shades of gray on account B the light shades of gray are missing and it just looks solid white. I removed everything from account B's startup items and looked at the processes running on a clean boot into both accounts and the only differences are processes I expect to make no difference (mysql, perl etc.) When I login into the account B (with the problem) that does have the problem I see the brightness change 2 times before finder and the rest of the desktop starts, whereas logging into account A doesn't seem to do this. I would like to know what is causing this and stop it as it's very annoying.
I'd like to make a keyboard shortcut that hides all windows on the current desktop, while ignoring windows on other desktops. Is this possible using Applescript?
How can I stop the scroll bars in Mountain Lion from expanding when I move my curser over them? Sometimes when I try to click on the bottom item in a finder window the scroll bar expands, covering the item, and not allowing the item to be clicked. I have to move the curser away, wait a couple seconds for the scroll bars to hide, then click the item.
I had problems with my iMac (20" 2009 Intel and 4GB RAM) as I was updating the OS from OSX 10.5 to 10.6. It told me that I can't update in my main hard drive, so to don't format it, and my main hard drive had problems and I want to save information from it as I didn't do any backup. I had the originals Snow Leopard install CDs and I was thinking to install OSX 10.6 in a 32GB thumb-drive if that is enough storage space.
Is there any way to disable command+Q for quitting apps? I tried adding this menuitem to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" preference pane (as suggested here), and remapping it to command+option+Q (slightly harder to hit), and the menu item changed to show this, but command+Q still causes the app to quit. I'm using OS X 10.7, but I'd happily upgrade to 10.8 if it fixed this. The app I really want this for is Firefox, but if there was a solution that disabled command+Q for every app, that would be fine, too.
I've been searching for this for a while without satisfactory results. One way to share internet from the PC to the iPad is by doing an ad-hoc network, if the PC allow us to do so. Otherwise, I have two questions: If the PC is connected to internet, How can we share internet from the PC to the iPad via USB? Suppose the iPad is connected to internet by means of some wireless network, How can we share internet from the iPad to the PC via USB? I have an iPad Version: 5.1.1 (9B206), Model: MB292LL (the first ones). Alternatively, if the iPad is connected to some wireless network, is it possible make it an access point, so it extends the range of the network?
The "View in Mac App Store" button used to work in Chrome though, I think I turned it off by mistake though, I'm not sure. The button I'm referring to is under each app's icon and looks like so:
I currently have modified a program that is a .jar file. I had unarchived it and turned the .jar file into a folder so that I could edit it. Now all I need to do is change the folder back into a .jar file so that it is not accessible like a folder. How would I do this?
I recently migrated from 10.6 to 10.8. I use Terminal to connect to various linux boxes where the TERM variable is observed to be xterm-color. This seems to be consistent with the 10.6 setting of TERM.
I was able to do a backup of the phone using iTunes, but how do I see and access the contacts? Do I need to import them into Address Book? Is there a better way to download contacts from iPhone to Mac?
I hope this question is not a duplicate. I use a lot of pdfLaTeX in my daily work on OSX (10.8). I've been using Skim and its SyncTeX support to preview PDFs and link forward and backward and that's fine. There are a bunch of PDF viewers on OSX and I'm wondering if others also support SyncTeX (commercial or not). I tend to prefer standalone editors and previewers instead of integrated environments such as TeXShop, but I'd like to hear about all types of PDF viewers that offer SyncTeX support. I'm not finding that this information is easily accessible on the web so answers to this question might serve as a handy reference.
If I have a MacBook through which I will like to access a Remote Time Capsule via Back to My Mac in order to perform updates to my Time Machine backup on said Time Capsule, which should be the correct settings o accomplish this?
It's possible to launch Google Chrome in incognito mode on a PC by adding -incognito to the end of the desktop shortcut. Is it possible to launch to Chrome on an iPad in incognito mode?
This is a really bizarre problem. I'm using a MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and an iPhone 4S, both with the latest updates. I'm using the bundled Apple cord. When I plug it into the wall charger, it charges fine. But when I plug it into my MacBook to sync, it will frequently disconnect (sometimes as many as ten times in as many seconds). I jiggle the cord on both ends, plug it into the other USB port, and even cleaned out the inside of the phone. Also, when I use the USB ports for my external keyboard and mouse, everything works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Is there a way I can run a script with a certain web page as the argument that will download all the images from there?
I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really does, when to use it, why some packages have a --HEAD version to install and why its necessary.
I'm used to Windows, where applications disappear from my task tray, Alt+Tab menu, etc. when I close their last window; so it's a little unexpected to me that an application's icon still sits in my Dock and in my Command+Tab windows.
I have a HFS+ formatted drive that just died on me. I have a back up but it's a about a week old. Unfortunately, I have a few files that I've changed and added since then that I would like to rescue before throwing it out. Running fsck on it gives this output: Obviously the volume is beyond the help of disk utility. When I try to mount it, it just kicks me out with a weird error message. Can anyone help out here?
This is probably bad form for this board, and feel free to delete it if it is, but running brew doctor reveals the following: I don't even know where to start here. I know enough about this sort of thing to run brew doctor and maybe fix a permissions error, but this is just overwhelming. Any help as to which of these errors are important, which I can ignore, issues I might have with other programs if I "fix" these, would be appreciated.
Is it possible to stop Gmail iOS app checking email without me asking for it? I don't need the phone to check for emails while I'm in from of my computer.
I am looking for an email client, that when opened, asks for a password before showing email messages. Is there such an app available for iOS?
When using dictation on OS X 10.8, if I speak for too long (approx 20 seconds+), the dictation times out and switches off. Worse, it loses (i.e. doesn't "type") all the things I've said so far. This is obviously irritating - I have to judge when to stop speaking, hit "Fn", let dictation type the text, and start again. Is there a way to increase or turn off this timeout?
I had a iPad mini(miniA) several months ago, and I got a new iPad mini(miniB) recently. On miniB's first run, when I was asked whether to set it up as a new device or restore from a backup, I chose to restore from miniA's backup and have iTunes to do the restore. Some days later, I find a problem: When I assign miniB to use a different FaceTime email address, miniA's original FaceTime email address gets lost and be automatically set to miniB's! Also, changes to miniB will be sync-ed to miniA -- quite unexpected. Is there any Apple official document describing this restore-and-sync behavior.
Removed the old installation as explained here: *=URL=* Installed the package contained in the mysql 5.1.67 DMG downloaded from MySql.com Installed the preference pane item Installed the startup item [THIS FAILED] MySql will not load, it's preference pane show the error message displayed below: I don't have much familiarity with unix commands so I'm not clear how to troubleshoot this further.
I send the same PDF file to different reviewers and got differently annotated versions back. Is there a way to combine the annotations into one file?
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro with Retina. I love it, but I needed more screen real-estate for my current work, so I got a 27" Thunderbolt display. It's very big, and I have lots of room now, but I do have a problem. If I use the native resolution (2560 X 1440), I find text everywhere to be slightly too small. If I try the next "step" in the Display options (2048 X 1152), the text is bigger alright, but of course, it gets too blurry. Is there some way of doing an "in-between" step, between the native and the 2nd step? Or are there other ways of slightly enlarging the text? I guess I could "zoom" in Chrome, for example. Any other similar suggestions for other programs?
So I buy my own hard drive. Its a Seagate 750 GB 2.5 inch, but I don't think it's important.
I'm using iCal to share numerous calendars with my wife. We're using iCloud to sync them. On occasion, I need to know which of us put an appointment on the calendar, but can't remember. I know that somewhere, the system is capturing the creator, because notifications tells me that "[EVENT] has been added to the Calendar by [User]."
I am new to Mac administration and struggling somewhat on how to programatically report in the settings in the Sharing Preference panel (10.7 and 10.8). Basically - I want to report in which settings are on and off. I have imagined writing a script to be able to report this status back. I can see that for some of the settings I can use 'systemsetup' (remote login, remote Apple Events) but for others I am at a loss to where to go check to see if the following options are enabled: DVD and CD Sharing Screen Sharing File Sharing (both for AFP and SMB) Printer Sharing Scanner Sharing Remote Management Internet Sharing Bluetooth Sharing
When the keyboard is active on my iPhone 4S (running jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 / 6.1.1), there is a key between the space bar and the numeric entry toggle. This key has a microphone on it and tapping it opens voice dictation. How do you prevent this key from showing up? Note that the instructions at *=URL=* do not work; the Keyboard menu does not contain a Dictation toggle.
I have a 3 week old 2012 27-inch iMac and this morning I turned it on and it wouldn't connect to the internet. It connected to my home network just fine, just not the internet. I assumed it was my router's fault, but every other device in the house connected to the internet just fine. I have already tried turning it off and on again, many times, as with my router. I have also tried turning the Wi-Fi off and on in System Preferences. Any help?
My sister's iPhone had been irreversibly damaged. When she got a new one some time later, she had forgotten her Apple ID's password and created a new one. I managed to reset the password just yesterday, and she'd like to use the old account again, as she's bought many apps with it.
I suddenly started experiencing an error in which Chrome is the only application that will accept any input. I can use the mouse to bring other windows to the front, but they will not accept keyboard input. The Dock also won't accept input - I can't apple-tab between applications. If I hide Chrome, it still accepts keyboard input! Any ideas on what would cause this or what a solution might be? (I will attempt the "close chrome, restart" workaround, but that doesn't qualify as a solution)
But for some reason the problem has just gotten worse for me: i've just noticed that inactive memory keeps piling up faster than ever. I've done a couple of purges just to confirm my theory and ... the number gets high again very fast ... So until apple fixes whatever is wrong with their memory management - i'd at least like to know which apps are producing the inactive memory. Is there a way to somehow monitor processes and see how much memory they allocate and free during their lifetime? Thanks for your thoughts
When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of). What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment at the cursor in MS Word on a Mac when using track changes? I am running Word 14.2.5 and OS X 10.5.8
I understand that Trim exists for OSX Mountain Lion, but is there anything I should do for Windows on Virtualbox in this regard?
I just purchased used iPhone 3GS from a fella, and the phone is running everything perfectly except for games. Whenever I play any game after some minute it suddenly shut down, even battery is fully charge. It is an iPhone 3GS, 32GB, SU, old BR, 5.1. What possibly is the cause of this issue?
In iTunes, I know you can save a Genius Playlist, and you can see a few songs ahead in a Genius Mix by looking at Up Next, but is there any way to actually save a Genius-Mix-generated playlist? Or is it that the Genius Mix playlist doesn't even exist (more than the few songs in Up Next)? Like, is iTunes just popping another random song (of the appropriate category) on the end of the list?
My iMac running OSX 10.8.2 suddenly turned itself off. It was a hard reset. It said that an error had occurred. Basically the equivalent of a Windows 'blue screen.' It happened when I turned off my Bluetooth headset.
I would like to migrate all my accounts, settings and applications from a OSX 10.7 Lion Mac Pro to a brand new OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion iMac. Would Setup Assistant be able to move my files to a newer OS?
I left the machine unused for a few months but am now trying to recover any data I can from it. The steps I've taken so far to try and repair or recover the system are as follows;
I just bought a new Pioneer XW-SMA3 AirPlay speaker system but have so-far been unable to connect it to my home WiFi Network. The speakers come with an Ethernet port so I am able to connect it via that and configure it, but nothing I do will connect it to the wireless. My home network is served up from an Apple Airport Extreme (bought at the end of 2011) secured via WPA2 Personal (all my other devices connect to this just fine including the Wii, iPhones, friends' windows boxes etc) as per the following screen snap (SSID obscured): When I configure the speakers I am given the following security options:
My macbook pro was running really slow, so I restarted the computer. Now it wont start up at all, I get the flashing file with a question mark. I also tried a bunch of the boot options like holding down "option" while booting, etc. All I get is a mouse cursor on a plain white screen. I don't have anything plugged in to the computer so that's not the problem.
I've recently released UBCme onto the app store. The problem is that I accidentally shared the US store link which doesn't have any ratings because all my users are from Canada. Thus, the top google hit for UBCme returns the US link which doesn't show the customer ratings. The first thing I did was replace all my advertisement links with the Canadian link, but I worry that it's too late.
I'm unable to rate anything in either iTunes, the Mac app store, or the iOS app store. If I rate an app 5 stars (or anything else), and then return to the search results, then go back to the app page the rating widget will appear as if I hadn't rated the app. The rating count does not increase either. It's has been happening for a while. I only just noticed the behavior a week or two ago when I got my iPad, but it may have been an issue before that on my Mac. I'm assuming something may be wrong with my Apple ID, but I dont know what it could be.
My mother is Russian, she lives with me but does not speak a word of English. I'm considering buying her an iPad for her birthday, but I have concerns since Russian apps would be hard to find in US app store. Is there a way I could access the Russian app store? I tried a few online app search websites but as it is now, most of the games she would be interested in come in multiple languages and as soon as I open them in iTunes they switch to English. Any suggestions?
I have a MacBook Pro and am thinking of buying a Time Capsule. If I do, will I be able to use it as a backup and storage disk, and as a wireless router? I read somewhere that they can be used only as backup disks (I don't need one that much) and routers. I would also like an external hard disk to keep my photos and old stuff, though. Additionally, do Time Capsules support connecting over PPPoE?
I recently wiped my Time Capsule and started a new set of backups. After a couple of weeks, Time Machine reported that “to improve reliability”, it needed to start over—again. My understanding is that this is caused by a filesystem error so bad it can't be identified, let alone fixed, so one would have to start anew.
I have purchased an album in iTunes, but it still shows the price in the store. Does this mean that the next time I want to redownload the music I'll need to pay for it again?
On this particular computer, I use iTunes 11 only with my cloud purchases – I don't have any music stored locally. Very often (but not always), when I launch iTunes, it comes up with an empty library because the preference setting to display cloud purchases is switched to off.
A Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 server running Open Directory hung. SSH was still possible but the sudo reboot command didn't restart the server within 15 minutes. That is why a power cycle was issued. After the power cycle Open Directory would no longer start and the System log is filled with a new message every 10 seconds: Repairing disk permission, neither another reboot doesn't solve the issue. Slapd in Tool mode outputs: How to fix this?
When I look at my calendars in the calendar app on the iPhone there are two sections, one reads "From My Mac", the other "iCloud". Is there an app that reads the calendar items from the "From My Mac" calendar items and moves them to similarly named calendars in "iCloud"?
When my iPhone (3GS) is connected via 3G, I can't connect to the AppStore. It just loads a while and then says "Could not connect" and that's that. When I have a WLAN connection, everything works fine. This has been like this for quite some time now - it also didn't change after rebooting or updating to new versions of iOS. What's going wrong there?
I just got a new 5th generation apple airport extreme and I set it up in the dual band mode and I am wondering if it is possible to see which frequency the iphone 5 is connecting to. I know that on the computer you can hold down option when clicking on the wifi menu, but I would really like to know which one my iphone is connecting to.
I recently purchased a new Macbook Air which obviously came with Mountain Lion. I am wondering if there is a way to download the installer for free onto another computer I have to create a re-install disk from, without having to pay the $20 to download from the Mac App Store.
I remember there used to be a check box that allows "enable disk access", but now iTunes 10 has taken away that check box. What should I do if I want to enable my Ipad mini for disk access (preferably without using a 3rd party software..)?
Is there a (reversible) way to make Finder treat TextMate .tmbundle packages as regular folders? Right now, to view a bundle's contents, I need to right-click and select Show Package Contents to view or edit any of the file/folders it contains, which is kind of a pain. Also, opening a file contained in a bundle directly from a program is impossible, as the Open... dialog doesn't have the Show Package Contents option that Finder does.
I bought a new charging cable for my iPod the other day. I used it to plug my iPod into my laptop and it works just fine. However, I plugged it into the radio transmitter in my car (which is itself plugged into the cigarette lighter for power) and the EL lighting keeps flashing on and off, meaning it is repeatedly getting then losing power. My original cable did work and stayed on but that broke which is why I bought the new one. Is the cigarette lighter not a reliable source of power for this new cable?
In Terminal.app I have a text prompt like the following What is the "rover-205-89"? I thought it was my computer name but I looked under System Preferences > Sharing and that isn't it.
I am upgrading to a new iPhone 5 from an iPod touch, and I want a shiny new, fresh install. I would rather not restore the whole shebang from my tired old, disorganized, app-laden, settings-broken iPod data to the new phone. I'd like to re-download the dozen-or-so apps I actually use… and then restore the data for just those apps (preferably from iCloud, but iTunes would be fine). What are my options?
I'm cleaning up my iPhoto folders since I am short on HD space. Looking inside iPhoto, I see four folders that consume a lot of space: Masters, Modified, Originals, Previews. Which of these are must keep and which can be deleted or recreated? For example, I did do some editing but I would rather have the original since I can reproduce it.
I want to adjust the view options of a folder and all of its subfolders, the end result being that they have identical view options. I'm not sure where to start with this. I normally launch View options using Command—J, but the settings I specify do not always carry over to a subfolder. A bit of Google revealing some success with people using Automator, but the solutions appear outdated. I am using Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
I have an app which has to be run as an admin on Mountain Lion. This app is NOT installed on the system. The user Does NOT want to open the terminal and run sudo /xyzlocation/Myapp.
I'm trying to backup all of my old backup CDs from over 10 years ago to simple DMG files on my harddrive - since CD's die (already have one that won't read) and they take up a ton of physical space! I've picked DMG files since they're 1) simple/easy and 2) compressed. Certainly open to other suggestions however.
I have been striving to bring my laptop to life, however, I am seeing a flashing question mark on my MacbookPro screen. I tried disk utility and it is just showing me Media and it is 0 byte.
I lost all data on my iMac recently, including some 1500 photos. These photos were synced to the iPad from iPhoto on my iMac. How can I transfer them back to my iMac since they are not in the camera roll on my iPad?
Is there a way for Cmd+Tab to display all of the instances/windows of an app? An excellent example is here:
For some reason, clicking on downloads in the Google Chrome download bar does nothing any more; I'm pretty sure it did until some time recently, but it's been a while since it did. Also, choosing "Show in Finder" doesn't work. So, it seems that Chrome in general can't open anything in the Finder. If anyone knows what is causing that, I'd love to know it, or alternately, how I could go about troubleshooting it myself. Edit in response to comments: I've tried re-downloading it, although not running it from another directory; I'll try that at home. I'll give it a shot. No, the downloads list is no more functional than the download bar with respect to Finder integration.
Apple's support website doesn't show it under her Apple ID either. We've also tried going through other possible emails, but there's only the one.
In my movie folder I have loads of movies. The ones I watched I want to mark as watched. I suppose I could either use the colors (like green for watched) or the Spotlight tags, but I would rather have a checkbox of sorts which I could tick. The colors and the tags I don't find all that useable. Also, I do not want to add the files to iTunes. Is there something like this?
I have a Mac Book Pro 15" over a year now. I'm having a problem with charging the battery.
I have two 500 Gb hard drives. One is USB 2.0, the other is USB 3.0. My intention is to use one of these hard drives for Time Machine, and the other for storing media files on (mp3s, mp4s mostly). Would it be a waste of the USB 3.0 speeds to put Time Machine on that drive, or will I benefit.
Times ago I did a "restore from time machine backup" in order to restore all my files on a new SSD I bought for my macbookpro (with OSX Lion), and all went fine. Today I installed Mountain Lion on that mac, did a new timemachine backup, then used that backup in order to configure my new retina display macbook pro… initially seemed all ok this time too… but several files were not be backedup properly and I get "corrupted settings"… for example if I use git and svn commands in the terminal it says "no command found" althought under /usr/local/ I have them installed! What happened? The thing which scares me the more is that in previous backup the files I was working on were backedup with older version (2012)… What should I do?
Is it possible to get a desktop notification when my iSight turns on? It would be optimal if this could go through Growl, but I've tried HardwareGrowler and it doesn't give me a notification. I know that the green light always turns on when the iSight turns on, but when the iSight turns on just for one second it is possible that I'm not looking at the screen and that I miss the green light, hence a notification that stays on the screen until I close it would be optimal. I'm on a MacBook Pro 5,3 and I have Mountain Lion 10.8.3.
I'm trying to edit the contents of a war file on midnight commander (Mac OSX). With a normal zip file, this works fine. However, when I try to open a war file, I get an error message: gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored Cannot open tar archive filepath/ugz://
My wireless Apple bluetooth keyboard has been acting up recently. While I use the computer it works just fine but every time I boot up the computer after it has been shut down the keyboard, which is always left on, is turned off and I need to power it up - every time the computer starts up. On the other hand my magic mouse works wonderfully, so I understand this isn't normal behavior. How can I get the keyboard to stay on despite computer power cycles?
I upgraded to Mail 6.2 and noticed they appeared to do away with the "Today" option when I am searching to place an attachment with an email? Is there something I have to check to make this appear again?
I have the following very strange problem with my 13″ early-2011 MacBook Pro. The disk configuration is as follows: Primary slot - FileVault 2 encrypted 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Secondary slot - the original 500GB hard drive in a caddy
In OSX 10.8.2, I created a service using Automator and saved it in ~/Library/Services. The service receives selected messages in Mail.app. It shows up in the list of services when I click on the "Mail" menu. When I click on the service, it executes correctly. It also shows up in the list of services when I try to assign a keyboard shortcut to it in System Preferences. My keyboard shortcut doesn't appear to conflict with any other. To make sure of this I've tried assigning very improbable shortcuts involving 4 or 5 keys.
I'm using a grid-computing software to donate my CPU time, so every core is always 100 Celsius degrees (212F), all day. Is there a reference, from Apple or other source, indicating a safe temperature for this notebook?
Booted into the recovery partition and attempted to reinstall. First pass, nothing happened. Second pass, same. Backed up and erased the install partition, tried a third time. Seemed to be fine until ~90% and now it's stuck at "About 2 hours and 25 minutes remaining". Can still access menus, the bar is animated, display dims after X minutes like it should, but it's clearly not downloading anything.
I'm about to install Mountain Lion to my Macbook Pro. But before I go for an upgrade, I've search some information about the Mountain Lion. Some says that their iLife was removed after upgrading. I'm using iLife 11 on Mac OSX Snow Leopard, and I still have the Application discs. Are the iLife install discs still compatible with Mountain Lion?
Every time there is an iTunes update, the permissions of my iTunes Library directory change. Is there a way to prevent this?
I'm trying to export a slideshow from my iPad2. I can email or share single photos, of course, but how do you share or export a slideshow? I especially want to retain the origami transition effect to share on YouTube or export to iMove. Is there a way? Or a program that creates the origami effect? Thanks for your help.
I've followed the manual in setting up the shared folders on my Windows 7 installation under Parallels version 7.0.15106, but still I can not find my Mac folders in Windows explorer! I have tried both the "Shared Profile" and adding shared folders manually. As I understand it, they should show up under Network in Windows Explorer, right? Well, the only thing showing up there is MyName-WIN7 which contains a Users folder, which in turn contains a folder with my name and a folder called Public. The contents of the folder with my name is the same as in C:\Users\MyName and has nothing to do with anything on the Mac. I have Googled until my eyes turned red for a solution, but everyone just says the same thing - Go to Configure > Sharing, etc. Well I have tried all of that, there must be some setting that's prohibiting my shared Mac folders from showing up in Windows... I have made sure that the "Isolate my Mac" setting is turned off, so that's not it either.
I'm a software developer that recently switched to a Mac. I am using OS X 10.8.2. I am trying to debug an issue with a website using an iPod touch. I've been told that I can connect the iPod to my Mac mini via USB and use the Safari development tools to debug on the iPod. However, I haven't even gotten this far, as when I connect my iPod it does not show under devices in Finder. Could anyone tell me what I am doing incorrectly?
I had Apache working on my 10.8 MPBR. I haven't used it for a few weeks, and now it doesn't seem to start. I get nothing in /private/var/log/apache2. Nothing, meaning no logging at all, error or otherwise. Permission on the log folder is drwxr-xr-x root wheel
I bought a retina macbook pro yesterday and noticed a "Service battery" warning. It was there for a few hours and now has gone. Should I take it back to the store or do you think it's safe to ignore?
I bought the app for my old iPod Touch and used the second of two IDs I have...now I use another ID. They're both mine. I bought some apps with this alternative ID, can I put those apps on my new iPad?
I was trying to add something to $PATH and it went totally wrong. I now can't run any commands such as ls. I've looked at this answer and used the following lines: These lines fix the problem temorarily; however, when I restart terminal it seems to forget these changes. How do I permanently reset my $PATH? I'm running the most recent version of Mountain Lion.
I'd like to process a unicode text file using TextEdit. When I open the file using TextEdit or TextWrangler instead of seeing Nattvardsgästerna I see this Nattvardsg‰sterna (which is incorrect). When I open the file on my PC I see the correct String. I'm certain, I'm missing a setting or something... Thanks
I currently bought an Mac, so I'm a noob :). I used to connect to my server using stunnel on windows & ubuntu. I'm also a noob in networking.
I have a folder containing all my Music, Movies etc. This contains various formats of music file, including some that iTunes cannot play (i.e. flac and oggs) but a lot of mp3s.
Every time I print from Preview app I need to manually click on "Two-sided" checkbox. This is annoying when I have a bunch of documents to print. Is there any way to set "two-sided" as default?
I had my comments in Microsoft Word showing up on the right had pane as usual, but I must have done something to make it disappear. I can't figure out how to make it visible again. When I attempt to add a new comment, all the old comments show up on the left side of the pane, but no longer linked. Instead I have this bracketed indicator [12], in with the comment number inserted. When i click on it, it jumps to the comment. What so I have to change to have comments show up on the right side again?
Does anyone know the exact manufacturer, Apple part number or model number of a 512GB SSD drive in a BTO MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)? I cannot find any teardown photos or System Information screenshots online. This would really help inform my decision on what SSD to purchase.
After I key in the code for pairing the remote app on iTunes, the app just shows "Looking for ..." for a long while, then says "could not find".  After that, the library seems to appear on the library screen of the remote app, but it doesn't have a name! There's an icon with no label below...
I used to use Hanson's "Alarm Clock 2", and while it was good in that I could set alarms to only go off Monday through Friday, it wasn't very good about honoring 3 day weekends. I was hoping to find something I could just point at an .ical or Google calendar of the company holidays, so that the alarm clock would not trigger on those days. Does anything like this exist for OS X?
We pair program where I work, and like many people there, I have my own mouse and keyboard that I take with me as I rotate between workstations. I want to try using a magic trackpad at work, but I distinctly recall a coworker having a lot of trouble getting the trackpad to pair every time he rotated stations; eventually he just put a trackpad at every workstation of our team's.
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and tried to open GIMP. To my dismay my computer asked me where X11 was. How do I find X11 and run GIMP?
In the top right hand corner, near where the Notifications sit used to be the name of the account I was using on this computer. I CMD+clicked it as you can use this to re-arrange the bar. I dragged it off the bar by mistake and it's disappeared. How can I restore this please?
I own a NAS (a D-Link DNS 320, to be more specific) which has two hard drives and multiple network shares. I can connect to these network shares using the AFP or the SMB protocol.
I have an iPad on which I can access my email through a mobile mail server. It all works fine. But when trying to access my mail through my mac there is a security problem of some sort that won't allow me to access my email. So I was thinking, since I can avoid this security problem on my iPad, is there a way for me to access the same server as I do on my iPad? Maybe not in Mail.app but perhaps Sparrow or equivalent? Cheers for the help!
Can I buy and download OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, via the Mac App Store on an unsupported Mac? My home internet is dial-up, so whenever I need to download stuff I go to the library with my Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) MacBook. For Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), it doesn't work, because my MacBook isn't supported by Mountain Lion, even though I actually want to install 10.8 on my iMac at home, so the app store won't let me buy it. Is there a way to work around this?
I have an ipad 1st generation that has a strip going across the screen about half way down. It's in the area where the icon shows up when you set the volume. It runs completely across the screen and is about 2 inches wide. It stays grey/black most of the time. But if you try to watch a movie on the ipad it changes to all different colors. I've been told that its either stuck or dead pixels. If that is the case, is there a fix for this? Would a new digitizer help at all?
I have an Apple Airport and I would like to find out how to configure devices that can access the home network but be blocked from accessing the internet. I know how to block a device from accessing wifi completely, but all I want is to limit a device from accessing the web - I still want the device to be able to connect to other computers, the file server, the printer, etc. I am hoping for a router-based solution, such as discussed at answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080125121305AAwGF6U. Is this possible with Airport? EDIT: Clarified the scope of what I'm trying to accomplish.
This is going to sound silly to someone who does this everyday.. but I am confused about something. What do people use to do similar things like with MS Paint (not Paint.net), e.g. stuff like making rage comics and meme's or other such silly things. The only graphics application I found for my Mac is GIMP
Is it possible to configure which folder to put mail in when swiping on a email to archive/delete with a non-Gmail account? My objective with this would be to file email into an archive more easily than tapping Edit->Move->ArchiveFolder. This is currently possible when you set up a Gmail account on your device but not with other accounts.
I'm having some strange issues on my MBP Retina running OS X 10.8.2. The audio balance changes, and the right speaker is almost muted. Anyone know what could be wrong here?
I'm trying to find a way to automatically launch a command when Terminal is run, but: Have the Terminal window close after command has returned control to it / after (using &) after command has started launching. Not have the user change any settings themselves / not have the settings changed globally. I have found (mainly from a relatively very comprehensive write-up on *=URL=* the ability to create a .terminal file and edit the contents (plist) to contain xml like the below. However: Given the date of other postings (on google) showing this functionality The fact that the procedure which I eventually found to create custom Terminal windows, was subtly different from the instructions in the article above The fact that (at least with OSX10.5) they are now .term files (and complain that the file is not executable if changed to .terminal)
My laptop goes to sleep and when I open the lid it wakes up just fine (or I move the mouse if I didn't close the lid). Now sometimes when I open the lid, it doesn't wake up. The status light which is usually going on/off is just not lighting up at all when the lid is open. If I close the lid again, then the light remains lit but doesn't toggle on/off. The only way I can get things to work is if I press the power button for like 10 seconds to force it to shutdown. What is happening here? Note: I press fn-control and the eject key to put into sleep mode (to avoid it going into the clam shell mode). The output of pmset -g is:
I want to find all folders within a given folder that contain no files (but folders are ok). This needs to be recursive - it looks in all child folders.
I'm struggling to enable iMessage on my new iPhone 5. iMessage works on my iPod, but I go on settings to turn on I message and the button that slides to enable/disable it always slides back to off. (as if by force on it own and I even tried tapping it just incase it was my fault.) I got my iPhone three days ago and it's been bugging me to get this working.
I am a web developer and I recently found out about Network Link Conditioner, but I can't get it to work. It appears to be working, but when I load anything in a browser, the speed is not changed, regardless of whether or not I use 100% packet loss, etc. Can anyone tell from this log what might be causing this? OS 10.7.5, Xcode 4.4.1. I have tried uninstalling and rebooting in various sequences but no improvement. Also did the steps here: *=URL=* When I switch it on or off, I get this in the Console:
I noticed a generic "Java" process is using between 1-2GB of Ram after I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I know a lot of the apps I use require java. I have closed out all my apps and still it is using 1-2GB.
Is there a way to specifically block this one update? I know app updates have been discussed in other questions, this isn't it. I'm on 10.8.2
Preface: this is an iPod Touch 2nd Gen on iOS 4.2.1 and I am on iPhoto 11 on a MacMini from 2006 operating Snow Leopard. This iTouch was synched with an iMac I used to have which contained all of the original music, photos, contacts, etc.
When I press Command and click on a folder in the Dock, Finder should come up and show me it's location there. However, Finder shows up and the page is scrolled all the way to the buttom. So I have to scroll up to find the folder. The files are supposed to be arranged by Date Added. So new files are on top, and finder always starts from the bottom when a Folder is opened from Dock. Why does this happen and how can I ensure that the folder accessed through the Dock is always shown in the first page of Finder ? Please let me know if I should clarify further.
I've been looking on the Internet for the shortcut to the Format Painter tool. No luck so far, it seems there's no shortcut for this tool. Maybe someone here knows better.
How can I put my CPU under very high pressure for a long period of time? Are there programs for that that I can keep running ?
I have a 2011 27" IMac running OS X 10.6.8 with a mini display port and would like to purchase a 13.3" MacBook pro with Thunderbolt and use the IMac as an external display. Can I do this with a mini display port cable and will the two screens mirror or will I be able to view separate windows on each monitor like mail on the MACBook and a browser on the IMAC? Also, I will run Windows 7 in Parallels or with boot camp on the MacBook and wonder if that will still allow me to use the IMac as an external monitor?
I had been reading several papers and highlighting important points, pressing Command-S every so often to save my notes. But when I opened them back, BAM! All my highlights were lost.
What can I do? Maybe there are some programs as HyperDock, which expands dock's functionality?
There are times when you can't use any TCP ports other than 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS), so you can't use Mail accounts that communicate with iCloud via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. But when you go to iCloud.com, it redirects you to the iPhone applications. Is there some way to access iCloud mail via HTTP(S)?
How can I filter email messages with no content in Apple mail?
I have written a small application and want to allow other applications to share data with it. My first idea was to integrate it into the service menu. However, I need dynamically populated submenus and the Apple dev page for System Services states that "There are no submenus in the Services menu" since 10.6. Are there any alternatives for integrating into the context menu of other applications and having submenus?
I have my Iphone 4 for about a year now. To activate it, I used my dad's Apple ID (he had a credit card and I did not) Now I got my own credit card so I created an Apple ID and changed the ID's on my phone. Now I can no longer update my allready installed items and can't make any payments on those previously installed apps. Any fixes?
I travel a lot and change timezones quite often. Is there a way to let Calendar detect and change timezone automatically so I can work with Calendar in the same timezone I'm currently in?
I have installed Mac OS in VMware today and its default settings are as follow:  How can i configure the virtual workstation to increase the graphics memory to 512MB from the present value of 128MB?
I'm having a problem with a USB thumb drive that I used to be able to read and write to with no issues. On two different Macs: MacBook Pro and iMac, it doesn't mount. It doesn't even show up in DiskUtility. The only thing that happens when it gets plugged in is that dmesg shows the line USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 0x58f 0x1234 0x1. I checked System Profiler and it showed the following for the device:
I'm not sure how long I've been having this problem, it might be related to updating to Mountain Lion or some version change in VMWare Fusion (and no, the USB hardware is not available there, either). As the problem is not occurring directly after a reboot, I'm assuming it is not Hardware-related. Still I'd like to avoid a complete re-install. What can I do to further diagnose and fix the problem?
I noticed there is an option to change country in iTunes (after I signed in). Does the iTunes account balance transfer from the current country to new country?
How do I setup file sharing across multiple macs, such that I can share by connecting with my Apple ID, as opposed to a username/password? I've searched the net for documentation on doing this, and have the hang of it using username/password, but not using Apple ID. The situation: I have two Macs, both running OS X Lion, one with Server (I'll call that one the server, and the other the client).
Is it possible to automatically invoke a given applescript when closing -any- file with a given extension in a specified folder (and subfolders)? If not in AS, is this possible in bash? (The AS I am considering simply calls a bash script.)
I installed Windows 8 over a Boot Camp installation of Windows 7 on my mid-2011 iMac. By and large it's worked perfectly, UX issues notwithstanding, apart from the rather critical part of a complete lack of Bluetooth. This means I can't use my Apple Wireless Keyboard.
On my mac, I often try to go to Google.com and chrome gives me an error: "You attempted to reach www.google.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.apple.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.google.com. You cannot proceed because the website operator has requested heightened security for this domain."
I have a late 2010 MacBook Air (13 inch) and would absolutely love to be able to boot it from my SD Card on which I have Puppy Linux installed. I use Puppy Linux on an old HP Mini 2133 netbook and I'd like to have the option to use it occasionally on my Air as well. However, I've attempted in the past to install ReFIt and had no luck going that route. So, my question is: is it possible to simply boot from the SD card without installing additional software? I very much prefer to keep my Air as stock as possible - I currently only have about 8 or 9 3rd party apps installed so if it's possible to do it without ReFIt that would be awesome. Still, if ReFIt is necessary I'm more than happy to give it a try but, as I said, I've attempted it in the past and, upon rebooting, seen no evidence that it was installed (other than the files on my system). *note - I'm not trying to install Puppy Linux to the drive, I'd just like to be able to boot from it.
When I first got an iPod (several years ago) my primary email address was *@gmail.com and, thus, I used that as my AppleID. However, since then Apple has given customers new *@me.com email addresses to use with, say, iPhones and iPads. So, I was wondering what the reprecussions of using *@me.com as my AppleID would be? In other words, would I lose access to movies and TV shows that I've purchased, and would I lose access to my apps?
I'd like to store only movies and tv shows on my external drive. I don't mind keeping my music on my built-in drive. Is there a way to set iTunes so that it only looks for the videos rather than all media?
I have a 1Tb external drive that currently has two partitions - 64 Gb NTFS 524 Gb ext2
I replaced the optical drive in my 2009 MacBook Pro with an SSD drive. I have enabled CD & DVD Sharing on another computer (running OS X 10.7.5) on my local network and inserted a data CD, but Remote Disc doesn't show up in the Finder sidebar on the MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.8.2). I'm assuming this is because the machine originally shipped with an optical drive. Can I enable Remote Disc on the MBP?
Hi my ipod touch (about 1.5 years old) recently started to blink/flash white when I use it. (Never completely white) I tried restoring/updating the software, didn't work; tried pressing power+home button, also didn't work. Anything else I can try, or do I need to bring it in?
As long as the computer's display is awake, the agent works as advertised, opening the disk image and mounting its volume at the time specified in the launch agent. On the other hand, if the display is asleep at the time specified in the launch agent, the disk image fails to open until the display is awoken from sleep (even if that is several hours later), at which point the disk image immediately opens and mounts its volume. The same phenomenon happens if I replace the hdiutil attach /path/to/MyDiskImage.sparseimage command with open /path/to/MyDiskImage.sparseimage, or place the command in a separate executable shell script that the launch agent executes. Also, even though the display is asleep when the above-described problem occurs, the computer itself is awake. Also, I tested having the launch agent execute a dummy executable shell script (echo $(date)) instead of hdiutil, and it executes normally even when the display is asleep.
Really strange problem just started on my 2010 mbp running mountain lion. I reset my machine because I was having problems with outlook crashing (this is not strange well knows anyone who tries to make microsoft products work on a mac), and upon reset for some reason I can't access the web.
I often use tethering now that it's enabled on Softbank network in Japan. I normally use WIFI connection. The thing is, my iPhone 5 is usually hard to discover from my computer (Macbook Air). Normally when I turn on the tethering and wait around 10 seconds, it shows up in the available networks in the computer. But after closing the computer, doing something else, than later (minutes, hours or days), without having switched tethering off on the iPhone 5, I don't think I was ever able to discover the iPhone 5 from the computer, without switching tethering on/off on the iPhone 5. Sometimes even after discovery, the connection itself fails because of "timing out". It seems the tethering discovery with iPhone 5 is weak. Is this normal or an issue? Is the iPhone 5 faulty? (I know most/many iPhone 5 have really bad WIFI hardware and/or software. Maybe it's related.) iPhone 5 is at iOS 6.1 I believe.
I use the CrashPlan software to run backups of my NAS to an offsite machine. I'd also like to use it for backing up a Time Capsule to the remote machine. How do I do this so I don't impede Time Machine's backups?
I will know by tomorrow if the 'trick' above worked but since I didn't find any q/a how to disable all birthday reminders easily I posted this here in hope to find a good answer that will fix this problem once and for all. Maybe I found an answer but if you could confirm it that would be great! Originaly asked the question for iOS 6, but this still is a valid question for later iOS versions ( v10 at the moment of editing )
Since a few days, the DNS resolution stops working for random amounts of time, a few seconds to a few hours (I logged it with a simple script). It sometimes goes back to normal without any intervention, but comes back to normal after a reboot - not the cleanest way to solve this... My other machines on the same network don't have any problems. How can I trace the problem ? Here is what happens when the problem occurs: I searched my logs and found a lot of instances of this error message: It think it may be related to a program I was evaluating recently (Daylite) The DNS are the ones provided by my ISP, and the ethernet interface is setup via DHCP.
Is their a file system that can read/write mac and win and do time machine? I know that OS X can write to NTFS with the correct software installed, but Time Machine usually insists on formatting drives before using them. Is there a compromise?
I found that there are some differents between Max osx and linux jsut like ubuntu, etc. is there any introduction about that, or is there any one can make a introduction. for example: ubuntu: /usr/lib/ ubuntu: /usr/lib/ 10.8.2 osx: /usr/lib /usr/libexec 10.8.2 osx: /usr/lib /usr/libexec
On a Macbook Pro, with Lion: I usually set it to sleep at the end of the working day, and resume from sleep in the morning. Sometimes, I can't type the password after resume, and I have to reboot it the hard way, because the left side of the keyboard isn't responding (I can only type on the right side). Is it a common problem, or is it just on my machine?
I'm trying to free up space on an iPhone. Most of the space is used by music. Is there a way to see which artists are using the most amount of space? Logically this would be displayed under "System Settings app > General > Usage > Music", but unlike the "Usage > podcast" there is no break down beyond "All Music : x GB" Can this be done easily in either iOS or iTunes, on a per-device basis (I only have a subset of music sync'd to the iPhone, so cannot just look at folder sizes in the "iTunes Music" directory)
Coming from the Windows world, I am used to minimising windows in OS X, then using Cmd-Tab to get back to the app to re-open them. However, this doesn't work on OS X, and the approach for re-opening them with Cmd-Tab once minimised is driving me slightly round the bend as I try to contort my fingers into place (plus, I typically forget to do this, then have to go round the Cmd-Tab loop again). Instead, I've taken to hiding windows with Cmd-H when I can, which does work when using Cmd-Tab to get them back again. Nevertheless, I don't always remember to use this, and sometimes minimise them instead.
I am having a problem which has driven me mad for months. When I am connected to my home Wi-Fi the Facebook app's newsfeed won't update. If I turn Wi-Fi off and use the mobile 3G it works fine so I guess its something to do with my Netgear router. I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 6 and my router is a Netgear N150. Any ideas?
I figured how to enable the Google Handwrite feature from Safari (Browse to google.com/preferences. and enable handwrite), but cant seem to find a way to do the same in the Google Search App for iOS. Anybody been able to get around this?
When I copy a cell (see picture 1) and paste it (see picture 2) the pasted version of the formular is messed up. As you can see there are some parts of the pasted formular which are not colored anymore. It seems as the text there got truncated. Any idea what the cause of this is? Peace!
Yesterday I found a bug inside my iPad display. I mean, literally a bug. My wife was reading some magazine and noticed something moving inside the screen. I thought it was some kind of animation, took a closer look, and noticed that it was a very small bug crawling very slowly.
I moved to Canada and I want to change my country of region from USA to Canada, but when I try to change it ( by click on my account in the iTunes Store and going to my Account Page) it showed me this error: "You have a store credit balance; you must spend your balance before you can change stores"  I must mention I have redeem 100$ to my account but I don't have any intention to spent it now, what is my option?
Any other ideas for getting into safe mode? Is it possible to run the safe boot 'script' manually from recovery mode? Does such a script exist?
How can I force download of entire Photo Stream and or Camera Roll to iCloud from iPhone4S running iOS 5.1.1 (9B206) to Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit? iCloud folders on the Win 7 machine are empty and none of the photos I want are "new". If I place photos in the iCloud Upload folder they are uploaded to the Photo Stream on the phone and then on the Win7 Photo Stream folder, but how can I get all the old ones to download? I'm considering using the App "WiFi Photo Transfer" but would prefer using existing iCloud. Cannot tell if I have iCloud 2 or not.
I have a macbook pro 2009 model, and a 24' apple cinema display. When the USB is connected the audio switches from the built in speakers of the laptop to the speakers on the cinema display. Is it possible to take advantage of both of these speakers at the same time?
I'm struggling to come up with a rational scheme for managing sync between my mac laptop, my iphone, and google. My corporate center is google apps, so I need to start with contacts from there. However, somehow, I constantly end up with some sync process creating extra copies of my contacts. I do not have any contact syncing enabled in itunes.
In Leopard, at the finder, when a file/folder had a long filename (and it truncated it with an ellipsis "…"), I just had to press the option (alt) key and hover the cursor on that file/folder, and it would show a tooltip with the full filename. In Mountain Lion (10.8.2) I can't do that, and I haven't found a way to get the full filename without selecting the actual file and going to "Get Info". So, is there a way to get the full filename without selecting the file/folder in Mountain Lion just like it could be done in Leopard (immediately get the full filename tooltip via a keyboard key and hovering the cursor over the file/folder)?
I've recently replaced the optical drive of my Macbook Pro with an SSD and installed Mountain Lion freshly on there. This leaves the HDD available as well and on by popular suggestion I've symlinked a couple directories. iTunes Media, Movies and Downloads, specifically. Worked fine!
Is it possible to remove this feature? It's really annoying when you miss-click on it. Since my iPhone lags a lot this happens too often. iOS version: 4.2.1 iPhone: 3G
I got my iPhone in may, and have never synced it to a computer. I would like to now so that I can out music from my CDs on it. But when my friend synced her iPhone 4 to a computer it erased all of her pictures. What can I do so that doesnt happen?
I've recently switched to Mountain Lion, which means that I now have Notification Center. I'm using the Twitter app by Twitter, and on my previous system I used Growl to display tweets. Now, however, nothing is showing up. Notification center does not seem to care much for regular tweets (without mentions), and suddenly Growl doesn't show them either.
As Apple's more recent laptops (and even the iMac now, sadly) are moving away from internal DVD drives, to use CD/DVDs you must buy an external DVD drive, that plugs into a USB port. But if you need to use it for multiple computers, it can become a problem. Could you plug the USB DVD drive into the USB port on the back of a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme (which both support external hard drives) and access the disk inside it over the network?
I have a jailbroken iPad 2 (A1395) running Version 5.0.1 (9A405). If I update to 6.0.1, can I jailbreak untethered? Will I have to re-install all my Cydia apps & settings, or do they get backed up and restored? Confused by too many Google results!
I have purchased music on the iPad but it does not appear in the "bought" section on my Mac's iTunes. It doesn't make any sense! Everything is fully updated (except for my Mac's OS which is OS X Lion) Why is this happening and how can I get it to sync?
I've recently added an SSD drive to my Macbook, and I'm using my HDD to store my files. Sometimes I want to move a file from my HDD to my SSD though. Whenever I try to drag it, Finder only allows me to copy rather than move.
I have a todo app that shows a badge indicating how many tasks are due today. For some reason, recently the badge will disappear one hour after I last opened the app. The app has not been updated in months, and I talked with the developers and they can't figure out what the problem might be.
My White, Unibody Macbook running OS X 10.8 started to freeze, so I shut it down. When I went to restart it, it got stuck on the Apple Logo for some five minutes before I just turned it back off. So far, I have: Checked & Repaired Disk Checked & Repaired Permissions Reset the NVRAM Reset the SMC Tried Safe Boot
I have an iMac running OS X 10.7 that stands in a public space. Recently, someone stole a Mighty Mouse that was connected to it. I know the time period when it happened so I was wondering if I can find out what sort of activity was going on during back then. For example, what users were logging in, what apps were they running and when was the last time when this USB mouse was connected. I already went through system and kernel logs and they provide just a bit of useful info. What are the best practices of auditing Mac usage? Thanks!
I have a Time Machine backup of a harddisk with Snow Leopard (HD1). The SATA cable for the disk failed and got replaced. The HD was replaced out of precaution as well. The new HD (HD2) got restored from the Time Machine backup, but now if Time Machine is started up again it starts a full backup of the disk, and does not do an incremental on top of the old backups. So the content of HD2 is equal to HD1, but Time Machine thinks otherwise.
I'm not sure if this is a duplicate of another question because naming the functionality in iOS that enables the user to type in a shortcut (like "omy") and have it expand to a whole phrase (like "on my way") as "Shortcuts" was a bad idea, in my opinion. I'd like to have a way to type in a shortcut and have it expand to a whole phrase, just as one can do so in iOS. Is there any native way to do that? Or would I have to write an Apple Script of some sort? I know of an application called, "Typinator" that does this, but I don't like the idea of spending money if I don't have to.
My apple id is associated with a .me account that i use for nothing else. I would like to have an apple id associated with my most active email account (a work account, but i am self employed). I see that a .me apple id cannot be changed but can it be closed and could i then open a new account with the better email address? What would i lose? Contacts? Notes? Old .me emails? Apps purchased under the .me account? The last two are not a problem, but the first two are... THanks
I recently purchased a new iMac which I love except for one sort of big issue - the text is blurry on several programs. At first I thought it was a browser issue when I noticed it in Gmail (using Chrome then Safari) and now I notice it's in other programs/applications on the computer as well. I have tried changing the display settings and nothing seems to help. After doing some searches on this it seems like this is a common issue with Apple. Is this something that Apple users just learn to deal with? It is night and day from my PC where the text was as crisp as can be...I was really looking forward to making this switch but this would be a deal breaker I think. Here are some screenshots that I captured:
One of my favorite features back when I used Outlook was the option to save sent emails in the same folder as the message being replied to. For example, if I had moved a message to folder A and was replying to that, my reply was saved in A, not Sent. (If I replied to a message in my Inbox, my reply went to the default Sent folder.)
I have: A large music collection in Itunes on my Mac A nice set of speakers in another room An iPhone
I am having an iPad2 with ios 6.0.1, I want to test an app which will be support for both ios 6 and ios 5. Now, I want to install the ios 5 in the ipad.
I have a 13" Macbook Pro with Intel HD 4000 chipset and I am wondering, if it is possible to set it use higher resolution then 1280 x 800?
I want to install Xcode SDK for iPhone app development on my Windows 7 PC, does any one know is this is possible?
When I select multiple recipients, both iPhones and other phones, they are all marked with the green color, as if the message will be sent as an SMS. Will the message be sent over iMessage to those who can receive it?
I created some services to be used in Finder. Now I wanted to create some keystrokes to call these services. That would be easy in the System Settings, however, I would like to add them from the command line in order to automate this setup. I tried the following which did allow me not trigger the services by a keystroke:
I have a 2010 MacPro running SL with a bootcamp partition (on the same bootdrive) containing a Windows 7 x64 installation which I use for work. I was about to upgrade the Mac to Mountain Lion but I'm concerned that doing so will make the Windows 7 partition unbootable. If its an anavoidable side-effect of upgrading I will have to image the windows partition and restore it once I've done the upgrade, but with >500GB on the Windows side of things, I would rather not. I can't seem to find a definitive answer on the web, can anyone confirm or deny my suspicions?
"Pending purchase and activation.." how much time will it take to activate iOS developer program i have enrolled on 19 jan 2013.still it is pending.Any suggestions?
We are rolling out iMac's and MacBook Pro's throughout the business and are setting them up with Boot Camp and an option to boot into Windows 7. Essentially the partition is just split down the middle, one for OSX and the other for Windows.
I would like to set up energy saving schedule such that my computer is woken up at 2:58 AM. At 3 AM, stuff that is really, really important to me is backed up to Amazon Glacier. I'd also like to perform a Time Machine backup at that time to my Airport Extreme that has an HDD attached to it. [I know that Apple does not recommend using an Airport Extreme for that, but it works.] Problem is that I'm only connected wirelessly, and sometimes there seems to be trouble mounting the backup drive. I disabled hourly backups, because a) I don't need them b) it disturbs me No backup is not an option either, so I'd love to go for the nightly way. What I know: - how to wake up my Mac at a specific time of day - how to get time machine to only perform backups at a scheduled time - how to use Airport Extreme as my backup device What I do not know: - how would I make my Mac connect to wifi at login screen, so it can connect to the AE - how, without being logged in, get the Mac to actually mount the bac
By desktop I don't mean like desktop on an external monitor, I just mean the virtual desktops that Mac provides The mouse I am using is also a PC mouse, so not a Magic mouse or track pad. The keyboard tho, it is the Apple keyboard. So How Can I move the active window to another desktop ?
I'm trying to uninstall Silverlight and install an older version to get Netflix working again. I updated Silverlight to version 5 not knowing that Netflix would end up throwing a N8109 error. Netflix FixIt recommended uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight. Here is what I tried: Closed all browsers and dragged Silverlight to bin from /Library/internet-plugins Closed all browsers and dragged Silverlight to bin from /Library/internet-plugins Also cleaned out Silverlight files from /Library/Receipts and /Library/Application Support Also cleaned out Silverlight files from /Library/Receipts and /Library/Application Support Tried using AppCleaner to find and delete Silverlight - Just ended up not being able to find it in any of the categories Tried using AppCleaner to find and delete Silverlight - Just ended up not being able to find it in any of the categories Restarted my computer a bunch of times after every uninstall strategy - only in vain Restarted my computer a bunch of times after
Time Machine does not allow the inclusion of an SD Card in a backup. It is automatically listed in the exclusion list and cannot be removed. Is there any way to force Time Machine to 'see' the SD Card and back it up? I use a 128gb SD Card as additional storage in my MacBook Air and would like to have the data on it automatically backed up to my Time Capsule.
Every time I get a machine that I install XCode on, it associates itself with all kinds of filetypes. E.g., .xml, .rb, even .java! It's such a nuisance to have to re-associate those file extensions individually. If I want to open XCode, I'll open XCode, but I never want to open XCode by double-clicking on a script or using open.
Coming out of the dark ages....moving my stuff from my old G4 PowerPC 10.5.8 to my recently-inherited MBP with 10.6.8 (intel). How can I move files from the old G4 to the newer MBP? I can't use TimeMachine & my new Seagate backup plus because it requires 10.6 or higher. Can't use MobileMe because it requires 10.6 or higher. Thumb drive file transfer is slow and painful.
I got a brand new Retina MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, Mountain Lion 10.8.2) a couple months ago, and it was buttery smooth (for the most part) at first. However, one day I turned it on and I suddenly got some terrible lag issues. For example, when I opened the Notification Center sidebar, it stuttered and chopped on the sliding animation. Similarly, the Genie effect stuttered when I minimized windows. The list just went on and on. At first I thought this was a hardware problem (it also turned out the screen had been mis-aligned), so I brought it to the Apple store. They couldn't find anything wrong with the graphics chip, but it they decided to replace my MacBook because of the bad screen alignment. I got the replacement yesterday. I restored my previous system from a Time Machine backup using the Migration Assistant. Everything was buttery smooth again, and I thought the problem was resolved.
Is there any way to download all of my iTunes Match music in one go on iTunes OS X? I've tried selecting all then clicking the little iCloud Button. I've also tried generating an Automator 'Watch me do' script, but that fails because the iCloud buttons have not been given a namespace selector, meaning the script errors out.
My 2007 Macbook Pro Santa Rosa just developed a problem where it failed to wake from sleep. I power cycled it, and it would not POST. I removed the battery and discharged the capacitors by holding down the power button, but laptop will not POST. The front light on the unit's latch powers on (steady light), there is a noise from the DVD drive as if it's checking for the presence of a disc, and a small amount of hard drive activity, but the display remains off.
My 15" MacBook Pro keeps getting kernel panics, especially while watching videos or playing songs. I have tried memtest, TechTool Pro and also an AHT. They all say everything is fine. Here is the Panic Report:
What I don't have: An USB dvd drive What I have: Another working, up to date, Macbook (with snow leopard). Another working, up to date, Macbook (with snow leopard). purchased Mountain Lion on the app store purchased Mountain Lion on the app store A desktop PC A desktop PC A 4GB usb stick. A 4GB usb stick. A USB harddrive I'd like not to wipe out entirely. A USB harddrive I'd like not to wipe out entirely. My macbook pro's dvd drive seems busted, I spray some dry air inside and tried to 90 degrees trick, did not work. Doesn't apple provide some way to make a bootable usb thing ?
I have my TV connected to my iMac via HDMI and speakers hooked up to the iMac via the headphone port. Whenever I turn the TV on, the Mac starts playing audio through the TV instead of the speakers and I have to manually switch back. Is there any way to make my Mac keep playing through the headphonejack?
My mp3 in iTunes shows a time of about 20 minutes, when it really have about 5 minutes. The VLC Player and the Windows Media Player shows the correct time for the same file, what's wrong with my iTunes?
Not sure if something like this exists in OSX. I would like to display a cheatsheet on my desktop as a wallpaper and to make it visible at all times I would like to hide all the icons/files/folders scattered on my desktop as I'm accessing them only from within the Finder anyway. So my question is if it is possible to hide everything on the desktop and show the wallpaper only but use the Desktop folder as normal and see all the files and folders when in Finder view? Using OSX Mountain Lion.
Are there any image viewers out there that can navigate a truly massive (i.e. 500 megapixel/250MB) JPEG image? Everything but Preview has crashed for me. Preview does OK, but doesn't have many features.
I had to restore a friend's iPod because they forget their passcode and they lost their camera roll. I can't restore FROM a backup, as the backup has the forgotten passcode on it. Anyways, on my Mac I looked under ~/library/application support/MobileSync/Backup to find some hashed folder with a boatload of hashed files and a couple .plist's saying it was indeed a backup. My question is- I am sure these photos are in this folder hashed somewhere.. how can I get them out? Thanks :)
In other news I read that some mainstream SSD controllers (eg. Sandforce) have very poor write performance when the disk is used to its full capacity. So my questions are: Is the "fullness" of a Fusion Drive SSD considered "full capacity" in the context of controller performance degradation?
Can anyone help me narrow down the issue? Or is the next step to try replace the sata hd cable to the logic board, and try a different hard drive. Thanks for your time.
i'm new to mac os x. i read that homebrew is a good packet manager and i have tried it. i have also read that to install opencv 2.4 i have to follow those steps: install cmake via homebrew download opencv cmake, sudo make
How do I use Image Capture to wirelessly scan from Brother MFC-490cw flatbed to my Mac OS X? I go to Image Capture and get an Overview scan, but then cannot actually scan the image next. Wher
I'm developing a podcast for a website. iTunes on my Windows desktop works with the podcast feed fine — I can download and then listen to individual MP3s.
I have an old 2007 mac mini that I am using as a media/music hub, and I'd like to be able to sync it with my iphone. But to do that I need to upgrade its old itunes (v8), but to do that I need to upgrade 2 steps from OS 10.4.11 to OS 10.6.8. How do I do this? thanks!
I have constant problems moving large files in Mountain Lion. When I say large I would say roughly 2GB or larger, which means nearly every iso and vmdk I touch. This can occur moving a file to or from a USB disk, a FW800 disk, a samba share, a netatalk share.
I have an odd problem. I got an iphone5 and of course, I want all my contacts from my nokia into my iphone, I imported the contacts into outlook, then exported to an csv file, then imported to gmail and it worked perfectly until that point. When I imported the gmail contacts to my iphone, all the names were there, but barely any mobile numbers. However, in my gmail profile everythings seems to be ok, so I doubt that there is a field organisation problem. If anyone has an idea, please help me, that thing is driving me crazy! Thanks!
I've got a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, with the latest IntelliType drivers installed. There is an option to swap a Caps Lock and a Control key in the Microsoft Keyboard preferences pane, but no way to use Caps Lock as a second Control key.
I have a iPhone 4 and Mac book pro. I am accessing internet in Macbook through dsl modem lan. But I don't know how to access internet in iPhone.
Is it possible to display two different applications on two displays in "extended" mode. What i mean: Xcode and Google Chrome have a button "arrows" in the top right corner. "On click" mac create a desktop, named "application" (Google Chrome or Xcode). I want to display both of them in full screen mode on two displays. Is it possible?
On Mountain Lion 10.8.2, when I use the Keyboard Viewer, I can see that Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 register correctly when I type them. Ctrl+4 or Ctrl+5 however, only show the Ctrl key being hit and the numbers ignored. How can I enable all the Ctrl+# keys? I don't really need them for spaces - rather, I need all the keys available for SC2 (FWIW, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 work fine in SC2, but the higher numbers don't).
For a psychology experiment a friend of mine is looking for a possibility to show phrases on an iPad screen which can be controlled from outside. (Laptop, second iPad)
I use WriteRoom to create and edit text files on the Mac (10.8.2). I keep these files in my DropBox (v1.6.14) folder so that they're synced to the cloud and can be edited on my iOS devices and other computers. I had Gatekeeper set to allow applications downloaded from the App Store and identified developers:
My iPhone 3GS has made the text message sound twice at like 3:30 am but when I look at it there is no text. This is hard to explain to my husband, it's making us both paranoid! Can I look somewhere to figure out what's happening?
I sometimes use the screenshot feature copied to clipboard to paste it quickly when I need it. I usually use that in Mail, however I always realize that the picture sent is really small in size (resolution). If a screenshot is taken at a resolution of 800x600, it is scaled down to 300x100 or something similar (just a rough example).
I am using VLC for playing videos in MacOSX 10.8, the VLC version is 2.0.5, I want a context menu in Finder with option to add a video file to vlc now playing list.
Am looking to edit system preferences settings via the command line but cannot for the life of me find the correct names of variables. In Login Options under Users & Groups, I would like to be able to change the Display login window from list of users to 'name and password'. In Date & Time, I would like to know how I change the time to a server we use. Enable fields in Sharing Setup Energy Saver settings It would be great if someone can help me out or point me in the right direction as I know you edit the preferences .plists but its knowing what to add or finding the preferred naming conventions. Thanks.
Usually, when I right-click on an app in the dock, I can assign it to a specific desktop/space. However, there are some apps where I don't have this option. (I've noticed it for CrashPlan and Paintcode.) What's wrong? Is there some config option on my Mac for that or is it something that the App developers have to do to enable this?
I bought a macbook pro and I'll have to work on a project in Brazil for over 7 months and I would like to know what is going to happen if any problems happens to my mac... I've checked and brazil has no apple stores...
I have a folder that I want to init with git, but to do that I have to 'navigate' to that folder using cd. The problem is when I write cd Applications, that folder is empty and I cannot go into following folders. The path I want to access is /Application/MAMP/htdocs. I am using OS X 10.8.2.
I just digged out my old Game Cube with a few controllers. Also, I found an adaptor on eBay which claimed to do this but is NOT Mac compatible. Do you know how to connect them to my Mac?
2) When installing Mountain Lion onto my computer, will everything (Files, applications, games, etc) remain? Or does it wipe everything out?
Even 720p content is almost 1 million pixels per frame; 24 bits per pixel at 60fps is 180Mbps, which is clearly impossible. So how is the data transferred? Some guesses: Heavy compression. Apple video playing APIs, which send the compressed stream is sent to the Apple TV, for the Apple TV to decode itself Apple video playing APIs, which send a URL of the data location to the Apple TV.
Is there any difference in the number of hours different generations and models of MacBooks take to "fast-charge" to 80%, or to fully charge?
I've been using shutdown -h now in the terminal to turn off my iMac (sooo much faster than waiting for every program I use to close out), and I wondered if there were any downsides to shutting down this way. Edit:
I'm considering buying a Geniuine Apple Macbook Pro (2007) battery on ebay. This is NOT an OEM knockoff, and the battery is still sealed in original plastic, but I have no idea when the battery was manufactured. If the battery was made, say 5 years ago, is it likely to perform almost as well as one that was recently manufacurerd?
I was curious how AirPlay worked and if it uses my Wi-Fi router, or some other technology? I was trying to use AirPlay with my 2011 MacBook Air and the new Apple TV and it was a bit laggy. Would a router upgrade improve the situation?
I'm using a clean install of 10.8. I wanted to add a couple of directories to my path. I tried adding them to /etc/paths using Now when I open a terminal window I see this: This doesn't affect usability, however it is something I would prefer to fix.
I have a linux distribution that I installed on an SD card. After the lengthy installation was finished I created a DMG backup of all the partitions using the Mac's built in disk utility. The recovery image is currently 865.5MB large and seems to contain the correct information.
I'm buying a gift that requires an iPod 3 or newer and I'm trying to get my brother to tell me what kind of iPod he has, but he is unable to open the case it's in. How can he, using software, tell me what kind of iPod Touch he has?
So I deleted SelfControl and when the website still didn't work I did the little terminal command things like killall SelfControl but it said no matching processes were found. I don't know if I should just wait or what. Help please!!!
My son has an iPod touch 4th gen. My mother in-law has a new iPhone. He logged into his iTunes account with his grandmother's phone so he could download a song for her. After that, she began receiving his facetime messages. I removed his email address from her iPhone and that stopped. But now, her phone number is displayed in his settings/message and setting/facetime under send & receive/you can be reached at. How do I delete her number?
Trying to use a Mac Pro as a headless media server. Worked just fine when I had a monitor or TV hooked up to it, but now that I've tried to remove a monitor and use it headless, I get a skewed log-in screen and an unusable operating system. Here's what it looks like when I screen share from my rMBP (though the problem is not unique to my rMBP, I also get the same look from VNC on my iPad, an older iMac, and a non-retina Macbook Pro): image of sample skewed login screen http://f.cl.ly/items/18030M0l1r0h1t0X1z3P/Screen%20Sharing%20Picture%20January%2023,%202013%208.32.12%20PM%20MST.png
I have an iPod Touch 5th gen and I sent a really long emoji message to my friend and both our iPods froze! Now everytime I try to open it, it goes to the conversation menu, freezes for about 10 seconds, then crashes back to home screen. I tried: Restart Long Restart Double clicking home and closing all recently used apps Turning off imessage then turning it back on and logging in Going to contacts then clicking to iMessage them Nothing works.
Today I missed an event alert because I stepped away from my desk for a few minutes. What settings would affect whether Calendar Alerts have an audible alarm? Is there a way to force an audible alarm sound for specific items?
I updated iTunes to v.11.0.1, and now when I play my music from my hard drive, randomly in between songs, there are commercials from 1.FM. This is very annoying! How can I get rid of this?
Every night before 1am, when my daughter has gone to bed but stayed logged in to our iMac (Lion 10.7.5), the parental controls dialog pops up. Unfortunately it ALSO announces itself via text-to-speech at whatever volume the computer happens to be set. And then proceeds to do a 10-9-8-... countdown at exactly 1am. You can probably imagine how unwelcome this is.
I have an early 2009 24" iMac. Lately, when in sleep mode it will occasionally wake up for around ten seconds with the screen off, then go back to sleep. Wake on LAN is turned off so I can't figure out why this is happening!
I bought a second hand Macbook Pro which came with OSX Lion installed, when I wanted to clean it I found out that it had no Recovery HD partition. I confirmed this through the Disk Utility (enabled debug menu, showing every partition).
EDIT: judging by comments, it sounds like this is a Lion thing not an Office thing. So, is there any way to keep this feature on, but make sure than whenever I open a file with an application that isn't currently running, the file I opened is the one with focus when the application starts up?
Background: I am considering an Airport Express (AE) to my room, but I am getting confusing information about how it can operate in different circumstances. I already have a router, with WiFi and LAN ports. The AE would be connected by cable to currently owned router and I would also like to connect my Mac by wire to the AE.
It happens almost every time after startup. When I click on the Finder it tries to start it, the menubar starts, then the desktop icons disappear for a few seconds then they come back, but the finder window never starts. Sometimes it says when I try to launch it:
After updating my iPhone 3GS to iOS6, when I'm on WIFI the network connection appears terribly slow. Loading a webpage in Safari takes ages and opening the update tab in the App store seems to keep loading forever. When I turn off WIFI and try the same on a 3G network, it all is responding a lot faster.
Two problems really: I'm using Mac Mail version 5.3 on Mac OSX. My Yahoo mailbox is continually fetching new mail i.e. the wheel by 'yahoo is continually spinning. It has been doing this for a few days. I have already tried quitting and reopening Mac mail a few times.
I recently purchased a Late 2013 Mac Mini Quad Core i7 2.6Ghz with 4gb DDR3 ram, 1TB 5400 rpm drive model APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 running OSX 10.8.2 I used Migration Assistant to migrate apps and files from Macbook Pro to Mac mini over gigabit Ethernet. The Macbook Pro is an early 2008 model equipped with a Core 2 Duo processor at 2.4Ghz with 4GB DDR2 Memory and an (upgraded) 750GB 7200 RPM hard drive model ST750LX003-1AC154 running OSX 10.7.5 Link to model: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/momentus-xt-hybrid/
I backed up my laptop's ITunes folder by copying out all the *.ipa apps I had installed. Some of these IPAs are no longer available on the app store, or require newer hardware than I own. How can I tell if a given *.ipa is intended for an iPad or iPhone by looking at (or using tooling to probe) the file?
Workflow: During the day I have a 27" external monitor attached. I get to the office, plug it in to the monitor, load my Windows development VM, and it immediately attaches to the external monitor (as I like, that part is fine). However, any windows I had been working on the night before, such as my Chrome windows, or Sublime Text, always start just slightly to the right of where they were last night. I adjust them back to where I want them, keep working. At the end of the day I close my VM, unplug that monitor, close the laptop, go home, get it back out do some more work, then hide the windows before going to bed so my workspace is free and clear in the morning, and not remnants of the previous night. This is what I normally have things look like:
I would like a keyboard shortcut to do either of these actions : Move a 'focused' window to another desktop Create a new desktop and move the window to it, then change the view to that desktop How can I achieve this ?
I opened Garageband after a long time and noticed that all my instruments are lost. The .exs and sampler files are still where they are supposed to be: /Library/Application Support/Garageband/Instrument Library but Garageband isn't detecting them. I can't afford to download 6 GB's worth of instruments. How do I make Garageband detect them? I also have Logic Pro installed.
I have a TTF font installed on my Mac that I have added to an X-Code development project. For the life of me, I can not get it to work with my application but I think it's because I'm using the wrong font name. Using Font Book, or any other tool, how can I get the Postscript font name from the font meta-data? I have a hunch that the Postscript name might be different from the Font name, but I need to verify.
Mac Book Pro purchased in November, 2012, running OSX 10.8.current (Mountain Lion). I shut down all apps, and restarted the laptop.
I know the iPad has the Book Shelf thing:  I know I can add PDF files to it - but: Is it possible to sync that with my Mac so I can also read them on the Mac? Is it possible to have them keep the same place (page / bookmark) synced? Would I / can I use iTunes on the mac to pick up reading where I left off on the iPad? If it isn't possible with the the native software, are there any apps that do this?
I'm making a column chart about certain dice rolls in the game Descent: Second Edition, and the problem I'm having is that there are multiple dice of the same color in the standard rolls. For example, you could roll a red die, or two red die. I would like to be able to color code the dice rolls, but with the fact that this can cause ambiguity, I would like to be abler to make checkered pattern, with line borders, so one can see if I'm talking about "red-red", "red", or "red-blue-yellow."
I'm a Brit living in the USA. I use the UK English Siri so that he understands my accent. I also like dd/mm/yy dates. I'd like to have my iPhone default to USA Google though, since that's where I am. UK-specific results aren't much use to me over here.
I just setup two backup drives for time machine in two different ways: 1) By clicking the "encrypted" checkbox in the time machine dialogue. After fininshing the backup, it spent a long time saying "encrypting..." 2) By formatting the drive as HFS+,Journalled,Encrypted using Disk Utility, and then keeping the the encrypted checkbox on in Time Machine (see note a).
Is there an app or setting that lets me save (persist) and load workspaces (or "Spaces") on my Mac? i.e. as a freelance software developer I want it to appear as if I have a completely fresh Mac dedicated to each of my clients' projects -- one Mac per project
I am a registered user (DirectSales, not AppStore) of both Versions and Kaleidoscope (both from BlackPixel). The latest versions of both apps are installed on on my system. I would like to configure Versions.app to use Kaleidoscope.app as its diff tool. However, when I go to
On a black iPhone 4, I open the Game Center application and it is stuck on "loading":  For a moment I assumed that it was a problem with Apple. Well, no, because turns out I have a white iPhone 4 where Game Center does work.
Dropbox - has LAN sync & selective sync, but only for files that it also hosts in the cloud; $100/year for 100GB is too much given that I don't need cloud storage. Only syncs ~/Dropbox. SkyDrive - pricing reasonable ($50 for 100GB), but no LAN sync and can only syncs the ~/SkyDrive folder. SugarSync - will sync any folder, but more expensive than Dropbox and no LAN sync.
My need is to authorize one more computer in my family to play my content bought on iTunes. I understood this is possible up to 5 computers. The way to do this seems to be to authorize the computer by login to the iTunes store. But doing this, I am scared the 2nd computer will also be able to purchase with my iTunes account, which I obviously don't want! Does anyone know how to control this?
I have two Macs behind a cable modem/WAP. One works fine. The other is able to ping servers but is unable to telnet to them. For instance pinging what.org works fine but I get operation timed out errors when I wget what.org or telnet what.org 80. And nmap what.org -Pn says host is up but all ports are filtered. I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the computer, not with the modem/router. Also, strangely some of my Chrome tabs can still reload, duplicate, and function, like google, Gcal and Gmail, but other's can't, and all new domains fail with Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation times out.. Skype chat and dropbox work. How can I further diagnose this problem?
I charge my phone using my PC all the time, and it's been only a week that since I bought my iPhone 5. Now I can't charge my phone with my PC. What could be the problem thats causing my phone to not charge while connected to my PC? The USB charger is new.
I would like to organize my photos into folders with labels/tags/keywords, possibly also with captions or descriptions for each photo. I would like that information put into the EXIF metadata of the photo files, so that it can be read by other programs (like digikam or f-spot, for instance). I would NOT like to overwrite other unrelated metadata (like Picasa does with various fields).
I am currently using an iPhone 3GS. My phone's iOS version is 4.1. I want to upgrade to 4.3 but the latest version is 6.0. How can I upgrade to 4.3 or 4.5 from 4.1?
I have a local admin user and a few "network" mobile users (without admin privileges) who need to be able to brew on a Mac. So, these 'network' users are not members of the group admin and probably shouldn't be.
I'm running a Mac mini (late 2012) with OS X 10.8.2 as a media center PC and streaming server. It's not running 24/7 - instead I'm using a schedule to wake it up in the evening and putting it back to sleep at midnight. So far, so good.
When I connect to my work computer with screen sharing, the work computer's screen turns on and shows what im doing. I lock the work machine and turn off its display. Is there a way to prevent the remote screen from turning on during screen sharing.
Whenever you have more than 4 services, they are put in a dropdown option "Services" on right click instead of just being added to the right click menu itself. Is this an option somewhere that can be changed? Thanks.
Long story short; I was updating a couple of iPad apps via iTunes last night, but had to shut down. Now they're all listed as "installing..." on my iPad but they're neither being downloaded nor installed, and I can't access them until they're finished (but they're not progressing, so they won't finish). Is there any way to abort an in-progress update so I can at least use the apps I've currently got?
Under the 'settings' -> 'mail contacts calendars' -> gmail there is no option to sync the contacts what's the workaround?
I have installed ubuntu on my Air and have it running for over 6 months now. Today I run a software update and grub wanted to update and I selected it to not change anything / update and well it did! rEFIt was installed.
I enabled FileVault 2 on my Mac, and I remember that it gave me a recovery key. When will I use this recovery key?
I have iPhone 4 and macbook pro. I have some notes in my iPhone. I would like to sync those notes to my iPhone. How can I sync notes in iPhone with macbook pro and vice versa by using either bluetooth or using USB cable which is used to charge iPhone and with out using any external account like iCloud or gmail?
If I did my reading right, I really should be getting something with a Thunderbolt connection. But I wanted to check here to be sure, and wondered if OS X is at all bootable from a Thunderbolt drive?
Apart from iRecorder and Display recorder (with extremely bad reviews) I have not been able to find any other app with the ability to screencast on an iPhone. I have already looked at this post and have been able to do it as well, but what I am looking for is an "app". Has anybody found a decent alternate app?
I've got an encrypted sparse bundle disk image and I've used fstab with the right UUID to mount it someplace other than /Volumes. What I would like is to just dbl-click on it, enter the password and have it show up where I want it. I use a password manager and I have intentionally chosen a long random gibberish password for the disk image. It seems that I am not allowed to paste my password into the dialog that asks for a password when mounting an encrypted disk image. Am I doing something wrong?
Everybody seemed very confused by the story and extra information I gave so I will simply ask a very straightforward question. Irrespective of your personal opinion on the utility of doing so; how does a person change the root password? Also, the apple help page that I linked originally, and that some of you additionally linked to does not actually say how to change the root password, it only says that it can be done.
Is there any way for me to protect my home folder and keychain from other users with admin privileges on a single machine? EDIT: Here's some background on the situation. In my office, we have several shared workstations. Everyone on the development floor has access to a general admin account that we use to maintain the software on the machines. I'd like to be able to personalize an account on the machine, but I worried about leaving myself open to the possibility of the other "admins" accessing my files. (I'm not keeping anything particularly sensitive; just my ssh keys for GitHub, my work Dropbox folder, leaving gmail logged in, etc.)
How to enable Reader to read the next paragraph? Is it impossible to read the next one paragraph on the same web page with reader? The sample page I'm trying to read *=URL=* It is in russian, but one can see that Safari Reader reads much less text than all page contains. OSX 10.8.2, Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17)
In Xcode, a lot of the shortcuts use an arrow with 2 lines though it:  What is the keystroke corresponding to this?
From then on I was never able to boot again. I could only enter my password (not for logging in to Mac OS, but for booting) and then the kernel panic would happen each time.
Can I use my CDMA sim in iPhone 5 ? I am using TATA INDICOM CDMA sim.
I run Windows 7 at work and OS X at home. 2 sets of muscle memories is a hassle - is there a way to map all 'Apple +' commands into 'Ctrl +'?
I'm skeptical that I'll find path names with "debian" in them on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 installation. And the specific contents of debian/control don't match what's in the Mac Ports portfile for abcde. But other file in the patch file do correspond to files in my installation of abcde.
Is there a way to send docs to your iPad (iBooks) via an email address endpoint like Amazon has for your Kindle?
I have an AT&T (GSM) iPhone 4. If I were to upgrade to an iPhone 5, could I simply pop the SIM out of my iPhone 4 and continue using it on wifi only? Would I also need to get the SIM deactivated since an iPhone 5 would come with its own SIM?
I have a FreeNAS File Server which provides AFP shares to my Mac OS X clients. I'm seeing some strange performance issues between OS X 10.7.5 clients and the FreeNAS server. My goal is to use the FreeNAS server to store home directories, and while I have this set up on my OS X 10.7 Server and it's working okay, users see periodic beachballs when launching applications or documents stored on the AFP shares.
I gather this should work in bash: or or
My iPhone 3GS got wet a couple of weeks ago. I dried it off and it has been working ok. Then today it just died. Went from fully charged to no charge to dead. When plugged into the mains it shows the white apple sign on a black background, and vibrates interminently. When plugged into the computer nothing happens and iTunes does not recognise that it is plugged in. My last back up was done a few months ago but I really need to retrieve my contacts and calendar appointments from it. Any ideas?
I am unable to add new accounts nor delete existing accounts in Open Directory despite being authenticated as diradmin. I can change existing user passwords though. Tried rebooting, no change. I was able to create and delete accounts earlier today. The options to create/delete accounts are disabled in the OSX Server Mountain Lion GUI. Suggestions are appreciated.
I got an error when I tried to paste it into another app to use it. So I pasted that into a hex editor and it looked like this in the hex editor:  blah123
How does one install gwhois on a Mac? I'm already up and running with Homebrew; I assume that there's some magic perl configuration required before it will run. I've tried the following: And when I run gwhois I get I can't get LibIDN to install correctly; the output from brew install libidn is:
I mistakenly made a recovery disk from my USB external Hard drive. By making recovery dosk I can no longer use its entire 500 GB space. Now I want to restore this disk to original state so that I could use its entire space. How can I restore external HDD?
This was absurdly easy in iTunes 10. I select a Playlist (generally a smart one) I command click albums. I want to play those albums.
I'm trying to do a clean install of Mountain Lion on my laptop.. There are plenty of of tutorials online explaining how to burn the Mountain Lion install (InstallESD) on a (dual layer!) dvd or on a usb drive. I have neither of those things handy right now. I do have plenty of spare HDD space though. Is it possible to create some sort of Install Partition on the hard drive than can be booted from (Option-boot) to do a fresh install?
I recently got my iMac's HDD replaced and when I restored my computer, every single Time Machine backup stretching back to last October contained the same size iPhoto library (+/- 100MB), which was current up to last February, even though the rest of my backups were intact. Even stranger, before I had the HDD replaced, I copied the Master's folder in iPhoto's Library package to an external drive, and it was also incomplete, and in exactly the same way. I managed to salvage some photos that were in Photostream by going into ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub in the Time Machine backup, but many are missing and all my videos are gone (because Photostream doesn't do videos.)
I'm trying to find out whether there is any kind of equivalent command line one-liner which replicates the exact identical functionality of the 'Lock Screen' menu option available via the Keychain app in OS X 10.6 I'm aware of the all the 'usual' solutions (sleep/screensaver preferences to require a password on reactivation) but these are not suitable to me. I'm also aware of this option: which is also not suitable for me. The perfect functionality is the 'Lock Screen' option however I have not yet found an elegant way to call it. At the moment, I am calling via Automator, which isn't elegant! I have read much about this issue and my understanding is that no-one has yet found the 'holy grail' but I was wondering whether that might have changed.
I'm in trouble right now. I used Disk Utility to create a sparse image and I cannot remember the password, when I created the file I didn't select to remember in keychain.
I don't use Microsoft Outlook but when I backed up my iPhone 5 running iOS 6 on my laptop, it said the contacts from that application were backed up. How do I find/check if the contacts are backed up and where are they stored?
While I am aware that you can use handyPrint for this.. you have to pay for it to keep using it.. and I have no Paypal or Credit Cards. Does anyone know a method so when a Printer is shared on your Mac, it broadcasts it as AirPrint so I can print from iOS with it like you could handyPrint. Possibly using a modded CUPS server or change a couple Bonjour plists or something? Thanks :)
my iPad mini came with this charger and cable. If i leave it charging overnight, what prevents it from overcharging my iPad(is it the charger or the iPad itself)?
I want to revert my system from 10.8 Mountain Lion to 10.7 Lion. Will Time Machine (or Migration assistant) gracefully restore my users and files created under 10.8?
I am looking for a way to reload/refresh the "apple symbol" menu in the upper left corner from the terminal. Searching for ways to refresh the menu has only led me to find the command this only reload the "widgets" on the right side of the menu and not the content on the left.
I went through all the changes with my Airport Utility. I even reset my Macbook Air to factory default settings. Still I have the same issue. What can I do to troubleshoot this problem?
So when I'm watching embedded videos from YouTube on websites in Mac OSX Lion in Google Chrome browser, the video controller bar shakes and looks weird if I mouse off the video to make the controls disappear. Is there a fix for this weirdness?
I have a 128gb MacBook Air running Lion. I am constantly having issues with disc space, but have no idea what is consuming it all. When I look at the disc utility break down, it says about 80% of the used space is taken up by 'Other' while the remaining 20% is photos, music and applications.
Dictionary seems to be several versions ahead of the Apple documentation (2007). I found a good blog post about it, but everything seems different now. I installed Xcode (including the command line tools) but nothing is where it's supposed to be (e.g. /Developer does not get created and there is no Dictionary\ Development\ Kit). I would like to make a pretty complicated dictionary, so I'd like to make this work instead of convert file types several times.
This box helps explain the association that I always have had.  We bought a Mac. I like many parts about it. It syncs with my iphone etc...
It only appears when the event location is entered for an event which lives in a Google calendar. (I have a Google CalDAV account set up in my Calendar.app) If I make the event go to a local or iCloud calendar, the icon disappears.
I have a bunch of photos and videos in iPhoto and I'd like to find the largest videos particularly to see if I can delete them to make some space. It seems strange that I can't find an option to do this in iPhoto - am I missing something?
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro. I'm running a Dell 2407 monitor using a VGA adapter and I get intermittent wavy lines on the external display. If I open the display menu on the monitor itself while the problem happens, the overlaid menu is not 'waving'. If I adjust the pixel clock on the monitor while the wavy lines are there, this temporarily resolves the problem
Wondering if there's a shortcut available to show all open Finder windows? Not sure what to call this behaviour; not 'focus all windows', since that involves a single window, not 'raise all window', since that also involves a single window.
OK I took a 2009 MBP to the Apple Store/Genius to get looked at as basically it was only getting to the white screen with apple logo. I was pretty sure the hard drive had died, so I left the MBP with the Apple Store for day. When I returned I was told I needed a new hard drive which I expected and also a new Display assembly part 661-5040 because my isight cable was broken or almost broken and it would stop the MBP from starting up correctly when a new drive was installed into the machine.
Important: I back up to a time capsule, via wifi. I set my computer up to automatically wake up at 2:58 AM. At 2:59 AM I run a script that launches "caffeinate -s", in order to prevent my MacBook to go back to sleep. At 3:00 AM I run a scheduled Time Machine backup - Time Machine itself is turned off in the settings, though. I run another script that kills caffeinate when the backupd process is gone, so my Mac can go back to sleep. My goal: Only run backups at night, when I usually do not use my MacBook.
The hard drive of my Macbook failed recently. After installing a new hard drive I would like to use Ubuntu as the operating system, not Mac OS x. I burned a Ubuntu .iso to a disc and when I power up and insert the disc into the slot, I still get the flashing question marks folder.
I'm trying to restore a iPhone 3g I got that was jailbroken. I plugged it into itunes and hit restore and received the error 1015 that it could not be restored. I've tried using the tinyumbrella solution I believe I did it correctly but it did not work. Anyone have any suggestions?
I recently spilled liquid on my 2012 13' macbook air (4,2) and now I would like to access the data that is (hopefully) still stored on my harddrive. What would I buy to read the data externally, as my laptop is currently not working. Is there a special wire or case that I have to get? Thanks in advance for any help.
Which version of USB do iPod Nanos have? Apple's tech spec says it works with a Mac having 2 or 3, but USB is backward compatible so that doesn't help...
I would like to use spelling corrections in Word for mac 2011. Since my language (slovenian) is not included, I had to find and include a custom dictionary. The installation goes like this:
I want to pass the filename of the file I rightclicked to a shell script through automator: When I create a 'service' I can pass on the input 'as arguments', but how to I implement it in the code? It would be great if the file could be called 'file.enc' instead of 'file.txt.enc' if that is possible.
I am having issues where an external USB3 drive(#1) is not showing up after reboot. It also doesnt not show up when holding option during boot. This external drive is a clone made with Carbon Copy Cloner. I have cloned the recovery partition as well using CCC. The external disk is not ecrypted, but the Macbook I am doing this from is with Filevault2. It shows up properly when connected as long as I don't restart the OS. If the OS is restarted, the drive will not show up in Finder, Disk Utility, System Information, or Terminal. But when I disconnect the drive and connect it again it shows up and mounts.
Digging wikipedia.com, on my Macbook Pro, returns: I could swear, last week my computer returned an AUTHORITY SECTION + some additional sections. Now, whenever I dig any site, I'm not getting the AUTHORITY SECTION. I feel like something is broken, but I'm not sure what it is (if anything) and how to fix it. Another example: Last week, I'm pretty sure I was getting an AUTHORITY SECTION as well.
I am a mum with 2 children. I have had an iTunes account for myself and have now attached my kids new iPods to that account as they are too young to have their own accounts/ids. My question is; Is there a way to have multiple users under the same account.
I am honestly not sure if the problem is with the OS or with the printer. I can use this printer with a windows machine without any trouble. However, when I try to use it with my Mac, is just complains that I don't have any color ink...which is true. I only have black ink in the printer. I just want to be able to print and cannot seem to tell the printer to just use the black ink and ignore the fact that no color ink is available.
I'm looking for some way to configure OSX to prevent it creating .apdisk files and .TemporaryItems folders on network shares. These are created any time OSX accesses a shared folder on the network. In searching, some possible solutions I've found include: Stop using the Application (Finder) Mark the share(s) as read-only Ignore them Use 3rd party software (such as BlueHarvest) to remove the files. Schedule a cron script to delete these files. Unfortunately the first three options are not workable for me, and I'd rather not have to buy licences or schedule clean-ups on the file servers. Is there a way to configure OSX not to create these in the first place? (Finder is connecting via AFP to the network shares, for what it's worth) Edit, approx 1 year later: Please note that I'm not looking for a cleanup solution.
Is there a way to set off an alarm or make an audible notification when I receive a text message only from a certain number? I like to keep my notifications on vibrate while I sleep, but my district sends important notifications out sometimes in the middle of the night when I'm still asleep, so I'm not likely to notice the vibration.
I have a late 2009 Mac Book Pro 13" running 10.6.8. Using WiFi I can not load websites in any browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) it is as if I am not connected to the computer. I can do FTP transfers (most of the time) and stream music via Spotify (pretty much all of the time.) Everything functions properly when connecting to the same network with an ethernet cable. In the house we have one more mac, a linux box and an assortment of iOS devices, none of which have any problems connecting to the same network via WiFi.
I am running an SSD boot drive and a HDD drive on my Macbook Pro 5,5 and I obviously cannot have Time Machine filling up my SSD. I was wondering if there was anyway to have time machine create local backups of the users on my SSD, but store it on my HDD and be able to use the typical features of time machine local backups, because otherwise it would be unnecessary. If this question has been asked, I would appreciate a link, because I searched and could not find anything. Otherwise, thank you very much any help you can offer.
I'm looking for a command line tool in Mac OS X that performs the equivalent of the iwconfig command in Linux. Example:
I use the following AppleScript script to automatically connect a remote drive when my VPN connection is established using Viscosity: This works ok. However this does not read the contents of the folder. So when I go to this folder for the first time, it takes extra 30 seconds to retrieve the list of files and folders.
Periodically, I'm seeing this keychain dialog pop up:  I click 'Cancel', then it pops up again, then I click 'Cancel' again, and it goes away for a while. (Maybe an hour or two, I haven't timed it.) I haven't noticed anything not working right. What's going on here? If it matters, this is OS X 10.8.2.
When I want to download from App Store it is asking me to switch to US store or KWT or Saudi store.how I can get rid of this?
I have tried every option to get apache2 to work in Mountain Lion, and I am baffled by how impossible the task seems to be. I just got a new iMac and on a fresh, clean install, I went about setting up apache to serve local sites. Using the usual suspects of possible configuration changes, I can get apache to actually "start" but then things go downhill from there.
I've always managed my iPhone/iPad/iPod Manually, I recently updated to iTunes 11 and now I can see no way to get my music onto my device. I used to be able to just drag songs from my library to my device, now there is seemingly no way to do this. I can view the music on my device by clicking on it on the top right corner of iTunes, but I can't seem to get to a state where I can drag music from my computer onto my device. I'm using iTunes 11.0.1.12 for Windows if that makes a difference.
I had a Retina MacBook Pro with Windows 8 already installed. I can boot from it without problems, and all the drivers Apple provided for Windows 7 works perfectly for me except one thing.
I understand that 8gb modules are not officially supported in this MBP. However, this indicates that they are, as long as they are 1067mhz modules: Can I use 16 GB RAM with my MacBook Pro 7,1? I also understand that while 1333mhz modules are not supported, if they are paired with a 1067mhz module, the EFI automatically downclocks the faster module, and they both run at 1067mhz, eg: *=URL=* Here's my question: Is is likely to work if I buy an 8gb 1333mhz module and pair it with one of the existing 2gb 1067mhz modules? The reason for this over an 8gb 1067mhz or 2x4gb are: I get more RAM (10gb) than replacing with 2 x 4gb I can upgrade in future if I want (add an 8gb 1067mhz stick) It's much cheaper - 8gb 1333mhz modules are far cheaper in the UK now than 8gb 1067mhz
My Mac Mini (2011) has always auto-joined networks worked fine until a few days when he stopped auto-joining my preferred WPA2 Wifi network when I start it up. When I click Join Other Network and then Show networks my wifi appears. When I double click it I have to enter my password than my mac joins it. But next time I start my Mac, I have to do that again. How can I get auto-join to start working again?
Can I create two Automator services that allow me to encrypt or decrypt files? So I would right click a file and click 'Encrypt', the .txt file would be encrypted to a .enc using openssl:
I have a new Mac at the office. We have a pretty closed off firewall here but we allow people to work remotely through a TS-Gateway using RDP. For a client I use iTap as it supports the gateway very smoothly. Now that I've switched to a Mac, I can no longer attach to it remotely. This is a big part of my job, and if I can't figure this out I'll need to go back to MS at the office. Is an RDP server already running on Mountain Lion? If so, how do I turn it on?
Can I download Mountain Lion from the App Store and install it on my machine later? I have a very slow Internet connection at home, but I am traveling with my MacBook now and have temporary access to a faster connection. I'd like to take advantage of the fast connection to download Mountain Lion, but I don't want to install it until I return home and make a backup of the machine first.
Does Mail on Mac OS have any add-ons applicable ? Such as the ones possible in website-based Gmail application ?
Using MacOS 10.5 Leopard, I want to be able to share my screen with others during a meeting so the people I'm talking to can easily see my screen through a web browser. A free solution would be preferable.
Is there a Mac app that offers one-click or one-keystroke access to a box where I type in a song, artist, or genre I want to hear "sounds similar" radio for (a la Pandora), hit enter, and listen? Kudos for an app that's very lightweight.
I have a 3 TB External Hard-drive, however, it was previously used with a Windows desktop and uses an MBR partition table and the single partition is using NTFS. As a result, I've been using various software solutions to mount the disk on OS X. The full context of the question is this: If I were to purchase a second external hard drive, reformatted using GUID partition table and HFS+, would I see better performance in OS X reading from the disk? It is typically used for media playback, so it is read-intensive and I was simply not seeing this performance issue on my Windows workstation or the Linux server this device was previously attached to.
I have my iPhone's language set to English in Settings, but I live in a non-English speaking country. As such, when using turn-by-turn navigation, street names are pronounced as though they were English words, and are barely recognizable. Is there a way to get Google Maps' navigation feature to speak my language without changing the systemwide language setting?
iPhone 4 running iOS 6.0.1. I have Settings -> Music -> Shake to Shuffle turned off.
Computer starts up to gray screen, in recoevery mode getting "Open Error 5: Input/Output error on System/CoreServcices/ManagedClient.app/* My computer turned to sludge, and I hit the power button and shut it down. On startup, we got to login screen, put in my password, wait for minutes..no go Manual shutdown. On startup we get the white screen of death. Put disk into recovery mode, got the recovery OS going, and opened disk utility.
Can't get subject to work consistently. Some times I can access AirPlay on my Macbook Pro. On my iPhone (4S) and my iPad (3rd gen) I can't find the airplay icon. The Home Sharing option has never worked - I have checked the firewall (it's off) and all units are connected to the same wireless network (a wifi extender) Any ideas on how I can get to use the full potential of my new "toy" (The Apple TV 3rd gen)
The USB keyboard works fine when connect to the USB port of my secondary Thunderbolt display, but only one of the three ports. (?) When the USB keyboard is connected directly to the iMac, sudo dmesg produces two lines like this: AppleUSBHubPort[...]::FatalError - Port 2 of Hub at ... reported error ... while doing setting port power When the USB keyboard is connected directly to the iMac, sudo dmesg produces two lines like this: Where's what didn't work: Rebooting in safe mode: sudo nvram boot-args="-x" Rebooting in safe mode: sudo nvram boot-args="-x" Deleting the Bluetooth wireless keyboard device and rebooting Deleting the Bluetooth wireless keyboard device and rebooting Rebooting while holding Command-Option-P-R Rebooting while holding Command-Option-P-R I have an iMac running OS X 10.8.2 with a secondary Thunderbolt display.
How do I forward ports from my host machine to the virtualized machine when I'm using NAT to share my network connection? I found some instructions for earlier versions of VMWare, but I don't see the files they mention in the same location in my installation.
I'm trying to extract a tar.xz file with tar in Mac OS X Lion. I'm using bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3. I'm able to use tar to extract anything else I've tried (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz, etc.), but when I try to extract the file (this file to be precise) using tar -Jxf cclive-0.7.11.tar.xz, I get this error:
Can anyone help me with a problem I've just encountered with a 2009 MBP, I've just installed a new 500gb hard drive in the MBP and then cloned a clean install of os x 10.7 on to the new drive. I then updated the 10.7 to 10.7.5, and have just realised that when I shut the MBP down the machine just restarts. Any solutions anyone?
I have been noticing some Photo Stream issues with my 3 devices; iPad 2, iPhone 5, and iPhone 4. The problem is that pictures taken with the iPhone 4 will not populate to the other 2 devices, and vice versa. The only difference that I see is that the iPad and iPhone 5 are logged into the same iCloud account (mine), but the iPhone 4 is logged into my wife's iCloud account. Could this be the source of the problem?
Why are there are many similar processes running at the same time with the same Process ID? For instance: 2 SystemUIServer with the same PID same user both IPv4
Every time Apple releases new iOS software, it's a bit of a rush to get things downloaded and the servers can be slow in delivering the bits. I would like to know where the Apple Configurator Version 1.2.1 (169) stores downloaded iOS software so I could transfer the files from iTunes or another computer so I can have several machines grab one each of the builds and then distribute them to avoid having each machine have to re-download all images each time. Can I move IPSW in to or out of Apple Configurator rather than having it control the downloads from Apple for iOS software?
i am facing a issue in one of my macbookPro which is integrated into a windows environment. i have McAfee installed its asking for administrator credential every time another user login in(who does not have admin access). any way we could grant admin access to those user for McAfee only so the popup doesn`t come up or something else that could fix the problem.
FaceTime over AT&T's 4G (you know, 3G) on my iPhone 4s (with a 2GB data plan) was enabled as of a few days ago. Haven't checked the settings since then, but I just updated to iOS 6.1 from 6.0.1, and after a message came up about saying that the iPhone was now using the new iCloud email address for iMessages, I decided to check on FaceTime, and it appears that the cellular data option for FaceTime is switched off again (and I can't enable it, just shows the 'call AT&T' popup). I don't really know for sure if I can blame iOS 6.1 because as its been a few days since I checked the setting it could be coincidence.
I currently have a car headunit that uses a combnation of USB (audio and control) and 3.5mm jack (video) that was designed for iphone 4/4s. I now have an iphone 5. which i can't use the current cable with removing my ability to deisplay video. audio and controls still function fine.
I have a macbook pro 2007 . 4gb of ram 320gb. i bought this macbook off eBay over the summer. it came with leopard , 2 months later then i upgrade to snow leopard, then to mountain lion. i currently have mountain lion 10.8.2 . the screen is kind of flickers and i don't know if its the graphics card or its just the screen. but one day i was using my computer and all of sudden it just turns gray and the screen starts flickering and it just kept going. i don't think its the screen because this flickering shuts down my computer and kernel panics comes up . when you restart it the computer, the apple logo that comes up looks like it has spots on it but doesn't boot. it stays and it freezes and restarts my computer. what to do ?
I accidentally dragged the iTunes 11 Mini Player off screen (near the OS X menu bar) and it disappeared. Showing all windows on the screen didn't help, the player window is nowhere to be seen. Switching to the main iTunes Window works, but as soon as I switch to the Mini Player again, it's off screen again. How can I get it back?
What I need in my Microsoft Exchange 2010 mail client: send e-mails in the text font I want send e-mails with my HTML signature reply to e-mails without unformatting the e-mail being replied to having the sent e-mail look just as it was sent by Microsoft Outlook itself no artifacts like having the replied e-mail sent as an HTML attachment Coming from an Android, I had this with Touchdown.
Any NetCut like app available for Mac OS X? I wonder if there are available alternative out there to scan and cut all devices that in our LAN connection. Thank you.
I am working on a design of an iPhone application. I create some screen, then save it as a PNG file and want to see how it looks on the actual iPhone screen. So I need to transfer PNG versions of my designs to my iPhone as easy as possible, may be even without a cable connected. Both Mac and iPhone are in a local network with a wireless router. I need to do this routine constantly so I am looking for the most transparent and easy solution, like - Save a PNG to Mac -> Instantly and automatically send to the iPhone some way. What are your suggestions?
I need to use terminal to copy my Pictures folder from a failing harddrive onto another drive, but I can't actually change into the folder and use just cp *.jpg ~/Documents. Is there a way to do this without having to navigate into the source directory? Doesn't need to be copy obviously, just whatever that can get my files out of the drive.
This is the product, and it links to your iPad with Bluetooth: *=URL=* The question is whether one could also use it with other Mac devices such as MacBook.
In OSX Mountain Lion I'm getting beeps every time a facebook notification comes in. In System Preferences > Notifications > Facebook i have set my alert style to None. In the list on the left, the text below "Facebook" shows "Badges, Sounds". It gives me no method of turning off Badges or Sounds.
iPhone 3GS, iOS 6.01 Macbook Mac OS 10.6.8 The iPhone 3GS hotspot works fine via Bluetooth, connected to my iPad.
I bought a Mac that is only a few months old. My understanding was that it is supposed to come with iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand) either preinstalled or available as a "free" download in the Mac App store. However, this doesn't seem to be the case as it is is not installed and the Mac App Store requires that I pay for it before downloading it.
I noticed some weird traffic pattern on my internet connection, tracked it back to my iPad, after some tinkering I finally realized that my iPad is downloading iOS 6.1 on it's own!!! I didn't ask for it, and there's no button or obvious means to stop it. For now, I've disabled the WiFi; but seriously, this is terrible, how do I stop it? The device: iPad 2 - running iOS 5.1 - No intention to upgrade anytime soon
What happens if you (temporarily) unsubscribe from iTunes Match? Will your library (i.e. the list of all your tracks that Apple stores on their servers) be deleted, or will it only be disabled until you renew your subscription?
Okay, I have the weirdest problem. All the apps in my 'Purchases' tab show either 'Install' or 'Download', most of the apps I currently have installed, but non the less it doesn't recognise them. This holds true for brand new apps (installed yesterday) and ones I've had since I installed ML. I'd really like to get the apps recognised, so that I can get updates for them. I've scoured the internet far and wide and haven't even been able to find any similar problems. I really wish someone has an answer :)
Searching Google for the following I only found uninformed crap. What is this? The two files are binary data (file just says "data" and strings returns nothing useful). If they are, as the name would imply, actually "volume settings", how can I know which volume they refer to?
Very basic question - I am editing a file using the basic system TextEdit app. As I actually have the file in question in several locations, how can I tell what directory the one that I am editing is actually residing in. In Linux and Windows I can find this out easily but this does not seem obvious on my Mac. This is using the basic TextEdit on my Mac and my Mac is OSX Lion 10.7.5
I have three iOS devices that I would like to have Photostream sync across. Right now, the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 sync because they are on the same iCloud account, but my wife's iPhone 4 doesn't sync - because it signed into a different iCloud account. I'm told all 3 iCloud accounts need to be signed into the same account.
I like typing by keyboard while using iPhone and iPad. But when I switch applications(e.g. between Safari and memo application), I have to the push home putton on the devices'. It is very frustrating. Does anybody know how to switch applications by keyboard like "Windows key + tab" on Windows?
I find that "Paste and Match Style" is more often useful than just "Paste" when I am copying text. Is there a way to make this the default behavior? The (long) keyboard shortcuts are also inconsistent between applications and difficult to remember. For example: TextEdit - ⌥+⇧+⌘+V Chrome - ⇧+⌘+V
Let me explain what I am trying to achieve. Everyone in the office listens to different music in his/her own iTunes with their own headphones so they do not bother anyone.
I got two Apple Magsafe charges, one for which I needed to cut and rejoint the cables. The fix went well and now when I plug in the charger it works and charges my Macbook Pro.
In testing our Aventail SSL VPN with Mac clients we're finding that once connected to the VPN we can't access Xserve shares when authenticating via Active Directory like we normally do on our internal network. This is in Aventail's browser-based landing page. A log-in box pops up and we enter the user's ID and password but it won't connect. We CAN access Xserve shares using an admin account on the Xserve. Windows shares are accessible with no problems. Has anyone else seen this problem and found a way to access Xserve with AD authentication?
I have a local network powered by a Time Capsule, and connected to 4 or 5 macs. There are other devices on the network too. (Printers, IP Cameras, etc). Is there a way to list the devices on the local network - and their IP addresses? I've seen this Q/A How do I know the IP addresses of other computers in my network? but the responses do not show what is what - just a list of IP addresses.
For a while now been getting these strange artefacts on my MBP (mid 2010) screen. Usually happens when I cmd + tab to another window. Most of the time it's yellow in color, however sometimes it's red/green/black. If I move the window or cmd + tab again it will go away. Also happens on external display through the MDP
I use Command+H to hide applications all the time. Sometimes I really want to undo that action, but pressing Command+H again will just hide the now active application. Pressing Command+Shift+H doesn't do it either. I don't know if there's a way to do this built into OSX, but if not I wouldn't be opposed to installing an application that would provide this functionality.
I want to make a fresh and clean installation of OS X Mountain Lion, all data should be erased. I have already tried installing the OS in the "cmd+R" tool, but what it does is installing the OS X and keeping all data and programs. How can I install and make a "factory reset" with mountain lion?
I'm currently trying to get PhpStorm to use Kaleidoscope as a diff tool, but struggling a little. So far in Storm, I've... gone to Preferences gone to the External Diff Tools tab set Kaleidoscope to be used as the tool to compare files (/Applications/Kaleidoscope.app/Contents/MacOS/Kaleidoscope) also tried setting the parameters (%1 %2 %3) to no avail When I open a file with Storm, then browse to another file in the Project tool in Storm and go Right Click -> Compare File With Editor, I get 2 separate Kaleidoscope windows each with a left-hand-side, instead of 1 window with a left and a right - any ideas?
I downloaded the latest version of Java from Oracle site and installed it on my mac. then, going to /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents and executing So the currentJDK is 1.6 despite i installed latest java.
How can I be sure that Find my iDevice was enabled on my MacBook? (I can't remember for the life of me if I had enabled or disabled it)
I'm trying to compile the latest version of vim (7.3.785 as on date) with the --enable-gui option set to yes: but make fails with several errors (full output). I can't quite make sense of the errors, as I don't see anything specific that I can fix. I must add that compiling it works fine without the GUI option, so it might be something directly related to X or the OS X Cocoa frame work. I'm running OS X 10.8.2 on a retina MBP. What should I change/add/install to get this to work?
If I leave my mouse in one spot for several seconds with my finger on the touch pad, it interprets it as a downclick. So if I hover over a file while thinking about something and then move my cursor, it will try to drag the file, if I hover over text and then move the cursor it will select text, and so on.
I just created a DMG and threw some folders in it. If I double-click a folder it opens in a new Finder window each time. Folders outside of the DMG are still opening normally. Holding option when I double-click causes the former window to close, but it's pretty inconvenient. Does anyone know how to get a DMG to show up in a normal Finder shell? This is what I'm seeing, for what it's worth:
I am updating my Xcode 4.5.x to Xcode 4.6 directly from Mac App Store. But I am unable to update it. First it downloads the new Xcode. After downloading, it starts installing. But while installing it gets stuck at 2 minutes and the installation time counter changes abruptly between 2 minutes to 17 minutes. After some time, the installation stops and the Xcode 4.6 download starts again. This process is repeating since last night. Anyone else having the same issue. I have updated my Xcode from App Store previously also, but never had any issues.
I've got a MackBook Air running OS X 10.7.5 and a GoPro which produces .mp4 files. After having issues with QuickTime playing .mp4 files, we installed VLC. Things worked great, but all of a sudden, VLC skips and stutters when playing videos. We've tried .mp4 and .mov files.
Right now, both devices use my apple ID, and share some (but not all) applications (mostly free ones). But that means, for instance, when I get an iOS message, it is going to both devices, which I don't want. Both devices sync to my laptop. I have music that I'd like to be able to keep on both devices.
I run Windows 7 (no Outlook available) and don't seem to find any native Address Book application on my computer (it is a work-provided laptop). We use Lotus Notes as our mail application. Because my phone is also used for work, I can't use any iCloud services (security restrictions)
In Pages, is it possible to insert a tab-like character that fills the remaining space between on a line? I want to have the first few words on a line left-aligned, and the last few words on the line right-aligned. I'm working inside a table cell, if that makes any difference, but cannot make additional table cells to make this work as that would mess up the remaining text. Is there some way of inserting a horizontal space character of this kind?
How do I create a link in TextEdit on MacOSX that will let me open an external application?
I'm looking for a Safari Extension that can take full page screenshots. I am aware there are various extensions, but haven't found any that would take full page images.
A few users from a website I've designed are complaining about Safari 6.0.2 on their Macs (Mountain Lion, mostly) crashing unexpectedly. In a recent case, a user recorded this screencast using no browser extensions, nor any other tabs: it took only a few seconds for Safari to crash (here's the crash report). A quick Google search will reveal loads of similar cases, but none of them seems to provide enough information on the issue, or any potential solution at all. Any idea on what's causing this or how to avoid it? My intention is to prevent Safari 6.0.2 from crashing, as soon as possible.
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6. This is what happens: Audio playing in the background OR paused audio playback Timer goes off with alarm sound Dismiss alarm with Earpods center button Playback resumes
I have a couple of network shares which all have the same name on different servers and I'd like to change the label of the mounted disk to tell me which server its on. Can mounted network drives be renamed on mac os?
I've noticed many applications on my Mac (OS X 10.8.2) fail to update. If I command them to do a manual update, the update downloads, unpacks, and then when I click INSTALL AND RESTART the updater ends with an error. As far as I have determined so far, it is only applications which use the Sparkle updater system. The error simply says:
Is there an app for Mac that can distribute a single video encoding job to several thread to utilize the full potential of the system? I used an application called iFlicks to do video encoding, and as far as I know, it's single-threaded, so even though it can use all my CPU time, it cannot squeeze the best performance out of my system. I am using a 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
I'm not sure what just happened... I was just about to rename a file, and just mis-clicked off. - After that point there was a constantly floating yellow bubble with the file name in it, on the finder window. I couldn't click it or drag it, however if I showed desktop it would float off screen along with the finder window.
My Mac (Mid 2009- MacBookPro5,5) laptop installing OS 10.8.2. Currently, it is using 2 x 1GB (1066 Mhz). My friend gave me 2 x 2GB (1600 Mhz) of his 2012 Mac.
Is it possible to use a Verizon iPhone 4S on another US carrier, such as GSM AT&T or T-mobile or CDMA Sprint, etc? And why if not? Assuming the devices has been legitimately unlocked via the procedures mentioned in Verizon iPhone 4S SIM UNLOCK Tutorial?
I find myself using the meta + arrow keys constantly. When I am editing code, it would be nice if I could count underscores as words so that when I decide to rename a variable it goes to the character right after the underscore. For example, if I have a variable named workout_disabled_color, and I press meta + ←, and my cursor is currently at the end of "color", then it would go to the left of the character c. Is anybody aware of how I can do this?
During the Mountain Lion installation I have selected the English language as the system language. However, the dialog asking for my password – that appears when you need to install an application, or when you want to unlock a preference pane – is in Dutch. I'm currently in The Netherlands, but I don't see how this might be related to the language of one type of dialog.
An update to iOS 6.0.2 did not seem so important at the time and so it was never installed. Now that iOS 6.1 is out I'd expect that Software Update skips the update to iOS 6.0.2 and directly provides me with the ability to update from iOS 6.0.1 to iOS 6.1 instead.
I downloaded a DMG in multiple parts, split into .dmg.001, .dmg.002 etc. I "uncompressed" the first file (just double-clicked and a single folder .dmg got created)
I'm interested in combining the files from three Macs by copying the files from each one into a single folder hierarchy of my design on an external hard drive. In my past experience copying files in OSX, sometimes the files lose their Created and Modified timestamps; i.e. they are changed to the present moment when the file copy happens. How can I make sure this doesn't happen?
Is there a scriptable way that I can convert several MS Word documents to PDF? I thought this might be possible using python, but I am unable to find any advice online on how best to do this.
I have recently restored few pictures from Time Machine into iPhoto. I noticed that the Time Machine restored the files, but didn't restore the changes (editing etc.) I had made.
I lost my Macbook Pro recently. I had activated iCloud on the computer, so Find My Mac is operable.
I want to switch out my current HDD for a SSD in my Mac. However I don't want to reinstall the OS and all my software.
I have an Apple TV where I subscribe to Seasons for various shows and watch them on my TV. The problem is that my Mac is also downloading the same, storing it on the hard drive. These are very large files, and I don't want to store them locally or use my bandwidth to download them.
I'm trying to automate the selection of a value from a drop-down box in Mozilla using an applescript. What I want it to do is to tab to the drop-down box and enter down twice to select the third item in the drop-down. Here is what I have so far: tell application "Firefox" tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab tell application "System Events" to keystroke down tell application "System Events" to keystroke down end tell But, as far as I can tell, when I run the script nothing happens. What do I need to do to make this script work? EDIT: I have also tried entering the key code 125 for down in case the keystroke command was wrong.
I'm looking for an application which can take a playlist of all of the track I'm listening to at the moment and re-arrange them so that they are in a logical sequence (based on BPM etc) then mix them all together as a mix. I've tried Tangerine but I wasnt very impressed as it didnt have a way to automatically sort the tracks and the analysis of the music wasn't very good. (In fact, it often got things pretty wrong). Can anyone suggest DJ software with better sorting and analysis features?
I have two accounts set up in Mail 6.2. Most of the time I disable one of them (my personal account) to avoid being distracted at work. Strangely, the number of "Flagged" messages includes messages from disabled accounts.
Mac OS X 10.7.5 Safari 6.0.2 Firefox 18.0.1 Java 1.6.0_37 64 bit Firefox Java Applet Plugin v 1.6.0.37
As shown in this video, the screen is dark, except at the few first steps when the brightness is moved just out of zero. The notebook works otherwise perfectly fine. The image on the external monitor is fine. Have you seen this before or can guess what the culprit is?
I'd like to get a 2TB external USB drive and put Time Machine backups for 3 different Macs on it. Is there any configuration I need to do for this? Or do I just start a new TM backup on Mac 1, wait till it finishes, disconnect the USB drive, move on to Mac 2 and repeat? In other words, will Mac 1 take the entire USB disk for itself or something of that nature?
I have a mid-2009 15" MacMook Pro, with 10.8.2 installed. Periodically, after sleeping my machine, I open it and hit a kernel panic. The logs fail at the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient kext, and I don't see any non-Apple related kexts in the crash log. Any idea what could be causing this? Hardware failure perhaps?
How can I recover the apachectl on my OSX? I deleted it, somehow, and now the command apachectl doesn't exist anymore.
I recently moved countries, and have purchases associated on my iTunes account. Once I moved countries, I changed the country on my Apple ID to my new country. However, after using a store card on my account, I can't change my account back to my previous country and access my past purchases, because I still have store credit on my account, which I can't spend. I've contacted Apple about removing my store credit, but will I be able to access my past purchases once I actually change my country back? I've just reinstalled my Mac, and need to re-download iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. Any help appreciated.
When I go to to share a memo created in the Voice Memo app via e-mail, the e-mail will get sent, but there will not be an attachment. In the outbox before it gets sent, the attachment is there, but when I look in the sent folder afterward, there is no attachment. What is causing this and how can I fix it? The size of the voice memo does not matter, there will be no attachment. I am using ios 6.1, sending to a Gmail account.
I bought several HD movies using iPad3, however when I try to sync my iPad with MacBook Air (i7, 13", Mid2012) they are downloaded with much lower resolution to my Mac. I don't know also I this is connected, but I don't see them in iCloud (no iCloud icon next to them in iTunes, so I'm unable to re-download them once deleted, all I can do is to sync with iPad 3 but with low resolution)
Debugging information (core dumps) gets saved to /cores (information on what was happening when app 'x' crashed). These files can take up a huge amount of space - I have manually removed them several times recovering 3-10GB each time, to no ill effect, with sudo rm -f /cores/*. Some recommend disabling core dumps entirely by adding to /etc/sysctl.conf.
I have remapped Caps Lock to Backspace in Windows 8 using SharpKeys on my Macbook Air, but there is a noticeable delay that prevents me from quickly pressing the key to backspace. The Delete has no such delay. I have installed the Boot Camp Windows Support software. Apparently this is a hardware limitation to prevent people from hitting Caps Lock, but OS X can get around it. How can I prevent this delay on Windows 8?
I just got my iPhone 5, and I installed iTunes 11.01. When I connect my iPhone via USB to my laptop, it just charges. Nothing happens with iTunes nor with my iPhone. I restarted the iTunes and my iPhone too, but nothing happened. Is there another program like iTunes for iPhone to download songs?
I have two active keyboard layouts - US english and russian. I have russian as my primary system language and the option "allow different input language for different documents" is active. But when I open any app keyboard automatically switches to russian, while I want it to be english by default. Is there any way to change the default keyboard layout without changing system language?
When a push notification is shown on the sleep screen, there is a time attached to it. What time is this? Is it when it was received on the phone?
I've installed TotalFinder (a plugin, of sorts, for Finder) and it's randomly being killed off several times a day. I contacted the developer and he didn't have any ideas, but did say a quick google search revealed others experiencing the same launchd issue with other software. Log shows: com.apple.launchd.peruser.502: (com.blah.blah) Exited: Terminated: 15 Source code: https://github.com/binaryage/crashwatcher/blob/master/main.m
I have a remote Samba share with my web hosting provider. I am unable to access it using OS X 10.8.2, while accessing it from a Windows 7 VM inside the OS X works fine. On OS X, I use "connect to server..." and try to access smb://servername/sharename. The operation times out with an unspecified error.
Past few days my internet has been automatically getting a Self-Assigned IP on en0. I heard it does this when it can't retrieve a DHCP Server from the ISP. I've tried these solutions below. Deleted com.apple.alf.plist Deleted NetworkInterface.plist Reset Ethernet Configurations
As noted today on MacRumors Apple to Halt Mac Pro Sales in Europe Effective March 1 Over Regulatory Requirements However they fail to mention the specifics of why it fails to meet "Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition" ? Apple today issued a notice to European distributors indicating that it will halt sales of the Mac Pro in Europe and select other countries as of March 1 due to new regulatory requirements going into effect on that date. The move will affect all European Union countries, as well as EU candidate countries and the four European Free Trade Association countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
So, Apple has again updated their XProtect malware definitions to block Java Applets. Unfortunately, my wife's employer's VPN requires an Applet to be run in order to fully establish connectivity. She woke up this morning to discover she couldn't connect to work.
Am I right in believing that the battery life issues are related to the way that Mac OS X 10.8 handles the graphics card switch? Another culprit could be that I replaced a few of my MBP parts myself a few months ago. In particular, I upgraded the RAM on the machine from 8 GB to 16 GB, installed a 512 GB SSD (which was supposed to be more energy efficient), and also removed the CD / DVD Drive (did not install anything in its place). Is there any way to tell?
I want to do a full backup of my Mac to an external disk AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Does that mean I should use something other than Time Machine or set some settings?
Let's say I have a list of items like so: and I want to change it to the following:
I have a share on a netatalk server that exporting "Don's home" - I want to add to fstab so that it's handled by autofs as an indirect mount. I've tried using %60 and %20, quoting, escaping with backslash, \40, \040, etc. Anyone know the syntax? When there are no special characters this works fine:
I would like to format my mac, and be able to access old files, photos... from my previous time machine backup. I have backed up my mac with time machine and I am uncertain if after formatting I will be able to access my backups. Time machine backed up my previous system, its not like an image right? it's different? Will I still be able to access these files?
I am trying to create a Fluid App for a work intranet. It says the certificate is invalid, is there a way to get around that?
I need to merge multiple .CSV files (using the cat command) but without copying the header for each file. What's the best way to accomplish this task?
If I open the Contacts app on my iPhone I get duplicate groups, hence duplicate contacts. I started to delete one of a duplicate contact but they both gone away. I thought I could solve this problem going on my Mac and delete the duplicate groups but there I don't have duplicates. I'm using iCloud for syncing contactes between my MacBook Pro and iPhone. How can I solve this problem?
My mum can't find her apple ID on her iPad. I'm not with her at the moment and do not have an iPad so I don't know where to look. She already has an Apple ID set up on this iPad, so I don't want to set up another one.
I am shortly going to be reformatting a Windows computer that my wife uses for iTunes. She keeps her library and her library files on an external drive. This is her active library -- that is, it is NOT a backup. (She does not have any files on the local hard drive, and always launches iTunes holding down the Shift key so that she can choose her library from the external drive.) Her external drive is currently not available, however. Can we deauthorize the computer from her account JUST by logging her into the iTunes store from that computer and deauthorizing it? Or does the external drive with her library need to be connected before we can deauthorize the computer?
Is it possible to copy a certificate to a machine running OS X Snow Leopard, add it to the System Keychain, then set it to "Always Trust via SSH?" And if so... how?
When I click on the volume buttons I hear the 'blip' sound. I got how to disable it
I keep my music on a local Ubuntu server. Is there any way I can get iTunes to recognize the networked directory as part of its library?
I have a 3yo MacBook Air running Lion. When I open it to start using it again it seems to sometimes have trouble 'waking up'. Sometimes this is instantaneous, sometimes I get a blank screen for 30 seconds, sometimes the screen is ok but all the programs are frozen and sometimes I can move the mouse around the screen but cant click anything. All these states seem to sort themselves out after about 2 minutes which isnt too bad - just slightly annoying. I've also noticed that it doesnt seem to matter how long the laptop has been on standby for or what programs are running in the back ground - It just seems random.
I was wondering if I could use a display connected to another machine (Linux Mint XFCE) to extend my OSX desktop. Is this possible, and if so, how?
But has anyone actually done it? VGA, DVI and Thunderbolt I know about, but I want to be sure about this monitor before buying it. If I need to upgrade the Mac to drive a large external monitor that changes everything and the Thunderbolt 27" is back in the picture.
I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file. I don't need the high resolution in some of the images in the slide, so the downsampling wouldn't hurt, but the option just does not seem to exist in the Mac version of Powerpoint (the Windows version has this feature.)
I'm planning to buy an iPad mini + cellular but not on my country. I would buy itt on the United States and someone is going to bring it to me. I have some questions: The person who is going to buy the ipad Mini would need to choose a data service from AT&T or any of the other services?
I want to use only the delete key in order to delete files in Finder — no key combinations. So far, I have been unable to find a configuration entry or even a 3rd party app that allow me to change the default behavior of OSX.
I am trying to update my macbook to 10.6.8. I tried to update to 10.6.8 directly but it does not update it directly so I am going in a sequential manner now. Firstly, I updated it to 10.6.1 by downloading the update to my macbook. Next, I updated it to 10.6.2 and doing so again and again I have updated my laptop to 10.6.4. Is there any better(faster) way I can get my macbook updated to 10.6.8? Thanks
My stepdaughter has brought her iPod home with her. We would like to transfer some photos and songs from our computer onto her iPod, but her mother has it connected to her own iTunes account. Since she is unwilling to share the password, we can't do it via iTunes syncing.
What is a combo update and how is it different from a normal update?
I downloaded iJoomer in iTunes, and I would like to transfer it into XCode's iPhone Simulator so I can run the app there. Is it possible to transfer an app from iTunes to the iPhone simulator? If so, how can I do this?
I have a iPhone 4S running iOS 6. Spotlight seems to find deleted e-mails on iPhone, how can I delete e-mails permanently from Spotlight results?
On my iMac, I keep a lot of supervision windows (displaying alarms and trends). These windows lead to priviledged access to very sensitive equipments. I would like to protect this iMac from any accidental typing on the keyboard or mouse mouve, and password protect it from any other local access. I would like to be able to start my screen saver (which will lock my mouse and keyboard by asking my password), but to keep a full acces to the actual display. Is there any way to make a transparent locked screen?
I have IPad and I want to buy Macbook for development simple programs for IPad. It will be my first Macbook and I don't want to spend too much many and look at Macbook Air 13' 128Gb. I'm just wondering if this notebook is good enough to develop a small IPad aps ?
I am thinking about development small applications for IPad and I'm just wondering how can I transfer my application to my IPad? I don't have a plans to sell or to distribute my software among the other users. All what I want is to use my app by myself. How can I get it?
I recently experienced some delays during DNS host resolution on OS X 10.8. To test it I started a simple script which tries to repeatedly resolve the same hostname 20 times: Most request take about the same time as the latency to the name server: However, as soon as I enable the firewall in Mountain Lion (all incoming requests are allowed, stealth mode is not enabled), some of the dig requests take exactly 5 seconds plus the latency to the name server:
I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. I am perfectly fine with running Snow Leopard at present, but I feel I may be missing out on features or indeed updates to the Apple Operating System that maybe being provided to later versions of OS X ie Lion or Mountain Lion, that are not available or being provided to Snow Leopard. Someone told me that Snow Leopard is no longer officially supported by Apple anymore (whether this is true or not, I don't honestly know). I am apprehensive of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion outright on my Macbook Pro, however I have been told there are a number of other ways to utilise both OS Xes on my computer, without having to forgo one OS X (in my case Snow Leopard). The one method that interests me is installing & running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an appropriate external hard drive. I would therefore appreciate step by step guidance on how to install & run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an external hard 
Dell u2713H monitor supports Daisy Chaining. as one of the first monitors I've seen that uses DP 1.2 protocol. In essence, I'm asking if thunderbolt supports / enables / works with DP chaining, but the practical question is more obvious. Can I connect 3 of those monitors to my 2011 Intel HD Mac Mini via it's one Thunderbolt port?
I'm running on an i3 processor, 2010 model, 3.06 GHz.  I'm currently have 4GB of RAM, but if I were to upgrade to 16GB, would: Applications open quicker? FPS increase in game? Overall performance increase? Thanks for your help.
My iMac (2010, i3, 3.06 GHz, 4GB RAM) has been getting a little slower. My research shows memory can cause a slow performance, so I looked and most of the time, my RAM is allocated like this: . Would resetting my Mac to factory settings increase performance/speed it up?
I have a .sh file with a #!/bin/bash header. I'm able to run it from the terminal, using chmod and ./ but is there a way to perform these two operations from the desktop (i.e. by clicking on it) ? Btw, I'm familiar with linux, but not with OS X.
I use Contacts on my work Mac to manage my phone numbers. I want the internal phone extension to display first. This is currently stored as one of three "work" phone numbers for most of my contacts.
It doesn't work when I change the country of my apple ID. I come to the page where I need to fill in my address and billing information, but when I press next I come back to settings and when I press view apple ID, the country has not changed. What can I do?
I have a .ipa file in my laptop and also have a Apple Laptop with MacOS. I do not have any iPhone. I want to run the app in my Laptop. Doing a quick Google Search brought me this., which looks like costing $99 for each year. I just want to run the app for free, what should I do?
I work in emacs in a termal tab, and instead of using the built in copy and paste shortcut commands I generally just highlight (with the mouse) to copy and paste. This works fine for normal code/text, but when the section being copied includes a comment, the pasted text includes extra white-space after the end of the comment line - and it's a pain to go to every comment line and delete that whitespace (which wraps onto a newline). See example below: Is there anyway to stop this behavior? For example, in a python code, highlighting from the initial # to the end of "stringy": is copied and pasted as:
I am using a MackBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.2. I currently have Java 6 installed:
Is connection even possible with the VPN tool under networking? What do I need to do to get this connection to work again on my Mac?
I have two Apple ID's to have Messages chat sessions for work and private separated. Is it possible to use these both at the same time, on my Mac, at home? Now, I can only login with one Apple ID at a time. Anybody else found a workaround?
I'm not sure how to word this to even google if this is possible even without an Airport Extreme, but my network has the AE providing network services to it. What I want to do is have the AE establish the VPN to another network so that the computers behind the AE just think the remote VPN computers are available.
I absolutely do not understand the rules that Spotlight (osx 10.8) uses to search my files. If I enter the query sbml and select filename from the dropdown menu, these are the results that come up: but if I chose the query libsbml instead, this is the only result I get:
I have a Scripts folder where I keep Automator actions, Applescripts, and shell scripts. Automator scripts are automatically assigned a version of 1.1.1 it seems. When I make revisions to any of these kinds of documents, how can I manually set the versions so that info will display in the finder, either with Get Info or in a folder list with Version view enabled?
I deleted numerous Notes from my phone that I want to get back from iCloud. My phone has not updated to iCloud so the Notes are still good on the cloud. How do I get all files from cloud back onto phone
I have a MacPro 1,1 and am considering putting an SSD in it to give it a boost. Can I safely assume compatibility or will its ancient hardware and architecture cause issues? It cannot, as I recently discovered, run Mountain Lion so I'm not sure if I should even try bringing it up to date.
It works like this: suppose you have used two commands previously in this Terminal session. First you used a cd ~ and then a ls -la.
I have a million+ files spread across four fiber-connected arrays. I need to get the path, filesize, and last_modified date to insert into a mysql database. What would be the best way to do this? Here is what I am currently doing: And then I parse that file (using Python) to insert it into my db. What would be the best way to accomplish the above?
As Photo Stream pushes pictures to other devices, does it do the same for videos, or is it strictly pictures? If so, how would I push video clips to other devices, or would it be best to sync to my iMac desktop?
I am having a problem where HandBrake stops at .02% every time. Here is my error log, does anybody know why this would be happening?
Using OS 10.7.5. How to get all my contacts from iCloud into my address book on my Mac?
When I bought an iPad 3 They have given me few pdf files. Actually They are eBook which I prefer. PDF files are shown in the Books section of the ITunes program. How to Transfer those PDFs from my Pad to PC/Mac ?
I have a MacBook Air 11-inch Mid-2012 running OS X 10.8.2. I have an external hard drive connected via USB. The hard drive has two partitions: an HFS+ partition that I use for Time Machine and a NTFS partition that I use for storing large files that I don't want on my small internal hard drive.
Example: I want to attach the "TipTap Left" gesture with "Save Image As..." from the context-menu in Chrome. Possible?
I recently created an @icloud.com address and now I would like to make that my default or primary address for my Apple ID instead of my current @gmail.com address. I tried to change it through the Manage Apple ID page but it said 'Not use a domain used by Apple'. Is it advisable to change my Apple ID from @gmail.com to @icloud.com?
I am looking for a, preferably free tool that would scan current network (using the mark) for alive hosts. It needs to be able to resolve hostnames and preferably to support bonjour too.
I come from Andriod where Dropbox did an amazing job of backing up all my phone's pictures. Since I moved to iPhone I noticed that Dropbox backs-up a few pictures and then stops, popping-up the following message:
Is there any command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF? If no, can it be automated by some Automator script (open-print to PDF-close)?
I read things such as: Mac OS X may be unstable with more than sixteen partitions up to sixteen partitions on a external drive. Also I understand that in a sixteen-slice environment, the full installer for OS X Mountain Lion may be unable to add an Apple_Boot slice for Recovery OS. Why the number 16? Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 460390 – Can't make apple boot partition catch 22 during install (netinstall CD): comment 8 (2008-11-15)
I have a problem. My friend placed music in my iphone using his laptop recently. Unfortunately i want to put more song in my iphone using my computer. However, I cant sync my iphone to my comuputer since it says that syncing will delete all the music in my iphone. How can i put music in my iphone without deLeting the songs in my iphone? :| :|
I just wanted to know whether is possible to use an iPad mini as a cell phone. I am planning to put my SIM card into the iPad mini, which is the Wi-Fi+cellular model.
I did some research on this and they were saying Press Command+F2 So did I ! But here are the issues I saw with this method:
In addition to having wikis, the wiki server built into OS X Server also allows users to host blogs and personal file storage. By default, it appears that these functions are enabled, even if you are not currently logged in. Is there a way to lock down the wiki server so that when someone goes to companyserver.com/wiki it doesn't give them access to anything but a login prompt?
I am getting a mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I currently have a mid-2011 11" MacBook Air.
Last night just as we were about to watch an already-rented movie, our AppleTV showed a notification that a software update was available, which my wife selected. After the update was completed, it is no longer working with the iTunes Store. While we don't use these features often, it is especially frustrating that we have already paid for the rental and cannot watch it.
I manually changed the genres on some of my songs in my Itunes library to minimize the number of genres. I have found that after I add songs to my library and then sync them to my ipod, Itunes will change the genres back to the original listings. It never used to do this. It just started recently. Any suggestions?
If I press keys that don't do anything on the focused app then the whole screen flashes white, as if the option to flash the screen on alerts (in accessibility preferences) was on, but it is not. For example typing this question the screen does not flash, because pressing the keys is doing something, but If I'm on an app where there is no text field that can be focused pressing keys will make the screen flash white.
"There was a problem connecting to the server "megaman". You do not have permission to access this server.
Is there any way to make (Mountain Lion) Preview's default view 'content only'?
Is there an equivalent of context menu extensions for mac os? I would like to port mine from windows.
The artist list displays all artists that appear on at least one non-compilation album. Is there a preference somewhere to change that to display all artists, i.e. including those that only appear on a compilation?
I'm using this line to get the size of a folder: The problem is that sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, and it's very annoying because there doesn't seem to be any kind of logic to it. The same folder path can return "missing value" at first, then return the number of bytes later, without any code change. It seems to start working more often after I "Get Info" on the folder in the Finder, but even that doesn't always work.
I am using OS X Mountain Lion (on a MacBook Pro). I have noticed that sometimes if I try to close a window by clicking on the red close button or if I try to click a toolbar button (like get new mail in Mail), it doesn't always register the click. Clicking still works as I can click elsewhere, and I can still use keyboard shortcuts to close windows, and if I wait a few seconds clicks on the toolbar will register again. Has anyone else come across this? Is there a fix?
I'm leaning Japanese, and so I have my Mac set up for three different input methods: English, and two different Japanese character sets. I can change between the three input methods using ctrl-alt-option-space.
Can anyone figure out a way to switch Apple Mail (v5.2) to/from "Classic Layout" mode with a hotkey? Maybe via Applescript?
Yesterday I showed my grandparents an iPad mini for the first time, and because the orientation wasn't right, they shook it violently a few times hoping that it'd orient it correctly again. I may be a bit paranoid, but is that going to damage its orientation hardware? What does the iPad orientation hardware look like?
I need to migrate SMSs from an iPhone to an android, and I'd like to use solutions suggested here, but I can't find the SMS db file (reportedly named 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28) in my unencrypted IOS6 backup. What is the name / how can I identify the backup file? Also relevant: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/6904/6126
I recently had a hard drive failure on my laptop and I am in the middle of re-installing everything. I have hit a snag that I am at a loss how to fix.
I have a 2008 MacBook aluminium 13" (Model Identifier: MacBook5,1) which has started showing "Condition: Replace Soon" to describe the battery, so a couple of questions: what is used to determine this? does it matter?
I'm eyeing an unopened set of 2 tiger install DVDs on eBay. When they were originally shipped, did 10.4 DVDs support both Intel and PPC on the same disk?
I've recently bought a new Mac Mini and tried to connect it to an old LG Flatron 19" VGA monitor. For that I've ordered a MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter. Unluckily, this didn't work, monitor just doesn't seem to receive signal. I'm sure the monitor is OK, Mac was tested with another monitor and works fine, so there are probably two possibilities: The adapter is broken Somehow the monitor doesn't work with the Mac
My iMac 27" (late 2009, 10.8.2) wifi (3-4 bars) speed doesn't compare to other computers at home. The same Youtube video in 720p loads without delay on my dads computer, however on my iMac (I usually just watch 360p or 240p) because it's so slow.
I have installed both python3.3 and python2.6. I have set python3.3 to default by creating an alias named "python" in usr/bin and another one for python2.6 named "python2.6". Now if I type in the terminal "python" python3.3 will be open but if I type "python2.6" I get "cannot execute binary file". I can launch the binary directly but not through the alias. I have checked the permissions and are the same for both binaries and aliases so I don't know what to do. Can someone help me?
On my MacBook Pro I have found that several applications seem to share the value for a find. For example, I searched 'applestackexchange' in Safari's unified address bar, then I switch to Xcode and click into a Find field. The first word of my search in Safari then appears there. iTerm2 and Sublime Text 2 also seem to participate in this sharing. Running latest Mountain Lion on a 2012 MBP.
Is there any way of suppressing the alert dialog that pops up when restarting a crashed program in Mountain Lion (10.8.2)? The alert's text reads:
Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with a symlink from /usr), while others (e.g., Git) end up in /user/local, and I wonder what the difference is, and whether one is preferred over the other.
13" MBP running on OSX 10.8.2: Problem is that after reboot Speakable items is always on. I have to go all the way to Settings - Accessibility - Speakable items to turn it off again. I don't know why it's turned on by default after reboot. Can somebody help?
Here is my question: How can I change the geometry of a VNC Server on MacOS? All I want is to get some benefits from the fact that I'm connecting to remote 13' MacBook using 27' iMac. As far as I understand, neither default MacOS VNC server nor Vine VNS does not provide a possibility to set the geometry.
My research so far has found XProtect appears at first glance to be a basic AV engine that scans DMG & apps through Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I'm looking to understand what does it actually do and what does it exactly monitor outside of DMG and apps? I've read it doesn't provide protection from BitTorrent and removable USB thumb drives. What else?
When you turn your ringer down during the day, so it only vibrates when someone calls, this also turns down your alarm. Is there a way to keep your alarm volume constant when you turn down your ringer?
i am new in the apple world. I'm coming from pc + ubuntu. I've just bought a Mac Book Pro 13" with 2.5 Ghz Inter Core i5 and ram 4 GB. I am suspicious something is wrong because it i have only skype, chrome, safari, and some other software (a programming light text editor like Sublime text editor) and few other things I listen a continuously little whirr, like when data are read/writte from harddisk. So i opened Activity Monitor and i've seen few peeks in Disk Activity.
I have a late 2012 27" iMac with a relatively fresh install of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I have been experiencing a pretty severe problem that I am convinced is software related, but I could use some assistance in finding the best way to track it down.
I’ve seen numerous instructions on how to setup a Fusion Drive from your own SSD and HD, e.g. Can I make a DIY Fusion Drive? Very silly question: How would a Fusion Drive built from an SSD and a Hybriddrive (take the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB with built-in 8 GB SSD) compare to an SSD with a standard HDD when it comes to performance/power consumption/idle behavior?
I have an 2nd gen iPod Touch which has something wrong with it. The screen does not work unless I hold both the Sleep and Home button for a few seconds. The screen then lights up as normal and I could access all the apps whilst holding the Home button (Sleep button released).
Is there app which will tell me that for example, today I spent 30 minutes in Safari, 1 hour in XCode, etc... Thanks
Recently I have stumbled upon a trick that will allow you to view only your running applications within the dock. The Terminal command was: This would hide all of the "pinned" apps that were on the dock, and only show the active/running apps. When I found out I was ecstatic, but slightly cautious (due to the fact that it may not be reversible). I changed TRUE to FALSE and saw that it could easily be changed.
Question: Is there any way to force the FusionDrive manager (coreStorage?) to spin down the HDD, when the data comes off the SSD and the HDD has nothing to do?
At the end of January 2013 Google dropped support for Gmail Sync for nonpaying Gmail customers. I understood this drop in support to mean that no new devices could be setup, not that I could no longer configure existing devices. However, if there is still a way to affect the configuration of existing devices I cannot find it on Google's sync website.
My MacBook drives my external DVI monitor (over mini display port, using Apple's adapter) just fine, but it fails to detect changes in the display configuration and doesn't react accordingly unless I manually "detect displays" in System Preferences. It fails to detect both a display being plugged in, AND being unplugged. Anybody know how to troubleshoot/fix this? I have already: Reset NVRAM (fun fact: PRAM is only in PowerPC Macs, in Intel Macs it's called Non-volatile random-access memory) Reset SMC Cleaned the Mini-Display Port connector (male and female end). Edit: this set up had been working well for over 2 years and randomly started exhibiting this behaviour recently.
What is the highest resolution I can use with OS X 10.7.5 and DELL 30inch monitor?
I have an iPhone that I want to setup using OpenDNS's FamilySearch DNS servers. However I'm not sure how to set this up for the Cellular side of data. Is this possible, and if so how? iPhone: 5 iOS: 6.1
When I click on the Finder icon in the dock, it always used to open a new window for me unless I already had a window open. In that case it would bring that window to the front which was no problem. But now if I have no windows open, and I click on the Finder icon, no new window opens. I have to hit Command-N if I want a new window. Which setting do I have to change, so that Finder will open a new window if there is not already a window open?
What is the easiest way to upgrade a 2011 iMac to Mountain Lion, including a full drive reformat? I also have a new MacBook which was purchased with Mountain Lion. Do I still need to buy Mountain Lion for the iMac? Booting with Cmd-R will allow a *=URL=* Here are some ideas: Buy Mountain Lion in app store, then upgrade, then boot with Cmd-R to reset the drive. Buy Mountain Lion in app store, then upgrade, then boot with Cmd-R to reset the drive. Like #1, but first do the Cmd-R to reset the system, and then buy Mountain Lion in app store to upgrade. Like #1, but first do the Cmd-R to reset the system, and then buy Mountain Lion in app store to upgrade.
I have a ton of music in my iTunes that is also on my iPhone. I want to take my kids' music off my iPhone and put it on another device (a nano) that my kids will use. My kids are young, so they can't have their own iTunes account. I want to have just one iTunes account, but have different "libraries" to use on different devices. I have figured out how to create a new library, but I can't figure out how to move music from one library to another on the same computer (e.g. how to get my kids' music from the library I have now with ALL my music to the library with music just for them). Again, I want to use the same computer and the same iTunes account. Thanks so much for your help.
I would like to use Cmd+←/→ instead of Alt+←/→ to move the cursor word by word in Mac OSX (A Cocoa thing I guess). Is it possible to change that? And by the same token, I would like to move the cursor to the beginning and end of the line by using Alt+←/→ instead of Cmd+←/→. Can it be done?
I have iTunes 11.0.1 running on Mac OS 10.8.2 with quite a large music library, some podcasts and my iPhone connected. According to Activity Monitor, the iTunes process is taking 1.6 GB real memory, and 4.26 GB virtual. How can this be? Of 16 GB in my machine, I have 60MB free. Is it automatically grabbing all free memory? Does anyone know any tricks for reducing this and/or making iTunes less greedy?
I just bought an unlocked iPhone 5 and I already own an iPhone 5 on Verizon. I am transferring the cellular service from my old iPhone 5 to the new iPhone 5 which, from my knowledge, just involves moving the SIM card from old to new. From my knowledge, 4G SIM cards are automatic and refresh every 30 seconds. I proceeded to transfer the card from old to new.
I want when on my local machine redirect from 192.168.64.88 port 80 to localhost port 9790. How can I do it with ipfw rule?
There are applescripts / automator scripts that help to turn on / off internet sharing, but they do not work consistently (plus, using something that simulates clicking is sooooo 20th century). Are there ways to activate or deactivate internet sharing from the command line? Ideally I'll be running the script in Terminal or via Quicksilver.
I'm a recent Mac convert. In Windows when I wanted to upload a file to a website I could do this (see the URL in the File Name text field):
I have an XML file that has links to various .jpg I want to create an applescript that downloads a local copy of these. The idea is to also label them sequentially with a number say 001 to 030. Every time i run the script i want the pictures to be overwritten with the new ones. Here is the XML file I need to use: *=URL=* Can anyone help?
I have an application available to all comers on the App Store and I would like to restrict access to the application. The app is free and because of this, some people download it then find they can't use it and leave bad feedback. Although the description clearly says you need to be an existing customer obviously not everyone is reading it and the bad comments put off our actual clients.
For some reason my system will not resolve hosts added to /etc/hosts. If I add an entry:
Whenever I open iPhoto, I get this error :  Any idea how to fix this ? Error log :
Hi have backups which encrypted with passwords and i know the backup password, i can restore it. There is not any problem.
This is fresh after a reboot, on a wireless network which is known to be a little flaky. The first line is unlike anything I've seen before:
I have a 3TB external HD that works both Mac and PC for storage. I understand the "best" way to back up the Mac would be partition the external as explained here: Time Machine - can it share external drive with Windows backups? However I do not need to back up a PC, just the Mac OSX.
According to this page, Macbooks are expandable to memories larger (and, in one case, faster) than those released by Apple. Search for "expandable" in that page to see the many cases.
Everything else on this new machine works like a charm. I checked permissions, verified the disk - no issues whatsoever. I tried running the Assistant as root - it also crashes when partitioning but then in the Terminal i get a Can anyone help me out with this?
Over the years I've accumulated a fairly large iTunes library, with a number of duplicates (for instance, I have compilation CDs which have some songs I already had from the original CD, etc.). Is there a good script that would let me automatically delete all the duplicates?
Whenever I type File:/// into the URL bar in Chrome, into Text Edit, and more, it crashes the app. I found out about this after reading this blog post. How can I avoid this crash and make it impossible for apps that get this string whether it's typed, pasted or arrives in a file, message or download?
I noticed a lot of people have a similar problem like me. Strange glitches in some programs on some controls. They appear totally random. The image shows only one program. It also appears in Safari, iMessage, XCode, Ecliplse. I've absolutely no Idea what could be the reason. Also Apple support doesn't have an answer yet. They told me to observe the problem.
Ever since I first started using my brand new Macbook pro (mountain lion, 10.8.2) it has taken a long time for it to wake up from sleep (several minutes). When I open the macbook it first shows a grayed out picture of the screen with a count at the bottom (as if the battery was run out, which it is not) then the picture gets clear and the count is done, but still I have to wait 1-2 minutes before I can move the mouse. It was the same with both 8 GB RAM and 4 GB RAM. What is wrong? Thank you for your help
My question is: Does it hurt the hardware of any of the devices? If I connect them this way for like four hours? Or it is just meant to be a temporary connection method and shouldn't work with them like them as a solution? My scenario is that when I come home and take work laptop to home and still need to work, I wanted a bigger monitor so I thought, "Oh well let's connect it to my personal iMac."
I am wondering what would be a good, if any, NAS i can find with HFS+. My reason for wanting this is that I need the metainformation in the files to stay intact as I am dealing with a lot of OpenMeta tags. For me this can be any NAS or "external HDD with network connection".
Any reason to turn off wifi when connected by thunderbolt adapter to cat-5 1 gig ethernet cable to network on A/C power for MBPr? Does turning wifi off help with anything? Does keeping wifi on help anything?
I have a 6th Generation iPod Nano. There are a handful of songs in my library that it will not play in their entirety. The iPod will play a few minutes of the song and then skip to the next track. The songs play fine in iTunes.
When a Growl notification gets issued I want to trigger an AppleScript. I had a look at the "Actions" in the Growl preferences, and you can trigger things like an email or a text-to-speech call, but not an arbitrate shell script or AppleScript.
While using iTerm2, I have noticed that sometimes the color of the title of a tab changes to pink with a loading indicator or changes to red. What do these things mean?
Hello fellow programmers! I would like to save some applescript code as an application, so that when I open the application it will go to Google Chrome and answer an incoming call in Google Voice. I will have my gmail account already open in the chrome browser, so all that is needed is for the applescript application to tell google chrome to activate, then click in a particular area (where the button will appear) to accept the call.
I'm not using an apple keyboard and don't have a Left ⌘. Can I change the "Host Key" to be the Right ⌘? How?
I needed Mountain Lion because some of the newer software of Apple, such as Xcode, requires Mountain Lion, but besides the iMac 27 I have, sometimes I need to go on trips and need to bring a white Macbook that I bought near end of 2007. It is indeed a very decent Core 2 Duo notebook (besides the screen dimming a little after so many years because it is not LED type), with an Intel graphics card that is capable of playing all videos and Flash games I tried, but wonder, this Macbook can't install Mountain Lion and so I need to buy either a new Macbook Air for about $1200 or a Macbook Pro for $1800 to $2200 (depending on whether it is Retina). Is there a reason why Mountain Lion can't be installed on this notebook? Since it is to run Xcode mainly, graphics card performance is not needed if that may be a reason -- or for other reasons?
I've been trying to send an html mail with images embedded. Same as you would do if you embedded items into your stationary folder in outlook. I don't want to use a 3rd party app...because i need to send this to a client and then they will forward to a whole bunch of people...so i can't send it via a 3rd party app because once you do, if you try forward it then all the images and formatting etc don't come with the mail. Any ideas?
I have a faulty MBP 17' Late 2009. I can sell it for spares & repairs on ebay for quite a lot as I've found but it has a lot of sensitive data on it and I'd like to return it to a base system. The problem is that there's a problem with the heatsync and it will switch off without warning if it gets too hot.
I got a question of one of my customers: They are experiencing problems when connecting a iPod to a WIFI LAN without Internet connection. Basically, the iPod connects, gets a IP from DHCP, but then it can't reach a local Intranet server (with Safari to http://172.16.2.n).
I'm trying to activate an old 3gs but am unsure of what carrier it is on. I don't really want to go testing all the sim cards I can find to see if I luck out. Does anyone know of a way to find out? I was wondering if I could write an app for it and use the Core Telephony Framework to find the carrier but am not sure if that only show the carrier that is being used by the sim not what it is locked to.
Hi Guys I hope someone can save me!!!
My Mac Book Pro 13.-" doesn´t get past the grey booting screen with the apple and the spinning wheel (The loading bar appears but when it´s done nothing happens) I have 220 GB in one single Partition (Macintosh HD) and there is all my work my music and the only copy of ALL MY PHOTOS. I´m so stupid I don´t have a backup of anything but know I have an external HD with 300GB space. I would like to repair my HDD but more important I need to save my files but I don´t know how to do it in Disk Utility Mode. I read there is a Diskwarrior but I don´t know how to install it without booting the mac. Please help!!! When I start on Single User mode and enter /sbin/fsck -fs this appears What are the next steps if fsck fails to repair a drive?
In my office, nearly everybody uses Mac and we have just only one Windows 7 system. Just this morning, all the Mac systems (10.8.2) could not connect to the internet but could connect to the network, but the Windows 7 can reach the internet all connected to same switch.
I've seen that it is possible to configure a proxy with the WLAN settings in the iPhone. But I'm wondering whether it is also possible to configure a proxy for the mobile data connection.
I have an iMac i7 27" 2012 and I want to use it with my 30" Apple display. I have tried Apple's Mini Display Port to Dual-Link DVI Adapter, but that did not work. I have also tried Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter but that only displays the 30" screen at 1920x1200 - the native resolution of the Apple 30" display is 2560x1600 so the resolution isn't correct. Is there any way I can get the 30" Apple display to show at it's native resolution?
Recently (in the past month or 2) my Mac (2012 Macbook Pro 13 inch) will take at least a minute to 90 seconds to wake up from being asleep. It usually happens when it is asleep overnight and. When it's asleep for about 20 minutes to an hour, it only takes a few seconds to wake up (like I expect it to). When I first bought my Mac about 7 months ago, it would wake up really quickly, which makes me think that I changed a setting somewhere. What setting should I change to relieve this problem?
I have tried to download Mountain Lion from the app store only to have it show up in my dock and begin "downloading". Except it never completes the download. Each time I begin the download again, it gets a bit farther, but after about 45% it won't download any more data, even after waiting 12 hours. My Mac is most definitely compatible and my colleagues on the same model/version of the machine I am using have downloaded and installed Mountain Lion without any issues. I have: Repaired permissions Installed all the most recent Mac updates for Snow Leopard Restarted the computer Cleared my App Store cache
I am interested in jailbreaking an iOS 6 device that I have. Just recently I noticed that this looks like it is now possible.
I'm currently trying to set up a fool-proof plan to secure backups of all of our files all the time. What I'm generally thinking is using our Mac Mini Server I can backup our files (3 - 6 iMac's worth) locally to the internal storage. I would also like to be able to use a Time Capsule attached to the Mac Mini Server to make a further copy of all the backups that I can then offline regularly.
I installed iTerm2 the other day, and was playing around with it. In the process I seemed to have messed up the handling of HTTP hyperlinks on my system. Sometimes (annoyingly, not every time, which is very confusing - I can't spot a pattern) when I click an HTTP link in the Twitter app, MS Word, and so on, it opens a new iTerm2 terminal window or tab, and the webpage doesn't open. How can I get back to the original behavior and have the link open in the default web browser? I've already checked the iTerm2 preferences - under "URL schemes", no scheme is selected:
I've got several iPads connected to Verizon mifi devices(MiFi460LE) iOS has a "feature" that automatically downloads OS updates in the background without user input. (You still need to manually install the updates, but the downloads happen automatically). The 6.1 update may break the functionality of some in-house applications, and I'd rather not hand users an iPad with a flashing self-destruct button that tells users to "download now!"
I am at my wit's end trying to get my wife's iPhone 5 switched from T-Mobile to straight talk. Just about a month ago my wife's old cellphone was reaching a breaking point, so she decided to get an unlocked gsm iphone 5 16GB from the Apple store. We took it to T-Mobile where they popped in a sim and everything worked perfectly. Well, there's no 1900mhz HSPA+ in our area yet, and she had to edit the APN to get MMS messages working, but perfect apart from those things.
Anyone can unmount a usb drive from Finder by clicking on the "eject" icon next to it. However, only a user with administrative privileges can unmount a drive from the terminal using umount. Are umount and "eject" different in some way that requires more security for umount from the terminal? Note I am running OS X 10.8.2
I have disabled Hibernation mode and Deep Sleep mode, I also keep the charger plugged in about a week before removing it if I want to go somewhere with the laptop. I don't know if this is normal, but I realised that my battery started draining faster recently. I usually have 6-8 hours of time on battery for web-browsing, youtubing, a bit of programming and nothing really power intensive. GFX-status usually displays i for integrated GPU usage. However I recently started getting 4-5 hours maximum.
P.S.S.: Tested video out on my 27 inch Yamakasi, the white saturation is near the same. It's crap. It's oviously a software fault. What can i do to fix this? :-( You are my last ressort and any help is very appreciated!
I have a recently purchased rMBP. The Google Chrome browser is displaying as retina when launched from the image it comes packaged in, but when I move the executable to my applications directory it becomes pixelated. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue?
The problem persists if I run lsof -n (to avoid DNS lookups). Further, I tried checking which system calls are made by lsof using dtruss, and found that it's calling proc_info tens of thousands of times:
I've just purchased my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (it's not the retina model where RAM is fixed) and I'm considering more RAM. On the system information app, I found this info. Will any RAM, DDR3, 1600MHz work or does the MacBbook have some other requirement to be compatible that isn't listed above?
I've set the permissions on files on my removable external drives in ways that seem to make sense to preserve some degree of security. For example, for files that only I should have access to, I've only myself any access rights while for others, that I want other users of my machine to have access to, I've expanded these access rights a bit
I bought an open-item, unregistered MacBook Pro from Best Buy and they told me that they had installed Mountain Lion just like a clean setup. But the iLife bundle doesn't appear in the laptop or in the App Store (the "Purchased" section is empty). Does anyone know if I need to buy it?
I have a folder containing files including Wills, Trusts, personal financial statements etc. Most of these files are word docs, excel spreadsheets, PDF's and jpegs. I would like to protect this folder from prying eyes. If this info was housed in a .dmg, it would seem pretty straightforward to click on the .dmg, enter my password, mount the drive, access the information/folder and when finished, eject the disk image knowing it is closed and protected.
My iPad 3 is configured in French for the family but I prefer my apps un-translated. Is it possible to force an application to launch in a specific locale? Is it feasible without a third-party tool?
I've spent quite some time over the last few days trying to work out how I can combine the clear data security advantages of encrypting my machine with FileVault 2 under Lion, and the theft-recovery potential of programs like Undercover, Prey, or LoJack. The general consensus is that this is basically an either/or tradeoff, because encrypting your system is going to prevent a thief getting into it, and consequently prevent him from even running the tracking software. Under the old FileVault, you could have left a honeypot guest account unencrypted, but that came with some serious data security downsides, because it opened the route to a smart thief circumventing your encryption in single user mode. The new FileVault obviously doesn't give that option, although potentially you may get somewhere with Find My Mac on iCloud, which apparently does run under the recovery partition. Is there are a better solution than being forced to choose between data security and tracking tools?
For some time now my Finder "Get Info" dialogs have been displaying "Fetching...", and I recently decided to fix the problem by following the instructions for resetting my home folder permissions. As expected, this resolved the issue, but now the permissions on all of my files are whereas before they were
I have a problem with my mid-2009 Macbook Pro. It has 2x2GB RAM in it, but it only sees one of the 2GB RAM in memory slot: BANK0/DIMM0. I have interchanged the two RAM modules repeatedly and both are working fine in BANK0/DIMM0, but neither does in BANK1/DIMM0. On one occasion after restarting my computer shown 3.75GB RAM available in BANK0/DIMM0 with the 2GB RAM modules in each slot. Another time it was fine, showing 4GB in the two slots. The MAC was tested with another two memory modules, but they also worked only in BANK0/DIMM0, showing a 2GB total memory. I hope it's not a motherboard problem! I need the 4GB memory for my work, should I just ignore this problem and install a 4GB RAM into my MBP?
I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him to be able to access the latter, but I can't turn the encryption on because the disk would have to be partitioned with GUID.
I just purchased a 2012 Mac Mini to use with my Apple Thunderbolt Display. The mini also included an HDMI to DVI converter. I have a DVI-connected ViewSonic montior that I'd like to use as a secondary display. Is it possible to use the HDMI-out port as a secondary monitor output? Like so: (excuse the horrible art)
Can I tell Mail to download the newest messages first? My Mac is my second computer. When I check e-mail, it has often been 2 weeks since I last opened Mail. Currently, I have to wait for hundreds of messages from 2 weeks ago to finish downloading before I can open that one message my client just now sent to me.
On PCs you could easily configure the Vertical Sync setting from NVidia control panel, how can you enable/disable vertical sync in OS X?
I have a private folder on my drive that I keep personal docs in and i want to make it password protected. So I thought I would click Get Info > make it write only in the Sharing & Permissions section > lock it in the General section, then click the padlock at the bottom corner to prevent changes, which means if anyone wants to get access to the folder, they would have to click the padlock, type in a password, uncheck the Locked tick and then change the permissions to read & write. This worked for a while, but now when I access the folder, I go through all those steps and when I click the padlock, I don't hear the locking noise and I can still make changes to the folder.
Trying to access a remote FreeNAS box, with AFP sharing set up. (AFP works fine over the LAN, just not over WAN.) From a remote location, if I go to Finder and Go>Connect to Server then enter afp://myserver.com, I get prompted for username & password, and then am presented with list of shares, just as over LAN.
So I jail role with the new evasi0n tool and now I can't launch my weather app. Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
I'm not provided with that option. It offers me to download the newest version or go on with Java ALREADY disabled. I would like to go on, but with my current Java.
I purchased Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for my Mac Mini running Lion, but they're not showing up as purchased in the App Store with my usual Apple ID. They don't appear to be registered. I'm trying to find out how I bought them, since I have a new MacBook Air with Mountain Lion and I don't want to pay twice if I can help it. They might have been downloaded outside of the App Store. How do I trace my purchase and find out what I'm entitled to? If I have to purchase these three again, is the App Store the best method from now on?
Got new Time Capsule. Got new iMac (OS 10.8). Hooked up Time Capsule and enabled encrypted iMac backup.
I've noticed that the embedded mp3 file on this page won't play at all on my iPod Touch (using the Safari web browser), even though it seems to be working properly in Google Chrome on Windows 7. Is there any way to allow embedded mp3 files (in web pages) to play properly on an iPod Touch, using Safari?
I have an Ipod Classic 160G that I just bought. I uploaded my itunes library to it but for whatever reason it did not work. I then restored it to factory to delete these songs and retried. The new songs worked but now it shows that twice the memory is being used. I've tried restoring again and it still brings me back to 12G is being used but nothing is on it, so it says. How do I get these off/get back to the 160G?
Is there a way to get BSSID and the list of available Wi-Fi networks from within Terminal? I.e. I'm looking for something similar to ifconfig run0 scan on OpenBSD, which lists all access points, BSSID, signal strength etc.
I am attempting to unlock an iPhone4. However, my issue seems to be that the phone doesn't recognize my SIM card. The advice I got from my previous carrier is to put the phone in 'flight mode'. This seems impossible to do without a working/recognized SIM card. Is there a short cut for accessing 'flight mode'?
I jailbrake my iPad and want to run Ruby in the console. I installed OpenSSH & Ruby from Saurik. But it is too old (1.9.2) & buggy.
Apple's MacBook Pro has a slight delay on the caps lock key. That is, the caps lock key has to be held down slightly longer than normal to register the key press required to engage the caps lock.
I have a question and a story, since things aren't completely clear in my mind how iMessage and FaceTime work. If someone sends me an iMessage / FaceTime call, does it mean they have other contact information about me?
I have a Samsung MZ MPA1280/0D1 128 SSD mSATA drive. Can I use this to create a Fusion Drive in my 2011 iMac 27" and, if so, what cable will I need in order to connect the mSATA drive properly?
I have purchased an app which didn't download successfully. I deleted the installer and tried to install it again from the Mac AppStore but the download button says "Installed". I also still have the app icon in my Launch Pad with the download progress indicator on it. I'm aware of the option + click on the "Installed" button and on the Purchases button, but neither works. How can I reset this download process to enable me to download the app again?
I am trying to set up a production server ahead of the actual dns switch. I have edited my hosts file on my macbook pro 10.8.2.
I need to convert a bunch of mp4 files so they are playable on Ipad. I already succesfully encoded a mp4 file so it plays on all major browser ( IE,Firefox,Chrome, Safari) the mp4 file even plays on my android 4.x device.
Is there any way to completely reinstall Google Chrome on a 4th generation iPod Touch? I want to restore Google Chrome back to its default settings, because it started crashing after I started syncing it with my Google account.
The Reminders app in OSX Mountain Lion has no preferences, so I'm wondering if there is any "under the hood" way to increase the font size. It's too small for use on high res displays.
I have a jailbreaked iPhone 4 and I updated from version 5 to v6 in wifi. The screen shows only the recovery mode, but when I connect it to iTunes, it detects the iPhone but needs to update it. When I restore it to the last version or to v6 I get a restore error 2009 I tried with 2 different computers (win7-8) and 2 different cables, but I still get this 2009 error. I tried to enter DFU mode with redsnow but it didn't work, as the power button doesn't work, and it showed again the recovery mode. Any thought ?
In mission control, I can add a desktop by pushing the button on the top right. How do i remove a desktop? Or where in my system preferences do i look to do this?
I've been trying to find out any way to OpenPGP encrypt mails while sending from Apple Mail or any other email app in Mountain Lion. GPGTools' GPGMail is not yet ready for Mountain Lion.
I am a iTunes novice :( I have various songs and albums on my itunes and would like to get into some kind of order. My question is: Can I sort out all the albums from one artist into ascending years and still keep other albums in order? For example, I have albums by Coldplay and other albums by various artists. If I click on the year column, all the library is mixed. Can I arrange it so only the Coldplay albums are sorted into years and not the whole library is sorted? Thank you
I know there are many of these types of questions, but the answers for the later models do not directly help with the newer iMac model that just came out in December 2012. I'm having a HUGE issue finding a second 24" monitor that my iMac doesn't have to calibrate and give me multiple blue screens once turning that second monitor on. I've looked at this question and it's answers iMac second monitor alternative and a few more however I'm looking for an answer, hopfeully from another newer iMac owner.
I have an iPhone and an iPad, both with iOS 6.1. I use iCloud for calendar syncing between them and my Mac. For whatever reason, the iOS devices don’t sync calendars with iCloud unless and until I open the Calendar app on the device. Is there any way to change this behavior so that iOS checks for calendar changes without my intervention?
I've updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 6.1 today. I made a clean restore in order for it to be as fast and clean as possible, without any junk leftovers. The problem is that while I was able to restore all of my files, it somehow destroyed my Notes, I can't restore them!
Normally, at least one column header is in the computer's highlight colour, to signify that's the one that's controlling how the window's files are sorted. In this case, none of the headers are in colour, and clicking on any of them has no effect on the sort within the window. Only the Applications window is affected, all the other Finder windows work normally.
Was it Steve Jobs? I mean not the idea, but who actually made it happen through the physical work itself?
My goal is to be able to change all of the following for a specific device: IP address, netmask, and gateway. So far, I've gathered that I should be able to use ifconfig con0 10.8.0.14 netmask 255.255.255.252, but when I try to do ifconfig con0 gateway 10.8.0.1, it gets pretty upset and tells me that gateway is a bad argument. Thoughts?
My 2012 MBA (no bootcamp) just shows a bare splash screen without user avatar nor password field after booting. Now I've seen this problem twice, I can type my password and then hit return on keyboard to login, but the login field never shows.
I would like to use VMWare Fusion or Parallels (or another option for running Windows within OSX; not Wine), but I am concerned about the hard disk space requirements. How can I reduce the hard disk usage when creating a new Windows WM?
Cosmetically I'd like all four corners of all OSX windows to be squared. This proposed half-solution failed on Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I may have seen a mod that was possible at MacThemes forum; alas I fail to recover any such thread. How can I get corners on windows in Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.2 to be square instead of rounded?
Ive had itunes and my apple ID for some time now and synced it with my iphone4s. My husband just purchased an ipad 2 and synced it to the itunes already installed on the computer. He has an apple ID now but when he goes to update any apps on his ipad it keeps asking for MY apple ID and password since it synced to it when he connected to itunes. How can he get rid of my apple ID sign in screen on his ipad and sign in to his own apple ID? Hope someone can understand what Im talking about and can help us........
When I downloaded an application (e.g. RubyMine) and transfered it to the Applications folder, the application wont start (nothing happens). It is not limited to the Applications folder, it appears for every directory I unpack the downloaded app (out of the .dmg). When I type open RubyMine.app in the Terminal, I get: And it happens with more apps then only RubyMine.
I am trying to convert some of my favourite music files to ringtones on my iPhone 5. It has been pretty confusing maneuvering iTunes to do so, so I'm looking for a much easier way to do so. I connect my iPhone (iOS 6.0.2) to a PC running iTunes 11.0.1.12.
I am attempting to use this footswitch: *=URL=* They only support windows, and USB Overdrive apparently doesn't support it either. I want to use it to click the mouse in OSX. Is there a software that will allow this configuration?
I need to run a script in intervals that requires a root user to execute. I created a plist that will call a script in ~/bin/test.sh. Here are the contents: Then I symlinked the plist in /Library/LaunchAgents.
I have a new MacBook Pro. Twice so far I have pressed a key and removed my hands from the keyboard, yet the key continued to repeat. Once it was the delete key (fn-Delete, the backspace function), and another time it was the g key. Just want to know if this was a simple matter of the key getting stuck, or if I accidentally pressed some other key combination that causes this to happen.
One thing that I miss and would like to have back, is when I get info on one or more files, the size displayed first is not the MB rounded one, it is the size in bytes. The image below shows on the left what we get with Mac OS X 10.8.2, I circled in red the sizes shown; on the right is what I would like to have back, and what we get with Mac OS X 10.6, circled in green.
Yesterday the same happened. After opening iCal all my events calendars and tasks are deleted. The funny think here is, if it comes closes to an event it still keeps me notifying that the event will happen.
Is there a way to use bootcamp to switch between Windows and OSX without restarting the laptop. I don't really want to buy any virtual software like VMWare or Parallels.
I would like to export some of the events in one of my calendars. The export function will create a .ics file with the entire calendar, but I only want to export events within a specified date range. How can I do that?
I find that my Time Machine backup never passes an hour without backing up files, even if I haven't used the Mac. I've excluded .Trash and Downloads under my user folder. A typical hourly backup is 60-70MB, and I want to know exactly what files are being backed up here so I can possibly exclude them too. After backing up, the Indexing of the Backup takes an extremely long time, and I don't know which is the cause and which is the result, or if this is unrelated to my mystery files being backed up.
I am mounting a number of NFS shares, with a Terminal command akin to this: The directory for the mount point ("/mnt/crbn-projects") is in place, and the mount command completes succesfully. However, the Finder shows me the name of the NFS directory on the server instead of the name of the mountpoint (it shows "raid" instead of "crbn-projects"). How can I force the Finder to not apply the "beautified" NFS directory names and sticking to the mount point names instead? In the terminal and on the FS all my mountpoints are named properly.
I've looked all over and find no way of doing this without an iPhone. Surely there must be a way though, it is my data after all. Any ideas?
We use the Apple "Pro Keyboard", which is a USB keyboard with model number M7803, and iTerm2 build 1.0.0 with "ipmitool sol activate" running. Our goal is to sent the Control+Alt+Delete key combination to the remote host. We tried this by: iTerm > Preferences > Keys > [+]: Keyboard Shortcut: ⌃⌥Del→ Action: [ Send Hex Code ] Hex code: 1d 38 53 b8 9d This configuration does not sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to the remote host, Debian 6.0.6 running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP, at least the machine does not reboot as it would do when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on a local attached keyboard. How to issue a reboot command on the remote machine using Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm?
I would like to use our jailbroke iPhone 3G with NO SIM. Is it possible to use the built in messaging app that Apple supplies on this iPhone wit no SIM?
In a school library with 30 iPads on a cart. Should one appleid be used for all 30 iPads? I will be the only one adding the apps, and then the cart will be taken to classrooms. The same apps will be on all iPads. Would it be better to just create a genric appleid or an iCloud id, or what's the best way to do this?
When I tried to install Warcraft III I got this nice message that says: You can’t open the application “Installer.app” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. So what's the best way to run Warcraft III on a Mountain Lion? There are a few articles online regarding PowerPC apps, but I would like to have an answer here as well.
I recently upgraded to iTunes 11.0.1.12. When I plug my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1.1) into the computer, I noticed that under the "Info" tab, "Sync Contacts" and "Sync Calendars" don't have any options displayed, and it give me the message: Your contacts (calendars) are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud.Over-the-air sync settings can be changed on your iPhone.
I've already synced my phone to iPhoto and emptied the camera roll. There is no application data category listed that is more than 100 MB or so, and yet it says that the backup is 4.9 GB. There appears to be no user-servicible setting to reduce this. This is with iOS 6.1 installed, but it was also noticeable with 6.0.
I've got some shell scripts that can send network notifications to Growl for Windows, and it's working fairly well. Can Notification Center on 10.8 (or iOS devices for that matter!) be configured to receive these? Does it even use Growl's layer 7 protocol at all?
I purchased 'Chris Hardwick Mandroid' SD Movie on iTunes. I see it in Finder, and I see it in my Recently Added playlist... but I don't see it in my list of Movies or TV Shows on iTunes.
I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗. Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of limited... Also, Apple's built-in character viewer doesn't indicate anything like HTML escape code or even Unicode number, I'd use that otherwise. These ones I've tried: Characterpal Entitiy lookup Asciitable
I cannot get Mac OS X Server's web server to accept connections from other machines on the same LAN. This is on OS X 10.8.2, running on a Mac mini which originally shipped with Lion Server. I can connect to it from the server itself, such as by going to *=URL=* or *=URL=* in Safari.
My ISP supplies their own search domain via DHCP, which I don't want being passed on to my own devices. However, if you leave the field for 'search domain' empty on an Airpot/Time Capsule it will revert to the ISP default once the text box loses focus. Is it possible to override the value to empty?
Mountain Lion includes a feature to configure multiple Time Machine locations and to back up to those locations when they become available (plugged in external drives, accessible network drives, etc). Can 10.8 or any older version of OSX, possibly including third party software, be configured to back up different data to different locations?
I just reinstalled OS X Lion and turned off the spotlight immediately. I noticed that search in Finder stopped working. Is this because of disabling spotlight? Is there a way to get this back without turn spotlight on? I only need to search by file names.
The Thunderbolt display is a really cool external display for thunderbolt-enabled mac laptops, but the sad reality is, all those peripherals and that gorgeous display is useless when the laptop is gone. My question is, will the new 2013 27" iMac support peripheral passthru via thunderbolt to my 2012 Macbook Air like a Thunderbolt display would? I would have the following connected to the iMac Gigabit ethernet External speakers Wired keyboard Wired mouse USB microphone USB printer Would the Macbook Air be able to use these? When the Macbook Air is connected, I'd essentially like it to operate just like the Thunderbolt display. When the Macbook Air is disconnected, I'd like the iMac to function as a normal iMac.
I organize my e-books and the supporting files in each folder. Is there any easy way to assign the parent folder's icon as the preview of the PDF file?
I am running 3 external monitors off of my macbook pro 10.6.8. When I try to watch a DVD, the player slides down to my macbook pro. Want to play it on a larger monitor. Possible?
I'm just wondering if there is an app/prefpane to remember different tracking speeds for different mouses when you have a Macbook and are switching between mouses constantly? Thanks for any suggestions.
I have a little issue with my airport extreme. I'm using the device in my corporate network which has two DNS server for resolving intern and external names. When I do an nslookup "public adresse" (such as www.google.com), everything works fine. ...But, when I try to resolve an internal name, for exemple bardo1, I get: When I try nslookup internalservername my.internal.dns.server everything works thing.
I have an issue concerning full screen videos within the Google Chrome browser. The video lags for a second. Since it is too hard to explain, I captured 16 seconds of video. What could be the cause on this?
Also, is performance a concern when using encrypted backups, assuming encryption is recommended? From what I understand, since the CPU is much faster than the disk, there should be no real performance hit. Yet, I have read on forums that Time Machine becomes really slow if encryption is turned on. Again, is this true?
I am new to osx but am very experienced with Linux and Windows. I need to mount a subdirectory of a shared drive so the user can access it without being confused by seeing higher levels in the smb path.
I'm curious how the group visibility works with iMessage. I have a hunch that when sending with iMessage to a group of people, all these people will see each other in the group. Is my assumption correct?
For some reason, MySQL won't start anymore. Suddenly happened out of the blue. This is what is written in /var/log/system.log right after I try to open MySQL. Further googling these lines did not return any clues.
"Reveal" seems to be an alternate action to "open" - except it just opens some random thing that I have no control over. For example, "revealing" a ruby file in the Finder opens Path Finder (the third party Finder replacement).
I'm having a bit of an odd issue with my terminal. I'm used to the prompt being Joosts-Macbook:~ Joost$ or something of that nature, but all of a sudden it displays a number I don't recognise: n041134:~ Joost$. I've added a screenshot of the Terminal below.
Running 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro, sometime after upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8.1 I started getting the message box that passwords, etc. could not be saved to keychain. I did the usual (repair permissions, repair keychain). It would make a new login keychain which is usually fine until I reboot my system (but not always) and then the login keychain disappears again. Any suggestions?
I have the following problem: When I run processes that consume a lot of memory, Mac OS X seems to refuse to release a large portion of the filesystem cache:  In fact, instead of letting go of the ~ 30 GB of inactive memory, it prefers to swap 45 GB (which were rising at the point in time captured in the picture). Running purge freed a large portion of that memory, leading to ~ 15 GB of free memory and Mac OS X finally stopping to bug me with that really useless OOM dialog asking me to quit one of my GUI applications…
I seem to remember there being an option to encrypt my entire file system which I passed on but is there a way to just encrypt a folder / directory the way you can on Linux?
When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. Is this possible?
On Linux if you highlight a section of text then click somewhere with the "third button" (on some mice its the scroll wheel, often its just clicking the right and left button together) it will paste the selected text at your new location. I know it sounds like a small thing but if you get used to its work flow you'll notice just how annoying it is to have to click CMD-C, move mouse, CMD-V every time you want to copy / paste. I'm using the touchpad on my MacBook Pro and with all the nice things you can do with three finger scroll, etc., I assumed there must be some way to duplicate this behaviour in the Apple world - can I configure my touchpad to paste?
I jailbroke my iPod touch 4g running iOS 6.1 yesterday. I got SiriPort, but it kept crashing my iPod and booting into safe mode. I reinstalled it, and took it for a test run, and of course, it crashed. This time however, it did not boot to safe mode. I shut it down, and tried to turn it back on, however, it seems to be stuck in the reboot. I have tried to restore it with iTunes, but i get errors saying that it can't connect to the iPod. It also couldn't connect to it even before it was jailbroken. Please help, Thanks!
I'm going to be using my iPhone overseas without a SIM card, but I want to use turn-by-turn navigation to walk and drive around. I'm willing to plot my route via wifi before I leave the house, but I won't have internet because my phone won't have a SIM card.
I am using a Windows XP VM with Parallels 8 under Mountain Lion. I have a remote desktop connection from XP that does not allow pasting from the clipboard, but typing works, of course. I have an AppleScript simulating as if I typed the clipboard. However, the Shift key is not held down for modified keys, even though all keyboard layouts are in sync otherwise. Also curiously, numeric characters don't go through while "(" is turned into "9". See the full example below.
I accidentally deleted my iPhone backup file from the backup folder. Where are other places a backup could be stored for someone using Windows and iTunes?
At work, I said to my colleague that it was not possible to enable Filevault on a RAID volume. He was surprised and asked me the technical reason.
I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data. If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system login password in order to be able to do this?
For some reasons I can't adjust the volume on my iPhone 4 anymore. Whenever I press it the popup showing the bell is shown but not the bar indicating the . I can't adjust the volume at all. Also playing music in the musicplayer doesn't work anymore. The play-symbol is shown but I just can't hear a thing. Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong?
First of all before anyone asks, I have already set my DNS name in the Terminal with scutil, which is reflected on the Terminal prompt and returned by the hostname command. I also understand that this is separate from my computer name, which is also set correctly at the top of the Sharing preference pane.
I have two iPhone 4 locked by the original carrier. I can't get the factory unlock because this carrier don't provide this service.
I'm trying to make compressing a video file using HandBrake easier through applescript and have been basing most of the code off of templates I've found. At this point in the code, the user has specified the source file and the destination folder. Instead of HandBrakeCLI just blindly overwriting a file with the same name in the destination folder, I wanted Finder to do a check and, if a file with the same does already exist in the destination folder, then I wanted to have the filename appended with the current date and time before the extension. Everything worked fine until I started adding the "if exists" code. Here's the chunk of code: Here's what it returns: If I add "as POSIX file" to the "if exists" line, this is what it returns:
Is there any way to enable sticky keys in OS X but automatically disable them while in certain applications? Modifying system files and heavy terminal use is ok. Here's a screenshot of the preference pane containing Sticky keys for reference. My specific case is virtualisation of Win 7 in Virtual Box on OSX 10.7.5
I lost my remote for my Apple TV, and we were using the Remote App, but we recently downloaded a new update for the Apple TV and the update kept us from watching Movies. I did a restore on the Apple TV, but now the Remote App cannot find my Apple TV. How do I fix this?
I'm having the problem of synced iMessages appearing out of order in Messages on my Macbook. I've even had messages sent to wrong people. I can't find any alternatives through Google. Is there a replacement that will still sync with iMessages from my phone?
But when I connect my iPad to the wifi network at my home, I don't get this. Even if I go into nslookup and explicitly set the DNS server to my router, I get an unknown host error when trying to look up the iPad. I'm using the same Mac and same iPad in both cases.
My current primary group (the gid I see listed by id) is me, rather than staff. I'd like to change it to staff, without changing anything else about my user account. How do I change the "primary group" (PrimaryGroupID) for my account?
Whenever I close my MacBook, and then come back after it's been asleep, I'll open it, and it'll make a sound while it's waking the harddrive, which is normal. But then after that it'll switch the whichever application is active with the second-most active on in the tab-switcher. Does anyone know what would cause this?
I am working on a prototype/demo of an application and it is necessary for me to play back the iOS 6 audio files on a PC. Supposing I was able to access the file system on my iOS device, what path would I find those files under?
I have 9 days worth of music on iTunes from my old laptop. How do I upload my music to the new laptop and iTunes I just downloaded?
My Macbook Pro from around 2008 finally died. It has two 1 GB memory chips. (Specifically, two of this Samsung chip.) My question is: can I use these chips in my 2011 Mac Pro?
I installed Dropbox 1.6.16 and am running OS 10.7.5 (Lion). I continue to get this message and don't know how to fix: Couldn't start Dropbox
So yeah, whaddya think about this? Why does this happen? And if you know why, how can I fix it?
I hadn't used the Magic GarageBand feature before today (I generally don't use GarageBand that often) and when I went to try it, everything seemed to work until I clicked Open in GarageBand in the lower right corner. When I do that I always get an error similar to:
I saw this awesome movie that I watched on DVD and wanted to take a screen shot of it, but when I did, it was transparent. I could only see my desktop taken but not the movie. Is there a specific program or hack that could let me take a screen shot of that content? I tried every screen shot software, but still leaves it transparent.
I have a weird problem on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running OS X 10.8.2. Every now and then - say every two days - the system starts to ignore most of the keys I press for 2-3 minutes. It's like processing of keystrokes becomes incredibly slow. If I wait for ten seconds between each key, what I type is processed completely; otherwise kys wl b msng rndomly.
Disk Inventory X was kind of nice, but it is painfully slow. Are there any modern and faster alternatives? I only care about the disk space, and not about the file type stats and about the graph which Disk Inventory X displays.
Looking at ~/Library/Mobile Documents I see a folder named com~apple~shoebox. What application does it belong to?
In my /etc/launchd.conf file, I added these lines in an effort to figure out exactly how to create globally scoped environment variables whose values contain whitespace. To see what stuck and what the results were, I ran set | grep foo. The result:
When I run vm_stat on my 10.6.8 MacBook Pro with 2 GB of RAM I get the following: If you add up the free, active, inactive, speculative, and wired memory and multiply by 4096 (to turn the pages into bytes), you get 2,145,828,864 rather than the expected 2,147,483,648. There are 1,654,784 missing bytes (or 404 pages). This isn't a constant number though, it fluctuates:
I've just install the tweak "FullForce" from the Cydia store on my iPad 4th generation to make Google Maps app full screen capable, but the app uses the iPhone keyboard instead of the iPad keyboard. Is there a way to solve this issue?
I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion as Application Bundle file. Burning the application to a disk is just like a data disk compilation on Nero. How do I convert this application bundle into ISO image so that I can burn it on a disk and boot it from there?
Ps. When I click "Check for available downloads" I just get the message
My problem is that my dad has an iPad and I have an iPhone. He uses a different apple id for his own iPad and I use my own for my own iPhone. I do have home sharing and have them linked to the same homesharing id. But my problem is when I type a paper with pages or make something in keynote the iCloud doesn't work. If I make something on his iPad and save it, I want it to show up on my iPhone. I always have to email it to myself. Can anyone help me please? What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
I'm about to buy a MacBook Pro Customized Model, its model name and number is MD831/LLA. When I google it, I couldnt find anything from a trusted apple source. Specifications of the model is as follows; MacBook Pro 15" Retina, 16 GB Ram, 768 GB SSD, 2.7 Ghz i7 I'm buying it from a local shop which imported the computer from US and itself is not a official Apple distributor or something.
I've been using a LaCie 2big NAS to back up my Macs for a year or two now, and it's generally worked fine. Now, however, we've got a couple of Mountain Lion Macs in the house, and it's stopped working. It takes forever to show up in the list of shares, and when it does, sometimes I can get my MacBook to back up to it, but often Time Machine just sits there for half an hour with a spinning barber pole and "Looking for backup disk". Sometimes this eventually results in a backup, but other times it doesn't.
I will use the touchpad gesture to open Launchpad. I don't use Launchpad much. I'd like to map the F4-key (which opens Launchpad) to send the Keystroke Command + Ctrl + Shift + 4 so I can use the OSX screenshot feature with it.
I am a terminal junkie and use it all the time...literally. Is there any way to be able to switch between tabs with Command+Number (eg. Command+1 for tab 1). Yes, I know about iTerm, I'm just wondering if its possible to do this with stock terminal, since I am quite fond of it. Thanks
When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this implies it is a slow read of a file that is then cached in memory. I put a timing statement in my .bash_profile and that takes about one second, so it is not something I have manually and intentionally done to slow it down. How should I find out where the time is spent during the shell/terminal initiation? I tried running sudo fs_usage -f filesys > fsusage.txt and then searching for login and bash and iTerm in the resulting file, but have not been able to determine what might cause the delay there.
When syncing music to an iPhone, iTunes give you the option to drag individual tracks to a section labeled "Manually Added Songs" to add them to the device (as opposed to adding all tracks of an artist, genre or album). The "Manually Added Songs" section not only contains tracks "cherry-picked" in iTunes itself, but it will also contain tracks the were added within the device itself after your last sync (for example, by using the iOS version of iTunes to re-download a prior purchase). This feature is behaving strangely for me: Tracks I downloaded manually from within the device a long time ago, continue to appear in "Manually Added Songs", even after I have manually deleted them from the device and even after I manually deleted them from the "Manually Added Songs" list itself (to avoid those songs being re-sent to the device on the next sync).
My brother just got an iBook G4 running 10.4.2 (Tiger), and we were trying to get LibreOffice 4.0 (the latest version) installed. The machine insists that the LibreOffice package is damaged or incomplete. However, my MacBook Pro, which runs 10.7.5 (Lion) runs the same package just fine.
I have an old "classic" 60GB iPod that I have been using with a Bose SoundDock for years. All of the sudden, one day, there is no sound coming from the dock speakers. I can listen to the Ipod with headphones and when I place the Ipod on the dock it charges, but no sound. I have tried replacing the board on the dock, but that didn't help. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Recently, my headphone jack on my macbook pro has been very loose. I could easily just tap the wire and the headphone jack would disconnect the wire. So what I did was put some aluminum foil inside the jack. stupid me. Because I stuck too much in there, and I stuck it in real deep, and a pin or a needle can barely even reach it.
I have a 15 inch Mac Book Pro that is my main machine. At some point, in the second half of 2011 I purchased a 750GB external hard drive to configure Time Machine on my laptop. This is my main method for backup, and I always keep it up to date. A few weeks ago it started complaining that it did not have enough space and that it needed to delete the oldest backup to create this new one. I allowed this to happen at first, but realized that I was losing possible important historical snapshots of my data.
I want to change the default music app on my iPhone from Music to Spotify. Is this possible? My first guess is that I would have to jailbreak my phone. Is there anyway to do it without jailbreaking?
But, with this machine, i want to also play games, maybe on windows. So: There are drivers for "gaming graphics cards" for windows. Can i plug two graphics card in the mac and only "activate" the one i need? Sure, it isn't that easy, but how would a work around look like?
With SBSettings+Activator one is able to program the physical buttons on the iPhone, to open apps, toggle settings, skip to next/previous song, play/pause musik, open controls, etc. Is there something like this to program a physical button to (when listening to a podcast or audiobook) skip forward/back 30s (within the same track)?
Pre-story: An older 2009 Macbook Pro 13"’s logic board has broken and I’ve got a working 2010 Macbook Pro 13". Old Macbook was upgraded with SSD drive that was used as a system drive and home folder was configured to point at the HDD that was connected via SuperDrive’s SATA.
When returning from standby mail.app does not refresh my inbox. New mails (or changes to old mails, like move or delete) are not synchronized. I have to manually close mail.app and restart it to make the changes appear. Is this working as intended or are there settings to change this?
I'm thinking about whether I should get my MacBook Pro 6,2 repaired. The repair would include replacing the logic board, so I'm wondering if the CPU and GPU are replaced as well?
I'm currently using a Macbook Pro and wanted to play a game and came up with Warsow. I downloaded it, dropped the app in my applications folder (is it even called folder on Macs?^^). As soon as I started the game I noticed my mouse sensitivity was significantly lower. I opened the options and played around with the ingame sensitivity and it didn't change my mouse speed at all. After quitting the game and looking up my mouse settings in the system preferences it was set to 0 (or the lowest possible setting on the slider). Important notices:
I would like to call a command line utility in Mac OS X 10.8 that gives me the ability to convert a text file saved in standard Western Mac OS Roman encoding to the more generic UTF-8. I will be calling the utility from an AppleScript that I have created. AppleScript is extremely slow when working with very large text blocks. As such, I want to do my text parsing and conversion using the OS X command line. I have found a tool called, "sed", which allows me to do the text parsing. However, there are still many elements of the file that need to be cleaned up, characters that appear as garbage if the file is opened as utf-8 (e.g. smart quotes and ellipses).
I connected an external monitor to my Macbook Air, and arranged it above the MBA display. See this screen arrangement. In the above screenshot, the up-display is the external display, and the down-display is the MBA display.
I recently installed the Encyclopædia Britannica 2013 Ultimate DVD in my Mac running OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. In the box is stated that only 10.6 - 10.7 versions are supported, and indeed I've run into a couple of problems: both the "Timelines" and "A-Z Quick Search" windows display a blank screen.
I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!) Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.
So I bought a new iPhone 5 64GB and I enabled iCloud backup. For a while now it has not been able to backup my iPhone, since the 5GB of iCloud storage quickly ran out. I didn't feel like upgrading my storage plan, since there's anyway no storage plan that is able to backup 64GB. So I decided to store the backups on my computer.
This has been bothering me for a while. When you zoom in Safari (Mac) using the pinch gesture, the text is only anti-aliased after finishing the gesture, not in realtime. Why not?
My friend recently got a new phone number assigned to the same iPhone she's had for a while, and sent me an iMessage from it to let me know. Since I didn't have the phone number already, it of course appeared separately in my iPhone's "conversation" list from the messages we had sent back and forth using her old number. I've added the new phone number to her contact info now, and it would be nice if I could keep the two conversations together -- just continuing with the new number from where the old number left off.
Among my list of scheduled tasks is something called "com.DesignScience.DSMTTool" located at What is this? Do I need it?
I select a file, hit Space for Quick Look, and then hit Space again to hide the window. Finder hangs and in some cases beachballs for a while before becoming responsive again. Other notes:
I'm considering importing my home videos into my iTunes library so I can easily access them over any device in the house. The one problem I'm seeing is when I add home movies, and I have them labeled as home movies in iTunes, on the apple tv they just show up under the movies selection for my iTunes Library. I heard you can label them as TV Shows and have a bit more control, but honestly I'd just rather have a "Home Movies" option and "Movies" option to pick from on my main screen? Is something like this possible?
Where can I find the PDF merged by the automator?
I have a website I'm investigating and want to view HTTP-only cookies in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. How can I view these special cookies in OSX?
I have an iPhone 4S and I will be going to South Korea for a year for my 1st duty station in the army. What should I do? Can I get it unlocked or should I just by a phone over there? I need contact with my family.
I bought my computer from my school, where they had multiple locks and disabled functions. When I bought it they were suppose to delete all these locks, but I guess they didn't – now I am unable to activate my internet sharing like described in this post. I can mess with the options, but I cannot click on for internet sharing. Can someone walk me through the process of deleting this from my system so I can turn on my internet sharing?
I've got a 1040 MP3s to add to iTunes (not bought before). I dragged them to the iTunes window, it processed/copied something (only 953, huh, why?), they even appeared in the iTunes Media/Music folder and in the iTunes Music Library.xml file. But I can't find no one of them neither in the library, nor in the recently added. Interesting thing: there is a new album cover on the cell with the name of the artist existed before. And if I search a random song in the search bar I'll find it but I can't go to it or add to the next playing. I haven't the iTunes Match option. What is happening?
If anyone can help or knows of a little app that do this please let me know! Thanks!
I have several desktop backgrounds that I would like to rotate between, but one of them is vertically oriented. If I leave the backgrounds set to "Fill Screen," it chops off the top and the bottom of the vertical wallpaper, and that's not okay. I'd like to know if there is a way to tell individual wallpapers to "Fit to Screen" while having others "Fill Screen," "Center," and et cetera. Thanks!
I have a bunch of songs for which I'd like to change the metadata (really just want to change capitalization for all of them). I'm not changing a field in all songs to one value, so selecting them all in iTunes won't work. They are AAC files. Is there an easy way to do this? Not having to download a third-party app would be nice, but I doubt it'll be that easy (maybe someone can prove me wrong :)).
I saw this enabled on my friends Lion MBA, but I couldn't find a way to enable it on my Mountian Lion MBP. Anyone have any ideas?
Is there any way to charge an iPhone 5 in a 2005 Cadillac (in the cigarette lighter hole)? Or am I just out of luck with an old car?
I recently got a Mac, and am transferring files from my old Windows laptop which had kept freezing with very high hard-drive activity, and may or may not be infected with malware. I'm wondering if there's a chance of my Mac being infected by malware from photos, documents, videos and music transferred from a Windows machine?
This issue has plagued Growl for ages. And ML's track record with multiple monitor support isn't great.
I work in an office that has 3 WiFi networks, the strength obviously depending on where you are in the building. All 3 networks have been set up on my iPad 3. I often move around in the office, but find that my iPad never switches to the strongest network, but always stays on the network I have manually selected (assuming there is even a slight signal of that network). I have to manually go to the Settings app to switch over to the strongest network, which is a hassle. Is there a way to get the iPad to switch automatically to the currently strongest network?
Is it possible to unmask the SIP credentials stored in the Preferences of the Zoiper VoIP application ? I couldn't find any password unmask application for that and I can't find the password in my Keychain.
My (application) firewall settings are configured to block incoming connections from netbiosd. I don't recall setting this myself, and wonder what the consequences are.
Is there anyway to show all the windows for one application (aka Exposé) from the window icon on the launcher? I know it is possible by right-clicking on the icon and then "Show All Windows", but I wanted a more direct way, for example: Long pressing on the app icon to show exposé; or Double-clicking the icon; or Shift/Command/... + click; or If the application is already on focus, clicking its icon on the dock will show exposé. Is this possible?
If I set new bookmarks when I'm at work, the changes don't propagate to my iOS devices (which are also with me at work) or to my iMac at home. But if I set new bookmarks at home, they do propagate to my other devices, at least most of the time. I've noticed that sometimes new bookmarks set on my iPhone 5 or iPad 3 don't always propagate to my iMac or to my MBA. But my question is, could my workplace's overzealous (security security!) IT have something in place that interferes with iCloud syncing?
I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: *=URL=* (sound recorded) Any ideas? Thanks!
I have a 2012 MacBook Air Intel Core i5 8 GB memory (Mountain Lion). I am trying to install Wine through MacPorts, but after about a minute of building Wine, CPU usage rapidly rises into the 90s, and the temperature goes from 60 degrees Celcius to 90-95 very quickly. Both the CPU usage and the temperature continue rising until I shut down my MacBook. The fan becomes very loud and occasionally makes screeching sounds. I have tried several times and reinstalled MacPorts but to no avail. What can I do to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
However, my new Macbook Pro will not ring. The party that wants to reach me will think I'm offline because the network connection gets disabled somehow. On my old Macbook, I just need to touch the trackpad and the screen comes on, but on my new Macbook pro I need to press a key (some websites state that this is the new thing on new version such as Lion and Mountain Lion), and the computer will quickly come on, pick up the wifi and only then all e-mails and Skype lines/calls will filter through and I will reappear as online. How can I stay online even when my computer goes to sleep?
I can't even create a new text document in TextEdit, though I can open any existing one. Whenever I click "New Document", I get the following crash report: How can I fix this?
I powered on my Early 2011 MacBook Pro this morning and it will not boot past the grey screen. It gets past the Apple logo and spinner and then just hangs at a solid grey screen. I tried booting from the recovery partition and a USB backup of Mountain Lion and both lead me to a solid royal blue screen. I've also tried resetting the PRAM and still get a grey screen. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
When you setup your dvd drive for the first time it will ask you what reigen you want to set. Each time you put a dvd from a different reigen into the drive it will ask you to change again.
How can I customize the schedule at which Time Machine performs its backups? I am annoyed by looking at the number of times I see the Time Machine backing up several MBs every hour and then the cleanup.
I want to have the phone on silent (no vibrate) and have it ring only for one or two specific people. Is there any way to do this? I know how to turn the phone on silent (the switch on the left side above the volume buttons), but I can't seem to create a "profile" for this (I recall this being possible with Blackberry's).
Is there a way to add the original path of a document as a Spotlight comment in Mountain Lion? I have created an automator workflow that automatically adds the Timestamp and user when a file is moved to trash. It also touches the file, so that its modified date becomes when it was moved (unless of course it is subsequently changed). This way I can find files I deleted by accident more easily. If I also have the original path to the document then I can put it back from where it came (for example if I deleted from search results).
iMore reported back in September that Apple retail stores would soon gain the capability to replace the glass in front of the screen in the store. Has anyone had a repair quoted or performed for an iPhone 5 where Apple didn't replace the entire unit?
So I have a 2012 iMac. I got the base model 21.5" which means I have a painfully slow 5400 RPM hard drive. The pure SSD option would have cost $1,300 ($1 more than the $1,299 base price) if I could even get it but you had to get the 27" to even have the option.
I have a problem with a 15" MacBook Pro (2011, OSX 10.7.5): After being repaired due to a water damage recently, the sound was just working fine. Some days later the audio device in the status bar turned gray and the MacBook didn't play any audio anymore.
Every time I close (command-W) a file I'm editing in TextEdit, it will save any changes without even ask me (and several of those times, I didn't want the changes to be saved). I couldn't find any option on the Preferences to disable this. Is there any hidden preference that can disable this behaviour as it's really annoying?
Update: After some days of no response here nor at ocztechnologyforums, I decided to backup and reinstall the system on the SSD without the fusion drive and with the HDD mounted as /Volumes/Data. This revealed that there is a problem writing to the HDD while reading or writing to/from the SSD. Reading from HDD while writing to SSD works fine. So the problem appears unrelated to fusion drive.
Apple new feature of OS X 10.8 in new Macs "Power Nap" checks email and does make backups. Is it possible to execute a custom script (bash, AppleScript,...) when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap mode? For example pull a git repository or download files.
I have created an app, that sets itself to launch at Login using SMLoginItemSetEnabled. Here is the code it uses. My question is, how can I manually remove this app from launching at login?
My wife went to a site that tries to load a PDF that crashes Safari for iPad. After trying to load Safari again, it tries to open up all of the tabs again including the one that is crashing Safari. While its loading the tab it locks everything up so I can't switch tabs. How do I break this endless cycle? How can I close this tab or have Safari not try to reopen this tab? Is it possible to do this without losing the history?
I got my iPad mini a Belkin case for protection, but it made the iPad mini twice as thick. The iPad mini without the case is so slim and I love it, so i'm wondering if it can do without the case and not get scratched in the back and front easily..
When my iPod's sound is off, the symbol to show that it's off stays on the screen for the whole time until I turn it up at least one notch. But when I do, it turns itself all the way down back to zero, then I have to keep redoing the process every 2-5 seconds, I can't do anything with it on! And this is with and without headphones. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how I can stop it happening?
My MacBook Pro has 8G RAM. Recently memory leak offen happened. Page outs and swap used kept increasing. The last time it used ~8G swap space. But in Activity Monitor, I can't find any process has a large value in 'Real Mem', 'Private Mem' nor 'Shared Mem' column.
I'm trying to install a Samsung 830 GB in a MacBook Pro 2.66 (2009). It boots and works perfectly external using USB (im using it now) but not internally, so I was wondering what I have to do to make things working. I'm running mountain lion 10.8.2 I've searched this issue on Google but no one has come up with a definitive answer
I have scoured the net for some advice on a recent issue with my MacBook. It was for several years fast and silent but now the browser (fx 18.0.2) is perceptibly slower and there is a hum where I touch the keyboard which is not the fan - so I'm guessing hard-disk. Core-2 duo 2GB ram
Late last year in 2012, someone had launched a site that let you upload screenshots (or any image really) and it would embed them into nice stock photos of a Apple phone, tablet or laptop/desktop. It was basically designed for someone making a product web site and wanted to feature shots of the app or web site running on those devices. There was even a shot of a person holding an iPhone in their hands.
When you type something in spotlight, highlight a result and hit Command+Enter, it should open the containing folder in finder (For reference). However, it does not work on my OSX 10.8.2 MBPR. The finder application comes to the foreground (the finder menu bar is shown on top of the screen), but no finder window on the location gets opened. I have BetterTouchTool installed and thought this could cause it somehow, but, having it deactivated, keeps happening.
On a Mac, symbols are often used for keys rather than names. In Adobe Indesign for Mac, the keyboard shortcuts for inserting various break characters are described using what looks like an up arrow / caret / chevron pointing into a flat horizontal line:
Pretty simple really. I have a bunch of photos not in the Camera Roll and I would like to copy them to a PC. There doesn't seem to be a single useful article on the web that helps with this.
I upgraded my 6 year old MacBook Core Duo with a 120GB SanDisk Extreme SSD. The results are pretty incredible considering the age of the computer.
We just purchased an iMac yesterday to view our travel videos. The thing is, all the videos we have stored on our external Hard Drive are in the .MTS file format (AVCHD). The thing is, the Mac or QuickTime won't recognize them. Are there any good / free file converters so we can convert the video files to .MOV as that seems to be the common file format for Macs.
I'm looking at various apps which use GPS tracking, and was wondering if more than 1 app at a time was able to gain access to the GPS data? For example I might want to use one app with route planning for cross country running in order to know where I should be going, and a second app to record where I actually went, and my speeds/splits/averages etc.
Command + ` intermittently stops working sometimes. There's no obvious pattern I have noticed it in both finder and in chrome. The windows are not minimised because I can move the current one and clearly see the one behind it. After a while it goes back.
I have a problem that I want to solve after many years of using Mac OS X Mail.app... I generally like to send plain text emails that are full width (format=flowed) and nicely indented for quote levels. When I receive emails that are in HTML my problems begin. I have the option of switching them into plain text before I hit reply (using alt+cmd+p) or after I hit reply (using shift+cmd+t). Please no replies telling me to answer rich text emails with rich text replies. I want my cake on this one. If I switch to plain text before then generally the plain text will be wrapped to a specific width and also, in some cases I'll get lots of ">" where there should be vertical line quote indents.
I'm trying to open an .nfo file correctly with the mac terminal (eventually with iTerm2) . I've tried it already with vim:
I currently have a Lion Server providing DHCP for my network, and access that server exclusively through screen sharing over Apple Remote Desktop. I would like to upgrade from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server, but am concerned that at some point during the process — especially since the server provides the DHCP service for my network, including the machine from which I access the server — I will be unable to access the server using ARD. Can I perform the upgrade process entirely over ARD, or do I need to dig up a keyboard and monitor and connect them to the server box?
I've not been able to startup my MacBook Pro. I made a backup of Mountain Lion using Lion DiskMaker 2.0.2. When I press option and the power button then select the USB drive, the grey screen with the apple logo and spinner appears then shortly after I get a solid royal blue screen. Is there anyway I can boot from the USB drive backup to fix my computer?
Once every couple of days or so I'll plug my apple headphones in (the new ear pods) and the volume/play/skip controls will fail to work. In order to get them working I need to unplug and re-plugin. It's not that big of a deal to do so, however I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this or knows why it happens.
We run a small business, and the managers would like to have the calendars on their phones synced with each other so that they know what is going on with the other. Most of them are using iphone and one is using an android phone. Is there a calendar app that we can use. Any information is appreciated.
With the cold weather, a rather odd problem appeared on my iPhone 4S – whenever I use the phone in weather below ~12 °C, it turns itself off and claims to be out of battery. This most often occurs when the battery is at 20-30 %, but isn't limited to that at all. When it happens, I've found that rubbing the phone to heat it up helps, but that is a temporary fix, as it turns itself off again if exposed to cold again for a couple of minutes.
The situation: I have free access to Time Warner (TWC) and Optimum hotspots around the USA. Conveniently one is located within range to my apartment. I would like to setup an Airport Extreme or Express to use this wireless internet connection instead of the traditional way of plugging in via ethernet.
Can you install Microsoft Silverlight from microsoft.com and are you able to open the Preferences without it crashing? I'm trying to isolate this problem, and it could be a Mac problem, or a Silverlight problem.
I want to make an application that's in the same directory as a file: message.txt.enc If you open the app you should be prompted with a password dialogue. this should be used to decrypt the file AND delete the .enc file doesn't do the job Please help, Thank you!
Not trusting anyone, not even my own firewalls and other measures against invasive hackers, I like to be able to monitor any successful login to my OS X systems (e.g. by instantly sending an email to my gmail account). How do I accomplish this, including logins via Screen Sharing and SSH? I can see that the secure.log file lists such logins, but how do I monitor them, and filter them for successful logins, in order to issue emails about these events?
My Macbook for what ever reason has decided to just give me a flashing folder with a question mark on it. I have tried restarting holding the Apple key and R - Nothing. I have also tried holding the ALT key on bootup but it just gives me an arrow curser and nothing else.
What is the difference between "This Mac" and "All My Files"?
I want to create a Smart Folder which just lists all files of my ~/Music directory - i.e. just a flattened version of that folder. How can I do this? (I tried to type * in the search field, but that doesn't list all files.)
I noticed that recently when I sync my music from iTunes to the iPhone, the volume of the music is very very slow. For example, I can barely hear it while biking on the street, or if I'm in noisy environment. For sure some albums were louder than others, but I believe in the past it was much louder on average. thanks
My iPhone 5 has recently developed a screen fault: a line going from the bottom left to the top right with other lines and / or a mold-like pattern (the photos don't exactly convey the full effect). The weird thing is that it is not permanent - it comes and goes (although the diagonal line always stays, it just varies in intensity). Unless it's a symptom of a very strange cause, I'm fairly sure that this isn't software-based. I'm very careful with my phone so, as far as I can remember, the device hasn't suffered any physical or water damage. I do have insurance but I'd just like to know what people think so I know exactly what to claim on.
My system has been polluted with references to programs residing in a Windows 7 VM in Parallels 7. For example, Windows programs show up in Spotlight, and in Safari settings under General->Default browser I get an annoyingly long list of irrelevant Windows programs. I've tried to disable "Share Windows applications with Mac" in Parallels settings, to no avail.
Can anyone explain how to build Emacs --with-ns and SVG support on OS X? Notes:
How can I log on remotely from my Macbook Pro to a friend's iMac so as to share her screen, and help her fix things when she has problems? My own knowledge is not very profound, so please bear that in mind with your answers. I am somewhat more at home with Unix than with Mac Os, but still no expert.
I'm running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if there is an easier way to make screenshots which save to clipboard? I know I can use: CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4 However this is hard on the fingers.
In my iChat (now Messages?) buddy list I have a lot of buddies that are not buddies but people I've emailed once. It used to not do this. Is there a way to go back to that previous list?
"supposed to be above" comes from estimated size in Time Machine preference pane. "actually 10 MB changed" comes from terminal tmutil compare result.
Also, if eclipse is modifying the system variable, let me know. I'm assuming eclipse doesn't have that power however I'm new to it. Thanks guys -Austin
I'm running iTunes 11 on my Mac with an old iPod touch (iOS 5) serving as a jukebox and an iPhone 4 (iOS 6.1) as my main device. Both are set up for wireless synching. When I start iTunes, it finds the iPod and synchs with it wirelessly without trouble, but it doesn't find the iPhone, forcing me to connect it to synch with the dock cable. If I disable wireless synching for the iPhone in iTunes, synch, re-enable wireless synching and synch again, wireless synching returns and works again. Until such time as I quit iTunes and restart it.
I've got a WiFi router (Asus) and an external HDD, connected to it by USB. The router gives access to the HDD by FTP and SMB protocol. It's working good as external storage for my MacBook Pro, but I want my Time Machine to create its backups on that HDD. Is there a way to do that? Mac OS 10.8.2.
I'm trying to share a calendar with my partner, and she is attempting to do likewise with me. The first issue is that when sharing a calendar you do not get to select a permissions level, which has to be amended after it has been shared from the default or read/write to view only. There's no fix for this that I know of, it's just annoying and worth a feature request. The second issue which is more annoying is that the permissions level for either calendar is reverting back to read/write no matter how many times I ask it to use view only. I've attempted to change from iPhone/iMac and Web, and the same issue each time. I've removed sharing access full stop and then re-shared the calendars, no luck. I do have a shared calendar with someone else that has stayed in view only, but that was shared ages ago so I don't know what I might have done differently then. Any clues what to do to fix this?
I want to have an application open a new window in the current space without switching to a space in which a window is already open, but I want to keep the When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application setting in System Preferences > Mission Control. In other words, I want to tell an application to open a new window directly, without first telling it to activate. How can I do this with AppleScript (if possible)?
About a week ago, we received a Facetime call from our own email address and it was a complete stranger. Then a friend of ours got a Facetime call with from our email address and they missed the call, so they tried Facetiming back and they got this same stranger. This person Facetimed me again, and I confronted him and hung up. Then he messaged me on my iPhone. How could this happen? What happened? Did he hack our account? We have since changed our apple id password, but how could this have happened? Is changing our password enough? Would he still have access to our information?
We purchased 'How I met your mother, Season 8' through iTunes. and this worked well for Episodes 1-14, however episodes 15 and 16 are not viewable, and are requesting to be purchased for $2.99/ea.
I've found a few companies that offer replacement iPad digitizers (the digitizer is the glass/touch screen part of your iPad), but I'm worried that they might be different to the official one.  Having broken the glass on my iPad 3 I initially spoke to Apple, but they wanted far too much to repair it ($400!). I then looked into third-party repairs (which were still quite pricey), and then discovered DIY repair kits. Replacing the glass doesn't seem too difficult, based on the tutorials I've looked at, so my only concern now is the quality of the replacement kits.
I have an iPhone 4, and want to upgrade to an iPhone 4S. Can I just buy one and switch my sim card?
I open My Documents in finder. Click CMD-J and change the font size to 10. I choose set as default. The font size looks right on My Documents. Then I navigate to Applications, and the font size is 12. Is there a way I can change my font size on all folders? Thanks!
I'm running a iOS 6.1 on a jailbroken iPhone 4S. I was one of the many to jailbreak my phone when evasi0n came out. As some of you may know, Apple has released iOS 6.1.1, an 'emergency' update for some battery and other issues experienced on the 4S. I'm one of those affected by the battery issues (its not the jailbreak's fault, I'm very conservative with what I install).
The problem occurred after installing the update SMC 1.6 on Apple - OS X Mountain Lion: First for a long time was a white screen and noisy cooler After the system battery icon was crossed out and the indicator on the left side of macbook does not show anything and everything worked cooler at high speed (he was cold macbook) After reboot appeared crossed circle and the system has stopped running I took out the hard drive and connected via a USB adapter to the same Macbook pro and have to boot from my hard drive - as a result the system has booted and gave to make a full backup timemachine My macbook does not boot with any device (Hdd, Usb flash, DVD, other HDD) while on other laptops these devices make it possible to boot Any ideas? My macbook does not boot with any device (Hdd, Usb flash, DVD, other HDD) while on other laptops these devices make it possible to boot Any ideas?
Is there any tool which I can use to effectively diff two Keynote '09 slideshows? TL;DR
Some older USB devices such as flash drives or mice work on my Macbook 2007 model, but newer ones are not recognized. Any ideas about the diagnosis and the cure?
I am using 'show related messages' to enable conversation view in my apple mail inbox on mountain lion. I also have a bunch of imap folders, but this setting seems not to apply here. However, I can enable it for a single message using the 'show related messages' item in the view menu. This only seems to affect the preview pane for that message (i.e. I don't get a count of related messages in the message list) and resets to the normal single message view if I navigate away and back again. Does anyone know how I can enable this by default for imap folders?
I was wondering if anyone know if it is possible to connect your iPhone/iPad to a router via WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)? I would like to bypass entering my password on my iOS device and speed pairing similar to how printers can get on the router with a PIN or first attempt.
After installing p5-app-ack using Macports I can see it is installed correctly. I can not run it however. I get ack: command not found. and which ack displays nothing. How can I see where port installed my ack and how to add it to the executalble PATH?
I've just got iphone 5 and I wanted to restore it with my iPhone 3G information (mainly SMS). I try to restore it with iTunes by clicking the backup I had from my iPhone 3G but it says gives me an error message: Restore failed. How can I restore my data onto my iPhone 5?
I have a Macbook Pro with 3 partitions: HFS (OSX) FAT (Ubuntu) NTFS (Windows 7)
Delete key in my MacBook Pro works as backspace in other Windows keyboards and Fn + Delete works as 'delete forward' as an ordinary delete key in Windows keyboard. How can I change the keyboard setting so that I can use both 'delete forward' and 'delete backward' using only one key-in?
I have hp mini 210-2080nr booted windows 8 i have retail os x 10.6.3 copy please help to install it.I want to install it using only windows.
When I reply to a mail message, the reply is sent using the default email address as defined in mail.app, and not the email address that it was originally addressed to. I have all accounts correctly set up and active.
I'm setting up some macbooks for use in a cart for a school. Students would share the computers. When users first run any office applications, they get a window saying that they need to put in their first name (last name/company name optional) in order to continue.
I just purchased Fake yesterday thinking I could use it to help automate my Craigslist ad postings. Unfortunately I am at a loss (I'm not very technical) on the actual ad description/posting screen. I've attempted to use the "Set Values of HTML" form to populate the price, number of bedrooms, ad title, location, and the ad's body. The problem I am finding is that the id names in Craigslist seem to change every time the screen refreshes so Fake has an error when I run my completed task.
I want to install a fresh version of mountain lion via usb stick on my macbookpro (early 2011) + new Samsung 840 SSD. (NVRAM cleared, HDD Empty)
I put my 1 year old iMac (running OSX 10.8.2 with all updates) to sleep in San Diego. I then tried to wake it up from Vegas using my other iMac (same OS) using the following command:
Will the message " is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash" occur even if you just rename the application?
I often use IDE's for editing and the shortcut for mission control interferes with my shortcuts within aptana and or other editors. Is there a way to disable the apple shortcut (control+▲) for osx 10.8.2 ?
I know that Evernote has about 4 gigs of stuff in my file system. I know this because I recently switched to a non-app-store version of Evernote and it "copied" my files and listed them at 2GB.
I need bridged networking under Parallels for a VPN from the Windows VM. However, this conflicts with my main OS (Mountain Lion) using the same adapter. I'd be happy to direct the mac to wifi (AirPort) and the VM to Ethernet, but how do I do that?
TL;DR; Version: I'm looking for an app (preferably free) that will allow me to past an image from the clipboard and save it either to my photo library or to an online service. Long Version: Several months ago I had some photos stored in my Dropbox which accidentically got deleted without my knowing. I recently realized the photos were gone and that I had no backups of the photos. The other day I was in the Dropbox app on my iPad in an area which did not have Internet access. I noticed that Dropbox had in its cache a bunch of the photos I had lost. However, Dropbox will not allow me to import the photos into the photo libary or print them or share them; all of these actions return with the error "Unable to Connect to Dropbox - There may be a problem with your iPad's Internet connection." I can't enable the internet connection because that would sync my Dropbox and loose the photos. The "Copy Image to Clipboard" action does work, however I can't find any app that will let me paste the im
I have been trying to write an Applescript to help me saving attachments, but realized quickly that I do not have the knowledge to do such a difficult script. Here is some background.
This happened to me a number of times: sometimes, when I reply to an email with multiple recipients, instead of replying to all, I reply to the sender. Is there any way to prevent to do it? e.g., a Mail.app plugin that warns you about such an issue?
the last update caused a white screen with a grey symbol. OSX 10.8.2 doesn't start. I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 I can do nothing. Recovery, Internet Installation, everything failed. I found out that the wrong SMC Version was installed. It installed 1.68f99 and i need 1.62f7 (SMC 1.6) The boot ROM Version is right. What can I do? Can somebody help me? BR Stefan
I want to "connect" a Fake Action to an HTML Element on the page via XPath, but when I try to connect the Element, the Element is specified by HTML id attribute instead. How do I force Fake to specify an HTML Element by XPath when "connecting"?
Has anyone gotten one of those Korean monitors to work with a mini displayport to dual link DVI adapter? I've tried 3 adapters with no luck. Here is the monitor I bought: http://www.ebay.com/itm/27-Inch-Matrix-NEO-LED-270WQ-IPS-2560x1440-WQHD-Quad-HD-Monitor-/150864434755?item=150864434755&ViewItem=&nma=true&si=LLI%252FYLl2RdhxKxhvii5dnZfi%252BXQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I have been using voice navigation in Apple's Maps app for iOS 6. I keep the phone in one of my car's cup holders because I am mostly using it in my home area where the maps on the screen aren't necessary. But when each navigation instruction is announced, I see the screen come back on. Sometimes I have my car charger, and sometimes I don't. But regardless of that, the screen coming on when I don't want to or can't look at it is just wrong for this usage scenario. Can I do something to keep the screen off and only use voice navigation? EDIT: I reported this to Apple through bugreport.apple.com .
Since I am using the Bluetooth Keyboard and the Magic Trackpad, my MacBook Pro crashes during the sleep (it doesn't wake up and becomes very hot). Then I need to switch it off using the hardware on/off button. I found out that the setting that makes the bug appear is the "allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer" from the Bluetooth settings:
I have and iPod touch 4th Gen. I got it when it was first out and it is 8GB. However whenever I use it, the Battery goes down to less than 20% in the First hour. This makes me very annoyed. How do I fix it?
I have a Macbook 2007. It has worked very well until now, the trackpad does not respond at all, it simply stopped working. How can I debug this?
I've had an iphone 4S running 6.0.1 for just about a month. I find that it has trouble connecting to wifi when I'm in my room upstairs. It connects fine downstairs (which is where the combo. router/modem resides.) I tried a Macbook to test the connection in my room and it had a very strong wifi connection. What can I do? The wifi seems to work well in other situations, including at work, which is in a hospital, so I'm sure I'm not near a modem/router.
When I'm looking in the store (iTunes U, specifically), many of the titles are cut off, ending in "..." I thought the standard "hold the cursor over the text" would show a little window with the whole name, but no. The only workaround I found was making the iTunes window wider. Any way to make the column wider, or otherwise show the whole name? (There's no way to change the column width by dragging at the top, like you would in your iTunes library).
Looking for recommendations for a good offline GPS tracker for SE Asia (Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand, specifically). I was looking at Gaia GPS, but I can't quite tell from their site if they support anything outside of the US and Canada.
There's a bit of a story, but the nub of the issue is we have forgotten the answers to the security questions on an Apple ID used for purchasing apps and music and can't reset the answers / questions due the security email address pointing to an account we don't control. Here's the rest of the story...
I'm using the Mail application bundled with OS X 10.8. When switching from Mac OS X 10.6, I noticed that Mail now always includes a text/html part, alongside the text/plain part, in messages that include an image as attachment, even if the message's text has not been formatted in any way. Adding a different file type as attachment does not show that behavior.
I lost all of my pictures from my iPhoto after updating it to the newest version. How do I find them?
I have a Mac running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 - previously it was Snow Leopard. In the past few days I've noticed this happened:
In the /etc folder of my system (OS X 10.8.2) I see a bunch of files named with the "~orig" suffix (e.g hosts~orig, passwd~orig, etc). What are these?
In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup. Is it possible to export apple mail.app rules for use with procmail? If not for procmail per se, how about exporting to other formats that might be an easier intermediary between Mail.app and procmail?
I wanted to try the Chromium OS builds from *=URL=* but failed to create a bootable USB drive. I followed the steps on the site: Download the Mac builder Download the vanilla .iso Run the builder (and tell it to use the .iso) But when I tried to reboot and hold down the option key, the USB drive didn't show up.
Inspired by this question on Stackoverflow, I noticed that my Java control panel reports that I have the latest version of Java installed (and I know that, because Safari is not blocking the plugin any longer), while the command line version seems to be different. From Terminal: Java 1.7.0_06 is not the latest version, as far as I know. Hence my question:
Since my primary hard disk is encrypted with FileVault2, I also wanted my backup drive to be encrypted. I plugged in my external drive, brought up Disk Utility, and went to erase/format the disk. I chose Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrptyed). However, I couldn't find out what kind of encryption it uses. Does anyone know (and/or know how I would look this info up via a command or system utility)? Is it the same as FileVault2?
I'm using rsync on my iMac to backup folders to a remote NAS box. On my NAS box, I have a folder called Backup, and my rsync script should backup to this folder, an example is below:
When using iMessage my entries are not being shown in the order in which they are sent and received. For example, instead of getting the following: I get the following: How can I make the messages appear in proper "chat" order?
I recently set up IPv6 for my home network via a tunnel. I have a /48 subnet and have assigned manual IPv6 addresses to my stationary Macs. I would like to set up my laptops to get a dynamic IPv6 address which is same every time I get onto my home network (wired or wireless). The aim would be to be able to connect to these machines via IPv6 from the outside.
I am writing a generic script that can get passed both absolute and relative (to the current working dir) paths to existing files. I need a fail-safe way to turn all those passed paths into absolute paths because I need to pass the paths to the "open" command, which in won't pass the current directory to the launched app. One idea I had is to check if the path starts with a "/", and if not, then I'd prepend the current working dir's path to it.
I was helping a friend to do a clean install on his Macbook Pro with the bootable Mountain Lion USB disk (By holding down the option key at boot up and choosing the USB Installer) but I got stuck with the following screen. Since Apple is descriptive about its error messages, could you guys let me know what could be the problem here is?
I had to install windows 7 on my macbook air (...) and I'm having trouble getting it to work with the thunderbolt display. As soon as the display is connected, the wifi doesn't work anymore. Device manager shows the broadcom wifi device with a warning sign. It works nicely when I reboot without the display plugged in. Of course I've installed the newest Bootcamp drivers!
I installed a 2nd hard drive in my late 2012 mac mini. This hard disk had Mint Linux - 12 on it (Installed when it was in a different computer). Pressing the Option showed me two additional hard disks one of which successfully booted Mint.
How do I get rid of it? It doesn't show up on task manager. It isn't dead, it responds to the mouse wheel and scrolls up and down. Screen shot below...
I have a lot of family photos and home video stored on network folders (my PC, my NAS) accessible via wi-fi. Are there photo manager and photo editor apps for me to directly work my pictures on my IPad?
Assuming I'm writing in Terminal: 'ctags', how can I know the full path of the command 'ctags?
When I connect my macbook air (2012 early I think) to a DELL U24-something display through a DVI the colors on the display are really weired: it is like all the colors are really desaturated and low-contrast and some selected colors are very saturated and strong. I tried changing color profile but then it only got worse.. when I have a Windows PC connected the colors look great.
I've download ctags from Homebrew, which was installed in /usr/local/bin/ctags. Currently I have an older version of 'ctags' which is located in /usr/bin/ctags/. I want the new version to be the default when executing ctags via the Terminal. How can that be achieved?
I'd like a quieter/more efficient cooling system but I don't know if there's anything out there for a Mac Mini. Any hardware options?
I am looking for an iPad app (Android app references will also be considered useful) which allows reading PDF files and annotating them with a stylus, resembling the experience I would have with a pen and a piece of paper as closely as possible. This requires:
I want to create videos of myself doing app demos on my iPod, how do I create a video version of screen shot?
I have been racking my brain trying to understand how Push Notifications and Local Notifications are handled by iOS devices. I have come to understand that Push Notifications refer to those notifications that come from a server through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) while Local Notifications are scheduled on a device by a delivery time and date without any connection to a server. However, on the user end all notifications appear the same and are seemingly managed as the same whether in Settings>Notifications or within an in-app settings page.
I purchased a new domain for my website at Hover.com. I pointed the name servers to my host provider. Everything works smoothly when I access the site on my iPhone, iPad, on my roommate's laptop, or any other machine.
So my lovely system that has been working wonderfully is finally out of date, as enough developers are no longer supporting it. I have to upgrade to Mountain Lion on my intel macbook.
I have the gmail app which lets me sync my work and personal gmail accounts. I want to be able to sync both google accounts with a calendar app as well. The default calendar only supports one. I installed calenmob and its really nice but also only supports one google account. Is there a calendar app that will let me sync 2 google accounts? I am using an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1
I'd like to extract content of old .chm file into individual html files. Is there an app or command line tool for this?
With OS X, how do I get Safrai's location-bar search to use a particular language? This problem arises because I live in Japan but I don't want Japanese results. The following URL will let me do English-language searches regardless of my country: *=URL=* But how do I get Safari to do the right thing for me (search Google in English) every time?
I have a bunch of files I want to upload to web page. Unfortunately the web form for uploading only allows me to specify one at a time (it spawns and 'open file' dialog). Is there an easy way to do this with some combination of automator/applescirpt?
The following text message popped up on my iPhone, and it doesn't seem to be coming from the Message app or any other apps on the phone. Obviously this is a spam. But which app is showing this message, and how worried should I be? (I am listening to a podcast in Downcast app when the message appeared.)
My iPhone 3G is growing old -- yesterday I noticed that it didn't make any sounds anymore, and phone calls also muted (I heard nothing, other party didn't hear me either). It turns out that the phone erroneously thinks that a headset is plugged in. I noticed because the volume control popup shows "headset."
I am trying to list of bluetooth devices from my app. My Bluetooth is enabled in settings but doesn't detect device names.
When trying to convert or resize a dmg image I get the error: or (hdiutil error code 35).
I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files. I have tried everything. I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching. Please help somebody as it drives me mad how Apple makes it difficult to change.
Is it possible to lock the position, or delete the options for earlier or later, of the Calendar app on OS X? I don't want anything before 8am or after 10pm, but the calendar moves too easily, so I may not always be aware of some entries.
I occasionally run into the following first-world nightmare, usually when trying to run open source software (in this case Inkscape on a Mac Pro running Lion, though I've seen this error before as well, I think with Wine and OpenOffice if I remember right): First, it fails to open with this error: The application X11 could not be opened. An error occurred while starting the X11 server: "Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running"
The display on my MacBook Pro has recently died so I have been using the hdmi adapter to display the screen on my lg tv, which has been fine for a few day apart from the resolution not being ideal. Trying to fix this I un-ticked the Mirror Display option, making my tv a secondary display. Now I have no way of changing this back as all the options are on the primary display on my MacBook which has a dead screen!
Seeing this question made me think about upgrading my iPhone 3G to iOS 4.x, if that's still possible. I've deliberately kept my iPhone 3G on iOS version 3.1.3 because that's the final 3.x version; I tried 4.x when it first came out but decided to downgrade again (while I still could!) because I felt 4.x was too much of a burden on the little device.
I have the latest Xcode installed, but I can't "quicklook" plist files (I mean they appear as an xml file instead of a table). Is this normal?
I opened my terminal and saw a shell prompt. How do I change john to alex?
I want to force the GPU on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 (A1286) to remain on the integrated GPU while I run VMWare Fusion 5.x. The gfxCardStatus software doesn't work on 10.8. Is there another solution?
I'm on a Mid 2012 MBP with Mountain Lion. I recently enabled FileVault on my boot SSD drive as well as encrypted my other hard drive I put into the optical bay. So far, so good.
I have an old Canon CanoScan FS4000US Slide Scanner. I have connected it via USB to an Intel iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5, and in System Report, I can see that it is connected. Also, when I disconnect and reconnect the USB cable, the slide tray ejects on the scanner. What I would like to know is if there is any way to mount the scanner properly as a device so that it will be available in Image Capture. I downloaded VueScan, a third-party software, that is able to see the device and process a scan, so there must be some way to get the drivers to see the device in Image Capture. Any ideas?
I have an issue using the Apple Thunderbolt Display. I have a Dell XPS laptop with Windows 8 where I connect to the display over Thunderbolt, but every time I try to listen to some music or video, the sound comes from the screen, not from my laptop, even if I plug headphones into the laptop. How can I solve this problem? I want to work using my laptop and the screen but I want to redirect the sound to my headphones. Is this possible?
I recently used AirDrop for the first time to send about 30GB of videos to a friend while we were both connected to my internet. Two days later I got an e-mail from my internet provider saying I was over 50% of my monthly bandwidth at 50.31GB, and this was only a couple days into the "new month". I haven't downloaded anything these first few days of the month, nor have I been browsing/streaming much over my network. I'm wondering if AirDrop is the reason why I've burned through a bunch of data.
I'm looking on Apple's site and can't find any published limits on how many clients can connect to one iPhone / iPad with cellular tethering enabled in the US. Setting aside the obvious limit where 1,000 devices would overwhelm the data connection in practice if they all want data at the same time, is there a hardware or software limit of perhaps 5 or 10 devices that can connect to one device over WiFi?
In iTerm2 (fullscreen mode) my pointer is permanently a "text select" pointer. It bothers me, so I would either like to change it (to the regular arrow-type pointer) or disable it when in my fullscreen iTerm2 instance. Is this possible? I'm on OSX 10.7.
Looks like my issue has been around for a while (iOS 5.0.1 (iPhone 4s) unable to synchronize with Internet Calendar File (ics)) — has anyone come up with a fix yet? I am trying to sync my iPhone calendars with the calendar on my PC that is in .ics format. The .ics file is located on a home server that allows both me and my wife to see each other’s calendars and its been working great. Now, I want to be able to see my calendar from my iPhone 4 (with OS 6.1) .. and I’ve tried setting it up with: Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / Add Account… / Other / Add Subscribed Calendar. With every possible configuration I can think of, I get the same response: Calendar Subscription — Unable to verify account information
I just purchased Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac last week. Outlook CONSTANTLY crashes. I have tried everything… uninstall and re install twice, rebuilding main identity. Please help! I am so frustrated since I just purchased this. I am running Mountain Lion as well. Here is the error when it crashes: New error after taking MERP update and Office update 14.2.5: Took SP3 for Outlook so now using version 14.3.1 and new error:
In a Terminal, if I type beginning of any command by pressing tab I can see the rest of that command. However this feature does not work with any words I type after sudo. How can I complete command names even after I write sudo?
Does anyone know how to download the data analysis toolpack add-in for Excel 2011 for Mac? I have looked around quite a bit and can't seem to find it anywhere... did Microsoft discontinue this completely?
I have a NAS box that is "Wake On Lan" enabled. I'm struggling to find a way for to utilise this with my TimeMachine backups from my Mac (Mountain Lion). My intention is that may Mac will wake the sleeping Nas when TimeMachine backups are scheduled.
I have a DVD I was trying to rip, and handbrake froze up when scanning it. I tried to eject the DVD by dragging and dropping it to the trash, which trashed the icon, but didn't eject the DVD. I then forced Handbrake to quit, but without an icon on my desktop to select, how can I eject the DVD?
Assuming it would cancel the time machine prompt. Only when did the finder eventually relaunch that the drive mounted to see that all my files where gone and looking in thermal under ls -a to see their we're spotlight and time machine files along with some oddly named thing. About 1GB Is in use on the drive(I had much more that a gig on it). It is a TB drive Here is the output from the ls -a in the Volume
I use Mail.app connected to my work's IMAP server. About two weeks ago I noticed that when I moved messages from the INBOX to an Archive folder, or delete the messages, some eventually come back to the INBOX. I haven't been able to catch the moment at which they come back, but they definitely do.
I'm trying to identify an appropriate global hotkey to set in iTerm2's preferences for showing/hiding it:  I'd like to avoid any conflicts with other applications' hotkeys or other future use. Are there any blocks of key combinations reserved for user assignment in OS X, or groups of key combinations which aren't generally used, which would be particularly suitable?
If all phone lines are down (meaning a local or national phone line outage) and with all cell phone towers being down, is there a way that I could send a iMessage (or an SMS) to other iPhone users by using iCloud Service (your offsite server farm)? I am trying to figure out if a Cloud-Push Manager could push my message to all receivers, who are registered.
If I do so, will something, such as a service, break?
How does my iPhone choose which music app to start when I pair with the Bluetooth unit in my car? I'd like it to automatically start Spotify every time, but sometimes it starts playing from the Music app, even if I've used Spotify earlier that day.
I have a 2009 15" unibody MacBook Pro. It came with a 250GB, 5400 RPM hard drive. Will a 7200 RPM drive make it overheat?
I have an iMac mid-2010. It came with Snow Leopard when I bought it. Now, I'd like to install Windows 7 64-bit on my iMac. Should I install the Boot Camp drivers from the DVDs that came with my computer, or download the drivers using the Boot Camp Assistant that I have now in Mountain Lion?
Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive i need to know if this hard drive will work with my computer? I have 8 GB of memory (maxed out) I also need to know also if this is a good hard drive.
I have recently successfully cleaned my hard drive and restored data with the TimeMachine backup. Now I would like to prepare backup of "new" system. Do I have to clean the drive first?
I've enabled iTunes Home Sharing on 2 Macs, and I want the remote iTunes to start up directly to the shared library instead of the default local library and manually selecting "Shared Library". Much appreciated.
Is it possible to get the external Magic Trackpad disabled automatically while I'm typing? I do get a lot of cursor movements/clicks when just touching the trackpad accidentally.
I just Create one Directory to .dmg file using Disk Utility. Can anyone Please Tel me how to convert .dmg file in to older Directory-folder.
I want to insert a page number in my iWork document. I clicked on Insert and the Page Number title is grayed out.
Few months ago my MBP (Early2011) started to give a kernel panics after resuming from standby. This doesn't happen instantly, usually 1-10 minutes after resuming kernel panics do not follow a clear pattern I reinstalled the entire OS X 10.8.2 reset SMC and NVRAM did run memtest did run AHT Hardware: Intel SSD 330 & HDD (removed the DVD),8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB. Here are the last few panics: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uw325nsr3zfbw2v/_YYGyT50mg
Is there a pdf creator or something that I can convert my Numbers file with all its formula still working. The file is a price calculator with choice of products. I dont want the client to change elements so pdf is the way to go (I think). Please advise.
I currently have an OS X server (running 10.8.2) that has irssi installed, and is set up to send Growl notifications to my laptop when I am mentioned or have received a private message on IRC. However, Growl only appears to have options to start when a graphical login is done: trying to run it in a terminal over SSH gives: Running it as a launchd daemon also doesn't seem to work, as I can't use growlnotify to create a notification. It runs normally when started as a login item or via the Finder, but this is unideal for a server machine, where I only want to login via SSH.
I have an unusual problem: I have a small ball of silica gel stuck on my Macbook Air headphone jack. Any ideas how I might get it out of my headphone jack?
I have a Macbook Air, and I want to know if there is a way to instantly lock my screen, using only my keyboard. I saw that it is possible to lock it using the following shortcut: Control+Shift+Eject. But since Macbook Air didn't have an Eject key, how could I still lock my screen using a similar shortcut?
I currently have Macbook pro 13' and I am trying to games like Samurai vs Zombie and Contract Killer 2. Both of these are not highend games with not so detailed textures. Yet they get stuck after every click. Is there some way to do away with this ?
When I download mp4 files from Safari, I'd like them to open automatically once they have been downloaded. How can this be done? Safari Preferences->General->Open "safe" files after downloading is checked. I want to automatically open file that might not be "safe".
There are hundreds of threads regarding Mac OS X 10.8.2 wifi problems, but no thread is describing exactly my issue. I have a MacBook Pro 2011 with OS X 10.8.2. Since around two months I have trouble with my wifi connection.
I'm trying to build a command line tool to look up definitions of words, it's only a dummy app for me to practise my C++ skills. I know there is a list of words stored at /usr/share/dict - but what I'm really looking for is the path to the New Oxford American Dictionary data, it comes bundled with the system, but I couldn't find it yet.
I'm using oh-my-zsh and iTerm2. I've also enabled the zsh-vim-mode plugin from oh-my-zsh. One of the annoyances I've encountered is my right prompt (RPS1 & RPROMPT) doesn't seem to show up. I'd like it to indicate what vim mode I'm currently in.
usually if I paste something in the input line then want to change something in the start or middle, I have to press the left arrow for a long time, is there a faster way to do this?
I am trying to figure out how to control what group a new contact entered on my iPhone 4 ends up in. I have a couple thousand business contacts that are organized by type. However when I enter a new contact on my iphone it ends up in the all contacts group along with all the rest. There is no default setting available in contacts' settings.
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Linux server sharing files via NFSv4. I mount the share on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I have the NFS share set up to automount in Disk Utility with default mount options.
I am unable to run an installer with .packproj extension. I am unable to find anything via Web search.
Anyone know why this happens and how to make it show only one instance of each?
My springboard has frozen and the lock button is broken (two months out of warranty and it's not classed as a hardware failure). How do I restart the phone given that I can't access any apps or settings?
How do I find my iPhone 4 using my samsung admire Phone via MetroPCS
I'm following this guide: *=URL=* I've attached my main.log file, but this is the error I get: From the guide, I've tried:
When I open the Mail app on my iPad the last email read is always displayed. Is it possible to change this behavior?
I've been trying to setup reverse SSH tunnelling from outside my network to home but I've beet getting no-where. My setup is all Apple: two Macs behind an Airport Extreme, one at x.x.x.20 listening on port 22 and the other at x.x.x.30 listening on 10,022. I've setup NAT on the AP to forward external ports 22 to the x.x.x.20 and 10,022 to x.x.x.30. I want the tunnel to run to x.x.x.20:10022.
Hi I am using MacBook 2008 model. I've installed Win XP using Bootcamp. For past few weeks I notice that when running Win XP, after few minutes (approx 15 to 20 mins), laptop gets shutdown automatically. This does not happens when running OS X.
I just bought a third-gen Apple TV, and I don't want to have to open Settings to put it to sleep every time I'm done using it. It seems it won't fall asleep automatically for quite some time, so I'd like to know how much power it draws when not in use.
I have just sold my iMac 27 inches for the reason it being too big! I will avoid mentioning the reasons, but...
Is there a way to copy text message in a pop-up window like this is possible on Windows machine by making pop-up window active and then pressing CTRL+C?
My Mac 'dies' if it has less the battery level is below 3%. Is it possible to force it to hibernate when the charge is at 5%? I have a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro with 683 load cycles and the latest SMC available (1.47f2)
I'm trying to create a short alias for creating System dialogs from the Terminal. I tried to create a Bash function (since an alias didn't seem to take arguments) and add it to my .bash_profile, but it's failing me. My latest attempt is: But when I execute it via the Terminal, I get Even though echo'ing the CMD variable gives me a properly formatted command:
My problem is that I have manually mounted a NFS network share on my Mac and that now the system keeps on trying to remount it and doing so it displays an annoying focused popup telling: "There was a problem connecting to the server ...". If I close it, it is coming back several minutes later, and so on! I have rebooted the Mac but I was greating by the popup once logged back in. How can I tell my Mac to stop trying to mount the NFS share and forget it? Recently, I was trying to do some benchmarking for my home server (HP MicroServer with NAS4Free or Fedora) to find the proper configuration set. As the main client of this home server would be my Mac, I did the test from the Mac and mounted the NFS share using: mount -t nfs -o tcp,nfsvers=4 ip:/path ~/Projects/mnt It did not work, so I switched back to NFSv3: mount -t nfs -o tcp,nfsvers=3 ip:/path ~/Projects/mnt
The keyboard of my Macbook Pro mid-2010 has stopped illuminating in low light. I checked my System Preferences of my Mountain Lion and there is no "Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light" at all. Also F5 and F6 don't work either while F3 or something like that works perfectly.
Since the November 2012 update to Moutain Lion, I keep getting these weird graphical issues. The list of woes: Sometimes after the laptop wakes up from a long sleep, when trying to launch any applications, they all crash with the following kind of stacktrace exhibiting a problem in CoreImage/OpenCL: (Crash report snipped for convenience) I experience the same graphic artefacts (white noise) corruption overlayed on different UI elements like opened windows, the Finder icons in the Cmd+Tab list, background image,... like so: Screenshot For corrupted windows, any action that issues a repainting cures the issue but the others (Finder icon, background image) stay (probably because they never repaint) until the computer is rebooted. In what is a persisting problem afterwards (even after rebooting), any template icons (or otherwise shader-processed-behind-the-scenes icons) disappear from places like status bar/toolbar/side-panels: Toolbar area screenshot For this last one, the usual tricks of
I want to be able to 'su' to a specific user, allowing me to run any command without a password being entered. For example: If my login were user1 and the user I want to 'su' to is user2: I would use the command: su - user2 but then it prompts me with Password:
I recently upgraded my macbook pro 2008 (not unibody, running 10.6.8) to mountain lion. Directly after the upgrade finished the machine ran smoothly. But after a reboot it does not boot at all (no gray display, but noise from fan and hard drive) and does not react to any keyboard input (so no SMC/NVRAM/PRAM reset, no Target Mode no Recovery etc). After some research I came to the point that I could not do anything but giving to a apple for repair, but I am still curious to understand, which component could have failed when upgrading.
It's important to note that I won't actually be attempting to run a production website off of SkyDrive. No external users will be using the site in this manner. This is just to make my development processes a bit easier.
My husband and I have different Apple ID and iCloud photo stream. When I take photos on my iPhone, registered to my Apple ID, can I have them automatically uploaded to my husband's iPad 2 registered to his Apple ID?
I don't want to disable Apple software update, I just want to prevent myself from accidentally overwriting my iTunes 10 with a working Party Shuffle/iTunes DJ with the new iTunes 11. I have iTunes 11 at work, where it doesn't really matter what I've got installed because I can't play music during the day, and I've tried to come up with some combination of smart playlists that effectively duplicates iTunes DJ... but it doesn't work. The tools aren't there. So, how do I do it, how do I selectively block updates for iTunes 11?
So jailbroke the ipad successfully and tried to ssh into it using terminal and it works. I then tried to change the root and mobile user passwords which also went smoothly. Now when i try to SFTP it using the same credentials using a client like transmit. It fails saying - The user name or password was not accepted by the server.
I just purchased a Corsair 16GB Memory upgrade for my 2.4GHz 13" MacBook Pro, but I have not been able to make it work. If I put both modules together or one of the modules alone the Mac wont bootup! If I put one of the old (original) 2G Memory modules and a new one the computer will work ok and will recognize the 10G memory. Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Hector
I am running the latest software. This is a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.8.* latest. I am on a Macbook6,1. I am using my internal optical drive installed in a external enclosure(from OWC) after installing another drive in place of the optical drive internally. The external enclosure is USB 2 with two type A connectors for sufficient power. Everything works great, but when I create a disk image from the optical media in Disk Utility, everything works as expected, but once finished, the disk is greyed out and shown as not mounted, but when trying to eject it, I always get the error that it's in use and can't be ejected. To solve this, I have to close and open Disk Utility and everything works. Is there a fix for this?
What commands (or script) can create a fully functional user account on Mountain Lion, running only from the command line via terminal or ssh. It looks like an existing pair of answers might work, but I wondered if there were a short script or tool for creating fully functional user accounts on Mountain Lion?
I'm on an iMac mid-2010 with OS X Mountain Lion. I disabled the feature that reopens windows the next time I startup my computer after a restart, but for some reason the windows that I had open when I shut down still open on startup. How do I stop this from happening for good?
Is there a way to determine geolocation in shell / Terminal on OS X 10.5? There's another question, Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal?, but it seems to only be concerned with the currently-latest OS X 10.8.
I've two external hard drives attached to my MBP Retina OSX Mountain Lion. Whenever I open the Finder or switch to a Finder window, if either of the hard drives are asleep, there's a several second delay before the Finder opens while the hard drives whizz up. This happens even if I'm not opening the hard drive folders at all. This also happens when I try to Save a file even when the default location of the Save dialog box is nowhere near the hard drive folders.
I like the Storage Spaces feature in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, but since I'm mostly working on Mac computers I would like to know if there are any Mac alternatives or equivalents.
I have enabled an option on my mac to ask for permission every time I open an network application, But I can't seem to find out how to turn it off. Where would I disable the below dialog?
I'm just curious to know if any iOS device (particularly, in this case, the iPad 2) closes the open tabs when I run out of battery ?
Why is my iphone 4 unable to charge immediately after updating to iOS 6? I am using an apple brand cable, I tried it on my computer, and I tried it in multiple wall outlets, no change. The charge is now 0% and I cant do anything, but before I did I powered down and did a restart and it did nothing. Phone was working perfectly before hand and now I don't know what to do. This less than 24 hrs after updating FYI. I'm really mad!
After enabling iTunes match, my library is cluttered with hundreds of tracks which I don't own / haven't downloaded. They have the "cloud" icon on them which makes me think they are either from iTunes Match - or maybe Genius. How can I get rid of these tracks from my library, they are driving me nuts.
Why am I not allowed to change any of the preferences in Finder's General preference pane, except for Spring-loaded folders? I am allowed to change any of Finder's Labels, Sidebar, or Advanced preferences, except for Show all filename extensions and Show warning before emptying the Trash.
I have disks burnt commercially on a windows system, which my 2010 iMac (OS X 10.8.2) refuses to read. I know the disks are correctly burnt for windows (tried them on the vendor's win machine - probably xp) but os x says: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"
My MacBook's drive is typically fully functional (for most discs), but I've recently noticed that it refuses to read discs with a paint coat (such as most commercial software). What could have caused my MacBook to experience such an issue? (it didn't happen before).
My wife and I can't figure out how to post a file from the Pages.app on her iPad to a Yahoo! group. From Pages.app, she can email the file to herself, but can't post it to the file sharing section of Yahoo! groups.
I click on the email icon as usual, but it just quickly pulls up the email and then disappears. What's going on?
I have an iPhone 4s. I'm happy with the default Camera app, however every time I import photos to Picasa or email them or use them on a website or something they're improperly rotated. This is because the iPhone doesn't rotate the photo, it only saves rotation in metadata, and it is extremely annoying. So are there any good camera apps that actually rotate the photo (not just metadata) and saves photos to Photo-stream and saves photos and videos to the camera roll/Photos app? I'd even pay $1 or $2 if need be, but it has to save pictures to the same place that the default app does and has to rotate properly.
I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file.
I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a 2008 MBP. The right-click on my mousepad activates the context menu. A single right-click displays the menu, and it stays visible until I make a selection or click away from the menu.
My Apple trackpad seems to rotate counter clockwise (I am right handed) through my use of it over the day. This happens several times normally during the day. It never used to do so when it was new but it is doing it now and I am using the same desk.
I have an iPhone 4S and I changed to the US store to view an app not available in the SA store. Now I cannot change back to the SA store. The message comes up that I need to change with no directions on how to do this. How can I change stores?
I try to install libicu-dev using apt-get And i get the error
On my phone, I'm am enjoying a new tweak called MailStop which sole purpose is to limit my reflex of checking my mail far too often. I have set it to not allow me to start the Mail app for five hours once I have already started it. This has had a great impact on my mail checking abuse. I get to stop and remember I'm checking it far too often every time I try to open it during these hours. There are other ways to limit the Mail app abuse with this application, but my question os the same as the title: Is there a way to limit how frequently you can start an application on the mac?
Whenever I search for a particular message, the results throw up tens of seemingly related messages/part messages from what appears to be the "bin" folder. What exactly is the bin folder (junk, spam...)? How can I stop these messages from appearing in my searches (or anywhere else for that matter)
Force quitting and re-opening the App Store doesn't help, nor does a reboot. When I open the App Store, the update is still at the same process. Is there anything that I could do to get the update to finish installing? Here is a screenshot of the App Store in this state:
If I have downloaded Install OSX Mountain Lion application file from the Appstore, I can use it as an installer on multiple machines. Any idea for how many machines will this be valid? How apple verifies a valid install?
My Mac is constantly writing the same following error message to system.log: Throughout the day this accumulates to thousands of messages which forced me to simply press the "Ignore Sender" button to spot other entries.
We've got an account at work that was setup by someone else in the past. It controls our apps in the app store. We'd like to make some changes, but do not know the password. I've tried the "Forgot your Apple ID/password" thing, but am not getting anywhere. "security questions" mode asks us things we don't know and the email authentication doesn't work (as in, we never receive the reset request at the account's e-mail address). I've confirmed that e-mail method reset requests make it to our domain fine by doing it on my own account. It just doesn't seem to work for this particular very important account (which I get forwarded to me, and have tested fine from other domains).
I have a Macbook, and the specs are: OS x 10.5.8 2.2 Ghtz Intel Core 2 Duo 2Gb 667 Mhtz DDR2 SDRAM mini-dvi out I have a Samsung LED TV with HDMI in , Component in with twin phono in I have succesfully mirrored the laptop screen to my Samsung TV, no issues with visual, but i cannot for the life of me get the sound to come through my TV. I use a Mini-DVI to HDMI adapter and HDMI cable to my TV, and when the sound didn't work I bought a stereo jack to twin phono, and hooked that up via headphone socket on my Mac to the L/R input on my TV but to no avail. All cables have been checked and work properly, and I have gone to system preferences/sound nothing is muted and my Mac recognizes that something is pluged in to headphones, but it doesnt come out the TV. I have also checked all settings and configs on my TV but again to no avail. What can I do to fix this? I am at a loss, any help would be greatly appreciated, I can do screenshots upon request.
For some contacts the preview in the recent chats list shows wrong informations. When I click on the preview, I get a totally different chat in the detail view. Running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Any ideas?
When I open a Save as dialog, Finder starts to scan my external TimeMachine drive which needs to "boot up" some seconds. This makes the dialog very unresponsive, because it waits for the drive to be ready. Is it possible to disable the TM drive for such things and just allow the TimeMachine feature for it?
I have a 3rd gen 32GB iPad with a 3G/LTE connectivity (and the latest software) and let me be clear from the start - the WiFi is working perfectly fine for me and I've had no problems with it whatsoever. The problem is with my iPad causing quite a serious WiFi interference for some other devices on one WiFi network (at my friend's house). It happens only on this single WiFi network and I am 100% sure it is my iPad causing the problems.
From searching around, it seems like there may exist URLs for the command line tools that may allow me to download them from the command line. (see, for instance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329243/xcode-4-4-command-line-tools)
Get Info on an .app does not produce the signature information. On Windows for example, right-click > properties will expose who signed the file. How do I obtain that info for a given .app on OS X?
Issue: I try to launch MAMP Pro, enter my system password then it sits there trying to connect to MySQL. This has been running fine previously.
I have an iMac with the 10.4 OSX operating system installed. When I boot the computer it prompts me with this message: "Your startup disk is full. You need to make more space available on your disk by deleting files". I am able to login and see the desktop background, but I cannot see any menus.
Does anyone know a comprehensive Mac app to create SQL Diagramms? I think *=URL=* is quite good, but it's a little bit too basic.
There used to be the ability, perhaps before OS X, to send messages accross the local network, which displayed a popup on the receivers machine with the message. Is this still possible? Or is there another way to send a message to another member of the network? If this isn't possible, could a text file be sent, with a message, to a recipients Public folder? Preferably with the terminal. (I realise there are lots of aps which do messaging, but I was curious if this was possible without installing software or setting up iChat etc)
Somehow, I appear to have Scroll Lock on, which 99% of the time is irrelevant, with the 1% of the time being in Microsoft Excel. As the keyboard on my MBP (Model 9,2) doesn't acknowledge the existence of this key (or a couple others I often want to use, e.g. Pause, Insert); how can I un-Scroll Lock my keyboard?
I'm about to buy earpods, but since i have iphone 3g, and i didnt find any info on its compatibility, would like to know if they will work with old iphone? AFAIK every 3.5inch headphones will work
A game that purchased a while ago in the Mac App Store is now "not currently available in the U.S. store", but continues to appear in my Applications folder as a download in progress  and shows an error in the App Store's list of apps that I've purchased
I have updated my iphone software to 6.1 on my 3GS and now my cellular data network is not available. Can this be fixed or can I restore an earlier version again?
One day I was surfing the web when suddenly a large clear square appeared around my cursor! I honestly don't know what to do about it, but it seems like there could be a simple fix. You can see in the picture below what the box around my cursor looks like compared to the normal screen. Is there something I can reset or do to clear the box that encircles my cursor?
So I hope this makes it clear that Apple's fan speed scaling is a bit on the conservative side when the temperatures are high. From what I can tell, once you get the machine nice and toasty and the load "stabilizes" it will generally be in a state of equilibrium where the CPU core temperatures hover in the high 80's and 90 degrees C, making occasional excursions above 100 degrees C. So long as the 105 degree Tj Max point is not passed the computer keeps up with whatever game you're playing just fine.
Is it just me, or is there no Flagged folder on the browser version of the iCloud client?
On my iPhone, for the Gmail app, I sometimes get "new email" notifications on my lock screen that were from hours ago even when I cleared them (I unlocked the device after they appeared). Even when the lock screen is clear of notifications, then one of these from Gmail appears, it will have the timestamp from a few hours ago rather than from "now".
And, because the scripts directory is on the path, this file will be found and executed (at the top is #!/usr/bin/env osascript). However, when I run To try and run the compiled version, I get: zsh: exec format error: get_front_app_name.scpt
I upgraded to iOS6. Something went wrong, and after the upgrade I needed to use an iCloud backup to restore the iPad.
I would like to give some restricted access to my OSX 10.8.2 to somebody who's using Windows on their computer. TeamViewer, VNC, LogMeIn, etc. all work fine, as long as I do not want to use my mac at the same time. Is it possible to give remote users the option to login and see the GUI and run limited apps without disturbing the user logged-in on the console?
Macbook Pro Mid 2010 after SMC update 1.7 shuts down and now by pressing power button front light turning on for a few seconds, optical drive makes it's usual noise but no activity on monitor happens and it's not powering up. Battery and Charger are working fine also resetting the SMC is not helping.
I have two accounts on my MAcbook Pro. One for work and one for home. I recently wanted to share a Keynote presentation between both accounts and the iPad. I logged both accounts into iCloud using the same iCloud account as well as the iPad.
Currently Safari shows the url of the open page without mentioning the protocol: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask Is there a way to have Safari show the protocol in the address bar: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
Some days ago Apple refreshed the MacBooks pro and I'm looking for either well sourced reviews of the hardware capabilities between the models or real world experience to help me value the increased cost of the i7 (3.0 GHz) over the i5 (2.6 GHz) on the new Macbook Pro 13" with retina display (ME662LL/A which presumably will be marketed as an early 2013 model). I've done some research on Intel's site and, by my reckoning, the CPU release dates / frequencies imply Apple is using 2 possible CPU for the new 13 inch with Retina that ships with 256 GB of storage (which like the CPU can also be upgraded for additional cost).
Is it possible to display Desktop 2 (Mountain Lion) in an external display? The thing is I want to use Full Screen applications in an external display while using my Laptop display for non-full-screen applications. With the Mirror Display unchecked, when I drag an application to the external display and set it to full screen, my laptop display goes black.
Is there a way to require a password to login to single user mode? I don't want to use a firmware password, because that will not only disable single user mode, but also Startup Manager (which I use to boot from a USB). I don't like the idea of anyone with physical access to my computer having more privileges than my user does.
My OSX 10.8 works fine until today. Multiple applications quit unexpectedly, including Chrome, Evernote, Pages. It can't be fix even if I reopen or reinstall these apps.
Question is in the header. I know that Google Chrome stores his history in sqlite database, and there's impossible to sync Chrome's history. Can I do this with Safari? I didn't find this option.
I'm running tmux and creating many sessions to various servers. After opening 128, I can no longer open new ones, or open new tabs in Terminal. The error messages is: Is there any way I can increase the number of ptys?
I want a remote access to my Mac. I'm looking for a hardware solution - a thin client (zero client), PCoIP client - a hardware client, which can connects my Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse over network to my Mac. Does such hardware exists?
I am working on a project where I need to process 4 channels of audio input, simultaneously, and in real time on an iOS device. I cannot find any compact 4-input USB audio interfaces claiming to be compatible with iOS. Do external USB audio interfaces connected via the camera connection kit need to be authenticated to work with apple devices? Will any class compliant USB audio interface work?
I'm trying to automate the creation of an encrypted sparsebundle and configure backup for a 10.7 machine using a TimeCapsule. I've created the script below http://pastebin.com/D2nQk1j1
Is there a way to set a MacBook Pro (10.8.2) to go into normal sleep when I close the case but then switch to hibernation after, say, 15 minutes? It's clearly capable of going from sleep to hibernate when the battery runs low, but I haven't been able to find out if that behavior can be triggered by anything else.
I have SSH working fine on my Mac. I created a new "standard" account but I can't ssh in with it? Why is this and how do I remedy it?
I have a 1tb hard drive. Long a go I split it it into two partitions.
How to create playlist based on Up next songs in iTunes? Even better- how to save playlist you are currently playing, based on your history + Up next?
I've recently been forced to work on a mac book for work. Since I'm a dev I bring my own keyboard rather than just using the macbook one, I had no problem with plugin my keyboard but the mapping are still those of a mac keyboard ( I'm using a french layout ).
I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail. I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my browser and read the links later.
My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is the best way to diagnose this issue? Is there a tool that'll watch the processes as they startup upon booting up? I know about Activity Monitor, but because the system is so bogged down I can't open it until after things settle.
Is there a way to permanently switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari OSX 10.8?
In Apple Numbers I want a cell to have 4x8x7 (or 4*8*7) to show the detail of the volume, and in another cell I want that volume calculated 4*8*7=224 based on the first cell. But it doesn't consider the first cell as an operation. Which formula can help ?
To my untutored eye, this seems like a major security risk to the full-disk encryption. It could be a back door to obtaining the key to decrypting the entire disk. Prior to this, I was under the impression that the disk could only be decrypted if you have a password or a recovery key. If this back door is really there, then I could imagine someone taking the SSD out of the Mac and reconstructing the process used by the Guest account to obtain the key to decrypt the disk without a password or recovery key.
I am searching for a closed source or open source (MacPorts) internet filtering which blocks Black magic (for example Tarot) web sites. Very important that this also works with Russian language (example Google query) Background info: my customer is a Catholic single mom.
Mac chat/instant-message programs like Adium, Jabber, and AIM require you to enter your chat service account login and password information in the preferences, to enable them to function. How can I be reasonably sure that entering this information in the app(s) is secure? I am concerned that the apps may be forwarding my account credentials to unknown or malicious locations.
I'm trying to access an internal website to view CCTV cameras with an iPad. It will only show the desktop version. I want it to show the mobile version, as it serves the camera streams in JPEG as opposed to the desktop version which uses ActiveX (which obviously doesn't work on an iPad). An iPhone views the mobile version and it works fine.
However, once it boots, it still hangs on the apple logo, and isn't recognized by the computer (host or guest). If I boot it into disk mode, it is recognized, and iTunes shows the "Welcome to your new iPod" screen; the iPod is wiped, and presumably installed the new software. I've searched and searched for an answer, and although I've found numerous posts on other sites similar to my problem, most of them haven't worked for me.
I have an iPhone 3GS 32GB. I have just tried updating the phone using iTunes. The phone is second hand, and was unlocked when I bought it. I didn't know that when you try to update it, it loses everything. Now it isn't reading my SIM, even though I've used this same SIM in the phone before I tried updating it. Now, when I turn the phone on, it comes up with:
I have multiple machines on my network that I access regularly using ssh. I want to enable remote access through port forwarding, which means I'll need separate sshd ports for each machine. That said, I'd like to continue to use port 22 for local access.
When I download iTunes apps, music, etc.. content, the download speed fluctuates a lot and usually falls to around 64kbps. This is very impractical and time-consuming. Whereas, if I download other files through my browser, I get 512 kbps (my actual connection speed. I use a broadband connected with a cable, not WiFi).
Why does running LLDB or instruments require elevated privilages?
Does Time Machine backup system files, kernel files and other OS-related files? I have corrupted system drivers and files and I want to do a fresh install of OS X but I also want to back up my applications, files and folders. I wonder if I should go with Time Machine or manually backing up each file.
For some reason, sometimes my notification area icons are invisible in Windows 7 64-bit (Boot Camp, on an iMac mid-2010), as seen in this screenshot. Clicking on an invisible item does nothing. Restarting the computer will fix them, though. These icons are invisible during about 25% of all Windows 7 startups. This installation of Windows 7 64-bit is completely fresh; I just installed it, then installed the latest Boot Camp drivers, and that's it. Anyone know what's going on here and what I can do to fix it?
Sometime in 2012, Adobe Flash asked me to update it. I tried, but it didn't work because my browsers (firefox and chrome) didn't support the newest flash. I tried to update my browsers, but neither firefox nor chrome supports mac os 10.5.8 anymore. Safari keeps telling me to update flash too. I know that using an older version of flash can be a security hazard, so I really want to update. My question: Are there any browsers (perhaps a firefox variant) I can use more safely now than the browsers that shipped with 10.5.8?
I setup a PPTP VPN on mac os x lion, on the advanced tab I do not have the send all traffic over VPN connection checked. I only want traffic to a specific server connected to go through the vpn, everything else should not be sent over the vpn. Where do I look to find out which IP addresses will be included for traffic over the vpn and which ones will not?
I need to buy an Apple 12W USB Power Adapter for my iPhone 5. In eBay you can find replicas for one third of the price. Do you know if these can ruin your phone? I am more cautious about a third party adapter than just a simple cable, so if you could address if a third party cable were OK or more safe to use with an Apple Power Adapter.
I'm looking for an OS X tool which allows me to search and replace a search string in multiple files. The requirements are the following: Search and Replace Search by regular expression Search across multiple files Search across nested directory structures Replace expression can use values from the search (Regular Expression) The tool has an easy to use user interface Preferably free I know that some text editors like BBEdit have this functionality, but I would prefer a lightweight tool that doesn't require me to open the files for editing first.
I created a bookmark / Alias (via finder) for an smb share after mounting it. That's quite fine and working for me at it's best. It automatically mounts the smb store when acessing the alias and I can browse into the share without huddle.
Say I've got 5 files, and I'd like to select just two of them. In Windows I would select file 1, then press Control, and then click file 5. How could this be done in Mac Os X?
I need to buy a Lightning to USB cable for my iPhone 5. In eBay you can find replicas for one third of the price. Do you know if these can ruin your phone? If I use an original power adapter, a counterfeit USB cable will have any impact?
I'm keeping a lot of old email archived in the OLM files (I was using PST in the PC). Unfortunately this is using 20GB of my 128 SSD and I'd like to move them in an external disk. What is the best way to do this?
We've got a late 2008 MacBook (already upgraded to 4GB RAM), it's fine -speed wise, but when checking the activity monitor were very close to running out of space -RAM wise. What I would like to do is upgrade the RAM to 8GB, but checking the Crucial website, it looks like the most RAM I can get in is 4GB. Is this correct or is there a way I can upgrade to 8GB? What would be preventing you using 8GB RAM?
So I am at a point in a rabbit hole of troubleshooting programming problems (a lot of it seems to involve my gcc and fortran compilers, but I have long lists of libraries interfering with one another) where I feel I need to just (somehow) get a blank slate and reinstall everything (and strategically not do a number of things), I have my time machine backups for everything, as well as file backups for all of my regular content. And have done the basic prep as recommended here
I'd like to cleanly remove all changes made by MacPorts as well as MacPorts itself, to try my luck with homebrew. How can I do that?
How can I cleanly remove Homebrew. I might have a faulty older installation, and I'd like to have a fresh start.
There is a question on "What is VPN on demand, and how do I get it to work with iOS?", however its accepted answer lacks detail.
This is possibly a non-issue, but the Finder icon that appears when you Cmd + Tab has some strange graphical noise on the top. I can't remember how long ago it happened, or if I made anything strange before it appeared.
I've set a rule in apple mail. It's very simple. If a specific individual sends me mail it moves it directly to the destination folder. The problem is that it does not notify me that a mail arrived! If I open mail program I see that I have one new massage in the directory, but the apple mail icon at the dock have no notifications at all. Is it possible to configure Mail.app so it shows unread count in specific other mailboxes, in addition to the inbox?
having to work on a mac and used to Linux like virtual desktops I quickly activated surfaces to get my usual workspace on. Thing is, I recently had to upgrade to OSX lion in order to get XCode and Lion seems to have removed the possibility to create a 3X3 layer of virtual desktop. Obviously I unsuccessfully googled my problem without finding anything except some people complaining about this removal and so paying software offering a different virtual desktop solution. Is there any free virtual desktop software that I could use on OSX lion or any settings that will revert the virtual desktop to the way they were before ?
I forgot my passcode so I go on iTunes to restore it, but after the restoration, it says Activation Error after I put in the Wi-Fi Settings. I have tried it many times but it still hasn't worked.
How do I make those who connect to me via a shared internet connection use my /etc/hosts file? I was thinking something along the lines of creating a DNS server, but I was hoping maybe there is a simpler solution?
I trying to add a Fantastical event with AppleScript. Aparently the Fantastical Suite is quite simple as there is only one verb.
Shared Photostreams are a fantastic way to keep in touch with family and relatives. Comments on Shared Photostreams make them even better as this allows discussion about the action in the picture. However, here is the problem lies: there are two subscribers who share the exact same name (one married into the family, attaining the same last name as well) - for clarity, let's say "Jessica Smith".
I am trying to restore my new iPhone with the data from my old iPhone via iCloud. I have tried to follow this tutorial, but unfortunately I cannot connect to wifi during the setup process (my wifi requires me to activate each device via safari/some other mobile browser).
I was using my iMac 27" 2010, doing some work online. From one instant to another, internet stopped to respond. Unable to ping the local router, I initially believed it crashed. However, the rest of my home network was fine.
After uninstalling of Acrobat Reader from OS X 10.8.2 Safari doesn't display pdf's. I suppose that Acrobat uninstaller didn't remove plugin from Safari. My question is how to cleanly remove Acrobat Reader?
Is it possible to mount a network volume so it's seen by OS X and data recovery tools as a local drive? Or are there any data recovery tools on OS X that work with network volumes? I'm using OS X 10.8.2 and the device I'm trying to recover is a FreeNAS 8.0 volume attached via AFP with no ZFS snap shots. Also, the volume spans 2 * 3TB drives, and ~5 TB were lost due to an rm -rf command in a malicious script.
After downloading music from iTunes, audio suddenly stops and become uncontrollable with volume controls.
I have a registered apple account ending in @me.com and a gmail account as well. This is causing extremely frustrating email problems as I am not able to view any emails sent to my @me account on my phone email and they don't show up in my gmail other places so I am missing important emails. How do I get rid of this damn @me account or at least solve this mixing problem?
I just got an iPhone 5 at work, and have discovered the only way to get a different ringtone on the device is via iTunes. However, work will not allow iTunes to be downloaded to Corporate PCs. I have iTunes at home, and wanted to know if I logged off iTunes with my personal Apple ID and logged in with my work Apple ID, could I add a ringtone to iTunes and then sync it to my work phone.
I have an LG Tone (HBS 700) Bluetooth stereo headset, and am using it with OS X Lion. The headset has a play/pause toggle button, but unlike my keyboard's play button, which will toggle play/pause for, say, VLC media player if it is running, the headset's play button will launch iTunes if it is not already open, or toggle play/pause in iTunes if it is already open. It will not toggle play/pause in any other media player.
I've installed a great little app called PushDialer for my Mac that is letting my initiate iPhone calls to contacts remotely from my Mac. It seems to work by installing an Address Book plug-in, so that when I click on a phone number in the Contacts app, 'Dial with iPhone' appears as a choice on the context menu.
I have two third gen Apple TVs and a Macbook Pro running 10.8. I use the remote app on my iPhone and iPad all the time, but it seems silly that I have to reach for them when my Macbook is right on my lap. I'm not looking for a remote iTunes solution or home sharing, I want to actually be able to navigate the Apple TV menus from my Mac and do things like launch Hulu+ and Netflix.
I have a 1/8th" line-in jack in my car, so it is easy to plug in arbitrary devices, but would rather have the ability to just press play when I get in my car and not bother with cables. In order to accomplish this, I bought an Outdoor Tech Adapt Bluetooth Adapter some time ago, but it has a few issues that bother me.
I don’t dare to quit Safari if I want to keep the tabs opened, because this happens quite often on my MacBook, running OSX 10.8.2 and Safari 6.0.2. Is this a known problem?
I know that a similar question has been asked at superuser. But I tried to grep for "time reset" in my /var/log/system.log and I can't find any instance of it. In fact, I even searched in the eight archived copies of system.log (system.log.0.bz2 through system.log.7.bz2). All I found when grep'ing for the word "ntpd" are lines like these: Following @Raolin's suggestion, I now see lines like this in /tmp/ntpd.log: I'm not sure if the lines containing 'ttl' means it's trying to sync.
I have a Jabber account configured in Messages. When other people on the server change their buddy icons, the changes are pushed to my machine. I want to override their icons and force Messages to display an icon for them that I select.
So, last week my hard drive died. I took it to a repair shop, and the person said the hard drive died. I asked why, and he says it just happens (even though my Macbook Pro is only 1.5 years old). Talking with him, I mentioned that I transport my Macbook in sleep mode; he said I should not do that. Always shut it down, before transporting; he said, the hard drive failure may be unrelated though. Now, I checked the internet, and the online consensus seem to be it's ok to transport while asleep (though you should wait for the hard disk to stop spinning), but I'm not too sure.
is there a Google Talk (gChat) client for iOS that: does not prevent messages showing up in other clients does not alter or send messages, add signatures or other spam?
Both for kicks and for budgetary reasons, I'd like to take a package that would normally require a developer account and build an app to run on a jailbroken iOS device. I have a 5th gen iPod Touch, jailbroken using evasi0n, running iOS 6.1. I am using Xcode 4.6 with OS X (10.8.2) Lion.
I'm trying to automate CCleaner, so far I can start the application and click the button that starts the cleanup job, however I'm relying on a delay to determine when I should move onto the next portion of the script. I don't particularly like this approach and would prefer to detect when CCleaner is finished running (it may be much sooner or later than the 10 second delay).
I have a new mac (purchased about 3 months ago). Somehow the downloads folder isn't pinned to the bottom anymore (I didn't delete the folder, I somehow moved it). I tried minimizing the folder and then dragging it to the right of the line but the other icons don't move. Does anybody know how to fix this?
There is no item 'History' in 'Chrome menu' as suggested here: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95589
I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I am trying to share contacts through text messages just as I used to do with my iphone 3 but I do not know the correct taps and/or gestures to do this.
I have an iMac mid 2011 at home. When I was not home, I may need to access my mac with Screen Sharing. However the iMac display will turn itself on when I connect via Screen Sharing. The problem is I don't want to scare my family at home (with the elders and kids) as the iMac "turn itself on suddenly".
Normal Behavior: When highlighting a word on a webpage, and right clicking on it, a contextual menu pops up; you can get the dictionary definition by choosing, "Look Up 'SelectedWordHere'". However, if the word you want a definition for is also a hyperlink there is no option in the contextual menu to look up the word in the dictionary. Any hints on how to get this to work? Without copy and paste.
Can I install a HP Deskjet Printer on Snow Leopard (10.6.4) without access to 'Apple Update'? Scenario: Have an outside worker using a Mac on our secured Samba environment. We are not adding the Mac to our network due to security concerns. The worker does not have internet access at home, yet requires a HP Deskjet (6540) installing for use in the office. The HP website mentions:
I changed the shortname of my user account, but it seems to have caused an issue with some files (especially homebrew stuff), which are still owned by the old username. My old short name was cannyboy, and my new one is cannyman. How would I go thru the whole hard drive and change ownership of all cannyboy to cannyman, without changing any other attributes of the files?
On my Mac I use three user accounts. From what I understand when I'm logged in as one the processes of the other accounts are suspended. I switch between them with fast user switching.
I have created the plist and placed it in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/. However, when I reboot my Mac it does not load like it is expected to. I am able to load it from the Terminal with launchctl load and unload commands and it is perfectly loaded from there. And also I have checked the console after reboot and it does not have any entry related to the plist. How can I get this plist to run on boot?
I have a movie file. It was taken back in October but the date created is from last week. How can I change the date created information in the file?
I'm using OS X 10.8.2. By default the system folder icons differ in symbol- and list-view in the finder. If I use the list view a small icon (16x16px) is displayed. In symbol view finder switches to a 128x128px icon. How can I define both of these icons with my custom images?
I just replaced the screen of my macbook air and now the backlight does not work. When I turn on the laptop, the screen works but the backlight does not turn on. I've tested with a couple of screens but no success. Is the problem with the backlight LED, or fuse or logic board, is there any solution? Model: Macbook air, 11 inches model A1370, 2011. Any help would be highly appreciated.
So far, I got my Open Directory seted up server.name.private I created a new user in the Users tab, named test The Home Folder is setted up for my Homes folder, which is on a secondary hard drive. This file is shared with File Sharing, and have read/write permission for the group of my user. If I check the folder permission in the Finder, it is strange, but I don't know how to clean them. Each group is there two times, and they have Custom privilege
I have around 17000 tracks and I think quite a few of them are leveled improperly, is there a way to have iTunes do it again? I have iTunes Match, is this going to cause problems?
I just installed iTunes 11 and I cant seem to find any place to activate the cover flow. Did they remove it? Can I re-enable it? If I can't, does anyone know of a way to downgrade with out uninstalling and re-installing? EDIT: I am using Windows XP operating system.
Simply put, this is what I want: I want to take a unique printer preset that has already been made and make the OS default to it any time that particular printer is selected to be printed to. I know how to edit a particular printer's 'Default Settings' preset through the CUPS web UI, but this solution doesn't work for me because one of the printing options I need to change doesn't appear in this UI (for science: the printers I'm working with are Konica Minolta Bizhub C252, C353, and C364; the setting I'm looking to change is make the default color "Grayscale").
There are some way to know, by the icon, if it's a package (like a .app) or a single file? I'm talking about some app or config that adds a flag in the icon, or something like that.
We are in an area where there is extensive construction going on so internet connectivity to our building is frequently interrupted. My iPhone 5 is set to backup to iCloud. I am connected to a local WiFi router in my office for said internet connectivity. If my iPhone 5 is in the middle of an iCloud backup will the backup fail outright and attempt to perform a backup at a later time (when internet connectivity is restored / present) or will it pause and resume when connectivity is restored.
The following code to purge a directory recursively does not work because I cannot get past the Application Support folder. If I use ~/Library/Application Support/Google... nothing happens. Which is expected.
I am running Mac OS X 10.8 Server with File Sharing and Open Directory providing home directories to network users, so when users log in their home directory is automatically mounted over AFP. Is it possible to enable "Legacy" FileVault (FileVault 1) where the user's home directory resides inside an encrypted DMG sparsebundle when the user is an Open Directory user whose home directory resides on a network share? I know this could be done in 10.6 server for mobile clients but I do not know if it can be done in 10.8 server.
I recently got a Mountain Lion laptop from work and every time the App Store checks for updates, it reports updates as available for iMovie and iPhoto. However, I have neither installed and when I allow the App Store to attempt to upgrade, it complains You can not update this software since you have not owned the major version of this software. I'm not particularly interested in using either piece of software, but it's annoying to constantly be asked to update and then to have the updates fail. Screenshot:
I need precise control over sound output for a physics experiment with two speakers. I would like to play a pre-generated wave file exactly as it is, without any post-processing. Most importantly, the two channels must not be mixed at all, and preferably no non-linear transformation should be applied to single channels either (this is less important because some non-linearity is unavoidable when the signal goes through the analog hardware).
I was dragging an email message in Mail.app and intended to drag it to another folder. I accidentally went too far and then I was dragging an icon around the Dashboard. when I went back to Mail.app, the message was still there but missing the attachment. Where did it go?
I just received my new iMac, with Moutain Lion and iLife 11 preinstalled. I also own an older Mac, for which I bought a few years ago Snow Leopard and iLife 09. Now, I want to get rid of iPhoto 11 and reinstall my good old iPhoto 9 as I like it much better. I tried to reinstall it with the iLife'09 DVD I have, but the installer doesn't let me install iPhoto (and iMovie), but would let me install iWeb. Is there a workaround so that I can use iPhoto 09 on my new iMac ?
For several weeks now, my friend’s MacBook has been plagued by this sound, randomly occurring while running: *=URL=* We’ve never been able to reproduce it, and it has persisted on her machine across Archive & Installs, and a clean reinstall (10.8.2) and migration via Migration Assistant (System Library and ‘Other Files’ deselected). We only even have a recording of it because I had her run QuickTime and record everything she was doing (audio only) until she caught it.
I've just recently got my first Macbook Pro. I'd like to change the resolution of the inbuilt webcam, because my daily GoToMeeting chews through 1-2Gb of traffic and there's no flatrate available from my ISP for my connection.
I know I can get (Desktop) Safari to stop unarchiving downloads. I don't mind the files being unarchived. I just don't want the zip archives deleted. Is there a way to do this? (10.8.x).
I seem to have lost my first backups, they disappeared from time machine!.... Is there a way to get back to them?
Finder is often unresponsive. Also in many software, like xcode or any project. I used to be able to right click and select open in Finder. Now if I do that nothing happen.
I am entering the login item from the terminal but, this command is not working for me: What am I doing wrong?
Is it possible to somehow build a smart playlist that deals in albums rather than individual songs? IE, Find all songs without album art. Sometimes songs without album art are in an album where the other songs do have art, so it's useful to be able to grab the lot and reset it.
I'm really new to Mac OSX and UNIX based systems. I wanted to run a few Windows games on my Mac Mini so I started installing Wine and MacPorts.
I am running iTunes 11, and have just plugged in my iPad 2 (running iOS 6.1.2) in. I would like my back-ups to be unencrypted, but I can't uncheck the check box that would allow me to, as you can see in the screenshot:
I am thinking of making use of iPad to show customers a dynamic presentation. Customers will have access to an iPad for it and I won't take part on it, so more than a presentation it will act like an iPad application. (internal links between screens...etc.) Which would be the best way to do it?
Buying a used iPhone 5. What should be my next steps to register as the new iPhone owner in Apple's eyes, have warranty, etc.
If I create a simple App, would it be possible for me to install it in any other devices without having to upload it to the Apple Store and wait for the reviewing process?
I had a clean install Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro, early 2011. Following suggestions in the forums, I carried my "Mail" folders (folders, preferences, etc) from my cloned backup of Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion Mail automatically created the necessary accounts in the new way it is set up. However, the local Drafts folders do not include my drafted messages in individual IMAP e-mail accounts (yahoo, gmail, uni, etc).
I would like to test if a keychain is there and if so mount a server disk. How can check if a keychain is there or not in a script? Thanks for your help.
Actually I really need a clean ML on my Macbook, will the Internet Recovery function delete the system folder (not user folder) and replace a clean installation to it? I need a clean system with no third party software installed and I need to keep my personal folder (I have almost 800GB of my data in my harddrive and I currently have no space to backup my data using Time Machine) Thanks.
What happens if you interrupt following command I realized that time will not permit me to finish. What happens when I Ctrl+C me out of this? Am I left with something that could be continued where it left off? If so, would that be as simple as re-running the command? Or am I going to find what is not unzipped, and can I run the command for the "leftovers"?
How I can move the clock, by default at the far right side of the menu bar, to the middle of the menu bar?
since 10.8 was installed on my mac, when i try to update itunes, or airport utility, it always gets stuck on "installing - less than a minute". then i have to shut the computer from the power button since it wont restart or shut down, and then when i try updating again, it gets stuck again. i tried fresh installing, and it happens on the next update. i tried repairing disk and disk permissions, same. why does this happen? am i the only one with this problem? is there a solution?
When I start terminal the cursor position is 1 position righter then it should be and there is a gap between last symbol and the cursor. How can I fix it?
I want to provide a mac to a remote worker with my project folder. Its ok if they try to take pics of the code but i dont want them to copy the whole folder. Is it possible? how? UPDATE: Can I just create new user account(non-admin) and disable file copying somehow?
Support for OS X versioning is spreading among apps (e.g., TextWrangler has just added this feature as of version 4.5), but it is unclear what the security implications of this are. For example, if I use an app to store important or sensitive information, I will make sure that the file is on a password protected, encrypted volume; but I worry that OS X versioning might circumvent this by storing versions in an un-secure form and location.
I am running Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Server and using Open Directory to provide managed preferences and user accounts to the Macs on our local network. Any AFP shares on the Open Directory server "Victoria" which are marked as "Use this sharepoint for home directories" are automatically added to Open Directory as automounts. But I want to add other automounts, specifically those on a different AFP server, and one on an NFS server.
Is it possible to order a new MacBook with a keyboard that's non-standard for a given country? Let's say I want to have a Norwegian keyboard, but I'm living in Australia. Is this possible? And if it is, how to do it? I've asked in one Apple shop, but I really hope their answer isn't the final one.
I also verified that the preferences property list file affecting this setting shows it as being off. In ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist I see:
Is there anything like RetinaPad for the MacBook Pro Retina? Essentially, it would be something that would automate the process of setting NSHighResolutionCapable to true so that text would render properly, even if all the graphics aren't updated yet. If this doesn't exist, would it be something that could be accomplished using SIMBL?
I really hate syncing my phone these days because whenever I do I have to wait for all the apps I've downloaded since last sync to transfer to the computer. I download a lot of apps so this process takes for ever. So: can I opt out of backing up my apps?
On windows usualy for karaoke purpose some audio cards provide possibility to change tonality on fly, is it possible under Mac ? Is ther any additional software which can do it ? or maybe terminal command ?
Everything went fine. Except now when it tries to back up I get an error message:
In the Phone app (iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.2), I click on a contact's number, the call is initiated and starts ringing. For a brief moment at this point, the label of the number (home / work / etc…) is displayed alongside the contact's name, but it quickly is removed and replaced with the call timer counting up and only the name (and picture of the contact) are shown.
Recently made a jump to Mountain Lion and it appears Apple added a feature to the screenshot function (cmd+shift+4) that zooms in when it is a small screenshot. It's a pain and I want to disable it permanently. Is there any way I can do this? Example screenshot
If I remember right, in earlier versions of OS X, it was possible to "drag-and-drop" to rearrange Login Items so that they start in a different order. Under OS X 10.8.2 this doesn't seem to work. Short of deleting all the entries, then re-adding them by hand in the new order I want, how else can I conveniently re-order them?
I just upgraded from MacOSX 10.6 to 10.8. Many of my projects depend on Mac::Glue, Mac::Carbon and their ilk. Even though Mac::Glue comes bundled with MacOSX 10.8 perl, it doesn't seem to work: Mac::Glue is 32-bit: /usr/bin/perl claims to be compatible with that architecture: I'm running MacOSX 10.8.2, perl 5.12.4.
I set up FileVault a month ago on this new machine. Everything seemed to be working fine. But now when I go to System Preferences>Security & Privacy>FileVault when logged into a Mobile Account I get a warning that: You’re using an old version of FileVault.
How to change format of external hard drive from ExFat to HFS+ without losing data? What are limits for maximum size of a file on both formats?
I have edited /etc/php.ini and have inserted the following line of code to set the subject variable: However, within a Joomla website on this host, the PHP Information screen says that this variable is set to only 2M. I have restarted Apache, then I restarted the machine, etc. Nothing seems to allow me to change this var. Installing some Joomla extensions requires this limit to be higher. Any ideas out there?
I have a Dell 27″ monitor with the DVI input connected to my Windows machine and the DisplayPort connected to my MacBook Air. I can change the input manually but it's fairly tedious.
I am trying to set up an internet sharing on my Mac so I can have a 'temporary hotspot' with lesser security so I can connect a DS to the internet when I want it, without changing my router's security settings. The problem arises is that while I'd be sharing my connection over Wi-fi, the way the house router gets to my computer is through Wi-fi. Is it possible to jury-rig the system so that the computer can both connect to the internet router, and re-broadcast / share that internet connection to other WiFi clients, from the same AirPort card?
It's as if an alien entity has commandeered the trackpad, and it highlights things when it has not been asked to do so; the mouse jumps erratically all over the place, AND opens up random windows unbidden. In this state it's nearly impossible to write anything on the computer in this condition. Guidance, anyone? MacBook Pro Mac OSX 10.6.8 TenQ
I have been trying to dual boot my mid-2012 Macbook Pro running OSX Mountain Lion with Ubuntu 12.10 with a disk and a USB, and none of them are working. I have used disk utility to partition my hard drive for linux and burn the .iso image to the external drives (usb and dvd). The only thing that happens at the end, is that the disk becomes useless by giving this message: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."
In addition to local Time Machine backups, I would like to automatically backup my working data from my Macbook to a remote FTP space. Because it's a location I don't control and sensitive data, I want to use encryption. There are some approaches floating around the 'net how to achieve this, for example this tutorial that uses duplicity and works great (I've tested it).
Is there some way to the make mail.app open on boot, and maintain always opened? Like a service in linux. It would be perfect if it continues to run even when not showing on Dock or on "command+tab", but still showing notifications.
I wanted to know if a Mac installation has an identifier with which apple could theoretically identify the machine? More concretely I am wondering if I clone an installation of for example snow leopard would the clone also have the same identifier, or does OS X not use identifiers like Windows does/did back in the day? Thanks
I got my 13" retina MBP a few weeks ago, and used it quite a lot since then. However I noticed that battery drains incredibly quickly, I'm asked to recharge it after 2 1/2 hours of usage.
How come Dropbox gets a non-generic icon in Finder's sidebar, when other directories like Google Drive and Sites (native in OS X before Lion) all have the same generic one?  How can I customise the icons used by the folders in the sidebar? OS X used to show individual icons of all folders there — not any longer.
I was trying to get emacs minimap to work on the terminal - *=URL=* However, the font is the same size as the rest of the screen, which makes it pretty useless. It seems to be the same in iTerm.
Do we have any newline character that we can insert in Mountain Lion's Notification Center. I try to append \n but it doesn't work.
Recently I noticed some question marks appear in my finder windows. If I click one of them, my finder freezes and has to be relaunched. I can't for the life of me remember what was there that is now missing that the Finder might be looking for. Is there any way to fix this short of reinstalling Mountain Lion? Here is what my Finder looks like:
Is it possible to make every new photo taken automatically appear in a photo stream that is shared with other users? Either by some how share the default photo stream or make another photo stream as default. Note that I don't want to jailbreak and I wont use any other application then those that are built in.
While looking at iPad models, I notice several showing as (MM). In particular, the 4th generation iPad mini with Cellular has models A1454 and A1455 with the latter being labeled (MM). The same exists for A1459/A1460 on the larger iPad with a Retina display. What does MM represent?
How can I input commands such as <Ctrl-W> and <Ctrl-]> in vim using Cmd instead of Ctrl? The reason why I want to do it is because it's more comfortable. When I need to switch to a different split, for example, it's way more cumbersome to place my fingers on Ctrl than on Cmd. I'm sure many of you have also met with this problem, but I can't seem to find any resolutions online, other than "just use Ctrl".
I finally was forced to upgrade to iTunes 11 in order to upgrade my iPhone's operating system. I think I can get a reasonable replacement to iTunes DJ with smart playlists, but the one thing that is killing me is the new MiniPlayer. The two issues I have with it are that it doesn't show the time remaining in my track, and that it doesn't scroll long track names (except once at the beginning of the track). Now, if it is indeed possible to do this, I'd love to hear how, but I am not very hopeful.
A letter I've composed and formatted in Microsoft Word 12 point type does not retain the 8 1/2 x 11 letter format once copied and pasted into Mail. Instead, the type looks to be 6 point and stretches all the way across the screen, appearing as though I don't know how to format and compose a letter. I've selected the correct font and type size - 12 point Times New Roman, but I cannot seem to effect any formatting on the mail page itself. Can someone help?
Suddenly no site in the UK will open in Safari (10.8.2 OS/6.0.2 Safari): BBC.co.uk, virgin.co.uk, apple.co.uk, amazon.co.uk, bobsyeruncle.co.uk, etc - every UK site is unavailable. Safari generates a "Failed to Open Page / Safari cannot connect to server" error. It's as if the entire range of servers in the UK have been denied.
My kid has an iPod touch that has locked from too many attempts to enter the passcode for 22 million seconds. He did this before and I connected to iTunes and it successfully unlocked it. However, I have subsequently upgraded the computer that iTunes was on, and, although the original hard disk is readable, I can't boot it, and can't seem to repair it. Can I install iTunes on the new computer and copy over some key files or something like that from the original iTunes install to get this device unlocked?
My kid has an iPod touch that has locked from too many attempts to enter the passcode for 22 million seconds. He did this before and I connected to iTunes and it successfully unlocked it. However, I have subsequently upgraded the computer that iTunes was on, and, although the original hard disk is readable, I can't boot it, and can't seem to repair it. Can I install iTunes on the new computer and copy over some key files or something like that from the original iTunes install to get this device unlocked?
This has just started happening in the last few weeks, and I can't work out how to change it. It used to be that I could use Cmd+= to zoom in in my web browser, and cmd+- to zoom out. But just recently, that has been overridden so that it opens Widgets settings. It's also odd because there are all these (x) buttons to close widgets (presumably) but there is nothing there apart from the buttons. Anyone know how to change that shortcut so I can zoom in my browser again?
I'm working on a friend's old G4 iMac trying to get his only computer running so he can do his college assignments at home. The machine has static on the screen during operation.
I installed the ntfs-mac, but later I remove it into trash, I think I had deleted it completely, but now I can see a popup window that tell me me trial version of ntfs-mac had expried, so I think I didn't delete it completely, who can tell how can I do to not pup up this window again?
I restored my iPod touch 1G and when it rebooted after completing restore, it got stuck showing the iTunes logo. I tried two different methods of exiting the recovery mode as explained at How To Fix Recovery Mode Loop OR iTunes Logo on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch I even tried via Snowbreeze as explained at How To Jailbreak Using Sn0wbreeze v2.9 but these didn't work for me. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
I'm using the following technique to remap the home and end keys to make them work like windows: *=URL=* (ie go to start and end of text row) This doesn't appear to be supported in all apps (ie TextEdit)
I need the Home, delete, insert and all the other buttons found in a typical windows keyboard. I don't know how to access them on my MacBook pro. The only one I know is fn-delete for delete. Is there a comprehensive list anywhere? I've searched thru the questions here but non really answer my question. There's similar ones including how to use windows type keys on OS X. But my question is Windows, and only windows related.
My Time Machine drive is getting disk errors. I used Disk Utility and ran "Repair Disk" on my Time Machine partition (NOT the drive) and I got the error "Incorrect number of directory hard links" including hundreds of related errors that look like "Indirect node 41745332 needs link count adjustment". The final line of the verification says "Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
I don't know what I did wrong (it could have been related to rebuilding the Launch Services database), but yesterday after I restarted, multiple processes (like SystemUIServer, NotificationCenter, Alfred, and TextEdit) kept crashing on launch or repeatedly. The Notification Center icon and other icons on the right side of the menu bar kept disappearing. I couldn't make Time Machine backups either. When I tried making another account, it had the same issues, and text in the UI was shown as characters from the LastResort font. system.log contained repeating messages like this:
Recently moved my wife's content and settings from a white Macbook to an Intel-based Macbook pro. So when I went to open her contacts database created in Filemaker Pro 6, no dice, since that is a PowerPC-based program. And if I try using the later-version trial I got from Filemaker, it's Catch 22 time all over again, since I cannot import the file without having a working version of Filemaker Pro 6.
How can I add a localised holiday calendar to iCal? I would like to add all public holidays to iCal/iCloud, how to best do this? (Personally I'm after the Norwegian and Australian Holidays, but I'm after a general answer.)
That's it. I typed rm -r ~/Movies in the Terminal and entered the root password. Now I want to get this nice-looking Movies folder with a corresponding icon back to my home folder. Folder was completely empty, so there is no need for data recovery, I just want to recreate the original Movies folder. Thanks in advance! UPD: I've tried mkdir ~/Movies but it creates a regular folder.
I'm editing a plain text file on my iPhone and need to type a TAB (\t) character. However, I am unable to find it and starting to wonder if it even exists. Anyone able to help me out?
I have OS X 10.5.8 on a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac, and I need to install iTunes 10.7 but it won't let me. I need to connect my iPad 4 and iPod nano to iTunes but it won't allow me unless I can upgrade to iTunes 10.7. Does anyone have had the same problem but managed to overcome it?
I can use the Remote app to control what is currently playing on the iMac, but is there a way to stream the audio so that it is playing out through the iMac AND the ipad/phone in parallel?
I have this strange behavior on Mac OS X Mountain Lion when I installed OpenSceneGraph. Please How to fix it ? I have duplicate icons on the launchpad. I 've tried the following solution : How Do I Remove Duplicate Apps From Launchpad? I recreate the launchpad database but nothing ! How can I check where those apps are installed ?
I have OS X Mountain Lion, latest updates installed. Randomly after boot, I have no network connectivity from a user perspective. Web browsers are unable to display pages, no mail to tweets, no dropbox, no nothing.
Received an iPad from a customer in an unknown state. Report was "does not power on". Device is out of warranty. It's the 1st generation iPad with a 3G chip. Symptoms: when connected to power only, device turns on and shows apple logo, then shuts down, this proceeds in a loop that lasts about 4 seconds when connected to an Apple machine's USB port, a faint flash can be observed on the device screen every 7 seconds or so but the apple logo is never seen, device does not respond to any key presses when connected to power only, holding the power button will put device into recovery mode, but it shuts off when disconnected, so it can't actually be restored
The problem : When we copy a file from the server to the desktop of a client, the copied file can not be opened. The error message says the permissions don't allow the file to be read. This is for every file from the server, on all 4 clients. The files are copied with the finder, from the client.
I recently had data loss because the hard drive was completely used up by virtual memory and some programs couldn’t handle zero free space on the hard drive. How can I prevent this from happening (besides always keeping a few GB as a buffer)?
Since the upgrade to iOS 6, I've been unable to access my mail on wi-fi, cellular or disconnected. The symptoms are: The mail button icon shows '1' When clicking on te mail app icon, it attempts to open up the app, then it times out and goes back to the home screen When clicking on settings -> Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, the phone gets stuck and times out then goes back to the home screen.
I would like to be able to use my home server (2012 Mac Mini) as a OpenVPN client with two network interfaces. My plan is to connect a small switch with an Apple TV and Roku to one thunderbolt ethernet port and then connect the internal ethernet port to my wider network for internet access, sort of like this; Any ideas what I would need to do to make this work?
I've had to buy an older Intel Core Duo Macbook to replace a stolen one. I've installed Aperture 2.1 from an old disc. It won't open, I get a message saying something like: "You can't use this version of Aperture with this version of Mac OS X. You have Aperture 2.1." I'm running 10.6.8.
I have PDFs that are readable. When I combine the PDFs, the pages go randomly up-side-down and left-and-right. I have fixed this issue manually in Preview app but I would like to get the pages as they are originally in their documents. How can I get the PDFs right-combined i.e. readable?
Does anyone know what type/specification of coaxial cable is used from the transformer brick to the MagSafe connector in the A1343 power supply? The cable from my 85W MagSafe power adapter to my MBP (the cable from the transformer brick to the MagSafe connector) has been chewed pretty badly by my cat, and is now unusable. The break is near exact center on the length of the cable. I've found a fair amount of information out there that I can repair the cable by soldering the center conductor and braided outer conductor back together, but I'm wondering whether I could source a proper coaxial cable splice kit for it. Here's what I've determined so far, from cutting apart my damaged cable: outer jacket diameter appears to be 0.130 inches, +/- 0.005 in.
I just bought a refurbished MacBook (through a reputable retailer) and 3rd party external drive for Time Machine backups. There are no install discs and my concern is that after the warranty ends (90 days) if I need to reinstall the OS, I will have to purchase Snow Leopard (it has 10.6). So, how would I reinstall OS X since I received no installation media?
Automator treats .app files (Application Packages) as if they were folders. This might be useful in some instances, but for what I want to do - Periodically make a list of the contents of my Applications folder - it is extremely frustrating.
I am wondering whether Apple releases a new iPod touch version once or twice a year (like the iPhone S which comes after a few months from the original release). Thanks.
How do I make all the buttons work, how do I configure different modes on this gaming mouse? I've tried steermouse but that did no good for me? Any help with this will be awesome, I plan on using it for my mac's Guild wars 2. P.S I run Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Thanks
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) equipped with 6GB RAM. Recently, I have noticed that when an application crashes and Crash Reporter appears, the trackpad and keyboard do not function until about ten seconds later. All background tasks that were running at the time of the crash are still running. This behaviour is extremely strange, and I'd like to know if: Is this exclusive to my Mac, or is it a known issue? Is there a way to fix it? The 6GB RAM was equipped in December, before this issue started for me. I am running the release version of 10.8.3. I have installed no Trackpad tweaks.
I want to know this as I sometimes leave my iPhone unattended while syncing and I want to make sure that there's no cut off to the iPhone sync.
Using OS X 10.6.8 and Word 2011 for Mac. I have developed a Word document template for a client which is used for surveys. Each time the document is used, it has a different property address. Is there a way of linking the address which appears in the main part of the text on the Front Page to the centre section of the header on the following pages so that you only have to type it in once? Eg: Front page says: 20 Feb 2013 Survey for Mr & Mrs Bloggs, 23 Anytown Street, Anytown On the following pages it says: Briggs & Co ( ) Page 1 I want it to say is: Briggs & Co ( ) 23 Anytown Street, Anytown ( ) Page 1 Briggs & Co ( ) 23 Anytown Street, Anytown ( ) Page 2 etc
I used to delete characters continuously by pressing my delete key on apple keyboard but for some reason now I can not do it. I have to release and press again to delete the previous character. For example:
I want to mount a network attached drive onto OSX Lion with Samba. Usually I do this in Finder with "Go>Connect to Server" and type "smb://192.xxx.xx.xxx" in the Server Adress field, however doing this i ran into a problem with transfering files larger than 2GB (SMB limit).
There is a security technique called whitelisting (available in Windows 7) that ensures that only specific applications and processes will run. This is different from email whitelisting and only applies to applications running on an OS. How can I implement whitelisting (apps) on OS X?
I had connected my iPad mini to my net-safe card which creates a virtual debit card and lasts for 48 hours and automatically gets void after that for security purpose. But now I want to remove that information because the virtual card has expired but I am compelled to put some information. It does not have "none" option in payment method which most of the people say that it has. It is related to country?
Why is it that I can sync Apple Notes with Exchange on Mountain Lion but not with iOS 6? Is there any way to sync iOS notes with Exchange like I can with iOS Reminders?
I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of sparse files on HFS+ can cause this discrepancy. My question is that why would a compiled shared library need to be sparse - after all, it's not like anything is going to be modifying it.
After updating to iOS 6 certain tabs in my app store give me an "Cannot connect to the iTunes store” error message and the genuis tab is missing.
I'm looking for an app that will let me send email only. Often in the course of my work I need to just fire off a quick email but don't want to get stuck firing up my mail client and reading new email. The closest I've seen is QuickMailer, but it just fires up Mail.app and sends an email using that... then keeps Mail.app open. I want a UI like QuickMailer's, but an app that sends the email right away without using Mail.app. Does anything like this exist?
I updated to iTunes 11.0.2 very recently, and I'm fairly certain this version specifically brought a change of wording regarding deleting songs from iCloud, and I'm curious if there's changed functionality to match.  After perusing Apple's support documentation, it seems I was correct:
There doesn't appear to be an option in Reminders to 'move to another list' Is it really just a case of copy and paste, which would be pretty terrible
I tried to do this with Automator and found it...lacking. I have tried to look for solutions everywhere else I can think of, but my searches keep pointing me to Applescript as the only available answer. I need to automate this daily task that's very time consuming and have no idea how to do it in Applescript since I only started "learning" about it two days ago. Hopefully someone here can help me out. Here's what I want to do: I have a master list of domains. Compare the secondary list of domains I create everyday and have the duplicate entries removed (duplicates when compared to the master list). Then after I have had a chance to copy the left-over (non-duplicate) domains, have them be added to the master list for tomorrow. It seems simple enough for this non-programming mind of mine, but I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this anywhere.
It is indeed true that my locale is set to NL (i.e. number formats and all) but my language in OS X is set to English and I would expect my apps to be in English aswell. A locale is quite different from a language.
I have mid 2012 Macbook Pro with Core i7/HD4000 and 8GB RAM onboard (MD102 model). I am considering using an external display - to get better experience from graphics software (amateur Photoshop usage) and home entertainment (movies mostly).
I am a network administrator and have come across a problem regarding MS Outlook for MAC. The user has their own account already added to their outlook. They have requested that a group mailbox could be added. I set it up in exchange gave the appropriate permissions, then added the mailbox in the user's outlook. It worked fine, they can send with the alias that was created. The only problem is, when they send from the alias (Lets call it design@domain.com) It shows up in their personal (user@domain.com) sent items folder. Is there a way to change it so that it shows up in the design@domain.com's sent items folder?
I'm the user with the less internet speed, one of my friend downloaded iPhone Simulator in his Xcode 4.5 to test the code in iOS 5.1, 5.0, 4.3 os too, now if I want those simulators in my mac, is there any way from there I can copy those simulators and simply paste it somewhere in my XCode.app folder that I will get those simulators in my Xcode too? --- I'm taking this as an advantage for not downloading the same thing again and save the time! I came to know that, we can find the iPhone simulators here for XCode 4.3 or higher versions, /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/
I know that each drum pad button on MainStage plays a note, and it's just incorrect to map that to a file. But I need a few sound effect for my project, and I have wave files for them. There's a couple thoughts I got, but how can I achieve them?
Now I found one link awhile ago that told me that the problem was the Playlist being defined to include tracks whose Media Kind is Podcast. That apparently confuses the iPod classic. So I changed from doing that to using the Genre trick. That at least made the tracks show up. But it didn't make them shuffleable.
I am trying to quit named, but it keeps popping up. I tried removing the configuration an key files, unloading it from launchd, you name it. Yet it keeps starting. How do I kill it permanently?
I then made an Automator app that runs that script. I called it TextMate, pasted in the flower icon, and put it in my dock instead of the actual TextMate app.
At some point in the past, I installed Snappli. At some point later, I removed it. However, some part of Snappli is still installed, because ifconfig.me and whatsmyip both report that I'm being proxy'd through Snappli (see below): How do I remove the Snappli proxy settings from my phone, even though the Profile is gone?
or HOW TO Find OSX wifi sharing on an android device I have setup a mac mini (Mountain Lion) with internet sharing to devices using WIFI. My iPhone and iPod both see and can use the connection but none of the Android (Samsung, Nexus 4) can see it. Any hints as to how I can share the mac mini's internet access with an Android device?
Is it possible to remove spotlight from the menu bar? I have too many menu bar items running all the time and I'm trying to remove what I can to see everything regardless of what app is open.
We've got a RICOH Aficio MP C4501 in our office that supports holding print jobs pending having a code input at the keypad (so sensitive documents don't print until you're able to be present to pick them up). I'm not finding a way to set that code in the Apple print dialog, not even the setup dialog. How do I go about using this codes feature on my Mac?
I want to switch apps faster than cmd-tab so I created an automator task to launch an app and linked to to a keyboard shortcut through the keyboard preferences. While this works okay without any third party software it is rather slow, not cmd-tab instant. Is there a fast way to switch to an app using a keyboard shortcut?
I'm struggling to manage duplicate contacts and would like to entirely and permanently disable the "On My Mac" category for contacts. I never, ever want a contact to be added to a Mac and not be stored in iCloud. Have I missed a setup step since I'm ending up missing contacts on my iOS devices when my Mac decides to store things locally instead of globally.
Trying to copy a file (Win7_IE8.vhd) to a USB drive. The file is 9.07GB in size according to my Mac file info.
If I check my activity monitor there is an instance of java that is constantly taking 5% CPU or more. I know that there is some app that are using java on my system and therefore my question is: Is there any way to figure out what app that is using java without closing all running apps? Note: All "main" applications is closed (No apps i dock) so I know that that it is one of my background/menubar applications.
Early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, Lion, no external keyboard or mouse: Lately I noticed that I can't use left-shift+left-command together; it registers as left-command only. The other three combinations (right-shift+right-command, right-shift+left-command, left-shift+right-command) work properly. I’ve confirmed this in text editors and in the keyboard viewer. Same problem appears with left-command+left-control.
Is it possible to change the timing manually of recorded keynote presentation instead of having to re-record the whole presentation because of one error? Sometimes when I record a keynote presentation to my audio it can happen that on one slide I make a mistake of progressing to early with the animations, so it can be very discouraging having to record the whole presentation again only because I missed the timing on some slides. I suspect that keynote saves somewhere the time codes for when to progress to the next animation, because when exporting to a quicktime it seems that keynote has actually to run and record the whole slideshow again
Is there a way to edit a color profile once you have finished calibrating the screen? I have a Dell S2340L, and after calibrating, I've noticed there is too much red in the greys. Am I able to adjust this without going through the whole calibration process again?
I created an event on iPhone (6.x) by tapping the plus sign on my icloud calender with two users having gmail email addresses. The email invitation has not gone out even after 15 mins now. Am I doing something wrong here? How can I resend the notification emails if there is such a way.
Is it possible to look up where and when an iPhone was purchased, based only on the serial number or other unique info inside the phone?
I just bought an Integral Secure Key from the Apple store but am fed up with having to use its own software just to transfer files to it as it does not appear as a normal USB drive in Finder. How can I re-format the drive so as to remove the encryption and just have a normal USB drive? Is it as simple as using disk utility?
My iPhone 4S (iOS 6.1.x) dropped it's charge today. It now is charging very slowly. I deleted my iCloud account to see if that would improve battery life. It still is charging slowly, and has taken about 3 hours to charge 37%. Is there something I can do to "fix" this battery life problem?
I have 5 network cameras on my network. I manually added settings in my Airport Extreme router for port forwarding. However the IP addresses change often, preventing remote access. Is there a way to prevent this? Airport 7.6.3 and Mountain Lion 10.8.2
I am using Apple Pages '09 to write a document where the font must be in Century. In Microsoft Word, the Century font has an italics, bold, and underline option. However, in Pages '09 the only available text decoration is underline. Why is that so? And do other fonts have restrictions on text decorations in Pages?
I bought an iPad with retina display yesterday, and this is my first iOS device. After registering and connecting an Apple id, I tried to install some free apps. But every time I press the install app button, there is a popup saying something like 'You need to setup three questions to improve the security level of your Apple id'(translated from Chinese).
Any ideas on what could be causing this problem or how to fix it? What would be different about Windows 7 that would make it act differently? Here's what I've already tried: Resetting the PRAM and SMC Ensuring that no weird audio drivers or services were installed (the Apple Support guy and I went through my /Library and ~/Library with a fine-tooth comb) Re-installing the OS fresh (in fact, since then, I've changed hard drives and installed fresh a second time) Cleaning out the headphone jack itself Using a different set of headphones (any of them that use the 1/8th inch jack don't work in OS X but do in Windows; Bluetooth and USB headphones work fine) Ensuring that everything is attached correctly inside the MBP (no frayed wires, no loose connections, etc.)
I did the following - renewed my company IOS developer program membership, as it was expiring soon - changed agent contact details, as the previous agent had left the company. What happened: - Apple removed my company's apps from store, dropped them to "pending contract" state. I next - released an updated version of the app with bugfixes, it passed Apple review and I published what happened: - Apple put the new version also to "Pending contract" state.
I would like to disable the network connection for an individual applications in Mac OS X 10.7 Lets say an example, I don't want to provide the network access for photoshop application. Is it possible ? Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks
I started to experience problems with my iPhone that seem to be related to the dock connector. Upon plugging my iPhone into my (officially supported) car stereo, I started to get the message "This accessory is not supported by iPhone" on the screen. Didn't think much of it as I only use it for charging purposes, and that still worked so I ignored it. Then I bought a small ANT+ dongle, which is a little accessory you plug into the dock connector to allow your phone to receive data from various health/fitness devices like heart rate monitor, and cycle sensors etc. It produces the same error message every time I plug it in, and the apps that use the dongle will not recognise it.
I'll get a Mac mini next week and apart from other things, I'd like to use it as a backup server via Time Machine and an external HDD. As I want to be able to access the HDD from remote anyway, I thought about simply sharing it and selecting it as a backup drive on my Macs. Then I found about about the Time Machine server included in OS X Server. What differences and advantages are there in using either one?
Back in 1987 or 1988 we had a Mac network at college, these would have been either Mac Classic or Mac Plus machines. We used a C compiler on them - what C compilers were around at the time?
I have a HFS-partiion, a bootcamp partition and 100GB free unpartitioned space "in between". How can I resize my Mac partition to use it? All resizing controls seem to be disabled, here's the screenshot:
I left a Java program AppMain running on my Retina MBP overnight and in the morning it looked like the program died at around 12:46 am before completing. Since the program works fine when I am actively using the machine, I am wondering whether OS X decided to go to sleep despite 'never-sleep-when-plugged-in' energy saving pref. By looking at system.log excerpt below, could someone please help me figure out whether: AppMain (and/or IDEA) shutdown on its own or was forced to shutdown by the OS
It's annoying as hell to let others use your computer on a guest account with Little Snitch installed, all the consecutive popups one after another...it's really ridiculous. Also in the event my Macbook is stolen, a user logs into guest, all the dialogs will clearly let him know to disable connections. So little luck there using "Find my Mac."
I have iCal open in Italian, and for some reason the months and days of the week continue to show up in English. Is there some way to get it to run entirely in Italian?
We have the following situation. A customer of ours got re-branded and has therefore now a new domain name. On the email server (Exchange 2010) we added the new domain and for every user we created a new email address and set it as the primary. (firstname.lastname@newname.com instead of firstname.lastname@oldname.com) The old email address is still in there as an alias.
When I'm closing the screen on my macbook and tries to start it up a few hours later it always starts with a gray screen. It take about 30 to 60 seconds until I can start using the computer. The macbook is brand new. It doesn't matter if the charger is connected or not. Anyone knows what the problem could be?
Ok, this might be a stupid question to ask, but trying to mount a NFS share (from a Linux machine, if it's worth anything) in a folder that resides in /Volumes never makes the share appear in Finder (not in Volumes anyway). The folder was made by simply sudo mkdir /Volumes/folder_name and the mount was made using autofs like this: I should mention the folder is accessible though the terminal, but it just doesn't show in Finder. On the other hand, if I modify /etc/auto_master to this: the folder appears, but I loose all my other drives (except the system one and Network)
I'm using dnsmasq to route requests to .lh hosts to my vagrant server currently running on 192.168.0.5 on Mac OSX 10.6. scutil --dns returns the correct resolver info: But ping (and also the browser) is unable to resolve the domain: I added 192.168.0.5 to my list of DNS servers in my network settings, and it's sitting at the top of the list, above 8.8.8.8 - seems to be getting completely ignored. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder and sudo dscacheutil -flushcache apparently have no effect. How can I get .lh hosts to resolve to 192.168.0.5 correctly? (the stuff below this line is historical, and has been moved here after Alan Shutko's answer indicating that nslookup is not a useful analysis tool in this case) nslookup is also unable to resolve the domain: I also tried adding 127.0.0.1 to my DNS server list in network settings (at the top), which produces a lookup on local, viz:
I just cant find a way to group albums, I have my albums in an external hardrive organized in folders like "albums from when I was back in highschool" or "albums my dad recomended", that sort of thing. I dont like the albums I used to listen to in highschool mixed with the ones I got yesterday. Is there a way to separate them in categories or something that gives them that sort of order??? thanks very much for your help.
After OS X 10.7 came out with its disk-encryption features, I encrypted an empty USB thumb drive just for grins. I never used it, and eventually decided to reformat it as a normal drive for use with Windows and earlier versions of OS X.
I use + signs in filenames to indicate quality of publications, e.g. Johnson 2013 +++.pdf. However, Finder gives me zero hits when I search for + either in filenames or file contents. I started using + in filenames under Windows, and I had not expected this error when I converted to Mac.
I use iCloud and I like Mail to save my drafts on the server. But I have no desire to keep them as drafts after they are sent. But Mail keeps the drafts and I have to manually delete them. I don't to disable the saving of drafts on the server, this isn't a solution.
My disk is getting full, probably because I have so many pictures. How can I remove images and how can I specify the location where the images are stored from iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad? I use iPhone in OS X.
So just let me lock my computer, simple request. Hit a hotkey? Close the lid?
Where does OS X Lion save all the information it copies when making backups of my iPhone 4? Specifically, I'm looking for where my contacts, photos, music are. I can not find them in the 'Application Support' folder.
I have creating a simple workflow in Automator which will extract text from a list of URLs and save them into one text file. The actions are: Get Specified Text Get Text from Webpage New Text File Whenever there is a problem with one of the URLs, Automator throws an error and stops working - is it possible to make it ignore the problem URL and continue?
I've used App Cleaner which clears preference and associated files, but I can't clear it from Location Services permissions list in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy. Any idea how to remove it?
I want to create command in terminal that would allow me to use and have the the given file open in Google Chrome. How can I get this working?
I got my Mac OS10.8.2, last month (Jan 2013), I had backup one iPhone using iTunes "Backup Up Now". Yesterday I did another backup again. But my Jan 2013 backup has not found in the Restore record. Is it auto merge? I go to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/[ID] only got 1 record which is last modified by yesterday date. How do I retrieve my January record?
When I edit files that are stored locally, everything works fine, but when editing files that are stored on my networked home directory (at uni here), I get: when I try to save a file. If I then close the program (XCode), I get this:
I have seen this issue complained about for about 2 years, but did not find any solution. Only that the problem was "intermittent" and "fixed itself." Is there any better wisdom than the workaround of printing one page at a time?
I am trying to configure a middle school lab of 25 new iMacs running 10.8 Mountain Lion. I would have liked to have cloned them over the network, but we don't have a Mac server. Right now they are all turned on and configured with a basic Admin and Student account. I want to synchronize the preferences and parental controls on the student account on all of the systems.
What is the OS X equivalent of Ctrl+Alt+D for Linux or Win+D for Windows to show the desktop. Tried to search but didn't get some feasible answer.
A lot of the time, when I open a file in TextEdit, such as test.txt, it will create another file test.txt.sb-d7bff531-E4qLT8 in the same directory. Why does it do this?
Is there a way to automatically unmount a specific volume (mounted from a .dmg/.sparseimage) if it has not been accessed for a specified period? EDIT: This would be especially useful for password protected images which contain sensitive data. This would be especially useful for password protected images which contain sensitive data. Since I got no complete answer to this, I have asked a similar but simpler question here. Since I got no complete answer to this, I have asked a similar but simpler question here.
The search in iPhone's Mail.app doesn't find anything. The same problem exists on OS X.
When I open a new finder window, there are three diagonal lines that allow you to resize the finder window. Others around me can use this to resize their window but mine seems to be locked. How can I make it resizable?
I have a whole bunch of files named as following (example): How do I go to each file and change a portion of their filename to:
After installed JDK7, I disabled Java 1.6 in Java Preferences. Then I found the system cannot launch jars by new JDK 1.7, so I want to reenable 1.6, but I cannot relaunch preference again, it told me No compatible version of Java 1.5+ is available. What should I do to bring it back?
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini with Mountain Lion installed. I have had the Mini for around 6 weeks and am using as a media server.
Can I store my RGE file (Entourage 2008) to an network drive instead of a local folder ?
In Mac OS X (I'm on 10.6.8, though I believe other versions are the same) ssh'ing into a remote machine changes the title of the current tab in Terminal. Annoyingly, when I disconnect from the remote machine, either explicitly with exit or via a timeout, the title of the tab doesn't change back to what it was.
EDIT: Mounting is done the Mac way: via Finder. It's an AFP share (located on a Mac Server). Mount output: afp_4dskZR4jbiYw4tTvjg2EIbez-2.2d000004 on /Volumes/Work in Progress (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by foto5). I prefer to keep it the Mac way. I don't want to edit fstab manually to create static mount points (for example).
My MacOS and Acrobat Pro version are as follows. Mac OS X 10.7.5 Acrobat 10.1.6
I can't find this information documented anywhere. What filesystems do iOS devices use? Did Apple stick with HFS+? Is it different between devices and iOS versions?
An application on my Mac seems to want to take focus away roughly every 4-5 minutes. I hate to complain, but it is quite distracting and rather irritating. If I am in the middle of typing and not paying attention my keystrokes will be lost, and I have to click on the active window to regain focus.
I've been wondering if there is a good workaround to solve the following problem with Siri. There are some stores in my area that have multiple locations, for example Walmart. I have added Walmart as a contact in Siri, along with the two addresses. However, every time I ask Siri for something like, "Remind me to pickup X while at Walmart", she always asks me to pick a particular address. Is there a way to create the reminder tied to BOTH addresses? My current workaround is to create two reminders, one for each location, but that is far from ideal. I'd like to expand this to cover other categories, such as "Grocery Store", "Home Improvement Store", etc, but creating multiple reminders quickly becomes too much of a hassle to manage.
since I was not longer using the Server options on my mac mini I wanted to install os x mountain lion, so I downloaded the app and selected the appropriate hard disk. now, after it booted i'm stuck on the grey fabric background. there's no signal of life and nothing printed on the screen. I have several macs around here at the office, how can I try to finish the installation at this point? the mac mini is the 2007/08 version i think thanks!
I want to add page numbers to the header of my document in Apple Pages '09. However, I would like the page numbering to start on page five; i.e. I want pages 1-4 to have no numbers, and for page #1 to start on page five. Is there any way to do this? I tried creating section breaks, but that has no effect on page numbers.
I am looking to set up my laptop for both Python development and Phonegap Android development in OSX 10.8 using Eclipse. I installed the lastest version of Python (3.3) which added the code:
I am acually running Mac OSX 10.8.2 on a 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 @ 4 Go (1600 MHz) DDR3. I am using Apple Message apps for synchronizing my SMS with my computer. The problem is that everytime my computer come back from a sleep, I have a memory leak in Message and I need to quit the process in the Activity Monitor because It's freeze my computer. As you see, on the screenshot, Message use 1.45 GB and will continue to grow up if I don't quit the process.
We have about 10 Macs at not big Digital Agency. Currently I am doing some research and preparing some deployment plan, and don't know what to do with those Apple IDs. There is no any centralised business accounts that I would set up and manage all employees Apple IDs in one place. Or I have missed it? Note: Those computers should not be synched with iPad or any other mobile devices, or this is not important to be able to So what's the best practice in deployment:
Problem is, my college does not keep copies of the keys. I don't know if their partner agreement even allows them to. It'd be a liability.
I have seen various questions that ask something similar. They suggest changing .bash_profile to .profile. However this doesn't work either. I have aliases setup up in .bash_profile. I would like these to be available automatically every time I open Terminal.app. Instead, I currently have to run the file manually each time I open Terminal. Please advise on how this can be run automatically each time terminal starts.
I was wondering if it was possible to achieve this in pages.  I would like to have a background shape for a paragraph style (heading 1). Currently I place them manually but it would be much better if they could be set in the style and added automatically.
Recently I've changed the country in my Apple ID account. While everything else is fine there's an issue with my purchases. All Apps that were purchased before the change don't appear in Purchased section of App Store and in the list of available updates as well. However the updates count budge in iTunes shows a dozens of updates available but after being pressed there are only apps purchased after the change had been made in the list.
I'm trying to create a "Service" in Automator that changes the font of the selected text in the frontmost app.
I want to start with the Crucial SSD Firmware Update and copy the ISO to a bootable Mac USB stick, using a minimal set of tools. I hope that means using only built-in Mac software, such as Disk Utility and Terminal for commands. If necessary, I will reluctantly use a commercial tool. (As of this writing, the latest is Crucial_m4_040H-04-00.zip.) I've have waded through a muck of articles about how to copy an ISO to a bootable USB stick, but I have not found a solution that works and that I'm comfortable trying.
I'm using Apple's Profile Management service in Mountain Lion, and discovered through serendipity that an enrolled device can authenticate on EAP-TLS to our WPA2-Enterprise Wifi using the Device Managment Identity Certificate instead of an individually-generated-for-user x509 cert. This is extremely convenient, because then we can effectively revoke a device's cert by unenrolling the device. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to make WiFi always designate EAP-TLS and select the Device Management Identity Certificate globally (whether through /usr/bin/networksetup or through the Profile Manager).
At work, we use google calendar to manage our schedule. I use Apple calendar as my local client to sync both that google cal and some iCloud calendars with my wife. The problem is this - my work invites often have the url for a Google Hangout in them, which gets put in the video field of the invite.
I can't install ruby from source, on configuration (./configure) it states Even if I use the told parameter. --with-opt-dir=/usr/local doesn't help either. Notice, I installed the latest openssl (1.0.1e) from source too (it's located at /usr/local/ssh). So later I can't use gem install, it just states: How can I tell the ruby installation to take my installed openssl?
We have three iPhones and an iPad all assigned to one Apple ID. Anytime I try to iMessage my mum on her phone (from my iPhone), it appears on my brother's iPhone. Then, when he replies (thinking the iMessage was to him), I receive the iMessage which is addressed from my mum - despite it being sent from his phone. I've deleted the Apple ID from received iMessages to see if that would fix it, but it has failed to give the desired outcome. How do I need to configure iMessage on the iPhones so that each person is their own "entity" and prevent "crossing wires"?
I've got a great setup when it comes to backing up the photos I take with my iPhone. They are synced to iCloud with Photostream, and then iCloud pushes them down to my PC. My PC runs a job in the middle of the night to backup this folder offsite, and all of this requires very little maintenance or thought.
Is there an easy way to batch change a group of Track Changes edit and comment timestamps in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac? Can I remove the timestamps altogether (ideally without removing my name)? There are directions for Windows Word online, but they do not translate to the Mac version.
I want my dock to be purely for shortcuts to the programs I use the most. Frankly it annoys me that you can't remove the Trash from the dock, but I can live with that.
During the installation of PostgreSQL using the installer provided by EnterpriseDB, I was given the option to assign a password to the PostgreSQL account. The installer said something about the account becoming "locked" if I don't assign a password. I didn't know what it meant, so I gave a password. Now I know what it was all about: the installer was actually talking about service account vs regular account. Now the PostgreSQL account appears in the login screen and it's an eyesore. What shall I do to turn it back into just a service account and make it disappear from the login screen? I'm guessing it involves using dscl?
I have a 1TB external hard drive and I want to slice it into different partitions. When I try to do so, I get this error: can not modify external drive because it uses master boot record Is there a way to fix this without deleting the data that I have in it? I have 700GB of data, and therefore I can not back it up; even when I try to compress it or make a dmg file in Disk Utility. I have also tried to use the Disk Management on Windows 7 and still it does not allow me to shrink this. Is there a way to shrink this partition without losing the data?
I got a jailbroken iPod from a friend and I want to update to iOS 6 so I can restore my backed up data on it. I tried SHIFT + Restore / Upgrade to iOS 6 but the first error I got was this Figure 1
So, I need to show some kids a sequence of YouTube videos (with Automator, because there's no one available to man the computer for 30 minutes), but it's at a school where the YouTube domain is blocked, so I had to use a workaround where I use a website (*=URL=* that will embed a YouTube link for me into a page, and I can view the embedded video from there. However, it does not automatically start the embedded video. So, I have my Automator configured to open a video in Chrome, then wait for the predetermined length of the video (AppleScript delay command), then open another video, then wait some more, etc.
I prefer to use Safari but I'm going into web design so I want to have a few browsers on my MacBook to view my work. When I try and open Chrome, it crashes on startup. This has been a problem since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I have tried removing the application support and libraries and uninstalling but nothing has fixed this issue. Is their a fix for this crash? This crash is making Chrome unusable.
I have seen a shortcut to shutdown mac using key combinations. It includes the use of eject key. But since retina macbooks dont have eject key how do I shutdown/reboot the retina mac. This link is having query regarding puting it to sleep but I cannot see shutdown/reboot. Is pressing power button and selecting the choice the only option I have ??
For a while I've been taking photos on my iPhone and then editing them using iPhoto on my iPad. I select the photos from the Photo Stream since they are conveniently available on the iPad. It occurred to me recently that perhaps this is not a good idea.
I have a scenario, where my employees are give iPads and iPhones to help with their daily tasks. There are numerous custom business applications installed on this device. The problem occurs when these users apply updates to the iOS devices, which leaves created compatibility issues for my custom business applications. My question is, Is it possible via the iPhone Configuration Utility or the Apple Configurator, to put these devices in "Supervised Mode", which prevents users from installing these updates, be it OTA or via iTunes ?
If I change my iTunes Acccount country, I realize that I'll lose the ability to update apps for which I've paid. But what about apps that were freely purchased like : Facebook, Twitter, ... Will they still get updates ?
In MacOSX, when dragging a file or folder one can force a copy instead of a move by pressing option. I think that there used to be a way to alternatively create an alias but can't find which key to press. Which key to press when dragging in order to create an alias ?
I have the current situation: in iPhoto, I can see some of my pictures made in the last months ONLY in Photostream. iPhoto says they're imported already, but "show in Library" leads to nowhere. Since Photostream has a 1000 pictures limit, I'm afraid I'll soon lose some photos I really like. Last import is supposed to have deleted all pictures from the iPhone, so these pictures are only in Photostream... does anyone have an idea what to do to have these pictures show up in my Events, as they should be?
I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or read from it? Or will spotlight start to index that HDD? If yes how can I isolate my first installation from being affected? (without using third-party apps or FileVault)
I'm having an issue with both my iPhone and iPad - both on iOS 6.1.2 (actually not sure if it's that on iPad, latest iOS regardless). I connect to my WPA2 enabled Wifi network at home (tried WPA also) and it requests the password. I enter the password and can browse as normal connected to the Wifi network. If the phone or iPad sleeps however, I have no Wifi connectivity upon waking. I need to go into settings, select the Wifi network again and once more reenter a password for it. Essentially it seems as though the network settings have no persistence. I have tried resetting "all settings" back to default. I have tried resetting "network settings". I had no issue previous to upgrading to iOS6. I have tried changing encryption methods on the router. Modem is a Netgear DGN2000. I'm not sure anyone will be able to offer many suggestions, as really since the iPhone and iPad is so restrictive in what you can do with it, by nature it's hard to trouble shoot effectively.
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
I want to paste <TAB> into command line, in order to execute cut command with <TAB> as the delimiter. Everytime I try to do it, it simulates clicking the tab key and completes the command with some file(-s) from the current directory. Is there any solution (I've tried copying straight from text editor)? Mac OS X 10.7.5, running bash.
My friend recently broke his iPhone 5. He has broken just the front glass. Everything works very fine: LCD, touch screen, etc…
I can't seem to access it via the Time Machine itself. The only option presented is "restore". I don't want to "try" that out. I created a test bundled (100MB) with the same security. I put a few files in... manual backup via TM... added a few more... manual backup... deleted a few... manual backup. However, when I restore those via the TM interface, the changes don't seem to track. There is indeed a backup instance for each manual backup, but the instances don't correspond to the changes made. Perhaps I am going faster than the system is actually writing to disk? (probably 1 minute between changes).
I have a sparse image that can be mounted as an encrypted volume. I want to make sure it doesn't stay mounted once I am done using it. To get help doing that, I had earlier asked this question, but got no response. So, I am asking this new, hopefully simpler question: How can I do the following: 1) When the volume is mounted, a script should start running. 2) The script should ask even hour whether the volume should be unmounted, and depending on the response unmount the volume (If that is too complicated, this will suffice as well: The script should just attempt to unmount the volume, and indicate if the unmount failed due to the volume being in use) 3) The script should stop executing once the volume is unmounted (ideally by "listening" for its unmount event, or if that's not possible, simply as the next step in the script's execution once it has effected the unmount -- the former having the benefit that even a manual unmount would end the script)
When I'm in a fluid app, and have navigated somewhere, I sometimes want to share that URL with someone. What's the fastest way to get it onto the clipboard? It seems like it should be simple, but I'm at a loss.
Deleting this file will break the whole internets, for the sake of our children don't do it!. The above quotation is the content of a text file called STR8369805638PUB6932583035105 that I found today browsing the ~/Library/Application Support using a terminal.
I have F5 key bound to the show desktop shortcut in keyboard shortcuts. However when I press F5 on the keyboard (with fn on the built in keyboard, or with/without fn on the Apple wireless keyboard), nothing happens. If I try to bind it to anything else such as mission control or notification center, it just works. Any idea why?
Does homebrew keep logs, and if so where? I did a brew update which broke python support in macvim, and now I can't even get macvim to build. I'm hoping that there are some clues in the log.
My friend sold me his old iPhone because mine got stolen and he didn't need his any more. However, in order to unlock it so I can use my O2 sim, his network (3mobile) require the original receipt for the handset. He doesn't have it, so they refuse to unlock it. What are my options?
The sleep/power button of my iPhone 4 is broken; it suddently didn't really "click" anymore and just hardly reacted on my actions. For some hours by clicking really firm it still worked, but then the button refused to do any job.
I used to vnc into my Mac mini (late 2012 model) with my MacBook Pro (mid 2011) before I enabled filevault2. Both macs are running mountain lion at this point. I can no longer screen share with my Mac mini. I can connect using ssh and afp but not vnc.
I have problems with processes that leak memory. They cause my hard drive to be filled with swap files in /private/var/vm.
I have been chatting extensively on my iPhone via text messages. I always have my phone on silent and the vibrations seem to really run down the battery. It's a waste because a lot of the time I have the person's text window open already and I don't need a non-visual alert. But if I have the phone locked in my pocket I want it. I assume the answer is no but is there any way to disable sounds or vibrations when the phone is unlocked? Even though Apple can be stingy with settings this seems like a worthwhile one to add doesn't it?
I just recently set up iCloud to sync calendars between my iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sometimes it works perfectly and sometimes one or the other of the 3 devices is missing a particular event.
I'm wondering if there are advanced ways to track play count in iTunes. I want to be able to see who my top played artists and composers are, not just songs. Is there a way to, say, at the end of the month, see which artists and composers have been played the most, and specifically, for how many hours. I'm on a PC, by the way.
My computer originally had Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) installed on it but has since been upgraded to OS X 10.7 (Lion). I noticed that the /Developer folder is still on the hard drive even though none of its files appear to have been modified for nearly two years. Is it safe to delete /Developer or is there some reason to keep it around?
I reset my data usage in Settings (iPhone 4s) at the start of every billing cycle. Every month I near my data limit of 2GB so it's important to me to be careful of this number. However it seems like every day myAT&T claims my data usage went up by something in the neighborhood of 10 to 30 MB more than the usage statistics in Settings say. Now I'm pretty sure Settings knows how much data is transferred. Why does AT&T inflate this, is there any way to get them to stop, and does any other provider not do this?
Using: Mountain Lion 10.8.2, RVM 1.18.15 Having trouble with, apparently, openssl when trying to install Ruby 2.0.0 via RVM: so I brew install openssl to update openssl to 1.0.1e hoping that would help but there were still more errors (see "long output"). So, dug around Stack Exchange and loosely followed suggestion on this post which recommended rvm get head (as opposed to my typical rvm get stable) and noticed: Interesting bit being cannot load such file -- openssl. What gives? after updating openssl to 1.0.1.e via homebrew tried again but for whatever reason 1.0.1c is still being referenced:
While attempting to clean up my Air's SSD, the estimable DaisyDisk showed me that 4 GB is being eaten up by Xcode DocSets. I like keeping my friends close and my SDK documentation closer, so I'd be happiest if I could maintain a copy of these DocSets on an external disk, so they're available offline but not cluttering my SSD.
I checked that it automatically changes the graphics mode. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
Whenever my NFSv4 server becomes unreachable a little window pops up offering me to disconnect the affected shares. It looks like this:
I am looking for program which will automaticly rename songs and albums by comparing the actual acoustics and played /perceived? Basically, use Shazam some way?
I've got an annoying issue for a couple of weeks now. My folder icons got corrupted from time to time:
I'm thinking my Mac in for repair again and last time I lost data. Can someone suggest a key logger or watcher so I have a bit of granularity in terms of what the repair guy is doing..
I tried to follow these instructions: *=URL=* But after typing in the hdiutil command I only get one partition: So all the steps after this command are not available to me.
I have a server running at port 4433 on my localhost machine. I'd like to refer to the service as *=URL=* from the browser or any script that I write. How could I set the DNS on OSX to do this? Thanks!
The mouse section of the OS X version 10.8.2 system preferences has 10 different tracking speeds for my mighty mouse. Unfortunately, the 4th fastest option is too slow for me, and the 3rd fastest option is too fast for me. I've recently converted from a 21.5 inch iMac to a 27 inch iMac and I cannot recreate the mouse speed I've been used to. How can tune my mouse's tracking speed, beyond the speeds available in the system preferences?
In the screenshot below, I am looking at an email with a unicode HOT BEVERAGE (U+2615) character. The character is displayed correctly in the OSX dialog and in the developer tools, but not in the web page. Why is Chrome ignorant of this character and how can I cause it to be displayed correctly? Chrome Version: 25.0.1364.99 OSX: 10.8.2
The difference is clearly visible, since the current font (Courier Prime) doesn't support the first version. Is there any way to fix this? Alternatively, is there any OS X-service available to "clean up" text or normalize it in the correct way?
First time I've asked a question here but I've used Stack Exchange for answers to many many OSX questions so, first off, great big thanks for that. I searched the archives but didn't find an answer to this or a similar question.
Trying to write a script that searches for the version of the Application then returns the value. My problem is the value is three to four intergers long (example 4.3.2).
My 15-inch, Mid 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.2 mysteriously crashed while it should have been sleeping. Nothing in the Console logs indicate that it was shutting down, and when it booted up it had a lot of (disk) journal logs to replay, so I'm assuming it just crashed.
I have a brand new iPhone 4S, running 6.1.2, consistently crashing applications from core services like iMessage to Evernote and Tweetbot. Phone calls can be sent and received, but experience 1-3 second 'black outs' where I can't hear the conversation. These happen on approx 2-5 minute intervals. I've restarted, hard restarted (hold down buttons for 10 sec) and resynched to iTunes. Useful context: iCloud configured Exchange email configured via Zenprise I'm glad to do every rational troubleshooting step, I just don't know enough about logging to imagine where to start on this one.
After looking around on various forums I have tried turning off the "put hard disks to sleep when possible". This seemed to make the problem occur less often but it still occurs. The only way to fix seems to be to reboot the Mac mini. Is there a way to stop this or to auto-reconnect the drive when it wakes from sleep?
I was wondering after installation of Mountain Lion on VMWare or other virtualization softwares (on a mac) will it show the same "serial number" in "About This Mac"? And is it possible to customize that serial number, for development and test? And if it's possible, is it legal? (I know changing "Hardware UUID" is possible)
I need to deploy one Ricoh MFP to ~50 Mac users. I thus wan't to do this through ARD/CLI. I'm looking for the correct lpoption tags for the Ricoh MP C4501. I want to set the "Finisher" (SR3020) and "Option Tray" (Lower Paper Trays) in a cmd that can be distributed via ARD. So far I can add the printer no problem... what I can't manage to do it set the installable options for it, here's where I'm up too: Above is line one of the cmd and it works like a charm... below is each lpoption on its own line and as it doesn't work - I'm guessing I've got it wrong...
I had downloaded meetup iCal reminders, and now my iCal is inundated and there seems to be no way to remove meetup events from it. They just keep loading in, and I can't change it. Moreover, I would basically like to reset my iCal so it is a blank slate and I can create the various events as I want.
I can't get Spotlight to search for any documents. When I search the Finder for documents, nothing happens and the Spotlight search through the menu bar only shows up web searches.
I just installed Xcode 4.6 (I had Xcode 4.5.1). I just opened an existing project and got this message: The working copy "path/to/my project" requires a newer version of Subversion than Xcode supports. I am currently using Cornerstone for svn, and understand that I can probably ignore this message - but since I want to be up-to-date, what do I need to do to resolve this issue?
I have a very annoying issue with the X11 app on OS X when using it to run things remotely over SSH. Every now and then (it's pretty regular, I'd say about each 1-2 minutes), the app I'm in loses focus, and the keyboard doesn't get sent to it anymore. However, X11 is still the foreground app. Any ideas on what could be causing this and/or how to debug this?
I'm trying to search within a list of items (specifically, a list of files from a folder) for certain files. However, I don't know the names of these files; all I know is that they all begin with the same word (for example, "Work 1", "Work 2" and "Work 3"). I tried this script:
Doing some cleanup on my Macbook Air with 128 SSD looking for big files to reduce space used. I found something named com.apple.coresymbolicationd that is 1GB in the library/caches folder I don't recall seeing before. Running Mountain Lion What is this is there a way to clear it? By the way I am using DaisyDisk to show the files and sizes
I have a separate partition setup for my Media. If I set it to F:\ the structure for music is: F:\{Artist}\{Album}... If I set it to F:\Music the structure for music is: F:\Music\Music\{Artist}\{Album} How can I set it up so that the media is stored F:\Music\{Artist}\{Album}?
Has my graphics card failed? What else can I do to try and get the video back?
On windows I've used various utilities that actively track which files are added during a software install, and I'm sure there must be a good one for os x. Itrash (*=URL=* is typical of the 'searching' type of app, which just looks through the system for similarly named files in the cache folders etc. The closest I've found is Yank (*=URL=* which does claim to do it, but hasn't been updated since 2009 so trusting something with low level file system monitoring without updates isn't ideal. Any suggestions?
I recently downloaded Soundflower so I could record some audio with the imagery I can already record through QuickTime. The thing is, once I've set Soundflower up I can't hear anything on my computer! I already found an answer to this problem in an old forum on this site and did as one of the answers suggested, but I still can't hear anything it's driving me up the wall! Can someone please help me out?
How good is SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for really finding and predicting drive problems for regular hard drives and now, for SSDs. From what I understand, different testing tools on the market report different levels of SMART levels. For example, Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter all seem to report what I would call a catastrophic failure level, meaning they don't report details, just, for lack of better words, "good", "maybe", and "failing" (please forgive my super high-tech terminology. :-) ) Others like smartmontools, TechTool Pro, and I think Drive Genius (not sure on that) can report a lot more detail with a lot of different parameters.
Is there any way to go to tab number 5 in Safari?
This is about the standalone Messenger, not the main Facebook app. Is there any way to disable vibration when receiving a message? Even if I'm already viewing the conversation it vibrates every time a message comes in. The main Facebook app doesn't so this, only the standalone Messenger. The only way I've found to stop it is to turn off push notifications entirely, which I don't want to do.
(24" 2009 iMac running Lion 10.7.5) I have a Seagate 1t usb hard drive (have done for about 6 months) . I have mounted the drive and set it up as my time machine backup drive. It will perform the first back up once connected fine but when the time comes for the next scheduled backup a warning is displayed saying "Could not complete backup" or something to that effect. If i eject the drive and remount or restart my mac it works fine at the next scheduled backup then continues to do what i have explained above.
I'd like to find out how to check the members of a group defined in Active Directory from the Mail application in OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion). I have my corporate AD server defined as an LDAP server, so I can use groups from it in the address fields of an email. But I can't work out how to see who the members of a group are, to check that I'm sending email to the people I want to. Am I missing something obvious, or is this not possible?
Very soon I have a presentation at school. and would like a suggestion regarding the application for iOS which can I use for the Powerpoint presentation. I would like an app that allows me to change a slide a page on my iPad, and have that reflect automatically also on my laptop (has Windows 7). What software I need for tablet and laptop, and what steps do I follow to do remote presentation?
I’m trying to activate a DHCP server using Server.app but all I get is an empty window "Loading…" and a spinning wheel "Getting service state…" which spins forever. All other services seem to run without problems (except for the spinning wheel which somehow often does not stop spinning). How would I go about troubleshooting this problem?
How do I export an XCode app so I can publish it on my website, not in the Mac App Store?
I was trying to figure out if this is supposed to be paste keyboard shortcut in Powerpoint for Mac. On my system (OS X 10.8.2), it's showing up as a combination of control-option-C, which seems bizarre. I would have expected command-V (as is the case in Word). Anyone else have a similar experience? Just to clarify, this is for copying and pasting text, not shapes like arrows, etc.
I use Mac OS X (10.7.5) I wonder how I can turn off screen only of my MacBook without closing the lid, without waiting for the screensaver. The best way I can currently do is just to close the lid or to repeat 'F1' key to dim it.
Do battery charging utilities such as Battery Boost Magic pro or Kingsoft battery doctor really make a difference in prolonging the life of an iPad battery?
I am using OS X 10.6.8 and I have a question regarding the address book synchronization. Does synchronizing google contacts with apple address book send my data to Apple?
I have a bunch of data files on a Mac Mini that I want to read over my wireless LAN in a script (F#, not that it matters I think). I can see the files in Finder, but don't know how to read them in a program.
My girlfriend added Facebook to my Notification Center. I tried to set the alert style to none, and you can see the check mark to show items in Notification Center is deselected.
Trying to update homebrew, I get this: ... etc...
On Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) I have setup public/private keys for passwordless SSH to another Mountain Lion machine but when I try to SSH to the other machine it still asks for my password. I have verified permissions of the ~/.ssh directory and the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file are correct. Verbose output from ssh -vvv my.server.com does not show any type of failure and there is nothing indicating a failure in the /var/log/system.log. My keys work fine when connecting to Linux and Mac OS X Lion (10.7) machines.
Over the past few years, iTunes has repeatedly tried to 'organize' my library, copying tracks from one place to another. When it then came back and scanned for files again, suddenly I had three copies of hundreds of songs. A couple of days ago I deleted a stack of folders containing redundant songs, so I can return to a clean no-copy library in the Music folder.
Is there an ios App that lets you compute the distance to an object using the built-in camera?
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome. It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+. I've tried to do this through the Erase and Partition tabs in Disk Utility, as well as from the CLI in Terminal.app via a couple different methods: In those, disk4 represents the special device or disk identifier (i.e., /dev/disk4) and newdisk is the arbitrary name I'm giving the new volume on the disk.
Our SBS2003 is basically only managing user IDs (aka Active Directory). Files shares are on a NAS and mail is to soon be on Google Apps. Can I replace SBS2003 with a MountainLion Mac Mini Server to manage Windows XP desktop logins?
I am trying to view my website - hosted on my local server - from my iPhone. I am doing this my adding a http proxy information into my iPhone. Basically I am following This tutorial, it works perfectly
Since Mail.app had trouble connecting to the various accounts, I tried to 'reset' it by removing all accounts and the stored passwords in Keychain Access.app. Then I re-added all the mail accounts. However, for some reason all configured rules were deleted too, even though they are not directly tied to a specific mail account.
I would like to change the default settings for all podcasts. I know you can edit each one of them individually, but I would like to change the default for all to "Download All" and keep "All episodes".
I finally found a nice ringtone for my iPhone but can barely hear it because the phone buzzes while ringing. How can I switch of the buzzing?
I have a toddler iphone app that plays short videos. He loves it and its great to give to him in the car, etc but the one issue is that he keeps hitting the home button and i have to start the app up again. This happens over and over again.
Whenever I connect my iPad to my mac itunes backs up it's current state. This is great and I want to keep it this way. Though it overrides the previous backup, which is ok most of the time, but now I want to keep my current state, permanently. So is there a way to select the current backup and keep it saved permanently, without it being overridden next backup?
I have recently acquired an old first gen AirPort Express and wanted to use it solely for airplaying over to my old and amp. I tested configuring with it's own network and works fine. The problem is, when I ask it to join my house's network, which is not an "Apple network" and is composed of a few routers extending it. The AirPort still shows on my preferences, is detected by the AirPort Utility but doesn't seem to be reached displaying "Error -6753".
My brother and I shared the same apple ID, so all of my contacts from icloud are under his apple ID.I got a new Iphone using my OWN apple id. How do I get my contacts from his icloud onto my iphone?
I have somehow managed to replace the default movie player, with my FTP client. I'm not sure how that happened, but now every time I double click a movie file in Finder, my FTP client launches. Can someone tell me how I can go about changing the default application that launches for certain file extensions?
OS X 10.8.2 Latest series MBP 13" I am experiencing a problem where Finder crashes, or rather closes without notice when I move large folders into a NAS folder. (WEstern Digital Black Armor 6TB NAS drive, which is accessible just fine from the mac).
I recently switched from Linux to Mac OS X, and one little tweak that didn't survive is disabling the blue highlight "glow" that Firefox adds to App Tabs when they have updates. Any idea how to do that? I followed these instructions to disable it on Linux, but they don't work on Mac OS X. I have this in my ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/personal/chrome/userChrome.css file:
The HDMI 1.3 spec can carry signals with resolutions as high as 2560 x 1600 pixels. Is it possible to output this high a resolution signal from a MacBook Air using a Mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter? If so, are there any special considerations for buying this adapter or will any adapter on the market work? Machine is 2012 MacBook Air
I have a 15" MacBook Pro with a Thunderbolt port. Lately I've been working a lot at my desk, so I'm thinking about getting an external monitor, keyboard and mouse for it. I'm thinking about this set up: LG IPS277L 27" monitor with HDMI in. monoprice Mini Display Port -to- HDMI cable Apple wireless keyboard, wireless magic trackpad My questons are ... IMAGE QUALITY:
Is there a dashboard widget that one can use to persistently edit a text file? For example, suppose I want to have my changelog open all the time in a Git repository. Many thanks.
Here is what I want to do: hook up a keyboard shortcut with an action to play/pause the video that is currently open in a Google Chrome tab. Would it be possible on Mac OS X?
Every time I restart the computer or just Finder app the Macintosh HD folder will be resized to the default size without remember my configuration. Why? Does someone know how to fix this?
I have an image with an error in one of its bands: /Volumes/twoz/macbookpro08-centrim.sparsebundle/bands/3252 The file system personality of the image is Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+. At the HFS Plus level: how can I tell which files are entirely or partly within that band? Names and paths of files will be ideal.
My googling abilities have failed me and I can't figure out how to remap the mouse buttons. My 3 year old niece is having trouble using the mouse on the computer because she is right clicking by accident. Since she is so little I thought it would be nice to just remap them until she gets older. Is this possible? Computer: 13" 2010 Macbook Pro with OSX 10.8
Certain incoming emails are showing up as nonsense. Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it? The strangest part is that I can copy/paste the garbage into a text editor and read what it says! Here's what I'm seeing:
I have a question regarding using the same Apple ID for multiple phones. I have let my dad use my Apple ID to purchase apps and stuff, and now I realize that he uses my ID for iCloud, and all our photos and everything are instantly shared on both of our phones. Can someone please help to walk me through the process of setting up a new Apple ID? Or do I have to go see one of the tech guys in Apple store for this matter? Thank you!
I switched off OS X Server. Install Ubuntu Server 12.04 and configure it as a DHCP and DNS server. It works perfectly. Every time a DHCP client requests a lease, it is registered in the DNS. The AirPort Extreme only acted as a NAT with the DHCP was disabled. I disabled DHCP on an AirPort Extreme by limiting it two DHCP addresses and assign two machines to those IP addresses using bogus MAC addresses.
I closed mail an hour ago, when I opened mail back again 10 minutes ago the mail app at reseted itself, there are no accounts anymore, no mails, no nothing. I was wondering if there was any fast and easy way to restore all that ? Since I know that my mails are still somewhere in And that all the accounts are still in keychain, and I'm not using any TimeMachine at the moment. I created a new account and interestingly enough my mail seem now to be located at By the way, no updates have been done, no modifications what so ever, I just closed Mail.
I own a 2009 13-inch MacBook Pro and a 24-inch Led Cinema Display. I have always been able to resize iTunes horizontally and vertically (both being connected to the Display and not being connected).
I have a few legacy commands which I need to run in the terminal. Unfortunately they only work with ISO-8859-1 encoding being used.
I'm having a weird issue with Lion on 2 different machines (2008 Mac Pro, 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro). The first machine was upgraded through several OS versions to Lion, the second came with Lion preinstalled.
For those who might not be familiar with it, OS X gives us an option to output audio to more than one device through the Audio MIDI Setup utility. As a matter of fact, two options; creating an aggregate device or a multi-output device. What's the different between them?
I have an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1, but don't have an Apple ID. I just got this used phone recently. It is jailbroken and unlocked to work on T-Mobile. I looked on the app store and noticed some apps that required a higher iOS. Looking online, I edited SystemVersion.plist with iFile to make the system think I have iOS 5.1. The app store worked perfectly then (still don't have an ID). Then I tried to get even higher to iOS 6.1.1, but I noticed the app store was all gray. I tried to put the iOS back to 4.1, but the problem persisted. I am unable to restore the phone. Is there any backup or other solution to this problem I could use?
I would like now to format this partition to be used by Bootcamp (i.e. Windows) not the Mac OS. So there should be no harm to the MacOS if I go to windows and format it? I would appreciate any help in tackling this. Screenshot of MacOS Partition info: General SSD info: General SSD info: Partitions with unused area in gray: Partitions with unused area in gray: Mac OS X allows expanding OS HD with usused area: Mac OS X allows expanding OS HD with usused area:
A new MacBook came with something called AirDrop and worked between many MacBooks such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Can I also use AirDrop to exchange data between Macs and iOS devices?
after activation of FileVault 2 I am unable to boot my computer, the apple sign turns into a prohibitory sign with a spinning circle beneath it , that spins forever. I really need the data on this computer :( and I can not afford the very expensive data recovery services . Does anyone know how I can overcome this problem or at least decrypt and save my data ?
Is there an app that works to play music that's on my macbook on my iPad? Right now my iPad is connected to my stereo, and is only the 16 gig model, so I can't exactly move all my tunes onto it. I know I can use airfoil to play iTunes on my macbook and have the iPad act as the speaker control, but it is expensive. I installed the Remote app and set up home sharing but it only seems to work in the opposite direction (play music on my macbook speakers using the iPad as the controller).
iMessage works perfectly between my iPhone and my iPad. It works perfectly between my iPhone and my girlfriend's iPod touch. But it does not work at all between my iPad and my girlfriend's iPod touch.
I have a small issue, every time I type in "and", auto-complete changes that to "shut the fk up". I've searched all around and even reset in Settings -> General -> Keyboard reset Anyone else have this issue?
My computer will randomly start repeating keys. At first it was the ≥ key, which led me to believe it was more than just a stuck key since that is an option-key character and the chances that they would stick at the same time was slim.
For a few weeks, every time I shutdown my laptop, It immediately reboots and displays a kernel panic error. I haven't been able to cleanly shut down for some time. The machine is a 15" Retina Macbook Pro running 10.8.2
Just recently picked up an iPad 4. Saw that it specifies "not charging" when plugged into the usb port. Saw that it is a common issue due to usb power. I have usb 3.0 ports on my desktop so I tried that and the same result. USB 3.0 is specified for up to 900 ma while 2.0 is 500ma. Course even that can change depending on a few things. Seems that the iPad wants up to 2.1 amps. So I searched for solution using dual usb ports like some external 2.5" laptop hard drives use. I found nothing which surprised me. If I can get 900ma x 2 ports (for 1.8 total amps) I am near the full charge spec for the iPad.
I just recently bought an album on iTunes and I have a weird problem. All of the songs (18 in all) except for one, play perfectly fine. When I try to play it, it says "This computer is not authorized to play "". Would you like to authorize it?" It prompts me to sign in with my Apple ID, which I did. Then it says "This computer is already authorized." I have no clue how to fix this! I've tried the steps outlined in iTunes: Missing folder or incorrect permissions may prevent authorization and iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases, but neither of them work. Any suggestions?
I want to edit the embed security settings in Mountain Lion Server's Wiki Service because with the default settings you can't embed anything on pages, which makes it a lot less useful. We're in a school environment where embedding flash apps, video etc. is the norm - and Wiki Server will normally strip out these tags from web snippets for security reasons.
I like to access my Mac from work (Linux) and I wonder if it is possible without installing additional software like TeamViewer or ChickenVNC. I also noticed somewhere that it is possible to wake my Mac via WiFi. What is needed for that (Mac has to be plugged in? Do I have to be in the same Network?) and how do I do it?
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Mid 2009 MBP. Recently(for last few months) it's acting really slow. Simplest actions are taking forever to perform. So I verified disk using the Disk Utility and it said that Incorrect number of file hard links and The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. It suggested me to restart and repair. I did that but about a week later it became slow again. I verified again and this time also it gave the same message. Can I be certain that it's a fault of the HDD and just change it?
I was using my computer normally when I got a "Updates Available" notification. On selecting to update, the App Store opened, and I saw 3 updates available: 1) iTunes 2) Java (I have never installed Java myself, as such.) 3) Evernote
I'm writing a bash-script at work for controlling our Mac-computers (OS X Mountain Lion) remotely. Since we use FileWave in our Company we just have to remove an Application and restart the computer. Then it will be installed from the FileWave server. Another way to do it is to uninstall and run the Client Monitor under Programs and press "Verify". Is there any way to make this "Verify"-request via the terminal?
Im trying to create an Automator folder action that sends an email with an attached file. In my folder the files will be generated with the email as name: Example: name@company.com.jpg, othername@othercompany.com.jpg and so on. What I need is an action that copies the filename, remove the extension (.jpg), create an email and put the filename/email into the "To" and then sends the email.
I want to play a video with a language-menu on iPad, like DVD menus. I've read on a forum that DVD-menu's are not possible, but this was an old thread. What are the options nowadays to play a Video with Custom Menu on iPad? EDIT:
I need to test a launcher app icon on an iPhone. Is there any way to do that without having to install an entire app?
I bought a pair of Logitech HBS700 bluetooth headphones which I've been trying to use with my iPad 3. The problem is, at seemingly random intervals, playback stops and I have to wait for a second before I can resume. I'm streaming to the iPad via WiFi from a Synology Diskstation via a Linksys WAG300N. It seems as though the wifi is somehow interfering with the bluetooth connection. Has anyone else had a similar problem with bluetooth headsets and wifi?
I bought my iPod touch (5th Gen) and there is no FaceTime icon on the home screen. I tried checking it in Settings but it's not there. How do I find FaceTime?
I installed MacPorts from the official site usting .pkg installer for Mac, accepting all default installation settings. Then my goal was to install rpm, so I typed respectively : Port installed all updates and then:
I have multiple calendars on my iPhone (iOS 6) and would like to know how to disable event notifications for just my work calendar (it's an Exchange account, if that makes any difference). I still need to be able to view, and add to, my work calendar though, so can't disable the whole thing. UPDATE: The reason that I want to do this is because if I get a 'work' alert then I will either: be in my office and using Outlook for such things, or be on holiday/at home and not wanting to see work notifications.
All, Every once in awhile, when I click on a window in MS' Outlook 2010 to bring it to the front, it doesn't respond. Sometimes, I see the outline of the window I want to bring to the front, but it doesn't jump to the front to make it active/functioning. My set up is Windows 7 32 bit, running in Parallels 8 with 2.5 gigs of memory and 2 CPU's. Any thoughts?
My son and wife both have iPod Touches and I have an iPhone. We all used the same Apple ID and turned on iMessage. Both my son and wife were getting texts from my friends and my work on their iPods, I think because my cell phone number was linked to the Apple ID. If I just turn off iMessage on my iPhone, will that solve the issue?
Prior to "upgrading" to Mountain Lion Server, I used OS X Server as my DHCP server. The purpose of the configuration I had was to provide MAC filtering, assigning static leases based on hardware MAC addresses. In Server, I had sets of address ranges and specified static leases for all the hardware on my network. This worked fine for years, but since updating to Mountain Lion, though all of my settings appear to have been migrated successfully, my server now issues "dynamic" IP addresses to hardware for which I have set static addresses. These addresses are not only wrong, they duplicate addresses that I have configured statically (for hardware that is off or out of the building at the time). Moreover, any attempt to correct this by setting the correct IP address manually at the client, results in loss of WAN access for that client.
In brief, my question is this: How can I install a framework from a &ast;.pkg file somewhere other than under /Library/Frameworks (or /System/Library/Frameworks)? Background I want to install a version of Python 2.7.3 that lives under $HOME/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and $HOME/python.
I'd like to run a linux VM that let's me treat a disk exactly the same way a real Linux installation would - i.e.: I want to use it to prep disks that will then be transferred to and used on Linux boxes, so I want the entire disk formatted with ext4 partitions.
I am currently using OSX Server's Profile Manager, but I cannot lock down the devices enough with profiles, it also doesn't have the ability to "ping" them. It seems like there is a way to install internal apps over the air but I have not tried it yet. Ideally my solution would be using free/open source software.
i hope to conserve battery at night. is there an ipad app or setting that helps turn off wifi or turn on airplane mode at certain time? or would it even be better to have an app that turns off the device completely on schedule?
I have found no way that iPhone is able to do what I need here. I have iOS 6.x (jailbroken).
I have used the internet for the past 2 weeks in search of something that will help me troubleshoot/repair my MBP. It wont boot in Safe Mode using the SHIFT key. Following is everything I have tried and the results: Safe Mode Boot - Failed Command R - Failed AHT - No Errors Found Reset the Power Manager SHIFT+LEFTOPTION+LEFTCONTROL+POWER - PRAM Reset Terminal Commands: fsck_hsf, fsck -y, fsck -yf, fsck -f, /sbin/fsck -f, fsck -yf, and many more.
I have set up Windows 8 64 bit on a MacBook Air using VMWare Fusion 5 Professional. The MacBook Air is from Oct 2012 and has an Intel Core i7 2GHz and 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM.
Is there anyway to get my menu bar to show up on both of my screens? I don't want to use display mirroring, I just want the menu to be mirrored on both screens.
So, I think I've found a misspelled word in the Mac OS 10.8 dictionary. This is not a word that I've added. I double checked in \Library\Spelling and don't have it added to any user dictionaries. When I look up the word the dictionary even states it is a common misspelling. The word in question is "espresso" but if I type "expresso" it's not underlined in red.
I am a recent convert to Mountain Lion (new iMac arrived a week ago). Been using the "Save As..." option in Mail.app for years now to save chunks of email as RTFs. Previously (in Snow Leopard), using "Save As..." would save your selected emails out into a single file (RTF by choice) in the sort order of your mailbox.
I spilled a drop of balsamic vinegar on my iPhone 4S near the earpiece. Now, call volume on the internal speaker is very low. How can I clean the earpiece out?
When I used Preview's "Export" feature to export a 1.4MB jpg file to a one page pdf file, the resulting pdf is as large as 14MB, which is really surprising and annoying. I tried to reduce the file size, for instance by "reduce file size" quartz filter, but the pdf became so reduced (56KB) that the result was not readable at all.
I'm trying to set up my POP3 Gmail account on a Retina MBP running OS X 10.8.2. A few months ago, I managed to do the same thing, the first time around, on an iMac, working with the same Gmail account and under an earlier Mountain Lion release.
In windows I right click and then there is an option to create a text file. How to do so in mac?
In an OS X dialog, there a way to make 'Enter/Return' invoke the currently selected button instead of the default one (and, if possible, make 'Space' invoke the default button instead). That is, can I swap the behaviors of 'Space' and 'Enter' in this situation? [This would keep this behavior consistent with that of the web's, and other platforms like Windows and Linux]
I use Sublime Text 2 (ST2) both on Linux & OS X Lion. When entering text, interacting with menus etc, ST2 is very laggy - I can type a few sentences very quickly, then take my hands of the keyboard and watch ST2 catch up. I've tried reverting ST2 by deleting the ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2 folder, but the issue persists. Does anyone know what can cause this lagginess?
One tool I really appreciate when analyzing source code for software is Sourcemonitor, but unfortunately it is only available on windows. Having searched around for alternatives on my mac, it seems that cccc is a tool that fits the bill.
Is it possible to use a macbook pro as the second monitor for my imac? Both have the thunderbolt port. If not, is there another way?
As the title suggests, what's the best way to go about doing this? I'm talking about figuring out bad sectors in the hard drive that already has OS X installed, and that I'm using right now to do stuff.
I'm looking for a way to have AppleTV (Version 2) output from optical out only without having HDMI connected or at least with the TV turned off. I've read that this is possible with previous versions. Is there a patch for nitotv or a jailbreak distribution that supports this feature? Or this is impossible?
I am looking for a way to launch an individual application (e.g. Firefox) on my Ubuntu installation which is running under Parallels. I am open to any method of launching such as a shortcut (like how Windows applications can be launched under Parallels), shell script, AppleScript, etc. At this point in time I am just not sure this is even an option.
Where have my podcasts gone from my playlists on my iPhone??? I used to be able to put my podcasts into a playlist in iTunes, but now they don't seem to go onto a playlist and can only be played via the Podcast app. This is terrible as you can't organize or loop podcasts, and is dangerous whilst driving as you have to look at the phone after every episode is finished. Is there a way to organize my podcasts?
I have the requirement to manually run the OSX maintenance scripts in OSX (Lion / Mountain Lion). I would like to create a completely stand alone application that would achieve the following goals: run the terminal command : sudo periodic daily weekly monthly Be executable via Finder Be standalone (a single file is all that is needed to execute the process so that a non technically inclined user may simple double click to run said command) Be portable (copy a single file to a USB flash drive or other portable media) Be able to be run on Mac's running OSX Lion or Mountain Lion I do not necessarily need to see the results upon completion of execution as I can always go to /var/log directory to find out but if someone knows of a way to eliminate this extra step all the better.
I just got a new Macbook Air, and was all excited to code: but then wham. For example I cannot do command + / Which is pretty valuable when coding. It treats it as Command + { I'm trying to use standard dvorak, not the Dvorak-Qwerty (not that I want to either) though it has the exact same issue.
My 2.3 Ghz 15 retina Macbook Pro with a Samsung display, seems to have some "mura" spots on the display. I have owned this laptop since July, and just recently have become aware of it.
I no longer have the photo I used for my iPhone lock screen, and I would like to retrieve a copy of it, or a full screen shot of the lock screen without the slider bar and time/date display. Is there a way I can do this?
I use a program called iShuffle with my iPod shuffle. All I do is copy music files in Windows Explorer to the Shuffle's Music folder, then run the little app and it magically works without iTunes. *=URL=* Is there an equivalent for the iPod Classic line, and older generations of that line?
I have a folder (my home folder) which I like to have in icon view and kept arranged by name. However, every day or so it seems to forget the sorting - although the view options panel seems to think that the option is still valid. I have to change it to arrange by another criterion and then re-select arrange by name.
Hey Guys i think i am not alone who set up his APE for home sharing. So what have i done… I have a Airport extreme (latest version - 5.gen) and 3x powered 2TB HDD's. All are connected over an usb hub (active) which is plugged into the only available USB port. The HDD's contains Backups, iTunes Movies and music. So every time i am at home i am connected and let itunes and my apple tv do the rest.
My iPod Touch 8gb is pretty full, so I can't install the vital angry birds updates and so forth. Is there a way I can upgrade it during sync to iTunes that works round the space without taking all the music off, upgrading apps, then resynching music? (and by my iPod I mean my son's)
Can I still (as of 03/2013) get @me.com, as an alternative to my @icloud.com email address? I would want the two email to point to the same AppleID. The reasons are quire prosaic, @me.com just looks better than @icloud.com.
I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3 each running iOS 6.1 (I don't have a Mac). On my iPad I have noticed that in Photos there is a tab labelled Events. This tab doesn't exist on my iPhone. The Events tab is filled with folders named with a date. Sometimes there is more than one folder with the same name. I haven't been able to find clear documentation on the use of Events.
My MacBook Pro specifications are: Core2Duo 2.65 Ghz 4 GB RAM 320 GB HD Performance is killing me literally. Really long response time.
I have a wifi-only iPad, and I understood (or, have heard) it will automatically download iOS system updates when connected to wifi. Will iOS automatically download an OTA (Over-the-Air) update when it is tethered to an iPhone (via iPhone wifi or bluetooth)?
I was trying to create an extra partition to get a file from the Windows side of my Macbook Air to the Mac side, and I accidentally made the disk dynamic without realizing it. I am now unable to boot to the Mac side (holding Alt to go into the system manager at startup doesn't even list the Mac partition), and the Windows side blue screens during boot (goes so quickly that it doesn't even get to the error code before restarting).
When connecting an external non Apple Display to my macbook air with an VGA to thunderbolt adapter the external display won't show my Desktop. Instead it will only show for a second my desktop and then go black. My mac knows that there is a display connected as I can see from the display settings. When not mirroring my Desktop I can actually move my windows over to the second display, but the actual display stays black, just plain black (but it is still on and active as I can see from my display status light).
Note: This question is how to send an Insert keypress to Microsoft Windows running directly on Apple hardware. This is not about how to use Insert in OS X or through OS X to Windows running in a VM. See here or here for non-Windows Q&A's.
I've installed a new primary SSD drive on my mac, now I'm trying to download a few apps that I've already installed on my previous HD, but app store keeps saying they're already installed. But they are not. Is there a way to tell Apple's App Store that these apps are not installed? I've already tried the solution on the thread: App Store thinks apps are installed, but no success.
I have a USB external hard drive with AC adapter that works fine with an Ubuntu machine. But when I plug it into my MacBook Air it lists one partition on the finder, and does not mount the other. Even though it is listed on the finder, it shows that there are no files on the drive (even though there are). Tried both USB ports with the same result. Disk Utility does not see it. How to fix? OSX 10.7.5
My Mac seems to have given up. I have my important data backed up, but I have a few gigs of movies and music that I wasn't backing up. I can boot into the recovery utility and launch a terminal, and can ls /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/joe/Documents and see my data, but how can I launch finder (or anything else) to grab these files?
I just bought a Mac Mini and a wireless apple keyboard. Whenever I type Shift+2, expecting the @ symbol to appear, I get a " character instead. How can I diagnose the problem and correct the mapping so Shift+2 produces the @ symbol as expected? Several other Shift keys in that row are also wrong: 6 is &, 7 is ', 8 is (, 9 is ), 0 is 0.
Recently everything I do in finder is slow. If I go to activity monitor I see coreservicesd 63% finder 37% What's going one?
I'm trying to use Homebrew to install wget, but something is happening where the download is always corrupt. This happens for all packages, not just wget. I can download the tar.gz fine through a browser. Can I use Homebrew to install a locally downloaded archive? Something such as:
I did 3 factory reset, cleaned up all my files but as soon I am within his range he is again messing with my files. I tripled check all my security settings such as firewall, disabled infrared receiver, created a vault, even I now use a firmware password to log into my machine. I am lost and desperately in need of help :(
Press the power button and it'll restart and restoring the windows. Press the power button for so long and it'll sleep. When return it'll restore the whole windows. What about if I want true restart or shut down?
Can anyone tell me why Outlook is using between 650Mb and 1.2Gb of memory? I've googled but can't find anything. Outlook isn't crashing (Seems to be the main problem others are having) but my whole system is hanging. If it was up to me I'd uninstall, but this is a work machine. Any advice would be appreciated.
I have a 500 GB USB drive, which I once partitioned into two parts: one encrypted—Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), and the other not—Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Now I want to change the partition layout, and probably add a new partition. However, I was unable to do this in Disk Utility: all options related to partitions are greyed out. See the screen cap for example (clicking on the partitions does not work, either). screen cap of disk utility *=URL=* This is pretty weird: not only can't I resize or add partition, I can't make any change to the partition layout, including completely reformatting the disk! Any ideas about this?
iTunes 11 seems to revolve around the screen that shows you all of the different albums that you own. However, the vast majority of the albums iTunes is showing me are albums from which I own only one song, and it is making it difficult to find those albums that are actually complete. In iTunes 11, how do you filter the albums displayed in the Albums pane?
I might possibly have a html5 game project coming up, that would need to run on iOS devices. However i dont own many of them, nor do i have the money to buy them. My friend did remind me i might be able to simulate on the iOS simulator, but im not so sure. My mac is currently experiencing some problems so i cannot check it for myself. But it would help if someone could answer:
I am using iTunes for the first time, and it seems to be very different from Windows OS. I am trying to do what I would have expected would be a very basic thing - take a song from one library in iTunes and move the song to a different library in iTunes. Everything is on the same computer! I could not find a drag and drop option or a cut and paste option.
Is there any way to purge specific applications from the Finder's "Open With" menu? Mine is cluttered with all sorts of applications I'd never choose to open HTML files with (Word, Calibre, all sorts of undesirables; see image). I know there're various tricks to remove duplicates or uninstalled applications, but I'd just like to prune. Failing that, is there a way to move an app higher in the list (I'd like Sublime Text 2 higher up the list), or simply to bypass the menu and open the file in the two applications I'm actually interested in opening it with (Sublime and Chrome, essentially). Running 10.7 Lion, if applicable.
I have a few external ssd hardrives (My Passport, in my case). I would like to integrate them within a system that provides reliability in case of failure, by producing redundant information across the devices, seamlessly from the User point of view. What would be a product worth considering?
When at home I use my 13" MacBook Pro hooked up to an 27" external monitor. When working on my 27" screen I prefer to have a visible dock at all times. I have enough screen real estate to afford this luxury. When I'm on the road working on my 13" screen I prefer to automatically hide the dock as it really gets in the way when screen real estate is limited.
I run mac disk utility. It finish saying my disk is fine.
My young daughter tried to contact her friend via iMessage. Her friend's account is set up via her father's email address. My daughter later received unsavoury texts back. She deleted these straight away as there were swear words and she felt guilty about them.
I've been a long-time Windows user, using a utility called AxCrypt to encrypt sensitive documents which holded sensitive info (bank passwords, credit card numbers, etc). I had an encrypted Excel spreadsheet, which was placed on a shared dropbox folder, where everyone who had the password could easily view the file, and if needed change the data and save (AxCrypt will automatically encrypt the file, which is saved to dropbox and synced to all users). It worked perfectly for years, and then 2 of us switched to Mac. AxCrypt port to Mac doesn't allow the simple opening of encrypted file, changing it, and having it automatically encrypted. So we either use Windows emulation on Mac, or find another solution that has a good experience (easily view encrypted files, easily change and re-encrypt, save to dropbox).
I have a 15' MBP retina (which has HDMI and Thunderbolt interfaces for connecting to external displays). I was planning to buy this 27' Crossover monitor (one of those Korean displays that have popular lately). I was planning to use it through a DVI-D to HDMI connector like the ones found here and here. However, the monitor seller's listing on the page says: Do not use with port convertor Do not use with port convertor No AD board internal GPU, APU, Laptop, Macbook are not compatible (sic). No AD board internal GPU, APU, Laptop, Macbook are not compatible (sic). I have read that HDMI and DVI video signals are identical and they only differ in the physical connectors.
FYI my laptop had a install from scratch of ML + backup restored through Time Machine. In addition I restarted Mail after deleting com.apple.mail.plist and all my personal defaults (font, how to display messages, etc) are all still there.
I would like to find a way to delete individual songs from my iPhone and automatically synchronize this deletion in iTunes. My current workaround is this: Star the songs I don't like anymore with 1 star, synchronize iPhone (takes forever), then delete the songs with 1 star and resync. Any better way to do this?
Let me explain my set up. I have a home theater PC that houses all my music files (about 500 gigs worth of music) but right now it just works as a server in that regard since I play all the music using my macbook air and itunes that streams the files to my receiver. I have quite a good sound system and so I guess my first question is how much fidelity am I losing by streaming the signal? Almost all of my music library is lossless and obviously I would like to get the most out of that quality. Does anyone have any expertise or insight to quality lost via streaming?
Is there any hotkey, AppleScript or separate application for that? I don't really like kill 20 applications manually every time I make reboot.
I love the Dock stacks. But I always use the list view option. I don't really fancy the default "Automatic" option. Do you know if it is possible (maybe using the defaults command?) to set the default way to display the content of a Dock stack?
I have an iPad Mini that I have had sense the fall. This morning I woke up and it was working fine. Now it won't turn on. I've tried all the regular fixes and nothing is working. Will the manufacturer warranty cover this? Should I take it to an Apple store?
I removed the staff group and closed my finder window (yes I am a fool for doing this). After closing the window, I effectively lost access to everything on my "Macintosh HD". I re-booted and was happy to see my login screen, but after I login all I have is a grey screen and cursor. I rebooted holding Comand+R I chose "disc utility" and then "unlocked" Macintosh HD I opened Terminal and typed "password" I did not reset my password, but clicked "repair permissions and ACL's" I quit terminal (using Command+Q) and did the same for "reset password utility" I rebooted and got back to the login screen, but have the same problem
I moved my old library into the location on Advanced settings. Why doesn't it display my music??? EDIT: OSX 1.7.5 iTunes 11.0.2 It is on my local machine.
This is a long shot, but I thought I'd ask anyways. I used to have an iMac 24" and the internal hard drive went bad on it. So I bought an external hard drive, installed OS 10.7 on it and booted the computer from that hard drive. I gave it to my friend and he used it for a while with his own external hard drive and I kept mine. It was stolen the other day and he didn't record the serial number. Is there some way I can pull from some file the serial number from the external hard drive that I have in hopes to at least file a police report?
I have a couple of cron jobs that I would like to log output to the Notification app in Mountain Lion. I've searched and and figured out how to log cron output by editing the plist file, but nothing specifically about how to integrate into the Notifications app.
Starting in verbose mode (Cmd+V), the last line I see on the console is: This happens regardless of having an ethernet cable plugged in or not.
I currently have my Time Capsule to forward all inbound requests on port 80 to my Mac Mini which runs a web server with its local ip address of 192.168.1.8. I also have DNS set up so that if I go to example.com then it will send the request to my static public IP which will in turn cause the Time Capsule to forward the request on port 80 to my Mac Mini.
There is unoconv for Linux. I am looking something similar for Mac. I think no such a program exists.
On Mountain Lion, in the [Security & Privacy] pane of System Preferences, you can enter a lock screen message that gets displayed on the login/lock screen. Sometimes, you might want to put a line break or a paragraph gap there. You might think that you could do this, hence the large text box, however you can't - even if it looks like you can. Enter or Shift+Enter doesn't enter a line break. I know it's possible, because iCloud does it when you lock your computer with Find My iPhone. Is it actually possible to enter line breaks in your lock screen message?
I was watching Little Snitch for another process, and noticed df was making requests to various servers. I thought df was only for checking free disk space locally, but it appears to be doing more than just that.
My custom shortcuts are not case sensitive (the opposite was claimed here). Example: Under Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Add New Shortcut I specify: ME : Schorsch Unfortunately, both ME and me in the text will be replaced with Schorsch. Clearly, the custom shortcut is not case sensitive. How/where can I fix this?
I'm thinking of syncing my Mac's contacts with Google. But I'm a little wary of any data syncing between platforms, since some data is usually lost. Is there a list somewhere that describes which fields might get lost or changed during this synchronization?
Right now, if I want to switch to a Sublime Text 2 window open to a "project" called foo, I can do option+space, type Sub hit enter and then hit cmd+` repeatedly until I arrive at the window I want. Is there any way to manipulate this in Alfred, or using any other shortcut so that I can simply type the name of an open window to switch to? I tried writing an AppleScript, but once I got part of the way done, I realized there is no way for me to communicate this list back to Alfred to make a selection:
In OS X Mountain Lion, is there a way I can assign a keyboard shortcut to move the active window to a specified space (or even the adjacent space if an arbitrary space can't be specified). Ideally, the space to which the window is moved to, won't itself get activated in the process. That is, the window will simply disappear from the current space, while the current space won't itself change. I am open to all options: AppleScript, objective C, tweaking with preferences etc. Lack of this feature really gets in the way of the window management workflow!
I've recently got a new Windows laptop and downloaded and installed the latest iTunes (11.0.2). All my music (over 5000 songs) went into iTunes fine, just as they were on my old laptop. However I have now noticed that when I download new music and add it to my iTunes it won't allow me to edit the songs through "Get Info" even though the songs I transferred from my old laptop can be edited perfectly fine. Can anyone help? Thank you.
I want to disable the password authentication of the SSH server on my OS X Server. this should be done in /etc/sshd_config, right? But I’m not sure which setting I should change…
I'm currently only able to see my internal HDs for my MacBook Pro 13 c. 2009 by attaching them to a USB adapter cable external to my laptop. Drives are great - but either logic board or something else is causing internal failure problem. I don't want to spend any more money in repairs or replace just yet. So my question:
I have an external USB Western Digital disk I use for Time Machine backups. I eject the disk, the disk icon disappears. I wait a few minutes, then unplug the disk. I end up with a "The disk was not ejected properly" error message. Disk Utilities show the disk, but as unmounted. I have the following entries in Console as I plugin the disk, eject it, and the remove it: What is causing the error message.
I'm looking for a txt file that contains a word. However when I search my hard drive (or my TimeCapsule backup) I always get stuck in a recursive search of /Volumes/Hard Drive (etc). The hardlink (or softlink, not sure) is causing me to never complete the search. How can I search the entire harddrive (or backup drive) for a file without getting stuck in recursion?
I have a 27" ASUS PB278Q display equipped with a display port, the monitor has a resolution of 2560x1440. If I connect to my thunderbolt port using a mini displayport to displayport cable will it maintain the ultra hi-res of 2560x1440 which is what Apple claims Thunderbolt can produce?
I have tried using the Migration Assistant, straight copy/paste using Firewire disk mode, and even a clone using Clonezilla... Both machines are 10.8.2 The old computer in System Information under applications shows apps as either Universal or Intel. Once migrated to the new machine (newly imaged, and re-imaged between each attempt), almost half the apps show up as PowerPC and will not run. What's going on, any solution, anyone seen this before?
So we all know that the Retina has a double density screen. As such, when I take screen shots they are 144ppi instead of 72ppi. These are great when I am looking at them in Photoshop, but if I paste them into an e-mail or post them to my blog, they're twice as large as they should be. Scaling them to 50% makes them look terrible. Here is a screen shot I took directly, and should be 400x170 px, but it is clearly larger than that (click here for direct link, which shows it is actually 800x340 px):
There's a tool on OS X, and I can't remember what it is for the life of me, that will display what the menu and window IDs are of a selected tab, window, or checkbox. Can anyone refresh my memory?!
But I would still like for all the devices to share a single iTunes account, so that I only buy an app once I want to be able to log into Find my iPhone with my main iTunes account and still see all my other devices.
I am backing up to a QNAP NAS latest firmware using their Time Machine functionality which works great. I run VMware Fusion and learned that it isn't a good idea to backup the VM's. My TM backup for this computer alone is 500GB even though I have a 256GB drive and am only using 120GB. I am not backing up any external drives either. I know it is possible to compact .sparseimages, but how would I do this on a the NAS? Unfortunately they don't provide an interface for that. The drive is mounted when TM runs it's backup, but I don't have access to it unless TM is running and its probably not a good idea to compact while TM is running. I can SSH into the server.
In previous versions of iTunes I could delete an app and this deletion would propagate to all devices on synchronization. It no longer seems to be the case in iTunes 11.0.2. I can delete the app from iTunes, but the app isn't deleted from my iPhone or iPad on synchronization. Is this a new feature or a bug? Is there a configuration option to change this?
My iphone has been stolen, however I did not keep a sim in it since I no longer use it as a phone, just for a music player. It's password protected however in the notes app there's private and confidential information. Is there any way apple can wipe the whole device with just my apple ID?
How to add a website to Safari Top Sites manually instead of viewing it so many times that Safari chose it for you?
Is there a way to install Xcode 4.2 on OS X 10.8? I need to compile some Firemonkey projects on my MBP (latest without retina) and I have OS X 10.8 installed and through normal means it's not possible to install Xcode 4.2.
I'm about to buy iPhone 4S, I'm curious about how fast is mp3 transfer (since I like a lot of music). And I'm using Windows. Is it a LOT slower than common direct USB transfer like on mp3 devices or is it "ok" speed? And I'm using my own mp3s I have on my HDD.
One can enter reminders in OS X in the Reminders app. But how can they be sorted by name or date? I can't seem to find out how.
I have a MacMini 2011 booting from a GoFlex drive connected to its Thunderbolt cable. Recently I am considering adding a second monitor. The HDMI port is already taken by my current monitor. It seems that the Thunderbolt port can also work as a DisplayPort for a second monitor.
I have been evaluating Reflector.app, and am now purchasing a license, however while evaluating it, it created many, many entries for the computer I was running it on. I have tried rebooting both the computer and the iDevice, even making sure that they were both off at the same time, but to no avail - how can I get rid of these entries?
We use a common iCloud Account. One of the users has deleted this account from her iPhone and this has caused all the shared events disappear across the iCloud account. How can we restore this Events?
I have a GPS tracked stored in a GPX file. Now I'm looking for a tool that allows me to set the start time of the track and the duration, and the tool should automatically evenly distribute the appropriate timestamps for all my recorded points in the track. The tool should be free and run on OSX.
how can I find out what this password is needed for or how to stop this? I'm using zsh EDIT:
Yesterday, my dad's older Macbook Pro was on the fritz (graphics issues), so he switched to using his newer one. He set the newer one on top of the old one, and it resisted to boot up, even when we could see the status light on it, and we heard the drive spinning. For giggles, I told him to lift the new one off the old one, and whazam, the login screen appeared. Is this a coincidence, or is there deeper magic at play?
I'm not accidentally hitting Control, Alt, etc. The only modifier key I'm using is Shift.
How to save half-made service in Automator without making it active, as it is not finished?
What key combination do I have to press to create a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac 2011? The Windows combination of Alt+Enter does not work on the Mac.
I have downloaded a flv file, and I would like to save it in iTunes library for later play. I guess I should convert it first, but is this supported by OSX or do I need an extra application. And which file format will keep the quality and the size of original video?
When I unistall an application I want to check for all remaining files on computer. Searching them with Finder doesn't show any protected file, for instance from Library, and also hidden files are never included in search. Can this be controlled or changed?
I am new to Mac, and I am finding that the fonts are not smooth. Changing the system defaults (defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 2, "Use LCD font smoothing" checked) do not improve the fonts. Here is a comparison of rendering in Terminal (above) and EMACS (below), both with Monaco-16.
How do I get the ls shell command to list my files in: case-insensitive order with the directories at the top?
Will Apple offer a discounted replacement for a water damaged iPhone 4S outside of warranty? The water indicators on the outside of the phone have not gone off, but the one inside on the logic board may have.
I am looking for information on either an app or script that logs off an account after a certain number of minutes. I know this can be done by default after X amount of inactivity. However, I am using a Mac as "Quick Print" Station and wish to run some sort of program to log the user out the computer whether they are active or not. Does someone have any knowledge of scripts or programs that enables a person to do this? Thanks in advance! The computer is running Snow Leopard OSX.
I'm a designer using Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro 15" (i7) with 8GB Ram, 500GB (180GB free) (2010 model). I usually use Chrome (4/5 tabs), Firefox (1/2 tabs), Skype, VM Ware Fusion (with Win XP, using only 512MB), Photoshop CS5, Adium, iTunes, maybe Filezilla.
I want to try to save my iPad batteries, so I turn on the airplane mode when I don't use the iPad during the day and at night. I could toggle airplane mode on/off for more than 12 times in a day.
I recently updated my iPhone to iOS 6.1.2 and after the the update the top "power" button will not consistently lock the screen. Sometimes it needs to pressed 5 to 6 times before it will actually lock the phone.
My first thought was the SMB compatibility issues that arose when Lion was first released but considering everything worked smoothly until the server migration I can't imagine this is the case. We also considered DNS but with it pinging properly, and the older Macs & Windows machines connecting properly, we have a hard time believing that. Has anyone run into this before or have any ideas?
I have a MacBook Pro configured in the following way: 120GB SSD 70GB OS X boot partition (10.8.2) 50GB BootCamp partition 750GB WD HDD Essentially all used as my Home folder
I'm setting up a network for a small business with two geographic sites, which will be run on OS X Server. We need a "chat" tool of some sort, and the contents of those chats could possibly contain sensitive data we can't store on someone else's servers.
I want to record a very long video, approximately three hours, over an external webcam. Short videos work very fine with QuickTime and its built-in "New Movie Recording" function. As long as they are short, you can choose to save the file "unchanged". Apple calls this to save the file "[…] in the same format as the original". The option "save a movie file that contains media in the same format as the original movie" mentioned above strangely disappears at my three hours video. My webcam needs 180 MB disk space per minute in 1080p, so a three hour video roughly weights 30 GB. This export takes a quite, quite long time and I do not want to re-encode it and also want to save it in the same format as the original movie.
Where does iTunes store data for iPhone and iPad backups? I know that—on a Mac—the following folder is ostensibly the only location.
I've setup a chroot for my PHP server running behind nginx on mac. It works except for any call to a CURL request fails with an error like cURL resource: Resource id #43; cURL error: Couldn't resolve host 's3.amazonaws.com'
I have a couple of GMail accounts which I track on my iMac, iPhone, and iPad. On the iOS devices, both of the accounts are setup as Exchange accounts with Push delivery. I read that this is the recommended way to setup iOS with GMail and everything has been working flawlessly with this configuration for years.
I use messages on my mac and enable it on my ipad as well. When I play music (spotify) on ipad, it keeps getting interrupted by the iMessage. The interruption is the dimming of the sound. This is very annoying. How do I stop that?
I can't open .py files in IDLE by double-clicking them in Finder (IDLE is currently set as the default program for opening such files). Nor can I open those files by right-clicking and selecting IDLE.
How can I prevent safari to redirect the user to the google search page for addresses with custom top-level domains? Given an address of the type *=URL=* where test is a primary zone on our intranet, if I enter either: *=URL=* application.test/ Then Safari correctly resolves the name and opens the page, if I enter: application.test Then Safari assumes it is a search query and redirects the user to the google search page. Is it possible to prevent this in any way which does not involve the user itself?
I am trying to install a few software packages on my Mac os X 10.6.8. The packages are the python libraries: networkx (graph library) matplotlib (visuzlization)
I used homebrew to install emacs, replacing an older version of unknown provenance. At startup emacs complains Unable to load color "dark cyan" and some text in my elisp files is invisible: I see (require ' ) instead of (require 'foo).
I stored my music collections ( mostly in .m4u extension) in Dropbox folders, while I play these music files in itunes, I fount that Dropbox continuously sync these files. What does itunes write to these files and how can I disable it?
When I check for updates on an iOS device of mine, the results takes quite a bit of time to get listed. And even sometimes they don't and I've to restart the app by killing it. Although the speed when downloading something from the App Store(whether it be a new app or an update) or any other Apple store is pretty good. It's just the updates trying to get listed that takes quite a bit of time.
I would like to free some space on my iPhone 4S by deleting my local copies of photos from a friend's photo stream. Can I do that without affecting my friend's originals and without signing out from the stream? Ideally, I would like to do that selectively, i.e. delete some of the photos and keep others. Also, I would like to continue to receive my friend's newer pictures.
There are a couple of questions addressing what happens when you upgrade the minimum iOS of an app and there are still users on older iOS versions. The answers don't seem to agree with each other. Some say that the user sees no update, but others say the user does see that there's an update available, but that she should update their iOS first. To get rid of uncertainty, I was wondering if anyone knows if there's official documentation from Apple about this and where to find it? update
In terminal, if I try tab completion in a directory e.g. Movies, instead of the movies beginning with S (if I type S followed by tab, I see SetFile, Splitforks and SystemStarter. I suspect I installed something which has messed with my PATH variable. How can I get correct path completion back? OSX 10.8.2 on Early 2011 Macbook Pro
I"m trying to connect to my linux server which uses public key authentication. By default, the .ssh folder is hidden on my mac (which I can access via the terminal). However, when I try to setup a connection using either Cyberduck or Transmit, the Finder popup that opens does not show the .ssh folder. How do I select the key ?
It was all working fine till I was on 6.1, I upgraded to 6.1.2 and restored my backup from iTunes after which I noticed that the text-expander is not working. for e.g. when I type "omw" it doesn't get expanded to "On my way!" I tried a lot, reset (Home + Power), installed Xpander2 from Cydia, etc etc.
I have installed WINE using the instructions at the WineHQ Wiki and was able to successfully run an install of a Windows application for my admin user. Buoyed by my success I thought I would try to get it working for the multiple users I have on my machine (read: family). I found the multiple users stub in the FAQ and have made a number of modifications by following the instructions in the ubuntu forums. I believe I followed them properly. It essentially has you set up the sudoers file to support other users having the ability to operate as another user without a password. In this case I've created a 'windows' user that executes WINE. The issue I'm having is that I'm receiving the following error when attempting to execute an application that previously worked under the admin account. I'm not new to Linux but am new to Mac and to WINE, so thank you for any direction you can provide.
i want to use some maps app on my iPhone without using internet connection. So is there iOS maps app in which i can download full city map?
I have setup a new MacBook Pro retina, things were going well but now I cannot access localhost. My /etc/hosts file is fine, or at least untouched. I have tried flushing the DNS cache, and dig localhost spits out
I would like to know, is there a way to control your iPad with your Mac remotely (be able to see and manipulate iPad's desktop on your Mac)? I know that with the TeamViewer or other programs you can control your Mac with your iPad but not vice versa.
I sync my iPhone and iPad with my MacBook. It appears that iTunes stores copies of all of my apps on my MacBook, even though I, for obvious reasons, can't actually use them there. The problem is that they take several gigabytes of space. Is there something I can do about this?
I have iTunes 11.0.2. For the first time ever I have downloaded some MP4s from YouTube - the ones that say share with anyone and everyone if you can, so I thought I would. I was able to upload or add them to the library in iTunes, and they play fine there. But when I go to sync them to my iPod, it is like the MP4s don't exist and the nothing happens when I click the apply button to sync, even though the MP4s are all checked. Does anyone know how I can sync these MP4s to my iPod from iTunes?
When searching for mail in Mail.app with a GMail account, every instance of the mail shows up with every Gmail label, especially in the Bin label, since Apple mail autosaves drafts as you go along, there can be 50 instances of a single mail just in the Bin folder. This makes searching impossible.
Sometimes when I open up a video in iTunes the cursor image disappears. To bring it back, I've to either double-click or switch to mission control for a quick sec. and come back. This problem is really annoying; so anyone having something similar or better yet any solutions?
iBooks permits easy file sharing and import of Pdf files to iPad through iTunes, however it lacks annotation/highlighting. After import, I prefer to open PDF file with 3rd party PDF viewers like Foxit. However I have no idea how to bring my PDF file from iBooks to Foxit reader. Do you have any idea?
Is there a place on the Apple website where I can suggest features for OSX/iOS to Apple? For example, I want to suggest that you can drag Launchpad folders to your Dock.
I've been an Apple user for some years, but I never managed to find a good book manager. As by now, I use a quite uncomfortable routine in order to read books (I should mention that most of the books I read are PDFs, I read a lot of open source books on computer science): I download them on my Mac I add them to iTunes, and I edit their properties by, for example, taking advantage of the composer field to store informations about the publishing house and the genre field to store the "topic" of the book (which is awful, I can't group books based on these details, just based on author/category) I sync all of my books with my iPad, and I read them only from there (using iBooks), because I don't like the fact that on my Mac I haven't got a version of iBooks (what I need is a system that remembers the last read page, for instance)
I have to say first, I am clueless about it all, including the jargon. I have just spent phone time with ATT, and I have learned I will not be able to tether (that means create a hot spot from my iPhone 3GS, right?). I have the lowest data plan now, but am willing to change to the highest limit for the trip. but, apparently that won't make a difference in the ability to tether.
I'd like to remove my phone number from my iMessage account, but still have my phone enabled to receive messages sent to my email address (also used on iPad, Mac). Is there a way of doing this?
I am trying to download and/or acquire an operating system installer for my newly purchased Mac. My objective is to put this onto some form of removable media (USB ideally) such that in the event that my tinkering renders the Mac unusable, I can fix it.
How can I change that he backups only the external information? Or maybe I'm wrong and he needs to back up the internal to for things to work since I still use it as my computer (but not my HD). I don't need the content of the original HD to be backed up along with my external one. I just want the workspace I created with a back up on my external to be put back on my erased, internal one.. I'm also worried if I erase my internal HD the booting help progam (C or R) will be gone to.. will it?
The freeware Folder.qlgenerator was already broken by Lion. does not appear to work in ML. Does anyone have a replacement solution? I’m looking at a large file tree, and I’d like some convenient way to remind myself of what is where. Expanding everything in List View would send most of the information off the bottom of the screen.
I got an iPad mini on Wednesday through the post but I opened it to find it damaged. It is only a tiny chip but I rang apple and they are sending me a new one and I am giving this one back. Does anyone think thar it might be possible for me to buy the broken iPad from apple for cheap? It's chipped in the front and engraved on the back so surely it would make more sense for me to buy it as my sister has expressed an interest in it.
I like to read course material on Kindle. I merge all lecture slides with Automator and then send them to my Kindle email. Earlier, I have used Readle's Documents app (a spinoff of PDF Expert) where I had a search. If no OCR, then DjVU Reader in OS X to PDF and then ABBYY's FineReader Express to add OCR. Kindle has one failure with this: it cannot search despite the OCR of the PDF. It needs to be in a correct format: PDF is not a correct format but some Kindle's own format.
I don't have a Mac and I want to do what's specified here. Is there a Linux/Windows app for this?
I've noticed I often do not spot an active program for a while, especially when I'm running quite a few applications at the same time. To make this distinction more clear than the small dot, Im trying to find a way to dim the unactive Dock icons, or make them black/white. So far I havn't been able to come up with a solution, though.
So I've got a 13" Macbook Air with 128GB, and recently I got a message showing that I'm running out of space, so I did a quick check to see what was taking up all of space, and I found out that I have 4GB of sleep image (which is normal), but 20 swap files, each taking up from 60mb to 1gb. With a small disk size, this is really unacceptable so I was wondering if it was safe to delete some of the swap files and let the system build them up. Or would a restart help (Though I'd prefer not, had a bet with my friend to keep my uptime as long as possible :p) Any suggestions appreciated.
Here's a tough one for you. I installed an SSD in the optical drive slot of my 2009 iMac a few months ago. It's the system drive, working in conjunction with the old internal hard drive. On occasion, with no clear pattern that I can detect, a reboot will present me with a blank gray screen (the linen background), with no icons to choose a User login (which is my setting — it's not defaulting to the two boxes to type in your name/password, either).
This happened after I took my Mac to the Genius bar to get some hardware fixed. When I got it back everything was fine except for iMessage being messed up as described above. Update: There's a similar question on the Apples Support boards, but the solution did not work for me: com.apple.ichat.Subnet.plist did not exist.
When I registered to be an Apple Developer, I inadvertently did so without realizing the requirement to be 18 years of age (I was 17 and 6 months away from being 18 at the time). I did not take out any sort of paid membership at the time, however. I am now 20, will this cause me any problems now or is it nothing I need to worry about?
I use the Apple wireless keyboard A1314 (newer model, using two AA batteries) with my iPad 4th (or is it 3.5th generator? whatever is the newest) generation. Is there a way to map one of the buttons to the home key? Is it possible to do this with a jailbroken iPad, if not a jail-unbroken iPad? An earlier answer says it isn't possible, but refers to iPad 2, so I don't know if anything has changed in the 1.5+ years. This is more than a minor annoyance with the otherwise great Incase Origami stand, because the home button is physically blocked with the iPad in portrait mode.
I have about 12,500 tracks uploaded to iTunes Match. From my desktop and laptop, everything works great. I can see the cloud-based tracks and play them. I can download them to my machines.
I have been looking for Windows 8 Boot Camp drivers for my first generation MacBook Pro. Where will I be able to find said drivers?
I had turned off FileVault on my FileVault-encrypted HDD. While the HDD was decrypted, I accidentally powered down my laptop interrupting that decryption process. When I subsequently rebooted, I am able to click on my username and enter my password, but then instead of displaying the Apple logo, my laptop displays the "No entry" traffic sign and proceeds no further. Now my OS X Lion 10.7.6 system (on MacBook pro 13" 2011) no longer boots after a restart.
My MacBook Pro is throwing me a message "Service Battery" and coconutBattery tells me I have 4007 mAh instead of 5450 mAh. Is there a way to pump it back up or is that impossible? I was looking around on the Internet but the Apple Store does not display a built-in MacBook Pro 13 inch battery.
I want to use applescript to change a checkbox in the preferences box of Safari. I can open the preference window, but how to code the check box change? Example: I'd like to toggle the check box for "Block pop-up windows" on tab "Security" of the preferences
I have a folder on my IMAP server named « Notes ». I have deactivated the use of the IMAP account by the Notes.app, but the folder is still not visible in Mail.app. Is there a way to have this folder displayed as a normal folder ?
Does Pwned DFU mode allow an iPhone 4 to install any version of iOS? I have read *=URL=* *=URL=* and watched Sn0wbreeze 6.1 / 5.1.1 Jailbreak & Hacktivate iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4, 3 & iPad Then I come up with a question: Since Pwned DFU mode allows the iPhone to download an customized ipsw created from sn0wbreeze, does it mean that Pwned DFU mode allow an iPhone 4 to install(upgrade or downgrade) any version of offical iOS without requiring an SHSH blob for the corresponding iOS? A screenshot to show the ipsw difference, using iPhone 4 ipsw with sn0wbreeze Simple Mode.
I received an SMS from a phone nr that I don't have saved in my iPhone. How do I save that number as a new contact?
While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iCloud integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application. I just want to be able to copy text from web pages and paste it as plain text in this application.
I've got an Apple wireless network running (base station is an Airport Express, 2nd generation), and I'd like to extend to it a nearby apartment. I've got an AT&T modem/router hybrid, a Netgear device. Is it at all possible to extend an Apple wireless network with a non-Apple router such as this? I can connect to the Netgear box via Ethernet to configure settings, but I'm curious first if this kind of wireless extending is even possible.
Even though I have owned every iPhone from the 3G onwards I have NEVER mastered the backspace key. If you hold it to delete a few words it almost ALWAYS catches me out and starts deleting whole words and then whole lines (if you keep it pressed). I just want it to continue deleting one letter at a time until I remove my finger. If I want to delete huge blocks I would highlight them. :)
I'm having troubles with my Apple ID. Apart from not being able to download apps, I can't change my Apple ID details through the iPhone, and especially when I log in to appleid.apple.com and trying to edit my address, I get logged out getting an "unknown error" message. Any ideas what to do?
What is the keyboard shortcut to select a word that your typing cursor is currently on ? For example, if the word I want to select is World, while the typing cursor is between one of the letters of that word such as This Wo|rld is huge, what do I press to select only World ?
I recently bought a new iPhone 5. When I was going through my contacts today, I noticed a lot of email adresses stored along with the other numbers. I didn't even know most of them! What has happened?
I am having connectivity problems with my broadband and want to create some evidence for/with comcast. In particular, I'd like to run a continuing series of pings and get a graph out. All I've been able to find are utilities for Windows, or apps (like ping command itself) that just put out a bunch of one line messages. Does anyone have a recommendation?
My problem is that I can't enable Facetime on my iPhone 4. I've searched this problem on many forums and they all say Facetime needs to be turned on in the Phone app's settings, or enabled in some other settings. The problem I have is that I literally have 0 Facetime settings, anywhere on my phone. (please see screenshots).
I have a Powerbook G4 15inch FW800 with a 45watts Apple style power adapter. Recently it would not boot up. I removed the battery and it did. However after a shutdown, later on it did not boot up without battery. Only after I reinserted the battery and after waiting for a few minutes did it boot up again. I heard that I should use a 65watts Power Adapter and not a 45watts. However, when I search for a power adapter based on my Powerbook's Apple Order number: M8981LL/A and/or the Model Number: A1046 - I sometimes get a match with a 45watt adapter and other times with a 65watts adapter. So, which adapter should I use with my Powerbook?
Upon first boot after updating from 10.6.x to 10.8.x my friend started creating a new user account rather than importing the old one. When I look in ~/Users/.. I see /new_account and /old_account, but when on the login screen I'm only seeing New Account and Guest.
I run on battery a lot and occasionally a process/app will crash in the background and start sucking up 100% of one or more cores. That in turn burns my battery down way faster than normal. I used to notice this because my iStat Menu graph would go solid, but now with 8 cores and often only one pegged it's not as obvious.
I have a Mac Pro (2008 eight core 2.8 GHz), a MacBook Air (mid-2011 Core i5 1.7 GHz), and a 30" Apple cinema display (maximum resolution 2560x1600). I have a mini displayport to dual-link DVI adapter for the MacBook Air. I want to set up the cinema display with a 2-port DVI KVM that fully supports both of these machines, ideally with ports for both DVI and USB.
I changed my Apple ID password. I can log successfully into my Apple account using my new password online.
I have an HP Officejet 4610/4620 attached to an OSX machine, and I would like to print to it from my 4th generation iPad Apple - how can I achieve this?
I need to be able to control a mac mini without a screen and I think using screensharing would be enough. I've enabled screensharing, setup a manual IP address and I have an ethernet cable. The problem is I don't have display to use on the mac mini and I currently borrowed a keyboard and a firewire cable to setup screensharing: booted mac mini in target mode (wish there was a way to do it without the keyboard) booted the macbook holding the alt key and choosing the firewire drive
Due to various and persisting problems, I had to reinstall 10.8.2. What I did Shut down iMac with internal system disc A. Started 10.8.2 recovery system Copied iMac's system disc A to an external disc B as an image using Disc Util Erased system disc A as HFS / journaled Run a clean install on A Then, I told OS X Mail to import old mailboxes from B into the fresh Mail system. Ugly result Unfortunately, I got tons of tons of deeply nested folders, which eventually contain email: Not hardly to see, I can't use these imported folder structure any more. Question Is anybody aware of a tool to fix such problems?
I'm trying to choose between the various data plans for an iPad Mini. Based on this chart it appears that the ATT model (A1454) only works in North/South America, while model A1455 is supported worldwide. For this reason (limitation) I assumed the ATT plan would be least expensive per MB/Month, however it is the most expensive per month: What is the value in the ATT network or related technology that I'm missing? Finally, I've been told that GSM operates worldwide, are both these models GSM or CDMA?
A have a MacBook running Mountain Lion that backups up to a Linux machine over afp (netatalk) using Time Machine. In Time Machine preferences I can see that the Oldest backup was on 5th March 2012 (a year). If I go to 'Enter Time Machine' I can old go far back as 4th of March 2013 (a week). Using the 'tmutil' command I can see 43 backups from 2012 until an hour ago. There has never been a problem with space on the Linux machine and there has been little change to settings or software on either computer for over a week.
In Messages Preferences, under Audio/Video it reports my MacBook Air (running OS X Lion) does not support video chat, even though the green FaceTime camera lights up and Skype supports this fine on the same computer  How can I fix this?
I want to measure the read/write speed of my hard-drive. I came accross this page recommending Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. There is a frame saying this: Note: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test puts hard drive under extreme stress during data write and read operations, therefore it’s recommended to save your work before conducting the tests. Now my question is: Could that 'extreme stress' on my hard-drive damage my hard-drive?
I had jailbroken my iPhone last month when I was using iOS 6.1, and currently iOS 6.1.2 is available, which solves some battery issues (I am really suffering from these), so I want to update to iOS 6.1.2. Would you kindly give simple steps to do that so I don't damage my device? I am not much of an expert on this, so your help is very welcome.
Today, I noticed that there were several "login items" that I'm 99.99999% certain I did not add. I figure those items added themselves when I installed them (they were probably installations that required authentication).
We have Bell (Canada) as an ISP. Their service works fine, I can also easily see what devices are connected to the home network via their home network settings.
Apologies for cross-posting in SE, but maybe I'll get a better response on an Apple/OS X specific forum! I'm looking for a Windows XP-like taskbar application switcher in OS X. I'm not looking for anything icon-based like HyperDock and others, or anything that involves gestures like Expose. I want a simple bar at the bottom of the screen that I can click on buttons (not icons) to switch applications. Also - answers like "just run Windows" are not appreciated ;)
I just bought an AirPort extreme (bought December '12). I'm trying to assign a static IP for my printer.
Is it possible to configure sudo so that it only works at a specific time of day, say, from 9AM to 10AM? In Linux, this can be done by editing /etc/security/time.conf, but I don't know if this is doable in OS X.
I have approximately 90 GB of music and it is taking up too much of my Macbook Air's 256GB internal SSD space. I see I can buy a 128 GB flash card which can be left in the MacBook Air's flash card slot. Can I just move my library on to the flash card? Has anybody done this? Any advice? Would it be backed up with Time Machine correctly?
I have a Apple Macbook Pro 13" 2012 IvyBridge HD4000 Model which came with 2GB x 2GB RAM. I Recently bought a single stick of 8GB RAM 1600Mhz (which is compatible). Gskill 8GB DDR3 FA-1600C11S-8GSQ Notebook Memory for Apple Mac *=URL=* I removed both the old RAM DIMM's and placed the New 8GB RAM in upper slot and lower slot but when i boot the system after a few seconds or minutes the display gets distorted and system does not respond and have to hard boot.
Whenever I add a picture to MS Word, the resolution becomes distorted along with the quality of the image. In windows, you can reset a picture and it will be displayed with the correct dimensions. Resetting in MS Word for Mac doesn't do that, it actually doesn't affect the picture at all. Anyone found a way to fix this ?
I want to do Time Machine backups to an ubuntu server. It is a hosted remote machine, not in my LAN.
I found a macbook for sale that has a Danish keyboard. There are a few special character keys and some are missing. Can I remap those keys to other characters? I would like to use it with US english.
I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro (Core i7, 8GB RAM) with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2). What are some effective ways to save power? I am looking to maximise use of the battery - from a full charge - on long plane/train trips. Here are the ways I'm aware of: Turning off WiFi. Turning off Bluetooth. Reducing the screen brightness.
Every once in a while I hear a loud sound from my Mac. It sounds like either a camera shutter or a keychain lock/unlock. It all started a couple of weeks ago. I fear something is snapping shots of my screen and beaming them somewhere.
I am getting this error message. Configuration: iOS 6.1, iphone 4
I allowed AppStore to apply the newest firmware update to my MacBook Pro, which seemed to work fine, until the final restart. At this point, the machine just shut down. I waited for quite a while, assuming it was doing something (despite no power LED) before trying to switch it on using the power button.
I went to go look through my photos but after searching through all of my documents and throughout applications in the Finder I realized that iPhoto does not exist on my computer anymore. Is there a way I can recover it or download it again for free?
I'm working on a project where I need to convert from pixels to mm and need to find the aperture or sensor size on the FaceTime HD Camera. Specifically, I have the mid-2011 27" iMac. I can't seem to find any detailed technical specifications on the newer FaceTime camera. Anyone privy to these details?
My PowerBook G4 is broken and has been for a couple of months now. I owned it while it was working for about 1 and a half years. When it broke originally, I was restarting it after changing the boot logo in the system files and when it rebooted, it just stopped at the bright blue screen that I'm pretty sure comes right before the grey apple logo on a grey background. I left it for a while and it never finished booting. So I restarted it again and the same thing happened several times.
The OCR software could be anything like PDFPen, ABBYY FineReader Express or Adobe Acrobat Pro. Automator does not list any features such as 'Add OCR layer to' or show any OCR programs under Automator.
I just bought a new Mac Book Air 11", but it looks like it has a problem with WiFi. So, every 20-30 minutes I lose an internet connection. The WiFi signal strength is good and adapter doesn't disconnect from the router, but I can't open any web site and all my internet applications (Skype, Dropbox, etc.) goes offline. The only way to go back online is to switch the wifi adapter off/on. All other devices (iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPad 1, iPad 2, Samsung Notebook) work fine, i.e. only new mac book has this issue. I've tried to change all possible settings on my router and I even replaced it with new one, but it didn't solve the problem... I use Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with DD-WRT v24SP2-MULTI (10/31/11) std firmware.
iPad's typing auto correct sometimes can be useful, yet sometimes it provides the wrong recommendation. it's often inconvenient to break my hands from the typing position to tap the "x". I wonder aside from tapping the "x" next to the recommended word to ignore recommendation, what can I do on the keyboard to ignore it?
I am a Taiwanese and study in France now. My major requires read and write in English.
I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on my MacBook Pro. Now I am facing some problem while loggin into Facetime and Message (could not sign in please check your network connection and try again). In console I am getting this message. apsd: Certificate not yet generated
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I can't mount any volumes with TrueCrypt 7.1a anymore. After typing in the password for the volume, an error message is shown, stating that the fusefs kext can't be loaded. The system log file shows the following errors: Do I need to update MacFuse or TrueCrypt to make this work again?
I have a flash disk. Can I turn that into recovery HD?
When a PDF is opened, its actual background color is often white. On Windows, several PDF viewers have the ability to set the background color to another one, which doesn't modify the PDF file itself. You can just think that it adds a virtual color when a file is opened by those software. But when you open the same file by other softwares, it still has white background. I often need to read many articles (PDF format) a day, and white background make my eyes feel uncomfortable.
There is no pop up menu when I right click. I have set right button to secondary button as in the following picture. Using ctrl+left click, there is a pop up menu so I can copy/paste selected or do some other tasks.
I am trying to sort out the music on my iPod into play lists, the thing is I have a bunch of playlists that are audio lessons which I'd like to appear after the music playlists. I know if I put the same special character before them they will all appear at the start of the list, but I'd like to make them appear at the end of the list. Is there a character tha my iPod/iTunes, will put after z? Alternatively is there a way to have these MP3's listed as podcasts so that they don't clutter my music and I can keep track of which lessons I've listened to?
I sold my old Mac but it still appears in the list of iCloud devices e.g. in Safari Tabs. Is there a way of deleting devices from the 'iCloud sync list'?
I'm wondering if there's a way to bring focus to a process that's in "activity monitor". Specifically, I've got a bunch of Google Chrome processes and I'm trying to figure out which process correlates to a particular browser/tab.
My iPhone 4S won't play music through the external speakers when my phone is on silent, and this problem is only restricted to safari - it works for other apps, even the google app when I tried playing YouTube there. I got my iPhone in late 2011, and I've never had this problem before, it's ony recently (as in, yesterday) that the problem began
A friend of mine asked this question "Do you know of any timer apps for iPhone which will close down a particular app after a set period of time?" On questioning further - the "particular" app happened to be Music Player.
Coincidentally I have noticed that the disk capacity reports in "About this Mac" and the Terminal when running diskutil list both report inconsistent capacities for an external hard disk drive. This is an 2TB external hard drive. However, when adding the capacities of all partitions I get a value which is significantly below: 0.2+885.2+0.1+400.0+0.1+300.0+0.1+49.5=1635.2 (GB) This disk had been formatted and used under OSX Mountain Lion.
I try to save script in front most window in AppleScript Editor to desktop as text without using GUI scripting.
I'd like to know if it is possible to restrict playback of certain content in iTunes. I know it can be done when using Apple TV 2/3 but can't seem to find a way to do it in iTunes itself. I can tag the media files using MetaX or MetaZ, these tags show up in iTunes but I can't seem to limit playback of films to only 'U' for example. Anyone got any ideas?
My school has installed PowerCloud, which does not officially support OS X. It works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't. I've tried to narrow it down but it's impossible. I was wondering if there is a way to write an Automater/AppleScript script to connect to 1 network, and then see if it gets the ! in the WiFi symbol, and then try the next one, and then cycle. Is there a way to do this?
I can't get this reversed thing to work:
Is there any way to get just name and VPRVT of running processes?
On OS X 10.8.2 it shows my name and a Guest account. I have to select my name with the mouse before I can type in my password. I can't even use the keyboard to tab over to my name:
I powered off my iPhone (sample instructions). I see the progress wheel for a few seconds after holding down the power button and sliding the 'slide to power off' and then I see the silver Apple logo as if it powered on immediately.
I tried Java 7, then Java 6 (Apple's) but my Java (Swing) desktop applications behave as if I had a MacBook Pro instead of a MacBook Pro Retina. Is there any setting I need to change somewhere? Must I wait till ORACLE implements it in Java 7?
As of the last few months, my phone refuses to find most public hotspots, but will generally connect to home wireless networks. For instance, I can connect to my home wireless and my girlfriend's home wireless, but if I go to a local place like Starbucks that I know for a fact has public wifi, my phone won't pick it up. Restarting the phone doesn't fix it.
On linux consoles I always use Alt + . to get the last argument of the previous command in history. for example if I had as last command, and if I type this will result in On an Apple Terminal, this doesen't work, is there an alternative?
How do I jailbreak iOS 6.1.2 without installing Cydia?
Ultimately, this isn't a big problem but it is a bit annoying. Something happened, at some point, to my Finder application. Even after restarting my computer (even multiple times since this first appeared) the name of a file "CCBReader.h" appears written at the top of Finder. It doesn't matter which folder or file I select, it always reads "CCBReader.h". I recall that this did occur after some point where I was looking at this file, but that was weeks ago. Now, the file name is a ghost within Finder!
I currently have a Mac Mini with 10.8 and server.app 2.2 installed. The server is currently only set up with File Sharing and Time Machine services running. It is handing out network Time Machine volumes to users on our network. Recently, I keep running into this error whenever trying to get the Time Machine service in server.app.
On linux consoles I always use Alt + . to get the last argument of the previous command in history. for example if I had as last command, and if I type this will result in On an Apple terminal, this doesn't work by default but I found an answer here:
I'm frequently reading texts in english and french on my iPad. I really don't mind if the language of the interface is english or french. Is there a way to look up words independently of the interface language ? So far I'm switching the language in the settings when I need to. This is basically this question: Multiple languages for dictionary Look up in Spotlight, but for iPad.
I've bought Plantronics GO bluetooth earbuds and when I double-click them (next song) it starts calling my last call. Any thoughts what goes wrong here? plantronics replied that it are my phone settings. What did I miss?
I have an external display on my iMac and I would like to work only on the external display and turn off/disable the iMac one, just like the "clamshell mode" on a Macbook for example. It works with Windows in Bootcamp, but not in the Mac's partition. The iMac's display is too shiny and it gives me headaches when I work while the sun is shining.
I've added an external (Freecom XS 1TB) hard disk to my Time Capsule. However, this one's Mac Journaled (HFS+) formatted and does not display in Finder until I add a hub between the TC and external HDD. The Freecom XS is powered, and when I add a Western Digital HDD without powering it displays in Finder.
I have a 30pin dock clock radio I used with my 3GS with corresponding dock adapter. I just upgraded to a 4 (I know, I know- in the past right?). However, I am insistent on keeping my iPhone 4 in a case. As a consequence, it will not fit into the dock with a dock adapter.
Can I set up an AppleTV with: - one Apple ID for home sharing - a different Apple ID for iTunes Store purchases? I mean: setting the Apple ID for the iTunes Store will change my Home Sharing config on AppleTV? Thank you
I tried to connect to a server with ssh, but it failed. I tried UseDNS no, update OpenSSH with MacPorts. But it didn't work. Using user@ip -v I get the following output My MAC OS version is 10.8.2. Does anyone have a idea ? Thanks.
I recently had the IT guys here at work wipe my hard drive and upgrade my mac to 10.8 from 10.6. And other than spending a few days getting it up and running again and spaces being jacked it is going ok.
Can the HD 4000 of the Macbook Pro Retina 13 easily handle 2 monitor at 1920x1080 or would it be better to buy a Macbook Pro Retina 15 because it has a separate GPU ? At the Macbook Retina's release, I heard it had some scrolling issues because of the large resolution it had to deal with and I do not want to experience that on external displays. I plan to plug the 2 monitors on the 2 thunderbolt ports.
When I change from one running application to another, I no longer see the topmost (or any) window from the new app. I now have to select a window from the menu bar.
The Mac's System Preferences panels have a universal "lock" icon which, when locked, will apply to all panes, therefore preventing the user from changing any settings until they unlock the System Preferences by typing in their admin password. I like to keep it locked at all times. However, whenever I restart my computer, System Preferences unlocks itself. How do I keep the lock setting locked even after a restart?
I have an iPad (4th Generation) I just went to check my calendar and everything is gone. I don't have cloud back up because I don't have a recent enough Windows OS on my PC.
Does anyone know what maximum resolution (NUMBERxNUMBER) OS X Mountain Lion supports? What happens is that when I use my full 2880x1800 everything looks small. is there a way to use my full 2880x1800 without having everything look small?
I just read Matt Might's blog post on eliminating filler and "weasels" from my writing, and I am wondering how I would implement this on Latex to run and check my document? I know I should use terminal, but I'm not at all familiar with how Terminal accepts commands or which directory I would store the script in? Thanks for any help.
Is there a way to get iTunes to just never play any 1 star songs. I know I can delete the 1 star songs but just wondering if there is a way to just skip them.
I installed Ubuntu on my iMac (partially successfully) I had rEFIT installed but it did not recognize the Ubuntu installation. I removed the partition and rEFIT and now when I attempt to install Windows on a new partition created using BootCamp, pressing OPTION does not show the Windows USB created with Boot Camp, nor is the Apple Recovery or whatever partition that was available before. It seems that my MBR is messed up or something? I came across OSX86TOOLS and it seems to be able to install EFI and what not, however I'm not certain hat's exactly what I need to do. Below is from Partition Inspector from rEFIT: * Report for internal hard disk * Current GPT partition table: # Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT) 2 409640 624880263 Mac OS X HFS+ Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 1 625142447 ee EFI Protective MBR contents: Boot Code: None Partition at LBA 40: Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message) File System: FAT32 Listed in GPT as partition 1, 
I have a non-Apple keyboard connected to my MacBook Pro. Is there a way to make the F7 F8 and F9 do the previous song / play-pause / next song actions like they do on the built-in keyboard?
Apple has cancelled my order on the the 5th of March. Today is 12th of March and I still haven't got my money back. What should I do in this case? I'm using visa card.
I am staying at a hotel, and for some reason, I think they limit each Wifi connection to 95 kbyte / s. So that is roughly 1.2 Mbps... and since I have 18 Mbps at home, I am using a speed that is less than 1/10 of the speed at home. So I asked at the front desk to see if they have a room with a wired connection, and the answer is yes, and I switched to this room, and even bought a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter for the Macbook Air to be able to use the Ethernet wired connection. But to my surprise, the speed of that connection is just the same: 95 kbyte / s. Is there an easy way to tell OS X to automatically use both connections so that the speed can be doubled?
I am beginning to make a project on my Mac, let's call it MyProject, and it's the only thing on this computer that is worth backing up. Therefore, I will only need Time Machine to back up just the folder of my project (and everything that is on that folder including any subfolders). (as an irrelevant note, back up devices will include encrypted thumb drives) tl;dr: So here goes my question, let's say that I need Time Machine to backup everything on /users/MyName/MyProject and nothing else, how can I get it to do that?
I have an iPhone 4S and I just ran into a really weird issue the third time now: the battery percentage would suddenly drop 30-40-50%. One minute, it's, say, 69%, the next minute it's 25%. If I put it on a charger, it jumps back to 69% after a few minutes and charges it until 100% and then it works for a while.
I'm looking to build an iBook with iBooks Author which would require a jQuery masonry-esque layout and I have scoured the web for documentation, help, tutorials, and articles that may help me embark on this project but to no avail. I know custom layouts are possible because the project uses this iBook as a reference. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction that may help me in this quest? I must first say that I'm a front-end developer by trade and I've never created an iBook before. Thank you in advance!
Two of our users have been getting this weird issue where their login to the computer seem to take "ages". The issue seems to go away if you turn off FileVault. However we need to keep FileVault on, but as this only effects a small number of users it seems like this is some specific issue with just their computers. Info about the computers: MacBook Pro (Retina) - Early 2013 Mac OS X 10.8.2 FileVault 2 Connected to Active Directory (Network Account Server)
I am trying to determine domain name of my network. I tried some programming methods, commands but i could not get domain name of my network.I got ip address using cat /etc/resolv.conf I was doing program to get domain name but i dont know even where it is actually stored? Can you tell me location where domain name is stored?
I have two iTunes accounts. One for company usage second - for personal needs. Both of these accounts are with separate credit card numbers (company cc an personal one). I would like to have applications that was bought on these accounts to be on one device (iPad/iPhone). Is it possible to manage in this way?
i was hoping to utilize this trick How to move the Downloads folder (in Mountain Lion) to another disc to move my Downloads folder inside a directory called "disktop zi5" which is inside the directory "synktorium" in my home folder but when i try sudo mv ~/Downloads ~/synktorium/disktop zi5/Downloads i get: usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory what am i doing wrong??
I might temporarily change the page size of a colleague's Microsoft Word document, to produce a PDF – with an assumption that some users will read the PDF on an iPad or comparable device. What's reasonable? If there are neither headers nor footers, I'll probably set 0.25 inch at all four edges. For the Word content that I have in mind, file size is not a concern.
What can I realistically do to fix my iPad screen? Sorry, it's my first Apple product, so I don't know what can be done if anything. I guess what are my options? If my iPad screen can't be fixed, what can I do with it besides throwing it in the trash? By which I mean is there something cool I don't know about? Just wondering. What can I realistically do to fix my iPad screen?
I'm running Apple Mail 5.3 and Thunderbird 17.0.4 on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5. The system I'm running those apps it's an iMac with 3Gb of RAM and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I run both applications at the same time and I got those results looking with the Activity Monitor.
I would like to use my iTunes library on two different computers, whose OS versions are different and would like to know to which extent it is possible to use the same iTunes library on two different versions of iTunes. More precisely, here is my situation : On my Mac #1, the OS is 10.6.8 with iTunes 10.6 (40) On my Max #2, the OS is 10.5.8 with iTunes 10.6.3 (25) Currently, I am able to use both iTunes with the same library. I would like to know if I can install on Mac #1 the last version of iTunes (namely, iTunes 11) and still be able to open/play/edit my music on Mac #2.
My iPhone (model 5, IOS 6.1.2) seems to have some sort of contact cache which it uses when sending text messages: whenever I am sending a message to someone, I start typing the persone's name in te "to:" field, and the iPhone shows me all the contacts matching the letters I typed; but it shows up also contacts I have deleted long ago, and which I don't want around anymore. How can I get rid of this? Is this related to the infamous e-mail cache?
PS. the weird thing is that the drives do not show up under Boot Camp as well, when I'm on windows. So it's not just some drivers problem, but maybe firmware fault? My guess is - my Mac does not supply enough power to the USB ports when a USB drive is inserted? It's a hardware problem since the ports work fine with all other "non storage" devices.
I have received a valid SSL certificate for my Mountain Lion Server (10.8.2 Build 12C3104) and have installed that cert for use by all services (and SSL and other services do not pop up the "Verify Certificate" dialog - only Server seems to be still using a self-signed cert. Each time I connect remotely using Server App 2.2.1 (169) as follows:
Yesterday I was studying and writing some texts in german. I closed my MBP and went watch some TV which made me forget about the german keyboard layout.
Is it possible to use bluetooth to listen to the sounds of GarageBand on iPad? I don't succeed to do it. I hear the sound from the iPad's speaker. But I can do it when I listen to iTunes for instance. Is this a preference to be set in GarageBand itself?
I created a fusion drive on my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and it worked like a charm for a while, but it somehow got corrupted. Now I am unable to reformat or repartition the whole thing. > diskutil cs list > diskutil cs delete 40B334F6-6988-4727-9A2B-48E7999F4047 I remain stuck there and cannot delete the Logical Volume Group, or do anything at all on it's components. By now I would be satisfied if I could just wipe /dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1 completely and start over, but unfortunately this does not work either : > diskutil zeroDisk /dev/disk0 I hope someone will be able to help me, I have absolutely no idea how to recover this computer! I also posted this question on Apple's forums, but I expect a better answer answer and more importantly a longer shelf life!
My Verizon iPhone was working fine until yesterday, mint condition, no damage. Suddenly, there's no display. iTunes detects it but doesn't let me restore with error 3194.
my Apple-curious father has come up with a novel question - I was wondering if anyone had advice as how to solve? Being fond of a certain type of music, he's gradually filled up his iPod with his music collection. As everything he owns has been transferred, he's blanked his iTunes account and no longer updates his iPod. All his music is in one place, for easy, portable, listening. Problem is, now he has to add more - a playlist for an event he is DJ'ing at (no, really). Adding this playlist to his blank iTunes account, and then syncing to the iPod would erase his music library stored on that iPod, would it not?
My employer has provided me with Office 2011 on my MBP workstation, running Mountain Lion. They use networked Excel docs almost exclusively, so I need to adapt to it. There's a handy toolbar item for working with default cell formats:
My daughter's iPod has been (hmmm) taken ^^. I can see it in the "Find my iPhone" app, but before I cancel or wipe it, is it possible to download the content from there? The content is mainly pictures taken on the iPod (the rest of course is in the App Store).
Can I configure emacs, so that I could copy/cut text from emacs (default Terminal version) and paste it somewhere else (into X Window program)?
Some games online require Java to play, however it says that I have a missing plug-in. I am worried that I might get the java-exploit if I downloaded Java, any advice ?
We got a new Mac Pro server and I am faced with cloning 4TB of data from one, to the other via. Firewire 800 cable and Target Disk Mode. Oh for Thunderbolt. Is there an impact on the total speed of copying if you clone two hard disks simultaneously vs. cloning one hard disk, waiting for it to finish and then copying the next.
My shiny new late 2012 iMac arrived, but I can't seem to get it to respond to my Apple Remote. I tried searching the System Preferences to see if out if the box it was paired to another remote, but I can't find that option any more.
Sometimes when opening up a .dmg, the application is just sitting there itself, with no handy alias to /Applications. To copy it over, I need to open a new Finder window, switch to /Applications, and then drag and drop the app in.
Thereafter, though, I noticed that the exposed metal screws on the bottom of the case can burn/tingle my exposed skin if the machine is plugged in. And I do use the three-prong grounded (earthed) power cable.
We are successfully using Parental controls to limit our childrens time by the computer. However I can't seem to be able to make the system log off the user when the time limit runs out. Since there are four people using the same computer it ends up being unusable as the kids run games, chat software, music software etcetera and after half a day the memory is stuffed with unused processes and the CPU is running HOT.
I keep the option to auto-join preferred networks on wake. However, after I reconfigured my router at home, my home network simply ignores that option.
im having a really strange problem here. My macbook air running mountain lion locked on me so i held the power button down to restart it. When it restarted, the OS offered to reopen the apps I had running. I declined. Now I cannot run any of those apps. Even reinstalling the apps didn't help. I can still run apps that weren't running at the time of the crash. Thank you very much for the help!
I'm trying to get Aquamacs Emacs to play a sound. I have this: But I get this error: Any ideas?
Unlike just about every other Mac Program, Alt+delete does not delete the preceding word in Mac Powerpoint 2011. I find this unnecessary inconsistency very annoying. Is there any way of making Alt+Delete delete a word in Mac Powerpoint?
I usually run dwm inside Xquartz on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. But is there a way to boot into Safe Mode (or a console), then startx or xinit, skipping Aqua? I'd like to boot directly into X11.
Is it possible to backup both Windows 7 and Mac OS X to the same Time Machine?
I changed my (short) username on OS X Mountain Lion using the instructions mentioned here. I am guessing that would sort of invalidate all the TimeMachine backups I had till now. Is there a way to fix that?
I brought My Mac-book Pro last year in November(Latest Model available then) and suddenly today started to show a question mark? I tried to pull up the option menu by holding Option key while booting but now I came up with a online recovery. What happened to my data on the disk?
I am not a long-time Mac user and could find the answer. So on Win7 there is a built-in feature when you click Win+← the window resizes to fit half of the screen and sticks to left. Is there something similar on OS X? Thank you.
I am using the Apple Podcasts app and I have setup iTunes to sync the last 10 unplayed episodes of each podcast feed to my iPhone 5. Now I found an old episode that I want to listen to but that one is not among those last 10. How can I keep my iTunes sync settings and still get that one particular episode onto my iPhone (preferably but not necessarily into the Podcasts app) for offline listening?
In my keyboard when I pressed this key  Then I get/display '§' (with shift+key -> '±' ) instead of what expected. How can I set it to work properly? Also after Googling I found this site but this did not help me.
I'm using the latest version of iTunes (11.0.2) and would like to sort my tracks by their location on my harddrives however I think there is no column for that. Am I right?
Is there a way to see the history of played tracks directly on the iPhone? I didn't find an option to do that in the Music app.
While searching Google I came across someone with the same problem. It was suggested to empty the trash and also searching your harddisk for .sparseimage files and removing them, however I found none.
I need a tweak like "Download Manager pro", which allows you to download any video you play. The thing is, it saves to its own private storage (and not camera roll) so I can't share them with anyone. Does anyone knows a tweak that does this job?
iTunes allows you to "sync" pictures however this only copies files from Mac to iPhone, forcing me to do it manually over the USB cable if I want to copy my photos from iPhone to my Mac. I'm running Jailbroken iOS 6.1.1 on my iPhone so I tried to automate this task by running SSH server on the device and by creating auto-sync task on my mac using GoodSync. This seem to work however I don't find it to be a reliable solution to my problem because sometimes it still forces me to initialise the sync and because SSH server can be running only when iPhone's screen is on, breaking the connection during sync. So I was wondering if there is another way to wirelessly sync pictures between my Mac and iPhone without any interaction from me.
I'm having an huge problem with my Mac, from months. I have at home a linux server, a CuBox. It's running Archlinux, running fine. Everything works. But the Mac can't ping the CuBox. I will paste you a little log of what a ping gives.
This is my customer list and I want to send them an email. Unfortunately I don’t have this list in an autoresponder so I have to send the emails one by one.
I'm a podcaster and I already submitted a podcast. However, I want to change the "Podcast Website" link under the Links section. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/insight-for-living-canada/id407284701
I have a Late-2008 Macbook White (MacBook4,1) model, and my AC Adapter broke. Now I want to buy replacement adapter, but since I am going to upgrade to a MBP13 or MBP15 in the next 1-2 years, I want to buy a compatible AC Adapter that works with my MB white and with my then-bought MBP15/13. The reason is simple, when I buy a new one, I'll have a spare adapter. I don't mind using a MafSafe1<->MagSafe2 adapter with either the MB White or MBP.
so when I log into the terminal from my login screen (by typing >console as username), I get logged in to the terminal. However, when I try to use vim or anything useful, it only takes up around 1/4 of the screen, as seen in this photo (sorry for reflection!!):
I am trying to install Ubuntu One on Mountain Lion. I follow the instructions here but when I open the DMG file, I can see nowhere obvious to drag it to as below: I can run it fine by double clicking, but then I cannot unmount the DMG and Ubuntu One doesn't open when I restart, so it's not really properly installed. Any ideas? (maybe this is a noob question, I'm new to OSX) Thanks!
I'm kinda new to OS X, but loving it. I have decided to replace iPhoto with Picasa and want a replacement for iTunes that works more like Picasa.
I understand that Spotlight will search the full text of files in any folder and will show files that contain instances of the searched text. But I would also like to see highlighted instances of the searched text within the text file. Command-f in a text editor accomplishes this. The problem is that I have to perform a two-step process which can be very time-consuming when I have a lot of files to search through: Use Spotlight to locate files that have instances of the searched text in them Open each file in a text editor individually, command-f, and locate the instance of the text within that file.
Is there a Safari extension anywhere that shows a banner (or something equivalent) whenever you're logged-in to Google/Facebook/etc.?
I think I messed up my partition table, would installing mac os on a new partition (to keep the old one which I WANT to use) fix that so when I boot the Option key works and everything runs smoothly?
I'm working with 2 screens. On the smaller I have documentation open while on bigger I have IDE. When making terminal fullscreen it will go big on one screen(bigger), while making other blank. Is there a way to leave docs open on smaller screen?
The iPod is registered on my profile, so I know it's sn. I know apple will do nothing to assist me, but I do have some ideas:
When I press Command ⌘+↑ or Command ⌘+↓ on OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion), it scrolls all the way to the top or the bottom of a window. The problem is, in some programs, this results in crazy uncontrollable scrolling behavior, because for whatever reason the program doesn't signal to the OS that it's hit the end of its scrolling. It's driving me nuts.
I'm used to Windows so I'm not used to the natural scroll with the Apple bluetooth mouse. How do I change this to be the standard, scroll down goes down functionality?
Is it possible to copy all my applications from the applications folder onto an external, format my mac, reinstall OS X and finally copy the applications back into the applications folder for installing them? Will that work? I am asking because my macbook seems to be behaving in a very odd manner, has become excessively sluggish and is preventing me from recording anything in logic.. I have tried the usual freeing up space, clean desktop, fixing permissions, verifying and repairing disk as well as resetting pram and making sure I have all the latest software and firmware updates. The macbook is only 8 months old and is running Lion with 8gb of ram, I really cannot understand what is wrong with it. Even when trying to watch a movie, the player will get serious audio/video synchronisation issues and I noticed that every time my wifi is on the fans speed up like a plane taking off. I even checked and it is clean from any dust. I am perplexed :(
After being very satisfied with my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, I advised a non-technical-skilled relative to buy one, which she did. The MacBook Pro came with OS X 10.8.2 but there is a problem. The "Shared" section of the sidebar is very long to appear, sometime more than 5 minutes. Considering this "Shared" section appears as soon as I am logged on my MacBook, I guess the recently bought MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5) could do, at least, as good as mine (2.4 GHz Intel Core i5) which was bought 2 years earlier. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this?
I am suddenly having problems with my MacBook Pro's wireless connectivity. It has worked flawlessly up to this point: I choose a wireless network from the list, I type the password, and it just works. Now, all of a sudden, I am not able to connect to any wireless network. My computer tells me I am connected to the wireless internet network I chose, though the Network window says that the airport is not connected. No webpages will load, and I cannot access the iTunes store. I have tried to follow some simple problem solving after doing some research, but I am having no luck. I am somewhat computer illiterate and I really need my internet to work. I haven't changed anything, so I am at a loss as to why it would fail suddenly with no warning. HELP!
Kind of a tricky one to describe. Here goes though. Open up your favourite text editor on OSX (well, Textedit, Coda 2, a Chrome textarea at least). Type a long line of text, followed by a short line. Place your cursor at the end, like this:
I live temporary in Spain. I have MacBook Air with OSX 10.8. I have access to public WiFi but signal is week, and I do not want to hang over the balcony all the time :), or crack my neighbors (strong) wifi (WPA protected).
Following the instruction from Apple: *=URL=* I can't get this to work for my multiple server logins, because they all have the same name (my user name). When I try to add the connected share to the Login Items nothing happens, because one with the same name already exists. How can I get around this?
I'm in the iTunes Store for the first time in forever, looking to buy some music. (iTunes 11.0.2) There used to be helpful lists like "best of the 90s", "billboard top 40" by year, and so on.
When I expand or collapse directories in list view in a Finder window (every time i click on the expansion triangle), the window jumps to the top (with nothing selected). I found this article: Finder jumping to currently selected item, and after pushing escape (the solution to that issue), my window jumps to the top of the window, instead of to the currently selected item. Also tried the solution here: *=URL=* (unchecking 'spring loaded folders'), but the problem still persists. Tried sorting by name/kind/date/size (only columns I have visible), problem still persists. What can I do to fix this? Running: OSX version 10.8.2 everything is up to date except a Java update that came out today March 13, 2013.
I haven't pinpointed any potential triggers yet, but sometimes when I come out of sleep or from having a locked screen, after typing my password in and re-entering the OS, about 20 or 30 seconds later, the screen just shuts off and goes to sleep. I almost always use an external monitor, but can't remember if this ever happens w/out it connected.
Whenever I reboot my Macbook Pro since installing OSX 10.8 the desktop is locked, prohibiting files from being dropped on or moved from the desktop. I can right-click, select “Get Info” and uncheck the “locked” box, but it will return the locked status the next time the machine sleeps or reboots. How can I keep the desktop unlocked?
I'm running Lion (10.7), and need to use JDK 6 for development, but previously I had installed JDK 7 and I can't seem to get it uninstalled. I ran the JDK 6 installer and seems to be installed in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk, and JDK 7 seems to be installed in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A Somewhere along the lines my Java Preferences seems to have been deleted (not by me). I tried to delete everything (as described here) in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ and /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ and then do a fresh install of JDK 6, but both JDK 6 and 7 came back! Worse /usr/bin/{java,javac} point to JDK 7.
What software and service functions similarly to an RSS reader which will sync between my Macs, iOS devices, and Android devices? I am looking for a web view similar to Google reader as well as native client for offline use on all three platforms. I understand there may be no perfect match, so please offer experience and downsides of your solution so others can pick the best solution for themselves. I'm clearly motivated by Google reader's close date of summer 2013 to find a new RSS platform.
I frequently capture video holding my phone as usual, which means vertically. But when I want to watch it on a computer screen, I would like to have it full screen - even if it means loosing the top and bottom of the scene. I'm sure there a lot of softwarz that do this on a mac but I wanted to be able to do it directlty in my picture library of my phone.
I am trying update my iMac OS from 10.7 to 10.7.5. I've downloaded the MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.5.dmg file, but when updating, it gives an error like:
According to the instructions on the website I should be able to got to the Line menu, click on Settings, and the register my email address. Massive problem: Settings is grayed out, non-functional, and masses of searching the internet seem to indicated that no one else is having this problem. Does anyone have an answer? (it will help you to know that I do not yet have a compatible smart phone...)
Is there a simple way to import my rss subscriptions from Google Reader(GR) into Flipboard(F). I know i can read the subscriptions in F, but want to really import them into F so i can access it in F after GR will shutdown.
I have a macbook pro late 2008. When Im raising the brighntess level, when it reaches the 50% it starts to decrease the brightness till it goes almost dark on 100%. Someone know how to do fix this? thanks
I use my retina MacBook Pro to stream some videos from the web and play them, via AirPlay, on my Apple TV 3. Every now and then, when I switch to AirPlay, the video goes to the Apple TV, but the sound continues to come from the MacBook Pro. The only way to get it to work correctly is to restart the computer. I've tried the Sound preferences, but choosing the Apple TV there still doesn't send the sound to the device. Any thoughts on what may be happening?
Recently I dropped my iPhone 4 and when I picked it up the screen was all black but the sensor was still on. I called Apple and basically they said they can try to repair it or just buy a new one. So, I'm buying a new phone. As I want to still have all my information, I'm trying to make a backUp, but when trying an error prompts asking me to unlock the iPhone, which is something I can no longer do as I can't see the screen nor does the touch screen work. So is there anyway to get around that or another way to unlock?
I have an application which requires some data to be shared between multiple users who may use a machine. I understand there is a /Library/Application Support/ directory where shared information can go. Is this the correct place for application shared files.
I've been searching and searching for a solution to my problem and I've seen a lot of people have similar, but perhaps not quite the same, problem. My original HDD failed on my MBP and I'm in the midst of trying to replace it, I wanted to make sure it was the HDD that had failed, so after backing the drive up, I formatted it and began reinstalling OSX Lion, however it keeps hanging during the install process.
I found what I think is a first gen iPod touch (see here). I had to restore it and it says it cannot update beyond iOS 2.2.1, build version 5H11. When I browse the App Store, all apps seem to require a minimum of iOS 4.3. Can I upgrade iOS beyond 2.2.1? Can I install apps? Where can I browse for compatible apps?
I have a jailbroken iPad1 that is still using iOS 4. I want to upgrade it to iOS 5, but I cannot get it to go into DFU mode in order to do so. Can anyone identify the exact steps needed to either put the iPad into DFU mode, or upgrade via a different method?
Is there a plug-in for the Finder which lets me see and do all my git-related stuff? It seems silly that I have to use different apps or the terminal for such things when the files are right there in front of me.
I have a serious problem with my 2011 MacBook Air (current OS version (Mountain Lion)) Always on startup, I have to enter my password twice. Right after entering it the first time, the screen is gray for a very short time and the same login screen appears again. After entering the password the second time, it takes me to my desktop as usually...
I have an account with Amazon S3 service storage. I also have the Transmit app which allow me to sync any local folder with Amazon S3. It works fine but I want this to be done in a scheduled way (let's say every day at 10PM). As far a I see Transmit can not do this.
Does someone know if the top 13" MB Air model (the one with 256GB SSD and a 1.8 i5 if I remember correctly) is physically sold (in Apple Stores) also with the RAM upgraded to 8 gigs? Or is only it an on-order option?
I'm a programmer that's pretty much brand new to Apple software, and everthing is all weird and different and scary :P, so I'm trying to figure out some workflow stuff: I'm used to having a Visual Studio / Notepad++ style "tab bar" that has all the open documents so that I can have a group of files open to quickly switch between. The XCode navigator works for switching, but it lists all files, which in large projects makes it difficult to quickly work on a set of related files. I can tell that Apple eschews the "single containing window" thing, so I'm not looking for the same thing in XCode, but asking what's the Apple way of doing document switching? I can double click to open several windows, but I can't seem to find a way to "list" all open windows, and even though I was able to discover Command-Tab (or WindowsKey-Tab on my keyboard :) it only seems to switch between applications and not files.
I have recently been given an unlocked iPhone 4 GSM, upon which I have installed a jailbroken (but not hacktivated) iOS 6.1.2 using snowbreeze. Calling seems to work fine, as does everything except notifications. They appear to be turned on in the notification centre settings, but I never get any. I am not using the Apple Mail app, but I have Gmail, Facebook, Twitter installed and connected. Can anyone suggest how I might fix this?
I purchased this MacBook Air in late 2012, found that the initial battery life was more than six hours in the US, then came to Peru. Peru runs on 220, and most everywhere that I am, the electricity is not grounded. Although I used a good quality surge protector, something happened with the battery within weeks, and it holds only about 1.5 hours of run time.
I am backing up 225 GB to a Western Digital USB 2.0 hard drive but this seems really slow. Any ideas on what I could do to make this transfer faster? It's saying it will take seven hours and it is a USB 2.0-only drive.
I have recently purchased an external monitor that I am connecting to my MacBook Pro (Late 2009) using the MiniDisplay-to-VGA adapter. I have both the external monitor and the MacBook's monitor set to "Best Available" resolution in OS X Lion. Whenever the computer "wakes up" from its sleeping state, the resolution setting for the external monitor is "forgotten". Every time the computer "wakes up", the resolution of the external monitor is set to match the MacBook's monitor.
I have an iPod Touch (2nd gen), which can't update past iOS 4.2.1. I can't download many apps anymore, so I was wondering if jailbreaking it would allow me to download the things I want? I don't even mind actually paying for some stuff, it just won't allow me to download it says I need the iOS 4.3 which I can't even upgrade to.
My employer gave me a MacBook Pro for development work; however, most of the development work I do in my research group is for Linux platforms, and for a host of policy reasons, I can't install virtualization software on this laptop. Homebrew looks like a good way in which to install these tools, especially because it looks very hackable (since it uses Ruby; MacPorts does not look hackable, because it uses Tcl). However, Homebrew relies on system libraries, and for security reasons, my employer may (and from what I hear, frequently will) upgrade my system at any time. I've heard that OS X upgrades will break Homebrew. (See, for instance, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7779300/how-should-i-upgrade-xcode-after-upgrading-to-os-x-lion).
I just attempted to restore a folder from TimeMachine. I was expecting that TM would ask me where to put the restored folder (as it has done in the past, IIRC), but this time it didn't, and instead overwrote the folder1. This is definitely not what I wanted. Is it possible to undo the TM restore?
Now that the 10.8.3 update is out for Mountain Lion with Windows 8 support, I would like to update my existing Windows 8 installation (upgrade from 7) to have the new drivers without re-installing Windows. Does the Apple tools in Windows handle the update or is there a process that I must follow? The reason for wanting to update the drivers to get newer graphics drivers specifically.
I just noticed that the uuid command is no longer working on my MacBook. One possibility is that it was removed when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. The man page is still available. Does anybody else have this problem with 10.8.2?
I use Iterm2 on the Mac. Many times, I accidentally press Command+some key, so I'm wondering, is it possible to disable the Command shortcuts? Like Command+D for example, as I use tmux for split panes.
Is there a way to change multiple masters at once in Keynote. Examples Change the background color for ALL slides from grey to green. Change the background color for ALL slides from grey to green. Change all fonts from Copperplate to Garamond Change all fonts from Copperplate to Garamond Insert a company logo onto all slides simultaneously. Insert a company logo onto all slides simultaneously. Change the default background to all text boxes to #6699EE Change the default background to all text boxes to #6699EE There is a similar question but the accepted answer explains how to do it for ONE master.
Recently, I have tried a FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Install DVD, just to see some screens of FreeBSD on my Mac mini Intel 2006. I was going to see (to remember) just several dialog screen of and perhaps I would try the Live CD feature of FreeBSD. And I did see them and later I ejected the FreeBSD Install DVD without changing anything on Mac mini's harddisk.
Is there a way to quickly mark all emails as read instead of going over each one of them manually ?
What is the typical fan speed for a 15'' Retina Macbook Pro ? I would like to compare it with mine using istatpro
I'm writing a script in iTunes, part of which changes the selected playlist. When I'm all done, I want to restore the playlist and the selected tracks. I was able to do the first, but haven't found a way to do the last (and I'd really rather not use UI scripting and keyboard automation to achieve it). Here's what I've got that's working:
Recently canceled cell service for iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) but have still been using it to iMessage. Today I got a message from someone I didn't know apparently AT&T reassigned my phone number to someone else and both my phone and hers were receiving the messages. How do I have others iMessage me to my email address instead of phone number?
I want some applications connect to Internet only when wifi connection is available. How can I do that?
Is there a way to change the press and hold character picker in a way that it automatically choose a certain character. I'm German using an US keyboard (on purpose, I don't want to switch back to a German one) and if I press and hold 'a' I get a lot of options. I don't care about any of them but the 'ä'. I know how to eliminate the other choices (thanks to How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) but I don't even want to chose. I want to hold and press the 'a' and would love for the 'ä' to just appear without me having to choose it.
When I use the uptime command on OS X, this error is printed: By running the who command, I see that there is another terminal logged in -- but I don't have any other terminals or SSH sessions.
I have a Retina MBP and have the following settings using pmset -g As you can see below, standby is 1 and hibernationmode is 3, meaning that I have DEEP SLEEP turned on, after 7200 seconds.
I have some media that I'd like to stream to my AppleTV that's quite transient. I don't need it in my iTunes Media Folder proper for more than one viewing of the media. Is it possible to have iTunes not copy specific media types to the iTunes Media Folder when I import it in to iTunes? In this case, I'd rather iTunes didn't copy and automatically organize video media when I import it. But I'm okay if it copies and automatically organizes audio media when I import it.
Currently, I don't have any of my music syncing between my computer and my iPhone, mostly because I have too much music to store it all on my phone. Is it possible to use the new Up Next list from iTunes 11 as a source for the music to by synced?
I’m trying to sort my applications by Last Opened column, but the option is not clickable (is grayed out) in the view options (⌘+J) panel (see image below). Why and how can I fix this? (I’m on Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Is it possible to push window to beginning, not to the end of stack when I press fullscreen? For example, I have tree windows (or spaces) maximized
Because it's much cheaper than the regular version (though it is still a full OS install) and I am eligible in that I already have a legal licensed copy of one of the pre-requisite operating systems to qualify - I have Windows 7 64bit installed in bootcamp on my mac. In other words Microsoft offer Windows 8 cheaper if you have a legal copy of an earlier qualifying OS. What do I mean by Windows 8 Pro clean install?
I'm on a German system, so menu items are maybe named differently in English than I translated them. I added some images to make my meaning more clear.
I download a ".ibooks" file for this free book and tried adding it to my iPhone library but it doesn't show up. Manually dragging it over doesn't work either. Is it because .ibooks isn't supported by iPhone?
I have replaced the Superdrive in my 2012 MBP 13" with a second hard drive. The Superdrive is now in a external USB case. I have no problems by using the drive with data disc, like games or music disc, but I can’t play video DVDs via the DVD Player app, I always get a error message. Worse I can not rip DVDs via Ripit.app, because also with this app, I get error. The Superdrive seems not the problem, because attached to my 2012 mini without an internal drive, it works just fine. Can I solve this problem?
i am trying to copy ical entries from one calendar to another using the following script: it throws the following error, that i do not understand: what does it mean and how can i get the script working?
After the latest update (10.8.3), I encountered a problem. When my external Acer monitor is connected (via HDMI) while trying to put my MacBook Pro into sleep mode, everything works fine. But suddenly, after a few seconds, the HDD seems to wake up (I think its the HDD because of the noise) and to sleep again and wake up again. This happens all the time in 10-20 sec. time intervals. Furthermore, this only happens when the monitor is in standby. When I turn off the monitor via key or unplug the cable, the HDD stays in sleep mode. It seems like it's sending some data, which prevents the MacBook from going completely into sleep mode. I also connected it to my TV. There were no problems when connected to the TV. It seems like it's only happening with the Acer monitor. Any suggestions how to fix this?
I preordered Windows 8 a while back, and as soon as I got it I tinkered around with BootCamp 4 (which technically only supports Windows 7) to get it up and running, since the only computer I have is a MacBook. It's been running fine, but since there's now BootCamp 5, which includes official Windows 8 support, I'd like to be able to upgrade. I figured the update would be delivered through Apple Software Update, but when I open it it only says there are no updates. So I downloaded the installer from Apple's support website but when I run it all it says is my hardware is unsupported. The thing is, Apple's website says that BootCamp 5 supports the mid 2010 MacBook Pros and newer, which is exactly what I have.
I left my phone on the roof of my car and drove away on a busy road. It was hit several times and the screen is broken/shattered and glass comes off of it. It receives calls/text messages, and the button on the top to turn on/off still works. The screen is just in such bad shape that it won't register the touch of my finger. I have an appt with Genius bar in a few hours to get a new phone. I want to save all my pictures and apps off this phone if possible (I never backed up on the computer prior to this) but it prompts me to unlock my phone and I can't do it. I can't use another iPhone as a guide, because it won't even recognize my finger touching the screen, but the phone still works. Can I get some ideas on how to back it up? I am not tech savvy and this is a difficult problem!
I am running Windows via Virtualbox on my Macbook. It works fine. When I switch to fullscreen to screen the screen is actually full, but the windows windows does not spread out to the full extent. How can I fix that?
I have an IMAP account on a private server and they said me to configure my mail with a STARTTLS secure connection on the port 993 and authentication with standard password. How can I set STARTTLS in Mail.app?
As part of the spring cleaning announcement in which Google announced that they would be killing off Google Reader, they also mentioned winding down the CalDAV API. Given that Google's Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support was killed off in January, will there be any way to sync Google Calendar with iCal (on iOS) after CalDAV is shut down (September 16, 2013)?
My Mac mini is automatically putting my monitor brightness to 100%. Inside my display settings, there is no option to set brigthness to the monitor, and I set it directly on Monitor. Any clue how to disable my Mac mini altering the settings? It is a Late 2012 Mac mini with Mountain Lion. Here are my pmset settings:
When I connect my first-gen iPad to my Mac, I have in duplicates in my iTunes. This song have a gray font and have a circle next to their names. Here is a screenshot:
I remember changing some values to disable Deep sleep mode and hibernation a few months ago, and realised that my battery drains faster now. I just want to revert all settings to default. I changed some back such as hibernationmode 3, but not sure if I'm missing anything else.
I'm looking on the Safe Cflags on the Gentoo Wiki, and I want to figure out how to see which CPU is on a specific machine. On Gentoo I see you can get this with but on Mac I get No such file or directory What is the equivalent for OS X?
When I tried to install Windows on my iMac I must have have formatted the wrong disk. Now when start I get no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key. Any suggestions!
My wife and I use the same apple ID but do not like cloud because we do not want each other's contacts or phone numbers. How do I take her off our joint ID, keep that one for myself, and set up her own apple ID for her phone and our shared IMac. She would sign on to the IMac using her own user account and not mine.
When I click on my Airplay speaker in Sound settings, it jumps back. I have to restart my Mac in order to fix this problem. How can I fix this issue without restarting my Mac?
Is it possible to partition and external drive an use only one of the partitions for a Time Machine backup? Or does Time Machine need its dedicated hard drive? (I've never used Time Machine before.) If it is possible to do this, do I need to pay attention to anything in particular to make sure it'll work without issues?
I have an iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) which has recently had a lot of kernel panics (a screen pops up telling me to reboot). After rebooting the machine several times, the error still comes up. I took it into the Apple Genius Bar, where they ran a few tests and were not able to fix the problem either. They then told me there weren't even authorised to service it anymore!
I want to run ipfw or pf on my iPhone -- or the equivalent. Seems simple, but I can't find anything that works.
I've purchased Paragon NTFS in the naïve hope that creating a NTFS partition and copying the ISO or bootable USB to that would work, and tried using rEFIt to boot from such devices. In both cases the end result is a black screen with flashing underline, but no further message. I also have an external drive (USB and FW800) that I can format and partition in any way that might be helpful. Is there any way I can get Boot Camp/Windows 7 working on this machine…other than replacing my optical drive with one that works?
I've tryed to upgrade my original MBA with SSD (item on eBay), but Disk Utility in the MacOS installer does not recognize it. I've tryed to boot from Ubuntu Live USB, but GParted does see it too. How can I fix it? EDIT df -h output:
On Mac, when I view a comic using Preview, I open like 200 pages, then I click the Actual Size. But Actual Size only applies to one picture only, and when I view the next picture, I have to click Actual Size again. Is there a way to apply Actual Size to every picture?
I have inherited an iPhone with many predecessors. Wasn't reset in the middle. Had multiple id's and applications installed. I want to see a list of applications with the id that was used to install it, so that I can go about removing all apps not from my apple-id and reinstall them using my apple-id
A) Remarks about switching tabs in TM2 I can switch between tabs with ⌘} and ⌘{ but I can also make a switch with ⌘⌥-> and ⌘⌥<-. I think it's strange to have two different shortcuts to make the same action B) Remarks about switching Desktops (spaces) in the Finder I can use ^-> and ^<-
After upgrading to Mountain Lion I'm sometimes having to two-finger scroll up or down at least once before I can three-finger swipe between pages. It's as if I have to "re-activate" the gesture every time I open or switch to another app. After I've done that, it'll work consistently in the app until I switch to another again. I also uninstalled and reinstalled Better Touch Tool and that also seems to make swiping work for a short period of time before it breaks again. Pretty much exactly as this issue posted below, except in that case the problem resolved with an update or a reboot: Trackpad Gestures - Three-finger swipe unresponsive until I use two-finger scroll (OS X Lion)
I cannot see the characters of Aramaic in the page *=URL=* How can I see them? any help will be highly appreciated.
I've got two smart mailboxes named NEW eric@ and NEW ericgorr@ which contain only new message for corresponding email accounts. I have placed these two smart mailboxes into a smart mailbox folder named Personal. When I select Personal, I see that it will show me the new messages contained in the smart mailboxes it contains as shown in the image:
I'm new to programming and AppleScript and I have lots of problems with error handling. Could anybody share their error handling for file operations like move/trash files? Here is my code so far:
I am using the terminal for some debugging and I noticed that it has stopped displaying my user before the path. Now its displaying (null) like so:
My itunes keeps on telling me that my iOS 5.1.1 iPod touch is up to date when I click Check for Update: iTunes 11.0.2 OS X 10.8.2 iPod 3rd gen (MC008LL)
I have a self made fusion drive on a 2009 iMac using a 256gb ssd and a 3tb hard drive. After the 10.8.3 update yesterday I tried to create a bootcamp partition but unfortunately it failed after hours. I had a look at the hard drive manager and the bootcamp partition (I've set it to 303gb) was already there. After having a closer look i noticed that the partition was in the middle of a 1.7 tb partition which was now used for the fusion drive and a 800gb partition that wasn't used anymore. It looks like the bootcamp assistant failed while moving the partition around on the drive. I started the assistant again to make him remove the partition again which I did but still left the hard drive split into two parts - the 800gb part is still unused and unusable. Here is what diskutil cs list says:
EDIT: The accepted answer below works, but I can also confirm that just booting the stock machine and visiting the App Store, you can just re-download it and make a boot USB drive before swapping out the hard drive. I just bought a new i7 Mac Mini and will be upgrading the hardware to a 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM.
I recently consolidated my iTunes Library and now many videos have a "1" at the end of the file name. And weirdly, in the media library, there are two files - one with the "1" and one without. Luckily only one video appears in iTunes. Is there some way to clean up my media folder AND the filenames in itunes?
EDIT3* I managed to fix this problem in a risky way, but it worked for me. Read below. Pin 11 apparently carries out the following function : Source
Is there any risk associated in creating your own custom extended file attributes? For instance: should I be worried about naming collisions? is there any file instability or increased risk of data loss associated with adding extended attributes? is there anything else I should be concerned about that I'm not thinking of?
I'm using a Macbook pro 13' mid 2010 running OS X Lion 10.7.5. I just got a Viewsonic 24' monitor (2450wm-LED), and I connect it to my mbp using a miniport to VGA adapter (this one on Amazon). However when I plug into my mbp, I got some occasional crashes which lead to hard reboots.
I have two applications showing up in Software Update that I didn't install, don't exist anywhere on any volume attached to my computer (and never have), and I would like to remove them. When I click on the "Update" button an Apple ID I've never heard of shows up (a different ID for each application). I'd install the apps just so I can delete them, but both cost money that I'd rather not spend.
I recorded a midi file on my electric piano. When I import it into GarageBand, the tempo is changed and the instrument tracks sound different. The music sounds terrible after being converted into GarageBand. How do I get the same sound in GarageBand that I am hearing on my electric piano?
My Mountain Lion iMac was affected by the Seagate disk recall. I backed up to my trusty Time Capsule (as per norm) before the disk replacement, planning to restore from said Time Capsule. However, when it came to this stage, instead of finding two backups available (the TC is also used by a laptop), the Migration Assistant showed not two, but only one backup, furthermore it was the backup for the laptop. My heart sank for a minute. Thankfully the TC has two distinct sparsebundles on it, one of which is the iMac's backup, but for some unknown reason it is not being volunteered by the Migration Assistant. My plan B is to retrieve the needed files from the desired sparsebundle, but would prefer to retrieve all my files, settings and system settings in one elegant hit. Can anyone advise?
I added an article to Instpaper on my iPod Touch, and then I opened the article. It crashed Instapaper, so I deleted the article through my browser and then reopened Instapaper. Now Instapaper freezes on startup. Is there any way to stop Instapaper from loading the last opened article, so I can get it out of this loop to fix it? I already tried removing it from the multitask bar, and restarting my device.
I've downloaded the Handbrake CLI. What's the best place to install a command line app on my Mac?
I store many books epub and pdf through direct downloads on my ipad into iBooks as well as copying over from iTunes. My problem is that when I view the books what I get a 16 char hex string instead of the file name using a file manager such as iFile. (Book names in the UI GUI does show correct) This is for books I copied to my ipad with iTunes where the file a moved from my PC had the correct name. This makes locating a book hard (i have a very large book collection) if i want to us iFile and not iBooks itself to locate a book to copy and send via iFile to other devices. Any idea how to translate those 16 char hex names displayed in iFile to the proper book name displayed in iBooks UI?
I have enabled the login window so that the username and password must be entered to login to an account. However, when I switch out of my user and type >console into the username field, the screen flashes white and nothing happens.
So. Assigned the password to my network. First time it worked great. But then, I had to resset the router. After that, I went and assigned the password again, but this time, when I try to connect to the network, it won't even ask for the password and won't connect at all! Does anyone know what the hell is the problem? (Using macbook air, running osx lion)
Is it possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to the "Add a face..." action in iPhoto? Preferably one that can be used outside of the Info view, so you can move quickly from viewing a photo to editing its info and adding a face?
Is there any way of disabling this globally? I don't ever want the Option key to do this - if I want to type a Unicode character, I'll use the character viewer. Any ideas?
I guess the title says it all. I was looking for a way to e.g. hold down a modifier key and "grab" the storyboard so that I can stop trying to aim for the scrollbars every time I want to scroll freely with a mouse. I found this key chart *=URL=* but it didn't help.
From an accessibility point of view there are many people who find it easier to control their computers by (effectively) the keyboard, rather than the mouse. One of the things that comes up semi-regularly is mistakes caused by not realising which window is the active one.
Apple Mail displays the number of unread messages in each folder in its sidebar:  Is there any way to make it display the folder's total message count (read plus unread) in addition to, or instead of, the unread message count? Plugins/hacks welcome, as I’m guessing this won’t be a built-in option.
My white MacBook's battery has completely died, so I'm looking for a replacement. It costs $150 from Apple, or about $70 for allegedly genuine Apple batteries on eBay:
I tried to setup my GMail-Account including my various send-as-addresses that I set up in the Webmail interface using this great tutorial. However, I have two issues: I cannot setup multiple S/MIME signing certificates, so only one address can send signed mails. The iPhone has it's own idea which address should be the default from-Address.
I want to be able to add my Final Cut Projects and Events folders to Time Machine, but annoyingly Apple have decided to put a Render Files folder within each and every Events folder. Is there a way of moving the folders to a different location on the hard drive, such as a Caches folder? Or is there some way of telling Time Machine to ignore folders containing the words "Render Files" (using some kind of script perhaps)?
So I've had an old Power Mac G4 sitting around collecting dust. Realistically, is there anything I can do to salvage this old, run down machine?
I'm setting up an old iPhone 3G (latest iOS 4.x.x) and I'd like to sync contacts with Google. Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is no longer an option, and you can't use CardDAV on a pre-iOS 5 device ( *=URL=* , *=URL=* ). Any ideas?
Asked at Apple Discussions but the silence is deafening... I'm using two 2TB internal drives in tandem for Time Machine and deleted some files while in Time Machine. They deleted from drive A, but drive B still has the files. Is there a way to delete these? I tried unmounting drive A in Disk Utility but then I can't enter Time Machine.
How can I scan a large double sided document with my scanner's document feeder? The scanner only can scan one side of the page. However, I am bulk scanning all my bills and tax forms and have several that are 10+ pages with text on both sides of the page.
I can't send any emails on one of my email accounts in Apple's Mail application even though I can receive emails with this account. My other accounts send and receive. I have no problem sending from this account on my iPad or iPhone, so it's not the account, it's definitely the Mail application.
I have put a little video clip in my Keynote presentation, which loops back and forth while other animations beside it are running. When I export my Keynote presentation to a Quicktime movie, the looping videoclip inside the Keynote presentation just doesn't loop in the exported Quicktime movie. Instead the video clip will just play one time from beginning to the end. Is it possible to export slides with looped video clips inside Keynote to a Quicktime movie?
Has anybody else experienced something similar, or does anybody know if there's a way that I can track specific files' permissions modifications so I can see exactly what the culprit is? I have a great deal of software installed via homebrew and non-MAS avenues so I think it'd be pretty complicated to track it down exactly, any tips are greatly welcomed.
I found my .MobileBackups folder quite large, it weighs 160 GiB. Shouldn't the .MobileBackups folder be wiped after the Time Machine 'backup session'?
I've reverted from 11 back to 10.7 three times by now because I keep forgetting to uncheck iTunes whenever it prompts me to install patches. I'd like to be able to tell the updater to skip over iTunes automatically.
Versions and Time Machine seem to me to offer duplicated features: both do hourly backups, and their interfaces for browsing previous versions of files are very similar. The only difference I can see is that Time Machine backs up all files regardless of whether their associated applications support the TM interface, so even if the app I use to view the file doesn't work in TM, I still have backups of my files - whereas Versions has to be supported directly by each application.
I recently modified several epubs. I just turned "..." ellipses into the "…" type. Calibre has no problem with the modified epubs, and Sigil validates them. They can be imported to iTunes, only the metadata gets a bit messed up, and sychronized to my iPad.
I bought this Starmaker app at the App Store for Iphone which cost me $1.79. I thought that I would be charged just one time. But every week, I have been getting email notifications that I am continously being charged $1.79 for each week. I deleted the app from my Iphone but they are still charging my credit card. How do I stop this?
My mac froze during some heavy hard disk activity which forces me to power down the machine. It's a 13 inch MacBook Pro with mountain lion which I bought roughly last year but updated the OS. But after starting again, all I can see is a folder with a question mark flashing. I try to reset the nvram but it's the same. When I click on option button on restart and go into disk utility, I do not see any other disk besides the disk-0 which have 1.39GB space. Does this means my partition is corrupted or something? Please advise. Thanks!
I am looking for an application that will save a copy of a photo on my camera at a smaller resolution. Can't find anything...thanks!
Or even better, how can I embed another .key file inside a keynote presentation. There was support to a "linkback" PDF functionallity similar to what Omnigraffle offers but it doesn't seem to be supported in the latest version
I understand that the iPad mini is Data Only, but does that mean it's impossible to send/receive a SMS from the device?
I see there have recently been several products released that offer to give an iOS device access to local mass storage on the order of terabytes via WiFi. It appears that most if not all of these devices only allow access to the drive through a special (and very limited) iOS app for THAT product. Via jailbreaking or otherwise, is there a way to use ANY iOS app (for example, photo, audio, and video editing apps) with local Wifi-connected storage?
I recently purchased an apple iPod touch 4th gen but the volume control has been stuck at the max and will start going up or down at any random time The up button doesn't work and the down volume will turn it down but it will go right back up. I've tried turning it on and off but to no avail. How can I get my volume control back?
Otherwise known as "intellipoint." There's a page where it's suggested that mountain lion users go into library/preference panes, and put the microsoft mouse pref.pane in login items. But there is no longer anything in my preference panes. There is no microsoft mouse explorer pref pane and it's necessary, every time I startup my computer, to open system prefs and select microsoft mouse settings. Not necessary to change them once they're set. Just necessary to open them and then close them. Otherwise, mouse doesn't work.
I have had to restore the firmware to 6.1.2 but it won't do a restore of my backup file. I carried out a backup prior to installing the new firmware that was successful. I also have the latest version of iTunes. I'm using iTunes not iCloud for the restore. Help please.
My wife and I share an iMac, and our iPhones keep populating with each other's apps. iTunes keeps trying to update my phone with my wife's apps and data. Is there a way to update the settings on the phone so it can distinguish the difference between App Store accounts?
I have an ADSL Modem directly connected to my Mac 10.8.2 in bridge mode, the PPPoE connection is initiated by Mac and internet is shared to user computers / mobiles using WiFi. Question: Can i limit the speed of a specific IP / Mac address or other restrictions like blocking website ? Regards
I like to do backups via Time Machine since my TimeCapsule vaporized after 3 years of service. It's only the power supply which is broken but Apple can't fix it they tell me in an Apple Store. A little ridicolous, but anyway...
The terminal.app keeps the tabs after a restart and it even shows the content of the buffers. But all open tabs are at the home directory rather than the working directory they were in at shutdown. I am using tcsh and I learned that this is the problem. It works for bash and Chris Page posted something for zsh, but I do not know how to adapt this to tcsh.
I have an early intel Mac Mini (1,1 Late 2006) that I'm resurrecting for the purposes of a media centre (intend to replace with a modern device when finances allow). This model is furnished with a DVI output, I'm going direct to VGA via DVI-VGA cable. It is giving me a headache because it will not connect at 1080p. Running 10.6.8, fully updated. I'm getting a huge list of possible resolutions in Display Prefs, each with different freq's, here are the some: 1280 x 1024 (displays correctly) 1344 x 1008 (no display) 1400 x 1050 (displays correctly) 1600 x 1200 (displays correctly horizontally, must be scaling vertically) 1920 x 1440 (no display) 2048 x 1536 (no display)
I have recently purchased and installed the software SQLite Manager 4, now I am creating new SQLite3 database and whenever I try to create new table with 'xyz' name with any number of column, it gives me error stating "unable to open database file". No other details is given on that part. I also searched for FAQ and other user manual, but did not succeed. Please help me on this part. Thank you.
Where does the standard iPhone weather app get it's data from? Specifically, is there a single global server or does it use local sources depending on your location?
I realise what I am about to ask could be considered impossible to answer but maybe a discussion might be helpful to other people. I am trying to use Screen Sharing (OS X 10.7.5) to control a Windows 7 PC at a remote site which is running Ultra VNC. I keep getting 'system not responding' errors in the applications I am using on the remote PC, even though when I am onsite I never get them. It's making things pretty hard work as I'm essentially locked out of the application for anywhere between 10-30 seconds at a time. I'm pretty certain that something to do with VNC is causing the problems and have had the same when using Chicken of the VNC on my Mac as well, does anyone have some recommendations as to what to do in this scenario?
This is a clean install. New Mac. No previous versions of Windows has been purchased or installed. I need an ISO, not a DVD because there is no optical drive on the new Macs
Is there ANY way -- either from Apple or via third party utility software -- to enable the built-in TrackPad on a MacBook Pro laptop to do a real "right-click drag" function? Note I'm asking for right-dragging NOT "right clicking" -- this is where, under Windows, you click the right mouse button while pointing at something, HOLD DOWN the right mouse button and DRAG the object somewhere, THEN let the right mouse button go, and usually a menu pops up at that point, to allow you to choose what you want to do with the thing you're dragging (a file or icon or whatever). This function, right-click dragging, is actually quite useful and a real time-saver that my fingers muscle-memory is pretty much coded to do A LOT, while I'm working in several different software products under Windows. Moving to a MacBook (with Windows running in emulation, via VirtualBox) has a lot of great benefits for me, BUT having to give up right-dragging is kind of almost turning into a total deal-breaker for this ef
I had wet hair and some drops of water landed on my trackpad. It happened on last friday or thursday, so like 4 or so days ago. And basically now my mouse will just randomly click on stuff and right click too and for the first couple hours I couldn't use it and I wasn't able to get it to work except for the top portion of the mousepad. and now It's no longer that bad, but it still randomly clicks and moves around. should I take it to a genius bar or do you think it'll just eventually stop? any help would be really appreciated and sorry I know this has probably been asked a hundred times.
I use iTerm since a few days, and when i press my hotkey, it'll drop down nicely, from top of the screen, but ... on the wrong one. I have a macbook pro with mountain lion, and i connect it to a 24" screen for development. It would be awesome if it can dropdown on the big screen if it is connected. This might be a more general thing, since any menu bar of any app is showing on the small screen, instead of the external.
Is it possible to somehow temporarily disable iMessages on iPhone when using Messages app on Macbook, I don't like my iPhone to vibrate and wake up on the table all the time when someone sends me a message when I'm chatting through Messages app on Macbook? I notices, that sometimes it vibrates for 1-2 messages and then it stops for the rest of conversation, but now it's showing almost every message on iPhone
I have an application that creates MANY .log, .upload, and .json files each day, so that when I go to my "Today" smart folder, it's all clogged up with those. I'd like to hide all three of those file extensions from finder, but I'm not sure the best way to do so given that I'd need the solution to work on new files with those extensions as well as existing ones. Alternately, I could hide all existing and new files in a particular folder since that folder houses all of those, but I want them also to be invisible to my smart folders.
We have a lot of Samsung SyncMaster 2443s at the office, when I connect my mid 2012 MBP 13" to one of them, the monitor doesn't display full screen, it adds a black border around it (1/2" thick). All my co workers with similar MBP and MBAs do not have this problem, it also persists on all the screens i've tried so far (3 different ones).
I have an iPhone running ios 6.1.2. I use match frequently, and I notice that from time to time it will completely fill up the space on my iphone. This tends to cause the phone to run very slowly until I delete some items off of the phone. I would like to limit the space of match on my phone so that it will never fill it up. Is this possible?
When I send a group text - I get back replies as individual messages all in their individual conversations and no one else can see the reply - this is fine if I want them private. But I have once seen where each group member was replying and we all could see the messages like a conversation string - how do I set it so when each group member replies we all see their answer and also it is on the same stream
After some googling I found this post, in which it says that kernel.log was merged into system.log. Now if that is true, I'm suspecting that the reason I can't locate wifi.log might be that it was perhaps merged with system.log as well. Does anyone have some further info on this?
I need to delete all the tracks from Voice Memos app in iOS, in order to free up storage on my device. Deleting tracks one at a time is not an option since I have hundreds of them. I am using an iPod touch 4G.
I have successfully replaced 2 * 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM (Samsung) with 2 * 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM (CnMemory). Everything runs fine and System Report is displaying the RAM is running at 1600 MHz.
I tried testing the Google Chrome browser's speech recognition on the iPad2. It does not show the little microphone (see the bottom of this test page)
I've recently rolled out an Open Directory domain in our office. The domain has been set up so user profiles are synced with the server via HomeSync, so we could use FileVault2 to encrypt the machines.
My son and husband share the same Apple ID and have all the same media on both iPhones (games, itunes) etc. We are now experiencing a problem where my son receives all my husbands sent and received text messages through iMessage. I was told to change the Apple ID on my son's phone to his own so he would no longer be receiving the messages. When I change the ID, will he lose all of his iTunes? That is his greatest concern. Thanks.
I want to download iPhone firmware, but I don't know my iPhone is Global or GSM so… What is difference between "iPhone 5 (Global)" and "iPhone 5 (GSM)"? How can I recognize if my iPhone is Global or GSM?
When I'm traveling through a city, as long as there are wifi networks nearby (even if they are secured with a password), my iPod Touch can determine my current location with great accuracy—obviously not as well as a GPS can in the iPhone, but still very well. How is it able to do this exactly? Could someone explain the technical side of this, or does anyone actually know how this works?
My wife has a iPhone 5 and a iPad 2. After she received her iPhone 5, I took over using her old iPhone 4 and also have a MacBook. We share one Apple ID, therefore we share all contacts. (I updated the iPhone 4 to iOS6 and the phone ceased working. Apple kindly replaced the out of warrenty device.)
HP's official support page lists the Laserjet P4515 as a compatible printer in 10.7 using the HP Print Software from Apple (per *=URL=* However, the P4515 is not listed in my available printer software when installing a new printer. Is there a different driver name I should be using which also matches the HP P4515 model?
If I run fsck_hfs -y -d /dev/rdisk2s10 it putters along, rebuilds the catalog B-tree then fails when writing the new catalog to disk. Diskutil reports the following for this partition: My suspicion is that the extents tree indicates a full volume, so that diskutil can't find a place to write it.
My computer crashed and I made a copy of the entire hard disk by drag and drop on an external hard drive in target mode. Can I restore everything from this drive to the computer now that is 10.7 has been installed. Migration assistant does not see the drive. Help?
Does the headphone jack support digital audio output or not)? Which is the provides the best sound quality the USB, Thunderbolt, digital socket or perhaps Mini DisplayPort from the Mac of the Mac? and how does that compare with the output of the iPhone/iPod/iPad?
Does anyone know what the rules are on using Siri for unintended purposes? I would like to actually hook it up to my company's phone number so that when someone calls in, I can have them routed to Siri. Questions of how this would work technically aside, are there any Apple terms-of-use that say this isn't allowed?
I'm using outlook for emails, each time I paste copied/cut text (from within the same email) it will not paste at the the cursor/ibar but at the top of the email text. Any solutions? Thanks in advance!
My machine crashed and I made a manual backup to an external drive...how can i restore all my user data including mailbox data...am I screwed. I did not use time machine backup to back up my data just did a straight copy of the disk drive to a folder on my external drive
I have had my iPad on iOS 5.0.1 for a while, and restored it a couple of months ago, wiping all the content. Today I put some music back on (this is iOS 5.1.1 now) and while the music player works, as soon as I close it the music stops (I say 'stops' rather than 'pauses' because using the play button in the multitasking tray starts the song from the beginning as if the Music app hadn't been running. This does not happen when playing music from other apps such as Dropbox. Any ideas?
I like to use a site that features songs from TV and movies. I have these saved to my laptop into my iTunes library. Shortly after I place these songs in my iTunes library, they seem to disappear and I cannot find them anywhere on my laptop.
There appears to be a funny bug in Preview.app 5.0.3 (504.1): I took a few PDF pages of normal black text, used Preview's yellow highlight functionality, and printed it on a B&W HP Laserjet.
So I'm new at Mac... I bought a Macbook Pro Late 2011 and the previous owner didn't do a fresh install.
I have Server.app on 10.7, and when I start it, I get the neverending beachball, and in the Dock, the Server.app's icon has a red number in it, which is continuously increasing. What's the number mean?
Whenever I try to update one of my apps, it downloads 79%, stops for a moment, then the progress bar resets and one of two dialog boxes appears: Unable to Download Item
I have a file I want to remove that's stored inside a ".vol" I received this by running
I'm looking for an app to let me keep the twitter integration from OS X (where I can tweet from Notification Center (hereafter abbreviated NC)) but also have my mentions from NC open in the app as opposed to opening Safari or another web browser. I'm afraid the answer is no app can register/snatch the system twitter notifications intercept Notification Center links in a stand alone app rather than Safari, but I'm going to ask in case this is possible. Even if I have to turn off the OS X twitter notification in system preferences or log out entirely to achieve this goal, do any OS X twitter clients integrate well with notification center for either DM or mention notifications?
Blender requires F-keys such as F12 and numpad. The numpad emulation works for me, but I am unable to get the function keys such as F1, F4 and F12 working. For example, F12 should do rendering. So how can I use Blender with a MacBook?
MplayerX, not only remembers what I've watched but also is able to resume playback at a later invocation. For example, if I watch media-file abc.m4v for 4 minutes and then quit the program. Then start MplayerX at a later date and open abc.m4v, it starts playback at 4 minutes.
These monitors all work with every other laptop (Mac, Windows and Linux), including my old pre-unibody MBP. Worst of all, I cannot depend on this laptop to make presentations, because it's often failed to connect to projectors.
i have a ipod touch 4th generation 32gb which is around 1 year old. i dint drop it even once but still the home button is not working properly. it doesnt respond even if i press it hard sometimes. i am using the assistive touch home button but it takes away some part of my screen and is troublesome at times.. can anyone please tell me what the problem is and how can i recitfy it. i had jail broken the device once. now i have updated to version 6.1 from itunes and no jailbreak. if i Recalibrate my device’s Home Button by following this method, the button respond better for just a little while thank you.
Most tech news web sites publish stories a few days before upcoming Apple hardware/software announcment press events. How do they know that there will be a press event? I couldn't find that information on Apples web site.
I have an iPhone 4, bought at my home country and I have a data plan with a local telco carrier. My phone has never being unlocked. See, I am such a nice citizen in Apple's walled, seclusive and closed Kingdom!
How does one restore OS X Server data from time machine on another server? I had a Mac mini with OS X Server (Mountain Lion). It had Time Machine backups and this weekend the server experienced a hardware problem. I'm trying to migrate the server to another server. When trying to restore it on another machine, I get the following error.
I cannot find the keys on my mackbook. I need them to go page-up and page-down in irssi (IRC). I have tested the tips here but they do not work. They model some different Up/Down, not the traditional Up/Down as on larger keyboards.
So far I've been using the following AppleScript to eject all external drives at once conveniently using a shortcut: This script is is stored in /Library/Scripts and I have assigned a shortcut to trigger it in FastScripts.
I would like to upload PDF files on an iPad. After adding them to the iTunes Library (iTunes -> Files -> Add to Library), and syncing, they are uploaded on the iPad, but are also copied locally in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Books.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete on Windows provides a variety of functions, the main one of interest being the Task Manager. Is there an equivalent keyboard shortcut & indeed Task Manager for carrying out such tasks as quitting an application that maybe "hanging" (amongst other things) for Apple Macs, or indeed anything similar ?
I need to view files from an old backup that i put a password on but cant for the life of remember the password. Is there anyway i can view these files on PC? I need text msgs and emails that where on the phone at time of backup.
I want to open a specific file - if I press F5 or another key - its a file I use all the time, so want it to be open at a touch of a key
My iTunes library is on an external disk. I forgot to attach the external disk once and now I have some iTunes files locally. How do I merge these local files with the external library?
This morning when I woke up my computer it turned off itself. Now it won't stay on for more than a couple minutes. The computer will boot up normally, but soon it turns off again. When it turns off, I hear a tiny clunk that I think is the hard drive, but I'm not entirely sure. What can I do to troubleshoot the problem myself? This is about a MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011.
I do not know where to public my question and in fact i hope that it is the right place :) I really like mobile version of one web site, but at the same time i hate full version of it. Is it possible to make redirect in safari on my OS X? Possible do you know some extensions, tips and etc.
We recently had a mail outage and eventually got mail back - it was a disk space issue. The PCs with Outlook can connect in without issues but the couple of Macs we have won't connect at all. I can ping the server, etc. and have the Mac connector enabled in Exchange also.
I just upgraded my OSX to 10.8.3 and installed Windows 8 via Bootcamp. For some reasons Parallels (8.0.18354) doesn't recognize this Bootcamp partition. It doesn't show up in the Parallels Wizard used to create a new virtual machine. What can I do about this?
I have iTunes match with a decent library (12k+ songs) on my Macbook Air. I'm running out of free space on my SSD and noticed that the size of my library has doubled since I signed up for iTunes Match. It looks like a lot of my songs have been upgraded to 256kbps bitrate. Is there a way to go down to 128 or 192kbps in order to save some space?
I have a drive connected to the Airport Extreme using its USB cable. I want to back up this drive using Time Machine (or some other practical method, though I trust Time Machine more than other solutions.)
To access the app store review guidelines you need to sign in: *=URL=* Does that mean they are under NDA or it it ok to blog about a specific requirement?
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back in and tried to open iTunes, it said that it was corrupted.
If I have a large number of sticky notes on my desktop, each of which a varying permutation of "Floating/Translucent Window", is there a way to "Select All" stickies and apply the "Floating/Translucent Window" operation to them all?
I have installed gcc45 by using brew tap homebrew/versions & brew install gcc45. However, I can not find g++-4.5 in /usr/local/bin. How can I install g++-4.5 separately by Homebrew? Thanks. My system 10.6.8.
I'm running out of space on my iPhone and would like to transfer my iPhone photos to a NAS and then delete them. I like to view my pictures from NAS via an app. Can somebody recommend a good NAS and app that can help me achieve that?
I have a habit of working/studying while listening to music. And since the Mac I am connected to at work doesn't have all the songs I want, I normally listen to the songs via iTunes from the iPhone Playlists option. For this, everytime I connect my iPhone to the computer, iTunes detects it, then I have to manually goto the 'iPhone' button in the application, and then "On my iPhone", and then select the playlist, and play a song.
I have a dispute with my carrier such that my bills for the past 6 months list 10GB more usage than listed by my device's (iphone 5 running ios 6) data usage stats. They have told me that they can't do anything because they can't know how reliable the data usage stats are on the device. Are there any documents to which I might refer them that pertain to this question?
I need a screenshot program that will freeze the current content (in my case, a streaming live lecture) and allow me to take a regional screenshot. In other words, once I hit the screencapture shortcut, the streaming content should freeze at the current frame, allowing me to drag and select a region, the screenshot is saved, and then I can repeat as needed. Without this feature, I may start a regional drag on a formula the speaker is showing, but in the meantime the speaker has moved on to another slide and I can't capture the info I need for my notes.
I would like to configure the default group for any file or directory which is created by my user. I am not sure where to start. Could somebody point me the right direction? My user lives in Active Directory and by default I get the default AD group. I am wondering if I could override this behavior on my computer. [myuser::~]touch test_file [myuser::~]ls -alrth test_file -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser AD\Domain Users 0B Mar 19 10:40 test_file
I received several .drv files recorded from a security system's cameras. The disc provided to me includes a player called "GenAVplayer.exe" and a filed named "player.bin" which when expanded contains .dll files, I assume various codecs for the player. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can play these video clips on my Mac? Thanks in advance.
Is there a way to use Emacs 24 in fullscreen mode? The Emacs wiki seems to imply that it has been disabled, but that there are some workarounds / patches. It doesn't have to be "true" full screen, but I like to work without having the OS menubar on the top and launcher at the bottom. In the end, it is not clear how I can implement these patches or workarounds, which one I should use and / or if I should just install emacs <= 23.3. My current .emacs includes the following (which allows me to use F11 to toggle fullscreen under Emacs 23 in Linux)
Is there a way to use the back camera of an iPad Mini as a video camera, so that I can use it from Screenflow as an input video device ?
Is there a way to automatically generate a Keynote presentation from a source file written in text format, Markdown format, or org-mode? I know that Pandoc and other tools can generate HTML-based slideshows from Markdown. But Keynote allows you to put all your speaker notes to yourself in "Presenter View," which allows you to have a detailed view of your slideshow + notes on your laptop, and project a clean presentation that is not cluttered up with all your speaker notes. (Whereas with HTML presentations, since there's only one window, you either have to put your speaker notes in the presentation slide itself, or put your speaker notes elsewhere.) So can I generate a Keynote presentation, or at least a barebones one with slide headlines, from another source?
Is it possible to make a mobile Safari open email links directly to the native Gmail app, rather than open up to Apple's Mail.app?
When OS updates are available in the app store, there is usually a short description near the update button. Is there a way to see this description after I've installed the update?
Have: a) single partition 2 TB external firewire HD w/ 10.5.8 (my current StartUp Disk) b) single partition bootable USB drive with 10.6.7 (full version / not just an "upgrade" version) c) single partition bootable USB drive with 10.8.2 (full version / not just an "upgrade" version) Desired Outcome: run 10.8.2 on the single partition firewire HD (item "a" above)
My built-in SSD is relatively limited when it comes to storing all my media files, which is why most of my iTunes library lives in the cloud via iTunes Match, for streaming on demand. In the near future I'm going to be disconnected from the internet for about a month, and I want to have a offline copy of all my music so I can continue to listen to it, but I don't want to download it all to my main iTunes library. How can I create a separate, offline library containing every song I have in iTunes Match?
I just connected a Dell U2410 external monitor to my rMBP (OS X 10.8.2), via a "Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter". As noted frequently on the web, the display is horrible. I've read a bunch of links about using: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2 or defaults write -g NSFontDefaultScreenFontSubstitutionEnabled -bool true and even about how to set up an optimized icc profile and how to tune the screen. None of the above seems to have any really significant effect on the display - especially not on the fonts.
This is a new computer. The first time I ran XCode, it opened fine, though I didn't try using it. The problem appeared when I first opened an existing project.
I have an iPhone 4S, CDMA version, iOS 6.1 jailbroken. Therefore no real need to upgrade at the moment. However my fiance's iPhone 4, I have heard, could benefit from an upgrade to iOS 6.1.2 from the iOS 5 she is currently running (jailbroken with absynthe). I was going to do this today- then I found out iOS 6.1.3 was been released, which is not able to be jailbroken. Is she stuck or can she upgrade to 6.1.2 somehow still and use evasions jailbreak?
I just purchased an unlocked iPhone 5 from the Apple store today, and I can't activate it to use it because it says "please" insert a valid SIM card to use it. I'm not using this phone as a "phone" to make calls. I'm a developer and am just looking to use it for development purposes. How can I go about using the iOS 5?
Every now and then I receive attachments from Windows users that show up as "Picture (Device independent Bitmap)" and - when I run "file" on the command line, they are identified as "Composite Document File V2 Document". I guess they are screenshots - what would be the best way to view them on a Mac? Thanks.
iCloud says that my password is wrong - even though I know it's right. Here's whats happened: Yesterday, I reset my iCloud password. Got the reset email, changed password. Tried to log in to the account, didn't accept it. I thought that maybe my finger had slipped typing in the password (twice). I called support, got the reset email.
I have a brand new mac mini 2012 connected to a Thunderbolt display. Since the Thunderbolt display was connected, I sometimes get a lagging cursor, meaning that moving the mouse/trackpad leads the cursor to follow the position very slowly. I have connected both, a Magic Mouse and a Magic Trackpad.
MplayerX, not only remembers what I've watched but also is able to resume playback at a later invocation. As stated here "MPlayerX saves playback positions in plist file ~/Library/Application Support/MPlayerX/bookmarks.plist" Can someone please explain what the values in the plist file mean?
Basically I have a program that I use to study and I need to be able to quickly choose between a 8 choice answer button. The program does not have inbuilt keyboard shortcuts. I need to answer a question every 2 seconds so moving the mouse around gets tiring if I could just associate where the buttons are to 1-8 on the keyboard that would be great.
So I dun goof'd up (tm) while updating a friends iPhone 4 to the latest OS. I obviously started by creating a back up of the device, but I think I messed up and after the device had factory reset due to the update. I think what happened was after I did the update to the phone I backed it up again because when I went to 'restore' the iphone from a back up (which completed successfully) the iphone was put in its factory state, even asking for a username/password and giving me the whole 'welcome' screen thing. So either I didn't back up properly the first time or I backed up properly the first time but then I backed up the device again AFTER the update was installed meaning the back up is of a factory reset install of the iPhone. is this reversible or have I just lost everything (except for photographs which for some reason I was smart enough to back up myself). I'm mostly trying to get his contacts back at this point...
I have a 2009 MBP with 8GB of RAM. I run Windows under Parallels pretty much all the time (I use Visual Studio for work). I recently installed an SSD to speed it up a bit and its running beautifully. However I could do with having a few extra gigs available to the Windows VM and was wondering if it would be worth buying 2 x 8GB SIMs to enable this. Apple states that the maxiumum for MBPs is 8GB, but I have seen figures online (possibly at OWC) which would suggest that Apple's specs are just guidelines which can be over-ruled.
I use an old (2007) Mac Mini (10.7.5) to serve iTunes (11.0.2) and recently it has started using a lot of memory. It has never been what you would call efficient in terms of memory allocation, but 1.5+GB seems high even for iTunes. It starts out around 115MB and every so slowly climbs even with nothing using or accessing it. Anybody else seen this?
I'm using iterm2 Build 1.0.0.20130302 and would like to get tmux working. I followed the instructions at: https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration
I have a MacBook Air running 10.8.3. I have Java running almost all the time and it is consuming ~500 MB of RAM. I didn't start Java, and—as far as I can tell—nothing that uses Java is still running. Surely something in the background is using Java, but I don't know what. I would like to kill it (if I can) because I'd like to have my RAM back.
Now i am using OSX 10.8.2 version and in app store it shows an update for OSX from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3.. I tried to update OSX, but it showing an error like An error occurred while downloading the updates.(102). Any help regarding this will be appreciated...
I had iphone4 which I sent overseas to a friend. And I purchased iphone5 which I am using. Just lately I've been getting his photos that he takes and photos which I take of my family are going to his "gallery". I am not sure why but pls help. I need to know why this is happening and what I can do to stop this.
I scaned many photos to one image file. How can i cut it down to many pieces? Can iPhoto do that or is there any other free software suggestion?
I have a folder called My-Photos where I have all my family photos. Now I opened iPhoto app and import all those photos. Then I have the photo file in 2 places: My-Photos folder which I have created and in user/images/iPhoto Library which is the location where iPhoto storage all the information.
I have two questions about this topic. 1) Suppose my MBP is connected to the TV via HDMI (TV is 55 inch). Can I resize to, say 27 inch or anything less than the actual size of the TV? 2) I have two MBP (2012 and 2009). If MBP_1 is connected to the TV via HDMI, can I project the desktop of MBP_2 to the TV via MBP_1?
Is there any ability to start playing and set pause for video in quicktime by keyboard hotkey. Now i'm doing window switch and then clicking on space key to achieve it. Is there any hot-key for that?
Gaming has taken on a whole new dimension since the introduction of the iPhone & definitely the iPad. Whilst these two Apple devices are great gaming devices, alot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons that are not so great. Is there an App that will turn a gamepad eg an XBox 360 or Playstation gamepad into a controller for any game with touchscreen buttons & How to configure it ?
I brought a macbook pro last year (on the 24th of March 2012). and today i tried to buy a apple care protection plan. When i tried to register the apple care protection plan i got an message which states;
I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected. I do not know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to make sure I didn't set it. I've also tried the default 0000 and 1234 codes.
We are using NetInstall to image Macs at work. I build the NetInstall images with System Image Utility, and customize them with the "Add Packages and Post-Install Scripts" workflow item. NetInstall itself works great but I've noticed that several third-party install packages cause the imaging process to fail. A good example is Symantec Endpoint Protection.
I have a two-page PDF file that I would like to convert to an animated GIF file. A post on the TeX StackExchange gives the following ImageMagick one-liner: If I try this on a linux box (convert --version gives 6.5.4-7 2012-04-10) I get this log:
My aunt's iPhone 4 was jailbroken the day it was bought. And about last month, she updated it. Suddenly the screen went blank only the apple logo was showing. She can't fix it with iTunes because she forgot her account. Is there any way to fix this without iTunes?
Also when I go to the apple menu to put the computer to sleep: as soon (like milliseconds) as I press "sleep" the noise stops, and the screen go black, but the computer of course is still running for a couple of more seconds, therefore I suspect some electronics related to the screen. But I still think it has to do with the update, Thus to conclude: I think the update messed up something related to the electronics (possibly related to the screen). I think this article discusses something similar to my problem. I post this here because Apple needs login and stuff I can't recall for the life of me. Thanks for any reply or solution advice.
If you are working at an iMac and there is also a mains socket close at hand, is there any difference (in any respect) to charging an iPhone via USB cable linked to the Mac or is it more advisable to charge via a charger to the mains socket. eg
I have an odd question, but at some point after updating to iTunes 11 my unplayed podcast count suddenly went up to well over 1,000 despite only having a few unplayed episodes at any given time. The number was at like 1,200, but today still shows the number being at over 1,000. At the time the screenshot below was taking the actual unplayed Podcast episode count was 4.
A Japanese engineer discusses an way to do this C. 2009 (which no longer works). Another script was designed to add folders to the 'others' area of the Dock – which is alos dated. The latter, however, along with the new format for the Dock plist, and some dict manipulation tips, gives more clues to creating a modern script.
How can the admin's username password, be remembered or added it to the keychain so these annoying prompts would be less frequent?  The app referenced here (Anvil) is not relevant. I'm looking for a way to loosen up the the prompts for credentials.
Is this possible? In normal MS Outlook you can send as someone else (if you are on the distribution group I think). It's an option when you reply to an email. Can you do the same using Mail.app on iPad?
I am using a Mac having this: I have installed VMware Fusion, in one virtual machine Ubuntu has been installed with this ressource: And here is what is displayed in System Monitor of Ubuntu:
I have an 80GB iPod classic. I am going on a trip and I have only the iPod, my iPhone, and my iPad. I want to use the iPod to store photos. Is this possible?
I've found a couple apps that seem to be able to launch themselves on startup, despite that they don't appear in the usual places... At least some of these apps (e.g. Day One and Pauses – both from the Mac App Store) seem to be launching an item from their own internal LoginItems folders:
I have this adapter:  Is it completely useless? I'm not quite sure what it is. I've had it for years.
I have to use Juniper's Network Connect to use my company's VPN. I haven't changed anything on my system in the past few days, but suddenly Network Connect fails to connect to the VPN with the following error message:
We're having problems with airplay machines. We've got a pair of Apple TVs as well as multiple Macbooks. Airplay is not used much, but when it is, it likes to randomly disconnect. It doesn't seem to matter which devices happen to be connected, they'll just randomly drop, anywhere from within 5 minutes of starting playback up to a half hour. I can't recall them ever lasting more than half an hour without failing.
So I recently had IT reformat my Mac OS 10.6 laptop to put a 10.8 image on it. When I first got it back I could still access all folders in my old backups, including the Library folder under my old user account folder. Now when I go into it the system tells me that I don't have permission to access it.
I am interested in installing Emacs ESS mode. I can follow the instructions here but I would like to know if there is an easier way (without installing a completely new instance of Emacs like the one provided here). For example, the instructions say that I can use the Linux version, but then I don't know if I should use the Debian, OpenSUSE, or Fedora package listed on the Downloads page. This is a specific example of a situation alluded to in my previous question that was closed because it was too general to be constructive.
I work with a disabled person who uses their communication-aid to control their iMac through keyboard and mouse commands. I'm setting up keyboard shortcuts to launch applications directly using services in Automator, however the communication-aid doesn't have the ability to send the command key.
I work with a disabled user who controls their iMac using keyboard and mouse input from their communication-aid. They have dyslexia and would like to use voiceover to read certain paragraphs or sentences that they are finding tricky.
The new Power Nap feature of Mountain Lion seems pretty cool in principle. However, all the descriptions I've seen of it seem to focus on built-in or supplied OS X functionality. Is there any way I can exploit Power Nap to run my own tasks - bash scripts, for example, or AppleScript files?
I plugged my iPod 4.3.3 into my computer and went on iTunes and I pressed the update button and then it said that I don't have an internet connection even though I can go on Facebook and everything. I don't know if it's something with my computer or my iPod.
I set up my google voice number to forward to my AT&T number, but when I get texts from some people who are in my contact list, the text appears to come from phone numbers I don't recognize. The text message itself will be prefaced by the phone number the text is coming from, but even though that number is in my contact list, the message does not offer me the name of the person. I have an iPhone 4 and I'm running iOS 6.1. Any help is appreciated.
I have a Mac with a Windows drive that I occasionally boot to. Most of the time, I'm using the Mac, and the Windows disk always mounts and shows up on the desktop. I would like to keep it from showing up or prevent it from mounting at all if possible, without affecting the ability to boot to it when I want to. I found an answer on a blog that uses
In this case it doesn't have to give me any type of prompt, I would like the commands to be executed directly. Any suggestions appreciated!
I just switched from a PC (Ubuntu 12.10) to a Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion). I'd like to know if there's a way to have a similar shortcut menu on the dock as I had on Ubuntu's sidebar? Basically I made a clickable menu to run a bunch of expect scripts so I wouldn't have to do it through the terminal. Here's how it looks in ubuntu:
Sometimes I'll have iCal or iTunes open alongside another app, and I'll accidentally scroll up or down while the mouse is hovering over iCal or iTunes and it will actually scroll even though neither of the apps are selected. How do I disable scrolling on iCal and iTunes when the app isn't selected? Note: I'm on a 2011 MBP w/ Lion
I found there is no -Z option in the "ssh" command of MacOS, so I upgrade openSSH to the latest one (6.01p1), still no this option. I am wondering why in Ubuntu linux, it's also openSSH package, but do have "-Z" option, but for the same package in MacOS, there is no "-Z" option at all?
I have a Mail.app mailbox on my Mac where I archive mails received from an IMAP account which has a relatively strict quota on mailbox size (500MB). I write mails into the archive once a month (as I reach my quota), but I read from it frequently. The archive mailbox has grown to a couple of gig in size. Having just bought a second Mac, I'd like to share this mailbox across Mail.app on both Macs. Please can some suggest a good solution for doing this? I am reasonably happy to ignore concurrent access problems as a) I will almost certainly never make concurrent writes to to the archive, and b) concurrent reads should be ok for most systems that I can imagine.
I've read all the documentation on how to install it on the Ubuntu site with all the command lines etc., but it's not working. I get errors like "No mountable file detected" when trying to open the .iso file.
So weird thing happened last night. I was updating the iOS to my iPhone 4S when the cord accidentally got jerked out of the phone. I had to reset the phone and restore from back-up. Now when I try to update the apps the window pops up asking for my password but weird thing.....the email address that it show is NOT my email address. When I go into my phone setting AND the Apple Store it shows my Apple ID email correct. Any suggestions?
I recently: installed 16 GB of RAM (1600 MHz); on my late-2011 15-inch MacBook Pro; running OS X 10.7, aka Lion; with an Apple SSD drive. According to Apple my MacBook Pro only supports a maximum of 8 GB at 1333 MHz, but the chipset supports more (both GB and MHz) — but I'm aware that it does not mean it'll actually be compatible with my machine.
I'd like to create a button in Mountain Lion's Mail.app to move mail to an IMAP folder called Junk, much like the Archive button moves mail to my IMAP Archive folder. (This folder is automatically emptied on my server periodically and used to train spam filters.)
My laptop specifications are: Intel Core i3 M350 2.27 GHZ 4G RAM DDR2 MS Windows 64 bit is installed I am trying to install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. The setups are: VMware Workstation 8 is installed. VMware Unlocker windows version is installed. Open OS X Mountain Lion.vmx
I need to build a script that shows files in the same order as the default Downloads folder in the dock, ordered by Date Added, newest first. I can't seem to find the option in ls. Any other way to do it?
Every time I type "tm" in Safari, or an app that uses a Webkit control, it changes it to ™. How do I stop this from occuring?
Every time I connect my bluetooth headset to my Mac, iTunes decides it's time to launch. Is there a way I can prevent this behavior? I found this thread, but there is no solution: *=URL=* OS X 10.8.3 iTunes 11.0.2 (26) Using Beats Wireless Even after removing iTunes from my computer, it stills prompts me to "find iTunes" whenever a bluetooth audio device is connected.
First of all I installed python 2.7 with manual. After I installed Python 2.6 with Macports with referenced this. And after that I deleted my Python 2.7 files. The main point is when I type python at terminal get this: But if I type the command python2.6 the Python works with all components (like PyQt). So how can I activate python command?
I am getting warnings and empty popup boxes when compiling and loading R packages that depend on tk. They say that tk was not installed correctly. I am using homebrew, but I can't tell which package might provide a correct install of tk, or if it would conflict with the existing (but broken) installation.
In order to reserve a conference room in my office (via Exchange) I have to send a meeting request to the room's calendar. I have a recurring daily event to book a room indefinitely, and I don't want this recurring event showing up in my calendar because it's just clutter.
I am trying to access a storage space we have at work via ssh but I get a timeout every single time (Mac OS 10.7.5 - Terminal). I checked firewalls, settings, even turned off Little Snitch, and port 22 is nowhere blocked. Doing the exact same request on a Windows machine with a SSH client works like a charm. Request: Answer:
Is there any benefit in disabling wifi on my Mac Pro (connected to a time capsule via ethernet)? I notice that with it disabled airdrop doesn't work and iTunes wireless sync misbehaves.
On my jailbroken iPhone 5 with ios 6.1.2 I sometimes see all kinds of services from applications filling up my homescreen. Most of the times this happens after installing an application. After a respring they will dissapear. Example:
This is ironic, Apple's Discussions website is not working properly in the latest version of Safari (6.0.3) or Chrome (25). Any link or button that I click on the page does not work.
My company has two offices, in two different cities. I'd like to use a colo to host our OS X Server, which will manage Open Directory data, device management, VPN, shared file storage, mail, messaging, and most of the other services that OS X Server offers. At each office, then, I'd like to have a Mac mini running OS X Server to manage that office's LAN and, hopefully, be that office's hub for Software Update service.
I lived in Canada for several years, but now I live in Norway (again). In Canada, I have purchased many apps on both the iOS and Mac OS X app stores. Some of these apps I have uninstalled over the years for different reasons.
Mac OS X doesn't recognize rfkill from its terminal, and I am looking for an alternative command that has similar functionality (toggling "Airplane Mode"). NOTE: I don't wish to open an .app to toggle. I'd like to execute the command from command line or within script in Bash (or equivalents).
I have tried using this code in the terminal to turn off the reply animation in Mail defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true
I click general> usage> under storage I see apps with memory usage, how do I delete these to free up space to increase available memory?
Some time ago somebody helped me to know how to display the OS X Mail message editing toolbar. Please note, this is not the main Mail toolbar, but appears on the message window. I did not record the steps, but I recall it is very simple. I would like to know how to enable that on a new computer.
I would like to change TextEdit shortcuts which are visible in the menu, but are not listed in Keyboard shortcuts in System preferences. I tried adding new shortcut, assigned to TextEdit, but it doesn't work for some reason... This is what I want to have: Jump to Selection -> ⌥ Space Select Line -> ⌘ J
I have tried to update to 10.8.3 a number of times, however, when I come back from the necessary restart, the same message appears in the App Store - as if nothing had happened. please help with this issue. thank you.
Is my @me.com address a good candidate for my primary email address? I'd like to stop using my old yahoo address. I also only use Mac products. (MacBook, iPhone, iPad).
As we know iOS pushes apps to background after some time if you keep the phone idle. I notices that this doesn't happen with the native apps like phone, messages and mail.
I'm trying to install Windows by using VirtualBox on mac, but the size of VirtualBox don't fit the size of my mac. The window size is too small, how can I make it fit my computer? By the way, I'm using Retina macbook pro.
I am facing the problem on the login of skype, I've searched on the Skype site and found this link. However, I'm not able to figure out what causes this issue. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.3 Here is the link for the crash report.
Using last OS X Lion, I was using Mail.app, classic view, so there was always a preview for each message. This has now dissapeared, how can I solve this?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.3. It happens sometimes that there are .part files in my download folder, with the length of 8 characters and 0kB file-size. Could this be a virus? Examples I see are like these 2: 3dOsdT+d.part and utYYNFFo.part
Spent a few hours searching on Google and in other forums - I know this issue has come up before, but I couldn't find a single answer or solution anywhere. It seems that when I go to print the calendar (or turn it into a PDF) it decides to completely randomly re-order my events. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. In iCal they are in a perfectly logical, organized order. When I go to print, they appear randomly mixed around.
Some time ago I started creating a book with iPhoto. Since then I uploaded new photos to iPhoto, but they are not available amongst the photos I can use to create the book.
I have a couple of active SIM cards in a couple of different countries. How can I set my phone up to receive iMessages and FaceTime calls from all those numbers, even though there's obviously only one SIM in my phone at once?
When I try to open a PDF link by clicking on it, Safari saves it as filename.pdf.jpeg, then tries to open it in Preview, and claims that the file is broken. I checked the requests to see what's wrong, and apparently the system serving the images sends a faulty mimeType and size: Chrome just ignores this and figures out what kind of file it is, but Safari seems to trust the server, and saves a 0 size JPEG.
OS X Reminders doesn't sync with my Google Account although Calendar and Mails work OK. How to sync OS X Reminders with Google (or GTask Android App) to have it Android device?
Ever since I moved to a MacBook Air from a PC about two weeks ago, I have had a problem in syncing my Yahoo Sent Mail on my MacBook Air with my iPad and iPHone. What gets synced is some old sent mail going back from 2010, rather than the latest. How can this be rectified?
Ever since doing OS X 10.8 updates, a pair of machines with Outlook refuse to look back further than 2 weeks during e-mail searches. Spotlight settings all look OK. I even forced an index deletion/re-creation with "sudo mdutil -E". Index does go away, but comes back the same way, only being able to search the last 2 weeks worth of items (and there are items going back years it should be finding). Mailbox size is right around 1.9 GiB. Ideas?
Apple, in their infinite wisdom, has changed the Podcast app (again). Am I going crazy, or has double speed been removed?
It's about a Mac mini connected to a touchscreen running at a public school, displaying a browser in kiosk mode. I want the Mac to go to scheduled sleep after school is over.
If I do this in OS X, what is the maximum amount of files I can test? Or is there a maximum length for this string?
I have a question similar to a previous one about ejecting before shutting down. Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before putting a Mac to sleep, whether it be via an explicit sleep command (e.g., from the Apple menu or other equivalent means), if Energy Saver puts the Mac to sleep, or the closing of a lid on a laptop Mac? Edit: To add a clarifying point, I do not plan to physically disconnect the drive before waking the Mac from sleep?
My Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo - 2007) has seen better days. When I try to start, it simply boots to this odd pixelated image of the Apple start screen: glitched boot screen http://i48.tinypic.com/15x4bkn.jpg
Can I have two different numbers asigned to the same iphone and receive text from both numbers on one device?
I can download applications from custom websites, and run them, even when my gatekeeper settings are at "AppStore Only". This is my application -- it's not even signed.
I know that there are apps that can do this, so I figure it must be possible: I'd like to compile a list of every OpenMeta tag that I've used on my Mac (OS X 10.8.3). But here's the rub: I'd ideally like it to be scriptable, so that I can manipulate the list after creating it. The only thing that's come to mind so far is doing an mdfind "kMDItemOMUserTags == *" and then running xattr on every single result, but that seems wildly inefficient and silly. So does anyone have any ideas?
Quicksilver has a "Make Alias in..." action but this creates a hard link. Is there any way, including plugins, to create a symbolic link?
I have an old MacBook that I bought in 2006. I formatted and restored the original system. Everything was bad: I downloaded Skype, Chrome, and others, and every program said: This software does not work anymore with this version of the operating system (or similar)
Here's the deal: I have a Macbook Pro 6,2 – I think late 2010 model. I have two mismatched drives with the same speeds. A 750GB Momentus XT, that SSD HDD hybrid, and the Seagate Momentus 500GB. Both are 7200 RPM. I replaced the optical drive a while back with a HDD. I want to install the most opportune parts of the operating system to a separate applications folder, therefore prioritizing on the outer edges of the disk – specifically files that will be run more often therefore they can be accessed quicker. However in addition, because they are mismatched in terms of GB per disk, I have a setup that I would like to use that further optimizes it. Basically the first disk is separated into 3 partitions (values approximate): System: 50 GB User: 200 GB RAID: 500 GB
I want the cronjob to do some things as the superuser, and depending on the result, launch an app as me, the logged-in user. I've tried a bunch of things but nothing I think should work does. Similar questions: How can I execute sudo commands as a cron job? How can I execute sudo commands as a cron job? How can I automatically launch an application whenever the Mac goes idle? How can I automatically launch an application whenever the Mac goes idle?
I am looking for a diary app, which supports tags with values. Which means I can define custom tags, and with each entry I can add tags and define values for it. Example: 01/01/2013 had a great party today, mood:5, health:7, moneySpent:152 02/01/2013 met Tina today, went to the pool, mood:7, success:3 It should provide some line charts to see how the values go up and down. I couldn't find it using my search terms, maybe you know how to call this feature, or know an app implementing this?
Is there a way to set the default Move to... directory in Preview? When a file is opened in Preview and Move to... is selected, the default directory is the directory that the file currently resides in. This directory selection is useless since I want to move the file from it. I'd like to set it to something else.
The iOS was upgraded from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3 and the ADSL disconnected part way through the upgrade and I lost all my contacts, photos, settings etc. Below is the error message that occurs every time I try to restore from my iTunes backup. Even when I try to restore from older backups via Time Machine, this error message still occurs. Error message: iTunes could not restore the iPhone "X iPhone" because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored.
The objective is to strengthen the WiFi reception (at the moment without additional hardware). I live in an area with a 100+ radio signals.
I'll get a replacement Mac soon, so I'll have to restore from a backup. Apart from the home directory and the applications, does Time Machine also backup the usually hidden Unix folders like /etc, /usr and so on?
I toyed around with Linux, and after discovering that the offical Linux NVidia drivers doesn't have EFI support which makes it impossible to make it work optimally on my system (bummer), I wanted to remove it. I deleted the partitions with Disk Utility, except the swap partition which I deleted with GParted. My disk looks like this now in Disk Utility: Now when I try to extend the Macintosh HD partition to fill the entire disk and click Apply, it gets stuck at checking the catalog file and gives me an error. Translation (I don't know what it's exactly like in the English version of OSX): Partitioning failed - The partitioning failed with the error: The partition-layout cannot be changed, because the file system could not be checked. When I try it with GParted, I can't move the handles for some reason. How can I make Macintosh HD fill the entire disk again, other than formatting the disk and restoring a Time Machine backup? EDIT: When I click the button to check the disk for errors it s
MS Excel for Mac has quite different shortcut keys than Excel for Windows. Is there any comparison table? Rather than this *=URL=* I want a table such as
With my iPad connected to my MacBook, I exported some Pages files to iTunes in docx format. Now I'm using my laptop without the iPad, and I want to find these files. Where/how are they stored? Tks.
This problem has occurred on my iPhone 5 with all versions of iOS that have been available for it. When you want to do voice dictation you hit the microphone key on the keyboard, the microphone iPhone appears and you hear a beep, And you start talking in the icon flashes as it hears the sounds. When finished you hit the Done button and your transcribed speech is returned. This is the behavior when things work properly.
We can use iTunes to import PDF files to Books application of iPad. However Books application has no PDF annotation capability. I have installed other PDF viewers on iPad (like Documents by Readdle, Foxit PDF viewer, etc) but have no idea how to import my PDF files from laptop to these applications, without network services (iCloud, Dropbox, email, etc). Do you have any idea?
Apple's site does some neat tricks on their pages to display videos encoded as a JPG file and then decoded and rendered in a canvas element (see *=URL=* Is there an app that will take a video and convert it into that? I remember seeing something like that announced, but can't find any reference or link on my notes.
My AppleScript needs to get thread count of process x. I have tried many ps etc codes but all these are not working for some reason. I tried these:
Is it possible to filter-out junk mail before it reaches my I-pad-mini's inbox - as Outlook does on my laptop? Oops, sorry - my e-mail provider is TalkTalk.
I am running multiple modern internet and cloud related services. Is it possible to limit their access to parts of my filesystem? For example Dropbox only needs access to its Dropbox shared folder.
Is there a firewall for OSX Lion, that allows controlling of outgoing connections? The built in firewall handles only incoming connections, apparently.
I'm looking for a way to get the following information via AppleScript: all the information ls provides including the creation date/time of a file or folder MD5 hash, Finder labels and Finder/Spotlight comments into an output like What I currently have is some old code which needs tweaking (creation date/time is missing): and some basic looping code for the comments/labels but now I'm kind of stuck in combining this all together.
I tried to install win 8 on mac using new bootcamp. the problem is that bootcamp formats the drive as Fat 32, and the installation does not start because it needs NTFS format. when format bootcamp drive as NTFS manually and install the win 8, win 8 does not start up. i get the beginning black screen with no change. Can anybody help me here? Thanks
I have two 2TB Time Capsules attached to a network through a Netgear router. Each Time Capsule is connected via Ethernet with the WiFi set to "off". Each Time Capsule is assigned a unique static IP address; all devices connected to the network are assigned unique static IP addresses.
Last week my iPhone was stolen when on holiday in New York. I have precious photos and more importantly videos of my son on there. I went to an Apple store in NYC and they advised that my photos would probably have been backed up on iCloud but he wasn't sure about videos as I hadn't synced my phone with my PC apart from when I first purchased it. Is there any possible way I still have access to these videos?
I set the background to red instead of the color it normally was. Didn't change. Removed the properties all together, refreshed, the texture was still there, even though I removed the line. OS X 10.7.5
If it matters (don't think it does) the machine is a MacBookPro6,1, 2.66GHz i7 with 8GB RAM. RAM is often fully used according to iStat Menus but that's the maximum for this machine.
How can I reinstall Snow Leopard when my external firewire DVD drive is not working? A few weeks ago I got the typical signs of drive failure so I got Scannerz and tested it (*=URL=* and the drive was certainly full of bad sectors so I decided to replace the drive. Today I finally had time to go to a local electronics store and get a drive. I installed the drive, which was a piece of cake.
I downloaded their app but it doesn't let me edit them when offline. But some websites seem to say it's possible to edit them offline. Any ideas?
I then followed this tutorial on how to start the installation from within VMWare Fusion (*=URL=* which seemed to work at first, but once I rebooted and selected the Windows Partition I got an error saying that windows could not be installed due to "recent software or hardware changes". I had selected the x86 version, so I figured I might as well try the x64 version and see if that makes a difference. So I removed my bootcamp partition, created it again, went into VMWare after doing the same process as before, now I simply get a message saying "No operating system found".
I tried to start up my computer and got a flashing file with a question mark. So I held down the ⌥-key on boot and brought it into recovery-mode. After going through the different options I went to the disk utility and all I see is the grayed out SuperDrive and below there is disk0 and Mac OS X Base system.
TextEdit is used by the system so it can't be removed, but I have another text editor I use and it causes confusion when text files that don't have a suffix or don't have a suffix which I've already associated with my real text editor open in TextEdit. An example of this getting really strange in a workflow is if I've selected many files that I want to edit and open them all up at once, and some are in my real editor and others have opened in TextEdit in the background, but I'm unaware of that. Another example is simply knowing that I opened a file some time back, but not being able to find it anywhere in my text editor because it is actually sitting there in TextEdit.
The sudo dmesg command works fine, but shows no timestamp. Is there any way to get it to show the timestamps as well?
It seems that when multiple monitors are attached to a MacBook Pro (Retina), OSX splits up the VRAM for the monitors. Even when a screen is captured by e.g. a game, performance degrades very steep. The only thing that helps is to put the MBP in clamshell mode and remove one of the 2 attached displays to get back to reasonable performance.
The tilde, ~, generated by the U.S. International - PC layout and the tilde, ~, produced by the U.S. layout are allegedly different characters. How can I produce the U.S. tilde while using the International keyboard?
I use KDE4 on my Linux machines, one of the tools I use a lot is KOrganizer. I love its TODO list which supports hierarchical (nested) tasks.
I'm using Parallels on my mac. But when I open a software the font are so small, it's very weird. Can anyone help me out!!!
I would like to view photos and videos on my smart TV. I do not do video games and am not real technically knowledgeable so need answer in layman's terms.
I really love AirPlay so I thought about buying a second AirPort Express for another amplifier in the apartment. But will my iPhone5/iPad2 be able to stream to both AirPlay devices simultaneously?
If my MacBook is sitting on the desk and I go and pick it up, it will fall asleep and will not wake up regardless of pressing space bar or pressing the power button. Literally the only way I can get it to work is by shaking the macbook (I then hear a soft single beep) and then I place it back on the desk and then hit the laptop lightly against the desk and it will wake up. What is the problem and is there anyway I could fix it. (I feel like the beeping noise might mean something when it is in sleep mode?)
I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 6.1.3 and a MBP 13' 2012 i5 on OSX 10.8.3 connected to the same WiFi network. Now whenever a notification comes, be it Facebook or Messages (exceptions: Reminder and Calendar), iPhone alerts me before the Mac does. I checked, but couldn't find a place in the Mac where I can edit these settings to make checking for notifications more frequent.
“None of the updates could be installed. An Exception occurred.” Since that moment, whenever I try to log in, I end up in the infamous “login loop”: I enter my password, see a gray screen for about 20 seconds, and end up on the login screen again. OS X version OS X update
I also tried to use google's DNS server, but it's not working in some instance. How can I reserve (or update) the ISP's DNS server without deleting 127.0.0.1 as a DNS. Thank you in advance.
I'm not able to backup my ipod because I have more than 5gb and don't want to pay more. I would love to just put my camera roll on backup, and I deleted the backup for everything else but it still says I have too much gb on it! All I want is my camera roll!
What is the maximum filename character length of files in OS X? Of secondary importance is whether some characters are allowed/disallowed in addition to any overall length restrictions.
I see from all of the various blogs and news sites that Apple finally has two step authentication with their Apple ID. That's great -- especially with the latest security hole where you can now reset someone's Apple ID password with just the ID and the user's birthday. However, I don't seem to be able to turn on two step authentication: Here's what I do: Go to *=URL=* Click on the Manage Your Apple ID button. Sign in. Click on Password and Security. I'm now asked my security questions. I answer my security questions. And, now I can change my password, security questions, my rescue email, and my birthdate.
I just got a Western Digital 2 TB "My Passport" USB drive and connected it to my macbook pro (it says it supports USB 3). But when I tried to copy my photo library it said it would take 40 hours? What could be going on?
Basically I need any file filefoo that is newly created by userfoo or userbar, both members of groupfoo, in /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory to have the same ownership that would be achieved by that user doing chown whicheverusermadethefile:groupfoo filefoo after the fact. (Longer story: I have two users running simultaneously on the same machine. The users have a shared folder at /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory. These users, say userfoo and userbar, are both already members of a group groupfoo. userfoo syncs this directory using Dropbox, but Dropbox can't sync files downloaded by userbar into that directory b/c of permissions. File-by-file or a bunch at a time this problem can be solved with chown and adding the right group ownership to the file or directory, but new downloads or additions continue to pose a problem. Thanks to some old tinkering with umask the files are created with the correct group permissions such that userfoo's Dropbox instance can read and sync them when their owner
I have two connected network interfaces, ethernet and WLAN. How does OSX handle traffic in this situation? When outgoing messages are sent which interface are they sent from? If I use tools such as Logmein.com, which interface does it connect through?
I would like to know how to block a specific phone number from calling or texting my phone. How do I do this on my phone?
I'm a PC convert, and quite novice when it comes to shell/bash scripting, but I really want to learn/understand more. My need: I need to be able to scan a folder, find any .rar files, extract the files in place, and delete the associated .rar afterwards. Each may also have the .r00, .r01, ... files associated, so those need to be deleted afterwards as well.
I know that Calculator app has ability to convert currencies but is it possible to get this shortcut in Spotlight like that:
HD 4000 on my MacBook Pro shared 512 MB RAM from my main memory, which is calculated as part of kernel_task. My question is simple, is there a way to disable it, stopping it from taking up 512 MB of memory and just use the 650M in all situation. I can of course not use it with the option under Energy Saver, but that doesn't return the precious memory it steals. Any idea will be appreciated, I am thinking sysctl? EDIT July, 2013
It is possible to connect a microphone to an iPhone/iPad using bluetooth, BUT would it be possible to achieve the same kind of connection with a microphone but over a WiFi network? To explain: I have a microphone that is connected to an router via WiFi, would it be possible in some way to connect the iPhone/iPad to this microphone and use it instead of the built in microphone?
I'm getting into an exercise routine and in the past I've found it helpful to cross off the days tha I do exercise on a calendar. It occurred to me that I spend far more time looking at my macbook desktop than at my bedroom wall and would like to know if anyone is aware of an application that will allow me to have a calendar with at least one full month showing at a time embedded on my desktop, and allow me to cross off the days that I work out?
I know that oldest backups are removed automatically when there is no space for new ones on TimeMachine. I use TimeCapsule also for sharing files on WiFi, so I’d like to free some space by removing of unnecessary backups:
My Mac mini late 2012 behaves strangely: When awake the computer answers ping correctly: Right after going to sleep it stops responding, while it switches to 100 MbE:
I have set up two user logins on my computer, one for home and one for work. I would like to be able to share any of my bash and vim settings between the two users. Is there anyway to do this? Thus far, I've been copying them from one account to another, but I'd like to be able to just have one file between the two so I can make changes in only one place. Is this even possible? Thanks.
I have jailbroken iPad (iOS5.1.1) with the shell utility installed. I'd like to be able to launch and control applications via the command line, as I would normally do in Unix or Linux. Say I want to play a specific file in my iPad, I want to be able to ask the iPad's music app to play it for me via command line. (Something similar to cvlc, I couldn't find cvlc for the iPad)
I'd like to change the default text navigation buttons for OSX (Mountain Lion). That is, currently the key to move iterate tokens when editing a text file (or in XCode) is alt, and command for BOL/EOL. I want to edit the default keys such that command is used to iterate through tokens, and either (alt+command+direction) or (fn+direction) is used for BOL/EOL.
Maybe it is silly question, but is it possible to install logic board from Macbook Air i5/i7 to Macbook 1.1 body? Original Core2Duo with 2Gb of RAM is really slow for programming.
I have jailbroken iPad 2 (iOS5.1.1) and an Apple wireless Bluetooth keyboard that I use for typing on the iPad. Although the keyboard is a joy to use, I can't use it for much else other than typing documents and creating notes. I'd like to be able to use some kind of keyboard shortcuts to move around/switch between apps, use shortcuts like Cmd + K or Ctrl + K in the browser and so on.
The command is not giving any result. Can any one help. I got this command from an article that maintains (I paraphrase) that rMBP can have Samsung / LG screens, and that the LG screens are all defective.
The card (ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB) has 1 dual-DVI port and 2 mini display ports. http://i.imgur.com/iUOawq6.jpg
I just installed Picasa on Mountain Lion, but the fonts are really ugly and aliased:  This is a MacBook Pro with Retina display, if that makes a difference. Is there something I can do about this?
*=URL=* What is the USB plug used for?
My iPhone was running out of space and I noticed I had over 1000 photos. Like usual I upload them to my computer using Image Capture then at the bottom I click "delete pictures after" so they aren't on my phone anymore. They uploaded perfectly fine to Image Capture, but when I clicked on "transfer to iPhoto" I got a message saying the disk was full and now I can't find the picture files.
I'd like to be able to be notified in any way (sound, notification, growl, etc) when someone pings my machine. Is that possible?
I uninstalled java today by using this guide. Since then I get an dialog which asks me for installing java. This happens every time after a login to my user. How can stop this request or how I can determine why I get this requests?
How can I transfer my messages from an iPhone 4 to the new iPhone 5 that has a different sim card?
I just bought a iPhone 4 off Craigslist, and it's stuck on the iTunes screen. Whenever I try to restore it, towards the end of the process, an icon pops up and says error -1. What does this mean?
I have a macbook pro retina 15in and I have windows 8 installed via bootcamp. I have bootcamp v5 drivers installed in windows 8 and everything works well except my external headset mic. It is a Dr Dre Beats Solo with the mic integrated into the cable. The mac os has no problem recognizing it and the fact that the audio jack has the mic on it as well.
I have the need to configure SSH access for a AD service account on a fleet of Macs. I can't make the account a local account as the password for the service account cycles often. The end goal is to allow all accounts in a restricted AD security group ssh access to our Macs, but I'd like to start with just a single AD account.
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on a 2012 Mac Mini. The Mini is headless and I'm using an iMac to do screen sharing for admin purposes. I'm trying to set up sharing of a particular folder on an external HDD attached to the Mini via USB3, but for some reason I can't share this folder and the problem seems to be related to its name. I would like to know what I can do (other than just renaming the folder) to fix the problem.
I downloaded mountain lion on my mbp which is run by snow leopard atm. I started to install it and waited for the installation to end. When it came down to the last 12-11 minutes, I ended my distraction and pulled the computer a bit in my direction to keep track of the status bar. With this movement I managed to rip off the charging cable! (I mean, I completely broke it) The monitor turned black instantly and the computer was shut down. When I started it again, the installation wizard shows up again and asks me to press the continue button. However it shows no reaction to any of the buttons available and thus I cannot continue installing. I thought ok, lets install the old snow leopard again and try booting from CD, but by doing that, the good old mac os greyscreen appears after a few seconds.
I have recently set up a server on my Mac mini with the OS X Mountain Lion Server app. I would like to have remote access (from outside of my home's wifi network) to the files and folders in my home folder and shared locations (on the Mac mini), and I understand that to do this I need a VPN connection. I'm not familiar with these kinds of things, and I've been trying to set this up but I can't get it to work.
I would like to create a course to share on the public iTunes U Catalog, however I do not want the course to be associated with an educational institution. Rather, I just want the course to be available to everyone as an independent instructor. How would I do this in iTunes U?
I have a second internal drive (in the optical bay), named "Secondary". It is mounted in /Volumes/Secondary. User directory is moved to that drive and also symlinked.
My iPhone 4 suddenly turned off and won't turn back on. I've tried charging it, holding the home and top button and plugging it into my computer. Nothing is working. When I plugged it into my computer, I received a notification that the phone is in recovery mode and needs to be restored to factory settings. I am fine with restoring it, but my concern is that I haven't backed up my phone for awhile and I don't want to lose the photos that were taken after the last time I backed up the device. Is there anything I can do to restore the phone and still manage to save my pictures?
I have a server to which I am backing up a single MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, via TimeMachine. I would like to only back up when the MacBook Pro has a wired connection to the network. The wired and wireless connections are to the same router and all devices are on the same subnet. How can I configure my Mac so that it will not start the TimeMachine backup process when operating wirelessly, but will allow backups when connected via wired connection?
Our school radio station is currently supplementing the audio based lessons with a slideshare meeting-based slideshow. Unfortunately slideshare has been pretty buggy and any time we want to stream video (say off youtube) the video fails because of the traffic generated by 20 devices loading the same video stream at the same time.
Is there a faster way to label a selected file or folder without having to right-click and choosing a colour ? Such as a keyboard shortcut or another method to do this ?
When I 'convert to notes' in skim, only the page numbers of the highlighted text gets displayed. I can click on those page numbers and it will go to the highlighted part of the document but the actual text does not appear when I export notes. I just get a blank document or a page with the page numbers where the highlighted text is. Can you suggest what I'm ight be doing wrong? I'm using OSX Lion 10.8.3.
When I click "Share" on an iPad photo not in Camera Roll, there's a "Copy" option. It seems to do nothing, how can I get it to work? Ideally I want to copy a photo to the Camera Roll so I can save it to my computer. It's annoying that I can't just save all the photos, Camera Roll or not, from the iPad to my computer.
When i click the "click to tweet" button, it works, but when i click the "click to post", nothing happens---plus my twitter button wont work afterwards. :( so i have to restart my mac again. tried removing my fb account then adding it again, but still doesn't work. Any solutions?
On my iPad2 (iOS6), when a web-page has a link to their app in the app-store, following the link does not open that app in the app-store. Instead, the app-store opens but does not jump to that app... I have to try searching for it. It seems to happen every time - is this a known issue?
I switched from PC to Mac, in pc when you're in explorer, you press a key and it highlights the first result of a file/folder that starts with the pressed key, and when you press again it goes to the next result In mac, when i press a key in finder or anywhere contains files, it only shows the first result and ignores my repeated key presses that is supposed to move to the next result highlight how to do this ?
I would like to move all iMovie (iMove '11) events to a specific folder of an external hard drive. Apple documents a means to do this, but without specifying the folder; iMovie files are created in the root of the mounted drive, in a folder called iMovie Events.localized.
I am trying to use autossh, like so: However, on both an PPC Tiger eMac and a Mountain Lion MacBook Pro, I just get presented with the argument and environment variable list.
I own copies of all three operating systems and would like to have a single drive that enable me to boot from and use Disk Warrior etc under each OS. Is this possible?
I carry an iPhone. On occasion, I will use Siri to send a quick text message to a person, e.g. "Text Alice I'm on my way."
Among others that I recognize, I have the "imagent" been allowed to pass true my firewall (allow incoming connection). What/who is it, and do I must have it or can I just block it. I do not remember allowing it in the first place anyway, but that could be due to my age :)
I have a 1 MB Word file (text with 3 or 4 PDF graphics inside, and 1 bitmap JPEG image), which Word 2011 exports as PDF into a 66 MB file. Using the "Print > Save as PDF" feature leads to a file of the (approximate) same size, i.e. also much too big.
Using version 1.2. I can't seem to find a way to do anything other than add subscriptions, folders and delete subscriptions. Is there any way I can just rename my existing subscriptions?
In this question, I asked how to have Siri specifically send an SMS message to a person who does not have an SMS-capable iOS device registered with Apple, but does have iMessage on e.g. an iPad.
I tried to install OSX Lion from DVD, but when I boot from the dvd I receive bootstrapper crashed error. How can I fix that? Maybe the disc is scratched, or what's the problem? Thank you!
NetUse monitor has been suggested by many, but I am still wondering about the features I need. Here is my problem and tell me how your software or other can help me.
I'm creating mobile users in MT Lion Server through Workgroup Manager 10.8. I've set it up so that when the user logs in to the client machine, the network share point auto mounts. This gives access to their home folder on the network.
I'm trying to set up a Mac Mini Server for Local File Sharing, Calendar, and Contacts, but I also want to be able to access everything remotely through a domain. I'm using an AirPort Extreme as my router, I also have a Time Capsule configured to back up the entire Mac Mini Server.
I've been playing around with theming OS X, and in changing my menu bar icons to be white (to contrast my now-black menu bar) I've overwritten the original icons (and forgot to back them up). Can someone running OS 10.8.x please confirm that the file /System/Library/Private/Frameworks/CoreWLANKIT.framework is the one I need to restore?
I've Googled around for a solution to this issue but nothing is readily apparent. I have a company newsletter with existing merge fields for an address block (company, street address, etc..). The merge data is being pulled from a numbers spread sheet. The postal service will charge me extra postage per each newsletter for not including an Intelligent Mail Barcode. I am trying to figure out a method for doing so in Pages 09 version 4.3. Ideally this would just be part of the mail merge process but I am open to alternate methods to resolve this issue.
We've got this development stack that's mostly javascript, and if I'm looking for a variable definition or something I can use Finder's spotlight tool to easily find the file that contains the variable I'm looking for. However if there's something I'm looking for that I know is in a JSON file, Finder won't return anything. I looked through Finder's preferences as well as Spotlight's but couldn't find anything about extensions. Does anyone know a fix for this? Or maybe an alternative to Finder/Spotlight? Thanks in advance
I am connected to a remote server with VPN. I want to copy and paste one file to that server. When I am trying to drag and drop, it doesnt let me do that. I am new to this and this is really frustrating.
Recently, my iPhone 3GS has stopped playing music out the right earphone. I have tried other earphones, but the same thing happened. Is there anything I can do?
Is it possible to change the systems font? (finder, alerts, menus etc)
In my finder toolbar, I have the color label drop-down. I would like to have multiple instances of it with different colors pre-selected. However it isn't possible to even add more than one instance of 'label' to the toolbar, so basically what I'm asking is: Is there a 'hacky' way to add it anyway, and if so, can it have different colors pre-selected?
Whenever I ask friends, colleagues and acquaintances why they have bought an Apple Mac and switched from Windows, nine times out of ten the response I receive is: "Macs don't get viruses" Is it true that not one single virus has been identified on Macs ? Is it also true that the majority of malware identified is in the form of trojans, of which the most famous one I recall was the Flashback trojan which created havoc this time last year (if I'm not mistaken) and was identified by the Russian company Dr.Web, which quickly brought out a removal tool, which was then followed by other Internet Security Companies who jumped on the bandwagon to say: "See Macs do get Viruses" Is the underlying reason that malware is supposedly less is because Windows still dominates in usage terms for most people, but eventually in a few more years, there will be just as much malware on a Mac as on a Windows PC ?
iTunes will not let me resize the window at my leisure. I tried going into /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj, and then opening the file AppConfig.plist, but it will not let me change it, what I can do?
I use Safari 6 (on OS X 10.8.3) and I want to hide all button on Bookmarks Bar in Safari 6. For Show Reading list and Show Top Sites there are an options to hide it in Preference → Bookmark but there is no option for hide Show all bookmarks button.
I need help to erase all of my data from my computer... Selling 2009 Macbook pro w. Lion. I don't have the startup disks.
Within Automator, how can I replace a particular string in many different files with the filename of each file? // UPDATE
Tomorrow I will buy a 2nd hand iPad with Retina Display. But I do not have an idea how I can distinguish it from ipad 2. I know retina display is a very significant difference for experienced users. However I have never used an ipad 2 or ipad 1 so I cannot understand the difference.
I'm trying to reinstall the OS on a MacBook Air. I got it from my former company, and they didn't keep the OS install disc, in fact they wiped it and put Windows 7 on it. I have quite a few macs, and have always used an external USB disc and can install but this machine is so fickle and throws up the multilingual failure message upon boot. I was, however, able to boot into a recovery volume that was on my external hard drive, and I burned Snow Leopard to the machine's OWN hard drive, and when it booted up, it failed again.
Now I am using OS X 10.8.2. I have installed Xcode 4.5 on my Mac. It has completely installed and I am able to open sample Xcode projects. The problem is Xcode is not displayed in the Application folder. How can I make Xcode visible in the Finder?
Is there any app to see how my applications are using my upload internet bandwith? I have an app called Arq which basically uploads data to amazon storage.
I got an iPhone from a telco carrier two years ago, as at that time, I didn't really know whether I bought the phone unlocked or was it locked to that specific carrier. All I knew was, I change my telco afterwards, and I could use the new telco's data plan and voice and SMS service without trouble.
My daughter has an iPod Touch 4th generation I think it is with iOS 6. We have a problem with it whereby it doesn't show any wireless networks at all. Previously, it connected fine and would show networks available without issue. Note: Like a lot of iPods it has been dropped in the past and ended up with a cracked screen which has been replaced. On the two most used networks, I've restarted the routers to no avail.
I have a gmail account connected via IMAP to the iPhone 4. For some reason it shows a folder named "starred" which I cannot delete, move, nor find via the web interface in gmail. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?
I wondered which service is acutally updating the MobileDocuments folder in OS X? I looked through the Apple Developer pages, but nowhere is any information about background services in OS X.
When I receive an invite I do not get an email nor does the invite appear in iCal. If I log on to iCloud.com I do see the invite but when accepting/declining I get a message that my Calendar is not responding anymore. 'The ancestor is the aggregate of the child record, but it is not in the changelog.....
This may be too close to a duplicate for Git plug-in for Finder?, but I'm after a tool that will merely show me whether there is a repo in the current directory, and the state of the files within. I don't want to view all invisible files I want to continue using Finder (I like PathFinder, but not always) I don't need to run git commands on the files, just see their state I'm thinking of an interface like Dropbox (see image), or TortoiseSVN for windows... any suggestions or workarounds?
Title says it all: how can I create new address groups on iOS devices?
I often share my internet connection with other Macs and devices and want to know if I can redirect client's web requests to my local web server. Is it as simple as having them use my client's IP address or do I need to set up a proxy or otherwise configure things on my Mac or my client's devices?
There's add-ons for Firefox to do this, switching twitter accounts without having to sign-in 3-5 times a day is really time saving if you have more than 2 accounts, CookieSwap do the job, is there any possible extension can do the job for safari?
It seems iTunes can't erase anything on my iPad! How do I make iTunes capable of deleting from my iPad? And is it possible that iCloud / iTunes are somehow clashing with one another here?
I have had a Genius take a look at my MacBook, no one has offered ANY support that works. Forgive me if I'm learning how to describe the issue, but here is my problem with TextEdit, Apple Mail and other apps on my Mac that came from Apple: Anywhere I enter text to change the color the normal process is to highlight that text go to format, font, choose color… But the color Box (that has all the little squares filled with choices of colors... is completely empty. Here is what I expect things to look like from Mail on Mountain Lion
How can I type logic symbol like "＆ - → ↔ " and so on in pages?
I am running a server on my Mac mini at home (using the OS X Server app). I would like to access my home network using it's VPN server, but I understand that I can only do this while it's awake. I have already configured my Mac's server to use its IP address for Wi-Fi (for some DNS settings etc), and so connecting it via ethernet would mean that I would have to change quite a few settings... I'm running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 How can I do this without having to connect my Mac to my router via ethernet? I've searched the site and can't find an answer that makes sense to me since they appear out-dated.
I was trying to use VIM and it kept blinking "recording" all the time. Now I know that it means VIM was recording what I was typing. Where does it keep these recordings? I would like to delete these.
I'm using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL (PG) on a MacBook Air. admin user brew installed PostgreSQL.
I have a Mac Mini Server with File Sharing enabled, but when I go to connect any of my users that aren't allowed to "Administer this server" I get a connection failed error. But If I give them Admin rights they can instantly connect. How can I allow all users to connect and share files?
I am seeing attached icon in the top right menu bar. I tried deleting MenuExtras by going to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extrasbut it didn't help, please help to hide or remove it.
Since Google has ended support for Google Sync aka Microsoft Exchange on Janurary 30th, how can I continue to get mails from GMail pushed? As far as I know, IMAP does not support push. I know that there is the offical GMail app, that uses iOS Push notification service, however I would prefer the default Mail App.
157gb of my 159gb mac is showing as used. In the storage area 145gb of this is showing as other. What can this be? I have just downloaded whatsize app to understand and whilst the 157gb is showing as used on hard drive when you click into the detail within whatsize it does not add up to anywhere near this. About 20gb is broken down in the detail. Would really appreciate some help as I'm at a loss I have not been able to use my mac properly for months now and when I took it to a computer repair shop they tried an omnisweeper but this made no difference.
When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner:
into a Terminal session. This forces the computer into the shutdown screen and it just sits there and does nothing.
On my Macbook Pro I have recently added a VPN connection to the server at work. Now, my Wifi network at home uses the following IP block: 192.168.1.x as does the VPN from work. So when my MBP tries to access 192.168.1.52, it keeps looking on the Wifi network where it will obviously not find the server it's looking for. How can I get the MBP to look for this specific IP address on the VPN and not the Wifi network? Thanks in advance.
I am wondering how to make a newsstand app. What are the applications i need? I am currently in the process of enrolling in the Apple iOS program, so i will have access to the Newsstand Kit and Framework. But how should i make my content, i have read you can use iBooks Author, or InDesign and export them as PDF's, but in PDF's you loose video, and other widgets. Please help me.
I have two automator built applications which I want to run when a user logs in. I tried adding them to the Login Items of the user. But when I log that user in, both automator apps fail to run.
I have Xcode installed, and have used the SetFile command (installed with Xcode) for some time. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, though, and find that it is suddenly unavailable. I verified that the upgrade did not wipe out Xcode—it's still there, and it runs fine—so I'm baffled as to why I suddenly cannot use SetFile. All I can find by Googling points to installing Xcode (for people who don't have it). What could be the problem for me?
At that point, I'm in for a reboot given my current knowledge, but I don't understand why. Can anyone explain what's happening and maybe how I can restart Finder without rebooting?
What are some iOS apps that work well for searching, collecting, and consuming media like video (YouTube, Ted talks, and private hosts) and audio (podcasts, NPR, etc)? The important feature is that it must be a universal way to parse media from the whole web, similar to how google can search the whole web. In other words, not tied to a particular app store or "ecosystem". This might be hard to do technically but I'm looking for an app that will at least take any URL I give it and try to find some media to play. The whole purpose is to keep my media consumption organized not frustrate me by boring quests to find some way of playing a recording I know exists on the web. And it should allow me to download the media for offline consumption. Bonus points for something that has cloud storage integration and or a text to speech facility for "reading" ebooks, PDFs, and web pages.
I get repeated pop-ups saying I then enter the password But the system always keeps on telling me it's the wrong password, which I'm sure it's not This is what the Details reveal: What is going on here, and how can I fix it? I'm running OS X 10.6.8.
I know there is a system wide keyboard shortcut to open the notification center and once opened you can navigate your notifications with the up/down buttons on your keyboard. But is there also a way to dismiss/delete/mark-as-read the selected notification with a keyboard shortcut?
I am coming from ubuntu. In Mac i notice that multiple browser windows or finder windows don't show up independently in task bar or task switcher. This is causing problems in many operations. Is there any switch to activate ungrouped windows?
I am very much a novice at this, so please bear with me. I'm intrigued by the idea of using Markdown. I want to be able to write my stuff in a plaintext editor on OS X and iOS and save it in Dropbox in .txt format using a Markdown syntax. I don't want to save my files in markdown format but as plain text. I need support for footnotes, so the Multimarkdown syntax seems like an obvious option.
A co-worker sent me some S/MIME signed email. With anyone else who has done this, the certificate has shown up in my login keychain. Not so with his. I wrote out the attached p7s file, and verified that it contains a sensible stack of certificates by using the open ssl command. I tried to use File/Import in keychain access. It 'succeeds' (no errors), but the certificate does not appear anywhere in keychain access.
Is it possible to set up an iOS 6 device (for example, specifically the iPhone 5, or 3rd generation iPad) such that all the usual sounds from apps and the system sounds like typing or message notifications play when the headphones are plugged in, but when headphones are not plugged in the device is silent?
How can I read Login options from terminal (Automatic login, Display login windows as, Network Account Server etc.)?
I have a Macmini 4,1. I tried to use plug headset with mic for skype call, but it doesn't work.
We use two independent Apple IDs in Messages.app, which I want to keep private. But if I log out of one and log in with the second one within Messages (not the computer itself, but the Apple ID in the Messages.app), the conversations from the previous account are still online, and the second person can see them. Is there a way to link the conversations to the account, so that they dont show up unless you are logged into the account that sent them?
I have lost patience with outlook and have started using apple mail with my corporate exchange account. A problem is that every mail I send by default picks up an ios developer certificate that i have associated with this e-mial address. I know you can click on the button on each mail to turn off signing that message, but i'd like the default to be NOT to sign each message i create. J
I don't sync my iPad often, but when I do I almost always get the following question from iTunes: ' iTunes has found purchased items on the iPad [or iPhone] "[device name]" that are not present in your iTunes library. Do you want to transfer these items... ', as in:
If I type my password and continue, I get another dialog that says "A newer item named [file name] already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the older one you're moving?" This is a bogus error, because a newer version of the file did not exist on the remote server. If I click "Keep Both", Finder seems to hang, but it actually begins to create tens of thousands of zero byte files on the remote server: file name-1.png, file name-2.png, etc., all the way up to file name-30000 or so if I don't stop it. However, if I click "Stop" instead of "Keep Both", it cancels. If I click "Replace" it creates a zero-byte file with the correct name, and then gives an error that says "The operation can't be completed because an item with the name "" already exists."
I'm trying to install gcc47 as my default compiler using homebrew. I can successfully install gcc47, but it adds a -4.7 suffix on all of its binaries. If I try to symlink it in /usr/local/bin things get tricky. Consider this:
Im playing music through my mbp 15" speakers and i keep getting a glitch were the sound will wont start playing i click on the sound up key and i get this icon, after a while (10 seconds) it goes away and i can get sound. Any idea what might be causing it ? I tend to play music through headphones, but this error has occured when using the speakers..
I'm almost ready to mount my new Crucial M4 SSD into my MBP Unibody13" and move my old HDD into an Optibay caddy. (Finally, thanks to an Amazon's discount..)
Is there any way to programmatically add a folder to Spotlight's "Privacy" tab? Either through Terminal or Applescript? Often I want to click on an item in Spotlight results in Finder, and have that item's folder no longer be indexed. I found that if you you can see an array with all the items excluded. But if you try to it does NOT get added to the Privacy tab in the Spotlight Preference Panel, nor does it get de-indexed.
I'm trying to recover from a Time Machine drive sitting on the network at work. Our network doesn't use DHCP–it requires the Ethernet connection to be manually configured. I've looked at the Network Utility while booted to the Recovery HD and I have a 169.254.x.x IP address. Is there any way to manually configure the Ethernet connection?
At work we have a Time Machine drive on the network. I'm trying to restore one of our machine's backup to an external drive. When I boot into the Recovery HD, I can't reach the network drive. Is there a way to restore a Time Machine backup without booting to the Recovery HD?
I'm the administrator of a 2 TB Time Capsule, to which my co-workers connect via individual accounts. I recently noticed a sudden jump in usage — from ~1 TB (0–1 over the course of 8 months) to ~1.5 TB (1–1.5 in a span of 2 weeks). My guess is that one of them downloaded experimental data files (which don't need to be backed up, as they're done so elsewhere) and stored them locally during those two weeks and accidentally backed them up, thus contributing to the bloat.
Ok, I know I completely messed up here and it's all my fault, but moving past that -- can anyone help me fix this situation? I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on my MacBook the other day. Then, unsatisfied with the amount of space I'd allocated for this partition, I shrank my OS X partition by a little and tried to expand my Windows partition to include the unallocated space. Of course that didn't work, and I found myself playing around with EaseUs to see if I could make anything happen. Click, click, click, and before I knew it I'd turned my OS X partition into unallocated space.
Awhile back, I symlinked my ~/Library/Mail Downloads directory to ~/Downloads so that my email attachments would be downloaded to the same location that all my other applications download files to. When I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that the Mail Downloads folder had been restored. So I deleted it and recreated the symlink the same way I did for previous versions of OS X. Now, every time I try to download or quick-look an attachment in mail.app, I see the following error (might not be exact; translating from Spanish):
My router (currently) is an Apple Time Capsule. Not an obvious choice as a router/firewall, but I had it already and it does handle PPPoE at the cost of one cat5 socket.
I backed up my iPod Touch (4th gen) a few months ago on iTunes. My iPod has subsequently died and I want to get at the photos and videos from the backup. But I can't seem to find them anywhere. Where are they stored, and how do I get access to them? iPod Touch 4th gen, iTunes on a Windows machine.
My Macbook is frying my lap, and the CPU monitor is going crazy: over 200% CPU being used by something called "installd". What is it? Can I kill it? (OS X 10.8.)
I want to find out what are the default colors of a 3D bar chart in Showroom layout on keynote. When you add a new chart, you get this colors: But I was unable to find them in the colors palette.
I've just replaced my MacBook Pro's optical drive with an SSD. I used OWC's Data Doubler kit. I've moved my OS and all my data onto the SSD, and I'm now using it as my boot volume. In other threads, some people have swapped the positions of the drives, so that the HDD is installed where the optical drive was, and the SSD is installed at the HDD's original location.
This is a bit weird, I've been doing everything to keep the battery health great and that's what i achieved so far. it's going through 99-100%, but the thing is.. those charging cycles thing are increasing everyday, yesterday it was 32 and today it became 36 even though the health is going well, How to keep it low ? isn't the health dedicated to those cycles ? and which is more important the health or the cycles ?
Is it possible to assign a Mail signature to specific recipients? I want my signature to appear in emails I send to some people but not appear in emails I send to other people. Thanks.
I tried to use my Mail app connected to Hotmail and Gmail to search for emails in my inbox and contacts, but the app doesn't fully search my emails in the inbox nor the contacts I have saved. What should I do to fix this?
I sync some folders within my Home folder between two Macs (running Lion and Mountain Lion) using Synk Pro, a commercial live file sync application. I have the same account name on both computers. After syncing, some of my files on both computers are read-only, and they also aren't owned by me, but by the macports account – why?
This is extremely annoying. 2009 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.7.5. I have an external hard drive connected via USB for Time Machine purposes. This device, and anything else connected via USB, frequently accidentally ejects with the slightest disturbance such as when I brush against the USB cable. It's very extremely annoying. The trouble doesn't come up as often with devices without a cable like flash drives, but sometimes it happens. It happens very frequently with devices connected via a cable. What is going on?
Every time I get a notification, say for my music player when a track is changed, I get that notification in the top right (standard notification center) immediately followed by "X new notifications". It happens so quickly that I don't even get a chance to see the original notification. Is there a way to mark these as read, or better yet, disable these rollup notifications?
It's impossible to put it on DFU mode because it won't turn off and I don't know what to do. iTunes won't recognise it either. How can I fix this?
The split panes functionality is the primary reason why i use iTerm2. I can maximize/unminimize the active pane by using the View -> Maximize Active Pane menu item. But nothing happens when I press the Ctrl + Cmd + Return shortcut key combination listed next to the menu item. I looked through the preferences pane and I didn't find this particular key binding anywhere, which makes me think it's not customizable via the UI. Any suggestions about what might be wrong or how I could go about fixing this?
Is it still possible to buy iPod Click Wheel Games for the iPod Classic? I can't find them on iTunes. Is there a way to side-load them and get them from elsewhere?
Is there anything that might be able to mimic a finger (by changing the capacitance of the touchscreen) without having to make much physical contact? For example, an electric field that changes the capacitance? Or something similar? (presumably it would require a power source) I realize similar questions have been asked, such as this one: What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to? What I'm wondering is if you could mimic a finger with a electrically charged or powered device...?
I just upgraded to a new version of MacVim. There used to be a row of icons at the top of every MacVim window with buttons for opening/saving files, cut/paste/delete, etc. Now that row of buttons is gone. What is that row of buttons called and how do I get it to appear again?
For example,I have 20 pictures downloaded from the Internet. They have some crazy names like "XFGHDHR345" or "SDEREWQ230", and I want to name them: "Picture 1" "Picture 2" "Picture 3" "Picture 4" "Picture 5" ..... "Picture 20"
I'm looking for a reader application that can open many ebook formats, specifically I am looking for pdf, djvu, epub, fb2 and txt.
I've moved my users home directory from /Users/romeovs to /Volumes/DATA/home and ever since I get a git error. Whenever I use git clone or git init it replies:
I migrated an account from one Macbook to another (both Mountain Lion) using the account migration assistant. When starting the new macbook the account doesn't appear with the others on the login screen when starting up. I have to login to another account, logout and then it appears on the login screen. The login screen background also changes from white to textured grey/black background.
I have cracked the screen of iPad only down the middle and a little on the side. I have only had for about 6 months what should I do?
When i try to open xcode, It show me message like:you can't open the application "Xcode" because it is being updated. When i try to update the xcode through App Store, It display the message like: Cannot Connect to App Store even though it is connected & i am doing surfing to solve this. I am not also able to connect with another PC in LAN. I also try to solve this issue by follow this link:Fix Issue Help me to solve this issue.
I've installed a new version of Safari and now it refuses to open and doesn't allow me to downgrade.      Someone pointed I had to reinstall the whole system. I'm reading on how to do it right now, but is there a provisory solution?
I use my mac as a lightweight laptop at college, but when I get home I plug it in to charge and plug in 2 external monitors and use it for more power use. Some things that really annoy me are application specific settings. For example, when I use parallels with just my laptop screen, I want the fullscreen to be OSX fullscreen (Where it goes into a new screen and I can 4-finger swipe between them). However when I'm at home on my triple monitor setup, I want it to use Parallels fullscreen (Where the screen goes fullscreen, but not the OSX way, the window literally takes up the whole screen. Is there any way I can set up two different setting/config files for Parallels, one for when I'm on the move, and one for when I have external monitors plugged in?
My girlfriend and I both use iTunes for our music. We have separate accounts and have iTunes on two different computers (she has a mac and I have a windows pc). I believe at one point people were able to share and copy music from one pc to another across the shared music network within iTunes. I'm having trouble doing so and was wondering if it's still possible to copy music from one pc to another with iTunes 11.0.2
I stumbled across the CMD-D hot key which splits the Terminal into 2 panes. But I can't find documentation anywhere on how to close the new pane or even switch the focus to it so I can use it. What are the other commands?
I bought an iPhone 3GS, second hand, and I have now found out its on a AT&T network. I live in the UK, I can't get past the "Connect to iTunes" message. Even when I connect to iTunes it says:
I would like to set up our colour printer (HP Laserjet 4650) such that by default it will only print mono. It needs to be such that a conscious choice has to be made to print in colour for every job - if this is not the case, our young daughter will inevitably print something in colour one time and then forget to set it back to black and white afterwards and cost us lots of CMY toner!
I bought a second hand iphone 3gs, and after 3 days of trying to connect it I relised it was with at&t network, done a imei check and it says out of contract and active, which I don't quite understand (supose being welsh does that) I would love to use the phone so any help would be great, I could have it unlocked for 20.00 but they said I would only be able to text and talk, I can't get past the emergencency screen. Imei check says that the contract has expired, iphone is activated, sim locked,
I called Apple's toll free number but wasn't able to get a clear answer from them. My 2011 MacBook Air's battery is dying and I would like to have it replaced. The only problem is that I am traveling abroad soon (in 3 days). If I go to an Apple Store to have it replaced, will they do it on site such that I can get my laptop back right away, or will they keep my laptop for a few days to replace the battery?
Setup is as follows: Primary network is via en0 (192.168.1.0/24)
Running this: produces an inventory of applications, among other things. How does they system "know" about these apps?
Hello I haven't used Guided Access in a while and I needed to use it again. I had previously set a passcode and I went to use it expecting it would ask for a new passcode, but it must've used the old one. I have no idea what the old one is and I can't get anything off. I had tried holding down Home/Lock for 10 seconds but it just seemed to start up, unlock itself and go back to the app I was on. Guided Access was still turned on and I have no idea how to remove it.
I’m often using multiple windows in Safari minimizing the windows I’m not working in. However, when I click on a link i.e. in Mail it opens it not in the active window but in the minimized one instead (the one that has been created first after opening the Safari). How can I set the Safari to open links in the currently active window, not a minimized one?
What problems do you think I might run into? Is there any reason the air won't boot if the aforementioned components are removed?
I've already approached the Evernote staff and it appears to be a local problem on my Mac (OS X 10.7.5), so I'm taking it to this forum. The problem in a nutshell: the menu in my Evernote is different from that of the actual release. In addition to that, shortcuts are assigned mysteriously. Things I've tried: Cleared all global keyboard shortcut assignments. Cleared all global keyboard shortcut assignments. Deleted and re-installed Evernote from app store: Same problem. Deleted and re-installed Evernote from app store: Same problem. Ran AppCleaner and re-installed Evernote from app store: Same problem. Ran AppCleaner and re-installed Evernote from app store: Same problem. Deleted Evernote from my keychain and did all steps above: Same problem. Deleted Evernote from my keychain and did all steps above: Same problem.
I have a Macbook Pro Early 2011 and I had Windows 7 installed on it through boot camp.I recently upgraded to windows 8 by using an upgrade CD. When I upgraded I had Boot Camp 2.3 installed and that was not working with windows 8. So I downloaded Boot Camp 5 Drivers and tried to install them but every time the installation fails because it says that it requires windows 7. Is there some way to work around this? Or do I need to go back to windows 7 then install the drivers then go to 8?
On Windows 8, I type win + left and the current window becomes full-height and half the screen width and moves to the left. If I type win + right, the current window does the same except moves to the right.
On Ask Different there are many questions regarding the PATH environment variable and how to set it for applications launched by a shell, by spotlight or via the finder (typical questions: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications or How to change PATH environment variable...). Answers range from sh startup scripts to /etc/paths to /etc/launchd.conf. Here I am after the answer for a unified setting of PATH for all apps under Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
on a imei check it said server down, please could someone tell me what it means, as I bought a sencond hand iphone 3gs and cannot get it set up, plus I need it unlocked as its on at&t network to work in the uk, all help would be appreciated, thanks
Can I disable the data connection on my iPhone, but use the Wi-Fi as normal?
Every time I close the lid on my macbook air, my external hard drive seems to spin up for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds, and this will go on continuously, even for several hours. The noise itself isn't too loud, so I don't really have a problem with that, but I'm worried it might damage the hard drive.
I clicked the 'Compress xxx' option in the popup menu in order to compress a folder of MP3 files, but the result was a .zip file that is almost the same size as before compressing; it seemed to only archive those files. How can I archive them and reduce their size greatly? Is there any free app that can do so?
I use my MacBook Pro with many desktops. Some appication events switches the active desktop to another one, for example Safari does it when I open Gmail. I write my Gmail username and password then push enter. By the way I want to look at another desktop but Safari puts me back to Gmail screen. It happens until gmail loading completely.
I'm having problems installing Lion onto a USB drive. On a Lion MacBook Pro I saved the 'Install Mac OS X Lion.app' application, ran it and selected the USB drive as the destination of the install. A few minutes into the process the machine reboots and comes up with a 'No Entry' sign.
Let's say my OS X user's folder is called Attila and I have a folder with the same name in a folder, e.g. ~/Xcode/Attila/. Now, if I do a Time Machine backup, the ~/Xcode/Attila/ folder won't be copied.
Essentially, I want add VPN functionality to my home-office domain so I can access it from other locations, and allow the occasional other person to access it this way. Obviously, the two routers need to be daisy-chained together, only one of them should be the DHCP server, and only one of them should connect to my ISP, and so forth. The key question is whether the AirportExtreme can happily do half of the job it was intended to do. Has anyone here had experience building such a configuration? Thanks in advance Josh
I would like to create a logical volume group (LVG) with two physical disks. The command: diskutil coreStorage create LVGNAME /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2 returns: Tested with two USB drives, two SATA disks (one internal, one external FireWire 800). I can format them with Disk Utility. I can unmount without a problem. MacBookPro8,2 with Mac OS X 10.7.4 (same with 10.7.5) With one disk alone I can create a non-composite LVG:
Is there a way to open an Aperture 3.4.3 library in Aperture 3.0?
Spread across multiple file system I have numerous .webarchive files that were saved by OmniWeb. So for example:
People in my new job seems to like Yammer. I'm aware that Yammer has a desktop client for the Mac, but I find the interface rather unappealing (version 300222 of the Adobe Air client is not responsive and really slow when switching between my primary network and external networks). I wonder if there are 3rd party clients available?
I want to add a icon to iPad/iPhone homescreen such that on clicking on it results in a contact's facetime call initiation. the closest I could come up with is a facetime url as a bookmark which on click initiates a call something like however it sits on a browser bookmarks bar.
I have a 4 digit passcode for my iphone, but there are some apps that I might use frequently that don't really need to be protected. Is there a way to access those apps without entering my passcode every time? An example of such an app would be the calculator or calendar apps, or even the Pandora app. Any ideas?
My usual issue goes something like this: Click to add new event, under the default calendar Add details, etc, and save Later on, when I want to move it to a different calendar, I edit it, and change it to a different one via the drop-down. Make edit, click done The event will change to the proper calendar The event disappears The event reappears under the original (default calendar)
This is driving me mad. I've been keeping my iPhone and iTunes in sync for ages, and today all the the sudden iTunes tries to sync every single app on my Mac to iPhone, instead of just the one I installed.
However while opening Software Updates I noticed that iTunes 11 was checked again. So if I didn't uncheck it again I take it it would have installed itself again.
As one of my backup solutions, I use an app (SuperDuper!, if it makes any difference) to make a clone of my Mac at the same time every evening. Sometimes I am still working at that time. What I want to know is: should I stop using my Mac while the clone is in progress? Why or why not?
I know it's possible to do some electric hack to know how much current a device is using... but that would be a 1 time usage so it would be a waste of money and parts. Is it possible to know that using software in Mac OS? There's no BIOS in Mac OS, but I presume through EFI the OS should be able to access that kind of low level info.
I boot my mac mini, hold down alt on my non-mac keyboard, but it does not go to boot options. How do I get to boot options with a non-mac keyboard then?
The Mac App Store on Mac OS X (10.8.3) notifies me frequently about new app updates by showing a little popup. How can I change the update frequency or the way Mac OS X notifies me?
I know this is a long shot, but is there any way of using icloud or parts of it for syncing between two devices in physical proximity (using Bluetooth or ad hoc wifi) but without a connection to the Internet? Or maybe a better question is: are there any apps (jailbreak or otherwise) that enable similar features to icloud without an Internet connection?
I'm setting up a Time Machine server on my Linux box using netatalk. To provide redundancy, I want to periodically swap out the disk netatalk is using.
Last night I put my macbookpro9,1 (running 10.8.3) to sleep by closing the lid; this morning I found out it had been shutdown completely. I can't explain this behavior; my paranoid side suspects an evil maid attack but that's just for the fun of toying with this idea.
I'm pretty sure it's quite uncommon to have that odd glyph in the upper left corner, actually I don't even know its meaning. Do you know how to access standard US keyboard? Note I have this theory: since my keyboard has a different number of keys than the US one, maybe that's the reason why \ and | characters are on the extreme right rather than on the upper left corner. Note 2 I'm aware of solutions like keyremap4macbook, I just wanted to know if this is possible without that. This should be the layout I'm looking for.
I've attempted to do some research, but I've unable to determine if the imac can be used as a monitor (in target display mode) for my xbox 360. It seems like the only option is some kind of weird converter like the ones that matrox produce for £150! Are there any alternative solutions for input to Thunderbolt ?
I am no longer finding Java 6 on my Mac. I suspect when I upgraded to OSX 7.5 it upgraded my Java.
I have a new (2 months) iPhone 5 and it just froze in the "settings" app. Everything on the phone is controlled with the round button at the bottom, when I press it nothing happens anymore. Can this be a software problem?
I have a 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 series with Trim support enabled installed on a mid-2009 13" Macbook pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8, 2.26GHz, 8Gb of RAM) and I experience extremely slow startup after trying to repair my ssd with the disk utility. My disk was starting to boot a bit slower than usually and There were permission errors that I fixed with the disk utility and then when I verified the disk I saw there were erros so I inserted my Snow Leopard installation DVD and tried to fix them (huge mistake)... The disk utility reported mistakes and said it could not fix the disk, I was afraid of losing my data because but I didn't lose anything. However when I boot now there is a grey screen for around 30 seconds, then there is the loading progress bar and apple's logo and it takes more than 2 minutes to startup Besides I have no time machine backup because of some external hard drive problems I had recently.
At 2:14 every morning, my Mac wakes. Looking at the logs, I see it's a scheduled event, but nothing shows up in System Preferences > Power. When I go to terminal, and run pmset -g sched, I see
I am trying to delete files off my 8GB USB Cruzer device, as I often put movies on it to watch on my PS3. When I plug it into my PC, I can delete files off it fine, but when I plus it into my Macbook Pro, it creates a .Trashes folder. When I put the files I want to delete into the trash bin, it goes into this .Trashes folder, but when I try to empty the .Trashes folder, a window comes up saying "Moving "Trash" to "Trash" and it just stays on that window, it does not delete. I waited for an hour and still nothing. I have tried restarting but it still does not work. I do not want to go upstairs to my PC everytime I need to delete files.
It's been two weeks now since I got my new retina and I find it awesome. I'm a frontend developer so I need a lot of screen estate to get things done in a good fashion and the way I was used to. My big conundrum is this:
Let's say I have an AT&T iphone 5. I regularly back it up with itunes. I decide to switch carriers to Verizon. I wipe my iphone, sell it, and get a brand new Verizon iphone 5.
Hopefully this is not too difficult; I have an Elgato Game Capture HD, which I am using to capture an HDMI signal. What I want to do is take either the onscreen capture window or the USB signal into the computer and use it as a camera on OS X Mountain Lion in ProPresenter 5. I downloaded Desktop Presenter, but I do not know where the signal from the program is going to, nor do I know if this will even act as a camera.
Is there a way to automatically forward text messages (received on my iPhone) to email?
I would like to create an automation, that automatically sends a new file to my kindle email address if i put a new ebook into that folder. How would a script look like, that i would have to apply to my folder?
I am planning the next laptop and I really like the Macbook Air 13" hardware, looks, and weight. On the other hand, for certain reasons I need Windows, so in case I stick with buying MBA13" I am going to remove OSX and install W8 instead.
So I blundered this morning. Had a cute video of my daughter on Easter, then I accidentally deleted when I was trying to show people (its amazing how a simple finger swipe can cause so much damage!). Sadly, I didn't not do any sync to iTunes after this files was created, so no luck on that kind of backup.
I need to somehow disable Safari's bookmark caching. When I visit a page of a lecturer of mine that I've bookmarked before for easy access, Safari shows me the cached version it has; not the fresh one. As a workaround, revisiting the bookmarked pages is an option but frankly it defeats the whole purpose of bookmarking which is very annoying. I've tried resetting the Safari cache but with no help eventually. Any ideas?
Although I consider myself to be fairly tech-savvy in general and I've used a Mac for years, unfortunately I'm not at all familiar with the iPad or even with iTunes -- basically I have zero experience or knowledge of either of those things. We don't have access to another identical iPad to play with, and I'm extremely reluctant to experiment now and possibly destroy this important data.
The only thing I can think of now is to put all of eclipse's commands into Speakable Items and call them from there, but that is not a very elegant solution. Does anyone have any thoughts on what I can do?
I have an iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.1) and I installed Viber messenger (version 2.2.2.86) which enables you to make phone calls over the internet. The messenger works perfectly when I use a wireless router to connect to the internet (which I don't have at home) but when I connect to my Windows XP ad-hoc network, I can't make phone calls. the call is dropped after 3 to 4 seconds and I can't receive calls either. This only happens on my ad-hoc network. The computer connects to the internet through 3G modem I tried updating to the latest version of Viber (2.3.1) from apple but no good
Are OS X systems with manually set, complex (128 character), root passwords more, or less, secure than the vanilla system freshly installed?
I'm running Windows 8 on a Mac using VMware Fusion 5. I don't want to see the Windows apps in the Finder's "Open With..." options. I have seen other answers that do not work with this version of VMware. Things that I've tried. Delete the applications folder from each VM package Uncheck the applications option in the Virtual Machine -> Settings.
Unfortunately I have an old habit to have the "send by email" when right click on a file in the Share option pop up window. I would prefer to use the Outlook so I can email the selected file. Right now it comes up with Twitter, Facebook, Messages, AirDrop and even with Flicker (that I do not have). Is that option available on my MBA osx 10.8.3 ?
I bought a second hand iPhone 3GS which is locked to AT&T's network, I want to unlock it for use in the UK. I'm on the Redmond Pie site which can unlock and jailbreak it, but I don't know what version of iOS the phone is running. I can't figure this out either because opening Settings crashes.
I have a problem on a external drive which permissions are looking for an unknown user. In the permission list it says "loading..."(or similar word, not on an english machine) in the user field.
I am thinking about buying a magnetic iPhone 4S case but I'm not sure whether it's safe. Can this magnetic case be harmful for the inner parts of my iPhone 4S? The case looks exactly like this:
I have data (mostly photos) on an external WD 2Tb drive (about 930gb) I have just installed a 3Tb Lacie drive and want to use it as the TM drive to back up the external WD drive and the Mac HD (very little data on this) While I expected the first back-up to take some time it seems to be running at about 1.2mb sec which seems very slow especially using USB3 etc At this rate the system estimated 8 days to build the new TM drive Is this reasonable or is there something I can do to improve the process speed All comments welcome
I'm using an external USB HDD as my Time Machine backup disk for my MacBook. I have it plugged in as long as I'm working at my desk. I don't have it with me when I take the laptop somewhere else. However, I'm afraid that at some point I'm going to need to go to a meeting or something that requires me to bring my laptop, which means I'll have to unplug my backup disk. What if I can't wait for it to finish because a client is here? Time is money, you know!
Is this auto-adjustment in brightness a known issue, or is there some hidden setting I'm missing? The iPads are all updated to the most recent iOS as of April 1st, and it's a mix of iPad 2s and New iPads.
I have reproduced the above error with a telnet to the SMTP server. With mymac.mydomain\.co\.uk I get the above error. With mymac.mydomain.co.uk it authenticates correctly. How do I stop the macbook sending a garlbed HELO ?
I have an AppleScript which plays audio files using Play (from hieper.nl) unix cli app. I would like to find a command line play program with which I can set the volume without touching system output volume. EyeTV has its own volume setting and it's nice to change the volume of EyeTV without changing system volume. It would be nice if I could pause playing and quit it some other way than using kill.
I am admin for department and I want to batch change the "show remote management status in menu bar" so that I don't have to log in to each machine and set it. I have ARD so I can run a terminal command across all machines I just can't seem to find out how to set that option through the terminal
I'm trying to use afconvert to convert an audio file to AC-3 format. It's 5.1 audio, having already been converted from DTS to WAV (using ffmpeg, since afconvert doesn't seem to deal with DTS). As you can see, I've tried various parameter incantations, including trying to use a different container formats, but with no success:
If you hold an iPad3 vertically, portrait, with the Apple logo right way up, which end is at the top? the batteries or the main board?
The computer lab is running 10.8. I would like to run a script when networked users login. As far as I can tell my choices are:
The Do Not Disturb feature in iOS 6 is great but i really dont like the part where it rejects the incoming call. Is it possible to just let it ring (without notification or sound)?
I have my screen saver set to Arabesque. If I move my mouse down to the Screen Saver hot corner, I get Arabesque. If I sit and wait for the screen saver to start automatically, I get Arabesque.
I recently upgraded to an iPhone 4 from an old Samsung SGH-G600 and want to transfer contacts. At the shop they offered to do it for me for £15 which I thought was ridiculous so I'm hoping there's a way to do this other than manual. The iPhone is non-jailbroken and the old Samsung phone does have Bluetooth.
I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID structure. I believe that the disks are RAID 0, but I am not sure. Also, I am pretty sure that the problem is with the RAID enclosure and not the drives themselves. How can I mount the drives as read-only to avoid any corruption?
I have 300 png files. I want to trim each of them. But for this I need open each file and make changes (even if I make script for trimming and save it will be long to open each file and do trimming). Is there already made solution or some advice how to do it better and quickly. Thanks in advance.
With the setup I used to have I was able to control the home-domotica system via the wireless network of the time-capsule (app iPhone). 10.0.1.152
I just installed Mountain Lion and everything is working pretty well except I can't connect to adobe.com. I can not connect on any of the browsers (firefox, chrome, safari). i can access the website on my other mac and my pc.
I downloaded the 2012 IRS 1040 form to my Mac to ~Downloads/f1040.pdf, running OS X 10.7.5. Upon opening the pdf file in Preview (Version 5.5.3 (719.31)), I see fillable form data
I have a MacPro from Early 2007, and it will restart and at random times. It's not even at times where I'm doing something graphically, RAM-wise, or processor-wise intensive. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to isolate the problem?
I have some files with an user account.I would like to share some of the files to another user on the same MAC. I copied the files to Public folder,but I am not able to view the files in the other account.Later I enabled the file sharing to read and write,still I am not able to view any files in the Public folder.How to enable file sharing so that I can view and modify the files across the given user accounts.
I don't understand what's going on here--I've only ever set one password, but the only context in which it seems to work is when switching from the normal user to 'postgres'. What's going on and how can I fix it?
I can't switch iMessages ON anymore (it was ON). When I try to flip the switch from OFF to ON it instantly returns to OFF (I don't see any message like "activating...", it just doens't flip). So I don't think it's a server problem because the iPhone isn't even trying to connect. It's like te switch is broken. I try'ed/checked restart hard reset resetting the iPhone settings changing Wifi network and switching to mobile internet there are no restrictions (they are off) Facetime works (I can turn it on/off) Date & time are correct I can send iMessages via Messages on my iMac Googling Plain SMS messages work fine I can log in and out on my iCloud account
My iTunes library is located on an external hard drive using the setting Settings > Advanced. Yesterday I bought a movie in the iTunes store without connecting the external hard drive to my computer. Consequently, the movie file is located on my internal hard drive. How can I move it to the external hard drive without any trouble (e.g., loosing rights to watch it "you are not allowed to watch this movie due to DRS" etc.)? For mp3 I locate it on my internal hard drive, copy it to the Desktop, delete it from the iTunes library and import it again. Can I do that for bought movies as well?
I have this Spanish lessons on a CD disk! My MBA does not have a CD drive. So I use the Xbox to play the CD disk. However, the Xbox is not very portable :( I wonder if there is a way to get those files from the Xbox (I saved the files on the xbox harddrive) to my MacBook Air, wirelessly!
Whenever I use AirPlay to watch streamed content (streaming from the web (via an app or Safari), that is, not from a downloaded movie) from my iPad to my Apple TV, subtitles are never carried over. Why is this? Is there some obscure setting to enable subtitle support in AirPlay/Apple TV?
In a nutshell, I have a java app that crashes in java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError and I'm looking to see if my OS/Java settings might be causing this error. I cannot change the security settings in the Java Control Panel (OSX 10.8.3). There is a checkbox that says "Enable Java content in the browser", and I can check it, but when I click in the Apply button, it unchecks it again (looks like a bad joke, why the check is enabled if I cannot change it ?!). Furthermore, I cannot modify the security level options since they are always grayed out independently of what I do. There is a way to modify these security settings ? Below a picture of the Java Control Panel as it is shown in my machine.
After upgrading to iPhoto11, all the pictures i had at the time remained in my library, but now when i import photos from my camera memory card they only show up in last import, not in 'event's or 'photos' and after a day or so they no longer show up in last import it comes up empty and says 'no photos'. and leaves me unable to find the photos in any other section of iPhoto.
The problem is that I haven't found a way to get the window id for "Current Call". Here is what I have tried so far: Does anyone know how to get the window id for the "Current Call" window?
In my iPhone Application iAd displaying in many countries but not in Dubai, why its happening?
Does anyone know an app to convert multiple photos from the iPad Camera Roll into a single PDF? Alternatively, an app that lets you take photos with the iPad camera and saves them into a single PDF would be good - ability to rotate photos is important as this is mostly for 'scanning' document pages using the iPad.
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro 15" Core I7 8gb ram and Nvidia 650M. I have been running bootcamp on it for over a month when last night my keyboard and trackpad stopped working after a reboot. I immediately booted into OSX and was able to use the option key to do so, they also worked fine in OSX. First thing I did was plug in a flash drive and use the bootcamp util to download the drivers for it. I then rebooted into Windows safe mode and was able to use the keyboard to select safe mode. When it booted it still would not work. I plugged in a USB keyboard and mouse and was able to use those.
While travelling, it would be convenient to set up a wifi hotspot from my Macbook, which would share the wifi internet with my phone and tablet (wifi <-> Macbook <-> wifi). This would make it easy to test apps I'm developing on the Macbook and also make it easier to connect devices to the internet, instead of making each of them jump through the considerable hoops of public wifi providers.
Is it possible to use Final Cut Pro X (FCPX 10.0.8) and Compressor 4.0.7 to upload a video straight to YouTube? I can use the preset FCPX YouTube uploader to do it, but I can't adjust the QuickTime settings from within FCPX. I can also set custom QuickTime settings in Compressor and upload to YouTube from Compressor. However, when I try to use those Compressor settings in FCPX, I only get the option to save to disk, not upload to YouTube. Is there a way to use Compressor through FCPX to upload directly to YouTube?
My iPhone is always running out of battery. However, when I power it back up, the time is still in perfect synchronization. This begs the question: "How does it keep time when it is out of battery?" There must be some sort of 'ticking' mechanism in the phone while it is out of battery and, thus, not entirely out of battery.
I have this at work -- *=URL=* and this at home -- *=URL=* Every time I switch between the two work-zones I have to remap my keyboards via Settings > Keyboard > Modifier Keys (basically I have to switch the windows and alt keys on the windows one) Is there a way to avoid this annoyance, or at least reduce it to a simple click switch? It's especially difficult I think because of the fact that they use the same type of wireless USB receiver.
I'm stuck what most would think is one of the basics of editing with TextWrangler - how to do a find/replace! In Notepad++ on Windows, the Replace is, to me, very straight forward: you select it from the menu and a pop up windows appears with a 'find what' field and a 'Replace with' field. You enter in those what you need to find and replace, respectively. And it does the job.
I am using GMail and I cannot move to Firefox from Chrome, because the Cmd+← and Cmd+→ do not work in Compose window as "Move to the beginning of the line" and "Move to the end of the line", respectively. How can I fix that? (Mountain Lion 10.8.3, Firefox 20.0)
When I plug in my USB key, I see this icon on my desktop:  I want to customize this, so that the image on the desktop and in Finder will look like the physical USB key.
I'm trying to change the MAC on a USB wifi device. The usual way of doing it does nothing...
When I record a screen with a standard QuickTime Player functionality, I get a completely green video. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, and a Retina MacBook Pro 15". Does anybody know what is the issue and how it can be fixed?
I would like to get Mac OS 10.8 to run out of a VM on a retina MacBook Pro under Windows 8 host. Do I need to buy an OS X Server license or can I use the one shipped with the laptop? Where do I get the installation media for the clean installation? What is the easiest way to get it installed in a VM?
I have to make a little keynote tomorrow, and I have all the slides saved as PDFs. I will be using a projector as a second screen to my laptop. What's the best way to transform this long PDF document into something more slidy? If I open in with built-in Preview, I get some annoying issues such as the page number that pops out on the bottom of the slide whenever I flip a page and the non-full-screen-adapting when the ratio of the PDF isn't the same as the ratio of the screen. So, any solutions? Note I don't own a Keynote copy, so options like PDF to Keynote are not valid ones.
Where can I access OS X keyboard shortcuts, say for Dropbox sync?
I have a few very large folders copied that have the exact same byte size as their originals, but different file counts (off by 1-10 items) than what they should have. No errors were reported during the copying process. I'm guessing and hoping that these are merely some .DS_Store files that didn't copy over? NOTE: These folders did require admin approval, which, to my knowledge proceeded without fail.
I'm trying to trouble-shoot my syncing problem; I have my Apple ID for my iPhone 5 and iMac desktop, and my wife has her Apple ID for her iPad 2 and iPhone 4. Is this setup preventing all of our devices from syncing?
I'd like to mirror my iPad 2 display to my Mac running OSX 10.6 WITHOUT using AirPlay, because the app I'm running on my iPad won't show the content using AirPlay or using the traditional output at the bottom (like running a cable from there to HDMI on my TV). How can I accomplish this? Are there any app combinations that let you simply mirror the iPad display to the Mac over wi-fi without using AirPlay?
Is it possible to set a keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns individually in Finder in OSX Lion? The way to do it without a shortcut is right clicking a column divider and choosing the second option (Right Size All Columns Individually). The problem is the option gets reset when I open a new window.
How can I hide a partition (or prevent it from mounting)? I want an effect similar to the recovery partition: it's completely undetectable outside of Disk Utility/the boot menu.
Some sort of user-profile level corruption is causing Safari 5.1.8 in Snow Leopard to display any web pages as just plain text, formatted mostly in a single column, with only small thumbnails of graphics or no graphics at all, while the same web pages on the same computer look perfectly fine in FireFox and Chrome. The corruption is only in my friend's main administrator user profile. When I create a new user profile for testing purposes, Safari works fine and displays pages correctly. I have tried resetting Safari, in all categories, flushing all the caches and rebuilding permissions.
Is there a tool that lets me have a set of profiles, similar to Firefox, for any Mac application? So I can have two instances of an application, but each has its own settings...
Similar to Gmail priority inbox, is there a Mail 6.3 (OSX Mountain Lion) plugin that lets me view unread messages first or sort them so they're at top of inbox?
I need Option for typing some special characters, so I cannot use Terminal.app’s “Use Option as Meta key” setting. But I cannot bear to do without an ESC-emitting Meta key either. Eventually I got around to trying out iTerm2, and discovered that it allows one to choose to treat only one of the Option keys as a +ESC key (I chose the left one), which is absolutely perfect and exactly what I was after.
I accidentally deleted my iPhoto Library last night and cleared my trash as I saw I had 2 iPhoto Applications. Today when, I opened up my iPhoto, the only photos remaining were the ones from 2011.
I work with two screens. On the primary screen, I have XCode on. On the other screen, I have the browser. While reading docs, I am usually focused on the XCode screen, typing in code.
I have an iPad 2 (Model MC769B/A) running on iOS 6.1.3 (10B329) and over the past few days I have experienced very slow charging times when plugged into the usual source - the main wall socket. Also, I have had a number of intermittent restarts even when I am in the middle of something. The screen just goes black and then the apple logo appears 2-3 seconds later and the device appears to reboot. I have tried closing all application running in the task manager (double clicking the home button) and doing a hard reset (holding the home button and power button) but neither seem to have any effect.
Recently (less than one year ago) i bought an iMac 21,5". Now i would like to use it as secondary monitor for my laptop. (My laptop runs Windows 7).
I use the combination of Soundflowerbed and AU Lab on my MacBook Air in order to have a system-wide equalizer. In AU Lab, when I open a document I previously created, the device selected in the output settings is not restored correctly. I saved the document with the "Built-in output" output device, but when I re-open the document, the output device is set to "Soundflowerbed (2ch)". So I have to manually reselect the right output device each time I open my document. How can that setting be saved/restored correctly?
I have a new iMac, but I need to revert back to OS10.7 for software compatibility issues at work. Will the fusion-drive function properly?
Just purchased a software update (OSX Snow Leopard) but cannot download it because my apple ID and password will not be recognized. I reset them yesterday, still not recognized. I checked to make sure I am not logged in to any other apps. I have received a confirmation on my id. I have written down the password Apple still won't recognize it. I don't think I am eligible for apple care as my Mac Book Pro (purchased in 2008) is so old.
We have a domain running Microsoft Active Directory and in that domain there is a number of Mac computers running Leopard and later. Sometimes the users are met by a red dot at the login screen, saying "network accounts are not avalible". The user are still able to login, and we can SSH to the computer, but the user can't use all the domain functions. Is there a Terminal command that allows us to check if the user currently logged in is connected to the domain correctly?
As the most people, I also googled after setting the hibernatemode, and found the following command: ... which should enable the RAM-only sleep mode. I also deleted the sleep image, but the result is not that what I expect. Hardware config: Apple Mac mini Intel i5 (GPU: HD4000) HDD: 500 GB (5400RPM) RAM: 4GB
There is no good instruction on the internet on how to upgrade and migrate a Mac OSX 10.6.8 server to a new Mac OSX 10.7 server (not just updating the 10.6.8, but also migrating). For my employer, I had to do this (it took my days of trial and error!) and finally, was successful. I hope this will help someone in the future (and save a lot of time)!
In iOS6, is there a way to check how much space is being used by the Mail app?
One of the two USB ports of my Macbook Pro stop working frequently. Once I reboot the computer, then two USB ports work well. But one of them (always the same one makes the problem) stops working. I don't know when exactly it occurs and why it occurs. How can I fix this?
I'm not a developer yet but need a quick answer to this question. I know when submitting an iPhone App to the App Store, Apple is reviewing the App precisely.
The 15" retina can do three (and itself) via daisychaining two Thunderbolts (or just using the two ports) and with the HDMI port. Is the 13" retina able to do this as well?
Is it possible to delete contacts from mac contacts application which have no phone no? Or export only those contacts which have a contact? Thanks.
Some years ago, I recall a menu bar application that would allow you to activate/de-activate host entries in /etc/hosts. I can't seem to find it via google. Anyone have recommendations?
Questions as to the nature of my paranoia aside, right now I have a piece of sticky note covering my webcam on my MacBook Air, which, as you can imagine, doesn't really complement the look and feel. Is there a decent product that people have actually used that they'd recommend to replace such a sticky note or piece of electrical tape over the webcam?
OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. (It won't boot.) What do I need to exclude?
I've read that it's ok to leave the SMS on with non-stock hard drives, but I've also seen that it can crash an SSD. I have a Momentus XT with 4GB of solid state memory and 500GB of spinning platters. What should be done with the SMS?
I have an iPhone 4S. When I send or receive texts, my phone uses my email address and I followed instructions to switch it but it wouldn't let me click on my number to receive messages from that.
How can I assign command (apple) + shift or option (alt) + shift as a shortcut? It seems that I can assign other keyboard combinations but not this one as a shortcut.
1 1/2 weeks ago I had the glorious idea to clean the keyboard of my white MacBook Mid2010 with a wet cloth. Now, several keys are not working anymore, and I guess there might be a close-circuit hardware issue.
I use Outlook 2011 as my preferred "offline" mail client but have a need to use my online Gmail account as my primary day-to-day mail client (job-mandated plugins etc). I have Outlook syncing my gmail over imap quite happily.
My birthday reminders started appearing more frequently about a month ago. Usually they only appear once per day, but for example I have been using my laptop for the past 20 minutes and they have appeared three times. This is very annoying. How do I prevent this from happening? UPDATE: As suggested by Martin, here is some more info. OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) The reminders are through Notification Center (from Calendar). I am connected to iCloud and have my contacts to be imported from Facebook. not connected to yahoo or google.
I am searching for a OS X Timer/Stop Watch application which provides functionality to start or stop a timed counter? Something that looks and works just like the iOS Stopwatch and Timer function would be perfect. It doesn't have to look exactly the same as the iOS app and should have keyboard shortcuts rather than need touch screen / mouse interaction.
The flash on my iPhone 4s works great at night. Problem is the picture is completely black up until the point the flash goes on and the picture is taken. So I don't know if I've got a good shot. Much worse is that it's always completely out of focus because the camera doesn't seem to have time to focus during that flash of light. How do I take night pictures?
I can connect to multiple WiFi networks on my iPhone but the problem is that I cannot prioritize them. iPhone automatically connects to a specific network, which is slower in my case, and then I have to switch to the faster one from the network list. How can I prioritize known WiFi networks on iPhone?
In Preview (v 5.3 on 10.6.8), if I search for a single letter such as k in a pdf, the program will find and highlight every instance of that letter in the pdf. However, if I search for a punctuation mark such as ? or ;, it will report Found on 0 pages, even when the document is littered with such punctuation. How can I get preview to search for punctuation?
all. I am having problem about the ipad wifi connection to adhoc (by win7) with static ip. The procedure is: Connect to the Internet with wired local network connection (autoconfiguration, ip:192.168.1.100); Enable the sharing of local network connection; Setting the wifi interface with static ip address: 192.168.2.1, netmask:255.255.255.0; Create an adhoc wifi network with WEP security, I have also tried open security; iPad connect to the adhoc wifi with the right password, with the static ip address:192.168.2.2, netmask:255.255.255.0, router:192.168.2.1, dns:8.8.8.8;
My boss is accessing his emails via the MAPI (Exchange) protocol using: The mail app on his iPhone 4S Mail.app version 5.3 on an iMac running OS X 10.7
In Windows 7 you can stretch the window to whole screen by holding the window at top edge and dragging it to the top edge of screen You can also stretch it half of the screen size and align it to the respective side by holding the window at top edge and dragging it to the left or right edge of screen how to do this in mountain lion?
I know very little about how Java works and its interactions with OS X, so I'm partly looking for an expert and simple description on how Java works on the Mac, and why so much press includes "fear, uncertainty, doubt" but no concrete details about how and why Java is not safe.. I want to use the Bitcoin client Multibit, but to do so I will need to install Java which over the past six months I've only heard bad things about. So my question is: How safe is it for me to install Java on Mac OS X 10.8.3? (The hidden question inside this question is what version / source of Java I should select if I can depend on Apple to keep Java secure.)
I can't find any definitive info on this and I need to know for sure before I purchase one. I hate iTunes with a burning passion, but I like iPods and I have a whole lot of music on my PC. How can I move music from a Windows computer to iOS without using iTunes?
My AppleScript app needs to get color of pixel in coordinates 123, 456 in screen.
I have an iPhone 4, and Philips dock speakers which I use with the phone. The dock doesn't have any aux input, and I would like to use the dock as a speaker for my laptop.
In my apple account there is $0.15. When ever I try to change my country it says "you have store credit balance; you must spend your balance before you can change stores." If there is a way to change countries please share your info.
I uploaded all my Angry Bird games, Star Wars, Bad Piggies, etc., from my iPhone to my iPad. The games uploaded fine but all my hard earned scores are gone. Do I need to replay levels to get to where I was?
I have a weird problem, and internet isn't really helpful on that one. I have a macbook pro and a wifi network. The macbook pro can see plenty of wifi network around, but very rarely mine.
My MacBookPro has been extremely slow at the startup. Is there something similar to Window's System Registry that I can see all the boot files and uncheck what I don't need? I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: MBP71.0039.B0B SMC Version (system): 1.62f7
I'm in search of a good Mac RDP client for connecting to Windows machines. I've tried all of the ones I can find (CoRD, MSFT RDP, Thinomenon). I like CoRD the best, but it doesn't work for me any longer due to lack of NLA support. I have over a dozen Windows machines I connect to regularly, and CoRD's tabbed interface was the best I'd been able to find for quickly connecting to machines and switching between them. Any other suggestions from the hive mind?
I have a list of email addresses to which I frequently send emails. How can I create an email group in my address book easily? Is there any method other than add one email address at a time? I'm using Mail.app to send/receive emails.
Recently I reinstalled OS X 10.6.8 and afterwards I removed my DVD drive since it was no necessary. However, upon booting the 'eject' menu extra appears. Dragging it off does not help as it reappears during the next boot. There are no other drives removable connected.
My MacBook Pro and my iPad wont both connect to my wifi at the same time. Right now I'm on my iPad and my MacBook has the "no Internet connection" alert...Although there's a check mark by my network name on the drop down list. Last night when I was on my laptop my iPad wouldn't connect.
Delete all backups of all machines and reset time machine drive. As you can see I just want to start over. There are some great discussions on deleting one backup at a time. I have 30 or so. I am changing mac and I would like to just reset time machine.
I wanted to view the manual pages for the POSIX standard message functions: msgsnd, msgrcv, etc. All of them are defined in sys/msg.h and code using them works. But the manual pages are nowhere to be found, neither in my computer (Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3), in my friends' (OS X Lion) or in the developer pages of Apple in Internet. Where can I download that manual so I can access it right from terminal?
After working on MAC OSX, i installed windows-7 32bit through boot camp. After installing, the magic mouse is connecting ok through Bluetooth. Its left and right buttons are working but scroll is not working.
i tried to update my iphone 3gs, and suddenly it lost capacity to connect to a service provider, trying to fix the problem I tried to erase all apps and settings through setting of phone then it hanged on the apple logo. I took it to a technician who repaired it i dont know how. The problem is that now I can not install any other application as i used to do through itunes showing the error 0xe8008001.
Yesterday my Mac Pro 1,1 (2007) running 10.7 started freezing up. It keeps on doing this after restart. Usually it will perform one task, but when asked to do a second, it freezes. The cursor will still move but I can only do a hard reboot to get out of the situation. It is independent of which software I start up. I have installed a SSD drive for the System OS; upgraded memory to 14 Gb installed a new graphics card.
We have an Iphone 5 and 2 Ipads - the photo stream is currently set so that all photos taken on any of the three devices are all in one place. This is now becoming annoying as I don't want to see all of the photos my daughter or my son take, and vice versa with mine. How can we create an area where we have three separate photo streams, but have access to them all automatically? If I want to find one of my photos I have to wade through all the stuff they might have taken. Thanks.
I use a product called Grappler to save YouTube videos and it usually works for many other video sources when I'm on my Mac. It's not working to help me download the video file that Facebook has posted on their new home product for Android. *=URL=* Note that I'm not looking to download thing from people's Facebook accounts, but video from their corporate blog / PR area that is publicly available. I've opened that link in Safari's inspector (after turning on Show Develop menu in the menu bar in the Advanced pane in Safari's preferences) and can't figure a way to get their CDN to expose the actual file for download.
In itunes under apps tab, it list all the app which i have in my itunes account. When I click on Install button of the app, button name gets changed to will install & also on the right side it shows on which page it will be installed.
Does anyone know who owns the Zebra Wallpaper that comes with MBP Retina Display (and Mountain Lion)? Although this is my specific task (to hunt down who owns one specific likely copyrighted image), it would be nice to know if there is a way to read the image's metadata or otherwise track in general who owns what image that ships as part of Apple's OS.
currently I have iPhoto on my mac (mountain lion). the library is more than 350 GB (and growing fast). It is only on my computer, but my wife wants to have acces to the pictures too, not only photostream. She has an older mac book (white) running lion.
How do I edit my bash history in Mac OS X? I entered a password in that window by mistake and do not want to remove my whole history.
I've stopped using iPhoto and want to extract my Originals and trash the library itself. After I pulled out my originals, I noticed that they're nowhere near the 8GB iPhoto Library size Finder is reporting. So I checked the package contents, and selecting everything including hidden files, the total size is only 1GB. I copied everything out to be sure, also 1GB. du -hs from Terminal, also 1GB. Any thoughts why Finder thinks it's taking up 8GB of space?
With most linux distros you can hit control + alt + F1 or the like, and get a Console. This is really useful when your X11 / display manager freezes, because you can restart that process / service in a couple of seconds and be back in.
I am going to do a clean install of OS X on my old MacBook (Late 2008), but the computer will only be needed for: tabbed web browsing (Safari/Chrome), word processing (Office/iWork), and maybe some iPhoto work.
There's one feature from Windows 7 that I sort of like (yeah, yeah, I know...) and would like to implement (differently) on OS X. It's what they call "Libraries". It allows you to have the contents of multiple on-disk directories show up in Windows Explorer (their version of the Finder, for any who've had the pleasure to never need to use Windows) as though they were one directory.
I have a factory unlocked iPhone 5 bought from my home country. I'll be travelling to the US, and I was wondering if I can get a short 4G data plan (six months) from any carrier in the US?
On my iPad, I have GoodReader, as well as ReaddleDocs, and both allow me to connect to a large assortment of Cloud Storage providers. On my Windows machine, there are the Cloudberry Lab assortment of products. On my Mac, there are less options.
I've lost my HDD which is unrecoverable on my MacBookPro 5,5. I don't have any Mountain Lion installer or disk. How can I install Mountain Lion after i put brand new disk?
I've tried installing 2 x 2gb DDR2 PC2-6400 modules into an early 2008 MacBook. After installation the machine booted into a black screen, with no chime.
Anywhere in the iPhone when you select a word the Define option pops up from the popup menu. Clicking on it brings up the definition for that word. The default dictionary it uses is the New Oxford American Dictionary(NOAD). I wonder if it can be changed to the Oxford English Dictionary(OED).
So my lock or "hold" button is broken and my phone turned off. My phone is plugged in to the charger and still won't turn on. Also I can't plug it into my computer because my computer doesn't recognize an iPhone as a device.
I keep my Documents in an encrypted directory in Dropbox (~/Dropbox/encrypted), which I then mount at ~/clear when I log in. On my other Macs, I have change ~/Documents to a symlink that points at ~/clear, but trying to do the same on a new Mountain Lion machine doesn't work:
I am about to move my data from my old iMac to a brand new MacBook Pro. I would like to start over with a fresh install on B and copy just a subset of my data, reinstalling applications from scratch, so I am not considering using Migration assistance. I am thinking to use rsync to do the job, but I am confused about which options I should use. Reading man pages, I came out with this: v: verbose a: archive, to keep times, symlinks, permissions, groups, owners and traverse directories recursively z: to compress data H: to keep any hard-link E: to keep extended attributes progress: to keep an eye on job progress Am I not considering some other useful options?
I've been trying to create a script to disable/enable the Notification Center, even if it's temporary. It should do the same as manually sliding the Notification Center, scrolling up, and toggling the "Show Alerts and Banner" badge.
I have certain Smart Mailboxes in Mail.app (Mountain Lion, Version 6.3 / 1503) which help me find invoices for my tax declaration. I only need them once a year and would like to archive them for the other 50 weeks, because they clutter my mailbox list. I could edit the rules and note down the search criteria, re-creating the lists once a year ... but I am looking for an elegant solution.
From the pmset man page: POWER SOURCE ARGUMENTS -g with a 'batt' or 'ps' argument will show the state of all attached power sources. […] Certain Apple battery calibration tools may temporarily disable battery charging, even though your Apple portable is plugged into AC power.
I’ve just bought a new Mac with 10.8.2 pre-installed. When I started it up for the first time, once I’d gone through the initial set-up, the App Store launched, and showed me an iPhoto update, and some system updates including Mac OS X 10.8.3.
I'm trying to create a smart album that has "face is" with each member of my family the date range is a given year. In other words I'm trying to create a "yearly" smart album of just my immediate family members. I have used: with the ANY option selected. But then when I add the date range line of 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2013 I get all pictures in 2013 and I just want the ones with faces.
How do I keep message from displaying on lock screen with text plus. Can't make adjustments with app or in settings
I'm currently mirroring from my iPad to my Apple TV, but the audio source automatically sets to the TV. At night I'd love it if I could switch the audio source to my ipad so I could hook up some headphones, while watching on the TV. Is this possible?
I have the original MBA, and I have extremely high power consumption - see the screenshot (screenshot got while TextEdit only was running) Is is normal for original MBA?
Let's say I want this action to happen on any program whenever I press F10 (or some other custom key combination): There's a similar tool in Windows called AutoHotKey but apparently it doesn't have a Mac equivalent. Any idea how to achieve this on Mac?
I want to switch my AppleID from using my ISP email addrress to my gmail address. If I change both my AppleID and Primary Email Address as directed, (I understand I'll need to log out and log back in to the app store on each device,) will my existing purchases (apps & music) still be available for use and updates?
There is a nice option in MacOS X that you can right-click on a particular file, select "open with", then select the app that you want to use to open the file type and check the mark "always open with". So far so good, this works very well. However, this association resets itself after time (or after a system restart for example). How can I achieve it that a particular file type stays associated with my selected "always open with" app?
To make a long question short: What's the proper way to replace a rubber spring (inverted cup-like thing) under a keycap, specifically the Tab key on a unibody design MacBook Pro or Air?  Details: I just bought a used MacBook Pro (so it's out of warranty), and noticed the Tab key felt spongy. Also, after first opening up the laptop, the key seemed to be stuck down until I tapped it a few times.
When browsing on iOS I find that I increasingly come across sites where the site's video format is not supported by by iOS Safari or Chrome. At one such site, the error reads as follows: The video you are trying to watch is a format not supported by the HTML video tag in this browser.
I don't want a popup telling me when my apps can be updated. Any ready to get rid of these without jailbreaking?
The Apple Notes app (Mountain Lion) keeps asking me to enter passwords for my various email accounts (POP) that I've added to Mail. Mail does not prompt me to re-enter any passwords, but sometimes Notes will ask for the password twice before it accepts it. Thing is, I don't even want Notes to use my POP accounts, just iCloud. But there doesn't seem to be a way to turn notes off for a specific account.
I have been running TimeMachine for a couple of months, but just now decided to encrypt my backups. Having ticked the box for encryption for my backup drive, TimeMachine nows says I have no previous backups. However, when I look in the backup drive I can see all the backup folders. Are those backups encrypted, or is it just future ones?
So iPads or any other iPod or iPhones uses audio codec from third-parties, most likely Cirrus Logic in recently products. For example, the iPhone 5 uses Apple-branded Cirrus Logic 338S1077 audio codec according to this iFixit teardown. I am not sure of the codec used in MacBook Pros, especially my 15" retina one, but I am thinking that since the audio is the Intel integrated one, the codec is probably Intel-branded.
I will try to be brief. In my career I have always used the upper end of the subnet for network devices. For instance, I use .250-.254 for network devices such as the routers. I am very fond of using .254 as the default gateway for internal networks. Is there a way to change the private network default gateway of the Airport Extreme to x.x.x.254? As an example, the factory default network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 with a default gateway of 10.0.1.1. I would like to change the gateway to 10.0.1.254. By the way, I think this community has put together a fantastic site.
My friend has an iPhone 4. Yesterday it got disabled after several failed passcode attempts. When you press the turn on/off switch or the home screen button, the following message appears:
I can't find the backslash key either in low case or upper case(by holding shift key) in Russian input method( I chose it on input source) on Macbook pro. But if I choose russian pc input method, there is no "e with two dots above", but in the place having slash and backslash. Any one has the same problem? Thanks,
I'm looking for something, probably some kind of action script, that will at any time move everything that's on my desktop directly to a specific folder on my desktop, based on the extension. Just to prevent cluttering. Some examples I want: Folders: Do not move .PSD/.Ai/.INDD (all Adobe workfiles) -> Move to -> ~/Desktop/Workfiles .PNG/.JPG (etc., All picture files) -> Move to -> ~/Desktop/Pictures .doc(x)/.xls/.pdf (all document files) -> Move to -> ~/Desktop/Documents Others I guess I can do myself based on the how-to for above.
Will there be any problems if I send a javascript and html app to the App Store, which uses the Google Maps API. The app is a route planner.
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro, but I am likely getting a new one soon. I have lots of applications and documents. I understand that Migration Assistant can transfer my documents and applications. Will it be able to properly transfer my Steam games and my Parallels Win7 install (which also has Steam in it with a few games)? Will I have any issues with licensed software that I've purchased, such as Sublime Text 2, BusyCal, and any other software? Also, I have an HDD Time Machine backup; is it easiest to transfer from that or from my current Macbook?
I have been trying to update to Xcode 4.6.1 (from 4.6) on OS X 10.7.5. The install gets most of the way through, then hangs out at "Installing - less than one minute" indefinitely. Based on old threads about similar problems I've ensured iTunes and iTunesHelper are both not running. I've restarted and tried again. What else can I try or look into?
Has anyone successfully created a fluid app for outlook web mail (aka live mail)? I've tried but either the site opens in my web browser or (after white listing variations of the site url) I get an error message stating that I need to use internet explorer or an updated version of safari. The site opens fine in my firefox web browser (my default browser) so I don't think it's a browser problem.
When I first got my iPhone, my boyfriend set it up with his iTunes and iCloud account because I didn't have one of my own. We recently broke up, and he then changed the password for his Apple ID and iCloud account so I couldn't download any more music and/or apps. I have a lot of things on my phone that I really don't want to lose. How can I back my iPhone up without losing anything on it especially the music and contacts I have?
Last Christmas I was given an iPod 2G and it runs on iOS 4.2.1 and I have found it very hard to find apps that go onto my iPod, is there anyway I can make apps that run on iOS 4.3 an above go onto my iPod?
I am getting a new iPhone come next month. I want to save all of my nostalgic conversations for the future. Is there a way to transfer an entire chat log to the computer in plain text? Or will I have to painstakingly take screenshot after screenshot as I scroll up in the text history?
I am trying to do a simple task of just taking a screenshot with automator and importing that screenshot into iPhoto. The screenshot takes fine and saves it to the correct location. It does save as a .png file but then I get an error when it goes to the next step of getting the specified finder items. It fails and states Conversion from Image files to Files/Folders failed and unrecognized selector sent to instance. See screenshot below.
After 3 years my mid-2010 17" MBP model is telling me it's time to replace the battery. The current one (model A1309, FWIW) has had ~1000 cycles now and can't hold the charge reliably anymore.
Often in output from fsck_cs(8) – typically in the window of Disk Utility in Lion and Mountain Lion, whilst verifying or repairing something in Core Storage world: – or more than one. What's the significance of these non-checkpoint transactions? I'm happy when the count is zero (0) but anything greater than than worries me, because fsck_cs does not perform an exhaustive validation, nor is it able to fix many of the inconsistencies that it does detect. One transaction in Disk Utility Disk Verification but there, the suggested repair relates to the JHFS+ file system (not to the Core Storage storage system). Four transactions: Twelve transactions, with a minor repair to the file system but not to the storage system: Two LVGs, each with one newer non-checkpoint transaction:
Is there a feature or an add-on for OS X that lists the current app's open windows for quick visual switching? The way I envision it is in the form of a second dock, say on the right-hand or left-hand corner of the screen.
I am experiencing an issue with OS X 10.8.3, where it takes a very long time to login. It seems like it has something to do with which network I am connected to. Explanation of the issue: I get home from the office and wake my MacBook Air up from sleep I login with my regular account (in these groups: Admin, Managed, Mobile) It can anywhere 15 seconds and several minutes before I get logged in
What is the finder's default midi player and how does it know which instrument to associate with tracks? Also where does it take those instruments from? A VST? Is it possible to use these sounds someone with another program like a digital audio interface?
I'm using alfred so no need in launchpad. Is it safe to delete launchpad, any applications that depends from it?
In insert mode, the text in front of the cursor is pushed forward when new text is inserted. For example, if the cursor is at position ^ and the word word3 is typed: The result would be: In override mode the result would be: Can I switch between Insert mode and Override mode in OSX text editing?
Obviously, AirDrop on recent computers is easier: it doesn't require the other person to have an SSH port open, or to have a Skype account. But it's so very slow…
How can I solve the problem - The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Capsule de xx/MacBook Pro xx.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).
I want to gift an OS X app, specifically OS X Mountain Lion to my mother in-law. How do I achieve this from the OS X App Store? I can't find any gifting option for both apps I own and apps I do not own.
I'm going to leave my main iMac in the office for a few days but I also need to access it remotely. Currently I noticed I can only remotely access the mac with ARD or teamviewer if the iMac account wasn't locked. How can I access the iMac remotely whilst still guaranteeing security to prevent unauthorized access from other sources. TeamViewer requires password to connect, so that's safe, but requires the iMac up and running and not locked.
My MacBook Air has only a 64G hard drive which is so small that I don't want to install virtual machines on it. I'm planning to buy a 1TB portable USB hard disk to run virtual machines. Has anyone tried running a Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine on a USB3.0 hard drive with success?
I think someone may be reading my iMessages on another device? Is this possible? Is there any way to find out?
Using OS 10.6.8 Every month or two I'll have a hard crash on my MacBook Pro and I'll have to force reboot by holding down the power button. No big deal, I've been doing this on various macs since 1995 since OS version 7.1. What drives me absolutely bonkers in 10.6.x is that in certain cases like a hard power-cycle, OS X Snow Leopard insists on resuming all 20 or 30 applications I had running before the hard reboot.
So it seems like Apple updated the member center, and I'm having a hard time trying to add a device to one of my current provisioning profiles. Previously it was possible to do this by clicking on the provisioning profile, and then selecting "edit" where you would have a list of all your devices and can add whichever ones you'd like to the provisioning profile.
I would like to restart two games, bubble safari and bubbleseason, from the beginning. When I delete the app and reinstall it from the App Store all my old data is on there and I start from the same level I left it at, I want to start all over from scratch. Is this possible?
I was using Wake on Demand (not WOL) to access my mac remotely. I was able to turn in on from LAN or internet through SSH, VNC or HTTP. The problems came when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Initially It was working for a small amount of time after the computer was set to sleep: after about half an hour it wouldn't turn on. Then, a few weeks later, as soon as it went to sleep there was no way to wake it up. I recently upgraded to Mavericks with the hope that it would have solved the problem but nothing has changed.
I have a small office setup where I control certain functionality of a set of iPads. One of the things I need to do is to be able to allow a set of iPads to AirPrint, while keeping others from doing the same. Is there a way through either the Apple Configurator, or the iPhone Configuration Utility, to disable AirPrint by device?
Is there any wired keyboard-case available for new iPad Mini (thefore using Lightning port)? Or keyboard-case with standard USB cable, that has been tested and proven to work with Lightning OTG Adapter? Does anyone have any experience in this area to share?
This is probably seems like a FAQ but I haven't seen anything definitive as of today. I have a CDMA-Only Verizon iPhone 4 (not a 4S) that recently came off contract. I'm aware that it's CDMA only and GSM carriers like AT&T can do nothing with it other than admire it as a thick iPod Touch. I'd like to explore options, mostly to lower my bill (I have no vendetta against Verizon, it's purely a cost issue).
Emacs has a nice feature in the C-M-v keybind (scroll-other-window in Emacs Lisp), which causes the other window in a frame with two windows to scroll (I haven't tried it with more than two windows) without switching to the other window. Is there a way to get equivalent functionality with Mac OS X toplevel windows (i.e. non-Emacs windows)?
Minecraft (and probably some other applications) won't run on a System with the preinstalled Java removed and the current JDK 7 installed. I already symlinked the Java 6 directory to the current one. Other applications like Adobe Illustrator that need Java work with this fix. The error message states no compatible version of java 1.5+ is available.
On OS X server using the wiki feature, I want to embed a youtube.com video onto a page. I thought the process would be to switch to HTML coding when making the Wiki Entry and cut and paste the HTML embedded like tag of youtube video into the post along with all the other content.
I am also a bit of an Apple software nut, and accomplishing this task using only Apple software is preferred. Optimally, I would like to be able to simply hit Command + K and connect to a VNC server, not having to install anything, but I'm not exactly well-versed in that process; is it even possible?
Suppose a private key in Dropbox/server. I have tried copying it from Dropbox to iPhone's default clipboard and then to iSSH app but there is no area to paste it in iSSH, very unintuitive user-interface! How can I get private key to iSSH app?
I have a PNG that I want to add additional content to. For this I need to increase the canvas size of the image: Just make the image larger, but without scaling the existing contents (which the Adjust Size tool seems to insist on doing). How can I do this?
Me and my brother want to play Clash of Clans with different game progress but somehow he always gets my progress when he plays it. He got a new Apple ID and a new Game Center, but somehow the same problem is happening: we can't play the game separately - we tried and tried but it still doesn't work. What can we do to play the game using different progress?
I recently got hold of an iPad and was wondering if it is possible to have home screen dividers like if I want to label first row of the home-screen as email, second row as blog posts similar to  Any help?
Recently, in both Terminal and iTerm, my tab autocompletion has stopped working. About 80% of the time I just get the error sound when I hit TAB. About 20% of the time I get the expected behavior. Don't even know where to start to fix it...Any thoughts?
I am trying to get Command+Alt+Shift+L to work in RStudio on OSX. I have a large number of customisations that might possibly prevent this shortcut from working. I've gone through the usual places (e.g., system preferences - keyboard; Alfred; Better Touch tool). Thus, I thought there might be some more general procedure for working out what program, if any, is intercepting the shortcut Is there a way of seeing what program might be intercepting a particular keyboard shortcut?
It seems like all my screenshots end up being twice as many pixels as they should even though I run the screen in 1920x1200. If I screenshot this editing box, via command + shift + 4 it says about 600px across, but the screenshot ends up being about 1200px. See:
I occasionaly use Aquamacs on my Macbook Pro. I have also bought an Apple keyboard with a US english layout, because it is not practical to program on a Mac with a french (or more generally probably any non english) layout. These characters { } | \ ~ [ ] are not even on the keyboard, and you have to use various combinations of meta keys to get them. Of course it doesn't work well when you need: M-\ , because typing backslash already requires meta keys. So, how do you use Emacs on a non english keyboard, if that is even possible ?
There seems to be no legit drivers available for the Canon MF4420w imageclass printers which dont seem to work.
This is not the same question as Can I disable the lighted Apple logo on the back of my MacBook Pro? When I shut the lid of my macbook pro, it goes into sleep mode. When it is in sleep mode, there is a small oscillating white light on the front of it.
Error checking and repairing with the disk utility doesn't help. I tried unmounting the whole drive/all partitions via disk utility on another Mac (using FireWire-boot). It didn't work sadly.
I know in the unix world, if you wanted to be granular about whether a user could modify user accounts, you can specify whether they can sudo the useradd usermod commands. I am not just looking for the answer "just make them an Admin user", because basically I want the following : User Andy , has all admin privileges User Betty , has all admin privileges, except for removing Andy as an Admin user. References [1] Best practice for installing applications for multiple users?
So, why does Apple overwhelmingly use images for their headers? For example,
I'm curious if my new machine will support (for example) 3840x2400 retina-quality external monitor in additional to the built-in screen or whether that will exceed the capacity of the video card.
I have several ipads that I would like to be identical in terms of apps, music etc. Once I take the time to put on the appropriate apps, sort into folders etc then I would like that exact same configuration on the other two iPads. Is this possible? Many thanks
What are options to play FLAC files and have playlists on OSX? I've not seen a way to make iTunes play them natively, songbird looks terrible with retina display and same goes for clementine. I just switched to osx from linux and I was hoping I wouldnt have to go back to CMUS.
I don't want to unblock 2o7.net but would obviously like the site to work. Any ideas?
I am looking for an adapter to use my Thuderbolt display (just purchased, worked great on my MacBook Air) with my iMac 27-inch, Mid 2010 (iMac 11,3) Anyone know if one is made and where I can purchase it? The iMac 11,3 has an ATI Radeon HD 5750 and a DisplayPort connector.
My 2011 iMac running Lion recently developed a new problem; the mouse cursor stutters. At random intervals when I move the mouse it lags, then jumps, like it missed a couple of frames. Ordinarily I'd blame my wireless mouse or system load or something, but the Console has this very useful note in it: That suggests to me something is wrong with the rendering system, not the input hardware.
I have been having issues with my mid-2009 Mac Pro ever since I installed Mountain Lion. First it was intermittent kernel panics; I did some research and found that this is an ML bug that's triggered by having multiple Nvidia GeForce 120 video cards. Nothing I can do about that but wait for Apple to fix it.
Today I turned my computer on and I afterwards opened iTunes. To my surprise, my music disappeared, everything that I had was gone. I have no idea what happened and I have no idea how to put it back the way it was.
This jumbled block to the left of my login screen is my mouse pointer:  I've lost the little arrow.
I would like to back up my photos from my iPhoto Library (right now, I have about 8,000) and all I have available at the moment is a 10G flash drive. Eventually, I would like to buy an external hard drive to save them to, but that is just not feasible at the moment. How do I save them to a flash drive? Would there be room for all of them? Oh, and I have video clips also.
Summary: I would like to create some sort of an automated process where any messages that I 'star' in Gmail (aka 'flag' when using Gmail via IMAP) will automatically be added to OmniFocus, and then "unstarred" on Gmail and moved to another specific label called "OmniFocus". I am quite sure that this is possible with Google Scripts but I cannot figure out how to get it to work. I would like that solution because it would not require me to run anything else on my own Mac. Also: I have an account with *=URL=* which means that I can add things to my OmniFocus Inbox by sending email to a specific email address. My idea for a Google Script would go something like this:
If I download iPad App updates via iTunes on a Mac, shouldn't they automatically sync when I connect the iPad to the Mac? I plugged an iPad 3 (iOS 6.1.3) into a Mac (OS X 10.6.8) running iTunes (11.0.2).
Today, I've tried opening a root shell and, oh surprise, weird answer...  Any idea of where it could be from ?
I recently bought a third part (OCZ) SSD and used Trim Enabler to, well, enable TRIM. I've noticed that some software updates can cause TRIM to be disabled, and have thus been curious about how TRIM Enabler works. Does it replace some default KEXT with a custom one to support TRIM or does it simply toggle some PLIST setting? Either way, is there a file that, when locked, can ensure that TRIM remains enabled (without any negative consequences)?
Someone wants to trade his new iPhone 5, his 20" iMac, and some cash for my 15" Macbook Pro. Here are the specs for my MBP and his iMac: My Early 2011 15in Macbook Pro Their mid 2007 20" iMac And it's other specs..
I want Apple Mail to automatically move all email, read and unread, to the Archive folder IF it's past a certain date. I want this move to take effect on ALL my devices (mac,iPad,iPhone,etc). How can I set this up? Can I set this up from the iPad or only on the Mac?
A few days ago, Terminal.app suddenly stopped working. Whenever I open it, the little light below the icon in the dock turns on (and stays on), but no window appears. When I right-click the icon, I'm told that the application isn't responding. What I've tried so far: Restarting. Trying to open Terminal from another account (same result). Deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist. Deleting ~/.bash_* and ~/.zsh*. Deleting /var/log/asl/*. Banging my head against the wall.
After doing a clean install of Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro (13" unibody, MacBookPro5,5) and upgrading to 10.8.3 I'm having trouble with iMessage, Facetime and Back to My Mac. I am running Little Snitch (version 3.0.4) though turning it on or off has no effect on these results. My Apple ID works for other services.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz purchased in late 2009, model "MacBookPro5,5". The FanControl PrefPane reports Does this model only have one fan, or does it have two?
I have stored many videos, contacts, notes, music files and more on my iPad. Unfortunately, I lost my some files on it owing to my wrong operation. Now I am looking for the ways how to get them back quickly, but everything I have tried has failed. How can I recover these lost files from iPad on Mac computer?
I just restored an iPhone 5 backup to an iPod touch both on iOS 6.1.3 (10B329) to rapidly load every app and setting, yet I'd really like the camera roll to start over with 0001. I've gone in and deleted all the photos that restored onto the iPad using Image Capture, but the counter is stored on the device in a manner I can't figure out how to access Is there a way to clear this counter and get the next photo I take to be IMG_0001.jpg without needing to erase all content and settings and start without restoring the backup?
I just switched from iMac to Macbook Pro and I wanted to transfer all my podcasts to it without downloading them all over again. Copy/Pasting the podcasts folder won't list it in iTunes. A found a cranky way to do it by subscribing to the podcasts again, partially download the episode (pause it after a while) and replacing/renaming the full one I have as download.mp4 where the podcast is being downloaded. This is very cumbersome and I have loads of podcasts. Is there any way to automate this or can this be accomplished in other ways?
I just got a MacBook Air and noticed the charger has 5 (i.e., an odd number) pins. Shouldn't there be a pair number, one for positive, one for negative charge?
I'm using Mac OS 10.8.3. I have a huge display and bad eyes, so I like to have the mouse cursor be the largest possible size. (under System Preferences: Accessibility: Display: Cursor size.
I'm getting this popping up on my Mac multiple times a day:  I have an Apple keyboard attached via Bluetooth, and nothing else. It doesn't say anything else is connected either, just this alert pops up every so often.
I have purchased a ThunderBolt display and is lovely. I have it setup with a second monitor using VGA in OSX to have 3 monitors (inc 1 of the 15" MacBook Pro display) So my setup is as follows: MacBook Pro 15" 27" ThunderBolt Display WD ThunderBolt MyBook Hard Drive (Has two Thunderbolt ports, which allows me to extend display) Normal Samsung 23" Monitor connected to WD MyBook Hard Drive with the normal ThunderBolt/Mini Display to VGA adaptor This setup works perfectly in OSX without any issues, however I cannot get the VGA monitor to work when booted into Windows 7 using a native BootCamp partition. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this or has managed to get this setup working in Windows at all?
I'm thinking about getting an iPhone for a friend whose vision is decaying because of the possibility of making it display large text. However, the budget is very tight, buying a new iPhone is out of the question. She needs only basic services: telephony, the occasional text message, and Skype.
I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion and experiencing strange behavior with my wired Ethernet connection. It cannot obtain an IP address from DHCP, where the wireless can, against the same DHCP server (router).
I've tried to switch my default shell to zsh, using chsh: and: Both commands ended with: How can I change my default shell in OSX Lion?
I have installed Windows7 by bootcamp on my Macbook, however, every time when I want to switch to Windows, I have to reboot the machine completely. That means I cannot keep my current workspace when next time I switch back to OSX.
I had my iPod Touch and created an apple id account. When i bought iPad4 i sold the iPod Touch but i used same apple id that was registered in my iPod. Will there be no conflict at all with regards to application, photos and updates since I am now using an Ipad? Now the iPod was reset and used by another user name. does the new owner of Ipod can still access my info? please help, i am worrying of the security and privacy. Thank you.
I'd like to create a test user in iTunes Connect, so I can test in-app purchases. However, iTunes forces me to enter credit card information. Considering this is a test user, for a sandbox environment, that is not supposed to be spending any money, it looks pointless. Is there any way around it? (I know that it is possible to create a new account with no payment option, but then it won't be considered as a test user.)
How can I flush /delete the Finder clipboard in OS X 10.8.3 ? I always have 2 items when I paste from the clipboard.
I am getting the following dialog box for a few days:  How can I find out which application is showing it and how can I solve the issue? I am on Mac OS 10.7.5. Edit: I followed the bassplayer7's answer (moving /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration /NetworkInterfaces.plist to trash and restarting) but it didn't solve the problem. I followed the bassplayer7's answer (moving /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration /NetworkInterfaces.plist to trash and restarting) but it didn't solve the problem.
I have a MacBook (Retina, Mid 2012 if it's relevant) which I installed Mountain Lion onto, creating one user account only (an Admin account). There is a Guest User, marked for "Sharing Only". The hard drive was encrypted with FileVault 2 at the time of install, and the recovery key stored away.
When trying to use my online bank, I was directed to the Java update site (again). I downloaded and installed Java 7 update 17, and the installer reported that everything was a-ok. Clearly, that was something of lie.
We all know there is a way to to switch between desktops using keyboard shortcuts, but can we create new ones using only the keyboard?
I have not been able to find out how the Itunes "error correction" option works. There are more effective programs out there for bit perfect rips but I prefer the speed and ease of use of Itunes. Does anyone know how this error correction works and how effective it is at getting quality rips from scratched CDs?
I had jailbroken my ipod touch and then restored it so it is no longer jailbroken and I was wondering if there is a way to make my ipod look like it was never jailbroken so apple can not tell because I heard that even if your device is not currently jailbroken apple can still tell and will not fix it if anything goes wrong.
So, I had a relative's hard drive collapse, and I've used photorec to look for the most obvious files to retain (fortunately they only had pictures on the computer, everything else was cloud-synced, such as email) so I now have a parent-folder with 208 subfolders of all the PNG and JPG files from the old drive. Obviously a lot will be either "OS and Application images" (toolbars, sample images, thumbnails, system caches) and some will be "family photos". If I can find some way to find all below a certain size (preferably say 300px wide) then sorting the rest should * be easy.
I have a successfully running Etherpad install running on my Mac, and when clients on my network connect to my node.js server through the IP address assigned by my router, all is well. But I'm going to take this Mac offsite to a location which might not have Internet access, so I'd like to create a closed local Wifi network, allowing clients to connect to this same Mac running the server.
I have reason to think I've got improper escaping in my bash prompt (I get weird random line wrapping in Terminal). Can anyone point it out? It looks OK to me...
I bought a new Apple TV from the local Apple Store yesterday. I set it up last night and all was working well. I activated Netflix and was quite pleased with how easy it was to browse TV shows and movies within Netflix. The next evening I started Netflix and the interface had completely changed. The only way to find anything new was to use the Netflix search interface. In other words, the browse interface was gone.
Is there any way to enable automatic reflow of icons in Finder while resizing the window? One constantly has to to resort via "clean up by ..." after resize. I've yet to find a piece of software that handles that ridiculous shortcoming of Finder.
Let me clearly establish that I am not trying to send a sms to a non-iPhone user. On my OS x Mountain Lion macbook pro I was sending iMessages from the Messages application just fine until all of a sudden my Messages application is claiming that all of my iPhone-using contacts are not actually iPhone-using contacts. On my iPhone my messages are being sent and received just fine, it is the computer I am typing this on that has the issue. I floated through the apple forums and saw a few suggestions - signing in and out in Messages(tried and could sign in fine but my application still thinks it's everyone else with the problem), checking to see that my macbook still knows its own serial number (it does), restarting my computer (no effect), and changing wifi networks (no effect).
Alright, here's a funny question. I'm a DJ, and I use iTunes locally on my MacBook Air for my music. I also have my backup hard drive, to which I have copied my iTunes library to as the master storage. This backup of the iTunes folder is separate from the Time Machine Backups on the same disk.
Will Migration Assistant let me transfer my files from my old Mac running Tiger 10.4.11 to Mountain Lion? I've read that it does not support moving files from 10.4 to Mountain Lion and didn't know if the .11 on my version made a difference as to it working or not.
If I buy a Wifi and Cellular iPad Mini, could I cut down my mobile SIM card and use its cellular data with the iPad?
I was browsing the listing for the refurbished iMacs and noticed that some of the items explicitly state how much is being saved while others do not. While it is easy to calculate the savings yourself, I wondered if there was some underlying reason for this.
I'm wondering if its possible to install Mountain Lion to an external drive (connected via esata) without rebooting from the host system? I came across this hint suggesting that it was possible to do with Snow Leopard, but this method doesnt work with ML.
I have LaCie 2big thunderbolt 2-disk device configured as a RAID1 from Disk Utility. One of the drives appears as "failed", so I unmounted the raid, replaced the drive and plugged it all back in. Now Disk utility reports that one of the slices is missing from the RAID, and it shows my new disk separately on the list to the left. The "slices", including the missing one, have a lock icon in front of them, and even after dragging my new disk to the list I can't rebuild the raid. How do I rebuild the raid?
I have a problem that occurs seemingly randomly on my Macbook Pro, 13" 2010, running 10.7. The background on the secondary screen (which is actually the laptop screen itself, the primary screen is a Cinema Display) will go gray. I can still use the screen, it shows everything but the background image. I can even drag desktop icons to that screen. Changing the wallpaper does nothing. Most of the users in this discussion seem to be having a similar issue.
After installing computer wont boot up, just beeps. Uninstalled and put original 2x2gb samsung back in and computer booted up just fine.. Reinstalled the corsair and still nothing but beeping. Tried installing on top slots then on bottom slots. Computer tech at best buy assured me it would be compatiable with my iMAC
The problem started this morning when Outlook 2011 tried to connect to the Exchange server looking for new emails. An error message came up saying that Outlook needs to close (see screenshot).
Opening a new mail to compose currently defaults to the Cloud email. I want to change that default to my Gmail (set up already in Apple Mail). How can I do this?
Unix-sytled, "package managers" like Fink, Homebrew, and MacPorts do a good job of managing 'headless' libraries. I would like something similar to manage OS X applications with a GUI. I am hoping to find an easier way to add/remove applications and restore my system in the event of loss or theft or if I purchase a new computer. Requirements: find and install applications keep track of which applications I've installed uninstall applications and preferences manage licenses Candidates: AppFresh for Mac - best candidate; not free homebrew-cask - good candidate; limited application support Apple's App Store - easily find and install applications; doesn't remove applications; not all applications are in the App Store AppCleaner - removes applications and preferences, but does not install applications osx.iusethis.com - tracks application (which will replace my spreadsheet); does not manage applications Are there others?
A Power Mac just died at the office. We also have another one which died a couple of months ago. They both had Adobe software installed on them, and I need to transfer those licensees to other Macs.
I have just bought a new MacBook Pro after my previous one died ( mother card seem to had been the problem). In this one like in my previous the computer's local hostname keeps telling me that the "MacBookPro-BC-617.local" is already in use on this network and changes the name of my MacBookPro-BC to 658.local.
I have an ipad mini and a freind recently emailed me a video. When I go into the corner and click save video it then does not appear in any of my photo albums.I have been trying for ages and it is very important at I save this video.
I have - TimeMachine will happily backup /Users/me/Documents and everything beneath it. /Users/me/Fuse4XFileSystem/ can be opened and navigated from the Finder or Terminal. TimeMachine however ignores /Users/me/Fuse4XFileSystem/ when creating a backup. How do I get TimeMachine to backup /Users/me/Fuse4XFileSystem ?
When the administrator of a wifi network changes the network password to something new, previously associated devices that have the old password saved will no longer be able to connect until they re-enter their wifi passwords. Unfortunately OSX handles this situation in quite an unpredictable way:
I am looking for a good iPhone 5 case for parkour. As I often climb up walls and something like this the iPhone should be protected well. I found the Griffin Survivor, which is actually perfekt but very very thick... Is there an alternative to Griffin Survivor, which is protecting well (also the screen) but smaller?
just opens a blank page. Opening a local file on the command line works fine.
My company has an iPad/iPhone app which shows news, blogs, videos and various articles. This data is obtained from a rss feed. Additionally it also shows a lot of stock market data. My question is, is there a way to check if my application is displaying the information which matches exactly with the rss feed data?
So we've renewed our iTunes connect developer acccount. Now it says that all our APPS are on hold until we complete the iAd contract. So I try to do the bank bit (note that all our details have ALREADY been submitted) and I can't save to complete this step. It says you must change somthing. But I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE THE BANK DETAILS. In the meantime, we are not selling APPs. What do we do!?
When I create my own dmg-images, I always attach a software license agreement to them. When I opened the flattened image, I always got the Jaguar "X" in the background of the agreement dialog, where I have to confirm to the SLA before the image will be mounted. I believe that since Lion, apple removed that, so the eula-dialog is clean.
I have a OS X Lion Server hosting netboot images. I also have a 10.8 Server for creating 10.8 images, but am hosting all images from one 10.7 NetBoot server. When a client machine boots a specific net boot image, my understanding is that it copies at least the most necessary parts of the image via network and stores it somehow on its local resources. Does it only store the data in the RAM or does it save data locally?
Especially since the 10.8.3 update, I've been experiencing occasional freezes of my 2012 Macbook Air's trackpad and keyboard. The trackpad will be completely unresponsive, and usually only a few keystrokes will get through. Other people have complained that similar things happen after resuming from sleep, or that it takes a reboot to fix, but this happens randomly (it'll be working perfectly fine and then become unresponsive, then be fine 10 seconds later).
I have an old Mac Pro that I would like to use as a Time Machine server for my small company. I just put in some spare hard drives in the unused bays, and set up a mirrored RAID set to use for Time Machine. I am able to use that RAID set as a Time Machine disk locally for that particular computer, but when I try to use it as a Time Machine disk for a networked computer, I get the error:
Our school district has many iPads. We are wondering if a "master" Apple ID can be set up for configuing purposes (creating a standard starting point with certain apps for all devices) and if the teacher to whom it is assigned can then set up their own Apple ID (a second, functioning ID for the same device) for personal app downloads, email, calendar, etc while leaving the initial information intact. Basically, we don't want them to be able to change what the IT dept puts on the iPad.
Is there any solution for retrieving a Dropbox share link to a file, that doesn't involve opening a browser? That puts it directly in the clipboard. (For sake of clarity, I'm referring to when you right-click a file and select Dropbox → Share Link.)
At the moment I'm remotely accessing my mac via logmein. I'm trying to remap Command to Control via system preferences. However every time I try to do this it keeps resetting to the default. As best I can tell this is because there is no keyboard plugged in. Is there some way to remap the keys without a keyboard?
I noticed a new machine on my network -- it's my next-door neighbor's Airport Extreme!  My network is set up with a WPA2 Personal password, and I don't believe that he's cracking passwords to steal my bandwidth. My suspicion is that it's accidental. I don't see any place in Airport Utility where I can say "don't allow this network to be extended". I'd like to know Is it actually possible that his Extreme is extending my network, even without having the password? Is it possible for me to block it from doing so?
On a fairly new machine running 10.8.3 I'm getting the message: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “<disk>”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.
I have an iMac, connected to the Internet via Ethernet, and an iPhone 4. I would like to share the iMac's Internet connection to my iPhone via the USB Cable (because my wife dreams of a wifi-less household).
I have an iPhone 4s and when I am at work and it is charging (a generic charger) it will (intermittently) open applications that are on it or makes a phone call to a contact, usually the top number in the recent calls list. This is all without anyone touching it or instigating the action. Has anyone else ever experienced this?
My Macbook Pro is not booting normally. I tried many options but no success. If I try to recovery mode or try to boot from USB, a blue screen appears. So I can't do fresh install. I checked hardware test, it says ok, I used the disk in target disk mode in my another macbook pro and it runs on there. Only in this machine the problem is occurring. Youtube Video about the problem: *=URL=* If you know the solution help me please. Spec: MacBook Pro, Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2 GHz Memory: 8GB Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6490M VRAM: 256 MB Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
I have a 2009 27" Core2Duo 8GB RAM iMac. The hard drive is a brand new 3TB with a fresh install of 10.8.3. I want to install Windows 7 64bit. I set up some basic settings and have a backup at the ready. When I open Boot Camp Assisant and click Continue to the second screen I get this:
My iPhone is synced to my computer at home. I used to be able to play music that's stored on my iPhone through iTunes on my work computer when I connect my iPhone to it. But now it only shows me an empty list in the music screen when I click on "iPhone" followed by "On This iPhone". Did I misconfigure something? Things I have tried: Authorizing my work computer on iTunes.
i have never seen any of the stock apps say they have an update and i kinda think the checklist app on the ipad is lacking cause it does not allow an item to have sub items which, when all checked, the parent items is checked, here's are some of examples of what i mean by sub items common shopping list example: you have 2 items in a list, Cake and Topping, Cake would list all the stuff you need to buy to make the cake's base while topping would include the icing and what kind of decorations you need to buy My Example 1: series marathon list I have 1 item called .Hack which would have sub items that list all the games and anime for that series, the .Hack item should not be checked unless i have checked every sub item of it My Example 2: System Component purchases List i have an item called Epitpah which in it has the following 4 items named "HDMI Switch" 12 items named "HDMI Cable" 2 items named "AV -> HDMI Converter" 1 item named "Wii -> HDMI adaptor" an item named "Level 1 Setup" whic
Right now I have a Mac Mini. I migrated macbook pro data from a time machine, but I didn't do it from the beginning of my startup. I used the migration assistance to migrate the data. However, I'm getting my macbook pro name in my terminal command line, why is that?
How to switch Safari to a normal web page searching instead of finding only whole words? Ex: there ase some words on a page: hello_world, ask_different. When I search for hello, world, ask, different - i search perfectly. But when I'm trying to search ello, ifferent, etc. - it gives me nothing.
When I last upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, I later had to install another version of iTunes on my macbook to synchronize my files between my computer and my iPhone. This new version of iTunes required a new version of Quick Time, which took me a long time to find available on the internet.
I use ⌃ ctrl + ⇧ shift + ⇥ tab to move between tabs in Chrome, but if I scroll with the touchpad it'll zoom the page. This happens quite a lot and it's frustrating. Is there some way I can disable the ⌃ ctrl + ⇧ shift + scroll shortcut? This is what happens:
I usually use Dropbox to get my epub files into iBooks. This works quite well when I only need to add one file at a time, but now I've received a collection of a few hundred epub files. I am really not used to iTunes, but from what I could gather the collection a book is part of (in iBooks) is not known/registered by iTunes.
My boss just come up with an idea of having a mobile device management that can control the flow of data (access) from bluetooth and wifi to the iOS devices. I've actually configured a Profile Manager (mdm) on Lion Server in the past so I'm a little bit familiar with mdm but not sure with the bluetooth access. Where can I start?
How to send the home key to a windows installation in VirtualBox in OSX?
I disabled Notification Center a while ago by running But after enabling it back with it didn't reappear in the Finder.
I would like to have a video in a Powerpoint presentation, without having to download the file. So just insert a link to youtube or vimeo, and then being able to play it directly form the presentation. Is this possible at all? Edit: I did mean "stream" a YouTube video
Since this morning I think, when I'm on a call and move my iPhone away from my face a bit, it seems to automatically switch to Speakerphone (the voice can be heard out loud) and it shows the number pad. When I get it close to my face again, it goes back to normal. I have an iPhone 4S, latest iOS 6.1.3, clean install (no jailbreak). I am not sure if this is a bug or a hidden feature I enabled by mistake - but this is very strange to me...
The problem is that the English voices do not have correct French pronunciation, and vice versa. I have to open System Preferences to switch between the two every time.
My cousin has forgotten his passcode for his phone, and is trying to find ways to get his pictures without resetting the phone and losing them.
Is there a link or somewhere to report App Store rule violations? Specifically, when an app is using push notifications to send you advertisements/promotions, despite this being explicitly against Apple's rules. The closest thing I've found is a form to report intellectual property violations, and I can't find anything else that's close. 5.6 Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind. Recently, AppGratis was removed from the store for this (and other) violations.
I am running into this problem when I accidentally remove a USB drive without properly ejecting it or similar and then plug it back in. When my drive is plugged back in it will apear normally, for example 'My Drive' but in the volumes folder in Terminal it will apear as 'My Drive 1' thus certain softwares will not be able to find it. When I try to clear the list I get this kind of problem: As you see the drive is not mounted or plugged in but still exists to the system. Thus when I plug it in it will apear as '3000 1' and my backup software wont find it. I can fix this by restarting easily but was wondering if there is any other way.
I often ssh into a machine and tail -f it's php error log. My ideal situation would be to leave this terminal window open in the background, but when there's activity from the tail command, have the terminal window be activated and moved to front, or notify me in some way that an error has been written. This way I wouldn't have to always keep space on my desktop reserved. Does this make sense?
I have seen in blogs on Linux machines you can edit the current bash shell command in VI (or whatever the EDITOR is set to) by pressing ctrl-x,ctrl-e. This doesn't seem to work on 10.8. Any ideas on how to edit the current bash command in the default editor?
If I submit one build for the US and a different build for the rest of the world, will Apple give me 2 separate app ids? I.e. if everything is the same (app name, etc.) except for the actual game code, do I get one app id for the US and another one for the rest of the world? This is important for cross promotion purposes, because if I hardcode the link to my app in another app then I might need to do some geo segmentation to account for the different app ids, depending on where the users are located.
I'm using OS X Mountain Lion with Windows 8 installed via Boot Camp. When I switch between Windows and OS X the time in each operative system is different, exist a difference approximately of 4 hours with the same Time Zone. So, I need to change the time when start Windows or OS X, but automatically change the time of the other operative system. Exist any trick that solved this issue using the same Time Zone? Thanks.
I was wondering if it is possible to get a wireless mouse and keyboard less expensive than Apple's that would still work the way Apple's do - without the need to use extra USB toggles for bluetooth connection? My MacBook Air has only 2 USB ports and connecting a mouse and a keyboard would leave me without either one or both USB ports.
I was trying to recover some files I accidentally deleted, so I followed this wikihow article. It makes you change the privileges for the .Trashes file, but then after says, "You can now reset the Access Privileges in the .Trashes Info window back to what they were". This would be fine, except I didn't pay attention to what they originally were. If anyone could take a quick look and see what there's are that would be great.
I've just installed Office for Mac 2001 (v14.3.3), on this page (*=URL=* it says "Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 is included with every edition of Office for Mac 2011." but I can't find it anywhere.
I'm trying to install the Command Line Tools for Xcode so that I can use homebrew to install some packages I need for some rudimentary programming exercises; I would rather not install the entirety of Xcode (again) as it's pretty bulky for something I rarely use, and I prefer a minimalistic IDE. Supposedly, Apple has released the command line tools separately, but for whatever reason, when I sign into the Downloads for Developers page, I get some sort of weird error where the page will not populate with downloads the majority of the time, and even when it will (rarely) I can't find the command tools I'm looking for. Apparently you can also download the OSX GCC Installer from Kenneth Reitz's blog, but it seems to be obsolete now that there's an official Apple version.
I lent my hard drive to a friend and he has formatted it as he couldn't get his PC to recognise it. I have no Time Machine backUp. Is there any way of recovering this data?
When I send an email from my iPhone the sent email does not end up in the "sent" box on my Mac, in my mail. It ends up going into a different box, named"sent messages" under "mobile Me. I want it to sync properly so all of my devices are the same. Does anyone know what I need to do to make this happen?
I am using OSX 10.8. Is it possible to map an extra Application folder to launchpad so that launchpad will pick .app from that folder too ?
I have a iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.3, I usually sync it with iTunes running on OS X 10.8.3 however for the last few days there is no option of sync , only the summary tab is shown and nothing else, please refer the screenshot, how can this behavior be repaired to what it used to be.
Does anyone know how to change the font size in Safari's Web Inspector? It's too small for me and my eyes can't stand staring at it during long periods of time. I've found some links on the web concerning my question but they don't seem to work either: *=URL=* *=URL=* I'll switch back to Chrome and use its own Web Inspector if there aren't any solutions available.
I have looked at the files the driver installs in Installer. It installs the following files: /private/var/db/receipts/com.todos.shbecr.shbecr.pkg.bom /private/var/db/receipts/com.todos.shbecr.shbecr.pkg.plist /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/Info.plist /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/MacOS /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/MacOS/shbecr /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/Resources /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings Trying to execute the only binary file above, /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/shbecr.bundle/Contents/MacOS/shbecr returns the following error message: -bash: /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/d
I am trying to install OSX (10.6) from disk, but before I do I want to format the hard drive which requires the Disk Utility from the disk. I am pressing Command + R at start up, but the MacBook is still booting up normally. I've tried before the chime, after the chime, during the chime. Nothing. I am using the 13" MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install DVD that came with the laptop. Any ideas what's going on?
I ruined my beloved mid 2010 MacBook and planning to get a used MacBook Pro 2008 (not unibody) now. Currently, I have 2x4GB memory units in my MacBook and I would like to now if I can use at least one of them in the MacBook Pro. I heard that the 2008 Pro only supports up to 6 Gb, so I would like to use 1x4GB from my MacBook, and 1xGB from the Pro.
Is there a way in Mac OS X 10.8.3 to open Google Chrome in full screen mode with dual monitors so that the Dev console appears on a second monitor? This would seem to be the obvious and intuitive way to develop for the browser, but I wasn't able to find any hints or suggestions about how to accomplish this setup. Many thanks.
I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone (4S) and just recently received my iPad mini through the post. I am wondering how I can sync all of my devices so that every contact, app and music are on all three devices.
Accessing the web via TOR. The problem does not occur, but the connection is too slow for regular use.
I am administering the laptops of 2 of a friends's boys (13 and 15, so ...). I have put Parental Controls in place but this is playing havoc with Google Drive and Steam, possibly also Minecraft but not sure yet.
For dictation on OS X, you have double-tap a key (I've set mine to fn) to start dictating. It then does a very irritating beep noise. And when you hit return, it does another very irritating beep noise. How do I turn off this very irritating beep noise, without turning down the system volume?
Is there a way I can delete all my encrypted iPhone backups for which I forgot the password, so that I can start backing up from fresh? At the moment I'm stuck in this loop (below) which I can't seem to exit
I'm running iOS 6 on an iPhone 3GS. I see that all my contacts from my computer have appeared in the Contacts app on my phone. Now my contacts database on my computer is, to say the least, messy. It includes just about everyone I exchanged e-mail with over the past twenty years. Most of them are just a name and e-mail address, because I've never used this database for phone calls before.
How can I get the ssh server to re-read its configuration file (/etc/sshd_config), without killing existing ssh connections? EDIT: If I run kill -HUP <SSHD_PID> I kill the connection.
Every Time I launch iPhoto I get the following error message twice... 'A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported, would you like to import it now' So i Click yes and then it appears again, after clicking yes again it goes away and lets me into iPhoto its not the end of the world but gets pretty annoying as it never imports anything and is just pointless and time wasting. Its been appearing on every load of iPhoto for about 6 months now any ideas ?
I need access to Microsoft Intermidiate Certificates in my Key Chain. I unlocked the key chain using administrator password but still no access to the MIC. It keeps asking me for a password (that I do not know), and it will not accept my admin password.
How to auto-run disk repair on OS X 10.8+ after each system crash? Note: I am not looking for a manual solution.
I have 4 kids and they all have games on their iPads that are the same games. How do I get the accounts squared away so they are no playing each others game? For example, everyone has "Clash of the clans" on their iPads and they all play the same game. How can we get it so each person can create their own world in the game and not interfere with each others' game?
I have a relative who will be visiting from out of state, and I would like to share my music. My music is purchases from iTunes and CD's that I've copied onto my iMac. I'm trying to figure out he can play my music when he returns home to his Apple TV, iPad set up. What options do I have to do this? thanks...
I work support and mainly work with PCs so my mac experience is limited. Right now one of the mac laptops we support is not utilizing the wifi at the user login screen and displaying "Network accounts are unavailable." I can login with the local admin and the wifi automatically connects as it should then, but I can't seem to jiggle anything loose to restore the wifi connection at login screen. I would appreciate any help or advice on how to restore this functionality as all of the laptop users need to be connected to the wifi for their domain accounts to be granted access on the laptop.
I am working on a maven build that needs to make an rpm. Is there a native rpmbuild utility that will run on MacOSX? So far I have found some old abandoned macports/darwin projects and people recommending running virtual box/parallels in virtual VM mode. Is there really no native tool for building rpms on Mac?
What happens if a user installed an app manually (from AppStore or Enterprise App) and later on MDM tries to install the same app? Does MDM app installation fails (because the app is installed already) Does MDM overwrite existing app? Does MDM request whether to overwrite?
Question in title. Is there any way for such configuration? OR at least that files are stored only on one computer. Of course I am aware that I can use internet browser version of dropbox, but I would like to use the desktop one, but exactly in the way a browser version works, i.e. without losing hard drive space.
When I try to set up the app in Apple iTunes Connect to submit my app, I was asked to provide the support url. Can I use my blog website for this?
I run many firefox profiles simultaneously. Since moving to the mac, I've lost the British English dictionary. I can install it as an extension on each profile, but I'd like to install it once across all profiles.
Within desktop Safari, one can view and edit bookmarks within a a hiearchical list. For Mobile-Safari running on an iPad: How do you view all bookmarks? How do you search within Bookmarks?
I am using Font Book a lot and manage my fonts with it. Now, I want to back up all my settings. I found my collections in ~/Library/Font Collections
This functionality, however, seems to be missing from third-party productivity apps. Any apps designed to create to-do lists can seemingly only create an entry in the Notification Center once the alert time has passed, but this creates the typical alert entry with a blue circle to its left -- which does not seem to me to be the most appropriate format (both aesthetically and functionally) for a persistent reminder (compare this to Reminders app entries, which do not have any symbols to the left until after the alert time has passed, at which point the symbol is a white bell rather than a blue circle). Of course, one can simply use the Reminders app to bypass this problem, but, in my experience, the Reminders app is not ideally suited for daily to-do lists.
As the title says, could someone accomplish this? I couldn't. FileVault 2 wizard tells me that the disk isn't compatible with it. I have only 3 partitions on main disk, and Recovery HD was cloned from original Macbook HD. ...
This has happened to me for as long as I have used Macs, I think. Occasionally, Mac OS X remembers a long-forgotten disk, sometimes external, sometimes internal, and spins it up for some reason. And every time this happens, the front-most application, the one I am using at that moment, hangs until the disk has spun up.
I've been using my AppleTV (3rd generation) to watch YouTube videos for some time, and have been encountering an increasingly frustrating issue. Videos have been taking longer to load than the length of the video itself when this problem occurs.
When my wife travels to the south later this year, will she able to play her iTunes music on her iPad2 at her dad's home? Will she simply need to log into his home network to do so?
In this MacWorld forum thread aliases are described as Aliases can reference an object in the file system either by a persistent ID or by path. Generally they will contain both pieces of information. Is there a way to access the persistent ID an alias is pointing to with either AppleScript or bash?
Did I started every Damon in that directory? How to restore Daemon startup state from there? Edit: *=URL=* - the list of actual running services output from launchd% list Edit2: *=URL=* - actual /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist file contents.
My son has a inappropriate picture of a girl as her contact photo... When I questioned him about it he said that she had made it her outgoing contact photo and he had no control over it... Is this possible or am I being lied to?!
I have a MacBook Pro and from the last week I have been unable to turn the machine on properly. First it displays the Apple logo and shows this message
By co-incidence everyone who lives in a particular house has an iphone and often does not know if other people are in the house (in terms of questions like 'is now a good time to play music/vacume/cook food?') So it would be great to be able to know what devices are currently logged on to the wifi network. Is this a possible thing?
In Chrome or Textedit I always accidently end up zooming with the build-in trackpad on MBA with Mountain Lion. How do I disable the trackpad function for zooming in application specific. Looking into the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist it is not clear what function is it and how do I disable it in Terminal. From the example: I was thinking of doing the: But I do not know the actual entry name for it.
In TextMate 1 there is a Fonts & Colors tab in Preferences to edit theme colors, but in TextMate 2 I cannot find how to do the same... I can select a theme in the View menu, but I want to customize a theme, the same way it was possible in TextMate 1, by selecting the "scope" and changing the color with a palette and the font style. Where is this function in TextMate 2?
I have file sharing working between my iMac (10.8.3) and MacBook Pro (also 10.8.3), and I have an external "My BooK" drive (USB, MS DOS format) that I want to share. The iMac (where the external drive is connected) reads it just fine, but the Mac Book Pro doesn't see it. I have "shared" the external drive, but it doesn't show up on the other computer.
I'm one of those greatly suffering from the problem with TM in which the entire backup sparsebundle on a NAS gets corrupted if the Mac goes to sleep in middle of a backup operation. There's a long process for recovering the backup, but it would be far better to avoid the corruption in the first place.
I updated my iPhone 4 from iOS 4 to iOS 5 a while back. Now I am trying to update my wife's iPhone 4 without jumping all the way to iOS 6, so how do I determine what model I need?
With the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard set to become the new wireless standard, I am wondering how quick Apple has been, historically speaking, to implement new standards like these in their AirPorts and Time Capsule. More to the point, would these changes be likely to take effect before the end of the summer, historically speaking? To be clear I am not asking about rumors or speculation, but rather would like historical evidence to back any claims made.
Is there a way to disable the data detector "feature" from Mail?  LE: OSX 10.8.3 / Mail 6.3 (1503)
I'm switching from Microsoft Excel to Number.app, in Excel you can do the a1:a10-b1 bit will return a cell range equivalent to a1:a10 but with all the cells decremented by b1. What's the proper syntax in Numbers for that? If I try to import an Excel workbook using that syntax into Numbers, that formula will be imported verbatim and Numbers will complain.
It seems that it's currently impossible to have the entire boot drive converted to ZFS. How would one go about converting a single disk HFS+ Filevault 2 setup into a setup which has full encryption and most of the advantages of ZFS? I imagine that there will have to remain a boot partition which is HFS+ and all user data would have to somehow live on an encrypted ZFS partition that will get auto-mounted and perhaps symlinked to /Users ... I'm on 10.8.3 and with CE Zevo (1.1)
So which products does this affect? And is there anything I can do to mitigate the effect, such as affix a glare filter?
i just thought you could see if someone is invisible in skype, if you just delete (reset) his profile picture. Because i know if you install skype on a new device the profile pictures are saved only if he is online (or invisible). That means if i just want to so if someone is invisible you just delete or reset his profile picture and if you see after a few seconds his picture again = he is invisible.
I have a rMBP running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. I normally use the display at a 1680x1050. Is there a way to have the display automatically change resolution to the default retina when on battery, and revert to 1680x1050 when power is reconnected?
I'm having an issue where Spotlight isn't properly showing results for System Preference panels. When I search for a preference panel by name (e.g. Sharing or Network), I don't get any System Preferences results. If I search for "pref", I get a list of preference panes, like this:
When logging in to my Mountain Lion Mac remotely via ssh I do not get the same PATH variable as when I open a shell locally: The local shell inherits its environment as expected from launchd and therefore has the PATH value I set in /etc/launchd.conf. With the remote shell I hit a surprise: When I open a shell via ssh it does not inherit the environment variables set in /etc/launchd.conf although the related ssh processes all have launchd as their parents. Why??? A cut from a ps -ef output shows:
This seems to have started only recently, but every time I attach a USB device or removable media (SD Card) to my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.3 the mouse cursor freezes for a few seconds. The screen is still updating. It seems to happen right when the OS sees the external drive (via phone, camera, SD card, etc.)
I would like write an applescript to evaluate whether a particular file contains a specified string (perhaps as part of an if... then statement). I want to invoke a shell command using mdfind to do this and I am aware of how to restrict mdfind to find files containing a specified string only in specified directories:
I have a 2011 MBP, 2.2 GHz, 8 GB, AMD 6750M, 512GB SSD that I installed myself. No AppleCare. Recently, I have had these weird glitches showing up shortly after I connect an external screen: What makes me think that this is a GPU related issue is that it can be forced without any screen attached if I untick the automatic graphics option in OS X: *=URL=* If I leave it on, it works for a while and then glitches, but there have been times where the screen just goes black or some blueish pattern, after which I'm forced to shut it down and restart. It's less noticable on Windows though, but still annoying since I primarily use OS X. I have tried resetting the SMC and PRAM and I recently reinstalled OS X. This is not acceptible for a two year old laptop that I paid a lot for, as a student I don't want to pay for expensive logic board replacements. I will call the Apple Support on Monday. Any advice?
My question is: How can i determine which files are on the SSD "partition" on Fusion Drive? I have an iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive, and it would be good to know which apps or data are on which partition. Is these information included in the file information or where do i have to look? Terminal is no problem, so i'm not searching for a easy answer.
Issue: Which of them good enough for visualization tasks? (GPU, games)
I accidentally synced my phone for the first time under 'guest user' rather than my intended user?
I'm trying to comiple Guake top-down terminal (guake.org) in Mac OS X. I've met a bunch of dependency issues while ./configure phase, but now I'm completely stuck with the following dependency issue: I've installed python, pygtk and vte via Homebrew but can't find anything related to python-vte, pip doesn't give me any suitable candidates. I've spent a lot of time while have been googling how to resolve this dependency and didn't find any references of python VTE bindings sources but saw many prebuilt packages for other OSes (http://packages.debian.org/ru/sid/python-vte).
The latest updates to MBPs non-retina say they can support upto 8 gigs of RAM. I had a mid-2011 13 inch MBP which I upgraded to 16 gigs.
I use "opensnoop" to show all files which are opened from different processes. But when I want to specific a file with i'm getting this error:
When my MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory boots in safe mode I see that the operating system causes dynamic_pager(8) to create swap files in a way that's relatively unrestrained. In the file system that I dedicate to swap, siblings of /Volumes/swap/swapfile0
Is there any text length limitations for how long text can be put to xattr? I plan to put my AppleScripts source code to script files so Spotlight can find it. Using Finder Comments isn't an option due to the volume of changes I will be writing.
My Mac (a MacBook Air, though I doubt that's relevant) has for the last few weeks been beeping (giving the alert noise, that is) every minute, exactly. It is getting to be extremely annoying, and I cannot find the cause. Nothing is showing up in the Console log on a minute-by-minute basis, and there's no crontab entry to run every minute. I've tried shutting down various programs and background processes to see if I can eliminate the source, but that hasn't turned up anything yet.
I have a 2010 MacBook pro 2.26 GHZ, 2GB Ram. Let me detail a bit of background first.
Is there a workaround for the iOS inability to easily delete ALL (or large blocks of) email from my iPhone and iPad ?
I have a wireless network that I set up using a Linksys WRT54G router. There I can add MAC addresses of client devices that can access my network.
When I first configured my new iPod touch 5th gen, I put "English" for iOS language. I then switched iOS to "Français (Canada)" in the General Settings/International. Everything look fine except one thing : The date displayed on the lockscreen which remains in english (Ex: Monday, 15 April). Even after restarting my iPod, the date is still in english. Any idea how to have the date translated on the lockscreen ?
We're running Exchange 2010 and I have access the server if I can make changes there. Basically is there a way to hide or delete the RSS Feeds folder that shows up on the Mac Mail app? When I try to delete it I get: You can't get rid of it from Outlook 2013 (Windows) either. Any ideas? I was hoping you could disable these folders from the Exchange backend but I haven't found anything yet.
I bought a TV series through Apple TV. Watched the first episode, works fine.
I'm using Mac OS X Lion 10.7. I open Terminal and its window shows up but immediately close and its icon remains in the dock. It's working fine a moment ago. I don't know what i have messed. I looked at the log file in the Console application and see "login: USER_PROCESS 172 ttys000"
I want to create a directory 'administrator' in my /home/ directory but it won't allow me as it alway returns the error Operation not supported. Any ideas?
I'm streaming my windows desktop with Splashtop Streamer to my iPad. However it doesn't support full screen windows apps. Are there any apps which does support full screen windows apps?
Attached is the screen shot of annoying screen monitor round cornered box, not sure what thats called. I dont know how it appeared!!! I wanna disable it. The Command+option+escape window doesn't show the Force Quit button for that 'Finder', instead its Relaunch.
In the image below, iOS shows some figures next to the app name.  I am not sure what this means. Does this indicate network used or disk space used by my app?
Is there a way to keep the notification bar from auto hiding? I'd basically like to keep it open/expanded on the right side of my screen.
I have a problem making xip.io works. I have set up my machine to use virtualhosts with MAMP .local domain name. this is my httpd-vhosts.conf file:
This is definitely and advanced topic and possibly needs a hack that I am willing to do. I edit Arabic files quite a lot. Arabic characters displayed by Terminal.app are not playing nice at all. To top that, some custom fonts that I use are getting picked up as alternatives for certain glyphs in my vim sessions. The default font for displaying English works fine and I have no complains about it. However, I want to change the font picked by Terminal.app when displaying other languages, in my case it is Arabic.
we are 4 friends and all have games on their iPads that are the same games. How do I get the accounts squared away so they are no playing each others game? For example, everyone has "Clash of the clans" on their iPads and they all play the same game. How can we get it so each person can create their own world in the game and not interfere with each others' game?
I re-connect another external drive (1 TB Lacie) using USB. The computer runs its beach ball for ever. This disc is working properly on all other boxes in the house. It is formatted for Mac OS, has only one partition, and contains only data. Same behavior on all USB ports.
This thing's driving me crazy. Often, when I download or create a new file, and then I have to upload it to a website or something like that, it will appear after the oldest items under a "No Date" section. I'm running Mountain Lion but it happened for me at Lion as well. Any ideas how to fix this?
I am booting a Netboot Image with a MacMini 5.1, after the system is up a shell script calls a server via curl. At the moment the Internet connection is up and running. I verify that doing a ping to the same server before using curl.
My wife can stream the music on her iPad2 to our home theatre via Apple TV. We have one iTunes acct for our purchases, etc..When she goes to visit family in Ga. Is there a way she can stream the same music via her dad's home theatre/Apple TV set up. I'm assuming there's an issue related to our iTunes acct vs her dad's iTunes acct.
I'm trying to figure out how to run an applescript when I connect and disconnect my iPhone with the USB cable. So far, I think I can run an applescript when it connects by using Image Capture (setting "connecting this phone opens" to "other" and selecting the script).
I am having a weird issue when I use the share functionality baked into Mountain Lion. Whenever I have a file highlighted in finder and choose the email option to share a file with someone, it decides to "re-open" Mail. Now this is a problem for two reasons. One, having to start Mail up is an unnecessary waste of time if its already open (I always leave Mail running in a side space), and two, some of my accounts wont refresh because there are two simultaneous connections. Here is a screenshot to better illustrate what is happening: I select the file, hit share and chose email.
I have a local "next action" folder in the mail app on my mac. I move emails that require an action from the inboxes of my different email accounts into this folder. Also, i have asmart folder that contains flagged mails.
iMessage won't verify my phone number. When I try to select my number for messages to be sent, it's greyed out. So I receive my iMessages over email which I don't want to do. I've tried: turning iMessage on and off, resetting network settings, rebooting my phone and nothing's worked. Any ideas?
I have my user folders (Music, Movies and Pictures) stored on an external drive, so I used terminal to delete the existing user folders on the boot drive then created symlinks to these folders and placed then in my user directory. They function correctly but when I drag them into the sidebar I can only see folder icons, not the original music, movies and Pictures icons. How can I keep the original icons I'm the sidebar whilst using symlinks to my user directory folders?
So I recently cleared a lot of space off of my hard drive as a sort of "spring cleaning," and I got it down to less than 40GB, but my computer doesn't seem to agree with itself on that. If I look at the info of my hard drive on my desktop, it gives me this: but when I look at the partition in Disk Utility, it gives me this: How do I get DiskUtil to realize how small my hard drive is?
I'm a college student and aspiring Apple developer. As such, I am trying to find an intel Mac Mini for as cheep as possible. I've noticed that there is quite a price gap between the models that can support Mountain Lion (late 2009 and later), and those that can't. Since Lion supports the App Store, do I really need Mountain Lion?
I am comparing prices of Photoshop Elements 11 for our new iMac. Some of the ads say 4 gb space needed for download. Others are less money but only need 1.5 gb. Are there different versions of elements 11 out there? Why the big diff in space needed?
I remember being able to make the edit back in the day, in order to force username/password prompt for users connecting to AFP file servers. I'm experiencing an issue with multiple computers; when trying to connect to a file server on a different domain the user's domain credentials from their current domain are being used, and not the domain credentials needed for that specific file server on the mentioned domain. That's why I would like a solution like the one above known to work with Mountain Lion, which that one is not. I've also tried clearing out and removing the keychain, browsing bonjour through Finder (which still allows a "connect as" login box to be pulled up) but the server, being on a seperate domain, is not showing up.
I used to have a tool on my PC that would allow me to prefill text when I enter certain "codes". For example, I would type $test123 and it would replace that text with a sentence that I had setup. Is there a similar program on the Mac that also works in any browser?
I have a multi-track mix in GarageBand. Each individual track has been recorded without clipping, and at no point during the song do any individual track volume levels go into the 'red area'. However, at the loudest points the 'overall' track volume (on the bottom pane) goes into the red.
I have a pair of headphones that I really like. I also spend over 12 hours a day in front of my MacBook. As such, I prefer to use some voice commands using Speakable Items. However, due to the placement of my MacBook on my desk, I can't use the internal microphone without yelling (can't yell in the lab).
When I'm trying to listen to something on my iPhone, the audio keeps cutting out. I've had this problem quite a bit lately and there seems to be a sweet spot where it doesn't cut out. It also means that the controls on my earphones, like those of apple earphones, dot work at all. I've tried clearing out the audio jack and my earphones work fine in my iPod.
I'd like to know if there's any way I could connect two iOS devices to transfer sound in real time. Sort of a walkie-talkie device. Anyone would know any apps for that? Thanks :)
my macbook air 2011 just doesnt show the login window, after running fsck -yf it shows So what I could do now?
Recently replaced iMac hard drive through recall program. Used Time Machine/Seagate Backup Drive. Everything seems to be restored but my Pages documents. How do I find them?
I need to record correspondence in projects and by default store everything as PDF files. I do the same with emails - I save the attachments in the relevant project folder, then copy the actual email message to the same folder, and then also print the email message itself to the folder. What I need is a script that will notice when I drop an email into a folder, and then automatically save the email as a PDF into the same folder (using the subject as file name). If it can be done that all the attachments are also saved to the same folder as part of the same script, I will be very happy. Can anyone help?
I'm used to having the Control button at the bottom left corner of the keyboard. It's a little annoying to be pressing Fn + Tab when I wanted a Control + Tab and the position of the Control button in the new Mac keyboard layout is just very uncomfortable for any finger to reach. Does anybody know how you can make the Control and Fn buttons change function like how you can change the modifier keys in System Preferences?
I have 2 macs, and use Dropbox a lot. On my MacBook I have one folder synced with Dropbox (through a symlink, ln -s ~/folder ~/Dropbox) that is actually in my ~/Library directory, so it's hidden. It was a while ago, but I somehow got symlinks to work for it (I cant remember how now!). On my new iMac when I do it, the symlink file won't work, because it's linking to a file it doesn't have permission to see (needs sudo password).
I would like to have an analogue clock displaying right in my OS X dock. The default clock in the menu bar is too small for me, and it is obviously impossible to drag it into the dock. If possible, I prefer a free (as in beer) solution.
Normally when typing `, I have to hold shift down and press ´, and a "dead" version of the grave accent appears. I then have to press space to get the "living" version of the grave accent. You can see here what I mean by living and dead (dead keys):
I am searching for an iPhone app that controls the music playback volume depending on travelling speed or surrounding sounds. I want this for optimized listening while travelling in my car. Anybody knows such an app?
Several of the preference panes on my Mac at work have are translucent and when I hover over them I get the following message: Your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane.
Is there any powerful program in Mac to check the health status - mainly bad sectors - of an external (USB) hard disk, and to recover them?
I'm in a research lab where we're looking to get an iPhone 4s to use as a speedier iPod touch. We don't want a cell phone contract, and we want to avoid jailbreaking or borrowing a SIM card just for activation (unless it's the only option).
Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have some newer pictures on my Mac.
I have lost and found my iPhone 3Gs. But apparently someone tried to use mine or had some intent to exploit it, and now I am a little paranoid about my iPhone.
Is there any way for me to get all of the words detected by the standard OS X spelling checker as mistakes, to be corrected to the first available choice using a keyboard shortcut? E.g. I type aqcuired and several words/sentences later I look up from the keyboard and see the typo. Instead of reaching for the mouse or tediously navigating there with the keyboard for a manual correction, I'd like to just hit some key combination and get it to be fixed to the obvious correction acquired... Any solution which is applescript based will also do, since I can easily trigger any applescript from the keyboard (using iKey).
I recently got a MBP and really love how quick spotlight is. I'm reading my exchange email via the Apple Mail app. The messages are indexed by spotlight but the contents of the attachments are not. Any idea how I can enable/fix this?
I live in Chile and the government has decided to go to winter time later than usual a few months ago. Apple has not provided an update for OS X to reflect this change. I now fixed the timezones manually by downloading timezone files and using zic to update my mac based on instruction found here http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070128185822710
I'm looking at getting a LaCie 5Big Thunderbolt unit for archiving purposes. I would like to get a second one and use Disk Utility to create a Mirrored RAID Set from both of them so that I have a backup of my data. Both LaCie units would be set to be RAID 0 so that I have maximum space available. Am I able to do what I intend to do? My next question is, assuming I can set them up as a Mirrored RAID Set, would I then be able to swap out a drive on each of them (one at a time, giving the RAID time to rebuild) to increase storage capabilities?
Up until recently I was using my 2007 MacBook perfectly fine with my old AirPort Express. A few days ago I purchased a used mid-2010 iMac which is now running OS X 10.8.3 (something I'm still not too sure I like). When I first brought the iMac home and connected to my network it did so just fine but the AirPort icon in the menu bar showed there was no internet connection, despite the signal being full. I then followed some step-by-step setup which rebooted the AirPort Express and all of a sudden I had internet! Great! …except since then my MacBook has the same problem my iMad had, i.e., it connects to the network just fine but the network icon shows no internet connection :(
I created a ringtone using Garage Band '11 and my bass directly inputted to my MAC. I was able to create the ringtone I wanted, and selected the 30 second loop, however the volume is really low. I've tried bumping up the volume on both the track and the monitor locations but still way lower than, say a purchased ringtone. Anyone know of a place I may be overlooking? UPDATE: I adjusted the settings in preferences under Audio/MIDI
There is no RJ45 / ethernet port on my macbook. Do I need a thunderbolt or USB or HDMI adaptor? Or should I just buy a mini wireless router?
What I like about Apple's note app is that it supports pictures. However, when I use the browser interface, the pictures disappear after I inserted them and switch to another note. Also, they are not downloaded to the Notes desktop app. Is there something I could do about it?
What are the advantages / disadvantages of the "Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adaptor" over something like the "Apple AirPort Express"? As a frequent traveller (with a retina-macbook-pro) I am simply looking for a lightweight and reliable way to connect to a wired network.
My MacBook Pro gets stupidly hot when I'm working on it normally (not clamshell). I am worried that the heat could damage the screen if I use it in clamshell mode.
I have a cd with x mp3 files on it. After importing them to iTunes (Apple-O, Add to Library), songs appear on disk at
Is it possible to allow these users to change their passwords somehow? Or is the only way to do it, to give the Admin their new password and he enters is into the Server app for that user (which is a horrible idea imo)?
I have a Flash drive accessory for my camcorder which allows me to record to it as well as the SDHC cards it also uses as media. This Flash drive can be connected to a computer using a USB connection and is recognised as an external hard drive formatted as FAT32, containing a single AVCHD folder (containing the video). I have my own external USB Hard Disk, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Case Sensitive) and wish to copy my video to that drive for storage, so that I can clear the camera Flash drive for future use with my camera. I copied the video by dragging it in Finder, however, the new copy will not open in QuickTime; instead a message box "cannot open" appears. After doing lots of comparisons, I was able to see that the contents of both copies were exactly the same, with the exception that one file: AVCHD/BDMV/INDEX.BDM had changed case (to AVCHD/BDMV/index.bdm). Upon renaming this file, Finder no longer associated the file with QuickTime, but if I copied the file, so that
All my docs are in: I want to put them on dropbox through symbolic link so I created this empty folder: Then used this command to create a symbolic link: The destination folder is still empty, what can I do to properly make the link?
In Terminal afplay -h shows full help text but the man page shows hardly nothing. Is there any way to get a longer help page for man afplay? I never use Terminal and it would be much easier if i could see this longer complete man page in Man Viewer or if there would be some kind of AppleScript or unix script which reads it from somewhere and then shows it or re-writes the man page. Some other unix apps has this problem too and it would be nice if it works for all apps with short man page. I wanted to use afplay long time ago, but when i saw its short man page i didn't start to use it because i didn't know it has all those settings which are listed in Terminal.
I have 5 iMac in my office. We use skype for conversation. I have used almost 5 different brand's headphone but headphone's external mic not work at all.
As far as I know, the PackageMaker should be part of "Auxiliary tools for Xcode" and can be downloaded from *=URL=* However I cannot see the "Auxiliary tools for Xcode" download (using free developer account).
I have some tiff files of (scanned docs) which are too large than required. I tried to export with Preview while applying filter "Reduce File Size". The new file came out to be quite small 36KB while the tiff was 14.4MB. Guess what, the text now is too hazy to read.
When I recieve a call it only shows the name of the contact. Is it possible to shows the number as well? The same applies when I call a contact, it only shows the name, but I'll watch that thread for options on outgoing mods or apps. The reason this is important to see is that I have 2-3 numbers for many contacts and it is very important for me to know at a glance if they are calling from work or home or mobile.
Having installed Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I can not get the sidebar in Finder to display Favorites. Finder > Preferences > Sidebar shows a number of boxes against Favorite folders, but these can not be selected Any suggestions?
When using Maven (mvn) on OS X Terminal, how can I get tab-completion for Maven goals, plugin names, etc? Things like this:
Is there a way to manually exclude songs from getting uploaded to iTunes match?
My father would always scold me that so many applications are open when he turns on the computer which he says consumes computer memory. I always forget to close the app by right -clicking>quit Is there any way to automatically close an app when shutting down? When I searched at google. They talked about iCalendar, but it was too confusing so I came here to ask.
Eg Lion, Leopard etc. If I click the Apple symbol, then "About This Mac" I only get the version number…
Lately, whenever I try to back up Time Machine to one particular external drive, it gets past the "Preparing..." stage (most troubleshooting documents talk about fixing problems with hangs in this stage). The status says "Backing up..." and the subtitle will say "Copying X GB of Y GB..." but it will make no progress even if I leave it overnight. What's wrong?
Mum's Mid 2007 iMac suddenly became extremely slow a few days ago. It takes over an hour to boot, and once booted it beachballs almost constantly in every app. Clicking an icon on the desktop takes a minute or so to respond. It didn't gradually get slow, she must turned it on one day and it was like that.
I have a Page Layout document. I need to remove the header and page numbering from the title page. So, I want to insert a section break after the title page. The problem is, I cannot do that. No matter where I click in the document - page one, page two, a textbox/shape/outside of them on page one or two, when I click the Insert menu -> "Section Break" is greyed out.
This is just a minor annoyance, but usually, when typing in the search field inside of System Preferences, the icons for matching search results receive kind of a glowing background or highlight. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, this doesn't happen on only one of my macs (early 2009 iMac). Has anyone else experienced this or know if there's a way to fix it?
This is more a general enquiry into whether I should be concerned, but I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 13" and over the last week and a half I have noticed the left side of the case (power point, QWE keys down to wrist rest) is getting uncomfortably hot during normal operations. I listen to Spotify and work on Google Docs / Transmit / Textmate with 1password in the background, but that's about it. I installed iStat Pro to see if I could see anything wrong, and I'm seeing the following numbers: CPU: 64 deg, Enclosure 1: 35deg Enclosure 2: 35deg Enclosure 3: 37deg
When setting up a ZFS pool on an encrypted CoreStorage volume, a manual typing of the password is required each time for mounting the volume (due to the problem of OS X thinking that the password is incorrect despite the volume mounting successfully, and hence refusing to save the password in the keychain). If I want to move my entire /Users to the encrypted ZFS volume, is there any way to get that volume to mount properly early enough in the boot process so as to allow regular login? I'm on 10.8.3, Zevo 1.1.1
I have an certificate manager ("BankID") that allows me to export certificates from its certificate store. However, for some stupid reason it only allows me to export these certificates to USB drives, not to a local file system, or, as I want to, a cloud storage unit with file system integration (I use Wuala which use MacFuse for its file system integration). Is there a way to make my Wuala volume behave and look like a USB drive?
I am running OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and Safari 6.0.4 In Safari, the setting General -> "Safari opens with" is missing.
I have a NAS that broke and it used linu_RAID as its format type. How do I mount this in OS X? Similar to this one... https://superuser.com/questions/307639/how-can-i-mount-a-single-raid-1-disk-partition-as-ext3
I wonder why Apple don't put all applications in an applications folder inside the Home-Folder. So they could offer a hole new mac for each user.
I am using Keynote '09 and whenever I create a comment, it is formatted in Marker Felt 16. I want to change that to something like Arial 20. How can I do it?
We manage a large number of iOS devices in an enterprise environment and are finding Apple's management utilities lacking. I wonder if there are any options for jailbreaking which do not entail completely opening the system up. I have no intention of thwarting the code-signing system and having to deal with the complications that raises, or installing unauthorized apps; my thoughts are merely that our administration options would be greater if we were able to access the system partition so we could manage plist files through ssh or another tool.
On an iMac running Mac OS X version 10.7.5 I have accidentally resized Terminal.app to full-screen (272 x 76) and am unable to resize Terminal.app to a smaller size. How do I resize Terminal.app to the factory default size or a size where I can use the mouse to resize Terminal.app?
I have an Apple ID and password that has been working fine with my iPhone. I have been able to buy music and download apps with no problems. I bought an iPad and configured it with the same email. I have tried to buy music and download apps using the iPad with the same Apple ID and password but have been unable to connect with the server. Do I need a special configuration for the Apple ID in order to be able to use it from different devices?
I have an HTC One V in addition to my iPhone. One thing I love about it is the camera application. It has two buttons: one to capture a photo, and another to capture a video.
I need to restore my iPhone (I use iTunes on Windows 7). I backed-up the backup in MobileSync/Backup to an external drive (thankfully). Now I have a long, nonsensically named folder containing the backup files, but when I try to move that directory back into the MobileSync/Backup directory, it isn't showing an available backup to restore on my local system. Directory structure: C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\AppleComputer\MobileSync\Backup\d0474d7f055ed768a337d83f611c26cf6f9517a7\d0474d7f055ed768a337d83f611c26cf6f9517a7\ Any help is mucho appreciated, I think this is mostly a directory structure issue.
Since updating to iOS 6.1.3 I am no longer able to copy files onto iPad and can't back up to my main Mac Pro with Mountain Lion and iTunes 11.0.2. I first thought it was the iPad, but now it's connected to my old Macbook Pro with 10.6.8 and it is backing up just fine.
I tend to keep all my stuff in Dropbox. Now that I bought a second Mac, I thought that keeping also my applications preferences in Dropbox would have been a good idea. I managed to sync some of the Application Support folders (I just want the more important apps to be in sync) by simply linking the shared folder on Dropbox to the link on the Macs: this way I ensure that every, say, Sublime Text 2 build I create on one Mac will be synched on the other Mac.
I'm looking to set up some custom backgrounds for iOS and using Apple Configurator to drag an image into the lock screen tab of the preferences and the tool crops the image for me. So, considering that there are iPhone 4S and earlier screens, iPhone 5 screens as well as iPad screens - I'm a little confused as to how to prepare an image so I can understand what will be cropped for each screen, both horizontally and vertically. I can only see the portrait layout and it's not clear if the tool is showing me an iPhone 5 or iPhone 4 S sized crop (or any horizontal layouts).
How can I play a .ogg music file on the command line? On Linux I can use ogg123, but what about on Mac?
It's using 20GB of my HDD space doing nothing. When I installed from BootCamp and partitioned I remember that BootCamp reserved 20GB space of OSX and wouldn't let me go beyond that.
My iPhone 4s was jailbroken, I think at 5.something or 6.0. I wish I remembered. I tried to update it to 6.1.3 via my phone in the settings menu. It restarted and told me to connect to iTunes.
I have a Mac Mini (latest model I believe) running OS X 10.7 at a remote location that I can only access via SSH. The problem is that the ps command* does not work. When I run it in any form, from any user, it just freezes and I can't do anything: I'm forced to close the terminal window. The rest of the machine appears to work fine, but any script that relies on ps does not work anymore.
I've purchased a 2009 iMac, bought Mountain Lion from the App Store and performed a Clean Install, but when I open up the App Store, I still see messages to update apps that the previous owner had installed (I don't own them), furthermore, I'm prompted to sign in with his Apple ID in order to download these updates. I thought that when I did a clean install, all of his information should have been deleted. Am I wrong? How could I get rid of this problem?
I have 4 or 5 Network shares in my Favorites bar in the Finder. Any time the Macbook wakes up from Standby, the Finder takes forever to show up. If I remove the Network shares from the Favorites bar, the delay goes away completely. I absolutely need those network shares because I use them several times daily. Is there any way I could keep my network shares and have Finder load faster? Please help.
My 08 mb, OSX Mt Lion, crashed so I bought new 2012 MBPr. Luckily, I backed everything up. Migrated everything from 08mb over to new MBPr. I noticed that when I deleted files, it skipped the trash can. My home folder did not have me as admin with RW permissions so I had to add myself and give myself RW access.
Yesterday my Apple Store came up with the list of new updates available, including Java and Safari 6.0.4. Since it was late I decided to wait till this morning to do the update. Now the same list does not show the Safari or Java update. So what happened? I cannot find those updates on Appple websites. Can someone help me finding these latest updates?
Is there a package system (think npm, cpan, or even homebrew) that would be suitable for shell scripts?
Is there any way I can create an automator service or app to delete ALL trash from any USB drive (my own account's trash plus everybody else's)? I've read several solutions involving Terminal, including this one, but I'd like something a bit more foolproof and really handy.
I use GIMP a lot for my work, especially for modifying figures in EPS format to put in my latex documents. However I don't know how to configure GIMP to open EPS files. In fact if I try to open an EPS it says that the format is not recognizable. On the contrary under linux that is automatic? How it can be possible? I'm using Mountain Lion with GIMP 2. Appreciate any help, thanks.
I'm trying to install python on mac OS X 10.7.5. I installed it from MacPort and I think before I did, I screwed up $PATH somehow. It seems to install fine but then when I try to run ipython I get I thought it had something to do with the path and when I do /bin/echo $PATH I get something that seems really weird to me:
I have a new printer on the network with four paper trays. If I set custom print settings on one computer. How can I transfer these setting to other computers?
After working perfectly for the past 1.5 years I have had my 13" MBA, I suddenly had WIFI issues. Let me give a few details about my experience: I suddenly had issues connecting to the internet (I was able to connect to the wifi, but could not load a webpage in less than 2-3 minutes if/when it loaded) at my home, but had no issues when connecting directly to my modem via an ethernet cable - thus, it was not a network card issue or an issue with my internet provider. After that, I had suddenly begun having issues connecting to the networks at my office and school...which is when I began to get frustrated. See my answer below for how I resolved this issue.
I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs. Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine backups setup.
I installed DEVONthink Pro, then uninstalled by removing the App from the Applications dir, but I can not get rid of the icon/menu in the menu bar.  I've removed every file anywhere that has the name 'devon', but the think just will not go.
For a iPhone 3GS with a IOS version 4.1(with cydia) is it possible to upgrate to 6.1.3(or something above 5) and unlock. iTunes gives update for 6.1.3 . While evad3rs have unclocked till version 6.1.2 .
I'm going to upgrade my machine with ssd drive, so I want to make a clean install. I was told that I can redownload the installer via Mac App Store, but the problem is that I used the store of other country for buying ML and now I'm using a different one (my country was introduced to it's own app store just recently, so I changed the store), so there is no Mountain Lion in Purchases section.
I'm going to perform a clean install of OS X. I have a Time Machine backup. I want to restore just particular folders, not everything. Is that possible?
I've created a keyboard shortcut but it only works for my current user, we have 3 users on our Mac (OS X 10.8.3) but if I set up a short cut, I have to then set the same one up for our other 2 users. Is there a way to make it universal?
In other words, my initial concern with the .iso file was that the content seemed to be inside the parent folder rather than at the top of the file hierarchy. Using Gordon's suggested approach, however, the content in question is buried even further down the hierarchy. I doubt, therefore, that this is the right approach to take here.
I've got "Automatically install new apps" checked on all my iDevices, but it hardly ever does what it says. For example, I just downloaded three new apps to my computer and then did a Sync operation on two iPads and an iPhone -- none of the new apps showed up. On the App List, they each showed the button as Install. When I pressed the Install button on the App List for each of the affected apps, they then installed on the next Sync. Just to keep me guessing, new apps WILL occasionally install correctly, but I've never figured out what magic circumstance triggered the proper behavior. Ideas?
When I try to download any app on my iPhone 5, I receive the following message: Account not in this store. Your account is not valid for use in the Swiss store. You must switch to the the US store before purchasing. How do I switch from the Swiss store to the US store?
OK, I'm extremely frustrated as someone who is not all that technologically astute, and I tried to solve my iCloud syncing problem by looking here, but I truly don't have the first idea how Byword's and RTF files (rich-text) sync works. I too have the dotted lines showing that documents are not saved to the cloud.
I've recently gotten my cable internet upgraded. When the tech was here, he was able to get about 48 Mbps speeds over wifi, but on my retina MBP, connecting to the same wireless router, I was only getting 30-35. We tried a number of different configurations, various wifi channels, and turning off the bluetooth on my machine. How can i diagnose wireless prrformance to learn if a particular router type may work better with my Mac?
I removed my superdrive a while back but now I want to install a linux partition on my macbook. I installed rEFInd as my boot manager but now I need to boot into the arch linux iso. Normally I would just burn it to a disk and boot... but I dont have a cd drive... so can I clone the iso to my hdd so I can boot off of it?
My iPhone Music collection has several albums by the same artist. When I select that artist in the Music app I see these albums listed, & "All Songs" at the top. When I select "All Songs" the songs are listed in alphabetical order on track name.
I've got a table as follows What I'd really like to be able to do is a select * from table where [Year] <= CurrentYear
Anyone know of a way to dim a mac's screen beyond the lowest brightness setting through the terminal?
I have 200 GB of mails, and I would like to place them in an external hard drive, and to make the appear, in the Mail.app, only when this external HD is connected. Is this possible?
I like to listen to Grooveshark while coding on my mbp. Since it's a website, every time I want to pause or continue I need to find the tab in my browser and click with the trackpad. Is there a way to remap the F8/Play-Pause key to provide this functionality? Hitting this key currently brings up iTunes, which I never use. I'm open to any scripting and/or coding solutions, if it comes to that.
I use SwitchySharp to quick switch between multi-proxies under Chrome broswer. Now I want to move to Safari(I love its "Tap to Zoom" feature), but SwitchySharp only works in Chrome, there is no a counterpart in Safari extension. So I wonder if there is a system level quick proxy switcher script or free app?
I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012) MD223LL/A MBAIR 11.6/1.7/4/64FLASH running OS X 10.7.5. It shipped with Lion. I want to reinstall the OS on the laptop without an internet connection. Is this possible on these newer machines? What are the steps?
Is it possible to use any application while it is being updated from the Mac App Store?
I've heard that leaving open apps on an iPhone, affects the duration of the battery's charge. Is this true and documented, or some of an urban legend? And does it affects other apps' performance?
How do I remove a Gmail account in Apple Mail on a computer I am giving away? I do use IMAP and want to make sure I don't lose any of my emails on my other computer and iPad.
I bought a new Macbook running Lion, trying to migrate from an old Macbook running Snow Leopard. At my temporary housing, the two machines were able to find each other over migration assistant, but since the network is so unreliable (it took 30 minutes just to connect each machine), I can't use it for migration. At work, we have an excellent wifi, but the two machines can't find each other in the migration assistant (despite being able to ping each other). Any guesses as to why?
I want to add song files to iTunes via the command line. does exactly this. - However it starts playing the song, too. Any way to avoid this?
i have installed opencv with brew and everything is magically ok. now i want to try to recompile by myself with cuda support. for this i have to download opencv, change a line in CMakeList.txt (because i have already installed cuds 5 and cuda toolkit), run cmake, run make, run make install. Exactly what brew has done. I am scared to do some mess with brew and blabla and going end up to have 2 different version of opencv and brew not happy. I just compile opencv with pkg-config --cflags --libs opencv so pkg-config is the only thing i care about. What is the best way to do it without mess everything up?
A co-worker is having an issue where PDFs sent as attachments are being corrupted. If opened through webmail, the attachment is fine. Any ideas here? I've rebuilt the Mailbox (using Mail.app's built in feature), but it happened after it. Macbook Air 2012 Model 10.8.3 Google Apps IMAP Happening to PDFs randomly and a powerpoint.
I had dropped my iPhone 3GS and the left bottom corner of the screen had cracked. Now the touch screen nor home button work. I'm able to charge the iPhone with my USB charger but am not able to do anything on it. I plugged it into a computer using a USB cord to transfer my pictures and videos and it only transfers 4, at the most, before it throws an error.
Has anyone done anything similar? If so, how?
I have all the JSON files on my system set to open with TextMate 2. When I get Info on one of these .js files, I see the TextMate 2 icon on the corner. But, how do I make for the TextMate icon to appear while in Finder's icon mode too? I'm using Mountain Lion, if that makes any difference.
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and have some problem with repeated error-messages crowding the /var/log/system.log file. Apr 19 15:15:14 pc49 com.apple.launchd[1]: * process 1 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded * Apr 19 15:15:44 --- last message repeated 29 times --- Apr 19 15:15:44 pc49 com.apple.launchd[1]: * process 1 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded * Apr 19 15:16:04 --- last message repeated 20 times ---
I am looking for an option to add the choice "Add to Existing Contact" from the Apple Mail.app From address field. As you all know, we have "Copy Address, Add to VIPs, New Email, Add to Contacts, and Services" as current choices. I am hoping that I can find a way to have an additional choice of "Add to Existing Contact" to this list - maybe listed under Services.
For the iPhone 4S and 5, is it possible to easily check if they are sim unlocked ? If so how ?
Is there a way to install modules from CPAN without resorting to sudo? (And without perlbrew, please.)
Seems reasonable to me... but I've been advised against this approach. I've also used Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant to make a bootable USB stick just in case. Is there any reason that I should boot off of and install from that instead?
I need to keep my MacBook Air awake when running certain applications. But when I put the display to sleep, often the whole system suspends after a few minutes.
Ok, I just bought a brand new original iPad. Sounds impossible, right? Well, we just opened the box, and it is not even charging. There is no indication that this iPad even works even though it is technically "new." Is this something that Apple will need to fix or do I just need to let it sit on the charger overnight and hope it wakes up from a 2 year sleep in its box?
My screen has a lock with an almost full bordering circle around it ending with an arrow. This is located in the top right of my screen. Just inside the battery %. How do I turn this lock off so I can use landscape mode?
It seems like the export to PDF option currently exists on Keynote (version '09) does not embed the font I use. What are my options besides buying Adobe Acrobat Professional?
I find myself needing to explain math via Skype (to nephews, nieces in high-school or college, etc.) with increasing frequency, enough so that the clumsy approach of holding a pad of paper up to the camera is beginning to get irksome. Typing out the math into the interface's text field, or anywhere else, I find even more irksome.
I'm having some trouble with Apple Mail 6.3 (1503) and Smart Mailboxes under 10.8.3. When I create Smart Mailboxes they work just as one would expect them to. When I quit Mail and re-open it, they're gone as if I would have never created them. I found a similar issue with an earlier version of Mac OS X where deleting the SmartMailboxesSomething.plist in ~/Library/Mail/ fixed the problem. This does not seem to apply for OS X's current version anymore. I filed a bug about this: http://openradar.appspot.com/13700673
On OSX 10.8, if you compare the binaries for bash, sh, and ksh, a few different shell options, they are the same size. If you take it further and cmp the binaries, there seems to be only a single-byte difference between the binaries. This superficially seems to indicate that all of the code to support all of the different shells is available in each binary, but which subset you have access to depends on which shell you end up executing. Can anyone confirm that the binaries are in fact compiled this way? From Apple's point of view, is their any benefit in combining all of the shells in this manner?
Is it possible to select all of the hyperlinks in a document? I want to change the colours for every link in the document but it seems a bit odd that i have to go through all of them manually.
Is there any OSX router software or Airport config to redirect all the users that connect to my Airport WiFi-hotspot to a certain domain or local IP?
So I messed up when I thought it would be a good idea to stick some hard drives into my NAS. It's now changed the partition table to a RAID0 one and my data has vanished. What are my best chances of recovering it?
Whenever I enter "subl" in the command line of iTerm it tells me that the command is not found. I have seen many message boards pertaining to this and nothing seems to work. I have tried entering "ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/.rvm/bin/subl" but iTerm tells me there is no such file or directory. This post (*=URL=* is also a popular solution but when I enter "open ~/.bash_profile" in my command line, it opens the generic text editor and "export PATH=" is NOT found at the top.. there really isn't much in there
When I move a large file between folders, I notice that Time Machine takes a long time on the next hourly backup. Apparently, it is quite stupid and considers a file move just like a deletion and an addition of a completely new file...
Any emails that I send/receive using Apple Mail on my Mac mini are not accessible via iCloud webmail. However, any mails I send/receive using the webmail do show up in Apple Mail. For example, I need to look up information contained in an email I received in Apple Mail last year, but to do that I need to be using the OSX Mail app, as the required message simply doesn't exist as far as iCloud webmail is concerned.
OS X Mountain Lion: Is there a way to change the default system font? Things like color (I'd like it slightly more gray) and the type.
I'm running OSX 10.7 and following the instructions linked below am failing to start hidden services.  I keep getting this error: "Error creating directory ...". It's either No such file or directory (you bet ya there is) or it's "Permission Denied," if I try to put them where the the tutorial suggests
I have a 2009 iMac that has been working fine (but slowly) until now. I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 GB Intel SSD (MZ-7TD500BW) and put in 16 GB of RAM (PNY Optima PC3-8500). I've performed a fresh installation of Mountain Lion and run memtest on the RAM. Everything passed great. I also repaired the file system permissions with Disk Utility.
My iMac rarely has WiFi turned on since I use Ethernet, however Location Services seem to need a WiFi connection (they both connect to the same router, so I fail to see the logic there… but there we go). Is there a way to override or set my location so that apps which use Location Services can still get a location?
I have just bought an album and have imported it to my itunes. I can drag the files onto my ipods but not onto my iphone. any ideas? thanks
I am considering purchasing a mid 2009 Macbook Pro - 13", 2.53 GHz. However, someone advised me to beware of the NVIDIA graphics card problem they had in 'that time frame'. As I understand, the video would go out or flicker and in general make the machine hard to use. After much google, it seems that the problem happened during the 2008 time frame - see here and here and here.
my phone behavior is very strange. If I plug the charger in and do not use the phone, it not charging. It only can be charged if I using it. I've reset but it's still the same. Do you have any idea about it. Thank you.
I sometimes let my kid (6 years old) use my IPhone 4s (iOS 6.1.3) to play angry birds. Lately friends have been telling me that I tweet silly angry-bird tweets. It seems that the Angry Birds application uses iOS integration to tweet in my name, and makes it very easy for my son to make those tweets. I would like to block this application from sending tweets in my name, but I would rather not log out entirely from twitter on my IPhone. All I could find on the matter is here, which claims that I would need to revoke access to the entire iOS integration: Note: Though you will see other specific apps like Twitter for iPhone or Camera for iOS listed in your active connections, you cannot revoke access to these individual apps; you have to revoke the entire iOS integration
From what I can understand, in the latest iterations of the MacBooks, what former was an input/output 3.5mm jack, now only can be used for input. However, it's possible to use certain headsets (for example the one that comes as standard with the iPhone) and get both audio in and out.
I'm basically trying trying to find this setting: From this question, but can't find it on this Snow Leopard MacBook. My version of that settings window has the slider, plus a list of resolutions, but not the "auto brightness" checkbox.
If I delete photos on my camera roll on my iphone 4s will it delete the photos on photo stream on my macbook pro?
My iPhone's lock screen button isn't behaving well and I'd like to take it to the Apple Store to get it replaced. I'm fairly certain I bought AppleCare on it, but the receipt and anything that might indicate I made that purchase are locked away in a storage locker and far from convenient to find. Is there a way to determine if any piece of Apple hardware is currently under warranty or covered by an AppleCare plan without having the original purchase receipt?
I am using an applescript to mount a users home folder. However, when I use a password with a "@" symbol the script fails since the "@" symbol is also the separator between the password and servername? Anyway around this outside of changing the password? Thanks Here is the script:
I am a Mac newbie and I have a new 13" Macbook Pro. I used the Ethernet connection for wired Internet in my dorm room, but after using it for half an hour or so, the Ethernet port and the area nearby started heating up. After it got considerably hot, I unplugged the Ethernet cable. The cable is CAT5e (not CAT6 for gigabit ethernet) and a rather cheap one and I sincerely hope that this is the reason for the heating problem. Is it so? Any ideas?
My company utilizes a voicemail system which sends audio files as email attachments. These audio files playback via QuickTime in iOS which pushes the audio out via the phone's speaker. Which is great for a Mumford and Sons song, not so great for voicemail. I can hook up headphones for private listening, but when I am without headphones wanted to use the phone's ear speaker instead.
I have the option to buy a 2009 13" MBP for $500 - mid 2009 with the 2.53 GHz C2D. At this point, I'm leaning towards it (I'd be using it for iOS development). I know it's been well taken care of.
Some directories make sense to be sorted by date modified, while others make more sense to be kept sorted alphabetically. How can I make it so that finder will apply a specified sort by selection on a per-directory basis? If no such feature exists (In which case I hope somebody at APPL is paying attention), I suppose using/remapping the keyboard shortcuts (Defaults being Cmd+Ctrl+5 for Modified and Cmd+Ctrl+1 for Alphabetical by Name) is the next best thing.
My Macbook Air is limited on hard drive resources right now. Can I download iTunes U courses onto a USB flash drive（formatted to Mac OS Extended）instead of downloading courses on my own Mac?
I have used Preview's export function to export a JPG file to PNG format, and GPS information is still embedded in the picture. Is there any tools in OSX that allows me to strip off the GPS data?
I have a Mountain Lion server and two Mountain Lion clients. I have two network users. From one of the clients I can log on using either of these two accounts, from the other I cannot log using neither of these two accounts. So it is not a user account problem. The authentication seems to go through correct, judging from logs, but then it fails with the message from the subject of this post, with further remark that the login failed because an error has occurred no details on error. Both client Macs are bound to open directory in the same way. DNS works fine on both clients. Where should I go on server searching for error? Update: after checking the client logs I found the problem (but not the solution)
I have a dish tv connection. The receiver has a VGA out port and an AV output port.
In order to save more space on my music collection, I want to use XLD to convert all my CBR (constant bit rate) 320 kbps MP3 to VBR (variable bit rate). How do I use Spotlight to find all 320 kbps MP3 in a particular folder so that I can select all of them and open (and thus convert) in XLD? PS It was easy to find all Flac files since I just typed in .flac. Obviously I can use iTunes to get a list of all songs that are 320 kbps MP3 but I can't open them from there.
I 'd like to do a presentation with a wireless USB remote control. At one moment, I need to go to the previous animation phase – which would be the shortcut Shift–Left Arrow or [ (left bracket). However, with my presenter it is only possible to go the previous slide — which would be the shortcut P, Delete, Page Up, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, or Shift–Up Arrow. I do not want to use a keyboard since I want to speak freely in my presentation.
I'm wondering if this software exists for Mac. Where it will use whatever sound is currently being outputted and visualize it. I would even take using the microphone to receive the sound.
Is there a way of making iPhoto's Photo Stream one-way sharing? As I don't want all the pictures I download from my regular camera on iPhoto to be shared with my iPhone or iPad.
I have the background image on my OSX desktop set to change every x minutes- it chooses a random image within a specific iPhoto album. However, when I remove photos from that iPhoto album, the removed pictures continue to cycle on my desktop. How can I fix that?
Is there any way in Safari (6 on Mountain Lion) to have it remember a different download folder per website? So if I visit my bank and download a statement I can pick my /finance/ folder to download to and have it remember that location for future visits. Meanwhile I can go to basecamp and have anything I download there go straight to /work/ In Firefox there's a secret flag you can set that allows this behaviour, is there any way to do the same thing in Safari or through an extension?
I've just installed ImageMagick using macports and am trying to use it from a php site running on Apache, but nothing I do works to add /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin to my path. So far I've tried adding an export to .bash_profile (macports already did this for me) adding an environment variable declaration to or.apache.httpd.plist, which totally overwrites the path (using $PATH to refer to the previous path doesn't get recognised) redefining the PATH in /usr/sbin/envvars using export in /usr/sbin/envvars using setenv in launchd.conf using export in launchd.conf adding to the list in /etc/paths Any ideas
On OS X 10.8.3, in Mail, is there a way to change the account folder that the "Archive" button sends the mail messages to? For example, on GMail it should go into "All Mail".
For example, MIT's 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, I want do download all the video courses simultaneously instead of clicking each of them(that cute little free button), how can I do it?
Today I found out that something strange is happening to my Mac OS apps. For example - Disk Utility.
I am subscribed to a newsletter, everyday I get emails but once I read them I delete them. After sending them to the trash and emptying it, next day I receive the usual email, but the previous email is also shown below the new email. The problem happens with my gmail and hotmail accounts. How can I set things up so that when I delete a mail from my Gmail Inbox, it also gets deleted on the servers and other devices?
Mail in Mountain Lion (10.8.3) seems to be having one heck of a memory leak. As you can see, it's using over 44GB of memory and 200% CPU. Machine specs: Mac Pro 2 x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Xeon 64GB RAM SSD drive
Is there any way to see who used iTunes from my iMac with USB connection? Actually i want to see iTunes logs when someone get connected, synchronized or used my books?
In AppleScript Editor i can see that source_code has script content but row 2 fails for some reason. This don't work. I try to read AppleScript files to variable. I don't try to run this loaded code but i need to get it as string.
This code touches files in alphabetical order. I need to touch files in order it is in list_of_files, so first it touches file2, then file3, then file1). Is there any other way to do this than to use repeat loop and do touch command as many times as there are items in list? Thanks
Will Apple decline an app from the App Store if a test feature is in place? I've looked over the generic App review guidelines but don't know how or where the line is drawn.
Earlier today our IP Address changed due to misconfiguration caused by our ISP. I'm trying to ensure our IP won't change again. So I spoke with our ISP and they assigned us a static IP (we were supposed to already have one).
In at least one case, I noticed an 2 year-old alias to a folder I renamed about 6 months ago seemed to indicate, in its "get info" the previous name of the original folder. I use this alias routinely, and I know that prior to the update it took me to the folder per its new name.
I'd like to save the content of some miniDV tapes to DVDs. I can use iMovie to do it, but iMovie creates a lot of video files and sort them by date. It will be a titan job to reorder them by hand and burn a DVD after that.
Is it possible to start the screensaver (preferably the origami style) on only the connected external monitor? I want to be able to use the second display as usual. A third party app would also work.
I am planning to purchase iPad Mini wifi + cellular from Best Buy. The Best Buy representatives were not sure it will work in India with different service provider or not. They are selling iPad with the service provider locked with AT&T or Verizon (as I was told, anyway). If I purchase, from Best Buy, a wifi + cellular AT&T iPad, will that work in India or do I need to buy an unlocked iPad from Apple store?
I've always wondered if this was a feature or not. When I'm on my iPod Touch's lock screen, then I hit the power button twice, the first hit will sleep the device, the second will wake it again but this time the screen is dim.
I'm looking for some convenient tool to handle such rotation without changing the file timestamps.
I picked up a beautiful old G3 Tangerine iMac. Works (and looks!) great.
My TM backups are causing some disruption to my work while they're running, be it a backup to a network drive that's taking up all available wifi bandwidth or a backup to an attached zfs volume which causes very heavy cpu usage (due to the gzip-9 compression settings I use...) I'm looking for some way, even a dirty hack, to get TM backups to only start while the computer is idle for over a few minutes and to stop when mouse/keyboard activity resumes.
I found an article where somebody is apparently having the same issue, and tried his suggestions to no avail. I'm at my wit's end! Spotlight is constantly saturating my I/O with its indexing and making my shiny new Mac unbearably slow.
This happens not for all files. When I move or delete some of the files on my external drive Finder will ask for password. Is it due to permission set on these files ? Can I use something like Sudo when running Finder to prevent these pop ups ? The reason I'm asking is that sometimes I leave the mac running to move some files from one disk to another, just to find it on the password prompt a few hours later. Thank you.
I have pretty much started from scratch on my new installation because I couldn't figure out how to restore the files I backed up on my Linux installation with Deja Dup. I have GPG Keychain access installed, so what do I need to do to restore the files I had and look at them and see what I want to keep? I really appreciate any answer you can give :)
I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, 2011) ,I am now downloading iTuneU courses 24 hours.There is only one app iTunes running,is it ok?
I was wondering if anyone could gimme some advice on buying a "mini-displayport to VGA adaptor" for my MAC BOOK PRO 13" to use with projectors for presentation purposes. The Apple price for the product is $29 while I can buy it cheap from Amazon. However, many reviews are against buying the $10 Amazon product as its inferior to that of the original Apple product. Any suggestions other than Amazon?
The amount of space I get back is suspiciously close to the amount of RAM I have in my machine (8 gigs). Could it be related to virtual memory? My assumption is that somehow it's related to temporary cache files, but I don't know which or why, or how to clear those caches without a reboot. So my question is: Why do I get back 8 to 10 gigs of storage space after a reboot when my hard drive runs low on space?
I got a Macbook Pro with OS 10.8 installed on, the usual recovery partition that is created by the OS installer, and a 35GB partition (currently NTFS, but I can reformat in HFS+ if needed). My question is : can I use the recovery partition to do a full OS 10.8 installation on the small partition, in parallel with my everyday-use installation (i.e. will it let me do that without erasing/wreaking havoc on my current OS, is there any known caveats, and so on)?
I am pretty new to Vim and to Mac, I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display running OS X 10.8.3, which does NOT have native Home, End, PageUp and PageDown keys. I know the Fn + arrow keys can work in some applications. Also in bash, I can use Ctrl + A go to the beginning of the command line I am typing and Ctrl + E go to the end.
When I sign into icloud.com and click on the Find My iPhone icon, my MacBook does NOT show up in the located devices. I have already made sure that my location services are turned ON in System Preferences and I have also made sure that Find My Mac is turned ON in the iCloud preferences in System Preferences. My computer IS connected to a wireless network.
I'm a very new user of Apple and Mac OS - coming straight from Windows so please bear with me if my question is a bit foolished. I'm looking for a way to set my View Option as a default property applying for all folders on my system. I've google this and every answer I'm getting points that I need to press the button "Use as Defaults" in the View Options windows.
Since a while now, I can't use the app store anymore on my MacOS Lion. It just keeps the screen "One Moment Please. Connecting to the iTunes Store.". I tried a couple of things ... rebootet ... waitet for days and tried it again ... cleared the cache, as described here: Mountain Lion Doesn't Download from Store and some more stuff. Nothing shows up in the Console.app ... iTunes works just fine ...
G5 is totally defunct, I trying to take out the HDD for archive purpose. But realize ... there is no way for me to take out the casing. Any idea?
I would like to track the battery usage of all insatalled and system applications in iOS devices. I hope it would look like this:
I need to change the country of Apple ID from UK to US, but I previously purchased some apps with my UK-based account, do I need to re-purchase them after migration? Will I still be updating my apps after changing the country? Thanks!
Suddenly, a couple of days ago, I have started to have major problems accessing internet through my home network, with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (non-retina) running Mountain Lion. I connect to the network just fine, but when can't open web pages or when I try to ping google.com I get: or something like: I can't find any pattern to the results.
I'v just upgraded to an iphone 5 after my old 4 died, battery dead and charging mechanism kaput, so not able to transfer data phone to phone. Tried it on mac at home and it says I need min version 11 on itunes, but when I search for updates it says latest version is 10.6.3 - any suggestions?
I recently switched over to OS X from Kubuntu and am trying to get my favourite development tools working. In Kubuntu I always used kdiff3 as my git difftool. I can get it to work on OS X, either by installing it via Mac Ports or downloading the binary from Sourceforge, but the startup time is horrible.
I have a new thunderbolt equipped MacBook Pro at work (non-retina) and two older, pre-thunderbolt Cinema displays (mini-display cords). Obviously, daisy chaining the new thunderbolt displays is a breeze, but is there any way to run two of the older pre-thunderbolt / mini display Cinema monitors off the single thunderbolt port on the 2012 MB Pros?
But now I cannot do anything. I thought to use NONE for payment options and use coupones and certificates to make purchases just to keep my original country. But it does not allow to enter NON as payment option ether.
i just bought my iPad mini for 2 weeks or more which has been jail broken. So since I'm using a weekly prepaid data plan, I need to renew the data plan again and again for every week. Hence I wanna know if I can use iMessages in order to apply my data plan again which I need to send it to '28882'. Is that possible to use iMessages, or if it does not allow me to do so, do you have any idea how to send text messages as if 'normal messages' to especially non-apple devices? Any idea what other apps do I need to use?
I am currently having an annoying problem where anything I print in Mac OS X 10.8.2 is scaled to 3%, and I cannot seem to change this through the printing menu. I've attached a picture of my printing presets which shows that the scaling is stuck at 3%, though I cannot reset the scaling from this menu. The presets window shows the "scaling" option under "Copies & Pages" but this does not show up in the printing drop-down menu... so I'm stuck. Does anyone know how to change this setting?
I want to be able to enable and disable screen sharing from the command line rather than through System Preferences. This is on 10.8.3 To enable screen sharing, I find I only need to change a dictionary value in the following plist: /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist To be precise, to enable screen sharing, I do the following: sudo defaults write /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist com.apple.screensharing -dict Disabled -bool false And that changes: To:
I received an ipad mini 2 months ago as a giveaway at a computer company luncheon. It is my 4th ipad & 1st mini. Two nights ago, I noticed the back right side (left side if looking at the back) was hot and the device was not responsive. Charging or resetting using the dual-button process made no difference in status. I was wondering if anyone knows if a device "won" new at a computer show or luncheon is still covered by warranty? Thanks
I was required to give my birthday when creating an Apple ID. How do I now keep this information private? I see it has appeared on my Google calendar and I am hoping it does not appear on my contacts' calendars as well.
EDIT: It's now ridiculous I can't open Parallels at all because after a few minutes the computer runs out of RAM and I'm forced to crash it by holding down the power button. I will offer a 500+ bounty (Can't atm because of the stupid 2 day wait) if that helps.
Clicking on the finder icon in the dock has no effect. To open the finder I have to open the context menu and choose "New Window". I already stoped the finder process, without success. How can I fix that?
On iOS 6+ specifically iPhone if you are in a call using Phone.app and have Skype.app running in the background should you be notified of any Skype incoming calls and have the option of terminating the Phone.app call for the Skype.app call?
I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.
I have a MacBook Pro with a root mounting sector with problems. It becomes like this due to password changing in safe mode. Now of course it doesn't turn up any more. I tried repair with disk utility I tried CMD+R using terminal I tried several reparing softwares to save data
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but my mac (mountain lion) has recently started crashing suddenly. Below is the error I get on restarting. Am I correct in assuming the issue is vim?
How do I change the default browser for root in OS X 10.8.3 Do I need to enable the root user first?
I have a playlist folder called Stars. Inside it I have 5 smart playlists. one playlist for each star rating. 1 star, 2 stars...etc. is there a way for itunes to automatically write a '1' in the grouping tag when i rate a track with one star? thanks!
Given a hard disk with an encrypted Core Storage volume (but not the decryption password, because the backup service should not have access to that), how would one go about backing it up in a way that allows for pushing it to a cloud storage provider (like Amazon S3) and for incremental backups in the future (because you don't want to to push a full 1TB every day when only a couple of blocks have changed)?
A couple of weeks ago I damaged the logicboard of my MacBook when I attempted to clean the keyboard. However, it worked perfectly fine if I had the lid closed and attached it to an external keyboard. But it happened twice, that there was a triple klick sound from the MacBook internal speakers and my Bluetooth keyboard stopped working. I figured out that only a restart could fix the problem.
I came into possession of a 2009 13" MacBook Pro. Most of the time, it will be used as a desktop computer - but there will be instances when I will need the 5 hour battery.
About a week ago, my OSX machine stopped connecting to any WiFi networks automatically. If I open the WiFi menu from the top bar and select the desired network, it connects OK. Also, if I enable "Ask to join new networks" from the Network preferences, it shows the "No preferred networks found" dialog, even though the network is both in the list shown in that window AND in the preferred networks list in Network preferences -> WiFi -> Advanced...`.
I have the following situation: I have Mac OS bundle with application which uses some 3rd party dylib's and those dylib's depend on some env variable, let's name it ENV_VAR. I want to set ENV_VAR to some value for my application only because if I set it for the whole system it may breaks some other apps. And it should work transparently to the user i.e. he just run my app from the Application folder by double clicking it. How can I achieve it? NOTE: dylibs are loaded before main functions starts hence setting this variable in the main doesn't help
I haven't been able to connect to an FTP server from Finder, if I use other client there is no problem. The username I am using to connect is in the form user@domain. The domain part in the user name is not related to the ftp server I am trying to connect to, is just that the user name contains an '@'. I found a similar issue where the password contains '@', in my case it is in the username. found that any password with an '@' symbol in it caused Finder to immediately display that error and not even try to send any traffic to the FTP server. For real, is Finder unable to connect to FTP servers if there are '@' in the credentials? Host is specified here
Since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.5), Finder doesn't display thumbnail previews of ARW files. ARW is a Sony RAW image format (in my case files were produced by Sony NEX-5 camera). Finder used to display the thumbnails under Snow Leopard (10.6.8), but not anymore. ARW files are opened as usual by the Preview app, their previews are shown in the Finder preview column and by Quick Look. Only the thumbnails are not shown.
I was testing my iPhone App on iPhone 5.1 Simulator. App ran very fine. But got strange situation at the time of removing App from Simulator. I followed these steps to remove the App from Simulator : 1) Long Press on App Icon.
Yesterday, I decided to set up iMessage on my Macbook Pro. And ever since then, Mac Notes keeps opening up every 5 seconds. I close it, or force quit, and it opens again in 5 seconds. But even when it's idle Mac Notes is restarting every 5 seconds, and assumes priority on my screen, so I am battling to type and work on my Mac. It's as though it wants to create a new note each time. Macbook Pro Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.3
I am the admin for my company's Mac users. Apps that I initially installed, such as Adobe apps, MS Office, Firefox, etc., all require an admin password to install updates. In order to avoid the snide comments from users about their lack of admin rights I'm looking for a way to allow users to update certain apps without requiring an admin password.
I have 100s of images to save out in a different format for a project that I am working on. And the problem is I have to do them one at a time, so I am wondering if there is some way to record the actions of me saving one of them out and then having the program repeat it by looking in a specific directory and doing it with all of the images. I am not sure how else to explain what I am trying to do, but I just need some way to make the program that I am using automate the saving task for each image. P.S I don't know if it helps but the program that I am using is called (Texture Packer)
Quite frequently I have to send the outputs of my work on terminal (e.g. when compiling code) to my colleagues via email. I was wondering if it is possible to pipe (|) the output of a terminal command directly to email and I realized there are mail and mailx that can be used for this purpose. The problem is, when I try a simple message like this
I think my girlfriend is using facetime to talk to an ex-boyfriend so that it does not register as a call on our joint phone bill. (Or I'm the one worried about my secret relationships being spied upon and don't want to have someone knowing with whom and when I'm communicating to others by reading a phone bill). Can someone explain if iOS can be set up to force and/or eliminate the possibility that something being sent as an iMessage would cross over into being sent as an SMS message?
On my IPad I use a GMail app for my email. However some applications seem to require sending via the built in Email client. That's question #1 - why doesn't for example my camera app allow me to send pictures via gmail? And question #2 is - the IPad default email client is not allowing me to create a new GMail account with my Gmail configuration in settings. I am doing the following in Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars Gmail Enter my Name, email address, Google password and description It gives me a dialog that says "The user name or password for "imap.gmail.com" is incorrect.
Does anyone know how to stop Safari developer program membership? A couple of years ago I enrolled into the program as I was interested in development of Safari extensions. But now I have a really big problem because of this enrollment. Currently I am also a member of iOS development team and EVERYTIME when I try to login or just access ANY of the sections in the Member Center I need to choose my team me as safari developer me as member of iOS development team This is really annoying considering that the Apple's development portal seems buggy because it doesn't remember my choice and keeps asking me to select the team after every single click and redirects me back to the portal home page so I am not able to proceed further. If anyone knows how to cancel a membership of a certain developer program of Apple, please help me.
I previously installed MySQL 5.1 using the installer, since then created a number of users/databases, and now would like to upgrade to 5.6. What is the procedure to do so?
After countless searches, I haven't managed to find any clear answer on the subject. The iMac 27" (late 2012) features a tray on the back of the computer, which you can open after pushing a button located behind the power cable, in order to add or remove memory modules. We are intending to house a large number of iMac available to a large number of people, we'd rather not get the RAM stolen in the process. I have an untested theory that the Kensington slot featured on the iMac might lock the button if there is a Kensington lock in place. Any truth to it or should I be looking into something else?
I am trying to do some batch processing in terminal with texturePacker. The creator of texturePacker said that this is the way that you batch convert a directory of .pngs to .pvr.ccz.
Any advice is much appreciated. At the moment I am seeing a folder with a question mark at boot, which I understand is usual behaviour as there is no OS.
I am working on a small web app that runs on controlled iPad (i.e., both the hardware and content is in our office and never leaves). I would like to hide the URL bar in this app. I've placed the following tag at the top of each page:
Sometimes, I don't get access to the Display Audio that my Thunderbolt Apple Display provides when I dock to the machine with my MacBook Pro. The clunky way to solve this, is a reboot. I've tried using the Apple Preferences (Sound), but that fails to provide the option, unless I reboot. Here is what my system_profiler shows as available Sound/Devices after the reboot (and when the Apple Preferences does give me the option to select the bigger Thunderbolt display):
I use Mountain Lion and want to know if there are keyboard shortcuts for moving around and choosing a particular application window within a given active desktop in Mission Control. I chose an option to show all active windows separately in Mission Control. Can anyone help?
I am trying to buy paid membership for one year to the iOS developer program, but I could not complete the activation step. I have a gold visa credit card and I tried to use it to buy the program.
I am running Mountain Lion and I have an issue when trying to start certain applications: Dropbox, Google Drive and Eclipse. If I click their icon inside the Applications Folder or I try to launch them from Spotlight, they will not start. As simple as that, they just will not start, no sign of anything, nothing. However, I found out that I can still launch them if I do the following: Suppose I would like to launch Google Drive, then I will go to the Applications folder in Finder. Right click the icon of Google Drive and select the option 'Show Package Contents' Right click the icon of Google Drive and select the option 'Show Package Contents' Go inside the Contents folder (only folder that appears when I perform step 2). Go inside the Contents folder (only folder that appears when I perform step 2). Go inside the MacOS folder. Go inside the MacOS folder.
When I attempt to open a file attached to an appointment in Calendar on my iPhone it has replaced the file name with and error, "edit?usp=drive_web" and the application crashes when the attachment is clicked. Any ideas?
I was trying to swap command and option key for my external keyboard following the instruction in *=URL=* When I'm done with change and I restarted, my mac booted with Kernel panic message. I'm sure I've messed the info.plist file. Now I cannot boot in safe mode as well. I know if I get a way to change the file it should be fine. The message shown in screen is The error specifies the problem in kext as well. Thanks.
Can I stream to my computer to watch Netflix? Or, can I only stream from devices to computers? Seems quite limited, if so.
I think I read that we can set up a RAID 1 mirror set (software RAID) using OS X Mountain Lion using Disk Utilities, and later plug in one drive and copy a file to that drive, and later on, plug both drives in, and the two drives will sync up automatically? But I just set that up (using 2 brand new drives), and then Eject the RAID set, and now unplug both drives, and plug only one back in, and the drive won't show in Finder, until I use Disk Utilities to examine the drives, then the drive will show up in Finder. And then I copied one file to the drive, and plug in the other drive. And then this second drive blinked for 10 seconds, and I thought they sync'ed up.
Is it possible to configure rEFIt so that the menu does not automatically show on my macbook when booting? I would like it to boot straight to OSX and only show the menu when I hold the option key, similar to how it worked before I installed rEFIt. I am using: MBP 10.6.8, rEFIt 0.14
I use mouse with left-hand. My system is shared with other people who are right handed. So, I need frequently to switch mouse button.
How do I sync mountain lion contact list to yahoo contact list?
I have: a MacBook Pro (6,2) Mid 2010 OSX 10.8.3 a Mini DisplayPort (I think) to HDMI Adapter an HDTV When I plug the whole thing together, my laptop flashes blue for a second, the TV detects that I've plugged an HDMI input, but then says "No Signal". I've tried with 2 different TVs.
I have recently purchased an external Japanese keyboard from FILCO. In addition to the regular keys, it also has 3 keys specifically designated to switch between Western and Japanese character input. Apple provides the same keys on its Japanese keyboards and they function as expected.
I made a custom iOS 6.1.3 ipsw using sn0wbreeze to prevent the baseband update, then stitched my 6.1.3 sHsH blobs to it using redsn0w. Then I went to itunes and put my iPhone 4 in pwned DFU mode and used shift+restore to restore to the above mentioned ipsw. The restore started, apple logo showed up on the phone, then the snowflake with the progress bar. Then abruptly itunes gave the error (-1) and the restore stopped. What do I do to correct it? Thanks.
I'm trying to use apple script to automate creation of a new outlook mail message. The below code will work when I have my email account sent up as pop3 but I need it to work with an IMAP account.
There is a movie on my Macbook which has some some inappropriate scenes that I want to edit so I can watch the movie with my family. I know how to cut scenes (trim) using Quicktime but this will confuse the translation timing on the film (.srt file) I am wondering how to make the scene freeze (fixed) while the unwanted scene is playing or better, a program that would adjust the timing of the subtitles to match scenes cut so that we didn't have to fast forward through whatever the "censored" still frames look like?
I do web development on my Mac and I tend to have lots of windows open. Even per application, I tend to have multiple windows opened (ie a Terminal window for tail -f error logs, one for ssh, and one for local commands).
I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro 15" and I already have an iPhone 4. I'm using Hotmail (now called Outlook) for email management. Since I'm using a Macbook now, I want to use Mail.app to manage my emails since I have multiple email accounts. Here's my problem :
I use Mountain Lion (10.8.3) Messages exclusively to monitor text messages sent to my cell phone. When I first start my computer or login Messages is hidden (I don't want it in my dock) and if I receive a text message I get a banner alert from notification center. If I open the message I enter the Messages application and the running application shows up in my dock. What I would like to do is have Messages behave as it does when I first start the computer (receiving notifications but not visible in the dock as running) all of the time (I assume it's running in the background somehow). If I click 'Hide' on the Messages icon in the doc it remains visible, and if I quit messages entirely after reading a message I stop receiving notifications. I have tried editing its Info.plist to include as suggested in the Hide a running app from dock thread, but the behavior remains the same. Thanks!
This is hopefully a pretty simple question. Is it possible to configure a bluetooth headset to act as only a microhphone? I am using OSX Mountain Lion. I would assume the process would be something like: Pair the headset with OSX Set audio input to be the device instead of line in Set audio output to be the normal audio output, and not the bluetooth headset
I've got a machine that doesn't have a direct connection to the internet. I use a socks proxy to connect to the internet: And I've got Firefox, etc configured to use this proxy, so I can browse the internet as normal. How can I configure Software Update to use this proxy (or some other method) so I can get updates to this machine? I know I can set the software update url to a non-default value, so that might help, but I'm not sure how.
I just got a Mac and couldn't stand the Mighty Mouse it came with, so I got a nice little Logitech wireless USB mouse (Model M325). It's much nicer, but when I have Finder in column views and go to back up or go forward directories with the middle mouse button (tilting the scroll button left and right until it clicks), it doesn't work. I'd understand if Apple just didn't support 3rd party mice, but I have another (much older) USB mouse (Logitech RX 650), and it works as expected out of the box...
Check out this screenshot:  Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started happening and it's super annoying because I have to browse everywhere manually on the right side. This is the Save As dialog in Chrome, but it's the same way in a regular Finder window. I'm in OS X Mountain Lion.
I don't have files with non-english names, and don't type non-latin URL's, so question is how to auto switch system input source in these occasions.
I wan't to get rid of unnecessary files on my SSD HD. Although I only checked Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Photoshop (and something iOs-related) while installing, Adobe has still installed a bunch of other folders/applications. Which of the following folders can I safely delete? Adobe Adobe After Effects CS5.5 Adobe Bridge CS5.1 Adobe Device Central CS5.5 Adobe Extension Manager CS5.5 Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Adobe Flash CS5.5 Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 Adobe OnLocation CS5.1
I'm working on a photo booth web app that's going to run at a kiosk, and I'm trying to figure out how users can make a 4 x 6 printout of their photo. When the user requests a printout, PHP resizes the photo and moves it into a folder being watched by Automator. When Automator sees a new photo is runs a "Print Images" action, but the action doesn't have an option to change the paper size, so it prints at the default US Letter. It seems this could easily be accomplished by setting the default paper size to 4 x 6 in the Print & Scan options, but that doesn't seem to be a choice:
I am a college student and have recorded an interview for a speech assignment on my iPod. It is too large to email (about 24min). I have Dropbox on my iPod but when I try to "share" the voice memo, Dropbox is not an option. I don't have a computer to sync my iPod either. What can I do to get this turned in?
This is driving me crazy . I'm trying to set the Home page on the iPad.
Is there any extension or whatever that I can use to remove the results I don't want form google for safari? I would like to be able to ban certain domains from appearing in any results on my google searches.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro Intel running Mountain Lion. I have a 2tb Seagate External Drive with 3 partitions: all three were set up the same way with different passwords as a person who used to live here was burning DVD's from my digital backups I felt the need to do so. I was having no issues with this for the first six months I had the drive set up like this but about two months ago this changed. I can no longer mount one of the partitions. It will not accept the password I KNOW goes to it. All I can figure is that, some how, the system encryption key must have been damaged. The only other pieces of Info I can give you is this. First, I didn't use firevault for this but Disk Utl. Second, at times, I can mount one of the other drives and even though I get the "shaking window" as though I typed in the wrong pw it still mounts the drive. Odd.
So I've got this new 13" MacBook Pro Retina... a beautiful machine by all accounts! Here's the thing though: It doesn't sit flat. As in, if you put it down on a flat surface, all four of the rubber feet on the bottom won't touch the surface. Only three will (just like a wobbly, uneven table). It's not really a big deal except: When I rest my palms on the palm rest areas to type, the Mac wobbles and makes a tapping noise, and... When I rest my palms on the palm rest areas to type, the Mac wobbles and makes a tapping noise, and... I'm worried that if the casing is bent or just not straight that it's putting stress on something internal or that it's an indication of poor build quality and there might be other problems. I'm worried that if the casing is bent or just not straight that it's putting stress on something internal or that it's an indication of poor build quality and there might be other problems.
I'm using a Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.3) with file sharing enabled to Windows users. Whenever a Windows user copies a file into the share on the Mac (Windows file sharing), the permissions of the file are 600, meaning that other users of the Mac cannot access the file. Files copied from Mac clients (using AFP) have 644 permissions, which is perfect. Is there a way to configure the permissions that are set by Apple's Windows file sharing? Incidentally, I never had this problem previously with Snow-Leopard.
I have a friend with a 13" MacBook Air. He upgraded to the new software in the App Store about a week ago and now, when he is using anything that uses his built-in camera, it says "There is no connected camera." I've tried looking through his settings and nothing is working to fix the problem. I've found a number of problems, but nothing has worked. We're not sure how to go about solving the problem, even after finding several solutions to no avail. Anything helps, thanks!
I've set up my Ubuntu server at home to act as a Time capsule using this guide: *=URL=* It works very well, and I have two macbooks backing up like crazy when i'm connected to the WIFI at home. The problem is that Time machine on the macbooks keeps notifying me of how many hours/days it has been since the last backup when i'm not on my WIFI at home. How can I make Time machine only look for the backup disk when I'm connected to a WIFI with a specific SSID?
I want to play some 8-bit style games - via an emulator or as web games in a browser. I find that these look much better on a CRT TV. I thought of using a TV as a second monitor for my iMac (24" early 2008). It seems I need an "Apple Mini-DVI to RCA adapter" to do this.
Is the iOS Camera app's "tap to focus" animation available somewhere that I can download and use? Preferably an array of images?
Depending on the protocol and configuration of the VPN connection, the connection may drop easier. (e.g. TLS vs UDP) The VPN connection is not established instantly when you connect to a public network. I think that the last two points matter a lot because whenever your network settings change the various applications immediately talk to their servers - I assume it's configd that informs them, right?
Outlook.com offers email/contacts/calendar similar to Google. With my iPhone and iPad (iOS 6.1.3) I can connect to outlook.com by setting up an Exchange account. It uses the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. On OS X Mountain Lion I can choose an Exchange server in the Mail, Contacts & Calendar settings tab, but it does not connect when I put in my outlook.com login. Is there a way to connect to outlook.com via Exchange ActiveSync to access email, contacts and calendar?
Note: my machine's Wi-Fi MAC is 68:a8:6d:29:cf:8a (static IP 192.168.1.250) and its Ethernet address is 3c:07:54:5a:e0:44 (static IP 192.168.1.251). The router's LAN IP is 192.168.1.1 and its WAN IP is 85.61.155.224. In the next screenshot one can see, during a Skype call: ping 192.168.1.1 in the upper left. ping 85.61.155.224 in the bottom left. ping google.com in the bottom right. the arp -an and arp -ad commands executed.
I would like to use our MacBook Pro to record music my daughter plays on her MIDI keyboard as well as her voice. What kind of hardware/software do I need for this?
Recently I have registered for the iPhone developer program with an Email ID, but now I want to changer my login ID to some other email ID. Is it possible to change it now?
does anyone know what the radio is in the mac mini late 2012? The only detail I can find is that it is 4.0, but I can't find out if it is dual-band capable.
I updated my iphone 4 ios today. But now when i on the iphone it shows an empty screen with IPHONE written in bold, when i unlock it, it shows me a list to select language, when i select it shows me another lis to select country. When i select a country, it takes me to wifi and a button that shows connect to itunes. When i click on connect to itunes, it shows a usb pointing to a music icon. I can't do anything on the iphone apart from this. I don't have a wifi connection and i can't get a pc now. What can i do, please ?
I'd like to determine which process is handling a particular key combination. I've looked through the System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts list. I've also looked through another utility (Alfred) I use and cannot find the key combo in question listed. Anyone know of a tool that will show which processes are registered as global hotkey handlers?
I want to create a new, separate Apple ID to use for a specific game. The reason is that the game glitched; I want to re-download it and start new, which I've been unsuccessful in doing it. If I create a new Apple ID to use for that game, will that affect my current account? Right now, I have one Apple ID associated with everything on my 4s. Is there a way to do this?
I'm thinking about upgrading the CPU in my MacBook Pro from its current 3210M dual core processor to a 3632QM quad core processor. Is there any reason why this wouldn't be a good idea? The socket, operating temperature, instruction set, wattage, and memory specifications match perfectly. It's a summer 2012 production model, 13" unibody, FCPGA988 socket, 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM (upgrading to 8GB shortly), with 10.8.3.
Why does the Mac reopen the previously running applications? How can I avoid it does that?
I have a jpg of some logo, but its background is not completely white, more like light-greyish, whereas I would like it to be perfectly white. I know how to select the background and also know how to turn that background to transparent, but not how turn that background to white.
I am writing a document which requires the table of contents side-numbering scheme to start on the page after the table of content itselt. Basically the first 8 pages of the document should not count against the auto page numbering you can turn on.
Recently whenever I try to sync my iPad to my iMac I get the following error message: 27/04/2013 14:34:01.376 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[3815]: 3815:1917989248|AppleMobileDeviceHelper.m:_getDisabledDataClassNamesFromLockdownForTarget| ERROR: Could not find a device with the target identifier d0e43aec963246a826be357c29a086ce8a3c9365. Assuming there are no disabled data classes.
I've been using a Mac account for years. Just checked on my iPad that only posts made on iCloud the last 30 days are on Calendar. None of the older ones appear. I've already turn off and on on settings. Thanks a lot. Miguel.
I've made two .command files, "lock" and "unlock". The first hides hidden files with: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE, then refreshes finder with killall Finder. The second does the opposite, I simply replaced TRUE with FALSE, in the first command. I'd like to copy these over to a USB thumb drive in such a way that when I plug this USB into my laptop, it automatically executes the "unlock" file, and as soon as I unplug it, the "lock" file is executed.
Today I needed to view the contents of OS X's SDKs, which are published as .dmg's. To my surprise, I discovered that the structure is as follows : The .dmg contains a hidden .pkg files The .pkg files contain a Payload file, which is a .gz or a .bz2, depends The .gz contains a single cpio-compressed file This cpio archive contains all the files. Can anybody provide technical and/or historical reasons why this is done this way ? Just to be clear : I don't have any technical problem, I'm just curious.
I want to publish a movie I made in iMovie to youtube but i have 2 factor authentication on. When i enter my username and password, the login fails. Is there any way to support this without removing the extra security?
I recently got an iPhone and at first I had problems connecting to the wifi. After a while, I got it to work. Now I noticed a small circle next to the wifi icon that spins when I am going down through a timeline on Facebook or Tumblr.
I've created a playlist of a selection of Voice Memos. I want to use it as a kind of audio flash card system. However, when I press "Shuffle" on the iPhone playlist, it always plays the same voice memo and it never plays more than one. I want it to play all of them in a random order. Is this possible? If so, how would I do it?
I brought my iPad charging wire to Israel along with the necessary plug adapter. I have not been able to charge my iPad. I also tried to charge it off of my wife's MacBook. No go. I called the front desk and they said it was a common problem and had me bring my iPad to them for charging. All of my other electronic devices (SONY camera, Olympus digital dictation device, BlackBerry) are taking the charge as did my wife's MacBook. Any idea what i need to do differently or wire that I need to buy?
From this help file I know I can disable Google Software Update using: Does this work for all accounts or just the current user account? I want to disable Google Software Update for the non-admin accounts that can't run it.
Is it possible to set a MacBook Pro to use ethernet cable over the wifi when it tries to access a certain IP in .bashrc file or any other configuration file? For example, you can set it not to use a proxy when it is routing on my private IP using the following command. Is there any way to ask my laptop to use the ethernet cable instead of the wifi connection for that specific IP?
A program i run cannot find a specific file. The file is right there where it is supposed to be. When i use Finder to locate it: it is found if i tell it to look in ~/Library it cannot be found when i tell it to look in 'This Mac' Surely ~/Library is on 'This Mac', so everything in it is also on 'This Mac'?
On mac, you can enable a VNC host using screen sharing, and can access it via either screen sharing or a normal VNC client by forwarding port 5900. How can one set up a second VNC session? I want this in particular because my desktop (host) and laptop (client) have different screen size and resolution.
For some reason, Finder is no longer running and will not relaunch using conventional methods. I can, however, get it running with the following command in the Terminal: prompt$ open -g /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & Despite the fact that I'm ending the command with an ampersand and passing the -g flag to open, the resulting Finder opens attached to a completely new Terminal window that, when closed, causes the Finder application to also exit. How can I relaunch the Finder from the Terminal, ensuring that it will run in the background without spawning a new shell?
When I look in Activity Monitor in Mac OS X 10.8.3 on a Macbook Pro 15" Retina while running Chrome (Build 26.0.1410.64) in a Windows 8 Pro VM hosted in Parallels 8 (Build 8.0.18483) I see that the "Parallels VM" process is constantly showing 40-50% CPU usage, even when the VM is idle. At the same time the Win 8 Task Manager only shows 2-3% CPU usage for all running processes. Closing Chrome in the VM immediately drops the processor usage for "Parallels VM" on the Mac side down to 7-8% (Windows 8 Task Manager still shows only 2-3% CPU usage by all processes). I can see this problem when Chrome is the only application running in the Win 8 VM.
I've used the Keyboard Viewer a few times, and disappointingly have never seen the "space" character: ␣ Is it possible to type this character directly via some combination of meta keys (option/shift)?
Folders take seconds to respond; Activity monitor shows nothing; there are 1.5 million files on the computer. Is the Finder overloaded?
You know that "scripts" menu you can show in the right side of the menu bar? It's very useful. I'm talking about this menu:
So I have this iPhone 4s, which has a serious problem: when doing absolutely nothing with it (it just sits in standby mode) the battery drains from 100% to 0% in about 12 hours or less. Also, it appears to be working very actively, as it is constantly warm.
I'm trying to remap some of the default key combinations in iTerm2, and would like to understand what is going on when I bind keys to "Send Hex Codes". A previous post helped me get started with remapping the ctrl-a and ctrl-e key combos to cmd-left and cmd-right, respectively, but I would like to remap other key combos as well. (Link to previous Stackoverflow post). I have a vague understanding that there are hex codes involved, but I am at a point where I can't figure out where to go next to understand what's going on or what to do.
I encounter the following issues with my Netbeans 7.3 installation on my OSX Mountain Lion Macbook Air. When launching the app, it bounces in the Dock for about 2 minutes before it simply stops. When you click on the icon nothing happens and when you right click on it, OSX says the app is not responding.
I'm trying to restore a crashed hard drive. Using Softtote Data Recovery for Mac, I have recovered 8000+ files. I can't use any of them. Brainstorming with the user, he forgot that he has FileVault enabled. Is there any way to recover data from a crashed hard drive with FileVault enabled?
I've got a 2.5" SATA HD in an enclosure, plugged into a Mac Pro (trying to see if I can use Data Rescue II to recover anything). Unfortunately, my system is not seeing the disk, either in Disk Utility, nor "diskutil list." Does this automatically mean there's no way I'll be able to recover the files, and we should try a company that specializes in data recovery?
However i have no desire to change my overall layout – only a couple keys. It didn't really address the simple question i have.
About 1 year ago, I set up FTP access on a webserver that's being used for our client. The project temporarily stopped and is just resuming now. I need to set up the same FTP access on another computer. I already forgot the password we used for it before and I can't seem to locate the email detailing the server info. Our server admin is currently unreachable so I have to come up with a solution myself. I am looking for a tool similar to this one, but for OS X 10.6.8. If it helps any, the FTP client I used is Transmit.
May be I miss something obvious but could you please give a hint how to check the size of all content of Smart Folder?
Is there any way to import the content of Smart Folder into Aperture library? Or may be choose any criteria during importing, like file kind, date etc. BTW: Can I see a size of all checked files? Update: I know I can choose from this set but may be any more options...
I have a problem with iMovie on iPad. I didn't have enough space to export a project to the camera roll. And the iMovie export to camera roll functionality wasn't available. For this reason I've made some space, and iMovie export correctly started, but just before to finish, I got the error message: "not enough space to export it" (although I've freed the necessary space).
I changed nvALT to be displayed in the menu bar and set the option that it is not to be displayed in the Dock anymore. I wanted to change the settings back and unchecked the options that nvALT is shown as symbol in the menu bar. However, now it is neither in the menu bar nor the Dock, and I can not access the options anymore to change it. When I open nvALT, the option menu of the App that was open previously is shown in the menu bar. Any idea how I can get into nvALT's preferences? I tried to delete the app (deleted the nvALT folder from the /Library), however, the original app preferences are still saved somewhere, I just cannot find where.
Sometimes emptying the trash in Finder takes significantly longer than just running rm -rf ~/.Trash. Is there some way to remap the "right click on trash in dock + click to empty trash" button to a script?
I have a shared reminders list with my wife. For the last couple of weeks any time she updates/deletes an item I get an email - however when I update she doen't get an email. She is the owner of the shared list. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to stop these emails. Any help gratefully received. Alan
When I click on a linked reference in a PDF it jumps to the bibliography at the end of the paper. Is there an easy way to jump back to the passage I just read?
How can I prevent my Macbook from connecting to non-secure wireless networks? I've ticked the "Ask to join new networks" option and removed the offending network from the Preferred Networks list in Advanced > Wi-Fi. Ideally, I'd like to blacklist a particular network based on its name (rather than on any HW addresses, since there are many access points with this name). My system: Mac OS 10.8.3, Macbook Air 13", mid-2011.
I lost my iPhone and i had a lot of important contacts and documents in my iCloud mail account. The only "computer" I currently have available is my friend's iPhone which is connected to his own iCloud account. Is there a way to log into icloud.com from an iPhone?
My girlfriend just bought a great monitor (EIZO CG223W) for her macbook, which you can rotate 90º in portrait mode. The screens didn't flip along, and I couldn't find a setting in the system preferences. I remember (in pre 10.8) there used to be a setting in the screen panel, but it's vanished.## Heading ##
Is there a bash or applescript to look up a word in /Applications/Dictionary.app from a Terminal window ? ignores --args, says "type a word to look up" Mac Dictionary improvements suggests ⌃ Control ⌘ Command D however I'm looking to launch the full app, not just the small popover.
My girlfriend bought an EIZO CG223W screen and uses it for now with my apple DVI-MiniDisplay-connector, when i don't need it. She could buy her own connector, but as well could buy a PM200 cable. Now I'm a bit confused by the info on internet regarding the benefits of the PM200 cable vs. Apples DVI-MiniDisplay-connector: the speed and color-quality/colordepth of the PM seems to be faster, but in realworld: how much will you notice? can you use the monitors' USB-ports only with a PM200 cable? can you daisy-chain a 3rd monitor only when using PM200? (I have e-mailed Eizo already regarding this question, but didn't find an answer yet.)
Although it is not a common occurrance, sometimes my cursor has a continuing spinning beach ball, which I believe to indicate that an app has frozen (correct me if i'm wrong). When this happens I usually perform an action called Force Quit as shown in the screenshot below:
Is there a way to add custom services to Finder's Share menu? I have created an automator service to copy selected files to my Dropbox directory (similar to this). I enabled this service in the keyboard preferences. Now I want to add this service in the Share menu rather than having it in the general contextual menu.
I'm new to Macs. I understand how to install Apps by dragging and dropping into the Applications folder and then opening the App, but sometimes installations come with an "Extras" folder (for instance, Diff Merge - *=URL=* Is there a common place to put things like this, or are these just tools I need to copy to various locations like my PATH?
I've been trying to figure out why my track sort order is wrong in iTunes 11. I have track metadata, and sorting by Album in the songs view works fine, but in the expanded view my tracks appear in what seems to be totally random order. How can I get this to sort by track number within the album?
My scenario: I use an app called Antetype for UI design. Antetype uses OS X-native technologies for text rendering (it uses the system-standard text palette). Antetype does not have a find and replace text function. I want to find and replace text in an Antetype document. I am wondering if, because Antetype is using native text, it is possible to use Applescript, Automator, or some other method to find and replace text within an Antetype document.
On OS X 10.8 I'm trying to record screen using Quicktime. But for some reason the resulting video resolution is only 1280 by 800, even thought I'm on Retina display. How can I record screen in Retina resolution?
I want to have an extension, named .content, to store all files in it that are linked to the filename. The extension ".content" should be recognized by the OS as a file extension rather than a regular map. The files in the extension should be only reached by opening the extension by the option "Show Package Contents". I hope someone can offer me a solution to my problem.
Title says it all. Is there a way to sync an iPhone with iTunes (tethered) without charging it concurrently?
If I have two DVI monitors that are exactly alike, could I connect them both to the same Mac mini and extend the desktop using both displays? Can I use both the HDMI and Thunderbolt ports at the same time, and if so, what adapters do I need?
I accidentally swiped away the Weather card in Google Now for iOS. Tapping Show sample cards lists the Weather card, but there's no way I can add it again. Under Google Now's settings, it shows that the Weather is On, but it's just not there in my Google Now screen.
I am trying to write an AppleScript to delete or at least disable certain menu items in FileMaker pro 6. My documentation indicates that it can be done, yet even the exact examples that they give, do not work. Here are a few examples of some that I tried with their results: delete menu item "Delete All Records…" of menu "Records" --this compiles, but returns the error 'Event not handled' disable menu item "Delete All Records…" of menu "Records" --This does not even compile I also tried similar approaches with System Events to no avail. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I need to prevent users from deleting critical records from a database.
I wanted to create a separate photo album with my wallpapers on my iPhone 4s. So I synced the photos from my computer, but now on my phone I have my "Wallpapers" album and a duplicate album "Photo Library", I tried deleting one or the other but that option is unavailable. Does anyone know how I can resolve this? Thanks.
I'm an iOS developer, and I just found a publisher for my app - they will sell the app with their own iTunes Connect account. I have my own iTunes Connect account as well, and I'd like to keep track of my app's stats. My publisher says they would give me access to their iTunes Connect page, but I would be able to see their info for all of their other apps. So they suggested to use a service called Appfigures.
When I connect any apple device to my PC - it gets recognized as an external storage and I can access all the files (Update:Not all the files - but just pictures) on the device. How is this possible? Do all the laptops and desktop motherboards come with an Apple authentication chip and drivers ?
i have Mac Server and i want to have a full copy of the System. So i can play around and test new Software and Upgrades before i apply it to the real System. I am using Parallels and want to create a image from the System with the Disk Utility. But i cannot find any Tutorials to do so. Is it even possible ?
I just bought a Retina Macbook pro about a week ago and I have been trying to use facetime. When I go to select a contact, it dials them but stays in the connection position. It just doesn't seem to make the facetime call.
Since this morning I am unable to record my voice on my Macbook Air 2012 internal microphone but the microphone can hear me touching the keyboard, the Macbook case… I tried to tweak system preferences, enabling/disabling noise ambient reduction and so on without success. Tried to reboot a couple of times with no luck. Any idea on what should I try next? I’m on Mountain Lion (10.8.3). Screen is
There is an action in Automator that allows you to programmatically "Extract PDF Text", but it fails when fed a moderate amount of files (25 to 100). Worse, it fails without logging anything helpful except for a message that "Automator Quit Unexpectedly".
I'd like to be able to share my iPhone's WiFi connection to my Mac. I'm NOT asking to share the phone plan (the iPhone is actually being used as an old iPod).
I noticed that the latter two options don't work every time for me. Since I'm sure I entered the right time/date, what could prevent my Mac from shutting down? I set it to never go into stop, and to lock the screen after 30 mins of inactivity. I'm on 10.8.3.
What I'm trying to do is after logging into the >console on my mac mini run safari. Its on 10.6.8 if that matters, I've tried a 10.8.3 machine. Once logged in, I login as root. From here is it possible to run a browser like Safari or Firefox? I've tried open /Applications/Safari.app This gives LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Safari.app. And I've also tried startx and open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app This throws a lot of errors on the 10.6.8 machine. On the 10.8.3 machine with XQuartz installed i get the following:
I've got a 1st Generation iPod with iOS 3.1, and I'm frustrated because I most apps don't run on such an old iOS, but I can't put a new iOS on. Is there eny way to get old versions of all those apps?
I do a lot of web applications development, and I run a Fedora VM on my Mac to simulate the server environment. Meanwhile, I run the IDE on the Mac side, and it requires a local filesystem to make changes. Hm. I solved this problem by exporting my code directories in Fedora via NFS and using automount on the Mac side to automatically mount the shares as needed: I love this setup because it Just Works and is maintenance-free... so long as my VM is running.
I'm getting 4G on my iPad 2 and the Sales Rep for Verizon said that I needed to text him the meid, where in iOS might I find this meid?
I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size). When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size often increases. Compare these two files:
I've got a 1st generation iPod touch that won't run anything over iOS 3.1. Is there any way to put something newer on it?
I have a 13" MBP and a 24" Thunderbolt display. I use the Thunderbolt display as my main and only screen while at my desk. The problem for me comes when I disconnect and take my laptop to a meeting or another location and now all the windows are over-sized for the laptop screen (ie. edges off the screen and windows much larger than the laptop screen). Is there a quick method or a piece of software that will auto-resize all open windows to fit in the current display?
My Macbook Pro (v10.6.8) is constantly automatically connecting to a neighbor's wifi - event though I've never connected to that network, and I have my own Wifi connection prioritized. The system is constantly scanning for Other Networks and lists all of my neighbors' network ahead of mine. I frequently need to reset the connection. How do I remove the list of available networks, OR disable the system from scanning the neighborhood, OR lock the Wifi connection to my in-home network? Thanks!
I am trying to share an ethernet connection on a MacBook over Wi-Fi. I enabled Internet Sharing in the Sharing prefpane,
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011). I want to hook two Dell monitors to it. They have VGA and DVI ports each. I will be using the current DVI port on the MacBook Pro. Will the Thunderbolt port work with a non-Thunderbolt monitor if I find a Thunderbolt to DVI-D adapter?
Is it possible? It's really annoying. Especially on the iPad (don't know if it exists on the iPhone) :S
I am using an iPad 1 with various apps installed. When I get app update notifications, the app may be greyed out because it requires iOS 6, which the iPad 1 does not support. These update notices always remain on my iPad - is there some way to get rid of them?
I have a Mac, but sometimes need to print with legal/landscape and other times with letter/portrait. In Windows I can create two printer profiles for the same printer to easily toggle between these. How best to do this with a Mac?
I have two spaces. When I try to jump from the left space to the right one using the swipe gesture, the right space shows briefly but then the screen immediately jumps back to the left.
I have a working wireless connection to an access point with an internet connection (where my IP is 172.17.30.137). Over this wireless connection I am able to ping internet addresses (e.g. 4.2.2.1) as well as other machines on the wifi network (e.g. 172.17.30.1). I leave those ping processes running in the background. Now I plug in an ethernet cable, which goes to a LAN on which there is a DHCP server but no internet access. That DHCP server assigns my ethernet adapter an IP (10.35.1.100) and I am now also able to ping addresses on that LAN (e.g. 10.35.1.1). All three pings run concurrently for a few seconds to a few minutes, when suddenly the ping to 4.2.2.1 does this:
Is there some elegant way to edit the brightness / contrast of a batch of images? I need to be able to see a real time preview of the effect of the brightness / contrast change on at least one of the images, and get the same edit to apply to the rest of the batch.
Are the column width inches in Excel on a Mac the same as those of Windows? I was given homework by my instructor and the width is far too much – so do Excel on OS X and Windows behave the same in that regard?
I'm going to ftp anonymously to ftp.example.com. I make the connection successfully, and successfully change directories:
I've been struggling with the following problem: I am writing something in German during the day, therefore I change my keyboard layout to their QWERTZ style. When I lock the screen or close my MBP it somehow locks the keyboard style as well.
After I tried to use links in some websites, my Apple computer will not send the emails to those links nor will it allow me to quit mail. Since I cannot quit mail, I cannot get updates because the mail program interrupts the updates. What do I need to do?
I'm writing instructions for a project and at some point, for a certain condition one needs to modify a simple plain ascii text file. For windows I can tell them to fire up notepad. I thought on the mac I could use TextEdit but the TextEdit version I'm using defaults to write rtf, which introduces all rtf symbols in the file which is highly undesirable. Using emacs or vi from the terminal is not something I want to burden the user with. What are alternatives?
I want to install Xcode in my MacBook Air OSX 10.8.3. The issue is my MacBook Harddisk is just 64GB and it's almost full. I have an external HDD (Formatted to MAC partition) and how can I install Xcode to this HDD? Because when I am trying to install Xcode I am getting an error there is no sufficient memory available. Thanks.
works only with "click in Terminal" on my new iMac 10.8.3. On a 10.4 iMac though, ⌘ C - move mouse - ⌘ V works without the extra click.
I recently wiped my MBP hard drive as well as installing a new SSD. I have a sparseimage backup of my old drive (created with Carbon Copy Cloner) that I want to restore onto the SSD. I've tried to restore using disk utility but I seem to be getting inconsistent error messages. The instructions on the CCC website don't seem to work for my restore. Any suggestions?
How can I delete a signature that I inserted using Preview.app? I can edit or delete all the text fields but the signature seems locked somehow.
Since OS X version 10.8.1, my Mac cancels the wifi connection and switches to standby mode, despite having an active download. I can remember that the one advantage of the Mac was that I didn't have to do anything for that. The Mac stayed awake during downloads, so I could leave the house and if the download is finished, it would switch to standby mode. But now, it activates standby despite downloading. Here are my energy save options:
I have 3 apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Macbook pro, all receiving emails from the same provider. When one specific friend of mine sends me an email, I receive it on the iPhone and iPad, but not on the Macbook. What could the problem be and how can I fix it? Many thanks.
Say you're running Snow Leopard, and there has been a 10.6-compatible version of an app, but the newest version requires Lion or greater. Or, say an app recently received a UI overhaul, and you'd like to buy the version that came before it was changed (perhaps the folder structure changed and broke your applescripts, or you just liked the old one better).
I'd like to use SFTP/SSH for users (students and faculty) to manage their web content. The default home directory is "/Users//". I'd like to point them to something like "/Users//web" to block access to the other folders that are created in the home directory.
My MacBook Pro (2012, Retina) will suddenly not charge when it's turned on. If I shut it down, it charges normally (orange led, goes green when full). After I turn it on it keeps the green led on until OSX starts up, then the light goes off.
I'm looking for a remote control to use for controlling a Powerpoint presentation, and want it to be compatible and reliable w/ OS X. Any recommendations on one that functions well with Powerpoint?
The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop working, when I looked down to find that 25% of my battery was left. I looked at my Activity Monitor and saw that the time machine process was going at 90% for a while (as long as I was watching it). Are there any apps that can notify me if a process is at a certain level for a certain amount of time?
I'd like to be able to open any file with emacs as a choice when I right click it, regardless of environment.
I have a problem with "NOTES" on my iPad. I have missing notes that appear to be deleted. I have been trying to get on to iCloud to see if I can find them ther, but I can't seem to login. I'm going through a divorce & have important notes. It seems like my wife has somehow logged into my iCloud account & deleted them. Is ther a way to find them?
I have tried enabling Web Sharing in MAC OSX 10.7.4, but after clicking to check it uncheck it self. I know there's a similar question for it, that is, Web Sharing (Apache) won't turn on in Lion. Here is crash log that I get in "/var/log/apache2/error_log" file: I tried looking into it but couldn't get exact reason.
I'm trying to set my hostname for my mac. Currently it's unknown002374e31ebd. I've tried setting it with
There are a number of apps that for various reasons do not support the ability to drag songs out of iTunes and drop it onto the app. This becomes taxing whenever I'm working with a compilation of files that spans a number of folders; worse still when there are a few intentional duplicates and remixes with similar filenames that makes searching (via spotlight) difficult.
I am looking for a way to prevent iTunes from synching app to the iphone. Current situation: I only back the iphone up with iTunes - icloud backup is not feasible to me - and connect it to iTunes a couple times a week. During this time I add/delete apps on iphone: every time I synch it to iTunes it will copy every new apps AND install app that were present the last time I synched but have now been deleted.
I tried installing XCode on my MacBook Pro, but for some reason, it suddenly crashed. After a reboot, I saw a message my computer had to restart because of some system failure. After this message, I get the following text on my screen...
I use gmail through the web interface, but have Apple Calendar synchronising with google's calendar. I don't want to use Apple Mail for anything at all. Every time the calendar synchronises with Google, Apple Mail opens and asks me to set up an account. How do I stop Apple Mail from doing this?
I just bought myself an iPad mini and I'm wondering what is a good tool to use to jailbreak it and hopefully without breaking the device. I've heard a couple names like Evasi0n and Redsn0w but am unsure of their reliability. So, what's a good and safe tool to use to jailbreak it?
I run mamp pro locally for web development and for each site I have internal maps for: I expect domain.dev is handled by mamp on my machine, but on one of my domains I try to go to subdomain.domain.com which should be a remote machine I'm being directed to my own 127.0.0.1 localhost. Could someone point me in the right direction im guessing i need to edit a host file somewhere?
I want to connect to an Ubuntu machine from MAC far far away! I have the application Remoter that works like a charm for ssh and connecting to other Mac. However I don't know how to connect to an Ubuntu machine.
I just got an iPhone 4 and downloaded the most recent version of iTunes onto my computer because I had a version that was too old. It told me I needed to convert the songs to create an AAC version of my library in order to sync them to my iPhone, which I had not synced because I didn't want to lose the existing music. When I converted the files, they copied to the phone, but are greyed out and won't let me play them, could somebody please help?
For this, I seem to have several possible options - which is correct? Found in Xcode at the bottom of the Navigator:
Itunes used to display my total number of songs/hours/days when I was in the MUSIC playlist. It displays this info for all of my playlist, just not in MUSIC. I know how to use control +/ to get the info to appear, just can't figure out why it won't show the info for all of my 15,000 songs...
I have a 4th generation Airport Extreme acting as the main interface between my network and the internet. I recently installed OS/X Server on one of my machines on the network, during that install process it asked for the credentials into my airport. Thinking it would be a good idea, I gave it to it. First sign that was a bad idea was that it immediately rebooted the AP without any warning it was going to do so. Now the AP locks up every day or so. (might be load related, heavy internet usage days seem to cause it to lock up faster.) When it locks up: the status light remains green it falls off the network can't be pinged can't connect to with management tools dns isn't answering dhcp isn't handing out addresses can't be pinged can't connect to with management tools dns isn't answering dhcp isn't handing out addresses no ipv6 tunnel traffic will be routed no ipv4 nat'd traffic will be routed So far, I've only configured a couple services on the server... none of which conflict with the
I'm running a MacBook Pro, Mid 2010 model, that I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Around that time, or maybe shortly after, I began noticing some problems that I can only attribute to a general slowdown in accessing files on my hard drive. I have 8GB RAM, and rarely run out, so I don't think it's just a matter of paging vs not paging.
I am trying to create file containing different statistics about things such as email count and such things, trial here: this proto returns empty file, not sure why. How can count the amount of emails with Automator under OS X?
Is there a way to have certain windows of an app open in specific spaces? Whenever I start up my computer, all my log in items get mashed into one space. I'm using OSX 10.7.5 Lion
I'm typing on my Retina MacBook Pro, and the response rate on the keyboard is terrible. It's like typing on an LCII that is trying to run Mac OS X. As I type, the computer seems to be thinking ridiculously hard about what it is doing. Periodically, these silly character suggestions will appear next to the cursor:
Here, it says how to use the audio jack as in input. On my MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012), It doesn't seem to have the option in settings. Is it not possible with these computers?
I own both an iPhone (4S) and an iPad (mini), running iOS 5 and 6 respectively. The two of them are quite filled with large apps (roughly 40GB in total) and thus my Macbook is getting crowded. This is because iTunes stores all downloaded apps, PLUS all apps from all devices, so there are three copies of many apps saved (downloaded app + 2 iOS backups). I would like to exclude stuff which can be reinstalled from the iTunes store from my iOS backups, just like iCloud does - only without using iCloud (I prefer my backups being physically at home).
It's been a while since I used Excel on a PC. In Excel on a PC, I believe if you have a set of data and want to select all the cells in the same row from where the cursor is to the last cell below a set of data, you could use Ctrl - Shift - ←. On a Mac (Excel 2011) this selects all the cells until the end of the entire row. How on Excel 2011 (Mac) can I select all the empty cells in a row until beneath a set of data?
For approximately the last week or so, my iPhone 4S seems to have developed a behavior whereby it keeps prompting me for my Apple ID password on roughly 50% of the occassions when I turn it on, and sometimes at other times too. There doesn't seem to be any consistent pattern. Whether I enter my password, or hit cancel, doesn't seem to make a difference.
In the Chrome debugger under the "Sources" tab, there is a little "{}" button at the bottom that will de-minify minified code and make it human readable, as well as allow the developer to set breakpoints, etc. I haven't found anything similar in Safari... Does anyone know if Safari has this ability?
Mac does not receive all notes from Phone. Apparently I changed the default to Gmail and now those notes do not appear on the Mac. I have tried changing Mac settings and accounts. Is there a way to change the setting on the individual note so it syncs with a new account on the phone, such as from Gmail to iCloud, or do I have to manually retype the notes after setting the note default to iCloud from Gmail?
On my new iPhone 4, plain text files display at a width of 38 columns. Rows with more than 38 characters are wrapped. I want to view text files containing prose formatted with widths of 70 or 80 characters. This would mean either shrinking the display (I imagine it would still be readable under landscape orientation) or disabling word-wrap. Is there a way to do either?
I want to block some websites for my son who does understand difference between parental controlled vs "not working" sites. He is addicted to youtube which I don't want him to use since there are lot of terrible and bad and disgusting videos out there.
By default, Mountain Lion maps Windows-key to Command and ctrl to ctrol. I changed the modifier keys under the "Modifier Keys" menu in System Preferences, but it had no impact. I can tell this because I changed all modifier keys to "control", but still was able to use the Windows-key as the Command key and the alt key normally. Does Mountain Lion not respect these settings with Windows keyboard?? Should I be doing something else?
I got an iPad 2. With 4.3.3 version, that I somehow managed to jailbreak last year. Im a jail breaking noob, and was wondering, how do I update my current jail broken version, to a later jail broken version, so I can download apps from the app store that require OS 6 or greater How do I upgrade to the latest jailbroken version of iOS?
I am buying a new iPad because I only have a 16gb iPad and I want to keep the data on my apps ie. on sims I want to keep the houses and people on it but is it possible to do that when you buy a new iPad and sell the one that has the apps and data that you want to keep? Thanks and sorry if that's confusing?
Can iPhone 4 operates using WiFi connectivity only when the cellular service is cancelled?
I know I can go to the Purchased tab in the App Store on my iPad to see all the apps that I have downloaded, but I have been unable to find a way to see just the apps that I have bought. Is there a way to sort the apps in the iOS App Store so that one can easily view all the paid apps that have been downloaded?
Launchpad's incremental search has stopped working for me. I've tried killing the Dock (Launchpad and window management is all part of the Dock) but Launchpad is still unresponsive to the keyboard. I have also found it won't let me rename anything either, though I can re-arrange the icons. Logging out and back in doesn't fix it and restarting seems to alleviate it (but that is hardly a fix).
I have an old macbookpro: I created a windows usb with bootcamp assistant, "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" with a windows 7 ISO image. I went through bootcamp's "Install or remove Windows 7" option and partitioned 21GB from my harddisk for my windows partition (it's named "BOOTCAMP", MS-DOS (FAT)).
I'm tryng to share folders from an 10.8.3 imac to users in my LAN (using bot mac and windows) I'm having this problem: 1) Mac users can access the share using afp:// but when they create new folders the permission are: drwxr-xr-x so no other can write those folders 2) PC users can access the share using smb:// but when they create new folders the permission are: drwx------ so no other can read/write/execute all user belong to the same group and the shared folders are owned by that group I have create a file /etc/launchd.conf with umask 002 reboot but nothing has changed I THOUGHT THAT MAKING SHARES IN MAC SHOULD BE EASY BUT IT SEEMS SOO HARD :-)
I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling. Is there a modification I can make to the default OS X Terminal to disable line wrapping and allow for horizontal scrolling? Or do you know another alternative I can use?
Cmd+click on any file can reveal them in Finder but now takes no effect. I reviewed the console log and found following error:
On Macs with a multitouch trackpad, I'm told that from the Input Sources options you can select the option to draw Chinese and Japanese characters. I have a Mac Mini, and a Wacom multitouch graphics tablet/trackpad, and I'd quite like to be able to use this, but the option just isn't there. I'm thinking I might be able to make it show up by editing a plist file somewhere, but I'm really not sure where to look -- my peering at various files in ~/Library/Preferences and /Library/Preferences didn't turn up anything that looked relevant. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to make it show up in the options?
I have Googled over and over and cannot get an answer to a fundamental question I have. To get an app downloaded onto an iPhone, do I need to open an apple account of some sort and pay for the account or is there a way to host the app (for free) and get it downloaded to an iPhone for free? Thank you for helping me get started here. Addendum Let me clarify my question.
I kind of like iPhoto 8, but it's unmantained, is there an alternative that: runs on 10.6 imports iPhoto library (events, albums, Facebook albums, hidden photos), and works more or less like iPhoto itself is actively mantained
I've installed the Solarized theme for Terminal.app and imported it. But my Terminal is all gray, I don't get color highlighting on anything. Not even running Python terminal generates any color. How can I get the color highlighting working properly?
Recently a piece of software started showing up in my menubar. I don't remember installing it, I have no idea what it is. The icon is three chevrons and the menu contains three items named: "Software Portal", "Vulnerability Scan" and "Inventory Scan".
I just made the (classical) stupid mistake to not BCC-send a mailing to ± 100 people. :( Is there an extension or application or script for mail.app to prevent this failure and e.g. intelligently ask me how I want my mail to be send (normal, CC or BCC), when sending to, say, more than 5 people? :)
Is there a way to disable a specific wifi network in Terminal? I'd like to disable my home wifi connection for reasons outlined here: Reclaim Your Life After Work by Disabling Internet Access for Smartphones My housemates would like to keep wifi so I can't just turn it off. I've disable some websites using terminal as outlined here Block Access to Websites on a Mac by Modifying /etc/hosts
At work, I have a job that sends me a SMS when a critical job fails. Because of a bug, it ended up sending several hundred SMS messages over the course of a night that I wish to delete.
then I plugged my speakers and my earphones with mic but nothing to do, mic still doesn't work... (maybe just because this splitter has a 3 channel male jack but it's a normal 2 ch; I bought it for 2€ from China so it's possible..)
I have a macbook pro 6,2 and don't have the recovery discs as I am traveling abroad and left my discs at home. Is there any way to reformat my hard drive and get it to factory (or near factory) settings without the discs? Does my computer have a recovery partition and can I use that to reformat?
I have three Applications open, one window for each: Google chrome MacVim in server mode iTerm2 How I can set up some keyboard shortcuts to focus this apps ? One Idea is do it via Alfred 2 Powerpack, after double click ctrl, run the iTerm2 command, this will start the iTerm2 app when not running, or focus it when it is already open. Same for Google Chrome with different shortcut. But I have no idea how to focus MacVim, because the app alone will run always a new window (no --remote option) when run like the both above. Is there a method to focus to an existing already open application ?
In Activity Monitor on OS X, it is possible to add additional columns to the process list view. Two columns available in that list are "Messages Sent" and "Messages Received", which show up as "Sent Msgs" and "Rcvd Msgs", respectively. Witness:
My text messages did not transfer. Is there a way to get them yet? They are still on the old phone.
Is there a possibility to find out how much storage is free on a SSD of a Fusion Drive disk (SSD + HDD as a logical device)? The structure I use is this one here:
Videos that I've shot with my iPhone and are in my videos folder show up just fine on iMovie for iPhone as "addable media". BUT I recently had a professionally designed short "intro" video for my videos that I want to use as a lead-in to my iMovie for iPhone projects. And that intro video does NOT show up my videos folder on iPhone when I transfer it into my iPhone.
Regularly, after some time using Safari, 3rd party icons in Safari toolbar become blank. Restarting Safari fixes the problem, but after some time it happens again.
There is an option "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in Mac OS X's preferences:  Is it possible to configure which disks Mac OS X can put into a sleepy state? For example, I want to leave only the drives which are installed in my laptop, but not the drives that are connected via USB. How can I reach this?
I lost an iPad, and I need the serial number - all I have of it is the UDID. The device is not registered, I don't have the box, and I don't have backups of it either.
I've brought a load of music on my iPhone and have now just purchased a MacBook pro. What is the standard way of transferring songs from iPhone to Mac? Do I need to download all these programs or is there an easier way that I am missing?
As can be seen below, the same computer shows up several times when I go to browse network. It only happens with this single laptop.
I have been having trouble with this message. I cannot get any tweaks or anything from cydia anymore. How do i get rid of this message?
As far as I can tell, the shasum that ships with os x doesn't generate the hashes that it's supposed to. When I look up empty string sha hash in wikipedia I see that I should expect to get
I've read a lot of other questions about speed, but my question does not seem to be answered anywhere. My Mac Mini is running so slow that I cannot see what I am typing. It takes up to 15 seconds to see the text I just wrote. Any process on the computer runs so slow that I see the spinning beachball all the time.
Shown to the left of the screen, on the middle. Moving a window over it does not remove it, however restarting does. But then they reappear after a while.
I tried running tmutil status, without the backup running and got this result: Backup session status: { ClientID = "com.apple.backupd"; Running = 0; } I started the backup, waited for the status to change to "Preparing Backup", and ran the same command, and got this result: Backup session status: { BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup; ClientID = "com.apple.backupd"; DateOfStateChange = "2013-05-21 19:09:06 +0000"; DestinationID = "8BC5795A-0AAC-4976-B960-ECCE8F48842C"; DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"; Percent = "-1"; Running = 1; Stopping = 0; } The backup has been going on for about 45 minutes. I tried the command and got this result: Backup session status: { BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup; ClientID = "com.apple.backupd"; DateOfStateChange = "2013-05-21 19:09:06 +0000"; DestinationID = "8BC5795A-0AAC-4976-B960-ECCE8F48842C"; DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"; NumberOfChangedItems = 483816; Percent = 0; Running = 1; Stopping = 0; } It looks ex
I'm trying to diagnose the USB key of a friend of mine, who says it works in his Windows but not in his Android tablet (Samsung). When I plug a USB key in my MacBook nothing happens. The device does not appear neither in Finder nor in DiskUtil, for example diskutil list does not show it. I looked if something is logged in /var/log/* when I insert or remove it, the only thing I see is this message in /var/log/kernel.log:
I want to install OSX Mountain Lion on a hackintosh that I'm building, but I don't have a copy of ML. When I try to download it, it says that the update is free because I already have ML. How do I actually download the OS?
On an iMac 10,1 running Mac OS X 10.6.8, Finder crashes on every startup. Safe Boot does not work around the problem.
I started an iOS update, on my jailbroken iPhone 4s, via Settings and now the iPhone is stuck in recovery mode. iTunes just wants to restore, but if I do this I will lose all my data and I don't have a backup. Any suggestions?
I have just installed a lion server on my home network. I want to use it as a .private. Domain. I have implemented the VPN connection for external users via port fwd on my apple time machine router. The time machine provides dhcp services for e network and my dns severs are set to Comcast dns.
So far, it works great, when I click the app on the dock, the command starts running. There's just one huge problem: I cannot quit the application! In fact, in the dock it doesn't even appear that the application is running. The only solution I have found so far is to do ps aux | grep my-command and then kill -9 <PID>. How can I quit "MyApp.app" (like doing Control-C in the Terminal)?
I use "internet sharing" on my Mac, but lately I've been having trouble connecting my iPhone 5 to the resulting WiFi network. I've read advice online to do Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings on the iPhone, but I can only find very vague information on what this actually does. From the name it sounds like a bit of a nuclear option, and before I try it I want to make sure that it's not going to affect my ability to use the cellular network.
I like dictation but after I turn it on in, say, Text-Edit, it records for about ten seconds, then I get the three dots instead of the Microphone icon. Here, I'll see if I can dictate right here, and we'll see how long it will last: I just used the double command key to initiate the dictation and I'm talking in a normal rate of speed and I have not done main line breaks or anything and I am just waiting for the microphone icon to turn
I have a "KINIVO BTH220" wireless bluetooth headset. I can connect it without any problem with iPhone 4S. However, when I try to connect it with MacbookPro 13" (Mid 2010), it won't show up in the browse device list.
I am using Firefox and Opera in OS X 10.5.8. I have cleared the cookies, history, private data number of times. But when I visit gmail/facebook, the email ID is still auto filled up. Is there anyway to remove these values.
I need the en0, en1, enN, enWhatever name of my Airport in a script. How do I get it reliably? Here is what I put together, but it looks ugly and brittle as it's "text parsing":
I have more than one signature, however when selecting Tools -> Annotate -> Signature, only the most recent signature is inserted. Is there an option to change the default?
When I read a message on my iPhone it seems to be by passing the Mailbox Rules when that message gets into my iMac. So I end up having messages in my Inbox instead of in the appropriate Mail folder. Why?
I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error : source volume is read-write and cannot be unmounted, so it can't be block copied
The following image shows a region of the sheet it is not possible to write or select. There the cursor is, if i write another letter it will show up on the next page. How do i enable the document to let me write on that field? I have tried dragging the side markers, but they only control how far down the reference text is.
I'm doing Rails development on a MacBook via a VirtualBox setup that's somewhat similar to Vagrant. My inconvenience is that I like to have at least 3 terminal tabs connected to the VM via SSH (one for running the Rails server, one for the Rails console and the third to run general command, possibly others for running tail, etc) and I have to open these connections every time I start developing. Is there a way to automate this?
I am using a mid-2012 MBP 13in with no retina display, running OS X 10.8.3. Everything was fine until I was watching a video clip on Facebook. Everything just froze, except the mouse pointer can still move, but I can't do anything else. So I was forced to long press the power button to shut the machine down. After that, the whole system was ridiculously slow.
I would like to transfer a bunch of photos onto my iPad without syncing through iTunes. I had the idea of using a USB flash drive and the Camera Connection Kit, but simply dumping the pictures into the root directory of the drive doesn't work; the iPad says that there are no photos. Is there any way to do this?
I have a mac book pro retina since a few weeks (bought in april 2013). There is a pixel in the middle of the screen that has the opposite color of what it should have: If background is white, pixel is black If background is black, pixel is white
I'm running Mountain Lion (10.8.3). I have three or four folder actions set up which stopped working some time ago, and I can't figure out why.
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.5 and the Dock/Mission Control/Desktop functionality is totally broken. My dock is not present after startup so I have to start all applications from Spotlight. I can't even alt-tab between them as the process that controls that function is also down. My desktop is working but the background is permanently stuck on Gray no matter what I change it to.
I use "Best for Retina display" in my settings. It's suitable for my eyes:)
I'm unable to eject USB drives. When I try, I get this error: The disk "Untitled" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. To eject the disk immediately, click the Force Eject button. Additionally, when I use Disk Utility to erase a USB drive I get this error: Disk Erase failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disk.
Is there a way to improve this? I also turned off the "Put the hard drive to sleep when possible" in the System Preferences, but it is still doing the same thing. For example, if the "Save Image As" can let me choose the "Downloads" folder, and just to wake the other drives up when I do select to look into them.
When an imessage doesn't display delivered or not delivered beneath the message, will it update if and when the recipient is able to recieve iMessages again?
I just plugged my Roland A-49 to my MacBook Pro (Early 2011 2.3 GHz). The MIDI keyboard would have its power supplied via USB, but it has no power. The specification says it needs 98 mA current, which is way less than the 500 mA provided by the MBP's USB 2.0 port. If I plug it into a desktop PC, it works. What can be the problem? An USB hub would solve this issue, I suppose, but can I avoid buying one?
I try to find all "*.xyz" files in folder x which does not have comment "abc". This code does the opposite. I would prefer to use Spotlight if possible. How i can do this? Thanks
I have a macbook pro, that I use at work and in my house, the problem is that i have to set up manually the TCP/IP IPv4 address for each place, the address doesn't change once im on a location, but I have to change it manually when I go to the office and when I get home, So how can I save it so that when I connect a specific WIFI the IPv4 address will get configured specially for that place? Thanks!
I have a Mac. And a windows 7 laptop... I know, but it was cheap, and I needed it. The windows kernel was somehow deleted. I have a copy of win 7 on my Mac that I would like to make a bootable usb key without installing win7 to the Mac. Every thread I seem to read is directed at installing win 7 to Mac. This is something I don't wish at all. How do I make a usb bootable with windows from a Mac?
The S key seems to be mapped to an incorrect value in XQuartz for me. I am running OS X 10.7.5 and XQuartz 2.7.4 (xorg-server 1.13.0). The problem also occurs in X11.app (XQuartz 2.6.5, xorg-server 1.10.6). I am also running Homebrew 0.9.4, if that makes a difference.
Originally I suspected it was due to sleep/hibernate, but this looks to be false as I can ssh into the Mini and use it fine. Also I ran the Plex home theatre app under "caffeinate", and it didn't help.
I have an iPad 3 and an iPhone 4 with the same iCloud account. On my iPhone I can load the past purchases page in iTunes Store app. The iPad does not load that page. It is light grey for a few seconds until it turns to a darker shade of grey. Nothing else happens.
I had brought an external hard disk to use as a time machine. There was a problem while trying to partition, so i booted into single user mode and ran the ffsck command. This returned an error, and after that, my mac stopped rebooting. I tried many things, from safe mode to repairing in disk utility, but nothing works. All im getting when i try to boot is a progress bar that stops when its about 1/9 done, and then the computer shuts down. What the hell happened? I have no back ups whatsoever...
I regularly gift apps to friends, but now I can't find the Gift button anywhere: Not in the sharing menu of the iPad's app store where it used to be, not under the disclosure arrow on the iTunes store under OSX. Did Apple deactivate the ability to gift apps?
Do I need a protective case for my iPhone 5? This is my first smart phone. I thought one of the advantages of a modern smart phone was the Gorilla Glass and the small size and weight. It seems to me that cases add bulk and weight to the phone, so I find it odd that cases are so common.
Me and my girlfriend are using facetime regularly for talking. I'm worried if anyone can hack our Facetime calls and record our videos? Is it possible? How safe is Facetime?
Let's say I have all my Finder windows closed. I'm in an application, like let's say Google Chrome. I ⌘-tab to the Finder icon to switch to Finder. But it shows me nothing... no windows, because I have no windows open. I have to then invoke ⌘-N to open a Finder window. Is there a way to get OSX to automatically open a Finder window when I ⌘-tab to the Finder icon to switch to Finder, since anytime I switch to Finder, I always want a window?
There's an app in my Mac App Store update list called "Mahjong Deluxe Free". I have never downloaded this app, let alone play mahjong (is that normal?). Upon trying to clear it from the list by updating it, I am presented with the following:
I have a Time Capsule set up on my LAN to handle backups between my mom's computer and my computer. Before we had the Time Capsule, I could connect remotely to a MacBook Pro that I set up as a server through the AFP protocol easily. Instead of having to worry about using the right IP, I used No-IP Dynamic Updater to assign me a DNS name that I can remember.
Restored from Time Machine. No luck. Rebooted with Command-Option-P-R. No luck. The drive as far as I can tell is working properly....
I'd like to set up a simple keyboard shortcut that would save the currently selected file in the finder as a pdf, assuming it is a filetype that can be converted to pdf. I've already followed this nice shortcut for doing this when the document is open, but now I'm looking to take this one step further and have it work on the file from the finder.
My 2012 27″ iMac is working quite well, even the fan doesn't behave strange as along as the computer is running or is in sleep mode. But it becomes strange when I shut down the Mac, because when the machine is OFF, the fan runs riot.
I want to buy a Seagate Backup Plus Desktop 4TB Thunderbolt drive, but I was wondering if it is possible to connect my external hard drive to a network. There are two options which might help: we have a server, is it possible that I connect my external hard drive through my own macbook to the server that others could have access to it? we have a server, is it possible that I connect my external hard drive through my own macbook to the server that others could have access to it? I might be able to construct a network and give access to the other computers to store their data on my external hard drive. I might be able to construct a network and give access to the other computers to store their data on my external hard drive.
I'm not sure how to compile a logic title for this question, so if the title is unclear, suggest an edit. Here's a description of the problem I am experiencing:
I have an iPhone 4s. When I have conversations via iMessage to friends with an iPad a new message thread is created for the conversation, however when I iMessage their phone another message thread is created, resulting in having two conversations from the same people and as they are both iMessages it is hard to tell the difference! I know one is iMessaging through a phone number and another through an email, but it there a way to compile the conversation thread? Or a way to put a note on the contact so I know which conversation is which? please note: the contact has both the email and phone number on it, I realise I can make them separate but is that my only option?
I have iTunes 11, I'm trying to sync a ringtone to my iPhone, but the ringtone is not added to my ringtones folder (settings->sounds->ringtone) in iOS. The file has a m4r format, and it's currently shown in the "tones" tab in Itunes:
I'm using Mail (version 5.3) on Mac OS X version 10.7.5. I have three different e-mail accounts which all are Exchange accounts by their type. All of them work correctly, I can send and receive e-mails. Problem is that in Mail program under "Sent" only the sent box of the latest account created is showing (see attached picture below). Of course, I would like to have all sent boxes from all accounts to be visible under "Sent".
OK, I am online half of the day and offline the other half using a MacBook Pro. As I am coding primarily on this Mac, I am interested in caching all the websites I visit: especially forums, blogs, technical websites and Apple Documentation. I would like to browse my cache in an easy and smart way when I am offline.
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition (even if it won't be on the most external part of the hard disk).
However, now whenever I shut the lid, the external monitor becomes the primary display and continues to work and keep the laptop awake. I do not have an external mouse, trackpad or keyboard connected.
I've got a webserver running on localhost (not the one built into OSX -- a different, proprietary webserver). I do most of my web app dev there, refreshing the browser to reload, etc. This has worked flawlessly for years. Lately though I've been having a bizarre problem. Some of the resources (different ones each time) simply aren't loading -- they show status Aborted in Firebug.
I have a configure on Mountain Lion that's running into trouble: Meanwhile, I have just opened Xcode and installed command-like tools, including /usr/bin/gcc. Is there a way I can invoke the configure script so it will take /usr/bin/gcc as the C compiler? And when I specified: It gives: For now I'll ask: how do I tell it what to use as the C preprocessor? (Long-term what I'd like is to know why it's not aware of standard command line tools and pulls C-related functionality from an esoteric place.
I need to tag a "location" of interest such as An nest or hive out in nature where no cellular service is available Location of a good view on a mountain (where no cell service is visible) Location of a restaurant, bar, other spot that is hard to find. And I'd like to get relative directions to where that target is (north 500 feet) without having to deal with apple maps, or better still, the ability to plant virtual waymarkers that guide me along the best path using GPS. Does such a technology exist?
I recently switched to iTerm2 from the default Terminal app and have a usability issue. On Terminal, the working directory you are in shows up on the title bar along with the process and pixel size. For example, when you click on Window to switch between different Terminal sessions, you'd see: working_directory - process - pixel_size.
I'm in the UK, and recently changed from a pre-pay carrier (GiffGaff) to EE. My data usage with GiffGaff was about 100-125 MB every two weeks; with EE, I've used nearly 250 MB in the first 5 days. My usage is the same: email, web, Twitter, and some Maps. (Both with my last two weeks with GiffGaff, and these past few days, I've used Maps on a driving trip.)
So I plugged it in, made sure it had a good WiFi signal, and left it to charge overnight. Unfortunately this morning, the same message was still there. And I still couldn't get rid of it. Next I tried connecting it to iTunes and as you can see, despite the message I can't get rid of, my attempt at backing it up DID work!
I manage my fonts through FontExplorer X. Today I noticed that I have 770 fonts activated. All legitimately licensed, by the way. The Adobe CS family installs a bunch, I've purchased and have received many more from friends: I could easily activate a 1,000+ fonts. (I'm referring to individual font files, not 1,000 font families).
In Safari, if you want to copy the link URL, you should do 3 operations: Hover the link Right-click the link Use the "Copy link" item from the main/contextual menu
I've been sleeping with my iPod. But it's plugged in to the wall and I always put it in bed with me while charging . Is it dangerous to have a plugged iPod in bed with you while sleeping .
I often go through sentences word-by-word, using Command+Arrow Keys. However, when there is a word in camel case (e.g. "AppleForumsQuestion.txt", in filenames or so), that won't work - Command+Arrow Keys only snaps to spaces. Is there any (system-wide, ideally) way to make it move the cursor to the individual "words" of also camel-case expressions?
A couple of days ago Adobe announced that its Creative Suite Software is to be rebranded as Creative Cloud, the development of its creative suit line will come to an end. Whilst Adobe CS6 will still be supported and available for purchase, all future products will be provided through the subscription-only Creative Cloud service. However even with discounts, Adobe's software was out of the price range for many students and entry-level professionals.
I have bought a new MacBook Pro with Retina display which has OS X 10.8.3. I have installed MacFusion from the version on their website, but I cannot mount it, getting this error: Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly. Can you help me with that?
I usually need to write math with LaTeX, and after seeing this question: Entering unicode math symbols. I came here with some small questions.
I use my Mountain Lion MacBook Air to connect to the internet using various methods. At home, I use my wired connection, which does not have a cap. Sometimes though, I connect via my iPad, which uses LTE, and does have a bandwidth cap. At other times, I connect through 3G on my iPhone, where the bandwidth cap is even lower.
Hello I am trying to go begining of the line. neither left arrow key or ctrl + a lets me do it. everytime it keeps couple letters on the right. however its a visual bug my cursor is actually in the begining I am not exactly sure why it happens but it happen both on default terminal app and iterm2
When using iMessage on a Mac and an iPod Touch, we get alert for every message in each device. That means, getting double alerted at a time.
When you hit F3 on the keyboard, Mission Control is opening, displaying all active windows in a miniaturized version neatly ordererd. When my Mac OSX 10.8 was newly installed some month ago, there were programme icons displayed together with every mini window in Mission Control. How can I get these icons back? This is how my Mission Control looks like: This is how it is supposed to look like, with programme icons:
I have a soft symlink between the Documents folder on my main computer and a folder in Dropbox, say dbDocs. If I now edit a document, say thesis.tex, in dbDocs from another computer, will the symlink on my main computer see that thesis.tex has changed and sync this file back to Documents? Or will the symlink just overwrite the newly edited file in dbDocs with the corresponding file from Documents?
I use vim with this wonderful plugin which constantly changes my colorscheme in order to let me find my perfect one. I use iTerm 2 too, which is themed itself. Now, when I use the non-GUI version of MacVim (mvim) I installed via brew, my color schemes are loaded properly but they don't always play nicely with the "background" iTerm theme. I.e. I see the background color of iTerm2 popping out on the sides when using mvim. Is there a way to "adapt" iTerm 2 to the current mvim theme?
My iPad mini shows 66% power but will not charge. Is there a power level it must drop to so it can charge? This true fromAC or USB.
I am looking for a voice modulator software that runs on OS X and converts a voice into scrambled and distorted sounding audio (like the ones in the movies).
I'm new to conjobs and applescript but I have the script done correctly i believe. (any critique is welcome) I don't want to bloat my calendar with events to do this because I use my calendar for appointments and I don't need the bloat. Here's my goal: run an apple script at 9am/5pm to enable/disable a mail account (after this works I'm going to add loging in/out of an Messenger account, first things first) here's my script: tell application "Mail" set offTime to 17 set onTime to 9 end tell accessing cron jobs via this and within cron jobs i've used variations I've attempted (based on search engine results) I think that's all of them. Any feedback/assitance appreciated, thanks!
We are writing the policy of a small company to create 100 Apple ID for their employees. Half will work primarily on iPads and the other half on Macs. We have decided to try to use two-step authentication rather than the traditional, pick three security questions and answers for the work Apple ID. Many of our workers do not have iOS devices to carry with them, so we will rely on SMS for the pin notification part of the process and have each employee list a corporate SMS number as one of their options so that IT can assist them with resetting an account should the password need to be reset.
Is there a way to get the drive to mount automatically without depowering the hub? (This is actually easier than re-inserting the tiny drive). Restarting the Macbook daily is generally not a desirable option for a variety of reasons. I have sleepwatcher installed, but I'm not certain how to resurrect a drive from the command line when it's not available through diskutil.
I'm looking for an easy way to view a simple slideshow of photos with 1x1 pixel ratio, with play/pause button. I want 1 image pixel to be equal to 1 retina screen pixel, as shown by default with Preview. The borders of the screen should be black as in any simple slideshow (the images being smaller than 2880 pixels).
In Windows when I browse in Explorer, if I open a new Explorer window, it is opened to the same location as the window I had selected when I hit Ctrl-N. Is there a way of doing the same with Finder? So if I'm browsed to Pictures, when I hit Command-N, the new Finder window opens showing Pictures. Edit: to clarify, what happens now is that regardless of where I have browsed to, when I hit Command-N, the new Finder window opens in my home directory /Users/my_user/.
I am trying to make an Automator workflow that will alllow me to: Specify a folder to run the actions on Search all PDF files in that folder for a certain word (my client's name) Create a new PDF file with just those pages on which my client's name appears Save that file on the desktop
I'm trying to create an Applescript that will change the MAC address of my router automatically. Some fields need to be even numbers but I can't figure out how to generate even numbers only. Heres what I have so far ..
On Linux, I can get to a ssh or Ctrl-Alt-F1 console and type in a command to restart the window manager. Is there any equivalent for Mac Mountain Lion?
I've installed TeXLive on Mountain Lion. The TeX Live Utility says that the tex-gyre package is installed, however these fonts don't appear on my system and I actually get errors when trying to use them with XeLaTeX. What do I need to do to get this working?
What do I mean by "in a visual way" ? Actually, I would like to create a simple "structure" where an element can have several sons, and so on. The xml format is a good format for this structure. But, the plist format could also do it. I am looking for a software that would allow me to create the structure with the help of a good interface : viewing it as a tree maybe moving/copying branches, etc.
I need to be able to SSH into a Mac (Mountain Lion) and check if ARD is running and if so, what are the settings. Basically, I need the equivalent of going to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Management and visually inspecting the options set there. But I need it on the Terminal so I can do this via SSH.
I'm using a webmail account(NOT Gmail: hate its interface), and I DON'T want to use the mac's Mail app(must maintain double contacts lists for one thing). I use Google Chrome and have set the internal mail handler, so when i click a mailto: link, it opens up the url for my webmail. However, other apps like Picasa, doesn't support mailing to a webmail url(short of Gmail: DUH :-), only to the mac's Mail app. I've managed to switch to Google Chrome as the main mail app in mac's Mail app's settings, so now I can select Chrome for e-Mail in Picasa.
In my company, we would use the Apple MDM software linked to Active Directory. We would use the self enrollment system of iOS devices proposed by OS X Lion Server. The main problem is that to log-on, the user must input their password on the (/MyDevices web app). But our users don't know their password, because we use a biometric system for the logon on our windows machine.
I'm having issues with the iTunes interface being illegible. It is especially a problem in the iPhone management area. I have searched the world for similar issues and so far nothing has turned up. Hoping someone here has ideas on how to resolve. Thanks!
Is there an app for iPhone that allows you to password protect apps without jailbreaking the phone?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to mirror from OS X to AppleTV and to stop mirroring?
For security reasons, I started disabling chrome://flags/ on my OSX laptop, but realize that certain videos look choppy when I disabled the flags, I'd like to re enable the default ones. What flags are enabled/disabled by default in chrome?
Excuse me while I fire up Carbon Copy Cloner, but does anyone have any light to shed on this? Can anyone comment as to whether they are or aren't experiencing this on 10.8.3?
I own an iPhone 5 running on iOS 6.1.2. It is jail broken. I connect to the internet via the university WiFi system, which provided each of us a unique username and password, and we have a set download limit. After logging in through my iPhone, after about 10 minutes, the iPhone disconnects itself and reverts itself to my data plan.
A bluetooth device that is not mine nor under my control asks my computer to pair, about every minute or so. Interestingly, it's fairly effective as a DOS attack actually. Disabling my BT is not an option, since I need it for my BT devices. I want to tell OSX to ignore this particular BT device, but I can't figure out how.
On our 10.7 Lion installation, 3 out of 9 drives are repeatedly suffering from Incorrect block count for file errors when running a diskutil repairVolume command. The drives are having capacities of 3TB and 4TB. The drives are attached via a SATA bus. There is no relation between drive capacity and these errors occurring. A 4TB drive is listing roughly 5000 file and 1500 folder entries. Of these 5000 files, 3000 files are more than 64K in size. 4 Out of 5 of the 3TB drives are not experiencing these "Incorrect block count for file" issues. The drives are encapsulated in silicon jackets to reduce vibrations. The faulty drives also have IO issues in application software, resulting in write() errors. Each 3TB drive with 512 byte sectors is partitioned and formatted with commands similar (replace disk number and Volume name) to these: When ( 33% of the data {1.3TB of free space} is moved to a different drive OR 5 drives were unmounted by the system and manually re-mounted), 1 of the drives
Again, today, I found out that my default search engine has been changed to "Yahoo", which is weird as I didn't do that. This is the second time it happens, and I found out there is an extension named "search me" is installed both in safari and chrome. Where is this stupid plugin comes from? I don't remember I install it. Some other guys also have this issue: Apple Support Communities thread
Following my this question I finally decided to get a wireless Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad Mini. I bought some cheap (around 40 USD) Chinese crap, but designed specifically for iPad Mini -- i.e. an aluminium cover with Bluetooth keyboard inside.
Terminal.app does not implement all xterm sequences. I need to get the complete list of what it does implement. Is it available anywhere?
Can I edit or change/remove details in Contracts, Tax, and Banking ? I have feel up the information in Contracts, Tax, and Banking section for the Bank details.Now contract's status is Contracts In Effect but I want to know that can I delete the bank info OR say disable, remove this contract from itunes. I want to register my new bank account. If so then when ?
I opened up my macbook this morning (resumed from sleep) and found that my mouse pointer looked like this:  If I hovered over a button, the pointer part would change to the little hand, but the squiggles and the 24 stayed in place. Likewise when I tried to take a screenshot, the camera icon would show but still the squiggles and 24 behind it. (Of course, you can't take a screenshot of the mouse pointer, hence the photo.)
I am looking for a solution that would enable me to open a mailto: hyperlink with one of two email handlers. Sometimes I want to use Gmail but sometimes I want to use Outlook (default OS X one). Now I don't have time to switch from one to another and I want to be able to use a modifier key (like Cmd, Alt, Ctrl or Shift) to trigger the use of secondary handler. How can I implement this?
I have the file Rprofile.site in /Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ Searching 'Rprofile.site' in Spotlight does not find the file, and I have to manually go to the folder containing the file. I'm on a Mac book pro using 10.8.2 Is there a way I can find the file using Spotlight?
It is NOT "show desktop" -- the windows definitely fly down to the dock and are minimized, they do not slide to the edges of the screen. The windows are not hidden -- they don't come back with cmd-tab, for example, and they don't disappear instantly -- they "genie" down to the dock. The closest I've found is option-cmd-M, except that it only minimizes windows for the current app -- the behavior I'm asking about minimizes ALL windows from ALL apps.
but I'd prefer the way it is now since My computer may be off when this is scheduled to run, and I believe this will run on wake, or maybe it was a helpful sideeffect of the repeating... I can always change the plist to run on startup as well.
I'm in the process of cleaning up my wickedly bad "Digital Photos" folder. I've got a workflow I like, but I need a better way of selecting the files. What I'd like to be able to do is select a top-level folder and somehow automagically select all the *.jpg files within both that folder AND any subfolders. I need to move all the *.jpg files to a single directory for easier processing, and having to do it one folder at a time after 10+ years of mis-matched filing systems is just taking way too long.
Other answers on the site don't seem to be relevant to me: one identifies Facebook Video Calling as the problem, but I don't have Facebook Video Calling installed. (Nor would I!)
I follow Unix Tool Tip on Twitter and it is interesting that many of the tips that are posted are not available on OS X. For example: cp - u will only copy files that don't exist, or are newer than their existing counterparts, in the destination directory. Trying this on my machine results in: Why are these options not available and is it possible to get access to them on OS X?
Is it even possible ? I want to boot my actual Mac OS X Server in Parallels. ( With all the programs and setting ) The Reason is : I want to create a Test-System, where i can experiment without harming the running system. PLEASE HELP ME. I need this JOB !!!
Recently, whenever I open Outlook, it tells me that my the database needs to be rebuilt. I attempted to and received an error the first time. I deleted the database file located in Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/ and attempted to run the rebuild again, and it failed with an error code -47.
For example, so I can test different USB ports on my computer and powered hubs to see if one charges my iPhone faster than another.
I consulted this KB article, but the information in it didn't seem to exactly match my setup (even though I am running iTunes 11 on OSX 10.8). For example, in step #3 it says to go to File -> "Create New Version" -> "Create Format Version". The closest thing I could find is what I mentioned above, and I wasn't able to find "Create New Version". Even then it looked like it would evoke the same situation as what I have.
Can I receive local and/or push notifications to my email account instead of as a notification that appears on my iPhone? I want to receive the local and push notifications for some apps but I don't want to necessarily receive them as pop-up notifications on my iPhone screen, but would rather access them in my inbox when I have time.
I am using Macbook Pro and I am trying to dock terminal in the bottom and my webstorm on the top left and safari in top right. I followed the suggestion but I can't get the dividie by holding shift but can't seem to get the divider the solution suggests. How do we get the divider or is this solution is
Somehow I enabled my mac to have these "spaces" and I always have a second "desktop" - I don't know how to get rid of it. However, either when no apps are open or if there is a fullscreen app, I do not want my external thunderbolt monitor to switch to it's new "space". I only want to switch spaces on my laptop monitor. Is there a way to disable this? I can't even find out how to disable my second desktop, period.
I use Font Agent Pro as my font manager of choice. I just upgraded my 2007 Mac Pro from the latest OS X 10.6 to 10.7.5 lion. I was having a problem with Postscript Type 1 fonts not being available to Adobe or other applications, so I cleared the font cache from Terminal. After doing so, my Mac will not shut down - when I try to shut down the screen goes gray but the cursor can still can be moved around I have to hit the power button to shut down manually. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
Is there a feature in Preview that will let me maintain a collection of file-specific bookmarks? For example, I often place bookmarks at the beginning of various chapters in books. I might decide to label a bookmark as "Chapter 1: Introduction".
I was using Terminal.app to to use the ssh command and I opened the "New Remote Connection" window. There is this long text box under the "user" box that displays the ssh ... commands that were entered. How do I clear my input? It just displays all of my server names that were entered? The delete doesn't seem to work?
When advertising identifier is used does the App functionality will change? Will the App functions properly when the iPad/iPhone is resetted.
I program my iMac to put the display to sleep after 10 mins. It has always worked till now but not any more. The display stays on all the time whatever I do on the energy save page, so when I am away from the iMac the screen saver starts and it will stay on until I next touch the mouse which can be days if I am away and am running Skype for example. I can only sleep the display manually. Any ideas anyone?
I have a strange error with Adobe Reader XI when opening documents saved from the web, using print save to pdf. Preview does not have that problem with same document.
I have a locked 3Gs running 4.1 and it's pretty annoying not be able to install anything on it anymore (most apps nowadays require at least 4.3) I can not unlock it officially because i bought second hand two years ago and can't reach the person i bought it from :s So i would like to know if it will be possible to jailbreak it (to be able to unlock it) after upgrading it, or should i just leave it at 4.1 and use the basic functions ? Modem firmware : 06.15.00 Thanks
I want to delete some apps (games) but backup their save game data. Since there's no way to save your saved game data the only way to backup this files is using something like iFunBox and copy both Documents and Library folders to your PC.
Regularly while sleeping my Mac wakes up and i'd like to know if there is some kind of log of what trigged the waking. (Mouse click ? Keyboard ? WOL Magic Packet ? Something else ?) I'm on late 2012 iMac with 10.8.3 PS: "Wake for network access" is enabled.
In Lion, you used to be able to boot into a Safari-only mode. Where did that go in Mountain Lion?
I have looked on stack exchange and other sites for a simple applescript. I have found more complex scripts that it's hard for me to understand (not knowing a lot about the applescript syntax). So, here's my dilemma:
I've created a web page that has a link to an MP3 file. When I click the link, the OS plays the MP3 with a full screen image of a generic image:
I handle most of my email through Gmail's web interface either in Firefox or Chrome. Often I would like to print -> PDf -> mail pdf to a customer. However the Mail PDF option in the print panel opens up a Mail.app compose window. Instead I would like this to open a compose panel in whatever browser currently has a copy of Gmail running. At present I can print directly to PDF, then in Gmail compose, attach, comment, send, then delete the PDF.
OS X 10.8.3 Mac Mini Late 2012, 2.6Ghz quad-core i7, set up with 2 displays, like this: Problem: When I "display sleep" the system (by moving the mouse to a hot corner, to sleep just the displays, not the entire system) --
I sent today an iMessage through my iPhone, and on the iPhone there is still no "delivered" status, but when I checked on my iPad which is on the same AppleID there is status "delivered" indicated beneath the same iMessage... What is actually the right status??? How is this different status in the same iMessage possible???? Thnx Alen
The last time i connected my iPhone 5 to my laptop and synchronized with iTunes, something weird happened. All of my paid applications keeps asking for my Apple ID and password and entering just closes the application, and if i tried to open an application without internet connection, the app just closes instantly like a crash. i tried to restore but no good. One important note is that the apps were downloaded by a friend of mine using his account, then i made an apple account but i didn't enter my credit card information so i can't buy application using my account. so i am just wondering if this is the problem, the apps were paid by different account and my account doesn't allow purchases, or what do you think ?
The business I work for currently has two iPads: One third generation and one fourth generation. They are each tied to a separate Apple ID. The third generation iPad currently has tons of photos and albums that we would like to get onto the fourth generation iPad, preferably keeping the albums intact. Many of the albums have upwards of 100 photos.
The Game cube has a video output wire that looks like this : How can read the video input on an iMac with this? What do I need to buy? What software should I use?
I want to view Stanford's iOS programming course. How can I see it without installign itunes on my PC and on my Android mobile device?
Here's an interesting one: ALL my interface icons have disappeared since my rebooting my MacBook from safe sleep (the battery had died). Any ideas on what's going on?
Alright so I've been working in Garageband for about a month and have made a few tracks, but I've just come across a problem that I have yet to encounter, and I can't find anything about it online. When I was playing on the keyboard, I accidentally hit some keys, I'm not sure which ones, wherein lies the problem, but it made the whole keyboard turn to a faded grey and then I was unable to play on it anymore. I can still see it but I can do nothing. I opened and closed the program but the keyboard is still like that. It seems to me that I just need to hit something to fix it, but I have no idea what that is. There is nothing in product support about it or anything in forums. Any help would be appreciated.
I've been searching the internet for a solution to this. I would like to create an Automator workflow that will zip the selected files, name the zip the name of the Parent directory and save that zip in the current directory.
How do you change the background gradient fill for all slides. I created a nice gradient fill for the first slide and I need it to come across all of the slides for the presentation. thank you
I downloaded sudo for os x 10.7 from the following link, I followed the readme instructions, but when I call sudo -V I still get the old version number. I can see the folders related claim to have been changed at the time I ran the suggested command. Any ideas? http://archive.hmug.org/BSD/Administration/System/sudo/1.8.6p7/
I'm trying to download multiple urls from different domains using different proxies. It should do all these in one row of code, running curl just once: This fails: Taking the code from an answer below I tried to run but this fails as well.
My MacBook Pro was pronounced "dead on arrival" by the Apple Genius after sustaining injuries from liquid that had been spilled in my brief case. Despite the purchase of a new MacBook Pro Retina I find myself unable to completely detach from the MacBook that drowned in a pool of sweetened iced tea while under my watch. Is there a financially practical solution for resurrecting my MacBook Pro with the 17 inch display and solid state hard drive? It's been stored in my closet and has never started since the fatal accident.
I have a MBP Early 2011 which came with Lion. I purchased Mountain Lion from the App Store and installed it, and it worked fine for awhile. Recently my machine crapped out and my disk was corrupted pretty bad, and I had to reset to factory settings, so I'm on Lion again.
When travelling I will need all of the "space" I can claim on my iPad. Am I correct in thinking "space" is not being taken up on the iPad by DB folders, unless I have made them favorites?
I'm using a Thermaltake External HDD USB 3.0 dual drive docking station on a Mac Air. I can see the files and seem to be able to copy small files fine. When I try to move a lot of files it gets unmounted. The drives are WD 2TB are formatted NTFS and I'm using TUXERA ntfs daemon to read the drives.
I'm learning Chinese and want a way to quickly generate and save words and phrases to m4a files. I've managed to do pretty much what I want in terminal, but I can't seem to figure out how to make an app out of it. Here is the code I've used in terminal:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, every time I try to drag a folder to my desktop it only makes an alias. Is there any way to reenable moving regular folders? It's really obnoxious to have to make another directory every time I want to move something for a short while.
I currently have a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) which I would like to use as display for a new Mac Pro. How do I do that?
Hello everyone I have a quick question I just upgraded from a my touch to iphone 4s...On my old phone when i looked through my contact list you were able to see a thumbnail image of the contacts photo while looking through your contacts but I noticed with the iphone as your looking through your contacts it doesnt have the thumbnail preview..It only shows picture if you select contact or when the person calls ...Is there a way to configure it? Or is this just the way the phone works..Any help would be greatly aprreciated
I am using a Mac Book Pro 15" retina display which supposedly has a 2880x1800 resolution, but I don't seem to be getting that many pixels. In the control panel, if I choose the Scaled radio button the farthest setting to the right says looks like 1920x1200, how can I get the complete resolution?
Is there a way to find out what email address is used on an itunes account. I have my password but can't remember the email address! Help please!!
I need to use Ruby 1.9 for a programming test, and I'll be borrowing my dad's MacBook Air to do so. He's running OSX 10.7.5 and has Ruby 1.8.7
I was getting long boot times when I would log onto my account and even my kids' accounts on my iMac (2008 Intel Core 2 Duo). Then I could not launch Disk Utility and other standard, pre-installed software (including Accounts under System Preferences).
I want to access my iCloud account (mail and calendar) on our family iPad. It is currently set up with my husband's iCloud acct. Can we have two accounts on this device?
I'm planning my transition to Mac OS and I have a pair of mirrored drives I would like to move to my future computer. Since they are currently formatted as NTFS they will need to be reformatted during the transition. What I would like to do is create a RAID 1 mirror set with only one of the drives, copy the data from one drive to the other, and then add the remaining drive to the RAID set. Does anyone know if this is possible to do, or will Disk Utility require me to have two drives to create the RAID 1 mirror set?
Every other click and keystroke seems to cause my MacBook to just freeze for minutes at a time. (I saw How to fix OS X Lion being unresponsive? but I'm not seeing much swap activity nor is my RAM filled up, according to the Activity Monitor.)
I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro late 2010 to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard). Now it has this problem where it will sometimes sleep and not wake up. However, I hear that the computer is still on, since the fan is spinning, and so is the hard drive.
My Macbook Air stopped detecting the resolution of my external display this morning and I'm not sure why because it was working fine last night. My display is 24" 1080p and in the past whenever I have connected my monitor to my Macbook, it's just used the 'Best for Display' resolution. Today though, this automatically defaults to 800x600 and looks like the picture on the left. Then when I change the resolution to 1920x1080 it looks like the picture on the right (click to enlarge).
Are there any possible ill consequences from booting my 2007 MacBook Pro (runs 10.8.3) into 10.4.11? According to Apple it's supported. I just want to run Diablo 2. I found an old backup of my PowerBook G3 and if dd works right (asr strangely refuses to do it), I'll have a partition which can boot either machine, complete with a System Folder. But I don't want this to affect or corrupt my real filesystem.
I am looking for good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow. I am particularly interested in as to how these processes work in unison during Mac OS X login and authenticate the user for both local and network login. Google search does not seem to produce good results. Any links regarding this would be most helpful. Ramkumar
I have a Ipod touch 4 (ios program version 5.0.1), Is there a way to view volume as numbers and not as a slider? I use it while I play the drums, and using the volume control as a slider is just not accurate enough( not to say not comfortable)...
I made an OS X 10.6 USB stick and I used it to succesfully install OS X on several Mac, including a very old Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro. However I've got a problem: on my girlfriend's Mac it simply doesn't work.
How do you delete a file you have selected in a Finder window, without using the mouse? delete doesn't do it. When I looked it up, I was said that command-delete is supposed to do it, but it doesn't work for me.
To be clear - I'm trying to flip horizontally, not rotate by 180 degrees. So the Apple menu is in the top right and the spotlight Notification Center are top left. Please indicate/edit and OS version requirements in your answer.
I enabled the root user, but still cannot su root, still get the same terse su: Sorry. I seem to have enabled the root user correctly, since the process to enable it now gives the option to disable it or change password.
To switch desktops, one can use < CTRL >-i or < CTRL >-[< left >< right >]. Are there shortcuts to create and remove desktops? If not, how can I make them?
I'm trying to devices an AppleScript that will automatically press the right arrow key for 1 second, then the left arrow key for 1 second and repeat this in an endless loop until I interrupt it. Here is what I've come up with so far, but it's not quite working:
When I put the following in ~/.vimrc and save it, syntax on
My optical drive on my Macbook Pro has gone out. I have a copy of Snow Leopard on a disc, if I borrow a USB optical drive, will I be able to install Snow Leopard and is this a reliable method? Thanks
I am currently looking for a keyboard-trackpad combo for the Mac where the trackpad lies underneath beneath the keyboard (i.e. just like they would be on a Macbook; in fact the reason why I'm looking for this is to make it easier to use a desktop).
I just installed Windows 8 on my ManBook Pro Retina 15" and I am having some problems. Scince the default resolution looks bad, I set the Resolution to 2880x1800, but this made everything small. I tried scaling, and set that to 200%, but now third-party apps look unbearable. For MacOSX I know there is a solution called Retinizer, but that aplication does not support Windows. Is there anyway I can have everything at a reasonable size, but at the same time having everything look good?
Consider the following configuration I have a Wi-Fi iPad without 3G support. I also have an HP printer that doesn't not have Wi-Fi capabilities. My printer supports USB. I am planning to buy a 3G Wi-Fi Router.
When trying to log into iCloud from System Preferences, I'm told [appleid] is already signed in to iCloud To use this as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Mail, Contacts, and Calendars and sign in again.
I work in marketing and have several Gmail accounts established exclusively for my clients advertising programs that I must access frequently. Until a few days ago, each time I opened any Gmail account the User ID (Gmail address) and password have remained saved and would populate as I entered the first character of the Gmail address I was attempting to open.
All I know is since I went from snow leopard to mountain lion my macbook pro 2011 13" 2.3GHZ i 5 2410M is slow to load web pages.I am not an expert and that is all I can say.
I have removed the stand from my Thunderbolt monitor to place a touch overlay device on the sceen (needed to lay the screen flat facing up to attach the overlay) Now I am trying to re-attach the stand and the flange that holds the torx screws has gone back inside the monitor. It seems to be locked in the "closed" position at this point.
I changed my Language settings to Indonesia region so that this date format would be recognized as a date in Excel. It worked, but somehow Excel won't recognize a comma as a delimiter for CSVs anymore. How shall I solve this? Is there a way to get Excel to recognize this date format without changing the Language settings? Is there a way to get Excel to recognize this date format without changing the Language settings? Thanks
I use iMessages on both my iPhone (6.1.2) and my Retina Macbook (10.8.3). Generally, it works pretty well, but on a somewhat consistent basis messages that I've sent from the Mac will disappear, but only disappear on the Mac. They stay on my phone. It's not a huge deal, but I sometimes like to go review messages via my Mac. Any suggestions?
Can Apple TV enable me to treat my TV as a wireless secondary screen (as one can do when directly connecting the TV via a cable), rather than simply mirroring my primary screen? I'd love to stream content to the TV while still using my laptop to do work.
Is it possible to create an image of my 64gb 2012 Macbook Air using Carbon Copy Cloner so that I can recover from that image (if my Mac does not boot) when I am not connected to the internet? I can then recover from that snapshot image.
Before switcthing to Mac OSX 10.8 everytime I launch application which uses x11 it was starting x11 automatically. After switching to XQuartz and 10.8 it does not work anymore and I have to launch XQuartz manually. How to launch XQuartz on demand?
I need to use large cursors when using OSX. However the standard Apple ones I can choose in System Preferences all make the cursor expand to the right and down. These then hide the beginning of any tooltip (especially in web browsers) and in some programs they hide needed information. I already use OmniDazzle to be able to find the cursor (and have used Pinpoint in the past) - it highlights the area the cursor is in but it does not change the cursor icon so it does not help me. Are there any cursors or any way to expand the cursor in other directions so I can still read the tooltips?
I have an iPod touch for my teen who continues to put the volume on high. My son has ASD and always wants everything set to high. There is no volume control password option, how do I get this?
But it is still confusing. I thought the bandwidth that is being described is overall bandwidth not like all chips are dropping to 800 Mhz...
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and open, and it crashes again. Is there a way to force Finder to open (one time only) as a clean slate?
My iPhone 4 suddenly just crashed and turned itself off - without any Message. I've tried to plug it in to my PC, but I can't get my iPhone to power up. The Apple logo appears for about 3 seconds, and then it disappears - it happens consistently. My lock button is also broken, so I can't reboot it. How can I power the device up?
I need to make a bash script to that I can drag a .rar file on top of it and then the script will receive the pathname of that file as argument 1 ($1). I have made the bash script, but how do I make it to be an application (right now MAC OSX is treating it as a text file even though I did chmod +x) and how do I enable the drag-n-drop of a file? Best Regards, Mads Ravn
My brother switched to an Android phone from an iPhone recently. When I attempt to text him, it still tries to send those messages as iMessages. Two questions: will he receive these iMessages, and if not, how do I default messages to him as texts instead of iMessages? Thanks for any help!
I have an iPad 2 currently using my AppleID. I want to reset it (almost) completely and change it to my girlfriend's Apple ID.
I've begun using Instagram more and more on my iPhone 4S. And typically, I take a photo using the standard Photo app, and then import the photo and process it within the Instagram app.
I'm getting my system log virtually spammed with: Googling yields no useful results. Any ideas what this is and how to alleviate it?
I have just switched to a rMBP from a Windows 7 laptop. I use an external 24 inch monitor (Samsung BX2440) via the HDMI port on the rMBP. It seems that due to some scaling, the text on the external monitor (particularly fixed width text) is a lot blurrier than what is was via my Windows machine.
I have a Logitech Wireless Mouse with Unifying Receiver plugged into my iMac - and when the computer is put to sleep (cmd alt eject), after wake it will not respond to mouse movement. If the computer sleeps by itself, restarts or otherwise - no problems. If I remove the USB receiver from its port and replace it, everything starts working again fine.
tl;dr Is there an easier way / hack to get iTunes to display albums by album name? Currently it splits albums up by artist, then sorts the album names A-Z. Going through and manually changing the Album Artist will take way to long...
I know you can spellcheck using Edit > Spelling > Spelling... but apparently this system spellchecker is independent from the document language. The checker will check in spanish, but spanish words in the document are still be underlined in red.
I don't know how the shortcut file icon got stuck on the toolbar  Any idea how to remove it?
2009 MacBook running OS X 10.7.5, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3. 92.13 GB free out of 499.25 GB.
So now that Macs no longer come with infrared I can't use the Apple Remote to control Plex, which is pretty disappointing. Does anyone know of a good Bluetooth remotes that will work with Plex? I've seen the Satechi Bluetooth Multimedia Remote, but it looks like its not compatible. Alternatively, I've seen this Twisted Melon IR Receiver, however its pretty big and bulk so its far from an ideal solution.
Maybe my internet connection is just to slow, but is 400 KB/s for "Mail" not just too much? What options do I have to decrease the traffic?
When I am listening to music on iTunes, the music is automatically paused when a Skype call is made. I recently switch to Spotify for my music resource. Can I have the same pausing functionality with Spotify, as with iTunes?
If I set up iCloud on my PC, which will be left at home will the pictures be synced to that automatically? In which case the 1000 picture limit wont be an issue? Am I right in understanding that the pictures will lose some resolution when viewed on the ipad but will keep the resolution when viewed on my Windows PC? Am I right in understanding that the pictures will lose some resolution when viewed on the ipad but will keep the resolution when viewed on my Windows PC? Does all of the above only work when connected to WiFi? Does all of the above only work when connected to WiFi? Thanks
What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work? What are the differences in the sets for different versions (Lion minimal set, Mountain Lion minimal set)? What are the processes that are not needed for the OS X operates?
I have a USB drive plugged into my Asus RT-N66U router and shared over SMB. I originally formatted this drive on a Mac. I have two Trendnet TV-IP572PI surveillance cameras that records snapshots/video to this drive over SMB. Sometimes when I mount the drive from my Mac ('Connect to server' @ smb://192.168.1.1) and attempt to delete old directories off of it, I get this error: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.
I know that official iOS support for bluetooth keyboards is minimal, and that AutoCorrect is theoretically unavailable. (According to Meg St. Claire via the Apple support forums, this is by design). Yet iOS seems able to AutoCorrect some words but not others: it auto-capitalizes phrases like "The Lord," "Supreme Court," and "United States," complete with a drop-down suggestion box that can be dismissed with the [ESC] button. If you type "teh" on the other hand, it just red-underlines it, which can't be accessed via the keyboard; you have to tap it with your finger. Things I've checked: "Shortcuts" section in the settings -- none of the phrases I mentioned are there. Not using TextExpander or any similar software. The autocorrection appears system-wide -- not limited to any single app.
My computer (brand new) was using 12 Gb of RAM so after I was done exporting my video I force-quit everything and 8 minutes later it's still using 5Gb or RAM, is this normal?! It seems like so much!
How can I sync my voice memos on iphone with my macbook over air? It works with cable but I want to work over air. Is that possible?
I have a Mac Mini (6,1) without an optical drive and I would like to put Debian testing on it instead of OS X. I cannot find a complete and concise guide to doing this on the mac's without the optical drives. Any ideas? Thanks
I'm currently setting a development environment in python 3.3 and i'm trying to import the Net-SNMP python bindings but idk where the files are located. Simple question: anyone knows where are located the Net-SNMP python binding files in MacOSX 10.8.3??
I recently had a burglar enter my home and take a number of items and I am chasing a long shot in catching him. I am hoping that the burglar had a smartphone that, when he entered the home, attempted to log in to my wireless network (but didn't because the network has a password).
Is there a keyboard shortcut to format as subscript in PowerPoint 2011? Most sources point to command-= but this zooms out. Is there a way to customize these shortcuts, or more importantly to discover them without spending a lot of time googling?
just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal. But because i dont really like the Server application i just removed it but the server in my terminal is still left. So i wonder now how i can get the default back like users/... I am running mountain lion on my mac. I am a real newby to both mac and usage of terminal but i need it know for some work and i just get errors every time i am trying to enter something.
Any idea what is causing this or even what exactly the kbd process does? I really would appreciate any help since this is really a big issue and my iPhone has become basically unusable. Thanks!
I know the defaults: control+shift+power : Lock screen command+space : Spotlight I do NOT want to change these -- they must continue to work. However, due to severely ingrained muscle memory and the fact that I work on many other sensitive systems in the same day, I need to create two new shortcuts that do the same thing: command+L (or similar) : Lock screen control+space : Spotlight
I have jumpcut on mac and it is set up to "remember" 40 items, but only 15 items actually show in menu. How can I access the other 25 items?
A few months ago I posted the question getting "out of memory" error when trying to load specific websites (am not out of RAM) regarding bizarre could not allocate memory errors when I attempted to load certain specific websites (and was absolutely positively not out of memory), even though my internet connection was otherwise fine. That problem spontaneously vanished for a while, but now I'm experiencing the same behavior with a number of other sites and a different error message.
I am trying out the demo version of PDFpen and can't figure out a way to adjust the character spacing. My text edit ended up like this:
Using a web browser (e.g., Safari, Chrome, etc.) can I view html pages that are stored locally on the iPad? The pages should render properly and execute Javascript/CSS properly.
I have been struggling to get Windows 8 installed on a brand new Macbook Pro Retina. It seemed simple enough to just run Boot Camp 5 with a 16GB flash drive in the USB port and a Windows 8 Professional ISO sitting on the desktop with the intent of creating a bootable USB drive, but it's not working for me. After selecting the path to the ISO file, boot camp proceeds to format the flash drive, create the WININSTALL partition, and attempt to copy the contents of the ISO to it, but it fails. The error message isn't all that helpful, but the console logs seem to indicate that there is some sort of problem remounting the flash drive after formatting:
For about a week it occurs that System Services created in Automator suddenly refuse to work. It happens on all Services, system-wide, i.e.: Open in Marked in Byword Create Symlink in Finder Subscribe To Comment Feed in Chrome
I just came to a different country and suddenly I am having strange issues with my macbook air 2012's wifi. It seems to detect the wifi networks without issue but refuses to load any webpages or connect to dropbox, app store etc. I tried pinging some websites then I tried pinging 10.10.10.1 but i had no success. It works fine on all the other devices in the home and when I checked the dhcp client list on the router it listed the mac and its ip address. Does anybody have any ideas?
Hello world so i am way new to mac i am trying to install an older version of wkhtmltopdf because the brew install wkhtmltopdf installs a rc version that just wont work. So i found this blog that explains how to install it here. but how can i move the file wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-OS-X.i368 into the /usr/bin dir via the terminal in mac?
I use the Notes app with iCloud. The 'Notes' folder under 'iCloud' is set as my default account under Notes > Default Account > iCloud. This ensures that new notes are created in iCloud instead of on my Mac. However, I also have notes folders in the 'On My Mac' section. I actually only use this so that I have a local backup of my iCloud notes.
I have a very simple rule set up in Mail like the following: That's about as basic as you can get: if an email comes from a certain domain, move it to a certain folder. That's it.
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in single-user mode and try to fix it by rebuilding the catalog btree as in this answer:
When I am using Chrome for web development I like to have it open on the same space as where I am using my code editor. Chrome is currently assigned to a different space than my code editor so usually a drag it to that space when I am working.
Does there exist any app for iPhone/Mac that allows me: to see on the Macbook what my iPhone camera "sees" via WiFi? to remotely, from the Mac, start/stop recording on the iPhone?
I am currently running 2880x1800 resolution on my MacBook Pro retina (using the command setgetscreenres). Whenever I connect to an external display, my Mac changes to a lower resolution. Is there a way to disable this behavior?
When notifications pop up from the notification centre for Facebook posts nothing happens when I click the show button. If a tweet comes along the show button opens up a browser tab. Any ideas why this isn't working for Facebook and is working for Twitter?
I'm running under Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I recently added an environment variable which it seems to be messing my bash terminal (I guess). What I did is add the variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.2/lib to my .bash_profile file, which looks like this: And then run the command: So that now I can see the variable listed along with all the environment variables when I run "set" on the terminal.
I need to combine a movie without sounds and a MP3 file. How can I do it in OS X? I have Adobe After Effects but it is not at all intuitive to use -- or better I need to find some button to render the sounds with the movie but now no time -- is there some easy fast-to-use software for OS X to combine sounds and videos?
I'm viewing courses on coursera (a free classroom site) and the material is just going too quickly. I need a video player that can slow down the speed of the video just a little bit so I can follow along. It seems that most video players highlight the ability to stream video, etc, but nothing seems to slow down the speed it plays. Is there any applet that allows me to play an MP4 (or similar offline file) at a slower rate?
I have moved certain sections (downloads, music, pictures) of my user directory from my SSD to my HDD via symlinks. I have successfully changed over the image of the folder which can be seen in the finder. After removing the original folder the item is also removed from the sidebar, after creating the symlink I have added the folder back to the sidebar but have noticed that the default icons for such folders is no longer present and simply presented using a blank blue folder. How can I get the original icons displayed in the sidebar?
I'm working on a friend's network and he's currently got a cisco router handling DHCP. Does the Xserve VPN service require that the Xserve also be handling DHCP? Xserve 10.6.8
Is there a way to connect the latest Apple TV, which only has an HDMI output, to an older television that only has the yellow and red/white inputs for audio and video? This older television has a coaxial input as well.
My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT Hard Disk, how do i go about viewing the files on Windows? The PC I have connected it to has dualboot ubuntu, would it be easier to access the files from linux? Any freeware suggestions? I have tried googling for a few tutorials but these tend to focus on a dead HDD. Thanks.
Can I use find my iPhone to track my daughters phone if we each have different apple ids?
I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups. This was mostly due to Google results as well as this Apple article. I did the following (no hacks, nothing, just straight up!) Formatted a 1.5 TB hard drive as 1GB + 0.5GB, both HFS+ Journalled on a GUID partition scheme (did this on my Mac) Attached it to my 5th gen AEBS.
My iBook currently has a stick of 256MB DDR PC2700 RAM installed. I want to bump this up to a gigabyte (because programs these days take a lot of RAM to link). I was wondering if an iBook G4 can use any brand of PC2700 or only RAM made specifically for iBooks. For example, there was a time when graphics card needed to be specially flashed to work for Apple computers.
Is there a way to check for weak battery? My battery dies after 2 hours of use but still outputs 3.7V in a multimeter check. Could it still be dead?
I have two installations of php on my machine. One came with apache and is a 5.3 version, and I'm trying to use a 5.4 version with nginx. I'd like to work on project using nginx, but I can't figure out how to turn off apache's pfp-fpm service: it doesn't show up when I use the sudo launchctl list command. However, I can see it in the process list, and it claims its parent process is launchd.
I'm continually hitting Alt+Left Arrow to move navigate within a cell in Numbers, and inadvertently inserting new rows.. How can I disable all the Alt+Arrow shortcuts? I've tried changing the Application specific keys in System Prefs > Keyboard, and my new keys work, but the old remain active. Is there a tidy oneliner to paste into the terminal?! Edit:
The screencapture utility has a -w switch which allows capturing the front window, but only after highlighting the window and getting a click from the user. Is there any way to capture the front window non-interactively using some shell command?
For some reason I cannot access apple.com from my MacBook since last week. Was Lion at that time, so I thought updating to Mountain might help, but no luck. Also a full reset and back to original settings of my router didn't help. Funny thing is though, my iPhone and iPad can go to apple.com via Wifi and the Macbook will as well when it is connected by LAN cable. Just not via Wifi. Also iTunes can only reach the Apple Store via cable, not wifi. The iOs devices have again no problem.
I am using TaskPaper and, unlike most Mountain Lion apps, it appears that there is no way to make it go full screen. Would it be possible to use an AppleScript to make it go full screen in the same way other apps can? If so, how would I do that?
I have had the same problem as the previous complainant. I received an iMessage from a @yahoo.com address saying "hi". I then asked who this was and the reason for the message and also how he obtained my number and email. He claimed that he has me stored in his directory as "Abba". I'm certainly no Abba!
One of my login items is called FontAgent Activator.app Each time I restart, I am prompted to accept incoming network communications for this app. However the app is already listed as allow incoming communications in the firewall preferences. This is the only app that has this issue.
I received an Ipad from my employer for work. I also have a personal Ipad. I set up 2 different apple ids, one for work and one for personal use. I now want to return my work Ipad but tranfer the apps etc to my personal Ipad. How do I do this?
I like to keep my system up to date and the Mac App Store is great in that it automatically notifies you when updates are available for apps downloaded from it. However, I'm after an easy way to get notified of updates for all of my apps not downloaded from the Mac App Store. I'm talking about things like Skype, Spotify, Firefox etc. without having to go and start up each app first and let it do its own update check. I've seen sites like OldVersion and OldApps which do have information about the latest versions of apps and their release dates, which could potentially be "scraped" to obtain this information, but they don't seem to be updated terribly regularly as far as I can tell.
Is there a method for associating file types with applications via terminal? I thought ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist might do it, and I also have seen: Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately? but I can't seem to get it working. I guess I'm looking for a way to imitate what the GUI does when someone uses it to change association types, it seems to work instantly there...
Having installed both rEFInd 0.6.10 (updated to 0.6.11) via its install.sh and Ubuntu 13.04 on another partition I can now choose on a MacBook Air to boot either MacOS or Linux. When running MacOS and closing and soon re-opening the lid, everything is fine, but after a longer time of closed lid, the machine is not waking/starting up. Instead I have to long-press the power button and then press it again to boot the machine.
I am looking for the most straightforward way (both in initial setup and in maintenance) to set up a second partition on an OS X machine for (either) Debian or Ubuntu. I won't be running any other OSes so the ability to triple boot is of no interest to me.
I have a 5 year old Seagate USB2 drive for backups, used for a few months with time machine on my Retina MBP. Lately, I've been getting an error that it was improperly ejected (I didn't actually eject it), and I can hear the drive churn endlessly on its own. I can't remount it, its power button doesn't respond, I have to power cycle it, then it mounts again and seems to work. Until the next incident.
On May 16th 2013 Apple released the MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.0. Since I have experienced the described symptoms I really want this update.
Can I remove the two .bash_profile.macports… files? How can I remove the extra items listed in my $PATH?
My intention is to sync photos to a iOS device using multiple Macs/PCs. But every time I connect my device to a new computer, iTunes wants to delete all of my synced photos.
I chose the wrong partition to install Windows on my MacBook Pro Retina. How do I reinstall Mountain Lion? I tried ⌘R but the only thing I get is: No Bootable Device -- Insert boot disk and press any key
I have a standard IMAP account configured in Mail.app (on Mountain Lion). That account contains a folder called Archive, which does not appear on the list of folders on the left. However, it does appear when I hit command+i, in the "Quota Limits" tab. Is there anything I can do to make this folder appear?
I am trying to get two different actions to repeat at different intervals but right now only the first action will repeat. thank you!
I had my MacBook Air 13" 2011 for almost 2 years now. And right from the start I kept having this weird issue: sometimes while I'm working on it, the screen (and the monitor attached via displayport aswell) randomly shuts off (or goes to sleep). The computer is still active and everything is still running normally, so If I hit a key it goes back on normally... It happens even if my power cord is plugged in. It's not a big deal, but it sometimes gets very annoying when it happens while I am typing. Any clues? Thanks!
This is not true for all shows. For some shows that are not on my hard drive, I see a little iCloud icon and am able to click & download the missing episodes.
I'd like to know how the Magic Trackpad compares with Wacom tablets as far as resolution goes. The Wacom Intuos5 line has 5080 LPI, while the Bamboo line has 2540.
So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 256Gbyte SSD a year and a half ago and were quite happy with system stability. Now these logs appear quite often before freezing my machine completely: Here is a photograph of such a log (original, larger sized photo here):
I am hoping someone here can assist me. I upgraded php and related files using brew upgrade on my mac which is running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Everything was working fine before and I just wanted to update. After I ensured that everything was fine as regards config files and vhosts I issued the following command to restart apache: sudo apachectl restart I then tried to connect to *=URL=* Safari errored out with: Safari can’t open the page “*=URL=* because Safari can’t connect to the server “localhost”. in the terminal, issuing the following command: apachectl -V | grep httpd.conf results in: -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf" Server root is: ServerRoot "/usr" and Document Root is: DocumentRoot "/Volumes/sites" DocumentRoot has permissions set to 755 As I said, everything was working fine until I restarted apache. Now, nothing works. I am completely lost, and I need to get things working again.
Title is self-explaining. Once I succeeded, and there was .inetloc file including xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "*=URL=* <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>URL</key> <string>message:%3CCAODRpat8f6Ca07rDHa+-uq23Cp1nk5E9MEReXbX8YaXfMcu8BA@mail.gmail.com%3E</string> </dict> </plist>
I updated all my software on the laptop and it is still not working. I can find my home network and click on it but when I input the password, it says "Connection Failed". I also tried setting up the network manually and inputting the password but again "Connection Failed"
How to clear my OSX 10.8 AppStore cookies and locally stored data? I also heard that there's a debug mode in AppStore, How can I enable it?
My MacBook has no optical drive. I have a Mac installation disc mounted and shared on a local Ubuntu machine and can access it, on the MacBook through the Remote Disc device in Finder.
I don't know if many of you have had this problem: After starting Skype, you can no longer use the webcam you specified for Skype to use in other applications such as Quick Time Player. Even completely closing Skype doesn't release it, you actually have to completely reboot your machine. The question I have is: What the hell does Skype do with webcams and has anybody found a solution?
According to the terminal, there is no file in the Trash folder. What am i missing? How can i solve this? EDIT So, i found out that the file is actually in another volume and as the Trash shows the 'trash' for all volumes, the file is being shown in the trash. So, the file is in the Trash for my Bootcamp volume [/Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes/501] I try deleting it from the terminal but its still there what do i do?
I don't think this is possible but still not sure, maybe it is: Can I import other people's calendar into iCal? Those calendars are Microsoft Outlook Exchange Calendars.
For security improvment, I'm running all my MacOS X on case sensitive and journaled file systems (then any ill written program which one day open a file named conf, and the day after try to open it with the new name CONF, won't mess with any of their or my files). I'd like to buy a new multi-purpose printer which would be compatible with such an hardened MacOS X. If you are using a Mountain Lion on a case sensitive and journaled file-system, could you share here which printer make and model you experienced running without any misbehaviour?
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any difference what I am doing on it whether it be CPU intensive or the machine is just idling, without fail after an hour goes by it starts to beach ball and becomes totally unresponsive. I let it sit for an hour the other day but it just kept beach balling, so all I can do is hold the power button to shut it down and then restart it, but after an hour the same thing happens again. I have had this Mac Pro for about a month and a half now and everything seemed to work really well up until a couple of days ago. The computer is running a 30" and 20" apple display and it has the ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB, also my hard drive is a Crucial M4 500gb SSD, I have it installed with APRICORN VEL-SOLO-X2. If anyone has any ideas what could be causing this please let me know.
I have a iPhone 4, which is IOS 4.3.3. Now i need to upgrade it to the latest OS version, WITHOUT deleting any data. I have not tried to update my phone contacts in the last few years fearing it would delete the data. Can someone help me out?
I recently noticed that Time Machine on both my Macs (Mountain Lion, 10.8.3) seem to think that my Airport Extreme base station (AEBS) + USB hard drive is actually a Time Capsule. Screenshots below. BTW, I asked this question on the official support status of AEBS + USB HDD, but this question is different (though related)
I have a problem with a screen saver, I set it to 20 minutes and when I lock the computer and unlock it, the settings are unchanged. However, when I restart my mac, then the screen saver is set to default 5 minutes again.
Sometimes while driving or washing the dishes some idea pops up in my head while I am listening to music. How may I record voice without touching the phone? (Sometimes while driving in remote places I do not have Internet connection so using Siri will not work)
Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock and terminal window looses focus. This happens even if there's no an X session. Why? How to prevent this behavior?
Ok, after reading so many topics and not finding a solution maybe I should join the army of people posting topics about a kernel_task problem with a MBP. Which MacBook do I own: MacBook Pro 13", early '11 (default, no extras) When did it happen: After some (maybe a bit more than some...) water was spilled over the keyboard/screen. What was the direct notable effect (after 'drying'): A very slow machine when the battery is the power source.
I just got a iPhone 3G and tried to sync it with the macbook air with mountain lion via iTunes. The funny thing is, all the music and apps were able to be "synced" but only the contacts wasn't be able to. Any ideas how to troubleshoot? More info: Jailbroken iPhone 3G iTunes 11.0.3 Syncing contacts using the contacts built-in Thanks!
I have a 2007 Mac Pro (OS X Tiger 10.4.11) that cannot boot up anymore since a few days. I see the grey screen with the apple logo and the rotating circle. After a minute or so I get a kernel panic. All peripherals except the Apple keyboard are disconnected. I tried booting from my install DVD, this gave a kernel panic too. When booting multiple times in safe mode, this is the last line on the screen: "localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local" What I already tried: -Downloaded and burned another Install DVD, same problem (first disc is original) -Switched the memory modules and booted with just 1 inserted -Ran the Apple Hardware Test, no problems found. -Replaced the DVD drive -Ran fsck -fy , no errors -Cleared the PRAM Any ideas?
I opened System Information today only to find that my graphics card name has changed from Intel 4000 (or something like that) to AMD Radion: I don't think I'm going crazy.
My MBP (2.66 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) is about two or so years old. It's been running like a champ for most of its life. However, within the past few months, I've noticed a considerable degradation in the speed and responsiveness of the computer as a whole.
I'd like to have a bootstrap for my custom keyboard shortcuts to use on multiple machines...
My Mac Pro 5,1 sometimes freezes when I open the Notification Center, and it usually recovers by itself about 10 minutes later. I'd like to know why and how to fix it. When this happens, the notification center will be half open, as shown in the screenshot. This happens about once a week, seemingly at random. Symptoms include: Cmd-Tab does not work Expose / Mission Control Spaces does not work. Notification Center is frozen Dock will not appear I can't type text in any application I can't drag to reposition windows on the screen Cmd-Opt-Esc opens the Force Quit window, which functions properly Spotlight works properly
A couple of years ago, I got liquid in my MacBook Pro 5,2 (Unibody 17" Early 2009). After that, the display never worked. Apple Stores and Authorized Repair places insist on me paying over $1000 for a full logic board replacement before they'll do anything else to it, so I've been using it as a desktop machine with an external display since then.
I sent an email with hidden files from an android to my iPhone 4S. When I opened the mail attachment it's was several lines of boxes and com.apple.textencoding. What are these files and how can I open them?
I'm trying to get a Macbook Air to work with a Korean IPS. It's not a big deal -- I have it set up on my Linux machine, but I'd like to be able to watch some videos (Amazon Prime HD) that don't work on Linux.
So, my question then is, does anybody has this similar experience or at least from someone that they know of? And is there any possible solution to this one? It has almost the same problem as this video except that mine does not open an application but keeps on typing by itself when the keyboard is up or it just simply freezes that no matter where I touch on the screen it does not respond except if I press the Home button. Any good advice will be much appreciated.
Is it possible for four people to make a Facetime call with the following setup? one using an iPhone 4, one using an iPad 2 (both of which have the same email address) another two people who have independent email addresses
I recently partitioned my MBP 15", early 2011 model, so I could run windows. I installed Windows XP and now I have no Wifi. I've installed the bootcamp drivers off CD of Snow Leopard and the disks that came with my machine. No luck, there are no wireless drivers.
I am trying to make a presentation for a conference, and am facing a problem that I cannot solve. I have a powerpoint presentation initially created with Powerpoint 2010 for Windows. I am facing picture compression issues as described here. In addition to this saving problem, that pictures become worse quality every time I save the file, I am experiencing problems while trying to insert files. All pictures are inserted blurry. This applies for emf, png and, pdf. The solution here does not work as pictures are still inserted in lower quality
I want to disable iTunes Helper. I have remove it from Settings > Users & Groups > Login Items, but it's still running after restart. Did I miss anything?
I was tinkering about in the System Preferences of my Macbook Pro yesterday, when I came across "Automatic Graphic Switching" within the Energy Saver pane as exemplied below:  What exactly is Graphic Switching, and are there any reasons or instances when it shouldn't be automatically enabled & switched off ?
I've just purchased a used Mac Pro that was sold to me as a "5,1" model, which according to everymac.com and Apple's support site, should be a Mid 2010 Mac Pro. However the model display in System Information/About this Mac shows it as an "Early 2009", as does the Apple warranty check.
Sometimes it can be quite difficult for me to tell which of my apps are hidden on the dock and which are not. Is it possible to make those Apps which I have hidden (either by terminal command or otherwise) to appear as those they have faded into the background whilst sitting on the dock ie to have lowered or reduced opacity.
I'm wondering if there's a way to disable the dashboard in Mountain Lion. I never use it and I think it's consuming processor and memory powers.
I'm using Sky Sports Now TV to watch live sport on my Mac. This is via the silverlight plugin in Safari. Can I use something to divert this video feed to my Apple TV so I can watch on my television without using a cable? I should clarify, I need a solution right now since I want to watch the Heineken Cup rugby final starting now and I have a 2009 MacBook Pro so I can't use AirPlay.
I'd like to be able to see a list of applications that were recently opened and quitted on a per user basis. Ex: 19:25:34 Google Chrome Canary opened by John Smith 20:45:32 Pages quitted by Julie Smith I checked the Console, but it didn't seem to specifically detail when apps were opened/quitted and by whom; it only detailed the processes that errored in those applications.
There have been many different questions like this and all have seemed to come down to the same answer. It violates the EULA. The problem is they all bring up another question. How binding is the EULA. We all know Psystar was sued for making machines with OSX installed on them. The problem is they were selling them. Not using them.
Is it possible to do a new lion install on an imac if you copied/cloned the HDD of your macbook-pro (with CCC)? In theory that is ofcourse, because it won't. The installer log, mentions: missing of authentication module "ConfigurationProfiles" unable to find service discovery callback for module "PlistFile" and some more details is there something I can do to fix?
What's the best way to get an automated transcript of a FaceTime/Skype or simple audio conference call?
Since updating to OS X 10.8.3 on my MBP, my keyboard backlight does not come on until I enter my password and my desktop comes up. This makes it very difficult to enter my password at night with low light because the keys are not backlit. How can I enable the keyboard backlight before password entry?
I would like to be able to route the audio from a Bluetooth headset out of the headphone/mic jack on an iPhone. That is, to be able to send the mic input from the Bluetooth device out the jack and receive audio input from the same jack and route to the Bluetooth headphone. Basically, the iPhone would receive the Bluetooth output, convert to analog and send it to the jack while simultaneously receiving input from the jack and converting to output for Bluetooth. Is this physically possible on the iPhone hardware?
Is there an easy way to understand how Macbook pros evolved from 2011 to 2013? It seems (to me at least) that until the retina display was introduced there were no revolutionary changes in the macbook pro line between 2011 and 2013 (just incremental processor upgrades).
I have just gotten rid of my iPhone 5 but did a full backup of picture and such beforehand. I do not plan on getting another iPhone. Is there a way i can get my content back? I have the backup file location but the files are not what i expected them to be.
I understand that iCloud does not synchronise MS Office Docs. What other options are available to synchronise and back-up my MS Office Docs across MacBook, iPad, etc.
I want to install a fresh copy of OSX onto my Retina MBP, next to the one that it came preinstalled with. I have created a 2nd partition using Disk Utility ready for the install, but have now found out that i have to do 'internet recovery' just to get a copy of Mountain Lion onto my machine.
When I purchase videos from iTunes, I get a lot of metadata information on the movie. For example, like this:
Running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I find that after a recent reboot my Favorites have all disappeared from the sidebar in Finder. Finder > Preferences > Sidebar shows a number of boxes against Favorite folders, but these can not be selected
When I click on an RSS feed link in Safari in iOS, instead of opening the RSS page it opens the podcast app, which is not helpful and very annoying. Is there a way to disable this automatic redirect to the podcast app?
The iOS app store and iTunes Connect generate daily sales reports for apps. The reports say, for example, that I have 15 app purchases and 10 in-app purchases. What time of day do these reports begin and end? E.g. does it count sales from midnight PST to midnight PST, or a different time frame? I am interested in tracking the in-app purchase receipts that I process of my server (to verify that they are valid) vs. the iTunes Connect sales reports to see if the numbers line up.
Recently I noticed that if I do a Spotlight search (using the Spotlight menu on the menu bar), the iPhoto application is not included in the results. If I open a Finder window to the Applications folder and search there for iPhoto, it doesn't show up either. Other applications are included in the results if I search for them (including iMovie and GarageBand). The only folder in the list of folders to exclude from searching in the Spotlight Privacy tab is my Time Machine backup drive. I'm running 10.8.3.
I don't see a comma (,) on my iPhone when I'm in message mode. So, how do I enter two numbers? The comma is needed to separate the numbers.
iTunes, trying to be helpful, automatically stops updating my podcasts when it thinks I've not listened to them recently enough. It's quite maddening!
Can I use a straight talk iPhone (prepaid) on another carrier's network - specifically Verizon? My understanding is that such a phone comes factory unlocked, so it should be possible.
Looking at my menubar (a google search showed that SystemUIServer often has to do with menubar icons, I saw that my wifi icon was glitching a bit, frequently flashing. Clicking the icon, I saw that its status kept switching between "Wifi: On" and "Wifi: Searching", about five times per second. screenvideo: http://f.cl.ly/items/3o0d1u2j0x2P1l33203Q/screenrecord.mov
I'm trying to recursively open all the files in a folder, including its directories. I've been playing around with open /path/to/folder/*, and this will open all the files inside that folder but not include the sub-directories. If I had a folder tree that looked like this: How could I open all the files in one terminal command?
as by message, Mail app does not bother moving mail correctly marked as spam in the spam folder -- this only happen when I am at home, and only during the week-end. I suspect that the IMAP server is to be blamed. I could try to delete the account and recreate it, but since it's my work email, and the server is showing some problems, I am quite lukewarm about this solution (Mail app problem in Lion). Is there another less drastic way of solving the problem? I'm on OS 10.8.3 all latest whistles and bells.
I'm trying to stream music to different computer's speakers simultaneously. Currently I'm doing this by physically timing the start of the song on each computer.
I have an iMac, iPad, a MacBook Air, and an iPhone. I want iMessages to work only on the iPhone. How can that be accomplished?
I have a calendar event that I did not create but is recurring. I have declined the request, yet it still shows up on my calendar. Because I did not create it, I can't delete the event.
I tried closing and reopening the lid multiple times and changing the brightness, but no luck. The only way I know of getting out of this is to hold the power button and do a hard reboot.
I live in California, and I need to enter over 20 events onto my calendar. These events are taking place on the east coast of the United States, which is where I will be during the events. How do I enter these events on my iPhone (to my iCloud calendar) so that the events list the correct times?
I'm trying to connect my 2012 11" MacBook Air to my Panasonic p60st60 1080p plasma HDTV using a new Monoprice Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter & 6' HDMI cable. My TV displays a "No signal" message and my Mac does not show a secondary display option under System Preferences > Displays. I thought it was a handshake issue so I turned off the TV and Mac, turned on the TV, turned on the Mac, but the problem persists.
I would like to know what is the URL thru which Apple updates occur. I need this to setup caching for my Squid Proxy server.
I have a gen 5 AEBS which has a total of 3 HFS+ partitions across 2 USB hard drives (USB hub in the middle). On my Macbook Pro Retina, I can see all 3 HFS+ partition in the Finder. Finder shows the AEBS on the left side (under "shared) and clicking on the AEBS in Finder shows me all the 3 HFS+ partitions "on" the AEBS.
In a picture I took this afternoon with my iPhone 5 I noticed a purple line on the photo:  At first I thought it was a software issue so I rebooted the phone. Unfortunately, after a reboot the line was still there on new photographs.
I have an iPhone 3g and I'm trying to downgrade it from 4.2.1 to 3.1.3. I downgraded it successfully and use redsn0w to boot it. It is factory unlocked by itunes, but it seems like it's not getting any signal though. Is it because that I have a baseband of 06.15.00? But how do I downgrade it if that's the issue? Thanks guys!
I use Pocket and I love it as a way of saving articles to read them later, and how it allows me to browse, search, and read them easily. However, when I read articles, I like to create highlights (in yellow) and add annotations. Pocket doesn't offer highlighting.
I have a file that shows up in my 'Downloads' stack with the filename nMEMp5Qv.exe.part. However, when I open Finder, the file is not in the Downloads folder. Also, I can't delete the file from the Stack as you normally can...? Any ideas/thoughts?
I changed my email from gmail to inbox.com on an iPhone4s and discovered most of my contacts are gone. Only recent contacts and Facebook contacts remain. Of course I did not backup the contacts.
So my usb drive is stuck on read only and I have tried many different options which I have gotten from different websites. I have tried to restore/erase in disk utility but the options are greyed out. I have also tried entering recovery mode and erasing the USB drive from there but with no luck. I have also tried using macfuse (with NTFS-3g installed)however without any success, but I am happy to try this option again if anyone has some ideas on how to do it as I wasn't to sure what I was doing and I was really just copy and pasting codes. The USB is formatted as a MS-DOS (FAT32) if that helps.
I am looking for an app or a method to easily read aloud web pages (especially news articles) that I find on the web. I read possible 20-50 news articles a day and most of them I would just like to listen to being read by an electronic voice. I have actually had some success using the built in accessibility features of the mac - however I find them clumsy and difficult to use. Notes how I used to use the accessibility features: I would make the set the text to voice short cut to #s I would highlight the text by selecting it in the browser I would then #s to start reading the text Problems with this approach: There is no easy way to pause the reading of the text The the select + read is rather cumbersome There is no way to batch the reads There is no queue of reads ... like you can't throw stuff conveniently in the the read queue Actually what I am looking for is a getpocket.com equivalent of text-to-speech.
Can anyone tell me whether it's possible to connect two external DVI monitors to a 2012 macbook Air? Ideally I'd like to do this through the thunderbolt connector with an adapter to drive both displays, but otherwise can anyone recommend a decent USB3 -> DVI adapter is acceptable if it's equal to or better than what I would get via thunderbolt. I'm not watching movies or gaming on the displays, as this is just for work which consists primarily of programming so maybe a USB -> DVI adapter would be acceptable as well.
I have received a FaceTime call from unknown source. I'm not sure who this person is, nor do I know the caller's email.
I need to format an external hard disk on a MacBook Pro (USB2 connection). In the disk utility, Erase tab, I can only choose between these formats: MacOS Extended (Journaled) MacOS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) MS-DOS (FAT) ExFAT I do not get the following options, which should be available: MacOS Extended MacOS Extended (Case-sensitive) OS-X version: Lion 10.7.5 Reason: it seems that an unjournaled MacOS disk is accessible from Linux and Windows.
I want to look at just the emails sent to me from the .ru (or any other domain code), and I'm not having ay luck. Searching from:.ru orfrom:".ru" doesn't work. A wildcard approach doesn't work either. Anybody out there know the trick?
I have a regular home wireless network. The only issue is that, apparently, I'm unable to do things which require device-to-device connectivity (Airplay, Remote App on iPhone, or wireless printing). I'm trying to figure out what exactly is the issue at hand so I can fix it. I hadn't seen anything odd in the wireless settings. I'm not even sure how one can disable this feature. How can I solve this issue?
Is there any way to do this? I need to use a pipe "|" as my delimiter. On Windows you can change this during the export. On Mac I haven't found a way. As a side note, my files have commas in the data itself.
I am running OS 10.8 server on a mac mini. I have the calenddar service enabled and created an extra user for calendars. I have no problem subscribing to those calendars by creating an OSX server account on other macs using the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" setting in system preferences.
I have recently moved to Mac from Windows. Rarely I find that I may have to use System Restore to fix an issue that the OS has incurred. What I would like to know is whether Time Machine is the Mac equivalent to this feature?
I was trying to figure out why my Mountain Lion server was running slow, and I when I opened Activity Monitor this is what I saw:  Question 1: how am I getting >400% of CPU on the summed CPU column, when I only have 4 cores available?
I recently bought a new Mac, and was using the migration assistant to transfer all the stuff from my old Mac. I forgot to plug one of the computers in though, so the transfer got stopped (and wouldn't start again) when it died. I just set it up to restart, with both of them plugged in. It has about 9 hours remaining (out of 12).
Okay. So I finally got my own MacBook Pro after a few years of sharing my mother's Mac. I have my own Apple ID and everything. The thing is... I spent hours, if not Days uploading music onto her computer from legitimate sources and hard-copy CDs. I named, cataloged, sorted and optimised my playlists and I do not wish to do such a thing again, especially considering this MacBook Pro has no built in disk reader. I understand that I can 'share' libraries with my mother's computer, but that only seems like a short term solution as I only have access to said library when I'm in close proximity to her Mac, and I see no way of simply transferring the data. Is there a way that I can transfer an iTunes Library from one Apple ID to another over separate computers?
I set up my email accounts on my Mac. In Mac OS X Mail's Accounts prefs, it's possible to list several email addresses for an account in a comma-delimited list. I do this, and it works well on the Mac. In the Composing prefs in Mail, I set Send new messages from to my primary email address, and that's the one that gets used by default.
Is there a way to decode the serial-number of your Mac to get more information ?
Is there an ipad app for various Instant message networks and SMS? Please recommend something that's as minimalist as the iMessage app, not a big flashy mess.
I currently have a mid-2012 MacbookPro that is connected to a 27" Thunderbolt display. I also have a 17" Samsung Syncmaster that only has VGA & DVI port on it. So I bought the MiniDisplay-to-DVI converter and tried hooking it up to the TBD's thunderbolt port.
I am not seeing the answer for this problem - I imported 14K photos from my PC to Mac, had them ready and cleaned up, no dups, etc., then after importing, most of the photos do not have the correct date taken, which causes a lot of problem to viewing all my photo. It is taking the date created as the date taken. I cannot seem to change anything else about it. With all pictures I have, I renamed ALL of them to the date taken in the format 2013-0520-xx, just so I would be able to keep up with them in the transfer. So I am able to know the date by the file name stored outside of iPhoto. Then I ran iPhoto for the first time, and everything is a mess without a way to fix it. HELP
does not exist in that file, nor do any #AddModule lines. This may be the root of my problem but regardless I restarted apache with, and attempted to open ~/Site/page.php
In the Mountain Lion Messages app, is there a way to disable notifications for chat room messages, but still have notifications for private messages? (this is the default behavior in Adium)
I am used to vim and like to move with H, J, K, L. I would like to avoid switching to the arrow keys when I am in a text field for example. Is there a way to remap the following keys in all application on Mac OS X, so that: ← can also be triggered by OPTION H ↓ can also be triggered by OPTION J ↑ can also be triggered by OPTION K → can also be triggered by OPTION L
I would like to delete a TextEdit document stored in iCould. The only solution I found was to open the document move the document to the hard disk "File → Move To ..." delete it locally Any better solution?
Does an account has to be logged on to trigger the Time Machine backup, or does Time Machine run without any session active?
When a long backup will soon occur or is running, will it go on and end even if the enter-sleep-mode settings is foreseen earlier?
It seems that iWeb is now long dead, so I am looking for alternative WYSIWYG web editors. Free or open-source would be great, but I wouldn't mind thinking about paying a small fee for a mature piece of software either.
I could not get the keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out in Aperture 3 on my Swedish Keyboard. According to the documentation it should be Command+= and Command+- I have searched the Internet, but it only shows the same as above.
Battery is recognized but in "Replace" mode and does not charge or function. Boot time is slow, run time is slow.
I want to create an apple script that will forward a flagged email to x@mail.asana.com I have tried this script: However, this script opens OmniFocus instead of just sending an email. How would I change this script or start with a new one so that it will automatically forward a flagged email to x@mail.asana.com?
I would love to be able to buy all my movies, tv shows, etc from iTunes, store them DRM free in the cloud for my devices and watch them on my TV (Apple TV / XBMC). As far as I am aware, this is not currently possible. Is anyone aware of any legal alternatives that would give me a good legal argument for storing MP4 copies of my (legally purchased) movies and TV shows in the cloud? Thanks! Edit: I'm in the UK, but interested in UK and US options.
I'm running some very memory intensive code on Mountain Lion (16GB Memory + 0.5TB of SSD). I've noticed that once the swap file reaches 59GB, it stops increasing, and my code is basically dead in the water. Is there any way to change this hard limit?
I have a iMac that is connected to an external monitor to extend my screen. Into that same monitor I have a separate Windows box that I need to run sometimes. The Windows box goes in through VGA and the iMac through HDMI. The problem I'm running into is that when I want to use the monitor for Windows, there is no simple way to get my iMac back to just that monitor. If I leave it extended, some apps are open in the other 'monitor' and I can't access them without work arounds. If I turn on mirroring, the resolution on the iMac drops significantly, even if I tell it to keep the iMac screen size. I can't turn the other monitor off as that defeats the point. I have to unplug the HDMI to get it to perform correctly. Is there any way (command line, an app, preferences, etc) to toggle between using the display and not on my Mac?
I've been running an Open Directory environment for over a year now, and this issue has never, ever stopped plaguing my network. Users constantly have syncing errors, seemingly due to permissions issues. In this case its an iTunes file, but it has been anything from an .xls on the desktop, to items in the library. Does anyone have an idea on how to resolve this issue? Right now the only way I can get rid of the sync issue is to log into the server (running the latest Mountain Lion with OS X Server), navigate to the home folder of the particular user, and delete the file myself. This is obviously an awful experience now that we are growing in terms of users :( At a basic level, we're using an OD setup via Server.app and tuned with Workgroup Manager. The hardware is a Mac Mini (Mid 2011): Client Machines Server Error:
I need help. I have a kinect, and I would like to hook it to my laptop so that my right hand controls the mouse cursor. It's actually for a science fair project, and I don't want functionality for clicking or multitouch gestures, I just want cursor control. If anyone knows a good hack for this or a way to hack the kinect to do so (I have a good deal of free time, I wouldn't mind learning to hack kinect) please respond.
I have some some folders look like this structure: Buy folder -> state_diagram_for_buy, activity_diagram_for_buy Sell folder -> state_diagram_for_sell, activity_diagram_for_sell Search folder -> state_diagram_for_search, activity_diagram_for_search
Can anyone tell me where I can find a Finnish spell checker for OS X Pages '09 as it is not available through Apple?
Is there a way to hide certain apps from cmd+tab? The problem I'm facing is that I have some apps (like iTunes and of course Finder) always open. But when I'm working and switching between apps that are relevant for me (Chrome, Sublime, Terminal) with cmd+tab I'll always see these 'irrelevant' apps in the menu. Thanks
MacOSX contextual menus allow me use Pocket [Formerly Read it later] to archive all, and also read, some of the enormous amounts of content that I come across daily on my browser of choice - Safari. On iOS [iPad/iPhone] however, the native 'Add to Reading List' feature for Safari is the most tightly integrated option when 'long-clicking' a URL in many different apps, like Mail [all newsletters with links]. This has caused a lot of grief for me as half on my links are saved to the Safari Reading List, and half to a Read-it-later service like Pocket. Consolidating it in a seamless way when using iOS is a challenge if you wish to avoid opening the webpage in safari first, then clicking a bookmarklet, etc. Web-based trigger services like 'IFTTT' are only useful when the content has already made its way to Cloud services that it supports, like Pocket, Evernote etc.
My notebook is connected on Ethernet using 802.1X. When I try to share the internet via Wifi I get the error message Your Internet connection cannot be shared because its protected by 802.1X
In today's age with low power standby modes & the advanced OS X that is Mountain Lion, it is simpler than ever to go for long periods (perhaps months) without shutting down your iMac (and possibly Mac Mini too). Is it really necessary to perform a complete shut down of your Mac (and what considerations if any need to be taken account of) ?
I'm trying to get a copy of the repository for scrotwm using their cvs repository, but I'm having some trouble. I'm running the pull according to this example: *=URL=* Sadly, when I run the cvs pull I get the following error message:
I was able to put Windows 8 setup files on my usb from the installer. Now I just upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion. I have gone through the BC Assistant and it only asks for my Windows CD to be put into my drive. There is no longer an option to install via other media. Anyone know of a workaround to install with USB stick?
My university provides forms such as here in non-editable and non-savable form (it also has some odd sign such as 'Print form' that I need to remove). I am able to print the document with Illustrator and edit it this way even without the 'Print form' but if I print it through browser, it has this odd sign 'Print form'. I don't want to rewrite things again-and-again. Is it possible to make the PDF so that people without Illustrator were able to edit and save it? Is there a way to make the PDF editable and savable in OS X? Is there a way to make the PDF editable and savable in OS X? Is the only way do it with Adobe Illustrator? Is the only way do it with Adobe Illustrator?
This question has some humor as well as practical implications for owners of Apple Mac G5s. I came across this earlier on today as an alternative recycling option:
If there are two tracks in an album made of various homemade MP3 files (rather than an imported CD or downloaded) that have the same "album by artist" value, what is the tiebreaker value that controls how iTunes orders those tracks? I even deleted the files, removed all the ID3 tags, renamed the files with a "00 - " prefix to try and force the order, but still they display in a random order in the Albums view. In the Songs view when sorting by name they are correct, but when sorting by "Album by Artist" they appear to be sorted randomly, and the order is consistent with that in the Albums view.
I lost my 3rd-generation iPod Touch. How can I find or remove the personal info on it? The password feature was disabled at the time I lost it. Is there a way to activate Find My iPod or wipe out the data on it?
I have a 13" mid 2010 Macbook Pro running 10.8.3. For some reason, I started it up the other day and my Bluetooth is now for some reason unavailable.
When I was married I started both my @me.com and @icloud.com accounts. The accounts are my first name and last (previously married) name run together. Now that I am divorced I don't want that as my email. I would rather have a different name at the front of my email. How do I go about changing both accounts to another name and getting all my devices and itunes accounts moved over.
My Macbook air has a keyboard issue, the Z key does not work except upon startup where it becomes stuck for several seconds. This interferes with opening the boot menu on startup, because it detects the combination of Command + Z instead of just Command, so I can never enter the boot menu. How do I get into the boot menu with my faulty keyboard? EDIT: I have tried an external keyboard but the system still recognizes the faulty internal one.
I know about rsync and how to use it, but sometimes I just want to copy files using the Finder. However, if that fails, I have to do everything all over again, since the Finder does not seem to be able to resume a file copy action. Is there a way around this?
When I set up my accounts in Snow Leopard Server, I was able to give an explicit group id to my user-defined groups using the old Workgroup Manager. Now that I've updated to Mountain Lion Server, I miss that precise control. Here is my problem: I created the following groups and group ids in OS X 10.6 Server When I migrated to OS X 10.8 with the new Server app, my groups and group ids have all been scrambled: How do I go about setting the groups and group ids back to their prior assignment?
Lisa is released before Macintosh, but LOTS of books mention that the development of Macintosh involve a lot of effort and innovation. So, what are the Apple Lisa and Macintosh software major different? Also, is this the Lisa is the first Apple desktop using a mouse? Thanks.
does anyone know how i would achieve the following? i want to make applescript close Keynote AFTER the slideshow is finished. any idea? mybe via the class "playing" in keynotes application properties? but i dont know hw to write it. my code so far thx
I realize that safari is updated when iOS is updated. But is it ever updated silently, like chrome or firefox, for more minor additions? Say for bugs in webkit/nitro.
How can I use an iPad to view video files that are stored on an iMac in the same local network? The only idea I have so far, is to set up a HTTP server on the iMac, and browse the video files with Safari on the iPad. Does OS X provide a more elegant way to do this?
I have an extensive collection of video game music that I like to keep completely separate from my 'regular' music (which I use iTunes to sync w/ my iPhone and the stock Music.app to play). I'm looking for a good app that will let me import this separate collection of MP3s into the app and then play them. Most importantly, it must NOT pull in music from the stock music.app, as I want to keep these two separate! I don't want a digital locker to sign up for and stream from (Amazon, etc) ID3 tag meta-data support is a must, preferably w/ embedded album art Needs to list songs by Album/Artist/Song Title, not just filename Playlist is nice to have but not a must I don't care how it looks as long as it's not total garbage I don't care about downloading from the internet; I've already got the songs I need
I keep getting the following kernel panic. Can anyone help me, please? As a test I have just change HDD to SSD and update memory from 2 GB to 8 GB. All said to be compatible with Mac. Upgraded OS X to Mountain Lion. Clean install from USB stick. Still the kernel panic happens a lot. What seems to be wrong?
I bring my MacBook Pro back and forth between home and work. I have a Magic Mouse in both places. I guess because they are both the same model, I have to re-pair the mouse with the computer every time I go back and forth. They have very similar names so I'd like to rename them something like "Work mouse" and "House mouse". So far I haven't found a way. Is it possible?
has anyone tried to build an "archive" button for apple mail to move mails from the Inbox to All Mail in Mail.app (Mountain lion)? there is this page: *=URL=* but it wont work with the mail version on mountain lion. Thanks!
I prefer to keep my boot drive external, so that I can quickly boot using another Mac if my primary Mac fails. I use a USB3 drive dock to connect the drive to my Macs. I bought a 120GB SSD w/SATA3 (6.0Gbps) interface, capable of pushing >500MB/sec read and 260MB/sec writes, sustained.
I am working on a project in iOS and would like to enable key repeat. I have done quite a bit of looking around and have failed to come up with any option like that (which surprises me quite a bit, actually). Is there a way to enable key repeat on an iOS device?
What exactly is causing this woeful performance on 5 GHz? What am I missing here?
I pay all our Internet bills and iPhone bills (3)/ just so you know when I ask this q I am not trying to get use off someone else's account. We have a Mac, a Mac mini and MacBook
Virgin Mobile USA iPhones are CDMA. If you need a refresher - CDMA means the phone is locked to the network forever.
Naturally, we're getting the double-nat warning, which is expected. The setup works in that, the PC and the iPad both get address via DHCP from the AirPort and can surf the web.
I need to put some videos online (screencast) I am using screen flow and the output is a mp4 that looks great. I import them into iMovie to add titles and footers and in preview it looks GREAT but if I do a share to youtube its so blurry on youtube and if I try the export its the same issue
I have an external drive with data on it that is shared on the local network. There's another external drive that's daisy chained where backups are stored. The computer that was originally managing the backups with Time Machine has been replaced and the drives have been moved to another computer. When I select the backup drive for time machine, it attempts to duplicate all the files again since it doesn't recognize the previous backups since they were made on a different computer. I have tried using tmutil inheritbackup and tmutil associatedisk but have been hit with a couple errors. Attempting to manage the backups on the new computer ends up trying to duplicate the data again, which is less than ideal.
I have an iPhone 4 (with iOS 6.x on it) that is not synced with any computer. How can I copy MP3s from a PC to my iPhone? iTunes is not synced with the phone so I cannot put the MP3s into the library and sync.
Can anyone confirm whether Apple accepts VISA debit card to buy iOS Developer account that costs $99. I can use the same card to purchase apps from the App Store but is this card can also be used to buy iOS developer account?
I have a Macbook with an external display. I use both displays and when I do a screen capture (⌘ + ⇧ + 3) I get two files on the desktop, one for each display. Is there a way to choose which display to grab the screenshot from when doing the screen capture?
Recently purchased a new Mac to be used as a family Mac. We share my Dropbox account and I have installed this into my user folder. Question: Can I create a symlink into my wife's documents folder TO the Dropbox folder in my account?
I have a IIYama screen that curerntly display garbages (very, very poor quality). On the IIYama website, I found drivers for my screen (ProLite B2409HDS), it contains the following files: 2409hds.cat 2409HDS.icm 2409HDS.inf And some other files for Windows 7. But my issue is, on my Display preferences, I can't see any button to add a new profile using my icm file :
When I insert a rule and specify a time slot. Is the time slot the period in which the connection is allowed or the period in which it is not allowed? Which is the priority assigned to the rules in case of constraints? And finally, do I have to set up the same rules on both the stations right?
I am trying to prevent OS X from sending its hostname to the DHCP server. For example, in OpenSuse systems there is DHCLIENT_HOSTNAME_OPTION="AUTO". I cannot find a similar option in OS X for this, does somebody know more?
When I perform a search in Outlook for Mac 2011, I can't seem to figure out how to determine which folder each of the search results is stored. This questions has been answered for Office for Windows: *=URL=* This is probably completely obvious, but I can't seem to find it... Update: I'm still looking for a solution that doesn't require me to switch to View -> Reading Pane -> Below
I have a Apple TV 2nd generation that is jailbroken and I run xbmc on it. At times it gets hung or freezes up. At that point, I open up the terminal on my macbook and run this script. ssh root@apple-tv.local it asks me the password. I type in alpine then I run "killall AppleTV"
10.8.3/Terminal 2.3. Terminal resizes the entire window in seemingly unpredictable ways whenever I change the size of the font -- a frequent operation when frequently going between laptop and external displays.
How can I disable all of TimeMachine's animations (at startup, finish, etc.)? (Older methods for doing this no longer work.)
I'm down to 20GB on a 500GB hard drive and would like to know what's eating up the disk space, so I can clear out any large things I no longer need. 2 screen shots are showing me Disk Inventory results and my Storage report in "About This MAC"
Whenever I ask Siri to call a business, she will go through each result and say "Speak you like to call it, get directions...". Is there something wrong with my phone? "Speak you like to" is definitely not idiomatic english (at least not in the US), so it's hard to believe something like this would slip by Apple QA. Am I missing something? EDIT:
Can I have automatic color output for ls if my TERM environment variable is set to xterm-256color?
I have OSX 10.7.5 on 2009 MacBook with Excel 14.1.0 but I don't have Full Screen function. I Googled and am sure that this version of Excel and OSX should have Full Screen, but I just can't find it. If you can help I would greatly appreciate it.
At work I run my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (with Mac OS X 10.8.3 Snow Leopard) lid-closed with two Thunderbolt displays. If I disconnect the power and displays, walk to a conference room, and re-open the lid, everything works as expected.
mountain lion server offers the possibility to publish calendars. Such a calendar (I assume an ics file) could be published on a webserver that could be hosted on the same mountain lion server. Everything could be fairly easily done via iCloud. But let's assume that I would like to publish a calendar on my own hosted osx server and that I would like allow access for a selected group of people only, who have an account on this server can access the calendar. This triggered a few questions, related to the web server settings in server.app.
While I am cooking with dirty and wet hands, I want to see the recipe on my smartphone without dirtying it. How may I turn on the display and scroll without touching the phone? Is there an application that can see hand gestures to turn on the screen and scroll?
Is it possible to retrieve the direct/share link of a file that is in my Dropbox folder, but not in its Public subfolder? I'd like to use that for an Alfred workflow. I saw many tutorials on how to do that for files that are in the Public folder but I'd like to use the new way Dropbox handles files sharing. Thanks!
I am using an iMac at work, and the IT security guys are raising issue with the Apple Push Notification Service (apsd) trying to bypass the proxy continually. I would like to know how I can disable apsd from running.
I've turned on my MBP this morning and twice it's just shut itself down and restarted. It's never done this before. I have included the error log below but I have no idea what it means:
How to run on Mountain Lion X11 forwarding via SSH? Example: my /etc/sshd_config has Restarted sshd with (and from the Preferences -> Sharing too) Started XQuatrz, and from the xterm I run got the next: from the xterm changing it to :0 doesn't helps running from the xterm Any idea?
I have a mac that just received an external drive which I formatted and plugged in. When I am logged in as a normal user it all looks fine. But when I am logged in as root the system recognizes ownership of the drive as '_unknown'. Also, I can't change the ownership of any files/folders within the drive to root. I do 'sudo chown root somefolder' but nothing happens.
I have used Ukelele to create a keyboard layout file (foo.keylayout) that lives in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts. I used a US english layout as a base and have added some keymappings that let me type æøå (Norwegian characters) by pressing the left alt/option key and the ', ; and [ keys, plus some other symbols I use often – all using the left alt/option key. This works great in most programs, like this text area in Chrome, in Finder, Macvim, Terminal… almost everywhere.
My SD card slot on the latest MacBook (Mid 2012) won't mount my SD card. The SD card doesn't appear in Finder, Disk Utility, Image Capture or anywhere. I know it's not a software problem, because nothing changed before and after. How do I fix it?
I have Office for Mac 2011 and unlike Office PC, I can't find how to change the location where my files are to be saved. The default position doesn't suit my needs and I spend a lot of time "navigating" to the folder where I store all my projects. I would like to open a file, edit it's contents, and "save as" a different file name, but to the same file folder from which the document was originally opened... just like you can on a PC.
I would like to arrange my folders above files so that finding where I want to file project details becomes more straightforward. I have been able to do this in Finder but when using Office for Mac applications like Word or Excel and trying to "save" a file, all the existing files and folders are mixed up according to name – not kind. Can anyone help me "sort" this out?
I just bought a used iPhone 4S with cracked screen, and installed a new lcd with gold frame. Just after putting the phone together it starts overheating. I have not installed any apps since recovery (fresh start). It seems as if the chip and the flash memory gets extremely hot. I almost burned myself touching it! The battery drains quickly from 20% to shutdown in a few minutes. Does anyone know a solution to this?
I tried then to change that tag in iTunes itself in the info. tab (despite the fact that even there it showed the name capitalized), but then it split the album in two with the first song in the 1st and the rest in the 2nd album (which is the same album).
Pick your favorite launcher (Quicksilver, LaunchBar, etc.)… My current choice is QS, but I'm ok with methods for another launcher. Is there a method to launch/call the notification center from one of these applications?
I am thinking about installing the free Avast anti-virus software on my MacBook Air (2012). Once Avast has completed its first scan of all of the files, does its continued operation noticeably affect battery life? Is the answer to this question known for alternative anti-virus programs?
My friend asked me to look at her early 2011 Mac Mini with OS X 10.8.3. She said that: she installed software updates she couldn't remember which updates were installed when the Mac restarted, it hung at the Apple logo with the spinning gear wheel.
Ok, so my iPod Touch (its the 4th generation) is totally destroyed; a cracked screen and the screen is messed up, so I cant see anything. And my mom sad I can have hers, and she has a 4th generation like me. What I'm wondering is that if there is some way that I can switch all my apps and my ID to her iPod she gave to me, and I can get rid of her account, or at least take it off..? If anyone knows how I would REALLY appreciate it if you told me. Thanks :)
I currently own an iPhone 4s and would like to gift it to a friend. It is currently registered to me but i want to register it to his name so that I don't have to involve myself in warranty issues or repair issues. How is it possible to transfer the registration to another person?
I recently had some virus on my USB. After cleaning (with PC antivirus), i got all my files back, but the directories on my USB are not shown when connected to my Mac (Lion) computer. What can I do to access them with my Mac? Thank you.
I just bought a used macbook (osx 10.8), and when i started it up there was a disk password. The former owner gave me the password but i would like to remove it, or at least change it. How can I? Is this something from "file vault"?
I have mac mini mid 2011, bought 14 months back. Yesterday I started my system normally but it was running slow the usual so I restarted it, after restarting system was taking too long to boot but this time it did not show the login screen and stop sign or crossed circle appeared in place of apple logo. I again restated the system and keep holding option key to use disk utility and recovery-hd(actual name in my sys is recovery-10.8.2) but recovery also didnt worked, after selecting recovey-hd same happen system keep booting too long and stop sign appear on apple logo. I have bootable mountain lion usb, I get into disk utility check the hard drive by running verify disk and got no issues. I have 3 partitions Macintosh HD (os installed in this) 200gb Macintosh HD 2 (I keep my important files in this) 200gb My TimeMachine (I use this for time machine backup) 100gb
I downloaded a movie (live concert) to my iphone 4g and would like to listen to it thru my car stereo via the 3.5mm mini jack to aux port? just want to hear the audio stream, not see the video stream
I want to make an application, say VLC, the default player for all the file types it supports, without going through all of them individually. I might not even know what all the supported formats are (as VLC can read 100s of formats) and still want to set it as the default player for all of them. I was able to do this using the terminal, with the procedure posted below. Is there an easier way to do it that doesn't require the user to be a developer?
I recently began to see some odd behavior on my MacBook Pro on Mountain Lion. I noticed the fans coming up and applications behaving sluggish. I checked the ActivityMonitor (see below) and the results kept me puzzled: Although I list all processes, only very few show up that cause medium CPU usage, still the system CPU is at close to 70%. I've wondered about this behavior quite a while ago already and then - just as now - the problem just went away after about 10-15 minutes of lagging and fanning.
I would like to replace my main dev machine (currently a custom built desktop machine) with a Macbook Pro. I have been using three external 24" 1920x1200 displays for many years now and found this setup to be very productive and want to keep using it after switching to a Mac. Now, with previous Macbook Pros such a setup was problematic, but I saw that this is now possible with at least the rMBP 15" by using 2 Thunderbold + 1 HDMI connections. Is this also an option with the rMBP 13"? If so, would this work well or is the Intel graphic chip in the rMBP 13" too slow for this?
I've been an Ubuntu user for years, and I just got my first Mac. One thing I haven't yet figured out is how to decrypt my encrypted filesystem on which I store my SSH and GPG keys on my flash drive. I used this guide in the past to set it up, and have just been running the shell script to decrypt and mount it since then.
I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro which one year ago I upgraded from the default Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. However, now I want to downgrade to Snow Leopard again. I made a USB thumb drive formatted as MacOS (External Journaled) to install Snow Leopard again (my CD drive doesn't work, that's why I made the USB flash drive). Anyway, when I'm trying to boot from the USB drive with the Option key and press the MacOS Install DVD icon, it gets stuck on the Apple logo forever.
I am getting an error 'WiFi: No Hardware Installed' and am trying to use a micro usb wifi piece (*=URL=* I know this hardware works fine as I've been using it on a Raspberry Pi but it doesn't seem to be recognized on OS X Mountain Lion or Lion. How would I tell the os to use this piece of hardware rather than built-in WiFi? thx
I have a MacBook Air, which means I'm perpetually hitting my head on a low ceiling when it comes to hard drive (technically SSD) space. To make this a little less painful I put my music on a thumb drive, so that more critical things can be always available on my internal drive. Not long ago I created a separate iTunes Lite folder inside ~/Music, so that I can use it when my thumb drive is not plugged in, and just stream songs from iCloud.
This might be a fairly specific question but my WiFi card was having issues (the Wifi:No Hardware Installed error). I started using an usb wifi adapter. The issue is that now none of my iTunes media is playable. I suspect that these are tied to the the hardware WITH the specific mac address but this seems unreasonable (ie to have Apple fix it and have my laptop for several days)? Is this the issue? Is there a workaround? Can I reauthenticate it? The error I get is:
My menu bar is freezing up. Whenever I put my cursor near it, I get the spinning wheel of death (rainbow ball). I opened spotlight and it's stuck indexing. The progress bar isn't moving. I've tried rebooting, I've killed SystemUI and I've removed the SystemUI preference file but the problem persists. How can I further analyze and resolve this issue?
I've tried changing the Info.plist to point towards a bash script which runs the executable with the parameters that I want. This doesn't seem to work even though when I invoke it from Terminal.app with the same parameters the tests check out. If it matters, this is 10.5 with VLC 2.0.3.
My iPhone 4S' home button isn't working properly. It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Could it be because of the dust?
I have PDF documents on my SkyDrive account and I want to edit them with Adobe Reader. However, when I save the document after editing, it is being saved somewhere else under a different file name. Used hardware / software iPad 4 Adobe Reader app Skydrive app Question How can I edit PDFs and save them back to the original location on my SkyDrive account?
I'm considering buying a new 27" iMac (current model sold now). I still have a 24" Cinema display (mini display port) that I currently have connected to an older iMac. Now I'm wondering if this will work on the Thunderbolt socket.
I'm considering buying a new iMac and am wondering what the GTX675MX will do (have a hard time finding comparisons or tests with that). I plan to use it for gaming (part with bootcamp/Windows7 if games not available for MacOS) I think it's a mobile card and with the space restrictions it can't have the same power as (lets say) a PC GTX 670, so next to which PC GTX cards does it fall (I have a GTX 560 in PC for example which now tends to move towards falling down the cliff on the weak side).
Here's the situation: I've got three partitions on my disk - EFI, OS, and a Data Partition + 40 gigs of free space for a Windows partition. I already deleted the Recovery partition to avoid conflicts in Bootcamp and comply with Windows' 4 partition limitation.
What screwdriver to buy to tighten bottom screws on MacBook Pro Retina? Based on search, it seams to be pentalobe flower. But what are dimensions? Are there any variances?
I have a hard drive problem. If I use Time machine to make regular backups, will Adobe CS6, Microsoft office, Camtasia and other installed programmes completely retore on a new hard drive without any complications? I have been told various things that seem to conflict.
I have removed my son's death metal junk from my library but the devices still pick it up from the cloud. How do I delete songs from the cloud if they no longer appear in the host ITunes library? I have deleted the unwanted songs from the host PC which should have removed them from iTunes Match but when I synch my iPad mini to iTunes Match the files still appear and can be played on the iPad when I have access to the cloud thru WiFi. The songs are gone from the host PC but apparently are still in accessible to my other devices thru iTunes Match.
Right around when I bought iPhone 5s for my wife and me I also moved in to a new, larger house. I was finding that wifi performance on our fancy new phones was terrible: I have a 35mbps internet connection but the performance was so bad that iCloud backups could rarely complete. The SpeedTest app would show that performance varied between 5mbps and 0mbps (no activity, just frozen). At first Apple replaced our iPhones, but that didn't help one bit. Since then, I've learned a few things: 2.4GHz signals perform poorly on iPhones and moderate on other devices, wile 5GHz performs very well (30mpbs+) on all devices, though range is limited with the iPhone compared to my MBP.
My OSX is 10.6.8 and i want to upgrade to the last lion mountain version but i dont have any external disc drives, so i am not able to do a backup with the time machine. Is it very risky to do the upgrade without the time machine backup? Tanks,
I am using iOS 6.1.4 on iPhone 5, and I've noticed that at some point in the past few weeks - I do not know exactly when it began - any email I try to send from within any non-Mail app, such as sharing links from within Safari, InstaPaper, Twitter, or Tweetbot, are never received by the recipient. The email does not show up in my Sent Items folder either. There is no error message displayed when trying to send these emails - I press Send and the email window is animated into the background as normal.
So, my question is how can I get sudo working again? App Store.app won't even run, so I can't reinstall XCode (which is apparently where vecLib.framework comes from) or anything else. I'm afraid to reboot because I'm worried the computer will hang, whereas (as you can tell) at least it's working for now, albeit without any elevated permissions capabilities. Any suggestions? BTW, I'm running 10.8.3.
I would like to use Jabber with OTR Encoding on my iPad. Which clients are supporting this? Apps already tried: ChatSecure doesn't seem to work with XMPP. IM+ Pro is not recommended. Trillian has no OTR support.
I have a macbook pro running Mountain Lion. I have a problem with the maximum window height. It looks like all the windows have to be in between the menu bar and dock. I sometimes need to have simulators which runs for iPad retina size and doesn't fit in my widescreen. Is there any way I can let them resize to their full height and width without OSX forcing them to resize? Thanks
I am using mountain lion on macbook pro. I want to know if it is posible to pause while downloading xcode from appstore and shutdown my computer, then resume my download from where i paused it when I start my computer again. I need to know this because xcode is very large to download and due to slow internet speed I cannot download it all at once.
I have a very long pdf document in iBooks and it won't let me search for text in it. I click the search button, type what I want to search and nothing happens. This happens every time, no matter what I type. Please help.
I have two Apple A1264 Airport Express Base Stations. I acquired them from a client I did some work for awhile back who gave me some Apple hardware that he wasn't using anymore as payment since they were struggling. I don't have a huge Apple knowledge base...
Is it possible to create a hotkey (or other trigger) that opens a menubar app? I don't mean launch. I mean, cause the menubar app to display its contents.
I have about 300 songs that were purchased with my ex-wifes account. I can't play them because they have a different Apple ID and were purchased by her account. Does anyone know how to "sort" for those songs so I can deleter them?
I get apps that work offline. However, on occasion the apps I download just don't work. When I start one up, it shows up with the start up screen. But then it goes straight back to the home screen.
I'm going to replace my MacBookPro system drive / hard disk with an SSD. I will then re-install MacOS and Windows via bootcamp. The original drive will be put in a USB caddy to be used as an external drive. My system drive has bootcamp on it, so it has been partitioned HFS+ / NTFS
My 1 TB Time Capsule drive is full with Time Machine backups. I'd rather spend $130 on a 3 TB drive than $500 on a new 3 TB Time Capsule.
Oftentimes, in the middle of texting, I find myself wanting to call the other party instead. However, in order to do that, I would have to scroll all the way to the top of the message history, just to get to the CALL button.
I'm using this setup to be able to send mail from Terminal: *=URL=* It works great, and I can use it in scripts. As long as I run the script manually. However when the script is launched by launchd, no mails are ever sent off. Looking around, it seems that this could be related to AbandonProcessGroup, which I didn't specify in the launchd job first. https://superuser.com/questions/281537/using-launchd-for-short-non-daemon-tasks
My Specs are as follows: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac10,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.52f9 Serial Number (system): W8008JEF5PC Hardware UUID: EECDACBD-AF6B-5B3E-B382-2702F2AA64AD Current RAM: Memory Slots: ECC: Disabled BANK 0/DIMM0: Size: Empty Type: Empty Speed: Empty Status: Empty Manufacturer: Empty Part Number: Empty Serial Number: Empty BANK 1/DIMM0: Size: Empty Type: Empty Speed: Empty Status: Empty Manufacturer: Empty Part Number: Empty Serial Number: Empty BANK 0/DIMM1: Size: 2 GB Type: DDR3 Speed: 1067 MHz Status: OK Manufacturer: 0x80AD Part Number: 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47372020 Serial Number: 0x108343E7 BANK 1/DIMM1: Size: 2 GB Type: DDR3 Speed: 1067 MHz Status: OK Manufacturer: 0x80AD Part Number: 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47372020 Serial Number: 0x101343E9 What sort/
I recently did a "restore" of my iPhone, and loaded data in from a backup (an iTunes backup, not iCloud) So, all my apps were gone- I had to re-download them. So I did, but I noticed that when I did so, the data was all still there.
I have uninstalled Gmail from the Google Apps for Domains control panel, but this has not helped (yet). I have also removed my preferences folder for Mail.app, but this does not help either. I cannot delete or rename this Google account; other services are attached to it. Any suggestions?
I am trying to connect to SQL server using navicat lite. However, it kept throwing this error:
I've gone through a bunch of tutorials as well as video players (QuickTime, mplayer, VLC, MPlayerX, Movist) and haven't been able to figure out how to get AAC 5.1 to play correctly on my Mac mini or MBP to my receiver. By default AC3 and DTS are the only formats that gets passed through to my receiver. Everything else seems to get down-sampled to stereo. Here's some test files: 6ch aac test video: *=URL=* 6ch ac3 test video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26249587/6ch_ac3.avi
My camera app is missing on both my phone and my iPad and after trying all the suggested fixes found online to no avail I now feel the need to get help with my specific case. The app is missing (can't be found in a search) and it's not deactivated in Restrictions, in fact, the camera and FaceTime options are grayed out/disabled when I go to Restrictions. - restrictions passcode not set
I have an older 24" iMac (Model 8.1 with Mountain Lion) and would like to extend its life a bit by adding a 256GB SSD. Samsung SSDs seem to be coming down in price (and are possibly well reusable if the iMac retires at some point) and I've looked at the tear-down of the model which appears to be doable (no glued parts).
I have some apps that keep popping up ad windows. I want to find a way to automatically close certain app windows as soon as they appear. On Windows, I normally make a simple app in AutoIt and run it. What are my options on OS X?
My question is one of confusion. All over the internet I have seen people looking for the ability to use a Mac to write to NTFS, or people formatting drives to FAT32 so that their Mac can share a storage drive with a PC. I am experiencing the opposite effect.
I've recently upgraded to Safari 6 in Lion and I'm seeing some pages freeze: I cannot scroll down and sometimes cannot click on anything. Safari is still alive and working but the freeze cannot be fixed by reloading the page.
On a Windows 8 machine, I've connected an iPhone 4s. Windows makes a audible chime for 'device connected', but doesn't allow charging in any USB port. iTunes isn't installed, and cannot be installed at this time under corporate policy.
I'm trying to see if it would be worthwhile to upgrade my PC computer to a 5 GHz wireless adapter. The only device I own that is capable of using the 5 GHz band is my iPad. So, I'm trying to see if it's possible to measure LAN speeds on my iPad. So, any ideas?
I have a new Mac but I'm using my iPhone. Previously I had "Notes" synced between my phone and the old Mac. Now I have notes on my phone that I don't want to lose, and I'm trying to set up the iCloud sync on the new Mac. When I go into the iCloud panel and mark Notes for sync, I get this weird screen:
I'm currently having an issue with my Mac running Mountain Lion making the "lockOpening.aif" and "lockClosing.aif" sounds apparently at random. I'm looking for a way to narrow down what program or setting is causing them to be played and what action is occurring when it happens. I've seen elsewhere that there was a program that could be used to determine what sound is being played when, and what program is calling the sound, does anyone know of a way to do this?
I need to temporarily jailbreak my iPhone 4 to fix Apple's iOS 6 bug making it impossible to access Japanese-to-English dictionary. All I need and want to do is delete Japanese-to-Japanese dictionary. Is it possible to tethered jailbreak iPhone 4 temporarily, delete the relevant folder, and merrily continue using the device in a non-jailbroken fashion?
I recently decided I'd try to use Messages.app instead of Adium as my all-in-one chat app, and was immediately stymied by the + button in the Accounts pane not working. I click the button, it darkens to indicate I clicked, and then nothing happens.
Just like you can save a URL from safari to the iPhone home screen, I want to put a .txt-file on my iPhone homescreen. I use PlainText to store my files, but sometimes search is too slow. For my heavy used documents, I'd like to store them on my home screen. I'm prepared to jailbreak if needed.
So here's my sad story guys. I'm a songwriter and I have a ton of audio files on my computer. I spent the last week or so going through them all (some were in iTunes, some were scattered across the HD), renaming them and putting dates in the filenames so that they were organized in folders by "unfinished", "finished", "arrangements", etc. I had this pretty much finished when I decided (stupidly) that I would create a new iTunes library to put them in, so that I could preview them more effectively than you can in the Finder. But I didn't know at the time that the "Keep files organized" option was checked in the preferences, or that it even existed. So after I put them in iTunes, all the files were renamed to their original filenames, and for the most part had any characters in brackets removed.
How do I edit songs that are in the Music app on my iPhone 5? I need to delete some songs that were automatically synced that I don't want.
I downloaded some songs to my iPhone using Amazon Cloud Player, but they are not showing up in the (official) Music app. I assume that Amazon Cloud Player downloaded MP3s to a directory on my device. How can I configure the Music app to look in this directory? I would prefer not to have to manually sync these songs via iTunes on my PC and then have two copies of these songs on my iPhone. Is there a way to import songs downloaded via Amazon Cloud Player into the Music app? Specs: iPhone 4S iOS 6.1.3 Amazon Cloud Player 2.1.0
I have a 13" late '11 MBP OS X Lion 10.7.5 I am trying to hook up to my LG HDTV with a Thunderbolt HDMI cable. Getting the display onto the TV is a snap. The audio, however, is not working. The thing I'm noticing is in the Sound tab the TV is not an option for Sound Effect, Output, or Input, only internal speakers and aggregate device.
I have a calendar in Calendar.app which publishes to a server as an ics file. I can subscribe to this same calendar using the URL used to publish to it (both actions require authentication). However, this requires two separate calendars. What I want is to be able to publish to it and view any updates to it, as it might be changed from another client. The current behavior is that any remote change to this ics is smothered by the next update from the local published calendar, which never checks the ics for changes before completely rewriting it.
I recently have released a game for the iOS iPhone devices for which I saw was at the top of the "Release Date" list under the relevant category. Unfortunately, I had to remove the game from the App Store due to some changes, so I changed the release date to somewhere in the future while I uploaded an update which is waiting for review. When the update will be approved, Will it be considered released at the same day of the update approval or at the day when the first version was approved?
Recently noticed a problem - in Finder, column view (this is important) if I select a pdf file (noticed only for pdf) screen flickers quickly several times in black color and the whole system freezes (except mouse cursor) for 2 minutes (I've measured with timer). After that, everything goes normally, file preview is displayed on the right side in Finder window as it is expected to be and file can be normally opened with Preview app.
I have a MacBook Pro 15" with Mountain Lion 10.8. I've had the laptop for about 8 months now and I installed Bootcamp probably around a week after I got it. Everything worked perfectly, which was awesome. Installed the support drivers and everything.
I used screen sharing on my Macbook Pro to remote control my friend's iMac. Unfortunately, now my Terminal now says:
We have macmini with os x mountain lion server app installed. The web services and wiki only work on the host machine, not on any of the other computers on the network, using network users. When we set up the server app, the modem/router failed and we were unable to set the ip address of our server until we sorted our router out, which took a while. In the meantime in our excitement we tried to set up web services / wiki etc.. So I think that may have caused the issue. Any ideas what we can do to fix this? what direction to go?
I forgot my password for my imac. If I reset my password using the Mac OS X install media, will I loose all data stored in my computer?
I have iPhones that have profiles on them that were password protected profiles and those passwords have been lost. So we need to wipe the iphones and was hoping to to a backup first and then restore without the profiles on there. Problem is, it won't let me do a backup without encrypting first. I have read that in order to not encrypt the backup you need to remove the profiles, but in this case we can't remove the profiles. Is there any way to turn this encryption off??
a number of OS specific files are transferred as well. I had a problem on ML due to a com.apple.whatever file that originated either in SL or L, and got passed on by reinstating my data from TM/MA. Only problem was, this plist was (1) not playing nice in ML and (2) slowing Mail to a crawl. I'd like to avoid this experience again.
MacOS looks-up the word under the cursor in Dictionary.app when you triple-finger-tap. Instead I would like to open a new tab in Chrome and Google that keyword. Is this possible?
I have an iso containing Windows 7 that was given to me by a friend. He said I could just put it on a flash drive and install Windows 7 with Bootcamp, but I don't know how to do that the right way. How do I load the iso onto the flash drive and use that for Bootcamp?
If I install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro using Bootcamp, can Windows cause problems on the OS X partition? Can it overwrite OS X system files or corrupt my data? My main concern is that I need to use Windows 7 for some school and work related things throughout the year, but I want to keep OS X clean and healthy throughout the process.
How can I set the main file in Textmate 2 in order to make it compile my complete dissertation and not the file I am editing?
I've heard that you can use as ipad as a second monitor to you macbook by using software like iDisplay. Is it possible to use apple TV in a similar capacity?
In my office I have a brand new Thunderbolt-equipped iMac, an older iMac (Mini DisplayPort), and an LED Cinema Display (Mini DisplayPort). I want to connect these three displays to my MacBook Pro with Retina display. Is there any way I can do that?
I like to watch educational videos from coursera on my iphone or ipad mini while I walk. I was thinking of making a helmet mounted mount where I could essentially do without holding the ipad in my hand - perhaps using a bicycle helmet as a starting point. Question: Do you know of something like this that already exists? Note: The TregoBag will not fit my requirements I think. Thanks.
I'm fairly new to Mac and having a dual monitor setup, but I have my secondary display working and arranged above my laptop. I want to be able to move between screens on the laptop and have the secondary display on the TV freeze on that document so that I can read what else I need to search for. I have tried turning 'Mirroring' on and off but it doesn't seen to stop the secondary display. I am on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (MacBook Pro 13" Late 2011)
Trying to find reliable info on working quicklook plugins for Mountain Lion. I'd like to at least find working ones for colour code syntax highlight in source code previews, and preview plain text files like "README" without a file extension.
Tried to delete several contacts on iCloud.com, but they keep coming back! I have tried several times with no success. These contacts are still on my device with iCloud sync enabled. If I don't want to disable iCloud sync do I have to remove these contacts on the devices as well?
Is there any way to block ads via an Apple Airport? I'd rather block all ads that way so that I can block ads on my iDevices.
Is there any way I can connect an LED Cinema Display via the HDMI port on my MacBook Pro with Retina display? I know there are various dongles that adapt for HDMI cables from Mini DP, but if I were to plug such an adapter into the back end of a LED Cinema Display, and connect it to my rMBP via an HDMI cake, would that configuration work?
I like to use three fingers swipe right and left to move between different screens. But how should i move currently opened windows to particular desktops of my liking?
Editing a file using text wrangler. Want the path so can pass it to a program in the terminal. Is there an easy way to do this? Don't seem to be able to drag it nor right click and get info. I'm not in Finder, but in the file chooser dialog that you see when executing File/Save as. If there is no way to drag would be nice to be able to right click and get info OR/AND send it to a list of program, one of which could simply copy its full path to the system clipboard.
I am using Google Calendar on an up to date iPhone 4S. I also use my iCloud calendar.
I wasn’t able to find keyboard shortcuts for switching between Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, Videos, Playlists in iTunes. This is the only thing that is missing in order to have a complete keyboard experience.
My firm are considering buying an Apple TV box for our new boardroom, so that presentations can be shown directly on the TV, but there is some information about the device that I am unable to find. Does Apple TV work over network only (providing TV and Apple TV are on the same network)? We are not interested in the apps like Netflix, etc, so we would like to avoid connecting the device via HDMI and thus keep it hidden.
As title says.... Is Grapher able to display values in the x-axis as (π/2), (π), (3π/2), (2π) rather than 1,57, 3,14, 4,71, 6,28 ?(and so on.. ) ?
If anyone has any experience with any of the above on a Retina display or any other advice I'd love to hear it. I must admit that I'm shocked at how easy it was to scratch the screen with little to no pressure being applied.
I've tried to use Ubuntu on my macbook pro (6,2), but it was a total and abject failure, mainly due to poor hardware support. So, I have given up on my little experiment and just deleted ubuntu and erased the partition it used in the ssd. Now, I'm trying to make os x reclaim the former linux partition's space, but I get an error whenever I try to resize the system partition in Disk Utility:
Is there a way to create a "sublist" inside a list item from an outer list in Pages '09? More specifically, I want to do this: Example made with HTML (should look like this):
I have an Airport Extreme, and a local network. I have several computers within this network. I want to be able to SSH into this local machine within the network, from outside it.
In Mountain Lion, Mac OS X can use its dictation/voice recognition to turn your speaking into text. Suppose I have an audio file of my voice speaking. Is there a way to use this dictation ability to turn that audio file into a text file?
I moved folder named FOLDERA to another folder where same name folder exists. Finder asked me to replace? I complied thinking that it will merge two folders like windows. It completely replaced my older folder. Undo (-Z) does not bring back Trash does not show my old files Is there any way to bring back these files?
I've frequently used Special Characters, accessed with Command ⌘+Option ⌥+T, and have been able to insert characters into text fields by double-clicking them. However, this has stopped working. I can still bring up the Special Characters window and navigate through it, but double-clicking an entry only adds it to the Recently Used section - it doesn't actually insert them into the focused text field. The window also seems to act as if it's not in focus, as the various UI elements inside the window are highlighted with grey rather than blue. Clicking inside the window does not focus it, and clicking on the title bar only focuses the title bar, and not the rest of the window, as can be seen below:
I like using my Mac with the "graphite" theme, but I'd like to still keep the color "traffic light" graphics. I remember from various theme modifiers in the past that these are simple PNG files, so I figured if I copied the color ones into the graphite directory it would use them.
When I open a new Terminal tab I have to wait at least 10-20 seconds before I can work with it, I have followed previous suggestions here: How do I speed up new Terminal tab loading time? But so far I still have slow tabs. When I open the inspector during a tab loading I see the following process: login bash bash ruby sw_vers dirname sh The bottom 4 start and stop during the inactive time in my tab, until the tab is finally useable and I only have login and bash remaining. Can anyone offer any help here, it's very frustrating. TIA
I have an iPhone 4 running iOs 6.1.3. I have just switched from O2-UK to T-Mobile. O2 supported Visual Voicemail and T-Mobile does not (at present) I have set up my voicemail by dialling 222. However, I want to set up the diverts (no answer, unreachable, busy) to voicemail but cannot find an option for this anywhere in the Settings app. How do I switch these on?
When using Ubuntu I can save shell scripts in ~/bin. To launch them I just type the name of the script in the Terminal. Is there an equivalent solution for OSX?
I have an Outlook calendar synced to my iPhone which has a lot of "reminders" that I don't really want to see on my actual calendar. How can I hide some of these items from my iPhone, without deleting them entirely from Outlook?
Is there a way to establish rules for mails processed on the iPhone (4s, iOS 6.1.3)? In my case, I am interested in automatically forwarding certain emails to another email account once I receive them.
I am trying to follow the simple instructions given at *=URL=* to transfer a movie from my laptop to my ipad. However, when I run itunes in windows with the ipad plugged in I don't see the left hand pane at all. How can I get to the screen they have at 31 seconds into that video?
I have an Apple G5 and it won boot anymore. When I boot my fan starts to spin like a madman and the screen stays grey. When I try to boot in Safe Mode using Shift+Command+V, I get the error messages: error - mapping module file com.apple.driver Apple Intel (CUPPowermanagement) can't map in prparation for loading can't determine dependencies for com.apple.driver Apple Intel (CUPPowermanagement) couldn't alloc class "Apple Intel CUPPowermanagement" ..and nothing happens (only the fan is making some huge noise).
I'm trying to run a find command, aka: and my results are full of permission denied messages: How do I prevent them from showing up in my search results?
When I click on an application in OSX, this focuses the application and raises it to the front, but does not pass the click through to the application. However, I frequently wish to focus an application to perform an action, and my Windows/Linux training has taught me to click where I want my click to register. In OSX, this becomes a problem because I click once to focus and a second time to trigger a click event - but the window responds as though to a double click - when toggling something with a click, the window focus click is only treated as a click when I send another, toggling the object twice.
I just recently purchased a 2010 Mac Pro.  I am wondering why all 24 threads never go past 50% usage when doing CPU intensive tasks. My coworker has a 2009 2.93 GHz 8 core Mac Pro and we both tried converting a dvd with Handbrake, and in activity monitor on the 2009 Mac Pro all 8 cores/16 threads were close to 100% usage but on the 2010 Mac Pro all 12 cores/24 threads never went passed 55% usage. We are running Mountain Lion on both Mac Pro's
App purchases and in-app purchases can be cancelled with charge-back if you send a message to iTunes Store Support within a time frame of a few days and provide them a good reason. I'd like to know if is possible to know what Apple-ID or User did the charge-back.
I have a desktop iMac with Snow Leopard installed on it. Every few minutes, I get freezing and "kernel disk0s2: I/O Error"
is it possible to create, let's say 8gig partition in your HD and create an installer just like having it created in usb to dvd, so that I can do a clean re install Mac OS Lion?
Imagine this: I exchanged my phone number with a nice lady on the street. I have iMessage activated, so does she (when I text her, I see the "iMessage" text).
Using safari on OS X 10.8.2 to connect to an internal server via *=URL=* safari indicates a client certificate is required. Tried dragging the certificate from the url field to the desktop and adding it to the system keychain which did not work. Went to the server and exported the certificate then added it to the system keychain which did not work as well. What could be the problem? The server is a windows machine running IIS. Any suggestions to try something else?
I have a general question to ask. If I have iTunes running on my Windows PC, and something was wrong, could I bring it into the Apple Store's Genius bar for them to service it? Do they service Apple software outside of Apple hardware?
I am sure the answer is no but I am always a bit more investigative. Let's say I took an picture with my iPhone 5 and the image has geo tags. I email it to myself and then I take a screenshot my using the Preview tool. Will I still have geo-tag information on that image or since I took a snapshot only on my Mac, it won't have it?
Or is there some app that will let me do it. This bug has been forever since Lion. Isn't it about time apple fixed it?
Please read my question fully, I searched many questions but that doesn't answer my question fully. We are planning to develop an iOS app using PhoneGap, so we have also purchased $99 Developer license for it. So far we are good, but as per my research I found that we cannot build iOS app on windows, we compulsory need mac for it.
I have a 13" MBP late 2009, 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM, and on OS X 10.8.3. As soon as I boot up the fans start going at the highest rpm and like I mentioned the kernel_task is always at around 90% when no apps are being run. I read somewhere that I should try safe boot and see the effect but there is none. Any ideas as to what is causing it? Thanks
My Mac has ceased to allow me to right click to colour folders in Finder (the Finder format where all opened folders cascade to the right in panels) I can however right click the general panel area for other functions. Has anyone encountered this. It's a small but annoying issue for me. Please ask questions if I've been unclear about anything.
I am trying to come up with the safest way to move data between two drives, designed to handle the worst possible circumstances. For example: if you were trying to move the only existing copies of pictures of your child being born while a crazed monkey was roaming the halls and might pull the power cord on your Mac and/or the external drives at any moment.
So I have two calendars that I share with my wife. One is normal (which she can see all details for) and the other (my counseling calendar) is for my therapy client schedule. I want her to be able to see when I'm busy but no details, as I put the client's name so I know who I'm going to be counseling at the appointed time. I set the share settings to public but so it wouldn't show details (only free/busy time). And when she logs into her Google calendar on a computer, it shows up correctly, i.e. it only shows the appointments for me as being "busy."
I've sucessfully installed Win 7 x64 twice on my imac before. However the 2009 iMacs had faulty HDD, I had it replaced and after that I have trouble installing windows. I know about the display drivers needed to be present during install, I have those but I'm still presented with a black screen with blinking cursor while booting Windows - the Windows logo doesn't show. Found out in mutiple threads that running these:
Is there an easy way to scroll up and down in the left hand pane in e-mail? I have my ipad set to display 500 emails and its a pain to get from an email at the bottom of the list to one back at the top again. There is an indicator bar that goes up and down as you scroll but you don't seem to be able to drag it. Please help.
I have a Mac Mini mid-2007 (MB139xx/A) that can only output 1920x1080 (as far as I've understood). I have a Dell U2713HM screen, and I'd like to make that Mac beeing able to work on that screen at full res. Not for gaming or such 3D contents, just for simple 2D display (Finder, text writing, Web surfing, etc...).
I hace A Dell U2713HM screen that is 2560x1440 capable, but my Mac Mini is only 1920x1080 capable. How can I force the mac to display its output at 1:1 on the screen without scaling, so the display will remain sharp (even if it will be displayed smaller) ? I do this on my PC into the nVidia drivers, but I don't see where it can be done on Mac OS.
Is it possible to use rsyncd with the system users rather than a separate user list (something like how SSH works)? How? All tutorials I have read specifies a separate user list. Any good reason to not do it?
How do I transfer my contacts from iPhone to Gmail ? I am not sure which is the correct site to ask this question, because it is a non-technical question. Can anyone guide me please?
Like many people I have a few albums in FLAC format that I've picked up over the years. I'd like to retain their auto fidelity, but also have them in my iTunes and on my iPhone.
I added some domains to block (127.0.0.1 mydomain.com) to my /etc/hosts file and for some reason, Safari seems to be ignoring them. I have tried: disabling Safari extensions, clearing the cache (sudo dscacheutil -flushcache), restarting Safari and the Mac altogether.
When I opened the time/date presferences... the automatic 'get time from central server' kicked in. But I wanted to know if these two symptoms pointed to a specific problem that someone can recognise... MacBook has these specs...
Is it possible to get the internet connection via Bluetooth (PAN) on an iPhone 3gs ? Note: I'm not asking about sharing the iPhone's internet connection via bluetooth to other devices; I want to do the opposite.
The iPad is my preferred computing device when I'm on the go, be it commuting or traveling. Sometimes I've got a Bluetooth keyboard with me, and sometimes I don't. So this may be crazy, but I would like to use my iPad for full-fledged web development and programming, and want I to know what my options are.
When I edit spreadsheets in Numbers, I often hold down the left or right arrow key to get to the far-left or far-right column of a table. Numbers always beeps at me when I do this. It seems to think it is an error to press keys that try to move outside the boundaries of a table, even though the keystrokes are from keyboard auto-repeat.
I'm working on getting a Mac app signed. It won't be available in the app store. I've executed the codesign executable properly, I believe, but I still get the Gatekeeper warning. Simple question: When I verify the signing, I get the following output:
While watching iTunes-purchased video content (TV/movies), I periodically see a quick flash of the gray/white DRM checkerboard that iTunes shows when you're trying to watch video while screen-sharing. The gist: Mac mini Mid-2012 (10.8.3) with locally-stored iTunes library Screen sharing is enabled, but not active when this occurs Sometimes it's a flicker about one frame in duration
I just can't find any way to change the theme and have it applied permanently. I really need some guidance here, all I want is to change to another darker theme other than the default 'basic' theme, and most importantly, have it to be the theme every time I open the terminal.
Are there any scripting languages for the iPad that can access native functionality like accelerometer, GPS, text messages, etc? I know that it is possible to write Scheme and Python scripts but I don't think they can access any of the native functionality. Is there any way to do this?
i'm new with mac, the multiple "space/desktop" function is very cool, but it would be better if i could have different files and folder on each of my space. For example, i want to set up a space for programming works only, and put on desktop only related to this task files. can i ? is there a way to do it?
A little over month ago I received an email from the Russian Apple website, asking me to confirm my email to complete the registration of my Apple ID. I am thinking someone possibly used my email by mistake. I did not click the authentication link. The message stated that if it wasn't me who registered, I shouldn't worry. However, now I am trying to create an Apple ID but I get the error message: "Email already in use"
Spotlight is a very ingenious "tool" of OS X, attributable in no large part to its indexing feature. Hiding various files & folders is challenging even when using various encryption applications. I am aware there is a built in option, that allows you to mark as necessary, files, folders etc that Spotlight should not index. Are there more effective, (possibly faster methods) of hiding files & folders from Spotlight's "prying eyes", therefore in essence protecting you from other prying eyes that may have access to your Mac ?
People always say, "Jailbreaking can cause security problems." That might be true, but in some instances, you just need to jailbreak it.
I have an application that I want to launch via a shell script that does some setup and then launches the app itself with some specific options. Ideally, this script would be run whenever the application would normally be launched, i.e. when I click on it in the dock, double-click in the Applications folder, launch from QS, or even click on a file that opens in this app. Right now I have an applescript wrapper "App" for my script, but the downside is that it appears as a separate app from the main app that sits in my dock, so I have to remember to not click on the main app's icon, but launch this alternate app instead.
Does anyone know of a OBDII Bluetooth adapter that works with iPhone? I would be developing an application for the iPhone 5 where Bluetooth 4.0 is supported. I have found several adapters, but they do not support Bluetooth 4.0.
Simply how do I see the complete size of a folder within Finder ? (AFAIK there is no default setting to automatically turn this feature on - correct me if i'm wrong)
I am about to scan my photo collection. To save time, I would like to scan multiple photos at once. How can I automate the splitting of photos in a single scan?
I know i can use 3 swipe left and right to move to the previous or next desktop, but I think it would be more helpful to have a hotkey to do it and not just moving previously or next, but rather to a particular one.
I was hoping there was a way I would be able to make all folders and files hidden on the OS X Desktop, but leave the Hard drive(s), network drives, CD's/DVD's, etc. But if I was to go into the Desktop Folder using Finder, the items would still be there. So, basically the opposite of the Finder Preferences of showing specific items on the desktop, to hide the files, etc. but leave the HDD's, CD's, etc.:
I would appreciate any help you guys can give me since I would really like to upgrade my laptop to Mountain Lion. Computer: Macbook Pro 17" 4,1 (Early 2008) RAM: 4 GB RAM Hard drive: 128 SSD Hard drive Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Current OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Steps I have taken but failed to properly install the OS. Dowloaded Mountain Lion at least 3 times from the App store to make sure the download wasn't corrupted. I even tried making a Lion Bootdisk so I can install Mountain Lion on a USB drive (Install ESD.dmg). I have even tried installing Lion first thinking I would take it one version at a time but gets stuck on boot screen too. I even changed my hard drive to a new blank SSD drive to see any difference. Each time I install Mountain Lion or Lion, everything is good until the installer has to restart the laptop.
Really puzzled here. Had a power cut and imac (27", OSX 10.8.3) wouldn't restart/boot up afterwards. Tried unplugging, restarting, safe start, zap pram etc. no luck, just 'Apple logo screen' Used Mountain Lion CD disc to boot into Disk utilities. verified and repaired disk. Said it was good. Still no start up / boot up happening. Decided to restore to yesterday from Time Machine Did this (twice now) at about 25 hours each restore, and the restore has my docs files etc but NO APPLICATIONS are available so nothing opens or works. The dock has a row of greyed out Question Mark symbols and the Applications folder has basically nothing in it (149mb, in /users/myname folder) There is no '2nd folder) I don't understand as I thought Time Machine backed up your entire system at points in time, not just your files. I had it set to backup full 2TB imac HD No idea what to do now. Can anyone help?
I mean is Objective-C the only language available, or can you use a standard C compiler/linker that is optimized for the sufficient executable format(Mach-O/PEF)? My basic question is, can other languages be used to generate the equivalent object, binary, or otherwise shared library file format of code parsed and loaded by Mac OS X-like versions? (E.g., C, C++, D, etc.?)
With Mountain Lion and Safari 6, there is no built in RSS reader and Safari prompts you to find and install one from the Mac App Store if you don't have one. So I installed a few different RSS readers. Now when I click on bookmarks to RSS feeds from Safari, it opens the last RSS reader I installed.
In Snow Leopoard and earlier, you could open the lid of your laptop after you had activated clam shell mode and the display would remain inactive until you disconnected the external monitors. In Mountain Lion (and Lion?), the behavior is to immediately turn the display on. My question is, is it possible to restore the earlier behavior?
I use Calendar on OS X 10.8 and link my google calendars to it. Periodically (and I can't detect a pattern) the calendar stops syncing with Google, with an error message of the form *=URL=* is not a location that supports this request.
If I can get Activity Monitor or Terminal open, and kill the process, it will restart itself and behave like a good little process. For a while. The it goes crazy again. Being an iOS developer, I'm thinking that the best way to combat this process is an automated assistant.
I just bought a new iPad and I’m wondering if I can move Clash of Clans from the old to the new and save the progress. I spent a fair bit of money into it and I don't want to lose it.
When I import my photos and videos into iPhoto, the videos usually have the wrong timestamp, possibly two hours after the actual time. I.e., if I take a video alongside a photo, the photo displays correctly in time order at 3:30 but the video shows later because it has a 5:30 timestamp.
My one year old iMac failed to boot, after SMC and PRAM reseting I got the hard disc replaced and it is working again. Now when I opened my back up, all the applications were there but many of them including iPhoto won't work with error message saying that it is not compatible with the Mountain Lion.
I have an iPhone 4 (CDMA), bought it to India and unlocked unofficially by jailbreaking. Recently I upgraded to iOS 6.1.2, and now Cydia is missing. Everything else is working fine; I can make calls, use internet and Wi-Fi, however is gone from my phone.
I am using OSX 10.7 When I move between different ethernet networks (e.g., at work using ethernet on an external display, at home using thunderbolt ethernet), the ethernet does not always connect. However, I don't get immediate feedback. Instead, I connect to wi-fi. However, wi-fi is both slower and less reliable than ethernet. Thus, I'd like to know whether I am connected to ethernet or not. Of course I can go into preferences and network settings to see whether I'm connected to ethernet, but it would be better if there was some form of indicator in the status bar, just as there is for wi-fi. Thus, my question: Is there a way of getting an indicator of ethernet connectivity in the OSX menu-bar? Perhaps there is a free application that can do this.
macbook OS will not load finder function want to reinstall but don't want to lose data thanx for any/all help!
My grandson spilled orange juice on my MacBook and ruined it. I bought an iPad to replace it, but I had dozens of old family pictures stored in iPhoto on the MacBook. Is there any way I can recover them and store them on my iPad?
I haven't used my Mac in a while (I'm a Ubuntu user). Where is that grabber app? I don;'t see it under applications or settings
I'm using Word for Mac 2011. When using the default font - Cambria - extra spaces appear when I type an apostrophe followed by another character. See the screenshot at:
I forced a Spotlight delete and reindex in Terminal with the command: Now Spotlight seems to not only constantly index, but also create huge (10+GB) cache files over the course of just a couple weeks. Is there a way to "reverse" whatever that command did to Spotlight, or simply to fix this excessive caching issue?
I have a house in france, and just charged the ipad mini with a french plug. It blew a fuse. Can I get extra french plugs from Apple for the charger cable??? I bought this french plug from amazon. Not good!
I'm trying to run a Lejos application on an NXT. For it to work I need to set up a profile page with the path of Java. I know that Java doesn't come pre-installed on my Mac version, so I downloaded a .dmg to install it. I kept looking for what path the installer used, but I never found it. I know that java is installed because I ran
I have for some reason two locations for python site packages. Python itself is here: My Path Variable is: xlrd is installed here and can be accessed from python numpy is installed here and can not be accessed from python
I downloaded the Mac preference pane and installed it again. This seemed to work OK, although there were two messages about "... is from an unidentified developer", to which I said Open.
The firmware update 1.0 for my MacBook Air (2012) is not installing. I do not have the disk encrypted and I have tried an SMC reset. I also let the mac sit for a minute after shutting down before turning it back on just as the update suggest. Every time I boot my air back up it tells me in the App Store that there is still an update that needs to be taken. Any suggestions?
I switched to Aperture some time ago. And right now, the moment has come that I want to save some space on my internal hard drive. What I found on the Apple website is this:
I'm surprised that a google search doesn't turn up dozens of XML editors for ipad. All I can find are generic code text editors that happen to "support" XML. Well duh.
My team is working with Mountain Lion MacBook Pros, and we're using the GNU CLI tools, like wget and watch, intensively. Whenever a new team member joins us, we tell the new hire to install homebrew and get the whichever CLI tool required by brew install. We would like to automate the process, and prepare a list of GNU CLI tools which will be installed on every new machine. Is there any list of classic GNU/Linux CLI tools available in homebrew?
I converted a partition to a CoreStorage volume using this command: Now when I run `diskutil cs list' the output shows that I still only have a Logical Volume Group and a Physical Volume attached to it (from what I gather, I should have a Logical Volume Family and a Logical Volume as well). The status of the LVG is 'Offline' and the status of the PV is 'Checking'. It has been this way for over 10 hours on a 128GB SSD. To me it seems this status indicates some kind of intermediary status, as if the conversion/encryption has not completed yet, is that assumption correct? Is it safe to shut down the machine in this state?
I just bought a 2012 iMac and I want to connect it to my Yamaha Amplifier. On my previous PC setup I had an external audio card which connected to the Amplifier via an optical cable. However, I don't want to use an external card anymore.
I'd like to use my environment variables, which were defined in my environment.plist file, in my applescript. How do I do that, for instance: Where AS_HOME is my environment variable.
On every window, there are 3 buttons colored red, yellow, and green. When you hover over the green, it becomes a plus sign. I want the keyboard shorcut for that. I know that cmd+w seems to be the red one. It does not always work but most often than not, it will close the window. Cmd+H is minimize. What is the third one?
I have an iPhone that is frozen while browsing with Safari (it happens all the time). I am aware that holding down the power button with the home button for 10 seconds is supposed to reset the phone. It does not. I have held down for 60 sec or longer at least 10 times, to no avail. What other options exist to force the phone to reboot, other than waiting for the power to exhaust itself completely after several hours?
I am using the iOS Facebook Integration, which adds my Facebook friends to my contacts in the phone app. Yesterday I noticed that some of these Facebook contacts have been disappeared, despite being still 'Friends' with them on Facebook. Is this maybe due to some Facebook privacy feature?
I'm interested in determining the size of a given Time Machine Backup. This seems possible with tmutil using either uniquesize, compare, or calculatedrift, but I've been unable to figure out the precise command to find the size of a given backup image. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
I want to print via USB, but iOS does not mention the interface when I connect directly to my non-Wi-Fi printer. REALIZE: I do not want to print wirelessly I want to do so via USB, but iOS apparently does not have drivers/kernel extendablr modules to support printing like this, such as with Lion.
Recently, I've changed my Apple ID because my old E-mail has been hacked. Now that I set the new one as my apple ID, the old Apple account still appears when I open almost all my apps on my Ipod Touch (4th Gen.), asking for the password to my old Apple ID. When I put in the old password to my old Apple ID, it'll keep asking for it no matter how many times I type it in. How do I fix this while keeping my account secure? Any suggestions would help!
I downloaded the Linux USB Image of memtest86 and used dd to get the image on a USB flash drive. Whenever I used it on an iMac Late 2006 (running SL) or the newest Macbook Air 13'' (running ML) the drive was shown as "Windows" in the boot menu (ALT pressed during startup) and memtest could be started by just selecting it.
If I put a picture on my Mac to photostream and it moves to my iPhone's photostream and I delete the picture from my photostream on my Mac, will there still be a picture left on the iPhone in the camera roll?
I just installed OS X 10.8.x on my Mac. An annoying thing I've discovered is that, whenever I restart the computer, it closes all the windows I have open in Finder. This is extremely annoying as I often have a large number of windows open to help me keep track of what I've been working on that day and need to back up. I check the "Reopen windows when logging back in" on the restart command but, as far as I can tell, it just reopens my applications, which isn't really what I'm looking for.
I'm trying to enable AGC logging in Mountain Lion to the kernel log: However, I don't see any specific AGC logging in the Console application, other than a generic "AGC loaded" message. How can I enable AGC debug logging?
Some games/apps sync using cloud servers other than iCloud (Eg: Dropbox). In this case, they would appear in the back-up list, but not the Documents & Data list, but would still be syncing.
Suddenly a secondary drive with HFS+ partition changed from read-write to read-only. How can I use the mount command to reverse it in mountain lion?
How do I share my Internet connection wirelessly with other gadgets while using it simultaneously on my MacBook Pro? I am using a Idea Netsetter 3g dongle for broadband Internet access. However, when I go to the settings to share it with other devices, the MacBook Pro is the only one left out of the connection.
The response of simple tap click on track pad is incredibly slow (like 1 s), (meanwhile usual click seems to be faster). Same for "right button"-click - tap with two fingers. How can I speed up the tapping response?
I really don't get the new search feature in iTunes 11. How can I for instance search for all the songs with a name containing "strauss" and listen to them?
We've set up a VPN in our office, and are having problems connecting the native VPN client in OSX. Our DHCP subnet mask is 255.128.0.0, but when we check the connection in ifconfig it reports as 255.255.255.0 and we can't ping most of the network to which we are connecting. About the only thing that searching on the internet came up with is a 3 year old thread on the apple support forums: *=URL=* We have no problems with any other VPN clients (Windows and Linux). Update: 1 Mac running OSX 10.8.3 is getting a subnet of 255.255.255.0 1 Mac running OSX 10.8.3 is getting a subnet of 255.0.0.0 Mac running OSX 10.6.8 is getting a subnet of 255.0.0.0 Of course, none of these are correct, but at least the second two devices can access the whole range of our network (even if they go beyond it). Update 2: After working with other Mac users out of the office - it appears that this is an ISP thing, as it only happens with this one user, and they are the only person out of 6 tests now that are havi
I've read quite a bit on Ask Different and elsewhere about how fitting a Solid State Drive (SSD) is one of the best ways (if not the best way) to increase the performance of your Apple Mac computer. AFAIK this is a piece of hardware that is fitted internally inside the computer in place of the regular hard drive (and therefore takes a bit of technical know-how).
I need to write about 50 preferences to a .plist file. Is there any way to write just once to plist file? My current code has 50 defaults write lines.
I have installed the newest version of git (1.8.3) using homebrew but when I type in my terminal, it prints: What should I do to replace the old version of git with the new one?
I had an issue with the MAC OS and couldn't repair the MAC os i have (10.4) on my intel duo core macbook. So i install Ubuntu 11 on my mac and works perfectly. I am selling my laptop now to get the new macbook pro but the person who wants it needs mac os but every time I try to install it shows a folder with a question mark when I put the mac cd (Original CDs 10.4 that came with the laptop) so i booted with the "option" and shows my hard drive, put the mac CD and it ejects it, put the ubuntu CD and works perfectly. I try to clear the nvram: Command + Option + O + F nothing, what can i do to install mac os?
I need some photos that I have taken to be dated. The date must be displayed on the actual photo (in a similar fashion to how one would think of film photos), but I have no idea how to do this? My understanding is there is an app that does this, but I haven't been able to find it. Is there an app, or any other way, that would facilitate this?
I'm trying to connect from iMac mid 2010 (10.8.3) to my MBA 2011 (10.8.3) using the Share Screen button in Finder. I'm able to connect, but unfortunately the connection is closed in a minute and it's not possible to reconnect. My MBA is behind Airport Extreme and my iMac is behind some 3rd party router. Interesting that while I'm unable to connect to MBA, I can still mount the disk connected to the Airport. How can I fix that? EDIT
Using FileVault 2, when connecting a disk in target mode, the disk is locked and can only be unlocked by users authorised to do so. However, once it is unlocked, all contents are accessible to the User unlocking it. Is there a way to keep individual users' files encrypted, while making the 'general' part of the disk, and the files belonging to the user unlocking the disk accessible?
I'm interested in creating a clone of my Time Machine backups (the Backups.backupdb folder) so that my local backup strategy isn't entirely dependent on the external HD being alive. My hope is that I can backup the entire Time Machine contents to a single file (a disk image, sparse bundle, I'm not entirely sure of correct terminology) and then upload this file to a service like Amazon S3. Is there a method for doing so that is known to work well and result in an image file that can later be restored to an actual external disk and have all backed-up contents still be usable?
For example, see this page: *=URL=* When I do command+click on the article titles, Firefox does neither open a link nor open a tab. In any other browsers, it works well. When I do right click and manually choose "Open Link in New Tab", it works well. Is this only my problem, potentially a problem of one of my extensions? Firefox 21.0, OS X Mountain Lion
I'm planning a clean install of my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6 and I want to make a partition (among others) only for the sleepimage file. Here's the problem: the partition's size. I know that this file is exactly the same of my RAM amount: 4 GB.
Every time I execute these commands: or in the terminal, it gives me the following error: or How do I get it to look at /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin? returns and returns
Let's say there a file called "abc_deh.xyz", what command do i use to find the location of that file in mac terminal by using solely the search term "deh"? So, basically, I am asking how to search for a file by text contained in its name. I need to find files that I forgot the whole name, that would be more helpful.
I know this does NOT work: iMac Core i7 (late 2012) with Windows 7 Bootcamp and 2 external Thunderbold Displays. Does THIS work? iMac Core i7 (late 2012) with Windows 7 Bootcamp and 2 external Mini DisplayPort Displays? Thanks!
I have a process called Photo Stream running, but I have been discovering that my photos in my photo stream only loads when iPhoto is opened. Why?
on a modern OS X with XCode and the command line tools installed (in my case, Mountain Lion with XCode 4.6.x) you will see that the default C compiler and C++ compiler are clang. At some point previously, it was GCC.
I see that there are a lot of posts about automated ways to get annotations and notes from Skim PDFs into DevonThink. However, it seems like there's no easy way to automate that, which is fine. I usually read and highlight a PDF all in one shot, so I don't mind just doing "Export Notes to Text" in Skim when I'm done going through a PDF. Once I do that, what's the best way to manage Skim Notes?
I recently went to the Apple store with my laptop because it would only boot into safe mode and would not accept my password. While there, they said some liquid ruined something in the inside of my laptop. They said that the shift key was internally broken and will cost up to $700 to fix. Now, in order to use my laptop, I need to use an external USB keyboard.
I fill in the options, click "Download Now", and a dialog box opens asking me whether to download the file or to cancel. I choose to download it (and where to save it to), even as the browser surfs to a confirmation ("Now that you’ve downloaded iTunes") page. The dialog box closes, and nothing gets downloaded. The browser's "Downloads" window does not show that any attempt to download a file from Apple had been made.
I am trying to find some algorithms about the implementation of network stack for Mac OS X, can I access the actual codes from the operating system itself. Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks
Today, my screen froze suddenly, and since the I have this problem reoccurring in certain intervals. I ran /sbin/fsck -fy and got the following results. I assume this is something with the processor? Would be nice if someone could help me out here.
Just last week, my access to the internet over mobile data networks has stopped working. I've already talked to my operator, and they gave me a new SIM card and tested that 3G works in another phone with it. Basically the operator is expecting this to be an antenna failure, which seems odd as I still get full connection bars, WiFi works flawlessly and my 3G does transport e-mails, just nothing else (like opening websites). I do have 21M/2M speed, so the connection isn't just clogged. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? If nothing comes up, I will probably have to get a new antenna and install it myself.
Has anyone had success using nmap within msfconsole to target a specific host on a VM virtual network? For example, the following command works from a Terminal prompt: However, the same command run from msfconsole results in dnet: Failed to open device vmnet I've seen some answers on the Internet suggesting the problem is the virtual network, but since the same nmap command works from Terminal I have doubts about the answers I've seen. Thanks!
Hey guys I need to install ubuntu on my Macbook but I have not got the ideas how to separate hdd disk in right order (size and disk formats and of course utilities). At now MacOS 's installed correct. My final goal - installed correct two OS with multi-boot (mac is primary one) Please give some correct steps how must i do it. Many thanks
I'm connection to my Mac Mini from Windows, using RealVNC client (also tried TightVNC with the same behavior). And, Login Screen shows fine, but when I'm typing password sometimes it hangs. Also it hangs when I successfully typed password and pressed enter. However, occassionally it allows me in (especially after restarting ARD or restarting Mac OS). Also, when it hangs after sending password and pressing enter, actually VNC connection is established - when I moving mouse on Windows, it also moves mouse pointer on Mac OS. Where can be a problem, and what I can do to debug this issue?
If you run Mac OS 10.8 with Virtual Box (on Linux), on a computer that supports hardware virtualization, how good will be the performances? With a powerful computer (i7, 8gb of ram, ssd hd), would you be able to run music softwares like Ableton Live, Traktor, etc...?
I have my iPhone synced with iTunes. There were some playlists synced. I needed some free space on my iPhone once, so I deleted all playlists from my iPhone to make some space for video recording. Then, after deleting videos, I connected my iPhone to Mac and clicked "Sync" to put all this playlists again into my iPhone. But the sync did something ridiculous - it deleted all these playlists from iTunes!
I have an old Power Mac G4 here that stopped working recently. It just doesn't start anymore when pressing the power button, not even a light or anything. It just doesn't react to the power button at all.
Almost every OSx Application has a service menú like this:  But I've found that my HipChat for MAC doesn't have. I don't know if there is a setting that will enable this menu or it is something related to the way the application was created.
This has been my problem for about 6 months. On my 2011 MBP, if I connect a working ethernet cable to my ethernet port, it will either do nothing or my internet connection will die totally, even when I'm on a strong wifi network.
Hey everyone I am new to applescripting. I have a need for an applescript that will cycle through 3 PDFs, located out on a share drive. I have the script but the problem is that if a user overwrites the PDFswith a new version, the script continues cycling through using the old version, not the updated copies. So I thought that if the script could close the PDF window and then reopen it that might would work. However, I cannot get it to close the window. Here is what I have so far and it does not work. Throws an error saying Access for assistive devices is disabled which it is not.
When I work at my desk, my MBP is connected to two 27" displays, so I have 3 screens, and they're laid out very specifically, so my chat, mail, trello, etc. windows are all in their own spot.
OK so I have the iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) and am currently on iOS 5.1.1. I'd like to update to the most recent firmware WHILE retaining my untethered jailbroken status, Cydia, and the unlocked feature of the phone which allows me to use it without a data plan. I've been told to simply update the phone in iTunes - will this retain all the things I mentioned above?
I have a Logical Volume with UUID 73D724AB-9999-9999-9999-8F1E1F5DF83F and it is password protected. The volume name is Workspace.
Can I put a 160GB (late 2009) iPod's HDD in my 6th gen 120GB iPod? Will this work, or are there other things that I would need to modify to get more storage?
Just replaced an Iphone 3GS with a new Iphone 4S. The old phone had 500+ pics on it and was backed up to icloud. However, photostream is only syncing 100 photos onto the new phone. Please advise.
I have a movie of me skydiving, but the disk is starting to get scratchy. I was wondering how I can copy this to my hard-drive, so I can play it whenever I want. I tried the disk utility and copy the disk to an image, but that only copied the files and folders, thus not making it playable as a videofile.
Is it copying all 24GB of RAM to disk, and restoring it, to re-open windows in saved states or something like that? If not what? I reboot into boot camp fairly often for work and this is ridiculous. Posting console log from when I think I logged in this morning: Since I'm limited in how much I can post, I edited out a lot of acvpnagent entries such as this one: I think this is related to some stuff work installed on my machine before I got it, but there are lots of these messages prior to attempting to log in, so I think they're unrelated. UPDATE 1: I tried the solution proposed here: *=URL=* but this did not help.
where GEOLOCATION is either the city or the region where the photo was taken. this can be gathered from the GPS information in the EXIF data of each image (just like the Places function in the Photos app on iPhone)
I have followed these steps for setting up zfs (maczfs 74.3.0, OSX 10.8.3) with encryption. Everything works fine, till I restart the computer. After the restart, diskutil informs me that the file system is invalid and refuse to mount my ZFS pool disk: When I run the Verify Disc, I get an error: The cause of the error is that the Logical Volume is ZFS.
Utilize more USB graphics cards with USB 3 capable PCIe Cards. We discovered that the USB 3 PCIe cards developed by CalDigit does not support anything but hard drives. They said they will support a more full USB 3 spec in a couple of months when their next release comes out, but didn’t guarantee USB graphics cards.
How do I turn on an iPhone back after turning it off using assistive touch? My lock button on the top is broken so I have no other way of turning on my iPhone.
I have a 15 inch 1st gen MacBook Pro retina with windows 7 installed using boot camp and I would like to get the game Age of Mythology (with expansion) which I never had. What would be the best way to get the game and play it? For example, would it be best/possible to buy the windows version and play it on the 64 bit window 7 portion of my computer.
The reinstall went great, and cleared some space, but I found that my second of two mini-displayport monitors (Dell P2210s) was not working. I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and it STILL isn't showing up. I know that the monitors and cables are good, because they work when I plug them into the right-most mini-displayport output on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card installed in the unit.
I've taken many videos with my iPhone 4, but when I uploaded them to my Macbook and try to play them in Quicktime, they only show one frame and they don't play. When I try to play with in VLC, they play but without sound and with improper orientation (portrait video is played in landscape mode).
can you help me find an equivalent clipboard management programs in OS X? I am used to how Ditto- clipboard manager (copy-paste stack) works and was unable to search for a replacement using "ditto Mac" as search terms.
A friend's father died a couple of weeks ago. He usually used the same numeric password on all devices. But not on his iPad. I can't even reproduce the password via the fingerprints. The lock time is already at 60 minutes. Is there some kind of an exploit or process at Apple which can help us to retrieve the information from the iDevice or is a full reset the only way to use it?
Works absolutely fine, and exactly how its meant to work. So I want to basically emulate that, but in a Launchd script, if possible. Thanks
After installing some RAM my macbook pro would not start, diskutil showed HDD failure. Booting in single user mode and running fsck several times to repair the disk lead to a running system.
I often use open . to open the current folder from Terminal.app. From time to time this doesn't work. The reason is that the folder in question is already open in some other Finder window on some other Space.
I have just bought a 2560 x 1440 monitor for my macbook pro. I've tried the mini DisplayPort to DVI and the mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables to connect to the display but both will only push 1080p to the monitor. Will a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable run the resolution or do I need the dual link DVI adapter?
My iPhone 4 has several apps that I use location services on. But one set of 2 apps from the same developer will not show my location. They are enabled in Location Services, and show a grey arrow to show they have requested location, but will not provide a location on their maps. I have a GPS Status app which reports at the correct location, as does google maps etc.
I'm an avid launch service (Quicksilver/Launchbar) user, and have been frequently stymied by Gatekeeper… The default "Open" actions behave like double-clicking an application package, which is insufficient for triggering the dialogue for circumventing Gatekeeper. I used to get around this by asking the respective launcher to "Reveal" the app, and then right clicked it from Finder.
I want to play my guitar via iRig through my computer with my iPhone 4. The earphones are uncomfortable, and the wires keep tangling with the guitar. I've connected my iPhone to the computer, but what do I do now?
I am working on some OpenGL development and I get to the point where I can move the mouse but nothing responds (Sometimes I can wait for a really long time). The mouse still moves just none of the apps respond. This is especially strange since I have the sandybridge with 16gbs RAM. I would like to try to go and kill an emulator I am running to fix the issue, in Linux I would do this with ctrl+alt+fx to get to a terminal and type my kill command. This doesn't appear to work in OSX, is there another option?
When iTunes is installed my iPhone does not appear as a drive in Windows Explorer. When iTunes is removed, the iPhone does appear as a drive. I use Windows 7 64bit I would like to have iTunes to backup locally and have iPhone as a drive so I can download pictures from it. How can I have both? This may or may not be related to the following error I get after installing iTunes and attaching+detaching my iPhone via USB:
I installed a Corsair GS 180 SSD (revision 5.020000) in my Macbook Pro, around this time last year. (July 2012.) I ran the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test application, and ended up with: But, a year later, the drive speed has decreased significantly: Is there anything I can do to determine what caused the slowdown, or how to combat/reverse it?
You can set up text substitutions in OS X in the Languages and Text tab of System Preferences. Is there a way to choose where the caret will appear after a text substitution takes place?
About a year ago I lost my ipod touch. It had about 40gb of songs on it, many of which had been given ratings (to aid with quickly selecting 'good' songs).
My imac bluetooth keyboard had some keys broken so I bought an anker keyboard. It's the one mentioned in this review: *=URL=* My problem with it is the same as the problem #1 in the review, the keyboard doesn't have a escape key. The place where esc should be is an empty box symbol which you can see in this image:
What does All Mail mean in mac mail? I accidentally erased a mail and then did a search for it and it came up under All mail?
My backups seem to go well backing up to my NAS however randomly after a few weeks I get the following error. Several users get this error intermittently however I have yet to find a solution. Any ideas?
I have an older macbook pro with a mini display port. Can I use a Thunderbolt display as an external monitor?
I am a member of my employer's corporate Apple account, and I am building a test app. To get it deployed, I created an "iOS App Development" certificate, after registering my device's UDID as required, and that all works fine.
I'm interested in editing a single Pages document on both a Mac and an iPad. I understand the concept of "downloading" a document from iCloud (or from anywhere). But that isn't what I want, because that would create a copy of the document, resulting in multiple versions.
This is an office environment and while we all have iPhones and would like to use Remote with the Apple TV we don't want to all use the same Home Sharing account to do so.
I have a MacBook Air where someone attempted to install this version of bash over MacOS's native one unknowingly. I attempted to fix this by removing the files created by the installer (the readme was clear about it).
I like to plug in my macbook and SSH to it from my Windows machine to take advantage of my 27" monitors, and do work in the shell and in Vim. Now i know that supposedly the machine is capable of going into Power Nap mode and still support my SSH session, and I'd like to see this for myself. It does seem like the computer is in some form of sleep mode, as moving my finger over the touchpad does not wake it up; my SSH session is indeed still active. But, the system fan is still on. I guess if it's executing commands, the CPU, RAM, SSD, i guess the whole thing has to be powered on, so that's not surprising.
To be clear im not looking for a workaround that will execute a change directory command on startup. I want to alter the $HOME env var so that tilde commands work and so that entering a 'cd' command will return me to that directory. I am sure it is possible I am just not able to find the command.
Is it possible to prevent end users from remotely wiping their iPad in Apple Profile Manager? I work at a school and I can foresee kids managing to steal each others passwords and remote wiping their iPad.
The picture above is a screenshot from Mission Control showing the desktop and full-screen apps. The problem is that I want a different arrangement. I want the order to be Safari-Desktop-iTunes. I can't drag the desktop between Safari and iTunes apps, and when I drag Safari to the left of the Desktop, it goes back to its original place. So how can I modify the place of the Desktop? (I want to use only one Desktop, I know that it is possible when other Desktops are added) By the way I'm using Mountain Lion.
My system got into a very weird state today, so I decided the best option was to restore to a new HD from a Time Machine backup. The last backup I had was from a month ago, but it restored fine. Now I have my new HD with 1-month old data, and my old HD with current data that I want to recover parts of.
When connecting to some wireless networks, the first webpage that I try to load redirects to a login screen. It becomes possible to access the internet only after logging in. I'm sure most people here are familiar with the situation.
So I had an xxxx@me.com ID for my iPod Touch and a xxxx@icloud.com ID for my iPhone. I was using both of them differently and separately. I was using the game center also separately for these 2 IDs. But recent somehow the 2 IDs are linked. I used a separate nickname for both IDs also but now somehow i cannot use the nickname for my xxxx@icloud.com and it shows that the said nickname is used by some other ID. Plus even though I log-in on my iPhone from the icloud ID, it somehow gets connected through the me.com ID. Let me know if someone can help me. Thanks in advance.
There are 7-8 different user of my Dropbox account. we are using the single account in all PC's. I want: - Certain users not to view few files. - Certain Users should not be able to edit few files. - Only few Users should be able to delete a file or can we check which user or PC deleted a specific file Please suggest if this can be done on any file sharing software or sky drive etc?
Then I discovered that I can connect to every network that has no encryption or has WEP encryption. I changed my wlan security settings in my router to "NO" and "WEP" (just for testing) and I could connect. But when I change it to WPA or WPA2 I can not connect (Yes, the password is right)..
I'm installing a django development environment on OSX. Apache is, of course, installed by default. From my (very limited) understanding of Macs, I don't believe there is preconfigured functionality for interfacing python with apache in this default install (?). So, my first step is to install this interface, mod_wsgi, and I am following this person's tutorial on how to do that. He includes these terminal commands:
I am conserned about cold-boot attacks on my full disc encrypted (filevault2) laptop. Therefore I am wondering if the memory image dump to /var/vm/sleepimage is encrypted before it is saved to disk? I notice that the suspended drive asks me for my password before unlocking so it appears this is the case, but could anyone confirm this?
I want to create a guitar video when I'm playing guitar simultaneously with a track playing. So I want to write mixture of line in and out. Is it possible in Photo Booth? By default, it writes only line-in channel.
I have a 1Gig disk that's about 3 years old. The other day it went south, with OSX telling me that it could not repair it and leaving it in read only mode. I was able to salvage everything on it.
I am considering enabling File Vault 2 on my Macbook Pro, which frequently stays at work overnight, and which I often need to log into remotely using ssh. What are the ramifications of using File Vault 2 for a machine that needs to receive ssh connections? Specifically, Will I need to stay logged into my user account overnight, or will I still be able to sign out and leave the machine at the login screen when I leave? Will I need to stay logged into my user account overnight, or will I still be able to sign out and leave the machine at the login screen when I leave?
I'm setting up an NFS server (Ubuntu) to serve files to several Macs (10.7). The way it's set up, I can log in from any Linux client and read/write over NFS exactly as expected. (I've set up ACL permissions on the server to cover multiple anonymous users and it works perfectly.)
On OS X 10.8 I deleted a user account which had Remote Login permissions. Now, in the Sharing tab of System Preferences, that user shows up as "Unknown User", and clicking the minus button won't remove it.
On the Mac I am aware of how to do a screen capture, but it creates a 72 DPI image. We need a much higher quality image because it's for printing on a color laser printer. We need to be able to print this out high-quality so it looks good on a 11 x 17 inch paper. Thanks!
I have a file with a name such as "Today's Date.txt" What I am interested in is stripping away all special characters using the terminal such as: The reason for this is because I plug these into a script later and it is too much of a headache accounting for and changing the names individually. Spaces " " and Underscores "_" and the alphabet "A-Z, a-z" are ok and so is replacing the characters rather than erasing them. At first I thought the terminal command "iconv" could help me by converting to a simpler encoding, but I tried out several of the encodings and it seems I might be mistaken.
What possible ways of reading input does an iPad have? Right now I can think of: Touch screen (multitouch I believe?) Camera
Questions: Is the display plug in the following picture indeed a Mini-DVI?
I've managed to locate numerous cases which are what I'm looking for but none are available for the Iphone 5 model. I have an adapter cord but obviously that defeats the purpose of having the device be a case.
I have an old game DVD (Chessmaster 9000) that I bought legit (I swear), and I would like to play it on my Mac Air, which has no optical drive. With another game (Civ V) I've had success data-dumping the DVD to an iso in linux, and then mounting the iso on the Mac Air. But Chessmaster 9000 is the kind of game that needs the disc in the drive to play. Having the iso mounted is not enough.
After visiting this page: *=URL=* I don't know if my MacBook Pro is suitable for CUDA developement. After About This Mac I see this:
The CPU goes up to 95%ish usage and I have to force quit Xcode. The following is in Xcode_Timestamp.hang: And in system.log:
I know that I need to pick an ip address above the 'DHCP range', and I know what this range is. But I don't know how to tell the router to assign a static ip to the iPad and get the relevant numbers to fill in on the above screen. If it makes a difference, my router is a BT home hub 3. I have very little knowledge of networking and would appreciate any help with this.
I am having a strange issue with my 2010 MBP. I recently upgraded the memory to 8GB ram and it was working fine, but now when I load it up I get 3 bleeps.
working on OS X 10.8.3, have part of what I want working, hoping for help with the rest I need help with point 4.
I have two laptops that back up via Time Machine to a Time Capsule. The shared volume on the Time Capsule contains two .sparsebundle files. Can I copy those .sparsebundle files to an external hard disk and expect them to work as Time Machine backup resources again?
Is there an apple script, automator task, shell, secret or even very small app which I can simply bind just 1 button on the remote? I'm well aware of Better Touch Tool, but it gets remote exclusivity and I want remote to work with any app. And it's a little bloated too. I also know about Remote Buddy (love their other tool), but that's just too much (a.k.a. probably bloated and eventually buggy too) and too expensive for this simple job I need.
I would like to authenticate my sibling's iTunes on his mac so he can watch movies I've bought. I know if I authenticate his iTunes I can copy a file over that I've bought and he'll be able to watch but I want to know if he can just browse my my collection from the cloud and watch what he likes. Update:
I set 20 minutes in System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver, however the screen saver starts after 5 minutes. I tried to log out and restart the mac with no success.
I run Windows 7 via Parallels 8 on my MBA running OS X10.8.4. Is there a way to configure spotlight to locate/find contacts or emails in Outlook? Spotlight finds other VM created files such as Word, Excel or PPT, but doesn't register emails or contacts within Outlook. Thoughts? Thanks- FH
I have a Macbook Pro which has a 750GB HDD. I'm currently using Bootcamp to run Win 7. If I want to upgrade the HDD to a SSD but keep my stuff from both the OS X side and the Win 7 side what are the steps to backing it up?
Are there books written for OS X (particularly the most current version) like the hundreds of thousands written for Unix? I'd like to know about the command-line utilities and the locations of system settings in text files. Unfortunately, the books you see coming out of O'Rielly have phrases like "For Dummies," "Pocket Guide," and "Learning" (shudder) in their titles.
Hi I'm new to osx and trying to resolve the netbios name of a windows machine. When I try to ping it I get the error cannot resolve hostname. When I use the command smbutil lookup %hostname% it will resolve.
The performance of the new machine is not quite what I expected. It crashes fairly frequently, and seems to page-out memory even though I installed 16GB of RAM.
I've got an iPod Touch and an iPad, both connected to iTunes on the same computer. So, they share the same iOS app library in iTunes. How can I quickly see which apps are not installed in either the iPad or iPod Touch, without having to switch back and forth between the devices, in iTunes?
As you'd expect from the name, HPN-SSH - High Performance SSH/SCP is a "high performance" patch of SSH/SCP. I've installed a newer version of OpenSSL via Homebrew (brew install openssl). I've downloaded the source code (openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz) and applied the patch (openssh-6.1p1-hpn13v14.diff.gz), compiled it, and installed it to /usr/local/. However, the default version of ssh/sshd seems to be hard-coded into the OS enough that I can't get the new version to work after editing /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist. I was getting this error: ssh_sandbox_child: sandbox_init: dlopen(/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib, 261): image not found [preauth] I found an answer here which suggested editing /usr/local/etc/sshd_config to change UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox to UsePrivilegeSeparation yes but that is apparently not recommended (for reasons I do not entirely understand). At this point I do not know what to do next. Can someone expl
How exactly does mounting an image work, does it just change the way the operating system sees the files as one file (the disk image) rather than the actual files within the disk image, until it is mounted? Therefore, no internal space is necessary for the mount operation?
My Mac keeps on crashing around 5 times a day which is very annoying. It just turns off all of a sudden and than start again... Crash log is provided below. Any idea as to what may cause this?
I moved and had to change my network. After juggling for reconfiguring my airport express station, I found out it was impossible to connect to them, even after a factory reset : they just would NOT appear in the Airport Utility 6.2 program that is meant to manage those things. However, I could see all of them appear in the bonjour browser, so there is no network issues.
I am looking for a native RSS reader for Mac OS which allows me to mark an article as read or unread explicitly by a short cut. All RSS reader I found mark an article as read immediately after viewing them. So I lose the overview which articles I have read and which not.
I have two internet connections, the one is high speed and I connect to through WiFi and the other is a slow PPPoE connection. I have a 5 gig cap for the WiFi connection and a 20 gig cap for the PPPoE connection so the idea is that I use WiFi for general internet browsing, emails etc and the PPPoE connection for torrents.
Since uTorrent to my best of knowledge doesen't support a daemon/server mode, I would like to add it to launchd to start upon login (and restart after a potential crash), but without the app window opening. Is there a way to do this?
Is it possible, in GarageBand, to start/stop the recording using the midi piano keyboard as it is, for instance with Cubase? My piano is quite far from my mac and I want to start recording from my piano. (I know about the count-down feature) PS : With cubase, you can define a key on your piano that will be used as command key.
I have the latest version of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 but can't use the new hold key to show variations option. So, when I press the n key and hold it down, it would be nice to see the two alternate ñ and ń characters.
I own a MacBook which I purchased approximately 6 years ago (I'm not sure exactly what version it is, but I can get that information if needed). It is running OS X Leopard, and I want to install Mountain Lion onto it.
I noticed this message icon show up on my menubar and I can't tell which app it belongs to. I've tried to click on the "settings" gear but it doesn't take me to anything. The icon is a square chat icon - I would upload it but I don't have enough reputation points on this site yet to do so. I'd like to: Figure out which app this icon belongs to Disallow the service/app from running on my system Remove it from my menubar. How can I do this?
I need to get files off of my mac, and SSH and RDP are both disabled. My screen is broken, and my SSD is encrypted by FileVault.
When doing maintenance on our OS X Server (10.8.4), I need to shut down all server services one by one. While it is not too much of a drag to click all services off, perform maintenance, and back on, I wonder, if there is a way to automate this procedure. Is there?
I am running a lab experiment on my Macbook Pro and I'm calculating the results of a program (physics simulation) so I need all of the available CPU I can get. Since the program that I have to run requires full access to the GPU I cannot boot in safe mode because it seems to reduce the graphics quite a bit. Things that I am doing now: Quitting all application (of course), quitting Finder, disabling all sharing services (in system preferences), plugging laptop into AC adapter, reducing screen brightness (not sure if it will help), turning off wifi/bluetooth, disabling time machine, disabling all notifications and disabling sounds. This is probably sufficient but is there something else I could do?
Are there any apps for iPad that let me construct a graphical user interface either wysiwyg or otherwise and play with it interactively (obviously without any application logic or data)? There are a couple apps that let me construct "linked mockups" where tapping a certain region on a slide takes me to another slide, but I'm looking for something more advanced that has various GUI widgets, and I am happy to do programming, as long as it is done 100% on iPad. Web app suggestions are welcome too as long as they work excellently on iPad.
When i leave my macbook alone for a day (doesn't matter if it's asleep or off), and access it after, my clock is always slow about an hour. I know this isn't an OSX issue, cause i use bootcamp too and the same thing happens there. It also doesn't matter if i'm on battery or if i'm plugging in.
From what I understand, most SSDs will run slower once there is 20% or less free space available, due to TRIM/garbage collection. However, are Apple SSDs the same way? The reason I ask is because I've seen some drives that are advertised as 256 GB but actually are 280 GB or so in size, so even if they are "full" they can still run at peak performance.
If i am on my MacBook Pro's iMessage and messaging someone that has an iPhone through iMessage will their replies and my messages show up on their phone bill. if it shows up will it be as data or as texting?
Is there a way to show only the hidden and invisible files in a directory using the command line? For instance ls -a | grep "^\." will show all the files hidden by a period as the first character, but what about files hidden with the invisible flag or listed in .hidden (mostly deprecated in practice, don't worry about that one so much.)?
What's an app that let's my control my Mac with voice commands, always on, with no keyboard and no mouse? I'm talking about an iMac mounted on a wall that is always listening for voice control commands. The only app support really needed is a web browser -- I'm not asking to control photoshop with my voice or something! But it must be a setup that never requires me to connect a keyboard or mouse, even if it crashes and needs a reboot.
Is there a way to permanently erase all the data on iCloud or some category, or once stored is the data always available on iCloud, with no option to delete permanently?
The fonts on one of our macs have become corrupted. I was able to fix most of the problem by copying across a non-corrupt version of Lucida Grande from another Mac. However, the font used to display the file extension on the icons remains corrupted. The image below shows a non-corrupted version of what I am referring to:
Inside Public folder there is a folder called "Drop Box" (I'm not talking about dropbox.com) which is used for network/sharing purpose. Since I only use the machine locally, I would like to delete that folder, but doesn't matter how many time you delete or hide it, it keeps appear again. Any tip?
When I try to delete my photos from my iphone to get more storage space (which I have run out of) it says that they will delete every where. I don't want then to be deleted from my iPad as my iPad syncs with my iPhone. Can you help please?
[Note: I'd rather tag this question nginx, but I can't as I haven't earned enough rep here. Can somebody tag it for me?]
The videos were downloaded from the iTunes store, so far I've only tried to delete them from my library and tried to put them back again, but to no avail. When I open them with another software, like WMP, they show no problem at all.
So I have these 85000 files (totally 2.5gb) that I wish to copy from my Mac to my ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] with RAIDiator 4.1.10 [1.00a043] It's a bunch of Matlab files.
Stress testing maybe considered a useful way to determine if your Mac is performing at its optimal level of performance & may also be an indicator of faults of any components within your Mac. What methods exist (ideally free if possible) to stress test to the max the following components: CPU Hard Disk Ram Thereby identifying any problem(s) that may exist & if your Mac can handle them ?
Does anyone else here really wish they could send apple programming guides to their kindle? The apple programming guides are great learning tools but they are online, and multi-page and I am not sure of the best way to get them on my kindle (for reading on the bus, or whatever). Has anyone here found a way, or can suggest a way, to send an entire programming guide to PDF?
Is it possible to put in 16 Gb ( 8 + 8 ) 1333 Mhz DDR3 in Macbook pro 15 Early 2011? As o apple website it says 8Gb max support, but I have found via Google Search, that people are using 16Gb also. Thanks
Cobook, a relatively new Mac & iPhone contacts / address book replacement, recently trashed my address book. Specifically, the iPhone app deleted every blank line in every note of every contact. The issue was mentioned in passing as fixed in version 1.1.1, but that didn't repair my address book. It's very tough to read notes with no paragraph separation.
I'm trying to figure out how to obtain my external IP (IPv4) via Terminal without connecting to a remote website or service. Here's what I've found so far - these all use remote/external checking: curl ifconfig.me curl icanhazip.com
I am trying to install xcode on my mac version : Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 But I'm having a problem, i download xcode version 4.6.2 from Appstore after i installed the app i clicked on the icon in the launchpad and it just opened and ask me to install device support so i click install and it ask for my password so i entered the pass and it wrote:
Is it possible to move a dashboard widget to a specific coordinate? I looked in google, and there's no specific answer to it. I asume that there should be some plist file somewhere with the numeric coordinates of each widget that can be programatically set using automator or something.
I deleted my most current I Tunes back-up file, it had my daughter's BDay photos from last night. I have been on the phone with an Apple agent and no luck. It seems strange to me that this file would not be in the trash bin or somehow be able to be extracted. Where could it have gone? Is there someone out there or a product that can help me locate this back up? BTW, I thought it was an older back-up so I deleted it. (the name confused me- Iphone 3 rather than Iphone 5). They are not on iCloud and I do not use Time machine, so my only hope is to recover from my iMac. Thanks
How can I change the Apple ID associated with an application downloaded from the Mac App Store? For example, when I try to update an application, it says for me to login with the account that downloaded the application. Is it possible to change the original Apple ID that was used to download the application to mine? Maybe in the Package Contents? Thanks in advanced.
Does anyone know of a way to use my macbook pro's internal microphone while using my Apple "Earpods" for sound? When I look at the Sound Prefpane without my earbuds in the internal mic option is there, but when I plug in my earbuds with microphone it goes away.
I've looked all over for this, but with "windows" being a major OS name, it's pretty hard to search for this issue. :(
This AppleScript (based on an answer in a MacWorld form) will tell me whether or not Screen Sharing is enabled: So if I run that in the AppleScript editor it returns true or false depending on the setting of Screen Sharing. If I try running it on the command line (which is what I really want) I get something like this:
If I watch a video in QuickTime Player, how I can test in my AppleScript, if this video file is on my Mac or is it streamed live from the net?
I just disabled my screensaver successfully by entering my password, then after that my machine no longer accepts keyboard input. The only thing I was able to do is change windows with option-left/right/up/down, but no other keys worked. The mouse worked.
I had serious problems from two versions of Xcode on the same machine. I removed all Xcode app instances & many other non-System 'xcode'-related files, then reinstalled the app (4.6.2), fixing my original problem. But xcodebuild and xcode-select are still not available, which I need to run PhoneGap for iOS. Within Xcode, the Preferences => Downloads => Command-line Tools item is marked "Installed", with no option to delete or re-install. I tried removing xcrun, but that didn't work. How do I fix this?
I'm looking for a windows compatible program that will change iTunes metadata. I'm interested in changing tags that iTunes doesn't let me change, such as making a little HD flag appear next to the film and changing the media kind with all options. All the programs are for Mac only, but the functionality I seek is something like Subler for PC.
I am trying to mount as CD/DVD an ISO image of Windows 8, in VMWare Fusion 5, but i cant. I dont know if this is a VMware bug.
I bought an electronic book. I downloaded the mobi version of the book. And loaded it into my kindle-macPro. Started reading it, highlighting, etc...worked great.
Recently my 15 inch Macbook Pro (mid 2010, i7) hasn't been booting normally (No drops, no spills, etc). It just hasn't been able to boot normally. The issue I'm having is it only goes as far as the apple logo, the spinning dots, The keyboard then lights up, the monitor dims and it just hangs there forever. Here is what I have tried: Resetting the PRAM Resetting the SMC Reinstalling Mountain Lion via USB stick Reinstalling Mountain Lion via Recovery Disk Removing all peripherals from macbook ports Repairing Permissions (from safe mode) Deleting all start up items.
When I'm in a phone call, I still get alerts for emails and texts. The noise will play and, if the phone is on Speaker, it will vibrate -- often leading the person I'm talking to wonder what that weird noise was.
I there any way to screenshot only external monitor screen?
I had problems with weird graphical glitches on my 2011 Macbook Pro. On service, they concluded it was a software issue, not a hardware one. I formatted my SSD and reinstalled Lion (since this is what the recovery tool gave me, even though I had Mountain Lion before). It worked for a week, but now the problems are recurring again. I managed to get a kernel panic log this time. Can anyone make sense of it?
Recall: At the end of May, Apple introduced a lower-cost iPod Touch (5th generation, mid 2013) with just 16GB of storage, in one color (silver), no hand-strap, and no iSight rear-facing camera – but the front FaceTime camera remains. So: Does this low-cost model of the iPod Touch 5th gen still ship with the iOS built-in "Camera" app, for use with the front-facing FaceTime camera that remains?
I use Launchbar Version 5.5 (1008) to start programs from the keyboard and can't figure out how to start one specific app that comes with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Build 12E55. Has anyone figured out how to launch the /System/Library/CoreServices/Wireless Diagnostic.app by assigning a custom shortcut or custom indexing rule?
The only OS installed on my MacBook is a XP pack 3. I would like to install Snow Leopard on XP but when I boot from CD , It does not work I have a "panic kernel error" any help ?
Here is my setup: macbook pro retina physically connected to 2 external monitors, and keyboard+mouse. macbook pro retina physically connected to 2 external monitors, and keyboard+mouse. 17 macbook on its own 17 macbook on its own What I want to do: I'd like to somehow use one of the external monitors connected to laptop (1) to display the screen of laptop (2).
So I noticed my Air was running very slow. Opened Activity monitor and noticed a process mdworker taking up most of the space. I googled it and it seems to be related to Spotlight.
About every few days I need to reboot my 2012 MacBook Pro Retina. I noticed these messages in the logs regarding "Journal is read-only and journal is dirty. Can not mount volume". Any need to "Verify Disk" in Disk Utilities?
Needless to say, freezing every 3 days is awful. My guess is that the issue is related to updates related to Aperture or Chrome. I'm pretty sure I've been running Chrome every time the machine has crashed. I'm also sure the machine has sometimes crashed without Aperture running. Any advice on how to troubleshoot?
I go into the System Preferences, Firewall, then Firewall Options. I can't select the "File Sharing (FTP)" entry to remove it. How can I?
I have a device (iPhone 4S) that is running iOS 7, but I was wondering: Is it possible to restore a full backup of the same device running iOS 6.1.3. I'm not worried about losing data from the iOS 7, but I would like to restore the device to its previous state under iOS 6. Is this possible?
After watching the WWDC 13' announcement of iOS 7 I wanted to download and install the beta release of the new OS using my paid developer account. I logged on to iTunesConnect and was greeted with a message telling me I would need to review and agree to the new Developer Agreement and Paid Applications agreement before I can make any app updates. Additionally, my subscription expires on JULY 19th (about 39 days from now). I don't want to (and can't afford to) renew it until it's actually close to expiring.
I have been a PC guy for 35 years. I just recently got a MacBook Pro Retina. I have well over a terabyte of MP3's on several hard drives on my Windows 7 PC. All of the files are legal rips from my vast collection of CD's. Is it possible for ITunes to play my MP3's from my Win7 PC if I share the folders? Thanks in advance!
Cannot Download There is not enough available storage to download "<APP>". You can manage your storage in Settings.
Recently had my macbook pro stolen. It's a mid 2012 model with mountain lion so it can reset the OS by just by holding ctrl and the power button. I've done it many times myself so I know all they have to do is go erase the Mac HD and then reinstall OS.
I'm just wondering if there is a solution to run Keynote on my MacBook Pro which is connected to a projector and see in the same time the presenter notes or the presenter screen on my iPad mini? I have the IR remote control for navigate between the slides but is not so helpfull because the Macbook screen is so far away, near projector and I can't see the notes on its screen even if I make them with very big fonts :)
I'm using time machine to make backups everytime. Now I'm going to bring my laptop to repair center, and there is a chance that they will replace it to me. It means that I could get back totally clean OS. Will "time machine" help me to get everything what I had before ?
Good day, Apple has just came up with this new iAds Networks workbench where you can create your own campaign for promoting your app. This button appears instead of the old one (iAds Network) in iTunes connect in the developer's main page. My question is where is the original iAds Network page from which you could track your iAds Network status (requests,imperessions, revenue etc...) ?
As a Apple developer I received an invitation to the iOS7 beta. When I logged in, the website said my developer account was expiring "soon", and I needed to renew it prior to accessing the beta program. I found this a little strange, as I have had a membership all year.
iCloud comes with free 5GB space. If I enable iCloud to backup my iPhone app (10GB+), is the app size counted as part of the 5GB space? Or only the data of apps is counted?
I've Mac 10.5.8. I've upgraded to Mac 10.6.8, using USB device. Now I'm thinking of clean installing Mac 10.6.8, using USB device. When inserting Mac 10.5.8 CD, I' getting option to format the disk. But when using Mac 10.6.8 USB device, I'm not able to format the disk. Any suggestion...?
The new MacBook Air (Jun 2013) comes with dual microphones. What's the advantage over single microphone? Anything to do with background noise cancellation?
Yesterday I upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X 10.8.4, along with it came an update of the Java JRE (version 1.6.0_45). I want to add a certain CA to the list of trusted CAs by issuing
I have an iMac 20" mid-2007 and an external 23.6" 16:9 aspect display, I would like to mirror displays keeping a 16:9 aspect on the external display, eventually stretching the image of the built-in 8:5 aspect display. Is it possible? Thanks
I first unchecked "notes" in settings, iCloud. That didn't change anything so eventually I deleted the iCloud account altogether. That didn't change anything. How do I set my phone to sync notes with Outlook on my PC and disable syncing notes over the air with iCloud?
I have an iPad 4 + WiFi + 32 GB with me and it was showing me an update to iOS 6.1.3. I haven't selected it as there are multiple issues with lock screen and battery. Today accidentally I clicked on Update. Is there any way to cancel the update?
Is there a command that I can run in Terminal which will Clean-Up By Name on all folders. It is bit of a job going into each folder and doing this.
Recently, I'm seeing the following symptom regularly on my Mac. I'll start an application such as safari or sktich and then the app bounces in the dock and is unresponsive. I have to force quit the application. This symptom is gone once I restart the mac. All the log tells me is: What could be the source of this error and how can I fix it? I have no audio running.
I'm primarily a PC/*nix user and just have a MacBook Pro for the occasional iOS dev work. Rather than clutter up my desk with multiple screens, keyboards, etc, I use my Windows box as my primary and do full screen remote connections to the other machines. Works great for the various Windows and *nix boxes I need to access. However, the Mac only allows me to connect (via VNC) at the resolution of the built-in screen. The built-in screen is pretty low res compared to my large desktop monitor on the machine I'm connecting from. Currently I can either work inside a small window, or stretch it to fit (making the pixels huge). What I'd like to do is have a remote session at the full resolution of the machine I'm connecting from. Any good solutions for this use case?
I have a lot of podcast subscriptions in iTunes that cause a long scrollbar. This is exacerbated when a subscription is expanded and available podcasts listed.
I'm trying to transfer an app to another developer, but when I click transfer the only criteria which is not checked is Master Agreement:  Where is this Master Agreement, and how can I fix this?
I have accidently "dragged" launchpad onto the launchpad icon in my dock, thus it added the launchpad icon into my launchpad, how can I remove it from my launchpad? Help appreciated!
I am trying to get the source code of SEDarwin project. TrustedBSD page related to Sedarwin(*=URL=* says that that SEDarwin project has been moved to it's own website at www.sedarwin.org.But that website appears to be down. I am particularly interested in the source code of MAC policy modules and MAC framework. Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ramkumar
Does using a larger sized photo for one's desktop hinder performance? My new desktop photo is 3MBs, does it use more resources than say a 1MB sized photo?
I got an iPod Touch 2nd-gen. (Model # MC086LL) and all the fun games I find in the App Store require iOS 4.3. Is it possible for me to upgrade it to 4.3?
i bought a new macbook pro with mountain lion preinstalled and i dont know how to put it on my older 10.6.8 Imac. There is no file for it on the macbook and says i havent bought it in the app store.
I would like to see the comments from other countries (ie. us) while leaving my appstore set to my country (Hungary) for updates. Unfortunately, there are few comments written here for apps, most of the time there are none, which isn't too helpful.
i just read this in an article *=URL=* and sure enough, on the apple website it says "offline" can occur if your Mac is not connected to wifi? Is this true?
There are 2 Thunderbolt ports, but I have 3 devices. Is there a way to attach all 3? I've read stuff about "daisy-chaining" but I don't know what it means.
I'm receiving emails that are send to me by one email address (a web server)- which I don't want - and have a reply-to field set to a users email- that I do want. I'd like to auto reply to these emails so the users' know I have received them, but the filter is sending the reply back to the originator (which is a no-reply address) and not using the reply-to field address, whee I'd like it to go. Does anyone know how to force Mac Mail to use the reply-to field when replying to a message?
I often travel using Finder in the source directories of various project (LaTeX articles, programming stuff) for which the compilation is piloted by a Makefile. I was wondering if there is a simple way (Service menu, Automator whatever) to invoke the corresponding command (make) in the good directory directoly from Finder (right-click something). I'm running OS X 10.8. Thanks by advance for your suggestions
I have some magsafe2 power cords. That's fine, but occasionally I need to loan power to an older laptop that has the magsafe1 port.
I just got a new Macbook Air and a new Airport Extreme, both of which support 802.11ac. Is there an easy way to tell if my Macbook Air is connecting to the Airport Extreme via 802.11ac? Relatedly, can I tell if I'm connecting at 5GHz band or 2.4GHz band? I've already done a speedtest, and the results are inconclusive.
I live in Korea, where the carriers offer a free and legal country unlock. You have to give them the serial number and IMEI. However, due to the language barrier, the instructions after this are not as clear. They say to insert the foreign carrier's SIM card and then simply sync with iTunes. That's it. My question is how this works exactly, and what happens if I sync before I insert the SIM card. I won't be traveling for another month, and therefore won't have a new SIM. How can I be sure the unlock works once I am abroad?
I bought a used iPhone 3G. Came with an adapter called I-Tec electronics. Will this damage my iPhone? A warning message appears when I charge it. But it does charge. Just want to know if it will damage iPhone.
I have three 23" Samsung LCD monitors, and I've had all three hooked up to my MacBook Pro, for a total of four displays. Problem is, the MacBook Pro's Retina display has totally spoiled me. The Samsungs now look terrible in comparison, so much so that I stick to the single MacBook Pro display as much as possible, until I have to go to multiple monitors for whatever task I'm working on (I'm a Java software engineer).
I'm not able to back up my main volume ("Lion DP GM") with Disk Utility. It barely starts before I get the following error: Unable to create "Lion DP GM.dmg" (Input/output error)
I am running iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2.1. The official client (version 4.3.1) crashes and tweetbot (version 2.4.2) does not work (http errors 4xx). Upgrade is not possible. Is there any way how to fix it or any other client? Note that I do not want to jail break my device. I guess that it is caused by switching off of Twitter API 1.0 http://www.sitepoint.com/rip-twitter-api-1/
I got Final Cut Pro to make translated subtitles for a short 18-minute video, but am having a lot of trouble with it. I create a bunch of Titles but seems like I have to reposition that title to the bottom of the video manually for each Title and it's very cumbersome. Am I doing it right? Thanks
I like to know when my wife's iPhone is connected to wifi (Internet). It's for good! I'm not spying or anything! She is in a place where she doesn't have celular data connection. I like to know when her iPhone is connected to Internet via wifi so that we can communicate. Is there an app/website/service for this? I'm sure it's possible somehow using AppleID. I can think of two non-optimal ways now. I can login to icloud.com using her AppleID user/pass and use Find My iPhone service to see if the phone is connected. I can send a message via iMessage and check whether the message is delivered or not.
When I log on the Guest user, the Magic Mouse settings are not as I want them to be. E.g., I would always like the right click enabled and the tracking speed set to fast, but these settings default to unwanted values. So every time after login on Guest, I must change these settings manually. Is there a way to change the defaults setting for the Magic Mouse so that every new user will get these changed defaults ?
I am trying to watch an MP4 file (saved on my PC) on my iPad 4. I've done numerous things to add the video to the iTunes library, but it doesn't seem to 'accept' the file, and hence I cannot sync it to my iPad - help please!!!
I bought an SSD for my Macbook Pro. I did a backup of my hdd disk (as I always do with Time Machine) and used the disk utility to restore that backup to my ssd disk. The restore worked perfectly, but Finder is always crashing and restarting and crashing... So I googled a lot and tried to create a second user account. There the problem does not occur. So it seems to be a account-specific problem. But how can I see where the problem is? I don't want to use the new account, because all settings and preferences are gone. The crash report: http://pastebin.com/qQjJedDD
I bought an iPod touch 4G and I'm looking forward to iOS 7... until I read on this site that it is only compatible with the iPod Touch 5G. Does that mean that I'm "Out in the woods" for security? Or does this just mean I don't get the new Airdrop, iTunes Radio, and camera filters? I don't mind that much that I don't get the new look (although if I could, it would be nice), but I just want my device to be secure.
Whenever I unlock my iPhone 5 I go to an app or text or call someone then a keyboard pops up and says apple ID password and at the bottom it says cancel or continue i always click cancel but I just got my phone so it can't be broken and this happens every time I use it
I had a jailbreak on my iPod 5 (6.1.2) but then I upgraded it to 6.1.3 and I had backed it up when it was jailbroken and when i had restored it it asked if I wanted to use a backup and I used the one I did while I was jailbroken and now I have battery percentage on my iPod 5. How can I make sure it's jailbroken or not. Thanks
Does Apple list any guidelines for how long a consumer might expect to be supported with the version of iOS that ships with Apple hardware at the time of purchase? On computer OS there seems to be a n-2 support pattern. You can buy AppleCare for 3 years of software support (in most cases) and the previous 2 versions get routine and prompt security updates along with the latest shipping OS.
I'm using the G+ app on my iPad 2 (6.1). Whenever I try to mention people in comments and type "+", the name doesn't come up (as it does in the android app) so I can select it. Even when I type the full name and send the comment, it stays black like the rest of the text and doesn't convert to a link (blue).
Does screen sharing (System Preferences > Sharing > Screen Sharing) work when the computers are on different networks? For example, if computer A is using Wifi in Texas and computer B is using Wifi in New York, will this still work?
On my mac I have two partitions, and I want to create a new one. One partition has Mountain Lion and the other has Windows 7 (through Boot-Camp). I want to create a new mac partition, and for that I want to remove about 10Gb of space from the mac partition I already have and use that space for the new one. I have searched quite a bit and I found so many different answers I can't really make up a plan on my mind, so I decided to post a question here explaining my situation in hopes of getting an answer tailored to my needs.
I'd like to know how I can see my iAd revenue in the "new" iTC layout? Two days ago there was a link in iTC (I think the label even said iAd revenue or stats), but now all I have is the new iAd Workbench. Do you know where the new page for iAd revenue is?
The text to speech service and mouse keys options are disabled already. Even I posted on apple discussions *=URL=* Please help.
We’re unable to complete your activation. This device is not registered as part of the iPhone Developer Program. If you are a member of the Program, please register your device in the iPhone Developer Program Portal. The problem is this is also what it says on iTunes so there is no way to access it from the computer.
We have a mixed shop, about 60% windows and 40% mac. The Mac users use the Windows server for sharing files with all users and for access to the internet. I would like to have a mac server for running backups of the Macs and storing Mac software. Is it possible to configure things so that the Macs are connected to both servers and using each one for the above-mentioned purposes, using the same cables? Hang one server off the other, maybe?
I have a new Macbook Air with 802.11ac, and a new Airport Extreme with 802.11ac. I'm trying to transfer a large file across my LAN (I have a network drive attached to network via wired ethernet).
I realize there is room for some hardware diagnostics to be done here. I can take the minihub out of the equation by connecting the Mini directly to the Buffalo router, and I can try different Ethernet cables. Beyond that I'm not sure what to do. What can be done at the command line or via diagnostic software to see where the request packets are going and why nothing's coming back? I'm really baffled as to why ping to a server by name works fine, but Safari doesn't--my limited understanding of TCP/IP says that if the former works, the latter should too. And why does wi-fi work fine, but a hard-wired connection straight to the router doesn't? EDIT: Here's the output of ifconfig -v with Airport active and Ethernet inactive. EDIT AGAIN: Here's the en0 section from ifconfig -v with Airport inactive and Ethernet active. EDIT #3: Here's the output from netstat -i for en0 with Airport inactive and Ethernet active.
Homebrew has been working fine for years...until today. Anyone know what's going on and/or how to fix it?
As a general rule, can you install publically released versions of iOS (earlier versions than the beta) after installing a beta release?
Switching between applications is easy with command-tab. Switching between tabs is easy with command-} or control-tab. Switching between separate windows within an application is easy with command-`.
I have an iPad mini that I'm trying to update from 6.1.3 to 7 -- however, the iPad seems to say that I'm currently on the latest version. Why does this happen? Is there something I should be doing?
I have a trivial but annoying finder bug and I'm wondering if I am the only one? If I hit command-shift-N in Finder to create a new folder it should automatically highlight the default name untitled folder ready for renaming. It works as expected in icon and list views but not column view which is really annoying because I use column view all the time. I am running OS X 10.8.4 (12E55).
I log on to my work VPN very infrequently. Whenever I do that, I have to painfully re-connect manually to all the network shares I use there. Is there a tool (preferably with a UI) that can help me with this small but persistent inconvenience? (Alternatively, is there a way to keep network shares in finder and re-connect to them with one click?)
I installed the developer preview of OS X Mavericks, & too many things broke. I can't stay on it & need to roll back to Mountain Lion. Any ways of doing that? Please help! I originally installed Mountain Lion & Mavericks through the Mac App Store.
Recently I've started using the Nike+ app on my iPhone to keep track of the distances and times when I go for a run in the park. I noticed that it has a power songs feature, which I haven't tried out as yet, I imagine it would allow me to specify particular songs that I can listen to while running. When I try to use the power songs feature, it only lists the songs that I have in iTunes, I only have a small collection of itunes songs that I would care to listen to whilst running and would prefer to find a way of using the songs that I have on Spotify instead.
I am considering purchasing a Mac Mini in a few weeks and am just wondering about the best way to wire it to a 1920x1080p Monitor as well as a 720p HDTV. I would like to put streaming video on the television (Like the Stanley Cup Playoff) which is via my web browser, I would also like to be able to surf the net on the monitor while the game is streaming on the tube. I am totally new to Mac, I have never even had an iPod so I am unsure what limitations may or may not exist. Any assistance would be wonderful Rob
I need a app that can help me work on a database with visual aid, I don't need it to be in a specific language, is only that I can see the workflow to better understand all the links between tables
For archiving purposes, I would like to copy/move all messages of a conversation in one folder, including sent messages and messages stored in different folders. I tried several things, like "Cmd+A" while one message of a conversation is selected, but nothing seems to work. Is there a way to do that?
Does anybody know how it might be possible to achieve this in finder or using terminal? or alternatively with a different app? I am using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Thanks!
I am running emacs 24.3 through the terminal on OS X 10.8.4. I would like to modify the meta-key which is currently set to be the ESC key. I have successfully changed the meta-key from ESC to option/alt however I am interested in remapping the meta-key to be the left-shift key. As I never use the left-shift key, I wouldn't mind remapping it permanently for all applications on my machine. How can I change the meta-key in emacs running from the terminal to any other key? Specifically, I would like to change the meta-key to left-shift as this would be really close to where my fingers are usually placed.
I like to keep the iTunes Mini Player in the bottom left corner of my screen, since it doesn't overlap anything else there and I can always see it. This works fine, with the following exception:
When Mac OS X tries to identify the printer it manages to send PostScript code that the printer outputs verbatim so at least some parts of the communication with printer works. If I just could avoid sending PostScript code and instead just send ordinary text.
Every time I enable a font in FontBook.app, it works well. But if I logout or restart Mac, the font is disabled again. I tried many times but it doesn't get better. For example, "Songti SC" and "STSong" are reset to be disabled once I logout or restart. Is there any solution that can fix the problem?
Corporate policy at my job requires a lockscreen passcode on iDevices with corporate email on them, even personal. Yesterday, I set my password, then 5 minutes later had to use it. When I entered it, the phone says it was wrong. I entered it the magic number of wrong times, and so began the Great Purge of 2013 (data wiped from device). I stopped this from finishing (power + home button until it shut down).
How to create a custom keyboard shortcut that launches a terminal window? e.g. when I press F7, it would launch a new terminal window no matter what application is in the foreground. Thanks
I'm from elgium. In Dutch, as probably in some other languages, you write numbers like this: 3,141592, where in English it'd be 3.141592, but the Numbers app only interprets my input as a number when I use a comma, which messes things up when I export it as a csv. How do I make it accept the . instead of the ,? My system language is already set to English.
I was wondering - is there a way to make 'cal' (a terminal program) start the week on monday? Usually it can be done with the -m flag, but this does not have any effect on the Mac. AFAIK, for freebsd you need deskutils, but I could not find any equivalent on the mac, even in homebrew. Is there a switch or alternate source for a cal tool that allows weekday start changes?
I have a 35-page academic paper in foo.pdf created using LaTeX. The full document is 950 KB.
When I put my computer to sleep the keyboard stays lit. It is a July 2012 rMBP. I always have to turn down the brightness manually which is really annoying. Does someone know how to fix this? Also when I try to turn down the brightness the symbol at first indicates that the keyboard illumination is already at zero, so I have to turn it up at first before I can turn it down.
I have a MBP with 10.8.4 and a Mac minis server with 10.8.4. I set sshd to only allow publickey and it worked.
The MBA just launch and I did a little research on the baseline 13 inches for both years: -- MBA 13' (2012): i5-3317U @ 1.7GHz (turbo: 2.6GHz); 4000 Graphics: 350MHz-1050MHz MBA 13' (2013): i5-4250U @ 1.3GHz (turbo: 2.6GHz); 5000 Graphics: 200MHz-1000MHz --
i set up my son's mini iPad with my Apple id thus i could keep track of The purchases. Now i can only download apps on his mini iPad And not on my iPad nor iPhone ;( What can I do to fin this problem?
I have my own iOS Developer account and recently I got invited to join a team. I accepted, but now I can't switch back to my personal account to develop apps for myself. Every time I log in it has the Organization set to that team.
I just installed Coda 2 but can't find how to auto-format / auto-indent the code. In Dreamweaver there is this useful function called "Apply Source Formatting" which basically removes white space and auto indents the code, I can't find how to do this in Coda. The only thing I found is a plugin called "White Out", but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks!
I have a number of open windows that belong to the same program (preview). I would like to easily and quickly flick between these open windows, but I have found this frustratingly difficult to do using Mission Control. It's fine for windows that are grouped separately, but when they are grouped together it becomes much more difficult to select a window. I know there's a keyboard shortcut to cycle between windows, but It would be nice to have them more clearly displayed in Mission Control. There's the five finger open hand swipe gesture that can be used to spread out the windows a bit, however, I find that it doesn't separate the windows sufficiently, and the gesture is temperamental in itself. Are there any modifications, work arounds, selection commands or anything that could make window selection easier? Examples of grouping:
Is it possible to see the full license (terms of use) of iOS Enterprise Developer Program before going through the whole process of enrollment to the program? I know that you can see the license during the process of enrollment to the program but this is at the end of this process, after company verification, etc. However, I would like to check some details in terms of use before going through the whole process. I was looking for this document but found nothing.
I was trying to install some stuff for scala development on my MAC, and probably I managed broke the shell/terminal while I was mindlessly running some scripts that I don't know. Now when I start the terminal it always starts with this line; And now when I try, I see some bash commands does not work, for instance grep, syslog..etc I get an error saying; Any idea what is wrong and how can I fix this
I know I can manually flush the DNS cache, e.g. with sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder.
I am asking because some of the apps that i have bought before and deleted are no longer available as free because i previously owned them in the new country, and I have to buy them again. The last thing I want is to pay for all the apps again...
Using an iPhone 4 and within Messages, a previously sent message text is stuck within the text box! Whenever I open a new message window, the text box shows with the old message text pre-populated within it and I have to delete the text and then type out my message. Even for SMS replies, the message field shows the old text always and I am having to delete it manually in order to type a new one. This is happening with iMessage ON and OFF and I have restarted the phone as well as reset it from an iTunes backup but still the issue persists. Is there away way I can erase the text permanently so that I get a blank message field when I send a new sms?
I'm trying to install nodejs on mac using homebrew, but when I run the command: I get the following error: but when I run: I get: When I run the command npm, I get: so I'm not sure whether it's actually installed or not.
I'm trying to change the icon size on my desktop. This should be easy via the view options. If finder would offer them.
I cant even close the device, as when I do it automatically restarts! The only way I found to finally close it was to plug in to my pc, put it in airplane mode and then shut it down. Like this it remains closed.
How can i stop Contacts from autoformatting phone numbers? It doesn't seem to matter which region I specify in settings it always registers phone numbers in a strange format: the first two numbers together then a space. Why can't I just manually format ?
I just recently replaced my SuperDrive with my Mac's HD and put a new SSD into HD spot. How can I download and install the OS into the new SSD and copy all my files there? The SSD is smaller in size, so I want to only copy certain things.
For example, suppose I have a directory structure such as From the command line, is there a way I can use ls (or something like it) to display all the files tagged as "Math"? EDIT: I made a tool called tfind that does this: https://github.com/tlehman/bin/blob/master/tfind
Many web apps and even websites like to prompt users to add their page to their iPad's home screen. This is particularly useful for web apps since if the website is launched from the home screen, it will appear in full screen mode (without safari bar).
I have made an Automator service that runs an Applescript with the Run Applescript module. This is the script:
Is there a way to register my prepaid sim card to the iphone 4s without using iTunes?
We have an in house iPad app that we have setup for distribution with the provisioning profile from our iOS Enterprise Developer account. Before properly signing the app with the enterprise provisioning profile (it was signed ad-hoc) I uploaded the app to Profile Manager and attempted to push it to a device that was not configured for that ad-hoc profile. When I attempted to push it the iPad displayed a message that the server wanted to install the app, it then downloaded it and gave a message that this iPad could not run this app.
I'm trying to print a web page that I've created with a custom paper size of 4.5x10.25 inches. I want the page to be printed right to the edge of the paper, with no margins at all.
I know the resolution when it's at the retina resolution of 2560x1600, but what about when it's scaled to 1680x1050?
In an update for MS Office for Mac, the installer asks to close Chrome and Safari — why?  What do those programs have to do with Microsoft Office?
I have been trying to get a new password for my I pod apple id it keeps saying message has been sent but i don't receive I have tried about 20 times please help!
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro retina (bought new in 2013). When running normally (which is usually online downloading and editing in Eclipse - nothing too heavy, often 90%+ processor idle) it runs fairly warm. To the touch it's hot in the top-left above the keyboard (where everything plugs in) and iStat gives the CPU temperature as between 50-70 degrees C (CPU Die, CPU proximity usually 2-3 degrees less). I see from various searches this seems pretty normal for MBP and shouldn't in itself damage anything. My question though is about the fans - they're always just plugging along around 2000 rpm.
I've got a really dumb question. I just got my new (to me) iPhone 4 on a plan and activated through a service provider. Yay! My iPhone was restored to a backup of my iPod so all the data and stuff transferred, and in trying to text my mom (who is on an iPhone 5), all my texts come through iMessage unless I explicitly turn it off.
I'm trying to register an old macbook in apple support profile (*=URL=* but I don't have any idea about which is the bought date. I didn't bought it in apple store, but in some paraguay shop, so, I don't even know if this date is set. Is there a way that I can use to register it via OSX, or a way to find my purchase date? Thanks in advance
How Can I know which devices connected my hotspot. Or Where I can find list of connected devices to my hotspot.
I have remote login turned on, and when I'm at home, I can access the Mac via SSH just fine, by using the local IP address. However when I try to access it when I'm not at home, using the global IP address, it always times out.
My iMac was stolen,using the find my iphone app I erased, wiped it. 2 days later I got it back. I'm trying to get it workin again.Was told to take it to a apple dealer to be fixed.The closest one is 200km away. Any help would be great.
I’d like to automatically copy the contents of a file file.a to file.a.b whenever file.a is saved by any program. The following is what I tried so far with a LaunchAgent, but it doesn’t work yet.
I'm running OSX 10.7.5 on my Mac computer (desktop, not laptop). I have just been watching some Starcraft 2 stream from Dreamhack (in flash) when I noticed my computer was getting pretty hot. I installed some temp. monitor which showed the GPU was reaching nearly 70 degree celcius. This seems like a lot.
I changed battery around 2 years ago and now it has 250 cycles and health is 93%. Since I remember it has got this trouble and a format doesn't change things. Is it normal or could it be a trouble?
I brought last year a Mac Mini 2011 (the base model with Intel 3000 HD). Yesterday I brought a Dell U2713H. I now run with two displays connected and the other displays have been reliable before adding the new monitor. 1) The monitor alone with the mac mini works 100% OK no mater the cable i use.
I am considering of buying a Mac Mini with a 1TB Fusion Drive. However I will rarely use OSX (except for iPhone application development) and will mostly be running Windows 8 through Bootcamp. In this setup, is it worth for me to spend extra 250$ on the Fusion Drive?
I have an Airport Express 1088 (about 7 years old). My Macbook with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 doesn't sees it, nor does my wife's Macbook. Strangely, my iPad and iPhone can detect it and the network traffic goes through it, and everything works smoothly. However, the Airport Utility (version 5.6) on my Macbook does not see it. Additionally, I can play music from my iPad or send the YouTube voice channel to the Airport Express, so the device works, but my Macbook still doesn't see it.
I unlocked my iPhone yesterday and backed up and restored my data using iTunes, however my apps did not come back onto my phone when I restored from backup. How do I find them on my computer in my backup, and restore them to my iPhone?
Long-time Mac user, curious why, from time to time, Mail settings just plain disappear. I only discover this when Mail suddenly can't connect. Have to input passwords again.
I am assuming they are only making the claim for 'security' sake? Let me know your two cents. I really just want to use it on my PC.
I have two partitions first is primary with os x installed and second is empty, I want to password protect this second partition so when I double click it must ask for password and then tell me read write files. I searched on internet but mostly people saying create a disk image apple encryption and you have password protected folder but I simply wants a password protected partition which ask for password who ever assess it. Please tell me is there any benefit of creating standard user account sudo command can bypass it.
I have been working on a website on a test server test.domain.com for a few weeks now. I was always able to access the .htaccess password protected site using my iPad mini as well as my iPhone or using the Simulator. .htaccess used:
I'm looking for a way to listen to podcasts at 2x on my iPod classic. I know this is not supported out of the box.
Have iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1 Trying to update to 6.1.2 (not the latest) via downloaded IPSW but unfortunately getting error: iphone could not be restored device isn't eligible for the requested build After searching for fix all over the internet found some suggestion like putting # in hosts file in line gs.apple.com but not helped. Have you any idea why I'm getting this error and can't restore iphone?
iPhoto has lost 40 years of valuable pictures! We are devastated. I have bought recovery software, re-built everything, searched and wept. If anyone knows how to get the photos back, even the small ones from thumbnails, I would really appreciate it.
I have been trying for weeks now to delete a game and all of its data and every time I do this and install the game again it comes back with the previous data. I want to delete the game and start again as a new customer with no pre-existing data. Although it says it will remove the game and all of the data when trying to delete it does not. Is there a way to permanently delete the data when I delete the game from the iPad and iPhone?
I'm creating a symbolic link with the following applescript: The symbolic link is created but when I try to execute ant -version from a terminal window, I get a permission denied error. How can I create this link so that I DO have permission to execute it later?
If I tap and hold on the "I" green box, I will copy the "I" and the email address and some other info that looks like this: but I really just want the email address. The use case is kind of complicated - sometimes people email me and I need to forward them another email from my phone, so I just want to copy their email address so I can paste it into the other forwarded email.
I had an old mac that I decided to strip down for its hard-drive and RAM. I threw a shell on the hard-drive, and now I can connect it to my new mac with a USB cable.
So I have my MBP Late 2011 setup with Dual SSD's in a RAID 0 Configuration. Since this is a software RAID, I don't have a functioning Recovery HD and I need to erase the Mac and get back to a stable version of Mountain Lion. What steps do I need to take to get back to a point where I can install Mountain Lion?
I have two physical harddrives in my Mac. One is an SSD with the OS and apps. The other is a 1TB HDD for media. Can I setup time machine to backup both drives to time capsule?
I was wanting to know if i could use my laptop as a keyboard, i am wanting to plug a device into my laptop's USB port and send keystrokes from the keyboard out of the USB port, the connected device would be things such as: raspberry pi, arduino, servers. The program will be similar to a keylogger, I do have programing knowledge, please give me advice on how to make this project possible, or tell me if a solution has already been found. Thanks
The "say" command in OSX Terminal works fine for me and I use it now end then. However, since last week it produces the following error message on my Mac Mini (Late 2012, 10.8.4): The sound is produced as expected, so no big drama, but I'd like to know if somebody else suffers from the same problem or if that error has something to do with my specific setup here... and, of course, what this message means.
It started today and happened twice, my iPhone turns itself off even battery has 15%-17% charge, I can't open it, empty battery sign appears when I plug it in to charge, it begins to charge from 15%-17%, I couldn't find the reason, it has the latest iOS update, what could it be?
When I go to settings, iMessage does not show up under anything and I cannot access iMessage settings straight from the iMessage icon.
I was forced to restart MacBook Pro when a kernel panic happened about 2 hours ago... Since then my computer would just stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo every time I tried to reboot it. Some useful log appeared when I tried to boot it in Safe Mode and single user mode:
I am using Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro and have Windows 7 installed. Unfortunately, due to the changing nature of my work, I need to switch to full time Windows, and encrypt my laptop. I'm going to delete my OSX partition, leaving only my Windows 7 partition, and install Truecrypt, but I get the message saying that the first 32 kB of my system drive needs to be free in order to use TrueCrypt.
I do NOT want to sync all my bookmarks across all my devices via iCloud, etc. Far too many bookmarks on my Mac that don't need to be on iPad, etc.
I have an iPhone which had an exchange account as the default for mail. That account was inactivated on the Exchange side. Without realizing that, I tried sharing photos by email.
While using the phone it randomly shuts down. And when I turn it back on battery drains by about 3 or 4 percent. Could this be a battery problem or a sign to another major problem? So the only way I use my phone nowadays is while its plugged in. Battery also drains like hell. While using 3G battery goes from 100 to 50 in an hour. Are the random shut downs related to the excessive battery drain? Just last month I changed my battery IC beacause it displayed the " charging is not supported with this accesory" warning.
Today I lost my iPhone and because of that I proceeded to unregister it from Apple as *=URL=* indirectly suggests. What does it really mean to unregister a product?
I like the autocorrect feature, but sometimes I want to revert to the word I typed. If i backspace to the word, I see an overlay with the word as I typed it, but can't figure how to revert to it without using the mouse. Any suggestion?
I want to upgrade my RAM of Macbook Pro Early 2011 15 inch. On apple website it says to use 1333 Mhz, unfortunately I cant find it in my local market , they are offereing 1666 Mhz of 8GB and saying that it is backward compatible. Can I use 1666Mhz in my Mac? Thanks
Is it possible to create an Automator service to convert one file type into another file type using the right click contextual menu (eg JPEG, PDF, PNG, TIFF) without the need to install a dedicated app to accomplish the desired file conversion.
I have an iPad 3 that I bought while I was in India on which I have apps that I have purchased with an Indian credit card. When I came back to Singapore, I removed the Indian credit card information and added my Singapore card. I also updated my address to Singapore. Now, the Singapore store does not have say for example, the Kindle app but the change in card or address did not remove any of my apps from the device. I bought an iPad mini yesterday, logged in with the same Apple id but I am not able to install the Kindle app since it is not available in the Singapore store.
I am giving my 5yr old an iPad of his own. I'm happy to buy and share apps with him but how do I keep our text messages and emails separate?
I've seen this option in one Ubuntu machine and I want to replicate it in my mac: Hold a Key for 2 second to activate it.
I have a bunch of photos that I have recovered from a corrupted hard drive and I need some way to sort them because all of my personal photos are mixed in with the operating system and application photos. I can't sort by file type because they are all of the same file type (png's or jpeg's) the only distinction between the images is just the image itself. Is there any software out there that can look at the image data alone.
Somehow I created a second Desktop Folder and icon within my Home Folder. One Desktop has the word original following it, the second has a different icon. Can any suggest how this happened and can I get rid of one of them?
I'm trying to use applescript to clean up various problems a large address book, to large to fix by hand. I've been able to find and observe contacts and groups in AppleScript successfully. However, any sort of modifications I make to any property of a contact do not persist, even after calling Application save. For instance, this script to change the first name of my first contact: This script doesn't work - it does not modify my first contact, and also logs "not unsaved".
I want to use a photo from my computer and put it on my instagram account. The problem is that when I go to choose the picture, its not shown in the list of images in the /DCIM/100APPLE folder. I believe the issue is that it doesn't have all of the meta data about how the picture was taken so the software doesn't show it. Someone has said that you need iTunes to do anything on your phone but I'm running linux and iTunes isn't available for my operating system.
I'm thinking of replacing my home router (an older D-Link box) with the latest gen Airport Express base station. I currently have an older Airport Express unit (like this) that I want to use in another part of the house to extend the network, but not sure if the latest Express units can be extended... Or do I need to get the Airport Extreme to function as the base?
This is really annoying. I have a brand new Seagate 3TB 7200 RPM hard drive that I am trying to format/partition in Disk Utility. Every time I change any settings or erase the drive, it changes it to a Logical Volume Group and subsequently changes the partition to a Logical Partition. Then I have to use Disk Utility in terminal and manually erase it.
I have this command to create a temporary collection of selected log files – sudo tar -czf $TMPDIR/archive\ of\ install.log\ and\ system.log\ files\ only.tgz --options='compression-level=9' /private/var/log/*install* /private/var/log/*system* && sudo chmod 666 $TMPDIR/archive\ of\ install.log\ and\ system.log\ files\ only.tgz && open $TMPDIR – but it's usable only if the user at the command line is an administrator. A Pacifist view of an archive produced by that command:
Although my voice memos app shows no memos, when I connect my iPhone to my Mac and browse to On This iPhone > Voice Memos in iTunes, every voice memo I’ve recorded for the last three years is there (even ones recorded on my previous iPhone). I tried removing my entire music collection from my iPhone, but they survived. How do I delete them? Update: Whatever this bug was, it doesn't seem to be present any longer with iOS 8.
Can I use bootcamp to partition my HDD and install another instance of OSX? I want to run a test instance to try out untrusted software. The boot camp assistant seems to insist on installing an instance of windows.
I'm trying to brew weechat, which has p11-kit as a dependency. I tried force linking autoconf
I am writing a book and trying to add a service to provide syntax highlighting to text selected in Pages with Automator. I have a service accepts selected text and runs it through a shell command (pygmentize) which converts it to syntax highlighted RTF.
I need to get my default audio output to outputs 3/4 of my audio interface. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I need Soundflower (and will it even work)?
I was temporarily changing the name of a folder before moving it. The name I randomly chose was "._". The folder immediately disappeared and Finder would not allow me to undo the operation. (I know; bad convention, but it was going to be temporary, so didn't think it would be an issue.)
It's apparently "offline" - it's standard practice to turn a phone off straight after stealing it, according to the police. I gave the police my Apple logon details, and I'm hoping the crims are dumb enough to turn it back on at some point.
I've been fiddling with my new Haswell macbook air (with Mountain Lion), and there's a difference between the "energy saver" settings on my macbook vs my 2011 iMac. On my iMac, there's a "Computer Sleep" as well as a "Display Sleep" setting, but the macbook air only has "Display sleep":
Some websites that have sound/music keep the sound running even after the web browser is closed on iPad. Some other websites stop the sound when the page is closed. I suppose there must be some coding within the HTML to control this. How is this done?
When executing an application I receive the following error: It appears that this library file relates to X11, which I have installed (i.e. XQuartz), however it is located at /usr/X11/lib/.
In Keynote you can create custom themes that show up in the Keynote theme chooser. Apple's (newer) themes support all 16:9 resolutions (like 1920x1080) but also all 4:3 resolutions (like 1024x768). BUT... if I create a custom theme at a resolution of 1920x1080 and save it, the theme chooser will only give me options of resolutions with a 16:9 aspect ratio, no 4:3 resolutions. So there's a 1920x1080 option and a 1280x720 option BUT there's no option for 1024x768 or 800x600. Same goes the other way around. How do I create a custom theme that supports ALL resolutions/aspect ratios, like Apple's own themes?
I recently replaced the ribbon cable which connects the top case assembly on my macbook pro 4,1 (early 2008). My keyboard is now working but unfortunately the fans are reving up to 6000 rpms and staying there. after a visit to the apple store i've discovered it's due to a faulty palm rest heat sensor. surprisingly, the genius at apple failed to inform me that this particular heat sensor is actually part of the cable i replaced. now i could go buy another cable, but seeing as these run $80 a pop i thought wouldn't it be nifty if i could tell my mac to simply ignore the faulty sensor and just rely on the 13 others which are working fine. presumably this is a function of the SMC, but can it be changed?
I do a lot of work on Virtual Machines, and have several scripts to help me configure them quickly. I could fully automate spinning up a headless VM, except that I need to know the IP of my host machine for configuring VNC stuff. I use either of the following two commands to get the current IP address:
I'm looking for recommendations for software to use to run companion slides and visual effects on a projector screen at a public event. Ideally, I'd like something that can: Show titles/slides full-screen on an externally connected display Show movies full-screen on demand
Yet again it happened. I forgot to update my macports and I'm wasting hours... How can I automatically run
Name of the command (in french) : " Vérrouillage Touche Commande ". Method : Applescript Context : Finder
as the titles states I'm curious about the maximum supported RAM per Bank on a MacBookPro8,2. I know the total supported capacity is 16GB but can this be achieved with just one DIMM leaving the other bank empty?
I have this directory /foo/bar/. Inside, I have a python file named myfile.py. I made it executable by adding (at the top): Then, I made it executable by issuing I edited my path by issuing I added /foo/bar/ to it.
I'm trying to download the wwdc videos using curl .. however, my mac goes onto sleep mode after an hour. Can I resume the half-completed downloads or do I have to re-start?
Little Snitch can block internet traffic of a particular app. Can I do something similar without (paying) Little Snitch, either by using free alternatives or configuring the OS X firewall directly?
My iPhone was stolen this morning. I've had the SIM, but not the IMEI blocked.
I just got a new macbook pro, and I want to swap out the internal hard disk with an SSD. My machine did not come with install media, so I was planning on trying to make some based on the recovery partition.
iPad setup Exchange sync. I create a draft email, then go to the draft folder and its there. I then go back to the inbox on the iPad and after it syncs, I go back to the drafts folder and it loads up drafts from 2000-2013 but does not contain my most recent draft. If I go to inbox and back to drafts a few times then it will display my draft again minus the drafts from 2000-2013. I then bounce back and forth a few times and it will go back to the original draft again but never display them at the same time.
I have a macbook 5,1 that won't startup. I'm going to reinstall Snow Leopard with the CD, but is there a way to export some of the files that are in it? I can't seem to gain access to them through the terminal in the SL CD: cd Desktop outputs No such file or directory and pwd outputs var/root if I cd ~/ then ls, there is only a Library folder, and no Users folder etc.
So, I'm using a brand new Mac Book Pro with Bootcamp and Windows 7 and I have at giant 27" thunderbolt display. The problem I'm having is at the office I take my laptop with me to meetings. Upon returning, when I plug the monitor in (as I did with previous monitors) this one will not turn back on. I am required to restart Windows each time which is, well, unacceptable.
Can I find where an alias was pointing to, if the file is deleted?
I have a 17" MacBook Pro and occasionally need to design software that's optimized for smaller resolutions. Some of them I can work with by setting my display's resolution to the target system's, but there are a few resolutions (1400x900, for example) that aren't supported on my machine. Is there a utility that will display a rectangle on the screen that will show me what the resolution would be for smaller displays? BTW, I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion). Thanks, Chuck
I'm able to change the terminal prefix with PS1="[\\W]$". However, whenever I restart the terminal or open a new instance, it reverts to the default. How can I make this change permanent? Thanks! Here's the content of ~/.profile file:
I currently use Picasa on OSX to sort and edit my photos. Then I upload to Facebook, Flickr, and Tumblr. I tag people on Facebook and Flickr separately; and I add locations separately; I add dates. I write captions in Picasa, then I have to reenter them in each social media site. It's a tedious, redundant process.
I used Migration Assistant / Setup Assistant to copy everything from an old Mac to a new one, both running 10.8.4. My VPN connection uses the built-in OpenVPN client, via the Network pane in System Preferences. The VPN worked before the migration, but after migration it just spins on "Connecting..." for a while before reporting:
I installed the recent version of clang (to /usr/local/). How do I set up Xcode to use this and not the built-in version of clang?
Can one earn affiliate commission through the iTunes Affiliate Program for purchases made through Apple's Volume Purchase Programs for Business or Education? In case it makes a difference, we're based in the U.S., so we would be using the LinkShare-powered program.
I recently upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8, and noticed a behavior change in Mail.app. Previously, in 10.7, I told it not to save the password to my IMAP account, so every time I quit and restarted I was prompted for it. Then as long as Mail.app was running, it was cached in memory until the next time I quite.
I have medical records within Windows software within a DMG disk image. How can I convert the DMG to an ISO format on Mac OS X? Is it possible to do it within Disk Utility or CLI easily, or do I need an external utility?
I'm using OS X 10.8.4 on a Mac Mini with 2.3 GHz Core i5 and 8 GB RAM. For security reason I have to lock my computer to screensaver while I leave my seat for a while. I set it up so that password login is required to dismiss screensaver.
I am running Little Snitch in demo mode:  After a few hours, how can I tell whether Little Snitch is running or stopped? From the official website: Free Evaluation License
Just bought the new MacBook Air, 13" and the new AirPort Extreme Base Station. I am curious as to how I get the max connection? Option + Click on my WiFi shows I am connected only using "n" and on the 2.4Ghz frequency. Why would it not be on "ac" and 5Ghz?
The duplicate (linked above) as it has been pointed out shows a whole bunch of lines which I do not understand. I'm pretty new to working with Terminal, so that is probably the reason why I don't grasp it. I just cannot imagine that every time I want to tar a directory I need this bunch only to achieve not getting duplicates.
This webpage is not available The webpage at *=URL=* might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 120 (net::ERR_SOCKS_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error. If I add another entry in /etc/hosts: In bash:
How to uninstall TrueCrypt 7.1a from my Mac cleanly? The instruction on TrueCrypt website is Windows-only.
I have a quite large zip file with archived documents and I want to add a new file into it. How to do it quick and easy? The archive is quite large, so extract+add+compress+delete is not preffered option.
Sometimes when editing images, creating websites, using Adobe software, my Retina Macbook Pro, seems to get very, very hot. Not just on the bottom but on the top by the screen as well. To be more specific, I own a 2013 15" Retina Macbook Pro with a 2.4 Ghz i7.
Over the last week, my SSH connection to an Amazon EC2 instance keeps getting disconnected with Write failed: Broken pipe Reading through a few sites, I assumed it was due to no timeouts being set so I created a ~/.ssh/config file as follows based on *=URL=* *=URL=* http://www.ericmichaelstone.com/?p=5852
I've been using an internal website at work without any issues until today when I received the error message: "Safari can't open the page "*=URL=* The error is: "The server "..." did not accept the certificate." (NSURLErrorDomain:-1205)
Is it possible to use a thunderbolt -> hdmi and usb -> hdmi adapter to drive two external monitors (non-thunderbolt) with the new macbook air? If not, has anyone had success with any other options?
In the latest version of the iOS Gmail app released on June 4, they added a feature that allows users to choose to only receive notifications for "Important"/"Priority" emails. This option is only available to users that are using the "Important first" inbox or "Priority Inbox" in the web version of Gmail.
I am unable to get full screen brightness on my 13" MacBook Pro when booted to Windows 8 Professional. As a result, I can't use my machine outside unless I'm booted to OS X. I checked all the power settings in Windows and everything's already set to 100%. Is there a workaround for this?
I want to copy all files in ~/Desktop with the extension .jpeg to my flash drive. How can I do this in the terminal?
OS X 10.8.4 (although this started in 10.8.3). When running Software Update GUI (that switches to App Store), it shows no updates, although some are available (e.g. Java when this was posted originally, or Security Update or Airport Utility later). Running returns and then installs the update. I tried cleaning the Software Update cache, it didn't help. Any ideas what may be going on and how to fix it? Edit: the same problem with Security Update 2013-03and currently with a new update that is available -- Airport Utility.
When I go into System Prefs > Bluetooth and hold the Option key to display the reception, I see that it is the strongest when it's next to my Mac and not when it's next to the dongle. So what can I do to change that? Thanks!
I have a small program in C that I wanted to add a GUI to, so after looking around I decided to use GTK+. I installed gtk2 using MacPorts (version installed was gtk2 @2.24.18_1+x11). I am compiling my program with There are no errors during compilation, but when I run it, after some amount of time I will get random errors appearing such as: It looks to me like these errors are caused by a bug in Gtk/Gdk/XQuartz, is there any easy way to fix this? I am running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4, XCode 4.6.2, and XQuartz 2.7.4 (xorg-server 1.13.0).
I got a new Mac Book Pro, (not retina) and the battery indicator is only showing 98%. Is this something of concern? I have found this: *=URL=* Sit and watch it constantly, this will take some hours, it will charge to 100% from time to time, usually just a little less (like 98, or 96) in order to protect the battery from overcharging.
Is there a guide to extending a mac mini by adding several mac minis together to add cpu and memory capacity?
I'm considering purchasing a new Macbook Air, and one of my main goals would be to maximize battery life. If I upgrade the standard processor (from 1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 to 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7) or RAM (from 4GB SDRAM to 8GB SDRAM), by how much should I expect battery life to be reduced? Would it be only when using all of the RAM / processor power?
When I tried to install a free app, AppStore says: Verification Required Before you can make purchases, you must tap Continue to sign in, then verify your payment info.
When I press some email-link on Safari, it goes to mail app. How can you make it go to Gmail app?
I have a folder that I know I've made aliases of, but I need to find where those are. Is there a way to list all the aliases that point to this folder?
I bought a new hard drive for my 2011 MacBook Pro and did the following steps: Backup using Time Machine Replaced the hard drive Put in a Snow Leopard DVD (10.6 from ~2009) Booted holding down the c key I can hear the DVD spinn for a while but I never get past the Apple logo in the boot, no error message. Why isn't it working?
I need a PDF reading app for my 2nd generation iPod touch. I downloaded Adobe Reader, Cloud Readers, iBooks and PDF Reader iPhone edition from the App Store, but all of them require iOS 5. Please suggest the best PDF reading app for iOS 4.2.1, or suggest some steps to upgrade to iOS 5.
I have recently used the terminal and entered the command sudo -s and then dscl . -list /users so I could see all accounts/users who have access to my mac.
Chrome & Firefox works fine but when i open Safari it says "Safari can't connect to the server". I have tried to change the DNS and i searched all over google but i couldnt find anything regarding this item.
I am using a Hazel (Noodlesoft) rule with Python script. Using the "Passes Shell script" option. Placing the path to my python install /usr/local/bin/python (my python install v. 2.7.3) in the shell box. Correctly goes to plack if it finds it and red if it cannot find it. Using the simplest script
Space behaves differently in Mountain Lion. In Lion, I have four spaces and I can launch an app (say, Safari) in a particular Space (say, Space 3). How can I do that in Mountain Lion?
I need to copy a video file from my Macbook to my Iphone 4. The Iphone is not synced to this Macbook but to my home computer, but I'm away from home, and I don't want to sync it to the Macbook because it will wipe everything else in the phone.
Background I have a MacBook Pro running 10.8.3. I have one external monitor plugged in, and the MacBook is largely stationary because it is a work computer.
I was using my MacBook today when suddenly the backlight turned off, right while I was in the middle of using it. I know it was the backlight because: I have an external display, which remained on, and I could still see my desktop (so the computer hadn't turned off) The windows that were on the internal display didn't move over to the external display, meaning that the internal display itself was still on, but just not illuminated
I know it was (and still is) possible to configure the earlier Airport Extreme and Airport Express stations to forward syslog events to an external server. The trick is to use AirPort Utility 5.6.1
I've had this issue come up about four times now on my 15" retina Macbook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.8.4. The trackpad will no longer click — neither right nor left click works. Regardless of whether I tap the pad or press the physical click mechanism.
When apple people interact with people who use MS word, is the only way to do this by purchasing Office for the Mac or can pages make do? I believe pages can output to a format that is word friendly correct?
I am going to reformat my external drive and start a new time machine session. At this point, my concern is my own computer and whether it has an virus or not. Any suggestion is appreciated.
Is there a way to send group messages on the iPhone without an app? And without individually choosing the contact in the group?
I'm using a program that uses the F4 key as an important shortcut which I use heavily. Every time I want to press F4 on my MacBook Pro also have to press the fn button.
I have a question similar to this, but instead of focusing on Mail.app, I am wondering if there is any mail application that can do that. Ideally, I can tag contacts/emails with different email accounts. For example, I would tag my friends' contacts with my personal email account, and coworkers with my work email account. When I compose an email and put my friends' email in the recipient field, the mail application should automatically set the correct outgoing account for me, or warn me when I press Send.
I fell for the tarp. In an attempt to fix an installation issue with Python and Pygame I read something stupid online telling me to delete this file and that file to completely get rid of python on my machine so I could install it. One of the files was Library/Frameworks/Python and the other was System/Library/Frameworks/Python. Obviously when I tried to reinstall Python it wouldn't let me. So now the real dilemma. I'm even more of an idiot because I've never had any kind of backups. I don't have an external to save backups to anyways so I just never did it. Now I find myself unable to do anything with Python anymore and I can't restore from a backup because I'm stupid. So is there any way I can get python reinstalled again without completely restoring my computer and losing everything I have?
I want to setup my FileVault in Retina MacBook Pro 13. Will it reduce lifetime of my SSD a lot?
I'm not sure what happened but now when I boot up my Mac I get this message that pops up every time: "The Java class file "myClass.class" could not be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages." This class file is part of a larger program I'm developing. I checked the console and found the message with sender [0x0-0x1b01b].com.apple.JarLauncher and the message says java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: .... I failed to find the Jar Launcher or anything Java related in /Library/StartupItems and ~/Library/StartupItems but that's all I thought to do. Any ideas on why I'm getting this message and what to do to get rid of it?
I can't access my Iphoto libraries from my hard drive. Every time I go to open the IPhoto file in the hard drive the error pops up as follows: "You can't open Iphoto Back up because it is in Time Machine" and when I try to open Iphoto with the Hard Drive plugged in the following error pops up:
I can't find an installer to reinstall Safari 6.0.5. In this answer I found a route to download and install a developer build of Safari 6.1, but that also fails to launch with the same error.
I tried to download a replacement for a corrupted Dropbox app, but the Apple store says I already own Dropbox and won't download another copy. How can I replace the Dropbox app which is defective?
We have a system so that when some actions are performed on a file, the file is first duplicated with "_original" appended to the extension. So, photo.jpg would become photo.jpg_original as the backup copy and then photo.jpg is used for whatever purposes. This duplication is an intended functionality.
I have the iphone 5 ios 6 and I have two backups on there and it tells me I need to delete one of my backups. Would this delete my stuff already on my device even if it says that it will delete all backup data from icloud?
How do I upgrade Safari on the Mac? Is there one web page to always get the current version? Or are there instructions somewhere for how to manually update Safari (assuming auto update is not enabled)
If some person tells me how to have a nice portable Firefox on my Mac, this person will have my eternal gratitude.
I really want to reset the iPhone camera roll to photo IMG_0001.jpg. I have tried to do it with Image Capure, iExplorer and PhoneView, but any of them did not work at all. Is there a way to clear previous history saved on iPhone (when I take picture, my camera roll starts with IMG_0002.jpg) and to make camera roll to be reset without needing to erase all content and settings?
I'd like a better way to control iTunes, Rdio and other audio applications on my computer with my media keys. Ideally, this app would allow me to say that the default media keys will always operate one app and specify modifier keys for other applications (Such as ⌘+▶ to play/pause Rdio). Alfred allows me to control these apps with text strings, but I'm specifically looking for a way to use my media keys for quick pauses or skips.
I have MacBook Pro mid 2010 model. I have tried to reset the SMC by holding shift+ctrl+alt+power. It happens in OSX and in Win7 (Bootcamp). The outside temperature in the past few days is around 33C which is a lot more than usual (summer is here:).. but still it's weird because this could only affect Mac running a bit hotter and not fan speeds being higher at some given temperature. Sensor being faulty or fan being clogged up also can't be a reason.. only thing I see that could cause this is some fault in the controlling logic but SMC reset should have taken care of this...
I set up an Automator Service that receives selected text and then runs a simple shell script to pass the text to open google translate: It opens google translate just fine, but doesn't pass the text along with it. How can I fix? google translate service
I ripped and tagged using EAC and Musicbrainz Picard, and the tagging and naming is in the style of a multi-disc set. i.e.: 8-02 The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends.m4a
I'm considering getting a Macbook Pro with retina display, but I can't seem to figure out if DevonThink Pro Office, which I use for my research, will support the retina display. Since it is a program which primarily processes text I will be very disappointed if it doesn't display properly.
This has been happening for quite a while (since before I upgraded to 10.8, I think), although I'm running 10.8.4 currently; I'm on an iMac from 2012. Every once in a while Finder will freeze up for no readily-identifiable reason. You can click in open windows, but if you change the folder you're looking at it won't display the files. Open File dialogs in programs don't work, either, they just display the Favorites along the left side, and maybe a directory path, but you can't select anything. More often than not, either immediately or eventually you'll get the spinning beach ball of death. I haven't found anything in the Console, but maybe I don't know what to look for.
I don't have notes sync to any email account, I don't have iPhone backup. I deleted a very important note, and I would like it back. (I am using standard "Notes" app that is pre-instilled on iOS) Is there a option to recover the note on iPhone (iOS 6.1.3) iPhone: 4S-16 gb Is there any way to recover the deleted note?
The macbook was turned of around 10:22PM. At 12:00:09 sharp it boots up on its own. This happens every night even though the user turns off the machine at around 10PM every night.
The problem is - high pitched noisy tiny sound that u can hear only using more or less quality headphones. I use yamaha rh-5ma. And it's not the problem of headphones because I have different ones (sennheiser 555) and I can test in with different players like iphone or whatever. You won't hear this sound connecting standard iphone's earphones because the problem I hear is too faint for Apple's headphones to reproduce since they are lower quality than my preferred headphones.
I still have the old Mac and its old iTunes library. I would try to reimport the iTunes library, but I've added a bunch of content to the new iTunes library before I tried to sync with my iPhone. Moving to iTunes 11 on the new Mac is not an option. I'd rather take the time to rebuild the sync lists rather than do that.
I have some FLAC files I want to convert to AAC, but I can't because my go-to program, Max, throws an exception (The call to ExtAudioFileSetProperty failed.) when it tries to convert 24-bit/96 kHz FLAC (16-bit is no problem) to any other format. So is there another good program for converting from FLAC?
I was looking an older post (*=URL=* and I tried the code that the user Arne Stenström posted. It works perfectly but the output is a list of the users uid. I'm trying to get the RealNames too in order to have a list with the uid and the RealName at the output.
In Finder, I had a ton of files selected, and I ran Get Info instead of Show Inspector. This opens an info window for each file, instead of a single multiple info window. How can I close every info window without restarting Finder ?
I found a file AnonymousIdentifier_AD7E5BED-EF7F-59A7-856F-6984BE798469.plist in my /Library/Application Reporter/CrashReporter folder. The content of that plist included a dictionary with key AnonHostUUID2 and a long hexadecimal string value. What would create this file, and why?
I prefer a fast tracking speed for mouse on my MacBook.  However, this setting is only good for the logged in user. When I logged out, the mouse is slow again.
Is it a kind of UPC Barcode or something else and what are it's uses?
I have a 250 GB hard drive in my MacBook Pro, I used to have a 70 GB BootCamp partition installed, leaving the Mac partition to 180 GB. Now I no longer need to have BootCamp, so I deleted it using a Ubuntu live CD. The reason I did it this way was because after upgrading to Mavericks, OS X no longer recognised my BootCamp partition for some reason.
I have an MTS file recorded from my Lumix GX1. Before I reinstalled OSX 10.8 I could play these videos fine in VLC, however now they're in black and white (not greyscale, just black or white).
I noticed my Time Machine is trying to backup 137G of data into my Time Capsule... I thought Time Machine suppose to do increments.. How is this increment when I only have 137G worth of data on my hard drive? before TM was always trying to backup gigs of data even when there was not that much change on my computer... What can I do to troubleshoot this?
This is my fourth download, Net speed 12MBPS and everytime its stuck at this place. How can fix this. I am running Mountain Lion on 128GB SSD, 8GB Ram with Mid 2010 model.
Is there any way to recover the data off of my 1TB hard drive once it has been erased? From my mac I just selected that external drive and clicked on erase and both the partions are gone now :( PS: I havn't copied anything on it.
I'm running OSX 10.8.4 and I would like to add a factor of 10 to the default shmmax and shmall values. My /etc/sysctl.conf contains the following settings: However when I reboot and run sysctl -a | grep kern.sysv.shm I see that the values are not being set: It seems the only way to be sure these are set is to run sysctl like so: However I would like to automatically set these values on reboot if possible. Am I missing some configuration step? Also - Not sure if this matters, but I have installed postgres via homebrew.
I noticed that the svn cli fails to validate https certificates and always ask for manual validation using the certificate fingerprint: All the following clients were able to validate the certificate of my own svn server as well as that of an sf.net server: svn cli on Linux TortoiseSVN on Windows Safari/Firefox/Chrome on OSX The two svn cli versions which I tried on OSX (Mountain Lion) and failed to validate the certificates are: /usr/bin/svn: 1.6.18 (r1303927) - Mountain Lion/Xcode /opt/homebrew/bin/svn: 1.7.9 (r1462340) - Compiled using homebrew Is there any way around this problem?
I'd like to keep two separate groups of employees connected via a videoconference device on the cheap. I'd like to have two tablets at the two locations, and either a) have them always be connected via a videoconference feed, or b) allow either tablet to call the other at any time and establish a feed without requiring the other tablet to manually accept the connection. Is there a way to do this using things like skype, google+ hangouts, cisco jabber, etc?
I don't know if this problem is specific to Quicksilver or a general problem with modal windows. I use QS to launch an applescript:
How do I tell OS X to not write logs to the local volume, but in stead to write them to a remote share? I'm troubleshooting a intermittent issue on a late 2012 Mac Mini server where the internal RAID appears to just "goes away."
I have A ipod 5. Every time I go to charge it with a dynex or apple charger it doesn't charge. The bar stays red for over an hour. I'm thinking that I have a short in my charger. I don't know what to do. Please help?
i talked with my technician and i went by his shop so he could check the battery. well, the battery is completely fine. of course, with the extra drainage, it may have aged its life cycle, but it still has more than 50% life left in it. my technician suggested i keep an eye on the activity monitor when the fan gets going hard (which it always does) and the only thing showing high CPU usage is google chrome, which shows variable percentages from 20% to 65%, and then a whole bunch of little % — not sure if each refers to a page opened. my technician said "get rid of chrome" but i really like using it (i used to run mostly safari until their last update but they changed some preferences and i hate what they took out so i switched to chrome). so before i do so, is there anything else i should try?
I wanna submit my app to the mac app store. Mac App Store is asking for the screenshot of the dimensions 1280x800, 1440x900, 2880x1800 or 2560x1600. My samsung display does not support this dimensions. If I take the screenshot using Grab and scale it to the 1280x800 dimension it is not looking great. What is the correct way to take the screen for the MAS submission? PS: My Samsung Supported dimensions: 640x480,720x576,800x600,1024x576,1024x768,1280x960,1344x756,1344x1008,1600x900
I know it's possible to have an Airport Express create a wireless network by connecting it to my router (through enthernet cable). But can it act as AirPlay at the same time?
I was installing Windows 7 using bootcamp on my iMac machine and accidentally deleted the main OS X partition while doing that. So now I when I start the machine I see only an option to choose windows during startup. I had another drive within my OS X which I am unable to view now from my Windows machine when I go to the Disk Management. Is there a way I could access that drive?
I am system admin for my department I have recently updated all machines to Mountain lion and I am now getting reports of connection problems , the users lose their connection to the internet yet i can use ARD to successfully connect to the machine. We have done trace routes using terminal successfully.
Airfoil, connects nicely to my speakers and the 3 macs + pads/phones in the studio connect nicely to it but what about wirelessly sharing the projector? is there anything (NOT an apple tv) which can connect my projector (has only hdmi/vga/composite) to the rest of the network?
I'm planning to swap out my early 2011 MBP's drive for a larger capacity one. I'm running Mac OS 10.7.5. I have available a 1 TB external USB-connected drive that I'm using for Time Machine backups. I also have a SATA-to-USB adapter. I'm pretty sure I have a compatible OS X install disk that I could boot from.
this is what pops up when i click the email link. "We are unable to activate your Apple Developer Program membership. We have received your purchase information and will email you shortly to verify additional details." what do i do? will it still charge my card?
After the notification disappears, I want to be able to make it appear again through AppleScript.
Can people without an Apple developers account try the beta versions of iOS 7?
I have used handbrake once successfully, to rip my first season of Boardwalk Empire to my Mac. But now any time after that first successful try, it gives me images like this: where it is all pixelated and the fading between scenes is very jagged-y. What is happening now?
I've got an early 2009 macbook pro, and I accidentally broke the white plastic mechanism underneath the S button. They are labeled 130 and 140 in the picture.
what will you choose , iAd or AdMob ? and what is the reason behind ?
I'm using Apple Mail on my MAC, switched notifications on (working). Connected account is hosted by Google so I'm using labels feature very offten (Mailbox in Apple Mail). However, if I move incomming message into specific label (without getting into Inbox), I'm receiving no notification. Point is that as developer, I'm using extra label (mailbox) for server errors and would be really fine to have any notification on it, or better, special (more annoying) one.
I could get a Macbook Air (A1369, Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, 4GB Ram) with a broken Logicboard very cheap and i have the idea to replace it with a A1369 1.7 GHz i5, 4GB Ram Logicboard (could get it also cheap) So, I'm wondering how I would tell if the working i5 logic board would fit in the other chassis and work with the parts there?
I accidentally deleted my "contacts" App on my iPhone. How can I get the app back?
I'd like to get the same folder view for every folder, that means, to have my stuff being sorted always by type and then by name. is that possible with automator?
I am considering buying a Thunderbolt to Gigabit adapter to save my MBA power consumption as I can shutdown the Wifi, assume it use a lot of power. Anyone tried before and it works? How many % of power can be saved? e.g. increase the battery life by how many %?
How could I use AppleScript code to close the window named "About this Mac" (A propos de ce Mac in French). I need an AppleScript for this because I use Dragon Dictate 3 commands. I am handicapped and I don't manage to use any keyboard or mouse. Only Voice and edited commands.
I am trying to use the "Per-user screen sharing" feature in Mac OS X Lion. This is different from regular screen sharing in that it allows you to log in to your account on the Mac remotely without disturbing a different user who is already logged on. What what I can tell from experimentation, to use per-user screen sharing you must disable the 'VNC viewers may control screen with password' option.
So, a while ago I backed up a couple of different Macs to my Linux-based fileserver. As a network Time Machine, each Mac has a separate sparsebundle file containing all of its information. I've since changed Macs and formatted various drives since then, so the original installations for the backups are no longer available.
I want to add the sublime lib to my path but it has a space in it. I have tried the obvious like you would navigate in the terminal ( e.g. /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents) But I still get the error
I use the program Alfred2, unfortunately it keeps trying to steal the keyboard shortcut CMD+SHIFT+\. How do I stop it from doing so? It conflicts with other apps such as Aperture.
I am restoring Lion on my MacBook before selling it and I am doing it through the Internet Recovery option. After starting the process, the Internet connection went down a couple of times and, after this happening, the blue progress bar jumped to the end, so I don't know the exact percentage.
My MacBook came with Lion preinstalled, now I am selling the machine and I've read that it is possible to transfer the OS license once if the OS came preinstalled on the computer. Is there something specific that I need to do or will the license transfer complete when the new user logs in with their Apple ID?
... has recently taken a turn for the worse. Constant beach-balls, and after an hour's browsing, that damned Safari Web Content is running between 2 and 3GB, between real and virtual. If I leave tabs sit, Safari says it must force reload all pages. A little memory-freer app helps release some "Inactive Memory," run frequently, but doesn't seem like a real answer.
Safari, Mail. What on earth? Occasionally, Mail can't connect, so I go into Preferences .. and every time, a password has just plain disappeared. Or I'll go thru Safari Preferences and discover, under Privacy, that "Block Cookies From Third Parties," the first checkbox, has been mysteriously checked ... but I use Cookie (cookie manager and more) so I always check "Never."
I have a presentation in Keynote that has some audio files interleaved with the slides. In composition mode, the audio icon is viewable, no doubt to allow me to click on the item and be able to manipulate it as necessary, but in presentation mode, it disappears.
To install Riak on OSX, Basho recommends to change the files limit on the system: Open File Limit. But before doing that, I want to know the impact of changing that on the system. Should I expect slowing the system? More RAM usage?
I'd like to run OS X Server, but not the website portion of it, as I'm using something else for that. I'm trying to run SiriProxy, which must run on port 443, but that is currently in use even though web services are turned off. When I visit 127.0.0.1:443, I get the "web service is currently turned off" message. How do I completely turn off web services and allow another process to listen on 443?
See Handbrake CPU usage... What's wrong with my activity monitor?
Actually not only keychain, but any other apps that request it in any way. The problem first appeared when Adium asked me about untrusted certificates, I selected "Always trust" in system "view certificate" window, and it hung. Then I killed adium, and since then no app can access keychain. After killing any hung app we can see the following stacktrace:
I just backed up my iPad 1st Gen into iTunes on my MacBook Pro, but I need to make sure all my apps have been transferred. How can I check this?
I'd like to set up an AirPort express connected to a HiFi as an airplay receiver, acting as a device on a wireless network. At some point in the future, I'd like to extend my wired network to the location of the airport, place the airport on the wired network, continue to use the airport as an airplay device but also use it as an access point for the wireless network. Will both of these situations work as described?
This is what happens: I switch to an application (app 1) so it is active/in front.
Suppose I navigate to System Preferences and make a simple change (say I turn off BlueTooth). Is it logged somewhere in the syslog? In other words, is there a log file somewhere on the file system that keeps track of what was written to the System Preferences plist file? The main reason I am asking this question is because I would like to know when certain things were set in the System Preferences.
We're having this problem with a Mac Pro running OSX 10.8.4 and 6 monitors with dual graphic cards+Triplehead. The ⌘Tab window does not show and it doesn't switch applications. I temporarily solved this using this guide by removing com.apple.finder.plist from Library/Preferences, but only for a minute before it reverted to not working again. Any idea how to permanently solve this issue?
I would really like to use Chrome on my new 2013 Macbook Air with tabs, but without the menu bar. So, I use full-screen mode, but it hides the tabs. Is what I want possible? And, if so, how can I get it to work that way?
I used to enable TRIM using 3rd party software, and I had to do it all the time Apple released a minor upgrade. Recently I installed OS X 10.8.3 on a SSD and when I was ready to install the SSD in a new MBP, 10.8.4 came out. I installed the SSD in the laptop and upgraded to 10.8.4. To my surprise TRIM was enabled.
Not that i know what it is but would like to fix it anyway! My Console shows this...but to my knowledge my MBA 10.8.4 is working fine ? 6/23/13 11:35:31.952 AM System Preferences[3575]: * WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead. Honestly, I had to Google the word deprecated first to know what it means. Deprecation is a status applied to a computer software feature, characteristic, or practice indicating it should be avoided, typically because of being superseded. OK, so how do I fix that problem.
Suddenly my contact searching stopped working. If I write any letter (on search bar) in order to find out the specific contact(which I saved on phonebook with the same letter starting with) doesn't find the matching. [But, interesting thing is that, it's been working with only newly saved contact for some days.]
Say your download of 17gb application is interrupted and can't continue since you are out of space. Knowing the application name, where can you look to find parts of what has already been downloaded so you can remove it?
I've looked around a bit, but can't find anybody saying whether there is room in the new slim iMac for an extra internal SSD. I used this tutorial about a year ago to add an additional SSD to my Mid 2010 iMac and would like to do it with my new one. Since the iMac ships with Fusion Drive as an option, might there be a second bay and connector (or at least space for them) inside the chassis? Is there any documentation showing whether the 2012 iMacs have room for multiple drives?
If I have an app on the app store and I want to update it, does it need to go through the approval process again every time I update it?
In Finder > Select a folder > Right click, we get a popup with an option to create a new folder:  Is there a way to add menu item New Textfile for adding a new text file?
I'm trying to get Dashcode to run in order to make a dashboard widget to surprise my friend. The app opens but crashes almost instantly (even in safe mode and Mavericks). The console yields the following errors:
I have seen a lot of questions & answers on adding your own text message to the login window, but not any on adding a user input text field. I have a vague idea of how this might work (which could be totally wrong), but here is what I think:
OSX 10.8. Pretty simple. Right now when I open a file through Finder, if the filetype is set to be open by application Y, oftentimes OSX finds a space that has an open window of Y, and sends the file into that window in that space. What I want though is, when I open the file, I want a new window for that file, and in the same space.
The color grey eg,#f9f9f9 or other light color greys do not show on my mac book pro 2011. I have turned off the automatic graphic switching, and have also tried switching graphics cards around "Intel Graphics 3000" & "AMD Radeon 6490mb" using GFX Card Staus, but this has no effect.
Note: I am on a Macbook Pro 2012 with standard keyboard, so currently, f10 is mute, f11 lower, f12 raise volume. They work fine when I'm not using airport. SOLUTION github.com/alberti42/iTunes-Volume-Control This created assigned cmd - volume key to iTunes so I can control the iTunes volume with very little effort!
I upgraded my macbook RAM, but after that when I switched on my MAC it showed my "Service Battery" indicator in battery menu. I installed Battery Health application and it showed following stats.
Im having an old 2008 time capsule to store the backups of my system. Im planning to buy the new 2013 time capsule soon but need to know if it supports the following:
My question is simple, but I think, it's impossible. When more than one banner in Notification Center are rises, previous of them are ends and show last banner only. It would be nice if banners shows as a badges. I think we can't to change this, isn't it?
Some more info about the MacBook: Model: Intel Macbook3.1 (13-inch late 2007) Current OS: OSX Leopard 10.5.8 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 64 bit architecture RAM: 1GB
I no longer have access to the email address associated with my Apple ID, so I'll need to create a new one pretty soon. All possible ways to recover my current Apple ID have been exhausted, so that isn't the issue. I'm wondering if I transfer purchased songs to a zip drive or burn them onto a CD, will I then be able to transfer them back to iTunes but not as purchased content and therefore be able to play them with my new ID? I'm not very technology savvy, so I hope this isn't a dumb question.
I just recently install my Windows 8 in the bootcamp (version 5.0.5033).I try to adjust the brightness but still remain very bright and also adjust in the bootcamp control panel but also same. The brightness is so bright until my eye cannot open. Please help.
I currently have a 2008 Mac Pro with 2 Radeon HD 2600 XT video boards, each of which is driving two monitors. This setup performs acceptably, though I wouldn't be averse to faster GPUs. However, the machine periodically crashes (sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes goes for days without doing so, with no discernible pattern) with a large amount of GPU debug mode error messages in the system log. As far as I can tell, this is likely caused by either some driver bug which remains or one of the video boards is failing. This has been going on for quite some time, and while I've reported it to Apple, I don't have high hopes of it being fixed in software anytime soon. So my question is this - what new video boards can I put in this machine that will still get me four DVI monitor hookups?
I can sync notes when I am connected directly to the internet but not via our corporate lan. Our network has http/https open but most other ports are blocked. Which ports does the OS X Notes app use for syncing so that I can request for them to be opened?
I barely used my computer, yet I noticed that Time Machine transferred 2.7G worth of data.. immediately after I ran following: Why did it say 2.7G then??
I want to automate the execution of a long-running job. It should be launched once per day but only if the prior job isn't still running. Can I accomplish this with launchd and how?
Is there a way to run a program on OS X (e.g., from the command line) but without letting it see the network? I can turn off and disconnect all networking, but then all my other processes will be disconnected, too. I'd like to keep my email, web browser, etc., able to use the network, but this one program isolated.
I've let my MacBook's battery go far too long past its life because it lives at a desk and never moves. It's a MacBook Pro 4,1. On MacBook Pro 3, i was always able to boot without battery, but this one will not boot after SMC reset with or without battery installed.
With my iPhone 5, I've been finding that I keep having to unlock the SIM code every time I update the iOS from one minor release to the next. While this isn't a problem, as I've memorized the code, it is rather annoying. Is there any way to change this behavior, so that I don't have to keep worrying about this?
I found a script on this site which I edited to make work with Mountain Lion, I thought. It works fine from Automator, but when I save as a service and assign a keystroke to it, it does not. Any help would be appreciated!
I've got my Time Machine volume (direct attached, USB) corrupted by accidentally flicking the switch while it's running. Now neither Disk Utility nor fsck_hfs can repair the drive.
I read years ago when they introduced wireless syncing with iTunes, that they would backup my phone every time I would charge my phone wirelessly. I waited years and to this day this still doesn't work properly. It seems to want to backup randomly. I charge my phone every night, but my latest backup is always more than a week ago. How do I fix this?
The laptop used to only boot up if it had sat for a longtime. If you turn it off and try to restart it wouldn't chime and it would just be a black screen.
[Edit: I originally mentioned PS2 in the title but that's a red herring really. This problem seems to exist for anyone wanting to modify an ISO image on OS X. See for example this old discussion of the same problem.]
I am running Windows 8 and OS X Lion using Bootcamp, and ran into an issue where OS X is no longer bootable (empty gray progress bar on startup). Googling this error led me to believe it could be any number of things, but regardless it seems the best (least painful) way to solve it is to reinstall OS X. I am able to run the Windows 8 partition with no problem, and thought I could backup my important files from OS X to an external hard drive and then use the Recovery partition to reinstall OS X.
I have a problem with Mac OS. I copied new font file to /Library/Fonts folder. I want to use that font without rebooting or logging off the system. Is there a way to add a font without restarting my Mac? Thanks.
I know how to enable WebGL in Safari (8.0.7) for OS X (10.10.4) and I am able to visualize and interact with WebGL based content, however I'm concerned that it is disabled by default, given that the browser can actually support it. Is there a reason (perhaps stability, or security) that WebGL is disabled by default in Safari?
I have a second display at work, and when i plug it in i use a thunderbolt to vga adapter, however it always uses the wrong refresh rate 90hz instead of 60hz, is there a way to stop this from happening? As its getting annoying when i use my secondary display at work and it moves my windows then the other screen appears blank.
I've read some other topics about not needed firewall for iPad's, but I'm searching the other way of security or (more important) to help my budget. I need firewall that has incoming/outcoming rules for every app. Rules should be remembered and asked only once, but easily to change. Good would be having profiles which I could switch when needed.
I am thinking of using AirServer or Reflector app to mirror my iphone 5 on to my Mac , which sounds easy , but want to use the same Bluetooth keyboard and mouse(apple ones) paired with Mac , to use for text and writing mails or answering calls on iphone Is that possible?
I have seen users that drag their screen to AppleTV on WiFi for presentations and such. I want to be able to do this but can't find the software. I ask and they say it is built in.
I recently purchased Apple wired USB keyboard with Numeric Keypad for my Mac Mini (best decision I ever made, keyboard is freaking awesome with two USB ports on its sides!).
This is more of an annoyance than anything...I have a MacBook Pro (latest Retina 15") and a Mac mini (latest model) both running Mac OS 10.8.4 and whenever I connect to my company's wifi network, I get prompted with a 'Verify Certficate' warning message. is there a way to permanently trust the newtork to avoid that warning? There's an option to show the certificate which prompts with checkbox to 'always trust' and I have it selected, but whenever I connect I get the same message. Is there something that I can do to avoid the warning message?
I would like to use Quicksilver to insert a given text in the active window at the current cursor location. Is this possible?
How can I boot Ubuntu-12.04 LTS on Mac Mini Lion Server (early 2011) with no CD reader?
Activity monitor allows users to see the cpu usage on a per-core basis (for multicore machines, e.g. my MacBook Pro). Is there a way to find the percent usage of each core/processor via the command line?
I am liking the app because it shows gmail conversations in a space efficient format, and its email search actually works. Also the ability to keep lists of stuff inside of my email is pretty cool.
I've succeeded in remapping the windows and alt keys to option and command, respectively, via the Keyboard pane in System Preferences, but switching the control and fn keys isn't possible that way. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
I just tried to print something in Pages and got this:  The printer was paused, and I was asked to resume it, but this? Why? Pages 4.3 on OS X 10.8.4.
a company put some spyware on a brand new laptop that is causing the battery life to be about half that of a 3-year old Macbook Pro. I need to disable this junkware/spyware temporarily. Is there a good way to do that? What is it (Tanium) recording anyway? Cheers.
I'm using vmWare Fusion 5.0.3 on Mac OS X, and the guest OS is also Mac OS X. The problem: I can't set the guest OS display resolution to a reasonable value. "Reasonable" here means anything that will fit on my MacBook Air's 1440x900 screen. Right now it's using 1680x1050. I can get (a) a window that fits the 1680x1050 guest display but which is bigger than my physical display, or (b) a window that fits my display but scales down the 1680x1050 to a painfully small size so that it all fits. If I go to full screen I also get 1680x1050 scaled to fit the screen. I tried resizing the window, but that just changes the window size and scaling-- I still get 1680x1050 on the guest OS. I'm not too picky as to size, but I want something that actually fits on my screen.
I purchased Mountain Lion through the App Store on my 10.7.5 MacBook Pro. The download completed and I clicked through the prompts to choose an install location and agree to the terms. I'm sorry to say I'm not sure what happened next as I shifted my attention to another computer. I assumed the install process was running. However, when I looked back at my MBP, I was back on the desktop with no sign of activity. (It's conceivable that I clicked "cancel" by mistake -- I'm kind of tired/distracted/trying to juggle several things at once today.) I went back to the App Store, looked under "purchases," and found Mountain Lion labelled as "downloaded" (as I would expect). How can I restart the installation?
Can anyone identify this menu bar icon?  Every minute or so, it quickly appears and disappears in my menu bar, just for a few seconds.
EDIT: I found a quasi-solution that sort of kind of works: It appears (via "find /mnt/mountpoint/") that all my data is there, but attempts to access some of my data yields an "input/output error". I had an external 2 or 3 TB (I'm not sure which) USB drive connected to my Mac (running OS X Snow Leopard) with an HFS+ journaled filesystem on it. The drive was working fine, but was a bit slow and occasionally gave I/O errors, so I backed up my files and ran fsck_hfs on it.
Every morning, I connect my MacBook to my company network with the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter:  Then open the Terminal to add routes in order to access intranet servers: Is there a way that triggered by a new network interface (with a certain name) is added, then auto run the above route add commands?
I'm setting up Time Machine backups on a new external hard disk. I chose to first encrypt the disk via Disk Utility: But I also see these options:
I don't like to keep pictures on my small Macbook Air SSD nor on my iPhone, so I am wondering is there a way to upload iPhone pictures directly to my Flickr account without having to import them on my hard drive, and by doing so automatically removing the pictures from my phone to save space? I tried to do it with iPhoto, but it looks like it always has to import those pictures on my hard drive... Thanks!
I have to use a Windows PC at work, but I often bring my MacBook Air so I can get work done that is hard or inefficient to perform on Windows. I am not allowed to connect my Mac to the corporate network, so when I do something on the Mac and want to copy from the Mac and paste into an app on the Windows laptop, there's no easy way. No network clipboard manager I've ever seen I had seen at the time I wrote this question works when your two machines are not on the same network. (Obviously both machines are connected to the internet, however.)
My biggest problem is: cmd ⌘K (Connect to Server…) just doesn't work (neither does it exist in the "Go" menu in Finder). When I hit cmd ⌘K in Finder it just gives me an error beep (sounds more like a "boup"). I want to connect to a Windows network and it works fine on my 10.8 iMac at work (with cmd ⌘K and then typing the correct adress) but doesn't on my home MacBook white with 10.6.8 running. Why does cmd ⌘K not work here? Though on both machines the VPN connection works fine. How do I get the option to connect to a server via cmd ⌘K back? Next thing I tried was connecting via command line with mount -t smbfs //username:password@server\folder and mount -t smbfs //username:password@server/folder. Both didn't seem to work, just gave me the message: Can you help me to get connected to the server?
Edit 3: Thanks to @koivo I learned that < is called an angle bracket. I did some googling and found only one unanswered question asked at a different forum (ars technica). I have also tried all sorts of key combinations, but no luck so far.
I'm a web developer on a Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) and was wondering if there is a (free) alternative to Overlay2 - basically it's an app that lets you create a floating window with a semi-transparent image on it that you can use for direct reference - I plan on using it to match my output code to what the designer had in mind, pixel by pixel. I often just move between tabs real fast but the position isn't the same and my eyes can only be that precise. I just don't want to have to pay $25 for such a simple functionality.
I have the following problem, I registered a file extension to be opened by a Mac Application by clicking on the file in Finder and selecting to always use the target application to open the files. So far it works, BUT it doesn't work with >open filename.ext as it will say: Clearly open works differently than Finder. If possible I would prefer a command line solution.
Under System Preferences / Users & Groups / Login Items I can see all of the items that I've selected to launch at startup, but the folder, Library/StartUpItems is empty. Where can I see these items?
I'm looking for a way to lock the screen positions of the various windows I have open. I've tried the "Stay" app and the "Disktility" app. The former worked sporadically and the latter kept crashing. I'd just like a quick way to save the position of open windows, be able to move them around, and then have a quick way to restore them to their original saved positions.
I would like to know where is the folder of temporary files in system. For example, in Windows is the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configuración local\Temp
How can i know if an antivirus is installed on the system? I can get all apps that are installed in the system, but i dont know get their categories. Thanks for all. Best regards!
I use Livemocha but it does not work with iPhone due to the lack of Flash. Which apps are good to learn pronunciation and articulation of foreign language?
When I tried booting into recovery mode (Cmd ⌘ + R) during boot up, there's a field asking for a password. I do not know this password.
An externally-powered WD My Book Essential, 3TB, which I use for Time Machine and other file storage, recently began "ejecting itself" from my iMac. In an attempt to repair the disk from Disk Utility, I came across these logs:
I recently made a full backup of my iPhone 4S to my computer. I was having some issues with it so I when into DFU mode and did a clean install.
That is with everything wired, and airport on the laptop and the old Time Capsule turned off. I am sharing the old Time Capsule hard drive on the WAN, which is wired to the new Time Capsule LAN. That laptop is on the new Time Capsule LAN.
Man, what do i do? This happened I don't have money in the account but my relative gave me some money but it's in USD and I am in India. When I change my apple id country it says "give billing option".
If so, can you give examples? What I'm looking for is any apps that let third-parties write code or modules/"mini apps" for extended functionality that a user can install/execute from within the app.
I just installed two Airport Express routers in a restaurant to improve their wifi coverage. The first device (AE1) is connected to the restaurant's DSL router via ethernet, and the second device (AE2) extends the network created by AE1 via wireless. This is set up and working perfectly.
When I use ls, I get the following message. ls: .afpDeleted38045157: No such file or directory My svn fails in this directory with svn: E070008: Can't read directory 'current path': Partial results are valid but processing is incomplete Apparently, these .afpDeleted files are some form of deleted files that are still open according to http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2004/Jun/msg01271.html
On our network we have 2 network drives both with a folder named 'Shared', //driveA/Shared and //driveB/Shared. When someone connects to //driveA/Shared, then connects to //driveB/Shared, the //driveB/Shared folder overwrites the //driveA/Shared folder, because they are both named Shared. Even though it looks like both are connected, it can not find files from //driveA/Shared. So people can not have both folders open at the same time. I tried manually mounting them with:
EDIT I found a solution, but it doesn't solve everything. First, the CDR format that Utility Disk creates is not usable as it is, you need to convert it to ISO and then to DMG, using the following command: If you then burn the DMG file into the correct drive
The Mac Developer program is advertised as including access to Pre-Release Software (which right now means betas of Mavericks). Once Mavericks is released, will everyone with a Mac Developer account get a free copy/upgrade to the released version (including all future Mavericks updates)? Or will it be necessary for developers to also purchase Mavericks itself to be able to use the normal version?
I have a mid-2011 27" iMac with i7 processor. It came with 4 gigs of ram (2x2GB). I just bought 2x8GB of matched memory. I am wondering two things 1. is it good/bad/neutral to leave in the existing memory and add the 2x8 into the remaining two slots? 2. If you say it doesn't matter if it shows up as 20GB installed, but will only use 16GB of it, then should I put those 2x8 in the upper slots (the ones the factory 2x2 are presently occupying) and either leave out the 2x2 or put them in the bottom 2 slots. IOW does it use the upper two slots first during processing? Where can I find a speed test to see what difference it all makes?
On my iPhone, I gave it to another person who used it and added contacts. Later I turned off the calendar, contacts, ets. (he didn't have the password) but some of his contacts disappeared. Can I recover them?
The reason is trivial: I am a fan of the "Word of the Day" screen saver and I would like to add dictionaries for languages other than English and Japanese (these are the two that I can select now in screen saver options). How can I do it?
What is the best torrent client for OSX ? utorrent, Transmission, Vuze or .... ?
I need to clone an audio CD, including the defined pauses between tracks. Under Linux, cdrdao would do the trick for me, but I cannot get the version from MacPorts to work — it will not read from my SuperDrive. Could someone please tell me how to clone a CD with a MacBook Pro under Mountain Lion?
Is there any way to disable the "Click the lock to make changes" needing a password, or is there a way to permanently unlock all settings in Mountain Lion? More specifically I'm turning the Network Link Conditioner ( to simulate slow connections ) on and off frequently from its system preferences pane and it needs a password each time and it's getting annoying. I'm comfortable with the security issues this presents if I could revert to the default behavior at some point. Edit I'd just like to point out that in the time it takes to think up a sarcastic reply to an answer ( but ultimately not send because you're too polite ), the lock locks itself automatically.
I have installed Xode downloading the DMG (not from the Mac App Store). Now each time I run brew doctor it says:
I have an iphone 4s i just restored it and am running at 6.1.3 (latest version) I backed up my phone before the restore and have restored from the correct backup. I now have two problems:
Two middle school daughters with new iPads (had to purchase for school). I will keep my AppleID on them for apps and music but want to create their own iCloud accounts for their photos, school work etc. How do I create a new account?
I connected an external HP ZR2440 screen via HDMI to a MacBook Pro Retina. Especially text seems not as sharp as with other (window) laptops. I found the color profile settings and found the default setting to be "HD 709-A". Switching to other profiles like Color-LCD looks better for text but worse for pictures.
This question is directly relevant to my failing attempts to upgrade the RAM in a Late 2009 White Unibody MacBook (MacBook6,1) to 8GB, and the question may be better asked in that context. It is widely referenced (most authoritatively on everymac.com) that this model can support 8GB (despite Apple saying the max is 4GB), but in the "System Information: Hardware Overview" screenshots of every successful upgrade, the Boot ROM Version is shown as MB61.00C8.B02 while mine is at MB61.00C8.B00. While it's possible that I got bad RAM, I'm wondering if the earlier firmware version doesn't support 8GB. I did find one other person on a forum with the B00 firmware having the same problem I am ("3 beeps and won't boot with the RAM installed"), but no resolution; he did RMA his RAM at least once. Apple doesn't show any firmware updates at all for the MacBook6,1 model, so there's nothing official for me to try and re-flash. Has anyone managed to get 8GB working under B00, or upgrade it to B02?
In our office, we use Dropbox business as a cloud; All of our files exist on a Mac Mini Server we use inside the office as a local repository for all of our Dropbox files. We then have Dropbox sync all of the files to and from the server. From there all of our macs selective sync files from Dropbox.
Probably this is a very easy thing to do, but as handicapped as I am using Apple's iWork applications, I just can't find it. I have made a calculation in Numbers which results for example in 14,25 or 16,5. All I want to do is to have this output formatted in hours like 14:15 or 16:30.
I'm a newbie with Mac's, so I have a quick question. Just got a new Macbook Pro with a SSD, and been reading some things about SSD lifespan and enabling TRIM. In my system properties I have the following: TRIM Support: Yes Seems to me in everything I've read that this means TRIM support is enabled by default and that I do not need to do anything additional to enable this.
When I am using Apple Mail, it insists on downloading the full body and attachment 100.000+ email I have on gmail, which eats up my hard drive, and makes the interactive search function annoyingly slow. Is there any way to make Mail only create indexes for Subject/From fields, and keep all the actual mail content remotely? Possibly, it could cache "new" mail locally (from the last week or so), but to cache the full body of every single mail from years ago is just insane with the amount of mail one has these days.
I recently moved from Linux to Mac, and am missing a two pane file manager. I was thinking about along the lines of midnight commander, krusader (Linux) or total commander (Windows). I installed midnight commander and am using it, but a GUI file manager would sometimes be handy. Any suggestions for Open Source alternatives?
In short, I have an audio file that is too large for iTunes Match (This item is not eligible for iCloud), but I'd still like to listen to it on my phone. In days past I was still able to drag the track to my iPhone in the sidebar, but that feature now seems to be disabled.
I'm using Mountain Lion and defined a service to add a reminder. My problem: It adds it in the wrong Reminders list. I can find a preference anywhere to set the default Reminders list - Reminders (doesn't have preferences), Calendar, System Preferences. I must have set it under Lion to one list, but now I want to changed it. The most common suggestion was that it's the list at the top of the "list list" - but that doesn't work for me. So how do I change the default Reminders list in Mountain Lion?
If I subscribe to several iOS in-app subscriptions, such as magazine app subscriptions on my iPad, then how can I later show a list of all my in-app subscriptions?
I've found instructions on how to auto mount an SMB share, but they either involve adding the share to the login items (I'm using a laptop and that gives me an error when I'm not in the same network as the SMB share), or adding my login and password into the fstab or auto_master file (if I change my password, as I should, I have to go reconfiguring the system). My user and password are stored in the keychain, and I only want the system to mount the share when I'm in the same network. I'm lazy and I want this to happen automatically. Is it possible?
I wanted to download these Stanford and MIT lectures. Unfortunately, they are all privatized by iMac. Do you see that all download links bring to itunes.com site? BTW, why are all the best world universities are subsumed by Apple? I have installed the iTunes, but I still do not see the Download button. All it does is play online. Here is how the iTunes download page looks like
I have a mid-2011 Macbook Air. Sometime in the recent past, the Function key row (which I used for volume control, brightness control, keyboard backlight control, etc) has stopped working.
I accidentally maximized the Force Quit dialoge on my Mac and I am looking for a way to restore it to its original size other than manually resizing it. I would like it to be have exact dimensions as before. Is there such a way to do that, for example, with preference files or defaults?
During starting up, I always get "fsck not done Root device is mounted read-only..." error. When I type "Exit", it continues starts normally.
I am using my early 2011 MacBook Pro for iOS development, Photoshop work, and the like, and it is at times quite sluggish. Is there a tool that I can just run for a day, and then look at the statistics it produces to identify the performance bottleneck? I am considering either buying more RAM (I have 8 currently, would get 16) or an SSD (I currently have the stock HDD).
It turns out none of my photos on my iPhone 4S (ios 6.1.3) are geotagged. The location services are on for camera and GPS works (confirmed in Maps for example). I downloaded an image via image capture, and it's not geotagged when viewed in iPhoto on my Mac. How do I fix this?
I have a new cell phone number, and, as my FaceTime on my MacBook still has the old number, and so does my iMessage, I'd like to change it. How can I do it? Apparently, the only option given, under FaceTime's preferences, is to add another email
I have a macbook pro and a osx of 10.8.4 in installed on it. I also have VirtualBox 4.2.14 and extension 4.2.14r86644 installed on it. I installed windows8 64bit and now I have problem with usb drives. My windows8 guest operating system didn't recognize my usb drive, although I made a filter for my usb drive. What can I do and how can I find the problem and solve it?
I am using an iPhone 4S. This morning, the "Not Enough Storage" message popped up on my screen and refused to go away. This means that while I can open apps using siri, the message "blocks" me from using the touchscreen. So I can't even switch the phone off to reset it as I cannot slide the power bar off.
I want to know does any solution exist to add a circle around the cursor when I click on the screen?
Is there any way of convincing Safari to clear the cache when it quits? If not from Safari's options, then maybe an extension that does this? I would use private browsing instead, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work well for me (some sites say they can't use cookies, and a lot of functionality is broken with this enabled).
I have a recurring problem with the Mac terminal. Start terminal mysql Ctrl + Z mysql Resize the width of the window Ctrl + Z fg 1 (switch back to first mysql) Type some text that reaches the end of the line PROBLEM: Mysql seems to still think the window has the original width, so when the text you type reaches the right hand side of the terminal window, the text starts jumping around like crazy as you type, because it is not repositioned correctly. WORKAROUND: If I change the size of the window just one character, the problem is solved, but it is annoying having to do this several times per day. I thought of possible things that could be wrong: Bug in MySQL/MariaDB Bug in Terminal Wrong Terminal settings Wrong Bash settings Anyone have a solution to the problem, or know who is most likely the culprit, so I know where to direct a bug report?
My mail.app uses IMAP to fetch email from GMail. I use the standard settings given by the configuration wizard in OSX Mountain Lion.
If you "Record Slideshow" in Keynote then it'll listen to your computer's microphone and make well-sync'd presentation you can save to .mov and share, but it's pretty damned big, even for a short presentation. Is there any way to export only the audio and the slide timing info from Keynote once your recording has been made?
I'm trying to do some research on TimeMachine right now. I don't want to purchase an external hard drive, just to learn about some software, and so I'd like to be able to tinker with the settings, by just creating a disk image...
If I have a 27" iMac, I understand I can use the display as an external monitor for my Macbook Pro. Presumably I can use the bluetooth keyboard as well as an external input?
I use Adobe Fireworks for its Texture and Pattern tools to make things like this:  and then i copy-paste it to Flash Professional to use there. but fireworks is so slow and buggy is there a free or commercial alternative to do this simple Texture / Pattern thing easily? Texture (like the second image above) Patter and Texture (like the first one) Transparent Texture, so the background would be instead of the white lines in second image The ability to copy and paste it (as PNG 32 or any alpha transparent image) so i don't have to save it first and then import it to flash * I Use Mac OS X 10.8.4 *
Issue is most obvious in Final Cut Pro (10.0.8), but has occurred with other apps. I can't find a way to lower the footprint on the SSD. I only have one user (me) and have nearly all the apps on the regular hard drive. No big data. Finder says my user directory is using 75.5G but there are only about 1G of files listed under the user directory. I understand there are lots of hidden files, but over 70G? Is this just an FCP issue, or am I missing something completely. Would the $20 for upgrading to mountain lion fix the issue?
I trying to access a work Citrix server using my MacBook pro. I can log in fine with a windows machine, but when I try from my mac I get an error.
My calendar entries in my iPhone 4 have disappeared. I have no total backup - just calendar and contacts backup in iCloud. I only want to restore the calendar back to my iPhone 4. I already extracted the iCloud calendar backup into my PC.
Say I have a python program called foo.py that prints a line of text. How can I auto run that program when I boot up the terminal? I know you can, but I can't find the documentation. Also no third party programs please, I'm not looking to make the program executable, just to have it run on the terminal start up.
I have a server process that I am developing that opens listening TCP sockets. Each time that happens, the firewall opens a dialog with the text "Do you want the application “server” to accept incoming network connections?", prompting me to "Allow" or "Deny" this program rights to bypass the firewall. I never need to allow, since I only ever connect to this server while developing from the local machine.
I'm designing a creative / funny prank for OSX via command line. By running in the background, most users would not notice it when she/he first starts using the computer.
I understand why they want me to use SASL in my case, and I can see this is a common problem. I can see that Adium supports SASL, and I can find the help ticket that prompted the Adium dev group to add SASL support.
Is it possible to change the locale on a per-application basis in OS X 10.8? Background: I'd like to play "Larry Reloaded" in English, but my user locale is German. The game detects this, and switches to German voices and texts. I don't want to create a new user just for the game, nor do I want to switch the locale manually when starting the game, and back again after quitting.
How can I remote desktop to a Windows 8 machine using an email address login? If enter my username as myusername@gmail.com and leave the domain blank I will be taken to the Windows 8 login screen and receive the login error:
It looks like hair got under the screen protector . If I want to just keep using it, am I in danger? Or will the screen protector protect me?
I smashed my phone, all the screen is completely smashed but I can still receive calls and can hear when someone messages or emails me. Also my aux plug hole is out of coordination so I can't plug in ear phones. I just want to know how much Apple will charge to get that fixed.
On my MacBook Air 2013 (Mountain Lion): pmset has the following sleep settings: while systemsetup has the following settings: What is the difference between these settings?
I use VMWare with a Win 7 virtual machine. I have a late 2012 iMac with 20GB of RAM. I use Windows for ... running Groupwise constantly using Respondus occasionally Explorer (please don't judge--I have to test Blackboard LMS occasionally) :-) What is the appropriate size for it to run in?
A friend upgraded my device to iOS7. It didn't work properly so I downgraded it a few days later to iOS6.
Safari used to have a preference option to confirm before quitting, now that has disappeared. It's so easy to quit accidentally and lose all your tabs. I know you can resume or re-open the previous session, but those are not solutions to the problem. How do I make Safari ask me before quitting?
I have unencrypted .iso images of both DVD and BD (don't know how to check the UDF version used). When mounting and copying files off them, BD is around four times slower. Why? How do I speed it up?
I came across some products by Drobo that let you use an array of external hard drives seamlessly. Would Time Machine be able to do something similar?
I recently bought the digital copies of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne from the blizzard store. They are registered with my blizzard account but when I download the zip file it opens a downloader but my computer says it can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. What can I do about this? The error is shown in this image
I can't figure out the way to burn my iPhoto slideshow to a DVD so I can play in a DVD player. I am pretty sure this works out of the box but after googling, I only find paid software. I am happy to pay but just want to make sure that I am not missing some out of the box solution.
Which app do i use to get terminal on my iphone 5? I got something that i thought was terminal, but im not sure. I want to modify my iphone using terminal. I downloaded serverauditor already. Please help.
For some reason my Sent folder in my exchange account is not showing mail from older than 3 weeks. I've tried clicking on "synchronize" and it doesn't work. I've tried deleting the account and readding it, same thing. I can see fro my online outlook access that there are a lot more mail in the Sent folder. How do I make Mail redownload everything from exchange?
Is there a terminal command within Mac OSX that will allow me to use WOL (Wake On LAN) to wake up other computers? Windows has wolcmd, is there an equivalent within OSX?
I am connected to a headless remote Mac Mini. Under Sharing in the System Preferences both Remote Login and Remote Management are checked though Remote Mangement is "grayed out". I would like to disable Remote Management and enable Screen Sharing.
The problem is on the second hard drive, which I use for data. I also tried to repair the permissions from the recovery partition but it will only let me repair the permissions on the system hard drive.
I try to ssh to my local raspberry pi and I get: I tried with -v and then:
In the podcasts list in iTunes, some podcasts don't show an image. Is there a way to assign one? Online help in iTunes suggests doing a Get Info and clicking the Artwork tab, but that tab is always dimmed, even for podcasts that do show an image.
On Windows I have been using X-Mouse Button Control to control which applications receive mouse input. I need to know how to do this on a Mac.
I have recorded some videos using the GoPro Hero Camera set at 960p resolution and 48 frames per second. These videos come out in MP4 format and I an play them on my computer (PC) just fine. However when I try to import them into iTunes and sync with the iPad 4 it says that the video is not in the correct format and can't be played. This is surprising because I was able to do this before on an iPad 2 with no problems. How can I fix this?
I can't change the secondary desktop wallpaper. I've already gone to system preferences and have chosen a wallpaper for second desktop, but it remains all white???
I have a dual drive setup (SSD as boot, HDD for storage in my Mac). I would like to know how I can include files form my HDD into finders features like 'All My Files'
I'd like to install Windows on my early 2011 MBP via Bootcamp so I can run a highly critical piece of software (Guild Wars 2). The system reqs. are XP or better. On searching Amazon, I found that there are several versions of Windows for sale.
Thinking of getting a mac mini for work. Can I connect three monitors to it? If so, how?
I've had some issues before when trying to watch a rented/downloaded movie on a plane when I have no internet connection. Get the message that internet is required to authorize. Under what conditions is internet required to play a rented movie (already downloded)?
I am using the 25 GB plan for iCloud. This morning I got the message in Mail.app that my iCloud storage is full. However, the iCloud system preferences tell me, I have still 11 GB left. In MobileMe I could set the split on how much would be used for my Email account. How can I increase the Email storage with iCloud?
On my OS X 10.8.2 (12C54) I use more desktops (4). I've mapped the keyboard shortcuts cmd+{1,2,3,4} to switch to dekstop {1,2,3,4}. However the second and third are mixed up. If I use cmd+2 it switches to desktop 3 and cmd+3 switches to desktop 2. I double checked the keyboard shortcuts and they are mapped correctly.
I'm fine to purchase a copy of something like ScreenFlow, but I'm wondering if anyone can point me to any alternative/better solutions, before I cough up £70 on Screenflow... The Powerpoint is only 30 seconds long, so I'm not fussed about file size without any compression. Thanks!
Unfortunately, it doesn't boot from there, when powering on and holding the Alt key. This question suggests installing rEFIt to get it to boot; however, my other research on the web makes me think rEFIt tends only to be used where multi-boot is required.
When connecting to my launch agent socket I get a message in console saying my launch agent is not found. When changing .plist ProgramArguments to
Sometimes my Mac ends up with a runaway process; a process that's hogging all the CPU. Often it's Firefox, but I've had a few others recently. Normally I don't spot this for a while until I notice my fan is running like crazy. This can kill battery life. Is there any way to effectively be proactively be notified about these processes?
Is it possible to tweak Safari to ensure command key combinations like ⌘H or ⌘L go to Safari as opposed to Safari's window contents? This comes up for me most often on this site because the editor window (like where I'm typing right now) captures these keystrokes to make headings and links, but in general, it seems like a security hole to allow sites to capture command keystrokes. Please note that I'm looking for a way to do this without disabling JavaScript altogether. For whatever it's worth, I'm running Mountain Lion.
I am trying to turn on FileVault on my retina MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.8.4), and after going through the key generation it fails with a "Disk in use by driver" error, as shown:  I've got nothing running (I had quit all applications) except Finder, and no USB or external drives are connected, and I am connected to AC power. So, what could be wrong?
I see a strange thing on all left borders of Finder windows:  The background is 1px moved, and the rounded corner mask fails. I thought it was only me, but I saw this on several computers (iMacs and MBP, ML). I can't believe Apple saw this and did not fix it… Anybody know where it comes from? EDIT And after upgrading from 10.8 to 10.9.3, I got the same + a 2px height (instead of 1) title bar border… It now resolves when displaying and hiding toolbar.
I know through System Preferences I can disable all the function keys. However, I really only need two of the function keys to have different functions. Rather than having to always press 'fn', is there a way to disable just these function keys?
I found a very confusing thing today: When I look at messages in the GMail app on my Android phone, the picture I set for the login on my Macbook at work is my icon in the message thread. I never did anything to integrate GMail with my OS, never requested that the image be shared anywhere, and can't find a way to delete it. This leads to two questions: 1) How do I ensure that my laptop login picture is not associated with anything, anywhere, ever? 2) Where would I go to submit feedback to Apple in order to tell them "never, ever do things like this"?
Phone stopped working. Took it apart only batt, antenna, and some covers. Cleaned with brush and alcohol. Put back together. The phone works perfect except: screen does not light up. Looking closely can unlock and it is receiving messages as it should. Not sure where the connection is for the LEDs or what connector to look at.
What software is available for Mac that is good for drawing cartoons and diagrams? These are some features it should have: Edit any component easily after drawing it. Easily add and edit text anywhere. Graphics Tablet support, preferably with a pressure-sensitive option. Also it should be able to import/export: Import other image formats, and ideally should be able to convert hand-drawn images into vector images. Export into png and svg formats, and for extra credit, export a clickable image map.
I would like to buy a Macbook Air, but I don't like the small and narrow Enter (return) key, small left Shift and the extra keys that you can buy in Czech stores/eshops that sell Apple products. This is what I do NOT like: And this is what I want:
My iPhone 4s won't backup. I receive the message: not enough space on computer. There is plenty of space on my mac, 220 gigabytes free.
I'm looking for a VNC server for my iPhone/iPad that (assuming I know the IP address) I can connect directly to using a VNC client. To summarize the features I'm looking for:
In Chrome, when I download a file with an extension that the OS doesn't recognize (in this case, .erb, the dialog defaults to appending .txt to the end of it. I highlight the .txt and delete it before hitting save, but then I open the directory and find foo.erb.txt where I should find foo.erb. How do I get the system to save the file with the extension I told it to?
I've moved from Ireland to the UK and am now getting paid in GBP, so I decided i'd move my Apple ID to the UK store (even though I like the Irish top app charts more) I found that after I move my account to UK and add a UK Card all my previous app purchases on the Mac App store and on the iOS App store are no longer in my 'Purchased' tab. This is really annoying, I believe I can download any of the old apps i've purchased and a message pops up explaining that I can re download for free, but it's really not a good solution. Anyone know what else won't work correctly now? will iCloud backups or iMessage mess up too? This sucks - any fix to this ridiculous problem? How can apple be so sloppy on this?
may I demand product replacement - completely new Macbook Pro Retina? My 15" Macbook Pro Retina will have screen replacement for the 3rd time. For the first time it was ghost effect - replaced with new screen, for the second time bad pixel - replaced with new screen, and now there is once more bad pixel - maybe it is the time for WHOLE COMPUTER replacment? Do you know some of the Apple's polices in this area?
I've recently (as in minutes ago) added a hostname and reverse (A and PTR) records for a hostname on my internal network, using a Bind DNS server. For some reason, i can both dig and nslookup this new name successfully, but ping and my GUI applications can not resolve the name. I have attempted flushing the DNS cache on my local machine with dscacheutil -flushcache to no effect. Here's an example of my session (names, IPs changed for security):
I have a lot of them, and it takes literally hours to arrange them. Any shortcuts to make it easier?
I have found myself to grow fond to CentOS's command prompt which looks like the following: I, personally, do not like how Mac OS X Terminal is laid out, which is:
I have changed the language from my MacOS system and now it won't save the screenshots anymore. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks.
Currently I have a iMac which I bought nearly 4 years ago. And I need to know if it is worth changing for a MBA. I use the iMac for adobe photoshop, illustrator, After Effects, etc. Nothing high end just basic stuff graphic programming, no advanced video editing.
I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 6 from iOS 5 last week. Since then the phone doesn't remember its position in audiobooks any more and most often (sometimes it remembers the position) starts at the beginning of a chapter near my last position. This happens whether or not the phone was turned off between plays.
I have a Macbook Pro which I use in combination with a Thunderbolt display. I also have a standard Apple USB keyboard with numeric keypad which is plugged in one of the USB ports of the Thunderbolt display.
I recently moved from Linux to OS X. So far nothing has disappointed me but I miss the compiz desktop effects I used to have on my Debian (on Ubuntu before I moved to Debian) with xfce and compiz like 3D effects, desktop workspaces in 3D view and many more:
New Mac Machine is asking apple id on start up of machine is it really required or mandatory to have an apple id to start with this? if so can i create an apple id without providing any credit card info?. Please guide this newbe...
On my videos I always do voice-overs where I keep the other audio tracks at full volume (no ducking). I know how to set the ducking for individual voice-over clips, but this takes about six extra mouse-clicks for each voice-over and is a royal PITA. Is there a hidden preference somewhere or another way in iMovie to default voice-overs to not duck other audio?
I know how to configure notifications and have all of them disabled for everything except the Phone, Reminders, Calendar and Messages because whatever I am doing at the moment is ALWAYS more important than anything that any of the other apps on my phone might want to notify me about, be it with a push notification, in the notification center, a banner notification or, even, a badge. I don't want any of that for anything but the four apps listed above.
I had an understanding that Secure Keyboard Entry (or EnableSecureEventInput) was a feature that essentially disabled keyloggers. Is that the case? Are there ways around it?
I just ran into this odd behavior today while transferring files via the file sharing feature in Mac OS X. What happened was most of the files I transferred changed the Read & Write permissions to Read only. These were mainly .css and .html files. Any one had this before or know whats going on here? Thanks!
I have a MacBook Air running the "Mountain Lion" OS that is version 10.8 - What is the "Insert key" (Ins) or equivalent on Mac keyboard. ?
Web designers and developers using Macs (and others) need to run (Windows) Internet Explorer for testing, and a popular option here is Parallels, which virtualises Windows in the background and lets you run Interent Explorer from the dock as if it was a regular Mac app. The problem is, you need a Windows DVD or image file, which you then install into the Parallels virtual machine. Buying a Windows licence purely for the purpose of this is one option - but the idea of financially rewarding Microsoft for IE doesn't sit well with anyone who's spent hours fighting with IE's many bugs. Piracy isn't/shouldn't be an option for tools for professional work. So, I'm looking for another way to get a working, legal copy of Windows into Parallels.
I was wondering is it possible to have 2 external 1080P monitors attached to my MBP? My machine have a Thunderbolt port.
Usually when I option-click a single page link, Chrome tries to download the page, but when I option-click on PDFs, Chrome doesn't respond. Is this the default behavior and is there some way to change this? Also do other browsers allow for this type of one-click download? (I know if I turn off in-browser PDF reading that all PDFs would be downloaded, but I don't want that as the default action.)
Is there a way (I'm thinking using QuickTime perhaps) of taking a video+audio file and splitting it into two separate files, one of just the video, and one of just the audio? I know that in Finder, there's a context menu item "Encode Selected Video Files" which lets you encode it as audio-only, but not as video-only. Thanks!
I'm using Circus Ponies NoteBook which doesn't support Applescript methods. It does support creating services that can clip the current selection into a NoteBook page. This allows me to select text and use the context menu to paste the text into a NoteBook page. I'd like to do the exact same thing from an Applescript script. Is there some way in Applescript to get a handle to an existing service, and send it a message?
I want to learn emac keybindings, but I have a bad habit of using arrow keys. Is there a way to disable the arrow keys temporarily (through software)?
I just got a blue screen and the computer crashed. I restarted the computer with the start button and it started, but much slower than usual. Now the mac is a little bit slower, my wallpaper was changed to default and I had some "Recovered files" in my trash bin (pdf-files). I don't know if some data was lost, and I cannot find anything about this when i google. When I look at my harddrives activity, I can see that it i acting very strange, it is reading and writing alot even if I am not doing anything.
I have a MacBook Air 2013 that does not have MacOS installed, but is booting Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (clean install, not upgraded from Windows 7) in a vhdx file via EFI. I'm not having any problems in booting Windows 8 or using it.
I bought a book in the iBookstore to read on my iPad, but the iPad isn't that easy on my eyes. I recently bought a Kindle because my grandson said the e-ink would be better for reading. Is there a way to convert the iBook to a format I can read on my Kindle?
I have a VPN connection in my system preference but I don't remember type of this connection (PPTP, IPSec etc). How do I find this out?
Earlier today, I tried using MacPorts to install gnutar. By doing the following
How can you animate a color change (i.e as a build) in a Keynote presentation? There is no option for color under the Action tab of the build inspector.
I connected my MacBook Air to an external projector (using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adaptor) to give a Keynote presentation, enabled screen mirroring, gave my talk, then disconnected from the external display. Now I have a black rectangle that covers up most of the screen, on one of my workspaces. The black rectangle covers up the menubar at the top and most of the real estate where the application is, so now I can't use any of the applications on that workspace. If I switch to another workspace (using three-fingered swipe right/left), the other workspaces don't have a black rectangle covering them -- only the workspace that was being displayed when I was connected to the external VGA projector. How do I get rid of the black rectangle and restore my display? Here's how the black rectangle looks:
I dropped my iPhone 5 into a pool and had to downgraded to an iPhone 4S. U wanted to transfer my data from the iPhone 5 Nano-SIM card to the iPhone 4. Are there any adapters or ways to transfer that data?
I want to convert some of my iTunes m4a files to mp3 files but because I have multiple iTunes accounts, iTunes wont play these files due to computer authorisation issues therefore I can't use iTunes to encode. Can anyone recommend a free music encoder software? (VLC isn't working;) Cheers
I have noticed a problem with iCal invitations. When I recieve an invitation (via email) it pops up in my calendar. I then click it to say accept. When I do my calendar shows that I have accepted, but the person who sent me the invitation does not see my status. In addition I get an error Mail with the following error.
For testing purposes (testing raw network speed over a number of cables) i have equippped my Mac Book pro with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter besides the built-in gigabit ethernet connection. Both interfaces have been assigned a manual IP in the 10.0.*/24 range.
I switched from a Samsung 2493HM to a Crossover 2720MDP monitor. In testing, I opened PDF in OS X Preview (I am on Mountain Lion) and found that by default, the display size is very small, like this:
On my iPad mini I cannot seem to enable the mirroring feature. AirPlay in the photos app or any video app works fine:
Try the next commands from the terminal: prints nothing. My Terminal.app settings are utf8 - see here:
As title says I have created a on-demand launch agent that listens to socket and is launched on incoming connection. It works well and after it has done it's job I want to quit it. After quitting system automatically restarts it, OS probably thinks it died accidentally. How can I stop this behaviour? My launch agent is a Cocoa application (without GUI), I have tried quitting with 'exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)' and '[[NSApplication sharedApplication] terminate:self]' My launchd plist is below:
Is there any application to limit the data usage to certain amount in iPhone? P.s. I tested Onavos such as here but it is very slow with me so uninstalled. Also Data Usage app but poor ratings.
iTunes 11 appears to be saving my queue from when I last quit it with ⌘-Q—all unplayed songs remain in the queue, listed under "Up Next". However, I cannot determine a way to resume this queue. Steps to reproduce: Start iTunes and verify your queue is empty and you are on the Albums view. Start iTunes and verify your queue is empty and you are on the Albums view. Double-click an album to add it. Double-click an album to add it. Press ⌘-Q to exit. Press ⌘-Q to exit. Restart iTunes. Restart iTunes. If I press Play at this point, the queue appears to fill with my entire library and start with the first album shown. How can I resume my queue?
I encountered a popup similar to this one this morning while checking the weather report at *=URL=* in Safari, though I have not been able to reproduce it. The title is "about://(null)" and the text "Why you no play Candy Crush!!" The popup occurred twice. I tapped Cancel both times.
I am using Mac OS X 10.8 to connect to two networks through ethernet and wifi and I am experiencing a problem with local DNS resolution. I would really appreciate your advice.
I don't want others on the same network (or any network!) to be able to access my machine at port 80, where I have dev websites. I've tried adding this rule to ipfw: which works, but it also stops me from being able to access my web root whenever I get a new IP (switching to a new wireless network, for example) until I refresh my network interface. Is there a rule that I can add into ipfw or (since it's apparently deprecated) into pfctl that disallows any external traffic to port 80?
Sometimes I see Whatsapp with a balloon that says 8. It might mean I have 8 new messages from persons or 3 from 1 and 5 from another.
I am using my iPhone 4S to sync with Google Calendar. I don't want it to show the items of the "Sports"-calendar though, because it's a full list of possible group activities at my local gym and it would clog up my calendar. After unselecting "Sports" in the list of calendars, the iPhone still keeps showing entries of the "Sports" calendar.
I just added my no-ip domain to /private/etc/hosts under a shorter alias: alias host.no-ip.biz I tried the following on the shell: dscacheutil -flushcache but it still says: ssh: Could not resolve hostname What up with that?
My computer crashed and I lost everything. But, due to the awesomeness of Backblaze, I have all of my files and libraries and music, so nothing's lost. The problem is... all of my playlists that I've spent years tweaking, I don't want to lose them! I'm wondering where the file is within iTunes so that I can recover it.
In the iPhone, whenever I select an artist or album to listen to, the play ends (or repeats) whenever the end of that artist or album is reached. I would like a way for the music to continue to the next album/artist. Or, what would accomplish the same purpose is if I could choose to play all songs, but sort songs by album and/or artist. In other words, I would like to play my songs the same way I do on iTunes, in which I can simply play an album, and it will move to the next album or artist (depending on sort) after that current album is done. I'm running iOS 6.
I'm a web developer and I have a MacBook4,1 with OS X 10.5.8. Important stuff like GitHub, homebrew, ruby and python doesn't work correctly, because curl doesn't work. It seems that the SSL certificates are outdated. I get this error every time: What can I do to fix this?
I am using Mac OS X 10.8.4 on a Macbook Pro and somehow alt-tab is switching between the applications from Dock. I would like alt-tab to work within RDP (Windows) only. I don't know how (or if) did I enable that (i do not have KeyRemap4Mac or anything like that). Is alt(option)-tab supposed to work as default? Any ideas how I can disable this behaviour?
I subsequently talked to senior advisors in Apple and they informed me it was not a big deal and I could download the apps i've paid for already in the Irish store for free. (including both the Mac App store and iTunes store/iOS store) So all though not great I was happy enough with this solution, while I live in the UK I can redownload what I need for free on demand and when I move back to Ireland I can change it back and all my purchases will be there again, they also confirmed it doesn't affect other Apple ID services like iCloud.
I have a (very basic) apple script that I use as a trigger to start and hijack Plex, using Audio Hijack Pro. Where the last three lines just ensure Plex is in the foreground.
I have been trying to get away from Google lately so I am trying to use the Mac Calendar app for my calendar. I want email notifications for my events but Calendar always launches the Mail app even though outlook is my default mail app.
I have just set-up a new Hackintosh server running ML (10.8.4) but I have been unable to get a redeem code for the OSX Server.app from the Apple Developer site (some temporary problem). However do I really need it? My definition of "server" is: web server, file server (SMB, AFP), sshd, git server.
I have a computer with Internet connection via Ethernet, it is Wi-fi capable so in order to share the Internet connection I had set up an ad-hoc network. It works fine with other computers, but if only my iPad is connected, the link breaks whenever mi iPad is sleeping. When turning on my iPad, I have to reset the ad-hoc network in the computer in order to have Internet available in my iPad again.
I understand there's a Newsstand app. I am wondering, however, if I were to purchase a newspaper subscription through the Nook or Kindle systems, will I be able to read them in the standard iPad (iPad 3, iOS 6) apps for each publisher?
Most DJ software commonly provides an ever present waveform of the full song in reasonable quality. Only in a few apps is the waveform actually colorized with a spectrum. For example:
On my old MacBook Air and even on my brand new Retina MacBook Pro (which was set up as a new computer), if I open a new tab and quickly start typing a URL or search in the bar, Safari will sometimes truncate whatever it is I was typing and act as if I had pressed Return. I believe this has something to do with the search suggestions/seek time for bookmarks but it happens stochastically so I can't determine the root cause.
Is there a way to rig iMessage so it receives (and, I guess,sends) messages only when connected via WiFi and not when connected via the carrier's data plan?
I am a new user of the Mac terminal. What is the meaning of "./"? What is the difference between the commands
I always thought I knew a fair amount about iPhones/iTunes etc but this has me stumped! I have a 16 GB iPhone 5 running the latest version of iTunes on a Windows Laptop. I do not have iTunes Match. Due to having 100gb of music on the laptop I have already 'checked' the following options in the iPhone 'summary' Sync only ticked songs and videos Manually manage music and videos I then went into 'music' and unchecked all the artists, albums etc to the point it said 0 songs (in light grey next to where it says sync music) So looking at that it should mean I have no songs selected, so none on my phone... but no!
One of my hopes in getting a tablet was convenient webcomic reading. However, I am also in the habit of archiving my favorite webcomics. And for that purpose the file name is pretty important.
When using advertise-only non-connectable Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy / Smart devices like heart rate monitors, do you have to keep / turn Bluetooth switch on in your iPhone / iPad? I believe the energy drain is negligible, but the need to and explicitly turn on BT may be really frustrating for some applications. Thanks.
I am running an applescript application using stay open option. Function of the script is:
I have formated a 2TB external disk with UDF filesystem in Ubuntu. The way I formatted it was:
I have a Macbook Pro 17-inch Early-2011 model. It is running 10.7.5 and no matter what I do, it does not want to output to an extra display using Thunderbolt (and a Mini Display port to VGA adapter).
I am looking to generate something similar to this osx settings script. I'm not having any luck finding ways to perform a diff between system defaults and my customized settings. Anyone know of a command, app, tool, method to generate this?
I've got a new 2013 MacBook Air 13", with Intel HD Graphics 5000, and it came with a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter within the box. A mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter is also available from Apple.
When I login I want a blank desktop in my first space, sublime text in my second space, chrome in my third, and terminal in my fourth space like so:
Is possibly to achieve to mounting the network volumes as instead of the default So, when a machine "marvin" has two shares ("home" and "u"), don't want: but looking for I'm using "netatalk 3.0" (afpd) and mDNSResponder on the server side (FreeBSD), but the same question is for the Samba shares and mounting via Finder's "Connect to server"... I'm opened to any suggestion to "server side" configuration too.
I have setup my calendar (Mountain Lion) to sync with google calendar, and it loads all items in without problems. But when I change something locally, I get an error message: This happens whenever I do local changes, confirm an event or add a new event. Everything else is working nicely, including contacts. Googling did only yield information about this error in relation to iCloud, which I am not using for calendars.
I backed-up my mac, then I decided to format it. After recovering my photos from the backed-up library, the pictures are all messed up - not in the right order and some are missing/corrupted. Is there something I can do to recover well my pictures? thank you
Alright, so the problem I'm currently facing is that when I run Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011, 15" 2.2GHz CPU) with OS X 10.8, I used Bootcamp 5 to install Windows 7. Windows does not recognize the Intel HD graphics 3000 GPU but it does with my second GPU AMD Radeon HD 6750M. The Error is: "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software." I tired following without success:
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4 there where many mobile providers that didn't have micro sim's available so at that time I cut one with a sim card cutter into micro format. Since then I'm using this sim card. Now I borrowed this card to a friend for activating his refurbished iPhone 4, however the iPhone couldn't activate and always fell back to the setup screen. Now at the genius bar the blame the sim card. When I put this card in other iPhones it works perfect. Is it really possible that an iPhone gets damaged by a sim card in this way ? At the same time I heard from somebody that iPhone 4 have often issues with the sim tray overheating.
I've been using the Perl module EBook::EPUB to create ebooks to read in iBooks. But I can't figure out how to set a category for the books I create. When I sort by categories in iBooks, it doesn't seem to do anything. As I understand it, that should show each category as a heading with those books listed underneath it. But it seems my books don't have categories. How do I set a category when creating an EPUB book?
I have a MBP 15" 2011 model and has is the burned magsafe port (leftmost pin melted) which i noticed today. The connector gets too hot sometimes ( but remains ok when I charge in sleep mode). Sometimes the charging will stop and LED will become green and then I reconnect it to get it in charging mode. The Frayed cable: very light cut at connector side and heavily frayed at brick as shown.
I tried transferring my Time Machine volume to a new drive using the instructions provided by Apple, where it requires that I drag-and-drop via the Finder, but I got a ton of errors. At least a dozen at the same time. I don't recall them all, but some were quite strange. I have transferred a Time Machine drive once before, and it took 24 hours, but there were no errors.
My iphone 4 volume button is broken. Is there another way to lower the volume of streaming music and/ or videos?
On my ancient iPad (original, 32GB), I had a subscription to PSM3 with all the issues I "own" downloaded to my device. I'd love to do a format of this device and free up some space -- as it is getting rather slow -- but I don't want to lose these issues I've paid for. Once I format the device, or delete the issues, there's no way I can get them back because the magazine is no longer in print.
On my iphone 4, I added 2-3 contacts manually in the contacts list. After some time when I try to call them, they do not appear. When I enter manually the number it is displayed in the phone number preview on the keypad. How is this possible?
I want to upload photos from iPad to web storage. I use Google Plus and Dropbox. But these things have some disadvanteges like: Dropbox have a limited space Google Plus doesn't upload a full size photos (but theirs resolutions are pretty good, really) Now I want to try Picasa or Flickr as alternative and specific web services for photos. Which app can upload photos on Flickr or Picasa as Google Plus and Dropbox best parts do: - Dropbox download full-size photos - Google Plus automate upload them via wifi, without connection to laptop
I'm using an application that outputs very long lines. It's fine - it means things aren't cut off at 80 characters - but the default Terminal and iTerm2 config makes it hard to distinguish between: the second line of a wrapped long line the start of the next line Eg: Is there any way I can configure the app to show things so that there's some space after each carriage return, eg: Thanks very much!
I have a script called gnus: which I call via Automator Now I the name next to the icon in the dock, when the program is running, is still Emacs and thew Emacs icon (as when starting Emacs.app directly. I would like to have the gnus icon and the name as Gnus as I want to pin it to one specific Desktop. How can I achieve this?
When I turn it on it says "starting" for a split second and then turns back off. I reinstalled Lion and it still happens. Trying to start it from the command line:
I'm trying to set a local environment on my new MacBook Air 13": built-in Apache with my own DocumentRoot, PHP, and MySQL. I usually update /etc/hosts just to run my local websites with a pretty permalink: local/example. For references, I usually check: How to turn Mac OS X Lion into a web server? Enabling Apache in Mac OS X Mountaion Lion Apache permissions
I just bought the new MacBook Air 13" (2013) and am experiencing dramatic battery loss when using Dropbox and a few other apps. While that is a well know issue with Dropbox, I wonder if there is a solution for my Mac (that is build to last long time on a single battery charge). Nico already posted something about it, and it seems Dropbox drains the battery of the new MacBook Air in about 3 hours. That defeats the Apples design for long battery lifetime, so is there a way to I fix the Dropbox app.
I just got a mac and am still familiarizing myself with it. I was taking a look at: *=URL=* Not sure how to use it!
I have two macbook pros connected via firewire. Both are also connected to wifi. How can I check that traffic between the two computers is going preferentially via firewire, but everything else goes via wifi?
I love my Mac eternally but there is one thing I miss from my former Windows days. When I want to toggle between maximize and restore window, on Windows I would double-click the title bar, and that would invoke the toggle.
How to edit the metadata information displayed by mdls from CLI? Thanks, Sarbbottam
I'm certain that this is user-error on my behalf and not an issue with the software or hardware. I've got the latest iMac (2013) and updated my OSX to the most current version of Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
I find that many of the kernel extensions in /System/Library/Extensions are inapplicable to my MacBook, such as extensions for fibre channel cards, firewire, graphics cards I don't have, etc. Is there any benefit (in boot time, RAM footprint, etc.) to deleting these unneeded extensions?
I realized the other day that I never use the dashboard and had no desire to. So I decided to disable it. But I feel as if the 3 finger swipe to the right that had displayed it is now wasted. Can something else fill that space?
I tried to add a guest account to my laptop and when I restarted the computer, the only login option I have is the Guest Account. Choosing this account restarts the computer into the Safari-only configuration. There is no Systems Preferences available in this mode.
After reading this CNet article I was pretty excited to have a tool that monitors my wireless network since I'm in the process of setting it up well. Wi-fi Diagnostics is said to be in the CoreServices folder (see the CNET article) and so I fired up terminal and got this back:
I'm trying to configure mod_jk with httpd-2.4.4 and getting the below error when starting apache. How can I fix this? I'm on OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) I compiled httpd and mod_jk from the source and both the build went fine.
I have the same apple id on two devices can i delete one app on one device without deleting it on the other device. There are lots of apps which I would like to have and lots of apps which I wouldn't like to have. Also like games with levels etc. do you start from THAT level or from the beginning? E.G simsfreeplay I use icloud to back up this game can I download it on another device (same app) but with the same id?!
How can I sync deleting my emails across Macbook Ipad & iPhone ?
I have just purchased a new Yamaha AV Receiver RX-V675 which is AirPlay capable. I have everything installed and configured as per directions in the Yamaha manual and according to Windows & and iTunes directions. The iTunes AirPlay icon shows the receiver (with a speaker icon). However when I click to initiate the Yamaha it will not execute nor will a check mark show up. Everything seems set up correctly as far as I know. I am looking for help and a solution. I have updated my firmware on the Yamaha and set up with the following equipment configuration: Dell Studio XPS Windows 7 Yamaha is on a hard wired network connection iTunes 10.2.2.14 Windows 7 set up for HomeGroup network and sharing Router - Netgear WGR614v9 Problem is that the Yamaha AirPlay icon in iTunes will not click on.
I have a very annoying problem. Using HandBrake I have been able to rip and hereafter metatag all the family's 1500 movies for our iTunes library. Once, I couldn't find the movie I was looking for, even though I knew it was tagged and stored. I also knew that it has been watched before through the Apple TV.
Verified and re-verified mail settings on iphone3gs but when I try to retrieve emails from my external email account an error message appears saying 'the server is not responding. check settings'. When I called server they said it's an Apple issue. Doesn't sound correct. Any ideas?
I recently uninstalled a 120 GB windows 7 (installed and uninstalled via boot camp) on my Mac mini machine. I suspect that part of the disk space used in that installation has been made unavailable. Look at the following terminal commands:
Drive works fine, but on restart or after a required restart from app installation - the OS looks for CD in drive. Mac will not get to the login screen. It hangs and i can see a green light on dvd drive flashes every couple of seconds. If i shutdown, then start up - no issues. Drive is LG GH22LP21 - Mac Pro 10.7.5 2x2.66 Xenon
In Pages, I want to write a document that has two columns: One for the main text, and the other for annotations. For example: Say I write a paragraph in the main text talking about the many varieties of poodles, and which of them have ever turned vigilante, worn Luchador masks, and roamed the country in a '67 Chevy dispensing justice. Then of course I'd need to have a summary in the side column referring the reader to the primary sources in the literature.
My OSX 10.8 machine can no longer reach several machines on my home network's internal IP range. For example, I have an internal server which is also NAT'd through the router to accept SSH. The server is at 192.168.1.65.
I am using evernote on Ipad 2 and I have notes with some formatting , e.g. links, bold/italic fonts etc. When I try to copy and paste the content to some HTML online editor, that accepts markdown, all formatting is lost. Can anyone suggest how to convert from evernote rich text to markdown on IPad ?
I have macbook model 2009 that is crashing. I dont' understnad why is this happening What is going on with this report?
some of my mac 10.5 system preferences items such as, General, desktop and screen saver, sound, dock, display, users and group, bluetooth, start up desk, speech, and time machine are all gone. I can't find it in the TRASH bin and i can't even edit the trash because the side bar has gone also. Can you please help me to restore them? I think i have accidentally deleted it using "secure empty trash".. but some files were not deleted because master server is locked and i cannot find the option to edit it. I've download Pref Setter but i don't know how to use it. I'm afraid i might corrupt all the files on my mac. Can you please explain me how to to use pref setter? or how to restore all deleted items. Your response is highly appreciated. Thank you
I've seen a few similar questions on here but none seem to have a good answer, nor seeing the temperature levels I'm seeing. Notebook is only a month old and just installed iStat Menus and noticed that the "CPU Die - Digital" sensor temperature is consistently over 80℃. Currently it is 96℃ with the CPU at 85% idle, all load averages of 2.3.
I have set up an AFP drive to be automounted, using the Login Items pane of Users & Groups. But when I now have used my Macbook extensively without any connectivity, I find that a lot of apps wait for maybe 20-30 second timeout before they launch (even though they are not expected to use the drive). There seem to be some system call which invokes the drive, and which blocks further execution until it has timed out. I presume I can avoid this behaviour by manually removing the AFP mount when I'm disconnected, but does anyone know a better way to keep an AFP mount automatic with a more graceful timeout behaviour that doesn't block apps?
I have a jail broken ipad3 with IOS 5.1.1 and I want to upgrade it to a newer version of IOS. I have the following Problems: which version should i upgrade to and how can i keep my programs, pictures, movies, books, etc... after upgrade and jailbreak
I have installed MacTex 2013 and it seems to be properly installed, except that the binaries used at are from macports. "sudo port uninstall texlive" will not do anything. No output from the command. "sudo port list | grep tex/" gives the following list of installed tex programs: Does this mean I should execute "port uninstall" for each one of the above lines?
Is there a way to have a Safari window (or just a tab) always highlighted? I mean, when using other programs, have a piece of screen occupied by a Safari window (resized, obviously).
I want to remove a photostream I'm subscribed to on one device to save space but I want to keep it on my other devices. How do I do that?
From time to time Apple updates their iOS Developer Program License Agreement, but, unfortunately, they never provide any clues as to what they changed since the previous version of the agreement. This means that after each change I need to read through the entire agreement and hope that I catch any of the new stuff they introduced. Do you know of any place where a summary of the changes between versions of the agreement is presented (possibly somewhere on one of Apple's sites and I just missed it)?
I wonder if the Mac mini 2009 needs the optical drive for work, or if I can just remove it? I don't need it at all and have an external drive just in case. I will replace the HDD with an SSD and want to keep the Mac cool and lower the energy consumption as much as possible.
I was fixing my Mac partition by rebooting and holding CMD+S and then typing It found some issues and (probably) fixed them. Now when I boot into MacOS after some time the screen goes black and there is no way to do anything except put it to sleep. On waking up everything is normal.
My Macbook Pro runs 10.6.8 and I have a NTFS 500G disk. In order to write into the disk, I had tried to edit the /etc/fstab file. It did work for years, but recently, I found it do not work and I don't know why. Can anyone tell me why it has stop working and how to fix it? I know installing some softwares can solve this problem, but I prefer to know why the /etc/fstab file invalid now.
as the title states, my headphone jack is useless because a headphone cable broke off in the jack. I can't get audio through the speakers because the computer thinks there're headphones plugged in. I had read and thought that I couldn't redirect audio because it was a hardware issue. But, when I installed Windows 7 through bootcamp, I was getting audio through the speakers. So, I know now that it isn't a hardware issue, but a software issue in OSX. If one were to solve this via software (hack, script, etc) how do you think one would go about doing this? Last time I took in my computer to the Apple store to try and get the bit of cable out of the jack, they couldn't and recommended that I use an adhesive. Thanks for your help Latest version retina macbook pro 15" (mid or late 2012) running OSX 10.8.4
Firefox, for whatever reason, doesn't support the OS X-standard ⌘Delete shortcut for deleting the current line of text. How do I get it back? 10.8 with FF22, but this behavior has been around for a while.
I have a macbook pro 15" early 2011 model, which I would like to install linux on (dual boot setup). However, I don't have an optical drive for it since I replaced it with an SSD. I need some way to boot the linux installer. I have tried booting from a USB flash drive, from a partition on an external HDD connected over firewire, and even using a virtual machine (which surprisingly was the most successful attempt). Should my computer be able to boot from some of these media I listed above, if so, are there any good resources that might show me what I was doing wrong? I have an external optical drive that connects over USB if that helps.
There was once a feature that reopened all the windows on startup. Is it possible to enable that somehow, even the checkbox "Reopen all windows ..." disappeared.
I recently got a little bit of water on my Apple Wireless Keyboard and now when I press a key others are registering at the same time along with it. For example when I press shift, t and/or r is also sometime registered. Also when I press: e, t and r are also registered, typing out etr r, t is also registered, typing out rt t, t is registered multiple times giving an output of ttttttt f, g and r are also registered, typing out fgr g, f and t are also registered, typing out fgt v, b and r are also registered, typing out bvr b, v and t are also registered, typing out bvt
I'd like to press a key combo to get my computer to the lock screen. In Windows the shortcut was Windows key + L. On Mac I press CMD+ALT+Power which turns the laptop off and puts it into sleep. I want to just have it go to the lock screen with the monitor staying on.
I have the latest MacBook Pro 15 inch with Retina display, OS 10.8.4. Not wanting to use the standard Fn keys but use them as Apple has assigned them.
So there is a red light coming out of my headphone jack. I can't hear anything, neither from my speakers nor from any headphone. I have checked the sound in system preferences and when I plug my headphones in the computer does not register them. I've restarted my computer twice and the red light is still on. I tried a toothpick and it didn't work. What can I do?
Having trouble with updating my Instagram app. When it was time for the update, I clicked "update app" of course, but it said the app couldn't be updated. Now I can't access it. Since then, it just says "Waiting…" and I can't do anything with it. I tried to delete it but the × doesn't appear in the top corner to allow me to delete it. When I click the app to see if it'll load, nothing happens. I even hooked it up to iTunes to see if I could delete it there but the × still doesn't show. I went to my settings to manage my storage and I clicked "delete app" which removed it from the list, yet it's still on my iPod.
This is most likely a jailbreak-related question... Is there a known application to mass/bulk change the default picture for contacts without a picture? Ie: I just added John Doe and I have no picture for him, so he has a silhouette when you look at his contact information. How can I change all contacts with that same silhouette to, say, a deer?
The following Applescript opens a menubar app called QuickHue and then clicks a specified item in the menu. Often, when I use the applescript, it does nothing. But if I wait a moment or two and try again, it works perfectly. And it keeps working. But if some time passes and I trigger it again, it'll fail again the first time. After that, it works like a champ. Here's the applescript. Any idea what's going on here?
On my Mac, OS X lags substantially when browsing through Chrome. I've researched things and understand that inactive memory is part of the free memory, that can and should be freed at a moment's notice: find what's producing inactive memory OS X Lion: 8GB of RAM, 20MB free
How do find the Google Chrome Installation Directory/Path using command line. Is Google Chrome always installed on default path "/Applications/" folder. I have tried the following Commands can anyone suggests what am i doing wrong. locate "*Chrome.app" :: When i used this command it only search the DB entries of installed software. locate "*Chrome.app" :: When i used this command it only search the DB entries of installed software. find / -type d -name "*Chrome.app" :: List all the file on system.Please tell me how can i find only Google Chrome path using this command or is there other way find / -type d -name "*Chrome.app" :: List all the file on system.Please tell me how can i find only Google Chrome path using this command or is there other way Thanks in Advanced
I can turn off all phone sounds, but is there any way I can specifically just turn off the send message sound?
My mac has several users. If I want to "update" an app, it says only the original user can do the update. But I don't have access to his account! How can I either: Update apps from another user Download my OWN apps instead
I have a Mac running 10.8.4 which I am using as a server which is only connected to my network via Wifi (en1), however I cannot get the stock postfix process to listen on en1. I have tried a variety of inet_interfaces settings, for example the default setting of all, gives: I have also tried:
If an iPhone is locked, then unlocked and then replaced for a refurbished one in an Apple Store, will the new one remain unlocked?
How can i get the newerst version of cURL instead of the old 7.24 that Apple provide. When i install with Brew I am notified that it is a keg-only and if i do the version is stil 7.24, but the protocols have been updated. If i then delete the "apple" curl, the function is not executable.
I have a PDF with slides in it from someone else and I want to import all the separate pages of the PDF as separate slides in Keynote. The best answer I can find is this one on apple support, but it suggests splitting the PDF into separate 1-page files to drag them into Keynote individually and I'm sure there must be an easier way.
My company email (sent from outlook pc) signature has social media icons at the bottom - images hyperlinked to facebook, twitter etc. The hyperlinks work perfectly when opened up on PC's and other android and windows based smartphones. However, when received on an iPhone - tapping an image only allows you to save the image and the hyperlink isn't working. The files are PNG's and have had nothing different done to them. The user who created the sig said that it was created through the option within Office 2010.
When I go to Apple's webpage for refurbished and clearance products, I can find links to buy Macs, iPods and iPads, but none for buying refurbished iPhones. Is it possible to buy a refurbished iPhone: online, on the Apple Store? in a physical Apple Store? online or offline with a phone carrier? other options?
I'd like to move GarageBand's lessons ("Learn to Play") to another drive. How do I tell GarageBand where to look to find the files?
I just purchased a MacBook Air with OSX v10.8.4. When I edit the modifier keys (I want to change Caps Lock to Ctrl), it works for a while, but then reverts back to defaults some time later. I'm making the changes here System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys...
There are quite a few questions on .DS_Store files already, but none seem to answer my problem. I have an external hard drive with a dozen of ~ 50 GB backup folders. When I try to copy these folders to a new external hard drive by drag-and-drop, it fails because
For instance, how would you block google.com/news, without blocking google.com or any other subdirectories? I've already tried using the /etc/hosts file, to no avail.
Every time I open my laptop, it acts as though command-tab was pressed. I have a new MacBook Air OSX v10.8.4. I noticed this with my previous MacBook Air as well. I'd like to open my laptop and have the last app I was using in focus, instead of the penultimate.
Is there a setting or an app that does this: When iPhone asked me for my passcode lock it will identify my passcode what passcode I entered and when passcode matches, it will match to the profile it was associated.
If my system was restored to the exact state it was in two days ago, why did all this happen? What made these applications behave differently from how they would have if I'd just left the computer off for two days?
From what I have been able to research, this is an NSOutlineView. What I can't find is the specific property or additional class that does this animation, nor how to stop it.
I'm having a heck of a time trying to disable the option "Check for updates Automatically" I ran composer to see what plist was being modified and it looks like ~/Library/Preferences/com.oracle.javadeployment.plist So I experimented with changing that value to true or false and it would not effect the checkbox under the Java Control Panel > Update > Check for Updates Automatically Your assistance would be much appreciated. Initially I was looking @ /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
I recently got a retina MBP and I would like to give my former MBP to my sister, How do I clean it out the "Apple way" rather than just manually deleting all my files. I would prefer if it ran smoothly like a new MBP to give her the full "Mac welcome experience" Are there steps for this? I have already migrated all my info to my new one.
I have been having trouble booting my macbook pro. I have a backup of everything on the cloud so I tried reinstalling the system from my usb mountain lion stick. Unfortunately the disk utility did not want to reformat my HD and I ended up removing the HD placing it in a hard drive enclosure and proceeding to reformat/reinstall the system. This boots fine from the usb but when I put it internal I get stuck on the boot screen with the apple logo and the spinning lines below. I tried booting in safe mode and this is the output I got this: Anyone understand that output?
What I am trying to do is make my character run up 50 steps then down 50 steps repeatedly using the up key and the down key. I know how to utilize system events to push keys and I know how to tell applications to do certain things but what I put together so far is not looking right. I am pretty much new to this, and I am trying to learn a bit, please help!!
I have installed MacVim through homebrew, and this resulted in an alias in ~/Applications that points to /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-66/MacVim.app. Unfortunately MacVim does not show up in Spotlight searches. Is this normal?
I have setup a bunch of saved searched via spotlight. Is there a way that I can access them from command line? Ideally I'd like to do an "ls -l [my search name]" but that doesn't really work.
I noticed that when I plug in an external NTFS HDD something is reading it and it doesn't stop for a long time... I checked with fs_usage and saw this: etc.
When I plug my iPhone into the PC and iTunes comes up, the "Other" is taking up about 40% of the bar. I suspect most of it is SMS/iMessage, since I am a heavy user (with photos and sometimes videos). Questions: How do I actually see how much space SMS is taking up? Is there a way to delete everything prior to a certain date?
I have a MacBook Pro where VMWare Fusion is installed to enable Windows 7 and Ubuntu. One year ago, my system was well configured so that I could run Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu at the same time. Later, I made some changes, probably around the attribution of cores and memories, now running the 3 systems simultaneously is very slow, although only running Mac OS + Windows or Mac OS+Ubuntu is fast enough. But I do need the 3 systems open for my work.
So I've been looking into being able to send video wirelessly from my mbpro to my tv. One of my questions is can you actually mirror a fullscreen game to the AppleTV? I mostly only play minecraft and that uses the new os fullscreen.
I start ssh proxy by a command similar to the following when I login to the desktop. Also, I need to type this every single time I resume my desktop from sleep mode. Can you tell me any automated way to switch ssh proxy on if you know, please?
How can I transfer my $0.49 on my apple ID to my family members $0.54 on her apple ID?
I have a total of 119 movies on my Apple tv. I have homesharing on. When I log into my itunes on my computer it only shows a total of 40 movies, where are the remaining missing movies?
Is it ok to enroll multiple times into the iOS Developer program to overcome the 100 device Limit ? I could not find anything about this within the Agreement. The Basic idear is that each Developer could enroll into the program and once as Company. Is this allowed ? If not it would be nice to point me to the appropriate resource as reference.
Can I partition an internal hard disk (in a Mac Pro or Mac Mini) such that it contains one partition usable for Mac OS and one usable for Windows? I know Boot Camp does that for the boot disk but I wonder if it will work for a second disk as well? Basically I want the system to start either Windows or Mac and use the second disk for data.
My friend has a problem getting Snow Leopard to run because the disk is completely full. I suggested getting into command line mode (CMD+S on boot) and delete some things, but it didn't work (nothing happens) - is it because of full disk as well or because the OS is older? What can he do?
I am looking for a GUI application, with in icon on the top bar, that can be used to start and stop different services on OS X. These do not have to be real OS X (launchd) services/daemons, it is enough for me to be able to define them, with a name, a start and a stop script. Mainly I want to use it for development to manage things like tomcat, nginx, postgresql... which are not usually started.
My Mac won't turn on but I'd like to sell it for spare parts. How can I make sure there's no personal information stored on the hard drive for the buyer to retrieve?
I recently purchased a WD Thunderbolt Duo, which has two 4 TB drive, now running in RAID 0 with Apple Software RAID. My question is simple, if I am to get another Thunderbolt Duo next year, is it possible to add the two additional disks to RAID 0 without going offline? (Copying files out, and then destroy the RAID set, build the new RAID set and then copy the file back.)
Can I change the type of an submitted App in the App Store later? Initially I want to submit an iPhone only App, but later there might be an Universal App as well to support the iPad. Can this be submitted as an update to the existing App? So can the type of an App changed later?
I have a single MacBook Pro partitioned into two drives, each running a copy of Mountain Lion. In Partition X, I would like to disable Spotlight from indexing Partition Y. In Partition Y, I want to disable Spotlight indexing of Partition X.
In Ubuntu there is a toggle "Bigger text" you can activate, that's really comfortable when you have a big screen. In Windows there is a wonderful option that make everything bigger in proportion, the size you like, and you don't have to care about anything else.
Is there anyway I can transfer my iTunes giftcard from my old Apple ID account to my new Apple ID account?
I have a receipt printer and regular printer on my Mac and have the system default paper size set to Letter and default printer set to "Last Used" In Safari I've setup a preset for my receipt printer but when I select it, the paper size still defaults to letter instead of the receipt paper. I change the paper size to receipt size, select "Save current settings as preset" and all settings are saved in preset except the paper size. How can I get the preset to save the paper size?
Somehow, I don't know how or when, I deleted preview.app. Everything else is fine. What's the easiest way to get it back?
I've just noticed that the contents of some new folders that I created under my users/[myname] folder, are visible to other users. The original ones all have the 'no entry' sign.
I'm trying to install the "Unity Web Player" so that I can play this game I've been waiting for for a while. The installer is a .pkg package installer which I can't use because I do not have admin access (long story). Is there a way to get the application out of the package and install it manually in my own folders?
I've installed some software, namely, a continuous integration (CI) server (Jenkins) on a Mac Mini running Lion Server. The server, by default, runs from port 8080 on local host via the url: *=URL=* However, when I try to access the page it seems to be protected by Basic Auth and it asks me for a name and a password.
I'm using a 15 inch mid 2010 macbook with 10.8.4. It happens both on my cinema display and laptop display. It happens sporadically and had me questioning whether I was actually seeing it for a while. I notice mostly on youtube videos, but I think it's occurring from other sources as well. Somebody could be playing a prank on me (as my buddies are likely to do), but nobody has confessed and I can't really find anything about the issue. Any Ideas?
For a Google Maps, a URL like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:90210,CA,US(You)+to:New+York,NY,US(Destination)
If I encrypt an email with S/MIME an icon showing a CLOSED padlock is displayed under "Security". However, if I encrypt using OpenPGP it's an OPEN padlock icon. Both are followed by the word "Encrypted" though. Why the two icons / What's the difference?
I create a Configuration Profile for VPN in iPhone Configuration Utility but when i try to export that profile i get error on console
I have an iPhone 4. It has network lock from Switzerland. I want use Gevey SIM on this phone. Gevey SIM is more compatible for iOS 5.1.1. how to downgrade from iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 5.1.1 in iPhone 4?
Yesterday, pressing the hold button (to both lock or unlock the phone) while music was playing on my iPhone 4 caused a few-second skip in all songs.* Luckily, it's not happening any more — what could have caused it? Apple's EarPods headphones? Something in the headphone jack? The hold button itself? * Not sure if the songs skipped a few seconds backwards or forwards.
Some time ago I discovered my Filemaker backup schedules mystically disappear. After some research I find out it happens right after restart of host machine. Eventually I found this post on official filemaker forum
I'm trying to automate a download process for images on multiple webpages. So far, my actions are : "Ask for text" > i paste multiple URLs "Extract URLs from Text" "Get Image URLs from Webpage" (I get all images) "Filter URLs" (I filter the one i want, for instance the ones ending with "_small.jpg") "Download URLs". It works fine, but I'd like to download the images ending with "_large.jpg", which are not present on the webpages I submit in 1).
As a test, I opened up Finder > Connect to Server. Using the credentials, I successfully was able to mount *=URL=* and read/write to the share. However, when I attempt to publish into this share directly from iCal/Calendar, I receive the following error message: By checking in Console I was able to locate the following corresponding entry:
I've got a USB 3 flash drive that should be able to write at about 50 MB/s, but I'm only able to write to it at 15 MB/s. I'm using a Mac Mini 2012, which has four USB 3 ports. I am connecting the flash drive directly to the Mac Mini, and not using a hub of any kind.
Does anybody know what are the RGB "equivalents" of the category colors that MS uses in the Windows version of Oulook 2010? Just starting to use a Mac "for real work" (vs tinkering with it as a set-top player in the past). I'm setting up my Mac Outlook/Office environment "just so" and one of the things I'm missing is to be able to construct the same categories and associated colors that I have been using on Windows.
Transitioning from Windows to the Mac. In Windows, I had a lot of environmental variables set-up that I used to speed up my work. Thinks like etc... That, and the "magic" of autocompletion in the "Run" box and in the file save/open dialogs, allowed me to move around very quickly.
I recently purchased an iPhone 5. I was using an android device before this. When I made the switch from android to iPhone I synced my photos from my android device onto my iPhone 5. When I synced those photos over it made duplicates of every photo and stored them in a photo album (not camera roll). How can I get the photos from that album on my iPhone onto my windows computer and delete the duplicates?
I use two displays at work and then I unplug my 2nd display when I go on the road/home. It's an incredible shortcoming that all my content on the 2nd display gets squished so it's mostly off screen when I unplug the second display and revert to just the Macbook display. It's also cumbersome to always be dragging windows around. Is there a way to use one "space" but spread across two displays when I have two available but then when there is only one available collapse the content that I have on the second display to a second "space"?
The standard Apple Dictionary program in Lion provides access to Wikipedia. This appears to be a direct look-up (i.e., not to a cached local copy of Wikipedia). I'd like to add other sources that way, such as for Urban Dictionary. Can this be done? If so, how?
I'm looking for free (or < 10$) video converter on mac with following features: Another features which are welcome: option to choose file format (.mpg, .avi etc) option to choose video/audio encoding (xvid, h264, acc etc) option to always save output to the same directory the source is in batch processing of many files possibility to set created/modified time of created file to the same as source has
I have a Czech friend whose name is Jiří, and I want to add his name to my Contacts. Pressing and holding R on the iPhone keyboard does not show any special character versions (and similarly on OSX, holding R doesn't show anything. I found the character in Special Characters on OSX.)
I am running Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and had to edit an invisible file as part of an Android project. While I eventually found it, Spotlight was of no help, since it could not find an invisible file when searching for the exact name (.classpath) and with the 'File Visibility' option set to 'Visible or Invisible'. Why didn't Spotlight work in this instance?
For example, say I type John into the To: field. It offers: That Guy John mobile +61 4xx xxx xxx John Smith home 03 xxx xxxx
I noticed a really weird behavior on my MacBook Pro today. I have two of them at work, a 13" late 2011 (which I don't use often), and a 13" early 2011 where I put a SSD (which is my main computer).
I've got a Word .docx file which is "readonly" in Word (not in Finder->Info). Usually this problem (this time it occurred after a crash) would self-resolve after a while or I could delete a lock file. Now, there seems to be no lock file (in the same folder). Repairing permissions did not fix it either.
I would like to purchase OSX 10.8(Mountain Lion) using my apple account. The question is am having two mac computers with snow leopard, Can I update both of my mac with the single purchase? any help?
What is the function(s) of the Debug menu and why is it hidden by default?
I have spilled a bit of water on the keyboard of my Macbook Pro this Monday. It continued working just fine.
Tried adding an AppleScript to run a specific command when I'm sending or receiving a message in Messages on my server, but for some reason it never seems to get called. Placed it first in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Messages, and then in ~/Library/Application Scripts/Messages, but it doesn't seem to work in either. It appears at the bottom of the AppleScript menu when I have Messages front though. Here's the test script: Any idea why neither of these fire?
Following on from my previous question entitled "What is the function(s) of the hidden Debug menu in Disk Utility?". How do I enable the Debug Menu via Terminal command or otherwise, thereby increasing the functionality of Disk Utility ?
I've got a 2010 macbook air that works fine in all respects except for the keyboard acts as if the command key is depressed all the time. The key does not appear to be physically depressed however.
How to use a different mirror rather than the mirrors in the list? Well, I mean not only download port.tar from other mirror, like the question here, but also download packages from a different mirror.
I have enabled Google CardDAV contact synching some time ago and disabled iCloud (contacts). Now I wanted to reenable iCloud synching too... I see some contacts on iCloud.com and on my Mac - probably from before I disabled this. On reenabling the option on iPhone, I still don't see some contacts on iCloud.com... when I add a new contact it does appear there but I cannot get all of them to sync.
On Debian I managed to change it using dpkg and now UNIX commands, manual pages and supported packages are in my native language. Is there a way to do this also on OS X? I already have the locales set to my native language but everything is still english.
How do I uninstall Python 3.2.2 on my MacBook Pro? I’m using Mountain Lion. Any answers greatly appreciated. I’m a beginning programmer.
I have a 3TB USB3 drive that I want to use between my Mac and Windows laptops. A 1.5TB partition will be used for Time Machine and another 1.5TB partition will be used by Windows for file storage. The Windows partition will be ex-FAT because I want the files to be read/write able from both machines. The drive will be swapped between the two machines periodically.
I need to set up a network with ten or more wifi connections in a motorhome with a bunch of iDevices, apple TVs etc. and want to have an outside web connection for all those devices. Most of the bandwidth will be internal data and not to/from the web. I can set up a personal hotspot but am limited to 5 connections. Is there any way to set up something like an airport express for all the wifi connections and have an ipad on the system as the only Internet connection, since the 10/100 of the hub will not be connected?
My family has 3 iPhone 5's and we share one iTunes account. We sync on 2 different computers. I do not want all the same apps on my phone. Can I delete them from my phone without it deleting them without screwing up the other 2 phones?
I regularly find articles on the internet and think “I’ll read that later”. These days I press a button, which uses Instapaper and lets me read it later on my iPhone. This works very well.
I'm also a bit concerned about the temperature sensor, since the behavior with the fans blasting at full speed before the computer turned itself off could be caused by the temperature sensor reporting overheating. I have been careful not to do things that would normally cause the machine to heat up too much.
I would like to know, jailbroken or otherwise, if it's possible to get iOS to play two songs or sounds at once. My very specific goal is to play background white noise loaded from a website and Spotify music at the same time. A big key here would be Spotify music. I don't just want some app that plays it's own white noise over the music that's stored on my iPhone, I want to essentially take two audio sources (from two apps) and play them at once instead of having the phone switch between apps for playback.
I recently saw this in a demonstration online in someones Terminal:  Notice the path-bar-like style of the prompt, any ideas how you can get that? Some kind of customisation I'd assume?
I'm trying to figure out what the devil is wrong with Chrome getting 100% cpu once in a while. I sampled the process Google Renderer. Not sure where to go from here. any advice? process sample: https://gist.github.com/hadifarnoud/2371a33a5c3f39ede034
I've been using a Microsoft-made external (ergonomic/split) keyboard, connected via USB, to my Mac laptop without a problem for years. My OS is 10.6.8. Out of the blue, random keys stopped working on the keyboard: Shift + any of the numeric row of keys do not work (for example, can't use Shift + 8 or Shift + 9 to make open/close parenthesis). The backspace key is not working and several other random keys, while other ones do work. The keyboard that's on the laptop works fine; it's only the external keyboard that is affected. The only unusual thing I did recently was use an external USB stick to load some files on my computer. No new software was installed. I googled this repeatedly and found similar descriptions of issues, but none of the proposed solutions worked:
As of right now I don't have a smartphone, but am debating getting one in the near future (although not sure in how long that will be.) My old itouch just broke, so i wanted to know if it is possible to buy an iphone off ebay, one that is connected to verizon (not unlocked) and use it with just wifi until I decide to add it to my network?
Adjusting the screen brightness on my Macbook Air (June 2012) isn't working in Windows 7 Pro x64. I saw some comments online saying there's a regedit I can do to enable brightness, but that didn't work because this model doesn't use nVidia, it has an intel HD 4000 graphics chip as far as I know... I tried to install the HD 4000 driver from intel but now my laptop just boots to a black screen, but I'm confident I can fix that issue when I get home.
This is related to this question here, except that, in addition to removing the Finder, I want to do it automatically. There are several solutions on the web that suggest using this AppleScript: Unfortunately, saving this as an application and having it run at login doesn't work; interestingly, running it within Script Editor does work, but this doesn't solve the problem of removing the Finder automatically.
I am downloading a photo over iMessage. When I see the previewed thumbnail image, is the entire photo downloaded? If not, when I open the photo will it be completely downloaded to my phone? Like stored in a folder of some kind? At what point will it be downloaded completely? Also, if I save this to camera roll, does it transfer folders? Just a theoretical question; no real utility from it.
This started happening with Type2Phone, an app from Houdah Software. Every time after I would update the app via the AppStore, Spotlight would no longer find the app (I use Spotlight for app launching). I contacted the developer, and following a series of steps, we found that what is happening is that somehow the updated app is having this attribute added to it: [This is the output of the mdls command] This explains why Spotlight is no longer finding the app. Now logically, he informed me that this command should remove the attribute:
I'm having a bad time trying to delete a subscribed calendar. I am running OSX 10.8.4 on my iMac and IOS 6 on iPhone and iPad. Whenever I delete this calendar it reappears, usually within a few seconds. I have tried deleting from each device and from iCloud, without success. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome.
In OS X Mavericks you can monitor the energy consumption of different processes in Activity Monitor. Here we can see 'Energy Impact' and Avg Energy Impact' and that the values can exceed 100. Also there will be a menu bar icon which lists the most energy consuming applications running right now.
Just bumped into an odd problem with my MacPro4,1 (2009/Nehalem) wherein I cannot boot from USB bootable disks. My various disks are recognized from System Preferences -> Startup Disk, however they will not show up in the EFI Startup Manager at system boot.
This is the first time that my Retina MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep with a gray screen. After about 10-20 seconds, the MacBook falls asleep again. Some points that might be relevant: The only difference between power adapter and no power adapter is that with power adapter it does not go to sleep again. The battery is almost full (I closed the lid last night when it was about 90%)
I mostly works with Photoshop and Coda (programming app). I have installed many fonts and at the time I work with Photoshop I need all my fonts enabled. But then after I don't need all the font but only the default system fonts. Problem is that these font are slowing down my machine. Can I create groups of fonts and then enable/disable these groups?
I have a folder in my dock where I want to drop files. When hovering over the icon, the folder always pops up as new Finder window. I want it to be a stack or a list. Is there a way to achieve this?
I am aware that one can check the AppleCare Status of their Mac by going to Apple Support. What other ways exist (that maybe inbuilt within OS X) to clarify this, and possibly even schedule a repair ?
I uninstalled zsh pretty soon after I installed it as I realised I had got used to the normal Terminal. The uninstall went successfully and I restarted Terminal, but now it displays my computer-name (tommbp) with a % next to it, as display below:
I'm willing to try anything! (lol)
I've recently encountered an interesting audio problem, using OS X with a Windows partition (via Boot Camp). Specifically, if the Windows partition is used, and then the computer is restarted into OS X, the sound no longer works in OS X. Once OS X has been restarted, the audio once again works. The audio always seems to work on the Windows side. Further Clarification When the audio isn't working in OS X: the speaker icon in the menubar is grayed out if you go to Sound preferences, no output devices are available System Information, under the Audio tab, shows a list of outputs under "Devices", but nothing under "Intel High Definition Audio" (when functioning normally, after the OS X side has been restarted, there are a number of sub-options, including "Headphones", "Line Output", etc.) Replication Scenarios causing audio loss: Boot OS X : Audio works → Reboot OS X : Audio works → Repeat (Audio always works) Boot Windows : Audio works → Reboot Windows : Audio works → Repeat (Audio always
I have a serious problem here: I would like to change my apple id to the email address that I mainly use which happens to be the alternate email. So what I did was to change the alternate to another email thinking I would be able to now use the old alternate as my apple id. Unfortunately and for some very strange reasons,apple is telling me I cannot use alternate email as my id when I had actually changed and verified my new alternate email. Can someone please help me out here?
I currently have a simple workflow that gets the contents of the clipboard and creates a new text file from those contents on the desktop. problem is, i have to run the workflow everytime i need my clipboard dumped in the text file is there any way i could create a workflow/application/service using automator that runs in the background and dumps the contents of the clipboard into the text file everytime the contents of the clipboard change? alternatively, is there any app that would accomplish the same?
In our IT department we have two iPhones 5 with cracked screens and we need to get them fixed. I've gone to the Apple Store personally for my iPod Touch 4G, and I was required to schedule an appointment at the Genius Bar.
If you visit this page, it seems there's a new version of Web Inspector for Safari. (screenshot) How can I access that?
I have an older Time Capsule and it's pretty noisy. Does anyone have one of the newer tall models? How loud is it in a quiet room?
How can I create a multiline text input dialog using Applescript? Creating a single line dialog is simple...
I have a perplexing problem with my Macbook Pro (16GB RAM, OS X 10.8.4). If I use up all my main memory, the computer crashes. The screen freezes on whatever window it was on (not a kernel panic), and is totally unresponsive.
I installed s3fs, a tool that allows mounting Amazon S3 buckets as a file system. I created folder for mounting in /mnt/s3 then I created a file in /etc/passwd-s3fs with the content BucketName:AccessKeyId:SecretAccessKey but I still can't access it, and the error is: s3fs: could not determine how to establish security credentials Am I missing something?
Is there a way to quickly pretty print large XML files without needing an app? Online solutions don't allow for massive files and I'd like to do this without install more junk on my computer.
I have a process that is running on OS X which has some problems and the 'sample' tool on the Mac seems like the best way to debug the problem. Unfortunately, the only documentation I can find for it is the man page which says nothing about how to interpret the results.
I'm trying to create a bootable USB for Windows using Disk Utility on OS X 10.8.4. Downloaded CentOS 6 for 32-bit and tried to use Disk Utility to create a bootable USB drive. This method failed with one of the two following errors: "Could not restore - Invalid argument" "Could not restore - Invalid argument" "Could not restore - error 254" "Could not restore - error 254" None of these solutions worked: Convert the .iso to .dmg Change permissions to rwx+ugo on image Download image from another mirror Use "minimal" image vs "full" Change USB stick
I get: This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 35.72 GB but only 24.79 GB are available. Facts: Estimated size of full backup: 149 GB Size of Backups.backupdb on the Time Machine drive is 166 GB and there is 18GB of free space on the drive.
My iPhone 5 is running iOS 6.1, jailbroken. I've managed to lock myself out of the phone and don't know the passcode. Device is disabled for longer and longer periods of time in between incorrect passcode entries. I've been backing up to iCloud and periodically locally to iTunes.
If I buy two of a certain bluetooth 3.0 single-ear headset with a2dp support, and wear one on each ear, is there any way for iOS to give me stereo audio (right channel goes to one headset via a2dp and left channel goes to the other headset via a2dp)? Note: I'm aware that stereo a2dp headphones are what is normally used for this purpose.
I read with interest the article regarding sending an email based upon parsing through a csv file to pick up the name and email address. This looks like most of what I need to accomplish my objective with the exception that I would like for the script to run once daily and send the email one day before a date stored in the csv file. This is to remind someone that they need to perform a a certain task the next day. Emails will be sent using Apple Mail as the MTA through my gmail account. The csv will contain the following: firstname, lastname, action date
I am following the instructions on the phpsh github page I navigate to the phpsh directory and run python setup.py build and I get this error it seems the files in my python directory actually end in pyo... not sure what to do about this
I redeemed a movie in iTunes on my Mac and choose download later. Later, I choose Store > Check for Available Downloads… and it reported that all of my stuff has already been downloaded. So where do I go to get my movie onto my Mac?
Hi am trying to fix a MacBook Unibody Model A1342, The macbook has an unknown error that might also be caused by water accident or drop or just internal problems. (I dont know about the macbooks history) i try to describe everything detailled: Tried second hard-drive and got this error: Does anybody have any suggestions?
Just curious, i have a old USB mouse connected to my MacBook Air. I noticed that in the middle of the night (when the cover is closed an MBA is a sleep). The LED (red) inside the mouse is turned on for a few minutes (the mouse has transparent case, so thats easy to spot). I don't hear the fan, but certainly MBA puts some power on the USB port. After a few minutes is goes off again. I think it repeats a few times a night. Anyone has a clue what goes on?
I developed an application for my friend who has an individual developer registration, I have got a simple developer registration without individual enrollment. Is it possible to invite me at the Apple App Store to manage this application? or we need a company registration?
I'm looking for web service or an app (or whatever) for iphone 5 for bookmarking urls from google chrome or safari browser. I don't want to use bookmarks integrated into these browsers.
My windows 7 partition has a startup problem. The system will not start, even in safe mode, it gives me an error. If it were a windows machine, I would probably put in a startup disk, but I do not have one. I can read the files on the drive from the mac side, but the system will not start in windows. It worked great before this but it must have gotten a virus. help
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch - OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion), which i upgraded with a SSD. I installed the original HDD as second drive instead of the optical. I need to change the filesystem for volume (disk1s4) from HFS+ to NTFS. Paragon NTFS 10.0.2 driver is installed and activated. I just keep getting an error saying that the name is not a valid volume name for that file system. BTW: I also tried with Tuxera NTFS before installing Paragon. Here is the Terminal log: EDIT:
For whatever reason, my camcorder saves recorded videos as "clips" all bundled into a massive AVCHD movie file. I can open each clip individually and manually export it through Quicktime, but this is a time consuming process I would prefer to automate. What is the best way to automate exporting each of these individual "clips" into their own movie files? For reference, the "clips" view that shows upon opening the huge AVCHD file looks like the following:
I am new to mac I want to change the look of my Terminal.app window so that it look like Ubuntu's terminal
So, I went to Oracle's Java SE downloads and installed the latest JDK, jdk-7u25-macosx-x64. Now the only Java I have on this machine is 1.7.0_25, distributed by Oracle. /usr/bin/java -version now works.
Somehow my python on my Mac OS X is messed up. I am trying to install virtualenv And it gives me: However if I try it like this, it finds time. My path variable looks like this:
Follow the instructions exactly at *=URL=* 'COPY' and do not drag folders across to htdocs or from one folder to another. I dragged a folder out of htdocs and found it had been wiped. I found this guy thinking it had something to do with MAMP...*=URL=* and thought it was the answer... it is an answer but MAMP and MAMP PRO is separate completely and is the 'easy' way for a server on your machine. I discovered Apache is on the system already and that is what the above tutorial refers to and has nothing whatsoever to do with the MAMP set-up.
I just got a new 64 GB iPhone 5. I left it connected to my MacBook Pro all night last night via the USB cable. It's only about 85 percent charged.
I use Apple Mail and have: A) nearly 80,000 e-mails B) 10 different POP and iMAP e-mail accounts B) over 30 rules Any tips or resources for getting all my e-mails, accounts and rules transferred into Gmail?
I'll often highlight a bunch of files in Finder to find their collective size with Cmd+I. Sometimes the Get Info window shows the pooled size in a single window, but other times it'll open 40 separate Get Info windows. What determines when this happens? (I've since learned that other key combinations will always show the highlighted items' collective size, but when does Cmd+I alone act one way instead of the aforementioned other?)
When I put my headphones into my iPhone It doesnt go completely in like it should. I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me?
I want to create a virtualenv but it doesn't find the command. It is installed: What could be causing that?
Mac OS X doesn't seem to have the Linux performance tools perf, pidstat, or mpstat. What other software has equal functionality on OS X? Or, how can I install these?
On iPhone 4 - I was at a wrestling show - low light, except for strobe/laser lighting in the distance - and I was unable to take clear pictures. I had to zoom in 100% as I was sat far away. The pics came out blurry at best (with or without flash) What can I do to get clearer pics?
How to prevent gettin lots of .serverauth.$$ files in the HOME directory on OS X 10.8? ($$ is a pid number).
I'm often using 4 languages for writing texts. Now, each time switching languages with: ⌘+: and changing the language in the popup
This seems like a basic tech support question, but google is failing me.... I just paired a bluetooth headset (single ear) with my iPad. This headset is known for having a very good a2dp profile built in and is advertised to allow one to stream music from one's smartphone in addition to taking calls.
When I am outside of wifi and cell coverage, or even by choice, how can you use a third party GPS?
My phone recently for no apparent reason came up with the iTunes symbol and a pic of a USB cord. Apple seems thus far unable to access any of my data-like my contacts which is the most important. My ex initially set up my phone on his iTunes account, he hates me now, and I never even gave the fact that he set up my phone with his password and id until this happened. is it possible for someone else to remotely access my phone if they have the itunes id and pw that my phone has been operating off of? i right away signed up for my own itunes account, but i am just wondering if it is possible he wiped my phone or installed malware. thanks
I just have a billion items in Safari's reading list and I would like the links to all of them. Is there a way to get all of the items in your reading list as links (maybe in a text document)?
I downloaded fan control recently due to my macbook heating up quickly however the fan control app keeps saying my macbook is 0 degrees even when it is burning hot! so the fan can only go up to 3500 rpm which is the fastest i can make as the base fan level.
I went to menu-format-text and all that but the thing is the box grayed out totally. At this point, all I could actually click on was the hide and show thing but of course I can't see anything really. [what is the hide and show thing] I am not really good at handling Mac terminology and don't know where to start.
I have an iMac (mid 2008) with Mountain Lion. I recently bought an Apple TV 3 and read that this can enable Wake on Demand via Bonjour sleep Proxy. I've followed the guide at *=URL=* however I can't seem to get it to wake. System Information > Wifi = Wake on Wireless supported Energy saver > wake for network access = on Network > set service order = Wifi first Apple TV plugged in, sleeping When iMac is on it appears on network as normal
In the "Print" sheet, there's a checkbox for double-sided printing, but it's off by default. I often end up using twice as much paper as I want to because I forget to check this. Is there a way to make this enabled by default?
I want to change the diff tool to an external one in IntelliJ Idea (basically in Android Studio). I get this message: Can"t Launch Diff Tool Cannot run program "/Applications/Kaleidoscope.app": error=12, Permission denied Permissions of the file:
Is there a way to play OSX alert sounds from terminal? The alert sounds that are listed in System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effect Tab
The WiFi interface won't turn on when i press "Activate wifi" from the preferences neither from the status bar. I tried restarting the mac,and reset the pram. The Ethernet works fine and this is the result of ifconfig in the terminal: Is there anything I can try before initialize OSX?
The resizing behaviour of Finder Cover Flow kinds of annoy me... The size of the icons in the Cover Flow area is HUGE, while the list stays small at the bottom.
this is a conceptual question that came up from an issue I have. I've been monitoring memory usage with iStat Pro and Activity Monitor for some weeks, since my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion 8Gb RAM) became slower to change between applications and started to take some seconds to show me text when I start typing, or even take more than 5 seconds to let me put password when reopening my (turned on) laptop. I've been reading some topics about this, and generally when I close Safari and Chrome and reopen them, it gets better, although sometimes I need to purge on Terminal to free up some memory, but actually I don't have a good idea about the way OSX manages its memory. As far as I understand, Active Memory is for tasks that are currently being executed, Inactive Memory is for closed apps that may be potentially reopened, Free Memory is fully available memory, but what about Wired Memory, Swap Memory, VM size and Page ins / outs I see on Activity Monitor? Since OSX comes pre-config
I've got set up with Parallels 7 running Windows 7, and I'm finding that Firefox is forever sitting in front of all my other windows. I'm unable to even tab to them, I have to actually move Firefox to the side or minimise it. Other programs I'm usually running - Visual Studio Express for Web 2012, SSMS 2008 Express. In poking at this, It seems that if I go to normal full screen then back to coherence, it works, but I've not noted what triggers Firefox floating to the top.
YouTube doesn't work in Safari on mid-2013 MacBook Air 13". I've tried enabling HTML5 video at *=URL=* and some videos did start playing after that, but most videos still don't work. What I've noticed is that if you're viewing a video that does in fact work, and go into the full-screen mode, then all subsequent videos (which are suggested after the original video ends) do work, but only whilst you're still within the full-screen mode -- as soon as you exit the full-screen mode, depending on the video, Adobe Flash might again be required right away, without any option of going back fullscreen.
The short question is: if I have an app (Chrome) that keeps on crashing on app start up, how do I reinstall the app totally so it will run again? (removing the app and download and reinstall won't work). The long question is:
If I remove an external hard drive from my Mac, then re-introduce it a few weeks later, will Time Machine back it all up again as if it were a new drive, or will it just back up the changes that were made since the last time it backed up the drive?
I've recently noticed that a new process is up and running every time I start my computer - logind, running as root. I'm unsure why this is happening - could it be a patch or so? I'm running a fairly vanilla version of OS X 10.8.4
I received an email with 500 names, mostly political discussions, I decided I wanted to be off the list and when I made the request by replying the last person it cc'd all 500 names and it would not send, instead a notification dropped down over the email and said it doesn't recognize the recipients. The list is so long it drops below the email screen and it will not scroll down, no arrow key, nothing..just is stuck there I pressed enter and it all just hides up into the upper portion of my screen, and I can minimize it..NOTHING closes it.. I did delete it from the outbox..but the damn letter is still there.. Help!! I have mac book pro OS 10 8 4
TrueCrypt 7.1a is already installed on my MacBook with OS X 10.8.4. I plan to install OPENFUSE 2.6 and SSHFS 2.4.1, are they compatible with TrueCrypt?
On my MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, the status bar includes the standard "radiating sector" wifi icon which you can click on to select a wifi network, or Option-click on to see additional info such as BSSID, Channel, RSSI, transmit rate. The icon itself show 1, 2, 3 or 4 lines in black to indicate how good the wifi connection is. My question is this - what do the different numbers of lines indicate? Is it various thresholds in signal-to-noise ratio? Transmit speed? RSSI? Bit-error rate? The built-in WIFI Diagnostics app (I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.4) tells me that RSSI is -65 to -70 dBm, noise is between -85 and -90 dBm, SNR is between 10 and 25, Quality is either Good or Excellent, and Tx Rate is between 1.0 and 11 Mbps.
I recently received a PDF document consisting of 2 landscape A4 documents, which I would like to print as 1 portrait A4 (or 2 A5). I'm missing the control panel to print at 50% with matching layout. How can I do this on OS X?
I recently went to the apple store and got a replacement iphone 5 and with the new one I have decided to start fresh considering all the data I need is on icloud. All my photos are on photo stream and I can see them all on my Mac in iPhoto but on my phone it has only synced a recent bunch of photos and not all of them. Is there a way to sync all of the photos that are on photo stream onto my phone without transferring the photos through iTunes? Thanks!
How can I backup a second iPhone 4S to my PC? Both are backed up in iCloud but only one in iTunes store.
I have borrowed/taken-over my girlfriend's iPhone 4 that had iOS 4.x installed. She has changed phone carrier, so I don't have any active iPhone SIM card at present.
First let me say that I have ZERO experience in Apple Scripting. That said, I need to build a Apple Script or whatever is more efficient for that case, that is going to close Apple Remote Desktop after a certain amount of time. I want it to constantly run in the background and when the computer goes idle for 5 minutes, it closes Apple Remote Desktop.
I'm unable to quit or close Messages.app. Even if I do Command+Q, I still see a popup message telling me that I received a message. I don't want to disable notifications at all, I just don't want to receive messages while the application is closed.
I know that for every song I have purchased from the iTunes store I can download it regardless and at any time. I was thinking of subscribing to iTunes Match to get a similar service for all the songs I have bought from other sources. I was thinking though, if I unsubscribe at a later date will I no longer be able to download the songs that I didn't purchase from apple through iTunes? Or will all my songs that are recognised by "Match" be classed as purchased through iTunes and available to download indefinitely?
I have an iPad 2 and I need a device to test my ios app on. I was wondering if their are any consequences to registering a device to be a developer device. For example, can I still use it as a regular device when I am not developing on it? Will I be able to use it regularly if I put iOS 7 on it?
I have a filevault2 disk with two partition. One is the boot partition, the other contains data, both are encrypted. Today, after installing the latest 10.8 update (10.8.4 I guess), the computer reboots, asks for the user password at EFI (filevault2) and starts in verbose mode as usual. Unfortunately, the boots hangs with a line: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc
I have a macbook, after an accident I had, my keyboard doesn't work properly (some keys are not working at all including the command key) recently I m facing some problems like, no sound and no camera working, have found out that reinstalling the mac os x might solve these, any idea how could I work this out? I mean without the restart/command + R method
I just upgraded OS X from 10.7 to 10.8. While using 10.7 with an HP Compaq LA2405wg external monitor connected via Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, I was unable to set this monitor's native resolution of 1920x1200, because it was not listed in OS X's System Preferences > Displays.
I have a hosts file that I've added a couple URLs to a while back and it's been working fine, but any new entries now get completely ignored. I've added these to test it... google.com test-domain.com google.com www.test-domain.com
I recently purchase an Airport Extreme (the new tower looking one that supports 802.11ac). I finally, after days of headaches, figured out how to use it as my wireless router with AT&T U-Verse. AT&T supplies a hybrid modem/router/voIP box that I had to partially disable via the settings in order for my Airport to handle the DHCP assignments.
The keyboard shortcut that used to enter rename mode for the currently selected song no longer works in iTunes. Has it changed, or disappeared?
When I play music using the default music player app, songs automatically stop playing after 5 minutes or so. It will stop in the middle of a song. How do I prevent this from happening? I set the ipad to never sleep already, but this is still a problem.
Here's what happened. My iPhone had the power button break, so I copied all of my photos off of my iPhone's Camera Roll onto my work iMac. Then they replaced my iPhone with a brand new one, which I then put all of the pictures from my iMac back onto. Now I'm home where I have a PC and I need to get the photos off of my iPhone. Normally I just connect it and move the photos off of my iPhone using Windows Explorer, however that apparently only works with photos in your Camera Roll album, and all of the pictures I transferred back to my phone ended up in a different album which does not show up in Windows Explorer. Is there any way to get these photos off of my iPhone onto my PC? More info: When I connect to iTunes it can see that I have 3.5GB of photos on the phone, but it gives me no access to them that I can see.
I am trying to use defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES in my terminal but when I do I get the following error: -bash: defaults: command not found Any ideas as to what may be causing this issue and how to resolve it?
I'm trying to play “The Sims 3” on my MacBook Retina which doesn't have an optical drive. From what I understand, my options are: Buy/Borrow an external optical drive Use the Bonjour service on a PC (never used it) Copy the CD to my PC as an ISO/IMG file of some kind? What is the best way to allow my new Mac to play the Sims 3 without the power drain and physical weight of an external CD ROM?
When on wifi with my Macbook, sometimes I plug my phone in via USB and both connections say they are working. How do I know which connection my Macbook is using? Further, how do I force my Macbook to prefer the wifi connection?
How would I know whether my iPhone is jailbroken? If it is jailbroken, would you recommend that I update to a newer version?
I used to be able to hit Ctrl and use mouse wheel to zoom in on pictures, web pages, or whatever. With OS 10.8 the mouse wheel just scrolls up and down pages. Any thoughts on getting the zoom feature back?
I had put all of my app information into itunes connect and I got an email saying it is ready for upload. Please upload app binary.
Since we can have 180 days time for app binary submission, After that window expires the application will be deleted from the itunes-connect. Then is it possible to create another application with the same name? ie, is there any possibilities for apple to give the same name to the same user after deletion of the app?
Is it possible to use your Mac as an A2DP receiver with your phone as the transmitter? This way, I can get notifications from the phone while at my desk, without having to take out my headphones which are connected to my Mac?
Hi I have a pretty tough question it's because all my friends text with imessage and I feel kinda left out is there a way ANY WAY that I could get imessage on my iPod touch 3G There is this boy at my school that has it on his touch 3
I need to buy a power supply for my A1226 15-inch Macbook Pro (2007), but I can't find any anywhere. Apple's online store, ebay, or amazon. So I'm wondering if the charger doesn't have to be the one for your specific model. I found this charger that says that it's for Macbooks and 13-in Macbook Pros. It's 60W, so I'm guessing that it'll work. Will it?
I am using a PC keybroad on a Mac, the funniest thing is on this KB, to use the Esc key, I need to press Fn + Esc So, are there any tool I can remap the keys such that I can use the Esc without the Fn key?
I got a free replacement for my damaged iPhone 5 at my local Apple Store. I watched the clerk take a SIM card out of the old iPhone and pop it into the new one, which surprised me because I thought Sprint iPhones didn't use SIM cards.
In other words, can I make it appear to the web server as if the device is 2048x1536 pixels and device-pixel-ratio 1? I'm happy to pay for an app that does does this if there is one…
I was given an older MacBook (MacBook 2,1, Late 2006, A1181) that won't boot. I can't figure out why. When I push the power button, the CD drive spins, like usual, and the white power light on the front comes on, but the screen never comes on and the boot chime never happens. I was able to get it to boot last night by holding Left Shift, Command, Option and Power Button (resets the SMC) and it was fine, and I proceeded to wipe the HDD and reinstall OS X, but it won't boot again this morning. Thoughts? I followed all of Apple's suggestions again, but they didn't work.
Though it doesn't happen often, I sometimes find myself in the situation where OSX will not respond to any commands. The last time this happened I was closing a fullscreen VM - the app went away but then I was on an empty screen and wasn't able to switch away (the mouse still worked but not the brightness/volume keys). Is there any way to escape from such a situation other than holding the power key?
Is it possible to use AirPlay mirroring for the video output and AirPlay speakers for audio at the same time? Unfortunately, the AirPlay menu available in the dock only allows me to select one device at a time. Thank you.
Is it possible to locate a wifi network password in OS X of a wifi hotspot that I may have used in the past (AFAIK wifi networks are saved), in the rare situation that I may need to see it (to share it for example) ?
Many websites allow it, to use an SSL connection. But how can I force my web dependent applications (Safari e.g.) to establish such a more secure (I know, that SSL is not the solution for all security related problems) connection, and to fallback if it isn't possible?
I understand the issue with migrating away from the Snow Leopard release of OS X to anything newer is that applications compiled for the PowerPC architecture will no longer function. Is there a way to identify applications that are PowerPC-based without opening each and every application and looking at Activity Monitor? It would be great to know in advance which ones need updating so I can check if they've been recompiled for the x86 architecture.
We have a few airport's and an airport express here at my work, and I would like to bring them into my Nagios monitoring more closely. Right now they are only being monitored by ping. I would very much love to be able to ssh to it as we do to the other WAP's, so that I could monitor the users connected and maybe even some basic signal quality stuff, but other answers are getting me thinking that ssh just isn't an option for the Airports.
I am having repeated kernel panics. I'm hoping someone can give me a clue. the panic looks exactly the same each time. I've pasted the entire .panic below, but here are some relevant parts, and
When I set my apps to fullscreen with the taskbar still there, it doesn't truly fullscreen the application, it always has that small little border to the left. I'm using moom as a window resizer, but even without it, I still get the same problem. Is this a setting somewhere? My dock is on the left as well.
On my Windows 8 PC, I can go to the "Network" page to see all networked computers, including my own. On my Mac, on the "Network" page I can see all networked computers, EXCEPT my own.
I have created many events over the years of having my mac... and I am noticing that my events are becoming very jumbled from importing photos over the years and just tossing them into the closest relative event I can find.. I am wanting to have all my photos in the basic part of iphoto without any events.. so that I can recreate ALBUMS that appropriately file my pictures so I can find them easily when I need them. Can anyone assist me with this? Thanks :)
I have a jailbroken Apple TV (black), which has firecore's aTV flash black installed. How do I get it to update to the latest ios so I can use HBOGo? Settings > General > Update just says "You are up to date", yet it's on version 5.0.2. aTV flash updated to 2.3 without issue.
I accidentally touched the picture icon (lower left corner) in my iPad. It started to upload ALL 400+ pictures to Dropbox. I DO NOT WANT the pictures uploaded. I can't stop the upload! And it is taking forever. It keeps telling me that I need to run Dropbox to finish the upload process.
I have a bit of an edge use-case of QR codes. I would like to be able to scan a QR code via a phones camera and have that value pasted into a browser text input. Is this possible given any current apps or API's?
Can I view all the installed and uninstalled apps on my iPad? Say I want to find out versions numbers and other details of an app I uninstalled / installed last week. Can I do that someway with a log or some sort of history viewer.
I am looking for a solution for configuring the VPN on OS X so you do not loose access to internal network. In fact I want to use the VPN only to enable access to different external services that are cut by the firewall.
THis is not a problem in the latest versions of Google Drive sync anymore Sometimes Google drive for OS X turns gray telling it is unable to connect. The only cure is quit and launch again and it immediately starts to work. The Resume in menu is inactive.
I gave my iPhone 4 to my daughter and she keeps charging to my Apple account. She signs in with her own Apple ID, but I keep getting charged for apps she is buying.
I am looking for a document that would specify how can I produce strokes like the ones below on a MacBook Pro keyboard. Insert Numpad Plus Numpad Minus ...
I have used vi as my main text editor for years now on Linux (and a few years back Mac too) and on my brand new Mac (running 10.8.4) I find when trying to edit a file using vi in Terminal I can not use the standard vi shortcuts e.g. using 'CTRL + E' to navigate to the end of a line. Instead the shortcut is set to the vim shortcut which is '$' to navigate to the end of a line. I a using bash. How can I get the standard vi shortcuts?
For some servers: doesn't work. It has no response, but is looking like very busy: only ctrl + C can help. So -w 1 seems to be a useless option, to specify the timeout. Does somebody know what is going wrong: how specify a real timeout?
I recently noticed that only a couple of my contacts' birthdays show up on my calendar on OS X. For instance, I have four friends with birthdays today, but only one is on my calendar. I tried deleting and re-adding my Facebook account but notice no difference. I'm getting the exact same behavior on my iPhone.
My default printer's default settings are to print double-sided. It works well in all apps, due to system-wide preferences… with the exception of Quick Look: when I open a file with Quick Look (pressing space bar in Finder), then ask it to print (Command-P), it does not open a dialog and send it directly to the printer, one-sided.
So on my iPod generation 4, I go into my cloud contacts and type my friends name like" amy(: Bestfriend" and then I'll save that and go to my messages and her name will pop up as "Amy then her last name". I don't get why the name I saved it as isn't showing up.. It did before! Please help?
I've used rsync to archive my hard drive to an external successfully and now I'd like to use an incremental session to only update files that changed or were added. Putting together what I've found on Google this is my command: The output from rsync 3.0.7 is: sending incremental file list sent 42 bytes received 15 bytes 114.00 bytes/sec total size is 1 speedup is 0.02
We use the Java Network Launch Protocol to load up our applications at work, but it's failing for our Mac users now. I VNC'd into my test Mac to give it a test, and it appears that nothing happens at all. In the past, if Java wasn't installed it would give the install option, and if it was install it would to a launch. Now the URL bar just flashes and goes back to the previous website. Appears that perhaps some recent OS X update has broken this functionality. How can I re-enable it?
I have jailbroken my iPad for firewall, XBMC and some development things only. I didn't know before that on the right-hand side near the volume buttons is a switch. In settings I have two options for it: lock screen rotation or mute. I don't need either of them, but I've got an idea on my mind - how about to turn on/off WiFi with this switch? (To save some battery.) Is there a mod or something that lets me do so?
I backup my phone to iTunes but need to back up my pc. I can do pictures as I can just copy those from the phone but what about the contacts, texts etc that are backed up to iTunes? Where is that stored?
My friend is selling me his old MacBook (Glossy white finish with rounded edges and corners) cheap for a Mobile Development course I'm taking, but he's keeping the hard drive. So I'm thinking of buying an SSD off of somebody, and I'm not sure what the minimum size I would need. I will have to install: Either keep Snow Leopard or Lion Xcode Whatever is needed to develop for Android and iOS Possibly some form of productivity suite (MSO or LibreOffice)
I'm writing my first launchd plist. When I try to load it with the following command:
I want to delete items off MacBook but leave the Mountain Lion OS. How can I do this
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (running Mountain Lion) connected to an HP Pavilion 23xi external display. The external is connected via DVI-->Thunderbolt adapter, is set as the primary display and the MacBook Pro is mostly in Clamshell mode.
When I wake up my Mac I am presented with the login screen. I begin typing my password in the empty password text box. After typing the first few characters, the password text becomes highlighted (selected) somehow thereby causing the next character I type to delete those selected characters. For example, say my password is "password123" I press power and my Mac wakes up I type "passw" The password text becomes selected somehow I finish typing "ord123" and hit enter The password is incorrect since I am left with "ord123" in the password input box Why is this and/or how can I prevent this from happening?
We have edit bays (13) and use Mac Pro 2.1's and Mac Pro 4.1's both dual Xenon quad core. When a computer dies, we usually look for the same motherboard which are getting harder to find over time. Hackintosh and Quo are out - they seem too sketchy. We are looking for options to run Leopard to maintain compatibility with the SAN. What is the most modern/recent motherboard or Mac that will run Leopard?
I'm managing an 8-core mac server (fully updated to Mac OSX 10.8.4, all other software is up to date). Multiple users can login remotely to use the machine. Whenever someone logs in remotely, the physical monitor that is connected to the server and sits on my desk turns on, and I can see everything that the user is doing. I can even interfere with their work if I want by moving the physical mouse that is connected to the server, or typing on the physical keyboard that is connected to the server.
I've got multiple terminal tabs open, and I want to be able to close the current tab. How can I make the current terminal tab be the active tab, so that I can close that tab with ⌘+w? I am in the default Mac terminal.
If it's set to the device, new contacts won't sync to iCloud. The process appears the same no matter how it is set. So, it's easy to create a new contact, and it's natural to expect it will sync by default, but maybe it won't.
I have already submitted this question on StackOverflow but I figured that this may be a more appropriate location. I'm building a custom kernel for Mac OS (Mountain Lion, Darwin 2050.22.13). I can build the kernel just fine and I can add stuff to it but I'm missing something. To keep things short, here is a sample of what I'm trying to do. Let's say that I want to add a function [my_func(void*)] to say, bsd/kern/kern_fork.c I can add an include file and stick it into osfmk/bsd and change the Makefile so that the new .h file is now copied to BUILD/obj/RELEASE_X86_64/EXPORT_HDRS/
I'm looking for 3 replacement screws for my MacBook Unibody (late 2008, model 4,1 A1278), but I can't seem to find a proper set of case replacement screws ANYWHERE! There are 3 types of case screws, as shown below:
I have scheduled some jobs in crontab which are to be run one by one, at some specific time. My script for crontab is :
I want to create a user to run tomcat on my system and was wondering if it is possible to create a user without a home directory like it is possible in linux.
I've been reading up on battery cycle counts and checked out my current count on my MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) - recommended maximum cycle count is 500. I've had this laptop now for over 4 years and at the 2 year mark I had the battery replaced by AppleCare. The first time I checked out the cycle count was today and it's currently on 1004. Now my question is, is this the cycle count of the battery since I replaced it (as in, it reads the cycle count from the battery), or is it the combined cycle count (as in, it stores the count somewhere and increments occasionally)? My assumption is that it's the count of that battery but I have no idea how to verify this. Either way, it looks like I need a new battery ;)
what can I do to access idle mode of my iPhone 4s or shut down the phone? It has suddenly stopped accepting these functions.
Instead of sending an SMS right now, I would like to send a "delayed" SMS. For example, delay it by 45 minutes, or 60 minutes, etc. Is there any way to do it?
So I was playing around with the findmymac/iphone app just testing it out and hit the "lock" option. My Macbook Pro is now locked, which has been fine up until this point because I just hit "option" on startup enter my passcode and I'm in. The problem now is I'm wanting to reformat my macbook so I can partition it (need to for work) but obviously I cant because the lock mode inhibits me from doing so. I cant find any help on this issue, my situation seems a bit different because most people asking the questions seem to not have their passcode but I have mine, is there a really obvious fix that I am missing?
On my system, Firefox doesn't display Japanese characters, for example on the main page of the Japanese Wikipedia. Safari has no problems with this, so what is wrong with my Firefox installation? After I changed the Serif and Sans Serif fonts for Japanese in Preferences->Content->Fonts & Color->Advances->Fonts to Osaka from Hiragino Mincho ProN and Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, respectively, Japanese symbols are displayed. In TextEdit the Hiragino fonts display the Japanese letters fine, so why can't Firefox do it?
I just downloaded the RedLaser app from the App Store on my iPod touch 4th generation, 6.1.3. If I go to launch the app, it goes to the Scan section and works normally for about 5 seconds. Then, no matter what I'm doing within the app, I get this error. Please see the screenshot here:
What is the correct way of editing /etc/hosts? I want to add some IP addresses and host names to it. It works for a while (a few hours) and then it gets reverted back to the original version. Is there any process checking the status of /etc/hosts and reverting it back? I'm on my MBA with Mountain Lion.
After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion, I find that the F6 key (which is really Fn+F6, as I have enabled "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" under System Preferences:Keyboard) is not behaving as expected.
So my little sister did not know that you only can have one itunes account "running" on a computer. To cut the story short - her ipod is now "synced" with my apple-Id so when she downloades apps it's normal but when she has to update it's like she is logged into my account and it shows that she has to loggin with my password?? I was wondering if you perhaps could "Unsync" or somthing?
I am running OS X 10.8 on a MBP 2011. I use some bash-scripts for tasks like backups of remote servers. One of the scripts contains this snippet: When I execute this script in /Users/myuser/Documents/Backup (note the upper case B), I get this response:
I have a playlist in iTunes that shows all my songs that are matched with iTunes Match but are lower than 256 kbps. What I do every once in a while, is delete all the songs in the playlist (I delete them from iTunes, but NOT from iTunes Match/iCloud, then download them again. This is supposed to download the 256 kbps copies that iTunes has of each song.
I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 2.53ghz Core 2 Due with 8 Gigs of ram running Mountain Lion. I am attempting to upgrade the hard drive due to running out of space. I picked up a Seagate Momentus 750gb 7200rpm drive. This is not the hybrid XT drive that seems to cause problems for everybody.
It would be nice if I can type dro/meg/propos to get to the megacorp's proposal file. The answer may be the Alfred plugin or some configuration, but I'll accept any solution that allows me to quickly navigate to this file and perform some action (e.g. reveal in Finder or something). "Search-as-you-type" functionality is very important.
Anyway, so I read a method someone else had luck with using DVD and then installing the trial version of VMWare Fusion to complete the install. So I did this, booted virtually in OSX and boom, completed the install. I ran all windows updates and rebooted and still had no kb or mouse! I assumed that I should get the drivers from Apple so I tried the following in windows (virtually through VMWare): Installing Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033 Installing an older version of Boot Camp Software. Building a USB drive in OSX and then mounting it in windows
What does a family with multiple devices do for charging and storage of a growing number of devices. We now have 4 laptops 5 iPads and 5 iPhones plus several other iPods. Are there any cabinets designed for the home that can charge and house this many? I am tired of the cords and devices laying all over my house.
This is doubly confusing because there is no DevNode for the mirror'ed volume, probably due to it previously being fed to corestorage. The mirror device doesn't show up in Disk Utility.app, but I see it as above in the CLI. Flailing a little, I tried to repair the mirror using both UUIDs to no avail: Uh oh! Is it possible to import the corestorage LVG that I created against the mirror'ed device while the mirror is degraded?
I have a toddler that wants to push all the keys while watching a video or movie. Can I disable the keyboard while he is watching it? OR Is there a hard snap on cover that can go over the keyboard and trac pad?
I have osx and windows 8 installed using bootcamp and they are running fine. I installed ubuntu 13 on external thunderbolt drive, it installed fine, however i am not sure what is the best way to triple boot. I installed grub on mbr on external thunderbolt drive, so in theory if i install rEFTit, i should be able to choose either osx,windows, or ubuntu to boot?
I use a couple of external displays with my MacBook Pro. I like to keep my IDE (IntelliJ) on display 1 and web browser on display 2, and then the terminal on another display. The issue is when I disconnect from external displays, my window locations are lost. Is there a tool which can do this? I already use SizeUp. Cheers!
I noticed that if someone writes me a message and includes :-) in it, Mail.app translates it a computer, mailbox and telephone icon:  If I copy paste these three icons to another program (TextEdit for example) it pastes as :-). Other smileys, like ;-), are not converted by Mail and show up as intended. My MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.4, Mail 6.5 and the default (and only) language in System Preferences -> Language & Text is British English. How can I force Mail to show :-) instead of the three icons?
Generally to either increase or decrease the volume level of my Mac, I always go to the volume menu bar and adjust the slider accordingly. I was wondering: What other ways exist within OS X to adjust volume settings and perhaps give even finer adjustments to the volume level that is produced ?
Does OS X have an inbuilt effective "self cleaning" feature/mechanism. If so does it need to be turned on by default, and how often does it take place, (or is this something that is determined by the user).
I have Gooogled this for a couple of months now casually but have never gotten a guide that seems suited to me. I am running Snow Leopard. It's really starting to get slow. Basically, most guides on the net either tell you how to do a clean install and keep all of your files, or none of them. What I am looking for is something in between.
I look for a file in finder, finder finds it. But, I'd like to find it's full path. How do I do that?
I'm planning to buy an iMac next month. I'm a software developer. I usually use the Microsoft Keyboard for my programming tasks, It has a great ergonomics. I tried iMac's keyboard in the store but didn't get a chance to sit down and use it for an hour or so to understand if that works for me. Anyone is using it for heavy programming and can tell me if that is comfortable for hours of coding ? Thanks :)
Yesterday my HD died. I thought about buying a new disk and reinstalling, but I can't find the original DVD that came with the machine (it's a MacBook 5.1, it came with 10.5). Suppose I want to buy and install a new operating system, how can I do it, considering that boxed dvds are no longer sold?
I have an Apple iPhone 4 (model A1349) with Virgin Mobile service. It works fine in the US but Virgin told me that it won't work internationally (i.e., calling within other countries or calling US from abroad). Is there anything that I can do with this phone or do I need a new phone and/or carrier?
I am running 10.8.4 and would like to switch to different desktops using keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately for me, I only see "Switch to Desktop 1" and have not way to add a shortcut to switch to desktop 2.
I have two Logitech MX510 mice, and two macs - an iMac and MBP. Recently, the former has started responding to mouse input jerkily and without any precision - to the point that it is almost unusable. Switching out the mouse, rebooting, etc make no difference.
I am confused how to setup proxy for iTunes and App Store on Macbook Air. I have noticed that Safari can connect to the Internet through proxy, but for iTunes and App Store, I do not know how it works.
I am trying to consolidate files that may be spread around my mac (photos in this case). I can tell the finder to search for images, but I am very used to in Windows where I can search for the file type across the computer, and then show a column in the details view that shows the path where the file is located. So far, I cannot find such a thing in the list or coverflow view in the finder.
Is there any reason(s) when luggage is screened at airport security, not to be able to take a Mac Mini, keyboard and mouse as carry-on luggage aboard an aircraft ?
My company recently changed an internal site to use HTTPS instead of HTTP (it is our Jira site in case that matters). From what I can tell, this site is using an internal certificate. On our work computers this certificate appears to be pre installed so the website comes up without trouble in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. However, my personal computer is a Mac (OS X 10.8.4) and I am having major troubles accessing the site through any browser. I have followed instructions to install the certificate in my Keychain and I believe I have successfully done that, but I am still not able to access the site. When Accessing the site I Get: Chrome: Invalid Server Certificate You attempted to reach jira.surescripts.local, but the server presented an invalid certificate. Safari: Safari can't open the page Safari can't open the page "*=URL=* because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server "jira.local"
I'm mid way through replacing the hard drive in my MacBook Pro (mid-2009). I've created a boot disk (10.8) on a SD card which I am booting from. On trying to format the new drive with disk utility (in from the installer) I am being presented with the following error.
I ran into a rare situation - I want to snag a picture of my screen while using cmd+tab to show people how I navigate around in this how-to post. The regular cmd+shift+3 or 4 didn't do anything. Thoughts on getting around it? I run lion 10.8.3 on a MBA.
My 2007 MacBook (10.6.8) worked perfectly fine with my AirPort Express, until I added a 2010 iMac (10.8.4) to the network. When I first setup the iMac it connected to the AirPort Express, but not to the internet. The AirPort menubar icon showed an exclamation mark on it. At some point in or after the setup I was prompted to set up my AirPort Express, which had already been configured and working just fine with my MacBook.
I import my videos from my camera into iPhoto along with the stills. Then I use iMovie to create videos from them. Unfortunately every time I open iMovie to get some work done it wants to go through and update thumbnails. Sometimes it is quick, but sometimes it takes quite a while.
Running into a strange problem with a newly deployed iMac running 10.8.4, bound to Open Directory & Active Directory, data migrated (via Migration Assistant) from an older iMac running 10.7... Data migration went smoothly, I'm able to login as both the network user and as the mobile account user. However whenever I shut the machine down and reboot the network/mobile user loses administrative rights. If I restart (rather than shutdown, reboot) it seems like admin rights are retained but there have been 1 or 2 times that I think it lost them.
I have been tasked with creating a default system image to use to both back up and use to deploy to new systems. After checking the stats on the 7 systems in question I've found that there are multiple model identifiers. Would I be correct in my assumption that a system image made for one model identifier would not be useful for a system with a different identifier?
At home, my laptop's sharing control panel tells me that it will be accessible as 'whatever.local', but the 'hostname' command reports 'whatever.home'. What's this about?
I've been looking all over the internet, but I can't seem to find out the default speaking rate for the in-built speech synthesis program on Mac OS. say "What to say" -r <rate> As shown above there is a way to specify the speaking rate (wpm) but there is no where that specifies the default rate? Anyone have an idea of what it is?
Whenever I watch videos through the YouTube app on my iPhone 4 (iOS 6.1.3), after being on wireless for a while it will often spontaneously disconnect and start downloading from the 3G network. I only have a 200 MB data plan so this is a major problem. I'm guessing it is not app-specific, I just only happen to notice it with YouTube. I have 3/3 bars of wireless signal and my laptop in the same location has no problem so I don't think it's an issue with the wireless. I've tried restoring various levels of default settings and the entire phone to no avail.
On iTunes I set up a smart playlist to contain only downloaded music (iTunes Match) so that I can use it offline or when the connection has a very low quality (see for example Create a Smart Playlist for iCloud Songs that have been downloaded Locally) I would like to achieve something similar on my iPhone.
I run Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on a Mac Mini 2012. Over the past year or so (dating back to my older iMac mid-2010, after which I transferred the data to my current Mac Mini), I've noticed that most of my files in Time Machine are getting locked. The files on my Mac are not locked, but the backed-up versions of the files are locked. The icons have a padlock icon on them. This is NOT due to the "auto-lock documents" feature, since this no longer exists in Mountain Lion.
I recently came into possession of a Samsung usb charger. This charger has double the power output of the standard apple one (5Vx2A instead of 1A). Of course, it would be nice to decrease the charging time of my iPad (3rd gen) with this adapter. Since I don't have the equipment to measure the power consumption of an iPad during charging I can't produce reliable data on this issue. I was wondering if somebody ever studied the charging times of mobile apple devices (most notably the iPad) with third-party chargers and could share some data (like power consumption, charging times, ...) on it.
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I noticed Mail often freezes up for a good 5-10 seconds at a time in the middle of typing. This happens constantly, and every time I notice it says "Saving Message". Unfortunately, it chooses to do this every time I start typing, and I often stop typing when I don't see the text appearing, so it takes me forever to compose a message of decent length. How do I fix this?
Here's my problem: over the past couple days I did a really good clean out of my computer and managed to free up several gigabytes of data and was hovering around 233+ gb of free space. Then in the last couple of days I noticed my trash file was taking a really long time to empty (I don't know if this is part of the problem but wanted to mention it just in case).
I logged out of the iCloud account on both my iPhone and my iPad so neither devices sync each others music or apps anymore, but whenever I make a note on my iPhone I always find it on my iPad and I do not want it there. Is there a way to make my notes stay only on my iPhone?
I have a photo album in iPhoto '11. To stream it to my Apple TV (3rd gen), I open iTunes '11 and do File > Home Sharing > Choose Photos to Share with Apple TV. I select my photo album from the list and click Sync. Now on Apple TV, I choose Computers > Robert's Library > Photos > My Photo Album.
I have excluded a folder from Spotlight, because this folder has a lot of files so it often fills up the results, no matter what I'm searching for. However, sometimes I still want to search this folder. So, I tried opening the folder in Finder, then searching using the box in the top-right corner of the window, then selecting Search: "Folder_name" to limit the results to just that folder.
For years, I've been using the 'Calico Cat' image that ships with OS X for my account. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (maybe since Lion?) the Login page has larger round account images, and it shows the 'Calico Cat' image as a rather stretched and fuzzy rendering.
I have a .DS_Store on my desktop. Ruins the flow. I want to remove it and have it hidden, but I have hidden files enabled on my mac as I need it. This file however, is annoying.
How to clear ALL items from Safari's reading list? I have 100's of items in the list so do not want do do them individually. I tried removing Bookmarks.plist in ~/Library/Safari/ which deletes the reading list on the mac locally but iCloud just adds them back, when syncing.
Some of my notes have disappeared from my iPhone 4s. I haven't made any backup and contents of those notes are very important to me. How can I restore or at least access some of my lost notes? (My iPhone 4s isn't jail broken and I don't install any games or any apps on it)
I have a lot of screen real estate, and am constantly "losing" my mouse. I'd like to have a simple way of easily finding the mouse that doesn't have to be reconfigured when I undock from my 28 inch monitor and rely on my retina display.
I used to be able to make music play out both my laptop speakers and also my monitor speakers. I did this in the System Preferences and "creating" a new audio device that composed of both my laptop and my monitor. However sometime later I'm unable to find or locate the setting to create a new audio device that allows for this. How do I re-enable sound out both my laptop and monitor speakers? The only changes I made since I did this include: Install Logix, Install (and remove) Boom audio boost, and normal system updates.
I am using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4. I tried the steps in Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X to setup my dev environment, but I am not able to open the virtualhost I created – or localhost for that matter. cURL gives me this error: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host For those who are interested, here's my httpd-vhosts.conf file, and my /etc/hosts file: What might I be missing here?
I have heard you can send messages to other users in Terminal with the command "talk" or "write". If you can in fact do this, how?
On MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Apple samples image to 2x and then scale it back down. Even for other resolutions found in System Preferences.
I have an iPhone 4S from about 2 years. Till now the App Store never asked me a password different from the one I've set when create the Apple account. Today, for no apparent reason, it asked me a different email while I was trying to update my apps. I don't know this email and I think that I've never typed it, neither set it as my default email. If I go to iTunes it shows clearly that my Apple ID has the correct email, I also tried to verify it and the password is correct. But the App Store keeps asking the password for that different account, and there I can't change it. How do I "say to the App Store" that I want to sign it with a different email? Edit
Background: I am planning on purchasing a MacBook Pro before I go to college (Computer Science Major). The MacBook comes with a standard 4GB of RAM but there is an upgrade that cost $100, to double the RAM to for 8GB. So my question is, is that extra RAM worth the cost, or is it uncessary?
I have a huge problem. It seems that I erased 1TB of my husband´s pictures (he is a photographer).
After restarting, I had a question mark folder flashing. So I searched and found topics like this one : Can't boot Mac, only shows a Folder with a Question Mark? It appears that my hard drive won't show up at all.
So I have a mid-2010 iMac 22" that I just installed Windows 8 on, but cannot get the Boot Camp 5 drivers to install. I was unaware that my mid-2010 iMac was technically unsupported for the Windows 8, but the Boot Camp assistant native to my OSX successfully installed it anyways. I know that the Apple support pages say that it is unsupported but when I look at what the specs are needed to run Windows 8 (on the Windows 8 support pages) my machine qualifies.
Is there a way to view your iTunes wishlist on an iPad? I checked at the bottom of the iTunes app but I couldn't find it there.
I just got a new MacBook Pro with the current version of iPhoto, which supports Photo Stream. I have an iPhone 4, but never had Photo Stream enabled because my previous computer couldn't run the version of iPhoto that was required to use it.
I have iCloud Safari bookmark syncing set up on two Macs and an iPhone. Is it possible to delete a bookmark (or set of bookmarks) from one machine only, so that they continue to exist on the other two devices?
iMessage has a Bonjour option but there isn't any explanation on what this all is about. So what can I do with this?
All spaces are moveable between each other except the first. Why?
I spent a week with file vault 2 running but found the startup time of my 2012 Retina MBP was excessively slow (5+ mins on the grey apple screen after the spinning white thingo stops) along with the track pad becoming unresponsive for minutes at a time. I assumed/suspected it was file vault and turned it back off.
the device not listed under safari develop menu, i need this for debugging. tried restart the safari and reconnected the device more times but it is not working. the same device working in another MacBookPro with safari version 6.0. Could you please help me?.
I was an exposè addict and so do I am for mission control. I was wondering if for many desktop you have "instantiated" the more your computer slows. Since I am a developer i always have at least 5 screens, does this impact on performances or it is just a really bit thing in front of actual software running in those desktops?
Is there any way to hide or remove Firefox 22 title bar in OS X 10.8.4?
Using Google Chrome on my iPad, it seems like every now and then it randomly "forgets" all of my cookies. Authentication cookies in particular; I get re-prompted for two factor authentication and notified "you may be clearing cookies if you see this message often". I am not clearing my cookies manually, nor does there seem to be any rhyme or reason to the cookies disappearing. It is not a particular amount of time -- sometimes it is multiple times a week, and I never use Incognito Mode.
My Ford Sync does not seem to hear me when i request to make a call, or when I tell it who to call.. is there something i need to do or change in my settings. I have it paired with a iphone 4. thanks
I had to change a path from /a/b/c/d/<hundreds of files>.mp3 to /a/b/c/<hundreds of files>.mp3 Is there some way to bulk update this information? I'm using iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion
I have upgraded my OSX to 10.8.4. After OSX upgrade I have upgraded my JDK and JRE to 7. But I am getting the above error when I am trying for maven build of project. When I run ls -al /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ I get the below response For this ls -al /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home/bin I don't see any contents in CurrentJDK further. On running /usr/libexec/java_home I get:
I've made the tragic mistake of downloading and installing python 2.7 from *=URL=* instead of using homebrew. Now vim won't launch, all kinds of things are screwed up, and I can't get rid of this mess.
How can I have de same Apple ID in my iPhone and my iPad (so that I can use the apps on iPad that I have in iPhone and "vice versa")
All, Can anyone direct me to a link or provide instructions on how to get the Didot font (True Type I believe) into MS Outlook 2012 running in a VM?
I just upgraded to 10.8.4; I had to do this by downloading the update .dmg from Apple as my computer has decided on its own to opt-out of software updates. Both the App Store and softwareupdate report that there are no updates available even though I know full well that there is a Java update and iTunes is not the latest version. What is wrong with it?
Upon opening Xcode, without given the option to do anything else, it opens a blank editor window showing "no selection" with a spinning activity indicator. It then takes up 100% of the CPU for a few minutes until I force quit. How can I stop it from acting like this? I have tried reinstalling and deleting all its cached items and local data.
I'm experiencing something a bit odd on retina screen of my MBP 15". When i stay on facebook homepage for like 10-15 seconds then close it. Then switch to a greyish application, i can definitely see; search box, friend list on right etc. faded on greyish application.
I've created presentation in Keynote 09. Now I want to export it to HTML, but without navigation buttons. After selection Share > Export -> HTML I see only option to select movie quality:
Update 2: After a few more hours of research I'm more or less convinced that the cable is toast. Apparently it's a common occurrence with certain Macbook models.
I have an Applescript that sends myself and colleagues iMessages when certain events happen. Some times hundreds of iMessages are sent in a short space of time to lots of people and the Messages app fills up pretty quick. Is there an Applescript I can run that deletes conversations from the Messages app? (It can be a blanket 'nuke all messages', I'm not worried about keeping the history on this particular computer.)
My wife had to get a new iPhone and they put my iCloud account on her phone. I am trying to change it but when i go into Settings > iCloud, the email address is grayed out so I can't see how to change it. How can I change the iCloud account on my wife's phone so she gets her contacts, etc and not mine?
Googling suggests that I highlight the name with my mouse and hit delete - this doesn't work (the name stays in the dropdown list, I instead end up deleting a letter from the name textfield) A Mac specific suggestion is to hold down the "fn" button when I click delete. Trying that seems to have no effect - nothing changes, that I can see. How do I remove a specific username from the username drop down on Google Chrome on Mac?
I am currently trying to figure out how to Copy and Paste files (more than one file) into the same directory using Terminal. I am trying to create a script to create the same file. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
I'm looking for something similar to *=URL=* for the mac. What I want to do is create a backup of my file index which is portable and can be searched through even if you don't have actual access to the files. Any clues? Br
We have a simple filesharing setup, where iMac users connect via AFP. This morning, one user could no longer access the base folder, despite no settings be changed. There are standard POSIX and ACL permissions applied to the folder, and another user who is in the exact same groups as this one user can access the folder with no trouble.
From an Application, I Saved the PDF Contents to Offline. Now, Exit from the Application. Are there any App's to View the Offline Saved Content from outside the Application.
Is there anyway to check the version of an app installed on a iPad without connecting back to iTunes on my desktop / laptop?
What are some good USB plugged-in/pluggable speakers for Macbook Pro 13" Late 2011? My MacBook Pro late 2011 has its headphone jackets broken due to a stuck headphone jack, and my warranty's out. Also in the sound pane the sound output device listed is "Digital Out" So as my headphone jack is out, and as I don't have a compatible "Digital Out" device, I'd like to know if there are any USB Pluggable speakers available which function by getting plugged into the USB port instead of being plugged into the headphone socket.
I erased my Macintosh HD from Disk Utility with a journaled encrypted format and I wanted to install OS X 10.7 Lion. I left it to download and install overnight because it took about 16 hours.
When I open some apps, the window for the app is huge. I know I can resize the window by going to bottom right and corner and using mouse. I was just wondering is there some quicker way using keys etc?
I want to transfer pics from my iPhone to my Mac. I've had Photo Stream on for over a year, and I had it turned on my Mac as well. I don't use iPhoto. I have a Smart Folder setup so that I can access my pics that way. When I delete a picture from my Photo Stream on my iPhone, is it supposed to delete from the Smart Folder? I experimented with it this morning and the image remains in that Mac folder. This makes me think that the images, once synced to the Mac, are permanently there until I manually delete from the Mac (even if it's no longer in my iPhone Photo Stream album).
my mac pro have ethernet and wi-fi, and i configure the vm-fusion with "Share with my mac", and after configure it successfully, i can ping the mac host well, but i can go internet in my VMware fusion OS which is centos 5.4, i find the issue: my wifi ip is "192.168.10.12" my mac vmnet8 ip is "192.168.157.1" and the VMware fusion OS ip is dhcp, "192.168.157.152", i set the gateway to "192.168.157.1", so i don't know how can surf internet?
I have several mac users who claim they need all 3 major browsers for testing websites and they need Admin privileges to keep them updated. (My Company doesn't support but Safari.) I have run an Application Usage report for the last year on these users to pull what applications where used, how long, etc etc..
I have a D-Link 2640 modem in my room in an indoor area. When my friends connects to modem via wireless, I got a huge packet loss while pinging 192.168.1.1, and when he disconnects, everything works well. He's using ubuntu on Lenovo Thinkpad E530 and I am using Mac OS X on Macbook Air mid 2012. What's the problem? any idea to fix this? thanks
Does anybody have any idea what could be going wrong here? (And also, why Apple didn't just leave well alone and have this working by default, like it did in earlier versions of OS X? :)
I noticed that sometimes, when I tell Finder to copy files to a location where some of those files already exist, Finder gives me the option to "skip" those files and then proceeds to copy the rest. But at other times, more often I guess, Finder gives me the option to "stop" (or to "replace") and there is no "skip" option. I cannot figure out what triggers either behaviour.
My computer sees the printer and it looks like it installed, but when I try to print, I get an error message that it can't find a print head or that the print head is busy.
I have two Dymo label printers. I tried installing the printer using CUPS web admin as well as the Print & Scan under System Preferences. Both printers installed fine. When I print from either the print jobs are sent to only one of the two. The purpose of two printers is to avoid the constant changing of label sizes.
I'm using facetime with a headset, while also listening to music. How do I play the music I'm listening to my friend, over facetime?
I am trying to add shortcut for opening iTerm when I press F1. I added an application shortcut with this key but it does not work. I want to fire iTerm instantly irrespective of what application is currently running when I press F1. Any help would be appreciated. I recently moved to mac from Linux.
My girlfriend has an Android phone and when she text me on my new iPhone, emoji like ;-) appear as is and not as a winking smiley. Is there a way to change that?
What are the key features of a homebrew recipe? If I want to contribute a recipe, e.g. this one for udunits to the the hombrew-science repository, how would I convert a command-line script like this: into a valid recipe?
I have a 2012 MBP retina display. Over the past few days I've noticed that my trackpad has started to become finicky: it's hard to pinch, the cursor occasionally "jumps" and sometimes gets stuck so badly that it can only move on one axis (e.g., can only move left or right). After restarting and resetting VRAM things seem to momentarily be fixed: but I don't know if this is strictly power of suggestion. The fact that the cursor is stuck and that restarting helps fix the problem implies to me that the problem may be in part software related.
I have an iPhone that has been restored to factory defaults. I added a contact to the phone and backed up it. I used a SQLite database editor to update the name of the contact but if I try to restore the backup to the phone iTunes , it says that the backup is corrupted.
I Want to use wifi on my iphone, Anybody can help me. I am already using my laptop on the same network through static IP. Please also tell me that Mac address will be used in this situation. The static IP of my laptop is below: IP Address: 10.10.10.144 Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0 Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1 Preferred DNS Server: 10.10.10.1
Sometimes Mail.app doesn't show the body of the mails. It appears just for a second under the sender and the objects but then it disappears.
I'm a developer, and I'm working on a cross-platform app that have to run on Mac OS X, Win7 and Win8. Unfortunately it's impossible to test my app in VM due to some hardware restrictions, so I have to install all of them on bare hardware.
My Ipod Classic 160gb is not being recognised in my computer or itunes when connected but is still charging. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
When I'm in the middle of a keynote presentation playing - the three finger swipe to switch applications no longer works. When I exit playing the presentation - it works again. I run Keynote '09 on OS X Lion. Is there a way to make three finger swipe work in the middle of a presentation without stopping and starting it?
I've recently set up a new server environment in our small graphic design / video production studio. The setup involves a Macpro running mountain lion server, with 56tb Raid 6 Proavio unit attached via SAS. The macpro has Small Tree gigabit ethernet cards allowing 12 workstations to be connected at any one time, allowing all users to access the same storage pool (the proavio raid). In terms of performance, the setup works fine. We've had 4 users editing full Hd compressed video across the ethernet network. The problem i'm having is that in the OSX server prefs for the shared storage, I need to set the permissions to "ignore permissions on this volume" for users to be able to read / write to the drive. I don't have a strong IT background (i'm a designer) but I have the feeling that the setup is incorrect in some way.
I have recently added my work mailbox to my iphone. I have several other mailboxes that I use for non work purposes. I like to look at the mail from my non work mailboxes as though they were a single mailbox, so I use the "All Inboxes" option in the mail app.
I was just wondering if Apple would swap my Optical Drive on my MacBook Pro for an SSD, and how much it would cost, as I would rather they do it and I keep my warranty then doing it myself and losing my warranty. I have AppleCare if that makes a difference, and the laptop is also still in it's 1st year warranty. I would be supplying the SSD and bracket and cable and anything else needed to fit the SSD into the MacBook Pro.
I regularly connect to a remote file store (webDAV) that uses different credentials to my OSX user account. I don't want to save the password to my OSX keychain, but would prefer not to have to retype both my user name AND password every time. Is there a way to make OSX remember the user name for that share but prompt for the passowrd?
I'm looking at selling my MacBook for parts. It's completely broken: it won't turn on or charge.
How do you load the US Department of Defense SSL certificate (or any SSL certificate) into iOS?
My MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8) only has one port for an additional monitor but I want to add a third monitor. I have a spare Mac mini (OS X 10.5) and I want to use it to support a third monitor. Is there an app that will use another Mac as an extended desktop?
I've linked a second screen (1920x1080) to my iMac 27" (2560x1440) via HDMI (using a minidisplayport to HDMI adapter). I want to mirror the first on the second but when I do this the first takes the resolution of the second which is lower. If instead I choose to extend the first on the second then the first keeps it resolution, but I can't access Mac OS X's interface from the second, only the windows I move to it. The solution needs to work for 2 external screens.
My mom just bought an Airport Extreme router recently, and she said the salesperson at the Apple Store told her that all devices on a network run at the same connection speed, and that speed is determined by the slowest device on the network. So if you have a shiny new Mac that has the potentential to run at 1 Gbit/second, you'll be slowed down to a 10 Mbit/second speed, just because you have your old phone connected to the wifi, downloading some apps at the same time. This doesn't really make any sense to me.
I can't get web pages to load on my MacBook Pro. Airport connects with the router and ping tests work fine (on www.google.com) but web pages aren't loading in any browser in any user account. Internet works on all other devices. Worked fine until yesterday when it just stopped working. Update:
I recently downloaded Mountain Lion because I wanted to be able to send and receive iMessages from my phone number on my MacBook Air. But, for some reason I'm not able to add my number to my Mac. When I send a text from my Mac, the receiver gets a message from my apple ID not my phone number. I've tried to go the Messages and the Message Preferences but my Message Bar doesn't even have a Preferences tab. I've also tried going to Settings and accessing my Messages Account but I can't find it. I just really want to be able to send a message to my friends from my phone number on my laptop.. Can anyone help?
It has been almost a week as Apple has disabled downloads from *=URL=* due to a security breach. If you don't have App Store set up for whichever reason, how are you supposed to be using your brand new Mac for development? Is there a copy of Xcode hidden somewhere within a brand new mid-2013 MacBook Air?
I bought a free app for iPad at the apps store but when I went to use it the app required a99cent fee purchased Thru the app. Is my payment information secure under these circumstances?
I've installed Xcode and MacPorts on a brand new mid-2013 MacBook Air, but MacPorts doesn't work, saying that it cannot find anything. And, indeed, there is no make or clang in the path, but it is definitely installed, though:
I got a mid-2013 MacBook Air for UNIX development. I'm disappointed that it came with no C/C++ compilers and with no make, which are apparently part of Apple Command Line Developer Tools, which is supposed to be available for download from Apple Developer Connection, but which has been down for close to a week (and counting) due to some kind of user-database security breach in ADC. If ADC is down, how come Xcode itself doesn't have any problems downloading Command Line Developer Tools, as per the "MacPorts fails to find 'make'" question?
If I were to buy a brand new factory unlocked iPhone off eBay would I then be able to use that phone on sprint?
I installed vim with homebrew on my macbook brew install macvim but the version I wish was 7.4a, the latest beta release, how can I install it?
When you use Preview's feature to use the Mac's camera to scan your signature for later insertion into documents, it does a fantastic job of digitizing your written piece so that it is rendered smoothly, I assume as vector, not raster. I need that same feature for other uses, to scan sketches and work on them digitally. But, of course, using the little signature feature in Preview does not work for most of them! How can I utilize that same "scan-a-sketch-into-clean-vector-form" feature in a way other than using Preview's signature app? THANKS --eric
Say I want to start Safari on my Mac. Can I create a pop up message that reads, "Use Chrome instead" or some other thing? I presume it may be possible with Applescript or something, but don't know where to start on teaching myself how to do this.
Is it possible to set up Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on a MacBook Air so that users cannot boot from external media (e.g. a USB memory stick) and cannot restore the OS from the internal restore partition?
My iWork/Pages stopped working by it-self and the following error is showing: Temporary I've installed OpenOffice. Any suggestions how to fix the problem?
I have installed TinyGrab on my Mac, and set it to run on login. I now see two icons on the dock; when I close one, the other one closes too.
I am running Windows 7 on a virtual image using virtualbox on my max osx. I need to know what the windows key is on the mac keyboard. Any tips?
When I have a window for an application open I would like its size, height and width. Is it 900 * 625, 716 * 456 or what? The reason I need to know is just for some usability testing. Any tips how I get this info?
In Terminal.app there is a shortcut to Show Alternate Screen: Shift + Command + l
My office is the only one in my place of business that uses macs (I guess I just lucked out with a boss who insisted on macs), so I.T. has no idea what to do for this situation.
I have a 2008 aluminium unibody Macbook and after being off for about a month won't turn on. It is full charged (it has a battery indicator on the side). I've tried an SMC reset and the like but am really very stumped. Does anyone have any ideas?
If I the Find My iPhone app to check on the location of someone in my friend list in the app, are they notified in any way that their location is being revealed to me?
I have a Verizon iPhone and I want to hook it up with Straight Talk. Can anyone help me?
Can i use Samsung tab 8.9 adapter for charging ipod 5. Will it damage my iPod.I never tried charging my iPod using tabs adapter. I need help. U wont get a adapter for ipod 5 while buying it
I always use netstat on ubuntu to check which processes are listening on specific ports. I use the following switches with netstat that work fine on ubuntu but on mac fail:
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 6, and Do Not Disturb appears under settings, but Do Not Disturb appears to be ornamental compared to my expectations. More specifically, it at least buzzes when I get a call.
i have a macbook pro retina with OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) , and i'm connecting it to a dell u3011 monitor using a mini-display to displayport cable , it was working great until today whenever i connect the cable my monitor goes to energy save mode , i thought this was a cable problem so i bought a new one and the problem still remains , i connected to the monitor using HDMI and its working fine , is it a video driver problem?
I have a iPhone 4S and I dropped it in water and can't talk on it now. So my buddy gave me his old iPhone 4S. But the catch is that he has a passed due balance with "Telus". And I need the phone to run on the "Bell" network. How do I do that? I've heard it's possible. I've already jailbroke it. How can I switch providers?
I have an iPhone 4 from Verizon Wireless, but I have never put it on a contract due to high prices of Verizon. My questions are: Is there a way I could activate it with Virgin Mobile? If so, how?
I just got back from our first family road trip vacation. I took about 1000 pictures and edited them each night and as we drove to our next location. Today, when I tried to open them in other apps, the edits were gone. They still show in the Albums, but when the file is transferred, the original one is sent. All my work was for naught! Unless you know of somehow to have the edits stay? I'm really hoping you know of a fix for the issue. When I tried to look up a fix, I just found sites of others complaining. I'm on the latest iOS (I think is 6.0.3 or something like that). Can you help? :)
After I download files on OSX and then want to use them, they often have an @ appended on the file mode whenever I do a ls -l. Here is an example output, see the @ near the beginning of the line: I think it is some kind of locking meganism, is that right? And how do I get rid of it?
I am looking into getting a new Macbook Pro (hopefully they'll have late 2013 models). I currently use my early 2011 Macbook for iOS app programming and light graphic design work with Pixelmator. I can't remember when, but I think when I upgraded to Mountain Lion all programs now take a little longer (too long, imo) to launch.
I have noticed for some time that the shared screen icon flickers on and off on my menubar every couple of minutes (MacBook Pro, MAC OS X 10.8.4). I thought it was a glitch or a bug. I've checked the console and there are connection attempts almost every minute. 99% are from a specific address:
I'm having two printing problems. I can't print out of my yahoo email at all. Gmail email prints fine.
I want to EXPORT my podcast subscriptions from the iPhone/iPad Podcast app into another podcatcher. In order to be able to import I need an OPML-file with the subscriptions. Can I create such a file or is there another way to get the subscriptions exported?
Im using word 2011 to create a doc with hyper linked text using cmd K this text is fine when the document is viewed in word as you can click on the text and it opens a browser to view the web page. But when you pdf the page flie > print > pdf the link stays blue but you can no longer click them, any ideas how to resolve this
When you make a change to your .bash_profile it will be read the next time you open a terminal. But what if you have a terminal open already. Is there anyway to do a re-read?
If you were to wipe a hard drive clean and install OS X Mountain Lion, with one user account and no user data files. (so simply OS files) How large, in disk space, would OS X (how much hard drive space would be used on that unused system?)
I just reinstalled mountain lion and seem to have lost git in the process. I tried following this post : Why is Git not found after installing OS X Lion? but although I can cd into /usr/local/git I get /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/binwhen I echo $PATH
I have a Drobo connected to my Mac. It has been used for storing large video files, keepsakes and other miscellaneous data. I also use it as a Time Machine backup drive.
You'll be asked to answer 2 of your 3 security questions before you can make any modifications. If you are unable to remember your answers, you can choose to send an email to your rescue email to reset your security questions.
I would like to access "Find My Friends" from the desktop. Also, is there an API available? I'd like to write code to monitor a person's location over time.
I'm using Macbook Pro late 2011 and I'm getting this error in my startup. I've already performed Repair Disk Permission in my Utilities; I've also upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion (10.8.3) but non of the solutions repaired it. I don't want to install fresh Mountain Lion and re-install again, it would be a tedious solution. Any idea how can this be resolved? Errors Screenshot:
I followed all documented steps to increase the Bootcamp partition size on the Mac OS 10.5.x. I used Winclone, Disk Utility and Bootcamp Assistant to perform this operation. In short, I cloned Windows with Winclone as image, erased Windows with Bootcamp Assistant, repartitioned hard drive with new size for Mac and Windows in Bootcamp Assistant, restored image to newly sized Bootcamp partition, and everything seemed almost fine EXCEPT... Winclone restored image as a separate small partition equal to the same old size and remaining Bootcamp partition, which I wanted to use for Windows, appeared as Free Space.
I'm trying to extract the InstallESD.dmg image so that I can create a USB key any time I want to in the future, to recover/boot my 2011 iMac. I would think this would be no problem at all, since the machine obviously is authorized to run Lion.
Is it possible to disable address bar autohide feature in Google Chrome on iPad?
I have consistently been having a problem with my computer overheating due to random processes using 100%+ CPU. Commonly the problem occurs with the process QuickLookSatellite-general, but it is not limited to it. (Please see images below.) When the QuickLookSatellite-general is the process in question, resetting the Quick Look Manager:
I use Apple Mail for my personal mail, and Outlook 2011 for work. I have Mail as my default client, as when browsing the web / writing mail, I want to send all emails from that account.
I find myself opening a terminal and then CD'ing a lot into the same directory the path of which is very long. This means I am cd'ing a lot and using the tab to speed things up a lot. IT would be great if I could have some sort of link to this directory and then just cd to that so that I would be in the deep nested directory quickly. Is this possible?
On a brand new mid-2013 MacBook Air, with an external monitor ASUS PB278Q 27" 5ms WQHD (2560 x 1440), connected through a miniDP-to-DP cable, every time the computer gets back from the monitor sleep, the login screen has a delay of several seconds, prior to the typing or the updates being reflected. This generally happens about a second or two after MBA's own monitor gets online, and the unresponsiveness continues for a couple of seconds, until the external monitor appears online. Why do I have such a big screen delay on login, and how do I deal with it?
I am buying a new MacBook Air soon and am getting ready to transfer all of my data via migration assistant. I know this can run via wifi but that is way too slow. My MacBook has a FireWire port, which was how I transferred my data from my older computer that I no longer use to my currently old MacBook that I will be replacing next week. Does anyone sell a male-male Thunderbolt to Firewire cable, and are the reliable? The Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter that Apple sells is female-male so it won't connect into both ports. It seems to be made more for connecting third-party firewire devices (e.g. cameras, media devices) to newer computers that no longer have firewire ports, only thunderbolt ones. Or in the end should I just give up and connect via USB which will be much slower?
Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to successfully apply my previous "trick" of force rebooting several times until the display comes up normal; it doesn't work anymore, after trying dozens and dozens of times. I just get the start-up chime, with the faulty display, followed by a blank gray screen.
I send lots of emails to a small number of people. Rather than having to send emails to them through the native Mail app, I'd like to have an app that I can "click" on that automatically has a specific address already filled in and seeks only a subject and message-contents. I'd like to have three of these, each doing the same thing, but going to different email addresses.
This is beyond irritating and I can't find any info. The magsafe connector for my new 13" retina display MBP is different than the one for my old (12 months) 15" MBP and is not compatible with the 27" thunderbolt display. I could understand if one were older than the other, but I literally just got the new thunderbolt display and 13" MBP from Apple yesterday and the magsafe power coming from the display does not fit into the magsafe connector on my notebook. What gives?
In my iTunes library, sometimes I replace a low bit rate song that I have with a high bit rate version, such as by using the version found in iTunes Match's database. However, when I sync my iPod with iTunes, the new version of the song is never transferred to the iPod. How can I force the song to transfer? Without needing to restore the entire device, if possible, of course.
I'm a MacBook user and I had previously installed Windows on my laptop. After deleting the Windows partition now, I'm facing difficulty in expanding my hard drive partition to the maximum. After I drag the the partition to Full and click Apply, it shows: Checking journaled HFS+ volume Then, a message pops out: Partition failed with the error : couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed. What should I do?
I am getting a used Mac Mini primarily so I can record music using Garageband. Will the 2007 or 2009 models have enough performance to run the latest Garageband and latest OS X?
When I got my Mac Mini with 4GB RAM I thought it would be enough, since on my Windows machines I never hit past 3GB – but I was wrong. So I ordered 16GB of RAM, but one of the sticks was bad, so I have 8GB in one channel and 2GB in the other, totalling to 10GB RAM.
I like to make a movie from my holidays where I travelled a lot through a country. What I would like to include is an animated traveling route in the Indiana Jones style. That means, you see an old fashioned map with some points for cities on it and then a red line is starting to connect city 1 to your next destination. I would like to do this by a straight line when I travel by plane and an actual path (maybe from a GPS file) when I travel by train. I hope you guys understand what I want!
My macbook pro has just stopped detecting my wireless router! The model of the router is NetGear DG834G. The problem is that everyone else in the house has no problem connecting with the network with his laptop or mobile device! Any ideas on how to solve that? My operating system is mountain lion. Thank you.
How can I set sharing and permission on Mac os x to be -rwx for all? When I create file or folder it is read and write for me but for all others it is Read only. If there is more files just copied from USB to some unlocked folder, automatical it is read only for all other users. Because we share files it is annoying. So please help.
I've recently re-installed Mountain Lion after I upgraded from Lion on a 2009 iMac. Before the reinstallation, my printer, a Canon Pixma iP3000, worked perfectly and out of the box — no drivers to install, supported by the OS. Now, instead, my Mac doesn't have Canon drivers at all, and I can't find any on the internet. How do I use my printer with my Mac? This is what the OS sees of the printer (it's just USB data):
I am considering adding an extra drive to my Mac Mini (possibly a tower-size one like mentioned here) and keeping it permanently plugged-in, for extra space and to leave the main Macintosh HD for essential files - system apps, my Adobe apps etc. I have a 500GB hard drive, with currently 204.68GB remaining on it, but was considering using the additional drive for the other files I create. I also have a portable drive (SATA) which is NTFS-formatted, but that's used for files I frequently need to carry around - PowerPoint presentations etc. On the additional hard drive, it would be for other things that are less frequently used.
I have some .groovy files on my file system. I would like to be able to preview them in Finder as I navigate around them. How do I do this?
I know how to change text for RELY WITH MESSAGE option, however "Can't talk right now" part can't be changed in setting. Is there an app or a modification that can change "Can't talk right now" part? To change text for RELY WITH MESSAGE OPTION go to Settings->Phone->Reply with Message
I'm about to dive into the world of offsite backup. The service I use recommend that I backup just my user folder. Would this be enough to restore my system to it's original if there's something wrong with the computer? I want a backup of all the app settings, including system settings etc not just my documents.
In iOS 6, I accidentally deleted non-app icons that were made using Safari browser. Is there a way to recover them?
I have been using a matrox TripleHead2Go DP (work) and DualHead2Go DP (home) with a late-2010 Macbook Air (Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics) with two Dell 2007fp monitors at 2*1600x1200@60Hz (i.e., one large display spanning both monitors with MacBook Air closed). With a mid-2013 Macbook Air the same monitor setup was autodetected as 2*1600x1200@50Hz, which isn't supported by the monitors. Manually switching to 2*1600x1200@60Hz leads to mirroring of the displays in the two extermal montiors at 1600x1200 (macbook closed). Changing to lower resolutions will allow the desktop to span both monitors with the macbook closed but isn't ideal.
I want to un-pair the silver remote that came with the Apple TV (3rd Gen) so that I can use it exclusively with my Macbook Pro. Is there a way to do that? Please help. Note: I have tried using those instructions from Apple, but the Apple TV remote still continues to control the Apple TV.
I had a folder, we'll call it Folder1, open in a Finder window, and I was going to move files to it. So, I opened up another file window, but accidentally dragged the Folder1 icon into the Images section in All My Files in the new Finder window.
I forgot the new password to my external hard drive (Mac OS Extended Journal Encrypted). I know. Stupid.
I found I had deleted a file I needed to keep, so I used the File Vault icon in the top right, and selected "Enter Time Machine". After successfully restoring the deleted file from a snapshot from several days ago, I realised that my NAS - which functions as my backup disk, had been turned off the entire time. The Time Machine icon had the usual exclamation mark in it for when the backup disk is unavailable. How did Time Machine restore my deleted file, when the backup disk was not available?
I'm not completely sure what happened, but in Console I get the following errors repeating endlessly every few minutes: It seems like some database that SystemUIServer uses has become corrupted, and I'm looking for a way to repair it or, more likely, force it to be re-created. I've had a little poke around in /private/var/db but I haven't seen anything that looks likely, and of course the last thing I want to do is try moving/deleting things at random as I'm pretty much guaranteed to make things worse :)
I want to assign the middle mouse button to the space key, so I can pan in Photoshop and illustrator without using the keyboard. I'm sure something like that must exist for Mac OS, but I only find references to the opposite which is making a click with the keyboard.
I found a proposed solution at this site but it says to "move the ‘plist’ file for the model identifier we discovered earlier out of that directory" which does not apply to me because my installation of Mountain Lion does not have a plist for my 2012 MacBook Air. system_profiler tells me that I have a MacBookAir5,1.
How can I force Finder to only search the current folder, ignoring the contents of all the sub-folders? I don't want to exclude the sub-folders permanently from Spotlight, just for a certain search.
What do I need in order to connect an iPad to a digital projector? I have tried nothing, because I have no idea what to try.
Im trying to put text around a circle but I cant. I can do it like vertical, diagonally and horizontal but not circle.
On my iPod Touch, my mom changed the password to Apple/iTunes and I have a new iTunes gift card but I have to answer security questions and my mom and I both don't know them. How can I do this?
I know that you can enable tethering for an IOS6 iphone by jail breaking it and then installing additional tethering software but how can I enable IOS6 thetering without jailbreaking my Sprint iphone 4s phone? I am aware that you can pay extra to get the "Mobile Share Plan" but I am not interested in paying extra for this service since I am already paying for unlimited data.
I need give unique names to many, many files as part of my job. I download dozens of PDFs from a research database which all come with the same name (date of download). I have to open the file, select the title, paste it into the filename field, and then go in and manually remove the colon and replace it with a dash.
Wikipedia has some nice lists of misspellings for machines: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* How to import them as text replacement definitions in System Preferences > Language & Text > Text?
I have given my dad my old iPhone 4, and I bought a new 4S. He put a new sim card in and used the phone but now 'his' contacts have appeared on my new iPhone i.e. the old phone retains my apple id. How can I 'erase' my apple id from the old iPhone and reinstate it with my Dads apple id ?
Unicode characters appear in regular old vim in the terminal (iTerm), but not MacVim. Is there a way to get MacVim to handle Unicode characters appropriately. If it helps, I installed them using homebrew. I grabbed these lines from the Vim Wiki:
My iPod 5 gen is connected to wifi, I've lost the wifi password, how can I view the password on my iPod, could you please give me a step by step guide on doing this as I'm not tech savvy....
Is there a way to invoke homebrew upgrades without having to handle errors manually? For example, when I run an update with: I get error messages like:
I have iTerm2 v1.0.0.2 and I am correctly able to open folders in my home directory if command-click on them. However I am not able to open folders on my Desktop or Documents if I command-click them, instead it opens the folder name in my default web browser. How can I change this so it opens a Finder window as well?
I'm using iMovie, but i'm looking to replace the cheesy standard leaders. I've read that you can use Apple Motion as a standalone tool to generate leaders and tranparent animations, export them to 4444 format and include them in iMovie. I realize some functionality is lost without final cut pro but i think i do not (yet) need FXP (plus, i'm saving for a rMBP) Are there any alternative apps that i'm overlooking for creating custom leaders/trailers before i shell out $50 ?
So i love the magic mouse and was using a book/magazine as a mouse pad and was working fine. i then got a leather mouse pad and it too was working fine. However i replaced the batteries and now it is shocking on the leather pad. Very slow jumpy and intermittant tracking.
I have an external Dell monitor connected to my MacBook Pro that runs OSX 10.8.4. My MacBook screen is set as the primary display, the Dell as the secondary. Sometimes after sleep the secondary display "resets". The wallpaper changes to the default milky way one and all the apps that were open there are moved to the primary display. I have to replug the Dell in my laptop such that it gets recognised again.
I can browse the iPad apps/games but they are often also iPhone/iPod. How can I search only among the iPad apps/games and not iPhone/iPod apps/games? Is there any filter os something in iTunes?
system preferences (background image, language, keyboard, hot-keys, network config, change default MAC-addr. etc.)
I can't remember exactly when it was I bought my iPhone. I thought that perhaps I could look it up via Apple somehow. I'm aware of the Check Your Service and Support Coverage page, but that's not presenting me with the activation date—only the status of my warranty and such.
I want to run an app in 'kiosk' mode for public unattended access via touch screen (no mouse or keyboard attached). I can already automate a network user logon and then the app launches (but only in last state - not necessarily full screen - which I want) I know with Workgroup Manager you can hide the dock, use simple Finder etc...but need something more powerful. Ideally it needs to monitor if the app crashes out and restart it / log limited user off and back on again. Thanks Phil
I have an Epson Workforce 845 printer. I have it setup on my wireless network correctly. I can print to it without any trouble from a couple different windows computers but I only have intermittent success on my mac. Usually when I go to print in the print queue it will say "Looking for printer." then "The printer is not connected."
I'm looking for the best method to display a desktop on multiple television displays. Currently I have a Mac Mini mounted behind the tv and controlling via vnc. As I want to setup more screens (All with the same desktop view); I am thinking I could use the Mini as a server; and then mirror from there to multiple Apple TVs on the same network via airplay. As I haven't ordered yet; is this possible? I can't seem to find any mention anywhere whether this would work. Any other suggestions would also be welcome.
I'm looking for a way to use the built in iPhone alarm app, but I want it to display a customizable message when I wake up. I've heard of ways to make siri speak a message, but I want it to be purely visual on the screen. Has anyone done this or know how to do it?
I've been using the IOS Podcast app and I'm trying to remove podcast from it. I had subscribed to a podcast, but now I unsubscribed and deleted the episodes. It still shows up in my podcast menu though. How do I remove it from the list of my podcasts?
I've tried out iMovie's stabilization and its not all that great. I was wondering if Final Cut's stabilization was any better or different than iMovie's. I haven't purchased Final Cut Pro which is why I'm asking. I also couldn't find anyone directly asking this question after a Google search.
I find I often wrestle with the implementation of bookmarks in Safari. Since I care to have my bookmarks simply and cleanly synchronized by iCloud, I continue to use the (inadequate) bookmark features of Safari. My specific question is: Is there a way to tell if a site is already bookmarked? I have 1000s of bookmarks, organized by folders. It seems pretty straightforward for Safari to know when I hit CMD-D to initiate a bookmark that it already exists in my collection. Am I missing this feature that is already implemented?
I haven't found anything yet so I was hoping maybe someone here had an idea. I want to kick off an even based on battery on an Apple laptop reaching a certain charge level, or when the battery is fully charged. I know I can have something run periodically, check the battery level, and decide what to do, but I prefer event driven if possible.
A year or so ago I was mucking around in my privacy and shared settings, trying to make it so my computer was "secure" when on a college network. Now with my fiddling i've screwed something up and I am running into problems with my shared files. Any ideas to fix?
I have the following issue: some sites I use quite often, as facebook, appears at the top sites with several different urls, depending on the person I chat and so on. I remove them manually, which is quite boring. I would like to know if there is any way to block facebook and other sites from being add to Safari's Top Sites. Someone knows how to do that? Thanks!
I have an Automator workflow and one of the actions is to clone a repository. Here's the code for the 'Run Shell Script' action. The command is run within the Bash shell /bin/bash if that matters:
I'm looking for a clipboard manager like Ditto for Mac: Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, and custom formats.
I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. The goal is to have an ip address that never changes, even after reboot or changing to a different wireless network.
I'm having an issue connecting to my AFP shares on my unRAID server. After a couple of days of troubleshooting, I've narrowed down the issue to my Macbook and not the unRAID server.
I am trying to find how to enable and disable the Swipe between pages gesture via the defaults command either system wide or just for Safari. I can't do it manually as we will need to do this on machines on mass.
How to install Lion as a guest OS in VirtualBox 4 running on Mountain Lion? I have: Legitimate owned copy of Install Mac OS X Lion.app Flash drive formatted as GUID partition, restored with InstallESD.dmg found and mounted from inside the Lion installer app using Disk Utility.app. Mac mini runnning Mountain Lion (10.8.4, 16 gigs memory, i7 chip) VirtualBox 4.2.16 installed and running.
Prior to version 11, it was trivial in iTunes to view album artwork at "actual size". Is this possible in iTunes 11? It seems that all album artwork, regardless of the resolution of the file, is limited to the same measly 400x400 size dictated by the player.
I'm a big Fantastical fan, but I can't work out the syntax to add a reminder/alert to a new event: For example: Lunch with John at 12:00, alert 15 min before
On my desktop I have an extension which prevents websites from reqesting the browser not to recognize the password fields (I imagine they view this feature as unsecure). Now I have synced my passwords with Chrome in iOS, and the extension is not available on iPad. This means that while the password has synced, it does not automatically get entered into the password field. So I thought I would just view the saved password and enter it manually. Unfortunately I am unable to do so. If anyone knows how to either view my passwords or otherwise recover it, I would be most grateful.
I recently bought a UPS for my iMac and it runs just fine. However, sometimes I also run a MacBook Pro nearby and when I have my hand in contact with the MacBook and reach across to touch the aluminium keyboard attached to my iMac I can feel electricity running through my finger!
When I type text in the middle of a line, the text is inserted over the characters right of it as if overtype mode was enabled. The text is displayed normally (or the characters on the right side are shifted right) when I insert the active phrase by pressing return though.
i recently upgraded my ios to 6.1.4. during the upgrade it completely wiped all my data and so i did a restore which worked fine. but now i cannot add any new music to my iphone. when i do sync music it appears to work and the memory indicator on itunes actually decreases like its supposed to. when i disconnect and go to the music app on my phone the new songs are just not there only the songs from when i did a restore from backup. i have 3gb of memory available so its not that i dont have any memory left. please help.
Whenever I try to insert " or ' I have to validate it by space, otherwise strange things happen as with ' followed by an a becomes áinstead of just 'a, similar behaviour with double quotes. I find this annoying and want to disable it. How do I do that?
In macbook pro there is no lan port, for that I bought lan to usb connector. But I am unable to setup net-connection. In System preference > networks there is no ethernet option.
I am trying to update software on a Macbook. Before doing so, apparently I have to "Sign in to download from the App Store." It provides me with a form asking for an Apple ID and password to do so. However, the Apple ID field already has an Apple ID in it, which is not the one I wish to use, and the field is disabled, so I can't change it.
I just installed (64 bit) Firefox 18 browser on my Linux CentOS 6.4 server (64 bit). I SSH into the server from my Mac OSX Snow Leopard from X11 application using # ssh -Y mydomain.com. Now that the Mac is connected to the server, I run firefox on the server by typing in the X11 terminal on my Mac, # firefox&. While firefox is forwarded to my Mac, and appears to run OK, the following errors are reported in the X11 terminal it was opened with:
I'm looking for a hardware solution for a work trip I'm taking soon. The options at the moment seem to be a new Chromebook, or an iPad (which I already have) with bluetooth keyboard. I need a full-sized keyboard (I'll be doing a lot of writing, and Google Drive is an acceptable editor), and a web browser. However, I am not confident that wireless internet in the venue will be as reliable as the wired (ethernet) connection. I would need a USB dongle for the Chromebook; is there a solution to provide a comparable ethernet connection to the iPad? (Comments on this answer suggest no, but I'm curious if anything has changed, or if there's a more general solution than that question asked for.)
Is here any way to run the Xquartz in rootless mode? So when start e.g. xterm, will get only one xterm window without the whole black screen background?
I have recently installed and tried to use face2face plugin for mail and I have tried to delete it, however the plugin still seems to be active and I don't know how to disable it. *=URL=* is the link for the plugin. I have deleted the plugin from the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles folder and it hasn't stopped the plugin. I would really like to revert mail back to the way it was before this. Thanks in advance.
I upgraded to iTunes 11 and am really upset that they took away the standard list format. Does anyone know how to get it back?
Does it possible to install Mountain Lion (clean install) without using USB key or DVD? I'm currently running on SL, and I want install ML (I already have the dmg file).
EDIT: found the Frameworks folder. Python.framework contains 4 folders named 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and Current, which has several other folders inside – all for Python 2.6. The official page says I shouldn't delete any of them because they already come with Mac. How do I put 3.3 here?
I've a Google account set up on a Mac of mine. OS X version 10.8.4 and everything else is up-to-date. And my Google account uses 2-step authentication.
I have Lion communicating via wire to old (spaceship) AEBS which is currently DHCP serving an IP address to the Lion. The AEBS plugged in via wire to the cable modem. I want to set up internet sharing on the Lion using its 801.11n wireless connection.
I wish to compile the Gimp plugin "Save for Web" on Mac 10.8.4. I use brew for package management but libgimp2-dev is missing. I've downloaded Gimp 2.8.6 from here . I've downloaded the latest source cd into that directory, but when I run ./configure I get the error of package requirements not being met (gimp-2.0|gimpui-2.0 needs to be greater than 2.3 / gimp-2.0|gimpui-2.0 not found)
Does anyone know of a utility to see the current speed of the processor? To be clear, I'm not looking for the model/speed of the CPU, but rather what the CPU is currently clocked at (i.e. it will reduce speed if it overheats).
If I use my old AppleID, how does Apple know which dev account I want when I log in? Will this cause problems?
My wife and I have our own iDevices. We would like to share photos but keep contacts & calendar apart. Sharing iTunes & iCloud Accounts in a Family does an excellent job of explaining the necessary setup.
I'm looking for a standalone (or web) application that allows for very simple text editing, but also allows for personal annotation of the text by changing script colour and highlighting. Most text editors for developers doesn't allow for the above features, and Word/Pages is much too cumbersome. I'll be using it for some coding but it's primary use will be for DNA analysis (hence the annotation). Does such an app exist?
I am looking for any way for OS X users to use Office 365's exchange calendaring service to delegate / share a calendar with another user on Office 365. I have researched the MS knowledge base which states that for delegation, you need both an Exchange server (which I presume Office 365 is) and either Outlook 2010 or 2013 - neither of which run on OS X. If I have to, I could get to these software to temporarily sign in and set up the delegation, but I don't want to run Windows day in and day out and need a native OS X solution. Short of running Windows virtually day to day, can OS X users use delegation features of Office 365?
Recently, iMessage won't sign in on my MacBook Air (10.8.4). I opened up Messages a couple of days ago, and my iMessage account was signed out. Upon trying to sign back in, I get a message reading: The registering device does not have the appropriate credentials.
I have a MacBook pro that I got about 10 months ago. It seems like I am already starting to experience battery life issues. I have a charge cycle history of less than once a day since I bought it. I first thought it was too much stuff running in the background, so I put a fresh copy of Ubuntu on it to test that out. It still seems to have a bad life. At full charge, 50% brightness, the battery says 3 hours remaining, but then after a few minutes, it goes to 2 and I get an average of about 2.5 hours. I have appleCare. Is there a problem, or is time just going faster for me and the battery is normally like this? I think the battery said it usually has a good 5 years, and it hasn't been 1 for me. The battery indicator on status bar also never says 100%, and is usually stuck at 95-99 when the green light indicates full. Is this normal? Or do I have a bad battery? Is there a way to test my battery properly? Here is what the power stats say
I have mountain lion on MacBook pro mid 2012. So if my battery dies, because I left noSleep on or just because of being sat untouched for a week off of 2%, when I turn my computer on, Instead of the picture of the screen last used with the loading bar under it, the apple logo with the loading bar. I let it sit for a while, and it stays at the last bar of the loading thing. I wait and wait and nothing. I have to reboot using the power button to get it to work. A message then appears that said "your computer shut down cuz of a problem" . I have always saved my work , but I am assuming it would all be deleted if I had an unsaved word doc on low battery. What is going on? Things I have tried: reset SMC Reinstall OS on network recovery And eventually if I have to, I guesss I will have to factory reset it
I am a litte confused about iOS 7. Does iOS 7 support third-party software keyboards? There are a lot of rumors around, I watched the last WWDC and read Apple documents but I couldn't hear anything about this. Am I missing something? Is this a feature in the new OS?
I have a mac mini containing MAC OS X 10.7.4 I must need to go through some sites / links which are strictly allowed only for InternetExplorer, So that i installed ie on my mac, while open ie application it doesn't opened and prompt amessage like as follow, You can't open the application Internet Explorer because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. what should i do.. i need internet explorer very usrgently https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17963475/unable-to-install-internet-explorer-on-mac-os-x-10-7-4?noredirect=1#comment26256483_17963475
I want to make a new iMessage account and stop using my old Apple ID for messaging. I need to know if it will change my apple id from which I download my apps?
Having trouble with OSX on a MacBook Pro. My system randomly locks up, becoming completely unresponsive to mouse or keyboard, then after a few seconds shows the OSX login screen, at which point it is responding to the mouse and keyboard again. There doesn't seem to be any specific thing causing it, from what I can tell. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if so do they know how to fix the issue?
Every three restarts when I'm holding down the option key and try to boot into Win7 the screen goes black and nothing happens. The indicator is the blinking cursor - if it's absent in the start, Windows won't boot. The solution is to either boot into MacOS and then back into Windows or to reset PRAM (cmd+option+P+R). Then it boots. Is there any solution to this? Although this is a problem for me it's a bigger problem because I wanted to buy a new MacBook Air for my girlfriend and install Windows 8 as a main system - will this work stable for her?
Since some days it occasionally takes Finder seconds to minutes to show up files in folders. Now and then iTunes and Mail freeze as well, just like core apps like Disc Copy. Quite unusable. Possibly related: • It seems the problems appears especially (or only) when opening/showing content in sym-linked folders on the HD in my discdrive. • As well problems seem to have become more present and waiting times longer since I'm staying at friends with a complex network. • Trim is not enabled (no idea why, perhaps after an update - the wiseguy-friend installed it together with the SSD). Trim is again active. My system: MB 2.4Ghz 13" late 2008, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD (OCZ-VERTEX4), 1TB HD (7200 HTS721010A9E630) in disc-drive with 10.8.4 (mountain-lion) installed. Things I tried: • restarted several times • repaired permissions on SSD drive twice (2nd time no issues) (greyed out on 1Tb drive)
I am working with a large excel spreadsheet and I need to delete all the rows that are completely blank. I do not want to delete rows or cells with any information in any of the columns. Thanks in advance
There is an element to OS X known as Folder Actions, which causes certain actions or events to occur when items are either added or removed from user specific folders. How can I enable this ? (I am using OS X 10.6.8, but if the activation differs for OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.4 this is also welcomed)
This is an cross-post, because i'm not sure where it really belonging. It is programming question, but apple specific question too. Here is the stackoverflow link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17970080/how-to-get-mail-app-raw-message-in-the-automator
The magic triangle is working perfectly for some users. Other users are invisible to the OD master's Server App. Workgroup Manager can access all the users while Server App can't. Viewing permissions through the Server 2003 interface, it seems like the permissions of an invisible user and a visible one are same. I ran SetACL on the directories of the two users and it found no difference. How can I figure out the difference in the accounts/files that makes certain users invisible to Server App? Thanks in advance!
I have just set up a new mac and migrated the user accounts from the old system (Snow Leopard) to the new one (Mountain Lion) and everything went well except for some parts of the Mail setup. In the old computer there were several mailbox (.mbox) directories on the Mac itself. These mailboxes were transferred to the new computer and it looks like they were successfully processed by the migration into a new directory structure. However the mailboxes do not show up in the new Mail program. (Note that the mbox's directly related to the email POP accounts did successfully transfer to the new mac) For example, there is a mailbox called Travel and for a particular email message it is located in the old and new systems as: And the text in 24307.emlx in the new location matches that of the old location.
At times, the Gmail app for iOS can display a hard-to-remove badge. The badge corresponds to a gchat message that was received offline. The badge is considered difficult to remove due to a series of facts: gchat sends an 'email' to your Gmail when you receive an offline message gchat messages do not show up in any inbox in the Gmail app; they're only visible in the browser The "Chats" label does not show up in the side bar of the Gmail app, so there is no easy way to access the chats
Does a mac with USB 3.0 support UAS (USB Attached SCSI)? If it does, how can we enable it in OS X and bootcamp? I need better speeds for my external RAID.
I gave my old MacBook Pro to my partner. Before doing so I deleted myself as the User, created her as User, deleted all of my docs & iPhoto Library. Unfortunately, the computer still thinks I am the User. For example, it tries to access MY iCloud content & asks for MY Apple ID. I've decided to replace the hard drive with a larger capacity one. I use Backblaze for backing up the laptop. If I do a clean install of Mountain Lion & then restore only docs & iPhoto Library from the backup, will that solve the double identity problem?
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I had an iPod Touch G4 and the battery life was terrible. Has there been any improvement in this area with the G5s?
When I try the command in terminal, an email is sent. I have checked there is no local SMTP is running, so what is the mechanism used by Apple behind the scene?
I was recently reading about different strategies for streamlining the processing of emails in Mail, and multiple sources suggested a smart mailbox populated with recently viewed emails. Here's one such source for the sake of example. I agreed that this seemed useful, so I created a smart mailbox inventively called "Recently Viewed," with the settings shown in the following image.
How to transfer apps and its data from one iphone to another through hard disk? Since I am changing my laptop. I want to know whether the backup includes app data also? What i mean is when i restore the new phone with the backup, all the apps would get restored on it even if it is another laptop not the one in which the old iphone backup was taken?
Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ?
I'm running Logic Pro X, and I use Logic Remote as control surface (I just want to type in a bit of music nothing too fancy). I've opened a project (movie setting) which seems rather light to me (no Logic Pro heavy user...) but Logic Remote stays stuck on "analyze". Any idea why/what it means(what is there to analyze by a control surface anyway?)/how to fix this?
I bought a mid 2007 white MacBook used with Lion 10.7.5 installed. My usb mouse freezes after using it for about an hour plugged in. I tried both usb ports and the mouse will work for about a min. but then freezes again. Could it be a driver issue? If so where would I download the drivers? The mouse works perfect on my W8 computer.
I've failed to produce a document in time - if I send it, the receiver will be able to see the creation and last modification dates. This is what happens whenever I download files from the web or an usb stick/hard disk: I'm always able to see these metadata.
On the Apple store there are EarPods.  And there are In-Ear Headphones.
I'm simplifying making a .deb file with Automator. I currently have a shell script that does some simple actions - Ask the user for text input Do some directory parsing Execute a command with the text input as a variable run the dpkg-deb program and output to the desktop That's all well and good, but .deb files must have a "control" text file with some fields filled out, and the file has to be in a specific path, with the control file residing in a DEBIAN subdirectory like so
So, this might be a bit of a dumb question but sometimes I text someone and then I get the ellipsis back and then I usually get a message. However, sometimes I never get a message back and am curious. Does this mean they started typing something they didn't send? Is it possible that they are texting someone else? More curious than anything.
I have a jail broken iPhone and I want to change the default media player from "music" to "pandora downloader". I am thinking the only way to do this would be with I file? The main thing I want is to have pandora downloader play anytime I hit the play button.
Can triggers be set up so that when "App A" starts, another "App B" gets started automatically? Ideally, the solution would send a quit message to "App B" when "App A" quits, but the important part is the launch sequence.
I'm going overseas and will be taking a lot of photos. I'm not taking a laptop, just my iPad mini. I understand that the default setting for photo uploads in the iPad app is medium. I can't see any option in setting to increase the default size to large. How can I upload full or large size images?
When I connect the monitor with the HDMI input at home it works perfectly and it connects quickly; that doesn't happen with the VGA monitor. When I connect it, the MacBook detects the monitor, but the monitor is not showing anything and goes to sleep mode. Sometimes opening and closing my laptop helps, but not always. After restarting the MacBook, I'm able to connect.
How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I change it?
My Mail has the Quit menu item disabled, and it doesn't allow me to quit it.  I know that similar question has been asked here before, but it doesn't have any positive answer. It happens very sporadic so I cannot understand what causes it.
These days I get all my music needs from streaming websites, so the media keys on my keyboard are basically useless to me:  I want to map them to cmd+[ and cmd+], which is the shortcut to change tabs across many mac applications (Chrome, SublimeText). Can this be done and if so how do?
I'd like to rollback to IOS 5 from IOS 6 for an iPad 2. I don't mind jail breaking if necessary but instructions would be appreciated.
So if I have a number of cells with something like this in them: Is it possible to ask excel to move the women part to the end of the cell? e.g. I could really do with some help on this. Thanks in advance
My web development server is in the Cloud and I am very new to Macs. On Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux, I would mount the remote drives using sshfs. I have researched SSHFS for Mac and come up with FUSE for OS x and MacFUSE. I have them both installed but when I attempt to run man sshfs on my commandline I get a command not found error. Unless I am missing something, I can't find simple instructions to help me resolve this issue. I have tried Mount and Mount_smbfs too but I immediately get server connection failed: operation timed out errors. My Mac runs on OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) Can anyone please give me some simple steps to help overcome this obstacle?
User Accounts preferences on OS X allows separating User Accounts from the System files on the principal Hard Disk drive. I have attempted this configuration on three different mac computers. Unfortunately, this excellent idea has a short life expectancy, because inevitably user permissions become hopelessly compromised. After seeking support from Apple Care services, I was told that although Apple facilitates the utilization of this process in System Preferences, in practice it cannot supply the user any support when trouble arises.
Basically what I'd like to know is how can I setup a shell script (or an Applescript or Automator wrapper for a shell script) as a protocol handler for a custom URI (so clicking them will trigger my script) with the URI passed in as an argument? For example, if my URI looked something like:
I am looking for an OS X application that will allow me to send a short message (URL, etc.) to another Mac running on the same LAN or WiFi.
In Spotlight you can enable and disable file categories that will appear in search results. How does Spotlight determine that a certain file belongs to a certain category? The following specific event triggered this curiosity:
Now the files appear as "washed out" in the external drive (exFAT), and the move operation doesn't resume. If I try to move again, the Finder tells me that The selected items can’t all be put into the same location, because at least one of them named “something” is busy.
I moved away (to an external drive) about 30 GB of files from a drive (startup disk) that had 60 GB of free space. After the move it still shows only 60 GB of free space, not 90, as I would expect. The trash is emptied. I tried rebooting and verifying the disk (no problems found), but it didn't change anything. How can I diagnose and fix the problem?
A few months ago the app store notified me to update xcode. When I attempted to do this, the download hung and wouldn't complete. I tried several more times after restarting each time. Always the same result of hanging.
I've just bought the Lacie Big 5 10th and I want to use it as an external hard drive for my files. I was thinking of making it raid1 but then I heard about ZFS and Raidz. so that I can easily change/upgrade individual drives as time goes on
I currently have admin access to a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.4. I have been sudoing at the terminal for the whole day with no restart until sudo stops working. I rebooted the operating system and it is working again. Is there a configuration that is preventing sudo from working after certain number of hours? My sudoers file has with username theuser: EDIT The issue is happening again and after tailing /var/log/system.log, I see the following message: Any idea what the above might mean?
I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and would like to know how to do this. I know the button has a light to indicate, but I'd like have and indication on the screen.
I have an iPad that I would like to leave semi-permanently connected to a USB hub (connected to a couple of MIDI controllers and some USB speakers). As it stands, I have to remember to unplug it periodically and plug in the charging cable.
Say you have a picture of a dog and a cat. You want to merge parts of the dog's face onto the cat's face creating a cat-dog fusion. What MacBook Pro programs can i get for free in order to do this?
So I'm outside USA , and I want to buy the kingdom rush frontiers IAP. Can I do this safely or do I risk getting my account disabled because i use to buy IAP from USA Apple ID outside USA ?
I get frustrated by the huge lag (delay) in Mail respond to the request for action. It takes few seconds or more before it shows to be responding to the request. Example the request for move mails from one account to another, or rebuild folders, and so on. The problem is that I do not know if it did accept my request (since there is no instant notification of any sort) so I keep repeating the request till it finally shows up in the Mail Activity window to be doing something. This is an example only, but it took me like hitting the Rebuild 5x times till it finally showed this indication, so I could go and do something else.
In All My Files, CSS and JSON files appear in the Documents section, even though I would call them developer files. Is there any way I can change their kind, so that they appear as Developer files?
Just got into using Mac "full time" for work, and as I'm a bit of a nit-picker, I want to get things looking/behaving just so. Thanks to the help of the group, I've been able to get my Category list looking "right" (see Outlook 2011 category colors - Windows Color Palette?) but now that I have my "Office 2010 Categories" Color Palette, I have had a couple of co-workers ask about getting it into their systems:
I'm getting console messages multiple times per day that look like this: When I tail /var/log/mail.log I see the same messages. According to the postfix config, the spool is indeed pointing to this directory, and yes, it does not exist.
I have a bunch of PNG files and I want to be able to: tell their pixel size preview them their file size
I'd like to, for my own nefarious reasons, be able to see which files iTunes currently thinks it can't auto delete. Applescript or summat would be fine, although a smart playlist would be even better.
Some while ago, I fried the power supply inside of my WD MyBook Pro Edition II, leaving the disks intact but rendering the enclosure itself totally useless. So now I have two 500GB 3.5" SATA drives, configured with RAID 0, that I want to retrieve the data from.
I leave my iPhone charger plugged in all day. Does it draw current when I'm not charging my phone?
I have a remote MAC that is stuck on the login screen for the local user. The login screen is stuck right after the password was entered. I can login to the remote MAC with ssh and run commands. This MAC is hosting a database for other users so I would rather not restart it if possible. Is there a command I can run that would restart the core service logind so that I do not have to restart the computer? If the answer is no, can I restart the computer using sudo shutdown -r now remotely over ssh?
I was just wondering if I am able to use my current iPhone 4 sim in another iPhone 4 because my current phone is breaking. Thanks
I've found this issue and various discussions online about this, but no obvious "just do this", so I'm wandering over here from ServerFault to ask this. Is there a way to disable or hard-set the input level on a mic? In the Sound preferences on the Input tab if I click on the device and set a level and then start talking it picks up the sound and then start to auto-adjust the mic input level. This causes issues when talking with someone on Lync/Skype/etc because one minute the sound is fine and then if you raise your voice for a second and then lower it back down (or shift around in your chair) the auto-adjust causes the other party to think your whispering or yelling.
I would like to use the spellchecking dictionaries bundled with OS X from the command line (hunspell), but can't seem to find them. In /System/Library/Spelling there are only 2 files pl_PL.{aff,dic}, and find / -name '*.dic' revealed nothing. I know I can dowload dictionaries from OpenOffice etc., but I'd like to find the ones bundled with OS X. EDIT To clarify, there are at least two kinds of dictionaries in OS X:
I have an Apple ID. Macbook Air has iMessage installed.
I'm debugging some mail related stuff on my Mac, and not quite sure how my system is even sending mail. I can run a simple command like date | mail -s test myemail@mydomain.com and receive an email just fine. Cool. I can also use PHP's mail() function to send mail. PHP's sendmail_path configuration variable is /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i, looks okay. But the weird thing is I don't think Postfix is even running...
My issue is that my music app shows two different albums that I synced today twice, both completely identical, each having the full list of the songs. In the 'songs' view, each song is only shown once. Obviously, I have set Year, Album Artist and Album to the same values My iOS version is 6.1.4 Advice would be greatly appreciated :)
I'm using an Airport Extreme 802.11n (2nd Generation), running firmware version 7.6.3 I'm connecting to it via a Mac Mini running 10.8.4
I am running 10.6 on my macbook pro and purchased a while ago 10.7 and also have a purchased copy of Windows XP I am using a software which requires me to use Windows XP which i want to use with Boot Camp, my only problem is that i need to use the Boot Camp version on OSX 10.6 that supports Windows XP and not from later OSX versions. I would like to reinstall the entire system and install in order which will allow me to have working copies of 10.6 for boot amp installation + a working copy of 10.7 (later to be upgraded to 10.9) and a working copy of Windows XP. My plan for re-installation: (250MB DRIVE) Clean install OSX 10.6 -> Partition: "Macintosh HD" Leave 50GB for OSX 10.6 > "Macintosh HD 2" 150GB for OSX 10.7 >"Windows HD" 50 GB for Windows XP ->Clean install OSX 10.7 -> Going back to 10.6 > run Boot Camp and install Windows XP on "Windows HD" It will be very important for me to upgrade "Macintosh HD 2" 150GB with OSX 10.7 later on to OSX 10.9 (verified that it will work on this 
What is possible OSX upgrade for MacPro1,1 Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz? Now still using using 10.5.8 (Leopard)
I've never used debuggers, except for occasionally GDB's backtrace to find a segfault. I'm currently working with a moderate sized C hydrodynamics code, where I think it might be time to start using a nice GUI debugger instead of sticking fprintf statements everywhere. Can anyone point me towards a good getting started tutorial on using XCode (10.7) as a debugger for a C project?
I just bought a MacBook Air 11 inch, mid 2013 edition. When I started my MBA to go through the initial setup assistant, the voice over feature was on. So I learned how to go through with that but I was just entering my time zone when I got bored and put my MBA in sleep mode. When I opened it it asked me for my password. When I enter the password, it keeps saying it is wrong password. I think I was by able to finish the whole setup assistant also. I am very new to Mac. I have no idea how things are done.
I am wondering if there is any software available in OS X that can download all mp3s or specific type of file from a URL. For e.g. I have a url *=URL=* and I want to grab all mp3 from this url instead of right clicking one by one and saving it. Also wondering, if that can be done using wget or some terminal command in OS X?
I recently had to completely reset my iPhone, and now the only photos present in PhotoStream on my phone are the ones that have been added to my PhotoStream account after the reset. How can I force my phone to re-sync all the previous photos as well?
I like it when my Mac announces the time every hour. It keeps me focused or provides me with a reminder to take a break. I also like it when Mail makes a sound when new messages arrive so I can check them. I like all these sounds when I'm using my computer.
I have iTunes 11.0.4.4 and have just installed Windows 8.1 - iTunes seems to work ok, but when I plug the iPhone in (iOS 6.1.4) it doesn't appear and be recognised. The OS sees the phone and I can copy files from it, but iTunes doesn't react to it. Are there any known issues with Windows 8.1 - am I paying the price for being on the bleeding edge?
I bought an external monitor, the Dell u2711 due to the res and wanting to get the most out of my laptop. Initially I used a mini dp adapter with dvi, hdmi and dp on and it wouldn't work, kept staying in power saver mode so I bought a single cable with minidp on one end and dp on the other. Plugged it in and voila, it works. Then I checked the resolution and have two options. 720p or 1080p. I had more options using HDMI but I want 2560x1440. That's why I bought it. Can anyone help please?
I'm attempting to setup a VPN to my home by using a Windows 7 machine as a VPN server. I've set it up the standard Windows 7 VPN which I believe uses PPTP. I've also enabled PPTP passthrough on my router. Problem is I can't seem to connect to the VPN and I get the following errors in my system log.
I have a VirginMedia connection using one of their "Super Hub"'s, their wireless configuration is turned off and I connect my Airport Extreme via RJ45 cable. I connect my iMac from the Extreme via RJ45, and it is configured for wireless also. Connected to the Airport Extreme extending my wireless network is an Airport Express. My internet connection is over 60 meg and that's all ok, but the other devices using the Airport and the Extreme run very slow , so much so that it is impossible to watch streamed TV to any device.
I'm trying to drag and drop a file from my Mac to an SMB server but it's saying there isn't enough space. When I do a df it's showing only 20 MB when I know it's a 3TB server.
Is there a way to see the image in the preview column of the Finder in original size? Right now the images are stretched to fill the entire width of the column, even if the image is just a small 32x32px icon. This happens in all View modes of the Finder: as Icons, as Columns.
The past couple days, command-option-eject no longer puts my Mac Pro to sleep. I haven't done any software updates in that time. No process seems to be doing anything very interesting, or CPU-intensive.
How can I query OS X to know if an application has registered a shortcut? I could inspect every app I have or that is running at least with KeyCue and go through the Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences, but there must be some other method using the shell.
What methods exist (either inbuilt or via third party) to password protect (encrypt) folders within OS X ?
I purchased an iPhone 4s, added it to my service plan, but discovered that it still had the old owners info on it. The associate that I spoke with suggested restoring it via Settings > General > Reset and Erase All. I did that but the phone has been stuck in restore mode for some three hours now. The associate indicated it would take only about 15 minutes to do the reset. Is this normal? How can I restore the phone?
Clicking Deny may limit the application’s behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security & Privacy preferences.
I have been making PDF notes in Preview and want to transfer them to EPUB version of the book. Is it possible?
Would appreciate help - I have an old MBP mid-2009 shipped originally with 10.5.7 Leopard, currently running 10.6.8. I restarted recently and found a kernel panic on startup. I have tried booting in safe mode (unsuccessful), recovery mode (unsuccessful), reset NV-RAM (unsuccessful startup) and from an OSX install disc ("unable to install OSX on this computer"). The last option yielded an actual startup screen ith language options and a box offering the option of restoring from a TM backup (I don't have one as I did not have any important data on this machine). So broadly the machine works but never gets past the grey screen with the apple logo and the time wheel.
I have an iMac running OSX 10.8.4 and I have a large collection of photos (10,000+) that I want displayed during the screensaver. I would like to see a uniform distribution of all photos. However, I am finding that there is only a small subset of the photos that are actually shown, and there are many repeats. It is my hypothesis that OSX is choosing a subset of photos (say, 100) at the beginning of the Screensaver session, and that it is just cycling through these. My question: is there a setting to change the number of photos that the screensaver uses? I am comfortable with bash shell commands and am happy to modify plist files.
I like to use Messages on my Mac, but it's generally incredibly annoying because every time I receive a message from someone, my iPhone lights up and plays its alert noise, which is a loud ding. I want it to do that in general, but not when I'm actively using Messages on my mac. Is there anyway to fix this situation? I have considered turning on "Do not disturb" on my phone, but I don't want to because I'm liable to forget I did and then miss important messages.
What I am trying to do is to get the interface name and the nic name (description) via command line in OS X. On Windows the following command gives me the result I am looking for: wmic nic get name, index (this outputs for example: 11 Realtek blah ) On OS X I would like to see: en0 Realtek as the output. Thank you for your help and sorry for my explanations (its late at night and my english is not so good)
I got an iPad from a friend. It wasn't new, but they reset it so I could start again. The only thing is, I need to get into the restrictions stuff to change the restriction settings. Problem; I don't have the restrictions pass code. There is no way I can contact the friend since they moved and blah blah blah, I don't have or want a backup, and I can't use iTunes. I am wanting to restore like factory settings, so I can make my own passcode. Any help?
I reinstalled mountain lion recently and had to reset my git path. Everything was working fine until I realised I had to do it for every project so I tried to change the default system path by sudo bash -c '( echo /usr/local/git/bin > /etc/paths.d/git )'
In my attempt to start iPlayer and BBC News every morning, I have scheduled Automator to open a page. It does work, however my Mac stays locked, therefore I need to get out of my bed and enter the password and then set iPlayer to run fullscreen.
I have a Mac mini. I installed windows 7 with bootcamp and now windows 7 is the default OS. My problem is that it doens't seem to recognize my keypress during the boot (I have a logitech usb wireless keyboard/mouse) I was wondering if I can achieve to start in Mac OS with this keyboard.
I'm considering getting a MacBook Air. Since it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, how can you deal with issues that would otherwise call for a bootable install disk?
Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes? I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data. To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like /ContentTypeA/ /ContentTypeB/ Instead of using /Data/ContentTypeA/ /Data/ContentTypeB/ etc, which is where the data actually resides.
I have had my macbook air for almost a year with no problems however over the last couple of weeks it keeps dropping its connection to my network on a regular basis. The only way to fix it is for me to turn Wi-Fi off then on again, then it works again fine - for a while - then the same thing happens all over again. It is very frustrating. If I ping my router's IP address I get a valid response while it's working but while it wont connect to the network I get "Request timeout for icmp_seq". No other computers / phones that connect to the Wi-Fi are affected by this problem, it is only my mac.
I have two iTunes libraries, one for pop music in compressed and lossy formats and another for classical music (and sometimes for jazz) in AIFF. I maintain two libraries because I'm concerned about bloating my home account with uncompressed files. I am able to choose between the two by pressing Option before clicking the iTunes icon, but choosing from the two locations gets tedious. How can I shorten the choice, ideally by having two icons, one for each library?
I want to sell my MBA 2011 (13"). So, of course, I want to wipe the SSD to reset it to the factory settings.
I've the following errors in my system logs when running Pages (or any iWork app): What is causing that, how to debug that and how can I fix that?
I've the following errors in my system log when running e.g. Pages: What is the cause of that and how do I fix that?
Are there any examples of 3D animations rendering in mobile Safari? To date, nearly all of the 3D animations I've seen working on a PC don't seem to render correctly on iOS. (Why is that?) I was under the impression that because of full hardware acceleration, 3D animation would be no problem in mobile Safari, especially since mobile Safari is pretty standards compliant and supports both Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS3 quite well.
Upon every login to my computer, I notice in Activity Monitor I have several instances of a process called "postgres" running, under the user "postgres". What is this, and why does it launch every time I log in?
I have an old Power Mac G5 running OS X 10.5.8 (The newest OS it can run). It is backed up regularly using Time Machine to my Time Capsule.
How to make iPad back to factory default without iTunes, restrictions code, iCloud, or backup. I want everything erased so I can completely start over.
The 13" MBP with retina has a resolution of 2560x1600. Standard windows laptops often have resolutions like 1920x1080.
I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
"Your credit card was declined. Please enter valid credit card information." What should I do? Thanks
IPad mini running iOS 6. Trying to find Field Test Mode but so far no dice. Can anyone help? If not available what is the alternative? Cant find any app to do so. Unwilling to jailbreak. Thanks
I know about this question (How do I send ASCII text to printer (over USB)?). But I'm working on something different. I'd like to be able to send text from within a bash script or Perl script to my printer.
can I backup a 75Gb partition on a 64Gb image (for Calcium) if it has less used space than total space on the original partition? yes I can, in fact it's the default behavior of Disk Utility when you backup a partition
Today I've seen this message from SourceTree app (gui repo-manager): 'You have a behind version that supported now. We move from appstore and you need to download application from link below.' Why did they abandon the appstore? I think that appstore is a great app-manager, but why was this app removed?
I have the Apple Wireless Keyboard and a very recent Mac Mini. The keyboard exhibits very strange behaviour: meta keys / shortcuts such as CMD+TAB work, but none of the main letters do. Caps lock doesn't light up. Cursor keys work. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I can't find the safari icon on my iphone 4? I have tried resetting home screen layout and that doesn't work. My restrictions button is 'on' and it asks for a password for this button. I don't have a password. Can you help? Thanks,
I bought a current model mac mini server and it arrived today. Yay. I have a macbook pro running 10.8 and the server is connected to my router by ethernet, laptop is connected wirelessly to same router.
I would like to start an ntpd on my MacOSX 10.8. ntpd is configured correctly and runs when started manually. I would like to start it on boot time with lauchdaemon. I created this com.stefan.ntp.plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons: Added it to the Launchdaemon with However, it does not start. Any ideas?
I've setup a new outlook.com account and I'm trying to add it to Mac Mail. In the past when I've had Gmail account they've allowed me to use IMAP, but with Outlook.com you don't have that option - only POP3 or Active Sync. I don't want to use POP3 as it doesn't sync the back to the server, so I want to use Active Sync, which works in a similar way to IMAP in terms of syncing everything.
How come? Is this some kind of bug? I remember having problems with high RPM a month or so ago but it was also very hot outside... the problem somehow went away but now it reappeared... since it's also hot outside now I thought that's how it is - but no - there is something wrong and it looks like it's not the dust or hardware problem.. something in the OS is strange.. any ideas?
I just got my iMac back from Apple---they had to replace the video card for me---and the internal mic is not working. In System Preferences -> Sound, I can select "Internal Microphone" or "Line In" and I get nothing on the volume bar for either when I speak. I moved the input volume slider all the way to right and I still get nothing, but oddly enough as I move the slider I register sound. Only while the slider is moving though.
after sudo port selfupdate, sudo port install leptonica and sudo port install tesseract I have what seem to be serious deficiencies. Tesseract wont even recognize .tiff files!
How do I find my apps on my MacBook Pro? I downloaded them, and I tried looking in LaunchPad and my dock, but do not see them.
Whenever I use a keyboard shortcut that is accessible using the menu bar, the related item gets highlighted in blue for less than a second - which I find visually annoying. Can one disable that effect?
I often leave my Mac for some time to do assorted tasks. When I return and log into the screensaver, I can't visit my homepage, Google, because the Ethernet connection has disconnected, requiring a few minutes to reestablish DHCP before I can Google again. Is there a way to keep the Ethernet connection alive while my computer idles? I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion x64; on a 2013 MacBook Pro 15"; with an official Apple Mini DVI to Gigabit Ethernet adapter; plugged into a good cat5 cable.
I'll be going away in a couple of days, and I believe that where I am going, the WiFi is restricted to one device being connected at once. However, I would like to have internet access on both my iPhone and iPad Mini. Is there any way I can connect to the internet through my iPad Mini or vice verse, without a jailbreak?
I want to display the DNS servers that are used by the current network setup on OS X, from the command line.
I'd like to have two buffers open side by side in Aquamacs. Is there a shortcut for doing this? I know that C-x 2 opens them in a vertical stack, I'd like to have them arranged horizontally though.
I like getting Growl notifications for incoming emails in Mail.app, but I'd prefer not to have to keep Mail.app running to see them. Is there a setting or third party tool for this?
If I download any app on my iPad will it download itself to my iPhone? The iPhone & iPad share the same iCloud account.
At work I'd like to be able to use a static ip over wifi for development purposes. At home however, since I'm on a different network I don't want to use a static ip, but dhcp. On OSX 10.8, how can I configure this in a way that I don't have to manually change over each time I switch networks?
Where can i find such a good list? I tried googling, but they just cover the linux basics (cd, ls, rm, sed, etc.). What are the Apple specific tools for changing settings, volumes, bundles, plists etc?
Is it possible to deactivate the text marker function in iBooks? I often use the dictionary lookup, but accidentally, I activate the marker function quite often.
But now I'm still getting this error message when installers are running. I don't have any HP printers, but I did at one time. How can I get this error message to stop? According to the HP support website there is an uninstaller I can run, but I don't have any such uninstaller.
I have an external DVD drive with an AC power input. I plugged it into a power source and then into my Mac Air (the generation released a year ago). The computer shut down immediately. When I attempted to turn it back on, it made typical startup sounds the first few times but won't anymore. I've tried resetting the SMC multiple times. The charger indicator light suggests that the SMC reset worked, but my laptop still won't start up. After all this, I realized that the external DVD drive's power cord was from another appliance. It's hard to decipher the voltage information on the back, but it says:
I'm looking to use iTunes to load entire albums onto an iPhone, then pick out the best tracks from the albums by deleting other tracks, and preserve the collection of best tracks. Here's my ideal music sync / workflow: Create a playlist in iTunes, add albums to it, sync to iPhone. Delete tracks on the iPhone Sync iPhone to iTunes, and have iTunes remove the deleted tracks from the playlist. Add new albums to iTunes playlist, sync to iPhone. Is this possible?
I just got a new MacBook Air and I am trying to transfer my music that I did not buy from iTunes from my old computer onto my new MacBook. I saved my music onto a USB drive but the music won't transfer into my iTunes on my new computer. Please Help!
I ask because I configured and installed a profile for a network account on my Macbook Air (10.9) to create a synchronized Mobility Home on a Mac Mini server (10.8). However, I cannot login as this user on the server or my Air, because I receive the message that the home already exists. This occurs even though I have removed the devices from profile manager and the user from the group. I expect this is because I have not updated the configuration profile on the account, but I cannot do so because I cannot log in as that user.
Well I've gone off in the weeds at this point. The question is, what is some monitoring software to show me the GPU clocks? When I tried iStat Menus it did not have a GPU clocks reading.
I suspect this is a dead hard drive issue: blinking question mark folder at startup resetting PRAM has no effect single user mode not available with Cmd-S When I get to Internet Recovery mode, the drive does not show up, either in the Startup Disk dialog, in Disk Utility or in Terminal with ls -a /Volumes Is there anything I forgot to check before turning to Dropbox to get my files and Apple to get a new drive? (It's all very disappointing, because this is a quite recent MBA, and I thought SSD would spare me these issues.)
I would like to create a tool that allows you to set windows to exact sizes on the pixel scale to be able to have more precise screen divisions. For example, if I had four Terminal windows (and I didn't have something cool like iTerm to do this for me), I'd like to be able to set each one to 1/2 screen height and 1/2 screen width, and people to position them via x, y coordinates so that they took up the entire screen, and exactly one fourth of them individually. Can this be done using applescript?
VMware are not very direct about revealing the features of their producst. This KB article claims that "VMware Fusion does not support launching a Boot Camp partition with Windows 8 installed on it" while the Fusion 5 homepage says that Fusion 5 supports Windows 8 and that it "lets you run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side directly from your existing Boot Camp partition".
Does anybody know a terminal command that gives me the model of my Mac? For example - "MacBook Pro, Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2013" or "MacBook Pro, Late 2009" or "Mac Mini, Early 2010". That information does not exist in the SystemProfiler (/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType), but in OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8 you can see that information when you click "More Info..." in the "About This Mac" window.
I have recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Given that I don't have a lot of space left on disk, it was not feasible to migrate from Filevault to Filevault 2. I have just noticed today that Time Machine seems to ignore my homedir sparsebundle in its backups. On Snow Leopard, it would back it up when I logged out. Now it does not do that anymore, and so I don't have any backup of my homedir since the migration to Mountain Lion. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be fixed or worked around?
I have been doing network ping discovery on a WiFi-LAN and one of my iMac has two IP addresses, and I cannot understand why would that be. the only connection to the LAN is via Wifi, there is no file sharing, no Ethernet, no Bluetooth or any other network services (apart from screen sharing).
I use MBP 13" early 2011 and tried to connect with external moniter ACER X163w but the monitor displays a "no signal" error. I use official cable Display MiniDVI to VGA and run OS X 10.6.8. Might the external monitor be too small or how else can I troubleshoot this?
I just bought an old iMac (model identifier PowerMac6,1) running Mac OS X 10.2.8. Everything is working great except the internet connection. There is an Airport option for connecting to WiFi, so I'm assuming the iMac has the hardware/software capabilities required.
I'm trying to test an iPhone application and I need to simulate I'm in a different location. I was wondering if there is an application out there in the market that let's me write some longitude and latitude so my app can read that location instead of the actual GPS in the phone. I don't have access to the code or an iPhone emulator, so I need to test this from the device itself. Any possible way to do this?
Like when you do brew install wget or mysqld restart I want some lines of information constantly run through my terminal window. Is there maybe something I can monitor or any stream of information I can jump in? Is it maybe possible to watch the activity monitor processes in the terminal?
A friend of mine is having some problems with his Mail Account. As stated in the title, the Mail process uses 140% of the CPU, as shown in Activity Monitor. It's a random error, it doesn't happen all the time, it happens about once a week. I believe he restarts the application to make it go away, as it slows down his computer, and the fan starts making a lot of noise. He has: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4; Mail 6.5 (1508)/No plugin; 1 IMAP account; A few thousand emails between the inbox, sent and a few folders. There isn't any problem with the mail server (apparently, and according to the logs). I've checked his account parameters, they seem fine. He can send/receive emails (He told me so, and I've checked by sending a mail from his account to his account). Also: Mail's cache has been deleted; SSL is activated in Mail. Here are some lines from Activity Monitor: ... ...
Is there any way to add more flags to Mail.app (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)? I have a lot of subprojects, and need more flags.
I've configured my mail.app IMAP settings on OSX (Mountaion Lion 10.8.4) and it doesn't show account folder properly (it's empty). However, in Mailboxes section account is shown correctly, but all IMAP folders are actually one < Inbox > folder. I want to render IMAP folders separately. I ve entered exactly the same configuration to my iPad and it is working correctly in iPad mail client
I would like to copy the contents of a whole disk into another folder on an external drive. it should preserve permissions and timestamps. on linux i use cp -a but on OSX it seems to be different
Does anybody know the Applescript command to show or hide a iTerm2 terminal window? I use iTerm2 in a guake style command window and currently using one window and many tabs. My use case: I managed to open a new iTerm2 tab from Forklift (see here) but I still need to activate iTerm2 manually with my show/hide shortcut.
I've had this problem for a little while now (can't recall what would have triggered it). I'm using Safari 6.0.5 on 10.8.4 on an early 2011 15" MBP.
I have a USB Flash drive onto which I've used Disk Utility to restore the Mac OS X Install ESD:  Is there a way I can make the result read-only, in order offer it at lease some semblance of protection from accidental change? I assume (but don't know for sure) that I cannot make the raw disk itself read-only, so higher levels of protection are okay, but the lower the better.
I have tried running the disk utility repair tool on my Mac OS HD to no avail. So I moved on to backing as many files (Documents, iPhoto Library, Desktop Data etc...) as I could through my Windows installation on Bootcamp using MacDrive. Although, I am ready to erase and format the HD, I am still wondering how I would re- install my CS6 suite (Desktop Application; not Creative Cloud) onto the formatted system without running into any activation/re-licensing issues. Please note that I do have the original .dmg file (If not I could always download that from the original download portal).
I am missing one nice feature after moving to Mountain Lion. I was able on Lion to press control and drag with two fingers to magnify an area of the screen, which is particularly helpful when working with image editors that lack this function. Was this merely a key binding that was removed, or has the feature itself been abandoned?
Is there a Linux distribution, that runs on an old iMac G5 with a PowerPC processor? I would like to use the old iMac as computer for my mother, she would only need an up-to-date browser running, nothing more.
When attempting to delete emails in the Mail app using hotmail (exchange server) there is always the error: "the message could not be moved to the mailbox trash" Messages used to delete just fine, but this error message is a recent problem.
I've received two calls today, both which I ignored, to facetime with an email address that i don't know. is this spam or an attempt to hack? has this ever happened to anyone else? also, the first call was then followed shortly by another weird email, but this time by text.
I'm trying to upgrade from OS X Lion 10.7.5 to Mountain Lion. The installation failed with a message stated something about "no recovery" and a link to Apple site with Recovery update. I downloaded the update, but it could not run. Currently, my system is not at the state it was before I started the whole thing. For example, Safari, Disk Utilities, Startup Disk, Security (firewall setting tool), etc. could not start. Also, I used to connect to a NAS smb drive, but it does not show up now. Some other third party apps still work fine, Firefox, etc. Apparently the upgrade process did not do a rollback when it failed. So, what are my options?
I have learned that WPS is not secure. There is a WPS button on my XFinity modem; but how do I know if it's enabled so I can know if I need to adjust my router settings (or perhaps decline to use an insecure network that I cannot control)?
I have an iPhone 3g running iOS 4.2.1 with no SIM card. I'm attempting to jailbreak it so I can use it, but it will not enter DFU mode, even though I have tried repeatedly. I am attempting to use redsn0w 0.9.15b3, but my mac should recognize an iPhone in DFU mode anyway, so the jailbreak's probably not the issue. The home button is connected to the board, I opened it up and checked.
When you are in the messages app (this also happens on Facebook app) and you recieve a new message a sound will play even if you're looking at the thread where the new message came in. How do I disable it? It's very annoying and battery consuming for no good whatsoever. Any help is appretiated. Regards, Rodrigo.
I'm getting constantly interrupted by the same error, "There was a problem connecting to the server "admin's MacBook". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server in another room with nothing attached but the network cable. I manage it remotely using Apple's Server and Remote Desktop.
I've lost my iPod touch and I really need it. I used iCloud but it said that it has no Wi-Fi. How can I find it now?
What I did: Using this link, I created the following Applescript: This code allows me to "press" the green button at the top left corner of the window. I run the code, using Alfred. (Mountain Lion 10.8.4, Alfred 2.0.6) What happens: Zooming works fine, but the zoomed window of the application loses focus. the three buttons, red, yellow and green, at the top-left corner of the window are all dimmed in grey after running the code. the menu bar still shows the application title, indicating that the application is still foremost. (In this sense, the window is "half-activated"?) If I click the window, those buttons go back to normal, showing red, yellow and green. What I want: I want to keep focus on the zoomed application window after running the code using Alfred. Can anyone help me out, please?
I was working on increasing the speed of an ancient (6 years old) iMac running Leopard when I accidentally set the password incorrectly. I then turned to the internet to look for an answer and found: *=URL=* Which seemed to work fine until I reached Which returned the error I decided to ignore this and see where this would lead me, when I got to: It told me that I had to run: which returned the same error.
I got the following strange image on both low corners of 2 application windows: Firefox (22) Preview (MacOS X)
I'm using DaisyDisk to clean my hard drive and it is showing nearly 8GB of files in /private/var/log/asl. Are those files safe to delete?
After HDD failure I replaced my iMac HDD and restored Time Machine backup. Now dropbox likes to resync all of my files, nearly 1 million of them! Is it normal?
I run Little Snitch to monitor my network traffic. However, on Mountain Lion, power nap runs while my computer is sleeping so I can't approve new rules for Little Snitch to allow power nap to connect to Apple and the App Store. What rules should I add to Little Snitch to allow power nap to operate properly?
I use a Netgear ReadyNAS as a Time Machine server. I recently bought a new Mac, and I want to delete the old backups. How do I delete them? It's not possible from the Time Machine interface.
I use Mac and use iterm2 ssh login linux Server . but when exec ls the terminal is Black and White how to config then like mac colors
I'm trying to use redsocks on Mountain Lion for system wide SOCKS proxy. How can I configure the iptables on OSX to redirect tcp traffic to redsocks. The redsocks documentation mentions the following rules -:
I am just settling in a new job and what I got on my hardware setup is a Mac with a Microsoft keyboard. This support page indicates that the Control key on my PC keyboard should be mapping to Mac's Command key but it does not (e.g. CtrlC/V does not work). How can I fix this?
I'm running Max OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.4. I have tried several solutions to change the background image in every space/desktop, but can only get one. I have tried this shell script, have tried using Python's appscript and have tried another shell script. It currently only changes the background in the current space.
So I stopped working from home last month and took my beloved Logitech to the office, which means I'm stuck with the horrendous Magic Mouse here at home now. Whenever I'm wanting to go back in Firefox, the slightest two-fingered left gesture sends it spinning back about a dozen pages. Any way around that, short of using Safari?
Sometimes, after i send a message to a specific person, there is an exclamation mark inside a little black bubble down on the lower right corner by the status info. What does that mean?
I recently attempted to import my archive of 20000 photos into iPhoto - unfortunately I found out that some of the imported images were not photos but things I downloaded from the internet. I would like to know how I can filter these images according to their Exif tags. I want to specify the cameras whose photos I want to keep - and the rest I want to delete. Is this possible using iPhoto / is there a script that will do this? Any help is much appreciated.
My macbook always connects to wireless when I'm at work. I usually connect Lan to usb adapter to my macbook as well. In this case, I end up having two connections -- Lan to USB and Wireless. Am I using wireless or lan to usb connection?
I am unable to transfer apps from my computer to iPhone 5 running 6.0.1. Whenever I click on the Install button the button changes to Will Install.
I have OS X Server(.app) installed (because I'm a registered developer, so I got it for free). I figured it would be an easy way to flip a switch and get a web server for some static files, for my own local testing, but I can't seem to make it work. There's a default website with location Default (/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default), and going to localhost in my browser shows a "Welcome to Lion Server" page, so it's definitely running.
A work colleague sent me an SMS that I didn't get. Instead an automated voice keeps calling my number and starts reading this message out to me when I answer.
I have been trying to get iTunes Match to work for a week. It keeps getting stuck at Step 2. To try and fix it I have been stopping and starting Match, sometimes it gets further and other times it doesn't get as far. Today I have another problem, when I start iTunes Match it gives this error
All of the icons on my iPhone 5 display at 2x, but for some reason, my SchoolsFirst eDeposit icon displays the 1x image. Any idea how I can fix this? I tried deleting/redownloading the app, and hiding it in the "Purchased Apps" section of iTunes, and nothing worked.
Is it possible to install and use the Darwin OS from Apples open source download area, and if so on what hardware would I need? I'm not even sure if the OS is complete, all I can tell is there are a load of individual installer packages for different applications and subsystems, but no overall OS installer.
I'm on Macmini6,2 with current firmware and 10.8.4. When I send it to sleep it starts its on and off fading status LED thing to indicate it is now asleep. When I come back a few hours later, it is dark, but the computer is still asleep and enters wake mode when I touch any key.
I just bought a used Mac Pro (Mac Pro 1,1). The former user had bought an XFX R6770 replacement card for the NVIDIA 7300 (original) card. He hadn't installed it yet, but assured me that this was the recommended card from a Genius Bar employee.
I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Pro 13 (2011 late) using Bootcamp and everything seems ok except poor sound quality. It is just so impossible to listen to music. The quality is like a radio or telephone. On the other hand on the Mac OS X the sound is pretty good. Windows built-in tool for driver updates says that my drivers are up to date...
I just installed Eclipse and went into the full screen mode but, unlike with other apps, the top bar wouldn't appear when I positioned the cursor at the top of the screen, so I was stuck in full screen and had to restart the computer. Any way to exit the full screen mode in Eclipse? Using MacOS 10.8.1, Eclipse 4.3.0 (Kepler).
I have a shared folder on my Windows 8 computer, and I connect to it on my Mac. When I copy a file from the Windows to Mac (while I'm on the Mac), the file has very limited permissions. "gary (Me)" can Read & Write, but "Staff" does not appear, and "Everyone" has "No access". For a normal file, the permissions allow "staff" and "everyone" to "Read only". I know I can manually modify the permissions to allow "everyone" to "Read only" (although it's not possible to add "staff" to a file/folder's permissions, once it's gone, as far as I know), but I'd like to instead make the permissions default to the ones for "normal" files, rather than the limited permissions that they are now. How can I go about doing this?
In the graphical space representation of my iPhone, the Other category takes a pretty big chunk.  How can I find out what is in the Other category? If it's text messages from the last 4 years that I've owned iPhones, how can I browse them?
I added a RSS feed to my favorite paying podcast. Recently I changed the password. Everytime I update the podcast it asks for user and pass. No mater how many times I enter it and select "Remember Password" it will keep asking. I noticed that when I right click to "Get Info" on my Itunes podcast folder it has the URL in Where with the old password (http://user:MyOLDPassword@www.myFavPodcast.com/members/podcast.xml).
I'd like to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro via Boot Camp. However, the only distribution of Windows I'm aware of is on a physical disk, like this one here sold on Amazon.
So I have the iTunes app on my iPhone 4 and I used it to purchase songs onto my phone. I went to my music app a while back a deleted some songs I didn't want anymore ( i just went to the song swiped my finger across the screen and the delete button apeared) but now I want them again and I don't know how get them back on my phone with out debuting them?
Rather self explanatory, but I was hoping to be able to quickly change input languages, without going up to the top and switching manually, rather with a keyboard input? Maybe I'm just too lazy, but I was wondering if this was possible?
About 15% into the transfer, a message pops up saying "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error -8084)" and the transfer stops. This has happened multiple times.
When I turn on grouping in Mission Control to I get the application icon overlaid on the windows that belong to the application. Is there a hidden option to show icons on ungrouped windows?
My Mac mini couldn't boot from a Windows 8 DVD after running Boot Camp Assistant. The DVD was bootable and I verified with Parallels that it was indeed so. Mac mini server 2012, 2x1 TB, Apple DVD drive connected to Thunderbolt display.
Regarding Unix file permissions, which Macs use, why are Mac files in particular able to have multiple owners? For instance, you can view the "Get info" panel of a file, and under the Permissions section at the bottom, add another owner by clicking on the plus sign "+".
When I plugin a usb-drive or open dmg-archives they don't appear under the 'Devices' section in the sidebar of the Finder anymore. The drives are there when I check with 'Disk Utility', they appear on the Desktop and I can browse the files if I go to /Volumes. I have 'Hard disks' and 'External disks' checked in the Finder preferences -> Sidebar tab. Any ideas on how to get them to show up in the sidebar? I'm using MacOS Lion 10.7.5.
I am getting a maximum lousy 1,5 MB copy speed between two Macs on my local network. My hardware is: iMac6,1 (2006) AirPort Express A1264 (2008) MacBook Air3,2 (2010) The AirPort and the MacBook are both 802.11n-compliant according to my findings, but the iMac says "802.11a/b/g (draft-n disabled by default)". Is 2MB/s the best I can expect with the current hardware? Is 2MB/s the best I can expect with the current hardware?
Does anyone know what this menu bar app is?
I've got an external hard drive which I've hooked up to time machine, I have multiple Mac's but the one in question I am unable to remember the administrator password, which is a pain when trying to create an extra user account and install software, etc. What should I do in this situation? What's the best way of keeping all my files and existing software but be able to start up with a new user.
I am new to the apple world and finding out some "how to stuff". One of the things I am looking for is the Microsoft equivalent of the "network center".
I accidentally set one of my contacts to be a VIP in Mac Mail, it then added this folder in the image below into the sidebar, when i removed the VIP status of that contact the VIP folder still remained in the sidebar.. any idea how i can remove it ?
I apologise in advance since this will be a long question. I hope that somebody with applescript knowledge can help me. I am transferring whole of my Windows machines to Apple and I am stuck with one last little annoying thing. Within Outlook I had a macro running that asked me where to file a mail after sending it. I am used to file projects in separate folders and have the incoming and outgoing mail there together. Most of the items I send BTW go into the trash folder. In other words, my sent items folders is always empty. For reference purposes I attach the original macro below.
I understand that when a Mac's EFI system runs, it locates the file boot.efi in the /System/Library/CoreServices/ (blessed) directory and runs this as an EFI application (subverting a large part of the UEFI specification if my understanding is correct). My question is: what does this EFI application actually do on 10.8.4? I figure it must locate the kernel, pass through boot arguments, locate KEXTs, etc, but that is just my speculation. Is there anywhere I can find out what it does (ideally step-by-step) from a concrete source?
My company has several ipads standing in public places around town running our app. Sometimes the app crash and I have to go out to reboot it. Is there a way where I can sit in my office and log on to the ipads to check that the app is running?
When I connect to my Mac Mini from my MacBook Pro (both 10.6.8) as a registered user, I see sharepoint that no longer physically exsist. How do I delete these entries?
I created some job plist files and put them in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Now I don't see the point of this special directory (see launchd manpage). When I want to load a job, I have to specify a whole path to a plist file. Or can I somehow restart launchd so that it reads those files again?
When attempting to connect to smb://localhost/share, I receive an error that I ought to access the files locally. This is not always desirable. For example, this means I can not use my portable home on my Mac Mini that is serving the home directory.
I am regularily tethering from my phone to my iPad. Basically this works fine -- except that, being on wifi, the iPad or various apps treat the data connection as if it was a flatrate. The same would probably apply when being in places, that apply a narrow data usage limit to their connections. Is there some way to tell and iPad (mini) to consider certain Wifi networks as mobile data connection?
I've got a team who are all running Outlook on Windows to log into a shared inbox and use "Categories" to delegate incoming work. A new team member wants to use her Mac, running Mail.app. I had no problem getting the account set up, but the Category markings are not visible anywhere in Mail.app. (Flags are, read/unread are, folder structure is, just not Categories.)
The hard drive went on my late 2008 MacBook Pro so I replaced it. I tried installing 10.8 from a bootable USB which failed so I went back to the origional system disks. When I tried to install OSX from the origional system disks ( 10.6 ) I get the following error:
I feel like this is a pretty stupid question but I Googled it and played around with it and still didn't figure it out so here we go: When I open iTerm2, it opens in a default size. How can I set it to open in a different window size?
I have a AppleScript that runs from a cron job. The script is: (which I got from *=URL=* in an example of one of many instances where SO has had the answer to a query ready for me) I use the script to populate a file like this l
I was trying to make my /private/etc folder and all its contents world-readable. 'Permission denied' messages from a number of internal files and folders were a recurrent theme whenever I did a find operation on that folder. But chmod -R seems to have failed here. Can someone please explain why I get this error message and what I should do to fix it? I'm on OS X 10.8.3. In fact any read operation in the directory seems to fail:
Is it possible to use a (European/French)Time Capsule in Canada ? If yes, is there any particular configuration to apply ? Thank You.
In Logic Pro X, I wish to export only part of a project (I'm not yet happy with the end, but I don't want to remove the WIP). I selected the zone I want with the yellow bar at the top, and pressed "Bounce selected region", but it doesn't seem to do what I want, which is only export the first 22 measures. What is the proper procedure?
I tried making my own by taking screenshots of each letter, but lots of them keep having a thin grey line show up on the pic. No clue how to stop the thin grey lines, but I know they'd interfere with my struggling kids' learning.,
I like to share my macbook wifi internet connection with my phone via bluetooth. Settings|Internet Sharing has an option for bluetooth pan but it is disabled.
I'm trying to run MySQL server (Percona) by launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.percona-server.plist and I see the following message in /var/log/system.log: If I run it manually it gives me Any ideas?
Instead of typing : I would prefer to type:
My iMac used to be a valuable information, and learning tool for me… then I made the fatal mistake of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. What a disaster! The Help Center and all other 'help' menus at some level end up with this message:
I have a drive from an old Windows computer. The drive is now in an enclosure, so it's accessible as if it were an external drive. It is formatted as NTFS. I would like to convert this drive (about 50 GB, including Windows XP on it) to a writable disk image. I tried using Disk Utility to convert it to a read/write disk image, but it doesn't work because it still results in a disk image with NTFS as the format, which Mac cannot write to natively.
In Mountain Lion, I'd like to remove some options in the screen saver timing. I'd like to remove the "Never" option and some of the longer options for all accounts on the system. Essentially I'd like to require a screensaver, any screensaver. Is there a way that this can be accomplished?
I no longer have my iPhone, but I wanted to know if there was anyway I could access the pictures that I uploaded to Photostream before I got rid of the phone. Or are they all completely lost?
If I want a read/write disk image, then aren't sparse bundle disk images always the way to go? They start at 0 kb in size, and grow to accommodate whatever you add to them, and if you delete stuff, they don't shrink automatically, but you can run a command to shrink them manually to regain space. So what advantages does a writable .dmg have against a writable .sparsebundle or .sparseimage?
I'm trying to set up some standard terminal settings for all users across our system on all machines. I've tried to use the defaults write cmd in a LoginHook script, but since it seems that terminal executes the login script the settings don't stick. Is there any way to pragmatically set Terminal settings globally across all users on a machine?
I've got a problem. The first step, as they say, is acceptance. My problem, is apps.
I have a Mac on my LAN which we use it as server. From other Macs, we have to always connect it via Go -> Connect To Server. Is there a way by which I can have my Mac server always visible rather than connecting it manually via Go > Connect to Server? Please let me know.
I live in an area dense with Wi-Fi coverage. Eight SSIDs show from my menu bar dropdown, but I know there are more. Where can I view a full list of networks in my area? (I'm on a 2011 MacBook Air running 10.8, but it'd be nice to know in general.)
I find that I desperately NEED Safari to ask me where I would like something saved (and allow me to rename it) (you know.. a Save As dialog) before it is downloaded - on an individual, download by download basis. This MUST be the default action for downloading a file; Modifier keys and right-clicks are unacceptable. Safari does not appear to have this option available to me.
I started a remote reboot of my machine but a couple of stuck processes are hanging the reboot. login with SSH is still possible sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r hang
I've just subscribed for iTunes Match and it did quite a good job of matching stuff except that three of my playlists are missing from it. That three missing playlists only show up on my iMac which is my source Mac for my entertainment. I tried duplicating and renaming those three missing playlists with no luck.
We are using the iPad to make an ad-hoc wireless connection to our proprietary device. DHCP is not available, so we are using addresses in the Auto-IP range. The user selects the device from the list of wireless networks on the iPad and about twenty seconds later, DHCP fails and an Auto-IP address is assigned. The device has a fixed IP address of 169.254.20.10.
Given a folder structure such as this one. When I've got folder2 selected and press Cmd + A or Select All the expected behaviour is that all the files within folder2 will be selected, namely file1 and file2. This happens most of the time, but sometimes when folder2 is selected instead of selecting all the files and folders below folder2, all the files and folders of the same level are selected, namely folder2, folder3 and folder4.
I was using previous version of Mac and used to connected to a server with SSH console.It used to run X 11 after loading my requested programs(Mathematica) on remote server and was working properly.Recently I upgraded my Mac to the latest version(Mountain Lion 10.8.4) and this SSH is not loading the "X" and I can not use remote access to my requested program from remote server.How can I fix the problem.Please in a easy way because I am not in using Mac commands at all. Thanks
Here's a question by a non-developer who cannot touch OS X 10.9 Mavericks, but I hope some developers help me in this issue - I have one 27-inch display and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and when I'm out of home I use the Retina laptop, and when I'm at home I use Retina but also with 27-inch display in order to take advantage of larger desktop. However, in OS X 10.8, when I terminate the multi display functionality to get it out of home, then screen on laptop becomes messy, with apps being viewed on 27-inch display being scattered around on laptops. That's why I've been considering recently buying iMac and use it on home instead. That said, I hate using two Mac. So here's a question: When you terminate multi display in Mavericks, then apps on 27-inch display return back to the location on which those apps were before connecting to another display, or are those still messy much like on Mountain Lion? If hopefully it is the former, then I want to wait for Mavericks and new thunderbolt disp
I need to tutor my nephew in algebra. He's 3000 miles away. We both have iPads. Skype or the phone can handle the voice channel. I would like an application with the following: Each of us can draw on our ipad at the same time, Whatever we draw appears on the other screen. Each of us can draw on our ipad at the same time, Whatever we draw appears on the other screen.
I've got a problem with my Mid-2010 iMac 27" where when trying to Bootcamp Windows 7 x64 (Ultimate edition) it simply wont get past the expanding files stage. Despite numerous attempts to use USB and the retail DVD, it will take about a second to copy the files and then will start to expand files. After a few minutes of hearing the DVD drive spinning, it shuts down. Has anyone ever encountered this? I'm currently downloading the latest ISO from MSDN to try however I'm not holding my breath lol. Look forward to hearing from you all :) Thanks Gavin Specs Partitions
My Macbook Pro 13" early 2011 has been running fairly cool for the last 4 months, about an average of 32-40C. However, within the last few days, the average temp has gone to an average of 45 - 52C, with the highs being in the 90s! I have tried using SMC fan control, but even at max my temps don't go below 45. I don't run intensive applications. I have been watching my CPU load for weeks as a hobby, and I know that I'm not running anything to put this kind of load. What's going on?
I recently bought a new mac mini (my first mac ever yay) with a 1TB hard drive at 5,400 rpm. the guy at microcenter also sold me a 1TB hard drive at 7,200 rpm and said it shouldn't be to hard to replace. He said first I'd need to back up the OS to a usb thumb drive and then physically replace the hard drive and then some how get the OS onto the new hard drive.
I made some function in my ~/.profile to automate things like SSH connections. They were working fine until recently. Now I need to "run" the ~/.profile by doing . .profile each time I open Terminal for my functions to work. How can fix this to make the functions available at start automatically? I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.4.
I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech MarbleMouse, a trackball that does not have a mouse wheel. On Linux, there is a configuration option (EmulateWheel and EmulateWheelButton in evdev) that let's you press a button and have mouse/trackball motion act like a scroll wheel. Is there anything equivalent on Mac?
Can anybody please help me?! I want to restore a non apple device back up to my iphone 5 and I can't so please anybody's help would be great! I have a Samsung galaxy S7 edge and I got a iPhone 6s.
After purchasing a Mac Mini, I wanted to replace the hard drive from a 5,400 rpm hard drive to a 7,200 hard drive. Will this replacement void my AppleCare warranty?
I'm trying to install Homebrew on OS X 10.8.4, and get the following: What is causing this problem? How do I work around it? Update (with answers to the questions in sameetandpotatoes's comment):
I'd like to play songs from multiple playlists on my iPhone and iCloud. I use iTunes Match which clearly introduces some limitations. The closest I've come is to create a Smart Playlist, with the rules stating to include songs from specified other playlists.
Home sharing is not working on my iPhone : I can't see any 'shared' option in both music and videos app while I have activated Home sharing with the same ID on both my Mac and my iPhone. I have a MacBookPro with the latest version of iTunes and an iPhone 5 with the latest OS. I have tried to relaunch iTunes, turn off home sharing, sign out on my iPhone and start again the whole process without any result. And there's no issue with my router or firewall, I've checked all this. Does someone have any idea or tip to solve this problem ? Thanks a lot !
I was trying to use the --parents option with cp (to create the non-existing directories in the target path) in the terminal but that option does not seem to be working in MacOS. Any alternative?
I have a team that all have privileges configured in Exchange to give them read/write access to the Inbox, and send-as privileges, for a shared mailbox. This works great on Outlook, where they can log in with their credentials and just pick "Open these additional mailboxes" in Outlook's account settings. There doesn't seem to be anything precisely parallel to this in the iPhone, and the Googling I've done suggests that the easy way won't work on the iPhone.
My document in Pages 4.2 for Mac has custom paragraph styles for a couple of levels of headings. I'd like to get a bird's eye view of my document that shows only those headings, not the paragraphs in between. I can set whether each paragraph style is included or excluded in the table of contents (TOC), but I don't want to insert a Table of Contents into the document; I want to view this in a sheet, menu, separate window, or something else that is part of the application rather than the document.
Second, his macbook connects to wifi at other locations, including my office and at my home. The only place the device cannot get wireless internet is at his home.
This is something I don't particularly understand. I get that for Windows, activation exists to prevent software piracy, but you don't have to pay for iOS. Perhaps activation exists to prevent Android devices from using iOS or to prevent jailbreaks and downgrades? Anyone know the real reason why?
Finally, should I be using a cloud based service like CrashPlan? I really like the ability to restore a mac that has been lost or destroyed, and the fact that Time Capsule doesn't cause WAN traffic, but I don't like sys admin time. Thanks in advance.
Someone in the office set up printing from a Mac to a printer connected through USB to a Windows computer (the only Windows computer in the office). He can't remember how he set it up and no one else can get a configuration to work. Viewing the print queue settings or options doesn't tell us much. How can we see the detailed configuration? Please note, this question is not about getting the printer to work, it is only about reviewing the details of an already configured remote printer so that it can be identically set up on another Mac.
Well, I don't know what happening on my MTL 10.8.4, but yesterday file deleting became very strange. When I press cmd+backspace dialog window with two variants is shown: Delete and Cancel. So the Delete button removes a file completely, and bin is empty then. So how I can fix that?
I have two Apple Cinema displays connected to my Mac Pro, System preferences sees both displays for audio output, however Logic is only sending audio out of my secondary display, not my main one, and there is only one Display Audio option in Logic settings. More info: if I unplug the secondary display's USB cable, and reset the Logic audio output, it goes to the main display. However, if I quit Logic and then reopen it it reverts audio output to the secondary display, along with sending my workspaces there.
For some reason, the sounds for ringers, and alerts/notifications on my iPhone appear to not be playing anymore. Even though the ringer volume in settings is turned up almost to the max, the phone still only vibrates when receiving a call. And when the phone is placed onto it's charging dock, instead of BEEP ing like it normally does, it simply vibrates. Interestingly, when I fiddle with the ringer volume slider in settings, the test ringtone plays just fine, and music audio cannot be played through the built in speaker.
I am really fed up with the Mac OS Dock showing in Mission Control and especially Launchpad. Is there any way at all (even if I have to program it myself) to hide it in Mission Control and Launchpad because it gets in the way.
I would like to have user access rules on a central Music folder. In other words, I am the owner and editor and the kids can only copy downs music but certainly not change anything (like my tags). How do I do this?
We’ve been using iTunes Match pretty much since the beginning, but recently my wife has turned it off and refused to re-subscribe. I’m fast getting to the same place. It just seems so unstable, wishing Apple would invest some of their billions into it. I read with dismay how many people find Google Play to be so much better. As I write this I see a “Cannot connect to iTunes store” on my iPhone. Noting wrong with our connection … it’s alive and well. Bearing in mind that I have two Macs, an iPhone and an iPad and my wife has a Mac, iPhone and iPad what we really want is the following.
I want to install java plug-in in firefox . I read that installing java plug-in is not secure. EDIT1 : Can anyone please tell me why java installation is not secure, and should I install it or not.
I am developing an ios app for a client and would like to know that when I go for the $99 developer program I can post the app and get all the help but what about when I want to provide everything to the client will they have to get another apple id and sign up again for the $99 program or will they have to go for some other program and can the app be transferred from my account to theirs, it is going to be a free app, so if I manage it in the clients name is that okay. the app developed by should come as the "company's name"
Today the Macbook pro I purchased in December got quite slow, and so I decided to reboot it. I restarted it normally through the system, but it had not started up when I checked few minutes later. When I try to turn it on it seems normal first, but after couple of seconds a process bar appears, loads around one fifth through, after which the computer shuts down again.
I have OS X 10.8, and one thing I don't understand about the new Notifications system is that the icon in the menu bar doesn't tell me whether I have any notifications or not. The icon ( ) looks the same to me whether I have notifications or not. Every once in a while I'll click on it, and realize that I have Notifications from weeks earlier.
The microphone on my system is getting auto muted. Some times I check it and it is set to input level 0. The system menu settings for my microphone are also the same. Any idea what could cause that or which log file do I need to check for this nasty issue?
I have the IP address of a computer on my network but is there a way that with the IP address I can find the name of computer? For example, if I know the IP address is 192.154.23.60, can I use this IP from my Mac to see the name, such as Jacob's MacBook?
Since some time my MacBook is constantly hotter than it used to be, even when not having much CPU load. What could the cause be? Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) didn't completely work, I think it has decreased since I reset it but not completely.
I cannot see some of my notes I created on MacBook Air. When I check in Spotlight it says (null). What does that mean? Where are my notes?
I have a few links set up. I can do ls -l and get full information about them. For example: Me-Machine:Links me$ ls -l ~/Links I only want to see the link, and not the rest of the stuff. What would be the command for this?
I would like to use different terminal setting after doing a ssh into another machine. This would mean I could have my terminals to different machine using different colours. Is this possible? Thanks.
We released a game 4 days ago (Thursday), Junction Action Arcade, its categories are action and arcade, and I've been looking in the appstore in the section "Games -> Action -> New", in tha USA store, and it never appeared there. Doesn't every new release appear in that section sometime? Or how does that work?
I dropped my macbook air and the screen is like this since.  Does anyone know what exactly happened to it? Is it hardware or software?
I want an alias to SSH into another machine and then CD into a specific directory. I try:
I am shopping for memory for a MacBook Pro (mid-2009) and I found this. Supposedly, it is "Laptop Notebook Memory for Apple Mac Mini". Can such memory be used in a Mac Mini? Can it be used in the MBP I mentioned?
I have a 1TB WD My Passport external hard drive that I've been using for Time Machine backups. I recently had an issue with it where I can't save to it anymore because it was corrupted. The way to fix it is to reformat the drive completely so I'm trying to copy everything on the drive over to my cloud (BitCasa or Dropbox), reformat the drive and then move everything back.
Memory on my computer is running low. Is there a way to remove stuff from my iTunes account (like delete them from my computer) and still have them on my account (not delete them off my account) so that I can access them on another computer?
When I download a .dmg file it somehow ends up on my desktop automatically. Even after I install the .dmg, it is still on my desktop.
I have the household media room connected to an Airplay capable receiver. Our media server is a secondary Mac that runs 24/7 for the express purpose of serving media throughout the house. This is a headless machine that does not ever output any audio of its own, and in fact could have all audio drivers disabled and it would be perfectly fine with me. What happens is, this machine appears to spontaneously decide that it wants to connect to the Airplay receiver, which causes my Media room to suddenly switch input sources and is seriously irritating and confusing to other members of the household.
I wanted to create a Mountain Lion recovery USB because I currently only have a Lion recovery USB. While downloading the installer image from the Mac App store, the computer froze and I had to perform a hard shutdown.
Since my Mac crashed and does not boot OS X at the moment, I am trying to recover some data from my user folder in OS X from within of Ubuntu. Usually I have no problem accessing the files. But not this time.
My own Mac crashed while downloading Mountain Lion and does not boot anymore. Now I want to download Mountain Lion on another Mac, that only runs OS X Lion - and does not support Mountain Lion.
EHC1 corresponds with the times when I did wake up the machine. EC.SleepTimer are wake-ups that happened without my interaction. What are EHC1 and EC.SleepTimer?
I'm using OSX, and I have an email in the inbox, and a Finder folder nearby. If I drag the email into the window I get a nice file in the folder with the subject I'd expect and so on. dragging.... and now in the file.
I just want to use AppleScript to open an existing group in Mac Address Book (v7.1). above is the sample code for what I want.
I just setup a Airport Extreme gen 6 (f/w 7.7.1). On it I have several Apple devices including two iPhone 5s, iPad 3, and iPad 4 all on iOS 6.1.4.
My iPhone gets really hot when charging and sometimes when I use it. I thought it might do this because my iPhone is cracked and I've thought about getting the screen fixed but I'm not sure if that's the reason why it's hot. I have also stopped using, I haven't used it for a few weeks now but it still heats up when I charge it. What can I do to resolve this problem?
When I download command line applications they are located in my ~/Downloads/ directory. But I feel this is wrong place to have a command line application located. Where in the Mac OS X filesystem should I store command line applications?
I have an older, 2007 15-inch MacBook Pro (model identifier MacBookPro3,1) which has begun freezing repeatedly. If I boot into Single User Mode it stays operative, however I've begun to get graphic glitches here too:
I am installing the most recent Flash Player 11 for Firefox/Safari, and after running the .pkg from Finder the installation always fails at 50%. I find this error in the console at the end of installation:
Standard calendar app in iPad and iPhone show different calendars, while settings on "preferences/email, contacts and calendars" and in the standard calendar on both devices are equal, as far as i can see. • On my iPad (mini iOs 6.1.3), my google(exchange) account shows just 1 calendar (with my google-address as name) • On my iPhone (4s iOs 6.1.3), my google(exchange) account shows 6 calendars (with specified names, as online) iCloud and others on both devices show same calendars. How to let both devices show the same calendars? (and yes, on both devices i've already went to www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect and selected all ;)
I connected iPad to my laptop (Windows), opened the only file with data that was available and tried to download pics and videos to my computer, however 1 video is missing in the transfer list. iPad model A1430, MD407LL/A. iOS 6.1.2 Windows 7 Professional, Toshiba Portege R830-17C I can still see it on my iPad in "Photos" (where all the other successfully copied pics and videos are). What shall I do to sync/move that one video and be sure that future media work properly?
I want to know if the list of Time Machine excluded files (pictured below) can be found in a file somewhere.  I know about the question On Lion, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? which has a lot of good information about StdExclusions.plist, mdfind and tmutil – but not the answer for this question.
I would like to make a script that press down the shift button every time i click on something and maintains it pressed until I release click. Something like: If click then key down shift "when click released" key down shift Thank you for your help I've been struggling with this one !
Bug (excuse me for bad quality) Explanation: In full screen mode in MacVim 7.4 i see the background panel. I tried set transparency=0 but it does not work, Is it good to see backpanel in fullscreen vim and some other apps? Thank you. PrintScreen
I see that there are 2 people in my school connected to my iTunes library. how would i go about finding out who it is, other than just the ip. Maybe try to figure out like their computer name or something like PersonA's macbook. I'm also new to apple and all these commands. A walk through would be helpful thank you. -s
I wish to download previous iTunes purchases on my iPhone, but there is nothing showing up in my purchases. When I go direct and search on iTunes for the music I have downloaded it says I have purchased but wont let me re download. Any ideas?
My friend just called me up and said he purchased a new Seagate 3 TB External harddrive for his Mac Book Pro. And ever since he connected the harddrive, his computer was not able to run.
My kid's devices are tied to my Apple ID, and that's working wonderfully. The problem is that anytime I take a photo on my iphone, it automatically appears on their ipads. How do I disable that?
According to airplane-mode on the iPhone shuts off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...GPS.
I'm interested in moving color values I've created for OS X Terminal to applications on other platforms, such as Linux. I'm familiar with the usual methods of representing color values like RGB, HSB, L*A*B, HEX, etc. However, the <data> strings used in Terminal settings files are unlike other methods used to define colors. I'd like help understanding this XML <data> type in relation to other color values.
(iPhone 3GS, IOS 6.1.3). I've uploaded a photo -say, "dog.jpg"- to the iPhone from an iMac. On the iPhone, I can view it using the built-in PhotoApp [I don't know its official name]. On the iPhone: Can I access this photo via a local URL, e.g file:///Uploaded/dog.jpg ?
According to a note underneath the Region setting in the Language & Text prefpane, "Changing the region may affect the availability of Internet services." This is not explained in any documentation I can find anywhere, and apart from some cryptic suggestions in some mailing lists, I've found essentially nothing to explain how changing the region setting—which seems to only be for changing date, time and number formatting, and is almost always Custom for me—would affect network connectivity. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this note is there, and what it refers to?
I have an early-2011 MBP 15' with an Intel I7 2,2 GHZ core. I'm thinking in upping the RAM to 16GB with 2x8 DDR3L sticks.
In iPhoto, I've got some old MJPEG videos that don't transfer to my iPod Touch. I've got new videos that I took with my iPod Touch that are in the H.264 format, so they transfer fine, of course.
iCloud always... ALWAYS crash all my apps (Pages, Keynote, SimpleText, etc) that use iCloud so if I turn off iCloud, the apps run fine. Apps just cannot open documents at all.
Messages showing FB contacts as numbers  Here is my settings for facebook.
I have iMac 2010 which is out of warranty. I recently came up to the computer and it was sleeping and was not waking up. I held the powered button for a while, so it turned off. Then I pressed it again. The iMac turned on, but I saw colored lines on the white background with apple logo and activity indicator spinning. It was spinning for a bit then the screen changed to checkered color lines and white background, and it froze that way. I turned on my TV that the iMac is connected to and all I see there is white screen. I tried cmd+Option+P+R and it did restart, but same thing happened. I also tried plugging out all the cables, including power. Waiting for few minutes and plugging them back in, but that didn't help. What else can i try? Do you think the monitor is dead or the video card? Hopefully not the hard drive. Here are the screen shots of what happens:
Is there any simple way to install Unison (text version), on OSX? On Ubuntu it's 'sudo apt-get install unison'. And that's it.
I made new Service for Automator. Add action 'Create new Folder'
Every now and then my macbook will drop my home wifi connection and the network will not be visible in the list of available networks for a few minutes leaving me unable to reconnect. Eventually my network reappears and I reconnect and it works again. I don't believe it to be a router issue as my iPad and iPhone never have this problem and I still have a working connection on them even when my mac cannot see the network.
I just switched my old iPad to iPad Mini. When I'm on my old iPad, in-app purchases work fine, as well as with my iPhone 5 (they all use the same Apple ID). How to make in-app purchases work on the iPad Mini?
This has really baffled me: While my internet connection works, I can't access specific websites with Safari (or any other browser for that matter). I don't get a 404 page; Just an error message that Safari (or Chrome or Firefox) can't access the server at some.location.com.
I am having issues starting up my iMac. I would like to know if i create a bootable usb with Ubuntu or any other OS, would i be able to boot with it and access the OSX drive? I able to do this in windows with mini windows xp but never done it on mac. ==
I am running a simulation that deliberately uses a lot of memory. In fact, more than the available RAM and so the program should use swap space. However, after 60 GB of swap space are used, I get the following complaint from OS X 10.8.4: OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory At this stage the RAM is fully used and virtual memory is used up to ~60 GBm as well as the swap, which Activity Monitor reports is around 60 GB. I tried this program on two different Macs with the same outcome and the same critical amount of swap where everything goes wrong. My machine: Mac Pro Two quad core 2.7 GHz processors 32 GB of RAM 1.3 TB of free hard-disk space I checked my handcoded C++ program for leaks using Xcode and I understand where the RAM usage is coming from. I would be glad if anybody has a suggestion what the root of my problem is.
I guess you see that a hidden assumption is that the firmware is corrupted. This is why I tried to reinstall the latest firmware for my Mac from *=URL=* But when I install that file I get the error: "This software is not supported on your system." Most probably because the latest firmware version is already installed.
Some of the apps I am trying to create need me to share my location to function at their best, but fluid app seems to not allow this. I have looked through all the settings, but I can't find this setting. Google Maps, for example, does not allow me to automatically see my current location nor do my facebook and other social apps.
When logging into hotmail on the mail app, do all contacts save into the contact list on the iPhone? Or only certain ones? If so how?
A remote machine running 10.8.4 is powered on but at the Login Window, so no user is actually logged in to a desktop session. Is there a way to log a user in remotely via ssh to create an actual desktop session?
Quick question in response to a very thorough bootcamp post already on this forum. For anybody that has a working Mac, Windows and Shared partition ... is the Boot Camp partition recognised by Parallels Desktop? I ask because I wanted to make use of Parallels Desktop integration feautres, but despite getting a working multi-boot between Mac and Windows with additional shared partition ... Parallels Desktop would not find Boot Camp, but would try installing itself onto the Windows partition - and fail). If I removed the shared partition and Windows to the default single Mac partition, then partition split using Boot Camp Assisitant, Parallels Desktop would recognize Boot Camp and install itself onto Windows partition properly (only I then have no shared partition). Soon as I try breaking up partitions beyond this Boot Camp Assistant default (despite getting multi-boot working) Parallels seems unable to use the Windows partition (always hangs and gives various boot errors) though the Win
I have a Macintosh IICi and SE hard drive. My understanding is both are SCSI. I know one of the two is a Quantum P40S (the one from the mac IICi) I also have a PowerMac G4 that works very nicely and has an airport card in it.
I have a MBP that suddenly stopped detecting an external projector. I have used the same laptop with the same projector before. Right now when I boot the same laptop to the Windows partition it works fine with the projector, so I don't think it is a hardware problem. Any suggestions as to what to try? I have tried the "detect displays" trick and that doesn't seem to work.
Ok, so, here's my situation: I had Mavericks running on my computer, and I managed to downgrade (ugh). Anyways, all my OS X server data was corrupted because OS X Server 10.8 attempted to "fix" it, when it had no idea what this 10.9 magic was. So, I executed a simple rm -rf /Library/Server and used AppZappr to wipe all plist's from the computer, except for the .app. However, it goes and tries to recover that data. It now cannot read any preference data for any service. How can I remove the whole thing so it thinks it is a new install?
My younger sister bought a few pop songs on my mom's computer (which is not an Apple but she has iTunes on it), and because of the iCloud they showed up on my computer as well. I really can't stand her songs (I've always been a major classic rock fan), so I deleted them from my Mac not knowing that they would also delete them from my mom's computer. Then she and my mom got mad that her songs were deleted, so I looked up how to retrieve them. I went to the iTunes store > Account Information > iTunes in the Cloud, but the only thing there was "Manage Devices" and "iTunes Match." There's no option to view hidden songs in between those two options, like it's supposed to. I just updated iTunes so that I have iTunes 11.0.4, but it still doesn't show up. Is there anything else I can do? I really don't want to re-buy her songs.
I'm trying to get my 2009-era Time Capsule to extend my home wireless network (broadcast by a non-Apple router). I reset the Time Capsule and AirPort Utility can see it on both my iPad mini (iOS 6.1.3) and my Mac Mini (OSX 10.8.2). In both cases, AirPort Utility will happily allow me to set up the Time Capsule and have it join my existing network. When I go back and tell AirPort Utility to have it extend my wireless network, the Time Capsule tries to update itself and then just fails. It tells me "An error occurred during the update", and then AirPort Express can no longer see the Time Capsule:
I updated to Mountain Lion more than a year ago. Even before that, Growl has been annoying me with a pop-up asking me to update. The new version is costs 4 USD in the App Store. Since ML has notifications: Should I care for Growl anymore ? Would I'll be missing something if I unistall Growl ?
I only made it to step 3. I was asked to insert my password and since then my computer has been slower and the color wheel will not stop spinning when i open certain programs. I'm even having trouble force quitting programs and youtube videos refuse to load. Is there any way that the Terminal can be reset or this problem can be rectified?
I want to use feed2imap in conjunction with iCloud e-mail to provide functionality similar to Google Reader so that I can follow feeds wherever I am through either the web interface or through the mail app on my iOS 6.1.3 device. I have a Raspberry Pi that I can set feed2imap running on. I'm just not sure what the correct IMAP settings would be for it to drop messages into the Inbox on contemporary iCloud e-mail. I found this from Apple but the servers do not look quite right. What would be the proper server settings to use?
I have the problem in iTunes where the "Other" data on the iPhone is excessively large. It's taking up over 5 GB of space. I've searched this topic over and over, tried just about every option I've seen, and my problem is getting bigger. I have my daughter's iPhone 4 with 8 GB storage. She only has about 11 apps on it taking up a total of 407 MB. Her photos are taking up 83 MB. Music is only using 6 MB
I have had this problem for about one month with my itunes store. I get a blank white screen. Tried upgrading to latest version (11.0.4 now) but nothing seems to be working. Here's the screenshot
I have a bash script that works like a thread. Now I'd like to turn it into a service with Automator. Input is set to Image Files in Automator and the shell script action is set to Pass input as arguments. Automator takes issue with two things: The function The if condition However, no error shows up in the log and the shell script result is empty:
One day both my Exchange calendar and Google Calendar stopped syncing with iCal (Mountain Lion's Calendar application). No error message or whatsoever was displayed; remotely created events just didn't show up in the Calendar application. I've tried deleting and readding the accounts and even completely deleting the Calendar app's settings: After adding my Google Calendar account, I get an empty "Google" calendar group with no actual calendar inside:
I have deleted a file I still have open. I want to save that file. I know its inode number. I think that sleuthtools icat would work for me except for the following. $ sudo icat -f hfs /dev/disk0s2 3720257 > /path/to/some_new_filename
How do I change the 501 to something different give by my IT (so that my NFS mounts have correct UIDS) without breaking my system. Changing all the file ownerships I can handle "manually".
I was messing around with the startup partition on my Windows 7 partition on my Mac and accidentally changed it to the Mac OS X partition. So when I boot the Windows 7 partition it says the error message "Missing Operating System". This error also shows up when I try to boot the Windows 7 DVD from the Mac drive selector screen. My question is how do change the boot partition on my Windows 7 partition if the partition won't even boot? I really don't want to install a new Windows 7 partition. Mac Specifications: Type: Mac Pro (Mid 2012) Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Memory: 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB Software: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
In iPhoto, I have all pictures I've ever taken, or opened from my email. It includes, for example, pictures of my gf showing me the underwear she is hesitating to buy, or anything else I might not be willing to show while streaming through the pics with a few friends. Is there any way I could, without entirely deleting these pictures, turn some security on, as if they were in a passworded folder? It seems some privacy/security feature must be available in such a massively used software, but I can't find it...
In my Network settings under WINS I have the NetBios name (elly) that I would like to disable (kill). The message shows that the "elly"is currently been used ? By whom, for what ?
Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 Build 10K549 running Apache 2.2.24 via MacPorts 2.1.3. Native Mac OS X Server http server disabled. The error message I'm getting in the log is as follows:
I used DaisyDisk to get info about my drive. I found a folder named ".git" in my documents. Its size is about 15 GB. what is it? and can I delete it?
My internet gets really low (0.8 - 0.2 kb/s) or really just drop to 0, it started 3 months ago. I use "Automatic" and another using Googles Public DNS for my location. I am using wifi on my MBP to connect to the internet. In my iPhone, the internet is pretty consistent, it's just on my MBP that disconnects a lot.
I am now using Mac OS 10.8, and want to write a script (.sh) to copy some files from Mac to the shared folder of a Win7 computer. I can access the Win7 computer shared folder via Finder, but I do not know the location of the Win7 shared folder when I write the script.
I own a MacBook Pro 15 Late 2011 and I bought it for my work which involves crazy amounts of photoshoping every day. As PS is always hungry for RAM I bought 2 8Gb SODIMM modules to replace 4Gb modules that was factory installed.
I've connected 2 Dell 27" monitors to my retina using the thunderbolt/minidp to dp ports to get their full resolution. A touch of greed and the need for symmetry has kicked in and I'm desperate to get another until I realised that only the HDMI port was left which doesn't support full 2560x1440. So, my question is does anyone know how I can achieve what would be an orgasmic setup? I'm using a Dell U2711 and the Dell U2731. I was thinking that perhaps my options would be to either somehow daisy chain the monitors or use a thunderbolt/miniDp hub of sorts? Any help appreciated.
So, I did a fresh OS install on a new drive, which I'm running on now. Still the same problem! On further investigation, I noticed this slowness is down to a memory problem (too much being allocated to the hard disk), and therefore the HD is working overtime to make up for a memory error.
I'm trying to connect a Macbook Air running 10.8.4 to a Windows 2008 R2 server. I have run into trouble as we use a company.local. I think this may be the problem: *=URL=* So, I have gone into terminal and typed open /private and navigated to the etc folder but can not find a resolve folder, only a resolv.conf file. How do I go about adding the name server?
Set the shared folder via VirtualBox | Devices | shared folders menu. The dialog box indicates "full" access and "auto-mount". Then launched the VM. The shared folder is created, but empty. BTW, the folders are created in /media directory per the VB documentation.
Okay, so I have an AppleScript that is really just a wrapper for a simple shell script, so I could turn it into a double-click to run application, droplet and URI handler on OS X. Anyway, this works fine but the only problem is that the shell script can take a while to run. So I'm wondering, what options do I have for displaying some kind of progress indicator?
When I'm connected to two networks with separate routers using Wifi and Ethernet, how does my Mac know what connection to use when I visit a website?
I have already made a native iOS app and I was wondering if the consumers could just download the app onto their phone without jailbreaking or installing anything. I could maybe use a third party app store, but I can't have them download the store app and I need it to use my native app, not a web app. Is this even possible? My alternative is to make the app a web app and put it on a 3rd party web app store.
Is it possible to synchronize library meta-data, specifically the star ratings, bidirectionally between iTunes on PC and iPad? I am rarely listening to music, but if I do so, it is likely on the iPad (mini) hence ratings will happen sometimes there but sometimes also on PC. In order to make that worthwhile however a synchronization from iPad to PC and PC to iPad is necessary.
Using OSX 10.8.4., I am having a hard time finding a complete list of all software applications installed on my Mac. Of course, the Launchpad only shows the list of those that have an app shortcut created, excluding those that do not. I also tried holding down the Option key while in the Apple Menu to change About This Mac to System Information, then Software-->Installations but that still was not a complete list. How do I get a complete list of all applications installed?
In Windows permanently deleting a file or folder without sending it to the recycle bin, is achieved by selecting that file or folder in Desktop or Windows explorer and then depressing the keyboard shortcut: Shift + Delete This is particularly useful for sensitive information. Is there a keyboard shortcut equivalent within OS X that deletes files or folders permanently before they are disposed of in the trash.
I tried connecting a Thunderbolt Display to my 27" iMac (2012) using the Thunderbolt end of the display’s octopus cable, but the display did not turn on and was not recognised by the iMac. Is this configuration not supported, i.e. does it only work when using a Thunderbolt <-> Thunderbolt cable?
I have a Macbook 1.83ghz. I installed Snow Leopard and the WiFi crashed (?) It was barely functioning before, but now all it can do is detect names of routers. I haven't done anything as I don't know what to do. How do i run a diagnostic before I have to buy a new WiFi card?
When an app calls for GPS data, does it activate the GPS call itself and then when another app simultaneously running calls it does it make a separate call? Or when the second app accesses the GPS does it get the data that's already there (or something similar, like a channel is opened in both apps which the GPS system sends all data to each channel when data is available)?
I need a replacement tool or script to generate stats from the logfiles OSX Server generates while it runs. I have spent way too much time on AWStats and it's had nothing but permissions issues from day 1. Any chance anybody knows any reliable web stats packages for Mointain Lion?
I have Apple TV and have both HDMI and TOSLINK (optical) port connected. But the problem is that when i turn on the video via Apple TV I have double sound from the sound - from the TV set connected via HDMI and the sound system connected via TOSLINK. The later is deleyed due to the fact that TOSLINK is coverted RCA. This makes me turn off sound in the TV set. Is there a way to not transmit sound via HDMI in Apple TV if it is anyway transmited to TOSLINK?
When I'm putting on music I sometimes turn off the screen with the shortcut Shift + Ctrl + Eject. However, when I use the media keys the screen wakes up and I have put it to sleep again. Ideally the media keys would not alter the state of the screen, is it possible to achieve this?
I often listen to podcasts as I fall to sleep. The result is a podcast may finish playing without me actually having finished it. The annoying thing is the Podcast then removes the episode thinking it's played & no longer needed.
I've recently installed a new version of Little Snitch, and it informs me that the process AddressBookSourceSync wants to contact a server. I understand the process is for syncing Contacts. What I don't understand is why it should be connecting to servers such as: cnet.com fda.gov and a raft of others that seem to bear no relation to my contacts (no one in my contacts has email addresses or anything else relating to CNet of the FDA). Is this process doing more than just syncing contacts? I'm running 10.8.4.
I have Cienega on my Mac and did a recent update. Since the update I'm not able to open in Applications Cienega. I'm receiving a error message that says I have Mac OS X 10.6.8. The application requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later. How do I upgrade?
I'm looking for a package that does for algebra what word processing software did for writing: When I learned to type, my writing improved greatly because my fingers were closer to keeping up with my mind. Similarly I think that students will be more willing to enter intermediate steps in solving problems if they can type math faster than they write it. The package should in addition have drawing ability to make simple diagrams, and have the text formatting/editing ability roughly equivalent to the common rich text JavaScript modules commonly seen on forums. It should be possible to create equations either through mouse or keyboard. I think I'm looking for something that is a subset of LaTeX. Added bonus: The ability to do simple symbolic consistency checks: for example, in a solution requiring several steps is each line a valid restatement of the previous line. I am willing to consider a Windows program or Linux program running in a virtual machine, but I would prefer a Mac or iOS app
I've got a mid-2010 MBP running OS X 10.8.4. I've got a Sandisk SSD as my boot drive in my Super Bay and a 1.5TB hard disk in my HD bay. (I realize I could get better SSD performance if I swapped those, but the HD is too tall.)
In the last several weeks, my OS X 10.8.4 laptop has gotten completely stuck in states where it's impossible to interact with directly. Several times VMWare Fusion's USB shim has broken keyboard input. One time, the system had an apparent race condition between locking the system and drawing the unlock prompt, leaving the GUI completely wedged. These are terrible problems, but there's nothing I can do to fix them.
I was on Windows for a long time and switched to Mac about year ago. Some things still looks strange and confuses me: How to remove a file without mouse in Finder?
I'm curious as to what build flags are available to me when installing gcc 4.8 using brew. This question explains how to install gcc 4.8 using brew, but only specifies two possible flags i.e (--enable-cxx and --enable-fortran). Is there a list of what's available or can someone iterate them for me? If it matters I am running OS X 10.7.5 on the Intel i5 dual core.
I want to setup a two-monitor environment for me and my MBP15 Late 2011. I already have an external monitor (Dell) and I want to buy another one and somehow link them together.
I'm not getting a clear answer out of Google and would like to know if I'm going to have to reinstall my Mac operating system when attempting to get Bootcamp going on the system. Thank you.
The order of directories in my path is messed up, and I'm trying to correct it. Some of the path seems to be coming in from somewhere other than my user bash config files (I'm using both .bashrc and .bash_profile).
The ctrl key on my Macbook pro has stopped working at once! I have tested "Show keyboard viewer" from the languages, all keys are shown to be working correctly but not the ctrl key. Could it be any software issue, or I should check the hardware?
A coworker just asked me if I could help him script iPhoto, but I'm totally inexperienced with iPhoto and with scripting apps. He has thousands of photos and he needs to filter out those that do not have faces, and for the remaining photos he has some sort of template that centers the faces in a nice frame. He then saves the results to disk then repeats. It is painful to watch it do it by hand and I really want to help him out as it seems like something that could be automated, however, I have no idea where to start.
I have a strange problem with Mail and I cannot understand if it's a bug or not. When I archive a message, Mail creates duplicated subfolders. They are called "On my Mac" and they are located under "Archive" folder.
I'm wondering if software for this purpose already exists. What I want to be able to do is to be able to save to my external drive when it is not connected to my computer. By this I mean I want the drive to always appear as though it is connected so that I can choose to write to it whenever I want. If the drive is connected when I save to it the files I want to save will be written to my local drive and then when the external is connected, copied across. Does anything similar to this exist?
I would like to have windows in the Finder sort directories before files, in the manner of Microsoft Windows' Explorer as well as Linux KDE. I tried following this link but it did not yield the desired outcome, specifically some directories had contents sorted that way but some had files first then directories and some were still mixed. Also, I would like to know what the difference is between sorting and arranging in the Show View Options screen.
My copy of Outlook 2011 is behaving oddly with respect to font sizes. When I compose an email and set the text to be, for example, 12pt, the text I get when I type within the email composition window is actually 9pt. Moreover, when I send the email to myself and read it on a Windows computer the email is, again, 9pt.
I need a replacement fan and they only cost about $10 online. If I take it to the genius bar, will they install it for me?
I bought a digital optical audio to RCA analog audio converter to go from my Apple TV to get sound out of the Projector. The projector does not get sound. I also bought an HDMI-VGA converter to go from my Apple TV to the Projector - that does work. I get sound from the Apple TV only when it is connected via HDMI directly to a digital video/audio device.
Currently, I can use the space bar to preview a number of files such as .txt, .css, .html etc in Quick Look. I cannot, however, see the actual contents of a .json file.
I would like to be able to go into Finder and open files into an existing instance of Sublime Text 2, which has a side menu with all open files. However, when I hit Open With -> Sublime Text 2.app, it opens a whole new instance of Sublime, which is not what I want. I can certainly accomplish grouping of my documents in a single instance if I open them within the application but that requires more steps and time, i.e. is not always as convenient as opening them from Finder.
I've downloaded the free VOX music player from the Mac App Store after reading a recomendation in some site. The program asks me for permission to acces my iTunes Library but a splash screen hints of some lenghty process is going to happen is I do so. Has someone used VOX, and what does is do to my iTunes Library ? Does it create its own library of sorts ?
I have a receiver, Denon AVR-1802, which is capable of doing Dolby Digital and DTS decoding. Now my problem really have nothing to do with movies and these high-end audio codecs. My problem is simple, how can I get my Mac to recognize it as multichannel output in Audio MIDI Utility? I output the audio with S/PDIF. I need it so Vox will do the proper stereo to surround conversion.
Is there some easy way to just move all of my movies out of iphoto and into imovie?
I think the title says it all. I'm looking for a copy utility/Finder plugin for OS X that will tell me exactly what file(s) is/are being copied at the moment (from and to included, of course). A history of what has been 100% completed already wouldn't be bad but I can do that by comparing directories.
I have a bunch of photos uploaded to Google+ from an Android phone. I'd like to import them into iPhoto on my Mac, which is where I store my photos. Is there an easy way to do this?
Can I hook up two external monitors (with a HDMI interface) to a MacBook Air 2012? I don't want to use the MacBook Air monitor when the two monitors are used.
I have a Mac Pro (Mid 2012) with stock RAM, and I'm aware of the usual info about what it's using, e.g. DDR3 1333 PC3-10600E SDRAM, but I want to know more. I understand there are specs such as voltage, timing, bandwidth, rank, registration, and chip configurations.
Which program can I use to get all frames from .mov video file. I need this frames in png or jpg. I don't need just one frame I want to export all frames from my video in the same resolution.
I prepared scheme: (Amplifier I use is Pioneer A-307R *=URL=* TV Samsung UE40D6750 *=URL=* I connected to Apple TV both HDMI and TOSLINK to be able stream only Music (without need to have TV turn on).
The Gmail keyboard shortcuts are generally excellent. One of them (⌘-Shift-7 to start an ordered list) seems to work for me for a while after restarting Chrome… then stops working. I note that the others keep working (so ⌘-Shift-8 to start an unordered list and ⌘-Shift-9 to start a block quote always work). And ideas on how to track down why this might be happening?
I'm using Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I frequently open many image files and copy its pixel data thereafter paste into Photoshop.
Just curious to see if there is any possible way to do this but is it possible to get Skype chats to work in OSX Messages? Since I already use 3 other chat methods in Messages (iMessage, Facebook and Google Talk) running a separate program that chews out so much valuable system resources seems a silly way just to stay in contact with a couple more people.
How can I send a multi part mime email from my mac for the purposes of sending a html email together with a plain text version. The emails I send will be going out to a single recipient each time.
I'm using mountain lion, I have installed MySQL. GUI
Say I want to start working on some app X which I want to submit to App Store. Is it necessary to have a developer account, before I can start working on this app?
In Windows it is possible to permanently delete a file or folder from the right click contextual menu. The right click contextual menu in OS X, does not by default give the option to delete a file or folder in this way, only the option to "Move to Trash", which means you then have to empty the trash manually in order to delete the file or folder. Is it therefore possible to add this option to the contextual menu, to aid quick deletion ?
I am trying to use Automator as a Photo Booth but when I use the video snapshot command the photo quality is terrible. The built in camera is fine in other apps such as Skype or Photo Booth? I can't find anything online about this.
before when I used to write some code on iOS, I think I had a developer account (which I also have now I think), however under some company. It was Company/Organization type. I am no longer with that company. I am interested, if I want to create a new developer account, what shall I do?
I have 4 private calendars in my iCloud account, and I've been using them for the last 2~3 years with no problem. I think it was last week when I first saw my blue calendar changing its colour to purple. I don't know who/what did it, but I just changed its colour back to blue and forgot about it.
Can I view my iTunes wish list in the browser ? Can I - for example - copy the link of my wish list ?
A problem that would be trivial to solve with key=>value pairs. For each item in list_a, find the matching item in list_b and compare a single attribute (calculate scale ratio for two sets of images). The AppleScript lists look something like this: Both lists may contain a different number of items/order, making it impossible to relay on nth item of list for selecting pairs While it would be possible to iterate over every object in listA and compare its filename property with every object of listB, this is horribly inefficient, even with just a few hundred items.
I just bought a new Dell external display (U2312hm) for my MacBook Pro Retina. The fonts appear to be very blurry. I've searched and found a solution here, but it didn't fix my problem. I ran the script supplied in the thread, followed all instructions and the problem remains (tried on 2 different rMBPs with 2 different U2312hm monitors). here are real a few examples (the upper browser in each picture is chrome on VMware and the lower is chrome on OSX 10.8.5):
I'm seeking a way to reduce MacBook Air 2013 1.7GHz CPU power consumption -- or any MacBook for that matter -- to save battery life. I want to vary the CPU power consumption variably, so that I can get "full speed" when I want and "better/best power savings" at other times.
I'm writing a (Bash) script to automate setting up my Mac environment and would like to do this, except using the command line only. I'd also like to make that theme the default.
My goal is, that the finder search finds .c files that have the search keywords in it. It seems to work for others but not for me:
I have two machines backing up to a Time Capsule. On the disk there a faulty disk image which was marked as purgeable but cannot be deleted: The image is very small and is not a major problem but I wanted to get rid of it. Time Machine is not able to delete it I tried to mount the drive and delete it with Finder: the Finder crashes delete it with rm -rf from the terminal: rm hangs delete it with Finder: the Finder crashes delete it with rm -rf from the terminal: rm hangs
My Mac is currently running Mountain Lion. I want to install Lion as a dual boot option, for development testing. I have downloaded the Lion installer from the App store and I have a fresh partition waiting.
I am selling my 2010 Macboook and was wanting to back up all of my files and information and then wipe it clean and get it back to factory settings... Can anyone help me? Or point me in the right direction. Thank You.
iMovie is basically unusable for me at this point. I've got over 1000 video clips (most of them around 6 seconds since they were taken in Vine) and any time I try and switch events or projects it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes (I've timed it).
I have a quite large library of songs and I do like the majority of them on my iPhone (main reason I purchased the 64Gb version). Problem is that we have very slow internet here and turning on iTunes Match on my phone and telling it to download all songs in my main play list can take days up to weeks to complete.
is it possible to change my i5 iwy bridge CPU with an i7 one in my mid 2012 mbp? My mbp is a non retina model.
I'm using a Trackpad and I like using the 3-finger-drag gesture. It has this handy feature where it keeps the "mouse-button" down for a short grace-period when you release so that you can re-touch (with three-fingers again) and it will continue the drag gesture as if you hadn't let go.
I've been trying to use a custom .TTF font on OSX to watermark videos edited in iMovie. But there doesn't seem to be any option at all. Does anyone know how to achieve this?
I am trying to find my WiFi password from my iPad and I am connected to it. Is there anyway I can find out when I am connected to it?
I have an iPad 2 running iOS 5.1.1 and it is jailbroken (though as far as I know, not running SSH). A few hours ago I set a new 4-digit device passcode which I subsequently forgot. I've tried a few times now and it blocked me out for a full hour twice now, I suspect if I try again it will completely block the device. I last made an iTunes backup and synchronisation about 3-4 months ago on a laptop that I still have, but is currently unusable (the HDD is in another country, I won't be able to use that laptop for at least 2 more weeks).
Since some time the dates in my iPhoto library have all changed to the day my library was created. The pictures still appear chronologically in the events screen but they all show the creation date (of the library not the picture) under the event. If I try to change the date and time I can only change the time of the picture the date is fixed on January 5th, 2013.
While trying to install pagekite on OS X Snow Leopard using the following command: I got: I am a noob with the terminal but after reading a bit I understand that it is a problem with my PATH
I would like to know about keyboard shortcuts, that is, shortcuts that are mentioned nowhere in the menus, nor anywhere, and must be found by stumbling upon them in sites like these, but still work. Examples: ⌘⇧., which shows or hides hidden files in a save or open dialog box. ⌘⌥⏏, which causes the computer to go to sleep. ⌘⌥⇧⌃., which runs sysdiagnose and shows the results in the finder. Does anyone know of more of these or how I can get an overview of these shortcuts?
I'm wondering if its possible for the command key to be partially broken by liquid damaged keyboard (Macbook Air). I have 3 confirmed keys that don't work: period, comma, and downarrow. Everything else seems to be okay on this system.
I recently installed gcc 4.8 using brew on OSX 10.7.5 (Lion). I can now compile using gcc 4.8 by using or using the default gcc 4.2 by using
What I've got I have a large-ish library of mostly AAC files (around 65 gigs). I have one iOS device (iPad, which I hardly use) and two Androids (an Android 2.3 phone and 4.3 tablet). I listen to my library mostly on my MacBook Pros (10.6 and 10.7). I have extensively rated, categorized, and tagged (via comments) my entire catalog and I use this data to create detailed playlists.
In this other question, I've asked how to remove a domain from being added to the Safari Top Sites. Unfortunately it seems that the answer may not be that easy as I though. I've just discovered that the list with the banned domains is on the path ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist, and I tried to add a domain with a wildcard to the BannedURLStrings, i.e. *=URL=* but it doesn't work. Safari removes it as it seems to be invalid. Someone knows if it is possible to add a wildcard, or if they have another syntax, i.e https://apple.stackexchange.com/%.
How to lock my Google Drive app (or just one file on it) on my iPad so no one can view it if they find my iPad?
I have popup notifications appearing anytime my girlfriend has one on the calendar she shares with me. Since sharing the calendars avoids me calling her in the middle of a work session, when she's highly concentrated, I'm really unmotivated to remove her calendar from my iPad. Since she needs the notifications to know when to move from one activity to the other, we can't turn that off either.
I am unable to install software using brew install. I have tried brew cleanup & brew update, and deleting the file, but it just does not work! This is the error message:
I have added a number of text boxes to an iWork Pages document. When I want to paste in additional text -- i.e. a methodology section at the beginning -- the text boxes do not move with the text, rather stay on the same page where they were inserted. How can I get them to move with the text?
I'm using a Mac mini as an HTPC with two user accounts: one standard account and one admin account to manage the Mac. I'd like to have screensharing access to both, so I enabled it (and also File Sharing) for both accounts.
I have a huge error.log file in /private/var/log/carddavd folder. I found out that the Address Book Server creates logs in this folder. Can anyone suggest me a way to disable the Address Book Server so I don't have to worry about these log files in the future? Edit - the issue is only with OSX Servers.
I have a car (Audi A7 with MMI & Bluetooth Mobile Telephone interface) and an iPhone with dual SIM card (2nd SIM is plugged into the car). I would like when my car is started (and my 2nd SIM activates), my iPhone's cellular network would be automatically switched off (no radiation in the car anymore). My bluetooth should still stay on (need that to have my contacts synced with my car). My current day-to-day procedure is the following: when starting the car: manually put the iphone in airplane mode, and then manually switch on bluetooth again (with was also deactivated due to airplane mode).
When using Safari to read documentation, how do I know how much do I read or much much more is left to read just like I do with editors?  There seems to be no indicator in Safari for that purpose.
I have an external 500 GB HDD that I've used for Time Machine backups for three different computers: An old PowerBook G4 A white MacBook My current retina MacBook Pro
Strangely, Command + Click has stopped opening links in new tabs on my computer. It opens them in the same tab, as if I hadn't pressed Command. This problem occurs with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. My home Mac doesn't have this problem, and my coworker's Mac doesn't have this problem. My Command keys work just fine with other hotkeys like Command + O to open files. I tried disabling extensions, didn't help. Anyone else experience this? System:
Does OS X make a record or log of every file that has ever been downloaded on my Mac. Is there any reason to view them (or even delete them) ?
I usually use ShiftIt to manage, tile, and resize windows. I have come to the point where I really depend on it.
In Windows it is possible to print a document on the desktop by right-clicking on it and choosing Print Document in the contextual menu that appears. By default this option is unfortunately not given in OS X. Is it therefore possible to create this option and therefore aid the printing of documents on a Mac ?
I downloaded Real Racing from PC iTunes Store. How do I transfer it to my iPhone? I see a Cloud sign in in the app on the iPhone but when I press it, it asks me to be connected to WiFi but I don't have a WiFi connection but mobile data is available.
Is there a way (automator maybe?) or program to make an iMac record the microphone input on a scheduled time (start and finish). I need it like some kind of security webcam but for audio
When I highlight text in OSX's Preview the size of the highlight becomes huge. These two images illustrate the problem (In the first image I am highlighting the text and the highlight is normal, in the second image you see the applied highlight which four-five times as tall): and
So I removed an Exchange account from my iPhone not realizing that the phone had been saving new contacts there by default (instead of to my gmail account). I no longer have access to that Exchange account, so re-adding it is not an option. Is there any way to recover the contacts (and export them to a CSV or some other format so I can add them to Gmail)? Also, the phone was never upgraded to iOS 6, so it's still running iOS 5
I have kept a detailed log of each freeze (time, what I was doing, general state of the system) and do not notice any triggers. As of late I have been getting error reports in the console associated with a few BBOD episodes. This may help diagnose the issue, though I don't know how to dissect the error reports very well. The only thing I can discern is that the Exception Type is SIGBUS which I've heard is usually RAM associated. An error report is attached at the end. What I have done so far: Re-install OSX (not much change) Run memtest (RAM passed)
Using the GPU test tool from FurMark i get only 3 FPS. In normal use I notice it when playing fullscreen videos: When the video pans horizontal i get these stripes across the picture. My setup is like this: Mac mini 2011 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5/ 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-10600)/500 GB HD/Intel HD 3000/Thunderbolt OS: windows 7 Tv: Panasonic G10 50" plasma Tv and computer are connected with an 2 meter HDMI cable I've tried to change the HDMI cable - did not change anything. What can I try?
My iPhone screen started blinking white is now completely white. Can someone tell me if this is fixable?
The SSD on my MacBook has 4 partitions, each of which has a bootable installation of OS X. Is there any way to boot from one of these partitions with a virtualization app? I don't want to create an image from it, just boot directly to the drive within an app.
I had email groups set up in Microsoft Outlook. They were great. When I added iCloud, it moved all my contacts out of Outlook and put them in iCloud. But now when I want to send a group email, my email (still using Outlook) can't find my groups anymore.
I was trying to get around Vemedio's Instacast limitation on storage location by symlinking (ln -s) the Episodes folder in ~Library/Containers/com.vemedio.osx.Instacast/Data/Documents/Instacast to another location on another drive (which is actually internal in my Mac Pro for what it is worth...). I am wondering if Apple's sandboxing is preventing this to work... Once I open Instacast, none of the previously downloaded episodes are marked as available locally and if I try to redownload one, it seems to download the file in the background but never makes it available... Any idea?
I just bought a new iPod Touch and I want to give my old iPod Touch to my child. He uses the same games that I do which I am logged into in the Game Center.
When I upgraded from iOS4 to iOS5 an unknown email address showed up as a possible email for me to set as one of my email accounts. Did anyone else have this problem? If so, where did it come from?
I've had a retina MBP for about a year now. I want to start using it for gaming. I have read that I need to change the Nvidia Panel Settings. Does anyone know specifics on what I should change to optimize gaming performance? thanks FYI this is for Battlefield 3
is it possible to put one of these new generation ssd to my MBP with pci express connector? PCIe SSD
I want to create a Best albums smart playlist containing a somewhat reasonable number of songs : the rule Album rating is greater than ★★★ result in a 221 songs playlist. wheareas the rule Album rating is greater than ★★ result in a 4000+ songs playlist. I understand why those numbers, but still I would prefer that the resulting playlist contains ~1000 songs : hence my need to have access to the smart playlist file definition so I can overwrite the ratings representation inside. Other approach tried : activate half star ratings (to create a 'greater than 3.5 stars' rule), but if half star is activated for song rating in the main window, it is not the case for the smart playlist dialog.
I'm running iTunes on Windows 7, and at some point (or rather, at multiple points) I must have accidentally pressed the 'Cancel' button when it asks if I want to remove the app from my hard drive when deleting it in iTunes The net result is that I have 503 apps in iTunes, and 598 apps in my 'Mobile Applications' folder.
I want to merge several hundred pdf files in a directory automatically according to their file names. E.g. The files 1000.1.pdf 1000.2.pdf 1000.3.pdf 1000.x.pdf should be merged into 1000.pdf and 2000.abc.pdf 2000.def.pdf 2000.ghi.pdf 2000.jkl.pdf 2000.5.pdf into 2000.pdf.
It is possible to show so-called dotfiles/directories like .git or files/directories that have the Hidden attribute in the Finder by running from the command line (then running killall Finder to restart it). However, this only works in Finder, not in applications' Open/Save dialogs. In those, one can use the ⌘⇧. keyboard shortcut to show these files, but you have to use it each time you open a new dialog as the settings aren't saved.
When you rename or move folders or volumes on a Mac, do applications know the files moved. Specifically, I have an external drive with a name, say "A very long long name", and I want to rename the drive to "Short-Name" And inside that Drive, I have a folder with a long name which I want to rename to a shorter name. Aperture is referencing these paths in a very large library (>100,000 images) Thanks!
Recently I've discovered an excellent software for MacOS, which provides an opportunity, among other things, to share the wireless keyboard and mouse between different computers. It is called Teleport and it works pretty neat. The thing is that I'm trying to use this feature with iMac as target display and each time I'm switching off to target display mode cursor is lost on my macbook, and I just don't know what to do with this issue.
My mom has an iPhone 4s. I have a iPhone 4. The radio is out of the house. She wants to listen to Garrison Keillor. Can we get radio through our iPhones?
Apple owns the MagSafe patents - I realize this. On eBay, there are a ton of chargers, but no doubt of dubious origins. Are there any third party creators of chargers? If a company wanted to create a new charger for the MacBook line, can they legally do so?
In iPhoto, after you import images you can tell it to delete the files off of your phone. Is there a way to do this in iMovie?
I have one MP4 movie that plays just fine in QuickTime (I've run it from beginning to end without problem). However, when I imported it into iTunes, it can load but cannot play. Clicking on the play/pause button does not work. Nevertheless, I can advance the progress bar to any point in the movie, but the screen just shows a still image of that point. This is really strange since as far as I know, iTunes plays movies with QT.
I have a time capsule that I've been using for years, as a wireless router as well as automated backups and external storage. All of a sudden, both my Mac Book and iMac stopped being able to access the external storage, and the backups from the iMac stopped working as well, but it is still working as an internet and wireless router. In finder, when I click on the Time Capsule drive, it says Connection Failed. Since I see the same behavior on both computers, and it started at the same time, I am guessing the problem is on the time capsule. Any ideas?
Small or incremental scrolling on my MBP OSX 10.8.3 using an external mouse is extremely slow to a crawl. How do I configure my mouse to a Normal Scroll mode where every scroll is the same and creates fast scrolls in the window?
I accidentally left my iPhone 5 a few hours in direct sun and it overheated. Obviously I put it in shade to cool down but my question is will there be any significant damage? Long term? It was really hot when I found it.
Non-techie person asks: There is a .systemRootModeFile in ~/users/me/library. Is it malware, something horrible?
I have an older MacBook - not the aluminium unibody, the white one. Bought in the US.
And the problem is with program arguments. When I reload configuration by running: ssh is still listening on port 22. What Am I doing wrong?
I just made a synchronization through iTunes of my iPhone onto my MacBookPro. From memory I made about ten modifications on my iPhone. Unfortunately they are not in the relevant group, but within All Contacts.
I have an iPod and it is synchronised on a computer A. I would like to listen to my music on another computer B, on which iTunes 11 is installed. When I connect the iPod on the computer B, I am able to see all the screens related to the settings, such as or but I don't know how to actually access the content of the iPod to play the music. Is it possible ? And, if yes, what should I do ?
Drives and dmg's are mounting okay on my Mac, and I can find them at /Volumes/. However, they aren't appearing in the sidebar in the Finder. What's the best way to start fixing this?
I'd been having a few issues with my iPhone 4 (one of the main being that apps wouldn't open and turning it off and on again to remedy this resulted in me losing all of my contacts in my address book). When attempting to restore my iPhone, it sometimes causes my computer screen to become distorted and freeze my computer.
Will syncing iPhone delete existing photos on iPhone? I want to sync new songs but not sure if it will delete my valuable photos.
My Mini was running out of disk space, so I attached an external Firewire drive and moved all the Home directories (a bunch of users on a home machine) to it. I'm pretty sure that was done correctly, as it worked fine for all accounts for about 9 months. Then, the OS started renaming the volume on its own, usually adding " 1" to the volume name; thus, the OS couldn't find any of the home directories on that Firewire drive upon login, even though I could open the drive manually, and one would get a generic startup desktop, because the volume names didn't match. I found that, using an admin account with a home directory on the startup disk, I could assign a fresh, new name to the Firewire drive, then get into each user's advanced settings, and re-point the OS at the user's home directory on the newly renamed attached drive. That would work for a couple of days, until the OS again renamed the Firewire drive, and I'd have to repeat those steps. Very annoying, and not something the other us
I have an iMac with airport express and I also have a logitech bluetooth speaker adapter. Seemingly I cannot play through both at the same time. I have even tried going to the MIDI settings and creating an 'aggregate' audio device but it just flips back after a few seconds of it being selected (to a working method) EDIT: Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I have a 200 GB iPhoto library. Using the tips from this website: *=URL=* I tried to delete all original photos on iPhoto that I don't need anymore.
I have Windows 7 installed on a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro. According to Apple's Boot Camp Installation and Setup Guide, pg. 10... Select an operating system during startup You can select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key. This displays icons for all available startup disks and lets you override the default setting for the startup disk that is in Startup Disk preferences (OS X) or the Boot Camp control panel (Windows), without changing that setting. 1 Restart your Mac and hold down the Option key until disk icons appear onscreen. 2 Select the startup disk with the operating system you want to use, then click the arrow beneath the icon. I'm finding that holding down the option key has no effect -- the machine boots into whichever OS was last running. This is true whether I'm starting from the shut-down condition, or restarting. I've tried hold down each of the two option keys and I've tried holding down both at once. I've tried pressing the keys
When I view PDFs with Preview or Skim sometimes scrolling cause the following artifact  Here in 0,06 it seems as if one or two rows of pixels are cut.
When I attempt to run Migration Assistant, it searches and searches but can't find the backups. When I open Finder, I can clearly see the backups and navigate around in the backups for the different dates.
.Is there any way to see what activity is going on in iPhoto behind the scenes? Below is what I am seeing on OS X 10.8/iPhoto 11 (the arrows are spinning.) I'm guessing iPhoto is updating Flickr or being updated by Flickr, I'd just like to know what is going on and I can't seem to find any "show status" option.
I have a Canon Vixia HF11 HD camcorder, Synology DS213 NAS, MacBook Air, iMovie '11 and Final Cut Pro 10.0.9. I just backed up my camcorder using Final Cut Pro and ran into a couple problems: The backup came out to 50gb total (the CANON.fcarch was only 25gb)
I have created a new user but the new user's home directory has the old users path. How can I update my new user's home directory so that the terminal opens to this directory and all software considers this new directory my home directory? I'm using OS x 10.8.4.
"Access the iPhone’s Field Test mode by typing 3001#12345# in the phone’s keypad and press dial. This will bring up the Field Test menu." Doesn't work for me.
However, audio input does not behave correctly. System preferences -> Audio -> Input does not change when I plug and unplug the splitter (which has the Sennheiser ME3 attached). It states "Internal microphone/Built-in" regardless.
I have a Retina MBP with a 512 GB SSD. Today, Time Machine shows me this:
When I use applications such as TextEdit and Preview, the application still stays open after I close the text file or jpg file. When I click the respective application (since it is still in the dock), the application prompts me with a window to choose a file to Edit/Preview. Is there a way to configure these applications so that when I close the text file or the picture, the application itself closes and I can avoid seeing that window? For instance, this is the window that I see for TextEdit after I open and close a txt file with TextEdit, and then open the TextEdit application on my dock:
When I'm connected to my company's VPN, some websites won't load. For example, both imgur and tumblr will just hang trying to connect: Other sites, like twitter and the AWS console will load eventually but without any CSS applied (some pages will load properly though).
Manually move over all of my images and documents to an external disk drive. (Music and TV shows live with iTunes in the Cloud.)
I wanted to play with the speech recognition in osx but the system preferances pane is blank. The text to speech one appears ok but speech recognition is completely empty. Any ideas?
This happens to me when I'm editing a document (usually a Javascript script) in TextMate (1 and 2) and TextWrangler. I have this document open in another app, and in certain occasions, the document within TextMate/TextWrangler would revert itself to the previously saved versions whenever I hit Cmd+S. This is very annoying as my changes are basically gone.
Windows 7 user here, though access to a Mac (in case that'd be the only way to do this) wouldn't be impossible. I know I could download iTunes and sync all the photos, but I have nearly 4000 of them and I'd only consider that a last-resort option. What would be simply perfect: Can I just browse them in Windows Explorer on my iPhone? If not Windows Explorer, some App. If I could even get a list of Albums part of my dreams would come true.
I am using HandBrake to do the encodes, using the "Devices -> Universal" preset for the SD encode, and the "Devices -> Apple TV 3" preset for the SD encode, and am using IDentify 2 to do the metadata taqging. The problem comes when I attempt to add these files into iTunes. In previous versions of iTunes this process was pretty straightforward: assuming that the HD+SD encodes are properly tagged with the same cnID (which mine definitely are, I checked), just select both the SD and HD encode in Finder, and drag+drop them onto iTunes, and it will automatically create an HD+SD entry for that movie/TV show/whatever.
I want to record some activities of a particular app on my iPhone as video. That app was installed from Appstore. Is there any trick (free) that helps to record the iPhone's screen? Or can I run that app in my Xcode's simulator?
How would I go about getting the clock on my iPhone to display the seconds beside the minutes? I have looked at Settings → General → Date & Time, but it only allows me to choose a Time Zone, Set the clock automatically or toggle 24-Hour Time. Is there anything I can do to cause the clock to display seconds in addition to minutes and hours?
I am looking for a subtitle editor/manager. I want exactly similar subtitle explorer to gom player. Indeed, the other rows are automatically updated fixed your time in a row. Can you recommend me such a free explorer/manager/editor? Note: My os x version 10.8.4
The problem: I connect to the Apple TV with the Remote app on the iPhone. After a short period, I can access my music library (located on the iMac) and play songs from it. It will play fine for a song (or two), and then it just stops.
I have no idea why this is happening, and I thought maybe someone here can explain it to me. There are two explanations I can think of:
I'm having a problem where when I go to File > Open; I can't resize the different columns.
Basic question. I have a licensed copy of Snow Leopard Server, and I want to run it in Parallels 8 as a guest OS. Can this be done?
I feel very out of my depth with this query, but not being able to do it isn't really an option so I am going to have to learn how one way or another. I have been tasked with building an application / database for a Chauffeur company. I have done similar things before in Microsoft Access for other customers, hence getting this request, but this customer wants to be able to run the app on their Mac, and not install Windows. My only real experience of coding is HTML/CSS and some VBA when using Microsoft Access. For these Access DBs I have created separate front and back end files to allow multi user access and also remote access (the back end file being kept on the company server). So onto my query (apologies for dragging it out)...
Every minute this is logged in my system.log: I have turned ssh off (and I can confirm it is off). I have OSX Server installed and have the ftp and websites services turned on. I do have a few cron jobs that run every minute, but they shouldn't be using sshd, right? What do these log messages mean?
I'm trying to automate the installation of Apache Nutch by writing a Homebrew formula. The official tutorial requires users to download a TAR.GZ / ZIP from a mirror, extract, cd, run ant runtime, and finally, get the binaries into PATH. That's a pain to do over and over, so I'm trying to write a Homebrew formula to automate this for fellow Mac users. The trouble is, my formula isn't working for some reason. When I run brew install nutch --verbose, the build process appears to succeed, but the runtime/ directory is missing from the Cellar, resulting in a failed brew test nutch. Could someone help me debug my nutch.rb install formula?
Is it possible for me with a 2007 iMac running Leopard (2.16 Ghz Intel 2 Duo and 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM) to upgrade to Mountain Lion? If not, is there any later version I can upgrade to? If I can upgrade to Mountain Lion, do I need to install an earlier version first? And if so, how do I do this?
My friend and I switched ipods to experience each other's music. His is and ipod classic while mine was a touch.
I'm trying to use PowerPoint on my Mac with Mountain Lion. I have a window that was originally opened in Desktop 1 and then I moved it to Desktop 4. Now, whenever I try to focus on the window in Desktop 4, it auto-switches back to Desktop 1, preventing me from actually doing anything in PowerPoint. The key here seems to be that I've turned off the System Preference in the Mission Control tab to switch to a tab with an open window when I switch to an application. When I check that box, everything works as expected. That's a horrible solution though. Has anyone figured out a better way?
I've formatted my old laptop in order to install Lion 10.7.3 version on it. During the installation process it came up with a weird looking error message, similar to the one in the next picture:
On my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro the Caps Lock button has a convenient delay such that when I hit it accidentally it doesn't turn on immediately. Can I incorporate such a delay for another key combination? I would like to delay the cmd + Q shortcut such that when I accidentally hit it the application is not quit and I have time to recover.
I recently had tried to make some hidden desktop icons on my desktop following the instructions found here. I am on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I ended up somehow making every file a hidden file. The files are all visible but are just transparent and I cannot open some of them. How do I make all of these files become unhidden files so they are no longer transparent and I can access them better?
I use TextEdit to store a number of notes for me, and now my Mac is in Apple repair, I can't access them. How can I use a PC to access these notes? How can I use a PC to access these notes? Is it possible to use an iPad mini to access these notes? Is it possible to use an iPad mini to access these notes? What I've done so far I logged into *=URL=* and didn't see my documents under any available application. I logged into *=URL=* and didn't see my documents under any available application. I installed the iCloud app for PC and although I see the ability to sync "Mail, Contacts, Tasks with Outlook" and sync "bookmarks" and "photo stream" ... none of them are "text files". I installed the iCloud app for PC and although I see the ability to sync "Mail, Contacts, Tasks with Outlook" and sync "bookmarks" and "photo stream" ... none of them are "text files".
I am trying to remove the plug-in for Unsubscribe to avoid the message appearing every time I open my Mac. To do so, I am supposed to click on the "Go" button in the Finder window. Unfortunately, I can't see where is the "Go" button on the Finder window on an iMac OS X Version 10.7.5.
If I write an app for iOS and it's accepted by the AppStore, how do I know if the app is actually the app I compiled and has not being substituted/altered by, say, a "Man in the middle" style interception/attack? Is there a way to do a checksum either after the fact or from inside the app itself?
In firefox 23.0 they use a new icon that doesn't look so much 'flat' as 'blurred' or 'smudged'. How do I go back to the old one from Firefox 22.0?
My AppleScript works when I am just using my MacBook Pro Retina, however if i have my Thunderbolt Display attached the script does not work. Here is the script which works perfectly on just the laptop: Terminal will display this if i am running on the Thunderbolt Display: ^[[28~^[[28~^{{ (repeats) Does any one know the key code to adjust brightness on the Thunderbolt Display or where I may find it? Thanks in advance
I am in the process of moving several VMs created in VMWare Fusion 5 into ESXi 5.1, which I just installed on a Mac Mini Server. I am able to connect just fine via the Windows application installed on another VM. I have created two OVF files, one for Server 2003 and another for Server 2012. Both files were created without incident. I am able to upload them to the ESXi server seemingly without issue as well. However, when I start either of the VMs, I get the following error(s): Console:
I have a command line executable (specifically JMeter), which opens a GUI application when launched from the terminal. However, I would like to create a link to it that would wrap it up to become a proper Mac application (included in /Applications directory and all that). How do I do that?
I have my OS X Mountain Lion contacts hooked up to synchronize with Google Contacts. Every once in a while, I receive a notice that "Syncing with Google Contacts will change more than 25% of your contacts or groups on this computer."
In Windows cmd.exe, I could run a command from the prompt: color 0xA 0xG (something like that) and it would re-colorize the basic text and background. rather that pointy-clicky inspector themes menus and all that... can I do something like this from the MacOS Terminal prompt?
It seems to me that browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) on my retina Macbook Pro do not render any pictures at native pixel density. For example, when I open an image from google images and then download that same image and open it in preview, that same image is smaller and more dense in Preview than it is in my browser. This seems to suggest that there is a discrepancy in pixel scaling between the two applications. Can this be fixed for the browser?
I see a few posts that say it will also export at the aspect ratio you imported at, but how? I recorded a portion of my screen with Quicktime's screen recorder, and it came to a resolution of 680x812. I imported that into iMovie, as well as a 640x812 image at the end, but when I go to export, I only get this screen, where none of them are the resolution of my video, and it puts black letterboxing on the sides:
I tried setting up a Ruby on Rails project on my nice safe volume called "Data RAID". The set up failed with some strange errors that I eventually tracked down to the space in the path name. It works if I execute it on another volume. I tried setting up a symlink to the directory, which works fine with the cd command, but doesn't help with the set up. Is it possible to get an application to use a symlink or other method that avoids the pathname with a space? The Terminal command I'm running that errors out is One other twist is something I set up to specify the location of the gems: It is with the gems that I'm getting the error.
I'm setting up Cap'n Pro on my Mac and the install instructions ask me to type the following in terminal: I look in my user folder i.e. ~/./configure but it doesn't exist. Am I doing this right? Where is my ./configure folder? Do I need to create one? Also, yes I have invisible folders visible.
I have a first version of my app in the App Store. Recently I released the next version with some bug fixes. After Apple approved the updated version, the update showed in the App Store app for my iPhone but not for my iPad. Is this my problem or Apple's? Additional Information: I have a single binary file for both the iPhone and iPad. I had the first version of the app in both of my devices before I found this bug.
I've set up S/MIME on my iPhone, but unlike other mail clients, I'm not given the option to select the hash or encryption algorithms. I assume iOS makes this decision for me.
I am having updates for both itunes and xcode in the App store.  When I click update to itunes, it asks me to close both the itunes and xcode. I don't want to update xcode. Is it possible update the itunes without updating Xcode? What will happen if I click continue on the below image?
I'm tracking (every hour) one of my client's apps which is listed in one of the category charts (not the overall charts). However I noticed strange ups and downs in the chart positions. Within only some hours the app hikes down (e.g. from place 60 to 150) and goes straight up to 60 again (I think when someone makes a download).
We have an interesting discussion here about file deletion on iOS devices. The question was: if I delete a file using NSFileManager, what's happening under the hood? My understanding is that deletion is performed by removing the corresponding file entry from the file system table.
I have a Netgear WNDR3700v3 wifi router, broadcasting two networks, one at 2.4GHz and another at 5GHz. I have found that iPhone AND Macbook devices are unable to join the 2.4GHz network (timeout error) unless the "Enable Wireless Isolation" option is enabled - 5GHz network works fine (obviously not for iPhones though since 5GHz is unsupported). I'm not entirely sure what the option does apart from prevent multicast/zeroconf on that interface. I am using the following wifi settings for the 2.4Ghz network: Region: EUROPE Enable Wireless Isolation: ON Enable SSID Broadcast: ON Channel: AUTO Mode: Up to 300Mbps Security: WPA2-PSK [AES] It's worth noting that I have disabled the built-in DHCP server on the router, and instead use an Ubuntu-based DHCP server instead. Any ideas as to why this might be a problem?
Can Apple's earpods be used with any smartphone, or are they specific for the iPhone only ?
A lot of rumours are going around about Apple and the iPhone 6, one if which is that the iPhone 6 could have a bigger (6 inch) screen. Being an iOS developer I know that most apps on the iStore use images and sometimes custom controls which are perfectly optimised to display correctly on current screen sizes of the iPhone. If Apple decides launch an iPhone with a bigger screen size surely application images would start to pixelate, and controls would stretch out of proportion. My question is, how does Apple handle bigger screen sizes to keep apps from pixelating and stretching out of proportion and displaying incorrectly on devices? Thanks
I'm Using my iPhone 3G and haven't backup it as frequently as I should and would like to know what software I've bought for it. So I know I don't have to pay for it again. Yes I can try and buy the software but I want to know of all the apps I've bought.
I sent myself (i.e. to my home iCloud account) invitations from my (work) Exchange account for several multi-day all-day events. However, when the invitations arrived, the calendar on my iPhone and Mac treated it as a series of 24-hour events rather than all-day events.
i have build an Automator app working every time at system startup. But sometime i wish to do not run it. There is a way to avoid (like holding a key at boot for example) Automator App runs when it do not need?
My Macbook restarted and played the startup chime but then hung at the grey startup screen with the spinning wheel. I thought nothing of it and did a hard shutdown but no matter how many times I did, the Macbook never advanced past the grey startup screen. I tried to boot using Safe and Verbose mode and got the following error in both cases: I googled the error and tried various solutions with no luck. The Macbook would boot to the built-in Mountain Lion recovery partition.
At the office, I use a machine which is used by several people. Is there any way to enable File Vault ONLY for MY user folder? (I.e., /Users/me)
If my phone is stolen, I would think the first thing a thief would do is turn it off. Is there any way to disable or password protect this via settings (which I doubt) OR a cydia tweak?
I erroneously drag-n-dropped a folder shortcut in my Finder toolbar. I tried dragging it off and right clicking, to no avail. How do I remove it?
iPhoto and Aperture can use the same library. When you edit a photo in iPhoto, it duplicates the photo and keeps the original. Aperture on the other hand saves only the edits and not a new file. What happens to these 'originals' when I open a library that was only used with iPhoto in Aperture? Can I remove the iPhoto 'originals' or are they kept even though Aperture handles things differently?
When I open my keychain access, it is empty. I can't see anything in it. However, I know that all of my stuff is still working (websites don't prompt me to log in, I join wifi networks, Xcode still see my developer certs), etc.
Could you please let me know how I can change the creation date of a file in Lion. I realise there is the touch-t command but that does not work in Lion. A couple of people have mentioned another way, but I think they've written the solution in "coder" language rather than layman language - would someone be able to answer it in a way a layman can execute? Many thanks for your help.
My server is accessible via example.com and I want my website to be accessed via sub.example.com. I added a website to Mountain Lion server with domain name that's actually a subdomain; sub.example.com. I than added a new host name to DNS service, so that the hostname sub.example.com resolves to the IP address of the server (192.168.1.2). Now, I can view the website sub.example.com on the server itself, but other clients in the local network are not able to access the website. The command nslookup sub.example.com has this result:
App Switcher opens okay, no problem there. and I can go left and right between them. but I can't actually open or switch to the app or, for that matter, close them. I can use App Switcher using the keyboard, though, thanks to tutorials. but I can't figure out how to do it with the mouse.
My firewall asked me for a connection from lsboxd (module com.apple.ls.boxd, ) to one another computer in my network to the port tcp 548. What does it do? I found that it is a part of sandbox technology of a OS X, but what is it more specifically? I found it in my launchctl list output:
Our company has an intranet intranet.example.com. When I send emails from outlook that contain images from intranet.example.com they load in Outlook, but not on my iPhone. On the iPhone I get a blue box with a question mark. When I send the exact same email from my internal mail then the images load without problem on both the iPhone and also outlook. Lastly, if I send an email to my iPhone where the internal image is replaced with an external image, say Googles logo loading from google.com domain then my phone displays this correctly.
Short of painstakingly comparing the two accounts I have no idea what could be causing this problem. There are no user specific applications or extensions running on my machine, and I've performed no "under the hood" tweaks to Mountain Lion.
The panorama photo is displayed in the center of the view area in Keynote, cutting off both the left and right ends. I would like to have the photo displayed first from the left and then pan across to the right.
I looked in the activity monitor to clarify what are those processes and started with alphabetic order. I know different resources where many processes are described. But appleeventsd and AppleIDAuthAgent are not the case even for goole search - only issues results were found without explaining what does these processes stands for.
I have installed the latest Dia and XQuartz (X11) on my Mac OS X 10.8.3 retina display. As seen in the screenshot below, why do the items and anything I draw look blurry and pixelly? What can I do about it? Thanks!
Whenever I install a free app on my iPad, this message appears: Verification required Before you can make purchases, you must tap continue to sign in, then verify your payment info.
When I send mails to addresses from my address book, the recipients in the address bar are shown like name <nick@domain.tld>. Can I somehow prevent that name part, so that only the actual mail address is shown and not the names, as I name them in my personal address book? I kind of feel like it's not for the public how I name my contacts.
I'm very new to the Apple world, and I want to buy iMac G5 17", 1.9GHz, 512GB of RAM (upgraded to 1.5GB) and ATI Radeon X600. What this machine can do in real life? I mean, these numbers mean to me nothing, I want to know what can I do with thin machine? Can it play ~10GB .mkv videos?
I'm trying to share internet from my macbook to my iMac. The macbook connects via WiFi, and I want to share it's internet over ethernet to the iMac.
This is my current battery information. Could someone please let me know if I need a new battery or what might be wrong with it?
I want to output video from my rMBP to my Apple TV but send the audio to AirPort Express connected to my sound system. I have tried every way imaginable to accomplish this, and nothing seems to work. All links in the chain have updated software & firmware. Hardware is the following; rMBP Late 2012, Current Gen ATV, Current Gen APE. All running on rock solid WiFi. If I start by sending video, it quits when I select the APE audio source, if I start by sending audio, it stops sending when I enable mirroring on the Mac.
I have a two monitor setup but the top of the screen application menu bar appears only on one (main) monitor. I would like it to appear on both so that I don't have to travel with my mouse from the other to the main monitor to use it. Can this be done and how?
We installed iBooks through Apple Configurator to hundreds of iPad all with the same Apple ID. Now the users want to update the app but iOS is asking that Apple ID's password. Is there a way to allow users to update iBooks with their Apple ID instead of the one which the .ipa thrown to Configurator was downloaded with? We didn't manually assigned the Apple ID to iBooks and when each iPad was activated we gave an individual Apple ID to each in the iCloud step but still iBooks remained signed with the Apple ID the .ipa was downloaded with Any ideas?
I extracted atMonitor using Archive Utility and The Unarchiver and in both cases it appears in the Finder as 3.1Mb and in bash only 102 bytes. Strange is that I can execute it and I can look in the package content both in Terminal and in Finder and the files inside appears not to be a symlinks. The Problem is that I can't copy the .app file through shared folder from another computer. What is the problem with it? in Finder:
Some time ago I had some problems with my Mac drive, so I went to the recovery partition and used Disk Utility to check for problems. It reported a huge discrepancy between the journaled free blocks and the actual free blocks, in the case of gigabytes. I was wondering what may have caused this problem, and I remembered deleting a huge hierarchy of folders using rm -rf, and since this command is almost instantaneous, I thought it may have caused this problem.
I found in activity monitor appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper but after googling a while didn't found any interesting information: wdhelper - could be a webdrive or webdav - found only wdhelper.dll but nothing really related to the process
I have a 2008 Mac Pro and it has no wifi card in it. I have a time capsule. Can I connect the time capsule to my router via wifi and use an Ethernet cable from the time capsule to my Mac Pro to access the Internet?
I know that menu extras can be removed by command-dragging, but is there any way to use a defaults write or other command-line method?
I have an iMac running 10.5.8. How well/badly do you think it would work if I upgrade to the most recent version of MacOsX (and can I leap there in one go, or do I need to first upgrade to an intermediate version of the operating system)? Here is what System Profiler tells me: Thanks for your help.
I just began using a new Macbook Pro 15" Retina running Mountain Lion. After a couple of days transfering files (from my previous Macbook Pro (early 2011) running Snow Leopard) and generally setting it up the way I wanted, I started getting the following behavior: When I have a few applications open, if I switch to another application by clicking on that application's dock icon, all other application windows disappear.
Will Apple reject an app which renders a 3D scene that allows you to modify and compile GLSL ES shaders by editing them in the app? (something not unlike e.g. *=URL=* but native OpenGL ES 2) What about if it registers for a file type and opens .vsh and .fsh files as documents? I know that it may be problematic if the app automatically downloads shader code from a server (and then runs it), but the answer is not so clear for these other approaches.
I am looking for some info surrounding the iPad keyboard. WITHOUT jailbreaking the device, I was curious if someone has been been able to manipulate the look of the keyboard. The functionality should remain the same, but the actual look should change. I was curious if anyone could change the color or shape of the keys.
This should be easy - but there doesn't seem to be any equivalent of 'Decline and propose a new time' or even just 'Send update' for meetings in the Mac version of Outlook. The folks at Quora think this feature simply doesn't exist and that it's impossible. Every help page I can find that looks relevant refers only to Windows versions of Outlook. *=URL=* has help pages titled "Change an appointment, event, or meeting", but only for the Windows versions - for Mac, the only remotely related help page I can find is for how to "Create a meeting or appointment".
I'm trying to use the native Cisco VPN client installed with Lion and it's been a terrible experience. The VPN times out between 15 and 45 minutes and I can't seem to fix it. I've followed guides for fixing this problem and it's gotten me nowhere. I copied the .conf files for each VPN that I have and disabled dead peer detection, changed proposal check to claim, and increased the lifetime time to 5 hours. I also changed my racoon.conf file to look in the directory where my custom .conf files are. I could stay connected all day when I used Ubuntu and I'd really like to have that ability back.
I have a computer on network A that I would like to backup via Time Machine to a drive connected to a computer on network B. Can this be done? Would I need a VPN? I just need the network B computer's drive to show up as Shared to the computer on network A.
So, I have English iTunes and I wanted to get a Spanish song. Is there a way I could change the iTunes store I am using to get it and then change it back or something?
I have an apsd process which stands for Apple Push Notification service daemon man_page_on_developers.apple.com (it has a name applepushserviced on osx 10.7 and lower). Is it possible to restrict it only for local APN server without having a connection to the apple global APN server?
works on some machines and not others. I'm receiving an error
I have updates of iMovie, etc. on my MacBook Pro. But every time I go to update it tells me to sign into one of my email addresses first. I press OK and nothing happens. I sign into the email and there is no mail in there. Where do I sign in? I'm not sure what to do.
Currently, I am only able to create a subdirectory in Finder by double-clicking the parent dir so that it becomes the top level selected in the main panel and creating it there by right-clicking and then selecting New Folder. However, I like to always view my directory structure from a very high level in the hierarchy, most often my home directory and would like to be able to create a subdirectory of a subdirectory without being in it, i.e. from the tree view. When I right click it, I do not get an option to create a new folder, like I do when I actually have it selected in the main panel. Is there any way to enable this feature without installing any plugins?
We're trying to decide how much effort to put into ensuring that our software works well in 32-bit mode. (It's scientific software that must handle large datasets, so ensuring that it works well does not only mean building universal binaries, but also designing around address-space limitations.) Q: In what year were the last Macs sold that, out of the box, could not run 64-bit applications? By "out of the box," I mean in the hands of naïve users that do not upgrade the OS, choose different kernels, or change the system configuration from the default in any significant way.
At work, several people use my machine. Can I set my home folder to be inside an ecrypted disk image? How would it work as far as mounting/unmounting whenever I log in/out?
When I text another iPhone user I see the balloon with the three dots but sometimes no message appears after the three dots.  Is it possible they are typing a text to a different user?
I'm connecting a standard stereo tape output to an iMac line input socket. Setting input level in System Preferences > Sound > Input > Line In requires the slider to be barely "off the stop" before the blue level meter hits hard right. Can I lower the line input sensitivity somehow? There's no output level control on the tape output. I'm running Mountain Lion.
I recently purchased a Macbook Air and I wanted to use the default Mail app that came with it. When I add a gmail account to it, it tries to download all the mail I've ever received (~10 years worth of email).
I grow weary of all of the icons running in my menu bar. At this point, most of the menus on the left side are overlapped by icons from the right. Is there a good app for fixing this? I know I can drag the system ones off to the desktop and delete them, but installed apps are another story.
I found several long lists with defaults, settings, but never a complete one with a reference to developers.apple.com. Is there any such list to find? If not, which is the longest/systematic/complete list with defaults? I'm interested more in the system administration point of view on the collection of the defaults settings, rather than in the developing an application Interesting could be something like TinkerTool collection in the form of Application, but using only the terminal
After updating to 10.8.4 I am having trouble running my macports apache server. I stop the built-in apache with: sudo apachectl stop, then I try to start macports apache with: sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start and I get: and when I load localhost in the browser I get Unable to Connect...
I was hoping one of you kind folks could help me write a script that would open another instance of Transmission. From my online research, I took a stab at making my own and compiled the following script for AppleScript Editor. However, I get the following error message:
How do I switch to Australian Store on my iPad, it appears to have gone to the French store and is telling me I can't update unless I switch to Australian store, I don't know what to do as I have checked in settings etc.
I would like to be able to store Apps on a SD card, and play with symbolic linking. I was able to make this work, however my SD card can't be unmounted, is there any good way to do this, without copying the apps?
I have to use proxy servers to connect to the internet. I have set all proxies in my system proxy settings. Now I can connect to Internet using my browser and applications. But I cannot connect to internet from my terminal. I tried But still terminal applications cannot connect to the internet.
While troubleshooting a slow boot time in Lion (10.7), I saw these lines in the sys log: So naturally I want to find out where this script is and why it has this error. I searched the usual LaunchAgent and LaunchDaemon directories, and then searched the whole hard drive, but could not find a script by that name.
Can I use iMac G5 PowerPC for iOS app development? If not, why?
On a 2013 iMac running the latest Mac OS X, we have a Mac partition and a Windows 7 partition. The administrator can use the Boot Camp application to restart the Mac into Windows. The guest account however should also be able to use Boot Camp and restart into Windows. Is this in any way possible, because it seems you always need to enter the Administrator password in order to reboot into Windows?
Without going into specifics of why I might like to do this, or whether this is a good idea or not, I would like to know how I can disable use of wireless networking on my MacBook Air, either via removal of software or drivers or similar, such that the machine is unable to connect to a WIFI network in any way without I undo those changes. The intention is for the machine to be unable to communicate wirelessly when out of the house, and for those changes to not be easily reverted until I return (for example requiring some piece of external storage that does not travel with me and which contains copies of whatever I have removed).
I only run Safari with maximum 3-5 tabs opened and the machine makes noise like a vacuum cleaner making it very hard to work on. Any ideas how to fix it?
I want to add aliases to my environment so that they are available in all Terminal instances. I got this answer:
My daughter and I use two iPhones, both connected to the same Apple ID. At the moment I see my daughter's contacts merged to my contact list, but we'd like to use our contact lists separately from each other.
I have set up several alarms that use songs on my iPhone (iOS 6). Whenever I modify one of those alarms (or create a new one with the now default setting of one of those songs) the phone asks me
I have this script for ensuring that every track in a given smart playlist is both shufflable and bookmarkable. The script is inteded to be launched via launchd.
I noticed that my iPhone has the 3G symbol in the status bar. But when I disconnect the cable from my laptop, it switches to Wi-Fi.
I know that if you have an iPhone and an iMac computer/laptop, you can text off your iPhone, then once coming within a certain radius of your computer, iCloud uses Wi-Fi and sends the conversations to your iPhone. However, i was wondering what happens if the laptop is dead? I assume it can't transfer the messages, correct? Also, I was wondering what happens if BEFORE you charge the laptop and turn it on, you delete the messages off your phone? Will they still somehow be transfered to your laptop?
I am just now coming to know the hard limits of water destroying equipment. I don't know if it's realistic to be able to have my Macbook as a floatable rubber ducky in the bath in this day & age, but products like Liquipel and commercials of scuba divers using iPads have me curious.
What are the documents one has to read before submitting an app to the App Store? I guess these are the two: App review guidelines App review guidelines iOS human interface guidelines iOS human interface guidelines Are there others?
How can I turn off the "text to speech" feature in iMessage? I don't mind iMessage bouncing in the dock when a message comes in, but I can't have iMessage speaking the message. Not only is this feature distracting, but sometimes a message is private and I don't want anyone within earshot hearing my text "conversations"...I'm running OS X Version 10.8.4
Whenever I wanted to call my land line at home, I would instruct Siri to "call home" (my home number is listed as home in my contact list) She would respond by saying "calling home" and the call would be made. Now she says "I dont have a home number for John" (this is my name). A friend is having the same problem. What has happened?
I would like to drop/copy files/folders and have them compressed then copied to my desktop. This is what I know so far... and it isn't much so any help would be appreciated.
I contacted a local apple store, I asked them how to know whats my carrier? They said virgin 14.0 is nothing, not important, it doesn't mean that my iphone is virgin I gave them the IMEI and they are trying to see if it can be unlocked. I have some questions:
I have an iPod Classic 160gb 6g. In Cover Flow it appears that some of the albums containing numbers in the title will end up at the end of the alphabet. For example, this is the end of the Cover Flow: Under A Blood Red Sky - U2 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - U2 Bringing Down The Horse - The Wallflowers xx - The xx Young The Giant - Young The Giant Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 2 - The Eagles
I just began using a new Macbook Pro 15" with Retina Display running Mountain Lion. Since it has 2 thunderbolt ports, I decided to try hooking up two external monitors. Both monitors are the same Dell model (24" diagonal, 1920x1080 resolution).
The title says it all really, is it possible to create a pkg that can install without the user requiring to enter their password?
Okay so I have OS X's Calendar app setup using a Google calendar, and I have Little Snitch installed so I am warned when an application tries to make unrecognised outgoing requests. What I'm seeing is that the CalendarAgent process occasionally tries to access Google domains that don't appear relevant, such as translate.google.com, feedburner.google.com or play.google.com, none of which seem necessary when I've already allow calendar.google.com.
I recently just got my first MacBook Air. I already have an iPad mini and I just changed my Apple ID. I had everything set up before I decided to change it and iMessage was working perfectly on both devices. Anyway so after I went through all the hassle of changing my Apple ID when I went back onto my laptop, it won't even let me send a message even though I have set to my new Apple ID.
I receive a lot of messages on my MacBook Pro on a daily basis. Periodically throughout the day I need to delete multiple conversations in messages for clarity purposes. Each time I delete a conversation thread I receive the following prompt:
I have a MacBook Pro 15" mid-2012 (i7 2.6GHz, 16GB RAM, GT 650M 1GB). I installed OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD in the hard drive bay. I ran Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and got only 220 MB/s write speed and 460 MB/s read. OWC's website says they have 527 MB/s write and 559 MB/s read. So I am far far away from this. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
Is it somehow possible to change the window within an application with ⌘+< (sorry, German keyboard here, I guess it's ⌘+` (?) on English keyboards) while Drag & Drop something? While it works between different applications it seems not to work within one application with multiple windows. It's especially annoying with small screens and a lot of overlapping windows.
I'm an avid WordPress developer, and I'm constantly referring to the Wordpress Codex to look up various functions. I recently got a new 2013 MBP, and I just found the glorious "three finger tap to look up" function. Now, I've read that it's possible to change the dictionary that's used by adding or removing dictionaries from Dictionary.app, but I'm interested in doing something different.
Is there a way to make the clip longer? I thought of maybe looping it or duplicating it but I can't figure out how. The slow motion option won't work either. Do the presets in the movie trailers stop you from doing this?
Right beside the Alfred icon, there's a small up and down arrow indicating bandwidth upload and download speeds. I remember downloading and installing something for this, and now I can't remember the name of it. I'm trying to enter the settings for it and also add in the RAM tickers. Any ideas on what software causes the up/down icons next to the black hat icon?
By default, Preview displays pages like this in two-page mode:  How can I get it to display them like this instead?
My ipod touch 4th gen has this CYDIA, I accidentally uninstalled one file from it. After that, the ipod crashed and never turned on since then.
Could someone explain to me how exactly an iPhone detects a Wifi hotspot? I mean i want to know the exact working of it. How does it know of all the networks that are present in the location? How often does it check for the networks ?
I've been having the following issue since about two weeks: My external monitor, containing the OS X title bar, does not show the thumbnails for my three spaces when in mission control. My retina's monitor (secondary) does show them as before.
So, what I am trying to do is to create a personal bin directory at my home folder. I created the following folder: I put my scripts in this folder, but if I type in the Terminal: It doesn't run. I was told I have to export this bin path, something related to echo $PATH, but I don't know how to do it.
The SuperDrive on my G5 used to read disks without problems, but now it thinks all the disks I insert are empty. Now, I want to install different OS on it, and as I've read it can't be done with the USB. So I want to find an external CD/DVD-ROM and use it to install new OS. My question is (I'm new to Apple stuff): will it recognize the external reader without issues, just plug and play?
Is there any way to modify the VIPs box to show all messages both TO and FROM a particular contact?
I'd like to sync my iPhone's contacts to Outlook. The account is linked, so my email is updating, but it won't sync the contacts. How do I do it?
Does anyone know how to make the character picker appear more quickly? I use it enough now in my German language studies that it has become second nature for the critical marks and much faster than using the alt+keypress shortcuts.
I'm running 10.8 server and I have a folder named Users and it is the parent folder for every local network user's home folder. Now, when the user connects to the server he sees his home folder, but also the parent folder Users. He can even list the contents of it.
I'm trying to add port forwarding for a few services on my iMac and haven't used the airport utility in quite a while, so after poking around, I found the port mapping settings (i.e. Airport Utility, Manual Config, "Network" Tab, "Port Settings" but the setting is greyed out and I can't click on the "+" to add a new service. A quick web search didn't show this as a common problem, so I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this with the latest airport utility and know of a fix?
A while back I partitioned my hard drive into two equal parts. I completely forgot about it and then realized that I only had half of my original drive space available. I startup disk utility and attempt to shrink the second partition to a much more reasonable 100GB. However, when I tried this I got an error message that read "partition failed error. couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed." So I do a little research and try to boot in single user mode in order to fix the problem. But when I do i'm met with a screen that looks like this.
Anytime I try to use macports I get the following error: This hasn't always been the case. Have I corrupted something on my system?
Problem: Show all installed applications in the /Applications folder using keyboard shortcut. Desired solution:
My problem is: whenever I'm coding, I work inside folders that are inside other folders and it's a long way to type: I know it's possible to make a shortcut to the folder using alias. So it would be:
Starting from some update of the Final Cut Pro X (~ 10.0.7) I have started to experience frequent crashes of the Final Cut when using the transform tool. It doesn't seem to crash when setting transform to video directly in the inspector. But when I use the visual transform tool, it works for some time, but then at some point it crashes. I've already removed Final Cut, and installed the last version (10.0.9), but the problem persists. Has somebody ever experienced a similar problem?
I would like to use a message that is stored in the 'Drafts' folder as a template for other messages. Unfortunately, I don't have the correct syntax: What am I missing?
I purchased my macbook back in 2011, and this problem just started. When I unplug and close my computer to put it in my backpack for school, it does not sleep. I take it out and its very hot and has lost a large amount of battery. My energy saver controls say it should sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity, but either way it should sleep when I close the lid. I don't have any sharing options checked or any running apps that should be keeping it awake so I have no idea what could be causing this
So, I don't have .bash_profile neither .profile in my home folder. How do I create them? After that, what should I do so every time I open the terminal these files get read?
I have a 12+ gb exchange account, with hundreds of files & sub files. The iOS mail client doesn't allow the folders to collapse & expand, which makes searching for files a real PITA. Are there any mail clients that have the expand/collapse feature?
I rented a movie from iTunes on my Mac running OS X 10.8. I was under the assumption that it would be available on my iPhone (iOS 6) and iPad (iOS 6) to stream or download but it isn't. It doesn't appear in the Videos app and I can't find it under Purchased in the iTunes Store on my devices. All of my devices are logged in under the same account.
I am running Mac OS X Lion. What I want is a way to open an HTML file with a particular application based on my action.
Since updating to the latest version, chrome is rendering pages completely wrong. Browsing the web I haven't found people with the same problem. I'm attaching a screenshot for people to better understand what I mean (I attached a GDocs one since it is one of the worst cases). The chrome I'm using is 29.0.1547.57 installed on OSX 10.8.4.
When trying to edit a partition on my hard drive, Disk Utility says: So I booted into single-user mode and typed in: My computer then said:
Whenever I go back or forward in the Safari navigation history, it reloads the pages even when I just visited the page two seconds ago. When navigating using back/forward buttons or swiping back and forth, the app always reloads the page from the internet. Can I change anything to make Safari cache the pages I just visited more aggressively?
It seems the Adobe Update Notifier sometime autolaunches on startup, however I cannot find where it's launched from. I've checked in Lingon as well as my login startup items but it's not there.
I am seeing some unexpected results while copying package files in a shell script. There are two interrelated issues. I have commands similar to the following in a shell script: cp -rp path/to/package/file destination/directory I have commands similar to the following in a shell script: cp -rp path/to/package/file destination/directory
Is it possible to deploy MacPorts server on an own server periodically updating it from global one (i.e. create MacPorts distribution/update proxy server)? So that all computers within organization could access this server to install software and not the global macports server? Is it possible with Homebrew, Fink?
I noticed that before installing MacPorts the kernel_task RAM usage was about 200-300 Mb. After installing that the process is using 482.5 Mb real RAM. What are the components (maybe .kexts, which then?) MacPorts has added to the kernel_task process?
When I plug it in, it doesn't charge. But when I turned it off and plugged it in, it turned on, but didn't charge. What's wrong with it? Is it the charger or the phone?
I have a file that is a list of numbers like so: 01 02 03 04 ... 241 242 However, this was generated from a list of files so I am not sure if it contains all the numbers in sequence from start to end, inclusive (Meaning it might be "13 15" instead of "13 14 15").
I did not purchase any from iTunes because they don't sell books in my store. What can I do? My iOS version is 6.1.3, iTunes is at the lastest version.
I can't run it in a virtual environment and I can't burn it to a DVD (it doesn't work for some reason. It only makes a ~120KB of data on the DVD).
I am trying to use some init.d script under OS X and I while some are just working properly, I discovered quite a few that to rely on /sbin/start-stop-daemon and I am looking for a port of it for OS X. Any ideas?
I recently switched to OS X Mountain Lion. I have applications like Skype and Pidgin which start at login and are hidden, but when I have more applications running and I do ⌘ cmd + ⇥ Tab to switch between application these hidden applications also appear there. How can I avoid showing them?
I do not use the folders ~/{Downloads, Documents, Public} and so I remove them. But some Mac OS X process keeps recreating them.
why am i receiving more emails (gmail) on my ipad than on my laptop. I seem to be getting more email posted to my Ipad than to my laptop. This morning I received 7 more emails on my Ipad than on my laptop. Granted they were websites that have something to sell but I have asked for these. Why are they not showing up on my laptop. Thanks
I have been advised that if you let people use your Mac, is it better for them to use A Guest User Account as when they have finished, all settings etc will be deleted and your Mac will be left "untouched", rather than running the risk of them changing settings etc and potentially "screwing things up" if you let them use your account - which could be a disaster. Guidance on how to achieve/enable this, as well as disabling/deleting as necessary would be much appreciated ?
In the event that you have forgotten the login password to your Mac (for whatever reasons). What possibilities exist to reset the password without having the OS X installation disc(s) ?
Oftentimes, I am in an iTunes playlist and want to delete a song from my computer. However, if I am in an iTunes playlist, I can only delete the song from the playlist, and then I have to go back to All Music in iTunes to delete the song from the computer.
What happens when an .app bundle going copy to the /Applications/ folder? Are there any processes starting, any preferences copied to /Library/ ? Is a copy to /Applications/ folder a special trigger/event for the OS X? I found that if I just copy Xcode then com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist appears in user's Preferences folder.
I am writing math problems on my iMac and I am using TextEdit. I need to add exponents to one of my problems. How can I do that?
I purchased my iPad mini last January. Now the charger doesn't work so well and sometimes it doesn't work at all. Does the warranty cover the charger?
This is for buying purposes; i.e. does the kernel schedule the processes and threads belonging to every process, and do the apps save states that can be resumed at the user's discretion? Please fill me in on the scheduling/structure of iOS's kernel.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina, manufactured in August of 2012 (mid 2012). The laptop seems to be incapable of continuously driving an external display. On some monitors it will lose the signal once or twice a day; on my home monitor it will lose the signal many times an hour, sometimes taking minutes to "settle down". The effect is as if I had un-plugged and re-plugged in the HDMI cable. However I see this happen on three different monitors, two of which come in through HDMI and one through Thunderbolt. I even bought an apple monitor for $1000 that I returned, because on that one every now and then the MBPR just wouldn't detect it at all (and I would still see it quickly drop and re-establish the signal a few times an hour). Here is a video of what that looks like, as it flashes to blue repeatedly: *=URL=* I tried gfxCardStatus and using Discreet Only, no luck.
I've started taking security more seriously lately. (Why only now you may ask? Because I'm a trusting fool that's why.) I've now got emails signing automatically and encrypting where I have their key.
I was restoring my iPhone 5 to the latest iOS and chose restore via iCloud. The restore process - especially for apps - was frustratingly slow and actually stopped frozen after a while. After trying several other options, I finally "Cancelled" the iCloud Restore operation and then manually installed the apps via iTunes, as well as synced songs, etc.
We have a Mac Mini with OSX server for our small web design company's office. We want to move toward a local setup and to then push up to the live server. In the past I have used MAMP PRO and Sequel Pro to create an environment on my personal computer.
I'm seeing an item on my activity monitor called 'HP Product Research.' I assume it's associated with some HP Printer drivers that I no long need, and have have removed, but this tracker keeps hanging around. Any ideas on how to get rid of this tracker?
I tried searching for Macy's e-receipt by typing in Macy receipt on my Mac using Gmail, and the result came back in 1 second. (some of those emails were 1 month old, and another one 2 months old). But when I tried that using the email app on iPhone with iOS 6.1.4, nothing came back, and I click "Subject", and I changed the keyword to Macy's e-receipt and clicked "Continue Search on Server..." and it just kept on turning the spinning wheel for 2 minutes and nothing came back. And then I searched for and installed the Gmail app on the iPhone, and type in Macy receipt and the result came back in 1 second. So how do I make the email app standard on iOS work like Gmail's search?
I shared a folder from the host system (OSX) and use mount it in the guest system (OSX). But it is mounted only with rwx------ mode. I granted an rw access for the shared folder for a user in the guest system and for everyone as read-only. But in the guest system the folder is going mounted to the /Volumes/ as a shared disk with rwx------ permissions. How can I mount it with rwxr-xr-x permissions? in the host system it has rwxr-xr-x+ permissions
I have an Xcode project with a local git repository. How do I set it up so that I can sync/merge my local repository with a remote repository that I have already created? I've tried going to the Organizer and adding a remote repository, but I got a certificate error when trying to add GitHub.
I have a 3rd gen retina ipad with 5.1.1 and no jailbreak. I want to try ios 6, but with the option to go back if I don't like it. From what I have read Apple gives no way to go back. I don't mind if I have to jailbreak, but would prefer if I did not have to. What is the best method for me to go 5.1.1 no jailbreak -> 6 with possibility of going back?
I've not got a great Wi-Fi setup here at home and it sometimes results in failed Time Machine backups. Is there a way of specifying that Time Machine only backs up under certain circumstances - i.e. Ethernet connection is active...?
Here you can see the result of my GPT fdisk try. I tried to put disk0s1and disk0s2into the MBR as partition 1 and then disk0s3 to disk0s5 as partitions 2 to 4, where the last one is flagged as bootable. Now comes my question: How can I fix this?
After I could not boot my Macbook Pro (OS X Lion 10.7.5) I tried to run safe boot. I thought it worked, but only thing it did was booting the mac without any data i used to have. All the software is there. It's like a brand new mac with full applications. My storage seems as full as before so I know the data is somewhere inside my Macbook. How can I find them? (I'm still logged in as I always were and there seems to be no other accounts) P.S: I know the ways that requires payment, but I (with my ignorant logic) conclude that since my storage is still seems full with everything I have I may not need it.
In the process of installing windows on my MacBook Pro, I managed to somehow partition the disk this way.  Is there any way of merging the UNTITLED 3 segment with the Macintosh HD segment without reinstalling windows?
A few years back, I accidentally jumped in the pool with my third gen iPod touch still in my pocket. I placed it in rice for a while, and it started working again, but the screen was extremely dull. Every day after that that I used it, the screen steadily got worse and worse to the point where I couldn't even tell what the background was anymore. Since then, it has sat untouched. I plugged it in today, and the screen is static-y and grey and indistinguishable. It still functions, but I can only tell due to my own memory. Is it worth anything? If not, where could I properly dispose of it?
I have setup a VPN connection by using my FritzBox WLAN Cable Router. I'm using this on my iOS devices to protect me from Wifi honeypots. Just by coincidence I switched VPN on on my device while on the 3G network and didn't notice it. Now I'm wondering: why would I if I want to switch off this great feature? Does it have a negative impact on performance, battery life or network speed?
As one of the business feature the upcoming iOS 7, Apple has announced the ability to configure VPN on application basis. However, details about this feature are hard to find on the web. I am wondering, if this configuration will be something that can be done on the Device itself, or if it has to be something that has to be set up by an IT administrator in the network?
I have configured a shiny new Time Capsule a few days ago. It runs firmware 7.7.1 and my Mac is on 10.8.4.
I was emptying the trash and noticed some images in a "recovered files" directory named something like sotryboard-paper-green-flat.tiff with variations for colour, gradients, etc. - These seemed to be variations of the default background and shape-fill images for the Keynote "Storyboard" theme, I had recently been making a Keynote using that theme so I figured it was some temporary files relating to that. "Great!" I thought, "I'll go and check out how to use those variations later."
How can I detect which setting in the OS X could block ping localhost? IPFW, LittleSnitch no such rules?
My macbook is sluggish and has so much stuff that I don't use anymore and just want to start over from scratch basically. I did a time machine backup just in case something goes wrong. New blank SSD MacBook Pro (early 2011) backed up everything that I wanted to keep on an external HDD so that I can put it back on the SSD once OSX is installed again. I can't directly clone everything to the SSD since my HDD has over 300GB used and my SSD is only 120GB.
I have the Adjust keyboard brightness in low light option selected but this just isn't working correctly. The screen brightness adjust automatically (i.e. I put my thumb over the webcam and the screen dims, I point a light at the webcam and the screen brightness increases), but the keyboard either does nothing, OR only turns on when in bright rooms. When I turn off all the lights the keys go off. Is there any way to adjust this and make it work properly?
So, I just got an iPod touch from a family member who used it for like couple of months, but somehow (even after resetting it) their photos that they take using their iPhone sync into my iPod photostream. And I need space on my iPod, so if I deleted all the pictures from photostream, will it delete pictures from their iPhone? I don't want to delete any of their items. I'm totally confused as to why it keeps doing that even after all this time.
I have a spreadsheet (.xlsx) file that, when I open it on my MBP running Excel 2011 14.3.6, I get a pop-up telling me the file is locked and can only be opened in read-only mode. About a minute later, Excel opens another pop-up and this time says that the file is unlocked and asks if I want to edit it.
Are all the photos I take on my iPhone automatically uploaded and saved on my iPhone? How can I be sure?
I FREQUENTLY mess with system/hidden files in /Library, /System, /bin, etc. and I'm tired of constantly being prompted for my (20+ Alphanumeric character) password. I'd like to have my "Administer" user account have all permission like root. I know it's a "security" hazard, but my network is locked down, drive is file vault 2 encrypted, and password is crazy complex (good luck dictionary brute-forcers). I can run Finder as root, but how can I make it the default behavior in 10.8/10.9?
I am running os 10.8.4 and would like to switch between full screen applications that are already open using hotkeys. I can only use cmd + 1 to move to space 1, but cmd + 2 does not work if you have windows maximized. This is a know limitation. Is there a third party app that I can get that can do this? (I have tried witch, alfred & QS). I am not looking for shortcuts to open a new app - I want to switch between apps that are already open.
When screen brightness is low I get this dark spot in my screen. Is this something serious ?
I've at a site that wants me to upload a photo. I choose Browse... but when I get to iPhoto Library, it's opaque. Is there some way to browse and choose one?
I have a PDF document with one page, containing a large image and some text. I need to add some other PDF documents and duplicate the page with the image 60 times, resulting in a final 70-page document for a professional printer. I've used Preview to do this, but it resulted in a huge file size because the image was always copied. Is there any way (app, command line) short of Adobe Acrobat (too pricey) to duplicate a pdf page while just referencing the image?
What information is gleaned from conducting an Apple Hardware Test ( or Apple Diagnostics for Macs purchased from June 2013), when trying to find out if something is wrong with my Mac ?
My iPhone has broken LCD glass, LCD is working from inside but I think the digitizer is broken. I have visited many blogs and websites and most of them described to replace all the screen with LCD and digitizer. I want to know if there is a way I can fix the digitizer or do I need to replace the whole package?
I'm getting a kernel panic whenever I start a movie in quicktime player When does it happen
I have a MacBook pro running Mountain Lion. When I copy files over the local network, I get around 200Kb/s on a 1Gbps link (the light on the switch indicates 1Gbps). This morning I went to download the XCode 5 DP6 and was pretty apalled by 50Kb/s. Downloading from a Windows 8 machine connected to the same switch yields 2.2Mb/s. I've tried running the following, but is there anything else I could try?
I have problem with my mac mini, sound icon is mute and i am unable to click to unmute it. Tomorrow night it was working fine, but getting issue now, i inserted headPhone but nothing happen.
Long version: I mistakenly deleted usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib and now the computer will no longer start (it just stays in startup mode indefinitely). Would the solution be to reinstall the operating system? The computer came with Snow Leopard and have since upgraded to Mountain Lion. If I reinstall the Snow Leopard version (given that's the one I have a disk for) am I in danger of losing anything on the hard drive? Short version: I actually have the correct version of libxml2.2.dylib saved on the Desktop, so if I could get into the computer I may be able to fix the problem.
Can anybody explain this, and more importantly how to solve it? It only appears to be the dialog that comes up asking for elevated permissions when installing an application, and everything works as expected, even though the text coming up is wrong.
In Mountain Lion scroll bars are turned off by default, and are only seen if actively scrolling. How do you enable them, so that they are seen all the time ?
While I'm running some program in Terminal (or iTerm2), when the program forks the process, the OS X desktop switches focus from the current application to the forked process. When this happens, the forked process name shows in OS X menu bar. This is especially annoying while using full screen mode as it causes the workspace to change when the forked process receives focus.
EDIT I click finder and it shows under devices: "OSX" which is the name I gave my external HDD currently running OSX.. and "Samsung SSD." OSX has the standard folders on a mac.. Samsung SSD is blank.
I have two similar iMacs (27" - i7 - os10.8.4 ) and use Apple's extended USB keyboards on both of them. After a power outage neither keyboard will work on one iMac (A) although both keyboards work fine on the other iMac (B). I have reset NVRAM and SMC on iMac A but to no avail. I have plugged printers into the USB ports and they seem to work fine. As it stands, the only way I can log in on iMac A is by using a Bluetooth keyboard, the USB port however remains "invisible"... Thank you for your help.
The directory says it's 6 MB, but there's about 10 160-byte files.
I've noticed that only some of the images I receive from a friend of mine (who also has an iPhone 5) have GPS data. (I test this by saving the picture and using a photo app to read the metadata.)
Within iCal the preferences settings let choose the use of event times in month view. I would like to obtain the same choice for the week view.
I run a multi-monitor setup at home with OS X ML as my main driver. Sometimes for a task I need to be able to drag-and-drop items from a folder to a particular spot on the desktop.
My account is associated with an active directory of a previous company i was working at. What is the best way to unbind my account from the AD without losing my files? I have admin access to the machine, and all the files are locally available. The account is admin/managed and mobile.
The opacity option of the Gnome terminal in Ubuntu had a neat behavior, which showed the desktop wallpaper instead of the other windows behind it. Has anyone been able to make Mac Terminal, or an alternative terminal app, do this? I know you can set a terminal wallpaper, which squashes and stretches with the terminal window. Thanks!
I want a smart mailbox that will display all the emails sent to me by a particular person as well as all the emails I've sent them. I assumed that setting the rules to be but all I get is messages from Person.
If I set up an individual account for my daughter can she charge my credit card with an app purchase?
Here are the specifications of the macbook pro I am trying to add in 2x 4gb Ram of 1333mhz ddr3 into the macbook pro. However i am only able to boot up with 1x2gb ddr 1067mhz and a 1x4gb 1333mhz. If i were to put in 2x4gb ram into the macbookpro, there will be a boot issue. weird sound will be heard.
Why did Apple Decide not to install Command Line Tools which now have to be installed through xcode?
The strangest thing just happened. I accidentally moved some files around within a folder on my desktop. I pressed command Z to try and un-do the action (I may have accidentally hit some other keys in the process, I don't know,) but instantly the folder was wiped of it's contents and even the name of the folder changed to "Untiled Folder." It seems my files have just vanished into thin air and I can't get them back. They did not move to the Trash Bin.
Sometimes you may want to see the differences in folders in order to: See what files are different See what files are missing See what files have been added Which may prove useful if you wish to keep the contents of two folders the same, or to show if files have changed between the local and remote copy of the folder. Is there a way to show this comparison using Terminal or otherwise?
Is there a quick way to select several items and place them into a new folder?
Is there a way to search within opened file (only!) in Xcode when I can not use Apple keyboard (because I am connecting remotely via LogMeIn from a PC)? I guess there was a search icon just above the text editor in Xcode 4.3 but I can not find it in 4.6.
I find keyboard shortcuts very useful, and whilst I know quite a few of the "general ones", I don't know any concerning using Spotlight with the exception of Command-SpaceBar to launch it. What other keyboard shortcuts exist (if any) with regards to using Spotlight (that may make things "lightening fast" when using it) ? (I'm sure the number of shortcuts available cannot be that extensive - if they exist that is).
“Cannot sign in because the server version is incompatible with Microsoft Lync. Contact your support team with this information.” I am trying to use the Lynx for Mac 2011 (v14.0.5) instead of Communicator after our corporate Lynx servers was already upgraded. The Windows users are able to use Lynx, if they do follow DisableServerCheck trick for Lynx. Obviously, this doesn't work on Mac as there is no registry. Any suggestions?
What is the difference between 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
The printer only comes with Windows drivers only and is not listed in OSX nor in the Gimp-print list. I've also tried the generic PCL6 driver (which makes it print black dots to the side of the page but not more.) any idea?
This is part of brew output Can anybody tell me what is going on and how to proceed?
I am trying to set MacVim, installed via homebrew, to be the default HEX file editor. I started this task by creating an alias to MacVim.app located in /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-61 and placing the aliased app in /Applications. This allowed me to see and open MacVim from the Application folder (more info here).
When trying to drag various items into a folder in Finder in OS X and some of the items have the same name, OS X will ask if you wish to replace the items in the folder you are dragging to. However if you wish to merge the files from the first folder to the second folder: How do you accomplish this ?
Finder is intuitively designed to help you find things on your Mac. In Finder Windows you can arrange icons or lists of files in all manner of ways: Name, Date last opened, Created, Modified etc, as well sort lists in Ascending or Descending order by clicking on the top column title. How do you therefore go about arranging Applications by "Application Type" ie Productivity, Music, Video etc....... ?
While my system was performing a $ brew update && brew upgrade we had a power failure and my iMac shut down while updating packages/dependancies. After rebooting I tried to run $ brew update && brew upgrade again and encountered the following error: fatal: unable to access '*=URL=* transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining Error: Failure while executing: git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master $ brew doctor strangely returns a clean bill of health.
I am trying to follow these instructions but not succeeding in what they are supposed to instruct. Can somebody please shed light on how to do this?
Will using a 45w charger on my mac book pro 13 that came with a 60w charger cause operating problems? Sine using a 45w charger my laptop cannot get past the grey/white loading screen?
I recently tried to send a video file that was too large via Outlook. Spinning wheel, then Outlook started crashing. Managed eventually to delete the email from my outbox, but Outlook now crashes every time, a couple of minutes after opening.
I have a project in Eclipse that is not navigable in Finder. All the other projects within the same Git repository are fine and can be browsed with Finder.
I've been reading up on the Lightning cable, and there's been some debate over whether it transmits analog audio. I'm not sure how exactly the 30-pin connector works, or how the Lightning cable works (that electrical engineer stuff is over my head).
Right now, I am having trouble installing GLEW on my MacBook Pro (MAC OSX 10.6.8) for OpenGL projects. I have attempted to install GLEW multiple times so I do not get "no directory error", but without success. The problem is that the GLEW library is stored in the /usr folder and is not accessible without using unix commands to reveal the said files. Is there any way I can successfully install and use the GLEW library so I do not get the no directory error? BTW, reference for installation guide for GLEW: http://glew.sourceforge.net/install.html
What iPhone 5 docking stations are on the market that provide an analog audio out connection similar to Apple's iPhone 4 dock? I currently use the above dock with my 4S for charging at night, but if I make an upgrade to the new iPhone, I'd like a Lightning dock.
I last had my computer connected 3 days ago to a wireless network (the one I am still on with other computers). AirPort says it's connected and has a strong green light (full bars in wifi) but when I open System Preferences, the 902.1X: WPA: says FreeWiFi_Secure and the button says Connect, so I press that and under that it says "Authentication server is not responding" and has the waiting signal (spinning flower thing). The wifi works as I am on it on my phone and no one else is having trouble in the house. Can someone please help this damsel in distress!
Periodically, I keep getting an "x messages could not be moved to the mailbox xxx. An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox xxx" popup (see below). The only way I can resolve is to rebuild my entire mailbox, which takes a long time! I am connected to an exchange server. What is the likely cause of this issue?
Please help me, I am in the process of copying the data onto a Mac compatible external disk. At the moment I am rsyncing over Wifi and it requires two computers running and takes ages.
I have an iMac with OSX 10.8, joined to a work domain. I want to get create a custom dock and save it so all users will see my custom dock when they log in. I've done some Google searches and everything seems to point to these steps: Create dock how you want it Copy ~/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist to /system/library/user\ template/english.lproj/library/preferences
What should I expect if I purchase a Mac soon after the new OS was released? I'm looking to know what will be pre-installed and how that might affect me as a consumer.
I changed my Apple ID to my new email address. Now when I receive a text message, the box showing my old Apple ID and request for password appears. Is there a way to make this stop happening?
Both computers are running OS X 10.8.4 When trying to initiate the screen sharing feature, the other computer gets the request, then clicks "Accept" but thats as far as we get. Then we see this: I have posted the contents of the "Details" section: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=yWYYCbgv
I have a utility that patches the Apple remote control service so it doesn't start iTunes when pressing play. With OS X 10.8 rcd was signed by Apple. I found out that I could ad hoc sign the modified rcd to prevent it from crashing, but it seems that some users don't have an identity. Does anyone know to generate the ad hoc identity? Thanks!
Just curious, does the sales chart in iTunes Connect combine the stats from updates and new downloads?
I have had my MacBook Pro for a couple of months (recent Windows convert and total Mac novice). I am running OS X 10.8.4. Our cable company recently upgraded our modem and cable box and I am no longer able to connect to the Internet over Wi-Fi.
I was a long time Quicken user, tracking checking accounts and credit cards. I would enter all of my purchases on my phone and would sync regularly with my desktop. Two years ago, I switched to Mac and was disappointed to learn that there was no version of Quicken for iPhone that would sync with Quicken for Mac. You can't even export because all of the check book programs export to QIF format, and Mac quicken only imports OFX, and there are no reasonable Mac-based converters.
Once per second I'm getting the following errors in my system.log: Is this likely affecting system performance, and what can I do about it?
I am using iTunes 11 and iPhone 5 on Window XP. I want to create iTunes backup process programmatically in my selected location (not in default location). Can you provide any type of suggestion.
I have about a day to move my 145 GB Aperture file from my 2009 iMac to a USB 3.0 drive. However, my iMac doesn't have USB 3.0 yet.
After locking my Mac and waking it up a few hours later this is how it looks:  Also, some of the icons look weird after restarting the system (for example not fully rendered time machine icon: ) Hardware: mid 2013 MacBook Air - i5 1,5GHz 128SSD, 8GB RAM. I suspect one thing, however this is my first mac and I prefer not to mess around anymore: The problem started ocurring after I have disabled the swap. Earlier I did research how much memory I use (<4GB RAM and ~2GB swap) and decided to remove the swap to force RAM usage. What could be causing this behaviour?
Is it possible to create a JavaScript bookmarklet (or other link) to be used in Safari (iOS) that will automatically print the current web page to the default AirPrint enabled printer? Ideally without asking the user to confirm printer and quantity. The use case is to set up an iPad at a theater that can let a customer fill out a form and then have the final page be printed to give to a staff member to assist them.
I can not find the 'curved path button' in the Build Inspector which allows me to curve a path. Can anyone tell me where to find it?
Edit: After using the phone more, I've noticed that the UI may suffer hiccups in many more situations (for instance when texting somebody a message); the phone freezes and becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. This behavior is obviously most annoying when you can't answer incoming calls.
I just bought an iPhone 5 and I want to synchronize it with my iTunes library but when I connect the iPhone to my Mac I get a message saying that the iPhone can't be used because it requires iTunes version 10.7 or newer, but when I try to install the required iTunes version I get another message saying that my version of OS X is too old. As my Mac is from 2009 I can't upgrade to a newer version than the 10.5.8. Do I seriously have to buy a new Mac to get my iPhone 5 synchronized with my iTunes?
I have a mail account like xx@me.com. Due to slow working and non-responding computer, I accidentally erased my inbox and trash on iCloud. Is there any option that I can recover them?
In the times of small SSD harddisks, I was looking for an open source software to delete caches and other space wasters like logs, unused application remains and such on Mac OSX, and all over the web people are telling me there's plenty of OSS projects doing exactly that. Sadly, I couldn't even find one of them.
Apparently AppleCare UK has been revamped to include a brand new live online chat support system, where you can chat in a text box with a member of technical support. How do I locate this ?
Is it possible to boot iMac from external USB CD-ROM?
I'm running a local DNS server to resolve .dev as a testing domain on my machine, the resolution works fine and shows the proper answer through dig and ping and I can pull the home page instantly with curl. The DNS server is my only configured name server in System Preferences acting as a forwarder to the corporate DNS servers.
Wouldn't it be cool, if you could somehow use the desktop software running on your Mac on your iPad !!! Is this possible ?
I'm interested in LAMP stack and Nodejs stack for PowerPC (iMac g5). Do they exist for Mac OS X 10.5.6 PPC?
The newest iOS Beta (7.6) says we need to install the ResetMusicAndVideosLibraries Configuration Profile to fix some bug. How do I install that profile? I tried dropping it into the Organizer window of XCode, but that didn't seem to do anything.
I would like to know if there is any kind of setting to limit the RAM browsers can use. It's annoying that even if you have 30GB of RAM available eventually it will be all used by the browser.
I bought my mac in india recently and i'm using it in UK. It worked fine for a month but now, whenever i try to connect to the wifi, it says "connection timeout". There is no problem with the wifi because my family doesn't face any such problems on their laptops. I tried refreshing network preferences but didn't work. What do i have to do to make it connect?
I have an iMac that has had the hard drive wiped completly clean, no partitions at all, just a blank drive, I have purchased OS X 10.6 installation DVD. I try to install OS X, the disc loads up and then after approx 4 minutes the light grey screen scrolls to a dark grey screen and the Mac has a message in the middle of the screen telling me to turn if off and back on again, if I do this, the process just keep repeating itself. It's an Intel-based Mac, so I tried to install Windows 7 which worked nicely, but I still want to install OS X. Can any one offer any advice please on how to get out of the boot loop when installing the OS X?
Apple mail application often appears and asks me to enter email address and password. I don't use this application. It happens even though I never clicked email address or something like that. How can I prevent this?
I'm a n00b to say the least when it comes to XCODE, Obj-C, and OpenGL. But i've managed to successfully modify and build an existing open source screensaver project. How do I export the product to an .saver file?
I would like to know how to change the terminal color, so whenever I run ls it will return the name of: Directories in red Files in blue Executable files (those you do ./file) in light green How do I do that?
I have downloaded the server app for 10.7.5 but I can not install it on my 10.8 MacBook Pro. Can this be done?
I exited out of my snapchat notifications in the notification center (I clicked the "x" on the right hand side) and now I can't see anything and I want to get it back. I don't know what to do.
I exited out of a couple apps while I was in my notification center on my iPod touch. My settings still say that they will show up in the center, but they haven't been. I've gotten the message on my lock screen saying that I have a notification, but nothing in the notification center. Any suggestions?
On my imac I have system Preferences -> hardware -> keyboard -> keyboard & text input set with a checkmark for move focus to menu bar with ^F2. It works. On my (pretty new) macbook air, I set the same thing, and it doesn't work. I have (Text boxes and lists only ) checked on both machines, but I seem to get the same result with all controls checked.. Both are os x version 10.8.4 -- On the other hand, Under mission control, when switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application WORKS for macbook air, but not for the iMac.
I evidently don't know the right thing to look for. The last thing in my document is a table. There is no paragraph after it. I can go on adding rows to the table with the context menu, or add paragraphs to a cell of the table by pressing 'return'. But I can't seem to add a paragraph after the table without doing something hacky like cutting the table, inserting to newlines, and then pasting the table back. There should be a way to do this, but I can't find the key words to find it either in google or the pages handbook.
After every attempt when the process is finished I get an error saying my mac cannot read the card, when putting it in my cubieboard it says the card is damaged. So obviously something went wrong during the process on my mac.
I have been trying to download the Windows support drivers for Boot Camp all day, using a wired gigabit network connection. The indicator gets about half way along then refuses to move. There is plenty of space on the USB hard drive I'm sending the drivers to.
I am trying to install the Solarized color scheme for my terminal on 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. I downloaded the .terminal files from *=URL=* and followed the instructions in the README which said:
There are sites that sense the iPad is a mobile device. For example, Spotify. It will refuse to play in an iPad browser, while it works just fine on a laptop. It appears to be sensing what browser is in use, as do many sites that push a mobile version instead of the standard site. Is there any workaround for this?
I want to add a smart folder for each label in the sidebar (I believe there is no way to directly to add the labels, so I have to resort to smart folder). However, all of them have the gear icon in the sidebar, even if I changed its icon and the icon is correctly shown in finder itself. Note that I am NOT changing the smart folder's default icon, I just want to change them to a red, green, blue ... dots, just like the labels. How can I achieve this?
I have a complex drawing in Keynote, which I need to resize. I can do this by making the drawing into a group, but unfortunately it contains many text labels, which do not resize when I change the size of the group. I can change the font size, but it's quite hard to get the new font size to look the same as the old one. What usually happens is that the new text is slightly larger than the text boxes, so I end up having to manually resize each one in order to make it readable again.
I tried to install Windows in dual boots (version 4 I think) in my Macbook Pro 10.8. Everything was fine until Windows boot for the first time for it's installation. The operating system was not able to find Windows related drivers on the usb key I used with Bootcamp. So, my mistake was to shutdown and try again, but now Windows can't find my bootable device anymore.
I tried going to the AppStore and iTunes, etc. and it said that I have the incorrect Apple email (for the Apple ID) and I tried changing it to my actual email but it pops up as a different email. Is there anything that I can do to reset it to my actual email?
(The complete story is that I have recently started using a Mac, and I need to wire it into the network of file syncing that I do across many machines (using unison). Naturally, I have music in a music directory, which collides with OSX's Music thing, so I need to get it out of my way. That's why I don't care how it's shown in the Finder or if I'm losing some marvelous iTunes features. (I will most likely not even notice it if both Finder and iTunes disappear from this machine.))
I have a flaky internet connection and I was trying to download some course videos on iTunes U. Three attempts to download 800 MB files failed because the connection was reset. So I'm now trying to find a way to use curl and its -C - option to download the videos with the ability to resume.
I was holding down a key (can't remember which) and then my keyboard and trackpad were no longer responsive. Multiple restarts, PRAM, and SMC resets did not do the trick.
Whenever my Mac goes to sleep when its on battery, it straight away saves its contents to the hard drive and powers off, going into a deep sleep. This gets really annoying when I walk away for 10 minutes to make a coffee for example and come back to have to wait up to a minute (depending on what I'm running) for the laptop to wake up. This only happens when its on battery though. I have tried an SMC and cleared the PRAM/NVRAM but it hasn't seemed to work.
I'm looking for a OS X markdown (or similar) editor that has an edit and a view mode. I want to view the rendered document by default and have an edit mode to change the content. Just in the way most wikis work. Day One uses edit/view modes but it doesn't let me edit arbitrary text files. On iOS I found Trunk Notes.
Hej, I'm trying to print Excel 2011 sheet with hyperlinks into pdf format, but the output file doesn't retain hyperlinks. Is there a way to preserve them in output format?
I don't want people to yell at me when they want to say something while I'm using headphones on my desktop computer. I'm thinking an app could just listen to the ambient sound and lower the volume when it is loud. Apparently, Awareness does something like this on iOS. What about OSX?
In Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, I often need to save a copy of a document as a PDF. To do this, I open the print dialog, and then choose "Save as PDF" from the dropdown menu at the bottom:
Is it possible specifically select a Wifi channel use? I am defaulting to channel 6 which has a low signal to noise ratio. "Wifi Signal", ver 1.3 suggests that several other channels offer better qualities. Is there a way to move another channel?
I would like my Open File selector to be showing hidden files. I am not sure if the same Open File module is shared among many applications that use it or each app has its own. The specific app I have in mind with which I would like to enable this functionality is Sublime Text 2. However, I do NOT want the Finder to be showing hidden files. What I tried to do is execute from the Terminal but that changed it only in the Finder and not in the Open File selector for Sublime (exactly the opposite of what I was trying to accomplish).
As the title says, I have an MacBook Air (Late 2010 - MC505LL/A*), with preinstalled OSX Lion. Also it shipped with an USB key called "Recovery Key", and afaik, I'm supposed to use this key if I restore/format my Mac
I purchased OS X 10.7 lion about two years ago, and installed it on my Mac running 10.6.8. A couple of hours ago I re-formatted my computer and re-installed Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard from the original DVD installer. Now I want to go to the App Store and re-download the OS X Lion installer, to upgrade my system to Lion. The problem is that when I go to App Store and try to download the OS X 10.7 Lion installer, it reloads the same page and nothing happens.
Problem: I cannot boot into system nor can I boot to the installation disk. Errors I get in verbose mode: What happened:
I have an Applescript Droplet application that I need to run from terminal. I can use osascript or even just open to open the AS App, but that will run its on run handler, not the on open droplet handler I need to be run. I tried passing the "dropped" file in (osascript /Path/To/App.app /Path/To/Droppings.txt), but it still runs the on run handler. Is there a way to do this? And if not with bash, is it possible from another AppleScript? Thanks.
When I run Internet Recovery, Disk Utility lists 5 partitions. It is unable to mount any of them. disk0s2 and disk0s4 must be the Windows and OS X partitions as they are almost 50% of the total volume each (the others are all ~ 100MB), but both show up as MS-DOS (FAT), whereas presumably one should be a Mac OS Extended format? I tried to "verify" the first three, all got as far as "Checking file system" and then failed "Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk", some with extra info: disk0s2 Format: MS-DOS (FAT): ** /dev/disk0s2 Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block 000000 disk0s3 Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled): [No extra explanation] disk0s4 Format: MS-DOS (FAT): ** /dev/disk0s4 Invalid signature in fsinfo block fix? no ** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT FAT[0] is incorrect (is 0xD9058EB; should be 0xFFFFFF8) Correct? no FAT[1] is incorrect Correct? no ** Phase 2 - Checking Directories Root directory starts with cluster out of range(0) disk0s5 Partition Type: DE94BBA4-... (cor
Is there a way to keep the bottom dock, top menu (that currently has an Apple logo, Safari, File, etc.) as well as the three control buttons (exit, mini-, and maximize) on at all times when in full screen mode? I would like to be looking at an application while not being distracted by other open windows and/or the desktop but I would also like to have the above listed commands available so that shifting between open apps is a one- (click the app in the dock) rather than a two-step (restore current app + click the app in the dock) process.
I thought I lost my iPhone 4s, so I blocked and told iCloud to erase it the next time it connects. Now that I found it, I know that as soon as it gets internet connection, all my information will be gone.
JavaJDK 1.6 Hadoop ZooKeeper AccumuLo Hadoop is starting up and seems to be running fine. Tested the NameNode and JobTracker and they both can be seen in the localhost html page. ZooKeeper server starts up fine, but I get the error in the Client shell. You can see the errors from ZooKeeper and AccumuLo below.
I've tried quite a few things: I've tried using Bluetooth to redistribute. I've tried setting the IP address for the airport manually. I've tried altering the channel. Probably a few more but I'm not comfortable thrashing around not knowing what I'm doing with no clear gameplan. Could someone please give me a sequence of moves to tackle this?
My app recently made it to the app-store(Planner!) and three users gave it reviews. However the stars are not filled. Anyone no why? Here is a pic:
First I tried cp -Rp to preserve ownership of copies files. That changed the ownership from root:wheel to myuser:staff. So then I tried rsync and ditto. All of these are supposed to preserve the ownership, but they do not. They change it to myuser:staff. All commands used with sudo. For example: What am I missing?
I was reading an article about a problem with Mac and iOS. Why does this string of Arabic characters
I dropped my iphone4s in water and when I got a new phone and brought back the GarageBand app none of my songs were there. Is there ANYWAY I can recover these files?
Finder does not seem to navigate to the last folder opened. For instance, when I am saving several files or images - it would be nice to (and used to ) open in the last place I placed something - now it defaults to "User" and I have to navigate each time - very frustrating.
How can I get the USB Super Drive model A1379 to work with my Mac Pro Quad Core computer? I rebooted my computer, searched for drives - could not locate it on the Apple computer. Apple support stated bad drive. I exchanged the drive and started over with reboot. This operation did not help.
Is there a way to set the options for scrolling in the following way : Use this option when the trackpad is used for scrolling and navigation | Keep this option checked. "Move Content in the direction of finger moment when scrolling or navigating" And when the mouse is being used, I want the above option to be unchecked.
I have an Apple Mail smart mailbox set up to filter out all of the messages that contain a certain string in the subject line. Now, the problem is that there are A LOT of these messages and so they clutter up my main inbox. As it stands, I can simply see the messages in the smartbox, but they reside in the main inbox. Is there anyway I can get these messages to move from my main inbox to the smartbox?
I have downloaded few apps on my iDevice and stopped the download realizing that was not the intended app.Whenever I start my iTunes, it tries to download them. How can I stop the apps from getting downloaded ?
I have a developer account now, and I can download Xcode 5. But soon I won't need this account anymore, and I may get a new (organization type) account. My question is, will I be able to use my new organization account to write programs with Xcode 5 I downloaded previously? And also submit possibly with this new account? Thanks.
I'm having difficulties playing games without a live connection to the internet (actually to the steam servers). Is this a configuration issue or a limitation in the following game titles: Tomb Raider 2013 PAYDAY 2 Dead Island I'm hoping to host multiplayer games with my friends without needing Wi-Fi or LAN that connects to the Internet or an external / central game server.
The following was posted by Codler as an answer to a question of read/write difficulties on NTFS drive which worked perfectly. My question is, is there a way for a noob like me to create a shortcut method of running these steps in Terminal instead of typing it in each time I want to mount the drive? Plug-in your device Plug-in your device
When I send/share a URL in Safari I want the default outgoing sender to be my gmail and not iCloud address. How do I set that. Also when I'm in a text document and I want to share/email it, the default shows my iCloud email, but I want it to be gmail. I know I can change the outgoing in the e-mail program, but I want it to be the default.
I'm new to Mac. A friend installed all kinds of additional software including zsh which I would like to uninstall. So how can I uninstall zsh?
Is there a way to create screenshots of iOS devices from OSX without using Xcode? I am looking for a fast way to do that. I know 2 methods: Using Xcode Taking a screenshot on the device and sharing it using message/mail whatever
I am trying using samba to connect to a folder I own on a windows server. I connect by typing:
I have installed yadr and then ho my zsh how do i revert and activate yadr ? I have googled and found only how to uninstall ho my zsh: *=URL=* but i only want to disable it for a while and use yadr. I'll try to remove, but I have thought maybe you have a more elegant solution?
How can I determine the manufacture date/age of any iPhone device? If there is any way for this, please suggest one.
And if not, how do I reinstall the system in case one day everything goes wrong? Thank you.
I have 10.8.4 OS X and the Canon P-150M scanner does not work with it. Yet my friend has an older iMac where it works. I want to try the new driver and test whether things start working. So how can I remove a driver in OS X?
The short version: How do I redirect all traffic from en2 port 80/443 to 127.0.0.1:8080 when I have enabled Internet Sharing in OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)? Some background:
I'm one of those rabid Apple lovers so I'd obviously prefer the iMac, but I can't spend an extra couple of hundred dollars just because it'll look better on my desk. However LONGEVITY is as big a concern as cost. I'm likely going to need this computer to do the job for quite a while! So I know that for now the software I'm using doesn't really make use of multiple cores, but newer software will right? Other than security, is there a big difference between the i5 and i7? Also, I don't need to start tomorrow, so what is the rumour mill saying about new release dates? Will new iMacs have Retina displays? I've checked a bunch of rumour sites but nobody has any RELIABLE information.
I'm looking for an application that enables me to preview my iPad screen, on a PC or Mac Desktop. Since I have a presenter on stage that will have an iPad in his hands, and I want to preview his screen on a giant screen behind him.
I like using ctrl + v on mac for jumping with the cursor to the next screen - something like page down but the cursor moves too. Do you know any way to do the opposite - jumping to the previous screen - like page up but also with the cursor moving?
Using Mountain Lion - 10.8.4 I would like to setup a daily snapshot system using Automator: use the PhotoBooth.app set it to auto start with the countdown "1,2,3" autosave the picture to a specified folder close PhotoBooth.app Looked around on the internet and didn't find anything on this topic. Automator has take video snapshot but the size of the output photo is tiny "200x200" This would be perfect if I knew how to increase the size of the output file.
I have had a problem for the past week where a folder action created in Automator has stopped importing photos from a folder into iPhoto. I have tried: Repairing disk permissions. Deleting the script from library/workflows/applications/folder actions, and then recreating it from Automator once more. Neither of these worked, and some googling seems to indicate that many people on the Apple support communities have similar problems, so perhaps an update at some point has broken this functionality, and I was unable to fix it. OSX 10.8.4 iPhoto 9.4.3 (720.91)
My sons have iBook G4 laptops and are wanting to upgrade to a Mac that has App Store and iTunes so they can manage their iPods. Can someone please tell me what is the oldest laptop to have those capabilities?
I've been trying to run Vine system server on 10.7.x and 10.8.x so that I can login while no one is using the remote computer. As a connection is made I do get the login screen and the mouse works (I'm able to click restart, shutdown, etc). Unfortunately when I start typing the password in the text field to login in, the image freezes. Funny though that the mouse is still usable. After looking at the logs I, these are the errors that pop out to me:
In a previous question, it was asked if Snow Leopard Server is supported in Parallels 8, and from Parallels documentation, it would appear that it is. I am trying to stand up a Snow Leopard Server VM on my Parallels instance, but to no avail. I get a window each time saying, simply, Mac OS X can not be installed on this computer.
But I also noticed another version on the system. otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib shows
I'm using iPhone 5 and iPad 2, not jailbroken, with iOS 6.1.4 and VPN turned on. Safari and any other browser apps can't open pages.
As you know, the sound volume of Mac laptops isn't too loud. I bought Boom, a volume-booster software for Macs, and after some months of using it for listening to music or viewing videos at loud volume, the bass of my MacBook Pro's internal speakers died.
ML 10.8.4 and I have installed Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3. I keep reading that it's necessary to keep the the 2.6 version around because the system uses it. However, I've not found any software that needs it other than that which I installed (and I can control which version THAT needs - I complied and installed SciPy for 3.3.2 for example). So, using macports I pointed the python link to the 3.3.2 install to see if there is something hidden that I've missed. I've not had any problems.
I've got a 13" MBP running 10.8. I recently changed my full name of my account, but whenever I get an authentication dialog, it has pre-filled in my old full name. Is there anywhere to change this setting?
I just installed the Chromecast app on my iPad (2). The iPad is running 6.1.3 (or whatever; it says it's up-to-date). I've also got a Chromecast that works fine from my Android phone, my Nexus 7 tablet, and all the computers in my house that I've tried (except Linux machines of course).
Can I move items in the Reading List like I can in the Bookmarks section?
My iPad was recently destroyed. There were a lot of pictures on it I would like to retrieve. I did have iCloud turned on. How can I access that backup and retrieve my pictures?
Can I extract data from my icloud back up to view on pc? I have changed phones but have lots texts etc on new iPhone. Can I view my icloud back up data as I have done texts I would really like to keep Thanks
There is no earthing pin, only a socket with a metallic rim. Will it require some special socket that has a projecting earth pin? This is for use in India @ 230W. My adaptor is 85w.
I am changing from a iPhone 4S to a Samsung galaxy s4. I currently have a me.com e mail address. Will I still be able to use this if not with iPhone?
iPod classic 80GB 2007 [Model No.:A1238] won't charge from LG usb travel adapter (output 5.0V, 0.85A). It normally charged from Apple 5W USB Power Adapter [Model No.:A1299] (output 5.0V, 1A), and normally charged from macbook USB port and required just 0.5A for charging.
I know that if I want to create a new task in Reminders and I write something like: Buy milk tomorrow at 3:00pm
Today when I opened my Beststream app, my iPhone boots into Safe Mode. This has happend to me alot this year. I don't like this as all because sometimes, I restart into safe mode, and other times, I do normal safe mode. It just happens sometimes. I've been thinking alot about that it is the RAM that's being overloaded, but I don't know. I have alot of junk from other tweaks that I've removed. Anyways, the crash report can be found here: *=URL=* Specs: iPhone 4 8GB
I would like to download the files, all at once, from the following page using curl: *=URL=* I tried curl *=URL=* and it returned a bunch of lines in the terminal, but did'nt get any files.
I attempted to migrate to a new mac pro, in preparation I did the following : Using Carbon Copy Cloner, clone my primary drive to a new drive. The source drive was using file vault 2 and I ensured a recovery disk was created on the new drive.
I am trying to call Beyond Compare Windows app to perform a file compre directly from Mac but I am block with command line argument passing. You can call Windows applications from the OS X command line via something like: Still, it seems that there is a problem when you try to pass arguments.
I wanted to sign up for Apple iMessage with a different email, so I created a new Apple ID and every time I try to sign in with that one, it asks me for the password again and again. This loop continues until it finally says that my Apple ID password is incorrect, but I know it is not. What's going on and how can I fix it?
I have an Airport Extreme 3rd gen (A1301). I just bought a Time Capsule 5th gen (A1470). I put the TC where the AE used to be, in a cupboard in the hall. Now I am thinking to repurpose the AE as a printer server on my desk.
I've found the way to publish a TeX document with Scrivener 2. Now I'm curious that whether Scrivener 2 has a capability of importing a LaTeX file and establishing a Scrivener style document structure or not. I'm asking it because I'm writing a paper with other people who are not using Scrivener.
I have an iPhone connected to external audio equipment via the dock connector. The phone is equipped with three apps for playing audio: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. I would like to use any of these, with playing and controlling them via the dock connector, including browsing the respective music library.
A year ago when I upgraded my iPhone to the latest model, the computer technician who works on our business computers helped me with a couple of issues with which I was having problems. He doesn't know what happened, but he ended up importing my complete business address book email addresses into my iPhone and now I have over 4,000 contacts of customers I will never contact with my personal iPhone.
Even though I have unchecked the Automatic Upload of Photo Stream on Aperture (same on iPhoto), I can see through Little Snitch that it is hogging my upload bandwith constantly. When I wait (hours, days..) to see what was uploaded, nothing is added to my photo stream. Is there any way to figure out live what is being uploaded? Here is what the Console returns when I block Photo Stream's outgoing connections: Thank you!
My temporary (and very, VERY space consuming) solution has been to make each and every episode in all the lower quality ratings available – a 1080p episode will be made into both a 720p and SD file also, a 720p will also be made into an SD file. I have over 4,000 episodes in my library, and it's very annoying to have at least two qualities of all of them.
I can't seem to set up my music collection so that when opening a compilation album on my iPad it shows a list of songs on the compilation album along with the artist of each song. In iTunes on my computer it displays as expected - the song name appears with the artist below it in the compilations album:
My grandmother just switched from a PC to a Mac, and I suggested that she use iWork instead of Office for Mac. Now she is getting used to iWork, but all of the people that she works with use Office.
I have an Ubuntu media server set up. Currently, I can only wake it up remotely from a Terminal command on my Macbook Pro: This works perfectly and starts up my server every time. Is there an iOS app (preferably free) that will allow me to enter in the Ubuntu server's MAC Address and then wake up the server from the iOS Device?
In the past month I am having some serious performance issues with my MacBook Pro (2008 model). From the activity monitor, I get that the CPU usage is low (25%), disk usage is low (256 GB SSD drive, 50% free), network activity almost null. What concerns me is system memory usage; of the 4GB RAM I have: Free: 35 MB Wired: 1.1 GB Active: 1.9 GB Inactive: 900 MB Used: 3.99 GB VM size: 650 GB Swap used: 11 GB
All of a sudden I noticed an application called "Admin Alert" in my dock. This is a work computer, I'm wondering if this is some sort of "spyware" that our lovely IT department has installed on my machine. I can't find any information about it online.
When I start my mac my WiFi connects to my router as normal, however it never has an internet connection. I'm connected to my rounter and can log in to it I just don't have an active internet connection. If I turn off WiFi and reconnect it will eventually work, but it may take 4/5 restarts for this to work. It's like this for all WiFi networks so it's not an isolated problem.. I've tried obvious stuff (restart router, delete connection) as well as the guide in this link *=URL=* with no success... Would anyone know how to fix this. I'm running 10.8.4
I know how to make a .dmg file but I do not know how developers (Mostly games) create a window where there is the software file and sometimes theres a readme file. When I create, It shows just a normal finder window not like with custom background or where you can drag the folder anywhere on the finder window. How am I suppose to make that? I making a game and I really want to make it.
I've been trying to solve my overheating problem for quite a long time, but had no luck, so I will try to describe it to you and hopefully, someone can come up with some solution. I've also read numerous topics about heating problems, but that didn`t help me at all. My specs are Core i7 2,3Ghz with nVidia 650GT, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.4. SMC reset is not helpful in any case, did OS reinstallations many times with no noticeable effect. MBP is 1 year old, I have cleaned it up from dust and also did the thermal plaste reapply (Arctic Cooling MX-4). I use iStat pro on Dashboard and iStat menu for temperature monitoring in OSX and Mac fan Control along with Real Temp in Windows 7 (Bootcamp). Room temperature is pretty cold and I use two table fans directed to the MBP to help cool the alu case and also, MBP is elevated about 1,5cm in the back and 0,5cm in the front for better heat dissipation.
I have tried to use iWork 09 but my machine is only Core duo and not Core 2 Duo so will not load.
In garageband ducking audio was a one-click operation. However I cannot find how to preform the same action in Logic Pro X.
Am I correct in my assumption that shell commands such as cp, man, ls, etc. always print their messages in English regardless of system and user settings, and also standard shell messages like "command not found" are not localizable?
iOS tracks everything you type and uses those words to suggest spelling corrections. This list of words used to be a clear text list buried in /private or /System (I don't remember where, which is my problem). I think Apple migrated it to a db/encrypted file for security/speed reasons.
How could I reset my 4th gen iPod Touch just using my computer and a cable? My power button doesn't work and I have the white screen of death. The only way to reset the device I've seen is to hold the power and home button and then use restore on iTunes, but I can't do that for obvious reasons. Are there any fixes for this?
I made an AppleScript, saved it as a file in a specific folder on my hard drive. Now I want to assign a shortcut to it and looks like I have to make a Service via Automator, but the Run AppleScript asks me to put the code inside, while I want to execute the already existing .scpt file. How to do that?
I have installed 4 brand-new SATA hard drives in a mac pro. My OS is running on a fifth drive (SSD). I run this command
The only option in my Shared Photo Stream appears to be "Edit", which lets me add/delete photos. Can I rename the title perhaps online somewhere?
That is to say, does a photo uploaded to Photo Stream and/or a Shared Photo Space take up twice or thrice the space on my phone, or does each instance point to the same single data store?
Settings lists my phone's iCloud "Backup Size" as 2.2 GB (excluding other phones and general "Documents & Data") though all of its apps turned "on" for backup below don't even approach 0.5 GB when summed. What else is contributing to this unexpectedly large number, and how can I reduce them?
Contacts on my iPhone 4 are not syncing to iCloud even though it is set as on. It is a new phone, and the contacts synced when I first set up iCloud, but not since. I have tried "backup now" and new notes appeared, but no new contacts.
I'm trying to create chroot environment with Mac OS X 10.6 on Mac OS X 10.8.4. I've created disk image, installed Mac OS X 10.6.3 and combo update to 10.6.8 on it. When I run chroot /path/to/mounted/image /bin/echo test inside virtual machine running 10.6.8 (that I used to run the installer) it works fine, but if I do the same in host OS (10.8.4) it receives SIGBUS and crashes. Here's the crash report: At the same time /path/to/mounted/image/bin/echo test works fine.
Is my RAM defective? Should I just revert back to the original 4GB RAM? Update:
I am still on iOS 4, and I understand that I need to erase my iPad before upgrading. But I don't want to lose the game data stored locally, particularly Candy Crush. :) Is there a way to preserve data while upgrading?
System specs: 2011 iMac, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 I have come to understand that Rsync does not handle Mac Alises properly, and have now discovered that hundreds of aliases I've previously copied to my portable drive, are dead and useless because of this.
After booting up my Mac (2011) it runs fine for the first 15 minutes then runs like a snail. My memory and CPU usage is fine and I have scanned for viruses countless of times an comes back with nothing. I have checked my spotlight search and apps running in the background (all the tips everyone gives you to check). If anyone has any suggestions it would be much appreciated.
Is there any tool out there to automate the process of turning a regular mac into a kiosk machine? That is... not an internet kiosk but a regular machine with no warning, notifications, popups, etc... removing all start up items, all notifications, putting an app on top and any other secondary tasks. The idea is not only to keep an app on top of everything else (which is done by software) but tell the OS to not show ANY kind of warning/window/popup. There's tools out there such as ecrisper and xstand but they're more oriented into letting a user browse online than telling the OS to be silent. So far, my manual (no software) process is... Telling the software to stay on top of everything else Go fullscreen Removing startup items Remove all notifications
From what I've read, it is good security approach to have two accounts, one admin and one standard. I am trying to run the following command in terminal on my standard account It asks for a password at which point the process fails because the current user "is not in the sudoers file."
I've lost some sensitive data because the built-in compression utility generates corrupt files and doesn't show any error. After I compressed about 1 Gb of files with Finder's "Compress", I decided to delete the original data just to find that the file was corrupt and couldn't be extracted. This have happened to me acouple of times. Is there a way to change the default behavior to show errors during compressing or to replace zip from the compress contextual menu?
I'm having strange permissions issues with my OSX 10.8.4 server. I stopped using the Apple v2.2.1 server app due to numerous issues & now have samba 3.6.15 installed via Macports, which mostly works ok except... Every now & then OSX asks for a password when trying to move specific files or folders from one place to another (within the same volume) Entering the users own password doesn't work, he is already logged on to the server as himself & is able to move other folders, save files & otherwise work ok. When I do a 'get info' to look at the permissions for that file, it has 'staff - read/write' even though staff is not set as owner group for that folder & none of the users have staff as their primary group id. If I expand 'details' it is 'com.apple.desktopservices' that is asking for the password Guessing 'staff' has something to do with it although any suggestions appreciated! Thanks,
Documents by Readdle is a useful file manager, image viewer, cloud synchronizer, pdf reader and download manager. PDF-Reading has however only limited annotation support (notes in text and highlighting), while the ≈10€ Readdle PDF Expert should extend these abilities. However, I am slightly reluctant to purchase PDF Expert just yet, because I couldn't find out if the App integrates well with Documents; Since iOS usually doesn't give apps direct access to each other I fear, that syncing annotations made in PDF Expert back to Dropbox would require synching my pdfs to both apps -- aside from the obvious waste of space, this also brings the risk of file version conflicts.
I know how to move YouTube and other material from my iPhone into the Apple TV. But, as I've just purchased a Mac Mini, I'm wondering, how can I move material from the Mac Mini into the Apple TV?
I bought a macbook pro retina 13" few days ago. I have never had a mac before and I don't know where can I set the computer to keep running when I close the display. The laptop came with os x 10.8.4. Any help?
When I log into my Apple ID on Apple's site here, *=URL=* I am able to view a complete list of all of my AppleCare registrations. This is very convenient for organizational purposes.
I started using a Mac few days ago (a MacBook Pro 13" with Mountain Lion). I'm wondering if there are power profiles that I can create and set like in Windows. Do they exist in the Mac world?
I managed to install Mac OS X Moutain Lion as a VirtualBox guest OS on Ubuntu 13.04 as host. I need to test a web app which plays HTML5 videos on Safari 6. Unfortunately, I can’t play any video on Moutain Lion (neither HTML5 one nor a .mp4 with Quicktime).
When I add a contact from my keypad screen and save it the contact doesn't show up in my contacts list. But if they call or text me it recognizes the contact. Why is it doing this and how do I fix it?
The basic question is: How can I pass a filename to the Spotlight search module in Automator? The essential problem:
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro 13". After I haven't used it for a while, I wanted to start it up again to give it to my sister and something really odd happened.
I am beginning to teach my 4-year-old daughter that she can do more on a computer than watch cartoons on Netflix. I want her to know that she can type things on the keyboard and make the computer do stuff.
I use Pages as my main word-processing application and regularly have to type in both English and Greek. I use either Times New Roman or Hoefler Text in English and GFS Porson for Greek. Is there a way to automatically trigger a specific font (in this case, GFS Porson) anytime I switch over to the Greek keyboard?
I added eBooks from various directories to iTunes (without storing the books inside iTunes in Windows XP). Is there a way to view the list of file names and directories? Thanks.
I've seen on several forums that people use a tree view for their folders in Finder but I can't find anywhere how to switch to it. Is the tree view available in OSX Lion?
I recently tried to turn on Internet Sharing for my mac mini, and accidently hit 'Remote Management' which turns off screen sharing! I have no peripherals - not even a display, but I do have a lot of Apple Laptops. Is there any way to turn it back on if I know the root/admin username and password?!
I'm trying to launch meld (installed via Homebrew) via an app shortcut, ideally ending up in my Applications folder. A recommended way to launch console apps in Mountain Lion seems to be using Automator.
On my work place and at home I have networks using a proxy. For security reasons (it is correctly filtering most form of web based attacks), I don't want to remove it or to modify an healthy network architecture.
While reseting the device list, mistakenly I have selected those device which I suppose to remove and removed those devices which I suppose to keep. Now how can I get that device list which I have removed from developer account?
My decision was to remove the PSU's from both machines and swap them over. I've dont this plenty of times with normal pc's in the past and haven't encountered any problems but I recently read that the power supplies in G5's are very specific.
The Dock is a fundamental part of using OS X, however I have some frustrations with it: As we know the Apps themselves are located on the left of the divide** separated from the "stacks" and trash can.
My 13" MacBook Pro has 500GB internal hard drive space, and I bought a 1TB external HDD to use as my Time Machine backup. I only read from many articles that the backup should be about 2 to 3 times the size of my hard drive, but I feel like 1TB will never be filled up, and in fact, leave a lot of free space.
I have a local web server running a basic web site. The problem I'm having is that the page loads fine in Chrome, however in Safari it wont load at all. I've tried routing all my traffic through a proxy server and when I load the page in Chrome I see the expected result in the proxy logs, but from Safari there isn't a single entry in the logs, so it appears that Safari is not even attempting to load the page. I've also tried the following to clear up any potential networking issues: Turning off the iPhone, and then back on again Setting the phone to Airplane mode, and then back on again Reset network settings through the Settings app Removing all cookies/data/history from the Safari settings page None of the above have resolved the issue. I'm doing this on an iPhone, latest versions of iOS (and therefore mobile Safari) and the latest Chrome app.
So now everything looks pretty much fine from the outside, but there's on detail that bothers me a little bit. Here's the output from diskutil list:
I have a MacBookPro, purchased October 2012. I use Time Machine to back up files. I was having slow computing issues, so the Genius Bar folks recommended a wipe out and reinstall from scratch, but we decided not to back up the entire disk off of Time Machine for fear that it would only put back onto my computer that which made it run slowly. I did full reinstall, reuploaded all software, a bunch of files I kept on an additional external drive, and now need to go retrieve a few files (not a full restore) from the Time Machine back up. I see the purple tag mark for the precise date before I took the computer in, but the machine will not let me click on it to "reveal" that date's back up. Any ideas how I can get back to those files? Thanks
If I shutdown/reboot from Menu I get an option of saving state of open windows or not, but if I issue a command from terminal say shutdown -h now it will shutdown remembering all open windows, how can I shutdown without remembering any of the open windows just like the Menu option from terminal ?
OS X 10.8.4 isn't showing any updates via the App Store or the command line softwareupdate tool. How can I make it start showing updates as usual again? Edit: sudo softwareupdate -l outputs "No new software available." In Console, App Store logs and softwareupdate logs install.log shows
My PC shut-off in the middle of transferring data to a MacBook using Migration Assistant. The MacBook still shows "transferring your information".
Photos that were not taken on any of our devices are showing up on my Photo Stream. My son recently had his iPhone stolen, and he had Photo Stream turned on, so I am guessing that the photos are coming from the person who stole his phone. We reported it stolen with AT&T, and erased it on the Find My iPhone app, so what else needs to be done so that we no longer get those photos?
These spots don't seem to react to pressure on the screen at all, which would lead me to believe they've been there since I bought the thing, and weren't caused by pressure (just shooting in the dark though). They really aren't all that noticeable, and again it took me til this point to even see a problem. I can't even see them in daylight conditions. Regardless, the fact that I dumped over a grand on this computer and it's still under warranty makes me want to have this fixed. So two questions stem from this:
Do you guys know how to have the Open With show the newer version of a program rather than the older version? For example, I have Office 2011 on my computer and if I do Open With the Excel verison that shows in the list is the 2008 version. I would prefer it to show the 2011 version. I am hoping that I don't have to delete the Office 2008 suite so if there is something else I can do to update the Open With listing that would be great!
I was researching a problem with the Notification Center and noticed that Finder shows the program as Notification Center, yet on disk and in the package receipts and installation media, the file is actually NotificationCenter.app (And the full path to is is /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app)  I understand how Finder drops the .app extension by default, but where does the system know to add the space in this app's name?
My wife had a lot of bookmarks on Safari for iPad. From my macbook I was using Safari, with other bookmarks and some day I tried iCloud, so my wife's iPad bookmarks were overwritten with my macbook's Safari bookmarks. I wonder whether there is some way to recover my wife's bookmarks before she kills me.
I'm trying to use a Firewire DV input in a Google+ Hangout in order to do Hangouts on Air. Currently, it appears that Hangouts does not support DV inputs, which makes things difficult (essentially, the DV input goes to a tape deck which is passing through final video from "upstream" in our studio).
Is it safe (no security implications) to chown -R user /opt/local/, so that I don't sudo port install with MacPorts? I don't like the idea of sudoing with MacPorts as it can write things in /Library, for example, without my permission. I know I could use homebrew instead of MacPorts but I had problems with third-party software writing in /usr/local. I could also compile MacPorts with a custom prefix in my home directory but I guess that is the same with /opt/local/, as /opt/local/ is not a system directory.
Whenever none of my preferred wifi networks is available and my Airport is turned on a dialog appears that shows all the available networks at the moment. That is as expected. However, when I exit that dialog as I don't want to connect to a wifi network, it dissappears, the Airport menu icon shows that it's looking for networks again and the dialog appears again. This is annoying.
I just upgraded a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. On Snow Leopard I was running iCal and had 10 years of history inside. Now on Mountain Lion, this application was renamed Calendar, and I find all my 9 calendar names but they are empty. I just get all the Birthdays and 2 subscribed calendars filled. Looking at /var/log/system.log I found 2 hours of error messages like:
I'm trying to figure out how to launch a GUI application as another user that's logged in interactively, in that user's graphical session. For example, say I have two users, foo and bar. Both are logged in, but the current interactive user is foo. I'd like to launch Calculator.app as user "bar", so that when I fast user switch to bar, I find the Calculator window is open in bar's session. Here's what I've tried that doesn't work: This launches Calculator.app as bar, but the window opens in foo's graphical session. Same effect. Launches Calculator as foo, not bar. Same effect.
I've been struggling to view photos from a subscribed photostream in iPhoto 11. I'm running OS X 10.7.5 and iPhoto 11 9.4.3 and I've been following this guide:
Recently my laptop was put out of commission. Since then I've downloaded some music into my iPad's Dropbox app. I would like to move this from Dropbox to the Music app, but I'm not sure of a way to do it without my laptop. Any help would be great.
I want to download the 10.6.8 combo update but every time I try it, my computer just shuts down. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? I am currently using 10.6. I had been using 10.6.8 but i tried to update it thinking that I was using 10.5.8. after installing the 10.6 I realized my mistake. I am using the combo update from Apple but just before that I tried updating my computer to Core Lion from Softonic because Core Lion doesn't exist in the apple store any more and my computer wont support Mountain lion. Now it wont even start up.
I have the same problem with my new MacBook Air (May 2013) as others have stated with MacBook Pro. All was good until I played around with the resolution. Now the second monitor is not seen at all in the System setting; the monitor's power light is on (The monitor is not faulty as I plugged it into my Windows netbook) MacBook Air, monitor connected using VGA adaptor. I have unplugged everything, re-booted, and spoken to it nicely (and harshly). HELP as I have been using two monitors since 1994 and am lost without both. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.
I am using the Hot Corners feature to turn my display off on my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.8.4) when I am not using it. Oftentimes, I keep music playing and I want to change the volume while the display is off. Every time I increase or decrease the volume, the screen turns on, and I have to turn the display off again.
I'm trying to figure out how to delete these free songs I downloaded from iTunes using my iPhone? I downloaded them using my iPhone 4. So can I delete the same songs and how?
I am quite confused, I close the lid and then my mac book pro goes sleep and sometimes it seems to be in deep sleep and sometime it is not. I mean, sometimes when you open the lid, it will recover soon with a log-in window showing up quickly, sometimes it will show a white screen and a recovering progress bar at the bottom and then a few minutes later the log-in window.
I am new to using Mac (Mac Pro, OS X 10.8.4) and I connect to many remote hosts using ssh. I have created aliases in .ssh/config file and would like to have the host alias as the name of the tab in terminal. Can someone please advise on how it can be done? Thanks much.
I updated an application today on my iPhone 5, and it wiped out its previous version's stored data. Problem is, that previous stored data included authentication information I need for some websites. Is there any way to "roll back" or recover the application data from the previous version of the application?
If I don't choose Change All and just modify the one Indesign document the setting sticks. However I need to change all my Indesign/Photoshop files to open in the CS5 app.
I have been asked to "replace a hard drive in a macbook". I'm able to physically swap out the drive, but I have no idea how mac software works. I have some questions: If I put in a new hard drive, will I have to reinstall an operating system? When you buy a mac, do they give you a copy of the OS on disc like buying a windows PC? If the procedure much different between different flavours of macbook? Are there any special tools required extra to a small philips-head screwdriver?
I've got a strange problem. A common website layout has a menu across the top, allowing you to navigate the site. My problem is that in some cases this menu does not work in Chrome, and when it doesn't work in Chrome it doesn't work in Safari as well. An example is the following site: www.google.com/a
I've followed all the solutions proposed to make the desktop wallpaper change, as it apparently it doesn't, but the only solution I can achieve is getting the default wallpaper after rebooting. However my issue is slightly different than the one other users have reported. When I change the desktop, I can see in the system preferences that it has changed, and even when using mission control, or switching from a space to another, I see the new wallpaper, until I go back to the desktop (either the current one or the new one). So it seem that the wallpaper actually changed, but is "overlapped" by the default one, as it's using multiple layers. I'm not sure if I've made the issue clear. I don't have any application playing with the wallpaper (I use to have Kuvva (www.kuvva.com) installed, but then I've removed using a specific uninstaller). Oh, and my system is a Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Anyone has a possible solution? UPDATE When changing the wallpaper, the system log doesn't show anything 
The control-key on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8.4) has started behaving strangely. When I press it it acts in the same way as F10, bringing up Application Windows. This is a nuisance, as it affects key combinations that include the control-key. I have no idea how this started, but I'd like to be able to stop it! --Malcolm
I am planning to re-install the OSX when Mavericks release. I am also actually planning to change my username after re-installation. I need to backup my whole personal folder under username "a", but if I changed my username to "b", Can I still be restoring my personal data to "b"? I know generally there is no problem for this, but I am wondering if iTunes library still recognise my new username and locate my every music file location?
It seems as if I can't even upload images to help describe the problem. If I try to upload a screenshot, I get "security reasons, framing is not allowed".
I have new installed 8 gb ram in to my 2010 imac i3. It kernel panic when booted, but worked when I start it in safe mode.
How can I measure the polling rate of my USB mouse on OS X (10.7.5)? I am looking for something like this, but for OSX.
I have a iMac running 10.6 where I have been tasked with creating two different users who can use different network profiles(locations). User 1 will be connecting via Ethernet through a filtered network, all other connections are disabled, which works fine. User 2 needs to connect to the unfiltered Wi-Fi but no access to any other connections. I have most of this implemented in Network Locations, the problem is that both of these locations are available to both Users. What I'd like to be able to do is assign the customized Location as a Default for each user.
I recently unlocked my iPhone 4S from AU KDDI to one of the carriers here in my country. I can make calls, receive messages but i cannot send messages. I checked the registered number under "Messages-> Send&Receive" and i have my old japanese number still being displayed, and greyed out( meaning i cannot change it). I changed my personal details in my Apple store account but the number has not changed still. Please help me find a solution how i can change this number to display my current number.
My iPhone used to work for tethering when I had a postpaid account. Now that I am on a prepaid plan, I need my hotspot back ASAP to use my optus service for my laptop.
My iPod 5 is stuck on voice over, but it's also on lock screen. I do not know how to unlock it and get to settings to turn it off.
i'm trying to connect using hdmi cable my new mac mini and my new samsung 32 inches tv. My problem is that i can't find the right configuration on mac and on tv to achive the correct resolution. If i set from Preference Panel->Monitor->Adapt to screen ( Tv auto size resolution to 1366x768 @60Hz), the resolution is good but element inside the screen are very big as shown in the screenshot belove
I tried to restore a G5, something went wrong and now I have this at startup: Can anyone help please?
Trying to decide if I want to bother upgrading my bash shell to v4.x; if it comes with Mavericks, I probably won't, but I can't find much information on what versions of bash come with what versions of OS X, let alone with Mavericks specifically. Anyone running a Mavericks beta want to bash --version for me?
I have a problem. I have a MacBook Pro and a Xkeys 80. Xkeys basically records shortcut keys like a macro. But it is not sensing the push of the FN key. I use a program called controller mate to program the Xkeys and they are of no real help on the issue. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas how to go about putting the FN key on a different key or the unicode so that I can get the Xkeys to grab it as a key press. I know this sounds weird and I understand in my head what I am saying just not how to describe it. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to update your binary for this app, you can reject this binary from the Binary Details page in iTunes Connect. Note that rejecting your binary will remove your app from the review queue and the review process will start over from the beginning when you resubmit your binary. Regards, The App Store team
If I open the App Store, I can see the OS X Mountain Lion with a price and not "installed" or something like that. I don't want to pay for the OS that is already installed by default. Isn't there a way to download the image, an utility to create it or something like that?
For some reason, my MacBook Air 13inch (Mid 2012) 2 GHz Intel Core i7 OS X 10.8.4 will fail to connect to my Siemens SE567 ADSL Modem when WiFi security is enabled on it. It throws the following error message:
I currently have an older iMac (first Intel generation - 2 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM. I am running OS X 10.6.8 and cannot upgrade to any newer OS to to hardware limitations. I have used Time Machine to routinely back up this iMac.
I ebayed a used Macbook. There is a new install of 10.8.3 on it. When I turned it on, it brought me through the user setup etc...
I am looking to turn my iPhone into a standard USB drive that will work with any device that accepts USB (for instance plugging into a TV). I do not mind completely killing the iOS firmware on it (I would in fact prefer that) but I can not do anything on the device itself since the screen and power button are broken (my reason for wanting to do this in the first place). Thanks :)
After a crash/reboot I lost all contacts on my iPhone. I have an iTunes backup, but it is several months old. The iPhone was set to sync with my Windows Contacts list, but it also appears to not have been modified for several months. iCloud wasn't ever enabled. How can I get (most of) my contacts back onto my phone? A normal iTunes restores all data types at once, which means loosing all non-contacts data I added since the last backup.
i have a Mac Server and a partition only for files. The volume is grayed out in the Finder sidebar, but if i go to the folder via CMD + G (go to folder) and type "/Volumes/Server_Daten" the volume opens and i can read and write. If i go to informations (CMD + ALT + I) i can't change the permissions (little lock symbol is grayed out too). I have the root user enabled, but even as root i can't change the permissions and have to go to the folder via CMD + G. How can i fix the grayed out volume in the sidebar?
I am trying to set up a Creative Live Chat Cam on a Mac mini to use with Skype. How do I get this combination to work?
I prefer OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice to MS Office because MS Office is expensive. But OS X Quick View functionality that allows a preview of a file by taping space bar doesn't show an OpenDocument file's contents but just an icon. How can I add Quick Look support for OpenOffice files, like .ods, .odt and .odp ? I know OpenOffice can write MS Office documents but it would be nice to have Quick Look understand the OpenDocument formats. Note: ods are spreadsheets, odt are word processor documents and odp are presentations.
I have an iPhone 4 (Verizon). My phone number is currently disconnected. Does that mean I can't use FaceTime or iMessage? I thought it would work with Wi-Fi but it is not working - it keeps showing "waiting activation". How can I make FaceTime and iMessage work?
I was copying a file to /usr/local/bin from the commandline on a Snow Leopard Server 10.6 ... anyhow i typed the following ... Ouch ... that missed last forward slash from a bash shell screwed me. It wacked my directory with a copy of the le file renamed as bin. This is a pretty vanilla machine just used a fileshare. Any thoughts on how to recover? Noticed there is no lost+found ... err, at least I didn't see it in root directory.
I'm not using Grab, but the screenshot shortcut (i.e., Command (⌘)-Shift-3 and Command (⌘)-Shift-4). A loud snapshot sound plays whenever I screengrab. How can I turn off this sound, and is there any way other than disabling all system sound effects? Perhaps with a Terminal command? I'm looking specifically for 10.8+, if it matters.
Somehow, contacts are being added automatically to my Mac address book. They contain only an email address, which suggests that a mail program is creating these entries automatically. The only email clients I use are Mac Mail on the desktop and the Mail app on iPhone. I can't find any setting in either app that would cause this behavior.
In Workgroup Manager (Mountain Lion, but really any version), how can you get it to show all users who do not belong to a group? Can't use the "by Group ID" thing in the Advanced Search, because that's just trying to match actual groups against your search term, not users who belong to groups.
I already have an Apple ID, made at Apple.com. Now, when I want to access the App Store from my iPad, I am told that I have to review my information. On the credit card page, I am not presented with a "None" option, even though I am in the United States. What can I do to proceed without entering this information?
It used to be at work, we can set our iPad's Proxy to something like 12.34.5.67, port 8888, and then this iPad will be able to connect to our Macbook Pro machine (which is connected to the company network by VPN). With the port 8888, it actually can connect to an app that's called Charles Proxy that can fetch any webpage for us, or override any HTML, JavaScript, or CSS files using a local file on the hard drive for us to do debugging.
I've discovered a really annoying but apparently intentional behavior in Mac OS X where if you open a menu in the typical click-and-release fashion, if the menu takes too long to appear (e.g. if it has to do some computing), the menu will immediately close again as soon as it appears.
I have a 2009 Macbook Pro that dual-boots Windows 7. It's been working great until one day, I took a 4 hour drive on a hot day with my laptop in the trunk… yeah… So here's what happens:
I have an early Intel Macbook 13.3" that freezes on startup with strange bands down the screen. I'm unable to do anything. Any ideas on what would cause this?
What I'd like to do, for an event, is use a Mac Mini to share a Internet connection via WiFi. However, I'd like to put up a splash page to the joining device's browser. It would display the free WiFi is sponsored by blah, terms and conditions are blah, etc.
I am new to Mac as well as Xcode. I have installed Xcode. When I click on Xcode on the toolbar or on Mac HD --> Applications --> Xcode, I do not see any editor opening. Please advise if I am doing anything wrong.
After upgrading to iOS 6.1.3 a while ago, my iPad's wifi signal (reception) suddenly became very weak. The iPad basically can't find the (source) wifi if it's like 5-7 meters away. I'm sure the (source) wifi has no problems because everyone else's iPads are working fine with that public wifi. I've tested that the iPad is still functioning by creating a wifi hotspot with a MacBook. What else can I do to diagnose the problem?
Can anyone provide me with a shell script that I can run against various folders to see where large files are lurking? Many thanks
With the release of iOS7 and new OSX people will use iTunes Radio more and more. I've been using it for a while now and would love to be able to scrobble my songs in Last.fm. I've done some research and found this software: *=URL=* However, it crashes and doesn't seem to work for me. Are any alternative options to scrobble iTunes Radio available out there?
I recently created a file of just over 20GB and then deleted it shortly after, however my free space did not increase at all. I am using a 2012 MacBook Air with a 128GB SSD and I've had problems before with inaccurate free disk space (even when accounting for Time Machine's Local Snapshots). Usually though I can fix the problem by verifying the disk in disk utility, which then shows Invalid volume free block count and orphaned blocks errors, which I could then repair in recovery mode, but now disk utility repeatedly insists the volume is OK, and its S.M.A.R.T. status is verified.
I recently updated my OS X to 10.8.4 and updated Firefox to 23.0.1 Now the pinch zoom feature on my trackpad does not work. It works fine in Safari. Will appreciate any suggestions to solve this problem.
First of all I want ask you how I can change my Exchange Calendar colors to a non-default color. If I click Calendars in iCal on my iPhone, I get a list of all Calendars. If I click on the blue/white arrow to change the color to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple or brown. However, this is not the color I'm looking for. I've created an own color in iCal (blue-green combined, like an old GameBoy Color) Is there any way to set this color in iCal on my iPhone? If you have any questions about my issue, please ask and I'll update :)
Is there a way to require Admin level privileges on a MacBook in order to mount any type of removable media or network attached storage device?
I have added my primary Gmail account to Calendar. This primary account has a few associated calendars associated with it. On the right hand side of Calendar under the Google heading, my primary Gmail account and its associated calendars appear, but the associated calendars have what looks like a cell phone wifi indicator turned at a 45 degree angle to the right to the right of them. Any idea what this is?
My iPad was linked with my iPhone with iMessaging. If I change my apple ID on my iPhone, will that prevent my messages from appearing on my iPad? Or will it automatically change the account info on the iPad too? Someone has my iPad and I don't want them to see my iMessages as I get them on my iPhone.
I did buy an album and for some reason a song in this album did not fully downloaded however iTunes thinks it is. So I deleted it and went back to the store to re-download it again. In the store it wrote 'Downloading' next to the song but the song is not getting downloaded. What can I do?
I would like to display a comma-delimited list of values in a List. Unfortunately, I get an error that reads Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t continue joinList. when I attempt to use the sub-procedure that performs the join: What am I doing wrong?
5-finger gestures allow you to do almost anything without pressing any of the 2 iPad buttons: except putting the iPad to sleep. Anyone aware of a way to do this without pressing a button?
I am trying to keep my fingers on the keyboard as much as possible and would like to be completely mouse-free in some applications, such as Sublime Text. E.g., I can initiate a file opening or closing using just the keyboard but I do not know how to navigate close or open file dialogs using the keyboard alone. More specifically, how do I switch between selected buttons? E.g. tabbing works in other OSs I am familiar with (e.g. Windows and Linux KDE) but here I cannot tab between Save and Cancel buttons when I want to close a file.
I am looking a way for a script (either bash or AppleScript, doesn't matter) to detect whether the state of the screen or the user login session is locked or not (i.e. the user will need to type in its credential to get back to her/his session). This is different than detecting whether screen saver is on, which is already answered in *=URL=* as active screen saver is not always the same as locked session.
I'm trying to substitute an email address for a symbolic character in a block of text. The text block: The script: Replace sub-procedure (AppleScript: Essential Sub-Routines): The result: If I change the script to: The result: What is wrong with the replace sub-procedure? ** edit ** I'm collecting a distinct list email addresses from an Outlook Contact: Then using the list:
A month later, I hadn't had a single lock up... until a few days ago. I checked the kernel log again, and sure enough, another I/O error. Sure enough, Console wouldn't show me the log. And just like last time, deleting the log fixed everything.
On OSX v10.8.4, I've set up Time Machine to write backups to a network-attached storage (NAS) device. When Time Machine attempts to execute an automatic backup, it fails with the following error (appearing in system.log): If I go into Time Machine settings, right click on the drive icon above the "Select Disk..." icon, and choose "Back Up Now", the backup succeeds: Subsequent automatic backups still fail, however everytime I've executed one manually, I have no issues.
I was wondering what will happen if I copy the content of an application in the applications folder, compress it and move it to another hard drive. Will it work if I put it in the Application's folder again, uncompressed? Will it work in other macs? EDIT: Ok. Now I understand there are at least two kind of applications; One kind uses an installer and the other simply a copy mechanism.
The Mac I use for my business is the same Mac I use for personal stuff. That's why I want certain accounts (the work related ones, not my personal ones) to go offline after working hours. My mail accounts are configured in Apple mail.app under the same user account. How can I achieve this?
After turning the laptop on and logging in (into my macbook air) I am prompted for a password for facebook. I am signed onto two different gchat accounts just fine but not facebook. Even after entering my password again I have a text sent to me from facebook saying to using a certain string of numbers as my password instead of my actual password.
I am trying to automate opening of multiple tabs, naming each tab (printf "\e]1;${TAB_NAME}\a") and doing a cd and maybe something else in each tab. Can that be done either in a startup script or, better yet, configured within Terminal itself?
I receive my gmail on my pc as well as my iphone 4S. When I answer mail via my iphone, the recipient doesn't see my email address, they only see 'Gmail'. Why is this and how can I change it?
I would like to enumerate the messages in Outlook's 'Drafts' folder. When I run this script: I get an error that reads Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make subject of outgoing message id 15002 into type string.. It seems like theMessage is the ID of the message, even though its class is 'inm' (guessing that this means inbox message). If I cast theMessage to a Message: I get a different error: Can’t make «class inm » id 15492 of application "Microsoft Outlook" into type message. What am I not understanding?
I don't understand the part about an Apple ID and iCloud. I've got a Mac and an Apple ID (why does it want to share that with everyone else anyway?), but I don't have iCloud. I do have Calendar which is where all my other subscribed calendars are, so why can't I just subscribe to this calendar just like all the previous calendars they sent me? I'm already subscribed to all their other calendars so it sounds like it would be a big pain if I have to go some place completely different just to see this new calendar. Update: The person who sent me the invitation said they have no idea what they did differently this time, so if anyone could shed light on that instead so they could simply re-send the invitation in a way that I could subscribe that would be an acceptable alternative.
I am looking for a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to clear all the tracks from Up Next queue of iTunes. Does anyone know a way to do this? Using Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4
My Setup I have a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro running OSX 10.4.8. TimeMachine is configured to run hourly backups over WiFi to a TimeCapsule. I also have a Magic Trackpad linked to my computer via Bluetooth.
What's the most popular way of ripping a VCD to an .m4v file? I also need to pick a particular audio track (Chinese vs. English).
I set up a very nice custom bash prompt in .bash_profile, but I noticed that I've now lost the ability for new tabs to open in the same directory, and the ability to see the current working directory's icon in the titlebar. How can I get that back?
I have a program called PyMOL installed multiple times on my machine. One was installed by MacPorts, one was installed through the developers distribution channel and so on. One is in /opt/local/bin, the other is in /i/have/no/clue. I know I can use "which pymol" to see, where the one that is executed is located, but how can I get the location of the other ones with the same name?
We have a Mac Mini that we use as a server for a Node application. The Node application launches some other native Mac apps and interacts with them. One of the apps is reporting kCGErrorFailure: This user is not allowed access to the window system right now and refuses to launch - until we RDP in and (presumably after initializing the window system) the whole thing starts working as expected. It seems like some apps just freeze until the window system is 'nudged' by the RDP login. Is there a way to get the window system working without having the sign in all the time? The systems run headless and with as many as 16 users per box running simultaneously, with a Node app and associated software running under each user account.
I checked my log yesterday for an issue not related to this one and saw that aprox. every second I get a message like this:
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my dell laptop and have created a wi-fi hotspot, with WEP 40/128bit encryption (And I know the security key). My Macbook Pro finds this network but when I try to connect I get a dialog saying "This network uses WPA enterprise authentication" and asks me for username and password. None of the following combinations for username and password worked: Username : network name Password: network key Username: my ubuntu system username Username: my ubuntu system password
There is a very annoying problem that is bugging me, when I delete a photo in the photo folder on my mac, and I use the photo preview window where I can slide with two fingers on the touchpad to browse the photos, the next photo is showed, but it is unselected . If I try to tap one of the arrow buttons, the preview window browses back to the beginning. How to solve this?
Windows user switching over to Mac here. I have downloaded an application, the link to which is currently on my desktop. It is actually a *.app file, which I'm assuming is a shortcut to the file? I want to get the shortcut onto the tray of icons at the bottom of the screen. I'm familiar with linux/unix. Is there a way to mv the file from the desktop where it is to the tray of icons at the bottom? I'm not sure what the path is. Previously, I tried dragging it onto the tray, then deleting it from the desktop, but when I tried to then run it from the tray, it said it was in the trash.
I need to virtualize some Windows applications (I will use Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion). I have to options: To install Windows in a partition using Boot Camp and virtualize this partition from Mac OS. To create a virtual hard drive, install Windows in it, and virtualize it from Mac OS. I know that if I proceed with the first option, I will be able to boot into Windows if I want, and the changes made will be bidirectional.
I added an ssh command inside ~/bin/ssh and modified the PATH to include it, before other paths. When I do run which ssh it will respond with ~/bin/ssh but when I do run ssh it will just execute the /usr/bin/ssh instead. I have no aliases for ssh. What's the reason and how can I fix it?
Time Machine defaults to formatting a new drive to Journaled HFS+ (case-sensitive), if you set up the drive from within Time Machine itself. However, my main drive (the one Time Machine will be backing up) is case-insensitive.
Is it possible to and how do I get a list of all the packages installed on my Mac using Homebrew? I am not interested in packages installed outside of Homebrew.
I have an iPhone 4 with a broken power button. Today it suddenly went black even though there was more than enough battery left and won't respond when I hit the home button or try to charge it in an outlet or in the computer. This has happened once before, but it was an easy fix when I could just hold the power and home button in for several seconds, but now I can't do that because the power button is jammed. Does anyone know of another way to turn the iPhone on again without using the powerbutton or charging it?
With this structure preserved, I could edit the files in situ, without having to constantly move files to/from a unified, script directory. a Questions: Can a single repository contain multiple, unrelated directories? If a contributor forks my repository ($ git clone *=URL=* will the directory structure be preserved? ** edit 1 **
I'm running 10.8.4 on a MBA, and I've run into a little inconsistency in Finder's behavior. I have two accounts on my machine, an admin account and a user account. In both accounts I have Finder set to open new windows in the home directory in column view.
I've an application and it's language is english. I am not in US. I changed my iTunes app store to U.S for looking at the apps in the U.S Store... I trying to access my app but I'm getting this:
What am I missing? Any suggestions for configuration/provisioning checks or changes? Mike, thanks for cleaning this up.
I have many files and folders inside a certain folder. I wanna get the total size for the files and/or folders I select select inside this certain folder (because when I click Get info I get the size for each one).
I saw reference to a bash command, cd /home, in a multiple choice quiz about navigating within Terminal. I tried it, expecting -bash: cd: /home: No such file or directory, but to my surprise it took me to a top level directory /home. I don't know if it just created the directory or if it was already there, or if it's a temporary thing or what.
When I run hostname it returns dserodio instead of dserodio.local, which causes problems with Python servers. I can run sudo hostname dserodio.local but I have to set it again after rebooting. How can I make it the hostname dserodio.local definitively?
I can connect my normal speakers to my headphone jack. I can also connect my Bluetooth speaker and it plays great too, But I can't play them at the same time. I have Wi-Fi speakers around and they will play fine, but once the Bluetooth is paired anything through the headphone jack is silent. Is there some setting I'm missing?
I have a web server on my mac mini that runs the default (installed with snow leopard) apache2 web server. It works fine for any programming language that outputs stdout for cgi scripts, but every attempt I have made to enable PHP has failed. Please help! I can upload any files that you need to see like php.ini or httpd.conf
I am now using a 2011 MacBook Pro with anti-glare display. I am going to replace the palm top case (The unibody case with palm, speaker and keyboard) But I got noticed that the anti-glare display uses different top case from the regular glossy display, so I have to pay attention while buying the new top case, it that true? I have contacted some eBay sellers, they seems not sure about this. Thanks.
I use Apple Mail Version 4.6 (1085) under OS 10.6.8. From time to time I find this kind of thing in my Inbox: --_004_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_" --_000_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 W2NpZDppbWFnZTAwMS5qcGdAMDFDRUFCMEMuQ0U1Mjk5NDBdDQoNCkRlYXIgUHJvZmVzc29yIEVw c3RlaW4NCg0KV2VsY29tZSB0byB5b3VyIGxhdGVzdCBMTVMgZS1VcGRhdGU6IDYgU2VwdGVtYmVy
I've wrongly opened the same question on StackOverflow. I hope to find a better explaination here.
And during working with the mac all is OK. Also if i connect a hdd to the hub, it is working as it should...only shutdown doesn't work if the hub (with or without any device on it) is connected to the card. Shutdown/restart Log:
I encountered problem here as I used to install ImageMagick before but then changed my mind and removed the ImageMagick. When I continue using X11 to run the other applications, the error was appeared as below. What should I do? Do I have to uninstall X11 (already did that but cannot be moved) or perhaps reboot? 192-168-1-5:~ abc$ cd /users/abc/GAMOS/GAMOS.4.0.0/examples/test192-168-1-5:test abc$ gamos transport.in dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib Referenced from: /users/abc/GAMOS/external/root/5.34.03/root/lib/libGraf.so Reason: Incompatible library version: libGraf.so requires version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 10.0.0 Trace/BPT trap: 5 export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH" export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/lib/" convert logo: logo.gif
I am using OSX 10.8, Firefox 17, and ruTorrent, a front-end webapp that displays a list of files on a server. Clicking on files while holding down the command key only highlights the newly clicked file. Discontiguous file selection is not possible.
Is there a way to tell if iTunes is in mini player mode from applescript? Using Mac OS X 10.8.4 Mountain lion.
My Aperture library contains a ridiculous amount of pictures (well over 30 000) which means it is extremely slow whatever the hard-drive and computer I use. I want to split my library into separate libraries. The split could be yearly or with a fixed number of pictures per library.
I need a 3D CAD system for Mac, but as I am student now, I haven't got the opportunity to buy AutoCAD. So, can you recommend some good 3D CAD software on Mac? I found one - Autodesk Inventor, but when I saw that it is "Free" I don't believe it, as it is Autodesk, or it is really free?
I have created smart albums, the content of which I have exported to new libraries. I now wish to delete the pictures in these albums from the Aperture library. Is there a way to delete all pictures found in an album from the library (not simply remove them from the album or remove only the version that is contained in the album)?
When I want to run .sh files in Terminal, I need to put sh in front of them. Is there any way to avoid this, and thus save typing?
If an Apple Software RAID (RAID 1, mirrored) exists and one of its members is failed. It is possible to destroy the RAID and keep the data on the functional disk intact? If so, how is this accomplished.
Relevant info: iPhone 5, ios 6.1 (jailbroken) Updated to latest version of youtube app (2.0.0.70=804) which I think initially was working. Then recently I used google's "sign out of concurrent sessions" feature to sign out of about 500 logins across various devices. I have 2-factor-auth on also.
I bought a Dell U2713HM because it was highly rated and had 2560x1440 resolution, but, after learning that the HDMI connection only provides 1980x1080, I purchased from Apple their Thunderbolt to DVI connector and tried that. Still 1980x1080. I've now ordered a mini-DisplayPort-to-DisplayPort connector and am praying that I get the full resolution that way, but I've seen a number of user group comments that you need a completely separate (over $100) Thunderbolt data (not display) interface to get the full resolution. If that's true, I'm returning the Dell. I've also seen people say you need to reset the PRAM and SMC settings, but I've tried doing that (I think it worked) but nothing changed. HELP!
When i open a new window in terminal i get this: ! I was trying to install MacPorts approximately a year ago and that did not go well. Since i don't use terminal very often I just left it that way. Now I would like to have it working again! I tried to delete the com.apple.terminal.plist file and I am stuck. When I enter my password the shell turns from sudo to tee and everything I enter is just repeated!
If I have a few 'Today is C' scattered around my calendar randomly, is there any way I can add an iCal event after on all the days that contain an event title 'Today is C'? Quite confusing, but this is what I have in a nut shell But I want this to happen automatically:
How do I get iTerm2 to show CLI menus properly? I usually use those menus over ssh.
I have a 3T SATA hard drive in a USB enclosure. I can see it when I connect to my Ubuntu laptop, but I can't get it to be seen on my OSX desktop. My goal is to format from my Mac. I've tried giving it different style partition tables (dos, gpt, mac) and it doesn't seem to make any difference. df -h does not show the drive when it's plugged in. tail -f /var/log/system.log does not show any change when I (up)plug the USB drive Disk Utility does not show the drive Any ideas of what I could try?
I'm trying to enable FileVault for my home directory on my Macbook, but every time I try it tells me it can't because the Recovery Partition is missing. however, if I drop to a terminal and run "diskutil list", I do see the "Apple_Boot Recovery HD" partition of 650Mb, and I can boot into it at launch.
Recently, my HDD went bad in my laptop, so I bought a new HDD and a copy of Snow Leopard. I put the HDD into the computer, then inserted the installation disk into the DVD drive. I went into Disk utility, then created a partition for Mac OSX extended (journal) then, started the install. It said 29 mins, then I got a install failure saying that it had an error copying over the support files. What did I do wrong?
I'm browsing the directory in ~/Library/Mobile Documents running the latest version of Mountain Lion and I see may empty folders that correspond to applications that I have used in the past, but whose iCloud data I don't necessarily care about (some shouldn't even have iCloud data). Additionally, looking at the Manage Storge section of iCloud settings on my iPhone, there are only 3 or 4 apps listed in iOS, so it seems these folders that are empty on my mac could be safely deleted. Is this the case? I don't want to delete these folders if someone can't confirm that its safe to do so, because I don't trust iCloud to do the logical thing in this situation, which would be happily accept the fact that I deleted these empty folders.
I was informed by multiple people at T-Mobile that having a strong data connection doesn't necessarily mean a strong voice connection, but that confused me and I'm not sure if they're right. So how do the two relate? If there's strong LTE and weak EDGE would the iPhone show full bars or low bars, and would that tell you both how good the voice and data signal is or just one of those?
I have set up a Mac OS X 10.8 server running the VPN service. From my Macs I can connect to the VPN server without any problems, but the iOS devices are all unable to connect. The console displays the following message while trying to connect an iPhone:
I bought a 4TB 3.5", SATA III Seagate Desktop HD and put it into a SK-3500 Super-S Combo. My iMac (late 2009) did, however, not detect the HD when I connect it. Since I cannot see it, I am unable to format it. The HD is also not shown in the Terminal after df -h. When I type diskutil list, however, I get the following from Terminal:
I have 250 GB of hidden space which I cannot track down. I've tried deleting it on Daisy Disk as an admin but I couldn't delete it. I don't know why it's happening but all I remember is using rEFIt and creating a partition a couple of months ago. I do remember deleting the partition and it was alright until now.
I'm making an Automator workflow that uses the shell script action to process a selection of images with the imagemagick composite command. Only I'm having issues getting it going. According to the results I get when I run the workflow, everything is working however, I know it's not due to the fact that the changes I'd expect to see in the folder of images are not present. I know that the imagemagick command I'm using is correct as it works correctly from the console. (I echoed the composite command to the output & copied it into a Terminal session. Ran like a charm). BTW: The workflow's for processing a fade in on a stop motion movie I made. Yes I know I could use video tools to achieve the same thing, but the ones I have access to screw up the image quality on output. Here's the script At first I thought at the cause of the problem might be spaces in the paths, but I removed this possibility by shifting the files to a path without spaces, but that had no effect. I'm almost certain th
We have set up parental controls on a child account to disable all but whitelisted applications from running. The problem is that now when the child first logs on we get repeated dialog boxes along the lines of "You don't have permission to use the application XXX" where XXX is things like "Kodak EasyShare" and "HPScanner". The problem is that as soon as we click "Ok" another dialog box pops up about 5 seconds later. After a while it amount of time between popups seems to decrease, but it never seems to go away.
I’m using a MacBook Pro and I broke it a while back. So, the keyboard doesn’t work on the laptop. I hooked up a keyboard to the USB port so I can still use it. I’m using a Dell keyboard.
I just bought a MacBook Pro from a buddy. He wiped the HD for me and returned it to factory settings. So now when I start it, it says I have to redownload OS X Lion. So once I start the download it asks for my Apple ID and when I type it in it says I never bought the software and stops downloading. So now I have a computer that doesn't technically work at the moment. Any way to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated!
I stupidly 301-ed my whole website from http to https without fully considering the effect. My iPhone app had used http basic authentication. But now users are seeing "not authenticated" errors because the redirect is losing authentication information when going from http to https. Is there a way to clear all web caches on the phone? I have look at the Apple support articles but these are not working and they are not actively maintained. *=URL=* http://support.apple.com/kb/ta38613
I received a $100 apple gift card. I already redeemed it on my account. Am I able to use this to purchase products on the Apple Store?
I'm a paid subscriber of both Hulu and Netflix and I'm a commuter that uses public transportation (i.e. subway), unfortunately lack of internet connectivity prevents me from using these services (Hulu/Netflix), so I'm looking for easy way to view Hulu and/or Netflix offline (w/out internet connectivity). disclaimer: I am NOT trying to do anything illegal, I just want to be able to enjoy Hulu & Netflix by storing the content on either a Nexus 7 (preferably) or iPad mini. How can I do it?
For the last 5 months my iPhone 4S won't connect to my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop or iTunes. It will charge in 2 of my USB ports, and I've tried 3 different cables. I've tried following tips off Apple support and also from Google but still no joy.
Just recently, my MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.4) will no longer go into sleep mode. When I press Cmd+Option+Eject, the screen goes black for just a second but then comes back on. If I close the lid, the screen turns off but the system remains on.
Given: ~/Desktop/Foo.scpt contains: Which returns: /Users/[username]/Desktop/Foo.scpt How do I get path /users/[username]/Desktop/ and the file name Foo.scpt as individual pieces?
I have a setup of a MacBook Air (2013), an iMac (2009), and a regular external monitor. I’m able to connect either the iMac or the monitor to the MacBook and use them as an additional screen. Is there way though to connect both of them at once, so that I have two external monitors managed by the MacBook? Obviously, the MacBook only has one Thunderbolt port, but there’s an extra one available on the iMac. Any way to utilise it in this case?
iPhones and iPads come with varying amounts of space available; iPads offer powers of two from 16G to 128G and the price difference between them offers a substantial amount of other software and services one could afford by saving money on hardware. What space usage motivates the usage? If there's a 90% full iPad at any amount of storage, what does the bulk of the usage come from? (I'd imagine media like music, photo and video shooting, etc but would rather hear from experts with some experience) Perhaps this is just careful developers at work, but you can get a lot of apps and still see very little space being used so I don't see why I would need anything more than 16 GB with my level of experience. I'm looking for people with experience running an iOS device at more than 75% full for several months to explain what they've learned and perhaps explain whether they can live with the devices they initially bought or how they would take their current experience to select a new device.
If I have OS X display the time in the menu bar with blinking separators, the seem to blink inconsistently. I've taken a 32 second video of the effect. It's happening on two of my MacBook Airs, 13" Mid 2011 model. Running MacOSX 10.8.4. One is used at work and the other is my personal machine. I know that this is a rather small issue but I'm still very curious on what might be causing this problem. Update Looks like it's fixed in Mavericks!
My dad has the original iPad (Model A1337) and I did a reformat because there was a lot of clutter. It takes me back to the original set-up screen but after setting up my Wi-Fi and initial settings it says Cannot complete activation.
My MacBook Air 2012 is making a single beep during normal use. So far it has done this twice in the last 20 minutes so I don't know if there is an interval yet.
I'd like to take a screenshot of a background window given its title. I know this can be made with screencapture -l idwindow output but unluckily I can't use this method because I'm on a 10.5.8 system so the command screencapture doesn't support the option -l.
I have a Targus stylus for my iPad, with a rubber tip. This tip, however, does not move smoothly over the glass on the iPad, but seems to have too high friction. It didn't have this when I bought it, and I also have a different stylus that is much smaller, also with a rubber tip, that still moves smoothly over the glass.
I recently turned my 2009 mac mini into a mediacenter. It appears that about one in five of my dvds will not even mount. I suppose this has to do with some copy protection. Same goes for my music CDs.
In the AirPlay device list, the name of the hosting computer is always "computer", independently of the computer's actual name. Is there any way to set this string to a more "expressive" name? EDIT Setting the host name in the sharing section of the "Systems Preferences" does not work, as the following images demonstrate: Mac: iPad:
I'm on a macbook aluminium late 2008 10.5.8. I'm planning to upgrade it a little bit since many applications doesn't support my system anymore. At the beginning I was tempted to upgrade to 10.8 but after I read some reviews saying that it's not that good (crushes/need reboot etc) maybe it's better if I just upgrade to 10.6 then reconsider further upgrades in the future. I just wanted to ask if it's possible to keep all my files and applications while upgrading or if it's mandatory to format and install the new system from scratch. I'm sure that a clean installation will be better but it would require me much more time in order to backup everything and/or re-install everything I need.
I folgot the answer to one of my security questions and now, for the first time in years, I need to answer them to buy music from my iPod. Now, I know I can change my questions, but I would really like to know what I thought was my dream job a couple years ago, so I'd like to try out a few things. The question is: Are there going to be any negative consequences when I enter wrong answers, like waiting to try again or even a blocked account, and if so, how many attempts do I get before anything happens? Thanks in advance for any answers.
MacPorts has many unnecessary dependencies. I need to disable the dependency of py32-scipy on gcc48 because gcc48 won't build on my system for some reason. I get this error: (much information removed)
I have a windows-server that is accessed from a bunch of computers with OSX, in list mode, if anyone opens or closes a folder, that folder stays open for any other users. I would like all folders to always be closed on the server. As the server is windows-based I assume finder is saving and reading this info from somewhere, maybe that setting can be changed in finder or that file be removed with a script on the server.
Ok so I downloaded the iCloud program for Windows and synced my photo stream with my PC but only 100 pictures went onto my PC. There are still another 500 pictures in my photo stream on my iPhone. How can I get them to download to my PC as well?
Some days ago I've accidentally replaced my /usr/sbin/screencapture with a newer one from 10.8 with the hope of getting more options for that command. However now it doesn't work and I'd like to get the older one (compatible with osx 10.5.8) to fix the problem. Where can I find it?
I haven't seen a package-management system for AppleScripts, but it seems like the foundations for one are present. Given: Scripts (and folder) located in the ~/Library/Scripts/Applications folder ARE NOT visible from OS X AppleScript menu. Scripts (and folders) locate in the ~/Library/Scripts/ folder ARE visible from OS X AppleScript menu. Implications:
I suspect my iPhone's battery is now much worse than it used to be. How can I assess this? Is there some kind of test I can make, to compare it with Industry average? How long can I reproduce a movie, a specific app, or something like that?
I have created a smart folder which shows me all files greater than 200 MB. My problem is that this folder should only shows me files on the Macintosh HD. But when I connect my external disks it shows up files from there also.
Is there a way to open, edit and save back files from the iOS Google Drive app? I've tried some Markdown iOS apps, but I can't seem to open the files from within the Google Drive app. Are there any Markdown apps that can read/write form iOS Google Drive?
This is what I want to do: ISP's DSL router (LAN port) <-- ethernet cable --> (WAN port) Airport Express (I know it's not possible to extend non Apple WiFi points wirelessly, so I need the ethernet cable). Then I'd like the Express to extend the existing DSL network, using the same SSID, password and security type. It sounds simple but I've burned most of a day trying every combination I can think of and I cannot get this working!
I turned on Assistive Touch (under General options, Accessibility) on my iPhone 4, ios 6.1.3 (10B329). This seemed to work for a bit, but I've just come back to my phone and there's now a blue circle dancing around the screen. It seems to be taking the focus so it's not responding to my touches and I can't unlock the screen . . . help!
I've hidden Cydia and Poof! With the Poof! Cydia tweak. Now I cannot open either one of both of them.
I tried to move a few files to a subfolder on OS X. One refused to move. It said Operation not permitted. I tried again as root: I tried lsattr on other files; all files I tried gave me the same message: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading... Coming from Linux, I did not know about flags so here is the output of ls -leO@ file:
I have a Podcast settings: ‚Keep all unplayed episodes‘ but Itunes doesn't want to dispose those played ones. There are only 9 new unplayed episodes and 19 fully played episodes are fully to dispose. But Itunes doesn't want to do it even if I try the refresh. I did also try to uncheck Default settings without change. How to make Itunes to follow settings and keep only unplayed episodes on disk and dispose all those played?
I'm using OS X 10.8.3 and I want to change the refresh rate of my display, but I can't. When I go to System Preferences-> Displays, I have two options for resolution: Best for Display and Scaled. The first one is default. A little bit lower, I see the Refresh Rate option at 60 Hertz. When I click it, I can see there is also a 75 Hertz item there, but it's greyed out and unavailable. If I change Resolution to Scaled, then I'm presented with a list of resolutions I can pick. For some resolutions, 75 Hertz is available, but then another problem arises - the entire screen becomes stretched, so there's no point of using 75 Hertz with it. How do I change the refresh rate without stretching the screen from a Mac Mini MD387 and display LG E2242T?
Is there way to get a Record by the value of one of its keys without looping? I've been doing this:
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I'm running VMWare Fusion on an OSX host machine. I have a redhat VM installed, along with VMWare tools. My VM is headless, meaning I just have the terminal (no graphical interface of any kind). Is there any way I can copy from my host machine and paste into my VM? All of the tutorials and questions on the topic seem to focus on doing this when you're running a GUI in your VM which isn't very useful to me.
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Is it possible to verify whether a given Time Machine volume (for example, returned by tmutil machinedirectory) has encryption turned on? This is for regulatory compliance, so it needs to be fully scriptable.
Is there an app that lets me share one iPad screen to another iPad when both are in the same location?
I have a formula that references A1:B5 for instance, the result lives in any arbitrary cell, say D1. How do I copy and paste the same formula, referencing the same values as in D1, through the entire column D? For some reason, I can't find this answer anywhere. If I select D1 for instance, and click the bottom right, and drag to use auto-fill, it seems to increment the A1:B5 values which ruins the results.
In OS X Mountain Lion when you right click on an *.app icon you get an option to 'Show Package Contents' leading you into 'Contents' directory. I'm having trouble figuring out the absolute path to the 'Contents' directory for a given *.app Thanks for Help!
I can only send encrypted mails if I start the mail app directly. But if I try to send a mail from the image gallery, the mails are neither signed nor encrypted (and I can't find a way to enable that). Edit: My current (non-acceptable) workaround would be to save the mail as a draft, then open the draft with the default mail app and then send it.
I need to utilize numerals with macrons positioned over them for the mathematical notation involved in the Hermann–Mauguin notation of crystalline space groups. OS X has nice Unicode support, so having digits with combining macron is not a problem. See: 4̄ (4 + macron above it; the macron is like a bar). However, as soon as I try to paste it into Word 2011, it gets displayed incorrectly (the macro is offset to the left, looking somewhat like a superscript: 4–). Here's the macron, correctly displayed in UnicodeChecker:
On an iPhone, if you go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts you can define text shortcuts that expand into longer words. Is it possible to export this list of shortcuts in a single text file? Is it possible to import a text file to be used as shortcuts? This could be usefull to configure the same shortcuts on an iPhone and a Mac, on 2 iPhones, to make a text backup, to make quick edits on a textfile…
Share your experiences on exploring iOS 7 with us.. Whether you found hidden or little-known feature of iOS 7 or can explain how a big feature makes a difference, we're looking for objective reports of how the new OS affects your workflow. Also provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too (hold Home and Lock for a screenshot on your iOS device).
I'm having some strange issues working with vim editing files in an ssh session on a remote linux (Ubuntu 13.04 ) server. On the client side, I'm on a mac running OS 10.8.4 (late 2012 mac mini). I've googled around extensively on this and came up empty handed. I've used vim for years, and I've never seen problems like this before.
Does anyone know if there are any RDP connection managers similar to Terminals or Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager for the Mac? I'm aware of Royal TSX but $35 seems a bit steep for an RDP client.
I have a web page that updates occasionally with new information (I made it myself - simple HTML page - nothing special). I regularly have to copy this page to the clipboard on my iOS device to paste its contents into another iOS app. My current strategy is to make it a home screen icon, so I can: 1) Tap it to launch 2) Tap and hold on the text to begin selecting 3) Click 'select all' 4) Click 'copy'.
I have an iMac 2.8 from 2008, all works like a charm for now, but I'm lacking some GPU power from my ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro. I checked on google and think it's a PCIe x16 card yet can't find anyone saying that upgrading this component is possible. From the detailed info's, I can see that's plugged in by and PCIe x16, is it possible to upgrade this video card?
I'm at the University of Texas, where we have a WPA/WPA2 enterprise wifi network. Much of the time it works great. Other times, it's tricky to connect and stay connected.
Maybe I'm nuts but it seems my iphone 4s switches from normal (audible) mode to vibrate when I put my phone in my pocket. Anyone else having this weird issue?
My Mac Mountain Lion came with JRE 1.6. However, I would like to have the full JDK. I read somewhere that for that on Mac it is better to consult Apple rather than Oracle for downloads/install packages but Apple doesn't seem to offer much support for Java 6 (which I need to work on, can't upgrade to 7). Better yet, if such an upgrade is available through homebrew.
I need to reformat my work mac. My boss bought it about a month ago, so it's one of the newer ones that didn't come with an installation disc. It's running mountain lion and has a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Making it simple, using Numbers, how can you set up the following: If number is positive make background cell green, else make it red.
I'm trying to assign an icon to my AppleScript bundle, but without success. Steps: Added the icon (applet.icns) to the bundle's /Contents/Resources directory Modified the bundle's /Contents/Info.plist: <key>CFBundleIconFile</key> <string>applet.icns</string> Modified the bundle's /Contents/Info.plist: ** edit **
I use an Airport Express as primary router - i.e. attached to the modem - and a Time Capsule for back up but also as secondary router in bridge mode to extend the wireless network beyond the reach of the Airport Express.
This is a bit of a security tinfoil-hat question: Is there any sort of validation (checksum etc...) that our users are receiving the exact iOS apps we submit to Apple?
So here is a weird bug, I've created a Reoccurring Meeting in OSX Outlook 2011 but every time I hit snooze using OSX Notifications the Meeting Invite is sent out again with the same time. Why is this happening?
I want to make an Automator action that copies a set of files from a folder to another folder that is one folder up and then two folders down from the original files. In other words: ../Folder1/Folder2. The Automator action would be in the same folder as the files, but the root folder will be duplicated and renamed across multiple computers, so the path MUST be relative.
I would like my [a,o,i,e] to appear correctly if I type the letter after an '. Right now, I get an accent character as shown in the subject. Is there any way to turn this off?
I'm using Apple Mail 6.5, configured with "classic view". Is it possible to change the background color (and the foreground color of the fonts) of the main pane that shows the list of mails in the inbox? I would prefer a darker background rather than a white one.
Several people are saying on this site and other sites that they have been able to get service for their Verizon iPhone 4 (with contract fulfilled already) on either Straight Talk or Page Plus. But when I call both companies, they say they can not activate any Verizon iPhones.
I use command line a lot, like most programmers. I want to be able to launch Finder, Safari or any other application for that matter from command line e.g. finder . where it will start Finder app, and the set the view to the current folder that I am in at the command line.
I've got an image and I need to duplicate it 800 times but add a new prefix every time I duplicate it. I've got the prefixes in a CSV file (or spreadsheet) and I'm wondering if there's a way that I can have Automator (or some other automation) program duplicate the image but rename the image with the different prefixes.
I'm no expert on CLI or using the terminal or anything, but I like playing around with my computer. When I create a .txt .html or .md file or whatever using the 'touch' command in terminal, they work fine. But .rtf file I create just give me the error "The document “foo.rtf” could not be opened."
I'm working on a web app and the user needs Safari 6.0 or higher which means they need Mac OSX Lion or higher (per Wikipedia) Users can install Chrome in that case, but I'm wondering how much of an "edge case" this is.
I am new to applescript. I am trying to open a webpage, and click a button on that webpage. here is my script: here is my info gathered from inspector: How do I click the "View in iTunes" button?
What difference does it make which account you're logged into when you perform an installation? I'm running 10.8 Just curious.
I have a really weird problem. I have a Raspberry Pi running an SMB server that shows up in the sidebar of the Finder. I usually can just click on it and connect. Just today, it stopped working and gives me the error "Connection Failed". It has worked fine in the past. I'm running OS 10.8.4 on a Mac Pro. Our MBP (also 10.8.4) connects just fine, no problems. I see log messages in Console.app as such: Thoughts?
The top-left key on some bluetooth iPad keyboards functions as a home button. What happens when you connect the keyboard to a regular desktop and push the button, ie, what does the computer see? Is this some sort of command that could be replicated, say with a HID like the Teensy?
I did a custom installation of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac on my MacBook Air running 10.8.4., but I changed my mind and decided to uninstall it. I only installed Word, Excel, and Proofing Tools (English only). I'm reading up on how to fully remove all the tidbits Microsoft sprinkled about, and I noticed a couple files on my system:
I need to provide comments on PDFs as part of the refereeing process for journal articles. How can I remove my name from the annotations I've made using Mac Preview? (they can be seen in Inspector: Annotations, but seem not to be editable)
And I stumbled across another unmentioned location, which I wonder about (what it is and is it safe to remove it?):
I followed all of the all of the steps in this link How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot?. I tried a number of times, changing the service from "BTGuard VPN" to "Tunnelblick VPN" to "BTGuard", etc., without success. I keep getting this notice from Applescript:
I am wondering when PHP 5.4 will appear in default OS X installations, or as part of official Software Update. Does anyone have historical information on how late after release of PHP 5.2 that PHP 5.2 was included in OS X, as an indication of how quick/conservative they are?
My MacBook Pro (mid-2012, 16GB, i7 2.3) has started to misbehave: very slow to start up and shut down application launches are slow system becomes nearly unusable when "free" memory approaches zero.
So, normally, if you run into the error "The operation can’t be completed because the item ... is in use" while trying to modify a file, you look up what is using the file with sudo lsof | grep <filename or part of filename>. I'm having a problem where this doesn't work. The file in question is on a shared network drive (Active Desktop I believe, or something like that). The file is not in use on my machine - the above lsof Terminal command gives nothing. So it seems that something else on the network is causing the file to be in use. Nothing I've tried (lsof, Get Info, rebooting, force-quitting Finder, opening the file in its own application...) helps or gives any clue about why it's locked like this. How can I find out who or what on the network is using a particular file? Background for my specific case: for me, the file in question is one of those hidden ~$whatever.xlsx or ~$whatever.xlmx 'ghost' temporary files that Excel for Mac likes to create, which cause Excel files to become 
In OS X, modal dialogues are displayed as "sheets" that drop down from the top of the window. In many cases this is nice, but occasionally I find it really annoying. Consequently, although it's a long shot, I thought I'd ask whether anyone knows a way to either disable these modal sheets entirely, or to detach a sheet so that it becomes a proper window.
Followup on Mac OS X Terminal: Map option+delete to “backward delete word”. The Use option key as meta key option is checked, but the deleting word backwards works only with ^-⌥-H (i.e. one has to also hold the ^ or Control key)! How can you backward delete a word with ⌥-H only? This annoyance happens only in Terminal.app ... and interestingly also in iTerm.app! I also have this in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, so that I can enjoy Emacs throughout: Environment: OS X 10.8.2 (12C54), Terminal 2.3 (309), iTerm
EDIT looks like *=URL=* might have a clue. I did not check on All processes in activity Monitor filter. It was parentalcontrolsd
I have an iPhone 4S and I was looking at the photos in my album when it suddenly started speaking all the commands. How do I disable this?
I have a mac mini (mi-2011) connected to a screen using an HDMI cable. I have nothing on the screen except several second from time to time.
OS X lacks the "Linux-friendly" free or /proc/meminfo. What would be the most reliable and backwards-compatible way of extracting this info: Current free memory, in bytes Going back as far as possible in terms of OS versions, without requiring extensions like ports, brew, etc.
I am looking for an option to require a passcode to power off my iPhone. That way, if the phone is lost, the person who finds it cannot simply turn it off, rendering Find My iPhone useless. Is there a way to accomplish this?
My issue: I have a computer at home that is a mac. I am able to open ports and anything of the sort. I currently have setup my mac so that I can VNC from any computer, but the problem:
Now I am used to email spam, but how on earth has this calendar event infiltrated my machine? I haven't opened any email attachment. Mail can't have opened an email attachment on my behalf, as that above email is the only email I've received today; it contains a single image attachment (not particularly exciting). I think this must be a red herring, as I had to specifically instruct Mail to display the image, and I only did this after receiving the calendar event.
This question particularly deals with the latest version of Google Chrome on Mountain Lion, but the underlying premise applies to other browsers/applications as well. What I am wondering is: is there a way (via keyboard shortcut, or third party application) to open a series of minimized windows simultaneously? For example, in Google Chrome, one might have four windows open (each with a set of tabs), that you minimized with ⌘ cmd + M. This leads to a few questions: Once minimized, is there a keyboard shortcut to bring that window back? Once minimized, is there a keyboard shortcut to bring that window back? Is there a keyboard shortcut that would bring all minimized windows back? Is there a keyboard shortcut that would bring all minimized windows back? I would like to restore all minimized windows with a keypress, not just one at a time.
I have a $50 iTunes gift card credit. How can I use it for the App Store? When I try to purchase an app from the App Store, I am asked to enter a credit card number. Can I transfer the $50 to the App Store account?
Do you guys have any idea as to what might be causing the following kernel panic? I've already repaired file permissions and would like to avoid reinstalling os x.
I am having difficulty troubleshooting this error message:  I don't get any indication any details about the failed connection attempt. How can I diagnose such timeouts and resolve the connection issue? I am aware of and have tried methods like rest your airport, reset the computer, delete profiles, down to install new operating system and rather than have people guess (and then vote for) specific causes like has happened on this thread, I'd like to know how to pick apart the connection process to know where the problem lies. When I successfully connect, system information has excellent details:
So I have an AppleScript that iterates over all the messages in various mailboxes and finds messages which meet various criteria and moves them to Deleted Items. The mailboxes in question are associated with an Exchange email account.
Today, I received from Amazon a Thermaltake BlacX 5G hard drive docking station and a 2 TB Western Digital Green drive. I inserted the drive and was able to format it into a one partition drive.
I'm having a problem with, as far as I can tell a single folder (~/Pictures) in the Finder's List View mode. When I navigate to other folders they display normally, it is only my Pictures folder that is wrong. The issues are: The header is not being displayed in the standard way The folders do not have a disclosure triangle to see its contents. I have tried deleting the folder's .DS_Store and .localized files and restarting the Finder, repairing Disk Permissions with Disk Utility, and finally cold booting the machine. I'm at a loss as to what could be causing this. My machine is a MacBookPro w/Retina running 10.8.4.
They disappear once you open the apps and then return to the home screen, but I can't tell what they indicate. Are they apps that haven't been opened since an app update? Or that it thinks have never been opened (not accurate in my case, but that could be a function of a "restore" confusing the phone).
Do they have the same capacity and/or run time for certain identical tasks? I know iPhone 5's battery has a charge capacity of 1440mAh. Has this been improved in the new iPhone 5s and/or iPhone 5c?
I am trying (unsuccessfully) to get a Mail message (located in the 'Drafts' folder) by its message id. The following code:
I cannot figure out now to make my Mac (OS X 10.8) use Oxford spelling in its spell checker (note I am being absolutely precise in the use of that term)! For example, I want to be able to write "organize colours" without my Mac from underlining one of those words as a spelling error (whilst also recognising that the way I just spelled recognize was an error, as old habits die hard). Neither the British nor American spelling options in the system preferences can do this, and it is just ever so slightly infuriating that a Mac that uses the Oxford Dictionary as its spelling dictionary will not use said dictionary's preferred spelling!
I wonder if there is any reason why a close fitting iPhone 5 case wouldn't also fit the iPhone 5s? It would be helpful to know whether the cutout for the camera or the various buttons (mute switch, sleep, volume) and lightning connector are close enough for hard cases to fit between the models (or vice versa).
1) The PC implementation of Ghostview has a "Safer" option, checked by default, that prevents file creation (so that running a .ps file can't hurt anything in the environment). One must uncheck "Safer" to run PostScript files that create files or one gets an invalidfileaccess error. What is the equivalent of unchecking "Safer" in either or both of the OSX PostScript viewers mention in the title?
I borrowed my friends iPad recently and logged her out of the apple store and logged in using my own apple id. I did download a range of free apps using my own apple id. After this I logged out of the apple store and gave the ipad back. Ever since this though my friend keeps being asked for my password although she is logged in to the icloud and the store. She is unable to download any apps without being asked to log in as me. Any ideas on how I can fix this?
I'm using Terminal and don't know if this has been an issue after upgrading to Mountain Lion, or whether I made a configuration change that had a side effect that I didn't realize. When I use the CMD + SHIFT + ] or CMD + SHIFT + [ keys, the mac beeps at me instead of switching the tab I'm using in Terminal.
Whenever syncing iDevices to iTunes, I always see "Safari Safe Browsing Data" being copied. This naturally sounds alarming. Is Apple tracking my browsing history‽ What exactly is it, and why does it need to copy every time?
Every once in a while, I will get signed out of Messages (which I use to interface with my Google Talk account) due to connectivity issues. If this happens when I am having a conversation with someone, the messages the person sends to me while I am offline are not displayed once I sign back in to Messages. Signing in to Gmail via the web interface and checking the "Chats" folder confirms that I the person I was talking to sent me some messages that I missed. Have you also experienced this behavior, and are there are fixes? Thanks for your help.
I wanted to know if it is possible to dump heap regions from a jailbroken ios device? I am trying to see if there is any sensitive data stored in plaintext, for a particular application.
I have some Mac OS X users using Mail to check their emails. We are planing to change the mail servers and thus changing both incoming and outgoing server addresses.
I am constantly running multiple applications on multiple workspaces. I want to remain on the same workspace, and only switch workspaces when I explicitly ask for it (e.g. with a magic mouse gesture). Currently when I click on the app icon in the dock, osx switches to the next workspace that has a window of the active application.
I was cleaning my home directory and found hidden .adobe folder with two files in it: I deleted whole folder and whole Adobe Creative Suite seems to work. Does anybody know what are these files for? Where does userid comes from?
When switching to an application (cmd+tab or clicking on an app icon), osx brings all of the application's windows to top. I would like to trigger this behaviour for the active application with some shortcut, or most preferably triggered when clicking the dock icon of the active application. (Currently clicking on the dock icon of an active app switches to the next workspace that has a window of the app.) Is there a way to bring to top all windows of the active application?
I tried Esc+Opt+Cmd, then selected Chrome and Force stop. The name of the application dissapeared from that menu, but it was still freezed. After 10 minutes I tried to reboot, but the computer were waiting for the application to close. In the end I pressed the power button for a couple of seconds to force the shutdown. Can I kill a lazy app without force-shutting down the mac?
I've tried to go on iTunes (check my updates)- but it says your phone as been updated your current version is 4.2.1 is it possible?
When I go to Settings then to Wifi, I cannot turn it On. I had read in another question I should Reset Network Settings but that did not seem to help. Does anyone have any idea what I could do?
I just got this mac mini a week ago and I never succeeded to get the help viewer working correctly. The help viewer keeps saying "The selected topic is currently unavailable". I did as explained here with no success. I also enabled the debugging but i could not find where the console.log file is created.
I found that my eGo cigarette charger had just that missing part, just on a different collor. It seemed to me that the pecs where the same, so I tried it.
I currently have my Time Machine sparse bundle residing on a network drive plugged in to my router. I have a script that runs at login that auto connects to the shared drive and mounts the sparsebundle image as a device for backups. Here's what it looks like:
I listen to podcasts, but almost always on my iPhone (by downloading them on the iPhone directly) and almost never on my computer through iTunes. I do sync my iPhone with iTunes. However, any time I open iTunes, it tries to automatically download new podcast episodes. Is there a way to prevent this?
In my experience, the Apple In Ear Headphones self-destruct after about 12 months (I've gone through about 3 pairs) and they now seem to be discontinued. A microphone and perfect iPhone compatibility on the remote control is required of course. A bit better bass wouldn't hurt either since the iPhone equaliser doesn't affect apps like Spotify. So my question is, which in-ear headphones deliver the same or better sound quality and are at least as rugged as the Apple's headphones?
I am on a network at an office I am visiting. I opened my Aperture app and plugged in my camera to import some photos. When I hit import the tab opened showing my camera and another computer on the same network. Is someone else accessing my Aperture and how can I prevent that?
I'm trying to add Reminder.app items through the command line by invoking an alias. I use the Automator workflow solution from this question: How can I add reminders via the command line?, which invokes a basic workflow containing an empty Reminders item, via the following command line input:
it gives me the contents of only the HTML, but it isn't formatted and still displays the tags. I'm assuming that by redirecting the standard output to a .html extension would give me the formatted HTML page, without the tags but I wouldn't know because, after giving chmod rwx permission with 755, I type: ~$me ./sysinfo_page.html And get this error:
How can I write on my computer screen or open an application like notes and write on it from Terminal?? I can open up notes or any other app/document.
I have a 2010 Macbook pro with a hard drive, and I'd like to replace it with a SSD. Information I've read about OS X and SSD is generally quite old, and not reassuring (not all SSD are supported, and the thing about the TRIM command not enabled for non-apple SSD…). So: is there any problem anymore with OS X and (non-apple) SSD? This question is intended to be generic, but to give an example here is the SSD I'm considering to buy: Samsung 840 EVO 750Go.
I've had two iPhones for the last year. One is for work, and the other is my personal phone. I set up each phone with its own iTunes account, and now I'm wanting to consolidate to one phone. So is there an easy way to add (not replace) contacts that I have on my personal iPhone (it's also on my iPad via iCloud) and add them to the existing contacts I have on my work iPhone?
I want to see if I have any extra .qlgenerator files there, or if I'm missing any. If someone with a recent or (better yet) new clean install could list the files in that folder, OR if anyone knows where I could find an official list from Apple, that would be great.
How would I go about deploying a network printer (Sharp MX-2600N) to Mac OS X machines that would include a custom printer preset profile (Embedded Printer User Authentication Code)? Ideal Method of deployment that might be plausible is ssh command session. I am a newbie with unix commands. Environment Printer- Sharp MX-2600N This printer is controlled by 'User Authentication' code that we have to configure on the printer presets. Mac OS X Machines - Are joined to 2003/2008r2 mixed active directory environment. Mac OS Versions - 10.7/10.8
Is there a way to associate a file type (*.md from Github) in a such a way that its contents are 'visible' with OS X's quick look? I've associated the extension (*.md) with TextMate, but this doesn't have the desired effect.
I have 2 MacMinis. The two MacMinis are both connected via firewire. I have one MacMini backup over afp over firewire to a hard drive on the other MacMini. This system works perfectly and the whole MacMini gets backed up.
Assuming that I've created script bundle (.scptd), is there a way to expose (for lack of a better term) other interactive scripts? Alternate scripts might preform configuration tasks or secondary tasks. I really want to reuse the script files (call them libraries) that are in the bundle and leverage the containment of the script. One option, I suppose, is to create symlinks or aliases to scripts that are in the .scptd/Contents/Resources/Scripts directory. Are there other options?
Is there a way to track what songs in an iTunes account appear in playlists? i.e. -- some songs may appear in 2 playlists, some appear in none. How can I know that?
I forgot the answer to my security question and no email to rescue mail received. How can I change my rescue email? Or is there a way to change the answer to something like "used code for mobile No."?
I lost my user in Mountain Lion and I forced to create a new user account. I access to my previous user's folders now. How can I find my previous keychains? I need to recover them and add into my new keychains. Regards
I would have thought this would be easy to find, but thus far it has not been for me. Is there a way to launch dictation (fn, fn) with applescript or from the terminal?
I've used git to sync Terminal.app/shell settings in /User/myuser and Thunderbird profile(s) across multiple Macs (git branching for diff Thunderbird profiles on different Macs if/as need be provides useful flexibility). Despite the lack of depth of git's file-metada management, this has worked well. I'd like to git-sync (to a "central-repository" server/service like Bitbucket) the following directories across my Macs, employing branches as needed/wanted for unique customizations: /Library/Preferences /Library/PreferencePanes ~/Library/Preferences ~/Library/PreferencePanes (Everything else in ~/Library and /Library appears to be uninmportant or automatically regenerated.) Then I plan to rsync the following together (git is less useful here due to ease of recreating installed applications plus less practical due to size of /Applications): /Applications ~/Applications I realize I may need to close all pertinent applications+processes in order to properly sync the Preferences and Applicat
After my hard drive was formatted by a mistake, I used a data rescue software to recover some files, but when I tried to open my notes and bookmarks files, it just showed weird characters like these below: °F /ø£#◊≠'P0Í9†‡q@¸≈«4Xb˚p>îºú˙SFsNëû‘AœÚ•Èÿ–)GZWª†uıÙ§†s÷èL˛5ZXh3ëä\ü÷åzP3RäûÙßø˝zL€°•èJv) å±æÁ•¡#⁄Üá4oπHLqÕ�qû‘´–qMPø¬x˙“-R·BÓœÆ8§é2xÔ@…fié ÁÒ°;êºÅÄ›{bì±Ë}(:}M*Ò€ìFΩHQ∆Oq…†rFXbìû<ÒKÚ졉„44ZCW=z`”â˘∞�—ÅëOsDÖÀtèjC˙ä3Ëip’€ı4XaÄy∆(9¿›◊∑“ìé„4{P∆Õä0)=vi9¸©z)¥fñÄ2~¥Äu<˙PìÄtߢg#fl“û±∑¶Tså‘âMπ˘zäæ[!\à!Ú≥Ç ß¶Â‰GNΩ L±∞]∏≈J™FÔîF:”D9ï|¨G}W9©∂ùÿŒN3≈L±ê~ˆ·¥ï"≈∏üóÊ«ZmÍ"±@y« pi w< ≥Â19$ëÈÈOXà9q“ôõ®UÚ˛^I#ΓùÂÒ€Ò´B/CÕ8E«9&ïå›R¢√ú±Áß‚úS�Ç3VÑ8ˆˆßX�TåıŒ)§K™Pt¿Á—‰Ûª8≠~(ÚÌCBˆÊkFY@'ßJâÌÅ#flüL÷ÚZO≤Á®‰PëKc,@N7
For some reason, I can't import Notes from my iPhone to my iPad via iTunes - is there a fix for this?
How can I automatically restart the machine if an application has crashed in any way? It might have cleanly exited, have a quit unexpectedly error, or be frozen with the spinning beachball. I don't want to relaunch the app, but do a full restart.
I used this command to try out an alternative finder. defaults write com.apple.loginwindow Finder /Full/Path/To/Path\ Finder.app I prefer the standard finder - but do not know how to get it back. Anybody know?
I can not press the area of the screen where T and G keys are(middle of the screen). As a consequence this makes it impossible to write anything in portrait mode. Is there any Cydia keyboard that doesn't use that region?
There is a lot unsold iPhones 4s on the Apple Store. According to the "About iPhone Batteries", iPhone's battery should be regularly charged. But in case that the battery is not charge after the iPhone has been packed in 2011-2012, what will be the condition of those batteries? After all this time for several years on the stock.
A few years ago (or actually, more likely, in 2000), for some reason, birthdays that didn't have a birth year (but did and do have correct month and day) were automatically given the birth year 2000 in my Address Book. There are hundreds of them (among thousands which are fine). Is there a way to select these cards, perhaps by Smart Group or something similar, so that I may manually remove the birth year 2000?
Someone I know has an ethernet configuration profile that works on the university network I'm on. As I am on 10.8 I do not have the option of configuring these files so I'd like to copy his Configuration Profile. Where are these located on OS X 10.6?
When using Gmail on Apple's mail, the conversations/threads are not being grouped properly when the subject field of the messages starts having many prefixes "RES" in the subject. Some email clients (e.g. Mail in iPad), adds a "RE:" or "RES:" prefix every time when a message is replied. This, causes some subject fields having something like: "RES: RES: RES: RES: Original Subject". When this situation happens, the conversations in Mail.app apparently break, that is, one email (or more) that should be grouped to a conversation is displayed as a different conversation. This is an example that causes problem for me: I send a message with subject "Test" I receive a reply with subject (sent from other email client) "RES: Test" I reply again (using Mail), then the subject becomes: "Re: RES: Test" I receive a reply with subject (sent from other email client), and the subject now comes as: "RES: RES: Test"
I have a MacBook Air 13", bought about a month ago, running OS X 10.8.5. The camera is recorded in System Information as:
Is there a way to change the current labels in Contacts.app to custom ones using AppleScript based on a specific criteria? Here is what I mean:
After doing tail -20 /var/log/apache2/error_log: What's wrong with this? Any help will be highly appreciated.
I am using MBP with external monitor, in addition to the build-in display. It happens quite often that I 'mentally' switch to other monitor, but the active application is still on different one, where I don't look. Then I start typing, or press some shortcut which leads to unwanted behaviour (e.g. I close an editor tab instead of tab in the chrome).
Macbook air mid-2012 w/ Mountain Lion. Whenever I wakeup from a long sleep and also on some random moments when it's on, i get DNS resolution failures for every server, with nslookup saying ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached; however, direct connections to IP addresses work correctly, since (among others) Skype works perfectly.
How can I disable the sound when deleting a file from Finder in OS X Mountain Lion? I do not see any specific mention of it under System Preferences or Finder Preferences. I don't want to disable other sounds; just that one.
I want to achieve something like this. What would be the best way to remove the print from the keys, or can I find a shop that sells those keys with out a characters on them?
A lot of my contacts (600+) had somehow got their birth years set to 2000. Their birth months and days are correct, but the 2000 is wrong. With the tremendous help I got here, I was able to get them in one group (which I called 2K). I would like to remove the birth years from those cards, while retaining birth months and days. On my OS X 10.8.5 it can even be done manually, but not on adayzdone's 10.6.8. Can anybody provide a script (for 10.8.5)? So, I would like to turn
From Finder, I can preview a plist file without any difficulties. For example, using Quick Look with ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist I get a nice preview of its contents:
I am trying to enable dictation with applescript and so far have the following that works. But, how do I set the drop down for the shortcut key using AppleScript?
I am trying to restore a new 16 GB iPhone from my old 64 GB backup, and am getting the error message that the old backup is too large (for the record, I don't believe it's very much over 16 GB)...the old phone is broken, so I cannot try to make a new backup smaller (this was one solution I found here). Any idea how I might go into the backup that is saved in iTunes and eliminate portions manually? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I had an iPhone 4s and took over my husband's iPhone 5. We reset all content and settings. It has been a nightmare! I could only sync 5 of many ringtones on the iPhone 5.
I'm on my neighbours WiFi, and connecting to my network to my Windows 7 PC which is set up as a VPN server using the native feature. I can access my Time Capsule by going to Connect to Server and entering it's IP Address, but it does not show in Finder automatically, in the Shared section of the sidebar. Also when I'm actually connected to my home network my Raspberry Pi appears in the sidebar, but when I connect over VPN it doesn't. Is there a way to get the network shares to appear automatically in Finder over a VPN connection?
I need a text file monitored in a way that the contents stay updated in a window on my screen - the contents of the text file will keep changing periodically and I want the display to update the changes ASAP. Are there any programs out there (like tail for win32) that can help me achieve this? If not, could I perhaps write a script to that end?
Basically, I'm wondering with the proper cables if can hook up an additional monitor to my late 2009 21.5" iMac. I know the 27" iMacs are able to be hooked up to external monitors, I'm just worried I won't be able to in the 21.5". Does anyone know if this will be possible?
As far as I can tell, the search function in Notes only shows you which notes have that string. Is there a way to find the occurrence of the term inside the note itself (without copying to a text editor)? EDIT: ⌘F Does not show me any in-note searches.
I never (intentionally) hide an app with ⌘H, which could be rebound for each app (e.g. Finder), but this is obviously the wrong approach. So, (how) can you disable ⌘H for application-hiding in one fell swoop?
Using Launchbar, I'd like to be able to do the following: Navigate around by normal means in Launchbar > Once I'm in desired folder, I'd like to be able to run a command/action that asks me to enter a filename and then the command proceeds to ´touch´ (filename) in that directory. How can this be achieved, any existing solutions?
Given an .ipsw iOS firmware restore image, can its origin be verified (e.g. through checking a digital signature) to provide assurance that it is actually from Apple and it hasn't been tampered with?
How can I record a FaceTime call and save the video on my Mac? I am using a MacBook Air 11" with OS X 10.8.
Sat Sep 14 09:38:58 2013 panic(cpu 0 caller 0x876eee8b): "Uncorrectable Fbd memory error detected. FERR_NF = 0x00000020 , NERR_NF == 0x02000021\n"@/SourceCache/AppleMCEDriver/AppleMCEDriver-119.4.0/AppleMCEDriver.cpp:947 Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x10bc58 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x10bc8c 0x223ce1 0x0) 0x10bca8 : 0x876eee8b (0x876ef90c 0x20 0x2000021 0x8100a4) 0x10bd18 : 0x876ef15d (0xf56b300 0xf56b300 0x2 0x820044) 0x10bd98 : 0x7d7b0a50 (0xf56b300 0x0 0xf202980 0x0) 0x10bdc8 : 0x7d7afd09 (0xee2a300 0x0 0x0 0x1c) 0x10bde8 : 0x7d7beebc (0x1c 0x10be5c 0x8 0x7d7bc5f0) 0x10be18 : 0x7d7bf0be (0xf1de91c 0x17 0xee2a63e 0x0) 0x10be78 : 0x7d7c662e (0xecfdde8 0x10bec8 0x10bef8 0x0) 0x10be98 : 0x56ac20 (0xecfdde8 0x0 0xecd5d80 0x0) 0x10bee8 : 0x7d9be5bb (0xee2a380 0x0 0xee2a380 0x0) 0x10bf18 : 0x7d7a3213 (0xf1d3500 0x0 0x0 0x49) 0x10bf38 : 0x7d7ae911 (0x49 0x0 0x10bf78 0x0) 0x10bf58 : 0x580d96 (0xed34b80 0x0 0xed34f80 0x49) 0x10bf78 : 0x2ab432 (0x49 0x87e03
I just got my new MacBook Air delivered yesterday. I opened it up today and was happy until it couldn't connect to Wi-Fi. After Googling I found out that this has been an issue and that Apple created a patch for it. But that was in July and I got mine yesterday.
An audio plug that was used to connect to speakers is stuck in the audio jack of my iPod touch 5th generation and I can't get it out. Is there a way to change the settings so I can only use the internal speakers, or is there an app that would let me switch to using internal speakers even though headphones are plugged in?
MBA 13" I when I got it home for the first time. I switched it on I checked how much disk space I had left. I was surprised to see 45MB of movies and photos 471MB.
I just updated Trim Enabler after updating my Mac to OS X 10.8.5. The new version doesn't have a quit button, option or anything like that. How do I close it? I cannot remove it from the menu bar by dragging it. What can I do, short of rebooting?
I have done a script to quit program: …but I get this prompt to click the OK button:
In Cocoa programs in Mac OS it is possible, using the fonts palette, add line below the character (underline), in the middle of the character (strikethrough), changing the stile of the line: single, double, colour. I need to add a line above a character (to represent antiparticles in particle physics). Is it possible to do without using drawing tools? I need a line being possible to add above any character, not just ones that have lines in certain languages.
every time I open finder in list view, it opens (twirls down) all subfolders; how can i stop this?
Is there a way to remove a slim scratch from the lid of a three month old unibody Macbook Pro?
I have a Vertex Plus r2 OCZ SSD drive in my Macbook Pro 2010, It's been going well and it only cost me like 80gbp. I noticed recently (not that I run tests regularly) that the performance has dropped by nearly 50% 200Mbps read -> 90, 160 write -> 80 There is so much misinfo on SSD's out there it drives me mental, I don't have the 'trim enabler' hack installed because I read that the SSD drive had it's own built in hardware regeneration/ware leveling/trim type thing going on. My question: how can I get performance back to what it was like when I bought it (6 months ago). I was thinking:
I have two Airport Express base stations in my abode: an AirPort Express 802.11n (2nd Generation) – A1392, and an AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Generation) – A1264
I believe that this information about the hostname mismatch should have appeared in a warning notifier containing the message: Safari can't verify the identity of the website "sbxstg.redacted.com"
I've tried AirDisplay and Splashtop but they aren't fast enough, they are always delayed . I need something to see videos and play games without any kind of delay. Because AirDisplay and Splashtop use wifi connection they doesn't work the way I want. Is there any option to mirror my Mac to an iPhone but using a USB cable so it can't be delayed? Thank you.
I have one contact saved from iPhone that keeps on disappearing after a few days. The first time I noticed, her name isn't saved even though I know I never deleted her, so I saved her number with her name. A few weeks ago, surprisingly I lost her name again, and finally just now after a few weeks I lost it again.
I am looking for a simple GUI based way to format drives to NTFS (Windows) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
If I have a search field open in Xcode and Safari at the same time, switching between the apps will copy the search term from one app to the other. To reproduce this: Open a webpage in Safari, and press Cmd-F to search the page, but don't type anything Go to the Find Navigator in Xcode, and type "xcodesearch" Use the app switcher to go to Safari
I have a Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and Synology DS213 connected to a gigabit switch via cat6 cables. When I enable AFP on the DS213, I get ~60mbpsUP and ~700mbpsDOWN when accessing it from Mac Mini and MBP. I also get the same speeds when both Mac Mini and MBP access each other. When I turn off AFP on the DS213, and use SMB, I get ~300mbpsUP ~350mbpsDOWN when accessing it from the Mac Mini and MBP. When I view a Wireshark capture from Mac Mini --> DS213, there are MANY "request tickles" and "FPwriteExt request(s)" during the AFP ~60mbps uploads. Is there any way to improve AFP upload (write) performance?
I have just bought a new MacBook Air 13" (2013). It comes pre-installed with GarageBand and iMovie. I don't really need these applications and I want to save my disk space, so I was thinking about removing them. However, if I do remove them, is it possible to restore them if I want them later?
After I have enabled FileVault the computer won't boot anymore at the scheduled time. Is it normal or has something gone wrong? If it is normal, are there any workarounds?
I'm having some issues with my MacBook Air (2013). Whenever the system enters hibernation, as it does after a couple of hours of sleep, the screen gets distorted when it comes back from sleep. When resuming from sleep the screen gets distorted like this:
When your iPhone battery is "almost" dead, it turn off, and then if you want to turn it on again it loads this very informative graphic:  The problem is that when you turn on "power button" this picture show up almost immediately, without starting up operating system or anything.
I just bought a Galaxy note 8 and I am trying to access my files on my apple time capsule. I just got my macbook air last christmas so I am not to familiar with how to use everything just yet. I can access my files on my time capsule through my macbook and my husband can through his pc. Is there a feature that needs to be enabled on the time capsule or my note for this connection to work?
I have a SSD drive on my MacBook Pro and I'm constantly running on out of disk space because I need to install and run multiple virtual machines (Linux, Windows etc) on my Mac. Is there a way to mount a writable disk image that is also compressed? I'm hoping to use the disk image to store the VMs on. I don't mind taking the speed hit.
I have faces in the images of Aperture. I would like to use the faces there for my Contacts in OS X and iPhone. How can I get this syncronization thing working?
I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro all aluminum. The green caps lock light comes on intermittently: sometimes solid, sometimes flashing. When it comes on, the arrow pointer gets stuck and the screen freezes, or if I'm typing it will stick on a letter and keep repeating it.
I have a router, two devices (amongst other things) named device1.local and device2.local & 2 switches. Each switch is connected to the router. The two devices are not connected to the same switch. With this configuration, the devices are not able to communicate with each other through Bonjour. Using their IPs, on the other hand, works like a charm. Now if I connect one of the devices directly to the router, everything is working fine.
I have been linux person for 6 years, now converting to mac world. I am looking for the file browser, which would enable me to: delete files and folders by pressing delete rename files by shortcut or right mouse button enter folders by pressing "Enter" navigating in the tree by shortcuts (keyboard only) and also importantly: do the same things on REMOTE linux servers, especially edit files on the fly open remote text files in my favorite editor (whichever I want, such as Sublime)
I can't get my ex husbands apple id out of the family ipad. Now I have a ton of apps to update and he won't give our kids his password to update them.
I had written some notes on the phone with a client and Outlook crashes and lost my notes. They were indepth... and I am embarrassed about asking the client to run through all the information again... And I need for a meeting tomorrow. Please, can anyone hayelp me (she asks hopefully) Thanks
I have a lab of MacBook computers. How can I limit the internet access to only learning sites I choose (like Study Island or Plato)?
I'd like keyboard viewer to show up while I hold the option key or after pressing a "dead key" such as option-e, but to hide otherwise. I know where the letters are. But it would be nice to get an automatic reminder of how to type special characters, especially since my keyboard layout (known as "qwpr") allows typing hundreds of special glyphs.
I've installed the latest version of ntfs-3g and fuse4x available in the macports repos, and I can succesfully mount an NTFS partition with write access. However, I want to automate this in /etc/fstab. The only information I can find regarding /etc/fstab and ntfs-3g is for the old Tuxera version of ntfs-3g. Are there any updated instructions?
I really like the shortcut key to bring up the help menu (Cmd + Shift + /). I use it navigate the menus by typing in short words.
I am trying to use the Solarized color scheme with VIM in Terminal on Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion. However, the colors look washed out. They are lighter/paler than they should be. In MacVIM, the colors show up perfectly, but I prefer using VIM via the Terminal. Here's a screenshot of what the colors should look like followed by a screenshot of what the colors actually look like in Terminal.
Take two Apple data sync wires: Cable 1, which connects the iPad to a laptop USB port, and Cable 2, only connected by itself to an iOS data charger socket plugged into the mains, ready to charge any iOS device (not connected to an iOS device)
I'm running an Automator Workflow that searches a provided directory, and then does a standard Filter Finder Items in order to make sure it's only going to be working with aliases. Spotlight failed to find the file named "NUCLEUS SOUNDLAB Pantheon III.rfl." Please make sure privacy has not been enabled for this file in System Preferences. (-212)
I use gif brewry, and it seems to generate very large animated gif files; i'm looking to reduce their size - how do I do that?
I noticed a while ago that the music app didn't play podcasts any more and that a (new?) podcast app does that. The result is that when I now listen to a podcast and stop it with the button on the headphones and then try to restart it some time later, the iPhone plays music from the music app instead. In the old days when podcasts were in the music app, the podcast would continue playing.
I have OSX 10.8 with Xcode 4.6.3 installed (it shows under App Store). When I Spotlight-search "xcode" I see two results: Xcode – Mac & Xcode – Developer.
I will be taking my Macbook Pro Retina for a backpacking trip and will be working from public places (i.e. coffee shops, public squares) for a while. I am quite concerned though, that it will be stolen.
I realize that this isn't a new feature but I've never needed to use different workspaces on my computer until now and I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm able to add a new desktop by entering Mission Control and hovering over the translucent + that appears and clicking on it. My problem is that when I go to that newly-created space, it's a copy of the existing cluttered original desktop. How do I create a blank desktop?
In our case the Apple Mail client stops retrieving new incoming e-mail messages. Rebuilding the mailbox doesn't improve.
I'm trying to create an applescript that will take messages that match a certain filter YYYY), and forward them to a specific notebook in Evernote (XXXX), with the attachment intact. So far, I've gotten this script to handle the forwarding to a Evernote notebook thing, but I can't seem to get it to deal with attachments correctly. How do I attach all of the attachments in the emails found by the filter (which would ideally run when messages are received) to the new forwarded email?
My MacBook Pro, for some reason, detects the wireless connection, but I cannot go to a web page using Safari. I can open the iTunes Store, but cannot access my email. I ran the Network Assistant and it reflects that my connection is good. I tried putting in a manual IP address but my computer is still unable to perform name resolution to go to any web page. My home WiFi uses a WEP password, and configure IPv4 using DHCP. I went to a local McDonald's to see if I could access the Internet with their free WiFi - my MacBook connected immediately and went out to several websites with no issues. Note: I went through all of the steps as listed in this answer on June 30, 2012 with this very same situation but am still not able to open a Web Page.
On a jailbroken iPad, I was looking for a way to access a particular PDF from iBooks. The files reside in /var/mobile/Media/Books, so basically I was looking for a way to find the random filename of a particular book. Is there any method?
Is there a way to rotate an external screen separately and keep the orientation of the inbuilt display fixed? Using OS X 10.8.5
Is there a way to update ALL your software at same time with one click? From what I was told you have to update MS Office and other softwares manually and on by one.
The noise is not coming from the speakers and appears to be coming from the left side of the keyboard. Nothing I do with the volume changes the noise. You can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/steve-melvin/retina-macbook-noise
Is there an equivalent on the Mac platform to Partition Magic or GParted that will allow me to resize, move, and/or change partitions on the fly without formatting, or disturbing the data that is already on the disk?
I would like to buy an unlocked iPhone 5 or iPhone 5s, and use it with the Aio Basic plan from Aio Wireless, an AT&T prepaid subsidiary launched in mid-2013. On their web-site, Aio Basic @ 40 USD/mo is described as including 250MB of unlimited data at 4G and 4G LTE speed (with throttling after you reach the limit), but is annotated to be "Basic phones only"; whereas Aio Smart @ 55 USD/mo is described as having 2GB of unlimited data, but it said to be "Basic or Smartphones". Provided I don't mind being throttled after 250MB/mo for getting the savings, will Aio Basic work for my basic iPhone 5 or 5s?
I had 5 folders each with a couple of files (2-3). I wanted to print all of them in one shot. I found ways to do it in Linux but I couldn't get them to work here. The two alternatives I found for Linux were: find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -t
I'm logged in to iCloud, and I'm able to create a Shared Photo Stream through iPhoto (v. 9.4.3) and share it with others, and they can see the photos in the stream. However, I don't see the Photo Stream that was shared with me, and I still get the above message when I click on "Join this Photo Stream" in the original email.
I am thinking of getting a this MacBook but the hard drive space is not sufficient. I was wondering if I bought an external hard drive for it would i be able to download apps and things onto it.
This may seem a silly question... but ITunes when synced with my Iphone, only backs up into my main PC correct? In other words, when I hook up to Itunes on my computer all the info goes into that computer. When someone uses my Apple ID on another PC for Itunes and syncs or backs up their IPOD or phone only the music will download yes? Not the SMS messages or photos? Those are stored on my hard drive?
I've been researching what it would take to create a children's storybook (including custom audio containing music and narration as well as moving imagery) and publish it on the iPad. I discovered that I can accomplish this using iBooks by making an ePUB using CSS for the images, JS for any animation and custom read-aloud recordings for the music/narration. Now I'm faced with another hurdle: I want the digital book to be accessible for free to those who already purchased a physical version of the book (probably using some kind of authentication code).
I have used IBM PCs, and clones, professionally from 1981 until I retired in 1999. I have never owned/used a Mac.
Does the possibility exist to access one's iTunes music collection from any web browser? e.g. to browse the library and stream the songs.
The iOS 7 betas are the first set of OS betas I've been through as a member of the Developer Program. Manually installing the beta releases is one thing, but now that a GM has been released will the 7.0.1 release be available to the GM build installed as an OTA update? Or will I have to install that from the image manually, and then get OTA updates for version 7.0.2 and onward?
I've got the Gmail iOS app installed on my iPod Touch 5. Also, I have set the app to only show notifications for "Important" emails (which are indicated with a yellow tab in the web version of Gmail). Sometimes, when I get an important email, the email will show (as expected) on my iPod Touch's lock screen as a notification. However, sometimes the iPod Touch will wake from sleep to show the lock screen, but no notification appears.
I'm developing a web app for mobile phones. To easily get a feel of how it is to use, I simply copied the app into ~/Sites (after enabling web sharing in the System Preferences).
I have an Apple TV 2, the one with a max of 720p. If I decide to upgrade to an Apple TV 3 for its 1080p goodness (or an Apple TV 4 in the future if/when it's released), when I log in with my Apple ID, will my list of favorite Podcasts transfer over? Or will I need to add them all over again?
I've become majorly concerned when reading this article that describes a bad actor that use Terminal access from his/her Mac to change the syslog and have stealth access to all data and passwords. How can I get sure when I am connecting WLAN of workplace nobody can hack my computer and if they did by any chance(having password) how can I hinder them?
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro (10.5.8) - the audio output has no sound when connected to a stereo component, but when connected to small speakers it works fine. Internal speakers are working also. Does anyone have an idea?
When opening Address Book, it quits before it opens. The window says:
I made a stupid 802.1X settings file some time ago to test some things. Now I am unable to remove it, even though I think I have deleted the file.
I am facing one problem. When I open System Preferences it's directly open Desktop&Screensaver screen and continuously saying "Loading..." and rotating wheel. I unable to any thing. See the screen that I have attached. Thanks!
I'm trying to clean up my Mac a bit, and in doing so I noticed a few repeating error messages in the console. The first goes off every couple of minutes: Also, I'm getting a lot of:
I'd like to remove this abnormal Calendar. Does anyone know if this default calendar is necessary for one of the Calendar functions?
What exactly is the purpose of 'TimeOut' key in launchd plist? I thought a program specified through the first parameter of ProgramArguments will be executed after waiting seconds specified as the value of 'TimeOut'. But this is not happening. I am using Mac OS X version 10.8.2. The Plist I used is: What I may be doing wrong here?
On my iPad, I updated to a new version of YouTube that I don't like. Is there a way to downgrade?
How can I see what I just did on my computer? For example, an activity log showing that I copied a file from here to there?
I've been looking for MPI for OS X and some websites say that it is already installed in OS X (since 10.5). Could someone point out where is it installed? I cannot find mpicc nor mpirun. Or should I build OpenMPI from code?
I'm planning on upgrading my 120GB HDD to a 128GB SSD but I'm not sure which SSD will be compatible with my MacBook. My specs: MacBook late 2007 / Santa Rosa 2.2GHz / 4GB RAM Preferably, I'd like to get the fastest SSD that would be compatible for my MacBook but the SATA versions have been updated three times since this MacBook was released I'm not sure which would be the best.
On Mountain Lion, I manually added a static route like this: That worked just fine. Now I want to remove the static route, but this fails: Even though it says "not in table", the entry is there, according to netstat and route: What's going wrong here?
Running Mountain Lion and Safari. Usually when I login to Barclays, I click "Login" then select my appropriate certificate. Now, it just jumps straight to the access denied page and no longer pops up and asks me which certificate I want to us. Any ideas?
I'm looking for a way to perform relatively high quality stereo line-in recording on iPhone. Unusual and third-party hardware is acceptable, but jailbreak is not. I am aware of the following options: Griffin iMic paired with Apple's Lightning to USB Camera Adapter Pros: Well-reviewed, USB interface. Cons: Lightning to USB Camera Adapter is not supported on iPhone. Blue Mikey Digital Pros: Works with iPhone. Cons: Requires Lightning adapter, line-in quality reportedly poor.
I have a MacBook Air (2013) and I would like to run (that is, boot into) Windows without creating a partition for it. I also want to keep it mobile within an office area, so I would prefer not to use an external HD or flash drive. Is it possible to use NetBoot to boot into Windows via WiFi?
I need to enable the "Require an administrator password to access locked preferences" on about a dozen Macs. I would like to do it from ARD as a unix command. Is this possible?
During a FaceTime call I suddenly had no sound. It took me a while to realize it wasn't just on FaceTime, but no ringer, no music, no keyboard clicks. It does not say headset when I turn volume up so it doesn't seem to be stuck in headset mode although I do get sound that way and I can hear through the receiver, just not speakers.
Can I use one charger for all MacBooks from years 2008 to 2013? ... or did Apple change the charger in the last 5-6 years?
How can I turn off alerts for iCloud calendars that have been shared with me? I just want to see alerts for my calendar.
I noticed recent contacts I have added to iphone 4s are not showing in my Yahoo account online. I have to do a phone restore and afraid of losing contacts. I don't want to sync to iCloud because when they set up my iphone in the beginning I had a ton of issues of multiple contacts and crashes. I have over 500 and multiplying that is horrible.
In Mail, I can only change the background of the entire email. How do I do this just for highlighted text?
I am wondering if the owner of the phone I am tracking using find my iPhone can see that I am tracking them in real time or any other way.
I've got a broken 3GS and both the power button and touch screen are broken and there's a passcode I forgot on it. It's also no longer synced with iTunes.
What was the first MacBook that people were able to install Windows on? How about 2007, 2008 versions of Macbook? It was when Apple started to sell MacBooks with Intel processors instead of PowerPC?
Every time I make a new line in Keynote, it is white and 1-point, so it can hard to find and reposition. I have tried looking for a contextual menu that says "Assign current style as default" but am not finding anything. Is there an easy way to do this?
After installing Mountain Lion 10.8.5 update, mail does not associate to an email account and will not quit (Quit is grayed out - must force quit). However, the email account is set up in preferences. Library/mail/V2/maildata/accounts.plist lists the account and the Mailboxes are still present under Library/mail/V2/Mailboxes. However, if I log out as iMac user and log in as another user, Mail works OK for a different email account associated to that user. Does 10.8.5 limit the number of accounts for emails? In Console, I get a MailIAPlugin message: "Tried to get settings for nonexistent account". Any idea on how to get Mail to work?
When I run git --version I get git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37), and it seems to be located at /usr/bin/git. I don't remember installing Git, but I did install Command Line Tools for Xcode in order to install Homebrew. Not a full Xcode install — just the command line tools.
Is there any app that will allow you to export your iPhone text messages to a PDF file while keeping all the conversation threads intact?
I am using a Mac mini as a home theater streaming computer, with Home Sharing in iTunes to view the movies in my iTunes library either on my Apple TV or my iOS devices. In cases where I do not finish the movie, the Apple TV works great - it updates the playback position and the next time I start it it automatically starts where I left off.
I am looking to use Master Genealogist on my Mac Pro with Parallels. Does anyone have experience using this program for Windows on a Mac? Any suggestions for a better setup than Parallels?
What is the Mac OS application that provides most similar function as PDF annotator in Windows? I just want a program that enables simple annotating functions in Mac OS. Of course, freeware is preferred.
I am new to using Apple as main OS. I am used to fstab in Linux to keep the mounts for nfs. When I use Go to in Finder to mount nfs://serveripaddress/home/shared I get a permissions error. The below command works from Terminal though: How can I get this to be mounted each time I log in and vpn to the network where this share resides?
How do I configure actions for scroll wheel events on mac? Specifically I'm looking for a way to configure the scroll wheel to change workspaces when a modifier key is pressed.
In My Mac Mail, the messages are going as text attachment, rather than just appearing inline as the mail contents. How can I make sure that the contents of my mails are not being sent as attachments?
I have installed mysql via brew. First start works, but after reboot, I got the following error: I start mysql with If I try to create a pid file on my own via terminal it will created, but after a few seconds it disappear. Have anyone a idea?
I have gotten an issue with my Mac LCD display, after the Mac was dropped. 100% white colors become pink and 100% black colors become green. I don't want to get it fixed, because that would be very expensive. I have instead managed to calibrate the white color, to a bit off-white, so that it is not pink. But how can I change the black color, so that it is just a tad grayish?
I have a quick question. I am a bit anal about what I run on my Mac, tend to use the apple apps (aperture/terminal) rather than alternatives (Picasa/iterm2) because I like to make sure I'm running safe software. It sounds a bit tinfoil hat, but as a developer I know there is alot of bad code out there. I have never hacked about with OSX and as a result I have had a seemless experience through the years, with nearly 0 issues. Trim enabler has brought my SSD back to life performance wise, but i'm a little concerned that it may be interfering with important system kexts and files. Do you think TE is safe to use / wont corrupt OS X or the system? Thanks, John
This Apple support article, MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory, says that the maximum memory on a MacBook Pro 13-inch is 8 GB. Is that a hard limit? Why could I not install a 16 GB memory stick in there? Would it work, but only for the first 8 GB? Is there any way around the limit?
I downloaded the iOS 7 Beta about a week ago and now I'm worried I'll have to downgrade in order to install iOS 7 that's being released today. Anyone have any insight? If I have to downgrade, what's the easiest way?
Have anyone been able to upgrade/install Windows 8.1 on a Boot Camp partition? When trying to upgrade to 8.1 RTM it goes into blue screen on first boot, claiming that "A required device is missing" and then rolls back the update:
I'm using Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7.0.2, but it crashes every time the network connection is lost and has to be force quitted. I'm looking for an alternative that is more stable.
I have encrypted disk volume that is in the way and the passphrase is gone. How can I erase the contents and reuse the disk space?
I am learning how to do some beginner work with electronics, so I am looking for a breadboard. Now I know I can go down the local RadShack and pick one up, but in doing so, I'll spend $20 on a board, another $10 on wires, and possibly more on electronics I need to duplicate the entire practice they want me to do in the book. All in all I'm not willing to shove $50 to $100 on a breadboard and it's toys just to learn something on my own just yet.
My problem is that I have an external hard drive connected to my Mac. Since it is only used for backup purposes, it is sleeping most of the time.
My Mountain Lion is keeps freezing from few weeks, today it freezes/crashed couple of times already. Here is the log before the big freeze (file /var/log/system.log):
How do I boot straight into an application without showing the desktop? Essentially I would like to turn the machine on, see the grey screen with loading icon, and then see my application. The Desktop/Dock/Menubar should never be visible. (The application itself is fullscreen)
Can Homebrew be used to install AppleScript bundles? If so, what sorts of conventions would the project need to follow? Would it need to include a make.scpt file compile the .applescript files? I'm assuming that it could reference Github projects. ** edit ** homebrew-cask is probably the right tool for this; I submitted an issue.
After just accepting the iOS 7.0 upgrade dialog on my iPad, the gears spin for a moment and it looks like the download will start, but then the install fails. Is this something I can fix?
Direct download (i.e. from Apple servers) links for officially-released iOS firmware versions through 6.1.4 are listed here, with checksums: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Firmware
What's the difference between the OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.5 and the OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.5 (Combo) packages? I'm running OS X 10.8.4
Is it possible to find out the location of a computer similar to the "set time by location" feature via command line? I'm working on a little script that would update my network location settings depending on whether or not I'm within a certain city or something.
I have a MacBook Pro and two Thunderbolt displays at work. I work with the MacBook lid-closed because it's overkill and I don't have enough desk space anyway.
I have not updated my iphone 4s since the day I got it. I am still on IOS 5.1.1. I jailbroke the phone when i first got it, but the jailbreak was outdated and stopped working so I deleted it off the iphone. If i want to update my IOS can I just backup my files and hit update on my phone or itunes to a more updated IOS ? I do not wish to jailbreak my phone afterwards, I dont need it. My concern was in the past i heard that if you updated your OS with a jailbroken phone, the phone goes into a loop on the restart. I had this happen to my on my iphone 3G. Any thoughts?
What features from iOS 7 are available on the iPhone 4S? Is it any more sluggish that iOS 6?
I tried to download the iTunes 11.1 update and received the following error. Does anyone know what could be causing it?
I used to be able to double the home button and swipe right to change the brightness. How do I change the brightness in iOS 7 without going to the Settings app?
In the iOS 7 Control Center, there's an "AirDrop" option which gives me options to make myself "discoverable" to either contacts or everyone.  On OS X there is a feature called AirDrop that lets you share files between computers. How is this related? What can I share, and how? Does it require Bluetooth or Wi-Fi?
I am on a 2012 Mac Pro. I just asked it to copy my iTunes music folder which happens to be 40GB. Now, SATA shows a 3Gb speed, so ~320Gb of data should take all of 110 seconds. I know 3Gb is the high end for the SATA itself, and the drives are much lower. So instead of 2 minutes, even 20 makes sense.
I thought maybe because everyone in the world (literally) is downloading iOS 7 and maybe apple's servers were overflowing but I can connect to the iTunes store from iTunes, just not with my phone. The other thing is, even though I cancelled service on this phone almost 2 years ago, it still said Verizon as my service provider, now it says 'No Service'.
Every night, I have SuperDuper! create an image of my hard drive to an external drive. This works great, and has saved me from system failures a number of times.
I've just upgraded to iOS 7 on an iPhone 4S. I prefer a completely black wallpaper, but I noticed that making it so will turn the backgrounds of folders and the dock grey.
I try to create a portable Wi-Fi hotspot with my android Sony Xperia P (android 4.2.3) as it works with Windows flawlessly. With the macbook, I connect with the newly created Wi-Fi hotspot. The mac seems to connect (it gets an IP from the phone), but I can't navigate. Nothing happens. It is stuck. Any idea? The mac is a Macbook pro retina 13, with updated Mountain Lion.
New with iOS 7 is a "Shared Links" tab in Safari. I have twitter accounts setup on my device (TweetBot shows them). However I don't see any content in the Shared Links tab. Just this message: No Shared Links Links shared by your contacts from select social networks will appear here. How do I link my twitter account in Safari so that content appears here?
I downloaded iOS7 and noticed that the time doesn't show up in texts like the older version. How can I get the time to show up in my text messages when someone texts me? For example, when I receive a text from someone I want the time to show up in the actual conversation
I recently updated to IOS 7, now every time I use an app I get a message saying Connect to iTunes to use push notifications " Whatsapp" (And Other Apps) notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges, how do I get rid of these once an for all
I've upgraded to iOS7 on my iPhone 4s. The keyboard, regardless of what I am doing, either texting or entering email, is extremely sluggish - 5 second interval between keystrokes. What are some ways to troubleshoot this problem?
Pandora, Spotify Radio, and other music/radio streaming services usually have a limit on the number of skips allowed in a set amount of time. Does iTunes Radio have a similar limit, and if so, what are its conditions?
Why is my email popping up on other people's phone as my name? Ever since I did the iOS7 update on my phone, my messages are not coming up as "sussy joes" it is now some kind of email. How do I stop this from happening?
I have a brand new 13 inch macbook air. It seems that I keep having with my first time Macbook Air. First it was issues connecting to wi-fi and not resolution. I last used my Mac on Sunday and I had no issues with resolution and today (Wednesday) I turned it on and as I was browsing the web I noticed that everything in a web browser looks smaller. I did a command + 0 thinking i accidentally did that on firefox but that didn't do anything. I went to Chrome and it had the same thing. I went to system preferences > displays > and saw that I had the following option chosen: Best for built-in display.
I don't understand because it was manually managed on my PC not synced to a library. Also the prompt isn't very helpful, what does "erase this iPhone" mean? Delete everything? Just music and videos?
It appears that Apple left out of the final version the original parallax backgrounds that were on the original beta. Does anyone know where to locate those old files? NOTE: I've been able to find some low-res wallpapers in backups (the file is named LockBackgroundThumbnail.jpg), but the actual wallpaper doesn't seem to exist elsewhere. The example background I used on the beta version is this one:
I have this used Mac Pro (mid-2010) that I recently bought, that came with OS X Lion installed. It was apparently installed from an image because there are a lot of installed apps and, though there is no extra data on the machine, I see various printers, accounts, network shares and the like when I open configuration dialogs. The seller also put a restore image on one of the HDs. I have had a number of problems booting into various modes.
I need help finding a way to delete more than one song at a time on my iPhone. Can someone tell me if that is possible? I have tried deleting songs on my iTunes and then syncing them but it does not work and it takes way too much time.
I am not an Apple user myself, but trying to solve a problem for a family member. His Macbook Pro is damaged and not economical to repair, however he would like the data off the hard drive. Do I need to find a specific type of external hard drive enclosure, or will any standard 2.5" SATA enclosure work? Thank you!
I have to adjust the cursor sensitivity in SteerMouse every time I switch between my home mouse and my work mouse. Is there a way to do this programmatically?
I want to rename the my home directory (/Users/thisone), using this technique. However, I just started using Time Machine, and with 200 GB of data in my home directory; what will happen? Will the entire 200 GB have to be backed up again, because Time Machine doesn't understand that the data is the same since the home folder name changed?
I am selling an old Mac with OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and I don't have the installation CD anymore so I can't format and re-install; I have to leave the current installation intact. Obviously, I'd like to remove any personal data from it. What I've done: Move out all important data Delete my old account (and entire home directory) Create a new account for the new owner Delete unused space in Disk Utility Delete Spotlight index Delete /var/db/locate.db Is there anything else I should do to ensure that no personal data is available on the machine?
I just have a quick question regarding the iTunes radio function. My girlfriend and I updated our iPhone 5 at the same time. She got the iTunes Radio, and mine is nowhere to be found. I open iTunes and cannot seem to find it anywhere. Anyone else experienced this? I currently live in Norway with a Norwegian account, if that matters :)
I upgraded to ios7 this morning, and now all my albums have their songs out of order. Does anyone know where the setting to change them back to album order is? I can't find anything to indicate that shuffle is switched on (it does say "Shuffle" in the top right, but when I press it, it just changes to a highlighted "Shuffle All", which I don't think I want.)
A growing number of applications for iOS, especially those adjusted for iOS 7, support background tasks (so they complete a download or sync or whatever also if not in front). Is there any chance to print a list of applications that are running background tasks (or have been currently), for example like the one used for location based services?
I would like to know how to permanently disable the Alt key. I have a problem where by the computer is acting like the Alt is pressed down. Every time I type I get strange characters.
I just recently updated my iPhone 4S to iOS7 and it was pretty much okay at first. After I turned on the passcode for lockscreen I am now unable to unlock my iPhone. I was so sure I put the correct passcode for it because that is the only passcode I used in my iPhone for years. How can I unlock my iPhone?
I am unable to connect to the App Store after updating my macbook to OSX 10.8.5. Following is the message I get,
I just upgraded to iOS 7 on an iPhone 4S. When I swipe down on any screen, I get Notification Center, not Spotlight. Anyone know which setting is wrong?
Is there any way to restart an apple router via the commandline? Problem: My airport express starts to "give out" every day or so. I usually have to unplug it for a couple of seconds and then plug it back in. By "give out" I mean it isn't connected to the network and is flashing a yellow light. So, I'm looking for an automatic way to restart the express. I've looked into snmp and it doesn't seem like there's a way to send commands, it's only for stats it seems. To clarify: I do not care using Command line, or any other means of remotely resetting the router.
I'm looking for an app similar to TextExpander but I need that the expanded snippet to be shown simulating typewriting text effect. Something like shown in this YouTube video. If not posible, can I do it with Automator?
Before upgrading to iOS 7 from iOS 6, I had the wallpaper of my iPhone 4S lock screen show my name, address, and email address. Just in case somebody found my phone and was willing to see it returned.
I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday, and I read that iOS 7 allows applications to not only update themselves in the background, but also retrieve current data (like stocks, weather etc.) so they are already up-to-date when I launch them. Nice.
iOS7 comes with parallax backgrounds. My questions are: Are these a standard file type? Does anybody know what it is? Is there a process to create a custom one? -- EDIT Thanks everyone - I was asking for both.
Quick background: new mac, long time windows user; not scared by linux and scripts. I am currently using RedQuits to make the x red button quit de app, not just close the window. It is a great program, but has one small problem (for me): one can not select which apps should maintain the default behavior (x close the window, not the app). So i found a very old (2006) app called Stoplight that does exactly what i want: select which programs should not be affected. Unfortunately, Stoplight does not work anymore. So, i tried to see what the script does (it's a .bundle), but looks like it's compiled. To the questions: is there a way to decompile the script, so i can make it work again? if not, anyone have an idea about how to make a whitelist of apps that should not be closed by RedQuits? again, if not, where should i start to build my own script to intercept the signal that closes the windows and make it kill the app? any other hints are appreciated. Thanks.
I'm having difficulty managing music in my iTunes library on my phone. I have old songs that I do not want anymore that are still showing up with the iCloud symbol (ready to download) in my library. Even going to settings to hide certain downloaded music, the songs I do not want still appear (just without the iCloud symbol) and cannot be deleted. I want to completely get rid of some songs. Help.
An "Emergency" link on my iOS 7 lock screen goes to a phone dial page that says "Emergency call". What are the restrictions on this page? Can anyone use my iPhone to dial out? Does it only work with emergency numbers (e.g., 911)? Is there a time or use limit?
I am using a Mac mini OS X Mountain Lion Server (10.8.5). My goal is to have the server's own VPN service running over L2TP only. The Mac mini is behind an AirPort Extreme (4th generation) AirPort Extreme has: static IPv4 address static IPv4 address no connection sharing (bridged mode) no connection sharing (bridged mode) Back To My Mac disabled (as for all the Macs and AirPorts on the network) Back To My Mac disabled (as for all the Macs and AirPorts on the network) Internet connection via Ethernet to my ISP's box Internet connection via Ethernet to my ISP's box ISP's box: has static public IP address has static public IP address is the DHCP server with IP addresses reservations configured for my AirPort Extreme & Mac mini and private IP addresses from x.x.x.10 up-to x.x.x.50 is the DHCP server with IP addresses reservations configured for my AirPort Extreme & Mac mini and IP addresses reservations configured for my AirPort Extreme & Mac mini and private IP addresses from x.x.x.10 up-
When you have the screen locked on your iPhone, and you get a notification (like the Messages one shown below, minus the sender's name and icon) there is a line that says "slide to reply". This 'slide to reply' feature was there in iOS 6, and is common sense (to me), so I don't need this text taking up screen real estate. How do you get rid of it?
So I have recently updated from iOS 6 to 7, but in the process, I did a clean restore. Beforehand though, I have done a backup in iTunes before the update.
I'd love to make my own dynamic wallpaper. Has anybody investigated their format, and if there is a way of making one?
Is there a free cloud file server for personal files with shell commands like Unix ls, cp etc. ? Along the lines My ideal would be /Volumes/cloud; then I could use all Unix commands in scripts, Makefiles ... (which I'm used to: waaay simpler and more comfortable than clicking through GUIs.)
This morning I update my iPad 2 to iOS 7 and when I went to do a call on Skype, they are not hearing me. Is there something wrong with the settings or is it something else?
Is there a ways to prevent people from changing wireless networks and other networks? Does Apple have any kind of ACLs or something like Windows where you can control what the users can do?
Is it possible to change the download directory of iTunes on mac? I use mac OSX (10.8.5) and iTunes 11.0.5. I want to relocate the directory on a external hard disk storage?
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 and now my calendar is not working. All my entries are gone and it will not allow me to put a new entry in. My calendar is turned on in Settings → iCloud → Calendar, and it was backed up before I updated. What do I need to do to get my calendar information back?
I have an iPhone 4, so making Siri work on it is impossible (you can never find a working port). Is there a Cydia package that can take system commands such as alarm clocks and reminders from Google Now Voice Actions and use them as system commands, like Siri?
iOS 7 has a new auto-update apps feature. When it's enabled, you don't have to manually go into the App Store app and download updates for your installed apps. However, I want to be able to find out what apps have been updated recently, and the App Store app just has a 'all your apps are updated' message on the Update tab. Is there a log somewhere that lists recently-updated apps?
I regularly use a network drive (using SMB), along with a bunch of other Mac users. Because those other Macs leave the window view settings in .DS_Store files, I'm constantly having my windows open using other people's last-view settings. Is there any way I can somehow tell the Finder to ignore .DS_Store settings for a given volume? (I know there's a way I can stop my system from leaving .DS_Store files, but setting that same preference on every Mac that might access the volume is not an option.)
I bought a new iMac, however it has no SuperDrive. I was given a gift of Microsoft Office 2011 (3 uses) in disc, but I don't have the money for external drive right now. How can I install this program on my new computer?
After updating to iOS 7 I discovered that the Messages app on my iPad was reset to use my iCloud AppleID. My iPhone, which was updated at the same time, retained my preferred AppleID which is tied to my primary and secondary email addresses—allowing friends to contact me using the addresses they know.
I successfully downloaded and activated the new iOS 7, but now my screen won't stop shaking. It looks like my iPhone 5 is caught in the middle of a hurricane. Is there anything I can do to make it stop?
Will it be possible to downgrade from iOS 7.0.1 to iOS 6 ? Just in case if i wanted iOS6 back.I'm asking about iOS7 final public version not the beta build.
With iOS 7 the "Add all tracks" option, when selecting a playlist, seems to have vanished. Now the user has to select each song in the playlist individually, which can be very tedious with a long playlist. How can I get back the "Add all tracks" option?
(2.) Square and video formats and swipe to capture are available on iPhone 4 or later, iPad (3rd generation or later), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation). Now my questions are:
For some reason my iPhone 4s (running on latest iOS 6 and never jailbroken) has crashed and is stuck on a rebooting loop. I tried to restore my iPhone from a backup I made about a week ago. iTunes prompted me to install the latest version (11.1) and I went ahead and did this, remembering that I saw somewhere that you need to be running the latest version of iTunes to be able to restore.
I have the volume + button broken, and if I click it, it may stuck itself and continuously increase the volume, so I avoid to use the + button. I tried the assistive touch, but it's incredibly annoying, sometimes I want to tap somewhere but I cannot because there is the icon in the middle, and I have to displace it all times.
Why is "Users" file so huge? I am Migrating my Time Capsule's copy of my Air hard drive back to my Air with brand new Hard drive installed.
I want to change the folder colors on my home screen. Can it be done?
Downloading iOS 7.0 from iTunes on my Mac was estimated at 1.2 GB (with some 16 hours download time). Then I tried downloading it from the iPhone itself, and it said 660 MB (with 8 hours download time). How can the downloadable file be twice as large when coming through iTunes, when they essentially should contain exactly the same data?
After the upgrade to iOS 7, while using non-Apple certified chargers I receive the warning This cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iPhone. AFAIK there is no way to say "Got It", "Suppress Message", etc., and it shows up every time I plug in my chargers. Anyone know of any ways to disable these messages without jailbreaking the iPhone?
iOS 7 now looks to include integration with Flickr for photo sharing. I already have a Flickr account, though I log in using a google (gmail) account. I would expect to be able to connect this account with iOS 7 Flickr integration, but logging in with this method seems to be unavailable, and using a user@yahoo.com account seems to be the only option. How can a Google account be connected to the iOS 7 Flickr integration (in the settings menu) without having to "start fresh" and re-upload photos and content?
iPhone 4S iOS7 Linux Mint When I plug my phone into my Linux machine I get the following message "Trust this computer?" No matter how many times I tap "Trust" the message comes up again. I do not have this problem on my Win7 machine.
I would like to have a global shortcut key to send a new message using Thunderbird in Mac OS. How can I do this?
Is it possible to use a third-party unauthorized charger with an iPad running iOS 7? I have an iPad 2 with a 30 pin connector.
I need to restore my phone, I backed up all my photos onto a photstream going to my Ipad. Will they be deleted?
I am downloading the iOS7 update image for my iPhone over a high-speed connection. I want to update my wife's phone too, which is synched to her computer at home (where we have sloooow internet). Is there a relatively painless way to transfer the installer to her computer at home on a usb drive, so we can update her phone as well? Edit: mac on both ends and same model of iPhone. I found the ipsw on my computer here: ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates/iPhone5\,1_7.0_11A465_Restore.ipsw I will try placing this in the same location on her computer and see if iTunes will recognize it.
If I delete a song I got in iTunes from my iPhone 4S (IOS 6.3) do I have to pay again to download it? I have never sync with a PC or MAC, so it exists only in my iPhone.
I have a question is there a way to downgrade from ios 7 to ios 6 with an iphone 5? please tell me yes i hate this update lol
I am not seeing the options in iTunes Radio for "Play More Like This" and "Never Play This" for individual songs, nor the "Variety" slider for each station.   Per iTunes Help docs: While a song is playing, click near the top-left of the iTunes window, and choose Play More Like This or Never Play This Song from the pop-up menu. Adjust the balance between new and familiar songs (on the selected station only): Click a station to display its contents, and click Hits (familiar), Variety (mixed), or Discovery (new).
I upgraded my iPhone to IOS7. Since this upgrade the app store has been having a new update history. How can I remove the history?
I just upgraded to iOS 7 and my Music app is now crashing every time I try to launch it. I've tried rebooting my iPad, disabling iTunes Match, re-enabling iTunes Match, but nothing seems to let me access my music. Any thoughts on how I can reset my Music app?
I've been messing with Bluetooth audio settings to try to keep my Bluetooth speakers from popping by changing settings via defaults write, but I'm afraid I've made the problem worse. I'd like to revert to the default… defaults, bringing them back to where they were originally or, more specifically, where they would be for a new user account or new system. Is this as simple as using defaults delete on the appropriate domain and key?
In Finder, when I create an archive ("Compress items..."), the resulting zip archive has .DS_Store files in folders and files have resource forks. How can I create a zip archive suitable for cross platform sharing from Mac OS X?
My MacBook Pro lost wireless connection. Everything was working fine when the connection suddenly stopped. My mac can still connect via ethernet cable, so I know the modem and router and everything are working. Other wireless devices (phones and computers) can connect to the router, so I know the router is working. I've tried restarting my mac, and that didn't help. Any suggestions? I'm on OS 10.6.8
As a long time (intimately familiar with 3.11) Windows user I finally made the jump to OS X. I was excited to take advantage of the massive resolution on my new MBP, and it's as awesome as I thought it would be. However, Unity + Windows looks terrible. I realize Windows was not built to take advantage of such jaw-dropping resolutions, but I still want it to run at native resolution. I find myself enjoying the OS X environment, and reluctant to leave it for a full screen Windows VM; Unity is becoming a must. I've tried checking the 'Use Full Resolution' setting to no avail. (Not sure if it makes a difference, but I'm running the Windows 8.1 preview)
I have seen a lot of old information about this, but nothing new or recent. I have a Verizon iPad (4th Generation) running iOS7 and want to switch to AT&T. Can I drop an AT&T SIM in and run on AT&T's network (obviously sans LTE)?
Can I prevent Reminders from being dismissed on the lock screen? I do want Reminder to pop up while the phone is locked. I do not want any random person to mark them as completed while the phone is locked.
Does Java (the JDK) come pre-installed with Macs on OS X 10.7/10.8 and beyond? I am hearing Apple is going to stop shipping Java with 10.8 and beyond but I couldn't find any link to confirm it/deny it.
I have downgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 7 to iOS 6.1.3, but when it went back to iOS 6, the Software Update section of Settings is showing that iOS 7 is automatically downloading again. I tried to downgrade my phone again and again but it's not working.
So, since I updated iTunes to version 11.1, my podcasts library went a little crazy. Some episodes were deleted from my Mac and all episodes are now marked with the little blue pin (saying they're unwatched/unplayed). I'm not sure this is the default behaviour now in this iTunes version, I hope it's just a bug.
Tried starting in the morning after power drained, plugged in, everything came back for a few seconds then the screen went black. Can't restart. If I hold powe button down 10 sec machine emits an intermittent beep which continues until I push power button again. Any ideas on how to fix?
I recently bought a CM Storm QuickFire keyboard. This keyboard is made for Windows. It works perfectly on Bootcamp, but when I use it on the OS X side, the keys are completely remapped. the F key acts like F + down arrow etc.
I have disabled Documents and Data syncing in iOS 7 to overcome the sluggish keyboard issue. But I wonder what the consequences of turning Docu and Data sync off are?
I would like to connect a Thunderbolt Display and a Dell 24" display to my MackBook Pro (mid 2011 model) at the same time to use dual screens. Is this possible?
When trying to shutdown or restart my Mac it just keep on showing the spinning wheel with the white background. I have waited for at least 15 minutes but nothing happens. When safe booting I can successfully shutdown OS X so I guess it is probably caused by a kernel extension. How can I find out what is hanging the shutdown process? Result of doing kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 } ':
I downloaded songs on my iPhone 5 with iOS 7 and the songs played fine yesterday. When I connected to iTunes, the songs became unavailable on my iPhone with a red square and red circle around the square. The songs also do not appear in iTunes. Please help??
Is it possible to disable Siri on the lockscreen while not requiring a code to unlock the device? I'm using iOS 7 and I think this was possible in iOS 6.
What is a simple and cheap solution that let's me see and control my OSX desktop from iOS that solely works over LAN and does not connect to the internet at any time?
I was wondering if a locked iPhone (with a contract of 2 years) can be updated to iOs 7 and still working well and under the same contract.
When I download an audio file with Safari, it is automatically opened with iTunes. How can I do to prevent this ? I would like that nothing happens when an audio file is downloaded. My configuration is MacOS 10.8, iTunes 11, and Safari 6.
I'm running an iPad 2 on iOS7. I have 3 iPad 2 and an iPad mini. All running iOS7. On all of the devices, I access a site which has a 'remember me' cookie to save me having to log in again. This works fine on all devices except for one iPad 2. I have gone through all the safari settings and they match the other devices. I'm stuck now. What is the problem? It happened on iOS6 as well. The cookie appears to get deleted when I turn the ipad off and then back on. I cleared the cookies and data in case that was the problem, but it still doesn't remember on this device.
I would like to delete a location from the weather app in iOS 7. If I tap and hold I can rearrange the order and the '+' sign allows me to add one. Swiping left-to-right as in previous versions does not work. How can a location be removed from the list?
A few days ago I wanted to upgrade my iOS to version 7, but before I could do this I had to make room by deleting programs that didn't help so much. So I was forced to delete my music library on my iPhone. And not really thinking about my new purchased music that hasn't been synchronized with iCloud or iTunes. So I lost my new music.
Help! I updated my apple ID with a different email a while ago but somehow it was not wired onto my device and now I can't delete the account (with the old INACTIVE email) because of safety features. How can I do this???
After downloading IOS 7 on my iPad, there is a 15-20 second delay between touching a keyboard character and the letter appearing on the screen.
I like the new control center in iOS7. I would like to know if there is possible to set up what should be available in it? One thing is which toggle settings to show at the top row, like turn on/off mobile data (not flight mode, as I want to be able to call and receive calls). Another thing is to specify which apps to be accessible at the bottom row.
I would like Siri not to be able to make reminders and calendar items without asking for the lock screen password. When I ask Siri to create a new reminder, I would like to ask it to unlock my phone first.
My son used my computer last night. he logged onto it using the Guest User. He therefore logged off my "screen". I keyed in my password in the startup screen and it wasn't recognized. I rekeyed it in a few times incorrectly ( bad I know) but then finally found the CORRECT password and it keeps on "shaking" as it is incorrect. This is about to drive me crazy and I have spent 1 hr trying to fix it and nothing is working. please help me!!
When I start postfix, I see in /var/log/system.log the following error: error: open database /etc/postfix/system_user_maps.db: No such file or directory How should this file be created so that postfix can start properly? I tried doing touch on this file, but I get the error
Just downloaded iOS 7 on my iPhone 4. The clouds don't move on my weather app. My husband and friends' weather apps have animated clouds. Why doesn't mine?
The apps Google Maps and Waze request access to the microphone.  Enable microphone access to play audio on bluetooth devices and more.
Prior to upgrading from OS X 10.8.4 to 10.8.5, I had the following DNS zone file in place that worked perfectly fine - now it's failing: And by "failing" I mean that when I try to ping foo.dev, I get: "nslookup foo.dev localhost" returns:
The iPhone 5S won't be released where I live until maybe a month or two. I would like to get my hands on one from the US (better prices than UK) but I want it to be unlocked.
Didn't iOS 6 support multitasking and allow background apps to refresh their content? So what's new in iOS 7? Just that we can enable/disable specific apps from accessing the network when running in the background?
On linux machines I used to type reset on terminal. It was like, closing and reopening the terminal! It is very convenient, because in debugging you wont mix error messages from previous executions. The command does exists on OSX, however when i scroll up, the previous output is there too!
I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday. Today, all my contacts suddenly vanished. They were working in iOS 7 this morning, but have since disappeared.
I'm trying to sync several Google calendars with my iPhone, iPad and Mac, but I don't want all of my Google calendars to show up on the phone, just a certain few. You used to be able to go to the Google sync settings and choose which calendars to sync with which device, but when I tried to make some changes today (at google. com/sync/index.html), it changed for all of my devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac mini). Searching Google Support confirmed this is intended (https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/99358):
In 10.7's Mail.app, it shows all recipients as a blue bubble with a name in it. In order to see the email address, I have to click on the right side of the bubble, to get a pop-up menu.
I'm using a Macbook Pro as a productivity/work machine and have Facebook and reddit blocked with /etc/hosts: This has worked for a while in all browsers, but recently stopped working in Firefox and Safari, and I can't figure out why. I was previously using 127.0.0.1, but when that stopped working I tried 0.0.0.0 instead, no dice. I did install Avast just recently so I thought that could have been the problem, what with its web security features, but I uninstalled the browser add-on in Safari and Firefox and I was still able to access Facebook and reddit just fine.
In the stock camera app, iOS 7 has added a new burst mode feature that takes multiple photos in succession for as long as the shutter is pressed. Is there any way I can turn this feature off and have the app behave like the old one?
I cannot run the Intel Driver Update Utility on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5). All Java options are enabled (have tested in Safari, Firefox and Chrome) and latest Java version installed. It keeps saying "Loading…" until a message pops up saying…
I have an external drive that had a single HFS+ partition (GPT). It was accidentally formatted. How can I recover the lost partition? I "know" the old partition map which (coincidentally?) is the same as the new one; starting sectors etc. Thanks in advance
Iphone 5 iOS 6.1 (jaikbroken) OK, I've been solely using the gmail app for a while now and haven't had any use for the built-in mail app. Was hoping to run without any mail account on there, but it gets me in trouble for those times some other app wants to send email and finds no mail account. So finally I was setting up gmail just for outgoing smtp but even doing so it forces me to include incoming imap account and it annoys me just on principal to have local duplicate copies of the last 50 messages I don't need.
When I create a custom wallpaper image and assign it to the lock screen on iOS 7, the colors of the image are changed. Oddly, if I take a screen capture of the lock screen, the colors match those of the original image.
I have tried changing the Parallax setting (general>accessibility>reduce motion). Still shaking!!
Can I charge 2006 or 2007 MacBook with a charger for iPad or iPhone 5? Sounds little bit crazy but wouldn't be great if you could use one charger for any Apple device? ;o))))))
Is a 45 W MagSafe Charger going to work for MacBook model A1181 (2007)? ...or I need 60 or 85 W charger? Does 45 W MagSafe only work for MacBook Air or also for other Apple Macbooks?
I am trying to clear off a lot of extra space on my hard drive. I started with about 90 gigs of music today when I had about 45 gigs of space left available. I just deleted almost 40 gigs worth of music from iTunes and emptied the trash. But it doesn't show any increase in available space.
iOS 7 on iPhone 4 Noticed that when I pair with my car's BT, the track skip button on the steering wheel doesn't do anything. Tried un-pairing and re- pairing. Toggled BT. It used to work fine on iOS 6. Tried multiple apps like Pandora and Music, both have the same issue. Anyone else seen this?
I've recently installed Mountain Lion 10.8.2. The installation is successful and had sound and network working out of the box. Now I wanted to install XCode for class and App Store says that I should update to 10.8.5 to install it. How can I install XCode without an update? I don't want to download large updates since my internet is highly charged.
So I like to set a new, randomly-generated MAC address after every restart using ruby -e 'print ("%02x"%((rand 64)*4|2))+(0..4).inject(""){|s,x|s+":%02x"%(rand 256)} + "\n"' and then copy/pasting the output after the command sudo ifconfig en0 ether
The new burst mode in iOS 7 was demoed at the iPhone event, but I couldn't tell whether that's just a feature of the iPhone 5S or whether that was an iOS 7 feature. Which devices support it?
I have a calendar with birthdays in them and I'd like to set the repeat to "Every year" -- unfortunately setting each manually seems quite painful. Would there be an easier way to accomplish this? Im on an OSX 10.8.
Windows user here. How am I supposed to recover file without using a command line? I run Mac OS X 10.8.5
Are the following CPU usages normal?? From last few days my macbook air is heating too much. And i frequently notice the fan running fast. Top two process have always use over 70% cpu and it goes to around 125 sometimes.
I restored my iPhone 4s yesterday on my computer and it went through with no problems. Today when my iPhone crashed and I tried to restore it again - I keep getting the message "This device isn't eligible for the requested build". Nothing has changed from yesterday - so I don't know why it was OK then but not now...
I have an iMac with an external 2TB HDD. I recently bought a second 2TB HDD in order to build a RAID 1 (mirrored) with the two drives.
I have a recent Mac with two partitions. The first one contains MacOS, and is encrypted with FileVault. The second one contained a Bootcamp Windows installation. Here is a screen shot:
I'm looking for an app that would offer the ability to (among other things) record your dtmf key presses into a sort of recording or macro. The reason behind this would be to go through calling a 1-800 number and pressing various sequences of:
I was downloading iOS 7 to my iPhone 4 and the update was going for almost 1 day. I left it overnight and when I was about to use my phone it is stuck on the 'Connect to iTunes' screen (iTunes logo with a USB cord). My phone is still stuck on that and when I try to fix it with iTunes with my PC (Windows 7) the message always pops up saying that my phone needs to restore. Can you help me with this?
When I have new photos available in my shared photo streams, the iPhoto icon in the dock has a red circle with a number in it, also known as a "Badge App Icon". I went to System Preferences -> Notifications -> Photo Stream and disabled everything, but the badge app icon on iPhoto still shows. For now I have disabled shared photo streams completely from iPhoto -> Preferences, and that has removed the badge app icon, but I would prefer to still keep it enabled. How can I disable this badge app icon?
I use iPhoto on the Mac and it can show a map with all the locations where I took photos. Is there a similar app on the iPad? With a map I can zoom in and out…
I have allowed myself a new SSD HD for my MacBookPro. Now since i had a case-sensitive HD (don't aks) and i wanted to get rid of it and also finally install Lion, i didn't copy the image of my old system.
As soon as I updated my phone, my music controls stopped working. On the lock screen and in the Control Center, I can only change the volume, not the song. The buttons to change the song light up when I touch them but the song doesn't change. I have to go into the Music app to change the song every time. My screen isn't cracked or broken - it works perfectly fine. Please could I have some help on what to do?
The like and dislike options are grayed out. I'm on an iPhone 5s and iOS 7.0. Any ideas?
On iTunes for Mac I can right click a station to add it my stations. I tried a long press on a featured station on iOS but that doesn't bring up any options.
iOS 7 is out, and it has AirDrop. I'd like to be able to AirDrop files between my Mac and my iPhone, but it seems that iOS devices don't show up on the Mac AirDrop console.
I'm trying to import a large iTunes library from an XML file, but at the end I get a message: Some songs of "example.xml" file were not imported because they were not found
On my Mac Pro I'm running Mountain Lion. With OS X I can run my Windows 7 partition using VMWare. Is it possible to run my Mac OS X partition in Windows 7 running VMWare or any other virtual machine application out there? If so, could someone point me in the right direction?
Now that Outlook.com supports IMAP email I'd like to set up Mail.app (on OS X 10.7.5) to use it rather than POP for that account. I have it set up on my Windows and Android machines, so I know it works.
When I long press on a photo someone shared with me in an iMessage chat I get three main options: Copy, More..., and Speak. More only presents options to delete all, or select some messages to forward to someone. Speak doesn't seem useful. So can I copy a photo into my camera roll?
I just cannot figure out how to figure out what is wrong. A cable - disk combination that refuses to work on the MacMini works just fine my Windows 8 Dell Notebook. Is there any way to diagnose the problem? How?
In iOS 6 and 7 there's a section in the Photos app that allows you to share photos with other people and other people to share photos with you. When others share with me, are the photos copied to my harddrive? Or do they purely reside in the cloud?
My Mac has everyone in the families music on it. We have a playlist each that we sync to our various devices. Since iOS7, all the music I've ever purchased from iTunes is now on my phone, not just my single playlist. That wouldn't be so bad if the purchased music wasn't dominated by all the rubbish that I've bought for my kids. I think it's just streaming, but it's still really annoying because my car shuffles between all the songs on the device by default.
The story is like this: File was trying to be sent via Airdrop, I can't receive the file, both of us were on the Airdrop window, nothing happens. Quit the connection. Days later, Airdrop still shows the sender (friend) whom isn't even around the proximity and has jammed up my AirDrop.
I have a wireless network name and its password. I can connect to this Wi-Fi network with my computer. If I have an Airport Express, can I configure it to repeat the signal without physical access to the router?
Why do OTA updates for iOS always require at least 3GB of free space? It's kind of a pain to have to delete apps and then to have to reinstall them again.
Question: Because I use emacs-live, I used homebrew to install emacs-24.3. Now everytime I want to launch emacs of version 24.3 in terminal, I have to type "emacs-24.3" --- if I just type "emacs", it launches the original updated emacs came with Mac OS. how can I configure these so that I only need to type "emacs" and launch the one installed by homebrew?
I've noticed that when I play Netflix video in Firefox, my Macbook Air's fans spin up to maximum, but under Safari, it stays silent. Why does Safari cause less of a load?
I recently created a RAID 1 set with two external 2TB drives, and it caused me lots of issues. First, my iMac (10.8.4) kernel panicked a dozen times before I found out it was the 256k block size which freaked it out. After formatting both drives again, now I have a working RAID set (with 128k block size). Cool, if it wasn't for this little thing: open Finder windows now close and reopen every minute or so.
I know there's a lot of advice for MacBooks randomly shutting down or restarting, but my question is a bit different. My MacBook Pro (mid-2010 15") only turns off when I instruct it to. However, it will only ever Restart: If "Shutdown" is chosen, it will instead restart. If "Sleep" is chosen, it will restart. If I close the lid and the computer tries to go to sleep, it will restart. The only way to get it to power off is by manually holding the power button.
I wish to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard disk to Solid State Drive, and that requires an installation of OS X on the SSD drive before I can replace the hard drive. The typical installation instructions are: Create a bootable partition on the SSD Hook up the SSD via an external adapter (for example, USB), boot up the MacBook Pro and start the recovery process. Select the SSD drive as the drive for OS X to be installed. Agree to the license agreement, log on using Apple ID (if required) and let "Install OS X" app download a copy of the OS over the Internet before installing it to the SSD etc, etc, etc The issue is without a very fast Internet connection, the installation process will take a very long time. Are there any alternatives such as pre-downloading a copy of OS X, or cloning the content of the drive?
Before iOS 7 on the iPhone, there was an option in settings to turn off the gloss on apps, how can I do so on iOS 7?
I have a Mac running Mountain Lion and an iPhone5 running iOS7 I have confirmed that the Apple account setup in messages in my Mac and iPhone are the same account.
Or is this an OS limitation? A developer recently told me that his app couldn't use bluetooth speakers because it also allows use of the microphone. Is this true? And if so, can someone explain the reasoning behind this?
I have an iPad 2 that is currently running iOS 5.0.1. I'm generally happy with it but some applications require a more recent iOS version. So I started to look into upgrading it, but the only upgrade that it offers is to iOS 7.
On the few occasions I've tried using secure empty trash, it takes forever (I hear this is normal) but when it's in progress it counts the number of items to delete incorrectly. I put one file in the trash, secure empty it, and it shows a progress bar stating that 5 items still need to be deleted. It was a large file, so maybe it's split into 5 parts? Or are there some other hidden files associated with my file that are being deleted as well?
I have an iPad2 with original iOS4.3.3, no jailbreak. Now there are several apps that require iOS 5 or above and I'm ready to upgrade. But I don't want to install yet the latest iOS7 (heard about some bugs, performance issues, etc.).
Some TIFFs can't be exported to PNG in Preview. What is preventing this and how do I correct it?
iOS7 organizes photos into automatic groups. It labels each group with a location. It often chooses the wrong location. For example if you're at the supermarket it might say "Anytown Post Office" if there happens to be a post office near by
As I understand currently Apple allows some kind of gambling apps to be published on AppStore, I just don't know all about this. So, my question is if they would allow a lotto type app with real money of course but also with virtual currency. If anyone could shed some light on this I would be thankful.
I just got my 2 Thunderbolt displays for my MacBook Pro Retina. I connected the 2 screens on one Thunderbolt port by using the Thunderbolt chain solution. (connecting screen 2 to screen 1 and screen 1 to the MBPR).
I have OS X Lion 10.7.4 and want to upgrade OS X Mountain Lion. What do I have to do for the upgrade?
I recently uploaded IOS7 onto my iPhone 4S and now I can't see the name of the sender of any newly received emails in my inbox. Can anyone help? Nothing too techy please - plain English needed. Thanks
Is it possible to do something like the concept of sandboxing (like all apps on iOS have its own system software resources) for all existing applications (so - not while designing an own new application) on OSX (Lion/ML/Maverics) just copying required frameworks, libraries, binaries (/usr, /etc, /Library, etc.) and than using chroot for the process when start?
I have an iPhone 5S, and I have automatic app updates disabled as I like to manage these myself. However, when I do, I have to enter my Apple ID password every time? If I make new purchases, it seems to go through with the Touch ID; however, if I update an app I am forced to manually enter my password. I have the 7.0.1 update and apple store purchases under the General => Fingerprint section in Settings, which is turned on.
I ran a 'chown' on everything under /usr to a non root user. Meant to run it for /usr/local/ Now I get the error below on opening terminal
I got as far as this question where my issue came up only as a comment.  I've heard and deleted the 9/6 and 9/13 episodes, but they appear in the list. A right-click (sorry yes I'm on a Mac but have a mouse with r-c) shows no delete option.
I want to delete my Windows partition and regrow my Mac partition to use the whole disk. But when I click Restore in the Boot Camp Assistant, it says: Your disk could not be restored to a single partition. An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partition. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.5, on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro.
How do I change the settings to display the in the dictionary the IPA pronunciation guide, rather than diacritical, guide in the iPhone 5S iOS 7?
I installed java from the oracle's website. Now I have a Java Control Panel in the System Preferences. But in the tab "Java" of Java Control Panel there is the button "View" disabled.
I have a very weird problem - I messed up with the partions when I installed Bootcamp. I want to upgrade my 10.7.5 to 10.8.5. I have bought the 10.8.5 from Apple Store. I downloaded it and when tried installing it, it failed because there was no Apple-formatted disk.
On my iPhone with iOS 6, I often use the Amazon bluetooth keyboard to use my iPhone, including turning it on (home button on keyboard) and unlocking (escape button instead of swiping to unlock). But (and I don't remember how this was on iOS 6) with my iPad on iOS 7, the iPad won't respond to the keyboard when the screen is off (can't access lock screen) and the "escape" button doesn't reveal the home screen. (Search button doesn't activate spotlight either, it does on my iPhone with iOS 6, but that's a side issue.)
I just updated my iPhone to iOS 7 and, even if the country and billing info is for Romania, on the phone AppStore and iTunes Store are in german, only a few buttons are in Romanian. I would like them to be in Romanian or english, what can I do? I read online about this issue but nothing works. The phone is in sync with computer.
App Store on my iPhone keeps on showing that there are 3 new updates, but when I click on updates, it shows 0 new updates. It will update the badge count to 0 new updates as well, but not much later the 3 new updates will appear. See screenshots:
The text beneath the apps looks really out of place with the new iOS 7. Is there any way to turn it off without jailbreaking?
I have just attempted to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 7. The phone switched itself off after a while and now the phone won't work any more. The screen switched back on with the logo of iTunes and the charger with an arrow pointing to the iTunes logo.
Is it possible to AirPlay video from my iPad 2 on an Apple TV, but play the audio on my iPad?
I am using Android Studio and the application is stored in /Application/Android Studio.app. I'm not sure why, but at some point my keystore file was stored inside this directory, in the bin directory. It is no longer there. I assume that an update occurred, and the entire directory Android Studio.app was wiped. And, the key was deleted. Since this is outside my home folder, I don't believe I have a backup of the keystore file.
So I can block callers from iOS 7 now (Settings > Messages > Blocked) and I'm told it blocks voice, iMessages, and FaceTime. What happens when they try to contact me? Are they told the number is disconnected or do they get some kind of recording? If they call, does it ring indefinitely? Same for FaceTime? Do their texts bounce back or are they sent thought I never see them?
When I click Cmd-X to try and cut the file on my USB drive so I can paste it elsewhere and free up space on my USB, it does nothing, and when I Ctrl-click it only gives the option to copy the file, not cut it. How to cut-and-paste a file on OS X?
is that a command to type in terminal that lists all the webcams connected to my computer? Maybe using ffmpeg package?
I accidentally changed my date format from "German (English)" to "German (Germany)". Now I can't seem to get it back.
I have a set of SmartMailboxes in mail.app and noticed after I change them and restart the program, the changes are lost. I just tried deleting an old rule under Preferences > Rules and the rule returned when I restarted mail.app. I have checked the preference files for obvious problems and searched online and on these forums, but can't find any clues.
I have a terminal command that I would like to run. Ideally I would like to convert this into a .command file and be able to share it with many other mac users without them having to give permissions using sudo...
I am totally newbie when it comes to .htaccess or Apache. I don't know how it works. My URLs are like *=URL=* and I'd like to get the variable value as something in category.php but I'd like to show the URL as http://localhost/something
I am trying to run kivy on Mac and it relies on my Xcode arm gcc compiler. I already tryied to answer this question in a stackoverflow question but here I we again... Where to find the arm apple llvm gcc compiler in the new XCode 5?
My husband has lost all his calendar entries after upgrading to iOS 7 on his iPhone earlier today. He deleted 3 football calendars from his iPhone as they were duplicated. Everything was fine. Now everything is gone, including on iCloud. He has no back up elsewhere. Any ideas?
My OverDrive Media app crashes every time I try to open a book. This never happened before I updated my iPad mini to iOS 7. I can open the app fine and go to the NYPL page, but as soon as I try to open any title the app crashes.
So I upgraded to iOS 7 this morning. I checked Control Center a bit later and saw an AirPlay icon going to "iPhone Speaker". I have no idea why (we don't have any air play devices, let alone with that name), I don't know how it got selected, and I'm no longer seeing it. So… is that normal?
Since Friday 9/20/2013, when I try to open iTunes on my iPhone 4s (running iOS 7), it crashes. I was able to open it to do a search and purchase a song, but after it started downloading, it crashed. Every time I try to re-open it, it crashes after a couple of seconds. I've tried unloading it from memory and that doesn't fix it. I also completely shutdown and powered on the phone, but that doesn't fix it either. I can't believe completely wiping my phone would be the only way to fix this; any other suggestions?
I noticed that iOS 7 on my iPad now says this in the Bluetooth pane of the preferences if Bluetooth is turned off: "Location accuracy and nearby services are improved when Bluetooth is turned on." How does Bluetooth improve location accuracy? I know that Wifi improves accuracy because Apple has various Wifi networks mapped out, but how could Bluetooth help?
The title says most of it. My mother changed her password through the Accounts pane of System Preferences to a lengthy one (17 characters) about three weeks ago. Then, the next day, she left for Spain, and she came back today. I'm pretty sure she didn't log out between the time she changed her password and the time she shut down her computer on the day she left.
In Google Drive on iOS, how do you change sharing permissions for a file or folder from "Private" to "Anyone with the link" or "Public on the web"? I only see a way to add named users.
I locked my iPad by accident after upgrading to iOS 7 and noticed that it no longer displayed the remaining time that the device will be locked for. Is there any way to enable this?
After upgrading to iOS 7 the standard Notes app crashes when starting it. I'm running iOS 7.0 and have reproduced this after a clean power down of the phone.
Is this a bug I need to report or is this normal or what? On both my white iPad 2 and my white iPhone 4S running iOS 7, I thought the boot screen was supposed to be white/gray with a dark Apple logo, but I'm getting the black screen with the white logo. But since it's the same on both devices maybe I'm missing something. Any ideas?
Where you can see that adding week numbers preserves every day on the right. Also you need to click to day to see the week number which is outrageously slow.
If I have FileVault on, this will encrypt all my data on my HDD. so this said, will this send to dropbox the encrypted files or the original files?
I'm trying to downgrade my iPhone from the current iOS to an older one, as per this question. But every time I try, I always receive this error:
I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 last night but now I can't download apps using the App Store on my iPhone. It's still possible to get the apps using iTunes on my computer and syncing my phone, but this is cumbersome. I get errors as shown below:
Using an iPad Mini, I preferred the paged, compact style of the app switcher in iOS 6. In iOS 7 it is replaced by a scrolling interface where I see 4 app-icons at a time at best and have the huge preview cards quickly swishing through the screen.
I have an external mac keyboard on my mac, and would like to be able to use the keyboard to control the volume like I do with my MacBook pro's FN+F10-12 keys, but there's no FN key on my external keyboard. How can I do this? I'm willing to change to using just Function keys if required.
I started for some reason OSX's Log console and just found out someone was attacking me with ssh connexion's I had over 500 of these messages (just the user name was chaging) in 5 minutes : Do you know a way to get some kind of warning popup when a process sends a lot of logs like here ?
I use the Windows OS and iTunes 11.1 and recently I noticed that the last few version of the Itune App Store they had made changes to the viewing of app in both iphone & ipad. The old version can view app according to their release date ( date shown ) but now under the release date for the app ( date shown is remove ). I had problem viewing the lastest app since last view under the respective category. Is there a way to show the release date of the app in the current app store?
I'm on iOS 7 and I'd like to make the folders' background transparent so I can see the wallpaper behind it. Is there a way to do this?
Is there a way to export and then import downloaded/saved e-mail from the default apple e-mail client to outlook 2011?
I was listening to iTunes Radio yesterday - US iPhone, US Apple ID - after launching it from the 'Radio' tab in the Music app (mentioned here). Today that tab disappeared. What happened?
I have an Individual Developer Account of $99 and now I want upgrade my account to a Company Account. What is the process of upgrading? I have some running apps on the App Store with my individual account, which are showing my name under the app name.
My wife ruined her 4th-generation iPod touch in the pouring rain at Farm Aid this weekend. I have a 3rd-generation iPod touch that I don't use often because I have an iPhone.
How can I add wallpapers to iOS 7 without adding them to Photos.app ? Is there a way to add wallpapers to native iOS wallpapers?
I’d like to use the character ‘ō’ in an app we’re building, and in its accompanying promotional website. We’re using Gill Sans for the interface font, but it seems to lack this character in the regular weight (it’s there in light). Am I missing something?
When the new Per App VPN feature is triggered, does that VPN connection only apply to those apps, or does it apply to all traffic on the device? Also, when the connection is triggered by the domain in Safari, does Safari use the VPN for all open pages, or only those triggered by the SafariDomains key?
I'm attempting to write an Automator application that will mount an external disk. I have an AppleScript that does the job and I'm attempting to insert it into an Automator application. However, rather than paste in the script I want to call the file, I have the following in Automator: However, this produces a syntax error: Can’t make some data into the expected type. Any suggestions as to the source of the problem?
I don't like having my phone ring. I just use two modes: vibrate only (when it's in my pocket) and no vibrate and no ring (when it's on a table/dock in front of me, and I'll see if something happens just by seeing the screen turn on).
As the title says, my iPhone 4S's power button has suddenly stopped "depressing", making it very hard to do push. I understand that Apple offers their own Limited Warranty for a year, but sadly (inevitably?) my phone is a few months beyond that. As I live in the United Kingdom, I know every product has to have a six year warranty, even Apple's, and that's reflected on their website.
How do I make NFS automounted volumes visible in Finder or, in other words, have opposite effect to default option nobrowse? From mount manpage This is edited mount command output from Mac Pro
When traveling internationally and connecting to an 802.11g wireless network I'm unable to connect because non-US access points default to using channel 13 and up. From what I hear if the Mac Book Pro is purchased in Europe then it can access those channels.
So it looks like I should have provided the user's old password when running that previous command, but I didn't. I know what password I entered and I still have SSH access to the machines. If I can figure out what the command did, I'll be able to tell what password I set on the accounts.
Upgraded my iPhone 4s to iOS 7; now my calendar appointments are completely missing from the phone. And it will not add a new appointment - I enter the data and hit "Done" but when I go to view, it's not there.
I have a work email that is on a Microsoft Exchange account, and I have certain rules of where emails go and what they do based on who is sending them. I have rules that send emails to certain folders, and they work just fine both on the MS Outlook side and on the iPhone (Mail) side.
Every time I open my MacBook Pro (restart or from sleep) it is always connected to my Guest Network. I have to manually connect to my regular network in order to access my other apple devices and use airplay. I connect via an Airport time capsule.
After I upgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to 7, I have experienced my phone running out of power before the end of the day on a night charge (I know it's easy to run a full charge down during the day if you use an iPhone heavily enough, but my usage has been light enough to usually have less than 1GB data transfer per month--I don't use my iPhone much by general standards, but it is extremely useful to me when I do use it). Also, it takes longer than usual to charge enough to use while connected, and I have had at least one time when I started it charging, powered it up, and worn down the battery enough that it shut down while powered down.
I updated my Iphone 4 and I was playing Itunes Radio for the first couple of days. All of a sudden it disappeared and I no longer have access to Itunes Radio. It is no longer in my music app. I live in the US so this cannot be an US only issue. Please help
My child (single-digit age) and I share the same Mac Mini. She has an account under parental control. However, she doesn't want to give me her password.
I need to change the Wi-Fi Synch settings to synch with my new laptop. My iPhone was originally set up to synch with a different laptop. How do I change the settings on the phone to synch with my laptop at home. The last time it was synched was Feb 2013
I have three Macs on the same local network, all running iTunes 11 (one running 11.0, the other two running 11.1). As of today, suddenly none of the computers' libraries appear on any of the others as a shared library. On all three computers, library sharing is enabled in iTunes preferences, Shared Libraries are set to be visible (under General), and Shared Libraries are not set to be hidden under Parental Controls.
My app store is displaying an update as badge. When I click the App Store, it claims I have all updates. What did Apple do?
I backed up the 750 GB drive to Time Machine, then successfully restored that backup to the 500 GB drive. The utilization on the 500 GB drive is consistent with the OmniDiskSweeper report above.
I've got an early 2008 Mac Pro with 4 Gb of memory which I would like to upgrade, but I'm unsure of the memory speed. In my "About This Mac" dialog it says the memory speed should be 667 MHz, but online (even on Apple's own site), it says 800 MHz. Is it okay to get 800 MHz memory and mix the two, or should I hunt for 667 MHz memory? Or replace my existing 667 MHz memory with 800 MHz?
After upgrading my iPad 4 to iOS 7, I don't see the weather forecast in the new Notification Center. The calendar is there, and the bottom of the Notification Center has the Yahoo! copyright info for the weather data, but the weather information is not displayed.
Whenever my iPhone connects with the Bluetooth carkit that is integrated in my car audio system, the iPhone switches AirPlay to the carkit and thus sends all audio to the carkit instead of the iPhone speaker. However, when I'm listening to the radio, those sounds are essentially lost.
Today I upgraded to iOS 7. I did a backup to my computer (Windows 7) using iTunes first. Later when I restored the backup to the phone, I found all apps were gone. I then went and downloaded GoodReader (once again). I expected the GoodReader app's data to be back after the reinstallation but it didn't.
I am trying to install OS X 10.7 x64 on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro from 2007. Before I was running OS X 10.6.8 x64 which worked fine, but I can't seem to install 10.7 as 64-bit. Somehow it assumes under the installation that it must be x86, since I am not asked which version I want to install. Apple states that it should be able to run 64-bit (and since Snow Leopard was x64 I don't doubt it). I have checked for any firmware updates, but all seems to be up to date.
I have a quick question. When utilizing the uncover window gesture (IE. move 3 fingers apart) to reveal the desktop there is a shadow which boarders the screen. I would like to know is there a way I can remove this shadow from appearing with an app or a script? Personally without the shadow I believe the desktop provides a more elegant appearance.
I want to install the 64-bit OS X 10.7 on my MacbookPro 2,1, which has a 64-bit processor, but only 32-bit EFI and Kernel Boot mode. I know that this is not officially supported, but I assume there is some workaround since the hardware provides everything needed to run a 64-bit OS, except for the EFI. "Select Startup Mode" tells me, that: "While your Mac is technically able to run a 64-bit kernel, this is not currently enabled by Apple."
I got this RMBP mid 2012. I am now noticing overheating problems when I browse the internet + about 15 tabs of youtube open, mainly music.
How can I use a different Apple ID to upload my Apps to iTunesConnect? The Apple ID that I use as Developer Account is also in use for uploading iBooks into iTunesConnect and can't be used to upload Apps anymore. Is there a way to assign another Apple ID as developer account or to upload the Apps?
In the output of ls -G, I can see some extensions get colors like symbolic links or .sh files. What if I also want .jpg, .xml, .wav or .log to have different colors too? Also, is there any way I can set the color extensions list and set separate colors for different extensions?
I installed Outlook 2011 and imported a pst file form my old Outlook program. Outlook continues to crash and gives me the following error. It also gives me double "sent" messages for every one I send out, and won't send/receive automatically even though I have that feature on.
Then I looked at Apple KB article HT1159 regarding about what version of OS X shipped with each MacBook. For "Mid 2007", it tells me 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 is included when the Mac was shipped.
This question is mostly about software. There exist many hardware adapters that allow one to connect a parallel printer to the USB port on a Mac, but I can't find any way to stream text to the adapter such that it actually prints. Has anybody been able to do this?
Sometime overnight, all of my contacts have disappeared from my iPad 2. All contacts are still available on my iPhone 4s and my 4th-generation iPod touch. I do use iCloud sync but I can't seem to get the contacts back on my iPad. What do I need to do to get my contacts back?
In a CMS, the right frame shows the page to be changed, and the left frame the editing page. I can double-click on a text-block in the right frame to open it in an editing area in the left frame. However, if I hit accidentally a link string, this opens the linked page (twice) additionally to copying the text into the edit area. I can prevent this behaviour in Firefox by keeping the alt key pressed while clicking on the link (in Linux and Windows). What can I do in Safari/Mac to prevent opening links when clicking on them?
I just wanted to look at the man page for the command md5. So I typed man md5 but it displayed the man page of dgst instead of this one. Any idea why and how I could access this manpage from the terminal ? Edit : man -w return the path used to look for manpages : /opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/texbin/man
I'm having a hard time trying to install iTunes on my Windows 7. After reading some sites like this, this or this, I can`t go further then trying to install, and failing after few seconds, without any meaningful error message. In some blog I have even found the the command-line switch iTunes64Setup.exe /l*v c:\log.txt
I'm confused about what participants see and where their messages are sent, when I send a message to multiple users. I understand that when everyone is on iMessage, all participants see all other participants, and all messages go to everyone.
Is there a program, or a workflow that is best for working with a single file, and when saving to update all instances of the file on the computer, whether it be in different projects folders? Edit (Response to Comments): Well, I have javascript and css files that are shared between multiple projects. When I update or amend a file, I find myself having to manually copy and paste to replace the same files in all the other projects that rely on the same file(s).
If I download a free podcast onto my iTunes and onto my iPhone does it still use data from my contract?
I recently installed iOS 7 on an iPhone 4S. Does the Battery Usage/Percentage (as shown in the top-right corner of the screen of the phone) need to be calibrated again (by letting the battery fully discharge once, possibly to be followed by a full charge and a hard reboot)? Or is this nonsensical advice?
For security on a shared machine, I've moved my entire home folder to an encrypted sparse bundle disk image. I then set my User settings home folder to the image.
Our iPad is in my husbands name, but I have a new iphone. How can I get my photos to appear on the iPad using icloud?
So I have a 27" Thunderbolt in my office that somebody else used to use. Now it is considered "broken", but I think it can be made to work. Here's a rundown of its current state:
Reconnect thunderbolt display cable, re-enabling external display. The USB mouse and keyboard do not work and are unresponsive.
Today I have run into issues with Keynote v5.3 (1170) running on MacOS X 10.8.5, all current updates installed. It is reproducible most of the time when saving documents in iCloud and sometime when saving documents to the local hard disk.
I have deleted some songs my roomie used to listen to but they keep playing when I activate music play on iOS 7. I can't figure out how that would happen. A song will come on. I will go to my only playlist. It won't be there but it's still playing. Next week same thing. Makes no sense. Help I hate his music!
I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0. Since the upgrade, my battery drains twice as fast.
I'd like to disable the menu-bar when in a fullscreen app such as Firefox. It's getting in the way when I try to click on tabs with the mouse. How can I do this? Any reasonable alternative, such as fixing it in place, will also help me.
All of a sudden my Exchange email addresses are no longer able to send mail under iOS 7. (They worked fine this morning and mail still comes through - just can't send). I have tried deleting the account and adding again. No joy. I have also tried resetting the network settings. Still can't send email... Any help / advice would be gratefully received.
I have a major problem with Time Machine. It started a few weeks ago when it started to back up too much data (strangely, only on backups after reboots). Last week, the backup volume ran out of space. Hence Time Machine began to reclaim it, but eventually all but one of the older backups were deleted.
It appears the Apple App Store badge and images are still shiny. I assumed the reflections would go away after ios7 was formally released.
I was using my iTunes account from country A when I installed iOS7, and automatic app updates were turned on. I then switched to using my country B account so that I could install updates to apps I originally bought on the country B store. The updates to country B apps won't install - an error message tells me to switch to country B's App Store. I'm already in country B's app store. My guess is that the update for country A was downloaded when automatic updates were turned on, and now it won't install - is there any way to delete downloaded updates? Really makes me think Apple don't test multiple-country App Store accounts.
I have an iPhone 4S and I just upgraded to iOS7 through itunes, but with an "unknown error". I restored it and now it's saying it can't activate the phone. Similar to this question here: iOS 7 activation problem
But it doesn't happens every time I have connection problems. I pretty new to OSX and can't found any other log files with useful information... What happen is that the internet stops working, but the network icon still "darker", i.e., it still connected, but I can't access even my home network.
I am using an iPad with Google Chrome installed to access the internet. I have downloaded and installed the Netbox Blue certificate authority from their website. I can currently access *=URL=* websites using Safari however I cannot access these sites using the Chrome app. I am not getting any certificate errors while using Safari. Is there a particular way you need to add certificate authorities to the Chrome app, or is this an issue with my connection?
After upgrading to iOS 7, the + (plus) sign on my calendar is grayed out. I cannot add new appointments. I even tried using Siri to add an appointment and the response is "Sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that."
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, Early 2013, running Mountain Lion with an external monitor connected via a Thunderbolt-to-DVI adapter on the rear Thunderbolt port i.e. the monitor is connected to the Thunderbolt port closest to the power supply, the power supply also connected.
Can Apple TV mirroring be used with all the apps on iOS device? If mirroring is turned on, Can all the apps, including 3rd party apps be projected on the TV screen ?
When selecting a photo from my photo stream as the wallpaper (on my iPad 4 with iOS 7), the wallpaper is shown as a preview, allowing me to scale and move the visible area. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for most images, e.g. ones that I downloaded to the device from the web. Using the two-finger pinch to scale the image doesn't work at all, and moving the visible area is very slow, if it works at all. This behavior results in weirdly cropped and scaled wallpapers - the same was working fine on iOS 6.
When downloading files in Safari you can see your current downloads in View -> Current Downloads or AltCommandL  If my memory serves me right, this window also showed the download speeds as well (this was in previous versions of Safari when it used to be a separate window). But I can not figure out how to bring up the downloads speeds. My question: How can I see my current download speeds in Safari (version 6) without the use of any extensions of third party apps?
In my Macbook pro flash drive is not detected. But When I attach my iphone it is detected without problem.
In the process of troubleshooting why my Time Machine setup was not completing any backup operations and hadn't finished backing my machine up since 4PM today — it's now 11:49PM —, I saw two suspicious console log entries as follows (btw: after a re-boot, Time Machine completed, but I'd still like to clean up my console log messages and/or spotlight, as the case may be): and
I have 4000 photos in the camera roll I don't want import them into my MacBook's iPhoto or nowhere, so simple want delete them directly in the iPhone (iOS 7). selecting them one-by-one (you sure agree) is NOT very user friendly What is the "Apple way" of doing this (usually) simple thing?
Upgraded to ios7 this morning and evertything seems fine apart from the calendar. With ios6 my iphone 4s was syncing the calender fine from Outlook (2010) on my work PC. Now all entries on my iphone are gone and it wont sync with Outlook which is still showing all my appointments. However, when I create a new appointment in my iphone (ios7) calendar it does not show on the calendar on the iphone yet syncs with Outlook and shows it on my PC calendar. Help!
I am out of my home country, so data is pretty expensive (~ $20 USD/mb). However, I do have an international SMS package. In iOS 7, if I turn Data Roaming off, I cannot send or receive SMS. If I turn Data Roaming on and: disable Cellular Data for all apps disable background updates disable push data
THE QUESTIONS: How can I make my MacBook Pro automatically mount a network share when it wakes up? How can I make sure that when it is mounted it is mapped to the same path (/Volumes...) MY SETUP:
Lock screen-> pull down notifications, see "Tomorrow, there are 2 events scheduled and the first one starts at 11.30" but how do I view them? No amount of poking or swiping will open this up (unlike say weather information) Is this a bug or is there some buried setting I don't have set? Yeah yeah, I could unlock the phone and go to the calendar but it sort of defeats the object.
My iMac boots(i can hear the jingle and the CD drive) but the screen doesn't work. Is the screen working and I closed the screen from software by some means. Model is iMac12,1 (MC309XX/A) if I press some keys I can hear some sounds. I have reset the PRAM but it still does the same. Does someone happen to know this situation?
I upgraded iTunes on my PC, backed up my iPhone and then upgraded my 4S to iOS7. Now I am missing the icons for Safari and App Store. Any tips on how to recover them?
I have the next DefaultKeyBinding.dict in ~/Library/KeyBindings: But when I press the key combination "$~1" (shift+alt+1) I get a little one "ı" and not a double bar "‖". Any solution?
I have my rMBP for 14 months, during the first month I barly used it and it was off most of the time. today I'm connecting it to a display (unfortunately the fonts are blurry!) and the lid is closed most of the time. the power charger is connected most of the time (prevents the computer from sleeping). from time to time I'm openening the lid and disconnect the charger to let the battary drain.
IOS7 appears to have been installed on my Iphone 4. It comes on, apps start but then the "restart screen" appears after 1-30 secs. After another 20-60 secs, the "restart screen" disappears and the app begins where it had left off.
I've found several apps that I'd like to add to my wishlist to download later, but the option isn't visible in the menu. I thought "Add to Wishlist" was a new feature in iOS 7 for the App Store. But the only options I see are Airdrop, Message, Mail, Twitter, Facebook, and Copy Link. Is anyone else having this issue?
As the title says I ran sudo chown -R user /var and now most things on my machine are broken. I've fixed some permissions manually (in /var/folders) by checking against another machine but it still freezes after 10-30 minutes of use.
Is it possible to have my MacBook become an iBeacon? I would like it to broadcast itself to iOS devices which support iBeacons. If this is possible, what are the hardware requirements of the computer (e.g. is Bluetooth 4.0 enough?), and how would I do it? Update: I am primarily looking for a way to do this without any additional hardware (since my MacBook already has Bluetooth built-in).
I have a relative who is currently travelling abroad. They are not using data roaming on their iPhone, but occasionally grab some hotel of coffee shop WiFi. I have a problem communicating with them that is essentially as follows: When they message me using a data connection, I get an iMessage as I should If they are still on the data connection when I reply, they will receive it If they are not on a data connection, it will sent to me via SMS When I reply to that SMS, I know that they have left their iPad turned on at home, and thus all messages shows as delivered because they are getting to that device first, and not to her phone, ergo I cannot text her Is there a way I can force a message to be sent to a recipient as an SMS message if they have their phone number configured to be a receiving address on a second device that is active and therefore receiving the messages over data first?
I just wanted to know if there is still a way to downgrade iOS 7, i don't have beta. (on an iPhone 4 which is listed as iPhone3,1 on http://iossupportmatrix.com).
Is it common for an imac fan to kick into full swing when booting up and never idling down even after 10 minutes? It sounds like a vacuum. Would going in to the BIOS(no idea how to do that on a mac) and resetting help solve the problem.
On a fresh OSX 10.8.5 install, I was surprised to find no autoexpect tool. Where'd it go?
I would like to use Homebrew to install GNU versions of several utilities, and use the GNU versions by default with their usual names. From the output of brew install gnu-tar and by reading How to replace Mac OS X utilities with GNU core utilities? I learned that I can add /usr/local/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin to my $PATH variable. However, for other packages, the gnubin directory is under a different path, like /usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin for the coreutils package. Do I have to add each of these to my path by hand, or does Homebrew provide an easy way to collect all of the entries in various gnubin directories into one place? I suppose I could put some kind of auto-finding script in my .bash_profile like: However this feels a little clunky and insecure, and I was hoping for a Homebrew-specific solution.
I'm experiencing a very strange issue on my Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.5. All of the sudden I discovered that I was unable to command-tab between open applications, the dock would not unhide, I could not open notification center, and I could not three-finger-swipe between desktops. I discovered that force quitting Dock from the Activity Monitor would remedy the problem, but if I click the Notification Center button, the problem returns until I force quit Dock again. The Notification Center does not slide out when I press the button.
My question is this: How are these apps connecting to the Exchange server? What is different about the way the iPhone connects with native email accounts? Is there a way to make the native accounts work without the profiles installed by my IT dept?
I have a Macbook Pro 15" with the quad core i7. I am looking to see what if any performance decrease I could expect moving to a 13" Macbook Pro with a dual core i7. To that end I thought Activity Monitor might be able to show how many cores are being utilized while I run through various tasks (VMWare, Photoshop, etc ..). Does anyone know how to display core usage via Activity Monitor?
When do some apps (like preview) auto close when I stop giving them focus? Whats the difference between those and others that don't close? thanks
I have a shared photostream with 7 people subscribing to photos. Now that iOS 7 is out, I was eager to try and share a video. I captured one using my phone and edited in iMovie on the phone, exported to camera roll in 720p and then put it on my shared photostream.
I've recently formatted my Mac and when I reinstalled the command line tools, I installed the new Command Line Tools (OS X Mountain Lion) for Xcode - September 2013. I've just typed gdb in my terminal to debug one of my programs and it told me -bash: gdb: command not found. There is no gdb in these new command line tools, is there?
While my iTunes library works, I have a lot of dead files and a messed up iTunes Music directory. Right now I have a hierarchy that looks something like this
I have two wireless networks at home. I want my Mac to autoconnect to one of them, but not the other. However, I do not want to remove the other network from my preferred list, since I want to keep the SSID/password saved for when I do need to connect to it. I've listed the network that I want to connect to at the very top of my preferred list, but my Mac still chooses to connect to the other network about 50% of the time. Is there any way to prevent it from connecting to that network while still keeping that network's credentials saved?
I need to copy a spreadsheet into mail directly and then edit out some columns before sending (not as an attachment) what ipad spreadsheet an mail will work?
I recently purchased a MBA 2013, 13 inch. Used it for a week; was great with Chrome. I suspect after I tried installing some Quicktime plugins to watch an Apple Keynote, my audio started going downhill from there. This resulted in using Safari for the last week, but I cant take it anymore. Need to fix Chrome back. I've tried - installing flash again, - disabling/enabling different chrome://plugins - install, reinstalling chrome using these long patch of commands
Several iPhone 4S owners have noticed a problem with their WiFi not working after upgrading to iOS 7. It appears to be both a software problem (our phones have been working for nearly two years with WiFi being just fine before the upgrade) and hardware problem (it gets partially better when the iPhone is chilled (physically). My particular symptoms:
recently bought a new computer with windows 8. Installed ITunes and all my music is on the computer. When I plug in my Ipod classic to synch new music added I get the following message: There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it. I am a 65 year old that doesn't know what they want me to do. If I restore it to factory it will wipe all the music off of it right? Anything else I can do? I don't understand how to scan the drive and fix it. Thanks. Carol
I am trying to jailbreak a friend's 16GB iPhone 4. It's currently running iOS 6.1.3. I'm aware that you can't jailbreak 6.1.3, so I am attempting to downgrade to 6.1.2, however I am having an issue creating or finding SHSH blobs for redsn0w to complete the downgrade. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Since the beginning of today, the time now being midday, I've been having issues with my MacBook Pro. Even when I closed everything it refuses to work. Basically when I close the lid, everything is fine but when I open it the screen just doesn't turn on. The sleep light remains at a single level of light, rather than brightening and dimming over the course of several seconds. If I hold the power button down sometimes it will bring the screen back after what looks like a progress bar and sometimes it will reboot the machine. If anyone can help me, it'd be much appreciated.
I have an App that I bought from the AppStore but later the publisher started to distribute outside the AppStore. I updated the application and when it stopped working I tried to find on my Time Machine backup with the surprise that it wasn't there. Only the actual one probably last backup. That makes me think that Time Machine doesn't backup AppStore apps thats good if my current application was from the AppStore.
I update my iphone 4 on ios 7 beta version one month ago. Is there any need to download ios 7 full version and update again? However in settings (software update tab) it is showed that your software is up to date.
Please help, iMessage and FaceTime won't activate after updating my phone to iOS 7. I have tried to be patient... For five days ... I'm about to scratch my eyes out ... Any suggestions I havetried everything people said. Help! -Shay
[UPDATE: This may have to do with the number of items that reside in the parent folder of the .DS_Store file. Comments remain visible in test folders that contain very few items.] Could permissions or ACLs be coming into play?]
I turn the monitor off (using control+shift+eject) while listening to music on my iMac 27". But recently it has starting coming back on almost right away, which I assume is from the vibration of the speaker nearby. Is there some sort of sensitivity adjustment to avoid the monitor from turning on (until I turn it on myself)?
I have looked for this in different places, but have yet to find a satisfying answer. Notification Center in iOS (6 and 7) has many different options. But, how are the options related to the updates the app receives in the background?
Last night my iPhone 5 (32 GB) was stolen. How can I lock it so that the person won't be able to use it anymore?
Has anyone had experience with encrypted (home made!) FusionDrive volumes and intermittent failure of writes to this disk? I'm on a Late 2011 MBP 13" with (currently) 4 GB RAM, a 128 GB SSD and a 750 GB SATA disk.
I've a MBA 2009 which has a little uncommon issue : The keyboard and the trackpad stop working randomly, sometimes just after the boot and sometimes after a few minutes. At first I thought it was a problem with the OS so I made a clean install of 10.8, it solved the problem for an hour and then it was back. I can affirm that it's a problem coming from thoses devices because the computer answer correctly when controlling it with ssh. Furthermore, when I try to use and usb controller it doesn't work at all... I can't run a AHT because the SSD have been fully erased (before I get the MBA) I've isolated the corresponding log : Second part of the log : and
I've seen pictures like this for iOS 7, where in notification centre you get driving instructions to locations, I don't have this, however I do have Frequent locations recorded (quite a few) as i've had iOS 7 on a 5S for about a week. But still no driving instructions to work! Any ideas?
I was working on my Macbook pro and suddenly we lost electricity, and while the electricity was out my charger was connected to the laptop. Now that electricity came back my adaptor stopped charging my laptop. I checked its wire and everything looks fine. Anything I can do beside buying a new one?
I keep my MBA 2013 plugged in most of the time. AFAIK for a long term it is better to keep modern battery around 40%. I have seen that some other laptop manufacturers added feature to their drivers to prevent battery charging over certain level. Is there anything similar available for mac?
I am exporting a file from Numbers to CSV and it contains language other than English, like Japanese or Russian. After I export the CSV, all these funny characters shows up in the CSV. Is there a way to fix that so Numbers can export as it is. Thanks for your help
I have a 2012 Macbook Air. It shipped with 64GB SSD but I upgraded it to 240GB using a 3rd party manufacturer. I was planning on doing a clean install on the system but when I checked to make sure if I could download it, the installer failed to verify that I could install it on the machine. It is like the installer isn't recognising it as a Mac. Any advice?
Help - new widow, non-tech - IOS 7 won't sync my contacts; they're on my laptop, but won't appear on my 5S; error says: Cannot sync to the iphone because the mail accounts are in use on the iphone. Close the mail account settings on the iphone then sync again.
I know you can do recovery mode and DFU but is there an even more low level way to wipe the device and do a full reflashing of the ROM with iOS7?
I have an old G5 PPC machine with no OS X installed. I have the installation disk. Unfortunateley there seems to be an issue with the G5 reading or accepting the data from the disk. I've tried Everything I can but the disk is not read. I've swapped drives etc. to no avail. I know the G5 will not boot from USB, trust me, I've tried, then I tried again. My current option is using Target Disk Mode and a Firewire cable (these G5's can boot from Firewire). I have an Intel MacBook, an A1181 series.
I'm looking for a free or cheap product to create a timeline from an upload of an excel file, simple data (year and description). Any thoughts?
I keep my iPhone on silent pretty much all the time. When I plug it in to a charger, it goes "buzz-buzz". My iPad doesn't do this. Both behaviors are the same with iOS 6 and 7. How do I make my phone not do that?
When working at the terminal, I often use the open . command to open a finder window showing the current working directory. But if the current directory is actually a package, like a .app application or a .vmwarevm virtual machine, open . launches the application or the virtual machine instead. How can I open a finder window showing the contents of a specified package? I’ve tried open -A /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app ., but that didn’t work.
I have no Dashboard icon in my Dock. How can I put it on my Dock as there is no option to 'Keep in Dock' that I can find?
I have an iPod touch (4th gen). A few weeks ago, it started making an alert sound (tritone) every day at exactly 12 noon. There is no on-screen alert, nothing in the Notification Center pull-down. Just a sound. Every day.
For some odd reason, my Mac Pro won't sleep by itself. Unlike, this question, it does stay asleep; it just won't go to sleep by itself. I read Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode, but to no avail. I tried pmset -g assertions and got this:
Just upgraded to iOS 7 and thought all was well until I noticed that all addresses are missing from my address book. All of the other data is ok - name, email, phone numbers, but no home or work addresses. I've synched several times to iTunes. I don't use iCloud. I've checked setup. Any ideas?
I gave my jailbroken iPhone to my parents to use. They don't need the data plan however AT&T keeps adding on the data plan since they detect it being a smartphone. Is there any way to avoid the plan, with this being a jailbroken iPhone?
I have iOS 7, which provides the ability to block calls and messages. Can I block someone texting me on iMessage from their Apple ID to my Apple ID? …or can I only block based on phone numbers (not Apple IDs)?
I'm using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5. No matter what application I'm in, the menus don't respond to the mouse hovering over them. If I click a menu, then it responds with the appropriate action. I've rebooted and tried a different mouse. If I right click something and get the menu, when hovering over it, it doesn't respond to the mouse.
In the prior version of iOS I was able to navigate the monthly view of the calendar page-by-page: sweeping left advanced the view to the next month, while sweeping right brought me back to the prior month. After the upgrade to iOS-7 I am no longer able to navigate my calendar page-by-page: the view is in the smooth scroll mode, which is sometimes confusing. Did I miss some setting or a new gesture to lock in a month and enable page-by-page navigation, or is this simply the way the things are going to be from now on?
How come there are no antiviruses for iOS devices like iPhones and iPads while Android has many available? Update The article here shows that there have been attacks on the iOS Devices as well http://www.informationweek.in/informationweek/news-analysis/277157/researchers-breach-apple-famed-ios-security-wall
I have a large library on my iTunes and I want to stream the sound to my iPad over wifi. I tested home sharing but it don't load the library, it blocks to the half (iOS 7) and it's quite long (nothing after 10mn). I also use Remote on my iPad to control my iTunes, but I can't get the sound from it…
When enrolling in the iOS Developer Program as an individual, I reach a step "Review your enrollment information & submit". It shows an old address of my under "Personal Profile". You can see the old address (Durham, NC) below.
I remember that once upon a time I was able to start a song on the YouTube app (or Jasmine), then go and do other things on the phone. That doesn't seem possible anymore with iOS 10. Am I missing something simple?
We have released two apps under our iTunes connect / developer account, and it looks like the day by day reporting includes both apps and I can only see it broken down by app for the previous day. Unless I check stats daily and track it elsewhere, I can't see how each Indiv is doing.
I am new to Mac. I installed emacs, but I can't see my .emacs file in the finder. I can open the file from inside emacs, and I saved another copy on my desktop, but it's not showing.
I have a macbook pro 2.5Ghz i5 retina 13 inches. I'm running Mountain Lion. When I change the resolution to 1280x800 (no HiDPI) it looks blurry, more blurry than a non-retina 13 inch macbook pro. Why is this? I don't understand this since its 1/2 of the native resolution. Thanks
When looking on Amazon for a car charger I noticed that different items have different amp values, 2.1 and 3.1 being the most frequent. What is the recommended value?
I downloaded a one hour HD TV show to my iPad 2 from the iTunes store and then set up the iPad 2 for AirPlay over the Apple TV. Many times it froze while buffering. What is causing this and how can I avoid this problem?
I share an iTunes account with 4 others in my family and we have different music taste. I have my own playlists but my iPhone (3GS) keeps playing music that is NOT on any of my playlists. I have checked them all. How do I delete them off my phone? I have no unwanted artists or albums selected under the music tab when syncing, I have checked all of my playlists, I do not have 'automatically fill free space with songs' ticked either. What do I do?
I need to block the possibility for a single user to change the desktop background, or at least to make it possible only by inserting his password on OS X Lion / Mountain Lion. I want to lock every possibility, from iPhoto to Safari…
Airdrop on my 8mth old iMac has stopped sending docs through airdrop. It can receive ok but when trying to send it comes back with a message saying recipient has declined the request. No messages are being received by the recipient or any actions being made.
At some time my MBA 10.8 Finder decided (or was it me) to hide certain files from me. Here is the example (I have few other files like it)
I have recently got a new iPhone. I would like to transfer all my apps that I have previously downloaded (ie: iFruit, BBM, TU Go from O2, etc).
I have downloaded a dmg file called BaiduYun_2.2.0.dmg, which, on double-click, shows the license agreement window straight away, instead of showing an installation package or an application that can be dragged to the Applications folder. I have never seen any installation on Mac OS X like this before. Is there an autorun setting anywhere that I can disable this behaviour? Additionally, it does not show up as a mounted device on Finder windows.
I'm shopping for a new computer for university, and I'm considering the MBP 13". I don't do graphic intensive work, so I do not need the retina display. It's not worth the extra cash. However, because I'm constantly carrying around my computer and turning it on and off, I want an ultrabook: something light and fast to boot. I'm thinking of buying the 13" non-retina MBP, but selecting the 256 mb SSD option instead of the HD option. If I do that, of course, apple will drop the HD and optical drive from the machine. Will that get the weight down to 3.57 lbs? If so, it might be a cost effective way for me to get the machine I'm looking for. Thanks.
I have an old late 2006 black MacBook. It has 2GB memory, and a 2GHz core 2 duo processor. I'm interested in using it on our home wifi network as a location for time machine backups (onto hard drives attached via USB) and a shared iTunes library (which an apple TV can access). The OS is currently Snow Leopard.
Before being forced to upgrade iTunes I originally had my music library set up so that I had all the songs listed, ordered and group by album and I could see their cover art, this made things easier as some of the albums I have are OST with multiple artists so I can easily find all the songs of an album and make it int a compilation, I was also at the time adding cover art to every album since most music off CDs are devoid of this However after upgrading I can't do this, the songs section doesn't show the cover art and nothing is grouped like it was, the albums section has the cover art however everything is ordered by artist which is crap cause now I'm getting Mugen Souls, Darker than Black, Spice and Wolf and Puela Magi Madoka Magica all appearing before Accel World, also I don't see a track list unless I click on an album, also it appears I can't sort it I was in the process of reorganizing my entire library and I can't revert back to a previous version of iTunes as I have to have v
I would like to be able to have selected content from ebooks and webpages read out to me so that I may hear the correct pronunciation of words and sentences. What accessibility options exist to help me do this using existing apps like Safari and Kindle or iBooks, and do 3rd party apps exist that are specifically written to narrate selected text or contents?
I did at one point have a beta Safari 6.1 running when I first had the problem start. But only after a couple of weeks of using the beta.
I'm looking for a tool (GUI would be best) to convert an animated gif to a mp4-video to send it via WhatsApp. Do you have any suggestions that get this job done?
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I have been told that the Go To Folder option in OS X contain many crucial system files. What exactly is the Go To Folder command within Finder and would it be therefore advantageous to disable it, to prevent access from other people (or indeed one's self). Additionally if it was disabled, could it easily be re-enabled for technical support etc (with all crucial system files left untouched).
I use several apps installed using .dmg files downloaded from other sources rather than direct from the App Store. When I try to remove them through Launchpad, these apps will not show the X button to allow me to delete them. On the right: Mac App Store app; On the left: app from external source. Is there any canonical safety way to remove them?
I have a lot of rules in my Mail.app but when my computer is off my inbox fills up with junk and it's hard to read from the phone. I want to set up the rules on iCloud but don't see a way of uploading/importing them into iCloud. Am I missing something or do I need to set them up again manually?
My iPhone was stolen last night, I logged into my iCloud account and selected find my phone, but the WiFi was turned off and could not locate it. I selected erase my phone when WiFi is detected and then I selected remove the device.
The documentation says to use both. So I am using both. But I put in a 301 redirect for my old feed first, then I inserted the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag into the old feed.
I am trying to record a video with Quicktime Player but whenever I record it shows a green screen. When I try to watch the video when I record the screen: P.S I am using an iMac...
I've been playing around with the iOS app Rando, which anonymously exchanges photos with people around the world. Is there some way to download these photos to my Mac? To be clear -- the photos I take with Rando are normal iPhone pictures and easy to download; I'm asking about the photos from other people, which seem to live only in the Rando app.
I'm currently downloading the iOS 7 update (7.01), but I'd like to wait a bit before installing it. After it finishes downloading, will it still stay in iTunes until I'm ready to install, or will it delete the file as soon as I shutdown? I used the 'Just Download' option, not 'Download and Install', so it shouldn't require me to install immediately after it downloads, but can I shut down so I can install later?
I have 2 keyboards on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.5. I am trying to configure it so that typing on one keyboard will always use the Qwerty layout while typing on the other will always use the Dvorak layout. What would it take to configure or develop something that accomplished this?
Umm, I need help about my Iphone 4... I recently bought it and was able to connect to our home wifi perfectly.. But one day, we don't know why, but me and my brother's iphone 4 was unable to connect to the home wifi. Although, we could connect to our school and other places's wifi network except our home wifi!!! :( Help please??? Thank you!
Yesterday I used Drive Genius 3 to clear up some space on my primary drive. I may have been a bit too aggressive, allowing it to delete localizations and a few other things. Long story short, apps like App Store, Preview, TextEdit and Terminal would no longer open. Clicking on the dock icon it would light up for a second and then immediately fizzle out. Opening Console, I saw things like this: Terminal[728]: Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[211]: (com.apple.Terminal.60048[728]) Exited with code: 1 TextEdit[724]: Unable to load nib file: Edit, exiting com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[211]: (com.apple.TextEdit.58816[724]) Exited with code: 1 librariand[255]: client process 724 does not have a valid com.apple.developer.ubiquity-container-identifiers entitlement error in handle_container_path_request: LibrarianErrorDomain/9/The client process does not have a valid com.apple.developer.ubiquity-container-identifiers entitlement This was not a user-based o
Since updating to iCloud 3.0 on Windows 7, I've noticed that my Windows installation of Safari is no longer syncing my iPad bookmarks. Looking at the settings in iCloud, Safari is no longer included:
I noticed this icon next to my clock a couple days ago:   I thought it might be related to Microsoft SkyDrive, but that is a different icon.
Can I lock out the iTunes store so no purchases can be made on my iPad? I don't see that possibility in Settings. I accidentally purchased music I did not want and tried to cancel it immediately but couldn't. I want to be able to buy apps but no music.
As far as I can tell, this is completely impossible. On 10.8.4. I am trying to play a sample MIDI file off of Wikipedia. Quicktime v 10.2 fails to open a MIDI file with error message The movie “Ii-V-I_turnaround_in_C_four-part_harmony.mid” can’t be opened because the file is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands. VLC is also unhappy:
Most of what I've read assumes that a local hard drive is available. There isn't in this case.
I just downloaded OS7 to my iphone. To back it up on itunes it needs itunes 11.1. It wont download to my computer because I'm still running 10.5.8. If I upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion I need to know that my old Photoshop 11.0/CS4 will still work.
Any idea why this (and what ~/Library/Containers/ actually is ?), since the AppleScript was ok ? In the path above Downloads is a link to ~/Downloads.
Actually i have a iPhone4 with iOS 6.1.3 and I want to update it with iOS 7.0 or restore the same iOS (6.1.3). But every time just after the "verify" iTunes throw an Error with error code 3194. And when I runned "run diagnostic" then in Network Connection step, "secure connection with iTunes store failed". I tried 5 different computer (XP and Win 2K8) with 3 different kind of Internet connections (broadband and DSL), also antivirus was uninstalled, hosts file set to its default parameter based on Microsoft guidance, tried DFU mode (in DFU mode error code 4000) etc etc but error remains same.
On iOS 7, there is a feature under Cellular in Settings called: Use Cellular Data For:. This lists all of the apps I have on my iPhone 4 with individual On/Off Switches to disable or enable cellular data. So, I disable it on several of my apps, one of which being Music. When I open my Music app, it tells me… Cellular Data is Turned Off for "Music" You can turn on cellular data for this app in Settings.
I wish to add my Time Capsule to my neighbor's über fast network. I have their permission and WiFi password. But their router is non-Apple.
I recently updated my OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion from Xcode 4.6.3 to Xcode 5 using the App Store upgrade. As I mentioned here *=URL=* every time I tried to start Xcode 5, it would crash before I clicked or did anything. The console log told me that a crash log was created at myusersfolder/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Xcode_2013-09-27-16245... That log said that "The bundle \U201cIDERepositoryViewer\U201d couldn\U2019t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources.\".
My girlfriend is getting that well-publicized nausea/dizziness/"carsickness" from iOS 7's motion effects, though I'm not sure if it's because of the wallpaper or the animations overall. What can she do to tone them down? Are there options built into the software?
I need a script that will be able to fire up a second Terminal instance and pass a command directly to that one whilst it continues it's own executions. It's to start up Python script that will host a server whilst the main instance of Terminal would continue to run it's series of executions over a period of 30 seconds (for example) then it would be able to kill the PID of the Python script and kill that secondary Terminal process and continue until it's finished.
The photos in my iPad is synced from iPhoto in my mac, so they are not in the camera roll. But unfortunately I formatted my drive so the iPhoto library in my mac is gone. Now all the photo is in my iPad, but it seems no convenient way to get them out. I hope I can keep all the file name correct.
I don't like to keep old events (of previous week or month) in my iPhone calendar, but they keep up showing in my iOS Calendar, I want them gone automatically as the event passes. I don't want to delete each passed event manually. Is there any way that my events get deleted automatically as the new day or week begins ?
I'm getting more interested in using Terminal as an alternative way to address solutions on my Mac. I have seen this question entitled "Is there a better way to shutdown/restart OSX?". I would therefore like to know: How to shut down, restart and sleep my Mac using the Terminal command exclusively ?
I would like to create a stack (being able to portray List, Fan and Grid View) which sits in the dock that allows me to see my most recently used Applications upon clicking it. Furthermore (and if possible) I would also like it to be able to change (upon right clicking it) from recently used applications to recently viewed documents, favourite items, favourite volumes etc.
Sometimes the glossy finish to the Dock 3D's appearance annoys me, and I want something less bedazzling on the eyes. Is there a simple terminal command I can use to convert it from a 3D glossy to a 2D plain dock in appearance ?
On my brother's MacBook Pro, suddenly the Enter, right shift, and right alt keys do not work properly anymore. It works with an external keyboard, though. PRAM/SMC reset did not help. Strangely, at least the shift and alt keys seem to at least work mechanically: When I press shift and a key, both inputs are completely ignored. When I press e.g. shift/alt/a, the correct special character is printed. So at least shift/alt seem to work, but only in some circumstances. Any ideas on how to solve this?
OS X via the Terminal command and Emacs apparently allows you to access and play a version of the video game Tetris. How do you accomplish this (and can you play via keyboard controls) ?
So I have a Time Capsule which creates my wireless network, and I have an airport express which extends the network. However, when I open Airport Utility, it says that my Macbook Pro is connected to the Time Capsule, not the Airport Express, even when I'm sitting right next to it. How do I change it so that it connects to the Express? Thanks.
I have a client that has a membership card that gives discounts in restaurants, and wants to take payment through the phone. However apples ToS seem to explicitly forbid gym memberships, so I'm curious if that means all memberships are disallowed or if there are cases where this is done. Otherwise we'll probably use PayPal. In app purchase guidelines: *=URL=* page 7 explicitly disallow gym memberships.
I was trying to help my brother fix his computer: A pop up that comes up at login that will tell you that your startup disk is full, he logs in and the screen gets stuck without loading any files. I boot into EFI (or whatever you want to call it), Some reading device fails so everything is read only, but accessible. I try to plug in a external hard drive to save some items before trying to simply re-install the system, I get "SAM Multimedia: Read or Write Failed ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x00" something similar I don't remember the exact error code I do know ASCQ was 0x0 which seemed telling. So basically I could neither find nor mount the external hard drive. I actually this multiple times, the first time the computer crashed in EFI when I tried to open his user file.
I need to be able to write whether the test for a grep is either TRUE or FALSE to a variable so I can use it later For the following, if I run on my system, it would return
Sometimes when I'm running a killall command from Terminal, a co-worker would suggest or edit my scripts to show killall -HUP. What does the -HUP part do?
Is it possible to buy an Apple product, like an iPad mini, in the UK and return it in the US? And vice versa?
I'd love to know the syntax within Terminal to export the filename and path of all my music of various types (I have legacy Windows .wma files too). I'd presumably export those file to a .txt or .xls file and sort by path.
I upgraded both my iOS devices to iOS 7, so I have my custom sound preferences that I took with me. However I would like to try the default sounds, preferably without restoring my my devices to factory defaults.
A recent update to Mail.app in Mac OS X changed the UI of the search and replace when composing a new message. The old version could be driven 100% from the keyboard while the new one requires using the mouse to click the Replace check box as well as hitting the "all" and other buttons. Is there a way to drive this interface without using the mouse?
If I wanted to run an AppleScript from within a bash script I could call a file with the list of commands that I require to execute. What, however, if I wanted to run commands that needed to be run in sequence from within bash? An example would be
When I open a terminal in iTerm2, I can use the command key to make it work like Meta, so that I can for example move between words (e.g. with ⌘-f and ⌘-v.
I have an iPad containing all my music and iCloud data (contacts) but I lost access to my Apple ID. I want to make a backup of the data on my iPad, create a new Apple ID and then re-import the data. How do I do this?
I need to access a Pages document I lost that was open in my last "sleepimage" (3 days old) file. How can I use/open this file to access what is in it aka the content I lost ..? Thank you so much in advance for the help! Using Mac OS 10.7.5
This is one of those things that has always seemed odd to me. I'm not sure if it's just typographic advice, or a hold over from when anti-alisiaing wasn't the norm in type but is there a known reason that the "size" options (which can be overridden by manual entry) jump from 14 to 18:
I'm working on two Macs, an iMac and a MacBook, both under OS X 10.8.5. There are several GB of data that I need on both computers. I have used Dropbox and ownCloud, but I don't see why I need to transfer the files over the internet when I have a cable that connects both computers directly over my local network. What I want is a solution that automatically syncs selected folders between these two computers, similar to a Cloud service, but directly, without the Cloud.
Hardware: Airport Extreme 802.11ac Transcend StoreJet 250GB HDD Belkin 4-port, powered USB hub Configuration: HDD formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32) via Disk Utility HDD connected to USB hub Airport Extreme connected to USB hub
I have the following bind-key definitions in my .tmux.conf file: However, they don't work when I open a tmux session inside of ITerm2. It looks like the OS captures those shortcuts and doesn't let tmux act on them. I have a similar problem when I press ⌘-d within ITerm (no Tmux here) in that it triggers Mac OS X to close my terminal, even though what I want it is to delete a word in the shell (I have bindkey -e in .zshrc which should take care of that) Below are my settings in iTerm2:
MacPorts version is 2.2.0. XCode version is 5.0 and I previously also unsuccessfully tried with 4.6. I did uninstall, clean and reinstall to no success. Versions:
Today I unlocked my AT&T iPhone 4 running iOS 7 (the official method via AT&T). In order to use my phone abroad next month I'm told I'll need to be able to set APN settings but I can't find them anywhere on my device. I believe the unlock was successful as iTunes showed a confirmation message saying so. I've tried looking in various places suggested by posts on various message boards but I can't find the settings anywhere.
My local snapshots are behaving weirdly. When no Time Machine backup is connected and if I enter time machine, I get this prompt: Your Time Machine backup disk can’t be found. …but when my external Time Machine is connected, I can browse through both pink and white (local) coloured snapshots.
i was able to update my iPhone 4S and iPad via the option on the settings menu however i iPhone 4 which i use as my music player doesn't have that option, my computer with itunes doesn't connect to the internet so i can't download it via itunes i am wondering if there is an offline installer i can download that itune can detect to use, that way i can download it on a separate computer then transfer it to my main computer
To switch off indexing in Terminal I use: This disables it with the -a switch across all volumes and the -i off part turns "off" the indexing. If connected to my iMac is the following volumes:
After deleting or archiving an email in Mail on iOS 7, is there anyway to undo that action?
I'm putting together a picture book in iBooks Author. The images for each page are around 3500px by 3500px. I'm uploading them as square images, and just leaving a margin on each side of the images. As I understand, the maximum image size on the short side of an ipad is 1536px. I can reduce my image sizes to 1536px.
I'm making a book with iBooks Author, for the iBookstore. It's a simple picture book; each page an image. No video. No sound. I don't have an iPad or an iPhone.
I'm making a picture book with iBooks Author. Each page is one simple image. That's all there is to the book.
I'm running an up-to-date copy of Windows 8 on my iMac via Boot Camp and apparently it doesn't like the built-in microphone. I tested it with Audacity and Teamspeak, both of them just record absolute silence.
Today I decided to erase OS X and install Ubuntu - unfortunately something went wrong and now I am asking this question on live mode on Ubuntu. So basically all I did was create a bootable USB stick from OS X, restarted, then held down ⌥ alt/option, choosed the stick, installed Ubuntu and erased OS X.
I have had my iOS 7 update for about a week now. Today I noticed I couldn't send or recieve messages. It says "Waiting for Activation" and iMessage won't turn on! It also won't let me press my phone number under send and receive! Why won't it activate and how can I fix it?
Guys is it possible to send router messages to other users on the same router? Like pop ups? If yes could you please tell me how it works and if it involves hacking then don't worry I am not scaring anyone and this is my own router ;) I am using a Macbook for the record, just to tell you ;)
I have run Atomic Web for many years on my iPhones (3, 4, now 5). However, when I upgraded to iOS7, when I hold a link, the menu no longer comes up. Nothing happens. I haven't been able to find any setting which would change this. Is there something new with iOS7 which I didn't know about before upgrading?
I'm trying to get a SATA III hard drive to work in my MacbookPro5,1. I think I've finally figured out that if I downgrade the EFI firmware to version 1.6, my computer will negotiate the link at SATA 1 speeds and the drive will work correctly. However, the instructions all point to a file that doesn't exist anymore. See this answer for the instructions where the file doesn't exist anymore. Does anybody have a copy of the file aluminum.macbook.pro.recovery.dmg?
I just completed a restore from Time Machine to a newly partitioned drive and discovered that the Recovery Partition wasn't created. Other than that, the restore went well and the new drive runs fine.
I have a lot of volumes (folders) mounted from remote machines, about 10 of them, which I set to be mounted automatically when I'm logging in by adding them to the Login Items list in Users & Groups. Of course, I made sure to tick the Hide check box of each of the volumes, yet OS X opens each of the folders whenever I log in so I have to close them one by one manually.
I have to type up papers with medical abbreviations. 4 common abbreviations are ā, p, c, s (also with a line over them like the ā). Right now I have to use a text box with the line in it and place that over the letters p, c, and s, set the txt box to be in the background but selectable. Then every time I edit the document the line moves separately from the letter and you can imagine what a pain it is. I'd like to create these characters, add them to special characters and then insert from there. Does anyone know of a way to do this via special characters or know of another way to accomplish the same thing?
From this article, The 5s and the 5c are compatible with more 4G LTE frequency bands — up to 13, instead of a maximum five before. That means the phone is more likely to work with higher speeds wherever you go. However, there are more than 40 cellular bands worldwide, the bulk for LTE, so a version bought in one country might not work for high speeds everywhere around the world.
As far as I can tell from some youtube videos, it is possible to use different drum samples in iElectribe by KORG, but I can't figure out how or find any documentation on this. Does someone know how this is done?
I recently bought a replacement battery for my MacBook battery. In Coconut Battery the Current charge has been as high as 8000 mah, yet the maximum capacity is listed as 6100. When the battery icon shows 100% has been reached the MagSafe light stays orange and doesn't turn green till the Current Charge exceeds the Maximum Charge.
I'm getting an (error code -10813) when trying to set file extensions to open with a certain app in Mountain Lion 10.8.5. Where is the plist file that has those preferences so that I can delete it and hopefully end this problem?
Can I use a 30 pin to USB adapter to connect a USB flash drive to an iPad and transfer arbitrary files back and forth? please address specifically:
I have accidentally dropped my mac in a way that it damaged my internal speakers. They're not damaged severely, but they are impared.
I used to have an iPhone 4 which, when WiFi hotspot was turned on, would connect to my Air (Lion) almost instantaneously. I have now upgraded to an iPhone 5 (iOS 7) and the process seems to rarely work. I must turn Wifi and Hotspot off and on maybe 10 times in a row before they connect. Sometimes it wont work and at all. Other times it will randomly disconnect. Would anyone know why this is occurring? Thanks!
I have searched and to my surprise I can't seem to locate the answer to this what I thought would be common everyday problem. Can someone please explain to me what the purpose of the "groups" feature is for the iOS contacts?
I use two iTunes libraries (Windows7x64, shift-key on iTunes launch) to manage content for several different devices (iPhone 4S, iPod Nano, iPad2), and have been doing this for a couple of years. After the upgrade to iTunes 11.1 I went to sync my iPod (on library 2) and found that all the podcast subscriptions from library 1 had been added. I double-checked that I was in the right library and then removed them. When I went back to library 1 to sync my iPhone I found that the podcasts I had unsubscribed and deleted in library 2 were gone from library 1 as well. So it appears it's no longer possible to have two completely separate iTunes libraries any more? Anybody know how to force the two libraries to be completely separate?
The new update for the weather app in iOS 7 is confused as to day/night, the time for sunrise/sunset. To find sunset or sunrise, swipe left or right on the hourly overview that's in the middle under the temperature / detail tap target.
Can anyone shed light, based on those settings in my RDC (which is running on Windows 7 in a Parallels environment) how I could join to my network. Everyone says I need to be able to specify the following things: URL to join logon.tech2group.com.au Domain and Username stream/danijel.james Computer name at the other end rdfarm002
I recently purchased a maxed out iMac: NVIDIAGeForceGTX780M 4GB GDDR5 3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB (upgrading to 32GB myself) 256GB Flash Storage
I recently updated my iPhone to iOS 7. Now, any messages my wife sends on her iPhone (which is still on iOS 6) as well as any messages she receives are sent to me. She does not get copies of my messages, unless I specifically send them to her. How can I prevent getting her messages?
Apparently, there are five kinds of HDMI cable connectors. Which do I need for Apple TV? I was looking at buying this cable.
I own an iPad 4 without 3G (functioning only Wi-Fi) running iOS 7. How can I install WhatsApp on this iPad?
Currently working on a deployment of a large number of Mac's, on which I want to set the password for an administrator account without putting the password plain-text in the script. Is there some way to provide a hash of the password to dscl/passwd?
I have just noticed on my friends device (running iOS7) blue dots next to the app name on the home screen. I have done some research and found that these now replace the "new" banner in iOS6 as well as apps that have been updated but not opened yet.
How do I sync my outlook calendar with iPhone 4? I failed to sync my outlook calendar with my iPhone 4. Since I upgraded my iTunes to 11 there is no box to check for this option like in the old iTunes versions.
I recently upgraded to the new 7.0 iPhone/iTunes update and am aggravated because my purchased music is included in playlists when I do not choose them. I have a lot of music that I have purchased just to complete a collection. I want only to play what I choose. How do you get them off the playlist and keep them from playing?
I can't find the agenda for the new iOS 7 calendar. Has it been removed? If not, how can I view it?
In iOS 7, I've noticed that some SMS/MMS messages have a date and time stamp displayed above the message. Although this is useful, not all text's in the list receive such a date and time stamp. Is there a way that I can view the date and time for ever text message?
Is is possible to enable encryption for a Time Machine target disk with a script or using the command line? Is an encrypted Time Machine disk really just the same as a normal disk, full-disk-encrypted using FileVault?
I am backing up to a Western Digital network drive (via Ethernet LAN), but my Time Machine won't run automatically. Whenever I run it manually from the status bar, selecting Back Up Now it fails with the following error message:
Several months ago the Groupon app had an update which I selected, but it never completed the update. It always shows up on the update list and when you tap it, it shows "Updating". The progress bar never moves. I can't stop the update and can't delete the app!
My iPhone 4's dock connector is broken. I can still use it to transmit data to and from the phone, but I cannot use it to charge the phone. So, obviously it is not completely broken, but the pin that is used for charging seems damaged. However, if you look at the iPhone connector pinout, it seems like a diffferent pin is used for charging via USB (pin 18) than charging with FireWire (pins 19 and 20).
I hope someone can give me some guidance relative to syncing contacts between Outlook and my iPhone 5. I can sync contacts I load on my phone to Outlook, however when I enter new contacts into Outlook those contacts do not sync to my phone. Why do my new contacts created in Outlook not sync?
I searched for solutions to make OS X write NTFS disks, and found this one; How do I write to NTFS drives in OS X? It worked like a charm, until I updated my mac recently. Now it does not want to write to the NTFS disk anymore even with the nobrowse options. But nobrowse is still applied since the disk does not appear on my Desktop. The writing is just disabled. Any reasons why the most recent version of OS X 10.8.5 does not allow to write to NTFS even with that uncomfortable way?
I am trying to plot with gnuplot on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5). I have installed X11 and XQuartz 2.7.4 and after that I installed gnuplot, but unfortunately gnuplot couldn't plot. Simple plots like the following fail to render and have no error message to help understand what is amiss:
Prior to iOS7, if someone wanted to search the web, generally the easiest way to do so was by entering your query into the spotlight, and then just clicking 'Search Safari/Wikipedia'. After upgrading to iOS7, the option to search the web is no longer there, so opening Safari/Chrome/etc., is now required, which actually adds a significant amount of time to each search you do if you use this often.
Network Caller ID (or NCID) allows incoming call information for a regular landline telephone to be sent over a local network to display on computers and other devices. There are programs for OS X that can handle this, and there's even one solution that broadcasts to iOS devices via a computer using the Prowl app. Is there is a solution to show NCID details on iOS that doesn't involve a computer?
I wanted to have bash autocompletion for git commands, so I dropped a bash script file into /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/. When I open a new Terminal, the script file in /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ does not get executed. I have verified that the script file is working by running: Are there any steps missing here to ask OS X to automatically execute scripts in /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/?
In System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver, it's possible to set an interval for changing the desktop wallpaper picture:  However, you are limited to a few specific times:
I have a Late 2011 Mac Book Pro 15" and recently the battery has very quickly gone from several hours of battery life to all of a sudden only apparently having 5-10 minutes and by quickly I mean over the course of just a few weeks.. What i want to know is is this the End of life for my battery or is it malfunctioning and need a battery reset If this a battery reset issue how do I do this on a mac I used to do this in the BIOS when I owned a PC Laptop but no idea how to do this with a Mac Book since there isn't one Is this something that can be done through AHT?
I'm testing a system which requires my iPad to (appear to) come from another location. The iPad also has to use Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client. I configured a manual proxy on the iPad, but AnyConnect overrides it.
So, I had to factory restore my Apple TV after the latest update from Apple bricked it. Got the MicroUSB cable and got the thing back on its feet. Try as I might to enable the Remote app on my iPhone or connect to my iTunes Match (both of which require an Apple ID), every time I entered my creds they were refused, ala this support forum thread. I finally re-entered the creds in a way that appeared no different from previous attempt and they were accepted.
My iPad 2 looks like an iPhone 4, without 'frosted blur'. Is it correct for the iPad 2 to not have the blur/frost effect?
(Please forgive me + nuke from orbit of these kinds of questions aren't allowed here. Don't know where else to ask.) I'm trying to find a higher-res version of this specific wallpaper:
My friend has a G5 running 10.5 Leopard (the last supported version of OS X on PowerPC). However, after updating to iOS 7, syncing is no longer supported, as iOS 7 requires iTunes 11, which in turn requires 10.6 Snow Leopard. Is there any way to get music sync functionality back on a PowerPC Mac without reverting to iOS 6, whether through some version of iTunes, or a 3rd-party tool, and without jailbreaking?
I have a MacBook Air that is behaving poorly with Chrome. Symptoms include: Chrome often giving the "Ahh Snap" error message for lots of different websites, this happens frequently with the Google search page, when I enter a query to search, it often crashes. The insertion point for entering text is slow to respond to a click to position cursor.
Is there any diference joining a computer to the domain under the local admin account or using the new network account? Does the computer have to be added using the new network account? If I added using the local admin is there any difference (any impact)? OS X 10.8
with the new update IOS 7 there is a itunes radio. well i've updated my iphone with the IOS 7 and the itunes radio has not shown up. i was told that it only works for the USA users and not the canadian or other users. now why is that?
Reasons for wanting create such a usb include: PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive. to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp. What are the necessary steps to create such a Windows 8.1 bootable usb on a Mac ?
MMighty Mouse isn't so mighty since it won't click any more. Surprise is it does move the cursor around the screen. I have of course been through the Mouse and Bluetooth parameters to check for any potential "disable mouse clicking" button... in vain.
With my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.0.2 on Wifi or on 3G my iMessages won't send (Progress bar stuck in the middle of the screen). Rebooting or Airplane mode won't change anything.
Emoji emoticons can be be an enhancing feature of a text-based conversation. Whilst having an android smartphone it’s rather easy to add third-party emoji packs (due to the open source nature of android). iOS i believe is a more "closed" OS, things are not that easy (so i'm lead to believe). However is there a hidden emoji feature within iOS 7 (without the need to jailbreak) that I can unleash on an iPhone 5/5S ?
Many of my OS X applications have the "Enter Full Screen" action mapped to Control+Command+F. When I hit this key-combo though I get a dialog that tells me that no Facebook account is configured, and the app does not enter full screen mode. I've gone into System Preferences and looked for anything else mapped to Control+Command+F and nothing was.
I currently have a MacBook Air, which I use with a Thunderbolt Monitor, side-by-side, at my desk. I'm considering upgrading to a Retina Macbook Pro. However, I'm worried that using two displays with different DPIs will create an odd experience. I would love to hear from people who have this setup. Is it odd to move windows from one screen to the other and have things change from 1x to 2x and vice versa? FWIW, I am a web designer, so am particularly interested in folks who use this setup for web design/development.
Is there a way to lock kids out of settings and the controls for iPads? We have had issues where they change the screens, upgrade to iOS7, lock the device and other problems.
I am a Linux guy, and I have to provide support for about 15 Mac users. I need to install this OSX 10.8.x and I got the license codes all sent to me. But I can't figure out how to get whatever file on mine, so I can re-use it. How do I do that? Do I really have to go through this whole registration info where I have to enter a credit card and everything else about me before I can get access to anything?
I want to backup my NAS (currently one folder around 5tb, one about 1tb) to external drives. I tried using gnutar (installed using homebrew) which in theory does what I want, but it can't update the TAR after first creation. I have to re-create it everytime. Also, I'm having a hard time trusting that TAR archive if something simple as update fails with an obscure error message.
I have video in an MP4 file from a GoPro camera. It imports fine into iMovie on my iPad Mini and I can edit it there, but I'd rather edit in iMovie 11 on my Mac (OSX 10.9). However, iMovie 11 won't import the GoPro MP4 video files.
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.3 and I would like to have Facebook events in my calendar (again). I have enabled sync in Settings->Facebook by giving Facebook access to the calendar. The calendar has been configured to show both Facebook-events (activiteiten) and Birthdays.
But I'd take another solution: Adding all my "news" apps to Newsstand. Unfortunately, Newsstand will not accept these apps (NPR, AP, Instapaper). Is there a way to put all these apps in the same, single folder?
Can anyone recommend iPhone 5S cases that work well with the finger-print scanner? I know the cases Apple sells are compatible, but any others would be great. Please suggest with links. Thanks.
Returning Fifth to 5th. It took me home! But only the first time; the second time I tried it it was back to Shelbyville, consistently.
I'm developing an iPhone app and the only device I have for testing is an iPad 2. I can run the app on the iPad and it will use the internal iPhone emulator (or whatever it's called). But the display ratio is that of the older iPhones, not retina-size (see this, I need the last version). How do I change the aspect ratio?
What settings minimize power loss on a 4S? I upgraded to IOS 7 and have noticed a signiicant power drain
My Mid-2012 Mac Book Air running an up-to-date install of Mountain Lion crashed the other evening (browsing the web, one tab started beach-balling, and refused to be force-quit so I forced a restart). When restarting, it seems to accept my user's password to unlock the FileVault 2 encryption (I'm certain the password is correct, and typing a known incorrect password results in a shaky input field). The next screen is a grey screen, with a spinning progress wheel. Eventually a grey embossed sign is displayed, and that's about as far as it progresses. Booting using verbose mode (⌘+V) results in repeated lines of Still waiting for root device being logged. Entering recovery mode (⌘+R) to try and restore from a TimeMachine backup, or zap the drive and re-install from the internet gets me as far as a password input box requesting I "Enter a password to unlock the disk Macintosh HD", but I cannot get past this screen despite entering correct passwords for both users who have the ability to u
Sometimes, Mac requires a restart after installing or uninstalling an application. What are the steps to prevent complete restart cycle and still achieve the desired result?
I plug the same external HDMI monitor in every day, and each time, I have to manually switch from external to mirrored mode. It's minor, but annoying.
I had enabled half-star ratings in iTunes: *=URL=* However since iOS7 has been released, the half-star ratings don't appear in Music app anymore. Instead they appear to be rounded down. Does anyone have any idea/official word on this?
When I updated iOS7 to my iphone, it somehow changed my settings on my computer. So now, whenever I text someone off my Macbook Pro, it sends the message from my email address. How do I change that back to send iMessages from my phone number?
Some ports have several versions installed, for example: How do I get dependencies per each of them? No success at the moment.
I am running OS X 10-6.8 on a 2007 iMac and have noticed lately, that whenever I run Appleworks, the USB string seems to be dead. I have not found a way to re-activate the USB short of Restart. Is there a better way to get USB working again?
A friend of mine gave this MacBook to me because she bought a new one but she forgot to tell me the password. I can't talk to her for some days and need to use the MacBook now. Most probably I will have to boot from some Hirens CD or other similar CD for doing unusual things on your PC or laptop.
I have about a terabyte of media files on an external hard drive. At any given moment I need a subset of these files locally on the SSD for faster access. Some times the hard drive isn't even available, but when it is I should still be able to use the files on it from a symlink path on the SSD. Is there an app that will automatically move groups of files back and forth, creating symlinks for the ones on the hard drive in the process?
I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, one of my favourites is ctrl+F2 (access the menu-bar with the keyboard). However, sometimes this just stops working. Whenever this problem happens, ctrl+F3 (access the Dock using the keyboard) also stops working. Pressing ctrl+F2 jumps the selection to the bottom in Finder instead of opening the menu.
I broke my sleep button on my iPod touch so I cannot use the button to shut down and turn it back on... If I let it die, will it turn on by itself if I plug it into a charger?
Is there some software manager like Synpatic in Ubunut for Mac OS X.... Right now, I am using kind of old Mac OS X 10.5.8 and want to install softare on it... Like Opera, Firefox... I don't mind that the versions of browsers I can install on this Mac OS X system are not secure anymore... I will not use it that much... I can still use Safari... The problem is I don't know which versions of Opera and Firefox I can install... For example, I installed the newest Opera and now it says : You cannot use this version of Opera with this version of Mac OS X.
I've had my Mac Mini for about six months now. Every night, I put it to Sleep rather than shutting it down. Since about two weeks ago, the Mac Mini wakes up from sleep around 1 to 3 am, once a night, and then after about 10 seconds, it puts itself back to sleep. Why does it do this? Is it performing some sort of maintenance function? But that then begs the question, why is it only doing this recently, and not a few months ago?
Every once in a while, the green light on my Magsafe adapter will turn off, but the computer will indicate that it's still running off of AC power. If I unplug the adapter from the computer and then plug it back in, it'll immediately light up again. Is this normal?
I own a Macbook Pro 15" from Early 2011, which suffers from the well-known-but-denied-by-Apple GPU problem. TL;DR: the AMD Radeon HD 6XX0M is dead and the Macbook can't boot, or can boot but with huge graphic glitches on screen.
I can't to sync the photos from the camera roll on my iPhone 3gs to my mac. I have had slight water damage to the phone in the past yet it is still functioning. When I went to see someone about this problem they said it was because of the water damage that it did not work and they would have to fix it but may risk losing data on the phone hence defeating the purpose and being completely counterproductive. When I connect the phone to any windows or mac, it is not recognised by the computer but the charging icon appears on the phone. I have tried all of the options that can be googled but none of them help or are clear enough to make any sense. Could someone write a step-by-step explanation of some options that could fix this problem?
On Windows and, if I'm not mistaken, on Linux, it's possible to zoom in and out in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel. However, this doesn't seem to be working on Mac OS X.
All of a sudden MBA boots displaying question mark folder , I ve tried booitng from a USB OSX to use disk utility but cant see the Macintosh HD of the Air to fix the disk. Safe mode doesnt seems to work, , Any root-cause? any solution . thanks
When editing multiple files from Panic's Transmit, in TextMate 1 they'd open themselves in tabs instead of separate windows. How can I restore that behavior in TextMate 2? This was the workflow for achieving this in TextMate 1: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/06/13/use-tabs-in-textmate-for-remote-files-opened-by-transmit/
I'm using iMac on my work and when i said to my boss that i need 2nd display for work he ordered it and it arrived. Philips Gioco 27" But that display has only VGA and HDMI ports, no DVI. So we bought adapter Mini Display Port to HDMI and connected 2nd monitor to my iMac. Everything seems working fine but when i turn off 2nd display (by pressing power button on it)my mac still thinks that display is turned on and not collapsing desktop area. When i turn 2nd display on it blinks (like normal with 2nd display). Is there a way how to make desktop area collapse when turning off 2nd display?
I thought with iOS 7 the theme was supposed to be based on the colour of the device. If this is the case why does my black iPad have the white theme. If this is not the case how do I change it to a black theme?
I downloaded the newest version of NetBeans and JDK and wanted to install it on my MacBook that runs on OS X 10.5.8 but I couldn't. This is the screenshot I made : Maybe since the this OS X version is quite old I will be pushed to install some older version of NetBeans... Anyway, why does it say I have a problem with JavaScript?
Here’s how documents appear in the iCloud window of one of my apps:  I have created these documents before. They looked OK. When I quit the app and come back, they look like this, disabled, and apparently no way to open them. I can create a new document, but it will appear all the same. When I save a document with the same name as these to overwrite them, it will appear all the same. Why are these documents disabled, and can I do anything myself to fix it?
Can I install 64 bit software on a 32 bit OS X? Or could I "update" my 32 bit OS X to 64 bit OS X? This is what I get when I put uname -a in a terminal:
Software upgrade seems to have worked fine but settings->icloud is disabled. It used to work fine. Also FaceTime icon produces message "Account restriction - this iphone is restricted from creating FaceTime accounts".
I'm using OS X 10.5.8 - Leopard. I updated Java via Software Update and the newest Java I could have installed in MacBook was Java 5. This is the screenshot:
I purchased a subsidized AT&T iPhone 4s in October 2011 (model MC922LL/A). I just unlocked the phone through AT&T's unlock website and received an email confirmation. I have backed up and restored the phone in iTunes and received the "Congratulations, your iPhone has been unlocked" message. My question is, can I use my unlocked iPhone 4s with any of the following carriers: T-Mobile (GSM) Metro PCS (GSM) Verizon (CDMA) Straight Talk (CDMA)
I also tried reducing motion in settings, but my phone constantly shakes up and down on the screen. I can't make it stop!! Seems like more problems with the update than without it.
Today I noticed a very odd thing: the Xcode app icon on my system has changed to red. It seems really odd as the entire icon is the same, just that the color is red!
I've searched a bit for these but haven't found anything of substance; I could set up a hacky hotkey workaround but that's suboptimal, in my experience. So any recommendations are more than welcome!
Simple question: I have a TomTom application that was on 5 devices (maximum allowed) One of the devices (let's call it D-Vice) breaks/gets lost How do I transfer the license from D-Vice to a new device? Thanks.
My original Apple ID was associated with an email address that is not valid anymore. I updated my Apple ID to a real valid email. I managed to update it successfully with everything except iCloud on my phone. The App Store, iTunes, and everything else on my phone has the correct ID except iCloud.
I'm trying to set up Merlin server on my Mac to send a GANTT chart to my iPad. I need to open TCP ports 7080 and 7090 for it to work. What's the best way to open those ports?
I'm not sure of the consistency but sometimes OS X makes hidden .filename files where filename is a name of another file in the same directory. I want to know how to disable this since USBs I insert and copy / move files to / from keep having this and it's annoying to have to delete them every time I plug the USB onto a non-Mac computer.
Since OS X Lion, web sharing isn't available from the System preferences. So I shut it down using sudo apachectl stop. Doing this, *=URL=* doesn't answer any more and all httpd are down (a least ps -e | grep httpd return none of them).
I find the new iOS 7 toggles to be a bit ambiguous. If I want to turn off data roaming do I leave it so that the button is to the left (only white) or do it push it to the right (where the color green appears on the left of the button).
I was having hard drive problems with my mid-2010 unibody Macbook Pro. I bought a new hard drive and set up it using a SATA to USB cable before installing. Everything worked great so long as I had the drive hooked up via USB, but when I installed it in the machine, the machine would not boot from it. If I held down option+R during startup, it would not find the new disk.
I have an app that informs me of critical events - for example, scheduled automated tasks failing. But when I set my phone to Do Not Disturb, this app goes silent as well. Is there a way I can set this particular app to play sounds even if my phone is on Do Not Disturb?
I have a 1st gen iPad that I don't know the passcode for. iTunes tells me that I need to enter the passcode before I can use it with iTunes. So I followed some instructions and put the iPad into Recovery mode, which let me connect to iTunes and hit the Restore button. iTunes apparently will not let me just restore the iPad using the iOS version it currently has; instead it demands that I let it download a new iOS version first. But my internet is so slow and unreliable where I live now that I have not been able to get iTunes to finish downloading.
I have a iPhone4 (iOS 5.0.1 [9A405]), and I noticed that from time to time instead of the typing indicator (...) I can see the part of the future message that I'm just about to receive. Is this a security issue?
I am using Pages '09 (v 4.3) and LibreOffice under OSX. When exporting a document from Pages into Word format, I am unable to open it in LibreOffice. (I would swear I had done this successfully many times before.) I think LibreOffice doesn't know which of the many Word formats to use. It shows me these specific options in the Open dialog:
Sometimes I download something, and OS X (or Chrome, not sure) decides that the file extension must be changed. Is it possible to completely disable this feature? How?
...or do I need to Erase Free Space as well as Erase with secure option. I'm prepping a Mac for resale.
I need iPhoto, but I don't know if I deleted it or I just never had it to begin with. I'm currently running OSX Lion.
I have a external hard drive and I'm checking it with the Disk Utility. However, it gave me an error says How can I install one?
I granted an application 'always allow' access to my keychain, i no longer want to have this application set to this, is there a central place where i can see which applications are allowed to access items / passwords in the keychain and then remove them as wanted ?
I'm trying to figure out why a certain keyboard combination is no longer working. As an example, Sublime Text 2 ships with a keyboard shortcut for opening the Find/Replace panel: Command + Option + F This combo worked fine until I did a clean install of OSX 10.8.5, after which it mysteriously stopped working in Sublime Text. I know keyboard sequences can be captured by processes other than the frontmost (like by the OS) so I was wondering if there is a way of checking by which process a particular keyboard command was "consumed"?
Upgraded both iphone5s to ios7 approx two weeks back. Suddenly last Thurdays I cannot receive his texts. Phone calls and FaceTime yes. Texts no. He can receive texts from me. Any ideas?
I have a Certificate Authority and I'd like to configure CRL. Is there a way to do this in Keychain Access? (I am running OS X Server).
I have an old Sprint iPhone 4s that hasn't been under contract for around a year now and I have a friend on T-Mobile whose contract doesn't end for another year. He still has a flip phone so I want to give him the old iPhone. Is there a way to unlock the iPhone if it is no longer under contract?
MacBook Pro i7 Mid-2012 (MacBookPro9,2) running Mac OS X 10.8.5: Downloaded the "offered" EFI SMC Update 1.8 through the AppStore Updates. MacBook restarted, grey progress bar appears w/ spinning wheel, progress bar disappears at 20%, wheel spins a few more seconds, then display turns black and Mac shuts down.
I know how to shutdown a Mac from Terminal, but is there a way to actually bring up the shutdown dialog you get from Apple → Shut Down…?
I'm used to taking screenshots in Windows and then editing them before posting them (with MSPaint) How can I edit a simple image quickly on OSX?
I've been a big fan of the redesign of the music app in iOS 7. I noticed that on the Artist list, certain musical acts have a thumbnail of band/artist next to them. This image is independent of any album art that I might have, and definitely comes from iTunes.
Once I've installed an svn, I need it. As I understand, this port is important for subversion: Then I take a look on what is important for it:
I can collect a variable (email address) from the clipboard. How do I set it to the recipient in Mail with Automator?
I am using a MacBook with OS X Mounain Lion 10.8.3 and I want to install a local web server on my machine. What are my options? On windows I used XAMPP.
I need my Safari history from the backed up file in iTunes. I was able to extract the backup data but in iOS 7 there is only Bookmarks.db in the directory. It not in here anymore? /Library/Safari/History.plist
I'm replacing the RAM in a 2011 MacBook Pro, something I've done before on other machines. I got all the screws from the back case off apart from one that sits in the corner on the end by the screen hinge.
I use the Mail application (v 5.3) under Mac OSX 10.7 I have created a rule to automate mail forwarding to my team, based on the sender email address.
My husband misplaced his iPhone and then he left out of town and I found it. I turned it off and sent it overnight to him and it is now lost in the mail. Can I track his iPhone if it is turned off?
On Linux, there is exportfs CLI tool which can be used to export NFSs without modifying /etc/exports file. However, I can't find it on OS X 10.8.
Today I came across a strange kind of website that helped me save an app from Safari, to my iPhone 5 on iOS 7. The point being I didn't authenticate the App in the App Store, still it's there. Also fiddling a bit with the mechanism it used I was able to port an other cracked app to my iPhone. So my question being, How is it possible when my OS is not jail broken?
How can I login as the _teamsserver user? I have sudoed and set the passwd for teamsserver, but it does not take it when I use the login command. I need to see the output of some scripts as they are run by teamsserver, and verify that teamsserver has the correct permissions and utilities available.
Iphone 4 ios 6 has shared calendar with iphone 5 ios7.. Having issues syncing. I have logged on to Icloud and the calendar events are on both accounts. however it is not syncing with either phones... (this is only for the old events only) All new events are showing on both phones. How do we get the previous events to reflect on calendars on our phones...?
When I'm viewing a folder in Time Machine's "Star Wars" view, how do I move up one folder, to view the current folder's parent folder? In Finder, I have several ways to do it: I could either hit CMD+Up Arrow, or CMD-click the title bar then click on the parent folder I want, or double-click the folder I want from the folder path in the bottom bar. But none of these methods work in Time Machine.
When I type ⌥→, I'd like my cursor to stop at periods, and perhaps other characters. Does anybody know of a defaults configuration, or System Preferences setting, that changes which characters are considered to be ‘word characters’ by OS X?
I have some ancient files that I need to share between Macs. There are over 100,000 of them. I need to keep the directory containing these files in sync. I thought Git would be a good solution, and it was, until I discovered that Git has stripped the resource fork off of every file on the remote machine(s).
We use an auto login script using ARD to avoid visiting each station in our lab. Mountain Lion no longer works so that a cursor appears at the login screen. I've tried numerous scripts to activate the cursor to no avail. Pressing 5 on they numerical pad will do it as will a generic mouse down action. To avoid having to do this at each computer, how can I script one of these actions in an osascript? thank you in advance.
I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having this problem since I haven't changed any of my finder preferences. Say I drag an image from the browser to a folder on my desktop, it opens up a finder window for that folder immediately. I know if you hover over a folder for a few seconds the finder window for that folder would pop up but now it just does that as soon as I drop something into the folder, no hovering over it. The delay is set to medium with spring loaded folders checked as usual but I don't understand what's changing its behavior. Hope that makes sense, thank you in advance for the assistance.
I got rid of a Canon all-in-one printer/scanner, but how can I get rid of the Canon IJ Network Scanner (and other Canon softwares that might have been installed) on my Mac? It is not showing in Applications.
The iPad let me install iPhone Apps, which is good. However, if an App has an iPad and an iPhone version, iOS forces you to install the iPad version (the iPhone option is not available). I want to install Google Chrome for the iPhone on my iPad, is that possible?
. © ./ here is a snapshot of what the above text looks like on my computer... does it look the same to everyone else?
Leading up to the problem: My iPad worked perfectly fine with iOS 7.0. I installed iOS 7.0.2 and this issue began. The Problem
I'm planning to purchase a new iPhone 5s outright (ie, not on contract) for use with one of T-Mobile's prepaid plans. I'm wondering if it makes more sense to buy a Verizon iPhone 5s, just in case T-Mobile's service is unacceptable. I know that Verizon phones come unlocked, due to the terms of a recent spectrum purchase, but I don't know whether that applies only to the 3G bands. I also know that if I buy an unlocked T-Mobile iPhone, Verzion will not allow it to be used on their service.
There's been a few posts on this topic, but none answered my questions (at least the several I took a look at). I'm trying to figure out how to store photos from my iPhone 5 to iCloud (via Wi-fi). From what I've read so far, it seems that one has to use Photo Stream. But if I'm on a trip for more than 30 days, does that mean they will all be deleted by the time I get back? I don't care for sharing the pictures-- in fact, I don't want my pictures to be shared -- I just simply want to take pictures and store it in iCloud, and also have it save to my computer, which is constantly on while I'm on my trip, so that Time Machine can serve as another redundant back up
my computer sometimes freeze for no apparent reason When it freezes: nothing respond, I got a black or grey screen, nothing else. It's not hot either, I've set-up smcFanControl to keep my mac cool. It was checked in a store where no problem was found; they advise me to check the console after a crash. UPDATE: I ran the AHT test and it all seems OK.
If I block someone on my iPhone will I stop receiving their messages on my iPad as well or do I have to block the number on both?
a 2005 or 2006 G-5 dual core a intel can snow lep be loaded on it or is quad core intel can snow lep be loaded thanks just need to no the answer
I need a way to search from a base folder, all the folders inside of that one recursively, and find all photos of JPG and PNG that were created before a certain date (01.Feb.2013) and then move them to a particular folder. How would I go about this?
The answer of this question explains that it is to install apps bought on the Mac App Store on multiple computers. My problem is a little bit different. I moved to another country and I had to change the country also in my iTunes profile, due to my new credit card. As a result my iTunes store, App Store and Mac App Store are now associated to the new country. How can I access and download my purchased Apps on my new MacBook Pro? Probably one solution would be to change again the country, but it wouldn't be optimal.
Does any one know how to fix an error like this? My Finder keeps crashing after updating my Mac this morning. I've tried TotalFinder but this also crashed as if it was Finder. Any ideas? The tickets shows OS X 10.8.3… but my Terminal shows this: I've also tried looking at kextstat to make sure that I dont have any kernel extensions, and it all looks fine… Log error
I would like to know whether I can buy movies from the iTunes store using just a US iTunes account and an iTunes gift card (purchased in the US), in a different country.
I'm running Mountain Lion, and my question is how to "attach" an icon to an extension? For example, I want all .adm files has an icon like on the picture below. Unfortunately all I can is just attach an icon to proper file, not to all files that has such extension. Thus I want .adm extension has their own icon. .adm is opening in TextEdit, so please don't suggest me to open it in right app. Thank you in advance!
I've upgraded to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4s, cleared photos, cleared and turned off Photo Stream, deleted large apps, books, etc… and this is the 4th time I've installed iOS and started from scratch since the release of the new OS update, and yet I still get minimum of ~10GB of this "Other" data on my phone which doesn't let me include the data and files I want to have on my phone. Any ideas or suggestions?
Yesterday I was a bit curious what iTunes .itc (by default in ~/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork) files were. After a bit of research, I made a script to convert .itc to images (JPG & PNG). For 1913 itc files : I get 467 png & 636 jpg files.
Quick Look is very useful when wanting to preview documents and files without opening them in separate applications. I know that you can trigger Quick Look by highlighting a file in Finder and pressing the spacebar. Can it be activated using the trackpad on my Macbook Pro instead ?
I have an iPod Touch 4th Gen that has iOS 5 by default. Now that iOS 7 has been released and this device does not support iOS 7, can I still update my iPod Touch to iOS 6 (i.e., is iOS 6 still available)?
I saw a weird thing today, friend of mine after he updated to iOS 7 showed me this and asked why was the Message time stamps not updating properly. Circled should say “Yesterday”. Note it’s only 3:35PM today, we are both in same time zone, etc
I've uninstalled the Jawbone Updater software by deleting it from /Applications. However, I'm still seeing the JAMBOX by Jawbone as a Bluetooth output and input in the System Preferences panel.
I tried to install matplotlib on OS X Lion with the pip install command, but I get the following error: Does anyone have a solution?
When I'm at work, I connect my iPhone to my computer over USB to keep it charged during the day. When I do so, the phone appears in iTunes. I don't remember my phone prompting me if I wanted to trust my work computer (or I don't remember choosing Yes), but I'd rather not have this connection. All I need is the precious, precious voltage. Is there any way to remove or un-trust a particular computer? (My specifics: iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, Windows 7, iTunes 11.1)
On my PC, the iOS apps synchronized by iTunes take up a pretty substantial percentage of my total disk space. Since most, if not all of them, can be recovered from the App Store, is it safe to delete them on my PC? I've already verified that removing apps does not affect any apps currently installed on my device; now I'm wondering if it might cause problems once I have to restore from a backup.
I have a MBA 2013, and its not more than few days that I installed MySQL. I have not created any database in mysql yet, but still it takes a lot of memory on RAM. I have configured it to start automatically on boot up. So i would be glad if anyone can help me out with understanding why is that MySQL takes so much of memory and what is the solution to tune it?
I want to change the root password so it is different than the admin password. I need to change the password so the admin can still be logged on, but the root password to modify the hosts file through terminal with nano at /private/etc/hosts is different. Even if the admin is logged in, he will need a different set of codes to modify the hosts file. Is this possible?
For some reason, the launch daemon I created will not run successfully at system boot. I have tried it as a launch agent but that also doesn't work. This is my plist located in /Library/LaunchDaemons:
I can't reproduce Apple's first tip on their iPhone tips and tricks page. When they say tap multiple images I assumed them mean tap the 'Select' button in the upper right then select photos one by one but their screenshot shows photos selected while not in selection mode. The only way this screenshot makes sense to me is if they photoshopped the nav bar with the rest of the screen while in selection mode. Am I missing something?
I need to open an accdb file on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.5). This file uses an ODBC data source connection. So I guess my questions are: How do I setup a new ODBC data source connection on a Mac? What app I could use to open the accdb file, with data source connection support? Update: This is how my User DNS connection looks like on my Windows PC I think the data source might actually be a SQL Server
Since I updated my iTunes to the newest version (11.1), these notifications appear every time I play songs or listen to the radio. I really don't need that. Does anybody know how to turn them off?
Up until recently, embedded YouTube videos on Safari pages on my first-gen iPad (iOS 5) worked as you'd expect, with the video duration and draggable time bar shown at the bottom, and the ability to send the video to my AppleTV via AirPlay. Today I tried for the first time in a couple of weeks, and while the videos still play fine, the duration is shown as '--', the draggable time bar is disabled, and although the AirPlay icon still appears, I can now only send the audio to my AppleTV. This appears to be the case on any embedded videos I could find, such as those on my own homepage and this scrapbooking page (which my wife frequents!) Have YouTube just changed something about the way they deliver embedded videos to iOS devices to cripple them in this way, or have I inadvertently changed something on my iPad that could have caused this?
When I drag an item (i.e. a jpeg) from my email to the desktop, the icon for said item appears all the way to the right of the screen as opposed to where it dropped it on the desktop. This only started happening recently. Also, When I drag the photo to the desktop a finder folder now opens whereas this didnt used to happen. any ideas would be greatly appreciated! thanks!
How do I remove the Ios 7 update on my phone? I've been having problems with my 4S since it was installed such as not being able to connect to Wifi and unable to send emails.
I'm so lost here. I imported an audio book from CD into my iTunes library. The genre was wrong on one of the 5 CDs ("Spoken & Audio") instead of "Audio Book". So I changed it. iTunes Match did its job, uploaded the titles and messed everything up. I ended up with all the titles being duplicated, one per genre. In the end I just wanted to get rid of the files. I deleted the titles from iTunes 11 and checked in Findes that they are gone for good. I was also ask if I wanted to delete the titles in iCloud too. I agreed. Then iTunes Match updated itself and everything was back. I retried - same issue. The titles come back with an iCloud icon. How the heck can I get rid of the titles and restart?
Is there a safe way to move a Time Machine backup on an external USB hard drive to a Time Capsule?
I'm having a problem with my MacBook Pro Retina 15. I close the screen to put it to sleep. When I open it back up, the screen wakes up, but the keyboard and trackpad do not work. If I plug in a USB keyboard, it works fine and I see a message on the screen that says: Bluetooth Mouse or Trackpad Setup There isn't a wireless mouse or trackpad connected. I'm running 10.8.5.
I totally messed up today and I hope that you can help me. I have the latest version of the mbp. Since this is my first apple pc, I thought, that I can just install the developer preview, despite having a developer account. Everything worked fine and today I wanted to update to the new GM. I wanted a clean install, so I burned the image to a usb stick and installed it in the boot menu. Unfortunately it didn't work, so I deleted the hard disk (the macintosh part) and tried again. Luckily I had boot camp installed and can now use windows 8.1. Now I'm trying to reinstall mac os. I just found out, that I cant restore it, as the restore had changed to mavericks preview, which will also check, if I'm a registered developer. A USB Stick and a DVD didn't install me Mountain Lion nor Mavericks Preview. In fact the USB stick wasn't even recogonized. I was using the .dmg (you'll find in the internet) and the windows program TransMac. So do you have any idea, how I can solve this? I don't have a b
I have the following applescript bundled as .app (using Platypus) and starting on user logon (12.4 MB for each user) How can i make it a service, so it only run 1 instance and when the system starts, not at user logon? Any other suggestions about my code? EDIT Here is my current (working) .plist located in /Library/LaunchAgents When i move it to /Library/LaunchDaemons the app doesn't work anymore.
I've tried several times to export an iMovie project to Vimeo using iMovie '11 v9.0.9 updated May 2013. The video takes several hours to render, but fails at the end when it would follow that the video is to start uploading. This is the error message that shows when it fails:
I have a 4S at iOS 7.0.2. My wife had a 3G (yes, that old :) and today received her 5S which has been updated to iOS 7.0.2.
However I am unable to get it to override the behavior of the Home key. I can bind it to "Toggle Mute" and it does toggle mute, but it closes my app while doing so, making this button completely useless.
Whenever I use Google Chrome to access a login page in which I have the username/password saved in the Keychain (via Safari) Chrome would pop up a dialog box that asks "Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in {some domain name} in your keychain?" There are a few problems. 1) I'd prefer Chrome to save the credentials in its own storage, instead sharing one with Safari. 2) If not, I'd rather it to not ask me about that. 3) Failing that, it should at least give me the right credentials. This is more of a problem when I have multiple logins in the same site, and it rarely gives me the one I'd want the first few time, because it doesn't try to match the path portion of the url's (only the domain portion is matched). 4) At the very least, Chrome should give me an option to say "Deny all", instead of popping up a new one after every time I click "Deny".
I'm hoping you can help me out with a strange issue I've been dealing with the past few days. I recently purchased a 2008 Xserve. I've been trying to get Mountain Lion on it without much luck, however I'm very close. I know mountain lion is not 'supported' on this platform, but there is no reason it won't run. I've replaced my mezzanine video card with a mountain lion (and lion) supported gt 120 from a mac pro. I've installed mountain lion to a 500gb drive via USB off of my macbook pro, and edited the PlatformSupport.plist file to contain the proper board id from my Xserve.
2 days ago my girlfriend's MacBook Air crashed (mid 2012, running OS 10.8), only showing the infamous "folder" icon. Usual stuff did not help, reboot pressing alt, cd, etc. We went to an Apple Store and they told us that the hard drive was dead, which would cost us... $1000. I guess they think it's dead because after booting it from an external hard drive they could not see the hard drive using Disk Utility... Of course I can't / won't pay that amount of money...
Much like: How do I cat a deleted file which is still open by its inode?. I am using 'Sleuth Kit' command line tool, to gather relevant data from the disk. But I keep on getting: Error opening image file (raw_open: file "/dev/rdisk1s2" - Permission denied) This is so, whether or not I included r. How can I solve this problem?
Some days ago I realized, that Apple automatically stored the iOS7 install package on my iPhone 4S with iOS6. The package uses about 2 GB of free space, which is inacceptable for me. How can I locate and delete this file?
The airport express is said to support 50 users, yet in my case (when bridging WiFi to ethernet) it only serves up to 4 clients on the LAN port. A fifth client is not able to obtain an IP address nor ARP requests or anything else. It's completely ignored by the airport express. So: How many ethernet clients does the airport express support concurrently when bridging? Note: This applies to bridged mode (ProxySTA) only, where one bridges an existing WiFi (connected to the internet) into an ethernet.
I would like to process a large number of scanned paper forms (GUI or command line). I am only interested in reading (custom) checkboxes. The form looks like this: every line has 6 circle-shaped boxes (one is marked) form has has 45+ lines
On my Mac, I used Time Machine to backup to a Drobo that was directly attached. I've now connected this Drobo to my TimeCapsule. I however want to continue backing up to the Drobo, not the TimeCapsule. I have told the TimeCapsule to share its disks, and can mount the Drobo Disk fine, and it appears under /Volumes as "Drobo".
I've got two mac and both are running last version of OS X and iTunes but there's a little difference that I hate and I don't know how to solve: These are the possible views of the Apps section in iTunes of one Mac:
I backed up to an old date in icloud and lost recent text messages when upgraded to ios 7. Can I somehow find those more recent text messages? If not, can the Apple store find them?
I need to edit plist file of TextEdit (TextEdit/Contents/plist.info) for doing this, using Xcode. But TextEdit says that I've got no permission for edit
When I select a word and use Define, I have to readd the same dictionaries that I've previously enabled. At first I thought each app had its own preferences, but it forgets every time, regardless of the app. I noticed that changing the interface language will also decide which dictionaries are enabled by default (and thus not forgotten).
I am seeking for the equivalent of In the Ruby rvm world rvm implode completely uninstalls everything ruby related installed via rvm, including rvm too.
I want to create a user with OS X restrictions (Parental Control), which would still be allowed to install applications in the standard Applications folder using its password. Is it possible? How should I do it?
Is there any plugin (or other way), to add support for mkv files in quicklook? In my searches, the way I found of doing it involves installing perian, which I’d really prefer not to do for a number of reasons, one of them being that it’s no longer in development.
I have both Windows and Mac laptop computers with hard drives that are too small to fit my music collection or backup iPhones. I would like to purchase a hard drive that I can connect to my wi-fi router which can include parts of my iTunes library not on my laptop, and could be a place for me to backup my phone. For example I was thinking about the Seagate Central 3 TB Shared Storage Ethernet External Hard Drive. Does anyone know of a way to do what I want with this or any other product? Thanks.
Every time I try to open iTunes on OS X (10.7.5) it opens and after few seconds crashes. I installed the latest version 11.1.1 and still the same. Here is the crash report.
Can I completely isolate apps on mac from the internet, without installing any additional software ? I need a sort of firewall to isolate them thanks
I am trying to link up with my wife at home (send IM). I am on a platform in Brazil and am hooked up to the platform network via an ethernet cable. When I try to send to my wife's mac I get a red explanation mark saying the message was not sent, and I receive nothing from my wife.
I need a French dictionary as a second choice when I read French text on my iPhone. I am not able to invoke a French dictionary when I select a French word as I do when I am reading English. Is this another case of American exceptionalism? Also there appears to be no way to get to the keyboards when I am reading text. Most awkward indeed!
I have a mac book pro 8gb i5 core. While I was using a cam service online. Someone send me a link and I opened it by accident. Such link opened another window which appeared to load,but it never did. It send me back to the main page,then next thing i know it open up my desktops as if i had pressed f3, and I never pressed it.
Is it possible to use an AT&T gsm iPhone 4 with any other carrier
I use a pair of powered m-audio speakers with my macbook air. I really wan't to remove the wires and be able to stream music. It would seem like the obvious choice would be to get the Airport Express but are there any alternative products? I was thinking of a Raspberry Pi similar to this: *=URL=* but was wondering. Are there any commercial alternatives to Airport Express?
Yes, it sounds strange. I purchased an app that didn't initially work and I requested a refund which was promptly processed by Apple. Then I couldn't find a better app for my needs and figured out some workarounds for the initial app. Now I still have the app installed on my phone and the honest thing to do is repurchase it. How can I do that?
Hey I seem to not be able to have airport express and Apple TV connected and the same time. I have tried various different setup methods( Ethernet, wireless . Extend, standalone) but keep experiencing drop outs with the atv . I have also tried changing settings via airport utility with no success... Seems ridiculous that I have purchase AirPort Extreme to make these too work together . If anyone has any suggestions on how I can fix my deliemma it would be greatly appreciated? Taylor
This iPhone is currently linked to an Apple ID (e**@icloud.com). Sign in with the Apple ID that was used to set up this iPhone. After I input the correct credentials and press Next in the top right corner, the title of the page changes to 'Activating...', then changes back to how it was before. About 15 seconds later, it transitions to a 'Could not activate iPhone' page:
If you select some text in whatever application, there's a "define" option that will open a builtin dictionary screen:  Can this dictionary be accessed/browsed? As in, an actual application? iOS 6.0
I have already set in the Energy Saver of System Preferences that so if I close the cover of the Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, so that it sleep, then if I open up the cover within a few hours, then it wakes up right away -- which is all fine. However, if I open up the the cover and not touch it, then after some 12 or 24 hours, then it will wake up from hibernation, taking about 2.5 minutes before any password can be typed in. (update 2015: this Macbook Pro was running with a non SSD hard drive. The wake up time is a lot better if it is an SSD drive).
Every time I try to clear my cache or cookies, the system freezes and crashes. The spinning wheel continues and I have to force quit/reboot. How can I clear my cache & cookies without Firefox freezing? MacBook Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
If I can't go back I'm getting rid of iPhone for droid, any help would be appreciated. My iPhone and all upgrades are legal, just hate new upgrade... Please help me Terry
I have an old TV with following sockets: Front:
I have a spreadsheet I have been updating in IOS Numbers for several months and I sometimes update it with OSX Numbers However when I did a recent update in OSX I get the error message Spreadsheet couldn't be imported. An error occurred when I tried to open in IOS. This as the first time I edited in OSX since the iPhone was upgraded to IOS7. I have edited the spreadsheet down so that it is just a simple table - to make sure that my recent edits had not caused an incompatibility.
I have an Mac Mini from 2011. Sometimes (I would say 80% of the time) when I wake up the monitors, after they've been sleeping, my main monitor (a Benq G2220HD 22″, connected via DVI → Mini Displayport) wakes up with just noise. Its like a grey background with black, white, red, green and blue dots all over. To solve this I have to power off the monitor, and power it on again.
I am used to using FileMaker on a friend's computer, but I don't have it on mine, and at the moment I can't afford to buy it. Is there anything free out there that is similar?
I was on the iOS 7 beta in it's entirety and updated to the public version via my phone. Last night I got an activation error which is incorrect as I work for a company that builds apps and we even published 3 apps for the iOS 7 release.
On my old MacBook, I could hit ⌘ cmd + ⌥ alt/option + space and get a new Finder window with the sidebar (Downloads, Documents, etc…). On my new Mac, that same command only gives me a Spotlight window which excludes the sidebar. Is there a way to get the hotkey shortcut going again so that I don't have to ⌘ cmd + ⇥ tab to the Finder each time to hit ⌘ cmd + N? I am on a Mac i5 MacBook Pro.
I want to upgrade to a new iPhone but have apps that store data, such as inventory, car maintenance data, etc… I don't want to lose this information when I upgrade. How do I transfer this saved data when I set up my new iPhone?
Yesterday, all of a sudden I started getting "Activation required" on my iPhone5 due to which I just can not login even when I enter my Apple credentials. Exactly this problem - *=URL=* Trying to follow *=URL=* to solve it but I just can not get it into DFU mode http://www.imore.com/tip-put-iphone-ipad-dfu-mode.
I'm running OS X 10.8.4. My goal is to remove the wide drop shadows around windows and replace them with a thin black outline. Several questions have been posted asking how to remove or reduce the drop shadows. How do I decrease the window shadow in Mac OS X? Disable drop shadows around windows or the menu bar on OS X How can I remove the window shadow in Mountain Lion? Mountain Lion - scale down the window shadows How to remove window decoration under OSX?
I just got a Macbook air, and I am noticing that audio playback on Chrome is noticeably choppy (e.g. when watching a Youtube video).
The Frequent Locations setting explains itself quite vaguely:  I see the service polling my current location often* but I don't see any concrete benefits having this option turned on. In another question it seems it can give you a daily estimate / driving instructions to your workplace (or similar daily-visited location) via the notification centre—is that all?
My wife just got a used Mid 2011 MacBook Air. The keyboard looks like this: But the keys work like this:
How can one configure MacOS (10.8 or higher) to automatically and immediately call a user-designated script (probably a bash script) upon the user closing the display lid of a MacBook Air or Pro? Details.
Is it possible to upgrade from a non-server (desktop) edition of OS X to the server edition? I currently have a Mac Mini running standard ML but I'd like to upgrade it to the Server version as I use it for a home fileserver and the connections frequently get maxed out. Preferably I'd like to go straight from ML -> Mavericks Server, but I don't even know if the desktop-to-server path is possible on any edition without a fresh install (I hope it is).
Apple developer site has lot of content for someone who is learning iOS/Mac Development. Is it legal to use that content to prepare a training document for freshers in our company to help them learn things better? The use of the content will be completely non-commercial.
It happened to me twice recently. I was just using my iMac normally, like browsing the web, and it suddenly freezes. I can move the mouse, but I can't click on anything. Keyboard not functioning at all. I couldn't figure out what to do except for pressing the power button and reboot. What else can I do? Is there a way to diagnose and find out what is causing it?
I have an OSX Lion box behind a router (firewall on in the router). On the OS X, if I switch the firewall on, I'm unable to access the web server running on this box from outside the network (i.e. WAN). This is as expected.
I will be able to use a former video editing "Mac Pro" :) for a bit, free to configure anything I want in software. I would like to experiment with setting up OS X software RAID 0 with 6x SATA SSD. No data reliability required, I will have to relinquish the box after a few tests.
I am using xcode 4.6.3. and now i want to download xcode 5. But i dont want to download it from itunes / mac store or apple developer site. So what are the other sources to download the xcode 5 ? Please provide me links for this.. Thanks.
I am looking for FTP Client software for Mac that Doesn't show hidden system files on the server Can edit files using MS Office and then save them back onto the FTP site automatically without the user having to download the file, edit the local copy and then upload the local copy and replace the remote copy. I have tried various FTP software and only a handful don't show hidden system files on the server which is good, and some automatically open files when they are double clicked using the correct software (Word, Excel etc..) but then when you save it doesn't update the remote copy.
I finally downloaded iOS7.0.2 on my iPhone 4s (I didn't want to do it because I expected something to go wrong). It worked fine on my ipad which is a much newer version but on the phone all of my purchased apps have disappeared from the screen. If you go to the app store I can open them I just can't get them to reappear - how can I fix this?
When I enable internet connection sharing, a local named DNS nameserver is started that uses the file /etc/com.apple.named.proxy.conf for configuration. My internet connection sharing is configured such that my Mac gets address 192.168.2.1
My colleague and I found another screen bypass bug in iOS 7 installed on iPhone 5 Black. How do we report this to Apple?
I have using an iPhone 5 upgraded to iOS 7. Is it possible to turn off vibrations for alarms? I am currently using a song as alarm sound, the vibration is annoying.
As mentioned here, the first 10.8.5 upgrade made the camera unavailable for Skype. This being totally unacceptable to me, I applied the fix that was around on macrumours, I backed up the AppleCamera.plugin under /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/, deleted it, and put the 10.8.4 version of the file there. This fixed it until yesterday, when I applied the second 10.8.5 update. The update didn't complain about anything, but now the camera doesn't work again. I've tried using the backed up file, the 10.8.4 again, and the new version that a friend who didn't apply the fix got from the new update (which I didn't). His AppleCamera.plugin is 2.3MB in size, while mine is 2.2MB or 2.4MB (backed up / 10.8.4).
Whenever I drag an open application's icon in the dock to another place in the dock, it thinks that means I want it to stay in the dock even if the app closes. Is it possible for me to change this behavior? I like to arrange my icons in a certain way, but I don't like icons in the dock whose apps are not open.
I have a MacBook Pro (250GB with about 100GB free). I'm planning to get an external hard drive (1 TB). Is it possible to use the external hard drive for both time machine's purposes and as a general storage device (for movies and games)?
I have purchased a book through iTunes, it is formatted as an epub. Is there anyway I can read it in a Windows PC?
I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa. I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary but it still reliably makes the correction anyway. How do I configure OS X to not automatically correct a given word short of turning off automatic correction entirely which is not really desirable?
In iOS 6 and below I could double tap the home button, tap and hold an app, and click the red - to close an application(s). In iOS 7 this does not work. How can I restart an app that's exploding without resetting the entire OS?
I have a few apps that appear to be installed on my iPad running iOS 7 but are not actually installed. For instance, the app is no where on any home screen or inside any folder, but visiting the App Store and navigating to the app page on my iPad does not show an iCloud download button or a "Free/Buy" button.
My friend is currently running the default firewall with "Block all incoming connection" (except the basic ones like 80). I just scanned his mac for open ports and I found the following: Is it normal to have those ports open, or does he have something fuzzy installed?
I have MS Office for Mac 2011 installed in Russian in my MacBook, can I switch it to English? Is it possible? ... or I would have to buy and install English version of MS Office for Mac?
I'm looking for a specific email I may have deleted, but I don't remember when I received it (it was at least a couple months ago). Digging through my Mail history in Time Machine for a single email would take forever - why isn't there an obvious search function for Time Machine? Does anyone have a technique or strategy for searching past emails in Time Machine?
I suspect my MacBook Pro's Superdrive is faulty. It refuses to burn Sony DVD+R discs. I'm now looking at replacing the drive, but I see there are many "Superdrives". I have a Matshita DVD-R UJ-868, but I see different type numbers are sold as a Superdrive. Which Superdrives, besides the UJ-868, are compatible with my 15 inch, mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5,3?
In iOS 7, some apps can now update their data even when the app is not open. This feature is called "Background App Refresh". How often does each app update their content using this method? Is it up to the app to determine the frequency, or does iOS 7 limit them?
Can I send a text message from my iPad (iOS7) to someone with an Android device? (Samsung Galaxy 3).
The issue I am having is being able to share a metadata database that will not corrupt, and will update properly. Lightroom would have been a great choice for this along with Dropbox, but updates to the metadata database are inconsistent, and we have issues with conflicted copies and locking. I considered also using a tool such as Leap.app, but I haven't been able to share out the tagging database.
I have an AT&T iPhone 4 running iOS version 5.1.1. My contract with AT&T is complete, and they have authorized my unlock. However, the process is to backup and restore from iTunes, according to the instructions they sent.
I want to setup a VPN on my mac but I can't make it work. If I start my Windows 7 VM, the VPN connects fine (from Windows) but if I try to connect from my Mac it fails… First of all, here is the system log: Second: The Windows 7 VPN manual (the only one available) states that I should check the box "CHAP Protocol" & "CHAP v2" and I must select the option where encryption is required. Third: I must also enter the pre-shared-key, which I deduce is the shared-secret option of mountain lion. Still no luck at all… can anyone help? EDIT 1: The dump file is here
I notice that Mail.app (version 6.5) sometimes displays the from field of a message in a different case from how it is written in the raw message source. This seems to account for why some digitial certificates are listed as invalid ("Unable to verify message signature") by Mail. If the certificate lists the RFC 822 Name in lowercase, and the raw source of the message lists the email address in lowercase, but Mail is displaying it with initial capitals, then the certificate is listed as invalid. I've anonymized the particular example I'm working with -- let's say the address is foo.goo@blah.com.
I have the following problem: I'm an extensive Quark User since the 90's and recently updated two of my Macs at work to OSX 10.7.5. I would like to use my favorite Shortcut "Command-Tab" in Quark Xpress as usual, without changing the Apps via the Dock. My question: Where can I change or delete this shortcut? I previous used "Ape" and "PullTab 1.4" to solve my problem, but these hacks are no longer supported.
Can I put a data only, no voice or text sim card in an iPhone. I'm keen to get 4g but I've found the cheapest monthly plan for a nano sim is £33 for 3GB. This included unlimited text(SMS) and unlimited voice calls. I make almost no calls, and few text messages.
When creating services in automator, the topmost options is "Service receives selected..." Is there a way to create a service that just works on the currently open finder window, without having a file selected? The reason why this would be nice to have is the following:
Since updating to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4, the home address of some of Outlook contacts do not sync to the phone. Some contacts will show home and work, and some will not show any address on the iPhone. How do I fix this?
For some reason, Chrome will no longer close my find window when I hit the Escape ⎋ key. Instead, it pulls up some weird kind of autocomplete drop-down. This is incredibly annoying; every time I perform a search, I now need to reach for the mouse immediately afterwards. Anyone know what the problem might be?
I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook thinking that all my iTunes music on my iPhone would magically sync onto my new MacBook Air... unfortunately not, there is only one song in my iTunes library on my MacBook & my iPhone has some purchased songs unable to be played now. I'm unable to click on devices because it's greyed out. How do I get the music on my iPhone onto my new computer & my purchased material back?
We are experiencing a very odd problem when AFP connections to our server are dropping part way through, which often then means the client machine crashes. AFP logs on the server show nothing, but the /var/log/system.log events below show the disconnection as it happens. Note I have installed the 10.8.5 Combo Updater, reinstalled the Server.app from the AppStore, tried various client machines, and experienced the same problem. There is plenty of space on both sides and the folders in question are about 40GB. Disk Warrior on both ends has been used already, nothing interesting found. Oddly enough connecting via SMB does not cause these problems, so it appears AFP or network related, as far as I can tell. Any suggestions or ideas most appreciated!
I'm the owner of iPhone 4. Is there any possible way to downgrade from 7.02 to one of the previous firmware versions? The whole point is I don't have and have never had SHSH blobs and have never jailbroken my phone. The ideal is to get back to iOS 4, but even 5 and 6 would be fast enough for not annoying me all the time with iOS 7's incredible slowness. If there is some way to do that I will be absolutely happy. Thanks.
I'd like to tell the time with my Apple TV, so I don't have to use a computer. But I can't seem to find a single clock app or screensaver for Apple TV. Anyone know if one exists? I'm using an Apple TV 3, with Apple TV Software 6.0.
I created some rules in Mail 6.6 application. Now, I want to apply these rules on my existing mails in mailbox, not just to the inbox, that is going to my mailbox after creation of the rules. How can I achieve this?
How can I manually select the language of Auto Correct for a block of text in apps like Notes and Mail? I want to write a text that contains both English and German sentences. I have found a solution to modifying the setting globally in this thread, but I would like to have a mixed document.
I went to a site I regularly use and got this when logging in with Safari  I seem to have 2 certificated of the same name both issued by Apple and both are not expired (found by searching in KeyChain Access app) I evaluated at the certificates in Keychain Access and both have a status of good and the keychain they are in verifies OK. How do I login, what are the risks in choosing the wrong one?
I have a MBP Retina 15' (mid 2012) and recently I was caught by surprise under the rain. My macbook was in a bag but still some water managed to get inside. The only damage I can see so far is that the webcam doesn't work anymore, I can even see drops of moisture in it.
I need to install MATLAB using an internet connection, but according to the docs I can't install MATLAB with a connection if I have JDK 7 installed on Mountain Lion. According to MATLAB, the solution is:
The key with the "¦" symbol (a "broken pipe"?) on it lies immediately to the right of the left-shift key. I am used to getting a "|" symbol (the "pipe") if I use this key with the "Shift" key.
A friend told me that when you delete a file on your Mac in the normal way it actually stays where it is, but it is just no longer usable by your Mac. The addition of more files to your Mac causes them to overwrite the space taken by those unusable files that you deleted previously. If this is true then I'm thinking if your Mac got into the wrong hands, that individual(s) could actually recover files that you have deleted previously (which could be potentially harmful). Therefore how do you delete them securely first to prevent such potential catastrophe (preferably using the Terminal command) ?
A friend of mine purchased an iPhone 5 a couple of months ago which she now wishes to sell. She said she has contacted Apple with regards to the AppleCare warranty and selling her iPhone and was informed that the AppleCare that was purchased with the handset cannot be transferred to the new owner OR to a new iPhone 5S. She would like to know is this true (and isn't it therefore a rip off), as she is only a couple of months into the agreement and therefore would think twice about upgrading at all ?
I want to publish my website on a private server, but I can't seem to find an option to "save to folder" on my current version of iWeb. What do I need to do to save my files to a folder so that I can upload them to a server?
I connected my brother's iPhone4 to iTunes to sync movies in my library. Since, his phone has never done any backup and first time connect to iTunes, I'd mistakenly press on something writes "backup....", which I guess it referring my iPhone. And, unfortunately, all the photos in the camera roll were lost. Is there any possible way of getting back those photos in the camera roll that has never been backed up?
My Early 2008 iMac with OSX 10.8.5 no longer boots beyond grey screen with spinning gear. Verbose mode shows a load of I/O errors. Disk Verify/Repair run via recovery partition completes successfully, as does fsck terminal command in single user startup mode (it modified the files on first run but not second). I reset the NVRAM too.
I just installed an application (MousePosé)(which many of you will love) to show me where my mousecursor is, after pressing a shortcut, However: very often when I'm programming, especially after CMD-Tab, I can't remember/see where my text-cursor is. Does there exists an application that fades out the screen, until at the point of where the text-cursor is, like MousePose does with the mouse cursor? In fact, it's like an Lightbox effect, where your whole screen gets fade-out and only the thing that matters (your text-cursor) shows in perfect glory, with no dimmed light. Just like this, but when with the text-cursor, instead of the mouse-cursor
I'm new to PHP and Apache and I think I've messed some things up that I don't know how to fix. After following a tutorial I managed to update to PHP 5.5, and then started having problems. I went to downgrade to PHP 5.4, but then I had more problems, so I tried to re-update to PHP 5.5 and now it's saying it's already installed. However, when I reload my my_phpinfo.php (localhost address) in Firefox, it only shows that I'm running PHP version 5.3.15 which is what I started out with originally. Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to go in and delete all the PHP 5.4 and 5.5 files I've updated so I can just start over with a clean slate and re-download PHP 5.5 and start again?
I recently upgraded to OS 10.8, and now when I try to switch between apps using command + tab the quick switch menu (not sure what its called) to the app after toggling to it, but it never actually switches over. I then have to click on the app in the dock. I tried looking in the keyboard menu, what is causing this?
I would like to select the page directly from the window, but it is not accessible :
I want to copy an folder which may contain lots of folders from Dropbox to iBook, and keep the folder hierarchy correct. I used to use GoodReader and works fine, but it crashes a lot under iOS 7.
I recently ran updates from the Mac App Store for Server app and once the download finishes, I got the typical services are stopped message since a new server is present in /Applications. After starting the app and proceeding to upgrade the services, I received a vague error message:
My Macbook Air was stolen. The stolen Mac is showing up in Baku, Azerbajan. I don't have the skill to do it myself, but I could imagine that there would be a way to do something nasty. Perhaps a script or some exploit. Something that would give some sort of notice or a flash dialog. I know the computer still logs into gmail and dropbox by looking at the logs, so I've decided to not change those passwords as I have nothing worth protecting on those accounts as much as I'd want to get the Mac back or erased.
I know you can swipe from the screen edges to move forward and back in your history. I am looking for a quick way to go between the open web pages on my iPhone (without all the tapping required to bring up the overlay buttons, then the page view, then scroll to another page). It would be great if there is a way to use multi-finger swipes to switch between open pages (~tabs), like ⌘⇧} on OSX.
I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and recently I've made a small shell script which just shows a message on the screen. To run it, I had run
I recently used my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8.4) with a projector using a mini display port to VGA adapter. The resolution of the screen was modified from the use of the projector from 1680x1050 to 800x600 but it did not return it back to the original resolution. I therefore changed it back manually via the System Preferences "Displays" dialog.
Is there a way to rename an application? I like to use the desktop app from getpocket.com which is called Pocket. I would also like use the app from lastpass called Pocket. I can't use both with out overriding the other. Is there a way that these two apps can live in harmony?
I published a website to a folder using iWeb following the proceedures indicated on this posting. After publishing, I clicked on VISIT SITE NOW and everything looked fine. I then proceeded to upload it onto my server and I now see a strange phenomenon occurring. On almost every carriage return, the new line begins with a strange "A^" symbol. You can see the results of this on this website.
Here is my story I had a MacBook PRO 2010 with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion since I bought it I've never reinstalled the OS until now. I did a clean install following this instructions http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/clean-install-mountain-lion/
I am transferring files from my Time Capsule (4th Generation, 2TB, model A1409) to my laptop (Ubuntu) via the Apple Filing Protocol. The Time Capsule is connected directly to the laptop via an ethernet cable (wifi on the laptop is disabled): standard LAN port to standard laptop ethernet interface. The Time Capsule is not being used by any other device (i.e. it is disconnected from my primary router; no laptops/mobiles/etc are connected to it physically/wirelessly aside from the Ubuntu laptop).
I had a folder under ~/Sites, let's call it Foo, from which I was sharing a Wordpress site-in-development via Apache. This was working fine, I'd mapped foo.local to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and was accessing the site from there on my laptop.
In order to change the way home and end function on OS X so it matches other devices I frequently utilised this 'hack'. Is there a similar way to override the way Ctrl+arrow and Ctrl+Shift+arrow work? I appreciate that if I was completely moving to OS X it's silly, however, when all other devices use these keys in this fashion it makes sense to reconfigure them on the one device that doesn't match. In short, I want to make ctrl+left/right arrow jump by word/punctuation separator as it does on Ubuntu and Windows rather than to the end of line. I would prefer to use a native override rather than installing an app to perform this task, but if that's not possible then please let me know of any apps.
I was hoping this was going to be easy :) I have tried using the migration assistant but it can't seem to locate my server (DROBO fs) which has my time machine back up from my old mac book pro, i'd like to migrate my movies and photos onto my new iMac 3.2Ghz. My server is connecting to the iMac but the migration assistant can't see it. Thanks in advance
My Macbook Pro hard drive is full. I have attempted to delete video files from All My Files but they won't delete. I also found that several files with just audio from many of my videos are also there. When I try to move them to the trash, they go to the trash but then another copy is made. How do I permanently delete video and photo files?
After updating to the latest Apple TV software 6.0 certain seemingly random movies are now no longer available. These are all movies from my iTunes library that I ripped myself.
Can someone please explain how you can quickly set the YEAR within the date and time settings? If the battery has been removed then the iPhone is reset back to Jan 1st 1970. This means that the network will not sync and you won't get a signal. Therefore the automatic date setting will not work either.
I recently got a new iPhone and the music I downloaded on iTunes on my old iPhone downloaded on to my new iPhone perfectly fine. But the music I downloaded not on my iPhone doesn't download onto my new iPhone. Hard to understand but to put it simply, I just want all my music on my new iPhone not just some it.
I am trying to use a VPN from work so I can do my work on my MBP. I have installed Shrew Soft and set up the VPN, and I am able to connect to it receiving the messages below. However I am still unable to SSH to any of the servers on the VPN getting errors like the ones below… SSH Error: VPN Messages:
But that doesn't solve the problem. I've put the delay up to four seconds, and although it helps, it's certainly not ideal.
I've already tried different things to get rid of the original tags, deleted the content on my devices, synced automatically and manually as well, turned off the option to show all my music on my device but I'm still unable to list my tags instead of the original ones. The strange part is, that my tags are visible for some older purchases only. Can anyone help to solve this problem?
I am trying to find a Display that can allow my iOS, MacBook Pro to connect to it wirelessly. I am looking for a solution with the least number of hardware components (aside from the display). I heard of software solutions like AirDisplay, Air Parrot, Reflection but I am seeking a hardware solution (something I can take to go for a presentation)
I have most of my ~ folder on an encrypted sparse bundle disk image. I have it set to automount via Prefs>Users, but it loads AFTER Finder, so my Desktop is blank unless I force-relaunch Finder. Is there any way (via command line, I'm guessing) to get the OS to mount this disk image FIRST upon logging in, before anything else gets launched, including the Finder?
I adore Parallels on the Mac. I forgot my password to Windows 7, so I hunted for advice on web & found that password is essential - so I 'removed' Windows. Tried to reinstall but told onscreen that something was missing. Uninstalled Parallels & reinstalled, then reinstalled Windows 7 successfully.
I put my macbook air to sleep this afternoon by closing its lid, as I usually do. When I got home a few hours later it wouldn't turn on and didn't respond to the power button being hit.
How can I select a JPEG image and use that to customise/replace the usual blue folder icon for a given folder (which additionally may even make it easier to tell folders apart, when looking for one)? If this can be achieved without the use of a specific App, then all the better.
If my iSight camera no longer works and neither does my bluetooth, should my wifi still technically be working? Aren't they all co-dependent(if that makes sense) or can the fact that my wifi is still functional mean that the iSight camera still works and it's a software problem.
I have never experienced this problem before. I know that the problem is not the internet, because the internet works fine on all my other devices, both Windows and Mac. I brought my MacBook in to the Apple Store this morning and they renewed the DHCP and deleted the internet plist files from my system preferences library folder. They ran a hardware diagnostic and my hardware is fine. At the Apple Store, the problem was duplicated also when connected via ethernet cable to the network - so it's not an airport problem.
I've been cleaning up my iTunes song collection, and recently edited all songs that had 'various' in the field for Artist. Two days later, they're back.
When I get a list of DNSs that OS X is using, it shows 3: Two from my ISP, and one is 192.168.1.1. Is it possible to prevent OS X from using the third one?
In the user Library, there is a Developer folder with about 3.2 GB of space (2.8GB from DocSets and the rest mainly from Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport). I had Xcode installed, I presume these are from that? I no longer use Xcode, is there any downside to erasing these folders? If I install Xcode again wouldn't it restore what is needed?
I am installing a new hard drive on my Macbook Pro. I have a legitimate copy of Microsoft Office 2008 installed on my computer, but I've long since lost the install disk and license information. Perhaps complicating things is the fact that I've decided to do a fresh install, as opposed to using Migration Assistant or simply cloning my hard drive. I'm wondering: how can I get this software from my current hard drive onto my new one, whilst maintaining the license information?
There's a lot of good advice around about avoiding connecting to unsecured wireless networks, and using a VPN (for all traffic) if you absolutely must use one. What seems to be missing from this advice is the gap between when you connect to the unsecured wireless, and when you've got your VPN connection up and running. This can be a pretty short period, but a lot of software will detect the new network (via some OS event, I guess) and immediately start attempting to reload/reconnect/etc. So the very first thing that happens is various login details and connections occur before you have time to connect to the VPN (since this requires the unsecured wireless first). Likewise, if the VPN connection goes down for some reason, the default route will return to the unsecured wireless.
I have a bunch of Apple products. iPad, iMac, iPhone etc. And lately I've been noticing that some of my iMessages show up on one device and not the other.
back in the day (2006-07), before the Intel Mac days, I used an application called NuFile which let me create a "new file" like Windows on the fly. Ever since i've been searching for alternative but have been unsuccessful. Do you guys know of any new apps that will allow this?
I refer to How to rotate screens separately, and it is not working for me. When I clicked Displays with the other two keys on the keyboard, nothing happened. So I wonder how to rotate the screen on my Macbook Air.
I installed Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp on my 2012 iMac yesterday, and everything seems to work okay except for audio. The audio mixer shows the audio bar moving, but nothing will play. I've tried with the built-in speakers and through external speakers. I tried using the Audio drivers that Boot Camp provided, but they crashed the audio and I had to go back to the default "High Definition Audio Device" driver.
I just purchased a Dell U2713HM monitor. As soon as the monitor is turned on, the internet (both wifi and wired) goes out. I have tried the following fixes: 1) Changing channels on wifi router.
I have a key that is stuck repeating and I want to disable it. Using KeyRemap4MacBook, what is the proper syntax for the private.xml to map a key to null?
Which iMac models support wake on LAN (ethernet)? I've enabled "Wake for Administrator Access" but I can't wake up the Mac from Off or Sleep states. I'm using my tried-and-true tomato firmware which wakes up my windows devices just fine.
After working with an external USB backup disk I want to cleanly unmount the drive. When pressing the 'eject' button Finder warns me with the message: "The volume can't be ejected because it's currently in use." or
You can simulate a right mouse-click with the magic mouse if you tap the right half of the mouse without touching the left half and THEN click. But is it possible to achieve a middle-mouse-click with the magic mouse (on OSX 10.6)? And How?
I'm trying to make a script I can use to find all instances of a folder, be it on the root drive, external drive or mounted networked storage, and list all the contents in either a drop down box or a selectable list in a dialogue window. To pseudo-code it: I honestly have no idea how to actually do it in AppleScript since it doesn't natively have for loops, and I'm not sure about adding items to arrays in AppleScript.
Alternatively I could keep the libraries on the iMac drive and use wake for network access when the MacAir wants them (then just use TimeCap for Time Machine backups). I would get a Hybrid SSHD for the iMac.
I'm using the pinyin input on an AZERTY Macbook Pro keyboard and when I try to type a number, it prints the associated symbol instead (i.e. for "1", it prints "&", for "2", "é", etc.). I've tried in combination with the Shift key, Fn key, Cmd key but it always only print the symbol and not the number. Any idea how to make this work?
I've got an external drive with 3 volumes on it. All of them are mounted upon connecting the external drive to my Mac.
Initially I was downloading Xcode 5 from the Mac App Store, but I found it extremely slow, and so I stopped the download. Then I downloaded it from the developer web site instead, which was much faster. I installed it without any problem.
My iPhone 5s calendar will not save events. I enter the event on the date needed, set the time and press done. Nothing appears on the calendar.
I'm coming to you having a few issues with my old hard drive. Basically, my MacBook crashed a few days ago. It seems like my disk has some bad sectors and has started a kind of autodestruction process. The issue I have is that his drive is locked with FileVault… I have the master and recovery keys, however, no way to unlock the drive now I've extracted it from my computer. I managed to unlock my volume and see my locked partition booting in recovery mode from this hard drive, but now I'm running on a new (and clear) HDD, I can't even list the CS groups (the old disk if plugged in USB): When I run diskutil info:
A friend of mine just called me to say she got a FaceTime call with my name showing. When she answered it was someone completely different. She called me asking who the person was calling from my FaceTime. I told her I had no idea what she was talking about. We then went on FaceTime so I could show her where I was. While on FaceTime she got another FaceTime call with my address showing. She hung up with me to answer it and it was the same person again. She even screen printed the person's image for me. What is going on?
I have several calendars that I need to view an access, but I don't necessarily want the alerts coming in for all of them.  Is there a way to turn off all other notifications except my account (in green above)? What about per calendar? They are all Gmail accounts if that helps. I have already tried this setting but it didn't make a difference.
My wife and I share an ipad 2, ios7. We have separate PCs. Can we have separate Apple IDs and connect the ipad to each computer under the individual ids? Example, I connect and back up etc under my Apple ID, then later she connects, backs up, purchases etc to her computer using her Apple id.
Apple showed this new feature in iOS 7 called Activation Lock, that if you enable "Find My iPhone" on a device that is lost or stolen, a person that finds/gets the iPhone will not be able to wipe it or reset it. I'm curious whether the lock is designed to prevent these avenues to defeat the lock: Can they completely drain the battery and leave the phone in that state for a couple of months and then try it? Can they completely drain the battery and leave the phone in that state for a couple of months and then try it? Or, can they use any third-party software that can access iPhone from outside the iTunes and wipe it that way? Or, can they use any third-party software that can access iPhone from outside the iTunes and wipe it that way? Or, can they simply "jailbreak" it and forget about this Activation Lock? Or, can they simply "jailbreak" it and forget about this Activation Lock? By what methods can this lock be defeated or bypassed?
When I have a second monitor attached to my laptop I always have two windows in the second monitor. My console takes about 1/3 of the second monitor while Sublime text takes 2/3 of the second monitor. What I would like to find is a tool that will allow me to hit a shortcut and have it take those two windows, where ever they are, and move them to the second monitor and size them correctly (regardless of what window I am currently on).
In iOS 7 the contacts in my favorites screen in Phone.app that don't have a photo show either initials or a person icon. Why not just one or the other and what determines which image a contact will get? I think this is best shown with a picture:
I have some non-trivial problem. If my notebook stands on solid surface everything is fine, but if I put it on my knees (for example, it could be a book too) or just push the center of the bottom cover, the CPU usage immediately grows to 100%. It also causes issues with the WiFi.
Using the sharing or dscl commands I can not figure out how to add users associated to shares. The current local-admin account has access to all shares, but I'd like to add a different user account the ability to access some of the AFP shares. Strangely, I can't even figure out how to list who currently has access to each of the AFP SharePoints. So, looking for command line solution to the following two questions:
Is there any way in Mountain Lion to preserve the order of spaces in Mission Control? I use four different spaces for four fullscreen apps, and I like to keep them in a certain order so that I know where they all are in relation to each other. The problem is that once these apps are quit, their spacial arrangement is lost, so I find that I'm always manually reordering them into the arrangement I like (since by default a new fullscreen app is tacked onto the end of the list of spaces).
When I play slo-mo videos through my AppleTV, only the audio goes through with a blank screen. How can I get the video to be streamed as well ?
My first time using Photostream. I saw that My Photo Stream automatically uploads photos the stream over wi-fi, but I do not want to do this. I want a personal stream with photos uploaded manually, and that they're not shared with anyone at all. Photo Sharing states that I can create a stream to share with others, but what if I don't invite anyone, does that still make my stream public ?
I have an iPhone 4s and I can't see my frequent location history where it is supposed to be. I can only see the "Frequent Locations" and "Improve Maps" toggles.
I've noticed my Mac didn't retain the brightness I set with the keys. How do you stop it from auto-dimming?
I'm selling my Macbook online and I want to reset the name of the computer to the generic name as if it's completely new from the apple store. In system preferences > sharing > Computer name. I forgot what the generic name is when you first buy the computer.
Can you delete pictures from an iPhone and still have it saved in iCloud? If so, how?
I'm running 10.8.5 (not server) on my home laptop and wanted to set up a vpn server on it. I found a number of tutorials online (eg *=URL=* for configuring vpnd and have gotten to the point where it's up and running. I set up a shared secret password according to the tutorial. When I try to login from my phone using my standard admin account and password it fails with this Some other people have had this issue and it's been suggested to try But that gives me the error Anyone have any suggestions on how to move forward
Is there a way in the Mail.app to prevent it from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email. So that instead you just a get a normal file attachment ?
All my history and future events (except birthdays attached to my contacts) are gone and I can't save new events. When I view my calendar in iCloud from my computer they are all there. They're just not syncing with my phone! I don't have my calendar in my phone synced to any other calendar either. How can I resolve this?
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 7.0.2 and a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.5. On the iPhone, I have the tethering option enabled (personal hotspot). I wish to connect via USB, and not over wifi, but somehow I don't have the "USB network interface" (or whatever it is called) on my Mac, so I can't activate it... how can I bring it up?
I'm new to Linux. How can I copy a file or directory from the Debian OS to Mac or Windows?
We switched from Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and we now use Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac in my office. Lotus Notes used to show the size of the mailbox (check the image below). Is it possible to show the mailbox size like this in Outlook? I know how to check the size of the mailbox by right clicking it and seeing Folder properties. But if we have this kind of a feature, it would be convenient.
Is there a way that I can uninstall osx-gcc-installer without first having to install Xcode, then run sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools —mode=all ? I installed it on Mountain Lion, and I want to get rid of it so my CLI tools will work to install Octopress. Is there a script or command that will help me totally remove osx-gcc-installer from my system?
I am using OS X Lion 10.7 with an American English keyboard. For typing German umlauts I normally just press and hold the appropriate key until the little OS X popup appears and then I can choose the umlaut.
Does anyone know if it's possible to move a "Mailbox" in Apple Mail to an external drive? I have a relatively small SSD drive, and I'd like to create an Archive mailbox on an external drive. I don't want to move the entire ~/Library/Mail folder - just the Archive mbox. If I create a MailBox called MyArchive, I can see the .mbox structure in ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/MyArchive.mbox.
Since upgrading to iOS7 on my iPhone the lock screen is bombarded with Tweets. I want to turn this off as I am sure it kills the battery and is annoying. I turned off twitter in the notification center but it had no effect. How can I turn this off?
My idea is to dim the display when the system is idle for 10 seconds, and with a keystroke or trackpad activity revert to original (I want to preserve battery automatically and not using a screen saver - I need to monitor some activity but with low display light). I could not find such application so I decided to make solution with Automator. I found application Shady which can dim display when it start and if it is active (in front) with keystroke Q will quit.
I get all confused about all these different IDs I have and need to use the iOS devices/iTunes. I want to use our devices in the family the best way. We are three people: me -- currently the only one with a real Apple-ID my wife -- currently without an Apple-ID, but with her own email and my infant which does not have nor need her own ID at all, I think :-) The devices we have are: 1 iPhone for myself, ("A" = phone husband) 1 PC+iTunes, which syncs my iPhone ("PC-A" = PC/iTunes husband) 1 PC+iTunes, which syncs my iPhone ("PC-A" = PC/iTunes husband) 1 iPhone for my wife ("B" = phone wife) 1 PC+iTunes, which syncs hers ("PC-B") 1 PC+iTunes, which syncs hers ("PC-B") 1 iPod Touch 1G for my infant, which she just starts to appreciate ("C") I probably sync/fill this device with my PC+iTunes, too, for the time being. I probably sync/fill this device with my PC+iTunes, too, for the time being.
My system is Mac OS X Mountain Lion, and I am using Mail.app for an IMAP service. It's not gmail, it is a standard IMAP.
On OS X, how can I type the Costa Rican colón? The symbol is:
I'm installing Bootcamp ( Win7 64bit if that matters ) on my Mac Mini, since you need to pick the OS to start up while booting, how can I do this remotely? Example:
I'm using an app that makes http requests for content. I'd like to capture those requests and change them on the fly, so that a different request goes out to the http server, and thus different content comes back. I could do this with a full fledged web proxy, but I am hoping for a simpler and more transparent solution, possibly something that hooks into the OS to catch those network calls. AdMuncher is my program of choice for this task on Windows.
This is not a duplicate of the questions posted here and here It is a duplicate of the question posted here however there is no answer to that question and one of the commenters is wrong about the direction of sharing. I am posting this again to hopefully get a solution for this.
I just got my new iPhone 5s last week. Sometimes it crashes. Even App Store, Music and Voice Memo crash, but it does not happen frequently. Then there are about two times the phone freeze for a moment while I was browsing through my photo and when I was downloading app. Here is my diagnostic and usage screenshot:
In OS X 10.8, for system updates that were installed without being signed into an Apple ID, how can I view the update history? I looked in Library/Logs for an update log, and also in the Software Update for an Installed Software pane, but I don't have either. Where can I see the updates?
I want to change a setting in one of my iOS device's plists, and upload it to the device without doing a full restore from backup. How can I extract the file from an unencrypted backup on my Mac? How can I upload the modified file to my device?
We have a workstation that gets used sporadically, and I'm trying to setup a script that backs it up during shutdown. I created a LogoutHook in com.apple.loginwindow to a 1-line bash script, that triggers an Applescript that compares my own log entries to determine if the backup should run. If so, it calls the main Applescript which triggers a Chronosync backup job.
Now thats finally finished. The drive won't mount on Mac OS anymore. Any ideas? Oh heres some system info if that helps: On Mac Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Owners Enabled : Yes Owners Enabled : Yes G-Drive Format : MS-DOS (FAT32) Format : MS-DOS (FAT32) Owners Enabled : No Owners Enabled : No Windows 7 Home NTSF
I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7. Previously, when I clicked on a link from an e-mail telling me about a group discussion in LinkedIn, it opened LinkedIn in Safari and took me right there. Now, Safari launches, but then as it processes, it then launches the LinkedIn app. The problem is, most times the discussion in LinkedIn is really just a link to a webpage. I'd rather just stay in Safari, especially since the LinkedIn app takes forever to load. I'm sure Safari does this with other apps, however, the circumstances haven't come up yet for me. I can't find it in the Safari settings or LinkedIn settings to stop this. Updated to add: I have found that if I go back to Safari after it tries launching LinkedIn and force a page refresh, Safari will load the mobile (rather than app) version of LinkedIn as desired.
I have been using VirtualBox to create a virtual machine to run Windows 8 on and after deleting the virtual drives and virtualbox due to having issues with Windows 8, I am missing a lot of memory from my hard drive. I currently also have 72GB of backups on my Hard Drive that I did not create, any ideas on how to get rid of them?
I have a friend who is trying to learn Python on Mac OS X. She does not have prior experience with programming. I am looking for an editor that is: Free and easy to get started with Support at least for Python syntax highlighting
the Command: works perfectly on my osx 10.8.5 and opens the required lines from syslog in textEdit, however when I run which should open the same lines in my default text editing program I get nothing and just the lines --No lines in buffer-- I am using MacVim as my default text editor.
Why does Xcode open with this file every time I start or restart OS X 10.8.4? I close it each time, have never manually opened it, and have no .savedState folder for Xcode in ~/Library/Saved Application State/. What else might be causing it to open?
I have an iPhone 4S that I dropped in the toilet. It's fried. So I just bought another iPhone 4S. It turns on as a iOS 6 device, which I set up and I'm activated. I updated it to iOS 7 and now I can't figure out how to restore my old phone's backup. I don't know how to reset without going back to iOS 6. My backup is on iCloud. Any ideas?
I have a MacBook Pro 13", Mid-2009 and it came with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. As I understand it, that means I would have to use the DVDs provided by Apple to boot into Apple Hardware Test. The problem is I don't have my optical drive anymore since I swapped it out for an extra HDD. How can I run the Apple Hardware Test?
I like an orderly and well-documented music library, and one of the first things I do when I get new songs is to find the lyrics and put them on iTunes for my personal use. However, for several songs, the lyrics show without line breaks on my iPod.
Running 300 MacBooks with Mac OS X 10.6.8. When logged on as a local admin I can connect to WiFi, I save the connection in the system profile, allowing pre-authentication before users attempt to log on.
Today I suddenly had my new tabs overidden by the "buenosearch" website with no new extensions or apps installed. I have followed all steps I can find online to remove this but it continues to come back. I have run Bit Defender's Antivirus for Mac, and am now running MacScan and Clam Xav to try and remove it. Any help is appreciated!
I have a MacBook Air (currently running Mavericks GM) and a Mac Mini server (running Snow Leopard Server) in my home. The Air uses a portable home directory kept on the Mini.
Today I clicked a link on Facebook and a dialogue window gave me the message: "The link needs to be opened with an application. Send to: AddressBookUrlForwarder Upon examining the link, it had the format: fb://photo/12345678?set=blahblahlblah I've never seen a browser link with the "fb://" protocol before and certainly never heard of "AddressBookUrlForwarder".
I am aware of ways to remove duplicate entries from the Finder "Open with..." menu. But in this instance I simply want to cull down the list of apps that appear when I do "Open with..." on pictures. Right now, in Mail (although it's the same in Finder, of course), when I do Open With on .jpg files, I get a LONG list of apps, many of which I would never consider opening a picture in. Even a music editing app, that has nothing to do with jpg files (in my opinion) shows up.
If I don't use my MacBook on a battery, does it mean that it will last longer? I heard that when you have normal notebook from HP, Asus, Dell, Acer.... no matter if you use the notebook on battery or not... after 2 or 3 years it will be dead... lasting only like 30 minutes or maybe only 5 minutes... Is it the same with MacBook? I have a MacBook which is 6 years old and it still lasts 4-5 hours.... The Macbook has not been used on battery in those 6 years. ;o)
While I was in the UK on holiday I purchased a TV show from the iTunes UK site and got this on my iPod. It plays fine on the iPod. I would like to play these on my computer now I am back home in Ireland.
It's like Apple is a different company than it was when it produced the computer I'm talking about, so I'm not sure this is the intended topic of discussion here, but this is a question about Apple hardware, so here I go. I have an old Franklin Ace 2100 Apple-compatible computer that I'm about to send off to a museum, but I also have a bunch of homemade software that they're not interested in and can't help me recover. Before I send this off I'd like to know that someday I might be able to get at that software again myself. I thought I once saw 5.25" USB floppy drives on Thinkgeek that might have been useful in such a data recovery process, but I can't find them any more. And even if I did, I know Apple 5.25" drives are incompatible with IBM/PC drives possibly at a hardware level, so I don't know if it would have been useful.
When I add photos to TextEdit, they sometimes appear too big, and I want to make them smaller. How can I resize or modify photos in TextEdit?
I have a dual Xeon Xserve, and a nagging issue. The Xserves have 2 small 8 LED arrays on the front, which show real-time cpu utilization (one array per CPU). Under Lion, these LED's would not become active until after you installed the Server.app. Currently under Mountain Lion, these LED's do not work at all, regardless if the Server.app is installed or not.
I was working on an unsaved file when the kernel suddenly got a panic attack. I have the 'Save files when focus is lost" checkbox checked, and I frequently switched between textmate and the browser, so plenty of oppurtunities to autosave there. I don't see any autosaved documents in my 'recently opened documents'. Is there any chance I can get my work back?
I just received an iPad from Apple. I have entered my password for joining the network, but cannot find the enter key. How does one access the enter key on the iPad keyboard?
I don't think I've used x11 since switching to Mountain Lion (and thus Xquartz). I recently tried to use it and my key repeat isn't working. When I press a key, it inserts the corresponding character once, then a second time after (very roughly) a quarter second, then never repeats again. I've tried xset r and xset r on from both my x11 terminal, and normal Terminal.app --- neither has any effect. Any suggestions?
iOS 7 introduces the concept of enrolling Apple devices with MDM providers out of the box, so when the iPads are being sent out by Apple to companies, they can be enrolled into an MDM program and the device can be managed through out by the MDM provider right from when the iPad is unboxed, but the documentation is not clear on devices that already are out there. Is there a way to convert unmanaged unsupervised devices to managed devices? …and I don't mean app level management (i.e I know it is possible to use Configurator to push certain apps that can then be managed, but the rest of the apps cannot).
I use a PC usb keyboard with my macbook. So, I've gone into System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and swapped command and option for the usb keyboard. This puts those keys in the "correct" position for a mac.
I have been given a 2006-era 32-bit EFI Intel iMac. I would like to install some modern Linux as the only OS on it. I know there are several guides on the subject, but I have several limitations preventing me from using most of them, outlined below.
For school I have to create a Powerpoint presentation and I am experiencing a problem. My teacher asked me to use a Text Effect of Gradient Fill - Black, Outline - White, Outer Shadow and when I try to hover the mouse over the text effects it will not show me the name of the effect.
I disabled the character picker by reading this other question, but I want to remove that change and restore the picker. When I type -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true into Terminal, it does not work. How can I re-enable the Press & Hold character picker after disabling it?
The Notes app is now gone from my Macbook Air. It used to be in the doc and sync'd with my iPhone and iPad. Earlier today, I saw the icon still there, with a question mark on top of it, and I could not open the app. Now, there is just a question mark. How do I get the Notes App back on my Macbook Air?
I am using TextEdit, and I am frequently switching between red, blue and black for the text colour. Right now I have to move my mouse to the colour picker in the toolbar and select the desired colour. Is there a way for me to press a key combination to switch between them instead?
I have an apple lap-top with an external keyboard. My computer has the capacity to compose in German (a capacity I need) but my keyboard is in English and many crucial keystrokes (extra characters, punctuation, etc.) are different on the German layout. Since I have to plug in my external keyboard any way, why could I not buy a German external keyboard to plug in when I have a lot of German stuff to type? Where could I buy such a keyboard?
Since I've updated to iOS 7, there's something that has driven me nearly insane every time I make a phone call. Every time I receive or place a call, the background image for the call (which is supposed to be the contact's image) consistently shows up the same for all calls. This would be fine if it were my wallpaper, but it's actually a picture of someone that I used for their contact photo. I've since deleted the photo from my phone and from the contact, but it still shows up for every phone call I receive.
I removed the Spotlight icon from the menu bar. I would like to restore it. I tried the recommended method:
I would like to be able to assign numbers to windows with a keyboard shortcut like: Cmd+1 (different numbers for different windows or desktops) and then recall them with a keyboard like: ⌘+1
"Open at login" in the Dock is disabled, "Run Steam when my computer starts" in Steam options is disabled, and it isn't there in the User "Login Items" tab of the System Preferences. However it starts at login anyway. Why does it so, and how do I stop it?
Anytime when I using my iPhone as personal WiFi HotSpot (sharing 3G internet via WiFi) the iPhone selects channel #1 for this. Is possible to use another channel number because the channel 1 is already used by another cable modem / WiFi router and turning on (and using) the hotspot on the iPhone causes noticeable degradation of the speed on the cable-WiFi router.
After applying the latest OSX update, I'm unsure which version it was anymore, but I applied it yesterday, on my MacBook Air I get this screen below and am unable to continue in any way. What now?
My daughter has about 20 gig of movies and photos from her iPad which I backup to an external drive via Windows. I don't want all this content uploading to iCloud and syncing to my other devices, but I would like apps to do that. Is there a way to make this distinction with iCloud? Can iTunes do it?
I'm setting up my own email server. Clients will connect to this server using IMAP.
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for activating bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar for Firefox? (Similar to the +1, +2, ..., keyboard shortcuts for Safari.)
Recently, my 120 GB iPod classic was not being recognised by my MacBook and kept prompting to reformat. I have done this many times before but make it a conscious effort to back up my files before I do so. I genuinely forgot about the folder I had saved on my iPod classic (when using it as a hard disk) and went ahead to reformat it. A week later I realised I forgot to back up my files but it was too late. I want to retrieve the files really badly as they were pictures/memories! Is it possible to retrieve without paying for those softwares?
I am running the following script (called Restart AppleTV) using automator : However, I get the following in the statusbar :
I received an email with a plain text attachment (named 'noname') via Gmail and downloaded it using Chrome from gmail.com. It's a recurring automated report. Everyday I get the file , download it, open it, read it, and enjoy my life. Some days like today I get the file, download it and TextEdit on OS X won't let me open it.
How do I delete photo albums that I accidentally imported to my iPhone 4S from my PC? There is no delete available for either album or individual pictures.
I've tried a few ways to restore the Mountain Lion InstallESD.dmg to a USB hard drive to reinstall on my Mac Mini. I've used Disk Utility Restore, Lion Disk Maker and Carbon Copy Cloner. Each method gives me the same outcome: When booting I get the infamous circle with the slash and spinning gear.
I'm trying to restore my iPad because the screen passcode was changed and cannot be remembered correctly. When attempting to restore from an iTunes backup, an error message says to first turn off Find My iPad in iCloud settings. I cannot access any setting in the iPad because of the screen lock passcode. Is there another way to do a reset or full factory reset while screen-locked?
Hi have a Bowers & Wilkins Z2 which supports AirPlay. When I see DVDs on my MacBook Pro I would like to stream the audio to the speaker. Is there a way for doing it? While iTunes provides an icon for AirPlay, the same is not true for QuickTime. VLC 2.1.0 has a command in the Audio menu (Audio->Audio Device->Airplay) however it doesn't work for me.
I don’t get the Samsung Xpress M267X/287X scanner to work with 10.8. The scanner shows up in Image Capture but it need additional software, which it can’t find. Does someone has a link to the right drivers?
I find myself running some long scripts/commands and I don't want to wait looking at it until it finishes. On the other hand, I would like to know right away when it ends. I know you can do the trick with &&, but it seems like a lot of typing.
I have attempted on several occasions to request a reset for my forgotten password but I've never received the password reset email from Apple. It is not in my junk mail either.
I have my iPad using shared WiFi from my Mac. It's not plugged in, nothing's updating, nothing's open. But unless I have it on airplane mode I see it draining all the bandwidth from my Mac. Is there some app or settings view that shows what processes are using bandwidth?
I have an iPhone 4s that is locked, but I'm using a Gevey SIM. Just recently I transfered from one operator to another and I can't get my internet to work, while everything is fine once I'm on Wi-Fi. When I put another SIM card in my phone, 3G internet works perfectly. The same happens when I put my SIM card in another phone, 3G works. It's just when I'm using my SIM card in my iPhone 4s, 3G doesn't work. Even my mobile phone operator doesn't know the answer. I was told I should change something in my APN settings, but I dont have that option to enter Cellular Data Network on my phone. Could someone help me?
I recently got a retina display MacBook, and all my screenshots (via ⌘ CMD+⇧ SHIFT+3 or ⌘ CMD+⇧ SHIFT+4) end up being twice the size compared to how they appear on-screen. How can I stop this from happening?
I run Windows 7 using Parallels in host operating system OSX. I have it configured to use 2GM ram and 2 cores on a Retina MacBook Pro with 8GB ram.
I've tried bashing on my keyboard with the ⌥ alt/option key pressed with the ⇧ shift key pressed but I do not seem to be able to find how I can get the euro value sign. ⇧ shift+4 gives the dollar sign: $ What keystrokes do I need to use to get the euro € sign?
Can I clone from my iMac to a brand new hard drive to be used in a macbook pro? Basically I upgraded my Macbook Pro 250G HDD to a TB HDD and the TB took a dive and is being replaced under warranty. However when I made the clone before it was from a Macbook pro to a Macbook pro (laptop to laptop) and since then I have gotten a 27in. iMac which used migration assistant to bring everything over through time machine.
However, XCode doesn't like it at all, and treats only the first line of the string as a string, and interprets the rest as new commands. This has no particular effect on the script, but is a huge pain as it looks messy, and causes it to try to auto-complete things that are part of the string. XCode only accepts it correctly if each line ends with an escape character, but of course that eliminates the new line so is of no use to me. Here's a stripped down version of one of my strings:
If I'm wanting to sync my iMac and my MacBook Pro so that I don't have to connect it every time or back it up through time machine what would be the best way? I want a true sync. So If I save something on the iMac it populates on the MacBook Pro and vice versa.
On my OSX laptop (10.8.5) I've recently been unable to sign into iMessage. By recently I mean approximately a week. I've not done any updates that I recall lately. Coworkers are able to send me messages and my phone gets the messages directly over iMessage, so my account is working on this network (wifi and wired go through the same set of equipment out to the internet, so it's not a port blocking issue, and we're a small network of about 50 users) and my account is working in general.
How to upgrade HDD to a larger one on the same Macbook, if I have: OS X Mountain Lion partition (Mac OS Extended) and two partitions for Windows 7 (NTFS): system (C:) and data (D:), installed via this scheme user profiles located on data partition it's Macbook Pro Late 2010 How to migrate Windows partitions after I'm done with copying OS X, re-creating partitions for Windows and a clean installation of Windows? In a nutshell, I've done it as follows. in Disk Utility: shrink OS X partition add a partition for Bootcamp of size I need, format it as FAT again shrink OS X partition mark the rest as free space shrink OS X partition add a partition for Bootcamp of size I need, format it as FAT again shrink OS X partition mark the rest as free space boot from Windows installation DVD with Windows Setup, format unoccupied space as NTFS partition; format Bootcamp partition as NTFS proceed to installing Windows on Bootcamp partition Bootcamp Assistant not used at all; 600MB Recovery partition not
Whenever I have a meeting reminder, it causes the notification icon to pop up in the dock and start bouncing. It seems to bounce for a very long time sometimes before it actually shows me the reminder popup.
It turns out that this was indeed the case. The images loaded as expect with the new DNS servers ( google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) Changing back the Problem reoccurs.
I was wondering if this is possible: I have a PC with Windows 8. The HDD for this PC is a SATA hard drive (can't remember the size off the top of my head). The HDD has a lot of work documents on it I would like to transfer to my new iMac 27″. Would it work if I buy a caddy, put my old HDD into the caddy and plug the HDD in the iMac's USB port?
I have turned on the remote login in system-preference, but I got this when I try to connect my mac from from my ubuntu. Any ideas?
I want to give my niece my old iPhone 3GS so she can use it as an iPod touch. I don't want it connected to my iTunes. Should I buy a new SIM card for it or should I leave my old one in?
Is there a way with an AppleScript or shell script to start the screensaver when you disconnect from a screen sharing session? For example, I connect via screen sharing from Mac A to Mac B. When I disconnect my remote screen sharing session I would like to start the screen saver on Mac B thus locking that screen.
As I said before, I have a student ID card from my school, but I don't have a valid .edu address or anything. Does Apple perform some kind of checkup or just showing the ID is enough?
I have a movie/video on my iPad. It is located in the video file (not the photo album). When I go to Keynote presentation to add this particular video and click on media, all that comes up are photo albums so I can't seem to access this video in the video file and therefore can't add it to Keynote. What to do?
I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident. When I go through the messages the images in those messages get loaded anyway as the message is placed by Gmail in the Spam folder (which is linked to the Junk mailbox) but Mail.app does not mark it as Junk and therefore loads the images. If I manually mark the message as Junk, Mail stops loading the images. How do I make Mail to mark the messages in Gmail's Spam folder to be marked as Junk, forcing it to not load the images?
My son brought over a working used iP3000. It printed one copy and it now has the same error message and will no longer work at all.
Selecting text has become very clunky in iOS 7, whereas it was very smooth in previous operating systems. In particular, in iOS 6, three taps of some text would select the whole paragraph. This appears to have stopped working in iOS 7. Is there a way to select a whole paragraph by tapping the screen in iOS 7?
I am a programmer. I'd like to improve my workflow by being able to have a "saved workspace". When I start my computer, or whenever I'm ready to resume a project, I want to launch a specific set of browser tabs, terminal windows, text editor, etc. and when finished, "save" the state of my tabs/windows so I can resume again later. My current workflow is to never close any windows and never shut down my computer. I don't know of an application like this but I would really like to find (or build) one.
I am curious if there is a way for me to hide certain objects in the menubar when they are "inactive." Some examples: Bluetooth hides when Bluetooth is off Wifi hides when wifi is off Audio/sound hides when sound is muted Battery hides when it is 100% charged
Does iOS support IPsec IKEv2? If not, is there any way to get IPsec IKEv2 working on iOS?
iMac using OS X 10.8.5. When using a Group from Contacts in a Mail address, all the Group list does not appear in the Mail address and those missing do not receive the email.
Is there a way to copy an application from an iPod Touch gen.2 to an iPad 3G gen.1 while both devices are under the same Apple ID? The application is no longer present in the Apple Store. Using iTunes is there a way to back up and restore individual applications?
Since I have a faster internet connection now, and I like watching screencasts, I've started to explore YouTube downloader apps, but there's a lot of apps that I would like to use by downloading data overnight. There are several iOS Wi-Fi hard drives on the market now, but of course each one provides access to the drive only through its own limited app. So, using a jailbroken iOS device, how could I take the native filesystem (or the directory where all apps live and store their data) and extend it to an external (networked) drive, so that my apps would think I just happen to have a 2TB iPad?
I have my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion setup with partitions as follows: disk0s1 (unnamed) - EFI partition disk0s2 ("Macintosh HD") - OSX partition disk0s3 ("Recovery HD") - OSX recovery partition disk0s4 ("BOOTCAMP") - Windows 7 partition created through Bootcamp disk0s5 (currently unnamed, but should be "Data") - exFAT partition to be shared between OSX and Windows. Up until yesterday everything was working fine, but now the Data partition is no longer accessible by OSX or Windows. OSX simply won't mount the partition and Windows claims the disk needs to be formatted. I believe this is due to a corrupt partition table and could use some help in figuring out how to resolve this.
I have a white app icon titled "Untitled". When I click on it, it opens a Safari window with Untitled title window. After deleting it, if I restart the iPhone, it gets created again. Is there a way to delete it permanently?
I just reset my iPod nano 7th gen via iTunes to remove some broken tracks and then resynced it, and when I unplugged it after disconnecting it, everything was quite broken. First of all (with a headset plugged in) the iPod is reading everything out loud....screen dim, music, double tap to open, etc. But then, in conjunction with this, I can't control the screen like normal...you have to double-tap to open anything and I can't swipe side to side to get to settings so I can't try to change whatever mode this is. When you slide a finger over the icons, a little selection square moves over them with you. What's going on?
There is an error "This root certificate is not trusted" in my Keychain Access.  What is "Apple Configurator"? And what should I do about this error?
When I add a new Email account, Mail application automatically downloads All messages, but I do not need all the messages to be available on my Mac. Is there a way to tell Mail app to only down messages of the last 3/6 months?
After charging an iPad or iPhone, which end do you unplug first: the one that's connected in the device or the charger end?
If I have an app in the app store, it seems to be that the general consensus is Higher Downloads = Higher Rank
I'm trying to extract information about images placed into a Pages ('09 v 4.3) document. The following script is my attempt: While it doesn't produce errors, and finds every image, it doesn't return any data either and I don't know why it doesn't:
Never fancied enabling FileVault on previous Macs but now I'm running OS X on an SSD. Is there a noticeable decrease in speed?
On linux I see all connected IPv6 addresses to my wlan adapter with but how can I achieve this on OSX?
When I run iTap Mobile RDP on my Macbook Pro, I set the Windows resolution to "native", with "fullscreen" off. When I open a connection to Windows, the OS X window shows the usual "fullscreen" arrows in the upper right corner. When I run iTap on my 27' iMac using exactly the same settings, the "fullscreen" arrows do not show, even though the application fills the viewing area (not including the dock and menubar). Both Macs are running 10.8.5.
I have been buying apps for months using the exact same Apple ID password with no problem. Then my iPod Touch started telling me that it is wrong. I tried the "I forgot" option, but it did not help. I cannot access my account either and when I looked for it, the page said my account could not be found. How do I get my account back?
I've previously connected to a WiFi network on my iPhone but I have no way of finding out the password. Is there any way to recover the password after resetting my device to view saved WiFi passwords on the iPhone?
I have a circa 2007 MacBook Pro with fully-patched Mac OS X Tiger installed. I recently plugged an OEM USB keyboard into the laptop after leaving my Mac keyboard at home one day. Now that I'm back on my Mac keyboard (and just the laptop's keyboard for that matter), the control/command/option keys are all switched around after every reboot and after waking up from sleep mode. I have to go in to System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys and Press the "Reset Defaults" button to get my control/command/option keys mapped back to their normal configuration. I don't have to change any of the drop down options, they're already correct.
I need to be able to download an off-line webpage and view it on an iPad. I must be able to access it without being connected to the internet, any browser will work, preferably Chrome though. Is this possible? I've created a page with a test example: <a href="*=URL=* download="test_file.html">Click Here To Download test webpage</a>
I am preparing to upgrade to iOS 7.0+ via a clean install. From what I've read, this method is best to minimize the chance of taking a hit on battery performance. If I understand correctly, a clean install wipes my phone and puts it into a "brand new, just out of the box state."
All of the discussion I can find online suggests that an image in Aperture with location information that is uploaded to Facebook (using Aperture's Facebook integration) should have a location assigned in Facebook. But all my attempts to get image location information from Aperture to Facebook have failed.
The title pretty much says it all. I need to know the terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion so I can make aliases on the dock with Automator. I don't like hot corners, mostly because there are only four corners on the screen and more OS functionality than that. Keyboard shortcuts are all well and good, I just want options.
I am wanting to charge my iPad in the DC port in my car. I have already got a USB car charger for my iPhone and that works fine. When I put my iPad into it it says "Not Charging." Can anyone tell me why it won't charge?
I recently bought a iPod touch 5th generation and installed iOS 7. Whenever I try to send messages, I get a message failure notice. I checked Settings, Contacts, changed the DNS to 8.8.8.8 but nothing seems to fix the problem. Can you help?
Can you delete all the emails on iPad in one shot using the mail app. I can only seem to delete them 1 by 1 by pressing the trash can. Or I can go edit and select each one and then delete. Is there a faster way?
I've had Apple TV for just over a week and up until today, everything has been fine. My problem is that when I try and watch previously bought films/tv shows, they won't play. It just goes back to the play screen. Also, I cannot buy new films. I've reset it, logged off and back on again but still the same. Can anyone help?
I have received texts from people saying they have missed facetime calls from me when I have not called them. Also, today y girlfriend received a facetime call from me and when the call connected there was a woman staring back at her. She immediately hung up and when it called back she ignored it. It says on her call log that it was me who facetimed her. how could this have happened?
I have a new Mac Mini, OS X 10.8.5 (12F45), just set up this morning. Downloaded Apple Configurator 1.4 (351). It worked fine up until about an hour ago, when it started quitting as soon as I start it. The error message reads, "Apple Configurator quit unexpectedly".
Have i photo with pictures in named folders. Want to install Picasa. When I did this picasa imported all the iphotos with goofy names, not like the iphoto names. would like to install picassa then put the iphotos into picasa the same as it looks in i photo. BTW, i am a new mac user, and recently copied all my photos from picasa to i photo. now i want to put picassa back on new mac. I prpbably should have installed picassa first on to the mac and put the photos from thePC to picassa on the mac. Now iam stuck. So, how to put picassa on mac and then put all (4,000 pictures in named files)from the iphot back into picassa for mac. Help
I have a bunch of movies/TV programmes on my computer that I want to transfer to an iPad. As far as I know, the only way to do this is to first add them to iTunes (on a computer), then synch iTunes with the iPad.
I'm running Mountain Lion and I have a folder in ~/sites that has a red icon on the folder and I can't open it because 'access is denied'. What I've tried: Get Info > unlock with admin password, change 'everyone' privilege to 'read write' but won't change so tried 'read only' but still 'access denied' Get Info > unlock with admin password, change 'everyone' privilege to 'read write' but won't change so tried 'read only' but still 'access denied' Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites/lockedfolder Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites/lockedfolder Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites/lockedfolder Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites/lockedfolder Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites Disk utility > repair permissions and steps 1-5 again but no luck Disk utility > repair permissions and steps 1-5 again but no luck All users now show 'read write' access in get info window but still an
What robust setups of partitions which accommodate (a) MtLion OS X, (b) Windows x64, (c) Data partition used [primarily] under Windows? Things that would be desirable (optional) past the basic stability are: live shrink/expand/add/delete of partitions preserving existing data ability to upgrade to newer versions of OS X without risk of losing Windows or Data partition ability to upgrade / reinstall Windows without risk of losing OS X data ideally, data shared for read & write between Windows and OS X ideally, no third-party [paid] tools / drivers required for the whole scheme to work
I'm completely clueless. The contacts app does not sync with iCould and gives the CoreDAVErrorDomain Error 1.
Is there any way to make Mail include the to/cc email addresses when forwarding/responding to a message? currently all I get is: what I would like is: Not including who has seen the email chain is a serious omission, hopefully it's just a setting I can't find.
I have an iPhone through my company. From my understanding, Apple does not allow any software onto their i* devices that does not come from the app store. I got into a discussion with a coworker about how IT can track the phone. Is there any keyboard loggers, or other spyware that could be installed which would allow a company to track employees actions outside of the traditional email client?
My question is about the ls command. If I have too many files in a folder, I might need either: ls files with a given type only or; ls files with a given type only or; ls files within a range, i.e., files with names a* to b*. ls files within a range, i.e., files with names a* to b*.
I was using Aitplayit on my iPhone and iPad and it worked perfectly. After updating to iOS 7, it no longer works properly. After visiting their website over some time, it definitely appears its no longer supported. I looked for replacements, and I tried a few, but none seemed to work as well as Airplayit did. Any suggestions for a replacement? PS I use a PC for the server
Are there any free iOS applications that let us browse LAN devices, so we could access files from devices in same network. I use ES File Explorer to do the same in Android phone but I didn't find any free application on iOS. Most of the file explorer for android mobiles include this functionality. Any such free app?
This question Use Only External Display With Macbook asks how to use an external display with a Macbook in clamshell/closed mode with attached peripherals such as external keyboard and mouse. I would like to know how to use a Macbook (Air or Pro), in its own right (without the use of attached external keyboard and mouse peripherals) that is attached to an external monitor. On Windows, you can right-click the desktop and select an option to output only to an external display. In OS X, I believe things to be slightly more complicated, therefore would like to know the precise steps needed to achieve this and indeed once finished with the external display, how to go back and use my Macbook as normal ?
I have a mid-2011 MacBook Air and 2 Dell monitors. A 30 inch (U3014) and a 27 inch (U2711). I connect a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable from the Air to the 30 inch monitor, and a DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable from the 30 inch to the 27 inch. The 30 inch powers up as it should, but the 27 inch shows an error message saying that the refresh rate is wrong: When I check the display settings in OS X, the 27 inch monitor doesn't even show up. Is this a problem with the Air not being able to power up two displays that large? Or is there anything I can tweak? Someone told me the DisplayPort in the Air has a max supported resolution - I may have exceeded that.
Ive just got a brand new iMac and have purchased a game (BioShock Infinite) from the Mac App Store. For some reason the download failed halfway through so I tried again from the Purchases page of the app store. However it fails again immediately.
I'm in Germany with my new iPad mini, and I prefer to run those gadgets in English. But unfortunately, this one is inconsistent. Everything that should be English is, except the time. Right now it says 01:30 nachm., instead of 01:30 pm. I could ignore that on the top line of the screen, but I just figured out that it even puts that time format in mails I forward or reply. It's distracting and annoying.
I have created an installation of OS X on a small drive. Everything has worked fine apart from the fact that it has used up most of my space. According the file size on each of the folders in the root directory do not amount to the space shown in the disk utility. I have only done an install of OS X and DeployStudio so it surely should not be using up an entire 32 GB drive. I have tried verifying and repairing the disk as well as a couple of reboots.
I have tried many available solutions (searched through similar questions), most of them was quite obvious - like editing Info.plist in the application package, but oryginal application Info.plist data seems to look fine (it has correct file type definitions): Whatever I do, I can't force OS X to show this application in "Open With" context menu after right clicking on a supported file. I have also tried to reset settings with: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user but it didn't work.
I plan to use a three year old MacBook Pro as a Plex Media Server. It should wake on demand and go to sleep when I don't watch anything. That works great, but only if the lid is open. If the lid is closed and the MacBook Pro is sleeping I can wake it but after a minute it goes bak to sleep no matter if I am watching something right now or not. I thought a tool like NoSleep could help. But this tool prevents the Mac from going to sleep when closing the lid. When it is already closed and sleeping NoSleep has no effect. The Mac will go to sleep again after a minute.
I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.
I'm thinking of buying either a high-end 13'' Air (i7 and 8GB RAM $1,549.00) or 13'' rMBP with an i5 ($1,699.00). Setting aside portability, display and other differences which I'm still pondering, how does the 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 compare to the 2.6GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5 in terms of performance? I do some photo editing and programming.
Always when I need to make a bootable usb drive on a mac I struggle, I end up switching to windows because none of the below works for me, I'm using MacBook Pro: running sudo dd if=Debian.is of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=512k in terminal using Disk Utility, formatting the usb to have 1 partition, MBR and unmounting the partition, then dragging the iso image onto restore tab using diskutils for the above
"I" and "(", "K" keys on my Bluetooth keyboard don't work very well sometimes I need to press them several times before the input is print. My battery is at 100% and I think is a problem related to a software I've installed (Anaconda a Python distribution with Spyder) even if this problem occur in general use. I've tried to use Safe Mode but it continue to happen... How can I fix it? note that in my keyboard I have to hold on shift to use one of these keys
I'm using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 on a Mac. When I use "Save As..." and choose PDF format, I would like a PDF that has all the slides except for slides marked as Hidden in my slide deck. But I always get all slides in the PDF. This is a problem, of course, because hidden slides are hidden because they aren't ready for public viewing.
I have actually looked online a bit and found this: *=URL=* I have a user that sent me their Macbook Air running OSX 10.6.4 and bootcamp. They only use Windows 7 on it, never booting to OSX, and now their bootcamp partition is full. I have bought her a new drive from here: *=URL=* However, here's my issue (besides not knowing macs):
I've two similar directory tree in different HD, but inside many groups of subfolders named e.g. B and C (note inside B and C there are others subfolders) there are different files (e.g. file 1,2 in the first and 3,4 in the second) . I would like to join the different files and substitute them if they have the same name. So at the end I would like to have in the folder B: 1 and 3 and in the folder C: 2 and 4. In windows I simply drag inside the old folder A the folder B and C from the second folder A then I click to substitute all but if I do the same thing in OSX I delete file 1 and 2, because OSX substitute folder and not the files inside. How can I solve the problem?
Is there an application the creates a homescreen shortcut that sends a particular message to a specific number when pressed ? So basically something that allows : Add number Add text message Create homescreen shortcut Now every time I click that shortcut, it sends the sms to that number directly.
I recently reinstalled OSX, Win7 and Linux on my mid-2012 15" Retina (purchased August 19, 2012), and just noticed that I, apparently, am now running OSX Lion (10.7.5). I recall that this machine came with Mountain Lion. I'm not sure exactly how this happened, but the only fix I have in mind at the moment is to do an internet recovery, which I hope will get the system back to ML; but, I'd rather not have to back up and restore 500+GB of Linux and Windows stuff in order to get a 4GB installer to download. Suggestions? Update
I have two Spaces configured and I keep some Safari windows in one space and some in another. However, Mission Control only allows you to assign an application to a Space, but not different windows within an Application. As a workaround I created an AppleScript shortcut that executes a new Safari instance: open -n /Applications/Safari.app
I'd like to upgrade my 27" late 2013 iMac. The current 8GB is a bit too little for me, and upgrading all the way to 32GB is a bit too expensive for me at the moment. For the time being, I'd like to upgrade with just one 16GB (2x8GB) kit, with the opportunity to upgrade with another kit later on. Current configuration: Channel 0: empty 4GB Channel 1: empty 4GB 8GB total, Each channel has 4GB, therefore dual channel mode is supported. Desired configuration: Channel 0: 8GB 4GB Channel 1: 8GB 4GB
When I try to boot into OSX, after 30 seconds or so the Apple symbol is replaced by a circle with a line through it. If I try single user mode, it stops at a certain point before booting entirely and says "waiting for root device."
I managed to write a piece of code that made Xcode 5's LLVM compiler segfault. Xcode prints a message that asks me to submit a bug report at *=URL=* I try to do that, but all that site does is tell me what makes a good bug report, with no link or button where I can actually submit one. I have a developer account already. So how do I submit a bug report to Apple's bug tracker?
I am a little confused, I am using Messages but after like 20 messages the previous messages disappear. How can I increase it or go back and look at previous messages?
This summer I purchased an iPad mini for my Grandmother. I would like to be able to somehow connect to the iPad to do things like update software, apps, and walk her through questions she may have. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this? She does have her own Apple ID.
If I'm on an old Mac and I just want the basics (web browsing, text editing, multitasking) to run a lot faster and I don't mind losing out on bells and whistles or temporarily disabling unneeded background processes, what processes would this be and how could I enable/disable them with a simple shell script?
I have a work cell phone that only rings when a server crashes. How would you disable the ringtone and text messages for every phone number except for one on iOS 7?
My mid-2009 15″ MacBook Pro (A1286) has developed a nasty habit in the last couple of days. It suddenly discharges its entire battery without warning, and won't start until it's had about 10 minutes charging afterwards. This happens even when plugged into the mains and on 100% charge. So far it's only happened after a long day's use (plugged in all day), but it's happened three times now. The cycle count is 768, according to Apple support the maximum cycle count on my model is 1000, so it shouldn't be end days yet. It's also displaying the condition as "normal".
With the permission of the person being tracked, of course! I'm running in a marathon and want my family and friends to be able to see my location on a map in real-time (or very close to it). Are there any apps that can do this? I'd also like to be able to turn on and off the "broadcast" of my location.
This problem has been aggravating me for several months, and I've gathered a lot of information about it, but I can't find the solution. I'm running XAMPP 1.8.2 on Mountain Lion, and I'm running a PHP/MySQL server application called Copra. Every time iPad clients access Copra, my system freezes. Here are the symptoms: Dock uses 100% CPU all Dock-related things are frozen (Notification Center, Expose, Mission Control, Cmd-Tab, etc.) ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db is written to constantly (several times per second) XAMPP GUI shows red dot for MySQL status, even though it's still running
In iOS 7, if you bring up the Notification Center in some circumstances it will tell you, “Right now, it would take you 18 minutes to drive home.” I recently moved and the address that iOS 7 has set as “home” is now incorrect, but I still want to include the old address in my contact card. How do I inform Siri (and the rest of the system) that my “home” address has changed?
There are about 700 photos on my Camera Roll that I don't want. 1) I don't want to delete them one-by-one 2) usage > camera and photos > side swipe camera roll and delete does NOT work on iOS7. 3) I tried using Image Capture on my computer, and my device shows up on the left, but there are no image files. I'm going crazy, there has to be an easy way to do this.
This is a picture of a tooltip from IntelliJ IDEA. Does anyone know what key is being referred to? I don't have anything like it on my MacBook Air.
This question is about the Preview app. I use that a lot to read stuff (PDF files, etc. Each time it opens, it forgets the last Window state. On a Retina Mac, it is ideal to have it opened at "Two pages" view (Command-3) in "almost fullscreen" mode: the window as large and wide as possible but keeping the menu, toolbar and dock visible (this is almost distraction free). The way I do it now is tedious, especially as I have to repeat these steps for every document: open a document press Command-3 drag the top-left corner of the Preview window to the left of the screen against the menu bar on the top. drag the bottom-right corner of the Preview window to the right of the screen against the dock on the bottom.
The headphone's tip has got stuck inside the 3.55 mm jack of my MacBook Pro late 2011 13 inch model. I've tried several ways to pry the head out, including using adhesive on a tip of a stick to get it out, but in vain. Is there a way I can completely replace the 3.5 mm headphone jack socket/port? I took it to an iStore, and the personnel there said that I'll have to replace the entire motherboard amounting to under 1000 US dollars. The audio output shows as "Digital Out" and the audio icon is greyed out, I can't use headphones and the internal speakers don't work either. I'm left with a MacBook Pro that's mute. Any workarounds?
I would like to show a Google Calendar right on my desktop (possible one of them, not the one I'm using most often). Is there any app that I could use to do that?
I'm trying to install CouchDB using Homebrew but it gives me the following error: I went to the given URL and yes: I am on Mavericks GM. I tried a complete reinstall of homebrew but that still gives me the same error. But how can I reinstall Spidermonkey with libc++?
Here is our environment: Server: MS Exchange 2010 MS Outlook 2010 iPhone 5 running iOS 7
I've never formerly know about Intel's SpeedStep capabilities in my Mac(Book Pro 5,1) until the last few days. And let me say that the possibility to make the battery last longer is good enough to give it a try. By the way, the "original" IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext (1.4.9) seems to be made for working only on a 32bit kernel; while I use - and want to - the 64bit one.
I am facing a very strange issue while using iOS 7 on iPhone 4! I have updated my os from iOS 6 to iOS 7 and I can't hear any sound except ringtones. Please have a look at the screenshot of my music app below.
I was given a MBP that needs some repairs. Aparently the hard drive is fried so I was planning to replace it with a new one.
I have a google calendar and I need to have several iCal sync and pull updates from this Google Calendar. However, I went in and used prefs->add account to setup sync. I was told this was not the correct way to pull calendar data and that I should use the SUBSCRIBE option.
The following keyboard shortcut will always bring up a window that says Searching "This Mac": Option+Command+Space
I bought a pair of Brainwavz M1 headphones today and when using them with my Macbook air there is an intermittent buzz regardless of whether or not there's sound playing and irrespective of the volume of the air. I'm fairly sure that it's 50 Hz noise from the power but curiously when I unplug the charging cable the noise is still there but not quite as loud. If I touch the body of the laptop the humming stops whether plugged into power or not. The headphones have a rated impedance of 32 ohms. Is there anything I can do to stop it?
iTunes reports my iPad has 4Gb of "other" storage (yellow). It was 6Gb before I did a sync. What is this and what can I do about it?
my problem is that I can not make any calls or send messages anymore with my iphone 4. When I call someone, it immediately breaks the calling procedure. And the message progress bar goes till about 90% and then fails.
I'm having a problem where the name of my Windows drive changes periodically on my Mac with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Example: The Windows drive might be named drive/dept now, but next the name might be drive/dept-2 or drive/dept-4.
I'm testing the "find my Mac" feature at icloud.com and one of my Macs can't be found. The site reports "Online, no location available".
Update: I recently moved uptown, and it hasn't been occurring here. Next time I'm back near my old place, I'll test it again to see if it's just that I'm in a non-issue location or that Sprint has fixed it.
Why doesn't my iCloud panel on my Windows 8 computer always download the photos from Photostream on my iPhone? I have an iPhone 5, on iOS 7.
Gmail on the web has "Social" and "Promotions" tabs that filter certain types of messages. Most of the time, I plan to ignore emails that end up in either of those folders.
I'm not sure how this machine was setup, but I do have control over it now as a local admin. I need to enable fast user switching, but the option is greyed out along with some others. This is after unlocking the changes padlock.
Every time I try to sign into yahoo mail on my ipad, a pop-up asks whether I want to increase database size to 10MB. but whether I select Increase or Cancel, it just freezes (spinning wheel) and won't let me get to my email. Please help!! The pop-up returns every time. I'd be happy to increase but it won't let me!
Apparently Mavericks doesn't allow any property list/configuration file to be used when it's been changed since release from Apple.(This opposed to previous versions of OS X, where you could do some editing and still run the app) For those who don't have a clue what I'm talking about:
Is it possible to hide the address bar and status bar in iOS 7? In a landscape app I'm currently using the below code to do it for previous iOS versions and it work well even on IOS 7: when opening the page it goes full screen and stay so. JS: HTML:
I have to help someone do this, so I do not have the devices in front of me to play around with. There are three devices involved: Macbook (don't know what model) iPhone (don't know what model) iPad (don't know what model) The objective is to move some photos from the iPhone to the iPad. What is the most straightforward way to accomplish this using iTunes? Also, if there are any AppleScript hackers out there with experience in iTunes, a stub of an AppleScript to perform this task would be really helpful! FYI, in my case using the internet is not really an option, so iCloud and the like are out.
I am using the above and editing new files using mvim <filename>. The first time after I installed mvim in the /usr/local/bin directory it seemed to open files in new tabs by default, this behaviour has now stopped. The .vimrc I am using currently is: I don't think any of the above should change the behaviour of mvim and the way it opens new files.
I have dual-boot setup on my MacBook using bootcamp. I have 2 partitions: 1 is Windows 7 and the other is Mac OS X 10.8. I have all of my stuff personal stuff setup for the Mac side. I have programming things that are only compatible with Windows. I want to make it so I can do things on my Mac computer and have a way to switch to the Windows side without quitting running applications (and being able to switch back) I would prefer if the software is free, but if you can assure me that it will work flawlessly, I will be willing to pay for software to make this work.
I'm looking for a mp3 player software that lets you go back say 5 seconds of the audio clip by pressing the left arrow key. I'm using this as a means to memorize, and I used to use winamp on the PC and was wondering what choices I have on a Mac.
Just wondering if there is any Terminal command to do this, because I think my OSX was already messed up with some incompatible .pkg installations. Thanks.
I have a MBP on which running OS X 10.8.4. Recently using bootcamp I installed Windows 7 on it to use some windows specific software. I wanted to have 3 different partitions in windows, where OS and apps are installed on 1 and my data remains on other 2. However, due to some restrictions with bootcamp, I wasn't able to create partitions before installing windows (bootcamp require single partition in Mac OS X to setup windows).
I have a Gmail account (gmail 1), and if I'm moving email from Inbox to an IMAP folder, the email disappears from Inbox and after changing the folder and going back to Inbox the moved mail is back in my Inbox. I just created a new Gmail account (gmail 2) and tried it with this account. The behaviour is like expected: moved emails don't re-appear in their old folder.
I want to improve my chess skills with my iPhone 5s and iPad 3. There are too many chess apps on the App Store for me to test. My ideal app should be free, strong, offers suggestion, nice graphics, adjust level of play etc. The app must play strong chess otherwise I don't learn anything from my games.
How would i remove this icon in my toolbar on my MacBook Pro? I have never really used it and would like to remove it from the toolbar. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
When I try to import any video file (e.g. AVI files) in Adobe Premiere Pro cc in my Macbook Air, I get this error: "codec missing or unavailable" What to do about it?
I was updating my iPhone to iOS 7 and in the process I took a backup of my phone. After installing iOS 7 on my iPhone, I connected it to iTunes and instead of pressing Restore from backup, I pressed Backup and iTunes saved the backup of my restored iPhone, overwriting my original backup data.
Using OSX 10.8.5, I recently attached a second display to my 2013 Mac Air via the Thunderbolt port. Since removing this display I can now drag Finder and other windows under the menu bar. They pop back into viewable space on release, but this is visually annoying. How do I get the standard 'solid' menu bar behaviour back? I have tried switching resolution but this doesn't work.
I've asked this question already on Stackoverflow though got referred to this forum here. I got a list of Safari bugs that happened on a MacBook running iOS7. I am a bit confused now as afaik iOS7 is an operating system for iPads and iPhones only - or am I wrong? PS: I am aware that my question might sound a bit odd but I am used to Windows (cough, cough) and don't know much about Macs and their operation systems.
I have added an SSD to my iMac with OS X Lion and wanted to reorganise files a little: System and home folder on SSD Music, Documents, movies on HDD
I lost my iPhone and while it was turned on I could lock it and put in 'Lost mode' through Apple 'Find My iPhone' service. Unfortunately almost one month it's not found and until now I had hope to find it.
I'm looking for a way to invert individual photo colors in iOS 7 to use as a background instead of inverting the entire phones color scheme. How can I do this?
I bought a used MacBook Pro 15″ with Lion and Windows dual boot. I accidentally dropped my Mac when it was on - everything was fine until I rebooted it and it got stuck on the grey screen, and I lost the dual boot so even Windows wouldn't start. I've searched on the web, and it tells me to restore it via the internet with ⌘ cmd+R. I did it, but it asked me to update to Mountain Lion, so when I hit ok it says that my Apple ID has not been used to purchase Mountain Lion.
I want to downgrade my iPhone from iOS7 to 6.1.3 and I need help.. I keep getting an error 3194 when I do it. I tried everything and doesn't work!!!
Any thoughts on how to get it to unmount and reformatted? Is there a way in Terminal to do this instead?
Any way to automatically make alias or icons to show up on the left side of apple desktop. By default they go to the right.
Whenever I wake up my 2012 Macbook Pro after it's been asleep for a few hours, the screen turns on, but it is unresponsive for about a minute. During this time, the mouse cursor does not move at all whenever I touch the trackpad and the computer is unresponsive to the keyboard. I also see the WiFi icon in the taskbar act as if it is searching for WiFi (the WiFi icon is gray, but each bar turns black consecutively from bottom to top repeatedly). The computer is finally responsive after a minute or so and the WiFi icon stops searching.
With a MacBook Pro, can I watch a film on the TV connected externally to HDMI while browsing the web on the MacBook screen?
I'm running OS X 10.7.5 "Lion". Three times now, Preview.app has gotten in a state where its icon is visible in the application switcher (⌘+Tab) but it isn't running (doesn't show up in ps ax in the Terminal) and will not start (e.g. double-clicking a PDF document).
I've got 2 Macs running OS 10.6.8. I've configured one to automatically drop certain files in a folder on the other Mac. I've used an Automator script to do this, it logs in using a user name [copier] created for this purpose, and then copies the files. This used to work reasonably well. Recently however the files are copied with the wrong permissions. The copy has read&write permissions for user [copier] and 'no access' for everyone else. It should have read&write access for everyone. The folder permissions do have read&write access for everyone, so that's not it. How can I set the permissions of files that get copied into this folder?
I have a A1304 MBA and need to replace the battery with a new one. I was considering to install a 54-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery (12 hours battery life) for the newest model MBA. Is it compatible to my old model MBA? Will it have a technical problem after I install it?
Recently, I had to upgrade from my originaly MBP (2007) to a new, 15in MBP with Lion. I was able to extract my old hard drive from my old computer and load it onto my new laptop, it reads the drive fine and acknowledges there are 110GBs of files on it but when I click in the folders nothing appears and everything is 0 bytes.
I disabled Instagram from posting a notification alert ( banner or alert ). However any posted item or notification do not show in the lock screen or notification center. Prior to ios7 this causes no problem, as comments/notifications from such an app show up in the lock screen or notification center, but is this feature disabled now ?
When PDF files are merged in Preview.app are there any drawbacks regarding compatibility with the PDF standard and Acrobat? My procedure is to open two PDFs in Preview and drag the pages from the thumbnail drawer of one document to the other, then save. I also delete pages be selecting the page thumbnail and pressing 'delete'.
Up until now, I have used a program called Stay to maintain my preferred location and sizing of all my apps. My main use case is that I have two external displays that require me to rearrange my applications after unplugging the displays (which is quite common going to/fro meetings). Since Mavericks is supposed to enhance the support for multi monitor setups, I was wondering if this new support eliminates the need for a third party solution.
I started to download iOS7 from my iPhone 4, and then I read about lots of lag and battery issues. I'd love to try iOS7 but since I won't be able downgrade to iOS6 I'd like to cancel the download. The problem is I don't know how. I've only been able to stop the download by disabling Wi-Fi.
I have good number of virtual XP and W7 machines on our domain, one thing always cause problems when multiple users are using the same machine. There's always that one person whom put the vm session on suspend instead of shutdown. I know to change under preferences, but somehow users change default back to suspend. Is there a way to enforce shutdown only. this is the case for Fusion 5, 6. thanks.
On my macbook, with a mouse plugged in (Microsoft Intellimouse Optical), a single click will sometimes behave like a double click, or pressing the mouse button but not releasing it will behave like a click. This behavior is sporadic. Sometimes it will happen with every click for a few clicks. Sometimes it will be every other click. Sometimes it behaves normally for a while.
I recently noticed that in iOS 7 my app icon stretches:  And here is how it is supposed to be:
I have alarms set up in my iOS Clock app, with both "Vibrate on silent" and "Vibrate on ring" switches set to ON in the Settings app. For the last several months I've been relying on a silent audio file to create a vibrate-only alarm to wake me up. But this morning, it seemed to stop working — the alarm went off, but made no sound and did not vibrate. Only the screen lit up like usual.
I recently installed homebrew and I was having a hard time because I could not install it as curl command couldn't be found, someone pointed me to use wget and that worked to install homebrew but now I am trying to figure out how to get the curl command back. I was patching an android rom with openpdroid and ran into a problem and in the process I found out when working out the error with the developer of autopatcher that I somehow or another the bundled OSX/BSD utils were replaced with GNU coreutils. I have no idea if the osx/bsdutils or GNU coreutils have anything to do with curl. I tried Keep in mind that I like a toddler just learning my first words when it comes to working with the terminal shell. also so you know Is there a way to get back to having OSX bundled utilities as default if that is what I need to install curl.
I'd like to use Keynote on iPad in portrait mode, so that I can use it while it's in my dock and so I can make app wireframes in it that are portrait mode apps (vertical orientation). Is this possible?
I would like to disable copy/paste for an app to protect sensitive information displayed in it. I don't have the app source code. I'm already aware of this general solution: https://superuser.com/questions/608976/how-to-disable-copy-paste-on-osx
I want to download all of the background images from here: *=URL=* And have a new one load up every time I log into my Mac. What's the easiest way of doing that?
Since this morning the keyboard is exhibiting some strange behavior: "!" key is adding a "@" after the "!" "i" key is adding a tab after the "i" "k" key is toggling the caps lock after the "k"
I have installed a third party SSD in my Mac. I have used it quite a while before I enabled TRIM.
I'm trying to figure out how to automatically move files from a folder to its parent folder and delete the original folder. To illustrate, here's my structure: I want to move my all my .avi files to the Parent Folder and get rid of Subfolder altogether (Subfolder still won't be empty after moving these files, but I want to delete it and its leftover contents).
I have some MP3 files that I would like to add to my Audible library. Is it possible to do so?
I have a huge iTunes collection and have been researching this for a while but cannot seem to find an answer. Basically I would like to leave my iTunes collection open so that people can select their own songs. My only concern is that they might accidentally delete or change info in the tracks. Is there any way that I could have a read-only (or play-only) toggle for my iTunes library on OS X?
The title pretty much sums it up. I want to avoid having to use the trackpad to connect to certain networks. This comes up often when a new network becomes available but I'm already connected to another one.
I have been using my Mac for for many months without any problem. But recently all of a sudden the Mac became insanely slow.
I have two time capsules which are connected in 1Gb through the ethernet. When I initiate a transfer between the two devices from my wifi connected macbook air, I notice that the data flow from one TC to my computer through wifi, then flow back, still in wifi, to the other TC. Is there a way to have the two TC talk through their high speed 1Gb ethernet directly ?
Is there any Mac OS X tutorial/book that covers the UNIX part of this operating system? Topics like: Managing daemons from the command-line Package management Install/Remove dmg's from the command-line Environment variables Users/Groups/Permissions management CLI utilities OS Directory structure Location of dev headers, libraries, etc Devices names
I have a 10.8 server, network users on a shared drive 'User Data' - used as a AFP for home folders, OD is on. All users are part of a group 'students 2013/14'. My network user can login via OD over a network, however the permissions are not set correctly, since network user accounts can access all other users folder read/write on the sharepoint. Question: How can I set the permissions in Server.app correctly so that network users can login, use their server based home folder w/r but not access other network user home folders using the student 2013/14 group?
The situation I face is that I have a wallpaper that fills the screen but shows the wrong part of the actual image. So I am wondering whether I could possibly move the image so it shows me the proper section I'd like to see.
Hi i was doing a report and went on google drive and accidently clicked on full screen and it said I needed to click esc to get out of full screen. I was just wondering where the esc button on an iPad is, because I can't find it and I need to insert a picture and I can't and it won't let me copy and paste.
Airplay from iCloud is part of the newest Apple TV update however I don't understand how it is supposed to work. Should I see a new option on my device when I'm airplaying something from it? This is all I could find on apple.com
I would like to use Apple Configurator for our Store iPads, but I can't upgrade my iMac to 10.8 (min. Requirement for AC 1.4) right now. Where can I get 1.3 or any other version that I could install on 10.7.5?
update: experimenting with Frizlab's suggestion to use the black and white Quartz filter in Preview's PDF save dialogue, I quickly realised that I was still going to have a problem with images. Even after these become black and white bitmaps, they'll still need to be scaled to the print resolution.
My iPhoto libary is 58 Gigs. They are all snapshots, nothing professional. Most of the photos were taken at 12megapixels because that's the default setting on the camera. I'm sure they will all look fine if they were reduced to 5megapixels. Is there a way in iPhoto to reduce the size of all photos in the Library to smaller?
I'm developing an app, and for development purposes, I dismissed the GameCenter window 3 times in a row, which supposedly disables it in iOS 7. I want to get this window back, because I can't continue developing the rest of my app without GameCenter on my iPad. I'm running iOS 7.0.2 on and iPad 3. Thank you!
When I search for stuff, even constraining with name:whatIwant, the majority of results are old e-mail messages and Safari history items. How can I get rid of these results, but still search my email from within the Mail program? I have already added the History folder from Safari to the Privacy tab and put the Mail app in there too, but the results still show. I am using Mountain Lion at the moment. EDIT: It turns out I already had Messages and Web history un-selected in my Search Results tab (see second screengrab below), but I am still seeing the results from Web pages and from current (not just archived) Mail messages.
I have an iPad with iOS7. This is set up with 2 email accounts (gmail and ISP default). I want to use the "Contact Us" option on one of my apps, but this offers me the options of using either of the mail logon email addresses. I NEVER use either of these, and don't disclose these to anyone (so I can easily change when they get too much spam). My question is how do I get the iPad to use the email aliases I have set up on gmail.
I'd like to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, but as the internal hard drive cable is not working, I'm using it with an external hard drive plugged in which OS X is installed on. When I try to install Windows 7 it says that I have to have an internal hard drive to install it. So I'm just wondering if there is a way that can make my laptop think that the external hard drive is an internal so I could install Windows, or is there any other way to install Windows? I don't want to install Windows in a Virtual Machine.
Seems to me like I have a catch 22 situation going on. I cannot reset my iPad because Find My iPad is enabled, and I cannot remove Find my iPad without resetting the iPad to get rid of Restrictions.
My wife and I both have 4s models and we both downloaded iOS 7 and now we have all contacts (hers and mine) on both phones. I started to delete some of hers on my phone and it deleted the same contacts on her phone automatically. How can I restore her contacts?
I have several hard drives I've used throughout the years to backup my data. Each one has a different folder structure and fileset. I now have a massive NAS that I want to consolidate all my data onto. I've created a new folder structure on the NAS and have moved over most of my data. Does anyone know of a tool that could index my NAS and then compare any other hard drive, folder, or other media and list what folders/files are not on the NAS.
Mountain Lion got animated GIF support for Quick Look, but the animations show as slowmotion. It renders very slow even if the GIF has a fast frame rate. Is there any way to improve this or replace the Quick Look functionality with something that works better?
I have a question about menu with categories. You can see this menu here: Does OS X Mountain Lion support somekind of this menu?
I kill Python processes with SIGQUIT by pressing Ctrl\ sometimes (usually my own that are misbehaving). Can I prevent the "Python quit unexpectedly" message? I know I can just hit escape, so it's not so bad.
I know that the dotted blue underlined words during dictation in OS X are supposed to provide alternative suggestions of the voice transcription. However, when I control-click or right-click the blue underlined words, I do not see any suggestions or alternatives. Please help! I am running the GM of OS X Mavericks...been running Mavericks since beta seed 4. Also, I use a magic trackpad, not a mouse (just in case this matters). Is this just a Mavericks bug or am I doing something wrong?
I have ALREADY tried: Within the System Preferences/Accessibility: De-Select Flash the screen when an alert appears. Toggling Select then back to De-Select
My iphone shows me a variety of songs that I no longer want to have on it. iTunes does not show those items under 'Music' under the phone. I sync -- they're still there. What do I need to do to get rid of them? Contrary to various sources on the internet, sliding to the left on the song does not offer deletion, but starts to play it.
If I enable showing hidden files in Finder (defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES), there are 70 dotfiles in my home directory. However, there are two hidden folder without dots: Trash and Library. In the root directory, there are several (lost+found, bin, cores, etc…).
I deleted all of my files and even did command/power-command and reinstalled OS X Lion. But I still don't have all of my hard drive space available. When looking in About this Mac it shows 12GB of audio, movies and photos of which there are none.
I'm trying to add a partition to my Macintosh HD using Disk Utility. However, whenever I try to do so, I get "the target disk is too small." I'm using OS X 10.8.5 on a Retina MBP, and there would be plenty of room (>200 GB) left on the disk after the partition. Why does this error come up?
However, the Gmail account instead of doing the "next best thing" which would be pulling every 15m appears to now in fact never fetch mail unless I tell it to. This is sort of annoying (it's not the end of the world, since I have the Gmail app get push notifications from Gmail, but it's annoying in that I can have zilions of undownloaded messages from gmail in my mail mail app).
I have an almost new Macbook Air. I started to use Time Machine for the first time with a brand new "My Passport" hard drive. I had to unplug it during the process and it was left unplugged for quite some time. Then it went to sleep probably or maybe not, but I plugged it. Then unplugged again (one charger was shared between two Macs).
I am looking to install a privileged helper tool using SMJobBless. My plist only contains the MachServices key and RunAtLoad key. The RunAtLoad is set to true as I want to be launched automatically after install. Now, the problem is that once the helper tool is installed and launched and it completes its job successfully - it gets relaunched and this keeps happening again and again. I have tried various things to stop it from launching again but in vain: Tried to add KeepAlive to false in the plist. Tried to add KeepAlive as a dictionary with the key SuccessfulExit to false.
I have MacBook Pro 15-inch, Early 2011 Processor 2 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Once a week it crashed with beep sound ( 3 times ) beep - beep - beep Then pixel in the display ever time it crashes is as shown in screenshot The only way to turn off the the laptop is by pressing power button for 8sec.
I need to install XQuartz in Mac 10.8.5.But every time when I reach the destination folder selection in installation step,it freezes and doesn't move forward.I have admin account as well but as I looked through the net, seems that others also have the problem.How can I solve it?
Can any one explain me this ? I re-install BlackMagic but it ain't change a thing. I'm running 10.9.3 and there is only one partition on the SSD.
My iMac (early 2009) is super slow and spotlight and timemachine doesnt work at all. I am suspecting the the spotlight index (which never seem to finish) is behind some of the performance issues. I have reset the spotlight index and deleted the old files and restarted indexing. I am snooping the progress with this command: sudo opensnoop -n mdworker and then I can see that the indexing seems to halt on 0 169 mdworker 5 /.vol/16777218/695996
Is there a Services.msc or ntsysv utility for OSX? I just want to harden my OSX by disabling any unwanted service and it's ports.
I applied some edits to my photo using iOS 7's default photo editor: red eye correction, auto enhance, etc. It looks great when I preview the image on iPhone, but when I look at the image on my PC it looks the same as the original: all the edits are gone. I use the Dropbox app on iOS to sync my camera roll to my PC through the cloud. What do I need to do to push the edited photo to my PC?
I have a 2008 iMac in which the drive is failing. SMART status seems ok although AHT reported 4hdd/11/40000000 SATA (0,0) which is the code for disk failure AFAIK. Normal boot fails, Firewire target disk mode works, however after a certain amount of disk access the drive stops responding - for example in the middle of a large file transfer it never get beyond a certain point. After this folder listing stops working and all I can do is reboot the iMac.
Basically I would like to know if it is possible to remove all php, apache, homebrew, mac ports etc. installs back to native without doing a clean install of the OS?
Is there a way for me to use a virtual machine (VirtualBox) on my MacBook Air with encryption protection? I want to install a VM of Ubuntu, and if my employer calls back the hardware I don't want them to be able to access what's on there…
I am trying to print a PDF file generated with pdfLaTeX, but the OS X (10.8) CUPS always shifts and scales the content of the page, without me having any chance to change that behavior. To reproduce: Create PDF using pdfLaTeX pdflatex testpage Create PDF using pdfLaTeX Choose paper size and/or double sided Choose paper size and/or double sided Open document open testpage.pdf Open document
I use the following code to open my dropbox folder quickly using textexpander. Which works, but then I want to go deeper in my folders using this code. It does not work. It looks like Textexapnder does not recognize spaces in file paths.
Whenever I get a zip file as an attachment, I can't figure out where the file is actually stored. If I click the file, it is quickly unzipped but I can't for the life of me find where the unzipped file was placed. It's not in Documents, or Mail Downloads, or my Home directory, or anywhere else that I can find.
I'm looking for a notetaking app that is similar to Microsoft's OneNote. The main feature that I'm looking for is being able to tap/click anywhere on the document to add a text block, unlike most text editors. I'd like it to be more like handwritten notes, where you can write anywhere onscreen, rather than being forced to used tabs/spaces. I am also looking for a Mac/iOS syncing experience, but I'm open to almost any suggestions.
Is it possible to disable the timed auto lock on an iPhone when a particular app is running? I use my iPhone as a GPS and I have a dock that attaches it to my bike. When im using the GPS app id like the timed auto lock to be disabled.
I noticed some packages provided by homebrew-cask uses a url of the latest version and a version number of "latest" such as dropbox and chrome. Thus they will never be upgraded with brew upgrade. Is there any simple way to update such packages using homebrew-cask? And if I call brew cask install dropbox again, it shows there already exist some cache of old version, which I feel so dumb.
I just bought myself an iMac 27'' late 2012 model.  I am constantly getting beach balls and the computer slows to a crawl taking anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute to get back to regular speeds. My normal programs are: Rubymine Parallels Desktop Chrome Skype
I purchased a nice black Verizon iPhone 4 (CDMA) which has it's contract fulfilled. What steps do I go through to get it connected to Walmart's Straight Talk on the Verizon towers?
I purchased a second hand iMac with Mavericks Developer installed already, seen as I am not a developer and other things don't work, I purchased a copy of Mountain Lion but when tring to run the installer it gives me this message "alert mac os x 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer" I want to keep all user profiles and software intact so I don't want to wipe the hard drive (although many other posts say when you get that message wiping the hard drive still doesn't solve it) any ideas?
I want to be able to extract each sheet of a PDF into a separate PDF file. I have looked high and low, but it seems that there is no automated way to do this without reverting to Automator hacks (which I am open to if someone has an example of a really clean way to do this as a service and save the files to the source directory.) So, for instance: PDF File:[page 1, page 2, page 3] PDF File:[page 1], PDF File:[page 2], PDF File:[page 3]
I didn't have connectivity for a bit and the iTunes Radio tab in Music.app disappeared. I have connectivity now but it isn't back. When I try to browse to an iTunes Radio station through iTunes.app I get an error message. Any ideas?
When I put my MacBook Pro to sleep, it will immediately wake up again after ~5 seconds, then go to sleep again and keep on sleeping and waking. This happens no matter if I close the lid or use the  -> Sleep menu item.
However I was careless in my typing, and instead of choosing my USB to load the iso to, I chose a 10GB partition that I had set up long ago (i.e. of=/path/to/10GBPartition instead of of=/path/to/USB ). Tragically, I restarted my computer right as I realized what I had done.
Symptom: Upon waking up, sometimes the Mac jams all of my icons into one corner, and throws some windows almost completely off the screen or makes them really small. This happens frequently often on 2 systems, yet I haven't found many people asking about it online. Sometimes I haven't even unplugged the machine, it's just it sat for a few hours and decided to goto sleep.
I'm having 4 problems with O365 and Mac OS X Email, all related to display and status issues. To be clear, I'm using the built-in Mac Mail client, connecting to Office 365 as an Exchange server (vs. not using Microsoft Office email, nor O365 web interface) It's generally working, I get my company calendar events and contacts as well as email. The first 3 problems are fixed if I exit Mail and restart (not sure about the 4th)
Is it possible to convert a nsf archive (of Lotus Notes, containing my emails) to pst, a file that Outlook for Mac 2011 can read? I seem to find loads of tools for Windows, including SSDM from Dell. If somebody has done it already for Mac, kindly share the tip. Thank you
I need to troubleshoot problems with signed .mobileconfig profiles. How can I show the signature of a these files using Terminal? Is it also possible to verify the certificates that were used to sign the profile? Is there a way to output the XML content of these files without the signature?
I'm a software developer and my software is generating a lot of PDF reports which I know will consume a lot of space if downloaded. My clients use iPads. Is there a way they can view PDFs without having to store them permanently on the iPads (temporarily store them while viewing and auto-delete them when closed)?
Yesterday, someone stole my iPhone 4 (it was updated with iOS 7), but iCloud backup was not enabled. My iPhone was locked with a 4 digit passkey.
Since I updated OS X to 10.8.5 a week ago, I have issues signing in with Microsoft Lync: the program crashes every time. I never had issues before so I thought the latest OS update caused the issue, however all my colleagues can use Lync as before. I installed all Microsoft updates as well ... Lync returns the following error details Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0 Error Signature: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS Date/Time: 2013-10-22 09:06:43 +0000 Application Name: Microsoft Lync Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Lync Application Signature: UCCP Application Version: 14.0.0.110823 Crashed Module Name: libsystem_c.dylib Crashed Module Version: unknown Crashed Module Offset: 0x000026c0 Blame Module Name: Microsoft Lync Blame Module Version: 14.0.0.110823 Blame Module Offset: 0x01f098f7 Application LCID: 1031 Extra app info: Reg=English Loc=0x0407 Crashed thread: 0
Transmission has an option to run a shell script when a file finishes downloading. I'm wondering where to look for logs for it – it seems like it only executes half of my script but can't figure out where to look to figure out what's going wrong. I looked in the Console.app at all the different log files and haven't found anything related to Transmission. I understand it might not be a special app-specific place since it just executes a .sh file but I just wasn't able to find it.
When I try to open my iTunes on Windows 7 it opens in the Podcasts section and asks for a Userid/Pass for trancemix.org. This was a free Podcast I subscribed to last time I used iTunes. When I cancel the Login request my iTunes Hangs and I am forced to kill it. Is there a way via command line I can unsubscribe this Podcast Or any other way to get rid of this error. Thanks.
I've just bought a PS/2 to USB cable to use PS/2 PC keyboard (Compaq SK-2860 and Packard Bell 6301N) in my Mac (OS X 10.8.4) because my Mac's wireless keyboard doesn't work:  …but my Mac does not identify the keyboard. I've got this window:
I've upgraded Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion using the App Store. What's the legal status of my Snow Leopard copy?
How do you delete (not just hide) an app? The Facebook app is corrupted and is causing my phone to crash and restart. (4 times just yesterday!) I really don't want to have to restore my entire phone, losing everything on it. It would be much easier if I could delete the app and re-download a version that is not corrupted. In the past we could do this, but with this latest version of iTunes, I can't figure out how to!
I erased my MBP boot partition and reinstalled Mountain Lion. The Data partition remained same and is still fine. Now I want to get all my files/libraries/apps back from the External HDD backup. Migration asst doesn't see Partition 2 and only sees the boot partition.
In OS X 10.8.5 if I hide an app with ⌘ cmd+H, it does not show in Mission Control until it has been revealed again via the app switcher or dock. Is it possible to show windows for hidden apps in Mission Control?
I've got some Stickies windows open in two separate Spaces. If I hide Stickies in one space with ⌘ cmd+H, then move to the other space and reveal Stickies with the app switcher, it springs back to the previous space before showing the app. I don't want this behaviour - I have Stickies windows in both Spaces, so it should just reveal the app in the current Space.
I'm trying to find if some movies that I had on my iPhone 5 might be hidden away in a MobileSync backup. The weird part is that iTunes → Preferences → Devices doesn't show a backup for this device in February, but there's a folder in the MobileSync backup folder that shows a Feb 10, 2013 last modified date.
Since the iOS 7 update, when I receive calls, the person on the other cannot hear me, although I can still hear them. Also, when I try to give Siri a command, Siri cannot hear me. Has anyone else had that problem too?
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They both have an A7 processor, the new MIMO wifi, etc. What, if anything, are the technical or spec differences other than screen size?
I never bothered to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Currently I am on Lion. Can I upgrade straight to Mavericks, or do I need to first upgrade to Mountain Lion and then to Mavericks?
For the last few years Macs have not shipped with recovery media. Instead, you could boot into a mode where the Mac OS X installer is downloaded from the internet. With OS X Mavericks now a free update for ANY Mac that supports it, does the internet installer still install your original OS, or does it helpfully (or, perhaps, annoyingly) just install Mavericks?
What exactly is the difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards? I’m talking about the hardware keyboards specifically, not about keyboard layouts (in System Settings).
I'm downloading the update right now and I would like to know if any of my files or app gets deleted after this update... I'm sure many people here already installed the update so what can you say?
I have just installed Mac OS X Mavericks and have been familiarising myself with some of the new features. One of the touted features was the ability to tell you the "travel time" for any given appointment. However when adding a new event to my calendar, the travel time is just specified times that I set, it will not show me how long it will take via car for example. I have ensured that Calendars is allowed to use my current location, as well as Maps (which I believe is used to generate the time).
My iPad 4 gets quite hot whilst charging, even without a case. As I get this with every one of my iOS devices, as well as Macs, I always expect this from a device now. However, the iPad Air is much thinner than the previous iPad, and consequently has this had any impact on the temperature of the iPad Air whilst charging?
In the past two years, I have formatted my SSD many times and I started to wonder, is it bad? Does it harm your SSD every time you format?
I had several PDF files in iTunes that I had added authors to. Then I upgraded to Mavericks and launched iBooks. It moved my books and PDFs from iTunes, but many of my PDFs now show the author as "Unknown Author".
I have three Macs I want to upgrade to Mavericks. Is there a way of re-using the install files, so I don't have to do three separate 5gb downloads?
I understood that every display would behave independently on OS X Mavericks, and that it would get its own bar (top of the screen) and dock. However, the dock shows only on the main screen, and not on the other screen, is it normal?
running a late 2009 (5,5) Macbook Pro. I am currently unable to boot from liveUSB disks, but would really like to. I know that newer macs can do this (Macbook Air, new MBPs), but is it a hardware or a software thing? If I update to Mavericks, would I be able to do this on my machine?
I have a web application that uses the browser's default monospace font. It's set up that way so that the user can pick their own. In Chrome, this works well, as it's easy to set the default fonts, but in Safari, they removed the option. Is there some way for users to set default fonts in Safari?
I will setup a USB key to install Mavericks. I would like to know the needed size of the partition to install Mavericks.
I could probably copy the contents from the package, but what is the best way to create an install Flash Drive for Mavericks? Of course ideally the drive should be bootable.
I removed Enthought Canopy from my Mac and now when I start terminal there's this warning message says of course they don't exist because I deleted the program. How do I remove the message?
after osx mavericks update i lost all my files and apps from osx lion, is there any way to get it back ? everything was deleted what was on destop in osx lion, apps, pictures and etc.
I have a field that contains email addresses, I want to use regex to strip everything before the @ symbol to give me just the domain e.g. How can I do this will a simple function?
Is there a way to change text or data on a powerpoint grid while in the presentation mode. I want to be projecting and changing text on my laptop at the same time. Is this possible
I have an sd converter for my iPad but can't find anything like it for my phone? Plan on using it to view shots from a trailcam while in the woods
I've noticed that I have just over 20GB worth of archived messages on my SSD eating valuable space. I suspect it is the attachments that is taking the majority of it. Is there a way to stop archiving the attachments while retaining the messages? or if not how can I stop archiving the messages as a whole?
According to the Gmail web interface, I have 319 messages in my inbox, 51 of them unread. According to Apple Mail earlier this afternoon, back when I was running Mountain Lion, the same was true.
I just upgraded to OSX 10.9, and when trying to establish an SSH connection with public key authentication, a prompt appears asking for my SSH key password. I initially thought that the upgrade caused the keychain to forget some passwords, so I re-entered mine. Apparently, that wasn't the cause, because the prompt kept reappearing. I first though that I may be using the wrong password, but while the following command:
Trying to move some of my scripts over from labels to tags under Mavericks, but I can't seem to find a way to set/add tags with Applescript. Anybody that know how to do this? As far as I can figure tags aren't actually new, just new in terms of being a more central part of the updated Finder.
I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9 (Yay!), and I've been playing with Tags. After I installed it on a second machine, though, I noticed that all my tags were synced across (just the list of tags, not the actual documents).
Whenever I want to change text styling in iBooks the app becomes unresponsive. I kill it in the terminal (killall iBooks), and then the system reports that CoreText.FontDownloadHelper has crashed. My current theory is that if I'm to sort out CoreText.FontDownloadHelper, then the crash in iBooks won't occur any more. Am I right? Here's the crash report, with the UUID removed.
In the past Python 2.6 was included with OS X 10.8. What version or versions come with 10.9 Mavericks?
How does Maps on Mac OS finds the computer's location so precisely?  There is no GPS chip on the Mac, so how does it really work? Can someone provide details about the process used by the Mac OS location services? Ideally some logs or dumps of communication data between the mac and the servers would be great.
I have the setting "open folders in new tabs" (instead of new windows) in finder turned on but this does not seem to influence what my other apps do when they open a folder. Launchbar and a shell script I run from emacs still opens folders in small finder windows. How can I make folders opened from external apps all appear in one tabbed finder window?
I'm trying to install Mavricks and it's not working. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBExs0UcJ_0&feature=youtu.be
Can I update the apps from iWork '09 installed from the DVD to the new versions in the App Store?
When I click or double click on any message in the messages list on any account in Mail in Mavericks (10.9), Mail crashes immediately with the error What can I do to prevent this crash? I can't read any of my mail!
In Lion and Mountain Lion Mail, the "Mailbox List" included an entry for flagged messages, with an sub-entry for each kind of flag. This appears to have been removed in Mavericks Mail. Is there a (perhaps hidden) setting to restore this, or is it gone; and if so, how can I get a list of my flagged messages (of each kind). I've tried creating a "Smart Mailbox", but that doesn't seem to work.
Unlike previous versions of Calendar, Mavericks Calendar uses a color to indicate the current day. This color clashes with many of the colors I've been using for years for various calendars (and is even the same as one I use for one of my calendars), which makes the appointments for the current day almost unreadable. Is there a way to restore the neutral, light gray used to indicate the current day used in earlier versions of Calendar?
I have saved pictures in my MacBook Air on a Guest Account. I am trying to locate my pictures in guest account but am unable to find it. How can I retrieve these?
Will Pages/Keynote/Numbers (ex. iWork) be free for old macs?
In Mountain Lion I was able to permanently disable Notification Center, with no apparent side effects: However, the Mavericks upgrade process restored Notification Center in all its irritating glory. Is there are reason that the upgrade reverted my disabling of Notification Center? Can I disable Notification Center in Mavericks using the same procedure, without side effects?
Do the late 2013 models (13" - (ME864LL/A, ME865LL/A, ME866LL/A), 15" - (ME293LL/A, ME294LL/A)) support after market SSD upgrades? If so, is a drive that works with the late 2012/ early 2013 rMBPs compatible with the late 2013 models? Although not officially supported - A couple sources (EveryMac, OWC) indicate the late 2012/ early 2013 rMBPs support after market SSD upgrades. [Update] ifixit posted a teardown here indicating in step 8 that:
When I try to open Calendar I'm told "You can't use this version of the application 'Calendar' with this version of OS X. You have Calendar 6.0."
Does Mavericks add support for MTP devices e.g. Android/Windows Phone? I cannot find any mention of it.
I really don't want to download 5.5 gigs on every Mac in my house - how can I recover and reuse the Maverick's download from one Mac to another?
Has anyone else noticed their 1 finger back/forward gestures no longer working in Chrome? I have tried the gestures on other applications such as Safari and Mission Control, they are all still intact.
I am using Parallels 7. And I was not going to upgrade to Mavericks because I don't have any money now :(
I thought Mavericks was suppose to utilize RAM memory better, thus run smoother. Running ML on Mac mini 2012, with 16GB RAM...always running smoothly even with over a dozen apps running.
New with 10.9 is the ability to easily create a bootable drive from the installer that is downloaded from the App Store, with a single command createinstallmedia in the Terminal. This link at MacWorld has details. I encountered a problem with this, with an Error -9999 when trying to erase the USB drive I had inserted.
I have Nginx installed; compiled via MacPorts, and configured to launch on start-up. When I go to the Disk tab of Activity Monitor after installing Mavericks, the nginx process(es) is listed with a kind of "Zombie," or sometimes "64 bit, Zombie." What does this mean?
According to press reports, Apple promised that the new iBooks app for OSX Mavericks would include an option to read books in continuous scrolling mode. Did this come to pass, and if so, how does one enable this?
Prior to upgrading to Mavericks, when I chose to lock my MacBook Pro's screen, it would do so with my screen saver options (rotate through images in a folder, and show a clock). However, when I go to lock my screen now, it's simply a black screen. Is there a way to make Mavericks use my screen saver settings when I choose to lock my screen as with older versions of OS X?
Does the new iBooks app for OS X Mavericks sync notes, bookmarks, read position, etc. using one's iCloud account, or one's iTunes Store account? In other words, if two people use separate Apple IDs for their iCloud accounts, but use the same Apple ID for the iTunes Store to share purchases, will their read positions and notes remain distinct or conflict with each other?
When I press a power button on my Mac mini, it goes to sleep mode and when I press it again, it turns on very quickly. However, after a longer sleep, it hibernates. How can I make this delay longer?
In previous versions of OS X, I could drag an application or any file onto the Finder toolbar, creating a persistent shortcut that works in all Finder windows. It's no longer working in Mavericks.
I recently reinstalled my computer because I got a new hard drive. After the reinstallation my Safari started to act weird. It replaces some text with an A in a box, please see images below.
MacPorts is complaining about missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks gnutar is indeed not there anymore. As suggested here I tried to change the tar command in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf: with no effect.
I'm trying to produce an effect like shown on Apple's iOS7 website. First you see an image which actually consist of different layers. Then I want to animate the image to turn by 45 degrees and separate the layers so that they become visible like in the image below. Is this possible in Keynote or do I have to use a more advanced program for 3D animation?
Although the GM should be identical to the final version, I am concerned about not being able to log into my computer in the future because of an expired developer/trial period. The App Store normally shows a disabled button for installed apps which also will get future upgrades. However Mavericks shows with the "Download" button. Should I go through a Mavericks reinstall?
I found instructions about MacBook battery care, but it made me confused. I received my MacBook Pro yesterday. After unboxing, I used it for some time and then I fully charged the battery. I will be using this laptop as my primary device.
I'm trying to add a printer to CustomPapers' .plist using this terminal command: Please can someone suggest where I've gone wrong with this and if a dictionary item exists with the key "165x165" that it should not add the item.
For the last couple of releases of OS X, there have been some parts of the OS and the utilities that have been simplified or removed compared to the previous release. Especially as seem from a power users point-of-view. Two examples from past releases are the scaled down AirPort Utility (version 6.0) and the limitations in "Sharing" System Preference panel that used to be able to manage FTP servers - both changes have been rather annoying in my book! So, before I "upgrade" to Mavericks, I would like to know if there are anything specific that will be "downgraded" in the same process.
I have a spreadsheet in the newest iWork Numbers.app, with something like: I want to just sum up all the Category = HW into a cell: I'm not sure how. I think I need to use the SUMIF() function but I get stuck afterwards.
In Mountain Lion, I frequently used a simple automator app called "Purge Memory" which just ran "purge" in the command line. I really enjoyed cleaning the RAM, especially when buggy apps ran memory leaks.
I’ve just upgraded to OS X Mavericks (Build 13A603) and discovered a truncated label in General Preferences. You can see the that the Recent Items can’t be read at all.
Is there any particular reason(s) why people shouldn't upgrade to OS X Mavericks straight away from Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard, rather than waiting say a period of 2 months eg for reasons of bugs etc (which maybe fixed in this time) ? Edit: I am looking for legitimate reasons only (obviously).
I installed the new OS X Mavericks and new Xcode on the "mid 2011" Macbook air. I run the code from this question, trying to test if the GPU supports OpenCL. But It seems to behave the same it behaved on Mountain Lion. It seems Mavericks doesn't support OpenCL yet.
Just installed mavericks, erasing the hard drive and installing it as brand new; then I wanted to restore my backup from Time machine (as I always did) but an error screen appears, saying "impossible to open every backup". I'm kinda scared, I don't have other backups and I always considered time machine on Time capsule as reliable. What can I do? I tried both from the startup of the new os and inside Mavericks, from migration assistan.. please help!! I have my whole iphoto library on it..
I have a "vintage" iMac with the spec below:  This is going to sound like a real beginners question but can I up the RAM anymore? At the time, I upped it to as far as I could but could I put say 2 4gb RAM in?
I usually check the Hard Drive capacity in the Activity Monitor. But when I checked it, it literally looked different. I selected each tabs, trying to find the information about my disk but to no avail. How can I find the disk occupied in my hard drive?
I just updated to Mavericks and noticed that the Skype icon in my dock is a deeper blue than it was before, and it looks like there's more contrast in general. Did the new version of OS X modify the color profiles?
After upgrading to Mavericks all of my books from iTunes have been migrated to iBooks. They are no longer in my media library and I haven't been able to locate them as of yet. So where does iBooks store your books now?
I installed Emacs.app with Homebrew, and used brew linkapps to create an alias in my /Applications directory. Since I updated to OS X Mavericks yesterday, Spotlight and Alfred can no longer see this alias. Since discovering the problem, I've tried reindexing my MacBook as described here, as well as reinstalling Emacs and restarting the machine. Any other suggestions?
I have an iMac that sounds as though the hard drive is about to fail. It has the following spec:
How to use plain text smileys (disable automatic emoji substitution) in Messages.app? In OS X 10.8 there was a setting for this in the app’s Preferences pane, but in OS X 10.9 that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Is it possible to tag a symlink using the new OS X Mavericks tagging functionality (old labels functionality)? When I select a symlink in Finder, File => Tags... option is grayed-out. Is it possible somehow through Terminal?
I have a "vintage" iMac with the following spec:  I've been told by an official Apple store that they won't touch it and neither will any Apple resellers so it's left me with two options: Buy a new iMac! Fix it myself!
Long story short, my question is - is there a known quality issue using Airplay from a MacBook? And is there a way to improve quality? Details
One feature/change per post. Please search the current answers before listing yours. If it's difficult to explain with words, please use pictures. Changes that can increase productivity of the user, consumption of media are likely to attract more votes. The change could have been made in any current revision of iOS7, but has to still be available in iOS7.0.3.
I want people to keep an eye on a script running in terminal whilst I'm away from my desk, but I don't trust them access to my machine. Is there a way to show the terminal console as a screensaver, thus making it read-only and require login if they touch keyboard/mouse etc.
I always have a lot of applications open at the same time. In order to quickly switch between them, I use CMD+Tab shortcut. In order to switch even faster, I sometimes use CMD+Tab and then select the app I want with my mouse pointer and have a gesture to open Application Switcher with my Trackpad.
I used to be able to color code each folder in Finder. I know I can use tags in Mavericks, but is there a way to restore the ability to actually color code folders? Thanks.
For those Mac owners still on OS X Snow Leopard, does the possibility exist to upgrade to OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion rather than to 10.9 Mavericks?
I own Adobe CS4, which works perfectly with Mountain Lion. I would like to upgrade to Mavericks, but I'm not sure if CS4 is still supported. Thus my question: Which versions of Adobe Creative Suite will work with Mavericks?
The shortcut control-command-space in Mavericks opens a panel with Emojis. I'd like to use it for another application (Divvy), but it complains that it is already used by a system-wide keyboard shortcut. But as far as I can see there is no way to disable it in the system settings. Does anyone know of an alternative method to disable it?
I wonder how can I know which is the disk's manufacturer for my Macbook Air. Is there a way to know whether the disk is one of those faulty SSD disk that Apple has recalled.
I had to make a new email address for my new Apple ID since I forgot my previous Apple ID password and couldn't receive a verification email. Now that I have my new Apple ID and password, my iPhone 4s still shows my old Apple ID. How can I change it so that my new Apple ID shows when I wish to download anything?
A few years back I had to send a Powerbook to Apple for hardware repairs (the optical disc stopped working and had to be replaced.) I had FileVault enabled, and the tech at the time told me I'd have to disable that encryption in order for them to implement the repairs. So for privacy I just re-formatted the entire OS (having a backup, of course) before handing it off. Is it still the case that Apple requires FileVault(2) to be turned off before they will repair a Macbook?
I had synchronized my personal Facebook account on OS X Mountain Lion in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars through the Facebook tab. I removed it and synchronized my official account on it, but I'm still getting notifications for the personal account. How do I remove the personal account details permanently and stop the notifications? Update I have upgraded my Mac to OS X Mavericks 10.9, but the problem exists on the upgraded OS X version too. Edit
If I drag a window in between two screens, half the window disappears. Is there a flag I can set from the command line or pref option somewhere to disable this? My chrome window below is in the middle of my two monitors with the left half hidden.
Ever since my upgrade to Mavericks my sent mail folder has not logged any of the messages I have sent. Any idea how to get it to refresh and find the messages I have sent?
Mavericks shows the menu bar in both monitors when you have two. That's great, but the menu bar in the passive desktop turns translucent, which is a bit annoying. Is there a way to keep both menu bars opaque at all times? Setting the menu bar opaque in the desktop settings affects only the active monitor.
I want to use line art in my Keynote presentations. SVG is the Scalable Vector Graphics format, used natively by Inkscape. Is there any way to use an SVG in Keynote, or do I need to convert to a PDF?
I haven't found any way for syncing my Outlook mails via iTunes with USB cable to my iPad 2. Do you know any method or program for syncing your mails to read them later on the iPad without an Internet connection?
I have a fairly old (I am not sure when it was bought) iMac 5,1 running OS X 10.6.8, but I just saw the free upgrade to Mavericks. It looks tempting, but I'd rather first know if my computer can handle this OS before I try to install it. Processor: 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (I guess that covers the most relevant hardware, if something else is important I'll add it.)
I have been experiencing a lot of problems with my Macbook Pro slowing down and crawling through small tasks like getting mail and opening Launchpad. I have 8 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 memory and a 2.2 GHz Quad-Core i7, so this seems very odd. I downloaded the Intel® Power Gadget before upgrading to Mavericks and it was showing 1.0 GHz for my CPU, even while playing Diablo 3 and running Netflix. I booted up into the Mavericks GM seed and it easily moved up to 3.4 GHz with the same apps running. I figured that upgrading to Mavericks on my main partition would solve this, but I am now stuck at 0.8 GHz.
I have been told that the only way to connect more than one external display to a MacBook Air was to buy Apple's Thunderbolt monitor and daisy chain. Mavericks promises better support for external displays. Is it now possible to run two non-Thunderbolt monitors from a mid-2013 MacBook Air or is this still impossible?
New in OS X Mavericks, when using the famous dock on the left or right site: It has a white background now. It makes it hard to see the icons and the design is awful.
I have a hotkey on my mouse that opens Safari, and since Mavericks, it'll open it in whichever monitor currently has focus (or the non-greyed-out menu bar). I want it to always open in the same spot on one display, like it did with Mountain Lion. Is there a way I can have that happen?
I upgraded to OS X 10.9 yesterday, and since then, one Google Chrome Helper is constantly red in Activity Monitor. I checked the PID (375) in Google Chrome's own task manager, and it is GPU Process. I don't think it is used often, but I also fail to see why it is constantly non-responsive.
On Mavericks, how can I change the language of text in the new version of Pages? They seem to have removed such an option.
After upgrading to Mavericks, I see that the Mail app has been upgraded to version 7.0, and that the setting for "Check for new messages" has been changed from my previous setting (every minute) to a new "Automatically" option. According to the help screen, this means that "Mail varies how often it gets messages, based on whether your Mac is plugged into an electrical outlet". My Mac is plugged in, and I've been keeping an eye on the Activity window, and I've seen intervals of 20 minutes, 7 minutes and 9 minutes between checking for mail. It is, of course, possible that I missed an update - I haven't been obsessively staring the Activity window.
I've been using this script (AppleScript) bound to a global hot key as an Automator Service to open new terminals using a global keyboard shortcut. After upgrade to OS X Mavericks when the corresponding service is triggered from literally any application, a new dialog box popus up saying that "(Application name)" would like to control this computer using accessibility features. And of course script fails to execute triggered from any application which has not been explicitly given permission via System Preferences. Is there some way to globally allow accessibility control to any application running on my computer in OS X Mavericks, as it used to be in previous OS X releases? The example script above was not the only script I had on global shortcuts, and whitelisting all installed applications is extremely painful, especially considering that an app may be whitelisted only after a failed "control" attempt...
My university has two WPA2 Enterprise networks, neither of which appear in the WiFi menu in Mavericks, but they do appear on my iPhone which is next to my MacBook. At the moment, I have to manually enter the SSID and then it finds it. Is there a way to have it show in the list along with the other networks?
I am building a script that saves many consecutive screenshots. I would like to save the files in the ISO 8601 date format.
Can I download OS X Mavericks not from App Store? Considering that my internet speed is very slow, so I prefer to download the OS from my other laptop, rather than leaving the download from Mac App Store in my MacBook.
Since the update to the iWork app suite, it appears that it is no longer possible to customise the toolbar with option from the right-click menu. All you can do is hide the text, or hide the entire toolbar:
I received my Macbook Pro yesterday. I would like to know what is the normal temperature of a Macbook Pro. Here is mine
In previous OS versions one could set the system-wide PATH environment variable in /etc/launchd.conf to make it available for all apps (not just the command line). In Mavericks this appears to be no longer used. Is there another technique for doing this in mavericks?
Pages correctly shows my iCloud documents on iPhone, but not on iPad. The main page is enpty and I can only create new documents. I've tried to reinstall the app, deactivate the iCloud Pages settings in the preferences, both in the iCloud menu, and specific Pages app (Use iCloud)
I've initiated OS X Mavericks download from the App Store. Upon either re-login or restart, the OS X Mavericks icon in the dock shows that it's paused. Clicking Resume from the context menu doesn't do anything.
I use ssh on my machine, and have set up a long not-human-friendly passphrase which is saved in my password manager. What makes me crazy every time is that I cannot paste into the window pictured below. I know the Remember password in my keychain option and use it. Sometimes I have to enter a new one though. Why can't I paste into a password field? Same thing for the dialog which pops up when plugging in encrypted disks. I found out how i can circumvent the dialog: just use ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa, and then I can paste the passphrase into the terminal.
What is the equivalent software for Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost on a Mac? I really need to know the equivalent software at the two levels: Disk imaging that allows one to restore the entire bootable system, along with the applications quickly. Disk imaging that allows one to restore the entire bootable system, along with the applications quickly.
Before OS X 10.7, you can navigate to the parent directory in Finder using Go to (Shift+Command+G) to the special directory ... However, since Lion Finder is no longer able to do this and gives he error message The folder can't be found. Is there a way to enable Finder to do so?
Is there an aftermarket or home-brew solution for extending the 2nd internal SATA port in a Late 2012 Mac Mini (not earlier or later versions!) to the outside of the case, i.e. turning it into an eSATA port, with or without permanent modifications.
I have a number of bash functions I run at the beginning of each day to start work. They all look pretty much like this:
With the new mac os maverick I'm able to add custom tag to almost every files. I'm sadly unable to create those tags inside Mail. Did I missed a checkbox or a feature. I'm talking here about color flags.
Is there an efficient, quick way to check whether an OS X App is compatible with 10.9 Mavericks (rather than tediously going to each application developer's website) ?
With the launch of the new tagging system in OS X Mavericks, the ability to color the actual folder line in the finder appears to be gone. Is there anyway to bring this back??
Just updated to Mavericks. Has anyone else a scrolling issue in Mavericks? I used to be able to pan across a page that's zoomed in with two fingers scrolling, but now this same move turns pages, which I can do using keyboard shortcuts more efficiently.
In OS X Mavericks how do I drag a window to another space? I was able to do this in Mountain Lion.
I have a MacBook with Cinema Display, I have my dock on the MacBook screen side and my menubar is set to Cinema Display. In 10.8 this worked well, when I pressed cmd-tab to switch apps the task switcher would come up on the "main" Cinema Display.
Since installing OS X 10.9, I periodically get a message that I believe the source is SuperDuper! (2.7.1), but am unsure what it is asking for, whether to allow it, and what the consequences of denying would be.
Today my Mac wanted me to upgrade it to Mavericks. I'm hesitating because it is a bit old (Mid 2009 MacBook Pro) and I don't want things to run slow. I'm currently using 10.8.5 and it is OK. I have a Core 2 duo (2.53 GHz) with 4 GB of RAM.
Safari for Mavericks has a website notifications feature allowing sites to send push notifications. I never want to be prompted for this. How can I disable the prompt for all websites, forever?
I've got an admin user phil with password orange, and the root user is enabled with password banana: If I type sudo ls, and enter the password orange, I get Sorry, try again. If I type sudo ls, and enter the password banana, it works. If I disable the root user, sudo doesn't accept either password. What the heck is going on?
Here is what I am attempting to do: I have a folder which contains a script and a file. The file is an older copy of a file located in this path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A. I am attempting to create an AppleScript that will activate Finder, open the aforementioned path, check if the file in question exists, rename that file to .new if it does, then move the older version from the folder containing the script. Alternatively, if the AppleScript is run when the .new version of the file exists at the aforementioned path, I would like for the script to rename the older version of the file (which was previously copied) to .old and remove the .new from the original file (i.e., essentially reverse what it did previously, but without removing the file which was added). No matter what I've tried, I've been, thus far, unable to get the script to authenticate properly to rename the file (the folder in question, obviously, requires administrator approval befo
How to run old AirPort Utils 5.x on MacOS X maverics ? Because the new one is really ugly.
How many monitors can be hooked up to a Mac Mini? I've only ever hooked a Mac Mini up to 2 monitors, but I'm interested in going up to at least 4. Is this even possible? According to Apple's Mac Mini feature description page: You can daisy-chain up to six peripherals to a single Thunderbolt 2 port. Does this mean that more than 2 monitors is possible?
When booting opensuse via rEFInd, the kernel options are wrong (the root device name is incorrect). Where do the kernel arguments that rEFInd is using come from, and how do I modify them? The line I'm looking for is of the form The root argument should be
Is possible to set auto refresh for the Shared Links sidebar in the new Safari 7. There's in "View" menu > Refresh Shared Links, but this doesn't have a shortcut to refresh. So either a way to have the list auto-refresh or assigning a shortcut would help.
My question is similar to Re-use Mavericks install file, but instead of re-using the Mavericks install file on my own Macs, I would like to make a copy for a friend (so he doesn't have to download such a huge file over his slow connection). Is this legal? A side thought; Does this question even make sense if the binarys have the same checksum? A side thought; Does this question even make sense if the binarys have the same checksum?
I was stunned to discover that Mac OS X kernel can consume 750MB of RAM. A few related questions: Is it a problem if kernel_task is routinely above 130MB on mid 2007 white MacBook? kernel_task using way too much memory How much RAM does the kernel use? clarified the issue a little bit, but one question remains: the claim that video memory for onboard integrated graphics is marked as used by kernel as well.
I just upgraded my system from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. When my system restarted, the Setup Assistant ran.
I am trying to install Mavericks on my 2009 Macbook Pro running OS 10.7.5. When I click on Install App in the App Store, Mavericks doesn't install. Either nothing happens, or a spinner briefly appears at the top and then disappears.
I'm unable to get Powerline fonts working in Vim (homebrew) on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. My Vim config is available at *=URL=* From 10.8.x to 10.9 I've imported the same Powerline font files from 10.8. Assistance appreciated. Screenshots below: let g:Powerline_symbols = 'fancy' let g:Powerline_symbols = 'unicode'
After updating my iPhone 5 to iOS 7 the weather app that comes on the phone has changed all my suburbs to Sydney. I live in Mona Vale and also had Warriewood in there and Palm Beach but they all say Sydney. Any ideas why? I also cannot add them as they are not in the list of places even when I add by postcode they all come up as Sydney.
There is a keyboard shortcut to open up spaces ctrl + up and you can press alt to see the new space +. Is there anyway to create a new space with a keyboard command?
I have updated my (Late 2009) Mac Mini to Mavericks. "About This Mac" shows "OS X 10.9 (13A603).
Mavericks install worked at first. I was able to enjoy Finder tabs and such. I updated Tuxera for Mac to 2013 and rebooted, then I was stuck at an endless spinner. I tried disk repair, safe mode, same problem.
I'm a fan of the Mavericks dock style that's applied when the dock is positioned on the side of the screen. I'm also a fan of having my dock on the bottom of the screen. Can I have both?
I'm looking for a simple app that will just let me load tracks from my music library, chop some clips out of them, and assign those clips to a trigger pad. So then I can create "mashups" by holding down different combinations of trigger pads. Any possibilities?
I have been trying to use Hackboot to install OSX Mavericks in VirtualBox, and using an ISO image created by following the steps at How to create bootable ISO for OS X Mavericks The steps I have taken: Attach HackBoot1.iso, disable EFI for the VirtualBox guest and boot up
In Numbers, how can I get the spreadsheet to remain stationary on the page? I have tried to double tap thinking that would display and anchor the sheet but it doesn't work.
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro (late 2011, core i5 2.4ghz, 8 gigs of ram) to OSX 10.9 from 10.8 (which in turn I upgraded from Lion). The installation seemed to go well and everything was great until the OS booted up. Every time the OS boots up (doesn't matter if I log in with my user or not) it restarts itself after a random amount of minute (5 minutes avg.). Steps taken: Reset SMC Reset SMC Reset NVRAM Reset NVRAM Permissions fix in disk utility Permissions fix in disk utility Remove login items Remove login items Clean caches Clean caches
When I was loading the new iOS 7 to my iPhone, it glitched during the process. I had tapped the screen several times and I sat and watched it catch up, shake, confirm and deleted my iTunes app.
I got my MBP yesterday. It's almost new. Before using it, I want to know should I normal upgrade to Mavericks or perform a clean install? Which one will be better for me? I have several applications installed on it. Should it be removed after upgrading?
I work in an Apple-only office environment with ~40 Macs. Is it possible for me to download an OS X 10.9 redistributable so that we're not downloading 5+ GB continually over our ADSL link ? Thanks!
After I updated to Mavericks, the font smoothing is terrible, tried playing with the setting in system preferences (didn't restart yet) and nothing changed. I have a 15 inch early 2011 Macbook Pro with high resolution anti-glare screen (not retina) Here's a sample: Here's Finder menu bar in Mountain Lion
I have recently had my iPhone 5 replaced at the apple store due to an antenna failure. At the time it was running iOS 7 and upon handing it over to receive the new one, iCloud was disabled and the phone was then erased and restored. Now when I updated to Mavericks, the maps app now displays the old iPhone and the new one.
Does anyone realise a delay after unlocking the iPhone screen on iOS7 ? You cannot swipe left or right until the animation finishes at 100%, rendering the phone unresponsive till then. This is kind of annoying, albeit a small issue, but it affects the whole snappy experience I'm having with iOS7.
I uninstalled/removed apps I used to purchase using a family member's Apple ID; then I re-purchased apps using my own Apple ID. Is there a way for me to check whether the apps are now under my Apple ID? I would like to ensure.
This is an overflow problem. Like in this picture, there is two scrollbars, you need a horizontal + vertical scrolling ? Is there a way to fix that ? EDIT : I found a tip by using 'sort by name'.
I have upgraded a Snow Leopard system to Mavericks. I expected to see the LaunchPad icon (spaceship icon used to launch installed apps) on the Dock, but it is not there.
The iMac 27" late 2013 (Haswell processor) has 2 IO Thunderbolt ports. Is it possible to run two 2560x1440 displays at full resolution (Thunderbolt or via Dual DVI adapter) on the side of it's main display? As far as I know, the previous iMac could handle them with no problems and MacBook Pro Retina can handle them as well.
Updated to Mavericks yesterday, pretty happy with the speed boost it brought, but I've run into one problem: Whenever I'm running a full-screen app, for example mail, and I want my dock to show, I really have to pull the mouse down. Just "throwing" it down to the bottom of the screen with a one-finger swipe no longer does the trick; I have to keep my finger on the trackpad to get the dock to show. I asked a colleague and he noticed the same thing, only in a full-screen app, is there a way to turn this "feature" off, or is this a bug?
In Mavericks, the finder item selection looks like this:  This looks very bad (hopefully just a temporary bug and not an actual design decision) and is inconsistent with the otherwise rectangular item layout and organization. Is there any way to revert to how it looked in Mountain Lion and previous versions (sample below):
I have a two display setup arranged as shown in figure. I can see the dock only on my primary display and only when the application it hosts is not in fullscreen mode. My dock is configured to appear only when I move the pointer to the bottom of the screen.
I have two versions of Xcode, one is the latest Xcode 5 and the old 4.6.3. The second one is just a copy of the first one, just before the App Store update. But after the update, App Store keeps telling me to upgrade Xcode again.
My problem is this. When i load the script manually:
In 10.9 Mavericks the default for the Finder is to now open the selected folder in the same window instead of a new tab or window. How do I go back to the old behavior where a new window (or tab) is opened for each folder?
I usually export images through gimp. This time, I was on my new OS X Mavericks, as I tried to change the name of the image which was "LOST", was not working. I observed the toolbox going to another tool as I typed the letters. I knew that I was pressing a shortcut but when I tried to press another letter like "y", the letter showed at the name of the image. How am I suppose to name the image when I export it?
I just updates to OS X Mavericks on my iMac 27" late 2012 with an additional monitor. In previous versions of OS X it was no problem to have one window visible across both monitors, which is very helpful if you work on big spreadsheets. But since the update to Mavericks this seems to be impossible. If I put a window so that parts of it are on monitor 1 and the rest on monitor 2, then only that part is visible that is located on that monitor where the mouse pointer was when i released it after dragging the window. The part covering parts of the other monitor are not displayed after end of dragging.
Does anyone know how to make new tags with custom colours? It is clear how to change colours to a predefined set of available colours, but I have no idea how to change to a custom colour. (With the colour picker? Changing templates?)
Let's say I want to perform a Mavericks clean install like described in this tutorial. But what I also want to do is to keep all my older apps (especially ones not installed from the AppStore and all their data). I have OS X 10.9 developer preview. Is it possible to do a Time Machine backup, then perform clean install and then restore the data?
After upgrading to 10.9 and Safari 7.0, I can no longer load *=URL=* in Safari. Yes, my site still loads perfect when I load it in Chrome and Firefox, so this is something new in Safari.
I have just upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and then I got the problem which cannot connect to App Store even though I was trying to sign in from Menu/Store/Sign In
The fact that each monitor acts on its own in OS X Mavericks is pretty cool. However, I find that I have to use my mouse and click on the unfocused monitor before I can actually slide back and forth its screens (or spaces). What's the keyboard shortcut to switch focus to another monitor? update: follow up question
I have OSX Lion 10.7.5 and am trying to download the new OSX Mavericks. There is free upgrade option in the Mac App store, which I click and it starts downloading on the launchpad. But when first when I went to the Purchases section of the App store, the button against the OSX Mavericks said Download. When I click on it, nothing happened. In the launchpad it just keeps saying Downloading without much progress. Any idea as to what could be the issue?
I've 2 certificates, one for user authentication and another for machine authentication. My user authentication includes certificate and private key based on which I've generated pkcs12 file using the following command: as suggested here: How can I add a private key to my keychain?
My Thunderbolt display was working flawlessly until I upgraded my 2011 17" MBP to OS X 10.9. Now, when the MBP goes to sleep the display will not wake, the MBP wakes fine. The USB drive plugged into the back of the display is disconnected as well. I have to unplug the thunderbolt cable and plug it back in.
We have changed our Apple ID several times and now we want to start using iCloud. The account ID is under an old Email account. How do I change to our new Apple ID Email account?
Is it possible to control Notification Center synch timing or manually refresh to check for new events? I like to disable all app badges and alerts so that nothing disturbs me while working. However I like to use Notification Center to get an overview of recent app activity when taking a break. So under System Prefs → Notifications for the various apps I have everything deselected apart from Show in Notification Center → X Recent Items. Alert style is set to none.
I'd like to update to Mavericks on my "mid 2012" MBP, but am worried about my monitor setup. I have two Samsung S22C300 Monitors attached to my computer, one via a thunderbolt to HDMI adapter, and the other through a Cable Matters USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter which has drivers only updated to Snow Leopard, but they work ok on Mountain Lion (with a little monitor lag, but I've gotten used to that).
I was able to read and write NTFS filesystems normally in Mountain Lion, but after the upgrade this stopped to work. I installed ntfs-3g and fuse4x using homebrew in Mountain Lion and followed the instructions displayed by homebrew to finish the installation of fuse4x kernel extension.
I am running on OS X Mavericks GM and now that Mavericks has finally released, I downloaded it from App Store. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it so I followed This Tutorial but when I tried to run the command for copying the files from .app to USB I got the following error What can I do to resolve this issue? EDIT Using DiskMaker X I got the same error
Is it a reasonable ask to have my local hardware store pre image Mavericks onto the new 2.5 laptop SSD, or does OS X have a bunch of setup configs it has to run? I intend to do the hardware install myself.
My desktop wallpaper, the desktop icons - the file preview icon goes away, my default sound device, all get reset back to the default after a restart. I removed the com.apple.desktop.plist from the Library folder, but it still reset. How can I fix this?
I would like to have a safe "Linux-like start/boot from DVD or USB stick" environment. How to do such security thing for the latest OS X (10.9 Mavericks)?
I'm trying to read the epub files that I bought from gumroad, and I cannot figure out how to transfer it to my iPhone 5s.
When I used previous versions of Numbers to work with files containing a lot of large formulas, the performance of many actions were slow, including scrolling. Can you comment how about the latest software update from Apple?
If I listened to a song on my iPhone does it update the value on my macbook's iTunes ? And vice versa ?
My company uses Microsoft Exchange server for email and calendar items. How can I get that onto Calendar in the new Mavericks OS?
I got these ugly controls in Mountain Lion when I bought my MacBook Pro with Retina display. After upgrading to Mavericks the problems still persist.
It appears Apple has changed the QuickTime player in Mavericks. You can no longer extract music from a video. Previously you could run a video and when you saved, it gave you an option for audio only. This seems to have disappeared. Anyone have a solution?
I just switched over to the new Gmail inbox with the smartlabel filters. Now whenever a social, promotions, updates or forums email comes in I get a notification on iOS from the Mailbox app. Previously I would just get notifications for "real" inbox emails. How can I continue to only receive iOS notifications for these?
When I try the purge command on my terminal, OS X Mavericks gives me the following message: This hasn't been the default behavior until now. I wonder why Apple changed that. Is there a reason behind this decision? What are the advantages/disadvantages of this?
I'd like to be able to link an LDAP server to Mavericks to permit users to login with their LDAP credentials. I have the following problem:
I have multiple displays at my workstation, and I'm looking for a way to quickly "teleport" a window -- whether it's full-screened or not -- from one display to another. When I was on Windows, I used an application called DisplayFusion that allowed me to middle-click on a window's titlebar and instantaneously move it to the next monitor. I'm looking for something similar to that. It is possible to do this in Mavericks?
Is it possible to have waypoints, or multiple destinations, when getting route directions in the Maps.app on OSX Mavericks? I would like to change the route like one can by dragging the route in Google Maps, or by adding a waypoint of a city I want the route to go through. Is this accomplishable?
I am at a loss. I have upgrade to Mavericks and now when i go to my App store i see there are 6 new updates. When i click on Updates (showing Updates 6) i only get a grey bar and it does not show any of updates. I have tried everything. Including reinstalling mavericks. My next choice would to do a total clean install. Is there any way to fix this? I do have screen shots but having trouble uploading them.
Initially I did not have tabs in Finder after installing OS X Mavericks. After pressing Command+T, now I always have at least one tab in the Finder window. How do I turn the tabs off?
I'm using TotalTerminal on 10.9 Mavericks and while it's not great, it's the best quake terminal I've found right now. I usually show/hide the visor using command-escape but unfortunately can't seem to pull this off as I'm being told there's an existing universal shortcut for this key combination.
Is there an analog on mac os for *=URL=* ? So that i can use it like on linux: socksify mongo ....
Sometimes, a volume refuses to eject because some program is using them. Sadly, Finder doesn't give the identity nor gives a way to solve the problem. So, how do you solve this problem in a clean way, without using a terminal ? Using the terminal, I may find a way to eject it, but it's not reliable.
Calendar starts up every time I boot up Mavericks. I cannot find a related option in its Preferences or in the Users and Groups login items page. How do I prevent Calendar from starting up when I log in to Mavericks?
I thought there was a checkbox to suppress the hiding of my user Library folder on Mavericks, but I can't seem to find it. I appreciate hiding Library by default, but since Lion have missed it being easily accessible. How can I get the library folder to be visible in Finder, the Finder go menus / file save dialogs without needing to hold down shift?
The new iWork is an big step backward. Many transitions removed from the Keynote and so on... Is here any way to remove the new iWork and get back the old one?
I've been trying to upgrade from OS X Mountain Lion to OS X Mavericks, but the setup fails after a few minutes with the message that it can not create the recovery system. The relevant installer log items are listed here: The complete log is uploaded as a Gist.
Key escrow being very concerning (by definition, it is the storage of a key with a trusted third party), I disabled iCloud Keychain. The item remains in my Local Items keychain, along with other items such as server passwords used by Mail.app and Wi-Fi keys.
Now that Mavericks removed that ugly colored bar and replaced it with a nice looking dot, I would like to use tags more. Basically I have work files in different places that deal with different projects and I would like to apply the tag for all the files included in specific folders. The files may move around into new folders (outside of the original folder) in the future so I would like to apply a tag recursively to a folder so that I can find it easier if it gets moved out of its folder.
It is possible to with the script: when execute, get all urls of every tab of every window (two dimensional list) But is it possible with: to get a record instead of list: Is it possible, or should I use only repeat?
I've downloaded OpenLDAP sources from Apple Source for OSX 1.9. But I've the following error found in config.log when compiling using make:
Since switching to ios 7 all my imessages go to my daughters ipad and my husbands plus my name shows up as the sender from his ipad. How do I stop this from happening.
Since Safari 7.0 which was introduced yesterday with OS X Mavericks the little terminal hack doesn't work anymore (at least not for me). Once you use the Terminal hack, the PDF is shown in binary/ascii-format in a new tab of Safari (like if you would open the file with TextEdit instead of an arbitrary PDF reader):
In Mavericks (OS X 10.9,) remote (Apple cloud-based) dictation works normally. But, after check-marking the "Use enhanced dictation" checkbox in System Prefs --> Dictation & Speech, when I attempt to use dictation, the mic window pops up, it shows normal audio input on the blue "level" meter in the mic icon, but nothing happens at the text insertion cursor. (Yes, I did already complete the download of the required ~750MB language pack, and I've restarted my system several times.) Suggestions for how to resolve this?
Something very bizarre has happened. Today I upgraded to Mavericks. Before the upgrade my 64GB SSD reported about 5GB free. After the upgrade it reports 18GB free. While this is fantastic, could someone tell me what is going on?
I recently upgraded my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and shortly afterwards I updated the iWork apps to their latest version. After they were all downloaded and installed, I noticed that in my /Applications folder there were, in addition to the newly updated iWork apps, the old iWork '09 apps in a separate folder. I had just assumed that this was just in case you still wanted access to the old iWork apps and so I deleted them.
I often use ⌘ Cmd-Tab with my right hand on the mouse. If the cursor happens to be within overlay, then any accidental mouse movement causes OS X to think that I want to switch to whichever window icon the cursor lands on.
So I bought bourne legacy a while ago, and now I am trying to put it on my 4th gen iPod. When I do so, it says that it doesn't work. However when I try to convert the file through iTunes, it has all of the converting options disabled.
I want to upgrade all my home computers (4 macbooks running 10.8) to the new Mavericks OS. I have a download cap, so i dont want to download it 4 times. How can i download it once and install it on all computers?
Something crazy is going on with Time Machine. I upgraded to Mavericks yesterday with no issues. After performing a final backup on Mountain Lion, I disconnected my backup drive out of an abundance of caution, just in case I wanted to use it to roll back to 10.8. I plugged it back in today and let it do its thing, and got an out of space warning. I wasn't too worried about this, since I had been getting these previously (in the past, TM didn't do the best job estimating the space required and removing old backups).
Grumbling about how Apple wrecked the Finder when switching to OS X has been going on since OS X was first released. It's been ten years since John Siracusa outlined exactly how the Finder ought to behave. With Mavericks, Apple stepped even farther from this Spatial Finder model, where it's apparently not even possible to have a double click/⌘↓ open a new window by default (it works in windows without toolbars, but the newly opened window will, by default, have a toolbar…). My question is this: is there a third-party Finder replacement that behaves in the spatial way that Siracusa's ten-year-old manifesto calls for?
I would like to create a variable of type record at the runtime, I found this could work: But it doesn't: I would like to use this in the sub-routine, where abc def will be substituted with a variables. How to create a record in applescript in the run-time if you have a key and a value?
I've been able to use Apple Remote Desktop to copy files and folders from my local machine to remotes for many years. I've updated to ARD 3.7 and I can longer copy files. Is this no longer supported or is there some setting I need to change? I've looked and tried many things with no luck. How can I drag n drop files from my local Mac to the Remotes?
I upgraded to Mavericks yesterday, and everything seemed to go fine, but today I noticed that my computer was becoming a bit slow. I checked Activity Monitor, and CPU / disk were at normal levels so I checked memory use, only to find this:
Does Mavericks allow an install to a different drive than the current startup drive? I am running Mountain Lion on a 2008 Pro Desktop and would like to try Mavericks without losing the old OS. I'd first like to see what apps run fine vs which ones I'd need to update. And also see the performance before fully committing.
I am trying to do a polar plot, or radar chart as excel calls them, for a report. I don't have excel, only Numbers, is there a way to do that type of plot with Numbers? I can't seem to find a way. The closest thing to a polar plot that I was able to create was a point cluster with the data transformed from polar to cartesian coordinates, but this doesn't center the axis at 0,0.
I tried googling for answers on this, but couldn't actually find any decent information. I have a mid 2010 Macbook Pro, which according to Apple supports up to 8GB of ram. I already have a single 4GB stick installed, and from what Google tells me about the identifiers from System Information, it's a Corsair (I haven't actually opened the machine to try and verify.)
I have a series of events in a Google calendar that's connected to Calendar.app. When I try to delete one event (I confirm in the prompt that I want to delete the one event) in the series it reappears immediately. How can I remove just one instance without it reincarnating?
Since I updated to Mavericks two days ago on my late 2008 13-inch MacBook (first unibody aluminium), I have huge difficulties using Mail. When Mail is running, everything slows down extremely (I constantly see beach balls and spend most of the time waiting for any of my inputs showing an effect, not just in Mail but with everything). The activity monitor shows that "Mail" and "com.apple.internetaccounts" both have 90%+ under "% CPU", and most of the time Mail is "Not Responding". The Mail application doesn't show any window during maybe the first hour after trying to open it, and once I see the main window, everything is so slow that even opening an e-mail can - if it works at all - take a loooot of time. Two or three times, I even got a complete freeze, the cursor not moving anymore, the fans (which were running constantly before) shut down; the only thing I could do was holding the power button for five seconds. I have no firewall app running and have looked into my log file which is
Pages '09 had the paragraph styles drawer with a list of all styles. Each style had the following context menu:
How can I Change The Default Font Size In Notes DefaultFonts.plist onamac 10.9 Go to /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ Add myself to read & Write permissions. But when I open DefaultFonts.plist it stays locked. How can I put this in? FontName Garamond Size 124
Pages '09 had the paragraph styles drawer with a list of all styles. Each style had the following context menu:
Prior to updating to Mavericks I used LotsaWater screensaver. It would display my desktop while the screensaver did its thing. Now it shows a blank white screen when it kicks over to the screensaver mode. Under System Prefs>Desktop & Screen saver, the preview window shows how it's supposed to look and if you tap on preview it works right.
I'm having issues with my MacBook Air 2013 waking from sleep into Dark Wake every minute since I upgraded to Mavericks. Whenever it's been to sleep and goes into standby it keeps waking up. This is what pmset -g log looks like:
I'm completely new to Applescript and currently very busy at work. I don't have time to learn it, I will once I find some free time, so I decided to ask you, the experts, for help.
I'm on OS X Lion on my Mac, I have downloaded OS X Mavericks and executed the upgrade. My Mac restarted and executed the upgrade process, but after a few minutes the update stopped because my OS disk partition "My Macintosh HD" is corrupted. So I tried to check and fix the disk using Disk Utility but with no luck.
Is there a way to keep the archive of a downloaded file/folder? Currently, the archive is moved directly to the Trash can as soon as the content is expanded. Thanks Update: screenshot following MK's instructions:
I just purchased a new MacBook Pro with Mavericks installed and noticed that Activity Monitor doesn't have the "Show Memory Usage" dock icon option anymore. I really liked this option since I used it to prevent disk swapping by closing applications when I had too many open. What gives?
I've a MacBook Pro Retina Display. The username & password for the proxy settings for HTTPS keeps resetting by itself every few mins. If I enable "Proxy server requires password" below & put in my username-password, after 2 or 3 mins, it'll automatically reset and the text fields becomes inactive.
CMD-TAB to Finder in a different space and the focus will always bet set to the Desktop. As a result, keyboard interaction is impossible until the Finder window is focused with CMD-` (backtick) or clicked in.
Upon opening iBooks.app on my clean Mavericks install, I noticed that all my ebooks from other sources than the iBooks Store were missing. Of course, they're not saved in iCloud. So I wanted to restore them from the Music/iTunes Media/Books folder of my Time Machine backup. On my backup disk, there was no Music folder.. I forgot I had excluded it from the backup. I wanted to save space, and I'm using iTunes Match anyway, but I hadn't thought about the books. All the books and PDFs were still on my iOS devices, which started syncing with iTunes immediately and deleted all books in the process instead of transferring them to my Mac.
How does one type that? On Finnish/Swedish keyboard Alt-9 is ], but Ctrl-Alt-9 gives just 9. (For non-scandinavians, [] and {} are Alt-8/9 and Shift-Alt-8/9 respectively in SE/FI keyboard)
Is there a way to send messages from an iPhone (iOS 7.0.3) to a Mac (OS X Mavericks) to show on the screen? For example, imagine I’m in the kitchen and I want to send a message that will show on the iMac’s screen to my son, who is upstairs in his room. Is there a way to do that?
This issue started happening after I updated to OSX Mavericks. I have an external monitor connected to my Macbook Pro (2010), and everything works just fine and dandy.. until my Mac doesn't have any activity for a bit and turns off the screen (NOTE: not the whole Mac is asleep at that point, it's just the screen).
I used a downloaded applescript to fast enable/disable hot corners but they don't work after I upgrade to Mavericks. Someone knows what's happening? Here's the disable script, hope it'll help you know what I'm talking about.
I have always difficulties setting the Environment variables in OS X like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME or PATH. How to set these on OS X Mavericks? I did some research but the answers I've found didn't really help me yet: export JAVA_HOME=/... (But it seems that the changes are temporary, just for one terminal session.) setenv JAVA_HOME=/... (But command not found.) Open .profile and write the variables inside to make the changes permanent- (.profile does not exist). Open .bash_profile and write the variables inside to make the changes permanent- (.bash_profile does not exist). vi ~/.bash_profile (Quite a challenge for somebody who doesn't know vi.) Creating your own enrivonment.plist file. Can somebody please walk me through the steps to get that to work on OS X Mavericks, assuming no Unix knowhow?
I'm trying to add my Facebook friends to my Waze account and they are not showing up. This is my screen, and it never changes
Do the solutions discussed in this AD question still work with Safari 7.0, or is there something new / better / easier? I have dozens of duplicate bookmarkMenu and bookmarkBar folders, maybe over 100.. These are on mobile and desktop systems. Mac and PC. Can / should I do this through iCloud.com?
Responsive scrolling is causing a lot of issues for me. It's nice when it works, but it's lagging a lot sometimes, especially in Chrome.
After I've update my OS to Mavericks. Terminal goes really slow, I've found out that the problem must be from Xcode.
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro from mid 2009 (5,5). It's really slow when I switch applications, I'm using Google Chrome, Xcode 5 (I already disabled "show live issues"), and not many other apps: Cog (simple audio player) and f.lux and the Terminal. Right clicking often takes 5 sec, creating a new Finder window around 3 sec.
I have MacBook Air 2013, Mavericks installed. I recognized that my mac is a little bit warm. Thus I looked into Console These logs are repeated again and again with time interval about a couple of minutes.
Anyone have any idea how I can sync my iPhone 3G and my Mac OS 10.9? Seems Mavericks only uses iCloud now, so can't seem to hard sync the two.
I just upgraded my mid-2012 MacBook Air to 10.9. Now whenever I scroll down a page, the effect is very choppy. The scrolling seems to stop and start very quickly. Also, sometimes the left part of the page will scroll down but the right part of the page will stay put for a fraction of a second. The net effect is very flickery and distracting.
Every time that I quit Safari, it restores all default preferences. It also resets the homepage to the default apple.com site! (I cannot stand this.) This problem began after installing McAfee, and persists even after I uninstalled it by using their un-installer.
I'm considering upgrading to a total of 16GB RAM. Currently, I have 4GB.
Is there a way to make it so that in list view in Finder a symbolically linked directory can be expanded like a regular directory? I would just switch to column view, but I'm using TextMate 2's file browser, which appears to use Finder's list view.
One morning Mail on my Mac was working perfectly. At noon, I upgraded to Mavericks, then I could not send mails anymore!
How do I read and/or search the history of text messages from my iPhone? Some messages are SMS, others are iMessage, often interleaved within the same conversation. My understanding is that the phone keeps the entire history (which is why there is the "Load Earlier Messages" button, which is incredibly tedious to use, slows down with each additional click and offers no [obvious] way of searching).
I installed OS X Mavericks, and the dock shelf has returned despite the hidden option to remove it from previous OS X upgrades. I've tried all the third party dock utility applications like Docker, Dock Designer, CandyBar. All of these apps promise to remove the shelf but fail to do so.
I just installed GIMP (from the dmg on the GIMP website) on my new MacBook Pro running Mavericks. Unfortunately, when I went to go export/save an image, the keys that are hotkeys in GIMP (e.g. 1 is 100% zoom) are captured as hotkeys while typing in the name to save the file. Captured in that they both are not typed in the save name input and it messes with what is being done in the GIMP project. Anyone know what the cause might be or how I might fix it?
I upgraded to Mavericks a few days ago and since then I keep getting a pop up floating search box randomly. I do not know what triggered it and I do not know where it is from. It is driving me crazy. Can anyone tell me? I have Alfred and ShiftIt installed.
Just upgraded to OSX 10.9 Mavericks. Everything is good and shiny. However, when I open my iTerm to code, I notice that the performance is lower. If I run a uptime command, the average loading is always bigger than 1 even if I run almost no other user process. Before the upgrade, the number is usually near 0.
I am using Gmail and I have two SMTP settings on Accounts tab (Gmail - Settings - Accounts - Send mail as). So I get mail on my gmail account, but can choose which SMTP server use to send mail - smtp.gmail.com or my own smtp server. I am just wondering if there is a mail application which allow me to choose smtp server for each mail I send ?
When I upgrade to Mavericks, it uninstalls Java 1.6. I can install Java 7, but for some applications and development work, I still need access to Java 6. How can I reinstall Java 6 in Mavericks? Apple docs generally recommend downloading Java directly from Oracle, but I don't see a Mac version listed on the Oracle download page for Java SE 6. *=URL=* Update
I recently got Keynote 6.0 and I'm having trouble animating a gif in it. Using Insert > Choose... easily adds the gif to the slide, but without animation. I have searched and found other sources (example) which all seem to point to using the "Quicktime Inspector" to work with the animation of a gif. Unfortunately, the Quicktime Inspector no longer seems to exist in version 6.0 and I can't seem to find the solution otherwise. Any suggestions? Thank you much!
Whenever I try to launch an app, it opens for a split second and then disappears. MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012 Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB Software OS X 10.9 (13A603) App store says Contacts says Dictionary says 1Password says Calendar says
My 15" MacBook Pro with Retina was getting quite hot while I was just browsing the web, so I opened Maverick's Activity Monitor to see what was using so much energy. I discovered that the discrete graphics card was active, and the apparent reason for this was Automator was open (but without any windows/documents open). Why on earth does Automator need the discrete graphics card and not just the integrated graphics?
Since the start of September approximately keyboard shortcuts in OS X have been acting strangely. Many of the common shortcuts (cmd+z, cmd+v, cm+c, cmd+w etc) select the previous word rather than eliciting their usual action. Further presses simply continue the backward selection of words as if I were pressing shift+option+left arrow.
Is there anyone who can help with the placement of of power logic components on main logic board? My macbook air is totally dead.
This should be fairly simple and it appears to be a bug in MS Word. I have a MS Word document and I simply want to embed an image in the document, but have it show up as an icon instead of the full image. What should work is the following: Select Insert -> Object... Press the "From File..." button Make sure the 'Display as Icon' item is checked Select the image file Press Insert However, the image shows up as itself instead of being represented by an icon. This works in MS Word on Windows. Is there a way to make it work in MS Word 2011 for OS X?
I want to do something simple I want my music to play on my headphones and and the rest of the sounds just on my MacBook speakers. Is it possible to set different outputs for audio?
I know I'm not the first one to wonder this. Something like the Chrome Task Manager.
Animated GIF are things of the past (remember 90's web site) ... but some cool kids are still using it : 9gag Well they are seriously broken when display in Safari 7 ... has anyone an idea. Running Maveriks on my MBA 11".
I'm trying to resize new image files in a folder using a folder action so the files that were already resized to 300x250 don't get resized again. The thing is I'm having issues getting the resizing to happen at all.. Here is my current Automator Workflow:
I recently installed OS X Server on my Mavericks machine, and want to use the server (among other things) to cache software and app updates for other devices on my network. However, when I try to turn on the Caching service, I get the following message: Unable to start service.
I recently installed OS X Mavericks Server on my computer to use for Xcode continuous integration. I now see that the postgresql database is running via the Activity Monitor, and some investigation shows that it was started by Server.app, which is running Python, which started Postgres. I know that postgres is small and doesn't take up much resources, but I am just curious: Is there a reason why Server.app is running the database? I don't see a postgres service to turn on or off (which to be honest would be a great service to run via the server app).
I found it not that efficient to move the mouse pointer over the notification and click on the reply button every time. So I was wondering if there is a hotkey for quick reply instead of using the mouse or the trackpad.
I would like to create a file on my iPad, password protect it, and email it to a colleague. Is there a way to do this? It would have to be in a format that is readable by others, like a password protected PDF file or a password protected Word file.
Next I tried the drives individually, but after having installed a fresh Mavericks on both (I know, tedious) and still having the problem I feel I am running out of options. Is it my SATA controller? And why just on the tagging? I have made a few Activity Monitor Spindumps which I'm hoping anyone with the knowledge & inclination could glean some information from.
Since updating to Mavericks, I ran Purge King as I normally would and now all apps e.g. App Store have disappeared.
Any idea why in Mail 7.0 (part of OS X 10.9 Mavericks,) when I select a group of messages in the Sent Mail folder and do Message --> Apply Rules command, nothing happens? (In prior versions of OS X back to 10.5, my extensive list of 70+ rules automatically moved messages from my Sent folder to various other sorted folders. I have several plain POP3 accounts set up in Mail.app, not leaving messages on the server.)
I went back to the mobile shop for help. He tried for one day but with no success. He said he bought it from Dubai from a person he doesn't have contact address or number. How do I get the iPhone unlocked and can use my Apple ID with it?
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks, it seems Python broke. I get the following when I try to run ipython: Similarly I noticed that some other packages seem to be missing, even when using the default python (as opposed to ipython):
With OSX Mavericks we now can make notifications with applescript pretty easily. However, there doesn’t seem to be a way to change the icon that appears to a custom one. Is there a way to accomplish this?
I just got an iPhone 5s. My wireless plan is with AT&T and includes unlimited cellular data. When I open the Music app and go to iTunes Radio, a dialog appears stating: Use Cellular Data? Additional fees may apply when using cellular data for iTunes Radio, iTunes Match, and Automatic Downloads. Is AT&T charging additional fees for using these services, or is this dialog only warning about the high rate of data usage that may cause limited-data subscribers to exceed their monthly data allowances?
Normally I would open Mail.app, click Message → Encoding → [One of the Cyrillic encodings]. But since the upgrade I don't see text encoding option in Message menu. How to change to use one of the Cyrillic encodings?
I have an iPad mini 16GB and like to upgrade to iOS 7.0.3. this upgrade wants 1.2GB of free storage. However I only have 0.5 GB at the moment.
I may have caused this by clicking "Update" more than once or selecting "Check for unfinished downloads". Unfortunately App Store no longer gives any indication when you click "Update"
Is anybody else experiencing Safari going crazy on Mavericks? I have just unlocked my iMac (Model 2012, 12GB RAM, 2TB HDD, Core i7 3.4GHz) and everything was slow motion. The hard disk was spinning constantly. After five minutes, Activity Monitor finally showed up (see 1st picture). Nothing too special there, only the 46GB virtual memory makes me wonder a bit and of course there's immense memory pressure. Then I started shutting down apps one after the other. Finally, it was Safari's turn and immediately, memory pressure started dropping. See 2nd picture. I can see Safari hogging 1.13GB of RAM but that's not too much, is it? I had three tabs open, all of them just plain HTML. No Flash, no videos. This has never happened before with all the various Lions.
My iPhone4 said it needed an update to the new softwear so I went to settings and hit update. Then it went to a screen that had a little iTunes box and connection cord underneath it.
My MacBook's HDD has 2 partitions. One has OS X 10.8 installed, the other one 10.9. I'd like to delete the first partition and merge the free space afterwards to the 2nd partition.
Recently I accidently deleted the folder that contained most of my Aperture library (I didn't think they were refenced, I assumed they were all in my library file, but unfortunately this was not true) and this is causing me a major problem. My first step was to run Stellar Phoenix Disk Recovery, which was doing well until it broke my second external drive that they were being copied onto. I then scanned it again and put them onto a exFAT volume. However there are now issues with this volume, and the folders are not showing up in finder or Aperture. I can see the files in terminal and at present am trying to copy them over via rsync. Therefore I need advice regarding the following:
I have been several months using my mid-2010 15" MBP connected to a Dell U2711 through a miniDisplayPort-DisplayPort adapter, without any trouble cranking the resolution up in Mountain Lion to it's full 2560x1440. I have just updated my laptop to Mavericks, and I'm not able to use the full resolution of my monitor anymore. I have done several tests, either with the lid open and closed, or trying to force the discrete GPU through gfxCardStatus
Macbook freezes, system disk "disappears" from system, I get errors about reading/writing. Spinning ball of death appears on the screen, I am able to move pointer for a few seconds after first symptoms but then computer freezes completely. After hard reset everything is ok. After 30-60 minutes of work it happens again. Since I am able to use Macbook after reset it doesn't look like problems with SSD, does it? Tried to boot from Live CD — system freezes too. Memtest — perfect results for short test, system freezes on 40+ minutes test. Tried to make fresh installation of Mavericks — system freezes after some time spent for install.
After installing Mavericks over Mountain Lion, my vertical scrolling is wiggly (jerky) on rMBP. Similar as in iOS, when scrolling with two fingers on touchpad down or up, a smooth motion "locks" the scroll to vertical scroll only. After upgrading to Mavericks, vertical scroll does not "lock" and will also wiggle horizontally.
is it possible to get the push notifications from my Mac mini Server 10.9 on my MacBook with 10.9? At least the Server.app relevant stuff?
I bought a new Mac and received three Mac App Store codes for the iWork apps from the Up-to-Date Program (*=URL=* I also have an older MacBook with Mavericks installed and I would like to use the iWork Suite on both computers. My question: Are the App Store codes bound to the new Mac or can I download the Apps on both Macs after activating the code?
I have a 352 page pdf that is a scan of a black-and-white text. The file size is 60.9 MB, which seems excessively large too me. (Is it indeed?) Is there an easy way to convert this file to a more compressed one?
I rely heavily on LibreOffice and am hesitant to upgrade unless I can be as sure as possible that LibreOffice (Writer) will run. Can anybody confirm that the software works and does not crash on Mavericks?
I have been using the AppleScript below as an Automator service in order to get Safari to close all tabs to the right of the current tab. However I have updated to Mavericks (10.9) and find that this no longer works. Can anyone advise how this AppleScript should be changed in order to make it work again? Here's the script:
I've been able to add a Google Calendar (CalDAV) account to OS X Calendar (v6, Mountain Lion 10.8.5) without problem, and all my own calendars show up. Is there a way of seeing calendars others have shared with me (these show up under 'Other Calendars' in the Google Calendar website settings)? (Same situation on my iPhone.)
In Thunderbird there is something like "are you sure you did not forget to attach a file" if you mentioned words such as "attached/in the attachment/ attach" and many more (could be set default on tb). Is there something similar for the Apple mail on OS X 10.9 Mavericks or for iPhone (iOS 6)?
I have still the NoSleep options in my settings panel although it's fully uninstalled. How can I remove them, too? System is 10.9.
I'm tagging USB and network drives in Mavericks, and I would like the tags to disappear from my Mac when the drives are disconnected. Is this possible?
Someone please remind me of what software I need to install to get as full support for FLAC audio as possible. I've figured out how to do this, and then forgotten again, perhaps a dozen times over the years. Every time I reinstall or upgrade my Mac. Now I've installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and it's time to do it one more time. Ideally I'd like: QuickLook preview support ability to open and play FLAC in QuickTime Player (QTP7 is okay)
My wife and I have separate Apple IDs, but all of our music is in my iTunes Match "account". Can I share just that between our phones, keeping everything else separate? We both have IOS 7 installed.
I have a lot of awesome iOS apps such as Procreate that I would I like to use in OSX. Currently, I am only able to run my own iOS apps in OSX through Xcode. I heard some rumours that thirdparty iOS apps may be possible in the future to work with OSX as Apple tries to integrate its ecosystem even closer to its own services -- yet I would like to get it now:
I have a MacBook Air 2012. I listen to audio by plugging EarPods into the audio jack.
With recent versions of Apple Mail, the Page Down key always applies to the message content pane (unless no message is selected), even if the message list had focus. However, you used to be able to type Control–Page Down to make it apply to the message list. This no longer works in OS X 10.9. Is there another way?
I have Firefox and the Finder open (neither are hidden), with PDF files in the current Finder window. If I open one of the PDF files, it opens in Preview. When I quit Preview, rather than Finder being focused, Firefox is focused instead.
I have an iPhone 5s. All contact phone numbers show up in the list as names. How do I get names, not numbers to display for received texts and calls?
I need to mount a .sparseimage from .bash_profile but I don't get how to do it. I tried: but this gives me: if I double-click on it or I put it in Startup Items it works (but i need also to source the bashrc after the mount) What's the problem?
I have started observing this ever since I upgraded to Mavericks. Earlier [i.e. on Mountain Lion] if I played any youtube video on fullscreen, only video would be fullscreen, not chrome.
I know that buying and installing RAM from a regular computer shop will be cheaper for me. I was just wondering if a Macbook Pro 17" early 2011 model uses specific 'Mac' DDR3 RAM or if I can get away with any DDR3 RAM?
I'm trying to write a script to configure the system and various apps to my liking, mostly via defaults write. I got stuck with Messages' Play sound effects setting (under General). I think this setting might be new in Mavericks. I couldn't find it in any of the *iChat*.plist files under ~/Library/Preferences, so I watched the whole directory for changes with FS events, and it doesn't seem like that setting is affecting any of the files in that directory. Any ideas about other locations where Messages.app could be storing this setting?
It's kind of cute, but why is it doing this and how can I change it?
If my iPhone 4 dies, will it turn back on automatically after I put it on charge? The reason I ask this is my lock button is broken and I'm afraid to let my phone die. What should I do?
I have updated the iWork applications from '09 to 2013. After updating, I do not know why Apple doesn't automatically delete the old version. So now, I have two versions on my Mac. What's the best way to uninstall or delete the old version - should I just simply move it to Trash or use some uninstall application? Would there be any effect with my old iWork files if I delete the old iWork version?
There's a account named staff, which I discovered had read permission on my home folder, when I did Get Info on it for an unrelated purpose. So, naturally, I went into System Preferences, and looked in Users and Groups, but it was nowhere to be found. Then, I did ls -la in /Users, but once again, no home folder for the staff account. Here's the output of ls -la in /Users:
I'm leaning towards replacing my current monitor (an LG) with an Apple Thunderbolt Display. The display would mostly be used with my computer but I'd like to be able to watch TV with in occasionally. I don't see any way of getting input to the display other than via Thunderbolt in the manual. My TV signal arrives via a coaxial cable. How could I get the coax's output onto the display? I'm aware elgato makes a product that could get the signal onto my computer, whose output I could then show on the big display. But is there a configuration that wouldn't require my computer to be in the loop?
I'm following the instructions and scripts detailed in this article, but it's failing on mavericks - the mounted windows drive isn't showing up in the time machine disk selection pane. Any ideas how to get this working? *=URL=* (Using Window 7 and the SMB server)
Before updating to Mavericks, my Mac would go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, which is usually 10 minutes after I turn the screens off using Shift+Ctrl+Eject. However, since the update, the Mac no longer goes into standby. I know this as the status light no longer pulses. I have checked the energy saver settings, and the Mac is set to sleep after 15 minutes so I'm not sure why it is not going to sleep.
I had previously used macports to install octave. It was working fine after switching to 10.9, but after the upgrade I tried to add a different package and it did not work. So I foolishly followed the instructions to delete and reinstall everything, and now octave will not reinstall!
I am using a Quickfire Stealth mechanical USB Keyboard for my Mac Mini. I am having an issue that each time I boot the computer, I have to plug it out from the USB port and plug it back in for the Mac Mini to recognize it. Anyone has an idea what could be the cause for this weird behavior?
Mavericks created a new keychain "Local Items" for me that can't be deleted. What's the idea here and why is there a second keychain in addition to my login keychain?
Most OS X updates have included a few tweaks to the Terminal app. I know that Mavericks has upgraded a lot of command-line tools, but I haven't seen any reports of changes in Terminal.app itself. Has anyone noticed any?
Recently, I had to shut down a Mac with no mouse and only a PC keyboard with no Eject key. (Incidentally, there are several solutions to that puzzle, and the one I settled on was to use the Terminal.) But as I first approached the problem, I thought: There is some universal access feature there to help if one can't use the mouse, isn't there? Yes: MouseKeys. However, this nice page with the keyboard shortcuts for MouseKeys in Lion suggests that you have to enable a checkbox in a System Preferences pane before you can use it. So, how do you enable MouseKeys without using a mouse?
How would I even begin diagnosing this problem? I have no idea. I downloaded an app called Little Snitch which displays information about what's using the Internet connection but I can't see anything unusual which might be clogging the bandwidth. For what it's worth, here's the information about my Airport card from System Profiler:
I have purchased a movie and 20 minutes watching, I was ejected. When I tried to play it again, it seemed like the purchase never happened. I was asked to buy or rent it. It seems like I am not the only one. Is there anyone who had the same issue and solved the problem ?
I just got Windows 8.1 set up via Boot Camp a couple days ago, and everything was working wonderfully. Today, I upgraded my Mac to OSX v10.9, as suggested by Apple. Nobody told me it would break my Boot Camp system! First, my Windows partition didn't even show up in the option-menu at boot, so I tried following the instructions here, which fixed the option-menu, but the system still won't load!
I just updated to Mac Maverick and updated Pages. The question is I just can't get used to it, I don't the exact words to describe it. In the past, when in the Full Screen modem, I am typing in floating whiteboard in the whole darkness, which is awesome. How can I do that in the newest version of Pages now?
I use Skype and I'm trying to upload a profile image from an iOS device that has a transparent background. Every time I save the image to any iOS device, the transparent background turns black :-/ I have the exact image I want on OSX Skype but it doesn't sync the profile picture across iOS devices. I've re downloaded the app but so far nothing's worked. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or knows how to solve it?
I have just downloaded OS X Server for Mavericks and now I want to run my Rails app through the server. I have downloaded and installed Passenger. My server runs under username.no-ip.biz and my Rails app is in Users/Username/documents/Developer/Rails/railsapp. First, how do I add a subdomain for the server like sub.username.no-ip.biz and second how do I setup the Server to use this subdomain to run my Rails app?
I occasionally run Windows on my macbook. There is an annoying problem with the touchpad. I click somewhere by tapping the touchpad, and then move the cursor, but the cursor movement will not respond until half second later. However, if I click the touchpad and then move cursor, there is no half second delay.
Sometimes when I click on the desktop, Finder opens. How can I disable this in OS X 10.9? For what it's worth, it was already happening in Mountain Lion.
Having recently moved to Germany, I receive tons of German emails. My current workflow is definitely not efficient: Copy mail contents, goto translate.google.com, paste content.. The ideal solution would be: just trigger a shortcut and have the contents of the email translated into the predefined language you've set. Would that be possible?
I set up iCloud keychain on a Mavericks laptop and two iPhones. Passwords for Wireless networks are now synchronized among all the devices. So far so good.
I have a smart mailbox with only one rule: messages that are unread. Right now I have no unread messages in any of my acccounts, yet the smart mailbox shows a counter of 1. Opening the smart mailbox shows no messages (this is correct). If a new message arrives, the counter goes up to 2, then as soon as I read that message it goes back to 1. I tried: Rebuilding my inboxes
After updating Mountain Lion to Mavericks xQuartz and MacPorts throws errors about insufficient permissions. (xQuartz and MacPorts are the latest version) I noticed: I am on Administrator Account. I can't even uninstall MacPorts with the command from here
TL;DR: I have a Time Machine backup that I want to modify before running Migration Assistant, but when I try to delete a directory from it either with rm or unlink I get "operation not permitted". How can I mount it so I can make a change? The reason I'm at this point: Upgrading my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks went so badly that I eventually booted from a USB key, reformatted my hard drive, and re-installed. I have a Time Machine backup on a 3TB AirPort Time Capsule, but restoration was painfully slow (even over a wired network) so I gave up that as well.
Times ago I setted my Mac (in system preferences) to use, when an alert appear, enter key to choose OK button and tab to scroll other possible button and space to select one of them. Now I initialized my Mac and I can't find the preference again, does somebody know where is it? Thank you!
In past OS X versions, I used some commands to set preferences on my Mac. For example, I used the following command to enable selection of text in Quick Look: …and the following command to create a stack on the Dock of recently-used apps:
Each time when I get the message "Your SIM played a tone" if I don't respond instantly and close the option it gets stuck and my entire iOS 9.3.2 doesn't respond. I have had this issue some ten times. How do I disable this?
I'm trying to remove the "Sleep" button from the login window on some of my Mac's to prevent inadvertently disabling access to the remote server. How to disable the sleep button from Mac OS X login screen?
I've got a Snow Leopard 8GB USB stick that I got from my MacBook Air. Now that Mavericks is available, I'd like to update that USB stick with Mavericks. I can't seem to be able to format that disk: I've tried the Disk Utility, it recognises the USB stick as an optical disk, and it refuses to erase it (I guess because my MacBook Air doesn't have an optical drive). I've tried the following:
How do I grab input from the user in AppleScript and then pass the result of the variable to a do shell script command from within AppleScript itself? For example, the user would type the answer foo to the following dialog box: So in this instance, if I were to incorporate the answer of foo in lieu of $userID, it would read as the following when it executes the command: How do I pass that variable I grabbed earlier, in this case it would be $userID and incorporate it into the middle of the shell script call that I have made just above.
I'm trying to format my usb drive that is partitioned with FAT32 by the following command in Terminal: However, I get this output:
We have four guys in the house running on Mac and say, one updates the apps that the others have purchased with their individual apple ids, could the apps be shared over a storage media/airdrop without app store pointing out for id issues? Multiple folks downloading at the same time gets the bandwidth cropped and with the fair usage policy in place, after we hit the cap for the month the internet speed drops to a bare minimum. Well, apps like Xcode/Keynote/iPhoto which are fairly huge as a sum of all downloading the same copy. I'm probably looking at something like steam backups, where I just share the backup of the game that friends have purchased but haven't downloaded yet and for them, it's just a matter of restoring from the backup file, without a problem, as they've purchased the game too.
Before Mavericks it seems it was easy to make iTunes forget a device as per this question: Can you make iTunes forget a device? However according to this Apple support article Sync Services doesn't exist anymore in Mavericks
After connecting MacBook Pro running 10.8 to video project, the system crashed and after restart it booted into recovery (OS X Utilities). I tried to fix the problem with checking disks and disk permission, everything was fine. Selecting Macintosh Hard disk as the "Startup Disk" did not alter anything. Zapping PRAM did not fix. The system even could not restart to Safe Mode.
I have been having this problem with a Macbook Pro late 2006 and a Macbook Pro early 2011. Macbook Pro refuses to mount an specific external hard drive or USB stick, after being able to do so with no problem before, and usually after the operating system disconnects it suddenly. That particular external hard drive or USB stick is perfectly good since it works OK under linux. MBP would mount the drive month later when tried again. It have happen with two external Western Digital Hardrives (myPassport) as well as with a Kingston USB stick. Disk Utility sees the drive but cannot mount it because it's "incompatible". Many people seem to be having this problem and no solution has been found. I cannot format the disk because that's where my backups are.
In a long drawn out story that started with trying to implement CardDAV (I'd like to store my contacts on google if possible), I removed my google account from Internet Accounts, which had existed there from Mountain Lion, and was working perfectly fine for Calendar.app and Messages.app. Upon trying to re-add the Google account and have it sync my calendars, It's telling me that it cant do it anymore. I'm using two-factor google authentication, and I provide the setup with a generated, app specific password. Contacts and Messages click instantly, but Calendars sits spinning. It eventually informs me that: A secure connection couldn't be established
Mavericks' (and also Yosemite's) Activity Monitor shows a new diagram, the memory pressure. Sadly, its help text only vaguely explains what exactly it measures. How is memory pressure calculated?
A lot of my songs won't play on my iPhone anymore. They are still listed as being there, they just won't play and a red square and circle are placed by them. I've tried everything and nothing has made the problem go away. How to make the song playable again?
I just installed Mavericks. I have an old iPhone 3GS and it is running iOS 4.1. Since updating to Mavericks, iTunes syncs everything but Address Book and Calendar, however under OS X 10.8 everything was syncing fine.
Yesterday I had to restart my Mac OS X Lion Server and after reboot I observed that I do not have any connection to my LDAPv3 on the localhost as well as no users available in Server application. Next, Server application has showed three outdated certificates. Their names starting with "APNS". I am not sure whether the issue is connected to those certificates specifically, but unfortunately "slapd" refers to issues with main certificates for my internal domain. Following is the log from slapd itself: System log obviously shows: While trying to start slapd from command line (using: /usr/libexec/slapd -d -1), I receive the following message before crash:
I have updated my MacBook Air 2011 from the App Store to Mavericks but after the installation it doesn't boot up (spinning grey ball). Safemode or a new installation didn't help and verbose mode ends on "bootcachecontrol: unable to open /var/db/bootcache.playlist: 2 no such file or directory" I tried in single user mode but that returned me a bootcachecontrol: unable to determine uuid for volume /dev/rdisk0s2
Since downloading OS X Mavericks my power button just puts my Mac to sleep. I want to know how to power off and restart.
Mail program on my Mac Pro (early 2009) doesn't want to start, or rather just was quitting after I tried to start it multiple times. I deleted it and tried to re-install old mail program from Snow Leopard disk, now I don't have mail at all. Can anyone help me to deal with the problem? Important: I installed Mavericks two days before it happened.
I've installed OS X Maverick which was downloaded by someone else and was registered to other apple ID, that's why I can't install maverick free apps like keynotes, pages...how can I roll back to my mountain lion or start a fresh install or change the registered user of maverick I'm using right now? I don't have any time machine back up or any installation disk.
For a couple of days i am using OS X Mavericks and Safari for browsing. Sometimes while writing questions or comments on StackExchange pages, the computer freezes, and on the screen appear suddenly some black points like pixels. Not just in the section of browser, but also everywhere on screen. Then i must hard shut down the computer, by pressing the power button.
I am developing a .Net API service in Windows 7 box and try to debug API from my Mac OS, however, I am not able to hit the API through the port (3345). I used ipconfig to find out my windows7 IP address, and then try to access it through (address:port), and it never connects. Anything I need to do on VMFusion to allow me hit the .Net API.
I have a Macbook Air 13″ (late 2010) and external monitor (Dell SX2210) connected by Mac Display Adapter to VGA adapter (pre-Thunderbolt). I frequently see regions of the Dell screen glitched by wavy-jittery noise for a few seconds at a time. The size and location on the screen seems random, and is more frequent and noticeable some times than others. No glitches on the Mac screen. This has persisted through OS upgrade from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.
Why does this attempt at creating a symbolic link to ~/x/yon the Desktop now work? The only way I can seem to get something like a symbolic link is this way: I'm confused, this was really simple in Ubuntu.
I try to install MacPorts and get this I am also not able to I can create the directory with and then with Finder. I am also able to install MacPorts with the installer .pgk, but then:
Before Mavericks one could hold the ALT key and move a folder "A" onto a folder "B" where already an "A" existed. In this case Mac OS X asked in Lion if I want to merge - or on Mountain Lion if I want to keep both (which was also a merge). I can't find this option in Mavericks. Did Apple remove this useful feature? Any hints? (And yes: I own ForkLift, which can do it - I just sometimes still prefer the Finder).
I performed a fresh install of OS X 10.9 and now the process com.apple.iconServicesAgent is using >300MB of RAM, that is quite a lot. This process is using the second most amount of memory of all processes, after the kernel task. Google tells me that other people have this problem, too, but I found no solution so far. Is there any way to reduce the RAM consumption of this process?
How can I sync calender and contacts in Mavericks and iOS 7 without using iCloud (or any cloud for that matter)? Is the only option really to setup a CalDav and CardDav server in my local home WiFi network? If so, how do I do it? Will I be needing a dedicated machine for the server (I just have one iMac)? Will all my devices automatically be able to sync once they are connected to the local WiFi? Do you know of any good step by step tutorial?
Yesterday I bought my first Mac, the new Macbook Pro 13". Apple recommends not having the battery charged connected to the MacBook if the battery is 100%. In other laptops I had, I could just remove the Battery and use it connected with the Battery Charger.
I have a 2006 Mac Pro and have been wanting to update to OS X Mavericks but I can't because I have a Radeon X1900 graphics card and that is not supported any more by Apple. I have OS X 10.6.8 running so I have the software to upgrade it but the question is can I update to Mavericks if I get a supported graphics card? Do you think there might be other issues that would prevent me from being to update?
Has anyone got their Canon Pixma MP780 to print borderless in Mavericks? Its support was removed after the CanonPrinterDrivers2.8 (as of writing we are on 2.12). I keep the 2.8 drivers and they worked well with 10.7, 10.8, and now 10.9 (mostly work). However in 10.9 the borderless printing is no longer working. I tried printing from several apps and I just cannot get borderless to work. Anyone know how to fix this?
I configured Activity Monitor like this on all of my machines. I also set up my non-techie friends' Macs this way as well:
I'm moving to a new machine from an old machine with a firmware password. I seem to recall reading when I set up the firmware password long ago that the simple migration process will not work from a machine with a firmware password. Is this true in 10.9? If so, what special steps do I need to take to migrate from a machine that has a firmware password?
I love the new energy tab in OSX 10.9 mostly because I love data about my machine. I'm curious how the energy impact is calculated, and what the number represents. It seems clear from using the OS for a week that apps that are running more CUP/memory intense processes (for me: Mathematica and MATLAB) use more energy, or apps that can't take a nap (like listening to pandora in google chrome).
Over the past few days I have noticed a major decline in performance and responsiveness.. Again I am not doing anything that should cause these slowdowns. It also takes a seemingly long time for the computer to go from off, to logged in and functional. I checked the Activity Monitor and everything seemed to be within normal limits, no odd readings, and the vast majority of my memory was not in use.
I have an AppleScript that I would like to be able to use from anywhere in the file system. Currently, it has some paths which are hardcoded, so it runs only from the Downloads folder. How should I go about getting the current path to the AppleScript and then appending a subdirectory to that path once obtained? Setting the current path to the script as a variable would be preferable (perhaps current_path).
I upgraded then later clean-installed Mavericks on my Macbook Pro Retina 13". In both installations, my screen suddenly started displaying (I believe after screensaver or screen shut-off - the computer itself wasn't asleep) these artifacts on the bottom half of the screen (whose colors etc. change as things change on the rest of the screen). I've attached a screenshot, which actually captures this.
I am using the gmail app for my emails, but I want to merge my extensive list of contacts in my phone book to my gmail app. Is there a way to do this? Ultimately, it would be great if when you tapped an email in the contact list it opened in the GMail app, rather then the iphones native mail app, but Im guessing thats not possible.
I'm developing my first App for the App Store, and I'll soon be submitting it. However I need to release it on a specific day for promotional reasons. Since I've never been through the process before, can you tell me if it is possible to set a "release after X" date when submitting the app? In other words, will my app be automatically "released" as soon as it is approved? I've found this question dealing with updates, hoping for an answer specific to a whole new app.
I have my Time Machine backups going to an external disk, and all of it is encrypted with FileVault2. I plan to do a fresh install of Mavericks on my local hard drive, but before wiping the disk, I want to make sure that I can still access my Time Machine backups. As mentioned in this other SO post, I should be able to use my FV key (and I vaguely remember using my account username/password to access data), but I want to be 100% sure.
I normally use private key authentication to SSH into my mac via an iOS client. I recently upgraded to Mavericks, and started noticing the client prompting for a password rather than trying the private key first. My old /etc/sshd_config had disabled password authentication ("PasswordAuthentication no, ChallengeResponseAuthentication no"), but it looks like the upgrade process to Mavericks reset these two values to yes.
I installed parallels 9 on OS10.9 and am using it to run my bootcamp partition. However it unmounts the bootcamp partition on load and I would like to prevent this from happening if possible. Can I do this and if so how?
Just back from Apple after they reloaded the entire system off my time machine backup due to "hard drive damaged" message and lock up during Mavericks install. The hard drive was fine, by the way. Everything seems fine now, except that I have the "Install OSX Mavericks" icon sitting in my dock and also, of course, on the application list on the finder. I assume this icon can be trashed? I don't want to delete something that may be needed in the future. Thanks for the assistance!
I upgraded my system to 10.9 Mavericks. Preview works not as good as before. I have the same trouble with that post. What will the problem be? Lack of memory? New configurations of Preview? I hope to use it smoothly as before. What can I do with it? I am using Macbook Air 2013.
Some videos from YouTube can neither be played on my iPhone nor on the Apple TV Hey Guys, not sure what is going on betwee Apple and Google....nothing wrong with both hardwares and I tried on multiple other iPhones of my friends and it just doesn't work for some videos...not sure if there is a solution.
I just installed OS X Mavericks on my Mac. Now I'm trying to install Fink via the instructions here I have gone up to this line command: But after that I am not able to run this line command: ... because there is no bin directory under sw. Is it perhaps because of Mavericks (the instructions have not been updated for Mavericks because it is so new).
I am an iOS developer and I want to implement continuous integration in Xcode. I have received the following email from Apple:
I recently upgraded to Mavericks. I updated all the Apple Apps like Aperture, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Voice-Update, Xcode 5. And they updated gracefully. But whenever I am starting my Mac from a complete sundown, all the apps are starting to download again. It has happened three times now. What would be the problem ?
Sometimes I go to sleep and wake to find that my battery died, and the iPhone is off. Is there any way to know when the battery died? Is there any way (or App) to know when was it switched off? I'm using iPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.3.
I'm using a long-lived installation of MacOS X alongside with an iPhone and iPad. Because of backups of both devices and the purchased applications, I'm losing a considerable space (~14GB) in my system.
The question is not about enabling the new two-way gmail syncing on Mavericks, or how to activate the iCloud one. What I'm trying to do is just to sync the two.
I was just wondering about DND. It was my understanding that DND just silenced notifications (calls, texts, alerts, etc) system wide.
I have just updated my system php in terminal via command line. I deleted the export path in .bash_profile as it was pointing to mamp but for some reason my php still says 5.3 not 5.4 when I run php -v in terminal.
I have a hierarchy of folders which contain lots of duplicates files (it's a series of versions of a LaTeX document, and while the evolved a lot, many of the figures are identical in multiple versions). I tried to compress it with Maverick's native “Compress” right-clink menu item, but it doesn't seem to take advantage of the duplication (it leads to 15% compression, though I have at least 30% duplicated files in size).
Since upgrading to Mavericks Safari does not recognize PDFs anymore and shows them inline (as text) Before upgrading the very same files from the same sites where downloaded as PDFs and shown with Preview (the are delivered with the correct MIME type). I do not have any Adobe Reader plugin (checked both /Library/Internet Plugins and ~/Library/Internet Plugins. Open "safe" files after downloading is checked in Safari's options. Any idea on what could be wrong and how to fix it? Edit This is only happening on one machine (I tested the same URLs with other Mavericks installations and they are displayed correctly). The MIME type handling seems OK. defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist gives: On both machines
When I choose for the latter nothing happens in the preferences 'Keyboard' window and my Dock hides. I expected this behavior but OSX gives me no notice of it, I might just have activated something else without knowing it.
Is anybody seeing a DST adjustment error on their Weather app? The time adjusted just fine (see top), but the times for other cities in my time zone (like Chamonix and Zermatt) have not been updated. Is this a bug (or a feature) or have I missed something? iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3, all location services for system services are off (switching on the "setting time zone" option makes no difference).
Is there a way in Mavericks to get multi-monitor desktop switching behavior similar to (Mountain) Lion? Example setup: Thunderbolt monitor + Macbook. Each with three desktops. (1,2,3) & (4,5,6)
I've installed Mavericks and started to us the Mail app from Apple again, but every time I start Mail I get the message: Incompatible Plug-ins Disabled Mail has disabled the following plug-ins: Growlmail
I have Xcode 4.6.3 with iOS 6.0 & 6.1 SDKs. I want to install Xcode 5.0. Does it remove iOS 6.0 & 6.1 SDKs or it will just update my previous Xcode to latest with iOS 7 SDK keeping iOS 6.0 SDK? I am running OS X 10.8.4.
I get a message in the Image Capture window saying: No camera or scanner detected. Scanner worked with Mountain Lion, but is not working with Mavericks. On Canons website, this is the message on Canon's MP780 for Mavericks OS: "There is no driver for the OS Version you selected. The driver may be included in your OS or you may not need a driver."
After loading Mavericks it appears one of my mail folders, a key folder holding tax data has become completely borked. As you can see from the attached image I have duplicate home folders. I have already tried to rebuild this folder with no luck. Any other ideas?
With multilevel bullet lists, is it possible to leave less space between lower level bullets? Eg Currently, I can only do it manually, each time I change the level. I am using Pages 5.
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 and I want to record the screen from the device, or stream the screen of the device on my MacBook Pro and record it with QuickTime. How can I do that?
A Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 is running the Services: Firewall Mail Open Directory The role of the "Open Directory" service is "Open Directory master".
I tried everything, even deleting my gmail account and recreating. I create a google account in the Mail, Calendar option and select Email and Calendar. Still, there is nothing I can do to see my events in the iphone calendar. Is there anything I can do to make it work or debug this. The event is in my google calendar, but does not go to my iphone. :( I am using the latest ios 7.
I will be feeding images into a folder from my camera as they are taken. When those items enter the folder, I need for them to be opened and processed by an app.
When running some BASH scripts I had in my Linux box I noticed that expr length gives syntax error. Manual pages doesn't seems to include any information about the length operator. Is it missing in Mac OS X? What other cross-platform alternative can I use?
I updated my iPhone 5s to iOS 7 using restore install. This cleared the iPhone and then started a restore from iCloud. However, sometime during the restore stalled and did not complete. (In the iCloud settings panel it says "You cannot delete you iCloud account because your phone is being restored.) However, when I leave my phone plugged in overnight the restore process doesn't continue. Is there any way to restart the restore process?
Is there a 64-bit version of Google Chrome for OS X Mavericks? I need to run NetBeans and it requires Java 7 Update 10 at least.
I am trying to setup a Foscam FI8189W IP Camera to work with my Airport wifi network. I have tried to follow the instructions that Foscam has given but I believe the problem is with my Airport setup.
I upgraded to Maverics, then I read than older trialware of iWork, Aperture and possible FCP and Logic Pro are being upgraded for free to their latest versions by Apple on the App Store desktop application. All trial versions with the exception of FCP were removed from the Apple's site, but third party distributors could have those older versions still available for download. The word free add some negative connotation to the question, like if one could be trying to steal software from Apple, but if the price tag were someting diferent from FREE, I think there would not be any problem upgrading Apple software downloaded from third party software distributors. Would there be any legal issues installing and upgrading that trialware to the full free version in that way?
After the Mavericks upgrade, I'm seeing Microsoft Word close silently, no error message, about a second after opening. If I open a .docx file directly, the file displays during that one second, so it does seem to start up at least.
I added a VPN config. Now I want to remove it, but the - button is gray and disabled.
When encountering an application "quit unexpectedly" dialog box in OS X, sometimes the focus on that dialog box is lost. With only a keyboard, how does one restore focus back to that window? cmd+tab and similar do not work.
I made a horrible mistake: I ran dd on an external hard drive, that was the Time Machine backup storage, to make it bootable. After a few seconds I cancelled the command, but the hard drive is shaped as bootable image, and the backup folder is missing. What can I do?
I am looking for a way to automatically add applications to the "Location Services" and "Accessibility" (Mavericks only) lists in the "Security & Privacy" settings pane. Optimally I could just change some file (eg plist) to add applications to these lists. If that's not possible, there's maybe some terminal and/or AppleScript way to achieve that?
I'm looking for a most simple command line app (or an on-board tool on Mavericks I am not aware of) to play a midi file from the terminal. As plain as possible, something like play myfile.mid.
I'm working on videos. I'm capturing them with a software and I save them as MP4. Then I compress them as MOV. After that I upload them to YouTube. However I lose about 1.5 GB from my hard disk while I'm doing this. (I delete these videos after I upload.) How can I fix this situation?
Is it possible to crop multiple pages or image files in the new Mavericks Preview application just as described in this answer? The functionality was there with Snow Leopard but disappeared in Mountain Lion.
After upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the System Preferences app occasionally opens itself to "Security & Privacy", with "Accessibility" selected.  My guess is that one of the apps listed there really wants to be enabled. But I'm hesitant to do so unless I know what level of "control" they are granted. The fact that it's listed as an "Accessibility" option is particularly weird. What permissions would I be giving to an application if I enabled their control on the accessibility list?
I'd like to script the installation of the the Xcode Command Line Tools. On Mavericks, will open a dialog prompting the user to install, but I'd like to trigger the install without the dialog, like using the softwareupdate command. Is there a way to do this? Edit:
I want to mount an external drive, connected on computer A, to computer B. I am able to access and mount the drive by connecting to the server through Finder (Command-K), but how can I do this exact action through the terminal? I've been using several formats of mount and mount_afp but nothing seems to work. Something along the lines of: In Finder, I just type the IP of the Mac connected to the drive, input credentials, and mount the selected drive...but it's not working by simply entering the afp://ipaddress, just like the 'Connect Server' command through Finder, in the terminal.
I've found that on OS X Server in Mavericks, the PostgreSQL processes are causing shutdown delays. During a verbose shutdown, I get the following (shortened) output: The (*) is replaced by a random string, different for each item. I have no experience with PostgreSQL and I don't use any of the database-related OS X Server components (mainly Xcode and VPN) so I have no idea where to start.
I just upgraded to Mavericks. Now, every time I wake it up from the lock screen or standby and proceed to type in my password it rejects it.
I Installed OS X Mavericks about a week ago, It worked fine at first but all of a sudden no core Apps will load. Mail, iCal, App Store, Maps, iMessage all quit and log a console message "Exited with Code 1"
I backed up my iPhone 5 on iOS 7.1.3 last night, today I got a new iPhone 5 with iOS 6 on it. When I went to restore from iCloud upon turning on device, it won't let me because all my back ups are on iOS 7, not iOS 6 which new iPhone 5 has factory installed.
As we all know Mac OS X Mavericks is now free of charge officially! Does this mean that it is now legal to use Mavericks on non-Apple hardware?
I upgraded to Mavericks last week. I have a secondary monitor, and I use Spaces. Since the upgrade, I have a frequent problem where windows will get stuck partially exposed in the top left corner of the screen, under the finder bar. I can drag it to the right, but it automatically snaps back into the upper left.
I think this is a bug, but perhaps it is a unique problem to me for some reason. I really like independent display switching in Mavericks, and I set it up in what I guess is a unique way. I have two monitors with 4 displays each. Displays 1&5 are activated by the same keyboard shortcut ctrl-1. All the other displays are activated individually with ctrl-2 through ctrl-7. This worked really well and I liked it until I rebooted. Then, it broke.
On Pages 5, how can I easily import pictures from Aperture? On the Media button, it says: No Photos To add photos, go to iPhoto. Is there any way I can view my Aperture albums there, rather than going through Insert → Choose…?
Is it possible to get iOS 7 for the 4th generation iPod touch? I tried to look it up online but I couldn't find it.
I'm not really looking for a single correct answer. I'm just looking for some input regarding the inevitable "gotchas" Apple seems to sneak into every major OS X release that screw over a select handful of people before they have time to resolve whatever feature or app got removed in any given release. I want to know about anything at all; I'm a developer, so even lower-level system tweaks and restrictions have an effect on me.
Is this possibile? I have found an app for jailbroken iphones, is there something for non-jailbroken ones?
Is it possible to use a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable to connect a new-generation iPad with a new-generation MacBook Air so that the iPad can be used as a 2nd monitor?
I just recieved my new Macbook Pro (2013 version) and I have one problem. I know most computers don't do this, but does anybody know of anyway I could stop my microphone (built into the Mac) from picking up the output from the (built in) speakers? In my Windows laptop, I installed some Realtek drivers that would do this for me, and it was nearly perfect. I could play a video/audio, and talk to somebody on Skype/whatever, without having the person I am talking to hear the video. Are there any drivers out there for Mac that do this, as it is a bit frustrating to listen to music/watch videos, and know that the other person can hear it. Thanks.
Since Upgrading to Mavericks Safari 7.0 is extremely slow. Pages are slow to load, and there is a district Lag when typing into an internet page, you end up typing on the keyboard well ahead of whats actually appearing on the screen? I use highlight and drag and copy paste within a web browser for work and this has become almost impossible to do without getting extremely frustrated in its low response time?
I made the mistake of upgrading to Mavericks and now my Samsung ML-1710 won't print. I get Stopped - 'Filter' failed while trying to print a test page for example.
When I go into "Mission Control" mode, some full-screen apps and other spaces can be dragged between my two displays, and some cannot -- they just stop at the edge. I haven't figured out the pattern yet. Some spaces can be dragged between displays, yet other spaces that seem very similar (same kinds of windows in them) cannot, even in the same Mission Control session.
I have the latest version of Macbook Air with Mountain Lion, as of Oct 2013, and since one of the computers is an older one that needs WEP, the Linksys (Cisco) router is set to support both WEP and WPA. However, with the Macbook Air, when the "cisco" is chosen from the list of Wifi connection, it keeps on saying, "Enter the password for WEP", and even if we enter the password, it won't connect. What we have to do is, use "Join Other Network", and type in "cisco", and choose WPA or WPA2 Personal, and then type in the password, and it will connect, but the thing is, sometimes the network drops, or after the computer is rebooted, we will have to repeat the same steps again -- it won't remember the settings to auto connect (using WPA). Is there a way to make this work more smoothly?
Is it possible to execute a script/command right before OS X is shutting down or restarting? I'd like to run sudo apachectl stop to stop apache from auto-starting.
All I'm really trying to do is set up my wife's laptop to use my Mac Pro as a network Time Machine server. We both recently upgraded to Mavericks and I just installed Server.app. Problem is all connection attempts from her account fail, and I can't work out why (after lots of time and effort diagnosing the problem).
Since upgrading to OS X Mavericks, when I want to mount an ISO file that's on my Mac from my Windows 8.1 PC (so, mounting a Mac share on a Windows computer, so I am accessing the file from the Windows PC), I get an error saying it can't mount it. I have to copy the file to the PC to mount the ISO file.
Ever since upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard, Safari’s default User Agent is set to custom. Anybody has any idea why this happens? And how can I fix it?
Does Apple Remote Desktop connect to computers over the internet? Does the client computer need a real internet ip address? The main question is if i can use it to connect to employees laptops no matter where they are, as long as they have an internet connection (similar to Teamviewer)
Some wallpaper apps try to access your camera roll in order to save photos there. Is it safe to do so ? What am I giving developers once I allow them access to my camera roll's photos ?
In Mail app 7.0 on OSX 10.9, If I highlight a piece of text and then choose Message → Forward it creates a new email with the relevant text as a quote. How do I replicate this behaviour with Message → Reply? I believe this functionality was present in an earlier version of Mail.
When submitting to App store can we have the default setting on the notification center set to Alerts rather than banners?
I'm running OS X Mavericks on a computer with two displays that are not mirrored. One of them is configured as the primary display using the menu bar location in Displays System Preference, pre-Mavericks style. (Although both displays actually have the menu bar.)
I have an iPhone 5. Since the latest update to iOS 7, my ripped music won't sync to my phone. The sync stalls at "waiting for changes to be applied". I've run the sync diagnostic, and it indicates there are no problems. I have plenty of room on my phone, and had nearly 2000 songs on it prior to the update. Now, only the purchased tunes sync.
I regularly ssh to one of my OS X boxes. I have configured ssh key-based authentication i.e. added my client-end ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to server-end ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 with restricted enough permissions. This setup has worked fine for years over multiple OS X versions.
I don't know yet whether this is a problem with OSX 10.9 but I am unable to read the cards in my MBA after installation of 10.9. Any solution for this yet?
I have a 6 year old MacBook. It suddenly died last Sunday. When I started it the battery was charged to 100% - some minutes later it was at approximately 20%. Then the screen suddenly turned black and shut down.
I cannot find the public urls: not in iCloud.com, not in my iPhone and not in my Aperture (OS X). So where are the public urls for the shared photo-streams?
What is the advantage of buying a compatible Mac external disk? Using Tuxera NTFS I can have an external disk for both, the windows partition (or any windows machine) as well as for the Mac one.
My mid-2009 MacBook Pro just had a high speed meeting with my floor. (I thought those magsafe cables were supposed to disconnect when you tripped over them... sigh)
I need to create a new path in OS X Mavericks. To do so, I edited .bash_profile:
Preview is not responding for me since the OS X Mavericks update. I cannot open JPEG images. If I try to go to full screen view, I just get the beachball and have to hard reboot. I am a photographer and use this feature extensively to check images. This worked fine before upgrade to OS X Mavericks. Is there anything I can do to resolve this issue?
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 Since upgrading to Mavericks, the Wi-Fi turns off for roughly 8 seconds and turn back on for roughly 8 seconds. I have tried this on several different networks in different physical locations. It seems to be the exact same symptoms as described in this Apple Support Communities thread - even turning Wi-Fi off manually doesn't help (it just turns right back on again). I tried this and rebooting, but it didn't work Try backing up and then deleting this file: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist from this folder: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ In fact, none of the suggestions in the thread seemed to work. I would rather not go through the trouble of downgrading since Ethernet works.
I have a Time Machine backup of my system from last week right before I installed Mavericks. I've determined that Mavericks breaks too many programs that I need to use and doesn't add enough features (yet) for me to want to be using it, so I want to roll back to Mountain Lion.
This what I did: Installed various apps onto my iPad (before the iOS 7 update was released) using another Apple ID. Used the apps, so they had data in them that I would really like back.
I connect from home-Mac to work-Mac over VPN. Then I have 2 options in Finder: VNC: screen-share (restricts you to work-monitors' resolution) AFP: mount the work-directory, then open the Xcode project (can fully utilize larger home-monitors)
I just uninstalled Mavericks Server by dragging it to the trash and I'm finding that my AFP server no longer has access to serve files from the root of each drive. Can anyone help restore the default sharing permissions?
I was interested in recycling my Macbook Air Intel Core i7 1.7 GHz 13" (mid-2013), however, when I went to get started on the recycling program, this model was not listed. I was just wondering when it would be available to be recycled or if I was doing something wrong or missed something.
I went to run LibreOffice on my OS X 10.9 and it would not let me install it. It said it was from an unidentified developer. I'm aware of the security features of the Mac and went to System Preferences to allow the software to run.
My MacBook Pro keeps on restarting since I installed Mavericks. I can start it in Safe Mode, but it wouldn't start up at all normally - it throws me back to the username and password screen. How can I stop this from happening and boot normally?
In Previous version of Mac OS X the Time Machine menu-extra would spin while a backup was in progress. Since upgrading to Mavericks that has been replaced with a static icon that adds a second arrow when the backup is running. I find it much harder to know when a backup is running. Does anybody know if there any way to restore the pre Mavericks spinning menu-extra behavior in Mavericks?
I'd like to configure and start ipfw on Macs running Lion, Mountain Lion. I found that pfctl is configured and started with: How is ipfw configured and launched?
Today neither of the AirPorts show up in the AirPort Utility. I know the hubs are there, that's how I'm accessing the Internet. They appear with the yellow caution indicator /!\ and when I click they say "Device not found".
I'm running Xcode (downloaded from the Mac App Store) on my MacBook Pro running OS X Mavericks. The weird thing is I am running version 3.2.6, yet Xcode claims to be up to date. There are no updates in the Mac App Store.
After installing Mavericks on my MacBook Pro 13 (non-Retina) and on my Mac Mini, a printed message from Mail appears in tiny font. This is independent of the printer (tried on Hp and on Epson). After much experimentation I found that I can only increase the printed font size by raising the viewed font size to 16 or above. Even when doing this the mail message header is still about size 8.
I have one iphone in English, one in French. In the weather app, in English, I can find "New York, NY" no issues. In the French version, New York simply does not appear in the search results! Known issue??
Since upgrading to Mavericks, Finder sometimes hangs when I select a folder and am waiting for its contents to populate the window. This happens primarily in Open dialog boxes:
Numbers has stopped showing up in Launchpad. How can I add it back?
Ever since I upgraded my main machine to Mavericks, every time I open a new app, two things happen: the app takes a long time to open; the whole system slows to a crawl until the app opens completely.
Launching the Server.app version 1.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.7.5) creates these lines in the system.log every time: This machines always fails to "Enable Apple push notifications" without supplying any error message and mostly fails to load the server its "Settings" tab. Loading settings is usually only good on first launch after reboot.
I have a MacBook Pro (model 10.1) with OsX Maverick. When I press the power button the Mac goes to sleep mode. It's possible to wake up from it by pressing any key on the internal keyboard. That's fine.
I ran port selfupdate and MacPorts tried to upgrade itself to version 2.2.1, but eventually fails. When I add the -v flag, I can see the build fails after these lines: How can I get MacPorts back?
I use CardDav to get my Google Contacts on my iPhone, which works great, but I would love it when those contacts were also in sync with iCloud contacts. Meaning when I add John Doe in Google contacts it will show up in iCloud (eventually) and vice versa when I add Jane Doe in iCloud it will show up in Google contacts. I've got an iPhone 4S with iOS7 and a MBP with Mavericks.
I upgraded my Mac with OS X Mavericks last week. It appears to have taken away support for Sqlite -- not Sqlite3, but sqlite. I need that for a website I work on. I went to Sqlite's website, but all I could find was older versions of Sqlite3. Where can I find a version of Sqlite? I've been through the php.ini and can only find one reference to sqlite. In short, how do I get Sqlite support on my Mac? I have Sqlite3 enabled and the issue isn't going away. I uncommented pdo_sqlite in the php.ini and I still have the issue.
I'm a new Apple user and have the option to update my software to Maverick. I know that on Windows when you install a new operating system, all of your previous data is wiped out. It's pretty much a reformat. Will the same happen with Maverick or will I keep all the data I currently have?
In my system, two 'input sources' (languages) are enabled, and I use different languages in different 'documents' (apps). I have Chromium or Safari open (a Webkit browser, that is to say) with English language selected for input. Then I switch to (for example) Skype where I use Russian. And when I switch back to the browser, it has Russian language selected as the current input language—the browser picks the language from another app.
I was recording the screen on my computer that I had updated to Mavericks, and when I replayed the video, there was no audio except the audio captured by my mic. The old Qucktime worked fine, but now it's not.
I would say, the hunt is on. If your are like me, having a old Mac Pro, with 4x HDD (8 TB total) and your preparing for the new Mac Pro (yeah!). Then the question becomes: where do you move your old MP data to something new? Two candidates: LaCie BIG5 Thunderbolt G-Dock EV Thunderbolt You can't not really compare these, however for the moment their the only 2 products i could find. My Thoughts: I like that the LaCie is BIG (starts with 10TB), on the other side the G is easy to extend and you can easily take one HDD and hook-it up with your Macbook as a external disk (sweet).
This is purely a question that will only sate my curiosity. In other systems, when there's a firmware update going on, there is no fan speedup (or none as intense as in the MacBooks). Now, in the case of MacBooks, no matter how fast it is, it just briefly speeds up the fans then when it's done, the fans reduce their speed to their normal level. Does anyone know why this happens?
I zeroed the key and reinstalled the bootloader, but that did not fix the issue. However, when I connect a GPT-formatted disk, the boot screen shows it with the label "Windows", as it normally does. It would be helpful to know whether other people can (or cannot) reproduce the issue on the same model.
Everything takes time now since I upgraded to OS X Mavericks. Starting applications, switching from monitor to monitor, sending mail, downloading mail, typing... you name it, there is a beach ball for that.
When I use for example a browser like Safari there are websites where you can go over an area with your mouse and a hover label appears.  When I switch to fast from safari into another application or desktop the hover label just stays at it's original positions until I find the exact tab with the website where this hover label has been used.
Now that I've upgraded to ios7 and Mavericks I find that listening to music via Home Sharing on my iPad no longer updates the play count in iTunes. Is this a bug - or is there something I'm missing. I have ticked the relevant box in iTunes preferences.
I just upgraded to Mavericks on my new Macbook Air and I am facing issues downloading apps from the Mac app store. When I click on the install button on any app, it does the usual animation of jumping into the Application folder and then the button immediately says installed. If you go to the dashboard you can see the new app icon with the progress bar inside it which has moved all the way to the end and the cancel button on the upper left corner. It remains this way forever. No it doesn't matter if the app is big or small; it always behaves this way although I have had random apps succeeding. The problem is not just the fake complete notification, the app never gets installed and sometimes it gives an error saying that the download failed and asks me to retry again from the purchases menu in the App store. I have even done a complete re-installation of Mavericks but it did not help.
I've downloaded Mavericks from the App Store, repartitioned a 32GB USB key, and followed the instructions. Specifically, I ran:
I've tried the following site in Safari: *=URL=* which seems to activate plugin but stalls while loading:
I find that my two-year-old will often delete photos...most of the times by accident. Is there a mode on the iPhone or some other software that will help thwart this? Is there a way to control which apps a child can access? (I'm hoping that Apple would build it right into the OS.)
AVI files opened in VLC: "Your input can't be opened. VLC is unable to open the MRL." ISO files opened by Windows Explorer: "Sorry, there was a problem mounting the file."
A couple of people on twitter share this issue, but I cannot find any discussions of it nor solutions. Since moving to OS X 10.9, Reminders app keeps pinwheeling, and won't respond. It doesn't crash, so I have to force-quit it. This happens on both my 2008 iMac and my 2013 Air. On my Air, I can tell something weird is happening because upon launching Reminders the fans kick on loud. The data seems to be syncing fine from iCloud, so it doesn't look like a sync issue is causing this. Any ideas about what could be causing this issue and how to fix it?
I just started using enthought's canopy to manage my python packages; thus I want to disable and/or uninstall all of my macports python packages. Nominally, I'd like to deactivate them first - make sure things still work - then uninstall and delete them. I've tried doing: but that returns the error: I've tried to uninstall all inactive ports (sudo port uninstall inactive), but that didn't seem to resolve the issue. Finally, if I try that just starts to deactivate everything... edit: e.g.
After upgrading my Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I've encountered a minor problem. The video chat plugin of Facebook no longer works. On the Facebook chat box, the video chat icon is no longer visible. I've tried uninstalling the plugin by removing the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Facebook but I still haven't seen the video chat icon.
I have to downgrade from Mavericks to Mountain Lion due to some software required for work. I used the Internet Recovery method to downgrade, but it is not Lion. I would like to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but there is only Mavericks available in the Mac App Store.
I have an iPhone 4. I just updated my phone to the most recent iOS (7.03). My iMessage won't let me send from my phone number, and people are receiving my messages from my email. The phone number is there but is grey and won't let me select it. Why is it disabled? How do I fix this?
I have a 2009 iMac that I just upgraded to 10.9 OSX Mavericks and after migrating my old software over, my computer is having random kernel panics within 5 minutes of being booted up. Can anyone find any clues in the panic log below?
My iPhone displays phone numbers on incoming calls. How do I get it to display the name of the caller
I have the latest iTunes 11.1.2, and is sync'ing the iPhone 5s with it. However, one thing I found disturbing is that, I may record Voice Memos on my iPhone 5s, either as a personal diary or even for business summary. The Voice Memos, however, will be sync'ed and added to Songs in iTunes. That means, even if my Mac is locked by the screen saver, any person can press the Play button (the F8 key on the keyboard) and start playing my songs and be able to hear all my voice diary or business summary.
I received "You have iWork apps for OS X Mavericks available." notification and went to install the suite from the App Store. Keynote was stuck on waiting, so I clicked the 'x' icon and now it has disappeared from the purchased tab. In launcher it's still showing up as "waiting", and in the App Store it's now a $19.99 purchase instead of free.
I just got a brand new Macbook Pro (2.4 GHz Intel Core i5) with OS X 10.9 Mavericks preinstalled. It's working great and I love the retina screen, but I've had a recurring issue daily where the Keyboard and Trackpad suddenly become completely unresponsive.
I'm having trouble syncing -- my iCloud and iPhone 4s (running iOS 5.1.1) only partially sync with one another. I.e., new entries sync, as do changes to contacts that appear in both. BUT… I have numerous entries on my phone that have never copied over. Moreover, even when I deleted all my contacts on my iPhone, my favorites still had names, as did my texts. I mention in case this is related. Did I fail to truly wipe contacts from my phone? I tried tubedogg's advice in iPhone contacts aren't syncing to iCloud to turn off iCloud, wait 15min, and then turn it on again and it increased the number of my contacts dramatically, from about 3600 to about 5600. FYI, in iTunes, I've checked the option for Auto backup via iCloud. I'll happily rewrite this question -- and/or welcome edits. I'm new to the community and appreciate help (& apologies for being longwinded).
A free 8GB USB key given to me shows up in Snow Leopard as read-only. How can I mount it read-write? According to the provider of the USB key:
Ever since upgrading to Mavericks, it looks like my Mac Mini wakes from sleep about once an hour or so. In the Console, I get the following message: Anyone know why it's doing this?
Cinch requires us to "Enable access to assistive devices". However this option is not found on OS X Mavericks > System Preferences. Where can I find it?
Anyone could tell me which application stands behind this icon on the menu bar?  I tried to figure it out but I couldn’t. Nothing happens when I click on it.
In Mavericks, the Activity Monitor has changed its memory terminology. The columns available when viewing processes in the memory tab now include "Memory", "Real Memory", "Real Private Memory", "Real Shared Memory" and "Purgeable Memory".
Every time I connect my iPhone 5S (7.0.3, but have had this issue since 7.0 with both 5S and iPhone 4) to my computer (Latitude E6410 with Windows 7 Pro) I get prompted to Trust the computer. I trust it, and each time I reconnect the USB cable, the prompt returns. I am not alone.
Using the defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"My user agent string\"" command, you can set the default User Agent for Safari. This means that the CustomUserAgent key gets written in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist.
When I open a Finder window, all the file timestamps show the same hour, 19:08. The dates change, but the hour stays constant. This is also the case for time/dates shown in the Console. The Clock on the top right shows the correct time. A datecommand in Terminal shows the correct time. I have zapped my NVRAM and also replaced the on-board battery. I am using a MacPro 1,1 with Mac OS X 10.7.5
How do we set up the guest account so it restricts Internet access to all applications and scripts in all ports? Using parental controls only restricts web access, and I'm looking how to prevent any application to access the Internet.
My precious iPhone 3GS which I've treasured for four years has finally had its first "issue". I decided yesterday to finally get rid of the update available indication (the "1" badge) that's been sitting next to the Settings.app icon and run the update on my iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.1.3). It downloaded fine but unfortunately it came up with an error message when it tried to apply the update (direct to phone, not via PC/iTunes).
At the moment I'm using both uname and sw_vers But if I want to display the commercial name (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, ...) I have to manually maintain a list of osx version - commercial name pair.
Mail.app is not working since the upgrade to OS X Mavericks. I read that I should try to uncheck SSL. However it won't let me. All my emails just sit in the outbox. Is there a way to remedy this or is there another mail software I can download? I'm using Gmail which I know has types of issues and have accepted that but it's my business POP emails that is frustrating me.
Creating InDesign "Paragraph / Character Style" shortcuts on a Mac wireless keyboard w/o number pad. Does someone have a fix for this problem? …or still is not possible?
In Mac OS X Mavericks, I'm not able to export a private key from keychain. I'm getting the following error message: /* In dark wake, no UI possible */ Searching it in Apple documentation fetched the following details: value: -25320
The new version of Pages has the format bar (i.e. the bar where you change the font size, typeface, alignment, spacing, etc.) on the right of the document:
I recently bought a MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 with 8GB DDR3. By monitoring with htop I notice that my RAM usage sometimes goes up to 7GB, with only Google Chrome, a few iTerms a text editor and app store.
So I've tried with most of my fingers, and both my thumbs. It doesn't work for me. (hopefully yet)
I need to downgrade my Safari version from 6.1 back down to 6.0.2. What are the steps?
I have a similar problem like another user had and followed all possible steps including reinstalling and cleaning up Keychain etc before. The first time I start Lync after a reinstall, I can even see a Menu bar for some seconds. But before any window gets rendered, the Crash Reporter opens. This is what the error said: Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0 Error Signature: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS Date/Time: 2013-10-30 13:23:14 +0000 Application Name: Microsoft Lync Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Lync Application Signature: UCCP Application Version: 14.0.6.130930 Crashed Module Name: libcorecrypto.dylib Crashed Module Version: unknown Crashed Module Offset: 0x0002783a Blame Module Name: Microsoft Lync Blame Module Version: 14.0.6.130930 Blame Module Offset: 0x002cc862 Application LCID: 1031 Extra app info: Reg=English Loc=0x0407 Crashed thread: 0 Any Ideas how to solve this?
I am trying to get a photo from my husband's old iPad to my MacBook Pro. I have backed up his iPad to my computer and iCloud, but can't find the photos anywhere? I tried looking for a MobileSync file on my computer, but one doesn't exist. Any ideas?
If I open an external drive, or an folder on that drive, in the Finder, then enter Time Machine by clicking on the menu bar icon and selecting "Enter Time Machine", then Time Machine runs, but it jumps me back to my User folder, rather than using the currently open folder that I have opened up on my external drive. This problem does not occur if I enter Time Machine on my internal drive. Does anyone else have this problem? I think it started happening recently, perhaps after I upgraded to Mavericks.
Apple announced the new iPad Mini models, and they look spectacular. I've never owned a device with a cellular data plan before, and the idea of near-ubiquitous connectivity sounds truly amazing. But buying a model locks you in to a particular carrier, and the carriers have very different pricing structures when it comes to data.
In Mavericks, the Save dialog now offers the ability to add Tags to the file you're saving:  Supposing I want to remove this prompt, likely by running a shell command involving defaults write com.apple.finder. How do I do so?
After updating to iOS 7, all my contacts have disappeared and iCloud is grey in my settings, i.e. not live. I keep getting a notification asking for me to accept Terms and Conditions of iCloud, but when I click, it goes to the grey iCloud in settings. How can I sort this out?
I'm currently using sips --resampleHeightWidth 250 300 "S1" to resize new images in a folder but I think that it might be resizing images that were already resized.. Is there anyway to know this for sure? If not what do I add so I can only resize images taht are 315x300?
Is there a way to configure Quicksilver so it will open folders in new Finder tabs? Right now, when I use QS to navigate to a folder location and select the "Open" option from the actions pane QS opens a new Finder window at that folder location.
I have been using my MacBook Pro for nearly 2 years. I have no problem using iMessages both on my iPhone and Mac. However, today, I can't seem to be able to send any messages out from my Mac. There is no problem on my phone. Also, I cannot use FaceTime on my Mac. I reviewed through the internet for some solutions, but nothing seems to work, such as deleting files, changing setting on the Flash Player. How can I resolve this issue?
Before upgrading to Mavericks, I had a "Sharing only" account called "Shared" with a password, which I used to allow other computers to connect to my Mac. However, since upgrading to Mavericks, this account no longer appears in the "Users & Groups" System Preferences pane. I believe this is because it conflicted with the built-in "Shared" folder in /Users/Shared, so Mavericks probably had trouble with this account when upgrading OS X.
In Mavericks’ Safari, the “feature” named “Fast Start” begins to load the first result of the search typed in the search bar. How can I disable such folly ?
I'm running Mac OS X Mavericks and I have several apps set up to use fullscreen mode. There's no dock at the bottom of the screen, and it doesn't appear either when I scroll to the bottom of the screen like it normally does in non-fullscreen mode. How can I reveal the dock when in fullscreen mode?
The new iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular model will work with one of these wireless carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon. But, when I travel internationally, can I use a nano-SIM card from another local GSM carrier?
Ever since upgrading to Mavericks v 10.9.0, the swirly beach ball of death shows up randomly for a split second, even if nothing is currently loading. Is anyone else experiencing this problem or is it a known bug?
My question is in the title: does OS X allow to set a shortcut with backspace, like Ctrl+Option ⌥+Command ⌘+backspace (in my case to an Automator service)? Edit: You might think "Try it yourself"; well, I did it. In System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts, I tried to add this shortcut to my service and it doesn't work. The problem seems to be with backspace. Ctrl+Option ⌥+Command ⌘+m works well. Does anybody know a workaround that allows me to use the backspace key in a keyboard shortcut?
I'm a new Mac user since yesterday. I've read much about the notifications which are available with Mavericks. I connected my Twitter account and also set up my iCloud mail account. I thought that I would receive notifications in the upper right corner of when I receive new mails or Tweets were created from people I'm following. I was very disappointed when I recognized that there are no notifications at all. Do I have to set up notifications some where?
There seem to be different problems and solutions to this problem floating around: Fix switching from SMB to cifs Not being able to access OS X shares from Windows All kinds of problems with SMB and Mavericks over at Apple
Is there a way to export or e-mail voicemail (not Voice Memos) from the iPhone (running iOS7)? I am guessing there are some under-the-hood ways to get at the files once you sync to a desktop, but is there any way to do it straight from the phone? (Actually, even a desktop-based solution would probably help.) I have seen this response for jailbroken phones.
The following warning appears:  This happens both when I save and the autosave (which happens often). It is a modal box and interrupts workflow.
On my work computer, I am only using Messages on Mavericks to connect to AIM. I am noticing these are not showing up in notification center with 'quick reply', though I would like them to. Is this true of all non-iMessage accounts, all the time? If so, are there any workarounds to getting AIM messages to appear in notification center?
I just downloaded OS X Mavericks for my MacBook Pro. I don't know if this is a unique problem, but the screen brightness is automatically adjusting on it's own.
I'm looking to create a backup script that uses rsync to move pictures, but I'm curious what would happen if the rsync process takes longer than the time between launchd triggers? Will it recognize that it's still running the previous one or attempt to run potentially conflicting rsync processes?
In OS 10.8, you could set the keyboard layout for Japanese input in Kotoeri Preferences. The default was US, which generates the correct layout for a JIS hardware keyboard. In 10.9, Apple deleted this preference setting, and the keyboard layout is now set by whichever layout was most recently used. So now anyone who normally uses something other than US winds up with output that does not fit a JIS keyboard, unless they go to the trouble of switching to the US layout before they do so, which is major inconvenience. It seems like one should be able to fix this via some sort of .plist modification or "defaults write" command line input, but I can't figure out how. Another way to put it is: How can one make US the default layout for Kotoeri input in 10.9, even when US is not on the list of user keyboards, but something else like French is.
This leaves me puzzled, so I would appreciate any reactions or responses you may have in the comments. Could this be: - malware? This seems less likely, since a scan of the hard drive in safe mode with clamXav turned up clean. - an artifact of a previous non-standard configuration? Perhaps this behavior is somehow related to something like Safari Mobile Bookmarks Sync (which I had disabled), or some sort of upgrade hiccup associated with upgrading a fully-patched copy of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 to OS X Mavericks 10.9 a few days prior? - a potential new cookie-like vector that Apple and/or advertisers could potentially use to fingerprint users via a snapshot of their HTTPS browsing history, even when using Safari’s Private Browsing mode? This would be an outrage. - a new “feature” associated with Safari’s implementation of HSTS? Given the potential privacy implications, this would also be an outrage.
I wrote myself a little script to delete JPG+RAW files by just reviewing my JPG (who loads faster thant CR2). I've put the following code in an Automator service bound to a keyboard shortcut.
How can I do a mouse scroll on a Finder window in AppleScript ? I know there is keystroke for the keyboard, click for a mouse click, but is there something for the mouse wheel ?
Mavericks changed the behavior of my MacBook Air's power key to put the Air to sleep immediately when pressed briefly. Prior to Mavericks, the power key would summon the Shut Down dialog.
I have a m4a audio file that I need to convert to a mov file. How can I do this?
I'm looking for a text editor of some kind where it's split down the middle when editing 2 separate files. I'm trying to translate some text and it would be helpful if I could have English and its meaning on 1 side and Spanish on the other. Is there anything like this for OS X?
I want to type in Spotlight commands such as shutdown, reboot, suspend or lock and make it execute it, just like Alfred does. How to make this possible with Spotlight?
My MacBook Pro having OS X 10.9 is connected to network printer HP LaserJet P3005x, but I can't print on both sides of the paper automatically, particularly the Word documents. Can someone guide me how to solve this problem?
I have a backup drive attached to my main computer, which I use to clone my main drive every night via SuperDuper. My problem is that if I use the new tags feature in OS X 10.9, I get duplicate entries in my tag "folders". One for the main drive, and one for the clone drive.
I have some videos on my iPhone 5S and I don't know if there is a way of hiding them like in other OSs (e.g., Symbian) or not. Does anyone know how to hide files (such as video or photo files) in iOS?
I'm trying to figure out which HDMI Capture Card to buy and the cards that support 1080p60 are ten times more expensive than the ones that only does 1080i60/1080p30. I would love to get 1080p60 out of the iPad, but I don't want to bet on this.
After upgrading to Mavericks the I-beam cursor in the terminal became less visible (see screenshot, I am using the Pro profile with a dark background)  Is there a way to change the cursor's color or to make it more visible? In the preferences I only managed to change the color of the text cursor.
One thing i've been wondering about is how Mavericks handles flash etc.... In the demo that Craig F did on stage, he hid a browser video (or animation) behind another window and then the activity monitor usage dropped to 0 for that process. That's all great, but my question is what if you want the animation or video to run, because it's a game you DONT want paused, or a video that you're happy for it to keep running, is it the case that now when you have a hidden window that everything ceases to run in that window?
I'm having an odd problem with my Comcast emails. I have 2 comcast emails. Messages are received "theoretically" on both my mac(Mavericks) and iphone (ios 7).
I want to insert/embed a file in the Word Document. If i go to, Insert -> File and then select the file, it inserts the text present in that file. But i want to display it as only an icon.
Before Mavericks I could use Keychain to store my SSH keyfile passwords The connection between private key and Keychain was like this: ssh-add -K /path/of/private/key However now in Mavericks, the -K option has been removed. Of course, I can skip the "-K" option and manually copy paste the password every time I start my computer... but I would rather use the keychain method again.
After upgrading to Maverick, I can't use the open command anymore from the terminal. Whenever I do, I get: This is independent on the document chosen. I use homebrew as well, if this helps. My .profile is as follow: and my .bash_profile is The open command is the correct one: Any suggestions? Rainer
What's the best adapter to connect a MBP Retina to a VGA data Projector?
In the previous Pages release there used to be the possibility to assign keyboard shortcuts to styles, although limited to the F1..F8 keys. Apparently this feature is missing from the freshly installed Pages 5.0. Even worse, shortcuts do not apply to documents created with a template that defined the shortcuts link. Is there any other way to assign keyboard shortcut to styles? Cheers ====
I no longer wish to use my old iPhone 3GS. I used to use my Apple-ID to log into The iTunes & App Store on it. Since I use that Apple-ID for iTunes & App Store on several other iDevices, I want to completely deauthorize and unregister the iPhone 3GS from my Apple-ID.
We used to use /etc/environment to set system-wide environment variables on Mountain Lion. However, it seems this file is no longer read.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get more information on the syncing process - i.e. speed of the transfer, MB remaining, estimated time, etc.
I like the convenience of being able to crop jpg/png images with Preview, but I would also like to be able occasionally to restrict the aspect ratio of the cropped image. This is useful, for instance, if I want to prepare images for printing in 4x6 or 5x7, while avoiding any surprise cropping made by the photo lab.
This is a pretty simple question. Assuming you know what WinDirStat &/or Disc Inventory X do, which is visualize the usage of your hard drive on a file-by-file basis, sized in proportion to the size of the given file(s) & colorized according to type.
I've been using the following terminal command to set the current default printer paper size to a custom paper size Unfortunately looking in preferences panel this is not setting the paper size, please does anyone know where this default paper is now set in Mavericks
Also, I am not looking to disable the login prompt from the screensaver. I work in an office and it is general practice to always lock your computer(s) when you step away from your desk. I need the login window to pop-up when I need to log into my Mac.
I'm using Mavericks Server to serve Apple Software Updates to my various Macs. Apparently, I have to point the client at the server, specifying my URL "e.g. http://su.domain_name.com:8088/index.sucatalog".
I just made a big silly mistake in the newest Pages Version on Mac air, I clicked "setup", then I clicked "Document Body", and then Pages asked me"Are you sure you want to remove the body of the document?",and I said "Yes",and all my stuff just disappeared. There was nothing left.
Calendar on iPhone 4s does not work with iOS 7. It stopped working 2 days ago. It won't open on the phone. iCloud is working fine and so is iCal on my MacPro. How do I get it to work again?
I have recently become the proud owner of a new iPhone 5s and have benefitted from the free iWork apps that are available to new devices. I also own a 2012 MacBook Pro running Mavericks. Now I have the iWork apps on my iPhone, does it entitle me to them on my Mac via 'purchased' or are they different apps altogether being on different platforms?
I installed Mavericks (upgrading from Mountain Lion) on my MacBook Pro (from early 2011) and the install seemed to go fine. However, this morning while I was working on PowerPoint, it switched off with no warning at all (it was connected to AC power and battery was full). Then, it refused to boot. After the spinning bar under the logo, it just gave a gray screen and was completely unresponsive. I tried to boot into safe mode by pressing ⇧ shift while booting and it reached a blue screen with vertical black stripes and was again unresponsive.
I've got this old AppleScript that uses a mouseclick function: It no longer works, probably due to a change in how the accessibility permissions works in Mavericks. You need to give permissions on an app by app basis. Unfortunately, SystemEvents.app is not in the list of apps to give permissions. How can I make it appear? Is there another solution that does not depend on downloading utilities from third-parties? This is the error message I get:
One of my favorite applications appears not to be working after making the upgrade to Mavericks. I am referring to TarPit which creates easily archives for me. I just loved this application since on command line creating a tar.gz would also include the .DS_Store files, and other similar nonsense.
In the system preferences, I've set all of them to "None" for the various applications, but I'm still seeing things like software updates and battery status there in pop-ups in the top-right corner of my screen. Is there any way to just turn off all notifications?
I'm sure this used to be valid: But it seems not to be in Mavericks. Indeed, the example for parsing dates in man date also doesn't seem to work: Any ideas on a workaround?
I ran across this question, but it wasn't resolved (and it hasn't been touched in a while). I'm not sure if my issue is the same, but I don't have enough reputation here to comment on that question.
The usual method of using Quartz Debug doesn't seem to work anymore.
So I used to use this script from MacOSXHints to automatically toggle my Wi-Fi whenever I connected my OS X 10.6 and 10.8 MBPs into Ethernet or my 27" TB Display: Ever been annoyed to be on both wireless AND wired network at the same time, without the opportunity to automatically disable AirPort when plugging in a cable? Well this little script and launchd agent will auto-disable AirPort on active ethernet. Since installing Mavericks on my new Late 2013 retina MBP 15, even after editing the interface names to the new system's (en5, for example) the script no longer works; I think that the old /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder is no longer used or working the same in Mavs as in previous releases..
A common problem that I'm having with MacPorts is that I will go to install a port, and it will list a port as a dependency that I have installed outside of MacPorts. For example:
I updated the last iOS 7 for my dhaughters iPad. We have had the same apple ID for iTunes shop but different game center nicknames so that we could play same games but saved separately with our personal game develoments. Now after the update the game center is not letting me to log her in with her nickname but is telling that this name is already in use!? What can i do to not to loose all her games?
Is there a way to have quick reply text field visible by default in Messages notification? Now one has to click on the reply button. But the button is too small for a fast click.
I'm thinking about using Ruby to write an installation script, but I'm not sure if all major versions of Mac OS X install it by default. Which version(s) of Mac OS X have the Ruby interpreter installed by default?
There don't seem to be any other issues, no kernel panics or anything like that. Indeed there are no error messages of any kind, save for the obvious fact that it's just done a normal reboot. Most applications deal with it gracefully, opening as if they crashed, but services like Python close and if the program doesn't handle it properly, data gets lost.
My iTunes play count is indicating that I have played certain tracks hundreds of times which is incorrect as I have only played these tracks 10 or 15 times. It also seems to have done so only with one or two artists and on a couple occassions where they have recorded the same song. Why does this happen and can it be corrected?
I have a Macbook and usually have it plugged into power. I then connect iPhone 5 via USB port to charge the iPhone - it has worked for 3 years. I updated my software to Mavericks last week and now the Macbook says "USB Device Disabled" "Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB device" Can anyone assist?
I would like to know what kind of speed implications using FileVault2 would have on my MBPr (late 2013). As there are much faster SSD's in these machines I want to know whether there is a noticeable speed difference compared older generations.
We are an Apple school with Macs and iPads. I'd like us to start a magazine that's digitally distributed but Newsstand apps would be too complex (plus there's no revenue model) from what I have read on this site. On the other hand, the iPad app Creative Book Builder is too simple. Using web based applications like Glossi.com has limitations in Safari. Ideally, I'd like to: Work on iPads (in an app) OR Macs Work collaboratively
I have a system with OSX 10.9, and another system with OSX 10.7.5. I am trying to setup internet sharing between the from 10.9 to 10.7.
Does anyone know how I can get (10.9) Messages and Facebook messages to play nice? I have some security features enabled on Facebook that make it more difficult for someone to log into my account outside of my list of trusted devices/apps. Facebook has a password generating feature that requires you to either scan a QR code or type in their generated password and it seems to only work for mobile 3rd party apps, not 3rd party OS X apps. I did try plugging in the generated code into messages in the account set up menu but no dice.
I'm running OS X Mavericks and have the entire hard drive encrypted with FileVault 2. I intend to upgrade to a larger hard drive (actually an SSD). In the past when not using FileVault, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the entire disk to the new hard drive. Can this be accomplished with a FileVault protected drive?
Application switching cause one application to slide into another. Most times this is fine but am working on a MacBook Air and the slide transition causes motion sickness at times, especially after prolonged use (4+ hours). Looking for a way to turn off these animation.
I don't like the almost invisible little colored dots (tags) that have replaced the full-length color highlighted labels used in Mountain Lion. Is there a way to go back to using full-field labels?
WWDC 2012 Session 709, What’s New in the File System, presented by Deric Horn included the following observation: Journaled HFS+ everywhere. In the iOS Developer Library, NSDictionary Class Reference contains references to HFS. Do iPhones use HFS Plus? Journaled or not journaled?
On previous versions of iOS, I knew how to get a list of sites previously visited. I need to get URL of site i browsed about 3 weeks ago.
I've got a problem. I use from lot of time an Automator's shell script:
I have an iMac and I also happen to have a MacBook Air. What I need is this strange layout - I want to be able to control my iMac with my MacBook. I also want to be able to share my iMaс screen to my MacBook's. So ideally I have a single machine - iMac responsible for all the hardware and the MacBook as just as an external display and a keyboard with a touchpad. How do you achieve this?
I use Macs a lot to host applications running on Linux boxes via X Windows, but tend to find that, after some period of time, I can no longer open new X Windows clients on the Mac - I get messages like: This can occur even when I am attempting to launch the application from an existing X Windows client (eg an xterm). My X server is XQuartz 2.7.4, but I have this problem when using the native X Windows support also. Update: Just to make it clear, I am using ssh with X forwarding to log in to the remote host eg ssh -X remote_host
I've got two HFS+ partitions and would like to grow the latter one but neither disk utility nor the commandline diskutil allow that. I don't want copy the whole partition to another drive and then copy it back. I also don't want to use some kind of Boot-CD because I'm really lazy. So are there any other options.
On my iphone 5 I could make apps "disappear" by double clicking on the home button and then temporarily remove the ones in regular use by holding finger on them until the shook then cancelling by pressing the cross.This preserved battery power. On the iphone 5s this system doesn't work. Anyone have an answer?
With the October 2013 iWork update, the new UI is great but it seems one cannot store documents as 'flat file' any more. This really limits my ability to store the files, essentially ruling self-hosted version control (git, hg etc.) out of the picture. The problem is: adding a new picture to a document creates a new file within the bundle, which should be explicitly added to the version control adding a new picture to a document creates a new file within the bundle, which should be explicitly added to the version control removing pictures removes them from the bundle but - again - version control should be notified. removing pictures removes them from the bundle but - again - version control should be notified. I tried the trick of zipping the bundle and renaming it back to '.pages' (the way iWork'09 handled flat files) but it does not work. Has anyone else been bit by this - do you have work-arounds (other than using iCloud, Dropbox - I'm fine with some of the documents living there b
I downloaded latest XCode version for Mavericks. I'm looking forward to emulate older versions of iOS for wev development testing. I followed instructions at this posts where an answer recommends checking XCode's Preferences -> Downloads sections. By going there is seems that I'm only able to download SDK's for iOS 6.1 and iOS 6.0.
I realized that I'm always I receive a message informing that my startup disk is almost full. So I used the "Disk Inventory" App to know what was happening. My sleepimage was bigger than 20Gb, I read that one of the Mavericks OS features was the little size of sleepimage.
How to stop Mail.app (version 7.0) on my Mac OSX 10.9 from downloading attachments automatically. I have setup my Gmail account, and I want to be given an option to download attachments instead of having them downloading automatically.
I was recently inspecting the Usage tab in my iPhone's settings. The Messages app is #2 on the list with almost 700 MB. Anecdotal reports have it that the app can take up multiple GB of space. So what is in there?
I make my Time Machine backups on an external hard drive. Recently I upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Now I need the ability to freeze those old backups I've done with Mountain Lion in case I need to go back with the hole system. What I tried so far:
When I go to search the iTunes store from my iPhone the page displays a "No Results for"... I have been unable to find a way to perform another search. This page is not responding to any input. What should I do? Here is a screenshot:
I've never had any of such problem earlier. I can recognize that there's a 5% chance that these problems are something else related, but to be realistic, I'm pretty sure that it is Mavericks or something linked to it. How do I fix these problems?
We have an iMac and after upgrading to OS X Mavericks. We have been been experiencing random shutdowns - below is the error report. I would be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction to stop this from happening.
“Smart Zoom” is a feature of the new version of Safari in OS X Mavericks and it’s triggered with a simple double-tap on the track pad. Whilst very useful for quickly zooming in and out of websites etc, its also very easy to trigger, which is irritating. How can one disable this in Safari ?
When importing CDs in iTunes you have the option to enable error correction. With the exception of the obvious potential for slower import speeds... is there any reason not to have this enabled?
In Linux if I want to see all the devices currently connected to my computer in the command-line, I run: or What's the equivalent command under Mac OS X? NOTE The goal here is to be able to obtain information about a device based on its label or other uniquely identifying attributes, even if it hasn't been mounted, thus df is not a viable option. Examples of the kind of info I'm looking for are: /dev/<dev-name> uuid label (if any) mount point NOTE I need to be able to see network-attached drives as well!
I'm running iTunes 11.1.2 on OSX Mavericks and have a bunch of songs of unknown albums. I know that we can retrieve album artwork from the album name, but that's not what I am interested in. What I would like to know is wether it is possible or not to retrieve album name for each song I have given only song name and artist name (and maybe the song file itself, of course).
I've noticed since updating to Mavericks last week (though this is a new Macbook, and I've been on Snow Leopard forever so not sure if this is 10.9 or 10.8 or what....) that horizontal scrolling in the Finder via two-finger trackpad movements is not working well. I've tried turning inertia on and off, no difference. Toggled everything in Trackpad in System Prefs, still no difference. It seems "sticky" -- if I move my fingers continuously, the Finder scrolls in tiny fits and starts, but if i swipe, I get a normal inertia scroll.
I have an iMac that is running Mavericks with OS X Server. I have the Time Machine service set up on that machine, referring to a directory on an external drive that is connected via Firewire. Other Macs in the house use this as the Time Machine backup location.
Ever since I upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, an issue has been occuring at seemingly random moments. Without warning, my trackpad will no longer allow me to click or use gestures, although moving the cursor around is still possible. Also, both Spotlight and the application switcher (cmd+tab) stop appearing, although the latter does function (but without any graphical feedback).
I run a mid 2012 MacBook Pro as my main system. It drives two Apple Thunderbolt Monitors. Prior to my clean install of OSX 10.9 Mavericks, I worked with both monitors connected (as an expanded desktop) without issue. Now it regularly ignores the second monitor after the displays go to sleep.
Asepsis is currently not working under Mavericks. It's, in my knowledge, the only single-purpose app existing for this job. Therefore, what is the less intrusive solution to prevent .DS_Store creation after the update to Mavericks?
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro. I recently upgraded both of them from Mountain Lion to Mavericks and now neither of them can “see” each other, despite both having File Sharing and Remote Login enabled in the “Sharing” section of System Preferences.
So Time Machine keeps hourly backups for a day and dailies for a week and weeks until disk full. The problem is that I am paranoid and concerned about discovering that I made changes to a file over time in the past and that I want the version that disappeared between weekly backups. (Yes, yes, I use git and other version control solutions for many things but I like to be paranoid and hate things I can't configure myself). Is it possible to change how long hourly and daily backups are kept for and if so where?
When I download .img files for writing to a CD or USB I've noticed a problem under OS X (including Mavericks). If Disk Utility recognizes the image and burns it, the resulting disk is corrupted. If Disk Utility doesn't recognize the image (e.g. a Raspberry Pi image) and I dd the image to a USB drive, the resulting disk is corrupted. Yet, I can take any of these images, download them to Ubuntu Linux and write them out perfectly.
I installed the update to Mavericks a few days ago, and while it's mostly been great there is no longer a sound that goes with the low battery warning. I have several programs which suppress the visual notifications, which makes for very unpleasant interruptions when the machine goes into standby.
I took a bunch of screenshots and I want to make them pages in a single PDF. Selecting all four in Preview and exporting to PDF only exports two (?), separately. The "Export to PDF" File menu function adds a strange white border around the screenshots (and orients the page as portrait). So I converted each to PDFs individually and then combined them manually. I tried the solutions here, but Mavericks' Preview doesn't appear to work that way anymore. What's the best, free, hopefully built-in way to automate this?
I use Mac OS 10.5.8 and I want to install Gnuplot. I have found some advice on the net but it is not useful for me. Can anyone give me some clear steps of what is needed? What programs do I need and where can I find them exactly? A step-by-step solution invoking terminal commands would be appreciated.
I am running Airport Utility 6.3. I can see the list of WIRELESS clients connected. I can't see anywhere in the utility where I can see WIRED/ETHERNET clients connected.
When I logged into my website in safari, I got the following message: safari will not save your password because MyWebsite requested passwords not be saved What meta tag/value do I need on my site to tell Safari it's ok?
I am trying to download a free app but it keeps telling me to provide a credit card. I try to avoid it but it won't let me and I don't have a credit card. How can I use App Store without a credit card?
Apple recently announced that iLife and iWork suites are free with new Macs and iOS devices, but how does it work? Is it preinstalled? What happens if I wipe out the system—will it still be free in the App Store? Does it associate the apps with purchases on a single Apple ID?
I am using the standard podcast app that comes with iOS 7. I have subscribed to about 8-9 different podcasts. Commonly I will take my phone with me when I leave the apartment, and then when I get on the subway I will attempt to listen to a podcast. Invariably, the podcast won't play because no cellular connection is available. To solve this issue I have indicated through the podcast app that I would like episodes to be automatically downloaded when they become available. However, they don't get automatically downloaded. This absolutely infuriates me.
First of all, I have solved the problem. It took me quite a while to figure out, so I'll share the solution here in case anyone runs into the same problem.
I'm on mountain lion 10.8.5 and recently my friend gave me a 4K resolution video. When I used QuickTime player, the video is very sharp and some of the text in it can't be seen correctly. However when I used VLC to play it, it played without any errors and I can clearly see the text. I like the UI of QuickTime player, so is there any way to make it appear on QT?
I made the mistake of thinking OS X 10.9 Mavericks was an improvement over 10.8.5 Mountain Lion and my system now is slugish, applications constantly crash, and it's generally horrible. I would like to migrate back to 10.8.5 and need my applications and settings to be transferred back onto a partition containing 10.8.5.
I plugged the USB thumb drive in, booted my MacBook Pro (8,1) up and held the option key. My USB drive won't show up (I want to install Ubuntu). How to fix this?
I get this really damn annoying banner every time I plug in my iPad and sometimes when I build and go in Xcode it loses connection with the iPad for a second and reconnects straight away. Anyone know how to get rid of this notification? I know my iPad won't charge on this Mac Pro, it predates the iPad so it has less power going through the USB ports.
I'd like to require password to wake my Macbook Air running Mavericks when it is not in my home. So if it was not connected to my home wifi, then I'd like it to require password to wake from sleep or screen saver. And else, I'd like it to require password. Can that be done?
I'm wondering if there is a way to use FileMerge as a standalone tool. I don't want to install Xcode, since I don't need it. I just want the FileMerge app. Is that possible?
I have a disk drive connected to my router that I'm using for TM backups. What I did is I created a .sparsebundle image using Disk Utility and then copied that image to my disk drive. Then, in Terminal I typed the following: All works OK, but I have to manually mount the .sparsebundle by double clicking it and then Time Machine recognizes the drive and make backups to it. Is there any way TM automounts this .sparsebundle when a backup is scheduled? I'm using OS X 10.9 Many thanks,
My MacBook Air only has a 128Gb HD so I have a 500Gb external HD which I have my iTunes folder on (as I have over 200Gb of music and videos). But I would like to also use the external `hard drive for Time Machine. Will that work? Will it use up all the remaining space, leaving me no room to add new media? Should I (and can I) partition the external hard drive without losing my files?
I just started getting "error while printing" printing to a pdf from textedit (i.e. Print > PDF > Save as PDF ...). This has worked in the past (for years), though a web search indicates it's a common problem, e.g. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4459650
I have my content on external HDD and I would like to sync the content to a single iPAD via a MBP as well as via a laptop. But whenever I change the MBP to laptop or vice verse, the change is not transparent. MBP is not using the configuration created by laptop; it will have to create its own configuration file (vice verse is also true). There is lot of scanning of media and manual adding. Is it possible to use iTunes the way I am hoping to use? Or should I use only one MBP/laptop with one iPAD?
I'm trying to install Homebrew but I'm getting multiple errors when brew doctor is run. I'm a complete noob at this and I've tried uninstalling Homebrew and re-installing, but still not working. Here's what it shows:
I'm downloading Mavericks on my Lion, but I don't know how to see the progress. When I go to the purchases tab on the app store, I see a blank button:
I use the Chinese keyboard on OS X Mavericks, and I'm sure this is the case for other versions of OS X, where when I type in Chinese, like 爱情 and emoji like hearts come up.. which is annoying because the emoji takes up a space that otherwise would be filled with relevant characters and I don't use emoji. While not urgent, it'd be nice if I could just get rid of them once and for all. I've looked through the keyboard settings for Chinese and couldn't find an option to disable the emoji and also did some Googling online if you can do a system-wide disable of emoji, and couldn't find anything.
I have upgraded recently to Mavericks, and am setting up Time Machine on this system for the first time (it wasn't set up with the earlier OS, Mountain Lion.) Time Machine successfully backs up once after I boot the laptop. However, every time it tries to back up again while the laptop is running (I don't normally perform a full shutdown and reboot very often!) it fails with the error message: "An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
I think I figured it out last night. After I input my password to install a (free) application, it seems he can hop in to an app and make a purchase using the 'cached' password. In the past I thought the password would be requested again for in-app purchases.
I replaced my old HDD with a new one. Also I created a bootable usb flash (8GB Toshiba) with Mavericks using DiskMaker X. I restared Mac and pressed Option key, but I see no option to boot from. I understand that I can't see my HDD at the moment because it has not been formatted yet, but I do not see also bootable usb drive. I thought maybe it was created with issues/errors, but when I tried on another Mac, it works, I can boot from usb drive. So I do not understand, what's the problem?
When in a browser (Chrome or Safari), the following keyboard shortcut will always bring up a window that says "Welcome To Mail": Command+Shift+I
I noticed that system files and folders cannot be tagged using the UI in Finder and I am wondering whether there is a workaround – Terminal based or otherwise. There are a number of system files I'd like easy access to and tags would serve that purposes.
I'm having trouble burning some files to CD's using the finder. Every time I attempt to do so, disc verification hangs at 0%, followed by a bad media error (0x80020063). I've already attempted to use a few dozen CD's, including one from another spindle.
How can I edit a file without altering its modification date ? In command line. Is vi able to that ?
However, this stopped working for me a few days after upgrading form OS X Mountain Lion. Whatever I search for, no results. My tagged files are still tagged and I can use them via OS X’s “smart folders“ and third-party tools. It even works in Finder windows when entering only tagname and choosing the proposed tag. I use OS X 10.9 (13A603).
It seems to me that InsomniaX, a utility to let a MacBook stay awake when the lid is closed, is not working on Mavericks. Can anyone confirm for me?
I have a 2010 Mac Pro running OS 10.9 on an Intel 520 SSD. I've noticed read/write times are much slower than Intel claims. Is there anything I can do about this? Intel's claim: Sustained sequential read: 550MBps Sustained sequential write: 520MBps Since the Mac Pro has SATA II, that should bottleneck speed to 375MBps. With Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, I get 150MBps write, 260MBps read. Using command-line tools, I see 231MBps read and 522MBps write, but that's obviously false — maybe it's using a RAM cache.
I have a mid-2011 iMac which could AirPlay video beautifully in and out of iTunes to my Apple TV before Mavericks. Now that I've installed OS X Mavericks 10.9 (13A603) I have latency issues. The audio plays fine but video skips a lot, especially when I'm mirroring my display with AirPlay. I tried a wired and wireless connect and both have issues. Is anyone else experiencing this or have a workaround?
I also have a MacBook Air. I would like to be able to select from the Login Screen "Other..." input Bobs credentials and have it login to Bobs account, or any other User Account for that matter. My Server is setup as private with the server address: server.network.private Following some Googled instructions as well as Apple's very own instructions I have: Setup an Open Directory with Username: diradmin Password: abc123 Setup an Open Directory with Username: diradmin Password: abc123
I want to erase a disk (Mac system) to resize OS X Mountain Lion to the max volume but I couldn't resize it nor unmount the other disk.
I keep seeing CIJScannerRegister running. I'd like it to never run. Every time it appears I use launchctl to remove its listing and that kills the app. But it reappears later. I know where CIJScannerRegister lives and could delete it, but I would rather get whatever is starting it to not start it. I've looked through /System/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons} and cannot find any matching entry in there. How can I find the process that is launching it and tell it to stop?
I tried looking for the "guest" password by doing the command dscacheutil -q user and found the guest account. I saw that there was a "password" (I know that the usual guest account does not have a password) so may I ask what is the "guest password"? Terminal output snippet:
I'm trying to understand why mdworker is always at 100% even when (apparently) not indexing. If I open Spotlight, there's no message telling me that a drive is being indexed. If I run fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker, there's also no output.
I have the HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL Raid card running on my Mac and it shows as an external drive. I would like to make it appear as an internal drive. Is this possible? From:
My phone has recently been stolen, I immediately went to my network provider and cancelled my network on the handset, I then found out I could remotely erase all data on the handset however it says once the phone is connected to the internet? Is it possible to clear all the data (messages, pictures, videos) when the phone does not have a signal and is not connected to the internet?
When I select the "Simplified Pinyin" layout in Mac OS X 10.8, the shortcut Shift+6 is assigned to "Display smileys" (see screenshot below).  However, since this is a French keyboard, Shift+6 is normally to print the number 6, which means I can no longer type this number. Is there any way to disable or change this keyboard shortcut? Edit: I've tried reassigning the menu item to a different shortcut but that didn't work:
In OS X before Mavericks, Mail.app with a Gmail account would remove messages only from the inbox when deleting them, but leave them in the All Mail folder; essentially archiving them. In Mavericks it now moves them to the Trash entirely. What gives?
Contacts.app in 10.9 says "Some server contacts could not be copied to this address book." iCloud.com shows 499 contacts iOS shows 499 contacts 10.9 shows 498 contacts is there a way to fix this or find this missing contact?
During a call to any contact, on call screen is displaying hard blurred image. This image is a user photo attached to its contact in address book. The issue is, that this photo is SAME on EVERY contact I call, no matter is there set photo on contact or not. I have tryed to remove this image from contact it belongs to, but that doesn't do the trick, it still appear in ANY contact I called. Any solution to remove or change this image?
Once when I opened a Vimeo video in a fullscreen mode, I was prompted whether I want to allow Vimeo to use fullscreen mode. I checked "do not ask again" and clicked "No" by accident. It was embedded on a website and now I can't view embedded vimeo videos fullscreen in Firefox. However, when I go directly to a vimeo.com website, fullscreen works. How do I remove Vimeo from the Firefox's blacklist?
I would like to hit cmd+X to switch to (or launch, if it's not running) the #X application in the Dock, without hardconding that application. I.e. if my third application in the dock is the Terminal, I hit cmd+3 and I switch to the terminal, but if I then move Adium to that position, cmd+3 automatically opens Adium. Can this be done on OSX 10.8 (or 10.9)? Even better, though that's not required, if in case I hit the combination of the already active application, it hides it instead.
I'm from Belgium, and on my own user account, the input source is set to a Belgian (actually French) keyboard. The input sources menu is enabled in the menu bar, so I can switch it to the Belgian keyboard before entering my password, but how can I permanently change the input source used for login? I'm the system admin, and I know how to get root access if necessary. It worked perfectly in Mountain Lion.
I was trying to configure nginx (homebrew) to run like daemon on OS X 10.9 and I encountered one problem regarding permissions: nginx was configured to run as nobody in nginx.conf and when started it was launching two processes, one a root and another one as nobody. The server was responding on port 80, but was not able to serve the files because it did not have the permission to access them - the files were in my user directory, with group staff and accessible but other users. Still, even if I tried to force nginx to use the staff group by using 'user nobody staff;' inside nginx.config, it didn't want to serve the files until I configured it to use root. I know that would be dangerous and I wonder what would be the correct approach.
I just been bugged by the Day light saving hours I seem that 3rd November 2013 01:00:00 start EST time Now ever Time I set my time to 3rd November 2013 00:58:xx(some seconds) and run date it give me valid Time zone i.e EDT but even after the time pass 01:00:00 and I still query the date library I still see the Time zone as EDT and not EST have a look at this screenshot You can clearly see the Time zone saying as EDT even when it is EST any one has a clue for this There is one other finding I found if I restart my machine I see this
I made a lot of notes in Drafts and now want to have it on my Mac. I have access to app by PhoneView but still can't find any text files. Also tried to contact the developer - no response.
On a "bare" OS X 10.8 install, what is the easiest way to grab a largish torrent from the command line (MacTeX, 2.3 GB)? I can't use GUI-only clients, it's a headless system. If no such client is preinstalled, which one would be easiest to install and get running? EDIT: To be more specific, I'm looking for a command similar to wget or curl that would get a torrent and serve only this torrent while running, then exiting when the download is complete.
With iOS's accessibility features, it is possible to pretend the user is using multiple fingers or making certain gestures while in reality they are only using one finger. Is there any way I can simulate multi-touch trackpad gestures on a Mac?
I would like to specify a shell script (say one to send me an email) whenever a given user is authenticated, for example if prompted after sleep, fresh login or fast user switching. PS: I found answers for running a script when the computer wakes from sleep and another for when a user logs into a fresh session, but that is not exactly what I'm looking for.
I've got the developer menu enabled, and am looking at the Web Inspector, but the instructions I've been able to find for viewing cookies in Safari 6 don't seem to apply in Safari 7. How do I view my cookies in the Safari 7 Web Inspector?
What is the file system on iPhone? (2011-10-12)
I want to create a smart playlist that will list an album by descending track number. I have a singles album in which I would like to add new singles as time goes on but I want to listen to the new songs from that album first so play in reverse order. The track number is in chronological order i.e. 01, 02, 03 etc. I want the playlist to play 09, 08, 07...in that order. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a long (several months' worth) iMessage conversation with a contact. He lost these messages when he re-installed his OS, but I still have the archive. There is some important information there that we'd like to keep. Is there a simple way to export this conversation for archival in a human readable form, and also keep any images?
I am running OSX lion on a 11" MBP and I want to connect to it remotely from a PC. Any suggestions for a good VNC server program? I have tried the OSX screen sharing function and also vine. They both work, but the screen size is limited to 11" -- I would like to be able to set the size of the shared screen (like the -geometry option for vncserver on linux). I'd also like to be able to maintain connection to it after the lid is closed. Is it possible to do that on OSX? Thanks.
I have OS X 10.8.5 – I just accidentally deleted my .ssh directory. I have backups, but would prefer not to have to go through the trouble. The keys still "work" right now (they're loaded into Keychain Access and I can ssh into remote hosts) but I assume they will be lost once I log out.
This is a general graphics question although I would especially like to apply it to my Early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15". I have gfxCardStatus running and whenever I connect one of my 1280x1024 or 1920x1200 external monitors, it tells me it has to switch to the dedicated graphics chip to continue running - and promptly the battery indicator in the top menu bar recalculates a significantly lower remaining time (when running on battery). Here is another example where connecting multiple external screens made the fans in the Macbook Pro go mad and the whole system react slowly even when otherwise idle. This confuses me for two reasons.
Is it me or the open command does only accept escaped characters in parameters ? It tried open "~/Library/Messages/Attachments/87/07/079C263B-0586-48C6-B721-3C6AABAC76DF/Messages Image(1020754653).jpeg" which returns The file /Users/Kyro/Library/Messages/~/Library/Messages/Attachments/87/07/079C263B-0586-48C6-B721-3C6AABAC76DF/Messages Image(1020754653).jpeg does not exist. When actually open /Users/Kyro/Library/Messages/Attachments/87/07/079C263B-0586-48C6-B721-3C6AABAC76DF/Messages\ Image\(1020754653\).jpeg works quite well. Edit : Running Mavericks here.
I did the upgrade to Mavericks few days ago. I noticed a problem with my iMessage app : I don't get any notification when I received a new message (neither alert, nor badges on the icon in the Dock). How can I troubleshoot if this is a problem with my computer or account or perhaps my network connection?
I want to block certain websites for a user account - but at the same time still allow all the other accounts on the computer to access the sites - whats the best way to do this ? I was looking at Firefox add on but these are pretty easy to get around - ie. just change the browser, is there a user account wide way to do this ?
I have a new iPad air wifi no cellular and set up iMessage but I cannot send messages to non iPad or iPhone users from Messages. It always tries to send the message but every time, it just stops and outputs that it has not been delivered. When I turn iMessage off every time I want to send a text message it asks to login. I can send messages on my iPhone to the same people that I want to message to using my iPad, with no problem.
I know there are group names such as "Staff" and "Admin", but are those the only ones? I suspect that the root user should also be assigned in a group. Using the command dscacheutil -q user tells me the gid of root - 0. And if a user account is an admin, then isn't it in both "Admin" and "Staff" group(s)? By running the command ls -la /Users, I get the following output:
I've come across many threads on Apple, but haven't found a solution that works for me. I understand that the Samba has been removed from OS X, and Apple has developed their own version. I remember trying connecting to the Samba drive when I first upgraded to Lion, and it didn't work so I gave up. But now I need it. Back in Snow Leopard, I used to write smb://URL/username. I didn't have to enter an IP address, but rather a URL to the network drive followed by my username, and it used to work perfectly. It's a URL because this network drive is hosted on campus at my university. I now receive the following error:
I've installed OS X Server app on a Mid-2007 iMac running OS X Mavericks. The installation was successful, but the Caching server doesn't start. The Server application graphically indicates that the server is started, but sudo serveradmin status caching indicates as follows: When I examine /Library/Server/Caching/Logs/Debug.log, the last two relevant lines are always:
I would like to map the Command key to the Control key but, have it affective only while running a WINE application using the new 'Mac Driver', not X11. I tried a registry edit but, I don't know what I'm doing and google hasn't been very helpful.
After upgrading to OS X 10.9, spotlight only show result for files but not folders. I have checked the preferences and also reindex the parenting folder by adding and removing it to the privacy tab.
I recently purchased a copy of my own Mac App Store app (using promo code) so that I could experience it the way my customers do. I've discovered that downloading the app from the App Store will not just install in the Applications folder, but will instead overwrite the first app it finds on my hard drive that matches the corresponding bundle ID. I found out the hard way when I noticed that it overwrote the contents of my Xcode Archives for a previous version.
After updating to iOS 7 on my iPhone 5, I lost all the events on my calendar in the months previous to the update. How can I recover those?
I like to know if it is possible to manage the iCloud keychain, means, deleting elements. I tried the under the OS X keychain app in the iCloud tab but after a clean install of OS X, everything was restored. So, is it possible or not?
Apparently, Apple has removed CVS under the OS X 10.9 Mavericks devtools (and yes, it's really gone). For the uninitiated, CVS is the Concurrent Version System, a tool for keeping files up to date between different machines and users (developers). I have some legacy projects that still require it (no, I cannot change it to use SVN, much less git). Where is the best place to get a version that works under OS X Mavericks?
Quite simply, I have a process that's triggered by launchd but currently runs once an hour, however really what I would like it to do is run once a Time Machine backup has completed. Initially I thought I could just set my Time Machine backup (/Volumes/Foo/Backups.backupdb/Haravikk's Mac) as a watch path for launchd, however this seems to trigger much too early. It does seem to trigger again near the end, so I'm currently using a delay and then checking for the existence of a .inprogress backup, but it's not really an ideal solution, and sometimes Time Machine's cleanup stage will trigger the process multiple times. Is there a more specific path that I could watch that will trigger my process only when Time Machine has finished a backup? I realise I should perform my checks anyway to be sure, but currently my process is triggering several times per backup, which isn't what I want.
Whenever I open an old Pages document in Pages 5, I now get the following warning message: Some changes were made to your document. OS X Spotlight search information was removed.
We have an iPad where the touch screen is not working. The rest of the device works fine, so we are using it for development purpose on our build server (we are using some third-party libraries which have not been built for the iPad simulator architecture so we must have a physical device connected to be able to build). The trouble is that we have bought a new build server and since our iPad is running iOS 7 we get the authorization dialogue: "Trust the currently connected computer? Trusting this computer will allow it to have full access to your device and all of its data." Since we cannot tap the "Trust" button the new machine is not able to use the iPad for development. So my question is if it is possible to authorize the computer without having a working touch screen.
Im trying to install CocoaPods using terminal. In their official website it is written: But when i enter the first line in terminal i get the following error: What can I do with it, I tried looking in the web but since I'm a noob with terminal I couldn't really figure out what to to do.
Is it possible to configure the terminal in OS X to show stderr output automatically in a different colour than stdout output from a process? Or is this only possible if the process is outputting coloured output?
How can I tell how much space my iphotos and imovies are taking on my Macbook Pro hard drive? I've checked the applications from my finder, but iphoto and imovie are not listed there.
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks, I added some ebooks bought directly from publishers, such as O'Reilly, by dragging them into the iBooks app. However, when I use iBooks on my iPhone, the ebooks aren't showing up. Is iBooks able to sync books not purchased via the iBooks Store? If so, what am I missing? 13" MacBook Pro Retina with OS X 10.9 Mavericks iBooks ver 1.0 (build 169) Settings > General Preferences > Sync is checked I have performed File > "Move Books from iTunes..." I have authorized this computer from within the iBooks app iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0.3 (11B511) iBooks has both Sync Bookmarks and Sync Collections enabled I have confirmed that I'm using the same Apple ID on the MacBook and iPhone
I'm using a non-mac USB UK keyboard with Mavericks. Because Apple's idea of a UK keyboard is different to a non-apple UK keyboard, some symbols are wrong, e.g. " and @ are swapped. How can I get set my keyboard layout to match a non-mac UK keyboard?
I get a notification on the main screen of a picture that was messaged to me and can see the picture, but when I go into the message the picture isn't there.
I have bought an unlocked iPhone 5s (I believe it's model A1530) from the Apple Store Australia, can I use any sim to activate this phone? Could I even use my partners and then put it back in his phone once it's activated? I only want to use the phone over wifi for now.
Confession, I have just converted from BlackBerry to iPhone. On BlackBerry, if I had an event in my calendar with a reminder set for 15 minutes before the event, it have the option of dismissing the reminder or let it remind again in 5 minutes. I have been unable to find anything similar on the iPhone?
Is there a way to prevent Spotlight from indexing past versions of documents (see attached image). On my system it seems to always recommend an old version as the top hit, requiring me to scroll through or mouse over the results to get the actual document. In case it matters, this particular example is a Numbers spreadsheet stored in iCloud.
I'd like to use FileMerge (Version 2.8) as Git and Perforce's Diff viewer, however whenever one of these apps tries to do a diff I get this message:  This isn't just for Groovy files either,it's for any type of file I try to run a diff against. This is happening on systems running 10.9 and 10.8. This is how I have it configured in Perforce:
I am trying to attach an external monitor to my MacBook Pro using VGA to DVI adapter and then DVI to Thunderbolt. I have MacBook Pro 2012 with Retina display and the monitor is Acer V223HQV.
Both Pages '09 and Pages '13 use "com.apple.iWork.Pages" as a bundle ID. I can set individual .pages files to open with Pages '09, but when I try to set all .pages files to open with Pages '09, Pages '13 keeps taking over.†
I broke my Mac Mini, trying set some permissions on some folders for web-development, but somehow ended up removing permissions from everything. I managed to restore permissions, but have had a few issues since, namely the folder icons on the sidebar in Finder are not reflecting the icons they should be.
Aim: I am trying to pair my 5th generation iPod touch with windows PC.
I am thinking of moving my extensive eBook library to iBooks or Kindle. Has anyone done this, and what does it take? I just don't want book libraries in multiple proprietary formats, and have to look for content across apps.
I'm facing a strange problem. When I type ⌘+C with the left command key, it does not work anymore. The left command key is working for ⌘+V or ⌘+X or any others so it's not a hardware problem.
My understanding is that you need to install 'Fink' before an apt-get will work in the Terminal on OS X, but there isn't a Fink binary installer yet for Mavericks. Does anyone know what the best alternative would be for on OS X Mavericks?
Is there a way to pin desktops to monitors like you can pin app windows to desktops? Specifically my problem is I use a macbook and plug and unplug my external monitor a few times a day. Rearranging my desktops and full-screen apps every time is a pain in the rear end and so I hope there's a setting for that that I just can't find.
I would like to prevent devices from downloading iOS 7 while using networks we control. We have MDM capability and firewalls, but I'm not sure what the the minimal ports and destinations that should be entered into a firewall to prevent downloading iOS 7 over the air via WiFi network. What can be done to prevent iOS 7 downloads to save bandwidth and save storage space on our devices?
when I use Spotlight, it offers to "Search web for: " (something like that, my system is german). When I use this feature, Chrome pops up and searches with the Yahoo search engine.
How can I reduce the amount of time before an OSX notification banner dismisses itself?
I'm writing a new email, and in that email I'm referring to a couple of other emails. In Outlook or Thunderbird I used to just drag and drop mails to my new mail and they appeared as attachments. In OS X Mail, some icon appears in the mail but when I double click on it, it shows plain text with headers, and not a nice HTML mail. How can I attach it properly? OS X 10.9, Mail 7.0 (1816)
Occasionally, I would like to use my iPad (3rd gen, iOS7) as a second screen (an extension, NOT a mirror) for my Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion). Is this possible without paying for an app in iOS7? Does Mavericks or iOS7 include any new related functionality? I am aware that there have been improvements for second displays in Mavericks.
Once connected to the VPN I can access a couple of the servers through a web browser and SSH from the command line but timeout while trying to connect to the rest. If I bypass the router and plug directly into the modem via ethernet everything works perfectly.
I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and am now seeing a "Choose Application" dialog pop up every minute or two asking: "Where is the GrowlHelperApp.app?". I don't particularly want to buy the new version of Growl, so how can I determine which application is looking for it so that I can change it's preferences or remove it?
I suspected it was an application in the background taking focus. I shut down all applications that do this and have also disabled space switching on application focus. After a reset the issue persists.
I have a 2010 iMac and I'm considering upgrading to Mavericks. Will I notice any significant decreases in speed? My specs:
I am seeing my system.log on my mac being flooded by iCloud Helper error messages dealing with the need to accept a TOS agreement. Problem is, the Apple ID that is listed in the message is not one of my current IDs but rather an 9 digit integer.
I received the discount message shown below from Starbucks on iOS 7.0.3. Somehow they managed to make part of the message text bold. How did they do this, or better, how can I recreate it?
App Store mentions the following message when I attempt to download/install OS X Mavericks (10.9): So it says I need 10.9 in order to upgrade to 10.9? Mac mini (Late-2012) OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) iTunes 11.1.2 or above (so far) using App Store 1.2.2 (129.16) Q: How can I download the OS X Mavericks 10.9 installer? (Note: I'm running the Mac mini over VNC ("Screen Sharing") with no monitor). Update 1 I downloaded the Mavericks Installer using a friend's laptop. Visiting the Apple Store seems to be the default support path around this bug: "you can visit any Apple Retail Store to get help with downloading" (*=URL=* Update 2
I'm wondering if it's possible to keep iBooks in Sync between various computers (running Mac OS X mavericks) under the same iCloud account. I set up my iBooks but synchronization only happens between a single Mac and devices running iOS 7. What's the point of using iBooks, if when I'm not in my laptop, I want to read the book on my iMac, but iBooks doesn't get synced across Macs...Did I miss anything?
All of a sudden my Finder windows keeps disappearing and reappearing every 30 seconds or so. I restarted the computer, and emptied the trash can as some Google search suggested, but none of them worked. Any ideas? I was just browsing the web, wasn't installing/uninstalling anything. BTW, it's a 2010 iMac with Mavericks.
The Apple ID which is linked to my iPhone can't be accessed. I have tried 'Find my ID' but it won't accept my birthdate and emails are not being received to any of my current or old email addresses.
I just purchased used iPhone 4S from a Verizon customer in the United States. I would like to unlock it and take it to Europe and use it on a GSM network. How can I do this? Phone info: iPhone 4S iOS 7.0.2 Baseband 5.0.0
I made a backup from all my files including my Aperture library. After moving to Mavericks (clean install), there is a new Aperture version and I am not able to import my old library getting the message: Library was made with older version of Aperture, please update to newest version and try again (loosely translated from german). How should I do this now?
My bank insists on sending me account info SMS (texts) from ~100 different numbers. They all start the same, only the last two digits differ. e.g. +43 664 6601301 +43 664 6601302 +43 664 6601303 ... +43 664 6601399
When it continued to happen I quit all open apps and restarted the computer. (I run a few apps full screen, and usually keep the first desktop open for any quick work or apps I will use, if I will have an app open for a while that doesn't have full screen, I create a desktop/space for it and run it off on the side somewhere).
I wonder if there's an App which helps me to easily switch to another wifi network without going through the "settings" screens of my iPhone. Nowadays more and more cars provide their own wifi network which you have to login to to give commands to the car. So an easy temporary switch to the car's network would be great.
I'm trying to run an app from crontab at 3 in the morning. My 2010 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.5 is usually turned off at this time of the night, so I'm setting Energy Saver's scheduled wake up at 2.59 and then scheduled sleep at 3.02. But the cron job still doesn't run, because my computer goes back to sleep roughly 20 seconds after being woken up by the wake scheduler.
I came across this today by accident: If you try to minimise a window in OS X 10.8 (might be in others) while holding down the shift key the window will very slowly go into the Dock. The whole animation is slowed. Any ideas what the purpose of this is?
Every time I start my laptop, the HTC Sync Manager is launched automatically. I don't mean the automounter which is started when you connect your phone. I mean the the HTC Sync Manager itself which is magically started and places its icon on the top of the screen:
I hope that I put it right, that you guys understand. Everywhere I read that Keychain can suggest strong passwords and remember them so I don't have to remember them. Works wonderful. The thing is, I am scared to do so, because; what will happen if I have to enter one of these sites from a different computer.
It would appear that my documents in Numbers (since upgrading to 3.0 with Mavericks) no longer auto-complete cells. I've Googled for "turn on auto-complete in Numbers" and found plenty of questions on how to turn it off, all of which point to a simple check box in Preferences -> General. However, that check box no longer seems to be present in the new version. Is there a way to turn auto-complete back on?
A few days ago I upgraded my mac book pro to 16GB of RAM and now I am getting some kernel panics with page faults. Are page fault kernel panics typically caused by bad RAM or could there be another cause? I did run the Apple hardware tests after I installed the RAM and it did not find anything wrong with the RAM.
I live in China, which requires me to use several VPN's to access the outside web. Occasionally, some VPN's are either totally blocked or suffer from high packet loss.
Whenever I get a new message in my mail, my phone vibrates. How do I turn off this behavior?
I have a Lion machine and a Mountain Lion machine. Software Update has offered to upgrade Safari from 6.0.5 to 6.1 on both machines. Is this upgrade worth it? Any issues or glitches? I didn't find any comments on this upgrade on the web.
I've been using iWork for a while and have created some pretty elaborate designs in Keynote and Pages, but I haven't come across a problem like this before or even an option to link/embed images. In Keynote, all my images are now linked to an external source on my hard disk, rather than embedded in the file itself. When I attempt to copy media in any manner (alt-drag or cmd+c/v or duplicate a page), a grey "placeholder" box is produced with a question mark in the middle and a diagonal line across it (see top right corner of the image). It only works when the source image is in the same place on my hard disk. When I insert an image or other media file (insert -> choose) into Keynote, there doesn't seem to be an option to link or embed like there is in other applications such as Adobe Illustrator or InDesign.
Is there a workaround? How can I fix this? These files are on SMB shares to Windows servers with a NTFS file system. Is there a better way to connect to windows shares? Please guide as I am new to the Mac world. Thanks.
(I pasted some text from Terminal into a New Mail window.) Previously (10.8 and earlier) only plain text was copied, without any formatting at all.
okay so my MBP Mid 2010 was took a little tumble (it was in a felt sleeve which was inside a backpack) today and since has been acting weird. when i open the lid, the login screen does not come back on automatically, i have push a key, move a finger or two on trackpad and only then does the display get powered
I have an old build script that makes mention (perhaps erroneously) of /usr/64 for things like library search paths when building on OS X. This directory doesn't seem to be populated, or even exist, on any modern OS X that I can find, and I'd like to remove these references if that they are truly stale.
Okay so, I own a 2,5 year old (Early 2011) Macbook Pro which works just fine. After the release of Mavericks I decided to reinstall it from scratch since I had been upgrading it step-by-step since Snow Leopard and it would feel good to reinstall it from scratch.
Whenever I receive an email in Outlook that has either a word doc or excel attachment it only allows them to be opened as "read only" documents. How can I have them open as regular documents as they did with Entourage 2008? Thanks.
I have a given date, such as 2013-10-31 and I need to accurately determine the next day (taking into account DST, leap years, leap minutes, timezones, etc). I have no way of knowing whether the date is at the end of a month/year/etc, and I sincerely hope not having to care about that. In Linux, I simply type: However, when I try the same in Darwin/BSD: How can I get BSD to do proper date calculations?
I've been on Mavericks since it was open to the general public. But yesterday it started frequently refreshing he desktop icons, over and over again, possibly every 10-15 seconds. It's very strange.
I've only been a mac user for a little while so I'm still getting used to OSX so bear with me ... I find some things OSX does to be inexplicable frankly. I'm a software engineer and very technical but some things I find myself presented with by this OS I just cannot rationalise.
I finally updated my OS from 10.6.8 to Mavericks 10.9 yesterday on my late 2009 iMac 27", but when I got to the point of switching back on my Time machine (connected to a time capsule 2 Tbytes) it doesn't see the previous backups. How can I make Time machine see the previous backups? Also: Can I continue on the same time capsule to add to the backups I was doing under 10.6.8 ? Thanks for your input.
I know that this has been posted several times and each time it's a slightly different description. Neither one fits to the behaviour on my iMac (Mid 2011 / 32GB RAM) nor does any of the solutions solve it.
If I want to scan, I need to open system preferences, click "Printers/Scanners", and select the scanner, to open the application. I'd like to click on an icon in the dock to open it. How to?
EDIT: I have found a solution, I'll post it here, as I can't answer my own question yet. Not enough reputation, I have to wait 8 hours.
If I was seing my used iOS device, I would want to be sure that my icloud account isn't on someone else's iPad. Can I be sure that this won't happen?
I have a very slow internet connection and would like to be able to download app updates (iTunes, Aperture, iWork etc.) just for one machine and be able to update 3 machines offline on home network. Is this possible on Mavericks?
Okay, so I'm having the dreaded grey screen on my iMac - precisely : i'm having it doing a normal startup i'm having it trying to boot from recovery partition i'm having it trying to boot for internet recovery i'm having it trying to boot in safe mode verbose mode is no help because it ends with a grey screen before I've time to read anything i have a windows partition which also fails to boot, except in safe mode - from where I can access all my HD partitions without any error by the way fsck -fy in single user mode reveal no volume error an extended Apple Hardware Test reveal no hardware error whatsoever replacing RAM modules didn't change anything
Since upgrading to Mavericks the latest version of the Skype app (6.9 rev 701) hangs frequently, pretty much every time on wake after the laptop goes to sleep. I've heard some suggestions about downgrading to an earlier version in the 6 series, any decent workaround for this problem?
I have two USB sticks: An "installation" drive created with Disk Utility by locating the .dmg file hidden in the contents directory of the Mavericks installer. I used an 8GB stick for that. ( this method )
Having both a PC & Mac for work, I would like to synchronize development between both devices. I could just use Dropbox or Google Drive, but I would like to have version control (git or otherwise). Is there a way to run a version control system (git preferably) between these two devices?
I recently ran Migration Assistant on a 2011 MBP running Mavericks to a brand new, fresh install on a 2013 rMBP and it has completely hosted Apple Mail. It moved over all of my accounts in the Internet Accounts prefpane, but Mail itself thinks that it has no accounts. So when I launch Mail, it asks me to add an account, and if I hit cancel it quits because it thinks it has no accounts. If I remove the accounts from the Internet Accounts PrefPane and add them through the Mail interface, the Mail check-box associated with the account gets unchecked.
SMB2 is supposed to be faster than SMB, but how do you know which protocol is currently used?
From the command line, running javaws results in the message: I'm running OSX 10.9. What's the matter?
After upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I was unpleasantly surprised when I plugged in my camera SD card to try to upload a few new picture I have taken. I always keep the photos on my SD card as a backup, and formerly iPhoto would scan through the card then pop up and show me the new pictures for import. Now, instead of seeing a progress bar as it scans there is just a similar delay with no progress bar, and the only choice it gives me is to "Import 2054 pictures". There are only something like 5 new pictures I took today that I want to import .
I find the time shown on the menu bar on mavericks a bit annoying. It's not perfect. The "AM/PM" is now shown in lowercase after upgrade to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Back in the previous versions of OS X, it was displayed in uppercase. Is there a way change the lowercase am/pm to uppercase?
I'm making a large document in separate docs. I want to number the second doc from 21 on. It will only allow me to start at 1. Any fixes?
Since upgrading to Mavericks, the input sources option changed, and moved to the keyboard control panel. That's fine, but selecting the "Input Sources..." button in the Keyboard tab of the Keyboard panel does absolutely nothing! (No error message is displayed either.) Any ideas what could be causing this or how to troubleshoot it? The only thing I can consider that might be unusual is that I only access this machine by remote desktop.
Since updating to Mavericks, I can no longer select my iPhoto library (9.4.3) as source for the desktop background. In the left hand list, the iPhoto entry is present, but no folders and if I select the "root" iPhoto entry, only the default wallpaper will show.
I have a shell script autogen.sh, I run it under my project directory in terminal: I get error: Can't exec "glibtoolize": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345, line 4.
I have a shell script from a open source project, when I run it in terminal, I get the following error: I googled on ineternet, someone encountered a similar problem, he suggested to install libsoup development package which might fix this problem. Then, I found the libsoup link.
I set up a bunch of users on my OS X Server 3 (Mavericks) requesting they reset the temporary password I gave them. However, no one is able to do that: when connecting via AFP for the first time, they enter their temporary password and are asked to change it, but the form does not accept any value. I don't know if it doesn't accept the current password or the new passwords but I suspect the first: any subsequent login doesn't accept the old password and refuses to even show the change password form. GV jan 13th: We are having the same issue; Our admins do not seem to have this problem, the weird thing is only the other users have this issue.
In short, Word crashes silently upon opening certain documents. The problem seems to be with documents that include Comments. I have tested by using WinWord to remove the comments from a file that crashed. After removing the comments, Word opens just fine. Furthermore, when creating new comments in a fresh document, Word crashes. I have tried all reinstalled Word 14.3.8 deleting all caches (font and otherwise) using Onyx Installing latest Java disabling MS Error Reporting all of which didn't help. Any suggestions?
For debugging I created another account on my OS X machine, but as a different user the same problems occur. I also used another mac running 10.9 and the same problems occurred, but no problems occurred using my iPhone or a windows PC. There were also no problems when I logged in using the same exchange server but a different account.
I installed OS X Mavericks Server as a virtual machine to ESX. I'm doing some testing and now I need more space. Macintosh HD partition is 50 GB and I have expand it to 100 GB total in ESX but I need also to expand Macintosh HD partition in OS X. Until now I have tried this: How can I resize a partition with Disk Utility? Why can't I resize my existing partition? Disk utility, shrink 1 partition, expand the other How can I resize my Lion partition to fill up the unused space on the drive? Disk utility can't add partitions When I run diskutil list in Terminal, this is what i get: As you can see at GUID_partition_scheme, total space is 107.4 GB. What I want is: delete disk1s3 delete disk1s3 expand disk1s2 (Macintosh HD) to 100 GB expand disk1s2 (Macintosh HD) to 100 GB
I have a folder on my Mac that I will set up to git-sync with a folder on my web server. I’d like to be able to see the .htaccess file in this folder without having to unhide hidden files all over the system. Is that possible? I’m using Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).
I'm new to OS X and I'm trying to create an application wrapper for a shell script that starts a media server(Red5) I'm trying to wrap the Red5 server starter script (red5.sh) into an .app executable using Platypus. The Platypus Documentation says that
I want to enable (if it's not) Intel VT-x to speed up the Android emulator. How can I see if it's enabled and if not how to do it ?
iTunes Connect was closed for a week last year around the christmas holidays. Does anyone know if there will be a similar period of time where iTunes Connect is closed this year?
Most of the time the first step to troubleshoot an OSX application problem is to login to the Guest account and see if a problem persist. The reason for this - I presume - is that the ~/Library folder of the guest account does not contain any, possibly corrupt preference files.
In terminal, I have made a symbol link like following: It symbol links prod directory (which is 4 levels up from current location) to jni/prod . I'd like to emphasize that it symbol links a directory NOT a file. Now, I want to remove this symlink, how to do it?
I'm looking to mount (and access files on) my FileVault2 encrypted drive on a non-OS X box, and am wondering if anyone has done this with Windows or Linux.
Can I make it, that the user's account will be able to see his currently private folders on our File Server (SMB protocol?) - if our AD users are: first.last - can that be the login to the MAC?
I have 2 iCloud accounts. not because of any crafty idea or security concerns but because I forgot my password and it was easier to just setup anther account. Now I just upgraded my phone to a 5S and want to get all my apps and music on the new phone but they're backed up on two accounts. Any suggestions?
I cannot find a way to selectively subscribe to IMAP folders in Mail.app in 10.9 Is there a way? Am I missing something there? It seems the IMAP implementation in Mail.app is still quite buggy and plays especially bad with dovecot IMAP servers.
In Remote Desktop Connection version 2.x you could map the remote windows key to the local option key (instead of the command key) in preferences. In the new Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 from the App Store I can no longer find this setting. Is this feature tucked away somewhere and I'm missing it? One option might be KeyRemapForMacbook as discussed here, but I want to know if there is a solution that doesn't require third party software.
I've searched here and all over support.microsoft.com without success to find the answer to the following question: I am looking to purchase Office 2011 from either Amazon or directly from MS. With either the downloadable or disc version of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac (e.g., Home and Student edition), can I selectively install only Word and Excel? I do not want/need Outlook, PowerPoint, Messenger, or Remote Desktop (all of which are included with all editions of Office for Mac according to the descriptions). I know this is possible with the Windows version of the same, but I wanted to verify for the Mac version as I've never used it.
I'm trying to console connect into my business's Cisco 2811 console with my MacBook Air with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit adapter. I've googled around for a day and haven't found any information. How can I connect to my router with my MacBook Air using the Thunderbolt adapter?
Redhat Linux has this really nice feature where I can hold down the Window key, middle-mouse click-and-hold somewhere in a window, and drag to resize the window. It doesn't have to be the very corner of the window. The corner that is resized depends on which quadrant of the window I clicked in - for instance, if I middle-mouse clicked somewhere in the lower-left of the window, dragging would lock the upper-right of the window, but resize based on shrinking/growing the lower left. Using the left click instead of the middle click can move the entire window (this can only be done on Mac OS X by grabbing the title bar). I'm specifically only interested in these 2 features - are there any apps available that can accomplish this?
I have a lecture that fills an entire CD when I burn it using iTunes. The problem is, it isn't broken into tracks, it is a single track and it makes jumping around difficult. How can I break it out into say 10 minute tracks?
I want basically insert an image as a background for a page on a books I am creating on iBooks Author. My question is this: I have a retina version of the full screen image (iPad) that is 2048 x 1536 and another non-retina image that is half the size of that. I want to create a book that appears at maximum resolution for those with retina ipads and scaled down for those non-retina.
This is really similar to: How to remove or disable a default keyboard layout? However, I am new here and have no ability to comment or make remarks towards this to voice further problems. In OS X 10.9, I need to remove input sources in System Preferences > Language and Region > Keyboard Preferences > Input Source. To be clear, I want these gone completely; if I were to click the add button then I want there to be nothing but the basic English layout available. **Edit: The solution can be as dangerous as editing near-/root-level files in the OS as long as there's a possible solutions
I have a 27" Korean IPS with a full size DisplayPort input (not Thunderbolt). Is it possible to drive this monitor daisy chained off a 27" Apple Thunderbolt monitor, using a mini DisplayPort output to fullsize DisplayPort cable? The Apple monitor would be driven by my late 2011 MacBook Pro.
I am VPNed in to a network which has its own search domain, and it mostly works - I don't have to type the domain in the browser, and the host command resolves to the correct IPs. However, when I try to ssh to a host on that network, ssh tells me it could not resolve the hostname. This is very perplexing as I have never seen this issue before - the system is either resolving correctly or not at all. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
I was using a mac-ports based LAMP stack before upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion and all was fine.. After the upgrade, apache has started truncating static files.. If I use curl to fetch a static asset, like a Javascript file, it the connection hangs at 65,536 bytes downloaded. The file is ok (if you cat the file, the whole thing is readable) The file is ok (if you cat the file, the whole thing is readable) Browser/cURL works fine with other hosts. Browser/cURL works fine with other hosts. Tried OSX permissions check Tried OSX permissions check Tried upgrading macports -> port selfupdate -> port uninstall all -> port clean all -> port install $everything and the behavior continues.. Tried upgrading macports -> port selfupdate -> port uninstall all -> port clean all -> port install $everything and the behavior continues.. lsof reports that apache is reading all the correct library references to the mac ports versions.. lsof reports that apache is reading all the correct library
Not quite sure what happened here, but my dock now looks as follows:  Any ideas?
I've got a server (just a mac mini) with two accounts: myRegularUser git (and some others) The git's home directory is in /Users/Shared/git. Since upgrading to Mavericks, I can't ssh into git@myserver.com however, I can still ssh into myRegularUser@myserver.com. When trying to ssh as the git user it immediately says "connection closed". Sharing is enabled, and the Firewall is currently off.
Is there a way to see if any song is explicit/clean if I bought any songs from the iTunes store and synced it in via iTunes via Cydia apps? (iOS 5, iPhone 4, Mac 10.9 Mavericks)
I have Thunderbird 24.1.0 running on Maverick and it works nicely. I am wondering about the integration of spotlight and thunderbird. I can search in spotlight for my emails, which is what I want, but the preview in limited to the name of the .mozeml file and nothing else is shown (in Mail.app .eml files, the content of the email is previewed as expected).
A few days ago I wanted to verify that a simple multipart html/text mail I was about to send would render correctly in different mail clients. Does anyone know how to let Mail.app under Mavericks show the plain text alternative for an email? It used to be an option in the menus in previous releases, but now it seems to be gone.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch tabs on Safari?
One can type blank character (no visible output but not Space) with Alt+255 on the numpad. I want to know how to type blank text in Mac.
I recently upgraded MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) operating system from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Since then several WiFi networks are rejecting my password (rejecting wrong passwords immediately, and giving timeout for correct ones) or even not showing up in the WiFi list. In the meantime, some other networks are OK. Is there a post-upgrade task to clean up or reset the Wireless configuration or drivers? What I've tried: Removing saved wifi records from Network preferences - Advanced Removing wifi passwords from Keychain Assistant Removing Wi-Fi profile from network preferences and recreating it Changing the Service Order with Wi-Fi to top (under the gear next to +/-) Unfortunately I often have no access to routers to reboot or change channels
I am using S/MIME self-signed certificates for email encryption across iOS and OS X. Creating the certificates and installing them (including the CA) worked perfectly. Also using them on OS X worked as expected.
I found the file .Globalpreferences.plist in my ~/Library/Preferences folder, but I also found the same file with seven characters appended to the .plist extension. For example: .GlobalPreferences.plist.jFulwSB. In total there are 30 .Globalpreferences.plist files with appended characters. I also found this behaviour with the com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.plist file (192x), with the widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist file (106x) and the widget-com.apple.widget.weather.plist file (35x).
It seems that OSX does not behave well with hotspots. By hotspot, I mean the wireless networks which opens automatically a window for login/password such as
By default I would like to use the google public DNS servers and to fallback to intranet ones when these are failing. Is this possible? ... I am looking for a setup that would not break when I move my laptop no other networks. It would be acceptable if I found a solution specific to this wifi network connection (to do the trick only in this case, and to use defaults for others).
I have a brand new macmini. It comes with mavericks and I haven't booted the machine yet. I know for certain that I will erase mavericks and install 10.6. However, if things go wrong, I would like to be able to reinstall mavericks. and restore the situation as it was as out of the shop. What do I have to do in order to achieve this ?
It seems that Safari 7.0 (for Mac) doesn't refresh the previews (anymore). Is there a way to turn this (back) on?
One of my favorite new Mavs features is the pop-up characters panel. Its operation is detailed here. It is summoned via control+command+space and looks like this:
Is there a theoretical or practical limit to the number of devices that can be connected to a Macbook Pro sharing its internet connection as a wi-fi hotspot?
Is there a bash command that can be used as Spotlight or an option with ls that only prints files containing certain text? I want to be able to open Terminal and type something ls -SOMEOPTION filename and find all the files that have filename in their name, and this option could be used with -R and it would work as a replacement for Spotlight.
My mom got an iPad Air as a birthday present. She has been using an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 until now.
Since the last Safari update (I'm on Lion, 10.7.5), I've been unable to connect to a client's VPN. Their VPN runs via a Java network client from Juniper Networks, and it appears to require write-access and chmod permissions on several folders. I can get around this by enabling "Run in Safe Mode" in Safari, which is what the client is recommending I do. I can't find anything about the security ramifications of doing this and I don't feel comfortable downgrading security on my system, even if it's for a client I trust. On the other hand, I don't know if I was running the software in "unsafe mode" before the update without knowing it (which is what I'm afraid was probably the case). Does anyone know what the ramifications of running Java apps in "unsafe mode" are?
I have a late 2011 MBP, running Mac OS X 10.7.5, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, with 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3. I have just updated my firefox 20 to 25, this issue also occurred with v 20. When I am uploading files, or just general browsing, sometimes I get a few firefox processes which start to use up CPU cycles, consequently my fans start to spin up. If I quit Firefox, the processes stay active. ps aux|grep firefox top -o cpu
Sample script: When run via launchd, it definitely runs (the other things are being done) but nothing shows up in system.log. I'm running OS 10.9. I tried replacing that line with but that also shows nothing.
We have two iPhones running iOS7, and they share an iCloud account, but have separate AppStore accounts. Both phones are getting messages from the other phone. Why would this be? Is it something I can change, or would it be something more along the lines of the something that the phone company can fix?
I've switched to Mavericks and i wonder if the behaviour i'm seeing is a bug or a "feature". It used to be that whenever you created spaces you could assign apps to a specific space, say Mail.app to space #2. In 10.8 that functionality was lost, but apps seem to 'remember' the space they were closed in. So if i opened Mail.app, dragged it to space #2, switched back to space #1 and open Mail.app again it would still open in space #2.
Was reading some topics online about hackers accessing user's webcams (on Windows) to spy on them etc, and I am now interested to know if I'm at any risk. To make it simple, these are my questions : Can Safari allow websites to activate the webcam without my permission ? Can the webcam be activated without the LED being lit ? Are there any known trojans that affect macs and leave them vulnerable for such hacks ? Thanks
I tried multiple times, all with the same result. I do see a dialog on the iTunes-like window that appears about a Carrier upgrade, but AC has failed before I see that. What am I doing wrong?
Does anyone have a suggestion for an ultra-light spreadsheet application which is very fast and snappy? I do most of my deep analysis using advanced statistical programs and I manipulate small-to-medium sized text files using an editor like TextWrangler. However, I occasionally want to put small amounts of data, like from a csv file or cutting and pasting data from an HTML table, into a spreadsheet for some quick manipulation.
I have just added 6 albums worth of downloaded music to my iTunes library. I know that some of the files will not be identified as the same album by iTunes because of different Album Artist metadata, and some of the tracks will be missing track or disc numbers. These problems are easiest to see in the Songs view, where I can see one album split in half, then select all of the offending songs and apply the 'Compilation' flag or correct the missing metadata. However, the only way I can find to filter my view down to just the newly added tracks is using the Recently Added smart playlist, which does not give me a preview of the Songs view's album grouping behavior.
I open "Preferences" in Mail, uncheck "Store drafts on server" and save (Gmail account). However, when I open the preferences again, the "Store drafts on server" (or whatever it says in English version) is checked again. It really pisses me off. How can turn it off permanently? I use OS X Mavericks.
With 10.6 I used to kill the process loginwindow to logout another user, but with 10.8 I noticed that even if I do so, many processes from that user stay active. So, is there a way to logout another user in 10.8, other than logging him in or manually killing all his processes?
I followed a similar question about SIM blocking and still don't know whether I should request an IMEI block. I spoke to a store and when I asked them about what happens if I give them the IMEI number and they block it completely, will the "wipe data" feature work from the Find My iPhone app?
I have: How do I get rid of the second installation of Emacs?
I'm trying to create space on an external drive to clone my mac as a bootable volume with CCC. With Disk Utility I cannot modify it for some reason (probably because the same disk is used with Time Machine, I don't know, never happened before) So on a seperate machine with linux I used Gparted to resize the disk for the additional partition, but gparted cannot create HFS+ volumes. I tried the terminal command newfs_hfs -v CCC /dev/rdisk1s5
Is it possible to send images or other attachments in the Messages desktop app (OS X) when talking to someone on Google Chat (Jabber)? I have tried sending files but they never receive them.
I have purchased my first macbook recently and would like to know what are the best practises for keeping the battery in good condition.
I have a work email account that uses Zimbra as the backend server. For my iDevices, I set up this account as an exchange account and everything usually works fine. On my laptop, it's set up as IMAP (for some reason I can't set it up as exchange there).
I'm looking for a Mac app that will accomplish the following: Switch between two full-screen mac apps - Tweetdeck and iCal, automatically on a timed interval. Back and forth without stopping.
As of Keynote '13 for Mavericks, it seems Apple disabled ⇥ Tab to increase indent level (and ⇧ Shift+⇥ Tab to decrease it). Is there any way to re-enable this? I tried using the Keyboard Shortcuts control, but you cannot set ⇥ Tab as a keyboard shortcut (it instead just moves you to the next control).
I'm trying to use an Epson Workforce 840 over Wifi with Mac OS X 10.9. This Mac has never used the printer before.
After a reboot caused by an empty battery, my Finder’s sidebar icons are just gone. I tried a few reboots, re-launching Finder, but I can’t fix it.
I want to exclude backup of proxy media in Final Cut Pro. This media is located in:
On linux distributions one can simply press the following keys in order to access the shell: Ctrl+Alt+F2 Ctrl+Alt+F7 to exit and return to the GUI. Is there a similar capability in OS X that would let me access a terminal when my interactive desktop session is no longer responsive? If anyone wants to know why, read below
I'm writing a new email, and in that email I'm referring to a couple of other emails and I want to include them as attachments. When I drag and drop a mail to the mail I'm writing, some icon appears but when I double click on it, it shows plain text with headers, and not a nice formatted mail. How can I attach it properly?
I'm using iTunes 11.1.2 on the Mac. The top center of iTunes has an area that normally shows the currently-playing track (title, artist, album, etc.) with the track time slider. (Apparently this is called the "scrubber".)
I'm trying to start using Mavericks tagging system, even though it has its bugs… I'm also evaluating Yep to better organize my docs, but maybe I can do without, if I can find how to display all the untagged files in a Finder window via smart folders/saved searches. There's the filter for "Tag" (in "other…"), but it wants me to write a tag name (or the start/end of it). Is there any way to use a wildcard, or an hidden way to set "has tags" as filter? (Also, a more intuitive way to view files with two or more tags would be good…)
I upgraded to Maverics, and thought having iBooks on the Mac would be a good idea, so I could read epubs. My books are gone from iTunes, although the process of adding them to a Collection in iBooks doesn't seem to be any better. I only have selected Books on the iPad, and it seems I have to attach the iPad to iTunes, so I can select the Books in iBooks I want then sync. On the iPad I then have to move the new books into the Category, as this doesn't seem to transfer in the sync. This is an IMPROVEMENT?
I am having to do this to make my Presonus Firewire 26x26 work since they do not have updated drivers past 10.7 Bought the Macbook Pro in 2009 - it came with Snow Leapord. Hard Drive started to fail about 7 months ago so i had it replaced and the new OS that was installed don it is 10.8.4 i followed these instructions to a T: http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/os-x/how-to-and-why-you-might-want-to-partition-your-macs-hard-drive/
Can I use a male to male Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac? I want to use the 2009 iMac as a secondary display for the rMBP.
I am thinking about giving out iPad Airs to my customers. However, I have some concerns about how to "gift" an iPad + 3G.
I installed a new HDD and transferred my old data to it by using dd on my old HDD and then dd again to the new HDD. However, when booting from the new HDD, it does not recognize the new, larger disk space, and still thinks it has the old size. My old HDD was 160 GB and it was near capacity, new HDD is 1TB. The command I ran to write to my new harddrive was
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 7. I have an Exchange inbox with at least a dozen subfolders and server-side rules that "pre-sort" mail to these subfolders. If I want to receive push notifications for these subfolders (and I do), I have to configure this for every single subfolder. When I add new folders in Outlook, I need to remember to add it on my phone. Is there a way to tell the iOS mail client to push all subfolders of a given inbox automatically?
I like to have a stack in my dock with my applications folder in it, but some applications (especially games installed by Steam) appear in my ~/Applications folder, instead of my /Applications folder. Is it possible to have a stack displaying the merged contents of both folders?
iOS 7 introduced the swipe-up Control Center which has a dedicated Calculator button (on iPhone, but not iPad). For those of us who consider the default four-function Calculator app inadequate, is there a way to make that button launch a different calculator app instead? If applicable, jailbreak answers are valid but I'm looking for a non-jailbreak solution.
I have an iPhone 4 that has a broken power button. There is no warranty because I bought it from my friend. It has never been a problem because I had AssistiveTouch, until now. I went to use the iPhone one day and it was stuck in a boot loop.
Recently I received a refurbished iPhone 4s running ios 7. The speaker sound does not work in some applications. For example videos from the Photos app play no sound. However, the ringtone works. Keyboard sounds do not work. The music app does not emit sound either. I have tried power cycling, updating applications, calling the phone and restoring from backup. Calling the phone seemed to help as audio returned, but then the same problem resumed about a day later.
I use both Divvy and SizeUp to manage my windows. They work fine with application windows with the exceptions of Adobe Photoshop. They just don't seem to work with Photoshop. Whenever I apply them on Photoshop the window just acts bizarrely. How may I address this?
I own a MacBookAir and surf great from home (wi-fi with WPA2). From time to time, I'd want to bring it at work where I have a connection through proxy (i know address and port). If I do save the settings when I am at work, will I have to reopen settings page and remove proxy setting when reconnecting from home?
I know that piping to pbcopy copies command line outputs to the clipboard. How can I still show the output in the terminal ?
The iPhone 5 magnetic enough on the back near the camera lens to attach a staple to. Why there is a magnet there and what it is for?
After installing Homebrew the "brew doctor" command returns: …and I do have Xcode installed. Anyway, after running xcode-select --install the Xcode installer appears, then I click "install" and the installer closes.
My iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.2) synced contacts from my wife's iPhone 5 (iOS 7.0.2) and changed many of them (changed names to contacts with similar numbers). She uses my Apple ID, but contacts transfer from her phone to mine. Does anyone know why does it syncs contacts?
Practically this means, I can no longer have a window open on my Mac while working with the same app on the external display. How can I solve this?
I tend to keep a few Terminal windows open in one monitor, and another Terminal window and Chrome open in another monitor. When I'm using a single monitor, pressing ⌘⇥ remembers which Terminal window was last selected, but when some of the Terminal windows are on one monitor and some on another, ⌘⇥ away from Chrome always goes to the Terminal on the same monitor, not the Terminal on the other monitor, which is the Terminal window I last selected. TL;DR. Is there a setting I can tweak to get ⌘⇥ to work in multi-monitor mode as it does in single monitor mode, remembering the last selected window for each app? System: Terminal.app Terminal.app Chrome.app (latest official stable) (Though I could have listed any two apps.) Chrome.app (latest official stable) (Though I could have listed any two apps.) Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
I am currently reading about Digital-Analog-Converters in a magazine. In one section about connecting an iPod, it says that the sound via a USB cable such as the one from Audioquests Cinnamon is significantly smoother and more velvety compared to the official USB cable from Apple.
In Outlook 2011, is there some way to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific categories, so I can categorize messages without having to use the mouse to select the drop-down from the Categories menu in the Ribbon?
I don't know when it started, but at some point, OS X started dumping cores into a special folder (/cores). This is a pain since they get jumbled together and it's hard to keep track of which core files goes with which execution. Is there an environment variable or special flag I can set to have cores dumped into the working directory (as with other operating systems) instead?
The backup disk used by Time Machine has a recovery partition you can boot from. Since I started using Time Machine with OS X Snow Leopard, the recovery disk is a Snow Leopard recovery disk, and will only Snow Leopard. How can I update the disk to be a Mavericks recovery disk?
So on my windows laptop, Lync 2013 is set to automatically configure the connection settings, however when I try to automatically configure the connection settings on my mac it doesn't work. Is there any way to get the automatic connection settings from my windows laptop so that I can set them manually on my mac?
What I'm trying to accomplish is to intercept or change Command and replace it with Control for use while another application is running and frontmost. Is there a way to temporarily change modifier keys on the Mac using a script? For example, an applescript could be saved as Stay Open and would intercept a keystroke and change the keystroke to another keystroke.
I have a DiskSpace Problem on my SSD on my Macbook. So my Question is, is there any possibility to download only a few Mails (like on iOS - the first 200 Mails) or does have anybody of you out there a great Solution to prevent Apple Mail to download all my 19.000+ Google Mails and 5.000 iCloud Mails? I would like to use the "native" Apple Mail Client. What also would be a Idea (but i found nothing to solve this Problem) to redirect the mail to my Mailbox on my (uberspace.de) Account where i'm able to use qmail. So it should be a nice Solution to help People with the same Problem here. (btw yeah i'm searching for a long time for an "awesome" Solution ;)
Is the quality the same as taking a normal video at 30 FPS ?
After upgrading to Mavericks while running GoTo Meeting (v5.*) I'm suddenly logged out and sent to the login screen. The behavior is very erratic, and when it happens, it happens repeatedly, enough that I have to stop using GoTo Meeting.
Under Mac OS X, in vim, when I issue the command "+p using the numeric keypad for the + in normal mode, instead of pasting stuff from the system clipboard Vim enters insert mode and inserts the letters kp. The same kind of thing happens to me under Linux when I have the Numlock off, however, my Apple Keyboard (usb keyboard) does not have a Numlock key, instead it has a Clear key. Does anyone have any ideas of how to get around this and so that I can use the keypad for entering the + in +p"?
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.5... and every time I restart my computer or log-out & back in, I get a message box saying that "CalendarAgent wants to use "login" keychain". I've tried repairing the keychain... didn't work. I've tried setting all names in the login keychain to "Allow all applications to access this keychain".... didn't work. I've tried deleting the keychain and setting all passwords again... didn't work.
I am quite new to Terminal use. While installing and activating a local PostgreSQL server on my MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8) I definitely messed up my .bash_profile (probably by messing around with user / superuser and password settings). Actually I got the server running by entering: psql -U postgres -p 5432 -d postgres
I sometimes need to run very long computations on my computer (usually using code I wrote myself, sometimes compiled, sometimes interpreted), which can take minutes, hours, or even days to complete. OS X Mavericks incorporates several features that are designed to minimize energy usage, such as App Nap and timer coalescing. If I were designing such a feature, I would be skeptical of a process that was still requesting maximum CPU usage after running for days; even if this process was started by a user action, that action was days ago. But as a user, I actually do want such computations to run to completion with high priority, even though they are usually running in the background. Is there any possibility that my extended computations would be slowed down by the power-saving features of Mavericks?
I'm trying to get Outlook for Mac to do what Outlook for Windows has done for a long time. I want to create an email, attach a meeting to the email and send it - I don't want just the meeting details summarized as text (what seems to happen), I want the whole meeting to be added to my email as an attachment. I loved this feature in Windows as I could send the meeting to a non-participant to keep them in the loop and not have to redact any details, but at the same time, it didn't pop up on the recipient's calendar the way a forwarded meeting does.
Yeah, bought a Macbook Retina, come from a Linux background where this stuff is usually a question of removing via the package manager. Anyhow, I don't play games on this, it's purely for business/development. But I keep seeing this gamed process that came down with the Mavericks update trying to phone home. Apart from software update, I don't really want any process phoning home, especially when I paid 2G for the damned thing. Anyhow, anyone know how I can disable/uninstall/kill this process for good?
I am using 10.9 and would like to install 10.7 on an external volume. I have the “Install Mac OS X Lion” application, but when I run it, I get the message This version of Mac OS X is too new to run “Install Mac OS X” from Mac OS X 10.7.
I have a client SSL certificate for authentication. I'm trying to map it to a URL in Chrome on OSX, however the Chromium documentation is of no use.
I've got about 6000 songs in my iTunes library. I just got a new iPhone and after synching I found that there were about 60 fewer songs on it than there was in my library. However I didn't get any warning messages. Is there a way to determine the difference between my iTunes library and the library on my iPhone? I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 7.0.3 and Lion on the computer with iTunes 11.1.2
I use Ubuntu OS most of the time but I also have used OS X for quite a time and now I only use it to maintain my iOS apps. I am trying to create private key, certificate signing request for certificate and p12 key and provisioning file on Ubuntu and I think I am missing something. This generates private key for me to generate Certificate Signing Request. This is generates Certificate Signing Request for me to send it to Apple to sign it.
I want to do a clean, clear install of Mavericks on my MB Pro. And I'm confused. The Mavericks page on Apple.com says I need to have Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard already installed. But then I've read that I can format my hard drive (erasing any OS), then boot the Mavericks installer and it will let me do a clean install.
I have a 2010 Mac Pro. Still running Snow Leo, as there are still quite a few programs that are PPC and I'm not prepared to update all of them.
I'm trying to remove an application manually by deleting it and any extras using the search function in Finder. As a backup, I also ran the app through AppCleaner to see if it caught anything as well and I noticed that AppCleaner marked some files (.plist, plist.lockfile, and some actual folders) that no matter what keyword I use won't show up via finder search.
At work we have one Mac laptop that everyone uses to compile and test our iOS app. The employee who originally installed XCode used his personal Apple ID, and has since left the company. When I log in to the App Store on this PC, I can download new apps (including the Mavericks update) but when I try to update an existing app, especially XCode, it always brings up the login prompt, with the user id field disabled and prefilled with his Apple ID. Can I update XCode without his Apple ID password?
I can say that I have a few 1080p videos that were synced. There were a couple that did not. There were a couple of the slo mo videos that synced and a couple that did not.
I moved my Home folder to a separate partition called 'Data HD' and would like to move it back to /Macintosh HD. One of the main reasons is that with the home folder in 'Data HD' some apps would treat it as '/Volumes/Data HD/Users/UserName'. The space character between Data and HD can sometimes cause issues. I've also encountered issues where 'Data HD' becomes 'Data HD 1' after a forced reboot. I would like to ask about the best method to Backup existing items in '/Volumes/Data HD' Repartition the hard drive so there's only one single partition left Copy '/Volumes/Data HD/Users' back into 'Macintosh HD' If I need to do this via single-user mode, what are the proper commands?
I have some Applescripts that set the default printer using "Printer Setup Utility", that seems gone in Mavericks. Anyone have an alternative to suggest?
iPhone Facebook app had a "bug fix" update so I clicked it and it wouldn't load. I deleted the app and reinstalled and now it keeps saying it can't be downloaded at this time. I've tried re-downloading it with both my Wi-Fi on and off and it still doesn't work!
Not sure why this happened, but I had a conversation for 50 minutes and then realised some weird white streaks on the screen after I hung up. The streaks are now gone (gladly), it seems like the screen was overheating or something ?? What is the cause of this anomaly ? EDIT
I've read this Mac OS X daily article, and now in finder I can see all the cache folder/files sorted by size:  The problem is that I don't which cache is still in use from my applications, for example I don't know what is com.apple.helpd used for. So the question is: can I safely delete any folder? Or instead I risk that an application goes to search from these folders and maybe it crashes?
VLC can't autoload extensions, so I write applescript to load extensions, now I need make run it every time after VLC start, any suggestions ?
I would like to upgrade to OS X Mavericks. Also, I think it would be a good chance to clean up my system. My question is: If do a clean install of OS X Mavericks and then restore my machine from a Time Machine backup, then…
I've got an iMac with 2 external hard drives. One 1.5TB external hard drive for iTunes and iPhoto (750GB combined) and one 3TB external hard drive for Time Machine backups. I want to migrate everything to my new MacBook Pro which has 512GB storage.
Should I downgrade Mavericks and solve the problem with the Internet? Or should I downgrade one of my devices, jailbreak it and install an app to share the Wi-Fi connection?
Is there any Mac client to enable the "Find my iPhone" service? It would be better from the command line, but an app will also do. None of the programs I have tried seem to work right now.
I have an iMac with 10.8.5 running fine with Windows XP installed with Boot Camp that works both as native boot and with Parallels. I want to install 10.9 over 10.8 (not clean install) and I have read that XP cannot be installed from 10.9. But will the existing functional XP/Boot Camp installation survive the upgrade?
This iPod Touch was working fine 2 weeks ago then starting getting this error. I'm connected to the internet and other apps like Safari work fine. How can I resolve this?
Am I the only one, or is there anyone else who finds that shadow ontop of a nearby window annoying?
I have several Mac's that when selecting restart they shutdown instead. (MacBookPro 15 SSD, MacBookAir(new), MacBookPro 15) By that I mean, if I select from the menu restart they shutdown and do not turn back on. The only thing I can think of in common about them is that they have FileVault setup and all have Mavericks installed. What step can I take to figure out how to change the setups so that restart works to actually bring back the system to a running state?
I'm listening to some mp3 files, some of them lasting 5 hours or more, and I'm looking for a player which allows to jump directly to a specific point in time in the mp3 file. VLC has an option "jump to time" but it's buggy, it doesn't do anything or just hangs the app. Each time I reopen any player I've tried so far, I have to guess and click the time progress bar trying to find where I left.
How can I edit the metadata of an Epub file? I would like to alter the title, author, and cover art, similar to how I was able to do so in iTunes (get info).
When trying to browse any website, such as nytimes.com, yahoo.com, etc, it take sometimes anywhere from 15s-120s for the page to display. For example, in Chrome, when I browse to nytimes.com, in the status bar, I see the message "waiting for css.nytimes.com" or "waiting for www.nytimes.com" for a long period of time.
I am interested in getting netflow data from an apple airport. Netflow is a Cisco and internet standard that is used in network monitoring. My airport extreme supports SNMP and I use that for monitoring ,but netflow would give me a list of hosts. Any idea how to get this information?
I have high school students and they stay up late at night streaming movies. I don't want to restrict access for our college student who needs to stay up late to finish papers. Can I select devices that I wish to deny access to?
It's always been possible to remove focus from all selected files in Finder by pressing the ⎋ Escape key. It would appear that this is no longer possible in OS X Mavericks. I navigate the Finder entirely via keyboard and using ⎋ Escape is something I do quite frequently. I've looked at nearly every preference pane I could think of as well as the contents of com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systempreferences.plist, and com.apple.universalaccess.plist, but no luck so far (or I'm just not seeing it). Any ideas?
The Mac that is going to sleep has has OS X 10.8. It works ok if I wake it up by hand.
After upgradering to Mavericks, I have been bombarded repeatedly with the following prompt: Messages agent wants to use your confidential information stored in “” in your keychain [Allow] [Always allow] [Deny] No matter how many times each option is used, the popup appears again after a very short while (usually less than 15 seconds). Erasing the Messages.app/iChat-related preference files from ~/Library/Preferences/ did not work.
I have a MBP with retina display and run OS X Mavericks. My problem: imagine I have two applications open
Can Windows booted from a device in optibay (My first setup when I got my SSD was: 2 partitions on SSD, one for the Fusion Drive and one for Windows, to get that fast, too. But I couldn't work it out to boot, it always gave me the "no bootable device" error. Some others have stated though, When installed in the Drivebay, a Windows installation can be put back into optibay after that and works fine: Windows will not boot to my boot camp partition on a DIY fusion drive - gives "No bootable device found" error) EDIT: bless -info -verbose gives me:
I plan to stick an NFC tag on my macbook so that I can just click my phone on it to create a Wifi Hotspot which my laptop will automatically connect to. The only problem I can think of though is that I have restricted data on my phone plan therefore I don't want the laptop to be doing anything like syncing with my dropbox, downloading system updates etc. Is there a way I can configure the macbook so that if using a certain WIFI network, it will restrict the traffic to only web browsing traffic.
Since updating to Mavericks the Messages app doesn't display the contact names for people I've been communicating with iMessage, it shows their phone number instead. My messages thankfully still stay synced between my iPhone and Messages on Mavericks.
Now for the ultimate solution I hope to achieve. I want to be able to collaborate musically with other parties, using a program called Reason from Propellerhead Software. Reason has its own audio interface setting - a single setting for both input and output. I use the Propellerhead's own audio interface called "Balance" as my audio device for the software, providing my physical I/O as well as a headphone mix. I want to be able to merge the audio output of Reason, along with my voice via the built-in mic of the Mac, and send them together over Skype so that the other person can hear what I'm doing in reasonable fidelity (subject to Skype's limitations, of course). Can anyone provide the exact steps to share Reason's audio along with my mic, over Skype?
I am trying to install Sims 3, but it opens a window saying that "The following disk images couldn't be opened because the image data was corrupted." What can I do to resolve this issue?
I too was getting the error that I could not copy some files as there were over 4 GB. I was attempting to transfer .avi files.I reformatted the the thumb drive to Mac OS Extended(journaled) however then when I plugged thumb drive in to television set, the TV did not recognise the thumb drive or the files on it. Is there another format i can use to t enable me to transfer the bigger files and so the television recognises the drive?
I have a Mac running VMWare Fusion with "Snow Leopard Server" running as the guest, virtual OS. It says that I can specify a shared folder to shared between the main Mac OS and the virtual Snow Leopard Server OS.
I was running out space on the drive where I stored my iTunes media, because every time I opened iTunes, the application would immediately begin downloading TV shows I had purchased on my Apple TV. How can you stop iTunes from downloading purchased TV shows whenever you open it? See my answer below Note: Though it may or may not be entirely relevant to the problem (this bug has bit me across versions of iTunes and OS X), the bug was reproduced and eradicated using iTunes 11.1.3 under Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Possibly related detail: I write possibly, because I've modified where my iTunes media lives outside of the iTunes defaults. This is a common thing to do, when you realize the space on the meager 128 GB drive that came with your computer will no longer suffice. This detail also warrants mentioning, because the use case deviates slightly from the norm, and pathing often emerges as the culprit in software-related bugs.
I run Aperture 3.5 (latest at the time of writing this) and I use referenced masters. Over the time I've changed my directories now and then and all my files are now neatly stored on one drive in one main folder. Excellent! Now, I do have a bunch of old locations in my import location list (the list that lets you chose where to import new images into) that I don't want displayed anymore. Some even have the same name and I have to hover over them to ensure the OCD in me I'm not importing into a ghost folder that doesn't even exist anymore. How do I clear that list or delete its entries manually?
I am thinking of purchasing the contract-free 5S because my contract with AT&T just expired, and I will only need the phone in the US for a few more months. Will I be able to use my AT&T sim card (I currently have a 4S) when I receive the T-mobile contract free 5S? Also, I assume I will be able to take it abroad with me and use an international carrier once I move abroad at the end of the year. Thanks in advance.
With the release of Mavericks, Mountain Lion seems to have disappeared from the AppStore. At least I could not find anything. According to this thread: It's still possible to buy OS X Mountain Lion in the Apple Online Store > *=URL=* I have no intention of buying it again, so does anybody know a way to download it?
I turned off a machine exporting one folder which was mounted on my Mac using NFS. How can I find and unmount the mount point ? df does not return; it is probably stuck on this mount point, and I can't find a way to enumerate NFS mount points.
The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my Apple ID nor with the Apple ID of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists. Anything else I can try?
I just bought a new late 2013 iMac and a new late 2013 Macbook Pro retina. Also bought an Apple thunderbolt cable. Pressing CMD+F2 (enabling Apples "Target Display Mode") on my iMac lets me use the iMac as external monitor for the MB Pro, but I'd like it the other way around (which doesn't seem to work). Does anyone know how I through Thunderbolt (for speed, am aware that apps like Air Display and Screen Recycler can do it through WiFi) so that my MB Pro becomes an extra external monitor for my iMac? While this question addresses this problem for earlier hardware and software, I'm looking for a solution that supports using a thunderbolt cable and works with late 2013 Macs with OS X Mavericks.
Luckily, this hasn't happened yet, but I would like to make sure that I have a recovery option after my iMac would be stolen or lost in fire, etc. I have an iMac 27-inch, Late 2009, running OS X 10.9. File Vault is turned ON. Time Machine is set up, with encryption ON, on an external hard drive. Suppose I lose the iMac, but retain de external hard drive, what are my recovery options and how would I go about that? Can I access individual files on the Time Machine from a different Mac?
I read in a different thread (How to specify command to always run as root?) that using the purge command in Terminal to free memory is not a good idea. Does anyone know an alternative way to do this without installing third-party software? This is a curiosity based question, I don't mind if it's a complicated process, because I already have third-party software to clean memory. Thanks.
I have a fresh install of mavericks. For reasons relating to my own workflow I would like to access my gmail via mail.app using pop instead of IMAP (I prefer to store only what I need on my mac but never delete anything from gmail). However mail.app seems to have become too clever for this now, and automatically identifies my account as gmail and sets it up with IMAP even when I try to set it up a second time with pop.
I just got an iMac and wanted to change the default terminal to, what i believe, is a theme. I saw it a while ago and i'm not finding it. Screenshot below.
every time we try to use Apple TV with Google Hangout on our Ipad Mini (with the Google hangout app) the screen goes blank the second the video chat window shows up. Up to that point, Apple TV mirrors everything perfectly (other apps, videos, internet, etc). Is this a bug or some kind of device limitation that prevents Hangout on the Ipad Mini? we already downloaded all the updates both on the iPad mini and the Apple TV console. Our Apple Tv/ Hangout setup does work on the same rig when we use a Mac Mini computer. Many thanks
In earlier versions of iMovie, you could relatively easily import still pictures and alter their duration to create slide show. However, in the latest release, iMovie 10, this ability seems to have disappeared or at least moved. If I import a series of pictures (PDF format), I can use 'Adjust' to see a duration of the form '1.0 s of 0.9 s'. I can type in the '1.0' part but not the '0.9' part, and changes are not reflected in the movie. In particular, I want to set durations of several seconds or even minutes: how do I do this in the latest version?
How can I activate the 'Show all' or back button in a system preference dialog in OSX? E.g.
Recently I updated my MacBook Pro 15″ into Mavericks. Today when I tried to open Disk Utility, it did not open, with the following error:
I use Dvorak for my day-to-day work, however I find that Microsoft's Remote Desktop application doesn't play very nicely with this: if I connect to an existing session it will use whatever keymap was in place before (usually US), but if I connect and it logs in a new session, it will set the keymap to dvorak which affects other users if they log in! It would be nice if Microsoft could make it not break, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Meanwhile, is it possible to set a keymap for a particular application? I've tried the option Automatically switch to a document's input source, but this doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect.
I'm planning a visit to New York and I'm wanted to buy a new iPhone 5s unlocked but someone has told me that if I'm going to use it in Spain I might have problems to use LTE. Does anyone know if that's true? It's a problem with the LTE bands used in the US ans in Spain. Or so they say...
Is there a way to sync the iBooks that were not purchased from iTunes on my iOS device with my OS X iBooks? Specifically, I have some PDFS I'd like to sync. Please note I am seeking to synchronize the books themselves, not just highlights and notes.
I upgraded from Snow Lion to Mavericks and just found out that I can't sync my address book and calendar between my iMac and iPhone (3GS) using iTunes. I'm not using iCloud and not willing to use it either. All my data files (from Mail etc.) are also "upgraded" to Mavericks. Is it possible to reinstall Snow Lion and use Time Machine to place all date files back or am I going to be in trouble here? Added: I meant Mountain Lion (in stead of Snow Lion -- sorry ;-))
Ok, so at my school, everybody was supplied with a Macbook Pro. I set up the Messages app and it was all great until the county decided to block it. Now, instead of receiving text messages on my phone they go to my Mac. I have no idea how to fix this because I can't open the Messages app. Please help?!
How do I disable all notifications from the lock screen on Mavericks? I want to receive notifications while using my computer, but don’t want anything to show publicly when I lock my screen and walk away.
I have a MacBook Air, and an Android phone (errr phablet!). I go out a lot with both, and every time I go to a new venue, I need to put the Wi-Fi password into both. Do you know of an application so that, when I add the Wi-Fi password to one of them, I can sync it to the other?
Ok, Sunday question :) Trying to make a little joke... 1) if you open a terminal, and type "say -a ?", Mac OS X will give you the list of devices it can send spoken words to. On mine, it says:
I have deleted some photos on my iPad (both from camera roll and photo stream) and I never want them to be found. I heard that you can use "iCloud backup" to restore your stuff in case your iPad crashes or whatever. If at some point I were to backup my iPad, would those pictures still be found even though I have deleted them? If so, how can they be gotten rid of forever? I know this probably sounds very strange, but it would be nice to know just in case of emergency.
The 3rd generation Apple TV apparently comes in two versions: 3rd generation (A1427, model MD199LL/A) 3rd generation Rev A (A1469, also model MD199LL/A) According to the Apple TV article on Wikipedia these models are identical except for some internal architectural changes which make the Rev A model consume less power.
On my iOS7 devices (iPhone 5, iPad Air), I added a Korean keyboard and I can operate it effectively. On the Macbook Air, I added the "3-Set Korean" input source and I cannot operate it effectively. (Some characters are not available, and those that are do not stack correctly. I am a beginning Korean writer.) How can I get the iOS7 version of the Korean keyboard, or something very like it, to work on OSX Mavericks?
My computer has been having a lot of issues recently since I upgraded to Mavericks. Now when I check the console the following processes keep crashing: com.apple.securityserver (killing auth hosts + session 1001xx destroyed) com.apple.identityservicesd
An application is reported as "Not Responding" by the activity monitor and "sleeping" by top. I am very reluctant to kill it because I will lose my work. Is there anything I could do?
Problem Description in Brief: I am trying to install jslint which depends on the spidermonkey macport. Installation of spidermonkey is successful, however, it appears to be incompatible with the installation of jslint. Consequently, jslint is not installed.
I have two accounts, a gmail one and a school email address. I want to be able to send emails from my school address and gmail, but receive only from the gmail one (the gmail and school email accounts are synced together so I don't want to get duplicates). is there any way to make only the receive section of an account offline in Mail.app? I'm using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, if that helps. I already turned off automatic receiving for my school email, but if I hit "get mail" all the email from that account gets fetched anyway.
I like to FaceTime and watch movies, Youtube clips etc. at the same time and I have been able to do this perfectly up until the Mavericks OS update.
I am not a tech person, and found this answer to fix Word closing with Mavericks? Where do I locate and delete the file ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState?
How do I get Messages to go online when I start my Mac? It does start automatically but doesn't go online automatically. Any idea how? PS: I should mention that I am not talking about iMessage but the Messages chat application that lets you interface with gtalk, yahoo messenger etc.
I have some web applications (java applets) which have trouble running with Java 7 and java 64 bit. The tech support wants me to install Java 6 and disable Java 7, here are the instructions:
Use the inbuilt Apache provided by Apple and managed in Server.app. The configuration options are limited and certain advanced aspects (including using nginx, or anything much involving security) are not covered.
Yesterday my Mac crashed and after trying to turn it on again I recieved a message like this: panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800667b0b2): "VM page 0xffffff800ad5fad0 should not have an error\n"@SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/osfmk/vm/vm_kern.c:457 Debugger called: Backtrace(CPU 0), Frame : Return Address ... ... ... Can't perform kext scan: no kext sumaryczny BSD proces name corresponding to current thread: unknown Mac version: Not yet set Kernel version: Darvin Kernel Version 13.0.0: thu sept 19 22:22:27 pdt 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/release_x86_64 Kernel UUID: ... Kernel slide: 0x0000000006400000 Kernel test base: 0xffffff8006600000 System uptime in nanoseconds: 0 And I know there is a similar post and a good answer to that.
I have been using this command to get back Save As... in Mountain Lion and it works great: However, this doesn't seem to work anymore in Mavericks. Ut seems that it's just the older iWork '09 apps that can't use the Save As function.
I use word 2010 a lot, with medium length documents (10-20pages) It sometimes takes 2 gigs of RAM just for word. Why is that? none of the files themselves are over 50mb. The Mac then freezes or various programs stop responding (primarily mail). Also the task kernel_task sometimes takes upwards of 500mb... what can be done about that? is there some memory purge procedure or software for the Mac.. or some other system level solution? we use the same documents exactly on Word for the PC that has the same amount of RAM, and never had such problems...we made sure Office and the OSX got all available updates. Thanks for any help.. attached is the Activity monitor process list... OS X 10.9, Mac Air 11.6, 4GB Ram, SSD
So, I am using MacPorts and through MacPorts I want to use texlive in order to be able to build with latex/xelatex PDF documents. Everything seems to be working fine, apart from the fact, that whenever I use a command of the form, say then in the terminal I get the error:
My friend H. is on assignment in Asia. We iMessage a few times per week. Last Thursday an iMessage I sent him got rejected:
I can say " Add call friend to my Work list " and Siri will add that reminder to the specific reminder list WORK. However, if I imply any time, it will add it as a calendar entry. Yet when I say " remind me to call friend on Thursday ", Siri will add the reminder on that day and at 9AM ... But I would like to choose my own date and time for reminders while specifying which reminder list it goes in, how can I accomplish this ? EDIT I managed to find this method : Me : Remind me to call friend on thursday at 11am Siri : Here is your reminder, shall I create it ? Me : Move it to my name list
I use hot corners to lock my screen/start the screensaver. I've also recently started playing some games on Steam that run in fullscreen on Mavericks. Unfortunately, since the mouse cursor is used to control movement, use of hot corners basically makes the games unplayable. Is there an easy way to toggle hot corners on and off before and after playing games in fullscreen? I used to use this script but it doesn't work on Mavericks.
I recently bought a Logitech M560 mouse. It works fine on my Mac, but I wonder if there's a software/prefpane (free or paid) I can use to map the additional buttons I have on my mouse (i.e. to open dashboard, select line, etc...) Logitech at the moment offers no support for Mac for this model (I was aware of this when I bought the mouse)
I have multiple calendars from different services like Gmail, iCloud, etc. All the calendars together take up too much room to view in the year view of the Calendars app. Also, some calendars are for a specific purpose and I do not want them to display with my "main" calendar listing all the time. How can I selectively turn on and off individual calendars?
Is there a way to change the size of the mouse pointer to make it easier to see, as sometimes when "surfing", I find it smaller than it needs to be on the screen ?
As listed in this question Xcode Keyboard Shortcuts Conflicted there are a lot of Mission Control shortcuts that interfere with Xcode and I was wondering what are some good alternative keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control that don't interfere with Xcode or any other major apps.
I get messages when syncing my iPod that tell me that a song cannot be copied because I am not authorised to play them. Is there a quick way to find all songs that are like this and delete them?
My calendar icon accidentally got deleted. How do I recover & restore that icon to my screen.
This is a question in the continuation of this one: UTF8 filenames and shell utilities: the nightmare of utf-8 and filenames is…. How to avoid this confusion with most notably the ls command on filnames created in the following way: The first file is created by typing alt ⌥+E, A, the second one by typing A, alt ⌥+shift ⇧+E Within an xterm window I get: Which is wrong. Within a Terminal window I get: Which is right. The result is the same whichever shell I use: bash or zsh.
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, I often have the following processes using full CPU power: securityd syslogd kernel_task I guess securityd contains a bug, because it is polluting /var/log/system.log with thousands of messages per second, and the system can not follow up. Here is an example of messages I get: I believe this is a critical issue, as it makes Mac OS X is extremely slow and unresponsive.
I used to be able to batch-download songs from iTunes Match on my Mac by selecting a group of tracks and choosing Download from the contextual menu, but that option seems to be missing in iTunes 11 (11.1.3 to be precise). Don't want to have to click several thousand songs individually — is there still a way to batch-download in iTunes 11?
From the command line is it possible to open a package installer window (not install the application). I understand I could run the application using sudo installer -pkg ..... -target ....... Instead i would like to open the package in a similar way to if I double clicked the package within the Finder.
Is there any way to do this? I tried putting iMac 1 to sleep and waiting for the 2nd one to pick up the keyboard and mouse, but still "No keyboards have been found."
Okay, so I'm a Linux power user, that is I feel most at home when I have access to the command-line, and I'm very much used to using GNU coreutils, so now that I've installed GNU coreutils on Mac OS X using Homebrew, how would I go about removing the builtin coreutils that vanilla Mac OS X comes with? Please keep in mind that I'm using zsh, so when I set the path to something I do it like this: I want to be able to say, Include everything present in the current path in the new path, excluding these files: /usr/bin/ls, /usr/bin/grep...
I'm trying to encrypt an external drive of mine using Apple's built in drive encryption tool into OS X through Finder. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended(Journaled) and I'm plugging the drive through USB 2.0. Also I'm running Mavericks with all the latest updates. Even though after a restart or switching to another Mac, I'm getting the following error: Unable to create a new Core Storage logical volume group. Any suggestions?
I had opened sharing to everyone on my Mac as a "temporary" experiment to exchange files with another Mac. I forgot, and later that night when I went to shut down, the Mac reported that 2 users were connected.
My parents are on holiday in the US now, and they were supposed to buy me an iPhone 5s to use in Norway. But they were told in the store that they couldn't buy an unlocked iPhone 5s.
I have a folder with images. I'm viewing it in cover flow mode. After I delete an item, the preview stays the same and no longer reflects the currently highlighted item. Is this a bug, is there a quick way to force a refresh?
I have an Early 2013 Macbook Pro. OS Version is 10.9. I'm using a trackpad connected to the bluetooth. All of the sudden, and at random times, my trackpad will lose its connection and will not reconnect. When this happens, I pull up the Bluetooth preferences and I see:
Today is the day my hard drive failed. My issue now is to install OSX (Mavericks) I have purchased to the new HDD. I have neither a DVD installer nor an iso file nor another Mac Device (but I could ask friends) How can I proceed to reinstall OS X?
I'm running Mavericks with Chrome, and when I download an image/file it saves the 'Where from' when viewing via Get Info. This also happens in Safari. Now, I understand there is a separate download history which can be viewed and deleted via the the tricks in the following article: *=URL=* These are used when opening Applications for the first time to show the user where they come from.
My MacBook Air used to be rock solid, but it has grown increasingly unstable over the past year. For example, this afternoon I can't switch to my other user account. I select the account from the fast user switching menu and nothing happens.
I have a Macbook Air mid 2012 model and now I'm thinking about buying a Mac Mini or a iMac so that I can have my Macbook Air for when I'm on the road, and the Mini or iMac stationed at home all the time. For my setup now, I have a external display for my Air when I'm working at home, and I'm getting kinda tired of disconnecting and connecting the external display, mouse, and keyboard every day. But then I thought about, how about all my purchases on App Store (OS X apps), are they automatically cleared to be installed on my new machine, while I still have them on my Macbook Air or is there going to be some kinda conflict with license?
I am now on OS X 10.9, and I am not sure whether this issue also occurs on other versions. So, I have many symlinks in my file system (created by ln -s). Today I modified one of them with ln -f -s (see detailed steps below). The symlink is working without problem, but the icon of the symlink in Finder changed from folder icon (with alias badge) to file icon (with alias badge). Namely, the icon should be
I want to get an apple tv, so I can wirelessly use my tv as a separate monitor, now with mavericks I know this is supported. I was wondering if this means I can also transfer any sounds from my computer to my tv, otherwise it's sorta not worth getting.
I'm trying to send to video I made with my previous Windows Phone over iMessage, but after syncing it to my phone with iTunes, it shows up as a movie. I can't select it from the messaging app, because I can only select items from Pictures > Video. How can I get it to show up in there? Video details:
I've only recently upgraded to Mavericks and hence I'm not entirely sure whether this is a Mavericks only problem or not, but here it is: Security update 2006-007 apparently broke 8192-bit certificates on OS X and no one bothered to fix it (*=URL=* However there is (or rather used to be) a solution for this bug (or feature?) and it is in *=URL=* You've just got to execute
I have some old .xif image files from a scanning application (Pagis / Scansoft) that I'd like to view/ convert to PDF. Tried all kinds of viewers - Preview, Xee, Adobe (including Photoshop) with no luck. Please note, as far as I know, .xif / .xiff has nothing to do with exif for cameras. *=URL=* Thanks very much, John
I've read many posts and articles on how to fix this but I'm at a loss as to why nothing I try is working! I have a number of vhosts setup in my document root which are working fine but for some reason I can't get access to localhost itself, permissions look ok to me i.e. _www has full access to document root and all subfolders Below is an excerpt from my https.conf: And a screenshot of the finder info for "/Users/cduve/sites":
In Console.app, in the System logging section, I'm seeing messages like this, at a rate of roughly one per second: 19:09:38 kernel: Warning: IOSurface 00000236 seed changed while owned by an accelerator 00000003: 00000304 -> 00000146
I recently helped a friend activate her iPhone 5. She used to have an iPhone 4S which I helped her do a backup on my Macbook. After backing up her iPhone 4S, I restored her iPhone 5 with the backup. Because her SIM card was not the correct size, I used my own SIM card to activate the phone as well.
I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically set the trackpad to use the three-finger-drag option that you can find in the system preferences. I've tried a number of different things, but none of them seem to work. Here's what I've got right now:
As you can see I've been dumping all my work in the first space. This is actually a lot cleaner than it usually is, right now there are just 2 terminal windows, the rest of the grey windows are Sublime Text windows, which this issue also crops up with as well, as it is pretty cumbersome to be moving around all of those windows too, and I am often touching 3 or more projects at a time (each of which I try to constrain to its own window). I already have 3 Sublime windows minimized to the Dock, the reason that I did that was to alleviate this issue, where switching back to the app would cover the whole screen.
I can't find an option for exporting my iPhoto book project off my iPhone. I tried looking for a share option, I've checked iCloud to see if it is saved there, I looked in photo streams. I'm hesitant to spend $30 on a book from my iphone without checking resolution on a larger screen.
I have two Thunderbolt monitors daisy chained together and when I press down on the brightness key (F1/F2) it only dims the brightness / ups it only on one monitor. Is there a way so that when the brightness hotkey is pressed it can control both the monitors without having to open settings to control the other monitor? Thanks.
I have a 15-inch, mid 2010, MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9. It crashes very often (about 0-3 times a day). I have installed all available updates. Where do I start searching for the root cause of the problem? It could be some 3rd party product. Should I start uninstalling the 3rd party programs till the problem disappears? My suspicion is that it has something to do with the video driver, as the crashes happen when I maximize a photo in Facebook, for example, or do some other things related to changing something in the display. However, I updated the video driver and the problem persists. I also have the stack trace from the crash, but I can't read it. If anyone can point me to a tutorial about reading such a trace, it would be nice. Any advices about the problem are welcome. Thank you.
I use a lot of different spaces for my fullscreen applications to get me focus on the different tasks I have to do. For example, I have a space with my mail app, subversion app, safari and so on.
I am using Textwrangler (Version 4.5.3) to edit a set of files and I switch between them very often. Instead of opening all files separately I selected the whole folder containing them and opened this. My problem now is:
I'm running into a situation now and then when the Spotlight menu on OS X 10.9 can't be activated. When I click on its magnifying glass icon I receive only an error indication (beep tone) but get no chance to enter any search terms. This can happen even if no programs have been launched and while the other menu items work as expected.
I have a MBP 15'' (late 2012; bought in June 2013) and I've noticed that the built-in Webcam doesn't work - except with Cisco WebMeeting!!
since I have 2 Apple Remotes, one for my MacBook Pro and another one for Apple TV, I tried to pair them. On Apple TV this has just worked fine, but my MacBook doesn't want to pair with any of the remotes. The infrared port seems to work just fine, as sometimes when I use the remote paired with Apple TV, it also starts playing a song in iTunes on the MacBook Pro, which is quite annoying. That's also the main reason to look for a solution here. Also the other unpaired remote – that one I would like to pair with the MBP – works just fine with it.
I can see in the App Store that I have one application (Xcode 5.0.2) that needs to be updated. But if I run the sudo softwareupdate --list in terminal I get the message that there is "No new software available". Why don't the CLI tool and the App Store have the same information?
After updating my Macbook to Mavericks, the system is not longer discovering the Apple TV. What is the problem?
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, a mysterious, floating menubar has appeared on my desktop. As you can see from the two screenshots below, it is there when I have many apps open and when I exit as many things as possible. It appears immediately after boot up, and interestingly, when I restart or shut down, it remains visible even after the system leaves the desktop view during the shut down process.
After upgrading to Mavericks I’m no longer able to minimize a window to the Dock by double-clicking on its title bar. How do I get this functionality back?
I have an iPhone 5 (iOS 7.0.2) which is locked and I can't unlock it because I've forgotten my Apple ID. Is there any solution?
30/30 is a slick task manager for iOS devices that's also free. I'm trying to find an equivalent app for OS X. Some of the features in 30/30 that I would like to see in a mac app are: Clean interface Cycle a set of tasks ad infinitum (good for those long code-coffee-code-reddit-read-coffee-... cycles)
I just purchased a 2012 MacBook Air with a broken screen. I'm using it as a desktop via an external monitor. I plan to do a factory reset and then upgrade to mavericks. Will I be able to complete the factory reset and upgrade using only an external monitor?
I have the updated version of Mail, and still having Gmail problems, but one problem at a time here… Currently the headache is that it will not save any preferences: window layout, junk mail filtering off, etc. Every time I quit and re-launch it is back to default settings. Any suggestions?
I have a set of scripts that need to run on system boot and stay alive. I have the plist saved as /Library/LaunchAgents/net.vps.tunnel.plist and it has the proper permissions:
I was wondering if there is anyway to remove the Launchpad limit for apps in folders. I'm looking for having one folder for all apps under the same category but Launchpad is limiting me to only 28 apps per folder. Is there anyway to remove this limitation? Thanks a lot guys!
I installed PyDev for Eclipse, but after doing so, I do not see PyDev in the list of perspectives. If I try to reinstall, it says it is already installed. Running Mac OSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) and tried both Kepler and Juno releases of Eclipse (installed from www.eclipse.org), and PyDev latest from www.pydev.org, using the same procedures I use under Ubuntu (adding the site under "Install New Software"). I'm running Java runtime 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609. Any idea as to how I can get this working, so that I can get to a Python perspective in Eclipse?
I can see last command in terminal by pressing up arrow as in following example: I typed cd /: ... pressed enter, command cd / executed and now I can press up arrow and see command cd / again: I want not only see last command but copy it to clipboard. Maybe exists shortcut that not only show last command in terminal (as up arrow do) but at the same time copy it to clipboard.
So, I know that the photos edited via the Camera app can't be copied to a Windows PC along with the edits. I realise that the alternative is to email 5 photos at a time.
I'm not a tech or computer expert - I understand clear directions, but not tech-speak, so I'm going to put this as plainly as I can… I've updated to the most recent system, OS X 10.8.5, on my MacBook Pro. My Pages and Keynote applications are opening and functioning fine. However, when I attempt to open and utilize my Numbers application, it either either does nothing, or flashes a message that the document can't open.
I'm looking for an iPad app that can record a narrated audio track and edit it include still images to go with the spoken audio. The end product I'm looking for is a movie with a spoken audio track with still images placed at various points in the spoken track. Can anyone recommend an iOS app that can do this?
When I try to email a Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 document via Google Mail, I receive the following error.
I'm on OS X 10.9 and with this OS upgrade, the ability to run fullscreen apps on a second display while working on another was implemented. What I want: Play YouTube and other online sources (divxstage.eu to name one) videos on my second (1080p) screen while working on my internal MacBook Pro display. What happens:
I use Safari in Full Screen mode on OS X Mavericks all the time. I also use the escape key in web pages fairly frequently for various things (depends on the webpage). One unfortunate side effect of these two facts is that I will occasionally turn off Full Screen mode inadvertently by hitting the escape key on a page that doesn't intercept the escape key. Is there a way to disable the "Escape turns off full screen mode" behavior in Safari?
I've a kind of download-setup on my Mac and it does an excellent job downloading all the files I need. But for some reason the setup is renaming my files with "Title 9x88 Name". And I would like to drop this one "x" whenever a new files is detected in the directory. Everything works perfect in Automator, except for the dropping the 1 letter.
My iPhone 5 keeps changing itself to a black theme with white and blue fonts but then defaults back to white. I want the black them but have no idea where that is and how to turn on as the phone just does it itself.
When I have apps that need updating in OSX I get a notification on the top-right corner of my screen that does not go away until I click it (which opens the app-store). Is there a way to turn these notifications off?
I deleted a contact on my old inactivated iPhone 4. This to my surprise deleted to from my new iPhone 5s. Is there anyway to retrieve it? I realize now my new iMac, new iPhone and old one are all synced from the cloud.
I'd like to move my photo directory to an external hard drive, but still have that hard drive backed up both locally and to the cloud. This wouldn't be a problem if I was using a desktop machine of some sort. However, I have a laptop, and I'd like for the external drive to be able to backup to the cloud without needing my laptop as an intermediary to the cloud. Is it possible to have an external hard drive that's connected to a Time Capsule backup to a cloud backup service (like CrashPlan) using the Time Capsule's internet connection?
I've noticed that if I add the same photo to a photo stream more than once, iPhoto is apparently not smart enough to recognize that it's a duplicate, and instead goes ahead and adds the photo a second (or third, etc.) time to the stream.
I am facing this issue with few apps, for example in this case with RedLaser. I am sure that this is not a problem with the app since the bar looks fine on other phones (i.e. text is written in black over a white background).
Is it possible to choose which IP address will be used to browse the web? I am connected to a VPN which created tun interface with different IP addres so now I have two of them. I would also like to browse the web through the second one, the tun interface.
Just wondering, would there be a weight difference between a 32GB vs 128GB or Wifi vs Cellular configuration of the same iPad model (e.g. iPad Air)?
Before I updated to the latest version of iCloud panel on my PC, I could add photos to the location on disk where my icloud stream was saved to and those photos were synced to the stream on any connected devices. This doesn't seem to happen anymore, I can only add photos therough the control panel. Is there a way to simply add files to the folder on disk and have them sync, or is there an api for the cloudpanel?
If a company uses an MDM system (like GOOD or MobileIron) to deploy apps to their iPads and iPhones does iOS provide the MDM system data about when the app is used, so it will show up in their usage reports?
When I try to put characters like " or ~ in iterm it gets underscores and waits for next one to be finally put, how I can stop it?
I'm wondering if there is a good full on IDE for Mac. I know of and have tried Sublime, BBEdit, Coda, Espresso, Netbeans, Eclipse, Aptana, PHPStorm, WebStorm, Textmate and probably other that I don't remember. What I mean by full on (which I believe excludes Sublime, BBEdit, Coda, Espresso and Textmate) is something like PHPStorm/NetBeans/Eclipse with a full feature set, intelligent code completion, code linking, etc. I really like PHPStorm but it doesn't feel like a native OS X app and is really sluggish. If anyone knows of IDE that I haven't mentioned above, would be much appreciated.
Is there any PPC emulator (for either Intel Macs or any Linux) which can run MacOSX 10.5 PPC? My current research only points me to PearPC and the latest post/release was from 2011. On the homepage, they say that they have support for MacOSX 10.3 with some caveats. Also, it doesn't seem to emulate a soundcard which is relevant for me. Some totally outdated forum posts are asking about MacOSX 10.5 but without any real answers, e.g. here or here.
I have a folder owned by root:admin. I would like to change permissions of all files inside, so I can edit them without sudo, but recursive chmod fails:
I'm trying out the new (v8) Microsoft RDP Client for OSX. So far the "feeling" is better than the old one - at least cut&paste work better, etc-- but every time I try to connect to a "console" session on the Windows server the client crashes.
I'm seeking a solution to such a problem with auto-renewable subscription: user can buy a feature for let say 100$. Now I want to introduce from time to time some discount, so I want get this situation: old user is paying all the time old 100$ for this feature
If you suspected intermittent packet loss on a corporate network that you have no authority over, as an IT guy how would you irrefutably document it? (you are on a Mac, so any *nix toolchain is possible). Thanks
I've got four external USB drives connected to a 7 port powered dlink hub. All of them are externally powered, save for one of them. The hub is connected to a late 2012 Mac Mini.
I am running Mac OS X 10.7 on a MBP and OS X 10.8 on a Mac Mini. I can connect to the Mini via ssh without any issues. I am running GNS3 (Network simulation) on the Mini and have configured it so that when I connect to one of my routers via the console, a Terminal window is opened. On Linux I can connect to a remote terminal sessions if it's using screen or by connecting to the tty. I would like to connect to the remote Terminal already open on my Mini from my MBP. Do I need to run the equivalent of screen to be able to do this? When I do a ps -aux on the Mini I get: Is there a way to connect to this terminal from a remote computer when I am connected via ssh? What does -psn_0_561289 mean? Can this identifier be used to connect to this terminal?
Something weird has happened to my keyboard shortcuts since I upgraded to OSX Mavericks. Command-Option-V, which I was using before my upgrade to cut and paste (i.e. move) files in Finder, now blacks out the display and locks my screen, as well as performing its original function. Command-Option-Eject, which before the upgrade was a very handy shortcut to lock the screen, now does nothing. Can anybody tell me if these are known issues in Mavericks, and if there's anything I can do to get back to normal? Other users have noticed then when using the wired full Mac keyboard, the eject button ejects a disk, but weirdly the eject symbol only appears on the screen and the disk pops out only after about a long delay, about a minute.
Yesterday I was able to ssh into my development box by using the machine name. Today, I can't. I can nslookup and use chrome to navigate to my box using just the machine name. ping and ssh do not resolve with just the machine name. Everything resolves if I use the fully qualified domain name. It all also resolves if I use the ip address. I am on an internal network (10.0.0.x). When I have ssh'd into my development box, I use the hostname command and it returns my-dev-box. When I type my-dev-box into chrome, it takes me to my development site just fine. In system preferences, on my wireless network (I'm on wireless for all this) in the DNS settings I have thedomain.internal listed under search domains. What setting am I missing or how would I troubleshoot / restore ssh using a less fully qualified host name?
Is there a way to add Spanish to English dictionary in mac's dictionary app so I can see the definition of word by tapping on a word?
I am trying to get 2 domains working properly with one static IP on ML OSX Server. When I set a domain = www.domain2.com- it resolves to domain1.com. I have dns set for domain 2 at godaddy, where www.domain2.com and domain2.com both resolve to the IP.
I have iPhone4 and I shut it down by using power off button. Now I can't open the device unless I connect it to iTunes. I don't have backup and I don't want to lose my data and restore to factory setting when I connect to iTunes. How should I proceed to bring it back up with all my actual data?
After applying the Mavericks Update for Mail 1.0, I'm still having the same problems: Gmail works great on iPhone/iPad/Gmail.com, but OS X Mail still does not reflect any changes made on other devices. Also, the recommended settings for Apple Mail on Google's website are uselessly outdated.
Nothing within this installer tells me which version is here proposed. If I check within: I can see that this is the version: 11.8.800.168 At the same time, the actual version distributed on one of the official Adobe web servers: is announcing Version 11.9.900.152.
I have an IPad 3rd generation with OS 5.1.1. I want to upgrade it to iOS 6.x.
I'm trying to install the new command line tools in OS X 10.9, and I get this weird error from Apple. Can't install the software because it is currently available from the Software Update server. xcode-select --install
I have an iPhone 5 running IOS 7 that is connected to my company's MSFT Exchange server. I get email without a problem, send without a problem and with 1 exception, actions taken via desktop Outlook replicate to my iPhone and vice versa.
I just upgraded my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system to Mavericks, complete with the latest software updates, and I can't get Intellipoint working with my mouse (MS Intellimouse Optical USB). Prior to the OS upgrade, I was running an older version of the Intellipoint software (sorry, not sure which version); it required running System Preferences in 32-bit mode to change settings. After updating to Mavericks, I found that the Intellipoint features no longer worked, and checking System Preferences, I could not open the Intellipoint Prefs pane.
I have photoshop CC but it feels a bit limited. If I want to turn a video into a gif I can, or if I want to move things around I can but what is used to create flash type effects? like bending lines or if I wanted to create animated characters what are some apps I can check out?
I have purchased three Airport Extreme routers. I have a cable modem in one room that currently feeds into our primary router (which I want to replace with an Extreme), which feeds into a switch, which then distributes Internet and LAN services over ethernet via CAT5 to an office upstairs and another office a few rooms over. (The walls in our building are thick, so I can't do a purely wireless mesh.) What I want is basically for one Extreme (the one next to the cable modem) to be my primary router and DHCP server, and the other two to be access points extending the primary network.
Looks like the Russian layout included in Mavericks has wrong characters mapping. The layout image in preferences looks correct (see the image). But actual mapping of punctuation characters resembles the DOS ones a decade ago. E.g., to enter comma or dot i need to press Shift-6 and Shift-7 respectively, instead of Shift-? and ?. This was a forced upgrade from previous mac os x version by my company. Any ideas how to install correct Russian layout?
I'm looking to write a script that will move all file in the downloads folder (once fully downloaded) to different folders on the hard drive and external hard drive. Where can I learn more about how to do this?
Got an exceedingly odd one here. I have installed 10.9 on four machines now and each time I have seen it wipe out the login.keychain and sometimes after that it also wiped out some preferences, but after a reboot and restore of some of them things seemed to settle down. Fortunately I've been able to restore the backup on all except one. I've hit an odd wall with one of the MacBook Airs in particular where the system not only wiped out the login.keychain but snowballed into wiping out all of the other preferences it appears to all apps. This included the Dock and most application preferences. Some things seemed to remain such as Desktop and Screensaver settings, so it was quite queer.
My work computer can't be upgraded to 10.9 yet, so I'm stuck on 10.8 for now. I've never used Keynote, but one of my coworkers wants to use it for a presentation we have to give. I just tried to buy it, but I'm getting an error that the current version (6.0) isn't compatible with 10.8. How can I buy an older version of Keynote that's 10.8-compatible?
How can I disable the security warnings in Excel 2011 for Mac?
Using google maps, looking for N45°11.760 E5°45.936 works to show the geolocation on a map. Unfortunately this does not work on Maps. Any idea how to do it ?
In OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 after doing all the updates my Gmail accounts still show messages that are in the inbox but when I login to gmail on the browser, they aren't there. Is there a way to fix this? I don't remember this happening before. I am using IMAP.
I like that Cmd+Shift+N creates a new folder in the current directory in Finder. I would like to have a similar command like Cmd+Control+N or Cmd+Control+Shift+N that creates an empty text file in the current directory. There's quite a bit of discussion on SuperUser and on this site, here and here. However, some of the solutions seem out of date, others are mouse driven, or involve somewhat elaborate multi-click processes. How can I assign a shortcut key like Cmd+Control+N to create a new empty text file in Finder on OSX?
I am concerned. I do not want the hotspot using data and wasting data without anyone connected. I was told to turn it off but i normally leave it on. I want to find out if it does or if it does not.
I subscribed to these podcasts which are actually vidoes. I can see that iTunes downloads them locally to my computer, but I am not sure of the location of where they are downloaded.
Recently some applications have started failing to open when double clicked. I rebooted into the rescue OS, repaired my FS (no errors that I could see) and booted back into the latest Mavericks. I redownloaded apps that wouldn't start, but now I see that Preview has ... changed / become corrupted?
Is it possible to cancel a paused app update? There is no cancel option in the App Store; only resume is there.
My old imac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 was super slow. I decided to do a clean install after backing up on Time Machine. When I reinstalled Snow Leopard, it asked for an account name so I just put in a logical one. I then went to TM and found that none of the files I wanted were there. Reading info about this, it seems I made a new account and that if I can rename the account to the original name, I may be able to get to those files. Unfortunately, I cant recall my old account name. Any ideas?
I'm considering upgrading my MacBook Air to a Pro in the interest of getting better performance out of Xcode development experience. Right now using Xcode 5 seems ok for writing code. However storyboards are becoming painful to work with. What specs will influence the performance of storyboards the most?
I want to use the amazing Enhanced Dictation Feature available in OSX Mavericks, like the screenshot says is required a download of 785 MB.  The only problem is that in my home where i have my Mac i haven't internet connection so i need a way to download some kind of pkg or dmg to use at home when i have my offline Mac. Is there any way to do that, links are appreciated if exists.
On the iPad, a 5 finger pinch will bring you to the home screen. How can we replicate that function on iPhone?
When viewing a mail with longer subject, in reading pane it shows the subject only in one line and if it exceeds it truncates with ellipsis notation. Is there any way to display the complete subject with line wrapping? One alternative is on hovering the subject,it shows the complete subject in a tooltip.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and I'm trying to set the function keys to perform as normal function keys. So I want the behaviour to be inverted from the standard behaviour where I need to press Fn to get the keys to work normally. I've enabled the setting in Preferences as shown below.
Problem is that when someone adds an actual slide and clicks the media button on the placeholder a window pops up which apparently reads someones iPhoto library and only shows those images. Most of the images we use in our presentations are on the company NAS however so storing them in iPhoto isn't really practical.
So I've created an application in XCode and I've tried to put it in the store. However, the options In-App purchases and GameCenter are activated and I cannot uncheck them.
Is there a way to make the folders tagged in any color (red, blue, purple, etc.) appear in a more visible way than the OSX 10.9 way?
I am trying to write an app that will trigger an pkg to open so the user can install this. I have the code and it is working well except for the following. When I try to open the pkg file using open /tmp/mypackage.pkg in most cases it will open the Finder to the users home folder not the package. I have checked and the package is present within the specified directory and the application is creating the correct command. The command i am using to do this is in python:
I'm trying to install mod_pagespeed for Apache server, but I can find instructions only for Linux. Is there any tutorial or description on how to do it on Mac?
Whenever I open a PDF that is of ordinary DIN A4 format, the Preview window is oriented such that I can only see the upper half of the PDF. What I would like to have is a setting where I can define that every PDF is opened such that - the full page is displayed - the window is resized to reach vertically from the top to the bottom of the screen and - horizontally has half screen size and that - the window is placed in the right half of the screen. Can I define these settings somewhere?
I've just switched to the Mavericks operating system in my Mac. I used to utilize a quite nice app called "cdto" that serves to open a terminal at the current directory where Finder is. The point is that now "cdto" does not seem to work with Mavericks. Before I used to utilize "OpenTerminalHere" but it is now obsolete. Anyone with the same problem and any solution?
I recently spilled water on my computers keyboard, and as a result the left shift key seems to be stuck in the on position. This means that the system always boots into safe boot unless I hold down the option key. I have managed to change my password to one which is all caps and once I login I use keyremap4mac but it is still very annoying. Is there anyway which I can remap the keyboard during boot? Possibly with a startup bash script or something similiar? If that is not possible is there any way to use a script to bypass safe boot? I was planning on installing a new bootloader anyway in order to dual-boot linux, I don't know if this will help. Advice is appreciated.
Is there a difference between iTunes' "Play Next" and "Add to Up Next" buttons? (See screenshot above). They appear if I right click an album and it seems to me that they do the same thing: Adding the songs of the album (or artist) to my "Up Next" line.
I've been tasked with setting up an AFP share on a server running Mountain Lion. My question is mostly about best practices and to find out if I'm doing this right. My only prior experience has been (very) basic NFS and SMB shares focused mostly on Linux. So here's the situation.
Some apps (Safari, iTunes...) quits fullscreen mode on Esc keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to disable it? It interferes e. g. with web apps control resulting in unintentional quitting fullscreen when you just hit one more Escape than you should.
I am using Google Apps/Gmail with Apple Mail on OS X Mavericks. For some reason, sending email is extremely slow (minutes to hours) and I constantly get this message: The server returned the error: The connection to the server “imap.gmail.com” on port 993 timed out. There are often (but not always) little error triangles on the inboxes. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do to solve the issue?
I have discovered that when My Macbook Pro (Early 2011, Mountain Lion 10.8.5) has an active ethernet connection, there is audible audio static/interference via the headphone socket. The ethernet connection comes via a router which in turn is connected to ethernet via powerline. The audio interference is not there when I connect to the network via WIFI. I would rather have an ethernet connection so am wondering if there is anything I can do to prevent this interference? Switching off the powerline adapter at the wall instantly stops the static / interference so I'm pretty sure it is related to that.
Every time I drag a file onto my desktop, my finder folder opens. This is new to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. How do I disable this behavior?
I have an iPad 3 iOS5.1.1 jailbroken. Now that iOS 7 (exactly 7.0.3) is on the Apple update servers, I want to know if I am able to update my iOS to 6.1.2 or not.
Can I partition the 2013 Time Capsules to use some of their storage as a network drive?
I'm a Windows user and don't know anything about Macs. Now I have to create a web app for iPhone (it just opens a website inside an app).
I use Cmd-T all the time to open new tabs, and it's set to use the same directory. However, it positions the new tab as the last / far right tab in the window, instead of next to the current tab that I'm in. Since it's often related to what I'm working on, I'd like to appear right next to the current tab.
Does anyone recognize this app which has an icon "d"?
I had my Mac stolen last week. I now have a new one and would like all the photos I had backed up on iCloud on my new Mac. How do I do this?
I would like to use the shift+click selection method on windows within the Finder that are using icon view. Unfortunately, whilst it works fine in the other views to block highlight all files between the first and second click, its behaviour changes to operate the same as cmd+click in icon view.
I'm a quick typist and I don't want to use the mouse/trackpad unless I absolutely have no way to do something on a keyboard. It slows me down by at least 5 times.
I've got a script in my ~/.bin directory that changes iTerm's background before starting an SSH session (as detailed here, script slightly modified from this version). If I start a regular login session and run my command, sshb servername, it works fine! The background image loads and the SSH session starts.
Using multiple monitors under OS X Mavericks (10.9), the Task Switcher does not always appear on the monitor you're looking at. [Cmd-Tab] How can the Task Switcher be configured to always appear on the display with the mouse pointer? Or even ALL displays (so you're not searching for it)?
Now I know from trying to find an answer to this to go uncheck the auto adjust box, since apparently it got checked when I updated to Mavericks, but now it seems my MacBook Pro has a mind of its own and still feels the need to auto adjust when I'm not doing anything. I made sure 10 times at least that the auto adjust box wasn't checked, and it's not. So why is my Mac randomly doing this? (and btw, this only started today, and I got the update on the first day it was available)
When I plug headphones into output of MBP (15-inch Early 2008) with Mavericks - nothing changes, sound comes from internal speakers, nothing in System Preferences too. SMC reset, NVRAM cleared, sleep/wakeup - same situation:
I have a late 2011 MBP, running Mac OS X 10.7.5, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, with 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3. When I reboot and I try to open a Finder window with command + n or from the menu File > New Finder Window I see the window open and then disappear somewhere off to the left or right off the screen. If I open multiple windows the same thing happens. When I invoke App Expose I can see all the Finder windows I opened but as soon as I close App Expose they disappear again. I cannot drag or select the windows in any way. When a second monitor is connected I tried dragging them onto the second monitor but that does not help either. The only thing I found works is: Press: command + alt+esc ; Select Finder; Click Relaunch. Normal behaviour resumes. Is there any way to troubleshoot this behaviour and stop it? This has just happened again, and this time I took a video.
I am currently getting occasional 'crashes' while running OS X 10.9 on an Early 2011 Macbook Pro. The crashes very much resemble the Blue Screen of Death on Windows (i.e. it happens suddenly, and it triggers an instant restart).
I'd like to be able to revoke from the command-line. Is this possible?
I have a Mountain Lion macbook and it's default locale is english, it's keyboard is english (US) as well. I need to change the language that the terminal replies to Swedish. For example, Instead of replying "Connection Refused" for a failed telnet, it should say "Forbindelse Vagras" (which is the Swedish translation) EDIT: I have tried setting LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 and same with LC_ALL, to no effect Have also tried changing system-wide settings, which changes the language in the entire system but not the terminal Also, I'm running ZSH.
I have a launchd script where the command I'm trying to run is erroring (apparently that's not a word, it is now), complaining of improper usage. The specific error I'm getting is the command's usage text dumped to the system log. From this I infer the other info (path to the command, timing etc.) in the plist is being parsed correctly, just not the command's options. After the command usage I have one last line: But that just means "I exited with an error".
The Mavericks feature "Displays have separate spaces" is nice except for one thing: With vertically arranged displays, you need to aim for the menu bar in the lower display. This breaks the primary advantage of having the menu bar on the top of the display, which is that one can just throw the pointer upwards, and it will hit the menu bar and stop. (Fitts' law.) Is it possible to have the best of both worlds: Separate spaces for my displays, but only one menu bar, located in my main display?
I noticed that running with the discrete GPU uses more power and generates more heat. I just need the discrete GPU to drive an external monitor, I'm not concerned about performance.
I've done some search about it, leading me to this link which provide support for using it with another mac. What I'd like to do is use it with another device (like a ps3) via HDMI & Thunderbolt. I've got a late 2011 mbp 15"
I'm having some permissions-related trouble with OSX clients and a Samba server. When I create, for example, a new directory on the mounted share, it will be created with rwxr-xr-x permissions. But when I open the info window for the directory in Finder, it will tell me "You have custom access" and it won't allow me to display or change the permissions for the directory. What is the message trying to tell me and why won't Finder let me change the permissions?
Some wifi networks require logging in through a browser after connecting, in order to gain internet access. In many cases it is possible to log in by opening a specific URL without having to click through the login page. Can I make this happen automatically when I connect to a specific wifi network?
Is it possible to tag a file or folder in mavericks via terminal command?
Upgraded from Lion to Mavericks and now when quitting any app, MAMP is always grabbing the focus instead of the previously opened app e.g. open MAMP, open Safari, open TextWrangler, quit TextWrangler, MAMP has focus instead of Safari. This was working fine in Lion. Anyone seeing similar behaviour or know how to fix it?
I have OSX 10.9 Maverics on my iMac and I got this message (in Console) every few seconds: Any idea ?
But, I still can ssh my machine and that works. Immediately after I connect via ssh the httpd daemon starts responding. So, I am guessing it was sleeping? But then, right after I disconnect from ssh the httpd also stops responding (sometimes, other times it runs fine).
I have a standard Apple US keyboard but I often have to type in German. I find the OS X shortcuts easy to remember and I am comfortable with them. To type the umlauts you have to type option+u (u as in umlaut) followed by the letter that needs the diacritic. When I use Windows in VirtualBox I have to fall back to the Windows combinations (e.g.AltGr+p for ö) which I find difficult to remember (I don't use VirtualBox a lot). Is there a way to map the usual OS X key combinations to Windows?
I'm not sure if this is a legacy thing, or if I'm being stupid, but when I open the ES1/ES2 whatever in Apple Logic X, it shows me something tiny and illegible I'm guessing this is just cause Apple decided not to update these, but can someone confirm?
Not sure if this is a duplicate question (I haven't been able to find a question dealing with this yet). Here's my problem: Currently on OSX Mavericks. I restart my machine. It shuts down and starts back up. I get the login screen. I enter in my login credentials successfully. I'm passed to the interstitial white/gray screen that you typically get when starting up. Instead of continuing the login process, it just hangs on this screen and never logs in. If I shut down completely and then turn my computer on, I can log in with no issues. Any ideas how I can fix this issue?
Is it possible to style code in Messages? E.g. use monospaced font, keep indentation, etc. This would be useful when having someone look at statements of code and asking for their feedback?
When Mavericks came out I've (as many others) installed the update. But something went wrong. First of all update didn't finish properly. It stayed on the last step in "less than 1 minute left" state for multiple hours, then screen became black and I rebooted my Mac Mini. System rebooted and loaded without problems, so I've decided that it was some unimportant glitch. But now my system misbehave in different ways and is pretty much unusable.
When my Macbook and home Mac were running Mountain Lion, I used Back To My Mac to get to my home system and it showed me all of my drives if I logged in with my normal account credentials. Since I've upgraded to Mavericks, it appears to be defaulting to Samba instead of AFP because I only see the single read-only SMB share I have set up, and I can't log in with my normal account user/pass. When I'm at home, if I manually go to afp://ip.address/ it works fine. Obviously that is not an option with Back To My Mac. Does anybody know how I can get the afp-over-wan behavior back? It was really handy!
With 10.9 iTunes keeps starting automatically after few minutes and I don’t know why. I quit it and 3 minutes later, its starts again. The problem persist after reboots. This lines show up in the console after a reboot another time, iTunes started automatically a third time today, this happens The following suggestions I already tried out iTunes really quits and gets a new PID no iOS device or iPod is connected I checked /Users/username/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/ and/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/, there are no Plug-ins installed I checked launchd, but I’m not entirely sure, what I’m looking for iTunes is not set as a login item no mic or speaker connected all iOS devices have Wi-Fi sync deactivated infrared is disabled launchctl list infrared is disabled launchctl list launchctl list
The error occurred after only seconds, so I'm assuming it did not actually complete a 7 pass erase and rewrite before stopping. Guessing that means my data is still there and relatively accessible. Is there anyway to re-access the Security Options and get this thing to securely wipe from this point?
I just got a MacBook pro retina to replace my old Macbook Pro. I no longer see the screen resolution icon at the top icon bar, (where the Wifi, audio, Backup, etc Icons reside) Do you know how to add that?
The title says it all. I would like to have clean white background in finder (in list view). I don't want these pale blue stipes (alternating background color).
After I updating OS X to Mavericks, Time Machine backup stopped to work on Time Capsule. I am connected on internet through Time Capsule without problems AirPort Utility indicators are green with no errors (as well as Time Capsule LED) Time Capsule name is displayed in Shared in Finder I didn't do any changes except for update to Mavericks But Time Capsule connection fails: "Connection Failed" is displayed if I select TimeCapsule name in Finder If I click "Connect as…", error dialog says: "There was a problem connecting to the server …" If I click "Backup now" on Time Machine, it says: "Backup Failed: The backup disk … is not available."
At times, my computer suddenly played some annoying short sound (sounds like darrrt, seems not from the system), and it's so short that I have no idea where it comes from (and cannot capture it). Is there any ways to find which program/process did that? (I really want to kill it!) I am using OS X Mavericks.
I would like to find a way to block the access to some websites from all the browsers of my Macbook, but not just as Self-Control does. I want to make kind of a time schedule, for example blocking Facebook between 8am and 8pm, and let it free outside this "window", and do the same with different "time-windows" for other websites... Is there a way to do this?
I am trying to setup Bootcamp, but am having a tough time. I know this question has been asked previously, but all of the answers are outdated. What SKU product key for Windows 7 is licensed for Bootcanp on 2013 MacBook Pro? Keep in mind I don't have a DVD drive which makes use of any optical media problematic.
I first noticed there, but many system preferences similar panels won't open anymore. VPN Authentication Settings; Security & Privacy > Advanced; iCloud > Manager or Options; Date & Time > Customize Voice...
Where does winetricks install packages? I installed steam using the command 'winetricks steam' and I couldn't find it in ~/.wine/drive_c or just anywhere in ~/.wine
My first Apple laptop broke. I have a new one now, but I'd had the old one for about 5-6 years and bought a lot of music.
I'm using more and more Applescripts for home automation that rely on System Events being active. The problem is that System Events shuts down if it hasn't been used for a while. I'm not sure how long the time is though. 15 min? 5 min? Regardless... if System Events isn't active, there's either a pause or an error while it launches, meanwhile I wonder what happened. I don't want to build delays into the Applescripts because many of them are for remote control type actions (imagine if your TV required a 10 second delay every time you tried to use your remote. That'd be annoying).
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 within VirtualBox 4.3.2 on a Windows machine with an i7 processor. I would like to upgrade my OS to Mavericks through the App Store. When I try to do so, I get the erroneous error message that my processor does not meet the new operating system's requirements. Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?
When I create a new Desktop (space) in Mission Control, how can I quickly open a new Finder window in that space? Right now I have to right-click on the Finder icon and hit New Finder Window, because if I left-click on the icon it brings me to the already open windows in another space. I do want to keep this behaviour for when a Finder window already exists in the current space. I can then switch back and forth by clicking on the icon.
I am trying to use su and sudo on my iMac that I did a fresh clean install of Mac OS X 10.9 and Server 3.0. I explicitly set the password for root with
According to I've bought Mountain Lion, but where can I download it now? it should be in my purchase tab, but it isn't. ("option" does not help, it just lets you redownload if it is already in the list - which it isn't) I would like an installable version of Mountain Lion to run inside parallels for testing software I develop against 10.8 (and potentially also 10.7, but let's stick to 10.8 for now). How can I get an installer for older versions? edit: found a way (for some reason site won't let me post this as an answer)
As the title says, I would like new windows to open in a set screen size. I believe that the default is that they open in the size of the last window. Sometimes, I want to make a window smaller for some reason, but I want new windows to open as usual. Is there a shell script/command to accomplish this? Thanks
I have a MacBook Pro and connected an external display to it, so far, so great. However, Mavericks seems to insist on opening new applications on the secondary display, even if the currently active (key and main) window/app is on the main display. Incredibly frustrating because they have different screen sizes and it messes terribly with my saved window sizes. Is there any way from stopping Mavericks from doing that? I only want apps to open on the main display, or at least have them remember on which display I closed them last time. In case it helps, this is my display arrangement from the system preferences:
To be more specific yet still brief, I'm looking to use Filevault 2's entire partition encryption, for a partition other than my primary boot partition. Ideally, I want to have 2, or in the future, maybe even more than 2 bootable partitions. What I want though is to have an unencrypted partition be my primary boot partition. So that you hit the power button on the computer, it starts up to a standard login screen without you ever seeing a password prompt.
I'd like to disable every kind of text anti-aliasing and font smoothing globally in OS X. With OS X 10.8 on a mid-2013 MacBook Air 13", I've tried quite a few options: the Turn off text smoothing for font sizes … and smaller, which corresponds to AppleAntiAliasingThreshold in NSGlobalDomain, doesn't seem to cause any effect — I've tried setting it to 12 through the interface, and to 24 through defaults, to no effect. defaults read | fgrep Smooth returns nothing, but manually setting AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 or AppleSmoothFixedFontsSizeThreshold -int 24, for NSGlobalDomain, as per *=URL=* doesn't seem to cause any effect, either. For example, with Terminal, if I go to preferences, in Settings, Text, Text, there's an option Antialias text, and it's ticked, and there's no way to untick it, because the whole option is greyed out. How do I completely disable antialias in Terminal and globally for all apps?
How would I write the following as an AppleScript command without the use of bash scripting? I might have the bash syntax wrong, but I want to search from the root of the drive for a specific filename. I tried drawing multiple efforts from things around on the net, but I just need a simple "find" solution.
So far I have been using control key to: Send control commands to terminal Occasionally do right click Does the key have any other function?
I have a single drive that is shared via the usb on my airport extreme. Works great.
The following command reads the NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems. The keys are called Text Shortcuts in OS X.
I had a couple of issues connecting to an SMB share last night so started using ping to test connectivity. At that point I noticed the ping was very slow and variable - my Windows laptop shows <1ms for all pings to the router. An example:
I have found way to open new tab in iTerm: And I want to execute some commands in new tab. Let it be simple command pwd. How to do it? If I run ... The new tab is opened as expected, but pwd command is executed not in new tab but in old one, where I typed newtabi && pwd
I want to add an IMAP-account to Mail. Since I've used this account for many years, it contains thousands of emails and archive folders, and I really don't want to fill up my SSD with that. I couldn't find a way to limit synchronization to a certain time frame or specific folders (I guess that's not really the concept of IMAP).
I would like to know how long was my battery running since it's last charge. There is a built-in time-remaining counter but I would like a time-used counter.
I'm trying to install Flash Player 11.9 on Mac OS X running on a case-sensitive filesystem. The installation fails with a (very unsatisfactory) error message. What can I do to complete the installation successfully?
I have Siri deactivated in the General --> Siri settings. Nevertheless, if I press the Home button long enough, Siri starts to listen, and then calls some random number. Resisting the urge to rant about Apple delivering such a shame of a feature, I'm simply asking: How can I REALLY deactivate Siri? Again: I deactivated it in the General --> Siri settings, but it's still not deactivated.
I would like to copy and paste multiple lines in the command line text editor nano on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Alt-6 and Ctrl-U do not work as on other platforms.
Is it possible to send the audio/video to a 3rd generation AppleTV and close the lid on the MacBook? When I try it, the MacBook goes to sleep. Is there any trick to get this working?
I noticed that cvs was removed from Mavericks. I replaced it via MacPorts, but I find that cvs co [projname] with a correct $CVSROOT and cvs -d acct@server://path-to-cvs-repository co proj_name also fails with a "server: Connection refused" message. Clearly, I'm using ssh to connect and sync, and I know there are two types of keys that cvs supports and I wonder if I'm sending the wrong key type. My server is a FreeBSD system on 9.2 and I may not have attempted a checkout or import since I updated from 9.1. Before I dove into man pages, I was wondering if any one else has found and solved this problem? --EDIT December 3, 2013
I can successfully connect via VNC from my Windows and Linux machine to my Mac OS X. However on connection, the client view shows very large windows and they are all transparent. I can move the cursor around but its not useful at all in terms of what i can see in the client. Are there any particular settings i have to change on the client or server? Im using Vineserver on my mac. I have tried using RealVNC, TighVNC, UltraVNC on for the client on Windows and Linux.
Outlook.com (past Live Mail / Hotmail) allows creation of email aliases associated to one main account, which is very convenient. Using Exchange ActiveSync with an iOS device works really well on all tasks, but one can't send/reply emails using one of those aliases. Is there any productive way of using these outlook.com aliases on an iOS device?
I've just downloaded OS X Mavericks on a Mac. I'm trying to convert the file: contained inside the download to a .cdr (AKA .iso AKA ISO 9660) file. I've tried a couple of conversion programs but both of them report that the file is corrupt. Hence, I would like someone to post the MD5 checksum so that I may check the file's integrity with the md5 command from the Mac shell? That is the only way to determine whether this file is intact or not and if someone could post the MD5 sum I would really appreciate it.
I have a folder on a HFS+ volume I can't delete. I already tried to get rid of the ACLs but somehow this doesn't worked out. The folder is calles CrashPlan.app. Here is what the terminal says:
I would like to make an image of my entire OSX install, so that I may restore to it if necessary. I'd LOVE to have incremental backups, so bonus points if anyone can figure out how I can do this! I've enabled full reading/writing to an NTFS drive by following steps similar to those outlined in this guide: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57588773-263/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/
Since the update to Mavericks, my MacBook has stopped going to sleep when I close the lid. I did some investigation and found out a command (pmset -g) to identify the process(es) that prevent it from sleeping. The output:
==>> What are the most useful Unix shell "one-liners" that you use? <<== Here are a couple of mine to get the conversation started: Syntax: Example: You entered: Use this: And your command will be re-run with the replaced substring: Shell Idiom: Example:
I have a spreadsheet with about 600 rows and 20 columns. I want to add a unique identifier to each cell so that I can use the exported CSV output in another app. So I thought that I could add a column after each existing column, and then use a formula to populate the cells.
When using the built in maps navigation, I'm sure I once was able to choose which mapping tool to use (Google Maps or CoPilot) but now for the life of me I can't work out how I did it. I'd like to find a place using the normal mapping application and then choose which navigation application to use to get me there. I've seen this question How to invoke navigation on Google maps using Siri?, but I would like a non voice activated solution if there is one.
Whenever I try to use the dictation feature in OSX, it mutes my sound. I want to hear the audio I'm playing in iTunes or somewhere else while I have dictation enabled. How can I do that?
When duplicating files in the finder, OS X attaches a space followed by 'copy' to the file name. This can lead to some file alphabetizing problems and the copies may appear out of order (not directly subsequent to the original). Is there a way to change the appended text? I would prefer that it says '_1' or _copy. Thanks.
I've been most unfortunate to see my mid-2012 Macbook Air 11" running Mac OS X 10.8.2 stop properly receiving DHCP leases AND resolving DNS names to IPs. I know, there is 10.8.5, and Mavericks that is free.. I like 10.8.2, yes, I know what I'm doing. Security argument will be futile. Anyway... :) What was supposed to be a real day off with no time spent on looking at a monitor, turned into about 9 hours already of trying to pin down the problem, and ultimately solve it.
Before that I tried booting into recovery and repairing the disk. It did find and repair some errors but that didn't resolve my issues. I booted to an old Snow Leopard install dvd and went through the disk utility operations with that to the same end. Next, still using the DVD, I shrank my Mavericks partition, created a new one with the free space, and installed Snow Leopard on that. It installed fine, rebooted into snow leopard, configured itself, rebooted again, and I haven't been able to get past the grey apple loading screen since.
Apple updates keeps popping up notifications, and offers me 3 options for "Later". How do I tell it "Never".
I come from an Android background where dragging movies in folders across remains in that same format from laptop to tablet. Now, on my Macbook Pro, I drag TV series folders with their sub-folders into my iTunes. Everything arrives completely disorganized and jumbled all together. This makes it painful to find my way from series to series when I previously had neatly arranged folders within folders. I also don't want to have to spend time dragging each file into place, checking against the original organised structure.
I have some difficulties understanding what's wrong in Automator: I used to launch a short automator script with an exiftool command to organize my pictures by folders:
I have many of photos of someone tagged using the "Faces" feature in aperture 3. They've changed their name since getting married, and I'd like to update my photos in aperture to show their married name.
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, the Terminal prompt became a bit slower at coming back. It's not a huge deal, but there's now a slight noticeable delay before the prompt comes back (maybe like a quarter of a second) which gets annoying over time.
I have pf configured and working with rule sets that are logged. Where is pf logging to? How do I check these logs? How do I configure them?
I set theme in .zshrc file: And when open new tab, it shows that new theme is loaded: But in fact I dont see any changes in theme. New tab again and again:
I have recently updated both my Mac & Apple TV software now my Airplay mirroring is no longer working (though does through iTunes) I just receive a message saying Could not connect to "Apple TV" when clicking on the Airplay icon. It's not a WiFi issue as I can still access my computer via apple TV.
I've noticed an option called Wifi-networking and I can't seem to figure out what it does, exactly.
I currently have iLife '11 installed on my iMac from a retail disk purchased new from eBay. Under the updates section of the App Store, there is nothing that says iLife Update. I thought updates for iLife '11 to iLife '13 would be free?
The following code is an example of what I'm using at the moment, but it keeps erroring out on me: It's supposed to find the existence of a file (in this case, Bingo.app) and write it to a temporary file (/tmp/remove_files), which it does, and then check to see if the temporary file was written. If it was, it will look into that temporary file, and delete each file (specified by i) in the temporary file listing, then remove the temporary file itself. Instead, all it ever does is return an error: or What am I missing in this?
I just updated my mid-2009 Macbook Pro to Mavericks and now it regularly shuts down while it is asleep or closed. I have to restart it and receive a message that it "shut down because of a problem." Does anyone have any insight into what is going on? Below is the most recent crash report:
Let’s put two Macs MAC1 and MAC2 on the same table. They are connected to the same AirPort (wi-fi) network. They are connected to the access point AP, which is far away, at 10 meters. The Macs are not in an ad-hoc (computer-to-computer) network. Now, let’s send a file from MAC1 to MAC2.
My mac recently has gone wild with kernel_task. It slows down the computer, the fans blow wildly for around ten minutes after startup (shut down, restart or sleep). I did an EtreCheck scan and got these results and don't know what to think of them. Any help?
When I launch this simple AppleScript from Finder or by using the standard Quicksilver panel selection, it runs without confirmation. But if I launch it with a Quicksilver trigger, it opens a confirmation dialog asking "Are you sure you want to run this script?" How do I prevent this confirmation dialog from appearing?
Rebooted and Verified Disk twice. There is no OK message and stops here:
I'm on the latest Mountain Lion. Is there some sort of hack, plugin or tool that will allow me to do this move in Mission Control?
I need to free up space to update my iPhone 4 (8 GB) to iOS 7. I have purchased 25 GB of storage for iCloud.
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro A1278 running at 6500+ RPM all the time. When I ran the hardware test, it showed: 4MOT/1/40000003: Exhaust-7358
The most ideal behavior (in my opinion) would be to lock my computer as soon as my phone goes out of range, then automatically unlock it (without a requirement for typing in a password) when my phone comes back in to range. However, since earlier OS versions I have been working under the assumption that user input is required to unlock the computer after the screensaver and password requirement have been engaged. With this constraint, the desired behavior is just to restore the functionality that was present prior to 10.9 – being able to type in the password to unlock the computer when back in range, but not require a password again until the phone goes out of range. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
This is very bad for me and I’m looking for a way to make Spotlight index symbolic links (some mdimporter magic?), or to be able to search for (the names of) symbolic links in some other way.
This task should be very easy to solve, but still, I can't do it. I have downloaded a epub book, dragged it to iBooks app on Mac. Then I go to iTunes, click on iPhone and go to Books tab. I can see some books in Sync section, but they are different from those I see in iBooks app on Mac. No way to sync that single book with my iPhone. So, my question is: what am I doing wrong? Is there any way to do that without killing virgin and summoning Devil? Because to me all this sync issues seem to be a black magic.
I was recently notified that my ex boyfriend signed into iMessage on his laptop using my email address. I have since then changed my Apple ID password and was immediately asked to enter my new password into iCloud. If I changed the password, will it automatically sign out on his computer as well? And, if so, is he still able to use my email for iMessage?
I would like to make a bootable DMG or ISO file with OS X Mavericks on it. I want to then burn this file to a DVD-ROM (or, alternatively, make a bootable USB stick with it). From what I've read, however, the file /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
I am not a mac power user and when ever I need to find an application or file, I open Finder and look for it. Couple of weeks ago, I saw someone using some keyboard shortcut, which opened a dialog box, where as he enters the name, the application showed the files matching the word he is searching. Is this a mac power tool or is this a different app? Thanks
Despite the claim made in the answer to this question: Can Spotlight show results for disconnected drives? This is exactly the behaviour I am seeing and I don't want it! E.g. AlanG5Backup and MacBookBackup were partitions that I had previously mounted, but (as the output from ls /Volumes shows) were not mounted when I ran the locate command. Furthermore, the current volume (Tamandua) doesn't show any locate results at all, which it should.
Very curious problem - only Chrome can access the Internet, but literally everything else cannot. Confirmed this in Activity Monitor's Network tab (it shows 0 bytes sent/received for literally every process other than Chrome). Mail, Software Update, Safari, App Store, all can't connect. At first I suspected it was a botched uninstall of Little Snitch or K9 internet filter, but now I'm suspecting something deeper in the system. Cleared DNS cache and other items using Onyx. Still no luck. Thanks in advance.
In OS X X.9 Mavericks, I'd like to add a colored tag to my apache config file, which is under /private/etc/apache2, and to my apache log files, which are under /priavte/var/log I do not have the option to add a colored tag to these files.
Can I colour a cell red if todays date is on or after the date I have entered in the cell? I have tried the IF function and conditional formatting but cannot make it work...
My iMac is connected to an iPhone's hotspot to get its internet connection. I have another iPhone that requires internet connection, but it can't connect to the hotspot. Instead, I would like the iMac to serve as another hotspot, from which the other iPhone can connect through wifi. Therefore, the connection would look like this: iPhone A (wifi)-> iMac (wifi)-> iPhone B
I do a lot of hardware programming, and some of the chips I write applications for don't have IDEs and/or compilers that are compatible with anything other than windows, so I do use Windows quite often. I have recently decided to dedicate my personal laptop to my main operating system, Linux, and move Windows over to my other computer, iMac. The problem I have been encountering ever since I installed Windows 8.1, though, is that the screen won't turn back on after a sleep session. Has anyone else had a similar problem? How did you overcome it? Note: I have already set my screensaver time to none and that didn't seem to fix anything.
I'm tempted to get an Apple Wireless Keyboard but the lack of a number pad is a concern. I'm interested whether there is some form of software you can use where for example you hold some control keys down and you can use a set of keys like the following as a substitute numeric keypad:
I have so many photos on the iPhone. And my iPhone's internal space is not enough now.
I can get to my FTP server just fine from the command line but I cannot get to it from Finder. When I am in Finder and I "Connect to Server" and enter ftp://192.168.125.128/, then my credentials when prompted, it gives me the error: I can however connect to it anonymously just fine, which is frustrating, because as stated before, I am able to log in just fine and browse around from the command line using my credentials. Is there something else I need to do with Finder?
Is there some other way to get the UUID for the device that doesn't involve using the disk in anyway? Would it be cached in a file some place I could take a look at? I've looked at the output from diskutil and couldn't see a way to get it without involving the device. And the mount output doesn't say anything about UUIDs in its output.
Inside my early 2008 MBP (15", C2D 2.4, 4GB, GF8600M) I installed a used Samsung SSD (128GB), did a clean Mavericks install and at first startup, I restored the Applications, Desktop, Documents etc. from my Time Machine - it went fine. But now it boots up for 5 minutes, even though it used to take like 2-3 mins maximum when the original 200GB HDD with Mountain Lion was inside.
Is there any way to compress a PDF (with the preview / iOS default software) to a certain size in mb (in my case as close as possible under or equal 5 mb)? The actual size right now is (6 scanned pages) 8.8 mb. If i just use the "normal way" (meaning: finder, export using quarz-filter, compress pdf) i get a far too small and therefore unreadable PDF. Anyone knowing a good work around? Thanks for help!
I have a folder with a custom icon, and was wondering if there was any way I could get all folders within it to automatically get the same custom folder icon, that way I don't have to keep changing the icons and every time I create a new folder, it automatically gets applied? Thanks
I purchased the iA Writer app for my iPad. Can I download it free on my MacBook? Thanks.
I've been using MacBook Pro. My question is how to capture a disk image of a Mac running Mountain Lion that is currently bound to an Active or Open Directory? What do you recommended for that?
Again, title says it all. On a normal Mac keyboard, shortcuts for font increase/decrease are: SHIFT CMD < - decrease SHIFT CMD > - increase
I have one Macbook pro and two monitors (one monitor and one TV I am using both of them with my Macbook pro with cables). I use this Macbook for business and development work. I would like to simultaneously use this Macbook for dev work and one Mac mini I do not have yet for business work.
Is it possible to use the iTunes account to buy an iPad? I'd like to build up credit using iTunes prepaid cards with 20% credit to buy a new iPad Mini Retina. I think there is no restriction to what you buy through the store. Am I correct?
Is there a way to fake an ethernet interface or port on a grilled one (MacBook Pro) except from a usb ethernet? Maybe through a bootloader? Chimera or Chameleon adding a key in boot.plist?
I just bought MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display. I have noticed that bitmap images (which are not vector graphics) are pixelated and fuzzy on several websites. However, videos seem to be fine. Why is that so? Can anyone explain why only bitmap images are affected by this (low resolution) but not videos?
Is there any way to create folders in safari's reading list, or any other way to hierarchically organise items in reading list?
I have a png image file which I would like to overlay text onto, via the command line (for use in a Makefile). The text to be overlaid is dynamic, decided at the time the image is modified. I am aware that I can install ImageMagick to do this, but I would prefer to use a method that only requires standard OS X along with Xcode's developer tools.
When you want to move a group of files in Finder in column mode, you first select the group, then drag the group to a target folder. The problem is that the files hide the target folder, and in column mode, you have to put the mouse cursor over the file name. Sometimes, the files fade a little, get out of the way, and a red label with the total number of files is displayed. I don't know when this happens, but this solves the problem, because nothing is displayed near the cursor. Also, sometimes the files are not moved away from the cursor, but there is still a red label displaying the number of files.
Is there an Applescript dictionary for Preview.app? I am unable to find it under Mac OS X 10.7.5, and Applescript 2.2.1. I did a rudimentary search in google and duckduck but came up empty. I've also ran *=URL=* however when I run it for Preview I am getting the following error: Where can I find the scriptable objects for Preview? I have found several answers saying it is not scriptable, however I have not changed the NSAppleScriptEnabled preference and the following runs: I've posted a separate question about why this runs on stackexchange.
I used to have an iPhone 4s and all the data from there is synced in my iTunes in my Mac. I just got an iPhone 5s yesterday and decided then to plug it to my iTunes. There was a welcome message and 2 options: whether to set up as new iPhone or set up as old iPhone (4s contents).
I have a one-year old iPhone 5 and it's battery performance has dramatically decreased over the last few months. As I could use my iPhone for over 24 hours a year ago, the lifespan has halved by now.
I am using Oracle VirtualBox to run OS X inside OS X. This entails running OS X on Mac-branded hardware so does not break any license agreements. I am following the instructions on this site: *=URL=* I have downloaded "Install OS X Mavericks.app" and ran the script InstallESD.dmg.tool -B -i InstallESD.dmg -o Output.dmg on the InstallESD.dmg file as advertised on the site. This outputs a file, oddly called: Output.dmg?.dmg Not sure why the question mark followed by the .dmg is appended at the very end, but anyways, I have configured VirtualBox to boot from this file, and it seems like some progress is made, but then the kernel boot messages inside VirtualBox seem to pause indefinitely when the following lines are reached: I've been waiting 15 mnutes, the hard drive seems to be resting with infreqeuent short flashes, and the boot process seems to have halted at this step. Why am I seeing this and how can I proceed with the installation of OS X (10.9) Mavericks? Thanks.
I know that it is possible to make Mac OS X to read the text with a keyboard shortcut. System preferences Dictation & Speech->Text to Speech tab
I've recorded a video clip with a TV in the background. During the recording, I displayed a green key on the TV. Now, I want to replace the green color with a picture I captured. It's an almost perfect rectangle. The camera is moving a little bit and is zooming in, making the TV (and the picture to display) a little bit bigger. I figured out how to replace a green key background, but this doesn't do the trick in this case, because the picture I replace the color with is moving and resizing. Any tips on how to do something like this?
I have an iMac (Mid 2011, if it matters) and I just installed Mavericks. When I launch the Maps app, it knows PRECISELY where I am, which I could certainly understand if it was using IP geolocation. The catch is, I'm on a VPN connection, with the exit about 200 miles from my actual location. If I use any of the IP geolocation websites, it shows my location at that VPN exit node, not where I actually am. So, how DOES my computer know where it is?
What's the correct syntax in the Applescript below to make this app run by double clicking on it rather than how it runs now by just running the Applescript in the AS script editor? The Shell script is located at: ToggleHidden.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/toggle.sh
In the last few days I have seen the same update keep appearing in my App Store updates list. The details are: Software Update: MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update 1.8 "This update address a rare issue on some Apple notebooks where a battery..." I'm on a Mid-2011 Macbook Air running OS X 10.9. I have installed the update and the machine reboots as expected, but then a day later the App Store prompts me to install the same update again. Is there a way to reset or somehow suppress this so I don't keep getting asked?
I have a OS X mavericks in .raw extension. Is it possible to upgrade my mountain lion from it , if possible how
I'd like to give the Mail app a real try, and see what it'd be like moving off of gmail. I have a small company (2 people) and I use its domain name to receive and send all my email. Currently, I use google apps to handle all the company's email (and calendars too, etc.) iCloud seems like it might be an option, except that the web client won't support a domain name.
When using afconvert for AAC output, I find little documentation on the format variants under the m4af category: 'aac', 'aace', 'aacf', 'aach', 'aacl', 'aacp', 'alac', 'paac'.
After getting the iPhone 5S, I have been having problems with the AppleTV connection. Sometimes it just drops as soon as I start Airplay mode from the iPhone, and most of the other times some error appears about HDCP. I never had these problems with the iPhone 4S and tried updating the AppleTV and that has fixed nothing. How do I fix this issue ?
I frequently use command-click in the titlebar to open the parent folder of a folder in the Finder. In Mavericks, instead of opening a new window with the same view style, it opens a new tab in "column" view.
Whenever I install a software with Homebrew and I try to view the manual I get an error stating: No manual entry for <name of program>. As an example, wget: when I type So, I'm wondering how to link the man pages so I can view them with the command.
Are there any iPhone push apps that will still sound when the phone is set to silent/vibrate? I've tried Prowl but it gets silenced. I'd like to have a way to find my phone more easily when I can't find it and it's on silent, and if I can send it a push notify that always sound it will solve my problem.
I downloaded an iPhone iOS dmg file from the iOS Dev Center, but don't know how to install it. How do I load it on to my device? I'm using iTunes 11 on Windows.
I'm thinking of purchasing a portable disk drive that supports hardware encryption (most of them seem to do these days). However, if I'm using such a drive can should I still encrypt my TimeMachine backups? I'm assuming that TimeMachine uses software to encrypt the backup data which would be slower than the hardware encryption supported by the drives. Is my assumption wrong?
I'm having a pretty bizarre problem in OSX Mavericks. I'm attempting to install a fresh version of the OS, so I boot to OSX Utilities (Cmd+R). The option that I'm looking for is listed (re-install operating system), but I can't select it or anything else from the list.
Your response may be, "don't do that". But she was able to do it with iOS 6 just fine, so it is kind of hard for me to tell her that. It is only after the upgrade to iOS 7 that she started having this issue.
Whenever I try to copy files (usually larger files from > 250MB) to my Synology NAS, Finder temporarily freezes for about 10 seconds and sometimes locks up till the whole file is copied. The file then copies and all is OK.
We have 10 MacBook Pro Mountain Lion that is currently bound to an Active Directory. AD password expiration date time is 42 days. My questions are :
Several people have posted about how they use 3 external monitors with their MacBook Pro Retina. see: *=URL=* *=URL=* Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions? How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?
Mail sent from a Mac (OS X Version 10.7.5 using Mac Mail, via Office 365 / Exchange) is appearing as it should when the mail consists of just text. However, when there is an attachment added (in the case of my example a word document, but it's been the same for any file type) the email body text does not appear in the recipient's mail program (Outlook 2010 in this case) but is present as a .htm attachment - as is the signature added in Mac Mail.
I'm using iPad mini with iOS 7.0.3. I know how to correctly install my app, my question is about how to remove aftermath of my last try.
It seems that there are several problems releated to incompatibilities between Apple-EFI and UEFI that do prevent Apple users from easily using USB drives to install or even run other operating systems. I am planning to make this a quick guide, so others will not loose precious time encountering the same problems as me. It seems that the latest ISO of Ubuntu that has the UEFI removed in order to be able to boot on Macs is 12.04.3 What I did so far: Tryed YUMI with mac blend of the ISO and it produces a disc that is recognized by rEFInd but that gives "Missing Operating System" when trying to load it.. unetbootin tool works on OS X, Linux or Windows BUT it will not create USB disks that will work on Macs. Tried penguintosh.com with both Ubuntu ISOs and none of them works, it does run and creates the USB disc but it's not recognized by Mac EFI or rEFInd. So, how can I create an USB disk that will install Ubuntu on Mac, preferably latest version Ubuntu. Note: Assume that I do not want to 
When i switch my iPhone 5 (iOS 7) to "Do Not Disturb"-Mode, and also activate "Always" in the Silence-Settings, it vibrates when it is unlocked. So when i am reading an iMessage, and it arrives a new one, my iPhone vibrates.
I work in an office of 3 developers, all of whom own an iPad. Two of the developers have an iPad 3, and I have an iPad 2. I am the only one that cannot connect to the TP-Link TL-WA801ND Wireless Router. I have tried the classic troubleshooting technique of turning the router and iPad off and back on again, but to no avail. My iPad 2 model number is MC769B/A and I am running iOS 7.0.4 (11B554a). I can connect to the building's Wifi network fine, and also when i'm at home I can connect to my own router and extender without any problems. What could be the reason that I can't connect?
Question in title. Is it possible at all with Sublime Text 3? Now I can download different spellcheck packages or use the built-in ST spellchecker. However, I would like to use the Mac OS spellchecker as it does a great job in auto-correction and auto-detection of language. I'm on the last Mountain Lion with Sublime Text 3.
I am streaming video from an ASUS router to a macbook air (2013) and having horrible stuttering problems. No big deal, you may say - I just don't have the bandwidth for it. The only thing is, if I copy the video over the network to my laptop, it only takes 10 minutes for a 90 minute movie, telling me that I have 9X the bandwidth required for streaming. This suggests that buffering may be the problem, but I've used both Movist and VLC and get the same problems.
Is there any way to synchronise music playback position between iOS and OS X, so that I can go from listening to a song on my iPhone, then continue listening to it at the same place on my computer when I open it?
For my research I have a number of text (txt or doc) files. These have a large quantity of newspaper clippings in them.
I have my PC, IPad and a AirPlay compatible speaker My question is: Can I use AirPlay to hear my IPad music in my speaker only with ITunes software only, or I need necessarily to buy AppleTV or an AirPort in order to use AirPlay?
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. I keep getting this after running Disk Utility to repair permissions. Will this cause problems?
If I buy an iPad or iPhone in Saudi Arabia, for instance, from a Saudi carrier, will the UI have been tailored in any way? I am thinking specifically of removing references to Israel, for example, in lists of countries, supported regional formats, etc.
Is there a way to only allow facetime calls from people in your address book?
My iPhone 4 keeps losing contacts under various conditions: first after an app crash followed by a manual reboot; all the other times after the battery becomes empty.
I have found this article listing the ports that are used by AirPlay devices. I am now trying to forward them from my Mac Mini to my MBP. I found this Apple support article, listing a procedure for portforwading but it's outdated and I am not sure wether it still valid for a OS X 10.9 server. I found this Apple support article, listing a procedure for portforwading but it's outdated and I am not sure wether it still valid for a OS X 10.9 server. Does anyone have any pointers as to what the procedure for setting up port forwarding on a Mac Server is?
The hotspot of the cursor is on the tip of the internal, black part. When I enlarge the cursor, the white outline is enlarged as well, so the tip of the white outline and the inner tip of the black body get pretty far from one another. I keep clicking on the white tip (as it's the outermost tip, the "absolute" tip of the arrow).
I'd like to change my default application for handling mailto: links to be the gmail browser-based client. I'd like to do this without configuring the default mail.app. That means I cannot get to the mail.app preferences panel. Does anyone know how?
depending on which one I mounted first. On the desktop they appear with the same name (and same icon, shame on Apple this time). I tried AppleScript:
I've installed MacZFS, I've read the FAQ and Getting Started section, but I've still troubles to understand how to simply format the external drive into ZFS on OSX. I'm confused with zpools, can anybody explains what are the zpools and how to format the drive? I've tried also to use Disk Utility ZFS-Dumodule, but without success. Is there any simple command to format the hard drive or to use Disk Utility for that? My drive is: /dev/disk5. Related: Solaris tip of the week: file-based ZFS for development and test environments
I'm running OS X 10.9, and I had a linux partition when I updated from 10.8. Since I updated I can't boot on linux, which is no big deal for me. However, I would like to delete the partition that is left (Linux swap) and merge the free space that was created during the update with my mac partition.
Quite simply, is it possible to use VNC (Windows) or ScreenShare (OS X) as a local network user? All users are local network users and when I access the server via Screen Share VNC://LOCAL IP ADDRESS I am prompted for a username/password. When I enter username/password of a local network user I am told "Authentication Failed to 192.168.1.1. Please verify you have entered the correct name and password. I set up a local account and when entering those details everything works fine. Surely the ability to use VNC/ScreenShare is available for local network users?
I use the Automatic Graphics Switching option as noted in this Apple support document. However sometimes it will still switch to the discrete graphic card. Is there a way to disable this?
I'm running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on several servers. We're about to ship them off to a colo provider, and I wanted to prevent them from sleeping. My question is, does setting the System Preferences > Energy Saver > Computer Sleep option to 'Never' reliably prevent sleep?
I have a problem that I'm not able to fix. I'm getting black borders, some king of margin. The display doesn't use the full space in the monitor. I have a total of four monitors in my house and three TVs. I only get this problem with one monitor.
Sometimes I see a distnoted process suddenly spin up and chew up 100% CPU (on one core) and a ton of memory, often in the neighborhood of 1.5G or so. This happens a few times a day, starting a month or so ago.
For years, I've been using iCal to automatically launch apps using alarms. I'd create a new event in iCal and set the alarm to launch an app rather than show a notification. The option to set alarms to launch apps or URLs (etc) seems to have been removed from Calendar in Mavericks, which means my automatic apps don't launch anymore.
Let me explain clearly, I have developed an application and created an app in the app-store with an apple developer id. But, not uploaded the binary version.
I created several spreadsheets in Numbers. Lately I have been using Excel, which won't open them. I can't find Numbers in my application folder--is it hiding somewhere??
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.0.1. Can I update with an ipsw file to iOS 6.1.2? I don’t want to have iOS 7. Or can I only update automatically to iOS 7?
I purchased an app 5 days ago and the the amount was debited in my account but my purchase history shows We were unable to authorize your credit card for this purchase. Please update your billing info. What do i need to do?
When I try to display web inspector just a grey background shows instead of that. I tried to restart browser but it didn't help. It happens in Safary 7 OS X Mavericks. Anybody knows what is that could be?
This question is about what steps are needed for transforming an Apple Mac Mini into an Ubuntu server. Here are some areas: installing Ubuntu and making it to be bootable from EFI by default enabing CPU and fan control (by default it does not work) be sure that it will power on after power failure SSD configuring (assuming that the primary disk is a SSD and that you may have a HD as the second disk, nobody needs the DVD drive).
If a keyboard becomes non functional, and a replacement is not readily available, or you may wish to login remotely to your Mac from another location perhaps: What options exist (if any) to login to one's Mac computer using only an iPhone or iPad ?
Despite Alfred and Keyboard Maestro being able to trigger many things by shortcut, they both require you to use a modifier and key to work. Though Alfred does support a double tap of shift, option and command, it appears to stop there. x What I'd like is an application to detect patterns like: double tap command followed by a double tap of option. Which then opens whatever you choose. Anyone know if such application exists? Thanks.
I do have a Macmini4,1 (2010) and I want to use it as a server so it will always start even after a power failure. Please remind that I am running Ubuntu on it, not OS X. Still, based on what I found online I tried these options, none being good: boot OS X recovery or installer, and run pmset autorestart 1 boot OS X and configure autorestart in Configuration panel setpci -s 0:1f.0 0xa4.b=0 on ubuntu. None of these worked so far...
I have a Pages 5 document that contains a bullets list. When I try to copy the content of the document into Mac Mail the text is copied without the bullets. That behavioral is reproduced with numbering list. Is there a way to copy that list with the bullets?
I've suffered a bit from this issue - when I quit MAMP, and then restart the app again, everything works just fine. However, when I quit all the other applications except MAMP, then the control immediately moves to MAMP (, which I opened in another window(Desktop) by the way). So for example, when I use TextEditor and quit it, the app is quit and the window moves to another one since MAMP is located in the window... So the question is, Why does this happen?
I am trying to configure my Mac to use a time-capsule for Time Machine. After entering in the Time Capsule password I get the following error: Keychain error -25308 occurred while creating a System Keychain entry for the username "Bob" and URL "afp://Bob@TimeCapsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TM" You can try using the Keychain Access utility to edit or repair your System Keychain I've tried repairing my keychain, using the Keychain Access utility:
For some reason the php55-apache2handler builds apache22. Is it possible to have an apache24 variant?
Aim: I would like to charge my MacBook Pro (MBP) form a 12V lead-acid battery. However there are no official chargers from Apple for that purpose. There exist quite some alternative products on the internet. For example this one simply comes with a MagSafe adapter and lets you choose 18V. However I am afraid that such a solution might hurt my battery.
I lost a lot of data and recovered the photos that I could using Stellar Phoenix. I got a lot of the photos back, however I'm struggling to reconnect them in Aperture. If I select a single image, it reconnects fine, however if I select the 'reconnect all' option, it shows as if it is working, but only the one photo is reconnected.
I have Mac Book Pro running Mavericks and my iPad Air with iOS 7. I want to share it's internet via bluetooth and use it on my iPad. I followed this tutorial, but when I click on Advanced, I don't see any tabs sharing about internet. Why is that? I have given screenshots showing my settings :
I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events. I thought it was the trackpad, so I connected a wired mouse, and the symptoms persist. After a little searching online I found that MacBook Pro owners have been having this same issue, and that Apple recommends closing the lid for 60 seconds, which causes some reset. This has also worked for me, however, a few minutes into working, the cursor will stop accepting click events (even though I can still move it).
Very recently I've updated my computer via the Mac App Store to Mavericks. Today when I opened Notes I noticed the background had changed but even more startling was that all my notes were gone! It shows "error 43". I have an external hard drive and backed up my computer. Is there any way to get my notes back?
Can entry duplicates in etc/hosts do any damage? For example:
I want to film myself with my iphone, when I'm drawing. The iphone is not moving, and are about 30 cm ≈ 11" above my desk. My paper is on my desk, I sometimes change paper. But when I do so, or even when my hands are moving, the camera "zooms in" on my hands, and then the drawing gets blurry for a second. That's not nice to watch. So, is there a way (or an app or jailbreak) to disable this?
I have a new (late 2013) MBP that I use with an external monitor. Annoyingly, when I plug/unplug the monitor, arbitrary spaces end up being fixed to either the internal or external monitor. Going to mission control doesn't appear to let me move spaces from one monitor to another, so I have to manually shuffle around each window. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or something) I'm missing to move spaces between monitors? Thanks!
At work, we are required to login to our work stations via an OSX Lion Server. I now need to update my iMac to Mavericks (for iOS7 and Xcode 5 support). Will the server need to be updated as well? If so, will every Mac in the office need to be upgraded as well (we are trying to avoid this scenario)?
I'm attempting to tether an Android phone via Bluetooth (PAN), while using my Bluetooth headset (Jawbone Icon HD). When the Android phone is connected, the iPhone 5s refuses to connect to the Jawbone, saying it is not in range. It also refuses to connect to my car's stereo when connected to my Android via Bluetooth. The Android works great when tethered over Bluetooth, and only sees the PAN profile. How can I resolve this issue?
I use one of OS X's built-in photo screensavers and point it to my Dropbox folder so that photos I add to Dropbox automatically appear. However, I've noticed that photos I've deleted from Dropbox continue appearing in the screensaver, long after they've been deleted. I suspect that when I first set up the screensaver, OS X cached a copy of the photos in my Dropbox folder, so they remain even after I've deleted the source photos.
I've changed the icon of an app I'm using to fit in more with the style of everything else by replacing the .icns file in the Contents/Resources folder. After a restart, the cache cleared an the Dock icon changed.
A friend of mine has a good old iPhone 3G (yep, the thing still works :)) and he just bought an iPhone 5S. When he takes a backup of the iPhone 3G in iTunes (iCloud isn't supported in iOS 4) and tries a restore on his iPhone 5S, the restore completely fails...
I changed permissions on a folder to allow another user of that same computer, so they could access it while logged in. I wanted to then move that folder (formerly in Pictures folder) to the Shared folder. Now when I attempt to move the folder, it will only copy it. I've tried resetting the sharing/permissions to what they originally were using the info panel, Sharing & Permissions, but it doesn't change the the fact that every time I try and move them, the computer just duplicates them in a new location.
Suddenly the following problem has happened: I have an Apache web directory at /www. Everything was ok with the permissions, but at some point (I can't realize what caused it), I become unable to create any new files in this directory. I have tried two methods: Saving a new file from Sublime Saving a new file from Sublime running sudo echo "" > newfile. running sudo echo "" > newfile.
How do I create a new folder in my mail. I've have gone through every menu option I can see and don't see it.
Suppose I turn on the setting for Mail in the iCloud preferences pane. What does this actually do? I've never turned this on; I have a vague memory that I once did, and that bad/weird things happened with my mail (messages getting synced in ways that I didn't want or something). But it's so long ago that I no longer remember, and now I'm wondering if I should just get over it and turn it on.
I just recently received my iPad Mini as a reward from my principal, and it was working just fine. I bought it home with me because it is now my property. Then, this morning, I turn it on and see that I need to put in a password! I never input a password, so can anyone tell me why this just happened?
If you add your boot drive to the network filesharing list of shares, the option to set the privileges for class "everyone" to "no access" is disabled.  Can anyone explain why? Or how to enable it?
Got an email from Apple saying that my iCloud account is almost full. I'd like to know with what exactly
I am trying to patch 5 files within an Mac application bundle using the Terminal patch command. The files to be patch are specified using an absolute file path (the file name and path start with a slash). The output when running $ sudo patch -i ~/custom.patch is: I have verified that the file /Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js does exist using at the specified file path using the ls command. Regression: Tried to run the patch command from root folder using $ cd / Tried to run the patch command from root folder with the first slash removed, that results in an almost identical result: How can multiple files within a Mac OS X Application bundle be patched using patch?
I know I can send Prowl notifications from OS X to iOS, but that requires going over the Internet. I'd like to accomplish the same thing, except that I want to be able to be able to do it without an Internet connection, to be able to send a message from a Mac to (an) iOS device(s) on the same LAN/Wi-Fi network. (It doesn't have to be with Prowl, it could be with any iOS app, as long as it can receive a message from OS X.)
My Mac wont start up even with full battery and charger plugged in... There is no sound, no screen or any disk movement. The same thing also happened a few weeks back and when I took it to the repair guy; he fixed it in a matter of minutes. He held down the power button for 10 seconds, removed the charger and did something else and the system started working but I don't exactly remember what he did. Can anyone tell me what those magic steps are? I am currently out of town and can’t take it there again. Any help please?
I just bought late-2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with retina. I want to connect it to my Samsung 32'' TV at home and DELL u2412m monitor at work. None of these connection is working right now.
I need a Mac software that automatically switches between applications every 10 seconds or so. I need it for a trade show I am participating at. In the past I've used AutoTab, but it is only for Windows. Any idea if a similar software exists for Mac? Regards,
I have a problem opening my .csv files in Excel; when importing them, all the information is in one column. How do I get Excel to separate the information automatically into different columns? I have a MacBook Pro and I’m using Excel 14.3.8.
Are there such keyboard layouts for Mac? (I am very new to the system.) (I am not looking for answers like "use this app and create your own layouts".)
I have a 64GB USB stick which I want to use on both my (Mountain Lion) iMac and my (work) Windows 7 laptop. I don't want to or need to share files across platforms and require the following structure: Partition 1 - Mac OSX Journaled case-sensitive Encrypted Partition 2 - Windows FAT 32 (not encrypted)
I'm on OS X Mavericks. In Finder, I use the "List" view. In this view, since upgrading to Mavericks, the column widths keep changing. Basically, the Name column expands to fill the window up, when you resize a Finder window. But worse of all, they are then fixed at that new width. So for instance, I open a folder, such as ~/Downloads, then increase the width horizontally to the right. I close this, then open ~/, which is the original width size. I then open the ~/Downloads folder, and now the columns are wider than the window.
I bought an iPhone 5S from the US. It is unlocked. In India I am unable to use it with the local (Indian) service provider. When I insert a nano sim card, I am getting an error msg: "activation required". Please explain how I could use it with local GSM service provider.
I have iPad 3 (model A1416 Wi-Fi only). It was using iOS 5.1.1 and I have then jailbroken it. Unfortunately I allowed the device to update automatically, and didn't save the SSH blobs or any other files to enable be to revert the OS back again. After trying some restores, I now get the black screen that tells you to plug your USB cable and connect with iTunes. iTunes says that I have the last update and no update button is available, only restore I have download some IPSW files for iOS 5.1.1 and iPad 7.0.4, and if I try to restore with shift in windows and browse for IPSW files and extract it, I get an error that I need to check host files etc I have downloaded many tools like iFaith and take SSH keys from Cydia for iOS 5.1.1 and trying to make an IPSW from that give me this message: The provided apticket looks valid! Although the apticket is valid, the set of blobs you selected are not supported in this build of iFaith.
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, and I'm gaming a lot with bootcamp windows 8. I'm considering buying a external monitor for better gaming (might be a BenQ, has to be 120Hz). My questions: Does a 2nd monitor affect CPU performance?
I have an iPhone that was synced to an iTunes library. Then I upgraded my Mac, and forgot to backup the iTunes library and transfer it to the new Mac. Ever since, I have been manually managing my music by dragging and dropping it from the filesystem onto iTunes, and not "syncing".
I spend a lot of time in single-user mode on our company Macs as part of my maintenance and OS mass-deployment work. We recently made our first foray into Retina display territory by purchasing some of the new MBPs: MacBook Pro Core i7 2.6Ghz 15-Inch (Dual Graphics - Late 2013 Retina Display), a.k.a. MacBookPro11,3.
I've got multiple X.509 certificates from different CA's for different purposes -- for example, one from CAcert.org, and another one from my university. Both have different advantages and disadvantages, and I want to decide which one to use in a by-case manner.
Right after downloading a font, you can see it has a lot of metadata. For example, if you download the Sansation font and run mdls Sansation_Regular.ttf you will get this output:
Any ideas? Do you know of any apps that can simulate mouse events?
I have tried mailbox Rebuild, re-checking mail, close Mail and open it again. Nothing seems to help. The messages in the Mail mailbox don't match what's in the filter by label on the web interface. Is there a way to force Mail to re-synchronize a single Mail mailbox (to a GMail label) without deleting the entire account and spending another day or two rebuilding the whole database?
I'm looking to install the IOS Simulators via the command-line. From the plist it downloads, I can see this:
The instructions on Internet Safety Project seem simple enough, but, according to all the OpenDNS tests, websites are not working. I am using a Wi-Fi iPad2 with iOS 7.
Is there any way to know ahead of time which paid apps are going free, or does Apples RSS feed actually contain data for apps that have just gone free "today" ?
I'm searching used Macs to buy in eBay. Some of the offered items show the computer's serial numbers in screenshots and/or plain text. Reading the Q&A Where to find factory list in apple serial number, we see this snippet from EveryMac.com (emphasis on the original):
Is there a way to remove contacts from an iPhone running iOS 7 that has locally synced contacts and Calendars (On My Mac) now that the Mac has been updated to Mavericks?
I'm kinda interested in using the Dvorak layout (if nothing else, people won't want to steal my machine as much), but it drives me insane that tapping a key types a different character than is written on the key. Is there a way to remove & rearrange the keycaps on an 09 MacBook Pro? What do I need to watch out for?
I have a bash shell script that runs on login. Even though I selected the "hide" checkbox in system preferences, iTerm still shows while running it. How do I completely hide it?
Whenever I start the Terminal app in OS X Lion, XQuartz starts automatically. Is this intentional?
I have a Mac, an Apple TV, and I have a network video stream (.../stream.m3u8) that I'd like to send over AirPlay to my Apple TV. If I open it in QuickTime/VLC, it plays great, but neither support streaming video over AirPlay. And when I try to open the stream in iTunes, it instead adds it as a playlist, instead of playing the video. I'm aware (and a proud owner) of AirParrot, but it's a "whatever's on your screen" type of thing, which gets a little choppy, and the audio is often not properly synced. Are there any ways, with a Mac and Apple TV, to send a live video stream over AirPlay, or to open it on my Apple TV?
There were 936 entries total with "Wake reason: ?" and that has me more than a little concerned. I'm recently returned to the Mac OS X ecosystem (my last was a Powerbook G4 running 10.2) and have been mostly in the Windows world with some development set-ups in Ubuntu Linux. I'd love some guidance on figuring this one out.
I keep getting these results from Activity Monitor in Mavericks, where it seems like 99% of my memory is being used (where in the screenshot I have 10MB left). Am I just reading this wrong? How am I supposed to read it?
After I back-up Mac Contacts to a .abbu file, is there a program that lets me get at the underlying data vs. just importing them? I.e., can I open them as a text file or .CSV. Thank you!
When I go to Network Utility and ping Facebook with the domain www.facebook.com, I get: What is the problem? …and why are all my packets not being received?
I'm running out of space on my little 16GB iPhone 4S. I have noticed that a very large chunk of the space is taken up by the Messages app. I believe this is due to the tons of MMS messages I've sent and received over the years. I would like to easily delete all MMS messages (pictures/videos) without deleting any conversations and without having to manually find and delete each one. Is this possible?
I am a web developer looking to get started with apps for iPhone and iPad. I have only an iPad Air 16GB. Can I install Xcode 5 and iOS SDK in the iPad for testing, while I code using a Windows PC?
I'm on iOS 6 on my iPhone, and I don't like iOS 7. When I try to listen to a podcast on the iTunes app, it tells me to download the Podcasts app. When I try to download the Podcasts app, it tells me iOS 7 is required to download the app. So how can I listen to podcasts, short of upgrading to iOS 7?
Being able to modify those attributes on my new folder in that way can provide me with a proof of concept to get custom sidebar icons without requiring mach_inject tricks, and allow me to be able to create new folders that act as if they were system generated folders with their own custom sidebar icons and everything. (I know there is ANOTHER file in /Library/Preferences named com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, but I'm confused, because for the Documents folder definition, it indicates a decimal number for com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector which, when converted to hex, then to ASCII, spell out 'sbDt' and NOT 'sbDc' which is listed in the system Info.plist file as Documents sidebar type ) --EDIT-- Actually, I modified that in an attempt to make a change to see what happens; the decimal number that's originally set for Documents by default is in fact 1,935,819,875, which translates to 'sbDc' in ASCII. (The following screenshot has my change in it.)
I reset smc, pram etc. but nothing made a difference.
I am developing my own "back up sms system", so my sms.db is backed up few times in a day (whenever I use SBStoggle button to make a backup). I've encountered a problem with sms.db-wal not passing data to sms.db right away, it stores newest SMS/iMessages for how long (? - assumed once per day or once in 30hrs) and after while it passes data to the sms.db file. Is there any way to force this process? I've found threads about this on MacForums but no answer there, I've looked in iphonewikipedia there is nothing to use either. (I am looking for a command) thanks for any comments or suggestions
There are plenty of FileVault 2 and SSD (Solid State Disk) questions on many forums, and a few already on this site, but this is more specific and I cannot find it even asked - let alone answered: If the disk is a factory fitted, original Apple SSD (in a Macbook in my case) is there any possible down-side to encrypting the disk with FileVault (on Mavericks so I'm assuming version 2!)? Sure there may be a fractional (unnoticeable) performance overhead but apart from that, are there any disk wear-levelling issues (due to problems with TRIM perhaps)? Ideally some documentation from Apple would be the best confirmation... if they have published any that I haven't found.
I've got a 15-inch MacBook Pro with the latest OS X. Every time I reboot, it resets the keyboard layout to American English even though I set it to Swiss German. This means that I always need to go to the language settings and change it to my layout, which is quite annoying. Any suggestions how to solve this? I also posted this question on Apple Support Discussions but wasn't getting any answers.
I feel that AXSelectedRows has finally beaten me into submission :) After extensive research, I am stumped as to how to programmatically list the contents of AXSelectedRows; simply put, to get the selected rows of any given AXOutline. It sounds trivial, but finding an answer has proven difficult - particularly due to the lack of online documentation (though I should probably buy a book!) Strangely, a lot of people just seem to want to programmatically select rows, instead of getting selected rows.
Since installing Mavericks whenever I open a new window in XQuartz (say gvim) it positions the newly created window at the top left of my monitor. Because every monitor now has a menu bar, the menu bar covers the title bar of the new window. This means I can't use my mouse to grab the title bar and drag the window to a new position. Are there any ways to drag a window using the keyboard, or failing that a way to click on any part of a window to start a drag operation?
I am trying to upgrade to OS X Mavericks from 10.7.5 but every time I click the install button in the Mac App Store, it looks like nothing is happening and now the button is all greyed out and I can't do anything.
Yesterday I experienced something interesting while setting up a Wi-Fi access point. The access point was connected to the Internet via a local modem (gateway), which had no DNS server address configured. The clients (Windows notebooks, Android phones, iPhones) successfully connected to the access point, and got their network configuration via DHCP, including the DNS server, which was the IP address of the local internet gateway (the modem). But no DNS servers were configured on the modem, so you couldn't surf the web as usual (only by typing in the IP address of a website so no DNS was necessary).
I have about 2 GB or more memory that I don't know what its used for. When I restart my computer with no applications running, the used memory is 4 GB, and when I open browsers its over 7 GB used from 8 GB total.
I'd like to update the datetime in a cell whenever any cell in the row changes. Is this possible in iWork Numbers 3? If not possible to look for changes in entire row then perhaps only "watching" a single cell?
I recently opened my PC Graphic Driver file (.exe) using iDownloader to download that file. When I tap the "agreed and Download" button on Nvidia's website to download, my iPad Air is automatically reboot. Now I am afraid this kind of reboots may dammage my iPad Air . Can reboot like these cause iPad Air CPU, memory or something damages ?
I know this has been asked many times (Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook that lack eject keys?) but the hotkey combination does not work on my MacBook Air that has no eject button running 10.7. So, what hotkey combination can I use to lock the screen?
I have several IMAP email accounts that I use in Mac Mail. I want to sync those "account settings" across to my iDevices (all on iOS 7). I don't want to enter these accounts manually on each device. There use to be a panel in iTunes called 'info' that allowed this but is missing in iTunes 11.3.1. What is the new methodology? I notice in Mac Mail that there is an option under the Mail menu to "Synchronize all accounts" which seems hopeful but even if it is pushing account settings to the iCloud then I am still not knowing how to get them to come down to my iDevices.
I was trying to set up Google Calendar on my new Mac. After following the steps from this Google support article, I ran into this absolutely useless error message:
My MacBook Pro was working fine this afternoon and after I came back from class in the evening, when I on the laptop, the white page just froze there for around 2 mins and I'm directed to a page asking me to select language. I chose English and it came to the OS X Utilities page where I'm given option to choose to restore, reinstall new OS X Lion, Disc Utility, and search for help online.
My business is digital retouching here in the Pacific Northwest, and I have several photographers in Austria who I work with. Typically, both of us have macs running Maverick.
My internet provider has a service where I share part of my wifi connection with other subscribers and in return I can use their wifi connection when I'm close to a subscribers router. It's very similar to FON.
I have iPhone4 running iOS 5.1. No, I will not upgrade to iOS6 because it will delete my beloved pre-installed Maps application, and the new one from Google is [snip...] ... not performing up to my expectations.
My question title probably sounds confusing, so allow me to explain... Let's say you have an iPhone 3GS that's still running iOS 5. Is it possible, today, to upgrade that device to iOS 6 (the latest supported version)? Or is it now stuck on iOS 5 because the latest version, iOS 7, doesn't support the 3GS? Put another way, if you were to go to Software Update on that device, would it offer you an update to iOS 6, or would it say nothing is available because iOS 7 isn't compatible?
I've got a column where each cell in the column contains two different pieces of data separated by a known delimiter ", ". How can I split each cell in this column around the delimiter? Given: I want
I am trying to figure out if I can run Windows Server 2012 R2 as a boot camp partition with Mavericks. What drivers should I use? Are there any issues?
I use Console.App to tail log files. However, after upgrading to Mavericks, once my MBP wakes from sleep, the app won't refresh automatically. It works fine when I first launch the app.
After I did this: To remove the supplemental configuration file that was installed with the updated PHP software, you may be able to remove the config file at /etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf: Then restart Apache: php stopped running even when I see the version of php -- using Can anybody tell me why that is?
So far, I have tried to use an install DVD to boot up Fedora on my machine, but I can't get my system to recognize the Fedora DVD in any way. I have tried holding down the 'C' key and the 'option' key to try to get it to recognize it, but I never see it outside of my desktop when I'm logged in on Mac OS X. All I have put on the disc is the ISO of Fedora.
Doing web research, I frequently collect .weblocs on my desktop, clicking on the favicon in a browser URL box, dragging it to the spot I want, and dropping it there. Until recently, the resulting .webloc file would always "stick" where I put it. (So, I could build up "piles" of .webloc icons -- not pretty but effective for quick-and-dirty searches.) Now the .weblock files are ending up somewhere else, stacking up at center-right of my iMac's display. (I guess that's the Finder's I-don't-know-where-to-put-it default for all items going on the desktop.) This occurs for latest versions of FF, Safari, and Chrome.
Is there an easy solution here I am missing, or is this it? It seems odd that the keyboard and dictionary would not be linked, like they are in iOS. Any help would be appreciated!
My internet connection died whilst my router still continued to work (so I could still pick up wifi but had no internet connection). I wanted to tether my laptop to my phone so I could use 4G instead, but my phone was still connected to the shody WIFI.
Convert iTerm2 .plist file to .xml. (i.e. plutil -convert xml1) Write several profiles to this file using plistlib in Python.
I want to restore my iPod touch 4 gen. using a previously downloaded .ipsw file from the web instead of iTunes trying to download it again. I have tried putting the .ipsw file in the ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates/ folder but it still downloads another one.
I have an Irish iPhone 4s already jailbroken for Italian Vodafone. I must use the iPhone 5 SIM with an adapter and the phone works only with my Italian SIM.
I have purchased a new 64-bit iMac and would like to move my version of Office for Mac 11 to it from my older iMac that is a 32-bit machine. How do I uninstall so that I may use my existing validation codes on my new iMac?
I had a client report the sudden loss of files after upgrading to Mavericks. It wasn’t difficult to duplicate the problem, on both her Mac and mine. I’m wondering if someone may have seen this before, before I file a bug report. Here’s the process, which has been 100% repeatable in my tests.
I have an iPhone 4S (iOS 7) and my Hold Button is broken. Consensus on the Internet seems to be that if this is the case, one can maximize phone capability by activating Assistive Touch (Settings > General > Accessibility > Assistive Touch > On).
My friend has an iPhone the same as mine, but when we message each other they get sent as SMS messages not iPhone to iPhone messages? This of course costs us more money through our telephone provider.
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and am planning on upgrading to OS X Mavericks. However, before I do that - I would like to create a backup of my current OS (OS X Lion), so that if things go wrong or if I want/need to, I can restore my MacBook (13-inch, Early 2011) back to OS X Lion. That's my reason for wanting to back up my OS X (image?). How do I do this?
I want to download an iPhone app which is not accessible from my country (India). How can I bypass the country restrictions?
I'm confused. What's happening to my computer?
My problem is I want to download from my university's wireless router but it has a speed limitation and I want to bypass this limitation with adding more Wi-Fi connections by different IP address. Therefore I need a virtual connection to receive my request and split them to multiple Wi-Fi connections and get their response and merge them. Is this possible to increase my download speed?
I am searching for the good tools for creating Work Breakdown Structure and Gantt Chart that work cross platform because other people in my team use Window. So, this forces me to find cross platform tools. What have found so far are :
I feel like I am taking crazy pills, but I have the following problem on iPhoto '09. I have a collection with pictures I took in Uppsala. I noticed that the collection was called Uppsal, so I tried to change the name. I put Uppsala, and it reverted to Uppsal. I tried other variations like "Upp-sala", "Upsala" and so on, and they are all accepted, but when I put straight "Uppsala" it reverts to the previous name. I thought I had another collection with the same name, but this is not the case. I also have other collections named after a city, and I have no problems, so it's also not a bug-induced clash between "Places" keys and the collection name. Any ideas why my iPhoto is against nordic cities?
I want to develop apps for Apple devices but I can't get them there as I do not have a credit card. So, can I use an iTunes gift card to sign up for the developer program or, do I really need to use credit card?
I have a GIF file but I can open it only with Preview because it is a little bit ruined (GIMP or other programs does not open it correctly but it works with Preview). I want to export it to PNG files. As far as I know the only way to do it is: Manually select the next frame File → Export Choose the right format to export and specify the path Click Save and repeat
I want to benchmark my SSD under different circumstances. Connected through USB3, Thunderbolt and internally (S-ATA).
I am quite new to using Macs - so apologies if this is super trivial. When browsing Youtube / Vimeo all sounds are muted. I have checked that the sound is correctly set on the video player. This is working fine on Safari. I know it is possible to mute certain apps in Win7 - is there a similar functionality in OSX? Thanks!
I know many Mac OS X users would prefer to use Google Chrome, I so hope that I could do so but here are my reasons why I stick with Safari: I could play Facebook video using HTML5 player with a simple plugin, I found none of the same in Google Chrome Safari browser can integrate with Mac OS X social network accounts for one-click share to Facebook, Twitter, Email etc... It seems to me that Safari is more energy efficient especially on Mavericks compare to Google Chrome.
In previous versions of OS X a plist addition to com.apple.finder (outlined here for instance) could be used to enable select and copy in quicklook previews. This (hidden) feature doesn't appear to work anymore in Mavericks. Any workarounds? Or is the setting merely named differently?
I just subscribed to a bunch of podcasts for the first time. Never had podcasts on my phone or iTunes before today. I would like to sync them directly to my phone without saving them permanently on my computer. Is this possible ootb? Is there a free app that would make it easier?
Any idea why this might be happening and how I can stop it? (I'm not a power user and know little about logging.)
Since installing Mavericks on my 2010 MBP, it seems to be giving me the spinning beach ball often. I think I may need a new HDD, as Disk Utility cannot repair it, but I also get this error:
My output sound on my Mac doesn't change at all when I have my earphones in. Not on the menu bar, not with the volume buttons, and not in the System Sounds settings with the slider. Without my earphones the slider works, but nothing else does. It's highly annoying. How can I fix it?
I have the following setup and am attempting the use Migration Assistant over FireWire: Source machine: Early 2009 24-inch iMac running OS X 10.9 Destination machine: Latest MacBook Pro Retina running OS X 10.9 Connection: FireWire 800 - Thunderbolt Adapter But on both ends of the process Migration Assistant gets stuck "looking for other machines". I also have made FireWire networking active on the source machine (I assume it comes active on the new destination machine), and turned off LittleSnitch, which I normally have running.
I have the following setup and am attempting the use Migration Assistant over Ethernet: Source machine: Early 2009 24-inch iMac running OS X 10.9 Destination machine: Latest MacBook Pro Retina running OS X 10.9 Connection: direct Ethernet cable between machines When I use Migration assistant following Apple's documentation I pass through the confirmation code step on both machines, and then get as far as the "Checking Source Machine" screen on the destination, and am stuck there for about 10 minutes, at which point the destination machine jumps back to the language selection setup page, and the source machine says "This machine is attempting to reconnect to your other Mac". At this point I'm at a dead end: Attempting to proceed through the setup again on the destination gets me nowhere, and the only option on the source machine is "Cancel Transfer", which quits Migration Assistant there and ends the whole process. On the source machine I've turned off LittleSnitch, which I normally hav
I have 2 MBPs: 1. Personal MBP 2011 15" (with 85W magsafe) 2. Work MBP Retina 2013 13" (with 60W magsafe 2) So can I use my 85" magsafe for my 13" retina using this converter without any power issues?
I own a macbook 2012 and the cable snapped due to strain relief. I have not wrapped the cable around the charger box tight considering this could happen but it did anyways. Is this covered by the warranty?
I have a bluetooth headset that works on phones and ipad with excellent audio quality. It works with the Mac mini too but the audio quality is awful for both headphones and the microphone (I've tried to change the bitrate from the command line, but it doesn't work). It seems it's possible (from Googling) to plug a special Bluetooth Audio Adapter USB Dongle into the Mac mini and connect the headset to that adapter thus totally bypassing Mac OS bluetooth pipeline.
Recently switched to Macs. I have some Azure VMs. In Windows, I just need to boot up the remote connections dialog, put in the server and credentials and it should log me in. Is there a similar sort of thing for OSX as well?
Today I walked over to my 15" Mid-2010 MacBook Pro (which I had been controlling via VNC not long before) and attempted to use it. I was greeted with a screen that would not wake up.
I'm using the Notes app that comes with my Mac, but I can't find where the notes are getting saved in the Finder. Where can I find these files?
My specific case is that I am installing something from MacPorts and it's taking a very long time. I just want to close the lid of my laptop. Will the compilation still continue? I do not want to install the NoSleep app.
I'm having a trouble with my Mac. It freezes totally when left idle for an hour or so and I can't get it to work by moving my mouse, pressing keys on the keyboard, etc., and I have to force restart the OS. I've checked my console, there are no logs in that except for one called system.log Here's my System Information dialog. I'm using nVidia GeForce 210 1GB graphics card but it's showing unknown
In OS X (and in Mountain Lion, in particular) when you minimize a window and you want to retrieve it, you can press on an icon in the dock and wait 1 second to get the menu with the opened windows. Is it possible to change this setting so that this menu opens on a mouse click immediately (preferably, the menu would appear when there is more than one window and, as it is currently, the click maximizes the minimized window if there is only one window instance of that program)?
Can an iOS 7 device (iPad 2 for instance) be synchronized with a PPC Mac with OSX 10.5.8 and the latest iTunes for it, which I believe is iTunes 10.6.3?
I would like to buy more instruments, loops and so on in the new Garageband. The problem is that if I choose Garageband → Purchase more sounds
I'm really unsure why the Swap used is that high.. I'm not running anything now except for Firefox and there's still something causing that memory pressure.
Here is my first attempt at an AppleScript program, which met with ignominious defeat: It compiled, but when I ran it, I got the error message Can someone tell me what is wrong, and if there is a short introduction to AppleScript, written for someone used to programming?
On a freshly installed Firefox there is a plugin named: Default Browser Helper 537 It seems to be something from Apple but i couldn't find more information about it.
With the help of "Ask Different" I got my first AppleScript program working, and I'm trying to improve it. I'm again stymied though.
On some occasions, when I use cmd+tab to switch to a window, the window itself doesnt show- though the menu bar of that window does show. If I want to show the window, I have to the doc and click the icon- and then the window will show. I thought it has to do with the desktop space of that window, but it isnt- I just can't seem to make the window show on cmd+tab, I have to click it from the doc.
When I plug in a USB audio device, if no sounds are playing then my output automatically switches to that device. However, if a program is currently playing any audio then it does not switch. If I enter Audio/MIDI Setup and change it manually, [EDIT: or change it in System Preferences -> Sound, or by alt clicking on the volume control in the menu bar] then the running program still does not switch. [EDIT: I most often encounter this situation with Chrome, VLC, and many video games.] Is there a way I can switch the output for audio that's already playing, without restarting the program in question?
I use MAC addresses to assign static IPs on my network and have recently added a new MacBook Pro Retina with Thunderbolt adapters in stead of Ethernet ports. On the box one MAC address is given for the "Ethernet" but when I plug in to the Thunderbolt ports using the Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter, I see a different MAC address for this connection. Which MAC address does the DCHP server see when assigning IP addresses?
I have an external hard drive, not always connected to my laptop. I don't use it for Time Machine, as it's not big enough, and most of my important documents are on DropBox... Plus I only connect it a few minutes per week when I need to copy something.
I want to access a web server using the same domain name while I am inside the intranet but a different IP. Let's say that I register into a public DNS: mysrv-public.example.com public-ip mysrv-private.example.com private-ip When I go to mysrv.example.com and I am on intranet I do want to resolve it with private IP and while I am outside I want to resolve it with the public IP. The DNS is hosted on AWS and the IP is updated via a script. Now, for my Mac OS X, I do want to change this behaviour by assuming that you cannot customize the DNS server for "intranet".
I mean other than what you can configure, like RAM and SSD capacity and CPU speed and the fact that the ME294 comes with NVDIA Graphics as well as the Iris is there anything else different? Like motherboard (logic board they call them?) features, or Chipsets on the board? To put it differently, I usually see similar laptops on Apple online store, with one model starting at lower price and if you choose more RAM/CPU/HDD on the lower end option it looks like you get to the higher end model, both price-wise and spec-wise is there anything else other that what meets the eyes to be considered?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to comment lines in AppleScript Editor ? The common Cmd+shift+/ does not work here.
I can't figure out why my iPhone 4s isn't working. The screen isn't picking up on my touch, I can't swipe to unlock. I can't turn the phone off as I have to unlock it first which obviously I can't. My guess is to leave it wait for the battery to drain out to force shutdown.
My macbook was stolen a few weeks ago. When I go to icloud it now has a new name for the device. It alerted me that a sound was played, but there's no address.
I have a folder full of additional folders, each of which then contains images. The directory looks something like this:
It appears that the storage space on my iPhone4S is not adding up to 16GB. I know 16GB is just the theoretical storage space, but currently, the total space seems too far away. Here's a screenshot of the storage status of my phone:
Hey so I feel really dumb asking this, but I cannot figure out why my internal mic on my 2011 MBP recently stopped working. Here's what I've tried: Zapping the PRAM Zapping the PRAM Resetting the SMC by "Using the built-in keyboard, press and hold the Left Shift, Command, Option and Power Button at the same time." Resetting the SMC by "Using the built-in keyboard, press and hold the Left Shift, Command, Option and Power Button at the same time." Quadruple checked audio settings: built-in mic, audio up, not muted, voiceover off, detected by plugins, and so on. Quadruple checked audio settings: built-in mic, audio up, not muted, voiceover off, detected by plugins, and so on. Everything's up to date Everything's up to date Disk permission and everything are good Disk permission and everything are good
Is whatsapp available for iPhone 2G with iOS 3.1.3?
Am doing frontend dev for a web app on Mac OS X 10.7.5. In the last couple of days I observe that whenever I refresh the webapp am developing, the server (written by other people) takes a long time to respond (about 50-60 seconds).
I've recently downgraded to 10.8.5 as I had been having trouble getting Mavericks to work with my TASCAM US-1641 audio interface. I tried to reinstall GarageBand and try out my interface again only to find that the version of GarageBand in the App Store is only for Mavericks. Is there any way to download an old version? Which version would I need for Mountain Lion? Any help would be appreciated!
I want to buy a Macbook Pro retina and also an external display for when I'm at home. I could of course buy Apple's thunderbolt display, but I'm looking for alternatives. Will every screen be good or do I need to look out for specific specifications because of the retina display? I guess when you are used to a high-res retina screen, the resolution of the external display should also be very high to match the Macbook retina screen?
I have found that utility defaults can get info from .plist file. But how can I canonically pass as parameter to it path to .plist file ?
When creating a new group in the OS X Mavericks version of the Contacts apps the group is automatically synchronized to iCloud. I'd like to keep this group local to just the machine where I created it. How can I make a group that stays local to the machine and does not sync to my iCloud account?
I'm struggling to use numbers to do a function. Specifically, I want to use COUNTIF to check two things within my data set table and put that information into another table that we'll call "query set". I want to check for one variable that is within the first column of the query set is the same as the first colum in the data set and that the value is the same as the query set's first header.
I am running a MacBook Air 13 (Latest) with 8GB / 512 Flash / Core Intel i7. Lately shortly after bootup I hear the fans winding at top speed. I checked the top processes and see several instances of lsof and Python consuming 50% CPU each. There are sometimes 6 or 8 and if I kill them they just relaunch. When I check the parent ID of these it looks like it the postgres database which is the parent and it appears to be backing up calendar.
Since using Migration Assistant to move from an old iMac (2009) to a new MacBook Pro, I find that I'm repeatedly asked for access to my Keychain. Prior to moving to the new machine, once I unlocked my Keychain, I was never asked for access to it again, but now I find that I'm often asked to provide the Keychain password. Sometimes this seems associated with periods of system sleep, but not always.
Is it possible to retrieve a recorded video that is stored in-app? The video can't be accessed anywhere else on the iPod (as far as I'm aware) - I only know that it is data under Applications. This app has been specially designed for business purposes - however the tech support at this small company have been far from helpful. If anyone can offer any suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
I have updated MacOSX to 10.9 (Mavericks). I want to mount NFS shares from a Linux server with the nfc option because I have filenames with non-ASCII characters. But when I mount the network share it seems nfc is not working:
I've just had some problems with a disk that was formatted with HFS+ case sensitive while every else by Apple was non case sensitive. After a long time moving things away from my biggest disk, partitioning and formatting non-case-sensitive, I've found out that Time Machine does format "case sensitive"
Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?  This behavior started suddenly after migrating to a new machine.
I foolishly installed Mavericks upon release and my Mac doesn't like it, so I used Internet recovery to downgrade to Lion. I am trying to get back to Mountain Lion but it does not seem possible anymore.
In many applications, Command-P is used to print. My fingers are accustomed to emacs settings and reflexively press Command-P not for printing but for browsing history. It's annoying to see the print pop-up window every time when I press Command-P. I don't need a shortcut to print. How do you block a shortcut globally?
I want to switch my windows machine with a mac mini. I have 2 monitors: A VGA driven display A DVI driven display My pc graphics card can handle these outputs. The Mac-Mini has a HDMI display and a thunderbolt display.
When I got my Mac-Mini, I've changed the cycle-through windows key from ⌘` to ⌘0 (since on the Hungarian keyboard layout I should press ⌘⌥ű, and never could remember which one is it from 5 other key.) In Mountain Lion this option was still present, but now it is missing from Mavericks. I can't find it in the Keyboard & Input section anywhere. The entry for ⌘⇥ is also missing. This became problematic only now, because I only noticed now, that it clashes with a key combination in Microsoft Outlook. (I don't know if this problem come with the update, or had it before.)
Regardless of whether I use the GNU version of printf--and regardless of whether I'm using the \u2018 escape sequence in printf or in nodejs's console.log--the unicode character ‘ is always interpreted as the character with a space following it. Any ideas on how to get this behavior to stop?
I have a unlocked iPhone 4 or at least that's what I've been told when i bought it. But then I went ahead to unlock it again, when I put a SIM card in, it says no service or at least i hope that's what it's suppose to say. Any hoo I just updated my phone to ios 7.0.3 or whatever and I tried putting in someone else's Verizon and Sprint SIM cards in but it will not get past activation. It says SIM is not valid but when I put the SIM in for activation, but it says no service, which is a good thing. I've been told to try T-Mobile or ATT&T SIM card and reboot it to get past activation. I have just purchased a Straight Talk SIM card and I am hoping to transfer over to them and hoping the SIM card works or any SIM card to get past activation. Any advice or a solution to my promblem?
So yesterday I decided to perform the free upgrade to Mavericks, but when I came back today to use my computer, my external projector no longer gets a signal from my iMac. I can verify that the signal is going out, as the display is black, rather than showing "no signal," but all it gets is a black screen. It also only shows a black screen in the display preferences.
Just bought an iMac with Mavericks pre-installed and some of my software isn't working. After looking into it Mavericks is causing quite a few problems. Is there any way of reverting it back to Mountain Lion?
I need to download a pkg(ipa) file from the Apple Store (using iTunes, i guess iPhone apps are only in iTunes not in the Store App). How can you download the pkg file(ipa)? (Alternatively, if I downloaded it with iTunes, it says downloaded, where can I find it on the hard drive?) I was running find / on the entire filesystem but still cant find it.
For some weird reason I don't understand my home directory got associated with a program (TextWrangler):  Now every time I try to open my home directory in the Finder, TextWrangler gets started. How can I get the normal behaviour back? I use Mavericks (10.9).
I was wondering if anybody has had a similar issue to this before; i attempted to update my OS from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, and when told to 'enable journaling' on my hard disk, i did just that, and within minutes the computer crashed with this error: Ever since it has been throwing the same error literally on startup, just as the musical note hits with the apple symbol. when i try to boot from a boot disk or go in to safe mode, it hangs on a little longer but always ends the same. I can get into single-user mode but the commands are strictly read-only. Any attempt to mount -uw results in the same error message and the computer locking up again.
Right now I have smart playlists that surface the podcasts I most want to listen to. I sort them by release date, and generally all is good, but there are times when I start a podcast, am interrupted, and then download new podcasts, and lose track of the fact that I have a partially listened to podcast hanging out waiting for completion. Is there a smart playlist filter similar to the play count (which counts completed plays) but that counts play "starts"? Failing that, since itunes obviously knows where I left off... since it resumes play at the point I left off, is there a filter that can be set on the "time remaining" or something?
Is it possible to mirror a window? I mean to make exactly same duplicate of window? It would be useful for me if I can make one duplicate small and other one big and put it into separate desktop.
I have a media server that runs on Mac, and because of this, my drive (which is NTFS) is hosted on the Mac. However, all of my media management is done on my Windows 8 PC that connects to the NTFS drive via an SMB share. The problem is, when I upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8, Apple seemed to have buggered up the SMB plugins, forcing me to use SMBUP (which works, OK ...)
Does anyone know if it's at all possible to share an HFS+ volume from OSX 10.9 to Windows 8? (I'd like to try and isolate any plugins and or extensions to the Windows platform, and keep my OSX box as clean and stock as possible.) Thanks.
Mavericks still hasn't solved the multi monitor issue to my great distress. Running a MacBook Air 13″ and a Cinema Display 27″ at times I use all the default provided Mavericks tools to monitor my applications on both screen. My assumption was that: If I use text editor on the 13″ Mac mini screen, in fullscreen, it would appear fullscreen also on the 27″ Cinema Display That if I would resize a window to fullscreen on the 27″ Cinema Display that it would appear full-size on the 13″ screen also (but no, its waaay bigger so I have to downsize it again) That if I would resize a window to fullscreen on the 27″ Cinema Display that it would appear full-size on the 13″ screen also (but no, its waaay bigger so I have to downsize it again)
I've had massive problems with my Mac Mini recently. It has been freezing and rebooting after around 10 to 50 minutes use. It's a Late 2012 Mac Mini 6,1 with 8gb of memory.
I've installed the MacPorts high-performance variant of SSH (sudo port install openssh +hpn) but now I would like to switch the default ssh command over. However, there appears to be some moral panic around degrading the sandbox (which was only recently introduced) but I am also worried about integration with OS X's keychain and my server keys.... What all do I need to softlink into /usr/bin/ssh or is there a better way to do this?
I'm using ICMP time stamping on my mid-2013 MacBook Air, and I need my clock to have an accuracy of no worse than 1ms. I see that ntpd is running, with the default settings, and /etc/ntp.conf contains just one line, server time.apple.com, without even any comments. However, if I run ntpdate -d time.apple.com (or ntpdate -d ntp1.yycix.ca, which produces the same offset reading for any given time as time.apple.com farm does), always as a non-root user, I'm often getting the reading that my clock is offset by as much as 6ms, or, most often around 4ms (sometimes 0ms, but very rarely).
My Mac username is set to 'John', and I hate looking at the capital 'J' and would like to set it to 'john'. I see the advanced option in the Users & Groups settings, but I want to make sure that it won't break my setup? Do I need to rename my /Users/ folder? Would it break any programs depending on my home path?
When dragging a file or files in the Finder, it is possible to hold certain modifier keys to change exactly what you're doing (e.g. ⌘⌥ to create an alias). I'd like to be able to drag several files, hold down some combination of modifiers, drop them in a folder, and find them in a newly-created subfolder there. I don't believe there is a native way to do this, but how can I create a macro to accomplish this with Better Touch Tool or Keyboard Maestro?
It asks for me to touch my name and then there is no place to put it. I added it as a note on the contact page but this does not work.
On Windows, there is a PowerPoint plugin that allows live webpages to be inserted into a presentation. I will be doing a presentation and it involves a web demo. I was wondering if a similar solution exists on the mac. It can be any presentation software, it just needs to have the ability to embed a live webpage and interact with that page. I am using OS X Mavericks on a mid-2012 Macbook Air.
I like to write in rich text with textedit and then do more complicated formatting tasks with Pages 5.0. However, Pages doesn't open rich text. To get the text into pages I either have to copy and paste, or laboriously duplicate the file in textedit and save it as .doc/docx. On top of that, I then have re-save to file in the .pages format to be able to edit it with Pages. What I would like is a simple automator workflow to save the foremost textedit .rtf file to a .doc/.docx format, which can then be opened by Pages and saved to the .pages format. I think there is a built-in program called textutil which could be used in the workflow.
I don't observe any specific pattern of this behaviour. Strangely, sometimes when my macbook reboots/boots, it plays a chime sound. And often in other cases, no chime sound is played. So what determines whether to play a chime sound?
Is it feasible to remap my keyboard mapping in OS X Mavericks? For example, I want to swap q and ` (backticks), since I don't require typing q too much and like to owe the position to another key, such as backticks. I've used keyremap4macbook to change : and ;, and " and ' and have no issues on it, but it looks like the app only allows to change on some specific keys like ;, ', ?, {, etc. and not on those alphabetical keys. Also, I got some video tutorials to modify those keys, but it doesn't work on Mavericks since the system preferences look a bit different than in the prior versions.
How do I get source code or classes .m and .h files for .ipa files?
I have normal speakers which can be connected via a 3.5mm jack. I want to use those speakers wirelessly with help of bluetooth, so is there any bluetooth receiver device for such type of speakers ?
I have both a GPG key and an SSL certificate. I am able to sign emails by choosing OpenPGP or S/MIME in the upper right corner of the window:
I had a PPPoE dial up connection that returns the same IP, and a domain name that is registered to that IP. Now I had an AirPort extreme at that IP address, and I've setup DMZ to my Mavericks server so that all incoming traffic should go to that server. When I setup Open Directory, it responds that none of that known name can be resolved to my server. I can't provide any logs for the process, if anyone can point me to a directory, it will be very helpful.
I've previously installed Win7 (and then upgraded to 8) via Bootcamp, but I've been looking around some forums recently regarding running Win8 natively. I now have the impression that the latest-gen rMBP will install and boot Win8 using EFI as if it were a native OS. In other words, off an EFI partition and without BIOS emulation. Can anyone verify this? I read on a forum (the post was made several weeks previous and the user didn't respond when I posted this question) where a user reported that Bootcamp had installed Win8 on an EFI partition and that the bootup was so much faster.
I'm trying to get VueScan working with my CanoScan 8000F. The final step is to start VueScan using Rosetta. When Vuescan.app is placed on the Desktop, everything works as it should. Copying the same app to the Applications folder dims the Rosetta option. Here'a screenshot showing the info screens of the two apps (on the Desktop and in Applications) side-by-side:
I am trying to update from Mountain Lion to Mavericks using a DMG installer that I obtained over BitTorrent. I don't want to download it via the official App Store as I don't have good enough Internet connectivity to download the 5 GB file.
I often have to generate files (for example letters), which should have a certain content at the beginning (e.g. letter head,...). In Many Linux-Distributions there is a folder called ~/Templates - Every file in this folder appears in the context-menu/"File new" and is copied to the folder after selecting this entry. Is something like this also possible in MacOSX 10.6.8?
I'm currently working on automated instalation of Mavericks 10.9. I have NetBoot set up. Everything works OK untill I want to execute Applescript. Since the release of new version I need to manually enable those scripts. Is there a command that I can use in shell script to add app to Assistive Devices list? Or maybe there is some plist that has to be edited for it to work?
iOS currently has a limit of 100 phone calls that can be stored in the call log. Is there a similar limit for SMS or MMS messages? If so, what it is? Where is this documented?
In Keynote 5.x there was a toolbar button where I could change the master of an existing slide. This would keep the content of the slide, but would change the layout to the new master.
Following upgrade to Mavericks, Word for Mac 2011 has different "save as" behavior. WAS: "save as" would default to the directory of the current/open file. Now: "save as" directory goes to word default, requiring navigating back to original drive/folder/subfolders. Problem further described in this support thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23824310#23824310
Scrolling (with two fingers on the trackpad) in Preview.app (and TeXShop.app) annoyingly blurs PDF text and I would like to disable the over-compensating anti-aliasing. I like the anti-aliasing while not scrolling just fine.
Does the current volume for one's iPhone have any implication on how "loud" it vibrates? Or is vibrate "loudness" static, i.e. the vibrate level remains the same no matter what the phone's volume level is.
After evaluating several its demo version, I decided to buy Linkinus from the Mac App Store.¹ As I had played with the settings a bit, I wanted to do a clean reset before seriously using it. So I deleted all preference files and folders containing with the app's or its developers's name from my home directory, which were: To my surprise, Linkinus still remembered at least a part of its preferences after relaunch. So I dug deeper, reinstalled the app and also deleted:
I've got a git repository on my file server which I'm connecting to via AFP. Whenever I try to do a git operation on the shared repository, such as staging a file, I get the following error message: If I execute the git command on the server it works fine, so there's something about sharing the repository via AFP that's not working. I'm using Mountain Lion on both the server and the client. UPDATE I seem to have write permission for both .git and .git/index: I tried recursively applying permissions to .git as suggested by an answer below, but that didn't help: Hmm, it looks like someone else is using the index file: But fuser and lsof aren't of any help: Weird workaround: If I do the following command on the server, it allows me to write a new index file on the client over AFP. I'm totally lost at this point; any new theories?
When I open the music app, some songs have stop signs next to them, and whenever I want to pick a song it goes past it and then past a few more and then stops at a different song. Also I can't hit the back arrow to go backwards through songs — the screen will go back temporarily and then remain on the song it was originally on.
I'm confused about the differences among the three (that I know of) tools for scheduling running of code on OS X / Darwin: cron launchcd pmset
I'm confused about the different sleep modes on Mavericks MacBook Pros: PowerNap, App Nap, DarkWake, sleep, system sleep, display sleep, standby, hibernation, etc.?
Do you know if there is an adjustment I have to make somewhere in order to avoid having such permission problems? What am I doing wrong? Is this problem related to the format of the partition?
I got my hands on a JBL Soundfly, but it shows some trouble when I connect it to my home WiFi, which consists of 2 first generation AirPort Express linked by a cable to create a shared network. The AirPorts are set to 802.11n only (2.4 GHz). When I stream music from my iPhone via Airplay the connection gets disrupted a lot (noticeable audio gaps). When I attach another WiFi-Router to the network, and connect the Soundfly to that AP, it plays without problem. Does anyone have the Soundfly running in a similar AirPort Express network and does not experience any problem?
I have a Cyberpower UPS connected to my system using USB (for power management). Sometimes I want to have this device accessible from within Windows 7, which is virtualized in VirtualBox. VirtualBox correctly detects that the USB device is currently is use by the host OS, so it won't connect. My workaround is to create a device filter in VirtualBox, then unplug and reconnect the USB cable while VirtualBox is running. I would like to know how to make OS X stop the device without physically unplugging the cable. I'm running OS 10.9 Mavericks.
When I'm trying to sync my iPad 4 (iOS7) using my Macbook (Mavericks) it stucks on the stage "Importing photos". It was syncing for more than 9 hours with absolutely no progress until I cancelled it. There are around 500 pictures to import.
I build web sites on a Mac and after the recent upgrade to Mavericks, the icon for all of my web template folders have changed from the standard Mac folder icon to the Parallels icon. I can change it using Get Info, but this has to be done one folder at a time and is unnecessarily tedious. Has anyone else encountered this, and more importantly does anyone know how to reset the default to display the standard blue Mac folder icon? Here is what it looks like right now:
I want to know IP address of my friend .It's possible without software? Could you tell me what I do and how to do
I want to export (burn to CD) some media I own and have in iTunes. However, I do not want to burn it to a physical CD. I want to instead burn it to a virtual CD. A virtual CD is something that appears to iTunes as a real physical CD but is in reality just a file on the HDD of my iMac. I prefer to do this without purchasing any software.
If I provide a GB url itunes link to an app, say https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id586088546
I want to transfer both my computers info to the new one. I did it, but it came out in two different places. Can I merger the two?
On my production Debian server I use this to forward requests that come in to port 80 to a non-root process running on port 8080: (The process is a Node.js cluster, but I doubt that it's relevant to this question.)
The "Energy Saver" panel in System Preferences allows the user to schedule wake ups. The only problem is is that the most frequent it allows for this to happen is ONCE per day. Is there any way or any tool or any software that can make it wake up at any custom interval? I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
The drive is formatted properly. I have an identical partition to which the MBP does a local Time Machine backup.
My provider recently added support for IPv6 and I wanted to configure it on my side. Unfortunately Airport Utility does not allow me to select appropriate IPv6 mode and I'm stuck with the tunnel mode which my provider does not support:
I keep my 20k+ songs on an external drive because the of tiny drive in my MacBook Air. Unfortunately after i removed the drive, all my tracks in iTunes show the exclamation mark. Is there any way to tell iTunes "Hey, now all the tracks are here again"? Get info or play works for individual tracks, but for 20k+ tracks it's a hassle. I haven't tried iTunes track CPR because it needs a very ordered library folder (mine does not strictly follow the Artist/Album/Track file hierarchy) and I'm afraid it might damage something. I would gladly use another music app, but iTunes is the only way to sync songs to my iPhone.
I upgrade some time ago but need spaces for the first time today. At the moment I can use Ctrl+← to get to the widgets pane, but I find I can't use either Ctrl+→ or Ctrl+[number] to get to another space (let alone create a new one). I've checked my shortcuts and even under there I've only got the option for Switch to desktop 1. Where am I going wrong?
I want to export all my Wi-Fi passwords and import it to the keychain of my girlfriends Mac. Is this even possible? And how its done? With iCloud Keychain Sync this passwords should also be available on her iPhone, shouldn't it?
I figured out a command to enable/disable wifi. Now, I was wondering how to combine it in AppleScript in a way that when Safari opens wifi is turned on and when Safari closes wifi is turned off?
I want to cleanup Keychain before activating iCloud Keychain sync. How can I easily find duplicate Keychain entries?
Is there any documentation about the capabilities of the Keychain Access application included with OS X 10.9?
Would you recommend a cleanup of the keychain before activating iCloud Keychain sync.
In the get info window it says 387,037,139 bytes which is 387 MB whereas the size on disk is 716.9MB which is 716,900,000 bytes. du -sh paramgen result (in MiB) 684M paramgen Why is there such a large difference?
I have an early 2013 MBP, with Mavericks installed. I always used my Dell U2771 external display connected with a mini Display Port to Display port with no problems Except for the last one month.
I have a few .MKV video files that I would like to be able to list in iTunes so that I can stream to my Apple TV device. I currently use the Beamer app (MacBook) to stream them across however I was hoping that I could create a nice looking library of videos in iTunes and stream them that way instead. I do not need these videos to be able to play on any iOS devices, so is there any way that they can be converted to .M4V/.MP4 without loss of picture or sound quality?
How do I speed up the time it takes for the dock to appear on a second screen in Mavericks? At the moment it takes over a second when I've been using it on the first screen then go to use it on the second.
This one is driving me crazy: I need to use lot of stuff which simply does not compile with the standard clang/llvm compilers which come with Xcode 5 (on Mac OS X 10.8), so I decided to install gcc47 via brew. Everything went fine but when I try to compile things, I get several error messages and I discovered that some includes are still coming from "/usr/include/c++/4.2.1", which is really weird. Can anyone explain me how to set it up in a clean way? These are the step I was doing: brew update brew install gcc47 alias gcc='gcc-4.7' brew warned me that I have to set up LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS, quoting (summarised): So exporting LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS via should do the trick (I thought).
If I download Clash of Clans on my iPhone, can I start a new village despite my account on my iPad? I want to make a village for my younger brother.
I recently upgraded my computer to Mavericks (I believe I have the latest version, 10.9) and I've been trying for 2 days now to install Windows via Boot Camp on my computer, but it always fails at the Partitioning step. I have tried multiple different things, such as… Partitioning via Disk Utility Going into the Recovery HD and trying to repair the HD /fsck/sbin -fy in Single-User mode I have used a Mountain Lion USB install to use the Disk Utility there …but I keep ending up with the same errors: Partition map is broken Verification of the file system failed
Can I use pmset or a utility like Power Manager to have a task (such as an arbitrary script or backup) run at a specific time while my Mavericks MacBook Pro's lid is closed? Are there perhaps pmset settings I need to change to make such a thing work?
For years, I've used screen sharing to connect my MacBook to my iMac. It has always worked like a charm. About a month ago, it stopped working. I can still see my iMac in Finder when I'm on the laptop. But when I try to connect, I get the "busy" bar for a minute or two, then a message telling me I needed to enable screen sharing on the iMac.
I am running KA Lite(Khan Academy Lite) on my PC and I can access the local server, log-in, browse and play the videos from it. This same server is accessible via WiFi on my iPod touch. However, I'm unable to play KA_Lite videos on my iPod touch 4th Generation( iOS 6.1.3).
I have got a Macbook Pro 15" that has both an audio in and out port. Now I would like to play the sound from an external device through the speakers of my Mac.
I would like to have access to AFP Share from our clients possible as soon as the server's system is started, without one of the users needing to open a local session on it (on the server) first. I'm not sure but I think it was working this way with previous versions of OS X (10.6 or 10.7, we're running the latest 10.8) : as soon as you got the login screen on the server, AFP Share(s) were accessible on the network.
I have a launchd task that is not triggering when a file changes, and can't figure out why it's failing. When I load the .plist below with
I'm using an old iMac as a torrent client & Plex Media Server. But I would like those to run as "services", i.e., not as part of a User account, and without having to log in.
I have helped a few friends recently with fixing a problem on OS X and I would like to turn it in to a script so I can send it to people instead of walking them through it. It consists of two steps: delete a file restart the computer
Let's suppose a case where I accidentally start the shutdown sequence of OSX (wrong shortcut, wrong menu item click in the Apple Menu, App asking for a reboot etc.) Is there a way to cancel the shutdown sequence (during the time OSX kills opened apps) ?
I'm used to create file using touch before opening them with open. But I came to this following problem :
I have looked everywhere, but the command defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder and all variations thereof does not work since I upgraded to Mavericks. Why is this?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. All advice for 10.8 does not seem to carry over to this new OS
Apps will often ask to enable push notifications the first time they are run. However how do I change this setting after answering this? There doesn't seem to be a single thing in Settings about Push Notifications. The closest I can find is "Notification Center", but this just appears to customize how notifications appear, not whether push notifications are enabled or disabled for the app. This is a really confusing UI.
(Please note that this is a hypothetical question as I do not yet own the computer mentioned in this post, but will be getting it next year for school) Next year, I am going to buy a MacBook Pro Retina for school. The IST course I will be taking requires Windows for Android development. Where would I download the ISO for installing Windows 8, and where would I buy a product key? I'd like the Pro version too because I want to use remote desktop from my iPad when necessary (I already know how to do this)
I've started to get strange artifacts on my 2010 MacBook Pro after updating to Maverick's. I'm not sure if they occur systematically -- I am running a CPU intensive script this time, but have run the same script before without issue. Restarting seems to fix it. From other posts, it sounds like it most likely is a graphics card issue, but I was wondering if it is potentially an issue relating to the Maverick's update, rather than a graphics card problem.
I am trying to transfer my photos from my iphone 4 to my new iPhone 5c. I put all my photos in icloud in a new photo stream and shared it with my iPhone 5c and some with my macbook. If i now clear my iphone 4 completely will I lose the new photo stream with the photos that im trying to save?
I have the following AppleScript that I am trying to debug: Basically what this script does is it fetches the path of the currently displayed wallpaper on my computer and passes that as an argument to Photoshop.
After installing Mavericks, I discovered snapshot.db (1.5 GB) file in: What is the use of that file? Is it safe to delete it?
I'm getting multicolor noisy gesture demonstration video clips after each reboot. However, they gradually improve after a while and eventually become fully watchable (about 15-20seconds). Does anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it? I'm on Mavericks.
Is there any tools to copy text from video's or images?
Im trying to run a local web server Mongoose on mac, its default settings is listening on port 8080,I want to change it to 800 but it doesn't run mongoose once I changed it to 800. What seems to be the problem?
I just bought a retina iPad Mini. Tried 3 different cheap lightning cables, none will charge it. Tried with 12W and 5W USB chargers. It will only charge with the Apple cable that came with it. But these Chinese cables charge my iPhone 5 and old iPad Mini just fine. Did something change in the new iPad's lightning chip? I wonder if is is a widespread problem or just me.
I've been using MAC OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5. How do I request a read receipt when sending e-mail with Outlook for Mac 2011?
Is there a command line solution to get a different IP from a DHCP server? There are some solutions, like switching to BOOTP and back to DHCP, that will sometimes yield a new IP, but often the DHCP server will simply hand back the IP it just got back.
Just got a new airport time capsule (2013 model). The time capsule is put in bridge mode and the modem/router from my ISP (thomson 585 v8) is doing the router stuff (dhcp, nat). Time capsule is connected to modem/router via ethernet cable (100mbit is the interface of the router).
I'm facing a problem with my Mac Mini with Mountain Lion. When I changed my disk permission of Macintosh for everyone to no access my Mac crashed and and it's not restarting when I boot the Mac. It just stops after showing the Apple logo. How can I fix this?
I have my MacBook Pro plugged in to a monitor. This monitor is the primary screen, with my MacBook screen as the secondary. I'm running Mavericks, so the menu bar is visible on both screens.
Im Using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and I do regular updates via "apple-symbol / Software Update ...". For Viewing an printing PDFs, I use a program called preview. The version installed on my computer is "5.0.3 (504.1)". On Wikipedia I found, that the current version is 7.0. How can I Update to this version?
I'm in need of updating the iOS on my device from 5 to 6 only (for test purposes). I already have iOS 7 on another device. Does anyone know how this can be done?
If I remember correctly Mail had the possibility of showing a word completion list as described here when you type a word partially and press Option+esc. Now this function has stopped working in Mail, and I don't understand why. If I try the same in TextEdit or the Safari address bar it still works. How can I restore this functionality in Mail in the first place? Or have I been dreaming and was this functionality never present in Mail?
Since upgrading to OSX 10.9 Mavericks VirtualBox machines that have a Bridged Network have been unable to start. Installing VirtualBox again solves the problem temporarily, but this does not survive a reboot (or in my case kicking the power supply cable out!). Has anyone come up with a permanent solution for this, or at least one that does not involve a fresh install?
I have just got a new iMac 14.3 with 21.5″ display. It has Intel i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT750M graphics card with GPU (Device ID: 0x00fe9). I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it (dual boot with refit). Everything works fine apart from graphics. It is clear that graphics' not accelerated. I have tried to… Install NVIDIA drivers from the repository. Download NVIDIA drivers and install them manually. Follow instructions here. Follow instructions here. Follow instructions here. Install bumblebee. Play around with xorg.conf file. Blacklist nouveau.
My client has an iPhone and iPad at his place and wants to check the app being created by us at our place. We are able to check the iOS app on our registered iPhone by attaching it to our Mac and running Xcode with the proper certificate.
I've had my 5th-gen iPod for a while now, and my computer broke a while back, lost iTunes and everything. Also I can't remember my Apple ID. There was never any need to connect it after I first did to put my music on.
I have setup and email account on Mac mail. The account accesses email through IMAP. One of the settings for the account is not to keep any messages on the server under the advanced tab in Mac Mail. However no emails are being deleted on the server once they are received on Mac mail client. Any clue on where I can check the problem?
For some reason when I first got my iPhone the iCloud was created under my mom's email. Now that she recently got an iPad all of my contacts, Photo Stream, internet favourites, etc are all on her iPad.
My time machine has three sparsebundles. Obviously something wen wrong long time ago. I am also missing files for a while and most probably they are in the oldest sparsebundle. How do I access a specific sparsebundle and explore files in them?
I was trying to share the saved games of Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition using Dropbox (on OS X). Configuration files are stored in The options file Baldur.ini should not be shared as it contains machine specific data but I tried to make the saves folder a symbolic link to a Dropbox folder but then data is not recognised. My workaround is to manually copy the folder to and from Dropbox after and before playing but I would like to know if someone found a better alternative. Edit
How do I prevent my MacBook Pro OSX 10.7.5 from searching for other wireless networks when I'm already connected to my home network? It seems to drop my WiFi connection whenever it searches.
For the last few weeks, I've been getting lots of recurrent MTM fs Mount server failed to start because of error 15 error messages in system.log. How can I diagnose and fix this?
Is there any way to setup automatic superscripting in OS X Mavericks and Pages 5 (i.e 1st => 1st. Is there a 3th party plugin that implements that functionality?
I have an early 2008 macbook that was running well until a week ago. I noticed the battery was not charging anymore. So I bought another battery for $20 on amazon. I installed the new battery and turned on the laptop. It was 69% charged on startup - so I waited until it fell to 0% and turned off on its own. Then I plugged in the adapter to charge it, and although it is charging, I still see a sign that says "Service Battery". Do I really need to worry about this "Service Battery" message even though it appears to be charging?
I'd like to upgrade my old MacBookPro2,2 with something like a 120 GB Samsung 840 Basic SSD. Does that make sense?
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro 13" non-retina display and I use Boot Camp to dual-boot windows and Mac. I recently came across an application called Parallels Desktop for Mac that promised faster and better performance to what I was experiencing when natively loading Windows using Boot Camp.
My iPad said someone is using my email to FaceTime and iMessage. I have no idea who the person is. How can I block them from using my email?
Asking on behalf of my mother. The music came on via iCloud syncing AFAIK so I wanted to make sure that removing it in one place wouldn't remove it somewhere else as we'll.
I installed a Windows application on my Mac after successfully installing Wine via Homebrew. The application runs and seems to function correctly except that all of my data is missing. I get the following error when i run it:
We have an old imac G3 DV 400 MHz (at the moment I do not have access to the machine and want to prepare for my visit.) My goal is to save the data from the hard disk to an external drive and reset the machine.
I've wiped my machine (to start over), and I'd like to restore some key files back (like pictures and stuff like that). However, when I connect my Time Machine drive and open Migration Assistant, it can't find my Time Machine drive. I've even tried logging in as root and invoking the application; no dice. It can see one of my old machine's backup (pre-2009), but that's not really the one I want. It might be a problem that the name of my machine somehow was changed to 'iMac 1 (2)' - and thus the folder in Backups.backupdb is named the same - could that be tripping up Migration Assistant?
The AirPlay button that one can use to switch where to send audio/video from an iOS device used to be found to the right of essentially all volume controls (In the Music app, Podcasts app, Safari QuickTime playback, etc). However, I recently noticed that this button is no longer appearing there.
I'd like to understand what exactly the .app is doing that causes this app to not run so that I can work to fix the issue. FYI the app is Oracle's SQL Developer.
I have to keep AFP running for my TimeMachine backups, but would like my file shares to use SMB2 because it is much faster (better than double write speed in my tests). Is there a way to make Mavericks use smb2 for file shares first?
iBooks will not download to it, as it requires OS7,which the iPod 4th Gen cannot accommodate... I downloaded Adobe Reader, but can't locate the file on my iPod for it to open (when it's attached iTunes tells me the file is in "Books", but I can't find "Books" on the iPod itself)
With the new iBooks for Mac I get all my books that I didn't buy in the iTunes store. But all books I did buy on the iTunes store, I don't get! When I go to the preferences and tell iBooks to sync purchases I just get a dialog saying, I need to authorize my Mac. But there is no hint on how to do that. How do I fix this?
I have Excel 2008 installed on my Mac, which I recently upgraded to Mavericks, migrating all my settings across. Previously (on Mountain Lion) when I entered a date like 11/12 this was interpreted as 11 December, but now Excel insists on interpreting this in American format. All my existing data (some going back years, originally entered in Windows) displays correctly as I have entered a custom Format ddd dd/mm/yy, but displays incorrectly in the formula bar.
In the new iWork Pages, there is by default 3 cells or columns in the header and I cannot remove the column back to its original one column header just like the normal header in Pages 09'. If you see that in the image, it is NOT a table, but the header when the cursor hover on it.
i downloaded a car racing game and 23 other games in iTunes , but the download time for the car racing game is 3 hours!how do i stop downloading this game, but not stop download the other 23 games?I have already tried deleting it but i could not.
(a partial solution might be to turn on the iMac while pressing the Option key, so that it will let me choose the OS to boot up to, and the display might be able to be used, without any OS running. But the processor and the RAM probably will still be consuming power).
How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? In particular I want to run a script when the lights have been turned off in the room that my Macbook is in.
There is an application (a game) I have installed on iPad through iTunes, now I want to download an update for that game, but since my Wi-fi is not working is there someway I can connect the iPad to my PC and download & install the update through itunes or through some other way (apart from fixing my wi-fi :-) ). Thanks
I switched to a new provider yesterday, and I'm gonna receive an iPhone 5s from them later today. But as the cancellation of my plan with the previous provider isn't completed yet, the SIM card coming with the phone will use a temporary number. As soon as my old provider is ready, my current number will be transferred to the new SIM. This requires no action on my part; the SIM will simply be "offline" for a few hours and will then use my current number.
I disabled my notification center but i want to re enable it again i followed this link "How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?"
Is there a method or software available to sync these drives with my Macbook acting as a delta? New files from home are copied to my Macbook and then at work copied from Macbook to external hard drive. Thanks!
I am working on a test project that requires me to block all media ports on my Mac OS X 10.9. The instructions I'be veen given are "Chinese" to me :-) I have no idea how and where to start, let alone how to unblock them after I manage to block them... Thanks so much! Instructions available: [User]-iMac:~ [User]$ sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any dst-port 50000-65535 00100 deny udp from any to any dst-port 50000-65535 [User]-iMac:~ [User]$ sudo ipfw list 00100 deny udp from any to any dst-port 50000-65535 65535 allow ip from any to any
I can go to the "Printers & Scanners" panel from Spotlight, but I cannot call the scanner directly. Is there any way to make Spotlight index a shortcut to the default printer's Scanner app? It would save the 2 to 3 clicks it takes to click on the correct printer if needed, click on the "Scan" tab and finally on the "Open Scanner" button. (It's rather counter-intuitive to have to go to a System Preferences panel to be able to scan a document) [Edit: I mean this app:]
I am working on a test project that requires me to block https access for a specific app on my Mac (OS X 10.9). The instruction provided are "Chinese" to me and I have no idea where to start: (Example: Alter the iptables) Steps: Block the port: root@QA9:/opt/appname/appnamerouter2# iptables --list root@QA9:/opt/appname/appnamerouter2# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 443/8443 -j DROP root@QA9:/opt/appname/appnamerouter2# iptables --list Block the port: For Open the Port: root@QA9:/opt/appname/appnamerouter2# iptables -D INPUT 1 For Open the Port:
I've been using uTorrent for more than a year. But since I've upgraded to OS X 10.9, uTorrent (now version 1.8.4) keeps crashing: sometimes it works for maybe couple of hours, sometimes for about 15 minutes — and then just disappears (without displaying crash reporter or anything). Example search for "torrent" in Console.app: I've tried to google something either about uTorrent and Mavericks in general, or about uTorrent and errors from this log — to no avail.
Apple webmail on Lion (10.7) Server is returning a popup error message about 60 seconds after trying to login: Connection to imap server failed or in Dutch: Connectie met IMAP server mislukt Regression: Using the same user name and password, while sending and receiving mail works from Mail.app. This Lion Server: runs 10.7.5 is located behind a NAT router device id configured on a non routable 192.168.0.1 IP address uses a "Computer Name" and "Host Name" that are identical has a "Computer Name" and "Host Name" that are in the form of "host.domain.tld" "host.domain.tld" has an A record in public DNS that refers to the public IP address of the NAT router How to fix this 'Connection to IMAP server failed' issue?
I have a MacBook Pro that does not seem to be booting. If I were to take the hard drive and put it in another computer an select that in the BIOS, would it boot (if the hardware between the two computers are different?
I experienced a hard-drive crash recently. While I was able to recover most of the lost photographs from Mozy, some where lost. Fortunately, the missing photographs are located on another machine. ** edit ** Computer A: MacBook Pro with Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1 Computer B: Mac Mini with Snow Leopard and iPhoto 9.2.3 I want to preserve the existing photos, faces, and events on computer B (the recovered items), but copy the photos, faces, and events from computer A (the missing items). What is the most-efficient way to do this?
I purchased a Seagate ST4000DX001 4TB SATA Hybrid Drive (SSHD) and installed it into my Mac Pro (six core 3.33 GHZ MacPro5,1) in one of the internal SATA drive bays. However, the system didn't see it at all. Disk Utility didn't show the drive for me to format and the SATA Devices section under Apple System Profiler didn't show the drive listed at all. The drive works because if I put it into a USB3 enclosure then it works, but since the Mac pro only has USB2 it's pointless for me to use it in a USB3 enclosure. Why doesn't my Mac Pro see my Seagate 4TB SATA SSHD drive?
Say I installed a malicious app on my iPhone that stole my iCloud password. Can the Keychain be compromised ?
I'm running Windows 8.1 on VMWare Fusion, on top of OS X 10.8.5. I have some DMG files on Mac that I mount sometimes to work with. These are some encrypted data folders. Can I access them from the virtual machine when I mount them?
I am searching for a way to start multiple, pre-defined applications via apple's remote control. Is this at all possible with Mavericks?
I'm having trouble getting a simple backup script to run. The following script runs most of the time, but occasionally it fails entirely (without printing out any log information). Is there something in the script that could intermittently prevent it from running? Even when it does run, the test log messages are sometimes delayed in appearing (as if the log file is not touched when it is written to, or the write to the log file is delayed), making diagnosis difficult.
I want to use my external HDD as a bootable USB drive so I can install Windows 7 via bootcamp but I am having trouble getting bootcamp to just use one partition of the drive. When I get to the stage in Bootcamp where a bootable drive is created, Bootcamp teLls me it is going to delete all the data on my HDD, this is not what I want, I just want Bootcamp to use one of the partitions on the HDD to create the Bootable disk, but it doesn't give me that option.Does anyone know a know a way to solve this problem?
Since the possibility to tag files in Mavericks, I save my bookmarks in Finder to be able to tag them and find them later more quickly. To do this I simply drag the URL in Safari to a my bookmarks folder in Finder. After doing this for many times, I found it inconvenient to do this manually. It would be nice if this steps can be automated, and I think Automator would help me in this. The workflow would look like this. Copy the URL of the webpage in the active Safari window. Save the URL in a clickable URL file in a folder in Finder. Prompt me the Info screen to edit metatags, like Filename, Tags, and Comments.
The Desired End Result is to migrate the iTunes library from the source machine to the target machine. iTunes Match was happy with all but two songs in the source machine's iTunes library, so all but those two songs are already migrated. The outliers appear to be DRM'd.
I am using iPhone 5 16GB, IOS 7.0.4 Unlocked Sprint USA....my service provide is Airtel below are the problems I am facing: Network: Yes,Data Network: No,APN Setting Not Showing, carrier: sprint 15.5. Can anyone guide me or help me plss...I am trying to find a solution to the problem.
One-liner: I've enabled SMS notice for new devices Login, and I got spammed every time I wake my Mac. Facebook seemed to log devices accessing your account, users will be prompted about remembering that device with the named entered. But when Message logs in Facebook Chat, looks like it ignores that device registering step and go right through. I want to know if I can log into Facebook somewhere to add the Message app as a known device, or some settings in the Message app that can prevent this issue... Spamming myself just feels so dumb.
Do the newer songs simply stop being uploaded? Does the iTunes Match splash screen display a big nasty "sorry you're over the limit" screen? Is there something I can do to get it to only work with a specific set of songs (shy of deleting them from my library)?
I have some iOS devices running iOS 7.0.4. I have configured Mail on these iOS devices to send and receive mail to/from the aforementioned server for a few different user accounts on the server. This works fine (tested, can send and receive mail no problems).
Since updating to Mavericks, the buttons on the Apple apps have all lost thier icons:  Can anybody advise how I can restore them?
Is there an existing template/program/guide to create icons for the Finder toolbar that match the look and feel of the standard icons (buttons)? The reason I ask is that I have created shortcuts apps in the toolbar for 'create new text file' and 'open terminal here', but the best .icns that I could lift from the internet are still kind of visually distracting.
When I launch winecfg or some other executables, I get this terminal output- Wine cannot find the ncurses library (libncurses.5.4.dylib).
The Mac App Store won't allow me to install xcode because I'd need osx version 10.8.4 or later. I did a system upgrade but I'm still at Mac osx lion 10.7.5. Can anyone help? Thanks!
My Macbook Pro will not boot normally or in safe mode. My power cable lights up green when it is connected. Pressing the power button does nothing. However, if I unplug the battery and wait a few seconds, the screen will light up, the apple and the progress/status bar comes on, as well. The working indicator starts to whirl but when the status indicator gets about a tenth across the bar, the screen goes black. There is no hard drive sounds.
I have a early 2008 mac and i just installed win 7 via bootcamp on it. When i try to install the drivers (provided via apple download, when kicking off the whole process) i get a "Bootcamp x64 is unsupported on this computer model"! I'm quite lost here i need guidance... on apple download site there a bunch o versions and they all seem the same...
I know my upload speed is limited at about 100/110KB/s, sometimes I reach this limit and it impacts the connexion of other computer of my home network. Is there a way to tell OSX to limit its upload speed to (for example) 80KB/s ?
We have an iPad app in the app store. Someone wrote a review that contains some false information about the app.
Is there a non jailbreak firewall for the iPhone or is there some way to set one up, somehow?
I want to set the position of some windows to certain coordinates. In particular I have 4 possible positions that those windows should have.
I want to create a hotkey command that insert this text "/" in whatever application I'am The reason is because I'm a developer and I use the / symbol a lot, the problem is with my keyboard layout, that symbol should be made with SHIFT + 7, and thats not easily done with one hand.
My Macbook Pro (Mid-2010, Running OS 10.9) has been making a strange camera shutter sound every couple minutes for the last two weeks. I initially thought it was an ad from one of my Chrome tabs, but it has happened when I've had different pages opened and haven't been able to pinpoint an ad that could be doing this. From what I've noticed so far, it only happens when I have Google Chrome open. Does anyone know what this could be and how I could stop it? Also, is there an audio log file that I can access on my computer that would allow me to find out what program is creating this sound?
In applescript I have 4 variables, each one with its number. I'd like to have a function that tells me which variable is set to the lower number. EG. I'm new to applescript, in PHP I would do this thanks to associative arrays, but in applescript we have simple lists.
When I want to switch between windows using Cmd+Tab it does not work with hidden or minimized windows. I can see the icons of these windows in the application switcher but choosing them does nothing. How can I get this to work again?
Model: Macbook Pro 2010 mid OS: OS X 10.9 Hard Drive: WD5000BPKT 500GB For some reason I need to change my perfectly working internal bootable drive to external bootable drive.
I have purchased audiobooks on iTunes and can't re-download them. I try in iTunes but it asks if I want to buy it again. Will I be charged again for the books I already paid for?
I am trying to set up OpenPhoto on my Mavericks Server. The instructions for a locally hosted site is to add directives to the virtual host config files.
Which Ethernet port of the Time Capsule do I use ? LAN or WAN ? I prefer to use the LAN port, I don’t want my Time Capsule to have anything to do with my Internet connection. How do I configure the Time Capsule ? The guy from Apple’s tech support happened to be a joke.
Under System Preferences/Keyboard/Text, you can enter a list of "spelling corrections" which can easily act as a macro-replacement for quick typing. It is easy to enter them one-by-one, but is there a way to mass-load a long list of mappings?
And googling hasn't helped much, I'm trying to find some example shell scripts to help me figure-out an installer.pkg pre- / post-install scripts I've been ordered to build. I have very little knowledge of shell scripting and need to find something to work with. This project was not my choice, but was dropped into my lap and I'm stuck doing it. The app could be a drag and drop affair but my manager wants an installer.pkg, no, if, ands, or buts.
I would like to change bash keybinding so that the Escape key has the same effect as Control U. For example, if I tap the Escape key, the current Terminal command will be cleared out (which is what Control U does). How can I specify both the Escape key and the Control modifier when writing a new key definition in my .bash_profile?
A use case is: I have a recording in AIFF or MP3 format, and I'd like a text version of it as Enhanced Dictation would have recognized it if I had spoken it myself.
Is there any software on PC/Mac which just 'serves' the files of system to iPad (instead of converting them on the fly) and any app which is able to play such content? I tried Plex, though it streams most of the videos, but quality isn't great. And I have even enabled Direct Play which as per description :
Is it feasible to list all tags already defined in OS X in Terminal? I know there are some third-party applications that list all tags, but I just want to use Terminal to find all tags, since I use this tool to work with tags in Terminal (but unfortunately the tool doesn't provide to list tags for an entire system - it just lists for a single or multiple files selected arbitrarily). Thanks.
After update to iOS 7.0.4 from version 5.x, my iPad's battery has only fraction of full charge as fast as in 24 hours. I also noticed that iPad is staying warm even after several hours of idle time with a closed Smart Cover. I still failed to accept iCloud Terms&Conditions, as it always reports 'Unable to connect to server'. What I already tried with no result: disable bluetooth turn Off Location Services under Location Services, made sure no apps used GPS within last 24 hours turn off Automatic Updates enabled Accessibility>Reduce Motion disable Background App Refresh in Spotlight Search, keep only Applications; disable everything else clear any launched earlier, to make sure there's no apps remaining idle in the background
How do I route audio from a YouTube video to AU Lab using SoundFlower so that I can capture the YouTube video's sound stream?
There are five lines of Macs (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro), and AFAIK Apple has almost always updated only one at a time, leaving the others a bit behind. Now, it should be easy to keep track of the most recently updated, hence the odds of an update for the older models increases, and this is what I would call an "informed speculation" at a very basic level. Is there any site which aims to keep tracks of these updates, and possibly adds commentary on product line changes?
I shared a home video on my iPhone with myself via iCloud using my cell phone number. I was hoping that this would allow me to see the file somehow on my Mac but alas that did not work. I'm assuming this video is now using space on my iCloud account, so I'd like to "unshare" and delete it. How is this done?
I have my new MacBook Pro with 2 cores. However, the Activity Monitor shows me 4 “virtual” cores. (I don’t really know what a “virtual core” is.) If the processor is running at maximum, what percentages for processes would I have in Activity Monitor ? A total of 200 % ? A total of 400 % ?
I want a MacBook Pro that runs Snow Leopard. I think I need an early 2011 MacBook Pro to be able to run Snow Leopard. Where can I get a new or refurbished early 2011 MacBook Pro. I don't think a later model will allow Snow Leopard to be installed.
I have a 2009 Mac Mini running Mavericks that I am planning to use as a media center. There are a few apps that I would like to be able to launch using the Apple Remote (Plex, Netflix via Safari shortcut, etc.) What's the best way to do this?
Just got my first Mac and am loving it except for the extremely annoying fact that fonts get messed up on my secondary monitor. The strange thing is that when I drag a window over from my laptop monitor, the fonts look fine on the secondary monitor until I finish dragging, then they get all messed up... some kind of driver issue?
Can I make more available memory by deleting pictures? Do I delete them from Photo Stream or Camera Roll? I want them saved but can I remove from one of those areas.
I'd like to create a meta-playlist that plays various playlists I created in order, with the added functionality to set limits on how many songs will play from each playlist. Can this be done, either in iTunes or other software? My example is the following:
I have a DVD that somebody recorded and burned for me, and the DVD has no chapter markers. I ripped it to a MP4 file with Handbrake so I could put it on my iPod/iPad, but I also want it to have "chapters" like a DVD, so I can skip to the parts I want.
I have a Haswell retina MBP, but following the installation process with Bootcamp Assistant v.5.1.1 results in an error when Windows attempts to install. Are there any guides available that walks one through this process?
Seemingly fairly regularly, I find myself clicking on the X in a circle to the right of a text field in an iOS app on my iPad, instead of just placing the cursor next to the final character in the text field. Extremely annoying. Is there a global undo operation that I just can't find through google, or at least one for the factory provided "Clock" app, which I seem to have the most of this type of problem with?
I know you're supposed to press the home and lock button and restart it but my iPhones lock button has been broken for awhile and I can't afford to fix it or fix it myself.
How can I find out which algorithm OSX10.7 uses (NewReno, SACK, Tahoe...) and if possible, how can I change it?
I bought a used Macbook (late 07 model, white, 2.1 Intel Core Duo, 3 gig RAM) and I have been upgrading everything I can. It works great EXCEPT the airport card. The wireless internet is so slow! When I plug it in to the LAN line it's as fast as can be. When I go into "About this Mac" and pull up the airport card info it lists the card as "AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88)". I am trying to figure out if the card is messed up and needs to be replaced/upgraded. Are there any tests for this? Is the card old enough that it just can't handle "modern" internet speeds or should it be the same as LAN speeds because right now trying to check my email or facebook reminds me of the dial up days... So I have had it plugged into LAN since I have got it but that is not an option once I start school back up... Thanks!
I have a game that they never released for mac, and I installed the game using WINE, the install itself was flawless, but every time I want to play it, I'm forced to open Terminal and run I saw a question that I thought would answer this using applescript, but when i tried to duplicate the example, it didn't work. I'm sure the information I've given is enough to start the answer to my problem, if not, just let me know. Thanks
I'm trying to do a fresh install of OSX on a new hard drive and the MacBook keeps ejecting the installation DVD. To see if the dvd reader has the problem itself, I tried another random dvd. The problem is it didn't get ejected and now I'm stuck because holding down the eject button doesn't eject it. I can hear that it is being read though.. since the hard drive is new, there is no OS in it so I'm stuck with the blinking question mark upon bootup and I can't also eject the random dvd i put in. Any ideas what to do?
I would like to subscribe to some RSS feeds. I originally had them in Mail, which worked just fine. But after upgrading to Mavericks, the RSS feeds disappeared, and I get this message when I click on an RSS feed link:
Is there any way to iTunes sync an iPad with a MacBook Air using a wireless connection (either WiFi or bluetooth). If so, how? I managed to bluetooth pair my MacBook Air with my iPad, but I can't see my iPad on iTunes
I have a really low capacity MacBook Air. Earlier this year, I discovered I could keep it usable without a bunch of "running low on disk space" warnings by limiting the caching performed by Safari and Mail. In Safari it was easy, it's in Preferences, but in Mail it was a bit buried - select the account, advanced tab, and then "don't keep copies of any messages".
When I pressed Command S and tried to enter Single User Mode, my MacBook Air goto the rEFIt shell. If I click the Apple icon in rEFIt screen, and then press Command S, Mac OS X simple goes straight into the logon screen. How can I enter Single User Mode when rEFIt is installed?
I have a new SSD and my old hard drive installed in my optibay. My old hard drive currently has a Mac OS system on it, and I want to just wipe it so I can use it for storing my videos, and pictures. How can I do this?
Recently upgraded from iOS 5 to 7, and noticed that if I receive an email containing a curse word, it's replaced with "(BLOCK)". Any way to disable this behavior and et back my F bombs?
I ran codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app as per a post here and now I cannot launch Bootcamp Assistant at all. Is there a terminal command I can run to reverse this?
In guided access mode, can I restrict to Newsstand alone, so users can only view Newsstand and the subscribed newspapers and magazines? It seems that the guided access mode can only restrict to a single magazine.
I have an external HDD that is about to fail. I want to copy as much as I can to a new external HDD before it completely dies. I've been able to start copying files for a few minutes before the drive starts turning off and on repeatedly and clicking. Is there a (preferably free) Mac application that can copy files off an about-to-fail hard drive, handle the drive suddenly disappearing, and continue where it left off when the drive is reconnected?
How to get Bluetooth connected or paired event Programmatically (iOS 7) Please reply i need Status of Bluetooth Paired/connected or not. Thanks
I have changed my internal DVD with Crucial m4 SSD and I have put the DVD in to an external case. I'm trying to update the SSD firmware and install Mavericks but I can't boot anything except MAC OS installation DVD. I have tried to boot the official Crucial update DVD: it hangs install Windows 7: it hangs install Windows 7 on bootcamp: it hangs on windows boot install windows XP: it doesn't boot boot Hirens 15.1: it boots Mini Windows XP, but I cannot start DOS programs Also, I have reset the SMC and NVRAM, no success.
So, what I really want is to force this ssh tunnel on the client side. On the other hand, just letting it to good will of the clients is not a good idea, especially if I rely on people running windows to have to remember constantly to tunnel say through putty and only then attempt to use vnc.
Is there a "Voice Recording" application for IOS which can specify a moment while recording? (By way of illustration, when I am recording voice and the time of recording is 2.12.23 I want to pin this time in order to, refer to that time easily after finishing the recording .) (it should be noted that I prefer pining/specifying the time would be just by pressing a button)
I have a dataset where I want to write a COUNTIFstatement in Numbers (Mavericks). Specifically I want to count if a number is between 16 and 30. So far I have tried: COUNTIF(test-array, ">15 AND >= 30") with no luck. Reading from the documentation:
My keyboard has 4 buttons to the left of the space bar and 3 buttons between space and the arrows. So it has the same button positions, just different labels. Here is a pic of the one I'm using. The biggest thing is that mine doesn't have a "CMD" button, I really only need to fix the mapping so that the little search icon will act as the Apple Command button and then I would be good to go. Any ideas?
Note also that this is not a question about preventing spin-down. I've found ways to prevent this where possible, but when it's not (e.g., when the mac itself is asleep and the drives spin down because they ignore system settings to prevent spin-down), my drives frequently also unmount, thus vanishing completely from the system. The question is about how to prevent or recover from that.
I recently bought a 5th generation iPod touch. I searched for "Magic 2014" but was greeted with the message: "Magic 2014 is only available on Apple iPad". Why are certain games iPad only?
I'm currently trying to get a missing cronjob runner script thing to work, but it was written for Arch Linux, which is pretty different from Mac OS X, and one of the things that it tries to do is run last -x, which fails since Mac's version of last doesn't include a -x option. According to About.com -x displays the system shutdown entries and run level changes. Is there any way to emulate this behavior in Mac OS X? Here's an excerpt from the man page for last on Ubuntu Linux:
I remember broadly what it does, but not specifically: What is the exact purpose for it again?
I'm on OS X Lion (10.7.5) and still cannot download OS X Mavericks (10.9). There is no progress bar on the Mac App Store. Also, it is not resumable. Whenever I pause the download and shutdown/reboot my MBP, it restarts the whole download process.
Since a while back Apple Mail marks mail as read when searching. It's really bad when handling a large mailbox since it's easy to miss an email because you accidently marked it as read while searching.
I am attempting to access a PDF file on my network from my iPhone and I know how to access these files from Windows OS. However since I have an iPhone 5, I don't have the knowledge to make that device work with my existing network files.
With the previous versions of iPhoto, I was used to add a location for an album or batch of pictures taken during the same outdoor trip (backcountry skiing or alpinism tour for instance). My camera is not equipped with a GPS chip so I did it manually by placing a tag on the the Google Map tool integrated in iPhoto.
When I insert my USB Pendrive in my iMac i see this message: I tried to format it both with DiskUtility and with diskutil command in terminal but I get this error: How can I solve it?
I may be easily fooled, but that doesn't say "45" anywhere. (Yes, "06", and "24" and "23.2-b09", but nary a 45. Such numbers!) Anybody know if this is u45, or where the installer placed it?
With search engines, I can find supposedly dustproof screen protectors for sale? e.g.: *=URL=* http://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPhone-Protector-Washable-Resistant/dp/B00A2A0D7S
Case: I just received a MBP 13" Haswell Retina and installed Windows 8.1 with Bootcamp 5.0.5033 drivers. Problem: The Danish and Danish (Apple) keyboard layouts have two keys swapped: $ and < How can I swap these back to their correct function?
Every so often in Mail, new messages will show up as empty: "This message has no content". In fact they're not empty, but it seems their processing was interrupted... and I can't figure out how to get Mail to take another look.
In Google Chrome on both Windows and Ubuntu, pinned tabs are saved upon closing and reopened automatically the next time Chrome is started. With OS X, pinned tabs are not saved properly in Chrome and disappear with new browser sessions. Why is this behavior different and how can I get my pinned tabs to save?
I have iphone 5c and any.do. The done tasks are shown at the bottom of "today" grayed out and taking up space. I can delete them but it seems very permanent, there's no way to look at them later?! Is there any way to archive them without permanently deleting them?
Preview (like most Mac apps) can print to PDFs, and even has a shortcut for this functionality via a menu option Export as PDF.... I have a scanned document in .tiff format that I'd like to convert to a PDF, but using the option above yields a PDF with large margins around the image file. Is there a reason why this is happening? More importantly, is there a way to suppress these margins?
When I try to run ./configure When building Apache with no unusual options this is part of the output: I don't have xcode installed, so why does it assume I do? I tried running the configure like this after installing apple command line tools which includes gcc, etc. into /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/
The file, "Test.file" in the below code does not exist, yet the script returns true. Why? What am I doing wrong?
When running a Parallels virtual machine (i.e. Windows 7), cmd-tab behaves as the Parallels icon showing the list of virtual machines (which can be closed) and a separate icon for each open Windows application.
I installed a new hard drive in my MacBook and when plugging in old hard drive to transfer files & apps/progs over, some apple software such as Mail, iCal and safari have a cross through them stating that it's an old version and can't be transferred. How could a newer OS (mavericks) not accept and transfer older versions across?? How can I fix this? My calendar is now blank with no birthdays and I can't access any emails over a few days old. Any ideas?
And also, where do I download it? Currently it says Boot Camp Assistant is version 3.0.4. And Software Update says everything is already up to date but I see some people say they have version 3.3 on Snow Leopard so yeah I'm rather confused.
I'm migrating from a large HDD (1.25TB DIY Fusion Drive) to a pair of SSDs (256GB + 1TB). I want the 256GB one to mount as /, and the 1TB one to mount as /Users. In previous versions of OSX, you could just edit /etc/fstab like in any other UNIX, but in Tiger they removed that in favor of NetInfo Manager. But now NetInfo Manager is gone. Is there any way to arbitrarily and UNIXily set mount points for different volumes?
Is it possible to have a "Recently Added" as a Playlist on iTunes ? For example, I would like the recent 20-50 songs to be automatically added and renewed in that playlist.
I'm using Mac Outlook as my primary email program (my company uses Exchange and it's the "supported" program on Mac), but I've configured Contacts/Calendar to also talk to the Exchange Server. I like the way Calendar handles alerts, and the fact that it can send email reminders, but I'd need them to be sent via Outlook as I'd rather not have 2 copies of my Exchange Inbox on the disk (to save space).
So I have a 2010 Macbook Air, 1.6GHz, and I am trying to hook it up to an external display, this Insignia: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-24-class-24-diag--led-1080p-60hz-hdtv/9844485.p
I still get confused sometimes at the name MagSafe. Has it anything to do with the magnet in it? Why MagSafe? is it safer than other adapters?
I just started using Mac and would really like to get in depth detail about OS X. I tried disabling the desktop functionality — disabling the dock and other features as right click context menu on desktop etc. In Windows, we can edit the Registry or can kill explorer.exe so as to kill the desktop environment. Also, in Windows we have the Task Manager to manage all tasks. Is there any such thing in OS X by which we can disable these features of desktop environment and also interact with systems with something like Task Manager or just by command line?
When I have Microsoft Word on one space, sometimes clicking anything on another desktop forces me to go back to the "space" where the Word window is. How can I prevent word from behaving this way?
Sorry if it sounds like a noob question, earlier iPads have 42.5Wh battery pack and gives 10 hours of battery. But new iPad Air has only 32.5Wh battery, but it also gives same amount of battery backup that too with a more powerful processor and graphics. How so?
I am trying to set my bullets so that they are different at each of three indent levels in Pages 5.0. An example is like this:
I've been having a problem since upgrading to Mavericks. I have two monitors and I have Excel on Monitor 1 (M1) and Thunderbird on Monitor 2 (M2), if I open TextEdit and move it to M1, then CMD+Tab back to Thunderbird, Excel moves above TextEdit on M1 despite it not being the window that just took focus. How can I stop this?
I've noticed from my DNS logs that domains associated with a small minority of my 3rd-party apps are accessed approximately every half hour or every hour, even when the relevant app is not active, and even when the phone is locked. My understanding in the past was that 3rd-party apps do not execute unless they are the active app, and that notifications all come through a centralized Apple service. What mechanism is being used to allow this communication, and what reasons are there for these apps to need to phone home so frequently when there is no app activity?
I have a subscribed calendar on my iPhone. If I look in the Settings under Mail, Contacts, Calendars, under Subscribed Calendars, I see the subscribed calendar. If I go into the subscribed calendar on my iPhone I see:
I've used the SeleniumIDE extensively on Linux (Ubuntu) a while ago, now I'm trying to get it working on a Mac (OSX v10.9) in the Firefox browser. I have it installed but it doesn't seem to be interacting with the browser. When I try and record scripts, nothing happens. If I manually add a test case for open('*=URL=* I get See this screenshot for more background:
Normally my Time Capsule is seen in the Finder sidebar under "Shared" with an icon of a disk drive by the name of the Time Capsule. Now it keeps showing a monitor icon by the name of the Time Capsule, and when I click on it, it will change back to the disk drive icon.
I have a HTC Desire X and I would like to import the images to Aperture (some are on device, some on card). Unfortunately, the device is not connected as mass storage even when HTC Sync Manager is on. How do you handle this workflow?
Suddenly, my home directory is in the group messagebus instead of the usual staff.(I blame texlive for this, but have no evidence.) The problem is that both groups have the same ID:
Okay, so I recently decided to try switching my Time Machine backups over to tmutil so that I could gain more control over exactly when they ran, but also so I could run some extra stuff before and after. Anyway, I decided to start with a simple test with a launch agent set to run the following command once an hour: tmutil --block
I'd appreciate to be able to use my Linux colorscheme in Terminal. Is there a way I can specify HEX-codes or maybe RGB-values?
My husband and I are currently sharing a computer and due to the limited data on the iCloud we both like to create a backup of our cell phones on the computer. With each iOS update I like to reset my phone as new and then restore it from a backup. The problem with this is that every time I restore it, it's putting both mine and my husbands apps on my phone. We tried creating different profiles on the mac and backing up our phones under our own profile, but for whatever reason all the apps still combines. Now half the time I have to enter his password on my phone or vice versa if there's an app that needs updating. What if anything can I possible do (without having to buy another Mac of course) to keep our apps separate?
I am trying to install Mozila Firefox on the school's server via ssh. Given that I have authorization to install it on the server, could someone guide me through the steps to install firefox? It has to be done through the Terminal, from my remote laptop using ssh instead of the graphical log in.
I was wondering which protocol the native application for notes on iOS is using to keep the data in sync with iCloud. My aim is to host the notes on my own server, but I could't figure out the protocol. Any help is much appreciated! I would also be happy about tips on existing open source projects or a protocol specification as I will consider writing my own server application if I don't find any other software. Thanks in advance.
I want to receive an alert whenever there is a freeze or frost advisory in my area, so I can know when to cover my plants. I would assume there is an app for that, but there are dozens weather apps, and all their features are not listed. Ideally, I just need something like this Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cook.org&hl=en
From what I've seen, it sounds like many of the solutions posted for similar question don't work in 10.7 or beyond. (For example Vine Server and TightVNC.) Does anyone know of solutions do allow using VNC to control a 10.7.5 Mac remotely from a Windows 7 machine? Is it question of configuring the Mac appropriately?
Lately, when I click in "Apple TV" (trying to select it as default sound output), OSX changes it back to "Internal Speakers".
How can I get the iPad bubbles wallpaper? It no longer shows up as an available wallpaper after changing from it.
I am trying to create a .imscc file, a common cartridge file used for interoperability between different Course Management Systems. It is essentially just a bunch of folders and XML files zipped up and labeled .imscc. However simply unzipping and rezipping with the standard archiving utility is somehow breaking the file and Canvas, the system I'm trying to import to, does not accept the file. Using zipinfo I discovered that the files generated by Canvas were zipped with version 5.2 while the standard zip utility uses version 2.1 and I'm hoping this is the source of the issue. It's definitely something with the zipping since the file sizes are different once I've unzipped and rezipped. (No hidden resource fork files I could find, for the record) I've tried the Canvas forums to no avail so I'm hoping someone here might know a way to zip a folder with a specific zip version. Any ideas?
I have an iPhone 4s and am running iOS 7 on it. When I take a picture with the "process" filter, it then displays in place of the photo a blank screen. It doesn't happen when using the camera without a filter. Why is this happening, and what can I do about it?
My phone was lost today, I tracked it (someone had it). I reported it LOST with "find my iphone"and suspended my service. Can someone activate it and use my apps, itunes, passbook, etc?
Is it being invoked as a system library? something like... include systemLib/magic then being called as a function that launches the simulator
i have saved one card details with my app id as it does not allow u to browse the itune store without that . Now i try downloaidng few free apps for ipad . After sometime i recivied notifcation from my bank that a purchase has been made on my card for the same FREE app .
So users need to insert password to login to my iMac
BTW: you can set multiple via the System Preferences GUI: just type server names into the field with commas to separate them. This keeps the GUI and the file in sync. BTW #2: here's the site I got the list of publicly accessible NTP servers from.
The iPad Mini Retina comes with the new A7 chip. However, playing back of a 1080p MKV is still sluggish using VLC. I'd like to know whether other paid video players are better in handling 1080p MKVs? Some information about the MKV: 1920x1080, x264 10bit AAC 5.1 720 kbps
I am having an issue with my mouse, it seems to slow down by about 50% when the cursor gets to a button or something clickable. Dose any one know what this issue might be? I have plugged in a wireless Microsoft mouse and its not displaying the same issue.
Okay, so somehow a computer I'm helping to manage has got a total of three .inprogress backups on its Time Machine drive that it doesn't seem to be able to tidy up; it's creating new backups without any issue, it just gets stuck on the finishing stage, presumably trying to get rid of the in progress files. On Lion or later I would just use tmutil delete to get rid of this safely, however Snow Leopard doesn't have this. I don't want to use the bypass utility with the rm command as I believe that will destroy the contents of hard-linked folders, resulting in other backups becoming incomplete if they had links to the same folder(s).
Is there any logs that would give (for example) some indication of what caused Unable to connect to X errors when trying to connect to a Wifi hotspot, with iOS 7.x? The seeming lack of information as to the cause of many failures + error messages on this OS doesn't help technical people like myself start the troubleshooting processes anywhere logical.
I have a 2008 13" (2.4GHz) white MacBook that will only boot from mains power. If you attempt to boot from the battery it's as if it's not even connected. Once you get even past the initial startup chime, you can pull the mains and it's fine. Replaced the top case (as I had to replace it anyway) Removed the top case and used the power jumper. Checked battery status (4/5 lights) Checked magsafe light status (Orange initially, green after a short wait) Ran diagnostics (which only reported 4SNS/1/4000000 Th1H-128.000... - a temperature sensor error) I'd appreciate ideas on what's causing this when the battery clearly has (and can supply) power and more importantly how can I resolve it?
Doing work at home, I noticed that OS X would drop my wifi connection when I left my 2011 MacBook Pro and it went into idle mode (screen black, but still powered on). When I moved the mouse or touched a key, OS X would "wake up" but not have a wifi connection. Then it would not connect to the wifi for a minute or two, before resuming normal connectivity. This was new to me since I have had the machine for more than two years and had never experienced this, but recently updated OS X to Mavericks.
Whenever I have multiple tabs loaded in Safari I often notice some behaviour which was not present in Safari 5. Whenever I pre-load several tabs and then switch from one tab to the other, the webpage is not immediately there, I first see a whitish background for half a second after which the website appears. It's not reloaded, as I don't see any network activity, but it just appears. This behaviour is not isolated to certain websites, it happens at random. De-activating my extensions does not solve the issue. Resetting Safari also doesn't. The console shows the following Safari messages: What can be the cause of this problem and how can I solve this?
Instead of the icons all showing up as the same for each .exe in Finder, is there a plugin or something that will let me see what the executable icons actually look like? For example, .app on Finder has their own icons like this:
I delete my podcast episodes from iTunes after I listen to them. Recently, I migrated from a Lion machine to a Mavericks machine (both iTunes 11), bringing my iTunes Library with me (but not my preferences file). Since then, when iTunes updates my podcast, it insists on re-downloading the episodes I've deleted (and worse, now they're marked as unplayed).
When I do Help | Search | whatever I see the blue left-arrow pointing to a menu item. I know that if I press Enter, it will execute it, but is there a shortcut that shifts the focus to the item that is pointed by the arrow, so that I could, for example, move to the menu item just above it? The way I do it now, is I search, I memorize the submenu hierarchy, and I move there manually with the mouse, but I'm pretty sure I saw a shortcut to do this somewhere.
I have a number of very old .efx documents (from 2004) that were sent to me from the eFax service. They are no longer available on eFax's website (so I can't just get them from there and change the format). (I changed eFax's setting a long time ago to send me new faxes in PDF format, so this problem only applies to my very old faxes.) The most recent version of eFax Messenger is a PowerPC app so it can't be opened on recent versions of Mac OS X. The simplest way seems to be just downloading eFax Messenger on a computer with Windows, but since I don't have access to one that's not an option.
Dose any one know the shortcut key for opening a file from the "files" browser? I tried Command+O but that open the location in finder instead of dreamweaver. Or how to change it to the enter key? Thanks
The company I work for is having an issue with users racking up huge data bills with iOS hotspot tethering. Is there a way we can push a profile that will disable this feature? I have looked through the iPhone Configuration Utility and cannot find any settings for this feature.
After reading Why is 8GB, Ballistix 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800 memory module showing as not compatible with Macbook Pro mid 2012? on the Crucial forum, and the response from Crucial: use our Apple branded Crucial memory which doesn't explain the why it is not compatible, I am curious whether memory modules that use different (lower) timings than Apple's modules with CL11 timing: Will the Crucial Ballistix BX Sport CL10 [BLS8G3N18AES4CEU/BLS2C8G3N18AES4CEU] modules work? And what will be the performance penalty or benefit?
A friend had an iPhone and when I added her contact I set it her number as "iPhone". She's recently got an Android device but my iPhone keeps trying to iMessage her, needless to say she's not getting my messages. I can obviously press and hold each message and "send as SMS" but I'd like a more permanent solution. How can I make my phone always send messages to her by SMS?
My original hard drive has failed. Would not go beyond grey screen.
I have recently received a first gen iPad Mini. My experience with Handbrake is limited. Can anyone recommendation what settings to use on Handbrake to convert HD source ( mostly 1280 x 720 ) to watch on the smaller 1024 x 768 screen without losing more quality than already lost from the smaller resolution, but also without making the files bigger than they have to be. I would also like the video to take up the whole screen without borders ( I don't mind if it stretches a bit ).
Is there any way to install COBOL on OSX Lion? I tried installing OpenCobol 1.1 for Mac *=URL=* using fink using these command fink install open-cobol-1.0-1. Everything is installed well but when I enter the cobc --help to check OpenCobol status, terminal only returns -bash: cobc: command not found
I have iCloud Keychain sync enabled, but I want to stop it syncing WiFi passwords. I have a portable WiFi hotspot which I use for my laptop and iPad, but I don't want my iPhone to connect to it since it has it's own 3G
I have a service that copy the selected file's paths and put them on the clipboard. It kinda works, except everything gets printed twice. The service is like this: Get selected files from Finder > run script (as arguments) > copy to clipboard. The script is:
My SSD has 2 partitions: Mac OS X (133 GB) and second for Windows 8.1 (117 GB) I know that OS X is very optimized to SSD, but I have second Windows partition and don’t know how two systems will live together. Need Windows ONLY for gaming. I have two question.
I regularly plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and 'Import photos and videos', and then delete them from the device, which is what I want. But how can I select a few 'favourite' photos and keep those on the iPhone, without them getting removed when I do regular transfers to the PC of all my new photos?
OS X Mavericks is quitting applications when it 'sleeps' an account. One of the applications (play on mac) doesn't support this. Thus Chrome, TextEdit etc. are being quit and then it asks if I want to manually exit PlaysOnMac. Thus the quit applications I lose what web pages I had opened, what text files I had opened etc. as they are not restored when this happens. How do I disable this quitting behavior?
Is there something I'm missing? Does the "chart style" only allow changing the colors of the different series on a graph, as opposed to accounting for changed data point styling?
I am trying to run a bitcoin miner (bfgminer), I know this is not efficient but I want to do it anyway. The mac in question is a MacMimi running an Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU and Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz. The os Mac OSX 10.8.5.
I'm running into a strange issue trying to forward an application from a remote Linux server over X (through ssh). The application (it is a java application---a commercial program, not my own) seems to load successfully once, but after exiting and trying to run it again I only get a blank X11 window, with the correct application title. I don't get any errors, the window just doesn't load. My .ssh\config options for both servers include ForwardX11 and ForwardX11Trusted.
After Xcode update to v. 5.0.2 i can't build my app for iOS 6.0 target. I can build only for iOS 7.0 I get many errors: Interesting thing, is that before the update it was possible to compile the app for iOS 6.0, BUT I had the same errors when trying to compile app for iPhone 4/4S
A old MacBook was given to me to develop an iPhone app. The problem is that the Mac was treated horribly and there is a lot of bloatware. It is currently running 10.7.5. I want to create a new user that does not use ANY of the applications so it runs completely separate as in none of the bloatware apps are shown/used. I can't restore the Mac completely as it's someone elses and I don't want to remove any of their files but still want to have a "restored account."
I am running on OSX Maverick. I just realized that my machine is case insensitive. How do I reset my HD to be case-sensitive?
Are scheduled reminders supposed to show up in Calendar.app if both are using icloud? PS: iOS 7.0.4, OSX Mavericks
When I start the adb deamon using the terminal, it got stuck somewhere. Any idea why ?
When I connect a bluetooth keyboard to my computer, it pops up this icon:  Can I get rid of that?
Does anyone know what's involved with the diagnostic test for iPhone for the Apple Care+? I'm thinking about getting it, but I want to know what's involved.
I have a T Mobile iPhone 4 that I'm having proximity sensor issues with. Can I take my logic board and install it in a AT&T iPhone 4 that I have laying around?
I would like to add comments to files or folders. On previous OS X versions, there would be a text field to add comments that become searchable via Spotlight.
Years ago, I learned typing by a program named Typing Tutor, on DOS. XD
Is it possible to change OS X's USB filesystem mount behaviour to use the noasync flag to disable write caching? The aim here is to allow USB devices to be safely removed without eject or hdiutil unmount, as opposed to disable the disk was not ejected properly warning How do I disable this message: "the disk was not ejected properly"? manually running mount every time https://superuser.com/questions/113019/is-it-possible-to-disable-write-caching-on-a-usb-mass-storage-device-on-mac-os-x
I am running on Mac OS X 10.8.2. I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office, and haven’t had a problem using it, until a recent update! Since then, whenever I try to open it I get the following message: You can't open the application 'Microsoft Word' because PowerPC Applications are no longer supported How do I resolve this, please?
I would like to switch from picasa to iphoto or aperture. However, I have heard (and googled) that, to some degree, these programs don't keep your photos as normal photo files in your drive's directory structure, but, rather, store them in an odd, specific kind of bundle. And, so for instance, if that bundle gets corrupted, the whole pile gets lost. Also, if I want to just go and grab one JPG file as a regular file, it's perhaps hard to go get it. So, (1) Am I wrong -- does either or both of those store photos in a way that is virtually the same as "regular old directories" I can dig into? (2) If your answer involves me making specific configurations in the program, are there downsides to choosing that "non-standard" configuration? (3) any quick word on the difference between iPhoto and Aperture with regards to the files directory question? HUGE THANKS for any thoughts --
I am using maverick, and have Xcode 5.0.2. I am trying to install command line tools using xcode-select --install, but I get message that is not currently available on Software Update server. What may be wrong?
Deleted Event or picture is not getting deleting from Dropbox . My iPhoto is Sync with dropbox and all my files are up o iPhoto are in dropbox . When I delete an Event or picture in my iPhoto library . It is not getting deleted from dropbox it remain there I have to do it manually . Even sync with iPhoto to dropbox every time I add any new event to iPhoto then I have to start importing event manually in dropbox from preference panel . Help me through this that if i delete picture from iPhoto then it will get automatically deleted from dropbox iPhoto
I wanted to install the Apache-Module X-Sendfile as shown in *=URL=* on my Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) setup. After downloading and unpacking the files, I've used the command sudo apxs -cia mod_xsendfile.c to run the install. After fixing the Error "Not a directory" by creating a symlink (shown in this answer), a new problem occured : I haven't found any solutions by searching the web with the error code.
When I write an alphabet in the Chrome search bar then usually some website from the History shows up which is good if that page is what you want but bad otherwise. I want this: I type the letter e and let's say the webpage examppllee.com/blabla shows up. It is likely that examppllee.com/blabla is from my history. Suppose I want that only examppllee.com to show up without the /blabla extension. How do I do this?
I am trying to create a button on my Finder toolbar powered by applescript to make a copy of a set folder (e.g. /Users/James/doc) and all files/subfolders within it to the current location in Finder. The motivation for this is that I have a LaTeX documentation format with subfolders such as img that I normally add to every new coding project in a folder called doc, so having a button that adds this folder would save me time instead of manually copying it across each time. My applescript skills are not very good, I have tried: 1) the error I get from running this first attempt is: Can’t make target of window 1 of «script» into type text. 2) which when run gives the error Finder got an error: Can’t set target of window 1 to folder "Users/James/doc". (PS: I already know how to turn the applescripts into Finder buttons)
On certain websites (minecraftforum.net) most images appear as a blue box with a white question mark in it on safari. On my school forums (private to the school only, so can't link) normal images work fine, but an animated GIF generates the same blue box. The images do not load in chrome or firefox. Anyone know why? I have safari 6.1, I'm on a MacBook, and I'm running osx 10.7.5
I have installed some libraries with Homebrew but if I use pkg-config it does not find them because there are missing .pc files. For example, if you do: and, after it is installed: I get this error: This error is caused because Homebrew does not create any opencv.pc. Is there a way to configure Homebrew to create the .pc files so that all packages installed with brew can be found by pkg-config?
I have 4 partitions MAC Shared 1 exFAT Windows Shared 2 exFAT I can see the partitions when Windows natively but when I am booting Windows through Parallels I cant access any other partitions but Windows
I've switched to Mavericks and like the new features so far. But one thing bothers me - the new multi-screen behavior. Multiple status bars separated fullscreen modes I don't like (need) a status bar on each screen simply because it reduces space and I have to click on the status bar to activate it, and I never use the fullscreen mode.
I'm thinking of buying one more WD Passport Ultra 1TB (I have one already) so that in the near future I could disassemble the two Passports and install the 1TB drives into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini (0GB, enclosure only) for a RAID 1 setup. But from this Youtube video of a guy dissembling a 2TB version of the Passport Ultra, he says the "interface is directly soldered onto the drive". Does that mean it won't fit into the OWC enclosure, or in any other enclosures like this as well? Thanks!
So here's what my iTunes looks like right now:  Nothing on this screen does what I'd expect, which may or may not be a problem with my expectations. Why does double clicking on a track play only that track and then stop, rather than playing the album from there? Why does double clicking on a track play only that track and then stop, rather than playing the album from there?
I have OS X Lion 10.7.5 with four desktops and also have 4 groups of stickies (one group per desktop). Every time that I have to reopen the Stickies app, they are unsorted (all stickies open on the same desktop). Does anybody knows if there is a way, e.g., using AppleScript, to sort them?
As many are aware, one can snap a photo using the "volume up" button and even the same button on the earbud volume controls. I am trying to control the camera remotely and need more distance than the earbuds provide. How can I generate the signal? Are the specs available? Is it a proprietary control or a simple on/off pulse on one of the three conductors through the stereo jack? I tried a simple 1/8" stereo cable extension, but it doesn't work.
How can I turn off tmy Mac's monitor. I know I can turn off the display by setting a hot cornet or by using ctrl + shift + Eject but I dont want this. I want to leave my Mac on and connect to it via teamViewer from another place but when I do that the Mac's display turn's on. I do this with my PC in the office, I leave my PC on but I simple turn off the monitor by pushing the button on the bottom right corner :) this means my PC is still on but the monitor is off and it does not show anything on the screen. I do this sometime in case I have to connect to my PC from home, but without letting anyone know that my PC is on! UPDATED: Sorry for not being clear, It is "iMac" OS X version 10.8.5
I'm using a 27" iMac with Mavericks. About 2 weeks ago, Messages stop creating notifications whenever I received a message from someone. I used to get a notification in the upper right corner of the screen if Messages was in the background, but now I don't get anything. As a result, when people send me IM messages while Messages is in the background, I don't see them until later when I see the Messages window.
Is it normal that mounted encrypted disk images appear on the other user's desktop as well if you have two different users at the same computer? This phenomena has been around for some time now. I could not get rid of it by reinstalling the system.
In the past I've been able to use my Canon LIDE 30 scanner with my modern Macs. I have installed the most recent SANE TWAIN packages, restarted the computer with the scanner connected, but Image Capture (and others) claim that no device is connected. The System Report shows that a CanoScan is plugged in on one of the USB ports, but "Device has not been configured."
I had a cheap NAS that I was using that would give me an Error with code -50 whenever I tried to copy certain directories of files to it. At first I thought it was just the NAS device. Recently I bought a Drobo 5N hooked it up to my network, now I am getting the same errors for the same folders which makes me think it is an OSX issue. Has anyone seen this before and how do I fix it? My debugging steps: I have tried the same process from two different computers and both give the same error. I have tried copying the files to a local drive or another DAS and they copied fine. I have created an isolated network with a small switch and just my computer and drobo plugged into it and the same error occurs. I also have tried through 2 different switches and through just a Time Capsule but the error persists. Any ideas?
This question is almost exactly what I need for my project at work. We have approx. 400 Macs on our campus, and the problem is they were not all set up identically. There are at least 4 different admin username and password variations. What I'd like to have is a script that will:
Many applications (e.g. Xcode, Pixelmator) can launch OS X's standard color picker tool window (seen below) and others (e.g. the font picker). These tool windows look almost like regular windows, but they have a shorter title bar and the three gumpdrop buttons at left are slightly smaller too.
I would like to do the following: without using the terminal. Is there a way to bypass the terminal and invoke a kernel system call ? I'd rather not write a program to do this. Instead I was wondering if I could somehow simulate a terminal with (perhaps) an application besides terminal to invoke system calls.
The iPad screen has an aspect ratio of 4:3. 1080p video has an aspect ratio of 16:9. I tried playing a 1080p video on the built-in player and got this:
Which is the best App Cleaner for Mac. I'm using AppCleaner at the moment. Have you other preferences?
I used to be able to hold down CTRL and zoom by scrolling the mousewheel, but that is not longer possible on Mavericks. I've searched around and found many people saying it's in System Preferences → Accessibility, typically accompanied by an image like this:
I have been using this: To prevent users from changing the desktop. (And I love it btw!) Original can be found here: How to restrict changing desktop wallpaper? All of our stations have a secondary screen which I'd also like to fix up the same way using a different image.
I am trying to do a clean install on my Macbook Pro 13" from 2011. Here is what I did so far: 1) Booted up on my USB Stick with Mountain Lion Installer mounted on it
I have a large directory tree structure that contains multiple JPG files in each directory root and their subsequent subdirectories. I need to recursively extract a single JPG file from each directory root and copy them all to another location whilst maintaining the same tree structure and ignoring the other files. The JPG filenames that I need to extract all are tagged with "RNav.jpg". I experimented with the cp command and wild card but I could not get it to work. I'm running Mavericks and I'm a novice when it comes to UNIX command-lines. The existing structure is as follows: (up to 500 directories) VNAME/PNAME1/PNAME1_RNav.jpg VNAME/PNAME2/PNAME2_RNav.jpg VNAME/PNAME3/PNAME3_RNav.jpg VNAME/PNAME4/PNAME4_RNav.jpg
Using a shell script or Terminal, how do I overwrite files that may or may not be present. I looked at man page for cp, it said use the -f argument to force overwrite. But, it does nothing. Or is there another option to overwrite files using the common in-built command line tools in OS X?
I have a small fleet of iPad Minis that I manage with Configurator. When I purchase apps through the Volume Purchase Program and inmport a spreadsheet into Configurator to manage them.
What version of iTunes comes with current AppStore download of Mountain Lion? 10.7? 11.0? UPDATE: As of today (6-Dec-2013), AppStore has 10.8.5 with iTunes 11.0.1.
iExplorer can also grab iMessages. You can see them within the app, but it forces you to register ($34.99) to export them.
I use Sublime Text and this shortcut (Edit > Line > Swap Line Up/Swap Line Down) allows me to move lines of code up and down in the file while shifting everything around it. On my new computer this command moves the window currently in focus to the next space.
I have a user account that I created on our network at work via Network Accounts. There are some files I want to retrieve from one of the users desktop. The user was created on the "Server" which is a Mac Mini.
I just installed MacVim 7.4 on Mac OS X Lion through macports, but I cannot bring it up? Typing mvim in the terminal invokes the application but doesn't bring up any window (and doesn't print anything to the terminal). mvim -v works though and brings up vim in the terminal. Any idea why the GUI version doesn't work?
I've looked around online and have found references to an "Insert => Date & Time" capability in Numbers for OSX. But it's not there in my version of Numbers (3.0.1 -- 1483). Has this capability been removed? I've pasted a screenshot of my Insert menu below.
Is there a way to have iTunes store your iPhone/iPad/iPod back up to a different hard drive on a Mac?
Is there a way to disable/lock the Wi-Fi network access on an iPhone 4S? Crazy question, I know. But I got my son an iPhone and do not want him to have an Internet access. I disabled his data through my account with Sprint. But with Wi-Fi he can still get on the Internet when he is within reach of open hotspots (we do not have open Wi-Fi at home).
when I do a search for files of kind CSS I get 2 results when I should have many but if I search for files of kind Cascading Style Sheet, I get all the results except the other 2... What's going on here?? I only noticed this after I changed the default app for opening these files...
Our teacher is teaching use some Data Structures algorithms that are being implemented in C. He uses Visual Studio in class, but I want to be able to run simple programs that we write on Xcode? I've tried to run the code but in XCode 5 the options to do so are greyed out. Besides just insalling XCode, what steps need to be taken so that I can run simple C programs on my mac?
What are some ways to extend lap top battery life on Mavericks? I've heard that disabling notification center via the terminal can help. I've also had a friend tell me that disabling window animations can make a difference; however, the effect from this seems like it wouldn't be noticeable. Are there any other ways? Disable Notification Center Disable Window Animations
I would like to exclude all the .git and .svn folders on my hardrive from the Spotlight index. I know I can manually add them through the GUI but since they are many of them, and often new ones, it would be difficult.
On Retina Macbook Pro I am running Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp on Macbook pro Here is my DPI options(default):
I installed a 120gb SSD today. My optibay currently holds my MBP stock drive (5400 RPM HD 320GB). Since they have different memory sizes, should I put them in raid 0? The only reason why I want raid 0 for convenience. I want to store all my music and photos in the optibay drive, but it seems like there would be a ton of configuration nuances with iTunes and iPhoto. If one drive were to fail, however, then I would lose all my data. Could someone please correct me on this? Any help and instructions are appreciated.
My Macbook battery is essentially dead. It has behaved erratically for the past 1.5 year. In any case I checked the cycle count today and found only 270 something. If I recall correctly, I had much more than this before and I've used the Macbook for almost 5 years with the same battery. I think the cycle count somehow got reduced. Has this happened to anyone else?
Is it possible to transfer my iOS developer profile to another computer if my hardware failed but the hard disk is ok?
I just clean installed mavericks on my mac and local domains i use for web development still work. Surely clean install wipes the host file, so how is this possible? Its not really a problem, i am just wondering how its possible! Current hosts file
I've been using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and Office for Mac 2011. Is there any software or add-on that can be used to open Visio and Project files?
I have an iOS application that has been marked as needing background service (Location Updates). When the app is in the foreground, I see the location arrow in the top status bar. However if I double-click the home button to send my app to background, the location service turns itself off and my app no longer receives location updates. The same happens with Google Maps and Apple Maps apps. I am running iOS 7 on iPhone 4S. How do I ensure that my app receives location updates when running in the background?
So a friend of mine has a video in the "Videos" app under "Home Videos" that was created using iMovie on his Mac. His mac has since been wiped and he's lost the video. It is however still on his iPhone. Is there any way to extract the video from there? I can't see an open in option or anything. The device can't be jail broken due to some MDM software on it. Thanks all!
I have a Verizon iPhone 5c. Is it unlocked so that I can just go to T-Mobile or AT&T prepaid, by just popping in the SIM card?
In OS X 10.8 it is possible to log in via SSH and get access to hardware input devices like microphone and iSight camera. Thus it is possible to remotely record audio and video of other users sitting in front of the machine. I consider this a severe security issue!
I installed the last version of VMware Fusion on my MBP 15″ 2011 and had 2 kernel panics. It restarted well and did it again a few hours later. Now it won't boot.
I want to install Java 7 on my Mac which was updated to Mavericks. I downloaded the jdk package from here and after starting the installer I exactly to this point
I'm using Keynote '09 (I'm also interested by a solution working with the last version of Keynote since I will upgrade if the function is there). I'm making a lot of presenter notes.
Does anyone know how long the battery life is on an Macbook Air with Windows 7?
I was installing Logic Pro X. The installer had to download 2.0GB. As I have slow internet connection, I was cancelling the download and resuming it without problems the last couple of days.
I am set my finder to always show in Column view and with "Arrange By" set to Kind and "Sort By" set to name. The problem is, when I open up my Synology NAS folder, the "Arrange By" has reverted back to None.
Will the Find my iPhone app stop when my iPhone 5s restarts?
After installing Autodesk Smoke, I have two httpd processes running all the time, and I'd like to stop them. When I use sudo killall httpd, they stop and are restarted right away. Activity Monitor shows that the parent process is launchd, but how do I determine which agent or daemon is starting it so I can disable it? launchctl list | grep httpd shows these results:
My phone fell down the stairs and went completely black. A friend of mine who fixes iPhones took it apart and found that the LCD plug had popped out in the fall so he put it back together and it was working fine, except for some reason I lost all my photos. No photos in camera roll, Photo Stream, etc. I have backed up daily. In fact, my phone is set to back up every time its plugged in to the charger.
The weather display in the notification center is a great feature in iOS, and I would love to have it on my mac as well. Is there a technique or app that allows this? Googling for the answer to this question has not turned up much, although there are suggestions that one might be able to kludge something together using Growl.
I recently encountered a person on Skype that I don't know. I've heard about people being able to access your computer remotely. How can I tell if my computer has been compromised?
I can move or delete any of the locations on the list except the one at the top. Help.
Since I installed iOS 7 on my iPhone I can not open mime-attachment.ics (invitation sent from an Outlook email) files in my calendar. Does anyone know what i can do to open these files in my calendar? iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.4
I would like to sync my music library across both my Macs. (one way sync from Machine A to Machine B) I currently already am able to sync across the music itself using rsync, however I would also like to sync the iTunes libraries which consists of the files being synced.
How I can change the default font of Word Office for Mac 2011?
I have a MacBook with OS X 10.6.8 and I am getting "no data received" on Google Chrome, "the connection was reset" on Firefox and "cant open the page" on Safari. Google search engine works on Chrome and Firefox but nothing on Safari. Scanned the system with my antivirus and found no issues. Cleared the cookies and cache on all browsers and main system with no change. Mac Office did an update prior to this problem but can't seem to get out of this.
I would like to be able to use GIMP as a MacOS X Service. That is, I want to be able to select an image in a document, choose Services->Edit Image in GIMP, bring the image into GIMP, make changes, save it out, and have the image updated.
I want to upgrade the RAM on my Macbook Pro 4,1 A1260 (Early 2008). Can I just use any RAM of the compatible "type", or does it need special magic RAM because it's a Macbook? Also, is there any reason I simply must use two identical sticks of RAM rather than one from Company A and another from Company B?
I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch and something really weird happened. Earlier today it worked perfectly fine, a few hourslater I tried to turn it on and it was stuck at the startup. It has a little progress bar and the spinning wheel. I have tried the safe boot but it won't work, either.
I have older excel files saved as xls. When I open them in Excel 2011 on my Mac with OS 10.8, I get all of the formatting but no data in the cells. This happens whether I double-click to open or open from within Excel. Files saved as xlsx are fine. I also tried reloading Microsoft Office, but that doesn't seem to work. I would appreciate any help. Thanks
I want to change Input Sources shortcuts Shift + Option - Select the previous input source Shift + Control - Select next source in input menu
I installed zsh, and I'm using vi. I want to copy a line from vi to somewhere else. How may I do this?
The keybing CMD-C and CMD-point work in Qwerty keybinding in OSX's Matlab, but not with Dvorak keybinding in OSX's Matlab. There must be a bug in Matlab, which is causing this.
I work with a Document Management System that has my Outlook email archive stored as .msg files... which is nice and all, but I can't get my iPad to actually open them up properly. A search through the App Store results in two apps that claim to support this: MSG File Viewer ($0.99) - doesn't seem to associate itself properly with .MSG files in Safari/SkyDrive/etc. Klammer ($0.99 + $0.99 in-app purchase) - shows up in Open With... dialog, but shows up empty in the app.
I need to install .ipa file to my iPhone simulator. I tried to change the extension .ipa to .zip and extracted it. And I got the Payload folder and moved the application inside to my iPhone simulators applications folder found at: /Library/Application\ Support/iPhone Simulator/6.1/Applications/.
I'm on 10.9, and I had been using internet sharing successfully again for the first time since Lion. Today though, it just decided to stop working again. Network layout: The internet works fine on the Mac Pro, but it is no longer forwarding the proper DHCP settings to the MacBook.
I bought my iMac a month ago and it was already set up correctly. I had to run an update on Mavericks and that was it.. After a while "OS X Mavericks" appeared on the App Store, and i can download it..
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 on OS X Mavericks via Bootcamp. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2010 model. I'm running Bootcamp assistant 5.1.0 (473). Unfortunately, I am getting the following error message when the installer tries to download Windows support software:
I tried to check my yahoo email this morning and my Safari asks me to either upgrade or continue without upgrading. I am using a Mac PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11 I clicked on continue without upgrading and the screen does not change. I restarted and then clicked on Upgrade and the same result....screen never moves to another?
Mavericks has a TextExpander-like feature that lets me create text shortcuts for long phrases. (When I type "ttys," for example, it replaces it with "talk to you soon.") The feature works beautifully -- except in Chrome, where it won't work at all. Any advice on how to make it work?
I have a MacBook Air with OS X 10.8.5 and a Samsung cell phone with Android. I use the Wi-Fi heavily on both (I travel a lot, and only use Wi-Fi when I'm out of the US) — often in cafes — and I rarely ever have a problem. Wi-Fi is usually perfect and easy in any cafe.
There has been a lot written in the last day or two about iBeacon. Are there settings I can tweak so that I'm not tracked in stores I won't receive messages about products in my vicinity?
This has become a large issue as I have recently begun taking the metro to work at a new job and cannot stream for most of the time underground. My data usage has increased to near the throttling limit during last month and that's been a contributing factor.
On OS X, I want to show an always-foregrounded, transparent image while working on the application underneath it, for tracing purposes. As mentioned in this other stackexchange question, the solution is the application called afloat.
I'm considering purchasing an Apple TV. I understand that I need to include movies in iTunes in order to play them on the device. On my iMac, my movies are linked in iTunes over a shared drive to my NAS — when I play video, does the file stream from my NAS, to my iMac, and then to the Apple TV? Or is the Apple TV intelligent to understand the remotely linked file? I'd like to avoid the unnecessary bandwidth on my network.
I installed Mavericks on an external SSD drive and now want to point my music, pictures and video to ones on my previous drive. I created a link using ln command, a link was created. I launched iTunes, it correctly determined the working directory and was able to play my music. BUT in Finder the icon of iTunes directory (~/Music/iTunes) was like a blank document with an arrow while original folder has a customised icon. Also I tried creating an alias for that folder - and icon became just a regular folder icon. What is it?
In some pages, there are (still) links marked target="_blank". Safari opens such link in a new tab. How to have Safari open such link in the same tab ?
I have the hyper key setup working on my rMBP 13" terrifically, but why I connect to my Apple wireless keyboard (Bluetooth) none of the hyper key combinations work (it doesn't send the modifier). I have caps lock set to be disabled in System Preferences, and if I try it on my MBP right beside me the commands work, but they don't on my external keyboard. Why is this? For the record it seems to be sending escape instantly, and not waiting for the key up event.
I have deleted the Lucida Grande font from my system, and system bars and menus are full of weird characters. I cannot use my MBA properly. How can I restore system fonts without losing my data?
I want to create a simlink called /home, that points to /Users. The command sudo ln -s Users home (executed in /) should work; at least, I've demonstrated that the syntax is correct by creating a similar simlink in my home directory) but it's not working well in root. I somehow managed to create an actual directory, that now can't be removed ("resource is busy"). Then I cd'ed into /home and tried to run
In GarageBand 10.0.1 (2013), I frequently will get "stuck notes" (i.e., a certain key will continue playing as if held down when it is not) when playing my Akai MPK 25 connected via USB. I have noticed that GarageBand receives the "note off" signal, because when recording and a stuck note happens, the sound is not recorded onto the score or registered on the track. Furthermore, the "stuck note" stops if I press the "play" transport control, even if there is nothing in the song.
Does anyone know how to change WhatsApp notification & SMS tone for iOS 7 (on iPhone 5S)? I would like to use a ringtone such as Chinese music uploaded from phone or apps instead of using the default tone for WhatsApp.
iMac (model 2009, purchased in late 2012) sometimes becomes extremely slow. I've opened the "System monitor" and discovered that there is a huge lack of RAM.
I've got an mp4 video file. I'd like to take the audio from that video, and create an audio file. The output encoding could be AAC or MP3, it wouldn't make any difference. Which applications would be easiest to do this, and what steps should I take?
I have a mac: OSX 10.9 the "actual size" choice is greyed out under View on Safari. Zoom in and zoom out and zoom text only are available. How can I enable the "actual size" choice?
Aliases deal with this just fine but as stated above, I have to stick with symlinks. Is there any way to mass-edit these symlinks? I just need to change the name of the drive in the path. The old location was for example: /Volumes/Old Drive/path/to/file the new one is: /Volumes/New Drive/path/to/file
This is an additional question that began with this one - How to edit Symbolic Links in OS X? Now that I know how to edit the path symlinks point to, I'm trying to figure out how to do this recursively for any broken symlink. I'm a PHP guy, so this CLI stuff is somewhat foreign to me... There seems to be a few specific elements to this, namely: Identify a broken symlink and retrieve its location Get the old, now-incorrect, destination for the symlink Construct the new correct path for the symlink to point to Edit the symlink The first is fairly easy:
Since Mac OS X Lion introduced the Resume feature, where applications save their open windows and document states, compatible applications have stored their window states to disk in the directory ~/Library/Saved Application State, in directories like com.apple.finder.savedState. However in my Saved Application State directory, there is no com.apple.Preview.savedState. When I launch Preview.app, it does remember all its open windows and their states, but I cannot find where the state is stored on disk. It does not appear in the usual location. Can you help me find where Preview.app is saving its window states?
I was having problems with USB devices, so I rebooted my iMac (late 2009 model running OS X 10.7.5). Before rebooting, I turned off wifi. When I logged in again, System Preferences showed the date set to the year 2000. I use the "set date and time automatically" feature, so once I re-enabled wifi, the correct date was set automatically. But shouldn't my iMac retain the date and time? Does this indicate a problem with my machine?
For special needs, I must mount BOOTCAMP partition as read-writable. I also add BOOTCAMP partition into Spotlight Privacy because it needs not to be indexed. But once every few days, Mac forgets about it and BOOTCAMP disappears from Spotlight Privacy. Is there any workaround?
According to this answer over at SuperUser, OS X's terminal app should use Alt+Mouse Click to send mouse events to applications running in the terminal. I tried that with the Midnight Commander, but it does not work. I am running OS X Mavericks. Is there any way to enable mouse support in the terminal app, short of switching to iterm2 or something like that?
My phone was stolen last night. I made sure it was in Lost Mode in iCloud and it was immediately in Offline status when I open iCloud. I am positive the thief switched it off. Now I am 100% certain the Find my iPhone option was turned on on my iPhone, but will the "Lost Mode" be of any help if it was not turned on on the iPhone? Would it be showing "Offline" if I did not turn on the option?
I am using Mail.app using an imap-account (not Gmail). Just as it should, the app created an 'Archive' folder where it put all the messages in on which I used the archiving function. I was browsing this Archive folder when, out of habit, I used the archiving function again on one of the conversations. This caused the conversation to disappear and I cannot find it anywhere: Not in any folder, the trash, anywhere on the imap server or the Mail.app or its cache.
The new version of iCloud Control Panel for Windows (3.0) allows syncing bookmarks with Chrome, Firefox and IE. I was wondering, is this syncing bidirectional? As in, if I bookmark something on Chrome on Windows, is this new bookmark going to be pushed to iCloud and Safari on iOS and OS X?
I recently updated my iPad and now if I go to You Tube (i.e., youtube.com) using Safari and try to make a video full screen the navigation bars etc... still take up about 1/5th of the screen at the top. Is there a way to get it to show the video on the entire screen? (Note I am not using the You Tube app and I would prefer a solution that doesn't require using it)
My MacBook Pro has a 1 TB drive with 750 GB used. I keep receiving a message from Time Machine saying I don't have enough room to backup and to remove files. The Time Machine disk is 1 TB as well and I'm at a loss to see what to do.
I've setup Time Machine Backup services on Mavericks Server. I want to backup the backup server itself using Time Machine, but to the folder that I setup "Time Machine Backups" where all the other backups are being stored, instead of backing up to the root drive. The only option I have when I select a disk using the server's Time Machine configuration is the drive itself, and not the "Time Machine Backups" folder I see from remote machines. Is what I'm trying to do possible?
I have two macs, one with Mountain Lion and one with Mavericks. Do I need to put Mavericks on the other computer to be able to properly transfer the photo libraries?
When I connect my TV to my laptop, the Dock starts to auto hide. Is there a way to keep the dock in its before I connect an external display? Also, when go to  > Dock, the auto hiding is off...
I changed the IP address via System Preferences > Network > TCP/IP > configure IPv4 Using DHCP with manual address to 11.11.11.11. I then switched back to Using DHCP and clicked 'Renew DHCP Lease'.
I've seen a few of these icons before, such as the cursive "L"; however, I can't figure out which applications they belong to.
When I try to open LibreOffice, I get the following error: Either another instance of LibreOffice is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked.
As the titles indicates, I would like to search a file in a particular folder, and its subfolders, through Spotlight. Is it possible to do that in Spotlight? If so, how can that be done?
For years, I've enjoyed the feature in OS X Font Book where you can type in custom text and scroll through all the fonts to preview it. Now on Mavericks, when I try to do this, it only works for single-font families. All font families containing multiple fonts (e.g. bold, italic, etc.) will only show the default sample text. How can I change this behavior to be like older OS X versions, where you can see the custom text for all fonts? I'm hoping there's a plist somewhere that can be edited.
Ok, so I've choose "white" theme while creating a presentation. Can I somehow add slides from black theme? Or can I change theme of my presentation?
Continue from this topic, I ended up with: but I am wonder that: is there any way to set HOME variable dynamically? (instead of fixed code - /Users/quanta) I have tried to add an EnableGlobbing key to the plist: then changed the value of HOME variable to the tilde:
I own a PNY - StorEDGE 128GB and I remember that it was initially recognized as a fixed/permanent disk like a hard disk. I reformatted it to add encryption but now the disk is shown as a removable device. This keeps tools like SkyDrive from using it as a target. Can I set the volume type somehow?
I read online that you can delete everything in the itunes>media>downloads folder which I have, restarted, and still when I open iTunes a black download button pops up and when I click it, it tells me that I have all these pending downloads. When I click to see what they are, it automatically tries to download all the episodes.
I have a netatalk AFP share on a case-sensitive Linux system, which contains two files whose names differ only in case, test/a.txt and test/A.txt. Copying the folder containing these files in Finder to my case-insensitive drive only gives an error The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “A.txt” already exists.
I'm coming from android which offers tons of keyboards and options. iOS seems like it has no customization to keyboards. Are there apps that offer a different layout or that edit the existing keyboard? I like being able to see the key I will get when I long press a key, etc.
there is a installd icon in the setting->accessibility->privacy. it can be seen in the screenshot Any ideas what it is for?
There are two ways to rename a file in the Finder which is already selected - press return, or click on it again, then wait a second. I find that the second option leads to a lot of unintentionally renamed files. The problem is, I might click the file when it is already selected to get focus on that window, then hit spacebar to bring it up in quickview. Unbeknownst to me (since it is behind the quickview popup dialog), the Finder has switched to rename mode. When I hit the spacebar again (to close the quickview), nothing happens, because in the background the file is in the process of being renamed to " ". Any action I take from here to get rid of the quickview dialog will commit the rename. I probably will not know for some time until I wonder either what happened to that file or why I have a file with named " .pdf". So, is there a way to turn off this troublesome "feature" and stick with just the return key to rename?
Playing midi files in either Chrome or Firefox used to be easy: it just worked by invoking Quicktime. However, Quicktime stopped supporting midi after version 7.6.6. After upgrading, the same websites that used to work now fail. I installed the old version (so I have two versions of Quicktime installed), and I can now play midi files locally on my computer.
I remember the times when I got my macbook pro with 4GB of RAM: I could launch Firefox, VirtualBox and Firefox inside a VirtualBox and it worked reasonably well. Two years later, when I start the system and have no programs launched, 3.99 out of 4GB of RAM is used; and launching any tiny program, making ⌘ Cmd+Tab or a new tab in a browser is a huge pain for Mac OS X: I have to wait for dozens of seconds for any little action to complete. However, if I sum up the "Memory" column in Activity Monitor, it would barely come up to 700 MB; Swap is low, File Cache does not exceed 300 MB.
For example, I will set Layout to 2 pages per sheet and set Duplex Printing and Margins to print two-sided. "Show presets" shows the setting were saved as expected, but when I exit and re-enter to print and select this preset (show preset still shows correct settings), the duplex printer setting won't take affect. That is, when I print it will only print single-side, despite 2-side duplex being enabled. The layout will be 2 pages per sheet, as expected. If I manually set the printer settings as I want and print (without saving it as a preset) the document will print with the setting I chose.
Cisco IPSec seems to have no way to store the password of the connection permanently. I have found on the web some solutions for the Mountain Lion release, but none for OS-X Mavericks. Is it impossible, or has someone found an answer and didn't post it?
Occasionally, the iPhone hangs and requires a restart when trying to switch between apps by double-clicking the home button. Mostly happens when in landscape mode, but yesterday that phone hanged while its in portrait. Not sure what is causing this but does anyone else experience this ? How can I fix this problem ?
I'm new to Mac (using Mavericks) i thought to install zsh. Do anyone has a recommendation for a useful shell for mac?
I'm looking for a clipboard manager app/tool for Mac (Mavericks) that does not use any cloud service for saving/syncing data. I mean that it doesn't save my content on any cloud server, but on my machine locally only. Is there any?
Using an iPhone 4 and a original power supply (a1357) + cable (usb) i am not able to charge the phone. However connecting my phone to the pc (windows) it will be recognized and charge. This behaviour occured after i updated to iOS 7. I tried using another cable and another power supply (the 2nd is not original but certified for apple products).
The newest Microsoft Remote Desktop app (v 8.0.24255) refuses to connect to a terminal server I use - username and password are accepted but then the server reports 'The requested session access is denied'. Whereas the old Remote Desktop app I was using (v 2.1.1) still works just fine... Any ideas on how to find the problem?
Update for people who stumble upon this now: By now I'm using Chromecast. For my case it does the very same thing and it's cheaper, more handy, is hidden behind the TV (invisible so to say) etc. It streams YouToube or Google Music/Movies and I can control it with my Android phone/mac. If you have a movie file, you can stream it to it (1080p, no problem) with the 'Videostream for Google Chromecast' extension for Google Chrome. The mirroring performance (enabled through the Google Chrome browser) is.. ok? A little worse than Apple TV I think, but it's ok for presentations, or showing pictures etc.
Does anyone know what is the precision screwdriver to use in opening a 13-inch Macbook Pro (Late 2011)? Need to make sure before I head to the hardware shop. Thanks.
I tried creating a screencast on my OSX 10.8.5 MacBook pro, using QuickTime. This has worked before, but when I try it now I get:
A new feature in Mavericks in snippets. I use snippets on my iPhone and these are syncing to my Mac. How can I stop the snippets syncing to my Mac?
If I am replying to an email in Folder "TEST", how do I get a reply to automatically go to the Folder "TEST" as opposed to the Sent folder? This helps with productivity so that I don't have to move the responses to the folders they are in. If the message responding to resides in the inbox, the response will go to the Sent folder and can be moved to another folder at another time.
I was wondering if there was any way to mute my macbook whenever I physically close it, so if there was anything playing prior to closing it that it does not continue to make noise when I open it later. Seems like a weird request, but I have a bad habit of forgetting to pause my music/youtube when I leave for class, than when I open my laptop in class it disrupts the class. The easy answer would be, "just pause your stuff", but I thought it would be nice if there was something that could accomplish this.
Is Boot Camp 5 (as provided with OS X Mavericks) still using the hybrid GPT/MBR scheme? Since it explicitly supports only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and 8, it is possible that they've jettisoned this ugliness. That would be a good explanation for the lack of support for Windows XP and Vista as well as all 32-bit versions. I don't have a lot of confidence here, but maybe all the online tutorials are just old. Has anyone actually tried it?
I have synced my photos from iPhone 5 to an iMac (running Mavericks). Now I would like to remove the photos from the phone but I'm not sure how the syncing works. Will the photos stay on the iMac or will the removed photos be removed from the computer when the next sync occurs?
I restored my iPod-touch 4 data to my new iPod-touch 5, and the calendar was looking good, until I realize it was not syncing. I tried deleting my Google Account and creating again, twice, with no success (now the calendars and events are not even showing in the app). Also, I tried both Google account and CalDAV account, but none of them are even downloading my calendars. I use two-step authentication, and I'm using app generated passwords each time I try to add a new account to sync. The GMail sync is working properly, only the Calendar have some problem.
Currently if I forget to unmount the external drives, my Mac chastises me later with the error "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off."
I now have a list of over twenty serious flaws with iOS7. It is driving me nuts that this new iOS is so riddles with flaws it should never have been released in this state, and Steve Jobs wouldn't have permitted it so. And this site just helped me resolve the mystery of why all my contacts vanished this morning. (thank you!) when the iOS decided to suddenly and for no apparent reason turn off contact syncing sometime overnight. I've hesitated to do a blog post as I'm sure no one at Apple would read my blog though it is a high trafficked blog in my market and would certainly hurt Apple sales, which isn't my desire, I'm a mac fan boy - but frustrated with all the problems and it seeming like after 4 updates, they aren't fixing them.
The version of Mail.app that comes with Mavericks has this cool message control bezel (below, in the orange box) under the email header in every message allowing you to delete, reply, reply-all, or forward the message when you hover on the line:  It's great, but I archive all my mail. Can I change the trash can button (pink arrow) to the archive box, like in my toolbar?
I just replaced my 17″ MBP with a brand new 15″ rMBP. I still need to do a lot of Windows work, therefore I have Windows 8.1 installed (bootcamp and parallels). I use my external Thunderbolt display at native resolution with the lowest scaling.
I have a disk that was partitioned in two. The first partition was 1.8TB and is called TIME MACHINE. The second one was 1.2 TB and I call it TOSHIBA 1.2TB. I would like to reduce the first partition to 1.2 TB and increase the second one to 1.8 TB.
My school has a bunch of Macs that are always logged in as Guest and have very annoying default settings (natural scrolling, no secondary mouse button, etc), so I am trying to write a terminal script that will change all the settings to my liking. One thing I would like the script to do is set right-clicking on the mouse to the Secondary Button; for some dumb reason, both the left and right buttons are set to Primary Button by default. Is there any way for me to do this from Terminal?
I created an alias to display permissions in octet format: I also set added this code to display ls in a colored format:
I have it setup so that my son only has 1 hour of computer use per day. He commonly needs extensions, and I think the only solution to do it while I am away is through terminal. Is there a way to extend the remaining time via a terminal command? Please note that I am only looking at answers through terminal not other 3rd party software. Thanks.
I am trying to give a flash application access to accessibility features. The plug in lives in Macintosh HD > Library > Internet Plug-ins. I cannot drag and drop this into the Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility. Adding firefox app doesnt seem to work even though the plug in seems like it should be a child process. In activity monitor when the particular flash app is running the process name is "Firefox Plugin Process (Shockwave Flash)".
When I send email through Mail app using my Yahoo Business mail account the sent mail is only stored locally and not on the server. How do I make the sent mail stored on the server as well?
Somehow, my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.2) has created .XMP files for some images on my Camera Roll, and these .XMP files are causing import errors in both Picasa 3.9 and Windows XP Scanner and Camera Wizard. I have determined that this seems related to a set of 4 iPhone screenshots I took which I then used the Photos app to Edit > Rotate the orientation of these screenshots since for some reason they came out wrong. Here you can see the 4 tan-background images of a gas mileage app I use:
My iPhone 5 64GB 6.1.2 has a malfunctioning camera sensor so I'm getting a warranty replacement. However I badly want to avoid iOS 7. Presumably, any refurbished iPhone 5's at this point (December 2013) are all going to have iOS 7. Since my phone has never had iOS 7 and all my backups are 6.1.2, is there going to be any way for me to restore my backup onto my new (replacement) phone EXACTLY as it was? (The ultimate goal is for it to feel as though the whole thing never happened). Since the 64GB model is quite rare, is it possible their old stock still has iOS 6?
When I setup an email account in Mail seems like Mail insists on downloading the tens of thousands of emails I have between now and years way back. How do I tell it to sync only in a specific time range like 3 months for example? Thanks
I have a first generation MacBook Air. I plugged in a USB memory stick, which is actually a 2 GB MP3 player but serves as a memory stick as well. Finder never shows the content of the memory stick. It will show the content of a USB drive I've got. It did complain when I unplugged it the first time ("unplug it correctly" or similar). I disconnected the USB stick after that, although I have connected it again a few times just to see if unplugging it correctly solves anything.
I didn't expect to play the newest action games like this, but stream videos to it in decent quality (YouTube, IMDb etc.) without using some native App on Apple TV.
Pardon my paranoia; but with an 80,000-strong[#] global work force, one would think the need to cover important security guidelines for users would easily be met with each new OS X release. Yet a glance at apple's security page reveals that the last update was for 10.6 Snow Leopard, a long, long time ago for internet age. So where are the security config guide updates for Lion, Mountain Lion & Mavericks?
As we all know about the Microsoft Certified Professional Programs. I need to ask is there any institute offering online certification for iOS Professional Developer. I have visited Standford University, as it is offering a course but I could not get it that is it like MCP or not?
I'm trying to use an SSH tunnel for a web proxy. I've done this sort of thing before (for games.) I fire up firefox and tell it to proxy through localhost 12345 for everything. Then, ssh user@host -L 12345:localhost:8080 -N. When I try to use the browser, I get "connection refused." I enabled all the flags in sshd_config and restarted. No idea how to proceed. HALP!
I recently had the above error which I fixed using DiskWarrior (after unsuccessfully fiddling with fsck in single-user mode). I'm just wondering:
How to check which DNS server was used to resolve particular hostname within VPN network? I am using company-provided proprietary VPN client and want to see DNS server's IP address, but
I would like to know if ibooks app on Mavericks is sandboxed. I might read some unsecure ebooks (from internet).
I have purchased iPhone 5 CDMA handset model no A1429 and its an unlocked one which i wish to use in India with Tata CDMA sim, please let mme know the activation process for the same as there is no sim slot for CDMA, some configuration method is required to activate it.
How does one receive notification from notifyd (or equiv) when the display configuration changes? My goal is to fire off some daemons when connected to my thunderbolt display "dock". Any example scripts gratefully accepted. Thanks.
I get a Trace/BPT trap: 5 error when using the open command: Any suggestions how I can narrow down what is causing this? I understand from my earlier question, that it has to do with not finding a dynamic library - but which one and why is it not finding the library? Fron the GUI, everything works fine, but is present from termnal as well as iTerm. System: Macbook Pro Retina, Maverick Any suggestions? ADDITIONAL INFO: and so I can't see anything missing?
However, when I try to copy files to one particularly volume I get prompted by Finder to enter my username and password. After I've entered my OSX user credentials I get an error stating the following: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.
Is there a way to trigger the lid close action programmatically with a script or through terminal? I am testing this by placing a small magnet near the SD slot on my MacBook Pro.
My daughter has my old iPad, and we share the same Apple ID, for convenience with purchasing. However at present we also have a shared Contacts list on the two iPads. It would be better to have separate Contact lists, to go with our separate email accounts. Is this possible? And if so, how?
I am running Mac 10.8.5 on a 2008 MacBook Pro, I have my time machine save to an external hard drive. Recently I have been unable to back up my machine because it gets hung up on 'Preparing Back Up' I have seen it chug away for 5 hours preparing that thing, I'm begging to think that it might be broken. I have gone into the external hard drive, and deleted the .inProgress then tried to Back up, didn't work. I have also tried to delete the old back ups, I say tried because while the delete dialogue comes up, they don't go anywhere. I have had to do this in standard finder view because the Starfield freezes when I try to go into that. So my questions are these, what is wrong with my Time Machine? Can it be fixed? Should I just reformat my external hard drive and restart the Time machine? EDIT: The logs for the inProgress files were empty, there is no latest and the last one that worked, from october said: EDIT: Result when trying to manually delete the .inProgress files.
After I have installed some programs I can't find them to open them. I have looked in… the Applications folder the Utilities folder About this Mac → More info → System report → Software → Installations as another user explained, and I can I see the program but I cannot open it from this window. The program I am specifically looking for is called Google Voice and Video, if that matters?
I just shared one of my custom iTunes Radio stations to a friend via email. What happens when they access it in iTunes? Are they getting a read-only instance of my station, a read-write instance, or a one-time copy of my station at the time they first access it?
Outlook for Mac 2011 does not include an "ignore conversation" feature out of the box. Is there a way to simulate that with other functionality (e.g. categories, rules, plugins, etc)?
I am trying to use automator to take a screen shot of a specified area. Though I can only find the option of taking a screenshot of a windows or the entire screen. Is there a option to to this with automator or with apple script?
I replaced the hard drive in my MacBook Pro (mid-2010) with a SSD one. I installed Mac OS X 10.9. At first the installer wasn't able to find the new SSD drive, because of a error: "SerialATAPI device reconfiguration did not complete successfully." Following a friend's advice I reset the SMC, and the installer worked perfectly. Now I have a working system, but every time I boot it I have to do a SMC reset, otherwise the system is not booting, and I see a blinking folder instead of the usual Apple. That means that: "no bootable device has been found" *=URL=* Is there anyway to have my system booting without a SMC reset before every boot?
I really need to be able to access contact groups in the Contacts app on my iOS 7 device. How can I do this? In the side bar, all that is available is "All GMail", nothing else. However, under iCloud, there are several groups. Suggestions?
Every couple days on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7, I notice an app icon is slightly grayed-out. Here is an example with the clock app:
Is it possible to send notifications to my Mountain Lion desktop when my iPhone receives a phone call?
There are many screen capture tools, but every tool I've tried expects from its user to click and then drag the area to capture. Is there a tool that allows me to use the keyboard for both operations, such that I can do precise captures in a relaxed manner - without holding anything? I do not want to capture just windows, but any rectangular region. Example of usage: press hotkey to enter capture mode move cursor (cross, loupe, whatever) around using mouse/pad and keyboard. when I find a good starting place (top-left corner), click or press some key to enter marking state
I have upgraded my MBP to Mavericks and got the system to how I like etc. Tt has since backed up using Time Machine onto an external HD. Now it slipped my mind that I would like to have my e-mails on my new system from Mountain Lion. I thought that a simple Enter Time Machine and then restoring the selected files that I need to make this happen would work, but upon entering time machine I cannot get into my ML backups on Mavericks. Is there any way that I can get to my Mail files?
I have 20 iPads that I'm managing with Configurator. I have purchased 20 licenses each for two apps through the Volume Purchase Program. I have Prepared tablets with no trouble. On the Supervise panel I assign the paid app to the devices and apply. 19/20 ipads complete successfully.
I have a Retina Macbook Pro and have just received 6 x Voyager Mini USB 3.0 64GB drives (as gifts for colleagues). I've tried 3 of the drives and while they work in Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.3), they do not come up in Finder or Disk Util on OS X. I've tried them in several machines: 1) MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013 (MacbookPro10,2) - OS X 10.8 5 2) MacBook Pro (MacbookPro8,1) - OS X 10.6.8 3) MacBook Pro (MacbookPro5,5) - OS X 10.8.3
My Mac Book Pro was purchased in 2010. Using a Mini Display Port to HDMI cable yields no sound. "System Preferences" "Sound" "Sound Effects" "Play Sound effects through" has no TV icon. Can you help.
I upgraded my Xcode 4.6.3 to Xcode 5 on app store but when the upgraded is finish and open my Xcode it is still Xcode 4.6.3, it should be Xcode 5? What is the problem here.
I have an application without keyboard shortcuts where I have to do a recursive work, in practice I have to insert fields with keyboard and click the mouse button over the OKbutton so I have to switch between keyboard and mouse very often only to click without moving the mouse. I know that in System Preference->Acessibility I can enable mouse keys but if I have to press altfive times before I can use the mouse and then I can't no more type with the keyboard until I disable the mouse keys I lose more time then the first solution.
Can I connect a Dell XPS running Windows 8.1 to a Thunderbolt Display? Based on reading other questions and answers on your site it seems that this is possible. When I plug in the Thunderbolt to the Dell XPS via the Dells thunderbolt sized female input i get no response and am not able to "find" the Thunderbolt in the Display controls area.
I wanted to use screencapture to take a screenshot of all monitors from within a script, but this only seems to capture the main monitor. How can I use screencapture or any other tool callable from the command line to capture all monitors?
I'm developing a plugin for Hubot (a scriptable chatbot) to take a URL, and display it on a Mac Mini connected to a TV in my office. However I'm not actually sure how feasible this is. Hubot is able to send messages to APIs using HTTP. Is there a known method of allowing a Mac to listen for requests over HTTP, and then run a command (an applescript or shell script perhaps)?
I use Sparrow as my email client. Recently, I sent an email with some wacky font sizes. Now every time I compose a message, the default size is too small. Even after I fix it, it reverts to the (small) size if I move the cursor to a new spot.
Is there any possibility to create a unattended installation of an pkg package? E.g. creating a mpkg and running a script which installed the package via console and installer.
Facetime and Messages have started asking me for my username and password at seemingly random moments. I don't use either application and have not added them to my login's autostart programs. This is happening on 10.8.5.
I am doing a proposal for new network where the Macs will be networked, OS X Mavericks + server app Is there any solution to disable external storage USB/Thunderbolt/Firewire/CD/ Bluetooth? Preferably for a user account. The point is if the company cannot control external storage then all the Firewalls and other security measures will be rendered useless. Surprisingly even commercial vendors providing employee monitor software that will send reports of what data has been copied do not have an option to block this copying before it happens.
Long story short, I'm likely going to have my iPhone 5 replaced today. I want to ensure that my messages are transfered to the new phone (or at least saved in some way - it could even be a text file for all I care).
I have a program which, when deleting any app, also deletes the extra files and junk as well; including .plist files. Normally this works great though, this time around I've had a few files which won't allow me to empty the trash. I get the following when I click on "Empty Trash": The operation can’t be completed because the item “com.justinmind.prototyperfree.plist” is in use. The operation can’t be completed because the item “com.marketcircle.Billings3.plist” is in use. The operation can’t be completed because the item “com.opendns.osx.DNSCrypt-Menubar.plist” is in use. The operation can’t be completed because the item “hewgill.com.Stack-Exchange-Notifier.plist” is in use. I tried the following without success: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.justinmind.prototyperfree.plist and launchctl unload /Users/myname/.Trash/com.justinmind.prototyperfree.plist
For the past 6 weeks, 2-3 times a week my two-year-old iPhone 4S (with no replacement parts) has crashed in the middle of use. I get a black screen with a spinner, and then it powers down. After switching back on manually it seems to be fine until the next crash. I've deliberately not upgraded to iOS 7 (running 6.1.1 since Feb 2013) as I want to try to get another 6 months or so out of this device, and don't want to worry about possible slowness / battery problems with an older device (although I'm not after advice about whether those problems are likely), as I'm already getting pretty poor battery life. A full restore via iTunes, home/lock button resets and all the usual voodoo haven't stopped the crashes. As I've not changed anything major (the OS or my usage habits) I'm wondering: is battery age or the general age of the hardware (although I don't s'pose many other parts degrade over time) likely to be causing this? could it be all the apps that've been upgraded for iOS 7 have intro
I have an iPhone 4s on iOS 7. My lock (sleep/wake) button has been broken for months now and I've been using the assisted touch service to lock my phone screen ever since.
I need a way to securely wipe guest accounts accounts off of my machine. On OSX, guests are automatically deleted on logout, with this deletion being done using the "RM" command. I need a way to alter this to either the secure form of "RM" (RM -p I believe?) or to use "SRM" instead.
Yesterday I dropped my iPad 3 but luckily the screen did not crack. However the screen is now black and will not turn on. I can still here sounds from the iPad. How can I fix this? What I tried: Charging it Resetting it (Home+Power) Shutting it off
I'd like to create an event in iCal and either 1) save it to multiple calendars, such as create an iCloud event and have it save simultaneously to another calendar, or 2) upon creating an iCloud calendar event, have it automatically copied to a different calendar. This is more or less the same thing, but makes one think about it in different ways.
So starting in Lion, you have been able to enter accents by simply holding down certain keys and selecting your accent. However, in Chrome when I hold down on a key it enters a second one: For instance, if I were trying to type état, it would come out as eétat; an extra e would be entered for no reason. Is there any way to fix this?
I am trying to make a calendar in iPhoto '09 (8.1.2) in OS X 10.8.5, using the Picture Calendar theme, and it has decided to give December a vertical (sometimes called "portrait" by the unwashed) layout, and give November a horizontal one. December vertical
I recently had my computer brought to the the Genius Bar, and they installed a copy of OS X Snow Leopard onto my computer. However, I was previously running Lion. So I went over to the Mac App Store to try and reinstall Lion, and it keeps telling me that the item I've requested is not available in the U.S. Store. Is there any way I can resolve the issue? I've tried switching stores and had no luck.
My iPad mini only has wifi and so I would usually tether 3G connection from my iPhone 4S. In fact, I tether connection from my iPhone to my other devices too such as my laptop.
I have an iMac on which i have installed Windows 7 32-bit. I have used Bootcamp version 4.0.4033. I have done it with the Apple tech support person. My built-in microphone doesn't work in Windows. I set it up correctly, according to specs in the Windows help. I realized that it doesn't work when I tried using Skype. Could you please help me figure this out?
This problem has been brought up in the Apple discussion forum, but with no success. It is two related problems that have cropped up in the Mail application in Mavericks (OS X v10.9): First, there is no longer a "view in plain text" option for viewing mail messages: *=URL=* Second, the Mail app does not correctly word wrap messages: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23566666#23566666
Not sure how to ask this but this problem has troubled me for so long. I'd long been a DOS/Windows user until about 12 years ago when Mac OS X first came out I turned to the Mac, and stayed here ever since. I'm 32 so I basically grew up using text-based/command-line UI, starting from DOS 3.1 when 3.5" floppy disks weren't even supported. So I'm pretty comfortable using command line UI no problem. But the thing is, since I came to OS X, I've never really understood how this OS works.
I have a MacBook Pro that has the Thunderbolt hardware which means it should be able to support EthernetAVB. I have done a search and found the command to enable it at the website Manual Pagez. The command it outlines is avbdeviced and then I place --list-interfaces after it to have it list the devices that can work with EthernetAVB. When I run the command in terminal (either as sudo or just plain) even after going up to root I receive a response like this I believe that the system has everything installed as I have a directory called Macintosh HD:Library:Audio:Plug-Ins:HAL:AppleAVBAudio.driver:Contents:MacOS:AppleAVBAudio Is there a step I am missing or how do I enable the AVB feature? The more formal information about the system: System Version: OS X 10.9 (13A603) Kernel Version: Darwin 13.0.0 Boot Volume: Macintosh HD Boot Mode: Normal
Dumb question but if you have the same apps on two different iPads with the same account will deleting one also delete it from 2nd iPad?
How do I allow a program have run access on my guest account? I am running on a Mac Book pro, I am also running mavericks operating system.
my computer had to be restored to factory setting and i had a ton of music on it. Well i backed my ipod up to my computer, because it said it would have a complete back up on my computer. For anyone who has done this, where could i find it? or what was yours under?
I got advice to check if an iTunes app sends data to the cloud using this command line Can someone please explain how this works? How does the pipeline work here?
I use an iPad Air with iOS 7.0.3. Today I changed the notification settings of the GMail app.
I wanted to see if I could also have Ubuntu on my Macbook alongside the usual OSX. Now, a year later, I want to remove the Ubuntu and the space associated with it on the hard drive. That is, my hd is partitioned into two separate spaces. My question is, if I want back the space that Ubuntu took, must I reformat and delete everything on my Mac?
the automatically share screenshots with Dropbox does not work for me in 10.9. I’m not sure what to do, already installed the latest version of Dropbox
Read on numerous forums that you could reinstall OS X by holding down cmd + R keys. However, this computer ignores this.
I've erased the password from preferencenow I can log in without using any password but when I run a sudocommand terminal ask me a password if I insert nothing or the old one it return error. What's happen?
In iTunes, on the app-page, I have somehow got a "Remove" button next to my app icons (left hand window). I can't get rid of the remove button and I'm afraid it deletes my apps permanently.
I'm getting a bit confused on how to handle spaces in path names when returned in a for loop. Rationale: I'm cleaning up the permissions on folders and files that I copy over from Windows. Most of the files end up with -rwx------ or -rwxr-xr-x permissions so I like to do "chmod -x *" and then "chmod u+x <folders>" so I'm trying the following: which works fine, as long as the directories don't have a space in the name. I've tried different permutations of chmod u+x "$i", chmod u+x '$i' and similar to get the behavior I wanted, but to no avail. How to improve my bash code, that works with folder names containing space?
With ZFS-OSX, sometimes when I try to force eject my HDD and it's failing, the following popup appears on my screen – floating on the top with all the buttons grayed out – and no possibility to close it no matter what I do: The disk "WD_1TB" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. To eject the disk immediately, click the Force Eject button. Cancel Force Eject…
I have OSX Mavericks installed. While I actually DO enjoy the notification center feature (and want to keep it turned on), I also am very particular about which notifications I want to see, and how. The notifications area of System Preferences does a great job of handling this the way I'd like it to. However, the App Store doesn't seem to show up there.
I am trying to connect my oldish LG monitor with DVI port (adapter hdmi to dvi is in monitors end) to my macbook pro 13" (late 2013 haswell model) and it is pretty weird, macbook recognizes monitors model, I can change resolution, even hertz rate is correct- 59hz, but monitor just says to check cable. Cable is fine, it was working with my windows laptop, it is working with friends windows laptop. what I have tried, checked all posibilieties that monitor or cable could be damaged, and walked through all settings on mac, can't get it work.
I just installed a new font, and I'd like to be able to type in it, system-wide, and not just within the confines of some application (e.g. MS Word.) I already type in other languages using the Language & Text preference pane. Is there any way to use the TTF as a keyboard? Thanks
I'm a Java developer and want to buy a new 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. I'm interested in the 13 inch for portability but I'm worried it has too small display to effectively code using Eclipse.
I'm trying to build a Service that does the following: If some folder/files are selected in Finder, copy (all) the paths to the clipboard If nothing is selected, copy the "Path" of the window. Digging around and getting inspiration from posts such as Copying the current directory's path to the clipboard and MacYourself's Copy file or folder path to the clipboard in Mac OS X Lion I've got to the point where I can get the paths of the selection, but I seem to be stuck when trying to get the path of the current window if selection empty.
I usually add an external monitor to my MacBook Pro as a second monitor. The only way I've found to unplug it without switching off the MacBook (or putting it to sleep) is by simply unplugging the HDMI cable. The screen goes dark for a second as the system brings all the open windows over to the one screen (since I'm using the additional display as a second monitor instead of mirroring). I feel this may result in some problem some day. Is there a better way of doing this, say from the System Preferences interface?
I use Quick Look to go through photos quickly, and I thought the slideshow feature could come in handy if I can change the duration of each photos shown. https://superuser.com/questions/175509/can-i-change-the-speed-of-slideshows-in-os-x
Recently all of the entries in my iphone (4s) calendar appeared to disappear, both on the phone and on the icloud. However the entries are still there but are not visible. I verified that the entries are still there by installing a third-party calendar app and syncing with my iphone calendar. The entries are visible in the third-party app but not the iphone. What can I do to fix this so that my entries are visible in the iphone's calendar? Thank you.
I have an iPhone 4 with which I take lots of photos. The default resolution tends to be pretty high, usually around 2500 X 1900.
I've got a few large dSYM files on my machine, installed by the Qt Framework. As I understand they are used for debugging, however I don't actually need to debug the library itself. Is it safe to delete these files?
Is it possible to capture text from Safari using a bookmarklet on an iPod Touch/iPhone when running iOS7? In iOS6 I could select text, and then open a bookmarklet (like this one for example) which grabbed the text using window.getSelection().
Is there a way to capture a screenshot of a browser window / webpage which is larger than the MacBook Air (1366x768) screen it's displayed on? I need to have captures of how a site displays in a 1280x1024 window. I can use Moom to resize the browser window, but not sure how to get the snap.
When I open a few different applications, the temperature quickly surpasses 200 F, however, when I'm working lightly, it is around 170 F. It just seems like ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, it's heating up very often and fans go crazy, which is by design I guess. I just don't know what this ouc process is and why it's using so much CPU. I force quit it, but it comes back in a few minutes again.
Since I replaced my 3GS with a 4S (and iOS 7) stopping and restarting music/audiobooks/podcasts doesn't work any more. Basically, instead of pressing the button on the headphone microphone once to continue playing what I was listening to earlier, I now have to log into the phone, select one of two audio players and there press play to continue playing. Have I configured something wrong or did I just lose that feature?
Some iPhone users (especially those with devices that've been in use for a while) encounter a problem where the device crashes once the battery gets low. For example:
When I go to attach a document in mail, I press the attach button, and the file selector dialog opens. However, the list starts 3 or 4 items from the top, so I have to scroll up a little to see the first few (and then back down to see the rest). Any ideas what would cause this and how I would fix it?
I have a mid 2013 MBA running OSX 10.9. The process that starts on every start up is mysqld. I believe it was from an old version of MySQL I had installed (via AMPPS). I then installed MAMP Pro and I often have conflicts between these two processes. Everytime I shut down and restart my mac, I have to find the process of mysqld that is running (on activity monitor), quit it, and then start MAMP (via the terminal command: /Application/MAMP/bin/startMysql.sh won't work from anywhere else). So I'm wondering how I can disable this mysqld from running on every startup.
After I had installed iOS 7 in September, an icon appeared on my home screen for "Open-Xchange". When I open it, it just goes to the Open Xchange website. It won't let me delete it (no cross appears to delete like other installed apps). I've tried plugging my iPhone into iTunes and deleting it using the app manager but that doesn't work either. It doesn't appear on the installed apps list (I'm assuming because it's just technically an internet bookmark). I have a picture of it here (it's on a separate screen because that's where I keep it): Thanks for any help :)
I'm trying to pull down and install the Alpine mail client with Homebrew. I'm behind a rather terrible proxy with no such thing as FTP proxying. Unfortunately the formula for Alpine requires I retrieve a package from an FTP server. I can grab the file by other means and get it on my local system, but I need to know how to tell Homebrew to use the specified package instead of trying to download it on its own. Is this possible? My usual workaround of running brew install inside of tsocks fails for some inadequately defined reason (just fails to connect exactly as if I hadn't tried it.. yet I can wget the file with tsocks just fine.
Wohoooo …. I start TimeMachine. And nothing happens. Nothing at all. It doesn't launch.
But in bookmarks bar I see all devices except my second mac. Probably Chrome somehow not recognise, that it the other Mac. I tried delete app, but it doesn't help. Who knows how to get around this problem? UPD:
When I travel and am connecting to public wireless networks (or, really, any wireless network I don't control), I use a VPN (either L2TP with the built-in networking support or OpenVPN with Viscosity). What I'd like to do, though, is prevent any applications from using the unsecured wireless network in the few seconds between connecting to the wireless and getting the VPN connection up. Is there a good way to do this?
This weird message keeps appearing every few days and it's very irritating. It always contains spam messages that asks me to accept or cancel invitations to random services (weekly jokes, pics etc). From googling, I believe this is some sort of Flash SMS:
Is there a way to do this? Currently, the GDrive links I click in my emails open in Safari.
I want to set a reminder like "remember me to change dress when I am at the gym". Siri answers "I do not know your gym. Touch your name to add the gym to your record".
Can you recommend a good site with some online training for the latest iMovie on OS X? I have tried to play with iMovie over the years and I never seem to 'get' how it is meant to be used.
I'm running OSX 10.9. And my apps keep asking me for permission every time I restart my computer. Is there a way to give them permanent access to my contacts? Currently the only the options are "Don't Allow" and "Ok"
The MacBook is configured with 2.5 GHz Intel i5 processor, 8 GB of RMA and the Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 768 MB shared memory. It's running Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F45). In particular, I'm wondering if it can drive Ultra HD display with a resolution of 3840 × 2160?
On OSX 10.9 (maybe other versions, too), I've noticed that the icons for the different spaces in Mission Control behave differently whether or not I have a monitor plugged in. With a monitor plugged in, the label is always there and there is no magnification effect on hover. Without a monitor, the labels are only there on hover and there's a magnification effect reminiscent of the dock. Do you know if there's a way to make it always act like it does when there's a monitor plugged in?
use ⇧⌘4 to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen (usually of the whole window, e.g. with a space and a button click) use Preview to cut an exact PNG of needed size from the above screenshot if size is off, repeat the last three steps
My device isn't broken. I confirmed this on many iPad 2 and iPad 3 I have access to, both with iOS 6 and 7. But I can't reproduce it at will.
I have just got my iPhone stolen today. I live in fairly safe neighborhood but I got unlucky. Now, I have searched this question on internet for a fair amount of time now. Making a rookie mistake, I have not put a passcode on the device. My question is, if the device is reset from the Settings, do I get notified that a device has been removed?
I'm thinking about buying a MBP Retina 13". Now I want to work at home on 2 Monitors, so the MBP will be somewhere under the table. Is it possible to connect first Monitor via HDMI and the other one via Thunderbolt/MiniDP Adapter to DVI.
I have a late 2010 Macbook Pro 15", running 10.7.5, with a configured dev environment, containing tons of installed ports (specifically Apache/PHP5.4/MySQL/Mongo/Node etc). Apparently, the only way to update XCode further is to upgrade to Mavericks. Can anyone tell me how painful would the upgrade be in terms of needing to reinstall/reconfigure all the ports? Would I have to start from scratch, or will my current configuration be preserved?
We have our home network connected through an ATT uverse router. I want to add an airport extreme base station so I can connect an aftermarket backup disk to the network to be used by Time Machine. What is the best way to hook up the airport extreme so it is always available to Time Machine?
I have an early 2008 MacBook with 2GB of RAM and I would like to install OS X Mavericks onto it. However, I am not able to install the OS due to the age of my computer. If I upgrade my computer's RAM (to at least 4GB), will I then be able to upgrade to Mavericks?
The App Store icon in my Dock always has a little "1" badge on it indicating that 1 app is available for update. That 1 app is "Remote Desktop Client Update 3.7.1" via "Software Update."
I started the process of importing my iPhoto library from an external hard drive to my Mac with a newly replaced hard drive. I have roughly 180,000 photos and it looked like it was uploading all day. Now it seems to be stuck on "finishing import". Do I just wait? Is this a lengthily process, too, or is it really just stuck?
I find that there is no nfs and nfsd available on Mavericks. Does Apple remove it ? P/S: I am trying to mount shared nfs drive in vagrant.
I recently had to restore my iPhone 4S (iOS 7) and when I turned it back on and the activation screen came up, it prompted me for my Apple ID credentials. I put in my Apple ID username and password but it says that it's wrong. I tried to change my password, but when I did, and tried the new password, it still doesn't work. What should I do? I obviously can't even use my phone to make a call.
Many years ago I vaguely recall that the Finder in Mac OS X would start having problems if a folder contained 2,000 - 3,000 items or more. Apple doc says that the HFS Plus file system has a theoretical limit of a 2 billion files per folder all Mac OS X versions. What is the practical limit? Will having 10,000 photos in a folder be a problem?
OSX mavericks added support for having the menu bar available in multidisplay mode, which is nice, but now whenever I try to watch a movie in fullscreen on the other display it seemingly leaves a solid grey bar at the top of the screen which is very annoying. Has anyone had this experience and does anyone know how to get rid of it.
Recently, I bought my very first MacBook Pro with Retina Display. I am hesitating between having a screen protector or not. Some claim that a protector can prevent the retina display from scratch, while others say that one can only get the best out of the retina display without any extra protection. Is such a protector worthwhile? Will the screen get scratched when I use a cloth to clean it, if I do not have the protector?
I have app data in iCloud. I would like to download it to a PC laptop. Specifically this is the Audio Memos app, and I would like to save the recordings to computer and delete them from iCloud. I do not have access to the device.
I need to replace a battery for my Macbook Air 13" mid-2011. There is no Apple's own repair service where I live, and I'm fairly savvy with electronics to do my own repairs. How can I identify batteries for sale that are either genuine Apple parts or determine if alternative replacement batteries they are at least equal, but preferably better than, the original MacBook Air battery I have.
I have a 160 GB iPod Classic and a Windows 7 desktop with iTunes containing roughly about 13,000 songs. My external hard drive containing all the songs crashed but I managed as long as all the songs' file names were in iTunes and when the iPod syncronised with iTunes, the songs remained on the iPod. Recently I had my computer reinstalled and iTunes was formatted and wiped clean, now if I sync my iPod I know my iPod will be wiped clean as well. So is it possible to recover songs which are there — on the iPod — but not in iTunes or the desktop?
For a long time I had Apple Mail connected to my gmail account without without the "All Mail" folder. After adding a second account I noticed that mails sent to myself skip the inbox because I had an "All Mail" folder. So now the question rises: Will I break something by disabling the "All Mail" IMAP folder (within Gmail settings)?
I've moved to the UK and just got a new 5s phone and restored it from my old settings on my US iphone 5. One glitch I've noticed seems to be w/ iTunes music or podcasts showing up on the phone in songs when I didn't move them to the phone. I had 3 on there I didn't want. 2 deleted fine, just like any of the individual songs can delete. 1 podcast ep will not. I hold my finger down on it and slide to the left and no red delete option will show, but it will on any other song. I go to the ep, click the red lines in the top right corner to get me to the individual song again and while other songs will delete that way as well, this again will not. The red delete rectangle won't show. I hook it up to my mac and verify no podcasts are synced. The category is greyed out. The artist is not checked under artists, the individual ep is not checked, it's not in a playlist I've synced nor is it in genre I've synced. This is a complete mystery how this is still on the phone at all. It plays no problem
I've heard of concatenated SMS whereby SMSes longer than 160 alphanumerals are broken down, sent separately, and then recombined on the receiver's phone. How do we know whether our long SMS is sent (and received) properly? What happens if the receiving phone does not support concatenated SMS?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro with Retina display and I went to youtube.com in Safari to play a video, but the videos required Adobe Flash. I downloaded Flash Player and installed it, but the videos still don't work. What can I do?
I wish to enlarge the widgets in my dashboard, because I find it quite uncomfortable to see the contents of the dictionary widget in that small box. Is it possible to do that?
When I examine the list of users and groups on my machine (OSX 10.9) with id I get: I don't (currently) have any sharing enabled. What are the last two groups and where did they come from? Can I delete them; if so how?
I am running OS X 10.9 on a late 2009 iMac with 12 GB of RAM. Until a couple of weeks ago, Messages ran fine. But as of a couple of weeks ago it goes unresponsive (spinning beach ball) a few seconds after startup. There is enough time to do something quick, like logout of my AIM account, or go into Preferences. But not enough time to actually check different preferences before it beachballs.
This started happening around a week ago and has got progressively worse. This happens only sometimes and has only happened three of four times. Although when it does happen each time the effect observed is greater.
I am trying to change the text of a cell in Numbers 3 according to a condition. E.g. if A1-A2 is a negative value, the text shall be 'Negative'. If the value is positive the text shall be 'Positive'. Is there something like a function to accomplish this?
Over the last few days I've noticed the amount of free space on my HD has been plummeting. After a bit of investigation, I found it was due to the folder /Library/Server/Wiki/Database.xpg. It was created December 11 (4 days ago), and since then its disk usage has increased to 313GB.I think it may have been caused by me starting OS X Server for the first time, but I haven't used any of the functionality from it, and didn't even realize it had a wiki. In the Server services section the Wiki is turned off anyway.
I have a document converted from pages 09 and I am trying to achieve with Pages 5 something that I was able to do easily with older version. Basically I want a series of paragraphs structured like this, with no indentation, all aligned to left:
My children routinely leave CPU hogging processes (usually flash games) running on our shared computer when they run out of computer time for the day, or when they are very close to running out of computer time for the day. Is there a way I can automatically have all their processes killed when their account is no longer using the console?
I have a fresh ubuntu on iMac. I have managed to set up the sound from the native speakers, however, there is still no sound from the headphones. I have disabled automute in alsamixer, but this didn't help. Does anyone know what to do in this case?
I am planning to make this network : The AirPort (wi-fi) access point will be connected to the router in (gigabit) Ethernet. I am interested in the wi-fi communications between the Macs. Let’s say I send a big file from Mac 1 to Mac 2. Alas, the Macs have to send and receive the waves through the access point. Is this long enough, or do the communications have to go through the router too ?
I have an iPhone 4s with iOS 7 and I entered a passcode with Greek letters, then I removed the Greek keyboard and now my iPhone is locked. I can't unlock it because the Greek keyboard isn't there any more. Is there a way to unlock my iPhone without restoring it? I think it would be possible if I could remotely control my iPhone on PC and enter the passcode with my PC keyboard because I have Greek letters on my PC keyboard, so is there any software for remote control without jailbreak?
My Macbook Pro running Mavericks picks up my ISP's (native) IPv6 support with automatic configuration just fine on bootup. I'm using an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac (2013) with default settings. If then connect to an IPv4-only VPN, I lose IPv6 connectivity, as expected.
Every time I plug in a SD memory card, Image Capture launches, is there a way to disable this? I am running OS X Mavericks.
Can I somewhere define aliases that I can use in the Go to Folder dialog? More specifically, can I somehow setup Finder such that when I type Pictures it goes to the ~/Pictures directory?
In general I have incoming connections disabled by my security software (Little Snitch). But even when I do this, on public wifi, I see numerous incoming connections for netbios and mDNSResponder allowed automatically. For example, at a recent hotel stay, I was confronted with a long list as soon as a logged on to the wifi there (listed as automatically allowed by Little Snitch)
I accidentally deleted iMove from my MacBook Air. How can I get it back?
Could I accomplish this by buying a second Time Capsule and just switching between the two (with Open Time Machine Preferences | Select Disk) to effect the cycling. Would this work and/or are there perhaps better (also cheaper) ways to do this?
Is it possible to make screenshots in vector format (SVG or PDF) instead of only in raster formats on OS X?
The back light on my mac screen has failed and I have the correct cables/connections to link to a monitor. The signal is coming through fine as I can see my wall paper. All my icons and files are to the "left" of the monitor screen, off screen but there. I can not get into system preferences to make the necessary changes as it is off screen. Does anyone know how I might be able to get round this problem. Thanks. Scott
How can I fix the gray wifi icon? It will not slide to turn on wifi, it's been happening since the new ios7 update
I have a system daemon that demands a full GUI to run, as well as some user level daemons that need to be run from within the user account. I want to perform, from my SSH command line connection, a full user login. After the login, the user should show as logged in from the login screen.
Basically what I am looking for is something similar to Phone Amego from these questions, but for Windows. Also my desktop doesn't have Bluetooth so a solution that works over WiFi or by plugging my phone into the sync/charging cable would be preferable.
I have a MacBook Air 11" running OS X 10.8.5. I have a 128GB SSD drive that was running out of space with only 10 GBs free. The largest single file on the filesysem was my 30+ GB Windows 7 virtual machine that I run in Parallels Desktop 7. I moved the file to an external USB drive (the virtual machine was not running during the move), and deleted the source file on my Mac's internal SSD. However, I did not reclaim the 30+ GBs of space. I reclaimed just a little over 1GB. I then ran df -h which shows the following: I then ran sudo lsof | grep -i deleted which shows the following: ...okay so I've got some files marked for deletion, but they're certainly not tens of GBs and that still doesn't explain why after deleting a 30+ GB virtual machine image the space was not released. sudo du -sh /* shows the following:
I have recently bought a very expensive new MacBook Pro with 8 GB memory and now I am frustrated by its very fast battery drainage. Often I see only 2 hours left on full battery charge!
In iTunes on OS X, you can search for music in your library by using the CMD+F shortcut. However, as far as I can tell, there exists no shortcut for accessing those items once the search has completed. This isn't a huge problem, but it certainly would make searching faster if such a shortcut existed. Does anyone know if this exists? Thanks.
I am running a process and I want to track it's CPU usage and in the end I would like to have a graph of time vs CPU usage. Any app or script for that? I googled and I couldn't find any. And activity monitor does not give graph of over the time of the process.
Wondering if it's possible to setup a new user account so that it has no access to the applications installed on my main(default) account (/Application). I would like to create and configure as if it's a new OSX install.
How can I upgrade my iOS version to the latest version of iOS that I can have on my 3GS? I'm new to jailbreaking and to iPhones. I want to upgrade it to 6.1, but I really don't know how. My phone is already jailbroken.
I broke my iPhone last weekend and the screen remains blank/black even if I connect it to a computer running iTunes. Is there a way I can still access my contacts?
I do want to install (with friend's permission) few free apps from App Store. However, even installing free app require entering password to my friend Apple ID. Since obviously friend does not want to share it, he allowed me to log out of his Apple ID and log in to my own. However I am afraid that switching accounts on iPad might result in loosing data like photos or application data.
A theoretical question (I do not have spare hardware to test for this). If RAID 0 is used (no redundancy of data) with HFS Plus, and if a disk within the array is disconnected for a while whilst the file system is mounted by OS X, then I assume that: the OS will at least present a red alert for an improper eject worse behaviours may occur.
Can I open several projects in one Textmate2 window like SublimeText does?
Perhaps beneficial information: she has her own Apple ID, but for apps we share an Apple ID. [iOs 7.04 on iPhone 4s 32GB]
I made a playlist for my brother, using tracks (.mp3) that I have on my Macbook and usually listen to with iTunes. I want to put these tracks onto a USB stick to give to him. I don't have the USB stick yet but I thought I'd get the tracks ready to put onto the stick, by copying them all into a separate folder on Finder and editing the ID3 tags so that their "album" field contains the name of the playlist and their track numbers match their positions within the playlist. I thought this would be simple enough (I grew up with Windows), so just made a new folder (under "Documents") and copied them out of iTunes into here. I then realized that it's impossible to edit ID3 tags through Finder. After overcoming my initial frustration with this, I thought that instead of downloading some third-party software I'd just copy these files into iTunes and edit their ID3 tags there. I made a new playlist within iTunes, dragged the files from the folder in Documents into this playlist and edited all th
I want to edit images with annotations (text, arrows, ...). Preview does offer a nice set of tools but after saving they get embedded in the image and are not clickable/modifiable anymore. Using Time Machine to reset changes is much too cumbersome. Do you know of any similar tools where i can easily alter annotations after saving (like Skim for PDFs).
I want to reformat my MacBook late-2008 unibody aluminium with HDD. Can I do that and then after I have reinstalled OS X go to Time Machine and recover everything? Is this possible?
Now that the late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro can be configured with Samsung based 1TB PCIe based SSD storage, would those fit into the late 2012 Retina MacBook Pro? OWC describes about the 1TB configuration, but not about the specs.
So I'll just list the symptoms I've experienced in the last few hours, so far I can't seem to find a pattern, suffice to say the macbook is virtually unusable for my purposes. It's a 2010 Macbook white: Can't open Chrome Refuses to remember wifi password each time I reconnect Mail.app thinks it's offline Time keeps resetting to 12:00am Turns off randomly
I use an application WeChat in my iPhone a lot, as typing on a smartphone is less convenient than typing on a keyboard, I would like to be able to use that application on my MacBook Pro. The OS in my MacBook Pro is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63). I have also installed VMWare Fusion. So I am thinking if it is possible to install a virtual iOS 7 on my MacBook Pro, then install WeChat inside? Could anyone help? PS: WeChat does provide a web version where we can chat in a web browser, but it is not as good as the iPhone application, it is unacceptably slow...
I use an Automator workflow to open iTunes at startup, etc. I'd like it to open the MiniPlayer window. I don't see a function to do that in Automator. How could I do this with an AppleScript script?
I have made a Python-based application that plays a slideshow. I want to add shortcut on the right-click menu of a folder and play the slideshow. How can I achieve this?
Concretely, the way I'd like to configure my computer is for it to do a RAM-only sleep (exactly like hibernatemode 0 does) when first closing the lid, so that it quickly goes to sleep, without writing the RAM contents to disk immediately. However, if I leave the computer sleeping with the lid closed for a certain number of hours (say 4 hours), I'd like it to only then write the RAM contents to disk and power off the computer, so as to save battery in case of an extended sleep. Ideally, I'd also like the second part (writing RAM to disk and power off) to happen only if the computer is running on battery power. The reasoning here is that, for me, the common use case for sleeping is taking the computer from home to work and back, and there's no point in slowing down the sleep process and wasting SSD write cycles (as well as slowing down the wake-up process, if it does hibernate) if I'm just going to wake it up again in less than an hour; also, since the time it spends sleeping is so short
There was a problem with Messages. You need to quit and open Messages again.
When this happens in Chrome, the status bar at the bottom says "resolving host". It would seem like it's waiting for a DNS server to respond... but isn't the hosts file overriding any DNS calls? Any ideas what might be happening?
I can only sync the bookmarks in the Bookmark folder on my iPad. Is there a way to sync the bookmarks in the Favorite folder too ? I am syncing between iPad and Google chrome(Desktop) EDIT: Here is a picture that explains it all.
I want to upgrade from ML to Mavericks but I want to erase and format my HD to a single partition along the way. Is this possible?
I have OS X 10.7.6 and I run iTunes 11.1.3. (8) I moved my iTunes library to a NAS and kept the indexing files on my Mac. The folders I find on the NAS looks as follows on the same level in my Music folder: #recycle, iTunes Media, Library
To install command-line tools for XCode requires running This was not visible in the download tab of the software
Used home sharing to grab my son's copy of iPhoto a few years ago. Now I have a brand new MacBook and I used migration assistant to copy files to it. An iPhoto update came out last week and I tried to install it but it wanted my son's apple id password, even though iPhoto came with the new macbook.
My wireless router is an Airport Extreme. I would like to log all outbound HTTP requests (leaving my Mac for an internet web server) for later review. Is that possible?
I have a command that I regularly need to run in the Terminal (for application code signing). Normally I launch the Terminal, press the up arrow until I reach the command I want, and then hit enter.
I don't like the new "tags". I'd like to be able to colorize some Finder icons. Preview allows me to "adjust the color" of icons, but only between Purple and Green. Is there a simple way to add other colors? Thanks.
I wonder if i can buy and download songs e.g. via Bandcamp in Safari, and then add them to my iTunes match right on my iPad? I know how to do that with iTunes on the Mac, but it would be neat to have this also on the iPad.
I'm having trouble sending email to a group from my iPad (with the email app that came with the iPad). The groups are there under my contact groups. I open a new email, click on the "to" field, and then click the "+" button, click "groups", click on the group that I want so that there is a check mark next to it, press "done", click back to the email, and then the "to" field is still empty. What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to install php55 using brew, but when you start installing the dependency 'unixODBC' stops at the last line this is the message that shows
I'm trying to set up a kind of intercom system between Mac, Windows, and Linux boxes at home. Question: How can I make an arbitrary message appear on the graphical screen of Mac OS X? For instance, I'm looking for a command such as:
As far as I'm aware, passwd doesn't change the keychain password on Mac OS X. Is there a way to do this properly from the command line with a single command? If not, what about with multiple commands?
I have an SSD as my boot partition and a HDD for all my documents on my Mac (OS X Mavericks). I have noticed that I am unable to search for files on Spotlight that are located on my HDD.
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard Server in a Virtual Machine in my Retina MacBook Pro, but I was unable to do it since I don't have a DVD drive in my MacBook. I've done an DMG file from the original Snow Leopard Server DVD but, it has no effect, since Parallels cannot install Snow Leopard Server from a .dmg file. Any ideas? PS: I just want to use Rosetta.
In Lion if I used QuickLook to display an image, and then clicked the double arrows to make it full screen, it would scale the image to the size of my monitor (up too, not just down). Then when I used the arrow keys to navigate in the Finder, all subsequent small images would also display scaled up. That no longer happens. In Mavericks, small images are now displayed at 100% with a black border around all four sides. You can scale individual images up by tapping the Option key, but that only applies one image at a time, not the whole series.
Borderlands 2 (purchased, downloaded, run via Steam) crashes on launch for me. This is the first time I've ever really had application crashes, other than the typical "Application has quit unexpectedly" line. I do get a crashlog, which I've put into pastebin here: http://pastebin.com/bKgKLJv0
I've recently bought the new macbook pro 13" retina (2013) this November and noticed that it has extremely short battery life compared to my old macbook pro 13" (2010). On a full charge, my new macbook has about 4H whereas my old one after three years of use still hovered close to 6H, and over 10H when new. Has anyone else been having this problem?
I have a Keynote (iWork 9) presentation and need to export it as PowerPoint. When doing it using File : Export : PPT the slides work properly, but most of the animations are broken.
Is there any way that I can make it to where I can receive the messages that are sent and received from another phone on my account? And will the other phone be notified somehow?
What components does it have and how do they work? What protocols are supported? What I only know of is it is compatible with VNC (as a client and as a host). I'm interested in knowing more technical details and play around with them.
I am using Magic Mouse with my iMac having OS X Mavericks 10.9. Everything was working fine since today morning, I realized that my Magic Mouse is only responding to scrolling and primary, secondary click. All other gestures of Magic Mouse were not working.
Here is my situation: I am running Tunnelblick on my MacBook (running Mavericks) to connect to my own VPN, which comprises several machines, both at home and at remote locations. I can of course use the VPN-internal addresses to enable communication between my MacBook and other machines but I would like to prefer local addresses for a machine, if possible. Example:
I just received an email from Apple to continue the Apple Developer Program enrollment process, but before I do, I want to know some important details. I'm a developer for a company in Morocco and we want to distribute apps in the App Store, I know that there is no Online App Store for Morocco, but can we distribute in the App Store of another country even though our Apple ID, D&B and Credit Card information are located in Morocco?
In chrome, I would like to change the hotkey to go to previous / current tab. I am on Mac OS X 10.8.
I sometimes get a name that I don't recognise, i.e. Sue's iPhone or android-653246a714bc41f
Can I sync someone else's iphone to my iTunes and put my songs on their phone without losing their imformation such as contacts
I am trying to create an image using Bio::Perl/Bio::Graphics and implement it on my webserver. However, whenever I am trying to run my scripts online, the command line does not respond to run my script. One of my perl module files contains this system command:
I am admin on my MBA (Mavericks), and I want to get App Store update notifications. The rest of my family have non-admin (standard) accounts and I'd like to disable App Store updates and notification for their logins. The answers to Disable App Update Notifications on OSX? apply to all users, not selective users.
When I try to download a free app it keeps sending me to the settings info about my card number. Then it says that there was a billing problem with a previous purchase. And to update my payment methods . I no longer have a credit card so how do I download free apps???
I just recently bought a MacBook Air 2013 (i7 with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD drive). I am a programmer, and my daily jobs would involve a lot of testing on that machine, including setting up databases, indexing Solr-based indices, etc. I stopped on the Air primarily because it is lightweight, and the SSD drive gives it a performance boost. Yet after what I learned about the limited write cycles of SSD drives, it gets me concerned if I should really do heavy-duty systems testing on it, or I should outsource it to say, an external hard drive or something. If I set up my projects to run from an external HDD, would that save me from expiring the life of the SSD? And how much is it really? I'd love to find out some tools to be able to observe the life of the SSD over time.
I was wondering what methods can be used to find hidden options in OSX software. I regularly stumble upon hidden options that can be added in the .plist preferences files (using defaults write), but do other methods exist to identify options? Perhaps there is a way to get an App to display it's options other than manual digging around?
My all new MacBook Pro was on the battery, and warned me that the battery was almost finished. I left the Mac take care of himself. Later, I plugged the Mac and I pressed the button Power. Hearing the startup sound made me frosty. The Mac had shut down !
When I am in public places my iPhone 5C will not connect to the internet. An exclamation point appears next to the wifi name.
I know that I can open the file information dialogue (Get Info) for several files at once using ⌘⌥I and hide/unhide file extensions. How do I accomplish this for all files in a directory tree (including files in subfolders)?
I need to create an USB drive/stick booting Snow Leopard on an Ubuntu system. Any pointers on how to accomplish this are appreciated.
Can iBeacons work directly with remote servers? in other words can you store notifications or information you want pushed out to users on a server and have that information retrieved from a server when the user gets within range of an iBeacon?
Frequently, when I try to open the (10.9) Finder's "Open With..." menu, I experience a delay that appears to be due to connected FireWire drives. This delay is very long when the drives need to spin up, but is also perceptible when the drives have not spun down. For me, this delay makes no sense: I have no applications that I use stored on my external drives, and I have disabled Spotlight searches of these drives (using Spotlight's "Privacy" setting). Is there some way to prevent the "Open With..." menu examining external drives? Note that this is not a question about speeding up the OW menu in general (e.g., by pruning apps and file type associations), nor about keeping duplicate apps on external drives from appearing in the OW menu (I have none as my Spotlight settings noted above exclude them).
I was playing around to set up a prober working/development environment. I installed command line tools such as: NodeJS NPM Grunt Bower
If the iPad 2 and iPad mini do not have native HD resolution, then why does Apple market them to be able to watch HD movies? Isn't '720p' 1280 x 720, yet the iPad 2 or mini is 1024x768?
I like how Mail groups related messages together in a "conversation", but I hate how it always by default shows the oldest unread message in a thread--even if it is months old! This has gotten me on a couple of occasions where I will see a new email come in, click it, and see a message from months ago, but not realize that I'm not seeing the one that just came in. Anyone know how to make Mail always scroll to the top/newest message in a conversation when clicking a message?
I noticed that when my iMac's display goes to sleep while Safari is showing Facebook (i.e. Safari is the current active app and its active tab is Facebook.com) I am unable to turn the display back on. I have to unplug my iMac and restart it. Is this happening to you? Do you have any solutions (other than making sure you don't have Facebook running)? Have you experienced this with other browsers? iMac 27", Late 2009 : OS X Mavericks 10.9
I just got my first proper AirPrint printer (the Canon PIXMA 7120). Like all printers, it has a ton of different settings for print quality, etc, and when you print from OSX, you get a print dialogue that lets you select things like Quality Media type Paper source Etc. But when printing from iOS native apps (I was using "Photos") the only choice I got was to select the AirPrint printer to print to. When I printed, either iOS or the printer seems to have decided to use the tray that's dedicated to (4x6 or 5x7) photos, and to print in (high) photo quality, and spat out a beautiful print. It seems possible that it makes assumptions based on the app you start from ("Photos" is probably sending a picture, while "Pages" more likely has a doc. So, my questions is: How does it decide what settings to use, and can I change them? I might want it to print an 8X10 photo, or a pages doc on photo paper, etc.
I usually run my terminal sessions in 132 character wide mode in iTerm. However, when I start the 'screen' command, it re-sizes the terminal back to 80 characters. Is there a way to prevent this?
I can add rows conveniently using Option+Shift+Up Arrow (insert above) or Option+Shift+Down Arrow(insert below). Is there a keyboard shortcut to delete the current row?
Would it be possible to change the default environment to something like Cinnamon? Or to a window manager like openbox or awesomewm?
I am using multiple desktops on my Mac. Depending on how I use them, the desktops seem to switch around. For instance the place where 'Terminal' is (second from the left) moves one to the right. Where 'Terminal' used to be is now 'Desktop1'. The screenshots below hopefully clarifies what I mean. How can I keep them static at the same location?
What is the key that scrolls the page up in a web browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox), that is the opposite of using the spacebar, which scrolls down?
I've just switched to OSX 10.9 and one thing that I've noticed isn't working are mail alerts in the mail.app side bar and dock icon. I've got several email accounts, all of them gmail - some gmail.com and some on their own domain using google apps for business.
I added some podcasts from the iTunes store to the iPhone Podcasts app version 1.2.3 on iOS 6.1.3. My iTunes 11.0.5 sync settings for this phone's podcasts is sync podcasts, and automatically include all episodes or all podcasts.
I purchased a programming book from Amazon which I'm reading on the Kindle for Mac application. The rendering of the fixed-width font (the code examples) is just insane. Is there a way to fix this? Are there alternative readers that do a better job?
I'm on the Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and suddenly find that when I add a Desktop in Mission Control (by option clicking the upper right corner) the new Desktop gets the basic OSX milkyway wallpaper instead of the wallpaper of the current Desktop. This is what I expect when I add a new Desktop (same wallpaper): This is what I get (different wallpaper):
On OS X 10.9 (but no prior version), every now and then, I start getting strange network errors. I can still ping, but anything that requires actual content (like a web page) completely stops. For example: It seems similar to this message thread, but I don't see an answer there. I've tried deleting the ethernet interface and re-adding it, but that doesn't seem to help. I've tried deleting the ethernet interface and turning on wifi, which shows the same symptoms.
I recently took on a position in an organization, and with it I gained access to the organization's e-mail account. I would like to add the account to Apple Mail. The organization has been around for a while, though, so there are thousands of e-mails in the inbox. I want to download all future e-mails to the account, but not past e-mails. How do you prevent Apple Mail from downloading old messages when adding an account? I'm running OS X Lion, and the new inbox is on Gmail.
When switching back and forth between full-screen mode for YouTube videos in MacOX Mavericks, I find the zoom effect very annoying and jerky. Is there a way to turn this off, so such videos can just snap in and out of full-screen without animation?
I have since continued backing up to Time Machine and replaced my internal hard drive, and now download new songs to a new iTunes library on my Mac. This library and my original 7000 song library and a copy of the deleted folder are on my Time Machine backup drive. The music library only is also on a second external drag-and-drop backup drive.
I recently upgraded my macbook from 4G to 8G and wonder if there's a tool to test the quality of new memory. I found memtest 4.22 seems only test about 1G: ========== UPDATE:
I have a SSD (Boot Partition) and a HDD (Data) for my Mac. I only bought a 128GB SSD thinking the boot partition wouldn't need a large drive, however I was mistaken. I find that Mail and MobileSync folders in my Library directory take the majority of the storage on my SSD sometimes even bringing 'Low Disk Space' prompt if I don't watch it for a while and let it loose.
I am currently having problems with my iPhone. So it froze last night and went completely black. so I left it for a while, hoping it would un-freeze. then all of a sudden it turned off and I tried to turn it back on and no luck. So, I took the battery out (as the back was already coming off) and put it back in. And the only thing its doing now is the apple is coming up every time I put in on charge. I left it on charge over night and all day today but nothing has happened. What is the reason for this and how can I fix this?
my friend and I who live in different states wanted to watch a movie. We both rented out a movie on iTunes together. We used Skype to screen share, but on my friend's end she sees a checkered pattern. Why is that? Is there any way around it?
My current installation has become kind of cluttered and I want to create a fresh one in VMWare. When the one in VMWare has everything I need, I'd like to migrate it to the native disk, so it become my main (normal) OS. Is that possible?
Is it possible to open a minimized Application in dock with a shortcut? Or maybe something like: Open last minimized Application in dock with shortcut?
I previously had four e-mail accounts (and thus four identities) set up in the Mail app. I have now removed two of these accounts but when I compose a new e-mail the "From" drop-down box still lists four identities. How do I remove the identities from the removed accounts?
I have a macbook A1181 model core2 duo3.1.3gb RAM. I lost my old HDD so I bought a new harddrive. Since I lost my old HDD I do not have the option to clone the old drive to the new drive. Mac OS X 10.7 DVD is available.
I tried to update my ipad 2 3G jailbreaked to ios 7 and it got stuck on error 14 and it has been in "recovery mode" itunes screen ever since. I have put the ipad on DFU mode 100x then try to restore it. I have changed different ports and usb cables. I have used many different OSs(Mac & Win). I have tried using tinyumbrella and RecBoot to try to kick it out of recovery. I tried changing, modifying the hosts files. I have restarted the computer numerous times. and I used latest versions of itunes. and my log file is uploaded here any idea?
I tried reinstalling the 10.8, 10.9 partitions and the install worked fine for each until the final reboot for user setup (Welcome to X). The files are visible but no boot . The partition scheme is GUID partition Table and the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
I recently upgraded MacOSX to version 10.9. Before I did that, i uninstalled all macports-packages using:
I'm working on improving my iMessages backup-script. /Users/Kyro/Library/Messages/chat.db has a table message with all the messages an some dates.
I have a crashed hard drive. I had no luck with a USB to SATA using MacDrive Pro. I can get the drive to drop into shell with single user mode when I boot the drive. Can I mount a USB drive or something to copy data off? I tried /usr/sbin/diskutil mount but I got a framework not being available due to single-user mode. How can I back the data up?
I have two java programs that run forever until I terminate the process, I start both at once using a script.... They both continue to run, I can see the output they generate (they write to a file each), and I can see them in 'ps': But when I open Activity Monitor, I can see that 'ScreenCapture' is running (and taking 96MB of memory)
Can I use Apple's Lightning to Micro USB Adapter with the iPod touch 5th generation to connect a Micro USB keyboard?
I've learned how to split my terminal windows with apple-d and apple-shift-d. Its very useful. How do I then switch between the two panes (see below) using the keyboard? I know I can use the mouse but would like to know if there's a key combo to do it.
I just connected my MacBook Pro 2013 to my TV using HDMI. The visuals are working, but the TV does not get the audio from my MacBook. How can I redirect the audio from my MacBook to my TV?
How can I disable the MacBook screen when it is connected to my TV via HDMI?B
I see that this is possible (and quite easy!) with apps like A Better Finder Rename, but I'm not keen on spending the $20 on all those features just to do one thing which I don't expect I'll ever have to do again :D So, is there some kind of free option, like Automator, an Applescript, or a shell script?
Is there a way to remove the 'open with' default that is on certain file types? I don't want to replace the the application that opens this file type, I want there to be no application assigned to that type, so that when I download it, no application automatically launches. Basically is there a way to remove the default application a file type is opened with, and not replace it another application?
When installed via Macports, Inkscape does not appear in the drop-down of the "open with" dialog. An entry is only added, when I install Inkscape using the installer from the Inkscape website. The problem is, that this version does not run properly under Mavericks (10.9.1). Sor far I could not find a way the this location to the dropdown menu or add a launcher to the panel.
I can confirm this. But this is not useful in the long run since this defeats the whole idea of having a SuperSpeed Hub in the first place !
I eradicated python 2.6 from my MacBook pro. Of course I did this before realizing iPhoto was dependent on it. How do I point iPhoto to my newly installed version of Python? This is the relevant error: When attempting a symlink to my Python executable, I get the following:
I was trying to extract the contents of a .pkg file, and right clicking on it should usually allow the context sensitive Show Package Contents option. However, it does not seem to show on any .pkg file I can find on my system. I have since expanded the contents on the command line using this command:
I tried to install Windows on my Mac Pro but it failed because my disk needed to be repaired; it was suggested that I hold cmd + r during a restart. I tried that but when it restarted I was showed a grayish window that asked for my password. I typed my password but it won't work.
I have a 24" Early 2009 iMac. During "intensive" use (such as Photoshop, WebGL, etc.), the system starts to become very unstable, resulting in bizarre graphics corruption and other weird behaviour. Ultimately, the machine freezes or crashes.
Did anyone tried out the Guest Account feature in Mac OS X Mavericks with Filevault2 = on? I did and - Safari flickers (like with wrong graphic driver) → *=URL=* - Safari / the complete system crashs and freezes on several websites. Summary it's not usable! :(
I am about to do some development with SCTP using Python[1]. But this requires some kind of 3rd party kernel extensions to Mac OS X. The only link I can find about the kernel extension is completely out of date[2]. Any ideas on how to get the SCTP support into Mavericks? [1] *=URL=* [2] http://sctp.fh-muenster.de/sctp-nke.html
I have a mid-2011 Mac mini with an Intel i5 2.3 GHz processor. When I checked the temperature, it was 90 degrees Celcius. The computer was running for three days. It didn’t work on anything. Is this temperature okay?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2010 and have since upgraded all the way to Mavericks. I am now selling the device and the online restore option requests my apple ID. Using that, I've installed a clean Mavericks for the buyer. I think this is the nicest thing for the buyer, but I'm not sure what the consequences are, so I'd have a couple of questions for you guys: With the system I've updated, will the buyer be asked for his apple ID and will that replace mine? If that's not the case, will he be able to do updates without having the password to my account? Can I change the Apple ID that owns mavericks to him, even if I have to gift him Mavericks? Is there a better way to do all this? Thanks!
Ever since I installed Mavericks on my 15" Mid-2012 MBP (4GB), I've noticed that if I let my machine completely drain to 0% and it (supposedly) goes into Deep Sleep, when I plug it back in and restart, I hear the optical drive initialize twice, then I see the Apple logo and the loading wheel, which then takes me to the login screen (I have autologin setup) with the default Mavericks wallpaper then switches to my own wallpaper. After I log back in, I find that whatever apps that I was running before it shut down started back up, while I was on the login screen. I've checked Console and I notice these entries entered around the same time for when it shuts off. (And then about 16 similar ASL Module messages.) I've done an SMC reset previously but that didn't work.
In System Preferences > Keyboard > Text, I can add shortcuts that will be available to me globally via autocorrect.  Lets say I had 100 of these shortcuts and they were on two Macs, rather than adding/removing each individual item by hand, is there a way to maintain a single .plist file that could manage these shortcuts?
I am going to get a 21.5" iMac. It will primarily be used for Android, iOS, and web development, but may occasionally be used for some photoshop. Any other uses I have for it will be insignificant (such as web browsing or email) Between the two 21.5" models on *=URL=* considering my primary uses for it Would I likely notice any performance differences? Should I expect the higher model to last me much longer than the lower model? Will the lower graphics affect my ability to use Photoshop efficiently?
What software are you finding fills the feature problems that the recent iTunes updates have created, if any? If everyone else is like me I believe I'm going to write an iTunes-like app that puts the functionality back whilst reading iTunes libraries.
Ever since I updated to iOS 7 in June, I have been having issues using the camera on my phone in apps other than the default Camera app. Regardless of settings, using my camera in any non-Apple app (such as Instagram or Tumblr) will result in that particular app crashing immediately. I have tried everything to remedy the issue short of a full restore on my phone. I'm convinced it's some sort of low memory or high CPU utilization issue, since iOS 7 seems to be much more taxing on my phone's resources than iOS 6 was. Is there some way to fix this issue without simply buying a newer, faster iPhone?
We have a requirement that forbids users writing to removable media such as CDs. So far all I've been able to find is but that is a per-user setting that can be reversed by the user and doesn't prevent them from writing with an app other than finder.
I'm looking for an iOS app where, once the music is playing, I can touch anywhere on the screen to pause it, and then start it again.
There have been a few questions and answers about memory usage, whether one should pay attention to the Activity Monitor, that Memory Pressure is more indicative of a system being maxed out on RAM, etc. Ever since Mavericks was installed, copying and pasting from Safari to Excel freezes the computer for a few minutes. I'm watching now as Memory Pressure increases after copying the data from Safari. If I try and paste the data into Excel, Excel won't take it. After several minutes and a very sluggish iMac, memory is freed up (subtracting memory used from Physical memory) and I can paste the data without a problem.
I've had quite a lot of GPU panics lately, and after asking about it here and in other places, people told me that it is a problem with many macbooks from mid 2010. I've also heard that this happens when the mac switches from the internal GPU to the external, so I unchecked the 'automatic graphics switching" box in my energy settings. Still, the problem remains.
iPhone 4s with iOS 7. Like in LOST MODE where the Location Services is automatically turned on eventhough it was OFF before you lost your iPhone, it will give it's location once the device connects to the internet - (already clarified, thank you so much!). Now the question is, Is it also the same when you restore/wiped the iPhone? Will it automatically enable the Location Services after being restored (as long as they will connect it online)?
Is there a way to easily compare the Apache settings for two machines? I have a MacBook Air and an iMac, both running 10.9.1. On both machines, I am trying to run a site via localhost. ~/Sites/foo.loc On the MacBook Air, the site runs as expected. On the iMac, the site gives me a 403 Forbidden message. There is no difference between the two sites. I am using VirtualHostX 4.2.1 to load the site via *=URL=* and both machines are using the built-in Apache. UPDATE: Found the apachectl configtest command and it's giving me two error messages on the iMac: Each repeated at least 58 times.
For a selected file in Finder, I like to run a perl script using Services. I created an Automator process that runs an AppleScript: The only problem is that the selected filename appears as something like:
Is there any way to remove the screen that is blocking the rear facing camera? Could I bring it into a store and pay to have it removed/a camera put in?
Just tried Safari (got advised to save battery power over Chrome) and the "Save As" button is disabled! Can't save a single page!
I bought a 27" iMac and hooked it up to my Thunderbolt display. The iMac is also thunderbolted to my Mac mini. When I press meta-(fn-)F2, the following happens: The iMac screen goes dark. The Thunderbolt display shows the Mac mini's (locked) screen. I can move the mouse on the Thunderbolt display but not click at anything. The keyboard doesn't work (except meta-F2). When I press meta-F2 again, this happens: Both screens go back to being screens of the iMac. The screens switch places and the Thunderbolt display becomes the primary display with the Dock. I am at a loss as to how I am supposed to use this feature. Are mouse and keyboard supposed to travel with the screen? Why does the Mac mini screen appear on the secondary display? Why do the screens switch places when I switch back from TDM?
One day I woke up and could not use my Mail.app anymore :( Mail can't connect to any my account related server, either POP, IMAP or SMTP Why ? I don't know. In Log file I see that:
Can anyone clarify the process when a phone is wiped? Let's assume that my phone gets stolen, and the thief being unable to unlock it chooses to wipe the device via a system restore in iTunes. Since the phone is (was) logged into my iCloud account, the thief will be unable to activate it, which should make it worthless to sell, right?
I'm hoping that a jolly fat bearded mythical character will deliver me an iPad Air in a weeks time :) I currently have an original iPad 1, stuck back on iOS 5. It's been jailbroken, but I don't honestly think I'll miss any of the jailbroken apps. Although I know that I can restore a backup from the old iPad to the Air, will this have any negative effects - especially as I'll be going from jailbroken to non-jailbroken and iOS 5 to iOS 7? I'd like to keep the Air as "clean" as possible, and avoid dragging over a ton of legacy crap that I don't need. Ideally, I'd like to just restore selective apps and their data to the new iPad - of course, apps can be re-downloaded, but is there any way (with 3rd party software) to selectively restore individual app data to an iOS 7 device?
The mac fullscreen mode has a slow animation which I have tried disabling but it seems that there is no way to do that as of now, so my question is, does anyone know of a way to disable html5 videos from using the mac fullscreen and just go instantly fullscreen like flash videos do? Edit: If anyone is aware of some API in javascript which can make the videos go fullscreen instantly I may be able to write a chrome plugin that detects a native fullscreen api request, cancel it and initiate an instant fullscreen. Or if someone knows some type of workaround that can be done mac side, either from terminal or perhaps an objective-c native app I will develop them if necessary and post for all.
We are just transitioning to Mac computers having used PCs for many years. (We both use iPhones & share an iPad.) Our new hardware setup is 27" iMac (1TB HDD) for wife's home office, 15" retina MacBook Pro (256GB SSD) for me, and 2TB AirPort Time Capsule. What is the best configuration for sharing photo and music libraries?
It's a new external hard drive and I need to know whether it's working properly. I have no experience with those and I don't know if I'm simply missing something obvious. UPDATE 1: Trying the 1 pass zeros erase in Disk Utility (as suggested by @IconDaemon)
I am in the process of creating an iPhone app. Someone, very recently, stole all my app files and I'm afraid if that person will submit my app before I do.
In Google Chrome it is possible to Print... > Google Cloud Print > Save to Google Drive > ... This seems to work like a charm.
The following sudoers configuration used to work well in MacOS 10.8.5, several days ago I upgraded to Mavericks, NOPASSWD flag does not seem to work anymore: Mavericks' sudo still asks for entering password. Is there any resolution/workaround?
can someone tell me, will this ssd disc work on my mac mini, since is sata 3? As I know my mac uses sata 2? But I'm really novice and I have no idea.
I have multiple macs accessing same data on a common disk (a time-capsule shared disk). The problem is that one of those macs couldn't be upgraded do Mavericks (it's running Lion).
I want to sell an old iPhone 3G for a few bucs... But I have a problem: the touch screen of the phone is broken and the phone has no internet-connectivity.
when I was cleaning my mac book's fans I destroyed one screw head shown in picture (right fan) picture from ifixit How can I replace it? Drill that screw up, or other method? And where can I buy a new one?
I have an old MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 and would like to stream my MP3 itunes library. Streaming my pictures would also be nice but not as important. I am under the impression that to use the apple TV I would need OSX 10.8 is this correct? I use to use Soundbridge M400PX with a PC but this does not work with the Mac
Having the latest Mavericks installed, I tried to update PATH using nano and creating a .bash_profile file. I'm not sure what happened, but now when trying to run Terminal all that shows is a list of ttys000 messages followed by a wtmp begins message. And finally says: I've downloaded a program to find hidden files but there's no sign of the .bash_profile file. Any ideas how to rescue the Terminal program?
How can I print out my crontab? Under Linux this can be done using crontab -l, however, running crontab -l under Mac OS X produces no output whatsoever and exits cleanly. Here's my crontab:
I have a MOV-Video file and I want to increase the volume of the audio layer without reencoding the entire video. Is there a way to solve this problem?
Yesterday I spilt a lot of water on my Macbook pro keyboard. The laptop seems to work fine but a few keys don't work well. Left control and left shift don't work, Left alt and right alt are not tested. How can I test if left and right Alt key work well?
How I can access /dev/mem (or /dev/kmem, /dev/pmap) equivalent device in OSX? As far as I know it was removed in some point. Can I create this node manually somehow or any other way of dumping the physical memory? See: Visualization in testing a volatile memory forensic tool Kernel Debug Kit OS X
As far as I understand iOS Security, Oct. 12, an encrypted backup via iTunes also backs up the keychain of the device. While I recognize that some elements might not be restorable onto a different device (non-migatory), I was wondering if anything substantial is actually missing in an encrypted backup. I am asking this because I heard that after wiping an iPhone, the private key of the app Threema is lost and cannot be restored via backup, even on the same device.
One of my resolutions for 2014 is to keep better track of my finances. I'd like to use an iPhone app to do this. I've used a few personal finance apps in the past, but none of them do precisely what I'm looking for. I don't need anything particularly sophisticated, just the following features:
Is it possible to edit some code in Notification Center to allow Facebook messenger notifications to have a "Reply" or "Close" similar to iMessage?
I've just upgraded my iMac's memory with a new 2x8GB kit:  Although I know this "should" be dual channel (as both banks have the same amount of RAM), I'd like to know for sure. How can I check?
I am having trouble with applications reopening halfway off-screen on my second display in Mavericks. Is this a bug? or a preferences/settings issue?
I use BootChamp to restart into Windows directly from OS X. I was wondering if there is an equivalent piece of software to restart from Windows into Mac. This will be especially useful when using remote access.
The new Xcode is .app and all the package contents are with it, inside the applications folder. Can I just delete /Developer?
I'm running Mavericks OS X 10.9 As the title suggests I would like to force an app to open in full screen in a specific desktop space. I can get an app to always open full screen, then position the app in the desired desktop space. However, when I close the app and reopen, it will always open as the right most desktop space. Any one have any ideas as to how I may address this?
I'm on a Mac Pro running OS X 10.9 with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB, and I'm using a BenQ E2420HD as a monitor. The Problem: Every day I start my Mac in the morning, and every day the monitor has no signal the first time I start the computer. The only thing that works is to shut the Mac Pro off by holding the power button down for a few seconds. As I start it for the second time, the monitor gets a signal and everything works. That happens every day and it's very bothering, and probably also bad for the Mac Pro. I tried plugging the monitor cable out and in again and manually setting the input in the monitor menu — not working. I also reset the SMC and NVRAM — nothing changed. I had the monitor connected via DVI-DVI and then changed to HDMI-MiniDisplayPort because I thought that might help — nope.
I want to run a script whenever any user connects remotely to my Mac. I've Googled a bit about it but no perfect tutorial is there. I am less comfortable working with OS X.
How can I fix this? That is, how can I have my system correctly flag this word as incorrect spelled? The word does not appear in my
According to Apple's official LTE page, the AT&T iPhone 5c/s (A1532/A1533) don't officially support any European countries. But the only difference between the A1532/A1533 and the European A1507/A1457 is support for band 7, which according to Wikipedia's LTE tables is only really required in a couple of countries like Brazil. Most European countries seem to support 3 and 20 in addition to 7, which A1532/A1533 have. What's the reason behind this, and has anyone tested their AT&T iPhone 5c/s abroad for LTE support?
I have a new Macbook pro retina display, i7, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M. I have noticed that when running Boot Camp with Win 7 and I plug in my HP VGA monitor using a VGA/thunderbolt adaptor, the top area above the function keys get extremely hot. I have made sure I have the most up to date drivers for my graphics card but still the issue persists. Has anyone else experienced this?
One of my friends has a child who is being overly sneaky online (imagine that). She wants to disable the ability for her child to select "Private Browsing" in Safari. In her opinion, Parental Controls are too limiting for a teenager, but Private Browsing is too permissive. Is there a terminal command or other way to do this on OS X?
I'm trying to enter DFU mode in my Iphone 3G. And yes, i know how to get it into DFU, but the problem is that my power button doesn't work, so my question is, is there a way to get in to DFU mode through the computer?
I use Hazel to sort and rename files. I would like to use Hazel to automatically convert Word docs to PDF. I think this best way to do this is with AppleScript. I have searched extensively online, but have been unable to find an AppleScript that works for me.
In order to connect to a private network the connection should have IKE RSA - IPSEC. The default VPN connection settings that is in the settings of iPhone does not have this. The Cisco AnyConnect app have this option but the digital certificates that are visible in the default VPN are not visible in the AnyConnect app. Also the certificate import in the AnyConnect app asks for a URL instead of opening the file browser. How to install a certificate so that it is detected by the AnyConnect app
So before about three years ago i had downloaded the apps; classic angry birds,tiny wings, and the full fruitninja using my app store account. But now ever since i bought a ipad mini, it doesnt show these record of purchased apps or even display these apps in the appstore when i type up their names. Is there a way to work around this and restore my purchases and keep these paid apps?
There is an issue with running xquartz on my system. I installed it by using the link from the Apple website. However when I run xquartz from terminal I get:
A bit of a stupid question, but what is the font the battery percentage (pictured below) in OS X uses?  It is not the standard font you can get by calling [NSFont menuBarFontOfSize:0], I have noticed.
This is the second time my phone turns off on full battery and I cant turn it back on last time i waited two days i guess it drained the battery and all but this time my phone was on 30 % I've called apple and they've only sent me to the apple store I NEED my phone. I tried plugging it into the base and pressing the home button and then connecting it to a computer but my phone wont show up as a device and its quite frustrating. can some body please please help me!?
I am managing a Mac Mini with OS X Server (10.9) at the office and I got everything running perfectly. However, since some days ago I have lost the ability to connect remotely to the server using the server.app from my computer. I am still able to connect through screen sharing though (locally running server app works fine).
Using Mac OSX on a macbook pro. in energy saver - battery tab : if i have sleep at 1 hour, does that mean the computer will sleep after an hour on battery OR when there is a about an hour of battery remaining?
I am running OS X Mavericks. I want to forward my apple mail (happens to be verizon.net) to my gmail account. I want to read all mail in gmail. Is this possible?
I have an AirPort Extreme and Express which provide a guest and a private wireless network. I also have a Mac server (192.168.1.10) running on the LAN. I want that server to be accessed only on the private wireless network.
I'm looking to export emails from Outlook and Entourage from Macs, and import them into Gmail (Google Apps). Any suggestions? Found really simple solutions for Mac Mail and Outlook for Windows, but nothing for Outlook on a Mac.
Since I updated my OSX to version 10.9.1 I am unable to open text files from the Finder. I always opened the files with the default TextEditor. I've tried to change the default application from TextEditor to Sublime Text 2, which results in exactly the same error: "Unable to find the application" When I open TextEditor or Sublime Text 2 I can successfully open the file and view it's contents. Is there a way to fix this problem?
Time ago I've changed my old iPhone 3G to my actual iPhone. I've thought that could be a good idea to recover this old iphone, install an old IOS system (IOS3 worked perfect for this device) and give it to my mother, since she only wants to use it as a "dumphone" and a good camera photo. How can I remove all actual information of the iPhone3G and then install IOS3? Disclaimer:
I want to be able to run VirtualBox as a normal user. Since that partition will essentially contain the whole directory of a single user, it is all right to grant that single user on OS X write permissions on that partition. I did so using sudo chown username /dev/disk0s4.
Trying to delete all SMS and iMessage cache. Other forums and research indicates a SYNC will do this. Have tried, but old messages keep showing up in Spotlight search. I want them deleted for good. How?
The version of Mac OS X being used is 10.8.5. When I click the back button on an empty terminal windows if give a alert sound which is the 'Funk' sound in the System Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects I tried going to the Terminal Preferences -> Settings -> Advanced where there is a checkbox for turning the Audible/Visual Bell but not change the audible bell. Can this sound be changed to anything else in the Sound Effects list like Submarine, Tink etc.
I have very recently converted to a MacBook Air from a PC and have a 1.3mb .xls file which 1 week ago Numbers happily opened, edited and saved in its own format. Today, when I opened it it was corrupted. So I have been trying to open the original .xls file again and the Numbers message is simply 'the file will not open'. No explanation, no clues as to why. I can still open another (very much smaller and simpler) .xls file but don't know what to do next...
Example: When typing the word 'will' I often type 'wil', I have no idea why. Auto-Correct zaps this to 'ail'. So then, instead of backspace, type another L, space, keep going, I have to delete the entire wrong word. The reason I am asking here is that I don't want to add misspelled words to the dictionary, I want to train the behavior of the Auto-Correct engine itself.
I have a macbook-pro & mac-mini. Typing is easy on macbook since the keyboard is silicon. That's not the case with apple wireless keyboard which is connected to the mac-mini, keys are slippery. Speed typing is not easy like on macbook.
I need dnsmasq to run at boot on Mavericks. I've got dnsmasq working fine. I've created a .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons with the following contents: This runs perfectly if I do:
I am looking for a convenient solution to the following problem: I have some large data (tens of GB) that resides on the hard drive of a Mac. Access to the data needs to be restricted so even users with administrative privileges can't access it without a password. At the same time, those people who do have access should have convenient and fast access: ideally, after unlocking them, the restricted files should be visible and accessible in the same way as any other file on the system. It must be possible to run programs that process the data and accessing the files should not be much slower than usual file access. Only read access is needed, not write access. What sorts of convenient solutions are possible on a Mac (OS X 10.9)?
When I turn on the personal hotspot, I cannot get a DHCP network address on my computer. I've tried with 2 different computers and an Android phone. They can connect to the network router but not my iPhone, which won't give out an IP address.
How can I get back (some) missing contacts? Some contacts are missing in my iPhone's Contacts app. They are available in my OS X's addressbook, both are linked by iCloud. Strangely, the contact name and information is appearing, when I receive a call or have a missed call. I don't have Facebook linked with my iOS contacts. iPhone 5s with iOS 7.0.4 MacBook with OS X 10.8.5
I want to learn how basic electronic components work and test some basic sensor output etc. My circuits are really simple so i don't need any fancy stuff. I think MacSpice is CLI so it's too hard for me, i really need GUI app since i know hardly nothing about electronic circuits. Which app lists electronic components with real names like "resistor 200" and don't use cryptic component codes which are hard to newbie?
Through dumb luck, I've ended up with 3 OpenCL-capable graphics card in my Mac. I even ran the little "list all your OpenCL devices" sample program from Apple, and it lists all of them. Do programs that use OpenCL automatically use all OpenCL devices that are available to the system, or is it like CPUs (prior to GCD) where programs needed to be explicitly written to use multiple devices?
My understanding is that the (main) reason of having a 64 bit processor, is to be able to use more than 4 GB of RAM. In PCs, it is now very common to have more than 4GB of ram, and to really be able to use such ram, you NEED a 64 bit processor.
I have the same problem as this user, Air + Lion : plug in USB, keyboard/pad stop working , where the built-in keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro stop working (and drop out of the USB devices listed) periodically when I plug in a USB hard drive. The solution provided was to boot into safe-mode and clear the kernel extension caches, however I use FileVault 2 full-disk encryption which seems to disable booting into safe-mode.
I know this is similar to other questions, but not quite. I'm used to Windows and now I have a MacBookPro at school. In Windows I can show a slide from a presentation while working on another application on my laptop. I know it interferes with the slideshow, but I really just want to show that one slide to my class. I can do that with Windows, however, on the MacBookPro I use at school, after clicking off mirroring and going to the slideshow I immediately get the presenter's view so I can't do anything else but the presentation. I am clicking on View Slideshow not clicking on View Presenter's Tools. The screen has the slide and my desktop switches to presenter's view. Am I missing something or will my Mac not allow anything else but the presentation to work at the same time? As I said, I went to settings > display and turned off mirroring.
I have two monitors on my Mac. I have just installed Maverick and I notice I can no longer stretch a window from the screen on my left to the screen on my right. Mac OSX Maverick 10.9 seems to pick one screen and it does not show the stretched window on the other screen anymore.
the only way i've been able to clean it up is to find the duplication & slice it out of the image. it's a pain in the ass for long pages.
Does anyone know where this string is located for Mail/Maps on Mavericks? I looked in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and it only lists a few entries, no NSWindow Frame. Cannot find for Maps, possibly com.apple.GEO.plist? No NSWindow Frame string there either. Also, is there a way to set their window positions, so that they always open in the specified place? defaults write...?
I was trying to install ctags using homebrew: Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?
My iphone 5's battery after a bit more than a year is dying. I bought the iPhone via the German Apple Online Store. Hence I have 24 months of EU statutory warranty. The iPhone is otherwise in great condition and has no damages. When trying to use the online support and repair form, Apple wants to charge me 260€ for the repair. How can I tell Apple that i want it to be dealt with under the statutory warranty? If Apple realizes that this isn't applicable, they should. Harge me at most the cost for replacing the battery, I think. And not the 260€ for a replacement device...
I have several Power PC apps that will no longer work with OS X 10.9. How can I remove them from my MAC?
I would like to never worry about losing any of my data while I'm traveling, away from an internet connection and at risk of losing or damaging my iPad. Is there an app on Cydia or otherwise that will backup a complete 1-1 copy (or archive) of my iPad's files such that it can be easily restored and just as easily browsed on a PC to find a particular file? Obviously the app should only copy files that have changed since last backup. This is of course assuming I'm using the Camera Connection Kit with an SD card.
The Apple Camera Connection Kit as well as many third-party adapters allow one to use many USB devices with an iPad. But most of these devices draw more power than iOS will provide. Of course the max power output could be changed by flipping a bit somewhere in iOS' Mach system.
For example, I would like to make a Pages document that has a value that's linked to the company information and Keynotes and Numbers as well. So, when our company information changes, all the reference value can be changed. Is this possible to do? If not, does any office suite have this ability?
I have forgotten the answers to my security questions, but I don't want to/have time to call apple support and have them tell me my questions. Is there any way to maybe reset/get them over email?
According to Apple, With Safari 5 through 5.1.7, a lock icon appears near the top right corner [only] if all of the webpage's content uses a secure connection. That's all very well, but normally to view the SSL/TLS certificate for a webpage serving content over HTTPS, one would click the padlock icon. Because the icon is not present on pages that serve only some of their content over SSL/TLS, there ought to be another way to view the certificate, but what is it?
I just updated to 10.9.1 and when the system restarted I got a window that said "Incompatible Software". But I got a Little Snitch window on top of it obscuring that window. For whatever reason I could not close the LittleSnitch window nor could I switch to the "Incompatible Software" window. I tried multiple times and the only way out was to restart the machine. All was well after that.
There are some fullscreen applications which hide the default mouse pointer, such as movie players (MPlayerX, VLC), screen sharing client, some games, etc. On my computer in many of these applications the mouse pointer re-appears after a while, which can be very annoying. This has not been always so, and I am not sure what triggered this behaviour.
Mounting the sparsebundle in Finder shows me backups from 4 dates, which is correct, and I am interested in any of the earlier 3. Additionally, here is the data from the file com.apple.TimeMachine.SnapshotHistory.plist, which also shows the 4 backups:
The kernel_task process is at 567MB of RAM, and my hard disk space keeps disappearing. I just synced an iPhone 4S with iTunes like ~2 days ago, and now every couple hours I get the message that the startup disk is low on space. I've tried using Grand Perspective to no avail, as well as Disk Doctor.
I have a friend that wants to buy a Mac Book Pro and he has some windows applications that he needs to run. He doesn't want to buy the applications again.
My lock button doesn't work and a couple of days ago my screen stopped working as well. I can't slide my lock screen or anything now; do I send it to service?
I was thinking, anybody having there hands on a new MacPro (the late 2013), would it be possible -in time- to swap the CPU from a new MacPro? Its the CPU soldered to the motherboard? Looking forward for your thoughts.
I have the following equipment: An iMac 27" (mid-2011 windows 8 BOOTCAMP with 2 thunderbolt port and 1 miniDisplayPort) An iMac 27" (mid-2011 windows 8 BOOTCAMP with 2 thunderbolt port and 1 miniDisplayPort) An ASUS ROG laptop (with 1x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor / Mini display-port / 1 x HDMI) An ASUS ROG laptop (with 1x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor / Mini display-port / 1 x HDMI) An External monitor with HDMI, VGA and DVI input. An External monitor with HDMI, VGA and DVI input.
I'm very new to AppleScript and I'm trying to do this. I have an Safari process running on my machine. I wish I could go to the running safari and stimulate an enter key event. Is it possible to do so? The code I'm trying is: Inside the run script the key code 36 (for stimulating enter) is giving me error: Any guesses where I'm making mistake?
The font rendering in iBooks (version 1.0.1) on my Mac (Mavericks 10.9.1) is outright horrible. The text is jagged and rough looking. I've tried changing the font but that doesn't help, it still looks bad. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or have I just gotten too used to the smooth look of iOS iBooks?
Why Bluetooth of apple devices doesn't work for transferring data or files with other devices and even with apple to apple devices? Why can't the video or files be directly downloaded in device like iPhone, iPad etc. If possible how to send files to android phones via bluetooth
I just got my developer certificate from apple and I tried to add provisioning to my iPhone so I connected it to my macbook pro and everything went fine suddenly I started to get a black thin border around my screen.
I've tried to install Xcode 3.2 on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9, but during the installation (when it's almost finished) OS X had a kernel panic and keeps crashing immediately after login.  Xcode 3 is required to build Android 2.3 from the source code. How to fix it?
Is it possibile to change default permissions /dev/disk*? In Linux this is done in the udev configuration files; which is the equivalent on OS X?
Whenever I try to login as an AD user to an OS X Mavericks Macbook Pro it says unable to create mobile account. I do have the AD settings set to create a mobile account on login so that is correct but not really sure why it is failing. I have tried running the terminal command to create the mobile user (with verbose info on) and this is what it returns: (Username has been replaced with <username here> I have seen the lines stating that I do not have the appropriate privileges but I am running this as sudo with my admin user. ***Updated I tried running the command using another admin account and got a different output
My iPhone 3Gs turns off and on itself, again and again when I charge it, then it shows the battery sign but does not start. It all started happening after I updated my iOS. What should I do? How should I make sure that my data on my iPhone is not erased?
I've recently entered the mac world by getting my very first macbook pro and now am living with the differences of "thinking differently". One thing I can't seem to find is any details on my connection. Is there a way to see if the wifi I am connected to is B/G/N etc; Or does this require some custom app? It is hard not having 'advanced options' ;)
I've been using my Mac for around 2 years, and 3 years overall with uni. I keep deleting files. When I do this, it comes up asking me to confirm my password that would normally come up after logging out and back in.
I'm trying to customize this script to import all flagged mail messages in Mail.app to Omnifocus, then unflag and archive the message. It works, but it creates many duplicates in the Omnifocus inbox for some reason. Here's the script:
OSX always tries to autocorrect the the unix commands that I save into my note taking application. To prevent this, I right click and tell OSX to "Learn Spelling".
On my iPhone 4S with iOS 7, I have my default calendar set up as Gmail. This does sync my calendar just fine. I can create an event on the phone or the web and it syncs both ways.
I have an iPhone 4. Everything worked great in iOS6. Ever since I updated to iOS7 I have had a problem described exactly by the user of this post, quote: Whenever I happen to wake the phone or otherwise use the phone in any way, the audio skips momentarily, just like the old Discman days.
The calendar in my iPhone does not allow me to input new events. It was working fine, and I did nothing different to the Phone. When I try to input a new event, it won't 'stick'. Here's what I know: I can add an event directly into iCloud, and it will show up on iCal on my computer and in my iPhone. I can add event on my computer in iCal and it will show up on my iPhone, but not in my iCloud calendar. I try to add an event into the calendar on iPhone, and nothing shows up anywhere. OSX 10.7.5 iPhone 7.0.4
I have an older 2TB Apple Time Machine with years of kids photos. Unfortunately, my wife cannot remember the passcode to get in. We are at a loss as we have tried every password we can think of. We really don't want to loose all these kids pics!
I'm looking for "unity-win7" like solution, where I can run cmd+num for activating browser, console, editor etc... I found Activator and Services in osx, however, I can't use cmd+num because many app like chrome and iterm2 use them to activate tabs. So I set up Launch Services via Activator on chd+shift+num, and it works everywhere, except Emacs) It looks like Emacs handle keyboard before Services, so, for example, after cmd+shift+1, it expects "Shell command". What I need is to make this hotkeys (cmd+shift+num) somehow transparent for emacs.
How can I easily send a BCC to everyone in my address book on OS X? I need to send everyone my new email address.
This is probably a question more for unix systems but because i have it on my Mac Pro i hope i will find an answer here : When i browse to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_11.jdk/Contents/Home/db/bin with a cd I can't execute the command startNetworkServer present in bin , instead i can run it via ./startNetworkServer. However from ~ it works without ./
On Windows I can Shift Right-click in a folder and I am presented with the option to Open a Command Window Here. Is there a way I can do this on my MacBook Air? Or, do I need to open the terminal manually, and then cd to the destination folder?
i have recently bought my first rMBK and i really love it. i would like to start programming in java and have therefore tried installing two IDEs, eclipse and NetBeans. i have also made sure to download the newest java version from oracle (7u45). my problem is that the java provide from oracle is not used in eclipse and i cannot even install NetBeans - it stops installation and ask me to install java 7, even though it should already be installed. i am running OS 10.9.1. typing "java -version" gives the output: java version "1.6.0_65" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode) and "which java" gives "/usr/bin/java". under "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java" i can find the java version from oracle - but it is not the version used for anything except browser plugins. typing "/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java -version" ja
I need to factory reset my Macbook Air. So restarted it and hold option key. Then it requires to select wifi. But the list does not show the wifi I'm using. The wifi access point is very close and the signal is strong, so another Windows laptop and my cell phone are using that wifi. But this Macbook air shows only other wifi networks and not mine. What would be the reason? I tried entering my wifi network's name and password but it doesn't work either.
I was given an iPhone 5S for christmas and looks like it is locked to AT&T. How do i unlock it so I can use it overseas? I have looked online but there is no answer except for these suspicious IMEI unlock services. Thanks
I need to factory reset my Macbook but cannot recall the password. So I used Cmd+R during startup and go to terminal and typed 'resetpassword' according to this advice https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5309334?tstart=0
Before 10.9.1, I can disable/enable the built-in keyboard of my Air with the commands: But it seems after I updated to 10.9.1, the commands don't work anymore. Maybe the update made the command moot?
I have the same issue as in [this question][1], but now, there is no Perian to help me out. I have an m4v film that I can play in QT7 and see the subtitles, but not in QTX.
Are there any alternatives? Ideally a one-app-does-all like Perian, but even a list of individual codecs and/or plug-ins for video container files would be useful.
I have a problem that potentially causes me to miss important email: An incoming message is automatically marked as read after a few seconds. One can watch how a new email is at first unread in the inbox and then turns to read. This problem seems to occur only for one of several IMAP accounts. My settings are: In the viewing tab a selection "Mark all messages as read when opening a conversation" check box is unset.
Are there any freeware/shareware application to make a screen videocapture compatible with OSX 10.5.8?
Say, for example, if I have the iPhone 4S, and I select "reset network settings" in "General", would that enable me to change mobile carriers from AT&T to T-mobile?
Other people seem to have the same problem but there’s no definitive solution. The article seems to indicate that the computer shouldn’t hibernate immediately but much later, but it makes no mention at all of the weird addresses in the log.
I used to zoom in Chrome on Linux by holding Control and scrolling with the mouse wheel. Now on Mac when I press Cmd and scroll it just scrolls. How can I get Cmd+scroll zoom on Mac?
1 item could not be synced. See iTunes for more information. And iTunes tells me: The app "The Elements" was not installed on the iPhone "[...]" because not enough free space was available.
Recently I bought a used Macbook air but it was locked. The seller was not reached by phone or email. So I tried to factory reset or re-install the OS but all failed due to various reasons. I called Apple care, but they seem to misunderstand my question and tried to reset the password of 'my' Apple ID which is totally irrelevant. They said they cannot reset the seller's Apple password. When I failed three times in a login window, they gave me the serial number (of the Macbook) and the record number. Can I reset the login password using this information? What can I do to use this laptop?
I have a problem with adding a language-agnostic QWERTY (software) keyboard on an iPhone 4S. On my iPhone 5S and my iPad Air I have added this QWERTY keyboard which is like the regular English (US) keyboard, but which doesn't do spell checking, etc. I know I can turn off spell checking completely, but this isn't really a solution, since I use the phone to write in English, and I use the spell checker. FYI, here is how my Keyboards screen looks on the iPhone 5S:
I have notes taken in last two years in my iPhone. However only last two months' notes in iPhone are synced with my new iPad through iCloud.
My Mac mini ignores the "Display login window as" setting. I have it set to "Name and password" but it still displays a "List of users" whenever it reboots.
I used boot camp to setup dual booting between windows 8 and mac osx mavericks. To get the most possible space for Windows 8, should I have formatted my computer first? I was able to partition my drive as: 205 GB OSX 18 GB Available 295 GB Win8 It is a 500 GB hard drive.
How do you rearrange the photo album icons in Photos for iPad? I don't want to rearrange the pictures in the albums, just the icons of the various photo albums.
I'm using Keynote '09 (version 5.3 (1170) from App Store on OS X 10.8) as per Can I design web graphics with Pages more easily?, and I have defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 24, so, fonts smaller than 24 don't get anti-aliased, which works great in Keynote, except for the text underline feature. (How do I know what's going on? It's apparent when you export to PNG, and then zoom within the PNG.) Why is Keynote rendering the line under the font with anti-aliasing, when the font itself is rendered without anti-aliasing?
So I can’t mount the internal drive and I can’t seem to be able to mount an external drive to copy my files to it. It seems that there’s no network connection in single user mode (unless I’m missing something), so I don’t believe I can send the data through networking and my laptop refuses to mount the Target disk. There are some important documents I would like to save and I was wondering if there was some way to access the files on the hard drive the same way single user mode does it? Thanks a lot for any answers!
I want to mount my (non-bootable) Filevault encrypted drive on Linux. I know the user-facing password to decrypt it, but not the recovery key. From what I've read, I assume that the recovery key is the actual XTS-AES-128 key. Linux can't decrypt the drive with a password, but it can with the AES key. There's obviously a way to obtain the recovery key given the password, since that's done every time you decrypt the drive with a password. Hence I need a way to get this recovery key. Alternatively, a Filevault driver for Linux would also be a way to mount my encrypted drive.
When I connect my iPhone 4S to my Windows 8.1 laptop, iTunes doesn't see the phone. I can browse the DCIM folder via Windows Explorer, but iTunes doesn't see the device. Which is particularly unfortunate for me, as I don't have a Windows 7 PC to try and although I've been told that the phone has (just) been unlocked from the network, I think I have to sync it with iTunes in order for the phone to apply the unlock... is that right? Is there some work around for this?
On prior versions of OS X, it was possible to display hidden files in a Finder dialog box (Open, Save, etc.) using Command-Shift-Period.
Since I have updated iTunes (11.1.3.8) on my home PC running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 it constantly crashes after about using it for only a couple of minutes. When I check the Application log on the Event Viewer, i see the following Error info: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Event ID: 1000 Level: Error Event Details: Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 11.1.3.8, time stamp: 0x5274a87d Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 0x51fb1116 Exception code: 0x80000003 Fault offset: 0x00013219 Faulting process id: 0x2328 Faulting application start time: 0x01cefe992ffab867 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll Report Id: d3dfd01c-6a8c-11e3-a1e4-0024e812336e
Just had OS X crash on me because of swap pressure. I have 2012 rMBP running the latest version of Mavericks (10.9.1), and it only has 8GB of RAM.
Is there a way to quickly toggle the "use F1, F2, etc as standard function keys" in OSX? I'm a vim user on a MacBook, and I'd like to use at least some of the function keys for vim mappings, but it's a big sacrifice in ease-of-use outside of Vim. How do most people resolve this?
I've just installed the Mavericks 10.9.1 update and my audio is not working. The volume bar is obscurely grey, and the mac is becoming slightly slow. I checked the console to see anything related to this issue and I found this message every ten seconds. I've searched on google for this issue and no luck. I'm not sure if this has got to do with my mac's permissions but I'm not sure what to do next.
I've a weird problem with my MBA (2011 model) since the upgrade to Mavericks. There is a certain set of hotspots to which I can't connect anymore. I'm not sure which ones specifically, but there are several. Works well on the phone and tablet (both Androids). I've got the feeling that it has something to do with the IP configs I receive - has anybody seen similar behavior and found a solution? I've now found some more info on it, and it seems that the route is somehow mangled: On the non working connection my routing table is: On a working connection, the table is this one:
I've been seeing odd click behaviour for a while. Whenever I have my magic trackpad plugged in, Mavericks seems to be registering a number of clicks I'm not making. This results in making the system near unusable at times as it'll randomly cause textfields I'm writing in to be highlighted and then typed over, or for full-screen videos to pause and unpause as the clicks register. This happens during most sessions, on and off, and whether or not I'm touching the trackpad. There are no issues if I use a mouse, as long as the magic trackpad has had the batteries removed. Does anyone know how to fix this behaviour?
I'm trying to share my MacBook's files via Samba sharing. I've set it up in Settings, but can't connect to the machine from another computer!
My daughter and I have been sharing one iCloud account for our iPhone. She has her own Apple ID to purchase music. I need her to have her own iCloud account as mine is running out of storage. She is afraid if I delete her phone from my iCloud in my settings she will lose all of her contacts etc. Then is there a way to move items from one iCloud account to a newly created one?
I am using the bless command to reboot my Mac mini into VMware ESX. Booting ESX works but after the next reboot the Mac reboots into ESX again, despite the "--nextonly" parameter.
I'm having a weird issue with my iPhone 5, that I think is related to the battery, but might be something else. The battery indicator is wrong. It sticks to the value it fetches when rebooting the phone. Currently, it shows 58% regardless that it's been charging for hours. If I reboot it, however, I get an accurate value, and it sticks to that one. I get the following error message in the Console when plugging it to Xcode: The value in partial sensors: count XX increases as the iPhone runs.
Does anyone know of an app (on iOS, Android or any platform) that will allow me to place one phone in a part of my house that has good phone signal, and have it relay all calls to another device using my home's WiFi?
A while back I created a Apple ID for my self on a loaned iPhone 4 at work. Recently my partner upgraded her MacBook Pro to Mavericks, and being the IT guy in the house, I installed the first few updates that popped up after signing in with my Apple ID on my user account. Today she received more update notifications on her account, so she proceeded to install them. She was asked for my account password. Strange that that carries across user accounts, but okay... clicked the Store menu, Create Account. All goes fine, until the billing information step. Neither of us has a credit card, nor do we understand why one is needed for system updates. I looked around for a solution and came across this article in Apple's knowledge base: Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store account without a credit card. It suggests using "None" as the payment option, but such an option does not show up for us. Now I know similar questions have been asked before, but none seem to a
I have Windows 7 and the latest iTunes. My original user account, where my library is, seems to have contracted a virus so it's sky-rocketing my internet usage. I created a new user account, but I need to transfer my library, since I want to delete my old account to delete the virus. I've tried using an external hard drive, home sharing, and changing the library location to a public file, but nothing seems to work.
Just got my first iPhone. Will not be using iMessages being I'm the only person in my social circle who has Apple products. Am I still able to send/receive SMS/MMS the "old" way on this phone? Also, due to the nature of my job, boss requires the phone stay off during working hours. Will I still be able to get any text messages sent to me once I'm able to turn my phone back on, even if it's a few days afterwards?
I am working under OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks), using Terminal, which reports that it is GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13) I noticed some weird issues where history was not working properly: history -a and history -a filename.txt don't do anything. history shows the history I would expect. This breaks my .bashrc synchronization of history across terminals.
My external hard drive didn't recognize one of the partitions so I had to bring it to the support guys in order to restore the files if possible. They gave me back the hard disk with some of those files restored as well as the partition of the Time Machine restored. I got very surprised when I saw the time machine restored copy was only 500 MB instead of the 500 GB I though it was (i would say it was much more bigger than this for sure…), but well, I want to try to see if it works. Now, I don't know how to tell Time Machine that my time machine copy is there, as I want to restore a file in my computer. The current structure on the partition is a folder with the username (iMac of USERNAME) and inside a few folders named with this other structure YYYY-MM-DD-NUMBERS as well as one called "Latest". I'm not sure if this is the correct structure for a time machine partition or if I should just get rid of the folder named "iMac of…" and just place there its content instead.
I installed OSX Fuse via Brew, as installing it via official installer causes brew doctor to go all crazy. Mavericks, 10.9.1 I followed the instructions after the installation: Now, when I try to lunch TrueCrypt, I still get an error:
I have a MacBookPro 13" Retina late 2013 with an internal SSD, there is 1TB unallocated space, I tried Disk Utility but it doesn't let me create a new partition there (it just does nothing when I click 'Apply'). Verify shows no error, also repair.
I would like to know when I logged in and out on my mac. Is it possible?
Okay, the title is not really clear enough, but I can't think how to phrase it better. So, the problem is, I have starcraft (1 and Brood Wars) CD that I'd like to play on mac 10.8 using Wine.
Have bought Mac air 11 inch today. Cannot make @ key function. I Have pressed alt and the @ key together. Nothing happens. It seems that other signs on the right side are not the same as what I see on the screen. For example, if I press ?, it gives me -. Is something wrong/broken?
The App Store wants me to update my Pages 4.3 to Pages 5.0. Given the changes to and reviews of Pages 5.0, I wish to stay with 4.3. Can I somehow delete the upgrade reminder from the list? I would also like to remove the Keynote and Numbers upgrade reminders as well.
Hi I have an open directory network users login with network based user home folder I am trying to redirect the ~/Library/Caches folder to a /tmp/User/Library/Caches folder using MCX redirection using workgroup manager on the group I have setup the redirect as per below I can see that it works as on login the /tmp/User/Library/Caches folder is created, however no applications are using it, they continue to create items in the ~/Library/Caches folder
-bash: /Users/MarksMac/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin/activate: No such file or directory Basically, how do i remove the above error? I am using a mac 10.9.1 I have tried looking up for answers but i still can't solve this. Although it's very simple. Sorry, I'm new to terminal.
Im trying to bring up the OS X shutdown dialogue box by simulating the key press Control+F12 for 2 seconds (using a logitech keyboard). No matter how much I try I just can not get it to work. My latest script looks like this: This should work and does work if I press Control+F12 for 2 seconds on my keyboard, so can someone tell my why it doesn't work when called via applescript?
I am upgrading an iPhone 3G (iOS 4.2.1) to an iPhone 5c (iOS 7). Unfortunately, the iPhone 3G's YouTube app (the old Apple-made app) was never logged into a YouTube account, and now seems not so be able to authenticate, so I can export the app-only list of video Favorites. So, my question is, is there any way I can currently log in to YouTube with this app, or save that, export a list of favorites?
I have Macbook Pro (mid 2009, core 2 duo 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM), which I updated to OS X 10.9.1 yesterday. Since I have updated it, I have had it crash about every ten minutes. Here is an error report: If I don't use the keyboard then it will go longer without crashing.
I have a camera and it creates an AVI file every 10 minutes when recording video. I would like to join files from the camera and sometime trim part of the video. I don't want re-encode the files if possible. Is there a free program that will let me concatenate a split AVI files?
I recently installed OS Mavericks as Virtual Machine. Everything else is working fine. I got Xcode 5.0.1 ( and then tried Xcode 5.0.2) installed successfully. However, Xcode crashes everytime I create new project.
I encoded and imported a tv show myself, to iTunes. I selected all of the episodes, and gave them all a generic date of "2013". It worked, except for two episodes, 4 and 5.
How to change the spell check language in Pages version 5? The solutions described here and here are no longer available in the current version.
There is an iOS browser app that will automatically navigate to a URL upon app launch if there is a URL on the clipboard but I cannot remember the app. Does anyone know?
I've got a MacBook Pro with Retina display and I've got a ton of stickers on it. Is there a method for removing the stickers from the back without damaging the finish and without leaving sticky residue on the laptop? Is this something I can get help with from the Genius Bar?
I'm a long-time user of ActivePython, and also own a couple of Komodo licenses. I've recently moved to the Mac, and one thing that I'm missing a lot is the "offline" documentation (i.e., in Windows Help format) that was included with ActivePython.
I'd like to be able to bind a shortcut key to perform differently when pressing two arrow keys than when pressing one or the other. For instance, I want to make a new shortcut key for Command+Left+Up that will be different from Command+Left and Command+Up. Is this possible? I'm using OS X 10.9 - Mavericks.
I did sync my iPod with iTunes, but I can't see where are my videos on iTunes (videos I recorded using the iPod). Any hint?
The events I have entered are gone. I can not enter them. The + is not working. Facebook birthdays are still there. Also all my list are gone.
When I try to text to someone using my Ipad, it won't go through. What is "iMessage" and is that the problem?
Update 12/30/2013. I am now able to access previous backups (by using Kent's recommendation of using option plus clicking the Time Machine menu bar icon), but the interface is so slow that it could appear to be not working if one wasn't patient enough. Something blocking on the main thread, perhaps? The main issue to solve now is how to get incremental backups working from the last full backup made to the drive, instead of starting from scratch.
I'm having trouble with running python on my Macbook Pro OS X 10.9.1. Two days ago it was running with absolutely no problem and now it won't start up. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and update the Tkinter and Tcl/Tk etc.
Until recently, on OS X 10.8, I was using Alfred (which in turn uses Spotlight) to search files and directories on an encfs-mounted partition (which is mounted off a folder in my Dropbox directory). I used to use the command sudo mdutil -i on ~/Dropbox-encfs to enable indexing for that partition once it had been mounted (typically, I remounted every time I rebooted).
I have the Drive Genius 3 demo and it does not have a menu or an Uninstall. How do I delete the demo version of Drive Genius 3?
I'm trying to restore a time machine backup onto a new machine, however the only options are backups done prior to mavericks. The backups done under mavericks don't come up but I am sure they are on my external hard drive.
I am using Microsoft Office 2011 Suite on my MacBook Pro with Retina Display. The user interfaces are super blur as shown below.
I want to write a script that searches a web page for an updated file, then downloading it when detected. There is no command I have found that does this, accept Automator's download URL function, that I believe just gets the HTML, not the file. Tell me if I am wrong or if AppleScript can do such a task?
I bought a 4th-gen iPad in May. Recently the home button has started sticking. I'm going to take it to the Apple Store for an exchange.
My python script imports from quartz.coregraphics. Is core graphics included on 2013 Mac Minis? I ask because import works on macbook pros running snow leopard and mavericks, but fails on a mini from early 2007 running OS 10.5. I don't want to buy a new mini without being sure that the script will work.
I'm wondering if my mid-2010 Macbook Pro will be more stressed than it should if I run a 22-inch monitor in clamshell mode. It seems to be whirring more than usual when I do this, so am I better off just getting an iMac?
I'm running OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks). The new calendar design has the weekends tinted gray. Fine, I suppose, if you're a 9-5er, but I'm a musician and weekends are my weekdays. Weeks aren't all the same, and any day can be a work day or a day off.
I have a video and would like to create what is called a Photo Montage like this: (combining several photos of the same skier like below)  I have searched on the Internet and some definition of "Montage" is different from what's shown here. I know some Android phone has this feature when taking a video. But right now I already have a video and like to create this layered time lapse effect on either Mac OS X or iPhone/iOS.
I have fn key in left bottom conner of my macbook pro keyboard. For what purpose does it exist? I understand that I can remap it to my needs, but what is its default function?
Need to find files/folders with names longer than n characters (OS X 10.9.1). Could you please help?
As far as I know, *=URL=* is available for Books category and thus, for Amazon-purchased books only. There are no entries from "Personal Documents"
Is there a time limit software for mac that does exactly what the "Bedtime" feature in Parental Controls does, except separately from the System Administrator framework? Here's what I want to do: I want my Mac to lock me out during a certain time-frame every day, say 10pm to 6am. And I don't want to be able to bypass this. But I don't want to lose my System Admin privileges (install/uninstall, delete apps, etc). If I set up the Parental Controls I have to give that password to someone else. Is there a software that will allow me to set a 'curfew' for my mac with a password protection separate from my System Admin?
I have an old Mac pro with lion. It's too old to upgrade to Maverick. Where, if possible, can I get Mountain Lion to upgrade this Mac? I cant find it on the store. I'd like to get a legal version. Even if I have to pay for it. Thank you for your insights.
How can I move a window so that the title bar of the window is above the menu bar? I've tried using AppleScript… …and whilst the x variable works, moving the window partially off-screen, the y doesn't, moving the window up to the menu bar and no further. I've also tried Keyboard Maestro:
I would like to produce an electronic textbook for distribution to my students. Ideally, this would have some of the interactive features like those available in iBooks Author, but I think the book will need to be compatible on Windows and Linux as well; I don't necessarily want a Kindle or Nook-compatible book, as I'm positive that won't support the interactive features and animations I'd like to include.
I bought a Macbook Pro in 2012, it came with OS X Lion. (came with NO disc, etc) 1 Month ago I downloaded the update "Mountain Lion". About 2 weeks ago I removed some of the OS X Mountain Lion System files (Twitter, Facebook, etc)
I have two drives on my Mac, Macintosh HDD (Mountain Lion) and Macintosh SSD (Mavericks). I recently installed Mavericks on Macintosh SSD. I still have Mountain Lion installed on Macintosh HDD along with media files. What would be a good way to remove Mountain Lion, keeping the media files on that drive.
Having a Mail server running on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and having "Junk Mail Filtering" enabled, causes greylisting to kick in on every received message. An example:
When I check for updates on my iPod touch (currently on iOS version 3.1.3) it tells me I am on the most recent software. How can I update to a more recent iOS software?
I have Carbonite set up on my wife's MacBook Pro in order to back up all her files to the cloud. She's not always diligent about making sure she leaves it on long enough to back up everything, so I was checking its status today after a big video import and noticed that it looks like the .mov files in the ~/Movies/iMovie Events.localized folder are not backed up.
In the Terminal preferences, I'm able to configure the Terminal to "Open shells with:" -> "Command (complete path):" /opt/local/bin/bash. What options is the terminal passing when invoking this command? Terminal appears to run each shell as a login shell, so I'm assuming --login is being passed? Is there any Apple documentation that gives an overview of exactly what is being run when you open a terminal window?
I imagine I am not the first one to notice this problem, but unfortunately the update of Mavericks so far have not even addressed this issue. I have a late 2011 iMac, and while the transition from Lion to Mountain Lion was smooth, introduction of Mavericks made it gradually, not just too slow, but stack. Should I go back to Mountain Lion?
I received an notice on my iPhone saying, "iPad is now using ####@hotmail.com". This is my email address but I don't have an iPad. What does this mean? Thank you.
How can I filter images by orientation in Finder to show only portrait/vertical images or only landscape/horizontal images?
So I recently moved from an Android phone to an iPhone 5c. One of my favorite features of Android was the ability to store apps on the SD card. It's apparent that there's no solution like this for an iPhone, as iPhones don't have an SD card slot. My question, however, is what alternatives may exist to storing extra apps on my 5c. I've come to find out that apps alone are filling my device. Using iCloud, I can sync just about everything else wirelessly, but regardless, I still could use some more breathing room just for my apps. Is there any sort of cloud based solution for this, or anything else for that matter? I've hunted around but can't seem to find any definitive answers.
I would like to get a recent downloaded pdf file ( !: it corresponds to the Finder sort method Date Added, not Date Created nor Date Modified) and either just moving to one another folder (if using plain AppleScript) or ask the user to perform this action (if using FolderActions). So the idea is to move some new downloaded pdf files to another location.
My iPod is dead, and whenever I plug it in (original Apple cable, firmly pushed in all the way) the LED glows red for 5 seconds and turns off. My PC does not detect it, and I've tried multiple PCs and USB ports. Resetting does not fix the issue. What do I do?
So I have the 5S and the iOS 7 Jailbreak came out the other day. See one problem though is that mobile substrate and preferenceloader don't quite work with any 64-bit devices. Anyway, the whole point of the question is if anyone knows any information on excatly when those two very important Cydia packages will be optimized for the 5S/Any other 64-bit devices.
I replaced standard fn key by left control, left control by another useful key. And as far as I don't use Caps Lock key in everyday life, I decided to replace Caps Lock key by fn. I use for this purpose PCKeyboardHack.
I upgraded an old MacBook Pro to Mavericks, and I am now trying to download Xcode. In App Store I searched for "xcode", found it, clicked "Install".
When I try to download Remote.app or Find my friends on a device that is stuck on iOS 6 I am presented with this alert? This application requires iOS 7.0 or later. You must update to iOS 7.0 in order to download and use this application. Is there anyway around this if I've previously downloaded these applications on my device but deleted them?
I have a Macbook Pro 2008 aluminum 15-inch that runs on OSX snow leopard. Whenever I turn on my laptop, it boots up (apple logo and spinning wheel appears), and then goes into a loop of blue screens. I think the problem has something to do with the login process, because I sometimes see mouse and the brightness and sound icons appear, but it always fades away.
I want to change the WiFi signal strength of my Airport base. That feature was removed along many others in the Airport configuration tool since version 6, so I used the previous version to solve my problem like this: *=URL=* However the latest version before 6.0 (seems to be 5.6.1) cannot be installed in Mavericks. How can I access to the lost AirPort configuration features now?
I am about to install OSX Mavericks in an iMac I have. I would love to make a clean install (creating the bootable USB with that complex procedure). I was thinking about copying folder by folder but thinking about iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto makes things more complicate as they are stored in the library folder and it can carry more than one problem I guess. I was wondering if that "clean" install will again become "dirty" if I restore everything with the copy I have in TimeMachine. Would that also transfer preferences and things which could interfere with the new installation?
Since a couple of weeks, my MacBook Pro has been experiencing random kernel panics. I believe these kps started after installing Mavericks (although I am not completely sure). I decided to do a complete fresh install of Mavericks, without restoring it using TimeMachine. All went well for a while, until last week, in which I had two KPs again.
I am using TeXworks as the LaTeX editor on my new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. The interfaces are super blur. It seems that TeXworks does not support the retina resolution. See below.
I try to change tilde key to shift. I have success in it, but only for russian language. I used KeyRemap4MacBook for it.
(I'm using wifi from a personal access point in my room, of which the security type is "WPA/WPA2 Personal" (it's what I see in network settings on my mac). Normally it just requires a password to login, no username is required.
Command+Left and Command+Right are both incredibly useful key combinations. By contrast, Command+Up and Command+Down are incredibly irritating. I almost never actually need a shortcut to the top of the document. 99 times out of 100, when I press Command+Up or Command+Down, it's by accident, usually when meaning to press one of the useful combinations. Is there any way to switch those two off?
I have a couple of lines in my .zshrc file (although it could just as easily be my .bashrc file—the specific shell makes no difference) that use systemsetup to display the computer name and other similar things. This worked flawlessly before I upgraded to Mavericks, but now it gives this error everytime (but still works anyway): (The first line is STDERR, and the second is STDOUT.) Of course I could work around this by just piping STDERR to /dev/null, but I'd like to know what's wrong and fix the problem. If I use sudo first, it works fine, the same as it always has worked. The permissions on systemsetup are just what I would expect:
I have some wireless networks that I joined on my iOS device and I now want to retrieve the passwords from the device. How can I (by hook or crook if necessary) get into the iOS 7 or iOS 8 keychain and obtain saved passwords?
In this AppleScript on Mavericks: I get a much higher message count than the number of selected messages (it can be a difference of almost 30% for some mailboxes). I have confirmed that selecting ONE message with no replies can result in the message being counted more than once. This is with a standard IMAP account. Is there any reason other than IMAP errors for this discrepancy?
I have a new Bluetooth speaker paired with my old iPhone that runs iOS 3.1.3. Paired, but when I use the iPod app on the iPhone: playback is on the iPhone. How do I get playback through the Bluetooth speaker?
I have iOS 6.0.1 on iPhone 4s. I would like to upgrade to iOS 6.1.3 (afaik latest 6.x for iPhone 4s?) and not to 7.x as software updater suggests. Is there any way to do so?
Is there a default keyboard shortcut to start a new Finder window? If not, is there a way to assign one? I tried System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and created a new item for Finder, and assigned shift-command ⌘-F, among other things, but nothing worked.
I created two IMAP accounts in Mail app. However I had to enter two wrong email address/passwords to be able to manually set my hotmail as IMAP.
I frequently use my Macbook on my iPad's data plan. Unfortunately, unlike iOS, OSX can't limit application network usage based on whether it's on a cell network, and I always have to remember to close Steam, uTorrent, Dropbox, automatic updates, etc. whenever I start tethering. Is there an app out there that I can turn on and off quickly to whitelist a small number of applications and prevent everything else from using the network?
I originally started playing Clash of Clans on a first-generation iPad and connected it to my GameCenter. I then got a third generation iPad, linked it to the first iPad's GameCenter account, and continued playing Clash of Clans on the new iPad 3. My friend is giving me his GameCenter account, which is linked to HIS Clash of Clans village- is there any way I can transfer his village to my Game Center ?
I have downloaded Mavericks from the App Store. Now I have the installation image, but I am afraid to install it because it might delete my files and programs under Mac OS X Lion 10.8.4. If I install Mavericks, will it all be deleted?
Frequently I find myself in the situation when I receive push notifications of new Skype messages. I can see the text and read it. Although, when I open actual Skype app I don't see any updates. Sometimes I have to wait for 2-3 hours for messages to appear. The contact (who sent me a message) is online. And I don't even receive messages on desktop if iOS Skype was running. What's wrong?
My iPhone 5 has been shutting down earlier than normal at lower battery levels. First, it started to shut down around 10%, then it increased to 15%, 20%, and finally 25%. I used to be able to run it down to 1%. The battery indicator also jumps down sometimes by around 10-15%.
(on latest Mavericks) While in VirtualBox (Ubuntu) fullscreen, on a Mac host, each time the mouse goes near the top, the Mac auto-hide menu bar appears - and I want to prevent that, or at least, since it's the annoying component, reduce the time it takes to that menu to disappear when the mouse goes down [currently it's ~1 seconds]. Ideally the time needed to trigger that menu should be higher than currently [instant] - eg like keeping the mouse on top for 1 whole second. Illustration below shows the Ubuntu menu that has been overridden by the Mac menu when the mouse hits the top of the screen.
Today I was updating my Mavericks installation and during the process it seems that App Store somehow "hung up" on installation and some downloads didn’t download properly. Because of that, now I see multiple instances of "OSX Update 10.9.1" in updates history, and not just that, but every other part from that chunk of updates such as iTunes update.
Can my disconnected phone still recieve iMessages? Everything I have been told and read says yes! This is a nightmare! Is there a way to find out if this "person I suspect" really does have it? And is there anyway to stop the I messaging coming to that phone?
I downloaded 6.1.3 IPSW file for 4S from apple.com, shiftclicked update/restore in iTunes but I got infamous 3194 message. Same happened with 6.1.0 I tried to find some solution on the internet but of course 99.99999% websites were rambling about cydia hosts entries or whatever which, of course, I didn't have.
I have apparently had Java installed at some point and Mavericks removed it, which is fine by me. The problem is that some unknown app is constantly trying to run Java, causing this dialog to appear every few minutes:
I do not completely turn off my MacBook Pro and I only sleep it. Are there any limitations to consider when doing this for several months in a row?
Whenever I take a video with the standard camera app and then import it into Instagram on my iPhone 5S, the video ends up distorted. A still from the original video:
I recently bought a new SSD drive, as my stored data amounts outgrew the old one a little bit. After copying all data using dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk1, I want to enlarge my system partition, but Disk Utility is failing silently and diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 R (first partition is the EFI boot volume), I receive following error message: Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small How can I resize my system volume?
I bought a used iPhone 4. The previous owner re-set the phone, but did not remove the device from their iCloud. It is asking me for their iCloud information when I try to set-up the phone. I don't have contact with the previous owner anymore. Is there a way to remove the device from their iCloud so I can use a new one?
Music which I've deleted from library and/or unchecked still appears on iPhone 4 and plays with checked music even after syncing. How can I delete music from iPhone so it does not play any more?
I'm talking about the services you find when right-clicking a file or folder. It should be possible to 'remove' those services within the system preferences (under the keyboard section) but this just won't work for me. When I uncheck the services nothing happens and as soon as I reopen the system preferences window it's all back to default. Maybe it's related to iCloud syncing (you know, those things Apple has yes to tell us about), but this is just a guess, nothing I know of.
I have a fairly extensive file system with a large collection of images and a duplicate disc of those images and, additionally, some folders with images that are in process of some workflow. I have tagged some of these files. If I click a tag in the Finder's sidebar, ALL the files with that tag are shown throughout the file system. Is there a way to limit the search by tag to a certain folder (and it's contained folders) in the Finder? Here is what I have tried so far: Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced does not limit the scope when tags are used. Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced does not limit the scope when tags are used. If click a tag and then try and add limiting information in the search box, the tag is lost. If click a tag and then try and add limiting information in the search box, the tag is lost. If I click to the parent folder, then type tag:Red in the search folder, the files with that specific tag are not shown If I click to the parent folder, then type tag:Red in the sear
I have a MacBook Air with one SSD that unfortunately is formatted as journaled, case-sensitive. I have an external HDD that I copied my whole start volume bootable to with the tool SuperDuper and it works fine. When I format the SSD to the correct filesystem (journaled, not case-sensitive) it successfully formats it, but when I copy the data back with SuperDuper it transfers the old file system, too, rendering it useless. How can I have the SSD with the system on it and the new filesystem?
I recently switched from using an Ubuntu box for the last 7 years to a Mac. I have read other posts like Switching from Ubuntu to OS X and I'm lost and What is the difference between iTerm2 and Terminal? Why don't iTerm2 and Terminal complete the arguments for a command?
I just upgraded to Mavericks on my 2.8 quad desktop, and now it won't fully boot. It gets to the Apple logo, then hangs. I tried safe boot but got the same result. Where to next?
I have a Samsung 840 Pro in my 2009 Mac Pro, and due to the 2009 Mac Pro only being SATA 2 I get about half the read/write speeds. I've been doing some research and I came across a SATA 3 PCI-E card that will work in a 2009 Mac pro. I'm going to put my SSD in my second optical bay drive and run a SATA cable up to it, but what do I do about power?
I recently did a fresh install of Mavericks, and ever since I haven't been able to use the fndelete keystroke in Terminal. On the command prompt, fndelete prints ~ and if I'm in vim, fndelete will capitalize existing characters.
I'm using Time Machine to back up my data on my Mac to an external HD, so I can restore my data on a fresh OS installation, but Time Machine's resulting backup is only 43 GB. My laptop's HD is 113 GB in size. Why is Time Machine only backing up 43 GB, not the entire amount?
The download in the App Store can't be installed, restarted, or deleted. This is for iMovie 10.0.1 as of December 23, 2013. I followed a discussion forum and tried a suggestion that said remove the application from finder. Unfortunately, this left me without the iMovie application and did nothing to change the status of iMovie from "downloaded". So, I can't even start over or resume. Is there a clean way to get out of this mess? The forums go on and on with various solutions and responses that say that one "...worked for me!". My system software is OS X 10.9.1 running on a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch, Early 2013.
I was wondering if there was a shortcut or solution to switch focus between different displays since I'm using a mac air with an external monitor. Often times I have to use the mouse just to focus on another application on a different display. Would really speed up the work flow if I can focus on apps in different displays. Also I use full screen apps so I take advantage of desktop switching by hitting control + left or right thats why I need to be able to first focus on an app on either screen 1 or two then start switching apps or just use the app on that screen.
I want to install Ghostscript on my OS X 10.9 using a valid DMG file, where can i find it?
How can it be that I cannot ping my own IP on Mac OS? I disabled both the firewall on my Mac and on the wireless router which gives me the dynamic IP on en0.
I bought a used iPhone 4s from eBay and, of course, when I recieved it, it was inactivated. I put in an old At&t sim I had in the house (not sure where it came from as I've never had At&T), and I was able to get past the activation screen and enter some info and set up Siri and iCloud.
I'm trying to record my screen with sound at the same time, but right now, my jack stopped working (it's with the red light) and I have to use a headset so that I can have sound on my Mac. So my question is: Can I record my screen, my audio input (me babbling) and the supposed audio output that should come from speakers (that now its coming out from my headset). Is there a way, Or is it just impossible?
I have 4 samba shares on a Synology DiskStation that I successsfully automount on my 10.9 / Mavericks based system under /Shares/ and when I open the command line I can go there just fine and list the files and directories just fine, however when trying to navigate to /Shares via the Mac OS X finder, the directory just seems entirely empty:  My /etc/auto_master looks like this: ... my /etc/auto_smb like this:
So I'm attempting to install Xcode on OS X Tiger on my iBook G4 (It was a gift.) I needed Xcode because I was trying to install MacPorts so that I could easily install software, namely git. However, when I attempt to install it via what MacPorts says to do: *=URL=* via the link for 10.4, it just sits there loading… nothing happens.
So, I have an old iBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 (It was a gift for Christmas.) and when I went to download some of my iTunes purchases to my computer, I got this (Basically, it didn't say "What's New in iTunes 10.3", just "What's New in iTunes"):
I've changed my terminal's color but, as always, the color I set are rendered brighter than they really are. Here's the proof, I set the exact same color on ST and on my term, you can clearly see the term is brighter.
I have an iPhone 3gs that my friend pulled the cable out of it during a restore. It is now "Bricked",as it will not restore. I have tried restoring it myself, but now I keep getting error 37.
I have an iPhone, iPad and iPad mini - all using one single Apple ID and is synced with one iTunes account in my laptop. When I sync my devices all the apps and files go to individual devices. But if don't want to have a particular app, can I delete only in one device but be as is in others?
On my old Windows setup I used a symbolic link to store my htdocs folder in my Skydrive folder and still work with XAMPP. I've just bought a MacBook and trying to accomplish the same thing but seem to be having trouble. I have created an alias of the htdocs folder in Skydrive and placed it in the XAMPP directory but I'm having file permission problems in the form of… Access forbidden!
Out of nowhere, my MacBook Pro 2011 unibody running 10.7.5 began to crash. After the crashes, in the boot sequence you could see very thin horizontal red lines. The red lines were so thin that I can't take a picture as the lines won't show up in photos. While you could see the red lines across the screen, the computer will not boot up, not even to recovery. After leaving the computer off for a few hours, it will boot-up like nothing happened.
I have some videos that I would like to copy onto an old iPod Touch 2Gen for my daughter, so that she doesn't have to see the horror of YouTube. The specs for the device (as taken from here) show that the following are supported video types: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats Quicktime shows the following when playing the video: And iTunes has the following in Get Info: But when I try to copy the file via iTunes, it says the file is not support
I made a script to upload images, it shows a notification, but it stays on screen for a very long time until I close it by click. Is there a way to decrease the delay for this notification?
Coming from a Linux background I still find Apples' modifications to the Unix hierarchy somewhat confusing. Nevertheless these subtle changes make it difficult for me to quickly do what I need. I shall explain my scenario in a linux setting as it would make the most sense, then hope someone can translate this into BSD/OS X lingo. I do not like GUI-based things if theres a CLI alternative. I recently installed GIT so I could work on a number of projects from my MacBook, in linux one can define default config settings in /etc/gitconfig which is first loaded into the users' configuration and then merged with ~/.gitconfig. When I create this default global git configuration file inside /etc/gitconfig it has not effect when I run my aliases, unless I specifically define them for each user on the machine. Could someone please suggest to me exactly how this default behaviour works on OS X?
On my iPhone running iOS 7, I have the Personal Hotspot feature, but I can't turn it on. I've read that it's been disabled by my carrier, AT&T, since the feature is plan dependent. How can I bypass this and still enable Personal Hotspot?
EXTERNAL DRIVE #1 = NORMAL backups....daily/hourly/weekly/etc. always plugged in. EXTERNAL DRIVE #2 = WEEKLY/DR backups....only plugged in once a week (or less) and backs up everything since the last time it was plugged in...regardless of what the backups for EXTERNAL DRIVE #1 have been doing. Thank you.
It's worth mentioning that my Bootcamp setup isn't typical. I've partitioned the hard drive and installed windows manually, alongside Arch Linux. (I've triple booted this thing, and windows audio is the final hurdle.) I'm also using the refind efi bootloader to boot the system.
Where I can get an iCal calendar for official holidays in Berlin city? Any thing like that?
Apple lists about 140 Calendars you can subscribe to - some quite obscure looking, others quite obvious like federal holidays for large countries with large Apple customer bases. I don't see any way to alert Apple to a calendar and wondered if there were any sort of mechanism to provide a format for Apple to evaluate and possible publish. *=URL=* Are downloads something registered developers can seed or how would I publish a calendar and get it listed by Apple on their downloads site?
So, I really would like to change my icon set on my iBook G4, but I really have no clue how to do it! I have the icons (I believe all are in either .png or .ico), but I have little/no experience on Macs! I know I can go program by program and change icons by clicking on Get Info after right-clicking, but changing the entire icon set via that would take forever and I would be sure to miss some. Basically, does anyone know of OS X Tiger compatible software that will swap icons out for me?
I am new to Mac OS (I am currently using Mavericks) and I have performed google searches as well as search on StackExchange regarding my question but the discussions I came across don't quite answer my question. I come from the linux world and it is trivial for me to set a custom command in the gnome-panel and then put in any argument I like; many of these commands invoke xterm. So for example, suppose I want to create a launcher to connect to a remote server with lot of arguments as below.
So I'm using OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on Power PC (old iBook G4 - gift/joke for Christmas) and I installed and am happily using CandyBar to customize the icons. However, I want to customize the icon for TenFourFox, as it isn't all that esthetic. I have the .png, .ico, and .icns of the icon I want to use, but whenever I try to use CandyBar to change the icon, it just takes the placeholder for that type of file, as you can see here: Default TenFourFox in CandyBar: Trying custom icon (drag-and-drop): Does anyone have any clue what is going on and how to fix it?
As an academic, I often have to conduct "numerical experiments" by running a small computer program that outputs to a text file. I use TextEdit to read the text file. However, when I re-run the program, and the contents of the text file changes, I find that the contents in TextEdit do not automatically update to the new version. In order to access the new version, I need to close the existing TextEdit window, and open the file again in TextEdit.
I started off trying to boot from the USB stick via holding down option after the chime, but that just listed the Macintosh HD. So I went on searching and came across this: *=URL=* and tried it multiple times, but all failed (I believe the iBook wasn't recognizing the USB stick, as nothing came up when I ran dev usb0 and then ls.)
I lost my iphone 5. Within 30 minutes, I log onto my PC to find my phone. However it shows that all devices are off. I have put it in lost mode but have not erased my phone as I know he / hse may be able to operate without my password. Can you let me know if I am at risk by not erasing the iphone and will he bve able to crack my password (whcih I believe very very difficult) Thanks
How can I change the compiler configuration when I use brew install? I want to compile vim with +farsi using brew. But it seems that +farsi is not available options in brew: I also tried this command: But still +farsi is not compiled with vim: In fact the only options available are these: Does this means that only subset of configurations are available in brew?
I'm running Xcode Server on my Mac Mini, and the HTTP port is open to the internet. I want to be able to host other content on port 80. Is there a way I can change the path where the Xcode Server webpage is hosted?
I have a rMBP 975, mid-2012, running 10.9.1, and half a month ago, I went to the Genius bar to change my screen. After that, in the past week, my Mac has frozen three times. I don't know what the problem is, but I guess it might be because they didn't install the screen well. Here is the crash log:
We're having a little debate here at work. Does Apple design its own CPUs? And by CPU design I mean what is on Wikipedia. I'm also interested to know the manufacturers of Apple's CPUs/SoC (maybe even GPUs)
The temperatures on my CPU cores spike up for no reason sometimes. This bumps my fan speeds to run near 6000 rpm, which is extremely loud. I know this is not normal because my previous Retina MacBook Pro, early 2013 never ran at this high fan speed, even when the processor had a greater load to process and more memory was used. Does anyone else have this problem?
I am using a PC keyboard and have to switch the Win (⌘ Cmd key) and the Alt (Opt key) for this to feel like a proper Apple keyboard. I have this remapped via System Preferences for my user account just fine. However, this remapping does not work on the login screen, everything seems to be reverted to as if I haven't done any remapping on the login screen. As I want to use the Cmd+Shift+Letter to select my face to login without having to touch the mouse it became annoying every time I had to re-remember that the remap only takes effect after I login. Any suggestion on how can I change the modifier key settings for when I am not yet logged-in?
I want to do this thing: Create a link to a folder. Put this link in home (~) directory Access files in linked folder from home directory (~/LinkToFolder/file) What is the best way to it?
When using Terminal, I sometimes get the following appearing. With the following screenshot (in which it can be seen that the order of text isn't correct)
I have HP Laserjet 1020 connected to Airport Express and, after installing HP drivers, can print from MacBook Air. But there is no way to print from iOS devices because they need AirPrint compatible printer. Firstly, i installed handyPrint on mac, and everything was fine, but it works only when mac is on. So I tried and Printer Pro Lite application on iPhone. App can see printer but doesn't print anything. So I try to understand is there any possible way to tune my printer as AirPrint printer to print whenever I want? Or maybe install the right app on iPhone which can print?
How can I play MKV files from QuickTime in Mavericks? I used to use Perian but it hangs and the other third party players are very inefficient as QuickTime is the most optimized software among the ones I analyzed.
Our current authoritative DNS server suffers from random reboot issues. That is why we would like to import our DNS zones into a Lion DNS server (BIND). We could not find an option to import DNS records via zone transfer (AXFR). How to import DNS zone data into Lion Server DNS?
I was trying to modify boot camp assistant info.plist in order to boot from usb and then it suddenly disappeared. Macbook A1342 Unibody 10.8.5
Having mounted the Recovery HD1, I MD5'd the Safari binary from the BaseSystem.dmg and MD5'd the Safari binary from my OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 install: /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: 669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: 669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: 668065167a8b3b9ad3034bdba400a9dd /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: 668065167a8b3b9ad3034bdba400a9dd What's been changed in Safari.app on the Recovery HD? 1 Mounted using:
I'm setting up a new computer and wanted to get my email contacts from 10.6.8 to 10.8.5 in Apple mail. I exported the mailboxes and I set up the accounts already... but no contacts show up when emailing. I tried copying the plist, but doesn't do anything. Will I have to copy the whole mail folder? I didn't want to muck this up since I already imported the mailboxes and set up the accounts?
Recently my computer started printing the my user name, the date, and the time at the bottom of every page I print. I don't want this to be printed. What caused this to happen and how can I stop it? (I am using OS X 10.9.1)
I have MBA 128 GB, and my local Mail cache is too large to be stored on the HD. Now, I have the external 16 GB SD card plugged in via compact Nifty adapter. It's always mounted. How can I set up the Mail app to store its data on that SD?
Everybody knows MAME. I wonder where can I find an updated Mac version (if possible with a GUI) of Mame. I've found SDL Mame that looks promising (no GUI however), but I'm not able to download it from the official site. Do you have any alternative or a mirror?
somebody stole my iPod touch 5th gen and is to be found nowhere. to my knowledge "find my iPod" in on but is not connected to wifi since the thief does not know my password and can't get in to access wifi and everything else. so is there still someway to locate my iPod and get it back?
I know OS X has a ~/Sites folder with its own icon for keeping your websites, and it isn't there by default, you have to create it. Are there more folders similar to this one that receive special icons after creation?
How can I use whitespace of different size in Pages? I only know simple space by hitting the space bar and the fixed space (no word wrap) using alt-space.
Is there any way to remove these arrows from the songs list? I know they only appear on hover but are still annoying. I always hit them accidentaly when trying to play a song.
Is it possible to downgrade to iOS6 if the phone was never jailbroken, I'm happy to jailbreak it now to get it to work though. Also happy to lose all data, apps, etc.
The treadmills at my gym have 30-pin iPod connectors so you can control it and watch video on the treadmill screen. However, the new iPods don't have the old 30-pin connection, but have the smaller lightning connector.
We're looking to buy an app in the Mac App Store (iBarcoder) for our graphic designers using Macs, and after read this article on Macworld.com, we're not too sure how to go about it. Does that mean I could buy one copy of an app and install it on every Mac in my business?
All support/FAQ entries only explain how to redeem a gift certificate, but I have found none that explains how to purchase it in the first place. So how can I do it, if the search for gift certificate in the iTunes store doesn't yield the item from Apple I am looking for? What "magic" search term do I have to use to complete this seemingly trivial task?
How can I Retrieve unsaved passwords from history on safari or hard drive of a macbook pro password not saved on keychain.
I would like to search for specific online сhеss games. Each game has a single adress. Since there are millions of games on instant chess, it would take far too long to index all the games. So I will set a limit and use the script at night. Conditions should be something like this: *=URL=* To start, could the script search games 84094532 to 84095000 and store the web addresses of all the games with Reti opening in them so I could see the games by myself during the day?
I tried a set then get of a variable for the filename but the final step to move the file errors with "the chosen folder was not found on this computer". It would seem that it's being given the full original path of the file, which indeed is not a folder.
In mail I can add views like All Drafts or All Trash to my main menu, but I don't see All Junk Mail. Can I add this to Mail's home screen?
Dell has announced that they're going to release a 4k monitor under $1000 in the beginning of 2014, and also has a 24" 4k monitor around $1300. The product page for the 24" one mentions: Optimal resolution: 3840 x 21601 at 60 Hz (DP1.2*) 3840 x 21601 at 30 Hz HDMI The superscript 1 displays this warning: Important Details In order to display the 3840 x 2160 native resolution, please ensure the graphic card and its drivers used on the PC/Laptop is capable of supporting resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz via DisplayPort connectivity. So the question is: Can the video card and Thunderbolt ports on a 2013 Macbook Air 13" support resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz via DisplayPort connectivity?
My MacBook Pro has an SSD drive that runs silent, which is really great. I am considering removing the SuperDrive, moving the SSD to the optical bay, and adding a 7200-RPM regular HDD in the main compartment. I would install OS X on the SSD, and keep large files I seldom need on the HDD. Will there be a (new) constant spinning noise, or will the HDD be silent when not in use?
I am going to upgrade my MacBook Pro hard-drive, but before doing so I'm trying to figure out how to restore OS X on it. My DVD drive doesn't work so I cannot re-install from the DVD.
I found this command to copy the content of source to a destination folder. What I would really like is to have this command run automatically each time a file is added to my source folder. Is this possible?
I'm trying to get a 16 GB (2x of 8 GB) RAM to boost my computer, even though Apple says that it's only 8 GB on macs, but we know Apple is wrong on that. However, when I searched the online shopping place, they only have 1600 variants.
When I press a key without control it is typed in any application and logged in eventViewer.  Why control+a not working? How to enable it?
On my late 2012 Mac Mini, I have installed both Mac OS X Mavericks (with FileVault) and Windows 8.1 (natively, not via Bootcamp): That's working fine, and I can boot both Mac OS and Windows. However, I'd like to be able to boot my Mac into Windows from the command line - without permanently changing boot settings. To my understanding, this should do it: sudo bless -mount "/Volumes/Windows" -setBoot --nextonly
I use WordPress keyboard shortcuts a lot, but Safari's use of Cmd + [Num] (e.g. 1, 2, 3) is overriding WordPress' use (which formats text with tags). How can I disable Safari's use of the keyboard shortcut so that I can use it for WordPress?
May I bind Mission Control's next and previous space to ctrl+mousewheelup and ctrl+mousewheeldown? Using the system settings apparently I can't, so I'm wondering if there's another non-invasive way? (such as manually editing a config file, for instance) OSX 10.8, in case this matters.
I am running windows 8.1 on macbook pro retina. When i trying to hibernate it is giving me an error A device attached to the system is not functioning.(31)
Both my Mac and iPhone (possibly my iPad, not sure) play an alert sound on the top of every hour (I believe -- certainly a few of the hours). I don't use notifications for anything (that I am aware of). How do I stop the sound? The weirdest thing is that I can't find evidence of anyone else having problems with this.
In the Enigmail preferences, I checked the option of using GPG-AGENT and afterwards that option disappeared completely from the preferences pane. I am now unable to use the encryption since there is never any prompt for a passphrase. However I now wish to revert to using the old style with Enigmail/Thunderbird asking me the passphrase but I am now neither able to change it through Enigmail nor able to find the correct place to change the agent to be used.
The Chrome alert me Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost But my apache still running:
I alternatively live in two different places, a few month in Europe and then a few months in Asia. In both places I have an iMac with OSX version 10.8.5
I have a NAS that stores the music files for iTunes. There is an automounted share on the NAS that iTunes goes thru to retrieve the music files. For the life of me I can't figure out how the automount is defined. I need to change NAS units, and therefore need to change the share mount.
When I am using my iPad out of home (using 3G connection), I only check twitter or email, which uses very low bandwidth. But after the minutes, I can see that it consumes almos 50MB of data, so it seems to me that it is using other applications in the background (itunes, system, whatever ...). I would like to know how can I force my ipad to only use internet connection for certain applications (mail, echofon) when I use 3G connection, and blocks internet access for all other applications.
I have my own Mailhosting, and am moving servers. Thunderbird works fine with the new Server IP. However, Apple Mail seems to fail and to silently ignore the new server.
As the title says, is there a Mac app (Mountain Lion) that will allow me to specify a fixed zoom/magnification amount for a specific window, in a specific app? I use a particular application (Reason from Propellerhead Software) that does not support any zoom levels for its windows. One window in particular has lots and lots of tiny little detailed text and buttons in it (the Rack) that is often just way too hard to read, even on a 21" monitor set to 1024x768 resolution.
My iPhone fell into water and is now broken, completely! I desperately try to recover my photos via iCloud. I downloaded the iCloud manager for Windows since I never backed up my iPhone with my computer.
When I load a subtitles file with VLC I get these weird characters:  This doesn't happen with other subtitles files, so I was wondering what's this different encoding. The file is included in the mkv format, so I can't open it with a text editor.
My mother is now visually impaired and I've got an old iPad which I want to turn into a "audiobook station" for her. However, with the vision problems, operating the Music App turns out to be impossible (also, she's 80+y/o and really not into tech). Also, accessibility options on the tablet were not enough.
When I shop for third-party external hard drives I'm struck by how much more expensive the drives that are advertised "for Mac" are, when compared to those without such qualification. My question is: is there a good way to use a "non-Mac" external hard drive on a Mac?
I have Contacts (Version 8.0 (1365)) running under Mac OS X 10.9.1. I have it connected with my Google account. But it keeps showing that it is busy syncing. Changes made on other devices don't come through. (Other devices do sync with each other.) How can I solve this? NB: After some time the "wheel" disappears, but still the new contact isn't there...
I have a PPC iBook G4 and really would like to be able to have the two-fingered click to secondary-click functionality. I did a lot of googling, but nothing really came up, mostly stuff for other versions of OS X and for the Intel iBooks, not PPC. I did eventually come across iScroll 2, *=URL=* but that says it is incompatible with my trackpad :(. Does anyone know of any other ways I can add the two-finger click functionality?
Recently Maintenance.app asked for permission to have control over certain aspects of my computer and I granted that app access, but it doesn’t show inside Accessibility pane of Security & Privacy. Running sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'SELECT * FROM access' displays every app I gave that permission, Maintenance.app included.
After upgrading from ML to Mavericks (MB Air, 13", 256GB, 2011) I can't open any file or folder from the standard Open menu from any app (except MS Office -2011). But, I can search for a file (and open it) if it has a label. All the files/folders are greyed out so can't select them, as it can be seen in the attached screen capture (from Preview.app). If I try to save a file, the only place I can do that is in the default folder: if I try to change the folder (navigating through the Save box) I can't save it any more.
How can I change the resolution of my MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Late 2013) to 1920x1200 pixels? The MacBook is able to use this resolution! It's e.g. using it, when connecting a second display which uses 1920x1200 pixels and checking the 'mirror displays' option.
I need combination for selecting all of the text in an edit buffer for an editor like Sublime Text. On the Windows OSes I would use control + a. On OS X this combination seems to moves cursor to beginning of the current line. So how do I select all the text in the buffer?
I obtained a Mac Air from a friend, second-hand. He restored a clean install of the OS, without the free Apps (iPhoto, iMovie…). These apps were included in the original purchase. We understood that it would be a simple matter of downloading these apps afresh from the Appstore. However, I am required to pay for them. I use my Appstore login, of course, not my friend's.
Sometime, I close lid, and open again, The sound not available. When I restart my mac, The sound back. Is this a bug?
I downloaded some music tracks from the iTunes Music Store and synced them to my iPhone. While browsing the music on my iPhone, I realized the "Composer" field was filled in with the names of the musicians who wrote the songs. However, I only use the "Composer" field for classical music, and leave it blank for non-classical music, so I went back to iTunes and deleted the contents of the "Composer" field for each track, and re-synced. iTunes showed that the files were being updated, but when I looked on my iPhone, it still had entries in the Music app's "Composer" tab. So I went back to iTunes again, and changed the "Composer" field for each track to "Blah", then re-synced. As expected, there was now only a "Blah" composer entry in the Music app. I then deleted the contents of the "Composer" field again (in iTunes) and re-synced. Lo and behold, there was still a "Blah" composer entry in the Music app! So then I unsynced all my music from my iPhone, and re-synced it—and there's still a "
So I erased my HD and wanted to install Mac OSX Mavericks on my MacBook Air mid 2012 model and after I booted from the USB and was about to install Mavericks the damn thing tells me it can't do so because I first need to install some MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1 before I can install Mavericks. Obviously I can't do that since I no longer have any OSX installed and do not really want to download and install Mountain Lion just to install this update.
In short, when I upload a file in Safari, I can't sort the list of files by name or any other criteria, and I'm stuck on reverse-alphabetical sort in every folder for some reason. Seems like a definite bug vice a feature, and it's happening in at least two apps.
I'm off to Japan for a couple of weeks and wanting to take my iPhone 4 as I need to contact a few people while I'm there. If I use an international SIM to save massive roaming charges will it affect anything on my phone? i.e the apps or notes or anything else? I'll be putting my normal sim back in after 2 weeks.
Both devices are running ios 7 at this point. I have Openssh installed on one of them, and can log in remotely (though there isn't anything interesting in /bin or /sbin). I've also attempted to install Veency, but it just seems to crash and the last few attempts I can't even see that it's running the server (the iMac tells me to make sure screen-sharing is turned on).
I want to extract BSD.pkg file and pull some apache configuration file to cover my apache http.conf file. I locate in /Library/Receipts/, But the BSD.pkg file is empty.
I have an iPhone 3Gs running iOS 4.1 (baseband 06.15.00, serial number: 8704244TEDG). I want to update it to iOS 6.1.3 instead of iOS 7. How can I update it, and unlock it using Ultrasn0w after updating?
EDIT: As of Facebook v10.0, this question received a lot more views as the option has moved again. See the new answer below. I'm using Facebook v6.8 on iPhone 4 running iOS 7.0.4.
How to capture folder as input and pass it to python script as argument? This is what I have so far, but this is always taking the user home directory as input no matter which folder i right click > Services > testing_service (which you see below)
A friend of mine has a desktop Apple computer (I googled Apple computer images and it looks like an iMac). He has Mac OS X version 10.5.8. When we tried to upgrade it the OS reported that there are no updates available. We googled around to find alternative ways of upgrading the system - 3-4 different clicking paths all leading to the same system update program - but with same outcome.
After a successful installation of Windows (Windows Server 2012 R2) on a MacBook Pro (Late 2013, 15") I've noticed that only the Nvidia graphics card is recognized in the device manager. So I've tried to install setup.exe from the folder IntelHDGraphics64 which I found on the installation disk created with BootCamp, but I got this error:
I am creating Ubuntu Server 13.10 Bootable USBDRIVE with command line using Mac OS X, In this i tried to install Syslinux on USBDRIVE by using syslinux command by following: here i am using disk2s1 for my usbdrive but i got following error: What is alternative to install syslinux on usbdrive, Mac OS X dont include any syslinux command?
I restored my iPhone 5 with iOS 7 without knowing that iCloud account will be asked. I already forgot what email and password I set on that phone.
I set up my outlook.com account with the OS X (10.9.1) Mail app using IMAP, pretty much as suggested in this link except that the latest mail app has no option to keep the account offline before it is created. The connection to outlook.com appears to be fine, as my sent items, junk, etc. folders are all populated with up-to-date mail, and I can send mails from the account, but my inbox is completely empty. I've tried a bunch of suggestions such as deleting the pertinent mailbox folder from ~/Library/Mail/V2 and also the EnvelopeIndex files from MailData to try and force a rebuild of the mailbox, but it seems these are to no avail. Not sure if this info will be of help, but in the menu items the Get New Mail and Rebuild commands are greyed out for this account too.
Several apps I use are set to "Open at Login". However, they are always opened on the primary screen, instead of the last position, which is the secondary one. I those apps exclusively on the secondary display and it's pretty annoying to always move them there and resize because of extra space (no dock there).
I am using Microsoft OneNote, Visual Studio 2013 and Visio 2013 under Windows 8.1 running on Parallels 9 on my iMac. All of these have support for sharing content via e-mail. Is there a way to configure the host's Apple Mail application as the default application under the virtual Windows? Is there maybe some kind of proxy EXE that would fire up the Apple Mail app?
I gave my old iPad to an ex, and before doing so, I deleted all content and reset. I think she may be seeing my iMessages and e-mails. Is this possible?
Is there a software like ScreenWakeUp for an old iPad 1? Couldn't find on appstore [EDIT] Jailbreak is an option.
I have 2 Mac Servers, each of them set to be an OD Master, but are looking to a Sun LDAP server as well. The same user has a different value for the NFSHomeDirectory value when doing a dscl read on the user with LDAPv3/My.LDAP.Server . I assume this means that some of the info provided is coming from a local OD DB or a cache or something, otherwise it would be exactly the same on both servers when querying the same datasource (my LDAP server).
I am trying to produce a press-quality CMYK PDF file from a Pages or MS Word document in OS X. The canned Print/PDF options produce insufficient quality in the images, and do not allow conversion to CMYK. I was following a recommendation to use Save as Postscript, and then Adobe Distiller (which I have on a separate, Windows machine) to get the right results. It all works great EXCEPT that I need a custom page size.
When I put in a USB drive, VMWare asked me if I want to connect it to Mac or Windows, and the USB drive shows up in Disk Utility, so I can confirm that the USB is not broken and USB port is also working. But I can never find the USB drive in Finder. In Preferences, I checked everything so external drive can be shown in Finder. What's wrong with this? (I use MacBook pro 15" Late 2011, OS X Mavericks)
When my wife imports photos on her mac book pro, they are quickly synchronized in my own iPhoto. We share the same apple id, but I do not remember having set anything specific to have this (excellent) behavior. How does it work ? (that means : what is the setting to obtain this behavior ?)
I had a directory called $RECYCLE.BIN which I did not create. I deleted it accidentally and as result all other directories beside it was removed too. This is what happened in the terminal: Does anybody have had the same experience or know what is special about this $RECYCLE.BIN?
On my iPhone, I sync my camera photos with Dropbox, so that after I do a photo shoot all the photos are automatically uploaded to my laptop in the Dropbox 'Camera Uploads' folder - ready to sort, edit and delete as necessary. I now need to be able to do two-way syncing with the iPhone, so that when I delete (or even modify) a photo on the computer, it's also deleted (or modified) from the iPhone's camera photos folder accordingly; this way I'm not left with dozens of 'dud' photos that I no longer want on my iPhone, despite having already deleting them on the laptop. The official Dropbox mobile client doesn't allow two-way syncing, so until they introduce such a feature, this can only be possible via a third-party dropbox API-using client.
My wifi works fine on all other computers/phones/tablets; however, it's very jerky on my MacBook Pro. It used to work fine, but began being jerky a couple months ago. Nothing has changed, but it's like the internet just locks up every few seconds, then jumps right in and starts working again. Any ideas on what's causing this?
I would like the screen saver (which shows family photos) to launch each morning when the computer wakes in the morning. I used the Energy Saver option to sleep the computer each night and to wake it each morning. But instead, each morning I find a blank screen and am forced to login to start the screen saver. I am wondering if someone can recommend a way for the screensaver to start automatically each morning, without needing to login. This is for a computer at my (elderly) parents house where they love to watch the photos, but don't quite understand why they would need to log in to see them each morning. The only solution I have is to completely turn off energy save mode and leave the computer/screensaver on in perpetuity. Ideas? System = iMac 27/2013 with OSX 10.9.1 (also 10.8)
I would like to know what could happen to my iPod if it can't handle the update to iOS 6.1.5. It is currently on version 5.1.1 (9B206).
Until recently, I was able to drag pictures displayed in my browser to drop them into Finder (Desktop or directory). It doesn't work anymore. Any idea why ? NB: Running 10.9.1, happens with Chrome,Safari & Firefox.
My relative died and I inherited her iPhone. Her number was disconnected. Can I get a new phone number and a SIM card from a store? How can I start using this phone?
My MacBook Pro Retina is currently reporting 100% battery in the menu bar, however if I run the following command in terminal; The following is returned; If we do (8434 / 8520) * 100 we get 98.990...% (CurrentCapacity divided by MaxCapacity and multiplied by 100) I ran the command earlier today and there was an even greater difference between what terminal reported and what the menu bar icon reported (about 5% different).
I downloaded a free font that included four .ttf files for the Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants, all different. I dragged them into Font Book and they all appeared in a group, but the three variants other than Regular were flagged as duplicates: Multiple copies of this font are installed.
I'm trying to connect Windows 7 to Snow Leopard via Bluetooth PAN but it doesn't seem to detect the Bluetooth PAN capability of the mac. It only allows transferring of files, and using it as a bluetooth speaker. I've already done the following: System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced > Share my internet connection with other Bluetooth devices System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing On > Bluetooth PAN System Preferences > Sharing > Bluetooth Sharing
I would like to be able to take my iCal off iCloud entirely. I've attempted to disable it using both iCloud preferences and iCal account settings- and both times the calendars disappeared. However, that means that every time I attempt to create a new calendar, there is no option for where to do it. Without the File>New Calendar>iCloud option, they simply don't exist. Shouldn't there be a File>New Calendar>On My Mac option? Is it possible that I deleted my "On My Mac" folder?
The appeal of using the ipad is that it is a high resolution battery powered monitor which I already own. I'll be in the field with this thing and the portability is of particular interest.
How do I get out of a boot loop with an iPhone with a broken power button? Things I have tried that didn't work: I've tried draining the battery and then restarting it; I've tried connecting it to the computer but the computer doesn't recognize it as a device. It's an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 if that additional information helps.
Is it possible to use a script to turn a mac keyboard key to a mac power on or off button?
I have a screen protector from Tech Armor designed specifically for the iPad Air but it covers a small, barely visible port or opening of some sort near the front camera. I thought it was a microphone at first but upon further research, I don't think it is since the two mics are on top and back. Is it just a light sensor perhaps and therefore doesn't matter that it's covered by a clear film?
I'm coming across a malicious pop up to update my flash player. The message in the pop up:
I recently jailbroke my phone and for some reason my phone wasn't syncing my music from my iTunes library. I restarted my phone and lost my jailbreak tweaks. As my phone restarted the Cydia icon was still on my phone.
I have made some app purchases using my current Apple ID (say personal.email@example.com). Can I use my current Apple ID (personal.email@example.com) at "Mac App Store" on MacBook Pro and iMac, which are registered to my family Apple ID (say family.id@example.com) without transferring registration ?
Before installing Windows 7, I used to work with Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro. After the installation I noticed that the functionality of the keyboard and trackpad changed. I really want to keep using Windows 7 and the default/old keyboard and trackpad functionality as in Mac OS X.
I've been trying to highlight my pdf notes on preview, but am unable to select or highlight a single sentence. When I try to highlight, it just shows the chosen highlight colour on the whole page, then when I let go of the mouse button, it just disappears. I've followed all the usual methods of selecting the annotation tool and also the highlight button option but am still unable to do so. Any suggestions?
I have changed both settings in iTunes to download 1080 HD videos but for example I just bought Beyonce's visual album and the videos are like 88MB, which is not HD. Please help
Is there a way I can identify the files in a folder in Time Machine that do not exist in the current filesystem? And then a way to restore them. I think the command line tool tmutil may be helpful but I am not experienced with this.
I enjoy watching P2P live streams (Flash) on my iMac and I would like to be able to do the same thing on my iPad. I have tried Puffin Web Browser, but the streams that I would like to see are covered in pop-ups with hinky links. On the iMac these will disappear when I go full screen, but within Puffin I can't click that full screen button.
I enjoy a few "talking heads" type of video podcasts by Apple bloggers. How come they don't use iChat? Doesn't iChat have group video conferencing or are there technical (as opposed to social) reasons to prefer skype over iChat for producing a video podcast?
I know someone who is considering the possibility of setting up an iPad as a digital photo frame. Ideally, they would use Shared Photostreams to easily put pictures on the device. This is easy for any live-updating of the iPad photo frame, but the challenge comes in with the photo archives taken with a standard DSLR camera.
I'm using Pages '09 with Mountain Lion (10.8.3). Every time I open a file to just print it and don't make any modifications, Pages '09 flags it as modified. If I just want to close ⌘+W this file, and to be sure I didn't make any unwanted modifications, I get this window: . The first choice makes me think I made an unwanted modification. The third one is inappropriate if I didn't made modifications. The second choice bring me back to the same state: document to close and next the same warning window.
I have a Perl script written in Windows and an AppleScript written in OS X. I want the AppleScript to invoke the Perl script that is residing in Windows. How can I do this?
Currently, I am using a Samsung Omnia W and mostly I am using my 2013 MacBook Pro's USB port for charging it. Is it fine for charging the battery in the mobile phone? Sometimes, I have received a 'high power consumption' warning (from USB port) on laptop as warning. What is the power output of the USB port compared to the mobile's input power for the battery?
I have updated to iMovie '13 (v10.01.0) and can no longer share my videos to Vimeo or export them. I get the following error message: Video rendering error: -50 Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?
I have recently got a new Mac and keep accidentally moving folders around when using the trackpad and have managed to delete a couple folders as I am not used to this whole trackpad business. Is there a way to get a confirmation whenever a file/folder is moved or deleted in Mac to prevent this till i get more used to the trackpad?
I don't have much knowledge of all this so please forgive my incompetence. When I run brew update, it shows: But, when I do sudo brew update, it says:
How can I separate mailboxes completely in Mavericks's Mail application? I don't want any of this integrated inbox/folders with the same name feature. I just want clean/separated mailboxes with their folder structures. Its nice for people who have few accounts and small number of mails. It is not a "smart feature" when you get 135,000 messages of inbox/sent/archive folders from 18 different boxes mixed in 3 folders.
I'm a developer working on doing some keychain related features. A piece of my application changes / looks for items in the keychain. However, visually verifying some of these changes can be difficult because the Keychain Access.app doesn't show all of the fields. For example, the kSecProtocolItemAttr attribute for internet passwords is not displayed in the Keychain app. Is there a better way (Command line or other) to visual items that are in a .keychain file, that show all of the properties associated with that item?
In Windows one can usually choose between Do nothing, Sleep, Hibernate.
I have an issue that is driving me nuts: I have dual screens plugged on my Mac Mini and when I move some apps on my secondary screen, they are all back on my main screen right after I unlock it from the screensaver. Any idea how to correct this?
I tried to install Scapy on OS X via Homebrew which seemed to work fine. After installation there were some Python modules missing which I installed via Homebrew. Now when I start Scapy I get the following error: Anyone with some ideas?
Recently (as in today) I noticed that Finder had some missing icons in the toolbar. I also noticed that Xcode 5 has some missing icons as well. I have included an image of the Finder issue here. I am running 10.9.1 (Most current version of Mavericks). Any ideas on a cause?
In a perfect world Airplay mirroring would display identical results compared to an HDMI cable. In other words, the frames per second, resolution, and image quality would be unaffected by the use of Airplay compared to using traditional means. What are the current limitations of Airplay?
My SSD system disk is apparently unmounting about an hour after booting, causing "drive is not configured" errors when trying to read any files, and the Spinning Beach Ball of Death. Disk Utility and TechTools Pro report the drive as being OK, passing all tests, and the drive's SMART information shows all reported attributes as being nominal. I suspect that the SSD's drive controller or the motherboard's SATA controller is to blame. Are there any system log files or other tools that may lend some insight into what is actually happening?
iTunes will only let me play the movie on the built-in screen on my (non-Retina) MacBook Pro, which is smaller and lower-resolution. Is my Monoprice cable incompatible, and do I need to replace it with a different cable or adapter? Is there such a thing as a cable or adapter that works with HDCP and will enable this? Or is playing HDCP-encrypted content simply not possible on my configuration? Please don't give me an answer that involves using software to break the HDCP encryption or to transcode to a different video format; I'd like to know if there is a hardware solution for full compatibility so that I don't lose any video resolution by transcoding.
yesterday something weird happened. After my 13' macbook pro ( early 2011 ) was running all night while playing music, in the morning I just closed it and went home from my friends house. When I got home and opened it, it just froze completely, so had to shut it down with the power button. After turning it back on, it just showed me this folder with a question mark. When I tried to do internet recovery, I couldn't, because no HDD was visible. So I couldn't do anything at all, even in DISK UTILITY computer wouldn't show any disk at all. So I took the lid off and disconnected my HDD and put it in enclosure and connected it to my macbook via USB and booted from there. It booted perfectly fine, as nothing happened.I did time machine back up just in case something will go wrong again. SO, basicly it will boot from USB but not when the HDD is actually inside my macbook. Any advice ? I read some forums and it looks like it could be HDD's controller that failed, disconnected HDD's power source
I have a movie in my camera roll that is incorrectly rotated. I would like to rotate it 90 degrees to fix the problem. Using this tip I was able to rotate the movie using iMovie.
Recently the iOS App Store has started to prompt me for my password for updating apps in the App Store. Is there something I can do to change this back to the way it was?
I am running the latest version of iTunes and use iTunes Match, all my music is properly tagged (mostly from iTunes built in lookup). However, on my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) the Genres are all wrong. I can't figure out where iTunes Match has got the Genre info from as it is way off.
What is required to get the embedded Ogg Vorbis/Theora media on Wikipedia to play back natively in Safari, assuming a clean, up-to-date OS X install? The Wikipedia page for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 can be used as an example. In Chrome, this page renders the following infobox:
I'm ripping my entire music collection into ALAC, as it's the best solution for quality and compatibility across all devices in our household. In order to speed the ripping process up, I have iTunes installed on my PC and Apple laptop with the same ripping settings (ALAC, error correction enabled), with the aim to merge the two local libraries later. The issue I have is, the Windows PC is extremely slow compared to the laptop, despite having the power advantage.
I installed Pages version 5 on Mavericks via the "App Store". But the problem is Keynote and Numbers are installed also.
I have an iPhone 4S and an LG LBS-700 bluetooth headset which I used to use a lot to watch streaming videos on my phone. I haven't watched any in a while - possibly since before iOS 7, but I'm not sure - and in the last week or so started again, and I'm finding that the video will run for about 5 minutes or so, and then start pausing every 1-3 minutes or so, for about 10-15 seconds each time, before picking up and playing again... a couple of minutes later, another pause, etc.
Is there a way to view or export the date a contact was created or modified in iOS 7 and/or the Contacts app (version 7.1) when viewed from a Mac? This one datapoint would enormously aid deduping and syncing, even in a more manual way.
A friend who runs a spa wants to send out a reminder to all her customers four weeks after their last appointment. It is a small number, half a dozen per day. But I need an app that can send an sms to a group of customers that a separate program generates. (Separate program runs on a PC, phone is an iPhone.) Does such a think exist?
I want to unset the Cmd+M shortcut but I can't seem to find it. I've checked System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts but no luck there. I've even tried running defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Minimize' '\0' to no avail.
Whichever way we set 'Summarize Photos', my wife's iphone shows the same unwieldy display of the thousands of pictures she has synced from iPhoto to her iPhone. Organized by date with tiny thumbnails. No sign of her events or albums. Is there any way to make 'Photos' respect an organization from iPhoto?
Is there an app or something that will allow to create tabs for any App? For example on the left half of my screen I have a web browser and on the right half of my screen I have a text editor and finder (both fill up 50% of the screen, one is behind the other). I'd like to have a Chrome-like tab bar that lets me quickly switch between the text editor and Finder. Is there anything like this out there?
I'm trying to use pbcopy and pbpaste to copy and paste to the clipboard from a shell. I read the man page to learn the syntax for these programs. However, no matter how I try to invoke pbcopy or pbpaste, they refuse to work, exiting code 1 with no error message. Command-C and Command-V work as normal.
The closest thing to a solution I've found from Googling is to run xcode-select --install. This actually succeeded once, I think; subsequent attempts fail because it is "not currently available from the software update server."
How can I get rid of that type of notification without actually opening the Appstore? The fact that it will stay there until I actually open it is pretty annoying. OSX Mountain Lion.
I'm using Facebook on iOS 7. When I send a message, my location is included, and the prompt tells me how to turn it off permanently: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and turn it off for Facebook. But Facebook doesn't appear as an app in Location Services. So, how do I prevent Facebook from accessing my location?
How do I set a command on a profile so that when I start a new terminal window, it fires off that command. Specifically, I'd like to be able to set my virtualenv with: So that it starts automatically into my virtual environment when that I use that profile.
So the device in concern is the iPhone 3S. It has been jailbroken in the past and I haven't really used it since. And now I decided to upgrade it so I restore it to factory settings, except there is a critical issue. The device claims that there is no SIM card inserted into it. I tried with multiple SIM cards and bought a new one too, just in case, and the phone continues to give the same message. I am locked in the screen in which the iPhone is to be connected to iTunes. For Apple servicing, I need the index number, for which I need to start the phone and go to Settings, but this phone is completely locked. I tried re-inserting the SIM many times but there seems to be no change. So far I have done the following: Determine the language Country of usage
My app has been rejected due to 3rd party material clause: 8.5: Use of protected 3rd party material (trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, otherwise proprietary content) requires a documented rights check which must be provided upon request. 1, What is documented rights check composed of 2, How do I offer it up to Apple so that my App is approved.
I'm trying to use Pages 5 to design my invoices. I have a fixed header section for the address and the logo, then a table which is part of the text flow and automatically continues on the next page. However I would like to have a footer area attached to the bottom of the last page which contains my banking information. If the table is short, I would like this information to stick at the bottom of page 1. If the table content becomes longer, I would like to have it at the bottom of page 2. Possible?
I've been trying to install a copy of Windows 7 on my MacBook Air, but I have not been able to get past the "Crate a Partition for Windows" stage. I tried clicking on the "Install" button, but nothing happened. I wonder what is going on. Just for your info, if it matters, I have a 2011 MBA (1.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 128 GB SSD, 4 GB ram, and I have OSX 10.8.4 installed). Thanks!
So I decided to do a clean restore of all my photos. I unsynced all albums and removed all pictures. And then I resynced it again with the albums which I wanted. This seemed to fix the problem temporarily. The albums will sync properly at first but I see a "Restoring" at the bottom of my photo album after clean up.
Now, I'm aware that when I take my MBP away from the LAN and say, for example, I am on a train with no internet connection or WiFi connection, I will be unable to resolve the DNS name of the VMs as my DNS server will not be reachable. A workaround for this, I guess would be an entry for each VM in my /etc/hosts file on my MBP. However, what I'm not sure of is how my MBP will be able to route traffic destined for the static IP address of each VM, when there is no network connection available.
I'm trying to make a simple iMovie time lapse video and it's my first time trying to iMovie '13. I have photos that I would like to change the duration of, only when I click the info icon there's just an image of a clock and no option to change the duration, which is how I've been directed on every other forum, only the option just isn't there. Any other ideas on how to change the time length of multiple photos at once?
When my MacBook Pro (late-2013, Mavericks) wakes up, it restarts all apps after a few seconds. After a wake up, firstly I see all apps running normal then all apps begin restarting. I think I accidentally changed a preference but I can't find it.
Recently I added context menu under services to execute python script but I think it would be convenient if I add a button on the Finder toolbar, like next to New Folder Button in below image.  Is this possible at add button on Finder Toolbar that triggers a python script and passes the current folder as argument ?
I have a small business that runs a Windows-based network. I'm wondering if I can set up a Mac Pro, with virtual servers, and use Parallels for my ERP software? Basically, can I have a Mac-based server and still run my business software?
I have two folders containing videos: the first contains videos that are already referenced within Aperture, and the second contains a mix of duplicates as well as videos that are NOT already in Aperture. What I'd like to do is have the second folder contain ONLY files that are not already in Aperture (so that I can add them). How can I relatively easily delete the duplicate files in the second folder? I've been playing around with Deltopia's DeltaWalker, but it doesn't appear able to allow me to delete the duplicate files easily.
Am I missing some significant change to the App Store or this is some kind of bug or virus? Is there anything I can do in this situation? How can I install a free application from the App Store, without having to share my credit card information with Apple?
Something seems to have changed for the worse in iOS 7. Under iOS 6, it used to be possible to select various "identifiers" (email, telephone number) to be used for FaceTime for the same person, and these could be labeled differently. In iOS 7, when adding FaceTime favorites, one is given the option of adding the contact for FaceTime or FaceTime audio, but it isn't clear how to add a specific identifier for a contact.
I'm ex-Windows user. There was no way to drag maximized window, but it's possible in OS X (I have Mavericks).
The admin user's folder on my mac is not visible from within application file browsers despite being visible in finder and accessible via the favourites sidebar. As some applications have their own file dialog without favourites I cannot access the admin folder on those occasions.
I'm using a MacBook Pro Late 2011. The processor, RAM, hard drive - just about everything else still work fine. I'd like to have retina display without necessarily buying a new unit.
I understand “All My Files” option in Finder lists local files only. Is there any way to list all files on mounted Directly Attached Storage Device (DASD) instead, please?
What command is used to create a symbolic link/soft link?
I recently got a Dell U2412M monitor. I'm attempting to connect it to my 2013 Retina MacBook Pro using a DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable. I repeatedly get a "Entering Power Saving Mode" dialog on the monitor. The only time I've been able to successfully connect to the monitor is if I unplug the monitor completely, turn off the computer and turn them on in sync (even this only works 30% of the time). However, connecting it using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter works as expected.
In Mavericks, when I'm running a full screen game, the second screen can't show desktop (or browser, or anything else.) My understanding is that Mavericks sets the second screen in a different Space so both can be used. Am I doing something wrong or is that a wrong understanding?
I have a Fusion Drive (10.9.1) with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. The 1TB HDD has started making noises and has reported SMART errors. It is apparent that it will fail any day. I have Time Machine Backups, and have also purchased a new 1 TB HDD.
My computer is broken and I have just acquired an iPad. All my music was on my computer and accessed through iTunes but that computer no longer functions. I don't think I was using iCloud. How do I save all my music and get it onto my iPad?
So I'm running Mavericks and absolutely love having menus on each monitor. I have two external monitors working with my 15" Macbook Pro, and one of the two monitors has the top menu kind of messed up. The Apple icon is way over on the right, and is actually overlapping with some of my other icons. I've removed the Apple TV icon to prevent some of the overlap, but I can't figure out for the life of me why the Apple icon is in the wrong place or how to fix it.
I tried to fresh install Java EE SDK 7 Update 45 on OS X 10.9.1 I did export DISPLAY=:0 then sudo ln -sf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java /usr/bin/java and export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home)" followed by sh Downloads/java_ee_sdk-7-jdk7-macosx-x64.sh This results in What could cause this problem?
I am trying to move a large (100GB+) folder from the Desktop, into a subfolder on the Desktop. When I drag and Drop, it invokes a Copy, and I do not want to wait an hour while it goes through with this (I will need to do several such moves). I have read that holding CMD while drag-dropping will invoke Move, but it does not. If I wait for a folder to finish the alleged "Move" operation, it turns out to be a Copy, with the original folder left behind.
After restarting my computer when I am presented with the initial login screen (the light gray one with the restart and shut down buttons), I see only two of my three user accounts. If I log in with one of these accounts, I can see, and log in to, the third (missing) account by either: Logging off (Apple > Log Out...) to reach the second login screen (the dark gray one with sleep/restart/shut down buttons) Clicking on the fast user switching menu. How can I restore this account in the initial (light gray) login screen? I tried repairing disk permissions to no avail. If I create a new account, it does show up in the list.
I have a mid 2011 27" iMac running Mavericks (10.9.1). I updated from Mountain Lion this Fall when Mavericks was released. I never had any problem before with my system clock.
When I run the dns-sd command, for example as dns-sd -B _services._dns-sd._udp. to list all the service types on my local network, I get a table that looks like:
I need a way to set the following programmatically:  Specifically for shortcuts under Services, if that makes a difference. I'm wondering if this is possible via shell or AppleScript? EDIT: I've seen *=URL=* but I'm still not clear on how to set a shortcut for an existing service.
My wife recently got an iPhone and, being that I'm an iPhone user already, I set up iTunes Home Sharing (under my Apple ID) so that I could share some of my purchased apps with her. While paid apps transferred to her phone without a problem, in-app purchases that I had made under my account didn't transfer over.
A friend stumped me with an odd request. His platform is iPhone 4S with iOS 7. His computer is a PC with Windows 7. The question is: how can he have SMS messages from a specified set of phone numbers to be sent to his computer and not appear on his phone? He does not want to block calls from these numbers, and he wants to be able to read the text messages on his PC, but not on his phone. My first thought was Google Voice, but I only see how to filter calls and not text messages. I have found some iOS apps that will blacklist/block text messages from some numbers, but not any that will block them on the phone and send them to a PC (or a Mac, but he doesn't use a Mac).
In Mac OS X you can create shared folders. Usually the share name is the same as the folder, but it can be different. For example if the is a user with display name "John Doe" and system name "johnd" the system creates a Shared folder named "Public" in the users folder Users/johnd/Public but the share name is "John Doe's Public Folder". If that Shared folder is removed from the File Sharing folder list and re-added then it just shows as "Public". How do you change the Share name?
Whenever I type l/ in terminal on OS X (Mavericks), it replaces it with a blank space. I can't seem to find any relevant problems or fixes on Google and I have no idea why this happens. For example, if I want to type: It would do:
I have made a python tool which I want to share with users. I tried Automator, and it works but in that I used Application > Run Shell Script in which I hard coded the path to my python script, but since I want any user to be able to use it from any location, I don't think I this seems possible solution. Secondly my python script also takes current folder as argument, See below:
Using LittleSnitch I noticed that Messages (iChat) tries to connect to 17.154.239.222 over udp when I open the audio and video preferences for the application. Apple owns that IP address but does anybody know why it would need to call home?
Has anyone faced this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
When I first got my Mac I used Mail for a little while, but now I always use Gmail in my browser directly. My hard drive is nearly full and I've been using What size to try and work out where my space has gone and I found out that under Library → Mail there's a 50GB folder called IMAP (my email address). I went into Mail and removed my email account and also deleted the local copy of my mailbox but after closing mail this file is still there. Since I no longer use Mac Mail, can I delete it as it's taking up a lot of space, or will this cause other system issues?
My Macbook's name is 'Suman'. But in terminal I have something different. How to solve it ?
I use 120 MB of iCloud storage space for iCloud Backup of my iPad & iPhone. There is still 4.8 GB free from 5 GB, but I have a notification in iPad's backup window that I'm lacking space to back up to iCloud and would rather not buy more space to back up today.
I'm setting up my new MacBook Pro and iTunes doesn't acknowledge an existing Podcasts directory that I have on a networked drive. This directory was created by iTunes running on my Windows laptop. (I made sure to change the iTunes Media Folder location in Preferences, and Podcasts is an existing subfolder.) The thing that is extra-confusing for me is that, when iTunes downloaded the latest episode of a podcast (just now), it put it into that same Podcasts folder, so I'm confident that I've set up the media location properly. How can I say to iTunes, "no, you don't need to download any of those old podcasts, they're right there"?
I'm looking to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 16GB of RAM. I'm considering: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1333MHz PC3-10600 204pin SODIMM CL9 Mac
I start downloading an app and it starts to download but the download bar never goes up at all. It just stays at the beginning of the download as shown in this picture:
I found an article (can't remember where) that there's an option to show time estimate of arrival at a location in the Today's view, with regards to traffic too. How do I enable this option ?
I have an iPhone 4 and use the calendar feature often. Deleting events used to be simple, but at the moment I've found that I cannot delete an existing repeating event.
I try to transfer my mails, preferences and all settings from one Mac to an other. Both are using the most recent Mavericks OS X.
I have been having issues with my trackpad lately and I believe that I have a broken trackpad sensor, but I thought I would ask here to see if it was something to do with the software instead of the hardware. Lately my trackpad has been acting like tap to click is on even though I have disabled it. If I place my finger on the trackpad it believes that I am holding the button down even though I have not clicked. It also acts as if I am dragging windows if I place my pointer over the top bar of a program and hold my finger down, it allows me to drag the window.
I was updating my iTunes and left my MacBook Air open to finish and restart. When I came back a few hours later my Mac was showing the grey apple screen with the apple and then black lines of code down the left side of the screen. It said debugger "Unable to find driver for this platform: ..." And then kernel version Darwin kernel version kernel UUID kernel slide and kernel text base.
I'm trying to connect my iPhone 5s to my Early 2011 Mac Book Pro through bluetooth. When I try to connect after pairing, it gives me the following error:
After upgrading SSD and traveling with my Macbook Pro and traveling while low temperatures outside (I don't know if this is relevant). When I connect headphones the sound on the left one is significantly quieter.
Is there a particular proper way to clean the iPhone's glass, oleographic coated, screen in order to maintain its luster?
I have a Mac with a relatively nice display. Is there some way to hook an external device (PS4 in this case) and use the monitor as the display for the PS4?
Is there a way to backup the iPhone such that none of the apps are included? I can always download the apps from the iTunes App Store after the iPhone is restored. I would like to backup all the settings for Mail, Messages, iCloud, and the OS itself .. but I just don't have enough space on my SSD for the App backups in iTunes.
When trying to restore my iPhone 5s to 7.0.4 via iTunes I get this message: There are purchased items on the iPhone “X’s iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue?
This is a follow-on question from this earlier one. I want to be able to have iPhone <--> PC photo syncing such that when I delete a photo from the synced folder in Windows Explorer on the PC, it is automatically deleted from the iPhone 'in sync'. The premise for this is that after taking dozens of shots in a photo shoot and then editing on the Windows PC, and then deleting the ones I don't like etc. (or all of them in moving them outside the folder to be edited elsewhere on the PC), I'm not left with unwanted photos on the iPhone device which I no longer want.
And now my pbcopy is a text file. How can I reinstall it? Is it a part of some specific package, maybe something in homebrew?
I have a Belkin Router and accidentally changed the MAC Address for the Wireless Area Network. Is there a way to retrieve previous inputted MAC Address using Terminal? I'm looking around system and network logs but I can't find previous records of MAC Address for my WiFi network.
Is there a utility that can rename filters in multiple subfolders and then rename the files inside sequentially? E.g. I select my-pictures and it'll do its magic and sequentially rename all the files in all the subfolders. For each new subfolder, the numbering resets to 1. old structure desired/new structure
I need to buy an iPad to see how EPUB files are displayed in iBooks app. It is very important to me whether iPad 2, iPad Air and iPad mini (both generations) work exactly the same when it comes to displaying EPUB files in iBooks app.
I am using Mac OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) on a late 2012 27" iMac, running Safari 7.0.1 and I always install all new software updates. But now I have a problem with midi-files that are embedded in websites (like wikipedia, take *=URL=* as an example). When I click on one of those midi-files I expect to hear music. But instead I get an error message telling me that there is no plugin for content of the type "audio/midi". Where can I download the missing plugin?
I need to buy a new HDD (>2To so no SSD solution, unless you know a very attractive offer) and I was wondering about performance knowing this : MBP 2011 (2 usb 2.0 - 1 Thunderbolt); 7k2 HDD. What would be the fastest solution : USB 3.0 on an USB 2.0 port or Thunderbolt (HDD speed is around 100MB/s) ?
Is the Google Translate Phrasebook Syncing not available in the iOS app? I can't find my phrasebook listing. It seems the list on the iPhone is not stored online as for the web. I suspect they implement it for Android only.
I often upload images to the internet, and doing so is always a pain. The Finder's Open/Choose dialogue takes over 5 seconds to load image previews, regardless of the size of the image (very small screenshot pngs take the same amount of time as 8MB jpeg photos). While waiting for the preview to load the whole window locks up so I can't click 'Open' until the preview has loaded. Is there a way of preventing image previews from displaying in the column Finder view, or stopping them hanging the upload Finder window? Chrome, Mavericks, 2012 Macbook (non-retina) 15"
On a Mavericks system, I would like to use Ctrl+left/Ctrl+right instead of Alt+left/Alt+right to move to the next word or the previous word. Mission Control is not using Ctrl+left/Ctrl+right (I changed that from the default value).
I want to minimize number of keystrokes to access menu items. One needs to press enter after activating some menu using keyboard. Is it possible to open the menu items in a menu without pressing enter?
Where on the app store can I find this "latest compatible Version thing? I have tried to download the remote app for ios6 but there is no button or anything. So I downloaded the iOS7 App but that one does not install on my iPhone (5).
I have column which contains prices for my work. The last row of that column should contain the total. Currently I have to adjust the SUM() calculation every time I add or remove a row. Can I somehow magically sum up to the row the SUM() formula is contained in?
My question; is it possible to preset the password so that I don't have to physically take each device and connect to iTunes in order to set a password on it. Alternatively if you have any better ideas on how to safeguard data I am all ears.
Recently, the HFS+ filesystem on my OSX became corrupt and after many trials and errors, it was clear I was going to need to backup, format, and reinstall OSX. After I got OSX reinstalled (10.6.8), I updated to 10.9.1 and everything seemed to be working properly. However, I booted into Ubuntu and found that the boot loader couldn't find my filesystem and I was getting a grub rescue screen. I followed the first half of this answer (up until normal), and my grub menu appeared, untouched.
Edimax EW-7811Un, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.  According to the manual, you can use 802.1X tunneled authentication with Windows (it is mentioned e.g. on page 23, EW-7811Un User Manual). However, the Wireless Network Utility under OS X (10.6.8) seems to have no option for 802.1X network authentication. Since it's supported on Windows, the card obviously has the capability, so how is it possible to use it under OS X? PS: I'm happy to edit any configuration file by hand and skip the graphical utility entirely, if necessary.
What's the best way to manage 10-20 Apple computers for a small company? All the devices are purchased and owned by the company. We want to be to reassign computers from one person to another, and have the new user be able to update software without needing the original user to authenticate with their Apple ID.
I'm trying to execute the following shellscript with hazel app on any file in the folder. It works, but the only thing thats causing a problem is the date for yesterday. Any ideas why it isn't working?
After setting up a managed user on my daughter's laptop [2008 macbook pro, OSX 10.9.1], I tested that application and website logging worked - I was able to go into Parental Controls, bring up the Logs... window, and view activity for that account. A week later, when I open the same Logs... dialog up it's always blank. No applications, websites, etc. are displayed regardless of the time period I select.
When I download transactions in Quicken Essentials for Mac, my bank adds "DEBIT PURCHASE" and other junk to the Payee info. Quicken has no ability to find and replace globally. But I dug into the Quicken data file and it turns out all the transactions are stored in a SQLite file. I was able to open this file with Liya and then run a query, e.g., UPDATE ZFIPAYEE SET ZNAME = replace(ZNAME,'DEBIT PURCHASE - ',''); which cleaned up my transactions. Is there some way I can run this kind of query directly from Terminal without having to open up Liya and then opening the file?
I have bought a new MacBook Pro. I am from Windows background so I installed Windows 8.1. I wanted to have a partition that can be accessed from both OS so I created a partition using Bootcamp from Mac OS. On Mac, I can use the partition fully but on Windows side, I can only read the new partition. I can't paste any files or change anything on it. The error I am getting is "Destination folder access denied". I have given Admin right to move the files but still failed. I spent a while googling and there are many others getting this error but these are different scenarios mostly accessing networked drive and can't find any solution that would solve my problem. I tried to share the partition (on Windows) but that still doesn't work. Hope someone can help me. Thanks.
The new 13ʺ Retina MacBook Pros have 2 Thunderbolt ports, and Apple appears to indicate you can plug in and use 2 Thunderbolt displays with them, but is the video performance satisfactory when doing so? I'm not planning on doing anything that graphically intensive, but I wanted to make sure that the performance was still fine. (Also, I'll be using the MBP in clamshell mode, so I'll only be driving 2 TB displays, not 2 TB displays and the laptop screen.)
I'd like to have my Fluid.app webapps auto-login to various sites (Gmail, DropBox, etc.) using passwords stored in AgileBits 1Password.app. I'd appreciate directions or suggestions on how to go about this, if it is possible.
I already have iWork 09 apps on my Mac's Mountain Lion installation. I want to do a clean install of Mac OS 10.9x Mavericks on my machine. This will wipe out the old iWork 09 apps and when I go to install iWork from the App Store it will be the new iWorks 2013. But I also want to have iWork 09 on my clean installed Mavericks Mac. Any suggestions for how to do this? My license for iWork 09 is through the App Store.
I have read, and search one blog to another, one question that seamed what I wanted. I do not want to move the whole Mailbox or configuration to another drive but want to free up some disk space by moving some mail boxes/folders to another drive without losing the mails. The closest to what I want are these steps: Close Mac Mail Move the .mbox folders that one wants on ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes to external drive Do a Symlink on ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes pointing to /Volumes/<drive name>/<location of .mbox folder> (doing on a Terminal Window or by right-clicking on the folders on Finder) Open Mail and the Boxes should be using the ones on the HD
I'm having an issue that seems may be resolved by formatting and reinstalling, but if I do this and then recover from Time Machine during the install (assuming a backup just prior to the format), would anything be different? My issue may be the result of some kind of corrupted file associations or something so if the restore operation is a copy it may fix it, but if it's a bit for bit backup I don't see it making a difference. If it matters, I have a early 2013 Retina MBP which has an SSD.
When I attempt to run the purge command, I get the same error every time. I've tried with and without sudo, initially thinking that perhaps it's unable to due to not having proper access, and they simply didn't program in a permissions check. It's the same error though.
Out of curiosity, I'm wondering where in the file system Time Machine stores its local backups/snapshots.
I recently purchased a Corsair Vengeance K70 and am trying to get set the ctrl windows alt keys to match the ones on a mac keyboard, control option(alt) command. Currently the windows key acts like command. So far I've tried setting the key bindings by going to System Preferences -> Modifier Keys -> Corsair K70R Gaming Keyboard and testing different configurations of key settings though this appeared to have no effect. I also attempted switching the BIOS switch on the keyboard though that seemed to have no effect.
Actually i am learning to write with the Dvorak Keyboard. In the system configuration for Language and Text i have three Dvorak options (Left, Right and Querty) but none for spanish (with 'ñ' and accents). There are a way to configure Dvorak for spanish ?
Some audio ports on Apple computers are switchable from stereo output to stereo input, but not all of them are. How do I determine if my Macbook Pro supports audio input through the audio jack?
I am running Messages on Mavericks. When I begin to type someone I wish to chat with, I get a list of suggestions. I wish to remove some people from that list. I have removed them from my Contacts already, but they persist in the list.
I recently lost my iPhone, and have some important non-iMessage texts from android devices on it -- is it possible to restore these after replacing the phone, or am I out of luck here?
Before Mavericks, I could maximise a window while holding shift key, and the window would always fill up the entire screen without needing any third party tools or changes. It no longer works in Mavericks, is there a workaround or hidden setting to revert to the old behavior?
I have accidentally deleted some files on my Mac OS X Mavericks. Actually, I was trying to burn an .img file to my flash drive which was located at /dev/disk1 (at the same time I had connected a NTFS External Hard disk to my Mac). So I used dd command to flash these files and don't know how, but the flash drive was now located at /dev/disk2 and at disk1 the hard disk was mounted. So I accidentally flashed that .img file to my hard disk and lost around 100gb of data.
I use macbook air, Preview is brilliant, But seems can not zoom out microsoft document(word, excel), So I want to change the default font size. But how?
I have a boot camp install which I also use from VMware fusion (for when I can't be bothered to reboot!) and I need to migrate from MacBook Air to a MacBook Pro.
I have installed OpenSSH on my jailbroken iPhone 5S, I am trying to set up ssh keys for it but I need to get to my /.ssh folder. I try to cd there while at root with cd ~/.ssh but it says "not a directory". I then tried mkdir ~/.ssh and get "cannot make directory: file exists". So once again I tried to cd ~/.ssh and still nada. I navigated to ~ and ls, and once again no .ssh directory.
I can use the computer if I log in from another computer using SSH or using a remote from my phone (I use Rowmote.) It is very slow, though - but it responds.
My macbook is very hot, the fan never starts. I tried some softwares like Fan Control 1.2, scmfancontrol 2.4 and Macs Fan Control but each of them is giving me always 0 rpm on the main (right) fan…
I am trying to install NetBeans but the the MBP crashes with the following log entries Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB Any idea? Thanks
I first tried to recover everything. The SO was a little bit buggy so I wanted to make a better clean installation, so I format again and restored only data and settings. The system is now even more buggy.
I am going to install Mavericks from the scratch, formatting the Mac partition. Then, using TimeMachine I will restore my data and applications. The bootcamp partition was excluded from the TimeMachine backup. If I restore my copy with TimeMachine, will it keep intact the bootcamp partition as it was not backed up? Thanks.
I am running OS X Mountain Lion on VMWare Workstation installed on Windows 7. How can I access my Xcode projects outside VMWare (i.e. from host)? I know I can do this by copying projects in the shared folder of my machine.
I am running Mavericks on a new Macbook Pro. When I use the Ctrl and Shift keys together with the arrow keys, I get some sort of key codes as output in the terminal. I am pretty sure that this problem is new and that it didn't happen a few days ago. But I am not 100% sure. Anyway, this is what happens:
How to install a copy of Apache into a local custom directory via Terminal (to ~/Desktop/ for example), so it can live without conflicts with another global version of Apache and I cant start and stop it from there?
I have installed Vodburner but it is not detecting the Facetime HD camera. Please suggest how to solve this.
I've forgotten the password for my MacBook Pro, which uses OS X 10.9.1. How can I reset my password?
I am unable to remove Anyconnect from dock. It persists like Finder. On checking ~/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist I don't find Anyconnect listed in it. Is this setting stored somewhere else from where I can remove? I am using Mavericks.
I have iPhoto 8.1.2 grayed out in OS X 10.9.1 screensaver, both internal HD and external on iMac. I have tried reinstalling OS. How do I use iPhoto as a screensaver?
I needed to reinstall Mac OS X, so my plan was to format the drive, install OS X Lion (since I have the USB stick here) and then update to Mavericks. Sounds simple, yet I have a problem: The Mavericks download does not start! I logged into the App Store and clicked on Load, and it says that the download is in progress.
I am looking for a way to find an app's location on the system from the command line using its bundle identifier. I can open it like this:
I accidentally installed an upgrade of Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 to Adobe Acrobat Pro 11. (I had the Adobe Pro 7 for Windows and was sold the upgrade without being told that I had to separately buy the base version for Mac) To be clear : I don't have Adobe 7 on my Mac but ran the upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Pro 11. I get the error The serial number you provided is valid, but a qualifying product could not be found on this computer. This of course makes sense. I then tried to install the Trial version of Mac Adobe Acrobat Pro 11, but when I go to start that program, I get the same message. I want to remove the 'upgrade' info on the Mac so that when I run the trial version, I don't get that error message. How do I do that?
I'd like to be notified by email whenever a message gets sent to my terminal mail, how could I achieve this? I see some information about cc'ing in this documentation, but I don't know how to use it in this regard.
I am using Mail in iOS 7 on my iPhone 5. I was wondering: The "Flagged" Mailbox under iOS 7 only shows the flagged items which are in the Inbox, but not in the whole Archive. However, in Mail for OS X, the Flagged-Mailbox shows ALL flagged items, also when they are any flagged mails in the Archive. Is there a ways to get this functionality in iOS 7 and Mail?
I'd like to use my Seagate Wireless hard drive with my iPad or even my iPhone 5.
Is there a way to make old boarding passes go away automatically from Passbook, instead of manually deleting them?
I have been loving Maverick's new "Displays have separate spaces" functionality; however, I have just one issue with it. I usually use a keyboard shortcut to change spaces (i.e.⌘ + → and ⌘ + ←), and this action changes the space of whichever display the mouse is on. When I am working, I dislike having to think about where the mouse is, so I was wondering if it is possible to have something like four keyboard shortcut: two for left/right on the internal display, and two for the left/right on the external display? Or if there was any other convenient solution to this little annoyance?
I am experiencing an odd bug that I haven't seen anywhere else. When I use Cmd+Tab, it seems to stick on whatever application it lands on when I release Tab. It should open that application, but instead the app switcher remains active. Then, I can either hit Enter and it will open that app (like it should have when I released Tab), or I can press Tab once more and it will move to the next app then open that app. This happen every single time, UNLESS I perform the keystroke VERY quickly. I submitted a bug report to Apple a couple months ago, and (to no surprise) I haven't heard back. This has happened since I upgraded to Mavericks on release day. I have tried various third-party applications, but Apple has made it impossible now to relinquish the keystroke from the system. I'm at my wit's end, any ideas would be appreciated.
Like for those tv apps, in my case, from Spain which will only show certain content if you have a Spanish ip. For me in Germany I thus need some kind of proxy from Spain. Does such an app exist in cydia? Or would there be any other way in order to appear as a Spanish client to the servers of that tv app?
I upgraded my iphone 3G to ios 4.1 bad news is the accessibility menu on my settings has no content and i cant change my screen saver its always black everytime i choose a picture help me please
iTunes has an annoying habit of auto launching upon connecting a Bluetooth headset to Mac. Pre-Lion, you could go to System Preferences -> CD/DVD Settings, and disable an option for auto launching iTunes.
I have the following script to set a services shortcut: This sets a keyboard shortcut for a service I have defined in the appropriated property list and it even displays properly when viewing in System Preferences. The problem is, the change doesn't seem to take effect. Invoking the keyboard shortcut has no effect. How can I set this shortcut and have it take effect immediately (completely through shell/applescript)?
With xterm (and gnome-terminal, terminator, etc), you can run the following command: xterm will open and run the specified program (in this case, Vim). When the program exits, the terminal window closes as well. Running the above command, if you were to quit Vim, the terminal would go away as well.
I want to have the file path of a screenshot to be available in the clipboard to paste it directly into some text. Greenshot on Windows can do this in just one keyboard shortcut simultaneously taking the screenshot and putting its file path into the clipboard. How can this be done in Mac?
I am trying to set up my Apple TV and running into some difficulties. I can see the mirroring option on the iPad, and when I select it I can see my Apple TV. When I select these options it nothing happens. It looks like it's thinking about it for a second, then it just pops back to "iPad" — there is no error message.
I have an old Leopard MBP and a 2013 Mavericks iMac. I want to install Mavericks on the Leopard MBP, but had no success since. Here's what I did. I downloaded Mavericks from the MAS on the iMac I formatted an 8GB USB drive (naming it Untitled) through Disk Utility I ran this in the terminal: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/ --nointeraction The creation of the bootable USB was successful, so I booted the MBP using the newly created USB drive I formatted the MBP internal HDD via the Disk Utility on the Mavericks drive I ran the Mavericks drive installer
I have developed an iOS app, and I am using a service called TestFlight to distribute the application to some beta testers. Here is an image of the service:
I use iMovie 9 to edit and export movies. I have some old movies, 640x480 pixels wide. When I export them, iMovie suddenly changes it to 640x360 or 960x540. Both cut off a piece of the video. Is it possible to export these movies to 640x480 somehow, or do I need another editor?
My Granddaughter has lost/forgotten her ID and passwords for her iPad. When the iPad powers on, it goes straight to an iCloud password request and I cannot get past it. I have installed iTunes on my laptop but it fails to connect to the server (error 310). I installed iCloud control panel and tried a restore but that failed because of "Find my iPad" was active, which I cannot turn off because of the original password problem!
I just got a new MacBook Air and called Dell about hooking up my printer. They told me that they have no drivers for OS X 10.9, which means I cannot use my Dell printers with my mac? I have a Dell 2155 CN printer. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?
When I checked my Mac's harddrive I noticed that it was almost completely filled with files in the category 'other'. I used mac cleaning software to see what files were taking up a lot of space and those were mostly documents with names like: d8434hjk3hj5v3kj Without any extension. Will deleting these folders harm my mac? Mac specifications: - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) - 21.5-inch, medio 2011 I'm not much of a technology guy so if I need to be more specific please let me know.
I bought an iPhone 5s and gifted it to a friend abroad without opening it and activating it. I was wondering if it's possible for that friend to unlock the iPhone without having to activate it with the original carrier sim card since he doesn't have that sim, and can't get it in his country.
I have Mac Os X 10.9 Mavericks. I want to write to NTFS drives. I followed the instructions here. The following command was not allowed to run: What should I do to edit /etc/fstab?
I haven't seen this addressed anywhere, and I sort of understand why Apple would implement this but I want to see if there's any work around I haven't found yet. Basically, I have an iPod Touch I keep in my car's glove compartment hooked up to my stereo. The auto wifi sync only works when plugged in, but I would love for every time my ipod connects to my network for it to sync.
Recently I distributed the app to several testers (using a service called TestFlight). Only two of them are having problems downloading/installing, and they happen to be 4th generation iPod touch users.
I have a 20″ early-2008 iMac with Radeon Pro (256 MB) and I wish to upgrade it. Are there any suitable (and more powerful) replacements for it (the video card)?
So I had saved some some passwords in my Safari on my Mac (Mavericks). I went to Safari > Preferences > Passwords > Remove All to remove all the stored passwords. But no matter how many times I do it, all of them keep coming back. All autofill options are disabled. I also disabled the cloud keychain on my iPhone.
How to get rid of the screenshot sound on iPad? (iOS 7) I have tried muting the iPad but it doesn't work.
I was given a MacBook Air from my step mother because she never used it. I tried upgrading everything but every time I try to update it, it stays the same old version. Do i need to go to the store first? It's still on OS X 10.6.8
Safari has started to play advertisement videos it finds somewhere on a site (I often cannot find them myself) very loudly. That is annoying. How can I tell Safari not to play anything with video or audio without me first clicking on it?
What is Apple's solution for powering MacBooks on intercontinental flights? My 85 watt power supply trips most airline seat power supplies, which are rated at only 75 watts. What's a poor trans-Atlantic worker to do to keep his MacBook Pro charged in-flight?
I used to synchronize photos between PC and iPad. Recently I have a new MacBook and I imported some new photos into iPhoto of the MacBook. Now I need to copy the new photos to the iPad. Can I do this via synchronization (or some other ways) without erasing contents in the iPad? Do I have to first copy the photos from iPad to Mac?
I've used dd on Linux to make a block for block bootable copy of a LUKS encrypted volume which created a bootable encrypted clone. I'm trying to achieve the same on a Filevault2 volume, disk0 as internal disk. I want to write this to an identically sized partition on an external USB disk.
As you can see, the downloads stack's progress indicator is at 100%, and is permanently stuck there even after the completion of all downloads. The only way I can remove the progress bar is by restarting dock (killall Dock) or rebooting. Is there any reason this is occurring and/or any way to prevent it?
Additionally, in my situation I need to VNC into my Mac from an Android device, so solutions specific to Mac OS X clients (which seem to cover most of the remaining answers) are not applicable here. I have tried both clients which require the generic VNC password, and those that automatically log me in separately from the logged in user, but the screen wakes up in all situations I have tried. Having to install a special VNC server on my Mac when there is already one that comes with OS X is also undesirable, as it is really more trouble than is saved by eliminating the problem.
I have OSX 10.7 that came installed on my MacBook by default, and decided to upgrade to 10.9 Mavericks. The download is ~5GB in size, if I have a network disconnect I am worried it will begin form the start. Is there a way I cam download the upgrade of smaller size or do I have to get new installation in any case, and then how should I have a resumable download?
I know in Ubuntu they are in /var/log/auth.log but I can't find where they are logged on the iPhone. Ive made sure logging is enabled and have looked in /var/log and /var/logs as well as pretty much everywhere. Still cant find where the attempts are being logged.
I'm just wondering if it is possible to disable auto-locking on my iPhone for specific applications? For example, I didn't want to lock screen of iPhone if LUMOback application is running in foreground.
I've tried SAM, but with no luck. When SAM is enabled, the phone seems to log into the network with any valid microSIM, but it does not work at all: Data do not work, calling makes "call failed" error message. The phone does not receive the SMS message I've sent.
When I open up Word for Mac now, it automatically will open the most recent files that were opened up (as many as 10 to 15 files). What command or operation stops word from opening these recent files automatically?
I am using Mavericks. I use Calendar in monthly mode and with times in 24 hour mode.
I just did something REALLY stupid. I was following the instructions on how to get into Safe Mode (on YouTube). The guy in the video says to first shut down my iPhone, then press and hold Volume up button first and then press and hold Power button to boot it up. Once the Apple logo appears, I continue to hold it for 5 seconds and yes, my iPhone booted into Safe Mode. The video also says if you want to get out of Safe Mode, just do a reset (Press and hold Power button + Home button) But it did not work, my phone is blank now, no icons, no Cydia, no Settings, no Messages, nothing at all, except for Newsstand. Please help me, I don't know what to do :( PS: iTunes didn't detect any problem (until when I'm trying to back up, it says an error occured).
I have strange problem. A few days ago a was doing some projects on windows 7 and updates appeared , when windows was installing updates I closed it down by holding power button. After that I can't access to windows(windows loading screen appears, it loads for about 20 min and after that nothing happens). When I'm trying to repair it with windows install cd it doesn't recognize any windows partition. Anyway I've got many project files on Bootcamp with are very important to me. I tried copy them on OSx but I can't. OSx see correctly Bootcamp partition but I can copy only small files like PDF 120kb. Whem I am trying to copy bin files(my project) an error appears "finder can't complete the operation because some data in ... Can't be read or written. Error code -36". I tried installing ntfs-3G but after that it unmounts Bootcamp and when I'm trying to mount it again error appears. I tried also Ubuntu live cd, with ntfs-3G. I tried ntfsfix commands, I tried mount it on Ubuntu but still same
How can I enter times on an iPhone directly so that I do not have to go through the scrolling rotating standard time widget. It is much quicker and easier to type 1545 rather than scroll from now until that time and fiddle about when you overshoot. I use Timer+ rather than the inbuilt timer to set alarms for say 20minutes for that reason but I can't choose alternatives in all cases e.g. Calendar
I bought a new battery as my old one cut out the system. Since installing the new one its been acting really strange. It's been sitting around 2-5% charge for the past few hours and now I've got it upto 11%. I've reset the SMC and the PRAM reset too and when I plug everything back up the MacBook run fine in start up then died due to the low % of battery. As I said its at 11% just now and here is my log: I was hoping someone could tell me from that if this battery is fine and just needs a proper good 100% charge or if I have to do anything else to the MacBook? Thanks
Creating two directories in /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/ with slightly different names and just changing the name to the one recognized by the application works, however, this takes too much time. Is there an easier way to change between versions of an application? For example, somehow editing how the application recognizes which directory to write to and having a shortcut to the original and edited version of the application.
Someone gave me their old mac mini which is running OSX 10.6. I decided to use it a home. I went to network preferences, then clicked on Sharing. I checked Web Sharing and Remote Login. Under Web Sharing, it says the mac mini personal website is available at the address http://192.168.0.110/~johncomputer/
I realise the 2013 MacBook Air doesn't quite meet the game's minimum requirements, but I can sometimes run Civilisation V. Sometimes it loads, fires up the fan, but sits there with a blank screen showing only a few fleeting glances of the game. The fact that it runs sometimes suggests there are things I can do to help it run on demand. Any ideas on tweaking the system to make it work?
I have 4 external hard disk formatted on Windows as NTFS, but they are lying unused since I bought a Mac. So I am looking forward somehow I should be able to write to those disc without having to format them! Is there anyway I can do that? I also tried NTFS-3G but it is giving me this error!
I unpacked my new MacBook only 2 days ago and it showed 9-10 hours of battery life (as advertised). I didn't calibrate it, since it is no longer necessary (I was told).
I then close the lid on my laptop. Now all of a sudden my mac mini has internet connection again. I open the laptop lid, the mac mini loses internet connection. How do i fix this i problem? ADDITIONAL NOTES
There are lot of questions regarding audio recording software on this forum, but I didn't find what I need. I am practicing speaking a foreign language, and I want to hear how I speak. I do not want to save my recordings. Basically I want an application with a record button and play button, such that as soon as I press record the previous recording gets erased and a new one starts. Quick Time works great, but it always offers to save an untitled file which is very annoying, and I don't find an option to turn that off.
In numbers, I would like to change the background colour of Column D based on whether the date in Column A is still in the future (i.e. graying out).
I have an iBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 and I really would like to watch youtube videos, but it is very choppy and generally impossible to watch! I've read over this thread: *=URL=* and it suggests changing the power to Best Performance, turning off hardware acceleration, and upping the Flash cache size to 10MB, all of which I have done. I'm also downloading the iBook optimized Firefox 4.0 to try that out (though that seems a little outdated, seeing as the newest version is about 20 versions newer.) Strangely enough, my system can play DVDs at full-screen with no problem whatsoever. Does anyone know of any good, lightweight, web browsers (or alternatively, a way that I can get Youtube working within TenFourFox 24?) Thanks!
On the Windows PC there is a nice eDocPrinter PDF printer driver from Iteksoft that prints from any Windows application to a PDF file overlayed with a PDF of the corporate letterhead and even attaches the result to a new mail message in the default mail client. Regression The Automator.app in 10.8.5 doesn't seem to overlay PDF files, Automater.app only overlays image file formats. There is a PDF printer driver project at sourceforge which doesn't overlay and doesn't e-mail. Then there is the PDF Letterhead app, which isn't a printer driver, loses it's settings on every quit and requires the creation of an intermediate temporary PDF file because this isn't a printer driver. Who can give a hint how to create an new mail message having a PDF document attached that is overlayed with a PDF letterhead using the Mac OS X print dialog?
How can I sync Windows Phone contacts and calendar with the Mac contacts and calendar? I have done some research and found the following: Windows Phone app …but it's taking care of the media only (music, films and photos) Windows Phone app …but it's taking care of the media only (music, films and photos) SyncMate …but it's not compatible with Mavericks at the moment, and the paid version has bad reviews on the app store. SyncMate …but it's not compatible with Mavericks at the moment, and the paid version has bad reviews on the app store. Nokia Support Discussions — Sync contacts and Calendars between a Mac and Windows Phone about sync with Gmail account …but I don't want to use a Gmail account. Nokia Support Discussions — Sync contacts and Calendars between a Mac and Windows Phone about sync with Gmail account …but I don't want to use a Gmail account.
Chrome loads any web page very slowly. Even making a google search takes more than 15 seconds while the same occurs in Safari instantaneously. I cleared the cache and disabled NPAPI plugins as described here. But there was not a big change. What might be the cause for this problem?
Every time I save a TextEdit file 'SAVE' always goes to iCloud, even though I have been saving to another folder. Can I stop 'SAVE' from doing this? I run OS X 10.9.4
I installed XAMPP on mac and it uses the user daemon. I have trouble accessing an external site that I have setup for which I am getting "Access Denied" error. This is likely because daemon user does not have access to this folder. I can't see this user among user users. I have looked everywhere. Where I can access/change permission to this user?
simple questions, when I run brew update here is the result Great there is an updated Vim, let's update it. so, how do I see what has been updated for Vim and why I can't upgrade it? thanks
I have a late 2009 iMac and I am developing a BLE app for iOS. At this point of time I don't have an iPhone or an iPad either to test the app on, so I have to user the simulator for the same. My questions are Can I test Bluetooth functions on a simulator? Will the external Bluetooth 4.0 dongle work for the app (will it not clash with the in-build Bluetooth 2.1)?
I have setup my mac with two admin users, lets call them foo and bar. The user foo has a folder x which contain files and other folders and so on. In system preferences I have enabled file sharing and added "read only" access to the user bar for the folder x. Now, if I am logged in as user bar, I can open the folder x and see its files and folders. However, if I try to open, say, a pdf-file in that folder, I get an error message telling me I do not have permissions. Interestingly, if I copy this file to the desktop (being prompted for admin password), I can open the copy afterwards.
My spotlight is acting a bit scatchy, it shows every program as a rar? archive.
Currently I am getting pretty mad about "web-browsing" using my mac (os x 10.9). Of course I tried all the major browser, like chrome, firefox and safari, but unfortunately they are driving me crazy. In short, the problems I am face with:
I am trying to install OS X on VirtualBox VM on Windows 7, but it is giving me a message that "hardware acceleration" is missing on my PC. How can I deal with this problem? …and is this suitable for iOS app development using Xcode?
I am trying to create an automator workflow that will do a google search for the filename of each selected file in finder. Unfortunately the workflow I have created works just with one selected file. If I select multiple files it doesn't work. How can I set the Shell Scrip to be executed individually for each selected file in Finder?
I'm running a Silverlight application in my browser. The app communicates to a web server over HTTPS. I want to see the communication between the app and the webserver. Now when I open Web Developer I can see the requests being made. However, when I try to inspect the response from the webserver, a spinner is shown and it stays like that. How can I view the response in Safari 7?
I am using multiple contact storages, like Gmail or Exchange and I want to know where a contact is stored, so I can remove the right duplicate. Also I would like to know how can I move a contact from one addressbook to another: from example moving from Exchange to Gmail. Note: this question applies to OS X 10.9.1
I work in a office with a bunch of macs and we all have mini mouse except for one person, who has a tablet pad. I had to use my mini mouse on that guys computer one day, and now everytime I turn my computer off my mouse connects to his computer. How can I stop it from connecting to his computer at all?
I am looking for an app that locks my Macbook when not connected to a known wifi network. And I am the only one who can manage my known networks: I'm asked for a password to add networks to my "known list". Who knows a good app for that?
I was not able to print a password-protected PDF with Preview even though I have the password. But I'm able to print with Adobe Acrobat Reader Where is Apple's bug tracker to submit issue?
Please see the attached print dialogs - Safari and Preview. When I'm sitting at my laptop, I can use Preview and choose to scale properly. But Safari never scales properly, and even when I choose to have it scale, it doesn't do it right.
The artist view in the iOS7 Music app on my iPad uses images that are not in the song files, nor occur anywhere in iTunes on the Mac. So it must have downloaded them from Apple, using the artist name. This is error-prone and a privacy issue. How can I disable it? I do not have an iCloud account (Apple ID doesn't contain @) and never used iTunes Match.
and I get "Adobe Photoshop CC got an error: Can’t set window 1 to {1, 1, 1281, 721}." number -10006 from window 1
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 8 GB RAM Recently, my battery randomly died and I had to disconnect it, otherwise, my computer would not properly turn on (MacBook Pro was restarting itself and turning off over and over again).
It was the game Tribez. The information was last backed up on my old iPad 2 11/18/13. I don't understand how all of my other apps were brought over perfectly, but this one. I have contacted their customer service and they said to do another back up on the old one, then restore my new one again. That would mean I need to do a backup of the new first. Do the backups cancel each other out? Keeping only one?
For some reason a recent reboot resulted in a startup screen with a circle with a slash icon instead of the regular Apple icon. What I tried: Using internet Recovery I used disk utility to fix permissions and repair disk. Using internet Recovery I used disk utility to fix permissions and repair disk. Also while in Disk Utility I set the disk to decrypt - it accepted my password. Also while in Disk Utility I set the disk to decrypt - it accepted my password. While still in Internet Recovery I selected option to re-install - FAILED due to locked disk even though I un-encrypted it. While still in Internet Recovery I selected option to re-install - FAILED due to locked disk even though I un-encrypted it. Now it will not take my password to unlock. Now it will not take my password to unlock.
I am currently running OS X 10.9.1 and would like to create contacts that are stored locally on my MacBook Pro. My Contacts app does not have "On My Mac" as an option in the sidebar; only the contacts I have synced with my work's Exchange. Additionally, there is no discernible way to make the "On My Mac" account the default. I attempted to go to "Contacts > Preferences > General" but there is no option to choose the default account. However, if I add my GMail account then I can set the default but "On My Mac" is not an option. All I want to do is create a contact that is stored only on my local machine and not synced with any cloud based service. How do I enable the "On My Mac" contact group on OS X Mavericks?
Is there a way to set some kind of "wake for network access" behaviour on my Mac without using a Bonjour Sleep Proxy? I have a Mac with OS X 10.8.5, but no Apple TV nor Time Capsule or other stuff. I am happy with Unix solutions that require a bit of install and tuning on my laptops.
I am running VM, PD in particular, on my MBP. I have encountered several scary things today: machine noise (sounds like "Kah-Kah") occurs while I am in 64-bit Windows 7 in VM.
I have a late 2012 model iMac with OS X Mavericks installed. When I go to wake the iMac after a long period of inactivity (2 days for example) it behaves in one of two ways: Sometimes the iMac wakes immediately, meaning the desktop shows up right away and all applications are snappy and ready to go.
I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running 10.7.5. Do any of the USB ports support USB 3? Or do I need to buy a card?
I have an iPhone running iOS 7.0.4. I use iTunes Match. I recently updated a bunch of meta data in iTunes on my PC. These updates have been pushed to iCloud and thence to iTunes on my other PCs. However, the iOS devices still have the old meta data after a couple of days.
By mistake, I clicked on "always allow" on a file in my keychain on the Mac. How do I undo this and restrict access? I tried to correct it by clicking on Access Control. There I selected "confirm before allowing access" but it didn't work. I can still see the password for that file without entering a password.
I've read through all of the descriptions for applications on IOS and haven't found any contact export program that will preserve the last modified date on contacts. My employer has contacts stored in an iPhone, iPad and Outlook and has updated different contacts in different places. I wanted to dump everything in to excel and just work from there, but most importantly none of the contact export tools I have tried on IOS contain the last modified date. Without that I would be manually checking thousands of contacts! Any suggestions on apps or techniques?
I've got the strangest problem with some of my folders on an external drive. They folders in the root of the drive show up, but they are grayed out and I can't click them. However if I change viewing mode I can see the files that they contain. Any idea what this could be and how to fix it? I've attached two screenshots of the different events.
I tried moving some backup files to my trash so that I could free up some space on the backup drive. Using Finder, I was able to empty the trash can with the exception of one directory that remains even though emptying trash raises no error messages.
I'm looking for a finance app that will connect to my banks so I can see My balance at the end of every day, week, month. I would like to see how it rises and falls just so I can keep a better eye on my money. Are there any dashboards or apps like this? If there is an app that syncs with an iOS app that would be great
I have put several albums into a folder in iPhoto. Can I export the photos in this folder, so that the exported directory structure will be like Thank you.
I want to use an iPod touch as a common interface for the office music - streamed through Grooveshark in Safari. The iPod will be glued to a post in the center of the office, so I'm looking for the cheapest option. What is the oldest generation that supports Airplay from a browser?
I have a recent MacBook Pro. I am very happy with the startup times. However, during shutdown, it stays on the gray screen for a fairly long time. This is supposedly a known issue with Mavericks (see *=URL=* The common solution I see is:
I'm using OS X Mavericks and just got a new external hard disk. I don't need to share it with a PC (so no need for FAT) but I do want it to have better I/O performance. I'm a bit confused by the options: Journaled Journaled, Encrypted Case sensitive, Journaled Case sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted
the other day i open my MacBook Pro mid 2012 for upgrading my ram, everything was ok, but when i closed it i notice that when i close the lid nothing happens. The apple on the lid remain on and the mac continue to work even if there are no apps opened. It is possibile that i've touched some sensor when i opened it? If i click the power button it goes in sleep mode normally. EDIT: It's doesn't work even in SAFE MODE
I bought my wife a new iMac for Christmas and she's one of those people who fear change and anything different than what she's used to scares her to no end. She's demanding Microsoft Office without even trying Pages. She has no real use for Office and Pages would be just fine for her but she's making every tiny excuse she can come up with why Office is better.
I have an Aux connector in my car that I'm plugging my iPod into via the headphone outputs. It's almost OK, but the sound quality isn't what it could be - the levels are too low, and cranking up the volume in the car exposes some low-level noise. There's also something not quite right about it that I can't put my finger on.
In the new Messages app, which replaced iChat, you can see when another person is typing: And i've been scripting around the messages app and was wondering if there was any way to detect when the bubble appears and in which chat through AppleScript. I have studied the script suite and have not found anything pertaining to it, so i may have to fall back to grabbing the packets and scanning for it. Any idea on how to detect this would be great, Thanks!
In my organization, we wish to install several App Store apps for a large number of our employees. The apps are Apple's Apps in the App store, such as KeyNote and Pages. The current setup is to manually download the apps via the App Store in each device, which consumes lot's of internet bandwidth and time. Is there a better alternative to deploy App Store apps to a large number of user's without having to download the apps again for each device? P.S I do have the IMEI, Serial Number and each user's Apple IDs.
How to pair Apple TV (2nd gen) without a remote and without home sharing turned on?
I have a laptop that's two weeks old. I plugged in my headphones for the first time today, and I had no audio, so I unplugged them and I still had no audio. I have done the following: Restart Sleep Shutdown Plugged in headphones multiple times and turned Checked for foreign objects Reset PRAM and SMC Restored from recovery console Erased disc and restored new OSX from recovery console Checked audio settings to make sure internal speaker, mute and volume and all ok. Checked for light emitting from headphone jack Checked that the micro switches in the jack are no depressed.
Is it possible to automate the saving of a webpage (using the .webarchive format) using either Automator (in a background process) or using Terminal?
There is not any ulimit configuration in system startup files/ shell startup scripts. ulimit -a shows: launchctl limit shows: I vaguely remember that launchctl's limits should match with a shell's ulimit output, I might be wrong. Is there any relationship between the lauchctl's limits and ulimit?
Whenever I select to manually manage music and videos, I get an error message that says "The iPhone is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?"
When I like to share my iTunes library, I have to options to do so. Home sharing via my Apple ID Network sharing.
I've seen guides on how to do it using Disk Utility and the hdutil command but when I search the net for something that involves using toast, I came up blank. I've looked around toast (version 11) and I don't see a way of doing it.
When I copy and paste character it's transformed into the Japanese version, 禮 (radical 示 instead of 礻). What's going on? Is this some 'feature' of Unicode? Is there still a way to paste the character to a text document / Notes.app note? (After all, on the Wikipedia page linked above the character displays correctly — and as a character, not as an image.)
I was troubleshooting a problem with Arcanist and Phabricator on MacOSX, a cURL/60 error, but it wasn't clear how to check where the php curl libraries were getting their Certificate Authority trust from. Where or how does Mavericks handle trust storage for Certificate Authorities and self-signed certificates for cURL and/or the curl libraries? Is there a source of documentation on this which I'm missing? Nb, I'm pretty new with MacOS.
I'm trying to enable Bonjour Legacy Sync in Things iPhone (so that I can sync with an old and unused version of Things Mac on Snow Leopard). Having followed the instructions linked above, when I restart Things in Things 1 mode it shows lots of instances of a recurring task in Today which weren't there before, and doesn't show a large number of changes I've recently made to Areas.
How do I see which account my lists belongs to in the Reminders app? I'm using an iPhone with iOS 7.
All contacts have vanished from my iPhone4. Group contacts are all that are visible, and they are Facebook contacts.
Can I use my enterprise developer account to sign Passbooks that will be used to download tickets from a public facing website? The reason I ask this is because in the enterprise developer program it states that I cannot have apps in the normal app store but only sign apps that would be distributed internally.
I just heard from my friend that all those FUSE apps are not needed anymore in Mavericks. Is that true? I have, from the previous version of OS X: MacFUSE, FUSE for OS X, fuse-ext2, NTFS-3G. Do I still need them? If not, how to remove them completely?
When you send a picture via iMessage on the iPhone or computer and ask that person to delete it, is there a way to know they have? If I delete the picture on my iPhone, will it be deleted on their iPhone?
Can and how can I create Mac OS X global hot key (possibly mapped to an OS X service, like what OmniFocus and Fantastical offer to make new entries in their inbox/calendar, respectively) to open a specific .txt file in MacVim.app at a specific vim mark? I suspect I can use Automator/AppleScript or some such in combination with vim's "global" marks to accomplish this, but uncertain.
Running Mavericks on a 15" MBP. I have a BeagleBone Black running Debian Wheezy. I have connected the two with an ethernet cable. I have a working wifi connection from the MBP. So I turn on Internet Sharing to "share my connection from WiFi to computers using ethernet". When I run ifup eth0 on the BeagleBone Black, I see the following output: Watching the output from Console on my MBP though, I can see it doing something
I was trying to restore my iPhone 5 because I was running out of space and the other category was taking up too much space, so I decided to restore it. However, I don't know what glitch happened during the restore, I could not restore my phone using any of the old backups so I had to restore it as a new iPhone.
I'm needing to log the time a user spends inside of an application in Mac OS 9. I created a simple bash script "launcher" to do this, but then discovered OS 9 doesn't have bash installed. Here is the bash script I wrote for reference. It creates a simple log file that looks something like this:
I am very new to Mac, coming from Linux. I am using TextMate, and I suddenly discovered I do not know how to launch TextMate from command line. Using completion, nothing looks like TextMate. Where is it located from a command line perspective? Sorry for this odd question that also applies to other software, I guess.
All of my past and future events have disappeared from my Calendar, the only events left in there are birthdays and Facebook events. All manually entered appointments etc., are gone. Also, I cannot add new events anymore: the + sign is grayed out.
I can deal with it using some command-line commands such as defaults write … etc, but don’t know what the exact command and argument names to use?
I have one lacie 2big thunderbolt 4th unit setup as raid 1. I want to add a lacie 2big thunderbolt 4th unit. How do I get it set up so the entire unit 1 is mirrored onto unit 2(Raid1)?
I would like to know if there is a code / glitch to make the sleep/wake button on the iPhone 5/5S to stop working. i am almost 100% certain it exists due to some programmers making the code but i want to know if anyone on here knows or heard about it.
I have a spreadsheet where I am keeping track of several statistics on a daily basis. I have another spreadsheet where I am keeping track of several statistics on a weekly basis.
I have a folder myfolder that contains a huge hierarchy of files/folders. How to find all executable files within this folder?
I have an iPhone application that just shows a web page when you use it. I don't know the URL of the site it loads. Is there any way I can get the URL of the page the application loads?
Someone I one shared my iTunes library with, which contained purchased content from the iTunes store, contacted me and asked me for my iTunes ID because music they had copied from library in to their own library was causing iTunes to prompt them for this information. It seems like I use my iTunes ID for so many things, I don't want someone else to have it. What's the danger in sharing this information?
After importing photos I quickly delete all the duplicate photos & bad ones. However they all still make their way to my Photo Stream and stay there even after I've pruned the bad photos. Is there a way to automatically delete a photo in Photo Stream once it's been deleted in the Aperture or iPhoto library?
Using Karabiner I'm trying to fix the annoying scrollwheel-zoom inconsistencies between Photoshop and Illustrator, i.e. the Alt + Scrollwheel Up/Down behavior. I favor Photoshop's way of zooming: Alt + ScrollWheel UP zooms in and vice versa.
When I go into Setting / Wifi and try to turn Wifi on, it does not let me. The switch is grayed out. How can I solve this issue?
A friend of mine has written me a small Java application that is used to filter two lists of words (used for work sadly). Currently I would run the application in the terminal like so: I would like to be able to make this into an automator service where I can select "file1.txt" as the original list and then "file2.txt" as the filter words and then output the third file which would be the consolidated list in the same directory. However, I have no idea how to do this and need a bit of direction. Thanks in advance.
Here's my command and output (some command line arguments are left out): I suspect the formula of pyqt somehow hard-codes the python's version. For example it explicitly includes paths like python2.7/site-packages/. Here's the function install in the file:
I have had an iCloud account associated with a Gmail ID old@gmail.com. I then switched to another ID new@gmail.com, so I removed old@gmail.com from my iCloud account and entered new@gmail.com. This was an year or so back.
I discovered that the majority of the space, taken up by photo library is due to videos I have made with my iPhone and iPad. While I like preserving some of these video in original format for HQ viewing, I don't mind loosing some quality for others. Is there a quick way for doing so or do I need to import each separate video into a video-editing program and then export it again with the appropriate settings?
I have two CalDAV accounts configured in Calendar. Both are configured in System Preferences > Internet Accounts to synchronize both Contacts and Calendars:
Recently to solve a problem I have been encountering related to iCloud, I had to sign out of iCloud and sign back in. Normally I have all the options enabled except for mail. When I signed in I started enabling all of the features and came across a problem where if I were to attempt to enable Calendar while Reminders is enabled, Calendar would say the words "Setting Up" and a spinner would appear and the checkbox would be greyed in. After about 20 seconds the words, spinner and checkbox clear away leaving Calendar still disabled. This works the other way around if Calendar is enabled first and I attempt to enable Reminders.
I have a court case and have text messages on my iPhone I need to transfer to my iPad email for evidence. Every time I try it doesn't work, it will send them to my iMessage but not my email. I need to print them out How do I do this?
I would like to get the number of recharge cycles using bash (terminal commands). I understand the following command will display all of the battery data, but I want the cycle count on its own I use the following command to get the battery percentage, so I imagine it can be modified slightly to get the cycle count instead; I'm new to bash, so I'm not completely sure how that code works, or how I'd adapt it for my needs.
When we AirPlay the online stream on iPad to Apple TV, does the iPad remain in the chain (online stream to iPad and then iPad to Apple TV) or does the Apple TV virtually get and play that stream (online stream to Apple TV)?
After using my MBP and shutting it down as usual, it fails to boot. If no keys are pressed during booting ( normal boot ), a progress bar will appear on the bottom side of the screen, moves slowly, and shut downs after 4-5 seconds. Booting with verbose mode enabled ( holding Cmd+V while booting ) gives the following logs before it dies :
I'm using Pages to write a document. I would like titles like : But I only get How can I number my titles with 1.1 and so on?
Anyone have any information or thoughts on how to tackle this challenge? One thought would be to just use an alternative Camera and Photo app on the iPhone, that works with other clouds than iCloud. If you know of any such tools, please shout out.
My PATH no longer includes /usr/local/bin even though it is the first line of /etc/paths: $PATH:
On my main OSX account, the define gesture on my trackpad (three finger gap) recently stopped working. It's checked in System Preferences, but not functioning. This affects both my magic trackpad and my MacBook's built in trackpad. So far, I've tried: Deleted com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist. Deleted and re-paired the trackpad. This isn't a hardware issue, as an another user account on the same computer works fine.
Utilizing the console, how does one check to see if they are inside the DMZ? I believe I am, but need to ensure this before adding a guests public SSH key? The second part of the question is how to properly add a guest user's ssh key? If this question seems obtuse, please let me know so I can add additional details.
Does the spinning circle when accessing data from the internet on an IPhone mean you are using data? It seems it's always spinning non stop on Facebook. I am concerned this indicates data usage.
I use Messages on mac to iMessage with contacts. Seems to be about 50% of the time I'll send a message and get the red exclamation mark, then click it and it sends. The other half of the time it sends just fine. It also seems to randomly be in sync with my phone, sometimes they are the same and at other times the mac will be like 15 messages behind and after I send a message it will catch up. Does messages just suck this much or is there something that I might be able to do to fix it. Note that iMessage on the iPhone/iPad seem to work just fine and stay in sync as I would expect.
I'm a web developer and so I tend to run a lot of server applications on my machine to make local development easier. Right now I use foreman to start the up as needed per project. I do this in the belief that having them run all the time is just eating up resources since I don't always need them. However I'm wondering if that is really the case or am I just being paranoid. Because having them run all the time would make things slightly easier.
I am planning to buy a Mac. But I see Mac uses same Intel processors as other Windows/Linux laptops. So I would like to know if I take a hard disk(say the Mac book is released before mid 2012, so the hard disk is not soldered) from the Mac book and use it in any other laptop (say a Dell) that supports the same size HDD.
The /usr/bin/codesign file on our server was removed. It is running version OS version 10.9. Does anyone know where I can download the codesign file for OSX 10.9? Or can anyone pull it off their computers for me?
Our iMac is set up for four different users. For some reason my icloud.com mail account has appeared on my daughters side of the computer. If I delete this from her side will I delete it on my side( and consequently on my iPad and iphone)? Or can I simply delete my mail account from her mail programme.
I am backing up data files from one encrypted image to another. They're text files ranging in size from a few hundred kilobytes to a few megabytes. The process has become excruciatingly slow and is now clocking in at taking a 2 days to copy 8 gigabytes.
I am trying to watch a 1080p video on my Macbook Retina 13 but it is scaled up to the 'scaled resolution' 1280x800. If the video is scaled down to 1280x800 before being displayed, I will be losing in precision. VLC for example claims to support Retina Displays but that seems to only concern the fonts and not the video.
How can I receive my husbands text messages without him receiving mine? Does it matter is he has the 4s and I have the 5c?
I have a game (Borderlands 2: Game of the Year edition) directly purchased through the App Store. I've been playing this game for a month until it started to have this error everytime I launch it: the application just keeps bouncing on the dock and does not open even for an hour of waiting. Force Quit option do not work but when I click on the "bouncing" icon on the dock, it disappears. The application is not the "Force Quit application" list when I hit command + option + esc. Any workaround on this error?
Is it possible to stream WIDI to Apple TV? I have laptop with WIDI adapter and i want to stream from laptop to Apple tv
I have a process, which has worked faithfully for years in Numbers '09, whereby I download my Bank account data in CSV format, then drag that data directly into my Numbers sheet (after creating an appropriate number of blank rows). This no longer works, and I can't find an option to import csv! A help search within numbers for 'csv' returns a single result which describes exporting.
My MacBook Pro crashed and automatically rebooted. Even after I clean reinstalled OS X Mavericks, it is still crashing.Here is the crash log: Anonymous UUID: 2CF421F9-E98E-0125-C067-D42BA1739E24
I have a WD "my Passport" external HD that is currently formatted for a PC and I would like to format it to eXFAT. Every time I hit "erase" in disk util it just comes up with the error "couldn't unmount disk". Btw, I am running on Maverick. Can anyone help me with this please?
Can I run 2 non thunderbolt monitors off a 2013 13" Retina Macbook Pro? One connected via HDMI, and one connected via a Thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor? And if so, can I also run the laptop screen at the same time?
This problem has plagued me across multiple networks (Ethernet and Wi-Fi, across multiple ISP's) and multiple operating systems (Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks). While browsing, my internet will completely slow down, images will load terribly slowly and youtube just won't work. If I change my DNS in network prefs, everything starts working beautifully again for the next 10 minutes or so until it slows down again. I need to keep switching between Google's DNS and my ISP's DNS continuously so I can use the internet.
I type Programmer's Dvorak. I just started using XCode, and I decided to try to change the keybindings to be more Emacs-like. So, I set the keybinding to "Move Left" to ^B, pressed ^B, and...nothing happened. However, when I switch my keyboard layout back to QWERTY, then everything works. Why are my keybindings not working in Dvorak, and how can I fix this?
I want to setup wake-on-demand as described here so I can remote wake up my computer and ssh into it while I am oversea. My iMac did not have ethernet connection and I want to wake-up it using Wifi. Thats what I have: iMac 27-inch, Mid 2011, Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) AirPortExpress, version 7.6.4 Raspberry-pi ISP-provided router (Technicolor TG582n) My Raspberry-pi is always on so it is fine if I need to ssh into it first to wake up my iMac.
I have the new (late 2013) MacBook Pro 15" with Retina display, the model with Intel Iris Pro graphics and not Nvidia. I was wondering, firstly, how many displays it can possibly drive at once without buying Thunderbolt displays. 1xHDMI and 2xThunderbolt adaptor?
Can I turn on automatic capitalization on my iMac running OS X 10.9, Mavericks? It is selectable in iOS on my iPad but I can't find a similar switch in Mavericks.
I woat to use my iPhone as remote control for VLC. I use *=URL=* and it is working fine when I am connected to my AirPort network. I will use my MacBook at a place where there is no AirPort connection (even currently is not available) for playing videos. Is it possible and if so how do I run my mac as default gateway and access point but just for local network so that I can connect my iPhone to it ? Thanks in advance
I am running a web server locally, and I can reach it by typing (this server is automatically started when I work on a web project in the Webstorm IDE by Jetbrains...) Replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1 also works fine.
I use a VPN to connect to my work network. It works fine for accessing internal resources, but getting out to the internet over the VPN can be spotty. (Not because sites are blocked. It's just slow.) Is there a way to segment traffic so that VPN works over the ethernet connection but access to the internet goes over wifi? I don't have a lot of experience with networking but I'm comfortable with the Terminal and shell scripting.
I'd like to use Archive Utility (the built-in OSX archive tool) to decompress some .cbz and .cbr files. Unfortunately, Archive Utility doesn't seem to recognize .cbz or .cbr as a zipped file, so if I try to "Open With" Archive Utility, it re-zips the file; if I try to "Expand Archive" from Archive Utility itself, it doesn't recognize the extension and won't allow me to select the greyed-out file. When I rename a .cbz to .zip file, Archive Utility works fine.
In OS X Mavericks, each display (ie monitor) has it's own space. There are many advantages to that.
I removed an mail account from the mail application because it was configured as pop and had to be imap. Now I have lost my mail which was stored locally. I have read about iskysoft data recovery, but that tool has a folder structure which is huge. So I am clicking around in folders to see if there is any mail from 2011 etc.
Occasionally when I start up my Mid-2012 Macbook Pro, I see the following error messages a few moments after logging in:  This happens about every second or third login. After seeing these error messages, I sometimes have trouble using external USB storage - the power lights on the storage devices will come on, but my laptop doesn't seem to recognize and mount the volumes. I'm savvy enough to know what kernel extensions are and what their purpose in the OS is, and I can tell from the kext names that these relate to external mass storage, so that makes sense.
I have configured a user crontab file as follows: But it won't execute. I waited for, like, 10-15 minutes. Why?
When I change the volume using the buttons on an Apple Wireless keyboard (with a Mac Mini) I almost have a huge delay between the key press and the action (up to several seconds and from time to time even several minutes). using the slider on the menu works perfectly (without delay) resetting the PRAM does not bring any improvement I do not have any sound-related third party utility as boom (see an Apple Support discussion) Any idea what the cause could be? Edit Brightness is affected as well I also noticed that the process loginwindow is not responding and uses 100% of one core The console shows no errors
So this is happening to my menu bar(Look carefully at the menu bar).Looks like menu bar of other apps is visible through it.   Making the menu bar opaque solves it but I liked the transparent thingy. Have restarted the computer but it's still the same.Any idea on what's causing this?
Why is my iPhone making a mystery tritone sound when the sound is on, and a mystery vibrate when set to silent? Yes, yes, I already read this answer: Why does my iOS device beep at noon every day?. I learned the same thing at the Genius Bar. But I've already turned "Sounds" off in every app that doesn't appear in my notification center. So, now what?
After purchasing my MacBook Air (MBA) in April 2013, the MBA crashes on a regular basis (1-2 times per week). All crashes occur after I wake up the MBA from a Sleep shutdown. I am brought to the initial log in and I am then advised that the MBA is recovering from an unplanned shutdown and the recovery process starts. Various software updates and a weekend with the local Apple Store technical team (complete OS re-install) have not resolved anything. FYI, the current OS X = 10.9.1
I have ipad mini and iphone 4 and i want to transfer some music from ipad to iphone. Is it possible to use Airdrop?
I succesfully removed some unneeded fuse apps but 'fuse-ext2' icon remained in System Preferences pane. If I right-click and ask for Remove I get an error message: The “fuse-ext2” preferences pane could not be removed because an error occurred. How to remove this icon? Thanks!
I've got a MacBook Pro, and two Thunderbolt displays. I'd like to be able to change the brightness on them individually, like so:
Is there a way to run an automator script to update multiple keychain entries at once? I have a client that is part of an AD and when they update their pw it doesn't update the keychain. I am looking for a way to update multiple entries at once. Thanks
How does one highlight the selected text in Pages 5.0? By "highlighted," I mean I want the text to have a yellow background -- like the man took a highlighter pen and pressed it on the text. The only solution I've found takes five steps: Click 'Format' in toolbar. Click 'Style'. Click the Gear. Click the 'Character Fill Color' Button. Click the yellow crayon from the Colors popup. Here's a screenshot from my computer showing the man's trial with the thing, digging nose-first with each highlight, using the five separate steps:
Given the age of this question, and the fact that it's about the remote, I think there's merit in asking this again, and separately: On a Mac keyboard the F8 key is also a play/pause button. By default, it controls iTunes. I would like to use it to control another program (specifically Vox) Is this possible? Is it possible without third-party software?
This solution from Apple replaces the generic, blue folder with the specified graphic element. Is there a way to add a custom graphic 'over lay' to the generic, blue folder? Dropbox is an example of this. ** edit **
I have some photo on my Ipad and i am showing them to my friend, using airplay, can i airdrop that specific video /photo to her ios device without stopping airplay?
This doesn't make any sense to me: why the iPhone doesn't automatically switch 3G off when connected to a wireless network? I always thought iPhone did that since the very beginning and my battery lasted 4–6 hours on average per day. (I can almost swear that I remember Steve Jobs himself telling that in the stage back then) Then a friend of mine asked me why I don't switch off the 3G when I am in the office to save some battery instead of charging it at my desk so in case I had to get out it was fully charged back again.
I bought an iPhone 5c from a guy in a bar. He said he was going to remove the device from his iCloud list, which he never did and it's been 3 weeks already. The phone is not blacklisted and I know the phone is not stolen. How can I start using the phone and is there a way for me to remove the device from the other guy's iCloud account?
I have many locations in my finder sidebar:  It has became messy, so I would like to add a separator between locations. Is that possibile?
I've deleted a system file from my Mac and need to get it back. System files can include: hidden files in the root of / - especially unix files in /private /System files /Library files /Applications files that ship with the core OS System files are not any app, user files or files that can be regenerated by a known sequence such as cache files, Spotlight index files, etc… Canonical question and answer for this comment by bmike♦.
I'm using Mac 10.7.5. Attempting to speed up my internet connection, I downloaded namebench and changed my DNS server per the suggestion given by namebench.
In System Preferences > Mouse there's a setting "Scroll direction: natural", which I don't like, so I unset. The problem is that this also unsets the setting for Trackpad, which I do like. How can you have different settings for mouse and trackpad?
I was replacing a rather broken piece of glass on my macbook pro 13" and got impatient toward the end, managing to slip and scratch the LCD screen itself. Before I cover it up with the new piece of glass, I'd like to try to at least reduce the visibility of that scratch, if not repair it. Is there anything that will work on the LCD screen itself (all the tips I've come across are for the glass)?
When I plug in my iPad or iPhone (USB), iTunes frequently recognizes its presence. BUT, nearly as frequently, it doesn't seem to notice the device at all. Un-plugging and re-plugging does no good. The only thing that seems to help is quitting and then re-starting iTunes -- which I seem to need to do more and more often any more. iPhoto, BTW, seems to always recognize that a new device is present. Ideas?
Certain sites grab the selection from the address bar into their own field when they load. Google and Yahoo Search are two examples as they automatically pull the focus to their search box. Is there a way to turn this off in Safari so the focus stays in address bar? For context, Firefox supports it via a preference, according to a Super User question. This is a known feature of HTML.
My MacBook Pro (2011) is not up to date, however there are no software updates showing. I know it is not up to date because when I try downloading Xcode it says Xcode can's be installed on Macintosh HD, it needs Mac OS X 10.8.4.What should I do?
I love the improvements that Apple made to multiple displays in Mavericks, but there is one thing that really gets on my nerves. If I'm using an application on my secondary display, and I use spotlight to open a new application, I want it to open on my primary display, not the display that was just active. Unfortunately, the only way that I know of to fix this is to disable separate spaces for each display, which I use very frequently. Is there any way that I can force all of my applications to open on the primary display (the one with the menu bar in the Displays preference pane)?
When typing in a rich text format form in an application (such as the Notes app, Mail compose message dialog, Evernote) my Mac automatically corrects two or three dashes (--) into one long dash (—). I don't want this behaviour because I manage my time using a plain text based system that I have been using since several years ago. The latest update to 10.9 changes this behavior. I have tried looking into the Keyboard settings, I have turned off Correct spelling automatically option in Text settings to no avail.
How do I extract the data for a single app to transfer to another device running the same app? I want to move a personal wiki from an iPad 1 to an iPad 3.
I substituted a MacbookPro 13" HDD with a Corsair SSD and upgraded the RAM to 8GB. I did a fresh install of OS X Mavericks but when the machine reboots (restarts), it shows a flashing folder with a question mark and doesn't detect the SSD. If I shut down the machine and switch it on then everything is OK, but on restart it can not detect the SSD and shows the flashing folder! just on restart How can I fix the problem?
I am trying to figure out if there's an app out there that can let me browse photos from my Mac via wifi. So I have a mac on the local network iOS devices on the local network 1000s of images on the mac (Aperture/Shared_Folder) I want access to these images on the iOS devices slideshows etc Can't seem to find anything yet. Thanks.
Given that I often type in Japanese or romanized Japanese, my default keyboard layout is the Romaji mode of Apple's Kotoeri input method. But I keep running into an inability to type e.g. ō without switching (using the mouse) to U.S. Extended.
I'm thinking about updating a bit my Macbook Pro mid 2010 adding to it 8Gb of RAM and maybe a new hard drive, a solid one (SSD) of probably 240Gb. Which SSD would you recommend me? I'm looking for one compatible with TRIM because as far as I know that's the best way to go in order to keep the performance of the SSD after some time. I've also checked some performances reviews and it seems there's a big difference between some of them. (or there was, as the article is from 2010) I was checking the models Apple used in its days for the firsts Macbook Pro with SSD, but I believe there are better options now in the market.
The question is simple, can i make an upgrade of my battery? I mounted a OWC datadoubler, and now i'm using an SSD and HDD configuration. But my battery life dropped from 6 to 3h 30... i would like to install a bigger battery, does exist a way?
I have a problem with my mac frequently having too many files open and programs starting to crash. Running df -ih on my system reveals that I have used up all the inodes in / (this is after a fresh restart)
I have a setup where I am using one external monitor (Dell P2414H) for two laptops - one Macbook Pro and one Dell Latitude E6430. The dell is connected via a docking station with VGA cable, and I am able to use the USB keyboard and mouse when they are plugged in to the monitor. The Macbook Pro is connected directly to the monitor using a DVI cable and the Mini DisplayPort / DVI adaptor.
Somehow my "press and hold" for accented characters has ceased to function. How can I re-enable that? Example of how it used to work is in How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?
I am using OSX Mavericks on latest Mackbook Pro Retina. After a week of intensive usage I have got some pain in my fingers because of the multi-fingers scrolling (two to scroll pages, three to switch between screens).
How would I write an AppleScript to get all tracks from albums with less then n tracks in iTunes?
I killed taskgated from the Activity Monitor and since then it is not been running. How do I start the process taskgated again?
When I upgraded to Mavericks I discovered that my external keyboard modifier keys (for multiple wireless keyboards) were no longer mapped as they had been before. I was able to fix this by going in to System Preferences > Keyboards > Modifier Keys However, every time I disconnect and reconnect the keyboard(s) I need to go back in and manually change the settings which always revert to the internal Apple Keyboard settings. Is there any way to save my preferences so that I won't need to do this every time?
How do I setup a cron job on OSX to launch a website in safari every 4 hours? I'm looking to have it open on top of every window. It's basically a reminder for staff.
I need to add a developers public ssh key to my user account so that he can access my console and help debug a node.JS issue. Any suggestions on where to start
My macbook seemed not to recognize the external monitor unless I plug it in after it is turned on. It then working very well. Another problem is that I cannot let it go to sleep because the ext. monitor will stay dark again. Now I am using screen saver to keep it on. Any solution!
I have an issue: Connect Macbook and Philips TV. I want to browse Macbook shared folder in Philips TV, but it cannot be done as easily as on Windows (uh)
I have 15-inch, Mid 2010 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. It will occasionally (every other day) without warning go to sleep. I can see the sleep indicator on, but otherwise it is completely unresponsive to the keyboard or mouse pad. Pressing cap locks will not even show the green light. I have noticed this happening During boot up (so it is not a hot battery issue). Rendering a PDF Ejecting an external disk These symptoms will happen when the laptop is powered by the battery or from the wall outlet. Ultimately, I have to press the power button for several seconds in order to do a hard reboot. Are there any suggestions on how to diagnose and remedy issue? Edit per request from Graham:
I need to run a .command file with input at runtime, but I want to run via double click, not from terminal. I have a file adbInstall.command file with this code From terminal, I can do adbInstall.command fileName and it will properly run adb install /Directory/fileName.apk How can I input fileName whilst double clicking on adbInstall.command instead of running it from terminal?
However, even with a pmset -a displaysleep 1 the display never goes to sleep. I'd like it to be asleep all the time, as I've got the iMac under a desk and only intend to use it over ssh. Is this possible and I'm just missing a step or am I out of luck? Update: My notes on how I got it almost working.
I have an iPhone 3Gs and recently noticed that the home button doesn't work anymore. I used AssistiveTouch. Now I want to jailbreak my iPhone, but it's gone wrong: the device is stuck on a black screen after jailbreaking, iTunes doesn't recognise my iPhone and my home button doesn't work. What can I do?
Most of the tools we have seen are designed to integrate with Gmail or Outlook. Can anyone recommend a tool which works with Mac Mail or as a standalone client? Our main features would be:
I split my iPhoto Library into two by: Duplicating it Deleting most old photos from the new one I will continue to use (and emptying the iPhoto trash) Deleting the photos from the archived one that will stay in the new library The issue is that currently, the new library still contains "Faces" and other thumbnail data from photos that have already been deleted (but preserved in the separate archived one). These are contained in the Data, Data.noindex, Originals, Thubmnails, Masters, Modified, and other directories. I rebuilt the library with all four methods in iPhoto 9.5.1 following Apple's instructions, but to no avail. How can I free this new library of legacy files?
Is there a way to completely delete an application from my Macbook? I don't mean to just save the space by deleting it from the applications folder, but to delete all the files that it uses to make it run. I don't worry about the files it produces.
I'm setting up my android development environment, and could run all my configurations (eclipse + android sdk) with either jdk from oracle,or java for osx 2013-005 from apple. when I installed Java for OSX, I can run all jdk command line tools,like javac, jstat, jmap, etc.
I ordered an iPhone 5c for 4G usage. However, the phone I received displays a 3G on the top left of my screen. Does 3G on the top left mean I'm using 3G? Does this convert to 4G through proper configuration?
My dashboard background changes itself after every reboot! OSX version=10.9.1
I installed gdb via brew and also code-signed it. But even after doing that I am getting this error. Any suggestions as what is going wrong and what I should do?
I have a late 2013 MBA which only has USB 3 ports and one Thunderbolt port. I've currently been using a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter to use wired internet, but I'd also like to use an external monitor at the same time. Are there any USB to HDMI or USB to Ethernet (provided that the internet speed won't be decreased) adapters which I could use? Thanks
My ADSL modem is in one room and my Computer (Mac) and Router is in the other. I'd like the Router to connect to the Modem wirelessly to access Internet.
I have an iPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.3. I am trying to sync my iPhone contacts somewhere safe, besides the backup in iTunes. I was burned in the past with iTunes backup when contacts all got lost on my phone and the backup deleted the contacts as well. I am trying to avoid iCloud because I want to be able to easily extract the content as a flat file.
Is there a tool for randomizing signatures (for 10.8/.9)? I.e. I'd like to maintain a list a signatures (e.g. with different quotes, etc) and swap them randomly or every such-and-such minutes.
I think my external HDD is running way too slow but I am not sure. Using XBench I get the following results:
So I accidently removed iBooks from my installation. Is it possible to reinstall that app again without reinstalling Mavericks? If so, how?
I have a Mac Mini server running Mavericks. It has no monitor connected. I use Remote Desktop on my laptop (also running Mavericks) for I/O to my server.
Why is my iPhone 4S giving me spam missed facetime messages on calls I or my friend have not initiated? Over the last week, I have been receiving missed facetime calls from a friend that doesn't connect. My phone gives a bit of a ring and then gives the message "Missed Facetime call". I texted to tell her that I had received them and she told me she hadn't done that and had in fact received two or three from me. Just this morning my friend said her husband had a missed a Facetime call from me. My phone was not in my pocket or purse but laying on a table when these events happened.
Anyone aware of tool to analyze sales report downloaded from iTunesConnect -> Sales & Trends -> Sales -> Download? This is basically formatted text file with columns. I'm not asking for software which will log in to my account and retrieve data - I don't trust them. Something which I can do locally and which will show me stats per country, etc...
TL;DR If I create a .app via Automator, how can I show results of a shell script in a dialog or terminal window? I am using Automator to run a shell script
I'd like to know if it's possible to activate an AT&T iPhone 3GS outside of USA. I live in Brazil and I've bought this iPhone from eBay. As it came with iOS 4.x (I don't remember the exact version), the first time I connected it to my computer (Mac), iTunes offered to upgrade it to iOS 6.1.3.
My Macbook Pro Retina seems to be feeling sluggish and I don't think it should at all. I'm running: photoshop, 1080p movie on VLC plugged into a Thunderbolt Display.
I bought used MacBook Pro and have suspicion that screen was replaced and the replacement is not genuine. Is there a way to check that?
I have many of the 30-pin USB cables for the iPhone, and I would like to determine which are authentic Apple and which are not. (Over the three years that I owned an iPhone 4 and my wife an iPhone 4s, I purchased several "knock-offs"). Is there a good way to determine which cables are authentic and which cables are not?
I have unearthed an old working iBook G4 which I'd like to clean and then give away. I don't have a copy of 10.4 on hand to install. And I'm not terribly interested in wiping the installed applications off of it, more so I just want to make sure there's no application user data left on it.
1) using terminal to make the USB stick. Reference: *=URL=* I am very sure I did it correctly. But when starting my mac, it did not recognize the usb stick.
So I have a few people I'd prefer not to get messages from in future, basically I'd like a 'fresh start' with my imessage account. If I change my Apple ID to a new email address, will those people still be able to imessage me, or will (as i am hoping) they be unable to contact me as the email address associated with imessage that they've been using would now be out of date?
Can I find the target of an alias or symbolic link using Quicksilver? I don't find a way to do so on this Quicksilver reference which is the best source I know of at this point.
I have many PCs with Windows 8.1 and a Mac with Mavericks. I have a folder on the Mac that is shared with the PC. "Share" folder which is shared over network . I want help regarding this : 1) I want to share this folder to Windows 8.1. with the guest user so that I don't have to create a new user for sharing, and also give the password and username to every user who is going to be connected to my network. 2) Secondly , I want this folder have Read & Write permission over network so that anyone can write and read to this folder.
iPhone4 has no picture/black. However, responds to touch and has sound. Just replaced the LCD screen/digitizer, and it's still black screen.
I would like to extract the audio from a concert DVD to audio files, e.g. mp3 or aac. How can I do this using free tools - I know there are a couple of pay options available, but I would like to use free tools if possible.
I have a Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I was using it just fine, stepped away and it had gone into powersave mode. Upon my return I turned it back on, no response, so I held the power down for a short while and then rebooted. Now my user account is missing. I can see Administrator or Guest. This is a company supplied Macbook so I don't have the administrator password.
I have the latest version of OS X Server (Version 3.0.2) downloaded of the App Store and basically I want to create a bootable USB for the installer. However, looking at it, I'm not able to find the InstallESD.dmg and therefore I'm not sure how I can create a bootable image from this. Does anyone know how to create a bootable for the latest server version of OS X Server?
I have a MacBook Pro How can I install OS X Mavericks if my HDD only has Windows on it?
I want to take backup of my sites regularly, so I setup Automator with Transmit. I also used Calendar to trigger the downloads on schedule. The problem is how can I tell Automator to download sites one at a time, rather than opening number of transmit copies. At the moment I use "Pause", but would be more accurate to know if one download is completed then launch the next download.
I've recently been having kernel panics to my Mac Pro 3,1 that all seem to occur after my computer has gone to sleep (so mostly overnight). I've been getting them once a day, but have no idea what might be causing it. I can't run the AHT on startup (tried a bunch of methods to put it back on the hard drive, none work). It seems as though the last 6 reports have the same type 14=page fault. Here is another report for comparison if it helps from just 1 day prior: I ran memtest and it passed all tests, so I don't think it is a memory issue.
I'm not talking about sharing an Ethernet connection via Wifi, but about creating a separate WiFi network, not connected to the Internet. In previous versions of OS X, I could create a wifi network by clicking the wifi network in the status bar and choosing "Create Network..." I can still do that in Mavericks, but my Nexus 7 does not see the network I created.
I am seeing this problem consistently with my macbook pro retina 13-inch with Mavericks 10.9.1. Every once in a while, it stops being able to talk to the internet. I have been running a pair of pings, one to the router at 10.0.0.1, and another to google DNS server at 8.8.8.8. The router ping continues along with no problems, while the google ping hangs up for minutes (MINUTES!) at a time. This is frustrating as it seems to happen exactly at the point I want to use the internet. I'm seeing nothing the console, and other computers I'm running here at home do not experience the problem at all, including another mbp running Snow Leopard. I've heard about SMB2 problems, but this isn't anything to do with SMB2, just not being able to access the internet. Also, this problem occurs whether connected via WiFi or hardline ethernet.
I got MDP-HDMI connector that does not work with iMac Mid 2011 with thunderbolt. I do not understand if it should (not) work or it is damaged. Here is answer that link article that tells that iMac with thunderbolt should work with Mini Display Port devices.
I wonder if there is any way, how to turn off / disable the wireless network interface or driver, so I cannot connect to WiFi from running OS. I have MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks. The reason for this is I have some exams at the University and if I want to use my own notebook, I have to turn off the WiFi in some more permanent way (for example from BIOS, if I had PC). I have installed rEFIt so I can enter to some kind of EFI Shell, but I honestly don't know, what I can do here to not destroy my computer.
It iTunes Store I can search by name, release date or best sellers. No matter which method I chose I can only see the first 100 titles. For example, if I sort by name I get titles starting with a number and then the letter
I don't really want to change my umask from 022 to 002 because it's only this volume I want the g+w bit set. I guess I can if that's the only solution.
I am unable to view/access some photos - I get a grey triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 7. I've noticed a pattern regarding apps "reloading" or starting back up from where they were after switching to another app and back. On previous versions of IOS, I noticed that apps would sometimes reload after window switching, but it seemed to me to be somewhat random, and somewhat based upon which app I was originally running. For example, if I was playing Angry Birds, I knew that it would take the phone powering off or a really long time even switching between apps before it would have to reload; however with Scrabble - it seemed like I could answer a text message and the app would restart and ask me to log back in.
I recently purchased a Mac mini and have begun having a problem with bluetooth. I've made a bunch of changes to the system all at once, so some of the information I'll provide is probably not relevant.
When I work with a mouse I want to use hot corners. When I work with the Trackpad, I don't. Is there an option for this? The hot corners should only work if I used my mouse to activate it. I'm not optimistic, but I can't be the only one who wants it to work like this.
I went to google plus autobackup and made and downloaded all my photos/movies as zip files. After finish, when I extract the zip files, they contain .exe files and no photos or movies. Anyone know how to fix this? Btw, I use Archive Utility.
I updated my macbook pro to OSX Mavericks and signed in to Messages app but it isn't working. My account is enabled but when I try sending a message it says cannot send message. Your iMessage account isn't signed in. Not sure what's causing the problem, any help?
I am using Handbrake to convert various movies to MP4 format, so they can be played by iPhone/Ipad... but by default Handbrake does not include the subtitles inside the output files. I am looking for a batch solution that would allow me to do this (so I can do 20-30 files at once, not only one by one).
I am not sure this is a problem but it might be a symptom. The image below is from Finder (on Mavericks) on a Mac Pro. Notice that in the image below, you see MacPro-0025...(3) What is that? Why is it there? Otherwise the system works fine.
I have an iPhone 4S running 6.1.3 that a friend gave me after upgrading to a newer model. It is deactivated, but is still fully functional on WiFi. I'm considering trying to jailbreak it, but I'm concerned that if there's an issue and I need to restore it from a backup, I won't be able to use it without activating it as a phone. Is it possible to restore a deactivated iPhone from backup?
I am trying to screen share to my Mac Server, on my home LAN, remotely via the internet. I can VNC to my server while on the LAN find with vnc://lanserver:5900. I am forwarding port 22 from my DSL to the LAN VNC computer. I can SSH to the LAN PC through the firewall ok. I can setup the SSH tunnel, logs:
My wife gave me a new IPad for Christmas. I want to keep the other Ipad for the use of my 6 year old daughter that has countless games on that Ipad. How I can keep applications that interest me (like QuickOffice Pro) of my old Ipad and leave the rest of the applications on the old Ipad to my daughter?
I am using IOS 7 ipad 2. I have no longer got access to the email associated with my ipad when I bought it so I have changed my iTunes id to a new email address but cannot seem to shift the old email address which my ipad keeps asking for. Help!! How do I get my ipad to accept the new id. I can't switch off "Find my ipad" because it wont let me as it keeps asking for the password for the old id which is goodness knows what. I need some serious help!!
Pretty much as title says. Went through Bootcamp Assistant, created the USB with Mac versions of the Windows drivers, and installed Windows. Can successfully dual boot, however, none of my devices work. When I plug in the USB to install those drivers, Windows doesn't recognize it. Any thoughts? Thanks!
It is possible using the right click menu on "Open With" to get the option to choose an application to open a certain file extension. You can then say "Always Open With This".
So for all of the iPhone 4Ses that got the grayed out WiFi problem after upgrading to iOS 7, the only fix that seems to actually work is basically heating up the iPhone up (till about the point it gives a heat warning), then chilling it, and then restarting it. (I've seen this solution in various places, such as this Apple Discussions thread).
The problem is, I want to keep using my laptop for other stuff. If I want a different application, I can cmd-tab to Finder, then right-click the Chrome icon and hide it, allowing me to see other stuff on my screen. However, if I want to use Chrome, as soon as I activate any Chrome window, the video pops up as full-screen an obscures my view.
I run the following commands for logkext a lot in my terminal and would like a know a way to automate the whole process. Open terminal type "sudo logKextClient" Type in administrator password logKextClient has its own password which I need to type now
I've experienced this when installing or updating a number of applications, most recently Logic Pro X. What's the reasoning behind this?
I downloaded the movie "Hugo" from the iTunes store during Apple's "12 days of gifts", on my iPad. I have iTunes match for my music (and presumably also for movies), however when I go to see the list of movies on iTunes on my mac, it doesn't show "Hugo." Why would this be the case? Normally when I download something on my iPad (apps, music) I can also get them on my computer. Both my mac & iPad are signed in to the same iTunes account.
In Terminal it says How do I change the DomGomez part in Terminal?
I recently installed a 1TB HDD in my early 2011 13" MacBook Pro using an MCE Optibay. The stock 120GB SSD houses an OSX Mavericks install and a Windows 7 install, done basically via Bootcamp. The 1TB HDD is split into 2 partitions: an NTFS side for Windows file storage and an HFS+ side for OSX storage.
Pages 5 on my iPad and iPod does not seem to be syncing with iCloud, while my Mac is. I've tried everything there is online. Yes, my Documents and Data is on for iCloud, I've tried resetting Documents and Data, etc. They won't download them from iCloud and won't upload. The documents have an upload icon on them, but they won't upload. Any help would be great. Thanks!
I have a recently developed a strange problem with my iPhone 4S. If I start playing audio (the two apps I've noticed this problem with are RSSRadio7 and Spotify, although I assume it affects other audio-based apps too), approximately 50% of the time the audio stops (it quickly fades out and the phone "pauses" it) after about 1-2 minutes, although the exact time period seems to be random. Sometimes it happens almost straight away. Sometimes it seems to happen when I put it in my pocket, sometimes when it's on the desk. I'm confident that I'm not touching any buttons or the screen. If I turn the phone on, I can see on the homescreen that the audio is paused, and if I hit "play" it continues, although sometimes it then pauses again shortly afterward in the same time. This never used to happen (started a month or so ago, I've been using the phone and those apps for years).
How can I change the decimal separator back to a .?
I have plugged external hard drive. It does not show in Normal Mode. I can see its Type Name and Identifier thru terminal. I want to find the file system of the external hard drive. I want to format the disk.
I'm using TextMate 2 with some custom KeyBindings. I change them in /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict. It works great, but everytime I update them app they get reset. (I guess the update replace the whole .app). Any suggestion how I could prevent that (= not set again my keybindings).
I recently purchased a new USB ethernet adaptor for my MacBook Air (running 10.8.5) direct from the Apple store, but it doesn't work on the ethernet network at work. The old USB ethernet adaptor works fine, and thus it is not a problem with my ethernet card, cable or the network. Any ideas what might be causing this?
My question it simple: How can I go back to Mountain Lion from Mavericks? My iMac (late 2010, Processor 3.4 GHz Core i7, Memory 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3) became EXTREMELY slow with Mavericks - It was great with Mountain Lion. In the beginning I thought I had to do with Google Chrome, but now it get slow with pretty much every program. Help!
Could anybody tells me how to solve this problem? It's very frustrating to see this from time to time in my laptop. I was trying to post a question on Apple Community, and I don't know why their website won't let me do so.
EDIT: I realized I have iMovie '09 not '11 as first reported so that might change the technique. In the bottom left of iMovie I do see an entry labeled iPhoto Videos but it is always empty.
Can I use a Macbook Pro as a monitor for an iMac? Both of them are on sale from a startup that went out of business, and were originally bought in 2012.
I am using 10.8.5 with Preview V 6.0.1(765.6). When I use Tools->Annotate->Highlight Text to select texts in order to highlight them, I expect it to be a rectangle region. But it is not, see the picture below.
I have two iphones who were using the same apple ID, so they had the same contacts and this was not ok, because every iphone is used by a different person and we want to have different contacts. So I created another apple ID, and I logged with that account (settings->itunes store and app store->changed the apple ID and verified it). But even if I changed the apple ID, the contacts seem to keep being bound to the old apple ID, so that from an iphone I can change the contacts that are displayed in the other.
I have set up a hot corner for my screensaver on system preferences but it does not activate when i move my cursor to the appropriate corner of the screen.
I happened to notice in a picture that the Apple "German" keyboard had the modifier keys labeled with their symbols, e.g., the option key is labeled as "⌥". (It's confusing as heck that the Apple's U.S. keyboards don't display that, but I'm not going to ask why they did that.)
I want to launch the browser in iOS Simulator from the Terminal with specified URL. Is there any command for it? So that I can write in a script which will take URL as argument and launch simulator with browser and URL open on it.
The display on my MacBook Pro laptop has suddenly changed so that instead of white here I get a light yellow. What has happened?
I recently upgraded the SSD of my MacBook Air 2012 Very happy with the Network Restore. Hold CMD+R on start-up, use disk utility to format, and then network restore OSX. But why does it only offer Mountain Lion? I then have to upgrade to Mavericks using the App Store. Which isn't painful, but why couldn't I just restore to Mavericks in the first place?
Currently trying to use a script (preferably shell) to setup the firmware password on a fresh OSX install. I obviously found this: http://osxdaily.com/2014/01/06/set-firmware-password-mac/
I am using an invoiving application, and would like to adjust some text properties including line height, but the only options available are show in the attached screenshot. Does anyone have an idea how to adjust line height when the only tool you have is this font-chooser thingy (Is there a name for this)?
I ran the dd command on /dev/rdisk1 and now OS X is not starting. Is it possible to recover the OS? I have access to recovery mode, but Disk Utility says that the disk is fine.
Is there q simple data base out there that is similar to the database the was included in the old Apple Works software
I purchased a 160 GB iPod Classic last year. Regularly throughout the year I found that the iPod would often freeze and need to be reset every time it was plugged into my computer. Formerly an Asus running Windows 7 but more recently a Lenovo G780 running Windows 8.
Can someone please help me with this Issue? Im trying to install mountain lion and i always get this error! My Mac Is a 2007 iMac, kind of second hand, 320.07 GB WDC Hard drive.
I've just compiled pure-ftpd (v1.33) using ./configure --with-pam --with-puredb on my Mac mini Lion and pure-ftpd works fine but I can't access it because of the authentication problem. /usr/local/bin/pure-pw useradd root -u 0 -g 0 /private/var/root tells me to give non-root uid and gid. I want the ftp server to provide a root access, how can I achieve that?
I'd like to have Safari automatically open up a webpage when an action is run, but with this action, it appears there is no area where I can enter the particular webpage that I want Safari to display (e.g. macrumors.com, ...). Thanks in advance.
I have a 24" Early 2009 iMac, and it has a faulty graphics card (detailed here). I'm obviously no longer under warranty or applecare, and I'd like to try to replace the part myself.
Is there a shortcut key to make a macbook sleep? Sometimes I want to save time and just use the shortcut key to put it to sleep.
I got myself into a state where App Store says that I have numbers "installed" but in fact I don't have it installed. I tried the recommended option/click and shift/click over the installed button and it didn't work. Can you give me a tip?
i have this problem i tap on COMMAND+OPTION+R and I want to boot into Internet Recovery on a iMac and for some reason it just continues the screen and boots onto OS X Utilities. Someone help me?
I have problems with my startup volume, and it's encrypted with FileVault. I don't remember the pasword, but have the recovery key. Is it possible to reset the password?
I was having trouble connecting to my smtp server to send mail and had multiple emails (7) in my outbox. I made a configuration change that I thought would work, selected all messages in the Outbox, right-clicked and selected "Send". Mail confirmed that I wanted to send the selected messages now, I clicked "Send" and the messages disappeared from my outbox.
I opened up iterm and it says "jessica-s-phone" I'm not sure what the term for that is. I checked my profile and it isn't there.
Is there an expedited method of matching the default theme used in Mac Word 2011 to the theme that is used in Windows Word 2013? The default formatting scheme used in Word 2013, for Windows, is so much better thought out then the default theme used in Word 2011, for Mac. I would like to update my default theme in Word 2011 so that it uses the same settings (or as close to as possible) as what Mac 2013 would use.
I have an early 2011 MBP and opened it's back more than once, to replace RAM, HDD and 2 weeks ago I installed an SSD. For some time already I hear a faint ticking noise from the body when the laptop is running, laying on a flat surface. First I thought it's the HDD's head hitting an end position, that was part of the reason I replaced it. Now with the SSD I still hear the noise sometimes. I could not figure out what it depends on, sometime it comes and I hear 1 tick in irregular intervals form 1 to 5 secs, sometimes I hear a lot short after each other, and some other times the noise is not audible at all for hours. I have the impression that the noise comes from somewhere below the trackpad, around the place of the HDD, now SSD. Any idea what that could be?
I downloaded Clash of Clans using my sisters Apple ID and her Game Center, on my iPhone. I backed up my phone. Then when I got my new phone and I created a new Apple ID and new Game Center for me.
I have Time Machine, and am looking to have iphoto continuously and automatically back up my pictures. (I have so many images and would like them safely on a hard drive). I had to drag/copy my iPhoto library onto Time Machine, and I can open it and view pictures, but they are only the ones that were there at the time, and none of the new images that have been imported since then. I also know how to switch back and forth from the two iphoto libraries, my default one and the external library, but again same problem - only the older images appear when it's under the library of the external hard drive.
According to Apple's product page, the Airport Extreme... "...can turn your external USB hard drive into a secure drive you can share across your Wi‑Fi network and access securely over the Internet."
Right now, I'm extremely afraid that I've been locked out of activating my phone because I'm jailbroken. I don't know what to do, and my LAST RESORT is to do any kind of force-resetting that would require me to update to iOS 7. iOS 7 eats my battery life and would essentially require me to get a new phone with how I use my device, so I consider any kind of restore an absolute LAST RESORT. Hopefully it's an easier issue to solve than that. If any more information is required, I will happily provide. I tried seeing if I could rerun the process from p0sixspwn, but as soon as I open v1.0.7 of the app (freshly downloaded one hour ago), it tells me the attached device is unsupported, even when there's nothing there?
I know that it's possible to end up wasting a lot of space in Time Machine with backing up huge files that have changed only a little (like a Parallels image that is not optimized for time machine) and it seems to me possible that there are also some cases in which one gets lots of little files that are constantly changing or coming and going, like a web cache would do if Time Machine weren't already configured to refrain from backing the cache up. Apparently there is or was a bug in Chrome that causes such issues.
I want to run a process as root at user login. I created /System/Library/LaunchAgents/eXist.plist with rx—r—r— permissions:
I have an iPhone 4S and the speakers are not working for applications. The speaker works when doing voice calls on speaker phone, adjusting the ringer, and other default things. However, when trying to have audio for YouTube and other applications it does not work.
Does anyone know how to use MCX to set permissions on a folder for a network folder
Deleted files and folders: ~/Library/Preferences/com.multimarkdown.composer.mac.* ~/Library/Application Support/MultiMarkdown Composer/ ~/Library/Caches/com.multimarkdown.composer.mac/ Deleted files and folders:
I would like to search the iPhone app store in such a way that I only see results that don't offer an in-app purchase. I know that Apple offers a data feed of all the App Store's data, so in principle a service could exist that would allow this. However, having tried all the App Store search engines I know of (uQurey, AppShopper, AppAdvice, 148apps), it seems that none of them offer this kind of specific customised search. So my question is whether there is an App Store search service that allows such specific queries as this.
When I'm using the directions in the Maps application in Mavericks the distance is in miles instead of in km. The "Measurement units" i set to "Metric" under "Advanced..." in Language & Region preferences. I have toggled the setting multiple times and tried both relogging and rebooting to no avail. Is there another way to change the unit to km instead of miles?
iOS developers recently received an email from Apple stating that Starting February 1st, new apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with XCode 4 and iOS 7 SDK The email included a link about building apps for iOS 7. One of the item on this page, is about 64-bit compilation. So the question is, should I deduce that 64-bit is now a REQUIREMENT, or is it still a recommendation?
How can I log my Macs system activity the whole day (on OS X Mavericks)? E.g. memory and CPU usage? Update I tried OsTrack, but it crashes all the time.
I'd like to create an ordered list in Powerpoint with capital letters as enumeration: Diagnostic Criteria
I had to work out of the office today and brought a copy of the Windows 2000 appliance I have on my Windows 7 machine at the office. Copied this to the Mac I am now on (Mavericks) and copied the files into the /Users/myUserName/VirtualBox VMs directory. Added the host-only adapter to the VB preferences and then added this to the network for the specific machine. When running the virtual machine I boots and then fails with Now I am no netowkring expert but my guess is that issue lies with the fact that 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter'is the name of the adapter on Windows and on a Mac this gets named to 'vboxnet0'. Is there a simple work around for this poosibly, I thought there would have been a way to rename the vboxnet0 adapter name to 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' but cannot see anything for this, not even in the command line tools. Any help in this regard would be great, or a simply 'No it cant be done' would be helpful. Ta John
I try to figure out, how to allow guest to run applications that was created by him. First thing, I disallow all applications except Xcode in Parental Controls and I was hoping that there will be no problem to run application builded in Xcode. But always when I build a program and try to run it I get a message ("You don't have permission to use the application ..."). Is there any way how to block all applications except Xcode, but allow application created by Xcode?
Laptop still under warranty, but Im worried about files on the HD. Are they gone forever?
I have set 'always open with' to : 'Iterm2', for .sh files in osX. Although a double click on a shell script now opens a new Iterm window, the script does not actually run, I just the get the empty prompt. There might be an applescript solution, but I would prefer a more direct way.
I have read everywhere that you need to backup your private keys for iOS Developer Certificates on your Mac. I want to know if public key is important to backup or not. In case if a person just keeps backup of Private keys of all certificates, can public keys be recovered on new OS installation using those old private keys? Or in other words, can I re-use those old backup certificates successfully? So Does it really matter if I do not backup public keys?
Short version: When I try to export iTunes library to an xml file, iTunes creates a temporary file (called iTunes export.tmp) and it quickly disappears and I don't get any xml file... Long version: I have partitioned my HD and made a clean Mavericks install on the second partition. In order to migrate my iTunes library, I've moved the media files to an external HD ('cause the second partition is too small to contain them) and iTunes keeps working fine on Mountain Lion. Now I'm trying to export my library from Mountain Lion and import on Mavericks. When I finish the tests with Mavericks, I'll probably keep it and drop Mountain Lion (if all the apps I use work fine on Mavericks, I'm testing now). It would be really great if I could keep all the metadata on my iTunes library after the migration...
I have an iPod touch 4th generation, 32GB. Broke the screen and since then it doesn't even charge. I am in Hyderabad, India, and I would appreciate a locally available answer.
I have a late-2011 15" MacBook Pro running Mavericks. I normally don't reboot my computer and can leave it logged in for days on end. I decided to reboot my computer and when it was booting, the screen backlight would not turn on, although I could faintly see the login screen where I could type my password. I tried resetting the SMC, but that didn't do anything.
I'm a Windows/Debian user. I only use my Mac at work for iOS Dev so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing.
I'm having a hard time pasting a piece of arabic text into a web form. I have a rMBP 2013 bought from the US and a translator sent me some block of text to enter into a webform. The problem is that the text contains a percentage discount which is written with Latin languages. This is how the original text looks like (screenshot from Sublime Text 2):
I have deleted a number of text messages on my iPhone. But, when I scroll to the right and to do an iPhone search, the deleted texts still appear in the search results. How can I get rid of them?
I was trying to print a PDF document in which I highlighted some texts. In the printing preview, I saw those highlights, which I didn't really want for the printed document. I tried to disable the highlights but didn't find such an option, and ended up removing all the highlights before printing. So, does such an option (hiding highlights for printing) exist in Preview at all? Thanks. By the way, I'm using Preview 7.0 (826) on OS X 10.9.1.
I'm trying to run an application in OSX, but I need that users can not close the application. the application is used as part of a system similar to a internetcafe. How can i do it?
I just purchased the Crosair Vengeance 2100 headset to use with Steam on OS X (Mountain Lion) and to use with Skype. I can get the headset to be detected by OS X and set it up as a sound device but after a few minutes the audio and mic cut out with the only way to reset it is to pull the USB adapter out and put it back in (and then go reset the output devices in OS X). Has anyone been able to get it to properly work on OS X? Thanks.
Can anyone confirm, can I do this? Is there a better way? EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
Ok, so, I want to buy a Mac Mini with OS X server. I want to run it without any monitor, or keyboards, or mouse. Now, I want to control it remotely from my MacBook via Screen Sharing. Since I have another MacBook in the family, I tested Screen Sharing to see if it works well. When I tested this on my house's current network configuration (A single router, and the two MacBooks connected to this router), I noticed the screen sharing was kind of slow. So I created a peer to peer network between the two computers, and tested screen sharing again. Using the peer to peer network, it runs a lot faster. So, is it possible to kind of directly and wirelessly connect my MacBook and the Mac Mini, and connect to the Wi-Fi internet at the same time, or something that would make screen sharing faster? (Also notice I can't connect the Mac Mini to the internet via ethernet in my bedroom)
My AirPlay music keeps disconnecting. Here's my gear: AirPort Extreme 2013 AirPort Express 2012 MacBook Air 2013 iPhone 4S And my setup: Extreme is in the living room Express is in the adjacent kids bedroom Express connected to Extreme over WiFi - it does not extend the Extreme's WiFi network My problems are: The Express' AirPlay icon occassionally disappears from my iPhone
So I have been searching for hours on this. So I installed java 1.7 on my mac before I realized I wanted/needed to use 1.6. I have managed to change everything so that the command line sees version 1.6. My issue is that whenever I try to compile something in eclipse it is saying "Specified VM install not found: type MacOS X VM, name Java SE 7 [1.7.0_45]"
I'm switching to iTunes for music management to make my life easier (mac, iPad, iPhone, ATV owner) and because I keep my library in the cloud via iTunes Match. I've noticed that .mp3 files won't upload to Match, but files converted to .aac via iTunes work just fine. I don't mind converting everything to Apple's format, but importing files, converting to aac (by clicking 'create aac version'), then deleting duplicates is painful. Is it possible to have my files convert to .aac while it's being copied to the iTunes Media folder?
Is there a way to view a list of all events on a particular calendar, in Calendar.app? For some reason, I was sure there was a way to do this, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it today.
Goal - find a clever way to discover what Spotlight has (or hasn't indexed). I have an xls spreadsheet that has the names and emails addresses of people who attended a recent course of mine. In the past few weeks I need to search precisely which course someone attended. The person had a unique last name and so I just put the name into spotlight. Nothing found. A few minutes of digging manually confirmed the person had attended the course I expected. Related discoveries none of the contents of that file is indexed by Spotlight - tested by searching other names older xls files in the same folder are correctly indexed Searching on the filename finds the file so the file itself is found by spotlight Copy the column of names to a temp spreadsheet, save them and search - file find Rebuilding the index from scratch warmed my CPU but didn't change anything I've checked the simple spotlight preferences - xls spreadsheets aren't ignored Since I don't know why its getting missed I'm concerned tha
In Mac Outlook 2011, when I type a message that contains an apostrophe or a quotation mark, Outlook corrects it to a "smart" apostrophe or a "smart" quotation mark, and I'd rather it didn't. Is there any way to disable this feature? So far, I've unchecked all the autocorrect and autoformat preferences, and I've set my composition settings to plain text and my encoding settings to UTF-8 (two suggestions I saw elsewhere). None of those worked. What else should I try?
I want to disable the animation when I open Launchpad on a Mac. Is there any way? I somehow lag out when using Launchpad, is there any fix to it?
My Mac Mini (late-2012) got repaired by Apple, and the hard drive was reseted. Now I want to restore the Mac Mini from my Time Machine Backup (on an external 1TB HDD), but it doesn't appear in the installation or migration assistant. If I choose to set the Mac Mini up as a new device, I can see the backup in Finder, and it also looks complete (about 700GB for one Backup - pretty close to the storage before the repair). The backup was done completely and also the volume is working just fine. I also updated to 10.9.1 - so the current OS version matches the backed up one. Any ideas? If I use CMD + R at start and select time machine backup it says there wouldn't be any OSX backups on the backup volume, if I use the migration assistant the "looking for sources" spinner just spinns and nothing happens or is found... I really need this help because I need both important files from before but also the Applications, it would be really bad and much work for me if I had to restore the files manua
I have a late 2011 macbook pro 13" on which i used a kingston 60gb v300 ssd in my primary slot and in the secondary slot i used the 500gb toshiba hdd the macbook pro came with. i've had the ssd since january 2013 and in mid december, it failed. The computer froze all of the sudden, I tried formatting, reinstalling but no luck, the ssd boots fine as an external storage device, but internally it doesn't.
My friend has just bought an iMac off eBay, but the hard drive wasn't fully wiped - it came with the guy's user account and was obviously registered with his Apple ID still. What we want to do is install OSX again, but first, format the drive. This is simple and I've done it before but the question is will the installer let me do this? My friend hasn't owned a machine with Lion before and I've read in several places that the Apple ID has to have a copy of Lion registered to it for the transaction to work.
I have a dream... One day my iTunes could read also MKV and all other codecs that are not natively supporter by it... Is there a solution for make this reality? I have ffmpeg tool installed in my mac, and also lots of codecs. Can I "install" one of this codec in my iTunes and make it read also MKV?
Sometimes, when I leave Safari (6.0.5) and look at my desktop, I find random files on it. These are always in the form of a *.textClipping file, or in the case of images, the original filename and extension.
Does anyone know how to access the "Energy Impact" data used to determine "Apps Using Significant Energy" displayed in the battery menu bar? I'd like to use it in a shell-script/applescript.
Using other helpful answers on the StackExchange community I have a custom URI protocol registered on a client's machine. It points to a simple AppleScript that we can then change as needed. In testing on our Mac here, it works without issue with a link formatted like: oururl://path/here However, when trying to click that url on their machines, in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, the URL is automatically changed to: unsafe:oururl://path/here
I would like to get the sound from my MacBook Pro to play on my iPhone. For example if I watch a video on my Mac I would be able to view it on my Mac but get the audio through my iPhone. Is this possible?
Can I turn off logging into a computer after connecting via VNC if I have a password set for connecting to the VNC server itself? will I need to enter a password somewhere before connecting?
On Google Chrome, i want to go to a website, which is blurred out for privacy reasons, but whenever i click proceed anyway, it tells me on and on the same message, can someone help me out or something or how do i add that website as a administrator website, or a trusted website? Im using a mac machine.
I use a TimeCapsule that is on my home network for my Time Machine backup on MBP which I also use for work. Ever since I've upgraded to Mavericks I get a "There was a problem connecting to the server "Time Capsule" every hour when it tries to back up. This warning takes over my screen and grabs focus which is extremely irritating. Is there any way to suppress these messages without having to turn off Time Machine every day when I'm in the office?
I bought some new Memory Sticks and i want to know on which part they go on. I have a image too. Can someone help me out? This is my Old Mac i used to use and now i bought a Snow leopard installation disc and i want to add new RAM to my old mac. Can someone just show me where the memory goes? http://images.appleinsider.com/mb17unbox090217-1.jpg
AND it has to be smart enough to do the right thing when I grab the phone and go. (That is, all routes fall back to satellite link.)
This happens when I convert a GIF into a series of PNG files. I convert a .gif animation to a series of .png using
I am trying to find out, how can I create a short cut of an application and add a parameter to the application short cut so that when it executes, it executes with that parameter. In Windows, I can right click and create a short and then go to properties and in the target area, I can add the additional parameter it has to use to run. Is it possible to do it in Mac?
I have a old MB, which has Snow Leopard 10.6 Installed onto it. How can I fix the overheating and that fan noise? Whenever i open a large file or like install Windows 7 from Bootcamp, it would overheat and make some wind noises from the fan. It's a preety fast mac, i installed new RAM and just newly installed SL onto it. Can someone help me?
In the early versions of Mac OS X, only the first 8 characters of any password was used. Later Apple increased that number.
Emacs crashes on me once a day or so with the same error message in the dump: Dispatch Thread Hard Limit Reached: 512 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations)
I'm looking for an app that lets me take long exposures of 10 seconds or more. This can either be one long exposure, or multiple shorter exposures, like 0.5 seconds, combined together by the app.
I want to perform two keystrokes in AppleScript, successively. The script should perform Command+Shift+J and after that Command+W in the application Google Chrome. Can this be done with AppleScript?
I have some DRM-free m4v video that I would like to edit by trimming here and there. QuickTime X ($0) Pros: free, built-in to OS X Cons: selector to choose 'start' and 'end' times is not very easy to use to get precise in/out QuickTime X ($0) Pros: free, built-in to OS X Cons: selector to choose 'start' and 'end' times is not very easy to use to get precise in/out iMovie ($15, or free if you have bought a recent Mac) Pros: free Cons: can't handle mp4/m4v directly, has to be re-encoded [I believe] iMovie ($15, or free if you have bought a recent Mac) Pros: free Cons: can't handle mp4/m4v directly, has to be re-encoded [I believe] QuickTime 7 Pro ($30) Pros: Can make very precise (to the frame) edits Cons: saves only as .mov not .mp4/.m4v QuickTime 7 Pro ($30) Pros: Can make very precise (to the frame) edits Cons: saves only as .mov not .mp4/.m4v SimpleMovieX ($40) Pros: claims to be able to do this (although I tried the demo and found the UI so terrible I can't even verify if it works, 
I need to know how to install and run applications from an external hard drive on my MacBook Pro.
I've placed a few apps on my Wish List in the (iOS) App Store. Will I get some kind of automatic notification in case of a price drop? Or: Can I make it so, without using a third party app?
Very annoying: I am running PD in Coherence mode and work in Visual Studio. If I press CMD, the Windows start screen appears. Is there a way to disable this behavior?
I bought a new mac and want to sell my old one. It came with Snow Leopard but I upgraded a few times since I bought it. I have deauthorized, reformatted and reinstalled OS X on my mac following the instructions here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5189
I'm using a MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard. I hit secure empty trash on the Finder menu. It took a while to get the thing done, so I just thought "wow, this musta been one fat trash can".
I am certainly not the only one dealing with the issue (looking into questions here which deal with some aspects related to an iTunes Server or looking at the Apple Support Forum). So I ask: What is a way of having a real (explanation of real follows) iTunes Server on a NAS?
When I connect over USB to my MacBook AIR my external loudspeakers ("Philips multimedia 2.0 speakers SPA2201") I sometimes here immediately afterwards sounds of mail activity. Mail.app is opened (as it is always) but there is no trace of activity to be found afterwards in it. I just hear the sounds: incoming mail (twice), outgoing mail (once). My question is: why does this happen, could the loudspeakers connect over the internet to some distant server? I have experienced it while using iTunes, and also VLC.
Sometimes you see people placing a sticker over the iSight camera on their MacBook's such that no one can spy on them. This might seem ridiculous, but from a previous answer it is clear that it is possible to activate the iSight without activating the "hardwired" LED as well. It was first thought that this was only possible with older models (as shown by this paper), but this article mentions that the FBI reportedly can do this to newer models. Besides that, I just found that the Dutch head of the cybercrime department officially advises (link in Dutch) to cover the webcam lens.
Since upgrading to Mavericks, the Calendar app will pester me for my gmail password every half hour or so, even though it already has the correct password stored. I've tried changing the password, setting up 2-step verification and creating an app-specific password, changing the app-specific password... I even tried deleting all of the relevant passwords from the Keychain Access app and then entering a new app-specific password into Calendar, and still Calendar continually pesters me to re-enter the password.
As a developer I need to constantly be examining/editing the contents of text files, and opening them from Finder and the command line. I would like to right click the file in finder, and have the menu option "Open with Sublime Text Editor" or at least TextEdit! There even seems to be the option to do this at least with the default TextEdit in Mavericks:
I hope I will be able to properly give my question as I am not a native English speaker and I might be running into difficulty. But I am posting an image to make my problem straight forward.
When I use my library this way applescript will not parse the display dialog line, treating dialog as an identifier! Can anyone explain why this is not being understood in the way I want it to be? Many thanks! ** UPDATE ** Both the scripts below will now compile and work properly But if I write it like this, with an extra level of tell nesting, it works OK: FYI the library is:
I am trying to set a master password from the terminal (using a shell script). I see the passwd function and the master.passwd function, however I don't see any documentation on either of these to set the master password (AFAIK, these set the user passwords only). I am pulling my information from these sources:
I have OS X Mavericks with the Server software installed. The server machine is an iMac with a Drobo attached via USB. I use the Server Time Machine service to create a backup server on the network, using the Drobo as the storage device for backups.
Is it possible to have multiple indentations in the table of contents (auto-generated according to the paragraph styling)? E.g.
Problem is, this doesn't happen. In fact, I don't see any rhyme or reason to what I'm getting here:
I have a late 2009 imac, everything is perfectly fine with the machine. Can i turn that into a Media/ NAS server?
I would like to view the current fan speeds of my MacBook and iMac using terminal. I've found that running spindump then cat /tmp/spindump.txt | grep "Fan speed" will show it, but that's very slow and processor intensive. I would like a faster and more efficient way of doing it. I'd rather not install 3rd party software, but I will if it's the only way. Does anyone have any suggestions to how I might accomplish this? Thanks
I have an OS X Server with Open Directory. I am wondering if there is a way a group can be set to use a proxy when a user from that group logs in, and to remove the proxy if a user from a different group logs in.
I am looking to gain some performance enhancement by adding an SSD drive to my 2010 MacPro. I can mount it in a hard drive slot or get a PCI card and mount it there. The SATA speed of the Mac is 3Gb/s, but the PCI shows 'Link Speed:5.0 GT/s' which (I could be wrong) is 5G 'transfers' per second, since the encoding is a 10 to 8 ratio it's really 4Gb/s?
To start: I'm a software dev much more comfortable on Windows than OSX. I've tinkered with things like homebrew (which is where I think I started my issue) and I'm not 100% familiar with what I may have done.
I traded in my 4S recently to upgrade to a 5S, and restored the 5S from the last 4S backup, so they both share the same phone name ("Adam's iPhone"). However, when I use the "Find My Friends" app, it displays "Share my location from:" and shows "Adam's iPhone" twice.
I have been using iPhone since last 2+ years and recently I got an iPad. Is it possible to share single instance of iTunes with iPad and iPhone? I only got on PC at home. I wanted to have only iTunes account as well. Please let me know.
As we all know, despite being named "Finder", the Finder is virtually useless at finding files. In Mac OS X 10.6 (or any version), how can I use the command line (bash in Terminal) to find files modified today?
Is it possible to create a new rule for mail to perform an action if the message contains a custom header? I want to automaticaly detect emails that contain the "X-hashcash" header.
I had this option activated months ago and it registered my home location and some other random location. But I decided to turn all system services off and delete it's history.
The problem is that this error message appears after the data has actually copied. Suppose I copy a 1GB file. The progress bar moves, network activity occurs (if transferring to the NAS), and so on... The error appears as soon as the file copy should finish.
I'm looking for a method w/ AppleScript to select/focus a specific window of an application without actually doing an "activate" which brings all windows to the front. Here's what I have so far:
I am unable to download an audio book that I bought from iTunes to my iPhone 5. It appears on my phone only in the shared folder when I'm connected to iTunes. When I exit iTunes the book disappears.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display running Mavericks and a brand new Apple TV (I've updated the software on it). When I use AirPlay to connect to my TV, one of two things happen. It connects, then immediately disconnects, or
I have my own AppleID ("Bob") but I don't use this email addy "Bob" anymore. I want to add my current, daily used email addy ("Jim") to my ID, or better yet, make it my only AppleID and delete "Bob". BUT... I already used "Jim" for an AppleID for an older friend who had no email address, so set it up for him on mine, "Jim". My older friend now has an email address ("Ivan") so can I
There is an option in Mac OS to announce alerts, when they are displayed or to have it announce the time in regular intervals. My question is: Is there an option to announce notifications, or even better a way to select which app's notifications should be announced?
I have a rather strange problem with my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011). Whenever I start my computer I see a flashing folder with a question mark. I know this is supposed to be a common problem wich can be usually solved by the solution provided by Apple support.
I would like to store specific contacts on my iPhone, running iOS 7, without syncing them to any service. I do have an Exchange account for business contacts but don't want do sync all contacts with the exchange server. I searched the web for a while but there does not seem to be any way to have local contacts. Any ideas?
I am a German User, but i am using a US Keyboard and the US Extended Keyboard Layout. Sometimes I need to use German Umlauts, and I usually rely on the "press and hold for accented characters" feature of OS X.
I'm trying to install photoshop on my iMac but it looks like I can't install Mavericks if I have a case-sensitive partition. Is it a known bug? Can I do anything to fix it?
I am going on holiday and want to use my second iPhone with a local SIM card. So I want to know whether I can configure the second iPhone using the same apple account or if I should rather create a new apple icloud account? iPhone 5s - my UK sim card associated with my iCloud account iPhone 4 - SA sim card - rebuild and synced with my iCloud account Then use both phones while on holiday. Any thoughts?
Adobe and Google insist on install crap on several folders, like update checkers and things like that. This is the crap I have identified by Adobe. also crap from TeamViewer crap like this run when the system starts and load bloatware on the memory with useless stuff. I would like to prevent this from happening.
Here is the problem I'm having with retrieving files from my Time Machine: Here is how this happened. My MacBookPro broke down. Workshop told me 10 days to repair, 10 days of inaction that I cannot afford. `No problem' I thought. I will work on our MacAir, plug in the Time Machine Backup disk, and retrieve any particular files that I need. (There's not enough space available on the MacAir to think of doing more than retrieving one file at a time, as needed. And I have to be careful not to mess up the existing files on the MacAir.)
I just downloaded Eclipse for OS X. I managed to run it, but I want to put it directly in /Applications: I don't want to place the eclipse folder, which has inside it the Eclipse.app, inside /Applications, but I want to place a shortcut to Eclipse.app directly into /Applications (so I can run eclipse with one click, as if it was any other app inside /Applications).
My Mac is running Mavericks in English, but because my region is set to Portugal and my keyboard is the portuguese one, when I run some scripts they shows messages in portuguese. I generally hate to run software created by non-native people in Portuguese because the translation is always crappy. I end with messages like "cubra is not defined". What the hell is a "cubra"?
I need to be able to copy about 2TB of data from an external drive (single USB external disk) to a another external drive (Drobo attached via Firewire). Finder is not an option. If it hits any problem, it stops the process and I have to figure it out why it failed and start over. Could take me months to get through it. I've read about CP and RSYNC but I'm not too familiar and I'm afraid I might get some of the switches wrong and miss files, or screw up the file dates, or worst... Can anyone suggest how I might pull this off with minimum risk and cost? Thank you.
Before iOS 7 it seemed like if I had a "music" app open, when I would hit the play button (from the lock screen, ear bud button, bluetooth speakers, etc.) the music from that app would start playing. Now however, it only does that sometimes. For example, last night, I was listening to Spotify on my phone. When I was on my way to work this morning, I hit the bluetooth play button in my car, and it started playing Spotify (exactly what I wanted). Then after I have been to work for about an hour, I plug my ear buds in and hit play, the Apple Music app takes over. Before I hit the play button, the Spotify app was open and the Music app was closed.
Why does com.apple.IconServices take up a lot of MB on the Activity Monitor? I'm aware this is a new feature, from 10.9 onwards. I Googled solutions to this, but haven't found anything that works... yet. I don't want to downgrade OS X, but I am interested to know why this happens com.Apple.IconServicesAgent uses 140.9 MB, and on the hard drive, the folder /var/folders/randomstring/C/com.apple.IconServices takes up 127.5 MB, although this could grow. My hard drive is 319.21 GB and I have 284.69 GB left, but it was 284.82 last night (no new apps installed or uninstalled, only some temp files/caches deleted), so I'm not sure if this is part of the problem. Fixed disk permissions as suggested on some Mac sites; no major issues to report. Is there a way to keep it manageable without losing the icons off the desktop or menu (I did used to delete the folder, killall Dock, killall Finder, restart when I first learnt about com.apple.IconServices).
I have just installed Windows on my Mac and it worked well, but after finishing and trying to go to Mac partition it is shown on the screen a lock icon with a password field. I tried to enter different password, but it didn't work.
On the other hand I am concerned with Chrome and Safari, since I don't want history on my browser, nor want to provide data about a person (me) to third parties (via cookies, history, habits, tracking, whatever). So no Safari, no Chrome. I don't know about Opera, but I never used it: I have always been curious, and I will download it today. So here's the question: given all of the previous information, which is the browser safe, not-leaking-memory and that respects my privacy that you would advise me to use? Thanks!
I found my iWork 09 retail DVD, which I bought 4.5 years ago. After I installed it, Apple Store showed me that I've got an upgrade to version 13. Next, it appeared on my Apple Store account in purchases, after upgrade. Is it normal behaviour or it is a bug?
Being a freelance designer I have a shared iCloud calendar with my wife so she knows what to expect from my work week. I also have an exchange account cause of my Microsoft work but my wife can't see this. Is there any way to import my exchange calendar info to my iCloud calendar so my wife can be kept up to date?
I'm constantly opening Info panes so that I can lock the currently selected files in Finder. Keeping the Info pane open is no longer good enough; it gets cumbersome to manage with multiple desktops and screens. Can I assign a keyboard shortcut to do this?
What happens if I interrupt a back-up from my laptop to my external hard disk? Do I just lose the back-up and have to start over?
I own a web application dealing with a Cookie (for authentication). On all devices (Macbook, PC, even Ipad iOS7) excepting Iphone, the whole works, meaning the cookie is well stored on these clients. However on the iphone iOS7, the cookie remains blocked, and thus, client can't persist his authentication. What I do to make it work is to authorize ALL cookies in the Iphone's Safari's settings.
My goal is to create a bootable backup of my SSD boot drive on an external HDD. I'm using a Mac Pro mid-2010, so I can swap out the boot drive should my SSD ever get corrupted. Is there any reason Super Duper wouldn't be able to "smart update" a clone of the SSD onto an HDD? (And should I consider alternatives to Super Duper?)
I have a script that is giving me some problems, I know that I have to re-do it recursively but am having some trouble. The script should rename all files and folders in a given folder by removing special characters like $-,)(! and replacing " " with "_" Here is the piece I need to re-do:
Today, several paid apps we have our eyes on to purchase for use on our classroom iPads through the VPP program are available free for the day, so I downloaded them and installed them in Apple Configurator, where they indeed show up as being free in the list of apps and can be installed on iDevices without problems. I'm concerned that somehow this is not legal to do, but I cannot find any verbiage indicating this illegality. I'm assuming that if the app is free at the time of download, it remains free to install on devices despite the app's previous, and future, availability as a paid app. Does anybody have any definitive information?
I have downloaded the Flash 12 updater and tried to run the update. The updater complains that I need to close cfprefsd.
Am I just bad at math? OmniDiskSweep isn't picking up what is using my space. I recently deleted a 60GB drive (not partition) that VMWare Fusion was using, and emptied the trash. Now it doesn't show up on any disk sweeper, but is still accounting as used space. I have restarted my computer.
I have a Time Capsule 802.11n 1 TB at work with some free space on it, and I decided to make a second backup on it, using Time Machine. I have about 358 GB used on the hard drive, and 25 GB of that are in a folder that I excluded from the Time Machine Backup, so the actual amount of data to be backed up is about 333 GB. Yet my initial backup (before any incrementals) took up 477 GB of space on the Time Capsule. Even after running hdiutil compact on the sparse bundle, I was only able to reduce its size to 455 GB. Isn't that still excessive? I understand there may be some overhead, but really, isn't ~40% overhead excessive?
If I exclude the file: MacHD>User>FH>Documents>Parallels>Windows 7.pvm from the backup made by Time Machine, do MS Word and Excel files get backed up? I have configured Parallels 8 to Share Mac User folder w/Windows and to Map Mac Volumes to Windows. All my MS Office files are stored in Mac HD->Users->FH->Documents.
In previous versions of Mac OS X, one could download videos in Safari with ⌥⌘A. How can this be done in Safari 7.0.1 on a OS X mavericks?
So... I boot off of G-Parted Partition Editor, and sure enough, I couldn't resize the partition! I could only make it a bit smaller to the few megabytes of remaining space. What is wrong, and is there a way to fix this?
Edit: Added script. Everything works in this script - the picture just won't display, due to permissions. The path is set properly. I've tried to place it several different locations that have shared access, but no matter what the permissions are wrong and I cannot chmod them.
When I open Word docs in TextEdit some formatting is lost, especially numbered lists, the numbers are simply not displayed. Is there some hidden preference?
Like many people, I’ve received today an email from Google telling me that Google Notifier Beta is no longer supported and will stop working on January 31. That is too bad. (BTW, I have 1.10.7, not a Beta version. What are they talking about?) What are some simple alternatives to Google Notifier?
Good sirs. Coming from Windows-land, I'm trying to figure out what it is possible to do with my new laptop.
I created Open Directory and ProfileManager with self-signed certificate. Now I try to replace the self-signed certificate with the already Signed Certificated currently use on our Active Directory 2008. I do an Export .pfx cert from this link *=URL=* When I try "Import a Certificate Identity" from Certificate Menu on Left Sidebar of Server.app the application is hang. I also use the keychain to import .pfx by follow this link *=URL=* but it also not available in Server.app Certificate So Is there any command line that could help or a better way to add a private key + cert to Server.app
I have updated my Mac OS from Snow Leapord to Mevericks recently. I work behind proxy and I have set proxy for network and saved creadentials in Keychain too. Still I get annoying system prompts for logging into proxy too many times. Any solution to get rid of the Proxy login Popups ? EDIT I did following steps deleted proxy credentials from keychain List item removed the same from Proxy Settings Added proxy settings again ( without credentials ) tried to access google from safari it prompts for crdentials ( twice - maybe for http and https connections as I am adding proxy for both ) -- After above prompts I can see my credentials saved in kechain as well for proxy
I would like to know what the best way would be to have multiple versions of Java (both JRE and JDK) installed on Mavericks, and also the best way to be able to use these version with Eclipse. Currently I appear to have the following versions of JDK and JRE installed: 1.7.0_45 (/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/) 1.7.0_45 (/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Commands/) 1.6.0_65 (/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/) As far as I can tell, the two version of 1.7.0_45 are not symlinked to each other. I am interested in installing a version of Java 8 as well, where and how should I install it to make it play nice with the existing versions?
Apple makes it quite clear to which models Mavericks is available. So, I have a 13-inch Late 2007 MacBook (not-Pro, running 10.7.5), which shouldn't be supported.
since I updated to mavericks. I do not use totalFinder anymore. I deleted it first, but on every start i get this failure message.
Do you know a nice svg editor for MAC OS? My needs are: Nice svg produced Splited view with text editor
Is there a good backup software that combines Time Machine snapshot functionality on local level with CrashPlan remote backups as well? I am currently using both, but find both unsatisfactory.
I have a number of books in iBooks on my MacBook. All of them were showing nicely in "Two Pages" mode, until I clicked the "Show Notes" button, on two of them. Those books changed to "Single Page" mode and the "Two Pages" option under "View" is now disabled, even after disabling "Show Notes Panel" under "View". I've already tried deleting everything under the /Users/jonasmatser/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks directory and adding the books back to the emptied iBooks application, but that didn't help. Any suggestions what other preferences or files I could try to delete or other things I could do to get those books back in "Two Pages" mode?
I have the following folders I wanna rename all the folders to "my-folders1", "my-folders2" and so on.
I'm using Mail on iOS with an IMAP account. When I flag an email and choos "move to junk" the emails disapears from my inbox. After syncing the account again the email is back in the inbox. Checking the inbox at OSX shows it marked as spam and it's still in the inbox. How can I make Mail on iOS doing what the label states: Mark the email as spam and move it to the junk folder?
My Mac seems to be forgetting display arrangements for external monitors. It doesn't matter what type of connector it is (Tried Apple converter to VGA as well as non-apple to DVI). Within only a few hours after unplugging the display it will be reset.
I just tried syncing my office PC's calendar to my iCloud account to get the calendar entries on my phone. After installing the iCloud panel for Windows and activating calendar sync Office got my personal calendars, but iCloud still does not know about the appointments I got in my Outlook calendar. Is there something I missed?
I have a 16 GB iPhone and there are a few sizable (~1 GB) games that I have not played lately, but I would like to preserve my progress in case I play them again at some future time. These games do not store progress in iCloud or some other network service; they appear to save only to the device. If I delete them from the device, either from the springboard or with iTunes, their data is lost; it does not appear to be preserved in the iTunes backup. What can I do to preserve data but free space on my device?
How to upgrade my iphone 4s currently running on iOS 5.0 to iOS 7.0.4? I would want to get step by step instructions.
I tried How do I use chmod on a Mac to make new files inherit parent directory permissions? but this is only applicable after the file has been copied.
I want to completely wipe a USB thumb drive, re-partition it, and reformat the partition as ExFAT, not JHFS+. Unfortunately, I used FileVault 2 on it when I made it and that seems to be preventing me from destroying the partition table on the drive now. In the Disk Utility app I can't save and partition table changes to the drive and I can't format the existing partition as anything that isn't HFS+-based. From the command line this is what I see: And when I try to erase the disk: I can't erase the volume, obviously, because ExFAT wouldn't work with FileVault 2: I do know the password for the drive and can mount it just fine. How can I wipe this USB drive, repartition and reformat it as ExFAT?
It is common wisdom that Lithium-Ion batteries should not be left with 0% charge. However, some users might not be aware of this common wisdom, or simply refuse to concern themselves about proper battery care. For example, an end-user may drain the battery to 0%, then put the computer away without putting it back on the charge. This rapidly diminishes the life of the battery. Is there any app or setting that will force the computer to turn off when the battery charge is around 25%, to ensure that a healthy reserve is available and damage to the battery is avoided?
I used to always have an icon, but now it's gone unless mirroring is available :-(
Both my wife and I run 10.7.5 on MacBook Pros. On my wife's machine (2012 MB Pro) she cannot rename a bookmark folder she creates in Google Chrome. All her new bookmark folders are called new folder. This has been happening for awhile. I run 10.7.5 on a 2008 MB Pro and don't have this problem. I suppose deleting Chrome and re-installing is the best solution?
If I use Time Machine to backup my Mac and then have to restore it later, will it retain the "Date Created" attribute of the files?
I understand that Apple has switched to SMB2 as their default file sharing protocol these days, but I have an old Mac at home that I want to share files with, and it can only run OS X 10.6. OS X 10.6 gives me the option of using AFP, FTP, or SMB (version 1, I believe). Is there a reason to choose one of these over the others?
Some websites need Microsoft silverlight for streaming. Is it possible or is there any way to enable Microsoft Silverlight on IOS devices?
I have a random shutdown problem after doing a clean install of OSX Mavericks (I was running Snow Leopard with no issues), on my Macbook Pro Mid-2010 15 inch 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5. It regularly crashes, my report is below and includes kernels. Would really like an answer as it will shut down at any given time. Normal examples are while I'm using a program, trying to switch programs, open a new program or use a finger gesture on the touch pad. Some days it will run for hours without a problem and then will crash three times in a row inside of ten minutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Phil Anonymous UUID: F72B6E6E-4571-57A4-D543-E1441E8549A3 Thu Jan 16 19:59:15 2014 panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f93252fac): "GPU Panic: [] 3 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff812576b000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P2/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.12/src/AppleMuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127 Ba
I understood that when T M filled the target disc, it would delete the oldest backups to make space for later backups. This is fine with me, and I would be quite happy if it just did that. But it keeps warning me with this screen. I can not find a way to stop this so I have to click OK very time, sometime 20 times a day. I have a 1T HDD with 300Gb free and a 1T backup disc. Is there a way to stop this warning appearing?
I want to delete all my photos from my iPhone 4s running iOS 7.0.3 but it wont let me. I have tried in numerous ways, but they don't work. I don't want to delete them one-by-one. Usage → Camera and Photos, swipe Camera Roll and delete does not work on iOS 7. I tried using Image Capture on my computer, and my device shows up on the left, but there are no image files. I tried manually deleting them from my iPhone files on my Windows 7 PC but it wont let me delete them.
I have some remote speakers hooked up to an Airport Express. While they work with iTunes as intended, I would like to stream sound that I play in other applications. Is there some facility for using the remote speakers from the rest of the system?
I would like to list my open network ports in Terminal with built in commands. As what I know, netstat is the command to use. But I'm struggling to get any useful information out of it.
Does anybody know how to resolve the intermittent static problem when recording on the Mac using Garageband 10.0.1 on a Mavericks MAC and using Apogee JAM 96k? I've tried every configuration possible (different sample rates, different bit depths, removing effects, changing guitar and interface cables etc...) to no avail. Cannot get ride of this annoying static.
I would like to run the following command and pipe stout of both to TextEdit: This doesn't work, it only executes the latter: How?
Is there a way to do this? Or should I give up with this approach?
It seems like this question has been asked a million times, but after a few hours of reading similar questions, I have not been able to find a clear answer. I have a mid-2012 Macbook Air running OS X 10.9. I want to run dual 24" 1920x1200 monitors and the built-in 11" screen.
When photos on iOS are added to an album, does that duplicate the amount of space being used? If I add the photos to another app, can I delete them from the camera roll?
I have searched for this around the web, but haven't found anything that was similar to what I was looking for. So here it goes.
For no apparent reason, iTunes starts playing music on my iMac running OS X 10.9. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2119211?start=15&tstart=0
Today I took part in an interesting discussion. Someone said that's great that Apple goes 64bit with their iPhone 5S. Of course I mentioned about no need for 64bits paired with 2 gigs of RAM, but then I started to wonder - is there anything good with 64bit in this case, except for benefits of "future compatibility"? Larger instructions? Any kind of optimalization?
I'm using an old Apple USB keyboard(it came with the iMac G5) with my Mac. I'd like to bind F16 to play/pause iTunes, like F8 key on the MacBooks. Right now the key does nothing. I'm OK with 3rd party software/plugins.
I understand the the Grapher app in Mac OS X comes with erf and erfc, the error function and complementary error function. However, when I define
I have enabled the setting Require password 1 minute after sleep or screen saver begins. However, I sometimes noticed that my password is not asked after I open my laptop in the morning. This seems to coincide with Power Nap runs: if you open the laptop during that period, or probably in the minute after it goes back to sleep (checked using the Console: RTC: Maintenance), the password is not asked.
I have a Early-2009 2.93 GHz 24" iMac, which has a faulty graphics card. I'm keen to try replacing it myself using this excellent guide. Unfortunately the guide doesn't mention any advice on finding/buying a replacement card. Where can I find a card to buy online (or locally), and what do I have to check to know that the card will be an appropriate replacement?
I recently got an MacBook Pro (Retina) 15" from my office. I prefer to use my laptop as a desktop. So I have a docking station for my Dell which I used to connect to 2 external monitors, keyboard and mouse. I use both OS X as well as Windows via Boot Camp. Is there anything similar for new MacBook Pro (Retina)? If not a docking station what would be better alternative to connect 2 external Dell monitors (supporting resolution of 1920 * 1080)?
I have an iMac 2013 with a Fusion Drive and OSX 10.8.5. No plans to migrate to Mavericks yet. I have had issues also with x11 that I've solved with a "direct" install: But, when I try to install R-2.11.1 and above (I'm using R-2.10.1, and works well ;) ) I get the following message from the installer: If I try from the Terminal I receive this output from terminal: And it fails.
I have been trying to update iPhoto through App Store on my iMac, but I constantly fail. It always downloads the whole package - 1.15GB, then it does its mumbo jumbo, but everytime it looks promising, it shows a red sign - An error has occurred.
I have and iPad 2 with 5.1.1 installed. I didn't update to iOS 6 because I didn't want Apple Maps and have my VLC app deleted. Now since the majority of the apps don't get any updates I thought of updating to iOS 6 (thanks to Google releasing the maps as stand-alone), but that(thanks to Apple offering update to only iOS 7 and nothing in between) is not possible anymore.
I have a printer (Sansung ML-1250) that has driver for OSX 10.3 but now I have a new mac with OSX 10.9 and I'm not sure how to handle it. Is there any solutions?
After all the travails of Mail.app, I would leave it behind, not to let it touch my GMail messages again, and free up dozens of GBs disk space in the process. However, simply unchecking "Mail" under System Preferences / Internet Accounts / GMail does not delete the local copies (and duplicates!) of previously downloaded messages.
My iPhone 5 was stolen and my location service was turned off but I have Find My iPhone enabled. I have been trying to put my iPhone on lost mode but it appears to be offline. Is there any way I can track it or kill the iPhone perhaps?
I would like Finder to play a sound alert when it is done copying files. How can I do this? I'm using Mavericks.
I don't want to create an App Store account because I don't like the idea of tying my computer with it. Can I still upgrade from Mountain Lion to Mavericks for free from the Apple servers without an App Store account ?
I recently received an iOS device and it was jailbroken. When I wanted to unjailbreak it, I used "Erase All Content and Settings." The loading screen came on and it has not changed. After rebooting the device, it is now stuck at the Apple logo. What should I do?
I was trying to install the latest Adobe Flash player on my Macbook Pro running OS X.10.9. The Adobe Installer stopped midway and informed me that "Process 644" is running and asked me to close it. What is Process 644?
When I save a new document, I can only choose the default save location or recently used locations, but sometimes I want to save in an existing directory I haven't visited recently. How can I expand the choices in the dialog box so I can select from any one of my existing directories?
When I type on a MacBook Pro (2013), which is Boot Camp'd with 5.0, the built-in trackpad interferes while typing under Windows 8. While typing it will place the cursor on random lines. Apple does not have a fix for this on their website that I can find.
I have a pop-up telling me that there are "Updates Available" and asking me if I want to install "now or try tonight?". Before Mavericks, I was able to see what the updates were. Is there a way to do it in Mavericks?
On my linux machines, for my terminal shell I have tmux keys mapped to allow me to split windows and then switch between new panes. With or without these mappings I can't figure out how to remap the key combo's on my mac that let me divide the terminal window and stay in whatever directory I'm currently in, for the new window. This is really handy for all my terminal work. I can use the Iterm menu itself and/or the shortcut key combos it shows but these all seem to be are Iterm split windows not tmux and the one thing they don't do is set the same directory, they go to the my home directory (~).
I'd like to extend my home wireless network to a location that is too far away for wireless to reach. My plan was to do this by running a 100m/328' length of Cat6a cable from my Time Capsule to an AirPort Express located in the remote location.
My Mac Mini is new. I'm not sure if this issue was already there before installing Server.app. Unsusual things happen with the system on EVERY RESTART: Messages Agent ask permission to use keychain to which I say "always allow" and it pops up again till I say only "allow"; Dock gets resete (all customization lost); it always notifies me that I can download iwork for free but I already did; it always asks for icloud password. It´s like it resets some stuff every startup.
Is it possible to configure finder in Mavericks to open new tab (by clicking plus sign or cmd+t) in the same directory by default?
I am currently using Logitech M545 Mouse, which has two side buttons for convenient operations under Windows. In windows, one button is for displaying the desktop, and the other is for Start button. I find it really convenient. Logitech claims that one may program the uses of the two buttons for personal use.
I have a Mavericks server with ALL services disabled in Server.app in an attempt to figure out what's causing a huge number of log messages. When I check to see what services are running, I see the output at the end of this question.
I am upgrading the HDD of a MBP 17" Mid-2009 to an SSD. I have an Airport Time Capsule with Time Machine backups in it.
On the computer that does bring the photo from the cloud, I set it up to save them to a network drive and if I point the non-working pc's to that folder as default for iCloud, I still see nothing on my computer when double clicking "My Photo Stream"  Here's the kicker: if I click the "Open Folder" link in the above photo, the folder opens correctly and shows the files
I've recently bought a MacBook with OS X 10.9 and I've just updated it to 10.9.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 64-bit). I'd like to install the version 13 of Darwin. I've done everything proposed by this website, but when I try to make xnu, I have this error message:
I check my app downloads on AppAnnie. Today I've seen that the number of updates is greater than the number of downloads ... how can it be possible ?
Got a mid-2013 MacBook Air on Black Friday. Gave in and downloaded 4 songs on it so far. (Four iTunes libraries total to merge.)
I'm not sure what is going on. Every time I access Alfred, I get this dialog box, "Alfred would like to access your contacts." I always have to click "OK" before I can use the program. I have verified that the Alfred checkbox is checked in the Contacts settings in System Preferences. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Is there a universal laptop key support. I have new key and hinge but pins are broken. How can I fix or adapt?
I am having issues where so far PhotoBooth video recordings and flash based web applications do not register my voice using the internal mic. I have also tried with and without plugging in headphones (no mic on head phones). System Preferences -> Sound -> Input however does register my voice as well as System Preferences -> Speech -> Speech Recognition -> Calibrate
My Time Machine backups often consist of Firefox's places.sqlite file (which, as I understand it, contains both history and bookmarks) and little else. When I clear my browsing history the file shrinks by about 80%. I think I have the following options: Live with it Exclude places.sqlite from being backed up and risk losing my bookmarks Tell Firefox not to track history Is there another option under which I track history without burning space to back it up?
Focusing on computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery: is there any Mac on which firmware can not be downgraded? I see that for at least one type of MacBook Pro, firmware can be downgraded √ For the MacBookPro7,1: MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.0, boot ROM MBP71.0039.B0B MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 2.5, boot ROM MB71.0039.B0E with support for OS X Recovery.
I use Firefox on a desktop iMac, a MacBook and my Android Samsung Galaxy S III mobile phone. All installations of Firefox are set to sync over Firfox's inbuilt Firefox-Snyc feature.
Many apps offer the option to turn off auto-substitution on quotation marks (") such as TextEdit, but many other apps do not have such settings, for example LibreOffice. So how to type a normal quotation mark in those cases?
I just updated my iPhone 4 from ios 4 to ios 7 and it looked as if everything was going fine. I saw things backedup; I saw firmware and software updated, and I saw things restored from backup. When the update was finished, I got the "swipe to set up" screen. It wanted to know what WiFi network I wanted to use, and it did not remember the password for that network. After reentering the password, it asked me to set up my Locations preferences. Then it asked me to do one of the following: set up as new iPhone set up as new iPhone restore from the cloud restore from the cloud restore from iTunes restore from iTunes
Is there any way I can force Preview to always show the table of contents when opening a PDF? Most of the PDFs I use have a ToC, so this would save me the extra step from having to enable the ToC after opening the PDF.
I am trying to update WhatsApp. It is asking me for an iTunes password of a different email address and I can't change it.
On Windows - since Vista onwards - I'm used to an extremely powerfully configurable instant file/folder/setting search feature: namely its instant indexed Start Menu search. Having a powerful computer, I add every single file and folder to the index so that any little file or folder I'm after (including both file name and extension), is immediately, instantly searchable right from the Start Menu. It looks like Spotlight is OS X's equivalent of this.
Since Mavericks, Automator is now able to store services (.workflow) in iCloud. The problem is that services are not available in the Services menu or contextual menu (right-click) when I store them that way.
Got this message when starting a Windows 2000 VM on VMware Fusion 6 on a Retina MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks: This virtual machine's policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Fusion. Could only find this Danish question with no answers. Fusion 6 is supposed to run any old virtual hardware version (this one is virtual hardware 7, I think it originates from VMware Workstation 6.5). support Windows 2000 Anyone having the faintest idea how to start digging for a cause? Edit: extra information about the settings, .vmx and .vmxf files. Opening the settings for this VM gets the same message. VMware Virtual Hardware version overview.
I have stored my iTunes library on my MacBook and activated home sharing. If I now want to stream some music to my iPad, I can do so from within the Music app. If I like to remotely control my MacBooks library I can do so via Apple Remote app. But what if my MacBook is asleep? After closing it and waiting for several minutes I cannot see the library any more. How can I access my library after the MacBook went to sleep? Would I need an additional app to wake my MacBook over WLAN or is it somehow build in and I just need to set something in the preferences?
Okay, so I've written a script that uses mdfind to more quickly match files, however, I need to find the best way to check whether a target directory is indexed or not, so I can fall back to using find instead if I have to. I'm assuming I'll need to use mdls, however this does still return information about non-index files and folders, just less of it. Is there a particular value I should query that will allow me to easily determine whether a file/folder has been index by Spotlight or not?
My problem is that my iPad is not recognized by my MacBook. Other iOS devices are recognised normally by the very same MacBook. The iPad charges, but nothing else works. My specifications are the following: iPad 1st generation (firmware 5.1.1) & jailbroken MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (firmware 10.9.1) iTunes 11.1.3 I have tried the following solutions: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* (I know, Snow Leopard only, but I still tried) The iPad is also not recognised in Recovery Mode or DFU Mode When I try deleting all files on my iPad (Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings), it freezes (spinning weel until "out-of-charge") and nothing happens until I restart using the Home and Power buttons.
I am trying to install OS X Lion on a Macbook 4,1 which I've upgraded to 4 GB of RAM. It should support this OS, however I cannot get my Mac to see the USB drive as a bootable option. It's a SANDISK Data traveler 16GB So far I've tried Flashing the drive initially to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Partion the drive as GUID Restoring the install DMG which should according to most guides make the drive bootable However even though the drive mounts in my OS (10.5.8) it won't show in the startup disks as a bootable option.
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) with Mavericks installed. It is connected via USB to an Epson Stylus Color Photo R200 inkjet printer. When I print, the print job window says
Is there any equivalent of airodump-ng for Mac OS X (it only runs on linux), providing an overview of the current wireless traffic on nearby Access Points, i.e: number of captured data packets list of devices currently associated with each AP
My clock no longer keeps time properly after installation of Mavericks. This problem affects all of my iMacs immediately post-Mavericks, so it's not an issue with a bad battery.
I was wondering if there are any Apple Software and Monitoring tools specifically made for Mac OSX Clients. I am aware of Profile Manager and several OSX Server tools such as Open Directory for Authentication, but I haven't been able to make a solid plan in terms of tools needed for Deploying Mac Images and then monitoring them.
Purchased a Project Red case. It looked fairly dirty within a week, but had a cool worn feel to it. Now a few months in it looks disgusting. Any good tips on keeping it clean? I put some Allen Edmonds Leather Lotion on it but it didn't seem to help anything.
I have a bunch of single songs from the iTunes store (Starbucks Pick of the Week) and in a misguided attempt to get them to organize them the way I wanted, I screwed up much of the metadata for these songs. Is there a way to get it back, like you can with songs you directly imported from a CD using "Get Track Names"?
Every day when I am working, or if I attempt to play a movie using my Mac, it will restart. It seems like every time it is about to restart the fan starts spinning pretty heavily and then it will crash and restart and put up a report. How do I fix this?
I'm interested in knowing if there are any ways to intentionally create a .DS_Store for use in preventing the display of icon previews? Basically I have a network volume with lots of images and movies on it, so naturally browsing it is a nightmare in the Finder due to how slow everything is, however I don't really want each user's Finder storing .DS_Store files all over the place. Instead I'd like to be able to just create or copy a custom .DS_Store file of my own into image/movie heavy folders in order to disable icon previews. I've tried using a .DS_Store file that I know has the correct settings, but copying it into a new location just doesn't seem to work, presumably the file contains some reference to the folder it belongs to, so the Finder is just ignoring it. Are there any tools out there that can be used to create and manipulate .DS_Store files, preferably programmatically, and even better if they can be run by a shell script on other unix platforms.
I would like to know what the default settings for OS X are in terms of keeping the clock adjusted when I enable automatic time sync in the Date & Time preference. I do know that the venerable ntpd daemon on Mavericks (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) is no longer responsible for adjusting the time and instead a new program pacemaker has been introduced — so how can I know things are working or need adjustment to keep time?
I'd like to install gcc and make on my Macbook Air, but I don't have root access on it. I found this link through searching on google, but I have no idea how to set up the prefix's so that the actual gcc executable can find the libraries. I have a directory set up with node.js and git installed at ~/usr/local and I'd like to install GCC there also. I have no idea where to start with make. Can anyone help? :D
I installed wireshark using homebrew with the command brew install wireshark. Everything seems to install fine and I can use dumpcap to capture packets but now I want to view them. Using a text editor like vi doesn't format some of the output very well due to an abundance of unreadable characters. It looks like there should be a Wireshark.app to view the trace files with, however, I do not see how to start it. Any ideas?
I am having trouble mounting one of my NTFS drives in OS X. I've added the following entry to my fstab with the 'vifs' command. I have created the /data mountpoint with 'mkdir /data' and attempted to mount with 'mount -a'. I get the following error: Edit: I can mount with the disk utility, but not from the terminal. What am I missing?
I was curious about the things that we need to do before selling your iPhone or even before giving it back to Apple (Apple has a program where they will refund you some money if you want to get a new iPhone). Quick googling show: 6 Steps to Prepare an iPhone for Sale the Right Way .
I've set it so that my Mac will forcefully shutdown at 12:00 everyday. But I try to turn it back on, it shuts down again right after.
I am currently switching over from Linux to OS X, and in the process have found a few surprising differences between the two systems. I am quite used to the concept of installing most applications into my user's home directory, as a general security practice. To my surprise, however, when installing an application that runs with JRE, I am immediately greeted with a message "java wants to make changes. type your password to do this". This prompt comes before even asking to which directory the files are to be installed (e.g. ~/Applications/). Needless to say, this is not something I am used to when installing similar Java-dependent applications in Linux.
I know that there's a setting to change this behaviour, but it doesn't work for my EasyAcc bluetooth keyboard. If this behaviour is known, does it apply to all not-built-in keyboards or all bluetooth keyboards? EDIT: The setting I'm referring to is: Use all F1, F2 etc keys as standard function keys
I've created an application with Automator. I want to have a new icon in the menubar like this:
My friend accidentally deleted (moved to Trash) all the files listed in "All my files" in Finder. Instead of using the "put back" option, he moved these files from Trash to Desktop using Finder. Now he has lost the directory structure! Is there a way to put these files where they were deleted from originally? The problem is that "All my files" lists the files in one Finder window and when they were moved to the trash, the files appeared as if they were stored in one directory. So I was wondering if there is a way to figure out where these files once were. Any ideas? PS Time machine is disabled and no other backups; Mac OS X 10.9.1
I'm looking at getting a MacBook, and the seller did a Factory Reset and said it just needs the OS installed. Is there anything I should look out for?
I basically want to achieve what is explained in this question/answer. I have an existing, non-apple WiFi network and I want to use an Airport Express to be able to play music from my MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion) and iPhone (iOS 7) on the stereo. The current WiFi router and the Airport Express can not be connected by a cable, so I need to use the existing WiFi connection.
What are the iOS map-viewing apps that are compatible with the largest number of file formats for topographic maps and trail maps? (such as those found on the USGS website) I'm really looking for a no-bells-and-whistles mapping "swiss army knife" app that's LOW on branding and not trying to sell me maps.
My Mac Pro was stolen...I still have the computer ID..can I delete the adobe CS on that computer so I can install it on a new MAC Pro? I have the CS on my Mac Desk and I would like to install it on my new Mac Pro?
I am trying to erase the hard drive of my MacBookPro and perform a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It already has the said os installed. I have a Mountain Lion installation USB key handy. When I go through the erase steps in the Disk Utility, the erase button remains grey, so I cannot erase partition containing the already installed OS.
To make it work a bit better, I set up scrolling so that it only scrolls one line at a time. The proper one scrolls pixel-by-pixel, and with the acceleration I'm used to.
I have the late 2013 model Macbook Pro retina, and a Bose Sound Link speaker (bluetooth speaker). I am using Bootcamp with Windows 7 Pro.
I am wanting to use this app in Mavericks, but the following message pops up when trying to run it, '...[App] is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.9.1':  I am thinking that the app will work just fine, and that the developer has just put a restriction to not allow anything above 10.7.x in some sort of compatibility settings inside its Package Contents - or however OS version checking within an App works on Mac OS. Is there a way I can force it to run in Mavericks myself, via something like tweaking with numbers in a file in the .app Package Contents, changing some setting in System Preferences or doing a Terminal tweak of some kind?
So, I own a macbook but I'm unsure whether I need an antivirus software with real-time scanning capability or not. I don't have flash or Java enabled in my browser (using safari). I've configured my firewall to stealth mode. I'm usually on a public network with bunch of other Windows machines as well as Mac and other linux-based computers.
I just recently decided to switch over to the Mac for the first time by buying the latest Retina MBP (which shipped with Mavericks). I use it like a commuter where I have it unplugged for a couple of hours but later will plug it in at a desk. I want my battery to last as long as possible and I know I should run the battery calibration check and also have the battery down to 10% once a month.
Recently a the Dutch government advised to put a tape on your webcam to prevent hackers from taking pictures and video using your device (news article in Dutch). The build in iSight camera in Apple laptops have a green light next to the camera, this light turns green when you use the camera.
I want to use my normal audio headphones with the iPhone to get a better quality of music in my 5S. Explain whether it would not affect the phone in any case, if I am using the 3-metal-part audio headphones.
I have a 4TB RAID10 (4x2TB disks) created with Disk Utility. I also have 4x4TB spare disks. Can I enlarge the RAID10 to 8TB (4x4TB)? This post suggests that I can break each mirrored set, and replace each of the 2TB disks with 4TB, one by one, and end up with 2 mirrored sets of 8TB each. But is there any way to enlarge the STRIPED set of mirrored sets?
I need it to make posters with Scribus. I got the hint that use the Computer Modern Font. However, I am not sure if the newest OSX has it, where could I get it from?
I wonder if an Australian iPad mini will work in the UK. I'm thinking of getting one as a gift for a family member as they're cheaper in Australia than they are in the UK. Will it work there app-wise?
I would like to know if there was an app that can notify me whenever my mac is powered on. like IFTTT app. example if mac powered on then send a message to iphone.
I am on Mountain Lion (OS 10.8.5), and I am using Chrome 32.0.1700.77. I notice that Chrome (the Google Chrome Helper to be precise) has developed the annoying habit of using ~ 10% of each CPU core (something it did not used to do), and the font rendering is increasingly erratic (i.e. Wikipedia or other pages change fonts as I scroll through a page). These problems can be either on my computer or a seriously buggy release of Chrome (which did not have these problems for me). If the former I'd like to have your opinion about a possible fix, if the latter I hope a new release of Chrome will come out soon...
I have a late-2011 15" MacBook Pro. I have just had my spinning hard drive swapped out with an SSD. The new drive does not have a recovery partition. Can I create one? If so, how?
run_kernel is using upto 1gb of ram in macbook pro.Please help
i have a 2011 imac downstairs in my house and i created a usb windows 7 install on that and when i plug it in it notices it as an install disk however when i plug it into my imac 2008 and click insall windows 7 this comes up The installer disc could not be found. Insert your Windows installer disc and wait a few seconds for the disc to be recognized. i do not know what to do as it is noticed on my other imac it noticed it.
Today we could not get one of our machines running with 10.9 and RAID 0 which stripes the data on the boot volume. After several hours of doing the 'standard' tasks like fixing permissions etc, we've hit a dead end for troubleshooting. Here's what's going on:
If I connect an external hard drive to a Time Capulse, it that drive also backed up to the Time Capsule?
The Activity Monitor app says my macbook pro 10.7.5 is at 300% CPU usage when I'm trying to install and sync my Bitcoin-Qt client. I let in run like this with the fan going crazy for 4 hours without incident, but stressed about it the whole time.
I just bought apple iPhone 4s from my friend but it throw an error "This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons" is it possible that i change apple ID during this state? Or is there any other way to change it?
I can not deploy my application to the smart phone watch, based on the fact that, through Eclipse, the Mac does not know there is a device connected to the Mac. However, if I go through 'About my Mac', I can see that it recognises the device connected to its USB port, as I can see productID/ManufacturerID. I checked the Android's developer page, and they assume the Mac machine should detect it right away:
How do I get the date to show on pictures? I have an iPhone 5?
I'm running VMWare 5 on a MacBook Pro, and I'd like to be able to send certain combinations of keys out to OSX while working in my Windows VM. I've set up a couple Automator scripts that do Play/Pause/Next on my Google Music tab in Chrome when I hit Ctrl-Cmd-Z, Ctrl-Cmd-X, and so on. They work great while I'm using any other OSX app, but VMWare traps the keys and routes them to Windows, so that they no longer function as global hotkeys.
I usually do it through the System Preference panel for Date & Time, but I'd like a quicker way to do this if there is one.
I have an Intel MacPro in which I recently installed a new internal 3TB hard disk. I attempted to format it in Disk Utility using the standard GUID partition map and encountered a strange problem. Disk Utility formatted it using a Logical Volume Group (LVG) instead of GUID.
My iPhone is running iOS 7.0.4. I am trying to use the "Reset Keyboard Dictionary" option because certain text like an "i" in the middle of a sentence no longer auto capitalizes. Auto capitalization and autocorrect are on. When I hit Reset Keyboard Dictionary there is no change in behavior. My i's still don't upper case. I know I can add new keyboard shortcuts to force things like this but single character corrections don't work well (iOS doesn't know whether they are in a word or a separate word). If I erase my iPhone completely and set it up as new (as a test), all is good. Why isn't Reset Keyboard Dictionary working?
I am using my EarPods for running, but i can't forward or reverse any track with remote on EarPods. I always pick the iPhone from my pocket. Much like it happens in the e-books..
I am slowly migrating from an older Mac Pro to a MacBook Air. Both machines are backed up to two different 2TB drives using Time Machine. Recently I decided that I wanted to make the extensive data I have on my older Mac Pro more available to my MacBook Air, so I bought a 1TB portable drive which I can keep with me.
Can you send music data from your iPhone to Android with Bluetooth? I've got an Android Phone plug on my stereo and I want to use my iPhone to play music on it. Is it possible?
I'm looking for a way to have all mail messages flagged/labeled with "Red" show up in a saved search in the Finder, but Mail.app flags doesn't seem to be indexed by Spotlight. Any ideas? Mavericks (10.9)
Its possible to block turning off the iPhone/iPod or iPhone? For example, in case of loss, theft? The point is that the thief could not turn off the iPhone, so I could find iPhone through Find my iPhone always..
I have recently upgraded to Mavericks, 10.9.1. I am trying to share my diary with my wife, we both use the OS X Calendar and I decided to sync using iCloud. I also have calendars in Calendar synced through Google.
I currently have a Mac OS X Mavericks VM running on a Windows 7 machine in VMware Workstation. I am trying to install Logic Studio 9 and am unable to install due to the following reason. The chipset installed by VMware is: I have a Sapphire 7950 installed on this machine. What is the best way to approach this problem? Possible hackintosh solution?
I find there are some cases where my Macbook becomes completely mute, meaning each application cannot make any sound. Even while adjusting the volume, there is no sound during the operation.
I have two similar find commands that I basically have the same code for both once the while loop begins. I want to combine them so I only need one find to search through files and directories, instead of one to search directories and one to search files. Here are the two that I want to combine into one line:
I have a smart mailbox setup to combine the inboxes of my 3 Gmail accounts. It worked great in 10.8. In Mavericks, this "smart inbox" frequently shows messages which have already been archived, and do not appear in the regular Gmail inbox within Mail.app. This screenshot shows an example. So Mail recognizes that the two messages are archived, yet they still show up here. These two messages do no appear in the regular Gmail inbox within Mail.
With OS X Mavericks, users are able to use Activity Monitor to view which apps are using the High Perf GPU, therefore, sucking more power from the battery. This is exposed by the 'Requires High Perf GPU' column in the Energy section. I find this very useful and often close those apps if I am not using them.
I'm using Mac Os X 10.6.8 and I'm updating to Mavericks. I'm using Tuxela NTFS to be able to write and read NTFS from my Mac. I'm using iMovie 11 9.0.4
Since updating to Mavericks, I've had some issues with the system fonts. Most notably, I seem to be missing some variation of Helvetica. The system seems to replace with a similar font (maybe Lucida Grande?) so it's not much of a nuisance but I want to fix it. Here's Numbers giving an error because of it:
I have a MacBook Pro with OSX Mavericks. I had my automatic update switched on for Java (unfortunately). So when I was asked if I want to update I naturally said yes. With the update I am having problems opening Java operated websites. I am getting failure messages. This is since the update. I found a website where there are instructions: *=URL=* I'm not sure this is right for my purposes.
On my last mac system I used iTunes for syncing some PDFs and other books to my ipad. Now on my new MBP with Mavericks and iTunes 11 there is no Books library anymore, but a new iBooks app.
I have an Apple Wireless Keyboard that has an eject key on the top right. It is useless because my Retina MacBook Pro does not have a CD-ROM. My MacBook is running OS X Mavericks and I expected eject key to do some power operations, just like the power key on the top-right of MacBook keyboard.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to open Notification Center and begin an iMessage as seen below?
I would like to remove a bunch of playlists from iTunes on my PC and have those removed playlists disappear from my other devices and computers. I tried deleting them all from the PC and leaving them deleted for around a week. They came back.
Airplane mode turns off GPS service as well as cell service. Is this necessary under the new rules allowing most devices (at least on some airlines) to be used during all phases of flight? If it's not necessary, is there a way to turn off cell service while leaving the GPS system functioning?
Mobile Data is Turned Off for "App Name". You can turn on mobile data for this app in Settings. [Settings] [OK]
I have a 17" Macbook Pro (5,2 mid 2009, MC226LL/A) that has a battery that is in need of being replaced. I'm looking for the correct battery for it and have found various batteries that say they are compatible. The odd thing is that some of the batteries that are said to be compatible have a voltage that is higher than the original.
I hate that I'm having to ask this, because it's been working perfectly fine until now. I use my macbook pro as my home computer and hook it up to an external monitor and keyboard when I'm home. I do disconnect it on occasion. I unplugged it today and when I went to plug it back in and shut the lid, my monitor is saying "no connection." The monitor works fine with the lid open, but I used to be able to close it no problem.
On my mac os x I have two roots the second one has two forward slashes. // wondering what that is. I searched everywhere but cant find any information about this.
Is it possible to have a short cut so I can jump between Textmate and terminal quickly? I know I can do it via cmd+tab but I still have to find it from the menu bar.
Just got Apple Magic Mouse from eBay. I cannot figure how to pair it with my Mac Mini: it's discovering fine, but when I click on Pair button, my Mac is thinking for a little while and says: "Couldn't connect to the device".
I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I'm just beginning to learn programming and I've gotten to a lesson where I have to create a file in text wrangler, save it to the desktop (called test.txt) and then copy it into the terminal. I then have to use the "less" command to view the file. How do I get that file from my desktop into the command line? and I'm using a mac fyi..
The Mac Mini and ATV are connected to a switch, while the Mac Pro is connected directly to the router. Everything is on the same subnet and has the same IP range, and everything is wired (not using Wi-Fi).
The Connect Manager for Mac that comes with the ZTE LTE modem model MF821 keeps running even when the modem is not in use, after doing Force Quit in Activity Manager, after kill -9 in Terminal, and across restarts. The program is poorly written, as it periodically causes CPU load spikes, during some of which the computer restarts itself. How can I deactivate Connect Manager?
I was just answering another question and was reminded of a new "feature" in Mavericks. I used to have a number of small Automator Services that took no input but did something useful when tied to a keystroke. The perfect example was one to bring the Terminal to the front. Some of these required selecting a menu item in the application brought to the front such as Bring All to Front. Now it seems you need to grant "accessability" to every single app so that a universal keystroke will work if the Service uses the System Events AppleScript library. Anyone know a fix for this?
I then executed sudo dscl . read /Users/qwer and compared it with sudo dscl . read /Users/uiop for a second test user. In the records, the following keys are unique to the user created with the Server app: These match: And these are unique to each user (or in the case of Password are obfuscated): I checked AuthenticationAuthority but the only thing different is the username in the string, so that could be considered equivalent as well. Additionally, groups qwer and groups uiop give exactly the same output. There doesn't appear to be anything preventing "qwer" from changing their password except for the fact that their user account was created on the command line; however, the dscl method should be perfectly valid.
I am experiencing strange issue with my MacBook Air (2011, with Mavericks): I don't like to turn off my machine, so I usually just close the lid and put my laptop to backpack before I go to sleep
I have an iPod 5 but I want the front and back camera, so for my upcoming birthday in April I'm planning an upgrade. Can I use the same Apple ID and start at the same level on the Apps I have on this iPod?
at my work machine I've written an AppleScript that writes an reminder email for our group meeting. It is triggered by an event in Calender through Open Application at time of event and then reaccesses another Calendar in the Calendar app to get the next meeting date. At the end it sends an email with both event dates. And everything works fine when I'm at the machine and the screen isn't locked. But when the screen is locked, the app asks for permission to access the Calendar (which it does not when the screen isn't locked) and if I don't grant it, nothing happens of course.
OS X was spinning and spinning when trying to shutdown so I held down the the ⌽ Power button to force shutdown. Current Situation: I cannot boot to OS X directly, I first have to boot to single user mode and manually mount the OS X partition (/sbin/mount -uw /) then reboot and it works. Folder permissions on the Windows side are all screwy, even as admin can't save file to desktop etc.
My i phone 5 was stolen and i'm freaking out because the thieves keep on using my i phone. i knew this because when i contacted my i phone it answered me.
I am trying to automate video conversion process using Automator and Handbrake CLI version. I am trying to implement the functionality that whenever a video is downloaded in my dropbox folder on my PC it is converted and put in another folder. Currently i am testing it with a test folder (not on dropbox so i am just copying files to it to test). When a put a single file or multiple files in the folder simultaneously it works. But when i put one file (or many) and script is executing i.e. converting the videos and i put another file in the folder then for that new file script is never called so the new video is not converted. So how can i achieve this functionality that when script is running and new file is added another instance of script is started for new file.
For no apparent reason, I don't get Twitter notifications on iOS 7 anymore. Both the notification center and the badge on the app icon are affected by this. Neither the OS nor the Twitter app have been updated, also I didn't modify any related settings. Every other service works and I get the expected notifications.
I have a script running by a LaunchAgent to sync a directory with a remote share. This script is fairly simple, I'll include it here just so nobody suspects the script. And it launches from this LaunchAgent that is installed into ~/Library/LaunchAgents. This system has been working for a while now but ever since the user upgraded to Mavericks they've been having problems with any file being synced having the hidden attribute set at sync. So the file is visible in Finder when it is being edited, but once it has synced over to the share it receives the hidden-attribute on the share and can no longer be seen when browsing the share in Finder. Only using the shell can it be seen, also ls -O shows it has the hidden-attribute.
I want to delete a video from my camera roll. Will it still exist in some kind of backup? This video was not uploaded to the cloud or the photo stream.
i'm trying to make a simple Launch Agent that run a test app at system load. I followed the official documentation, but can not get it to work. my plist file is located at /Library/LaunchAgents/Test.launcher.mac.service.plist. a ls -l returns: the content of my plist is: what i'm doing wrong?
I am currently setting up a Mac Server using 10.9.1 and have a client also on 10.9.1 When the client boots up I get a popup window next to the Username box that says "Network accounts unavailable" and I cannot login using any of the network accounts created on the server. When I log into the client using a local user I can see and browse the servers file shares and when I go into System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options the Network Account Server is correct with a green light on it and if I go into the Allow network users to log in at login window it shows a list of network users on the client.
Just received my new Monoprice tablet (this one) and it's working great. But there is one feature I'm missing: is there any way to scroll using only the pen and a button click (either on the keyboard, the tablet or even better - on the pen itself)?
original question: I have to do some testing with a few different versions of OS X. I have a machine running 10.6, and I have a USB drive partitions with various OS X installers. I made disk images (*.dmg) of each of the 10.7 and 10.8 partitions, but when I try to start up a VM, I get (with the 10.8 disk image) if I have EFI enabled
I have a WiFi network protected by LEAP (*=URL=* When choosing the network on Apple TV, it doesn't go through - says it's missing some configuration. How can I connect to the network?
In the Apple TV, when enabling AirPlay it shows "step 1: connect to a wifi network". What if I have Ethernet? Bluetooth? Will only WiFi work?
See the UPDATE below for new information about the actual HTTP requests going on under the hood. So I started a new job back in October. It's mostly a Windows shop, and they use IIS and Active Directory for a bunch of internal stuff. They have an intranet site at intranet.companyname.com. In Chrome on Mavericks, when I go there, I get the expected little HTTP auth dropdown:
I have a 2009-era Airport Extreme that used to provide routing and WiFi for our cablemodem. Time Warner updated our cablemodem to a DG860, which comes with its own built-in WiFi.
For OS X Safari there is a solution to force storing of passwords. Some sites disallow the storing of passwords, and I wonder if I can force this, at least for some sites, on Safari on iOS 7.
Safari on iOS allows to upload images to websites. However, the file always seems to be named image.jpg. This can be a problem, if the targeted website does not allow renaming uploaded files. Is it possible to make Safari let me choose a name or automatically use some unique name?
I am completely locked out of my Mac Mini OS X Server (Mavericks) after installing in our server rack. I was able to setup the server just fine on the bench using a wireless connection; was even able to join to our Active Directory domain. I simply connected the Mini to our network switch, disabled the wireless network connection (.100), reconnected to the wired connection (green-lit at .200) using VNC at the new IP - which worked - but now, it's not accepting any account credentials, domain (MYCOMPANY\admin) or local. Took it off the network to try and login locally, I still get "the shake" on the local administrator account, and now have no way of accessing the server.
Is there any way I can Stream Audio from my Android device via Bluetooth to my Macbook Pro? I'm using OS X 10.9.1 and Android 4.4.2.
I need to free up space on my Mac and know there are a ton of hidden files that are eating up space (Logic for example downloads a lot of instruments... somewhere). Is there any way I can create an interactive (or non interactive) tree map of my hard drive? Here is an example of a tree map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemap
How can I get a HEX code entry into the Color Chooser for Mavericks?
After I installed Mac OS X Mavericks on my MacBook Pro, an undesirable result was that all online math expressions generated by MathJax, such as those seen in Math StackExchange and MathOverflow, were displayed in a font that looks a lot like Times. I really hate this Times-looking font and would like the OS to return to displaying all MathJax-generated online math expressions in the standard Computer Modern font used by LaTeX. Could anyone kindly explain to me how to do this? Thank you so much!
I have 10.9.1. When I was on 10.9.0 my uptime was 26 days, than the .1 update came.
I came to the necessity of browsing and picking up a file from /usr while using some programming tools, but I cannot do so because /usr seems to be hidden from Open File dialog. Is there any workaround?
I have my terminal open most of the time. Today while I was searching for a software, search results took me to *=URL=* I didn't like the software, closed the page and carried on. When I brought may terminal back up (it was open the whole time on the background) I had a strange message on the prompt saying What is this and how the heck it has gained handle to may terminal and should I be worried? I visited another url from that domain and the same happened. I'm running firefox on OS X 10.6.8 I launched firefox via terminal.
I want to change all media apps to open with VLC. So I right click on one, get info, open with: But now this:
I am told, about a zip archive I created under Mavericks from the Finder File menu, with a directory containing both pdf and text files: "No file is labelled as text by zipinfo". People ask me to use a zipper able to do that. I went through the entire option list as described on the apple developer site and do not seem to find the correct invocation, if any. I have zipinfo installed from fink, and indeed when I run it in verbose mode on the archive it says for each file "apparent file type: binary". Is there anyway using the /usr/bin/zip shipped with Mac OS X to create archives with some text files identified as such, from the point of view of zipinfo?
My Mac Pro has its original built-in DVD burner, which has always seemed to work fine in the past. Sometime in the recent past (10.9.1?), it simply disappeared.
Are there any apps on OS X that can block certain websites ('time-wasting ones') for a certain interval? Preferably works for Safari.
Is there any Mac app to display the most recently added image to a folder? The use case is a wireless camera card that sends the images to a folder, and we would like to see the image on a monitor.
This question is basically about how do different resolution settings affect the performance of your MacBook. By default retinas are set at the "retina" display mode. You can also set them to the "more space mode", and with 3rd party tools you can go native (much higher)! But what I want to know is, how does "upping" the res affect the performance of the mac, in particular how does going beyond the retina option affect: The CPU The GPU IO? RAM (I imagine there is no effect here?) Battery life (I imagine this depends on how much the CPU/GPU is affected?) And if any of these are affected, is the relationship 1:1, or exponential, or what?
How do I get the key password to expire after a while, forcing me to enter my password again to authenticate? Making it so that perhaps after 1 hour, the key is automatically forgotten.
Here is the case: User Receives an email with and embedded image in the body of the email. User Receives an email with and embedded image in the body of the email. replies to the email and the embedded image gets removed from the body. replies to the email and the embedded image gets removed from the body. forwards the email.. its fine the image is retained in the body. forwards the email.. its fine the image is retained in the body.
I then tried playing with user:group settings in launchcontrol, trying to run it as one of my users, either either the setup in the usr/local folder or in the shared folder. Still nothing. tried a variety of other user:group settings. still nothing. Any advice on making this work?
"Spinlock acquisition timed out" seems to be related to graphics (no surprise), but what can i do now !? Do you have any idea !? Here is the KP report :
My question is very simple. I have some troubles with my MBP 13' mid-2010 (kernels panics, crashs and reboots). I think the problem is coming from the GPU (Nividia 320m). One solution could be to change the thermal paste on the GPU but before doing this I want to know the temperature of the GPU.
Known problem: Mail previews e.g. pdf attachments. I want to see it as symbol. I could right click and choose 'Show as symbol' but I want this as default. The old solution was typing into terminal:
I'm about to put my old MBP up for sale, so I re-installed from the recovery partition after wiping the drive. But when I rebooted from the recovery partition to double-check I'd deleted everything, it connected to my wifi network. I've got two questions: How do I remove my network credentials from the recovery partition? What other personal information is it storing without my knowledge, and how do I wipe it?
The login time period (the period of time between the password is entered and the dock is shown on the desktop) is extremely slow (~3 minutes). After the system is up it behaves normally. How can I trace what login item(s) may slow the login process down? Gil
I am looking to implement a fully automated solution that will pick video files from an incoming directory, process them and put the result to iTunes special "Automatically Add to iTunes" directory. Before starting to propose different products do read the requirements: Command line interface, so we can use it with a cron Do Pass Thru for video and audio streams if the source is already compatible with target format Download subtitles from an external service (optional) Embedding existing SRT files into the output video Fixing metadata from an external service (optional) Initially I would say that Handbrake should be able to do this, but I discovered that handbrake will never do Pass Thru for video (that's a statement that I got from the author).
I wanted to disable iTunes Match temporarily, so I selected Turn Off iTunes Match from the menu bar. Now when I try to select Turn On iTunes Match, iTunes shows me this screen:
Currently, in Terminal, when I execute a cd command, it also executes LWP's head command. A copy of the Terminal output follows:
Whenever I listen to music on my Iphone 4s and recieve a call the music stops to allow the phone to ring however when i answer it the music continues to play in the background making it difficult to hear the person on the other end. While im mid call its hard to turn off and usually have to hang up and ring the person back. Any idea how to fix this?
I am new with this prodcast application.can anyone please tell me where can I see my downloaded prodcast?Can't I see it in default music app of iPhone?
I constantly get the following warning dialog when doing a backup of my device to my computer through iTunes.  Clicking yes does not prevent this from happening in the future. Clicking no does nothing to tell me what apps I'll be "losing" if I were to restore.
Disabling ctrl+click as right-click is useful because: Many web app rely on ctrl+click (typically for multiple selection). There is little use for this combo (mice have 2+ buttons and trackpad emulate right-click with two-finger click or clicking in the right zone). Can it be done in OS X Mavericks?
I'm in a group chat with my friends and all of a sudden one of my friends text messages now go to my email (I use my iCloud email for iMessage). It's from an email address ***705@vzwpix.com and the other people in the group chat have their phone numbers as email addresses. How do I fix this? Is this a problem on my end or my friend's end?
On a particular internal site, whenever I open the Web Inspector in Safari 7, it immediately hangs and then the whole tab crashes. When I close the crashed tab, I then get this message in the Console: Unfortunately, I can't share a link or code for the site itself since it's internal, but here are some additional details: This happens on three different machines running Safari 7 on OS X Mavericks It persists even if I quit and relaunch Safari 7 It does not happen when I use the inspectors in any other browsers, including Safari 6 (on OS X Lion) It does not happen when I use Safari 7's Web Inspector on other sites
I suddenly came across this error when I attempted to do open . to open the current directory in Finder, a command that I use quite frequently:
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) I've upgraded it with a 180GB Intel SSD 520 series (model INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3), which replaced the SuperDrive CD-rom, and I setup a Fusion Drive with my main Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02. Both disks now look as one for a total of ~500GB.
My Mail.app has at least 100 rules with thousands of conditions and sometimes I get mail filtered that was not supposed to be filtered. All my filters work by moving unwanted stuff to the trash. Is there a way to discover what rule in particular put the email there? thanks
I'd like do add people to events in my calendar only to have easy access to their contacts when browsing events from my phone. Is there a way to add invitees to a calendar event without sending them invitations?
When I first turn on my IMac each day, it opens all of my Excel spreadsheets, including ones that were not used previously. (Using Microsoft Office Mac 2011) When it gets to one that is passworded, it will stop and ask for the password and also give me a cancel option. When I cancel, I get the message "Would you like to cancel opening all files at your XLStart location? (Macintosh HD:Users:starsinc:Documents:Excel Docs)?". This also happens the first time I open my excel program each day. I unchecked "Close windows when quitting an application" under General in System Preferences but that did not solve it. I have been unsuccessful in trying to locate where to change this at. Help!!
My hard drive is failing so I put a brand new 500gb hard drive in my MacBook 2008 white 13". I have a retail disc of Snow Leopard but the install keeps failing over and over again. It hangs at 29 minutes remaining, 28 minutes remaining and fails at 14 minutes remaining with loads of errors in the install log. My idea was to connect the old hard drive (which has Lion installed) using a USB docking station, boot from that and using the installer on the old hard drive desktop, install Lion straight onto my new internal hard drive. Would this work and if not how can I get either Lion or Snow Leopard installed on my new internal hard drive?
Background: My Mac is out of commission, I don't want to borrow my son's Windows 8 laptop, and I don't want to install iTunes (or anything else that touches the Registry) on my employer's Window 7. I have an MP3 file that I edited with "portable audacity" and I want to use "Music" with it. I know there are other programs that can play it, but I have my reasons...
I've just bought a Mac 4 and loaded in Logic 9.1.1, all semed well until I tied to open Logic in my applications folder and it said ' I can't use this version of the application Logic pro with this version of OSX. can anyone give me a clue? THANKS
This is the Parent Folder:  This is a folder I just added to the parent folder:
I have a Samba share set up on an Ubuntu server 10.10.10.199 I am using user permissions on the server. I have shared the directory /var/www as [webroot] I can connect just fine and see all the files in the finder
Unfortunately my corporate network doesn't support AirPlay. What alternatives are there to mirroring an iOS 7 device (iPhone 5) to a MacBook Pro running Mavericks? Note: I don't want to output to a TV because I need to be able to share the mirrored iPhone output via Webex.
I am trying to find a way to automatically (without user intervention) move a file from A to B, replacing B if it exists, ideally by putting the existing copy of B into the appropriate Trash folder. This will be done in a shell script. Eventually A and B will beed to be $VARIABLES like this: but I can’t even get this to work without variables, such as this: I took that syntax pretty much directly from Stackoverflow 14058061 but I get this result: I also came across a MacTech article which suggested using replacing true so I tried: but it still says: Please note that stackoverflow #12708195 I am not trying to prompt the user to do this, but ideally would like it to happen ‘automagically’ as the kids say.
I upgraded to Mac OS X Mavericks. I thought that Mavericks was supposed to use memory more efficiently. It appears that the OS has memory allocation problems. My computer is using up 99.99% of my memory even when it's just sitting idle, turning my iMac into a paperweight. My computer lags and freezes even when it's not doing anything. Is there anything that I can do, besides upgrading my physical memory?
If one goes into the Preferences of Terminal.app, there is an "Encodings" tab. From where does this list come? How can one add further encodings?
Is there really something wrong? or can I disable ntpd from logging these?
I have an iPad tethered to my iPhone's internet using Bluetooth. The iPad is also connected to a WiFi network which does not have internet access. The iPad won't connect to the internet until I turn WiFi off, so I presume it's prioritizing the WiFi. How can I reverse this priority?
I occasionally leave my Mac mini on but with its screens off, the way my power settings is set.. the Mac should go into sleep mode after 15 minutes of inactivity. I noticed tonight that this did not happen, and randomly an hour later the Macs fan started to spin up aggressively for a very brief period (5 seconds).
I have a Macbook Air (Mid-2011) at home and a Verizon Actiontec MI424WR Rev. I router. Recently, I noticed that the internet got slower for about 10 sec. and went back to normal. I then opened Wifi Explorer to monitor the signal strength, and sure enough, I see a drop in the strength. Also, sometimes when waking from sleep, the wifi icon indicates that it is searching for my network. I have to turn wifi off then on to let it reconnect. This problem has appeared on Mavericks and Mountain Lion after I downgraded.
I use a new Mac Mini in my stereo system. It has a monitor but does not have Keyboard or mouse. It is controlled with screen sharing from a Mac Book. My question is related to viewing DVD movies, the store bought kind. With screen sharing active a DVD is inserted into the drive and movie window appears and the sound starts but the playback window is grey. To get the picture to appear I have to turn off screen sharing. Only then can we watch the movie. How can I continue to use screen sharing and view DVD's.
What are the various effects, in terms of usability, privacy and security, of storing your Apple ID in 'Users & Groups’ in your Mac System Preferences, like so?  E.g., could one effect be not having to input your Apple ID password in the Mac App Store every time you download a new app? What's the total list of implications of doing this?
Is there a shortcut (or the ability to assign one) to pan in Preview app? It is quite troublesome to keep moving the mouse to and fro the scrollbars when we want to scroll.
I just got a new iPhone 5S a week ago. Works perfectly aside from the fact that the battery tends to act weirdly. As mentioned in the title, when I remove the charger the battery percentage drop by a single percent, sometimes instantly and sometimes after a few minutes.
I need to know if there's a proper way to close apps via ssh and if it's posible shut down the system without the sudo halt or sudo init 0 (because I think those ways are not good for the system when there are apps running)
I just bought an Apple NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT for my 1st gen Mac Pro. It now has a weird issue where it thinks there's another display connected, but there isn't. System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement:
My mid 2012 iMac 27" with Mavericks sometimes won't sleep. Its screen is light up in the morning and I'm still logged in. Energy settings: pmset shows:
I have a folder MyProject. It's an Xcode project folder (not sure if relevant).
(Note, this is a cross post of *=URL=* in case someone in this community can help a lot of the people with Mavericks Spotlight problems - I've read all the posts on the stack exchange forum too) Long story short; Any idea at all why spotlight keeps reindeing, crashes and never finishes? Background & Symptom:
I want to know how roughly the weight of a refurbished Macbook Air package, I need this as to know how much it will cost me for the international shipping. Here its URL from Apple Store
I'm wondering everytime iTunes has an update : Why XCode needs to be stopped to update iTunes ? Is it some kind of shared component ?
Since upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I can't connect to the rpcbind daemon anymore. launchctl tells me that rpcbind is loaded but not running:
While this seems like a straight forward task, the few methods I've tried so far don't create a USB device that my Dell computer will recognize as a valid bootable USB drive. Here's what I've tried so far (using a cheap 2gb thumb drive, along with the 64-bit Ubuntu Desktop 13.10 ISO from Ubuntu's website):
First the good news - I've successfully used WinClone/Sysprep to migrate a Windows 7 x32 bit VM from an old iMac (running 10.6.8) to a new late 2013 iMac w/ 32GB RAM / OSX 10.9.1. Now the bad news - Windows only shows 2.2GB RAM available (on the old iMac there was 2.98GB RAM available). This Windows machine is running a custom piece of software, and I'm running into trouble with the limited available memory. Is there a way to increase the RAM available for BootCamp and/or Windows 7? I may try to start over with a x64 Windows 7 installation, but I'm hesitant to do so because the custom program doesn't have any documentation, and I'm not sure how the compiler would react to the 64 bit environment.
I have a PNY 32gb flash drive, when trying to connect the drive directly to my Mid 2012 MBP (specs attached) the drive never mounts, doesn't list in diskutil as an unmounted drive either, however when I plug the drive into a Micro Innovations USB Hub (old ~ 2002) the drive mounts (albeit slowly). On my iMac (Mid 2010 I7) the drive works perfectly in the machine or through Apple USB Keyboard. Any help?
The problem is, my office has multiple computers, and there is only one account (admin) on every machine, all with the same password. So if I bring a personal firewire drive and attach it to my machine, everyone on the network can access it. What I need is a way to STOP file sharing for this external drive without adjusting permissions, because there is only one set of permissions for this computer, and everyone on the network has access to that account.
I need to debug/view an IOS app's encrypted traffic, so i had captured SSL encrypted TCP packets via pirni. and trying to decrypt them via Wireshark. but i need session key for that. is there any way to export private key in IOS to be used with wireshark as in PKCS format?
I am running a Tomcat server via Eclipse. I have a restricted file that contains information the web application running on Tomcat needs to perform its duties. I understand how to grant/deny access to regular users, but how to for this web app? Info: Macbook Pro 10.7.5 (Lion) Tomcat 7 Eclipse
Over at Android Enthusiasts, we are having a discussion of what's more battery-life efficient — having APNS over GSM or UMTS networks during sleep, as TS4264 appears to indicate (thus having the capability to completely turn off the WiFi interface), or using WiFi during sleep, in order to keep the persistent TCP connection to Apple/Google servers that's required for APNS/GCM. My understanding is that, due to GSM or UMTS already being required to be on at all times, for the incoming voice calls over the mobile network PSTN, there is little extra power required to also keep the data on, too, compared to keeping an extra WiFi chipset on instead of off. However, in the case of LTE, it would appear that LTE may so far be incapable of handling voice calls, with Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) still being in its infancy; as such, it is my assumption that when the LTE is on, in many cases, either GSM or UMTS has to be on, too.
I have many disks/volumes connected to my OS X system. I want to monitor, in real-time, read/write speed for each volume. OS 10.9 activity monitor shows only the cumulative numbers for all volumes, and it's not always accurate.
I have an application which generates new log files each time it is run. They all go to one folder, with filenames like this, and the next log isn't started until the current one is finished.
What is the definition of "recently added" in my iTunes playlists? Are these songs that I have purposely added or could they be those songs added by iTunes because of my Genius playlist. I need to know if these songs could have been added by someone other than me.
I am trying to access a file on my MacBook Pro via a web app running on Tomcat in Eclipse (localhost). Whenever I try to access the file I receive the following IO Exception: This file does exist and when I use Apple+I the file info window gives this location:
This is probably a pretty noobish question, but here goes... I've recently discovered Kyle Crawford's dockutil, but I can't make it work with Apple Remote Desktop. Or rather: I can't make it work with ARD's "Send UNIX Command" feature. It works fine on single machines (i.e. working in Terminal on a remote Mac controlled via ARD), but sending dockutil commands to multiple Macs (with dockutil installed on them) fails.
I realize this is kind of an AnandTech-fu level question. Technically speaking, why doesn't a Thunderbolt iMac work in Target Display Mode with a computer that only has MiniDisplay out? That is, what's preventing the 0s and 1s from happily going into the iMac's Thunderbolt port, especially when the iMac's happy to let MiniDisplay port adapters carry 0s and 1s on out to a monitor? That is, why can the iMac's Thunderbolt port do DisplayPort monitor out and not in?
Since I updated my MacBook Air to 10.9 I cannot reach my AppleTV3 anymore. I know my MBA (Late 2010) will not be supported for mirroring anymore because of the lack of sandy bridge, but before the update I was able to stream Music and Videos out of iTunes to my ATV3.
TL;DR In iTunes, you can press Command-L (Controls/Go to Current Song) to see what is playing. Is there a similar function to Go To Current Photo (in iPhoto) when I see a picture in the screen saver?
Certain apps (Skype, Office for Mac 2010 or something like that) fill the background of the screen when I open Mission Control. When Mission control is focused on the space the app is in, all is well. When I switch to a different space, however, this happens. It is consistent (i.e. the same apps always do this, every time), and annoying. I've tried to find workarounds, but I haven't came up with anything. Any help is much appreciated. (Note that I rearranged the window to hide my contacts, but it has the same effect with the window maximized or in full screen.)
For example, in the following picture. I am using TeXstudio to open a .tex file. After pressing Cmd-O, the files with extensions that are not in the extension drop-down menu ("TeX files (*.tex, *.bib, etc)") are gray items in the pop-up Finder window.
I've looked at every option in OSX Server for Mavericks but I don't see anything that allows me to default to my website rather than the "Welcome to Server" page. I have a DNS set up through Godaddy. I had no issues before I installed OSX server. I tried using an alias but that still requires that the URL I provide people has to include that alias. Not a good solution.
The instructions for Mountain Lion and other OSs do not seem to apply to Mavericks.
I have an iPhone 4 and just updated the software to i OS 7. Before I updated the software I had been able to close my running apps to keep from running down the battery. I can't figure out now how to close them. Is there a way or do theft close themselves or what?
I need to have different color schemes for each of the two terminal types I use. I can set it in the .bash_profile as mentioned here. But how can I tell it to differ depending whether its a iTerm2 or default terminal instance?
However, there are two buttons, the side buttons, that cannot be detected by SteerMouse. After testing, I find that these two buttons, when pressed, actually correspond to keyboard operations. That is why SteerMouse is not able to configure them two.
Two iPhone's in the house, a model 4 (on iOS 6) and a model 5 (on iOS 7), can not connect to the home WiFi network, but can connect at the Apple shop. All other devices on the home network, including desktops, laptops and Android's, are fine. The error message is displayed about 0.5 seconds after hitting "Join", and is simply "Unable to Join Network". Trawling forums the advice seems to be to a combination of resetting the network settings on the iPhone and turning the router and iPhone off and on again in various orders. However, this does not work.
When I try iostat disk5, I get the error: Iostat works with my other drives, and with the individual disks which make up the RAID volume. How can I get the speed of disk5, which is an AppleRAID volume?
I'm using the Profile Manager on OS X Server (Mavericks). I ran a script that imported our ~20 users into Open Directory from CSV. I've configured Radius with EAP-TLS, and have set up 802.1x so that our WiFi APs and router authenticate with the Radius server.
I am trying to control an iTerm2 session on an iPad mini through Remote Desktop using an Apple BT keyboard (Japanese). When I tried this out with Splashtop, the backspace key and all control keys don't work. Which Remote Desktop works well with the Apple BT keyboard on iPad mini?
Is there ANY way possible (NO MATTER WHAT THE EXTREMES), to retrieve my photos off of my husband's iPhone 3G/3GS? My husband of 13 yrs. was diagnosed with bone cancer and passed away 21 hours later. Every memory of the prior 4 months the kids and I had with him, the hospital 'til the devastating end is on that iPhone & it was dropped in the drive and run over, but still intact, just broken screen is only visible damage. Please help...!!!!
When I add photos to iPhoto 11, it copies them into its internal database. This is good, but it creates a bunch of numbered folders. Is there a way for me to tell iPhoto not to do that, and to just use one folder for all the photos? That way, when I want to access the photos directly, say to upload to Google+, I don't have to collect them from multiple folders. I could use iPhoto's Export function, but that apparently insists on re-encoding the photos :( This naturally decreases quality and increases file size (if you choose the Maximum quality setting).
Whenever I reinstall my Mac OS and/or buy a new Mac, I have to configure manually almost all the options of mouse, dock, etc. I'd like to know if Mac OS or some software can provide some way to save all the configurations I set up with the System Preferences app into a shell file, creating something like Mathias Bynens' https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
I'm walking my dog and tell Siri, "When I get home, remind me to take out the trash." It sets up a reminder keyed to my arrival at a location, my home address. So far so good, but the reminder actually goes off when I'm still about a block from home. By the time I actually get home, I've forgotten all about it. Is there any way to make Siri/Reminders more accurately assess whether I've arrived or not?
When I commit/push my code to GitHub through the XCode interface everything works fine. (Code is committed/pushed) but XCode doesn't seem to get that and wait for somethings. I have to cancel the commit (which was already done, so nothing happens) to get by to the code. Am I the only one to have this problem ? PS : XCode 5/Mavericks 10.9.1.
I am about to set up a company but I have a suspicion another developer has taken the name that we would intend to trade under for a developer account. We're setting up our business in the UK, and the official registration office (companies house) claims the name is available as far as 'the company' is concerned, but is there some way I can check if the Apple Developer account name will be available before actually forming the company? Will it be a problem or can we and this third party both trade under near-identical names? (for example fuzzy games and fuzzy-games).
We have about 20 iPads for our business. We would like to restrict these devices to only be able to access our protected WiFi here and the devices from connecting to others. Is there an app, setting, etc that will do this?
I have a pdf which, when I duplicate it in Preview and save it, is substantially bigger afterwards: Before: Afterwards:
My VM (Ubuntu Vagrant VM) is extremely slow. While my Windows co-workers have a maximum of 1 minute page load time, my page load takes up to 8 minutes.
My main target is to globally enable all ports to compile with macports-clang-3.4 and use libc++ instead of libstdc++. For example when working with one port I need to set configure.compiler=macports-clang-3.4 and configure.cxx_stdlib=c++11 to the command line. But how I can set this variables via macports configuration globally so that any invocation of port would automatically use my defaults? variants.conf accepts only variants and no keywords and macports.conf only includes global keywords.
Can't figure out how to keep tmux key bindings enabled when using bluetooth keyboard.
Is there a way to get to complete "Document and Data" to the Mac? P.S.: All datas where uploaded via my ipad, most of it is in IBooks, a lot of Pdfs and ebooks (not from the store). The thing is 1) My ~/Library/Mobile Documents is nearly empty 2) My Ibook-app on the Mac is completely empty.
So I wanted to play some pokemon games on my iPod touch, and I jailbreaked it with redsn0w 0.9.15b3. In the end I couldn't use neither safari nor anything apple related(plus my home key isn't working as it should and I couldn't "just root" it). Now, I want to know how to remove jailbreak. I don't care if any data is lost or anything. It's iPod 4G 8gb and I can't install iOs7 'cause of that.
I am looking for a way to search for a determinate file in OSX (Maverick but more generally OSX). In particular I would like to do the following: given a File_001 I'd like to search if in the filesystem exists a copy of this file. Not just with the same name, I would like the comparison method to be an hashing algorithm like MD5, SHA etc..
I recently installed some iOS apps as part of a deal/incentive (then promptly deleted them). It got me thinking, is the email I use for my Apple ID public or identifiable to the app developers? Can they pass my email on to marketers or worse?
Just bought a new MacBook Pro 15" Retina display laptop with Maverick. Was needing to record an app on my screen. Went to Quick Time 7 and Quick Time 7 Player opened up. Registration for Pro was already set. How do you enable Screen Recording in Quick Time 7?
If I open a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat, when I select File then Properties, I can see that the Page Size is 11 x 8.5 in. Is there a way to access this information in Apple Preview?
I recorded a screencast using an external microphone and quicktime. However, the audio is only on the left channel. Is there a way via an apple tool, command line, or otherwise to convert a left channel only quicktime movie into mono or copy to both channels?
Is it possible to enable mouse right click via Terminal?
No matter how I try to create an symbolic link OS X refuses to play along and instead creates an alias. I've tried several tools and also through the terminal using the ln command.
Because I find that Outlook's internal search is sometimes unreliable, I occasionally use the Mac's spotlight search to find a particular mail message. This allows me to locate the message, which I can open, but I cannot find a way to determine the folder in which the message is stored. (I think my question is different from "Outlook for Mac 2011: How to find the folder where a message is stored?" because the user there was using Outlook's internal search and getting a list of emails in an Outlook table of messages. My problem is that my external search only goes into Outlook once I have opened the single message I am looking for, and so there is no table listing all messages found according to the search criteria, with columns that allow a "folder" column to be displayed)
How can I have a script automatically ran when I start or stop an app without using 3rd party tools? I'm not developing the application myself, it's a general question that applies to any installed apps.
My internet provider limits the number of connected devices to two. I would like to know whether I can use a Time Capsule to share my signal with all other devices in my house?
Can someone elaborate the differences in OSX between running a bundled application by doing one of the following: double-clicking on it search for it and run it from spotlight open /Application/MyApp.app or just running its executable in Terminal: $ /Application/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp (the executable binary)
This is driving me crazy. I have gone into Preferences and set spellchecking -> NEVER But it will not stop! : :
I save MANY attachments from one URL about 50 times a day from clients. I'd like to automate the process for when I click on the download attachment button it will save into 1 specific folder when it's coming from that URL. Is this possible, what do you recommend? Thanks
For about a year now I have not been able to print handouts in Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 (14.3.9). The option is simply not in the print dialog box. I finally discovered that this is due to using a case-sensitive file system. What I see is the following:
I keep getting the message MobileMe Service Stopped Working each time I open Outlook 2007. I have to click on the Close Program button in the error message twice each time it shows up while Outlook is trying to load up. Then I am able to use Outlook. I never use my iCloud account and would like to know how I can deactivate iCloud so I do not have issues with my Outlook.
I have an iPad that I want supervised. I can get it supervised but if I restore from a non-supervised backup, it removes the supervision. Is it possible to restore a device from iCloud AND keep it supervised?
After I upgraded my iPhone to iOS7 my Exchange account disappeared from the phone and I haven't found a way to add it back. Can somebody please explain how to do this?
My MacBook has never slept when I close the lid. I´ve tried all the remedies listed here in the forum from resets to experimenting with pmset settings.
Why does the spell check screen in Mail pop up everytime I write an email and does not underline misspelled words? I cannot turn it off.
I have an Airport Extreme (4th generation) with firmware 7.5.2; it has been working fine for a long time, but stopped working properly after a brief power outage a couple of days ago. The router powers up normally and shows a solid green light, alas connected devices (a notebook, apple tv, and a couple of iphones) get "no internet". using the Airport Utility i have verified that the WAN link is up and the devices are accociated with the network; I have also called the ISP and verified that the IP lease is ok. I have tried resetting the router several times, as well as powering down different elements of the network and restarting them in different order. i should mention also that my service is over a fiber network, so if I plug the Ethernet cable directly into my notebook everything works fine - the ISP is not to blame. To me this seems to be a problem with the Airport router itself, a software / firmware problem of some sort - has anyone come accross anything similar?
iMAC Late 2009 - Gets stuck on Grey Screen with Apple Logo. Only way to boot it is in Safe Mode Ran Apple Hardware Test (Extended) - Came out Clean Did Hard Drive Verify - No Issues I have Reset PRAM Out of ideas?
I'm unable to get the accent menu to show up when I hold down a key. Do I have to enable the long-press accent menu in Mavericks somehow manually?
Is there any remedy to reduce these long waits and increase the performance? Like install any app or updates. Has anyone had a similar experience and rectified it?
I'm using Mavericks and Google Chrome Version 34.0.1797.2 dev. This is the error I receive:
Is there an equivalent to Page Monitor or an app for iOS? Using ipad 4
This seems like a simple feature that must exist, yet I can't find it in settings or by googling. I want this behavior: The screen should never lock while I'm on a voice call, no matter how long I'm talking. After the call is over, it should return to its normal behavior, locking after X minutes of inactivity or when I click the top button to turn the screen off. Can this be achieved?
I ran into a problem where the Mac App Store said that a particular app (Numbers in this case) was up to date, but whenever I launched it I would get an older version. I finally did a search across the entire computer and found Numbers.app in a folder on an external drive. I have no idea how or why it was installed there instead of on the local hard drive. So I moved it from there to the Applications folder on the main internal drive and re-created the dock shortcut and now the correct version launches.
I have recently purchased and installed a new battery for my Mid 2009 13 inch Macbook Pro but have not been able to turn on the laptop without the power supply since the new battery has been installed. The system report shows that the battery is installed but that it is not charging even though the battery is not at full capacity (83%).
I have a particular application that has extremely small detail for some of its controls, and no way to zoom anything larger. I find that the accessibility feature "temporary zoom" works great for allowing me to just momentarily pop a magnifying glass up to see the detail, then let go of the keys to go back to normal.
I just upgraded my iPad 2 WiFi to iOS 7.0.4 and noticed this bug that's really strange: No matter what I do, I can't bring up the control center when the iPad is in portrait mode. When in landscape, it will come up with a swipe just fine! More bizarre, when I hold it upside down (the front camera on the button), the control center also shows! Anybody has any idea what's going on and is there anyway to solve this?
I've noticed that my Mac no longer opens applications I've specified on my second screen. When trying to set the option again via right clicking on the icon and going to Options, the "Assign to Desktop x" is no longer displayed.
How do I restore the contacts that my kids deleted from their ipods but is connected with my Mac so I lost them too.
I just did a brew update which updated a ruby version (brew ruby --version), but when I rbenv versions it isn't listed there because I didn't do ruby install <ruby version>. Is there a way to automatically add the brew ruby version to rbenv so that it doesn't have to re-download and compile?
Use of an external hard drive seems to be a real possibility both from Apple and third-party makers also (the Voyager Air external hard drive-www.corsair.com/external hard drives by Seagate/I believe Apple's product is Time Capsule). But not only do I want storage, I want to work with apps and programs on the external hard drive, due to the limited space of the Apple iPad Air.
With process of elimination and testing the problems on 2 different Macs, 4 different networks, and many different browsers, I have isolated the cause of my network issue to be the actual Mac. Certain sites, even though they are up, are completely unreachable by one of my Mac. Visiting on Chrome says: Safari says: ping says:
I'm looking for an app that lets me capture a rectangle, puts it up to an image bin, and puts a link to the image into my clipboard. Dropbox does this, with one problem: it doesn't link to the image. It links to a page containing the image, but it isn't trivial to extract the image from the link.
In Mavericks, is it possible to use Applescript to create a new Space in Mission Control? I also tried the following code to switch to another Space, but it does not seem to do anything...
My only plugins as far as I know are Mail Act-On and MailTags. Does this functionality comes from them? I could not find anything on their website. Any other idea?
My daughter was using my Apple ID with her Ipad mini. I want her to use her own Apple ID now that she is old enough. How can we transfer the content of her ipad mini, ( music, photos, apps) particularly game apps WITH THEIR DATA onto her new account? She doesn't want to start from scratch with all her games.
Chinese names are quite elaborate and quite different from the "standard American name" that the Mac Address Book is based on. Notably I'm looking for a good way to Store a person's Chinese name – an alias written in Chinese characters. Store a person's western alias in addition to their transliterated Chinese name. Minimize duplicate contact issues (via sync and social network imports) that can't easily be de-duplicated through the Look for Duplicates... command.
Recently my Macbook Pro has been waking up from sleep at undesirable times (middle of the night) without any user interaction (nobody has touched it). Is there a log on the machine that records the reason a machine woke from sleep? Apparently the machine wakes up because: What is [CDNVA] due to EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:99%)?
I've just been attempting to shift some stuff across to an external hardrive to make space on the laptop HD and all was going well until I tried copying a large amount of photos into a folder on the desktop and then it all went bonkers. One of the symptoms of this curious affliction is that if one is to attempt to create a new folder on the desktop, it works but is invisible. Another involves clicking the mouse on one icon, only to have opened the app/doc/program relevant to an icon either to the sides or above the clicked icon.
After having updated my macbook pro (mid 2010) and having it run without problems for some month, it now started to randomly reboot when I'm working on something. Resetting the VRAM didn't help. Any ideas? Latest panic log:
How can I see all (active) clients on my Airport Extreme. I can’t find such option in the current Airport Utility.
First of all sorry if this was asked and answered already. I am currently on a trip in Spain (but originally from USA), and would like to watch some PBS videos, but it tells me We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions. OK, I get it, so let me tell PBS I am in their region by changing my Proxy! I tried the: FoxyProxy add on in Firefox with no success. My question is: There is a setting in the System Preferances-Network-Advaced-Proxy!
I found at least the manual from my Macbook air. I have installed XCode full package.
I see hundreds of these messages in the LDAP log. are they significant at all?
Are there any virtual machine emulators for the Ios? When I mean virtual machine emulator for the Ios, I mean virtual machine software that can be used on an Ios to emulate something like a mac or linux. (like a port of qemu) Can anybody help me?
When logging into remote server with Terminal, I need to use different profile. Is there any way to make the Terminal displayed with different profile? Better still, is there a way to recognize the login access to display with different profile automatically?
I have this early 2008 MacBook 13" which only is upgradeable to 10.7.5. I checked on the app store and it says Xcode requires OSX version 10.8.4 Mountain Lion and later. Although this page from Apple Dev Center says the requirement is Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and later. Is this MacBook sufficient for iOS development,and if so, what iOS version does it support?
I've got a Mavericks Server mostly working, but I still get some funkiness. Main problem is that I've been having a great deal of trouble getting network user accounts with home directories on the server to function. So, I've gone to *=URL=* and have been going through testing from the beginning.
I need to brush up on ksh after an 8 year hiatus. How can I run korn shell in my OS 10.9.1 terminal then switch back to bash when done with tutorials.
The SuperDrive of my late 2005 iBook G4 died, so I installed a new one. But now the new drive does not mount the Leopard Install Disk. But it mounts any other DVDs/CDs (music, movies). The disk mounts on my MacBook Pro. Can anyone answer me why it is happening ?
I'm using a Vodafone Mobile Broadband dongle with software I've now updated to work with Mavericks but I now don't know what the correct APN / USERNAME / PASSWORD / IPv4 address and Domain Name System information to use. Googling this stuff just comes back with a mess of forums that don't lead to satisfactory answers. Is anyone a whizz with something like this?
I already had trouble with DNS not resolving for all apps except Chrome, in my troubleshooting I for some reason deleted com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist Deleting this file did not help in any way.. Could someone post the text to 10.9 com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist? I understand I will have to change permissions etc on the file.
Terminal shows below on this stage on gerris installation page: *=URL=* But the ~/.profile does not contain source ~/.bashrc. How could I manage it?
I am a blind voiceover user of mac. The new Mail.app makes it difficult to copy the sender's email. I would like to have a script which copies the sender email only, of one or more selected messages. Is it possibile ?
Basically I have my iPhone w/ iOS 7.0.4 jailbroken using the latest evasion software. I recently ran out of battery, and when I had managed to recharge and get my handset back on, all of my apps (apart from the stock apps that come with the phone) are all gone. No other data is missing, e.g , music, pictures and videos.
I have my iPhone 4S, and the logo on the back is like a mirror. (I like it because if I get an eyelash stuck in my eye, I can use it to look into my eye up close and get it out.) Is the logo on the back of the (silver) iPhone 5S a mirror as well?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" with retina display that I use for work/personal stuff and I always shut down with Wifi having been on. When I startup my Mac the Wifi icon looks like it's searching and never actually connects (most of the time). To get it to connect I have to turn of Wifi (on my MacBook, not the router) and turn it back on, then it connects pretty much right away. What's the issue here? It's very annoying.
I have changed my mind about this app but when I try to remove it by dragging it to the trash and then try to empty the trash I get a message that the trash can not be emptied because the program is running. How do I stop it running so I can trash it?
I have no idea what is triggering these disconnects. They don't happen at the same intervals (sometimes it happens after an hour, sometimes four), but they always happen. Since upgrading to Mavericks I've had to do this whole put-the-computer-to-sleep thing several times a day. This did not happen under Mountain Lion. I've tried the following things, without success: Reset SMC Reset PRAM
I like to watch educational videos (like Udacity) which are hosted on Youtube. However, when I watch these on my iPad 2 over Wifi, they always play back at the lowest quality! The quality is so bad that I can't even read the code on the screen! These same videos on the same Wifi connection play in HD on a PC.
I was wondering is there anyway (app or tweak, jailbreak or normal) to show the currently running stopwatch on the lock screen of iOS device? just like an album art and music controls running background.
The Special Characters palette includes many mathematical symbols, but I cannot seem to find blackboard bold versions of N, R, and Z, which are commonly used to denote the set of (respectively) the natural numbers, real numbers, and integers. Right now, when I use the Special Characters palette and configure the Unicode section, and then look for the mathematical symbols, I find blackboard versions of A, B, and others, but inexplicably, certain characters including the N, R, and Z are missing. Here is a screenshot to show what I mean:
I'm running Windows 8.1 in Boot Camp under Mountain Lion on a MacBook Air. I've tried every combination of Command, Option, Control and Shift and I can't figure out how to produce the equivalent of the Windows Key. I'm also using Parallels to run the Boot Camp image of Win 8.1 in a window alongside other Mac apps, so I'm not sure if the Windows Key maps differently to the Mac keyboard under Parallels versus Boot Camp alone.
I'd like to visualize some data from a MySQL database using a Mac, but it hasn't been easy finding a solution to this. I understand Excel has DB connectivity, but currently I only have Apple Numbers. Is it possible to connect my data source to Numbers so I can start making some charts? Thanks for the suggestions and information; I'm exploring using OOO Base and Calc instead
I downloaded an app from github (mac2imgur), and it refused to run. It seems unlikely the developer uploaded something with a bad signature. Is this a red flag that the app may have been compromised and reuploaded?
I'm having difficulty finding a promising OS X app for connecting to and visualizing data which resides in a MySQL database; it seems like there are various options for Windows, but not so much for Apple? I'm hoping however that there are some gems that I just haven't discovered yet I would like to be able to publish these charts to the web; I have heard of people using Excel for this, but I don't own Excel for Mac and I'm not sure if the same abilities are present in the Mac version of it
Scaling down the resolution makes everything small, or I have to do awkward/annoying panning. I typically only view the 1920x1080 display over Remote Desktop, but even then it's sub-optimal.
I'm looking for something that is a mix of tcpdump, lsof, and netstat. I want to be able to filter like tcpdump, but have an additional column showing the process ID. At the end I'd like to be able to stats like wireshark, but by application. Why, you ask?
I'm on a satellite like. The minimum latency for a round trip packet is 700 ms. I've seen it take as much as 10,000 ms. If I have a single browser window open and type 1 character into a search field, I get a rash of packets running back and forth between my machine and the search engine. In the Bad Old Days of using teletype terminals (now you know how old I am...) you could put the terminal into 'line mode' where it wouldn't send the line until you hit carriage return/line feed. I'm looking for a browser/extension combination that will: Where possible block together multiple keystrokes and send them in a single packet. Where possible block together multiple keystrokes and send them in a single packet.
I have installed Xcode and the command line tools from the Mac Developers website, which I have read a few times is a prerequisite. I also installed the MacPorts program. In terminal: All the above went smoothly until I type: hash gcc When I press enter, I get the following error message: -bash: hash: gcc: not found I am at a loss and do not know how to proceed to successfully install gcc on my Mac (which is running Mac OS X 10.9.1). Much obliged to any suggestions and or alternatives to installing the gcc
In Super user, with an accepted answer: Disable compressed memory in Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks? Also in Super User: how to get memory compress back in Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks? – and from the first answer there we understand that the value of boot argument vm_compressor does not correspond with the value of sysctl variable vm.compressor_mode. In Apple open source for OS X 10.9, Mavericks; in xnu-2422.1.72: vm_compressor.c vm_fault.c vm_pageout.h In vm_compressor.c: On a MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory I find: Near the foot of vm_pageout.h: Is it possible to have an enabled mode other than 4 for compressed memory? If so, can we find a plain english explanation of the modes?
I cant have the two applications visible at the same time, one on each screen. The full double screens switches every time I switch application, it is very inconvenient, any idea on how to avoid that? thanks
It seems I can't boot a system installed on one MacBook in another MacBook. My laptop needs a few days of servicing, so I thought it would be easiest to clone an image of my OS X install on USB drive, then boot from this USB drive on another laptop. Unfortunately all I get is a grey "no-no" circle. What I actually did was: Using Disk Utility I cloned MacBook's (let's call it "A") boot partition onto USB partition. I can successfully boot MacBook A using this cloned partition.
The goal is to set machine's network name with the ipaddress of this machine. I have created a plist file and put it into /Library/Launchagents/. For debugging reason I used the command "launctl start". Here is my plist file: Then I use: and get the error:
I am trying to automate the process of video conversion using handbrake and automator. Here is the script that i am using in Run Shell Script action of Automator Folder Action:
I have both iMac and MBP, so I thought it might be a good idea to connect MBP to office network through iMac with thunderbolt bridge. The setup is quite simple: where iMac has a bridge0 interface with en0 (1GbE) and en3 (Thunderbolt) interfaces attached. iperf shows following performance:
I had an bluetooth audio device (Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile speaker) remembered on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.5. Now I don't have it anymore and I want to link it with another audio device and it seems to be unable to forget the Bose one and link with my current device, how could I erase the Bose device?
I have old macbooks with Lion. Because these are testing machines for different tasks, many reinstallations happens. Downloading the Xcode from the AppStore every time (2.5GB) is slow. Further complicating matters is the "download size" of Xcode 4.3.6 (the latest Xcode for Lion) is 2.5GB, but the application size in /Applications is 3.5GB - so happens some unpacking or so.. and want ensure than the simple copy of the Xcode.app is safe as I don't want a heavy solution that requires: time machine SuperDuper or command line dd nor any other disk-copy utility any other backup strategy - incremnetal or not... Simpy want to know: is enough copy the Xcode.app from the /Applications folder to another machine? when I just installed the Xcode from the AppStore, is enough copy the Xcode.app to another notebook (same HW, same OS version). if not - why - what is the difference in the RESULT (exactly) between copy and installing Xcode from the AppStore. How can I safely reuse one download for multip
I'd like to give my Spaces helpful names like "Graphics" and "Communications" instead of using confusing, generic names like Desktop 1 and Desktop 2. Is there a way to accomplish that through a setting, a Terminal/hidden command, or a third party application? I'm using Mavericks.
I use Dropbox's automatic upload on the iPhone. Whenever I take a photo, it gets uploaded.
I am using MacOSX Snow Leopard.How can I play music from my computer through my iPhone 5?
Is it bad to use new MacBook Pro with battery every day? Or would it be better for the battery lifetime to use battery only one day a week? The problem is that I don't think I can change battery if it gets bad...it's built into the MacBook I think.
I am trying to search a folder for an ID number. The folder contains various different file types. The ID can be found in several .json files, but non of them show up. If I rename the .json file to .json2 or .jsont then the files show up in the search: If I try and use terminal and mdfind it is the same, .json files wouldn't show up when searching for the ID.
I have connected an external screen to my MBP. If I close the MBP the main desktop is switched to the external screen like I want. If the notebook goes in sleep mode and I wake it up with my wireless Apple keyboard than I cannot see a window. The problem is that the login screen after the wake up is on the MBP and not on the external screen. Launching mission control or similar doesn't work when you are logged of. What can I do that my main desktop stays on the external screen?
For the past few months we've pushed our users to not upgrade to Mavericks which has for the most part been effective with only 3 or 4 (out of almost 200) installing it without checking with us first. Over the past few weeks though I've seen that number rise dramatically though as people install it thinking it's just a software update. We've trained our users to install Apple software updates whenever they are prompted, thanks in part to us blocking and releasing updates through our internal software update server, so we may be partially to blame for this.
I need to install ROOT on my mac. Since I prefer Python for Scientific Computing I though that it would install PyROOT by default. That didn't happen. After I looked on PyROOT site i found that installation is done by that line: What would be alternative for that line above for enabling python on my macports installation?
I recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a 2011 late Macbook pro. With the same version chrome and pepper flash plugin and flashblock extension to block irrevalent flash. When I watch some flash video online, I found that CPU usage is much higher under OS X Mavericks than on Ubuntu. And the MBP gets hot and fan runs very quickly under OS X, while in Ubuntu it is very cool as normal when watching same flash video online. I find it unintuitive because OS X should have better drivers than linux on MBP, making it more power-efficient and usually cooler. What could be the reason?
My landlord provides my connection to the internet and they are changing their network which requires me to register my iPhone and MBA. The instructions require me to use my MAC address at some point in the process. I run a VM using Parallels and all my mail goes to MS Outlook.
I have an iMac with a Thunderbolt display attached. I know I can force both displays to sleep by pressing ctrl-shift-eject. How can I force only one display, the Thunderbolt one, to sleep? I do not use both displays all the time and sometimes I just don't want to waste the electricity.
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 (I have tried Windows 7). I put my USB stick and I used the Boot Camp assistant. Everything was copied with latest drivers, created Boot Camp partition. After that Mac restarted and booted into the windows installation. I run install process and it says something like: "Any media were not found." So in this stage my install journey ends. Because I don't know how to create an installation USB stick or how to see my ssd in installation. If I going back to OS X and check Disk Utility, the Boot Camp partition is there. So I don't understand why the installation can't find any partitions even drives.
Mavericks, if that matters. On the iPhone, there is a separate subject line before the main message, and on the Mac it shows (as on the phone) in bold at the top of the balloon. But when I want to make a new message on the Mac, I only have the body available.
In the website *=URL=* In this line: type from the source directory What is the source directory referring to here ?
I have an old Macbook Pro with 500GB hard disk. The MBP stopped working. I am now using that hard disk as external storage. After erasing the data (using Disk Utility), I see that almost 450MB is used by 57 files and was not expecting any allocation yet.
I'm writing a script that will update an Xcode project's Info.plist. This script will be distributed to clients. In order to do this, I'd like to know what tools are more appropriate if I need to assume information about someone's system. What I can assume: They are on a Mac that can build iOS apps for iOS 6+
In windows I can hold control and use my arrow keys. When I find a file I want to be included in the group selection I hit the space bar(I think this is how it works) and it will add to the selected list of items.
I have a mac mini, which is connected to a TV using HDMI cable. TV & mini are connected to separate power source, so that I can shutdown TV and mini independently as required. Primary use of mini is a media center and i watch lot of online videos over it.
I want to clean the inside of my iMac. The mac : iMac Mid-2007
Has anyone else experienced this or know of a possible solution? I am considering using a third party tool like iExplorer to export all of my conversations and starting fresh, but I really view it as a last resort since some of these conversations have been with me since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007.
I have a seemingly-valid command that works fine on Linux boxes but fails on OSX, and I would like to know why. On Linux, this will echo 'validusername' on the console. OSX however, shows an error:
Apple iPhone 4 does not recognize my DC car charger AC charger works fine. I bought a new DC charger and it still does not recognize that charger. I took it back and exchange it for another one and it does not recognize it as ever being plugged in. I did not buy a cheap charger—that was a $30 charger.
Is it safe to delete the file Caches, in the Library of the Mac OS X Hard Drive? It's a pretty big file, 3.56 GB, Caches reminds me of logs i don't need or browser cookies. Is it safe to delete the folder "Caches"?
I don't know if I may have accidentally changed some settings, but now the icon on my Messages doesn't display the number of unread messages. However, my Mail app does, so I am not sure why this is. I tried going through settings to see what I could find, but to no avail. How do I fix this?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to view the next page in Microsoft Word for Mac? In Adobe Reader, when I press the Right Arrow key, the view jumps to the next page. I am looking for something similar in Microsoft Word for Mac.
I just realized that some of the notes in my iPhone (i.e. in the standard "Notes" app) are emailed to me soon after I write them. There is no "to" address in the email so I can't tell what address they're being sent to (I use different email addresses for everything).
I'm a student in charge of my university's magazine, and I'm interested in finding a user and budget friendly solution to distributing a tablet version on Apple's Newsstand. I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I can follow a tutorial - is there a simple framework that I'd be able to train people how to use? I've noticed some apps are basically glorified PDF viewers with no frills. That would be good enough for us - we're not looking to do anything special, we're just looking to do something. I have an iOS developer account, and we might be able to invest in some software - but paying an outside company a subscription to do it for us would be a little harder to justify, especially if it's too expensive, because all of our budget decisions go through a bureaucratic meat grinder.
Why does this work as (not) expected? I get asked if I want to delete the file an then!?!? The file gets really deleted! How on earth? Everybody that sits in front of my pc could easily mess up my system. I know it will rarely happen but, this is a nightmare.
I have my iPhone5 set on "Vibrate on Ring" and the volume is not on mute, but when someone calls, it only vibrates. I've included it in Notifications Center, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Do Not Disturb has also been turned off. How do I fix this?
I run Maverick 10.9 Mac mini server. After enroll some new devices into Profile Manager I need to change their name. I can't find any field that could change the device name. Thanks
I have an issue where a book of mine doesn't seem to want to download at all. I purchased the book from the iBooks store. At a couple points in the past the specific book in question was deleted off my iPad for some reason. However I was able to both times go to my purchases and re-download it on the iPad and iPhone and my reading position was even preserved.
I'm using Apple Configurator to supervise a number of devices (iPhone 5S) and one thing that bugs is that our logo on the lock screen is blurry. I've tried PNGs at both the exact screen and the following I've found from various sources, but no matter what I try the image gets scaled. What resolution should my iPhone 5S lock screen image be so that it displays "pixel perfect" after being applied with Apple Configurator? I can't believe that a company as well known for its design would leave a gap like this. Thanks iPhone 5/5C/5S: 1,040x1,536 -- CNET Wallpaper: 1392 x 744 -- Deko
About a month ago, my MacBook Pro from 2008 running OSX Lion 10.7.5 booted up incredibly slowly. I reset the PRAM and removed and put back the battery and that issue resolved itself but after that incident, my Finder has not successfully opened a new window when I click it from the dock or when I click on a folder on the desktop. What happens is that the cursor does the rainbow-spinning wheel thing for about two minutes and then stops without opening a new window. The same goes for if I click anywhere in my desktop when Finder is the active application. The only ways I have been able to access my files have been through a spotlight search and through another account on the same computer where Finder does work. I have thoroughly searched mac support forums for the last month and have found people with similar issues who have resolved them through these things I have tried but have not helped: *deleting the finder .plist file in Terminal *doing a "killall" for Finder in Terminal and Acti
I have been making a simple script for my sister, but it does not work. It calls for an integer? I did not specify it in my program, but it calls it anyway? And the result from running it:
Terminal.app on my mac used to show Last login: <date time> on ttys000 as the first line. However, when I opened it this week, I noticed that it didn't show the message. Is this normal, or did I do something wrong?
It happens sometimes that the yellow circle in the top left of the windows, for minimizing, becomes gray for some windows. In particular it is gray for Finder, Safari, Calendar, iTerm2, Xchat Azure, Chrome, VirtualBox, and is still yellow for other windows, for example Mail, KeePassX, NoteBook, FreeMind, DjView, Lyx.
I picked up an external hard drive a while back and have been using it for Time Machine back-ups. Recently I thought to confirm that the disk is encrypted so that it won't be useful if someone nicks it while I'm gone, but it wasn't, and the check box to make it so is disabled.
This is a relatively common issue it seems based on google searches. I know about the privacy settings, I've done the restores, I've done all of that and still no luck. I am jailbroken on 7.0.4 iOS and I know quite a bit about the software and hardware.
I ran in the terminal: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Recently I have noticed my MacBook Pro is completely discharging when I leave it to sleep. After investigation I've discovered traces similar to the following in the Console output:
Haven't been able to solve this problem with the threads such as here. My Gmail stops always working after a while, perhaps after accessing it in different WIFI network or something like this -- it is really driving crazy thing. The Gmail account uses 2-step-verification and app-specific password. I cannot understand this SMTP thing. How to configure Gmail with App-specific password and 2-step-verification to OSX Mail? Helper question how to add the app-specific password to keychain? how to add the app-specific password to keychain? app-specific password used in the Internect Access list? app-specific password used in the Internect Access list? Description and issues
On my iPhone 5 with ios 7 I can choose to automatically download "all" episodes or "most recent". At first glance it sounds obvious what the difference is, but since I've had the "all" setting checked for a while on a podcast that has not started auto downloading (I have enough free space) I have to ask. The app has had plenty of wifi access. The podcast has some added but not downloaded episodes.
I'm trying to process a large dataset in java, and so I set my -Xmx11G. 1 thing I observed is, when I use xmx and the Jvm starts, the amount of inactive memory jumps up by about that much. Later, I see my swap file jumps up, but my inactive memory still has about 7gb left. Why is the os not utilizing the inactive memory but insteads swap out to disk???
I want to remove ffmpeg. Typed to terminal How do I remove and install it again? I finally got this
I would like to purchase an iPhone 5s for data use in the US and as an international phone when overseas. Is it possible to use an iPad SIM card in the iPhone 5s to use for data only?
First: I'm obviously not talking about logging in and then automatically launching Terminal.app. In older versions of Mac OS X, you used to be able to type >console in the username field on the login screen and go directly into a command line terminal session.
Is there an Automator action that can upload a file/folder? Specifically, I want to upload a folder automatically at a set date/time. I know I can create a "Calendar Alarm" action that'll trigger based on a calendar event – but I don't actually see an action that can upload to a server.
I am trying to export a single contact from Outlook on Windows to iCloud.com. I successfully exported the vCard but when I import it I get:
I need to connect a female end of a lightning to the male end of a mini USB. I have found one online, but its out of stock. How would I go about splicing these together? Would it work? Just match the wires together?
Is there any kind of workaround to get Dropbox on iPhone iOS to work as well as it does on Android? Installing Dropbox on the iPhone requires manually triggering the upload process instead of it running itself in the background. Dropbox only runs for about 10 minutes every time you open the app or change location. If you rarely change location then it might as well be manual upload only. In my situation I rarely change location for days and even a week or two at a time. I might take as many as thirty photos, but they will only start uploading when I open the app, and they will only continue uploading for 10 minutes.
Anyone know where Mac Lync 2011 stores its conversation history? Since it isn't tied to Outlook, it isn't stored on the Exchange server is it? If not, I need to back it up...
I own an early 2011 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Mavericks. Recently, I tried to make 50 GB partition using Disk Utility but the whole process didn't complete, and I had to restart the system as it hanged (Even Force Quit wasn't working). Upon reboot, I saw that I was missing 50GB space. When I tried to verify the disk, it showed me the following error: "Partition map check failed because no slices were found."
I've been trying to change my IDE from NetBeans to Sublime Text. The most important thing that keeps me using NetBeans is the "Copy files from Sources Folder to another location" feature. I can't find a plug-in for Sublime Text that can perform this task.
Is it possible to have two different audio sources go to two different audio outputs? For example, can I have Spotify output through my mini Jambox while having YouTube videos play through my headphones plugged into my audio jack?
I have a unique issue; while trying to connect to a Mac Mini Server on WiFi with my macbook the server shows up, but when I go to connect to the server Finder jumps the selection up to the top of the top left. No matter how many times I click, I can't get into the server. There are 7 iMacs that connect without issue. Does anyone know why this error might be occurring? Thanks!
Searches on Google and the Apple forums didn't get me any answers or couldn't clarify this for me, hence this question. I have two following external USB hard drives connected to my iMac: "Lacie1" with a capacity of 499.64GB, formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32) "Lacie2" with a capacity of 499.76GB, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) I copied all of the contents from Lacie1 to Lacie2 and to see if everything was copied well, I opened the show info dialog of both drives and noticed that there is an enormous difference in used disk space between the two: Lacie1: 221.357.604.864 bytes (221,36GB) Lacie2: 187.714.969.600 bytes (187,71GB) To be sure I checked how many files are on each drive and they both contain 17297 parts. Is this because of the formatting of the drives that there is such a difference in disk usage or is there indeed a 'problem'?
I am running Mavericks on a Mac Mini. I was attempting to move my iPhoto library to a different Mac by copying it onto an external USB drive. The iPhoto Library is 98GB.
I have a first generation AppleTV and I am wondering if I take it on vacation and connect to an HDTV with an HDMI cable, will it enable me to pickup programming off the WiFi in my vacation are for viewing?
I've plugged in a iPod into my iMac. I've plugged it to the back of the mac where the USB Ports are. It does charge the iPod but whenever i want to add music or delete music i can't since iTunes / My Mac won't recognize my device. Can anyone help me out here? For anyone out there here's what a iPod Shuffle looks like :
I have to use a startup command (ie command - S for single user mode) when restarting my computer, but this is proving to be impossible, as the startup disc is windows by default on my computer - unless I hold option at start, I cannot choose to go into OSX, and when I hold the startup command I want without holding option, my computer just goes into windows - it doesn't work when I hold a startup command after I choose to run OSX, either. Additionally, I cannot get into my system preferences to change the startup disc, as I cannot login (which is part of the reason why I need to use a startup command in the first place). I cannot change the startup disc on windows, either. Does anyone have a fix for this? OS is Lion, w/ a 2006 Mac Pro
How do I move a file from one folder to a different folder in Dropbox? I cannot find any links or tabs to do this from the iOS / iPad app.
I'm on my school laptop (MacBook Air) and it used to connect to my home Internet connection but suddenly it just..stopped. It says that I am connected. And I have full bars, my iPad and everyone else's computer is connected and are working, but my laptop won't.
I am just wondering how can I set the settings of iPhone Mail App or even GMail apps that could make notification for new incoming message on particular Gmail label and not the inbox only. I would appreciate if anyone could share how to accomplish this. Thanks!
I'm writing an AppleScript that will allow me to copy the Time Machine folder from an external drive and paste it onto the user's desktop of their Mac. The reason I'm doing this is because when a time machine backup isn't working as it should, we have to manually move it. Well, I'd like to make this process easier for people and just create a script to do it. tl;dr problem: How do I make a variable location? Ex: /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb///Users
If I have a SOCKS proxy running on a specific port, is there a way to configure all network traffic to leave through it? If I configure the SOCKS proxy in the Network system preference, it seems to work properly for all browsers without additional configuration. (As reported by a quick Google for 'what is my IP' in both Chrome and Safari.)
In that case, I must do periodic backups, and hope nothing goes wrong in the meanwhile. Is it safe to backup the iPhoto library to a FAT32 filesystem? I found *=URL=* but it says only that I shouldn't run iPhoto with the library stored on a FAT32 disk, not that I shouldn't back it up to a FAT32 disk. I also found *=URL=* , which encourages us to back up to an external disk, but doesn't say if FAT32 is okay.
I'm running Parallels 9 for Mac (OS X 10.9) and I have CentOS Linux (6.4) installed. I want to map a shared folder from my Mac to a drive letter in CentOS. How do I do this?
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro, both running the latest version of mavericks.. I want to sync files and folders outside Dropbox across the two computers. Up until now, I've been using symbolic links which I created via terminal. I've found that the symbolic links stop working after a while and I was wondering if there was a better way of syncing data between computers.
I'm running the latest version of mavericks and was just wondering if there is a way to set a grid sizes globally so that spaces between folder and files is the same throughout finder? At the moment if I navigate through folders, the grid sizes are different in each folder .
I'am have a Mac Mini with 2.5GHz Intel Core i5. I'am a iOS developer, while doing development my mac mini becomes very slow and hand. How can I speed up my mac mini. Thanks in advance
In a unix based system a number of commands are available by default (either in /bin or /usr/bin). Suppose in some time I installed more tools like git, svn …
What is the reason that /proc does not exist in OS X? I was curious to find file descriptors that a process was using in my Mac. The way I do it in linux is to go in /proc/fd folder of that process. How do I find what fds are used by a process?
I'm trying to set up a phonegap project and while trying to add a platform it outputs the following error: I've tried what I've read here: How do I set environment variables on OS X? and wrote the following in the .profile file: while it did add the android command to my path and I was able to run it and get a response, I started noticing that a simple "ls" command suddenly didn't work - until I removed what I have done.
During the course of developing email campaigns I use my own iPhone as one of many testing devices. The problem is, if I modify an image, I must modify the name of the file and the link to it in the code as well because my iOS device will incessantly reload the cached image from the previous test if I try use the same file name.
I've run into a weird bug that either turns my volume up to max or turns it down to mute. Whenever I have my phone in my pocket and I want to change the volume, I kind of press the buttons on the side with a bit of luck. However, it sometimes happens that I press both buttons very shortly (milliseconds) after each other, triggering this bug. In some way, the phone turns the volume up or down continuously, no matter if you press a volume button, it will always go to max or mute again.
I changed my optical drive with my old HDD and it works great. Now i have a SSD samsung 840 evo 250 GB. The battery doesn't last as long as before, but still works quite well.
As I understand it, the 64-bit version of iTunes is actually a 32-bit application, and so appears in the Program Files (x86) folder. Is there a way to see if the version of iTunes I've installed is the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version?
I have unfortunately picked up a piece of malware that overwrote my Safari homepage and "open new window with" setting in Mavericks. I just reinstalled to a backup image so the malware is gone, but left me with an open question.
Since I emailed apple three times now and shockingly got no response at all, I am laying out my problem here. I am trying to renew my developer program using a lebanese credit card that has a lebanese billing address. However Apple is obliging me to pay through the US store using a US credit card (US billing address!)
System Profiler says the amount of space used on my hard drive is different than what Finder Get Info says. Why are they not the same?
I want new the new update for my iPhone 3G (used as an iPod) but do not want to mess anything up. Can I update it without a computer? I also have no SIM card for the phone.
I've just updated my iPhone 4s to ios 7.0.3 and I've set up a new apple ID but iMessage doesn't work on my phone even after I activated iMessage in settings. It used to work with my phone number before but I cannot set it on my phone number anymore. I can just choose my Apple ID to send and receive iMessages. When I try to send iMessages it doesn't work and nobody can send me iMessages.
I have an iPhone 4,16G. I had a ringtone issue and Apple support did a software reboot.
I'm trying to connect a thunderbolt external drive to my Mac: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.8-27-inch-aluminum-mid-2010-specs.html
Is it possible to launch a program without an associated .app bundle with the Open in Low Resolution mode activated? I am talking about ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/dota\ 2\ beta/dota_osx which is a Mach-O executable i386 For that matter command-line mplayer would also qualify.
Where should such applications be installed on Mac? Whats the conventional way?
This morning when turning on a Mac laptop, it suddenly announced that an external backup disk (which was connected overnight) "can't be repaired". Disk Utility also says:
My OS X comes with a version of Git installed in /usr/bin. However, this version is older than the official stable one. I would like to upgrade it.
I have installed a fresh version of mavericks on a MacBook Pro 13". After the computer wakes up from sleep, I have no sound - neither in earphones nor in speaker. The problems has been reported by many users in the Apple support community. Is there any solution besides rebooting?
I use Parallels 8 to run Windows 7 in my MacBook with Mountain Lion. But I'd like to have Windows running natively in my Mac. I don't want to start again with a clean Windows installation, and configure all the software I need from scratch. So, I had this crazy idea...
This isn't a coding question, but it is an issue that affects my ability to develop iPhone apps. Beginning this morning, I began seeing the message "The cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iPhone" whenever I plug in my iPhone 5's cable. I'm running iOS 7.0.4. (This is the cable that came in the box with the phone, and I get the same message when I use the cable that came with my iPad.)
This drives me loopy. Sometimes (see below for when), Excel gets fixated on some cell formatting and starts applying it every time I fill in any new blank cell.
OSX Lion (10.7.5). Network preferences has an option to set up (and order) DNS adresses. My router (Bell Connection Hub - Bell Canda) also has an option for specifying DNS addresses. Which takes precedence in ordinary, vanilla browser requests? In other requests? Are there special situations/considerations? Thanks!
Say I want to quickly find all emails by one person. In some email editors you can type "from: John" and it would understand that you are only interested in messages that John sent.
I have my rMBP since the end of December. When I got it, i needed to update the OS X to 10.9.1. I don't recall if i tried the FaceTime HD Camera later or before the system update, but i'm sure it was working back then.
For some reason when I run echo $PATHI get the following directory: /Users/<home>/Library/Applications/. How do I set it back to its default location so that I don't have to run this command, export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin each time I want to run commands in Terminal? Thanks for the consideration
I use Transmit to mount a Linux server disk on my Mac.  The issue is that when I do something on the remote server with ssh, the change is not reflected in the mounted volume in my mac. How can I manually/automatically update the changes?
I am working with an application that utilizes a port below 1024 because it was originally intended to be run as root. I would like to debug the app in an IDE which I open as myself (non-root user) but I do have sudo privileges. I have reasons against remote debugging as well as opening the IDE under sudo.
I would like to launch a GUI app that is in the Applications folder from the command line as opposed to clicking the icon in the Finder or in the Dock. The reason I want that is to be able to launch it as root using sudo as opposed to launching it as my default user. When I went into the Applications, this is what it looked like:
Let's say i'm reading a book online. I wouldn't want to read i would use the Speech Feature by Apple. I open Safari, read a book, I select all using CMD+A and i right click and start the speech. I updated Safari for some new stuff and i wanted to test out the speech. It won't work for some reason. Can anyone help me out? Im using Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), Updated Safari to 7.0.1
Apple's instructions for completely erasing a system say to "select your startup disk". But my system shows a hardware drive icon and some gobbledygook as a name, and under that another icon and name that corresponds to the one I'm familiar with as my "disk".
I did the steps to reinstall OS X Mavericks. I created a bootable Pendrive but it doesn't show when I hold down "Option" at boot. I already erased my HD, so I'm stuck now! How can I reinstall OS X Mavericks from nothing, if the bootable drive is not working?
How to change path of opencv library. I have installed opencv using homebrew. But when I run some opencv code it tries to link opencv library with my older version of opencv (in error below path is /Users/Ashok/Downloads/opencv-2.4.6.1), but I have deleted this folder and reinstalled opencv using homebew.
What does and should go into /opt/ and what should/does go into /usr/? My understanding is that /usr/ used to be for user home directories, but since that exists in /Users/ - what is the purpose now?
What are the options to target specific keys on a remote computer and execute the equivalent of virtually pressing them from the terminal via ssh (what would normally be a user pressing them)? Example is adjusting the volume: I'm not asking for applescript.
Once upon a time there was a Menu Extra called ASM ( Application Switcher Menu) which automatically brought all of an application's windows to the front when any of its windows was clicked. In the Finder, clicking anywhere on the desktop brought all Finder windows to the front.
I'm trying to install windows xp on Lion. This is a little bit complicated, but I was using this tutorial. I got to step 6, which is booting from the Windows XP disc. But it says "no bootable medium found -- insert boot disc and press any key." I think the problem is occurring because I am using an external dvd drive, because my internal one is broken. Why is this occurring. Here is an image of the partitions from within disk utility: Note: The image says the partition is formatted "Mas OS Extended (Journaled)" but it is actually "MS - DOS (FAT)" It is like this because I formatted it using the disk utility on the install media for Snow Leopard.
I would like to assign numbers to open Windows of (multiple) Applications with a keyboard shortcuts like: Cmd+1 (different numbers for different windows) and then recall them (along with their Desktop/space) with a keyboard shortcut like: ⌘+1 Some of the main Applications I use are iTerm, Emacs, Chrome, Outlook (Calendar) and Outlook (Inbox).
Similar to slapd daemon can't start but despite being accepted, the answer didn't really work for the asker. Shut down Lion Server 10.7.5 (on a 2011 Mini Server) today after Time Machine got itself in a tizzy and failed to backup for several hours while claiming it was "stopping" (presumably unrelated to problem, just the why of restarting it.) Shut down hung - after 15 minutes or so I powered it off.
I have got some ebooks that I want to load onto my iPad in the Kindle App. I don't know how to do this and was wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions
This link is now outdated with the new release of numbers. I want to transpose the X- and Y-axes on a chart in Numbers 3.1. How the heck can I do this? The first chart I made was able to sum my columns up to 100 just fine: However, when I try it with fewer columns/geographies, it transposes the selection: Even when I transpose the cells, it still forces the data to display incorrectly and there is no option to swap the axes:
This has just started on my mac i7 with Maverick. Launchpad keeps rearranging and emptying grouped folders. Is there a fix for this?
I have a webclip in my dashboard on mavericks with play.spotify.com in it and i like to control my music from there, but as soon as i go out of the dashboard the music stops. I had this working a year back but that was on a other version of mac osx. Is there a way to allow the dashboard to keep running even if im not looking at it.
I have a setup with 4 Desktops/Spaces. When I click CTRL + 2 the focus moves to that desktop. When I want to move an app from desktop 1 to 3 I drag the window a bit and press CTRL + 3 (or 2 or 4 — these are Spaces/Desktop numbers). For some reason, the apps in other desktops move randomly from their desktops (rearranging the whole layout by moving other apps between desktops). Am I doing something wrong or is this some kind of bug? I’m on Mavericks 10.9.1.
I ran "brew upgrade" from the terminal, before upgrading finished the battery ran out on my MBP and the computer restarted. Now when I go to open a terminal the terminal window flashes up for a split second before closing. I managed to capture the terminal output before it closed:
Gmail is loading its tour of the 'new' gmail features (primary/social/promotion sections) every time I open my app on my ipad. I've completed the tour many times hoping that would stop it from popping up, but every time I open gmail, it prompts me with a tour. I'm using ios 7 on a mini retina if that helps.
Can I receive notifications from 2 Google Talk/ Hangouts accounts, by installing only one app? Does the official Google Hangouts app support this?
Can we install windows on Mac mini? Also, is it possible to Install Mac OS on PC's rather than Macs ?
I'd like to have keyboard shortcuts for the horizontal menu bar in iTunes 11. This one:
I want to get vls latest version safely. I have brew.How could I type to terminal ? I dont wanna download it from a website since it may not be safe
This is just a curiosity: what is that slim black part (see picture) in the Apple Macbook Air 1,1 (Early 2008) case?
I want to install the lastest version of Hypre. It must be safe So using terminal is the safest way. I have brew. My question is : How can I do this using the terminal ?
When it was originally set up, I set it up with our dept login and ran all updates. The user has admin rights but is unable to sign into the App Store with her account for a program that has an update. This is not a special program as it came with the system. How do I get around this?
I'm trying to make a pdf with link in it to open local video files. I succeeded to do it with Acrobat, and Reader open the files correctly. But Preview.app refuses. Regular http link are correctly open, but not file://
I mounted my NTFS drive in OSX with in fstab, but finder does not show the drive. I can do open /Volumes/drivename and will see the files and can even write on it. How can I force finder to show me the drive. (and the unmount icon)
I have been using Windows 2008 in Parallels on my Mac Server to serve up files to my Windows clients on the network with a USB attached Drobo (NTFS). Now I want to move these files to my Mac Drobo (Mac OS Ext) and maintain as many file attributes as possible, such as date created and modified.
I have a weird problem. I'm trying to connect on my VPN with Mac 10.7.5 (Java 7 U45, Citrix Receiver 11.8) but when I do, JSam is not able to write in Hosts file. So my Mac session is called "Family" but when I go in Terminal and type whoami, I get: Admin.
On a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) with both the trackpad and a Bluetooth "magic mouse" I observe an excessive amount of (especially) horizontal scrolling. A trivial touch to the mouse (or touching the trackpad with two fingers) may result in dozens of (especially horizontal) scroll events. This is especially pronounced in Excel, Firefox, and Emacs (which notice horizontal scrolls) but not in Terminal and Outlook (which mostly ignore them). Mouse tracking in system settings is set to the 3rd notch (out of 10). It is possible to disable or reduce horizontal scroll events?
Using a Mac with Mavericks, I have keyboard setup to Hebrew. Then, when I click in the password field, it switches it back to English and Hebrew is disabled.
I am trying to use junk mail custom actions to add additional tags to mail identified as junk. I also unset the "Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients" option. I am finding that each time I close and then restart Mail my custom actions are reset and, also, the "Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients" option is set back to on. This happens reliably. * How can I reliably diagnose and/or fix this problem?
I maintain an application that runs as a background service, started either on boot as a StartupItem or manually from the command line. I want to know how to launch it manually without having a controlling terminal, or completely detach after launching. Using TextEdit to illustrate, I know that if it's launched from Terminal, it blocks the prompt until the program is quit, and will close if the terminal window is closed. Both can be avoided by adding nohup and & to the command, respectively: Or disown can be used instead of nohup:
I installed LastPass and on restarting Chrome got a notification similar to this: *=URL=* except it was Google Chrome that wanted to control the computer instead of Google Software Update. It might not have been related to the LastPass install and might have just been a coincidence and just happened to be the first time I restarted Chrome. Any ideas on what might have prompted this request?
Since time immemorial, opening a Microsoft Office file has had the side effect of restoring an already-open window in the same application before displaying the newly opened file's window. This was mildly annoying for multitaskers who minimized windows associated with tasks other than their current one, forcing them to re-minimize a window not relevant to the task at hand. I suspect that this same behavior is now to blame for a truly maddening side effect when using Spaces with a different space for each task: Opening, say, a Word document still causes the most recently active Word document window to be brought to the front, so if that window is in a different space, Spaces switches to that space-- a context-blowing action.
When I was using Windows I could navigate with tab to pop up windows for choosing 'Yes' or 'No' faster. Now on OS X I haven't found a way. In some cases I can choose the first letter and it will be accepted. But in examples like in the picture below, there's no such a thing.
I realize there are several threads about this and they are all very specific to certain website . My background is in Python, not Javascript or Applescript, and I'm confused on exactly how to achieve this action . I've seen several scripts doing this action, namely: What is the best method to act this out ?
I was always under the impression there is no charge associated with using push notifications but this suggests otherwise: *=URL=* If a user receives a push notification, especially when in a roaming situation, is there a charge associated with that, even if indirectly as a consequence of the push bumping up the amount of data they have used and thus potentially incurring data overage charges?
I have an iPad with Settings->General->International->Language set to Hungarian. Still, my Skype is in Chinese and I have no idea how to change that. I tried to change the iPad's language, to change the language in my Skype profile, to reinstall Skype, to delete Skype's backup in iCloud than to reinstall, but no use. Any ideas?
I'm not 100% sure if this is just my misinterpretation of the mount output, or if this is actually an issue. I'm mounting an nfs share with the following command: But when I look at the output of mount I see the following:
I updated my iPad 2 to iOS 7. It blocked and asked me to plug it to iTunes. I did connect it to computer then I was asked to restore the iPad. I am afraid I lost all my data and I don't have the access now to syncronise it to computer. Is there any way how to recover my data from iPad updated before restoring it?
I see lots of errors in system.log from ntpd attempts to create ipv6 sockets, running OS X 10.9.1. I have only wireless, so why is the iMac attempting to use en1? E.g.
I keep getting the message “iTunes could not backup the iPhone because the backup could not be saved on the computer”. I upgraded my computer, so it’s all brand new, huge hard disc. It runs Win 7 and has a brand new install of iTunes 11.1.4.62. I’m using an administrator account.
Last night I went to use my iPad and found the battery was completely drained. So, I charged it, after a few minutes it turned back on, and I looked at the battery symbol and it had said that it was at 62% battery life.
MBP does not see the Raid. I also have an iMac 27" connected to the Raid with a thunderbolt cable, works fine.
I don't know who to blame apple or ddrescue. So Sorry if this is in the wrong place! :) I have -Macbook pro Intel core I7 running Maverick -Failed 120Gb HDD (really old... more then 8 years i think)
Just today, I plugged in my iPod Classic (bought recently; 160 GB), and it doesn't charge or show up in iTunes. Its screen turns on though. I have OS X 10.8.5, and the latest iTunes on a MacPro 2008. I can plug it into my wife's iMac (2011) using the same cable and it seems to work fine.
In Maverick, whenever I double-click a track to rename it, iTunes launches and the track plays in iTunes. Very annoying. How do I disable (or re-assign) the double-click to launch/play in iTunes command? Thanks in advance.
I have a Panasonic Viera TC-P50S30 that is connected to my home network with a wired connection. I also have a MacBook Pro that is running Mac OS 10.9.1 and Plex Media Server 0.9.8.18 and connected to the network with a wireless connection. Despite the seemingly simple setup, when I go to the DLNA Server option on my TV, I get an error message that says "DLNA server not found". Does anyone know what steps I can take to try and troubleshoot this issue?
I'm having problems using Home Sharing with WPA2 personal. With WEP or no password, it's fine. Here's my setup:
I would like to remove several seconds from the beginning of my garage band project. There are several tracks and when I delete this portion off each track I end up with 5 seconds or so of just dead air. I've tried dragging each track back to the beginning but it just puts the stuff back in I was trying to eliminate. How do I forward the beginning of the project ahead to eliminate this?
My truecrypt files were mounting fine until today when I tried to mount it and I got the error: the OSXFUSE file system is not available (255). The weird thing is I honestly don't know what I could have done on my computer since yesterday when there were no problems that would have caused this. I tried deleting macfuse and osxfuse and redownloading both but it still doesn't work. The weird thing is when I remove OSXfuse it says it is not available (-1) and when I have it says the same thing but with (255). Is there anything I can do to get my files back? I am on mavericks if that matters. Thanks!
I have a mid-2009 MacBook with 4 GB of RAM installed in it and I'd like to upgrade it to 8 GB of RAM. In order to do that I have to figure out what the installed RAM configuration is so I can determine what it is I need to order. How do I see the installed RAM configuration in the MacBook without opening it up and actually looking inside?
I'm looking for an OS X application that will allow me to add text snippets, like common text responses to emails or signature postings or whatever standard text phrases I wish to save and resuse. Something that perhaps runs in the background on the toolbar that allows me to select phrases and insert them when needed.
I'm using a Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010 model and I recently had a visit at the service centre to purchase a new battery. Out of curiosity, I initiated a conversation to understand more about repairing older, or very old Apple products and the technician mentioned it "could" be hard or impossible to find parts for very old Macbooks. She referred to very old macbooks as Vintage macbooks. So any apple product whose manufacturing date exceeds 5 years from any current date qualifies as a Vintage product.
I access two different gmail accounts using IMAP in Mail. I organize those accounts into folders on my Mac (both gmail accounts go into the same folders). As soon as I put an email into a folder, I can no longer access it on my iPhone. Is there anyway to sync my folders with my iPhone as well?
Got a new Mac & trying to move my stuff from old Mac. I am unable to find a way to move the conversation history of Microsoft Communicator 2011 (version 13.1.2) from old Mac.
I have an issue with my iPad 4. Here is a little background. I recently broke my screen, so I took it to one of those you break it i fix it chains and they replaced it and things were working great for a few weeks. However, I ended up taking it back (because a home screen was slightly dented in after the initial fix), so they fixed it yet again, but after that I found a dead spot on the screen. I took it back, then they called me a few days later claiming they have changed the screen 4 times, but the issue was still persistent, so now they think it may be the motherboard. I know my questions will be slightly generic, but has anyone heard of dead spot issues being cause by a faulty motherboard?
I bought this app called Xee from the Mac app store. It can open files perfectly fine but when I try to browse through a folder from within the Xee app, it has to request permission. (See the screenshot below.) I have to do this for every folder the first time I browse it.
I was wondering if there is a way to have a system wide shortcut key to display Messages.app with the "New Message" window open so that I can quickly send messages. Something like the little popup in Notifications sidebar would be perfect! See screenshot!
What do I try next? Given this happened the way it did if there is disk corruption I think it should be minor and reparable. But right now I don't even know if I'd be able to restore a new OS.
I have a copy of the Windows XP install disk on my computer in the form of an .iso. I'm trying to install it to a partition using a bootable USB. I need to be able to make a bootable USB under Lion. How would I do this? The USB is 4GB
When I leave my Mavericks OS X MacBookPro idle for a while, very often it will crash and reboot by itself. After reboot, the Problem Report dialog will show up, telling that "Sleep Wake Failure experienced a problem". The problem report is not showing a crash — only powerstats from running programs. Here's the beginning of the report:
Can Numbers do this sort of "paging" of data? I would like to have this sort of "on the fly" charting rather than having to explicitly build a chart each time I want to visualize the data. (sorry the question is rather garbled: I don't know really anything about using a spreadsheet type app)
As you can see, it's almost completely different. The problem is that my binds in game do not work, because the mapping differs since it's another layout. I could use those keys and "solve" the problem, but it still gives me some troubles sometimes and I'd like to solve the issue completely, than using a workaround. I think (not sure) that the game is actively changing my layout, but can I do something from my side? For your information, this second layout is called "Italiano - m. da scrivere", where m stands for "macchina", and the whole expression means "Italian - Typewriter". I can't remove this layout completely from my Mac using standard means, so I'd prefer less invasive solutions. The layout is not being loaded so I don't know why it manages to select that one when it's clearly disabled:
I want to start organizing my emails on the cloud, directly in my gmail account, instead of locally 'on my mac'. Is there any way to migrate my current folders (and their e-mails) onto gmail?
I have a Mackie Onyx Blackjack audio interface that is only being recognized on my mid 2012 Mackbook Pro Retina when it's plugged in before a hard boot. This same interface is detected without issue by my early 2011 MBP, and I used to have no problems with recognition until recently. I upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks hoping it might resolve the issue, but the problem persists.
I have a strange issue after upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion. The am/pm does not show on the menu bar always. Sometime it shows and sometime not. What could be the reason ? I am running 10.9.1 now.
Is it possible to save video from my iphone 5 to Time Capsule? If yes, how to do this?
Is there any way to completely disable keychain usage in Mavericks? We have a mac mini at work that we use in the conference room. The problem is that the keychain is not staying synced with Active Directory. Is there anyway to disable keychain popups?
A coworker offered me his iPad first generation (model MB294LL, WiFi, 64gb) at a good price (the same price range doesn't have a good brand new alternative), but I am worried that it might run out of service in the near future. I have tested it and it has all the functionality I desire (mostly as a fancy Dropbox-based mobile library and iBook-based reader for use indoors, mostly at home) My main worries would be: Apple would take some measure to force obsolescency (like Amazon already did with Kindle in the past); The apps I currently use will become unavailable and I won't get the same version again (since there are no "installers", so to say); I suppose that eventually there will be battery-related issues or some other non-serviceable physical damage, but considering the best-case scenario, is there any possibility that the iPad generation 1 wouldn't keep its current functionality due to software support/availability issues?
My iPhone cable is a bit broken and I often use wi-fi connection of my iPhone5 and iTunes. Sometimes my iPhone is not seen in iTunes. How to set my iPhone was always seen in iTunes via wi-fi?
In OSX (now is Mavericks), how to change the System Default Shortcuts, for example which are currently like: Command + Shift + Q .. for current User Logout. Command + Q .. for current (active) Application Quit. Command + Down Arrow .. for Opening A File.
I have an ASUS VE278 display, which is cable of handling VGA, DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI. I have an early 2013 model Macbook Pro, with two Thunderbolt ports, and an HDMI port. If I use the HDMI port (going through an HDMI to DVI converter cable), my ASUS display looks great, just like it did on my PC. No issues. However, if I use a "thunderbolt to displayport" adapter cable (such as this one) I get color bleeding artifacts on my screen, around contrasting colors, etc. If I take a screen shot, everything looks fine on the screen shot (when viewed on another monitor or the Macbook's native display). Here's a photo of the artifacting, while looking at this artifact test png image : (it's hard to capture on camera, so forgive me):
Under Settings > Cellular, there's an option to enable/disable LTE. When disabled, my phone reverts to 4G, as indicated by the icon in the status bar.
This is happening with Mail.app 6.6 on OS X 10.8.5, but has been going on for a few OS X versions. In Mail.app, my account settings specify to delete junk mail after one day. Except it never gets deleted. I can set it to delete on quitting mail, but that still doesn't work. I have to delete everything in the junk mail folder manually. Items are placed in the Junk folder that are identified as junk, but they are never deleted automatically.
I'm having an issue with my 2013 MacBook Air. From day one, I've been using my Logitech K120 USB keyboard with it, and it worked flawlessly from first plug, no problem at all. I've been a month away from home, carrying my MacBook only, no usb keyboard.
I want to edit some files in my iphone using ifile/ssh like in this information *=URL=* is there a way to backup all files in my iphone first? including the operating system files if its possible, i will use it to restore all files if the iphone crashed later
The context is that I'm restoring my wife's new replacement iPhone from a backup. It already did the first sync, where it gets all the settings and whatnot, but not the apps. Tried the second sync, where it normally transfers the apps, but I'm getting the error message.
I use Time Machine to backup my Mac (running Mavericks 10.9.1). The backup process runs at the standard once per hour. This often slows down my machine while I'm trying to work on it. Understanding that it will provide less protection, is it possible to adjust Time Machine to backup at a different interval (e.g. once per day) instead of once per hour without installing third-party software?
I don't use Safari that often but I remember this really nice feature where you could scroll through a list of previously closed sessions. I think it was located on the "Top Sites" page that Safari features. Now I can't find it, so I'm guessing either it was erased in an update or moved somewhere. Is there a way to access this list of closed sessions?
In iOS 7, when the phone is in Sleep mode and I receive a call, I don't see the "Decline" button. All I see is a green "Answer..." button that requires me to slide to the right to answer the call. Is there anyway we can change that? I know that there are buttons for "Remind Me Later, etc" but I want the "Decline" button. It works fine when the phone is not in Sleep mode.
I have been trying to download the Opera DMG from my Mac OSX on a very slow internet. Everytime, the download starts, reaches a little above 1 MB, and then shows as download complete. When I try opening the DMG, it says that it is not recognized. Downloads work fine on all other sites except Opera. Any idea what could be wrong ?
How can I calculate max with condition in Numbers? In other words, I want something like maxifs, which operates max operation instead of sum operation for sumifs.
I hope this is the right site to ask this question. I have successfully configured OS X server (3.0.2 on mavericks) mail service, but if i edit my /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/main.cf (postfix config file), it won't affect the behaviour of the server mail service.
This question is related to a question I posted on rogue firefox procesess. It relates to firefox processes following image uploads that I have been having for a while. I am trying to get to the second field of the ps command with the following set of pipes, so that I can kill the processes from the command line quickly: However this produces the wrong output as it shows the whole line of ps. I know that the default delimiter for cut is tab I have also tried: From this question on stackoverflow I know that gives me the output I want.
I have a large collection of Audio CDs I would like to convert to audio files. My requirements are: FLAC and MP3 support: I would like to keep a lossless version of the CDs in original quality. CDDB / MusicBrainz connectivity: I would like to have the track and album filenames downloaded from the net, rather than type them manually. OSX Mavericks compatibility Reasonable GUI Is there a good application for that, preferably using an open-source one?
My 2010 iMac's display shows up distorted lines on start up then gets stuck at the gray Apple logo screen. After being stuck there for a while it then reboots itself and does the same process over again until I force shutdown. Fortunately I have a MacBook Pro in which I can use to boot from and view the files from my iMac this way. I believe my iMac is having graphics issues but I have an external monitor I would like to use to view my iMac. Is it possible to configure the settings for my iMac from my MacBook Pro so that I can set my iMac to display via the external monitor and if not are there any alternatives? Thanks in advance!
I have just found out that I can enter a built-in FTP client on my Mac by simply pressing ^ Ctrl + K. Great thing! But after I have successfully connected to my server and a 'folder' with files located there appeared, it occurred that I can't upload files by simply drag & drop'ing them. When I checked the 'Get info' I saw that it is marked as 'You can only read', yet the ftp account itself is okay, because I could upload files there from dreamweaver (unfortunately I have only Windows licence for this app). Why is it marked as 'You can only read' and how do I fix that? Please help!
It was suggested by many to simply download the command line tools package from the developer website, which I have done (already had an account). My question, is the second procedure strictly equivalent to running xcode-select --install? I have suspicions that the paths to the different libraries and headers are not defined in the same way when downloading and executing the dmg.
I have a 13" MacBook Pro early 2011 model. It will not boot from any Linux USB boot disks I have created. I know these disks are working on later models as I have tried with 2012 Retina 15" booting and working fine.
I'm unable to kill a process using any of the techniques I'm aware of ("Force Quit" in Activity Monitor, top, killall from the Terminal) and wonder if there are some additional steps I can take.  FWIW the process is "Mathematica" which I cannot relaunch, Quit, or Force Quit, or sample, either by name or PID, and it appears to have some odd side effects (screenshots don't appear, can't empty trash, and can't even shut down the system). Are there additional steps that can be taken to really really kill a badly behaved process?
I have aquired a macbook air from work after a collegue left. I have tried, but I can't deal with the locked down nature and lack of customization available in OSX, so I want to get Linux on as soon as possible. There seems to be two options, dual boot as I have on my other laptops, or running it in a virtual machine.
We were hoping that our iMac would accept two wireless Bluetooth keyboards of the exact same model to be used at the same time. (Lego 2 player, in case you're wondering)
I have this old machine: I've read that Mavericks is good for old machines ... but is this too old? It's currently running 10.5.8.
So, I have IOS7 installed in my iphone 4. I first noticed this bug as follows: When I get home around 18h I plug-in the computer, and at around 23h before going to bed it's already 100% for some time, phone is not even hot from charging anymore. Before sleeping, unplug the computer, then I hold down the power button and slide the red banner to completely power it off. Next day at around 8am when going out, I turn-on the iphone and the batery is at ~80%... WTF?
I have a late 2013 15" Macbook Pro Retina (the newest model as of the time of this question). I've seen numerous blog posts that show this computer powering 3 external displays, plus the built in retina display, but I can't make it work. I have a 22" ASUS connected by mini display to VGA adapter, a 30" Hannspree connected by mini display to HDMI adapter, and a 22" LG connected to the built-in HDMI. I can get every combination of 2 monitors working plus the built-in, but I can't get all 3 external on at the same time. I've tried with the built-in open and closed. I've also tried using 2 mini display to VGA adapters. According to a CNET article, this should work!
My Mac hung overnight and was in a bad enough place that I had to power cycle it this morning. When it came back up, I logged in and found that a number of the apps in my dock had a slash through their icons. When I tried to launch them, a dialog came up informing me that they could not be run on my Mac.
I bought an iPhone 5s about 3 days ago. Unfortunately I've discovered that the headphone jack is broken.
I could really use a good ergonomic keyboard for my iMac to try to deal with some wrist issues. The reviews of the Kinesis Freestyle 2 seem basically OK, but there are some complaints about oddly placed keys and the way the function key works, neither of which really appeals to me.
I have an iMac, now running Mountain Lion; about six months ago I started finding that the mouse would lose connectivity whenever I banged it, even lightly, on the mouse pad; I also got a couple of kernel panics while the mouse was disconnected. Usually it would reconnect within 20 seconds or so, but not always. I took it in to Apple; there were bluetooth service failures associated with the kernel panics. They upgraded me from Lion to Mountain Lion and said the mouse looked OK. Things were fine for a while, but now the mouse is failing again.
I have an iPhone 5s. If I have apps open and try to close them (double press the home button, then swipe up), the desktop "blurs" before returning to its normal state. For example, I can see the carrier name moving and merging with the carrier name on the regular home screen. Is this normal behavior, and does anyone know how to fix this? I close apps all the time, so I find this a little annoying.
How to enable select all contents in KeyboardMaestro? I don't see any option but I saw a guide here. It wasn't clear though. Keyboard shortcut to select all text in a cell in Excel
I just upgraded to OSX Mavericks and now when I try to download something the icon that shows a loading bar while it's downloading doesn't change back to normal after it's done: I'm using the most up-to-date chrome and I changed my default download location to desktop (both of these have worked fine consistently in the past)
I got a keyboard for it, but it's not paired and apparently won't because there is no version of OS X found.  I have the DVD containing OS X but can't eject a disc already in it because of the keyboard issue.
I need to create an apple script to perform DD Commands in sequence, to replicate the same .img file to multiple USB flash drives The context: the computer is connected to a powered USB hub with 7 usb flash drives connected and unmounted by diskutil. No other USB devices or disk are connected to the computer (so the USB Sticks will be assign a disk1 - disk7 resource mapping) The steps a file named "source.img" will be prepared and put on the desktop (say an .img of a bootable OS) a file named "source.img" will be prepared and put on the desktop (say an .img of a bootable OS) terminal must be asked to change directory to the desktop terminal must be asked to change directory to the desktop with administrative privileges (the password can be inserted into the script, or asked once to the user) it must be asked to perform: with administrative privileges (the password can be inserted into the script, or asked once to the user) it must be asked to perform: "sudo dd if=source.img of=/dev/rdi
When I open a lot of tabs in safari it shows the first ones normally and all those, which do not fit a grouped into one tab. This is very annoying when switching between tabs that are at the end. Is it possible to make them scrollable as it is done in Firefox?
3 weeks ago my hard drive failed so I bought a new one. (Macbook pro late 2011) 5 days ago, the new one flashed prohibitory sign, flashing folder with question mark. Every once in a while I could get it to desktop, but I would reboot, and back into the error. I reinstalled the OS through a USB, but still get the error. Is there a good chance it's the sata cable that needs to be replaced?
Is it possible to use Automator to automatically move a subtitle file .srt to the folder where a video file with the same name is located? Let's say I have a file ~/Videos/MyVideoFolder/my_video.avi and I download a file ~/Downloads/my_video.srt, I want it to automagically move it to ~/Videos/MyVideoFolder/. The subtitles files are identifiable by its extension .srt, but videos can be of any type.
In iTunes it was/is possible to prevent files to be copied to iTunes Media folder. Does any of you know if same de-selection is possible in iBooks? Thanks for lot of useful knowledge sharing
This problem happened to me once before and then I ended up doing a Factory Reset. I'd rather not do that again. Power assertion timeout:*=URL=* and with *=URL=* MobileCal: *=URL=* The preferences timeout: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26840/iOS_preferences_timeout_turning_off_calendar_sync.png
Since last week I can't open VLC and Google Chrome, it freezes immediately after opening. It's the report output for VLC: Full output: *=URL=* Chrome also doesn't respond - could they be related?
I have an iPhone 5s, and a wireless plan that permits tethering. I am wondering if there are any consequences of frequent tethering. For example, if my phone was plugged in to a charger and tethered for a couple of hours every day, would this lead to faster than normal "wear and tear" for the phone, since the activity is so heavy? Or is this a completely ordinary task?
I've tried using calibre, but it cuts out or messes with the original text from the pdf. I don't want to just give up and read from my computer, so any ideas? (please posts links if any.)
I am a heavy Emacs user and would love to have some of my Emacs keyboard bindings when editing text on other apps. I understand I could program these macros with Keyboard Maestro manually, but I was surprised I could not find any pre-defined macros for this. Before I reinvent the wheel, are there any repositories of keyboard maestro macros out there? Does Keyboard Maestro come with any set of macros that facilitate this process?
I was using my macbook air 2013 to create a youtube video on iMovie. When I started I had 55gb of space left. I recorded everything used handbrake to convert it and edited it in iMovie. I then exported it and put it on youtube. I then deleted absolutely every file from iMovie and the event. But my remaining space had gone from 55gb to 44gb. What is taking up this space?
Is there any way to have Keyboard Maestro select "Sent Items" on an app like Microsoft Outlook upon pressing a hot key? I have tried with "Select Menu" and "Press Button" but none of these options seem to work.
I am trying to arrange Canon in D. I have some music on "Eighth Rest *=URL=* & 2 & Eighth Rest *=URL=* & 4 &". The GarageBand auto score is displaying it as triplets. I am trying to get it as close as possible so that way I can have a fluent score. Video: here
Say I start a new email, and I decide to discard it. If I press Alt+W, a window prompts me with the following three options shown below:
My computer is a MAcbook pro and I am running Macosx 10.8.4 I just realized that the shortcuts don't work anymore in an application where I really need them. When I went to re-create them in the keyboard System Preference panel, I wasn't able to do it. I could select my application, and name the shortcut I wanted to create, but then it was impossible to type the actual shortcut. I got error beeps and no symbol would appear. I don't know what to do at this point. Are there some commands I could run in Terminal to fix this issue? Thank you
Is it possible to configure multiple monitor profiles for a MacBook (2011 Air) running Mavericks? I move my MacBook between home and work, and due to my desk layouts, the MacBook is placed to the left of my home monitor and to the right of my work monitor. This means that I have to either remember to move the mouse pointer off the wrong side of the screen in one location, or open display preferences and change the arrangement every time I move the MacBook.
Is there any apple Keyboard Shortcut to force quitting all of my applications? I really need this sometimes because i have a old MacBook Air and it freezes if I put more than 14 applications. I just want to ask if there are any KeyBoard shortcuts to force quitting all of the applications using the Apple KeyBoard?
I'm trying to register a new App ID inside iTunes connect web site, but when I've filled out the details and hit continue, it just comes up "Loading" and stays like that, any ideas?
Whenever I send someone a text, I'm told that it shows that "myname@icloud.com" is sending the text and not my phone number. And when someone responds to "myname@icloud.com", I receive the message on my computer and Wi-Fi only iPad, but not my iPhone. Is there any way to only send and receive messages from a phone number?
My computer is hooked up to a school domain, and a few people used it to log on. Now, the accounts of the other users are still here. I don't have any of their files, but just the empty shell accounts OS X creates by default. It's still about 250MB per user (from the default stuff OS X puts in, plus caches they used while browsing etc.).
This thread here on Apple.StackExchange offers some suggestions, but none of these apps like MobileIron etc do what I want: to control the screen of the target iPad, install apps, configure apps, etc. Just like TeamViewer -- full remote control.
I bought my Mac and AppleCare in Oz, but I mainly use my Mac in Hong Kong. When I register my AppleCare, it asks me to fill in the location. What is this about? Which location should I choose? Thanks.
My bash_profile function looks like: However, when I do st in terminal, it just opens up a sublime text window without opening the file. I copied the line in terminal and it is working. Its not working through bash_profile.
I just bought the super awesome app Sketch 2 and am loving it but I want to create a shortcut for a tool that currently has no shortcut assigned to it. Many other tools have a single letter shortcut (like the vector tool is just "V", no modifiers involved) but when I try to make a single character shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, it won't let me. It appears I have to provide a modifier and character :( Any way around this restriction?
I'm on a fresh 10.9 install and the default Apache server is org.apache.httpd: Already loaded after each startup. Is there a way to disable that autostart?
Using TextEdit, I created a table in a RTF document. Now I want to delete one of the columns in the table, and I see no option anywhere to delete a column. How do I delete a column in a table in TextEdit?
I removed the /bin instead of ~/bin :( My laptop no longer boots up! It has no DVD or CD drive! How can I restore the OS X? It is MacBook Pro OS X 10.8, SSD 128GB.
Let's say there are two iOS developers using 4 computers in total, working on the same project. Because code signing information in the Xcode project file gets checked in to the source repo, and because they can't share the same provisioning profile, it becomes a headache for obvious reasons.
Is there any keyboard short-cut or key for Mac to make mouse right click? It feels me very frustrating to touch the mouse every time to view options. Is there any way like windows option key?
One thing I realised at this point was I was unable to boot into my HDD which was not changed at all. Still I was able to access my files and copy over the needed ones to my SSD. I didn't try to do more (write, etc) so I don't know if more functionality was present.
Here's the situation so far: 20" Alum iMac 2007 HDD has died (3 days after I got a new Macbook Pro - coincidence, or suicide?) It had a time machine backup on a regular external drive I have connected that external drive to my new macbook I tried Migration Utility but it wants to copy all files Q1: Is there any way to make that thing break down to the individual folder or file level? Q1: Is there any way to make that thing break down to the individual folder or file level?
How much power can be drawn from the iPhone/iPad lightning connector by a external device? Update: The use case is a audio-related device for iPhone/iPads. It would require around ~100 mA at 3,3 volts, so I'm trying to find out if we could draw this from the iPhone/iPad. (That would allow us to skip an external battery –> smaller size...) (This question has been asked for the old 30-pin connector here, but a new connector might imply new power constraints.)
This is available in Developer options in Android's system Settings. I'm trying to look for an equivalent in iOS. This is great if I want the screen to be always visible for screen updates/notifications. No problem with battery since it is plugged in anyway. Is there a Jailbreak tweak for this?
I'm using the Calendar app in OS X Maverick to access my Office 365 hosted Exchange calendar. When I create an event with participants (be it people or rooms), the event title, location and participant list seems to be locked.
I found a lot of people figuring out why instruction similar to this : don't work. It always turns out that Mac OS X's bash's startup files (or Mac's Bash itself) doesn't source ~/.bashrc file, either in the login shell, or in a shell spawned from window system - like Terminal app in Mac OS X) Why is this, when all other Unix-like systems with Bash I've worked with before have done this? PS: I found what Bash itself says about startup files (which could be helpful) :
I have an iMac (running Leopard) going deadly slow, I discarded any hardware problems (Hardware tests, disk utility, etc..) and the only strange thing I've found is a folder called 'akamai' After searching on the web, apparently it's not a bug aor virus, it's just a download manager but for some reason, in some cases it seems it doesn't install properly and creates an error that provokes this problems (I'm not sure but I think it's because it is copying some log on an infinite loop or something similar)
I am using a a MBP 13 mid-2010 (MC375LL/A) with the following characteristics Use: office software applications + Multimedia + scientific computing and development (one raeson for changing the RAM)
I have a mid 2010 13" MBP. I have an SSD, its not big enough so I am upgrading from 128GB to 256GB. How can I take everything from the current SSD and then upload it to the new SSD - effectively giving me the same machine without installing OSX all over again? Presumably I will need some new tech to read the SSD, copy it and then copy everything back once I have changed the SSD into the MBP?
How do I make the Mac immediately require a screensaver password without opening the preferences pane? How do I have the password not be required for 60 minutes? How do I get MacOS to respect the dwrite ? I suppose I could kill the Preferences program and then re-open it with AppleScript, but that seems silly (and slow)
I have a couple of PDFs (some of which are 500+ pages long). In these PDFs I made a lot of highlights, when I read through them. I came up with a colouring system, such that each colour is associated with a particular theme. Now I would like to focus on one theme/colour. I.e. quickly jump through, say the Pink highlights. However Preview.app, in its 'Highlights & Notes' panel, only shows colour for notes. I am not able to see which colour I used on the highlights.
Every time I lock my screen I get logged out of any active SSH sessions. I've added the following to my ~/.ssh/config file, but I still get logged out: How can I stop being logged out of SSH sessions when I lock my screen?
I would like to have wireless access to a mac running OSX 10.8, but without internet sharing, i.e. only local access to the mac from a connected WiFi client. In principle I can share the Ethernet port over WiFi but if no cable is connected to the Ethernet port the WiFi access point goes down. Possibly one could share localhost (that is always up) but there is no such option in the graphical interface. Of course I could have a dummy switch or something else connected to the Ethernet port but this seems a bit odd. Any ideas how to solve this? Is it possible to set up internet sharing from the terminal in order to share 'localhost'?
I find managing multiple browser windows on OSX a real pain with no solution, so I decided to get rid of some tabs. I loaded up gmail into the OSX Mail client, but it wants to sync my entire account. Is it possible to sync only new stuff? Basically I want it to only sync the last 30 days and not everything... It's trying to sync about 6gb worth of mail...
My primary means of handling contacts on my iPhone is gmail sync, but somehow it appears I have added a number of contacts to my phone locally. I want just these local contacts to sync back to gmail.
So, the default key combinations to manually insert curved quotation marks (“” and ‘’) in OS X are: option + [ for “ option + ] for ‘ option + shift + [ for ” option + shift + ] for ’
Since a system upgrade my macbook fails to boot properly: a loading bar appears, it takes about 15 minutes to get filled and then the system shuts down again. When booting in recovery mode, I tried to "Repair" the main partition in the disk utility tool but an error message told me there actually was an issue but it could not be fixed and I needed to format/reinstall the system. I also tried to erase the bootable partition but it also failed (saying the drive could not be unmounted). I tried to choose "Reinstall Mac OS X" from the main menu, but my main partition was not found.
When opening files from a Finder window, I want them to open in the active Space, regardless of the application already being open on another Space. Instead, they open in whatever Space already happens to have an open window of the application. I've noticed this particularly with Microsoft Office programs, as I tried to reproduce it with Preview and Terminal windows but they seemed to behave properly, so I think that this problem lies within the MS Office suite.
I have just bought a MacBook Pro and all my text messages are coming through to it before coming through to my phone. I don't want this. I have followed help tips by opening Messages app but can't find the iMessage preferences to change it as advised by other people.
Try this on your iPhone. Go to www.iCloud.com . You can try it on Safari or Chrome. Apple won't let you access the online version of iCloud.
My current hard disk drive 256GB is already not enough for me. Therefore, I wish to reduce the allocation of my Parallels Desktop.
I'm using TextMate 2.0 alpha to write some SASS and HAML. Say I have this code: When I add a new line after the last key-value pair (color: #777), the cursor in the new line auto-indents so that it starts directly under the letter c. That's alright.
However, that's where I ran into issues. We have some photos on that iPhone we want to preserve, so I tried coping them over to my Windows 7 laptop using explorer (direct access to DCIM folder), using Windows picture export future as well as iexplorer software and Picasa to no real luck.
I've a little logitech mouse, and suddenly, with no reasons, it started to lag heavily, and now it's impossibile to use. I've a MBP mid 2012 13'', and never had problems, but now it is unusable. The mouse is ok, i've tried it on another mac and it works fine. I've already tried to reset the controller, but nothing changed.
Since I have heard that keeping on the charger plugged while the battery is at 100% will degrade battery life, I would like to find a way to make the Mac switch off by itself when it reaches 100%. This is mainly for when I want to charge the laptop overnight.
I am using an application called Hostbuddy to manage entries in my hosts file. It works great, the only problem is that is asks for my password every time I use it, which adds up to a lot of inconvenience. How can I permanently give Hostbuddy the permission it needs? The two things it asks for the password for are to modify the hosts file and to flush my DNS cache. PS, I understand the security implications of this, and I trust the app.
On my 17" MBP (running Mavericks) I'm sometimes signed on to two different LANs, one with my AirPort interface and one with Ethernet. My Networks are set up (in the Network System Preference Panel) such that the Ethernet service is higher priority than the AirPort.
I have 478 MB available, and this game is 228 MB. Every time I try to download it, I get a message saying I don't have enough space. But I do. What am I supposed to do?! I really want this app!
I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0.4, and my MacBook (10.6.8) has iTunes 11.1.4. I have a few small mp3 files that I want to copy from my MacBook to my iPhone. When I connect the phone to the MacBook and initiate a sync, it always fails in 1 of 2 ways:
I've been having some issues with battery life on my MacBook Pro (15", Mid 2010). I thought I had tracked it down when I found out that the battery was near the end of its life (only holding 60% of its maximum charge) and replaced it with a new one and reset the SMC.
My iOS device is stuck in Recovery Mode.  How do I exit this mode?
Should I expect my MacBook Air to run slower while on battery vs while plugged in? In other words, will it slow down the CPU/graphics/etc while on battery to conserve power?
The fans in my MBP will continue to run for a minute or two after I close the lid. This is frustrating because I often want to close it and immediately put it away in its soft zipper case but I don't want to put it in the case while it's still spitting out hot air. Any ideas why the fans don't turn off immediately (or within like 15 seconds)? This started happening after I upgraded to 10.9.
I would like to have some additional calendars that are not synced through iCloud on one of my computers. I have been using this calendar to run small programs at certain times. These programs are however only (a) available on this one machine and (b) would not even be allowed on e.g. an iPad.
Am trying to run eclipse in maverick but a dialog box says that version 1.7.0 or later is needed to run Google plugin for Eclipse. My mac has version 1.6.0 when I run java -version from the command line.
I tried to generate a S/MIME certificate from comodo.com. On my Mac it perfectly works. But I am unable to use it on iOS 7. This is what I did: generate certificate on Mac export certificate and private key in p12 format from keychain sent the p12 and the Comodo cert (COMODO Client Authentication and Secure Email CA.cer) via email to iphone import both certificates enable S/MIME in email client on iPhone
I installed Windows 8 using the Bootcamp today. During the partition screen when installing Windows 8, there was no NTFS partition. There was one partition which said Bootcamp on it. I formatted it and selected it for Windows installation. Everything went well and Windows is installed.
I have set the ANSI colors of both terminals to be the same (see 1st screenshot), but the colors for Terminal.app are really bright, and almost unreadable, and not like the colors I set at all. It's not just the prompt as well. Even with Vim the colors are different.
I stumbled upon some instructions in the book "Pro Git" It suggests:
My question is very simple. I have some trouble on my MBP13 mid-2010 (MC375LL/A) and I want to diagnose it using the Apple Hardware Test.
Is it required to use XCode v5 to host an IOS Mobile App in itunesconnect.com? let us know what's the minimum required XCode Version to use? Thanks.
PS: I know I could just delete it and go on with life, but: I would miss helping innocent people, informing them that their server was hacked and being used by Criminals, as I already did so successfully few times, helping to shut them down. Once it was a Wells Fago web site on a server of a travel operator in Russia. Another time it was a Visa website on a Restaurant server in Iceland. And now this one. UPDATE..UPDATE...UPDATE...
Once in a while (hours or even a day or two) mac Mail stops receiving messages from gmail accounts attached to it. Messages from iCloud accounts are delivered properly. In order to solve that issue I have to restart the app or take the account offline and then back online. Is there a way to permanently solve that issue?
Does anyone know if it is possible to move a full screen app to another monitor using a shortcut? Or if there is no existing shortcut would it be possible with Applescript? BetterTouchTool has "Move window to next monitor" as one of its predefined actions but this only works on desktops and not with full-screen apps. Thanks in advance for any help! Simon
I have my web development environment on a mac pro running on OS X version 10.6. I'm considering upgrading it to Mac OS X 10.7.
I recently imported my S/MIME certificate into iOS 7. I am able to read signed/encrypted message sent from my mac to the iPhone. BUT I am UNABLE to send signed / encrypted mails from the iPhone. This is strange:
I use a lot of notes apps on my iPad IOS 7, and I like the option of adding a note via sending the note to a custom email address instead of opening the app and adding the note manually (Like evernote for example). Still, I couldn't find such functionality regarding iCloud Notes ! I have iCloud Notes syncing my notes from two sources (1) from my iDevices and (2) from my gmail notes folder In Gmail, I tried sending an email to myself; forwarding; and auto labeling them, that did move the emails to notes folder but they did not sync to iCloud.
Due to an accident, my entire applications folder with all the support files, including plists and caches got deleted. I tried restoring by files from the most recent Time Machine backups but I cannot retrieve my applications with the support files. I even tried it with migration assistant on a new image. Is this impossible? Must I start from scratch? Details of the ‘accident’ I was using this app called ‘AppCleaner’ that also automatically deletes related support files which are normally left behind if one simply trashes an Application.
There's no problem with the cable (a Griffin Mini DisplayPort to HDMI connector). I actually brought it back to the store and it worked just fine using the shop's MacBook Pro and external monitor combination.
I got a new MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks. When connecting my phone via USB, the internal keyboard and the trackpad immediately stop working -- not always but in most cases. The bluetooth mouse and an external USB keyboard are not affected. Everything else works also fine. The power button of the internal keyboard still works. Reboot helps. Any ideas?
I have a Mac Mini without DVD drive (2010), and I used Boot Camp to install Windows 8. Everything worked but after I played in Windows with the partitions (I wanted to expand the partition of the Mac). I made mistake and deleted every partition (even Recovery HD) except from my Boot Camp partition. Since then, my Mac mini only boots into Windows. I can't install OS X now.
I have my Hotmail account setup on my iPad and everything is working. However whenever I go to my computer and login to my Hotmail account all messages are unread even though I read them on my iPad. This never happened before. How can I fix it?
I have a Macbook Pro 2012 and a pair of headphones (without their own sound volume adjuster). These headphones are awfully loud and even with quarter bar sound level, I have to turn the audio volume slider in apps all the way down to get a decent volume level. My ears aren't super sensitive or anything, I think it's just these headphones. Is there a software that I can download which will act as a virtual cable type thing where the app will feed audio data to the virtual cable (VC), the VC will then allow me to edit the sound (in my case I want to alter volume levels) and then output to my headphones.
This is mysql running on an Mountain Lion OS X with server.app v2 that set up the server. We suddenly have an issue where only one of anything can seem to connect to mysql at anytime. The problem started with the accounting program we use; only one person could access and everyone else got an "error connecting to mysql". Even if I'm on the server, I can't run mysql workbench or sequel pro to connect. workbench gives me the error "Error connecting to MySQL: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0 (code 2013) MySQL stat graphs may be disabled."
Say I want to run searches like the following: from: John to: Emily
When I plug the Logitech x-240 Sound System into the headphone jack of the MacBook Pro, the external speakers continue to play. No sound is transmitted through the Logitech speakers. I cannot get the Logitech speakers to appear as a choice for sound output. Logitech device does NOT have USB... only a headphone jack. Do I need an adaptor?
In my activity monitor I have noticed that there is a process appearing that has no name. It is owned by root.
After every terminal command, the prompt becomes unresponsive for 2-3 seconds. During this time xcodebuild seems to be running:
In iTunes 10, holding the Option key while selecting the Advanced menu turns Create AAC Version into Convert to AAC… which allows selecting a number of files which are then converted to AAC and added to the library. Does this functionality still exist in iTunes 11 (and 12)?
I am having some problems using Disk Utility. I am trying to combine all my partitions in to one (as it used to be), so that no space will be left unallocated. The problem is though my Recovery HD, it won't let me, it isn't letting me to do so. I can't increase my Mac HDD, but I can easily increase my Recovery HD.
I have a 13" MacbookAir with 4GB of RAM and I was interested in adding some more RAM. I have heard some people say that this cannot be done on the Air. Is it possible to add more RAM to a MacBook Air?
I'm trying to download some videos from the iTunes Store onto my iPhone. As part of the (UK) 12 Days of Christmas promotion, I received a copy of the first episode of Sherlock, which I purchased but didn't download at the time. When I wanted to watch it, I attempted to download it first. I went into the Videos app on the iPhone, and selected TV Series where it was listed, along with the other 2 episodes in Series 1. Selecting the name of the episode I owned started to stream it, but I wanted to download it instead. Nowhere could I find the download button. Hitting Read More under the episode description didn't help, and I eventually gave up.
I recently enabled file vault to encrypt my disk but now Google Chrome is really slow and it seems to be related to the file vault. The slowness is in anything and everything I do in chrome: opening a new tab, opening a link or a bookmark, even switching to a different gmail inbox tab is slow. I've already changed my new tab page to be blank, which helped a little but it is still very slow.
When adding a new contact, I"m confused when I get to the "phone contact numbers". I only see Mobile and Home. I want to add a fax number, but it isn't available and it isn't offered in Add another field.
I have a 2.5" SSD (Crucial CT480M500SSD1) that I want to use as my boot drive on my mid-2010 8-core Mac Pro. It doesn't fit the hard drive mounting brackets, which are designed for 3.5" drives. Because the SSD (a) is very light and (b) has no moving parts (and therefore no gyroscopic effects and no vibration), I'm considering mounting it without using a bracket at all—just plugging in straight into the socket, and letting the socket hold it in place. Is this reasonably safe?
I am in need of a new MBP. I do development (Ruby/Rails) on my mid 2009 13" MBP running Mavericks, and I find it is getting old enough that I'm getting some lag when I'm running DB and web server, Rubymine, browsers, etc. all at once. I would buy the latest 13" MBP today, as I don't need more than the 8GB/256GB setup. My issue is the screen itself. I LOVE the glossy screens, but I went to the Apple Store and touched the screen on a new RMBP. The LCD distorted as it flexed. Apparently these are plastic screens? A while back I was looking at a friend's MacBook Air. I didn't realize the screens were plastic, no glass like my older MBP. I get why they are using plastic, but it seemed like he had to use a screen protector on his MBA because oil from the tips of his fingers would collect on the keys, and the keys would touch the screen when it was closed. This happened on my old Pismo Powerbook and my 12" PowerBook. The oil actually attacks the plastic and mars it permanently.
Like so many other people, I have an iOS 7 device that fails to backup to iCloud. Automatic backups don't occur, and I periodically get the "your iPhone has not been backed up in n weeks" message. Manual backups fail silently. I used Xcode to look at the iPhone's console while running a manual backup, and I saw this message:
I restored my MacBook to factory settings and I bought OS X Lion because my iTunes account never had it. However, I can't activate it because the Mac can't continue unless it has the program installed or says "you must sign in with an Apple ID that was used to purchase OS X Lion."
If I am using a laptop in clamshell mode, and then I unplug the screen and disconnect the power without opening up the laptop, will it automatically go to sleep or will it stay turned on?
I'd like to allow audio to keep working when the screen lock is activated. I.e. the computer should not sleep, really, but I want the security of automatic locking. I'm on OSX 10.8.5, if it matters.
I've been noticing some oddities with my computer lately. Applications running slower than normal. Hanging. I decide to run Disk Utility and I get the following statement:
I understand the concept behind the various memory usage, but I don't understand why there are Inactive memory and Page In upon boot up. There are no applications that have started which hasn't quit, and what was in RAM that was written to HD that is being brought back as shown in Page In?
For my next presentation, I plan to use Keynote Remote so I can control a Keynote presentation with my iPhone. Will this work while the MacBook Air is in 'closed clamshell' mode? If yes, are there any caveats?
I'm looking to connect my iPhone 5 to my iPad Mini to upload pictures taken from my iPhone 5. What adapters and/or cables are needed?
In linux in CLI I can press ALT + F or ALT + B to move back and forth in terms of words and not one character at a time. Is this available in Mac? There is no ALT and I tried Control + F, Fn + F, Command + F but it does not work. BTW I am using the default console installed.
When carriers roll out Voice over LTE (VoLTE), is the iPhone 5s capable of using it?
What's a reasonably short path to getting OS X to be an NTP client of an NTP server, using autokey? I tried adding the server's public keyfile (iffpar) and the appropriate commands in ntp.conf in the same way that works on a Linux client, but I'm not getting an authenticated connection from the OS X (10.8.5) client. Contents of /private/etc/ntp.conf: Files in /private/etc/ntp/ directory:
I am running Mac Os X 10.9.1. I downloaded and open an .mpkg file and when through the installation flow but at the end of it I still don't know where the files were installed. Is there a way to find out what the mpkg executable did in terms of which directories were modified or what files were added and where? I checked the Applications folder and can't see anything relevant there...
My iPhone 4S that has iOS 7, the headphone jack won't work. In iOS 6 it did usually work but the sound was very low. After updating to iOS 7 the jack won't work at all. Can someone please help me out?
I need toggle playPause for iPhoto, so I wrote this script I sent this command via ssh (with osascript -e '%s') and resume feature doesn't work (start and pause work correctly). so I wrote helper script it works correctly when I run it via AppleScript editor, but not if I run this code via ssh. [edited] I run scripts exactly this way:
I've purchased myself a Mac Book Pro Retina (Haswell) and after giving Mac OS a fair shake have decided to go full Windows 7 and Bootcamp. There is no Mac OS install left on this system.
I have a MacBook Pro 15" around 2009, that isn't working. Is it possible to take its screen and turn it into an external monitor? Maybe buy some controller and do a little soldering?
I have a guitar track that I accidentally recorded in stereo. I can't find anywhere in garageband to change it to mono after the fact. Is this possible? Panning the guitar track to the right silences the track, but if it's panned all the way to the left it's full. Any ideas?
After school, I was doing research on Canadian Blood Service. I went into pages and than it got stuck. I wait for 3 minutes nothing happened so I hold the lock button and try to shut my iPad down but nothing works, I was listening to music at the same time and the music is still playing. I has to do a hard reset by holding home button and lock button. After the reset I found out that every single app has gone missing except for the Stock apps which comes with the phone, and my jailbreaking app suck as Cydia ifile, IAP Free and etc. I reboot many times but nothing happened. The apps are still taking up the storage but I can't see them in usage not search. Does anyone have any idea? I urgently needs help.
When I upgrade to OS X Mavericks (10.9), after the final reboot (where it asks for your Apple ID), should I expect Screen Sharing to be functioning properly? (Q: Has anyone done this, or can verify that they've seen or heard it work?) I'm running a Mac mini (Late-2012) using Screen Sharing with no physical display attached. Notes I have already installed ARD 3.7.1 - *=URL=* and it is working fine so I no longer have the firewall issue as mentioned here: *=URL=* (with 10.8.5 and ARD 3.7, I had to disable the firewall in order to use Screen Sharing) and it is working fine so I no longer have the firewall issue as mentioned here: *=URL=* (with 10.8.5 and ARD 3.7, I had to disable the firewall in order to use Screen Sharing) (with 10.8.5 and ARD 3.7, I had to disable the firewall in order to use Screen Sharing) Update
I'd love to make this task run at logout and would like to know how to set that up. Logout hook?
I'm looking for a text editor with the ability to float above other windows. As far as I know, Sublime and the native TextEdit don't have this feature. Is there some other program that does have this feature?
I'm aware of all the hide all / minimize all shortcuts (cmd + alt + h/m) and am looking into something more sophisticated: I want to minimize all windows except active one – like the Shake function in windows 7 (Link) I work with lots of chrome windows and I have to focus on one of them Thanks a ton for your help!
I have a Apple Mac mini "Core Duo" 1.66 from 2006 sitting around. I also have on order a CiT 3.5 inch USB 2.0 Dual SATA HDD Enclosure and was thinking of getting a WD Green 4TB Desktop Internal SATA Hard Drive to put in it. Can I set the Mac Mini to mount the USB HDD and use the 4tb as the TimeMachine for my Macbook and iMac? Do I need to worry about the Mac Mini not being able to run 10.9 OSX or about the type/make of HDD I put in the caddy? If I add a second HDD can the Mac Mini JBOD or RAID them in the caddy to expand storage size? Thanks Andrew
It's very annoying to always have to open the Information about... window to get the path of a folder or a file. Is there something like a contextual menu to get the url or the path of any file or folder?
I am using TotalTerminal. Now, I want to use Go2Shell, so that I can access quickly a terminal in the good folder. But, when I click on the Go2Shell icon, it opens a usual Terminal and not a TotalTerminal shell. Is there a way to use TotalTerminal with Go2Shell or to open in TotalTerminal a shell set to the current directory?
I type open -a all the time from the terminal, and more often than not the application I want is Google Chrome.app, so I end up entering things along the lines of: I'd like to create a symlink/shortcut to /Applications/Google Chrome.app named gch.app or what have you, so I can open -a gch foo.html which is slightly quicker.
I'm currently studying abroad in England. I have an iPod touch, iPhone 5, and Macbook Air. I recently took the SIM card out of my iPhone and received a UK Sim card so I can use data and texting here in London. However, I obviously got a new phone number with that. I was fine with having a new phone number and simply using iMessage on my laptop or iPod touch seeing as all my friends from home have that. However, my US messages are not working now that my iPhone is associated with a new number. Anyone have a solution?
Right now my MacBook Pro is set to go to sleep after 1 hour and then when I wake it back up, I have to wait for it to find/connect to Wi-Fi again. How can I maintain the Wi-Fi connection so when I wake the computer, it's already connected? I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on a Retina MacBook Pro. Here are my Energy Saver preferences:
I can have screensavers show on all my monitors, but I would like one that would use all screens as if they were one big monitor (so the animation would flow from one to the other). e.g. something like the swordfish screensaver: Is that possible, are there any out there?
I have started using markdown for simple texts, writing in TextWrangler. I am quite happy to use Finder and QuickLook to preview the file and have installed the QLMarkdown.qlgenerator but it only works with files using the markdown extension. The Info.plist indicates that it should work with mdown, md, `text and more. Does anyone know how to get QuickLook working?
I have a recurring problem: My MacBook Pro recognizes and connects to my building's wifi network (the provider happens to be Natural Wireless). But it doesn't redirect to their boring terms page that I have to click that "I agree" to in order to access the internet.
How can I tell Keyboard Maestro to only enable a given trigger (e.g. a hot key) when a specific application is active? For example, I would like a specific macro/hotkey that pastes without formatting to only be active when I am editing a document in Word or TextEdit.
Have an Epson WF-3540 connected to my network. When I start Image Capture, it shows that I have 1 shared device. However, I always have to click on the Show button to be able to interact with the scanner. How can I make it auto-expand?
I'm looking for a quality time-tracking app/system. Here are the features I need: Works on both OS X and iOS with syncing (iCloud or Dropbox preferred) Includes tag/label system to allow for filtered analysis
I would like to config my Mac (10.8.5) to turn the sound off every time I power it off so that when I power it back on it is silent and doesn't produce that funny boot sound. Can that be done?
When I search a file in Spotlight, it provides me a good result. But the problem is that I want to open the file in Finder, instead of directly opening the file in an application. How can I open in searched files in Finder, meaning that I want to open the folder that contains the searched files in Finder? If I can do what I want in another application like Alfred, that will be also wonderful.
I’m trying to install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.3, which I just purchased from Apple (so it’s not tied to any hardware), into a VMWare Fusion 5.x VM, and the install keeps failing. At first I was getting “ERROR_DOWNLOAD_FAILED” as the reason, so I disabled the network adapter for the VM to see what happened. At that point, it failed with the even more helpful “support files could not be installed”. That’s it; it didn’t bother to tell me which support files, just that they couldn’t be installed. When I tried again, it went back to “ERROR_DOWNLOAD_FAILED”. I turned the network adapter back on, and failed the same way.
See comment in accepted answer for the likely problem source. I'm using my laptop (an early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro running OS 10.9.1) on a campus network. I have had random disconnection issues on this (and only this) network. The problem occurs as follows. After some time of working fine (usually an hour or two), I begin being disconnected from the network consistently. I can stay connected for maybe 10 or 20 seconds before being disconnected again. When I am disconnected, the computer gives itself a self-assigned IP address, and maybe a minute later is (sometimes) able to get a new address from the DHCP server. If I manually renew the DHCP lease (sometimes) or if I turn Wi-Fi off and on (almost all the time), it connects again, but only for another 20 seconds. A reboot does not help; it begins the disconnect cycles immediately on boot.
I have an event in ical that recurs every day. I would like to randomize the start time of this event (which schedules an applescript) so that the start times are random but within 30 min of each other. I've done google and duckduck searches for: randomize ical event start time; randomize ical events by 5 minutes, and have gotten nothing relevant. I've had a look at the applescript dictionary for iCal but cannot find a useful function. I don't need the whole script just a hint in the right direction or a function that I could use to create the events instead of modifying them all by hand.
I've upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion. I've used the keyboard shortcut "Control" + "number" to switch between Spaces. The upgrade broke this. I've checked System Preferences and all the settings are the same as before. Is there a fix to restore this feature? Thanks
Any idea what steps I should take? One I can think of is to go to all my accounts that I had used my iCloud e-mail for and change that. But as for my app purchases and music purchases, I am pretty much hosed.
Say I am running an application (e.g. Emacs) in full-screen. Sometimes I will receive a new email in Outlook or a message on HipChat and don't know it until I go back to see my dock or exit full-screen.
I bought my iPhone 5s about 3 days ago.Once i bought it i activated the phone from one of my friend's AppleID and password , because i needed to check if the phone functions well, before i leave the shop.but then after when i got back home i made a new apple account and used the phone with that account. But since my phone is activated from my friend's iCloud i logged into account from his appleID and password. then i removed the device from his account. Then i erased the phone then rebooted it and setup a new i phone with my AppleID and iCloud but still my phone is NOT Activated in my new account??
I loved selfcontrol, until stupid me found a way to go around it simply by changing the time settings. Then its the easiest thing to stop selfcontrol. Do any of you have an idea how to make this impossible? Password protect time settings and through the password away? Or... Anything, thanks!
While searching for a good (better) solution for this Solution, I try to solve my problem with Packages, but with no success. My concrete problem looks simple: Copy a file to /tmp (it's an configuration script) Execute the following command: sudo installer -allowUntrusted -pkg "esets_remote_install.pkg" -target / Execute the following command: So there are some (or a lot of questions): To solve this problem, have I chose Distribution or Raw Package? On a Raw Package (which also could included in distribution, I can choose Require admin password for installation, if this is checked, do I still need sudo before install?
I've made an application that I drop EPS files on and it makes two copies and renames them and transfers them to SMB shares. But sometimes when I have more than one file selected in other windows, Finder passes multiple files onto Automator. All I really need it to use are EPS files, ignoring others and passing the EPS files on to automator for renaming.
I am running Numbers 3.1. When I try to select the Insert > MathType Equation... option, it is disabled. There doesn't seem to be anything in the help related to this feature. How can I use this menu option?
I did enable speech recognition just in case, but very rarely use it, and I did not remember even accidentally activating it since bootup. Now I simply have a few apps running under Mavericks, and I noticed my fan spinning, so checked Activity Monitor and see that com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond takes up 986.1 MB of RAM. What could this be? I do use Chrome Canary, and I installed the Voice Search beta extension, but I don't think it is active now, and I haven't noticed the memory issue before.
There is no obvious way to power down an AirPort Time Capsule in a graceful way. Naturally, you typically won't be powering the thing on and off on a regular basis, but I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a way to do it given that the device has a storage component that might be damaged by a sudden shutdown. Is there a way to power down an AirPort Time capsule gracefully?
What i get back makes no sense. Plotting columns as series i get
Is there any software to put certain "widgets" on the desktop, such as notes or a clock? I would like to have apps permanently affixed there, rather than being open as separate apps or hovering over other windows.
I have three desktops (plus dashboard) set up with Mission Control, with certain apps assigned to each desktop. If I minimise a window with Cmd+M in one desktop, then whilst focussed on another desktop restore that window using F10 and selecting the tile, the window restores to the focussed desktop, not the one to which its app is assigned.
I am using a Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Apple) to connect to my network. While downloading larger files the MacBook Pro blanks the screen and disconnects the network even though it is active doing the download.
I am a heavy user of Google Apps email. After the upgrade (?) to Mavericks, I find that any mail that I have already first seen on my iPhone does NOT appear in my Mail app on the MacBook Air.
In Chrome, if I do cmd+P to print, and click Print Using System Dialog, then click on the PDF dropdown button, I get a command called Save PDF to DEVONthink Pro. In System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts, I created a shortcut named Save PDF to DEVONthink Pro. But pressing that keystroke has no effect. How do can I call this command using a single keystroke?
I recently purchased the Day One journaling app, and it geotags my posts. However, it really bugs me that it sets my home location as the wrong address. It's close, it's within a few hundred feet, but the address isn't quite right.
After jailbreaking my iPad everything went well until one day pages glitched and i has to do a hard reset(pressing home button and lock button) after that all my apps were erased except for Cydia and Stock Apps. I tried many different way to fix it but nothing worked. Than i reset all the settings. After that my Cydia is gone too, the missing apps are still taking storage and my iPad is still jailbroken, anyone now how do i get the apps back? Thanks. My iPad is iPad 4 32GB, white WIFI. Jailbroken with evasion7 using 7.0.4 system.
I'd like to execute a simple AppleScript command as part of a Sublime Text build system. I created a sublime-build file where the command is
Recently, I tried to boot into the Recovery HD partition in order to perform some basic verify/repair operations using Disk Utility, only to find that my Recovery HD partition will not boot. Instead, I get a spinning progress indicator for 10 seconds before the computer shuts off. My computer (2012 rMBP, 10.9.1 Mavericks) boots into the main partition without issue.
I'm relatively new to the wondrous world of Apple and Mac OS X so please bear with me.. I have an application which I would like to see which URLs it is "connecting" or "communicating" with. Is that at all possible and if so, I would be very glad to be pointed in the right direction. Cheers
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, whenever I plug in my iPod, Spotlight tries to index my iPod. I don't want this to happen, since it puts a lot of stress on the iPod's drive (iPod 4th Generation, 40GB), and I don't really need it to be indexed. This has not happened with previous versions of OS X. I've tried excluding the iPod from the Spotlight settings, but it still is preparing to index the iPod when I open Spotlight. Is there a way to exclude the iPod from the Spotlight indexing?
I would like create a python script that mounts a Windows smb share on a Mac then copies data to it. I am falling at the first hurdle, having problems with mounting the share. It should be really easy but I can't get it to work. I have trawled the internet and have a few clues: This doesn't work but I have seen another solution that uses the os module for the mount command: But this doesn't work either.
I noticed that one of my contacts (my dad!) suddenly disappeared from my iPhone, in the middle of the day. I don't remember doing anything or deleting it.
My device is simply not charging while connected to my Windows 8 system. I've heard of my friends having this issue too. There is no connection issue, my computer recognizes it is plugged in, but I don't think it knows what it is and it clearly doesn't allow for charging. What could be causing this?
I have just noticed a brown type of sticky residue in my charge port on my MacBook Pro, it wipes off but not completely and to me it smells like battery. Can anybody tell me if I have a problem here, or if this is normal?
The CrashPlan Menu Bar item app, is located as a sub item within the package of the main CrashPlan app: /Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Resources/CrashPlan menu bar.app Applications are indexed by Spotlight, but applications within Application bundles are not on Mac OS X 10.7.5. How to manually (Terminal) add such an app within an application bundle to the Spotlight index?
I have a .icns file. I want to make the icon of folder to be this .icns. How can I make that? The .icns file that I use does not have the .icns file as its icon. I have tried to copy the .icns file in Preview and paste it to the icon, but it copies the 1024x1024 image.
I wanted to try out R Shiny but whenever I try any of the examples my R crashes: Running from the R Gui or RStudio I get more information (in the details). I noticed an RcppExports.cpp call before crash. I have had issues with the libc++ (LLVM C++ standard library with C+11) versus the libstdc++ (GNU C++ standard library) before and given that I know Rcpp requires the GNU library and the LLVM library is the default in Xcode 5 I suspect that might have something to do with it. Does anyone know how I would change the default C++ library being loaded on Mac OS X (10.9.1) ? Not for building obviously - I can override that manually in the make.
I use Firefox and Chrome as my main navigators, but I use sometimes Safari to test some developments. On Firefox and Chrome, typing an URL in the address bar and then pressing Alt + Return makes a new tab to be opened. On Safari, typing an URL in the address bar and then pressing Alt + Return makes the target address saved to a file (which annoys me because it makes an unuseful file in my Download folder). To open a new tab after typing the address, I have to use the Cmd + Return. I wonder if it is possible to swap cmd and alt key only for Safari (not other apps) and how to do this, or at least make Safari open a new tab when I press Alt+Return in the address bar. One last thing: I am on Mavericks Any idea ?
I have a 2012 iMac 21" with the latest Mavericks. I also have a need for a bootable Snow Leopard external drive so I can run Boot Camp with XP. I purchased a Snow Leopard Retail install disk only to find the iMac refuses to boot from it and instead I get a blue screen with Black insert showing unix style error messages. Sorry, but unable to capture these. I have no doubt I am missing something here, but at a loss for what it is.
This is my first Mac. On Windows I can set each network connection as either Home, Work or Public using "Network Location". Each mode has different sharing and security options. Is there a way to do this for the Mac? For example, at home I want to turn on File Sharing, but in Public I want it turned off. Furthermore, in Public I'd like to automatically "Enable stealth mode" in my security settings. Basically, I want to automatically adjust network and security settings based on which network I'm connected to.
Back in late 2010, when I first got my MacBook Air, I followed the instructions at *=URL=* to install Windows 7 on the metal (not virtualized). I've been thrilled with it until recently when battery life began to flag. I reinstalled Windows today expecting to lose some cruft I've inadvertently gathered over the years, and regain some performance/battery life. I'm now no longer able to boot into Mac OS X, and did not mean to lose that functionality.
As the subject suggests, I recently upgraded to OSX Mavericks, and... I had a bunch of modules installed there, mostly Django stuff and dependencies thereof under 2.7, and now it seems to all be... just gone. And no, the READMEs don't say anything helpful. So, questions:
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro that I use an external 1440p monitor/keyboard/mouse with. Another question shows it's not possible to boot it without opening the lid. When I do this, all of my windows resize/move to fit the 900p internal display, messing up my work environment every time I bring my computer from sleep. Is there anyway around this?
I tried to install Stardict on my macbook. but it didn't work What have i tried? I tried to follow this guide *=URL=* but it didn't work for me or may be i did something wrong. Who can install Stardict on mac machine, Can you tell me how to install it?
I am using VPN to connect to work server. On windows I enter \\Imbserver into explorer address bar and I can see files on server.
I have a password management application (KeePassX) of which backup I sync over Dropbox across several computers. However the password database can be open only on one computer at a time for file locking reasons. Problems arise when one computer goes to sleep and the application is left open on this computer, the database locks are never removed and in the worst case there are unsaved changes in the database. Would it be possible to make a program to prompt closure on sleep (like with shutdown) or record a macro which closes the program when the computer puts itself to sleep or is made sleep through Apple menu?
iPhone 5 is running iOS7. Macbook Pro is the 15" MacBook Pro Retina on Mavericks.
Running Mavericks (recently upgraded from Snow Leopard) I have three apps open on three of my 5 desktops -- Safari on desktop 1, TextEdit on 2, and Calendar on 3. I right-click on each icon in the dock on their respective desktops, and check Assign To This Desktop. I can right-click again any number of times to verify that that option is indeed checked. I can Cmd+right and Cmd+left across them, or Cmd+<number> to jump to the numbered desktop, and everything works fine. In particular, the apps stay where they're supposed to.
I am a student using a program to do practice questions. The program is set up to run like the actual test program in that it will take up the whole screen and block other applications. I have a lot of studying to do and would like to help my eyes out by opening it on the bigger monitor I have connected through VGA but I cannot drag it over nor get it to open there first.
I'm new to MAC OS. Using MacOSX 10.9.1 (Mavericks). My external HDD is formatted with NTFS.
I am running the most current iTunes 11.14 version and am trying to sync my contacts on my computer to my iPhone 4s. From everything that I have read, I'm told to find the "info" button and select from my choices. For some odd reason, my version of iTunes does not have or show the "info" button next to Summary and Apps, etc. Where is that little critter and if it's not on this version, how do I sync my contacts from my Mac to my phone?
I am using OS X 10.9. I am unable to drag Desktops from one screen to another, I am only able to switch arrangements on the screen that its on. Here are my Mission Control settings EDIT: Very strange, after a reboot the functionality seems to be working now without me making any changes.
I will be getting several mac minis for different branches that will have installed my software application which I need my employees to use. I need to make sure of the following: When the computer starts for my application to be on in full screen mode For the user to not be able to exit the app
I'm considering upgrading some of my machines from Snow Leopard to OSX Mavericks (and possibly buying a new Mac Pro), but I'm extremely concerned about losing the "Save as" option in third party software such as Photoshop, After Effects, Avid etc. My question to anyone running Mavericks is this: Have you come across any piece of software that still has a "Save as" option? (If anyone has had experience with an Adobe product running on Mavericks that would be even better).
I was looking around on Cydia until it suddenly froze then after a few minutes the screen turned black. I know that it is on because when I press the lock button and home button at the same time, I can hear the camera sound from the screenshot but it's still a black screen. I tried everything I could think of but nothing works.
I have found much information about locking screens on MAC's but what I cant find is how to have the display continue to show whatever is on it, but to have the keyboard locked and require a password to allow the computer to be actively used, not just as a display. This is so I can have a live status screen displayed but the laptop cant be messed with without 'unlocking' Can anyone help me with this? Thanks... Stewie
My MacBook (non-pro) Aluminum is a few years old. Lately I experience the problem that my fans are running high even with moderate usage and the body really heatens up. It did this before, but only under heavy load (videos, flash or compiling of source files). Now it seems like a regular thing. I also have the comparison to another MacBook Pro, which is definitely not showing this behaviour, so I am quite sure that I am not imagining things. Also one night when I closed the lid of my macbook, fans would not stop running (it seems it did not go to sleep mode). Any Ideas what might be the reason? The only thing I can imagine is actually to open up the body and remove the dust from there with a spray duster.
I'm currently waiting for iOS 7.1, so I jail broke my phone to test out some features until then. What happens after I try to update to the new iOS ? Will I lose all pictures/data that I've created after my recent backup ? Or will I retain them and just lose the jail break ?
I'm thinking of getting an Apple TV and streaming BBC iPlayer to it via my 2009 MacBook Pro. So: Is it possible? Is it possible?
On my 7.9" iPad Mini Retina, I'd like to use the full screen to shown content. Currently, the iBooks app simply wastes too much screen space on left/right margins. Is there an alternative for reading ePUBs, say, to have an option to define margin size?
I am going on a road trip and want to use Google Maps for iOS. The problem is there will not always be data access along the way.
When I type diskutil list, I see disks I don't recognise: /dev/disk0 is my physical HDD and /dev/disk1 is a ram disk I use with Xcode, however I don't recognise /dev/disk2 onwards. They look like they might be related to Xcode/iPhone development in some way, however I've not noticed them before. Strangely, they don't appear when using the mount command: EDIT Here's a bit info for one of the disks: Can anyone explain what they are?
I recently bought a second hand 2010 MacBook Pro. Just discovered that the Left sided 'Option' key is not working. I have no comeback on this so trying to determine if I can either fix it myself or do I bite the bullet and go to a genius bar.
I own an Early 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1. I have configured two email accounts with my mail app(one hotmail and another gmail), and both use imap. The problem is that when I send an email to a particular person, the app sends two mails(one duplicate) in place of one. Please help. EDIT: Upon some troubleshooting I found that this is a problem only with hotmail, my gmail account is working fine.
My iMac is stuck in a login bootloop. After entering the password, I see a white screen for a second and then I am thrown back to the login screen again. I tried the same in safe mode, and it behaves the same. I also tried resetting the PRAM, and it behaves the same even after that.
How do you stop a favorite recorded "gesture" once you are done using it? I am working with patients who have severe fine motor skills deficits. They must use a stylus to work on an iPad or iPhone.
How can I make iOS's Siri set an alarm AND name/label the alarm at same time? I set many alarms on my iPhone5S running iOS7, and sometimes it's hard to remember what I set them for when they go off. With a label I'm reminded the purpose (of the alarm). I don't want to take time to manually edit the alarm after Siri sets it--that's what I want Siri to do for me. Some discussion here with apparently no clear answer, or at least nothing that yet works reliably on my phone.
I want to buy replacement Magsafe 1 cable for my MBP 17" Late 2011, and they are available in two options — L-shaped and T-shaped. My computer was shipped with L-shaped connector, however I want to swap it for T-shaped, as I find it more convenient.
This has been bugging me for a while. While I see the exclamation point in the exclamation/comma key, there is no way to make that key type the exclamation point. What I am able to do with the key is to type comma and single quote with the key.
I am using TotalTerminal. I know that I can set hotkeys to show or hide TotalTerminal's visor, but is there a command I can put at the end of a command line to hide it? For example:
I have installed GPG Suite by GPG Tools on my Mac. I sent my public key to my associate, who encrypted a file and sent it to me. The file, myfile.gpg is now sitting on my desktop and I'm told by my associate that I just have to double-click on it, enter my private key, and the file will be decrypted. Sounds reasonable, but it doesn't work.
Whenever I'm doing anything GPU-intensive (games or CUDA simulations), after about 30 minutes, the chassis gets extremely hot (enough so that my hands sweat if hovering over the keyboard or typing) and the app in question either crashes with an exception, or silently exits. Of course, before that happens, the fans are running full speed. (In this case, under Windows 7 via rEFInd.) The game in question is Portal, which runs fine at full speed and resolution on this machine (not unexpected since the game is several years old), at least until it exits. I'm guessing this is due to the video driver terminating the application to prevent damage to the machine, but I can't be sure. Occasionally, even if not running that type of app - say, browsing the web or word processing - the machine will get very hot and the fans will kick in. Is this typical behavior for this machine, or something wrong with this particular unit?
Question; Does Time machine takes 2 backups (each on one hard disk) or 1 back up distributed on both hard disks. (when using 2 external hard drives.) Because if I select 2 different external hard disks in TIME MACHINE preferences, It says "Time Machine will take turn backing up to 'disk 1' and 'disk 2'"
I've had an ongoing problem that appears to be specific to OS X and Terminal.app: periodically, I get garbage in my tcsh history that looks like this: Somehow my prompt (including markup control characters) is getting stored as part of the command history. In my .history file, the corrupt commands are repeated with the same command number:
I have many recordings where I want English subtitles. However, those subtitles do not exist. So it would be great to have some application which could pick up some words and make a raw subtitle. Is there any good software to make subtitles from recordings in OSX?
The launchpad search field suddenly no longer accepts text input for me.  Any idea how to get this to accept text again? Searching for an app was so very useful.
Is it possible to change the position of the on screen display (OSD) of the volume indicator that appears when you change the volume with the keyboard? Right now mine is very low, and I thought it was supposed to be centered vertically on the screen. I'm on Mavericks if it matters.
There is this other question that asks about What OS X and iOS software combination tracks finances? But most of the software listed there is much to powerful (and complicated) for me. I just tried out the demo for YNAB, but I can't get my head around that software. What the hell is a budget, anyway? All I want is a very simple tool that allows me to: begin with a starting balance enter monthly income (salary) enter monthly expenses (rent, health insurance, telephone) optional: with date optional: quarterly / yearly payments
I'm using Airport Utility 5.6.1 on Mavericks (installed from links here). I'm trying to figure out how the Advanced > Syslog Destination Address setting works...
I recently inherited some old mac machines and was told to look for anything important on the before formatting them. One of the things that is installed on these machines is Office:MAC 2011, and everytime I open one of these documents I'm concerned that another falls off the recently opened list. I'd like to save the list of recent files some how so that I don't loose anymore recently opened documents. Is it possible to somehow export this list so I can view the list without destroying the list?
Angry Birds Go comes with a menu item where you can watch Angry Birds Toons and other movies. Is it possible to block these movies (as a "parental control")? For example: Is the server serving the movies known such that I can block the server in the router?
This takes a long time Then the apple and spinner Then the "do-do-da" sound of a typical re-start Then the login screen Then same grey screen Boot with CMD+V terminal output along the lines of: bootfile path System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi goes by really fast Goes to login first Then lots of terminal output I have pics but hard to read, could zoom and crop if needed, here is right before grey screen
Can I change this behaviour? Or must I have the spinning disk mounted every time TM backs up? [1] Well, I have an online backup, but to me, that's last-last-resort.
When an HFS Plus volume is unmounted or ejected, maybe? Noted recently in Console, whilst repeatedly/aggressively partitioning a simple USB flash drive and erasing its multiple journaled HFS Plus file systems, messages such as this: In System Information, the drive – a Kingston DataTraveler 400 – is not treated as a solid state medium, and there's no 'TRIM Support:' line. I don't do code, but it seems to me that ignoring trim appears in a part of the code – the hfs_unmap_free_extent routine – that would apply where TRIM is in some way supported. This leaves me wondering whether – in addition to supposed nanosecond-critical routine(s) that may run whilst a file system is mounted – a lesser-known and relatively crude (less critical) routine can run at other times.
I am trying to install Dropplet on my Mavericks Server. I have created the site in Server and copied the files to the root directory.
On Feb. 8 (22:50 UTC). I got another computer to connect the MBP in target mode. I was able to open the plist with PropertyList Editor to check that the content was not corrupted. Plist files are valid, even if I don't know if their content is pertinent with the situation.
I'd like to grep and replace specific text in textfiles within a directory and all subdirs. I try the following:
The title says it all: How can I find out which Python packages are pre-installed with Mavericks?
Push notifications in Gmail app on my iPhone are not working properly anymore. I have the Primary only selected for my push notifications. For some reason I am getting notifications for the emails I don't care about in my primary inbox, and all of the email I actually care about in my primary inbox I am not getting notifications. Can I please get some ideas on how to fix this? Are there any other good apps for getting push notifications for Gmail?
I've a problem with my external hard drive, a Western Digital 3TB, with my Mac running OS X 10.9, Mavericks. When my hard drive is linked to my MacBook Air and, I work with it, the drive suddenly unmounts from my Mac. This happens with tasks such as viewing photos, moving files, and opening files. I tried to exclude my hard drive from Spotlight search but the problem persists. I've scary because I might loose all my work and files.
I am using Alfred and hence I don't have any use for the Cmd+Space keyboard shortcut. I want to invoke terminal using that shortcut. Just like in Ubuntu, when you press Ctrl+Alt+T, is there a way to start terminal like that in OS X Mavericks?
I create a file by touch myFile in the Terminal. When I open this file in the Finder, it opens with TextEdit. But TextEdit is not ok for me, because it automatically transforms the character ' into ‘, which is not satisfactory for coding. Thus, I want to always open these files with Sublime for instance. But, when I CMD+I this file to change the default opening application for such files, I get an error message.
I would like my macbook to reduce its screen brightness to zero when I connect it to an external display. I know there's no such setting, but how would I go about writing a script that would do that?
I am planning to buy a new computer. I want to use Visual Studio 2013 and app development for iOS.
I installed Windows 8 on my macbook pro (Item No : 8899069, Mftr Part No : MD313LL/A) via boot camp. I installed the boot camp support tools. The wifi adapter says that it is working correctly. However, when I go into the control panel, the wifi adapter is not enabled. When I try to enable it, it says "enabling...", but then goes away. It's not enabled afterwards.
I ran locate blob.txt and I got: I ran this command and my locate database was built within a few minutes (includes tens of thousand of files). On my Linux (Ubuntu) system my locatedb database is updated automatically by default, on a daily basis I believe. How do I turn this on for my Mac?
I just did a hard reset on my iPhone 4S by wiping the phone and restoring an iCloud backup. During that process, I used my iPad charger to make sure it stayed charged while it was being wiped and restored.
I have several pieces of server software installed on my MacBook Pro for work using Homebrew. There is one service in particular, that likes to peg the CPU after the OS wakes up from sleep until I restart it. The service is currently managed by launchd, and I am wondering if there is a way for me to tell launchd to stop the service when the OS goes to sleep, and then start it up again on wake.
I lost my albums and books in iPhoto and cannot retrieve them. Is there anything I can do to retrieve these lost files?
I'd like to be able to display videos and pictures through my MacBook Pro's webcam on Skype and other online chat sites. I previously used programs such as ManyCam to emulate a webcam, however, many online sites no longer accept external video inputs - only iSight (built-in or external).
When I try to connect (cmd-k) to my MacBook Pro from my Mac Mini - using "afp://name.local" or the IP instead of the name, I get an error logged to console AFP error -1 mapped to EIO I can connect the reverse way, from MacBook Pro to Mac Mini and both run Mavericks.
In Gmail, I can go to a web page, highlight web content, compose a Gmail message, and paste the HTML content into the email message. It works in Mail.app as well. But what app can I use to just paste the HTML content and then save it as an HTML file?
I deleted my Messages app but I'm not sure how to re-install it. What can I do? I'm on 10.9.1 by the way.
When I text 1 person (who also has iphone) the message never says Delivered but the person does get the message. Why doesn't it say delivered like it does to anyone else I text with iMessage?
I was forced to change my HD since the old one gives me I/O error on boot. I bought a Western Digital Blue WD5000LPVX, connected by USB to another Mac and format it using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. When I change the new hard drive and boot OS X Mavericks from USB drive, going to Disk Utility the new HD isn't recognized.
Because the AirPort Express units are old, only the old AirPort Utility (v5.x) can be used to configure them - but, that old version does not run under Mavericks.
As a side note (not sure if this is related), I run Windows 2012 Server in Parallels on that same Mac Mini, when I connect to is via Remote Desktop Connection, I have the same problem. Again, the previous generation setup (Windows 2008 on the older Airport Extreme and i5 iMac) worked far faster. The CPU and memory is idle 99% of the time on the Mac Mini. Thank you.
Is it possible to use automator to save all images from my Mail? I use Apple mail with 3 accounts, I want to filter messages by a criteria and get all the images from the messages? Can anyone tell me how can this be done?
We have one photo that overrides all the photos in iphoto thumbnails. When we pull the photo up it is different than what is on the thumbnail. We want to get rid of the thumbnail photo and have the actual photo underneath show.
How do I display zero value as blank cell in mac numbers 3.1 yet maintain a formula. I want a running balance column that only shows balance to the line of the last entry like a checkbook register. Thanks.
How does one share their calendar with a non-Iphone/ios user? I've tried everything and it seems that all your downloads and accesses keep you chasing in circles.
I am trying to turn on Hardware Virtualization for my new MacBook Pro for Windows 8.1 setup using Boot Camp. I have searched online and I know that we can not just go to the BIOS like windows and change settings. Unfortunately, most of the solution I have come across are for Parallels or VMs. Can anyone kindly let me know how to enable Hardware Virtualization on MBP for Windows 8.1 installed using Boot Camp?
Compatibility question I want to download the BBC iPlayer from the iTunes store on my Mac Book Air (10.9), but it is only available for iPad or iPhone as shown here:  Can I still somehow use it on my MBA ?
I want to download some WWDC session videos to my iPad. I don't want to download them to iTunes, then transfer them to my iPad. Is there a way to download them directly?
I am doing a restore of a Time machine backup to a new hard drive. The latest backup was completed on Feb 1, but I was very surprised to see that OS X Installer restore utility only lets me restore from "full backups" and the latest full backup was done Jan 15.
I have a NFS server set up on my local LAN running on Arch Linux that I can connect to using OS X Mavericks by issuing the following command in the terminal: As the NFS client is a MacBook Pro, I would like for it to automatically connect to the NFS server whenever I am home (and do nothing otherwise). Adding the following line in /etc/auto_master did not work: More specifically, running automount -vc yields the following: ...but /mnt/host is an empty directory even when I cd into it.
I would like to carry a Mac Mini from home to office daily as I work at both places. Would daily plugging /unplugging have any effect? What extra hardware from Apple would I need to purchase. My office has Windows 8 PCs.
By "built-in" I mean the backend of the System firewall (System Preference->Security&Privacy->Firewall). Is it ipfw or pf? (I know that ipfw was the backend for previous versions of OS X). And, what are the commands/logs that I can use to determine which firewall is running?
If I type the following into Terminal, it will remove all files that meet the search parameter: Then if I start again and type it with d instead of f it will remove all the directories How do I get it to remove type f and d in one fell swoop?
It's a totally newbie question, but I started using Mac computers like a month ago and this is something I can't find on the internet. Sometimes (yeah not always and I can't even find out when it happens) when I want to click the spotlight button it displays sound and doesn't work (I use cmd + f instead, but it's pretty confusing). Could you tell me why is it like this?
Is it possible to dual boot Windows 7 (on my internal disk) and OS X Mountain Lion using two different drives?
I've tried VLC and MPlayerX and I was disappointed with their "Recent" menu. VLC maintains very little history and it sometimes even randomly erases itself. I switched to MPlayerX -- it doesn't erase at random, but there are only 6 items in "Recent". I watch multiple TV series and this lack of more "Recent" history sometimes leads me to lose track of what is the most recent episode I've watched on the particular series. Does anyone know a video player that supports adjusting that to 25 or more items in it's "Recent" menu
I want to make a smart album that includes all photos with location information but excludes my home country. But filtering out a certain country just includes all photos without location information. How do I filter out those?
I'm using an iPhone for the first time and I found that I can't view the same file in different apps. I have have some PDF files added to Adobe Reader but I cant view them in a similar app that views PDF files. Same thing happens with songs, photos and videos.
I have registered my program with individual type from India and it's already 6 days delay but still now i haven't got any email yet. So how long it will take for the activation.
I'm currently working on a project that requires hyper links, which I was able to create in the 09 version of Pages, and which could be exported to PDF with all hyper links fully operational. Unfortunately the new version of Pages won't do this (you can enter hyper links in but they won't work when exported to PDF).
But every once in a while I stumble upon a site that requires flash (mostly YouTube videos, which I thought wouldn't be a problem given that Google was supposed to be switching everything over to HTML5), so for those cases I have an Appescript that runs when triggered through an Alfred Workflow (with a hotkey). The script is as such:
Im going to try to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall Mavericks but whenever i reboot the iMac and hit the OPTION key it won't show Mac OS X Base System. Can anyone help me on this?
I'm wondering what should I do with my Crucial M500 over my Macbook Pro with the last version of Mavericks. I've read that enabling TRIM also slow down a bit the writting/reading speed of the hard drive, but that it is also needed in order to avoid problems when the drive is 80% used. Some other people talk about the garbage collection saying that it should be enough. I've been checking some topics such as this one but I don't have it very clear yet... it seems enabling TRIM can be a bit risky.
My mom bought a HP Photosmart 5520. Unfortunately, this printer is not compatible with her OS X 10.5.8 system. Is there a possibility we can get this working?
I have an MY BOOK from western digital I used it once for TIME MACHINE BACKUP, now under windows the hard drive is not recognized and theres no way to format it since it not recognized by windows, but it is recognized by mac, how can I format it in mac so it will be recognized in windows once again?
I'm on PC with Microsoft Windows Vista. iTunes was stuck for forced it to close. When I reopened iTunes all 5000 of my songs were unchecked. How do I put the check mark back on all of them?
How can I enlarge my start up partition? I cannot drag the MAC OSX box (see below)
I just got an iPhone 5c. I had a Droid. I have several Droid charging cables. The Lightening charging cable I got with my iPhone detaches on the other end to a USB port. The Droid charging "bases"/wall outlets have USB ports. Can I recharge my iPhone 5 by plugging the Apple Lightning cable into a Droid base?
The delay for curl is substantially smaller than the delay for websites, even when it exists. Right now it is on the order of 15 seconds, because I haven't restarted in a while in the hopes of debugging it. A website will take much longer than this, perhaps 15 seconds while "waiting for www.---.com" followed by comparable lengths of time waiting for others.
I have an iPhone 5s that was bought several months ago. For some reason, it is quite slow on the wifi in my house - noticeably slower than 4g/LTE speed - and has been this way from the beginning. Other devices (Macbook, iPhone 4) do not have this problem when used from the same location. Also, the phone seems to work well on other wifi networks. Are there any ways to troubleshoot this?
I have two email accounts, A and B. On a laptop, I have forwarding from B to A, and I am able to reply from both email addresses when I check A. I added both accounts to the iPhone as well. However, in order for me to be able to reply from both addresses, the iPhone regularly checks messages from both accounts, resulting in duplicates due to forwarding. Is there a way to add B as a reply address to the iPhone without fetching mail from B?
I have a very weak connection through my Airport Express. By this I mean not a single Spotify song can play without being interrupted.
Whenever to unplug from the thunderbolt display one have to unmount all the devices connected to the display ports. Is there an automated way to do this without having to search for everything in finder?
Apple's Preview app always prints in the center of the page, rather than at top & left margins. This is true regardless of the scale (% size) an image is printed at. I'm hoping there's a way to change the default, rather than having to change a setting each time I print, though I haven't found a way to do that, either. Anyone know how this can be changed?
I have completely deleted all photos in all categories from my iPad 3 (16G iOS 7) but my settings continue to state that I still have 3.5G "used" (camera roll) in the Photos/camera app. I have no idea where/what these photos are and how to get rid of them. The management tool in i tunes when sync'ed with my iPad gives the following data. Apps: 2.45G Documents/data 1.25G Other 5.05G and 4.47G free.
Is there an app out there that will allow me to see who's calling my iPhone from my iPad? This seems so simple, yet there doesn't seem to be anything in the App Store, leading me to believe it's not possible.
I'm planning to use TagScanner to clean up the ID3 tags for my music (though I'd be happy to use an alternative if it addressed the problem below). Unfortunately, doing so will change the files out from under iTunes. One thing that worries me is that iTunes seems to like to keep my music in folders reflecting the artist's name. Once TagScanner has fixed the tags some files will be in a folder that's inconsistent with what one would expect based on the tags. I'd also like to make sure that iTunes' view of of the music reflects the updated information so that, for example, I can search for files using the repaired ID3 tags. How can I spruce up my music files without breaking iTunes?
I've also tried exiting vi using wq! and it still will not save the entry. The entry that I'm entering is: sayhi.sh is a simple shell script I'm using to try to verify that the cron job is running.
Is it possible to have a 3-screen Space across two displays such that you can swipe to toggle between seeing displays 1 & 2 or 2 & 3?
I have lots of single songs from albums in my iTunes library. I also have several albums. On my phone, when I look at the "Albums" view, I'm looking for an album to play. What I see are a whole lot of albums I don't actually have—most of them only contain a single song. Is there a way to get those albums to disappear from the album view?
At the moment, my iPhone apps(for example: Yahoo Weather) on my iPad 3 Retina running iOS 7.0(11A465) are displayed using the 3.5" iPhone screen in the iPad, is it possible for me to change it to display the 4" iPhone screen(iPhone 5) in the iPad? Thanks.
I'm doing this hack job where I have routed a cell phone's GPRS modem over to a local PTY. The proprietary debug software actually routes the modem over TCP, I then use socat to route it to a PTY (planning on using PPPD, which needs a serial terminal to connect to AFAIK). I plan on establishing a PPP connection over that PTY (maybe PPPD, or any other solutions?)
I have created a rsync script which has been working fine until I made recent modifications adding exclude-from clause to it. When running the script it returns the following error: rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/exclude.c(1005) [client=2.6.9] The bash script is as follows: The sync-music.exclude.txt file consists of this...
My iPhone 5S says it has synced with iTunes Match but some music is missing from the iPhone. I have Show All Music turned on. Is there some way to debug what is happening?
TextEdit in Mavericks changes the standard double quotes "Hello" to using curly, non-ascii quotation marks “Hello”. It does this even when you edit plain text documents. Is there a way to prevent this new behavior in Mavericks?
I recently noticed that whenever I watch a video in full screen on the Mac, the video has a certain level of translucency showing the contents of the window or the desktop behind it. This occurs with all YouTube videos I open in the browser as well as VLC Player. I haven't tested with every other video player I have yet. I haven't tested what happens with multiple monitors yet either. How can I get rid of this translucency?
Is this RAM going to be compatible with a mid 2011 iMac 21.5"?
I just got a new Mac Pro with OS X 10.9. When I run: I get the warning: I didn't install MacPorts or Fink, why do I get the warning?
I took some video on my iPhone and would like to transfer it to my Mac. However, it happens that I don't have my iPhone-to-USB cable with me today, so how I can I do it? If it was a photo I would just get it from my PhotoStream in iPhoto, but it seems videos don't appear there.
I'm a one-day novice at Pages (iOS/iCloud). I just figured out how include hyperlinks for emailing (mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx) and calling (tel:+00000), but as of yet I couldn't work out how to include a hyperlink in a Pages document that adds a Contact (plus details) or something equivalent (vcard?) (or a similar action like giving the option to add the contact). Can you help out?
Attempting to boot Ubuntu from a USB flash drive, I could only get as far as Grub. When trying to boot Ubuntu Desktop or run the graphicstest in Grub the system would hang. At this point, running Apple Hardware Test hung right before the end of the standard test, possibly [guessing] when doing a video test. Based on the advice in the Apple Discussions posts above I did the following: Boot into Single-User mode Execute the following commands:
When in text box in any application, such as search text boxes, address fields in Finder and Safari, or even inside sites such as Google's search text box: I use cmd + space to switch the language with which I type. But I want also to switch from right-to-left to left-to-right. How do I do that on Mac with and without a shortcut?
I need a new Macbook Pro and am comparing the 13 inch Retina 2.6GHz with the 15 inch Retina 2.0GHz. I understand that 2.6GHz is faster than 2.0GHz but how does CPU performance compare between the two models with regards to Turbo Boost? The 13 inch boosts up to 3.1GHz whereas the 15 inch boosts to 3.2Ghz. My old MacBook didn't have Turbo boost and I use photo and video editing software. I'd prefer the bigger screen but am mindful of cost.
If I turn Bluetooth off, I can associate just as quickly as I ever have with no issues. I generally don't even see it trying to associate; it's done before I'm logged in.
I would like to find scene changes in a video with this command line tool: Shotdetect is a free software (LGPL) which detects shots and scenes from a video. Dependencies are: sudo apt-get install libavdevice-dev libavformat-dev libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev What I did already: git clone *=URL=* mkdir -p build; cd build; cmake -D USE_WXWIDGETS:BOOL=OFF .. I get this error message (full output): I have homebrew installed, but I do not know how to map the dependencies mentioned above to a brew install ... command.
I've got my new iMac OS X 10.9 I'm using iTunes on my new iMac, running Mavericks. I would like to download music/movies which I've purchased. But then a pop-up displays: Your computer is not authorized; You must authorize this computer before you can download previous purchases. How can I authorize my computer? '
I have OSX Server 10.5.8 installed on a drive and I would like to combine 2 USB drives together to act as one drive. Is that possible?
While I work on the Thunderbolt display I usually have outlook open on the secondary screen. When a mail comes that I want to read or when I want to reply to a mail it now opens on the laptop screen / same screen.
I enjoy the built in wallpapers that are shipped with Mavericks, but I also want to supplant those with the wallpapers that I have within my user folder. In System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver, the option only appears to be EITHER the Apple -> Desktop Pictures OR Folders -> My local wallpaper folder. Does anyone know of a way to blend the two and have both sets cycle through?
Is there any way to force an iPhone or iPad (jailbroken) to use a different location other then my actual current one. For searching... Say I am in NY, NY and do a search, I want location services to think I am in Miami, FL to give me results from there as if I am in that location.
When I ask Siri (iOS 7.0.4 on my iPhone 5S) to call or text someone, I want said call or text to come from my Google Voice caller ID. Any way to do this now that jailbreak apps GVIntegrated & Phone GV Extension appear to no longer be available (at least for my phone, details below)? All other Google Voice functionality seems to be handled just fine via the Google Voice "standard" app from Google.
It always takes about 13.5 minutes of tests for the error to appear. Rambler also found an error during one pass of tests out of two:
Can you determine which/whose device took a picture in a shared iPhone photo stream?
I have a bilingual Mac OS (10.7.5) and sometimes when I use Adobe Illustrator CS5 English Version, the second language (Greek in my case) gets disabled. It also switches to English if the other language is chosen before I switch (Command+Tab) into Illustrator.
I'm using Word 2011 to generate a mail merge to Outlook 2011 (it has an Excel datasource, but I don't believe that is specifically relevant). I consistently get some characters that show up as ?? in Outlook. At first it was the apostrophes, so I turned off the autocorrect that substituted in the correct apostrophe character. This last time it was random white space.
I'm using TinyTerm ITX on the iPad Air to access our ERP software in Wyse60 mode. Some keys are not functioning properly, but for the most part usable. On various Bluetooth keyboards, the Fn-F1, Fn-F2, Fn-F3... keys just won't work. I tried the hardware keyboard layout "U.S. International - PC" with some success with slash commands, but not with the F1, F2, F3... keys. I just ordered another vendor's BT Keyboard to see if this one is malfunctioning.
I'm using a LaunchAgent to always open a cocoa application (i.e. Xcode) at login. the custom application requires root permission but when it's loaded by launchctl is loaded without permissions. How can i do it? I already tried using the "UserName" keyword in the Agent's plits, but doesn't work.
TotalTerminal is great. But, if it is not the active application, in order to close its window, I have to enter again the application. Is it possible to set a shortcut to close the window of TotalTerminal, even if it is not the active application?
I think the title says it mostly. Will a sleeping MacBook Air with the lid closed restart automatically at the time scheduled in the energy saver pane?
I'd like to get an external monitor for my 15" MacBook Pro, but the 27" Cinema Display is too large (and too expensive) for me. Ideally I'd like a 21" version of the Thunderbolt Cinema Display but such a beast does not exist. Is it possible to use a 21" iMac as an external monitor from a MacBook Pro via Thunderbolt? Thanks.
On a fresh Mavericks, I installed Xcode via the App store (accepted license agreement and enabled developer mode). After that, Command Line Tools (CLT) are found (checked via xcode-select -p). Installing Homebrew as explained on their webpage (ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL *=URL=* will result in the request to install the CLT. Why do I have to install them? I thought they are installed together with Xcode.
This doesn't only apply while "Saving as", it also happens while I am opening some file from another application (not only Chrome, some other apps like Text editors, system tool like Automator). Initially the pop up Finder window does not sort the files as the little down/up arrow indicator shows, I have to manually clicking the arrow twice to get the sorting I want.
I haven't got the faintest idea what is causing this issue, but hopefully somebody here has experienced it before. When I haven't used my computer for a while I decide to wake it up from sleep by pressing a random button on my external keyboard. I have it set up so that the MBA itself is closed, i.e. the Thunderbolt Display is the only screen I am using.
I've got a 2013 MBP-Retina with Cinema and Thunderbolt Displays (1x each). It used to be that the default audio output was one of the integrated audio devices in a display, and I could control the volume from the keyboard (or the slider) as usual. However, somehow the system has gotten into a state whereby the audio indicators change with the keyboard, but the actual output volume does not. I can change the output volume for a specific device from system settings, but the system volume controls seem not to affect it. What's going on, and how do I get back to normal?
Here is the Script I have so far: The file above would output 2014-02-09 - TF.csv and the file that created the file is Campaigns stats for period from Feb 9, 2014 to Feb 9, 2014 I'm trying to delete Campaigns stats for period from Feb 9, 2014 to Feb 9, 2014 how do I delete this with the script above after it creates 2014-02-09 - TF.csv
I really need some Weather Widgets to use on Dashboard. Please give me your best widgets I can use.
I have an old Tangerine iMac G3 in nice condition, I installed a clean copy of OS 9 on it and I can run the "iMac Demo Summer 1998" interactive demo which is neat. I'd like to install OS X (Tiger) on it. (I know it will work because it was running Tiger when I got it.) However, after installing OS X, I know the OS 9 interface will be gone for good, and I probably won't be able to run the old demo anymore. My question is, can you partition the hard drive in the iMac so I have one OS 9 partition that is completely separate from the OS X partition, so I can startup which ever OS I want to show off to my geeky friends? Thx!
I'm trying to have my Mac Mini take over all my server's functions (I'm recycling the server hardware into a Linux workstation). Its pretty much all done, except for the file-serving portions. Currently I'm using MHDDFS (FUSE). In a nutshell, it lets you give it multiple directories (in my case on different hard-drives), and have them be combined in a directory. (e.g., /media/storage0/ and /media/storage1/ are accessible via /media/storage_pool/ What I would like to know is, does anybody know of anything that might act like this?
All apps from private/var/stash/Applications.xxxxxx are missing suddenly. I can't exactly say when that happened, don't think it was any specific Cydia tweak. I still can ssh into my iPhone and see that the folder is still there, but the applications inside it won't show up on springboard. I already created a new symlink into root ("/") and I made chmod 775 for the applications folder. I've run out of ideas and would like to avoid a full restore. What could be wrong and what can I do?
I am having a very weird error that I cannot find any help on the rest of the internet for. My issue is that I was editing my httpd.conf (in /Private/etc/apache2) so that I could run the web server out of a different directory. After attempting multiple times (and failing) my system started to act strange. I tried to open XAMPP's httpd.conf using Sublime Text 3 but that threw Sublime Text into a crash loop. I then tried to open another program, and it gave me an error saying that it could not write files. I then tried to close Eclipse and it gave me the error that it could not write files. I figured that a reboot would help and rebooted.
So, mysteriously with no previous bad behavior my computer stopped booting, stuck in the gray loading bar cycle and then shutting down, the problem I believe wasn't obvious at first. I booted to recovery-mode (cmd+R) to access the disk utility and for my bad luck (terrible luck!) my hard drive was indeed failing and was not able to be fixed by disk-repair application. So, I'm willing to wipe the entire thing BUT as a software developer I've been working on a huge project on my own that never wanted to be anywhere outside my domain (hohoho!) , now I know it was a pretty dumb idea, because s**t happens. The thing is that I'm only looking forward to back up about a folder and that's it! And I was wondering if I could access my Mac partition from the Bootcamp Windows partition that is working completely fine, by the moment there's no disk unit identified on Windows. So.. Could I access the Mac-HD from my bootcamp partition so I could finally start wiping the thing out and re-installing OS 
I'm using Audacity and Soundflower to record sound internally on my MacBook Pro. For example I can play a YouTube video and listen to it with head phones, while recording the sound output. All that works fine, the problem comes when I click record in Audacity. It records the sound, but it is adding an echo or reverb which distorts the sound, especially the bass drum in techno music. How do I turn this echo/reverb off?
How do I remove a s/mime certificate for a contact in iOS7 mail.app? I'm using s/mime for two-way encrypted emails with several colleagues. A new colleague tried to install s/mime in Outlook for Windows and he sent me a signed email which I opened in iOS and trusted the certificate.
Is there an application to preview markdown files (.md files) on OSX (for instance on Maverick)?
In iTunes, I have many audio files which aren't music. In my case they are guitar tutorial tracks, but others may have similar things which are for language learning or self-help/hypnosis tracks.
I'm trying to search files by their size or star-rating using Spotlight. I know it can be done using finder's Command+F, but I cannot figure out which is the syntax I should be using in Spotlight's textbox. I tried size>0, starrating=4 or starrating:4 but it didn't work (while other properties such as kind:jpeg worked well). So, how can I achieve this?
I have a Macbook Pro retina laptop which I want to dual boot windows 7. I have the bootable USB, but bootcamp does not start installation since it reads it 32-bit windows. I know in other MacBooks you can install 32-bit, Is it possible to change info.plist file and continue installation. (USB contains both 32 and 64 bit windows)
I get a warning when I try to save a dotfile. The warning message is:
Whenever I lock my screen (via either the lock icon -> Lock screen or by using the Control+shift+eject key combination), my screen immediately turns off (not showing the screen saver), and the system seems to sleep. This is inconvenient because it disconnects me from the network, causing Jabber to go offline / ssh connections to die. I am constantly connected to AC, and am using the following Energy Saver->Power Adapter options: Turn display off after: Never Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off Wake for Wi-Fi access I have a 'late 2013' MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
I know there are ways to trigger Notification Center alerts inside an Automator workflow. I'd like to do the reverse.
I have seen high scores of 999,999 on Flappy Bird as well as many other impossible high scores on games such as Temple Run, etc., on iPhone and iPad. How do people hack these games so easily when they cannot see the source code? It seems like they know the source code of the game, which makes them able to manipulate the game file so easily. I don't understand how this happens given that the Apple iPhone is sandboxed, unlike Android.
The official site says: A tap is homebrew-speak for a git repository containing extra formulae. But:
Is there any solution that would allow ke to run a Terminal Services or RDP server on my Mac? I'd like to be able to access my Mac via Microsoft's Remote Desktop application I am aware of Screen Sharing fir OS X Also, if there is no specific way to do this, is there any way to use the linux xrdp package on OS X?
I installed Zsh the other day but didn't like it so I promptly removed it. Since doing so however I'm no longer able to type alt+n to get a ~ character, whilst it works everywhere else. Yes, I know I can use the ~ key, but alt+n has become so ingrained in my muscle memory that it's starting to annoy me more. Any ideas?
I seem to remember seeing a tip once where there was a setting in System Preferences where you can define "programming" as a language or something so that double-clicking on a hyphenated word selects the entire word, hyphen and all. I did this on my older MBP and now can't remember how to do it for my new one (10.9.1)
So, I've got this data set coming from questionnaires. I created one table per question, questionnaires in rows, answers in columns, and everything is fine and dandy, but now I have this situation where the questionnaires pertain to a number of different groups. So I created a table associating the ID of the questionnaires with their group, and then I sorted it and I've got a nice aggregated view of questionnaires' IDs grouped together depending on their group.
I plan to release an app with an accent at the end. This would be my first iPhone app in the app store so I'm sort of new to this. Do special characters in its title the hinder the chances of my app being discovered in the app store? Say for instance if I had an app by the name of música. If the user searches for musica (without the accent mark) will it return my app in the search results?
I want to see if somebody has tried to log in on my computer, which is running Mavericks. I am primarily interested in tracking ssh log in attempts, as well as tracking people physically typing passwords on my keyboard to try to log in. Related I have seen How to log login and logout on Mavericks?, but last seems to list only successful logins, or at least it mostly shows successful logins. I have also seen an answer about looking in system.log or "all messages", using the console utility, but those files/messages seem very cluttered. Related Q&As for older OSX versions How do I detect failed remote login attempts and block them? Where do I find the logs for OS X authentication attempts?
In Safari, I'd like to be able select multiple tabs at once, and move them all to an open or new window. Looking for extension (or magic Safari invocation) that can do this, I find no viable solutions. Since Safari lacks this feature, is there any browser on OS X that does a better job of this, out of the box, or with an extension.
This is regarding the Dictionary app (New Oxford American Dictionary) that comes with Mac OS X. I currently have version 2.2.1 (156) in Mavericks (10.9.1). In previous versions (Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, Tiger…), words were shown with interpunctual dots between hyphenate-able syllables—and now they're gone.
I bought a used iPhone 5 today. When I insert a Nano SIM and try to activate it, it says the previous user has locked the phone and that I need to insert a number to get it unlocked. I bought the phone through an online site olx.com so I am not able to get in touch with the person to get it unlocked.
My Macbook Pro started acting very strange from one day to another. I started researching a bit and found someone who suggested that i might have high processor utilization. I checked my Activity Monitor and saw that under the tab "CPU" the "%Idle" numbers were very low but i couldn't see which app was causing it. What can i do about this? I do not know a lot about computers so any kind of help is appreciated!
I have a DELL E6410, with DisplayPort output. How can I connect it to an Apple monitor with a Thunderbolt input? Searching for that kind of adapter keeps returning mini DisplayPort ones, which won't help. Going through DVI or HDMI perhaps?
I've tried quite a few settings and haven't been able to get it to display anything better than 3840*2160 14hz, while I've ready about quite a few people that have their MacBook Pros working with the Seiki 4K pretty easily. So I ask: what exactly are your settings with yours or how do I get mine to work? Using a Belkin Thunderbolt-HDMI adapter (and have tried plain HDMI as well), have SwitchResX installed (but haven't gotten 3840*2160-30HZ to be accepted by the computer) with an Intel HD 4000 graphics card.
I recently purchased a refurbished iPhone 4. I trimmed my sim card to make it a micro-SIM and installed it into the phone. I can make calls and receive SMS, but I'm unable to send SMS. What could be the problem and how do I resolve it?
Under Snow Leopard I applied password protection to some archives on a Flash drive. Upgrading to Lion and later Mountain Lion did not affect that protection, but Mavericks strips it from some (not all) of these images. Plus, the Images menu in Disk Utility no longer includes the "Change Password…" item. Any suggestions, please?
Every time I turn on various iCloud services on my iPad mini (iOS 7.0.4) including iCloud Backup, Photos, Documents, and Find My iPhone, after sometime the settings would go back to "off." I have no clue why this happens. Checking the timestamp on my most recent iCloud Backup, I see that the backup runs successfully at some point before the setting goes back to off.
While I try to get some writing done on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (first under Mountain Lion and now Mavericks) the cursor will often jump randomly away from where I'm typing to another location in the text. Read somewhere that switching off BlueTooth would help prevent these annoying twitches, but that simply does not seem true: the cursor still jumps unexpectedly especially at higher touch-typing speeds. Is there a known cure for this flaw? It sure plays havoc with productivity. Grrr.
I'm using a Macbook Air along with a Thunderbolt Display. I am experiencing a problem in iPhoto wherein images are dimmed ONLY on the Thunderbolt display and ONLY in full view mode.
Apple's official documentation on Photo Stream states: My Photo Stream stores the last 30 days of photos taken with your iOS device or imported from a camera to your Mac or Windows computer, and automatically pushes them over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection to each of the devices that you set up to work with iCloud. For example, if you take a photo on your iPhone (or save one to your Camera Roll), iCloud automatically stores the photo and pushes it to Photo Stream on your iPad, iPod touch, and other Mac or Windows computers. What's not clear to me is this: does iPhoto actually have to be open in order for Photo Stream photos to be pulled down to my Mac? The reason why I ask is because whenever I open iPhoto, there's a noticeable delay before I see any new Photo Stream photos appear, which suggests that those photos are being downloaded right then. If this is indeed the case, given that Photo Stream only stores the last 30 days' worth of photos, does that mean that I'll start
I'd like to screenshot a drag operation on OSX (I'm using Mavericks). Specifically, I need to do the following: Hold down the control key Begin the drag Take a screenshot release the mouse button and control keys
I recently noticed that the file at ~/Movies/iMovie Library.imovielibrary is taking up an awful lot of space:  Is there a way to make it smaller? I don't have anything important in iMovie - what happens if I simply delete it?
I have a legacy application that requires Java 5. I am using OS X 10.6.8. When I try to install the Apple Java 1.5 update, I see a warning that says Java 5 can only be installed on a OS X 10.5 system. Is this the only OS X version that supports Java 5?
My daughter gave her little brother her iPod Touch 8g. I have been trying to update the software and would like to get it rest to a factory clean state so I can linked it to the iTunes that already syncs to his iPad. How can I do a clean up and wipe of everything from an iPod?
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro. I've noticed that when I close the lid and it (supposedly) goes to sleep, it's actually periodically waking and connecting to the wifi. The reason I know this is happening is because when I open the lid I can look back through my LimeChat IRC logs and see the times at which it has reconnected.
My FaceBook events are not showing up in my Calendar on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7. Sometimes I can get them to show up by going into Settings -> FaceBook and turning Calendar integration off and on. Then a while later, I'll find that new FaceBook events are not coming through again. The Calendar has the FaceBook Events option ticked. Why is it not working properly? My iPad 3 running iOS 7 doesn't appear to have this problem.
I love Mac terminal in Dark and had set up the default color scheme to a dark one. Every time I open the terminal it's OK but I found that if I open one terminal window and then open another one via CMD+N the new one still remains in the original white one. How can I make sure every Terminal window I opened all in the default preferences? I am using OS X 10.9.1.
I used to think that this was a memory issue, but after buying a new Macbook with a lot more memory a year or two ago, this seems not to be the case. Activity Monitor tells me I currently have 4.6Gb free, and this issue can occur when less than half my 16Gb RAM is in use. It doesn't seem to be due to CPU use either (unless it's caused by sudden spikes), since I can keep that down to around 2% most of the time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Newsstand content can be published in PDF format. Via a Newsstand iOS app of course.
My mac and my iPod share a common iCloud account. Is it possible to browse on my mac the history of Safari on my iPad?
I really doubt that this would be possible, but is there any chance that OS X 10.7.5 logs the root directory contents of an external HDD that was plugged in through a USB drive a week ago? My external HDD died and I would like to retrieve the info of what folders it contained just to know if it worth 800 USD to get it fixed.
Has anyone being able to get iTunes to run on a single board computer like PandaBoard or Raspberry Pi? I would like to do this to build a low cost, low power-consuming media center. If one could bring iTunes to run on such a low cost single board computer, it could be utilized as a music/video server which could be controlled via Apple's Remote App on iOs devices (e.g. I could stream music to AirPlay speakers or videos to Apple TV). I would also be able to stream music/videos it to my iOS device or Mac when Home Sharing is activated.
I want the censor beep that you hear on TV to play continuously as a system sound when I hold down F12 on my MacBook. I make screen recordings for YouTube videos. Because I have brothers and sisters that use profanity and I want to keep those moments out of my videos without further editing after I record them. Is there a way to do this (assuming I am able to press the key fast enough of course)?
Every time I connect my iPad or iPhone to my Mac, iTunes gives me a prompt like this:  I’ve been clicking “Back Up Apps” for both devices, and yet I get the same prompt every time I connect. How can I stop iTunes from asking me every time? (I don’t really care whether it backs up my apps or not.)
It has to have days of the week to repeat alarms, i forget to set them otherwise. the default clock app has it.
I can't figure out where this behavior is coming from. Has anyone else ever experienced it? What's the fix?
If I increase the width of a Terminal version 2.3 (309) window, and then use less (or some command invoking less, like man) in that window, I often get garbled output, since the lines wrap at 80 characters even though the window is wider and less tries to format the text for that wider window. This is the same for native OS X 10.8.5 less and the less 458 MacPorts installs. It is even the same if less is invoked remotely on some other host from an interactive ssh session.
The summary is this... if people share their calendars with me and I invite them to a meeting, then only the first person to accept the invite gets in... the rest appear to decline the invite. Here's a reproducible scenario to expose this issue. There are three people: Alice, Bob, and Carlos. To reduce the number of variables, everyone signs out of iCloud on their macs and uses only the web interface to iCloud. To reduce the number of variables, everyone signs out of iCloud on their macs and uses only the web interface to iCloud.
We do our correspondence mainly in French and this happens to me a lot. I type a message with accented characters, and my client receives the text but with all the accents replaced by a � (black diamond with white ?) Here's an example... Pour faire suite � notre conversation, voici les compl�ments d'information concernant la banni�re. How can we stop this from happening?
When I set up my iPad last year I entered my name correctly. The iPad wrongly autocorrected it to Alien. Now anyone who gets an email from me is informed its from Alien. Irritating. I don't want to turn off autocorrect though as its useful.
I have multiple Macs (for multiple users) backing up to a single Time Capsule over our network with an external USB drive connected. In the case of the backups saved to the external drive, they're all saved in the drive's root directory. My Time Capsule is protected with user accounts, and each user has their own account. I'd like to configure Time Machine such that each user can only see their own backup file on the Time Capsule, not those of other users, when they open the Time Capsule in Finder.
I would like to put a plastic dust cover on my MacBook Air, but I'm not sure whether it would obstruct the fan exhaust. Below is a drawing that shows the soft cover.
I have a Mac Pro with Firefox and Safari as browsers. I have tried several methods to delete individual downloaded files while in both browsers. How can I delete downloaded files?
I work with php and postgre, and since the stock php doesn't come with postgre I had to install a different php version. So I installed php5 from this website: *=URL=* It's a quick install, just downloaded php5 and its modules and put them in a different directory, now everything works, except the TextMate's "php run". I couldn't find where TextMate makes the call to the php and I wanna change it, any ideas? Thanks.
I've got a 2012 11" i7 MBA. This is a great little machine but one thing has been driving be absolutely batty about it... The USB ports work well for the most part, but inevitably I will plug in a USB device (could be anything. Thumb drive, USB serial port, JTAG cable, USB2 or USB3 device, doesn't matter) and it will power up (LEDs blink, etc.) but the device is not recognized by the Mac. Looking at dmesg, I see this:
I would like to rotate my images directly from the Finder. The best would be one of these: a button to click in the menu bar of every Finder's window a button to click in Quicklook But, if it can be done with a keyboard-shorcut, it would be fine also.
When opening the OS X System information it says I have 67 GB backups:  But when I'm using Disk Inventory X to find large files on my Mac i can't find any backups files:
I use VirtualBox on my MBP and often need to mount my USB flash drive inside the guest. The problem I'm running into is that the host OS (OS X Mavericks) immediately mounts the USB flash drive when I insert it. When I try to unmount it (gracefully, through Finder), OS X complains that the device is in use. Further research into lsof reveals that Spotlight and AVG are doing their thing with the flash drive.
After spending some time searching with Google and on developer.apple.com, I still can't figure whether my iPad 2 is a "Rev A" or not (its model is MC979LL/A). How can I know my exact model?
I'm trying to use the Seiki 4k display model SE39UY04 with a Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 MacBook Pro at 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz running Mavericks. I've gotten it to work twice now on two different days, but upon returning my MacBook to the display and trying to reconnect, I'm now failing again on the third try. Each time I've had to fiddle with it for around 45 minutes until I somehow got it to work. At first it appeared that using SetResX was incompatible, so I uninstalled that and it seemed to help. While away from the monitor, I added QuickRes as an alternative to SetResX, but now, even after rebooting multiple times and no longer running QuickRes, I'm unable to get the external display to work today. The symptom is that the Seiki gives the message Not Support so it seems it sees a signal that it does not support. I'm using the HDMI cable included with the monitor.
Update: I've been using Windows 8 exclusively (Boot Camp) for the past week or so and I've noticed the WiFi drops then too, but not as frequently as it does while I'm in OS X. Also, it seems like a minor interruption, with the yellow exclamation sign coming up over the wireless tray icon and going away a few moments later. So it does happen on Windows, but at least I don't have to manually cycle the WiFi on/off.
I just have bought new MBP 13 retina late 2013 and after installing: adobe photoshop, office for mac 2011, xcode, eclipse, java, and MAMP is battery life too short. 100% charched battery is remaining only 4 hours. If I use guest account it is normal about 8 - 9 hours... After shut down, when I first log in to guest acc (not to my acc) it is really great (8 hours). But if I first log in to my acc and after i logout and log in to guest it is still only 4 hours. It is like some of these programs eat my battery. But in activity monitor is all right... What do you think? Where can be problem? Thanks for replies I have OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
I recently bought iPhone 3G from a friend, but i can't download apps from the official appstore because my iOS version is 4.2. Is there any website or even a way to install apps like facebook, without custom firmware like whited00r?
General Problem: I use a large mouse pointer, which covers up mouse-over Help Balloons (AKA Tool Tips) Although normally ignorable, there are times when that text is important. Moving the mouse out of the way or to the right usually doesn't work - either you leave the hot zone or the balloon times out. My current annoying workaround is to visit Accessibility, temporarily turn the mouse pointer back to normal size, revisit the application you want the info for, then revisit Settings and make it large again, then back to the original app... such a hassle I rarely do it, though good to know if absolutely needed.
I have a customer that wants to stream his Iphone 5 and iPad video and audio files over his wireless network. this network is not connected to the internet 80% of the time making using an Apple TV nearly impossible. Is there any other hardware, such as a WiFi Blu-ray player that would be capable of doing this procedure for him? The reason this network is not connected to the internet most of the time is that it is in his private jet that only gets internet above 10k feet and only within the continental US
I'm looking for an iPad/iPhone app that can handle editing large (~10000 line) text files. I would like this app to be able to access a particular Dropbox file quickly, and after editing have the file be updated on Dropbox.
I have Ipod touch which is connected to TV. Is there any app that allow this Ipod be controlled remotely using another IOS device like Ipad? (for sure without jail breaking) Or more specifically, Is there any apps available that convert ipod touch into virtual apple tv?
I have an mid 2009 MacBook Pro 13" (processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, HDD: 160 GB SATA) and it has started giving me trouble a few months ago. It runs on Max OS 10.7.5 and has been getting excruciatingly slow. Additional software is Adobe CS4, Skype and OpenOffice. I mostly use it for OpenOffice work, internet research, Skype, and movies. The cost to fix it with a new battery, new RAM and new HDD which would get me in the price range of about $300 to 400 in my estimates.
I having the same problem with my iPhone running the diagnostics described here: Battery diagnostic tool at Apple Genius Bars
Sometimes I install a formula with Brew, and I get a series of warnings and notifications. At some point later, I want to go back and read what problems the installation found.
Some websites offer the Google Translation Bar hard-coded into their pages so when I visit those this bar appears on top. Like in this example:
I have tried many systems to export my comcast address book to the Ipad without success. The sync worked for my files but not the contacts. I used carbonites "sync and save" and also tried manually joining the 2 devices. I am one frustrated old lady.
Yesterday, I installed and configured Netatalk 3 on my Raspberry Pi in order to be able to mount it as an AFP share. Today I got fed up with how it looked in Finder's sidebar, so I set out to create an icon for it. I then made this (note the pixel-perfectness of the 16x16 version):
I'm trying to do a clean install of OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 from a USB drive on my new MacBook Pro 15" Retina (late 2013 model). Here are my steps: Turn off the Mac Hold Option Turn on the Mac Select the USB drive (orange icon), not the Recovery Partition The dreaded "international no" sign appears
Whenever i hit ⌥ or ALT when I boot up my Mac only the Boot Option "Mac Hard Drive" shows. "Mac OS X Base System" or "Recovery 10.9.1" doesn't show up. Can someone help me on this? Do i need to make a recovery drive or something?
I was wondering if there was an easy way to launch a specific Application whenever another Application is launched. In other words, I want to launch multiple Applications together as a group.
The title says it all: I wonder, does the 5th iPod Touch generation have a magnetometer? There was an Availability matrix for iOS devices up to iPhone 4 / iPad 2 / iPod touch 4G — The 4G didn't have a magnetometer sensor.
I have searched far and wide, hoping someone here has answer. The goal is to have OSX and Windows 7 on bootcamp, with a 3rd partition that both OSs read/write.
Mobile phones usually say this as "xyz hours on battery" by counting the time from when they are unplugged from power. Can I find out how many hours has it been since I unplugged my Mac from charging adapter?
I'm using a Seiki 4k display model SE39UY04 connected via HDMI with a Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 MacBook Pro at 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz running Mavericks. I've noticed that with the laptop closed and only displaying on the external display, I sometimes find in Chrome that bluetooth attached keyboard response is very sluggish. For example, I can type a sentence on a web page but nothing appears at first, then a few words, and finally the rest appears quickly, however, the delay between typing and completion of it showing up can be 30 seconds or so. I've looked at the Activity Monitor and do not see any CPU hog, the machine is relatively idle and the fan is not running on the laptop. How can I figure out the cause of this intermittent delay that seems to have appeared with the introduction of the very large external display?
How can I make iPhone apps think that no external display is connected? I am using a 30-pin to A/V adapter, and an iPhone 4 GSM with 7.0.4 jailbroken. I was hoping to use iFile to change a setting on the iPhone, but I'll try any solution. Thank you for the help!
Like the question says I have an early-2008 Macbook Pro and I want to know if it will run Mavericks before I get it. Also, if it won't run Mavericks what is the highest OS X version it will run?
I've got four iMacs in a design studio and I want to share fonts between them so InDesign documents and the like won't get errors when they're being worked on on any of the machines. Are there any software solutions or methods for this problem? Don't mind paying, just need it sorted out reliably so that we can have equivalent fonts on multiple machines.
Is there an RSS reader (ideally a website / iPhone app combo) that allows individual posts to be tagged? Most seem to allow "starring", but that's it.
I need to get reminders list in any form (could parse it later) from Reminders app in osx (10.9.1) I know that i could do it from menu, but i need it programmatically.
I have been using a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8 GB RAM, 7200 RPM 512 MB hard drive, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB discrete graphics card. After almost four years, I am considering getting a new portable Mac. I am looking at the 13-inch MacBook Air, and my question is if its integrated Intel HD Graphics 5000 is at least equal to, if not substantially better than my current GeForce GT 330M in terms of graphics performance?
I have a Mac mini Server with OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 and Server.app v3.0 installed. IMAP (dovecot) is running and accessible from Mail clients. What I want is to have the server fetch emails from my various email accounts and "dump" them into the IMAP server. I was previously able to do this on Linux by using getmail to fetch the emails, which would send the emails through procmail, which would deliver them directly into the Maildir folder which dovecot read. Unfortunately the above process won't work with Server.app v3.0, as apparently the /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/* directories must be owned by _dovecot, which means Joe Random User can't write to them, which rules out procmail/etc. Is there an easy(-ish) way to get a similar workflow, having the Server retrieve emails and add them to the local IMAP server?
So I have a heavy question that I haven't seen asked on ad, so, or su. Question -- My photos are not uploading from my iPhone nor iPhoto to my photo stream. Why?
For some reason, the last 15 songs or so that I've downloaded won't sync to my iPhone. I've tried: Removing all music by unchecking "Sync Music" (didn't actually remove the music for some reason) and then re-adding it. Putting those 15 songs in a playlist and syncing only those 15 songs. Rebooting the iPhone. Rebooting the computer.
I made archive folder in outlook and shifted my all "sent" emails in that folder. When I check my sent email in the archive folder, need to find a specific email, all email was shown by the sender email ID instead of the receiver. This is the main problem to find the receiver email ID in an archive folder. How I can arrange it by the receiver email ID.
I need to have a C compiler with openmp support. I installed gcc49 via Homebrew but still the configure script of the library I like to install (nfft) complains: You don't seem to have a C compiler with OpenMP support installed which is required for threaded NFFT. I have the Command Line Tools installed (as this is requested by installing Homebrew). gcc -v delivers Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0 Thread model: posix. So it points to the version in Xcode and seems not to support openmp. On the other hand, gcc49 should support openmp. How do I now get this to work?
I have upgraded to mavericks and I am following the instructions to upgrade MacPorts, but it is taking days to rebuild libgnome-keyring - I stopped it after three days and deleted it from my "myports.txt" file and restarted - and it was reloaded as a dependency and is now in its second day of building. Is this behaviour normal? Is there a fix if it's not? update This is the output... Been at this point for about three days now... Update Building via sudo port -d install libgnome-keyring... full output at *=URL=* but final part below (sits at this):
Is there a way to enable this in Mavericks? I know that I can show the file location when hovering over the item in the search results and pressing Cmd, but that's not what I want.
In the need to disable/remove the not configured ata5, ata6, ata7 and ata8 devices, I was looking for a list of available Boot flags for Parallels Desktop for Mac. So far I found this list: Is there a more complete list of (all) "Boot flags" available for "Parallels Desktop for Mac"?
Does anyone know if there's a way to get rid of the GUI in Mavericks? (Or at least disable it?)
Are there any free apps that will track your iPhone app sales? Many have now gone to paid.
In Mail -> Preferences -> Junk Mail, I have deselected "Enable junk mail filtering" ... yet the "Junk" mailbox still appears in the left column, and various emails are still being directed to "Junk." (from apple support forum)
Some apps have this as an internal feature, but is there any way to keep a specific window visible no matter which space you're in?
I'm connecting my MacBook successfully over my home wifi network via VNC (using Mac OS X's /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app) to my jailbroken iPhone 5, which is running Veency. Now, in preparation for needing to control my iPhone remotely from my Mac when there is no wifi or AC power available (so a wireless router is impossible), I'm trying to use VNC over a direct wireless connection between my Mac and iPhone. I've created the network on the Mac and connected it to it from the iPhone. Problem is, I need the iPhone's IP address so that I can connect to it via VNC.
I'm trying to hook up my IMAC mini-DVI port to my Samsung HDTV. I have a (mini-DVI port to HDMI) adaptor plugged into a 15' HDMI cable. This plugs into the TV's (DVI/HDMI) port.
This is a follow up to How can I map the Windows key to option in Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8?. The answers to that question are a huge timesavers for OSX RDC users; however, there are some key combinations I don't want remapped. For example, Command+Q and Command+W would ideally still function the same as they do before remapping. I tried adding this definition: But to no effect. Update: here is the full private.xml:
I have a mapped network folder on my Mac. About a week ago everything was fine and I could save Word documents to my personal folder on the network drive. Now, I've been getting the following message: "Word cannot save this document due to a naming or permissions error on the destination volume" I have the latest Office and OSX version. Why is that?
During Christmas 2013, Apple an official app that gave out free downloads for a week or so. I used that app to get some free songs. Now they appear forever stuck in my Music app. I don't want to see them. Swiping left on the song didn't do anything. Also, I didn't see how to manage these songs in iTunes on my computer.
On Mavericks, is there a way to monitor hard drive use history? To be clear, I do not only want to know how much space I am using on my hard drive. I would like a history of my hard drive space usage over time.
Is there a script that allows one to insert text from the clipboard into the name field of a new folder? I would like to name a new folder or change the name of a folder using the last text clip.
I want to use automator to create a project folder with a Automator service, but i like to add the month and year (with two decimals) not the day, month and whole year. want i can creatie is item_29022014 but i like to create a file named: 'item_0214' where the first two numbers (02) are the month and the last two numbers (14) are the last to numbers of the current year(2014).
I just got a new iMac and I am trying to transfer my music from my old MacBook onto my new iMac. I have all the songs in iTunes Library. Thank You all
I'm trying to get gpg-agent working on OS X, compiled with homebrew. Here's my gpg-agent.conf: However, when I try to test it, it fails: Any clues on how to get this working?
I have new 15″ MacBook Pro (summer 2013) with a solid state hard drive and 16 GB RAM (I figure it should be able to handle a lot). It recently started restarting itself due to a "problem", and although I may have had a couple programs open at the time (one of them Ableton) I was not putting more stress on the machine than normal, and it should really be able to handle this. It was the nicest MacBook i could buy at the time. Here is the error report from the last restart:
On my old MacBook Pro, I mostly used the US-International keyboard, which used the Opt key to switch to a large set of markings. On my new MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), I can't find it. The only "English" keyboard has just a few such "dead keys", but none of the marks used by eastern-European languages are present. I've found a number of references to US-International keyboards on Mavericks in various forums, but no clues for how to enable it. Does anyone here know?
Ipad mini front camera viewing angle is so small so if a group of people wants to be in the picture during chat , the ipad mini should be placed meters away. Is there any setting or any app that allow to change or control that? (something like ZOOM out for front camera)
I am using a Dell Inspiron 15 3521. I replace my iPhone 5 with Apple, and my new phone doesn’t show up or connect in iTunes. It doesn’t even show any device as attached. I’ve reinstalled iTunes three or four times, but I’m still having the same problem. Can anyone help?
I'm trying to use terminal and in every tab I open, when I try to change directory such as I get a beep and am unable to type the character. I am on the same computer and am able to type a slash in this webpage, just not in that bash shell I don't have any key-remapping software enabled. How can I type a forward slash , or determine what is preventing me from typing it? When I type "shift-/" I get a question mark, so I know the basic essence of the key is working. Copying and pasting a "/" character results in a beep as well When I connect an external bluetooth keyboard, the same results happen for both keyboards (on the laptop and on the keyboard) Yes I rebooted.... many times
I would like to see all the file types that a particular application is set as the default for. I will change some of these default file type associations; I know how to do that on a filetype by filetype basis. My question is, can I find a list of what file types an app has set itself as the default for so I can do the ones I want all at once?
Highlighting the column. Select column, then Edit > Substitutions > Tick 'Smart Links'. Doesn't work on the selected column. ONLY works if I edit a single cell's text (the URL).
I followed the procedure for using dd to put an OS X iso on a USB stick from Linux that is described here. The problem I'm having is that my Late 2006 Intel MacBook does not recognize the USB stick at all. I cannot use a Mac to install this because the Mac boots into a kernel panic(which is why I am reinstalling the OS). command used that failed: sudo dd bs=4M if="./macosx" of=/dev/sdb && sync
I am trying to install flash player on my MacBook Air. I have been using flash player without any problems. Recently when I tried to use a program that uses flash a popup appears that says the plug in failed to load. I tried to reinstall shockwave flash and it said that it installed but the problem persisted.
A reboot would fix it, I could happily work and multitask until I play another video (I'm pretty sure every time this happened I was playing something from Youtube). A reboot fixed it. And then one day a reboot produced this sort of screen:
I've read two articles about booting Windows from external drives as opposed to a stock Bootcamp install. Here are the links: *=URL=* http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html
In OSX Snow Leopard, one can push all of the open windows to the side of the screen (revealing the desktop) by pressing F11. Further, by pressing F11 again, all of the windows are returned to their original state. My question is: Does OSX Mavericks have an equivalent shortcut and if so, what is it? (Note that this Snow Leopard shortcut is not enabled by default on portable Macs).
I'm running OS X Mavericks 10.9.1. Some of my Dock icons for running applications, including the Finder icon, now appear blank and empty, or as a square filled with random noise pixels.
I would like to make my printer print b&w as default from every application on my mac. How do I do this?
I bought rMBP around November last year. As I open Chrome, it crash without log. I can't move the mouse, and the mms stream player keep working. The only solution is to restart it with power button. I can't find the report by chrome://crashes and ~/Library/Logs/. I think the kernel_task doesn't make it.
I have a question regarding creating a wifi hotspot using a router or a wifi card with a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9. Is it possible to create a hotspot using a separate wifi card or router? The connection coming into my device is also wifi. Any ideas?
I have recently seen that when there is a redirect on the webpage that you are browsing and your user agent is set to iPhone3 on the page that did the redirect, Safari defaults to Automatically Chosen on the newly loaded page. How does one fix this?
In my Network Preferences panel, I've just noticed a network type I didn't see before. The name is "Ethernet Adaptor (wc5)" (note it says Adaptor and not Adapter). It has an IP, it's yellow, and it says "Ethernet Adaptor (wc5) has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet."
I want to know which Mac OS X versions support the lsof command. Does Mac OS X 10.5 support it?
I want to mount a folder to another folder. My reasoning is: I have a free box.net account with 50GB, but it does not include versioning. So I would like to put the folder under git. But I do not want to sync the .git folder in the box folder itself to avoiud synching.
I am invoking my apple script from third party executable(C executable). Here is the applescript:
For my work I use an app called Sublime Text to edit website documents. To open my project in sublime text I drag the folder above the icon and it opens it up in sublime text. My next step is to run a nodejs script, and after it's run open chrome and navigate to a local url. My question is - how can I automate that process - meaning I will have a script that I run (command line is fine) that will open the project in sublime text, run the nodejs script (which starts a local web server), open safari to a url. Is that possible? Thanks
I'm on an iMac 2.7GHz i5, 16Gb RAM 1600MHz, mountain lion. I use regularly licenced CS6, especially photoshop, illustrator and acrobat pro.
I think my life would be that much better if a subtle sound effect was played when a task completed in a terminal window/tab that's not the current one. It'd be even better if an exit code 0 sounded different to any other exit code. Is there any way to make this happen?
Whenever I go to try and download an app it tells me that I have already purchased it and don't need to pay again then the download stops. I am using iOS 7. The download stops in iTunes.
I am still relatively new to the workings of the Mac OS but have extensive knowledge of Linux. I updated my php on Mavericks using the php_osx and the instructions stated to use export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH to have the new php version used. Through my attempt to update php I found references to the following files: .bash_profile - I can not find this file. .bashrc paths path_helper Can someone please provide a simple understanding of how $PATH is created in Mavericks and help me understand where the export command put the edition to the path and how would I remove it if I want too?
Is it possible to copy and paste guides on a Pages 5 document? If so, how?
When i am starting a new server from the Terminal app, and i have the window not active, the Dock icon "jumps" up and down, also called "notifies me". I don't want this behaviour, i want a quiet Terminal. I know when i am starting and stopping sth. How can i do that? I've already disabled the audio and visual bell, but still: Jumping. System version: Mavericks.
How can I use my 2011 MacBook Pro monitor as a 2nd display for my Windows 7 Lenovo Laptop (Display port)?
somehow I locked my ipad into the vertical position. How do I get out of this??
The past two mornings, the display on my iMac wouldn't come back up when clicking the mouse or keyboard as it has for the past 3 years. The curious thing is that when I access it through Finder on my laptop, I can browse the iMac's files. But when I try to "Share Screen," it just hangs. Same when I try through the remote login service, logmein.
Is it possible to read current volume or frequency of outgoing sound from terminal? I am using OS X Mavericks
I noticed in Activity Monitor that the iCloud Photos process is stopping and restarting a few times every minute. The PID is marching up at a pretty regular pace. When a new iCloud Photos process starts up, it uses the CPU for a bit, so I'd like to stop it from running.
How do i get the first 3 letters of the parent folder im creating a folder in with automator im designing a Automator service to create a project folder in the folder of a client and I want to append the first three letters of that clients folder name to the next folder. Client folder: Coca-Cola > new project_COC how do i append the first three letters of Coca-Cola (COC) in capital to the new folder.
I have a new MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Late 2013) which works flawlessly. It has a factory installed 512 GB SSD, which also works flawlessly. Then I bought basically the same type of 512 GB SSD, 2nd hand but new, which I intended to install in another MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013.
A call to their “True Blue Support” wasn’t much of a help. Basically they pinpointed the issue being with the OS and told me to bring the computer to the Apple Store. Because the crash is happening only on these two machines and I was able to re-create the connection on other Macs, they will not debug the error or even take a look on the issue. So to the Genius Bar I took off…long story short…Of course they wouldn’t admit it was an OS X issue and told me to contact Crestron tech support. As a “courtesy” they ran tests, diagnostics, basic repairs and etc - which did not solve the problem. As a possible solution they suggested to re-load the OS. Back to the office I end up doing just that – both machines got their OS reloaded and voila, XPanel started working again.
I am running into a strange problem. After a few minutes of using Chrome or Firefox, two finger scrolling on my trackpad stops working on these applications.
I have a new Late 2013 rMBP and a Mid 2011 iMac. I want to use the iMac in Target Display Mode so I can operate it as a second monitor for the laptop. I have two questions:
Lately, when I "Enter Time Machine" (like, to recover a lost file), it switches to my home directory. This might have started with Mavericks, or possibly when I set up the current laptop (about, though not exactly, the same time). Is that a new feature with Mavericks? Is it some configuration thing?
I have an iPhone 4 with an IOS all the way up to date and I got it from my older brother as a birthday present. He moved to college and isn't in contact. I have my own Apple I'd and thought about using it but I don't want to go to the iTunes app and sign out of his account from the bottom where the balance is shown because I don't want it to be signed in but asking for the old password. What should I do?
I have a Mac Mini 10.6.8 for which I've used Screen Sharing frequently. This is NOT a headless Mac. A monitor is attached, it is on and it works fine. Sometime this week I connected as I always do (Finder -> Connect to Server -> vnc://targetmac.mydomain.edu) only to be greeted with a black screen.
I want to log out a user via a shell script, after a delay. However, there's a few other issues: User does not have admin and/or root. Logout must complete even if screen is locked. Currently, I'm using the shell commands below to log out:
I'd greatly appreciate help with learning how to shut off "shuffle" on my iPod Nano 7th Generation?
In Safari on my iMac there are tabs open for just about every website I been for along time. I keep closing them individually, but more keep appearing. I have recently upgraded to Maverick
I've been using Microsoft Office for mail merge and it is fraught with character encoding issues. I'm curious if there is another solution for mail merge besides Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. I've got a homegrown solution I use too, but looking for something more robust. It would be nice if it supported HTML formatted messages.
On Windows, I was spoilt by the fantastic Greenshot, a superb (and free) screenshot tool that had among its many features, uploading to Imgur.com. I currently use CloudApp but I've reached my 'limit' for uploads and I don't feel like paying for their Pro service when there's myriad of free (and better) image hosting services like Imgur etc. So are there any screenshot apps which can plug into Imgur?
I have a 13″ mid 2009 MacBook Pro. For a long time now my browsers just decide to stop working. The 1st occasion Safari kept crashing every 10 minutes so I downloaded Firefox but after a while the same thing kept happening.
Is there an app or a method that I can use from Terminal to convert audio files to the OGG format? I know about afconvert but that doesn't provide the ogg format that I want.
I have searched by google but cannot find a right solution.The scenario is like this: in my mac, there are two users, lets say user1, user2. these two users are in the same group, which is staff actually.
I've got a MacBook Pro 15" (Early 2011, i7 2.2/750GB/HD6750M) and I did some upgrades later on including 2x4GB RAM, a 256GB SSD and a 750GB HDD to replace the optical drive. This machine was smoothly running for a long time and the battery cycle was 89 before this annoying issue happened.
I use rsync to create a backup of my boot partition (Mavericks). Everything is OK (during the backup) but the backup partition does not boot (it seems to loop infinitely). I think I used the correct arguments to rsync, included the following options: --hfs-compression and --protect-decmpfs Any ideas? (of course, I used bless to make it bootable)
I have not changed my /etc/fstab to prevent it from mounting, nor have I changed any configuration regarding mounting or Time Machine. Here's the diskutil list output for the sake of completeness: How do I get OS X to mount my volume automatically again?
I encrypt all of my documents before storing them in the cloud with GnuPG. My wife needs access to the documents, but running gpg -d foo.pdf.gpg at the command line is annoying to her.
Here's my problem, I have a PDF document 583KB, and I want to make it under 500KB so I can upload it. What should I do?
Text files shown in TextMate 2 are not currently showing me any options for Code Folding. IOW, there are are no up, down arrows over in the line number gutter on the left that allow collapsing regions of source code. I assume I may have disabled Code Folding in the past (intentionally or unintentionally). How does one toggle Code Folding enabled/disabled in TextMate 2? My Setup: TextMate version 2.0-alpha.9503 OS X 10.9.1
I am looking for a Twitter client for OS X, which does not directly connect to Twitter. I mean something like Hootsuite, brought to Desktop.
Some apps are always running on Mac and I can see them on Dock. (For example, iTunes, Evernote, etc.) I've set the option 'reopen windows when logging back in', so the apps automatically runs again when I turned on or reboot my MacBook Air.
Just bought my first wifi-enabled HDTV. I have a feeling this is a "duh!" question, but I can't find a clear answer. Is it possible to stream a video from my iPhone to the HDTV? I've heard of Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku, and various iOS apps but I'm not clear if / how any of them would do what I want.
I use google hangouts for multiple-people video calls, but it never detects the camera in the Thunderbolt display. It keeps using the camera on my MacBook Pro. Is there any way to change the camera used in Hangouts if I want to use the Thunderbolt display's camera?
So I mess around with terminal once in a while. Occasionally I find I have to compile from source with the usual: I'm trying to install gtk+ following the instructions on the build page of: https://wiki.gnome.org
I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm using a command line log parser for an MMO I play. Information is shown in Terminal window but I have to read it while playing rather than hear it while playing. I'd like to program Terminal to say the output as it's being streamed to the screen. I'm new to the command line and Terminal-- is there a way to do this?
I have an iPad 4th Gen that I could not have used for a few weeks already. The iCloud overlay that says "you have not backed up for 35 weeks..." is covering up the whole screen, and the "OK" button is not responding at all. If I press and hold the power button on the iPad for 5 seconds, the screen will show the "Slide and power off" widget, but the iCloud overlay is covering up the screen (transparently), and I cannot slide that power off widget at all to power off. I think it was due to some race condition of the notifications / iCloud so that there is some error that prevents the iCloud overlay from closing and so I cannot do anything to the iPad.
I face some problems with my macbook air mid 2011 (HD 3000), some weird visual glitch on the screen (see pictures). Is there any solution or fix? Does anyone else have the same issue? I own a Apple care(june 2014). I have already contacted Apple, they done a Hardware test and the test revealed nothing so they do not believe me completely... And they don't know what to do (seriously) ... Thank you in advance. Best regards. Sorry for my bad English: i am French =).
In search for a more stable and reliable system I picked up top spec rMBP (with nVidia 750m). However, quite often it displeases me when it enters some non-cooperative mode where it's unable to switch to the dedicated GPU and becomes useless until a restart. And I really can't notice what causes it to go in that state. I would appreciate it if you could help me debug the thing. I recorded a couple of descriptional clips to clarify the issue: *=URL=* This one shows that the MacBook is unable to go to sleep: *=URL=* OS: 10.9.1 (Up to date - February, 16th, 2014)
I'm mounting an SMB share via the command line in 10.9 with the following: Previously in 10.8 this would be mounted on the desktop with the MountName directory name I manually created for the mount point.
I have a 2010 Macbook pro that is running very slowly (Clicking something takes around 4-5 seconds to react even though no graphical lag is observable) on Mac OS X Mavericks but running really fast and sweet on Fedora 20 and Ubuntu Saucy (Both running from a usb stick). I decided to try to reinstall the OS using the included recovery partition, which is also painfully slow (10+ hours installation slow). I decided to test for hard disk issues but SMART tests show reasonable values:
Despite the fact that I have told mission control under 10.8 to spaces when switching applications(to the key window), it does not appear to work. In fact the only time spaces works is when I tell it to switch using keyboard shortcuts. This started happening only once I unchecked show dashboard as space. The following symptoms also occur: -Checking "show dashboard as space" does not re-enable dashboard -Dragging windows to the side of the screen does not cause spaces to switch -Keyboard shortcuts for mission control do not invoke mission control. Mac OS 10.8
I can't locate my iPod and I know it is being used and has Wi-Fi but when I try to locate it's saying incorrect ID or password. Can a thief change or erase your Apple ID and password? The thief picture has now replaced mine when I look on my girlfriend's iPod.
I have a remote hard drive (afp/smb) that won't live in the finder sidebar. Actually I have two, and one simply will not live in the finder sidebar. Everything else seems to function normally, including drive access to both drives. I am running mavericks, and mavericks server for the hard drives. How can I get both drives to live in the finder sidebar?
I am using QuickTime Player. From initial research it seems i would need QT Pro to do it. Is there a free opensource tool i can use for a simple task like this? On opening the audio .m4a file in QT the Edit Tab options like copy paste etc are coming out to be disabled.
I have a song in my iTunes (11) library that loops amazingly well, but is rather short in duration. I'd like to double the length of the song by having it loop once before continuing, so that I can use the extended version in randomly-shuffled playlists.
Whenever I drag and drop an image into Pages from (for example) my browser, the image is resized to roughly 2x the original size. This causes annoying aliassing to occur; especially when taking screenshots and copy-pasting these it causes it to look blurred. I saw the 'Original size'-button (as suggested here) but when I click it, it just takes the image back to the 2x-size it had when pasting.
I have the following bug. I have created a small app that rotates an image, with the help of automator.
I have an early 2009 iMac (9,1), currently running Mac OS 10.5. Now I want to use it as a media center and install XBMC, which only supports Mac OS 10.6 and upwards. The question arises, which OS version is the one that gets the best performance out of my system. It is a 24' iMac with a 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM.
I am getting so fed up with this:  It is too real not to make the mistake in a moment when I am not fully on alert (and to be hones that stresses me out), and I want to use my powerful Mac to protect me from killing myself. So I want my Mac mail to do some work for me, more than just be dumb and to dump all emails in the junk. I want to eliminate me in the process. I want to make a Rule in mail that:
I quite like using full-screen apps on OSX Mavericks (Safari, iTunes, Mail, etc). I'd like all apps that are capable of running full-screen to launch in full-screen mode automatically, instead of me having to press Ctrl-Cmd-F each time, is that possible?
I bought a SSD drive for my early MacbookPro 2011, since my old HDD was very slow and with crazy IO activity when idle. I started the Internet Recovery Mode and opened the Disk Utility to format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so that I could install MacOSX.
Since 3 years, I'm a Linux user. Now I am thinking about switching to OSX. I informed myself about OSX and looked into many youtube videos about it, but still I have a few questions about it
I am trying to install ghostcript on Macports 2.2.1-10.0-Mavericks. I get the following message: Any ideas how to solve this?
I'm trying to configure some virtual hosts and I'm quite confused as to when this file is loaded. At what point is /private/etc/hosts loaded? When logging in? At every DNS call? When Mac OS restarts?
Imagine I do backups using Time Machine at home just like everybody else. But as I travel often and of course also work on the road I also need to have a mobile backup solution. I thought about the following:
Wrote email, sent it off, heard whoosh sound, assumed it was done. Not so. Cannot find the email anywhere, least of all where it should be: in the Sent File. Tried various setting options - advanced to tick off the 'sent' option on iPad (nothing) and cannot get it to go to the web server where it was in the first place, but then somehow switched.
I have a home router is connected to the internet, I have a MacMini that connects to the router via WiFi. This works fine.
I'm relatively new to the audiophile world and I still have some lossy audio files in my music folder. I do have all this music on cd so I would like to find the lossy albums so that I can rerip these, but this time in alac. How can I do this?
I got my 5S stolen Thursday and today it was back online in Find My iPhone. First, I would like to know if there's a way to know if the iPhone is in locked mode or not.
I have a Raspberry Pi which I access from my Mac using ssh and VNC (tightvncserver). I am using OS X Screen Sharing
Is there an app that would let me stream the iPhone/iPad camera to my Mac? I need high quality so it can be recorded.
Whenever I open a new terminal or browser window via QuickSilver it switches control back to the last used workspace. I would like to always open in the current workspace, how do I do that?
I have looked at this question, and apparently my iMac does support mixing memory sizes. However, when I installed 2 4GB memory modules and 2 2GB memory modules, when I clicked  → About This Mac → More Info... → Memory, it said that I had only installed 4 2GB modules. I have checked the packaging, and it still verifies that they are both 4GB modules. For further information, I am running Version 10.9.1 Mavericks.
My 2 year old son managed to scuff the back of my iPad Air by pushing it on its back across a ceramic tile floor. The worst of it is near the top by the mic. Are these scratches merely cosmetic, or do I need to worry about the aluminum oxidizing?
I've connected to a wired network before and shared that over WiFi. I'm curious if I got a USB WiFi adapter if I could do the same thing with WiFi input. So the USB WiFi adapter would be the network / internet input, and the built in WiFi adapter would be the output.
Using either Applescript or Automator is it possible to switch the software keyboard(Input Source) to a certain keyboard(input source) whenever iTerm becomes foreground? Scenario is as follows I click on iTerm window iTerm window goes foreground A script changes the keyboard(input source) to one that I specify
I've used Boot Camp to install Windows 8 on my Air some time ago and I was trying to remove the windows partition to restore some space. Except Boot Camp gives me a warning saying "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." This is what my disk setup looks like.
I'm confused about data usage / hotspot while connected to WiFi. I'm asking because my Windows 8 laptop cannot recognize my friend's router, as in it can't even find it, however, my iPhone 4 can. I have connected using my iPhone 4 and turned on the "Personal Hotspot" feature. Does this use my Data Allowance from Telstra, or will all internet/network traffic flow through to the router?
My company had given me an iMac to use and apps like iMovie, iPhoto had been installed by a former employee who had been using this iMac before me. Now the problem is; Updates are available for those apps, but I could not install updates of those apps because OS asks for password of that person's Apple ID. OS daily prompts me about updates but i can't install updates as well as stop notifications to prompt. I seriously don't like these notifications and can't find a way to stop them. I need either of the following possible solutions: No more "update" notifications. Change Apple ID of those apps.
I just want to mark every item in my Reading List as read. All 200+ of them. Is there a CLI solution, or a way to edit the ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file to mark them as read?
I just got set up on OS X 10.9, and I have matplotlib working with the OS X backend, but the "python" window that shows up is partially inaccessible to Mission Control. If I activate full Mission Control with F12 (your shortcut key may vary), it appears with the name "python". However, there is no python icon in the Dock, and ⌘- doesn't show any icon. Is there any way to get the python app to appear in the dock?
My iPhone 4s 64GB was recently updated to iOS7. The battery was completely empty so I had to charge it. However, the iPhone does not boot anymore and it's stuck at the Apple Logo. I went to a service center and they say it's on recovery mode and I have to re-install the software, but data will be lost. I have a lot of important data, how can I save these?
Whenever I type "foo" it gets replaced by "bar". It is working system wide. I can see this behavior in Chrome, TextEdit and other apps. Even partial text like "Somefoo" gets converted to "Somebar". After initial search, I tried changing settings in "Language & Text". I can't find any entry for "foo" or "bar" in it. I tried disabling substitution. It didn't work. I tried "Restore Defaults". It didn't work. I even tried adding rule like "foo" to be replaced by "qux". It doesn't honor this rule and "foo" still gets replaced by "bar". I don't know what else I can try. How can I reset this substitution? Is their any system file or something which I look where these rules are written so I can change it? I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.4. Thanks!
I use my iPad as PDF reader, so my iPad contains many PDFs which I'd like to sync. It should be the steps below: You need to login with correct Apple ID on every device you want to sync Plug in iPad/iPhone to your Mac (my situation) Open iTunes In iTunes go to File → Devices → Transfer purchases from <iOS device>. But iTunes copy all my apps, not only books or PDFs.
I just installed Mavericks, but when I open Maps, the two-finger rotate gesture does nothing. The gesture is active in System Preferences. The compass does not appear in Maps. I can use the same gesture in Preview. The pinch-to-zoom feature works fine. Is this a hardware issue or is there something I forgot to activate?
I had a very odd situation happen with my machine at the weekend and wondered if anyone could shed some light on it. I have an early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and I was watching a DVD on it using the internal battery power. I had my magic mouse connected via bluetooth, a Superdrive attached via USB and my UE Boom speaker attached via bluetooth. Basically the battery ran out and the machine immediately shutdown when the power ran out.
I'm getting the following error when trying to copy a MKV file to VLC on iPad using the iTunes File Sharing on Windows: "Movie.mkv" could not be copied because not enough free space is available. The movie is 2.2 GB, and iTunes is reporting that my iPad has 6.75 GB free which should be plenty.
When I connect to an Ubuntu Server (ssh) and I try to see some text in the Terminal form the remote server, I get character codes instead of the appropriate text with diacritics. for example for a git log on the server I get: instead of: When I do git log on my local machine in the Terminal, I get the correct diacritics. I have no idea in which category this issue falls: Terminal bash ssh Ubuntu git I initially asked Ubuntu for this issue but they redirected me here. Any ideas?
I'm running the latest OSX on an MBP from '11. I've installed the latest zsh from macports and all of a sudden it stopped parsing the .zsh. Whenever I login I need to source ~/.zshrc before any binaries installed through macports are available. Has anyone seen the same?
Is there any difference between iPad Air part numbers? Like ll/a versus zp/e – for different countries. I want buy a new iPad Air and I stock between different part numbers.
I have a Linux image (Parallels v9 PVM file) on my MBP, which I would like to migrate to Windows (to clarify: so that the Linux image can be launched from Windows, instead of from Mac). Is this possible? Do I just need to install Parallels on the Windows PC and copy over the .PVM? Or do I need to use a different tool for the migration?
I saw a program on Windows that helped the user learn keyboard shortcuts in various applications by reminding there is a shortcut every time he used a mouse to particular task. Is there some similar software available for Mac OS X?
I have a router connected to the Internet. I have connected my Airport Extreme to this router. I know this is receiving the message (Double NAT). Since I want to receive all traffic on my Airport, I want to connect to the router's DMZ. In which field do I enter the routers DMZ on my Airport Utility?
no user with that name. I then tried multiple solutions to get a list of all users on the system. The user did not appear in any of the lists. I then found a script: this script found the user, and said that the user exist, which it should because I'm able to log in as that user. then I found another script from this link: https://superuser.com/questions/180144/how-can-i-delete-a-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-user-account-from-command-line
My dad would like to encourage me to learn how to program in C++, but he doesn't want anything that could possibly go wrong with any of the computers that we own while I am doing so to affect any of the data associated with their other user accounts. As such, he would like to give me an external drive for me to use as an isolated programming environment. This would be relatively straightforward to set up, but I was wondering if I could install OS X on this drive in such a way that I could boot it no matter which one of my family's computers it was hooked up to so that I could use whichever one is available as they become so. Is it possible to do this at least for a late 2007 aluminum iMac and a 15-inch MacBook Pro that my dad bought late in the summer of 2011?
I recently updated to Mavericks OS of my MacBook Pro 13" inch which was bought on October 2012. I am having blue colored lines and strange shapes all over the display. I dont know whether its hardware or software issue. The following images will reveal my issue.
I have a MacMini home server. On this machine /Pierson is a mounted FireWire drive, shared to other household machines using Mac OS X File Sharing.
I have the flashing finder icon problem. When I boot from DVD, I cannot choose the disk as Startup Disk. However, it appears in Disk Utility. When I run Repair Disk I can see the disk, and that it has about 130GB used, but Repair Disk takes literally about four seconds -- a suspiciously short amount of time. By contrast, Repair Disk on the external takes about three minutes. What is the best explanation for this?
Last year I installed Ubuntu on my 2006 MacBook (Intel), and erased the hard drive with MacOSX 10.5 in the process. Linux was fun, but now I want another Mac to play around with. I've put 10.8's install files on a flash drive and rebooted (holding option), but this brings up the Linux drive selector, and I do not see my flash drive as an option. How can I go about installing 10.9 on my MacBook?
In OS X Mavericks, com.apple.IconServices seems to be causing almost 100% CPU usage and is causing Finder to become unresponsive (the "beach ball"). This happens periodically, usually when accessing a directory in Finder for the first time in a while. Restarting Finder stops IconServices from eating all the CPU, but revisiting the problem directory makes the problem happen again. How do I solve this?
Is it better value to purchase 1password from the *=URL=* website or the app store? They cost different amounts, does the app store version include all future versions of 1password? Which is the best option for consumers based on the license terms of the Mac App store versus a third party license where you buy an app directly from the vendor? (I have checked the agilebits.com website, but cannot find this information)
I am working on a comic reader app which is almost same as other panel by panel readers. I planned to provide authors with a web interface where from they would be able to upload their contents and fix a price. But going through several articles, it seemed like Apple doesn't work in that way. Now I need to know, how can I provide a functionality like this. I was planning to collect all the books from the authors and login to Apple's portal to upload those books. But then also there is a restriction of 10k products on Apple's portal. I was wondering how giants like DC, Marvel or Comixology have overcame this. To be precise, I need to know if I want to achieve functionalities of comic selling as of Comixology, what approach should I follow to upload comics to store. Any help will be highly appreciated.
I'm working with a friend who uses Outlook on his Mac (I don't know why). He has several folders that were stored on his computer through Outlook that are now missing. If I run a search on his computer, I can pull up specific emails that were in the folders, but I cannot find the actual folders. The only thing I can do at this point is try to write an apple script that will look for emails based on a certain criteria and archive them.
How do I delete a network from my Mac? I removed it from network preferences in the advanced pane but it still appears connected in my list. I also tried looking for it in Keychain Access but it's not there and I'm still connected.
I use some Sony headphones on an iMac and they've been working well for around 4 months. Now, I start up my Mac to go to Safari and listen to some songs. I realize that my headphones are a bit loud. I hit F11 on my Apple keyboard to lower down the audio and for some reason it won't lower! I can hit the mute button and still nothing will happen.
Basically, I would like to know if the root password as been changed on several machines. Can I have Apple Remote Desktop script this for me and automate this check?
Am a bit of an adrenaline junkie and have 2 GoPros that I use to create movies with in iMovie. At the moment I can't seem to make any as my startup disk is full of 575 gb of Movie data, despite transferring all of the videos out of iPhoto and movies out of iTunes and iMovie and from various other locations. I have also deleted previous iMovie events to free up some data but only 10Gb. Anyone have any idea what I can do without having to restore my mac? Its almost like theres a fault and its storing data that isn't actually there. Cheers!
My iPhone 4S is 2 years old. Today, the accuracy of the GPS is really bad. Before, it worked very well… I tried to restart but didn't help. Is there any way to know if this is a hardware error? I also have an Android phone, and it has very good accuracy, so it isn't something "from above". Is my phone coming to an end?
If the thief uses the device with another sim or cellphone service would it still be tied to my iCloud?
Would it damage to put out cigarettes on the chassis of aluminum mac books?
I've been looking for answer on the web now for a few hours and can't find what im looking for. What i want to do is move each file in a directory to a new folder using the name of the file, excluding the extension. /Movies/Filname.avi ---> /Movies/Filename/Filename.avi I know how to do each individual file, but can i do it reclusively for the whole folder using one command or a script.
My iPad 2 has recently become VERY slow to charge- about 1% every 10 minutes while plugged into my Retina MacBook Pro (my usual charging source). I've tried both USB ports on the rMBP and neither seems faster than the other. I checked the Apple support website and it was said to be a bug in iOS 7, but my iPad was charging fine for a few weeks after I updated. What could be some possible causes of this. NOTE: the battery drains at a normal rate.
I had been saving some money to buy an SSD and finally I did. My old HDDs motor shut down so I had to replace it. I put it in the macbook all good but it isnt recognized by the system as a hard drive so I cant select it when I am trying to install the OSX from the OS X Internet Recovery option. I think this is done because of the new SSD being NTFS (possibly from the factory) and not OSX enabled (fat) by default.
I tried uploading a photo from iPhoto to Facebook and the upload failed. I tried again, and it appeared to fail. Blaming my internet connection, I tried again. The upload worked. Then I took a look at the album online and two or three copies of the photo were in a moderation queue.
I'm trying to put Maveric's new feature - Finder Tags - to a good use, so I have a bunch of installed applications, some I have read/write permissions but for some others I don't (All apps installed by the OS and some others, such as Parallels Desktop, to give one example). So if I want to get a list with all apps bundled in OSX I could by typing this to Spotlight: Apps installed (not bundled in OSX): The beauty in it is I could, also, find all the web browsers installed (by OSX or by me) by doing this: Or get only the browsers installed by me: So far so good, but here is my potential issue:
I understand that Perian is (a) not being developed by its creators anymore and (b) it doesn't work on 10.9/Mavericks even though someone appears to releasing updates to it on GitHub (gathering from trying Perian on 10.9, none of said updates seem to be related to 10.9 support). I uninstalled this now apparently useless framework by clicking the Uninstall button in preferences, then removing the prefpane and rebooting.
I'd like to move text boxes on the official OneNote iPad app, but can't figure out how to do so. I've tried tapping and dragging, and double-tapping and dragging, but both only scroll the page.
Nothing seem to work... Funny thing though, when I tried to reinstall Mavericks (in safe mode), I could connect to my network (otherwise I couldn't have downloaded a fresh copy of Mavericks).
I'm looking to mimic the environment of the classic Turbo C++ compiler from the DOS days on Mac OS X. I have used DOSBox with actual Turbo C++ installed in the virtual drive, but I'm just experimenting with other options. I've been writing basic C++ programs using nano and compiling them with g++, but I'm looking for something more integrated and TC++-like. I found RHIDE, which appears to be a clone of the Turbo C++ IDE and is available for both DOS and Linux.
I'm currently using Filevault on Mountain Lion on one of my machines and on Mavericks on another one. Recently, I discovered Truecrypt, which does similar work to Filevault. Does anyone know what's the difference between those two and which one is better? Does Truecrypt decrease the performance of the OS comparing to Filevault?
I have an app for which I want to prevent app nap. However, it does not have a "Prevent App Nap" checkbox. What can I do? Missing app nap prevention: Has app nap prevention:
I have deleted my .bash_profile with rm command and copied another one to use. But now i remember there is some PATH thing in the previous file :(. Can i find the deleted .bash_profile in some place like Trash?
I use iCloud to sync my podcast subscriptions across multiple devices (Macs, iPhone, Apple TV), and generally, it works: All my feeds and stations appear on all the devices. Also, the play position syncs flawlessly. What doesn't seem to work is the synchronisation of the played/unplayed status*: No matter on which device I play an episode, it never gets marked as played on any other device. It doesn't matter whether I acually play an episode to the end, or just mark it as played by option-clicking the item and selecting Mark as Played.
Not sure how to search for this question, and moreover I rather think that what I want might not be possible, but just in case I am asking it here. I am looking for a way to create a new table where its headers will get their contents from the content of a column of another table, without duplicates though.
How do I install "R" on OS X? Ideally using Homebrew? There seems to be very little information online.
I'am currently developing Java application with Eclipse IDE and having this folder named "workspace.dist". This contains the deployed portlet to be deployed to a framework. Now my problem is, Mac OS recognizes workspace.dist as TextMate extension (a text editor). For the mean time, I had to "Show Package Content" thru context menu to open this file. So my question is if there a way to associate .dist extension as Finder? Thank you!
According to the last comment in this thread from Apple's support forum I have to believe 'The problem lies deep into Launchd mechanism'. If that is true how launchd is going to behave on the upcoming DST change on 9th March where 2:00 am to 3:00 am will be skipped is unpredictable. Can any one suggest its behaviour on a DST start change? How can I make it handle a DST end change, so that it wont run the jobs twice? EST 2014 is the time zone of the server. The plist format I am using is:
Looking at my Users & Groups I have just noticed two users I never payed any attention before. Maybe they already exist from the beginning of time i.e. when my macbook pro was installed for the first time. But, as told, I have never, ever, ever noticed them. Does anyone know where these users come from and if I can delete them?
Mac OS X Mavericks, no VPN, connecting via wifi. This domain resolves to my IP address in the local network I tested it on several computers and the resolution is correct, works with host and nslookup as well. However, when using chrome, curl, ping, traceroute, or any other tool that will actually try to connect to the ip, it hangs and eventually fails. pinging 192.168.10.18 works of course. From another computer it works but it does not work from mine. We have other domains that behave the same way for my coworkers, everything work except the access to my domain from my machine. I'm using dnsmasq to catch all domains in .dev, but even with that disabled it still fails. We use google dns as provided by our DHCP server. What could cause the issue ?
A common way to "block" a website (eg, to eliminate it as a distraction) is to edit /etc/hosts and point the domain to the loopback address. Eg: On Mavericks, I find that changes like this are seemingly ignored by the OS; after editing the file (with sudo) and saving, the site that should be blocked still loads. I've tried resetting my DNS cache as follows: But the site still loads. How can I get OSX Mavericks to notice a change to /etc/hosts?
i have a MacBookPro 5,5 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2,26GHz) with Snow Leopard. Actualy i've 2 ram block of 2GB (total 4GB) of DDR3 at 1067MHz. Now i'm buying 2 ram bloc of 8GB of DDR3 but at 1600MHz, could i've problems? This is the ram i'm going to buy: *=URL=* I hope they will run at maximum frequency that motherboard support.
I'm running OSX Mavericks, and have an external 500Gb HD connected via firewire. I have 24GB's of RAM, and fairly often my RAM usage will spike to 23.95 GBs in use and literally leave me with only 50 MB of RAM, or less, usable. I know it's my external drive because when I eject it the memory usage goes back to normal, which is about 5GB used. How do I stop the drive from using so much memory?
I have fat fingers hence this makes typing on the Iphone which has a small screen difficult , I always mistyped  Are there any ways to overcome this problem ???
How many displays can I connect on my MacBook Pro early 2011? Now I use extender monitor, but the screen of MacBook is off, like this macbook *=URL=* and I forced my graphic card to non automatic switch monitor *=URL=* My question is next: Can I use 2 LG TV displays? or I must buy MBP retina? Greetings Andrej
I use the web version of Gmail (www.gmail.com; as opposed to a offline email client). I frequently send files as attachments. I would like to be able to right-click on a file on Finder and, with one additional click, I would have a new blank e-mail message on Gmail (on a new window of my web browser; currently Chrome), with the selected file already added as an attachment.
We have an OS X mac mini server that stores/shares our files and our Time Machine backups (which is why AFP needs to be enabled). We were having issues with AFP and network files being held open indefinitely, so we've switched to SMB for file sharing; everything is resolved in regards to that.
I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 7.0.4. I want to designate some of my contacts as having an iPhone with the iPhone label vs the generic mobile label. I have edited some contacts and have changed their cell phone number to reflect the iPhone label. However, some contacts the iPhone label is simply not present, nor is the custom option. I can not determine why this behavior is manifesting.
I've set Finder preferences on my MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.1 to show everything on my desktop:  I've noticed that storage partitions called Recovery HD and EFI appear there:
As I hang around those who are toilet training, and people who really dislike macs, I'm wondering if there is any way to make my macbook pro urine proof? Update
Resetting the SMC every time the machine is turned off is the only way to turn it back on and when it is on the fans run at max speed etc. etc. (SMC issues).
I'm trying to estimate necessary data plan for a Euro trip, and my main concern is: I'm going to use an iPad mini native Maps app for turn-by-turn navigation being there. Was unsuccessfully trying to find out how much traffic driving let's say from Prague to Berlin (it is a 3-4 hours trip) might use.
I have an error when I debug a C program in NetBeans. Here is a screenshot of the build tools:
Occasionally when I am using iPhoto an app with a generic white Lego piece icon opens on the dock with the name "com.apple.MediaLibraryService.xpc". Activity Monitor lists it as "(Not Responding)" and shows it using a pretty large amount of CPU time. When I quit iPhoto its % CPU drops to zero, but it remains in the dock and remains unresponsive in Activity Monitor.
App Annie claims ranks go up as high as 1500. Using the charts apple provides (example: *=URL=* I can get up to 400. I'm wondering if anyone knows of other urls that can be queried to get rankings for apps that may be further down the chain?
I'm working on an iPad app and I need to be able to download and unzip a collection of images to display. Is this possible to do natively in iOS 7? iOS 6?
I'm trying to create a Service where I can select an individual file, right click, go to Services and tap Perm Delete using Automator - i.e.: rm <path> I've looked around and i just can't find how to get the file path of the selected file. Can anyone help. Thanks
I open finder, go under Documents (on my local SSD) it contains only 31 items, 5 PDF wiht size 10-50MB, 1 PDF fo 300MB, the rest are small TXT, ODS, XLS, HTML of < 1MB and 5 subfolders. While scrolling through the view, it freezes, sometimes the display in the finder windows is all white, sometimes the beach ball is turning, sometimes you wait just a couple of seconds, some other times it is closer to 20 sec.
Generally I'd do all my file management from the terminal but there are the cases where the GUI is more effective. I'm wondering if it is possible to customize the list of apparent 'Favorites' even though I don't use most of them. I'd like to add my own folders that I have created to that list, is there a way to do this?
Is it possible to set the default web browser for the computer (i.e. for all users) from the command line? If I understand correctly, individual users' browser preferences are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist; is there a way of directly setting the default browser system-wide, or do I need to find a way of altering this .plist for everyone? (Thanks in advance, any help would be appreciated!)
How do I achieve the same result on OS X 10.9 as I do on Ubuntu with commands: and
When right-clicking on a file in my dropbox folder in the finder, i get the regular window with (amongst others) the option to "view on Dropbox.com". Clicking this link brings nothing. Neither does clicking the world-icon in the menulet in the menu bar. How can i 'repair' this little imperfection? (fyi: clicking the other link "Share Dropbox Link" actually does work, i have installed the newest dropbox.app on OSX 10.8.5)
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a 2007 MacBook. I want to upgrade to Mavericks, but I can't do so without using the Mac App Store to download the upgrade. Tiger doesn't have the Mac App Store. How can I get around this?
I have a regular Applescript application bundle that executes an applescript file when it's run. I'm trying to run a shell file that is located at "/Contents/Resources/Data/df.sh", however with the code I'm using, it keeps giving me "resource not found" errors. I'm really new to Applescript, so there's the chance I'm doing something obvious wrong.
Prior to Mavericks, one could reverse the direction of a Magic Trackpad, using the following defaults commands, and magic five-finger gesture to reorient. You can find more information here and here. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work in Mavericks. Does anybody know a modern incantation to bring back the old magic?
Disk Utility (Debug -> Show every partition):  Partition tab:
Edit: I have also noticed that when re-connecting to my monitor at work I can't drag certain programs (iTunes, Sublime Text, maybe others) to my external monitor. They claim to be on the monitor, but aren't visible. Restarting the computer fixes this.
Example 2: While in Finder, I click a pdf 1.pdf file and open it. Then I click a second pdf file, 2.pdf. Now if I use ⌘+w to close 2.pdf. The system will again automatically brings me to the window of 1.pdf, not the Finder window which I was previously working on.
When my iMac enters sleep, and then I wake it up -- either shortly after, or the next day, while it responds to the wake request quickly, it's basically unresponsive for 45 seconds+ after. Specifically: Opening a new window for safari (which was still running on sleep) takes forever scrolling in mail will show blank space bringing up Alfred can take a while Things to note: Late 2010 i7 iMac w/ 1TB disk & 8gb Mavericks w/ all updates applied HD is audibly being hit aggressively Is this a known issue, and if not, can I run some tools to tell me who is accessing the hard disk.
When sorting buddies for XMPP services (not iMessage) into different groups in the contacts window in Messages.app for OS X I can click and drag one buddy from one group to another. However this removes the 'buddy' or contact from the previous group. How do I add a buddy to two groups?
I installed Octave 3.8.0 using homebrew. The Octave official FAQ says I can use --force-gui option to start octave with the GUI.
I'm trying to share my MacBook Air's wireless connection to my PS3 via ethernet and internet sharing. In internet sharing the share to options are iPhone USB, Thunderbolt Bridge and Bluetooth PAN. If I buy a USB-Ethernet adapter will I be able to share my internet connection through it or do I have to purchase the more expensive USB-Thunderbolt adapter? Thanks
After a complete restore of my iPad 2 from iTunes, all my PDF books not from the iTunes Store were gone. I just saw them for seconds and then disappeared. How can I get them back?
I moved some files from one folder on Desktop to another folder in Documents. But after I put my MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks to sleep, I found those files return to their original location. What is the cause of it?
Am using iPhone 3Gs running on 6.1.3. My problem is that whenever am trying to open any .txt file in iFile, it shows weird symbols and characters. Am sure the files are not any binary files. First I thought this could be a problem with a particular .txt file I want to open, but all files with .txt extension (So far I have tried nearly 50 .txt files) show strange characters and symbols.
I have Retina MBP with 10.9.1 installed Mac OS X. I have Skype 6.12. I'm not using video camera everyday ;) but I'm using Skype every day, and someday when I need it in Skype I saw that it was not detected, so I can't use it. From that point I've started to monitor that situation. And I've found that every time after while the camera is gone... At the moment the solution is an OS X restart, but I don't like that solution. Is there any other solution, or any possibility to get know why the system is losing access to the camera. By the way, when the camera is lost, it is also not available in any other software like: Viber, Photo Booth, Facetime etc...
Problem: when I take Screenshots on my retina mac using the built-in screen capture tool and attach them to certain tools (Outlook 2011, HipChat, etc.), they are enormous.
I have a MacBook Pro connected to a Thunderbolt Display. In the display I have attached a mouse and an Apple keyboard. The keyboard works ok after it has been working but when I get to work and and plug in my laptop the keyboard is not responding. The funny thing is that the mouse always works and it is made from Microsoft. I have tested with 3 keyboards all having this problem. It's also funny that the keyboard works on the left usb on the MBP but not the right when this happens. This is the keyboard. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-english-usa?fnode=56
I lost my iPhone 4s the other day and I went on find my phone but it said it was offline, so I clicked lost mode but have been checking every day, what does it mean by offline? is it cos the phone is off or that it doesn't have internet or broken? if someone has stolen the phone surely they cant use it? as I put it in lost mode or if they did could I at least track it? or is there a way they can get round this? I'm so confused and lost without my phone :(
I backup files on an encrypted volume with Timemachine (external disk, USB). The backup itself is not additionally encrypted.
I've been contemplating on buying a Macbook Pro, but what I want to try and do is to have Linux, Windows and Mac (Primary) running on the Macbook. I feel this is a good idea for me, as I'm in my first year of Computer Science in Uni, so I would like to get a serious feel for Linux and Mac, as I've been using mostly just Windows up until now. As well as the fact, I can carry the Macbook about and so forth.
I'm trying to enable calendar syncing for my work Gmail account (in System Preferences > Internet Accounts). I already have Mail and Messages enabled on the account with no problems. When I try to enable Calendars, it spins for a while and then gives me an error:
I need to use gnuplot and a bunch of other stuff, so I installed MacPorts on Mavericks. After installing the packages, if I try to plot something I get the Trace/BPT trap: 5 error. Reinstalling XQuartz didn't fix the problem. Do you know how could I fix this? I tried various methods suggested online but nothing worked. Thanks!
I have an Iphone 5S. When I receive calls I do not see a number it only reflects "Unknown" on the screen. How can I change this to ensure that it reflects either the number or name if the person is in my address book?
My wife receives my SMS text messages on her iPhone and iPad. How can I change this? I do not get her messages on my device
Since I had lost the CDs that came with my MacBook Pro (late 2010/11 model – 10.6 OS X CDs) I couldn't continue with my OS X installation. I asked Apple about purchasing the CDs but it would take over 2 months for them to arrive :/ (I can't wait that long as I use it for work.)
I use Numbers version 3.1 on Mavericks. One can easily look at a formula in a given cell and immediately see the other cell references it uses. I think of this as a backwards look.
I want the ability to lookup an encryption certificate for SMIME in Outlook for recipients who have SMIME certs, but I just don't have their public key. I noticed the keychain has a directory feature. Can I use this to add a compatible directory to lookup their public key for SMIME encryption?
I work on multiple projects with multiple type of servers required, and when I switch project I shut down any of the applications and start the ones I need at that moment from the terminal. I considered using a VM to switch project, but I was wondering if there was a way to save my terminal session (a snaphshot) for later use.
I received a 4:3 Keynote presentation that had been changed to 16:9 (adding white bars to left and right) and then changed back to 4:3 (adding white bars to top and bottom). Now all my content is basically shrunk to 75% of it's original size with a white box around everything.
When you press a dead key such as an accentuation key, OSX will wait indefinitely until you press another key. I want that, instead, if you don't press the second key fast enough, it will just ignore the accentuation keypress. Is that possible?
After many system instabilities and freezes I was suggested to do a PRAM reset. When I boot now and the File Vault asks for the password to decrypt the SSD the Guest user is gone and my user lost his thumbnail and the name says [Update Needed?]. The solution here isn't working: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/80122/70851
I am using my Developer certificate to sign Automator Apps via the Export dialogue, however when distributing these apps (outside the Mac App store) via email, Gatekeeper still flags my apps as a from an unknown developer. I gather from the Apple Developer forums that non-App store apps are tagged with a quarantine of some sort.
I love iMovie and used it to create several projects on my wife's iMac. I'd like to move all my iMovie resources (from an HD camcorder and my iPhone) to my Macbook Air but I don't feel there is enough hard drive space for me to do so.
I have a pop account, say Yahoo, and I'd like to archive all the email I have on the POP to my Mac. I don't necessarily want to clutter up my main Apple Mail mailbox.
I have not found a way to share a contact with someone that requested it by e-mail, I should be able to reply with an attached contact information, does anyone know how to do this?
Can someone recommend a good kit for repairing iPhone 4s and 5s? We have a whole fleet of iPhones here and they often need to be repaired. If they are beyond EOL or we aren't getting a warrenty on them, I'd like to be able to get as much life out of them as I can.
Apologies for my ignorance here, as the title suggests I am looking for advice on upgrading the Ram on my mid 2011 iMac. I have bought 2x4GB and the iMac already has 2x2GB. I found the question was already asked by Mike Kwan here: How should different sized RAM be added to iMac? However as I do not have 50 rep, I can not comment and when I went to put an answer in I am told not to ask questions or look for help in the answer. (So again sorry about the duplication question)
I'm trying to make a folder called -. I know it's a silly name, it's named so to mirror something else.
I recently tried out CrashPlan on my Macbook, but I decided not to go through with that. However, now that I'm not going to be using CrashPlan after all, I can't figure out how to remove their app from my Mac. I've tried simply opening up Finder and moving it to Trash but I get the following error when I try that:
I'm trying to install encfs, for which I need brew. I installed brew, but installing encfs is a pain.
I'm having trouble finding pages when I query for a string in Preview, where actual results are mixed in with meaningless, blank results. For example, when I search for B-tree in my algorithms book, I get this:
I reinstalled Office 2011 and my Outlook email index stopped updating. I forced a reindex of the entire drive, but the email still wasn't indexing. Stopped by the Genius Bar and they suggested reindexing the drive and repairing permissions (didn't work).
Have you used an iOS app to record video along with keyed gps info? Basically need a file to match video times with gps info So not just the start gps point but every couple seconds whilst video is recorded. For each journey two files would be created, a video file and a gps file.
why does my macbook wifi not recognize my att mobile hot spot on first try? Sometimes I need to turn wifi on and off several times before if finds the hotspot when scanning for it.
For example, I love military decorations, and here's Wikipedia's Service Ribbon, how can I download all the ribbon images at once instead of clicking them one by one and then select "Save image as"?
I chose the 35 Pass Erase, because of the extremely sensitive data on this back up. (not really, but I just want to be safe). Question:
I have an external encrypted drive, and almost every time I plug it in, it'll ask me for the password, even though it's already in my keychain. If I type the password in, it'll mount as expected. Oddly, if I hit cancel, it still mounts anyway, presumably because the password is in the keychain. The problem is that it prompts for a password each time, even though it clearly doesn't need it because the password is in the keychain. Possible oddities/useful details: Mac OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks (though not a recent issue) USB3 Guardian Maximus (2x 2TB HDDs in RAID1) Drive is partitioned into two Logical Volume Groups each with a Logical Volume Partition, Formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) On plugging in the disk, I get the following in the Console: After mounting, it just says: (PARTITION_# are partition labels) I did the keychain repairs/resets as suggested by @megadroid and things seemed better briefly, but still not 100% reliable.
In my Linux installations (Ubuntu and Debian), under the home of my user I only have files whose owner is my user and group owner is my primary group. In my OSX 10.8.5, under the home of my user (username enzotib, primary group staff), I also have files whose owner or group owner (or both) is different. This is the situation:
When I'm trying to install a free app on my iPod, it'll say: Verification Required Before you can make purchases, you must tap continue to verify your payment info.
When someone from Outlook sends an invite is shows at incorrect time in my iCal. I looks like it doesn't take the timezone of the sender into account. If i open the same .ics file with Outlook then the time zone is recognized properly an the meeting is set at the correct time.
When I start Win8 (installed with bootcamp) the keyboard lights are always on. How do I disable this?
I'm opening Microsoft Word (read; Office 2011 for Mac) for the first time after installing my new Macbook Pro Retina 13". However, if I check for an update there will be one. After I update it, there is another update.
I'm having some issues with SSH KeychainIntegration in OS X Mavericks. I've tried poking around Apple's support site, but haven't seen anyone having my issue. I have seen lots of people who seemingly don't know how to use SSH that well, so I decided to try another community.
I tried to create 3 partitions, one for the current OSX Mavericks, one for Lion and one for the installation dmg, but it seems that the Fusion drive doesn't allow me to create more than 2 partitions.  I can't burn a DVD, I don't have disc drive, I would like to know how can I install Lion on a partition on my mac, and keep using the main partition with Mavericks. thanks
A website is asking me to upload pdf documents but once I browse to upload all the files (pdf format) they are greyed out and not selectable. I have tried Chrome, Safari, Firefox but there is no change in the behaviour. It's not only one pdf, in which case I would think the file is corrupted or something.
Whenever I try to format shape (for example edit line) in PowerPoint it crashes leaving me with this error message: It's worknig on Mavericks on Polish version EDIT If it's any help that what I found in system log;
I assume that deleting a file via Finder also deletes any previous versions in /.DocumentRevisions-V100 that are attached to that file. But what's happening if a file is deleted in Terminal with the rm command? Are previous versions left behind or do they actually get deleted, too?
Company Director with a MacBook Air and she's having problems attaching pages files and PDF's to her e-mails. Mail keep embedding them into the message window so she cannot type, or see what she's typed in the window. Many times recipients of her messages say they are missing some of the attachments she thinks she has attached. How can I turn off the embedding of any attachments into the message body and just displaying them as a 'file' icon somewhere rather than the contents?
I've just realised I can't install previous osx partitions with Lion on an iMac 2013. Therefore I would like to try to use Lion in a virtual machine.
I am new to OS X. Yesterday I set up my email accounts in Mail. It immediately synchronised my emails from my inbox. However, since then I don't get my mails, although I see them through webmail. I heard Mail in Mavericks had problems with IMAP, so I tried to install Thunderbird and Postbox as well with the same result which means I can see the emails I received before yesterday, but none of the new ones. I even tried rebooting but that did not help either. What is the problem and how can I solve it? UPDATE: I do not use gmail, my account is hosted by a private provider.
How to reinstall or restore Apache httpd in OS X? I want to do that because I deleted httpd.conf file (both /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and the original at /etc/apache2/original/httpd.conf).
I have a Rosewill USB headset (*=URL=* that works well with my Macbook Pro but not in my new iMac. Macbook is a Mid 2010 running 10.9.1 When I plug it into my Macbook it works as expected, the sound settings change and everything works well. I'm transitioning to an iMac (late 2013, running 10.9.1) and when I plug the headset in, it has never worked and only intermittently given me anything. 1) Some of the time the lights on the headset control will come on 2) Rarely the buttons will control the sound level, however the sound preference page won't show any valid input/output I talked with the customer support at Rosewill and they said that it has happened before and the usb needs an updated driver, universal driver something along those lines that sounded good on the phone and I didn't write down well enough. I spent some time googling and couldn't come up with anything. The USB ports work at least for charging phones and for a logitech mouse. Can someone point me in the right direction
I can't log in to the guest account. Clicking "guest" at the login screen has it shake its head. Normally there's no password. What could be causing this? It might not be relevant, but it's a laptop with no battery.
There are song on my iPhone that i never put there. Only the playlist iPhone and Purchased are activated and those songs are not on that list. And somehow, I can't remove them. Anybody help?
I have two systems accessing a NAS (Isilon), with local user authentication. On first system (actually two systems with same OSX) running Lion (OSX10.7.5) I used following command: Verified his secondary membership with: This presented "joeuser" to the cluster with access rights based on his secondary group membership and works fine. On second machine running Mountain Lion (OSX10.8.5) I added & verified joeuser using same commands. Cluster will not recognize "joe's" secondary membership from the Mountain Lion machine, and will not allow access to directories that were accessible from the Lion machine. What's changed in user presentation, and how do I fix it / create a secondary membership via different (working) way on the Mountain Lion (and then Mavericks)?
My question is 2-part, but first some background. I have a Windows 7 machine, an iMac (27" Sept. 2013 model) and an Apple Cinema 27" display. I'd like to link all of these together. The Windows 7 machine has Mini DisplayPort on the graphics card. The Cinema Display uses one Mini DisplayPort only. First, Using this Apple support post, can I link the Cinema to the iMac, link the iMac to the Windows 7 machine, and basically Cmd+F2 to swap BOTH displays between the iMac and the PC? Second, must the Windows 7 machine be a Thunderbolt port, or will Mini Displayport suffice? Answer: In the specifics from PacoSF's link the following answers have been transcribed for future readers, as well as for clarity: Can I use the iMac in Target Display Mode as a display for my gaming console, DVD player, or other device?
I have a pretty extensive .bash_profile set up on my older machine using Lion and I would like to include a lot of the same functionality. I noticed that Mavericks doesn't have a .bash_profile by default. What is the best practice here? Should I just create the file, should it be picked up automatically or is there anything else to configure? Note: This is just for a single user account, so it doesn't have to be set up globally.
How can I prevent applications from being able to go fullscreen? Or, if this is not possible, how can I escape from fullscreen mode of a (possibly unresponsive) application, without quitting the application?
I'm running the latest version of Mavericks and I can't seem to change the folder icons. I've gone to get info and pasted it in whilst being clicked on the folder image but nothing happens.
I have received a mail, which has a double exclamation mark beside the attachment file clip, what did it mean?
I have long wondered what the significance of the VPN icon in the menu bar is:  Anyone know? Edit:
I'm a Windows user, but I'm looking to get a portable Mac for web development and iOS development. I will be running sublime 3, Xcode and probably Nginx or XAMPP as my server. Would the 11-inch MacBook Air be a suitable machine? If not, what would be the minimum spec machine.
I have a friend with two iPhones, two different numbers. When I call her with FaceTime audio, only phone A rings. How can I call phone B? The phones have two separate Apple ID addresses, but they are both set to receive Facetime calls on their 10 digit phone numbers. I have both numbers listed in my contacts as 'Home' and 'Work' for the same person.
I've seen quite a few threads about this around the interwebs, but no solutions. I'm migrating from a 2012 15" rMBP to a new (as of yesterday) 15" rMBP, and am having issues with Win7 x64.
I can change the twitter setting on iOS 6, but in the latest version of Twitter on iOS 7, there is no "Turn on notification" button in the user's setting. How can I set this? This is how to on iOS 6 http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Push-Notifications-for-a-Users-Tweets-on-Twitter-for-iPhone
Has anyone had success configuring Surfraw on OSX? How do I get a working configuration for OSX? http://www.surfraw.org/
I have discovered that at certain times, my iMessages are delivered as SMS instead; which is perfectly ok with me, considering I have it set up to do so. My question is, under what conditions are the messages sent as SMS with both myself and the recipient does not necessary been in a wifi area to receive or send iMessages...is it that when the recipient has their phone powered down that it is sent as SMS, and if that is the case...why is it that I receive messages sent as SMS instead of iMessages from the same recipient...what exactly does "...when iMessage is unavailable" mean??? Thanks in advance for any/all response(s)...
I'm in a somewhat odd situation: I need to wipe the disk of a MBP, but I can't boot into Recovery Mode/from a CD/etc. as there is a firmware password set.
I have just started using an AirPort disk (a Drobo connected by USB to the AirPort Extreme). I am trying to decide what is the ‘safest’ way to copy files to the Drobo from my MacBook Pro, which connects to the AirPort’s Wi-Fi network (802.11n-only / 5GHz).
I am syncing my iPhone 5S with my iMac. In iTunes it tells me I am over my 64 GB allowable memory with the majority of the space being used for over 4000 photos.
How can I remove a customer review from my App in iTunes? I sent a message via Report a Concern and nothing happened.
I have successfully setup my Mavericks server with Profile Manager. I have enrolled my devices and all is working fine.
Here is the situation. When working inside the current mouse pointer is fine on my MBA 10.9.1. However, when I decide to use my MBA outside in the Sun, I can't see my mouse pointer very well. Is there a way to use a shortcut or script to switch mouse pointer to something highly visible when working in the Sun light. Yes, I know Preferences + accessibility + Size change, just wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut or something like it.
Is there anywhere which officially says what format/bitrate is used for the sample files which you play on the iTunes store? If there's nothing official, can any audiophiles work it out roughly?
I am looking for a Software on Mac OS X Snow Leopard capable of viewing DICOM files. DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. I found IrfanView on Windows with DICOM PLugin but on MAC I can't found anything.
I am a non-english native speaker and therefore use the OSX's built-in look up service (three-finger tab and cmd+L in the spotlight search field) quite a lot. I was wondering if there was a way to keep track of or record the words I have looked up? (Applescript perhaps?)
Does anyone know if there is a jailbreak tweak that will allow URLs to open in Safari.app, instead of the app internal web browser? I've been looking around but couldn't find one. I'm using an iPad 3.
I am using iPod Touch 5G and I've recently jailbroken it. First, all my apps disappeared from the springboard. But now the iPod is stuck in recovery mode. I get a 9006 error when I try to restore it via iTunes. I've searched online and found a few answers, but none of them work.
Mac Calendar has stopped allowing events to be entered or viewed on Sundays from the Month view. If I double click on a date on the month view, for a Sunday, nothing happens but if I go to the day view there is a default New Event on the day. If I enter an event from the day view it does not appear on the Sunday in the month view. Having been a Windows user for a long time I did wait to ask this question until I had turned the machine off for day and then back on the next day.
I'm trying to work with the script below and the repeat until exists window "Print"loop never returns true (I never hear the beep 3). Is this the correct way to wait for a window to appear? I am using the Accessibility Inspector and this is the correct name of the print dialog window.
I have a few servers that I ssh and RDP to to at my office. When I'm out of the office I connect to them via hamachi. Currently I have duplicate ssh hosts and rdp profiles for inside and outside the office. I'd like a solution that switched these automatically based on my location. I've looked at the network locations but that doesn't seem to do what I'd like it to.
So since the Mavericks upgrade curl has more issues with certificates. When trying to curl a file from my web server with it's self-signed certificate it was getting the error "SSL Certificate: Invalid certificate chain". This was corrected by adding the certificate to my system keychain and setting it to always allow SSL, information I found here and here. This works fine and when I curl a file it downloads properly. However if I run curl with sudo before (e.g I have a script which needs to be run with sudo and does a curl in it) then I'm back to the same error message. I'm guessing that root doesn't read from the system keychain perhaps? Does anyone know a way to fix this?
I was playing a game and encountered this:  Is this allowed by Apple? As soon as you click "Yes" and go to the app store review page, it unlocks all of the colors, whether or not you actually leave a review.
I'd simply like to know how to delete an entire line moving forward opposite of deleting an entire line backwards (cmd + delete). I know to delete individual characters moving forwards is fn + delete but what about the deleting the entire line itself?
I want to turn off push notifications for a single app (Skype, in this case) because I accidentally said "Yes" when it prompted me to receive push notifications. I do not want to turn off notifications. When I have Skype open, I want to receive notifications. When Skype is closed, I do not want to receive notifications. My understanding is that push notifications are the type that come when the app is closed. How can I do this? Update - clarification I want to receive notifications from Skype, but only when Skype is running.
I've decided to switch from OS X to Ubuntu. I'm following the documentation on Ubuntu's site for creating a bootable USD Drive.
I have a MacBook Air 11" mid 2013 with all the updates. When the screen gets turned off and I try to wake it up in the very same second by touching the touch-pad or pressing a key, it will get stuck and I need to reboot it. I've observed the same behavior on a friend's MacBook Air 13" - don't know since when she has it though.
A botched terminal command left me without a /usr/share folder. Most things seem to be running ok (although I haven't restarted since, so it's not clear if I'd have errors on reboot). There are already a few things wrong though, such as not being able to backspace in zshell, and emacs refusing to start up (giving me a Cannot open terminfo database file message). I'm not sure what in all is stored there, so I don't know what if anything I can do to reinstall necessary files, etc. Alternatively, is there a repair utility built in to OS X that might be able to restore at least some of the most essential things?
I cannot send iMessages from my ipad mini. I get a "message send failure" message each time I try. I am sending to other Apple devices, and the function used to work. I've tried powering down my device and I've changed the setting allowing messages, turning it off and then on to reinitiate it.
2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers).
I have an issue with vpn pptp connection on my macbook. The latest version of Mavericks is installed. The log (/var/log/ppp.log) is provided below File is not exists on my system, I had tried to create it also had changed chmod This VPN works properly on my iphone and windows pc. Also I don't have any problems with connection using command line: I don't have possibility to check other VPN types, but I had tried to connect to PPTP servers on Windows and Linux OS.
I have Snow Leopard on and external HDD. Is it possible to boot form the external drive, and install Mavericks on the internal drive via the Mac App Store?
I need Oracle Java 7 for software running on my Mac, but do not wish to have the plug-in available in my web browsers. How can I accomplish this configuration and maintain it across Java upgrades?
I have a long history of chats, several groups and multiple contacts (who have me in their address books) on Whatsapp for iPhone. How can I preserve them all if I switch for a week to a new SIM card (which I buy for travel, from a different cell operator)? Is it possible to make the switch seamless for my friends, so they don't have even to add my new number (and of course, I'd like that their history of chats with me doesn't break on this switch)? After a week, I would like to switch back to my original SIM card -- and again don't want to loose anything. My iPhone device will remain the same all the time, and I'm not going to reset it during that period. Whatsapp FAQ is quite unclear on this...
Alright, so I think this is a fairly common problem with apple products that have closed in fans: I have a 2012/13 Mac Book Pro 15" that I got 5 months ago with the following specifications: Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory : 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB Software : OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) I mainly use the system for programming, email and other work/school related projects.
See image below. I want to turn off the little number that shows how many new unread e-mails you've received, so that's not distracting me while I'm working in Apple Mail...any quick fixes?
I FINALLY managed to migrate my triple boot mid-2012 rMBP to a new Haswell model, and was very surprised to see this in Win7:  On the other machine, the "primary hard disk" score was a solid 7.9.
I recently purchased a Thunderbolt Display to use with my Late 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch. I was quite happy with the overall performance until I noticed that the only fan in the laptop started running at overly high speeds (over 6000 rpm) to cool off temperatures surpassing 90C (194F) on the temperature diode/CPU die. This happens every time I watch a video and gets worse if I do so on full-screen mode. Most other tasks produce around 70C (158F) and 4000 rpm.
I downloaded a file that is more than 20GB, but after deleting the file the space is still taken, and it's not showing in the finder. I'm using a macbook pro with retina display 121GB with bootcamp and OS X Mavericks.
i opened a file attachment and am trying to print from an apple computer. it's in pdf preview. it's looks huge on the screen but tabs and all are inline. but when i click print and it shows a preview of what is about to be printed, it's completely skewed to the right and extremely large. And this is exactly what prints out. help??? how can i make this attachment print correctly.
I've made the mistake of changing the "everyone" permissions for the root of my Mac Mini server's startup drive to "none". (I believe) this would be fairly easy to fix with the Recovery Partition - except this is a headless server, and I can't locate my Mini-DVI adapter, so I'm monitor-less.
I have remapped one of my top-left keys (`) to the backward-delete key (⌫). However the command-delete shortcut (⌘+⌫) to "move to trash" works only on the original ⌫ key but not on the remapped key. Any suggestion?
Yep. That's Mail.app, and all of my other apps have similar behavior. It started after I installed this package.
When my macbook is in standby, and the battery dies it sometimes goes into an unresponsive state in which (after charging) it won't turn on. The power button has no effect, even in combination with any key, such as T for target disk mode. The machine will stay in this state anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks and then spontaneously boot and resume from a hibernation state. (grey screen and loading bar) One one occasion, about 2.5 weeks had passed and the machine spontaneously woke up while it was being disassembled and scrapped for parts. Also, on at least three occasions, the computer just crashed (instant black screen) and the power button didn't turn it back on for a few days. I'm running Mavericks 0.9.1 (13B42) The special diagnostics self test (boot while holding d) does not report any errors.
I recently discovered terminal's feature, you can set the keys emacs or vi style I prefer the second. so if you do
I tried to set up my iMessage account but it still is not working. It won't let me add my phone number and I can't start conversations. What am I missing?
Can somebody suggest a memory tester for Snow Leopard (10.8)? Command line or other doesn't matter, ideally something that doesn't have to be installed though (doesn't change the machine) and just runs from the downloads folder or even an USB stick.
Is there any software or tool that can give ⌘+` a visual interface just like ⌘+tab does?
I found a 'Deleted Users' folder, which apeard on the side bar of the finder some how, which I've never seen before. I'm confused how they got here and why I never saw them before. It has two .dmg and one is 'aspnet.dmg' I don't know what that even is?
When ever I send or receive a text message from my iPhone, it appears on my spouses iPad and iPhone. Yet, the reverse is not true. I think this is an iCloud issue and my be controlled by adjusting preferences somewhere, but I don't know how.
I intend to buy a Blue Yeti microphone later today. I've been reading that you need two things for the yeti to work with GarageBand on iPad: the Apple Camera Connection kit (obvious really) and also a powered USB hub to avoid the 'device drawing too much power error.' I was wondering if this problem has been fixed with iOS 7 or not; do I Still need the USB Hub? So, in short, my question is: Will I need to buy a powered USB hub to connect the Blue Yeti, or can I go straight through CCK without a hub?
I've two user accounts in my mac, One for me and other for my friend. When friend is using the MacBook and he needs some file from me, for that I've to login into my account and share the file by file sharing or USB data traveller. It takes time. What I want is, when my friend needs some file from my account, I should just double click on a folder in finder within my account under Users and finder ask my login id and password and grant me access on entering right password. How can I do so?
note: it says that my storage is almost full, leading me to believe they are still there. just somewhere else, please help!
This is not actually zombie in UNIX terms, but I don't know name of this process. On my Mavericks 10.9.1 some GUI application has been badly crashed and I can't run it again except I should logout (reboot?) and login again.
My iPhone lost when I was skiing. I think its in the snow and nobody can find it. I'm sure that my iPhone has about 40% charge but it turned off because of the freezing. Is there any way to find my iPhone with any apps when its off?
I am trying to setup the Open Directory server and it keeps failing stating that This is on a newly installed server. Was there something else besides running through the wizard that I was supposed to do?
What would be the best way to try to fix this? Are there 30-pin extension cables that have more sturdy connectors that would lock into the port on my iPad better? Is this something I could get help with at the Apple Store or would they not help since the adapter is made by Toyota rather than Apple?
I'd like to know if there is a way to show the current mobile link speed on my iPhone 5s. I mean the "physical" max. of the currently negotiated connection to the cell tower, not the actual throughput, I know there are tons of apps to measure those. Is there a way?
My iPhone says “since this is the first time you ...” when it ISN'T. And then it asks security questions which are NOT the ones I set. Did the same thing last time I tried to download a non-free item, and I had to call Apple and spend ten minutes proving my identity through an e-mail exchange. And that won’t work right now, because I can only get that e-mail on an iPad that just died. How can I get around this, and more importantly, make it stop happening?
I'm using OSX 10.9. I'm trying to set up Internet Sharing to connect my Android to my Mac directly over Wi-Fi. Every tutorial I've come across (including the one published by Apple) mentions checking a box for "AirPort" in a "To computers using" list. However, the option is simply not available on my machine:
At work, I rely on a public wifi and don't see any good security standards or requirements or tips from Apple. Are there some general tips on first steps to take for securing OS X - if so they would be of great help to me in learning how to secure my Mac. Whats the best way to keep my late 2012 MBP safe and secure?
I would like to define aliases (keywords) in Alfred so that by typing keyboard followed by RET, it opens a pre-specified folder in Finder. For example: p1 could be an alias for "project_1" that lives under: so when I open Alfred and type p1, Alfred opens the above path directly in Finder.
In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I could view thumbnails/previews of .wmv and .avi files in Finder through the software Flip4Mac. However in Mavericks, I cannot see previews although I've installed the newest Flip4Mac (3.2.0.16) software. Did something in OS X 10.9 Mavericks change for previewing in finder? Is it possible to get a preview of .avi and .wmv files?
What adapter will provide the best resolution/image quality for extending my late 2013 macbook pro retina display to a 24" AOC 2436VH monitor? The monitor has HDMI and VGA (d sub). Do I want mini display port to HDMI, or just an HDMI cable or VGA? I will mainly use it for working/writing, not for movies or anything (if it matters).
I came home one day and the battery on my MacBook was dead. I plugged it in and the light stayed green.
I have recordings which last many hours. I want to focus on some points of the recording. iTunes is not accurate for it. Is there something in the settings for iTunes to allow for more precise playback timeline?
We have a (non-jailbroken) test iPad 2 with iOS 6. Following the recent SSL vulnerability patch, we'd like to update it. However, the update I see in iTunes/Settings is to 7.0.6. We'd really like to keep it at 6 (=update to 6.1.6). Is this possible?
My trackpad is stuck in the downer position, it doesn't "click up" again. I can still use my trackpad for tapping and it functions just like before but I cant click it so it goes down, it is stuck down there. Did anyone else have this problem, if so how did you fix it?
I really like enhanced (offline) dictation in OS X 10.9, and use it a lot. I'd like to use it within Lotus Notes (9.0.1), but unfortunately double-pressing the "Fn" key when I'm composing an email doesn't seem to do anything.
Before reinstalling OS X, I want to know is it possible to use native capabilities to backup my bookmarks using iCloud, without install some plugins like a Xmarks? I know manual way to export bookmarks via Safari menu, but this is inconvenient.
I've created a URL link in my dock, however, the link only opens with the default browser. I have safari, Firefox, and chrome (latest being the default) installed in my machine. I'm wondering if someone knows how to default the link to open with Firefox instead of Chrome but still keeping chrome as the default browser. Note: I'm running Mavericks in my MacBook Pro.
I have a retina MacBook Pro 15" running Mac OS X 10.9.4. When I wake it from sleep at work, it's connected to the wifi network before I've even entered my password. But at home, with a Airport Extreme base station from about 2009, it takes 30 seconds at minimum every time I wake from sleep, and sometimes up to a couple minutes.
How do I listen to YouTube videos at double-speed? On the desktop I'm able to change the playback speed to 1.5x or 2x. With podcasts, I'm able to listen to them on my iPhone at 1.5x or 2x speed. Shouldn't I be able to watch YouTube videos at double speed on the iOS app?
I'm trying to merge all of my text-based notes into Notes.app. My notes are all over the place: some in text files, some in email drafts, etc. I can of course just copy and paste the text of such notes into Notes.app, but then their date created and date modified will be as of the time I copy and paste them in, rather than when I actually made them or modified them, and I'd like to retain the original date data.
There is a security certificate exchange that occurs at the start of the connection process which doesn't seem to work when the Airport Extreme is used as the Internet access point. When I switch to using my iPhone as a Personal Hotspot, it works fine. Any ideas on what the missing configuration might be?
The problem is that when I try to change to the directory in the variable, nothing happens. I put another say command that spoke the command pwd after the directory change and it says that I'm at my user's root. Is there something that automator does differently when dealing with shell scripts? Here's a screen shot of the entire service. I should also mention that I have tried to just concatenate the folder path and the file name that I've tried to create with the touch command and when I do so it only uses the string name of the file to create: Any help would be greatly appreciated!
With , I can access my mac at home via VNC. When in the same network, I also can access it via ssh with the name NAME.local with the help of bonjour.
I've been having issues connecting to wifi access points, and I am wondering if the band is messing things up. How do I tell what band a wifi connection is using on the laptop if I don't have access to the router settings?
I've recently started to work with multi-desktops and multi-screens environment. What I'm trying to do is: Working on my Mavericks (MBA) as the main computer with Desktop #1 in front.
I've got an old Power Mac G4 Cube I'm trying to get working. So far I've installed both 10.3 and 10.4. Both have installed successfully, but will not boot from the installed system. The system shows the Apple logo then briefly shows the blue screen, but before the login screen shows the screen goes back to grey (usually with a mouse cursor) and the system just stops. No extreme fan noise (though being a Cube, there isn't really a fan to make noise).
Beachballs happen every five minutes or so, taking about 15-30 seconds to resolve. I almost never had them before a few weeks ago.
OSX 10.9.1, Late 2013 MBPr I am trying to make a Automator workflow to connect to another machine on my network. How can I do this with Automator? I have it all set up up to the point where I have to enter and admin's name and password, but I can't find a way to simulate keystrokes that actually works. I found a method that sounded legitimate here, but this did not work for shift-tab (as the field selected on launch is the password, and I need to edit the username and password). I tried this AppleScript, which is what that post told me to do:
I have a very large iPhoto library with photos and videos shared to Flickr using the built-in iPhoto/Flickr integration. I've run into problems with the size of my iPhoto library (>100GB) so I'm splitting it in two to help manage the space.
Other users have better reasons than I to stay on iOS 6. For example, some people might be reliant on an app that has no iOS 7 version (as per bmike's comment), or the device might not have enough memory for the upgrade (as in this duplicate post).
Have a new iPad Air. When I try to send a text, some of the contacts come up in red instead of blue and I cannot send a text message. Any ideas?
I have tried a lot of net to find, why does time machine shows pink icons of the date. But not a solid answer i have found. I don't have a new computer, as i heard when you change hard disk. The Time Capsule understand it as old one. But yesterday i needed some backup and found out for last 2 months, every date in pink. Why is that? How can i assure that every backup of mine is backup which i can rely on?, and not pink.
I signed up for a developer account for my son under my name because he is not of age yet and because he wants to make his own apps. But itunesconnect won't let me input my bank account info, ect. for the paid contract necessary for him to set up the iap because I already put in my own information for my own account. What should I do?
I can't see the image or movie file dimensions in the Finder when browsing files on a server. Local files are shown as usual; it's just when I pick a file on the company server that the dimensions are not shown.
I'm using Facebook Messenger on my iPhone and it happens very often that I appear online to people even though my app is not running and even my network connection is off. I think it's some sort of a bug, moreover I have the latest version of iOS and the app. I'm wondering how to be 100% sure that the app and all its processes are not running, some sort of activity monitor. iPhone 4S iOS 7.0.4 (11B554a)
Often I don't have a cable to connect my iPhone to the Mac. Can I use Bluetooth or Wifi to import photos and movies from iPhone to iPhoto?
This "works" but the fonts on the screen are blurry and I can't really use anything. I'm not familiar with how the retina display affects things but I'd like the external monitor to be driven at top resolution and get output similar what I'm getting with the Debian laptop. How exactly do I do this? There might be bits of relevant information I'm missing since I'm not familiar with the platform.
I can not figure out what's the correct settings to be able to listen to podcast episodes from day 1, in the chronologically order, automatically. Let's say that I've just discovered an interesting podcast. So nice that I want to listen to every episodes from day 1. What I want is to always have for instance 2 or 5 unread podcast episodes on my phone. I want to have 6,7,8 when I have already listen to 1,2,3,4,5. But not the freshly released 150th.
How can I disconnect one single Bluetooth device from iOS? Background: I usually use my BT headphones with my iPhone, but sometimes I'd like to use the headphones with my computer. I have BT turned on on iPhone also for my Pebbles SmartWatch, therefore I don't want just turn the BT off on iPhone
On a page with the following html (for a live example see *=URL=* Some Mac laptop users using Mail version 5.3 (1283) and OSX 10.7.5 are finding this jsFiddle opens up an email message with Bob and Cathy's addresses appearing twice each in the bcc field. In fact, if there are n email addresses in the bcc line, it shows each of them n times. How do I fix this? Thank you.
Just recently noticed that "Cut the Rope" free versions on my iPad Mini with latest iOS is taking up to 500MB of space. Is it really necessary for them to take up so much space? Maybe someone know to fix it.
Apple released iOS 7.0.6 and 6.1.6 to patch a specific SSL/TLS security bug. I can't find anything official about iOS 5. Does iOS 5 have the same bug? Please cite your answer.
I've got an iPad2 that's supposedly susceptible to the latest encryption hole in iOS 7. However, it's not offering me the update automatically. Where can I go to force it to check for updates?
Cleaning out my mother's basement, I found a "sticker album" that I kept as a child in the early 80s. A few pages of my sticker album contain these stickers -- maybe 12 in all -- all still attached to their backing and probably still "stickable": Unfortunately, I don't remember where or when I got them. I found it particularly unusual that the bottom "stripe" was so offset from the upper part of the apple and I'm not sure if that is a misprint or a deliberate evolution of the logo.
Hey there..i downloaded a software called "cloak" it lets you change the colors of your mac system .. when i changed the color it got wrong .. i tried to choose the original color but it didnt work, then i deleted the software and restart my mac but it still there.. i also tried to restore the system but i didnt set up the time machine is there any other way?
My daughter dropped her iPhone 4s (ios version 6) and now the screen is black (this was only four weeks after I replaced a cracked screen myself on this same unit and everything was working fine). She said it first landed from waist height on the top edge of the unit. Even though the screen is black, calls still come in (but I can't seem to answer them despite my swiping the screen area to answer), texts come in, the vibrate feature works, music was playing for a while and then I touched the screen where I thought the play/pause button would be and it the music stopped. When I hold the power button down to shut down the unit, I swipe where I think the "slide to power off" message on the upper screen area would be and in fact the unit powers off, so this tells me the digitizer is working at least in that area of the screen. I removed the back cover with the power on and when I hit the power button, I could see the edges of the back of the screen light up even though the screen was still
I have an app that has 23 ratings and 4,5 stars but if you search for the app they don't appear. If you tap on the app after searching for it, the stars appear but empty. You can only see the stars if you tap on Ratings. It's not a problem of time, the app was released in July 2013 there are ratings from that time too.! I'm on the Spanish App Store, and looking through the categories and there are many apps that have this same problem, only few apps have the 5 star rating under their name.
I installed ZendServer CE. This is my /usr/local/zend/apache2/conf/httpd.conf file: *=URL=* This is my /etc/hosts file. Document root is /Users/anthony/apache/html
Upon start up there is continuous beeping and clicking resulting in a gray screen with a flashing screen ? icon.
I am using mavericks. Often, iTunes starts up on my for no apparent reason. I never use iTunes and would like to remove it (for this reason). I have followed a few different tutorials for removing iTune. It is not as simple as expected. Every time I "uninstall" it, sooner than later it pops back up in my dock. Please help with a way to remove iTunes. Edit Another tutorial attempted I got this error with the first tutorial:
I open an Excel file (Excel 2008) and it opens as read-only. File info shows that it is not locked and my user account has Read-Write access and it's a LOCAL file. Please advise on how to get back to editable file? File name is ca.xls so all those posts discussing / are not relevant.
What would be a simple way to show some text "floating in space" on osx. The text should have a transparent background and I want to pick a color, a font, and some message (with newlines maybe) with the text appearing in front of all other windows.
I am looking to solve an issue with iPhone reordering words in the "From" field when I view an email. Currently, it looks fine when I see it in the "Inbox", but when I click the email itself, it reorders the words based on commas. For example: …becomes… Is there a fix to this or is it just settings people have to change on their phones?
I have Windows 8.1 x64 on my iMac 2011 with AMD graphics. It works fine, except for when my Mac goes to sleep and I wake it up, I get BSOD with System exception not handled igdkmd64.sys. I looked it up, it's Intel Graphics Driver. Why does this error occur with AMD? And how to fix it? I used Mountain Lion assistant, and installed first Win8 compatible drivers.
So - weird things today. Because of another issue, I had to close google chrome and restart it. When it restarted, Pandora started playing - however, there is no pandora to be found. No window nor tab.
I just bought my daughter an iPad mini for her birthday, and I have everything set up with iCloud like mine, because if she takes a picture, I want it to show up in my photo stream so that I see what she's taking pictures of. But - I don't want all of my pictures to go into her photo stream. Is there a way to do that?
I have a large property and rent it out to clients who rented a holiday home. Now I would like to send to everybody an automatic message over Wi-Fi.
I updated to the new IOS 7 and it took my mobile hotspot option off the menu settings. Not sure what to do any information would be appreciated.
In Mail.app I can send e-mails on behalf of different mail addresses. It looks like this: I've achieved this by inputting multiple e-mail addresses separated by a comma in the Email Address field of the Account information in the Preferences. I can also select a full name in the mail preferences: However, any name I input there is the same for all three reply-from e-mail addresses. How can I set a name for each reply-from e-mail address?
I'm wondering if it's possible (and if so, how to do it) set up my Airport Extreme so that all devices connecting to it have their traffic piped through a VPN. If I have an OpenVPN running on a Linux server outside my home, is it possible to route all traffic through that?
I need the latest SSL security fix, as I'm running iOS 6.1.3. But, I don't have enough space to go to iOS 7 which is the only option iTunes and my phone are giving me to upgrade. I have an 8 GB iPhone 4 with usually less than 100-200 MB free, and have deleted all apps and non-essential music/photos so I really don't have the space to go all the way to iOS 7 (I understand iOS 7 only takes a few hundred MB beyond that which iOS 6 occupies, but every little bit counts and I'm already driven crazy downloading photos of my daughter every few days because I've run out of room.) Am I completely out of luck?
I have several windows VMs that needs to connect to the OSX host in Parallels. Rather than hard coding all the VMs to use an IP that my Wifi router uses, Id rather have something that works even while WIFI is down.
According to this video importing a psd from Photoshop CC to Reflow is as simple as going to the menu File > Generate and clic Edge Reflow Project. But this menu item is not showing in my case.
I decided to try Textmate 2 alpha, since I used to use TM 1.5 for years. I got it up and running, but no matter which theme I use, all URLs (as in href and src) are underlined in my HTML documents, which is very distracting to me. I can't find any setting causing this... but how do I set this to off?
How can I disable this app permanently? I simply don't want it to ever run ... ever. Only if I launch it manually.
I am watching training video, and I need the full screen and to watch this video. Is there a way to pin the video in the lower left corner and have it sit on top of the other desktops?
When I'm on OS X and on a website see a [File upload] button, half the time what I want to upload is a picture, which I would like to take right then on iOS camera. Currently this means doing the following: click [file upload] button open up iPod go to camera app snap the picture connect iPod to Mac with USB cable open iPhoto import the picture click on the imported picture choose "show in finder" drag the image from finder to the file upload dialog
I want the wallpaper on my iPhone/iPad to rotate/change to a new wallpaper every few minutes, so that I won't get bored seeing the same picture over and over again every time I'm on my phone. Are there any free iPhone apps which allow me to do so?
I have OS X 10.9.1. I captured a photo using Skype (skype 6.12) and I cannot find the folder holding my images. I've tried looking for the answer on this website but couldn't find it.
I'm new in this forum and I hope someone has an answer for my issue. Since yesterday my mac-book pro won't boot in Os X I have boot-camp on it If I turn on normally
Unfortunately, it would appear that Safari doesn't support CSS2 page margins from CSS2 recommendation circa 1998, whereas all other major browsers now do. However, when printing out an HTML page, it would seem like it is only Safari (or at least some versions of it on some systems) that preserves the hyperlinks into the PDF document, whereas all other browsers (SeaMonkey, Firefox, Google Chrome) only preserve the decoration. Is there any way to print a rather complex HTML document into PDF without losing the hyperlinks, but ensuring narrow margins? There's a related question, but it's simply after the hyperlinks, without any regards to the page margins — Print HTML to PDF while retaining hyperlinks.
I have been experiencing kernel panics roughly once per day since upgrading to Mavericks, but they overwhelmingly occur while I am doing something graphically intensive (eg: switching desktops, using Google Earth software). This one occurred out of the blue, during no irregular demands on my GPU. In an effort to isolate the problem, I have uninstalled all third party kernel extensions. I have a 2010 Macbook Pro and fear that it may be a logic card issue. If so, can anybody explain what exactly this hardware issue is, and why the new OS is manifesting it?
Once back in OS X (Mavericks, but it was Mountain Lion when I installed Windows), I expended the default HFS+ partition to fill the full space of the SSD. So now I've got a nearly out-of-box Macintosh HD partition; everything on the Mac side works fine. But lately, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed at the BSD coreutils among other things, and so I'd like to be able to dual boot into some version of Linux (probably Ubuntu or Xubuntu, but this is kind of arbitrary).
When I first put in my nickname I used emoji with the name. now each time I try to sign in to change the name a box comes up saying to update my account cannot connect to server. As far as I know my account is updated. However the emoji keyboard no longer is available when I sign in. How do I fix this?
If I submit multiple apps to be reviewed at once, is it possible for them to all be reviewed at the same time or do they go down the list and review the next one only after the one before it has been reviewed?
How do I ensure that the DNS is being set by the network? On Windows I would check here and make sure that Obtain DNS server address automatically was selected:
I have an iPhone 4s with iOS7 and somehow I see iCloud music which I haven't downloaded yet on my iOS device. How can I get rid of these, I do not need to see them.
One of the meeting rooms at our new offices has a short email address (tv@ourdomain.com). The calendar sharing function only works on a search for email addresses (I can't type in an address manually) but the search only starts after the 3rd character before the @ symbol (and stops after the @ symbol).
is there a tested way to connect the Micro-DVI port of the Apple Macbook Air 1,1 (Early 2008) to the HDMI input of an HD TV? The only way I know of, is Micro-DVI -> DVI-D (Apple adapter) and then DVI-D -> HDMI (cable), with a separate audio cable: has anyone tested this? are there suggested cable versions or brands?
I have 5 users with Mac laptops who want an automatic backup to be performed whenever they get to one of the three sites of their business (3 VLAN's connected via VPN). The Mac users connect to the network via Wi-Fi (same Wi-Fi network, same SSID on the three sites). The network is PC only, and the Mac laptops do not need the services of this network (they only need Wi-Fi to be able to go on the internet).
We have three iPhones in my house: two 5's and one 5s. Over the past 6 months every few weeks they glitch. What happens is that at exactly midnight eastern time all three phones start showing the lock screen for two seconds, followed by a second of a black screen, followed by five seconds of the Apple logo on a white background. During this time the phone is running. When on the lock screen you can actually swipe left and start entering your unlock code, but you will get interrupted. This usually goes on for at least 6 hours. Hard resetting the phone does not fix it: you just boot to the same state. Restoring from a backup does fix it and seems to be the recommended solution on the Apple forums. If I do not do a restore from backup, the problem resolves itself usually by around 10am. This happened with all iOS 7 updates including the 7.0.4.
My dad1 recently switched to Mavericks. With it came the loss of calendar synchronisation with his iPhone through iTunes. I thus added his iCloud account to his Internet Accounts system preference pane for it to sync. Here is how I proceeded to the best of my recollection: Quit Calendar.app Launched System Preferences.app and went to the Internet Accounts pref pane Added his iCloud account to the list Quit System Preferences.app Launched Calendar.app again
I don't think Mou.app is at fault as it hasn't been updated for a while and I was successfully making vector logo PDFs after Sept, 2013. Also, I get the same problem in Marked.app. This is why I suspect OS X Mavericks. Any thoughts?
How can I see crash log on original iPad?
Most of the time when there's a missed call, it shows up when I go to Phone app->Recents. Sometimes I get a text from Rogers (+8888) telling me the number and when they called. When that happens, it doesn't show up in the Phone app. I've got an iPhone 4, iOS 7, although this has been happening for longer than I've had iOS 7.
Is there a way via bash to detect that an external display has been plugged in or unplugged via bash? I know that I can create a crontab command that fires a script that uses the system_profiler command to check and see what displays are currently being used and compare that to some values I store somehwere, but I'm hoping that there is an event that fires when a display is plugged in or unplugged that I could piggy back on so that I'm not having to run the cron job at a frequent enough interval to make the process it preforms happen the "instant" a display is added or removed. Is there some kind of an event like this that I can hook into? Thanks
I'd like to be able to get the contents of Finder's "Network" folder (Menubar-->Go-->Network). The folder contents here is different than /Network or /net.
I am attempting to take a screenshot of a tooltip that appears when a user hovers over it, and immediately disappears upon any key press or cursor movement. Unfortunately, this means the typical shortcut I use for screenshots (⌘+SHIFT+4) causes the element to disappear. Is there any way I can capture this tooltip, preferably without installing any third party software?
I have got a JIS keyboard layout recently, I always swap between windows using command + ` , now I have no idea how to do it. Here is the layouts of two found on the internet. JIS and US keyboard layout
I am a relatively new Mac user, recently bought a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.1. I see that there are tagging capabilities within the file system. I'm concerned about portability. If I get a new computer in a few years, how would I transfer my tags to the new system? What if I want to move my files to a Windows or Linux machine? Can I see the tags on these operating systems? I just don't want to put some effort into the built-in tagging system only to have my tags useless at some point down the road.
I am looking for the easy way to rename all images, or other groups of multiple files, together in OS X Mavericks. Is it possible with Preview or any other standard OS X application?
I'm trying to remove the "Sleep" and "Shutdown" entries from the Apple menu. So far I managed to do it by editing /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/StandardMenus.nib/objects.xib but that solution is quite ugly. It can be a cause of some instabilities? I tried the following commands:
So where do I go from here? Googling for troubleshooting steps have proven useless, are there any logs I can look at or any verbose way (command line?) of running this application to try and figure out what is going on? Thank you in advance! Update: Taking a hint from this post I have tried disabling the resizing functionality, I will report back if this allows the backup to proceed beyond X of 3000.
I have already tried searching, but have not really found any decent resources relating to this. Office 2011 for Mac is great (their have been many improvements since Office 2008).
I have a home network with several users, using both LAN & Wifi. I have a Billion 7800N router which is also my ADSl2 modem.
Apple ii is setup for ethernet with addon card. Link light is green, however I cannot ping google. It's setup for 10 Base T and used to connect just fine. I powered cycled my modem one day, and after a snowstorm it would no longer connect. I can access my default internal network fine, just not anything external. Also, other nodes work fine on the network, just not the Apple ii.
The screen of my 2014 iPad Air, is black and unresponsive, currently the alarm is going off (so I know it is working) but the screen is black and unresponsive. I have not dropped it, I have tried to power it off, but since there is no response, I don't know whether it had any effect.
I have a couple CLI utilities I would like to map to key combinations. The scripts take no parameters, I merely need to invoke them. I've seen how to create keyboard shortcuts to apps, but can I point them to an executable somehow?
I have a new macbook pro that's on the company network. My old laptop had a large list of Connect to Server favorite locations that I don't have memorized.
I have a rMBP 13" late 2013 model and just updated Mavericks today to 10.9.2 (Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)) I have been using the OSX package of keepass from here (Openix) without any issues before updating. After updating, if I try to open keepass, the laptop hangs (i get the beachball of doom) and the mono process uses upwards of 98% of the cpu untill I kill it.
Can I track my iPhone 5 if the thief removed the sim card but tries to use iTunes to factory reset it? Could I track it if does not have a network connection without the sim?
My laptop was recently upgraded to Mavericks and has Office 2011. With an office document, I like to use file>>share>>email(as attachment).
We recently upgraded several of our Macs to Mavericks. On one in particular, I'm seeing unexpected behavior when logging in to a Windows fileserver. From Finder, I hit cmd-k, then enter smb:\\servername01\
Just upgraded Mavericks server to 10.9.2 and my virtual hosts partially work. We have four... wiki.blahh.org, crm.blahh.org, server.blahh.org and helpdesk.blahh.org. All of the web files are on the server and all A name records in DNS point to server.blahh.org's IP address... 192.168.1.5. wiki and cdm resolve properly and show the proper website, server.blahh.org shows the default (which is also correct) but help desk.blahh.org also shows the default server page and doesn't show the proper website. What is going on? All of the virtual host directives look okay but I can't figure it out.
Really, though. I just want Boot Camp to let me use Windows 7. Really.
I want to exclude Mail messages from showing up in Finder search. ->FINDER, NOT SPOTLIGHT<-
I have put a podcast in my podcasts folder in i-tunes media. How do I get i-tunes to see it so that I can play the podcast
I have a script to read the first line of any text file with a certain extension within a certain folder, recursively, but it doesn't work. The head command is non-functional. What am I doing wrong here?
For the past year I've owned two audio interfaces. Semi-recently I obtained a wonderful new iMac and I love it. I own a M-Audio Fast Track and a Focusrite 2i2 and although I love this new iMac I'm having extreme issues with these audio interfaces. When I talk or record anything the audio stutters and sometimes just cuts out completely. It's the same case for both devices. I've had this problem since before I upgraded to OSX Mavericks and I don't know if it related to my installation of Adobe Premiere Pro. I can't use my audio interfaces at all with Premiere so I just use it as an audio device for other editing software. Anyone else have the same problem or anybody have some suggestions?
My iPhone is jailbroken and it keeps crashing to safe mode randomly. I have two pastebins of crashlogs. Here's crash 1 and here's crash 2. And here is a list of my jailbreak tweaks. Packages
Is it possible to create a app like macOS parental controls in iOS for giving permission for accessing certain apps on the device?
If you edit Name of a file in iTunes, the filename changes too, not just the tag. Is there a way to avoid this? I want top preserve the original filename untouched when I edit Name. Is there a simple easy-to-install malware-less 3rd party tool for this?
I really regret not getting a CTO 2012 macbook pro before they went to the retina only. I was wanting a different keyboard on a MacBook Pro that has an nvidia 650 GPU and a 1680x1050 monitor.
1/After I updated to 10.9.2 this morning, my OSX keeps crashing over and over again. Up to now is almost 10 times or more. 2/Besides that issue, I also found my Contextual Menu in Finder really weird. It's messy and lost "Services" menu item. (see image below)
I still have my old iPhone 3gs (AT&T) with iOS 6. I have a back up of it as well. I also have a iPhone 4s (Sprint) with iOS 7. Can I grab the ipsw file off my iPhone 3gs and install it on my iPhone 4s?
The volume on my macbook pro has suddenly become greyed out. I haven't installed any updates or made any modifications to the computer, it just suddenly became greyed out after waking the macbook up from sleeping. I've tried resetting the PRAM, but I don't hear any chime at all when I start up my computer, no matter how long I wait/how many times the computer re-restarts itself.
With System Preferences->Mission Control->"When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" disabled, I would really like the application switcher (cmd+tab) to hide applications from other spaces. Is this possible in Mavericks or is there a third-party application that provides this? Note, I would prefer the application switcher to remain as it is, just hide the applications only active on other spaces.
How can I disable password autofill/autosave in Google Chrome without deleting all my passwords from the Keychain? I tried just disabling autofill, but Chrome keeps filling out passwords and still conflicts with LastPass.
I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts rather than the mouse. Is there a a way to define a keyboard shortcut equivalent to Right-Clicking a pkg file and choosing "Open", which warns about opening an unsigned package? Note this is not the same as the regular File->Open, which simply rejects opening the package altogether.
I have a macbook Air and want to run outlook mail instead of using Apple mail. I have set up outlook as imap and it seems to be working fine, i can send and receive messages but for some reason I can't view them, they appear and then disappear instantly. I'm having to use Apple email to read my messages. I have tried syncing and everything I know, MS were useless. Do I need to remove Apple email? Can anyone advise please
In Calendar on OS X (I’m using Mavericks), in month view I can hit CMD-T to focus on today’s date. When I do this, Calendar shows me all weeks in the current month. Near the end of the month (like we are now), this means I see the current week, the next week, and four previous weeks. It would be more useful if Calendar showed me the current week and the next five weeks instead — I’m not particularly interested in what I’ve done recently, but seeing what I’m doing over the next few weeks would be good. Is there any way to change the date range Calendar shows in month view when I focus on today?
I have two folders on two different Volumes: /Volumes/SSD/my-important-folder /Volumes/HDD/my-extension-of-important-folder
All my Music, Movies, Documents etc, are stored under /Users/myusername/ But it seems that Applications are stored under: /Macintosh HD/Applications
I very much like the menu bars at the top of each monitor, but as with most of the other things about multi-monitor support in Mavericks, there’s no way to throw out the bad bathwater without also pitching the baby with it. The only way to get the Dock to stay sensibly where you want it to is to disable the new fullscreen behavior, which also kills the per-monitor menu bar settings. Is there a way to fix the Dock issue without being forced to move the mouse to the top or bottom edges of the screen to force it to move?
I have install ruby using RVM. Next I create workflow in Automator, which detects new files in folder and then copies them to another dir. The next thing I want - to switch to those folder and run few rake scripts. I have tried to add next step to workflow: But it's failed with error:
Is there a way to update 10.4.11 OS X to the newest version of OS X? I have Mac Pro (2 x 2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon with 1 GB ram).
I'm trying to connect to VPN on Mac OS X via several ways: Native vpn client (doing something like this: *=URL=* By Anyconnect vpn client By Cisco vpn client
I wanted to see if I could get a 10.9.2 installer for Mavericks from the Mac App Store that I could use to clean install a Mac without requiring a patch after installation, so I went to the MAS and downloaded, expecting Install OS X Mavericks.app to land in /Applications as usual. After the download completed, I could not find the app in /Applications, though it was clearly running. lsof showed me an astonishing thing: it was running out of the archive folder in my home directory where I had moved the original 10.9 version of the Mavericks installer to prevent it from being deleted! Further investigation revealed that what I thought was my old 10.9 installer actually had been updated at the time of the MAS download, and contained a new (valid) Apple code signature (verified with codesign -dvvv). It's been months, but I think I just mv'd the original installer into my archive directory to prevent it from being deleted.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.1 using the Mail app (v7.1) to interact with my exchange email account. Is there any way to configure the Mail app to show an icon in the task bar whenever I have new mail?
I would like to be able back up my macbook on a weekly basis doing the following: boot into recovery mode mount a windows SMB network share use disk utility to save a disk image to the network share possibly automate this process This seems like it should be possible however when I try and mount the SMB share I get this error message:
I have just updated to 10.9.2 and after the installation reboot this little message shows up:  What exactly is happening in the background here?
The home button on my 5S is sticky. It still works, if I apply extra pressure. Is it safe to add a bit of WD-40 or some other lubricant? Recommendations for the best lubricant to use?
I know how to transfer an app from one account to another account as I have read the whole procedure for transfering apps from Apple's Documentation. However, if I want to upload a new version of the app after transferring I need the bundle identifier to be the same as the previous version of the app. I don't have that same identifier.
I've been seeing this since Leopard (10.5). If I erase my hard disk before installing a new version of OS X, the install the OS, then migrate all settings over from a cloned backup using Migration Assistant, everything is preserved except printers. Anyone else? To make matters worse, I just installed Mavericks (10.9.2) for the first time, and after the migration, not only were no printers preserved, but the OS did not automatically offer to download drivers for my HP 2015dn printer (either networked or via USB). I had to download the drivers (i.e. PPDs) manually. Is this to be expected?
I have imported a Word document into Pages 5.1 Instead of text+number heading styles like "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", I only see numbers as available choices. Can I customize the styles so as to add words or symbols to numbers?
Can I boot from SD card with speed 95MB/s and capacity 32GB on my MacBook Pro (early 2011)? How fast it is?
I have a Windows VM running in Parallels and is working just fine. I have mapped Apple-⌘ Cmd key to Windows-Alt and Apple-⌥ Opt to Windows-⊞ Win.
I'm trying to find out if I can connect two 27" Dell S2740L 927M9-IPS-LED monitors to a Macmini6,2. One via HDMI and the other via TB or USB 3.0.
My question to you all: IS THIS A BUG? or is this standard behaviour that is allowed by apple? Because I would assume that there are supervised devices out there that admins don't want wiped by another computer.
A site that I visit frequently used to be located at: But now it's just located it:
I have seen a few applications with mixed reviews that will allow a user to change the order of startup items. I would simply prefer the "bare metal" method and stick to using the shell or the Open Directory / netinfo editor to do this. I realize that this isn't controlled via launchd so what is the mechanism and where is the preference location for app startup definition? I have found OS X's restore app/window process to be less than lackluster and I need to guarantee certain apps start first before others (such as ScreenRecycler as I need applications to open on the other display when they fire up).
My Mid-2011 iMac (Intel i5) does not start the screensaver or put the display to sleep after updating to OS X Mavericks 10.9.2. I updated to the public edition available from the Mac AppStore.
My iPhone 4 isn't installing the new update! Do you have to have service to update? It keeps saying update failed because I'm not connected to the Internet, but I am! Help help!
My iPhone screen is completely frozen, but I can press the home/power button and it turns on. How do I unlock or reset my iPhone? I have tried pressing the power and home button for thirty minutes.
Is it possible to upgrade directly to iOS 6 while from iOS 4? I'm just new with apple gadgets. iTunes only shows ios 4.2. Does it require me to upgrade one step at a time? It took a lot of time if it does. ;(
I am attempting to use iTunes through a work proxy. When loading iTunes, it prompts me to enter a username and password for the http and https proxy servers, but fails, saying the password was incorrect. The pattern is that, the dialog will appear, details entered, and it will then ask for the http or https details, then repeat again and again. I have tried DOMAIN\username, like, NTADMIN\bob My network account is not locked
Before mavericks, selecting several images in Finder and choosing Open on them would open them in Preview in one window, with all image thumbnails nicely on the left hand side bar. Since Mavericks, this is no longer the case. Sometimes the selected images all appear in one window, sometimes Preview arbitrarily open some images in one window and other images in another window... How can I force Preview to open all in one again?
I've setup my macs to logout the user after 60 minutes of inactivity, but there are many, many times that this doesn't occur. mail hangs. some save dialog box was left open, who knows. Is there a way to force a logout to occur?
I have an iPad and need to delete some files. Unfortunately, I can't tell where the videos are based upon this:
My hard drive had some bad sectors recently, so I backed up, re-formatted, and clean installed Mavericks. Everything seemed to work fine until couple days ago when I tried to look at some photos I recently imported to iPhoto, things got stuck and sometimes wouldn't move at all for up to 40 seconds, I knew it was a hard drive issue. I tried to use the os x disk util to verify and repair disk but it all came up green. when I try to run time machine it transfers REALLY REALLY SLOW and than gets stuck and says backup failed. what should I do?
I am using ios 7.0.4 jailbreak on iPhone 5, and I noticed since 30th January, that when I take pictures, and I open Photo app, it won't show the location where my pictures were taken. More details: Location is on. Reset location and privacy settings didn't fix my issue. All the pictures taken before 30th January show location correctly. I googled it about my issue but I didn't find any related information, at all!
In my todo list, I like to refer to email messages based on the date they were received so I can simply find the message at a later point. For example, Follow up locking issue (see Peter's email 25th Feb 2014 18:04) Rather than transcribing the message date by hand, I'd rather copy it from the mail message and paste it into Notes but this doesn't seem possible.
Here's a challenging one for you! I have two iPhone 4S - work & personal handset respectively.
I'm just looking for some help finding out what the below icon represents?
does anyone know a trick how to generate a Softlink to a Network folder (smb or nfs) the idea is that there are some network folders i use regulary, but they usally not mounted .. the soflink i made is (of course) not avaiable because its going to /Volumes/share/... is it possible to trigger the remount via a folder action or something like this to avoid the mounting drama via finder. currently i'm working arround this by executing a shell script that just mounts the share.
Now I want to split this data (browser history, bookmarks, some settings) with the result that some data is only accessable by instance #1 and the other data is only accessable by instance #2. I know that I have to delete most unwanted data manually but thats ok.
How to add wiktionary to dictionary.app? For older versions of OS X, there is a method available here Dictionary.app: how to change from wikipedia.org to wiktionary.org. But in the latest system, there are only one field available, as mentioned in the last post.
I am right in saying that Fluid.app does not support Web Fonts? The fonts on this page looks nothing like in Safari or Chrome: *=URL=* And I have tried whitelisting the following domains in the Preference, but without luck.
I'm trying to migrate to OS X. One thing what I find really strange / dangerous that by double clicking on shell scripts, I launch them in Terminal. I would like to change this behaviour to open them in Sublime Text. My problem is that while I can do it to single files using the "Get Info" dialog, I cannot apply "Change All..." for these kind of files. For other filetypes it worked OK, but for .sh / Unix Executable File I cannot assign them.
Is it possible to script the exclude lists for Time Machine when setting up a new machine? For example, for a new machine I would like to setup the following exclusion list:
Am I just not seeing a way to search my iCloud keychain when I go to (iOS) Settings>Safari>Passwords & AutoFill>Saved Passwords ? The list is very long and they don't even give me a way to navigate quickly down the alphabet. I'm hoping that if search isn't currently available, they are going to add it soon.
In theory can someone tell me if I should be able to at least boot from the USB created by following a Mavericks install USB guide ? I suspect HD fail but I don't have a lot to go on. On a pc I can always use what is called fdisk to check the HDD. So in theory I can remove the hard disk and get at least some kind of terminal (fdisk equivalent) or other to try to work out what is wrong with the system. [I have tried to use other similar answers but moderators are forcing me to start a new question.]
Typing $ qlmanage -m plugins will give me a list of QuickLook plugins and their associated MIME type (at least I think it's a MIME type): Questions: What is the number in parentheses?
One of the greatest features OS X had (inherited from NextStep AFAIK) was the fact that the document name in a window's title could be right-clicked in order to get a drop-down menu with the parent folder hierarchy. (This is also mentioned in View location of a document open in Preview, but that still refers to the old method that no longer works with Preview 7.0 from Mavericks.)
I've been using a Dell U2713H display for about a year with a mini-display port to display port cable. However, after installing the 10.9.2 update, the monitor is going into sleep mode when connected to the MacBook Pro (as it doesn't think it's getting a signal), even though the laptop thinks it's correctly connected. (If I turn the monitor off, the menu bar, etc. revert to the MBP screen.) About the only related Mavericks default I've changed is to disable the "Displays have seperate Spaces" option within Mission Control, although I've tried re-enabling this and logging off/on again to no avail. I've also tried: Forcing the system to use the dedicated GPU rather than the on-board chipset. Resetting the NVRAM and the SMC, neither of which appear to have made any difference. Re-installing the 10.9.2 update Creating a new user account to see if there was a user specific problem Booting in safe mode to ensure no 3rd party apps were affecting things Forcing a re-detect Deleting the /Librar
Occasionally, you see a keyboard shortcut for something in an app's menus that shows a diagonal-pointing arrow (one that points 45, 135, 225, or 315 degrees) rather than your standard up, right, down, or left arrow keys. Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about:
How do I set up AU Lab with Soundflower to record and monitor all audio that is playing on my Mac Pro? K.W.
Given the recent OSX issues with certificates and SSL, I want to increase the security of the certificate validation in general. I came across a setting in the keychain that has a selection between best attempt and require if certificate indicates. The selection of always validate is greyed out.
When clicking the notification from Apple's Mail client it opens the mail in a new window, instead of showing the mail window (Which is in its own separate space) like it has done previously. Does anyone know if this behavior can be changed?
On OS X, how can I see which song/stream/... is playing in iTunes? I don't want to go to the messages dock on the right side of the screen, just want to see the currently playing title in iTunes itself.
I'm using Mac 10.9.1. I would like to install a fake SMTP server on my system -- one that listens for emails on port 25 but doesn't actually do anything with them. I'd like this process to start automatically upon login. I have looked at FakeSMTP and the DevNullSMTP server, but neither seems to support an option for starting automatically (you have to launch the server manually through teh GUI).
Out of nothing, my MagSafe to MagSafe2 converter became extremely hot while charging. So hot, I could not even touch it. What could cause it? I've been using it so I can leave multiple old 85W MagSafe chargers at various places, so I plug my new late 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro without having to bring a charger. Edit: After inspecting for discoloured parts, I saw the flat side of the aluminium surface is a bit discoloured. This is what I've done after it got hot: I cleaned everything a couple of times with finger nails and a wooden toothpick (to prevent scratching: electric stuff doesn't like metal fragments). The connector kept getting hot.
If I open iCloud in System Preferences, it says I have 5 GB of storage available. I'd like to use it to back up some zip archives of source code. Is that possible, or can you only access that storage through specific programs?
I'm trying to reformat my 32G SD card to prepare it for my raspberry pi. My GUI program on my mac does not allow me to format it to ext3 which is what i'm told to reformat it to for my raspberry pi.
I would like to have a list of TODOs in a particular folder (tex files) in the notification centre (the one in the right upper corner which opens from the corner). Notification Center is the one at the top right
I want to set a profile picture that has a transparent background, but when I do it gets a white circle in the background that I do not want. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, or maybe just set the alpha value of the colour it uses?
Back To My Mac recently stopped working for me, so I started using TeamViewer to access my home Mac from the outside world. It works great, for the most part. One thing that is frustrating me though is scroll speed. Regardless of what I use (magic mouse, trackpad), scrolling in the remote computer is too fast. It just jumps from the top of the list to the bottom instantly. I don't see any speed tuning controls in TeamViewer, and when I'm connected remotely there are no mice or trackpads displayed in System Preferences, so you can't adjust speed there either.
If I remove an IMAP-configured mail from a custom-domain (I've bought it via a domain-registrar), it should throw it in the trash-bin. However, these deleted mails are not visible in Outlook 2010.
I just upgraded to Mavericks (10.9.2) and after years of using MacPorts I decided to use Homebrew. I successfully installed Homebrew, but brew doctor shows:
How do I set up my iphone 5s so that it shows all my calenders (home and office) but does not put my home calendar entries on my calendar at my office?
I have partitioned my HD in three parts, system, work and private. I was trying to install R in work volume but it failed because it could find OS? So is it necessary to install all SWs on system, or there is a way to allow me install in that volume 'work'.
My OS X Server located in my home network. It's using Time Capsule to connect to the Internet. I've setup VPN server there and I was able to successfully connect, but I can't reach the devices in the local network. So, the scheme is like that I setup the route (in Server.app):
At the bottom of my Facebook chat, there are irritating glitches that I cannot unsee now. The arrows point to the red box indicating the errors. I use the Chrome browser on Mavericks.
I have a program called ServiceCenter from Native Instruments which is basically a downloader and installer for updates etc. But every time I open it it prompts for my password to allow it to make changes. Is there any way to whitelist trusted software so it doesn't prompt for admin password?
Is there a way to permanently disable the "beeping" sound following volume changes? Just in case, I use a Macbook Air with OSX 10.9.1.
Previously when I configure Mac mail, there is always an option for calendar so that I can use that email for my company calendar entries. But now in Mac OSX 10.9.1, I don't get that option and I need this so bad. Why this is happening? Can anyone help me find a solution for this please? I can email you the screenshot if you want because Stack overflow is not allowing me to post images without having 10 rep points.
Is it possible to use both the Key Repeat & the Press and Hold functionality in OS X Mavericks? How?
Logged into Mac this morning Noticed activity and files generated I did not initiate
I have a Trello app on iPhone, and I want to share the link of a Trello board/card with my friends via whatsapp. But I can't find this anyway in the iPhone app. Any idea where I can look for it?
My school IT guy tried helping me with an issue with my old PowerBook G4. I just got it from my friend because he had no use for it and he didn't know the password. I tried resetting the password and it wouldn't boot up and I have no idea why. The IT guy tried reinstalling every version of OS X. Every time he tried installing a new version. Starting from 10.5 to 10.2 everything failed and wouldn't work at all. There was some luck with 10.4 and it started installing but then crashed in the middle of installation about 4 times.
For a few months, I used the hard drive on my iMac to do Time Machine backups for my MacBook until I got a Time Capsule. Since Time Machine refused to back up directly to the iMac's HD, I partitioned it and backed up to the partition.
I have an iPhone 5S and I cannot seem to get my contacts loaded from my iPhone to my iCloud account. I have reset the iCloud and also deleted the account on my phone and reset etc. but nothing has happened.
I've got a situation that I don't know how to resolve. I've had a Mac setup and all worked fine. I've bought an SSD drive, installed Mavericks and used the migration assistant to move all the stuff from the previous system to the SSD disk, including the user account.
My time machine is set up by connecting an external harddisk to a AirPort Extreme. I am trying the 'Internet Recovery' option to restore my iMac from my time machine backup. When the 'OS X Utitlies' appear I picked the 'Restore Your System' option. It prompted me for my login and password of the TimeMachine.
I'm using macs since 8 years now and have a computer science background. I know, that when installing software, OSX is not as nasty as windows. Meaning, instead of dealing with dll libraries and stuff that is installed somewhere in the system, apps in osx usually - by convention - should only use folders like "Application Support" and "Preferences" for their stuff.
The limitation in a 15inch early 2011 mbp is that the hdd should have a height of 9.5mm and that the SATA port only works reliably with drives that connect at SATA 2 speeds (3G bits/sec) To use a hdd in the optical drive you have to use an adapter, of course. The height is easy to verify. I'm looking for the drive with the most storage space that will work reliably in this case.
Whilst playing Angry Birds with my grandson, an ad for another game kept appearing. Despite trying to close this ad several times, I now find myself stuck with this game app on screen inviting me to download.
I use Little Snitch, and there I can see that CalenderAgent still connects to Google and iCloud even if iCal is not running. For several reasons I want to allow CalenderAgent to make connections only if iCal is running. I already tried to block it using Little Snitch but it didn't work. How could solve this... maybe with a shell script?
I am seeing the following behavior on a MacBook Air and an iMac. We have external speakers set up that we connect to via USB > external sound card > speakers. When we initially connect, the audio works as per normal, sounds great. Then after about a minute it mutes completely, and won't turn on unless we reconnect the usb and select it again as the output. It's not iTunes or Spotify because using the volume up and down keys does not make any sound either.
I have an applescript that gets a list of items and then iterates over them: The names variable gets set to an array of strings properly. When I repeat over the list I'm able to get each of the currentName variables returned separately without an issue.
We all know running tracker apps, such as Nike Running, RunKeeper, Runtastic etc. But i need app with a bit difference in functionality.
I installed Alfred through homebrew-cask. I want to disable Spotlight and let Alfred be opened with Cmd+S.
... it is almost impossible to securely delete an individual file on an SSD, because the way that SSDs write and delete files is scattered, and a user has no control over what an SSD is doing where. If that's the kind of security you're looking for, your best bet is encryption ... — Ask Ars: How can I securely erase the data from my SSD drive?
I've just upgraded my girlfriend's MacBook (I think it is a 2011 Model, one of the last white plastic ones) to Mavericks, and it has slowed down significantly. I'd like to upgrade the RAM on the MacBook to get it running faster. Currently, it has a total of 2GB installed in two separate RAM slots. If I take one of these DDR3 modules out, what are the performance implications of replacing it with a bigger module to run alongside the remaining 1GB module? Or should I make sure that the RAM modules are installed in pairs?
The HDD in my MacBook Pro failed so I followed some online instructions, and as I had a spare external USB HDD I ended up with the latest OS X Mavericks on the external HDD. It was all done by Apple over the internet. The MacBook will now only work with the external HDD. I have a new SSD that I want to fit in the MacBook and have all the files on the current external HDD transferred to the SSD. When I restart the MacBook I want it to boot from the new internal SSD. However, I am a bit stumped with all the various instructions so can someone give me an easy guide i.e. step-by-step? I want the MacBook Pro configured as if it was new, i.e. with all the necessary software on the SSD. I have Time Machine backups, I have an USB enclosure. The SSD is a Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB. I also have the original discs with OS etc. Do I install the SSD in the MacBook first and then format it using the original OS disc?
I've got the Anker Bluetooth keyboard and I'm using it with my Macbook Pro. I used to press Fn+<Arrow Up> to do a page up, but that doesn't seem to happen with this keyboard. Does anyone know how to do a page up with this keyboard?
Can the two be combined? 4 drives, 3TB each set as two RAID 0 pairs that mirror via RAID 1. I understand that a failure then means two drives need to be pulled and replaced to rebuild the set.
I'm working with an AppleScript that turns off (but does not quit) Hazel. The script works fine but generates a syntax error. Here's the part of the code causing the error: And here's the error: System Events got an error: radio button "Info" of radio group of window "Hazel" of process "System Preferences" doesn’t understand the “click” message.
Is it possible to setup a group chat with messages app using mountain lion and bonjour? My option in the menu is greyed out, and not sure why.
My keyboard backlit is ON while I'm working with my Macbook Pro with an HDTV connected as external display. However if I close the lid to enter clamshell mode and then open the lid again, I notice that the keyboard backlit is OFF. The only way to turn in on again is flash a light right to the Facetime camera. I'm using OS X 10.9.2 on a mid-2012 Macbook Pro.
Yesterday evening I install update on my MacBook Unibody (Version 6,1; Late 2009). The update run on Mac OS X 10.8.5 consist in security update and new version of Safari and iTunes. The update is run with the option "Install and shutdown computer". After when I open MB the keyboard is gone mad: when i tap on "s" output the "ì" ecc. I tried reset PRAM and NVRAM, enter diagnostic mode, reset SMB but the keyboard at startup not respond and so it starts OSX, but I can't use OSX because keyboard doesn't work (it's like SHIFT and CMD were permanently pressed). I set DVD install like the startup disk. I inizialize disk and tried install MAC OSX, but the OS doesn't start and starts DVD. By terminal (on DVD install) keyboard doesn't work perfectly while a external keyboard work. At this point install Xubuntu that work greatly : keyboard response correctly. Should I reinstall firmware and SMB? Can I do this from terminal (on DVD install, only option for me)? It's EFI problem?
I remember i could easily compare my achievements in previous version of iOS/GC, but now i can't. Am i missing something?
I have a new iPad air to replace my old iPad 2. I'm from a PC background but love Apple phones and tablets and have always wondered, from a performance point of view, would it be better to restore the new Air from a backup of my iPad 2 or start anew? There aren't many settings I'm bothered about keeping. There's no way I'd every backup windows and restore it onto a PC :) Thanks, Chris.
I would like to connect my late 2009 white Macbook to my TV, with support for video and sound. I thought I could use the Mini DisplayPort for that purpose, but unfortunately, Apple's website says that: These Apple computers supply only video signals over Mini DisplayPort: (...) MacBook (Late 2009) I found this product from another question on Stack, but considering the price and the negative comments of that product, I'm wondering if there are cheaper/better solutions? My TV is a recent Samsung TV with classic ports (USB, HDMI...).
Running in AppleScript editor, it behaves correctly. From CLI, it also behaves correctly...
I've installed two web applications (Jenkins and Redmine) on my OS X Mavericks Server. Both are available in local network from other computers as: myserver.local:8080 (Jenkins) myserver.local:8081/redmine (Redmine installed from Bitnami) Also I redirect to domains to my public IP: ci.mydomain.com pm.mydomain.com At this moment I'm able to get access to my web applications from the Internet in this way: ci.mydomain.com:8080 (Jenkins) pm.mydomain.com:8081 (Redmine) Now I want to change this configuration to more friendly form which allow to get access to this applications directly by enter only domains like: ci.mydomain.com pm.mydomain.com Do you have any suggestion what and where should I change in my server configuration to get this result (access many sites on default 80 port)?
I find the best way to proof read a piece of text (such as an email message) is by having my computer read back to me what I have written. I highlight the piece of text, right click->Speech->Start speaking.
Two ways of showing video on TV are airplay through Apple TV and hdmi cable. Which one drain the battery of ipad/ iPhone / ... Slower?
I want to set up a free solution in OS X for a universal ‘autosave’ function (given Apple’s own solution is limited to only a few apps - at least for now), and let Dropbox do my file versioning and backup for me. I've tried out the (paid) app ForeverSave, (formerly known as freeware ‘EverSave’), and it doesn't actually do a straight 'perform Cmd+S' so much as saving a COPY of the file into its own ‘Library’ in a folder somewhere on the mac (clogging up the hard drive unnecessarily), and as aforementioned, Dropbox already does my versioning for me. I’m sure there’s a free way to do it via scripting + scheduling. So I need to set a simple script - to just perform ‘Cmd + S’, to run (from startup onwards) once per minute, and within the script code (or just somehow), to set app exceptions (like browser apps where Cmd+S would not be welcome and get in the way), so that it only triggers in apps you actually to autosave in. How would this be done?
I currently have a program that I can't get the source-code to so I'm trying to find another way to do what I need. I was thinking of having an applescript just constantly listening to console and then playing a sound when a certain message is played. The app has to load information and then it outputs to console when it finishes. Would applescript be a good way to go about this? Thanks!
I'm trying to install the Vox prefs pane so I can have it use the play/pause next and previous media keys rather than iTunes. However after installing, I get the error "Could not load Vox Preferences preference pane". I think the first time I installed it (I tried several times) it told me something about it needing an intel mac to run, which, of course, I have.
I have a 15-inch, Late 2011 macbook pro, i mainly use for programming, and occasionally watch a movie or two. Its getting a bit sluggish, and i reckon its time to update the HD to a SSD one. So my question here is what SSD should i choose, and is there any things i should have a "heads up" with.
I can't find my Trash folder on my Mac — it isn't on my Dock and I really don't know where to find it. I'm new to OS X. Does anyone know where I can find my Trash? I can put items in my Trash, but I want to empty some files not all of the files that are in there.
I find Keynote 6 in Mavericks to be both a step backwards and a step forwards from Keynote 5. It has some neat new transitions and all, but the iOS-ification (simplification) of the interface, as well as the removal of some key items in the Export to Quicktime command (can't set the exported movie to loop; exports into .m4v format, for instance,) make me want to throw it in the bin. What I am most concerned about, however, is that once Keynote 6 is installed, it appears to hijack the launch services app/doc binding.
Siri keeps telling me "I know nothing of you who are or where you live"
I went on a movie streaming site and a bunch of "popups" came up, like suddenly I was in the appstore or some completely different tab. The real tab I wanted to go to is probably somewhere opened too, but what do I do now?
I found something is eating 100KB of my rx Internet connection. Doing iftop I found that most data is coming from 69.31.72.192. Running this command line: the list of processes is this Dropbox syncing is paused, Google goes away if I close Chrome, but the connection is eaten anyway... I came from linux and it is really shocking to see the system eating resources without knowing what is going on... My four suspects are I actually have two questions: How can I check which is the exact process that eats the connection? Can I take control on how the process(es) use my connection (which is really limited)?
My macbook pro charger stopped working sometime ago. In the meanwhile I have been using friend's charger without any problem.
I don't want to update to iOS 7 on this iPhone 4 and since I'm borrowing it from a friend, I don't want to jailbreak it either. It's not a matter of downgrading to iOS 6, it's still an upgrade since I'm currently running iOS 5.1, I just need to know where to find the update and how to go about doing it.
How do I approach this? Is there some sort of software that will allow me to manipulate the drives and then allow me to painlessly install Windows without the hassle I encountered while using Boot Camp Assistant.
I have an external USB microphone that works fine with the iPad 3 using the Camera Connection USB adapter and a USB hub for power. Can a similar setup be used for the new generation of iPads? Edit: Just to be clear, an answer with practical experience or a link to someone who has verified this setup is preferred.
By regularly I mean 7-8 times per hour I have to manually rechoose the network. On windows 7 the computer stays connected, and I just have to wait while hitting refresh for the signal to come back. I would like to be able to have it stay connected but without a signal like what happens when I am in bootcamp. Edit: Are you sure it's Wifi outages and not a DNS server problem?
I downloaded a .dmg file for an application, and now after installing the app and unmounting the .dmg I can't delete the .dmg file because Trash says it's "in use". Finder shows no mounted .dmgs, yet if I use the lsof command in Terminal and filter for the filename it shows that a process called diskimage is using it. What do I do?
I've added maven to my path, but it doesn't seem to be persisting to the path beyond the lifetime of the terminal application. I've modified my ~/.bashrc, but it still isn't storing the modified path. Here is my ~/.bashrc: And here is the result of echo $PATH: Why isn't my modified path getting persisted between terminal sessions, and how can I solve that?
Can I use Time Machine to back up an external hard drive that I use to store video on to another external hard drive without having to back up the Mac Book Pro as well?
My iPhone storage space is almost all used up, mostly because of my messages. I don't want to just delete all my conversations. Is there a way I can transfer my messages onto my PC?
I am running OS X 10.9.2 on a late 2011 Macbook Pro. I created a Windows 7 install usb using bootcamp successfully but the startup screen is not recognizing the usb on reboot. Please help. Note: I had to create a 30 GB windows partition manually as the bootcamp option for the same was disabled.
Like I'm trying to go to the homepage of tv-series.me, but it keeps going to tv-series.me/psych-episode-1-blabla even though I literally type "tv-series.me" and press GO. But it just keeps going back to that page. Is that normal?
In Windows, when I press the windows key + any arrow button the current application window moves. For example: windows key + left arrow key: the application window moves to the left of the display.
There's an iPhone 4 that has been getting pretty slow lately, so I figured I'd browse a bit about how to fix it. One particular tip several sites seem to suggest is clearing Safari's cookies.
I'm using an iMac 11,3 (27 inch, mid 2010) with an external display (an NEC EA232WMi). Over the past week or so (beginning just prior to 10.9.2), when the iMac's display sleeps, the external display won't stay asleep. It keeps waking up.
control-a is pretty close - it moves the character to the first column. command-left does too. if my keyboard had a home key this would likely move the cursor there, but it doesn't.
On early 2011 MacBook Pro 15inch -- I use the SD card slot a lot. Suddenly after the upgrade to 10.9.2 (for security reasons), now inserting an SD card gets no reaction, instead of showing an icon on the desktop for the new mounted volume.
I want to set a keystroke command (Mountain Lion) to trigger the common File menu's Open Recent option. I've tried the System Preferences => Application Shortcuts => Keyboard Shortcuts. My shortcuts show up in the applications' File => Open Recent menu, and when I type my assigned keystrokes there's a little flash in the File menu bar, but nothing else happens. Any ideas, y'all?
I want to unlock my iPhone with a utility called SAM, or Subscriber Artificial Module. I saved my activation ticket and used it to unlock my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1. A few days ago I replaced my old iPhone at an Apple Store an they gave me a new iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1.3. I installed the update to iOS 7.0.4. Is it possible to put my SAM activation ticket back on this new iPhone? I have the original SIM card and the ticket which I have used when SAM came out in April 2013, but I can't put it back on this new iPhone. I'm wondering if I can use the SAM ticket and original SIM card in a different iPhone 4.
Hi I recently upgraded to 10.9.2 and I cannot write to NTFS anymore - in fact I cannot mount NTFS anymore unless I removed the the lines that allow me to write NTFS in the past in /etc/fstab... I also tried NTFS-3G and it's the same result - the system won't mount my NTFS drive unless I reverse to the default system files or settings (which only allow me to read NTFS, without enabling the write feature).
I have a windows partition(not a bootcamp one) and would like to remove it.This was obviously not possible with bootcamp.I tried using Disk Utility but all buttons there are inactive. I have programs like NTFS 3G,reFit installed.Any way to remove windows now?
I'm trying to connect my old 2005 iPod Mini G2 (6gb) to my car using the original USB cable. My car is a 2011 Peugeot 508 with the RT6 Nav system. When I plug my iPhone 5 into the usb (using its own cable) I can pull up the artists on the car menu as you would expect. I also tried my parents 2008-2009ish iPod classic which also worked.
This may be a total noob question, but this is my first apple product, please bear with me. I'm not seeing certain folders, like "movies", "music", and "pictures" in finder. Is there a way to activate these folders? I'm running osx mavericks on a late 2013 mbp.
I was trying to get my NTFS drive to work today and I discovered that the diskutil thinks I have two local hard drive. This phenomenon is not occurred on my Macbook Pro. Do anyone know why? Here is what it shows:
I just rented a movie on Apple TV. How do I give it a star rating, i.e 1-5 stars?
I need to be able to view and edit AI files on OS X. How can do that without Adobe Illustrator?
A friend of mine experiences the following behaviour while using a macbook quite normally (no heavy loads, etc.). She is returned to her log in screen and apparently logged out, because after logging in again all applications are closed and sometimes work is lost. The problem happens approximately once a month for a few years now. The problem happens approximately once a month for a few years now. The problem persists after updating to Maverick The problem persists after updating to Maverick
I just brought a brand new MacBook Pro (mid-2012) and it came with Mavericks installed on it. The previous Mac I had before I got this one had Mountain Lion and it ran my pro tools sufficiently but now I have a better Mac and it's giving me problems: I can't go 2 minutes without it glitching, popping and distorting and having to restart it. I need Mountain Lion again — is it possible to go from Mavericks to Mountain Lion?
Last night (Because my hard drive was almost full) I freed about 4GB. Then I came back to my Macbook about 3hrs later (I left it idle) and Its was full again. Is something is eating my mac? If I go to /About This Mac/Info/Storage then it says I have 90GB of "Other" This worries me and I thought it was just me imagining things, but I think there IS something wrong with my mac as I believe that it was also happening when i had Mountain-Lion before Mavericks. Edit: Activity Monitor Now this a list of the user column (note I am the only user on this Mac): root _mdnsresponder _spotlight _softwareupdate _locationd _networkd myname
Since I migrate to Maverick, I cannot add comments anymore to entries in /etc/launchd.conf, like: Is there a new format for adding comments there ? When I restart launchctl with: I get this message for each comment in the file:
After recently found risk for ios 7 device and releasing an update to resolve it, is it a risk to keep ios 6 on iPhone 4?
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro and I noticed today, strangely for the first time, that the fan(s) are always running and audible. I have to admit that I usually have some background noise when using that machine but I've noticed the fan noise now that it's quiet. I checked the RPMs and they are both (left/right side) at 1995-2000 and CPU temperature is ~36℃ - which all seems like normal readings to me but just to make sure, the fans do run all the time, right and for an idle machine (10.9.2 on it with nothing else running) fans running at 2000 rpms is normal.. or not?
What do you think is the best way to fix this? It seems to me like doing the re-install from recovery HD will restore the system users and leave my files alone. I've found another answer from a few years back (link) where OP says the installer hanged (hung?) when he tried that. However, he was running 10.6, where I'm running 10.9, and the restore mechanism is different. Has anyone else been in this situation?
Last month(15-Feb-14) I have uploaded an app in to App Store with availability date 20-Feb-14 and my app status was "Waiting For Review". Yesterday(1-Mar-14) I got one issue and again I had to resubmit the app in to App Store and my app status is "Waiting For Review". My question is Should we change the availability date also when we resubmit the app?
In Settings → Cellular (Mobile in UK), settings can be changed regarding mobile data, including per-app switches for all installed apps to enable or disable mobile data. Where are these preferences stored?
When you do a google search , the time taken for the results and the webpages of the result to load is much faster on Google search app compared to web browser for smartphones. What is the explaination behind this ?? Google app
I'm planning to purchase a second hand iPhone 5s in a couple of days, is there a checklist that I should follow before I purchase the device to ensure that I won't run into troubles later on? Such as iCloud activation lock and such?
I have attempted all the suggestions listed in Apps on my MacBook Pro but I still can't find the app I am looking for: Find my iPhone. I have checked Applications, Downloads, Spotlight, Finder, and Launchpad.
iPhone 4S suddenly have screen shadow, it start when i charge my phone, and now it didn't disappear. Is this software defect? since i just update my phone to iOS 7.0.6 (two days ago as i remember). Here is the actual photo of the shadow defect.
I have defined a couple of tags in Mavericks. If I search inside Finder, tags work as expected: It recognizes that "Firma" is a tag.
When booting a Mac in restore mode (by pressing cmd-R during booting) the windows can only be moved in about 5-10 pixel steps. I’m wondering whether this is possible to have all the time.
Is the ISO needed? If so, can I move it to another folder so my desktop stays clean of ISO images? Or do I not need it? (ISO) I am using OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks)
I encounter this type of pop-up ad often when using an app on iOS. What advertising network is serving this advert? (Or how would I determine this in general when the ad cycles to another app)
When I login to my Mac, I want to automatically open a new Terminal.app window with a certain profile, say Monitor, that has a startup command and several appearance settings. I thought it would be very easy to do this from AppleScript or command-line (via osascript), so I can add a script to my login items, but it turns out this is not so trivial after several tries. My current best way is the following AppleScript: However, I want to know if there's a simpler way to do this without relying on UI scripting (with System Events) or messing around with my Terminal's default settings.
I have updated to 10.9.2 and looks like it has broken my image uploading script. It starts with a shell command:
My iPhone is lost. I tried using Find my iPhone but I realised I turned off the setting that is required for this. What can I do?
How can I configure cron to send a local email only to the crontab owner with the cron job output. This worked with Lion, could check the cron emails by just running mail in the terminal so I don't know what changed or how to reimplement that behavior.
This is what the default OS X lock screen, (if you have it set to require password on wake from sleep etc.), looks like:
This evening I discovered that I could not access any websites from Chrome, Firefox, etc. At first I though my router might just need rebooting, but I quickly found that I had no trouble tracerouteing to e.g. google.com.
I have my Mac boot camped with windows 7, unfortunately my hard drive was corrupted on the Mac partition, the windows partition is OK, I fixed the Mac partition but right now I can restore my Mac from time machine backup. The time machine backup process works almost 40% and then stop and appear an error:
When I type "monkees" into the "Search Library" box in iTunes, it offers me three things: (A) "The Monkees" as artists, and (B and C) the two songs I have by The Monkees. The search dropdown shows, right below the artist name listed on (A), that I have 439 songs by The Monkees. This is wrong: I just have the two. But those two songs both come from compilations, which have the following tags, among others:
Whats this F3 on the Macbook pro 13" with MacOs Mavericks on it? If I press it, there is my desktop big and above from it, my open programs with thumbnail. But this is feature is senseless, because from there I cant switch through my programs with shortcuts. Greetings.
One of my ios backups seems to restore file permissions incorrectly (one of the files is restored as read only, or maybe under an incorrect user name). Is there an easy way for me to fix this? Where are file permissions backed up to, when itunes backs up an ios device?
I am getting the following error when attempting to access several files in an AppleScript. However, I can open these files manually without issue.
I have an iPhone 5. The place I'm moving to has a wi-fi network in place, but there's no cell service (it's in the mountains).
I'm using both Aperture and iWork (Numbers in particular). The thing is my aperture library is kind of big (about 1000 albums with 10 to 100 photos each) and I noticed that when I use Numbers, a lot of resources for the media library are being used by the process com.apple.MediaLibraryService in Activity Monitor. The two activites I have with those two softwares are not related, thus I'd like to stop the integration of Aperture in Numbers (and why not the whole iWork suite) to be able to use it alone witout having it indexing (or whatever it does) my Aperture library. The question is how?
How can I block calls from the "Unknown" caller? I have iOS 7 on an iPhone 4S. Does any other version of the iPhone offer this ability? I've checked the question Call blocking for iPhone?, but it doesn't seem to work for "Unknown" callers. I found the following question: Cannot answer unknown calls on my new iPhone 4S.
In iOS, I only need to be asked once whether I want to allow a website to share my location data. Is it possible to permanently do this in OS X version of Safari as well?
I have tried restarted several times but it does the same thing. I'll need some help finding the next steps to solve this black screen.
Last night my mid-2010 Mac Pro woke up and probably installed some update (Mavericks). After this, every time I boot, black screen with cursor appears instead of login window. I've tried blindly enter password and log in but with no results. Power button doesn't respond, I can't even sleep or shutdown the machine. I've cleared NVRAM, but it doesn't help Safe mode doesn't work (mac restarts before progressbar go to 100%) Disk repair tool found some minor problem (invalid count of folders in some directory - one extra) - no results I've reinstalled mavericks (In the Command+R menu during boot), still not working. What else can I try? I have some data in encrypted home folder, so I want to recover some of the files.
I tried to enrol to the iOS Developer program a few months ago, but was unable to do so because my card wasn't acceptable due to some reasons. I now have a new card which can be used with Apple. But I changed my address in the mean time. My account is still stuck at the previous enrolment, with the previous address. I cannot seem to cancel this enrolment, or start a new one. I cannot edit my information either, which shows up fine at My Apple ID. How do I get out of this situation?
I live in the USA. I want to purchase a used iPhone 5 and repurpose it and activate it with my existing Apple ID, and use it as if it were an iPod touch, without a service contract from a phone provider. I also do not want to jailbreak this iPhone. I'm familiar with questions like this one and with Apple's knowledge base article "Using an iPhone without a wireless service plan", but my usage scenario seems to be different.
Automator newbee question here. I've searched around and just can't find what I need (nor fully grasp how things work :-( ).
It appears in my usage report in Settings as having 0.4KB of Documents and Data, but I've never installed anything by that name. It doesn't appear as an app on my home screen, and a Spotlight search turns up nothing. For that matter, a Google search turns up nothing. What the heck is it?
I've setup one very simple rule that applies to messages from one sender... the rule works just like it should (most of the time). Randomly, after I've restarted Mail the rule will be unchecked, so all of the new emails that were supposed to have been moved aren't. So I dutifully go i and check it back on when this happens, and drag the emails where they belong. this started when I up graded to Mavericks (a week or two after it was released). It has become very irritating by now, and I wanted to know if anybody else has had this problem and found a solution, or if somebody has a suggestion on what I could do to keep that rule checked off!
I installed Keynote 6.x recently, and decided I want to use the old version (5.3) - commonly known as iWork '09 instead. I have deleted 6.x Keynote using Finder, but it comes back when the App Store does software updates (which also sets *.key files to open in Keynote 6.x). I can't figure out how to get the App Store to prevent Keynote from coming back...
I need to mount at boot time the equivalent of the line command : …and I have no idea about how to do it on Mac (OS X 10.9 Mavericks)
I have an Asus PB278 (WQHD 2560x1440) connected via HDMI cable + HDMI-Thunderbolt adaptor to my MacBookPro Late 2011. Until the update to OSX 10.9.2, I was able to use full WQHD resolution on my external Monitor. Since the update, the highest resolution I can choose is 1080p. It seems that the Monitor driver is broken or simply wrong.
Usually, when I download something, I need to take a template action on it, depending on the file type. Mp3 files get imported to iTunes, wav and rex files to the sample folders, zips get unzipped (and then are going through this procedure recursively), doc files are moved to documents, dmg files mounted, installed and discarded, and so on. But usually, I forget about some of the files, or use them without moving to a more relevant place, and my Download folder gets very crowded as a result. Is there a tool that would help me move downloaded files to the relevant folders depending on their type?
I installed Mavericks a couple weeks ago and discovered to my dismay that last night, I couldn't boot into my windows install via bootcamp. I'd encountered this problem before, and without entirely understanding it, I fixed it using gdisk, and the directions located here.
I am struggling to come with a solution on this problem, making me wonder if the Countif function is designed to work this way, or what is wrong with my syntax at the end. I have my first table with the data and the second where I want to count data. In the second table I have columns with the "strings", which their appearance I want to count on my first table. My formulas is the following: I have tried also
A while ago, I dual booted with ubuntu linux and followed a tutorial on youtube to do so, but later I wanted all of my hard drive to be for osx, so I deleted the ubuntu partition, but now I am left with the following in diskutility:  The problem isnt the disk0s4 partition size, but rather the fact that it prevents me from accessing another 70 gb of hard drive space. This wasn't previously a problem as is reflected by my current data use, but I need to install alot of new software on the computer which exceeds the 180 gb on the current partition...is there any way I can delete disk0s4 and access the extra 70 gigabytes of data on my hardrive? Thanks alot!
I'm not sure when this issue started, but at some point in the past I was able to wirelessly sync my phone to my computer through iTunes. The two things that I have changed recently are updating to Mavericks, updating to iOS7 and then getting a new iPhone. While I know I have never been able to wirelessly sync my 5s, I can't remember if my 4s was able to or not. Now the only time I see my phone appear in iTunes is when I plug it into the computer. I asked a guy at the genius bar, but he couldn't figure it out, though he wasn't familiar with the ability to sync wirelessly and had to ask around to figure out how it was supposed to happen. Has anyone had this issue and solved it? Further Notes: I have "Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi" checked when I have the phone plugged in. When the phone isn't plugged into the computer, but is plugged into a power source, and is on the same Wifi network as the computer, the phone does not appear as a device in iTunes. Current version numbers: iTunes 1
For a while now, my sent mail folder has been over/underactive. For over a decade, I've bcc'd myself on emails and handled the incoming bcc from the inbox. This meant I deleted the sent mailbox without concern. The account I have a problem with is a google apps for domains
I've had Mavericks installed for over a few months now, and the computer has slowly been degrading since then. Before I installed Mavericks, my computer ran fine; now it is always using up all 4 GB of RAM that I have, and using up hard drive memory to keep it running, which makes the computer slow to the point where I can't even use it sometimes.
I'm looking for a way to log crontab file writes. A friend of mine pranked me, and did something that occasionally adds */5 * * * * say "deranged" "The current time is `date`"
When I create a folder and name it "test.tmp" the finder asks me if I want to add the file extension ".tmp" to my folder. When accepted, the folder changes to a document with an icon.
Say I download App A in my iPhone. The app will be automatically appeared in my iPad. How to prevent that from happening? I want to download separately because different devices have different needs. Thanks
But when I turn down the triangle, it disappears. When I have the Go to Folder dialog open and press enter the Finder shows the contents of the folder for about 2 seconds before it dumps me into a duplicated version of the public_html parent folder with a path of /Volumes/web/website/public_html/public_html. This folder at this path does not exist, but the Finder shows it. If I try to access the folder again, I get the following message:
If I copy and paste multiple email address into iPad email's To: field, e.g.:
I have a Mac mini Server with Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), where I run a WebDAV Server for syncing my OmniFocus (Mac <> iPad). But I don't use the Web-Server itself (only WebDAV). When I do a sync in OmniFocus from my iPad, I can see the following ERROR message in the apache2 error_log file:
I'm trying to free up disk space, and I came across this:  I've read reports of a 600M file, or a 1GB file but never something like this. Is it safe to delete or does rebooting frequently help clear some of these files?
This past week I upgraded to a new 27" iMac. Migration Assistant did not work and AppleCare wasn't clear why (but we suspect the drive in the old computer is failing - so it could have encountered bad files). So I started fresh with the new iMac and installed the programs I need and, when necessary, I copied over the files in ~/Library/Application Support/ for each application. (I mention all this to point out what I've done and that the keybindings didn't transfer.)
I like to use my MacBook remotely and therefore I need to leave it standby. I normally put away my MacBook in a slipcase. I guess this isn't a good idea when I use the MacBook (remotely) because of the heat and necessary ventilation.
Applications such as WiFi Matic on Android allow you to turn on\off your WiFi automatically depending on location. Even though this disables assisted GPS which uses WiFi to help the GPS lock, it's still a nice battery saver trick which I loved while in the Android world.
I wanted to edit the httpd.conf from apache2. I wanted to uncomment the php5 load line so it gets included. I started the terminal and used sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to edit the file and saved with ctrl + o. At that moment the terminal started to freeze and i could not confirm with pressing enter.
The chapters I marked in GarageBand do not show up in iTunes, so I cannot simply go to Chapter 3, for instance - I have to listen/scroll along to find where a specific chapter begins. Is there a way to fix this, so that he can go directly to a certain chapter?
I am trying to develop an enterprise environment where the specified app in the app store gets installed in all the iOS devices connected to the company infrastructure, which has a windows based AD to verify the users. I went through various materials, and I found over the air profile delivery and few other methods like MDM to push the configuration. But it seems only the configuration can be pushed using these features.
I prefer to take notes and design code by hand. There are several good apps (Penultimate, Readability, Noteshelf, etc.), but they all seem to lack something I really wish they had: the ability to add space in the middle of the document, between lines. Most or all of the handwriting apps I've used have a selection tool, but none of them allow you to insert text in the middle of the document. As an example, imagine you've handwritten this list: First Second Fourth
I have OS X v10.9. I downloaded v10.8 installer from the AppStore in order to install it on an external drive. However, when launching the installer it says that it can't be installed on this computer and give no option other than quit. What's the easiest way to do install 10.8 on an external drive when I already have 10.9 installed? I'm aware that there are some answers about downgrading from 10.9, but I wonder if there is any easier way than the hard process described in other places for downgrading. Edit: THIS IS A MID-2011 MBP so it did not come with Macericks pre-installed.
I have a large photo library (a couple of 100GBs of data) on an external hard drive, but I will need to move it to a different drive. When moving the files, will time machine try to backup up all the moved files again, so my photo library will be stored twice in the backup set - or is it able to recognize that the "new" files are indeed identical to existing files in its history?
My wife leads a very scheduled life. She has a meeting every morning from 6 to 8 am and does not want it interrupted by phone rings or text boops, so she sets the phone to silent. And never turns it back. So it is nearly impossible to call her.
As stated above VDCAssistant seems to be causing perpetual crash reports to the point that the ReportCrash system process will use 50-100% of cpu. Application Specific Information: Client is attempting to access a display by index (1) instead of display ID. abort() called
I read this answer which suggested using gfxCardStatus to force discrete only mode -- didn't help :( (Flickering in Safari after switching back to integrated graphics) What I am seeing is that applications on my Retina screen will flicker really bad when I have a second monitor attached via display port. Applications will flicker on top of each other, and it generally seems to affect the lower quarter of the screen, near the dock. It's super annoying and often makes it impossible to read the bottom line of a full-screen terminal on my Retina monitor when there's a second monitor attached because it flickers so much. Has anyone seen this? OS X 10.9.2 2.6 GHz Retina 15" MacBook Pro, 16 GB RAM EDIT: I find that it doesn't flicker when changing the display setting for the retina screen to "Best For Display" rather than "Scaled" -- but then everything on the retina screen is MASSIVE and "Fisher-Price" looking.
The Server.app for OS X Mavericks has a price tag of $19.99. Some websites mention it to be free for Developers who joined as iOS Developer or Mac Developer. How do I get the redemption code for the OS X Server.app on Mavericks? Here are two Articles on the topic: Apple promoting automated continuous integration to iOS developers, providing free OS X Server copies | 9to5Mac.com A power user’s guide to OS X Server, Mavericks edition | Ars Technica
When I click on a telephone number in Contacts.app (or more precise: on the word left of it) I get to see the following menu:  Where does Contact.app store these actions? I couldn't find anything in the /Library/Scripts or ~/Library/Scripts folder. I want to know this as I think the Send SMS with Bluetooth is not natively present and I want to copy this action over to a new install I'm going to do.
I can open Terminal and execute open -a "iPhone Simulator" and as long as the application is installed, it will launch. Is there a similar command that will return the path to the application instead of launching it?
I have a iPhone 5 and I downloaded the BMW link app which was paired up with my BMW S ONE. For some reason after I reset my phone it no longer pairs up with my car as if I have failed to switch something on with my phone. However, Bluetooth works fine. What am I doing wrong?
Is there a way to invert the colors on the menu bar at the top of the screen, as well as the title bars of all the windows is OS X? I have a lot of Terminals open usually, and the the light menu bar stands in the way of the vibe I want.
I've a 7th generation iPod Nano. And it's working fine.
I'd be able to very quickly tag a bunch of photos for later processing.
Im trying to connect my Kindle HD to my personal hotspot on my iPhone. I keep getting an authentication problem. How do I fix it?
I have a Parallels Desktop virtual machine with Host-Only networking. I want to set up Remote Desktop on Windows (port 3389) while not exposing any other part of Windows to the external network. Parallels adds a virtual network adapter that allows me to communicate with the Windows machine. On OSX I tried to add the following rule:
I am looking to change my text editor / note taking app for OS X. I require only the following: Tabbed windows: I don't want every document open in a new window. For some reason this seems to be an elusive feature, missing from even many high end word processors Able to handle rtf documents Does not require an account (many note taking apps do)
I can't back up my iPhone to iTunes and haven't been able to for almost a year. I updated my phone, I've reinstalled iTunes, |I've deleted the backups existing in the preferences.
I purchased an iPod Touch in December 2011. It came with a Target 2 year warranty. From the time I started using it the battery never read correctly. I decided before the warranty was up in February 2013 to send it in for repair. They returned it and said they replaced the battery. It still does not read correctly.
I'm working off a mid 2009 13" MBP right now which I want to replace soon. I'm thinking of getting an MBA instead - I would probably get an 11" for the road, with an external monitor for working at home.
I have a Mac running Mavericks, and I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop for the Mac version 8.0.24308. There is one Windows machine I need to connect to via our network, but it sits behind a gateway machine.
I'm looking for the application for OS X (Maverick), which could merge two tasks for me. One is the TO-DO list just like "Reminders". The second one is more tricky - I wish "Reminders" to read task on loud as soon as the task will be close to specific time frame. I use similar functionality in the OSX's clock, which tells me each 15 minutes what time is it. Do you have any suggestions?
I have a iPhone 4 and set up iCloud on my device, including the Photo Stream service. Everything seems to be set up fine and I have the option to select Photo Stream in Photos.app. However, the message I get when tapping Photo Stream is that all new photos will be transferred into the Photo Stream. How do I get the current photos in my phone to show up in my Photo Stream?
Before submitting to Apple I'd like to know if anyone else has this problem on an iOS7 device The images is in Dutch, but the visual should be clear.
This is really weird. I recently upgraded from OS X 10.8.5 to 10.9.2, and from Aperture 3.4.2 (whatever was most current under Mountain Lion) to Aperture 3.5.1. Today I tried dragging a photo from my Aperture library to the Flickr icon under "Shared," and the drag is possible, but the photo is not uploaded.
I hope you can help me with my iPod Classic 6th generation 160 GB, 2007. Few months ago I used my iPod to store my files from Windows. I had to format the iPod to use in order to save my information.
In System Preferences, under Mail, Contacts & Calendars if you add an account (Microsoft Exchange or GMail) a few of the fields are auto populated (ie Name and email address). Where is this information pulled from?
I have a mac mini server at home that has a USB 3.0 storage device attached where I store all my files. Anything from iTunes, iPhoto, documents, etc. I want to know how safe it is by creating a VPN connection from my MacBook from anywhere in the world and accessing *=URL=* and writing/reading files? Is there anything I can do to make reading/writing more secure? *=URL=* will not be accessible over the web unless there's a VPN connection.
I configured the Dvorak keyboard and its almost working. I need to write chars like 'á' typing two keys, but when I type the first the ' char already shows. How to fix this?
I upgraded to Mavericks 9.0.2 the day it was released. I recently found that Safari now asks if I want it to remember passwords on all sites, including sites that I explicitly chose not to remember passwords, like banks. Is this the normal behavior of the updated Safari, or is something wrong with my Mac? My Safari version is 7.0.2 (9537.74.9)
I've got an iPhone 5 running iOS6 and I'm considering upgrading to 7.0.6. I see I need 3.9 GB to run the update and I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some of that back, but don't know how much. How much space does an iOS 6.1.4 to iOS 7.0.6 take?
So When I first got my mac mini, I installed things like apache, mysql and php - not knowing that apple either came with these or had a tool called mamp that would allow you to run these. I thought this was like ubuntu and I could install and run everything my self. I soon got frustrated and installed mamp on top of what ever I was doing, which wasn't working, and got that to work - Unfortunately a side affect of that was, every time I updated a file or folder on the mamp server, I had to stop, start mamp just for the changes to take affect. This isn't normal. So my solution is to uninstall apache, php, mysql AND mamp and then just install mamp and get it working as it should. How would I do this?
i don't understand and need some help: java doesn't work anymore for a few months and i don't know why. I have installed the latest version from apple, actually the 1.6.0_45-b06-451 on my imac 21,5" of middle 2010 and after checking the security system option and enabled the firefox plugin, i tried in safari and Chrome. Also tried with 32 and 64 bits kernel...
What's more strange: I restarted the MBA a couple of times just to see if things can improve. The first time when it restarted, the copying process estimated to 2 hours, and the second time 3 hours!
My iPhone as well as mini iPad give me the statement "this has not been backed up for so many weeks as there isn't enough room in icloud. I am not as savy as I wish. I plug them into my computer and today the iPad only copied over my photos. I then deleted thinking that would free up space. What am I doing that is causing them to not have enough space? I don't watch videos or movies. Anyone I ask if it comes up on their phones or pads says it doesn't.
I'm having a problem finding my pictures taken with my iPhone 4. When I want to see my Photostream it will only show me the pictures of my iPad and not the pictures taken with my iPhone (Photo's and screenshots). I'm using the iCloud control panel for Windows.
As per the title, I upgraded my Mac to Mavericks 10.9.2, and now a bunch of websites which use SSL (aka https) don't work!  What do I do?
I need a script to delete a folder, only if the folder does not contain media files with extension avi or mp4.
I have a Java 7 application which I turn into a MacOS App following the instructions on *=URL=* This is no longer working. The signing still works (I use a "Mac Developer" certificate) and codesign verification claims everything is fine. spctl on my machine or trying to run the application on someone else's machine however results in rejection. (spctl only says "rejected" no further information even on verbose 4) I tried adding --deep and --force to the code signing, but this did not solve the problem. I also tried additionally signing the JDK plugin inside the App, but it did not help. How does the process on the Oracle page above have to be adapted to work on 10.9?
My Mac is booting to the 'question mark' folder. I option-booted to 'Internet Recovery'. Before I proceed, I would like to know: Will 'Internet Recovery' necessarily erase my hard drive? Can anyone confirm this (maybe even provide a source link)?
I have an Apple Time Capsule which takes backup of several Mac machines in my company. One of the Macs crashed and have been handed over to a service center.
I installed Collapse Blast on my iPhone 4 and I can't log in to play. I get an error message that the game can't access Facebook and to change it in settings. I have changed everything, uninstalled and reinstalled and still won't work.
In Preview on OS X 10.9 Mavericks, is it possible to change the color to something other than yellow, green, blue, pink, purple? I know it is possible to highlight in other colors because I did it while using Preview for the first time after upgrading to Mavericks, but now that I've changed I can't seem to change back.
Is there a way I can plug my Apple device to a different PC to load new content without having the old ones removed?
What is the difference between an Apple Macbook pro ME 293LL/A and an Apple Macbook pro ME 293D/A?
I have a 27" screen which is connected to my mid-2012 MacBook Pro retina through a HDMI/DVI-D (HDMI on the MacBook Pro, DVI-D on the screen). Before I was using a adapter DisplayPort+USB/DVI-D and I was able to get 60Hz refresh rate. Now with the HDMI/DVI-D I have only 30Hz.
I have an iPhone 5 and a iPad 3, both running the latest versions of iOS7. Both are attached to the same iCloud account, which has just over 3GB free space.
I am planning to upgrade on a Unibody Macbook (2008) to Mavericks. Mountain Lion is already installed and I felt it to be a bit sluggish when I upgraded. I also would like to start anew and clear some files that have been on the machine for a few years. So I am wondering: Would you advise formatting on Mountain Lion, adding files and apps back then upgrade to Mavericks? Would you advise formatting on Mountain Lion, adding files and apps back then upgrade to Mavericks? Would you advise formatting on Mountain Lion upgrading to Mavericks and adding files and apps back to the Macbook? Would you advise formatting on Mountain Lion upgrading to Mavericks and adding files and apps back to the Macbook? Would you advise upgrading to Mavericks then formatting and then format then add files back? Would you advise upgrading to Mavericks then formatting and then format then add files back?
I am looking for a second opinion on an issue with my brand new iMac. I purchased a new iMac direct from Apple about 3-4 weeks ago, and initially everything was fine. However, in the last few weeks I've been getting an increasing number of crashes (particularly with Safari, but others too), as well as a few kernel panics (usually from Parallels). As it happens most with these two, I've been troubleshooting them trying to find solutions.
I just updated my MacBook Air to Mavericks and I can't find the checkbox to enable the "Double-click on window title to minimize it" feature. I thought I was in the System preferences > General pane, when I activated it, but that was in 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
I have setup Facebook chat in Messages on my Mac. The problem is that every time Messages logs in to chat, I receive an email saying:
I'm running script /tools/generatepngall.sh from *=URL=* to generate PNG icons from SVG-files. However, there are errors: I can't understand what's wrong.
This has been frustrating me for a long time now. I need to be able to save email attachments (NOT export my attachments to third party apps)
I am trying to automate the installing procedure of iPhone apps (i.e) installing apps for around 5000 phones. For this I am planning to deploy an MDM server in Windows Server 2008 containing Active Directory. Once the successful registration of handsets is established the complete control of iPhone can be taken by the admin. I have following doubts: 1) My main objective is to push the apps that are available in the app store, hence Apple Push Notification Certificate will be sufficient to set up my MDM server and install apps? 2) Once the user registers his iOS device will I be able to install/uninstall applications into the device? 3) Can I implement payload mechanisms like AppLock Payload by just having Apple Push Notification Certificate?
I got OSX 10.9.2 update installed on February 26th. Today (March 5th), without prompting, I got another update. The description of the update in App Store is identical. Any idea what this update was?
I manually set the permissions to each individual from my employer to Always Trust, is there a way to just Always Trust my companies self signed cert? The biggest problem is email attachments, they come encrypted unless I Always Trust the senders cert
New Mac user here, running 10.9.2 on an air and am running into an annoying issue with Mail. I have setup my Live account and POP is working great but at least the first email I try to send, per each time I log on to my machine, I am prompted for my SMTP password. This is only an annoyance but I would think I could ask it to remember my password. Is this possibly a setting in keychain which needs adjusted?
I'm running OSX 10.9.2 on an old Macbook 5.2, 2.13Ghz C2d with 4 gigs of RAM. Everything is very smooth except for one very big annoyance - My mbox 2 pro has problems keeping up when waking up from sleep! When waking up, I have a few seconds before the computer exits with the famous white screen telling me that a serious error has occurred. When rebooting I get the following error log: I've made a fresh install on a new SSD drive with the latest drivers. On Digidesigns' website it says that the drivers only support OSX 10.9.1. That also showed this problem, but not even being able to boot with the sound card plugged in! I'm considering downgrading to Snow Leopard or maybe Lion, the only reason I upgraded was that I'd like to use Logic Pro X as it fits my workflow better than LP9. If anyone has any suggestions to how I should solve this, please advice. Regards /M
I am having trouble getting my eBay app back since I downloaded new s settings from you what come through every now and again , only My old eBay just keep s crashing now so when I tried to get a new eBay app to work it tell s me to put password for Apple ID something iTunes but my daughter set this up and used her email address but this is no longer being used and we can not remember the password so I can t get it to work cause you can t send me nothing cause the email no longer s exist so I don t no what to do as I have tried but still keep s saying that old email address could you please help me as I can t get on eBay no more
I realize this is not specific to Apple Mail, but recently someone asked me this and I had not a clue of its meaning. I also am having no luck searching Google or Bing for the answer. The closest thing I have found to an answer was "refresh the page until it goes away". So if the numbers on the majority of labels means "unread" and the one in outbox mean "unsent", what does the number next to sent mean?
I am trying to use the default built in apple RDP client to RDP into my Windows 8.1 box but I keep getting the following problem: I've tried a combination of several ways but nothing. Everything is fine windows to windows. ---not sure what I am doing wrong here.
A few questions here relate to replacing the optical drive with an additional HD or SSD. Its time for this to happen on my MBP 15 inch (late 2011). So I will effectively have: the original 256gb SSD where it was when I got the macbook a new Samsung 840 Pro SSD in the DVD compartment
When I'm alone, I unplug my headset and let the sound output from the load speaker of my iMac, and when there are other people around, I plug in the headset in order to not bother people around me. I found myself keep plugging and unplugging my headset. What's worse is the headset jack of the iMac is on the back side of the screen.
Can i make a recovery partition for Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1? Also, If i upgrade to 10.9.2, will it delete the recovery partition?
What is the problem with my Mac's default PHP? Whenever I do php -version, it shows the following file missing information. How can I fix this problem?
I am running a web server in OSX Mavericks using the default directory location ($HOME/Sites). How can I add sites from distinct arbitrary directories ? I have found instructions about how to change the root folder of the apache server, but I do not want to override the default location (I have things there) but to add new folders.
I've noticed that when I unlock my computer or disconnect a second monitor, about 25% of the time my chrome window will resize itself to about 100 pixels tall and position itself at the top of the screen. When it does there I have no way of resizing it or accessing any of the pages. Even if I drag one of the tabs out to it's own window it will have the same problem. I always end up quitting Chrome to solve the problem.
I have found ways to disable spotlight indexing for a specific folder. But, how do I do the reverse. I want to disable all indexing enable for just one or two folder I specify.
Most of my spotlight search results are files in ~/Library (application data) and /usr/include (header files) I already tried to rebuild the index. Any thoughts?
I'm trying to make a homebrew FD of 500GB HDD and 128GB SSD. I'm using Maverics 10.9.1 and MD101 MBP. What I did was: install HDD into superdrive bay install SSD into HDD compartment use diskutil cs convert on HDD to make it a CoreStorage Logical volume add SSD into the logical volume with diskutil cs addDisk resize Logical volume to use all available space on both SSD and HDD with diskutil cs resizeVolume
I have downloaded photos to an iMac from camera into folders, not iPhoto. I want to view the images on full screen in sequence and delete images as I go through them. I have come from Windows where there is a program that does that, but cannot find similar in the iMac.
For those interested we've started using Bittorrent Sync to distribute the non-Mac Store Apps. Means that they can get bits of the apps and it doesn't break the connection when they go offline. We have around 100 Macs on our network, soon to all be managed by OS X Server and Profile Manager. The problem we're facing right now is pushing applications to all of them that are not found in the Mac App Store. We make use of many third party apps, and to save time it would be useful to have a way of distributing them automatically as they become available. Can this be done with OS X Server, or is there another way of doing it?
I have a 2013 Mac Pro (cylinder version) running 10.9.2 and I'm using a Monoprice 24-port USB2 hub with it. About once a day for the past few days, the hub has fallen off the USB bus, along with all of the devices connected to it. When this happens, it somehow disables the USB port on the Mac, as connecting other devices to that port doesn't work. Connecting the hub to a different USB port works fine. Restarting the computer fixes everything until it happens again. My memory isn't clear, but I believe this only began happening when I upgraded to 10.9.2. When the problem occurs, I get error messages in the Console like this: These same messages also appear when I plug a new device into the now-dead port.
How can i install Homebrew or R on a mavericks machine? I tried looking at this link. Can anyone help me out?
I'm sure I can get into all sorts of trouble by doing this, but that's what this site is all about right? I found a key in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist called TopSitesGridArrangement which, is connected to the "Top Sites Show" Safari preference which allows you to choose 24, 12, or 6 Top Sites at a time. When you set the preference to 24 the plist value is changed to 2 and so on with 12 --> 1, and 6 --> 0.
What's the latest supported OS X for the 1181 model? Also what is the best version (performance and speed wise) for the model?
I'm trying to insert a tab character in a Google "doc", from Google Drive on my iPhone. I have a list Item Thing and I need to insert an a. between 1 and 2 - usually accomplished by pressing the Tab, which is not present on the onscreen keyboard. How do I accomplish this task (on iOS)?
How can I modify com.apple.qtkitserver.sb to ignore a certain network volume? For example, I don't want quicklook to build previews of graphic assets that are on a server. When I access a netatalk share with hundreds of jpg's in a folder, fs_usage shows a ton of transactions like this:
I have damaged my iPhone 4S. A weight was dropped on it and it stopped working instantly. I've opened the back and it appears the bottom of the battery, the speaker and charger point have been damaged. All at the bottom of the phone. The logic board appears fine.
I have a very precocious four-year-old who absolutely adores computers. We gave him his own login with which we control his access carefully.
I'm new to Mac OS X. On Linux I'd: I've figured out how to do it in Terminal:
Again I'm new to Mac. I searched and found Command + ` does what I want. But I'm wondering how would I do it with a mouse? I tried hovering over the icon in the dock, but nothing happens.
I'm having this werid and really annoying issue in bash vi-mode. Env: Mac 10.9.2, iTerm 2 1.0 or Terminal.app, $TERM={screen-256color|xterm-256color|xterm|vt} Repro steps: Run some long commands (like 'some_long_commands_long_long') Press Esc and then press k. The issue is:
I have ensured that the access to the microphone is allowed or turned on in the privacy settings. The mic works fine on other apps, i.e. FaceTime. So that rules out hardware failure. I have also tried reinstalling the app. Any other suggestions?
I installed Find My iPhone and was unable to connect to the internet. I deleted the application and that fixed the issue. However, through iCloud it also installed on my iPad. I cannot delete it from there because there is no icon. When I go into setting and try to turn it off it won't let me because it cannot access the internet. How can I remove it from my iPad?
Once i type the code into terminal to find out what is taking up 250 MB on my desktop, the hidden files are shown, i find a file called ".DS_Store" I'm a very cleany person, so I want to ask if I can delete this file, or is it safe? The file is 251.66 Megabytes. OS : Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
I would like to have a way to dynamically add and remove words from the system-wide dictionary in Mountain Lion. The use-case is: I'm working on a piece of fiction that has a lot of odd names in it that I would like spell-checked -- hit some key-combination that loads those odd name into the dictionary list of known words I'm done working on the fiction and I no longer want those words polluting my dictionary -- hit some key-combo to unload those words from the dictionary
I believe the update process was interrupted once. My computer works fine but the SoftwareUpdateLauncher fails to do anything on shutdown when I am logged out. I can see that it is in the application SoftwareUpdateLauncher but nothing happens, I've let it sit for over an hour before. OS X 10.9.1 Photos: *=URL=* *=URL=* http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UH6o
I backed up my ipad 1 using itunes erased all content off the said ipad. Then did a restore using the image that came off the ipadn1 and now there are 22 conflicts where these apps are now incompatible with the ipad. I dont understand why as they were running on the ipad before the restore. Please help! Thanks in advance.
I have MAMP Pro installed and recently configured a local virtual host called: test.local. Now my OSX terminal prompt says test:~ username$ I just noticed also when an email bounced back the raw header also shows test.local: Received: from cpe-111-111-111-111.lns1.lon.somehost.com ([222.222.222.2222]:22222 helo=testhost.local) I've tried running... scutil --set LocalHostName properHostName
Is there any way to prevent non-downloaded podcasts from showing up in this app?
I have tried to connect my iPhone via bluetooth to my Windows 7 PC. After following some suggestions online, I updated the Broadcomm drivers from here: *=URL=* The iPhone now connects, and I was surprised to find an interface for sending messages (MAP MAS-iOS)
How do you permanently disable Bluetooth on OS X Mavericks? It seems that simply shutting it off in preferences doesn't disable it.
I installed TCPBlock and whenever I try to open the TCPBlock preference pane I get the error: "Unable to load TCPBlock preference pane". Does anyone know what might cause this?
Let me first tell you my specific problem: I'm setting up mail.app for a senior citizen (read as in bad eyesight, bad hand-eye coordination). I taught a setup were emails would be sorted by newest first. But every other week it happens instead of opening the most recent email some sort column would be clicked (and emails will permanently be sorted in some non-intuitive way). Reproducing the order is a "precision" task the person can not do alone.
When using Lion I could issue this command at the terminal to change network locations(which I got from this site, thank you): I've recently upgraded to Mavericks, and I find that although the command works, it suddenly requires my user password:
I've just upgraded my (2011) macBook Pro to use an SSD. So I've now got an old hard drive laying around with OS X on it.
I haven't been able to bookmark a page using keyboard shortcut command + D or star icon in the address bar for about a month. At first, I assumed this shortcut might've been removed in upgrade to version 25.0.1, 26 or 27.0.1 but after going through their change log at *=URL=* I couldn't find any of that. Is there a way to troubleshoot this without losing my existing bookmarks?
Is it possible to know when I last time logged in and out? I would prefer to access this information from Terminal, but a GUI tool is also okay.
I recently purchased an iPad 4 and I have been trying to update to iOS 7 for weeks but the link keeps dropping. What can I do so I can pickup download from where it stopped. My connection is very slow and 1,2 gigs can sometimes take days to download.
After migrating to a new macbook pro using Time machine, my 'Unread Emails' button in the Apple Mail.app is now (one on the bottom right) permanently disabled/un-highlighted/unuseable, even when I have plenty of unread emails in my inbox. Anyone know how to fix this or get it working again?
Few days ago I bought wifi usb adapter for extended range reasons. it was installed properly on my macbook pro with mavericks. As results I can use it to connect on-line. I'd like to use Wifi Scanner application to gather more informations about hot spots around me. The problem is that Wifi Scanner recognizes only en0 interface that correspond to Wifi internal mac interface. The wifi usb external adapter isn't recognized. how can I do? Do you have any ideas?
Is there a faster way to switch between currently-open applications on the Mac than using cmd+Tab/cmd+Shift+Tab? I tend to have a lot of different apps open at a time and I have to keep switching between three-to-four of these apps all the time. And having to repeatedly hit cmd+tab,tab,tab seems like a waste of keystrokes. It would be nice if there was a faster way to achieve this application-switching.
I have a Windows print server on the network. I am trying to one of the printers on this server to a Mac with the latest OSX. I can ping the Windows PC, but when I go to the Windows tab in the add printers window, the PC doesn't show up.
When programs like GitHub do their magic, it always works, using it's own SSH keys. It also works if I use Git from the Terminal. Only when I want to SSH to a server using that specific key. Granted, it does have a password on it. This is the privileges on the folders:
I’ve tried simply hooking the MBA to the amp’s Line In. Doesn’t sound good. I assume that since it’s a headphone port it’s pre-amplified whereas Line In expects a plain un-amplified Line Out signal, ergo distortion. Yes? If so, does one of the amp’s other inputs expect a signal pre-amplified as per the headphone port’s output, so that clear sound will come out the other end?
Over the last few months, I've seen increasingly erratic behaviour on OSX (10.8.5). Chrome won't load elements on a page, my dev tools crash etc. Recently I had a look in Console and found that whenever an app crashes, the message that seems to go with it (or before it) is: 'Kernel: file: table is full'
I'm wondering if there's a way to clean orphaned files from a Kindle using AppleScript or Automator. It would basically look for any .sdr folder that doesn't have a matching .mobi or .azw and then move it to the trash. Thanks!
I'd really like to be able to use readline instead of editline with the mysql client, but I can't find out how to do this. The bottled mysql that brew installs by default for mavericks is using editline. There's no "readline" option in brew options mysql if I want to build if from source and it seems that I can't add this to the formula.
I have an Apple gift certificate with a balance on it. I would like to use some of that balance to purchase an app from the App Store, but I don't want to fully redeem the gift certificate for iTunes credit (so I could, for example, use the gift certificate in an Apple store for actual physical products in the future). Is there any way to do this?
Is there a way to save my custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file? The reason i want this is so i can put that config file in the cloud (using git, dropbox, ...) and link this file on each os x computer that i have so my shortcuts are always the save on each computer.
Can I automatically change the background colour of a Keynote presentation? I would like to have a lighter shade of a colour on the first slide and gradually darken each slide such that I end up with black on the last slide.
I'm wondering whether or not having 4 external monitors on a Macbook Pro is possible? I know that Apple states that the limit is 2. But as seen on The Verge and Cnet it's possible to go further. On both links I see that the Macbook Pro is also displaying it's own screen.
I am new to AppleScript and am attempting to use it. If I am using Terminal and if I have not pressed a key for x minutes I want my Mac to press the return key. It is to repeat this process every y minutes. I would like this process to continue until I close Terminal or stop the AppleScript. My programming attempt is below:
When putting my MacBook Pro to sleep with Thunderbolt Display attached, upon waking-up machine...Thunderbolt Display does NOT wake, and I must unplug then plug-in the display for it to return to usable status
Interesting one here, I have an iMac 2011 and a MBP 13" Retina 2013, the iMac works fine every which way, both are connected at 5GHz to my router, both running Mavericks. My MBP will jitter and pop horribly when outputting audio to my AppleTV. Audio output is fine when using Display Mirroring. Audio is also perfect when initiating AirPlay from iTunes... unless I afterwards enable AirPlay from System Preferences in which case the popping starts again.
OS X uses the rubber band effect to show users that they’ve scrolled to the end of a window’s content. In the past (Lion) the terminal command that follows would disable this effect:
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 and now my calendar is not working. When I try to put an event in and press done it does not show in the phone's calendar, but it does show in the iCloud calendar.
I am, as of fairly recently, unable to scroll up in my company's Outlook Web Access. This only affects the list of emails. I can scroll up in other 'panes', and scroll down everywhere. For example, I can scroll up in the message reading pane if it is a really long message.
I didn't run brew doctor since a lot of time. Know it tell me I should run brew link osxfuse. Here I show you the rest:
I used to have a choice "All" on the favorites bar in Mail on Mavericks. (This is on an iMac). It has disappeared. Is there a way to get it back?
I often run brew update followed by brew upgrade. Can I do that in one step?
I use Ethernet network connections at home to create fast home network transferring files between my macs. One of the biggest problem I found is often that one mac cannot see another. It shows "connection failed" in network and there is a "connect as" button that does nothing when I click on it. It's funny because while say my macbook pro cannot see my iMac, my iMac can freely access my macbook pro. The only way to resolve this is to restart my macbook pro - which is very inconvenient. Is there a way to quickly reset the network connection without rebooting my computer? Thanks.
When purchased, my iMac came with Snow Leopard, plus installation disks, but I recently upgraded the OS to Mavericks, in order to use the latest iteration of Garageband, i.e. Garageband 10.1.
I own a iMac 2007 (Mid). I've realised that whenever i try to boot onto internet recovery, it doesn't. It boots onto OS X Utilities. I wiped my drive to re-install OS X but i currently don't have a install disc. I'll be getting a install disc in 1 month because the shipping got delayed due to the weather.
In enterprise wireless environments, access point roaming/hopping is very common. There exists a couple protocols/methods for making this seamless. That is, to make re-authentication when hopping to the next AP on an SSID smooth. One is called Opportunistic Key Caching or sometimes called Proactive Key Caching, abbreviated OKC or PKC. Here is a PDF from Aruba Networks describing OKC/PKC Here is a Cisco page describing PMK Caching vs OKC vs CCKM Windows and various Linux OSes support this protocol.
I understand a Safari webarchive is a single file with the source code and other resources from a web page concatenated into a single file. I found a Macworld article from 2006 describing a program that does just this, but the link to the program is no longer current. Is there any currently available software that can convert a Safari webarchive file into a more standard format?
I'm trying to revive my old college laptop which is a white macbook from early 2009. I pasted the hardware a software specs below. The last thing that I did with it was update it to Mountain Lion, which turned out to be somewhat of a mistake because it is now painfully slow (which is why I haven't touched it in a while). I'm looking for suggestions for how to bring it back up to speed. Here's what I have in mind:
There have been some reports of specific SSD versions/speeds not working appropriately in specific MacBooks. Depending for example on SATA chipset etc. (e.g. saga-3 drives in old early 2011 MBP?).
Is there any way to have starting application not take the focus? Is there a setting so new windows do not pop over what we are currently working on? (Perhaps an option to have them pop under, or start minimized?)
In OS X 10.9.2, I cannot arrange finder's files and folder by name and the files are sorted by random alphabetical order. Is that a bug or any work around?
I would like to know where to go in iFile to be able to see your ipod passcode and be able to change the 4 digit code through iFile. I am running iOS 5.0.1.
How would I go about testing iPhone apps made in Xcode 5.0.2 on my jailbroken iPhone 5S 7.0.6? I read a tutorial on how to do it with Xcode 4.x, but it doesn't seem to apply anymore for Xcode 5.x. http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Xcode#Developing_without_Provisioning_Profile
The fans in my MBP (MacBook Pro4,1) continue to run after closing the MacBook. This is not because of the CPU running under high power, it's also happening when the CPU has done nothing for about 15 minutes. The fan runs either for about 5 hours or as long as it takes the MacBooks battery to get empty. Info: - I'm running 10.9.2 - I have this problem for about 2 years - I ran an Apple Hardware Test - I resetted the SMC and the PRam - I reinstalled the MacBook with the original reinstall DVD (OS X 10.5.2) and updated version-by-version (10.6 -> 10.7 -> 10.8 -> 10.9) - I replaced the battery And it's getting worse with the time (until now, it stopped after about 5-10 minutes, but since last December, it doesn't stop anymore) Note: Some people might say this is a duplicate of this question, but it's different, as in my case, the fans won't stop.
I have run into a problem with automator: I have a workflow that does image processing (it converts color images to gray). I am able to invoke the workflow from the terminal and it works fine. The command is: automator -i infile.jpg imageconversion.workflow
I have a macbookPro 15'' mid 2009 and I want know which size is my cd-rom (SATA)because I have to buy this "component" where can I find this information ? My Cd-Rom is 9,5mm - SATA/SATA ?
Since I updated my system from 10.9.1 to 10.9.2, I now have a very annoying WiFi issue : when I click on the airport icon on the top bar, the WiFi networks are no longueur scanned and I sometimes have to wait up to 5 minutes to see networks around me. Those two have been taken with a small interval :
This one is very odd. My 2010 Macbook Air running latest Mavericks was working very well just yesterday and today it started to play a "siren sound" (sounds a bit like warning/alarm/police siren), the sound is very long (2-4 secs.) and it starts every 1-5 minutes. Of course when it happens it unmutes all system sounds :S It's worth noting I don't have any other software that I had yesterday, it just happened like that, overnight. What I've done to prevent it and find what's causing it: My system sounds are off (Preferences/Sound > "Play user interface sound effects" unchecked).
I'm a Linux user. I just bought my first Macbook but I still need some features from Linux that I think are also useful. For example: Open in terminal (right click and choose menu to open the current folder path in terminal) Two windows side by side (this feature from Windows.) How can I get these features?
A stable desktop app. I don't want to do my time tracking in the browser. Stop recording when screensaver or sleep mode starts.
I regularly commute by bicycle from home to work and find the weight of a MacBook Pro a little excessive. My thought is to have identical MacBooks at the office and home and only carry a hard disk on the bike.
During a software update to 7.0.6 this iPhone 4S abruptly turned off and would not turn back on (screen blank). When plugged into the charger or computer it beeps on a regular basis with the default system ding sound.
I've recently changed the DNS settings on my latest generation Airport Extreme from their default values to Google DNS. My reason was obvious, I want all of my devices connected to my network be able to use Google DNS without me configuring Google DNS on every single one of them.
I have found and tried several solutions to why Mail.app (I'm running Mavericks) has not been able to download emails for about 5 hours. I can send just fine, but when I go to my gmail account there are a number of new emails.
I have seen the apple support guidance located at *=URL=* but find it hard to believe there is not some kind of work around. Any ideas?
Some times when I select files in Finder (also use TotalFinder in case it affects somehow) they are locked from changes. Saving a file (for example, from Fireworks) shows the typical "file already in use" error message. Any ideas on how to prevent that?
I am stumped with a Keynote question (same problem in Powerpoint)— I made a Jeopardy Board. I want people to choose questions randomly. When I click on the question, I have ANIMATED the 100, 200, etc, so the numbers fade away. Then I've hyperlinked to a slide with each question on it.
I would like to run BSD to take full advantage of the Mac hardware. I'm unable to locate a version of BSD that runs on any MacBook Pro. I'd like a native install, replacing OS X entirely and not doing a Boot Camp setup or virtualizing over another OS.
When I do an installation of OSX on the hard disk, the Mac hangs for hours. I hear the DVD drive spin up, and after some time it spins down again. After that the computer displays the grey apple screen only.
Used to be able to view the UNIX nice value of a process in the top CLI utility. I think it's gone from the top utility on Mavericks? Any other ways to view it?
I often research what utilities are available on different POSIX-like operating systems in the interest of portability, but I haven't been able to find a stable listing of what versions of various utilities are included with different releases of OS X. I usually just keep the latest version of OS X on my own machine, so I can't simply read the manpages of older versions to see what features are available. Is there a listing or some other way to find out what UNIX features have changed between releases?
I have a new Mac Pro that I want to install windows 8.1 on. I will use my older mac pro for osx and on the new mac pro, I do not want any osx partitions.
I am stuck with a Boot Camp installation on a new Mac Pro. I have tried Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2012 R2. (Can't try Windows 7, obviously.) All three give me this at the end of setup:
I have a Samsung 213T LCD, with a native resolution of 1600x1200, that worked great as an external monitor, using a DisplayPort VGA adapter, with my 2009 13" MacBook Pro through several OSX releases. I recently upgraded to a 2013 15" rMBP with Mavericks... and it can't properly detect the monitor, and never shows 1600x1200 as a resolution option. Things I've tried that haven't helped: the 'detect displays' button that appears when holding [option] in 'system-preferences' -> 'display' holding [option] when choosing the 'scaled' radio button (it shows more resolution options - but still not the 1600x1200 native) resetting PRAM/NVRAM both off-brand (monoprice) and Apple VGA DisplayPort adapters changing the built-in retina display resolution (to perhaps free video memory) the free 'Display Menu' app in the Mac App Store None have helped. I wasn't expecting a regression in the ability to drive modest external monitors in the 2015 MBP/Mavericks. Is there any way to restore this previously-r
In 10.9.2 (not sure about earlier versions of .9) I can find no way to stop the nagging software update requests from the App Store. I've heard of people uninstalling software which works in some cases. But for some apps I just don't want the latest version.
I saved a window group in Terminal and set that as my default startup group in Terminal preferences "On startup open: window group..." If I then switch my resolution scaling from "More Space" to "Best (Retina)" all of my terminal windows shrink to fit (and oddly get wider by two columns). I think application state saving gets in the way because these fat-squat terminal windows are all I get until I resize them all by hand. Is there any way to get the windows to resize back to full height when switching back to normal resolution?
I'm on a diet plan and I'm looking for a simple repeating To-Do checklist application for food tracking with the following features: Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made Able to repeat to-dos list Notes Groups / Filters / Folders for various food groups such as fruits, vegetables, Can anyone recommend a to-do app with this functionality?
I'm trying to concatenate at variable within a path name string to make this script more efficient. This is the code I have so far. But I can't seem to find the right syntax needed in order to set the variable in the string.
I have a pair of EarPods that came with my iPhone 5s. They worked completely fine until the other day. When I plug them into my iPhone or my iPad, the sound worlds completely fine but the remote interface just doesn't work entirely. I have looked into the apple support communities but couldn't find anything. I have tried Cleaning the headphone jack on both devices and I have tried updating to iOS 7.0.6 AND iOS 7.1(I'm a developer). This issue has been bothering me and I would appreciate any help. Thanks
We have iMacs that we use as industrial control computers, and we connect FireWire cameras into them via Thunderbolt adapters. On previous OS X versions, we would have to go into the preferences for iChat / Messages and prevent them from automatically launching when these cameras were connected, to make sure those applications didn't mess with our own video software. However, on Mavericks these preferences have disappeared, apparently because now FaceTime is the application that automatically launches when an external FireWire camera is plugged in.
I wonder whether old iOS devices would become entitled to install a free copy of iWork after purchasing a new device.
For several contacts in my address book, I have both a Google Talk and an AIM handle. Messages on OS X (10.9.2) seems to always default to the AIM-based account for these people when they're signed into both, but I'd like to change that to use Google Talk by default. I can't find any way in the contact's Info window to change this.
Can I completely remove Mac OS X from my system and install Windows 7 or 8 on it? I do not want to use Bootcamp or create VM's. Is there any way at all? The problem here is that i want to ditch OSX and install Windows on my mac machine forever. Will I have to buy a Windows PC?
Is it possible or is there a way to make a standalone *.app for a CrossOver bottle? Pretty much what WineSkin does. Only, instead of using WineSkin, I want to utilize CrossOver's Performance Enhanced Graphics.
I have some volumes with sensitive data mounted in my main, admin account. I'd like to give some other users access to the same computer using a "standard" user account. Such a standard account seems to be effectively blocked from accessing any files which are inside the admin account's home folder, but all the mounted volumes are completely accessible. How would I make such volumes inaccessible?
I'm working in xcode and under editor>estructure there is a "re-indent" feature with this shortcut: ⌃l It sound really stupid, but I just moved from windows and for my life's sale I cannot figure out what key ⌃ is. What key is the ⌃ key and where it's located on the keyboard?
What I need to achieve is Create a Bootable USB drive from Windows 7 iso image using a Mac running. Use the flash drive to boot and install windows on a PC (not Mac)
I just got OS X Mavericks and the new notification bar (as seen in the right of this link) in the top right is bugging me. Is there a way to remove or move it, so the search bar is the first thing in the top right?
I was emptying out folders and deleting unnecessary items and as I went to my pictures folder I simply just dragged everything to the trash not knowing that my whole iPhoto library was there. When I hit empty trash a couple of seconds later I had realized what I had done and I hit cancel as it was in the process of deleting. Now when I try to open iPhoto it says "Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable". When I look at my picture space, it still basically has all the GB there, just a few missing. Are my pictures still retrievable?
I know if I toggle Airplane Mode, it will turn wifi and bluetooth on and off-- but I can manually toggle them. On an iPhone or cellular-enabled iPad, airplane mode kills the cell radio. But there's no cell radio in my wifi-only iPad! So what does airplane mode do for me?
I am having an issue as below: I am using Mac Os X 10.9.2 . I have installed freetype using brew . Not sure what I can do to fix this dependency. Looking forward to experts' suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Since many days, my time capsule, isn't making any backups. I checked the light status and its green, when choosen the command for backup now, it spends good amount of time (10-15 min) saying "preparing backup" and then failing, and upong entering "Time Capsule" preferences and choosing the red icon, I am showed the following message
From what I've read, in order to connect my iPad mini to my iPhone 5, I need (1) a lightning to 30 pin adapter, and (2) an iPad Cammera Connection Kit, which has a 30pin to USB adapter. This is a bit cumbersome, so is there just a connection kit for the iPad Mini? Note: I know that there are solutions such as iCloud and Dropbox, but those are limited in capacity, so I am looking to transfer photos to my iPad as another form of redundancy
I'd like to lodge a defect against Google's gmail iphone app. Does anyone know where the public bug tracker is?
The WiFi icon shows full connection in menu bar but that is only to the Extender. The detail view for WiFi shows the following (left: active, right: not active):
When I open the file with TextEdit (I don't want (truly, I am not able) to use vim), it is seen as "locked", even if I modify the permissions of the file via the "Get Info" window. How can I modify the hosts file with TextEdit?
I noticed that I could remount my USB hard drive through terminal after I eject it by typing diskutil list to find the drive and diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk"X"... So I tried to do the same with my SD card and my USB flash drive but...after I eject them, I cannot find them anymore through diskutil list. I suspect this is because they are not "drive" until the system determines them as drives...which happens automatically when you plug them in - and the system remove those drives from the USB interfaces/SD card interfaces after I eject them.
According to this article, holding down the "D" key while my MacBookPro11,3 boots should bring up "Apple Diagnostics". However, "Apple Hardware Test" comes up instead. When I try to run in, it fails, saying my hardware is not supported. How do I replace the "Apple Hardware Test" firmware program with the "Apple Diagnostics" firmware program?
I am trying to find them on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion and it seems they do not exist. I do not think it is a problem of folders privileges. Maybe it just doesn't exit and I have to create them.
My iphone 4 won't connect to the internet except using wifi. I've reset the device, turned off and on airplane mode, called AT&T where they instructed me to reset network settings, cleared cookies, history and web sites history. Still nothing except on wifi. The phone makes and receives phone calls and text messages fine. Any other suggestions?
I have tried a hard reset, removing Outlook email account, and closing all apps and turning off Background App Refresh.
Over past week, netstat reflects an established connection to localhost.pharos. Googled Pharos and it's a software which enables printing services at Universities/Enterprises. Any ideas why connection is constant at each login?
Basically, I am looking for a word editor (like Word or Pages) that is compatible with Markdown. I want to be able to write in Markdown but with the concept of pages. Their are a lot of Markdown editor but none that handles the concept of pages (I know that Markdown is primary for the web, so I understand why), but I will use Markdown for document that I will need to print, so I need to know, in advance, the number of pages. Here is what I need: compatible with Markdown header : same for every page footer : same for every page number of pages and page numbers automatically numbering headings (you can do it with CSS) editable stylesheet live preview easy to use
Okay, quite simply I have a shell script that needs to wait for something to happen, but it has a lock-file and some child-processes that I need to ensure are tidied up if the script is interrupted. I've achieved this without issue by using the trap command to set some appropriate actions, and have come up with a script that looks a bit like this: This can be run just fine in a terminal via sh Example.sh, and terminating it with Ctrl + C, causing it to remove its lock-file without any fuss. I then tried creating a launchd job for this script like so:
I got an old Apple iBook (second generation G3 if I'm not mistaken) without an Airport Card. Are there any other options to access the internet on it besides the ethernet port? Could I share the WiFi from a smartphone with the iBook or something like that?
I have an old iMac for the kids: iMac 8,1 Core2 Duo with 3GB (2+1) RAM that was recently upgraded it to Mavericks 10.9  It's running quite slow; free RAM is always pretty low. Apps run "OK" once open; it's mainly switching between apps, loading apps, and booting up which take forever. My question is how can I know if installing a 120 GB SSD (lying around) likely give me significant performance boost or if instead I need to upgrade RAM (which will cost me)? I replaced with SSD -- seems faster -- but follow up here: Best version of OSX for 2008 iMac?
Many apps use your "current location" (or what they think is your current location), to make ads relevant to where you are, and other location related app features seem to use this information. Pandora, Spotify, etc. for example play audio ads for businesses near where they think you are. I went to school in Iowa, but have been living in Chicago Area for 9 months now - yet all of my ads are for businesses in the Iowa City area, among other location based features throughout apps.
My wifi greyed out/dimmed for no obvious reason. To restore my iPhone I am required to turn off "Find my iPhone". Since I can't get access to wifi through my device (it needs Apple ID password), how can I turn the that off? I tried doing it through iCloud.com but it needs to be turned off through the device itself (which then eventually shows on iTunes). I've contacted the Apple support team but they haven't helped much.
In addition, there are some files like iMovie Data, AlbumData, Photo Database, and a folder called Segments. Do I need to keep those if I'm happy with just starting over? I would just as soon keep ONLY the images and simply re-import them into iPhoto once I get my laptop running good again, but I thought I'd post on here and get any suggestions or advice before doing so.
I have a Linux box (Raspberry Pi) with Samba set up, and when I try to mount the shares on a MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8) it just stalls. I have an Applescript that runs at login, which I use to mount them, and the mount volume action never terminates. Similarly, when I run mount_smbfs or mount -vt smbfs, the command provides no output whatsoever, and continues to run (C-c gives me a prompt, but doesn't terminate). Using ⌘+K in Finder or smb/cifs URI schemes just provides the "Connecting To Server" dialog, which disappears instantly, or never closes at all. The only log message that shows up is the typical firewall message (this has always happened) in appfirewall.log. Deny nmblookup data in from 10.0.1.42:137 to port 56874 proto=17 smbutil -v lookup -w 10.0.1.42 <hostname> gives the expected output. A reboot fixes the issue, but I still don't know what is causing it.
First off, I realize some may not prefer Windows, but I like Windows, and I like Apple's hardware so let's set aside any preferences on OS and focus on how well I can expect Boot Camp to run for me. I'm considering purchasing a macbook for my upcoming graduation. I'm stuck between the 13" air and the 13" pro with retina. Either way, I'm planning on getting the 256GB model with 8GB of RAM. I also plan on dual booting with Windows 7. I can't find a reference that comments on how well Apple's Windows drivers work to make the multi touch trackpad work as well in Windows as it does on OS X. Will I be sacrificing trackpad input capabilities by choosing Mac hardware over another PC vendor (either due to hardware limitations or driver issues)?
I am trying to copy a Franklin Gothic font from my old 10.5 machine onto my late 2012 iMac running Mavericks, but with I go to install the font through Font Book it gives a 'FOND' offset usability warning for every weight. If I check it despite the warning and try to install, nothing happens. How can I get around this?
How can I install the Dropbox app on an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6? THe newest version of the app is iOS7-only. I've heard that if the app has been installed under your account, the App Store will let you use the last compatible version, but I have no devices running iOS7 to add it to my account with.
I have a bunch of mkv files that are encoded as MPEG-4 video and AC-3 audio. I usually use Subler to convert the mov into mp4 to read them in iTunes, but the AC-3 audio is unreadable by Subler or iTunes. So, I want to convert them into mp4 files with AAC audio, without re-encoding the video part which is just fine as MPEG-4. How can I do that?
A cal command appeared in Version 5 AT&T UNIX. The ncal command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.6. And, the history section of Ubuntu's man page says
I am connected to my wifi on my iPad but I want to know if there is a way to find the password that is put in to get connected to it.
I have WD external hard disk, which was working fine. Its MS-DOS formatted. I have downloaded a file in .mkv, which works fine, and isn't corrupted. Upon copying the 8 gb file, it says "The file is too big to be copied", whereas its only 8 GB being copied on 500GB disk. I tried formatting it. still nothing. What else can i do?
I can't add a new contact as keyboard doesn't appear in the Contacts. I have deleted email account from Settings. Also the Contacts service is on in iCloud. I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 7.
My girlfriend smashed her iPhone screen. Being technically competent and after looking at YouTube videos of how to fix it I thought I would give it a go.
I used to be able to search for emails sent by "Jack Tan" by using the FROM toolbar in the mailbox  After iOS 7 update, it seems the From, All, Subject, and To toolbar has disappeared. It now looks like this when i attempt to search (red bar to indicate the toolbar is gone)
What is the rationale behind requiring Wi-Fi to backup to iCloud from my iOS device? What is wrong with using 3G or 4G to backup?
I used to have a script that converts a VIDEO_TS folder into an ISO that plays ok in VLC but it's gone. Anyway, this command gets me most of the way there:
Most of my old CDs that I'm adding to my iPod touch 4th generation are compilations, so I have to add in the details my hand. I accidentally got rid of the "Artists" column in iTunes, which made it nice if I wanted to sort by artist. How do I get that field back, and do I have to re-enter each artist for several hundred songs by hand?
I can't find anything that does this online, and most of what I can find states that it can't support audio in the small print. When I ask in shops they look at me like I'm crazy and then try to sell me a USB cable.
I've been reading about the infamous "goto fail" security bug in iOS 6 and OS X 10.9, but I haven't read anything about whether other Apple software, like for example iTunes for Windows, is affected. This is relevant since, after all, iTunes is the software you use to access your Apple account and update your credit card information.
While installing, the cursor will go left, if my mouse go right. Can I change it to the opposite direction that is more human-understandable? Can I change it to the opposite direction that is more human-understandable? Will this problem still exist after installing ? Will this problem still exist after installing ?
I have an email account that I wish to add to only one computer. Unfortunately when I create the account, iCloud automatically syncs it with my other machines. Any way to prevent it from doing that?
Is it possible to do this some way? I need to work with to different monitors, not simply mirroring.
I have recently recorded some college lectures using my Canon handycam. The files I seem to have are in AVCHD format. I'd like to know if there is a relatively fast method to convert them into .mp4 format. I bought iMovie but with dismay I have been totally defeated by its interface. I was thinking of using ffmpeg but thought I'd ask the question here first. Thanks.
I have 10 email addresses (ranging from POP, IMAP, and Exchange) setup in my Mail.app. There are 2 addresses I use primarily. But only one can be labeled Default. Therefore, when "inbox" is selected, and a new email is created, it is automatically sending from Default. Is there ANY way to set Mail.app to ask me which email address I want to send from if it is a newly created email (and not a reply to an email I've received, in reply situations I have no issue)? Once I hit send, it should then ask me from what address to send from.
My other thought was that if I could send the message as a Bonjour message then iChat could display it, but I don't know of any way to have a script send a Bonjour message from a Linux box. Note that the Linux box is a server, and therefore has no desktop or GUI.
I've got a problem with some app on my Mac stealing the keyboard focus (the current window's title bar becomes inactive). However, it is not actually putting up any windows or menu bar of its own, and it does not respond identifiably to keyboard shortcuts.
Until recently I used this excellent tip, to create a (smart) folder on my mac showing all the screenshots that I have taken with my iPhone (via the iPhoto directory system and photostream). This was on Lion. I'm now using a new harddrive with a fresh install of Mavericks on it, and when I try to repeat the tip I get nowhere. I can see the directory structure in as it was before, and it looks just like this:
I'm trying to copy an object out of an SVG file using inkscape, however when I paste it back in to a new inkscape file it's no longer the svg version, but a rasterized version. I'm not sure if it's because inkscape runs in XQuartz and the clipboard is behaving odly.
I've reinstalled OS X Mavericks from scratch twice on my (usually headless) Mac Mini, but it keeps locking up after ten or fifteen minutes of use - even just Safari browsing. I use Screen Sharing with the firewall off (for now - to rule that out as a cause of the problem). I connected an HDTV to see what was going on when the Mini locked up and I saw this:
I have a 2011 MacBook Air(11-inch), I am using OS X 10.9, but I only have 64GB Flash Storage, and I want to expand the storage of MacBook Air's hard disk. I asked geniuses at Apple and they told me the answer is no. So, is this possible?
I set my work gmail account to my personal iPad and now I don't have that job. Since email is not coming in I can assume that either my PW changed or my account was closed from the business or IT. But now ... can I remove it from iPad or am I stuck with this archived onto my iPad?
This works by writing random patterns of data over a trashed file immediately after it has been emptied, http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/03/secure-empty-trash-mac-os-x/
Ever since I updated my iPad mini to iOS 7.0.6 when I twist it around from vertical to horizontal, the picture won't turn with it. Is this a bug or is my iPad mini broken?
I'm on OS X Mavericks. When I click on Get Info it doesn't even have a drop down of selections for permissions. It just says read/write but it really won't let me do anything. I can't delete nor edit and save the files. I need to allow permissions to everyone including myself to edit the files, etc. Is there anything I can do on terminal.app to allow myself more permission than the one given by admin?
I wonder if MS Word on Apple has any command line interface? I tried the following: but no help.
I've found the "special characters" keyboard shortcut (control-command-space) very useful when I have to use Greek letters in text. However, this shortcut does not work when writing e-mails in Gmail, even though it does seem to work in the Gmail instant message boxes.
I am having two accounts on my Macbook Pro with Retina display. My wife doesn't like my current resolution, so she changes to a larger one. However when I switch back to my account, the OS doesn't switch the display resolution, if I change to my preference, it also affects her account. Is there any way to make it work?
Whenever I open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro (version of Adobe Creative Cloud) on my Macbook Pro (early 2013 Retina version with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB) scrolling through the document is unacceptably slow. In terms of 'frames per second' it would be about 2 fps when scrolling.
My MacPort package are becoming the huge mess. I probably won't use some of them and I was wondering how I could know if a given package is a dependecy for another one.
Pages has crashed, my file is now corrupted and I'm trying to get the text from this file. if I Right click on the file > Show package content > open index.zip , I can see a bunch of .iwa files which seems to contains my original text, especially "Document.iwa". If I "$ nano Document.iwa" (because "$ file" only returns "data") I can see some of my text, but the overall seems crypted. Does anyone know how to decode/read this kind of .iwa file or recover corrupted files?
I have a script to kill a process tree that works fine in linux but I am experiencing some odd behaviour on osx. It actually works fine with my unit tests and also when trying to run it manually on osx, but for some reason when it runs as a jenkins job it acts differently. So this is the current bash function with a bit of debug echo and sleeps: The call to pgrep that from a failing run can be pgrep -P 9651 prints out all processes on the machine, and the scripts hangs when it try to kill pid 0.
I am currently using Windows 8.1 in parallels under Mac OS X Mavericks. On both Mac and Windows I use US International since I need the special danish chars æ, ø and å. These chars are placed differently on the mac layout and the windows layout. This is very confusing! Is there a way to make them the same - the mac placement is to prefer?
I would like to set my background to a working Terminal window even when I minimize all applications. I would like to be able to write commands on desktop but I don't know if it is even possible.
All the art in my iTunes app is wrong. I pay for iTunes Match, but it's disabled on my phone. (It has been enabled in the past.) What can I do to fix the art?
After following the instructions in this answer (briefly: Java prefs pane → Security → disable "Enable Java content in the browser") to disable the Java plug-in globally, I'm presented with an admin password prompt dialog, followed in turn by this dialog:  How do I change this setting for all users?
I need to debug a kernel panic and the current information in the kernel panic log file is insufficient. The only information available on that matter is in the following link: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html
I'd like to make Chrome the default browser in the OSX. I've managed to get Chrome added to the guest account but there are several issues
It just seems nonsense that you can't edit contacts at Skype iPad version, I know less is more, but perhaps too less is actually less. So how can you edit contacts at Skype iPad version?
I'm attempting to backup all of the music from my 80GB iPod Classic to my Windows Vista computer. My old computer (the one originally with the backed up music) died on me, so iTunes wont backup music from my iPod to the computer. So I am forced to either use a 3rd party transfer software or transfer the music from the iPod's file system. Attempting a backup either of these ways results in errors that prevent the computer from transfering 95% of the music. The 3rd party software offers no information about the error, but copy/pasting from the iPod file system to the PC returns the following errors: error code 0x80070022 (first error message) error code 0x80070057 (subsequent error messages for 95% of music files attempting to be copied) If I try transferring through the iPod's file system on my Macbook Pro, I get error code -36.
I'm looking for a KeePass application for use on Mac OSX. KeePassX and KyPass 3 but both lack support for synchronization of KeePass 2 (.kdbx) databases. KeePassX will just plain overwrite the database. KyPass 3 will do you the courtesy of alerting you of a potential data loss before overwriting a database. KeePass is a third option, but I have't not been able to get the application to work, let alone test synchronization. What Mac OS X apps support synchronization of the kdbx database that stores credentials in this open source format?
It seems we've been spoiled by other browsers, but sometimes you just can't use them (like for viewing Apple videos). When I hit back/forward in Safari, then immediately I lose my place on the page. Is there an option to make Safari remember your page scroll position like every other browser?
I recently acquired a macbook pro with Leopard installed. All other software had been removed before I purchased it. I wanted to install Snow Leopard. The advice I received was to be safe I should backup up the current system before installing. I did so and then installed snow leopard.
How can I set my Mac to open the Spotify application when I click on a weblink? While I have the appropriate preference set in Spotify...
I am using OS X Mavericks Server. I want to add a user to the Administrators group but none of the built-in groups show up under Accounts -> Groups on OS X Server. How can I manage users in the Administrators group?
I've seen questions like this which don't quite solve my problem. I'd like to make Sublime Text 3 the default file viewer/editor for all files that currently use textedit.
When using Safari, I find no plug-in to force copied text from web pages to not include rich-text formatting and only copy the raw ascii characters. How can I, using Safari, only copy plain text into the clipboard from web pages? If that is not possible, is there a way in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 to only paste plain text?
I have a Mac Mini here that I just reset (wiped everything). When I try to reinstall OS X Mavericks through the "Install OS X" interface, I am seeing this error message: This Apple ID has not purchased "OS X Mavericks". You must sign in with an Apple ID that was used to purchase "OS X Mavericks".
Here is what I tried... Do Not Disturb is off In Settings -> Sounds, Vibrate on Ring is off and Vibrate on Silent is off The switch on the side is set to silver not red. The music will play over the headphones and over the speaker. The keyboard click sound will play over the headphones and over the speaker. I looked in Settings -> Accessibility and there doesn't seem to be anything in there (however whenever I got the phone the zoom was turned on) I don't know what else there is to try, but it doesn't play the ring tone when the phone rings.
So other late 2013 rMBP owners, or just Apple people in the know, is this normal for this model of machine or is this a defect? Thanks!
I just got a new Space Gray iPad Mini Retina 32GB Wi-fi and today I noticed that the whole screen has a yellow tint. This seems to be a common issue and I will go to an Apple Store as soon as possible to get a new one. Is there a recommended serial number or part number I should look for?
I noticed something while updating the iOS. After finishing the updating, I always find that BlueTooth is on and activated. Any idea why Apple is doing that?
I have got mavericks 10.9.2 and latest Skype version 6.14(351) on a MBA 2013. Whilst on a video call with one person only both cameras turned one and very good wifi signal Skype drained about 18% of the battery for 30 minutes. Also the laptop base became quite warm to even hot. Is this normal and if not, how might I resolve it?
I'm trying to have users pick a department from a list box. And then that choice is stored in a variable as string. How can I do this? I have code written like this: when I run the script, I get this error.
I have a MacBook Air in my office that prompts to pair to a BlueTooth keyboard every 5-10 seconds. I turned BlueTooth off/on. Made sure it is not discoverable. Restarted. Run updates. Reset PRAM. Reset SMC. Deleted com.apple.bluetooth.plist (~/Library/Preferenes/ and /Library/Preferences/). Removed the offending and from the above plists. With no luck.
I'm transferring photos from my camera via the SD adapter. When I attach them from within the Mail app, I'm given the option to choose the photo resolution (Small, Medium, Large, Actual Size) but I don't seem to have this option from within the Gmail app. Am I missing something?
Called mac support, they said I should go to the local mac support. This would be my last choice because of the price and the paid hours it will take for unlocking/copying. Maybe they have some keypairs for backdoors, otherwise I should be able to do the same.
I have an iPhone 5 - not yet jailbroken - running iOS 7.0.6 (via recent OTA update). I heard about the 7.1 update today and thought if I would ever jailbreak, this would be the time. evasi0n's page states "Over The Air updates of iOS 7 are known to create an issue and make the jailbreak fail." So, I download the appropriate 7.0.6 IPSW and try to restore through iTunes. But it appears Apple has already closed this SHSH blob (today, drats) and iTunes errors out with the "This device isn't eligible for the requested build" error. I plan on not upgrading to 7.1 until this answer is a definitive "no". My question: Is there a way for someone in my situation running 7.0.6 (OTA) to Jailbreak?
I have an iPhone 4 that I didn't upgrade to iO7 because I'd heard a lot of people saying it hurt the phone's performance, and my phone's performance was already pretty terrible. I've seen people saying that 7.1 is specifically faster for an iPhone 4, but only in comparison to iOs 7.0
I have downloaded music directly from iTunes onto my iPhone from the app. The problem is some of the songs I don't want on my iPhone and I just do not have the space for it, and I would like to add different music to my iPhone. The problem is I have "show all music" unchecked, I also have "automatically download music" unchecked, as well as pretty much every answer that has been given online to resolve this problem. I don't use iCloud or iTunes match.
I have an absurd issue which pretty much nothing seems to be able to fix - I have a 2011 Macbook Pro running Mavericks. When I try logging into my main account with the correct password, the wheel starts spinning, but then the screen acquires a blue tint, flashes, and then returns back to the login screen, asking me to enter my password again.
I know that someone can use a partition on a hard disk drive for Time Machine, but is it possible to specify more than one partition on a single drive for this purpose? The scenario: My partner and I want to share one physical HDD to back up our Macs, but we want completely separate encryption passwords for our backups. And if it is possible, is there a downside?
I want a reminder that goes off on Mon, Tue, Wed and Thu at 5pm. I haven't found a way to do that. I can ask Siri to do a reminder on Weekdays, but that includes Friday. Is it possible?
I am trying to reinstall Mavericks an 27 inch, Mid-2011 iMac The hardisk has been reformatted, and I have created one partition Mac-HDD in it. I have created a Mavericks usb installer using this command: Can you suggest anything I can try?
Can I unregister my old Apple ID and register my iPhone with option 1 (as a new iPhone)? I desperately would like to retrieve that file ASAP!
I just upgraded my MacBook Air to Mavericks. The process appears to have removed almost all of the symlinks that homebrew put in /usr/local/bin. As I notice things missing then I relink them via brew unlink <keg> && brew link <keg> (although the symlinks are gone, homebrew still thinks they are there so I need to unlink first). This feels somewhat inefficient.
I want to partition 128Mb out of my macbook hard drive and use it as an external usb; mainly for scanners that they can stick a usb stick into. This way I won't need to install drivers for every scanner I use.
We all know you can simply click "turn hiding on" in Dock's Preferences, but can you do the same thing to Mac's Menu Bar?
So the whole internet is full of joy for optimization of the new 7.1 update which makes the OS much more usable on good old iPhone 4. I haven't found anything, though, concerning the iPad 2. Are there any improvements for iPad 2 as well?
I would like to make a banner that will display ads for my products only. Will it be ok with App Store or my app won't be approved (or cut later)?
In Mavericks the icons in the menubar changed behavior. The sorting is not dependent anymore on the order at which the apps were launched, but rather … something else. The icons jump and I now have an app running that adds a menubar icon, when I click it, I see the location services icon for a moment to its right, before it disappears, leaving a gap.
How can I install Apple's Mavericks on a pen drive, that I can then plug into a windows machine and boot from it? I did that some years ago with 10.6: I installed it on a 16Gb pen drive and then I could just go to a windows machine, restart it, set its boot drive to my pen and then run Mac OSX on it. I have forgotten all the details of how to do it, and I don't even know if I still have that pen around. Nevertheless, I would like to do it again, but this time with Mavericks. Any ideas?
I'm running OS X Lion on one of them and OS X Mavericks on the other two. I have kapersky installed on one of them, but nothing on the other two. On my macbook I have tried with three different internet connections (BT, sky, talktalk) and still the same result. ISP / infrastructure detail:
Some software will treat symlinks differently from Aliases. Here, each one have their use, and eventually I'll use one or another.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Under settings text messages send/receive I had 3 phone numbers listed - mine and my children. I am not sure how this setup occurred although they have iPhones that use and are associated with my email and Apple ID.
I need to change my home address, following this post. I've moved, so I need to update my address, but it does not seem to work. My new street address does not exist in the map (as I've moved to a newly developed area), and when changing the address in my contact, the old address is still recognized as "Home" in my Maps application. (Thus, also displaying "Right now, it would take you XX mins to drive home" to my old address) Does anyone know how I can correct this?
I am using Mavericks, and Pages 5.1. I have created two .pages documents. Now, all I want is to attach one .pages document to another. In windows I could simply drag and drop or copy and paste both would have worked. But in Mac when I : Press command + c then command + v, it pastes the files name instead of the file. Drag and Drop doesn't work at all.
I have audiobooks, voice memos, among other things that have a place in my library, but don't need to be in my music list. Is there anyway to exclude them or hide them from Music? It's annoying to hit 'play' and be bombarded with pieces of books instead of actual music.
I've been having problems occasionally starting my Macbook Pro Retina. It just hangs on the gray screen with the activity indicator. When I launch in verbose mode it stops at this line. How do I determine what's causing the issue?
When I sync all my photos to my mac mini iphoto then goes and creates albums on my iPhone like: Events, Last 12 Months and Last Import among others. I do not want these albums on my iPhone at all.... How do I get rid of them
The video on my mid-2009 13" Macbook Pro freezes and becomes noisy sometimes, depending on the position of the lid, pressure, etc. I opened it, and could reproduce the behavior by poking at the LVDS (LCD data) cable.
I use Linux on the desktop and have zero access to iTunes. I'm in a position where I have to use an iPhone for a while.
How do I disable automatic iTunes launch when iPhone is plugged in via USB (for charging)? In fact, I would like to disable automatic launch of anything when an iPhone is plugged in (including photo sync).
I moved a .crt certificate file onto my iPhone device via Dropbox and tried following these instructions to add it to the device keychain: It suggests to open the certificate file but my iPhone doesn't know what to open the .crt with? How should I proceed from here to add the certificate to my keychain?
I have OS X Lion and erased the hard drive to prepare and install Maverick. Can you hear the violin playing? Here are the issues:
As you might know, Spotlight can do simple mathematics. For instance, typing cos(pi) will result in -1, as you might expect. I just typed in cos(pi/2), which should be 0 but it gave me -5e-12.
After upgrading my iPhone 5 to iOS 7.1 the Messages app on my OS X 10.9.2 installation can no longer send messages via iMessage to other iMessage users. Sending messages via other services such as Google Talk is working fine. I have tried signing in and out from my iCloud account in Messages. Also, nothing has changed on the firewall I'm connected through. Any ideas?
I have a custom keyboard shortcut created for a finder service to compress selected files.  However despite working once or twice when I first created it, it has no effect now. The service works perfectly if I manually select it but not with the shortcut. As you can see from the screenshot the shortcut is definitely assigned... Edit: Just discovered that it actually works in all finder views except column view... What's going on here?
I installed the "Android File Transfer" to move some data. So far so good.
I am OK right now but when i get a new phone I will lose it because it is not linked to a Game Center account anymore. How can I ditch the level 47 village and keep the level 70 village?
I just become a Mac user and I've been looking for a decent free code editor, thus I found Textwrangler. However, I like it a lot, I only have one problem with it. How does one open a new file in a new tab rather than a new window? I open a directory with it and have the tree, but each time when I click on a file it closes the current file I am viewing and opens the new one.
I am looking for a way in Bash to run something within Emacs. For example, if you run emacs, press esc+X then type "life," you get a little simulation of Conway's Game of Life. How could this be done via Bash? Don't have much so far: I've read about using ^] and such but doing does not work (neither does ^[) Basically, how can I simulate all of these key presses in Bash, with the default Mac Emacs (22.1.1)?
In OSX 10.9.2 I have set reminders to show in the Notification Center. These are often for mundane tasks such as taking out the recycling. I want these tasks to appear maybe 10 mins before the due time - ideally I would like to have options the same way iCal alerts work.
I have MacBook Air (13", Mid 2013) and my father has MacBook Pro (13", Mid 2012). Both MacBooks have SDXC card slot, and both support/ has USB 3 ports. We are thinking of moving iPhoto library to portable drive (either SDXC card or USB 3 pen drive) to save space on internal HDD What is recommended - SDXC Card or USB 3 drive, and for what reason like speed, consistency, etc?
This list, the one accessed by System Preferences/Keyboard/Text, vanished when I updated to 10.9.2 (it survived the initial update to Mavericks). I do a lot of writing for the sciences, and I've spent years building that list. (recent MacBook Pro, 10.9.2). Some sites say I should get the /Users/username/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist file from a backup, but I've searched the HD of my other computer (same specs but running 10.9.1, Replace/With list intact), and I can find no such file.
I have a workflow that collects documents from various sources, converts them to PDF, OCRs them, compresses them, extracts their contents and annotations, uploads the files to a server and makes the corresponding mysql entries in order to provide a full-featured index for my web-based search engine. To display PDFs within the search engine, I use PDF.js from mozilla, which can, in some cases, not load documents with certain characters in the filename. These critical characters include german umlauts (Ä,Ö,Ü,ä,ö,ü), brackets ((),[],{}), french accents (é,è,à) and spanish accents (Ñ,ñ,Ó,ó,Á,á,É,é,Í,í,Ú,ú).
On featurepoints.com, a free iOS app is offered for direct download.  The download link uses an itms-service URL. (itms-services:///?action=download-manifest&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeaturepoints.com%2Fenroll%2FFeaturePoints.plist) If you click on the download link, the app is downloaded and installed on your iDevice without using the App Store (the app is installed without entering the iTunes password even if you are logged out of your iTunes account). Also a Provisioning Profile is installed named "TapGen InHouse" expiring 2014-06-30. I wonder how this app is distributed to the public and to non-jailbroken iDevices effectively circumventing Apple's review process and the App Store?
I've just discovered the iOS 7 feature of being able to change the vibrate patterns for various different types of alert. The one app I really, really want to have a custom vibrate pattern is "Yurekuru". This app gives warnings of imminent earthquakes in Japan, so an alert from this app requires my immediate attention. My phone is almost always on silent, and if I mistake an earthquake warning for an incoming email and ignore it, that's bad.
I installed the latest version of Mavericks and it broke some stuff (instruments) which I cannot afford to have broken. Is there a way to roll back to my previous release? Am currently on 10.9.2 and want to go to 10.9.1 or 10.9. Regards, Mark
I am using a trial version of Photoshop CS6, and I can't choose full screen mode. I am running OS X 10.9.
Can I use iWork on my iPhone and iPad as a complement to my employer issued Windows PC? I know that iWork boasts some Microsoft Office compatibility but how is it implemented? If office documents are imported and converted to a iWork format and then have to be exported to a Office format on save, isn't there a risk for dataloss? Ideally iWork would edit actual office documents but I'm not sure if this is the case.
Other things like Contacts, Reminders, Calendars, and Safari data all prompted me to 'keep data on iPhone' when I toggled them off in iCloud settings, but not Notes! I want to keep my notes on my iPhone when iCloud is disabled.
Sometimes I use a headset with my iMac, but I often need to switch between both. Unfortunately, I need to unplug the headset every time to do this. This is a hassle, because the iMac is located far back at the table and is surrounded by documents and other things. Back when I had Windows, I could just switch between "Internal Speakers", "Headset" and every other sound-system that was connected to the PC. When using the options in the sound icon in the menu bar, the "Internal Speakers" option disappears as soon as the Headsets are plugged in.
I have several smart playlists that pick a random selection of music limited by total disk space. It used to be that to change that random selection, you just selected all the tracks in the smart playlist and pressed backspace to delete them, which caused it to repopulate with a new random selection. In iTunes 11.1.5, if I select all the tracks and press backspace, nothing happens.
I like the idea of mac bundles where a group of awesome apps are offered in a very good price. I did bought some bundles before and I would like to know, which is the safiest way of tracking such as bundles deals?
Once again, I'm not looking for setting up screen sharing. My mini does not even have a display. Edit: I also want to be able to use the UI, not just the command line, so ssh is not an option in this case.
My iMac keeps shutting down approximately every 3 hours. I added 8GB RAM about a month ago. i also upgraded the firmware. BSD process name corresponding to current thread: ReportCrash
I am looking for a way to forbid myself from running an RSS application I am spending too much time on during the day. What I want is to turn on the app when I wake up, read the news, and once I am done, to quit the app, and not be able to run this app until the next morning.
I just bought an iPhone 5, and was planning on listing my (what I thought, was) 5th generation iPod touch I bought last year, but Glyde and Apple support both claim there are only 32GB and 64GB 5th generation iPod touches, where as, mine is only 8GB. My girlfriend has the iPhone 4S, and my iPod's screen is bigger than hers, which leads me to believe it is an iPod touch 5th Gen, but I can't find any documentation on it existing in the wild. It also has no rear camera, only a front facing one. The model number laser etched on the back is: A1421
Is there a mobile app that lets you view the list applications you're currently running on a computer you're using? For instance, my mobile device would connect as a client to my MacBook Pro, and have live info about what's running and which app I'm currently using:
I've saved my iPad 1 config on iTunes I've updated iTunes on my PC I've updated my iPad from iTunes I've restored my config from iTunes There's a black screen with a white apple, then my iPad shows a screen similar to this:
I have an iPad 1, and MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I want to record my iPad screen to MacBook and share the video file.
My iPhone was just stolen and when I open iCloud it no longer lists ANY of my phones, even old ones that I still have but my kids use as iPods. What is going on?
My camera roll is taking up way too much space on my iPhone, but I like having all my pictures. Every time I connect my iPhone to my computer, I would like to download/save new photos on my Mac, batch downsize the images to something much smaller and then append them to an album. How can I do this?
So my .command file looks like this When I run just this it prompts me for the password, how do I make terminal enter the password instead of me having to type it in? I have tried this: But that does not work.
I set up the screen saver to a folder containing some of my photos. How do I get the screen saver in Mavericks to display them full screen?
On previous OS X releases, I could open Disk Utility and choose file->NFS Mounts. I cannot find anything similar in Mavericks. Is there any GUI for mounting NFS, or must it all be done via the command line?
I'm trying to delete my camera roll, I imported in to iPhoto, then deleted all the photos with Image Capture. As soon as I open the Photos app on the iPhone it just starts downloading everything again... Any ideas? I'd like to keep my photo stream working, just not keep the whole camera roll on the phone.
I restored my iPhone 5 from an iOS 7.0.6 jailbreak to iOS 7.1. I restored to a backup. During the syncing of songs from the backup to my iPhone it accidentally got unplugged. I plugged it back in and synced my songs manually (not from the backup).
Is it possible to get the app reviewed within a day or few hours? I know there is an expedited app review process if the app is time sensitive then Apple will review the app very quickly, but that also might take 1-3 days sometimes. We built an app which is needed to be in store tomorrow, though one version is already up there but it is not working properly as expected. We have fixed the bug and want to app to be in market before tomorrow morning.
to get X11 i went to XQuartz here *=URL=* however the download linke XQuartz-2.7.5.dmg seems to be broken -- couldn't find it anywhere else either. what am i missing?
How can I reduce the size of my HD folder? I have more than 22 GB in "others". It is actually using more memory than my documents and apps and does not show contents. I have deleted the main info in mobileSync folder, but is still very big.
I tried resetting the NVRAM (command+option+P+R). I've basically tried everything I could think of, not sure why it's not booting the original hdd. Again, I booted off a different drive and the original internal drive plugged in via SATA-USB, I am able to view the contents of the drive just fine (naturally backed up all my data as I assumed the disk is failing). Any thoughts, tests, concepts, theories, are all very much welcomed and appreciated! UPDATE
I reassigned the buttons on my Apple remote with BetterTouchTool to fire off hot keys on my Mac. I then taught my universal remote the Apple remote buttons. This works perfectly, except that Apple's remote only has 7 buttons. I want at least a few more.
I often copy links in Chrome with the context menu, to paste into a chat window (Adium). This process selects the link on copy. When I cmd+tab back to my browser window, the text is still selected and it interferes with keyboard control of the given website. This forces me to move my hand back to the trackpad, find some non-active space (page bg usually), and click to deselect. I'd rather not have to move my hand from the keyboard to do this.
When I move a file, either into another folder or the Trash, Finder crashes and relaunches, and the file doesn't get moved. This also happens when I try to empty the trash. Console shows a couple of error messages after this. First, it says a crash report was saved, and there's a message like this: 3/12/14 4:13:16.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 5905[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1030eb000 from offset 0x1a9000 in file "ﾭ�ﾭ�/Users/myusername/Documents/Folder1" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0) Does anyone have any idea what's going on? EDIT: There are some other messages that get posted, too: And here's the crash report (it's too big to fit in the box, which is why I didn't want to post it originally): http://pastebin.com/TTT2v6Rb
I give a lot of code heavy presentations with Keynote. Syntax highlighting makes these readable. In the past I've used web based syntax highlighting tools, and then pasted the easier-to-read code into my presentation. When I upgraded to iWork '13, which includes Keynote 6.1, pasting content strips the font style and color. For example, if I take this colorful code from GitHub and paste it into Keynote it removes all the formatting as shown here:
In Safari (I'm using 7.0.2) if you browse to a website and select A) file>export to PDF you will get a different looking PDF then if you go to B) file>print>PDF>save as pdf B) Looks like its using the CSS media query for print, but A) only looks like its using some of this information then applying more styles of its own. Does anyone know wheres these extra styles are coming from and how they can be overwritten or ignored by the page being exported?
I have an iCloud account, but I am backing up via iTunes. I want to restore my iPhone because of the "other" files taking up a really huge portion of my phone's memory (2 GB and I have only 16 GB of storage).
I'm working on an applescript that pulls old Time Machine backups and places them into a new folder. But if the old computer name has a space in it, that causes an issue in the do shell script command. Here's an example:
I was able to find this information from the official support documentation for Siri: *=URL=* Siri understands and can speak the following languages: United States (English, Spanish) United Kingdom (English) Australia (English) France (French) Germany (German) Japan (Japanese) Canada (Canadian French, English) China (Mandarin) Hong Kong (Cantonese) Italy (Italian) Korea (Korean) Mexico (Spanish) Spain (Spanish) Switzerland (French, German, Italian) Taiwan (Mandarin)
I searched my US American MacBook keyboard and I did not find symbol of "`" (grave accent). Did I miss it?
Here is my need : I want my media center to be mounted in the /Volumes of my Macbook as soon as I turn it on. So, I need to automate the Connect as action.
My iMac 27" screen went black on start up after logo, but I could still see my mouse pointer. I've restarted my computer and it is still not helping at all. I'm running Mavericks 10.9.2 with an i5 processor and 4GB RAM. Couple things that I've done: I did a PRAM reset with ⌘, ⌥, P & R at start up and still no luck.
I carried my Mac Mini while traveling a few times, once to a different country and couple of times to different cities. I once noticed the hard disk inside makes noise like its about to fail. But the noise is not noticeable unless the room is very very quiet, or when I keep my ear on the Mac Mini hardware and I can clearly hear the creeking noise from HDD.
I am having an issue with preferred networks in WiFi settings. There are few networks I want to delete - when I do so, the disappear temporarily, but will eventually come back. I believe is to do with iCloud saving passwords. Let's say I delete network from my iPhone (also on my macbook), after day or two I will notice my iPhone or Macbook connecting to the same hotspot again (shared, so this is a security issue), and I will go in to preferred network settings and will see all the networks I have already deleted. Do any of you have a similar issue? Because of security issue I had to enable password protection for network switching on my macbook, and keep wifi disabled when unused on my iPhone. I have also submitted bug report to Apple, but did not get any response or comments back.
Is there a way to deploy an iOS app to a device without requiring human interaction. By 'no human interaction', for instance, consider an automated scenario (in a CI environment) where the server can deploy an app to a device and there is no need to have a person to go to the device in order to open an URL and click 'install'. Following image shows what I want to avoid.
We're looking at upgrading our static whiteboards to interactive whiteboards/smartboards, and one option is simply to buy 1-3 large multi-touch displays and hook them up to a Mac Pro, and use some whiteboard software on them. Anyone know of any such whiteboard software for Mac that is designed to be used in such a way - namely multi-monitor support, plus multi-touch support?
Using Mountation Lion, I've mistakenly removed all of the content in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions How can I get java working again on my machine? (I don't have it in Trash) Also worth noting, I do have /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk UPDATE: I ended up upgrading to Mavericks.
On a macbook, the C key isn't working anymore, so i was wondering if there was a way to trigger the command + c shortcut other than pressing the command and C keys Thanks a lot
I'm trying to install a profile that I've created on an iPad. I have the Trust Profile for the device installed and verified. The problem arises when trying to enrol the iPad. Below is the output from the iPhone Configuration Utility console. Any suggestions on what I can do to solve this?
Every time my friend's iPhone is on the same WiFi network, iTunes asks me if I want to update his phone's OS and then later asks if I want to update his carrier profile or something like that. How can I keep this from happening? I'm on Mavericks, and this previous question doesn't help and this Mavericks specific question seems to be asking for something different. His device does not appear in iTunes > Preferences > Devices, but does show up in File > Devices (even when he isn't on the same WiFi network)
Mavericks has a wonderful and rich special characters and lots of Emojis to choose from.  To call them up one has to press 3 keys (another keyboard short cut to remember :( Is there a way to add this little app to let say Mail.app menu bar, so I just call it up from there.
So I'm running into a weird issue here when trying to update an internal Enterprise app to a newer version with Apple's MDM server. Profile Manager runs on 10.9.2 and Server.app 3.0.3 and we've tested multiple apps across multiple managed devices. The web interface says all devices are updating, but what I see now is that even when it has said it has updated the app on a device, if the app was running then the MDM server seem to think it has updated it while in reality the old app is still on the device.
Pages 4.3 (latest update for iWork '09 afaik) constantly crashes (closes and shows "unexpectly quit" crash report) on a new iMac 27" (Late 2013) running 10.9 (.2) Mavericks The crashes seem to be comepletely intermittent. Sometimes when writing, pasting text, dragging images. Here are some crash reports: *=URL=* (latest one, this one was when a image was dragged into pages) *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* The latest one: *=URL=* This one happened after I completely reinstalled the machine (formatted the drive, installed mavericks over restore partition, created a new user, installed iwork from disc and installed 4.3 update and then dragged over my personal documents via a usb drive) EDIT I ended up updating to the new versions of pages since I couldn't get the bug to be fixed.
I replaced the hard drive in my iMac after making a time machine backup of the old drive. I've installed Mavericks on the new drive and booted with it. The old drive (time machine) is connected via USB. When I boot into recovery, and select "Restore from Time Machine" my new disk becomes unbootable.
I am trying to get rid of Genieo which accidentally got installed on my MacBook Pro, when I considered using jEdit. I followed their Download link which appears to be on sourceforge, when the following screen appeared:
I have a PDF file of 2 years worth of journal entries that were exported from MacJournal back in 2009. I now use Day One, which allows CLI to import .txt files. My question is, is it possible to export a PDF of formatted entries (with date) into individual .txt files of each entry separated (with the file name of month/Day/Year.txt)?
When I'm at work, I've got my Macbook connected to an external monitor and a Apple Magic Mouse + Apple keyboard (both bluetooth) and I am connected via ethernet. When I unplug all devices and take my Macbook back home after work it normally goes to sleep mode and when I open it afterwards I get back right to where I left. Recently I experience a lot of kernel panics when I am back at home (not every time). The white light doesn't flash anymore and when I open it, it tells me something went wrong and the system had to be shut down. Always showing this Log: https://gist.github.com/martinhelfert/9531915
Writing to a fully encrypted USB flash drive on Mavericks is extremely slow. The drive model I used for testing was a Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 (64 GB). I tested transfer speeds by reading/writing a large file from/to both an encrypted and an unencrypted drive. I tested on a current Macbook with Mavericks and on an older machine with Mountain Lion. I used Disk Utility to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). MacBook Pro (2013) with USB 3.0 running OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) Write: 86.16 MB/sec (encrypted: 0.62 MB/sec) Read: 181.66 MB/sec (encrypted: 151.15 MB/sec) MacBook Pro (2007) with USB 2.0 running OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) Write: 23.57 MB/sec (encrypted: 5.04 MB/sec) Read: 36.23 MB/sec (encrypted: 37.87 MB/sec)
When I am running my localsite/~user.name/ on OS X 10.7.5 it is loading the the correct page but in the log /var/log/apache2/error_log it's recording this message. Here is my httpd-vhost configuration for localhost A check of apachectl -t shows no unexpected errors since I'm using localhost and don't need fully qualified DNS: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using MacBookPro.local for ServerName Syntax OK
We have a fleet of iPads and iPhones that are having issues with iOS 7.1 and PDF attachments. If we send the PDF that is having issues to an email on our exchange server then the PDF file will open as a blank white or black screen. If then sent to any other app it will not open (We use PDF Expert) If we change any of the following it works and open just fine. Use a gmail address and the same mail app. Use the same PDF but opened and saved in a different PDf compatibility setting. Open the same PDF from webmail. Use a device running iOS 7.0 and open the PDF I've reproduced the issue with 3 iOS 7.1 devices.
When trying to launch Adobe Creative Cloud I get .. 3/13/14 12:56:49.934 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[629]: (com.adobe.acc.AdobeCreativeCloud.184656[11066]) Exited with code: 5 I created a new user and it works there, but not here for some reason.
My MacBook Pro keeps crashing. I can find no pattern to what causes it. Sometimes it goes for a day without crashing. Sometimes it crashes repeatedly.
Why does the Dock disappear on my Mac? It pops back up when I put the cursor to the bottom of the screen but does not stay there permanently any longer.
I'm using the Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 set with Mac OS X 10.9. I'd like to figure out how to map the next/previous track keys (mostly for Spotify) from the MacBook Pro's keyboard onto the keyboard's sepecial keys like 1,2,3,4,5. (The volume and play/pause keys work just fine). Is that possible, and any helpful tips? Failing a good way of setting this up, I'll settle for a more generic keyboard mapper from function keys to next/prev track keys (Is KeyRemapForMacbook the goto thing for that?). Thanks! -k
This problem persists since installing a fresh "coin battery" (yes the box is 4-5 years old, so a dying battery could've been part of the problem). It's not unheard of for a new battery to not have charge, but that seems unlikely. This problem persists even after resetting the NTP.conf settings per the article above. Basically I'm mystified, and even though I'm inclined to fix the root problem, in the meantime I'm losing big chunks of climactic action in the broadcast TV my EyeTV app is recording for us, and I'd like to at least apply a band-aid to keep my recordings on schedule while I continue to pick away at the root problem. So while the hardware [mobo, battery] might be the ultimate root cause, I'm not ready to toss the box quite yet - it's still otherwise a workhorse.
I created the following bash script in OS X 10.7.5: Then I make sure it is executable: Then I add the directory to the contents of the PATH variable: I then run the following to have the effect applied: Then I open a new controlling terminal window, and I run hello_world.sh, but get command not found:
(This is a follow-up to How to improve old, slow iMac -- new SSD? Or more RAM?)
How can I convert a large number of Pages and Numbers files into corresponding MS Office format in a quick manner.
When I'm on FaceTime with my friend and we both want to listen to music, how come if I turn on my music on iTunes, the person I'm facetiming with can't hear it?
I just got a new hard drive because the old one was going bad. I made a system image backup of the old Boot Camp partition and saved it to an external drive.
Sometimes my Launchpad just look like this without any app icons. What causes this problem and how can I solve it? I am using 2011 11″ MacBook Air with OS X 10.9.1
I am using iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1, My problem is text automatically underlined on some buttons in the application  Is there any settings available to remove the underline? Or how to fix this issue ?
I'm trying to simply record multiple takes using GarageBand 11. I enable cycling, record once, the hit stop, rewind, record again... BUT NO TRIANGLE APPEARS on the track folder. Also, while the track plays back a 2nd time, its playing out loud so I cannot hear what I'm doing. I tried with the REPLACE mode enabled and disabled, but that doesn't help. Any ideas on how I can record multiple tracks? I have logix 10 installed too and have the same problem there.
I'm trying to create a cron job to prevent children at a school from running the Minecraft server. (We actually need them to run the Minecraft client because we use it to teach programming.) The name of the PROCESS is always "java". That's not useful for me.
I wish to use Spotlight to search inside my Papers 3 library package (i.e., a 'bundle') as the search functionality within the application is broken and/or hamstrung. Is there any way I can force Spotlight to index the contents of the PDFs in this package? I've tried EasyFind as an alternative and it seems pretty useless at searching file contents.
I received a iMessage via my mom's locked iPhone 4 while simultaneously calling her. I stated I just received a message from you. She was confused because she doesn't use or know how to use this feature.
Whenever I start an application like Terminal or Preview, they are always opened as a small window on the top left corner of the screen. Is there any way to set them to open in the center of the screen? Preferably maximized too?
I am trying to copy a 200GB dmg file between two disks (one firewire, one local) and see this error: How can I debug / fix?
I have a problem with copy and paste of characters like "ü". When I copy and paste the name "Gereon Müller" from this book *=URL=* (choose the download tab) I get the ü decomposed into two characters on a Mac. This does not happen under Windows and Linux (xpdf, acroread, sumatra), but it does happen on a mac with acroread and with skim. Any ideas?
We use Apple code signing certificates to sign apps so that users can know we made the app. What happens to the users when our certificate expires? Does it mean that app will now appear untrusted or does it only affect us and no longer let us sign code using that certificate?
iMovie 10 makes ducking a lot less easy... I'm trying to make interview clips automatically reduce the music, but it's making life difficult for me. Can someone please tell me how to do audio ducking in iMovie 10? Thank you!
I use Appannie analytics to see my earnings and I am confused about the revenue. I guess Appannie shows the revenue after Apple 30% deduction (because it shows $1.40 for my $2 app). In Feb Appannie shows my sale was $1,371.57, but I received 669.22 from Apple. Can you please tell me how much Apple is taking out of payments and how much TAX they are collecting for a US based account.
Yesterday I was using my Mac mini as usual when the power went out. When I was able to turn it on again, I noticed that the screen image was tinted in purple, as if the display color profile was miscalibrated. I've already checked the VGA cable, and it is well attached in both ends.
With Dropbox, you have the option to upload all photos from your iPhone to Dropbox. Is there an equivalent for Google Drive? I.e. is there an app, that when I open it will upload all my photos from my iPhone to my Google Drive account? I don't see a preference setting for this in the google drive app, and I have searched for 3rd party apps and nothing seems to do this.
Has anyone seen this before? It's happening with any camera app (Skype, Photo Booth, Hangouts) so it doesn't appear to be software related. I'm assuming it's a hardware issue but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this before. Thanks!
I am following this guide to creating a Bootable USB Drive with Mavericks: How to Perform a Clean Install of OS X Mavericks However, I cannot find the Install OS X Mavericks.app file in my Applications folder.
I was able to fix the problem by restarting my computer, but I wanted to see if anyone else had this issue. If I right click on a keychain item and select "Copy Password to Clipboard" the usual password confirmation dialog box didn't come up and the password isn't copied. If I press ⌘+i and check the "Show Password" box, the confirmation dialog box does not show up and the check disappears after a fraction of a second.
Any risk that upgrade will break either of my Windows partitions? How to minimize the risk? It definitely happened last time I upgraded from Snow Leopard (or Lion?) to Mountain Lion. One post suggests that it happens with any OS X upgrade, though I'm not sure it applies to my situation.
I want to enable VPN on my Mac Mini (Mavericks) so I can use my iPhone to VPN into my home network. I have an Airport Express and have the proper ports forwarded to my Mac already.
I lost all of my groups when syncing Outlook 2010 with iCloud sync on Windows. How do I get them back?
I recently extracted a ZIP file that I expected to contain a path hierarchy but turned out to be a flat archive of files with backslashes in the filenames. So I ended up with something like:
I am using a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.2. While trying to triple boot my mac, I updated my MBR partition tables using rEFIt. Things didn't go as planned and now I want to start afresh. How can I reset my MBR partition table. I can handle partitioning disk on my own.
I have just changed my phone from an iPhone 4S to an iPhone 5S. I backed up my old phone to iCloud, then downloaded the backup to my new device.
I suspect the answer is a no but maybe there's a trick to upgrade an iPhone 4 (running iOS 5) to iOS 6.1.3? The phone is jailbroken but does not have any iOS 6 blobs/APTicket saved because (doh!) it's never been on iOS6.
A while ago I made a copy of my Aperture library on my Windows machine in case my Time Machine drive failed. My Time Machine drive failed last night and now I would like to restore this backup.
I have two 2009 iMacs with OS X 10.9.2 and I am a Cox Communications subscriber. Both computers receive emails and can be used to delete and file them, but as of about three weeks ago neither will send emails. When I try, I receive this message: Cannot send the message using the server cox.net. When I switch to Cox Mail, everything is fully functional, but because logging into that system is cumbersome and because I have four years of folders full of files in my Apple Mail, I prefer not to switch.
I've seen various posts around the net that getting my 27" CinemaDisplay working with a native install of Windows 7 is apparently possible, but I cannot seem to get this working. I have a Radeon HD 5770 in my PC: *=URL=* This card has a DisplayPort socket which I am connecting to my monitor with: *=URL=* Does anyone have any info on how exactly they have this working?
I've noticed that every time I connect to or disconnect from a VPN connection, Apple Mail downloads all sorts of old email, email that's already been downloaded locally. I don't believe it's resulting in any duplicates, but I'd like to know what's really going on.
I know it's possible to drag and drop an older version of an app from apps you downloaded in your iTunes onto your iPod but will this work with the new iPod touch 5th gen? I was gonna get the iPod touch 5 but there are some apps that have updates and I don't like the updates at all. I have a 3rd gen iPod touch and I put an older version of Textfree/Pinger on it and it works fine but it has an update I don't want and I would like to have the older version on my new iPod but will it work? Can some one try it and drag and drop an older version of an app onto their iPod 5?
Mavericks keeps launching recent applications at startup although I always keep the checkbox that should control this feature unchecked. This is really annoying, because (a) startup takes much more time, (b) I want to decide which applications are to be started and which are not, and (c) there are some applications that would crash (Apple's own Logic, for instance).
I would prefer my notifications to pup up in the middle of my screen so that I will be sure to notice them. Is there a Pref somewhere to do this? If not, is there an app equivalent to the previous iCal which will do this? Thanks.
It might sound strange but trying to save the photo portfolios to my iPad using photostream to transfer from iMac, noticed that in one of the folders not all the photos were saved. Repeated several times, the weird thing is that is always the same number of photos missing from photo stream to the destination folder. I really don't know how to address this problem.
Recently clash of clans updated. When I logged into a another game centre account it asked me "Do you want to replace it? if yes type confirm." Will I lose my other village if I type confirm ?
I got an iPhone 3G from a friend and it is showing "no sim card" and I know the sim card is good and it won't let me do anything but phone start up. Can anyone help please?
I currently have a an iPhone 5 64GB I am using and a iPhone 3 16GB I am not using. Planning to upgrade to the iPhone 6 when it comes out later this year.
I am trying to create a .txt file that is the output of a certain function in the terminal. So my function is to create a list of all the files that i have inside the folder TEST so what i typed was:
According to the Crucial website I should upgrade to a 8GB Kit (4GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-8500 memory module. In searching for this module's part number on Amazon I am given the result Crucial 8GB Kit (4GB x 2) DDR3 1066 MT/s (PC3-8500) CL7 SODIMM 204-Pin Mac Memory. The specs appear to be the same but the part numbers are not: CT3309352 - Crucial CT2K4G3S1067M - Amazon
I have a 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. I have noticed there are six slits, three on each side, on the base of the laptop.
With a 2-disk RAID mirror created in Disk Utility, after one disk fails, can the remaining good disk be moved to a different Mac and used successfully?
Some apps, I've noticed that developers are able to update their software without submitting them to the App Store. For example, Game of War will occasionally tell you that an update is available and to restart your device. You can then watch the progress bar carefully and see that updates are being pushed to the app.
I used to think "All My Files" is not a real folder but it turns out otherwise. I accidentally moved some of my files into "All My Files" folder and now they are disappeared! How can I locate "All My Files" folder?
I am using a 13" MacBook Air (late 2013 model) with OS X Mavericks. Yesterday, my computer hung up and gave me a kernel panic error where it told me in different languages that I needed to restart it. Since that restart, it gives me a notification/warning saying, "You shut down your computer because of a problem." every time I boot it up. I am a Mac Newbie and so dont know what to do. Most articles on the internet deal with what to do when that warning shows up. None of those tell you how to get rid of that warning. My computer is running absolutely fine though.
I was thinking that assigning passwords to OS X accounts is mandatory and you had to set the account to auto-login to avoid having to enter it every time. But can I also define a user account which doesn't need a password?
I currently have a workflow setup that when I get a paper receipt I highlight the company name and price in green then scan with my ScanSnap which it then OCR's. Then using Hazel I automate the filing so that it saves anything in green as a keyword. Then Hazel auto matches the date and renames and files the PDF based on the Company, Date and total.
I just upgraded to iOS 7.1. Now there is a permanent keyboard on the lower half of my screen in locked mode and on home screen. How do you get rid of it?
My laptop crashes and displays colourful screens: Red, orange, purple, green, pink, white, black. I then have to shut it down for a couple of hours for it to work a while more. Does anyone know what could be causing the issue and how to solve it? It's a MacBook Pro Mid 2010.
My partner has a hand-me-down iPhone 4s, and a few months ago, the home button started playing up and not pressing. She started using the on-screen home button instead, which has solved the problem of not being able to press the home button.
I've encountered a problem whereby if I want to print a pages 5.1 file or export it to PDF, text goes missing (specifically text near superscript/subscript text). An example of this same problem can be found here however the 'solution' there doesn't work. I'd be very grateful for any advice or solutions.
If I ssh into an Ubuntu machine from my Mac with a "UK extended" keyboard and run telnet localhost 4730 I see: But ctrl + ] does not work from a terminal on Mountain Lion. How can I resolve this?
I'm going to New York soon, and the iPhone 5C is just $99 USD. I am wondering if an Irish SIM work or if I would have to get it unlocked?
Machine specs: Mid-2011 MacBook Air with a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, and 4 GB DDR ram, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, OS 10.9.2 (Mavericks). Wifi connection is sluggish with multiple ISPs on various WPA/WPA2 networks (home, friend, family, etc.) but works fine on large public networks (e.g. Starbucks) as well as the university network where I am a student. My other apple devices (iPhone and iPad mini) work fine on the same WPA networks which are giving my 2011 MBA trouble. After and in-depth search of this site and a few others, I’ve tried the following trouble-shooting steps to no avail: Hardware inspection of airport card by Apple technician revealed no damage Fresh “erase and install” of the OS 10.9.2 (did not use time machine backup out of fear of cloning the problem back onto my machine) verified and repaired permissions and disk from Disk Utility verified and repaired Keychain verified that the wifi was also sluggish in safe mode and restore mode hard reset of WIFI by eras
I have a German keyboard-layout at my MacBook Air. Is it possible to replace every key to have a English keyboard? Is the structure and the size of the keys the same in every country? I want to switch to the English keyboard in the system preferences and also have the keys from the English one!
I have the latest version of Chrome running on my Mac. I've noticed that even when I close the old intending to put my computer to sleep, Chrome continues running. I know this is the case because I have a Google Voice extension installed. It makes a "ding" noise when I receive a text and that noise comes out of my Mac even when it's supposed to be sleeping.
I'm looking for a PDF viewer where annotation functionality is similar to Acrobat Pro, e.g.: When text is selected, typing creates a red strikethrough and adds a comment with the suggested new text (and pressing the delete key also strikes through the text) It's possible to add a comment/note directly to a highlight on text (so it's clear exactly which text the comment/note refers to) It's possible to annotate any document, not just one where Reader commenting is enabled (so Reader X is out)
I found this informative post about completely disabling audio on OS X by removing/disabling the required audio kernel extensions. The problem is this disables audio-in and audio-out, and I only want to disable audio-in.
I want to disable App Nap globally on a late 2009 iMac desktop running Mavericks, is this possible?
I deleted my Safari browser and now I would like to download it again but it seems that this option is not as easy to be done. I'm running OS X Mavericks at the moment, and there is no download for Safari on the Apple page except for those before OS X Lion.
How can I enable the + icon on Calendar in my iPhone so I can add an appointment to it? Since the + icon is not enabled, I am not able to add a future appointment. I have to get on a Mac computer to do that.
I just got the latest 2013 15.4-inch MBP 2.6GHz and I also have the 39-inch Seiki 4K television. I previously had a 2010 MBP 15.4-inch 2.53GHz and used a Mini-HDMI to connect to the 4K which was able to support 1920 x 1080p at 30Hz and 3840 by 2160p at 24Hz. 4K videos on Youtube had a picture that looked fantastic, but the 24Hz really put my ongoing enthusiasm in a bind. Since I've upgraded to the latest MBP, which is in every way superior to my old build, how can I best utilize the new features and power to get the most out of the 4K or at least improve the 24Hz rate.
Sometimes, when I connect an external set of headphones/speakers, I am unable to change the volume. When I press one the volume keys, I see the image below.
With the upgraded wireless on the latest 2013 MBP's when would I need this cable? I do have a Time Machine but the rate of data transfer wouldn't increase from having thunderbolt since the speed would only be as fast as its the slowest technology. What else can I use it for?
ok so today i wanted to reset my jailbroken ipod touch 2g because it was having some issues. i went into settings, general, something like reset, then something like reset all data and content. after i pushed that it did the regular loading bar thingy and when it restart, i got the apple logo then a black screen. no loading circle of death, just a sad lightish blue black screen. now, before that, my ipod just went to recovery mode, so i thought, why not rejailbreak it, so i did that and thats how i got it working again. then the whole reset stuff and now this. i have tried just about everything, dfu mode, recovery mode, ipsw restores on both itunes and redsn0w, and when i do that, in redsn0w, when you think things are going good, it brings up a loding bar and does nothing. itunes dows the same. please help. alll ideas are appreciated. thankyou daniel
Is it possible for thunderbolt to transmit power to or from a Macbook Pro. Perhaps to power/charge it or power/charge an external device?
After getting a new MacBook Pro recently, I decided to reuse my old MacBook Pro as a home server. I reformatted the disk and reinstalled OS X, giving the computer a different hostname (let's call it NewHostname) in the process.
Is there a group of files or a single file I can edit to facilitate maximizing "Finder" windows to fill the entire screen just as other application windows by shift-clicking the green plus button?
I have a video recording on my iPod 4th generation and when I try to play it, it comes up with "Operation could not be completed" the recording was from 23rd November 2013 and I have tried many things since then and it still won't play. I have rebooted my iPod and I have sent the video via email to myself but I still cant play it. I dont want to delete this video as I know the video is important and I know where its from. What can I do to get it to play?
I'm running a beta test for an iOS game. (100 devices, ad-hoc) Somehow the game got leaked on a site that offers .ipa apps for jailbreaked devices. Can I get in trouble with Apple because of this? (Can Apple see that the app got installed on more than the usual 100 devices?)
I’ve got empty lines in context menus, what is it and how could I get rid of it?
I have set up a mail account with Apple Mail. What I realized only when it was "too late", the mail server does not provide IMAP (only for a fee), and thus roundabout 100 E-Mails were downloaded and removed from the server. Can I somehow upload those emails back up to the server?
I'm submiting my first book to the Ibook store. Problem : In Itunes Producer, I can't see the "price" tab ? Do you know why ?
I am looking for an alternative to iCloud's calender sync between my Mac and my iPhone. Like many others, I really didn't appreciate the fact that you're now forced to use iCloud to sync your calender...
Now, if I try to download the same file, using the same URL (i.e. the one with my local IP) but this time from a distinct computer, it works perfectly again... I am puzzled.
I have a external hard dive that is smaller than the hard drive of the computer. Can I use that external hard drive as time machine but select just the most important information to be back up and perhaps a second hard drive for the rest?
I'm developer from Belgium, so I'm using an AZERTY keyboard, and for some reason Apple has a reduced AZERTY keyboard compared to the QWERTY keyboard, some special charters like {} & [] The {can be made with the ⌥ key and (, but for the `[]' isn't such a key available, so is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut to those? Could be helpful since I'm a PHP developer, otherwise I'll consider to buy an QWERTY keyboard. Thanks
On OS X, Shift-Option-2 prints the Euro symbol €. Is there a shortcut to print the Indian Rupee Symbol ₹?
I update to the newest 7.1 yesterday. Now some of my apps will not open. Is there a way to delete this update?
I recently upgraded my iPhone 4s to the latest ios 7.1 and my macbook pro to Mavericks and have set up iCloud Keychain sync on both devices. My problem is that I'm connected to a wifi network on my iPhone and want the password synced to my laptop but when I click on the network on my laptop it asks for a password to this specific Network. On my laptop I'm connected to another wifi network already but it's very slow. Plus, when I was at home this past weekend with fast internet I'm sure it gave my laptop time to synchronise with my iPhone. But why has all other wifi network passwords been transferred to my laptop but not the one I want to connect to?
I know it is possible to enable root user and then logging in as the root user. But is it possible to get root access with your admin account in OSX Mavericks? It is kinda annoying to always type the password whenever you are installing stuff and using the terminal. Last resort would be to always login as the root user?
I want to sell my old Retina MacBook. I know how to erase/reinstall the Retina MackBook, but two more questions remain: How can I unregister it from my Apple ID? Is the extended Apple Care Warranty still valid after that?
I have been using iTunes Match for 6 months or so and have been reasonably happy with the service. However over the past 2-3 days I get an error when I try to add new songs to iCloud: I have restarted iTunes, rebooted my Mac but it made no difference.
I want to give my sister my old iPad without deleting the videos and music I've put on the device. What do I need to do to deactivate it from my iTunes account without deleting the video and music content?
I've seen Keynote slides with drop shadows on images.  How do I do this? I'm using Keynote 6.0.
I'm trying to set a Folder Action that will move all of the files that are in my downloads folder into their appropriate folders so that I don't have to do them manually. (movies to movie folder, music to music folder etc...) Is there a way I can do this in a Folder Action without having to create separate Folder Action script for each type of file?
I have my Remote app set up on my iPhone to work with my Apple TV. This was easy because my Apple TV is linked with my Apple ID Account (which is obviously identified with both my phone and my computer). When I went to set my wife's Remote app up on her iPhone, I get a message that says "Turn on Home Sharing in iTunes on your computer or on Apple TV using the account [Name of Wife's Account]." On the Apple TV, Home Sharing is on and I still get this message.
Any ideas? I'd toast a cold one in honor of someone who would help a brother out. ;-)
Since I’ve upgraded to Mavericks (10.9, then 10.9.1), the system has been asking if iTunes (up to the current 11.1.5) should accept incoming network connections every time it launched it. I’ve tried reinstalling the app, to no avail. Running the app on a fresh account (hence with default preferences and empty library — does it even need inbound connection by default?) doesn’t display the dialog. I’ve tried removing the preferences file and the iTunes directory from the ~/Library folder, yet again with no result. I’ve check the signature of the app with: It thus seems I have an app signature issue. What should I try next?
so this has probably been asked, but I have not exactly been able to figure it out. I was just wondering if it is possible to change what the alternate characters are on my keyboard. I have osx 10.9 and use the keyboard on a 15" macbook retina.
After starting up my newer iMac it's asking for for the login keychain password for several applications. It is stuck in a cycle that I can't cancel out of. Any suggestions?
I'm running OS X 10.9.2 on a MacBook Pro (Mid-2012) and cannot change its region (locale) via System Preferences -> Language & Region: Changing it ostensibly works, but revisiting the preferences pane later shows the region reverted to its previous value. In terms of what tools and apps report, the story is inconsistent: defaults read -g AppleLocale does show the NEW locale locale, by contrast, shows the PREVIOUS locale Similarly, Calendar.app shows holidays from the PREVIOUS locale Thus, for the most part, the system behaves as if the region changes was ineffective - which is at least consistent with the preferences pane reverting to the previous value. Here's what I've tried: Reset the NVRAM Repaired the disk with Disk Utility Booted into single-user mode and ran fsck -yf Cleared most caches with OnyX Checked the syslog for telltale entries All to no avail. Any help is appreciated.
I want accident protection for a Mac. I wouldn't consider myself a clumsy guy, though my picture may suggest otherwise, and I've never filed a claim for one of these warranties, but it sure feels nice to know you're covered. If anyone has an idea for the max number of repairs/replacements you can file under a SquareTrade accident protection plan, or any other accident coverages for computers/laptops, please share. I know that they offer a "Max number of repairs and/or replacements" for the iPhone plans ($99 plan + $75 per claim); however, I searched for about an hour looking for laptop plans with similar coverage and found no information at all.
I am new to apple, so please forgive the simplicity, but I cannot figure out how to paste my logo pic in my mail signature. I just bought the IPAD Air last week, and I want to set up my company signature in the mail app. I tried to copy and paste the signature from my GoDaddy workspace email, but the picture would not paste. I couldn't figure out how to save and upload it either like you could on a PC.
I was thinking of installing vsftp through homebrew but found that OS X has its own version of ftpd. So I started to use this server and works fine, except for some security issues. I'm looking for the log file and cannot find it. I've been looking for it on the web and there is a way to configure the logging but just for OS X Panther. Do you know were this file is located or how to configure ftp for handling log files?
I was just looking around my iPhone and noticed that I have a profile named "In-House Distribution" installed (under Settings > General > Profile). It has a received date of November 18, 2013. The thing is, I have no idea where it came from. My employer didn't install it, I don't recall accepting any profiles, and I simply have no idea where it came from. My question: Should I be worried about this? Theories:
Apple mentioned that Snow Leopard normally ran AHT from the second CD, but I do not have that nor do I have a backup. I tried all options like command-D and D and even alt-D (they talk about these here as well), but none worked so I decided to go this path.
How can I send a PDF to my iBooks in iPad without having to connect the iPad to my laptop using a cable? Is this possible at all? Or do I necessarily have to use iTunes and a cable?
Exactly what the title says. I would love to know if you can fully delete or lower the permissions of an admin account that is currently in use (from aforementioned account). Thank you in advance!
If I wanted a horizontal rule, I'd type a string of em dashes. I can't find easily a way to disable this over-feature in TextEdit prefs ('Text replacement' is unticked) nor System Prefs ('Correct spelling automatically' is unticked). Thanks!
I wrote a simple shell command and saved it as .command. The shell command is simply: defaults write /Users/Milo/Desktop/MyPlist "My Key" "My Entry". The issue that I'm having is that after running that command, it messes with the order of the plist file. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, except that I wrote an application that parses the plist, and it does so according to the order of the keys in the file. I don't want to change my app just to accommodate a seemingly random ordered plist that gets returned after I run the command. How can I make the command not reorder my plist?
sudo reboot or sudo halt works when executed from terminal. But, Apple Logo -> Shutdown/Restart/Log Out User doesn't work. Strangely, Apple Logo -> Sleep works.
There is a great Chrome extension Google Quick Scroll that scrolls to funded text on a page after googling it. I want it for Safari but cannot find any alternatives or so. Is there?
How can I use QuickLook to check out XML file? I just want to quickly check out the contents of a file and don't have to open it in a format that can be subsequently modified, such as in TextEdit or Vim or whatever other editors out there. I even don't like to open it in Xcode using drag and drop - just want to push Space and glance at the contents there.
I have been asked my my UDID to beta test apps, is there personal information attached to this number? Such as passwords or account information? Details about the device, I am running ios7.1 on an ipad 2.
I'm planning to install Windows 8 via Bootcamp. I want to know if it is possible to make a third partition to hold my dropbox folder for my both Mac and Windows dropbox instances? & If possible, what type of partition should I have so that both Mac OS and Windows become comfortable reading and writing to it?
I recently updated iTunes on my windows 7 computer. Long time ago i set the default program to open image files on my commuter to an Apple program but after I updated iTunes that program is now gone or the settings have changed. I don't know the name of the program but it's an apple program that got changed after I updated iTunes. I've tried reinstalling Quicktime but that's not it.
How to turn off iMessages on iPad but turn on them on Mac? And If I turn it off on device, does sync happen after I turn it on?
I have a specific Mac mini server that does not send out email alerts, even though I have an email address configured. I also want to note that I am not using the mail server within server.app. I have other servers that are sending email alerts correctly and none of them have the mail server within server.app turned on. Questions: 1) Do I have to enable Apple Push notifications and configure an Apple ID for this to work? 2) Do the email alerts go through Apple's servers after step 1 is configured above, or do they come directly from my server? 3) If they come directly from my server, can I specify a relay host to go through my ISPs SMTP gateway?
In OSX 10.9.1, I have a folder on the desktop which is empty in the Finder view, but the icon info says '8 items' – see screen grab:  I have checked for invisible files via search>show invisible and with an FTP app which lists files including those beginning with a dot (which are usually hidden), but cannot see 8 files.
I find the "text only" option in Safari - you know, those lines to the left of the URL bar - extremely useful on my iPhone and iPad. However on my Windows laptop for work, I use FireFox and would really, really like that feature. I know I could use third-party apps like Pocket and the like but frankly I would like something "built-in" which doesn't require bloatware. On a side-note, does this feature have a particular name?
In the past 7 days I have updated to Xcode 5.1 seven times! Yesterday I dragged Xcode to the trash and emptied the trash in an attempt to make it stick, this morning I got a popup saying that Xcode had been auto updated (should it even do that?) EDIT it is a preference setting!) but there is still an update showing Xcode 5.1 as being available.
Like everyone else, I use spotlight to open up OSX apps. But I also like to use it to open up a particular log file, or a specific remote desktop connection.
i wanted to create an icloud backup for my iphone. after i started i lost my wifi connection because i left my house. after i came back i found out, that the backup failed. since then i was not able to create another backup.
How do I reset the following command? I had to use this workaround for a problem with the hosting provider that used the same IP address for all outgoing mail. Because of that, my mails kept ending up in Junk mailboxes. That problem is solved now. So how do I reset this command?
I recently purchased a CSR8510 A10 based Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Low Energy aka BLE) dongle and I'm using it on a mid-2011 iMac that doesn't have Bluetooth 4.0 support. Just plugging it in doesn't appear to work, the CSR8510 A10 device appears in the USB device tree, but there is no indication of Bluetooth functionality.
In Apple Mail, is there a way to make the "From" address blank so that you are forced to select and outgoing mail server each time you create a new message. I keep sending from the wrong address!!
My iPhone is always heated up even if I'm not using it. When I charge it, it heats up even more and battery drains very quickly. Its battery is currently fully drained for more than half an hour and the back still seems as it is heated. What's the problem and how can I solve it?
I'm on OSX 10.9 on a late 2013 Macbook Air. iCloud Keychain is disabled, FileVault is turned off, and my Energy Saver settings are all at their defaults. I want to require a password after 15 minutes of sleep or inactivity, which should be straightforward. However, I am getting some strange behavior. A- With the Require Password <option> hours after sleep or screen saver begins option in the "Security and Privacy" preference pane unchecked, my machine does not ask for a password if I close and immediately open the lid. B- With the "Require Password <option> hours after sleep or screen saver begins" option in the "Security and Privacy" preference pane checked and the timeout set to 15 minutes, my machine requires a password if I close and immediately open the lid.
I want to understand if connecting a second or third monitor to my MBP means exactly the OS to draw 3x output and stuff, so it is at least 30% more under stress.
In what way can I copy home folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, etc...) to a mounted drive without using the POSIX function in AppleScript?
I'm in the process of replacing my low quality <192 kpbs MP3s into either 320 kpbs MP3 or ALAC files in iTunes. Right now my routine is to import the new HQ files to iTunes, go to "Show Duplicate items" mode, sort according to Song Name, manually replace the star ratings and using Doug's Applescripts to add the new Play Count to the new songs.
I had mysql running fine on OS X until I accidentally installed it via homebrew as well. I cant start mysql using preference pane and I cant login to phpmyadmin using my root password. Is there anything i can do?
I recently went to some webpage in Chrome and noticed that my external harddrive had to spin up before the page would render. Does anybody know why OSX does this? I've noticed it in a few other programs when I get to a file/open dialog, but rendering in Chrome?
I have recently upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow leopard and now the system will not always go to the login screen. (iMac 27" circa 2010 standard as it came from Apple no upgrades) I have tried disconnecting all devices and uninstalling all non essential software. To get the login screen I have to hard switch of the machine off then after 20 30 seconds turn it back on it sometimes goes to the login screen. If I start in safe mode then reboot it always goes to the login screen.
I have Windows 7 and use Microsoft Office Outlook 2006 and every time that I open it pops up a screen that says mobile me services has stopped working. I use iCloud to merge my contacts and calendar from my iPhone 4S. What can I do to stop this from happening. Should I uninstall iCloud and reinstall it? What suggestions do you have? I want to keep icloud. If I delete mobile me will it delete icloud?
I have some apps installed on my iMac and would want to view the contents of the app using iFunBox. I am having great difficulty doing so. I can view the contents of apps on my iPhone using iFunBox but can't seem to do same for apps on my iMac. Do you know if I can do this using iFunBox or what alternatives do can you suggest?
It looks like in mouse preferences "tracking speed" changes acceleration of the mouse. How can I set acceleration to 0 and adjust speed of the mouse?
After discovering a Genieo install, I vaguely recalled it being, well, not trustworthy. After a quick search I knew I wanted to uninstall it and found this: *=URL=* (This guide is actually recommended in another question on this site.) I followed the steps, but made two blunders. I rm-ed the files listed in the guide, thereby skipping the recycle bin (I'm not sure what the English name is). After I finished the list I wanted to make a back-up (second blunder: I should have done that before I tried to uninstall Genieo, my last backup is 76 days old) but noticed that the program needed to unlock my drive didn't open, like all other apps that weren't opened yet. At this point, I wished I had the files still in the recycle bin so I could place them back. Fortunately, I already opened Terminal (I have it still open) (so I can still use command line utilities) and Safari (enabling me to type this question). Safari just crashed. Because I can't launch apps, I assume my computer won't reboot. 
I am debating on purchasing the WD LIVE or Apple TV 3. And I wanted to know if it is possible that the ATV can do .mkv and .avi playback on non-itunes media. (i.e. pulling it from my server)
I want spotlight to index my .tex files and show them as possible results when I search. I imagine the solution would work for any extension, but right now I only care about .tex
I could share a whole zpool, but if a disk fails, it gets lost. Also i could use something like mhddfs but in that case I have no control over the place where a file is stored.
My MacBook Pro is not booting. It only shows me a question mark folder. If I try to manually boot, it doesn't give me any options than to go into recovery. And if I go into recovery and then disk utility, it looks like the drive isn't even connected. Has anyone experienced this before? Could it be that the hdd cable is faulty and should be changed? I doubt this is a software problem.
Create a plain text file with the string ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Check the file size. It is 26 bytes, as expected. Go to Get Info, and find the pane labeled "Open with..." It says "TextEdit" by default.
My 2007 MacBook Pro is in need of a fresh OS X reinstall. Initially, I wanted to Erase and install everything eg,. Snow Leopard, Leopard, and the original OS X, however I am now sorry for trying because Disk 2 of my original copies will not load, but rather is continually ejected. When I attempt to boot, 'Installer' will ask that I insert 'Disk 2' to continue the installation, however will merely try without success before repeating this process over.
I have never backed up my phone (stupid, I know) and just upgraded to iOS 7. Unfortunately something went wrong and it reset everything. It gave me options to set up as new phone or a previous back up. The last back up I did was from my old phone 2 years ago! Is there a program out there that can help restore my old photos/info?
We have a Mac OS X Server (Mavericks) - Mac OS X: 10.9.2, Server: 3.1 Our Open Directory Master is set up and running but we cannot for the life of us get it to accept our 3rd Party (DigiCert) SSL certificate. The certificate is active for all other services (Mail, Calendar, WWW, Messages) but whenever I select it for Open Directory and click OK the Server app just reverts back to "None". I've tried destroying the OD Master and rebuilding it but this didn't help; problem persists. This seems like a show stopper; anyone know how we can fix this?
The 3 ways I normally lock my computer do not seem to work with the app. - Alfred - control + shift + eject - Waiting for screen saver Their utility must be interfaced with a mouse and can not be triggered from the keyboard as far as I can tell.
Is it better to encrypt the hard drive you will use for Time Machine backup with Disk Utility or with Time Machine itself? I have noticed the the dialogue is slightly different, wherein Disk Utility a hint is not required, but with Time Machine it is... are there any other differences under the hood?
I am trying to restore my backup but it is asking to turn off "Find my iPhone" on the old device, which was stolen. How can I restore my backup?
I've noticed this after upgrading my iPhone to iOS 7.1. When scrolling a PDF on iPhone 7.1, a little grey box pops up with page number information near the upper right hand corner of the PDF (e.g., it might say 2 of 32 to indicate that you are on page 2 of a 32 page document). Then, if you wait a few more seconds, it disappears. The problem is that when I scroll, the pop up obscures the text that I want to read. This is particularly noticeable when viewing a PDF with the phone in landscape orientation. Is there a way of hiding this page number information? If not, is there a place to complain about this step back in usability? E.g., see below how 2 of 4 is obscuring the text:
I am still unsure whether this is dependent on, or even related to, the "Responsive Scrolling" feature rolled out in Mavericks. Responsive Scrolling is intended to provide smoothness of scroll by doing such things as pre-rendering the areas surrounding the scrollable buffer. This in theory promotes buttery smooth scroll animation. I am all for that and I think such an abstraction layer is essential to great user experience. In practice, however, reports of increased lag or sluggishness were common in the early days of 10.9.
I found an old iPhone 4s of one of my family members, it has iOS 6.1.3 installed, but it has a passcode on it, and he does not remember the passcode, and its currently locked, and if I try again I will have to restore. I was wondering if there is a way that I can restore the phone to iOS 6, instead of going to iOS 7? or is there any other ways around this? I really hate iOS 7 on my iPad so I would like to keep the version, while restoring the phone. The iphone is in lost mode.
I've been using Basecamp as a project management tool since 2010. It has a good interface and organisation of data, but sometimes you might not be willing to share the secrecy of a project with the clients. There is no such feature in Basecamp. That's why I am thinking to switch on Proofhub. So, anybody please let me know is there any provision in Proofhub to import all the data and contact?
I have a Ubuntu guest running on my Windows 7 host. I then wanted to connect remotely from my Macbook Air in bed, and so accessed the VM via Microsoft's OSX remote desktop client. I'm able to successfully connect to the Ubuntu guest VM, however my Macbook Air's arrow keys output numbers when pressed making it impossible to navigate with them (a big problem for coding). Additionally, the touchpad is hyper-sensitive when using two fingers to scroll on the page. I found a random forum post suggesting to turn off Numlock on the Windows host machine which I did, however nothing changed (even after rebooting the VM and reconnecting). How can I fix the arrow keys so they function as arrow keys?
I am trying to find a way how I can sync the timestamps of my recordings to my calendar so I know when I have recorded things. I am using the application AudioMemos at the moment. How can I sync AudioMemos' recordings to my calendar?
The recommendation install OSX 10.9.2 (13C64) took hours to download, and then knocked out my AVAST saying after the upload Avast is incompatible. It also has caused an non responding pop up box to stay on screen every time I try to open OpenOffie.org... haven't tried anything else yet, and now I see Thunderbolt bridge appearing on my network - hadn't seen it before. It is inactive and I don't know what I am meant to do with it. What steps can I take to fix the issues with a compatible AVAST?
Note that I am on my third SSD in this system, and (while I've had warranty replacements) I've always suspected that something about this system is frying them because both have died right after a freeze. Right now I'm ignoring that suspicion and trying to follow the logs in a systematic manner, but if you think these SSD issues may be indicative of something, please let me know.
When I shoot 120FPS video on the iPhone 5s, I can easily export it as a 30FPS video, slowed down four times. But I want to export it as a 60FPS video, slowed down twice. Ideally, I'd like to do this without transcoding the video (because that reduces quality and increases file size), but merely having an app change the fields in the header to say that rather than playing for 1 minute at 120FPS, this video should play for 2 minutes at 60FPS. I'm looking for: A Mac app, but if that's not possible, an iPhone app will do. A less expensive ($20) or free app. A GUI app, rather than a command line one.
A few minutes ago, after unlocking my phone (iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.1) I got a dialog over the home screen: You must change your passcode within 60 minutes
Now that One Note as come out for Mac I was trying it out but already have a problem in that all the images I insert do not render - I get just an outline and a red cross) Tried jpg / png Via Copy/Paste and insert option This is the result
I'm trying to understand why I do not have access to a sub-folder in my "Downloads" folder. The folder in question has the following rights:
I'm trying to access the site *=URL=* but it's unreachable from my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.5). The domain belongs to a web hosting company and it's not only this specific site I can't reach but all sites on their servers. What I've tried/checked: Different browsers Different connections (home, work, friends) Different user profiles Firewall (turned off) No AV programs (as what I can see) Checked /etc/hosts Flush DNS Changed to Google's DNS Ping svenskadomaner.se (Request timeout) Traceroute svenskadomaner.se (stops at first step) Update to Mavericks Their IP is : 5.150.255.189
I encountered a bug in Safari, where an internal website that has NTLM Negotiate enabled keeps reloading. Confirming with Wireshark, I see a continuous loop of Safari trying to request the page, and the server responding with 401.
Have a macbook pro with Intel HD 4000 graphics card. Right now, I connect two external Dell monitors, with each monitor going to a separate thunderbolt port.
I'm creating a script that runs several other scripts. I need them to all start up in their own process (read window) so I can review the output of each, but I also need them to run in parallel, so they can't block each other. In addition, I need to change the current working directory for each process, so doing something like the following isn't working:
As the title suggests, I'm using a mac book pro with os x 10.9.2 and I connect to the network through the ethernet adapter thunderbolt. Is there a way to get a reference icon in the menu bar, as is the case for the wifi? I'd prefer not to use applications such as iStatsMenu or similar ..
I am trying to Sandbox Firefox on OS X. I know on Linux, you have AppArmor. On Windows, you Sandboxie. Is there something built into OS X that will allow me to Sandbox individual applications?
While trying to run Bootcamp 5.1 on Windows 8.1 (which is claimed to be supported here: *=URL=* I am getting the error message "Boot Camp requires that your computer is running Windows 7". Is there something I am doing wrong? How do get the proper drivers installed on my Boot Camp install of Windows 8.1 on my Mid-2011 Macbook Air?
In imovie 10 (like in its predecessors) there are a bunch of nice themes. I've got a standard one I use almost all the time. There are some things I always change, though, like the wording of the closing title. And I'd like to show a small logo at the top of the screen during the start and end of the movie, for instance.
I watch video podcasts on my iPad and listen to audio podcasts on my iPod. Both podcasts sync to each device. If I delete audio podcast from iPad, I lose it on the iPod as well and vice-versa.
From time to time my Drafts folder contains an autosaved message that I haven't sent which is nice because I can pick up where I left off creating a new message, but lately most of the messages are messages that I did send. I then have to go and check that the message did in-fact get sent before I can delete the draft.
When I try to open an App it does nothing. I go online and it is extremely slow. I have tried some of the idea's on here but, nothing has helped. I also tried to download a Clean up program. It isn't compatible for my Mac. I have a OS X 10.6.8
I am having a problem with my "a" key sticking. The key is clean, but I looked at some diagrams and compared them to my key, and it seems that the top pin on the scissor mechanism has snapped off or is otherwise gone.
I have a Macbook Air, 2009, with a recently replaced apple battery in December 2012. Recently, when power cord comes off, the computer shuts down. Also, usually will not restart unless power cord is attached. Any help with this would be appreciated. DH
I'm looking to see if the two are interchangeable and if not what the differences are. If the two in fact have a difference, perhaps adding devices or cases where each are normally used over the other.
My iMac is only a few weeks old. Just after i bought it, it started to automatically run an update for iPhoto. This went on for several hours and used 2G of data but the update failed. It tried again with the same result. I rang Apple and was talked through the process of selecting when I wanted to update and was told that option would show me how big the update file was. (it doesn't until it starts to download). My monthly data of 8G has always been more than I needed, however because of this update failure I used half of it in one day. Any suggestions on how I can update or why it is failing? Thanks.
There are times when the iPhone is at low battery level that it turns itself off. Sometimes, it maybe when I am going to charge it but looking for where my cable is, it turned itself off. So I wonder, if I missed it by 20 seconds, how come sometimes I had to wait 15 minutes or even 18 minutes of recharging before I can start up the iPhone again, say, just to look at my email to see what flight number it is.
My MBA power button is not functioning (on or off). I would like to know how to turn it on, in case the MBA is accidentally shut down. I have seen the technician do something inside but it's not open knowledge. Can anyone share their technical experience pls. I am confident I can, given specific steps. Thanks!
Could you pls inform me How I could download a game twice with my apple ID on my Iphone, since I deleted it by mistake and now I can not download it.
I want to protect my instructional video with a password. There is a use case.
I've got MacBook Pro with 4 cores and Hyper-Threading(HT). I've also got a MacBook Air with two cores and HT. On both devices I've set Activity Monitor to show CPU History (View -> Dock Icon -> Show CPU History). On the MBP there is only 1 graph and on MBA there are 4 graphs. How could I make Activity Monitor icon to show one (combined) graph on the MBA too?
my macbook pro crashed and i sent it for repairs.. so the guy installed a new hard drive but then sent it back with a screen having a flashing folder with a question mark.. so i looked at this page and basically restarted by pressing the option button. So I came to a screen that asked for my internet password.. then i clicked on a button that says internet recovery.. then i got this screen:
Up to now, text-to-speech (TTS) combined with highlighting sentences is by far the best way I found to read fast and at the same time very relaxed. I need an application or browser extension that enables highlighting sentences while reading them using text-to-speech (TTS) method.
I want to use Dictatation in order to dictate a text that I listen in a headset. I would like to be able to pause and go back/forward without switching between the windows of the text editor and of the player.
I'm trying to use dictation in order to dictate into a text editor a recording that I listen in a headset - played by VLC. There's a big problem with the fact that, when dictation is running, the f8 play/pause hotkey is not functioning (in a Macbook Air). Is there a solution to this?
Apple Mail version Version 6.6 (1510) OS 10.8.5 Is there a keyboard shortcut for converting the case for a text selection in the message editor? I know I can right-click and access this from the transformations menu
my iPhone5 is dropped from my hand when i put from floor than it shows continuously apple logo i attached iPhone with itunes and try to restore after download whole software it gives error The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (2001).
How to prevent Dropbox from syncing .DS_Store files on OS X?
I used the tags / label color highlighting feature in the past OS's extensively to order my folders. Now I've changed to 10.9 they seem to have all changed to a little dot, which is not as easy to see. Is there a way to get Mavericks to allow you to color the file / folder name as in previous versions of the OS? Background I tend to view my folders using the list view as below
By "global" I mean that kind of shortcuts that I am using in Windows and that are set within and for an application but that can be used when that application is hidden or minimized (not on top). (e.g. the ones discussed here.) I see that in this article here on "OS X Mavericks: Use global keyboard shortcuts" that shortcuts are called "global" but in a different sense - it seems to me - because they are only available if the given application is already active (focused upon, on top, like for example a text editor in which I can write) but not if it is not in this position (for example: if the text editor is open and ready for writing, then, the shortcuts available for an audio player will not be accessible). So, I am not referring to the media keys on the keyboard, but to ones that I can set in an application and then can use when other application is active and actively used. When adding some shortcuts for vlc under Keyboard settings, they are not global in this sense.
I'm a long-time Safari user, without any serious troubles. As of yesterday, Safari now loses my session data every half hour or so. Meaning - I get logged out of all of the sites I'm logged into - Google, Twitter, Stack Exchange, whatever. They all seem to get logged out at the same time, and it happens many times a day. I don't think that I made any changes that would impact this. Any insight?
I see here that Automator can be used to create commands that then can be triggered globally. I have no idea how to use Automator but see that it has some options for involving applications... Can a "service" be created for VLC that will then be bound to keystroke triggers? What I want are simple commands like pause/play, back and forward that could be used with shortcuts no matter what other window application is on top.
My Mac, in my workplace, can be accessed from other Mac systems (file sharing is enabled, and it has no password set). I've found out there are 2 folders were deleted (missing from my desktop). How can I check who was connected to my system or who was access my desktop remotely, so that I can identify who deleted my folder?
I am trying to install imagick using homebrew. The issue is that MagickWand libaries cannot be found.
I am an optometrist and when people use Siri to find me Siri is giving my home number instead of my office number. How can I correct this issue?
I send my e-mails in plain text via mail.app. Since the release of Mavericks, there is one auto-correct feature that is driving me bonkers and I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
I want to change the spinning beachball pointer animation used in OSX to indicate an application is not responding to system events, to something else, like a funny GIF, or maybe just a different icon. Is anyone familiar enough with the operating system to know where files for that animation are stored? Is it a script? Is it just a GIF? Is it even possible to change it? Here's the image I mean: http://www.everythingwm.com/forum/data/attachments/2/2137-75c23d7663aee6258a23dad05b5728e4.jpg
I have 5 GB of stuff in ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement and I'd like the space back. What is this stuff and how can I reduce its footprint?
My iTunes Radio will shut off every few hours and ask me if I want to resume. Is there a time limit on how long you can stream iTunes Radio and if so can it be disabled?
So my kids all have "dumb" phones and iOS devices (iPods, iPads). Currently, I only have one contact per person, with both their iOS device and regular phone number as part of their contact.
As we add more users to the Time Capsule, and it begins to fill, will Time Machine be smart enough to give new users enough space by deleting old backups from other users? If not, how can we achieve this?
We all know that iPhone, iPod, and iPad cannot act as bluetooth players since they only have the hardware to act as a Bluetooth server. My question is if Macbook and iMac are similar. If not, I like to set up a home network where multiple of my computers can play the same audio stream at the same time.
There are similar questions regarding the synchronization of Outlook.com on AskDifferent, mostly related to the native OSX Mail app. However, I'm particularly interested in connecting the Contacts and Calendar apps on OSX to my Outlook.com account. Is there a way to use my Outlook.com account to integrate with the contacts and calendar apps? I am aware that Outlook.com does not implement the native Exchange protocol, however considering adding an Outlook.com account on iOS seems to work just fine for mail, contacts and calendar entries, there is perhaps a decent way to achieve the same on OSX?
I synchronize my contacts on OS X under Internet Accounts. I have contacts selected under iCloud, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.
No, I don't want to try the hair dryer trick. Too worried that'll damage my iPhone. This is the bug report I have:
I have a Mac Pro and the motherboard is damaged and I'm trying to retrieve the files from the hard disk on my Windows 7 desktop. Can anyone tell me what software i can use? Windows 7 cannot read HFS+
I'm not sure if this is a macbook issue (My sister gave me a macbook with OS 10.9.1) or a google chrome issue. When I'm using Google Chrome and want to select text (either by tapping three times over a word in a phrase, by double clicking then dragging, or by 3-finger dragging over a phrase) this pop up pops up over my screen with the words I selected showing up 1 by 1. It goes away when I click. But it's really annoying.
I have an iMac 9,1 running Mavericks. I recently tried to take a photo using the built in iSight camera, but it seemingly cannot initiate the device. Using Photo Booth just presents me with a spinner icon until it shows me this eventually:
The problem is the screen protector I have, which was supposedly designed for the exact specs of this laptop; yet, it clearly covers the rightmost sensor. The slightest up, down, left, or right will leave one side short and the other side overlapping the bevel.
Does there exist any software that will let me use my TV remote (i.e., not the standard Apple remote) to control my MacBook Pro? The MacBook Pro is an early 2011 model running the latest 10.9.2 version of OS X.
I am using FileVault 2.0 on Mavericks. After restarting the computer one day, I was presented with the gray file vault login screen (normal). After typing in a password, it begins the login process, but then after 20 seconds or so, a spinner shows up below the account image. This spinner continues spinning indefinitely (the most I have waited at this screen is 30 minutes). If I try holding down the power button and attempting to login again it fails no matter which user account I try. I tried using Disk Utility to verify my disk and it shows that it is fine. How do I fix this problem?
There is no any drive with my iMac and I know apple doesn't have program that could play Blu-ray until now, so can anyone give me some ideas about how can I make my iMac play Blu-ray disc movies?
In my university internet authentication is required. When i use Macbook to connect to internet the password popup window will be appear. On this window I cannot set it to remember my ID/Password. Every times I want to use internet I have to login it manually. I've tried to setup my Chrome, Safari to remember my authentication ID/Password but I don't know exactly where the popup window comes from. How can I store my password so I don't have to enter it every time?
I have a simple trivia game where you basically click on one of the 4 buttons the whole time, nothing else, maybe except the main game menu. My question is, if I need to own anything else except my Mac Mini to publish this game on iTunes or I need some mobile device like, iPod Touch 4 etc.
I'm getting a new larger size SSD for my MBP and I want to transfer my existing OSX and bootcamp partitions onto it... In preperation, iI've used bootable USB CloneZilla to clone everything onto an external drive that I have. What I'm unsure about is how to restore it all back.. Once the new drive is fitted, if I then use clonezilla to restore the images (assuming that works), I take it that won't restore the partition tables (EFI) stuff that I'll need in order to dual boot.
After sending my MacBook Pro out for repairs, I got it back as a factory reset, so I had to go through the process of restoring from my Time Capsule. After completing the restore, there's now a new "Reset Password" button on the login screen that I swear wasn't there before. I'm afraid to click the button and mess things up, so I just want to know: if someone were to get a hold of my laptop and click that button, would they have to enter the current password before they could reset it? It makes me nervous that that button is there. How do I get rid of it?
I need help. I have been traveling for 5 months and have 2 iPhones with me as well as my iPad. One of my iPhones is a 4, this is my work phone. I have approximately 1500 pictures on this phone that I would like to be able to save before I turn my phone back into my company. (it will then be reset to factory settings). So far I have not been able to figure out how to successfully place my pictures in the iCloud so that I can access them from my personal iPhone 5 or my iPad. I am in a very remote area and do not have a desktop or another computer with me. Also, the wifi is often patchy. Do I create a photo stream on the work phone? Do I need to email myself each and every picture? I have about a month and 1/2 more of this trip and my work phone is telling me that I am out of storage and unable to take anymore pictures. Help..if you can. thanks A
Is there a way to prevent Chrome from switching to dedicated GPU? But just Chrome. Not the gfxCardStatus way. rMBP (late 2013)
My soundcard (USB DLC Audioengine D1) is not working on my new MacBook. My old MacBook Air from 2012 has no problem with it.
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (macbook pro 5.4) with Core 2 duo 2.53ghz 4GB RAM with 256 HDD. I upgraded the RAM and switched to SSD. Here are the specs: Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model CT2KIT51264BC1067
Someone wants to borrow my iPad2 and I'd like to make a complete backup of it do a factory reset let my acquaintance generate their own AppleID and use the device for a day after the device is returned restore my backed up snapshot and continue from where I was at the time of the backup.
Clicking became very difficult on my early 2009, 17" MacBook Pro with Mavericks (10.9.1). I thought about using the Caps Lock key to send a mouse click. I saw this question with an answer involving a third-party tool, but I wish to find a more low-level solution.
I've recently bought a new Mac. iMessage is on it. I'd rather not have it on my computer. I want my texts to be kept private. How do I keep it on my iPhone and remove it from the Mac?
I'd like to export my Keynote 6.1 presentation as a web page. I'd like viewers to be able to step through the presentation while being able to read the notes alongside. The presentation has some animations which are essential to the topic, so the PDF export won't be suitable.
I've messed up and used a generic LCD cleaning product on a glass iMac screen. According to the label it consists of distilled water and surfactants (or surface-active components, don't know how to translate it correctly). As a result there are smudges on the screen. Any way to remove them?
I just dropped a new SSD into where the optical drive was on my macbook pro. I did a clean install of 10.9, and i left the old drive as is without running migration assistance. My Old HD is now mounted and visible on my desktop. When i try and goto /Volumes/OldDrive/Users/Foo or /Volumes/OldDrive/Users/Bar i now get a permission denied error. How do i grant myself super user powers to navigate through my old files in Finder?
I think I noticed this in progress indicator getting misplaced from next to my Time Machine when I ejected a USB stick, but is that some sort of oddly placed AirDrop indicator? (the arrows are spinning)
In the last few weeks, screen capture stopped working on my MBP. Well, partially. I can still capture to the clipboard with command + control + shift + 4, but if I try to do a standard capture to a file, my Mac plays the screen capture sound but nothing gets saved on my Desktop.
Recently my Macbook Pro's screen started looking dimmer than usual, and has a slight flicker. When I press the Brightness up and down keys, I see the visual feedback on the screen that would suggest it is getting brighter or darker, but the brightness no longer changes (even on the lowest brightness setting, it should turn the screen off but there is no change).
Notifications has many of my favorite Apps in it, however, Time Machine is conspicuously absent. I read here that it should be showing: System notifications System alerts with updates about your battery, Time Machine backups, and ejected disks appear as notifications, so you can easily spot them with the rest of your notifications. How do I add Time Machine to the list?
I don't know why my bash session doesn't show colors. I have tried Terminal as well as iTerm. I have tried: ls -G Setting export CLICOLOR=1 and export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced Using different themes such as solarized and something else The versions of my software are: bash: GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13) osx: 10.9.2 I have Homebrew installed
I just noticed that all my new contacts was saved to local phone storage instead of iCloud (I saw Settings – Mail, Contacts, Calendars – Contacts – Default account – “On iPhone”). How to transfer all my local storage contacts back to iCloud?
I'm attempting to determine the path MTU from my Mac to various sites, and can't find a built-in utility to accomplish this. In Linux, I would use a utility like tracepath, but I"m wondering if there is some sort of equivalent available for OS X.
What is the part of the menu bar called with the time machine, bluetooth, wifi, volume and battery icons called? (Near the clock) I wanted to search how to remove unused icons from it (like timemachine)
As you may know, Apple refreshes the App Store every Thursday at about 12:00 Pacific Time. Unfortunately, my app was not featured.
I am considering an application called Mac Informer. Is this application safe?
If I SSH into a remote host on OS X, and then close the lid and travel home, upon opening the lid, OS X sometimes notes rather quickly that a disconnect has occurred (with the message "Broken pipe."), but often ssh just hangs. I thought of adding TCP keep-alives, however, the man page notes: The default is "yes" (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the client will notice if the network goes down or the remote host dies.
I know this is possible. When I first installed Mavericks, I set up a default password of "password". I then enabled Filevault 2. At some point I then changed my password from "password" to my actual password. However the pre-boot password is still "password".
I've been copying dvd rips to my son's iPad. But quite often it would time out like the device has been unplugged. I get similar error when copying music to my wife's iPhone. And the only solution is to unplug the cable and try again. Using another cable (even brand new ones) doesn't seemed to help. I've encountered the same problem on my Windows desktop/laptor and on my MBPr. So I don't think it's OS related.
In Font Book.app one of the criteria for creating a Smart Collection is "Design style".  How does Font Book.app determine whether or not a given font falls into one of the available categories?
I'm trying to locate the power-on jumpers on the logic board of mid-2013, 13" MacBook Air. Similar to this question, but for the newer model MacBook Air.
As I see I can not link binutils because there is configure.info file in my filesystem. I am just wondering if there is any way to know which of installed home-brew formulas had installed this file ?
My isight doesn't works, i use another mac for create my digital signature. How can I import and set my signature on my mac ? where storage it?
When I upload photos from my iPhoto Library on my old MacBook (OS 10.4.11; iPhoto 6.0.6 (3.2.2.)) to Dropbox and download them from Dropbox onto my new MacBook (OS 10.8.5; iPhoto 11, version 9.4.2), I get the photos but not the comments. The comments on the individual pictures that I entered in iPhoto into the little information box in the lower left-hand corner seem to have been lost in the process. The same thing happens when I burn them on a CD and copy them from the CD onto my new MacBook. Again, I see the photos but not the comments. (I can see the comments if I look at the photos on the CD, but not if I copy them from the CD into my iPhotolibrary and look at them there.) My questions: (i) How can I make the comments visible? (ii) Will the comments be visible if I transfer the photos from the old to the new Macbook with a firewire?
I wonder how to use XQuartz to communicate with the Centos server through a local graphical user interface on my Mac? I did the following steps so far, and the result so far is just connect to the server through terminal.
I used to choose an iCloud Photo Stream of mine for my screen saver. But now, when I go to my screen saver settings, there is no option to choose an iCloud Photo Stream, but only Apple's default screen savers. Any ideas about how to sort it out?
Need to do something like the next The abowe work ok, and getting ALL opened opened Safari window.
(If the latter is the only way, why did they choose to do it like this? It seems very cumbersome.)
I tried to add a picture in the folder /User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/ (the same as /private/var/mobile/DCIM/100APPLE/), but it doesn't show up in the Camera Roll. How can we make it appear? It's an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.3.1.
Mail.app will not connect. It throws the warning triangle up immediately when you start Mail. Connection Doctor shows 'INITIATING CONNECTION' and the host IP with some hex strings but no other information.
I'm running XMonad with XQuartz on an 11,3 Macbook Prop Retina. My .xinitrc looks as follow:
I'm using a macbook air 2014 with 8GB, also running Parallels a lot so wanted to reduce memory usage of OSX. Already disabled voice dictation that freed up around 500 mb. Any other tricks/tweaks?
I do own BOX version of MS Office 2010. After switching to OS X is it possible to migrate my licence to the OS X version of Office or if not needed than to install it? Is it multi-platform or per-platform product? I've red some Microsoft paper about it - an official documentation - but it's more enterprise oriented with volume purchuases.
Is there a way to tell if my Photoshop supports retina? If I find it's out of date with that feature, how do I update and make sure it went thrught?
I have a PDF document which has SWF file embedded (Adobe flash media). Preview -program does not show it, but Adobe Reader shows it. How can you have Adobe Flash in Preview?
I have a stored email (.eml) file that can be downloaded and open with Mail.app on mac. When I tried to open the same email in iPad, I clicked 'open with mail' to launch mail app, but nothing seems to happen; the mail app doesn't show the downloaded email.
Hey I'm having the flashing question mark folder issue. My hard drive is also making this noise like tschhh, tschhh, tschhh, tschhh. Holding option does nothing, it just makes it load to a grey screen with no folder. Does this sound like a hard drive only issue or something more. Could the logic board or some connector be involved? It is a macbook 2,1
Just curious, what happens in OS X Maverick if someone issues sudo rm -rf /? I heard most modern *nix systems are protected from this epic fail.
My workflow is to tag and put all incoming docs from Mail.app into Devonthink. I do this with Applescript. Script is working fine for me with one exception - I do not know how to make it expand .zip and .rar files in the attachments before moving them to Devonthink. Probably would require Unarchiver or some other scriptable archive utility. I would appreciate your suggestions. My script is below.
My iMac has been giving Kernel Panic recently. its 2011 27in iMAC, and i added 8G RAM about one and half month ago. Around 2 weeks later, the error started and i upgraded the firmware. now im upgrading the OS X to Mavericks, but i dont think that will help. Any solution? here is the report
I'm upgrading from a Mac Mini to an iMac and am quite surprised to learn that I'm losing some connectivity options. Firewire I can live without, but I quite needed the optical input on my Mac Mini.
OK, from the first picture it is a case of internet sharing via wireless is successful. And in the second case on picture two I tried to share internet via wireless by tick off and tick on "Internet Sharing"(again and again) but it doesn't work. I can not share the internet via wireless (notice the red highlight frame the wireless status logo it doesn't change) what have i tried ?
I went into a lot of troubles getting coq installed on my Mac (Mavericks) and it actually didn't install coqide along… Unfortunately 'brew options coq' has no results so I don't know how to install properly coqide. If it's too complicated, it's fine, I'd welcome any alternate solution (like a sublime text plugin or such). Thanks.
The left Cmd key on my MacBook Pro is not working, the right one does. It seems like it is a software problem with Mavericks. Any ideas on how to fix that?
I have a MacBook Pro (the older one with a cd-rom), running OSX 10.9.1 and sometimes my Mac will sleep and never wake up. Usually this happens when I "sleep" the mac, unplug it from the Thunderbolt, then try to wake the Mac up at my other office with a different Thunderbolt. The screen will never come back. Tried safe restart, multiple combinations of plugged/unplugged to Thunderbolt and/or Power Supply, and open/shutting the screen.
These audio clips were created when when I re-recorded over the end of a recorded slideshow in Keynote 6.1. This bug has been around since 2008, but the workarounds (exporting the movie without sound, then getting the audio from package contents and splicing it with the movie in iMovie) posted for it online don't work anymore.
I've recently uninstalled Fan Control, and one of the steps of the uninstallation is that I need to reset the SMC. So I've done that according to the instructions from the Apple website, however how can I be sure that it has been reset successfully? In particular, I wouldn't want the laptop to overheat because of incorrectly setup fans.
I want to use GoogleDNS while I'm on the bus. But there is no settings page to change as far as I can see.
I want to have all files with an extension of .fw.png to open in Fireworks (not necessarily .png files though). Is there a way to do this in Terminal?
I have been searching on Amazon and most of the USB dongle type Bluetooth 4.0 adapters specifically say not compatible with OSX. My question is; has anyone seen a Bluetooth 4.0 option to upgrade my early 2009 iMac without actually upgrading to the newest iMac?
I have been searching for a while, but i still can't get it work. I add :map <C-6> <C-1> or :map <C-1> <C-6> to '.vimrc', but it doesn't work.
How free is Mavericks? Is it free as a free beer?
One of the Users (called: The_Problematic_User) of a Mavericks installed MacBook Pro is no longer owner of the Home folder and content. Here's what we've tried to no avail: restart computer and log in recovery mode (Command-r) and; repair disk permissions, repair disk, with resetpassword (command line), reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs, reset password, repair disk permissions, repair disk, with resetpassword (command line), reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs, reset password,
Sometimes my macbook freezes while browsing the web etc, I get a beach ball cursor but it doesn't spin or respond (there is no movement on the screen, it's frozen), the keyboard is unresponsive, closing the lid does nothing. Once it did this while playing music, the music continued for 20-30 seconds before stopping.
The excessive underlining ('underscore') disturbs the typographical look and I don't need the very fancy linking to maps, email, phone etc. Or better still: How do I select when and where to use these features?
My home folder is called admin. However, I am signed in as John and there is no admin user. John is an administrative user. Shouldn't the home folder show the signed-in user name? This may or may not be something I caused had another MacBook Pro crash, and this issue has arisen on replacement MacBook Pro and download from JustCloud had another MacBook Pro crash, and this issue has arisen on replacement MacBook Pro and download from JustCloud which, among other things, has UPDATED every file to the download date!- among other download issues. which, among other things, has UPDATED every file to the download date!- among other download issues. I was having duplicate Desktop issues, including a user home folder Harry (also not showing in the Users preference pane.
How can I find out what files are installed by an installer program? Is there a program that can trace that during an installation of a new app?
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro running Mavericks. In System Preferences > General, I have "Show scroll bars: Automatically based on mouse or trackpad". It used to work as expected: with a mouse plugged in, scroll bars were visible, and when unplugged, and only using the built-in trackpad, scroll bars were only visible when scrolling. But now, scroll bars only appear when scrolling, as if the mouse is not plugged in. Other than this, the mouse works fine. I can get persistent scroll bars by selecting "Show scroll bars: Always", but why doesn't it work automatically?
I have installed VirtualBox in order to use Windows 7 as guest on a Macbook Air running Mavericks (mainly to be able to use a printer that has no drivers for Mac). Also, I have installed the Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack and the Guest Additions, so that now the video settings as well as the support for USB are available. Except that, while the flash drives as well as the printer work, the external HDD drives connected by USB do not. After un-mounting the external HDDs in Finder they appear only greyed out in VirtualBox system tray.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz, mid/late 2007) that has had a few graphics card problems. The logic board has needed replacement a couple times, meaning we stopped using graphics-intensive apps, and it has just gotten slower, and the hard drive is becoming full (obviously that will need to be dealt with).
After uninstalling an old version of VirtualBox about a week ago, the problem hasn't recurred. Maybe its kexts were causing problems?
I would like to assign a complete block to my Mac as described in this question: Can I bind a (large) block of addresses to an interface? There it is explained that AnyIP is supported for IPv6 by the Linux Kernel and how to configure it on your device, but the command being used is ip, which seems not available on macOS. If this technique is supported on macOS, what is the command to achieve the same?
Pages is my word processor. I'm trying to copy a paragraph text from a docx file opened in Pages. Some words in the paragraph are italicized.
I have version 11.0.06 which is very unstable. Its average crash-time is about 5 minutes in 10.9.2 OSX. I cannot handle long documents at all. Those which I type in LaTeX for instance. Works well in Preview but not in Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader goes very easily into overflow.
Situation: I have two gmail accounts: 1 private (@gmail.com) and 1 google apps (@domain.com) account. Both have 2-factor-auth enabled.
Is there some means of saving your Messages history on OS X and copying it to a new system without doing a full restore from a Time Machine back up? Doing some searching, I found the below and tried this approach in a virtual machine copy of Mavericks without much luck. *=URL=* Despite copying the files to their respective locations on the fresh install and adjusting permissions, the new installation version of Messages never seems to import/recognize the history from my current system. To ensure my permissions were okay, I also found Mavericks Mail will not save preferences which was linked to by Fixing broken Messages on OS X Mavericks
I am using VirtualBox to play Civilization III (from Steam) in Windows 7 on my 13" Retina Macbook Pro. The only problem is it's horrendously slow. It seems like this only impacts screens with animation (which is basically everything). Because other programs work fine, I believe a change of VirtualBox settings might provide a fix. What configurations/fixes should I try? This is unfamiliar territory for me - thanks for any tips you can offer.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro. I've been running 10.8.x. I'm using the Apple branded dual-link DVI adapter to connect an external WQHD monitor (1440p). It was working great with 10.8.
On a new iPhone (not connected to the phone network), running iOS 7, date is actually set to January the 1st, 1970. It is easy to change the date by scrolling the day. How is it possible to enter the date and time directly, to avoid scrolling through each day from 1970 to 2014?
I thought that tapping on the custom interval would let me edit it, but instead it just re-selected it. However, when I selected a different repeat interval instead, the custom interval disappeared entirely, and there was no option to create a new custom interval. (I also created a new event entirely and found that the Repeat settings don't include a "custom" option in that case, either).
Whenever I log in a window appears, looks like an Apple program from the icon style displayed in the window, and asks for my iCloud password. I don't remember installing the program, ever using it, or adding it to my login items. I can in fact not see any to me unknown program in my login items. What is it?
I recently got a 5th generation iPod touch. I was trying to connect to a car over Bluetooth, but it won't even show up on my iPod (and yes the car's Bluetooth was on). My iPod is on iOS 7.0.4. Any ideas? Edit: yes, My iPod's Bluetooth was on
I have a Mac App Store app that needs to access various directories outside of the sandbox. To do so, it frequently prompts for permission. I fully trust this app, is there a way to grant it blanket permission so that it stops prompting me?
I'm running iTunes 11.1, iOS 7.1, and Podcasts 2.0.2 for iOS, the latest versions of each. I'm signed into the same iCloud account on both my Mac and iPhone. Podcast syncing is enabled in iTunes, and the "Sync Subscriptions" setting is turned on in the settings for the Podcasts app on my iPhone. Why, then, does podcast syncing simply not work? Some examples: If I've played through a podcast episode on my iPhone, the same episode in iTunes won't be marked as played (and vice versa) If I'm partway through an episode, the playback position doesn't sync between my iPhone and iTunes iTunes will download podcast episodes that I've already marked as played on my iPhone (and vice versa), even though I've set both to download only unplayed episodes If I subscribe to a new podcast on my iPhone, it won't appear in iTunes (and vice versa) Etc., etc.
In Microsoft Word 2011, we can either "insert picture from file" or "insert from photo (media) browser". For users who do not have pictures stored in iPhoto or Photobooth, we are forced to use "insert picture from file" method, which only allows for one picture to be added at a time. How can I add more than one picture at a time?
Every time I launch Mail.app it shows the (first launch) Welcome dialog and tells me that to use new feature sin Mail it has to download my messages. I have many many messages in there and I know that it is not redownloading them so what gives? OSX current and fully patched.
Note: I'm talking about the currently playing iTunes song, not the currently selected song. Since iTunes is probably in the background, the currently selected song could be anything. I'd prefer an Applescript solution, if possible. Ideas?
I want PDF documents open with Preview, not Adobe Reader. I select Open With > Other > Click the Box Always Open With. However, this does affect all pdf-files in my system. How can you set the default program for PDF?
I'm working with a MacBook 2,16 GHz (13" white with the max. 3 GB RAM from about 2007) and "Snowleopard" OS 10.6.8.
As described in my other question, Safari on OS X 10.6. is causing me massive problems (with my way of working like having many tabs in Safari open for a long time). I just realized that after closing some (few!) of the many open tabs, instantly it became quiet - the cooling fan of the macbook was not spinning any more
I got used to Safari Push Notifications, because they will show up even when Safari itself is closed. In the last time, I changed to Chrome and now, when I click on a notification, Safari will always open. Is it possible to config the Safari Push Notifications in that way that that will open the specific website in Chrome? Some Information about my environment: - MacBook Air 3,2 (End 2010) - OS X 10.9.2 - Chrome is default browser Thank you!
I have a service that is listening on a tcp port, and it is listed with this command: but it is not accessible from other computers on the same network, and it is not listed with this command:
Is it ok to install homebrew in default(for homebrew) deirectory /usr/local if I've already have installed software there. In other words, if Mysql and GPGTool already installed in /usr/local and then I'll install homebrew also in /usr/local. Will it work correct or I should install homebrew in another directory.
This is really odd. I've replaced ethernet cables and what not, but most of the time, when I try to connect to the MBP on my LAN, it will initially disappear from the sidebar before reappearing. The errors in my system log look like this: I've done some searching on the web for this sort of error, and found this article.
I dropped the phone and the screen is not responding. Before I take it to get it fixed I want to restore the iPhone to factory settings because I'm logged in on my apps, and I don't want the person fixing the phone to get access to my Facebook and other accounts. I tried to turn it on again but the screen is not responding. How can I reset my iPhone from computer if the screen doesn't work?
On Mavericks I'm trying to use the "no caps" dictation command in Sublime text but the word always appears capitalized. I tested the command in the Safari URL line and it does work there. Is there a work around for this?
I had Windows 7 installed via Bootcamp but I messed things up when I tried to install Ubuntu as a third OS. Now my goal is to go back to OS X and Windows 7/8.1 dual boot. However, when I go to Boot Camp Assistant I get the following message when I select the disk where I need to install Windows. This disk is your os x startup disk and appears to have been partitioned by another utility. How can I re-install Windows 7 via Boot Camp Assistant? The following may be useful: I have a mid 2010 13" MacBookPro running 10.9.2
How can I disable the trackpad (without restarting my computer) from the command-line on OS X Mavericks?
I ran the update for Mavericks as well as the Xcode 5.1 update (build 5B130a) and I can't find a way to update my OS X SDK from 10.8 to 10.9 (The only updates that show up are iOS SDK 6.1 and the docsets). I was looking forward to using Sprite Kit on my Macbook Pro (10.9.2), but the SDK just does not show up. SpriteKit is definitely on my system, though, because /System/Library/Frameworks/SpriteKit.framework/ exists. When I add the SpriteKit framework directly from /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/SpriteKit.framework it can't find it either.
I have a handful of events that I want to enter into Calendar. Since I have a lot of events, I'd like to copy/paste into a file and import the file, rather than enter them manually. Does anyone know the format for a given event? I found this in an .ics file: Looks fairly straightforward, although I don't know what to use for a UID. Thanks, Bruce
When I take a Keynote (5.3 or 6.0) presentation with images (all pasted PDF files), then export the presentation to a PowerPoint presentation, all of the images become severely degraded. For reference, the original PDf files are on the order of 100KB, so I don't believe they are particularly large…
I have a bad habit of having zillions of open documents in TextEdit, containing brief notes that I've made. Most of these are unsaved, so they have titles like "Untitled 67".
I have several documents that I need to combine into a single pdf. I know that I can do this with Preview. However, it would be really nice if I could add page numbers to the resulting pdf, as well as headers and/or footers on each page.
I used to love FileHippo.com for keeping a lot of my well-loved tools on Windows up to date with its tool that you could check to scan your current program versions (both freeware and paid - in the case of paid it still works to download the latest installer as your license is still located in the system - I assume it would work for Mac too), and a simple repository on the site to directly download the new updater installer files from once the results screen online shows you what you can download and update. Common apps monitored by FileHippo would be VLC, uTorrent, Firefox, Chrome (all the way up to dev channel), CCleaner, Adobe Reader, Adobe Air, DivX, Safari, Skype, Thunderbird - and all these apps I now have on the Mac too. Is there anything like this for the OS X world? MacUpdate.com looks great, but it doesn't seem to officially offer an equivalent 'update checker' app from looking at its website. And as for Apple's Mac App Store solution, that doesn't cover the apps I listed abo
As you can see, the number of open files isn't significantly different when iPhoto is run as a different user, so again, something peculiar seems to be up with my account. I remain at a loss as to what that could be, however. Note that I've tried increasing the system-wide limit on the number of open files as follows: Unfortunately, this had no effect.
I have a problem with the left ⇧ and ctrl on my MacBook Pro (mid 2012). I can use the right ⇧ but since there's only one ctrl, I was wondering because there are two ⌥ buttons and two ⌘ buttons, if I could reconfigure one of them to replace the control feature. Is there a way to do this?
Does anyone know any good diagnostic tools for Mac? something inline with Apple Hardware Test, Apple Service Diagnostics, tech tool pro, preferably more in depth perhaps something low level, pre-OS-startup
I have a MacBook Pro running on Mavericks with 8GB of RAM. I am using a large Excel file with roughly 250k rows of data (170MB). I would like to delete several sheets in the file but every time I do, Excel freezes and I have to force the application to quit. I am extremely limited in what I can do with this file.
How can I define a keyboard shortcut in Xcode to scroll down both the cursor and the line? In Xcode's key bindings terms, this would be equivalent to performing "Scroll Line Down (Scrolling)" followed by "Move Down (Selection)". I'm looking for a way to define a keyboard shortcut which will perform both actions at once.
Has anyone else experienced this type of behaviour? Do you know any other way to reset the Mail.app state to a cleaner set up? (without wiping out all the accounts configuration) Would that be a known Mail.app bug that hopefully will get corrected in the next version?
After erasing my hd and reinstalling Mac OS X Mavericks I am not able to create a user account. It just seems to loop. I also tried to create a second account, for that worked last time, but now it even loops with the second one.
Run some DNS server on UDP port 53. Unfortunately, none is installed.
Recently, I decided to move a series of lists I keep in the Notes app (Groceries, Shopping, Movies to Watch, Local Bands we follow, Local Restaurants we like, etc.) to a Dropbox folder that I share with my wife on her Android phone, which is an excellent way to keep files in sync on all my devices. However, I quickly discovered the drawback - I can no longer add content using Siri to those notes!
I'd like to share all my calendars with my boss. She shares her calendars with me using Google Calendar and I was hoping doing the same with my calendars. How can I share multiple calendars to be visible as one? I can only find calendars to be shared one-by-one.
I have a Verizon iPhone 5s and live in the US. It's not unlocked/jail broken. I'm traveling to Scotland next week for 7 days.
Recently, I ran into a problem with the Apple Calendar app on my laptop. In Fantastical, the calendars displayed correctly on both iOS, my laptop, and my work iMac. The only inconsistent place was my laptop.
I migrated from primarily a PC desktop to a Macbook Pro, and with that, brought along 10+ years of digital photos. On my PC, I had each 'event' grouped into sub-folder by date, so that worked out well importing into iPhoto-- but I also had iCloud setup on my PC, and it was syncing my Photostream (into just one big folder, with 1800+ photos). Bringing this over to iPhoto I now have "one event" named Photostream that has all these photos. Is there any way to have iPhoto just automatically group these by date into new events?
I've downloaded jmeter and put it in my Applications folder. I've made it executable. I can cd to /Applications/apache-jmeter-2.11/bin and can run it in a terminal with or by double-clicking the icon from the finder. How can I add the program as a shortcut (icon) on the main application icon launcher bar ('Dock') on a Mac, similar to programs such as browsers, MS Outlook, gitx, etc?
Lion added the ability to Quick Look a URL in an application (like Mail.app). I would like to use that functionality from a script. Is that possible?
I use Mac's Notes app on my MacBook Air (Mavericks). I can readily search for any specific note just using command - F. It finds notes containing the string of text either in the title of the note or in the body of the note.
I have just uninstalled a program from my new mac. The program was making itself default to open all .r files. I installed a new program, and I maked it default for opening .r files, but the old icon of the files remains. The icon of the old program is stil at every .r-files.
I would like Quick Look to treat files that have .in extension like regular text files, meaning show me the contents of the file after I click spacebar on them. How can I configure my system to work that way?
When studying, I used to use one of those cheap digital kitchen timers that chirps every ten minutes as a little reminder of how fast time was passing -- it helped me keep track of time without the temptation to constantly glance at the clock. The kitchen timer gave out on me recently, so I've been looking for an iPhone app to replace it. Ideally, it would have an on and off setting, and when on, would periodically vibrate in my pocket every ten or fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, the apps I've found are quite chintzy and don't support switching between apps, or stop as soon as the phone is set to sleep -- and either of these is a deal breaker. Are there any iPhone apps out there do what I'm looking for? (I've been burned by a couple of paid apps that turned out to be lemons, so I'd be most grateful.)
I know you can switch the screen assembly from high-resolution matte to high resolution glossy, but can you go from low-resolution glossy to high resolution? Specifically, if I get a 15" 2012 MBP and take it to an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), can they upgrade a low-resolution glossy to high-resolution (non retina) glossy screen?
Ever since I upgraded my 2009 iMac to Mavericks, I often get a message stating 'The name of your computer "Foo" is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to "Foo (2)".'. The number at the end will continuously increment over time as the same error keeps happening.
My current installation of Mavericks has some issues that can only be fixed with a clean install (no Time Machine restore). However I don't find time to do the complete reinstall in one session and I still have to work with the current installation.
Is it possible to develop an app only for me and my friends? Just make the app and upload it directly to my iPhone.
My OSX crashed and I installed it completely new (no backup). Now I wanted to import some music into my iPhone and it seems it is not possible. Every time I get the warning that everything get deleted if I synchronize it with iTunes. If I want to manage the music/video manually I also get this message. What can I do? The data on my iPhone should stay. I only want to add something ... PS: Does it mean that my backup made with iTunes will not work?
I can't figure out how to actually page up and down in irssi's history to see previous conversations. The majority of posts claimed that first hitting Ctl+A, then using Shft+fn+[up/down], which didn't work either. I'm sure this is a meta-character terminal translation issue, but I have no idea where or what to start tinkering with. If anyone knows what is going on or how I can fix it, I would be ever so grateful :)
So i've done this before but I don't remember the command. I was able to use a directory a localhost file. I've tried sudo apachectl start but when I go to localhost the page isn't found. I've also tried restarting the server, but the result was still the same. Any ideas? I'm using OSX Mavericks
My basic understanding is that a file format dictates how is data stored and retrieved in a device. So, the key to working with a storage device is to know the rules for data storage and retrieval.
iMac power supply died, and I decided to replace instead of fix. The day after I ordered the replacement, my iPad screen failed to light the screen. That I intend to fix, but I didn’t want to touch until I could load the backups form the old disk drive onto the new computer.
If I put an entire Windows 7 (bootcamp) partition using dd into a single archive, will a restore still be bootable? I just received a new machine with both OSes pre-installed, and I want to get a “pristine” backup before booting Windows. I can’t use TDM because I have no other machine to read it with.
Before Mavericks I had a BootCamp dual boot configuration with Lion and Seven x64. That was fine but, because I replaced the hard drive with a SSD model, I took a chance to set as the newest environment as possible. I found out to my sadness that Mac Mini 2010 (model 4,1) is not supported by BootCamp 5 therefore Windows 8/8.1 neither.
I have a Mid-2011 13" Macbook Air running OS X 10.9.2 (the latest version). When I wake my Mac from sleep, sometimes, the Wifi will fail to find my network. The network icon will display the connecting symbol. The only way to stop that is to turn off wifi and turn it back on, where it will reconnect almost instantly. A video I made showing my problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtwPg9ff4WE&feature=youtu.be
Up to today using Trello with Fluid was the best thing of my day! Super awesome match between the two apps. The most best part was that when I scale the fluid window to be narrow all Trello lists lined up vertically one below another, which is so much better when you are working on one swim lane at a time. This way I can focus only on the cards inside a particular line. Very very helpful! Trello is great to give you the big picture (the board) and lets you narrow down your focus to the small piece (the card), but it's lacking a middle ground (focus on a list). This is where Fluid brought Trello to a whole other level.
I've noticed this on my iPad Mini (Retina), and I've tried to search for this "bug" elsewhere but found nothing which makes me suspect I'm the only one who's experiencing this? Whenever the push notification text is >= 3-lines, it overlaps with the "pull-down" indicator for the Notification Center. This is not a problem on my iPhone (same iOS version).
I am thinking of purchasing a Mac Mini but the lack of optical drive, makes me hesitant. I have an external super-multi DVD rewriter by Liteon (Model GP08LU10). Will this portable drive be compatible with a new Mac Mini?
I am thinking of purchasing a Mac Mini. I currently have a Wi-Fi network in my home using a WebCaster 3100SV router (Japan-NTT). Will I have a problem connecting to my existing Wi-Fi connection for my Windows based Pc's?
OK, so I bought an MiniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter off dx.com and it doesn't work, before I angrily demand a refund I want to know whether there is anything I can do to get this to work. I have a 2013 13inch MacBook Air I have heard that I probably should have either got an official apple (sponsored) one (for 40 dollars) or instead of Mini DisplayPort to HDMI get a Mini DisplayPort to DVI and then a DVI to HDMI adapter.
I have been having problems with my iCloud account not syncing properly with my iOS devices, so I wanted to reinstall the iCloud account. The first thing that I wanted to do was to remove my old iCloud account, which worked for everything except for Mail. When I try to deactivate the iCloud mail setting, it says: iCloud Mail couldn’t be disabled from the iCloud Preference Pane. Open Mail and remove your iCloud account from Mail preferences. However, when I do that, Mail does not have an iCloud account, so it cannot be removed. Here is what I have tried till now, without success:
I have a strange problem with my powered USB hub (USB 2.0) and my wired Apple keyboard which is plugged into that hub. When I turn on the MacBook Pro (Early 2013), running OS X 10.9, the external keyboard is not working sometimes. As soon as I unplug the keyboard and plug it in again it works. This only happens when the MacBook has just turned on. If I turn the powered hub to an unpowered hub (just by unplugging the power chord) the keyboard works fine - even at startup. Does anyone have a clue what may be the problem?
I have a set of calendars, which I would like to share together as busy/nonbusy. That is, I want others to see (on a single calendar) whether I am busy in any calendar at a given date or not.
On an iMac running Mavericks 10.9.0, I just selected within App Store the 2 last OS updates: Critical Security Update (version 1.0) OS X Update Combined (version 10.9.2) These 2 updates took "some" time, and terminated on a small square window telling me something like "Installing items" (I didn't take a snap shot since I didn't suspect these updates to be dangerous). At 08:15, my iMac shut down, but let me with a black screen (this a small extract of /var/log/system.log1): After 15 minutes of blackness, I decided this is enough of secrecy about a serious problem, and decided to see if something was alive: no network access no reply to the sound level keyboard Clearly the system is either completely dead or shutdown. At 08:33 I used the power button, and the system booted up normally. The system was upgraded "apparently" correctly (the apparently is here because I can't trust this system anymore): Here is the App Store status after the "black hole" experience: From my point of vue this
How can I connect my iPad 3 (30-pin dock connector) to my 27" Cinema Display (MiniDisplayPort)?
When trying to restore a certain directory from TimeMachine (TM) I'm getting the error The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access problem_group_file.png. Looking closer at the files in the TM directory it seems that a file has consistently been getting, an perhaps continues to get, the wrong group ownership. Perhaps other file permissions are corrupt too preventing the restore operation from completing.
So, what is the difference between brew and brew cask? I know that homebrew is a package management software. But what kind of software can I get there? Is it open source software and commercial software?
In iOS an accent can be added after the character where it is intended. In OSX it is the opposite, it must be entered before. This means that if I forget to add it, I must delete the character, add the accent and then retype the character.
I'm using Keynote 09 (version 5.1.1) and the latest Safari. Is there a way to make the "flip" and "orbital" show up in the html slides? (During the export process they were changed to "dissolve").
I am unable to access data on mounted volumes in Finder on OS X Mavericks. Assuming I mounted a volume by plugging in an external USB disk. What works: The volume is listed in the Finder sidebar I can access (read+write) it under /Volumes/MyDeviceName/ I see it being listed properly when calling mount from the shell What doesn't work: I cannot click on it in the Finder sidebar When I open /Volumes with Finder, MyDeviceName is not visible When I try to open /Volumes/MyDeviceName it says The folder can't be found.
I cannot get into my Mac Book Pro, I just get the password picture which shakes. The only different key for the password is a which is q on French keyboard but that doesn't unlock either. I normally work with English keyboard but was using a French keyboard when the machine shut down. Is there any sequence of keypresses to bypass the password so I can get into the machine?
In Preview.app (Mavericks version) bookmarks can be added (Cmd-D) to a PDF file and shown in the sidebar. The bookmarks all get the same title, which seems to be an excerpt from the first line(s) of the page. So far, so good, except that in the document I am working on over the next many months, there is a page header on every page and it is the same for 300 pages or so. The result is that the first text on each page is the same and all bookmarks look identical, except for the page number. The problem is that I can't find a way to change the title of the bookmark once it has been created, so my side bar contains 20 indistinguishable bookmark titles, only differentiated by the page number. If I knew the page numbers I wouldn't need the bookmarks, so I am very interested in a way to further differentiate the bookmarks, preferable by changing their title. Is there a way to do that?
Is there a quick method to resend an iMessage? The particular, I send an iMessage (stop and bus number) to the transit service. In cold weather, the multi-step copy, paste re-send is cumbersome. The touch screen does not like -20 weather.
I need a way to change settings in Google Chrome for all my users. Ideally, I would place this in the login script or manage it by MCX.
Can anyone recommend a stopwatch timer for Mac which can be started or stopped using hotkey?
I would like to generate a multipart mime-encoded document for use as user data on EC2 instances. On Ubuntu, one is supposed to use write-mime-multipart to do this, as per these instructions. Does anyone know what would the OSX command-line equivalent be? Thanks!
These constant mail alerts are driving me crazy. I have no idea where this cron job is coming from or how I can stop it. Here's what the computer reports for the crontabs for my user (which is also the one named in the mail, unless I'm totally misinterpreting it) and root:
Does anyone know a quick way that I could modify the following script (from CornDoggyRob) to automatically maximize the incoming call window and to adjust the orientation? I would love to try this with a couple people with disabilities, who are unable to physically answer/adjust the size, and I have tried a number of things, but I am afraid I am far too unfamiliar with AppleScript commands. — Facetime Auto Answer — Copyright ©2010 CornDog Computers — twitter: @CornDoggyRob
I am using a Courier IMAP server which, per default, uses the 'INBOX.' prefix for all folders. On Mac OS X as a client this works just fine. On iOS however, I have to manually configure in the advanced settings an IMAP prefix of "INBOX". How can I make this work automatically? Do I have to configure something on the Courier server, or is this a limitation in iOS?
I am following the steps from this site to recover deleted images from iPhone (I've tried other softwares, nothing has worked so far). When I follow these steps, at the end I get the iphone.img file, the problem is that it has 0 bytes. Anybody has an idea of what am I doing wrong? Thanks! The site is: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Recover_data_from_an_iPhone
I use rMBP with the latest Mavericks 10.9.2. I often download something in background, so I can't just press "poweroff" button, because these downloads stop working in sleep mode. However, I have checked "disable sleep mode when display is off" in energy saving settings.
I have a Mac Book Pro, mid-2009 model that has a SD card slot. I just bought a SD Card from SanDisk, 8gb, SDHC. When I insert the SD card in the slot, it is recognized by the MBP: I have a new icon on the desktop, NO NAME, and the disk utility tool shows me the information related to the disk and displays a correct volume size (around 7.95Gb). In the Disk Utility Tool, when I click on disk verification, I get the following information: Unfortunately, the Disk Utility Tool does not allow me to format the SD card.
I've been using Windows since the 80's. A month ago I got a Mac for a side project I'm working on. Despite my best efforts, I haven't gotten used to the fact that the menu bar of windows aren't attached to the window and instead are on top of the screen. Also haven't gotten used to the close/minimize/maximize buttons being on the left.
When I download any archive file and unpack it, it looks good, but if I copy it to usb stick or lan drive, windows clients see copy of each file with a dot in name. Looks like it's a mac os' system files. How can I disable it? I really don't want to have it in unpacked archives. Mavericks 10.9.2
I searched for the error and turned up someone asking a similar question on copyquery.com; I reinstalled the OS X command line tools and then attempted to do a clean reinstall of Homebrew. That failed too: And Homebrew doesn't want to be installed as root; it will bail if ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL *=URL=* is installed as root.
I can make and receive phone calls from everyone and anyone except for my boyfriend. All it says is my call can not be completed and the same goes for him. So what's causing this?
Is there a way to remedy the 'Invalid Node Tree' issue? For instance, if I run migration assistant & migrate the volumes from old to new, will a new 'Node Tree' be created for me on the new HD? Is there a different approach I can take to making the disk image copy - just isolating the 'Macintosh HD' to improve my results?
Installed 32-bit Windows instead of 64-bit on my MacBook Air 2011. The Boot camp drivers are for 64-bit Windows 8 so they can't be installed. It doesn't see any USB drive including my external DVD drive. Are there are any work arounds other than reinstalling 64-bit windows?
Is there a way to tell which app is using my notices panel from Maverics (opened by fingers slide from right side to left)? I am particularly intrested in displaying Thunderbird's new message indicators there, but it boils down to actually setting notices for anything I want there. Any manual or sources would be helpful.
It's annoying and even Google search results will just download powerpoint files and open them up in ppt/keynote. PDF does it sometimes too, but it's so annoying! Is there something that will let me just look at the files in safari without having to download them every single time I want to look at them?
My iMac suddenly stopped recognizing my WiFi network. Numerous other devices are connected to the same network (2 MacBooks, iPhone and LG Nexus). The network doesn't display in available networks list, but I can see all other WiFi networks available from neighbours. I have tried following things already: Restart iMac Restart WiFi router Add new 'location' in network settings Change radio channels in my router Manually input network SSID, security type and password (it keeps telling me that network with this name doesn't exist)
1) After swapping the stock drive for an Intel SSD of the same size in my Mac Mini 1,2 (2006 -ish?), I performed a clean install of 10.7 via target disk mode; That is, I put the mini into TDM and mounted it via FW400 to my iMac which I booted using a 10.7 install USB drive. 2) The install went smooth and the machine boots by itself as expected all the way to the desktop. 3) I try to install the 10.7.5 combo update via Software Update, it fails due to bad checksum.
Can I add 16GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro (5.1 model, late 2008) running at 1333 DIMMs?
This is a bit of a weird question, I'll admit, but this is something that really annoys me. I have come to rely on the Emacs shortcuts (mainly ctrl ^+A, ctrl ^+E, ctrl ^+B, and ctrl ^+F) and the behavior of ctrl ^+P and ctrl ^+N is very different than in Emacs. With Emacs, going up a line will ignore soft wrapping and go to the next actual line, not the next displayed line. I've just gotten used to it, I guess. Is there any way to make the Cocoa/Emacs up and down keybindings behave like the real Emacs (preferably only ctrl ^+P and ctrl ^+N, not the arrow keys)?
Over time I've accumulated many (valid) provisioning profiles on my device, and now have over 400 in Settings. The only way I know of removing them is going into each one individually. Is there an easy way to remove many of them at a time?
I currently have a user with a boot camp unit, it has a Windows 7 Pro machine that I would like to extract and open in Hyper-V. I am not sure how to do this or if it is possible. Not sure how to ask the question but the end result would be this Windows 7 Pro machine would be running on a Hyper-V 2008 Enterprise x64 server. I am completely familiar with Hyper-V but I am an Apple novice and am looking for specific assistance in getting the Boot Camp Windows 7 machine running properly in Hyper-V (latest version) (all updates and patches are installed).
How do I send text messages to non apple devices with my iPad Air with cellular? I have the iMessage worked out but can't figure out SMS.
All 4 cores maxed out. Mac noticeably lagging. (Reveals wildly contradictory information.) Closed all applications Opened Activity Monitor Totaled all Process ID activity and noticed that all processes listed (including activity monitor and finder) only add up to about 10-20% CPU usage, BUT ALL 4 CORES ARE STILL REDLINED/MAXED OUT. Activity monitor also says that: User Usage is < 5% System Usage is almost steady at 85% (yet no PID's show significant CPU use) Idle 10%
I am trying to print to a Windows printer server requiring authentication from the command line. An option is to use kinit to get a Kerberos ticket (and it works). On a Linux machine I also managed to use smbclient
Good afternoon, I own an iPad 2 and a Macbook Pro. I am looking for a free solution to recording my iPad's screen from my computer. I plan to record the gameplay of various iOS games and upload them on video sharing websites. About my iPad 2 - Version: 6.0.1 Not jailbroken. I apologize if this exact question has already been answered but I have been unable to find an answer that is suitable for my specific needs. Finding a free alternative to Reflector seems to be very difficult! All answers will be greatly appreciated.
I've just tried everything and I cannot seem to fix this for the life of me. Basically, Safari has started reporting the following error in the JS console: "SecurityError: DOM Exception 18: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent." Most of Ajax interactions via https are not working, so I cannot log into Twitter, Facebook or even Apple's own Developer Center. I've tried installing Webkit, and even removing all preferences files that I'm aware of.
I have an 11,3 i7 iMac, from around 2010. I want to upgrade to Mavericks and do a clean install of both Mavericks and Windows 7 in Boot Camp - reformat the internal HD and repartition.
I have created a toolbar for PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. I have pasted custom images for icons on the toolbar buttons. The problem is the images appear very small on the buttons and when I increase the height and width of the buttons, the buttons grow to the specified size but the images do not and they look awful. Can anyone suggest a possible workaround so that I can increase the size of the image on the custom toolbar buttons? I am using the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) .PasteFace function to put the images on the buttons.
Some OS generations back the default behavior when a new display was attached was that the screen was mirrored. I would like to get this behavior back since without it I have to fiddle with the system settings every time I want to give a presentation, since the projector I am connecting with is new to the OS and I have to set up everything. So question: Is there a plist or something that I can change once and for all?
I am on Mavericks and have my facebook account set up correctly as i get notifications for new comments and messages but for some reason the calendar app wont get my facebook events. I am presented with "Enter the password for “my@email.com” in System Preferences. My password is right as the other notifications work and everything seems to work on my iphone. Any idea how to fix this?
It is possible to reproduce the task via terminal as Angry IP Scanner does, i.e. scan all the subnet?
I have a Mac mini which I normally use as remote desktop with my friends. Usually my mates only use a single application (e.g. Safari). In order to make my pc private (to me only) I want to disable the GUI and all the other ways through which someone can interact with my system. What I want is that they just have access to the single application they want to use and I want to disable the top context menu shown in the attached picture. Also, I want to disable the dock items and also the right click functionality. How can I accomplish this on OS X?
I am beginner Apple developer. I want to develop Mac and iOS software, but not for sale. Only for personal use. As I see to deploy my iOS program to my iPhone and my iPad I need to get iOS Developer Account. Do I need a Mac Developer Account if I am not planning to deploy my software to Mac Application Store and if I am planning to use it only in my Macbook?
In preparing academic articles that require quotations from reputable Journals and books I am faced with a round-about retrieval process. First I take a screenshot then print that then scan it and then OCR it into my article document. Is there a simpler way? I have an iMac, MS Office and a Canon scanner with My Image Garden.
When browsing the net the phone displayed a message saying there was a virus/Trojan on the phone and to press ok to remove it. The only option, other than to press ok, was to shut the phone off.
In call log list there is option to check duration of each call. is there is any option to check total call duration of my iphone ?
I would like to know if there is a command (or set of commands) that calculates each of (Virtual Memory, File Cache and App Memory) parameters listed in the screen shot above.
Is there any possibility to boot graphical mode once I'm in single mode (CMD+S on boot time) logged as root? Related: *=URL=* *=URL=* https://www.securemac.com/macosxsingleuser.php
I have developed a Mac desktop application and need to have our users install few drivers to run our application on OS X. Due to sandbox constraint, I am not able to get the user access permission to install the drivers within /Users/System Name/Library/ folder. (i.e.,) It will ask user permission to install the drivers from a single Mac package installer to install the drivers before accessing the Mac App.
Quick question: Bought a secondhand Macbook pro over ebay. Seller told me "I logged off from iCloud but forgot to turn off Find My Mac. Bought it anyway since I do not plan using iCloud. Now I got news that if he wants he can track and block my Mac. I have administrator account access, the EFI is not password protected since i asked him to wipe it out, so: Can I simply log in with my iCloud account to the Mac and disable Find My Mac? It's not nice to know that somebody can "track me". More info:
I have two questions about Time Machine: Do I need an access to Time Capsule (or external hard drive) when I want to restore old version of file ?
All of us in the office use the same (remote) email server (via IMAP) but only some of us have this issue: Emails are deleted in Mail.app and go to trash After sometime the email reappears as unread email in the main mailbox Colleague with this problem has an iPhone and Mac OSX laptop. I don't have this issue and have an Android phone but also have OSX laptop. Where do we need to look to sort this?
Right now my iTerm2 looks like this...  Everything is the same color and is hard to read. Can I make any of the Prompt, Command, and Output different colors like this?
I have been using OS X Mavericks Server Time Machine Backup service to backup my laptops. I recently had to move my backup sparsebundles to a new drive. I've reconfigured Time Machine server to point to that new drive and I see my backups in Time Machine server console.
If I tap on the game invitation notification from a friend, the game is started. It does not ask me to accept or decline. How do I decline a game invitation?
I downloaded a tweak via Cydia called FakeLocation. Once I downloaded it my iPad couldn't open again even if I charge it. Tried connecting it to iTunes on my PC to restore it but it doesn't want to connect because there's no battery. Any tips?
I do not want ANY email client as a default. Whenever I accidentally click on a link, Outlook comes up. I do not want ANYTHING to pop up.
and if I click on calibrate it shows:  and I removed the application. It didn't fix my problem. I tried to find the original color profile and it is gone in <~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles> or <~User/Library/ColorSync/Profiles>.
I'm getting these errors constantly from various processes, the invalid string is always the same though. How do I find where the string is located?
This is my first iPad, I can't figure this out - when I go to settings>general>software update I get "iOS 5.1.1 Your software is up to date" I have iOS 5.1.1, also I have ubuntu on my PC (I see some advice about using iTunes, but I don't have OS X or Windows on my PC)
Can I do a search in Apple Mail that does an "or" on supplied criteria? For example, someone has two email addresses. I want to search for all emails from that person, so I'd like to say "one email address or the other" in my search query.
It seems that my iPhone's (4s - purchased Nov. 2011) battery loses its charge fast. I have read all the relevant OPs. Is there any app which provides information about the battery's health? Or should I simply change it?
I'm a beginner on OS X and I believe this command will make a list of all files and subfolders of specific folders I don't know how to figure out what this actually does.
i was trying the last days to get a droplet working, which is changing the time stamp of every dropped .jpg / .tif / .dsc / .cr2 to the actual time or even a few secs earlier in Terminal. Would appreciate if anyone could help me. Greetings TiRa
After updating to the latest Mavericks version (10.9.2), the behaviour of the new mail notifications changed. Before, if I clicked on the notification, the main Mail.app window would open and show the message in the thread preview pane. After the update, the message is opened into it's own window (same as double-clicking the message in the main window), which is not what I want. Is there a setting somewhere to restore the previous behaviour?
Hi I have a shell script in my login item , which runs whenever i log in to my system . It does work completely but once it exits the terminal , it leaves the terminal shortcut on my dock and I don't want that I want my dock to be clean and want only my required application in it.Is there any command which I can keep at the end of my script so that once the script executes completely it also remove terminal from my dock.
I'm working off an older system, 10.5.8 and want to upgrade,but it won't let me without getting the 10.6.3 disc upgrade,now the problem with that is the internal cd drive won't work anymore and has a disc jammed in it,so I purchased the external USB SuperDrive, when I plugged it in the computer didn't recognise it, this Is really frustrating because I paid $100 for it and at the moment we can't access iTunes or even upgrade that for our iPhones or iPads,is there a way I can get the computer to recognise the USB drive? So I can do the upgrade.
I wonder if OS-X app bundles always have a Info.plist - CFBundleExecutable configuration? Thank you in advance for answers.
I have late 2013 rMBP and very often it fails to wake up after closing the lid. It crashes and restarts. How do I find out which process or application causes those failed attempts to wake up? I try reading the console logs, but I can't understand much from it.
For the past week, each time I open the computer in the morning, there is a notice saying I didn't properly eject the disc. I have not had any disc, camera, or any other appliance plugged into the computer, so why the warning?
The problem is setting the internet sharing with CLI instead of GUI in Mac OS 10.9.2 I followed instructions as per this thread Start/stop internet sharing from a script? including both CLI and scripting the system pref app, but to no avail. Also tried the Sidekick app (formerly NetworkLocation) and finding that it cannot set up internet sharing on its own. This is the situation:
I understand the App Switcher follows the Dock. Other answers here confirm as much.
My MacBook was stolen. Unfortunately, I didn't have Find My Mac turned on. Is there any way to track it's whereabouts so I can recover it?
If I buy the 250MB monthly data plan and share with my wife, but use WiFi for 98% of the monthly usage, will this work for us? We are retired and home all day. I keep hearing that the iPhone will use cellular data regardless of WiFi, can I keep this from happening?
I've searched and found issues similar to mine, but not exact. I've got an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.1. I've got two Macs: Work: Macbook Pro running 10.9.2 with iTunes 11.1.5 Home: iMac also running 10.9.2 with iTunes 11.1.5
I have 400 iPads I need to prep and am having a couple issues. I was hoping somebody could give me a bit of advice.. Question How can I verify the WiFi payloads are copied to the iPad? Background Apple Configurator 1.5 I received a backup config from the customer I also received their settings in case the restore didn’t work.
My 27" iMac wakes up from sleep randomly, even though I went through the "energy saver" preference pane, and bluetooth is only active for my mouse and keyboard. What could be causing this?
I am diagnosing some mysterious network latency that comes and goes with my wife's MacBook Pro. As part of this diagnostic work, I fired up Network Utility and used its interface to traceroute to trace the route to www.google.com. Somewhat oddly, all of the results were of the * * * variety.
I've carried out a couple of repairs on my iPhone 5 over the last fortnight, including replacing the screen. I detached the home button from its mounting in the original screen, and placed it in the new screen. It works fine, but I need to glue it to the contact that it sits on top of. What glue does Apple use to do this? Where can I buy this, or a suitable alternative?
For most websites, the Internet content filter considers the domain name and not the path. For example, if *=URL=* is added to the list, then *=URL=* will be allowed, as will *=URL=* How can I set up my son's user account to block access to the BBC website generally, but still allow access to CBeebies? My son uses Safari and the Simple Finder We are currently using 10.8 but could upgrade to 10.9 (however, I've just tested and the issue persists there) We are already using OpenDNS and could apply some blocking there, but I want the blocking to apply only to my son's account on this Mac, not other accounts or other machines on our network
I have an external 500 GB HDD that's about five years old. I just turned it on and it made a bunch of clicking noises and failed to spin up immediately, though it did so after a few seconds.
when I receive a text from my husband's phone, there is no ringtone. The message shows up on the screen, but there is no alert tone. Other texts are fine.
This bell icon showed up in my menu bar one day and there's no obvious way to disable it. How do I get rid of it?
The steps I have taken to connect my dualshock 3 controller with my MBP are shown here: *=URL=* The controller doesn't show up as PS3 Controller in my devices list ever. Just some cryptic hexadecimal numbers flagged with 'not connected'. Here is a log from when I -> turned on BT -> connected the controller via usb -> disconnected the controller from usb -> pressed the ps button (at that point the 'enter passcode for ps3 controller'-window comes up, but nothing ever happens thereafter) The controller just stops blinking after some time and is still not connected / paired.
I was running a program in Java 7u51 and for some reason it hung when trying to shutdown a TCP socket it had opened. I had to kill the java process (can't remember which signal I used, but TERM didn't work).
my MBP's keyboard has mostly stopped working. esc to f12, tab, backspace, all arrow, meta(⌘ ⌥ ⌃), and shift work, noting else. Caps lock won't even light.
Since my Cinema Display is both connected through mDP and USB, I can (stupidly enough) both choose “LED Cinema Display” or “Display Audio”. Also, I never use the internal speakers since they sound extremely tinny.
If a user downloads a game but then deletes it, does it still count as a download? Will if affect the ranking of your app?
How can I manually setup a passkey as "000000" (containing only zeros) to pair Bluetooth keyboard to iMac rather than the random keys generated by Mac. I'm currently using Mavericks & struggling to reconnect the keyboard as i'm unable to give the pass key other than 'zeros'. In the link : Can't pair apple wireless keyboard, SingleShot has mentioned of a way to manually set the passkey to 'zeros'.
I have a Apple developer account in US, for which I have listed a US bank account in Banking Information in iTunes Connect. Now, I want to edit/change the bank account to an Indian bank. Is this possible?
I am searching for a RDP implementation on OS X, but can't find any. Does OS X have an RDP implementation application?
After Updating latest version of iOS 7. I am not able to setup personal hot spot in my iPhone 4.
Sometimes, I install apps for iPhone on my iPad and they are too small and doesn't fit the screen. Is there any option to resize them so they have either no black space around or just on one side?
When looking for a specific type of file from an application (for instance, looking for .ai files inside Adobe Illustrator), the finder makes all the files with the wrong extension not selectable. However, these files are still appearing in the list, even if faded. If you have a folder containing a a lot of files and only a few of the desired format, it can quickly become annoying to find them. I would to know if there is a way to completely hide (not display at all) the undesired files?
I had to replace my hard drive and don't have a backup. I do have a copy of my home folder on an external disk but it was a simple copy/paste job.
I am using Vine VNC Server in Mac OS X for accessing my desktop remotely. I want to fire two scripts: One at establishment of the VNC connection One at disconnection of the VNC connection I thought of using command as but I noticed that in netstat vnc protocol is displayed as tcp4. Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
I have mac book pro late 2013 with os x 10.9.2. When i clicked on the wifi network i want to connect, it doesn't connect. It doesn't even give any response. There is only an animation in wifi: on option in upper right side with loading circle and becomes wifi: looking for networks . And it goes back to normal repeatedly
I've bought a Lacie Porsche usb key two weeks ago and it used to work well but now I can't mount it on my MBP, it's not even detected by the system profiler... But it works well on a friend MBA or even worse, on a Windows computer...
I was considering purchasing a new Mac Mini as a way of upgrading my 2007 iMac. If this is not possible, I'll probably just purchase a new iMac. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Most of the time when I login or open the lid my macbook bro mid 2012, the webcam light turns on for about a second and then turns off. Is there anything I should be worried about like a virus using my webcam to take photos of me from my computer or something?
I resized my partition to increase my Boot Camp drive few months ago with Disk Utility on Mac. After that I decided to have more space on Boot Camp partition. I resized it again by setting a new size for Macintosh HD but when I reboot my Mac and hold alt key there was no Windows boot drive visible. I googled and followed this discussion: Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition based on this answer. After rebooting my Mac I saw the Windows boot option but after selecting it I get System Operating Missing. Here is current situation of my partions and disk:
Can someone please explain what I should do about the following warning from Homebrew: Aren't these the original Python config files installed by OS X? If so, surely I shouldn't delete them? Are python-config and Python2-config required if I only use Python 2.7? Should I change my $PATH which is: UPDATE: I successfully uninstalled Macports and removed /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbinfrom my $PATH, but I'm still getting the following warning:
I've been trying to help a coworker automate a weekly email compilation he sends out but haven't yet been able to figure out how address a few specific areas...first I'll explain the situation, then the goal. Situation: Project Manager at work has been tasked w/ gathering info from several specific employees (managers) each week regarding what their respective teams have been working on (and what progress has been made) and have scheduled for the coming week (this whole endeavor happens every Tuesday). So he's asked them all to use a very simple format (no greeting, no salutation, nothing but the actual content they have to report). Once each of these emails come in Monday night/Tuesday morning he then manually copies the text from each of them then pastes it into another email one at a time, thus composing one email w/ all of the content from each of the others. Once he has this new, all-inclusive email, he then sends that to his supervisor. (For the record I fully understand that the
As the title describes, I'm looking for a totally clean full screen web browser with quick navigating options in Mac OS X. To be specific, I don't want url bar, toolbar or anything else when in full screen mode. Although I've known that safari can hide toolbar in full screen after a few tweaks, navigating seems to be a big pain and I hate moving mouses. I'm also looking for something like sublime text's pop out input bar: with a quick gesture and some simple input, I can reach most of the functions a mouse can do in few seconds. Does a browser like this even exists for Mac OS X?
If I type the command which python, then I get: If I then type python --version, how do I know which Python install I'm getting the version of? Are the two locations above 2 different Python installs?
Can I stop migration from my PC to my MacBook pro without loosing what has already migrated? I did not unplug my external drive and it is now migrating the backup.
I have a Mac Mavericks and a Windows 7 machines. On my Windows I have shared some folders, but I can only connect to them using the IP address, but not the computer name. So Finder -> Go-> Connect to Server… and the smb://my-win/Share does not work, but Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server… and the smb://192.168.1.3/Share works perfectly fine.
I'm trying bluetooth tethering from Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Pairing is successfully done and there are rings on iPad's status bar. However, functions using Internet connection don't work, with an error message like "cannot open ~ page because iPad isn't connected on Internet network."
I download a third party app, e.g., Carbon Copy Cloner. Since I think of it as a utility, not an normal application, I want to put it in the /Applications/Utilities folder. I notice that I'm asked to authenticate to do this differently than I would be if I put it in /Applications. What, if anything, is special about /Applications/Utilities?
I'm unable to manually rearrange my iBooks bookshelf manually and would like to put individual books as well as a 'series' of books in their right order.It lets me 'edit' and move to the position I want but then re-sets itself back to the order the books started with when I press 'done'. I have tried rearranging and not pressing the 'done' but that doesn't work either.either way, once you re-open the bookshelf it's reset itself again. What can I do to rearrange my books in the order I want and save the changes without my iPad re- setting them? Thank- you for your help.
I am starting to learn XCode, and having a MacBook Pro 2011 with 4Gb of DDR3 ram (Quad Core 2.0 Ghz), it is slow. Am considering of upgrading either my RAM or swapping the HDD for an SSD. Which would you recommend first and why?
I'm trying to install Win7 onto my mid-2010 iMac using Bootcamp. After starting Bootcamp I click "Continue" and get this message: Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.
Some MS Word DOCX files, and an occasional Excel XLSX file, appear to be open by another user when opened from a server volume. The error message is
Ever since adding an iTunes gift card to my account, I'm getting verification requests like crazy. I can't even download free apps. It takes me to my payment info and when I try to select none, I continually get a message under the payment info that says "you must verify your payment info to continue"
If I turn my Photo Stream off does my Camera Roll still get backed up in iCloud? Me and my boyfriend share iTunes accounts. His friends send pictures back and forth and they show in Photo Stream. I want to turn it off but I want to ensure my Camera Roll is still backed up to iCloud.
I got the following list of brew doctor warnings and was wondering if it's safe to delete the libraries and .pc files listed. (I have no idea what they are used for!)
So I have unmounted a usb external hard drive but I went to re-mount it. Is there a command that I can use to remount the drive? Only way I know to re-mount a drive is to disconnect the usb cable from my Mac and reconnect it.
I have a troublesome Mac OS X server to deal with. When I ask for my current group membership using this: I get a list of 20+ groups!
In my earlier question, I got a response recommending the "newgrp" command. It diligently did the job of putting my desired group at the "top of the list" for the "id" command, but, why does it also complain about "too many groups"? What is the limit, and, where is the documentation about that?
I manually transferred some of the fonts from my old Mac via Fontbook to my retina MacBook Pro. After doing this the font for system popups broke. How can I fix it? Here is an example:
I can close google chrome with following bash command: It closes all instances of google chrome. But I need command that close all the instances of google chrome except first, because music is playing there and I don't want to stop it. I use word instance to express new google chrome window which opens after I press super N.
I have my files spread between the main drive and a volume that is mounted most of the time. Spotlight is enabled and properly indexing both of them. When searching through the top right spotlight menu, only results from the drive show up.
I have the following requirement: A software that runs on OS X which takes a number of image files and creates a HTML gallery out of them. It needs to have the following features: Caption and description on a main thumbnail page.
I have recently set up dual monitors on my mac mini and am happy with the set up. However applications such as the very useful Alfred or other applications automatically open up in the second display which is not the behavior I am looking for. Is there a method to allow the application to launch in the other display? I have seen a method whereby the user can add a second deskspace and then control click the icon in the dock so that a particular space is selected for launching apps but Alfred doesnt appear in the dock so this isn't an option. Any help appreciated
Recently, without any settings changes, my iMessage on iPad began failing every attempt I made to message my husband. I can still message other friends from my iPad without any other issues. I can still message my husband from my iPhone. So frustrated....looked at settings options and can not detect anything to fix this issue. I have restarted iPad several times, still not working.
My Flickr account credentials do not work in the Settings app on my iPad mini retina with iOS 7. Every time I enter my Yahoo username and password I get the following message: I have enabled two-factor authentication on this account.
My iPhone 5 won't boot anymore and when I plug it in my MacBook, it goes to recovery mode (cable logo => iTunes logo). So I tried to restore it using iTunes but I keep getting this error
When I attempt to execute xattr in Terminal, I get What's going on here? I thought xattr was part of Darwin. Is xattr written in Python? Does it require a Python package to be installed on my system?
On my iMac running Mountain Lion, Messages is chronically showing that I have 2 unread messages in its Dock icon. However there are no unread messages at all. I've even gone through and clicked on every single conversation in my history, just to make sure there wasn't some long-forgotten message floating around that hadn't been read.
I use my new late 2013 Mac Pro in Windows only. But, I'd like to disable the bootup chime. How can I do this?
I have a friend who's hard drive died on their Mac Mini. I have removed the hard drive and placed it in external drive enclosure. I have a trick that may give me 5-10 good minutes with the drive before it spins it last spin, and I intend to use that time (if I can) to get a few files from the drive.
I've been having sporadic issues where my Macbook Pro Retina hangs at startup. I started up in verbose mode and it always hangs at this message. After several minutes it continues with these two message. What do those messages mean?
I use home-brew for some tools on my macbook and it had been working fine. I recently put a SSD in my macbook and restored it to a time machine backup as I thought this would give me a pretty good replica of what my system was previously. However, since doing that, whenever I call a command that home-brew installed I am given the following error:
I have tried running Testdisk and placing the partition using pdisk and this guide, without success. I don't know anything about the partitioning before the accidental dd except that I selected the standard options for HFS+ from Disk Utility for it and used all the space on the drive.
I've followed the tutorial of openAL sound on the iPhone. While trying to make input file, I'm getting the error which looks like Error: Couldn't open input file (-43) Here is what I've done so far /usr/bin/afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 inputSoundFile.aiff outputSoundFile.caf How can I fix this error?
I have a used MacBook Pro laptop that I purchased from my co-worker two years ago. I had to change its motherboard after water damage.
I'm trying to upgrade and the new OS downloaded but everytime I want to install it, I get: I read that this means I should try later, but I tried many, many times yesterday and today and it didn't go through. Supposedly the device needs to contact Apple to sign the new OS. I also doubt there is so much traffic to Apple servers now, this update is not that new (8 days old). So I wonder if the message is because of either a jailbreak or because something is wrong (bug) when upgrading for such an old iOS to 7.1.
I'd like to see my hotmail calendars using iCal (or if need be, another calendar tool). I have a new mac running Maverick and I'm blown away by the answers I'm seeing online. I don't want to forward my calendars to another email account like gmail. That's a ridiculous work around. It's 2014!
After many calls with the Apple support, they told me I should reinstall the OS and restore my stuff with the migration assistant. I did it and almost everything works fine so far.
I am still running iOS 6 on my iPad. I have several apps that are failing to download right now (error message is "unable to download update at this time") and I'm wondering if it could be because I am not on the latest OS? I have done the following troubleshooting: Reset home network Reset the iPad Tried to tap on the app needing updates so that it triggers it to start Verified that my account works fine Verified free space (10+ gb) I'm not sure what other troubleshooting I can do, so I thought I'd see here if my OS version was a potential problem or what else I should look into next.
Can I buy an iPhone in another person's name because I will be gifting it to him so that he can claim under they warranty if anything comes up in the future.
I have my own private domain hosting solution with email, for example, test@test.com. When I am using the iCloud.com website from my browser, let's say for creating a spreadsheet, I will want to shed that with other people, however, I don't want to send it from my iCloud email address, instead I want to be able to send emails from within iCloud.com using my other email address, e.g., test@test.com, how can I do this?
If I use Find my iPhone to locate my son's phone, does he know I am checking? Does his phone alert him that I'm checking on him?
Can someone point me why this activity indicator is spinning? All apps are closed. It's starts to spin right after I'm activating wifi. Wifi turned off - activity indicator disappearing.
Has anyone figured out how to enable HiDPI mode for the Dell p2815Q on Mac OS X 10.9? I have tried Quartz Debug, default write commands at the terminal and SwitchResX, to no avail.
Starting in 10.8.x and continuing in 10.9.2, I notice my system freezing when running a time machine backup while "higher performance graphics" are enabled. When I say "freeze", I mean that the mouse pointer doesn't move anymore, sound stops, no more updates to the screen, no ping anymore, cannot log in via ssh anymore. Only pressing the power button for several seconds turns off the system.
I was traveling to Las Vegas two weeks ago and my MacBook looked like it was opened from the bottom and tape was hanging out of it - after retrieving my luggage from the airport. I'm thinking of opening it up but what would I look for if I'm being monitored through hardware? Any tips here too? Yea I know I'm a bit paranoid but you can't blame me with the NSA revelations.
I use Mac Mail as my email program and I would like to know why PayPal emails go always to the spam folder. I have tried to make rules, mark PayPal email as VIP contact but nothing works. I would like them to be sent to my primary inbox. Thanks in advance
I recorded a 5 minute voice memo on my iPhone 5s and when I tapped "stop" I was prompted to give the memo a name. I named it and then I tapped "Delete" instead of "Save", and it disappeared! Noting that I was connected to my MacBook at the time of recording / naming the voice note. Can I retrieve this recording?
One of the main blogs I'm reading has recently transitioned from publishing the full posts in its RSS feed, to publishing just the first few sentences with a "read more" link. This drastically slows me down when reading, as it requires an extra tap and a good number of seconds to load the full, heavy web page instead of the previously light article. Is there any app that can automatically fetch the full articles from a blog when reading the feed, or - better yet - store all of them in advance so that it can be read offline?
I need to use a text editor that is capable of always saving documents using Windows CRLF line endings. So now I'm using TextWrangler. I am opening files from volumes encrypted with TrueCrypt, and I need the content, and the fact that I'm opening these files, to remain secret.
Some of my songs do not finish playing on my iphone. I have tried enabling itunes match and syncing on the computer. Songs will shut off or stop with like 35 seconds remaining in the song. Help?
I have three calendars in my gmail (one for me and my two kids). When I add an appointment on my iphone, it defaults to my son's calendar unless I manually check my calendar every single time.
On the bottom of the Featured tab Apple ID is correct, but when I try to update an app App Store asks me a password for the old Apple ID that I no longer have.
I want to have Safari restore form data when restoring my session. This should be native, but Safari does not have this — yet.
I have just connected my iPhone (4s/iOS 7.1) to my old MacBook. When the "Trust this Computer" message came, I chose accidently No. Is there a way to trust my mac evev whan I already said No?
Well that was surprising. And a little alarming.
I need to access Bluetooth from Python. I have tried installing lightblue via easy_install. It installs properly, but when I try to import it it fails.
I have an external HD that died on me a while ago and I'm trying to see if I can format / erase it to start using it again. The disk does not show up in Finder but I can see it in Disk Utility. When I try to erase it from there I get When I try to verify the volume:
How can i change my region/country but without putting a card to pay?
I'd like to have the same effect of command + tilde - that is, alternate between windows of the same application - but with tabs, in Safari. If possible, I'd like to use the same shortcut. Is there a way to achieve this?
Whenever I download something with Google Chrome, all icons on the desktop has the unfinished icon. It does it with all files types.
I want to quick switch to the other user in the system, but this login screen has stay there for almost half an hour  Can I cancel the login via command line or other keyboard combination? I can ssh into the box as an admin /EDIT: I want avoid reboot or shutdown
I would like to run multiple Skype accounts in one computer at the same time. Is there an option to do that? It is just to separate personal Skype from business Skype. Thanks in advance
However, there are still valid use cases where you'd like iTunes to keep playing. I have two: I personally have several users for different kinds of activity. Or even when I am together with my SO, we share the same iTunes library and choose together. So when she logs in to her account, she still wants my iTunes to keep playing. And the other way around.
I opened a website in Safari, opened Show Web Inspector, selected one of images from the Images folder, right-clicked and selected Open Image in New Window, and it did not open a new folder. I used Chrome and used Inspect Element- Open Image in New Tab, and Chrome opened the image in new tab. Is there some problem with Safari or my MacBook Air?
At the foot of the About This Mac window: some Macs show License Agreement some Macs show License and Warranty. What determines whether the word Warranty appears? (For someone whose late 2013 Mac Pro 6,1 serial number is listed in their support profile, the word does not appear.)
I just bought a new Mac from the Apple online store (six days ago) and it had a scratch on it when I got it. I would return it, but I needed my Mac for work, so I waited four days. And in the four days my Mac got another scratch. Can I return it now?
my mail.app suddenly stopped showing me to/cc header detail in all emails. I had a better look at it and those headers are there, but are displayed in white color. Details on image:
my macbook's hard-drive is dead so i bought a new one and i'm looking for a way to install os X on it. Is it possible to download mavericks on an imac running 10.6.8 and create a bootable dvd ? Thanks
I'm looking to download the reading list I've been populating from iOS (I think this is stored in iCloud), preferably in CSV format. Is this possible? I don't mind getting it in another format, but I'd prefer to get it from the web (I couldn't find iCloud's online interface, is that still a thing?) and not from iTunes.
I know my question sounds stupid but I can't imagine scratching my iPad mini screen! I have iPad mini (Retina Display) and I'm considering getting Applydea Maglus stylus.
Trying to install OS X Mavericks the computer re- started as part of the installation process but when it came back on it just has a white square half way down with the x in a circle and above says download OS X. There is no desktop or launch pad behind so I can't do anything at all! What can I do?
The 10.9.2 upgrade completely messed up the OpenGL driver and is causing some games / graphics driven application programmed in OpenGL to have a lot of issues with particle drawing. This is unbearable and it is causing me to lose work hours. This issue did not occur in 10.9.1 and I have researched a bit and found this to be an issue in 10.9.2. I would like to rollback to 10.9.1 or 10.9 but my recovery will only install 10.9.2 and redownloading Mavericks from the App Store also installs 10.9.2. Is there a way to roll back to one of these more stable versions?
I would like to replace a songs that I have in my iTunes library with a higher quality version (and different filename). These songs are listed in various playlists in my iTunes library, what would be the best way to update them on the playlists as well without manually going through each playlist to find find and replace?
I have a 15" Macbook Pro Early 2011 and OS X 10.9.2. Spotlight is starting to re-index process when I logged in. I want to know: is this a normal behaviour?
Is there any known issue with using a laptop's trackpad while on a moving train, i.e. is the EM field expected to interfere? I ask because often when I use my Apple Macbook Air 1.1 (Early 2008) trackpad on a train (as opposed to, e.g., on my office desk) I get interferences of various kinds: it is slower in moving, it makes strange effects like activating auxiliary functions when I put two fingers on it, etc.
I have a 2013 15inch retina MacBook Pro and two Dell U2414H as external monitors. I want to watch video or play games like the image in this question. For the current mac system, I can only achieve two individual external monitors not like the dual monitors. I tried to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, and it can become the dual monitors. However, when I tried to play some video, it can only be displayed on one monitors. Can anyone help me with the issue?
I am on iOS 7.0.4 on an iPhone 5. I type in a IP address on my local network, 192.168.11.18, in my Safari address bar, and Safari completely ignores the fact that it is a host I am wanting to visit. Instead, it searches for www.192.168.11.18 in my ISP's search engine. How can I force Safari to visit the host I am requesting and not assume it's a search term?
This happens in VLC, iTerm, Chrome, maybe others where a grey-ish bar appears where the menu bar would normally be and if I mouse over it the menu bar appears. In Chrome this sometimes appears when I have created a new window on my main screen, make it fullscreen, and move it to the second display, but if I exit full screen and re-enter full screen it works, but not for VLC or iTerm. Any ideas on how to fix this? The third chrome image is what it looks like when it's working correctly (and the mouse is hovering to shown the menu bar).
I'm helping someone that changed their password (Thanks to corporate policy) and then forgot what they set it to. They remember the first part so I would not need to completely brute force it. I was thinking about booting into recovery mode and trying to run some kind of script from bash to try to unlock the partition (diskutil corestorage unlockvolume UUID -passphrase PASSWORD) using different passwords until successful. Is there a better approach?
On OS 10.9.2, with permissions unlocked, my admin user gets "Unable to delete the user account [username]" when I click the "minus" delete button. I checked the option to archive the user in the Deleted Users folder, and the error message says, "An error occurred while backing up this user's home folder". Any ideas? Can't see any permissions errors, etc. that are obvious.
Notes.app on OS X crashes whenever I make an edit in the iOS app and it syncs back down to my Mac. When it crashes, I just open up the app again, and everything is synced up and works perfectly. The crashing is obviously super annoying, though. Has anyone else seen this problem?
My MSFT Word document won't resize, beyond a point. I'm trying to compared multiple documents on the screen at once. Thus, I'm trying to shrink them to fit on my screen. The window doesn't shrink past four inches or so length. Any ideas?
I want to run a command within an iTerm2 session like this: But I get the following error (with and without '/dev' in the tty name)
How to open installed gems in editor such Sublime Text or Text Mate or Atom? I would like to do it from command line like: open -a Sublime\ Text\ 2 something_here
A mysterious file keeps appearing on my startup disk. It's most likely a typo in a script or something, but even though it's being created with my user account as the owner, that hasn't helped me narrow it down.
In Energy Saver settings (System Preferences -> Hardware section) the Mac is set to sleep after 15 minutes, but nothing happens. Mac drains battery and automatically turns off when battery is low. If I type pmset -g assertions in terminal, I get this:
i'd like to be able to open an app as a different user. For example PC1 is my main account and PC7 is my secondary one. I can achieve the effect in terminal using su - pc7 insert password /Applications/Application.app/Contents/MacOS/ApplicationName How can i use the automator to make a script/app whatever that does this by a simple doubleclick? Thanks
My clients are printing direct to a network printer (no print server). Xerox have confirmed that the Secure Print Only option is only available in Windows, so I am looking at editing .plists, Applescript, Automator and anything else that can allow me to force my client Macs to default to secure printing.
After I "properly eject" an external HDD or USB stick, can I "reconnect" it without physically unplugging it?
Recently my Mac has been exhibiting two strange behaviours: Preferences for Safari and Windowshade return to their defaults on their own every few days. On occasions, when I select shut down, the computer does a reboot instead. What can cause these? Mac Pro 2012, 6 cores 3.33 Ghz OS X 10.6.8 (no intentions to move to Mavericks) OS X on SSD, user folder on HDD
I am working through the process to pair an Apple Wireless Keyboard as described here and can't figure how to perform the manual passkey setup. SingleShot has mentioned of a way to manually set the passkey to 'zero' but I need to know how to do that as he has not mentioned how to do the same
I have OSX 10.9.2 and on some photos the Preview shows blank panel instead of the image. Sometimes it opens the image, other times it's blank (for the same image).
The default title that will be chosen is "Proposal.pages.pdf". Fairly simply thing to change, but when you generate PDFs all day, it becomes bothersome.
Would backing up my home directory be enough or does OS X saves important files outside of it I should be aware of? This is not supposed to be a full OS backup, I only want my data. Applications' configuration details can be re-created and so on but other things such as bookmarks I do consider important. Currently backing up: /Users/Crocodile (except for Trash & Library) /Users/Crocodile/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles (FF bookmarks) /Users/Crocodile/Library/Fonts (user-specific fonts) I use CalDAV for calendar and IMAP for email so no need to backup Mail/Calendar directories, right?
With the advent of Mavericks, files don't have only labels, they have tags. You can still use it just like labels (and have the classical 'work', 'home', 'urgent', 'to file', ... tags), but it is more powerful than that.
Is there anyway I can change company name from my iOS Developer account?  Like this for example where it says "By TARDIS59" is there a way to change it to "By Ashley Richards"?
I traded in my iPhone 4s for a 5s. I did not have time to transfer my photos at the store. My iPhone 5s says my iCloud is full and that the pictures are from my old phone. How do i get these photos out of the cloud and onto my iMac?
I am using 10.9.2 late 2013 computer to analyze my data, specifically with MATLAB, and generally I have many MATLABs open in parallel, doing some analyses for me. MATLAB, X or Y is completely irrelevant here, so just imagine your best program and replace it with MATLAB here.
I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer data between two macbook pros, both on OS X 10.9.2. I have them connected via thunderbolt ethernet adapters.
Upon Google searching people seem to equate "recovery CD" with full installation. I have seen methods such as using Disk Utility with the Mac HD as the source and a DVD as the destination. This clones the existing installation and I do not want that.
I've got a few devices enrolled in my server's Profile Manager service. To test that this works on an outside WiFi network, I opened ports 443 and 1640 on our firewall (and ignored the others, as our firewall does not block outbound traffic), but when trying to send a Lock command to the test device (an iPhone connected through 4G LTE, no WiFi network), the command just stalls in Profile Manager, listed as "pending".
I have the Gmail on my iPhone and iPad, both running the latest version or iOS and the Gmail app. In the app, is there any way to get rid of/hide the 'important' and 'all mail'. When I toggle the sidebar in the app, both those labels appear under the 'more' category. Everything I've tried so far hasn't worked.
My iPhone 5S was lost / stolen this weekend. I was able to track it to a location in Brooklyn NY, unfortunately in a set of connected brick apartment buildings. The find my iPhone app isn't quite good enough to determine exactly which building and the police tell me I couldn't just go inside the buildings looking for it (trespassing). I tried playing a sound this morning & the phone was promptly turned off - yeah, probably a mistake, but I was hoping the thief would realize he/she should do the right thing & return it.
I use Finder with the 'view as list' setting. Today I noticed that one of my folders had a darker grey arrow next to it than all the others:
I've installed mate in the preferences pane in TextMate2. It says "Shell support installed." I added the string export EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/mate -w" to ~/.bashrc as instructed.
Background Trying to load the Printer Setup Utility on OSX Mavericks from the terminal. This is for a setup app which has streamlined interfaces for setting it up. What I've Tried I've tried going into the .app folder and loading the utility directly (./System/Library/CoreServices/Printer\ Setup\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Printer\ Setup\ Utility ; )
I'm trying to get an applescript to combine .mkv's with .srt's after i added those files to a folder. I've managed to do the automatic conversion from mkv to mp4 and add them to itunes. The only thing that I cannot accomplish is to get the srt automatically.
I use my iPad and iPhone as an alarm clock every night and keep them plugged into the wall. I want to be able to look over during the night and check the time, but I don't want them to be open and unlocked. Is there a way to require passcode when the home button is pressed, while still keeping apps open and visible? Sort of using the app as a "screen saver".
Here's a command that works fine when I paste it into the Mac Terminal window: In particular, it sets the Terminal's title to include the string "My Custom Window Title Here", then starts pinging www.google.com. Now what I want to do is have the above command run in a separate Terminal window instead, so I enter this: … but all I get is this error: If I get rid of the backslashes, osascript will run the command, but then of course the custom window title doesn't get set. Is there some way I can get my bash command through osascript's parser intact, so that I can have my ping command execute in its own window AND with a customized window title?
I have a personal iPad with some work apps on it. I just received an iPad from my employer. The 2 have different iCloud accounts. How can I move work apps from my personal iPad to the work iPad without having to pay for them again? It only affects a couple of apps
I got a Bluetooth wireless speaker and it is great in many ways. I can listen to podcasts and music without wires to get in the way.
I was following this page: Anyone able to connect gioteck VX-1 (PS3 controller) via Bluetooth? to modify the bluetooth plist settings on my Mac to allow a Chinese PS3 controller to work with my Mac.
"Create a new notebook" with OneNote for Mac is not possible in offline mode. :( Editing and updating your notebook, however, works flawlessly in offline mode. My question is: where does OneNote for Mac store its Notebook files (for offline work)? Also, I would love to find a workaround to use OneNote in offline mode and to block sync in my firewall.
I use a MacBook Pro with retina display, OS X 10.8. I'm trying to run applications on a remote cluster via X11 ssh forwarding. I see everything with bad resolution, and guess this has to do with my retina display. I know that the same applications look good if installed on my local machine. Any ideas? Thanks!
I have admin rights on my mac laptop at work. In the last several days I have lost access to several system preference pane items. Most notably "security and privacy" and notifications. The icons are now grey and when I hover over them they display "your system administrator has not given you access to this preference pane" How do I re-enable these preferences?
I am using OSX Mavericks 10.9.2 and I have 4 desktops that I use in my daily workflow. From time to time Desktop 2 and Desktop 3 switch places and I cannot figure why. Probably when moving from desktop to desktop (sometimes I use 3 finger swap and sometimes Control^#) I activate some shortcut.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for moving to the next or previous sheet in Numbers 3? I have a dream I found those shortcuts, but can't seem to figure out what they were...
First I searched for truecrypt. Found it and installed it:
I am using Parallels 9 to run Windows on Mac with Mavericks. and I'd like to connect my Mac and Windows to different networks.
I'm a developer that travels. I have a macbook pro and a mac mini (which runs as a headless webserver). This setup works fine when both machines are on the same network. However, I've never been able to get this setup to work at all when I'm somewhere that doesn't have a connection (and I need to work offline).
I use 8 desktops on my MBP for my different apps. Do you know if it can affect memory use?
How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode? It annoys me like hell! I want to see whole pages with a bit of space around them. Is this another thing that iWork 13 can't do? Just a one pixel line separating different pages in image below.
I use three different keyboard layouts for three different languages on a regular basis and use a shortcut to cycle between them (this is very handy). The one issue I regularly encounter is that many shortcuts change because the letter on the keyboard changes place, so the shortcut is the same, e.g., Command+Shift+[, but it's on a completely different position on the keyboard which makes the whole shorcut-thing not so short. So is there a way to change the keyboard layout but keep the position of the keys used in shortcuts the same?
I've been wondering if I can use the camera connection kit as a way to directly copy video files onto my iPad for watching, from SD card. I've tested that photos and videos taken on my digital camera do show up on the "import" screen, but when I copy a different MP4 file (an episode of a TV show) into the exact same DCIM directory on the SD card, it is not visible for import. The MP4 was created specifically for iPad using HandBrake - I know if I import into iTunes library they will work on the iPad because I've been doing that already - but I'm going away and won't have my Mac with me. Are there possibly file size restrictions in place, or something else I can easily fix?
I have quite a few apps (Glui, Wunderlist, Cobook) that startup at login (which I do not want them to). I do not have them among the user's login items and when I created a new test user, these apps do not start. I also checked in LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons (both system and User) and can't find these items there.
I have an applescript that checks my macbook battery and forces hibernation when it reaches a certain level, after displaying a 60 sec countdown. I've successfully set it up to run in the background via launchd, every 30 secs, as a script but this causes an annoying bouncing icon on the dock.
I bought a Mini last year and I want to update the RAM. I was shopping around to find some compatible memory and found (this)from a Spanish retailer. They are selling what you see on the picture and I'm trying to understand if this memory is compatible with my machine or not. I wrote to the company and they said that there will be no problem but I want to be super-sure. This info is about my mac: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 2 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 And running OS X Lion.
I use a VPN to connect to the network of my company and add some routes. After connecting and addding the routes it works just fine. Is there a way to permanently add the routes so that they survive reboots? Currently, I run a shell script to configure them after connecting to the VPN, but I always need to be root to do this. I'm not experienced with OS X but familiar with UNIX.
I expected it to be so for the first time while the SSD is being filled with new/frequently used data, but even when I write new files they tend to go to HDD rather than SDD. To test that I created 100MB files, and while the HDD was not full all writes were going to HDD. So my questions are:
I cannot connect to wifi with my Mac. It happened before and i asked about it in this post: Macbook pro does not connect wifi This time when i follow steps in there, it gives me this error: Failed to join network myNetworkName.. Error:-3905 Timeout error
I have setup the latest Apple MDM server (Mavericks 10.9.2/Server 3.0.3) with Profile Manager and I'm able to push out configuration profiles to test Macs. One of my goals is to push out profiles that will cause Macs join our Active Directory and configure our Macs to use Portable Home Folders.
So I got a MacBook (non pro) from a friend but the HDD is dead. After replacing it, I had no way to restore OS X and my friend can't find the recovery/reinstall disc. The model seems too old for Internet recovery (A1181 Core Duo, not C2D) and DIY recovery tool on Apple's site says the Mac must have a "recovery hd", which I assume I don't have since the HDD is blank.
I have a 17" Mac Book Pro (Late 2011) which have dual boot Windows 8.1 installation via Bootcamp along MacOSX. Prior to Mavericks upgrade I had this disk layout
How do you page-down/page-up in Preview.app's continuous scroll mode? When I hit the page-down button on my keyboard, instead of showing me the next page worth of the PDF, it scrolls me to a new page -- that is, I'd like to see the bottom of page one when I hit page-down, but I get page two instead. No other app I've ever used has this behavior. (I'm using Mavericks. Would like the old Snow Leopard functionality!)
I've seen this - not relevant since I am using Office 2011, but I just can't find this option in notebook layout. Also, please don't suggest I use OneNote for Mac now that it's available. I took the time to convert to Word, and I prefer it now, taking note's in notebook layout, and keeping a good print layout automatically.
The first is just to show you where the installation is at this moment: n102:~ hendrikwindel$ brew info truecrypt truecrypt: stable 7.1a *=URL=* Conflicts with: fuse4x Not installed From: *=URL=* ==> Dependencies Build: pkg-config ✔, nasm ✔ Required: wxmac ✔, osxfuse ✔ And now occurs the issue:
I lost my phone 5/think it was stolen. I had "Find My iPhone" on it. The thing is it was very low on battery and by the time I realised it was gone I think the battery was done - it just showed "device offline".
I need to run a very simple email server on a plain (non-OSX Server) Mavericks box (Mac mini). All I need to do is be able to receive email with attachments, send it to a Perl/Python script, and send simple reports via email from the Perl/Python script. Basically, my script processed the email, including the attachment, and either sends an email report to the sender or to a mailing list. I've done this on an old Linux box with postfix, but I need to move this to a newer/faster machine - this Mac mini running Mavericks. When I try to search on this, everything I get is for OSX Server, but I don't have OSX Server. I know from experience that you can't follow regular Linux instructions for OSX, it's too different. I need this server to start itself whenever the device restarts, as well. This is a protected server on a LAN and will never receive email from outside, so I don't have security concerns. I need the simplest, most robust setup I can find. Doesn't have to be postfix, but it's wha
I have a MBP from 2010 with 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of RAM. Lately I am getting many kernel panics when my MBP is under high load, such as when copying, playing video's, editing etc.
When searching for a file with Spotlight (and with the Finder) I often find many different versions of the correct file name. But to choose the correct one I want to deal with, I should see its complete location on the file system.
I'm starting to publish apps and I'm curious about this green number in iTunes Connect:  I believe it indicates growth over three hundred something. Can someone explain what this is? Thanks!
I have an iPhone 5 bought in Norway. The language setting on the phone is Norwegian, which means menus and such are all shown in Norwegian. The same goes for some "inherent" apps such as the iPhone weather app, which is also in Norwegian. I'm Norwegian, so that's all good. However, I've been living in Kazakhstan for the past year, and gradually (and weirdly) my phone seems to have picked up on the fact that I live in a Russian-speaking environment and maybe that I sometimes write in Russian. Now my Spotify app, all sorts of games and other apps automatically that I want to be in English have morphed into Russian, and there is no way to change the language to English. My time zone is currently set to New York (I'm in the US at the moment), there is nothing in my settings saying I want stuff to be in Russian, but just now when I downloaded the game "The Island" the whole damn thing is in Russian, and there is no option to change language for it anywhere. What to do to?
So when you have a ~5-7 year old Apple Cinema Display monitor that looks something like this:  and you upgrade to Mavericks (MacOS 10.9) or Yosemite (MacOS 10.10), you will lose the ability to adjust the brightness on the thing via the "Display" Preference Pane. In other words, the brightness will be stuck at whatever level it was at when you were on Mountain Lion. And this is because of a conscious decision by Apple to obsolete these things to motivate you to throw perfectly good monitors into the trash or recycling bin :-( (and buy new Apple products, but of course). So, how to get your brightness controls back in Mavericks?
I had portioned my hard drive into two (mac and Windows). Later I portioned the primary (mac) into two but figure my Windows were not loading so I changed it back into one. The problem is there is about 600MB of unallocated space that I can't seem to merge with the primary. Is there any way to god it. Mac Disk Utility can't even see it! Screenshot is below
I have a java tool that I use quite often from the command line but to use it I have to type java -jar dsim.jar. I want to make it so that I can call it just by typing dsim regardless of what directory I am in, but I can't quite work out how to accomplish this. I have created a file at ~/.bash_profile and put into it:
These are the steps: I installed Windows bootcamp on my MacBook; I used CCleaner to Wipe Free Space Only on my Hard Drive Result: I can't start the MacBook on Mac-system, the system immediatelly chooses Windows as OS.
I installed Windows 7 (bootcamp) on my MacBook but it doesn't work. Do I have to install special drivers? Any help is appreciated.
Can I turn on the hotspot in objective-c in iOS 7? I've searched StackOverflow, and some information I've found has said "objective-c does not support turning on the personal hotspot". But this information was from a few years ago. Does objective-c support turning on the hotspot in iOS 7 now?
Without third-party software, is there a way to extract a zip file to a different location without using Terminal? I realize I could use unzip file.zip -d /path/to/destination, but I'd love to do it just by dragging and dropping with a keyboard modifier or something. Is this possible?
I'm getting kernel panics more often than I'm comfortable with. I got one yesterday and one today, not sure the exact frequency before that, but I got at least a couple last week. If anyone would care to look at the log it would be much appreciated. I will keep posting logs here as they happen. http://pastebin.com/U6usVd88
A few days ago, I went on vacation and unplugged power cable from my MacBook Pro 13' early 2011 and then I got back home, the battery was not detected by OS and didn't charge. I then understood that I had automatic startup configured and the laptop did power ON next morning then I was not at home. The battery was discharged completely. I tried to restart, to power down and unplug power cable, I also tried to did SMC reset, but that didn't work.
When I run python from the shell I for example do python2.7 script. I later need to find this command again based on the ps aux output, however this output shows a full absolute path like this:
Is there a PGP/GPG plugin for TextWrangler? If so, what is it called and how do I go about downloading and installing it?
I'm attempting to build an Automator workflow (which will be saved as a Service, so that I can both access it from contextual menus and invoke it with a keyboard shortcut), that will function much like the Finder's built-in "Show Package Contents" command, but which will additionally accept a package's alias as input. The service will satisfy the following: It will only be available when the Finder's selection consists of a package or a package's alias. Rather than show the contents of the package directory itself like the built-in command does, the Service will show the contents of the "Contents" directory (if it exists), located immediately within the package directory.
I have an iPhone 5c, I have it jailbroken, and I was trying to take it off. So, stupidly, I went into iFile and started deleting anything I saw about evasi0n, Cydia, or any tweaks I had installed. I'm guessing it was a big mistake, because now my iPhone:
For example, if I have 2 Safari windows open. One is minimized and I have focus on the other one, how do I open the minimized one with out using the mouse? I found ⌘-` activates the next open window in the frontmost application, which will cycle through the open windows. How do I get to a window that is minimized?
Iv'e managed to get my ssh volumes mounted with SSHFS via the command line but would really like is to have them auto mount on login. So far, I've set up a launchAgent to run a shell script that contains the commands I would use in the terminal. That contains: This works via the terminal but when the launchAgent loads, It seems momentarily mount the volumes and then they disappear.
I want my son to be able to access my full iTunes library without signing in to my Microsoft account on my Windows 8 pc. He has his own Microsoft account/sign in. I have tried Home Sharing, but this seams only to work if he has a different computer (and we only have this one). I do not want to create a separate iTunes account for him. When he opens iTunes and looks at the songs list, he can see some, but not all of the songs in my library. Can anyone help?
Behind each review there is a version like this (v1.5). I've encountered some comments which clearly use a newer version then it is shown. How is this possible ?
It's a 2011 MacBook pro and the a and c keys are not working on both the built-in keyboard and the usb keyboard. Because of this i can't bypass the firmware login screen. Now the weird thing is that that cmd + a works (select all) so the key is being recognized, but a by itself doesn't. Any ideas?
I forget my passcode and when I reset my phone I lost all my data, photos and apps. I was connecting to iTunes but I never backed up. How can I get all my photos and apps on my iPhone 5 without a back up? I was able to restore my apps from iTunes, but its like new again, how can I include the data inside the applications?
I am using Pages 5.1. When I misspell words, spellchecker underlines them in red. I am usually able to either "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" when I right-click the word:
Today I tried opening the App Store to update some software, but when it opens I am left with a blank screen:  Also, when I click on the menu items in the top bar, multiple items will highlight in blue (but the blank screen will not change):
trying to launch Xcode 5.1 and keep getting "Xcode is being updated". It was updated last week and shows as installed. Screen shots to illustrate. Any ideas? I went to the developer portal, but it takes you to the App Store (I was hoping there was a seperate install). Many thanks. Project is stuck at the moment.
I have an aging, but still functional mid-2006 iMac at home. Last night, my wife was in the basement and said she smelled a faint odor of something burning, she said it smelled like it might be plastic. Earlier in the night, I had noticed a high-pitched whine coming from the computer. I'd like to eke as much life out the computer, which we use for balancing the checkbook and my wife uses to check her email and do some light writing now and again, as we can get. I had an old copy of iStat nano on the computer and saw that all three fans were spinning and none of the temps seemed too high. Could someone tell me what the normal CPU, hard drive, and optical drive temps and fan speeds are? Thanks.
If the display on my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro is asleep when the computer switches from the discrete Nvidia graphics card to the integrated Intel one, WindowServer will freeze. I'm able to move the cursor and even control applications (for instance, unpause iTunes) by clicking blindly, but the image on screen won't update.
I am using iPhone 4 with iOS 6, and my boyfriend is using iPhone 5 with iOS 6 (recently upgraded to iOS 7). Whenever I called him from my iPhone, it would say "Connecting..." when he picked up, and then after a few seconds it would say "Connection Lost". I tried a lot of times and it never worked.
I have to check if my web page running locally on nginx does not work due to permission issue. My web scripts are running as _www user, so I tried to switch to _www but this does not work: How can I do this in 10.8.5?
I have iCal synced with Google Calendar and would like one of my accounts to also sync with iCal. In order to fix this problem I am trying to understand what the icon in two and three below mean. What do these icons indicate?
I am currently dealing with a stalking situation and my iPhone 4 is being monitored. The person knows all my phone info like meid, imei, phone number etc… Also I believe my phone has spy software on it.
No matter what settings I apply within System Preferences, after a time of inactivity the login screen pops up. I'm attempting to backup to an external hard drive and create a time machine backup, but both stop once the login screen appears. What setting am I missing that will prevent this from happening?
Since Cyberduck uses Java, it's out for me. Any replacement for Mavericks that is good, has similar to WinSCP functionality and has an option to try before I buy?
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro Retina. The native (i.e. maximum supporter built-in display resolution) is, as far as I know, 2880x1800. So far so good. Then I went to resolution settings and slided it all the way right, to the highest offered by the system. No other resolution apps, just the standard OS X setting.
I want to make some tutorials in 1080p on my MacBook Pro with retina display. Is there a way to record the screen "natively" in 1920x1080? I don't care if it would look scaled and blury at the time I'm recording it. Also, I wouldn't mind if I had black bars up and down (due to the different ratio). I just want to have a sharp 1080p video as the final result (a video that will be as sharp on YouTube, when it's switched to 1080p playback).
At Photoshop, you can use command+~ to switch tabs, is there a keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs at Safari?
I'm experiencing a very annoying issue with the latest version of iTunes; there are 92 songs for which it is determining gapless playback information over and over again, at every launch of the app. Any ideas on how to debug this / how to fix it? Googling yields a few Apple threads which tell you to readd the files one by one which is useless; that just bypasses the check instead of fixing the actual issue.
I recall a key-combination, in a pre-Mavericks OSX, that could be pressed after entering one account's info for initial startup FileVault volume decryption. The key-combo prevented a full login of that account, instead dropping again to the login prompt, for login via another account. However, I can no longer find any reference to this capability, nor re-discover the combination through trial-and-error.
Is there a free app like Sublime Text 2 on iPad that can read code and have Syntax Highlighting?
HOW can I get it back and delete it completely ? Is there any apps allow me to do so? THANKS N.B.I'm currently using the newest model of Mac book pro. Situation: I deleted the file (by just holding it for few second and press the cross) but it still occupied 20 GB... Is there any way to get the space back?
An application I was using had a .dockset file stored in my home directory. I moved this file, and the application automatically updated the location of the file. I notice a similar effect when moving files that I'm currently editing in apps like Xcode, TextEdit, BBEdit, Preview, iWork, etc. How does Mac OS keep track of these file movements?
I transferred a backup to a new mac. However the names got changed, and one has a -2 added to it. Now my terminal reads name@name-2 -$. In Finder it appears like so:
I use onenote on OSX and it uses the input language as proofing language so I have two input langauges (English and Danish) however I use both langauges with a Danish hardware keyboard. Any possibility to tweak the English input language to use Danish HW keyboard? (I know this is possible on Windows but I cannot find the option to do it on OSX)
Here’s something that sucks: Plug in external monitor to laptop (Mac OS X Leopard in my case).
My iPhone 5S was stolen and I used Find My iPhone App to remote wipe it. Can someone still jailbreak that phone and use it as a new phone?
I'm trying to make a bundle identifier that doesn't require me to submit IAPs. For the explicit id, I can't find where to turn it off or uncheck the box. I noticed that I can make a wild card id, but Game Center is disabled and I want to have Game Center. So, can we submit an identifier with IAPs enabled but not use any IAPs?
Recently I noticed a hike in my daily internet usage. After investigation I came to know that a process called storeagent was downloading huge amounts of data from the internet. When googled I found that it's related to app store. How can I prevent storeagent from downloading data? If I do so will it prevent updates for my applications? Will it make any security issue?
I decided to remove a button in my game so that users won't be able to access the IAP store. I plan to submit my game with the In-App Purchase tab turned on in Xcode(I want to leave the codes there for future use and the game won't work if I turn it off), but without the app really having an IAP store. Will the app get rejected like this?
This hasn't been a problem, until 10.9.1 or thereabout. I have gone in and ran vacuum on the email database, but to no avail. I could of course delete all accounts, all email, but I can't see that fixing the problem, I have also a more than a few GigaBytes of emails, and some accounts that are no longer active, though the emails are still in the app.
When I write a mail in Mail.app (using MacOS X Mavericks 10.9.2 here), I have this "From" Drop down menu which allows me to select from which of my accounts I want to send that mail. In my case, this drop-down menu has 33 items. How is this menu configured?
When disabling 3G/network usage (go to Settings->Cellular->Use cellular data for:) for a specific application (eg. Facebook, Hangouts, Messenger, ...) I can still receive messages and/or notifications on my iPhone. Is this some kind of bug in iOS [version: 7.1(11D167) - modemfirmware: 2.18.02]?
(using Mavericks 10.9.2 (latest)) Using an application in Full-screen (eg VirtualBox), is there a way not to have the Dock show when the mouse hits the bottom of the screen? Tried
I'm trying to download the offline dictation files but I only see the download window (screenshot) and after a while it disappears and the next time if I want to use dictation the same thing happens. Is there some cache that I can try to clear so that it would download everything from scratch?
Today on my way home, I accidentally dropped my iphone with the back facing the ground from about 1.2 metres in the air. All other iphone functions are not damaged except for the screen. My phone has a password and therefore iTunes cannot access it. Also, the screen is damaged so I cannot see anything, and cannot key in the password for my iphone. No matter how hard I slided on the screen it's still the same when I takes the next screenshot. Could it be that the screen had already slided to the side, that's why I couldn't slide to unlock? Or has the touch screen broken down? So what can I do to solve this type of problem? Any reccommendations of iPhone controller (connection from USB only)? I have no budget at all and would not spend any money on this.
I customized my Excel 2011 shortcuts on my MacBook Pro and just wanted to have the same productivity level on my Mac Mini. Is there a way I can export my Excel 2011 shortcuts or will I have to manually set them a second time? I customized my shortcuts using System Preferences (I already manually set these 3 keyboard shortcuts again in Excel 2011 on my Mac Mini) or via the Customize Keyboard Shortcuts pane ( the one in the Tools menu if I remember well).
I am looking for a dead-simple app to take photos (either with the camera, or from the library) and store them onto a server via WiFi. This is for taking photos of whiteboards at work. I really want the app to be dead-simple, automatically storing a photo to the server would be great. I don't really care what protocol it uses to communicate with the server, but it would be great if it were not a proprietary Apple protocol, so that I could use an existing Linux file server. Does such a thing exist?
Trying to get the bytes offset of a text word in a binary file (with some text here and there). I need to know the offset of this word from the beginning of the file. I'm wondering if on osx the command options are slightly different from other unix. This gives me : 31:EXTH
How can I get right-size this column to show the entire filename in the Finder on Mavericks? It used to work in previous OSs. I am in column view. Right-size all columns doesn't work either. It keeps leaving ... where the filename should be.
I have a data limited 4g contract and my iPad is downloading huge chunks of data overnight, daily. I need to be able to track how much data individual apps are using, however as I am connecting to 4g through wifi, I can't just check mobile (celluar) data usage. How can I track the total data each app is using, both over mobile networks and wifi?
Okay, so I'm gearing up to get a new machine so I'm looking at how I can organise things better. Now, currently I use an admin account as my main login account, but I know that that's probably not best practice, so I'd like to switch to a separate admin and non-admin account on my machine.
I am running virtual machines for testing on a second Space using Virtualbox, and the problem is that when I'm on the primary space, the virtual machine continues to use a lot of CPU time and kills the battery. Right now I try to remember to manually Pause the virtual machine every time I switch back to my primary space, but that gets tedious and I'd like to do it automatically. So the question is: How can I send the CTRL + CMD + P shortcut key combination to the virtual machine to pause it every time it loses focus, or alternatively whenever I switch back to Space 1. Ideally it would also send the combination again when I switch to the Space with Virtualbox running on it, but that isn't as important. [edit]
I wanted to add a keyboard shortcut to teleport via the System Preferences. teleport is a preference pane not an application so I can't select it. I tried to assign my keyboard to "All applications" but it didn't work. Edit: I am more looking for assigning a keyboard shortcut to a Preference pane menu item than assigning a global shortcut to a preference pane.
I have the default alert time for events turned on, set to 30 minutes before. This works if I create a new event from within the calendar. However, if I create a new event following a link from email, the default alert is NOT set.
How can I get cmd + space functionality back? Its super quick way to launch apps and I miss it.
I have a Java application in my dock, whose icon appears as the following when it is unopened:  However, after opening the application, the icon changes into the Java coffee cup logo:
Can a bluetooth device, like a panic button, launch an app when pressed and have the app call a pre-programmed number or does the app have to be running for it to be accessed by the device?
Reboot. Eventually apple logo turns into the deadly circle with a slash through it. Hard power off
I want to free up iCloud storage by deleting photos that are backed up elsewhere. How can I delete photos from iCloud without deleting them from my iPhone?
I recently purchased a MiFi to be used while commuting, but apparently the AutoOn doesn't really work as expected. In less than a week I bursted £16 pound credit, when I was supposed to pay £0.2 per each 20Mb. As I did not downloaded 1.6GB of traffic, but I don't have time to complain I wonder whether there is some way or some software to control at what time my laptop use a specific network. By doing this, even though the MiFi will remain active, no network will be connected and I won't be charged (though it is also strange I have made traffic with the laptop off).
Trying to find a way to take component video and audio output from a device, and preview it on-screen in a window. We don't need recording or encoding capabilities, but we would like as low latency as possible. This would allow us to hook up things like a TiVo or game console and play it in a window of our PC without having to dedicate an entire monitor.
I'm running the most recent version of Keynote (as of April 3rd, 2014) on an iPad Air, WiFi-only version @ 16GBs. I would like to export the project/slideshow to a video file (to then be able transfer the movie to my desktop PC running windows).
Anyone will tell you that freeing disk space will make your mac faster - specially noticeable if your disk is almost full. I don't know if that's true. Is it? And why, exactly?
I'm I missing something or a file that still needs to be deleted? Do I need to reinstall Chrome?
I’m a graphics (minimal tech) guy struggling to find an easy way of testing Internet Explorer on my Mac. I don’t have access to a Windows PC, and I don’t want to spend any money to test IE.
I am using an iPod touch 5 and I want to put a password on my WhatsApp, but the apps available on the App Store are not according to my need. Can you suggest some apps so that I can put a passcode on WhatsApp without jailbreaking?
I formatted my iPhone and after setting up iCloud, my apps and pictures were downloading. In middle due to net disconnection, it stopped and it's in stop state till now. Apps icons are dim and lots of pictures have empty frame. How do I start downloading/resume them again?
Is $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist still recognized/used in OS X 10.9.2 for setting global environment variables? Apple's official documentation does not say explicitly it's deprecated, AFACT: *=URL=* Some discussion threads claims it is no longer supported since 10.8: How to set system-wide environment variables on OS X Mavericks *=URL=* What to believe?
I would like to have an Automator Workflow that converts FLAC to Mp3. Right now I am using this shell script which works fine and preserves ID3 Tags:
I am using an iPad Mini with iOS 7.1 , I want to share an image file using airdrop feature from my iPad mini to MacBook . But iPad mini is not detecting MacBook on Airdrop. How can I share file to and from iPad mini to MacBook using Airdrop??
I deleted a 5gb video using rm video.mp4, but the space hasn't freed. This was the situation: while encoding a video with FCP X, I ran out of space, I only had 50 MB free. Since in the trash I had some stuff that I wasn't sure that I could delete it yet, I took the terminal and I manually deleted a big video file with rm video.mp4.
While our netwrokd administrator was admitted to a hospital for an emergency surgery (he is now in coma), being as a temporary delegate, I was ordered by our Institution to turn OFF Mail funciton and to change the admin account password for Mac OS X Server 10.9.2 for security reasons. While changing the password, I took a memo for the new password, but later it turned out to be wrong! My stupidity. After restart, I cannot open Server.app that controls Mail service because it requires the unknown new password.
My iPad keeps sending the message that it is unable to connect to the internet and my only option is to dismiss. How do I find the subnet mask and ip address and router so I can manually try and set it up?
I'm frequently opening multiple instances of applications, especially Emacs, since I may be working on different projects on the same time, and I find this the best way to manage this (yes, I know there are lots of project management extensions for Emacs, I don't need to be taught in Emacs). I'm doing this with open -n -a Emacs.app which opens a new separate Emacs instance. But it would be really nice to set a custom dock icon for the opened instances, so I can easily differentiate them when doing Cmd+Tab.
My 2013 MacBook Air keeps searching for networks when it is already connected the to internet. This is causing unstable connections which slows down my speed. Is there a remedy for this problem?
I have iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1 I am having lot of issues in downloading apps from app store as most of the apps do not support this iOS version anymore. There is an update for iOS 6.1.6 available on iTunes, will my phone get updated to this version and will I be able to download apps later, after the update. My device is jailbroken because I see Cydia on it. Will I still be able to update by restoring my iphone 3GS via iTunes.
Selecting an image in finder and pressing space to bring up Quick Look / View is something I use all the time. However I'd prefer a med grey background colour as I work allot with transparent png's with white borders - so currently its hard to so see the edges. Anyone know of a setting / app / method for setting this? osx 10.9.2
Is there an application or tool that can monitor GPU performance on OS X? Specifically I would like to see the current speed/utilization and temperature of the integrated NVIDIA chip.
I need to import Apple Mail archived files in Outlook 2013 on Windows, but every time I open the import wizard and reach the file selection step, I cannot select the archived file. It doesn't even show in the dialog box.
I have use OS X 10.6.8 for years and just recently did a fresh installation of Mavericks. One of the nicest aspects of OS X was the fact that after three years of use and installing tons of application, none of them, ever added any toolbar or extension to my firefox. As appose to windows that after couple of weeks, the browser looks like a circus.
The preferences of Time Machine crash when I click options. This is what I did:
I had this app called Spark for working environment communication. However, the status bar icon of this app is so ugly that I avoid look at it every time when I glimpsing over status bar.
I am on a MacBook Pro using OS X 10.9.2, using Mail 7.2 If I try to send an attachment in mail, my finder does not allow me to access files. I thought maybe it was just taking longer after the update to "adjust" however I left the finder open for 10 minutes and it still nothing. I can see the folders, but not the contents of the folders. I can access my files when I go directly through the finder, but not when accessing the finder through the mail.app HELP!
I feel like I'm missing something, but maybe this is just a flaw in the software. Whenever I draw diagrams in Pages, or insert images, they seem to just float there, and if I change text above, it causes the text to go past the image I inserted. For example, if I have a paragraph of text that references "the diagram below", and I add another paragraph above it, the diagram would now be above the paragraph of text because it doesn't move with the text as its editing.
I have a very annoying problem with my Mac. My default country is somehow set to the Netherlands. Whenever I open Google with Safari or another Web browser, I get redirected to google.nl. I also cannot use my Spotify account anymore because it says that I need to be in my home country. How can I change that? I already tried using System Preferences -> Language & Region, but that does't work.
I can create a notification in Applescript via display notification "Notification Text" with title "Title goes here" subtitle "subtitle goes here
I've been having issues with my iPhone 5's lock button recently, I'm having to press it more forcefully to get it to work. Then I saw this video and got to a part where the person does a pinch gesture to lock his phone. Is this a feature to iPhone 5S only or can this be unlocked through some set up in accessibility?
Each month I create a new folder like 2014-apr with new wallpapers for this month. But it is a tedious work to change the wallpaper folder for each display. Is there a way to set this folder for all desktops at once?
I'm a web developer and I deal with a lot of passwords. Many of these I only need for a short while and then never again. My login keychain has quickly grown to several hundred items. I do the occasional spring clean, but it's tedious.
I want to remove preferences and application support files from already uninstalled apps. I have app cleaner to remove those files when I delete the application, but that only works for stuff after I installed App Cleaner. Any automated system for programs removed before I installed App Cleaner?
I've been noticing lately that when I'm playing a video on my Mac from say Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, any video site via a browser, the computer gets extremely laggy for 5 minutes and then acts normal. I've looked at my activity monitor icon, and its showing that during that short period the RAM is being maxxed out.
On our server (windows 2012) we have a folder for Scan files called server/scans/(username). I know how to setup link from windows PC so that user can access the scans. How do I setup the same thing on a Mac Pro notebook?
I am installing Mavericks on a 2009 Macbook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo using the instructions outlines in this macworld article: The quick and techie way. So I have a mavericks install drive, but when I go to run it it says this app is not compatible with the arctitecture. The only evidence i could find on this happenening was on PPC macs trying to run intel apps and vice versa. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I have an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, and so I wish to use the subscription-based features of Excel for iPad. The problem is that I use different email addresses for my iTunes and Office 365 subscriptions. This is the series of steps I've followed: Install Excel for iPad Run Excel for iPad Select "Buy Office 365 Home" Select the tiny "I Already Have a Subscription" Enter my iTunes Store password, for my iTunes email address I then get the error message: "No Subscription This Apple ID doesn't have a paid Office 365 subscription." For my two different email addresses, the domain names are the same, but the account names are specific to the two products - as an anti-spam measure, and to make it easier to detect phishing messages.
When I try to download anything or create/save new files, it fails saying "Disk full". Entering quota in terminal tells me around 417600 blocks have been used out of 512000. However, going to About this Mac > More Info > Storage, it says I've got 938.1 GB free. Which is most likely wrong, and what do I need to do to be able to fix this?
There are many times I want to crop a photo using iPhoto on iOS and post to Facebook, and then possibly crop it another way (like panoramic this time), and post to Facebook, but I don't want to lose the original. Is there a way to make duplicates of the original and edit it using iPhoto on iOS?
I use the old 2007 white macbook (that works great). There's a thunderbolt display lying idle in our office, and I wish to connect it to my macbook. The macbook has a mini DVI port. I searched online for a mini DVI male to thunderbolt female adapter, but couldn't find anything. Does such a thing not exist?
Related to this question: What cable do I need to go iPad audio out to macbook air mic in? which is asking about cables to record iPad audio on another device.
I've tried this trick. I bought an external wi-fi (looks like a memory stick) and a USB extension cord plugged into one of my ports. I then got a large kitchen strainer and poked a hole in it at the bottom and fastened the wi-fi gizmo to it. Then pointed it towards the transmitters on the poles on the wharfs. It did make an improvement but it was minimal and not consistent plus it cost $100 so I returned the USB extension cord and the external wi-fi. Anybody want a free strainer with a hole in it?
I bought a cooler for the bottom of my MacBook because I use it on my bed. The Instructions say to flip it so it doesn't work against the computer. I don't want to open it up because it's loaned to me from my school. All I would like to know is if the fans are pulling air in or pushing air out? Apple MacBook Mid 2010
If this is not achievable with multiple external HDD's, can you recommend a set up that I could use that would provide multi-platform RAID support? Would this be achievable only with a single external enclosure using hardware RAID? Thanks for the help!
I have an OSX mail server set up on Mavericks (10.9.2 I believe). I'm trying to set up a few addresses that should do nothing but forward to external gmail addresses. For example, let's say I want user@example.com to forward to myname@gmail.com. If I just try to specify myname@gmail.com as the forwarding address in server.app, it doesn't work.
I would like to turn the contents of a folder into entries for Numbers (or Excel) - is there a way to automate doing this?
I have Finder set to display hidden files/folders. This is rather inconvenient when I open my home folder however, given it contains a lot of them.
If the battery is dead, how can I track my iPad? What if it says iCloud offline on device? Is it because my iPad is wiped or the power is dead? - if so, how can I figure out the seriel number on my iPad to track it in that sort of way
I've just bought a new Air, from my local Apple Store, only to find that it comes with Mountain Lion! Should I return it for pre-installed one, or just let it upgrade?
While restoring or setting up an iPhone (new or old) and choosing a backup from list of provided backup in my iCloud, I'm shown to enter a password for kmward@roadrunner.com , which I don't have idea of who's email that belongs to, I have lots of data on my iCloud and this scares me because why would Apple ask for some other account password? When I choose 'skip this step', I'm given a model message saying, "you must sign in to restore purchased content" and when I do tap skip, it restores from my own account (which earlier I provided credentials). Why does it ask for someone else's account password? Is my account hacked? Is my account linked to someone I don't know? Is my content being distributed to someone from kmward@roadrunner.com ? What should I do to secure and remove this unknown account that Apple ask password for?
I've updated my jailbroken iPhone 3GS via iTunes restore to iOS 6.1.6, but after the update I am not able to activate my iPhone and its showing no service. It says no sim card is installed in the device which you are activating, although it is inserted. My iPhone is stuck on the activation page and I cannot use the iPhone because activation is required.
-2 0 3 5 … I might add to that shortlist. What do those numbers mean; where might we find authoritative explanations? Somewhere in Apple open source, maybe? There's a suggested answer for -60, a question about -81, a debatable suggested answer for -108, discussion of -128, -72, -62, -30, -2, 0, 3 … and so on, but unless I'm missing something: nothing like an Apple-provided list of explanations of the commonly seen numbers. Three messages recently sent by kernel on a MacBookPro5,2: Error codes in *=URL=* that's in Apple open source for Mac OS X 10.6.2 but not in open source for Mac OS X 10.6.3 the source code for 10.6.2 is almost identical to what's installed under MacOSX10.8.sdk it may be sensible to treat some of those error codes as deprecated.
A few days ago Windows 7 started refusing to boot, amid the rising panic I ran disk utility on both drives all partitions. Apart from permissions that needed correcting all seems fine. I can browse the drive inside of OS X (although permissions set-up prevents me from writing to it) and no errors are reported. It would seem that the master boot record is corrupt on the Windows drive, ordinarily I would just boot from the Windows installer CD and fix it but as I no longer have a DVD drive directly attached Windows on Boot Camp won't boot from it (the Mac doesn't seem to want to do a Boot Camp boot off a USB drive).
Is there an alternative for the skill -KILL -u $user command on the Mac OSx. The basic requirement is I want to log out my current logged in user at end of shell script This program logs out Linux log in user .
I have linked all my contacts phone numbers and their e-mail addresses from Hotmail together to see their phone numbers and mail addresses in one place. After a while ı found out that all separated again. It has happened twice. Do you know why?
I have an iPhone 4. My text messages which were NOT backed up were deleted by mistake. Is there anyway to retrieve them?
I installed Overboard from Cydia and after respring all my Cydia apps are gone! There is no Cydia section in Settings. I have reinstalled Cydia Substrate and PreferenceLoader, but nothing happened.
I would like to run a Python script each time it finishes and I think I can do this with cron but I am not sure how to do it. The idea is each time the Python scripts ends, it will have to run again and again. I have searched for answers here but I can't find something similar to this.
I am trying to launch my scanner application using AppleScript. I have it launching the Printer app and I know how to send the keystroke command but when the Printer window opens it does not have focus in Finder so the keystroke I am sending is not working unless I already have the printer window open and in focus. How do I set the Finder focus to my window so it will hear the keystroke? Here is my code:
If I connect an HDMI cable to my MacBook (mid-2010 white model, Mavericks 10.9.2) and play a video, then the audio comes out of the TV - so far so good. If I then close the lid while the video is playing, the TV screen flickers a bit but then continues playing, but the audio starts coming out of the internal speakers. Is there any way to stop this and force the MacBook to continue to play via the HDMI when that's the only screen in use?
On OS X 10.9.2 with XQuartz installed, I get the following message whenever I try to launch an xterm from Terminal.app: How can I run xterm properly?
In Notes.app (the default notes app that ships with Mac OS X since 10.8), is it possible to pin notes to the top of the list, regardless of existing sort order? You can pin notes to the desktop (i.e. open notes in separate windows) but I'm talking about a feature akin to Simplenote's pinning that simply places notes at the top of the list.
I have an early 2009 MacBook running OSX 10.9. Last week, my hard drive crashed. I bought another and installed OS 10.9. Everything works. I do not, however, see the drive's icon on my desktop. Therefore, I can't open it.
I just got a new macbook (OSX 10.9), I used one previously (also recent OSX version) where I had 2-finger click to act as a middle click in firefox (open new tab, close tab, etc). I also had right click turned on (clicking on bottom right of the trackpad).
I'm trying to install an application using the App Store on Mavericks. The download succeeds, but the install hangs at the very end of the process. I've been through the standard procedures (multiple restarts, cache clears, login / logout, etc). I tailed the install.log, which revealed the following:
So I have a 2011 iMac that has a 500 GB. Hard drive inside. I could not buy a new computer but I bought a 2 TB. external hard drive that I connected using firewire, since it is almost as fast as firewire.
For example just now I quitted all applications and performed a reboot, however, all applications were re-launched after restart even some of those that were closed long before restarting (maybe 12 hours ago in the same session). Is this normal behavior or a bug?
I'm running PD9 here on Mavericks and I mainly use Visual Studio 2013. Constantly it seems like PD is getting incorrect keyboard input. Suddenly Visual Studio changes to a new file or the Windows start menu opens. For instance: it looks like it is missing to catch key combinations like ALT+Page Down, instead does Page Down only and then connect the ALT modifier to the next pressed key, which will trigger a different actions. Any ideas what could be causing this?
I have linked a cable from my MacBook Air to my TV via HDMI but cannot get volume on the TV. I have gone into preferences-sound but their is no facility to change 'internal speakers'. How can I do this?
I want to change the password of my iPad, I mean the one that I need to type when installing software. How do I do it? I looked everywhere in the Settings app for a "Change password" entry, but couldn't find an option for that.
I have a dual monitor setup for mac mini 2012, 2 x lg flatron w2243 one is connected through dvi to hdmi adapter and works fine at a 1920x1080 resolution, the other has a vga to mini display (thunderbolt) connection, but the highest resolution it works at is the 1280x720 and I want them both at 1920x1080. As soon as I increase the resolution on the second monitor, the monitor goes black and occasionally flickers. As for vga to thunderbolt adapter, it works fine as i've tested the same monitor with my MacBook Pro 13" Retina and it's working great at a 1920x1080 res. Let me know if you have any ideas or if you need any more info. Thanks
I often need to run multiple copies of an app, like VLC. For this I use the terminal and run a command similar to: open -n /Applications/VLC.app How can I create a shortcut with Alfred to run this one command if I type a keyword like vlcnew?
How can I save a downloaded image to the folder called pictures that I see in System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver/Desktop? I'm assuming that this is a good place to store images that I download for wallpaper. Thanks Gary
As the Title states "Help with an Applescript for Outlook 2011 that moves all messages from a specific folder that match a source account to a different folder." So, I have a "rule" that moves all new mail on my exchange account into a "Inbox" in a subfolder On My Computer. When I delete items form this subfolder inbox it goes into the "Deleted Items" On My Computer. I have made a sub-folder for "Deleted Items" in the same place as my "Inbox" sub-folder and I would like to run an Applescript on a schedule that can go into the main Deleted Items On My Computer and find the messages from that exchange account and move them into "subfolder/Deleted Items". Googling about I cobbled the below together which will move ALL mail in Deleted Items: The part I can't get past is now only selectively moving mail whose "account" is a specific value, like thus:
I am using afplay to play a song and I want it to be repeat. Is it possible just using afplay?
I have recently switched to Mac from Windows hence I do not have much information. I want my Mac to go to safe sleep state on closing the lid. I also need an extra option available somewhere which can be used to move to hibernate mode (no battery used at all). I read safe sleep is default on closing lid and minimal battery is used at that time, but my Mac drains full battery in less than 2 days, which does not seem like "safe sleep".
I've got numerous TV shows on my iPad that are in dual HD/SD resolutions. The shows get there through a process of: record on TiVo transfer, encode in HD and SD resolutions, and add to iTunes on Mac Mini using cTiVo copy to iTunes on MBP over WiFi using drag (to get both versions) from Mac mini iTunes sync to iPad ("prefer SD" is not checked)
I ran then but it returns nothing! but So why doesn't locate see all the files? Am I using this command correctly on OS X?
It's probably not Chrome rendering issue because the jitter is not just in one textbox as it maybe seems by non careful observation. Logo and "How to format" section are included. I also think that it didn't always happen while in Chrome, but I'm not that sure. Very strange?
I remember that a program I desperately need to use stopped working after I updated wine. The last version I remember it worked perfectly on is the very version 1.5.8, which I have downloaded from here: *=URL=* as a tar.bz2 file. After all the struggles I have gone through trying to successfully install this specific release of wine (1.5.8) I have given up and decided to turn to this site for help.
When I woke up his morning, I had >80 GB of free space on my hard drive. Over the last four hours, in which I wasn't even around, something filled my hard drive completely. I would attach a screenshot, but there isn't even room to save one.
I have one of the new (well it's not so new anymore) Airport Extremes with ac wireless. I am using Crashplan to back up my data online, but I also want a more local backup -- so I would like to hook up a big external hard drive to the Airport Extreme as an NAS, and back up my computer using Crashplan's software to the Airport Extreme NAS. What's the best way to set this up? I know that Drobo's NAS can install Crashplan on the NAS, but since you can't install any software on a hard drive using the Airport Extreme as an NAS, what's the ideal way to set this up?
I have a fairly robust network setup at home, but am a little unclear on internal Mac networking. My LAN consists of two bridged AirPort Extremes and a cable modem. Everything is connected using Cat 5e inside the walls, and Cat 6 patch elsewhere. Additionally, I have a Netgear Gigabit switch in my office.
My wife broke the screen on her MacBook. I want to buy a replacement and try to put it in myself. How do I determine the correct screen to buy? It is a 13.3" screen. But, the computer is several years old.
I am looking for a good alternative of Microsoft Visio for Mac OS X. I need an application to create a schedule of the month or something like this and then to print it.
How can I redirect an IP say 203.130.48.8-bj-cnc or 203.130.48.8 to Google.com in host file (or other places)? It looks like host file doesn't redirect an ip address (only the domain names).
I am thinking if it is possible to use my phone's SIM card in iPad's SIM slot? This because I need the 4G just only very few times, so when it will be necessary to use it, I will move the SIM from my smart-phone to the iPad. It is possible this scenario?
In a Gmail email, you can put periods in your email, but in the end, the address is seen without them. So dave.tess@gmail.com is also seen as davetess@gmail.com or even d.a.v.e.tess@gmail.com.
I'm using Dropbox as my primary auto-upload tool from iOS, and I'd like to streamline the process of getting photos to Flickr. Rather than using the Flickr iOS app's built in auto-upload, I'd like to only upload the photos once (via Dropbox) and then have something monitor the Camera Uploads folder on the Mac for new files. Is there a tool that monitors a folder on a Mac and uploads any newly added photos to Flickr with privacy set to private?
Sometimes, you need to know the exact model of your Macintosh. When you want to know to which version of OS X you can upgrade your system, e.g., or when you intend to buy parts for self-repairing your computer.
I just discovered that iOS Mail does not preserve BCC information when you're sending a mail, which is obviously atrocious… How can I get it do that?
Is there a Safari extension that can better display code in reader view? Original on webpage:
I'd like to set the path under OS X Mavericks so that the setting shows up everywhere (e.g., in .apps and in Darwin shells). There's plenty of discussion out there about how to set environment variables generally under OS X. With environments.plist no longer supported by Mavericks, it seems that editing /etc/launchd.conf is the best option for doing so. Unfortunately, launchd.conf apparently does no parameter expansion, so I can't do this: and I don't want to hardcode my entire path--it seems unmaintainable.
I have an interesting problem: when I type something in the terminal as follows: and backtrack: and then try to return to the end to continue typing, perhaps after fixing an error, I get stuck before the last character:
today my Little Snitch detect my proxyhost has requested outgoing connection to Landesk Core even though it has been removed. How can I reset the proxy settings? (FYI, they are not in system settings.)
I used MacPorts to install bash (bash @4.3.8_0). I switched Terminal to use /opt/local/bin/bash as the command to startup.
Does anybody know of a method of previewing .WebM files in QuickLook? I've searched on google but didn't find anything helpful.
I am trying to enable FileVault on OSX Mavericks, on a mid-2010 MBP. Some backstory/history: Laptop had the original machine hard drive (old spinning disk). This had FileVault enabled without problems.
I just attached an external windows mouse to my mac and I inverted the scrolling. But now it also inverts it for the touchpad... Is there a way to invert it only for the external mouse? I really don't want to switch it up every time...
My MacBook Air won't charge, the MagSafe doesn't even have that green or red orange light and when it does it isn't very bright. The Battery Icon on the upper right corner indicates not charging. When I pull the MagSafe out of my MacBook Air it would turn-off but still it doesn't mean its charging.
when I'm using tethering with my iPhone, is there any way to see the cellular signal strength on my mac? Any free solutions are still welcome.
I want to logout my Mac OS X from the command line. My OS X version is 10.9. I tried command pkill -KILL -u uid, but this command didn't work out. Is there a command that can be used to log out a user from the system using command line only, not AppleScript?
Say I have mp3 music in directory 'A' which I want to open with iTunes. And I have some more mp3 files in directory 'B' which I want to open with VLC player.
Recently I was tasked with finding out a way to prepare OS X applications for automatic distribution to multiple machines. Most applications require some tampering with their preferences before deploying. I have done it for Windows machines before, and usually I could just replace the preference files/registry entries right inside the .msi installer, using tools like Orca, Wise Package Studio and so on.
I'm looking for a script, built-in shell command, or program (with sources) that can tell me whether a process is in App-nap mode or not. I want to use it in automated testing, for profiling and to make sure my App uses all available energy conservation technology correctly.
How can I delete iPad calendar events when no edit button appears? Clicking on events only results in "details" button.
I need to get the entire count of RAM being used on a command line. I can get individual process RSS usage using How do I get all the memory usage for the entire system on the command line?
I'm trying to change my Apple ID password from my iPad, but I'm getting an error saying "Invalid year.":
How many alarms can be set on an iPhone 5? Can you set one for every minute of the day (1440) or is there a limit on the number of alarms?
I need to create a automator application that launches the following exec command, whenever a image file is dropped onto it (the exec print the image files with some printing params). How can I create this application? I can't go beyond this point:
I own an Apple TV at home and have an Apple TV at work. I play audio through my home's stereo system fairly often. Whenever I get into the office while being previously connected to the Apple TV at home, my Mac connects to one of the Apple TVs at my office. How can I prevent my Mac from doing that?
I have an iPhone 4s and the battery indicator is stuck on one number no matter how long I charge it. If I turn the phone off and then try to put it it on again it won't happen it will say the phone needs charging, even if it has been on the charger for an hour.
I have a 2010 Macbook pro running Mavericks and Windows 7 on a 250gb SSD. I just removed the cd drive and installed my old 250 gb hard drive. So now I have two drives. I would like to make the hard drive purely for a linux distribution. How should I go about doing this?
Is it possible to set up iCloud Keychain without a mobile phone? If it is possible then how can I do it?
I bought This Display Port Cable to use with Mac Book Pro OSX 10.9.X and Dell U2713HM monitor supporting resolution 2560X1440. The cable is giving me only 1080p resolution. I have restarted both the monitor and the laptop. I tried to google and find anything additional I need to install, but havent found anything. So what is missing here and what do I need to get the max resolution? I looked on the dell support for anything for osx but no drivers found. I'm new to the apple world and I'm assuming here that you dont really install drivers for it? So what do I need to do?
I started using a MBA for my work machine about a year ago. I'm still not really able to remember the typical keyboard shortcuts, and tend to do things the "long way". For example, if I want to access the Desktop within Finder I'll tend to click on the Finder icon in my Dock, then navigate to Desktop within that window. Then kick myself because I could have just hit SHIFT CMD D. So is anyone aware of any small apps which notice this happen and simply notify me something like "by the way, you could do this far quicker by using this keyboard shortcut: SHIFT CMD D".
Ever since the automatic upgrade to iOS 7, an iPhone that connects to my Linksys WRT54GL router running DD-WRT, slows down all other connections, from any other device. Download speed is reduced by a factor of 3 to 5, and ping times jump from 33ms to 600 - 800ms. This makes it frustratingly slow to use any web application, and appears to happen when some update is going on on the iPhone. However, the last episode has been going on non-stop for more than 12 hours. At a 1.5Mbps DSL, I have no idea what sort of update could take that long, or if something other than an update is going on.
Until recently I had an airport extreme as my router that I managed with Server.app for external NAT for server services in Mavericks/Server 3.1.1. However since I got a new router, server system log is filling up with the error below:
When I run the diskutil list command in terminal, I got this: What does EFI mean? is that why it's not working properly? I'm also worried that because I have ReFit on my machine it's messing the indexing up or something.
I have a Word document (didn't create it myself) containing a text box in which I am unable to insert new paragraphs. Nothing happens at all when I hit Return in there. Shift+Return pretends to work at first, but on saving the document, the line break is stripped. I can create new text boxes in this document which behave absolutely normal.
I've got an unusual situation which I cannot explain. I thought to take a video of what I'm seeing on the screen, but realized I didn't know how to do that.
My MacBook Pro (15" Retina, mid-2012) keeps waking up every few minutes, and I can't figure out why. This is what I get when I search for "wake reason" in console (just the last hour):
I have been trying to find an app that does this on iPhone, but using internet not the phone service itself. Closest Ive found was Skype, it has this feature on android and on any desktop but it lacks this on iPhone. Is there any app like this available for iPhone?
When I search on a Firefox page (command-F) the search interrupts itself all the time. E.g., I start typing "backtick" and, right before I hit t, back disappears and I am now searching just for t. On the other hand, sometimes the search prompt in a tab persists: I go to another tab, and, when I get back to this one, the search prompt is still active with the old text in it. This behavior started when I upgraded to FF28 a couple of days ago, however, I seem to recall that I experienced this sort of annoyance some time in the past. Any idea what might be causing this?
Today the heartbleed OpenSSL exploit was announced in the wild, which allows an attacker to surreptitiously detect and steal private server keys (allowing them to MitM and decrypt your encrypted data and steal passwords). This affects OpenSSL versions including 1.0.1f which is the version on my up-to-date Mavericks computer Mac (because I used port/brew to install other software which updated my openssl without me realizing it): This demonstrates I am not using the Mavericks version of OpenSSL:
Is there a way to add a printer via the command line that has a custom queue that has two words separated by a space? My command so far is below but does not set the custom queue. Without the queue, jobs won't print. The CUPS webinterface page lists the example: lpd://hostname/queue I have tried user a \, %20 and putting the entire lpd address in quotes but no luck. Hopefully someone can help me out.
Here's the situation: Me and my wife play Clash of Clans in two Apple devices (iPad for me and iPod for her) Both villages however are under the same Game Center account. We will buy an iPad air and my wife would like to load her village on this new device. My village was the first one created under this Game Center account. Question: How do we load her village in the new device without: without deleting my village? without having to be asked if she want's to load my village every time she start's the game?
What union mounts are available on OSX? I've been using Aufs on Ubuntu for the past few years without fail and I'm looking for something similar...
When I want to fast user switch from user A to user B, a login window appears where I enter user B's password. When I'm done, a rotating progress indicator spins for a couple seconds, until user B gets logged in.
I have my iTunes library on an external usb drive. I have no problem accessing it when it is plugged directly to my mac. I've recently bought a NAS device which allows me to connect a usb drive to it and then access it as if it is a share on the NAS. I would like to keep my library on the usb drive and be able to access it from the nas, when it is connected to it, and locally, when I plug the drive directly to my mac, without duplicating my .itl-file. When I try to access the tracks from the NAS I get a not found error, although the path of the files looks exactly the same as if the drive were locally connected (same name of the drive, same path from /Volumes/Drive_Name/) I'm quite sure my mac believes that the 2 drives are distinct drive with the same name, am I right?
I have two drives on my MacBook Pro. One is a SSD with the root (/) partition, and the other is a hard drive with a home directory partition (/Users). Both partitions are HFS+ format. When I make a search using Spotlight, nothing on the /Users partition is searchable, since it is not indexed. Trying to use mdutil to start indexing the drive does not work:
When TWO AirPort Express are on everything works as expected, strong and fast wifi everywhere, music streams fine. But when a THIRD AirPort Express is on, the wifi slows down to about 100k/s This is independently from which of the three AirPort Express is turned off (so not a malfunction with a particular one) I have run wireless diagnostics which finds no problem. Can anyone help, this is driving me mad. I have one AirPort Extreme serving as base station and three airport express (all latest model) serving as relay stations and to stream music in different zones, they are all connected by ethernet, the ethernet network has been checked and works fine. I followed the Apple instructions and they are all setup as "create wireless network" with the exact same network name, in the airport utility app the three airport express appear underneath the airport extreme, wireless settings are on "automatic" There is no other wifi routers, modems or printers in the building, but we are in the very
There's this game on the App Store called Flying Hamster HD, before it used to cost like $6 or something now it's free. My question is what happens if I do get it while it's free? When the price comes back do I have to pay for it? And what if I delete the game when it's free and decide to re-download it after it becomes paid?
I have a MacBook Air, I want to disable the CMD+E keyboard shortcut to eject because I want to assign it to another application and I really don't need to eject anything as I don't have a CD drive. I've searched in the keyboard preference but that shortcut is not there. Any ideas?
What is an effective workflow to clip a web page viewed on iPad to then save it to a notebook in Onenote?
Can I use an Airport Express to extend my wifi network if my current wifi network doesn't have any other Apple access points on it. I wish to extend wirelessly, without a wired connection between the Airport Express and the network.
I have two iPhones and an iPad 2. One of the phones is an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 and the other is an iPhone 4 running iOS 7. Under the same Game Center account they each have a separate village for Clash of Clans. I just got my iPad and wanted to transfer the game on the iOS 6.1.6 device to my iPad. What I was wondering was, if it's even possible to link a game on Clash of Clans from an iOS 6 device to an iOS 7 device, and if so how do I do so?
I'd like to use Network Link Conditioner in conjunction with a local page download speed tool so that I can see how long certain elements take to download when I restrict connection speeds. Can someone recommend a page download speed tool (with waterfall visuals) that works well with Network Link Conditioner?
I followed the advice here on how to delete old backups on Time Capsule using Mavericks: How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine?. But when I then try to empty the trash, Finder counts up the number of files to delete, starts deleting them all, then, once it reaches zero, it starts counting the files as negative again....as if they are returning....I have tried several times. Anyone know what is happening?
I recently got the email from Apple about refunding inadvertent in-app purchases. Instead of going through my purchase history in the slow iTunes app, is there a string I can search for in my email (where all of my receipts are saved) so as to find the receipts that include in-app purchases?
Since updating my computer to Mavericks all my commands have gone wonky. My main key problem is my left command key. The right one works correctly with all the shortcuts I use, but the left one zooms out the screen and puts similar applications side by side. I've tried a lot with System Preferences but since I am new to Mavericks it's hard to find what I am looking for.
Running 10.9.2, I have gone in to SysPrefs and made sure Keyboard>Text is set to NOT auto-correct, I have gone to Mail Prefs and made sure spell checking is done after I finish, but no matter what I try, I can type a valid word (I do have to use some science words, and of course company and personal names) and auto-correct changes them to some crazy "corrected" word in a flash! I have to delete and try again, sometimes it works, more often it gets replaced again! This is annoying.
I have a very substantial body of Pages 09 documents that I work on. I've upgraded to Pages '13 recently. Now, every time I open one of those old documents to work on it, I am greeted with the following dialog upon my first keypress:
Either SharedSecret or Certificate. Used for L2TP and Cisco IPSec. (Emphassis mine, note also that despite the dictionary name this is definitely the place that the SharedSecret key for L2TP is defined).
I booted up my MacBook Pro after the lid was closed on it for several days. Today when I powered it on there is a red check mark next to my name at the login screen. Anyone know what this stands for?
I have an iPod Touch that says it is disabled and to try again in 22,768,662 minutes. I really don't have 42 years to wait. I need to access this iPod Touch and the material inside it without factory resetting it. Please help?
I was forced by my company to un-install Synamtec Antivirus on a machine running OS X 10.6.8. Unfortunately, the person who uninstalled Symantec didn't know how to thoroughly get rid of the program. As a result, this error message pops up in the console about every 10 seconds: What can I do to get rid of these error messages?
If I have set my iPhone with the lost mode/password lock, how do I get rid of the password lock every time I wake up or turn on my iPhone with Apple IOS 8.1?
What versions of OS X come default with the affected versions of OpenSSL? All Internet traffic right now is clogged with the same generic information in regards to the Heartbleed bug, without any attention paid to Macintosh in the environment. I am looking for information on Mac OS X client as well as Mac OS X server. Right now it's impractical for me to check all the Macs in the environment for their specific version of OpenSSL, but I already have the Mac OS X version information for the affected machines.
I would like to be able to copy and paste multiple items on a Mac using keys like ⌘1 would copy 1 and ⌘2 would copy 2, ect. Then ⌘! would paste 1 and ⌘@ would paste 2. If there is already a program for this please let me know or if you can make me one. Also I need it to be a free program. Thanks in advance.
I'm wondering if I can copy my current Mountain Lion system volume - apps and all - to the internal boot partition, and then update THAT drive to Mavericks and run off it for a while until I'm confident that Mavericks is going to work for me. At that point I would update my SSD and be committed.
Seems like this should be obvious, but I am stumped. Searching the Main Menu contents doesn't reveal any menu commands which would obviously allow Snippet creation. Right-clicking in various related areas of the UI (in hopes of opening a context menu) has proven fruitless.
Im trying to sync my photos on google plus using my iphone, because i had more free space on it. How do it sync in timely manner - auto sync.
I installed Java 1.7 from the oracle site. Looking at my folder structure, there is /System/Library/Java and /Library/Java. Under /Library/Java there is a Home symlink that goes to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home. I had to point my IDE (IntelliJ) to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home which is a little weird in that there is a Home directory, but that Home is not the same Home as is in Library/Java.
Often files are hidden in .jpg files simply by opening them up with 7zip, then closing them again. Mac OS X archive utility does not have this ability. Is there any software available for osx that does?
I recently started using a mac, and my mind was blown by the fact that I can't sync my live.com calendar with the default calendar app (same goes for contacts). I don't understand why this is the case since I can do these things on the iPhone... I'd like to either, Find a way to sync my calendar with the NATIVE apple apps (that doesn't involve first sharing the calendar with a gmail, then importing the gmail in to iCal (that's a stone age solution.)) or
I didn't know that the Calendar doesn't display events older than 1 month. How do I get the older events displayed? And, can I avoid this problem in the future by exporting an archive of my calendar monthly?
I am looking for the best way to run PC applications on my MacBook Pro (one being Dragon Naturally Speaking Medical which requires a fair bit of RAM and memory) and am wondering whether Boot Camp or a virtual machine in the Parallels environment would be most effective. I would like to have easy access to medical reports that were written with Microsoft Word:Mac so I am assuming easy navigation between the systems is a must.
I need to transcribe Voice Memo recording to text. Can I play the recording and use Dictation? is there another method to convert an existing Voice Memo to text?
I'm following Epson's guide for installing OS X 10.9 Epson drivers for Workforce 610, which says to use OS X Software Update to install. Unfortunately, nothing under "Updates" mentions Epson. I've tried connecting to printer with both USB and Wireless network, and neither work. The printer already works with an existing Mac on the network.
Often when I open an X11 application (Wireshark, GIMP) it has to build some sort of font cache, which often takes 30 seconds or more during application launch. I don't change my fonts often and Wireshark definitely doesn't need access to hundreds of fonts. Can someone explain what this font caching is, why it impedes the launching of applications (instead of being some background X11 process), and why it needs to happen so often? I'm not sure whether this is specific to OS X.
..and how can I get rid of them before they are subpoenaed?
Is there a plugin, or some third party solution that I can install on OSX to get EAS support for native calendars and contacts apps? I'd like to add "internet accounts" in the settings for my hotmail calendars and contacts, which use EAS (Exchange ActiveSync).
How can I remove the spaces (header/footer areas) between pages in MS word? On my PC, I just double click the spaces and it automatically removes them. When I try on my Mac, it just opens the header and footer sections.
Situation I have two partitions: Mac OS X, and Windows Bootcamp. Will the Windows partition get caught in the wiping process when attempting a Mavericks clean install? I think people call it spring cleaning. The clean install is due to the program clutter I have (python, mysql, apache2, etc). I'm using a Macbook Pro (Early 2011).
Late 2013 Macbook Pro 15.4" 2.6Ghz I connect HDMI and not always do the full spectrum of resolutions appear within the list of choices? System Preferences (app) -> Displays (preference icon) -> Display (tab) -> Scaled (tab) What would cause this? Monitor is more of a TV I guess: Seiki 4K 39-inch. Even if 4k would perhaps cause a problem, 1080p, 1080i, and even 1440x900 failed to appear a good portion of the time. Is this perhaps a hardware issue with the MBP's HDMI port?
I've started using 2-factor authentication with a bunch of services. So, after I sign in, I get an authorisation code SMS'd to me. Now, if my phone is locked, I really don't want code appearing on the lock screen, but I generally like showing the SMS preview. I noticed in Notification Center -> Messages, there is a choice: Show Alerts from Everyone Show Alerts from My Contacts
Yesterday I made OS X Server, on Mac Mini, for Xcode Continuous Integration. Today, by scanning my local network, I see that this Mac Mini is having port 2012 open with this raid-ac.
I have a USB disk with a propietary format that I want to bitwise clone to a new identical drive. I have CCC but the disk doesn't show up in Finder. It does appear in Disk Utility. I tried Terminal command of "mount" and do not see a device that might be it, so the dd command probably isn't an option. Any ideas? Can it be done on a Windows or Linux machine? Thanks for any help, -deac :-)
If you update your app, does it get bumped to the top of the free apps section? Does it help improve visibility?
Apologies in advance for the likely TL;DR. I have an iPhone 5 running iOS7 on a PAYG deal with Vodafone in the UK. Whenever I top up £10, I get a 500mb data pack that's valid for 30 days. Thing is, I don't need to top up very often (as an example: I last topped up on March 4th, and I still have £6 of credit left), so my mobile data pack will frequently expire before I need to top up.
I downloaded clash of clans on my sisters apple account. I then made my own apple account. When I try purchasing gems I can't because it says something about the app not being downloaded from this apple account.
I've been running Parallels 8 on my mac with Mavericks just fine for weeks now. Last night I was using it. Suddenly I wake up this morning and when I try to start it, I get the message "You can't open the application 'Parallels Desktop' because it is not supported on this type of Mac.
I'm after an osx program that will convert an image into a base64 string (for web development). Basically replicates this: *=URL=* I suspect there is no application, and in that case I'd be interested if I can get the terminal command which will encode, to apply to a certain file on Right-Click Followup question: Can I give Automator apps a window? I combined the two solutions below, to create an application with the following code And infact I made a dropzone target using Platypus, as shown in my subsequent SO question/answer
I recently needed to search for a string enclosed in square brackets in a PDF document. So I typed [concept] into the search field (including the square brackets). The result surprised me, as I got a list of pages containing the word concept with all letters contained in that word highlighted in yellow. I haven't been able to find any documentation of this "feature" - or any other special syntax in the search field. What is the straight explanation for this behaviour, if any?
I have the following equipments in hands: Macbook PRO 15 inch with 1 thunderbolt port. Apple Thunderbolt display 27" A Samsung TV with RGB port, & HDMI port. I want all these displays (macbook, Apple thunderbolt display 27" & the non thunderbolt Samsung TV) connected simultaneously.
I've just updated to Mavericks, and while I like having the dock on my 2 Landscape displays, my third portrait display is entirely unsuited to having a dock on it. How can I suppress the dock from appearing on one of my 3 displays?
I am trying to create a few system level key bindings. I know about ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict but I am not sure what to put in there/or how to go about finding the commands and codes. I would like keybindings to Opt <- //Move cursor back a word Opt -> //Move cursor forward a word Opt Cmd <- //Home Opt Cmd -> //End (the same commands, but adding Shift to select instead of just move Is there a good resource to help me figure this out?
What are some good options for recording a screenscast or webinar? Often, but not always, they are delivered by goto meeting and are quite often put on during horribly inconvenient times for our office. Are there simple software that would let us record these on our mac and watch later. Sort of like Tivo'ing them!
I'm trying to download and install Command Line Tools for my Mac through Xcode, but it is not in the downloads section like youtube videos tell me to go. So, I manually download it and install it, and it still does not show up. I need this so I can download MacPorts. Any suggestions on how to get it? Or how to see if I already have it? Thanks!
I like to sync directories from my Imac & MacBook . What is the recommended method?
Is there a way to prevent pages from automatically turning anything that looks like an email address or a url into a hyperlink?
Can I create a window / UI for applications created using Automator? Or is this just not possible with Automator apps?
Every time I try to message a friend of mine on Facebook, the app shuts down. This does not happen with other friends.
There are a number of PC apps that do the trick, I've read trying to find one for mac. But none seem to do it for mac (Mountain Lion).
I have a NET10 iPhone 4 and it keeps saying I have no cellular data service and cannot connect to internet. How can I get internet back? NET10 said I show I have internet. I have reset my phone and pretty much tried everything. I am paying for unlimited and have nothing. Can anyone help?
A friend of mine just got her GMail account hacked because of a weak password. The attacker still has control of her account. She was using Mail.app to read her emails.
My iPhone 5s is jailbroken. I want to add some apps to my iPhone from iTunes but all apps don't sync correctly and are dark on my iPhone:
I always used my iMac alone and now I'm about to share it with someone but the multi-user thing is quite new to me. I know we can't have more than one Apple ID (iCloud, itunes etc..) by session so we need to configure two different sessions but what about the notifications (FaceTime/Skype calls, emails arriving)? As I work a lot on the iMac, it will be most of the time active on my own session but is there any way the other person can still get the notifications when someone calls him via FaceTime or Skype or even when an email arrives to his mailbox while my own session is open?
I am attempting to boot up my 2009 MacBook Pro, but when it starts it immediately shows a white screen with a 'question mark folder' — it keeps blinking until the computer shuts down (unless I keep it in the charger, then it just goes on). I have tried to do the start up whilst holding down the option/alt button, and only the arrow comes up. I don't have the startup system disk (or any other) but the system has been updated to OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store.
I would like a way to execute one command, to take a "screenshot" of the entire terminal log (including lines of text that are not visible without scrolling) Possibly an application that has this feature?
My wife has two MacBook Pros. One is old; the other is new as of a week or two ago. We have a combination of three Bluetooth devices: two keyboards (one Apple; one Logitech) and a magic mouse. We have a Comcast-supplied barely polished turd of a combination 2.4gHz 802.11n WiFi gateway/router (standard XFinity fare). The problem: any combination of two or more Bluetooth devices paired to either machine causes network throughput to drop to effectively zero. This is true regardless of WiFi channel and is always reproducible. This is not a pairing issue—that is, it's not the case that the keyboard is actually paired with some other machine; we've tested this with only one machine powered up at a time. This is not a machine per se issue; the old MacBook Pro is from circa 2010; the new one is from 2014. This is not an OS issue; both MacBook Pros are running fully updated versions of Mavericks.
We have an iPhone4 and replaced it with a iPhone5s. In the process of setting up iCloud we registered both of these devices. Now that the phone number has been transferred to the new iPhone 5s, the old iPhone4 only has WiFi and no cell data plan. However, on Find my iPhone in iCloud it still shows the iPhone4 has been updated a minute ago and the location is correct as it is sitting in our house. Is the GPS in the iPhone4 sending data of it's location via WiFi?
I'd like Mail to pick up on syntax I'm copying mostly from an app that does highlight syntax, but it doesn't seem to apply any sort of "formatting" to the text itself on pasting (e.g. color, font, size, etc.) For code, I mostly send MySQL queries in emails
And its works successfully to connect my PPP service. But, when I'm trying to disconnect my PPP using
I had an iPhone 5 that I backed up a while back before I switched to a new phone. I just purchased an iPhone 5s yesterday and when I tried to restore from that iCloud backup, everything goes fine except for some reason my photos will not download. It starts out saying I have 200 pictures. The pictures are not downloaded yet so all you see is the gray square tile as a place holder. However, every second, a tile gets deleted. It will continue to delete the pending images until I have 4 images remaining. Those will download without a problem but these images are old, from five or so months ago. I've talked to Apple, restored the iPhone 4 times so far and each time it does the same thing. Nothing has worked... What can I do to get my photos back?
I am about to get my fusion drive upgraded to a 256gb SSD on my Late-2012 21.5" iMac that I got from work (don't worry I have a company upgrading it, and yes they know its a Late-2012 iMac). When that process is completed, it is my understanding that I will have two partitions. The 256gb SSD that was installed, and a 128gb SSD left over from the fusion drive. Can I RAID0 these together in a relatively reliable fashion? I understand the pitfalls of RAID0, and how if one drive fails they both go, but that is what Time Machine is for. Has any had any experience with setting up this type of RAID on an iMac?
Is my system using Intel HD Graphics 4000 instead of the more powerful GT 650M graphics? The machine has been amazing, but Unreal Engine 4 is a bit slow.
My iPhone's screen decided to die on me, so the screen is black, and I got a Samsung to replace it. The problem is that I can't get anything off of my phone. I did back up to my iCloud but how I am going to get all of my photos that I saved on iCloud?
I'm using Outlook 2011 under OS X Mavericks. I moved some messages to my Exchange account to folders located in the section "On my computer". I need to know where these messages are physically located on my computer.
Recently I have download a suite application from a torrent. The application installation was the "official" application installer plus a configuration file that was replaced the official configuration file in the application to make it work. When I was installed the application installer, the Mac OS X didn't blocked it as a not identifier developer, so I suppose that this installation process is not something like a virus? My question If I download an application not from the official website, and the OS X find it as an identifier developer, there is no chance that this application is affected by virus?
Up until recently my MacBook Pro 2010 worked fine with an external samsung monitor, using a mini display to HDMI cable. At the time I was running Mountain Lion. Then a few months ago, still running mountain lion, the monitor started not waking up with the mac. The only solution now is to unplug the monitor and plug it back in. I have to do this 2 or 3 times now before it will work. Also, now it no longer works in target display mode: if i close the lid of the mac with an external keyboard and mouse, everything sleeps. Then when I open the lid, the monitor doesnt wake up.
I've installed Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition on a 2013 Macbook Air. However when booted into Windows 7 no wi-fi network can be detected. The Mac partition is fine. A Google search indicates this is a widespread problem but I can't seem to find a solution. Any help?
My iMac has some problems, and to repair it I thought I'd do as it says in the title. Currently, I'm running (a broken) Snow Leopard, and ideally I'd make a backup (with Time Machine) before I erase the disk and reinstall Snow Leopard.
I am saving some files because I need to reinstall OS X, and noticed oddly high numbers of files in some folders. Is it possible for malware to hide files from ls?
Is there a way to add the friends I have added to Game Center to my contacts app? I'm using iOS 7.1 on iPad.
A new update in Clash of Clans has been arrived and it is asking me the password through which I downloaded this game but I don't know the password. How can I update it with my new Apple ID?
I'd like to set the launchPad key : to the Application windows (See all) function but I can't manage to do it. Any clue ?
I used Disk Utility to perform a secure erase of free space on an external non-boot drive, and ran into a problem and the process was aborted. I see that the file is still there because the drive capacity has taken a big hit. So I need to know where the temporary file Disk Utility writes to is.
There is a feature in terminal to view man-page of selected string in external window with ⌃⌘? shortcut.
I have recently set up a client on Google Apps for Business. They would like to use their email via Outlook. Everything from Google Apps is perfectly synced, including folders. The client can receive emails, but they cannot send anything. I have used these settings to configure Outlook: Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - Requires SSL imap.gmail.com Port: 993 Requires SSL:Yes Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - Requires TLS smtp.gmail.com Port: 465 or 587 (have tried both) Requires SSL: Yes Requires authentication: Yes Use same settings as incoming mail server Full Name or Display Name: [your name] Account Name or User Name: username@your_domain.com Email address: username@your_domain.com Password: password I am receiving the following error:
My iPad 3 is set to use English as the main language for everything in the settings (International and Keyboard settings). When I download an app, it's very often in the Russian language (when there's a translation available). And I don't know why. I don't even understand their alphabet so the apps are very unusable. I already checked my AppStore account - but it's in Czech (that's where I live), which has got a classic alphabet. Sorry about my English, I'm not a native speaker.
I changed the home user name using *=URL=* and now search in Mail and Finder only show me files I've accessed since the change. This is a major issue for me. How can I fix this OR revert back safely? I use Time Machine but my attempt to restore to the time before I made the change did not work.
I'm having difficulty correcting the pronunciation in the 'say' command, using 10.9. I tried to add new pronunciations through: System Preferences > Dictation and Speech > Open Accessibility Preferences > Open VoiceOver Utility > Speech > Pronunciation > + After I added a new entry I tried it in both Terminal and TextEdit and neither pronounced it correctly: Although it did not work in TextEdit (Edit > Speech > Start Speaking), I want to be able to accomplish this in Terminal. Does anyone have any idea of how I can go about doing this?
In FastMail the Archive folder is configured to be displayed. It's set to Always Show. This is on 10.9.2. Using another mail client (Airmail, or Postbox) I didn't see this problem, but I like Mail.
I am relatively new to Mac world. I've bought my first Apple computer, a MacBook Pro Retina 2013, a few weeks ago and I've tried a lot of software since then.
I ran FileVault on my MacBook Pro. It seemed to be OK, generated the passcode etc. All happy. Next log on failed. Grey Screen. Tried both users with correct passwords. Nothing. Grey screen, short attempt at loading then power down.
I don't know why Apple can't provide a real-time system and tools to manage these processes better but is there a way to know about app reviews from users in real-time? I wish there is a way for Downloads and In-App Purchases as well.
If I turn off Find My iPhone on my iPhone 5 does it send any notification to the email address attached to the apple id or send a notification of any kind?
TRIM - which is out because Apple has seen fit to disable it on non-Apple drives. I don't care to argue whether Apple did this out of greed or over-cautious technical concerns. I'm not wild about hacking a kext to allow code that wasn't tested against my drive model to stand between my data and non-volatile storage. Drive-based Garbage Collection (GC) - some drives are quite good at this given adequate over-provisioned scratch space. Drive-based Garbage Collection (GC) - some drives are quite good at this given adequate over-provisioned scratch space.
I want to allow traffic to flow from the Internet to my Raspberry Pi, the IP address of the Pi needs to look as though it is from the router (NAT). The ports that need to be allowed through are port 80 (http) and port 22 (ssh).
Since I've left Chrome as my main browser, every time I use it as secondary browser, Chrome enters in an eternal loop requesting my password to access each keychain bundle of my system. No matter how many times I click "cancel" it just keeps asking access to my passwords.
I have prepared my external hard drive to be used for Time Machine backup by erasing and creating a new working recovery partition on it. I am ready to start the first backup, which I want to be encrypted. The message says this will erase the disk. Does this include erasing my recovery partition? If so, how can I both encrypt my backup drive and retain it as a recovery disk?
I need to reliably access the SqlServer running on my Windows 7 VM. I've tried setting a static ip and reserving that ip for the machine in VMWare's Nat config but that cuts off WAN access from the VM. Right now I am just editing my database url every time I restart the VM. Does anyone have a complete set of instructions on how to configure an internal NAT static IP in VMWare Fusion 5.0?
I've noticed that when going into iPhone Settings → General → Usage, Videos app has no data written instead of showing the 1 GB of videos I've uploaded through iTunes. Why is that? The remaining space is shown correctly though.
I just restarted my Late 2011 Macbook Pro. 3.58Gb-3.71Gb / 4.00GB are being use right out the gate. It takes forever for anything to load. I'm very interested in purchasing new ram, but for the time being I'm hitting the ceiling and it's not necessary. Anyone have any recommendations as to why I'm maxing out, and what the hell is kernel_task doing? I'd love to just reinstall the OS from scratch.
as from the title, providing that I change my primary email, will my purchases be kept? I'm stuck at *=URL=* and trying to figure it out. Thanks
So I want to run dual 30" monitors on my mid 2011 mac mini. I have two U3014 monitors. While one works fine through mini display port, the other one is forced to run at 1080p via HDMI. Is there anyway to for OSX to output to the higher resolution?
My mac mini from the 2011 refused to boot. Apple logo and loading image forever.. I tried cmd+s: Went through all the steps from the applejack, tried fsck -fy, all semmed pok, Tried cmd+v: It wouldn't fully load, got the error Disk02 I/O error (it was the original 1TB disk with two partitions), So I thought the HD must be done, so I bought one Samsung SSD HD 120GB Sata 3, Same result. Thing is that I tried with both drives to install again the mac os x vía USB (I don't have a CD drive) and in both cases I came up with the tipical 'you must reboot your computer' error scereen. So With the new HD replacing I did same steps, cmd+s and cmd+v provided same results.... Any thoughts?
Since yesterday I don't see any wifi network after turning it on:  That's the error I get from the console.
How can I change my credit card data? My credit card was stolen and I want to use a new one for paying apps. I don't know how to do that.
I'm using a local account on my mac - I don't know whether its possible to log into a mac with ldap or active directory, but I'm not doing either of those. I do, however, have an active directory account here at work, and I can use that to access network resources at work (indeed, that's how I'm logging into the SMB share).
I have a firmware password set using the Firmware Password Utility. When I hold D immediately after power-on to start Apple Hardware Test, nothing happens. My computer boots normally. How can I start Apple Hardware Test?
I try to do it installs, but, probably due to previous failed and not fully removed non-brew attempts to install both it and libevent, when try to use tmux I get I tried to install libevent but I got: so I tried but I got so I tried but I got so I tried Password: but I got I'm stuck.
I'm trying to adjust a simple template in Pages version 5.2 but can't for the life of my figure out how to change the existing layout such that the text spans the full width of the page. I've turned on Show Layout and tried adjusting the left Document Margin to 0 but it's still indented by about 4.5cm and that throws the footer and header too far to the left. The Ruler won't allow me to drag the slider any further left than the edge of the layout.
I have been using Parallels 9 no problem for quite a while for .Net development in Windows. I have recently changed over to working on OS X applications, and as such, I am using Xamarin.Mac.
If users download my App on their Mac, would it count as a "download"? Also, does Apple track each download by the device or by the iTunes account?
So. I've got this laptop from work. Big corporate enterprise. Bureaucracy can't give me an admin privileges so I'm stuck with what I can install at my home folder. Got lucky it came with a C compiler (clang), a decent Python distribution and Ruby so I could get homebrew running. It seems that I can't get to the app store, but that would not be such a big deal because I don't want to spend money on this.
My iPhone 5s has always had less good battery life than my previous iPhone (4S), but I'd always assumed that it was due to the increased speed of the CPU/GPU and the increased screen size. It also sometimes seems warm in my pocket (not hot - but warmer than I would expect it to be in the ambient temperature.)
I use two monitors on this Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I never use more than one "desktop", however once every few days, I see a random number of new desktops created - usually between 2-3 but sometimes there are as many as 7-10. The desktops do not remove themselves so some days I end up having more than 12 spare desktops. There is no wallpaper or icons on my desktop. What causes the new desktops to be created spontaneously?
I have an Exchange account set up in Apple Mail. When I click the "Get new messages" button it successfully retrieves mail from the Exchange server. I have the "Check for new messages" setting in Mail to "Automatically" but it is not retrieving them automatically, I have to manually click the "Get new messages" button again to get the messages. I have also tried setting "Check for new messages" to "Every minute" but this does not work either.
Under my "favorites" tab it now only shows phone numbers with no contacts name.
I recently attempted to install Ubuntu on may Late 2013 13" Mac Book Pro with Retina Display. Under Linux I noticed a Red LED light inside the audio port. It looks like Ubuntu doesn't know how to handle it and activated it. I have absolutely no idea what is that for, but I would really like to know.
I am on a clean Mac OS X 10.6.8 machine (I erased the hard drive and reinstalled the OS yesterday). I do have to re-download a few apps, and Xcode happened to be one of the first. I completed the configuration and it started the actual installing . It said 'estimated time: 1 hour' but when I checked after twenty minutes it was almost ready, though it had stopped. I was greeted with this:
Does Apple have keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications in Mission Control? (Instead of hovering over with the cursor)? e.g., which key combination cal I press to get me from "preview" to "app store?"
On the iPad is there going to be the same X-mailer number assigned to it, or does it change when emails are sent? Basically, is the X-mailer number assigned to a specific iPad?
I've been working the last day or so to get openssl upgraded on my machine. I've followed the answers here and here and now I've got some pretty funny results.
My old e-mail address was disabled and I need to delete my iCloud account with the old account info, I had updated my Apple ID with my new e-mail address, now I cannot delete the account on my iphone because it is grayed out. I tried changing my apple ID e-mail back to my old account, but since that e-mail has been disabled it cannot send a verification e-mail. What do I try next?
I'm trying to automate my OS X setup but I'm stuck trying to programmatically add a new Input Source or keyboard layout. I usually use two layouts: regular US and US International, so what I'm trying to do is just add the US International layout.
How can I create a script using the following command? mmap -sn -n x.x.x.x/8, /16, /24 and so on. I would like the script to run the command when I type in "sweep" and then prompt me for the subnet that I would like it to look on.
I have a list of URLs as input, and I'm trying to get image on the pages in order to download them. I'm filtering the text and passing it to the 'Get Image URLs from Webpage' action, but it's not receiving anything. Am I missing a step, or have something set wrong. Every reference I've found indicates that this should work.
Is there a way to flash the screen from the command line? I am looking for the same effect that Accessibility does for "Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs", but I don't want it for every alert.
I upgraded to Mavericks recently and it seems I am now missing the ability to set App Shortcuts. I only see the following in my Keyboard/Shortcuts preferences. Any thoughts on how to get App Shortcuts back?
For a bash script I am currently developing I want to access the name of the most recently edited file (including folders but not subdirectories) in a specified directory. How do I do this?
Where are iOS7 system wallpapers in the file system? P.S. accessible with iFile or ssh (jailbroken).
I have a 5th Generation iPod nano. I own a 2008 VW Eos which has a 30-pin dock. It functions but, my car's UI for iPod is despicable. I wanted to know if there was a way to control the music within the iPod. EDIT: My car does not have an AUX-in and, I'd rather don't go the FM transmitter route.
I have an iPad 2 from Japan as like to have ability to input Japanese characters. When recently trying to replace the screen and Wi-Fi antennae I managed to damage the LCD. Before I go out and buy a replacement digitizer can anyone confirm whether these are all the same i.e is a digitizer for a US model iPad going to be different to one for a Japan model?
I'm having a issue with a Time Machine backup made on an external USB drive. The TM backup is encrypted and I can't remember the password … Does anybody know a tool to brute force the password ? (I remember the password is about 10 characters and alphanumeric (except for a "!" somewhere). I'm running Mavericks.
I really don't need my phone to buzz every time I get a text message, so I've done my best to turn off all of the vibrations associated with the Messages app. I have done the following: In Settings>Sounds>Text Tone I have set Vibration to None. In Settings>Notification Center>Messages>Alert Sound I have set Vibration to None After setting both these settings, It's almost working exactly how I want it except for the one most annoying problem of all:
I'm on Mavericks 10.9.2, 24GB's RAM, and my usage constantly teters on 23.95 GB in use very frequently. From what I can tell, the largest running process is 'kernel_task', and even then it's less than 2GB. The only way to reduce this amount used is using the sudo purge command in terminal. Is it ok to do this frequently to speed the system back up?
I wish to buy an iPad to have some digital interactive books. The requirements for the books are: "To view this book, you must have an iPad with iBooks 3 or later and iOS 5.1 or later". I don't wish to buy a new iPad (low on cash), and wish to buy a second hand one, as I'll be using the iPad only for using those digital books.
I have a setup with two monitors. Is there a way that I can assign an application to one space on monitor 1 and another space on monitor 2? I currently have it set up so that each monitor has its own set of spaces and would like to keep it that way.
I deleted some files via sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/* - unfortunately I accidentally moved a folder from the Desktop into there and can't seem to recover it. I only use this command now and then, when I need to; but how can I recover these files? I know it's a powerful command, but I cocked up this one, but at least I didn't delete system files... only a few personal JPG and PDF files. I tried two data recovery utilities but it didn't seem to find the folder or its contents... why? I have one backup of the folder with some of the contents on stored on an external HD, but that's not as up-to-date; the file was deleted 11 Apr 2014 - that's today. How can I fix this?
Is it possible to tell Excel to open a file from the command line? In Linux, I could do this using the command
I really like the new Safari in OS X 10.9, but otherwise don't like much else and want to downgrade back to 10.6 -- the last time I was happy using my computer. But, can I take the new Safari with me?
I recently installed rEFIt boot for a small linux partition. I then tried to boot up into single user mode by hitting {COMMAND + S}, but rEFIts own terminal came up. Is there any way to still get into single user mode while rEFIt boot is installed?
I am trying to install CentOS on another partition, and It will install, but every time, I get a GRUB HARD DISK ERROR. Here are the steps I took: •Resized Mac OSX disk and gave 20 gigabytes of free space (way overkill) •Installed the net install on the a flash drive using unetbootin •Booted off flash drive using rEFIt •Selected HTTP installation, and plugged in the ethernet •Entered the server Web site name mirror.centos.org CentOS directory/centos/5/os/i386 •Selected "Use Free space on Selected Drives" and selected the HD drive •Selected the time zone and password •Unchecked all of the features, don't want desktop GNOME •Installation Completed, and Reboot •rEFIt started up- boot linux from /boot •Black Screen with GRUB HARD DISK ERROR Any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks
I have a macbook air mid 2013 model. It worked with no problem till now. Today when I opened the macbook it shows no charge symbol(I mean when you press power button it shows a battery icon in a black screen like iPhone does when its battery is drained).
My question is: where does one find this option in the preferences for Safari Version 7.0.3 (9537.75.14)? I cannot find this option anywhere: not in Mac OS X System Preferences or in Safari’s own Preferences. I would love to be able to save the passwords for these sites, so that I don’t have to keep regenerating and re-remembering them.
I have Mac Server with OpenDirectory configured. Then I create some network users with home folder located on server. Due to the high bandwidth of user usage, I want to add another server that only host user home folders, so the traffic transferred between user and new server while authentication still via old server. Is this possible to do that? If not, is there any walk around that fix my issue?
I want to use Airport Utility to settle wireless time limits, it seems that I can't use Airport Utility. Is it because you can use Airport Utility only with Apple hardware like Airport Extreme?
I have a very huge list of Data (.txt file) .e.g. where the variables are (in order): how can I convert every comma separated variable to it's own Column? Can't find it.
I thought this Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter would allow me to connect two of these monitors to my Retina MBP. Does "Dual-Link" mean that two monitors could be connected? It had not occurred to me to question that before I bought the adapter.
I want to practise tennis shots and see how I am doing. I want to use the MBA camera in my laptop or iPhone for this. How can I do it? Some apps for this purpose? Please keep the focus on Apple products, photography-oriented answers here.
I want to do a script, that it can launch VLC player, and in VLC player "Open a file", then "Select a folder", then click on "add" then "play" it. I think that Automator can't do this. But Applescript seems legit, right? How to build an easy script, that I can save as an application then setup it to the startup folder? Path : the folder in question /Users/server_raagc/Copy (I tried automator, then applescript, then terminal with a .plist then another automator combined with an applescript saved as application, all of this in a different way times 36. My code :
I am halfway through a 6 months trip away from my Mac at home. Until yesterday I have been able to remote control this Mac using Screen Sharing over a ssh tunnel but suddenly I can't connect anymore. This is how I open the tunnel I can test that the service is running on the remote computer But when I do something similar at my local computer As you might have noticed I had enable verbose logging of my ssh connection and this is the output from ssh when I perform the test from the local machine I have: killed (-9) all sshd on the remote machine killed all ssh (-9) on the local machine restarted Screen Sharing on the remote machine (sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist) Looked for suspicious open ports on both machines sudo (lsof -i -P | grep -i 590)
Is anyone aware of official nVidia drivers for 9x series cards and OSX Mavericks? I'm aware of these but they only seem to support 8 series cards and I have a 9800GTX+
I distinctly remember that when I bought my first iPhone and iPad a couple of years back, I was able to install the CAcert root certificate on those devices and iOS would trust the certificate. These days, however, I can't get this to work anymore. Whenever I install the certificate, iOS always marks it as "not trusted". What is the reason for this? And even more importantly, how can I fix it? The devices I am talking about are an iPad 2 (iOS 7), an iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 7).
I recorded a slow-mo video using my iPhone 5s. How do I import that video to my Windows PC without losing the slow-mo effect? When uploading the video directly to Facebook from the iPhone (from the film roll), the slow-mo effect is preserved (thus, slow-mo effect is part of the video file itself). I've tried with "Import pictures and videos" which gets the video on the PC, but the imported video seems to lose the slow-mo effect both when playing it on the PC and after uploading the imported video to Facebook.
I have been using a MacBook Pro for about a year or so, and I can definitely say that I am really satisfied from it. But there is one little thing that annoys me about it: the fonts in many text editors I use (including Komodo Edit 8, Brackets, MacVim, Vim, Github's Atom, etc) are very blurry. I use my laptop mainly for programming, and I spend many hours in front of the screen, so this blurring becomes very annoying for my eyes. Recently I downloaded Virtual Box, through which I run Ubuntu 10.04. Below there is a comparison of the Ubuntu's terminal and my macbook's terminal:
My date and time has suddenly become 1 jam 2013 In date and time preferences the setting "set date and time automatically" is disabled by which I mean it's greyed out. It's ticked and set to 10.2.0.90 How can I reenable this setting to change the date? MacBook Pro with Mavericks
I'm running Mavericks, and using Vagrant with VirtualBox to spin up a Precise32 box. When I first started, I had issues with apt-get update on the box (hash sum mismatches, etc.); so after weeks of trying to fix it, I just reinstalled my OS and tried again--problem solved. Unfortunately, the problem has returned after several months; so I cannot use the box anymore.
I'm in a situation where I don't have working internal shift+ctrl+alt-keys and thusly unable to perform SMC-reset. Related to others' issues with SMC-updates, there are instructions for re-flashing the firmware using rEFIt and utilities extracted from the official updater. One of the steps are: With the description
Here's a scenario: I'm at home with my router turned off. Neither my Macbook Pro nor my iPhone are connected to the wifi (obviously), though both search for a wifi connection upon being turned on/woken up from sleep. Leaving both machines up and running, I turn on my router. After a short while, my iPhone automatically connects to the newly discovered wifi, which is on its list of saved/remembered connections.
Is it true that using a dynamic wallpaper will drain the battery faster than a still wallpaper? If so, how much faster does it drain? (I'm using an iPad Air running on iOS 7.1)
I'm trying to Downgrade my iPhone 5s from iOS 7.1 to iOS 7.0.4. I have been looking at tutorials, and found this one Downgrading iOS 7.1 with iTunes
I am trying to use an applescript to get speech input from a user and then perform and action. However, the code i'm using was made for osx lion. When I put it into applescript editor, the editor gives me a pop-up asking where "speechrecognitionserver" is. How do i find it? I'm on OSX mavericks right now. the code is here: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/mrhome/code/GivingYourHomeAVoice/osx-voice-automation.scpt
I have a MacBook Pro and run Windows XP on it too much however I cannot remember how I can open the MacBook Pro with OS X on instead of Windows XP. How can I boot back to OS X?
I have also selected remote login option in service. I would appreciate if someone can guide me about how to find out [user-name@]dest-host:] for mac os x version 10.7.5
I've been getting spam that has one thing in common: all the mails have a reply-to field of the form: replyto1@<domain> where the domain changes from email to email. I'd like to set a search to filter these, but from looking around it appears that mail.app cannot filter based on the reply-to: field. Is that correct ? Is there any way around it ? I'm running the latest update of Mavericks.
Are there third-party keyboards that have the Apple layout? I found this question but it is not my one.
Is is possible for an application to open up after waking up your MacBook? So I have this application that I want it to open every time that I wake up my Macbook from sleep.
My iPhone is no longer on I'm using it as an iPod for now but I cant connect to the wifi ; like the wifi is greyed out. I restarted and rest it , it's not on air plane mode or anything. How do I fix my phone?
How do I vary the playback speed of media in VLC Media Player using keyboard shortcuts? I used to be able to do this by holding down Cmd-Alt-[Forward Arrow or Back Arrow] but this doesn't seem to be working any more. Instead it's jumping the video forward and backwards by 19 seconds when I use this key combination. Is there a way to restore the variable speed shortcut behaviour?
I have a text file in /Users/Shared that I would like to be editable by all users on my Mac. The Get Info window shows that everyone has read and write access, and when I open the file with TextEdit on a non-owner account, the title bar does not state that the file is locked. Yet when I attempt to save my edits, I'm faced with the "The document could not be [saved / autosaved]. You don't have permission" popups.
Any suggestion regarding size of partition to set in Boot Camp to be sure of having adequate space for Windows 8.1 and at least one large Windows application, a custom database application? I'm thinking about 150 GB ...
How do I open mime attachments from external apps from iPhone 5S iOS 7 mail? Which apps would be the most efficient to use?
I have Mavericks installed on my iMac & Macbook. I cannot "connect" to my Macbook from my iMac but I can screenshare with no problem. I have the appropriate sharing boxes checked on both machines.
I’m quit impressed with the Summarize Service in OS X. But its unclear to me, how the service does the summarising. Could someone please explain this to me?
Some time ago I've partitioned my disk using this scheme: shrinked OS X partition, created NTFS data partition for Windows, then installed Windows on Bootcamp partition. Recently I installed Parallels Desktop ("run Windows from the Boot Camp partition" mode) which, expectedly, ruined my data NTFS partition: Windows doesn't see it any more, there's just no disk shown under Windows; partition shows as "Unallocated" in Computer Management > Disk Management. Now I want to split the data partition space between my Bootcamp disk and OS X partition [1], so I have only one partition for Bootcamp and another for OS X.
I don't know if it is correct to call them iWork 2013...but is there any video tutorials for them? I can only find tutorials for iWork 09 on Lynda.com
I'm having a problem with the Server app on my Mac Mini. I had to renew my Domain Name and DNS is now working well. But i can not edit existing user accounts or add new user accounts to my Server. The the + and - buttons to add or remove users are greyed out and it is not possible for me to edit something under this Service. And under the Server app it is not possible to add a Network user. What might be causing this problem?
I was inspired by this question. It seems to be specific to OS X, but when I close a Chrome window with pinned tabs and don't explicitly quit the app, all my pinned tabs have disappeared. This is a real inconvenience, as resetting my 10+ pinned tabs everytime is not an option. Is there any way (settings, extensions, etc) I can get Chrome to remember my pinned tabs when I close the window?
I want to run an application in Automator but there is no run program. Operating system and stuff: OS X Lion 10.7.5 Automator 2.2.4 Memory: 3GB
I'm using the standard apple terminal with zsh as my default shell. In my ~/.zprofile (equivalent of .profile) I have the following line: This basically makes shure that if I open a new window in zsh a new tmux session is started, but tmux doesn't get started from within zsh sessions running inside tmux subwindows.
I have an external hard drive connected to my airport extreme. I am able to access the drive without any problems. However, I have user accounts set up for my two young children. I want to give access to the shared drive as read only for their accounts. I would like this read only setting to be automatic when these accounts log in.
Recently Safari has been exhibiting an odd behavior - I'm in the middle of browsing something and suddenly the entire page is redirected to a sponsor.adverstitial.com URL. In searching online I see mention of people from many different forums begin redirected there, so it seems like a problem not related to websites I am on, but more like malware of some kind. Does anyone know what is causing this? Some steps I've taken include: I've carefully poured over the process list with ps -efww to see if I have any processes I do not recognize. I've also gone into my startup items to see if anything looks suspicious, just a few items that I know what they are. As I said, carefully searched the internet for causes but can find only victims, not solutions.
In previous versions of OS X, you could find the Summarize service by highlighting the text you want to summarize, going to the app name menu, click service, and then clicking summarize. Call me blind but I can't see this service on OS X Mavericks at all? It was really useful in previous versions of the OS so I really hope it hasn't been removed.
Whenever I try to type plus.google.com into Safari, it starts auto-completing the URL to plus.url.google.com. I've tried removing all my of vists to this domain from my history hoping that plus.google.com would be what it auto-completes with, but that doesn't seem to help. How do I get rid of plus.url.google.com and have Safari auto-complete to plus.google.com?
Recently, I had to setup a user for the Apple Hardware replacement team in my local Apple Store on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.2 called "apple". After the repair, I deleted the user via Users & Groups in the system preferences.
i am now using a second mac at home imac and mac pro. anyways, teleport is a superb solution to using both machines. i am having to reboot the 'remote' machine for various reasons during setup of the new machine because of an aging dvd drive won't mount the inserted drive all the time.
I have tried formatting and partitioning this brand new hard drive and it has failed on multiple computers using multiple methods. It is a LaCie Porsche Design 4TB hard drive. Here is the commands I have been running: Then here is where it appears I have ran into trouble: Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong or what I can do to fix it? Many thanks!
I can't find the iTunes Radio section in the music app. How can I get iTunes Radio to work?
I have the new AirPort Extreme 802.11ac. I plugged in my 2TB Western Digital external hard drive into the AirPort Extreme USB port. I tried to find the mounted hard drive in my networks on Windows and the AirPort app on iPad and nothing comes up.
I've recently purchased a domain and set up a forwarding email account there. This account forwards mail sent to it to my iCloud address. I'd like to have the "From" line in outgoing emails from the iCloud account contain this forwarding email account such that replies to the message will direct to that address, rather than iCloud.
My iPad's battery recently completely died and when I plugged it in all the apps were gone. I've rebooted it and checked iFile and it says all the apps are still there but they don't show.
I connected my clash of clans village on both my iPod and iPhone. Is there anyway I can unlink my iPod and start from the beginning there?
Has anyone encountered this problem: It's a mac mini. It's connected to a tv via a HDMI cable, both of which work fine with other computers. However, when connected to the HISENSE tv, at native resolution, all black pixels come out as purple. If I switch to scaled resolutions, the colour is fine - but of course the resolution is now off. Any ideas? Thanks
I am looking for a software that will let me record my voice and create a video with visualizer (correct me if my choice of words is wrong) that is sensitive to my voice like TV professionals show on screen when they do not have a video footage to go with it. A wave that moves up and down when the person is speaking and comes to rest when there's no audio activity. Here's an example of what I want as the end product (see how it's jumps only when the music is playing): *=URL=* but a lot more formal and preferably in a wave format ().
Obligatory system info: I have a late-2013 retina MBP 15" running OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 and Safari 7.0.3, although I've had this bug for years (I think), even on my previous Mac, whose data was migrated to the new Mac mentioned above. There is an option in the context menu that shows up when one right-clicks a PDF open inline in Safari, which is supposed to be "Open in Preview.app". For a while this displayed "Open in Skim.app" on my Mac (which is another PDF viewing app I have installed), and more recently it has changed to "Open in Safari.app". Regardless of whether it shows Skim.app or Safari.app, clicking on it opens the PDF in Preview, which is what I wanted it to do anyway, so this is not harmful to my workflow. Still, it bothers me that it shows the name of one app (and in the case of Safari.app, one that doesn't even make sense) while opening another.
When I look at the storage section of my phone, the various categories add up to about 2.5 GB of storage, but it says that 11.4 GB is being used. Is there any way to figure out what else is taking up space on my phone?
Whenever I turn my computer on I have this application open called "java." No matter what I do I can't exit it. When I try force quitting it, it's called "bin." Images below show what I'm talking about:
I made 2 different accounts with my ipad, one for my son and one for my daughter. Does apple somehow associate those accounts with some sort of serial number unique to each device (my ipad in this case)?
Hi I want to test my site locally on my Mac using the android device layout . The usual android sdk takes more time to load . Is there any app similar to opera mobile emulator which provides android device layout plus testing on local instance? I want something like this
I am a programmer and I would like to map all the unused function keys (from F13 to F19) on my Apple Keyboard to some useful chars like parenthesis: {, }, [, ] and quotes Is there a free software for Mac OS X 10.7+ that I can use? Thanks!
When printing, I can't seem to find the scheduler in the print dialog box. How do I enable print scheduling in 10.9? I remember in at least 10.5 it being one of the options in the print dialog.
My current config is this- I have OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 and Windows 8.1 installed via Boot Camp. I'd like to install Ubuntu too on my mac- I figured I could do it with rEFInd? Or does the Boot Camp not allow this sort of stuff? How should I proceed with Installation? Thanks!
In Finland we have two more letters than English has. All bluetooth keyboards are however with US layout. Can I somehow change layout so buttons in corresponding places would act as these characters.
How can I add this line on Pages? Is there a shortcut? I can only repeat press -. If this is not possible on Pages, similar layout will also be OK.
I got a new phone and they transferred all my photos over. The machine they used to transfer from the iphone 4s to iphone 5s died right as it was finishing so we started all over. Now I have duplicates and they're in a random order. Is there any way to either group duplicates together or reorder them?
Below is the powerpoint presentation I am trying to view. I can see it through Finder, as you can see below, but when I try to open it on OpenOffice or LibreOffice I get the dialog below. Again this file is not password-protected in any way, it is just one of those powerpoint presentations that people send by email. Any ideas?
In OSX, command + D will allow us to select the next similar text in sublime, but command + shift + D will duplicate the text. Is it possible to select the previous text? If so, what is the keyboard shortcut?
I need to convert a Unicode character (e.g. ⦿; CIRCLED BULLET; U+29BF) to a PNG image for use within a reporting tool (Crystal Reports). I need to preserve the font, size, and formatting of the character. Is there a more-accurate way to do this than just ⌘⇧+4 and a less-burdensome way than Gimp or Seashore?
Is there a super anti-theft on App Store , which excludes apps from Cydia (a.k.a jail-break apps) that is better than Find My iPhone ? This super anti-theft must do What Find My iPhone can and have the following when I turn on "Lost Mode" on this app: the theft has no ideas that he is being watched the theft has no ideas that he is being watched take photos using front/back camera every x minutes and send photos to my email take photos using front/back camera every x minutes and send photos to my email disable iOS Devices turn off manually unless the devices are out of battery or are destroyed disable iOS Devices turn off manually unless the devices are out of battery or are destroyed Bonus: 1 time paid out rather than month-to-month subscription
I wrote 3 reviews for an app, one of them showe up once and the others never did. This app is almost useless and I feel that others should know that. So why isn't my review appearing? It's negative, but professional.
I bought an iPhone 4 online around a year ago, maybe more, without knowing it was jailbroken (I should have sensed this by the price, indeed too good to be true). When I tried doing the upgrade everything got wiped out and I had to use RedSnow to restore the newest version at that moment. This was iOS 6.1.3 which was decent — I could use almost everything except making phone calls.
We have a dance competition approach and the song we've chosen is 3:54. The rules say the song cannot be more than 3:30. We have to provide copies of the song on a CD, a USB stick and an iPod/iPad/iPhone which means we cannot rely on realtime slow-down software on an iPhone alone to make the tempo adjustment. We must record it and save it as a new file and then copy it to all the medium. I have a friend with a Mac who is willing to alter the file for us -- what does he need to do to change the tempo of the song so it fits in to the 3:30 run length requirement?
Signal Processing seemed to be more for the signals themselves, and while I think it might be the TV decrypting (I'm guessing that an HDMI signal to a picture is an expensive operation?) the signal in the background, I wasn't sure, so it didn't seem right. Movies & TV seemed to be more about shows and such rather than the electrical specifications for a TV. Electrical Engineering seemed to be more about Arduinos and machine programming rather than TV support.
Where can I see the new downloads vs update charts? In my case I see only a single line with units per day. Some hints and maybe screenshots will be useful!
I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012. It has now 8 GB of RAM. I want to upgrade it to 16 GB. Any suggestion on how to do this are greatly appreciated.
Hi i'm tryin to write a script to check software version. I want to pass my own variables, which are name of the Application and Version.
What is the best technique for changing the backup location of one's iPhone to an external drive. It would seem that with small SSD's (256GB) and very large iOS devices (128GB) that Apple would easily enable this. I found the below answer, but asking a non-techie friend to create a sym link is really not ideal. http://ismashphone.com/2012/05/how-to-change-the-location-of-your-iphone-backup.html
I have some privacy concerns and would like to know how to disable screen sharing. I have tried turning of the WiFi but was then not able to use the internet.
I just purchased a macbook air, and when opening Disk Utility, I see the following: 251 GB Apple - Macintosh HD I want to have a 10GB partition besides the current one, which will have the format: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive). I am wondering if I can do that just from the Disk Utility (by clicking on the '+' sign), or that will delete the current partition?
I have data (ranging from 0 to 1, e.g. and I would like to create a histogram with bins with the upper bin edge inclusive (except for the 0-0.2 bin for which the the lower edge, namely 0) should also be inclusive. Numbers '09 contains both the COUNTIFS() function and the FREQUENCY() function that have been used in other recipes but neither is available in my oldish copy of Numbers '08. I am looking for a way to calculate the histogram inside Numbers '08 (instead of me throwing Numbers 08 out and just doing everything in Python...). (Please note that this is not the same question as the question How to plot a histogram to show occurrence of a certain number using Numbers because in that case no binning is required.)
My Macbook Pro has just lost it's warrenty 1yr and 2months old and I've had to get the entire keyboard replaced, the hard disk replaced and now one of the new key caps has fallen off and can't be popped back like others have when they've fallen off...again. Can I order a new cap cover in the store? If so how much will it cost? and before you ask I don't have an amazon account or any online shopping account for various reasons so would rather just buy the key cap in store if possible.
I have OSX 10.5.6 and iTunes 10.4.1 on my laptop. I turned off the software update for iTunes, but every time I click on a song, I get a notification that says
My girlfriend opened an individual developer account with her name because i don't have a credit card; i wonder if i can put my bank account in the "bank info" in itunes connect with my name or that will be a problem note that the account is of type individual and supposed to be only one owner. thanks
I got an iPhone in Germany, but I'm in Japan now. The camera has got some issues, and I wonder if I can go to a Japanese apple store with my problem or do I have to wait until I'm visiting Europe/Germany the next time?
I have tried to upload .mp4s to my iPod before, but all it would do is show a screenshot of the video and play the audio. Is there a way to actually watch the video and have the audio play as well?
When I open Word, I have to set Zoom to Page width, how can I set Page width to default setting, so I don't have to manually set this every time.
I have my 2013 macbook connected to my brand new Sharp HD t.v. through an HDMI wire. I'm basically using the t.v. as a monitor. It looks great. The only rub is that there is a slight delay when I give a command to my computer and what shows up on the t.v. screen.
What are the dimensions of the screen on the iPhone 4s and 5s? I mean the length and width of the actual display, in mm or cm. I tried searching for it online but all the sites I looked just provide the resolution and not the actual dimensions.
Is it possible to have multiple icons open for multiple instances of an application? For example, if I have two pdf's open, can I have two "preview" icons open in the doc bar?
I have given my IPhone 4s to my niece. I have restored the phone to factory settings before giving it to her now we are trying to set it up and it is asking for my log in details for find my iphone. As I have not used the phone for months now I don't know these details and it does not have a forgot password option. Please help! Thank you in advance.
Preview is a very useful application on OS X, for example, when I am previewing a .doc document, can I increase the preview's font size? command++ does not work.
I have iBooks 3.2 on iTunes (and my iPad) and iBooks 1.0.1 on my Mac (OS X 10.9.2) in the Dock. Do you have one iBooks app 1.0.1 for computer and iBooks app 3.2 for iTunes and iOS devices?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina display late 2013. processor = 2ghz Intel core i7 memory = 8GB os = Mavericks 10.9.2 graphic = 1GB Intel graphic card Can I use any external graphic card as we use an external hard disk?
I want to use my Mac as a wifi-router on a private network (no internet access). I want users to be able to connect to the network by selecting the SSID on their iOS devices.
I also went to the website of the GrowlVoice developer and sent him a message. I'm writing here too because the developer's site hasn't been updated since 2012 and GrowlVoice is no longer being sold on the App Store so it's apparently no longer in development. So, my questions are: How can I fix the JSON errors? Is there another app that would have similar functionality as GrowlVoice?
I recognized something strange: On my MacBook Pro (Mid 2008, Mavericks) I get suggestions when searching in the Mac App Store. But on my MacBook Air (Late 2010, Mavericks) I don't get them.
I know that iCloud Keychain has a feature where it offers to generate strong, random passwords directly in Safari. Some third-party password managers allow it, but I'd prefer to store the password in the OS X keychain, so I'm really just looking for a password generator, not full-blown manager. For other browsers there is addons that offer similar functionality. It's possible to do it in the regular non-iCloud Keychain Access app, but this is a bit cumbersome. Is there any way of generating a random password directly in Safari, but without using iCloud keychain?
I just installed gimp 2.60 in my macbook pro but my gimp appears in Nepalese font instead of English. How to solve it ?
When I copy some files/apps to my samba shares (1 running FreeBSD and the other is running Debian Linux), I get an error code -43. this is the text of the error message
My computer is behaving oddly and I would like to know if someone else has this issue too (if so, it's a bug) or that I am the only one (in which case there is probably a quick solution). Let's say I have an application at full screen (Xcode) on my left monitor and I have the monitor on the right with a desktop view. I do something causing another application to activate (Run my iPhone app in the simulator). This is what happens sometimes: the left monitor switches from the app to the desktop (I suppose to open the window there), but the window opens on the right (which was already on a desktop view).
Does anyone know what the sysmond application does on OS X? Lately it has been taking about 25-30% cpu constantly for no apparent reason. Things I've tried so far: Reboot SMC reset PRAM reset Starting up in safe mode (sysmond also sucks up resources there) Filesystem check (except for the regular incorrect directory count, no errors or whatever) For the time being I've just disabled the sysmond plist but I guess it's not completely useless so I'm wondering what it's supposed to do and whether disabling is harmful ;)
My iPhone was lost 3 months ago and I have decided to erase my iPhone since then but until now I don't know if it erased or not. I'm still afraid that the thief may have access to my private stuff. How can I know that my iPhone have been erased or can I track at least if it was already erase? I tried to check my email and apple account and yet there is no mail.
I've updated much of my songs' metadata using MusicBrainz Picard and it's successfully updated in the .mp3 files. However, a song's updated metadata is not reflected in iTunes until I play it. Is there a way to refresh this data for all the songs at once.
I also tried running qlmanage -r, and restarting my mac. The problem persists. The other mac is still showing the default way (aka, with quicklook previews) for these file types.
With the whole Heartbleed mess, I figured it was about time to start using a password manager. After doing some research, here is the list of things that I want and don't want in this kind of software: I want: Open source, or at least with source code available, so that people can check for themselves for security holes (though Heartbleed happened in another piece of open source code, so who knows now...).
I have been looking for a good Macbook docking solution for months The Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock doesn't seem like a good option based on the reviews on Amazon.com. I also noticed that there is kickstarter project called ZenDock which is not going to be publicly available till Q2, 2014. Are there any other good solutions to this problem?
I'm right on the edge of my WiFi range, but my iMac is hard-wired with Gigabit Ethernet. Is it possible to use my iMac's Wifi to extend the range of my wireless network to provide better connections to my mobile devices? I know I can setup a separate network with my iMac, but it would be ideal to stay on a single network in various parts of the building. I'm using a Late 2012 iMac.
I have OSX Server running on a mac mini in my home. I've been using it for doing Time Machine backups from my MacBook. This worked fine until I changed the password for my user account on the mac mini. At that point, backups on my laptop started failing, indicating that I needed to update the password that the laptop was storing for the mac mini. However, when I try to do so (at System Preferences > Time Machine > Select Backup Disk...), I get the following error: "You do not have the necessary read, write and append privileges on the selected network backup disk." The laptop is running OSX 10.9, and the mac mini is running OSX 10.8.
I have a copied music files to USD drive, but after copy/paste, the files are hidden. For example, in Finder:
Need to embed a Numbers spreadsheet in a Pages doc that will “live” as a PDF. Generating a scaled image that I then embed results in mediocre resolution.
A few of my colleagues using Mail, and myself, are unwillingly and without any knowledge of this misbehaviour, sending messages encoded with a charset of windows-1252: I see the same problem coming from many different versions of Mail. This is a serious problem since for some anti-spam and anti-virus filters, messages encoded with this historical coding are identified as coming from SPAM sources or viruses.
On my MacBook Pro the date is shown like this:  I'd like to remove the word 'Chaitra' from the menu bar (Chaitra is a month of the Hindu calendar). How can I do that?
When looking at a PDF document I often want to zoom-out to scroll quickly to its contents and get an overview. However, when I zoom-out past a certain threshold (it seems to differ per PDF) Safari thinks I want to see the tab overview:
In Omnigraffle, if I want to export a fitted PDF that only encloses the objects I've drawn, I can select "export all objects" from the export menu. However, I don't know what to do if I have a multi-canvas document in omnigraffle and I want to export a PDF of the entire document with each canvas sized appropriately. If I export the entire document it exports the entire canvas.
I have a DisplayLink 3rd monitor on a Mac Mini. Half the time I wake the computer up, the DisplayLink syncs but the graphics onscreen are garbled. Reaching behind the computer and unplugging/plugging the DisplayLink USB cable fixes it every time. But this stinks.
I followed this tutorial to backup with Time Machine to a hard drive shared on the network (no Time Capsule, Airport). However, when I go to Time Machine and click select backup disk, it simply opens Airport Utility and tries and fails in its search. Does this method no longer work (Mavericks)?
According to Google, "Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads)." - *=URL=* But, if you check the "Supported features and browsers" - at *=URL=* - it turns out sound in swiffy files is "partially supported", which means not at all by Mobile Safari iOS 5, Android Browser 4.0.3 and Firefox 15, but is supported (maybe only "partially", it's not clear), by Chrome 22, Safari 6.0, Internet Explorer 9 and Opera 12.
If my friends son goes to Pbskids.org, and the cursor goes to the top left of the screen, the computer gives the grey screen with the error message, and must be restarted with the power button. It may do it at other times, but that is the main condition that it happens. Here is the error message I receive after computer restart. Here is the specs for the computer:
If I set up folder actions on a folder, is there a way to ensure that those actions would be also there for all subfolders of that one? In other words, if folder actions are set for ~/bar, is there a way to ensure that they are there also on ~/bar/foo as soon as I have created the folder? I have checked whether the folder actions are transferred when I duplicate a folder, but that's not the case, and this makes me think I am out of luck.
So my computers been running really slowly the last couple of weeks, and been crashing down (or I have been forced to restart it alot)… I came across my iPhoto (11) library, which wasn't working. When i opened it, it said something caused iPhoto not to work properly and it gave me a command (Hold down option and command and press on iPhoto), which gave me 4 options. They were something like 1) Rebuild Thumbnails 2) Repair database 3)Rebuild database and i don't remember the 4th one. None of the first 3 were working, iPhoto just crashed. So i choose the one called "Rebuild database", and it started doing that. When that was done, all my iPhoto pictures were gone. And i think i had about over 10.000 photos from many years… so its pretty annoying and extremely depressing, if i can't recover them. I never have figured out how to use "Time Machine", so i haven't backed it up on that i think….Do i have any other options? Can i in some way take my Macbook Pro back in time a couple of days and
So I'm trying to install the PDO drivers for PHP via Macports. I am using install php5-mysql, but when I hit enter I get Not sure what to do now....
I have LaunchBar auto select anything that is dropped into my downloads folder. I wanted to run a Hazel rule but only on files with a certain tag and I want to do this with LaunchBar.
I just want to snap a photo on my phone and work with it on my Mac. Currently I text it to myself (so it comes up in Messages on the desktop)-- quick but hacky. Email is 2nd option (slower). Airdrop doesn't work iPhone to Mac. I guess the "official" method would be via iPhoto-- but Photo Stream takes time to sync and even after it does, launching iPhoto and exporting a single image to JPG is massively more complicated than it should be, so going this route is really the last resort. Is the answer Dropbox Photo Sync, or some other 3rd-party app/service?
I'm using iTunes 11.0.1.12 on Windows 7 SP1 with a large music library (30+ GB). I've had no problems with this until recently...This problem only started within the last week, which is odd since I haven't applied any updates recently (within the last several months) that might cause this (unless it silently installed one in the background).
My MacBook (Mid-2010 model) has been sluggish lately and so I decided to check the console to see what was going on. Here is what I found, multiple times: 4/15/14 9:52:55.488 PM syncdefaultsd[20962]: -[IAPluginManager allAListPlugins] [546] -- * warning: we're on the slow path. Any idea on what this might be related to?
I recently moved to a new country, and got a new SIM for use over there. The sim came with an old no-name android phone, that works fine (can use data, call, text, all).
So I can move the mouse around the screen, but I cannot click anything on the screen. Rebooting into Lion recovery I seem to be able to click, but I loose that as soon as I connect wifi.
Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently in my mac system(OSX version 10.9.2). Before updating the OS to new version, the applications like Textedit, Preview are used to ask the password while accessing them. If I click the cancel button twice, the popup will be disappeared. But, after updating to new OS version, a popup saying Google chrome wants to use the keychain password without any reason.
Installed a 2nd HD (SSD) onto my 15" MBP and wasn't sure how to upgrade the firmware. SanDisk 120 GB SSD. Anyone know?
Why doesn't this work? (The automator is in swedish but the parts are: get selected finder objects - get folder contents - run shell script)
I've been using my MBA in clamshell mode connected to a Samsung B2330 LCD monitor for about 2 days, using an Apple Mini Thunderbolt to DVI adapter. After taking it out of clamshell mode yesterday to use as a laptop, there was a heavy flicker on the screen. It seemed to affect mostly the startup screen and background image. Panicking, I started googling for solutions, people reportedly fixed it by resetting the SMC and PRAM. I tried that a few times and I don't think that it worked. But after a few minutes the flickering started to gradually go away, until it eventually became normal again. I'd say it took about 10 minutes to become normal again. My procedure for taking the MBA out of clamshell mode is: Put MBA to sleep from the Apple menu. Switch off external screen. Unplug peripherals from MBA. Open up MBA and use as laptop. My question is, does anyone know why this is happening, and what the fix is?
Do you know some solution or some clever way how to link some text editor to menu bar with an icon in the menu bar? The desired app should look something like this: *=URL=* BUT: no need for hosting on the Internet using of local files enabling inline editing enabling easy search
here is the problem. On my MacBook Pro with mavericks I can't connect to any site with working wifi(checked it on ipad). Also, Skype and utorrent are working fine, but all browsers can't connect. Restart MacBook and wifi didn't help.
I want to configure my outlook 2011 for Mac to send me a tracking report for my sent emails. Note: My Email Hosted by: Office 365. Any idea?
When using Notes I often find myself changing the color of the text (usually to blue or red) as an additional way to indicate emphasis (alongside italics and bold). The shortcut for displaying the available colors is Command-Shift-C but that still requires the user to use the mouse to click on a particular color.
some folders on my mac asks your my password to rename, add, delete files in a folder. I checked the folder privileges in Get Info to compare with normal folders, it was the same but the result is totally different. Can anyone tell me how to disable or fix permission issues for finder folders? Thanks!
I have 2010 MBP. Wanted to put SSD in optical bay (and use it as main boot drive) because main bay has SMS (motion detection) that HDD would use. The only problem is that optical bay in my computer seems to have lower speed: main bay: I have Samsung 840 PRO SSD - would this lower speed be significant and noticeable?
I'm totally stumped on this one — a Macbook Air, 10.9.2. As far as I can tell, I should be able to write to my Library directory. Everything I can see suggests I should be able to: And then for some reason I can work in ~/Library/iMovie, even though the permissions should be effectively identical:
This video plays just fine in Quicktime but in Itunes the video plays but the screen stays black. The audio however, does play just fine. I think my video has the right codec?
I am quickly filling up my hard drive and would like to move my iPhoto library to an external drive. I understand that it must be on an HFS+ formatted drive to properly work. I would prefer to attach an HFS+ formatted drive to my TimeCapsule and use that drive via WiFi to store my iPhone library. But I see that there are issues with network dropouts. I would prefer to not have to schlep a drive out of the closet or upstairs every time I want to import photos.
This is basically a follow up of MSDOS's question. I've also came around same things he did and I am currently using iRedLite with great success. It is in almost all aspects even better than the already awesome RemoteBuddy - except it doesn't grab the process as good as.
In Preview.app, I can highlight and annotate text in a PDF file. Can we do the same thing to emails in my inbox in Mail.app? I have long time collaborate projects and I need to go back to previous emails very frequently — it would be great if I can highlight texts in emails.
When I try to watch video in my browser I get a play button with a line through it and it doesn't work. I have tried Safari, Chrome, and Mercury. They all give me the play button with a line through it. When I use my old iPhone with iOS 6 I have no issues. This seems to be an iOS 7 issue.
I am trying to delete an account from my iPnone. When I go to Settings -iCloud and try to Delete the account, it asks for the Apple ID. I do not know the Apple ID and this is from a previous email account?
In order to be able to use a clicker with my iPad, so that I can do proper formal business presentations with Keynote, I am using this Satechi Bluetooth Clicker. *=URL=* It works perfectly, it works by enabling VoiceOver in accessibility mode and setting the clicker to accessibility mode. This allows me to advance slides using the clicker.
I am trying to FaceTime my daughter through her Gmail account from my iPhone and I cannot get it to work. I don't understand why I cannot connect to her mail.
Right now Siri says "You don't have any reminders," whew. But then Google Tasks tells me I have at least 9 things to do today. Whoops.
Some apps have additional requirements, and these are not always clearly documented. Dreamweaver seems to need Tahoma and Verdana, maybe others.
I often have to copy-paste files from 2 finder folders. I use the cmd + ` shortcut. But it cycles through Window 1 > Desktop > Window 2. Is there a way to skip desktop?
I happen to have a spare SSD from a 2013 MBA and I'm wondering if anyone knows of an adapter card to use it in a PC? There are boards like this (*=URL=* or this (*=URL=* that superficially look like they're using the same type of slim SSD card. But on closer inspection, the connector is different.
I have MacBook Pro I bought 6 months ago. When I charge it, it overheats in the charging port and my charging adapter is also hot. Should I return it or keep using it?
A previously called friend of mine (As for now, after this he is no longer called that way) was messing up with my computer without my knowledge , and ultimately he set the System folder permissions to be 000 for all files in it. Well, as I realized everything froze and as soon as I restarted the computer it won't go pass Apple screen, however I'm able to run gnome on it. Is there any way I could reset the permissions for that entire folder anyhow? Or if there is not, is there any way I could extract some files on the hard drive? I'm completely desperate.
I thought the apache config files were stored in /etc/apache2. Yet if I remove the /etc/apache2 directory and run a sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start the web server runs and serves up pages. Is there another set of config files?
Oracle's JDK 1.8 gets installed into /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/. Fine.
I need to revert my $PATH back to the default. The catch here is that I broke it so bad that the echo $PATH command returns: /usr/ that's it, which means I can't use any of the methods described in other answers basically because any command returns "unknown command".
Here's the problem: When one app (for instance YoutTube or a game) goes fullscreen on monitor A, monitor B slides right, into a new gray "desktop" (like the ones one can add in the top right corner via the F3 button) that doesn't allow any apps to be in it. Because of this, one screen becomes useless when the other has a fullscreen app running.
Is it possible to connect my mac Book Pro running 10.8.5 and a new Mac Mini running 10.9.2 Mavericks into one Apple VGA display, so as to be able to switch between desktops?
I have a USB flash drive that randomly disconnects itself from my Mac, and each time, I get a warning from Mac OS X (several computers, running 10.7-10.9) that it's been improperly removed. I use it for portably storing Waves licenses, so I rarely write to it. I'd like to suppress this message, as it's annoying and occasionally interferes with something I'm doing. Can I get Mac OS X to shut up about this issue? I tried using an NTFS filesystem on the drive to force it to mount read-only, but I still get a warning when it's disconnected.
I am writing an iPad app that connects to wireless Bluetooth printers. We've discovered that when the iPad is rebooted, the printers that were paired and connected when the iPad was on do not automatically reconnect when the iPad reboots. I'm just trying to determine if this is normal behavior for all devices, or if there is something specific to these devices that is causing them to not reconnect.
How can I block internet access to a specific application in Mac OS X? I need this to be done from the command line and hopefully use the ipfw terminal command. Specifically I am looking to toggle the internet connection on and off in the iPhone simulator application since there is no airplane mode.
When using Safari, I am surfing normally on one web page. I open a new tab and the new tab bar shows up. The browser resizes to be larger by the amount of the height of the tab bar.
Sometimes, you can't save the page you want (actually I don't know why this happens). How can I force the Safari to Save As? URL:What features of Mavericks are beneficial to you?
I have my own AppleID. I also want these transferred apps to sync with my iPhone.
Ok I need some help making a script that will connect to a server and send 2 commands Ideally I would have telnet 192.168.2.230 9993 and once it logs in (no user name or password required - the server is air gapped) once the connection is created the script would send the following commands: remote: enable: true record: true
Where are CUPS backend scripts and filters stored on Mac OS X? On linux they are in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but I can't find them on Mac OS x
I've bought a USB ethernet adapter (A1277) and tried to make it work on my MacBook Air MD231 (mid 2012) and may OS is OS X Mavericks, but It's not working. I tried adding USB ethernet connection in network preferences, tried resetting PRAM and SMC, and also tried installing drivers given here, but none of them worked. Rebooting didn't help, and I don't have Android file transfer installed (I've uninstalled it couple of days ago), which I saw people saying that uninstalling that helps fix the problem.
I have an iPad 3 with iOS 7.1. From April, 2014 I am having this strange problem. My iPad Apps won't update both manually and automatically. Every time I have to "Reset all settings" in the iPad and then only the apps would update. So please suggest how to solve this problem.
I've been having problems with one of my contacts (zero problems with anyone else) I can send text iMessages and they go no problem, but all picture messages fail. I can FaceTime her fine, I can send pictures to everyone else. It's just baffling me. Any ideas?
Good morning everyone. I administrate few MacBook laptops (in remote locations). We control the versions of software that we allow users to use for compatibility issues. But end users nag as to install updates because of pop-ups. As i cannot disable update mechanism via GUI I'd like to know if there is a way to do it remotely via terminal/ssh? Or just remove the annoying pop up from taskbar.
Apple said that they make iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free with iOS 7. I looked in the app store with my device (iPhone 4S) but the apps are not free. So it seems that is only valid for the new devices?
I am trying to set up an Apache vhost on Mavericks, something that I was able to do easily on 10.6.8. I am using the default Apache that is preinstalled on a fresh install of OS X 10.9.2
I'm using Keynote 6.2. Is there a way to change the default properties of shape objects? Specifically, I'd like to get rid of the drop shadow and the advanced color fill. It's a pain to have to change it manually every time I create a new shape.
Is there any way of viewing the contents of your iCloud Keychain online? After a computer failure, I have no access to my keychain items! I have another laptop running Snow Leopard, but it is not compatible with iCloud. I have looked through the iCloud FAQs, but have found nothing useful: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5813
How can I update iPad 1 from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 7.1? I tried checking for updates but I get a message "your software is up to date".
We just recently got new iMacs at work, and we're all having the same issue  Not only do we get characters like those in all web browsers, but even some apps!
I was trying to install homebrew, which wasn't working. It told me to do echo export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile. However this wasn't having any affect, and I thought maybe it was because of echo (I don't know any Bash), so I removed the Echo, ran brew doctor and it spat this out, which concerned me:
I have this .csv file I created and I am in trouble when I open it on my Mac. Both using excel or a text editor the file has a lot of new lines in the middle of each line, i.e. a single line is split in several ones. Strange think is that the .csv file is perfectly ok when I open it with the Preview on my Mac or when I open it on a PC Anybody knows what it's happenig and how I can fix this problem? Excel:
os = Mavericks 10.9.2 BCA = Version 5.1.2 I have downloaded an ISO for 64 bit windows 8.1 after that i tried to make bootable usb from boot camp assistant but every time when its come to copying file it shows a message. Where does the Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) store install logs and messages so I can determine what specific error is preventing my install from proceeding?
On the Mac, still using OmniOutliner 3 (3.10.6, to be specific). My goal is to add a new, first column to an OmniOutliner document, which I have tried to do in two different ways: Add a column after the first and move it into the first position. Add a column after the "notes" column (basically the gutter of the doc). The problem is that the row handles stay with the original column, which means that they effectively are shown in the second column, and the same applies to the notes - they only appear under the second column. What is the way (if any) to tell the document that the new column is the first and should look and feel accordingly?
Now it wont boot at all, so I tried to boot in in safe mode. After the shift key it took about a half hour until the time bar at the bottom filled up, and when it did the screen went black. When it hit the start button it went back to the safe startup screen with the gray apple, spinning wheel and bar filling up at the bottom.
I am currently helping someone who has experienced large amounts of data being transferred over her DSL connection. After long research (via IRC support) I found out that her iPhone is obviously sending lots of data, i.e. several hundred kbyte/s, as soon as she connects it to her home network. The iPhone itself seems to work fine. To find the culprit responsible for these huge amounts of data I would probably need to find a way to measure how much data all connected applications are sending within a specific interval.
I need to indicate a right file path to read a .csv file into R on OS X, but how can I find where the file is stored? Looking at Excel files, the file path starts at users/…, but there is no indication of a disk or something.
I have a query regarding playing you tube videos in iOS devices (like iphone,ipad).I can able to play youtube videos in safari browser in iphone on 3G data connection but can not play the same video on WiFi. I am facing the same issue in the youtube iOS application also. Is it possible to play youtube video on WiFi in iOS devices ? Please help me to fix this issue. Please refer this stackoverflow question also for the same issue.
I have a Nexus 4 charger (the block with the USB port on it) lying around. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4s? Is it going to cause any trouble?
I bought a new iMac last summer and went with the 1TB Fusion drive. It works well, but is already full. Is it possible to upgrade the size of the fusion drive myself? Can I buy a 3TB internal drive and just swap out the existing 1TB drive?
I can use command tab to switch between apps, and command tilde to switch between windows of the same app (for example, a regular window and an incognito window of Chrome). However, when I full screen a window of Chrome, I lose the ability to switch between windows of the same app with command tilde. I also cannot switch back to it with command tab.
I need advice if there's a best method in changing the look and feel of the existing dashboard. I've already mocked up the look and feel that I wanted. I wanted a method where I can also let other user download this theme and install on their computer. The obvious method I'll be doing is editing the existing assets from my ~/Library/Widgets/ but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it or there are other methods. Thank You!
I play Minecraft like many gamers and I am trying to make a profile where I can read the enchanting table language and I cannot get it to work. How do I change the folder that I used to edit it into a jar?
Can developer monetize application like following: Developer develops application -> rents that application to certain person which pays to the developer monthly/yearly for such service, that application is content updated. User (that downloads the app) itself is not paying at all anything. Is this against the Apple monetization guidelines? tag suggestions to be added: monetization, guidelines, apple-guidelines
I am trying to understand how and where Java is installed on my Mac (Mavericks this time) and I found this question and answers: Need help understanding Oracle's Java on Mac — Stack Overflow Here is mentioned
Trying to shrink my default full disk partition to create some free space (for Ubuntu, incidentally, which I'm longing for even more now). I've tried the advice here: *=URL=* Including booting to single user mode to run /sbin/fsck -fy and booting from the recovery partition to run disk utility to repair the disk and try partitioning there. Verify disk seems to think everything's ok but I'm still at a loss as to how I can shrink the partition to create some free space.
why does an item remain in trash after I drag it out onto the desktop. It does indeed go to the desktop, but it still remains in the trash (OSX Mavericks). lion,etc once dragged out, it immediately left the trash.
I just switched from an Android to an iPhone for the first time, so I am learning. I have a ton of MP3s I want to have on my phone. I used my computer and put them all in Dropbox and it works fine except, it only plays one song at a time and after each one I have to go back in and select another. I need something that will play continuously preferably shuffled, until I stop them. Suggestions on how to do this either with Dropbox or another app?
I might make gone a bit crazy with the number of free TV show episodes I've purchased. How can I delete everything on this list? When I press the Edit button on the top left, I see outlines of circles next to each item, but I cannot select them for deletion.
I am trying to record singing in Logic Pro X. I have a background track that I want the signer to be able to hear through EarPods or Beats. However, I don't want to use the microphone that comes with them; I want to use the internal microphone. Here's System Preferences with the EarPods in: As you can see, the only options are the microphone on the EarPods and the empty Line In port (I have an older MacBook Pro). Without the EarPods, I get what I want: How can I use the Internal microphone with EarPods in?
I'm working on making a simple solar to USB charger for my iPhone 5s, and I was wondering if the watt/voltage mattered for the solar panel I'm using. I know the product can handle the higher values of the iPad charger, but I need to know if there's any real limit.
I connected my iPhone to my computer, and iTunes opened up as it always does. However, I got this weird video playing in the window. I have no videos on my phone or in my iTunes library. It wasn't interactive—clicking didn't do anything.
I seem to be able to charge my iPhone 5 on a variety of USB chargers (car ones included). My iPad retina (iPad 4) seems to be very fussy about which chargers it will actually charge up on. (The charging icon will come on, but the charge won't increase even after two hours).
What's the list of factory apps that come with the iPhone 5c my neice was playing with it and I realized it's missing a few but idk what ones because I never use most of them.
I'm one of these people who likes to grab the scroll bar and move it around now-n-then when I'm not using the scroll wheel on my mouse. But what I find really annoying is I have to scroll to get it to appear, which is fine, but it disappears before I can grab it. How can I increase the duration that the scroll bar shows before it disappears?
Is it possible to set the app that displays the QuickLook preview in OS X? I'm developing iOS apps and I have Xcode installed, but when I open the QuickLook preview of a Source-Code file, the preview uses the iA Writer, which I have also installed but the "Open with" button un the top right corner shows Xcode. Info: I'm using a MacBook Air, Late 2010, OS X 10.9.2
Yesterday I was facing a problem that Boot Camp Assistant was stuck on copying Windows files but that problem is solved now. After that copying files Boot Camp Assistant is showing that it is "Downloading Windows support software". I have already downloaded this Windows support software on my MacBook, therefore is there any way to skip this process? Unticking the option is grayed out unfortunately.
At the introduction of Keynote in 2003 they said that Keynote presentations would be a XML-based open file format and so, keynote presentations could be created programmatically by 3rd party applications. Is this still possible in Keynote 6.2?
I have a Macbook Pro Retina Display 13" model with a 250GB SSD which was brought in January this year. I always knew that there wouldn't be enough storage space for me at 250GB however always planned to upgrade with external storage and eventually replace the hard drive with a larger one. The time has come and now I am deciding on the most cost effective, most stable SSD to replace my original one with. I ideally would like to spend around £150 to £200 and want at least 500GB.
I recently seem to have lost my iPad mini. I had expected Apple to have some functionality for lost devices enabled by default, but I notice that I cannot use Find My Phone via the iCloud interface, as I had not enabled the service myself.
I have always used the help menu (command ⌘+shift ⇧+? /) to search the application menus for something that I don’t have a keyboard shortcut for (or don’t remember it).
I have an unboxed iPhone5s here, which I have received as a gift from a friend who also received it as a gift and did not want it. I might end up regifting it myself, so I would rather not open it.
I'm trying to crop large batches of images automatically. I'm currently using Automator's Crop Images action, but it is lacking in options. I can specify a width and height, and then it performs a centered crop. I want to be able to specify X and Y as well as width and height (to use Xcode terms), so I can perform a consistent crop for any custom rectangle. Are there better, more featureful cropping actions available? Preferably for free... :)
I want to have zero margin in my document, but there is no way I can't move it. Right now I can see that Document Margins have left: 0 in
Is there a reason Apple does not allow for NTFS write support, even when Linux (free, open source) solutions can? Why don't they just utilize those existing solutions to support read and write for NTFS or other alternative file systems?
I have a Seagate external hard drive which is formatted in NTFS. The hard drive came with this Paragon NTFS driver. It works great, but when I clicked "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Items" in the sharing preferences panel (shown below for clarity), all the files on that drive are now invisible in finder. This happens no matter what I select for the permissions.
I have checked my TCP which is set for DHCP and is automatically, in DNS I have only one ip which is 10.0.1.1 and my proxies are not checked. I don't know how else check if all is good. Please help
I have a Macbook pro late 2011, with Lion 10.7.5 and I was trying to update to Mavericks. After downloading it and the process of installation everything were fine, but during the reboot I get this error
I just got an iphone 5s. I was sent a group text message from a friend. When I responded, it showed my response in the group message, but then chimed and showed a new text from myself which was the exact thing I just sent to the group. So I send a response, but instead of sending it just to the other people in the group, it also send it to me? Then when I read through the group messages, I duplicates and it gets confusing.
All of a sudden none of my ios devices are able to connect to the Apple TV via Airplay. The Airplay icon shows up in the Control center on my Iphone 5s and my ipad 3. If I choose to airplay, the music doesnt stream to my Apple TV. It tries to stream, but after about 5 secs, it disconnects from Airplay. I cannot mirror my ios devices either. Interestingly, I can mirror my Macbook Pro displat to the Apple TV. But that is the extent of it. I have the latest updates on my Apple TV, my iPhone 5S, ipad 3 and my Macbook Pro. I have even tried factory resetting my Apple TV and all my ios devices. But none of that has helped. Anyone experiencing this? Please help.
my ipad was recently stolen, I setup find my Iphone app and have it activated, but when I try to log into Icloud it tells me I have to setup a device with that account. If I have log into itunes and have activated the find my iphone app, doesnt that mean I have activated a device with that id?? If any could help I'd appreciate it.
I have ten .wmv video files that I want to join them as one big file. Some tutorials indicate this can be done using QuickTime. However, it doesn't work for .wmv files. Is there a way to join these files on a Mac?
What is a CPX port? More specifically what is CPX as relates to a Datacard embossing printer?
When I start OS X (Mavericks) and run ps aux | grep postgres from Terminal, I have a process that was automatically started: This is a problem because I recently installed HomeBrew's version of Postgres and want that to be the postgres that is always running. However, I can't figure out how to disable the old one (above) and it is driving me crazy! I've looked for launch agents in: and can't seem to find one matching the above... any ideas?
I am curious whether my MBA or MBP would be suitable for my creative purposes. I like writing music. Now I have a slow but stable laptop with Ubuntu 13.10 installed. I've set up JACK, Ardour workstation, Hydrogen (drums) etc, and I got an overfunctional combine, but it is pretty laggy when it comes to real business. As for my "connection", at times I could just conect preamplified guitar cable to my laptop's mic-in, and entertain myself. I heard that MacBook Pro is a great machine for sound engineering (whereas MacBook Air is not). So my questions:
I have an iPad retina display (4th gen) and my mom has iPhone 5S. We use different apple ids. Can we use iCloud sharing so that the photos that I take can be viewed in her iPhone?
This problem happened suddenly on my MacBook pro: when I insert a CD/DVD, it tries to read it for a few seconds (the motor of the DVD drive is working) and then it stops, and ejects the DVD. I have read in many forums that this is a dead condition for DVD drive, and should be replaced. But some others also suggested the lens might require cleaning. Does anybody have experienced the second situation (i.e. can the problem be solved using DVD drive lens cleaner kits)?
I wanted to see the history of define dictionary words which I used in my iPhone but I could not find a way to see it. Is there any option in iPhone to see it?
I've got a MacBook Pro protected with FileVault 2 (10.9), and can't remember the password to unlock the disk. When I boot, it asks for the "Disk Password". What I have is the recovery key that I printed on paper when I activated FileVault. How do I use it ?
My contact list op my iPhone 5s suddenly shows hundreds of contacts for people that I do not know with full contact info. I have synced with Facebook and have LinkedIn and Exchange installed, but these contacts are not part of my "friends". Has anyone experienced the same issue? What can I do?
I have set up a raw queue (without a PPD) in CUPS via the command line and lpadmin. It works perfectly if I print files via the command line and lp, but it doesn't appear when I try to add it via Add Printer in Print & Scan in System preferences. As such I cannot print from inside applications. Any idea on how to get the printer to appear in the list of available printers? Thanks.
So I have OSXFUSE & fuse-ext installed (as in link: How can I mount an ext4 file system on OS X?), but after searching on these two device's websites, Stack Exchange, googling, etc. I cannot find the answer to my question: My 10.6.8 mounts ext4 automatically but I can only read files - I wish to be able to write on there as well. What I have been doing is unmounting the partition: and then remounting it with:
Because of the limited features in imovie i found a solution to add a scoreboard (numbers showing current score of a match) to a movie by using a keynote presentation and export this one as quicktime movie. So i created a keynote presentation with green background and a scoreboard layer. Now it would be lot of work to create a new slide, everytime the score (of a billard match) changes. So i want to automate it. If i press key '1' than player one should get one point. And if i press '2' then player to should get the point.
As pointed out by that answer, my question cannot be answered in relation to a tangible benefit for the system, but rather in relation to the battery life. So, I guess this last point can be answered by some information on how how is battery life dependent on how often the system is shut down.
For about 2 weeks now are the scroll bars appearing permanently at my mac. I know that they appear when you have an external mouse connected. It was normal that they appeared only when I scrolled, but now they don't disappear anymore. MacBook Air Late 2010, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
There's a problem with searching for a tags and metadata e.g. kind:movie in my Spotlight. Actually, it doesn't work even tag:Red in Spotlight. It's weird, because I can search easy using Finder, but not using Spotlight. It might be problem with indexing. Can someone help me?
I am running the latest Mavericks version, 10.9.2.
Background: I generated an additional ssh key-pair on my windows 7 workplace computer. I placed the corresponding public keys in my bitbucket.org and github.com account. I am using atlassian sourcetree as a git gui. I copied the private key into (my mac) the .ssh folder using the finder(drag and drop), and when I use the command ls -lah also ssh-add -l doesn't show the keys I copied. I am using OSX v10.7.5 Also, I have heard of this thing called keychain access, but I am new to mac, and I don't know if this sort of thing is required to manage my ssh keys.
A family member installed the coupons.com printing software on my Mac. Googling around tells me that the uninstaller doesn't fully remove elements of the installation from the Windows version. I haven't been able to find any information on the Mac version, however. I'm not encouraged by the fact that the installer wants you to quit your browsers before running it, but there are no obvious extensions installed in either Safari or Chrome.
If I want to test or use default Microsoft fonts on my Mac, and I own a post-2006 copy of Windows or Office, I believe I can legally use Calibri and Cambria although IANAL. This would be especially helpful when collaborating with colleagues using Office products like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Right now, I get a warning like: "Calibri not found. Trebuchet MS used instead." Where can I find them?
I will need to spend few weeks with no internet, but I will still have my mobile hot spot. So I wonder if I can prohibit all apps including OS (which I know will try silently to update something) from using internet except terminal, as I still want to be able to connect to my remote server and code. A free (and/or native) solution would be preferred but I would settle with something I have to pay for if necessary.
How do I open the case on an original (purple) iMac. I want to verify whether or not there is a hard drive in the computer. What safety precautions should I observe? Apple profiler, run from the install disk does not find a hard drive, but I want to be sure. It's a PPC G3.
I have an Automator service that takes selected text and saves it in a file. However, bold, italics, and linked URLS aren't preserved. Is there a way I can convert it to Markdown before I save it? When I searched Google, I only found guides to convert plain text to HTML.
If I create a signature with mac mail and attach a png file to the signature, when I send the email the image appears as a black box on the sent email (examples attached). In mac mail itself the image appears correctly. How can I get the image to be sent correctly?
With Command W you 'hide' most of the apps excluding the ones with tabs. But then when you do Command Tab, the hidden app doesn't show up.
I have a raspberry pi with raspbian installed and an external hard drive attached. File transfers to it using my mac laptop with Mavericks installed is exceptionally slow, around 300 kilobytes per second. Using my linux laptop I generally see file transfer rates of around 2.5 to 3 megabytes per second. I have seen similar speeds using samba, ftp, and scp.
I'm fine with the size of text on my iPhone. But sometimes I need to show a word or phrase to people whose eyesight isn't as good as mine. I tried using the standard gesture for zooming in while using the "Notes" application, but it doesn't do anything. How can I show a piece of text at a large size to someone else? The approach needs to be able to handle non-alphabetic characters, especially Chinese characters.
I currently have a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009, Intel Core 2 Duo) which I would like to use as display for a new Mac Pro. How do I do that?
When I add a new project folder to Sublime Text 2…  It works normally. But when I quit and relaunch the application I can't see my project folder on the sidebar? What should I do?
I've just started using a Mac for iOS development, coming from two decades of Windows use, and I'm astonished and confounded to find that there's no installation process for Mac programs....you just download them, open the DMG, copy the file over, and presto. This confuses me to no end.
I am new to Mac OS X and till the time I was using Windows 7/8. I tried to download and install programs in Mac OS X, but I do not see them in Launchpad.
I can identify the ones to delete because they have an address, but no phone or email. I am using google apps for business, mail & address book.
Can 2 devices back up each one's photos with same iCloud account into iCloud?
Is it possible to use bootcamp to make bootable linux drives for you, or is there a similar boot manager for linux?
When I plug in a third party mouse into my iMac it does not get any power. I've tried the USB port on the keyboards and directly on the machine. I've tried two mice and one of them used to work (I used it for gaming). Any ideas where to start debugging?
Many years ago I considered ditching picasa for iPhoto but stuck with it as I didn't want my pics being physically rearranged on the disk (Picasa is rightly okay with your pictures being where you want to store them) Is there a way to prevent iPhoto from doing this?
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and when I run 'check for updates' in iPhoto it says there is an upgrade available but that I need to pay for it (this was not the case with the GarageBand update) Why is this happening and how do I get round it?
GarageBand and iPhoto are both iLife applications that came with Snow Leopard when I originally got my iMac. I have recently upgraded to Mavericks and both apps were in need of an update. So why is it one happily upgrades for free yet the other is asking me to pay for it in the app store? This is inconsistent to say the least.
[English is not my mother language] I cannot download any app from AppStore(it shows the downloading process in AppStore and it shows the icon of the app in setting>General>usage) but I can't find it on the home screen and I cannot open it through AppStore. Does anyone know how to fix it? My iPhone is: iPhone 4s iOS 7.1
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 and the GPU has died. I want to switch to Integrated Graphics only until I get my Logic Board replaced. I've tried: gfxcardstatus and I get this: gfxcardstatus and I get this:
I am looking for a markdown editor for mac os x. There seems to be so many around. Ideally one that is compatible with github MD Anybody can recommend one that allows preview, and with really good functionality and kept up to date and frequent updates. Its not important if its pay or free.. Thanks in advance The question being presented as a duplicate, is out of date, the program they suggest hasn't been updated for a while.
It's been several years since Leopard, but today I found myself looking for the XCode commandline tools that would run on it. Specifically, version 3.1, as that is the last version that would run on Leopard. However, the Apple developers download page does not provide any downloads for XCode tools for either Leopard or Snow Leopard.
I lost my ipod touch. I am not sure if the "find my iphone" app is on. I see it in my icloud list of devices. I initiated a lock and message. If it is turned off, will the lock work and the message (phone number to call) show? How can I tell if the lock is actually on and the message will appear? It is not connected to the internet at this time.
I have a Mid 2012 MBP MD101 and a Sony DR-BTN200 Bluetooth Headset that works wonders on Mavericks and my Xperia S. In Windows 8.1 though, it is only working for a couple minutes each time i connect the MBP to the Headset after a reboot, then they go completely silent; I have to reboot to get them to work again. I can't go OS X only as the Xamarin project is still lagged behind VS. All ideas are welcome.
I used Winamp on Windows. This allowed me to rate songs using a 5 star system. These star ratings are stored in the files as metadata. I could view the star rating in file properties in Winamp and Windows Explorer.
I do not use iCloud. I do have files backed up on an external drive, but don't know how to use it. I know this sounds like a mess and it seems to be.
I imported my tennis couching videos to Aperture but Aperture shows them with odd lines while QuickTime Player more nicely shows them. Which software should I use for videos because Aperture is clearly not meant for this? Aperture
I want all videos to my external HDD and not my laptop's HDD and Final Cut Pro does not give this option. I am not wanting to use my MBA's free space for video editing. How can I define the location of videos in Final Cut Pro?
Can I retrieve the configuration data of the standard iPhone weather app? There is a town selected that I don't remember having ever selected and I would like to find out when it has been selected, to figure out who did it…
I'm using imovie 10.0.3 When I add a static image (a jpeg file) to my movie it adds a gentle zooming effect. Very pretty but I didn't want it, and I cannot work out how to switch it off. Infuriating!
I received a second hand I phone 4s as a gift it has not been reported stolen or lost. being the 3 party owner how can I delete the account attached to this phone to activate it
I frequently use the "Show In Playlist feature" to pick songs so I can play songs that I have not played before. However, I have multiple copies of the same song - some are the same version, some are different renditions. Is there a way I can select multiple songs and see all playlists that they appear on?
Setting up advanced gradient fills is somewhat time consuming. If I'm creating a new shape and I want to apply the same gradient fill as an existing shape, is there any way to copy the gradient fill for the existing shape and quickly apply it to the new shape?
I shared my Game Center details with my friend. He betrayed me and changed the primary email address of my Apple ID.
I have successfully installed IPython. I can open the interactive shell by typing this from the Terminal: Is there a way to create a shortcut on the dock that executes the command above?
I need to know that is there any Apple account/id creation limit through iTunes from a computer?
I will have profiles with photos and their resume to show to clients ., how can i store a (say photos and corresponding resume in word format) in ipad., I seen some file managers ., or elase some special apps already available in market??
If I 'show in finder' on the "duplicate" then both entries in iTunes point to the same track, how do I clean this up, preferably for the entire library as I've seen a few instances of this
Would it be possible to copy the Maverick OS downloaded using another Apple ID on the first Mac to be installed on the second mac using a different Apple ID?
I have an app on the App Store that has In-App Purchases, but on the store there isn't a button that says "In-App Purchases" where a user can see what the IAP are.  Where on mine (*=URL=* says it Offers IAP but there isn't a button at the bottom that shows what the IAP are.
I know that with Mavericks and iOS 7, iCloud syncs text shortcuts automatically across devices. Does iCloud also sync custom Application specific Shortcuts across Macs? Application specific shortcuts:
I know, you can disable automatic Spell checking for the entire document (Edit->Spelling and Grammar->Check Spelling While Typing) but I want to disable it just for the text in that specific text box (it's code, so it will underline nearly everything which makes reading it very hard...). Is there any way to do that in Pages 5.2?
A few weeks ago, my mid-2012 15-inch MBP retina's trackpad became unresponsive when I lifted the lid to wake it up. I restarted and the issue went away. The issue has been getting more and more common, and now it's at the point where I have to restart the laptop up to half a dozen times for the trackpad to work. A few noteworthy points: The keyboard is fully functional and responsive at all times The trackpad never freezes while it's being used, only after sleep or restart Resetting the SMC doesn't always fix the freezing Repairing disk permissions has done nothing The trackpad sometimes freezes at the startup disk selection menu if I go to it (by holding option at startup) The trackpad sometimes works in disk selection, but freezes when I load up OS X A USB mouse will always work when plugged in, regardless of the state of the trackpad
I want to get 2TB HDD in addition to 512GB SDD I have. I want to be able to "turn off" that drive so that it stays off even after sleep cycles and everything... I'm worried because now when I have an external HDD and I eject it, it wakes up sometimes - for example just by launching Finder which accesses it... not sure, maybe it happens only after I wake computer form sleep, but still... I really don't want such behaviour in an internal HDD. It should stay "dead" until I resurrect it only when needed. Is this possible?
I'm having trouble finding a figure or proper specs on Google, and I was wondering how fast it is. Anyone know?
I have this PDF. It's a simple grid created in Pixelmator with lines every 500 pixels. I want to use it as a template for drawing over a Wacom tablet.
How do I make it visible? iTunes 11.1.5 OSX 10.9.2
does anyone have a clue on how can I see with evidence if someone has been hacked my ipad 3. I had connected it with an iphone 3 in the past, which wasn't mine. Is there any chance they can move into my system and any ideas on how to see that? Thank you in advance
My wife has a MacBook Pro and two external hard drives; both of which currently contain a Time Machine backup of her MacBook Pro hard drive. Now she wants to "turn off" Time Machine for one of her two hard drives, so that she can backup the MacBook Pro hard drive and the other external hard drive onto it. In addition to the Time Machine backup, there are also additional files on the hard drive, so she cannot reformat it unless she first copies the files she wants to keep to somewhere else.
As the title says, how does iTunes decide what counts as a "skip" for the purposes of incrementing the skip count and setting the "last skipped" date? I've noticed that it only seems to count if I hit "next track" within the first few seconds of a song playing (but not before it starts, if it's being streamed using iTunes Match), but I haven't been able to find any specific details.
I created a workflow in Automator consisting of a single action, "Convert Format of Word Documents" (provided by Microsoft Word). I saved this in ~/Documents/convert_word_to_pdf.app. I can run it by dragging a word file over this app, and it will generate a PDF for me. However, I can't figure out how to run it through the command line. I tried running automator convert_word_to_pdf.app foo.docx and I get Unable to open workflow.. I also tried convert_word_to_pdf and convert_word_to_pdf/document.wflow as arguments to automator, with the same results. What am I missing here?
I have a 2009 IMac, which came with Mountain Lion. I've upgraded to 10.9.latest (Mavericks). Now, my imac has started freezing up all the time - I've tried reinstalling from the recovery partition but even that hangs, so I think I've got a hardware fault. How can I run the hardware test though?
I use Google sync to coordinate my Google calendar with my iPhone. The iPhone calendar app does not support creating email reminders. Is there an iPhone calendar app that supports creating email reminders so that when I create an event on my iPhone I get an email reminder to my Gmail account?
I decided to delete all of my iPhone's photos and videos so I copied everything to iPhoto and deleted everything on my phone. After that, I decided to backup my phone through iTunes. Then I reinstalled iOS 7.1 through iTunes (via ipsw and Restore phone). After a few minutes, I was able to restore everything. The phone is much faster than before. The only problem is, the Photo Library still consumes space.
As I poking around and I found a command by typing apropos vpn. It's called vpnagent. But man vpnagent doesn't provide useful information nor which vpnagent tells me the utility is not installed in my Mac. Another interesting thing I found was pppd but setting up the configuration file was very frustrating. I didn't manage to do that.
I've got some old .as files from a project I was working on on a different mac a long time ago. I was trying to open one of them just to try and remember something. But for some reason my mac thinks they're zip files (even though I've used these same files on another mac before).
If I choose reopen, it hangs again. When I right-click on its icon in the dock, I can actually see the titles of all the documents I had open, but I can't switch to any of them.
My team is starting to get large enough (9 and growing) that I'm looking for some thoughts on best ways to support our MacBook Pros & Airs. I'm fairly new to Macs though, much more comfortable with Linux. But now I'm looking for best practices to: Configure and deploy new Macs (or repurpose existing ones) Install and manage software of Macs that are in active use Install software updates from Apple & third-party developers Provide secure login and user experience management on each Mac Inventory or asset management I don't think I need enterprise solutions (and don't have a enterprise budget) but would like any pointers on best way to go about this.
I tried, while I am in /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom He uninstalled several apps, but those not. Why?
I want to share files with my friend. I used Sprend.com to share it. But my friend could not open it. My friend is using an Ipad mini MD528KN/A. She has no access to a computer. I am using a PC. How to solve the problem. Regards Gustaf
I'm trying to install OS X Mavericks in VirtualBox on Windows 8.1. I have VirtualBox installed and the VM set up, but I need an ISO file to install the operating system.
I have an up-to-date (iOS wise) iPhone 4. I downloaded two songs on my computer and now I want to get them on my phone, but my version of iTunes is outdated, and my computers slow, also I'd rather just get it through iCloud on my phone. The songs are not showing up on my phone. Is there any way to possibly 'refresh' iCloud so the songs will show up without plugging in my phone?
First of all, this problem is detailed in this discussion at Apple's forum. I basically have the exactly same problem. Status indicator is always yellow under "Bluetooth PAN" in Network Panel. The status says: Bluetooth PAN has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet.
I have TeX Live installed on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.2. I installed TeX Live through MacPorts. Not long ago, I did an update of out of date packages. I just tried to compile a Tex document, and I get the following error message:
I'm looking for a native app that allows me to use Google Scholar on my iPhone. Does such an app exist?
I have a macbook pro running osx. It is identical to many others in my office. I am the only one who cannot connect to the office wifi network. I can connect to other networks just fine, but when I try to connect to this one specific network a dialog box replies with
I was hoping to find a consensus of people who knew about the complications of upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.9. I see on the App Store that 240 gave 10.9 1 star while 489 gave it 5 stars - so that is not very reassuring as I have a (overly) complicated laptop.
How to rename and delete these customized labels generated during adding or editing contacts on the iPhone?
I need to open JNLP files automatically after download just like in windows how can I do that I'm using OS X Mavericks
I need help installing inkscape on My MAC OS X 10.9.1 I have followed *=URL=* to install inkscape but not able to run inkscape and facin problem for x11 preferences please help through installing inkscape in my mac os X 10.9.1
Can someone please tell me what's happening here : *=URL=* This can be fixed by clearing my cache. Pictures are broken. My OS is MAC Mavericks, happens on all browsers including Windows browser ( Virtual Box ) But this happens a alot on all the websites I'm doing it's frustrating. Update: Also happens on desktop pictures : Thanks!
Here's the deal: Over the last few weeks, I've noticed a large number of authentication failures for both the sshd service and the screensharingd service on my Mac OS X Mavericks server (running 10.9.2 (Build 13C64), Server v3.1.1 (Build 13S4140), Apache v2.2.26, and OpenSSL v1.0.1g (no Heartbleed for me, haha)). A quick sample of some server logs: The screensharingd logs are as follows:
The Uncool: This works well on the iPad and it's a shame that it does not work on my more powerful machine. If this would work one would then be able to write without diacritics and get them for free through auto-correction in languages that make heavy use of them (Romanian being one such language). Is there anything that I am missing?
my hosts file looks like this it should open facebook if you try to open google also after I added that first line I did: on a OSX 10.8.5 but it doesn't changes anything. I searched for a while and found different things none helped me. On this link: Hosts file in OSX Lion not blocking as expected there is a good answer but I don't know how to check which file format I have.
If someone outside of the US buys an IAP or gives a review, do those not show up in the USA app store?
I have a problem with the iPhone calendar and the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync calendar category colors. Is there a app which is compatible with the MS Exchange category colors?
Let's say there's a certain list of items I need to get when I go shopping. I don't know what time I'm going to be shopping so I don't set them to have a 'Remind me on day' or 'Remind me at location' set. I want this list to appear in my notification center (where I will see it without necessarily seeking it out) but it won't, unless I give it a reminder time/location. Is there a way to have reminders appear in notification center/lock screen without time/location reminders set?
I am using a Mac Terminal window to ssh to a CentOS server. I have installed vim-enhanced on the server, I have created an alias for vi=vim in my .bash_profile, as well as confirmed I am using /usr/bin/vim. I still can't get syntax colors when editing files.
After reading these blog posts: Linux, OCR and PDF - Problem solved Creating a searchable PDF with opensource tools ghostscript, hocr2pdf and tesseract-ocr Using Tesseract OCR with PDF scans
I have an iPhone 4, and one of their recent updates added an 'always online' feature, where the user can receive messages even if Skype isn't open on their device. Lately I've been using Skype on my desktop PC, and any message sent to me also appears on my iPhone, and it gets a bit annoying after a while. Skype for iPhone has no settings, and I've turned off all notifications for Skype in the iOS notification centre, but however I still get notifications of the messages that I receive on Skype.
My phone responds to swiping in a certain area, but not to touch. Can this be a problem with the touchscreen, or is it a software problem? Have tried wiping the phone and reinstalling to no help.
I have 2 CoC accounts. One on my ipod 4th gen, the other on my ipad 2. I want to link the account from my ipod to my ipad. I signed into gc on my ipad and it started a new account. I read some posts earlier that said to make a new gc account then sign into hat one on the new device. I made a new apple id on my ipod; then made a new gc with that apple id. It doesnt seem to work though, it says "(null)". Do I need the same apple id on my ipad thats with the new gc??? Sorry if this is too complicated...
I am trying to write this makefile in OSX. I have installed Inkscape but it does not have the script that allows you run commands in terminal like this and this command rsvg-convert which I need install if no OSX substitute exist. How can you have inkscape terminal script in OSX?
The trackpad gesture to call Mission Control or Expose with three-fingers does sometimes not work for some reasons. It works when I use four-fingers, and it functions as usual whenever I open my System Preferences and reset the Mission Control and Expose section to use three-fingers gesture (instead of four-fingers). However, it's set to three-fingers at first, and it's just that I first disable it and then enable it again...
When I tried to set my Terminal color by importing a color scheme stored in ~/Dropbox/.personal/myColor.Terminal, it didn't display the hidden directories, including ~/Dropbox/.personal (and other files and directories I store to my Dropbox root, such as .vimrc or .gvimrc). Why does this not display it? I always show those hidden directories by setting the AppleShowAllFiles property in com.apple.finder to 1. It's just the Terminal color setting import pane that I recognize to NOT be displayed - in other words, I've seen those hidden files everywhere on my daily use. I can just move the color scheme file temporarily to import it on my Terminal - just want to know why such incongruity occurs.
Apple's tech specs for the Thunderbolt Display merely lists a: Built-in FaceTime HD camera with microphone
I am able to add pictures from iPhone and Aperture to Final Cut Pro and I would like to fast add screenshots. I tried to do this from Desktop and no such option.
I have obnoxious neighbors that think its funny to use offensive words for their SSIDs. I would like to remove those SSIDs from, at a minimum, the wifi menubar icon. If its easier, hiding/removing them from the OS completely (menubar icon and system prefs) would be acceptable. I'm an OS X newbie, so I don't even know where to start with this. I prefer built-in solutions (read: free), but solutions < $10.00 would be ok too.
I'm stuck at installing ogre via brew. The error output seems limited to me and I'm not experienced OSX user at all. Any idea is appreciated. Some diagnosis: Update) Full log: http://pastebin.com/AFhNZ18w
I have a nicely exquisite slo-mo video. I would like it to export to my computer.
I think this topic must have been posted earlier also. I want to transfer my emails from mac mail to outlook 2011. When I go to import option in outlook 2011 and select the mac mail to import the mail boxes, all I get imported is blank folders every time. The results were the same even after reinstalling office 2011. Can anyone share their views on this topic and I would be very greatful if anyone could provide me solution of this question on how to migrate the emails from Mac Mail to Outlook 2011.
I have had a rather embarrassing bug for a while now. It has to do with safari on my iPad and adult websites. After every visit to one of those websites, I always clear my browser history. However, one page just sticks in my suggested websites. I only have to type in an "X" or a "W", and it pops up in the suggested websites, like shown here, even though I have cleared my history. If anyone knows a solution to this somewhat embarrassing problem, I would be very grateful.
I run octave in Terminal but whenever I use the Octave command to start octave (from an existing terminal session) or select Octave in Mission Control, it starts a new Terminal window. I find this behaviour annoying. How can I make octave run in my current Terminal window?
My bank uses "smsTAN", so when I make a transfer, the TAN gets texted to me. I would like to prevent texts from my bank from appearing in the lock screen as this lowers the safety of this method (someone would just have to nab my phone and find out my five-letter online PIN, don't ask me why my bank still enforces five-letter PINs). I'd like to keep my other texts appearing in the lock screen.
Update (22nd September, 2014): Ever since I upgraded above a certain developer preview version of OS X Yosemite (DP4 or thereabouts) a couple of months ago, the problem described below has not recurred. I've got a mid-2013 13" MacBook Air (Model Identifier: MacBookAir6,2) currently running Mavericks 10.9.2. that doesn't have any problems except (a potentially major) one: Sometimes when I'm playing a Flash video on Firefox (currently version 28.0), suddenly the screen will freeze completely - by "completely" I mean even the mouse pointer won't move. Usually the audio plays for maybe a second and two after the screen freezes before it stops too. (I'm guessing that just might be some kind of audio buffering in action.) The system goes completely unresponsive. I have to force a reboot by holding down the power key for several seconds.
Safari 5.1.7 remembers my Gmail user name but will not ask me if I want it to save my password. As I use Gmail often, this would be a real timesaver. How can I force Safari to ask?
I have a launchd plist file that I use to run a program at a selected time every day. It works, but it also runs the program whenever I boot the computer or unload and reload the job using the GUI program LaunchControl---even though I have the RunAtLoad key set to false? The complete plist file is below; it is located in /Library/LaunchAgents/: Thoughts?
They're considering the request, but the vibe I got is that there has to be a really compelling reason to allow it (and "because I like Macs better" isn't good enough). They cited "infrastructure concerns" and "business needs" as reasons why most people are on Windows.
When I use my airport express to play music, the media is still 3 or 4 seconds late but if I change the volume the result is instantly applied. My Airport is connected throw WiFi to my router and so is my MBP.
I do iOS development work, and I can't stand how iTunes and iPhoto automatically open when I plug in a device. I don't want anything to ever open automatically when I plug something in. How do I make it so?
I have a Fat32 USB that I would like to boot on my iMac 4,1. The Mac does not recognize the device from the boot menu (option key on boot) and I have tried the Plop disk but it freezes when it says loading boot sector. How can I get this USB to boot?
I had strange issue with Safari on Macbook today. It add on any pages I had visited links to other sites. It looks like an advertising. For example, if I had the page with next text: ".... answers for you Apple question ..."
I just bought a wattmeter and realized that my speakers are using 15 Watts on idle. Is there a way to detect that no sound is being currently played in order to turn off my speakers ?
With about 2500 AppleWorks docs, dating back to 1995, which I cannot open in the newly purchased Apple Pages ( but with LibreOffice), I need a script or some other automation to do it. (Most of the AW docs are textdocs, some are spreadsheets, those LibreOffice cannot open yet).
When making a call my cheek hits the screen and turns on facetime etc. How do I stop this?
I recently installed TextMate2 Alpha and it comes with a Syntax Highlighting plugin for the OS X QuickLook. Can it be disabled without removing TextMate?
I "bought" a free book on iBooks Store, the book is on my iCloud. Now I would to remove it, but I cannot find a way to do it.
About the 3rd or 5th time after I relaunch finder or reboot and choose a new folder, the finder windows presents this image  Once this happens I can no longer interact with the window besides dragging it.I recently repaired disk permissions, and it is still happening. I am using the latest version of OSX Mavericks. Any ideas on what is going on?
How can I install/upgrade Silverlight so that I can run Netflix?
I am very frustrated by the equation editing capabilities of Word on the Mac (such as I have been able to discover them). While it is possible to create nice looking equations, it takes an enormous amount of clicking of the mouse.
I have my iPhone 5S for less than a week. I have charged it fully only once. Cable, charger and phone are new and from the box. When I connect it to the USB charger it does not display the lighting symbol nor does it charge. However, if the cable is inserted before it turns on or if I restart the iPhone with the cable inserted, then the charging begins. Taking the phone away from the cable for even a second spoils the magic, so you can imagine how annoying it is. I am suspecting this is a software error.
It took 23 frames and 0.92 seconds for the ball to travel from the first picture to the second so one frame is 0.04 seconds long, with 0.1 slowness (so the speed of the ball is roughly 150 km/h). How can I specify the length of the frame? Is it possible to specify arbitrary precise frame length in time?
Some of that darned Genieo got on my computer. I've deleted all the files that the various places online suggest. I can find NO trace of Genieo anywhere in my files or libraries, but with Safari and Chrome, those Genieo style ad underlines and bubbles keep appearing. Any ideas?
If it means anything, the mouse is a Logitech MX 1100 cordless mouse, using Steer Mouse, not the Logitech Control Center. When this first happened on my old system, I wrote to the Steer Mouse people, but the SMC reset helped at the time, and they had no explanation.
I have a customer who is concerned that the staff might be using USB drives to move data around. They would like to require that these drives are encrypted with TrueCrypt or other method. Is there a way to require that they are encrypted before they are accepted on the Mac OS X device?
My iPhone screen broke, I can't see anything anymore. But I know it's still working because plugging to my mac syncs it with iTunes. Is there a tool I can use to see my screen on the mac, control it, etc? The tricky part is any solution requiring me to first do something on the iPhone won't work, since I can't do anything...
I have a problem with my ipad Air iOS 7.0.4. When I receive E-Mails on my Exchange account, which contain for example a .pdf, the pdf is destroyed an can't be opend. If I forward the attachment, the attachment is still destroyed on the other recipient. I also receive my exchange mails on my PC and there are the attachments fully functional. On my iPad I have a second GMX Imap account, and if I send a attachment to this account, I also receive it fully functional. I already tried to delete the Exchange account from the iPad and added it newly.
I just got a new macbook and is now installing apps to it. After setting up Dropbox and everything else, I decided that I wanted to change the account name (which was previously "mac") to my name. Everything worked fine, until I tried to open Dropbox, it asked for permission to the wrong user folder (of the old account name) like this:
Is it possible to make vertical slides with keynote? Can they be turned around? I'm trying to make a slideshow for an installation using monitors placed vertically.... but I'm not sure if that's possible. Thank you for your help!
I have two macs (Mavericks) plus the latest version of iTunes. What I want to do is to mirror any change I do on one library to the other iTunes library using Google Drive (iTunes Library Mac 1 to iTunes Library Mac 2 and vice versa).
i have an issue with my Time Machine Backup. To fix the mess i thought about waling recursively over all TimeMachine Backup folders. Recursively go over every Backup folder (Oldest Backup +x Days) and only copy files which don't exist on NEW_TARGET.
When I make Eclipse (or ADT) full screen and then quit it using cmd+q, it causes glitches and white lines all over the screen which move when anything in the screen changes, like when I move the mouse pointer. This problem doesn't go away even if I logout or sleep — I have to restart to solve it.
I want to update my OS X Mavericks USB key and would like to be able to see what my mac is doing after I enter the following command. sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction When I run the command as it is currently, only some information is output to the terminal, and while the install is copying over, the terminal does not display any info about what is going on. I know that --v usually displays each step in the terminal window as it takes place, but I tried adding that to the end of the above command and it did not work. I tried both with -verbose I get a not a valid mount point error. When I tried --verbose I got the following error
We are looking for something that can provide a view (GUI or CLI) of all network traffic on our network. We are running all Apple computers, with SonicWall routers. Essentially, we'd like to have the ability to see what someone is looking at on the Internet when we notice that they are exceeding a regular traffic quota. I know we could use wireshark; but, I'm not sure if we can run that on the entire network and still be able to sift through all of the data that it would return, in a reasonable amount of time.
I have a Windows 7 x64 Update 1 guest VM on a host with OS X Mavericks (10.9.2) and VMware Fusion 6.0.3: The Windows 7 guest has a sparse HDD of 30 gigabyte, with about 5 gigabyte free, and the latest VMware Tools running. OS X indicates the full size of the VM directory is (32,2 GB on disk) for 655 items (most of the items are in the various caches, most of the size is in the VMDK files)
I have a 2009 Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM, 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Check battery warning but nothing else overtly wrong.
iPhone 5: Since yesterday my phone stopped working to wireless at work. I asked other people and no one had issues with connecting to wireless. I went home and no issues with connecting to home wireless either. So it is just me and my phone having issues connecting to work wireless.
I have a number of DRM free Audio Books which I listen to while walking the dog, when I put them on my iPod Classic I can scroll through the chapters and pick which one I want to listen to. On my iPhone the file appears as a single 33 hour audio file. I'm lead to believe that this is something that has arisen since iOS7 was released, as there are a lot of threads complaining about it after upgrading. Is there a way/third party app that will allow me to scroll through chapters, or at least carry on where I left off if I decide that I'm going to listen to music between dog walking sessions?
I have Google Drive installed on my MacBook and I can see all the Google format documents (i.e. gsheet, gdoc etc.). How can I hide these so that they don't appear in Finder?
Strangely enough, I haven't been able to find any official website or webpage that hosts the official Intel HD Graphics 4000 latest drivers for OS X (10.9, to be specific). Where are the drivers hiding?
I have iPad 3 iOS 5.1.1 Jailbroken. I now want to update to 7.0.4 or 7.0.6 but can NOT figure out how. (7.1.1 is currently the official update)
I recently tried to install CoffeeScript on my mac and now am unable to use even the most basic of commands like ls, cd and so on. Something tells me that it's because the $PATH variable has changed. I remember having to do that when I tried to make the installation. I tried following the instructions found here, but it doesn't work because the vi command isn't found. Upon entering echo $PATH in the terminal, it reads /usr/local/bin:
I have the osx version 10.9.2 I can't find any way to burn my .mp4 file to a DVD+R. Can anyone recommend a way to do this?
Two of my Applications have ended like this. I tried reinstalling the Apps, but nothing.
In my old GarageBand App under New Projects there was a "Voice" tab. How do I locate that or is it no longer in the app?
Given the recent OpenSSL scare I'm trying to clean out older versions from my machines but Homebrew won't let me: How can I purge these old versions of OpenSSL from my Mac?
I always keep 'Tap to click' off because I like the physical feedback when clicking and I tend to automatically touch the trackpad. I reinstalled Mavericks last week, because I wanted to start completely fresh.
First time Mac user, I am just about to download MySQL for Mac, which version do I need for use with PHP 5.5? Apologies if this is a really simple question. Thanks
I learned from one of my other questions that the "Service Battery" warning will limit your CPU power and slow your computer down - this is a problem I've been having with my MacBook Pro. I have 906 cycles on it but I'm still getting good life and unfortunately, I don't have time to go to get my battery replaced ATM since it's the middle of exam season for me. Resetting the SMC gets me going for a while with full CPU speed, but then it slows down again. How can I disable this warning and get my computer back for the next week?
I've seen plenty of how to's on how to upgrade if you have a working installation of OS-X, however I purchased this macbook used, it needed a hard drive and a keyboard. So I put a new hard drive in it and installed Ubuntu temporarily.
When pasting text, some applications (Chrome, Microsoft Office, etc.) will do what they can to re-render copied text with style, and some of those applications do not appear to offer an option to paste without style. This results in spending lots of time removing formatting (where it is even possible) and then cleaning up the mess left behind, just to get clean text.
Anyone know any circuit simulator tool for OS X like Simulink or Proteus?
I have used the binary installer on my mac and use the following to start mysql. sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
OS X's 'hot corners' feature is great, but I'd like to use it in just one specific application - or, set a specific hot corner action for one app, and a different action (for the same corner) in another app. Is there a tool that can do this? The tool CornerClick seems to have a lot of custom features over OS X's own one, but from a brief look it doesn't seem it offers a way to actually isolate/customize hot corners to specific apps per se.
I am trying to install Festival onto my Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I tried installing it on my own, but that didn't work.
I have an iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1, with around 200 Apps installed. Recently my phone receives some notifications which does not appear in Notification Center, Lock Screen, or Badge Icons. It only vibrates (no sound too). How do I know which App is triggering this notification?
I’m trying to use OS X Server on Mavericks in a small team within my organization. I was able to successfully install and setup the server, which resides in a local network. Open Directory Setup File Sharing, /Users, available for home directory over AFP Created Network users with home folder pointing to /Users Bound Clients to the server Xcode Server Setup with git repository
I used my Toshiba Canvio USB 3.0 external hard drive without any problems for the past year. Today, I received a system alert:
Can "online, location services turned off" show if someone has not turned off location services manually? Is there any time that the location is unidentifiable, such as in a downtown area where GPS signals are not reliable?
As the title says, LibreOffice has frozen and I can't do anything. Sadly I don't want to force exit because of the document. Are there any tricks or can you rely on restore?
I'm trying to restore my Jailbroken iPod touch from ipsw file, but at the end of restoring process, when itunes going to verify. The error 3194 occurs. I've also took these steps which apple support recommends on the following link: Error 3194, Error 17, or "This device isn't eligible for the requested build" In addition, I'm doing this on my personal network at home which I have internet indeed and I can load apple website. I've tested it through Normal, VPN and Proxy connections too. But still no success. PC OS: Windows 8 iTunes version: 11.1.5.5 iPod model: iPod Touch 4G 32GB Jailbroken iOS version installed on iPod currently: 6.1 (10B144) iOS version that I want to restore the iPod to: 6.0.1 (10A523) or 6.1.3 (10B329) or 6.0.1 (10A523) or 6.1.6 (10B500) (I've tested all ispw files).
I have a client who I'm switching to SMB to connect to a network drive, but we have an issue with users not being able to see certain directories over SMB, but they can see it using AFP although, while using AFP they have major connectivity issues. I found that the directories can't be seen in SMB because they have white spaces at the end for some reason, also some directories have illegal names so they contain characters like / and " which won't work in SMB.
I have a similar problem described by the question posted to this forum labelled "OS X Mavericks upgrade - disk/partition failure". I, however, didn't stop the installation process. Instead, I continued with the option of later recovering/restoring the files from the Time Machine, believing that all data on my hard disk would be wiped out.
I have multiple Safari windows in fullscreen mode and I'd like to cycle through them using the keyboard (pretty much like command + ` works when windows are not fullscreen'd). I know I can control + ->/<-, but that will make me pass through all my non Safari windows. Is that even possible?
In the Python editor IDLE I can do "Edit > Go to Line", but when I try cmd+j (alt+g on Windows), then IDLE freezes. How can I go to line in IDLE on Mac?
I was wondering how can you set a double press key shortcut on Mavericks? i.e. double-press option-key for expose. I've search everywhere without a clear solution. I haven't even found an application that could do that. Thanks
I get this every time I log in  Which is an application that I downloaded a while back. But I can't locate it in my applications folder and I also cant see it in this:
So i have been given a macbook by my employer which was used by previous developer for iOS development. Now Appstore is asking me to update XCode to new version and when I am trying to update , it keeps asking me to login using Apple ID. In pop up window, it keeps showing me old user's apple id and doesn't let me change also. It is frustrating that Apple doesn't allow a different user to update the software unless that user has installed it. Any solution for this problem?
I use Safari 7.03 for web development. One thing I noticed is that the console log doesn't re-set on a reload of the page. You need to clear it manually. So if you run a page with a JS error, it shows, then you fix the error in your JS code and reload the page and the error is still in the log -- but it's from the LAST time.
Desired behavior: when MBP connected to cinema display: do not show / hide dock when MBP not connected to cinema display: show / hide dock Possible?
I am dual booting Ubuntu and OS X Mavericks on my MacBook pro 9,2. I am using the rEFInd boot manager, since I was told that I should use it to dual boot OS X and Linux (I could have used rEFIt, but it seems to be no longer maintained).
If not, how can I log these metrics into a database or csv file and how often should these be logged? Every second?
Have been backing up an iMac to Time Machine on an USB drive for some time. I now find that in the System Preference for Time Machine the toggle for OFF/ON is grayed out and cannot be shifted to the ON position. Selecting "back up now" from the menu still works fine.
One of my staff just got a new Mac mini with the USB 3 ports and Mavericks. It has 2 Seagate GoFlex 3TB hard drives connected: 1 for Time Machine, the other for Dropbox files.
Recently my i-phone 5 stopped updating my outlook calendar. I can update on the phone and it transfers to my computer but not vice-versa. I am running Windows 7 Outlook 365 and ios 7 (I have not updated to 7.1.1).
Close all applications before you do this to make sure the setting propagates. Any app running when you make this change will need to be restarted for the changes to take effect.
I have a mac, I've never used one before it's only a 128 GB SSD. I have 10 - 15GB of music on my PC. But iTunes is broken, even Apple couldn't fix it. So I can't update my ipod. Is there / what's the best way to itunes on my mac, so I can update my ipod, but not store the music on the Mac Hard Drive?
So, I installed an application that runs in the menu bar in OS X Mavericks. When I open that application's window (from the menu bar), there seems to be no obvious or intuitive way to switch back to that window with the keyboard after I've moved focus away from it.
In Server Manager, you can set predefined limits for the caching server. Is it possible to set a custom limit? Maybe through Terminal? How do I do this? I want to limit caching to 100GB but my options are 25GB or 270GB or 755GB or Unlimited.
My configuration of Mavericks-Ubuntu-Windows has gone nuts, so I deleted the windows partition and rebooted to Recovery HD to try and reformat the whole HD. Recovery HD at first appeared in disk utility, so I've done this trick -asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_Boot" but I still suspect its trying to delete itself because when I try to repartition the HD to 1 partition there's an error of "Couldn't unmount disk".How can I trace this error? Or how can I get Recovery HD to not try and delete itself?Thanks!
Quick problem: My wife takes videos with her iPhone 5S (with iOS 7.1) She downloads the videos from her camera roll to iPhoto and removes from the phone She tries to sync the videos back to the phone through iTunes on her Mac (iTunes 11.1.5, Mac OS 10.9.2) but they won't sync Yes, "Include videos" is checked and the specific album that has the videos in it has 47 videos on the Mac and shows 47 in iTunes but when they are synced to the phone, we see 27.
Every 15 minutes or so I get this message in my Console(system.log file) apsd - Apple Push notification Service Daemon Leaf certificate - The first certificate in the certificate chain
which is a good sign. However I think that it also explains why the attempted installation broke the previously installed version.
My MacBook Pro: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53 GHz, Mid 2009) Memory: 8 GB Currently run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and also in a partition I have 10.8.x installed. The most of my work is being done in 10.6.8, which I feel, it performs faster overall.I feel 10.8 to be a bit heavier in a bunch of operations..., so I haven't make the full switch to it. But time has come and I started considering to fully migrate my working environment to a newer OS X version. The question is, will Mavericks operate faster than Mountain Lion on my MacBook ? Will my hardware be able to run 10.9 efficiently ?
I recently took a trip and was utilizing a USB GPS Device push coordinates to a file. In the middle of the day the device decided to stop working. We were never able to get it back working again with my machine. 1 of the possible scenarios (aside from hardware failure on the GPS) we have all but ruled out because of an LED indicator. This leaves me a bit confused. My question is 2 fold.
I recently deleted some Adobe files & now when I try to reinstall Photoshop Elements I get the error message: "installer failed to initialize." Adobe is no help at all. I can't restore the files I deleted (not even sure which missing files are needed), so the Adobe installer won't work at all.
Is it possible to have Mail.app open and manage messages using tabs instead of windows? Google tells me a plug-in called MailTabs was created for this back in 2011, but it's now defunct, and I can't seem to find any other options. Thanks!
I'm a programmer and I use a lot of different file types that are all plain text. I would like to view the contents of the files in finder, but not in QuickLook, rather in the right-most preview pane, like it does for standard text files.
How to turn off rotating cube animation upon user switch? I apparently need to pad out this qwuestion, so i will add that it makes me dizzy thank you!
I am using Office365 with Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminder, Notes (i.e. no Outlook). Why do I get e-mail addresses added to Contacts? These addresses are of people I do have in Contacts already. Why do they keep coming back as e-mail adders only (person@example.com) without name or anything else? I have deleted all entries from "Previous Recipients" and deleted the unsolicited entries. It did not help. Is this an Office365 "feature"? (Mac 10.9.2)
I restarted on an external drive, and it had the same problem. Next step is to reinstall the OS, but I don't think it's going to help.
My pen drive is currently read-only, how can I change this?
is there a way to import or convert the bookmarks.html generated by safari bookmark export menu into a CSV that can be imported to excel with 2 columns, URL and Description? The way it works actually is that the HTML file contains only descriptions with a clickable link and whether you import it to excel, you get only one column with the same theme: clickable links.
In OS X, you can write a plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ (or something similar, depending on what permissions/users you like it to be operated on), and load it using launchctl to make it function on reboot. However, is it possible to define multiple commands in the plist file, and if that's the case, how can I define it? For example, suppose that I want to run a series of Python programs, such as: And then I want to run the script after the first script is done (so I cannot just define those two scripts in two different plist files, since it doesn't guarantee which one to be executed first), I want to run this script: I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.2.
it's since Mountain Lion that I've been experiencing problems with Mail.app. I've been using Gmail and I've had problems with badge not being displayed correctly or either IMAP syncing wasn't in real time or mail not arriving at all (while all these problems were not present on my iphone gmail.app).
How can I browse to /tmp to select a file in a file dialog window, such as the one Chrome uses to select an attachment? I am aware of how to browse to other folders as explained here. I could probably drag and drop, but I would prefer to simply select the file from a list in the appropriate folder.
I have two computers, one is a mac and the other is a windows PC. My mac is connecting to a home network through Wi-Fi but my windows PC isn't picking up the signal.
I would like to block some websites on the guest account, so my cousin cannot browse things that are not safe for my computer.
I've been trying to do an AHT/diagnostics on my pre-2013 macbook pro. Unfortunately I don't have the original DVDs and when I tried online diagnostics (Option+D after pressing the power button) I get a message saying: "Apple Server Diagnostics does not support this machine". When I try Option+D, nothing happens. Any ideas what to do now?
I'm writing an install script for some software that depends on libUSB being installed however I need to check if macports or fink is installed, if they are not install homebrew. How can I check to see if the macports or fink are installed in a shell script?
Just for my knowledge and curiosity, not using iTunes backup but just over Wi-Fi: Why is possible to do an iCloud backup and restore from 6.0 to 7.0 and is not possible to do an iCloud backup restore from 7.0 to 7.1 (they must be 7.0 to 7.0 or 7.1 to 7.1)
Does anyone know how to change the color of the menubar in 10.9 Mavericks? Ideally, I would love it if I could make it black with yellow text. Any ideas?
I have mac book pro, Processor: 2.16 Ghz intel Core Duo, Memory: 1 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,2, Total Number Of Cores: 2, Boot ROM Version: MBP12.0061.B03. My question: Can I install 64 bit software on this mac? Or could I "update" my 32 bit to 64 bit?
I have a 27'' iMac (Late 2012, OS X 10.9.2) with 8GB RAM. The usage of memory is always above 7GB, even though I don't think I am running that much stuff. This leads to the occasional hanging of a program and occasional feeling of the computer being lagged.
How can I let another PC using Windows XP (Service Pack3) read Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volumes? Windows XP shows nothing.
I am using MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.2. 2 days back some water was spilled(more like sprinkled) on the keyboard area of macbook and I immediately cleaned it. After that my macbook cursor behaves strangely. It acts like some one else is playing with the trackpad. Below are my observations
I'd like to identify what in the world delays my OSX 10.9.2 system from connecting to wifi upon waking from sleep. What is the right log to read or script to run or netstat or lsof command to run to figure out what's responsible for the delay? I've twiddled with energy settings before and still occasionally get delayed 5-10 seconds. While I've read a number of posts in a similar vein, I haven't found an answer yet.
When viewing drives via DiskArbitration, we see volumes with MediaUUID and VolumeUUID but can't readiliy see the rhyme or reason behind them. What are good resources for reading the expected use for these UUIDs?
I suspect my fake lightening cable charge my iPhone 5 much slower than my original lightening cable on the same charger. Is there an app that will display the current battery draw/charging current and also plot it over time?
I have a Toshiba 1tb hdd. I bought an apple laptop few weeks ago and the hdd has been working properly. Today I wanted to move some files from my old windows pc to the mac. When I connected the hdd to windows, the disk management utility showed it as RAW filesystem. I connected it back to Mac and checked the Disk Utility application. It showed me that the drive is in NTFS filesystem. How do I get it to work in my windows? Edit: Its my external hdd.
I've been trying for a couple of hours to figure out how to encrypt my external harddrive with TrueCrypt. I need it to be formatted as NTFS, however TrueCrypt doesn't let me choose any other filesystem than HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). This is how the TrueCrypt window looks like upon trying to pick the filesystem:
When using QuickLook to quickly look through multiple images (pressing space and then using the arrow keys to navigate), some images will not get displayed by QuickLook when hitting them up a second time (going back for example). A GIF does a much better job than me showcasing the issue. So here's me previewing a few random images:
Are iTunes music purchases still available once I change the store country, assuming that both stores offer the same content which is associated with my account? I am just concerned about making a substantial investment in music purchases now and not having the ability to download the files after crossing borders.
There is a MacBook Pro from 2012 with Mountain Lion that won't boot. The Apple logo is showing, the spinning wheel and then it just goes to a solid grey screen. I've tried to hold Cmd+R while booting, this does nothing. I've tried to hold Cmd+R while booting, this does nothing. I've tried to hold Shift while booting, this goes to a solid blue screen I've tried to hold Shift while booting, this goes to a solid blue screen I've tried to hold Cmd+Option+R while booting, this does nothing either. I've tried to hold Cmd+Option+R while booting, this does nothing either.
As you know, the Apple ID Password must meet some minimum requirements, such as having at least one lower case letter, one capital letter, one number, etc. So, how come sometimes I see a customer putting in a password just 4 characters long?
I am searching for a good free firewall and network monitor as the littlesnitch but I can't pay for this app. I want a firewall that will protect me but more of that to monitor any connection in or out of my mac so that to check if any malicious connections are establishing from or to my mac. Thank you.
I've found an AppleScript online which trims the first characters from a FILENAME, however, it does not seem to work on FOLDERS. How could this be modified to rename folder names? Thank You!
I checked that both apps (pre-installed and paid) have different version numbers.
I work with 2 monitors using the same Mac both at work and at home. At home I use the extension monitor with the 4:3 aspect ratio and I can see the application menus on top of the 2nd screen. At work I am using the monitor with the 16:10 aspect ratio and cannot see the application menus on the top of the 2nd screen. What is the reason?
The McAfee Safe Search bar is not aesthetically pleasing, and will never be used by me, is it possible to remove it from the Safari browser, while keeping McAfee and its internet security benefits?
Can I please have some ideas about why my iPhone battery is draining so quickly? I close my apps when I'm finished using them, I turn off my Bluetooth and wifi when not using them. I don't know what else i can try.
I'm been trying to write a plist file on which when I return from sleep mode, I always want to make my Mac volume to the minimum amount. However, it looks like the following plist doesn't work, with an error: 1:1: syntax error: Expected string but found end of script. (-2741) Also, when the following is not working: The osascript command functions well if I execute it from within Terminal, so I think it's due to how I set my arguments list to the plist.
I keep receiving an iCloud pop-up message to insert my iCloud password every time i switch on my iPad and I'm unable to do anything on it, inserting the password doesn't help. What should I do?
It sounds like my hard drive has failed (or is in the process of failing) - the only things that I makes me second guess myself and make me wonder if the disk is salvageable are: The non-Time Machine partition appears to mount correctly and can be used as usual (although as mentioned above it cannot be unmounted)
As you can see, every time is a bit different but the culprits are generally the same. A full pmset -g reads: and a pmset -g assertions
But now, every time I start Thunderbird or the calendar would like to synchronize it pops up the following window (for every calendar. I have 5!):
Whats the equivalent of the unix tree command on OSX (10.8.5)
I have a usb disk with two different partitions, one for TimeMachine and the other for storage formatted as NTFS. This morning i was looking for a way to mount in r/w mode the NTFS partion (macfuse and "ntfs for macosx") but something gone wrong and my partition is not more mountable. Diskutils show the partition as "ExFat" but I'm 100% sure that is a ntfs partition. There is a way to restore the partition type to NTFS?
Possibly due to some in-app purchase done by a kid before the in-app purchasing was disabled, an iPhone 5S user receives this type of link weekly *=URL=* Contents: It gos to iTunes but does not does anything further on an iMac so I assume it might only do something on an iPhone. No-one wishes to click it and I cannot find the url or parts of it mentioned on the net. I know I can sms STOP to a number if I knew if the number who sent the spam would react and not just be happy I sent a reply and double their effort Any suggestions as to my next step?
I try to update my iphone 5S to iOS7.1 from a PC. The software update was downloaded and in the process of installing the update the internet connection was was disconnected for unknown reason. My phone's screen show an iTune symbol. I cannot use my phone any more. I want to know what happenep to my iphone. Can I use my phone again?
Is there a way via an app on iPhone or Mac, to select and delete messages originating from a phone number that matches a pattern? Specifically, I get many text messages every day from my ZWave deadbolt lock. The number the device uses starts with "1-100", but the remaining digits are always different (but sequential). This makes the messages not cluster together into a conversation which could be easily deleted. Alternatively, maybe there exists a way to group multiple senders based on a range of numbers, as I can't foresee the actual value of the numbers. Any ideas?
I am trying to use /etc/paths.d to add an executable to my path variable but I have no success so far. The full path of the executable file is: /opt/ImageMagick/bin/convert /etc/paths.d contains two files: 40-XQuartz and ImageMagick The 40-XQuartz contains one line: /opt/X11/bin The ImageMagick contains one line: /opt/ImageMagick/bin My echo $PATH gives: /Users/Administrator/.rbenv/shims:/Users/Administrator/.rbenv/bin:/Users/Administrator/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin
I had to press and hold the Power and Home buttons because my iPhone shut off and wouldn't turn on through normal measures. When I pressed the Power and Home buttons for 20 seconds the iPhone powered on, but does this mean the phone is dying?
Is it possible to stream my iTunes moves and TV series to my Chromecast? I've found some solutions on Google but I'd like to avoid tricky transcoding processes. What's the easiest solution?
I have a .mp4-file I want to burn to a DVD to then watch on a dvd player and have automatically loop infinitely (can you program that into the dvd or is it to do with the dvd player?) What would you reccomend I do?
While attempting to remove a boot camp partition with Boot Camp Assistant I encountered an error. Boot camp assistant gave me an error message along the lines of "An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partition." So, I backed out and attempted to try again. But, now when I try to use Boot Camp Assistant again and select the add/remove a partition function, Boot Camp Assistant tells me that I don't have enough space to create a partition. In Disk Utility the bootcamp partition is also not visible, only the Macintosh HD disk is visible, yet the Macintosh HD drive is still the same size that it was before I attempted to remove the partition.
I have Terminal set up open with Homebrew settings on startup on both 10.7 and 10.9. The issue occurs when I close all open tabs and Terminal windows with ⌘ + w, so that the app is still running but there are no windows visible.
I have just got a mac and I have quite a large external drive that I've mainly used for making back ups of important files. Someone told me today that I could plug this into my mac and split it up and use half the space for the Mac and half the space for Windows files. I'm only looking to do this in order to use Time Machine. I wasn't sure how to do this or if it's recommended.
I have mac book pro, Processor: 2.16 Ghz intel Core Duo, Memory: 1 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,2, Total Number Of Cores: 2, Boot ROM Version: MBP12.0061.B03. I tried to install adobe illustrator cs6 on it but I got forbidden mark on the application. Is there is any luck with that, or I have to buy new mac, I hope not Thanks
I created a new iMovie 10 project and there was no option to associate it with an event when I created it, which there is when I create one now. I have not updated iMovie since I created the project. After working on the project for a day, I quit iMovie and opened it back up. The project was missing. How do I get it back?
I have the old iphone 3GS LATEST IOS I used to open Itunes to put songs on the phone etc and if I wanted to I would (manually)sync my phone. Syncing the phone enacts whatever your options are set to. In my setup that meant, hitting "sync" would cause: 1 Backup- iphone backed up to the PC, 2 Calendar - iphone calendar synced with Oulook calendar on my computer
I am very new to OSX, so far loving it. I really like how when you use Skype video call on OSX, and you change the primary focus to an app other than Skype, your video call is persistently visible on the screen as a small thumbnail sized overlay window, drawn above all your active applications.
I was using a Mac Book Pro OSX 10.6.8 and had burned a lot of my CDs onto it. I had never bought anything from the iTunes store. When opening iTunes one day I saw everything had changed - playlists had disappeared and I when I went to Finder the bulk of my music was bundled under "Unknown Album". As I have the music on my iPod I continued using that; since I never buy songs from the iTunes store I just left it.
In keynote, I know how to edit the theme and create a new master slide. (By going into View -> Show Master Slides.) However, I would like to edit the master of a single slide. Here is an example of why I want to do this:
I am traveling and as usual, I brought my Vonage box. It blew. So I have a Vonage account and no means to connect to it.
My iPhone 5 does not respond to swipes and gestures on the touch screen, while charging. The buttons work fine. What is this issue, I have on 2 iPhone 5 devices - so not only one. Rebooting does not work and hardware reset neither. Update: I do not have this issue via the computer (but this is a different cable as well).
I am trying to setup my email signature for my Gmail app on both my iPhone and iPad. However, whatever I setup on on my iPhone defaults on my iPad and vice versa. Is there a way to work around this?
I have searched all over the internet for an answer to this question and have not found anything. Basically, my iPad is connected to my TV in my room and I don't want to have to get up every time a movie or show ends to go to the next one. This would be my primary use for it, but I'm sure I would find many other uses. I would like to be able to completely control my iPad screen from my iPhone (have it appear fully on the phone). Similar to controlling a PC or Mac from an iOS device. Any suggestions? I have an iPad 3rd gen (not Jailbroken) running 7.1 and an iPhone 5s (Jailbroken) running 7.0.4.
This may seem weird, but I'm actually looking for ways to increase my memory usage. I have a Macbook Pro (8,1) with 4 GB that I updated to 16GB. I really feel like I'm losing a lot for those 10 unused GB, aren't there any caching techniques that would help me put 'more useful stuff in my RAM' (assuming, of course, that I don't overflow this amount and start swapping on the HD, which would be counter-productive) ? For instance, while looking for SSD's, I had a look at Samsung's RAPID technology that seem to do what I had in mind (although it does not seem to be compatible with Macs, and the amount of cache is not tunable ) ... I have to add that I am perfectly *nix capable, work in a proper brewed environment and I am not afraid of the command line. I've found some links where people (manually) simlinks cache directories (for instance, Safari's) to RAM disks, any experience with that and/or soft handling that ? I am using Mavericks, OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021)
Can you please specify that how much apple pays per app downloads. I want to know that how much amount apple pays for app download/device.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro, 2.7 GHz i7 with 8MB RAM. I run t cover closed to a 24" 1920 x 1050 monitor connected via a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter.
I have a MacBook Retina. Whenever I attach a secondary screen, projector or monitor and select the "Mirror Displays" option, the secondary screen turns all black.
I want to read PDF files in iBooks on an iPad. What is the current method to put PDF files on an iPad ? Is there a method that allows me to drag files somewhere so that the files will subsequently be pushed on the device ? Using iTunes 11.1.5, when I select the Books tab with no device, I have a some kind of list ('Books') under Synchronize.
So I just noticed that all new iPads (and old ones that we removed from groups and added to other groups) is no longer able to push settings to the iPads. The iPads are all on very different networks, and installing apps on them all seem to work.
The OS X Calendar app will suggest locations as I enter text into the location field of an appointment; but in practice, it does a terrible (technically, an astonishingly terrible) job of suggesting things, proposing locations that are continents away, or clearly obscure, wile missing locations that are prominent, nearby, or that I have visited before. Is there a way, other than entering a full address, to improve the suggestions for locations provided in Calendar events? Is there a way to expand the list of suggestions or provide the search information in a format that will produce better results?
I made a simple AppleScript that launches a different set of apps depending on user input. I am new to AppleScript and it is tweaked from a bunch I found on the internet, modified for my usage. It is included below.
I'm trying to connect to a Mac Mini running OSX Server 10.9. I've managed to use RealVNC to reach the login screen, but when I try to log in using a user I created on the server itself, I get 'error 9' messages in the server logs. I have no idea what's causing this.
Found a "Complete" shortcut in Messages on OS X under Edit, I want to know what it does exactly, but can't find any info. Anyone knows?
I am playing around with SpriteKit framework in XCode 5.1.1 and there doesn't seem to be any autocomplete for properties. (zRotation, position etc..) I checked for new documentation and there doesn't seem to be any new documents.
My notes.app is going crazy. When I create a new Note and then hit save, the note is not only duplicated but 10x duplicated.
Just for my knowledge and curiosity, I was looking at the different type of data located in the Cloud under my iOS iCloud Storage. What are exactly Recovered_Files? Example if I delete all the files included in this folder and I restore my iOS device from an iCloud back, what type of settings or files or metadata will be missing? Thank you
I want to create and run a bash function that: cd into a project's directory Open a new tab in Terminal in the same directory Open my dev tools and start dev services Item #2 doesn't work as expected, the new tab doesn't change directory. Here is the script (both functions residing in my .bashrc file:
I use two Thunderbolt displays with my mid-2012 retina MacBook Pro. I keep my iPhone 5 in a dock hooked up to the left Thunderbolt display via USB. On Friday, I noticed that when I went to commute home, my battery was very low. Odd! Today, I noticed that sitting my phone in its dock didn't make the charging lightning bolt show up next to the battery indicator.
I have iOS 7.1 installed on my iPhone and I am using the built in Gmail app. If I am in the inbox and I mark a few messages, I swear I used to have an option to move the marked items to the trash. Now I get (across the bottom of the screen)
I have a hand full of folders that contain the .service in the name. When I attempt to open these folders in finder, it shows an icon that indicates that the file cannot be opened. Is there a way to tell finder that these "files" are in fact folders so I can browse them?
I'm getting blank icons for stacks (e.g. Downloads) and grids (e.g. Documents) in the Dock. Nothing seems to fix it. Have tried relaunching the Finder and even a full reboot, but nothing helps. Any ideas? There's a question about exactly the same problem from a while back but that's no help as the OP said that upgrading to Mountain Lion fixed his problem.
I have a multi macbook/macbook pro household, made up of a 2006 mb, mid 2008 mbp, and mid2010 mbp models. I recently purchased a new 85 watt power supply and immediately noticed that it would not consistently power or charge my 2010 mbp. When plugged in, it would charge briefly, then alternate between green and amber every 5 to 10 seconds. The same power supply worked fine with the older 2006 mb and 2008 mbp.
My Time Machine backup has 100+ dated backups. What I'd like to be able to do is extract the backups for a particular folder to another location, with the result being like TM's archive (where multiple references to unchanged files are just links to 1 copy). Effectively, this would be a copy of the original TM archive, but only for the selected folder (and it's subfolders). Is there any utility which can do this?
I would like to restore the previous name (default) in my terminal. How can I do that? I changed to $ sign only by applying this code: but couldn't manage to restore it.
I use the following script to attempt to eject all disks that aren't internal: This has the advantage of skipping volumes like MobileBackups as well as several others. Unfortunately, it doesn't eject network shares. Is there any way to get connected network shares in applescript? As a +1, ideally this would skip things like optical disks as well.
Is it possible to run a Java applet in any browser in MacOS 10.9.2? Chrome does not work with Java applets because it's a 32 bit app and the Java plugin is 64 bit only. Firefox and Safari both should be able to use Oracle's Java plugin, but it does not seem to work.
I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro, running Mavericks 10.9.2. Its sole HDD is a 750GB drive, formatted with Bootcamp. It's still running reasonably well, but in running a defragment pass on it, I've identified that there are a bunch of files which are refusing to be moved by the defragmenter (iDefrag).
I bought an iPhone 5C from a friend and I'm not sure if it's Activation Locked or not and I don't have a SIM card yet. He hasn't used it and didn't know anything about that, he got it second hand.
Screen on phone is frozen diplaying wall paper and slide to unlock. Voice recognition works, but cannot enter passcode with frozen screen. How can I get into the phone, need pictures. Have not backed up phone. Can pictures be retrieved from SIM?
I just bought iPhone5S. While I need converter to use iPhone5S charger, instead I am using an iPad2 charger.
Is it possible to share a Google Calendar subscription with multiple iCloud users? My sister has given me complete shared access to her Google Calendar so I can publish it to my iCloud calendar and share that with all the iOS users in the family.
I have a big problem with my mac book pro 15" - maverick. Yesterday I was using my mac normally and I shutdown it normally. Today, I turn on and everything is fine until when I have to insert my password. I insert it and then I can see the desktop and I can move the mouse but nothing works, I can't click anywhere and the dock doesn't appear. After a while the mouse convert itself in the "circular rainbow" (sorry but i've no idea about the name of that ). I tried to fix with the disk utility recovering the permission but nothing changed. Any idea of what happened? EDIT: I tried to create a new user and it don't stuck. So it's a problem of the user.
I just realized that I sent an email from my g-mail app on my iPad signed "sent from my iPhone". So I reset my iPad signature to "sent from my iPad". Guess what? An email Is sent from my iPhone g-mail app was signed "sent from my iPad". Does anybody have a fix aside from just using the signature "sent from my iPhone/iPad"?
How do I delete all the music on my iPhone. I tried doing it through iTunes but it says my collection is not managed by iTunes and I don't want to erase and sync because all my apps are nicely backed up and sorted with iTunes. I have only seen a way of deleting song by song on the phone.
My machine occasionally goes into a state where almost 100% cpu is eaten by syslogd and blued. At that time, numerous copies of the following block appear in the console: Any ideas what may be causing this and how to resolve?
I am needing to change my apple ID on my iPhone for my iCloud account as it has restored with the incorrect user ID BUT i don't know the password for this user id so it just keeps telling me it's incorrect. What do i do??
Now I had a problem with my keyboard. When I press shift and number keys, the output is different than expected. When I press Shift plus 2, it gives me " when I press Shift plus ;, it gives me +. when I press [, it gives me @.
I was wondering how can i display the weather of a particular city of my choosing in the Notification center? I'm using an iPhone 5S with iOS 7.1
What if someone sold me his Macbook he doesn't need anymore? When I remove old home profile and reinstall OS via Cmd+R (btw, would I need sudo pass for that?), after that would previous owner be able to block Macbook remotely or get any data about it?
I like to use iTunes predominantly to check things out on the iTunes store (and make the occasional purchase), not to browse a library of downloaded media by default. Is there a setting or way to make the store be the default initial screen in iTunes for Mac?
I am attempting to turn an ArtPro (.ap) image into a pdf, but I can't find any existing or downloadable actions to do anything other than open a .ap file. Because of this I have resolved to Screen Print the picture, save, then convert, but now I can't find anything that will screen capture the image either D: Please help!!
I was recently sold an iPad by someone on the net. We met to do the exchange. When I tried to set up, she couldn't remember the ID or the password. Now I can't get hold of her and am stuck with an iPad that doesn't function. What can I do?
I forced my iPhone to download everything in iCloud (create All Music playlist, download, wait...). Now I want to delete about 25% of my music from the device. iOS 7 only allows you to delete one song at a time. How can I delete albums or ideally large groups of music at a time?
I am trying to install an application from its .iso image file. I can successfully mount the .iso file, but when I click the installer, nothing pops up.
Is there a way to insert uparrow that is not a wingding in word with a keyboard shortcut? Whenever I insert the symbol from the character browser it switches my font to wingdings and it's frustrating because then I have to manually switch back to the original font.
As the iPhone 4 does not support AirPlay Display Mirroring, is there any way to mirror the phones display OTA onto a Mac (or even any other computer) without using a non-OTA method such as a VGA/HDMI adapter or either Veency, ScreenSplitr/iDemo, or Display Recorder (I have no intent on recording the screen, however the 'Live View' feature of Display Recorder does not work on this device)? Note: This particular phone is running iOS 7.0.6 and is jailbroken.
I have two 2.1 surrounds system at home and I would like to pair both with my MacBook via bluetooth to play at the same time. Is that possible? In that case, what should I look for?
I have thousands of photos on my iMac and want to save them to the iCloud?? How do I do this and how can I find them again?
Ever since I switched to Mavericks I experience a problem with keyboard focus when using X11 based apps (that's at least how it manifests) I have narrowed it down to Safari's com.apple.WebKit.WebContent process launched for every tab. It periodically (every ~60 seconds) seems to spawn itself launching another WebContent process for a couple of seconds before terminating, and in the process stealing the focus from X11.
I've been reading various articles from a Google Search on this topic and it seems there is no clear solution as many debate what works/doesn't work. I'm hoping to get a definitive answer here.
Macbook Pro 15" retina running Mavericks Keynote v 6.2 I need to give a presentation to a room full of folks both locally and abroad. The room I am presenting in has a display with AirPlay. I can play my slideshow with presenter notes with expected results - presenter notes on my laptop, presentation on the AirPlay. The problem seems to be with any remote software I try and use to show the presentation to my colleagues abroad. I've tried Linq, webex, hangouts, and join.me and all will show my desktop (with presenter notes) and don't seem to be able to see the extended desktop, with the presentation view. I am very new to this - is there a known way to do accomplish this that is getting by my google-fu?
My home directory has a symlink to my home directory. I'm not sure how it got there. Is it safe to delete?
Safari loads and displays .PDF files nicely. iBooks is Apple's PDF reader app for sync'd and offline access. To move files currently, I have to: right-click in Safari to open the PDF in Preview; use Preview File menu to Move PDF file to Desktop (or anywhere more accessible than Preview's private store); Open iBooks and drag the PDF file into iBooks.
How do I install Mac OS X as a guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 running on non apple hardware? We currently have a large deployment of HP server hardware running VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1. We have numerous Windows and Linux deployments in this environment and all works very well. Now we are in need of a virtual install of Mac OS X. We don't want to hack it in and we don't want to violate any EULA's, we just want virtual Mac OS X in our environment. Does this mean we need new hardware in the data center to support this?
I've tried finding the comparison reviews of the performance differences between 128GB and 256GB PCIe SSDs of mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" and 13" (which now have been carried over as the early-to-mid-2014 MacBook Air 11" and 13", too), but some comparisons don't even mention which SSD they've tested, and others only present a single size for the mid-2013 Air models. How much faster is the 256GB SSD compared to the 128GB on mid-2013 MacBook Air?
For some time I have been able to copy content from a web page and paste it into a Pages document and it would accept both text and images. But since the last update to Pages it will only display the text and if I want to include images I have to copy them and paste them individually. Is there another way to do this that I am not aware of? I am running Pages 5.2 (1860) on OS X 10.9.2 Thanks
I created a workflow for Alfred for searching DuckDuckGo and automatically displaying the results in the window, with a script filter. It takes ~4 seconds to start from Alfred. It takes 0.506s to return the results in Terminal, so this looks like an Alfred problem.
I have a new hard drive with Mavericks, and I didn't have this problem on my old Mountain Lion install, so I'm sure there's some new setting somewhere I'm missing... I have a lot of spaces open, and Google Chrome windows in all of them. I also have some Chrome windows minimized on the dock. Let's say for example that I'm in Space 1 using a Chrome window, and the minimized Chrome window was last active in Space 4. When I click the minimized window to open it, it animates up and fills the page in Space 1, where I am. Then it automatically moves the previously minimized window to Space 4. (So far, so good.) The problem? It doesn't automatically switch to Space 4. I'm still in Space 1, even though I clearly wanted to view the window I just un-minimized.
There appears to be confusing and incomplete information about the PCIe SSDs in mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" and 13" (especially the 128GB models), where a different queue depth may result in different speed test results. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-review-13inch/8
i just downloaded OS 10.9.2 after having 10.6.8 for the last few years. In 10.6.8, whenever I clicked on finder in the dock, I would get a finder window with the "user" folder opened immediately. in 10.9, this opens the "all my files" folder. Is there a way to change it back so that whenever I click on finder it, by default, opens to the user folder?
Is it posible to update to ios 7 from ios 6.1 for ipad 4 even if there is update for ios 7.1.1
I used Burn on my previous iMac for years, starting with Snow Leopard (or maybe Leopard, it's been a while) up through Mavericks and never had a problem. Now I've upgraded to a new iMac, running Mavericks (10.9.2) and I've installed Burn (2.5.1) and I've also installed ffmpeg (2.2.1). (I know ffmpeg is more for MP3 than FLAC.) I tried to burn a CD from FLAC files with Burn and it won't work.
I have assigned Text Wrangler as the default app for all my .srt files (right click on one of the files -> get info -> open with Text Wrangler -> change all). My confusion is that even though I have done this, in Finder some of the (.srt) files show as "Text file" while most show as "TextWrangler document". I've remove all the .DS_Store files in my volume but still no change. Does anyone know how to fix this? In saying that, double-clicking on the .srt files marked as "text file" still opens them in Text Wrangler. thanks a lot
I lent my iPhone to someone who logged into iCloud with their apple ID. Now I want to change the iCloud account to my own, which can only be done by deleting the currently logged-in iCloud account. To do that, I have to enter the password for that account, to turn off the Find My iPhone app. There seems to be no way to remove the old account without knowing the password for it. This is on an iPhone 5, with iOS 7.1.1.
I'm running OSX Mavericks 10.9.2 and iTunes 11.1.5 on a 2012 Macbook Air. My iTunes library is, due to its size, stored on an external drive which is connected to my Time Capsule.
Mac mini (2.4 core 2 duo, 10.6.8) has served well for years. Now it seems to be having wifi connectivity problems with no rhyme or reason to their appearance. Several other devices (laptops, phones) on the same wifi network can all connect and use the network with no issues. Sometimes connectivity is dropped altogether and later re-establishes. More often it just becomes impossibly slow:
In my finder window of the OS X 10.9.1 mac software version installed on a new desktop mac, I frequently see something else connected as shared but will not allow me to get the info and I do not know what it is?
I have a certificate in my keychain, and i need to see when did i introduce it. I can't seem to find a way to so. The properties of the certificates don't include that. Is there a log of keychain events somewhere that could help or anything? Thanks
From my Linux desktop (Fedora), I am trying to log in as root to my Mac mini computer. 10.0.1.12 is the mac mini ip address. In the log file /var/log/system.log, I see: With more verbose: In /etc/sshd_config, I have How can I fix this?
In Windows, I could use Ctrl+Shift to align text in textboxes. To align left, I used the left Ctrl and the left Shift and the right ones to align to the right. Is there a way to do this in OSX?
When I delete an email on my PC my iPhone notifies me of a new email. I have looked for a setting to stop this. Does anyone know of a way to stop this?
I'm running 10.8.5. I use Calendar.app pretty heavily (it's hooked up to the Exchange server at work) and my only continual beef is that the current day doesn't stand out enough visually.
How do identify who is using Sharing to access my Mac remotely? I have a new 2013 27″ iMac using OS X 10.9.2
When hosting a diskless Netboot image from a server running 10.8/10.9 (I have witnessed this with both) the client machine will frequently not boot giving an error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 1, error is 3 waiting for local drives (retry 1/10)...
I have an iPhone5 and I have now had the display replaced twice by an Apple Store. But I get a yellow spot in the LCD in the same spot each time. What could cause this?
If Find My iPhone is activated on an iPhone 4s and I install new iOS 7, will such an installation automatically switch off Find My iPhone on my phone?
I do not want to use the iCloud in any way. I do not want it running at all. I want it gone. How do I stop it from asking to log in? It is asking every 10 seconds. It has made my iPad unusable. How do I get rid of it so I can use my iPad?
I use Notability, a journal app, on my iPad and backup my documents to Dropbox using the app's proprietary .note format. How can I read my .note files on my Macbook? I am willing to convert the files to another format before reading them.
My volume in OS X doesn't seem to be actually controlling my volume. Not that the displayed "output volume" in the Sound preference pane doesn't change as I press volume up and volume down keys. The overlay changes, but the actual volume (the little boops) pushed through the headphones and the displayed volume in the preference pane don't change.
Every now and then I get an info tag stuck on my screen on top of all my applications. The only think I know that will remove it is restarting my computer. Is there an easier way to refresh OSX that would get rid it?
When I'm in the terminal (either iTerm or Terminal.app) and have jobs running in the background, then typing exit or logout gives me: which is fine and expected. The problem is that if I run exit or logout again (and repeatedly), I get the same thing.
I am running OSX 10.7.5 on an iMac 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo Processor. I have 3 user accounts. 2 are admin. one of the Admin accounts has gone nuts. The other 2 user accounts work just fine in every way.
Can someone please tell me the difference between Camera Roll, Photo Stream and Photo Library. And why can't I delete anything in Photo Library. If I delete pictures from photo stream , it says it will erase them off my computer as well? I want to keep all the pics on my computer but delete on my phone to free up space. How do I do that? And is there a fast way to delete all pics or one by one... I have over 2000 pics! I have a iPhone 4S.
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I would like to control my desktop Mac with a Magic trackpad or Magic mouse "emulation". I have an iPad and an Macbook Air too. So my questions are:
I just have a quick question of anyone with iOS 7.1-7.1.1. I have been seeing that iOS 7.1-.1.1 is causing internet issues for people using it. I was just wondering if anyone could confirm or deny this. Thanks!
Is it possible to connect to the Airport Express over WiFi with my MacBook Pro and use it as an AirPlay device when it doesn't have a connection to the internet? I will not have access to the internet (so no router) for a while in the future, but I wonder if the AirPlay function will keep working. If this is possible, which of the models support this behaviour?
So, I'm running a rMBP, and my BootCamp simply refuses to recognise my Ethernet. I can see it recognises the Thunderbolt converter, as there's an option to eject it under 'Safely eject hardware'. I'm rather bad with technical stuff, but I tried manually installing a driver or something like that (I found a solution here that seemed to work for people, but I couldn't figure it out for the life of me).. I haven't unplugged it since startup, so that's not the issue.
How do I clear my Bash history in Mac OS X? I've entered a few "errors" and just want to clear them off. How do I do that?
Install fails showing: However, looking at nokogiri's mkmf.log, the following errors are shown:
I want one of my applications to use Tor; however the app itself does not have proxy setting and it uses the System proxy. The problem is that I don't want to set my system proxy and I just want this one application to use tor.
I have been working on Windows 7 with Microsoft OneNote 2010. I have a huge amount of work store in OneNote.
I have connected mac mini to ATD with the ATD's thunderbolt port on the back side using extra thunderbolt-thunderbolt cord, and I sometimes connect my macbook with the thunderbolt cable from ATD's. To make screen active I have to disconnect one of the computers manually, what is pretty inconvinent. I know this answer of somebody on Apple store Q&A from 2011 but I would like make sure if somebody not invented somme hack for not doing the switch manually. UPDATE: software solutions are much more apriciated over the hardware one.
I'm trying to mount a remote volume with cifs. Whenever I try to mount -t cifs ..., I get an error saying mount_cifs can't be found. Where can I find it? Or how do I install it? I'm using OS X 10.9.2 .
My activity monitor is showing me a nameless process ("Process Name" column in activity monitor is blank) - which seems to keep spawning new, extremely short lived, nameless processes Neither top nor ps -fu seem to list the process. kill -9 <process id> tells me there's no such process id. Yet I keep seeing the process in activity monitor, it keeps spawning short lived children there, and the thrashing of my CPU seems to have led to my (otherwise idle) laptop to start up its fans. Suggestions/ideas?
I like that the Calendar now allows assigning a location to an entry which can then be opened in Maps. Unfortunately it appears to be confined to locations assigned to contacts - which make sense if you for instance need to meet at somebodys - but now I had the need to pinpoint a location on the map which I do not intuitively map to a contact (a cinema actually) and use that as the meeting location, and could not figure out how.
Does anyone know why a FaceTime contact would show an incorrect facebook name? When I FaceTime my friend a totally different name comes up under the Facebook contact.
I'm trying to troubleshoot some email delivery issues for users on me.com/mac.com and I can't find any documentation from Apple about how they do spam filtering, etc. (see AOL Postmaster for an example of what I'm talking about) I get the impression that this is intentionally obscured, but I thought I'd ask anyhow.
I just had to send my MacBook Pro in for a logic board replacement. It seemed fine at first when I got it back, but now I realize that Finder is crashing about once a minute. From system.log: And the contents of that log file.
I am quite new to mac and I came across something that I think is unusual (After researching the web). When I open the terminal application, I get a "Yara:" string before the command prompt... Is it something bad? How can I get rid of this?
I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 and have just installed OS X Mavericks (10.9.2) and now can not use my Alfa AWUS036H USB antenna. It seams there are no new drives for this model. Is there a workaround for this or can another model be recommend the runs on OS X Mavericks?
I am trying to locate the pictures from my photo stream to back up on my computer and I cant find them. Any help is greatly appreciated
I'm using iTunes version 10.7.0.21. With music I've imported to iTunes (having ripped it elsewhere), it displays the filename rather than the metadata. This results in track numbers being included in song titles, symbols missing, and long titles being cut off.
I have inherited a vast media archive without a unifying organizational scheme. Its contents date back at least 10 years. I have been asked to find a needle in this hay stack, and I have some guesses as to that needle's name. But I don't know its name for certain. I want to use a single find command in the Terminal to search for alternate names. And I want to include a second set: possible file extensions. In pseudocode, here's what I mean: find [in a given directory] [files and folders whose name matches (*guess1* OR *guess2*) AND whose name matches (*.extension1 OR *.extension2)]. How should I express this in the Terminal?
I recently updated to iOS 7.1.1 on my iPhone 5 and for the first couple of days everything was fine. Now, however, I can't connect to the internet on Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi is connected and the signal is there but when I browse on Google Chrome, access the App Store or even try iMessage it's not working.
If I use albums in iPhoto to combine events for a slideshow will the album keep each event intact and in order rather than combining pictures by date or some other hierarchy?
Sometimes my computer will crash and restart due to unknown errors. It usually happens when I'm working on something so a few apps are open. OS X has this annoying feature where it tries to reopen all apps when you restart. You can disable it when manually restarting, but it still does it if the computer restarts after a crash.
I think that my ex-boyfriend's music is still syncing with my iTunes. It is syncing via the cloud. We both used to share the iTunes and now he has his own on his own computer (I assume).
I was experimenting with self-signed certificates and while viewing my website from Safari on an iPhone I first got the warning that it is an untrusted site and I could review the details of the certificate. I then tapped the "Accept" button in the top right corner and continued to browse the site. Now Safari is not asking me again when visiting my site. No matter if I clear history or go to Safari settings and choose Clear Cookies and Data and even If I restart my phone. Obviously there is an option to completely reset all iPhone settings but that is highly inconvenient to just remove a certificate you no longer need.
I'm wondering how to transfer my Clash of Clans (CoC) data from one iOS device to another. My gamecenter is really messed up so I need a new way to transfer CoC data. Can iFunbox (or other utilities that read iOS storage filesystem) help me with that?
How can I make an Applescript that Mail.app on my Mac can run? When it encounters a message that is being sent to mac@email.com, I'd like it to redirect it to email@gmail.com, where the "From" field is NOT mac@email.com, but rather is the "From" field on the original email that was sent to mac@email.com.
(I suspect the short answer is "no," but I wanted to make sure.) I have two accounts on my MBA (work and personal). During the work day, the computer is also playing my music. When I need to switch to the personal account for something, the music stops (iTunes actually pauses itself, but other players that don't pause also lose the ability to generate audio output). Is there any way to "get root" on the audio output, so to speak, so that I can have audio playing regardless of which account I'm logged into?
I have an old MacBook with an OK battery. When I go out sailing or traveling I have a lead battery with me to be able to charge USB-things. iPhone, portable speakers, etc.
(Possibly a duplicate of Preference for adding epub to iBooks) Is it possible to use iBooks on Mavericks to open an ePub without adding it to the library? Possibly through defaults? (defaults read -app iBooks spits out but I don't see anything that looks useful.)
I have the required setw / setg setting for mouse in my .tmux.conf but they aren't working. I've done tmux source-file .tmux.conf I can use tmux and split windows with my remapped keys and other settings that I have such as remapping the power key ARE working.
I am working with an application where my iPhone needs to see my laptop on the network under its host name and not the IP address because the SSL certificate works with the name only. At the office, I resolved it by adding a DNS entry mapping my host to my IP and it works. But today I am WFH on my home network which does not have a DNS server capability.
I'm reading about how to name devices in Apple Configurator 1.5 with Supervision set to On. It states that: Apple Configurator assigns sequential device names to devices in the order that they are connected. The place I work at manages devices for three different companies, and each company has a number 001, 003 and 009. I'd like to be able to label the iPhones for the different companies based on who owns them; labeling them such that if the first phone I plug in belongs to company 009 and it's the first phone in that company that I plug in when preparing them, it will get the name / label of 009 - 1 where 1 in the name / label is the next number in the sequence for just that company. Now what I'm concerned about, is that when I use this numbering scheme, that Apple Configurator will confuse my 009 - label basename to think that it is the starting number in the sequence (see step 4 in the article I linked above), and I will end up with 010 - when I plugin the next phone. I suppose I c
I have accidentally deleted my copy of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 from the App Store in the purchased section under my account. Is there any way I can get it back again without paying for a second time?
In two instances I have have a number of Mac Minis and iMacs that were not connected to the Internet but a local isolated LAN have their SMB:// shares refuse to connect, though they worked days or weeks before with no configuration changes. After some testing I found that AFP:// and CIFS:// connections still worked using the same username and password as the non working SMB connections. Since 10.9.x uses SMB by default now I wanted to figure out what was causing the issue instead of switching to AFP or CIFS as many have suggested.
I want to add a black and white as well as a film grain effect to the same video in iMovie 10. I can't see any way to do this as applying one effect removes the other. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.
I have a first-generation iPad mini with Verizon LTE service and I’m replacing it with a second-generation mini. What do I need to do to “transfer” the cellular service from the one to the other? (In other words, I want the new device to seamlessly replace the old one as far as the carrier is concerned.) Is it a simple matter of moving the old SIM card to the new device, or do I need to get the carrier involved?
I have enabled logging in SFTPD by adding including the following in my /etc/sshd_config But I can't find any log files. Where does sftp log on OS X v10.9.2 ?
I have a hand-me-down iPhone 4S from my wife running iOS 6.1.3. I have deleted the Facebook app. However other apps (like Instagram) still think my wife's Facebook account is linked to the phone and log in using her account.
How do I change my iCloud account email? I use a different email for iCloud than iTunes for several reasons and I accidentally put in the wrong email for my iCloud and it's not allowing me to change the email, only the password. I don't want to delete anything else on my phone, I just want to change the email.
I'm trying to start Sony Sound Forge Pro. It's worked before, but then I tried to update to version 2 of the app, and I started getting this error when I start it. I downgraded back to version 1 and I still get the error. The error is in the Console and it looks like this: 5/1/14 8:15:25.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10d2c1000): p=490[CoreServicesUIAg] final status 0x1000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL 5/1/14 8:15:25.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 490[CoreServicesUIAg]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10d2c1000 from offset 0x11000 in file "/Applications/Sound Forge Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Sound Forge Pro" (cs_mtime:1365521695.0 == mtime:1365521695.0) (signed:1 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0) Is there any way to "reset" Apple's code signing and allow this application to run again?
I have installed homebrew via boxen. I did not know that npm update -g is a bad thing to do, as npm runs amok trying to update itself. Hence, npm stopped working. I am now trying to get node and npm back to work again. I have installed the node via homebrew: Yet npm claims that Running nodenv indeed shows that the current version is not found: I am confused as to why nodenev shows all the versions it does. How do I fix nodejs and npm?
Had to recover my computer using Internet Recovery. For some reason it installed Mountain Lion instead of the Mavericks OS I previously had. How did this happen?
I've installed some software on my Mac, such as R language environment, .djvu file reader, etc. How do I remove them? There's no "Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs..." I'm using a Mac Book Pro, but I suppose it's the same on all Macs.
I am looking to purchase a refurbished Macbook Air from Apple's refurbished store. When comparing the models there are two I am looking at. The difference between the two is slight but one of the difference is the processor. One has a processor of 1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz) while the other has a 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz).
I just upgrade to Mavericks and had some issues. Out of all the issues, one that I get frustrated the most is Chrome browser is not displaying font like it use to be. Here are two images taken from Safari and Chrome to compare. Chrome: Safari:
I am considering purchasing a new MacBook Air (early 2014 edition). I'd like to drive two external monitors from the laptop.
How computationally intensive is speakable items when it's continually listening for input? I think it's fun to use and actually sometimes useful to use for commands (like when my hands are full or whatnot). Using the button input won't be so worthwhile to me because I most often would want to use it from the other side of the room when I'm doing something else. Yet, I only would probably use the voice commands once every other day. So if it uses up any substainial amount of resources, heats the processor up and uses more electricity, or simply makes my computer wear itself out a little faster then I don't really want to have it on always. However, if the consumption is so miniscule that it really doesn't matter, then I'll just always leave it on.
After having had my bag stolen, I am putting together a new EDC kit, and am wanting to include a flashlight. I want it to be at least as powerful as that featured on the iPhone 5. Does anyone know how powerful the one on the iPhone 5 is, measured in Lumen?
I need to generate PDF documents with a PDF table of contents from Microsoft Word 2011. The PDF table of contents can for example be viewed in Preview using View -> Table of Contents.
I'm using the official Gmail application on my iPhone to receive my Gmail. The reason I use this app is because I label a lot of mails (newsletters for example) so they end up in a folder. However, all the new e-mail I get also get marked as Important and I do not like that. How can I prevent the Gmail.app from doing this (silly and annoying) behavior?
Is there any way to upload the Voice Memos recording to Google Drive? As far as I see it only allows you to share via Email and Message. If not, Is there an alternative to do this? I found this: *=URL=* But I think there might be a free one.
I would like to use my MacBook Air as a extended screen for my iMac, both are running OSX 10.9.2 and both have lightning connectors. What lead should I buy? Kind Regards
I wish to print to a network printer. When I plug the ethernet cable directly into my laptop (macbook pro 2013, OS X Mavericks) I see all printers available.
I could also run a constant SSH reverse proxy or something like that (which sets up an always-open socket, push notification style, by initiating on the phone and keeping it open with the remote peer), and resolve the hostname on the peer and then somehow relay requests to the phone. Like the VPN idea, I know about this in theory, but don't really know where to start looking for info on how to configure it.
I am wondering how I could achieve something like that in the current version of Keynote for OSX: For example the current slide is 3 and the total slides are 10. And I want to show it like (3 / 10) and so on. I could do it manually, but is there some automation for it?
I have a 3 TB disk mounted on my Airport Extreme, which I can access locally just fine. However, I would like to be able to mount it over VPN outside of my network. I am able to do so with any drives on the server (internal or external), but the server application doesn't seem to recognize any drives connected via the Airport Extreme. Is there any way to do this, or is my only option to move the drive to the server instead of the Airport Extreme?
After 6 months of not going on my phone, I have forgotten my (complex (I feel like an idiot)) password. Is there any way that I could save the files on it to a computer or talk to Apple or my service provider (because I could prove the Apple ID on the phone is mine) and have the password removed? I just don't want to have to lose everything I have on it by doing a full restore. Any possibilities? I have never backed it up to iCloud or any computer so I would have to delete everything on it. It is an iPhone 5 with ios 7 or the first one after seve
I need a way to cross compile a short piece of .NET C# code to a dll, which will then run a client's Windows environment. I run OS X 10.9.2 on an iMac. Does anyone know what tools allow this? I would rather not install Parallels and Windows if I can find a way to cross compile this without needing that heavy of an installation of Microsoft tools.
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13, 2.5 GHZ, non-retina, with 4 GB RAM, running Mavericks. I occasionally get the swirling beach ball when running various applications, such as XCode and iPhoto (not necessarily at the same time), and the overall speed of the computer isn't impressive. However, when I look at my memory pressure, it is almost always in the green. The virtual memory is in the 5 GB - 6 GB range, for what it's worth. Will upgrading the RAM to 8 GB help the overall speed of the machine, or does the memory pressure tell me everything is fine concerning RAM?
I've recently bought a WLAN USB adapter for my Mac: EDUP EP-N8508 with chipset Realtek RTL8188CUS. It works perfectly with WEP and WPA/WPA2 hotspots, but I can't make it work with 802.1X. That protocol is supported by the chipset (in fact, it's working in Windows) but on OS X there's no option for that in the Wireless Network Utility.
This is still the case with versions up to 9.3.1 - every iOS update that is applied over the air (downloaded straight to my device) bricks it whilst tethered updates do not. Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
When I download a file from the internet a process starts with name "installer" and uses all the available memory until my Mac crashes. It's not related to the browser — I tested with Chrome and Safari. The only solution I have is to kill the process from Terminal.
This is essentially the reverse of this question: given that I have selected an image in the Finder, is there an applescript or similar tool which will open iPhoto and highlight this file in the library so I can delete/modify/tag/inspect it there?
I'm a new mac user really (really) struggling to learn the mac keyboard shortcuts. One that is just killing me right now is navigating forms in Chrome.
I can print multiple files by dragging them all onto the printer icon on my dock. However, this uses the printer's default settings and prints them single sided, which I don't want.
Do you know a free (as in freedom) CCleaner equivalent which works on Mac OS X Mavericks? I've searched but found nothing.
After doing a pram and a smc reset my late 2011 mac book pro 10.8 shows the apple logo on a grey screen with a loading gif and a progress bar which once finished the mac just turns off. I have got the error in the disk utility of my hard drive. "Invalid index key" I am currently backing up the hard drive in the disk utility!
What is the original source of this wallpaper, introduced in Mountain Lion? I'm guessing was taken on a Gemini or Apollo spaceflight, but I can't find it in any of NASA's albums, and the image has been re-uploaded so many times that Google Image Search isn't bearing any fruit either.
I am downloading apps on my iPad off of the App Store and they are downloading on the App Store but aren't actually coming out on my device. It says they have downloaded on the App Store but I have looked everywhere and it's not there.
I play the game Clash of Clans on my iPad, and for a while I allowed a friend to use my Game Center account. Now I need it back but he won't let me play it. He changes the layout and ruins it and everything. I changed the password but he can still play the game since my base is now attached to his iPad. Is there anything I can do to dissociate his device with my Game Center ID to prevent him from continuing to play the game from my user?
Just to clarify, I've tried cleaning the Safari cookies with no success.
There's a /usr/sbin/uninstall command on my system. What does it do? There is no man page, and running it says
The HDMI port on my MacBook Pro doesn't seem to be functioning normally. When I plug it into the TV, the screen temporarily turns black as if it is connecting to the TV, the mirror connection even comes up and I can see the other display (My Tv) and change the settings.
My phone froze last night and the battery still has not died. My lock and home button don't work, so I can't just hold the power button down and reset it. I'm on a friend's computer, so my phone isn't linked or whatever to this computer. Is there any other way to get my phone to turn off faster, since I need it for tomorrow. It has done this before, but I had music playing and wasn't fully charged, but this time I was on my browser with a fully charged phone. This happened over 26 hours ago.
I have a Mediasonic 4 bay drive enclosure like this with four 3TB Toshiba HDD's attached to my hackintosh machine. The drives are in a RAID 0 configuration setup with Disk Utility. I've had this setup now for several months and it seems to be very unreliable in terms of actual data loss.
I am running Jabref v2.10 on Mac OS X 10.9.2. After changing some parts of the configuration file manually, I seem to have broken the preferences and now it fails to start. The application stores the application preferences using the java.util.prefs library. Is there a way I can delete java's stored preferences in Mac? (E.g., in linux, I would just delete the ~/.java folder)
I'm buying a Macbook Pro Retina, and cant decide what processor to choose and what additional cabels to purchase. First I was sure i5 2,4GHz was enough, but I will connect it to up to two external monitors: One 24' regular HD, and One 27' 2560x1440 Asus PB278Q Maybe it's worth getting even an i7 when planning on connecting it to two external monitors?
I'm temporary sharing my Wimax (PPPoE) connection (connected via Ethernet cable) trough Wifi. It all works fine, until once a day when my internet provider seems to go down for ~5 minutes and OS X (10.9.2) doesn't reconnect. When the internet connection is lost, the WIFI sharing dies as well. Any ideas how to keep the WIFI alive?
I would like to make F8 key on my MacBook Pro to work as an F8 key, not Play/Pause key, without having to press fn key at the same button. How do I configure Mac OS X (Mavericks) to work that way?
I have on my external hard drive a .dmg which is a backup from when my internal hardrive was breaking. Fixing the (internal) hard drive I then went on to erase it. And reinstall OSX in the process it asked me if I had any time machine backups. Which I do (on the same external) hard drive but it was very out of date. What I want to know is; How can I get all the data back from the .dmg that I backed up (and have now fixed using DiskWarrior)?
I have a iPhone 4s as soon it reaches 30% or Lower it goes off anytime sometime immediately and sometime at 20% what should I do
Earlier today, I recorded a song and uploaded it to the iCloud. I want to edit it on my MacBook Air (OS X Mavericks) and then send it back to my iPhone, but the file on my iPhone just disappeared?
I have purchased an iPad Air with cellular but I cannot send and receive messages. The name of the SIM company has appeared and I have connected it with my router. There is no icon for calling either, just an icon for messages.
When I plug in my Nexus 5 into my Mid 2013 MacBook Air 11" nothing happens. It doesn't show up in the finder / on the desktop and when I enable USB tethering, it doesn't show up in my network preferences. But when I connect the USB cable with Nexus 5 while parallels with Windows 8.1 is running and choose to use the connected device in Windows 8.1 - everything works as expected. So the problem isn't anywhere in the hardware, nor in my Nexus 5, but somewhere in the OS X. Any ideas how to find more info, fix it? Update: In the System Report generated by About This Mac, I can see my device connected via USB.
This xue drives me crazy, I don't know where it come from, how can I change it?
I have setup 2 Desktops in Mavericks (Mission Control). On "Desktop 2" there are some programs that need to run, but which I use rarely, for example a Terminal with some server tasks. Then on "Desktop 1" I want to run more Terminal instances, but when I click the icon in the dock, it jumps to the Terminal instance on the second desktop. I tried disabling this setting, but then clicking the app icon does nothing (second click jumps to desktop 2): System Preferences > Mission Control > When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application
The script is: If run direct from the AppleScript Editor, it would work as expected, i.e. open the selected file with Preview. But if run from DEVONthink itself, it would do nothing except pause the application for some seconds.
I have OS X Mavericks and I want to try to learn Objective-C(++). For this, I need to install the gobjc compiler, how do it (I've tried to install gobjc from sources but it's still not present)?
Is it possible to switch TO an open application via keyboard shortcut in BetterTouchTool? Currently I’m using a predefined action “Open Application” instead but it’s not quite the same as I don’t want to switch to the app. if it hasn’t been opened yet.
I want to partition/reduce size my Time Machine volume to use it also with another Mac. Now I've this situation I want to change the partition and do this But the two tips of the partitions says --- one
All my apps have started identifying Home folder as /home/{user} rather than /Users/{user}. This is causing them not to be able to launch as they can't be launched due to inability to write/read from /home/{user} e.g When launched Chrome says following popup and doesn't launch: Google Chrome cannot read or write to it's data directory : /home/{user}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome When launched Skype says following popup and doesn't launch: Can't create Skype folder at "/home/{user}/Library/Application Support/Skype/" Make sure you have enough privileges to create that folder and then launch skype again. Relaunching finder gives me this message :
After upgrade to Mavericks I fail to complete a single backup with Time Machine. Tried it both for third-party NAS (QNAP TS-210) having a Time Machine service, and for a simple external HDD enclosure (Mac OS Extended Journalled format). Some attempts to backup just stop itself long before the estimated time, with no result or error message; with no backup actually completed. Others just stuck in the middle of copying (not Preparing, but in MBs backed up progress bar) for several hours without anything that could look like activity in progress. Mavericks 10.9.2; QNAP firmware 4.0.3; Macbook Air Mid-2011. Other Mac (MBP 2010, Mountain Lion) backs up to the same NAS just fine. For external HDD, console is full of messages like this: For NAS, I didn't find anything relevant in Console for hours since the progress got stuck. Update: For USB-attached external HDD, putting Mac to sleep and back helped to resume the copying--and helped to complete first backup. Update: For NAS, the following l
We have several apple devices at home. If we track any one of them, using "find me iPhone" does it log or message the iCloud user that it has been tracked? Example: If I did find a find my iPhone on my mother's account or she did it to mine, would either of us know? Also, if I turn off my location services, does that prevent me and anyone else tracking my iPhone?
Whenever I change the audio device while using the Podcasts app it stops playing audio, without indicating that the podcast has stopped. For example, if I plug in headphones or turn on bluetooth (with a paired audio device), the playback just stops. I can still interact with the app, even selecting another podcast, but no playback.
I was an idiot and put a magnet on the right hand side of my trackpad on my MacBook Pro! I took the magnet off quickly, after realizing what I had done, but it seems I was too late!
I have created a slide show on my iPhone using iPhoto. How do I get that onto my PC or convert it into a video / mov or something?
For some reason I drag any of the icons on my Desktop. They are stuck. This is happening not only on my desktop, but also in all my other folders. I've checked "Show View Options" and set the order to "none." I've also set "Sort by" to none. I've checked the privileges on my Desktop and everything seems to look normal (I can read and write my desktop.) I don't want to restart my computer cause I'm in the middle of backing it up on an external hard drive. From the few minutes of surfing through forums I found that this is problem is not unheard of, but I wasn't able to find a solution. Any suggestions? BTW, I'm running Mavericks 10.9.2
Using Migration Assistant, with direct connection by Ethernet, between two Mac Minis, both running Mavericks.All my applications moved, but none of my data files. Have tried moving my data to various locations on the source computer but nothing works.
I have an TV which accepts a DVI and VGA input, and a retina macbook pro with Mini Display Port and HDMI. I needed to connect my mac to the monitor so I decided to go for an HDMI to DVI cable since it was cheaper than the Mini Display Port one.
I always have this problem: Immediately after Mac Notifies You That The "Startup Disk Is Full", it pauses many of the applications I am using (eg. 6 out of 10), and this always makes me lose my unsaved data. How does this mechanism work? Can I change a parameter so that Mac notifies me earlier (e.g. instead of 1GB short of full, mayb 8GB) and/or doesn't pause my applications?
I would like to have the ability to generate pdfs from the applications on iPad and iPhone that are print capable. What I am asking for here is an object that would appear as a printer in OS X, but is actually set up as a virtual printer, a bit of software that anything that can print sees exactly as a printer, that can be shared over a local network and will list in any apps on any iOS devices that are currently running print-capable apps. Simply put: how do I set up a local network pdf printer for iPad? I need this to work with iOS5 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
I'm trying to restore lost contacts information from Time Machine. Where is the data stored on the HD? I've searched the Library, Documents and other likely places, but can't find the actual cards anywhere.
After I installed Macports (and after that I have installed several versions of gcc through Macports), whenever I type gcc, one of those gcc installed through Macports will be invoked. Before I installed Macports, whenever I type gcc, clang that comes with XCode will be invoked. (not sure this is true) Now I need to compile a 3rd-party package with clang, but I don't know how I should do. My question is: now that Macports (w gcc48) has been installed, what should I do to switch back to the setting where gcc is linked to clang that comes with XCode?
I'm currently using Slate as my main TWM but the only thing missing is moving app between spaces with key bindings. I don't want to use the mouse, I know I can drag and drop the window and I can select the window and then switch to an other Space.
I have seen this: Greyed out songs when trying to add from itunes to iphone? but though the issues are similar, I think my version has a different cause. Anyways, none of the answers there did work for me.
I am digging deep into my Mac's files to try and find how to change the color of my mac's dock. I have been able to change little things like the separator, indicator light, trash can, finder icon, etc. But I cannot find the file where the color of the actual Dock is. I used this code to immediately go to the Dock folder /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources If you want a picture please ask and I'll edit a good one so you get the idea.
I am giving my iPhone to my daughter. How do I clear my information and set up hers? I want to make sure I do not lose any of my information from my accounts that I use on my current phone.
I'm quite new to the Apple Mac world, and I've been told that some of the older macs used to include a USB stick to boot the OSX Mountain Lion. I have a Macbook Pro with Mavericks, and there was no USB stick included. Did they discontinue this?
Is there a way that I could put my iPhone lock code into Xcode, so I wouldn't need to unlock my iPhone for every build? It gets really frustrating that I need to physically unlock my iPhone before every build. I know for developing on android they allow you to put the device in dev mode, which restricts the device from sleeping.
Apps from OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) have started to ask me to restart when there are updates ready to install. Is it possible to completely disable this notification? Screenshot of notification:
I would like to know if there is a way to delete the popup shown when you are trying to shut down, restart or log off your Mac with version OS X 10.9 - What I want is that when I click on one of these buttons, the computer makes that action without asking for a confirmation and the countdown of 1 minute. I know you can use Alt+Shut down/Restart/Log off but I would like to know if there is a direct way to deactivate that popup via Terminal or something else.
I want to be able to cat the device file of a raw binary input stream from a midi controller. In Ubuntu, the process to do this was something like cat /dev/dmmidi1. However, I do not see such a file in OS X. There are, however, many more tty files than in ubuntu.
From what I'm reading online it sounds like 4K displays like Seiki displays will work correctly with a late 2013 MBP or later. I have an early 2013 MBP and am not finding much of any evidence that a 4K display will work with this model. Will a 4K display work at 3840x2160 with at least 30 Hz on a early 2013 MBP? Does anyone have this or a similar setup that could provide feedback or any issues that have? I'm interested in an external display with a high resolution and 4K seems like the best option.
I have some fonts that has the same name (but they are different in weight). The default OS X font controller won't let me change their name. What are the editors out there can do it?
This is the first time I've ever had a computer that didn't play out on me before it needed an upgrade and now I'm lost. This is also my first Mac laptop, and I am running OS X 10.5.8 (Yes, I realize it's old…I had it put up for a while)
I'm currently trying to install windows on my macbook (13in, 2011), but without any success. My CD drive is dead (as a matter of facts its ruining any cds I put in it), and I simply cant boot via USB. Im running Mavericks. I've tried enabling USB burning on bootcamp assistant and codesigning it, and it worked for Windows 8, I could even boot, but couldn't install it on the bootcamp partition. As soon as I get to the screen in which to select the partition, windows refuses to install, with some error code. I've also tried formatting this partition as ntfs from inside the windows installer, but it doesn't work also. After I did that, whenever I restart my macbook, I get an error message saying "No bootable device found" or something like that, and I can only get back to OSX by holding option and selecting it manually. After All of that I've tried windows 7, and this time the bootloader (when I hold the option key) doesn't recognize the usb anymore. So, as nothing works, how can I install
I found an iPhone 5s in the back of a taxi and kept it with the hope of returning it to the owner (this happened to me). By the time I woke up the next morning the owner had obviously deactivated the phone. Is there anyway of returning it to the person? Or if not is there anything I can do with iPhone - as otherwise it's just a useless piece of equipment / wasted phone. Thanks.
I am mounting an NFS share named "storage" from my-host-here1.com. I also want to mount another NFS share named "storage" from my-host-here2.com. I just want to know how can I change the share name as shown in Finder so it's easier for me to know which is which. e.g. "storage" from my-host-here1.com will be displayed as storage-here1 "stoarge" from my-host-here2.com will be displayed as storage-here2. I set the auto-mounting by dragging the NFS share icon in my desktop to the login items in System Preferences. I did search the net before creating this topic but not getting any luck. Thanks very much :)
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro that is running OS 10.7.5 -- and it's behaving very strangely. I'm actually at a loss as to what to even search for. The best I can do is to link to a video I took of the laptop while it was behaving this way: *=URL=* Summary of the behavior I'm seeing:
I have tried to install Mavericks on my MacBook Pro 10.7.5 laptop. It has some software that was added by well-meaning enterprise IT people. Here's what I see after downloading and attempting to install Mavericks:
I'm trying to start internet sharing on my mac mini (share ethernet to wifi). Until a few days ago, it worked fine, and suddenly stopped working.
A number of network addresses appear to be unreachable from my computer (Mac Mavericks, 10.9.2). For example I do not see any images on wikipedia. Today's featured article does not show the image *=URL=* (Safari times out trying to load the image). Here are my attempts of understanding what's going on (I did edit ids and some ip numbers). (and ping times-out or reports Destination Net Unreachable for other attempts) Here are some details of my configuration: The problem is specific to my Mac (wikipedia works on iOS devices) and persists despite trying: different networks (fails at work and at home) different interfaces (via wi-fi or ethernet) reboot (even system updates, currently 10.9.2) different DNS ("automatic" as well as google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) UPDATE:
I would like to connect my MacBook Pro, which has Mini-DVI DisplayPort and FireWire ports (I have DisplayPort to DVI converter as well). What is the best way to connect it to a Samsung TV, which has the ports shown below?
A friend of mine has a first gen iPad that needs updating but doesn't have a computer to plug it into to do the update. Can I use my MBP without trashing my iTunes and her iTunes?
I have 600 songs in my iPhone's music library, with some of them being more than an hour long. Lately (since iOS 7.1 upgrade) the songs have been taking around 3 or more seconds to change to the next/previous song, when changed from the lock screen or control centre. If I do it from the music app, there is no such delay.
I wanted to know if there is way to set keyboard shortcuts to make new files in Finder. For example, by default, you can create a new folder using CMD+Shift+N. Is there a keyboard shortcut to create a new text file? I'm a programmer so this would be extremely useful I would also be interested in creating other file type using keyboard shortcuts. I have attempted to use automator but I'm finding it quite confusing and I'm not sure how I would connect a keyboard shortcut to it.
I downloaded the Admiration Pains font, installed it via Font Book, and verified it works fine in applications like Adobe CS and TextEdit. Unfortunately, when I try to use the font in Microsoft Word 2011, the font renders as some generic font (e.g. Times New Roman). When I highlight the text, Word still reports the font family as Admiration Pains. Things I've tried with no success: Restarting Word; Deleting the Font Cache file and restarting Word; Changing font size; Looked for "enabled duplicates" in Font Book; Confirmed font is enabled in Font Book and that it Validates w/out issue; Using Font Nuke to remove all caches of fonts and restarting computer. Any ideas on how I can get this font to render properly in Word? Here's a screenshot of the font trying to be used, where it renders fine in the font drop down, but not in the document:
The "Open Sans" font for some reason just started looking terrible on both Chrome and Safari (on Mavericks 10.9.2), becoming some super thin and light font. Does anyone know what's up? I tried resetting my font cache, but it didn't work!
I bought a secondhand iPhone 4s recently with iOS 7.0.4 installed. I'm in Indonesia and I am using Telkomsel as my cellular provider. When I am using it, the battery is decreasing fast. So I updated the iOS to 7.1.1. But, what I got is the battery decreasing faster, and my iPhone is so hot, especially at Micro-SIM card area. Is this normal in iOS 7.1.1 at iPhone 4s?
If possible, how can I encrypt a folder with a password on OS X Mavericks?
I'm trying to watch a live streaming using the Windows Media plugin but it's appears to be impossible. The old Flip4Mac free software appears to be paid now and I was not able to find any free and/or opensource alternative. There's a way to watch WMV Streaming in the browser itself in OS X Mavericks?
I have an application (java) that I compile/run through netbeans, I want to access it from a different computer. Opening a port might be the best solution, though if so I'd like to be a little more restrictive than just opening to any IP. I actually think restricting via MAC address would be a better solution (do to IP's changing via dhcp but the computers not). Suggestions welcome.
I am considering buying a 13" MacBook. Please note that this would be my first Apple device. The two the options that I am considering are: MacBook Air, 2013, 13", 128GB SSD, 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 4GB DDR3 MacBook Pro with Retina display, 2013, 13", 128GB SDD, 2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 4GB DDR3 There are some issues that I am concerned about: Performance
I dropped my computer two days ago. At first it would not boot up at all, not even showing the grey circle with the line in it or anything at all. I did internet recovery and did some cleaning up of the hard drive but it was saying I had problems with the partition boot. It was giving me some screen saying "Unable to find driver for this platform" after booting though. I went back into internet recovery, erased the drive, and re-installed os x. It was giving me the same error at first, but then I started it in safe mode and it worked. I restarted it normally and it worked.
Is there any app that would allow me to preview the calendar from the menu bar (i.e. show calendar with a single click)? It's all I need, I don't even need to open calendar from that app, though it would be nice.
I have the Do Not Disturb feature scheduled to work from Midnight to 7 am. This works great.
Looking at the space distribution of my phone, I see that Messages account for 7 GB. There are a lot of photos and videos that have been sent over the years and I am assuming that locating and deleting them would free up some space. However, scrolling to the top and tapping Load Earlier Messages is really tedious, not to mention that it becomes ridiculously slow after the 20th tap or so. Is there a better way to deal with getting rid of some text messages?
I would like to have a free trial version of my app, with limited functionality, and at the same time to have a full paid version. The apps can have slightly different names on App Store, say MyApp 1.0 and MyApp 1.0 (Limited). Does this violate Apple's policies?
I wrote a bash script to verify various configs on a system, but I am getting different results depending on whether it is run from the command line directly or from the script. Here is the command: If I disable discoverable on the bluetooth and then echo the variable on the command line I get the expected result: But if I echo it immediately after running the same command from a bash script, I get
I have OSX 10.9.2. One day my internet started to stuck on loading. No System updates detected before. When I tried to send ping to *=URL=* I got: However ping to 8.8.8.8 works well (0.2% loss) What I did so far: restart MAC restart Router other PC Windows 7 works fine created hotspot with iPhone and used cellular data - have the same losses Sounds like OSX has problem with DNS. Im nubby in OSX, please from where do I need to start investigate the issue? [EDIT] My DNS settings below:
I can only boot my iMac 27″ (end of 2009) in safe mode. The problem started in Lion, when the computer suddenly froze. All I can get is the grey screen, which turns black after a while.
My iMac (late 2009 with Mavericks) can only start up in safe mode. I have read that it might be related to a mdns responder issue.
I've been attempting to mount a network server on my computer. I can do it through Finder, but this is inconvenient since I can only connect with one username at a time. I read that mounting via Terminal would allow me to connect with multiple usernames at the same time. I found this post: How can I mount an SMB share from the command line? where the command to mount is but whether I do that or mount -t smbfs instead of mount_smbfs I get the same error: Someone even mentioned getting the same error in that post I linked to above, but no one answered him.
My MacBook Pro is running, ssh works fine, but the screen does not respond anymore. The screen is frozen like the ice of Antarctica. The mouse does not move on the screen. The time of the clock does not change. The Caps Lock light of the keyboard is responding. Can you help me to get my screen responding again, please? What I need is simply having my screen responding, in order to use my Mac and to continue what I was doing.
I am really frustrated that Firefox does not provide the three-finger-tap lookup operation is in built in OS X. What is baffling me is that it supports other gestures such as two finger swipes and taps. So why not the 3 finger tap dictionary ?
Bento is being discontinued so I want to get my data out and export it to Filemaker using one of the tools that converts the data properly, including images, popup menus, etc. Unfortunately, at some point, I established a Database Password in the Preferences>Security settings but now, despite all my PW redundancies the PW I have on file does not work. Bento says you're screwed if you lose your PW but I'm hoping against hope that someone knows a way to crack this. I've (foolishly) invested a lot of time into these Bento records and the thought of starting from scratch is depressing me. THANKS!
I'm new to Mac. I have files on a shared folder that I often access and every time I restart the computer I have to go to Finder->go->connect to server->fill in the information and press connect. Is there a way I can always have the shared folder available and have the computer remember my password for it?
I want to set up a linux/osx dual boot on a mbp with a shared zfs pool for data and /home. My question then is, if /Users is on a separate partition, does anyone have any recommendations towards how large the osx partition should be?
I'm taking over someone elses job and am using the computer he was using. In the App Store there are some apps that ask me to enter a password and have an Apple Id already filled in but won't let me change it.
I am installing a computer lab with 25 brand new iMacs. I would like to secure the machines to prevent students from tampering with them. Some of the things I'd like to prevent including making changes to the computer/desktop/OS/software/settings, prevent installing software, direct file sharing, prevent bypass of startup events, limiting internet, limiting applications, limiting printing, limiting USB and optical drives, application/keystroke monitoring, etc. I have found one tool called FoolProof Security but would like recommendations on additional solutions.
I have a Canon PIXMA MX340 and when I try to print sometimes it gives me an error saying "Support Code : 300 The printer does not respond. Make sure that the printer is plugged in, powered-on, and properly connected to your computer." and I know the printer is on and connected to Wi-Fi because the other Windows computer has never had this problem and instantly sends the request and the printer receives it almost instantly as well. Also when I try to scan I go to the printer and I hit "Scan" and it asks you to select the computer so I do and then I hit color and it says please wait a while and in a few minutes it just goes back to the original screen and doesn't scan. Meanwhile the Windows computer works fine (sometimes). Before, all this stuff used to work. Can anyone help me?
I use Outlook.com as my email provider but have my own personal domain name instead of the one provided by Microsoft. So, instead of "mail@outlook.com", my email address looks like "mail@personaldomain.com".
I am using a MacBook running Mavericks and my brother is on a Linux box; and we often need to exchange files between each other. Both the laptops are Wi-Fi enabled and I also understand that Mac does allow file sharing over Wi-Fi. While I do know that Airdrop works only for Apple devices, I am sure there must be some way to share files with non-Apple devices using the built-in WiFi capabilities. Any suggestions around how? I have tried checking the file sharing option in the Preferences >> Sharing module but it didn't help. Is it possible to share files with a Linux user using SMB or AFP? I understand FTP is an option but connecting using FTP involves a lot of Terminal steps each time, i.e., activating FTP, sharing password with the user, connecting, and then closing FTP. Is there any simpler method? Here are the steps I followed: First of all I enabled guest sharing on my Mac:
I have run into a frustrating problem with my App Store. I recently installed slightly older versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Xcode and App Store prompted me to update them to newer versions. I complied and the apps finally got updated albeit it took me an abnormally long time despite being on a high-speed broadband connection.
What do I need to do to prevent the iOS 7 Music app from listing songs twice when the song should only exist once? I sync a selection of playlists to my iPhone 5s from iTunes 11.1.5 on my iMac running OS X 10.7.5. For at least one artist, album tracks are listed twice on my iPhone despite appearing only once in my iTunes library. I count 16 duplicates out of 53 songs for this artist on my phone. (The artist is Front 242, which I mention mostly for my own reference.) I checked my iTunes library on the iMac, and I only have one copy of the affected songs there. I am not using iTunes Match. Curiously, during playback, songs are not repeated if I move forwards or backwards through a list that includes duplicated songs. What I tried
When I type a reply email multiple copies of this email get saved in drafts. I've read over the posts tagged mail.app and I thought I hit the jackpot with this answer by @Kyle, but when I navigate to Accounts>Mailbox Behaviours there is no option for disabling saving drafts on the server, or am I missing something? I am running Mail 7.2 on an MBP with OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
Similar - yet puzzlingly different from this question: This PDF displays with question marks instead of letters
When I attempt to change the open directory settings for 10.6 server using ServerAdmin I get the following error. This prevents me from making any changes to any open directory settings for the system. Does anybody have any ideas on how to solve the issue?
I am unable to connect with my openserver system using SSL/TLS connection. There are no issues communicating without SSL on port 389 and can connect and retrieve directory information without issue. However, when using port 636 and expecting secure communications the connection fails to connect. The below openssl connection attempt details the trace which would indicate that no ssl connection is being established.
I have an old Mac that I want to sell. I have the 2 instalation disks but don't know what to do with them. OS X version 10.5.8 Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Startup Disk: Macintosh HD
How do I run the app: ~/ngrok by typing ngrok? I want to add a shortcut to the ~/ngrok location so that I don't need to know the place where it is when I run the app.
I recently replaced the internal hdd inside my macbook pro mid 2012 with a ssd. Now it seems that the system chime (the "boong" that goes off when i turn it on) only plays through the right speaker. Within the OS sound comes out of both speakers. I have tried both a NVRAM reset and a smc reset. What could be the issue?
The error happens on the line that says "make new open file alarm...". If I commented these 2 lines, it proceeds fine.
where you can read something like Not enough memory. If I click on OK the box appears again like 15 times.
I am working with multiple iPhoto libraries and it isn't always clear which one is currently open when launching iPhoto. How can I display the name of the iPhoto library in the application title bar so that I always know which library I have open? Doing a bit of searching, it seems that iPhoto Library Manager will do this if iPhoto is launched from that application. As an alternative, is there a way to force iPhoto to prompt to select a library every time it launches?
My AirPlay setup is messed up since a few days : I have headsets plugged to an Airport Express (AE) and it used to play music synchronously with my macmini, as expected. One day, while I did not do anything special, the macmini stopped to play music as soon as I switched on the AE headset, as if the music stream was redirected exclusively to the AE. Yet, iTunes is properly configured in multiple sources mode :
I quote 2 images from Google.  Look at the tabs. They are totally different. I have just finished migrated to OS X. I always believe that OS X provides a uniform user interface to make their apps more elegant. Additionally, How to turn app's UI in the second image to look like that in the first image?
How does one get around the missing sync agent problem in Mavericks to sync with Outlook? If one tries to sync calendars or contacts through Itunes or with Outlook there is a whole part of the OS that is missing that was always there till Mountain Lion. It seems that Mavericks is missing many important bits. It seems that they thought that syncing with I cloud would be the answer. That is completely inadequate with people who do not live in first world areas. How do we get around this lack of a vendor supplied sync since Office doesn't provide one either that works with Mavericks and the native contact and calendar data on OS X?
I accidentally deleted the Mail folder (at /Library) that contained a few sub-folders including one called V2. I did that hoping to do a fresh configuration of my iCloud and Live accounts.
I've noticed that after I put music into iTunes that is downloaded from an outside source, the songs sometimes have the artist names written slightly differently e.g: "James Blunt" "james Blunt" "jamesblunt" "james blunt " (space after word) etc.
I started a new job and the mail client has a lot of shared inboxes. How do I see the messages directed only at me? In other words, I'd like to filter out my own personal mail box.
I would like set up an inbound rule in Outlook to run applescript on certain messages. However the rule fails with the following message: I've tried with scripts that different things, such as displaying a dialog in another application: or in Outlook itself: or do a shell action: and all of them work OK when launched from the command line via osascript, but do not from within Outlook.
However, I can't use it for other users. I just get a dscl error -14009 (eDSUnknownNodeName). It doesn't matter if I use a full admin account, sudo -s, or anything.
The Bookmarks On The Go iOS app has a "Use custom server" option where a server URL is manually entered. Where do I obtain this server URL?
I recently upgraded to Mavericks (download from app store). Before this upgrade, I could click on the the notifications UI element at the very top-right of the display; this would cause the whole screen to shift to the left and display a list of notifications:
I am able to get internet recovery on my Macbook Pro that I previously wiped with a magnet I was trying to re-install OS X Mountain Lion again but when I got to the 'choose a disk' there was no 'disk' to be found. I'm not too sure what this means, could someone please explain if this is something I can fix myself?
For a while I have been able to add most videos coming from torrent network without problems unless they were avi encoded. But for a few weeks now, I have had to re-encode all of the mp4 videos that I download using Handbrake which is not very practical.
I am looking for a brief comparison of the terminal types supported by iTerm2, mainly to see what setup to pick in order to minimize problems. Mainly, I am connecting with Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) servers, using tmux a lot (scripted to be started by default on ssh). Also I do use Midnight Commander most of the time and I do still encounter lots of problems related to ESCaping. Here is the complete list: vt100 xterm xterm-new xterm-256color ansi rxvt linux My current one is xterm-256color, but when I ssh remotely I observe that it becomes TERM=screen, probably because tmux usage. Now, what should I use to avoid having problems with mc running in tmux, i want to be able to use mouse, simple escapes, and stop seeing weird characters appearing on screen (related to escapes, like OBOB)
When I was trying to get my Raspberry Pi online, in airport utility I put my router in DHCP and NAT mode and entered ports (80). Did I open up these ports to the internet? Would this be unsafe to do?
I have a MacBook Pro early 2013, running OSX mavericks and filevault(encryption) is enabled. After a (I suspect) update, the locking behavior has been different. When the screen gets locked (manually or automatically) all running programs die. Including but not limited to spotify(while playing music), Time Machine(while in the middle of a backup, getting interrupted), Transmission(while downloading torrents).
I just bought a MacBook Pro Retina 13" with Mavericks and all the latest updates, and have an issue connecting to some Wifi networks that my Windows Laptop and my Windows Phone had no issue with at all. I have sucessfully connected to my own Wifi router (Asus) and various coffee shop wifi access points.
I have a Mac Mini Server with Open Directory, File Sharing/WebDAV, VPN, and Website services running. I can view files from my Mac on my iPad remotely when connected to my VPN. I can also view my website locally. I did not port forward port 80 on my router.
Currently the only filters for search in iTunes are by song, album, artist and composer. Is there a way to search by genre in iTunes?
I am not very tech savvy so please answer in lamans terms. I recently updated my iMac to Mavericks via App Store. Few days later I was using iTunes and system kept playing up. Following day I couldn't get past the boot screen. I just get the Apple logo and a loading sign. Tried safe mode, but loading bar just disappears about 1/4 way through. Tried safe mode, but loading bar just disappears about 1/4 way through.
There is a folder called Documents (and other folders beside that) in iFile I tried but can't find the physical location with iFunbox or iTools. How can I find the physical location of that folder?
I have an AppleScript Cocoa application that does a lot of shell scripts like kill or chflags. Is there any way I can try to send it on review to MAS and get it approved? According to Wikipedia:
I'd like to mount a raw dump of a disk, e. g. like those created by dd? Is there something like a loop device in OS X?
After rebooting my macbook and my wifi is off, usually timezone changes randomly. I tried to uncheck the "Set date and time automatically" option Tried to uncheck the " Set time zone automatically " Nothing helps, I want to set a default timezone/time to remember without internet connection ( can't really tell if its timezone-related but time/clock is always incorrect after boot without internet connection ) System Preferences shows this
I keep getting a corrupted preference file that auto-regenerates. I can't seem to pin it to any recent downloads and google has not been my friend. org.stereovision.exploration.plist Can't tell if it is having any knock-on effects but as it does not appear in any console logs I am assuming that it is having no ill effects. Regards Pat
I'm planning to release an iPhone app next week. I have read that Apple pays out 45 days after the end of month (if threshold is reached). My developer account is linked to an address in India if that makes any difference. So, if I reach the threshold in May, is it safe to assume I will get paid in the beginning of July?
I often use ffmpeg off the command line to convert video files into mp4 on my Mac (running Mavericks). Do note, however, that I am NOT re-encoding my videos; am just changing the container from an avi or an mkv to an mp4. The exact command I run on Terminal is as follows: /Users/Amit/Documents/Scripts/ffmpeg -i /input.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy /output.mp4 As can be seen, this involves a lot of typing (for example, the entire path for ffmpeg and the source and target videos) and since I do a lot of such conversions, it would be great to have some Automator help here.
Other than that, no further self compositions were added. And if it makes any difference my own sample is played in the middle, so one Apple Loop in the beginning section and one at the end section. Is this to repackage them as music beds (Illegal)? Is this to repackage them as music beds (Illegal)? Or is the "soundtrack" original (Am I cleared)? Or is the "soundtrack" original (Am I cleared)?
I would like to script the uninstallation and reinstallation of Profiles on a group of Networked Macs. In order to do this I shall use the UNIX Command part of Remote Desktop. When sending the Command, it responds with but I have no way of pressing the Y key. Any ideas?
I need to find word "evolve_model" in pdf file. Ho to do this? It seems that viewer does not understand underscores (_).
Macbook Pro, 2008, 15 inch Running Mavericks 10.9.2 If I move the screen around at all while it's running the brightness will almost always reset to as if it was zero or it gets these wavy interference pattern-like regions of bright and dim. (Image similar to my situation: http://www.lavproductions.com/images/macbookpro_screen.jpg)
My iPhone 4s has been stolen and I have activated "Erase iPhone" through the iCloud, but I've found out that this disables Find My iPhone too. How can I disable "Erase iPhone" to avoid deactivation of Find My Iphone?
Recently I've started having some problems uploading files via Chrome. When I click a button to select a file, Chrome crashes instead of showing the open file dialog window.
I just used ffmpeg to convert a video file's container from .mkv to mp4 (just changed the container; didn't re-encode). The resulting mp4 vid plays well on QuickTime and am very pleased with the result. However, it wouldn't play in either Quick Look or iTunes.
So I'm riding the Mavericks, I mean I'm using OS X 10.9.2. :) I played around with the account settings and now the account is damaged. Below is exactly how I damaged it. I wanted to change my username. According to *=URL=* I first created a new account, then went to the directory "/Users" and changed the name of the folder "/Users/mac" to "/Users/Air". Then I went into System Preference -> Users & Groups, and entered the "Advanced Options" of the account named "mac".
When you make a new virtual desktop from Mission Control the background image is by default the same as your first desktop. Is it possible to have each new virtual desktop use a different (or at least random) image instead? What I'm not looking for:
My friend has a MBP that was bought 2 or 3 years ago, and I need to help him prepare some software to run. What are the chances he won't be able to boot from a 64bit Linux live USB flash drive?
I am using encfs @1.7.5 and osxfuse @2.6.4 installed via MacPorts 2.2.1 on my MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 which is running OS X Mavericks 10.9.2. When opening certain files (e.g. xlsx, pdf) in my encfs volume, I get an error "X is damaged and can't be opened." as well as a suggestion to move it to trash. However, when I copy that file elsewhere (i.e. not on the encfs volume), it appears to work just fine. Why is this?
In Opera browser 1 and 2 keys can be used to change between tabs. Is it possible to set up this shortcut in Safari? I tried adding a "Show Previous Tab" shortcut in keyboard preferences but is does not allow me to set a shortcut without a modifier key (ctrl/alt/cmd).
I stumbled this article explaining how mounting RAM disk can improve OS X performance up to 40× which of course is just a a hyperbole. My question is whether the suggestion made by them valid for modern MacBook that has been powered with SSD and an adequate 4 GB RAM? Does creating RAM disk actually prolong the SSD life? Personally, I think OS X has done a great job managing the resources, but I would like hear more from experienced user who actually know how RAM disk works and affect OS X performance.
I'm writing a document in Pages, but I want to create a footnote at the bottom of the page. Something like in this image:
I am using sshfs @2.5 and osxfuse @2.6.4 installed via MacPorts 2.2.1 on my MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 which is running OS X Mavericks 10.9.2. When issuing the following command:
I recently purchased a 1TB solid state hard drive Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW. I hope I won't need to manually reinstall the OS X and all the applications and copying back hundreds of GBs of personal data. How do I replace hard drive without reinstalling the whole system?
I got a new Macbook Pro and restored from the backup, all of my packages are in still there and the path is still correct, but when I type a command that was installed on the previous system it returns an error. Take for example pstree Someone elsewhere on the internet suggested reinstalling them, but I have way too many packages installed to go thru them one at a time.
I'm sharing a local folder on a 10.8.5 Mac Mini server via AFP. The share is set to allow a certain user group to write to it. When users in this group place files in the directory, they are owned by that user. The problem is that spotlight will not index these files. If I chown one of the files to the local admin user, it immediately gets indexed by spotlight.
I want to use a command line tool to get the list of allowed users for Remote Management (ARD). I was able to enable ARD using kickstart, but I'm having trouble finding how you get the information, not set it. Is there a com.apple.Sharing or com.apple.ARD somewhere that I'm missing? doesn't seem to give me the info I need. Ok, did find
I have a closed-source project that I'm thinking of linking against one of Apple's open source libs, modified. As I understand it, I should publish my derived work under the same license stating the changes made. But can I link it against my project statically, or is it limited to dynamic linking only?
Somehow I've managed to accumulate a bunch of files in Time Machine that don't seem to be capable of being copied out of Time Machine, citing "Unknown Error -22", like-so: Thing is, this only affects a tiny number of files (maybe five or six out of hundreds of thousands), and while it doesn't seem to be affecting Time Machine, it affects any other commands such as trying to rsync a Time Machine backup (which is useful since they're snapshots).
I'm just praying that I don't need to replace my logic board for this problem; I don't have applecare. Randomly my computer shuts itself off, sometimes just the screen, sometimes the entire system restarts. The error report seems to always relate to a GPU Panic.
I know that Front Row is kind of out of date but I'd like to get this working. Two devices, a Mac Mini with 10.6.8 (freshly installed) and a Win7 64 PC. I enabled Home Share from PC iTunes; when I go to iTunes on the Mini the remote library will show/play fine. However, if I open Front Row, and attempt to change the library Source to the win7 pc, it just sits there forever at Loading Library. To eliminate the PC as the issue I tried the same from my laptop and the Front Row hangs again at loading laptop library (this library is empty so its not an issue of size). Have tried all updates etc, cleared plists, no errors in console. Thank you
If I wake my Mac from sleep I always get a split second flash of my active desktop before the screen is replaced by my usual password unlock screen. When I unlock, I get my desktop as normal, as it appeared in the split second flash (i.e. It's a live flash, not a cached or buffered screenshot from when it was locked). I'm not particularly fussed, it's merely annoying, but I imagine that simply filming the screen waking would allow a screenshot to be pulled from behind a locked display, which others may find a risk.
The backup drive is a portable Toshiba 1TB, with three partitions (one for each of my Macs), which connects to my MBP via USB 2.0. I've backed up my other two non-SSD Macs to it in the meantime and they didn't take any longer than usual, so there's nothing physically wrong with the drive, though that doesn't rule out an issue with one partition I guess.
I've conceived of a routine where whatever is put in a "Process" folder on the desktop will automatically delete the second "f" in the extension and uncheck the Alpha. Then move the revised file to a "Processed" folder also on the desktop. That way I'd still have my unchanged originals as well as files TesseractGUI will accept. Appreciate some guidance.
I am trying to set up IPv6 on my Airport Extreme. According to AT&T / BellSouth, my network is IPv6 ready. I currently have two parts to my network setup. Westell Model 6200 modem (IPv6 ready) AirPort Extreme (fifth generation) AirPort Express (the last model that plugs directly into the wall) My modem is plugged directly into the wall via a DSL cable, and then my router is connected to the modem via an Ethernet cord. I tried setting this up on my own in 2012, but the interface of AirPort Utility has changed drastically since then, and I also recall losing all Internet capabilities when I "set it up" last time, so I want to make sure I do it correctly this time. Upon choose a manual configuration, I'm greeted with different options about whether I want to choose a Native or Tunnel Mode, whether I want to enable IPv6 Connection Sharing, and more.
I'm having an issue that I've had before, but I've never come up with a solution. I have a Mac Mail server set up using Server.App, and occasionally the server will just stop working, and when I try to restart it, it will freeze on the "starting" screen. If I try to run sudo serveradmin fullstatus mail, I get this:
Apple Support Community member Linc Davis developed this command to aide in diagnosing issues. The output gives a general overview of one's system and is very similar to the program etrecheck. But, it does so using a single command. I wish to break down how it functions since much of the syntax used cannot be found in the MAN pages. Again, this script is the property of Linc Davis. I simply wish to understand how it executes. Thank you in advance.
I'm new to the iOS world. I'm developing iOS apps but I have no device for testing, so finally I have decided to buy a device, but I'm confused which device to buy. I want to test my app for both iPhone and iPad, so I decided to purchase iPad mini with retina. Can I test my iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 retina apps and graphics on the iPad mini with retina?
I have a 4s v7.0.4. I just bought a 5s and it was upgraded to 7.1.1, which I don't want. I did a manual backup of my 4s to itunes then deleted my 5s contents and settings and restored it using my 4s backup. It did restore all of my texts, photos, apps, etc. however, it still changed my 5s to v7.1.1 rather than keeping it at 7.0.4 which was the backup version I restored. I thought it would work. What did I do wrong or is there no way to restore the 5s to v.7.0.4 using my 4s backup?
My dad has given me an iPhone 5s and he has set up iCloud on it. Which he may access. Will he know about whatever I do?
My MacBook Pro will constantly run installer and when I force it to quit in the Activity Monitor, it will automatically open right up again. It really bogs down my computer. Here's what my Activity Monitor looks like:
Mac mini is evidently the most affordable product of Apple Mac which runs on OS X. I don't own any apple product now, so I don't any idea of Apple products. I will like taste OS X and if I love it, I will like to consider software development in OS X. Now, even though with my budget Mac mini may be the only affordable choice, I will like to know what are the things I am going to miss if I use Mac Mini only. Keeping in mind: Portability is not an issue. I have a powerful PC with windows and Linux, so I don't have to run Windows in Mac Mini. I don't intend to play games on my Mac mini. Will I be able to run developer programs?
I don't own any Apple product and am thinking of buying the upcoming Mac Mini. Now considering that this Mac Mini will be my first Apple product, what hardware I may have buy if I want to use Mac Mini for software development? And please be specific if I need to buy that from Apple strictly. For example, I have to buy a monitor, and as far as I know, I can buy any Monitor with DVI (as there is a HDMI to DVI cable provided) or HDMI port.
can I please ask, if it's alright if I do the backup from 3gs to iphone 4s? I mean, does it affect something on the iphone 4s? I read somewhere that the users who did this backup had a problems with iphone (they don't have a siri there for example and the iphone 4s worked after backup just as their old 3gs without the new 4s tricks etc.)
I'm guessing she's either wiped or destroyed the SSD. However, she's asked me to restore it and I know nothing about this.
When viewing a message in a separate window in Apple Mail (Mountain Lion), how can I open the next message in the list with a keyboard shortcut?
Is there a way to hack just a single application to change the color of the window chrome itself, like the topmost bar where window title and min/maximize buttons are located?
I have two users accounts on my computer, one needs to stay connected to a VPN while the other account, both being logged in, is not supposed to use the VPN. OS X 10.9 seems to only give me global VPN access or none. Does anyone know a solution?
One of the features I like about the Finder is that it sorts numbers "correctly", i.e - a file named "Episode 10" will come after "Episode 9" in a list, rather than after "Episode 1". However, I haven't been able to find a way to replicate this ordering on the command line with any of the basic tools such as ls, sort and so-on, though I may have just missed or misunderstood an option.
I have my HP Photosmart wireless printer setup successfully to print from my MacBook, but cannot get the scan to PC function to work. Help!
Suddenly my computer (iMac 27" late 2012) screen appears like the screenshot I am attaching (happens with all apps) Could it be just software issue that can be fixed or looks like a hw problem?
I created this plist to get Mongo running on startup but it won't fire. I have to run this every time I start up: Then it works fine. Here is /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mongo.mongod.plist Thanks EDIT: Here is the contents of system.log
For some reason the way you write an @ symbol doesn't work anymore. I'm on a german keyboard and it used to be ⌥L but now it is ⌃⌥L which is annoying as hell!
I am an 'email packrat' I suppose, since I have emails from several years that I keep. That, combined with me trying to sync my outlook calendar with the my work Exchange calendar, and my identity file is HUGE. For many events in my calendar there are 50-100 instances of the same appointment or birthday. Is there a way to downsize my identity file, or make my current one something like .old and start fresh with a new one?
I am trying to set an environment variable that will be accessible from both a GUI application (Pycharm) as well as from the Terminal. This variable is called PYTHONPATH. I have tried Setting the system-wide PATH environment variable in Mavericks which doesn't help me because I have to set PYTHONPATH, not PATH
I share my 1Password db on Dropbox across a number of machines. If I upgrade some machines to 1Password 4, will the 1Password db no longer work with 1Password 3 instances. Caveat: One of the machines can no longer support OS upgrade beyond Lion.
I'm new to Automator and want to create some actions of my own, that will work with mainly Photoshop and possibly some other 3rd party apps, but the only options that appear are for Apple apps and MS Office apps.  When I Google: How to incorporate photoshop with automator? I keep seeing links to download pre-made actions from robotphotoshop.com But I don't want to avoid purchasing a bunch of actions I don't need. Do I need to create custom Apple Scripts?
I have a MacBook Pro (running Mavericks) and a Bluetooth Speaker (JBL Flip). I want the two to connect automatically whenever they are nearby and powered on. Is that possible? Currently I have to click the Bluetooth icon in the menubar of the Mac, select the device, and click connect each time.
I have an iMac running 10.9.2 and sporadically the second monitor turns off then on. It's only off for a second or two. It's an Acer AL2216W. It's connected from display port to DVI.
There was an album with 5 songs, 3 of them was uploaded to the band's BandCamp, 2 were not. So I just downloaded the 3 free songs and added them to iTunes library, and bought the other 2 from iTunes. Now, when I added them to my iPhone, They are split into 2 different albums with the same name. I believe there is something to do with the "Copyright" field in the ID3 of those songs. Any workaround?
Since yesterday I've been having major issues with my 15" Retina MacBook Pro (mid 2012 model). When I boot it, the screen is black (no backlight: Apple logo doesn't light up). I do hear the startup chime, and it actually does proceed to boot, but the screen stays dark. After a while, I can hear ticks as I adjust the volume, I can adjust the keyboard backlighting, etc. After it boots, the fans stay on at full speed.
I'd like to seek and find apps that will work on iOS 3.1.3 – without wasting time browsing apps that will not. And without a jailbreak. Apple's App Store appears to lack this capability – no filtering out of incompatible apps, even when using the Store on the handset. I found one answer … additional answers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I have an implemented microphone in my headphones (earbuds), Microphone doesn't work at all.. After searching for sometime i found out its a known problem, Bootcamp doesn't recognize external microhphones I tried this microphone on OS X using same laptop ( and it works perfectly ) I'm using Macbook Air 2013 However i solved it by using Parallels Desktop 9 as an alternative virtual machine than bootcamp and it works good, But thats not the solution I'm looking for, I want to get this external mic to work in bootcamp windows 7
I am in the process of wiring up some iPad carts but they bought keyboards for the iPads that need to be charged by Micro USB. The cart is already wired for Apple's Lightning and was wondering, is there anything aside from re-wiring the cart to go from the male Lightning connector to Micro USB or maybe the male Lightning to female USB so I can plug in the Micro USB cable?
I'm trying to get an Epson Perfection 1260 scanner working with Mavericks. When I connect the scanner to my Mac it shows up fine in Printers & Scanners in System Preferences. It also shows up in Image Capture, and quite often it will allow me to do an overview scan. However, at some point the (usually green) light on the front of the scanner turns red, and the scanner disappears completely from my Mac. How should I start troubleshooting this?
Every time I quit and relaunch my Sparrow email client I am prompted with the setup screen. All my accounts and preferences are reset. It's as if I just installed the app for the first time again.
When using Chrome notifications on OS X, how can I set the notifications to appear across two monitors simultaneously? I'm using a Macbook Pro and a Thunderbolt Display, and Chrome notifications - for example, a notification of a new message on Meta Chat - only display on the Macbook Pro. I would like the notifications to display on both monitors. I have tried: Going into the 'Settings' of Chrome Notifications, which only allows users to change what sites can send them notifications. Going into the 'Settings' of Chrome Notifications, which only allows users to change what sites can send them notifications. Apple's Notification Center looks to control Apple's native notifications, rather than Chrome notifications. Apple's Notification Center looks to control Apple's native notifications, rather than Chrome notifications.
In launchd, you can change the path of the log files using StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath in .plist file, but when I used it to output a log returned by the process, the resultant log files didn't add a timestamp and hence I cannot tell when each line is written nor when the process is run to begin with. So is it feasible to add the timestamp information to the log files? The minimum requirement is month, day, hour, minute, and second.
How do I add text around a circle I'm using for a logo? I have a circle filled in with some initials on the inside. I want to add the company name around the outside of the circle.
I'm testing a mobile website and when changing javascript it doesn't seem to refresh it, even when using the "reload" in the menu or when appending a random variable, for example "?test=123" to the end of the url. I also force quite the app but still no luck. Any other ideas?
Since Macintosh System Softwsre 1.0 is extremely old, has Apple made it free to download? If so, is there a link to download it from? I am just curious to try and run it in an hardware emulator and get a feel for the old operating system...
I have the iPod touch 4th generation running jailbroken iOS 6.1.6. The iPod is working fine except for when I lock it. When I try to wake it back up again, it doesn't come on. If I leave it for like a minute after trying to turn it on, it restarts the whole iPod for some reason. Any ideas?
I just setup two accounts in Apple Mail for the first time, and am having absolutely no luck getting Flagged messages to work, in addition the Starred message folders aren't working. I'm using Mavericks v10.9.2... First off, it's two Gmail accounts, both have the exact same issue: Account #1 was created years ago, has nearly 50,000 emails in the archive folder, and has around 25 messages that are actively flagged/starred... Account #2 was created this morning, has 6 total emails with 1 flagged/starred. After setting up Apple Mail for the first time on BOTH of these: Flagged emails DO show in the inbox. The 'Flagged' mailbox is empty. Searching for 'Flagged' messages returns no results. A smart mailbox for flagged emails shows as empty.
I don't really have a use for Launchpad, but the gesture to me makes sense for Dashboard. I experimented a little with BetterTouchTool, but it doesn't have the gesture available, and I'm not sure it would work well with the sequence of successive pinches and spreads to go from desktop Expose to overlay (normally Launchpad). Ideally I'd like to see if there's a plist tweak that can be made somewhere that would keep the gesture behavior exactly the same, but substitute Dashboard for Launchpad.
Each time, the account comes back with two unread messages out of zero. The Account Info screen shows accurate numbers for everything except the "Sent Mail" folder (though nothing in any folder displays). In experimenting with enabling and disabling IMAP for labels within Gmail, I have seen the item for the "Sent Mail" folder in Account Info display with the correct number of messages, but a title of "Sent Mail" does not exist. Very odd. Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that. Any ideas?
Logged into 4 iPhones and 2 iPads - how can I remove my account or deactivate them all except one? I am not tech savvy at all and didn't realize they would have access to my info. I only want to keep my info on 1 iPhone & 1 iPad, which are the ones I use. Would this be able to be done without physically having access to the other devices? Or do I need to physically have them, if so, what do i do? I logged into my email account too.
I would like to have all of my slides build the bullet lists with Appear / By Bullet (animation, build in: appear, delivery: by bullet). In Keynote prior to version 6, it was possible to set a build in the master slide. Keynote 6 has removed that option. I find I'm manually going through every slide to add this animation. Is there some way to do this in a more automated / efficient way?
I have been trying to get a second instance of Google Drive to run under another user on my MBP running Mavericks. I have been following the instructions here *=URL=* . Each time I try to run the new instance using sudo su user -c "/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive" I get the following erors: I run a MacPorts' based Python version: and the version is Installing MacPorts Python 3.4 and selecting it using sudo port select --set python python34 has no effect as Google Drive seems to run its own Python package Full crash report can be found here , but here is the header:
I've got a 1TB Fusion Drive (with a Seagate 7200 rpm hard drive) in a Late 2013 27" iMac. While the iMac is asleep, the hard drive spins up and down every minute or so (without fail), creating an annoying rattling sound as it spins up - characteristic of hard drives. This is incredibly annoying, especially at night.
I have managed to make the sudoers file on my Mac erorr. eg. So, I went and got the standard sudoers file from here, logged in as root and copied it from Documents to /etc.....but still no joy. If I try to run 'visudo' using root it fires up Sublime Text and I see a blank sudoers.tmp which I understand is the lock file. If I try and copy the contents of the downloaded sudoers file into sudoers.tmp using Sublime I get the above error.
please excuse, I am new to iPhone, as I repair it for a friend. It's an 4S from USA that some other friend of him wanted to unlock for germany.
Automator would seem to the appropriative tool, but ehmac.ca is stumped and so has this board been so far — my "Automator Newbie" question asked yesterday (my first ever on this site). Two sticking points — changing the .tiff extension to .tif, and losing the Alpha option.
I want to map Option+Dot and Option+Comma to word-by-word movement in KeyRemap4Macbook. Option+Dot works but Option+Comma does not. Also using any other character such as W, V etc. instead of Comma does not work. They simply put the symbols normally mapped in keylayout file. Here are the mapping items:
I have recently bought a MacBook Pro 13" and want to use my old speakers to play music through, but the system can't recognise the speakers are there? They are connected through the headphone jack, to be played through the AUX setting on the speakers.
I'm making a clean re-install of Mavericks on a client's computer. I believe she had a large number of address book entries in the Contacts app that were not in iCloud, and I need to restore them from the backup. Where are they stored? I'm guessing they should be in Users/~/Library/ but I cannot find the location.
rEFIt is defaulting to the 32bit kernel of OS X which will not boot and will show this error message:  at boot I have to press F2 then manually select the 64bit kernel. How do I change the default kernel to load?
I want to format and reboot my old 15" MacBook Pro year 2009 (2.4 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM 8 GB). I'll use it with Office, Chrome and VLC, nothing else. Given that, what's the best choice between Mountain Lion and Maverick?
Is there any way to move the existing iBooks library on my MacBook (Mavericks) to an external drive and also ensure iBooks treats that as the new location for all future purposes? I am running out of space on my default drive and need to unclutter it.
When a file attachment window for Gmail in Chrome pops up, it goes behind the dock and it is really difficult to hit cancel - I can do it, but only the very top part of the button.  The window can't be moved because it is a pop-up. Is there a way to keep this from happening? My example is Gmail, but I think it has happened in other instances, too. I am using OS X 10.9.2 on a 2012 MacBook Pro and Chrome Version 34.0.1847.131
Is there a keyboard shortcut / key modifier for adding links to the Reading List from Mail? You can hold ⌘ to open the link in the background, but that seems to be about it.
Can a 2006 Mac Pro that can't go above Snow Leopard physically on the host run Mavericks with vmware Fusion virtually?
The app versions are not even in my Applications directory anymore. Is there something wrong or can I edit settings for that somewhere? It seems as if my backup drive is indexed as well. How to avoid that? See screenshots:
I would like to be able to create a disk image (that I can transfer via Disk Utility.app to a large USB storage thumb drive) which is a multiboot installer for provisioning various operating systems from a single USB drive. I need to be able to create the image in one step to include multiple bootable OS installers (various multiple versions of OS X/Windows/Linux/Linux based Recovery Platforms), all from a single OS X machine. I found a nice tutorial for creating a multiboot usb thumbdrive via Linux that will boot OS X on a Mac, and Linux or Windows on PCs or Macs, and obviously, if I already have a Linux virtual machine, I could use YUMI as indicated in the tutorial (and I have seen other, similar tutorials that use a similar utilities to do this from Windows like SARDU and XBOOT), but I am hoping to discover a similar OS X native method or application that accomplishes the same thing.
When I open several images in preview and apply quick modifications in succession I would like to close preview and save all the files without questions. Unfortunately preview keeps asking for each modified file if I want to save it or restore the original. Which is anyway quite useless because it only offers the name instead of showing what image is the question about.
I'd like to give a colleague all of my text expansions without her having to re-enter them on her Mac. I was hoping to locate the file, then simply send her a copy to replace her own. (She doesn't use the feature.) I've searched the Library folder, but can't locate the file that contains the text expansion data. Does anyone know where the file produced by System Preferences > Keyboard > Text is kept?
i want to test something on mac os x (Open VPN) and because i do n't have this os in my local machine i decided to install it on my dedicated server. so i created a virtual machine on vmware sphere client 5.1 and installed mac using with it's iso file. after installation i stucked on this page :
For iOS 7.1.4 or any iOS 7 version how do I access the recovery mode? I want to enter recovery mode for my new iPhone 5s. Can anybody tell me how to get in / out of recovery mode? Please post your suggestion and what I should do or a warning before entering recovery mode or if it is safe. I forgot my password (reason)
YouTube has built the annoying "feature" of autoplay within the Watch Later playlist into its recent iOS update. Is there any way to turn it off? I love falling asleep to a video that I pick from my Watch Later and I don't want it to keep playing and playing more and more videos long after I'm asleep when all I want is to see that one video I picked.
I noticed a clicking noise comming from the underneath the keys around the number 5, 6 and 7 (make a circle with your thumb and pointer finger around those numbers, and thats where the sound is comming from). It mainly does it when I tilt the MBP back and forth or left and right. I turned the computer over and noticed the black foot on the front (nearest the spacebar, not the screen) left side was gone. The one on right has been missing for a while but it has a black "stick" in the center where the hole is.. But the one that I noticed is missing today doesn't have that "stick" in the hole and I can see right into the computer. I have put black duct tape over it to prevent any dirt or anything from getting in there. The noise has actually stopped, unless I tilt it forward nearly upside down..
My iOS developer enrollment is pending. But I want to see the fiscal calendar to get an idea about payout schedules etc for every month. Is there any place where the calendar is published?
Safari does not display certain images properly. The latest example is *=URL=* which is perfectly loadable in firefox.
Previously, the screenshot property list could be found at: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
Until now, I was under the impression that ePub was the de facto standard for Apple and the default format used by iBooks. But recently I downloaded some ebooks from the iTunes store and found them to have the .ibooks extension instead. What's the difference between the two? Also, how can one convert an ePub document into an ibooks document, if that is possible?
I have tried CoRD, Microsoft Remote Desktop and RDC but all three are not compatible with Mavericks 10.9 Can someone recommend how I can connect to my Windows 7 computer from my mac?
I've got a first generation AirPort Express and when I plug it in the wall (electricity outlet) it will turn orange and do nothing besides that. I cannot access this device via AirPort Utility When I hit the reset button on the device using an iPhone simcard-extract-pin, it will start to blink but when I release the Iphone-pin it will turn back to orange again.
My kindle program says that the current Kindle Reader does not support videos. Kindle fire plays them at least. I am not sure if iPad does so. Which devices are supported by the videos of Kindle?
I have a machine running Mavericks shared between two users. One user "Foo" should have access to a network, "Private network A" and another user "Bar" should not. Both users may access "Trusted network B". I have removed the stored password for "Private network A" from the system keychain and moved it to "Foo"'s keychain.
Between the menu options Edit and View and sometimes between View and Go appears, when you open a web browser, another menu option named History that show all the recent browsing history. How do I clear it when it appears? How do I delete the items that appear or, even better, only a selection of them?
I've got a Macbook Pro Retina 13" with Mavericks installed and the Touchpad is not responsive and sometimes I have to click up to ten times before it will recognize my click. I removed the tap-to-click and I really have to press the touchpad. I've used the exact same setup on my previous Macbook Pro (non retina) without issues.
I am subscribed to Apple's holiday calendar, which is very useful. However, some holidays are not of interest for me - is there a way to delete selected events manually while keeping the rest of the subscription?
Here's what I'd prefer to do every time I need to perform a file share with someone: I'd like to be able to just click on an (Automator) icon on my finder menubar to activate FTP on my system. Upon clicking, the Automator action should just open up FTP server on my laptop (the password being fed to it through the code itself) and throw a popup confirming the connection as active with the IP address that I need to relay to my brother so he could attempt to connect. Once the file transfer is done, I would like to just click on the same icon again and get a popup confirming that FTP has been closed. Is it too complicated a process?
Is there any app that helps me to block all apps for accessing the internet when using 3g modem?
I have an external hard-disk with a single Mac OS Extended partition. This disk stopped working couple of days ago. I tried to repair the partition with disk utility but no luck. The error message is the following:
I have written an Automator application with the following shell script to open an FTP connection on my system: This works exactly as expected except that the sudo command needs a password. When the same command is run on Terminal, it prompts me for a password but when run as an Automator app, doesn't prompt me for any input. Is there anyway to programmatically pass the password to this sudo within the Automator script? I know this is not a safe practice but I still want to do it as my system is reasonably secure and untouched by anyone other than me. A "do shell script...with administrator privileges" method is giving the following error:
I am running an Automator script to launch SFTP on my Mac when double-clicked. Here’s the script: The alert displayed is: SFTP Opened and your IP address is
I have an AppleScript Automator application that, when double-clicked, opens FTP and displays an alert confirming the same. It is working perfectly as expected. However, I am looking to make it a tad more intuitive so that it opens FTP ONLY if FTP isn't already open. If FTP is already open on my system, the app should close it.
I installed MySQL server and client using brew. I installed MySQL Workbench with brew cask, but I don't find MySQL Utilities (something new?). How to install that using brew or brew cask?
I currently have iOS 6.1.6 on an iPhone 3GS. What is that the highest, supported version of iOS my iPhone is capable of running?
I found the Witch app (*=URL=* Are there any other solutions?
I have two computers both installed with OSX 10.9.2 and on one computer I did this with no problem what so ever but on the other computer, when I attempt to setup my Exchange account in the System Preferences>Internet Accounts menu, it throws this error: There was an error in Internet Accounts preference pane. Having looked for a solution on Apple Discussion Forums, I have attempted to delete these files: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.system preferences .plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.<12digitHexNumber>.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist /Library/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist of them) /Library/Caches/com.apple.systempreferences /Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist followed by emptying my recycle-bin and restart the computer, but the problem persists.
I have 2 subfolders (which in itself contains many subfolders) in my main folder. e.g.
I am having trouble using iMessage with one of my contacts. I can send messages to iPhones without any issues. My contact's phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
I've joined the OS X Beta Seed Program but am not sure about this detail. Does it upgrade 'in place' and all your countless system tweaks and customizations are kept in tact, or does it do a 'fresh' install and so you are forced to restore from backup all your apps, tweaked system files (such as defaults write variables), third-party prefpanes, and maybe even user documents, at your own initiative? I didn't see anywhere that they address this.
Can i test my iphone 5 apps on ipad mini retina with 4 inch screen? I heard that iphone 5 apps scale down to 3.5 inch screen in ipad mini retina. is it true?
My LED light on my MacBook Pro flashes off for about 0.1 second then turns back on and will flash off again for the same amount of time while I'm using Skype. Is someone spying on my camera?
When I list out launchctl, I'm seeing nearly a hundred instances of iterations of: Command: sudo launchctl list | grep --invert-match com.apple yields: What might these be or how would I go about prying open these to see what they are precisely and why there are so many instances of these?
I want to use Boot Camp on my 17 inch iMac Late 2006, but whenever I open it, it tells me that I need to update my Boot ROM firmware to use the assistant. So I downloaded the latest Boot ROM from Apple's website. However, when I launched the installer, I was given the following error message. This computer does not need this update.
I just had to move my drives over to another Mac Pro and now when I attempt to open apps purchased from the App Store, I'm getting Failed to check receipt hash. What does one need to do in order to revalidate a machine properly for the App Store so that these errors go away?
I have Mavericks on one HDD and Windows7 x64 on another HDD in same machine. Windows can't even see MAC partitions while MAC gains READ ONLY access to NTFS partition.
I have tried ISOBuster and IMG Burn but I can't seem to make a Mac compatible ISO? All I can see is the boot camp partition (900MB) in both Windows and Linux. When I try and boot the ISO in VirtualBox (my intended goal) it tells me no bootable medium has been found.
I have just installed a ssd drive into my iMac mid 2010 formatted the drive and installed Maverick and migrated only my applications from the old system drive which is now in a dock station. all when well but I cant save an image from Photoshop or any onto the new drive, an image from the firefox....
I am giving my old MacBook to my daughter. I have changed all the names and passwords and so on, and renamed the computer when starting up, so everything seems fine except for the fact that the harddisk must still contain my stuff.
I have a iPhone and it got disabled and told me to connect it to ITunes and when I did it would not connect. How to i fix my phone when it's not working.
Is there a way to find out which application or command catches a global hotkey in osx?
Looking for some information on this issue. I have a brand new Macbook pro with nothing on it and am trying to download VMware Fusion 6.0 which is about 530 MB, with no other applications running other than Safari.
I'm using a backup script on my server that uses ditto and I keep getting the following error: This is my code
I find it really annoying how the Adium icon is always at the dock being useless:  because to open the contact list, you can just use the status bar item, (the dock icon is just a waste of space according to me):
I have a problem with my 2012 Macbook Pro, I'm trying to install a new WD Black 750 GB SATA III 7200 RPM in it. The problem is when I try to reinstall OS X Mountain Lion, it didn't find the drive I just installed. When I try to erase all the data from it and turn it into an OS X extended file format, Disk Utility returns an error saying that it couldn't format it. I'm really stuck right here, has anyone else encountered the same problem and know how to resolve or get around it? Any answer will be much appreciated. Thank you.
I have an iPad and I'd lovely to be able to use it for brainstorming and proper, detailed annotation of PDFs, but I find my attempts look like a child's fingerpainting:  (The word I attempted to write was 'interesting')
Where does OS X store local settings for applications such as license keys, Skype favorite contacts, etc. Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with an Apple rep and he had me delete a bunch of files and folders, one of which includes ~/library/caches/* I can't remember the rest though. Later I noticed NONE of my programs would launch because they required license keys to be input. All of my EyeTV scheduled recordings were gone. Dock preferences were reset. It's been a nightmare. If I can get the location of these files, I can just recover them from Time Machine.
I'm trying to export my contact from my old exchange account to my iCloud account. The problem is that I do not have access to my exchange account anymore. All I have, is my contacts saved on my iphone. I tried syncing my iCloud contacts and merge everything, but I get a message saying that exchange contacts can't be merge. Since I don't have access to my exchange account anymore I also can't export them from outlook to a csv file. So basically, is there an app or a trick to get old exchange contacts saved in the iPhone to iCloud? Thanks!
Turning contacts, notes, and calendars syncing back on under Settings > iCloud has not restored any contacts, notes, or calendars to my phone. I waited a couple hours to give it some time since it is set to check every hour. I have also tried turning on push and changing the time to 15 minutes. I even tried "manual" but couldn't find a button to push to do it manually.
I recently purchased a MacBook Air. I have an external 3TB Hard Drive that I would like to use, however, I have used this drive to backup files from my desktop (Windows) computer and the drive is setup with NTFS format, thus I can read files from the hard drive but I cannot write files to the hard drive. I read that I could install NTFS drivers in Mac OSX allowing me to write to the hard drive. Is this true? Are there reasons I should not do this? If there is no drawbacks to not doing this what are the best drivers to install and where do I find them? I ask this because being new to Mac and OSX I want to ensure I do not want to risk messing up my hard drive.
Can I delete camera roll and free up iCloud storage without deleting photos in my albums ?
tl;dr: Formula to number rows that doesn't break when some "rows" are made of multiple, merged spreadsheet rows. Scenario: I am making a check-list (of things to look at when apartment-hunting) in Numbers 3 that involves some "nesting" by merging cells. It's more efficient to show than explain, so here's a little dummy:
When using NTFS-3G using OSXFuse installed via Homebrew, my Windows drives are mounted but contain a number that is increased every time the volume is mounted:  These numbers don't seem to be limited. I have to regularly delete all the unused mount points. I'm assuming this problem could also occur because of insufficient permissions for some process, but I'm not sure for which or how to verify this. /Volumes/ has the permissions 777 and owner root:admin.
I often open a CSV file on Numbers, and then I see the table of which style is 'Basic'. I want to use another style (e.g. 'Gray'), but it's annoying to change the style every time I open a file. Can I change the default table style which Numbers uses when a file is opened?
Is it possible to show Categories in the Navigation Pane (left sidebar) of Outlook 2011? If so, how?
How may an Apple's USB port be used to control simple electronic devices e.g. LED(s) ? I'm happy for any workable answer, but hopefully someone may know of a link to a supplier of a cheap USB interface that can control a LED (light emitting diode) when plugged into an Apple, and some simple script/application is run to change the LED on/off.
I'm trying to install Java in order to use the Safari plugin. The "missing plugin" functionality redirects me to the Java download page, where I downloaded a file named jre-7u55-macosx-x64.dmg, which contains Java 7 Update 55.pkg. Now, when I try to run the installer, I get the following error message:
When connecting to the internet via a public wifi hotspot on a mac or ipad, rather than the simple wifi password requested by a home router, a new 'sheet' or dialog is displayed to log into the network, often with some branding of the hotspot's owner. An example in the UK would be the Virgin hotspots on the London underground network.
I'm attempting to emulate how a volume is normally mounted for my NTFS volume that I've added to /private/etc/fstab. Normally, when a volume is found, like an external hard drive, it is mounted and then a shortcut to that volume is put on the Desktop and in the Finder left-hand sidebar. However, since to mount a NTFS volume as read-write in fstab, the flag nobrowse must be added, this prevents it from showing up on the desktop and in Finder's sidebar.
I'm new to the iPhone world, although I've been down iPod lane for a few years. One thing that is well-known (and even parodied) about Apple devices is the slimmed down and minimalist approach.
my smart TV app (samsung UE55F8000) doesn't render non-latin subtitles correctly and there is no option to configure it. The only way to show non-latin subtitles as far as I understand is to burn subtitles into mkv itself on my mac and then transfer this mkv to TV set. Can you please recommend a software to do this hard burning? Best regards,
Is there a way to create a mailbox rule based on the currently highlighted message in mail.app? OSX 10.8.5 I want to create a rule from the application rather than have to go to Mail -> Preferences -> rules and create it there.
My ISP has upgraded the server to Apache 2.4.9 from 2.2.xx. It has broken a couple things in my setup and I want to bring my local copy of Apache 2.2.26 to 2.4.9 so that I can test locally.
I'm about to buy an AirPort model but I'm not sure if there is any difference in terms of signal strength and range. There have been comparisons between these two models in the past but I don't think there are any up to date comparisons.
I'm looking to update from the stock graphics card in my my Mac Pro 3,1 (2008). The logic board only has two 6-pin ATX connectors, and the card I'm looking at (a GeForce GTX 760) requires one 6-pin and one 8-pin ATX connector. From my research the power supply should be able to handle it, as I don't have any other PCI devices. There are 6-pin to 8-pin ATX adapters available, but I'm not sure the tracks on the logic board would be rated for the higher power, and may burn out. I do, however have a spare molex 4-pin power connector for an IDE disk drive. What is the rated power for one of these type connectors, and is there any way to use that, or a combination of that and the other 6-pin ATX connector to provide enough power to the card? Thanks!
I'm on a mac book air running OS X 10.9.2. I want to free up space. I see that a file called headdump.hprof.old is occupying a lot of space. Is it safe to delete it? What does it do?
I'm looking for a way to remove the 'quit' action from an application, so I personally cannot close it manually (except by force closing (Cmd+opt+esc). Case I've got Wunderlist as my personal To-Do list and use it on Full-screen on a second workspace on my Mac. I simply swipe (4fingers) to the left to quickly access my tasks. Too bad I've got a second habit: quitting/closing an application (Cmd+Q) when I'm done. This often results in closing Wunderlist and having to restart the application. Although this ain't a hassle, I think it can be solved So I'd simply repeat: Is there a way to protect an application from being closed (perhaps except when force closing, but at least prevented from closing via CMD+Q)? Perhaps this could be done by removing the keyboard-shortcut from a specific application via Application services via the menubar, but than i'd also be looking for the context of the function name I've to input.
How can I change the folder color from black to grey in my folders. I am using OS X 10.6.8. I tried going to View, Show View Options and there is nothing there for me to change colors
I have purchased a lot of music from iTunes on my MacBook. Whenever I select that music to be moved to my iPhone, it appears (on the iPhone) with a "Cloud" icon beside it. As far as I can tell, the only way I can play this music is to re-load it from the "Cloud" - which the phone tells me will cost money. Why is this happening? I have already bought the music! All I want is for it to appear, like any other music, on my iPhone, as a playable file. Suggestions?
I have read several of the questions and answers posted about this problem, attempted the solutions, but still have no resolution to the problem. I have two separate gmail accounts...one I use for work related emails and one I use for personal emails. Using Apple Mail, I select the account I want an email response to be sent from (even if someone sends me a work email to my personal email address, for example) and the email continues to default by sending my response using the email address that the sender sent the email to. So, I have set my preference settings to default new emails to be sent from my work email address only...no change. Nothing I have attempted to change in the settings category has helped. Even when I choose a different email address as I'm composing an email, it defaults to the email address that the sender sent it to. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help! Kristy
If you send a text on your iphone and then immediately delete it while the synced Mac computer and ipad is off/not connected to Wifi, will the messages still appear in chat on the Mac when you connect it?
The Cellular Data settings on my iPhone allow me to selectively switch off cellular data usage on a per-app basis. However, it seems I must consume data using that app before it shows up on the menu so I can disable it. Is there a way to disable cellular data for new apps before those apps use any data?
I have 6 different IMAP accounts configured on Mail (all of them for gmail / google apps accounts). All of them, except one, have a "Synchronize" option in the menu that appears when right-clicking any of the inboxes or other IMAP folders in the left pane. This one account which doesn't have this option also has occasional major lags in syncing with the server. ALL of the account settings are identical (including enabling of IDLE). Any ideas what could be causing this and how to resolve?
I'm now trying to edit them, and the first had no issues. But the second gives the message listed in the title of this post, in the edit sidebar:
I am trying to get the Captive Portal working on Mac osx. When using wifi to connect to my server, I get the expected wispr request to *=URL=* - however, using an USB to Ethernet adapter, I only receive requests for *=URL=* on my machine on the other side of the USB to Ethernet. No matter what I return or where I redirect, there is no poup automatically opening like it is for Wifi.
I am fun of buying apps and not to jailbreak my iphone so all my apps are paid. Moreover, I am subscribed to deals websites, where I receive some newsletters with apps discounts or even paid apps to free for limited time.
I have a folder open in finder - what is the quickest way to save a new text file to it? On Windows I would use "New Text" and then edit the file. On the Mac I open a new file in Sublime or Textedit but then I have to select the folder again when I want to save ...?
Many threads that I visit frequently at some point stop updating. I get the notifications that someone has commented on the subject but when I click the link I can't see the latest changes. Even if I go back to the thread several weeks later I can't see anything after the point where the thread stopped from updating. As far as I know there is no app cache that can be cleaned or similar. How can I achieve to start updating those threads again? This doesn't happen with all threads just some. If I go into Safari I can see the changes after where the app stopped updating the thread. My info: iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1 Facebook version 9.0.0.25.31 Thanks for suggestions!
I use some keyboard shortcuts on my iPhone. This helps a lot, e.g. when typing gn which is replaced by Good night!. These shortcuts are synchronised to my Mac via iCloud. On my Mac I use TextExpander as a sophisticated keyboard shortcut tool and don’t need these iOS shortcuts, as I have hundreds of Mac abbreviations and don’t need shortcuts that work on a phone but not elsewhere.
How can I remove Finder tags from all files in a given folder and in its subfolders?
My Mac Mini bought early 2013 won't start. I get half the Apple startup chord and then it shuts down again. It doesn't even get to the gray screen, apparently no video output. I tried the different keyboard commands and also pulling out all cables to see if there is any external devices that is the cause but no luck. Reading from a suggetion I also held down the power button for 20 seconds after pulling out the power cord. But the problem remain. After pressing power I hear the sound coming and then goes out after less than a second. Is there anything I can try except taking it to the Apple repair guys?
I work at a company that has both POP3 and IMAP email servers. The POP3 server is at pop3.mycompany.com and the IMAP is at imap.mycompany.com. We've noticed that when setting up email accounts in iOS7 it will default to the POP server. I was personally wondering how iOS detects these settings and what it would take to prefer IMAP over POP, or if that's possible. It's worth noting that neither server has SSL enabled currently.
My computers hard drive is full, and while I edited a .h file in xcode it said it can't be autosaved (obviously), but then the file name in the navigation area turned red and I wasn't able to get into the file. This happened to two files, and one of them went available again after deleting some files but one isn't even though I have cleared space. I can't seem to find it in the project directory neither. What has happened, is my file deleted?
Is there a script or other way to have iTunes download the top (free) apps (in all categories, or specific category) from the app store, like once a week or day?
I recently got my iPhone 4 unlocked from att I have some issues from before the unlock that persist (microphone, home button, internet connections). I did not have to restore or set up the iPhone as new, as soon as the unlocked message appeared in iTunes I disconnected the phone, there were no resulting problems but I still have the problems from before the unlock. I simply did not restore or set up the phone as new because I did not want to loose all my data, my phone is jailbroken and before the unlock I was using a gevey sim.
In Ask Different there are similar threads (e.g. Choosing hexadecimal web colours), but unfortunately no one is resolutive for me.
Pretty much what the title says: Is there a way to run a version older than Safari 7 on Mavericks? I've seen multi safari but that doesn't allow you to install the older versions on Mavericks Also I'd need an actual running local instance, not a virtualization tunnel like browserstack
P.S. 1. The issue is not stable. Some times ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+⌥ Option+V work for me, some times it doesn't. I don't know why.
I'm trying to run an application downloaded from the internet (e.g., Jabref) but it seems that it fails silently. When I try to open it by double clicking it, nothing happens. When I use the terminal I get the following message: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file .../xxxx.app I tried several suggestions that I found here like changing permissions and modifying the Info.plist file, but nothing works. Because it's a Java application, I tried to run it through terminal using java -cp "CLASSPATH" MAINCLASS and it works fine. Just to mention that I get this error not only with this app, but for a few other applications. Thanks in advance.
Apple App store is really annoying with all their security. Is there a way to never logout and never retype your passwords? I newer log out, but it seems something logs me out (sign out) automatically?
I have te possibility to get a 13'' 2013 MBA with i5 and 4gb of Ram for 200$ less than the habitual sell price. The only problem is I can't have more ram, it's 4gb or nothing. My question is : will it be enough ? I will use this mba for web-browsing, movie watching and a litte bit of dev (node.js, and perhaps some script language like ruby), i'll PERHAPS use it for xCode from time to time, but it's not sure, I have an iMac at home for this. So, is it a good idea to take this macbook, or should I pay 300$ more to have 8gb of ram ? Thank you for your help !
I need some ios app for ipad where I can read scientific pdf documents and mark part of text and do some notes on the margin of the document and then read it with marks at my PC. An option can be to get translate of selected word in small pop-up window near word. What you can suggest?
I am wondering how can I save a specific AC3 audio channel from an iTunes DRM protected movie ? Right now the AC3 audio source is greyed out ! I am on Mavericks !
When I am working with 10 – 15 open windows in Preview I often accounter the problem that I can't open a new PDF-window. Instead I need to open it in iBooks to make it work. I have no other PDF viewers installed. Has anyone else had this problem and does any one know what I can do about it?
My macbook's internal mic stopped working. I plugged in the headset I got with Samsung Galaxy S3, into the mac. I can hear the audio in earphone but the headset mic is not working. What steps can I take to make the the headset mic work along the macbook?
I'm a system administrator, and I daily receive reports from several mail servers which contain thousands to tens of thousands of email addresses written as plain text (logwatch, from a Postfix server) mentions. When one of these is selected as the active message, Mail hangs for up to 30-45 seconds with the spinning beach ball cursor as it converts all those addresses and also message-ID strings to hyperlinks. Most of the message-ID strings end in an internet domain name, so they get converted too. Sample lines:
A different situation from what most people experience on here: A new Air will not connect to the Internet via our home router (though other MBs will) and the Air will connect to the Internet via other routers at other locations. We bought my mother a new 13" MacBook Air (so: purchased May 2014). From the start, it's had issues connecting to our LAN. Other computers, including my 2011 MacBook Pro, connect fine.
I just bought Aperture, as a last ditch attempt to try and get a good export of all of my "projects" (photos and videos in many of the projects) into folders named by event/project. I tried first using the Unified library (my source is originally iPhoto), and then brought them in via a complete library import. What happens is this, when I select: All of the projects in the Projects view, I can only Export Library.
When connecting to a URL via HTTPS and the SSL certificate doesn't match (such as at a paid Wi-Fi hotspot), iOS shows a dialog asking whether the certificate should be accepted. If you accept the certificate, iOS adds an SSL exception and will never ask about that certificate again. There are possibly two aspects to this: certificates accepted in Safari, and certificates accepted for network services in other apps.
When those users create a new folder, the file/directory permissions are inherited from the parent's folder. Everybody can read/write in their newly created folders, which is perfect.
I have an iMac with a pair of wireless keyboard/trackpad and another Macbook Pro (MBP). I just got a thunderbolt cable and try to use iMac as an external monitor for the MBP.
Safari 7.0.2 on OS X 10.9.2 stopped using keychain and doesn't remember passwords any more. That's on my iMac. On my Airbook it still works.
When my iPhone 5s is fully charged my charger (which is the official one), emits a super little noise that is very high pitch (I would say nearly an ultrasound...). Is it normal ?
I have a mid-2009 MBP currently running Mavericks and suffering from the slow performance problems that others have been mentioning. Initially I thought it might have been something to do with a battery replacement warning I was receiving, so I had that replaced. Things got a bit better, but not by much. I'm planning on getting a SSD but that will take a while to ship.
I'm having problems with long shutdown times and I read somewhere that deleting /Library/Java would solve it, so I did. It didn't do sh*t.
I've never seen these characters before and never seen them in action either. Does anybody know what they are and what they're used for? Maybe somebody has this drop of trivia lying around... Option+Shift+6 fl Option+Shift+5 fi
My Apple computer is about 6 years old. The original and current apple password is 5 letters, all lower case, plus one digit. It opens my computer and I consider it my apple password. Unfortunately, when on my iPhone or iPad, and I am asked for my "apple password" it does not and cannot work (it doesn't fit password requirements). If I try to create a new password, for my iPhone and iPad, I cannot make it happen, no matter what instructions I have followed in the support information. My husband who has all the Apple gadgets and computer, has tried but is unable to assist me.
In using iTerm2, I frequently see tabs turning a different color, and just assumed that this was because of new output in that window. The help was no good, as I couldn't find a decent word to search for, but after combing through the preferences, I discovered that this was because "Color tab labels on activity" was selected.
On linux one could hold alt and then drag any window around from any point within it's focus. Is there similar functionality on OSX?
I am a speech scientist, presenting speech sounds for listeners in a lecture. I have multiple audio clips (each a separate .wav file) embedded in my slide, and I want to be able to play each audiofile out so that I can demonstrate aspects of each sound. This means I want to be able to:
The OS X kernel does control this directly since below 5% my CPU gets locked to 1.2GHz instead of the normal 3.7GHz so there has to be a way to control the CPU speed. I am aware of this question (Limit processor speed like in Windows) which claimed it to be impossible but after noticing that OS X does control your cpu speed directly depending on battery power I find it hard to believe it's impossible.
(Sort of a long post, I'm trying to be thorough with what I did and why I am confused) I am tasked with automating our builds for our iOS app. The process that is actually involved is taking a .app file (generated by Cordova) and converting it to a .ipa file.
I've been using Charles to sniff the requests that my iPhone is making for some time now. I've always got it to work by connecting both my iPhone and my MacBook to the same wireless network and then entering my computer's local IP address along with port number 8888 in the proxy settings in my iPhone. But, my internet is down and I need to use AT&T's hotspot on my iPhone for internet instead of my apartment's wireless.
Mail says its default font is 12pt Helvetica. How do I change the default to something more readable, such as 14 pt Georgia? Appreciated.
I've been wrestling with setting up msmtp for some time now, only to realize that when I run it from a terminal it works as expected (uses my password from my login keychain) but when I'm ssh'ed to the machine using the same user, it does not access the password from the keychain and fails login (or asks me for interactive login if I run msmtp directly). How can I ssh to my machine and have msmtp fetch the password from my keychain?
I've tried using these half-resolutions but they look extremely jagged. I wouldn't describe it as blurry, but it definitely looks pretty awful.
As you can see, I can't insert MathType Equation on Pages 2013, why? Is this not a built in feature?
I don't have iPhone but I want to know just for knowledge purpose, Can I detect my iPhone when thief logout from iCloud in Settings ? I know we can detect our iPhone when we login on iCloud website with same apple id as device login but what if device logout from that apple id. can we still detect our iPhone ?
It's known that all users are members of the 'staff' group. If you setup a standard user and create any file, a list of that file in the terminal with 'ls -la' shows the user group to be 'staff'.
This is driving me a little bit crazy. In my old PC days I used to press either F5 or F9 (I can't remember) to have Excel recalculate. What is the Mac equivalent?
Is there an anyway I can have two different passwords for when the computer is locked (after being in standby) and for the main User password? I prefer to have a more complicated password for my user and settings but when I for example close my computer for a short while I would like to have to enter a more simple password. Is this possible in some way?
I lost my iphone three months ago and it was dead so I could never locate it with the "find my iphone" app. Eventually I gave up and did the wipe feature next time it was turned on. I just got the notification that it was wiped. Is there any way to see where it was in that moment it was turned on and before it was wiped?
I want to upgrade my existing MODX install and this is the message that was in the upgrade instructs: "Do Not Overwrite Directories! Make sure your FTP program merges directories and does not overwrite them!" So when dragging new folders from local server over existing folders in the remote server, Cyberduck is asking me what I want to do but I don't see the option "merge" - there is only "resume", "overwrite", "rename" and "skip". How do I merge files?
I have a friend who used to have an iphone but has since gotten another phone. When I go to text him it automatically does an imessage which fails. I've deleted him and re-added him. I've turned imessage off and it will work for a bit but eventually reverts back to imessage. What do I do to fix this?
I have some PSD files I had produced, but I don't have the positions of the layers aka images that were produced aka buttons etc. I don't have photoshop. I have tried gimp and pixelmator, but they don't show the coordinates of layers. I have google how to do this for both of these packages, I can find the cursor position if I hover over the layers, but this isn't exact.
I want to compose an e-mail from my Mail Application on my desktop. I have two e-mail addresses. How do I select one, or make sure, that the email is being sent from one e-mail address and not the other? I'm not replying to anyone, I'm composing a new e-mail. Thanks! I'm attaching the form field, it doesn't show an option to select which e-mail address to send the email from? When I click the box next to orders@myemail.com, my other email address doesn't show?
QuickTime crashes whenever I try and play an MP3. It says 'QuickTime Player quit unexpectedly'.
I am migrating my website away from my home OSX server to a virtual Linux server, hosted within a proper data centre, and I have a problem with the SSL certificates I imported into OSX Server. It appears to have stored the certificates into /etc/certificates however I don't know the passphrase it used to encrypted the key file. It's not my normal account/keychain password, so I've no idea what passphrase it, or I, chose at the time. (I have tried to get the original SSL certificates but that's not proving so easy either, but might be my only hope). Could someone tell me how this works so I can untangle myself and use the certificates on the new website please?
I have an old backup of my user Library and need to restore its previous learned spelling values. Where do I find it within that old backup library?
I'm following these instructions to install CUDA on my Mac and need some help concerning path variables. I already installed the package but need to set up the required environment variables: I just followed the instructions from this site to set the environment variables but seemingly it doesn't work that way.
I am on Mavericks (1.9.2) and I just noticed a folder called Applications in my home folder, i.e. I have a folder /Users/me/Applications. This folder is empty: I was wondering how did this folder came into being... this is admittedly a purely academic curiosity before I get rid of it.
Env: vim+zsh+iTerm2 on Mac OSX 10.9.2. (Same problems in vim+terminal+bash on Mac OSX 10.9.2) Here are mapping problems list(You can chose any of them to anwser). My vim could not get some shortcuts: <A-Left|Right|..>,<D-char>.
I want to be able to trigger my iphone to unlock from a webserver. Is there a way to send a command over LAN to it to unlock using Cydia?
I'm writing an iOS application and since yesterday i have problem with in App purchases. I receive list of products but localizedTitle and localizedDescription are nil. I've read that about 2 years ago some people had similar problems and it was Apple's fault. However today I've got message from Apple about all of my In-App Purchases: "In-App Purchases have been returned and are highlighted in the table below" All of them still have status:Waiting For Review. So I'm wondering if it is possible that because of returning products i'm receiving 'nil' or is this (again) something wrong with apple? Can I do something to fix it?
I have a MacBook Air connected to an Airport Express and I am trying to connect to an IRC server. I am able to connect to the IRC server down the street at the cafe. I am able to connect to the IRC server over LTE when tethered to my phone. I contacted my ISP and they were able to connect to the IRC server. Hence, I believe there is some setting with the Airport Express that needs to be adjusted. Here is output from nmap, traceroute, ping:
I've seen apps like DisplayPad and AirDisplay, which seem really useful. Unfortunately, all of the ones I've seen require you to be on the same Wifi network. This is a problem for me; quite often I use my iPhone's 4G network or have no network at all.
I don't want to build a course and publish it to iTunes because I am not the author. I simply want to organize it under the iTunesU section of my iTunes app for strictly personal use.
Of course, you can use fastcodes in vimfastcodes in vim. Refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23606892/vim-keyboard-mapping-problems-in-mac/23608928#23608928
I have a Thunderbolt to HDMI to TV set up. On occasion it just starts switching the TV display on and off. I have not been able to determine the root cause. Looking in the Console just confirms the Display switching, but I do not see the reason. I can not isolate the problem since it is sporadic, but started recently. I have tested the HDMI cable (not the Thunderbolt adapter) otherwise and it works fine. I tired all 3 of the HDMI inputs on the TV without success. 5/13/14 11:44:44.439 PM WindowServer[108]: Display added 5/13/14 11:44:44.439 PM WindowServer[108]: Display removed 5/13/14 11:44:44.439 PM WindowServer[108]: Displays mirrored 5/13/14 11:44:37.584 PM WindowServer[108]: hw_mirror_device_if_possible: windowserver picks master 0x4273c00 as primary (driver did not pick) 5/13/14 11:44:37.584 PM WindowServer[108]: Display 0x04273c00: Unit 0: Startup Mode 1440 x 900, CGSThirtytwoBitColor, Resolution 1, ioModeID 0x80000000, ioModeDepth 0x0, IOReturn 0x0 5/13/14 11:44:37.585 PM Window
Is there a VNC Client for OS X that can send Ctrl+Alt+ Delete? I've googled, searched have not found. I frequently VNC into Windows machines and need to send this key combo in order to log in.
I'd like to make my MacBook make a sound when I receive a new email, even when it is sleeping. Is there any way to do that?
I have iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 I am developer and I need it to test apps. But 99% of time nobody use it. I decided to install ebook reader to reads fb2, mobi and other ebook formats. But all readers I found do not install on iOS 5. iOS 6 is minimal requirement.
I saw a "Free" book on iBooks today and decided to download it. I've never used iBooks before. After it downloaded (and I entered my password), I clicked "Read", and iBooks said: Computer authorization was successful. You have authorized 2 computers out of your available 5.
How do I upgrade my ipad 1st generation ios from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 6.0 so that I can use more apps from the app store?
I installed Linux Mint on my 2006 MBP 15" this weekend before hearing that the system will not enter a compatible firmware mode for Linux/Windows without rEFIt or rEFInd installed first. Well, I do not have another Mac available, and I do not have an OS X install disk to recover from (not 10.5 anyway). I can boot Linux by holding down CMD at boot, and launching the install from the Boot Manager, but this is much less than ideal, and while I imagine I can install Windows 7 much the same way I installed Mint, if I am still stuck with booting with CMD, my wide is not going to be happy (it is for her, and she is less than a Power User by any stretch). Any helpful advice out there?
It just keeps reloading and reloading and it wont load pass the apple sign and it does it for hours. I just want to know whats wrong with it or if im going to have to take it in to a computer place.
I'm looking for a PDF reader that is both light weight and automatically updates the PDF to pickup background changes (e.g. when a LaTeX file is edited and compiled). There are two very good choices that fit the requirements but the auto refresh capabilities come with a minor hindrance in each:
I am trying to install ruby to a specific directory, a USB stick, so I can move the usb back and forth without having to install ruby on each machine I get to (I need ruby 2.0+). How can I do this?
I have enabled "Tap to Click" in the trackpad options in OSX (10.9.2), but it doesn't work in many games that I play. Instead, I have to physically press the trackpad which is really inconvenient for me... Are there any settings to fix/change this behavior? EDIT: I forgot to mention that sometimes it does work but requires two or more taps to register as a click...
I'm trying to write the string あいうえお to my clipboard using the pbcopy command line tool like this But what I'm getting in my clipboard is completely different : „ÅÇ„ÅÑ„ÅÜ„Åà„Åä. I assumed this had something to do with the encoding, but the documentation says the encoding is based on the LANG environment variable and mine is set to en_EN.UTF-8.
I have a MacBook Pro late-2012 model. And my cable started showing symptoms of fraying. So I ordered an offbrand cable from Amazon with good reviews and it arrived today and I tried it and the Mac recognized that it was getting power but the percent won't go up it's stuck at 95% but when I click on the battery icon in the status bar it says Battery Is Charged same thing with the original MagSafe but I just noticed this behavior now. But with the MagSafe it would reach 98% sometimes and stop other times it would go to 100. Should I just ignore this or do something?
Has anyone successfully used Services with GTK apps? Is there a trick? Please don’t answer with recommendations of alternate accounting applications (Gnucash suits my needs best for many reasons) or suggestions to use the tax tables in Gnucash (they are too limited for my purposes).
Whenever I open a pdf, Preview.app opens it in "continuous scroll" mode. However, when going into fullscreen mode, it switches to "two-pages" when, really, I want it to use whatever view mode I had it, in this case: "continuous scroll".
I have an Automator script that uses ffmpeg to re-encapsulate a video file into an mp4 container with its audio transcoded to aac while leaving the video as is. This works fine and the resulting video plays well on my system in both iTunes as well as Quick Time Pro; tried it with both avi and mov source files. However, I just noticed that the resulting files have their audio encoded to MPEG-4 HE AAC instead of plain AAC as intended. As a result, even though the file plays well on my Mac, I am unable to play it on my TV which recognizes AAC but not HE-AAC. Any workaround using ffmpeg? Please note that I am not interested in installing yet another encoding/transcoding application for this job. I only want to use ffmpeg so please do not suggest installing anything else.
I have been suggested two different ffmpeg commands for converting an mkv file to an mp4 while just re-encoding the audio (to aac) and leaving the video portion as is. Here are the two commands: ffmpeg -loglevel panic -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -c:a aac -strict -2 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 48k target.mp4 ffmpeg -loglevel panic -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -c:a aac -strict -2 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 48k target.mp4 ffmpeg -i source.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 target.mp4 ffmpeg -i source.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 target.mp4
When I installed the app with help of this link onto my device but this procedure has problems under iOS 7 which i have reported to apple but i'm wondering if someone knows of a fix in the mean time? When you click the link to install, the app installing icons appears and after a short time a second icon appears with the proper app icon but the install one does not disappear (see image below) even if i delete the app the installing icon stays. Any ideas on how to fix this would be much appreciated.
Mail.app allows to send emails from multiple mailboxes by enumerating them in comma-delimited format in:  This feature allows you to seamlessly reply from test@foo.com whenever email was sent to this email by hitting 'Reply' button. However when test@foo.com receives messages from some mail list list@lists.foo.com, and a message is sent to that list rather then mail address, 'Reply' will pick just a first available mail address, which would be test@bar.com. Is there a way to specify that replies to list@lists.foo.com should be sent through test@foo.com?
In this gif you can see the problem on the IOS simulator: As you can see the problem only occurs when a button is in the lower 10% of the view. This is just a normal button, My code was triple checked by several developers and it has no errors.
Is it possible to activate and use my iPhone 3Gs (A1303) without using iTunes? I think it is important, not to connect it to a WiFi cause I don't want to update it in any way. When I connect to a working WiFi and continue the activation process, it says:
I have been given an old iphone 3gs that has a bug: It cannot be activated, neither through WiFi nor iTunes. Over WiFi it sais, that the activation server is not availiable and over iTunes, iTunes complains, that there is no SIM card in the device (which is not true, and this SIM card works fine in other devices) Is there a way to jailbreak it before activating it? Or what should I do?
I have just compiled my own copy of ffmpeg on my system and it's located in the following path: When I run the following command in Terminal.app, it runs smooth: However, a similar command run as a shell-script in an Automator service fails: Up until now, I had a pre-compiled build of ffmpeg on my system located at:
I installed SSHFS 3.5 via Homebrew on OSX 10.9. I try the following: But I keep getting this error: Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I can't seem to be able to find how to add a whitelist to the Wiki Server on OS X Server 3.1.1 the collabd service. The information is missing from the documentation at *=URL=* neither at: https://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/3.1/
When editing texts, left and right arrow keys are frequently used. But it takes quite some time to move your right hand from the letters section to the arrow keys.
Currently I am copying over their files by moving their user dir from one machine to the other. Then I create the account.
Recently migrated work email to office365, therefore, all of our users have a new account on a new exchange server. Added this without fuss, but upon trying to remove the obsolete account outlook only seems to be able to crash. Starting in safe mode does nothing. Wonder if anyone else has run into this problem?
On my Macbook Pro, I routinely use two keyboards: #1 is Apple Keyboard (A1243) with International English layout #2 is Apple Keyboard (A1048) with French layout. I already have set up a keyboard shortcut to switch language, but I'm looking for a way to automatically switch the language as soon as I begin typing on a given keyboard. Does the OS even know which layout each keyboard has? Do keyboards even have a language, or just different stickers on the keys ?
I have a Google spreadsheet that I open every morning I'd like to open it quickly using just the keyboard after startup, as opposed to: opening Firefox going to the address bar typing in the tag name arrowing down hitting enter Is there a way to do this with just a few keystrokes? Assuming I don't already have a browser running (I prefer to use Firefox if that matters) Also, I would rather not have to use a third party app to do this UPDATE: Realize that I could have FF run at startup which would save me at least one step... SUMMARY:
Some background, I created a partition to experiment with bootcamp to use windows. Once done I deleted that new partition, it became a no-man's land that neither partition can claim. As a seperate issue, boot camp assistant has been giving me this error:
I have the latest Mac OS X Mavericks installed onto a hard drive which I can boot from. As I mainly use a Windows machine, is there a way to boot up the hard drive in a virtual window on Windows, without having to reboot and change the BIOS drive boot order to access OS X Mavericks?
Please recommend an audio player for Mac that has features like freely available can play .wav files
I have a MacBook Pro, and I want to keep its battery healthy for as long as possible. I've heard many "myths" about all these, one of them being that the battery will get "hurt" if I plug in the MacBook when its battery is high enough (higher than 75%), let it until it reach 100%, then unplug it.
since a few days my 2010 MacBook Pro re-boots on a regular basis. I'm looking for tips on how to diagnose the cause of the problem.
I am running a computational process that requires several GBs of memory. When my process consumes about 11Gbs, Activity Monitor shows me that kernel_task consumes more than 20Gbs thus making my system run out of memory. I need my process to finish the computation, but with kernel_task eating all the memory, the process will not finish in any reasonable time. Why is kernel_task consuming so much memory and is there a way to let it know not to? Hibernation is OFF, opening windows on restart is OFF. My system: OSX 10.9.2, 32Gb of RAM
I took a photo using the contact app on my iPhone 5. I would like to copy that photo, but there doesnt appear to be an easy way to get it. I did some googling, but all the answers were several years old - and all of them said you could not do it. There was one answer that required programming that the poster said "supposedly could do it", but I dont have the development tools (or working Mac) to even try. Anyone know of a way to extract the contact photos?
I should mention, that no other applications show this behaviour. I have tried Safari which seems fine and in other applications I haven't noticed anything unusual. Does anyone has a solution for this?
Is the recovery partition issue related or is it something else? If there's is more information needed I am happy to provide it. Thanks in advance!
At the first time I can press the "Cancel" option. However, after receiving the second call it displays the same message but it freezes immediately. I can't do anything unless I make a call using Siri. When Siri calls, the iPhone "unfreezes" itself. I tried making 2 calls to an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5C and the same error occurs.
My mom tried to track my iPhone 5 using Find My iPhone. My location services were turned on and everything was working properly. Then it said between a certain time that my iPhone was 'offline'. She thinks I manually went and turned it off, making me appear to be offline but I did not do this. It is the second time this has happened since I got the app last year. I need to know why this is happening so that I can explain to her I am not doing it.
So I somehow grabbed my parents USB thumb drive to install Mountain Lion. Now when I want to upgrade to Mavericks, its asking me to sign into my parents icloud account.
I use the Disk Utility to repair it. But the permissions change back after reboot.
Is there a built in command line utility to show information about Apple Airport networks and other wireless networks? Where? What's its usage?
Cisco Meraki is fantastic, it blows the features of Apple's Profile Manager out of the water. One thing I would very much like to be able to do however is to push Volume Purchased Mac Apps to all our devices via Meraki, or something similar.
I'm running Mavericks and have FileVault set for the whole disk. Is there any value then, in emptying the Trash securely? Given the whole disk is encrypted. I'm not certain on how these two methods interact/ overlap. Thanks.
Updated to Mavericks and now my external 1TB Seagate drive won't mount. Its icon ("Blorp") is greyed out in Disk Utility and all it says about the volume is that it is a "locked logical volume." This is not being used as a Time Machine backup drive, just an external drive. It won't even prompt for a password when I try to mount it. And it shouldn't be locked, since I turned off the encryption prior to upgrading the OS. This started when I opened up the computer and it said the drive was not ejected properly, even though it had been plugged in continuously. Can I get this drive back without reformatting it?
I'm using Arq4 for backing up my data to a ubuntu server with ssh-access. Since Version 4 Arq supports SFTP storing. To speed up the inital backup process I attached my HDD to my Macintosh so Arq could copy the data locally. There is no way to change the SFTP target and maintain the Data and Configuration as seen in the Screenshots.
Hardware is a mid 2010 MAcBook Pro 15", i7 2,66ghz, 8 GB RAM, 512 MB Video RAM. I encounter regular kernel panics for a while now, I think since upgrading to Mavericks. Usually it used to happen every now and then, between once a week and once a month. So I did not really worry in the beginning. As it started getting on my nerves and neither volume repair nor hard ware test did indicate anything wrong, I decided to do a clean install of the latest Mavericks version a few days ago to see if that helps. kernel panics are still there and with the update to 10.9.3. today it seems even worse. I already had two kernel panics today, which make it four this week. Attached is the latest kernel panic log:
a friend sent me a fiddler record for me to watch. I have mac and the file he has sent is X.saz
I know that Keychain holds my WiFi and other passwords, but I'm curious to know where my Adobe and Microsoft product keys for things like CS6 and Office live. I'm using OS X Mavericks.
I've recently updated my 15-inch, Mid 2010 Macbook Pro to Mavericks. Since then, it's been running incredibly slow and tends to hang while using programs such as FireFox or Excel. If I look at the activity monitor, the only task taking up a large amount of resources is kernal_task.
We have several Mavericks systems, currently all but one moves folders when dragging and dropping, however only one requires the command key to be pushed for it to move. Is there a setting or tweak to do to force this action so it always moves instead?
I would like to add a notification to a video at some particular time period that "Mistake Lorem in this". Does OSX have any default video tool (simple) to add any type of text (subtitle ok too) to the video?
All my applications in the /Applications folder are sorted in different subfolders, so that I can find them easily. I know, this is not recommended (see this question), since the Software Update looks for the app in the /Applications folder only when doing the updates, and problems may occur in that case. That's what happen to me today with the 10.9.3 update: for example, Mail.app has been updated by this update, but in my case, Mail.app were in /Applications/Internet (instead of /Applications), so now, after the update I've got: a non-working Mail.app application in the /Applications folder (non-working because it only contains the new updated items of Mail.app) the old (working) version of Mail.app in /Applications/Internet I tried to copy (with the cp -R /Applications/Mail.app /Applications/Internet/Mail.app command in the terminal) the updated items in the old folder (of course, I made a backup of the Mail.app folder before), but it did not work (it's impossible to run the "new" Ma
I have a 2TB time capsule. I am driving from PA to FL with 3 kids. I have a hundred of so movies/TV shows stored on a 2TB Time Capsule. Can I use a power converter in my minivan to power and use the TC for the kids to each watch whatever they want on our road trip via wifi (they all have iPads)? It seems like it would work, but I'm not sure what the possible "issues" might be. Thx
I just noticed on my Mavericks' Finder today that there are two different Applications folders. One located under Main HD:
I finally confirmed that those missing files from the Time Capsule was NOT backed up in the first place. Whoa! I don't know any reasons that why those files failed to be backed up. Those files and directories don't have a different permission from the other files in my filesystem that was backed up properly. Is there any reasons that some files can be backed up while the others cannot? I've completely lost my trust in Time Machine and the whole backup system OS X provides...
I'm running 10.8.5 and installed some of the newer text-to-speech voices, including "Samantha" (aka Siri), "Tom", and "Jill". They work fine, except for the word "seq": produces the spoken words: "the following". produces the spoken words: "consider the following question". I tried the above test on each of the voices I have installed, and only "Samantha", "Tom", and "Jill" exhibit this behavior. I haven't found any other words that produce wrong output, but there may be more.
After upgrading an iPhone user from iOS6 to 7, I'm having an issue where, in my contacts app, all 2000 email address from my exchange account are showing up in my contacts. If I go under settings and turn off the contacts tab under the exchange servers. It just deletes all contacts from my phone. Including ones that aren't emails. How do I get rid of them so that the phone only shows the contacts that are stored on the phone and not synced from exchange?
In Ubuntu 12.04+, you can hold Super, then press 1 or 2 or 3 and so on until 0 to open or focus an application. The number corresponds to the location of the icon on the launcher from top to bottom. In Windows 7, you can just press the Windows Logo, and 1 or 2 or 3 etc to open or focus an application on the taskbar (the number corresponding to the location on taskbar) I'm currently using mission control workspaces to do something similar on OSX, but I'd really love it if I could number the icons on my dock instead, and be able to open/focus on an application on the dock using a keyboard shortcut. Is there maybe something in the app store or some system preference I can tweak so I can number/add keyboard shortcuts for the icons on my dock like this?
Is there a way to turn off the 4g so I can use 3g on my iphone 4s? I am going to be in a area that has very poor 4g and decent 3g. I am using ios 7. Unfortunately the toggle to turn off 4g in settings, cellular is missing.
I want to know the best way to upgrade openssl. I do not use Homebrew or Macports. However I believe that when I upgraded Ruby on Rails to 4.0.0 it installed/updated Macports on my server.
I have the latest Retina MacBook Pro MacBookPro11,2 I quite often have the CPU at about 400%-500% usage (e.g. 4-5 cores at 100%) and also do GPU intensive tasks. While this is happening, the battery can actually discharge even though it is plugged in. This has happened since I first got the MacBook and is not something which has developed over time. This is very irritating for me, is this a fault or normal behaviour? I have the model without a dedicated GPU (Intel Iris Pro only), and I have an 85 watt power supply which came with the MacBook Thanks
I've just purchased Keyboard Maestro, and now when I am in a browser and click control-tab, I can no longer advance through the open tabs of the browser the way I did before. That key combination must be used in KM to do something, and that's pre-empting the system shortcut. How can I find out what action is attached to that keystroke in KM (so I can either change it or disable it)?
Reboot into recovery using command+r. This works and I'm able to launch the Disk Utility. This shows S.M.A.R.T Status : Verified. Running Verify Disk on the HDD (topmost level of the tree) shows no errors. However, running verify on the Macintosh HD partition does show errors and asks me to run Repair Disk, which tells me I have irreparable errors and suggests that I back up my data and reformat.
I recently switched to Mac from Ubuntu and I've still had a quite a lot to figure out. For iTerm2, how to adjust the space between files/directories? The following screenshot shows what it looks like after I did "ls". As you can see, the two directories "mathematica" and "python" are very close;
I have a windows share that I can mount via Connect to Server (⌘K in the finder) It there a way to have this volume mount automatically at bootup?
My Downloads folder looks utterly empty, not a single file or folder. And I have already emptied the Trash too. But for some reason, a Terminal ls run for this folder says there are 16 items! Here's the exact results on the Terminal: And the Get Info window shows 1 item:
I want to view and possibly remix a video on youtube. I have seen many demos and articles describing where the cache is on older versions of the browsers, but now it seems that Safari is stored in a .db file, and I haven't figured out chrome. How can I extract and save an HTML5 file in a way so that I can view it later, or edit it in a video editing program?
I'm new to OSX Server, and this has me stumped. For some reason _www user is emailing itself every minute.
I am looking for a "tabs decluttering" app for Safari like OneTab Chrome Extension How OneTab Works
I shoot with a DSLR on the road and import the photos on my laptop MBP to edit them. Sometimes, the laptop is not in a wifi zone when I import the photos (physically from SD card), and they do not get to My Photo Stream, even after I take the MBP to a wifi zone later.
I went back and reformatted the disk as HFS+ with my windows machine, using MacDrive. Put it back in the laptop, and it's still not turning up in the list. I have confirmed that the SSD has the latest firmware on it using Samsung's magician software, and I'm now focusing on the SATA cable.
I'm getting a lot of stalling and high CPU usage when I open folders in Finder for the first time after the 10.9.3 update. Opening that folder again works fine, but expanding a folder of 20-30 files or folders stalls the CPU on these processes for 30 seconds: coreservicesd com.apple.IconServicesAgent I've tried relaunching Finder but the issue still occurs.
I have a Macbook. Fn+Down/Up keys work as Page Down/Up in some applications but not in every application. Some critical applications that this key binding don't work are Firefox and IntelliJ Idea. Is there any way to make this key binding work in those applications?
I want to map Option+X to something. But this mapping effects Option+Shift+X key binding as a side effect. Is there a way to prevent it? Here is an example mapping that I use:
I created a python http server with I can access it using *=URL=* but not using *=URL=* from a different machine. I'm on Mavericks and firewall is turned off.
I have an Verizon iPhone 4s and would like to use Wi-Fi until I decide on a service provider. The phone has been reset to factory settings and sees my Wi-Fi network, but when I enter my password and hit join it says it's unable to join the network. Updated to iOS 7.1.1
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro (late 2011) running Mavericks to my Sony Bravia television like so: MBP thunderbolt port -> Mini DisplayPort cable -> HDMI cable -> TV HDMI 1 port. However, I'm not getting any picture or sound on the television. Neither device has recognised the other. Have I missed something out?
I'm helping my Dad over the phone to upgrade his iPad. He's a senior, and definitely not tech savvy.
I am trying to install gource via homebrew. It yields in the following error: How can I install gource?
When opening RTF files with TextEdit, they appear garbled. For example: Is TextEdit corrupted?
Recorded by native Voice Memo app on iPhone 5, and then sync to iTunes. But found those displayed name of voice memos that are set when I was recording are different with real file names in iTunes after sync.
I have a non App Store app installed so the 'X' does not appear when I hold down the icon. I don't want to uninstall the app, just remove it only from Launchpad. It's OS X Mavericks
On my Mac Mini Server I enabled Xcode and Wiki and disabled Websites, I open Safari, and if I go to mydomain.com I can see the Xcode page and if I click the Wiki link, it takes me to mydomain.com/wiki. However, if I enable Websites, neither the Xcode or wiki pages work anymore.
Thanks for reading - I'm not necessarily attached to using the "archive" function in Apple Mail: the important thing for me is to keep ancient emails on an external drive, so that if I want to read them back I may do so, but not take up lots of space on my main HD. The archive function seems to compress them, but keep them "locally." I don't want to do anything involving codes & commands: I just want to store my stuff externally, and retrievably.
I need to make space on my phone to upgrade iOS, and an 800 MB Photo Stream looks like a pretty good candidate for removal. The only problem is that it's very unclear to me what happens if I remove the Photo Stream: are the photos deleted from other devices? (I'm not talking about deleting individual photos from the photo stream, but rather turning off Photo Stream on that device. Apple doesn't make the consequences of that action 100% clear, and things I've read (which I hope are wrong) suggest that any removal on one device is carried over to other devices.
I created a new Share Only user account but I am not able to find the home directory for this account in Finder, or under /Users. I know for sure that the account was created correctly, because when I try to recreate the same Share Only Account, the system tells me that an account of this type already exists. Where can I find the home directory for this specific account? My other accounts (Standard User Account, Administrative User Account and Parental Control User Account) appear in the /Users directory.
How can I output music from an iPhone to a Bluetooth speaker and at the same time output to another sound appliance where the iPhone is jacked into? Like a Bose stereo device.
I have two Mac Mini's running Mavericks Server. The hostnames for them are as follows: macsvr01.mydomain.com macsvr02.mydomain.com
When there is currently no audio playing, the 'blip blip' sound effect is useful to know where the volume is currently set. But when there IS audio playing, you don't need the sound effect, yet is plays anyway. It is annoying, especially if you are using your computer for a presentation, or music at a party, etc. Has anyone found a way to disable the volume adjustment sound effect for when audio is already playing?
I have a large number of MP4 videos (non-iTunes purchases) in my iTunes library, which is growing daily. Due to the space it's taking up, I plan to unload these files to an external HDD. Home Sharing is the main reason why I use iTunes for my movie library to begin with (including streaming to my Apple TV, not just only iOS devices connected to my local network). Here is my dilemma: I cannot, to my knowledge, run a partially referenced iTunes library- where Music is automatically copied to the iTunes Media folder, but Videos are not (but rather referenced on the external hard drive).
Chrome crashes my 13" and 15" rMBP. I got to press the power button to reboot to solve it. The shutdown monitor log and chrome://crashes is empty, so I check the system log. Chrome Version:34.0.1847.137 extensions: Google Docs 0.6 OneTab 1.6 Pocket (formerly Read It Later) 1.7.1 plugins: QuickTime Player - Version: 7.7.3 Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 1.4.2.464 Adobe Flash Player (2 files) - Version: 13.0.0.214 PPAPI (out-of-process) OS X:10.9.3 Is there anyone else got the same problem?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, btw. Tried the 32-bit version with same results. How can I get the windows installer to recognize my device drivers?
The premise is this: I have an app which has been set in its code to only run on OS X versions 10.4 to 10.9.2. (When I try to install it, it gives a message "This version of ____ is for Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.9.2."). I have updated to 10.9.3, and the developer just needs to update the app to fix this restriction in his tool. I'm actually in contact with the developer, who says he is 'too busy' to work on the app or issue an update right now.
With iTunes contact and calendar sync over USB reinstated in 10.9.3, does this change also reinstate the ability to locally synchronize over WiFi (i.e. not cloud sync) as is available in Mountain Lion? In ML there is the ability to use WiFi as an alternative to USB to synchronize contacts and calendar locally (not using iCloud). Both USB and local WiFi sync were removed and replaced by iCloud sync in Mavericks. The question is whether or not both functionalities are back with 10.9.3 or only the USB part.
As I increasingly dabble with AppleScript and OS X tweaking in general, I arrive at this question: What is the difference between these two words in terms of OS X's inner operations - e.g. do some processes operate 'within' applications (or vica versa), or two processes operate as part of one 'application' in terms of what the user interacts with GUI-wise (or, vica versa)?
Is it possible to run top and group processes by COMMAND? Seeing every single individual Chrome process not very helpful
I've noticed that my /Users directory on OSX always gets changed to "rwxrwxrwx" I'm not sure how this is being changed? Only just started happening Could it be malware or such?
I need to highlight/underline a lot of text and tend to use specific colors for different things. Accessing via the dropdown menu in Preview is very slow, does any one know a way to change the color of highlighting/underlining by pressing a shortcut? I'm using Mavericks.
I can't select an external editor in iPhoto 11's advanced preferences, the drop down menu box just shows either iPhoto or DSCF0586. DSCF0586 is of course a photo number, and takes me to the desktop if chosen. The menu box should show "in application" not DSCF0586. So how do I remove DSCF0586 and get "in application" back so I can choose PSE11 as my external editor?
When I mount a .dmg file or open files in my drive (using text editor or other app), the Finder will automatically remount all .dmg images that I used before. For example, I do something in DMG A, and unmount it and this will succeed. However, when I open DMG B or open files in my drive (no matter what type of file), the Finder will remount the DMG A, so I have to unmount both DMG A and DMG B.
from the /Applications folder, I can launch apps on my Mac using the open command in the terminal like this Is there a way to delete apps from the terminal? This question/answer doesn't provide the answer to this question
Loving the new MBA 13 (my first Mac), but running into a frustrating wi-fi issue. The MBA wi-fi flies when the machine is in the same room as the NetGear WNR2200 router, but it slows down considerably as I move it through our (smallish) house, and it pretty much crawls to a stop just 10 yards or so away from the router. Original post http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1195289
On my iPhone 5, how do I text a message to a number? I am trying to send the words "HELLO WORLD" TO 888765?
Though there may not be the option through the Apple Store web site, in purchasing new hardware today from Apple, if you request it, Apple will sell you a license for and a copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and install it for you on the hardware you purchased. Will they sell a license for Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard Server with it and install it for you, if you request it?
I'd like to hide some parts of the pictures, that I import to keynote presentation (I use version 6.2 (1861)). To do this I overlay white rectangles without shades on top of these parts of the images and use white color as a background color of the slide.
My iPhone 4s was deactivated last night by my father because I am grounded. I'm not going to have it for ten days and right now it is powered off and lying on the dining room table and, like I said, deactivated. When I turn it back on and he reactivates it, will I receive the texts sent to me during that time period of deactivation? I have Verizon, if that makes a difference.
I have a new Mac, and I want to selectively move files over from an old Mac. I've sold the old Mac and need to ship it today, so what I really want to do is simply take a complete copy of the HD in the old Mac before I erase and reinstall for the new owner. I have a 500gb usb 3 disk I was going to use for this, I don't want to create a bootable clone, instead just want a complete copy of the old disk maybe as a dmg etc, any ideas? Not thinking CCC, or restore using dskutil as it's overkill.
Does anyone know if I should 'zero out' the new disk I bought? It was NTFS formatted so, unable to use it like that. I did a repartition to HFS+ in seconds, and then decided it might be better to zero out, was this a waste of my time or is there a benefit to this? Finally this zero out took about an hour and ten mins for 500gb, does this sound like USB 3 performance? - I was expecting it to be faster... my new Macbook Air (which is doing the formatting) is USB 3 and so is the external disk, but 1.1 hrs for a 500gb zero out doesnt seem fast.
We have a large number of iOS applications which we would like to install on several devices. Is there a way to install the ipa files from a dropbox location?
I want to use parts of a file name to add specific Finder tags to a file. How can I do that, are there any scripts or applications available to automate this on OS X Mavericks? The only solution I can think of right now is Hazel, but this would be limited by the rule character of this application (choosing tags manually).
I am going to preface this by saying I don't think it is duplicate because the other questions are older and ever so slightly different.The only question that really might be a duplicate was asked three years ago and based on someone who is in Argentina. Do I need to provide a credit card number to get a free app in the United States? I am asking because I want to buy and iPod touch and do not have a credit card!
I've tried to install the 10.9.3 update three times. Each time, the app store downloads, the machine reboots, and then up comes a dialog complaining that it could not verify the update. Upon clicking OK, it reboots and spends 7 minutes putting things back the way it found them. Disk utility finds nothing to complain of, and there's plenty of space. Machine is running 10.9.2, and it is a mid-2011 mac mini. What do I do?
Does some know, if apps, which immediately after launch opens a system browser window, conform to App Store / Play Store guidelines? Or does an app need to show a screen and wait for users to take action?
I'd like to prevent an USB device from registering (e.g. the internal Bluetooth hub). Is there a way to blacklist/disconnect USB devices without physically unplugging them?
I basically want to use my phone as a Wi-Fi USB dongle and don't want to buy a USB dongle because I'm planning to fix my Wi-Fi soon anyway. Also, I don't have easy access to Ethernet at the moment.
I would like to know how to switch horizontal and vertical scrolling in OS X 10.9, i.e. when rolling the ball to the left to make the screen go down, and when rolling right to make the screen go up.
How do I fault-find a macbook pro that works fine in one OS but repeatedly shuts down soon after boot? (Every time the machine is booted into OSX environments, even the installer, the machine will shutdown soon after boot). I have a MacBook Pro 5.5
Steps to reproduce problem: Log out of instagram app Close the app click on it to open it and log back in
I'm experiencing some severe WiFi issues. Every 20 minutes or so my Macbook loses its WiFi. This happens at several different locations.
Does having a BootCamp partition somehow make OS X shutdown slow? Shutting down OS X on my somewhat old (2009) MacBook Pro used to take five seconds or less. But lately I've both installed an SSD and started using BootCamp, and now shutting down OS X -- even when no apps are running and I don't choose to restart apps next time -- takes 23 seconds. My Windows 8.1 and OS X start up are very quickly, and Windows 8.1 shuts down within a few seconds too.
I want to translate a long text and I am looking for a software that shows the text and the translation I write at the same time, in two windows and with possibly a synchronization. Does it exist? Otherwise, what are the existing softwares and what do they do ?
On Windows, this combination scrolls right down to the bottom of the screen in most apps. Does Mac have any equivalent? I know fn-down exists but it only scrolls one screen at a time. I am looking for something to take me down to the bottom in one go.
My mid-2010 MacBook Pro was diagnosed with the infamous nVidia graphics card defect (I went to an AppleStore two weeks ago, they ran the video system test, and it failed), and since it manifested later than 3 years after purchase, I do not qualify for the free logic board replacement. Still, I'd like this computer to last one more year, and since I get a crash every two weeks or so, it's viable. However, I'd like to make sure that the problem doesn't get worse, and for that I'd like to use the panic logs to monitor the frequency.
Simple and concise documentation on the OSX folder hierarchy is sparse. I'm looking for a simple description of each - what are the functions of each? /private /var /usr /tmp /etc /bin /sbin /fseventsd I don't plan to modify them in any way, I just want to understand the FS hierarchy.
Last night I plugged in my MacBook Pro, and I noticed the light on the charger was a very faint green, hardly visible in bright light. Today I opened my Mac and noticed it stated 'batteries not available.' Reading forum posts online I decided to reset the SMC, so I turned it off, pressed the required key combination for the reset and then tried to turn it on. The Mac won't power on. I've tried multiple chargers.
When I connect my iPhone 4S to my computer (Windows 7 32 bit), iTunes (11.2) does not detect the device. The phone displays the green battery meter indicating it's charging, I can sync the photos & videos, but when open itunes to copy songs, its not connected yet, i tried various USB cables,Itunes versions, but no hope. But i can connect it with from another Computer with 64 bit windows 7. i tried so many tricks via youtube too, i just purchased the phone last week.so kindly please help me. And 1 more thing, what is bonjour,it is used for?
I have a MacBookAir3,2 (late 2010) running 10.9.3. I want to be able to force the machine to immediately go into "hibernation" mode, but it seems impossible. The usual answer that I have seen is sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25 but when I sleep/wake my Mac with those settings, I am not asked for my FileVault password. Additional Info: Power Nap is disabled for Battery and A/C power Fast User Switching is disabled Preferences » Security & Privacy » General » Require Password is set to “immediately” I have run sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25 autopoweroff 1 autopoweroffdelay 14400 standby 1 but note that 'autopoweroff' and 'autopoweroffdelay' are both absent from my pmset settings: Putting the computer to sleep, either by closing the lid or sudo shutdown -s now and then waking it back up within a minutes or two does not require me to enter my FileVault password, just my regular account password. Is there a way for me to force the Mac to hiberna
I've submitted my first app to Apple and waiting for approval. I've created a custom popup and used it within my app. The popup looks similar to alert view. Below is the screenshot. Are there any chances of app being rejected because of this?
I've submitted my first app to Apple and waiting for approval. My MAC was hanged while I was submitting. I needed to restart MAC. After restarting, the state of app on iTunes connect was 'Waiting For Review'. I am not sure whether binary was uploaded correctly or not. Will Apple Review Team contact me in case binary was not uploaded properly? If yes, how much time it usually takes?
I'm unable to ping 8.8.8.8 from BBB though I shared wi-fi with BeagleBoneBlack. Whether I share internet connection or not ipfw gives same result
When I disable Wi-Fi and open "Maps" I get the message: Location Accuracy Turning on Wi-Fi will improve location accuracy. Can this message be disabled?
I want to make a Facebook post consisting of several selected photos from my photo stream in iPhoto. For some reason this appears to be extremely difficult. What am I missing? Steps I've tried so far: Find the first of the photos I want to post Find the first of the photos I want to post Click on "My Photo Stream", select the thumbnail, and press CMD-C. (Because for some reason you're not allowed to copy the photo while you're actually looking at it.) Click on "My Photo Stream", select the thumbnail, and press CMD-C. (Because for some reason you're not allowed to copy the photo while you're actually looking at it.)
Using OS X Mavericks I want to add multiple tags at once to a file or a folder and I also want to remove multiple tags at once. There are different ways to add tags to a file, one of them would be to drag the file on top of the 'tag label' (image).
I get the following lock screen on my iPhone:  The image was taken by myself, i added a filter from the iPhone Filters, and when I set this image as background, there is this white thing behind the slider. Why is it there and why is it only partially there? The original image looks normal, like this:
In Safari, a feature I really like is that flash plugins are automatically blocked by default and you have to click in order to start the flash plugin (see, e.g., *=URL=* I found, however, that it prevents Google Play's "play music" buttons from working, so I had to temporarily disable the feature (uncheck the "Stop plug-ins to save power" box) and restart Safari in order to listen to music on Google Play.
Some time ago I've updated to OSX Mavericks. Since then each time after the system starts I get a prompt to enter Facetime password. How to disable this?
Is it possible to ask for certificate (.certificateRequest file) from command line? I want to mimic behavior like Keychain -> Certificate Assistant -> Request for Certificate in Certificate Buro from command line.
Because of the way my work email is set up, I currently have my Mac (at home, running Mavericks) fetching my email via POP from my work's email server. I've been able to access my email over SSH manually, going into the .mbox folders and looking at emails and attachments manually.
I'm having an odd issue where after my Mac Pro works for a certain amount of time (it seems variable), the drive will no longer seemingly be recognized. It shows up in the hardware profile for the system, however when I hit the eject key, Toast starts up instead of my drive responding. Further, when Toast or any other CD / DVD writing utility is started, the drive is not recognized in these applications. Any idea as to what could potentially be going on here? The thing that throws me the real curve ball is that it DOES work for a little while when the system is restarted and then just "disappears" as noted.
I had an iPhone app on my iPhone 5s now currently under repair that had a $100 app called GIS kit. I am connected to my iTunes account with the App Store, and have a bunch of apps that it's allowing me to download via the cloud download icon, but not this one. So, a really quick way to answer this question would be with another question, and that is, does Apple even allow app creators to charge users twice for what is supposed to be a one time payment for an application?
I accidentally deleted /opt/local/bin/compare on a OSX Mavericks‎ system, and am not sure how to get it back. The problem caused by this is that macports can no longer install anything. I tried re-installing, now I'm trying updating. Does anyone know where this file originates and how to reinstall it? Google'ing hasn't helped much so farMavericks‎, nor do I know anyone else with a mac that I could look around on for this file. Thanks! (I couldn't create the tag osx-mavericks, but I think this message should be labeled with it.)
I have a new Mac Pro that's running Mavericks and I would like to configure it for remote access (ssh and sftp). The IT staff says I need to provide them with a fully qualified domain name before we can proceed. So what I need to do is set hostname.subdomain.domain.com. I've seen some posts about setting hostnames, but what about the rest of this?
(Unnecessary backstory for the curious: I'm trying to avert the carpal tunnel I feel coming on from programming on my Macbook keyboard alone. I'm a pretty wide-shouldered, wide-chested guy and the position I have to take to get my hands close enough together to type on the keyboard has me, essentially, contracting my hand laterally such that the outsides of my palms and my forearms form a 135-degree angle, which is horrible posture. I need to be able to spread my arms farther apart.)
Is there any way to (or existing program which can) modify the keyboard symbols you get when holding down the option key? I.e. I want to be able to modify these mappings:
Excluding anything in the iTunes Library, what and where (or full relative path is fine) are all of externally called files including preference list files etc used by iTunes X 10.6.3? And by iTunes XI 11.2.1?
I'm in a hotel equipped with Apple TVs and I can see my neighbor's Apple TV on AirPlay. I cannot, however, see the Apple TV in my own room. I went through the Apple TV settings and performed the following steps: Double checked the network: both my MacBook and the Apple TV are on the same wireless network with a strong signal. Confirmed Apple TV configuration: AirPlay On Conference Room Display Off Play from iTunes in the Cloud Off Apple TV Name Apple TV 808 Security Off AirPlay On Conference Room Display Off Play from iTunes in the Cloud Off Apple TV Name Apple TV 808 Security Off Restarted the Apple TV via Settings > General > Restart But I can still only see my neighbor's Apple TV in the AirPlay Selector on my MacBook:
I recently activated the apache that ships with OS X Mavericks. I followed some tutorial to set up the web-server, however. When I browse to my home-filter at *=URL=* I get the following error: You don't have permission to access /~nazeem/ on this server. Installation steps To setp up the webserver, I took the following steps: activated the webserver with command: apachectl start enabled PHP by checking if the module is loaded checked if the home folder module is loaded made the user based configuration file, in /etc/apache2/users/nazeem.conf The content is as follows: <Directory "/Users/nazeem/Development/Websites/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> made the user based configuration file, in /etc/apache2/users/nazeem.conf The content is as follows: <Directory "/Users/nazeem/Development/Websites/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> Permissions ~/nazeem : drwxr-xr-x+ ~/nazeem/Development : drwxr-xr-x ~/nazeem
When my terminal gives lots of output (for example when I am compiling something), by default the scrolling automatically sticks to 'bottom' of my terminal window. But when I scroll within my output, and then scroll back to the bottom using my trackpad, this sticking effect is sometimes gone and sometimes it persists. When I use the slider on the right hand side, the sticking effect persists, just like I would expect it to be.
My iPhone was stolen and I have blocked it, recently I received an email stating that I reported a problem... Someone is obviously trying to use my phone but because they can not access the internet or wifi I am unable to track this, does anyone know how I can track my phone?
I installed Parallels Desktop for Mac and installed Windows 7. It seems like I loaded an infected file and now there are some $RECYCLER.bin folders around some places. Is this the Recycler virus? How can I delete these files? Do I just delete the Parallels VM or do I have to do something else?
Yesterday I get OS X 10.9.3 after update, my MBP 2010 getting restart when I open VLC, Illustrator and sometimes Safari. The message shows "Your Computer restarted because of a Problem. Press any key to continue starting up". Why this happen?
I recently ran an NMAP scan of my Mac's open ports and discovered port 631 (ipp) was open. Intrigued, I saw it was for the CUPS web interface, and after enabling it I found it had something to do with printing. But what exactly is CUPS?
I'm using the default Energy Save preferences on a MBPro running Mavericks. If iTunes is running, my computer will not go to sleep automatically even if iTunes is not playing (e.g., if I stop it by pressing Command-.). I've tried all of the following without success: Resetting the NVRAM as recommended here Resetting the SMC as recommended here sudo pmset touch sudo mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist ~kuzzooroo/Desktop sudo mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration ~kuzzooroo/Desktop/ Reinstalling iTunes Running Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature Here's some pmset output from while iTunes is running: And here's what I see after quitting iTunes: I usually have iTunes running and would prefer that the computer sleep even if I forget to quit iTunes (and forget to put the computer to sleep manually).
Our school teacher is using an iPad to take photo's of their artwork, etc and then using Pages (on the same iPad) .. creating a quick 'page' or two (inserting their artwork) and then emailing the page to the parents (as a pdf). Unfortunately, the pdf is massive. Too big for most of us. I'm guessing this is because the PDF is using the original size of the images.
I need to take low resolution photos on iPhone5 like at 640*480, 320*240 etc. Low resolution photo is so that they can be uploaded easily. Default camera application is not allowing to change resolution. After some googling it appears there is no trick with out apps to do it.
I am trying to connect a MacBook Pro 2013 to an iMac 2008. The latter is a 24 inch model and has no thunderbolt, just a Mini Display Port. Any idea how to connect the iMac to the MacBook Pro, to use as an external monitor?
I have LPX version 10.0.6 installed on my system and I recently heard that Apple just released a new updated version 10.0.7 on the App Store. However, not only I didn't receive any update notification on my App Store, it refuses to even recognize my installation! When I visit the LPX link on my App Store, it shows the price instead of "installed" like it says for Aperture, iWork, Garageband, etc. How can I make it recognize the installation?
(I know that at this point, many people will say "why don't you just let iTunes sort your music", but that's not an option for me. I don't want any software to handle the folder / file structure. Moreover, a sorting based on artist, album and track title is useless for sorting classical music, which is a very important part of my music collection.)
I have MAMP on my machine, and I would like to install memcache for php, because one of my project throws errors like Fatal error: Class 'Memcache' not found. I installed X-Code from appstore, and libevent, memcached, libmemcached with homebrew. Then.. Installing shared extensions: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/ After that I copied memcached.so and memcache.so to my extension_folder: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/ and added extension = memcached.so to my php.ini. I still get fatal error.. what's the problem?
I realized now that these errors are related to this. When I set up a new account (ldap) I get these two errors. They both came up the last time after changing from a host name to an IP for the server. CardDAV: Alternates between "can't establish secure connection" and "invalid account" No error messages in console Tried using both ldap dns above, plain user name, etc CardDAV works fine with goooooooooogle Gave up I don't much care if the contacts come from Zimbra or from LDAP (of course, Zimbra is preferred since it's also the mail server).
Since Mavericks, the com.apple.IconServicesAgent goes haywire approximately once a day on my machine (an early 2013 15in Retina MBP), getting stuck in some sort of while (1) loop. This causes the laptop to heat up and become sluggish. Icons in Finder don't refresh/load anymore, and the OS gradually becomes unusable. At the same time, this process writes megabytes worth of repeated log messages about failures trying to generate icon cache files, like the following:
I've been asked to purchase an iPhone 4S for a team of developers for testing purposes. Two requirements that have been asked of the iPhone are: it should run iOS 7.0 instead of the most recent 7.1 (don't ask me why, I'm oblivious to the reasons). jailbreaking is unacceptable My concern is: if I get an iPhone 4S with an older version of iOS will I be able to upgrade to version 7.0 specifically or will Apple force me to install the most recent 7.1?
I have installed github's editor atom into /Application. I now expected to have the command apm at my disposal to be able to install further packages. Yet: How do I get the apm command?
I run 10.8.5 on one of my Macs, because some of the software I use doesn't seem to get on well with Mavericks. Is there any way of stopping App Store from repeatedly asking me to update to Mavericks? In general I appreciate the update suggestions from App Store, but not this one.
We are 5 tenants in a big house in the Netherlands and apparently channel 13 is the only one not too crowded to offer us a decent connection. Setting the router on any other channel makes the internet almost unusable for everybody. Problem is that the cannot detect the WiFi connection whenever it is set on channel 13. Is there anyway to get a Macbook Air to detect channel 13 on our Wifi router? Thank you.
I've got an issue with my USB key, I can't write on it, nor format it... Here's what the erase option of Disk Utility outputs:
When I use normally the OS as a plain user I get frequent console messages like: When I give myself admin permissions and boot up I get instead:
I have a MBP retina with OSX 10.9 on it and I'm trying to automatically change my laptop screen resolution when an external monitor is attached or detached. This question is the same but for a different version of OSX and doesn't work with my version. For example, when I attach an external monitor, I want the laptop screen to display at a lower resolution, then when the external screen is removed I want the laptop screen to display at the highest resolution again. Is there an easy way to do with, or can someone give me step by step instructions?
I sometimes accidentally hit the play/pause button of my Apple Remote while Keynote was in show mode, closing the active presentation. Therefore, I would like to disable the play/pause button; either globally or specifically for Keynote.
When I wake my MacBook Air after being in sleep mode, and open Outlook 2010, it can take 30+ seconds to open. This is a relatively new phenomenon. My system is a MacBook Air (i5 and 8GBs memory) running Windows 7 using Parallels 8.
Hi I got the complete code, but I don't know how to run the script. The script is some plot of a function, can one run the script so that the plot is shown in xcode?
I own a mid-2010 MacBook Pro running Lion (I know -- but don't want to upgrade!) When I am responding to an email, just below the 'Subject' line there is a field called 'From' followed by two separate drop down boxes. The first comes up automatically with the correct email I am using for that particular gmail account, but as of about a month ago, the second box comes up with my husband's gmail address rather than mine. I have to manually change it (or else responses go to my husband). If I delay in sending my email (for which I've manually changed the second box) I can literally watch it default back to my husband's email address. It is maddening! Don't know if this is related or not, but at about the same time, I began having problems with my gmail accounts being listed as 'offline' even though I'm able to send and receive messages. Any help welcome!
iPad "Not Charging" with 3m USB-dock-connector cable I just bough two 3-meter (10ft) USB-dock-connector cables on eBay. When I connect the USB connector to an Apple 12W USB Power Adapter and plug the dock connector into my iPad 3, I get the "Not Charging" message next to the battery icon. The cable works fine with iPods and iPhones. The normal Apple 3m cable works fine. I know the message is caused by not supplying enough current from the charger, and that charging still takes place, just slowly, but how is this possible? It seems that the iPad 3 requires around 2 amps (10W/5V) of current to satisfy its power hunger. 12W would theoretically supple even more current (12W/5V=2.4A). So what could be causing this apparent "current deficit"? Certainly a 10m wire could not have enough resistance to cause such a large current drop. This is DC so there can be no impedance issues. I doubt the soldering is so sloppy that the joints would have a high resistance but you never know… I have two such
On Mac OS 10.7 and 10.8 (separate computers) I've been using a ssh-askpass script to let me verify the use of SSH keys: *=URL=* However, this does not seem to work on Mavericks/10.9? Plain SSH keys works fine: But with -c, it no longer works..
My grandma wanted music on her iPhone 4, so I connected it to a PC. I chose the new iPhone option, but it looks like it is restoring it from my dad's phone. Is there any way to get it back to setting it up like a new phone?
I love Evernote and I used to Evernote helper with the shortcut: ⌘ + ⌃ + space. I have since reinstalled Mavericks and now can't use this shortcut any more. Just changed Special Characters shortcut to ⌘ + ⌥ + T. (it was ⌘ + ⌃ + space), but I still can't use this shortcut for Evernote helper. Evernote only says:
I want to know list of folders that can be safely excluded from Time Machine backups while ensuring that full restore can get me a same machine running immediately. The reason why I want to do this is because Time Machine will backup all the files no matter what it contains. So far, I’ve excluded these paths from my backup:
I am trying to find a way to su to a user and run a graphical applications (My goal is to run another instance of google drive but for now - just running any application would be fine). I am basically looking for an equivalent of xhost + from Linux. Currently when I try running iTerm for example as a different user I get: So how can I accomplish this?
I lost my iphone and i locked it out, put a message on the lock screen. But I am wondering if the phone is locked out and they don't have access to it, does it still connect to internet to be tracked? I have lost my iphone before and gotten it back, and I did see the location of it......
I have an old MacBook Pro (mid-2008, 15 inch). Apple replaced the main board and I upgraded RAM and replaced HDD. When I use OSX on it, it freezes randomly and I have to reboot it.
I have a ~ 500GB disk in my new Mac, and I would like to create a 128MB HFS+ (Journaled) partition using OS X, but when I tried to do this earlier today the smallest HFS+ partition I could create was 1GB. This partition needs to be only a couple hundred MB big because it's only going to be storing GRUB bootloader, i.e. a boot.efi file and some other small files, so when I hold the "option" key while booting I can boot into the appropriate Linux distribution I have setup. Is it possible to create a 128MB partition with a HFS+ filesystem? I would prefer to used the "diskutil" command line program over using the GUI app "Disk utility".
Came across a bizarre bug (?) in my Mavericks installation. I ran out of HD space, which I should not have been anywhere near. I ran Disk Inventory X to see where the space was being used, and found that somehow my User directory had been replicated in each apps sandbox. Any idea what I could have done to cause this?
See "How do I automate this repetitive task?" I'm posting here so I can show some screenshots of the work in progress. I'm very new to both StackExchange and also Automator. Don't yet know my way around and am stuck.
So, I'm very new to Apple products and am feeling a bit naive about it all - so, forgive me if this sounds a bit stupid! I am thinking about purchasing a used iPod touch 5th gen 64gb and I am wondering how a factory reset is done and if I can do it myself or if I would need to take it to a store. As well as how much does a reset do? Does it remove the previous user's junk?
I have a Macbook Pro running on Lion. My external hard drive is a Buffalo and used as data backup only, and is formatted to Macs.
I have a MacBook pro version 10.9.3 with 2.9 GHz Intel core i7 processor. 8GB of ram and a 750GB HD. I'm running windows through parallels and allocated 4GM of memory to it and a used my bootcamp image (400gb).
My Macbook Pro charger (purchased in the US) comes with two different plug attachments, one that fits directly into the body of the charger and one with an extension cord. For some reason, the short attachment has only two prongs, while the long one has an additional ground pin. What is the function of the ground pin on the long attachment? Is it really necessary?
When I activate Launch on both my Mavericks and Mountain Lion systems, a few of the application icons are (seemingly permanently) greyed out and marked "Paused" with an empty progress bar.  It isn't hurting anything, but it's weird. Any idea why?
I am running XCode v.5.1 in my Mountain Lion, I don't know why, but I'm getting this message after a successful start of Mac computer. I was already using this version of XCode before and now suddenly it's showing me this message? What's wrong? It is something that Apple forgets its my first run?
My questions are: is it possible to recognise the iOS version based on serial number or any other factor in a new iPhone? If yes, how do I do that?
I've bought a 15" MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 and so far everything works perfectly. Luckily I'm not experiencing the "Lose Wifi after sleep" issue.
How do you permanently delete selected E-Mail messages from "Apple Mail" from a Time Machine Backup?
Is it possible to turn of notifications for certain mail messages (ex. newsletters)?
No idea what caused this or why it's happening, but when I right click something in Finder I'm missing a lot of the standard options that should be there (dropbox options, labels, etc). I've restarted several times, relaunched Finder, repaired disk permissions, and nothing's worked. When I right click on my Desktop:
for some reason my iPhone's Exchange account won't add new folders that I created in Outlook. Emails come in, but not new folders. I am not sure how long I've had this problem so I can't pinpoint to an iOS update or anything like that. Things I've looked into: PUSH LIST - Everything I've searched and read mentions adding folders to a push list, however these new folders don't even appear to add to the push list.
What is the way to copy text from Windows to iOS and vice-versa without using iTunes?
I know I can set show names and pictures for conversations. How do I set this as default for all conversations? I set this and then exit messages and re-open it and it is back to only showing the pictures. I tried to delete the plist files from ~/Library/Preferences for iChat.
On OS X Mavericks, I want to install few files without prompting user for sudo password. (Folder where i am trying to install require root access because it is present at / location). I can do this by modifying "sudoer" file and disable sudo password but this is unsafe and open up security risk.
The MBPr on the other hand can access the NAS over different ways: AFP from the browser "afp://ip.adress", smb over the finder symbol. But there is no way I can get it to work with time machine or AFP over the finder symbol. I just get a message saying something like "While connecting to 'DiskStation' an error occured. Maybe the server is not available anymore".
It is not possible to enter new appointments on the calendar. In the option to select different calendars, there is only the birthday calendar. How do i switch the other calendars on?
When using the podcast app, I can view the details about a particular show and am presented with three options that all sound like what I want to do. I want to get the episode now over wifi, and then listen to the episode later with no data connection. What is the difference between on-the-go, save episode and download episode?
I've recently acquired a new Mac Pro in work (the Late 2013 cylindrical model, running OS X 10.9.3) and am trying, unsuccessfully, to connect 3 identical DVI displays to it (running at 1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz). I have followed the instructions in Mac Pro (Late 2013): Using multiple displays to the letter with no success. The article suggests I can indeed connect more than 2 DVI or HDMI displays to it. Here's what I've tried so far: Display 1 connected via HDMI to DVI adapter (into HDMI port) Display 2 connected via (passive) Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter into Thunderbolt port 1 (as in the diagram in the above article) Display 3 connected via (passive) Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter into Thunderbolt port 2.
I got a new MacBook and now I would like to transfer all my media files via iTunes sharing from my old MacBook to the new one. But sometimes the covers are not copied. Does someone know why and how I can copy my songs with covers?
This was closed as off-topic on the Wordpress SE site, so I'm hoping it fits better here, since it's specific to using an iOS app. I'm using iThemes Security on my site, so I have a "secret word" required to access the WP admin. So to get to wp-admin I have to visit: domain.com/wp/secretword I would like to be able to blog from my ipad sometimes, but the iPad wordpress app requires the URL of the site for obvious reasons, and doesn't seem able to get through the security plugin. Has anyone managed to do this kind of setup and if so, how?
A friend of mine asked me to help with his MacBook as Safari didn't load any site. I connected to his computer using TeamViewer (so internet is basically working), and then did a ping on Google.com, which worked. His Mac runs on OSX 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) with Safari 5.x. I've tried a few things including: PRAM reset Delete cookies and browser cache DNS flush Delete cookies/cache/plist in Library Delete and reinstall Safari.app
I have an installation disk for OS X but when I turn on the Macbook it shows the Apple icon, then goes to a screen of codes and an error message that tells me to restart my Macbook. Once I do, it then repeats and I don't know what to do, any advice?
Clearly I'm giving it the wrong set of instructions. (Although, oddly enough, this script has worked some of the time.) SUB2 does not belong in /dest/Archived Projects/Development/ at all. SUB2 should be nested inside of SUB1, which should be nested inside of the project folder.
I reset my iPhone 4s a couple weeks ago to see if FaceTime would start working again (it didnt!). I did back it up before I reset it, but I did not import my photos to iPhoto as I always do. Is there anyway I could get those pictures back? I haven't backed up my iPhone 4s since then.
I was testing the 14.04 release of Ubuntu on VirtualBox, and later, after having gotten a pretty good idea of the changes, removed VirtualBox from my computer. However, when I ran the command 'python' in the terminal... this is what I found:
I was trying to use iMovie but every time it eventually does this. I used to think this was May graphics overheating (because iMovie puts my temps around 180 when running) but I saw right before it happened it seemed to be auto saving. I can't tell if it is a hardware or software issue but I hope someone can figure it out. I know that it is graphics based because if I leave the computer idle for a minute the clock starts working but as soon as I move the mouse it freezes again. This issue appears other times when I am running my computer but mostly with iMovie.
The native resolution of the external monitor is 1440x900, but that does not show on the list of resolutions on the list. With "Option" pressed when pressing "Scaled" the best fit I get is 1280x768. There are higher options available, but not in the 16:10 scale, so the monitor rescales them and they do not look nice. When I boot in Boot camp (Windows 8.1) Windows picks up the monitor right away, knows what resolution it should be, and sets it to 1440x900, so I do not think there is any issue with the hardware.
After OS X 10.9.3 with the restored ability to sync contacts with iTunes (over USB) was released, I finally upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Before I boycotted OS X 10.9 because I didn't want to give my contacts to iCloud (or any cloud, see also What's the best solution to sync contacts from Mac to Android Phone?).
MATLAB 2014a always uses the discrete GPU only, which is not necessary. (2013a didn't do this, therefore I think there might be an easy solution.)
I've created a simple AppleScript .scpt file, using TextEdit. If I now open it with AppleScript editor, I can run it. But when I try to modify and save it, I get the following error:
I'm familiar with the Microsoft Database Utility app / window that you can trigger by opening Outlook while holding option, like this one:  However I received a different window this morning when opening Outlook normally, without any modifier keys. This is the window I received this morning:
My home iMac (mid-2006) finally died a few weeks ago. We have a variety of iOS devices (2 iPhones/3 iPads). They all backup to iCloud and have iTunes Match. Once I get a new Mac for the house, will there be any reason to register/sync these devices with iTunes on the new computer? It seems with over-the-air app and iOS updates, iCloud backup, and iTunes match there isn't a reason anymore. Am I right about this? Thanks
I want to put the hard drive (500GB) that came with my MacBook Pro (13" mid 2012) in an external (USB 3.0) hard drive enclosure. Are there any benefits to choosing one with the SATA III (6Gb/s) interface for this hard drive, or would SATA II (3Gb/s) work just as well?
I have to switch quite often between 2 SIM cards on my iPhone. I always used to turn it off to do that, however, it seems to work just fine even if I leave it on. Can it harm my iPhone or SIM card or the data on in any way by not turning it off during the procedure?
I'm currently in the process of creating an iBook for use within my company. Some of the people who will be using it aren't particularly tech-savvy, so I want to make it as easy as possible for them to access the iBook directly from the home screen of their iPads. I don't want them to have to worry about navigating into the iBooks app at all. Is there any way to save the individual iBook file directly to the home screen?
I've explained one of my contacts how to set his phone number as a recipient for iMessage. However, his name still appears as Text Message and not iMessage.
I'm running iTunes 11.1.5 under Mavericks 10.9.2. Because I have a very large music collection I keep it on an external drive. I have six recorded lectures I'd like to sync with my iPad. How do I create a new playlist based on the recordings on the external drive. I know it can be done because I've done it before years ago but have forgotten how. Yes, I too wish iTunes were more coherent and less convoluted.
I upgrade my iMac to Mavericks last night and now I can't see any of my files. None of the applications I use showed up (i.e. Photoshop and Lightroom), my desktop doesn't have any of my files, none of my iMovie projects show up. If I do a search for them I can see them but I don't know where they are located. It says Desktop but my Desktop is blank. Its like I'm starting with a brand new computer and have to set everything up again.
The title says it all. This is a difficult one for me to troubleshoot...in part because it's my son's device and he is in Australia (I am in the US).
(macbook air 2012, noticed before I upgraded to mavericks) on my SSD, newly downloaded files or newly created folders take a very long time to be moved, viewed, or examined. I have 1/5th of the free space available. I also notice this after I extract an archive file, and try to look at its new folder, it takes upwards of 5 minutes before the file listing will return, in finder. this concerns me as I have an incomplete backup, what is going on and how can I improve it?
Right now the sheet color is white. But it is hard on my eyes. How do I change the sheet color to black? I'm using a Numbers 3.x in OSx 10.9.3
Google Chrome for iOS refuses to remember my login session once closed, nor does it remember my username or password. Other websites (google.com) autologin and stay logged in just fine in Chrome for iOS, and other browsers (Chrome desktop, Safari iOS) have no trouble with Reddit. Latest Chrome for iOS iOS 7 2013 iPad Mini, non-Retina Anyone else have this problem?
I have got the mid 2013 AirPort Time Capsule. Is it possible to set it up so that each user has a certain quota on the device? Either that, or even limit the size of the Time Machine data sets, so that I can allocate a bit for auxiliary data storage?
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, about Find My Mac, one of the condition is to have a local OS X Recovery Partition installed. Why?
Is it possible to quickly switch between font styles when writing different types of text. For example when I write code or mathematical text I'd like to use a different font, eventually a background. So far I only know how to add paragraph styles which change the whole paragraph obviously, not just a few characters. It'd be great if you could help me out.
So I added a Google account to Mac os X and then I decided to fetch my google mails by using "Mail" application.. But then I kept the Google account but removed the "Mail" application from the Google account settings and kept only Calendar and Contacts. Anyway now when I search for lets say "cv" in spotlight it still finds things from my google mail. How can I clean this?
I am looking for an app that will let me transfer media from iPhone 5 to a PC without iTunes sync. It has 3 atributes that I like: works on any Windows upload media with no iTunes sync multiple iOS management
[OSX 10.9.2] My Mac doesn't think Audacity can open mp4 files, so when I want to do so using "Open with", I have to switch from "Recommended Applications" to "All Applications" so as to select Audacity.
In Safari on Mavericks, I sometimes get a dialog from web sites indicating that some site functions will be blocked or degraded unless I turn off Private Browsing mode. Most users probably expect their choice of whether to use Private Browsing to be private. My impression is that other major browsers do not leak Private Browsing state to web sites. I have noticed that while in private Browsing mode, Safari will not request favicons, so in theory a site could block caching of the favicon and make a pretty good guess that Private Browsing is on.
An office iMac will not boot - it sits at the gray startup screen with the progress circle spinning continuously. I have tried: Booting in safe mode (same result) Booting in recovery mode (same result) Changing all peripherals (same result) Booting in internet recovery mode (same result) Resetting the PRAM (worked, but same result) Resetting the SMC (can't tell whether it worked, but same result) Booting with alt (Can select Macintosh HD, so that works, but still stuck following that)
I'm creating a bash shell script to execute from the Terminal. Its purpose is to archive lots and lots of project folders. Each folder follows a prescribed nomenclature: [YYYY.MM.DD] - Medium - Client - Project name - details--details - JobNumber. For example: [2006.02.01] - Print - Development - Appeal I - Kids Art Show Insert - D0601-11. These projects are currently one folder. I want to sort them into folders by Client name. There are 7 (internal) clients, so I'm using the following shell script:
Immediately after boot and login I can access all of the appropriate shares for my user account, everything I have permission to see. After a while, the timing is inconsistent though usually 10 minutes will do it, the shares seem to disconnect. If I click on a share from the desktop it hangs and the share disappears.
I am trying to develop two separate applications for our company using the Enterprise Program. Regardless of what I've tried, the second app always replaces the first app... Create iOS Production cert1, download, keychain, upload, Provisioning Profile 1 created. Repeat iOS Production cert2, download, keychain, upload, Provisioning Profile 2 created.
My OS X (Mavericks) seems to be setting LC_CTYPE environmental variable to UTF-8 by default. How can I change the default? I need LC_CTYPE to be en_US.UTF-8.
Selectively truncate filenames in my nvALT notes folder. I tried using a productivity blogger's suggestion (which eludes me after a thorough search) to prepend ^ > - + to filenames, but it's not working for me. It's time to clean house! However, I need to make sure I don't lop off any alpha characters on filenames that do not use those prefixes. Plus I'm learning scripting and think it's fun! Here's what I've got:
How do you save to specific paths with the save prompt WITHOUT navigating through the GUI? It's extremely annoying how I cannot just write paths into the save-as dialog box.
I can see the device on the network and I can open it and select a share. But when I try to mount the share, I get the following error:
I'm having a very strange bug with an application. I've tried to update it but it keeps showing up the old version. I've tried deleting it too, but when I run open -a MyApplication.app it opens it again, even though I'm sure it's not anywhere. If after that I try to install again the new version, it's still showing the old one.
My brother in law has a iPhone 4 i gave to him. I wiped the phone using the restore function in iTunes, and activated by restoring HIS backup form a iPhone 3Gs using my computer.
I'm about to upgrade my MacBook Pro (13" mid 2012) with 16GB of RAM and an SSD. According to this news article Samsung's new 850 SSD series might be around the corner, and I'd much appreciate your opinion on whether I should wait for it or go with the current 840 EVO?
The hard disk of my late 2011 MacBook Pro 15" died and I replaced it with an SSD. I wanted to have more space, so I bought a 1 TB hard disk and put connected it instead the superdrive. The problem is that when I try to partition and format it I have tons of errors. Looking at the system.log I could see the kernel complaining of disk I/O errors.
I use the spacebar to preview some files with Quick Look and when I'm done with it I close the preview window. Sometimes when I change desktops the preview window will pop up again (empty) and when I try to close it, it will put me back on the desktop where I previewed an item.
I've just been looking at updating my SDK install for Android with the Intel Atom images and the x86 emulator using these instructions: I've gotten to step 3 but I have so far completely failed to locate this file and run the .dmg to install it. Looking at the path where the SDK is installed it says the SDK is here:
The Wi-Fi is disabled and I cannot enable it again. The Wi-Fi icon in Command Center is grayed out and in the Settings I cannot change the slide.
I just setup a Windows 8.1 installation on my 2012 MacBook Air using Bootcamp (5.1.5640). I've noticed that the two-fingered secondary click doesn't appear to work even when configured via the Bootcamp Control Panel - however two-fingered secondary tap seems to do it. I've verified that the trackpad doesn't seem to have any hardware issues - the two-fingered click works just find in OSX. Is this a known issue or have I set this up incorrectly?
I moved my Pictures and Music folders off my boot drive (now SSD) and onto my second larger drive. Creating shortcuts to these new locations in the sidebar creates standard folder icons rather than the original special ones (eg musical note for Music). So it seems that Mavericks only creates the 'special' icons if it recognises those folders in the Home folder.
We use Google Apps and with users approaching 250K email messages and over 25GB of storage Mail App is getting ever slower for most users. Are there any guidelines on how large we should let the mailboxes grow? I have not been able to find any information on limits (even from user experience) online.
Some application (or script) changes the permission of my /Users folder from 755 to 777 at every boot. So, when I change it back to 755 (or repair perm with DiskUtility) it is good until the next reboot. Is any way run strace or something like at boot time to trace down who changes the permission?
Or, anywhere outside "userspace?" For example, the login screen, or in Single User Mode.
This "Network Neighborhood" icon recently appeared on my Finder's sidebar, pointing to some items I haven't seen before, all of them empty.  Procyon is an Apple Time Capsule. Skype is running but why are there two links? 'messenger.live.com' doesn't make much sense; I don't use messenger and it doesn't appear in Activity Monitor or in ps -A. What would cause the sidebar link to appear in the first place?
I just got a Mac so I am a total newbie (I picked one up because I was unable to successfully do Mac development on my Windows Machine). The machine I have is at OS 10.9.2 and I installed Eclipse fine. But when I try to use the Java extensions it says I cannot access the package in the JDK. This is related to a programming question I have over on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23810403/how-do-i-make-use-of-the-apple-extensions-for-java-using-eclipse/23814735?noredirect=1#comment36639985_23814735
I have a .PSD file which needs to edited. It contains just two layers, one an image and the other a text layer. I want to edit the text layer. I read online Photoshop touch doesn't let you edit .psd files. Is there any way to do this on the iPhone?
On the Find My iPhone app, I have locked my Macbook so no one else can get on it. I have the Messages app opened to receive my iMessages, but someone turned the Macbook on, it connected to wifi, and became locked. Will I still receive my iMessages from when it was locked?
I'm unable to log into iMessage on my account in Mavericks. Here's what Console.log shows: Here is what I've tried: Repair Permissions & Repair Disk Deleting what appears to be appropriate out of my Keychain (iMessage & iCloud Keys, etc.) Logging into a guest account makes iCloud/Messages work just fine (can send and receive messages). All of my other iCloud services just work fine. iMessages on my phone works fine as well. Run Keychain First Aid. Deleted some files from that pertain to identifyservicesd / soagent ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.soagent/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.messageshelper.AccountInfoController.plist ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.soagent/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.soagent.plist ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.soagent/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.messageshelper.AccountInfoController.plist ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.soagent/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.soagent.plist I'm using a MBP 15" Retina (not a mackintosh).
I accidentally clicked "restore backup" on iTunes when suddenly all my latest photos were deleted instead my past and deleted photos and videos were restored back and I wasn't able to backup my latest photos. Can I recover my latest photos?
I am perplexed about the problem I am having and would really appreciate help resolving it. I have an iMac running Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 I have set up my apache to serve documents from the server root /Volume/sites/ I am using Dynamic Virtual hosts, so just by adding a directory with the *.dev suffix, it becomes a virtual host. My hosts file is pretty basic: My httpd-vhosts.conf file is as follows:
I am working with a 13" MacBook Air and G-Drive w/Thunderbolt. I have to utilize Parallels/Windows to run ESRI ArcView. The G-Drive and another Lacie Storage Drive are tied in to my 27" Thunderbolt Display. When I unplug the MacBook Air, sometimes when I plug back in, the drive association, in my case T:, changes to U:, which means my software can't find any of my 700GB of stored files. Is there any way to change the Drive association in Windows or Mac or Parallels so that when I unplug my laptop and plug back in Parallels/Windows knows that that drive is the T: Drive, and not to change it to some other Letter?
when I am searching anything with spotlight a category Web Searches appears at the bottom of the results. Clicking these links Safari opens and would search the web or wikipedia. But I never use these web searches and I would like to remove them. Removing Webpages from the spotlight system preferences did not help. I found several instructions on removing Developer and Others, or to rate the dictionary results up. All these make use of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist.
I am trying to take a picture and my iPhone 4s says there is not enough storage space and to go to settings. I went into setting and into iCloud and deleted the prior backpack to free up space and I now I have 5.0 GB. I also deleted all my rash in my emails, and photos I had via text, and I also deleted all photos from the camera roll. It still says not enough room.
Is it better to create new Apple ID for my developer account, or is it ok to use my existing one? And what are the rules regarding names (like can I use nickname or I have to use my real one)? I'm individual not a company, and will be creating an individual account.
I recently received a dialog box on my MacBook Air (10.9.2 Client) asking "Do you want the application “ntpd” to accept incoming network connections?". I have OS X's firewall enabled.
When I close the lid, my macbook pro does not go to sleep. However, when I open the lid, it will go to sleep. How do I correct this problem?
Is HP Pavilion 23fi monitor compatible with Macbook Air?
I only have one Google calendar imported to the iOS. I would like to have it brighten, at least easily to notice. I sync it with the CalDAV to have the same colors which I define in Google Calendars. I also don't want to use other app because of one only reason: the Calendar app can change the date.
I would like for each time user press spacebar, for the script to pass keystroke space to a browser (Firefox) to play a game while counting the number of times spacebar was hit. How do you do that with AppleScript?
I want to find an app (preferably for OSX and iOS) that shows all my different project calendars side by side in columns. For several years now, I've been using a spreadsheet: Every row is one day, every column is a different project - or sometimes the personal calendar of one person that just shows on which days he's available (a bit like in Doodle). It serves me, but it's not the easiest thing to use - simply because it's just a spreadsheet. Does anyone know if there is an app where I could add, say, ten different projects and a hundred personal "free/busy" -calendars - and view any number of them side by side?
In general, I would like to know if there are any discrepancies between the MacPorts coreutils and the GNU coreutils, and how I might go about answering this question myself. In particular, I don't understand why the su command (or the gsu command, since all of the MacPorts coreutils applications also seem to come prefixed with a 'g') doesn't seem to be included by MacPorts. First, I check that I have the coreutils package installed:
So far, everything works properly except that there is a side effect of this setup: I cannot use Alt+Shift modifier for any other key binding. This is pretty restrictive compromise.
I've recently downloaded .ipsw file (firmware 7.0.6) and want to update my apple 4s 32 gig phone (ios 5). but when I tried to to use iTunes (holding shift key in windows 7 + press update button in iTunes -> choose .ipsw file for update) I got the error below :
I finally switched all my email access to IMAP. When I did, Mail.app added synced folders for Deleted Messages, Sent, spam, and Trash. Is there any way to tell Mail that I don't want to sync these folders? The spam folder only exists for me to occasionally delete its contents and nothing ever shows up in the other three. I'm running Mail 7.2 under OS X 10.9.2.
I've bought an external 4TB HDD. It is this this one. The problem is that my Macbook Air 11" 2013 (with Mac OS X 10.9.2) does not recognize it.
97% of the time this works fine. The 3% that doesn't work is a problem because a customer has paid for a transaction that my app doesn't know has completed.
I upgraded my rMBP to Mavericks recently and since then, I'm not able to right-click in Chrome using the trackpad. I can click on menu bars and things like that but not within the actual webpage display window that it renders. When changing the gesture to the bottom right click, it still doesn't work. Any workarounds?
In MS Office 2011 for Mac, there is a useful menu option under: File > Share > Email (as Attachment)...
I don't know why Safari 7 doesn't allow me to select the text in the address bar in one step while browsing google search results. In other sites I just have to click once on the address bar and that's it, the whole text is selected. Google search results instead makes Safari to put the caret in the address bar but won't select the text, also double-clicking (or clicking N times) won't select the text either, what I have to do is click once, wait and triple-click to select the whole text.
my Mac Book Pro 17' was bought in 2012 Jan. so probably it's out of warranty already. Now it start crashing occasionally. sometimes it just freezes, the screen has no response. sometimes the screen becomes white.
Is there a way to receive notifications from StackExchange sites in the Notification Center in OSX?
My wife has a MacBook Pro (10.8.2) with a Telus home internet connection. She uses the Mac mail app (6.2) and her primary email account is a Gmail address, which she has been using with no problem (using Gmail's imap and smtp servers).
I have windows sony vaio laptop which is connected to Internet through wifi. I want to share connection from laptop to iPhone. I see some articles on sharing Internet from laptop to device WHEN laptop is connected to LAN, but here my laptop is connected ti WIFI.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.3, TeXLive-2013 and Scrivener to write my papers. I'd like to use Apple's Automator in order to create a service (available from the Finder's right-click menu over a file) called "Compile TeX file" that runs a simple command using the selected file as an input. Example: Inside a folder (/Volumes/Data/TeX_docs/) I've an exemple.tex file created by Scrivener that is ready for compiling with LaTeX. I'd like to right click this file and from the Finder's Service menu choose the option "Compile TeX file" Once chosen, this service will execute the command latexmk -pdf -bibtex exemple.tex and so compile the .tex file inside the same folder, creating a .pdf file (This Terminal command is working perfectly right now, so the need to automate this action!)
I put a HGST disk I pulled out of a brand new ThinkPad E130 and it seems to be undetected and even OS boot menu comes up very slowly. I put a brand new WD and it is detected just fine but benchmark indicates about 1MB/s speed.
I am on iMac PowerPC with OS X 10.4.11 Can I upgrade to Snow Leopard and then to Mavericks? If so, how?
I was recently able to use an iPhone supplied by a tech startup to one of its affiliates. The phone had limited apps, several disabled settings, and no icon for the App Store among its restrictions. The device Restrictions feature in Settings was set to Off (it was not being used). The iPhone was essentially set up to serve as a tool for affiliates to use in their work and nothing more.
From a previous suggestion I changed terminals startup command from default to '/usr/bin/bash' which I created as a link to '/bin/bash' which stops terminal from login in every time I open a tab This does successfully speed up using terminal and stop it from searching for the login time which is stored in the '.asl' logs. My problem is it also stops terminal from accepting command line arguments delivered from another program when opening terminal.
Is there any way to have windows remember where they were and how big they were on OSX? I've tried the suggestions in this discussion but it's still not working. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5471042?tstart=30
Much hay has been made of the apparent grounding issue while using the stubby plug on a MacBook AC adapter. While I understand it is completely safe to have a bit of grounding flowing through the user, those of us who live and work in the tropics would love to find a grounded (earthed) stubby plug adapter. I see no reason this shouldn't exist, given that the longer cable is grounded via the metal stump on the AC adapter, but I haven't found one. Notably, I am in Australia, where the plug head doesn't fold over anyhow, but I'd also love a US version.
I've been having this problem with my Matrox DualHead2Go ME and my late 2011 15" MBP (running 10.9.2). When the displays wake from sleep, the external monitor does not re-awake. I've gathered that this is because the Matrox unit goes into its own sleep mode and is not re-awoken by the OS's wake signal.
Apple email will Save Attachments to a folder of my choice, when I use File / Save Attachments from the menu at the top of its window. However, if I use the context menu for the attachment icon (i.e. two fingered tap on the touchpad), and choose Save Attachment, the attachment will not be saved to a folder of my choice. It is saved to some sort of temporary folder. What's going wrong here?
I wish to receive an alert/notification with email when iPad Mini battery is less are equal than 20% I use iPad mini only in public transport, not regularly. So no manual solution.
I know it was possible in iOS 6 to change the carrier name (or logo) displayed in the status-bar. Is there any way to do so in iOS 7, without jailbreaking the phone?
I just noticed, that my Mavericks OS X Server's Profile Manager backups folder is quite large (25 GB). I however do not know why. The profile manager of the server manages 4 devices and services like Time Machine are not setup.
Please share your performance of the replacement battery as sold by iFixit (I'm interested in the New one, not B-Stock) as compared to the original battery from Apple for Macbook Air 13" mid-2011 (particularly, an i7 processor modification)? Does it wear out faster? How long does it hold after 1 year+ of frequent (or, ideally, heavy) use? How many charge cycles does the iFixit version have, according to specs? Update: I already contacted iFixit sales, but their answers were not satisfactory.
Which parts (if any) in Macbook Air 13" mid-2011 can be upgraded to either: an original part from a later version of Macbook Air/Pro or a third-party component which has a better performance/extra features? Which are those replacement work really well (eg with no compatibility problems; last at least as long as the originals etc)?
My brother is worried that he may get in trouble if the people checking bags at security can see his jailbroken device when he enters the US. Are there any documented cases or specific experiences with this where people got into trouble due to a jailbreak modification?
Before Mavericks, I would respond to Alerts (was Alarms) to repeat in 2 hours, 5 min., 1 day, 1 day before event starts, etc., and when, for example, an alert repeats after 2 hours, I can then change the next repeat to 5 minutes... Snooze-ing every 15 min. doesn't work (and gets very annoying): is this the 3rd or 6th snooze?
It seems like whenever I use a device that's not made by Apple (USB mouse, bluetooth speakers) invariably the pinch to zoom and rotate features on the Magic Trackpad will stop working after awhile in all apps. I tried to disconnect and re pair trackpad, disable and enable the features in settings, close all apps. The only thing that will make pinch to zoom come back is resetting the computer.
How do I stop GitHub Conduit and keep GitHub.app from reinstalling the job in launchd?
My iPhone was stolen a few days ago and goes straight to voicemail when called, but still updates its location on Find my iPhone. Bottom line question is how is this possible if it is supposedly "offline"?
When I try to take a screen shot (Command + Control + Shift + 4) I hear the camera shutter sound but no image appears on my desktop. I Googled the problem and tried to change the saving location using the terminal command line as such: but this did not change anything. Would anyone know what I can do to fix?
I am somewhat new to Mac. On my Windows PC if I type the first few letters of a file it will highlight on the desktop (or window). Yet on my new Mac it will only highlight old documents. This makes it quite annoying if I copy a file into a folder full of many other files and want to find it again. Its like I have to wait for the Mac to periodically 'index' its files before I can search in this manner. Is there a way to have this work properly? An example of what I mean:
I am looking for a todo app that does the following: reoccurring daily tasks reminders via push notifications, if they aren't completed sync lists between multiple devices, and preferably multiple users some sort of log that shows when and who completed a task Thanks!
In Terminal.app in Mavericks, regardless of which font you use, the font metrics are ignored and forced monospacing is applied instead. Is there a way to disable this? Ridiculous example of the effect:
For example I want to make a screenshot of a panel window "Fonts" in Mail. But I can't do it, because panel window is hidden when its parent app is not in foreground and to make screenshot of it, I need to open "Preview" first. So, is it possible?
I wonder, since Facebook tracks all activity you do online when you're logged in using their like button and share buttons for example. Because Facebook is integrated in iOS, does Apple allow Facebook to keep track of my Safari / Chrome searches because I'm logged in iOS? Or does it require a Safari/Chrome login specifically? You don't have to know the exact or full answer, if you know a little detail (with source please) please add it as an answer.
Picasa stores very large files in Application Support folder which consumes limited disk space in system disk. I wonder if I can use symbolic links in order to make Picasa use removable disk as storage space.
I got caught in the rain yesterday, my iPhone 5 was in my pocket. Some water got into it. Here`s the picture, moisture is under screen surface:
Today I was checking if there are any updates on Mac App Store and look what type of message came out. What do I need to do ?
SelfControl is an open source software to block Internet connection for a time period. However, it blocks connection from ALL network interfaces. I'm looking for someone that would like to add a function in order to allow the user to choose the network interface to block. The goal is to block only the WiFi connection and let the ethernet working. The source code is available at github.
How can I disable/hide this automatic volume level pop over that appears when changing the sound level. Is there switch or secret flag to not show this when I change the volume using the volume keys on the keyboard (Macbook)?
I want to sync/backup my entire Home (/Users/) directory to other computers using Bittorrent Sync. Right now my Home directory contains my DropBox folder, which (at 17GB) I do not want to be part of this sync/backup. I thought an easy way to do this would be to create a Dropbox directory at the /Users level, but even after I set the permissions of that directory to 777, the Dropbox app won't let me move Dropbox there.
How do I select text that is not together separately, for example: ThiS is SomE sampLe teXt or... THIS is SOME SAMPLE text (I want the characters in capitals to be selected). I know I can use Option + Select text in Word and TextEdit, but I'm looking for a universal method to do this (not just in text editors - I want to do this in Safari, Chrome etc...)
I accidentally placed a magnetic mount antenna near my hard drive while my computer was running. It then made horrible noises, and stopped working, and everything froze. Now, every time I start my system up, it makes the noise, and does not recognise any hard drive what so ever.
Wifi networks are often set up in dual-band mode, with the same SSID served on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. I'd like to always use the 5 GHz band (due to interference with Bluetooth and other devices that degrades performance). How do I force Mac OS X to use the 5 GHz base station? (I do not have admin access to the network, so I can't just assign the 5 GHz network a different SSID.) Note that this question is not asking how to force a particular flavor of 802.11, rather it is asking how to force a particular frequency band.
Recently I played a TV show on my TV using HDMI and used clamshell mode for my Macbook Pro. Now whenever I'm in Safari, both the menubar at the top and the Dock automatically hide. It only happens when I'm in Safari, though; whenever I'm in Mail, Textmate, or any other app, the menubar and Dock show normally. I can ask the Dock to not auto-hide, and it keep this setting until I switch to another app - if I right click on the Dock and select 'Turn Hiding Off' and switch to another app, it forgets and hides again. Is there any setting that I can change to make this not happen?
In App Store app, if I search for a word. What does the returned listing order of apps base on? Let's say, it returned app1, app2, app3, ..., app10. What was the listing order based upon?
I've been using an AppleScript for connecting to my office VPN. After updating my macbook to 10.9.3, it fails to execute, and throws an exception Unable to get network preferences (honestly, it is loose translation, if anyone know how to make AppleScript editor to show errors in english I would be glad). Whole code: Does anyone know what could have caused the problem?
I am very new to using Wine and have noticed that there are WineTricks you can use, but I am not sure if that is necessary. Again, I used Wine before on a very simple app and it worked just fine without using any WineTricks, but I am not sure whether I should include them for this app.
I cant view YouTube on Apple TV I only see the loading circle any suggestion on how to fix it would be appreciated
I noticed that my PuTTY session to my MacBook (which is now on Mavericks 10.9.3) seems to stay alive with the clamshell closed so long as the power cable is plugged in to the laptop. This can be seen by unplugging the power, the terminal stops responding after 10 seconds or so, but comes back once I plug power back in, all while the cover is closed.
I noticed after upgrading to OSX Mavericks that shiny, new versions of many iWork and iLife apps had appeared. Yet, the old versions remained installed. All the new versions seem capable of opening (and in the case of iPhoto, upgrading) old version ('09, etc) documents/libraries. They also seem capable of saving in these older formats.
I'd like to set my (iOS7) iPhone's camera to always default to HDR on. I do enable HDR when I'm taking pictures, but it always seems like the iPhone forgets the setting and goes back to HDR off.
For several months now i've had an issue where after using my laptop for a couple of weeks without restarting, i'll slowly lose my ability to copy and paste. First it's only between different apps such as Terminal and Sublime Text, but eventually it's system wide and stops working everywhere.
I'm running a CPU intensive command on Mavericks (Opencv_traincasscade). Under Mountain Lion the process used to use all 8 cores all the way though. However after upgrading it drops to 1 core after a short time.
I am a designer and I use an iMac 27" late 2009 with Intel i5, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB and 12 GB of RAM. I will start traveling a lot, so I need a 'secondary computer' and I am considering a Macbook Pro Retina 13" [i5 2.4ghz, 8gb, 256gb], but I am afraid of the performance compared to my iMac. So, my question is... The Macbook Pro Retina 13" performance is good enough for front-end designers?
We have developed and Enterprise iOS app and we want to deliver this app to different clients. Each client have thousands of employees and they will manage themselves the deployment of the app in their employee's devices.
I would like make sure, how push in iOS works. Is it just about frequent requests to the servers?
Unfortunately I accidentaly hit the REPAIR DISK while my Windows 7 bootcamp partition was selected. Since I have Tuxera NTFS, the button wasn't grey out and I thought at the moment I was repairing the OSX partition. Yes, dumb as hell and now I have to pay for being careless.
However, a simple fix such as unchecking the file sharing option and enabling it again (and then disabling SMB again to make time machine to work) works perfectly. Networked machines have access to the file share once again and backups resume...until 24 hours later and the whole process starts again.
Is there a way to have more than just a single "Last Import," like a second from last-type import. Its automatic event creation won't work as some imports (especially from our iPhones) span a larger amounts of time than the dSLR or point and shoots. Any ideas on other ways to get several "imports?"
Wonderful older photos that aren't in my library show up on my screen saver. I would love to be able to get to them! I currently use 10.9.3, but this has been happening for a long time.
On a new test iMac (running Mavericks 10.9.2) I discovered 2 repeated errors related to apsd (Apple Push Notification Service daemon). A netstat command displays a huge number of not correctly terminated tcp connections. All these dead connections are toward a domain at Apple, and using port 5223/tcp.Actually I have 400 of them:
I am currently wanting to turn iMessage off, for unsaid reasons, but I want to read the messages people send me. They don't have iPhones, so iMessage is the best bet.
I know there are a gazillion mixes possible in iTunes and that the size and genre of such mixes are determined by some top-secret algorithm running behind the scene. However, I am really curious to know how many one can possibly have at a time on a MacBook. I have read some users claiming to have up to 12 mixes on their 27" Macs but I am using a 13" MacBook so guess 12 isn't possible for me. Currently I have 6; is that the limit? Has anyone witnessed more than 6 on this screen size (13")?
I installed gimp from macports on my MacBook Air Mavericks. When I launch GIMP 2.8 from launchpad it pops up in dock for a second and vanishes. system log shows and also I did
I am trying to reach the time capsule on a remote network. After following the advice of another question I realised the router/network doesn't support NAT-PMP/UPnP and thus I get to configure the time capsule as available through icloud, but I'm never able to reach it outside of the network.
I'm a linguaphile, and I have lots of audio files in different languages in iTunes. I would like the ability to tag a file with the language code, and to see and/or sort by that tag.
I'm having some difficulties in changing the value of $SHELL in OSX's iTerm app. iTerm is starting in /bin/zsh, but the value of $SHELL doesn't seem to change. Changed "command" as /bin/zsh in iTerm's configuration window. Executed chsh to change the shell to /bin/zsh. Confirmed iTerm is started in /bin/zsh
We've got 5 desktop devices in our organization which im currently managing using a remote connection client or physically by sitting at each machine. Each change i make such as an update / settings change has to be made one by one across all machines. I was reading up online and got pointed towards an osx server - *=URL=* - which looks like the sort of thing i need. The feature i really liked the look of is the Profile Manager, which looks like it would let me manage the config and updates of machines. The other features we dont really need right now for instance, we currently use Dropbox for file sharing and i think this will continue as this has a mobile app (accessible when off site using 3g) which we find really useful.
I want to rotate the header row by 45 degrees to look like this (from Excel).  How do you do this in Numbers?
Under mobile account preferences I have selected "Home folder". What exactly is the home folder and how can I find out where mine is? What else does it include, for example does it include the folder Movies and Images? In mobile accounts is there a way to exclude certain files? I forgot to ask but does enabling "sync home folder" mean that only the current user the account synced or all users of the computer have there home direcotry synced?
I just got a new IPhone and downloaded Whatsapp. Every time I open Whatsapp, a message saying that the history is being restored from ICloud is displayed and a few seconds later a window pops up saying that the history has been successfully restored. The problem is that it keeps doing the same thing every time I open Whatsapp, so I can't use the app at all. What can I do?
A work around for VLC is to delay the video channel by 2 seconds to make the audio/video line-up again. But the browser is not as easily fixed.
I want to create a standard mac user called vmware to run multiple VMs. If I fast user switch, will those VMs become suspended or inaccessible? I don't want to use the VMs from my user account, but I'd like to at least SSH into it using Terminal. My goal is to run WebDAV in a VM and still be able to access files from my iPhone, iPad, or macs even though I'm logged in on another account on the mac.
I experienced this behavior two days ago (My MacBook Air is late 2011 version (4.2): I can still power up my Mac, with or without MacSafe charger connected Battery is not charging There is no light. I tried to reset SMC but it does not help Battery condition is normal I tried with few different MagSafe charger but still can't charge my MacBook Air What is the problem and what should I do? Here is the result of System Information:
I am looking to purchase a Seagate External Hard Drive for my MacBook Air. The products claims it works only with PC (windows), however, I have read multiple places that I can just format the drive and it will work fine with a mac.
I want to create a Christmas card group from my Contacts list. However, I only want to use the home address and NOT the work address or alternate address. Is there any way I can just pick one of the addresses when I add them to the group?
Whenever I boot up my mac, I get a white login page with only my user on it. This started after I entered single-user mode to give myself admin (this is a school laptop... shhhhh ;) ) I can boot into it fine and everything, and it behaves normally, but they won't be able to log into their I need to get this fixed so that they don't get mad at me for hacking my laptop.
Here is an interesting one: I have 264 purchased songs downloaded on my iPhone If I go "Songs > Shuffle" it goes 1 of 264 If I go "Siri > Play songs shuffled" it goes 1 of 456 So basically, if I use Siri, it keeps shuffling through every song I have purchased rather than just the ones that have been downloaded onto my iPhone. I have already tried: Settings > Music > Show All Music Off Settings > iTunes & App Store > Show all music off + Automatic downloads music off Settings > Usage > Music delete + iTune sync to put back only the songs I wanted How do I stop this?
"The iPhone 4 was also the first iPhone to include a front-facing camera" (wiki) So iPhone 3GS & its Predecessors have no front-camera, then how they (iPhone 3GS & its Predecessors) make video calls like a webcam on a Desktop PC? If they support that, then how does it work?
I cannot delete or move a file owned by me which I have read write permissions. Could anybody help me figure out why? The file is owned by me in group staff and perms are set to 644. The file is located in my home directory it is a single jpg file, any help would be much appreciated.
I have never tried any iPhone, but want to research about it. Apple said that "iPhone 3GS" is 2-time faster than "iPhone 2G" since 3GS' memory is 256 MB eDRAM & thus is twice as big as 3G's (128 MB eDRAM) In turn, iPhone 4's memory is "512 MB DRAM", so my question is does iPhone4 run 2-time faster than iPhone 3GS since iPhone4's memory is 2-time bigger than iPhone 3GS's one?
This is the text from Wiki on "iPhone 4" *=URL=* Connectivity: GSM model: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE(800, 850, 900, 1,800, 1,900 MHz) Quad-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (800, 850, 900, 1,900, 2,100 MHz) (800 MHz is not yet officially supported by Apple) very confused, if Apple does not support 800MHz then why they put the 800 in the specification? Can someone explain what that technical specification means?
I installed gimp from macports and uninstalled it (port uninstall gimp) when I found its not well maintained as gimp released its native mac build. But the gimp icon in launchpad didn't go away. How can I force remove the gimp's leftover launchpad icon? I tried moving it to trash and failed. I also tried to wiggle the launchpad icons to click on the 'x' mark but I didn't find 'x' mark on it. OSX 10.9.2 MacBook Air.
Just got a new iphone 5s and I'd like to export the messages from the 'Messages' OS X app on my computer to the iPhone's messages app. Any idea how to do this?
I'd like a Mac to always boot in target disk mode. Similarly to setting which boots in verbose mode, I tried
I am looking to uninstall Google Drive without fully loading the computer, such as through Single user mode. I recently installed Drive and it is now crashing so my desktop will not load. I tried loading safe mode, but I only get blue screen. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and also have the disc to load from.
What's the most efficient way to export tunes bought with iTunes that are protected aac to FLAC for playing on other music hardware (still for personal use)? 2 methods I can think of so far are:
I have an encfs volume that used to be mounted continuously without any issues. Some months ago, the volume started occasionally become unmounted - even if there were open files on it!
I have ten documents, 01.pdf to 10.pdf, that I would like to print. But some have cover pages that I'd like to remove. I'd like to avoid doing this manually ten times.
I just got a shiny new rMBP 15" and want to migrate the account from an older Mac - I've been using a late 2010 MBA. The Migration Assistant estimated 50 hours over the WiFi, after an hour it got up to 60 hrs. It's an MBA, so no ethernet for me, also no Thunderbolt (late 2010s didn't have it yet).
My MacBook unexpectedly shutdown and not responding to power button or even battery status button, the lights on battery status isn't showing too. What happened? What should I do? Edit : the charger light is dim and it's blinking amber and green light.
I have a two partitions on the Hard disk; Mavericks and Data. Anyone know how to stored all the desktop files automatically move to Data partitions. My ideas is there is no files stored on the first partitions. //Thanks.
The images captured by my logitech webcam which encodes them into MJPEG images before delivering to host computer couldn't be displayed by safari while chrome could. *=URL=* is the image. How to reencode it to be supported by safari?
I had recently installed Google Drive on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 but it kept crashing my computer to the point where it would not start. I deleted Google Drive in Single User Mode, and am still getting blue screen or the grey screen with the turning wheel, I suspect from all the forced restarts.
I need a method that takes a Keynote presentation with multiple build animations (appear, disappear, etc.) as input and splits each slide into several new slides, one new slide for each build animation. Essentially, I need the PowerPoint plugin PPspliT equivalent for Keynote. To illustrate the problem with an example, suppose I have this Keynote as input:
I have four Macs I want networked together so files can be shared between them without email. I want it to be a wired network and I also want to be able to access the files on the network away from anywhere. A backup on a portable hardrive and an online backup would be a plus. Is OS X server what I need and maybe a dropbox? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am not sure what to do!
My main router is located in the living room and creates a wifi hotspot, call it X. I've created an additional wifi hotspot in my bedroom, call it Y, using two powerline adaptors. How do I make my MacBook automatically connect to X while I'm in the living room and to Y while I'm in the bedroom. Thanks.
I have only used iPhoto a couple of times by accident (preferring one of the many alternatives). Each time, I carefully removed those images from iPhoto to the iPhoto trashcan and then emptied the iPhoto trash. Consequently, all the iPhoto sections appear empty:
If photos are not automatically uploaded to icloud due to some transient error (environmental or otherwise), does icloud try again? Or do they get just one shot and if that doesn't work, they don't upload? The Apple Genius just told me that they get just one shot and if that doesn't work, I have to do it manually.
I am unable to find modprobe in Mavericks. Has it been removed? Is it part of a package I haven't installed?
I have an iMac that is connected to my local network (and, subsequently, the Internet) that has a folder named DocShare. I have a web server hosted off-site through a hosting company, with a similar folder called Online DocShare that hosts an online repository of files that would be related to the DocShare folder on my iMac. This server supports WebDAV, (S)FTP, SSH, etc. for file transfer.
I'm using Internet Sharing to convert Ethernet into a wifi hotspot through my Macbook Pro. I'm using the latest version of Mavericks, and today suddenly my internet sharing stopped working. I tried looking for people with similar problems using Google but couldn't find any completely similar stories. Things I tried:
I have a Mac at the office and will be buying a new one for home. Is there a way to move my preferences and settings from the old computer to the new one?
This may be a silly question because I'm not fully sure how RAM works and is loaded, however I'm trying to figure out a potential configuration here. I have two RAM sticks that are both spec matched for my MBP. One of them is a 8gb gskill stick, and the other is a 4gb Samsung stick. I rarely use more than 8gb of RAM, however it does happen on occasion.
On my iMac, in iTunes, I have one app (called "myApp", say) listed on Library > Apps. I want to transfer that app into my iPad. Under Devices > my iPad > Apps, I press "Install" next to myApp and the button label becomes "Will Install", so I expect it will be transferred to my iPad on the next sync process. When I press the Sync button below, it starts to sync both devices, and right after it show on the status bar (next to the playback buttons) "Determining which apps to install" , I get the following message: The iPad could not be synced because this computer is no longer authorized for purchased items that are on this iPad. To authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes Store, choose Store > Authorize This Computer. So I go to Store > Authorize This Computer, I type my Apple account password, next to my Apple ID, and iTunes gives me the following message: This computer is already authorised. Including this one, you have authorised 3 computers out of your available 5.
I am trying to get rid of the GrowlMail notification. I have tried to follow instructions posted and can get into the Library to find the Mail folder but do not know how to find the /Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle to remove the mail bundle. I am going in through the finder on OS X 10.9.3
F3 and Cmd+F3 are two useful shortcuts on a Mac. What is the purpose of Shift+F3 and Shift+Cmd+F3?
I'm trying to write a program that adds some new services to the Mac. For this to work I need to add keyboard shortcuts to some installed services. Doing it though system preferences is not an option. I need a command line operation that will let me map a keyboard shortcut to user created service.
While I am able to execute binaries, when the terminal is open, if I type: or I get: /usr/bin/make: /usr/bin/make: cannot execute binary file
I own a MacBook Air 2013 and I recently broke my "comma" key. I had to pull it out to clean underneath and I think I was a bit rough, so one of the hooks in the key cap broke. I put it back on and it seems to work but the key pops out often. My concern is not with the key cap, I'm worried about the hinge. How can I tell the hinge is not broken? How can I know if I didn't break it either?
I want my bash prompt to change depending on external conditions. Here is excerpt from the bash manual: In my .bash_profile I have following: Here is what I see in terminal: As you can see, PROMPT_COMMAND doesn't get executed more than once, and remains static forever. How can I have it executed "prior to issuing each prompt", as stated in the manual? I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.3 echo $BASH_VERSION 3.2.51(1)-release
How do I change my email address on my iTunes account? I opened my iTunes account at a job that I had 11 years. Now that I no longer have that email address, I would like to transfer it over to my new email address. Can I do that or do I have to close my old account and open a new one?
I'm new to Numbers and currently using Numbers 3.2. I already have an idea of how to use SUMIFS to create Pivot Tables in Numbers, but I'm still looking for a better way to generate the column & row names. For example, if I have: I want to be able to get:
I would like to put my wifi network and my wired network (in a small office) on separate vlans to cut down on broadcasts/multicasts on the wifi. (right now it's all in one big vlan, and it's getting out of hand.)
I have a Mac Mini running 10.9.3 with two ethernet connections (1 ethernet/1 thunderbolt ethernet) going to a netgear 5 port switch. That switch has one cable going to an 8 port switch which connects to my AirPort Extreme. I created a link aggregation with the two ethernet connections on the Mac and Activity Monitor is reporting 4.5-4.9 MB/s receiving data. However, before I added the thunderbolt the best I could get is 1.4MB/s.
look at this page *=URL=* Before iPhone 4, we have 3GS, 3G & 2G but seem they (3GS, 3G & 2G) don't have any model for CDMA network!! is that correct?
I'm looking for a solution to extend my Windows 7 based notebook display to my iMac. The notebook provides the following connectors: 1x VGA 1x Displayport 1x Expresscard/34
I want to know if its "legal" to run Mac OS X in non apple hardware. If not, what is the point of having to run Mac OS X in a apple hardware, when apple hardware is running Mac OS X already.
Occasionally, I get file (typically after they are edited by Microsoft Word) that I can not delete: However, lsof doesn't report anything, even I run it as root:
I am trying to identify programatically from computer if a particular app is installed in my iphone, once the iphone is connected to the computer( Windows OS). How to proceed with this?
I want to find the location of temporary files created by popcorn time so that I can stream via the chromecast player to my TV. I can find that on Windows but don't know where is it located on Mac.
Is it even possible? I have hundreds of books in all these formats sitting in my iBooks library on my Mac. Now, I do notice that I can safely delete my iBooks (purchased off iBooks Store) from my local library and the titles still show in my list, with a little cloud icon saying the book is still available for download off iCloud. Is there any way to do the same for books in other formats, i.e. PDF and ePub? I would love to move my entire library to iCloud and free up local space if this were possible.
I have a macmini which came with Mountain Lion preinstalled as from factory. I need to create a virtual machine on this macmini (OSX host/OSX guest) with the same version for end-user deployment testing. I went to the apple store to get the installer, but I can only get mavericks, and I want to test deployment on 10.8. How can I get a ML installer so I can use vmware or virtualbox to install osx in the virtual image?
I have multiple spaces setup and can navigate them via ctrl and the arrow keys left and right on the current active monitor. Now I want to change to a space that sits on the other monitor.
When compacting a sparse image with the hdiutil compact command, it fails with the message hdiutil: compact failed – Function not implemented.
Phil Schiller talked about "iPhone 5S" This is the first-ever 64-bit processor in a phone of any kind. I don’t think the other guys are even talking about it yet. Why go through all this? The benefits are huge. The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system at CPU tasks, and up to twice as fast at graphics tasks, too. —Phil Schiller, Apple keynote at 4 Infinite Loop on September 10, 2013 (source: Wikipedia) Since Memory is only 1GB for "iPhone 5S" then How is 64 bit CPU faster than 32 bit CPU? I heard that, in desktop enviroment, to ultilise 64 bit architecture we need more than 4GB memory. Very confused?
All fine, then suddenly I'm not able to drag with my trackpad. I can not find an option about how to change settings and I have no idea what happened?! Any idea someone how to make it back to normal?
;) I have a small problem... When creating a multi output device in the application "MIDI" on the mac, i don't have any problems at all. Now i want to make Videos (YouTube) and wanted to output the computer audio to the "Build in output" and to "Soundflower". It works fine, but the only problem is, that if i want to change the volume with the volume keys i can't because its locked (view Image).
I just got an iPad mini with Retina Display (from the Apple Store) and a Smart Case. The problem I'm having is that when folding the smart case over the back, the magnets of the Case would put the iPad to sleep. I'm headed to the Apple Store today, but wanted to know if anyone else had experienced something like this, and if so, if was the iPad's or case's fault.
I am using an application which has a shortcut that uses Shift + F12. But when I do that on my mac, it goes to the dashboard. Which is very irritating. How can I quickly bypass that feature and send the shortcut to the app?
I'm a network administrator for a medium-sized network. I'm looking for a fairly simple piece of software that will alert me (visually, by email, or some other mechanism) when one of the services on my network is down or otherwise unavailable. I don't need anything particularly complicated, just the ability to check if a specific TCP port is open.
Often I am lost with what is Apple Mail doing or does it do anything. So I have to open the Activity window to see what is going on. In this example I was exporting a large mail box, but there was no indication on what is happening unless I open the Activity window.
I am quite confused about GSM and CDMA models of iPhone 5s. Please read this in Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S:
I use this with Keyboard Maestro to automatically save the front-most document in Microsoft Word whenever Word deactivates: This works great unless there is not an active document, in which case it throws an error. I know I could ignore the error, but I would rather not. I would like to know if there’s a proper AppleScript way to say something like “If active document exists, then save it.” I tried Googling but only found this (what I have now).
How do I show hidden files in one directory only? I have a development folder that I'd like to see hidden files in, but I don't want to see hidden files anywhere else on my computer.
I clicked a date on the Calendar Dashboard widget and was prompted whether I wanted to allow Dashboard access to my Calendar. Not realising what this meant, I did not grant access. Now, I would like to allow the widget access to my Calendar. How do I enable this?
I know you can easily browse files on a device by using bluetooth, this is not what I wanna do. I want to mount the bluetooth device (an Android phone, for example) just like when I mount a usb drive or a network storage: that is with its directory listed in the filesytem under /Volumes.
Yesterday, I went to the Recovery Mode and performed Repair on my boot volume. I was not having a problem, but I just wanted to verify and repair as a regular maintenance. The Disk Utility said some kind of error (I cannot remember, but something about EFI?), and I cannot start my computer since then (question mark folder icon when I try to boot). I have tried the following
I regularly get sent a plaintext list to my iPad - I'd like to be able to order this list using an interface like the one in Reminders:  (I do not need to get the text back out - just see them in the reordered view)
How do I disable showing of the contact photos in OSX mail in the message headers in the message view? The faces distract me from the messages. They are pulled from some ldap server based contact list I guess. I can hide them when I set the headers to "show header detail: None", but I need the headers. Custom header selection seems to be broken. I can remove some or all of them and it has no influence on what is being displayed.
I'd like to have my iPad prompt me for my WiFi password when it's turned on. Is there a way to set that up? The Google results are for people who see this as a problem, but for me, it would be a feature!
I'd like to automatically backup my mail (IMAP), my contacts (CardDAV) and my Calendar (CalDAV) from my provider to my local system. It should be a separate solution, nothing like "Export it from Mail.app, etc.". I know about CloudPull.app, but this is Google only. What software could I use for this?
I am running an app (Simple Floating Clock) that runs as an agent (LSUIElement assigned to 1 in the app's Info.plist). I would like to assign the app to "All Desktops" that I run. Normally, if an app is not an agent, I can right click on the dock icon, select options, and then click "All Desktops". Is there a simple way to set the all desktops behavior, maybe using the command line or something?
My husband and I have identical iPhone 4's. His shows animations on the weather app, like lightening, rain, moving clouds. Mine doesn't. How come? Our phones are exactly the same phones.
I setup a dualshock 4 (PS4) controller to work with my Mac Mini for XBMC, which can play games on emulators like SNES9x. The issue I'm having though, is that when I want to quit the game/emulator that I'm playing, it requires a mouse and a keyboard. So what I would like to do ideally, is take an applescript that I have, which terminates the current emulator and bind it to the "PlayStation" button on the controller so when I'm ready, I can quit the current game without having to use a mouse and keyboard. At the same time, it's necessary that every other button on the controller can continue to be mapped normally to buttons in the emulator.
I'm desperate to uninstall the DoNotTrackMe extension from Abine.com. The cure is worse than the disease in this case. I've used the "Uninstall" button in the Extensions pane in Safari, and it supposedly removes it, but even then sites such as Yahoo news and Asana won't work properly until I reinstall their extension and click on the DoNotTrackMe button.
I have a Word file that was created from a 2-column, fully justified PDF file. Since I want to convert it next to a Mobi format via Calibre, I need to remove the end-of-line hyphens that break words, otherwise I'll get this in Mobi: “remo-ve". Does Word 2011 for Mac allow to justify text without hyphenation?
Submissions may not be included in the directory for a variety of reasons. For more information, please see the podcast technical specification at *=URL=* Regards, The iTunes Store team
So after a long search on the webs I've found some questions regarding this specific USB adapter on a Mac. It appears some people were using the driver of a D-Link and other guy made it work by using the drivers on the Tp-Link website.
When we run our application from Eclipse/Terminal, via the command "java -jar <application>.jar", the application succeeds in all regards. However, when we run our application from "clicking" on the jar file, or when we run it from our bundled OSX Application files, we experience the following error:
Starting autossh like so: autossh -M 5122 -N -R 5432:localhost:5432 <user>@<myhost>, I can't connect to localhost:5432. If I run ssh -f <user>@<myhost> -L 5432:localhost:5432 -N -v -v, I can. The output from autossh: And from ssh: I've just recently started playing around with ssh tunneling and cannot figure out why autossh will only forward port 5122.
Suppose you am living outside US & you want to buy iphone like 4s,5, 5s,5c in US. Then How can you check the frequency bands of 3G and 4G LTE carriers (in the place u r living) to make sure they are supported by iPhone 4s, 5, 5s, 5c?
I have the following scenario. I have shell scripts that I want to run remotely on my mac pro, so I ssh in, launch them with nohup, and log out. I've done this for years on linux based machines, and I just started trying it out on the new mac pro. However, I find that the mac goes to sleep while these are running, and it takes much longer to finish. Obviously I can disable sleep in the energy preferences, but there are definitely times when I want it to let it power down. Is there anything I could do, in terms of a command line argument, that would disable sleep while the process was running?
Can someone I don't know, set up their Mac to receive text messages from my iPhone 4? I am having issues sending text messages; I send to a group and not all recipients receive the messages.
I have recently purchased a Mac Book Pro (Mavericks 10.9.3) and I'd like to run Inkscape. After researching the subject I see that I need to install X11, however I don't want to do this if X11 is going to run continuously and chew up CPU resources. (Inkscape is the only X11 app I am likely to use, I think).
I have an iPhone 5s. Just like the title said, whenever my iPhone or iPad is connected to Wi-Fi I can't connect to some games like Puzzle and Dragon even though I can browse using Safari, use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram just fine. I keep getting connection error (in the game of course) whenever I open that game (not only that game actually).
When I take a screenshot I have the default file format as "Screen Shot 2014-05-29 at 4.24.34 pm". Is there anyway to remove the AM and PM from the end? For what I do it is very annoying to have this sort the screenshots out of order I'm going to guess no since it's just grabbing the system time but if anyone could help that'd be appreciated.
I have a host machine running OS X 10.9.3 and VirtualBox 4.3.12 VM running Windows 7. I want to copy and paste between the host machine and the VM. By default copy-pastes don't seem to be transferable between machines. How can I do this? There were some similar questions but using Linux/VMWare but the solutions have been specific to the VM in use.
I have the MacBookPro 15'' mid 2009 (10.9.3) , and from today I have green flickering on my monitor. I did try with Reset PRAM, Repair Disk, also TechToolPro but i have the same problem. It seem that the problem is with "black Color"
Using Mavericks Apple Mail, I have two Exchange mail accounts, one for myself and one for Jane Doe. The accounts are organised in the left hand mailbox list with mine above Jane Doe's. If I reply to mail sent to both myself and Jane Doe, the default Sender that Apple Mail uses (unless I change it with the pulldown menu of email addresses) is Jane Doe, but it should be myself (since I am writing the email). Is this a bug, or behaviour that I can change? Note that on Preferences > Composing I have set "Send new messages from:" to my email, but this doesn't make a difference (and indeed the setting says it is for new messages, while I am concerned with the Sender of replies.)
I have conneceted my Macbook Pro (Late 2011) to my recently bought 27'' monitor with an HDMI cable. I have done all the settings so when I close the lid, I can still use my external monitor without any problems. The issue however is that my Macbook Pro heats a lot when I do that and I also use two devices and therefore have to pay bills for two devices as well. Is there any possible way of putting my Macbook Pro into sleep mode so that I can ONLY use my external monitor without my Macbook Pro being 'on' (sleep mode)? Extra information: I use a bluetooth keyboard conneceted with a cable to charge I use a bluetooth mouse conneceted with a cable to charge Both, mouse and keyboard can be used when my Macbook Pro's lid is closed.
TrueCrypt said it is not secure. What are alternatives?
i copied some files to a USB drive with 8 minutes left of battery and then closed the lid. 30 seconds later I realised I missed a file and reopened my MacBook to be presented with the low battery indicator. Seeing as I had 8 minutes left is there a way to force the MacBook to turn on so I can take a few seconds to copy the missing file. I need the file quite urgently
I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mavericks. I bought a Nifty drive and a top of the line micro sd. When I shutdown my computer, turn it back on and go to backup no problem, but if the lid is shut and then opened I get the following error: "Backup Failed - Time Machine couldn't back up to 'disk name'" I then have to restart if I want to backup. Any suggestions?
If I go into the Desktop & Screensaver preference pane to change my desktop background. The result is that my normal desktop has the old picture I wanted to change:
I have IPhone 4 running with Version 5.1.1 (9B206) I would like to update the firmware, but not to the current latest version (7.1.1) which is known to be slow on IPhone 4. In the phone settings I can only choose the latest available firmware version. Is there a way to update the phone to an earlier version such as 6 ?
I have two Airport Extremes connected to a Vigor2820 router which acts as the DCHP server. There is not any conflict with IP addresses.
How can I choose a new color for a shape fill in Pages 5.2? There is a default set of colors to choose from and I need a specific branded color.
It's the first time this has happened to me. Does anyone know why this could be happening? I think I configured something wrong in the keyboard settings. This is working fine in Word 2011, for example.
I discovered recently that Preview.app can be configured so that it's using only one window for all documents, instead of one window per document. The drawback is that you can only read one document at a time, but I'm fine with this limitation. I often have 5 to 10 text documents (CHM, PDF and DJVU) open at the same time, and I hate to have each document eat space in the Dock.
My system language is American English. When I insert a date field in Pages (5.2) it follows this format, even though I've set the spelling and grammar language to Dutch. Is it possible to insert a date field in Dutch?
Say you have a apple hardware, that you installed a VMware ESXi server, is it legal and possible to install a Mac OS X on that hypervisor, and access it remotely, say with RDP or Logmein or whatever to use it as a remote desktop environment?
I removed some ".dylib" files because BitDefender Virus Scan told me so. I wanted to remove all of Genieo's stuff but I presumably missed the "launch.conf" file. Had no access to it.
So I'm riding the Mavericks to a rodeo - OS X 10.9.2 :) The built-in dictionary is way cool, but is there a way to browse all the words in the dictionary? Like, there will be a list of all words on the left of the screen, from "A" to the very last word, say "zygote (or not^^)". So can I browse all words, rather than look up a certain word?
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (non-Retina). I was a Windows user from 2001 until May 11th, and I used to play a lot of casual games for Windows, e.g. Big Fish's Mystery case files series (Ravenhearst 1, 2, and 3, 13th skull, Dire Grove).
If I try to use either of the two usb ports on my macbook pro, I get the following message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." and I don't have a disk inserted anywhere... I have the option to eject or ignore the message, and either option does not solve the problem. Can't use the usb ports without getting this message.
Stating the obvious, but, how do I get all my greasy finger prints off my screen? (Or for that matter, any kind of the usual dirt).
I need to store the path to Chromium to use later in the script, however running set chromium to (POSIX path of (path to application "Chromium")) in AppleScript Editor opens the application. How can I store the path to the application without causing the application to open. Hard coding the path worked, but I wanted to be able to find the application path instead.
I sent someone a message from my iPad through iMessage and I know that my devices always syncronise my iMessage stuff, so it should have popped up on my iPhone that I sent the message (as both were beside me). However, it didn't pop up on my iPhone - there's no evidence of me ever sending the message - but it's still on as Delivered on my iPad. Has the message been received or was it glitched and never got to the recipient?
I have Hazel set up on a media server to automatically add files to specific iTunes playlists based on a text tag in the directory name. Several users will send us individual files or directories through a dropbox on our server and they're automatically downloaded to the media server via Cargo.
My MacBook Pro logic board needed to be replaced, so I borrowed an MBA from a coworker. I restored the MBA from Time Machine to get back to work. When I was done, I removed my user account tied to my iCloud account, and gave it back. They didn't have much of anything on it, so he didn't care if it was restored to previous state (so he didn't have a Time Machine backup for this MBA).
I have an early '13 MBP running Mavericks. Today, I got a SSD external drive today, and moved my virtual machines and Lightroom catalog files over to it to free up disk space, since 256GB goes fast. However, when I run df -h in the terminal, I get the following:
Well, the title pretty much speaks for itself. I would like to stream my Mac's music to my PC over Bluetooth. It appears this isn't supported by default (or at least my devices are reporting it's not).
I'm trying to move the file of a virtual machine from one users account to the other. So basically I want to move /Users/joe/Win7.vm to /Users/jane/Win7.vm but I can't figure out how to do it through Finder because I can't get to the root directory (/). I tried moving it using the mv command in Terminal and it said permission denied. Is tried sudo mv but it just said "sorry". I also tried changing its permission (chmod) but it wouldn't let me (and when I tried sudo chmod, it literally said "sorry"). I'm logged in as administrator.
Whenever I run something in my Terminal that requires a websocket to a browser (livereload, node-inspector, karma), I get the following console error "Error during WebSocket handshake: Status line contains embedded null." Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but any help would be appreciated.
when highlighting a word (which is quick by double clicking on it) all other instances of that same word will be highlighted (where else did i use that function/variable? did i name it consistently?) Commenting multiple lines of text by highlighting and hitting [strg]+[k] Un-Commenting multiple lines of text by highlighting and hitting [strg]+[shift]+[k] Indenting multiple lines of text by highlighting and hitting [strg]+[tab] Un-Indenting multiple lines of text by highlighting and hitting [strg]+[shift]+[tab] the ability to chose how to interpret the file (what language) textmate's interpretation is quite buggy... somethimes you'll open a file and it'll be all white even though it's clearly a .css file or so.
In Windows, why does Bonjour's mdnsNSP.dll inject itself into every process?
I am searching for an iPhone utility / application with an FTP client that can do automatic backup without user intervention. More specifically, I'd expect to configure the utility once and specify (somehow) that I want a certain type of file (e.g. photos) backed up automatically, in the background. As an example, if I specified photo backup, I'd want the new photos to be ftp'ed in the background, shortly after they're created.
I have switched from country A to country B, however all of my music in my library is now unable to be located and comes up with those exclamation marks. How do I fix this?
I have many white icons in a folder and they are not visible on white background of folder, how can I change background color of a folder in Finder?
Installed a new cable modem. Connected my iMac directly to the new modem and, as expected, got a new IP address. However, after I connected my Time Capsule to the modem so I could do everything wirelessly, I notice that my IP address went back to what it had been originally (prior to installing the new modem). As an experiment, I connected iMac directly to the new cable modem and found I had yet another, entirely different IP address. Is my Time Capsule somehow generating the IP address?
Have a Late-2013 15" rMBP running OS X 10.9.3 with an external 4k-capable Samsung LU28D590DS/ZA. Whenever I also connect my Dell 30" non-4K monitor, the screen flashes briefly like the machine is acknowledging that another monitor is attached, but then fails to display output to the 30" monitor. If I unplug one monitor or the other, I can work with either one at a time, but not both. Is this a known issue with OS 10.9.3 or limitation of my video card? EDIT: I used the Console application to test output after plugging the secondary monitor in, and got the following output:
Time Machine (external hard drive) backed up some files in my Trash folder and I'd like them removed from my backup. I know how to normally remove backed up files from within Time Machine (right click a file and choose Delete Backup), but that method is not working for ~/Trash and ~/.trash in the backups. How do I removed backed up files from the Trash in Time Machine?
A small doubt here: I am building an app which will contain either a custom, modified version of Chromium or a modified version of the webkit rendering engine.
How do I add a username alias using the command line? I can do it fine using the preferences dialog through the "Advanced Options", but I need to do it during an installation script. Can someone point me the right way?
Is there a way to manage GameCenter contacts without having to be on the iPad? I often come across people who I want to add to my GameCenter contacts while browsing various forums. I do this browsing from my Windows PC. Is there any way I can manage who is a GameCenter Friend while not having physical access to the iPad at the time? Is there maybe a section on the Apple website that allows this, or within iTunes?
How can I find out when my Iphone was turned off, and it's location during the time it was turned off?
I find it SO annoying when Command + h doesn't hide an application. Somehow Microsoft's developers seemed to find a way to break that functionality on most Office apps. Anyone know why this is? I've seen this behavior across many different versions, but currently I am on 10.9.3 on OS, and Office 2011. To clarify, this is not every time, but about half the time that hide fails to hide an app.
Apple has an OS X Beta Seed Program, but the site only contains information about how to join, how to send feedback to Apple once you are in, and a rather sparse FAQ. Due to the confidentiality of the program: Is the pre-release software I am installing confidential?
I have deleted all the files under User folder, but it still says that it uses ~60GB of space. Real usage is ~2MB. There are no more files to delete. Is there any hidden files i am not aware of. If yes, how i can delete them?
when I read appended docs in Mail, it saves each one of them automatically Mail Downloads in separate obscurely named folders. The same docs can be saved so numerous times. Can I get rid of these folders so that I see immediately what files were downloaded?
is there any way to make osx (mavericks) change the between workspaces like ubuntu > 12.0 i mean the 4 window workspaces and switching by going up/down/right/left the current change workspace in osx is only left/right
I have a 2013 MacbookPro running OS X 10.9.2, and up-to-date Chrome (Version 35.0.1916.114). When using three finger tap to look up a word with dictionary in Chrome (when chosen in the trackpad settings), the definition often pops up high above the placement of the word. Other times, it doesn't work at all, and sometimes it works like it should. I have seen other questions here dealing with it not working, but not with its placement.
I tried installing nano using "port install nano", but using the "nano" command doesn't open the macports version. I want to use the nano in /opt/local/bin, but even though that directory is at the beginning of my $PATH, the native nano continues to open. Even if I rename /usr/bin/nano, it complains that /usr/bin/nano doesn't exist, instead of using the macport version.
I have to list all available bluetooth devices from command line. I tried to google it, but got only results like "how to turn on bluetooth from terminal". Simply: bluetooth scan Thanks for help in advance.
At first, please forgive discussed rather question type. I need to build opensource software installer for OS X but I am not familiar with OS X conventions. Mentioned opensource software is complex and has to be distributed in virtualized environment form. So, to run it you have to use Vagrant and VirtualBox. The whole of it needs to be done in a manner that is most familiar to OS X users, using the tools they're most accustomed to. Then my question is, how should look like such installer? Just for example, should I build dmg disk image with bundled Vagrant and VB installers or pkg installer which gives option to download and install Vagrant and VB as components or maybe use preinstall script to perform silent components installation? Main goal is to use legit way if possible and give users the easiest method to install software. Maybe you could point me to existing installers which perform more complex task, not just copy files.
If the answer is simply, "you need to understand these terms to understand what Macport is," then that's okay. Thank you.
While using Wi-Fi at work I'm able to use the remote desktop just fine to access the computers at work. When on any other network I'm unable to connect remotely. By the way the computer that I am connecting to remotely uses windows XP that hasn't been updated since at least 2008...any answers.
These questions do not ask how to reset the subsystem, which is a hack. I can work around the issue if I know that piece of information.
So I updated to Mavericks 10.9.3 and didn't really thing anything of it, it just said security updates. After playing a few games and working on my project with OpenGL, I've noticed that performance was significantly lower. I've had my computer for 3 years, and it wasn't out of the question I had downloaded so much shit that it finally decided to bod it down. I backed up the drive, erased it, and did a fresh install. It actually seems to be running quite a bit faster than before, which is great, but the OpenGL problem didn't really improve. I haven't tried it with third party games yet because I need my computer and can't download 20+ gigs of games, but I noticed blender seems to also have a bit of a lower frame rate. That raises the question, did apple do something to the drivers or something to effect only OpenGL? Here are my system specs incase anyone is wondering: OSX 10.9.3 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB 13-inch MBP Early 2011
How can I pass the shutdown command to the vmware fusion guest (debian)? I installed vmware tools and if I manually shutdown my Mac it'll pass the command to shutdown the guest system first. However, if I unplug my APC battery backup, the shutdown command is issued to OSX and is not passed to the guest OS.
Superuser account is disabled by default in OS X (Mavericks). But if you run sudo -l you will come to know that the admin user can execute all superuser commands. Then what is the point of disabling superuser? What are the actual differences between super user and admin user?
I have a 15" MacBook Pro Retina, Late 2013 (GeForce GT 750M) and while running Boot Camp 5.1 in Windows 7. The NVIDIA GeForce Experience taskbar icon asked me to download and install: GeForce 337.88 Driver Is it OK to install this driver, or should I just stick with what's installed in the Boot Camp 5.1 drivers?
I tried restoring in DFU, normal, i've tried softwares like tiny umbrela to exit the reboot loop, but no success. In itunes it never ends recovering, and it allways pops out some error. I had probably 6 diferent errors until now. I've used a "fixreboot" file, that i think uses greenpoison code... I only know that maybe 90% of the lines it reports, are errors, and then it says "no sucessfull firmware download after 60000ms, giving up" and then it justs reboots to itunes logo again... This phone was just upgraded, and hadn't have any jailbreak.
I just changed from Windows to OS X Mavericks with Apple Mail App 7.3. The first thing I'm wondering about is that I cannot disable the automation to mark an email as read by default when I just clicked on it. Is there any way to do so?
GarageBand constantly fires off the following message when not the foreground app. It's extremely distracting. The messages appear in the Growl dropdown, and continues to cycle between these two messages: 1) Keyboard shortcuts changed Australian is not supported - U.S. has been activated. 2) Keyboard shortcuts changed U.S. has been activated Notes: Macbook Pro OS X 10.9.3 External Apple keyboard (Australian) and Apple magic mouse GarageBand 10.0.2!
I have a Mac Mini Server running the latest version of Mavericks and OS X Server. I would like to do a full backup of my server. I have no business need to keep the backups currently on the disk. Can I just turn off Time Machine and delete Backups.backupdb through Finder or Terminal? I also want to make sure that when I delete the backups that I can remove them from Trash. I have done searching on this but have only found information on how to delete backups of certain files or moving the backup disk to another volume.
I'm running OS X Server on Mavericks with software updates service. In the list of updates there are several duplicate entries:
I ordered the wrong OWC Data Doubler kit. I didn't notice the note saying that some Mac Minis have an upper drive configuration and that it would require a variant of the kit with additional components. The additional items in the variant are the 5mm wrench and 2 set screws. I considered exchanging the item but the local shop that imported the item is charging me for the return. Does anybody know the specification of the additional screws that I need? There's a similar question I found here Can the 2011 Mac-Mini (not the Server Edition) Support an Additional Hardisk, SSD?. But it's unclear whether the ifixit kit mentioned here is for the lower drive config or upper drive config Mac Mini.
I have been working on a project on iMovie and yesterday I opened iMovie to continue working on it but I can't find it. It says I have two projects but it only shows me one project and I am freaking out because I am suppose to show this video at my graduation for my whole school and every things gone but I don't know where it went. Can you please help me find out where it went and get it back?
In MS Word for Windows, I can see an outline panel that shows headings so that I can jump to desired section quickly. But I don't have such an outline panel in Word for Mac. It does not have 'view' tab in the ribbon.
I found a small circle button on the left-hand side of my MacBook Pro (late 2011) If I push that button, 8 green lights are turn on and then off. What is this button?
When listening to music on iTunes on my MacBook Air running OS 10.9, I am able to double-click the center headphone button to change track. I am wondering if it is possible to replicate this behavior to when I am listening to music in e. g. Spotify.
Disk Utility won't allow me to Erase or Repair the drive, it will only let me verify it. Clicking on Disk Partition, I get the following message: This partition cannot be modified. This disk is not writable and can not be partitioned. I used this thumb drive to transfer files from my mac to a PC, and it became write protected after a transfer from one to the other.
I was playing around with the Find My Mac iPhone app (just testing it out) and hit the "lock" option. My MacBook Pro is now locked and I have no place to enter the 4 digit PIN.
I wonder which versions of Macbook Air/Pro is QuickerTek QCard2 (2-port) compatible with? Anyone tried? With which Macbook? Did it work flawlessly? Any compatibility problems?
I am following the instructions here to setup an ARM VM for the Open Security training "Intro to ARM". How to set up an ARM VM for Open Security Training's "Intro to ARM" course In the instructions it says: Then use parted or gparted (not available on Mac, unfortunately) on the image to actually resize the file system. Now, I have successfully used gparted to resize the file on a linux VM, but I was wondering how I might do this on the Mac. They do note:
My Mavericks Server mail server has been compromised and has been sending reams of Nigerian royalty scam emails out. Where can I find log files which will enable me to track down the IP address these messages originated from (in case their is a machine with an infection on my network) and which credentials are being used to authenticate to the SMTP server?
I have an iPhone 4 and for the last few days there has been a spinning circle in the right hand side of the status bar. I am wondering why this is.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013 with Intel Iris Graphics. I'd like to get two LG 34UM95-P 34" 3440x1440 screens for it. Unfortunately, LG writes that it the only compatible Mac is the 2014 new Mac Pro.
Command-Tab displays app list to switch between them, well nice feature. But can I customise this keyboard combination to use a single key to accomplish application switching?
I receive lots of jpeg files on my mail, and in order for me to save it on my desktop I have to save them one by one. Is there any other way that I can save all the images without saving them one by one?
I've been playing with a computer game (Kerbal Space Program, OS X 10.9.3) and recently found that I can no longer load saved games (missions). I contacted the tech support and all they could say is that the folder containing the saved game files is encrypted. What is more, I can create a new game but once I quit, I can no longer load it. It seems that something keeps encrypting the files in that particular folder. Why is this happening and what can I do about it? How can I reverse the encryption?
I'd like to entertain my 2 y.o. with cartoons while I try to work. The problem is that when I change desktops and use mission control it affects second display to. How can I fix fullscreen youtube video to one display? It's getting even worse with fullscreen quick time - the main display is blank... So, is it possible to dedicate one display for entertainment while keeping the other for regular use?
Is there a tool that scans images from the command line? I am looking like scanimage on linux that works like this: I've tried googling and checked if ImageCapture is scriptable via applescript but no results.
I had an Application I used a lot with kids in my family that ran on the Power PC Mac. It was an interactive Alphabet program by the Learning Company with talking cartoon Characters. 2 through 5 year olds loved it. It was based on a Dr. Seuss's Book about the ABC's. Every letter was covered. The child could spend large amounts of time exploring each letter and little talking animations would come up. I upgraded my Mac laptop to Mavericks. Now the program will not work and there never was an upgrade of the program. How can I undo Mavericks and go back to the way my Mac used to be? I want that Power PC program back worse than an upgraded Mac. Find me an ABC Program that Surpasses this Dr. Seuss program and I might reconsider downgrading. Can you please help me?
Not sure if this has already been asked (I didn't find the question in my search) but I am really curious to know if a Time Machine restore restores my network settings. I have a broadband Internet connection configured on my system and don't have the settings variables written down elsewhere. And I am planning to perform a clean upgrade of my OS when 10.10 is available.
I have Canon Pixma MP198 (USB only) printer that is connected to my d'link router with usb cable. Can I print documents wirelessly from my iPad 2? Without the need to turn on my PC if I want to print? Any apps for this? Note:printer isnt airprint capable Thanks
I have version 10.6.8 now but it says that its too old when I try to buy some apps..
Quick questions (wall of text with details below): My iTunes is at 11.1.5, the update history says it updated to 11.2.2 - but it actually didn't. Can I clear the update history in the App Store application? Can I "reset" App Store's update logic? Where on the machine is that update config data stored for App Store?
All of a sudden my Automator services are no longer showing in the Service menu in Mail. None of them. All I see is No Service Apply (grayed out).
I'm having problems with my Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro Retina early 2013 OS X 10.9.3 It is constantly losing connection for a few seconds with my Magic Mouse and my Bluetooth speaker (Bose Soundlink Mini) occasionally even resetting the connection so I have to reconnect both. I started having this problem just recently but it's not the speaker's fault (I've tried others) or the mouse's fault—I've tried disconnecting it. I have also tried restarting the computer, freeing some memory and so on... Any ideas?
All Apps on my iMac are completely unresponsive. The only one working is Safari. I tried to repair the volume, repair disk permission, PRAM reset, clearing all caches, running periodic scripts.
I want a stable IDE for coding in C/C++ on Mac OS X Mavericks. Currently I am using Code::Blocks but it sometimes closes reporting some strange list of errors. Also the Code::Blocks "logs(F2)" does some impairment to the editor area by leaving partial prints. I'm looking for an alternative now; can you suggest one?
I have recently moved a large research collection of PDF files, from a Snow Leopard 10.6.8 TimeMachine disk, to my new rMBP (to the internal flash storage). I did this manually, not through the TimeMachine interface. The rMBP runs Mavericks 10.9.3. When I double click the PDFs, they open without a problem in Preview. But, when I write a small AppleScript to open one, for example: I get the following error on executing the AppleScript:
I'm wondering if there's a simple way to use one AppleScript program to turn something on and off. Basically I want it to do this. How would I tell it to check the current value?
I try to select and upload files in Safari, but the Media section in the file selection dialog is empty; no photos, music or movies are ever shown in this area. The same problem happens anywhere that can open Media Browser to select files, like Mail, Twitter etc.
I'm running Xamarin's iOS Build Host app on my machine. It uses telnet on port 5000 to allow connections to it. Suddenly, this connection no longer works. returns nothing.
Ok - so this issue has become somewhat of a white whale for me. I have browsed some of the questions here, but I cannot seem to figure out how to, very simply, delete a directory from my PATH. (I should also add that I am very to to Mac, making the transition from Windows).
My iPod shows up on my computer but just as a camera and not under devices in iTunes. When I tried to run diagnostics, it showed that I had a connection problem between my computer and iPod (well, I pretty much knew that already:). I tried running updates on iTunes but it then it said that I wasn't connected to the internet.
When I open a new terminal, I get the following: I am used to seeing the first and the third lines, but the second seems new. How do I fix this? EDIT After executing bash -x -l as Ian C. requested, this is the output:
I spilled half a cup of coffee (Nescafé, whole milk, water, no sugar) on the keyboard of my MacBook Pro Retina 15'' (MacBookPro10,2, Early 2013) It happened almost 3 days ago (62 hours as of this post).
I generally run Linux. I use Vim a lot, so the Escape key is extremely important. I also use other keyboard shortcuts a lot, so Control is "key" as well. On Linux, I've solved this by using xcape to map the Caps lock key to Escape if pressed by itself, or Control if pressed in combination with another key. This puts the best of both worlds within quick reach of my pinky finger. Is there any way I can do this on a Mac?
I have a Macbook which I bought in the fall of 2009. I recently upgraded it to OS X Mavericks via the free download. The display has been flaky for a few months; the mouse worked and you could click buttons and close windows and so forth, but the image would sometimes flicker or slide back and forth. So this made me think that the problem is with the display and not the CPU or anything like that. Well now the display is totally dead, it gives me nothing but vertical gray bars.
I want recommendations on which would be best perl, AppleScript, Automator. I would like to know which tool is best suited to this task or be directed to come code online that could be modified to do what I am asking.
Of course, this means that connecting the hard drive to another computer will make its contents fully accessible. This is my fault for not enabling file vault, I know.
I want to use my Mac Mini as an OS X Server with the following services: DNS DHCP Open Directory Profile Manager
I have 10.8.5. I have a laptop with a larger monitor on an A/B switch. I want to open AutoCAD on desktop 1 on on the main monitor. I want to open Safari on desktop 1 on the laptop screen so I can take a class on Safari, and immediately do the work in AutoCAD. I cannot get them to be on the same desktop. How do I do that?
In the windowing user interface, why does quitting an application open the minimised window of a running application? This happens in Mavericks, and possibly earlier versions of the OS.
I created a presentation that I need to use frequently, using the prior build of keynote and used rectangular shapes to create my links. I superimposed these rectangles on images, so they have no filling, only the border. Previously, when I clicked on any part of the rectangle and its inner area the link would work. But since the update to 6.2 the link is only active when I click on the border, which is not how I want it to be. Is there any way I can get this to work again, preferably without having to click on each of the over 200 links I have in the presentation?
Upgraded the OS on my Desktop PC. Fixed the issue with lost folders in finder and Email.
I am using OsiriX (5.8.5 32-bit) to generate a 3D MIP from a series of DICOM images. According to the official site and every other site I have looked at, exporting a Quicktime VR is one click away. The MIP looks great, however I cannot see the option to export to Quicktime VR anywhere. I have seen the option in the user guides as a button in the toolbar (it looks somewhat 5 years old), though I can't imagine they'd take away such a handy feature. Anyone else manage to find it?
Last time I was in an Apple Store, they suggested they could repair the Super Drive on my MacBook Pro (2010) when I next came in. Of course, it is out of warranty, so there will be a charge.
The problem is that it will not leave me authenticated for very long if my iPhone is in standby. Sometimes after authenticating, using the internet etc., and putting the iPhone to standby I re-open the iPhone within 2-3min or so, it stays logged in. However, most of the time it will require me to go back into safari, and attempt to browse to any webpage before presenting me again with the same agreement.
My iPod Classic 160GB is formatted "Windows" (presumably FAT32). I want to "Macintosh" format it (hfs+).
I've moved from Windows to the Mac a while ago, and in this "self-improvement" path, I've also realized that I need to learn to touch-type (I can do around 50-60 WPM with 3-and-a-half fingers, but I need more). I'm a Spanish speaker so I need to learn on a Spanish keyboard. I've already seen the answer to a similar question here (Looking for a typing tutor app) but all the answers offered assume English keyboards I'm looking for a more "guided" learning approach.
When sending an e-mail on my iPad 2 mail (7.1.1) the "sent from" email address changes from my default to another account I have after entering in the send to address. When I first create the new email the correct default email address is showing (Comcast) but after I add any send to address it changes to another account (Yahoo) as the sent from account. I checked my settings and Comcast is still set as the default account, I can click and change it from Yahoo to Comcast before sending the email but I think this may be a bug unless there is something I missed.
I keep my music in an external hard drive which was disconnected while iTunes was on. I reconnected the drive and restarted iTunes but it still can't find the music. Would prefer not to fix manually, there are over 3,000 albums in that directory.
CMD-L brings focus to the Address Bar. Is there are shortcut key for toggling back to the document of the current tab? How else might I achieve this other than a keyboard shortcut built in to Safari? Context: Safari 7 OSX Mavericks
I just got a used Macbook Air (The original 2008 model) for writing purposes only. It came with Mac OS X 10.6.8 installed + Office for Mac 2008. However it's very slow and I have tried tools (like TinkerTool and Onyx) to speed it up and turn off the 'eye candy' but it still goes sluggish after around 20-25 minutes of usage. I have tried turning off 'indexing' by 'spotlight' and usual tricks I could find online but nothing worked for me.
I have a desktop Mac and MacBook Air. The MacBook Air has decided to die, so I want to restore the back up files in my Time Machine to my Mac desktop. How do I do that? It must be simple, but I can only get into the data for my Mac desktop.
I just found out that I can type (y) and get the upward likey thumb (in iMessages). Now is there a way to type any emoticon? It might also be just by typing it's unicode.
Okay, so I have a BUNCH of music on my old iPhone and my best friend wants to convince her mom to let her have it. First, I want the music off it, because they're my favorite artist. Also randomly I got a bunch of other songs my mom downloaded for me, and I really want those too.
I read this else where "iOS 3.1.3 (build 7E18)" so WHat does "build 7E18" mean?
Let say you use your 5 fingers to touch & open 5 apps in iPhone at the same time. If that is the case, then "can all 5 apps be opened at the same time?"
Recently got an old macbook air 2008 model. I am a linux guy and I am very new to Mac OS X. I tried but I just prefer to have my familiar debian running on this laptop. On a PC I would do this easily, but Mac is a different story. Could anyone tell me if it's possible to run Kali Linux (Debian 6) on the original Macbook Air (proper installation, not on a virtual machine on Mac OS X) and if yes, how?
My device is iPhone 5 (American version). Is it possible to get iOS 8 beta without buying access to Developer Account?
I have restarted my iPhone and reset its network settings. This morning I did a full backup and restore, having read around the internet that that fixed the problem for many. During the iOS setup process, I was asked to enter a password for a nearby wifi network. Nada. Couldn't get in.
I lost my iPhone after I checked it in find my phone it shows that the device is offline. I want to know it means that the phone is 100% switched off or find my iPhone was not kept on in my iPhone [because I don't remeber correctly it was on or not] Does find my iPhone works on International Mobile Equipment identity number or Subscriber Identity Module?
Is is possible to code using Swift on OS X Mavericks? I found the manual on iBooks but that's as far as I can get right now.
I have been fiddling around with the keyboard shortcuts in sys preferences, and have to say the options seem limitless, and fantastic. I'm a huge keyboard user and will do everything I can without using a pointing device.
Qualsys tells me that current versions of Safari on OS X don't support AES-GCM for the SSL/TLS cipher algorithm. I'd like to verify this by observing which cipher suite is selected when visiting my website. However, the only technical information Safari seems to provide is related to the certificate, not the connection itself.
I am trying to login into my work computer (Win7) which is in a private network through the Remote Desktop Client (RDC) after connecting through VPN. The VPN gets connected but the RDC does not. It tells me that the remote computer might not be connected or switched on, both of which are not true. The VPN is of Cisco IPSec type. I have tried changing the DNS of the VPN but it doesnt help. I am running OSX 10.9.3.Any solutions?
Has Apple announced which specific models of Macs will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on and if so, what are they?
I don't want to download iOS 8 or so, but I want to start learning Swift without paying 100$. So, is there a way to download xcode 6?
I would like to rename the "screencapture" utility triggered with the shift+cmd+3 keys, in order to take screenshots from a program that recognizes and disables this utility. Specifically, I want a different name to appear under ps when that utility is running. Is there a way to rename or alias this utility system-wide?
My new MacBook Pro (late 2013) refuses to recognize an Apple 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. That monitor has only a DVI cable. I am using a new Apple-brand Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter. When I unplug the adapter, my Mac's screen flashes as if it noticed a monitor was detached. But at no point does the external display show anything. The monitor's power light is on. The USB pass-through works for the keyboard. I've tried both of the MacBook Pro's Mini DisplayPort ports.
Has anyone figured out how to enable Dark Mode yet? I've been looking around for a while and haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I restored files onto my new computer using Time Machine (from my old computer). I manually restored specific files and folders. The user name was the same on the old MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Pro. Now some files have the same user name listed twice in the Inspector! It causes problems, such as being unable to properly compress these files (and directories). Here's a screenshot of an example:
Background: I bought a new laptop with Mavericks installed and used Migration Assistant to restore my environment from a Time Machine backup. It worked fine except that all the bungling I've done trying to get a working Python dev environment set up also got restored, along with a bunch of other system level junk I've installed.
In Excel, I have a window that uses all of the display real estate, apart from the dock area. Is there any way to make it use only part of the display, apart from resizing the window by dragging the bottom right corner of the window, or installing a third-party application?
I stumbled upon this battery on Amazon and I was wondering if it'd be safe to install it into my iPhone 5S, assuming it's actually compatible.
For many Apple products, e.g. macbook air, or iphone, the power supply is the same for different countries, and it accepts a power range of 100-240V and 50-60Hz (which I think is a great idea, since it encompasses most of the power standard used around the world; I don't know whether this is specific to Apple or common practice): does this mean that the only item which is different is the actual plug piece, i.e. the piece which connects the adapter to the plug (note that this piece is actually the same for different adapters, namely different W)? is it then possible to just buy that piece (it shouldn't cost more than a few $$) such that it has the desired shape, compatible to the country of interest?
I have a Mac Mini (with USB 3.0 ports, one Thunderbolt port, and one Ethernet port) and two MacBooks (both with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 but no Ethernet ports). I want to use the Mac Mini as a central repository (essentially a NAS or external hard drive) for video footage that the two MacBooks can transfer files from at the highest possible speed. I've considered and researched the following things and haven't found a solution: USB 3.0 male to male crossover cables (don't exist) Ethernet crossover cable network (MacBooks don't have Ethernet jacks, would this work with Ethernet to Thunderbolt adapters?) daisy-chaining Mac Mini → MacBook 1 → MacBook 2 using Thunderbolt (not sure if this is possible, can any body verify?) If none of these options are possible, I guess I'll have to connect the Mini to the network via Ethernet and hope transfer speeds are decent.
I just purchased a new 27" Cinema Display from Apple and I'm wondering if there is any way to tighten the hinge that attaches to the stand for adjusting the angle. I'm a DJ and noticed when I'm performing, the display keeps tilting forward on it's own (likely from some slight bass vibrations). I have two 24" Cinema Displays and the hinge has much more friction than the 27" - I realize the size and weight is greater, although are they normally so loosey goosey?
The back camera works just fine but the front one does not. When I select it, it just freezes. When I quit the app and select it again it presents just a black screen; no image. I tried closing and resetting the phone but that hasn't helped. Can anyone help me fix this in some free way?
Ever since last year's iWork update I've been hesitant to use it, on the basis that it made it clear that simply opening iWork '09 files would result in destructive changes that would become permanent if saved, and which still wouldn't be restored if exported. I'm aware that since that time Apple has also done an update to restore some of what was lost. The question for now is, is there a comprehensive list anywhere that tracks what's going to be lost when opening iWork '09 files in the current version of iWork?
Until Google or Adobe come up with something, finding personal photos is currently like finding a needle in a haystack. To overcome this issue, I'm thinking of starting a new regime of writing a title/short description on all / a series of photo that I just took on the iPhone. The ideal use case would be: upon taking a photo (not a separate workflow), I will be able to enter a short snippet before posting photos on instagram upon taking a photo (not a separate workflow), I will be able to enter a short snippet before posting photos on instagram
I've started to partition my SSD in my MacBook Air (2011). Somehow it get stucked in this process for quite a while. I decided to stop it and restart my Mac. But now: My allocated space on my hard drive is gone (around 18 GB), but also: there is no second partition. What can i do to fix this? EDIT: To make it more clear: Starting to partition my hard drive partition was getting shrinked by 18GB partition was getting shrinked by 18GB The 2.partition was not yet there Paritioning failed So: No second partition, no 18GB on my first hard drive.
When using OS X's native zoom, is there any way (perhaps using AppleScript) to fool an application into thinking the screen is not being zoomed? Something like In this case I am trying to view a video application zoomed in, but if I zoom in, it stops and says "Please undo screen zoom" (probably for legal reasons or something silly) The application's window size is also forcably limted. The application is Decoder by Multichoice Mobile Operations (Pty) Ltd.
Do you have any idea what's the new topygraphy used in Yosemite ? on Mavericks it used to be Lucida Grande/Helvetica but it looks like it has change on Yosemite.
I've always installed a new OS X install via a thumb drive. However, at that time, I only had a single hard drive. Now, I have two hard drives, but the question is: Do I still need a thumb drive now?
I messed up the settings for the clamshell display mode on my MacBook Pro. I can't get my external display to work when I close my laptop. I can get all other modes working (standard mirroring and shared desktop) except for clamshell. I've tried using defaults to remove com.apple.windowserver, but that hasn't helped.
I just installed OS X 10.10 Yosemite (but this problem exists for any other OS with applications that run on your current Mac OS) and, because I have a Carbon Copy Clone of my old Mavericks installation on another hard drive installed on this Macbook, it shows applications from other installations mounted from the other hard drive. Expecting the Terminal to work just as in Mavericks, how would I remove/exclude applications from a different installation from the 'open with' menu?
Disk Utility Crashed whilst creating a Partition, and I now have ~100GB missing, which was the amount I had allocated to the new partition. The new partition didn't get created, and I now have 100GB missing from the Hard drive. I have a 1TB hard drive, and when I go to Disk Utility, it says: Capacity : 999.35 GB (999,345,127,424 Bytes) Available : 586.1 GB (586,103,844,864 Bytes) Used : 310.52 GB (310,524,317,696 Bytes)
I can text my son from my iphone5 but cannot send pics. He has android without internet can send fine to others. I am able to send him pics from my husband's iphone4 with upgrade toIOS7.1.
I am seeking to find a Macbook Air serial number from within the backup files created by the Mountain Lion operating system and stored on an external hard drive. Exactly which file do I need to be looking at? I made the presumption that the backup created by time machine would store the uuid to ensure that the physical MAC address (7 layer OSI model) would be the one that received the backed up files of the MacBook Air. Perhaps in Extended Firmware Interface (EFI) folder although I did see a file mentioned; in a post elsewhere which was com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist. The same post also said that a sparse bundle created by time machine contained the hardware UUID (effectively the serial number?).
I have several devices. After updating apps on the device that I used to purchase apps, I can sync the updates to my iTunes on the Mac using USB cable. All but one device got the apps updated when connected to my Mac and "Sync" using USB cable. The one device that did not automatically update apps, I have to manually select one by one.
Is there a way to keep the columns width settings? Every time I open Finder, the columns width default back to whatever OS X's setting.
Recently a strip has appeared above the menu bar on my mac and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Any ideas? The above photograph of the problem is screen shotted.
Is there a way to upgrade my MacBook Pro late 2011 MacBook Pro 13" Bluetooth to Bluetooth 4.0 without using a usb extension? As I only have one working USB port.
Yesterday, I saw that my brother has downloaded an "hentai" on my Mac (shame on me, I didn't lock it !) I deleted it, but it stays on my purchased books, and I don't want it ! Is it possible to totally remove a book from my account's purchased history?
This is my Mail screen:  I have Gmail Imap account and a Bezeqint POP3 account. I want to see my Bezeqint account in the sidebar as I see Gmail's account so I can add and change folders. How can i do that ?
Is there a way to use a high performance GPU when my MBP is connected to AC power and use automatic switching when it's on battery? I have latest OSX and Mid 2012 MacBook Pro if that matters.
For example, in Finder, when you CMD+C to copy a file, the Menu for pasting it is called "Paste Item". Is there a way to rename that simply to "Paste" ? I'd like to do this for quite a few programs, Finder being only one of them, so if there's a universal method to this, by editing content files or by using terminal for example, that'd be great. Thanks!
I've seen a lot of variants of this question, but most are pretty old, and don't quite match my use case. How the heck do you get 10.8 (Mountain Lion) running on the latest version of VirtualBox, e.g., under 10.9 (Mavericks)? I need it for testing.
I picked up this command on how to open a disk image and have the password prompt in the terminal window (useful for remote mounting):hdiutil attach -stdinpass /path/to/image source However, it's not working with this particular volume. I get this error: bash-3.2$ hdiutil attach -stdinpass ~/Desktop/Summer\ Docs.sparsebundle Enter disk image passphrase: hdiutil: attach failed - Device not configured Here are the permission for the sparsebundle trying to be opened: drwxr-xr-x@ 6 non-admin staff 204 May 31 16:06 Summer Docs.sparsebundle What is wrong with the sparsebundle image that I can't mount it this way?
IMHO one of the most underrated browser extension is Chrome’s Personal Blocklist (by Google). It hides results in your Google search results after you have blocked certain domains them once. Is there a similar extension for Safari? Personal-Search-Result-Blocker, an extension hosted on GitHub, doesn’t work.
My Android phone comes installed w/ an app that graphs out power usage of various components over time, so it's clear that the screen is the biggest user, followed by the phone, followed by Facebook etc. Is there a similar app for the MacBook? I'm following best practices yet only getting a couple of hours of time out of a new (reconditioned) 2013 Macbook Pro (Mt Lion) with a battery showing only 10 cycles and near max health on it. Thanks
My iPod(4g iOS 6.1.6) is stuck in soft DFU mode because I quit out of redsn0w to early. Then I also used an app to exit recovery mode and now it's in soft DFU mode. I had to use the DFU IPSW in order to put my device in DFU mode in the first place.
I don't have a Game Center account and I play clash of clans. If I create an account, will I lose my village?
I am trying to compile mpich 3 on a Mac Pro with Mavericks using gcc 4.9. Has any one had luck doing this? My machine is hanging on configure step.
We have a number of 10.9-10.9.3 - Mavericks - machines installed throughout our facility. Much of the user content is pulled from shares stored on our Windows Server 2012 fileservers with deduplication enabled. I have found that files newly written or unoptimized are able to be accessed without issue - read, written, modified, etc. Once the file gets optomized/deduplicated and Windows adds the P & L attributes - sparse and symlink - the Macs running Mavericks begin to have access issues.
I'd like to say that the problem I want to solve is pretty simple, but I can't seem to find any good resources to tackle it. I'd like to have an Automator application that will open all of my SMB/network shares (these are constant, but are sometimes not mounted) in a single window in multiple tabs. I can't seem to find any way to do it because Automator doesn't seem to address Finder tabs at all. Any thoughts?
I downloaded the Beta version of Yosemite, but I'm finding that some of my key programs are running properly. I keep regular backups to a Time Capsule. How do I downgrade back to 10.9?
I have a 2014 Macbook Pro 15" running 10.9.3, connected via Thunderbolt to two Apple Thunderbolt monitors. Each monitor has an Ethernet jack. The Ethernet seems to pick up an IP address, but doesn't work unless I turn of Wi-Fi, then disconnect my VPN, then pull the Ethernet and reconnect it. When I plug in my ethernet cable to monitor, the Network Preferences pane crashes every time I open it.
My iMac is very slow and I would like to start from a fresh Mavericks install. But instead of spending the time to backup my internal drive, I would rather just get a big 256GB thumb drive and install Mavericks on that. I would also benefit from the speed of having the OS on a flash drive.
I just imported 32GB of images (my local Images folder) from the past 10 years into iPhoto. I was honestly surprised that the result was an iPhoto library of 65GB. I have no RAW images and am surprised that the space is double what I expect. But on a SSD, this is really taking too much space.
I stumbled upon the Diagnostics&Usage information under General Settings today, and noticed some reports like What does this mean? I know that GPU means graphics processor. Is it perhaps defective on my iPad 2, or is it more likely to be an app that is causing the issue (e.g. overloading it)? I am running iOS 7.1.1.
Sorry for the writing style but I am typing from my smartphone now. My MacBook pro on Mavericks worked like a charm but crazy as I am I decided to install Yosemite without any backup as I am lacking space on all my drives now.
Has Apple released a list of which devices are capable of running iOS 8?
I recently updated to iOS 8 (I am a developer, so it was completely legal) and I can't seem to get the continuity feature for picking up an email where you left off on my iPod touch 5th generation or iPad with Retina Display (iPad 3). Is there a special setting I have to set on my Mac? All 3 devices are on the same Apple ID. Thanks!
I have checked Will my other partitions be wiped when doing a clean install of Mavericks? but I'd like to make sure whether a clean install of Mavericks to my specific OS X partition won't mess up with the rest of the disk. OS X generally doesn't recognize other partitions types beyond the Windows types. Is such clean install prone to error even if I take care of asking installation to not touch the partition scheme?
I want to start developing in Swift. I already own an apple developer account, yet am struggling to download Xcode (n) beta. How can I do this? Thank you in advance.
Recently, I've been noticing that my 2009 Macbook's storage has been plummeting. Despite cleaning my computer up, nothing seems to be working. I went to the apple store and we ran tests (which I already did) and tried re-repairing disk utility and so forth. (Which I'd already done) & (When I originally used disk utility it would work, now it doesn't work at all) Just says invalid block count and "repairs" it. But, I promise you I don't have 30gb left on my computer, especially when it said I have 84 gb. The day before.
Let's say someone blocked your number one week ago. When you tried calling them you'd get one ring and it goes straight to voicemail... or no rings and it goes straight to voicemail.
In the Find my Friends app, some of the entries in there no longer show the portrait from that person's entry in Contacts. The email address is displayed instead. I would like to have the portrait back (or initials where there is no portrait).
Ultimately I want the result of this find command to be a smart folder. The criteria aren't that complicated: name should be "README.md" type should be file path should not contain "node_modules" find /Users/me/Documents -type f -name README.md -not -path "*/node_modules/*" The problem is that the smart folders criteria operator list seems to be lacking a does not contain option. The available options are: matches contains begins with ends with is is not Is it possible to accomplish this and if so then how?
First of all, I have an iPhone 4, meaning I can't upgrade anymore to iOS 8. I would really like to use the "Handoff" and I have a mac (Mid-2011). It can upgrade to Yosemite the new OS X. Can my Mac answer the calls, messages from my iPhone which has iOS 7?
I replaced the NVIDIA 130GT w/ a 4850 AMD Radeon card from a 27" imac, same year (late 2009). Computer boots, all 4 LEDs go on, computer accessible from remote screensharing on the LAN so is obviously up and running. No picture on the screen (backlighting working).
I'm new to Apple (coming from Linux) and have been stymied in every attempt to use my .bash_profile to get my terminal to color files by their extension (a process which was a single line in my .cshrc file!). I've had some promising leads via google searching, but all end up having a fatal flaw (e.g., requiring dircolors, which in and of itself has led me on several seemingly doomed google searches, or tweaks on "export LSCOLORS" commands which don't seem to get any further than coloring directories, etc).
Also my Mavericks by default whenever I need to change system settings or so, asks the same password as I use for login. Which is known for anyone as I said before. So, I want to discontinue this vulnerability.
I've made a partition on my hard drive, so I currently have Macintosh HD (call it 1) and Macintosh HD 2 (call it 2). I downloaded the Yosemite installer with my Mavericks install on 1, then ran it and selected 2 as the disk to install on. It worked fairly well and I'm running Yosemite without any problems.
I quit my job to pursue programming full time and I was planning to take an ios app development course at a college near me that teaches iphone & ipad dev using Objective C. Now that Swift has been released it seems like learning obj C isn't the best choice any more. Apple is saying that swift is supposed to be easier for newbies to learn but as of right now there are no courses or tutorials to learn it. I have downloaded the swift ibook and it is not beginner friendly AT ALL, its more about teaching you the language and doesn't include any kind of examples of how you implement it to make an actual app. As a beginner where should I start when it comes to learning to develop apps? Is taking an objective C class still worth it? Thanks in Advance for your advice!
This is and old question, but all the answers I managed to find in the Internet didn't solved my issue. I am using a Logitech wireless keyboard on my iPad --- "Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover" to be more precise. I use Parallels on my iPad to access my Windows 7 computer.
I have had this happen to my to both my laptops within a week, first my Windows HP Laptop developed this problem which is far more worse btw and now my macbook pro 13 (2011 model). For my Windows laptop I figured it could be over heating that messed up the video card (there is also a noise coming from it also). I do not have enough proof thoug that it over heated. Usually if it lays on bed for longer period, it definitely overheats but we are careful about it. About my mac, it was totally cold. I use it last night (downloaded a torrent) and I shut it down completely. I know it was not overheated because it was in my lap. This morning I turned it on and I see this problem. Notice the edges around the window and colors are messed up to in places.
In system preferences, under users, standard is written under my name and there is no admin. When i try to change preferences it asks for admin name and password to unlock it but my login password doesn't work as I'm not an admin.
Turned on my Macbook Air this morning and was greeted with a black screen, I could vaguely make out the login screen but when I entered my password the screen went completely black. I tried restarting and booting into safe mode all to no avail. I guess this also means I can't run Apple Hardware Test to see if that shows anything. I've got it connected to an external display at the minute which is working fine. Is there anything else I can try to fix the issue from my side before taking it to see a genius.
I have a bunch of applescript files I need to run but some that were running yesterday are not running today. Applescript is showing me this beautiful message.
On Mavericks, Cmd-Tab works as expected just fine (selecting the next application in the MRU list). With the task selector open, I can hit shift as well to move back in the same list before selecting app.
I access the camera from the lock screen all the time. Often times I want to send those photos. In order to send them I have to... close the camera app, reopen it, find the picture and then send it. What a pain! I know that Apple changed this because of some security problem, but is there anyway that it can be enabled to be able to mail photos when I access the camera app from the lock screen?
I'm guessing that only the more recent Mac models with Bluetooth 4.0 will be able to use these new features but I can't find any accurate information on this. Right now I'm using Yosemite and iOS 8.0.2 on a MacBookPro8,1 (without Bluetooth 4.0) and iPhone 5s. I can't seem to use the Handoff features. On the Mac I've even enabled the feature but still not working
Is there a message that could be sent in a way that at least Safari, if not other browsers, understands that tells Mavericks not to engage App Nap? I have an HTML5 pseudo-MIDI rendering app (i.e., sends individual notes out as mp3 audio) which plays back fine on Safari so long as it's in the foreground, but when focus is lost Safari/OS X does not send back sufficient calling information to play the notes at their appropriate times. What I'd love is something like:
File Info, under Sharing & Permissions, says "You have custom access" and lists: But ls -le says: This agrees with output from stat -x somefile.ext
I've not been able to pin down whether the photos uploaded from an iPhone to photo stream are full resolution. I saw mention that they are downloaded in full resolution to OSX machines and not iOS. But not how they have been uploaded.
I reset my phone settings, but I think my info is still on there. We already set up her information on the 4s. How do I fix this problem without going thru the same process?
People often send me Outlook meeting invitations to give me a heads up about events (in this case, mostly video shoots) about which I need to be aware, but which I don't need to attend. For the others, these need to be set as "busy" with reminders. But, as I'm not busy during most of these, and as I don't need to be reminded about them, I modify the meeting settings (as well as set a category for them, so I can differentiate them from real meetings on my calendar). Whenever I make these sorts of changes, Outlook presents me with this modal dialog, which I find needless and annoying:
I often listen to podcasts in my car via the dock connector and the cars stereo as well as via headphones (when I'm mowing the lawn, for example). However, I think ever since the Apple podcasts app got updated to 2.1, the position as well as marking a podcast 'played' isn't syncing very well. For example I'll completely listen to a podcast in the car, but after I get home the circle will only be half empty.
Read this line in iPhone 2G specification *=URL=* So, "Built-in battery" means "battery is not user-replacable"? Is that true? Or, "built-in" means "hard-welded" (ie fixed forever) & "not user-replacable" means "user can replace if using special tool but Apple does not encourage user to do that"
The environment i have setup consists of an OSX Server, running file sharing and VPN. The file share is accessible from the local network on both windows or OSX machines, and OSX machines have no problem connecting to the server via VPN when on a remote network. However, i can't seem be to able to set the VPN/File share up via a windows machine that is not on the local network, can anyone advise further as to how I would allow windows machines to connect to the osx servers file share/vpn from a remote network? Thanks!
Whenever I try to make a FaceTime audio call from my Mac (10.9.3) I just get "Call Failed". This happens regardless of whether I use the FaceTime Audio button in the FaceTime app or the "phone" icon/button in Messages or Contacts. FaceTime video works fine, as does FaceTime audio from my iPhone.
I saw people wrote these technical specifications in iPhone 3G (*=URL=* So how to read the above technical specification correctly (ie to clarify these info so that the customers can understand)?
I purchased the song "What does the fox say?" on Google Play. I am trying to play this song on my iPod but it won't let me move it from my iTunes library to the device. What's the problem?
Can I set up multiple phone numbers under text messages send/receive option? I have an iPhone 5c.
We have hundreds of computers with LDAP setup and when students login their profiles remain for life. IS there an easy script or something that could be run to clean out the entire /Users directory all but select users?
(Edit: I suspect this was a better fit for the Unix and Linux stack exchange network -- could someone migrate this over there? Or do I have to make an account over there myself?)
I'm in the process of downloading the Xcode 6 beta, and it's downloading painfully slowly, <10kb/s, and as of now is forecasting that it'll take 2 days, 20 hours, and 55 minutes and climbing. Is there a mirror somewhere I can download this beta?
I have been experiencing a problem with my Macbook Pro (latest version) when connecting it to a dual monitor. I usually click on the trackpad to wake the computer immediately after it has gone into sleep mode but ever since I have started using dual monitors the computer doesn't wake instantly. I will see the outline of my mouse but the background remains black. Here is what the console shows after the sleep-wake up What have I tried: To get around this problem I have just changed the sleep time on my computer but that is only a temporary solution. I also contacted Apple support who suggested a PRAM reset but unfortunately that didn't work either. Interestingly my roommate has the same problem with his Mac (both are on 10.9.3) so I am wondering if this might be an issue with Apple's dual monitor support and not a hardware issue. Any ideas?
I found a free menu bar app (AutoPing) that works well at allowing me to keep a visual check on whether my internet connection is up or down (I live in a country with frequent instability in connectivity). However, I'd like to change the placing of the numeric output to the left, not the right, of the indicator icon, or if necessary get rid of it, because all I really need is the green or red indicator.
I suddenly notice an option called Secure Empty Trash. While Empty Trash is normally gotten by pressing Right Click on the Trash icon, for Secure Empty Trash, we have to only press Command button at that time.
Some apps (e.g. Tweetbot) have single-key keyboard shortcuts.
I have an App Store update indicated on my App store icon, but when I click on it to go to the App store I get the message >Cannot Connect to App Store
I used to copy vector art from Adobe Illustrator and paste this art into Keynote. It was possible to go in the reverse order as well, i.e., copy vector art in Keynote and paste it into Adobe Illustrator have have full editing function. Now when bringing vector art back into illustrator, the art is RASTERIZED. Does anyone know of a workaround or setting that can correct this issue? I am on a MacBook pro running OSX v10.9.3 Mavericks Thank you, -matt
I'm trying to install Jekyll, a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. When I attempted to run the terminal command gem install jekyll, I got this error:
so after a few hours of Google searching and too many headaches with a broken GPT, I've turned here. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro (9,2) that I want to dualboot OS X 10.9 and Ubuntu 14.04 on. I've read through all the guides, whether they say to use a Hybrid MBR or create several unnecessary partitions or just use rEFIt/rEFInd, and I'm not sure the majority of the steps involved are necessary. From what I understand, Ubuntu/GRUB2 has supported EFI booting for a long time, and the OS X EFI by default allows for booting from any EFI-enabled partition it finds (as can be seen by burning any Linux live USB with the correct bootx64.efi file). My question is, why is it that every guide available says to use things like rEFInd or an unnecessary partitioning scheme? It seems like all I'd need to do is leave some space for Ubuntu, install it with its own efi boot partition (a normal thing regardless of the computer one is installing it on) and just load it like any other OS.
I want to be able to send signed and encrypted e-mails between a Mac using Mail and another Mac using Thunderbird, by using self-signed certificates on both ends. I used to be able to do so, but over the years things have gotten more difficult on both ends. To make the Thunderbird end work, I now have to create a self-signed certificate authority and then use that to make an e-mail certificate. But I can't get encryption to work on the Mail end. (I think Apple broke it in Mountain Lion.) In my keychain on the Mail end, I have the CA from the Thunderbird end, which is marked as trusted, and the e-mail certificate created by that CA, which says "This certificate is valid". But when I create an e-mail going to the other Mac, the encryption button is dimmed. I read somewhere that the secret is to add the "key encipherment" extension when creating the certificate, and I did that, but it still doesn't work.
My MacBook Pro has become slow lately. Activity monitor shows kernel task is using around 300% CPU. The fan is always on at high speed. Below are the details of my computer: Macbook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012; Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5; Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3; Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 Please suggest some solutions. I tried resetting the SMC a few times.
My date and time on my Macbook is unchangeable, I have admin rights and it is my own laptop but am unable to select the option "set date and time automactically", my date is 17 days off and the time is off by 6 hours. Is there a terminal code to reset this? This person seems to be having a similar issue, but I also do not have a lock image. Thank You very much,
I've noticed that whenever I have 12 or more pdf files open at one time (each in a separate window) and attempt to open an additional pdf, this additional pdf opens in the same window as the pdf on top. In other words, it's as if the "Open each file in its own window" is disabled once I reach 12 open pdfs.
In short, can it be done? and besides not getting updates whats the worst that can happen? Its a 2006 model with coreduo
As I said in the title, I've been trying to revive an old 5th gen ipod video. I replaced the hard drive, screen, and battery.
running OS X Server (Mavericks) I am trying to use file sharing. When I create a Folder and select that for sharing and add users they get read & write access, but when I take a closer look via the Server App under Storage, they all have no "Delete" permission on folders inside the share.
I would like to run two separate Safaris at the same time. Each Safari having his own session, history, cookies, and so on. I can do that with two users on my Mac. But doing that in the same user session would be handier. How can I do that ?
The code works in Ubuntu, but not in OSX. I run I get
When inside VirtualBox in order to switch to an OSX app, I first press Host key which is Right Option, then I press Cmd+Tab. I wonder if there is some trick to eliminate pressing Host key before Cmd+Tab?
I have a Windows Server 2012 machine providing shares for multiple workstations. I have 2 Mac users that connect to this server and use the shared folders. They report that this share keeps dropping. Everytime they report it, I check from my Windows workstation and the shares appear to be online -- there seems to be no issue.
I tried plugging in my apple headphone's jack into the socket, but I wasn't able to. Barely 70% of it goes in and the rest doesn't. There is no red-light coming out of the socket, but in the 'Sound' settings panel, the output device is 'Digital Out' -> 'Optical Digital Out Port'. There is no sound emitted from the speakers and the sound icon in the taskbar is grayed out.
I'm working on a MBP 15" 2011 with a new motherboard (Apple changed the previous one in december) and I've now this config : i7 Quad 2.0Ghz; 12 GB DDR3; 250GB SSD samsung 840; Intel HD 3000; AMD Radeon HD 6490M.
I don't know if this is possible or not: I would like to see the history of all the podcasts I have ever listened to. Is this possible?
I'm looking for a system monitoring tool, preferably a free one. I don't care if it's an actual app or sits in my terminal. Activity Monitor doesn't give me all the information I want at once.
I am almost a newbie to command prompt control in Mac. Yesterday, when I open terminal and hit command prompt twice. I have a very neat result showing a few truly useful stuffs... But after I instal Pycharm today and maybe the path variable has been changed, I get about 1500+ results in the bin when i double hit the tab... I just want to revert to my original neat bins but I am almost an absolute newbie and don't know what to do. Could anyone help me with this?
I just opened a new Macbook Pro out of the box and, after going through the initial setup (language, timezone, name, etc.), I see the login screen without my username. I tried typing in my username (manually) and password but nothing happens. The only option is to click the back button which then shows a blank alias picture with the word Other underneath it If I reboot the computer pressing ⌘Sand then do ls /Users to see the users on the system it only has .localized and Shared directories, which indicates to me that the user was not created properly. How do I correct this so I can have an initial user account?
Whenever I unplug my HDMI monitor, my MacBook Pro (mid-2010) display turns black. This persists through reboots. Is there a way to reset the display settings for my laptop? I've tried resetting the display cache (option-command-p-r when rebooting), without success. I am running Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.3.
Whenever my system gets slow, I open Activity Monitor to check my RAM usage and close any apps that are consuming a lot of memory, but that I don't absolutely need to be running. RAM usage is always completely maxed out. I'm used to seeing this:
I am currently running OSX 10.9.3 and Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114. When using Mozilla Firefox, I am able to scroll using the mouse wheel just fine. But with Google Chrome, it does not work. How am I able to enable this feature?
Something weird is happening with my iPhone 5s on iOS 7.1.1. For the past week, it's become very laggy, where if I try to interact with it via software, Bluetooth, or even the physical buttons, it will often freeze completely for 1-10 seconds before resuming as if nothing had happened. Some of my apps have also started to occasionally crash on launch. Restarting didn't help. Looking at my crash reports, I see that nsnetworkd process has been crashing and restarting pretty much nonstop since a week ago:
I am currently running OSX 10.9.3 and Safari Version 7.0.4. When using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, I am able to scroll using the mouse wheel just fine. But with Safari, it does not work. How am I able to enable this feature?
I've got an iPhone 5 running the latest iOS 7 version. (I don't feel like testing the first pre-released iOS 8). The iPhone randomly displays me "No sim card installed" in a pop-up and I have no provider in the left-top of the menu. What have I tried: Toggling AirPlane mode (this does not work) Hard reset (this works) Removing the sim card using a paperclip and placing it back (this also works) What I didn't try:
I have the late 2012 Mac Mini, which has a HDMI port and a Thunderbolt port. I have 3 1080p monitors that each have DVI, HDMI and VGA. Is it possible to connect them to my Mini, no mirroring?
I have a Macbook Pro, 10.9 with 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. When I access the Utility app "System Information", this is what I got.
I currently have this setup on my Mac- OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, Windows (bootcamp) and a Recovery HD. My question is can I repartition my hard drive to have another partition, using disk utility (resize the OS X part and have a new part created with that space)- disk utility warns me I might get kicked out of Windows booting for doing this, and I want to make sure if that's really going to happen. Thanks!
I'm an app developer of educational apps. In EDU settings, admins often use Apple Configurator to setup many iPads at once. While I know it's possible to install my app on many iPads at once, and add settings/profiles to the device, is it possible to add configuration data to my app during the mass install?
I launch applications from the Terminal with commands like this one : /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail & The important part is the &.
I set some alarms using older mail program that came with OS X 10.6. During all upgrades, the alerts were preserved, but now I want to remove them and I can't find where they are defined. They are not in reminders, not in calendar, not on mail program. I'm now running on iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I'm on a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.9.3. Mousekeys works fine on the builtin keyboard but seems to have no effect on an external keyboard. How can I change this behavior? The external keyboard has no numpad.
Remove power. The display backlight comes on; wait for it to go out.
I'd like to never need to reach for a mouse or trackpad. Right now I spend most of the day mouse free. Alas, I occasionally must reach for a mouse or trackpad. It can really derail a good day. What is the most efficient method of last resort for "clicking" those elements that have no hotkey, that I can't get any program to provide a keyboard hint for, and that can't be tabbed to? My expectation is that the answers will be methods to move the mouse cursor and click via keyboard (like mousekeys) but any solution is applicable if it allows a keyboard to do anything a mouse can do.
Our webapp requires Safari 6.0 or higher. What versions of OS X support Safari 6 or higher?
A few other e-mail applications allow you to set their dock counter to the number of messages in the inbox, rather than just the number of unread messages. The idea being that until it's out of the inbox, it's still an active task that needs to be resolved.
This might be a bit specific, but I am trying to test a trashed A1208 Intel iMac (Late 2006 17" Model). The power supply is dead (Fuse was blown, bypassed with a wire and bang poof a resistor and ic blew), but everything else (logic board, DC/DC Board, LCD) looks good. I will be connecting a PC power supply (for testing) for the 12V and Ground, but I do not know what voltage is present on the Power Good signal.
I have a 2011 MacBook Air. Are there technical/physical reasons why it might be harmful to have the screen repeatedly touched or pressed? Why or why not?
In order to write \ on a Japanese wireless keyboard we have to use alt+¥. Very very inconvenient actually. Especially with Swift, the use of \ will sky rocket... Alt is bottom left, right of caps, and ¥ is left of delete. You absolutely need two hands for this, and alt is close to caps and ¥ is close to delete so all kind of havoc will break loose from time to time.
I just unwrapped a MacBook Pro (OSX 10.9.3). I used the Migration Assistant to bring things over from my old mbp, and most everything seems to be working except something very important: the Terminal app. Well, I actually use iTerm, but they both exhibit the same symptoms: when I launch the app, the window flashes for (maybe) a few milliseconds, then disappears.
I recently bought an iPad Air, as as I launched App Store for the first time it gave me an offer to download premium apple apps for free. Though I clicked on download now but due to slow connection they couldn't. Now when I search for same apps, it shows me a price on it. How can I download them now for free?
I have a backup for my iPhone 5s from January. Is there any way I can download them onto my computer ?
I previously had about 200 .txt files saved in iCloud via TextEdit. After installing the Yosemite (10.10) Beta, there is now a folder hierarchie in iCloud, and all my previous files seem to have disappeared. I have looked in /Library/Mobile Documents -- they're not there.
Where can I find 'open' command?(OS X 10.9.3) I think there may be some issues in my environment or I may remove this tool by mistake. Thanks
I have a macbook pro which I bought with OS X Mavericks preinstalled. I have a Mac Mini with Mountain Lion which I want to upgrade to Mavericks. But since the download size is too big, I wonder if it is possible to create an installation disc or better yet USB using the OS X Mavericks already installed in Macbook Pro and use it to install Mavericks in my Mac Mini?
I have a 13 inch macbook air 2010 model purchased 3 years ago. In the past year my speakers are not working.
When I turn on Slate window manager with the default configuration, I cannot use Cmd+Left, Cmd+Right, Option+Left or Option+Right to move around in text. Is there a way around this, or do I need to use a different window manager? I am a dev, but an OS X newbie.
I come from a Linux/PC world as a heavy Emacs user and for the last year, I've "dealt" with the standard OS X key remapping. It's OK, but the things that bother me are: Option + Key doesn't operate as Meta by default (though works inside Emacs), instead it operates as a compose key. Control-C/Control-V are not true cut-n-paste Why the hell did the Function key have to be where the Control-L key should be? I spent some time yesterday with KeyRemap4MacBook and PCKeyboardHack and came up with a general approximation of what I want. PCKeyboardHack - Swap CapsLock Select Caps Lock->Change Caps Lock Enter keycode 63 (for Fn key) KeyRemap4MacBook - Move things around Command_L to Escape Command_R to Escape ControL to Fn Fn to Control_L (+ Option-L+Fn to Fn) Option_L to Command_L Option_R to Control_R Use PC Style Copy/Paste
I am following the instructions at the bottom of this article article to add the Webster's dictionary to my dictionary.app list. It does not seem to be working (the new dictionary does not show up in the dictionary.app preferences pane.
I am trying to install xcode developer tools via this command: xcode-select --install and I have this error: "Can't install this software because it is not currently available from the Software Update Server"
I have a groups mail settings that are not working. Using the auto complete gave the option of just the group name or the group name with the same name in carrots to the right. One of the groups follows my preference setting to hide all group recipient email addresses. The other group shows all the addresses. To fix the problem I renamed the group and deleted the old name from the On My Mac list of groups. Now the original name does not appear, but the one with carrots is still there--although I get the warning it does not appear to be a valid email address. How can I make it go away?
I have the “db” alias in my JDBC connection specified in the Java properties file for MYSQL. This alias does not currently work on my local computer.
Saw this in Wikipedia (*=URL=* Hearing aid compatibility So what do M4, T4, M2, ... mean?
I have the launchpad app installed on my iPad. Can it act like a real launchpad for FL on my PC?
I did the direct jump from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and there is possibility that I have missed some changes in the versions in between. Nonetheless, here is my problem:
I've created a book using iBooks Author, sent it over to iTunes Producer, filled in all of the necessary details (price, availability, etc) and attempted to submit it. Once I submit it to Apple I see it successfully authenticate with Apple but then I receive the following three errors: Unable to write to configuration directory: /Users/jdoe/.itmstransporter
I have a late 2012 mac mini running OSX 10.9.3 and I'm curious if there is a setting that needs to be changed or if this is some sort of bug. I'm working with two monitors; one plugged into HDMI and the other using the display port with a VGA adapter.
I tried following the instructions for installing CPAN modules at this link: *=URL=* However, when I try to install Devel::REPL, it fails. Here is the log: Output of sw_vers:
I erased the entire content of my MacBook Pro when installing debian. Now, the laptop will not boot into Linux.
This is one of the weirdest things... I script adding passwords to Keychain Access when I log in to provide a "SSO" like experience. I use AppleScript to run some terminal commands that look like this†: Note that I have to use NTLM authentication for it to work right with MS Office apps. However, when I do this, I get a keychain that looks like this (irrelevant lines trimmed)
I often switch back and forth between working on a Final Cut project and working on a Motion generator or title I use in that project. If I make changes to the Motion project, I have to restart Final Cut to see those changes reflected in the instances of the generator or title already in the timeline. Is there a way to get Final Cut to reload the Motion files without restarting it?
I've downloaded a few of the WWDC videos on my iPad using the WWDC app. I've also marked some of the videos as favourites.
Whenever I try to copy all the content of a usb to my Mac partition it says Permission Denied The command I am using is cp -R /dev/disk1 /dev/disk0s3 My error message is: /dev/disk0s3: permission denied. I have tried to set myself to super and still didn't work, as well I have all write/read permissions on the hard drive.
When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.
My MBP was originally a single SSD partition, which I backed up with Time Machine to an external USB HD. I created a new partition on the SSD for Yosemite, and am running the MBP on 10.10, although my apps and my work docs are on the original partition. I would like to continue to use TimeMachine to back up the original HD with my documents and such, so if Yosemite fails or corrupts the HD, I can buy a new HD and restore the Mavericks HD to it. How can this be done? Failing keeping it separate, could I at least set up TM on a new disk to back up both partitions?
My Mac got crashed and was forced to be restarted automatically. And so my Chrome and Chromium session were gone too, on which when I opened them after the reboot of my Mac, "restore the last session" or some messages like that were shown on the screen. However, despite me clicking on the "restore" button, it didn't restore those tabs I opened! So the 30 tabs that I opened in my browser were all gone, and I'm quite disappointed.
I have an early 2008 MacBook with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 RAM running OS X 10.5.8. Can I upgrade to OS X Mavericks? I realize that my early 2008 MacBook isn't on the list, but I have additional memory. Thank you!
I followed the instructions here but it did not seem to work. How do I boot to safe mode? I am on Mavericks 10.9.3.
How can you make sure deleted photos on an Ipod touch 5 can never be restored or found by someone else?
iMac OSX 10.8.5 I am often producing demo CDs for a musician. The steps are insert blank scroll to playlist right click and choose burn click ok wait for jingle - this scrolls to the playable CD click eject repeat I would like to scroll to playlist ONCE right click and choose burn get prompted for disks until I am done and click cancel
I am a lodger in someone else's house. They have a time capsule, various airport express base stations and several wifi networks configured.
If I were to make an iOS app that whichs primary function is to play specific 3rd party YouTube videos, is that okay to do without asking for their permission? Or do I need to have a legal agreement with each publisher?
how can i transfer photos from iPad 2 to Windows XP laptop? I tried all searches related to my problem but no use. None of the windows office can connect to ipad 2 and the ipad 2 does not trust on windows xp
The iPhone is mine and already has Find my iPhone linked to the new account but was first activated with the old Apple ID. I'll really appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction on how to contact Apple.
I would like to download additional text-to-speech voices for OS X to later install on multiple systems or systems without an internet connection. Is this possible, or do I have to be online to download them through the System Preferences ?
I have the Install OS X Mavericks.app in Recovery Mode and I want to execute it somehow to start the installation from the terminal, so I don't need the internet connection. I executed the InstallAssistantTool within Contents/Resources, but that just leaves a blank line and the terminal doesn't do anything. I also tried createinstallmedia to create a bootable SD card, but that tells me that the .app file isn't a valid OS Installer. How can I finally install Mavericks from Recovery Mode, within the terminal? ** EDIT: ** I want to install Mavericks from the Install OS X Mavericks.app and when I go to /Contents/MacOS I want to execute InstallAssistent, but the problem is that the installer hangs on checking eligibility with Apple, while my Internet connection works. The problem is, that my SSD is empty/erased and thus I have no access to the App Store and so on, as it is my only Apple device.
I don't understand why Apple did not disclose all the detailed specifications. On apple site, it only tells the most basic specs not all specs so Wikipedia has to search iPhone specs in other sources. For example, rhe wiki page *=URL=* said iPhone 3Gs has color depth of 18-bit color while *=URL=* said 24-bit color.
Anyway what is this file? Is it like a Windows shortcut? Is it the file I downloaded in the first place? (But it was downloaded do "Downloads" folder)
I found an old iPad 2 generation (what I don't use anymore) and wish to gift it to my parents. A lot of personal data on this iPad. I need to reset my old iPad, but forgot restrictions passcode and don't have an iTunes backup before restrictions passcode. Howto reset iPad with factory settings?
How do you write the command to carry out a double click with a mouse at a specific location in AppleScript?
I'm looking for an app with ability to repeat a part of the song playing. I need this as I'm using it for practicing listening skill.
I have two iPads with the same iCloud. One of them was stolen. What happens if I clear the data? Both iPads will be cleared?
Since 10.9.3 update, I'm noticing a problem first, as I mentioned, right side of the screen getting quite warm, as warm as base, where CPU and GPU fans resides. second, even it's in sleep mode (blinking led) whole laptop is getting quite warm again, and draining battery like in normal operation (fans are not spinning). I can not pinpoint the problem, no clues on net, I'm wondering if anyone else having these problems.
For a long time I was under the impression that OSX was not as vulnerable as windows to slowing over time - for example it is common knowledge that you should reinstall windows once per year, but I've not heard the same about macs. However, I've had 3 macs now (two home and one work), all of which have slowed significantly after a year or so. So much so that they became almost unusable and I had to reinstall. So a couple questions:
So I take a screenshot of an area with Command+Shift+4 but when I open the screenshot file in Paint X, the image's dimensions are far larger than the original area. Is there any way to take a screenshot that looks exactly like the taken part of the screen?
I have two Macs, I would like to use rsync to sync the home folder, preferences (if it's possible) and Applications. I want rsync to run automatically if any file in these two Macs are changed, I want it to be synced completely and wirelessly. Is it possible to make a .command file after writing the codes?
I would like to bulk delete all the voice mails from my iPhone but it appears I need to first delete each one (multiple taps on each message) and then bulk delete them all from the "deleted items" sub folder. Is there a way to more efficiently delete all voicemail?
A follow up to my earlier question about the Mavericks installation from an SD Card. I am running this in Terminal: mv Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System\ 2/System/Installation
My iPhone 5s fell out of my pocket and smashed the glass. Everything still worked perfectly. The touch screen was just as responsive as ever, and Touch ID worked fine. I had the glass (whole screen maybe?) replaced a few days later only to find that Touch ID didn't work and roughly the bottom right quarter of the screen was extremely glitchy (in regards to touch responsiveness). They replaced it with a white screen because they were out of black. I brought it back to have them repair it again and replace the white screen for a black one. They found out something wasn't plugged in completely with the Touch ID sensor. After this repair Touch ID is working again, but now roughly the bottom half of the screen is extremely buggy, in regards to touch responsiveness. 9/10 touches are misinterpreted, and the phone reacts as if I were scrolling, usually down, but often in other directions too. When I intentionally scroll the phone will almost instantly jump in a random direction about 3 or 4 ti
I have this keyboard connected as external to my macbook while using external monitor. A1242 model.
I have Macbook6,1 Late 2009 Unibody white Snow Leopard with dual boot Debian Wheezy installed on the other partition. I use EFI to show boot options at startup. Will upgrading to Mavericks overwrite/delete other partitions?
I want to display the label of each bubble on a bubble chart in numbers. How do you do this? I want either a truncated "description" or the 3-digit NAICS to be the label of the bubble. Here's an example of what I'd like (Google Docs). Here's my dataset in Numbers. I'd appreciate any help!
My son loves Minecraft and I have set up an account for him to play and it works fine with Parental Controls enabled. Now he wants to add Mods to the game and I'm having a hard time getting the system to allow me into the proper folders to allow me to add the files he needs. I need access to the ~\Library\Application Support\ folder. I can access it with my administrator account but the one under my profile and not his. I then shared his user folder with me on Read\Write but it says I don't have permissions.
I've been having this problem for quite a while and it happens occasionally and when it does it get very frustrating and I'm just trying to pin point what is causing it. When it happens, the disk space gets exhausted all the way to 0 bytes available and when that happens, I can't even surf. But magically after a while, the disk space frees itself and I get my disk space back as shown below (copy pasted from console: look at /dev/disk0s2). In a span of 5 minutes, 1GB to 0 free space.
I like to use touch fingerprint ID when in lieu of a password (when buying apps etc...), but I don't want to have to use it to unlock my phone, nor do I want a passcode lock. Is there a way to enable touch ID without locking the phone?
I have been reading tutorials on Pixelmator where "Filter" is used. On all tutorials I have read there is a "Filter" option in the menu tab, but on mine "Filter" is missing. I tried searching for "Filter" in the help menu but there are no results.
Mavericks : is it possible to use a style sheet for Safari's Top Sites page? Are there style sheet examples to draw from?
I already tried the internet sharing via system preferences. I could connect to my shared network on my iPad, but the problem is my ISP does now allow network sharing! On my iPad it shows the following error message:
On OS X, a new Chrome tab can be opened by pressing Cmd+T, but on Windows you press Ctrl+T. This works fine if you map Cmd to Ctrl in Parallels, but becomes problematic when cycling between tabs.
In my keyboard layout, I have a compose key, which works by putting an action="compose" in the appropriate place in the keylayout file. It works well, but I'm not satisfied with the rules for this key. In particular, I want to be able to add rules, for example ♫ + o + * should give me a ⊗. I already found this: Add Compose key to OS X but they seem to use a different method for adding the compose key, so editing the DefaultKeyBinding.dict does not do anything for me. Is there any file that I can edit to add these rules?
I have inherited an iphone as my work phone, the user previously set the restrictions PIN number and I have no idea what it could be and therefore cannot change and delete his apps Any body got any ideas.
I have an external hard drive that was making an odd sound, and I wanted it to stop. I found out that navigating the contents of the HD in the Finder would make it stop temporarily. I set up a shell geeklet that ran ls /Volumes/ExtraStorage and that fixed the problem. My question is if this can harm the hard drive if I use it over an extended period of time.
Using osx 10.9.3 I would like to write a script that opens images full-screen with preview but I can't seem to find the command line options for the Preview application.
Every time my son gets a call on his iPhone all his apps & everything get deleted. Why does ths keep happening? This is his 3rd new phone and it keeps happening. He restores it then someone will call him & everything gets deleted again & again.
My 17″ Macbook Pro died last November. I have a new Macbook running 10.9.3 but my iPhone 4 won't sync wirelessly because it's still looking for the old Mac. I cant find a place to make it forget the old one and sync via wifi with my new one?
I have a Mac OS X 10.7.5. Sometimes, when drag-and-drop-ing files on the Finder, a strange thing happens, i.e. the file I'm dealing with "sticks to the cursor" and releasing the trackpad button has no effect, whereas it should let the file be transferred or copied. Btw I've been dealing with this many times, and for a long time, and have just found out today that tapping the trackpad with two fingers eliminates this strange thing, therefore placing the dragged file in the directory the cursor is on, or copying it there if I'm holding the option key. Any idea why this happens?
I've got one machine set up with an email account, using Mail.app. I'd like to send a copy of all outgoing mail from that account to another email address I have, which is not on the same machine. I'm trying to set it up like this: if I send an email from mark@example.com, I want to Bcc or forward a copy to sam@example.com. Is there a way using rules that I can forward or Bcc a copy of all outgoing mail to another account?
So I have an iPhone 4 that's been happily jailbroken on iOS 6.1.2 for a while now, but I want to upgrade to 7.0.6. I downloaded the IPSW for it and shift-clicked on update, but I get the error 'The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (3194)'. I read up on it and proceeded to correct my hosts and firewalls, but nothing seems to work.
I'd like to force a sync or repair on my AppleRAID set as part of a regular maintence. Under Linux (md) I can do this by writing to control devices. Diskutil does not seem to offer me such an option.
iTunes is always sure to tell me that I have to eject my iPod before I can physically disconnect it from the computer. What is going on when you eject it? What is the software doing? What's the risk of disconnecting it without ejecting it first?
Updated to Mavericks: Now get following message for specific apps in Applications Folder: "you can't use this version of the application "DVD Player" with this version of OS X." It then lists the version of the app that I currently have. This has affected 16 Apps on my iMac. Some of them (Safari, Photo Booth) have updated version on my desktop that run. With all of the other affected apps, do I have to purchase updated versions? Also, how do I delete the non-functioning versions from my Applications folder?
I installed Macs Fan Control and I like to make both fans in my mac work at top RPM available all the time. The sound does not annoy me at all and I really like that the computer runs cooler. Will this hurt the computer in any way?
I need to know if anyone has found a fix for this as the previous poster hasn't returned to the thread. This is my work computer so I need to salvage as much as possible and hopefully fix it completely. Thank you for any help!
So I am in a folder where mysql executable already is.. When I try mysql in terminal I get: -bash: mysql: command not found
A couple of times I clicked NO (or closed the pop-up) on Firefox suggestion to save username/password for a particular form. How to revert this decision and force Firefox to ask again.
I have two macbooks. I want them to be exact copies. They have different CPUs, RAM, but they have the exact same drives.
I have bought a new Macbook and when I go to About This Mac -> Storage I see: 1.11 GB Audio and 750 MB of Photos.. But I have not copied any Audio or Photos to this laptop.
So in Finder, Mac finds a Windows PC in the Network. When I right click on it and click Get Info, I see an icon that shows a computer monitor with a blue screen. By blue screen I mean a crashed PC. Why is this? Why not a normal desktop image?
On Android, you can use recovery to make a complete NANDROID backup, which when restored, is exactly the way you left the system. What would be the iDevice equivalent of this and how would one go about making one?
An otherwise great app I'm using, annoys me as every time I start it, it writes to 2 files in the root of my user account which are clearly visible. Now, I have used the terminal command sudo chflags hidden with the name of the files to hide them, which does work, but nonetheless, when I launch the app again, it makes those once hidden files visible again! The files content stays the same, so either its being re-written, or its being made visible again once the app is finished with them after boot, and whatever way it saves, the 'hidden' status of the files is being ignored or changed due to write permissions used by the app (I'm guessing).
What I would like to have: A disk with the following systems on it: OS X 10.8 (FV2-encrypted) OS X 10.9 (FV2-encrypted) Windows 7
I first started playing clash of clans on my iPod 4th generation. I soon realized I wanted to start over because I upgraded too quickly and wasted gems. I started over and my new village (lvl 65) is much better than the old village (lvl 50). I recently got an iPhone 5c and want to transfer my lvl 65 village over. I have tried but only my lvl 50 village will transfer. What should I do?
I have been having trouble installing OS X Mavericks and I think I found the problem. It told me I couldn't boot up with Macintosh HD, so I verified my disk and I got this error: This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition So I figured out I can create one like this (tell me if I'm wrong): sudo gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk0 from this question, but they also said the "index" must be 1, so I can't have anything at that index. I ran diskutil list and this is the output: So I need to figure out how to move the indexes of Macintosh HD and that Linux Swap thing to indexes 2 and 3 instead of 1 and 2.
Is there a way to amplify the input audio even more then how far the slider goes on system preferences? Maybe an application or something? I am using line-in to pass a small signal through from the mic input, and I can hear it ok when it is quiet, just it needs a bit more volume.
For example would it be possible for a retailer to have a user download their app, make an in-app purchase and have it sent directly to them without requiring the user to enter an address?
I am wondering if my iTunes rental purchased from my iPhone is available on my Apple TV?
Is it possible to run an external display connected to a late 2011 MacBook Air at 3840x2160@30Hz. I realize having this resolution at 60hz exceeds the bandwidth limitation of a Thunderbolt 1 port. This is why I am asking specifically about 30hz. Hardware: Late 2011 MBA running 10.9.3 Monitor: Samsung U28D590D, connected to MBA with Mini DP to DP cable
On terminal, I type How do I ssh into something if it is not the default port 22, in my case it is 222
I have a problem with my Facebook app where the App Store says it's supposed to be 59.6 MB but when it downloads (and I haven't open it yet), it's 167 MB. Ironically, I wrote a blog post about how apps like Facebook and Messenger cache images and posts, which takes up space, and can only be stopped (without jailbreaking) by deleting and reinstalling the app. This is because when you delete the app, it also deletes 'Documents and Data' (including cached data). I conclude that for whatever reason, the cached data is not being deleted, but I could be wrong. Does anybody know how to fix this?
I'm experiencing some frustrating keyboard issues on my new 2014 Macbook Air (OS X 10.9.3) When using the laptop keyboard, the F1–12 keys take the behavior of "function" as opposed to the "media key" behavior they should have by default (brightness, volume, etc).
I have had this iPhone4 for about over three years now but it suddenly won't charge. It comes on at 1% and than turns straight back off and it keeps doing that whilst on the charger. I don't even have enough time to turn off my phone.
I recently got a new Macbook Pro 15 retina. I already have a keyboard cover on it, and earlier today I put a palmrest and trackpad cover on it as well.
I want to give certain people the ability to wake me up by sending an SMS message (e.g. "Wake Up!") to me, even when Do Not Disturb is on. Is there a utility that makes this possible, or an app that already does something similar?
When I've finished editing a song attribute (like the title) and hit enter, iTunes moves this song to the top of the browser. It's very jarring and bad for editing a bunch of files in succession. It also occurs if you click outside of the edit box, so it's not specific to pressing enter. I realize that I can avoid this by bringing up the Info pane for each song and then clicking "next"/"previous" instead, but this is a hassle and it would be great if iTunes did not move the library after editing.
When i click on a finder icon to view it's preview, the icon is crystal clear like in this photo,  but when i scroll through all the files with the arrow keys after i click, they become blurred like this:
When I click on iTunes update it shows there is a new version available.  However when I click on get it, it comes up with no updates available but shows 2 of the same versions downloaded? 11.2.1 !
I have lost my iPhone5 and had a sick feeling that the phone has been erased and cleared before Find my IPhone has even had the chance to detect it. Is this possible?
I am a software developer experiencing strange errors with safari. Sometimes safari loads some of the github.com pages without styles. The same happens with my heroku dashboard: *=URL=* But only sometimes. With heroku I had much more stange errors: 'Safari can't load the url: heroku.com '
Until ultra high-res displays are ubiquitous, is there any way to modify the font rendering in OSX to optimise for legibility over faithful type reproduction, i.e. to more closely fit the pixel grid? I find it hard to read text on OS X compared to the same web page rendered on Windows inside Parallels. Note that LCD font smoothing is enabled under "General" in System Preferences.
I used to be able to press the power button on my iMac shortly and send it to hibernation. After the update to Mavericks though this ability has disappeared and now only sends it into sleep mode.
customise the installation to a specific machine type in any way? (If so, presumably this is based on the machine that the installer is running on?)
Modern iPhones capture full hi-def videos with 1920x1080 resolution. When I download the MOV file to my computer and then upload it to YouTube, it only shows as 360p resolution. How do you upload iPhone videos to YouTube keeping their HD resolution?
Every time I open Alfred 2 preferences these are reset to default. Themes, workflows, everything is reset. At last Safari won't connect to service hosted on localhost through https rebooting repairing permissions resetting safari reinstalling Alfred deleting com.apple.finder.plist removing every login item and launch agent
If I delete a photo from both Camera Roll and Photo Stream, is there still another copy on my Mac or elsewhere that Photo Stream placed there?
I have a .bash_profile file in my Home folder but it is hidden. How can I open it with Text Wrangler (or any other text editor?)
I currently use After Effects / Premier Pro at work. For my home use I need a new laptop and am considering a Mac. The deciding factor will be cost and if iMovie/Motion can do what I want. (I'll probably eventually get Final Cut but its going to be a while due to budget) If I use Motion to create lower thirds, title sequences, and playing a bit with other special effects like particle systems and such... afterwards can I export them with a transparent / alpha background to import into iMovie?
I have a second hand Mabook Pro that I love and use for my small business. Today it shut itself off, crashed, and will not start. Help!
I have several apps on my iPod touch (5th generation) that I would like to move from their current place on screen to a different place on screen. Is there any way to do this? If so, how?
When I was playing Counter Strike: Global Offensive, I noticed that sometimes, I want to listen to music when I am dead in-game, waiting for the next round without the gun sounds of the game mixing up with the music that I am listening to and then switching back to the game, decreasing the volume of the song that I have been listening to. On Windows, this is possible. Is it possible on Mac as well? If yes, how?
So I followed this thread (Changing terminal color) and got all of the colors working for directories and such, except however, for normal files such as a Gemfile or .txt files or .java files or .rb files etc... I was wondering how I can get normal files to show up in color, even better if I can get different extensions of the file to show up in different colors as well. Let me know if you guys have any resources for this.
my friend has moved her iPhoto 08 Library from an external HD. She has some iMovie 08 projects which reference iPhoto movies.
My dad put restrictions on my phone. He put it for many things that he didnt even know about. For example, downloading and deleting apps and Safari. So now that I want to do different things on my phone, I can't because my dad forgot the password.
After that, I followed the instructions by creating a folder called "Empty Tunnelblick VPN configuration" and copying "config.ovpn" to the folder. I then renamed the folder "Empty Tunnelblick VPN configuration.tblk".
I make Time Machine backups on an external 2TB HD connected via USB to my Airport Time Capsule. PROBLEM When I come back to home and I reconnect to my wi-fi LAN, Time Machine is not able to automatically reconnect to the backup volume (see image below).
I would like to prevent my iPhone draining power from my MacBook Air while the laptop is not plugged in and relying on battery power. How would I do this? Note, there doesn't seem to be any "unpowered USB ports" on the MacBook Air, both of them seem to charge my iPhone even when the laptop is not plugged into a power socket...
I have a series of files with arbitrary names and extensions. Like: APW19981017.0151 APW19981017.0306 APW19981017.0477 APW19981017.0507 APW19981018.0410 NYT19981017.0177 NYT19981018.0098 NYT19981018.0123 NYT19981018.0160 NYT19981018.0185 I want these files to open with an editor, like TextMate or Sublime Text, on double-clicking, without having to right-click and choosing the editor from applications. Basically the Finder should open any unknown extension file with the text editor.
Back when I had a Windows machine I used a program called CrystalDiskInfo to see total hours of operation of my computer. I only used the numbers for fun or to like indicate how "used" my PC was.. So I'm looking for a terminal command or an app that can display that information for me. Screenshot of the crystaldiskinfo gui.
I own a mid-2009 MBP with OS X Mavericks installed. I'm a hi-tech enthusiast who wants to use the fingerprint scanning feature made available by many scanners on the market to login into my account after boot and unlock the screen after the screensaver has started.
I'm told that different amp levels charge iDevices in different times. Sometimes I plug into my laptop, sometimes into a car converter, and other times into the side of a flatscreen TV for charge. Is there a way to see on the iPhone (or iPad) what the amp level coming out of the USB port are? Perhaps an app?
I am trying to create an automator service to take the selected folders in Finder and search each of them for movie files, move those movie files to a certain directory and then move the original folder to trash. However I have no experience and keep getting stuck! Up the top of the automator window I have selected this:
I work in a Windows environment with many different shared drives. I commonly have Finder windows open to different shared drives and nested folders. I have a Service set up (that I created in Automator) that allows me to control-click and "copy full path" of a file or folder that I have selected in the Finder. What I'm getting looks something like:
Does anyone know fitness app featured where the guy is doing step-ups on a park bench followed by push-ups?
My Disk Utility is full. My Disk is about 1T but now I only have no more 100GB to use. I don't think I have used that much, the yellow one is belong to what? I want to erase some files to get more spaces but I have no idea what to do. I think all of my folder is just 400GB. I think either Application or images, video are duplicate in somewhere. Please help!!
Perhaps due to this, I believe, the tabs have changed when I select this disk, and I can no longer resize the partitions. The options are greyed out, and I cannot drag to resize either. The Disk Utility looks similar to that seen in this question: Unable to adjust partition of USB drive with Mountain Lion Disk Utility though my computer is not encrypted, and it is the computer, not the USB I am having trouble with.
I recently had some problem with my account that I use on a regular basis. After logging in, my Mac blocks completely showing the spinning color wheel everywhere I click to open something. Finally I need to restart my mac, because I'm not able to do anything. Now, the strange thing is that this does not happen when I log in into another account on my mac, then is everything working fine. Anyone that knows how an issue like this? My mac is on Mac OS X Mavericks and is a Macbook Pro Mid-2010.
It's already the second time that this occurs. I switch from one user to another and the dock has no background. It looks pretty cool but I don't understand if there's a problem on my hard drive setup or if it's a bug. I have 10.8.5. Has anyone else experienced this behavior?
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to cross-open an URL between computer (OS X) and phone (iPhone). Here is the use case: using the iphone to barcode scan an QR code that opens an URL but I do want to open this URL on the computer, not on the phone. How can I achieve this?
Could anyone please let me know how to install fontin which I download from Exljbris. I am new to mac so I am not sure what to do with .sit file.
A customer of mine is not able to say if she owns a Retina Display. She sent this info: Can I understand from it, if she owns a retina display?
I would like to watch movies rented from the UK iTunes store (on a Mac) with subtitles in another language. Unfortunately, movies on iTunes rarely have subtitles in any language besides English - but there are many fan-made subtitles files out there, and if this was a normal movie file it would be a simple matter to use them. I'm guessing this is one of those questions where the answer is just "no", but is there any way to take a subtitles file downloaded from the internet, and use it while viewing a movie rented via iTunes?
Do Apple Maps have any limitations or any licence fees, if I use them in an app that I develop? For eg: google maps are free for 2500 uses per day in applications: *=URL=* Is there any such Information on Apple Maps or are they just free for iPad and iPhone apps?
I am in need of 10 bit colour/channel (30 bit in total). Everything in my workflow supports 10 bit colour/channel: DSLR, Eizo 276, D700 in my Mac Pro (late 2013). Unfortunately OSX 10.9.8 is still on 8 Bit/channel. Can any body tell me a work around?
Is there a way to temporarily pause the syncing of photos over iCloud on an iOS device? Sometimes I'm on a 3G connection and don't want to waste my quota syncing photos or sometimes I want to speed up the download of other files by pausing iCloud. Is it possible?
How do I get apple calendar to add calendar subscriptions to my greyed out "On My Mac" section? I am not able to add calendar subscriptions to my "on my mac" subscription section, instead I am forced to put all subscriptions into the iCloud section (greyed out "On My Mac" section). Earlier I was able to do this without problems.
What's the upgrade path of OS X Server? If I bought Lion Server from Mac App Store, am I eligible to upgrade to Mountain Lion Server for free? Or if I'm based on Mountain Lion Server, can I upgrade to Mavericks Server?
I'd like to fill in the Keychain Dialog box with the Name: and Password fields (printer is windows print queue), but after the Print command, the Keychain dialog box opens up, but never responds to anything till I click OK or cancel. Hope I missing something silly, thanks.
I was reading this news, and it got me thinking: will this be a hard setting or configurable? How can I configure or understand how this works so I can work with services that recognize my MAC address for authentication.
To get more exposure in the App Store for iOS apps I found out that creating a second application for 'top keywords' is vital for getting more downloads. I am considering creating 4 or 5 iOS applications that are identical to each other (in code) with a completely different design on a top search keyword.
Having used Automator to organise files by file extension successfully before, I decided to create an AppleScript application that will save me having to change parameters manually, as Automator doesn't allow me to set a variable for the "Filter Finder Items" action. However, for some reason or another, my AppleScript code decides not to actually move .wad files. I've tested it with .jpg files and it works perfectly. I've tested it with .epub files, same thing. But it doesn't seem to be able to detect .wad files.
How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another in Wiki Server on OS X Server? The other wiki page resides on the same server. This is known as an "include", Redmine has it: MediaWiki has it under the name of "transclusion": *=URL=* Commercial wikis like Confluence have it: https://wiki.mq.edu.au/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=79103996
When I want to close a window I type exit : Then cmd + w to close the window. Is there a way to do it with a little script like if I type quit it exit the session then close the window ?
I have GuizmoDNS installed on my iPhone (it can lock in DNS settings for WiFi and Cellular data). This is great for when my kids browse the web, as it can block most inappropriate sites, and the settings themselves are password protected.
How do you watch the World Cup on an Apple TV? Can somebody give me a tutorial with pictures? I do not have any cable subscription whatsoever. I heard that you can watch it on ESPN on Apple TV, but I want to confirm that this is true.
I have an iphone 4. I went to add a contact and my keyboard will not pop up. Thus I cannot add or search contacts by name. How can I fix this?
I delete my Twitter account from "Internet Accounts". Within 10 seconds the Twitter account reappears. How can I get it to reset? Companion problem is that my Twitter account shows up multiple times in Notification Center
For the past 6 years of my career I have been using Firefox/Firebug for web development. In the beginning it was the most powerful client side toolset. But now I am finding most of my colleagues. Especially the younger ones only use Chrome. They don't even have Firefox installed. This makes it harder to collaborate.
I am looking for a splitter that turns my 3.5mm headphone and mic port on my Mac mini into two 3.5mm headphone and mic ports or one audio out port and one audio out/mic port. I want to be able to leave my speakers plugged in and use my headphones/mic at the the same time. I will turn off speakers when using headphones and mic, but don't want to keep reaching around to plug and unplug.
I using sudo port install rpm to install the rpm in my mac(version 10.9.3), but when i use rpm, for example rpm -qa, it always gives me the error like: Could somebody explain why and how to install correctly?
My iphone was stolen about two months ago and the company wants to know the date which I lost it. Is it possible to recover information to the last time it was turned on?
Is is possible to make the fullscreen applications be put right next to the desktop you are currently on, rather than to the right of all existing desktops in Mission Control?
Is it possible to use macbook pro if the battery is at 0% health? It is 1% at the moment and work fine when plugged, but what about if it goes to 0% ?
Today, out of no-where Chrome just started showing invalid SSL certificate errors for popular sites like Github, Stripe, etc. I know the SSL certificates are valid, because my iMac on the same network works just fine.
I used sudo port install yum for install the yum in my mac(version 10.9.3). But when i executed the yum, for example yum update, it gives me the errors, like: I already double-checked that I have the rpm in my mac, so somebody knows which module i should install?
I came across this page which demonstrates that simply two lines need to be changed in order for Windows to detect the integrated gpu and use it: *=URL=* Does the above work and if so is it possible to manually control whether the integrated or discrete gpu is in use? Also, would it automatically switch over from discrete to integrated and vis-a-versa when the load requirements change?
The problem is that I must press "log in"/"sign in" button on most web-services again and again per day. All login/passwords are stored successfuly but the feature which is often called "remember me" doesn't works. What could be the reason for this bug? In before: the cookies are enabled.
I have a 2013 mac mini running osx 10.9.3. I used to be able to send the machine to sleep by going to the apple in the menubar and choosing sleep. After a recent update, when I do this the displays turn off, and my usb drives spin down. About 5 seconds later I hear a drive spin up and it immediately wakes from sleep.
I bought a new MacBook Pro and tried to transfer all of my files from a 5-year-old MacBook Pro using the Migration Assistant. Both of them are running OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks).
I have a strange problem with Word, every time I paste Chinese characters into Word, it looks like this:  However, I have no problem pasting Chinese characters to Pages(both 09 and 13 versions are OK), what should I do?
Wife just got a iPad mini, we already have an iPad and an iPhone. Now all 3 are linked together -- they share Contacts, Notes, Reminders, etc. We want to unlink all of them. I know there has got to be an easy way but just can't figure it out.
I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 7,1 that I have kept up to date over the years, currently running the latest version of Mavericks. I am planning to replace the 250 GB Toshiba hard drive it came with. The new hard drive will be larger capacity. When I did these kinds of upgrades with my Windows machines, I would just boot from a Linux USB drive, and use dd to clone my partition images. This way, I never had to deal with re-installing anything.
Does anyone know of a way to disable this animation:  I recall being able to in previous iterations of OS X.
I have a smart playlist that has 804 songs.  The smart playlist also has the same song count when viewing the device via iTunes
I'm having trouble with my built in iSight and I'm trying to reset the SMC. My MBP has a non-removable SMC, so the instructions ask me to press CMD-SHIFT-ALT-POWER at the same time, release it at the same time and then press the power button to power on the machine.
So System on chip is also CPU? very confused Then other source compares System on chip and CPU, they said "CPU will not work without other around components" & "System on chip is the combination of CPU & other components into a single chip."
How can I turn off the Auto Correct feature in Outlook 2011? I was not able to find anything about that in the web. Edit: Disabling all Auto Correcting in the Preferences as Buscar웃 suggested did not help.
I have two apps in queue for review by Apple. I had uploaded two app recently. Status I see is
My friend shared an album on icloud.com/photostream, by making it public and provided me its url. Now I can download individual photos in the album, but there are over 200 pics. Is there an option to download the whole album at once? I am using chrome on Macbook.
I have upgraded my Mac mini 2012 to Mavericks, and everything is running quite well. However, it turns out that I need to also run Mountain Lion sometimes (a piece of hardware I need to use is not Mavericks compatible.) I am attempting to install Mountain Lion on a 2nd partition on my Mini's internal hard drive by following the following steps: used Disk Utility to repartition my mini's internal drive, creating a 100 GB partition to install Mountain Lion on used Disk Utility to repartition my mini's internal drive, creating a 100 GB partition to install Mountain Lion on used DiskMakerX to create a Mountain Lion bootable USB key used DiskMakerX to create a Mountain Lion bootable USB key rebooted machine while holding down Option rebooted machine while holding down Option
Our Macbook hangs on startup and doesn't boot into the desktop environment. The most notable problem is that the Macbook doesn't make the usual startup sound when we boot up. It doesn't make any sounds at all at startup. Then it hangs for a long time on the grey screen with the Apple symbol and the spinner.
I wish to disable some mail notifications let's say, the ones coming from a mailing list named TEST. Is there a way to do it or the notifications are all enabled/disabled at the same time ? In the rules section I see how to make a notification appears but I don't see any way to hide it...
MacPro 1,1; lion? startup hard drive failed (with loud buzzing). Removed bad drive, installed replacement, inserted Lion USB drive, verified new drive using the Lion usb drive, started installation of lion on new hd, message on screen advised that it would take some time to accomplish, but after installation would shut down and restart. So I left the room to return a few hours later to a white screen w/ spinning pie wheel. Repeated startup attempts (with or without lion usb drive inserted) proceed as follows: startup chime, gray screen, gray screen with apple, gray screen, white screen with spinning pie wheel, all in the first minute then nothing further.
I have a mac mini (10.9 Macmini6,2) for my company as our server. It is used to give access to shared volumes that multiple people have access to throughout the day. There are usually 5-10 people accessing files at once on the mounted volumes (via afp). Below is one of the outputs for the crash (why it crashed). I don't know what to look for regarding clues to why it crashed. Can someone please help in figuring out why it keeps crashing? If there are other ways to troubleshoot, please let me know and I'll give them a shot to find out more info. Also, sharing volumes isn't working at all any longer. I don't know if this adds to the symptoms or not.
Is there any way to open Mail.App from QuickMailer? My dock auto-hides to get more screen space.
The question above says everything I think :D. The Icons are probably in the same folder in any version of Mac OS X I hope.
Is there any way I could disable the system services that use data when I am not connected to wifi?
I am getting this error: The backup disk image "Volumes/Data-1/studio@iphotographic.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error (null)).<
Months ago I was on a website and after logging in, Safari prompted 'Do you want to save this information to your iCloud keychain' or something. If I'd said yes, the next time I'd went to that site, my login information would already be filled in. However, for a single site, I (think I)'ve set it to 'Don't remember login information' and I can't get that to change to 'remember login information'; At least, I do not know where to correct that setting. So simply: How do I adjust a preference of 'Do not remember' to 'remember' or at least that preference? Thanks!
Who's this kid? btw, I am also sure that, he's now not that much innocent, he grew up. Its also noticeable that with release of Yosemite, the Preview app icon get changed.
A pair of weeks ago I spilled coffee on my MacBook Pro Retina 15'' (MacBookPro10,2, Early 2013), and now I just received the quote from the customer support centre. It's a 3rd party authorized reseller and service provider (listed on Apple's website). Their evaluation:
In the sidebar of the Reminders app for OS X, you can see your accounts and then the lists of reminders in each account. How can I change the order in which the accounts appear? (Not the lists within each account.)
In one of my contacts I have added two phone numbers. I want to know why the message icon that let's me text to this number show up only for one of the two numbers as well as how can I fix this.
I heard that developers must specify clearly the list of iBeacon UUID their app is working with, and that each change in this list would require an update. The reason would be to prevent companies to apply "counter-marketing" strategies, using their opponents' iBeacons to broadcast their own coupons. I'm developing a generic app that may let the user input his iBeacon's UUID or fetch them from a server. Would this application be really rejected by the appstore's validation process ?
So I added my @att.net email address a while back and decided to remove it from OS X Mavericks Mail. When I clicked to remove it, it prompted me if I wanted to delete this email account from iCloud on this computer or on all computers. It also gave me a list of all the computers associated to my iCloud account. However, a lot of those computers don't even exist. How can I edit this list of computers associated to my iCloud account?
A few weeks ago I wrote a short script with the Automator to get familiar with it. I found a website which explained how to set up a primitive script to start the screensaver and define a shortcut to start it. I chose cmd + L to activate the script and it worked fine.
I just got this monitor, *=URL=* When I plug it into my MBP's HDMI port, the highest resolution I can choose on it under the "scaled" option is 1080p. Why is this? I've upgraded OSX to 10.9.3 but it has not helped me at all. Any ideas? I've also tried using a thunderbolt to hdmi adapter but that didn't work either.
I tried deleting old passwords from the keychain. that worked fine
We know maximise a window in OS X (like we do in Ubuntu Unity or MS Windows) is not currently possible. Are there any third party extensions available from OS X App Store to achieve this? (I don't want to install applications that are not in App store for security reasons.)
I would like to add a title above or below a photo that is open in Preview. I know how to annotate the photo that writes over the photo. I want to add a new blank area where I can put the annotation.
I just want to kill a specific tcp connection on my mac (similar to tcpkill on linux). By port or ip, preferably port but i'll settle. I don't want to pay for a service or download another software, I want the simple terminal command that will allow me to do this like tcpkill. I've tried fixing up the rules on my firewall, and tried to make a bash script so it would run but to no success because the tutorial I found was very old. Why does this seem to be such a difficult task to find information on, or do?
I share an iTunes account with my children and they purchase music with the account on our Mac. How do I keep the music they purchase from appearing on my iPhone when I sync?
I purchased a new iPad. When I set up my Roadrunner email acct it downloaded over 300 from the main server to my inbox. I looked for a way to delete multiple email but there doesn't seem to be any method for that. As I was playing around with all the mailboxes, I did something because my inbox still says over 300 yet It only shows the current ones. ( I am keeping up to date deleting all incoming ) How do I find the phantom 300 ? I've looked in every folder !
I am seeing this weird thing on Mac (OSX). I have a PHP project where the file kind of certain PHP is listed as PHP where as other listed as TextWrangler text document; although all PHP files are associated with TextWrangler. The problem I am facing with PHP files being listed as different kinds is when arranging/sorting files based on file kind. Is there a way to fix this - make the file kind of all PHP files as PHP? Thanks Vivek Ragunathan
I am using MacBook Air 13". I need to install Windows 7 on my MB to run some software. I have about 30GB free space on my MB. Is there any Windows 7 distribution that uses less space and works with Bootcamp?
I have an iPhone which is set up to "Manually manage" music on a PC that I don't have access to right now. How can I add few more MP3 files to it with another PC/Mac, which will be available for listening offline? Ideally I want to have them all (1GB, 60 files), but even half a dozen will still help.
I have two text files with no extension and made them executable. Both are set to open with Terminal app. However one file is shown as kind "Text" and the other one as "executeable unix file". if I display the metadata attributes with mdls < filename > I can see the the Content Type is different: file 1 shows: file 2 shows:
It used to work fine. There is no physical damage to the MacBook and the WiFi network I'd like to connect is is perfectly functional. It will not connect to any WiFi network or ethernet-based networks. How can I fix this? Sometimes, the wifi status is in the top bar, but when I click on it, it says "No Wi-fi Hardware Installed".
There are many apps in store that will tell you how much your battery will last before the computer turns off. I need something that tells me something like : "You unplugged at 95% and have been running for 2 hours and now have 55% ".. So like a graph in Android phones maybe? I am using a Mac Book Pro 15 with latest Mac OS 10.9.
In december 2013 I bought an iPhone 5s. A couple of weeks ago I restored my iPhone to 7.1.1 using a back-up on my Mac. Since then, the battery drains very quickly and the devices heats up most of the times even though the device isn't under heavy load. Things I tried to resolve this: Restoring the iPhone to factory defaults using iTunes with the original ISPW file (and later using the device itself) Turned off iCloud, Mobile data, Background refresh and even turned on Airplane mode. Resetting the device by holding the power and home buttons for a couple of seconds. Recalibrating the battery (100%-0% and back to 100% again in one time) Sending the iPhone to Apple, they replaced the battery but haven't tested anything since the problem is still here. Symtomps: Using the iPhone for 15 minutes will drain the battery ~20%. Device gets hot sometimes even when I'm just reading an e-mail or responding to a text (so no gaming or intensive Apps that would trigger higher CPU load). Log: I connect
I downloaded chrome on my iPad from the App Store, & I would like the kids to have it on their iPad mini which is connected to my account, how can I do that? When I go to the App Store on their iPad it won't show the "free-install" button. What can I do?
I have an iMac from 2008 that is currently running Leopard and I would like to upgrade to Mavericks. What ways are there to upgrade, while spending the least amount of money. Also, are there any special discounts that Apple offers to students?
I was wondering what about my Mid-2009 Macbook makes optical hard drive enclosures like this one incompatible with the enclosure. And if there is another way that could get a second drive in there.
I installed Synergy on Mac OS Mavericks, to act as a keyboard and mouse server for a win7 desktop. Initially when I launched it, Synergy for Mac put up a config screen and I selected the "crypto" option. The other machines aren't set to crypto, and thus would not connect. I want to disable the crypto setting on the Mac (at least temporarily) until I get this up and running smoothly, but I can't find where this initial choice is kept. It doesn't seem to be in the server config settings page anywhere that I can see.. I have fully deleted the Synergy app folder, Deleted a bunch of Synergy related files via the command line and searching the whole hard drive with find -name *ynergy* etc, Then reinstalled from scratch, but the new install found some setting info somewhere and went right to to the server setup and started running with crypto enabled again. I obviously was not able to fully wipe synergy from the file system since it found that crypto setting and ran it again... There must be 
I am interested in using Quartz Composer to make some visualization programs, that I want to run on a Raspbery Pi. My question is, is it possible to run something made in Quartz on Linux?
I am a photographer and I use photos that are about 15Mb each. I take hundreds of these per month and edit, let's say, about 500 per month. And sometimes I'll go back a week later and tweak a batch some more.
Will my Office for windows license work for office on mac? I don't think it will, but I was just checking.
I have a Macbook Pro running 10.9.3 (13D65), Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.47f2 The fans are always running at full rpm and the kernel task used to take up 90% of the cpu till I found a fix that said to remove a plist entry specific to your Model Identifier. The plist was inside /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/ Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/.
I am searching for a hard drive but I wonder if just about any will allow me to partition it so that I can use a part of it for Time Machine only. Thanks.
Is it possible to "shut off" battery charging in OSX with an application rather then physically. Could this be done with AppleScript (I doubt it) or will need to be obj-c cocoa application? Essentially my idea is an app that'll shut off the charger when requirements are met (like the computer is in sleep mode, or the battery hasn't been drained in a few days)
I have a 5yr old Mac Book Pro. I didn't have it plugged and had shut it down. When I went to open it I found the whole laptop was heated and couldn't get it to turn on. I left it a while then plugged it in and finally it turned on but registered the battery was at 0 charge. Do I need a new battery or is it an internal problem. I left it for about 5 hours and restarted and recharged and seems to be okay again. I'm worried about damage to overheating. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated….Thanks
I use iCal's month view, so when creating an event I put it as all-day and put the event time in the title, like so: "3:30 meeting with Steve", "9am-10am TYO-NYC flight" (if you find it unusual, I'm not the only one doing this, and this style has benefits such as when dealing with time zones). iCal promptly removes the time from the title and changes the event from all-day to the new time, so I have to edit it again.
Apple said iPhone 5, 5s, 5c has 8MP iSight camera. A website says
How to dynamically highlight and save, the keyword searched in a pdf document, with the Preview application? For example, I want to highlight all the 'Apple' keyword in a document and save it, so when I open the document again, I see all the 'Apple' keywords are highlighted.
I have 2 OS X servers and I want to mirror the software updates from one server to the other. I've changed metaiIndexURL settings on the second server, but it seems to have a problem with the self sign certificate. The logs :
I am trying to make a folder to go on a server, that people can add photos to and then the script sends them to the correct place, however I'm having trouble with the search part. As you can see below in my code, the part where it finds where to send the folder to is commented out, because I have no idea what the syntax is for it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any way I can delete an album from the official iOS Flickr app?
I'd like to measure the temperature in my fridge over a few days and graph the results, since I think the fridge may be starting to fail. So I'm looking for a cheap device which can run independently on battery power, which logs the temperature and timestamp every few seconds to a file. I want to plug this in to my Mac and retrieve the data. I don't particularly need software to generate the graph: I can do this with Numbers, Excel etc.
When I run: ... it shows all the running /System daemons, but I have some running from /Library/LaunchDaemons and it is not showing those. How can I show them all?
Has anyone ever seen this? I wish I could describe it better, but I hoped the picture could do the talking. This is on a clients computer, running Mavericks, and as you can see trying to install Acrobat. This dialog box pops up, which would normally ask you to enter your username and password, but instead no text is visible, and you can't enter text or click any buttons.
When I boot my Macbook Pro 13" Retina (running newest Mavericks), it is showing me this error: However! If I boot holding the ⌥ alt-key, it shows Mavericks as option. When I press ⌤ enter-key to confirm, it will boot normally. (I'm using this Macbook now to type this question).
I'm trying to remove my MacBook Pro from being associated with my iCloud account however, when I try to remove the account a dialogue prompts me to make sure that I would like to remove it. For some reason, it lists my device several times and doesn't actually delete the account. I would like to remove any association of my Internet Accounts from my iCloud account and remove the numerous of 'Daniel's MacBook Pro' from my iCloud account.
I'm a developer and usually I need to see my app folders with programs like iExplorer or iPad File Explorer and I installed the released to the public version of iOS 8 into a device and now I can't see the bundle folder of any app, only Library, Documents and tmp. How do I read files from iOS devices over USB from a Mac?
I ran the following command by mistake: and I can't boot my macbook anymore, it freezes with the brown screen and ajax-style spin. What should I do to make it work normally again? I tried: a) Disk utility (repair permissions) - didn't help b) resetpassword -> reset ACL and permissions for home directory - didn't help.
When I turn on my macbook pro late 2011 I want it to use the integrated video card(not discrete one). Is there some sort of setting I can set or a driver I can install or some bios setting to achieve this?
When using open -a iTerm.app SOMEPATH from a shell-script or Emacs eshell command, it appears to launch a different instance of iTerm than the one in /Applications/iTerm.app that I'd expect. Explicitly specifying the app path like: open -a /Applications/iTerm.app SOMEPATH works as expected.
The loading-icon also known as Spinning pinwheel was located in an old Mac version at the following location: /Library/Frameworks/OpenBaseManager.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gear.tif
I have a new iPhone 4s. When I take photos away from my WiFi connection, the pictures do not appear in my photo stream on my iPad. Can this be easily remedied?
I would like a simple AppleScript that I can run at startup as an App using System Preferences/ Users and Groups / login items. That just clicks that icon.
To preface this: I'm sure this has been asked but I don't know exactly what I'm searching for or what terms to use, so I am going to ask here by explaining my situation. I am logged onto a network OS on a host machine (10.9) and I need to view and edit files on the Macintosh HD that is on this actual host machine. The reason why I need to do this is the user's machine is kernel panicking because of a Trend Micro kext in his OS. Whenever I try to go into the user library on Macintosh HD to delete the plists as well, I get "Permission Denied" even when using sudo. I do have the username and password of the user that I'm trying to edit so my question is: How do I log in, through terminal, as that user to edit things inside that users Library folder? Hopefully this makes sense -- if not let me know and I can try to clarify further.
In iOS Settings, what do the items listed in Privacy>Facebook control? If it is green does that mean I am limiting Facebook's access to my data? Or do I need to turn it off to limit Facebook's access? I'm very confused and the screen doesn't help guide you.
I just got a new MacBookAir for my home. It will primarily be used at home with some occasional use out of the house. I would like to use the iTunes server on my Synology NAS to store a downloaded copy of my iTunes libray for use a time. My understanding is that I can do this by pointing iTunes to the iTunes server directory on my NAS. Here's the issue, I believe that when I am out of the house, it will search for that library and not find it. Will iTunes know to automatically revert to iTunes Match streaming if it can't find the library?
I have a client who wants to use Mac OS X and a Mac Mini to sell a software solution to end users that ALWAYS boots straight to an application when the Mac is turned on. They can't access the login screen, desktop or anywhere else (in fact they should NEVER even see it.) the only thing they would see is the grey apple screen on boot up. That being said, we'd also need someway of being able to get at the desktop and the rest of OS X for an Admin person (my client or myself). I've looked around, and everything seems to either be focused on a kiosk web browser or booting to desktop and then launching the application... both of which are NOT what the client wants to happen! Any ideas on how best to accomplish this action?
We have a new Mac Pro (3.6 GHz) running MacOSX 10.9.3 that unexpectedly powers off. We've taken it in for service twice and the Geniuses were not able to reproduce the issue and the hardware diagnostics didn't apparently turn up anything of interest.
The problem with method 2 is that Bootcamp will only setup Windows from the CD drive installed in the bay and of course that's where my new SSD lives. I don't think my MBP can boot from USB so my original plan to create a bootable thumbdrive will almost certainly fail. I would really appreciate your comments and suggestions.
The OS X app switcher doesn't include certain windows. Example of a window not in the switcher and which I can't alt + tab to:
I am a programmer, and often I have words in all lowercase, not seperated by a space or hyphen. In some *situations OSX will sometimes change infoclass to info class for instance *context aware I'm sure
I want to share my Tunnelblick connection via wifi, it seems that in Maverick ipfw is depreciated to pf. I came across the old solution here: Virtual network interface in Mac OS X It seems that the plist has been changed in Mavericks too. I can't seem to get the IP address from tun0, while setting the IPv4 ConfigMethod to DHCP would just create another Ethernet connection (with the same IP range). Does anyone know the solution for this problem? I want to make a network interface, that can be selected via "Share Your Connection From" in Internet Sharing.
I'm trying to set up postfix to send mail through Gmail's SMTP server on port 587. Here's what I've put in my /etc/postfix/main.cf: However, I'm running into TLS problem since /etc/postfix/cacert.pem, which seems to be suggested everywhere online, doesn't really exist on my system (OS X 10.9.3).
I have a mid 2011 macbookpro 15.4 2.2ghz quad core, 16gb ram and ati 6750m w/ intel hd 3000. Mac OS X 10.9.3 & 10.10 beta.
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) i7, 16gb ram graphic card intel HD4000. I recently bought a thunderbolt expansion PCIE which supports a PCIE 2.0 16x graphic card with space for Full length card. I have doubts about what graphic card gonna give me the best results for using the Unreal Engine 4 UE4 or Unity3D, and Blender.
I want to create a icon in top menu for accessing folder quickly, is it possible?
So I'm about to copy files off a system partition, and I'm afraid I'll have problems with permissions. A bit of background - OS X won't boot (looping progress bar) and Mavericks Recovery's Disk Utility says it can't repair it. Files are viewable in MacDrive on the Boot Camp partition (which I'm using, so I don't think the disk has failed, just something wrong with that particular partition). My plan is to remove the drive and mount it on another Mac and see what I can copy. Thing is I've recall having bad experiences with doing things like this in the past - I'm afraid there will be permission issues somewhere down the road when I try to use these copied files. Ideally I'd like to copy the files, and apply them with "default" permissions from my working Mac, as if those files had been created the working Mac, and not the failed Mac.
Im not really familiar with applescript (using C/Python/Pacsal atm). So far did the autoclicker for my WoW ore prospection.
Back in the day, I recall that some systems had the ability to specify boot arguments that would force behavior like this. Scanning the OpenFirmware command and MacOS boot-args cheat sheets reveals nothing obvious.
I'm not sure if I've just missed some documentation or not, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to set up a launchd agent that can be triggered whenever a datagram is received within a multicast group. What I'd like to know is what a launchd plist should look like to provide a simple datagram listener that is bound to a multicast group. Here's what I've been trying:
I have Core i5 processor with nominal 2.3 Ghz speed. But, according to Intel Power Gadget, most of the time the frequency is much lower. Even during intensive usage. It's 0.8-1.6 Ghz. I noticed that some operations work slower than they could.
I have tried setting the energy saver setting sleep to never. I tried both Caffeine and NoSleep apps. I've tried setting pmset sleep to 0. I read somewhere that it might be the lid sensor which is on the ribbon cable for the battery light indicator, so I disconnected it but it would still go to sleep. I've also tried resetting the SMC, and it made no difference. Not sure what is wrong. I'm running 10.9.3 on a Macbook Pro mid 2009. Update: *=URL=* Power Management logs
Since upgrading to Mavericks, CrashPlan requests incoming network connections each time my MBP is restarted. I always click "Allow" and I've ensured that my firewall settings allow it, but I still get the alert. I've followed the instructions from Code42 support, but the issue persists.
I have a directory of files named like: In Finder my directory is arranged by Name and the files are in correct numerical order. I like to use space preview to view the files, then I press Tab to advance, but the selection advances in alphabetical (ASCII?) order rather than numeric:
I have an external sound card, it's SWEEX 7.1. If I plugged in, it shows at Audio MIDI setup and I can choose number of speakers, so I choose 6 speakers, because I have 5 + 1 speakers connected in my sweex sound card. I tested it by clicking to every speaker in midi setup and all speakers work correctly, which is fine, but...
I saw this answer by griewei here: *=URL=* Unfortunately I don't have enough rep to comment.
I am trying to learn to access any menu item within an application with AppleScript. I can orient to the actual menu tab, and then access clickable menu items, but I can't access menu items within submenues that appear if they are hoovered over or RightArrow is pressed.
I am trying to connect my mac mini MD387D/A to a 17 inch Samsung screen Sync Master 730 which has around 9 years and supports up to 1280*1024. I have a VGA adapter from my mac mini which worked before with two other screens of 24 and 27 inches. The monitor behaves as follows: when I start my mac mini, the apple starting screen appears with the apple in the middle and the load icon beneath it, after a couple of second, the monitor goes black and says that there is no signal. Could someone guide me towards a solution, or do I need a new monitor? EDIT: I found this specs that says: Screen Resolution 1920x1200 does this imply that it is what I should at least have?
How can I delete just 1 or 2 sent or received text messages without deleting the whole text conversation?
For no apparent reason, one of the keys on my Macbook Air keyboard (the "l" key) shows the character accent pop-up menu. This happens when I tap the key normally, not when holding down the key. Could this be some odd setting that got changed? Or is it likely a hardware problem?
An Application I have (IntelliJ Idea to be more specific) has Prevent App Nap checked but the checkbox is disabled and I can not disable Prevent App Nap. How can I disable "Prevent App Nap" for this application?
Information about my system: OSX 10.9.3 (on both a Macbook and an iMac). Things I've tried: Chmodding the mDNSService to 000 (doesn't work that well) Blocking the ports associated with Airplay announcements (5353) Completely unloading the mDNSResponder and mDNSResponderHelper I'm connected through a wired network, and the announcements are sent via multicast announcements (as with my IPTV).
I've noticed that my iMac at work (21.5", Mid 2011) charges my iPhone 5 about 2-3x faster than the included wall charger. How does it do that?
Since a few weeks, my iOS Mail app and the iCloud webmail started to complete the mail addresses that I type in the "To" field in a funny way. It doesn't complete only single addresses, but tries to find all the contacts that were in a conversation before. This is very annoying, since I accidentally sent mails to the wrong people by this. How can I disable this behaviour?
I just opened my new MacBook Air and I noticed that when my computer asks for my password, the tinted word that should say "Password" (before I type it) is in a different language. How do I change it to English?
Hi I am very new to all of this. I am trying to prototype an function on my local machine. I am using SQLDeveloper and trying to understand what I would need to do to create a database locally. I'm probably using the wrong language so I will try to be more specific. I don't have access to a server where I can build this database and I would need to do it locally - how would I set up my SQLDeveloper to use part of my hard drive space a server where I can build the database?
Calls (e.g. via FaceTime or Continuity) Media playing in other applications, such as YouTube in my browser System sounds (such as when you change the volume)
Is it possible to turn on the iPad's speakers with the small bottom headphone part stuck in the audio jack?
I have a Western Digital 2.5 TB hard drive. (Model WD25EZRS) It's connected through an external USB dock to my iMac, running Mac OS X Mavericks.
I did sign up for Apple's Public Beta program but was too late and missed out on the Developer Preview as they were offered to only the first one million sign-ups. Anyway, today I just managed to grab a copy off a torrent site and it's now lying on my computer.
UPDATE 2: It appears that the problem I described is a known issue regarding installing Flash Player on OS X 10.9 using the shim installer from get.adobe.com/flashplayer. For further details, see the following thread from the Adobe Forums.
I'm using a TP-Link portable router to share a wireless internet connection from my mac to the router via ethernet. This seems to work but I notice that the IP on a device connected to the router is 192.168.2.14. I'm curious to know which IP range internet connection sharing will use by default and whether this can be changed via the terminal. I'm currently on Mountain Lion but also interested in any relevant differences in Mavericks. ifconfig shows: Is this bridge the mechanism for internet sharing?
My calendar on both my iPhone 5 and iPad Air is beyond screwed up. The most common problem is that an entry moves from the time I set for it.
I want to play webm in my website but I don't know why it doesn't play. I installed Perian and ffmpeg but none helps. Is there any simple pluging/codec as the one existing for IE?
I am a little bit confused about the geotagging feature in iPhone, so I will list all these lines & tell me if any of them is wrong. iPhone 2G has a Rear Camera that can take photo only with photo geotagging. iPhone 3G has a Rear Camera that can take photo only with photo geotagging. iPhone 3Gs has a Rear Camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging iPhone 3Gs has a Rear Camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging iPhone 4 has an iSight rear camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging, and has FaceTime front camera can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging iPhone 4 has an iSight rear camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging, and has FaceTime front camera can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging
i have a problem with my MacBook Pro. I installed a Systemupdate, reboot and then i had a loading screen which loads a long time. Then i started the mac in verbose mode and there is... The Checks and Repairs start three/3 times. After that the MacBook turns off without any information. I startet the HDD Recovery program, but there is the same in the error log. I dont know whats up with the Hard Drive -.-
I'd want to setup OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 as a virtual machine with VMWare program. Firstly, my Intel driver allow Virtual Machine. I check it. I also setup and run VMWare UnLocker. When I run, I'll take this error. How can I solve this? Please help me.
I get this message every time I open a terminal in mac php is not installed on my system and when I try cleanup or uninstall it get the error not sure where it's coming from; how to get rid of this error? Update: brew doctor output
I have no idea what happened but my Wi-fi network has disappeared completely! The Wi-fi icon found on the top menu bar is gone. I'm unable to create a new Wi-fi network service but only able to connect to the internet via LAN cable. I've checked my system information and it says that my network service is inactive. Not sure if reformatting my laptop would make a difference. HELPPPP!
I'm using SoundFlower but it's capturing all the audio of the system. I only want to capture the audio of VLC and it's not letting me choose the Output.
There is no way to remotely login from my laptop to the server This is the error I get: It is possible to login to that user from the Mac mini server.
The Title says it all. If I start iPhoto while my iPhone is connected via USB, iPhoto simply freezes, showing the beach ball all time. The only way to revive it is to kill the iPhoto process via the task manager and then to launch it again. iPhoto works ok when the phone is not connected. I run Mavericks 10.9.3 on a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 13" and the phone is an iPhone 5 with IOS 7.1.1. Edit 1: iPhoto is version 9.5.1 Edit 2: The behavior is the same when I connect my iPad Edit 3: Deleting the iPhoto library does not change the behavior in any way Edit 4: Deleting iPhoto, the photo-library and everything under ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/ does not solve the issue Edit 5: Reinstallation of iTunes has no effect Edit 6: Loading the photos works perfectly from the Image Capture app
If I delete a photo from my camera roll after backing up on iCloud, will the backup (In this case, the photo I deleted) be affected?
I have several powermac G4 computers running leopard, and would like to use them as a test environment for my Java 7 based applications. I have looked online a bit but could not find any way to install java 7 on a powerpc computer. I wouldn't mind using linux or other alternative operating systems if necessary to get java 7, but would prefer to stay on os x if possible,
I am trying to make a "web clip" widget for my dashboard of the Stack Exchange top bar (to keep an eye on moderator flags, etc).  The problem is that it won't let me make the widget smaller than 110 pixels when clipping it in Safari. Is there any known work-around for this?
When I use an external drive via usb, my computer really slows down giving me no choice except reboot. I watched memory usage with activity monitor. Free memory decreases by time and inactive memory increases with the same amount and others don't change much. If I continue using -esp. reading-, free memory comes below to 100MB and then increases a bit -I think it starts paging =other applications' memories= to system disk-, then continues to decrease. Closing the application -that use the external- do not relese memory from inactive to free but ejecting the external does. After unplugging and trying to use the other applications, I face very sluggish performance so that rebooting becomes a better-fast choice. Both NTFS and FAT partitions produce the same result and I don't have any other partition.
My external hard drive, which I was backing up with Time Machine, finally died. I want to retrieve some of those files, but when I go into Time Machine I can't navigate to those files because Time Machine does not show the drive. I have examined the "Backups.backupdb" folder and can see that the associated drive still exists within the Time Machine backup, but I am having difficulty navigating to files (for some reason items within folders will just "disappear"). How can I recover my files?
I created a PDF presentation in latex using beamer and I added notes to some slides. Now I want to show my presentation using a projector. What I need is to show the slides on the projector while see the notes on my laptop. Usually I create my presentation on Powerpoint and it supports a Presentation mode by default for its files. However I'm not able to find an app that does this to PDF documents! I'v tried these apps but they are all out of date and didn't work: *=URL=* https://code.google.com/p/splitshow/
Until I shifted to Mac I used to use an app called Fences in Windows to hide desktop by double clicking the desktop. I wanted a similar app to do this on the Mac OS X Mavericks but I have no clue how to do it. The closest app I made is using a global shortcut key Shift+Command+H (using the idea I found on GitHub at MASShortcutDemo to toggle between hide and show of desktop. Basically it ran the following commands and set a flag as desktop is hidden Pressing shortcut again ran these commands to revert it
I have two magic mouses, one at home and one at work. Both work just fine over bluetooth with my Macbook Pro (10.9.2), which I use at both places.
I would like to know whether there are any advantages to using iPhoto on Mac for my pictures taken on my iPhone. For the past few years I have simply exported all images via Image Capture which stores the actual file to a location on my hard drive. Recently I have had to use iPhoto to get images off an iCloud shared stream, I have noticed when importing the images it saves into one file (almost like a database) instead of individual JPEG files. Can someone tell me whether what pros and cons are there to using iPhoto instead of manually saving images?
So I made the mistake of upgrading to Yosemite and I can't revert back to Mavericks. I bought this SSD and am trying to clone my HDD. However Carbon Copy says it does not support Yosemite, are there alternatives to Carbon Copy ?
I installed jdk 1.8.0 u5, but the command line java is reporting 1.7: Here is what is installed also: The java control panel applet reports 1.8, but in /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/ Any idea where it went?
(As a heads up, I've hardly used any versions of OS X newer than Snow Leopard. So, I might be missing something obvious here).
I have a 1st generation iPad and when I download apps it tells me “this requires iOS 6.0 or later” but when I go to update it tells me it's fully updated? Why is this happening, and is there any way I can fix it?
I have a 13" Macbook Air (2013) that has USB 3.0 ports and an SD card slot. I want to run Windows to play some games that are Windows only, and I didn't want to partition my main drive because it's quite small.
My iPad2 works if it is placed next to the Wifi router. It does not detect WiFi if it is just one foot away. The problem seemed to have appeared all of a sudden. Does this look like a problem with the iPad2 hardware? I have seen discussions on iPad2 WiFi problems and the common solutions to reset settings, including reseting completely did not work.
In Keynote I am inserting multiple connection lines to a single image. As soon as I drag one end point near the image the end point of the connection line snapped onto the image. I would like to have complete manual control over the positioning and depth of connecting lines. How do I stop Keynote from auto snapping my connection line?
I have an early 2011 17-inch MBP running the latest version of Mavericks. The primary drive is a 1TB SSD and I also have a 512GB SSD in the optical bay. BootCamp is installed on a partition on the primary drive, however when I attempt to boot into BC I get a black screen with a blinking cursor. If I remove the 512GB drive, however, BC launches properly. (Also, in case it makes a difference, the BC partition does not show up in the Startup Disk preference panel but does show up in the EFI list on startup.)
With Mac OS Mavericks and Chrome 35 : everytime I start my computer, the first time I launch Chrome, it starts in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen, quit Chrome and then restart it, it's normal. If I reboot (I don't check "open my apps on startup") and re-launch, it starts again in fullscreen. Why does it do this ? Thanks Actually after further testing, it doesn't always start in fullscreen after a reboot, it seems pretty random.
Is it possible to use your iMessage to contact other people on Linux, Android or Windows systems? Maybe via another XMPP client (Adium or Pidgin ...)? What would I have to tell friends on Linux, Windows or Android so they can contact me on my iOS? Does iMessage use XMPP, so I would have a worldwide reachable Jabber account already?
Chat Secure is working on iOS with Jabber but it doesn't stay active in the background (just for 10 minutes) so it is not really an alternative to the internal iMessage Chat. Which app is able to save Jabber messages offline and send them as push notifications as soon as you are online again? I use iOS 7 on an iPad Air
What is the alternate for BAT file (Windows) on Mac? Does different version of OS X have different format of BAT files? I am trying to create a BAT file on Mac which normally changes directory while the file is open.
Is there a way to show the exact number of unread mails from the Mail.app icon also in the title bar? Note that this is not the same as showing the number of unread mails in inbox, since I can change the folder to something else like a smart mailbox. (A script which outputs this number would also be okay; I could write a menu bar item around this myself.)
Since version 11.2 of iTunes for Windows, I am experiencing a problem with sorting of names with non-English characters (such as ž, š, č, ř or other in Czech). It seems that iTunes completely omits these characters when sorting. As an example, I have Čajkovskij (which is the Czech spelling of Tchaikovsky) among artists in my library and it is currently sorted between Adele and Alan Parsons Project, i.e. it seems that the character Č has been completely omitted while sorting and thus the artist is sorted as Ajkovskij.
Suppose I have a site with this code: but I do not want to open any new tabs or windows. I know I can drag the link into the address bar to force open the link in the current tab instead of a new one, but it is too cumbersome. Is there a more convenient way to do it, like keyboard shortcut or maybe an extension?
My iPod 5 was recently stolen and I have downloaded the "Find My iPhone" app and I logged into my iTunes account to track all the devices using it. It says my iPod 5 is currently offline and will notify me once it connects to the internet. I've also set it on lost mode so when it connects it will change my passcode. If someone has logged out if my iTunes and into their own, will it still track it as mine? Or will it just not show the device on the app at all? Because I don't want to have this app for nothing if it isn't tracking my stolen iPod.
I am trying to help my dad with his Mac (OSX 10.9.2), the problem seems to be with the audio (or lack-thereof). The internal speakers are working (since hitting F11/F12 keys makes the "Beeping sound" (Increasing/Decreasing audio)) but other than that there isn't anything from the speakers or headphones off of any other source of possible audio (Youtube, iTunes, etc). The output type is selected as: What causes this and what is the best bet for a fix?
I have Macbook Pro Retina with Mavericks. Somehow I uninstalled iBooks. How can I re-install it? I tried Google but did not help.
I have three devices: 1) iPhone 4 synced with old computer whose hard drive failed 2) iPhone 5s not synced with any computer 3) New windows computer
I have a monthly bandwidth cap of 25gb download capacity, because I live in a rural area with no broadband at all. I use the Exide satellite product. So, I'm extremely limited in my ability to download movies. But... Exide give me unlimited bandwidth between midnight and 5am. I'm in need of OSX automation that could automatically call iTunes to download a particular movie name or movie name list, from the iTunes store, starting at midnight. Alternatively, I'd be happy to do this on iOS (iPad) and grab the movies that way.
I have what appears to be an ear piece of some sort. Not sure. Serial number is 12731HOSXAP Model No A1221. What is it?
I am trying to install OS X Server app version 3 on Mavericks system. I tried everything, including manually deleting all server app files and making clean install, but nothing works. Whenever I start the installation process, it sticks on "Preparing services". The app keeps respond, but no HDD activity is visible at all. Does somebody encountered the same problem?
My sister in law's iPhone 5 just showed up as online in Pakistan 4 months after it was stolen from Australia. We have locked the iPhone remotely from the Find My iPhone function on icloud.com If we choose to erase the iPhone remotely, will the person with the stolen phone then be able to use the phone, but with all her personal data gone?
I switched to Mac recently. The only thing that's disturbing me until now is the missing of the tilde sign (~). The closest thing I achieved to this sign is the accent tilde (˜). My passwords are not satisfied with that second little tilde sign. I'm using a U.S International PC keyboard layout. How do I make the tilde sign work on my Mac?
I came over to Mac from Ubuntu. I've saved all SSH files I had in the .ssh folder in Ubuntu. There are three files id_rsa id_rsa.pub known_hosts
(I will have to do this fast, since I think my mac will crash again.) My Mac keeps crashing. It started happening since I installed Adobe Acrobat Pro (since then I have removed it), but it might be unrelated to that. Even after I removed it, it still keeps crashing every few minutes. Here is the latest panic log from Console:
I am referring to the upper right corner (beside spotlight). Somehow my notification center crashed while I was typing a message and it has been broken for a couple of days now. Is there a way besides restarting my machine? (just curious, i can easily restart it but if there's a way for it to go away without restarting then I'd like that)
So it has been well documented that GUI applications (like gedit or textedit) should NOT be run with sudo. Ubuntu et al get gksu and gksudo (and the like) so question: what do WE (Mac users) get? Given that the Darwin kernel is built on some *BSD code, I assume the same issues apply, but how do we go around this?
I am trying to live stream my webcam (with ffmpeg) on a web server using Web sockets. However, I cannot manage to find the path (similar to /dev/video* un Linux). I wanted first to use iSight, but Apple makes it really complex to access it (using avfoundation, qkit). How can I identify/access my Webcam device please ? Note : I have found this post, but sadly unanswered. Thanks
I would like to join mp4 videos like I join pdfs by pdfjoin. Is there any default tool to join videos?
Is there a way using only ifconfig to list only network interface names and their assigned IPs? I am aware that I can do ifconfig | grep inet but this does not include the interface name (en0, en1 etc)
I have Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Short Name > Prefer Nicknames set to on. In iMessages I get both the photos and nickname, which is great and allows her to see who sent her a photo for example. Can I do the same for FaceTime?
I was just using my iPhone when it suddenly disconnected from Wifi. I went into the Settings app, I tapped on "Wi-Fi" and it froze there (only the app was frozen, I could still close it). So I closed it and tried several times until finally I went into the Wi-Fi setting. It was searching for connections but it just kept searching and didn't even show up my wifi connection. I tried resetting it by holding down the sleep button (the one used to lock/unlock iPhones) and home button simultaneously but it didn't work. I've also tried normal restart by first shutting it down and let it boot up again, problem is still there. I have restored my iPhone twice from my backup, and restored to factory settings and restored from backup, still the stubborn problem is there.
I have an Apple iOS Developer account and I registered my iPhones UUID to this account (to create Provisioning Profiles, etc.). Is it possible to add this iPhones UUID to another iOS Developer account?
I have an account on my OS X Mavericks system that I want to disable so it cannot be used for login. I would not like to delete the account permanently but rather disable it temporarily. I believe that this was possible in Lion – but maybe my memory plays tricks on me?
Everytime I am connected to wifi, then lose the connection (e.g. by leaving the house), the 3G on my iphone 4s refuses to work. I have to turn my phone off and on in order to get 3G again, and then I lose the 3G again next time I connect to the wifi. I can work around the problem so theres no point getting my phone repaired or doing anything drastic, I just wanted to know if any of you knew what is causing this and if there is an easy way to fix it.
I am needing to connect my camcorder, which uses mini dv tapes, to my mac so I can transfer the video to an electronic file, but the only output on the camcorder is an A/v and i'm not sure what connections to use. I need to know what connectors will connect from a/v to my macbook air.
I have been using a Vodafone mobile broadband(modem) and decided to get rid of it then everything went wrong. I dragged the app and dropped it on to the trash but its menu bar is still there but inactive. I searched for multiple help to rectify the problem but still the menu bar was there. I used easy find to look for everything related to Vodafone and deleted it still the menu bar was there. Nothing in the PC has Vodafone related files except that its menu was present. Guys is there any way I could deal with this or is it a more larger problem than I thought.
I have a MacBook here that crashes reproducibly shortly after unplugging it from the power supply -- while it is sufficiently charged (I verified the battery charge). Battery status is healthy with few cycles. At first a gray screen appears informing me in several languages that a problem occured (I believe this is a kernel panic) At first a gray screen appears informing me in several languages that a problem occured (I believe this is a kernel panic) Macbook reboots Macbook reboots OSX asks whether it should restore the windows OSX asks whether it should restore the windows Error report is as the one from 18:0 (see below) Error report is as the one from 18:0 (see below) It seems to be an issue with Kernel Extension com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerMAnagement It seems to be an issue with Kernel Extension com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerMAnagement It has a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB and OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) inst
In my office I have Mac Mini that is connected to an ethernet cable for internet. They don't allow us to use the office wifi on mobile etc. So what I am going to do now, is create hotspot out of my Mac Mini machine for my phone's use.
Is there a way I can add an interstitial screen when a user first logs in to my Airport Extreme's guest network whereby I can make a marketing ask (like, "Like us on Facebook!") and require them to check a box and click a button ("I accept the terms of service," etc.) before continuing to browse the web?
According to Apple's KBase article on "Using 4K displays", the Sharp PN-K321 monitor is supported at 60Hz in MST mode if you're connected via mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort. I've ordered a StarTech mDP-DP cable as Amazon's comments indicate that it works well (or well enough), just wondering if anyone has any experience with this or similar products.
I have a script to send an email, but I'd like to detect if no email account is setup, and to do something else. Is there a way to detect or trap for this condition? Thanks.
Install from scratch. No plugins. Incognito mode. Open new tab or open any webpage or open a link in a new tab.
Several times a day Mac Mini (mid-2011 model) with OS X 10.9.3 losing keyboard and mouse connection. Batteries are fresh, showing level between 73 and 100%. If I'm pressing power button on the keyboard, and clicking with a mouse, and about 30-40 seconds it connects back again. But this if very frustrating, as it happens several times every day for at least couple weeks already.
After restoring from a Time Machine Backup all of the RAW images in my aperture library show as "Not supported", even though they did work on my old laptop (where the backup was made). Here is what I tried: Downloading and manually installing the latest Camera RAW Repairing permissions for my Aperture Library Repairing the Aperture Library itself Rebuilding the library itself And it still says "File type not supported" The weird thing is after I rebuild or repair the database, the thumbnail will work, But expanding will then break it and all of the thumbnails will go back to the exclamation mark. I have multiple backups, one time machine and one put on a windows server. My camera is supported by Digital Camera RAW - Sony Alpha SLT-A57
How do I remove items (individual or all) from Reading List on my iMac (OS X 10.6.8)?
I am new to this, but I set up a little server for something up on a laptop connected to the Ethernet of the airport express. I had the server down for a few months and when I plugged it back in, I noticed that the local IP address had changed, and I had to change the IP on the port forwarding settings. Is there a way I can "force" this to be static so I don't have to change it every time the Local IP decides to change? Thanks for any help
I want to select the who lang comp lab folder for backing up (cloning) using SuperDuper software in OSX but it just allows me to select one file as an image. lang comp lab folder is inside mgserver folder which is a shared one. I have attached some photos which can depict this much better.
I am a mac user and want to stay with the system-provided version of OpenSSL, which is OpenSSL 0.9.8y. I am wondering if installation of macports will automatically update my OpenSSL or install another version?
I get the spinning circle when my music app is open, it never turns off! Can this drain my battery? on brand new iPhone 5s on ios7
What happens when multiple apps access the M7 motion chip? When one app reads a step count, does it zero the counter for other apps, or will other apps also be able to access the step count and double count the steps?
I have this guard in my .profile: Still, I have verified the check is passing for MacVim started from Finder, not only from bash terminal, and .bashrc contains terminal related script that seems to make MacVim not work as expected when started by double click, so I must have this check failing for non-terminal executions. I'm not sure whether this affects MacVim only or just any application. I was expecting $BASH_VERSION empty for anything started from Finder. Any tips?
There are plenty of articles explaining how to install OS X on a separate partition of your Mac’s internal drive and how to install it onto an external drive using a single partition. However, it’s not clear to me whether it’s possible to install OS X onto a separate partition of an external drive. It’s what I’d like to do, is it possible?
having a weird issue with the model editor in mysql workbench. All the table name height are far too big. Its making working with the editor completely impossible. I've search and googled and can't find any solutions. Also been through the preferences and can't see any options to solve this.
Would it be possible to create iPhoto "repository" on an external USB hard drive, so that every time I would plug the drive I launch iPhoto, I could manage my photos?
I've deleted a photo by mistake. I have the photos as my desktop background. Is there any way that I can take it and save it?
I've just updated my iPad to iOS 7.1.1 and it can't verify my Apple ID. I can't download apps or update apps! Anyone know how to fix this?
In Safari 6.1, under Mac OS 10.8, if I type a text in the address bar that matches the title of a page I have previously visited, that page is listed below. I select it and would then like to slightly edit the related URL. Instead, it only lets me editing the page title, and when pressing enter it performs a web search with the edited title. How can I change this behaviour?
I found this subroutine (snippet 1a) is handy in snippet 2a and want to reuse it by calling its name. I googled for howto. Then I saved snippet 1a as /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.scpt and in snippet 2a I replaced snippet 1b with snippet 3 and got snippet 2b and then I ran snippet 2b, but I got an error saying «script» doesn’t understand the “removeText” message. Reference: "use statement" (refer to the part found by searching use script "Happy Fun Ball" in *=URL=* So I went back to google and found one suggesting I should save snippet 1a as "a script application". Reference 2: at the bottom of *=URL=* In that one's example, it's snippet 4 so I exported snippet 1a as /Users/henry/Library/Script\ Libraries/text.app and wrote snippet 2c snippet 2c Then I ran it and got an error {} doesn't match the parameters {searchText, sourceText} for removeText. Afterwards, I have tried firstly to append removeText(searchText, sourceText) to snippet 1a (getting snippet 1c) and exported 
I need to write or find a simple script to find, select and move to trash, folders within a Final Cut Pro X library. Because these libraries are bundles you can't search them in the normal way. What I want is a script that runs every day, searches the libraries finds Folders (and their contents) called "Render Files" and then moves them to trash. I can use automator to find the bundles, and to list the contents, but then I cannot get it to select only the 'Render Files' folders.
I want to share my 4G connection with my laptop since our WiFi connection at home can be slow. However, once I go to the iPhone Settings > Personal Hotspot and enable the hotspot, the iPhone asks me to enable its WiFi antenna. At this stage, the iPhone automatically connects to my WiFi network at home and I cannot really transfer the 4G connection to the Hotspot. What should I do (apart from connecting the iPhone via USB to the laptop)? More importantly, why do I loose the 4G connection and connect to the WiFi network instead of the iPhone being smarter and procuring my 4G connection?
I made a full backup of my old iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1) with iTunes. I'd like to restore only some of the apps and app data to my new 5s from the iTunes backup. Is this possible?
I know that when you attach a PDF file in an email you are going to send it shows in the email as the actual PDF file. If you right click on the PDF file you can make it display as an icon.
I'm a newbie in shell scripting. What's the difference between these two commands? What's the use of the dollar sign?
I had Messages.app when I got my mac a year and a half ago and it worked great. However, since a few weeks ago all my contacts in my previous conversations appear in red (as if they do not have an account). What's even more curious is that I can see when people are actually typing (I see the 3 dots (dis)appearing), but I only get the message on my iDevices. Solutions I have already tried : Restarting messages Signing out/in my account Rebooting I am now out of solutions, do you guy have any ideas what the problem might be? NB : My OSX is up-to-date with 10.9.3
From single-user mode in OS X 10.5, I want to run but I get an error: Is there a way to load the DiskManagement framework or otherwise repair permissions in single user mode?
I have a MacBook Pro 15 Retina (mid 2012) that has my working environment set up - Parallels Desktop with Windows machine, some software for Mac and Windows. I am to start using a new MacBook Pro Retina 13 (2013) tommorow. Is there a backup and restore procedure for Mac I can use to have a reinstall everything-free migration from one machine to another? My MacBook Pro is Running the latest OS X Mavericks 10.9.3. Thanks
It works great on my iPad and iPhone, and I would like to be able to see both the iCloud Calendar and my Google Calendar at one page on my PC (Win 7).
I have an early 2011 (8.2) MBP (i7@2.0Ghz) which I've upgraded to 16Gig memory and 512 Gig SSD. I am a heavy CPU and IO user: vagrant, Vmware Fusion, external display, Office, various IDE's (Xcode, Eclipse derivatives for Scala, Ruby,Java), IntelliJ, Webstorm, databases - Postgres, Mongo, MySQL. The main pigs are my VMs (esp win 8 ) which crucify the Fan; I am going deaf but it is so annoying that the fan just ramps up and down the whole time, the machine gets quite hot too but I have an external keyboard and mouse which mitigates that unpleasantness. Geekbench seems to suggest that I will be 25% better off in raw performance terms with a later machine. Will the noise/heat/performance be any better if I get a late MBP with an equivalent spec?
I often have project folders clientA, clientB, personalproj1 etc and often they all have commonly used files/filers e.g. They might all have myCode.js, so when I type myReusedCode.js in spotlight (or alfred) it will return every file. I REALLY want to be able to type something like this (into Alfred)find clientB myCode.js to get THAT instance of myCode.js
There is an index.html in that directory but when I access *=URL=* from the browser I get a 404. I am getting this in the error logs
Other network operations work fine (Safari, Chrome, ssh, etc.) -- it's just Mail.app that exhibits this behaviour. Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any comments on additional things to check to help troubleshoot the issue?
I cannot sync contacts from my iPhone to my Gmail account. I have a standard Google account setup in my Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings (Exchange is not available to me). Also, my Gmail is set as my default account.
I'd like to add an environment variable for a specific account where the variable has a space. It seems that editing .bash_profile like below doesn't work: and neither does: I'm having to settle with changing the name of the application package, which isn't preferable.
I have been facing an issue regarding a OS X Lion installation in my Macbook Pro 13. I used to have OS X Lion, then I decided to update my O.S to the OS X Mavericks; the update was pretty good, it was successful. The problem was when I tried to "format" my Mac, during the re-installation of the O.S, a message appeared in my screen saying that the "Recovery partition could not be created", that was weird for me, I am not very good with my Mac yet, so I tried using a OS X Lion installer (which is in a CD), I tried to install from the CD (what many people call a "clean installation") but I got the same result regarding the "partition recovery". I saw that some of the people mention that it is needed to delete all the partitions created, but in my case, every time I try to delete any of the partitions, it says "cannot unmount disk", and I am not able to perform any deletion over the partitions as mentioned in many tutorials. So far, I noticed that a yellow alert appears in one of the parti
It's my first post and I'm not quite good in English. If I explained something not clear please let me know. For simple when you logged in Terminal.app (on Mac OSX) the prompt should be My local hostname is "Macintosh" but now my hostname is "foobar.com"(don't need to publish this name is for example)
I have assigned the right "alt" key on my 2013 MacBook Air to act as a forward delete - using DoubleCommand. Works like a charm. I then installed an apple bluetooth keyboard to use on an external monitor connected to the MacBook Air. How do I make the right "alt" key on the bluetooth keyboard also act as a forward delete?
I recently created two web links using Safari's "Add to Home Screen" and now it seems to be impossible to remove them. The following has been attempted (from http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1395687&seqNum=9):
The backlight on my MacBook Air broke about a week ago and it fixed by Apple by them replacing the logic board. Since I've got it back I've had a couple of issues. Firstly, the machine wouldn't work unless plugged in and the battery wasn't available, I sorted this through resetting the NVRAM and PRAM and that's now working fine.
A company I know has an Apple developer account and was enrolled on the Mac Developer Program in order to be able to sign apps (not for the Mac App Store, but for Gatekeeper validation purposes). However, this enrolment expired a couple of months ago, but apparently they're still able to sign apps (the certificates only expire 3.5 years from now) and no problems have been reported by users installing/running these apps.
I have to change my language option very often. It is hard when I write something with combination of both "English" & "Bangla", because I have to change that option rapidly. Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut, so that I can change my language option by it while typing? I am using MacBook Pro with OS X. Here is a screen shot:
I've added a email rule in iCloud to copy emails with a specific from address to a folder. This is working fine, all new mails are moved to that folder. Is there a way to apply the rule also to mails that I've received before I crated the rule?
I'm using the ioreg command line tool to try and read sensor information available on my computer (iMac). Particularly, I'd like to read the current value of the ambient light sensor. So far, I have been able to retrieve some general information regarding the sensor via ioreg -f -b -r -c 'AppleLMUController'. But the value is not there: I know that there are tools that can use IOKit to access this value using C, ObjC, etc - but I explicitly would like to use a bash one-liner to try and grab the value. Has anyone been able to successfully do this via the command line and if so, how?
When I open Finder all folders seem to be empty. Checking with the console shows that all files are there. This is also true if I try to open a file from within an application using the File menu. If I paste the full path of the file into the text field of the file dialog, the file gets opened.
I am missing a Developer option under Settings menu. What do I need to do to make it appear?
I usually send emails to myself, but I wonder if there is a better way to share something quickly from my PC\laptop to iPhone.
I clean my iPad regularly and I noticed that my storage space doesn't show true free space. I have used 12.8GB for apps. It shows 7.7GB available and 5.1GB used. I used calculator and it shows I should only have 2.9GB used. How to fix this? What I've tried: resetting the iPad to factory defaults (no iTunes restore or anything - stock); problem persisted over reset also (I had no apps installed and it still showed like 900MB used). used Tongbu to "clean" data
I've installed OpenCV, numpy and all other required contents using brew install opencv. Then I tried running it python >> import cv or python >> import cv2 but I get a "Segmentation fault: 11" error. Crash Log
I'm aware of ability to find out the battery serial number via About This Mac. Is it also written somewhere on a physical battery, to be read without turning Mac on? If so, where? Of course I'm ready to open the bottom cover of the computer to physically see the battery (and most likely to detach the battery from the Air to see the number on it). I have Macbook Air 2011 13".
I have a pretty big (~60G) already existing folder of photos residing in /Users/ME/OndeDrive/Pictures . I want to be able to use iPhotos with that folder without (a) changing its structure, (b) creating copies of all the files (which is what is done if I do "Import to library"). Is this possible?
After inserting USB 3G modem i always getting same behavior: if bundled software is not installed: Opening finder window with mounted folder Opening standard installer dialog (agree license, install software that written inside 3G modem) if installed already: Modem-related app is launching Question: how to disable that "autorun" (not exactly windows-style autorun, i know)? Super-annoying
The company I am working for wants to develop iPhone apps. But we don't want to have to pay for service on the phone. Is is possible to purchase a used phone and use it to develop apps without hooking it up to a provider? There is an older post about this, but I wanted to check and see if anything has changed in the last two years with doing this. Are there any special considerations when doing this?
I think I have everything set up correctly but randomly this week I have had a few messages appear on my iPad and they have never come through on my iPhone. So I didn't even knew I had a message until I looked at the iPad.
Is there a way of configuring an archived folder in Outlook for Mac, one which I can regularly move email into and it is stored on either my hard drive or a remove drive? So I don't want to go through an export process each time - I want something more day to day like Outlook for Windows
I'm assembling my workplace and I'm looking into Mac Mini MD387LL along with some 4k monitor like this one, Samsung 28-inch UHD. Problem is that I'm not sure if the Mac Mini will support this humongous 4k resolution. Does anyone has rock solid information on that?
I am trying to create a new Apple ID and now it's telling me: "account limit reached"
I have a number of repeating events in Calendar (formerly iCal). I often make changes to individual ones on-the-go, but every time it asks me this:
I have recently reinstalled Mavericks and found that I couldn't launch finder anymore. When I click on the finder icon on the dock, double click on desktop folders or try to open recycle bin, nothing happens.
I'm trying to compile a program called PEAR enter link description here and seems there is something wrong at this step. I have Xcode installed. Thanks for your help, Bernardo
I would like to use my late 2009 "27 iMac as an external display for my 13" 2013 MacBook Air. I've searched the internet and found this thread (and it's sources) that suggests that it is possible to get the setup (as described above) working.
Worked fine sending 114k file of .png screen-shot; a 254k file freezes it dead. So bad that I couldn't open up a tab in Safari. I suspect Evil Forces, but would be amused to learn it's a known issue.
I have tried converting them in iTunes to AAC format but this doesn't seem work either. It just sits there trying to upload without any error messages.
I have a Macbook Pro (model 10,1) running OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) with a wireless problem; it keeps dropping connection. That is, it says it's connected, but if you ping a host...even localhost...the packets aren't returned for a period of time, then it comes up, only to lose connection after a few seconds, then it stays down for awhile before cycling back up again. If you turn off the wireless, it can ping localhost just fine. And a wired Ethernet connection works fine. While troubleshooting I found this line in the logs:
I have installed OS X Mavericks as a guest on a macbook pro with vmware fusion 6. To do this, I followed the instructions at the following: Creating a new OS X virtual machine from the recovery partition in VMware Fusion 6.0 (2056798) How to install Mavericks in VMware Fusion? I have installed the vmware tools. After completing the installation steps I started using the vm and found that the § and ` keys are the wrong way around. I tried adding two keyboard input sources, US and British, switching between these does not help. I searched around a little and found the following on the vmware communities incorrect keyboard mapping in OSX 10.7 guest
For example, typing "sharing" will return the top hit as "sharing.qml" from the Qt5.1.1 directory, followed by Sharing in System Preferences. I can't then immediately press enter to open "Sharing" without first pressing the down arrow.
I can't find any app which mirrors my iPad's screen to my Windows computer screen. Since iDisplay has been removed from the App Store I have no other ideas. Any recomendations (up to $15) for a solution to mirror my iPad screen on my Windows PC display?
When I set my screen saver "start after" value, it resets within a few hours. I have not yet determined what event causes it to reset, but it does not require rebooting to occur. Apple customer support had me delete the com.apple.screensaver.plist file from /Library/Preferences/, but that did not resolve the problem. Since the start after value won't stay put, is there another way to disable the screen saver altogether?
How do I use conditional formatting to highlight a cell in one column based on the value of another cell in another column? Case in point, I'm running some tests right now. Based on input data into our server, we expect certain output from the server. I've manually calculated and generated expected output from this same set of input to compare against what the server is generating.
Also, If we assume that it is OK, what happens if I want to run 3 or 4 guest copies of OS X on my mac mini? The EULA implies that it's not, however the EULA also contains this clause
I'm just curious if anyone knows where I can find the files that feed the data into the System Information Application (ATA, Audio, etc). I am interested in writing a program that sends an email every time the battery cycle count increases. Thanks.
As the title states, when I open up terminal to type a command, I cannot see what I am typing, it is as if the terminal is frozen. I can still execute commands when I hit return, I just cannot see what I am typing. The weird part is that when I hit the delete key, I am suddenly able to see what I am typing, and the terminal functions normally until I run the command. As well, when I hit delete the header at the top of the terminal window changes from: name - bash - 80x24 to: name - 37m - bash - 80x24
In Mavericks (and any other version of OSX) when pressing CMD + TAB you see the typical list of open apps to switch to. I just discovered that when this list is open (before releasing CMD) if you press 1 you see all the windows of currently the selected app.
I would like to use a single keyboard shortcut to focus on multiple applications in Slate. For example, I want to map Command+1 to Chrome and Firefox. Each time I press Cmd+1 the focused application should rotate. Is this possible? If so, how can I do this?
But I need VS to start with Elevated (admin) privileges. The devenv.exe, which is a Visual Studio executable, doesn't have a Compatibility tab where I could check the Always run in Admin mode, which would solve my problem. How can I have Visual Studio in dock and have it being executed with Admin right? Thanks.
In Finder itself, this script does nothing. I would like to behave it the same way as everywhere else: just open me my home directory. Solution thanks to Thomas It seems I need to assigned this to the Service and as part of the App Shortcuts with the same shortcut (would be great if someone could explain that too).
I was thinking about buying a MacBook Pro for coding while not at home, but suddenly realized that they all come with glossy displays. The glare/mirror effect is utterly unacceptable for me. Are there good and easy ways to fix this? By good I mean: No voiding of warranty No other nasty visual side-effects (apart from slightly reducing overall brightness, which is OK) No noticeable additional weight
Question: Would it be possible for my media files residing in one partition to be accessed by the operating system on the other partition? It's clear that Parallels could do this, but I'd be needing a good enough reason to invest in a license. Also I do not mind booting in an out of OSs once in a while. What I'm not clear of, is the file system compatibility between the two operating systems.
Two weeks ago around 12 AM I lost my MacBook Air at the airport. At 9 AM I requested a lock on it using the Find My iPhone app but until now it is still pending.
I am just wondering is there any way to find duplicate files on my Mac? For example: when I download something from bittorrent, some unnecessary files also download along with the main file with .dat extension. I want to delete all of these .dat files at one time. Currently I have a lot of these files on my computer & they are stored in many different directories. It would be a lot of work to delete them one by one. Thus, are there any free apps to do that sort of job or some way I can find & delete them?
does anyone know how to disable the default encryption of the swap file ? i tried this by setting the default preferences but this doesn't work :( any ideas ?
I'm running a netgear modem CG3000D, and have been able to access internet without problems. However my speeds on the internet were slow for gaming and extensive usage, so I purchased a netgear R6250 WiFi router to increase speed and range. My modem will connect to the router no problem, and my Macbook can connect to the router (with a different WiFi network name now), however there is absolutely no internet access now. I'm not fluent in Mac operations yet, so I'm not sure what to do or where to go to fix this problem.
I just "repaired" an iPod Touch, 4th generation (MC540BT). A friend of mine didn't use it for a year because it didn't charge. After playing with it a little; I finally managed to turn it on and it worked. She (my friend) told me that it didn't work as soon as she updated it to 6.0.1 and asked me if I can downgrade it to the previous version. I told her about hard reset but I want to know if hard reset brings it back to the iOS version that it left the factory with. In less words: Does a hard reset downgrade device or allow me to downgrade?
I'm using iOS 5.1.1 (9B206). I want to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 6.1.3, but I don't know how to do this. I have tried downloading the IPSW of iOS 6.1.3 to upgrade, but it doesn't make any changes. The second time, I try building file SHSH with IPSW, but that didn't work either. Any ideas for this problem to upgrade from 5.1.1 (9B206) to ios 6.1.3 ?
I purchased Keynote last night and switched to the Purchases tab to watch the download begin (0K of about 434MB). Immediately the progress bar changed to the Installed button but I saw (via Little Snitch) that bandwidth was still being consumed by storeagent.
If I delete photos off of photo stream and leave them on my iPhone, will they just get put back on photo stream once it syncs? Or does photo stream just take the newer pics?
I recently turned on iTunes Match and opted to delete local copies of my music. After doing so, my available space on my SSD did not report a change, despite deleting almost 100GB of tracks. Is this data cached somewhere on my SSD and the OS will manage this for me as I add new files to the drive, or do I need to manually do something?
In my both Mac (OS X Mavericks) and Ubuntu machine, I have installed sympy that is a python library for symbolic mathematics. Part of sympy is the pretty print functionality that uses unicode characters to prettify symbolic expressions in the command-line environments with unicode support. For example, in my Ubuntu machine and in its gnome-terminal running the following code renders to
There's a recent trend in website design in which a site presents the viewer with a full-page overlay containing a "sign up for our newsletter" or similar dialog. The actual page content is covered with a translucent overlay to bring visual focus on the dialog, and to get to the actual content, you either have to fill in the dialog, or find and click a checkbox to dismiss it. Here is an example chosen at random:
I am on an iPhone 3Gs with iOS 6.1.6. Unfortunately my podcast app has been removed. Now, if I want to install it Again, I need iOS 7. However, in my setting for software it states that my software is up to date. How can I manually download iOS 7 so that I can get my podcast app back?
I watched WWDC 2014 Session -223 where they explained how to make quick and interactive iOS app prototypes using keynote. As shown in the image below, they made the slide to look like iOS screen. however it wasnt explained how they did it. Is there anyway to resize slides?
I changed my iMac's hard drive to a SSD, following the iFix It guide. It all worked well, but after some hours using the machine, a buzzing noise appeared in the top left corner of it.
Today I lost many hours of work trying to recover from a recent update to various TextMate Bundles that broke my TextMate installation (I had TextMate set to automatically update bundles, am using the current nightly build TextMate 2.0-alpha.9547 and recent changes asked /usr/bin/env for ruby18, which it didn't know). So the question arises: Is there an "easy" way to downgrade TextMate Bundles to previous revisions?
I have two accounts that are hosted by Gmail. One is my personal account with a gmail domain, the other is a work account with our company's domain. When I send or reply to mail from my Mac using Apple's Mail.app, replies to those messages always go to my personal account.
Is that normal? I downloaded a Video (MP4 format, HD, 1.7 GB) from the Internet and wanted to burn it on DVD to watch it with our DVD Recorder.
This is a question about keyboard shortcuts. I think it's quite cool that you can put a word into the spotlight and one of the options is to search Wikipedia for it, but to get that functionality takes a lot of typing or mouse movement. Is there a fast way to do it?
I have finally tracked these down. Many of the files on both of the drives on this machine have a "Everyone: Custom" setting as the first permission. In this Custom setting, I don't have read/write, only read, and that means I can't (for instance) write to my own ~/Library
I'm trying to search my contacts to match a partial number (four digits) to a name. Is this possible?
My iphone hasn't backed up to icloud in over 19 weeks. I have deleted hundreds of pictures, turned off Mail, Reminders, Safari, Notes, and Passbook and still it says there is no room. The only thing that is on to backup is calendar and contacts. Can this be right?
I'm trying to get a detailed SMART status report on the drives in my Mac. I'm not talking about "Verified," I'm talking about the detailed report that's about 100 lines long listing all the vital statistics of the drive.
I've enabled SSH into my mac mini (late 2012 running OS X 10.9.3), and have the energy saver settings set so that the display sleeps after 10 minutes, and the computer is set to never sleep. If the mac goes unused for a while, then I try SSH into it, the SSH connection is refused. If I go bang on the keyboard or mouse to wake up the mac, then the SSH connection is accepted and it works. This appears as though the mac is ignoring my energy saver settings and is in fact sleeping when it shouldn't be.
I got an iPod Touch 4th Gen from a friend, and she left all of her music on it so I could have a larger music library. The problem is, I don't know if there is a way to sync my library with the iPod without deleting all of the music she left on it. Is there a way to sync music from more than one iTunes account onto one iPod?
I wondered if I ask this on either Mac community, or that of Ubuntu or else. But I hope Mac is the best one.
I've looked all over the internet but I've had no luck in finding out how to properly display my Macbook Pro on an external device. I've tried an Epson projector and a Sony TV and have had no success with either; I've plugged in other Macs into those devices and using the same cables and they work, so it is definitely on my Mac's end. Using a VGA adapter and Thunderbolt port. OSX 10.9.3. My Mac detects the external devices but nothing shows up on the actual displays. I've tried Mirroring options and still nothing. Any ideas would be really helpful (and sorry I know I'm not the most computer literate person). 2.5 GHz Intel Core processor, 4 GB Memory 1600 MHZ DDR3
Could you tell me how to remove Airdrop function to do tightening of OSX? Looks somebody accessing my Mac via AirDrop. I would like to remove the function. Please tell me how to remove the function except for not to turn off.
I am developing iOS apps and I hate, that always when I connect my iPhone to my Mac to install and test an app, the iPhone gets charged. Is there any possibility to connect my iPhone to my Mac without charging the phone? My Environment: - iPhone 4S (No Jailbreak) - MacBook Air3,2 (Late 2010)
What are the risks for updating ios apple device, which is already jailbroken ?
Since myproject will be the root folder (www.myproject.com). Sure, changing a few href, src, and php include locations won't be too bad, but I'm going to have to change every path on every file, which will be extremely time consuming and, based on how large this project is, close to impossible. And then when the nightmare comes of having to edit a file or two, change some CSS, etc, I'll download the related files via FTP and then I will have to change all the paths again to work on my local machine. This would be a nightmare.
My macbook is getting some current or can be said as vibrating when i connect it to Thunderbolt to VGA adapter to external monitor. and then when i connect macbook to magsafe connector for charging , the vibration effect has gone. please help me.
I use iOS weather app and I want to add location of my dacha (villa). Its name is 'Журавушка'. Weather app found it, but I'm not sure that this is exactly Журавушка I'm looking for :) So, how can I check this result? I have only one decision: go to my dacha and start the app to get this location name.
I am currently using about 600gb a month and Comcast is about to start charging me for anything over 300gb. I need to find out which devices are using the most bandwidth so I can get it under control.
I was removing a wifi network and after removing it, my wifi icon is blank, showing a cross over it, while i hover over it which says Not Configured, I googled the problem but didn't find any solution to the problem, I tried reinstalling mavericks, while everything (user, setting and everything remain same) the problem remain same too. What can be the problem? How can I fix it? and
iPhone 5s iTunes 11.2.2.3 Windows 7 OS I synch on my Mac Pro at home... When I get to work I have to use a Windows machine. I authorized my iTunes app on my work machine. When I view my iPhone music in iTunes, I can only sort by name and not by any other column. How can I sort by Album when looking at music on my iPhone in iTunes? EDIT Picture added See good column in green and nasty stupid head columns in red. No comments about my music choices allowed...lol
I downloaded an app on a rather crappy internet connection, and the App ran but could not connect to the server. After a few hours of trying and retrying the username and password we finally deleted the app and redownloaded it. This time it worked flawlessly which leads me to believe the Apps are not checksumed when they arrive.
I am using an iPhone 4 running ios 7.1.1. Recently, I've had a very frustrating problem, and it is not being able to listen to music with speaker. I'm pretty sure the speaker isn't broken because I can use it for alarms. Also, in my voice memos, the sound works although I have to click that speaker button on the top right corner so that the sound would come out of the speaker instead of the earpiece (top speaker).
I'm new to Apple, and while the experience has largely been positive, I have been stymied trying to configure keyboard shortcuts to my specifications. For example, I used a rather round-about process (via the "Automator") to assign a shortcut to open a new terminal. But even now this this shortcut only seems to function if the focus is on a program which has not overwritten that particular key-combination with its own definition.
I'm trying to install this EFI Update. Which is for : Mac OS X 10.6.8 / OS X Lion 10.7 and later And I'm running on 10.9.3 but the update installer throw an alert : The update is not supported by your system. What's wrong?
I'm trying to restore my new iPhone 5s. I connected to iTunes and restored it. I enter the language, country and connected it to my Wi-Fi network. When I hit next it asks me if I want to Set up new iPhone or Restore from iTunes backup. Any suggestions?
How would I validate this pattern: 2 digits followed by last name, basically any length of letters. Apple script does not use regular expressions, correct? I need to validate user input and all student user IDs on my campus are in that format.
The Xcode package contains files that get installed in /System and /usr. Is it possible to redistribute those files in a different package? What kind of what are the legal implications?
I have an iPhone 4s on Verizon that I am using to tether with Bluetooth. TestMy.net indicated a throughput of about 200kbps, which it suggests is 2% of the typical throughput it sees from Verizon.
I want to have an AppleScript that takes a screenshot of the front most application. I have used this AppleScript:
I want to keep keep track of which files belong to which application, so that when I uninstall an application, I can be sure all of its files are gone, including configuration files, dependencies it might have installed, etc. There are GUI applications that can be downloaded and just dragged and dropped into the Applications folder, like GIMP or TextMate. Is this the best way to install those apps, or should I use a package manager for them? Can I be sure that these applications do not install anything outside of their Application folder? Is deleting an app from the Application folder a "clean" uninstall?
Today I opened this fancy photo website of a friend. It has horizontal scrolling of pictures. In Firefox I cannot scroll horizontally without first using the cursor keys. The same happens in Safari. The horizontal scrollbar shows for a second, and if I hover over it, a bigger scrollbar appears and that one stays even longer, like 10 seconds. Then it disappears and I have to use the cursor again.
I set the Show Scroll Bars setting to "Automatically based on Mouse or Trackpad", but it constantly appears. I do not want the scroll bar to automatically appear, or appear when scrolling. I want it to never appear. OS X provides the "Always" option, but I'm looking for a "Never" option. How do I permanently disable the scrollbar?
Most Linux based operating systems allow you to increase allocated system resources for a particular application and I am wondering if the UNIX based OSX Mavericks has the same capabilities. I am running VDMX (a graphically intense, realtime, multilayered video application) and am finding that when loading more complex plugins the performance of the application is bombing. Is there a way to give that particular application priority when it comes to requesting system resources, specifically RAM and CPU cycles?
I'm primarily a Linux user who recently acquired a MacBook Air and I'm currently desperately trying to find out whether there's an equivalent for Linux's desktop definition files, where you can define an application by its command line invocation, with an optional placeholder for the file that X11 will pass to it when a file of file type associated with that application is double-clicked. E.g. on Linux, I can set .txt files to be opened with a specific command line invocation of emacsclient like so:
When I open window in a program, I typically want it to take up my entire screen (but not be in full screen mode, just maximally sized) Instead, there is a thin gap at the left edge of the screen. It seems like the edge it is on follows the dock, as my dock is on the left edge, and if I move the dock to the right edge, the gap moves to the right edge. but whatever is causing this, I have to use a shortcut to remove that thin gap every time I open a window (I use a 3rd party app to make it quick but I'd still like it to "just work" when I open the window). Does anyone have any solutions to change this behaviour?
Yesterday I collected my Macbook Pro from an authorized Apple Service Center, where they replaced some hardware components (logic board and battery-trackpad-keyboard block). The SSD drive has not been replaced (according to the invoice), and it was encrypted with File Vault (OS X 10.9.3).
I tried using Whitebox's Packages to create an installer for a LaunchDaemon. The daemon calls a shell script, which itself sources a configuration file. So what I would like is an installer which installs:
During boot, I see the gray screen with the Apple logo, then the entire screen flashes pink for a couple seconds before boot continues normally. Is this a problem/symptom of something? MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013, Intel HD Graphics 4000
I have to delete files specified by remove.txt which looks like this: I've tried several suggestions from the web: while read file; do rm "$file"; done < remove.txt xargs -rd '\n' --arg-file=remove.txt rm -i -- rm $(cat /Volumes/space1/remove.txt) xargs rm <remove.txt etc
is there any way to automatically log off a guest account after 10 minutes of login? I want to log out of the account every 10 minutes immaterial of whether it is active or inactive. Is there a way to accomplish that on Mac?
I created an app that lets users store items in the app. There is an amazon button next to each item. When the user clicks the amazon button, the app finds the item on amazon and, if found, opens the amazon page for the item WITH-IN the app. Apple rejected the app citing 11.3 in-app purchase reasons. would it help if the amazon page for the item opened in safari and not with-in the app?
Is it advisable to exclude ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session\ Storage/ from Time Machine backups? It certainly sounds like a prime candidate, but I am unable to find confirmation anywhere, which surprises me given that Chrome is fairly widely used.
I've just bought a new rMBP 15 inch a few days ago and for some reason every time it goes into sleep / powernap mode, when I turn it back on the wifi doesn't work. The odd part is the wifi still appears to be connected but I can't transfer any data, go online etc. I have to turn wifi off and on in order to get back online.
I have installed the developer preview for Yosemite. Huge mistake. Everything in my workspace is broken.
They say nothing about using an adapter of a lower wattage. Which I am interpreting as: Using a lower powered adapter can work, but you might experience issues such as slow charging or no charging at all (under high macbook load). Of course Apple won't officially say that this is ok (otherwise people will complain), but if this really were a serious hazard, then they wouldn't have all the chargers designed to use the same plug.
I would like to test hardware on a mac book pro model from 2009 with Mac Os X 10.9.2 installed. Since it is running unreliably I would like to perform a diagnosis/hardware test. What is easy to find on the internet is, that on pre 2013 models, the apple hardware test was to be run, on models after that, the apple diagnosis, see *=URL=* and *=URL=* Now I wondered what to do with a macbook that has had its OS version updated (10.9.2 Maverick). I have plainly now just tried starting the laptop while keeping D pressed multiple times and I never ended up in a AHT or diagnosis mode.
For two days my Mac has been "dead"; the hard drive crashed, so I reformatted (twice). I wanted to reinstall Mavericks via Recovery, but at the end of the process it shows nearly 1 million minutes remaining and the process stops. I thought it was the hard drive that was dead but the Windows (BootCamp) part works very well. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it (Using MacBook Air which is running OS X Mavericks GM), but when I tried to run the command for copying the files from .app to USB I got the following error:
When I upgraded my iPad to ios 7, I was forced to restore to factory settings. I lost all of my photos and videos from the past 3 years. Are they "out there" somewhere?
I am using homebrew-cask to keep my ecosystem of applications up-to-date. It is great when maintaining several computers at home, travel or on the go. However, when some packages are getting updated (such as Google Chrome), I end up having different concurrent versions installed (and which are seen by the OS): $ ls /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/google-chrome/ latest stable-channel This happens when upgrading a cask: How do I only keep the most recent?
what is the best way to secure data on my iphone? In my opinion I have to protect myself against the following risks: theft fault and phone must be returned I fear for the following data Logins to email, dorpbox, calender, ... mails, photos, chat history, ... The phone is allways locked, but with hardware access it might be possible to read the data...
I want a standalone upgrade from an older osx (10.7.4) to the current mavericks. There is the free upgrade in the app store which normally would be perfect -- but my internet connection at home is slow and spotty. The upgrade is 5GB in the store. I get about 1GB, and my connection drops, and now I have to start over. So what I want to do is get a standalone way of doing the upgrade -- this would allow me to use my other computer (faster connection) and sneakernet (use a USB stick) to transfer the file(s) to the Mac. The combo and delta standalone updates you can get only apply within the same version. Does anyone know of a way to do this standalone upgrade, even if I would have to apply multiple installs / updates / upgrades? I suppose other solutions could include a multiple smaller file solution, or give the ability to resume the download from where it left off.
I have a camera setup were the camera automatically takes pictures every x seconds and these images are saved in a directory called 'Images'. Now I want to create a smart folder that looks in 'Images' and only lists images that were added in the last 5 minutes. When creating a smart folder, I see only the option the list files from the last day. How can I create a smart folder that lists only files created in the last 5 minutes? In other words, I want to create a smart folder using non-standard options.
I'm using OS X almost entirely using the keyboard, and it helps to have the trackpad disabled most of the time. But I'd also like to be able to enable it every so often for individual tasks - is it possible to switch it off and on with a keyboard shortcut?
I tether my mac to my iPhone regularly and find it works well. However there is (obviously) a limited amount of bandwidth availible and I've got things like 'OS X's update service, dropbox, evernote, and a variety of other things are clamouring for a chunk of the bandwidth. Is there a handy (terminal is fine) way of saying; 'right now, only Firefox gets to use the WiFi?'
I am looking for an AppleScript, that simply uses an email defined by the "Mail Rules" and extracts the attachment to a specific folder. I found different codes, but they all didn’t do want I want. I don’t want the code to change the name or create a new folder. I just want him to extract the attachment from the Email and store it in a defined folder.
Recently purchased an iPhone 5c and was trying to upload my music and apps from iTunes. iTunes could not upload music because iTunes needs to be at least 10.6.8 to update. On my 2006 iMac I am currently running OS X 10.5.8, therefore I can not update my iPhone 5 with music and apps.
In order to protect ourselves from NSA-style snooping, we need to start using SMIME encrypted email. Since I have over 10,000 BYOD devices to update, what is the most effective way to Deploy an SMIME certificate to these users Configure the corresponding email account to use that certificate on iOS (Enable signing and encryption)
I'm owning a macbook pro 13 inch mid 2009 and a USB thumb drive Kingston DataTraveler 100G3 16 GB. I successfully installed Windows 7 on my Mac using Bootcamp ( with a little trick to enable "Creat a bootable flash drive" feature which was hidden in my bootcamp version ).
I want my users to be able to login to their computers (which are Macs) using RFID or Magnetic Stripe. Can anyone recommend a way to implement this?
My 3(?) year old iPhone 4S, which has admittedly hit the ground a few times, has developed a new problem: apps download, but do not install fully; the icons never show on the home screens, and in General - Usage the icons show, but the apps have no names. When connected to iTunes, the apps show as installed; ditto when connecting to the App Store. Specs: MD240LL/A, 16GB (4.4 GB available), iOS 7.1.1 (11D201) Any ideas what could be causing this and what would be workarounds?
Whenever I bring a video to fullscreen on YouTube (on Chrome or Safari), the video will go to fullscreen but the dock and menu bar remain visible, covering the top and bottom parts of the video. They used to be hidden when I went to fullscreen, so I don't know what happened. How do I fix this?
I need an applescript which locks my Mac in the same way pressing shift+ctrl+eject would. I tried two different approaches, but both failed. The first one was to search the internet for a script, which failed. There are only solutions with screensaver or other applications, which I don’t want. I just want to use what I described. The second one was to tell applescript to press the three keys which didn’t work. If someone could tell me how to lock my Mac or how to tell applescript to press three keys, I would be really happy, because I am getting kinda’ frustrated.
My relative was attempting to upgrade her Macbook Pro and it failed. Everytime the laptop boots up, it brings up OS X Installer. The Installer never completes installation because it says the disk is damaged and cannot be repaired.
I have hundreds of songs that are missing BPM information in ITunes. How do I force ITunes to update the BPM? Please note that deleting and re-adding songs back is not a very good option for me.
How do I get the time since the epoch, in milliseconds, in the OSX terminal? The Linux/Ubuntu equivalent is date +%s.%N: Which does not work in my OSX terminal:
I stupidly inserted my SD card today into the CD drive of my iMac. I didn't see where I was putting it in. I can't even feel the SD card by using a piece of paper in the drive. How do I get the SD card out as I'd rather not have to pay Apple for fixing this.
returns pip.log is here (it's too long to paste here).
You can edit the Keyboard-xx.plist files of the PressAndHold.app to add your characters to existing press-and-hold keys. The plist dictionary keys for each press-and-holdable key look like this: <key>Roman-Accent-a</key>, and <key>Roman-Accent-A</key>, etc. but if you want to add some press-and hold characters to a number key, or a punctuation key then you need to know the key name for the dictionary in order to add it. I want to add press-and-hold characters for the 2 and 3 keys and possibly others, I have tried the following formats for the key names in the plist file:
I've just received my new JetDrive Lite 130 designed for Macbook Air. When I plugged it in, I was happy to see 128GB available on the empty card. However, I copied 16GB of files to it and the Finder now tells me only 89.3GB is available. That's 39GB less space for 16GB of usage! The folder itself shows 16m bytes and 25GB on disk, whereas on my ssd, it shows 16m bytes and 16GB on disk.
I have a Macbook Air on which I am considering installing Ubuntu 14. I bought the Mac mainly because of the great hardware. I got a live copy of Ubuntu working from a USB stick and I am now just testing to see if everything works. My Soulmate bluetooth device works fine. My external Western Digital USB harddrive works fine. My Apple Superdrive does not seem to work. I figured this might be because I have not actually installed and added the third party support. Anyone get their Superdrive working under Ubuntu on a Macbook Air?
I tried to sync music onto my iPhone using iTunes. The process was halted by a dialog box that said my computer wasn't authorized to sync the iPhone, so I have to authorize it. I did that and again tried to sync the iPhone, but the dialog box appears every time and the syncing process gets stopped.
My screensaver pictures have quotes and sayings and the three or so seconds of transition between pictures that is built into the OS X Mavericks is far too short a duration to read the quotes and sayings. How can I slow the change rate to about 30 seconds per slide?
I am running one VGA display using Thunderbolt/VGA adapter from Apple and it works fine. Trying to connect second VGA display using HDMI/DVI adapter which comes with the mac using an additional connector DVI to VGA, but nothing happens! I only have VGA monitors, so question is can this be got to work in some way ?
iv just bought an Apple MacBook A1181 (white) early 2008 model and was wondering if i could install mavericks on it? in any way shape or form?
I have signed up with a .edu.pk domain and waiting for email verification, but it's been hours since I haven't gotten it. Is there any issue with .edu.pk and apple?
So I have a 30gb ipod and I am using the latest iTunes. When I connet my ipod to my mac I see that mp3 files in downloads folder are copied to my iPod which I do not like at all. How can I prevent this? I only want to sync albums I buy from the store and the cds I import.
I use second monitor on my macbook. When I open some app in fullscreen, and then close the lid, the OS X exit fullscreen mode on plugged monitor and move all windows to it. How to prevent this behavior?
I am not able to download any app from the App Store on my iPhone 5 which is running iOS 7.1.1. I have been getting the following error since last week when attempting to download an app.
I saw an add in Amazon *=URL=* It says "Apple iPhone 4S 16GB (White) - AT&T", so it means that that iPhone only works for AT&T. SInce AT&T uses GSM so that phone can not be used for any other GSM carriers right? Ok, but the iPhone 4s also supports CDMA & CDMA do not need any sim card, so will the above phone work with any CDMA carrier? It seems that even 4s supports both but if the phone was sold as locked phone then the CDMA part was disable in 4s, is it true?
I have downloaded an .ipa file (a free game). when I trying to install it form iTunes to my device, it is stuck on installing:
I guess this could easily be achieved by a script running whenever the users logs off (log in would be possible as well, I suppose), that reads in a random line and sets the "lock screen message" string accordingly. So I'm basically asking, if there is a way to access this string for example via command line to programmatically change it.
I have a Centon Flash Drive that will not mount. It is not readable on the iMac nor a Windows 7 machine. The drive cannot be reformatted by the Windows or IMac usual methods that this layman tried. In another thread about this subject I've read:
I had accidentally blocked a number from my phone and had texted them..If I'm the one who blocked them... did they receive the texts I sent when I had their number blocked?
Is there a way to save a web page as PDF on the Macintosh so that I can click on the links within the page to take me to the appropriate web page?
Today I checked out my MacBook Air's storage and found that my Mac is using 70.53 GB on applications out of 120.47 GB. I can't figure out where it is being used as I didn't download any applications. How can free up my Mac's storage?
What is the difference between to File > Export as PDF and File > Print > Save As PDF?
I bought a new Iphone 5. back camera never worked since then. no issues with front camera. camera application also hangs now and then. I want to un install the camera app and re install it. is this possible?
On MacOsX Lion (upgrade from Leopard). Working with some 3d application, I would like to temporarily turn off the shortcut ctrl + [numberOfSpace]. I went to:
How might I use Automator or Applescript to launch iTunes at midnight, and kill it at 5am ? (This is the only time when I have unlimited bandwidth.. rural sat-based ISP.. ugg.) Thanks.
I need to restore my iPhone in order for my phone's carrier unlock to go through. What is the best method to do this?
In Keynote 6, each Theme comes with a color scheme. I cannot figure out where this color scheme is defined, nor how to change it. How to change the color scheme?
How would I go about forgetting my lock-screen password? What can I do to get back in? This is about the iPhone 4, 4S and 5. More of a How-To question, someone I know forgot their password.
My MacBook Pro froze today. When the system is restarted, it goes directly to the OS X Utilities window. None of the alternatives seem to work. I don't have a Time Machine backup, so there is no use running that program. When trying to reinstall OS X I get stuck, because I don't get access to the HD, only the Recovery HD. I also get an error message when running the Disk Utility repair program. Unfortunately, there are important files I haven't backed up? I have two questions? Is there any hope of restoring the computer with the files and programs intact? If not, is there a way to access the files and make backups before erasing the disk?
I want to make audio editing workflows in Automator. My current goal: to cut out exactly the same length from a group of audio files.
I'm using Mavericks OS X (10.9.3), I installed virtual box v 4.3.12 and downloaded the windows7 enterprise edition image file for 64 bit (licensed version) it has the file name as English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186.img When I'm trying to install Windows 7 through virtual box, it shows some error after adding the .img file
I have noticed today that 8 weird files appear under my user root (~/) directory. When I did a ls command these file names appears to be in time format (hh:mm:ss) followed by a comma, some numbers and a question mark. When I opened these files in text editor it appears to be empty. Also the file name seems to be empty when view under Finder. Here are those files:
How do I import my Chrome (35.0.1916.153) bookmarks in to Safari (7.0.4)?
Technical details: I'm using a mini-DP to dual-DVI adapter with a dell 3007 wfp with a late 2013 macbook pro (with nvidia graphics). I've been using this setup for several months now. I've confirmed it's an OSX issue because my display works with my bootcamp partition, and another windows machine.
Can you access tabs directly in Safari using the ⌘+1..9 shortcuts like Chrome?
I have looked at the other questions, but none of them have done me any good. I have been having an issue lately. When i start up my macbook pro (2009 or 2010 i think), it will start up nice, then it'll have a spinning thing under the apple like usual, and then the screen will literally flash. It will go white/black/white/black/white/black 3 times just as i described. It will then go to 100% brightness, and lessen itself back to what I have it set as. I've tried SMC reset, but not sure if it actually worked or not. I've read somewhere this could be some kind of video card issue, which i'm hoping it's not. Could someone please explain what is happening, and what I could do to fix this? Any help is appreciated!
I've tried updating my software to 10.9.2 and 10.9.3, but it won't go. After trying to install it and restarting my laptop, I am still stuck on version 10.9.1. My app store says I should check my purchases again because updates failed. Apps such as iTunes, Pages and others also do not work anymore. How can I fix this?
After 25 years on PCs I am delighting in learning all I can about working with my new Mac and OS X Mavericks. I tried just now to open a zip file but was interrupted when an Archive Utility dialog appeared saying "Unable to expand "filename.zip" into "Downloads". (Error 2 - No such file or directory.)
My MacBook Pro late-2011 model was recently stolen when someone broke into our car. Luckily there weren't too many other items in the car and my computer was fully backed-up.
So what's up? Is this normal? Should I be concerned? Is is safe to leave the iPad charger plugged into the socket all the time?
Someone I know forgot their iPhone lockscreen password. This goes for iPhone 4 to 5. How would they go about getting back into the phone? And if they can't, can they back up data aside from the password to refill their phone after restore? What are options here? I'm an Android user myself so looking for Apple product guidance.
I've had my iPhone 5 for a year now but ever since iv had it it always had battery problems, i tried to replace it with a new battery but it would work for a day and the power off. Now when i try to charge it it doesn't light or display anything even charging over night doesn't put the phone on, does anyone know what i can do?
I really like having applications in full screen mode and switch between them using the 3 finger swipe feature. But can I have a shortcut for it? Maybe like command + -> , something like this?
We have a Macbook Pro (see spec below) that consistently crashes, it can run for anything up to two hours but the crashing seems completely random within that time. I've attached the spec and error message below, does anyone have any ideas of what it could be? Hardware or software? We've run all available updates as well.
As a old-school Unix junkie I don't like being forced to use a mouse when a simple keyboard shortcut would do. Today I found myself needing to login to an OSX machine just to launch an app, but the system's mouse had a dead battery. I tried about every key I could think of on the keyboard and could not figure out how to select a user from the login screen. I could change the system volume and any number of other useless actions, but a keystroke that would change the input focus to the user selector was beyond my ability to guess. Even more frustratingly, when I did finally hook up a mouse, merely moving it seemed to bring the login window into focus and the arrow buttons could be used to select a user.
I like to use both US and German keyboard layout but I find the process of switching between them via mouse tiresome. I want a keyboard-only solution. Is there a predefined shortcut to change between multiple keyboard layouts, or if not, how could I define such a shortcut?
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13", and I run both OSX and Windows 7. My Windows 7 is run in Parallels. I work with OSX on the screen of the Macbook, and Windows on an external monitor (with the typical 1900x1080 resolution).
This is happening on an MBP Mid2010 running Mac OS X 10.9.3 I have been using FileVault2 full-disk encryption for several years now; however, I needed to decrypt to repartition the disk for BootCamp. I initiated decryption through Security and Privacy section of System Preferences. It's been stuck in "Decrypting... estimating time remaining" ever since (for about three days now), like this:
I'd like to test my app's ad-hoc deployment link, but navigating to the URL in the simulator's browser only returns 'Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid'. The URL I use looks like itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=[URL TO MYAPP.PLIST] Where going to the apended URL downloads the plist file.
Chrome and Firefox allow to remember only a username (gmail, for example) without no problem. But it's not working the same way for Safari. Safari, if remembers, it remembers both, username and password. But if I don't save password it doesn't remember only a username. How can I do this? Couldn't find any related post.
In this page *=URL=* it said iPhone 5 CDMA model (A1429) support "Tri-band 2G CDMA (800 (CDMA over ESMR), 850, 1900 MHz)." So what does it means? So before iPhone5, CDMA customers can't make the 2G call or something like that? Why Apple support very old 2G technology in iPhone 5? Is it cos CDMA customers complained they can't make 2G call on iPhone 4, 4s & that is why Apple start to support 2G CDMA on the iPhone 5?
When I open my iPhone 5C Messages, all that appears is a white screen that is frozen. It will close on it's own in a minute or so and it still appears as being open when you check to see what applications are open.
Is there any way that I can view documentations in browser instead of the default documentation viewer?
I'm using Safari on OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks. Anytime I fill in a form that contains an email address field, autofill selects my Evernote email address instead of my real address. This is really annoying as the Evernote address is only used for me to forward mail I want to keep to my Evernote account. I would NEVER enter that on a web form.
The iPhone 5-series phones all support LTE but if I only have a contract for 3G service will my iPhone battery drain faster because it's always trying to find an an LTE-capable signal? Can I stop it from even looking for LTE?
I am using a simple applescript application to open different URL schemes in different Fluid Apps. By setting this app as the default browser, I can effectively parse out the URL scheme and open the appropriate stand-alone Fluid App as the browser.
Ok. It seems to have worked. No errors. So let's see the share we created, shall we?
I haven't really ever intentionally used iCloud; however, upon browsing ~/Library/Mobile Documents, I noticed that I must have unintentionally saved several files to iCloud. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of my password/security credentials--or even the email address--I provided when I set up the facility. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm not going to be able to recover any of these credentials (unless somebody provides some untried suggestion), rendering the account pretty much useless.
With Mavericks is this still needed? Doesn't this eventually cause the battery to die faster because it means it'll have to go through more cycles frequently?
I've seen cmd-h suggested, but that's no good because I don't want to hide all of the other browser windows since I'm using some for reference. Bringing forward the other windows that I was working is also not a viable solution. Standard OS X behavior on that is to bring forward all of an app's windows, but that's bad since I'm only working with a few of them, and I don't want the whole bunch covering everything up. With an add-on, I can now bring forward any individual window, but if I'm working with multiple windows, bringing forward all of them that I was viewing will be slow. Splitting up between multiple workspaces is also bad I don't want to totally switch contexts. e.g. maybe I brought up a browser window to check email while my code is compiling. I don't want to switch to another workspace because I want to keep an eye on that compiling code so I know right when it's done. Ideally, I just want the top, transient window to be minimized (not closed; I may need it again in a minut
My friend's mate reset his phone to prove him wrong about a situation and ever since then when he tries to update his apps it asks for his mom's iCloud password yet it says at the bottom of the App Store, iTunes and iCloud that it's signed into his account. We have tried backing it up into his computer but that didn't help. What can be done?
I was listening to one of my playlists (not Radio) on my iPhone, and (at least) two tracks came up that I do not own and are not in my iTunes library on my Mac. I am the only person using this iCloud account and I've never purchased these tracks or had them in my library. The tracks did appear in the playlist with an iCloud icon, which I used to think showed tracks that I have in iCloud but not on my phone, but I don't know why these tracks are in iCloud. Why did these tracks play and/or where did they come from?
I've run into this problem a couple of times: I purchase a song on the iPhone via the iTunes Store app. I re-download the song on iTunes on my Mac. I add the song to an existing playlist in iTunes. I attempt to sync my iPhone with iTunes.
In iOS 7, we're able to paste an image into iMessage, WeChat, and Whatsapp, but not Line, Skype, or Facebook Messenger. Is this an app-supported setting? Thanks!
I spilled coffee on my Macbook Air and didn't turn it off in time. It's fried. I have a Time Machine backup of the entire system. I believe it was running 10.8 when it died. I want to format my old Macbook 2008 (currently running 10.6.8) and restore my system to the old Macbook. Is it possible, even though the system was running 10.8? Would it be better to upgrade to 10.7 on the old Macbook and THEN do the Time Machine restore?
I want to connect my macbook pro to my tv. I do not have a hdmi cable but I do have a dvi cable. I also have a usb to usb cable. Is it possible to connect my macbook pro to windows laptop then connect that to the tv and be able to see the macbook's desktop on the tv?
EDIT: Here's an output of the top command. Same story. All % CPU under System is unnaccounted for in top, as well as in activity monitor. I have 12 physical cores (24 with hyper threading) on the machine, so 8 forked R processes each taking 100% cpu only accounts for 33% of CPU (what's under User).
Is there any software for Mac which watches out head and focus a window that is in a specified monitor based on our head angle? I'm using 3 monitors at the same time and hitting cmd + tab is always the pain.
I have Snow Leopard installed on an old MacPro. I want to upgrade to Mavericks. When I go to AppStore-->Mavericks and click on the download button nothing happens. Do I need to install the intermediate releases (Lion and Mountain Lion - I think). If so, what is the process?
I'm buying a used iPhone. What steps should I take immediately after I receive the iPhone, to make sure that everything is OK, that I got what I paid for, and that I'm not receiving a lemon?
I have to grab some files from a time machine backup and I only have a Windows PC. I downloaded the HFS+ filesystem drivers from MacRoumers (here) and plugged in my Time Machine Drive. Everything appears normal, until I transverse into a specific backup. There I see the "Library" directory, and every other folder (Desktop, Movies, Music...) are files. It's like this in every backup instance, and I'm stuck. I don't recall these folders being symlinks to earlier backups, but I could be wrong and these drivers don't support symlinks.
If I try to change a partition scheme of a 4 partition HDD from Apple to GUID, iPartition warns me that 'system partition' will be erased. What does that mean? Thanks.
I'm looking for an app which enables me to physically maneuver my iPhone on the desk to control my Mac's cursor. (I am not looking for a "remote trackpad" app—there are dozens of those.)
I have Mountain App running in my menu bar (it is an app that allows you to quickly mount and unmount drives attached to your computer). I would like to create a simple script that calls up the menu on the app (which runs only on the menu bar). I tried to follow the instructions and code found here: Create hotkey to open a menubar app?, replacing the name of the app where relevant but it did not work for me, giving me an error in Applescript:
Is it okay to connect non-Apple headphones to an iPhone (a 5s, in this case) or do I need to use apple branded or authorized headphones for some reason?
My contacts on my IPhone 4s was lost. If I backed up my phone to the computer, will the contacts also be saved? where can I find that or how can I restore my contact list?
Is there any freeware software (including command line utilities) to downloaded entire website recursively (aby kind of links, not only HTML files)?
When I try to download embroidery design files from a website to iPad, the download fails. I would like to know if there's a way we can force Safari (or Google Chrome) to save such files (formats such as .ART, .EXP, .FES etc) to iPad. Thanks.
On OS X 10.7 or newer (10.8, 10.9) simply drag'n'drop files between your desktop and remote desktop to transfer the files between computers How can I disable this? I have made restricted account just for Screen Sharing, and I don't want remote user to be able to copy files from my machine without any serious effort.
When I type >console into the username box on the login screen, the computer seems to freeze for a very long time. Then I press ^C^C^C^C^D^C^D^D^D^C^D and eventually the computer unfreezes—but first, it flashes the session contents (showing the login console prompt, in what appears to be the same font as single user mode). This is a fresh (or close enough) Mavericks install with no third-party kernel extensions no extra apps but the Yosemite installer (It is the same on Yosemite but I'm not allowed to ask about that :P) on a Macbook Air, 2012, 10.9.3. It appears that I'm having a problem very similar to the one in this question … but the console actually shows up for me, as soon as I exit. Also, I am using the user list then selecting a name and pressing option ⌥+return ↩ but that doesn't seem to matter. I was able to take a photo of what is going on: The block characters are cursors. A session that I could actually log in to (but still not see my typing):
I'm looking to upgrade the RAM in my late 2008 Macbook, see the spec below. A few people have mentioned getting Crucial RAM but I'm unsure of what specific RAM to get and what the limit is. Or if there's better/cheaper options than Crucial. I'm looking to get the max amount possible I can fit in. Thanks
Since a few days, after every boot Safari will automatically start. Today, the same thing happens with OmniOutliner Pro (MAS Version). I have the latest version of OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
I cannot read the full notification (see attached). How can I?
On the feature phones I used to have, I could set the alarm clock, then turn the phone "off": the alarm clock would trigger at the set time anyway. Can I do this on iPhone? By "off" (in quotes, because, we know that from electrical point of view, some parts of the phone stay powered) I mean the state of the phone you get when it is turned on, then you press the power button for a couple of seconds, then a red slider appears saying "slide to power off" and then you slide it.
The graphical side of OS X has stopped accepting passwords for any account. I am definitely typing them right, but the password box just wiggles "no." And here's the weird part: I can log in from >console mode. I can log in via SSH. sudo works just fine. The command line happily accepts my password; the graphical side absolutely refuses. Things I've already tried:
I'm trying to find the Time Machine menu bar icon resource so I can change how it looks a bit. Where is that icon? In Time Machine's package contents > resources, all I see is backup.icns (the Finder icon), menu.plist, and 33 .lproj folders for different languages. In the English folder is a single file called Menu.strings.
I have a problem with my distnoted process that I'm trying to debug. In order to investigate it, I'd like to trace the interprocess communication that's happening on my OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks) system. I know about dtruss, and I can see things like this: I have heard that dtrace is available for me to use, but I don't know any good recipes for IPC.
I had thousands of photos tagges with face info for family in Picasa (on Mac). I thought this info was stored online.
I was wondering if there is a built-in command in Bash (or even something OSX-specific) that would display the fully resolved path of a script that is in the current PATH environment variable. For example, my PATH currently looks like this:
I recently moved and my iPhone still shows my old address for location services (e.g. in the Maps app and 3rd party applications that use Apple's location services). I assume the source of the problem is that my wifi router, which moved with me, is listed in an internal Apple wifi geolocation database.
I can't find the Java console in Preferences nor in Utilities. Can I open the Java console from a Terminal command? Running OS X 10.7.5 and Java version 1.6.0_65
I've been facing a really hard kernel panic problem. I bought this macbook pro 17" about 5 months ago and at that time I had a few kernel panics but didn't event bothered cause I could still use it anyway.
There is an app called XtraFinder which does exactly that - it shows hidden files while it can still hide those two files from Desktop only. Is it possible to do something like that without installing a 3rd party app (I'm using Mavericks)?
I plugged my new iphone into my computer and it asked if I wanted to restore my old iphone settings. I clicked yes not realizing I would lose everything from the last 8 months since I got the new phone. Is there any way to restore what was on the new phone?
I have a small CAT-6 ethernet network featuring a Cisco 18-port switch and an Asus router acting as DHCP server. Various devices connected to the switch (e.g. printer, NAS) connect to the DHCP server successfully to receive addresses in the 192.168.1.* range. My Macbook Pro and Mac mini also connect over wifi to the router to receive DHCP addresses in the same range.
Howdo you install a Radeon 6000 series graphics card on mac pro 1,1?
Is there a way to force OSX to display in monochrome(also known as grayscale)? I'm working with a student who has ADHD (and I am mildly ADHD myself). The colors are too much for him/her to handle. EDIT: Ideally I'm looking to assign a keyboard shortcut or create a desktop icon.
The app status says that the "App approved, but one or more of your contracts is not yet in effect". So I went to the bank, tax information module: in here is a Request Contracts list, which shows one line for "Paid Apps" and one for "iAds". Next to it, my name stands as Legal Entity. There is a button "Request" on each line - but when I click it, it only shows my personal home address data in a simple form (but no bank accounts, no tax information etc.). Nothing else to click, nothing else to check, nothing else to view. Nothing. And there are no "Set Up" buttons either like shown in their video tutorial. No other buttons. I can do nothing here.
Activating iTerm2's "hotkey window" (i.e. drop-down console) also brings to front all other iTerm2 windows. Is there a way to avoid this, making OS X treat each window as a separate application rather than as a group of windows?
Is there anyway to have it so when I go to the hot corner I have set to show desktop, the windows go so far off screen that neither them nor their shadow can be seen?
My devices, including airport stations, keep being assigned a number following their name (i.e. "ATV (3)"). I was hoping Mavericks would fix it but it did not. Is this fixable, please?
By default maill.app notifications has two buttons. One for replying to the email and the other one for closing the notification. This is very nice, although, I was wondering if there is any way that I can add either (or both) of the "Delete" and "Mark as read" buttons to the mail notifications. Applescript, hacking some settings, third party apps or any other ways are fine, however, I prefer some native built-in solutions.
I'm trying to find out at what date and time the trash was last emptied. Would it be the date modified of the least recently modified file? Does moving it to the trash count as modifying it?
I've got iPhone 4S and I wanna sell it...I have backed up contacts on *=URL=* ...Does contacts remain on *=URL=* after reseting all iPhone settings?
I am running OS Maverick 10.9.3 on my Mac Book Pro and have worked happily on Office 2008 through several versions of OSX. After a recent "update" by Apple, my "Open Recent Files" vanished from my File pull-down menu. An unfamiliar "Open from Document Connection" now appears there. I have no idea what "Open from Document Connection" means. My "Open Recent File" command was important for me because I work on many multiple projects, and I want that command back. Can anyone tell me how my Open Recent File command vanished and how I can get that back?
Just wondering whether its possible to achieve my goal. Imagine you are running Firefox and have all windows minimized to Dock. If you switch to other application and back to Firefox via cmd+Tab, it would open last minimized window (this is what I want to prevent). So is it possible to force Firefox (and any application) to show only Main Menu Item after cmd+Tab if all windows are minimized? Actually I am talking about global OS X option and window management, Firefox mentioned just as an example of multi-window environment.
I can drag a tab out of window, and it becomes independent window in Safari, Finder and other apps that support tabs. Is it possible to reverse this operation, convert window into tab by dragging it to another window?
I'm exporting my photos to my computer by connecting my iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1) to my Ubuntu 14.04 setup and cutting the photos from the DCIM folder and pasting them on my computer. The photos go through alright, but the camera roll still shows the thumbnails. When I click on the thumbnail I get a white blank screen. How come? How can I move photos out of the phone without keeping its thumbnail in the camera roll?
I want to prevent Dropbox, Skydrive/OneDrive, and Google drive from syncing (for example) when my laptop is connected to my phone. In other words I'd only like to sync email, use VPN, and permit Chrome in these instances. Is there a product, technique, or hack that will allow me to restrict what apps are permitted to use my internet connection?
I am running Mavericks on a 2012 Mac Mini. I have a WD MyBookLive NAS drive on the network which appears under SHARED in Finder. There are lots of files on the drive I want to delete but my Mac seems unable to do it. When choosing Move to Trash, a progress bar pops up and stays there forever.
I would like keychain access to store all my keys and passwords for my ssh accesses. However, if I store too many keys, I get "Too Many Authentication Failures" since SSH will try to send all keys and passwords. Is there a way to choose which key or password to send?
I want to disable all root certificates in iOS since I'll be using a proxy to access all HTTPS sites. How do I disable all root certs in iOS?
I have a 50 slide presentation with extensive notes, and urgently need to print out those notes. Keynote 6 appears to offer no way to do this. All print options include slides, and/or do not print the full notes. Any notes that exceed one page, will simply be truncated from the printout.
I am currently doing some coursework for my exams, and part of my IT project is to record some audio, and assess it. I recorded this audio on my iPhone, and I plan on using Audacity to edit it. I am having a problem with getting the voice memos off my iPhone, and that's preventing me from doing my coursework. Does anyone know what to do? I use iTunes 11.1.3
I have multiple workspaces. I can switch them via Ctrl + Arrow Keys Left and Right.
I'm writing a C program in Xcode that uses cURL. It builds properly on my Mac Pro running 10.8.5, but on my MacBook Pro running 10.8.5, it gives me this error when I try to build:
I know the easiest way to secure your iPhone is by using a 4-digit-passcode to lock the entire phone. However, I was wondering if there is a way to securely passcode-protect only the Photo and Mail apps, i.e. a passcode is required every time the apps are opened? My iPhone is not jailbroken and I'm not planning on doing so.
My original question on Stack Overflow can be found here. Basically, I ssh into my linux work station from my Mac and I would like to test my program (that runs on the linux machine) if color output is not supported on my terminal emulator. Currently I am using Terminal.app and I've tried setting Preferences > Settings > Advanced > Declare terminal as different terminal types but all of them still seem to print colors.
Mac newbie here. I need to have a case sensitive file system. I am planning to create a separate data partition for that. 100GB (Mac/home directory) + 151GB (data partition). I have a habit of making a separate data partition since my Linux days (while building a new system). It seems like the separate data partition appears as /Volumes/data_partition on Mac, while it appears as /data_partition (as in, direct descendant of / ) for Linux. Is my understanding correct?
When I try to load a PDF in Safari I am getting some odd Asian (sorry I don't know what dialect) type in the loading window. My best guess is there is a font substitution occurring but I really don't know what is going on.
I'm trying to install boot camp on my MacBook Pro, problem is I don't have a windows installation disk. Can someone please explain how to install bootcamp without the cd? Please!
I forgot to make a backup of my EFI System Partition (ESP) and have installed grub onto it. If I happen to accidentally mess up the partition, will OS X be bootable? If not, how would I restore the EFI System Partition without having a backup?
Browsing extensively online, I've found numerous docks, such as Belkin's Thunderbolt Express, that connect via a Thunderbolt cable. This would work, but it's an expensive, 'bulkier' solution (and not the one I'm looking for).
I have Microsoft publisher files on a windows computer. I recently purchased a macbook air, and would like to move these files to my new computer. How do I do that?
I have a newer thunderbolt display and an older Apple Cinema HD display hooked up to my retina macbook pro (15 inch, early 2013, 1 GB GeForce GT 650M graphics card). The older one is going through a mini-displayport interface to a dvi cable hooked up to a thunderbolt port, while the newer one is on thunderbolt.
The file won't open, with QuickTime, with the following error message: Tried selecting repair disk on disk utility, didn't work. I'm under OS X 10.7.5.
I received a macbook with unwanted materials on it and i would like to start anew, but i need Microsoft Word for college. I am to afraid to try anything in fear of erasing the program. Please help.
I work a lot on Magento and Drupal site development, and occasionally develop the odd nopCommerce (.NET based) project under Windows. I also make use of Adobe Photoshop CC for slicing up web designs handed over to me, and fool around in Sketchup every now and then. I don't play games on my laptop...purely work. So I believe that my graphics processing needs are very small. Ok, I've gone off course a little, but getting back to the main question - Would it be reasonable to assume that I can achieve slightly better battery consumption by choosing the Retina Macbook Pro with Intel Iris Pro only option?
I'm using Mavericks and I noticed some of my files have their extensions hidden and others don't. How does Finder decide whether a file extension needs to be hidden? I know I can prevent this inconsistency by selecting the "Show all filenames extensions" option in Finder Preferences.
I have a disk, it is MicroSD and I have a macbook. I enter said disk into said Macbook and when I try to copy I get... I tried the ole...... But not luck any ideas? I also made sure the read-only switch on the adapter wasn't set FDisk
I’ve upgraded my device to an iPhone 5; from an iPhone 4. But it seems that Google changed the way it handles free accounts and iOS. Namely they don’t support the Exchange protocol anymore.
I have my OS X 10.9.3 Application Level Firewall turned on (Firewall: On in System Preferences | Security & Privacy with Firewall Options: Block all incoming connections). ipfw show lists a single rule (65535 0 0 allow ip from any to any), which I guess is the normal default (although I wonder if I should impose restrictions also on this level).
This is my first post here on AskDifferent. I have a user who can not connect to the VPN on his Mac. It is a MBP 11,1 with a Core i5 2.4GHz 8gb of memory running OS X 10.9.3 . I have had him create a new VPN connection with all of the necessary information and still no dice. No one else in the company who is running Mavericks is having any issue VPNing into the office.
Can you make the Dock icon for an app appear different? Obviously you could copy the whole app or symlink parts of it, but I don't want to have to create a symlink for every single file in the Resources directory. I tried pasting an icon into the "Get Info" window of an alias or symlink, but that just triggered the bell noise.
In iOS 7/8 is it "allowed" for an app to change the internal clock? I want to write an app that would automate th process of going to settings>general>date & time then turning off "automatically set time" and changing the date to tomorrow. Then later turning back on "automatically set date and time". Is this kind of tinkering allowed in iOS 7 or 8?
So I was partitioning my macbook's hard disk so as to install addition operating system. But as disk utility was in the process of partitioning, I closed the disk partition (for a reason) thinking it wont save the changes and I will start again. Big mistake.
Using Mavericks, how can I prevent Spotlight from indexing all drives except my primary internal drive? In my work, I connect dozens of new drives every week, and I do not want the .Spotlight-V100 folder to be created on them. I know I can add each drive to the Spotlight privacy list, but that can only be done after connecting the drive, and then the .Spotlight-V100 folder has already been created.
I already did a back up before and now I would like to delete all the contents on my iPhone, but the LCD and touch sensitivity accidentally went gone and blacked out. What should I do? Before the exchange of the new Phone from the Phone company to the old broken one. I would appreciate it if someone could teach me on how to delete all the contents. :)
I received an interesting request today. Namely, is it possible to setup a networked Time Machine to backup the Desktops of 11 workstations on a LAN. While I'm familiar with OSX, I haven't attempted to setup Time Machine until today.
Yesterday I was working on my iMac 27" Late 2009 with OS X Mavericks 10.9, suddenly Google Chrome's tabs started to flicker. I thought restart would stop this - but after the computer boot up again it was even worse. The boot screen and System restore are looking fine (So i don't think the monitor hardware is the problem). I even re-installed OS X again, but still no change. Here is some images I took of my screen. also, the login screen is even more messed up:
About everything (even clear and open) is giving 'Command Not Found' on the Terminal. If I do and echo $PATH, it gives me this. /Users/username/Documents/android/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools:/Users/merck/Documents/android/android-sdk-macosx/tools The /.profile file is not even there in the Finder.
A general question about how AirMirroring works, because I've some freezing problems and I would like to know if connecting my Apple TV to the rough by ehternet cable could help. N.B. I'm not watching online streamed movies, but just using Apple TV for Air Mirroring. The videos are stored on my macbook Air hard disk. How does Air Mirroring works: is the streaming going from macbook ---> Apple TV, or macbook ---> WIFI Modem ---> Apple TV ? If the second is true, connecting Apple TV to WIFI Modem could help.. even if the content is not online streaming... ?
I'm currently trying to update my mid 2009 Macbook Pro to Mac OS X Mavericks. I've downloaded the file from App Store several times the but every time when the Install progress reaches about "1 second left" a message pops up saying that the download might be corrupt or that the program can't be verified. I already tried the following things: Check HDD (also at boot with Cmd + R) Check that apps are compatible to work with Mavericks Checked HDD size (about 40 GB left) Downloaded from different internet accesses Made all offered updates mentioned in App Store My drive is FileVault encrypted. It's enough to drive one to despair.
All of a sudden Mail.app is no longer showing in the header who is receiving the email, be it a group send or even an individual (me). It is there but you have to scroll over that line to see the names. They just are not showing like they used to. How do I resolve this so the recipients are always seen?
I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is. Now a mac does support horizontal scrolling by holding shift + scrolling, this is however amazingly slow.
I have a LaCie 2big, connected via Thunderbolt 2. When I select as a disk-partition MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), does that uses some type of hardware encryption or is it all software?
If I create a new personal Keychain, in this example I called "Test", everything I save into my new "Test" goes to my iCloud too? Or remain just local into my computer?
Where do if find the download dock folder stack settings so I can change them to see fan or somehow get the most recent download to show up first?
I use OS X Mavericks and have some company storage drives mounted (using smb or cfs). (smb://username@address.path.toserver.com/directory/data). When I work with files on the drive or copy files to the drive, some hidden files are created. Most of these files start with dot-dash ._ and then the filename of the original file, like: And most of the times, the famous ._.DS_Store and .DS_Store are also there.
Is there any software I can use to scan a bootcamp partition on OSX for viruses from OS X? I prefer to run the scan from OS X because:
A few weeks ago, Google Chrome suddenly started to request my linkedin password from the keychain on startup, before any web page is loaded. Every time I open the browser window, after a few seconds, the following message pops up (I remove my email address from the image):
I'm weighing the value of upgrading my machine because FCP X 10.1.1 is constantly hanging—more than once per 5 minutes—and I'm at a loss what to do. Is this just because I have older (Mid-2010) Xeon processors? Could there be other hardware issues contributing to this? Choose your own adventure in answering my question:
I use the built-in Mail.app client to fetch my Google Mail emails using IMAP. If I delete an email in any mailbox except trash using the delete button, Mail.app puts the email in the corresponding trash mailbox like it is supposed to be. I also like having the deleted mails saved on the server.
I wrote an applescript that finds a person in my contact list. The addressbook:// will open the person in the Contacts app. But I installed the Cobook app and it opens now instead of the Contacts app. Where is the information stored that says open Cobook with addressbook:// and is possible to have two entries so that both Cobook and Contacts open?
For Excel for Windows, there's an option to search a sheet for errors and go straight to them, under the "Find and select" icon in the ribbon. Excel for Mac 2011 doesn't have a "Find and select" ribbon icon. On a sheet without thousands of cells, how can you scan it for errors?
I like to use Kaleidoscope (v 2.1.0 - build 133.01 under Mac OS X 10.8.5) to compare 2 directories. But, when I create files by copying them from a directory to another using Kaleidoscope, (e.g., when a file is missing in one of the two directories), the file is always created with an extended attribute com.apple.quarantine! An exemple: creation of 2 directories to compare, with a file in the first: checking attributes: Selection of the file to copy it with Kaleidoscope:
I currently have Java 6 installed on my system (please don't laugh) and we are moving to Java 8. So we have changed the main branch of our application to use Java 8, however, we need to support old versions that run on Java 6. So we need to easily alternate.
My company hosts quite a large amount of reference material (images, video, pdfs) on a server, and we're looking for a good way to organize these assets by tags. Searching for these tags in Finder is very slow. Are there any other ways to interface with any of these tags/files?
I'm looking at buying a second-hand Mac, probably one that does not include an OS installation disk. How can I scan it to make sure that it has not had security threats installed on it? Is there a CD or DVD image I can boot it up with to perform this scan offline? Edit: prospective machine would be a 2011- or 2012-vintage MacBook Pro.
Sometime my preview pane spontaneously reappears whenever I switch to another (non full-screen) Space, e.g., with CTRL + → . This behavior continues even after I close the preview pane. Sometimes it continues even when I have closed all Finder windows. Moreover, when this is occurring, I cannot reach Spaces with full-screen applications open. It seems to happen when I am switching spaces with the preview pane open in the first place.
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, I read on a book that Disk Utility can erase a Volume/Partition by using different option of security. Among these options there is one called: 3 Pass Erase, that writes two passes of random data followed by a single pass of known data to the disk.
I have a Broadcom USB Bluetooth Adaptor that I am working with, and for my project I need to change the dongle's Vendor ID and Product ID. I have tried editing the IORegistry, but it appears they are read-only from the IORegistry. I've tried editing IOBluetoothFamily.kext, but bluetooth becomes unavailable after a reboot. Any suggestions to spoof or flash a new PID/VID onto the dongle?
Is there a way to exclude specific apps from Spotlight search results? For example, in my daily workflow I rarely open iTunes. So when I want to open iTerm2 it would be great to save the extra keystrokes if Spotlight knew ignore that application from the list of search results. Similarly, when I want the App Store, I prefer using my Launchpad dedicated Hot Corner. I'd love to Spotlight to Airmail without the extra strokes it requires to get past the App Store suggested...
Now, however, he made the "mistake" of buying a game that weighed in at 3.8GB. He's now looking down the barrel of a 8-day solid download, during which (due to latencies and such) he won't really be able to do anything else with his connection.
I am currently using Xcode 5 on my Macbook Pro which is running OSX Yosemite. I am trying to create an outlet from a UIWebview to a header file. When I let go of my mouse to create the connection, Xcode freezes and crashes. This is repeatedly happening no matter what I have done. I have tried restarting Xcode and my Macbook. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? Thanks!
When I try to send an email using an installed S/MIME certificate on iOS, I get an alert that says: Unable to Sign: You can't send signed messages because a signing identity for the address could not be found. Go to the advanced settings for this account and choose a signing identity.
Yesterday when I started the Mac, it loaded up a grey boot screen with a loading bar. The loading bar took about 10-15 minutes to complete and then the Mac shut down again. I restarted and same thing happened.
I am using Microsoft Lync (14.0.8) with Mavericks (10.9.3) on a laptop. When my IP address changes Lync does not reconnect automatically. From time to time I see a big red X icon in the dock but in the majority of the cases the icon is not shown. When the error icon is not shown I do not notice that I am offline for a long time. From time to time (but not often) the client reconnects automatically. The Windows Lync client behaves differently and always reconnects when there is network connectivity. Any idea on how to force Lync to automatically reconnect?
You can manually drag your folders to desktop to create an MBOX file, but need to create using AppleScript. please help me. thanks
Im using zsh as my default shell and loving it. I have random themes enabled, and whenever I load a theme it displays a message on my terminal. How do I disable this message? Im talking about [oh-my-zsh] Random theme '/Users/r3dsm0k3/.oh-my-zsh/themes/ys.zsh-theme' loaded... How to disable it from showing in the terminal ?
I did not empty the trash. How can I get these photos back?
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Would it be possible to create an AppleScript to instantly drag one screen from one screen to another (say, center of the second screen)?
I've been using Little Snitch for a while. I have several profiles set up (e.g. Home, Work, Public, etc). I've been working to generalize some of the rules. E.g. Instead of specifically allowing Firefox on port 80 to each of a thousand different websites, just allow Firefox on Port 80 to anywhere. However, I still end up with duplicates of many of those same rules across profiles. Is there an easy way to modify an existing rule to be effective in all profiles?
Is it possible to press some button and temporary turn iPhone into normal phone, i.e. make it transmit nothing over data channel?
How do I remove multiple songs at once in a new iTunes playlist? I know how to remove songs one at a time, but is there a way to remove multiple songs at once?
I wonder why, apart from good old chroot, no implementation of operating system-level virtualization (or containers if you prefer) exists for Mac OS X. Could it be due to kernel limitations or license restrictions? Or simply no one has yet launched a similar project?
This seems similar to other questions I've seen, but in other ones, as far as I can understand, it seems that people are trying to download podcasts while avoiding using data. This is not a concern for me as I have unlimited data, but the podcasts still won't download.
I recently restored my iPhone 5 from backup, and noticed that my dictionary always gives the message "No definition found" (although this could have started earlier and I just didn't notice until now). I tried selecting Manage from the bottom left of the empty dictionary message, then deleting and re-adding a dictionary; however, I still get the same message.
Is there any terminal command or script I can use to disable brightness adjustment system wide? I currently manage a large network of computers for a school district and we are looking for an easy solution to disable access to that functionality.
I am noticing a slight colour shift in my iPad Mini screen lately. Is there a diagnostic test I could run to see the status of the screen? (I'm thinking something like the battery diagnostic.)
I have a MacBookPro running OS X 10.8.5. My understanding is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏ puts the Mac into a sleep mode. This is fine but what I want to know if there is a way to keep the ethernet port active while in this mode?
I have very frequent kernel panic calls. Here is a report on one of them. I have no idea what is causing it.
The issue is that when we put the HDD in the optical bay, the computer can basically not recognize or use it. If plug the HDD in via a usb cord, he can initialize it and erase it to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) perfectly fine. It only takes a few seconds, and as far as I can tell, it works. However, when he actually puts the hard drive in the optical bay, it either doesn't show up in disk utility, or it shows up, but can't be accessed or changed.
In the last couple of days, all the text editors tight-loop on startup. Opening Smultron, for instance, makes the program menus appear instantly, but then that's it, it's locked up. You can't even use the menus. TextEdit is exactly the same.
So there is this one podcast I like but I only want to get the episodes published on Saturdays. Is it possible? They publish a podcast everyday but I am only interested in the ones that are on Saturdays.
After starting to run Migration Assistant over wifi, I connected an Ethernet cable to both machines in order to speed up the transfer. This does not appear to be working. How can I disable wifi on one or both machines? The normal menu system does not appear to be accessible. Both machines are running updated versions of Mavericks.
I have recently added a number of songs to my iTunes playlist (all mp3s). When syncing them over to my iPhone I get an error saying that 'X track cannot be played on this iPhone'.
I use my Macbook hooked up to a TV via HDMI for most of my work, and want to use Airplay mirroring from my Mac to extend my desktop and play online videos full screen on my Apple TV while also being able to do work on my computer that won't end up on the screen. It seems to me that using airplay mirroring with the "desktop extension" option is the best way to do this. However, whenever I turn it on, all of my apps end up on the TV screen and my desktop ends up completely blank. Is there a way to choose which desktop is the one that goes on to the TV?
iPhones, iPad, etc, all have their optimal specifications for charging. A power source that does not meet those specification results in a slow charge. However, what happens when the specifications (volt/amps) increased & decrease (fluctuate)? Will the power fluctuations cause damage to the battery? Assuming there is a voltage regulator to keep it from going too high, will this still cause damage?
I once read that you can modify a file on the computer to make Single User Mode behave differently, called "boot.rc" or something similar. Is it possible to modify the behavior of SUM? Since physical access would compromise all security (except FileVault) is it possible to prevent SUM from running bash and immediately boot into the GUI (or at least into something which requests a password) so potential hackers would have no way to gain root access without a password?
I have a jailbroken iPhone. I use it to reboot my router when my wifi is going slow or messing up. But I'm lazy and I was looking for a way to automate the process. I use shortcuts that mobile terminal lets you create so you can just tap the command instead of having to type it. But is there a way I can create a script or run everything with a single command to do this for me? Commands are as follows: Can I jam all of that into one single process?
I would like to reset all my progress, achievements and objects from Fruit Ninja. I've tried deleting it and then reinstalling it again, but I still have all my stuff. So, how could I reset the game so that it's like I've never played before?
I moved some kext files from /System/Library/Extensions to ~/DisabledExtensions and now my Mac doesn't boot giving me "kernel panic" error related to some ATAPI driver. I want to copy these kext files back on their place. How do I do this? Is there some kind of Live-CD or Live-USB which will allow me to copy files? Note: This is on macbook, so removing HD would be troublesome. This is on macbook, so removing HD would be troublesome. I don't have another mac nearby I don't have another mac nearby Internet recovery doesn't work giving -2002F error Internet recovery doesn't work giving -2002F error There is no Recovery Partition on this macbook There is no Recovery Partition on this macbook Single user mode and verbose mode doesn't work giving same panic error Single user mode and verbose mode doesn't work giving same panic error There is no Mac Os X installation DVD There is no Mac Os X installation DVD Macbook Pro 15 Late 2011
Resizing the C:\ drive under Windows(bootcamp) corrupted mac partitions. Neither Mac OS X nor Windows are able to boot. Holding the Option(ALT) key shows only Windows, which can't boot. Internet Recovery doesn't work giving -2002F error. No other Mac nearby to create recovery USB. I have only Windows PC with internet in my disposal to fix this. No single user nor verbose mode loads.
This Problem might be very specific. After having been very happy with Snow Leopard for quite a while I am now seriously considering upgrading to Mavericks with my 2010 iMac. I would however like to save a copy of the old system to be able to downgrade and get back to it without having trouble and without losing any data.
Is there a way to get OSX 10.9.3 to startup in the same space (eg. always startup on Desktop1) at every boot up?
[OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks)] I've disabled smart quotes in the keyboard settings, but whenever I type ' or " in Messages (old name: iChat), they get converted to ‘ and “. How do I disable this default conversion?
I have something called 'Pens Labyrinth' in my Notification Centre (screenshot below) -- How did it get there? And how do I remove/delete/uninstall it? (Also I don't understanding why am I'm seeing notifications from it while it's in the "Not In Notification Center" list.)
Have MacBook Pro 2010 running Mavericks. Hard drive crashed/replaced at Apple Store Minneapolis in June. Now cannot access Word for Mac. 3 choices: 1) enter product key 2) sign in to existing Office 365 subscription 3) try Office 365.
Here's the situation: I have a MacBook Air that I'd like to mirror the display (and audio) of to a Mac Mini, via WiFi. It is completely possible to mirror the MacBook Air to an Apple TV (using "AirPlay Mirroring"), but I'd like to know if it's possible to do the same thing between two Macs, even if it means using third-party software.
I am using Mac Book Pro with Mavericks. For last couple of weeks, I have been noticing that my whole machine going in to Freeze, when I try to open a particular folder. Every time when I "force quit" (option+command+esc), I find the "Folder option" in a "Non response" mode. Until I "Relaunch" the finder, It's not going back to normal.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro whose SuperDrive I have removed and added a ssd. It's been running well like this everyday for 30 months.
I am new in Mac world. I am the only user of my Mac with OS X 10.9.3 but sometimes other people use my computer. My purpose is to prevent installation of malware, spyware and surveillance software. Is OS X secure about this, if not, how can I make it secure? Can I let my Mac ask administrator password whenever a user including admin and Guest accounts install applications?
I recently installed wget on my Mac using the instructions listed here: *=URL=* and lorcan's instructions here: How do I get "wget" for Snow Leopard? However, I realized that I installed an outdated version of wget. Is there an easy way to uninstall wget from my system?
How can I find the rotation lock switch on a iPhone 5? It is lock and does not rotates the pictures when I rotate the phone.
Like I said, I have this issue on both Apple TVs. One is hardwired to the router, and one is operating via WiFi. At this point, I have to believe that it's something happening on my network causing packet loss.
I am starting with zeroMQ but could get it to work. I installed zeroMQ from tarball using the following commands: While doing make check I got a few failures: I want to use zeroMQ with Python on OS X UPDATE 30-June so before you posted I tried with brew it sounded like everything went fine except brew link zmq So tried to manually symlink cd /usr/local/opt ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq/4.0.3/lib/ zeromq cd /usr/local/include/ ln -s ../Cellar/zeromq/4.0.3/include/zmq_utils.h zmq_utils.h ln -s ../Cellar/zeromq/4.0.3/include/zmq.h zmq.h then again i tried : sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install zmq -- --with-zmq-dir=/usr/local/opt/zeromq but got the following errors checking for zmq.h... yes checking for zmq_init() in -lzmq... yes Cool, I found your zmq install... creating Makefile Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/zmq-2.1.4/./gem_make.out
After having my iPhone disconnected for some time, will all the text messages people have sent me, arrive to the phone once I reconnect it?
I recently noticed that TM does not update its backup from certain folders any more. I have a deep sub folder inside ~/Documents, and when I create new folders or files in it, they do not appear in the TM backup. The backup contains, however, lots of files created until Oct 2, 2013. Which means that TM used to backup the contents of this folder. Now, before you suggest that I have probably disabled backup for this folder - nope: When I check with tmutil isexcluded for paths of files that didn't get backed up, it says [Included].
I can't access the Apple ID acct on my device. The device was given to me and she never told me the password and I can't ask her. What can I do?
I'm passing my IPhone 4 on to my mother, and I wanted to reset it. So I went into settings -> general -> reset, and I picked the option to reset all settings and remove all the data. Now I'm seeing a screen with a spinner on it. How long can I expect this to take? At what point should I reboot the phone and try again? I'm still running IOS 5.something on it, because I had jailbroken it, but according to most sites I'm reading, the jailbreak shouldn't affect the reset.
I've updated to Mac OS X 10.7.5 and now the autocorrect no longer works as beautifully as it used to. Prior to update, whether I was in mail, safari, wherever, it detected the language & suggested the appropriate correction…now it is only detecting one language (the first on my list in settings) and doesn't detect when I'm using the second language on my list in system preferences.
When I change the selection manually to iPhoto it takes a few moments and then shows me thumbnails of all the images in my iPhoto library, starting (strangely) with the oldest at the top. This strikes me as very odd default behaviour. Wouldn't it be sensible to show the newest images first? Or better yet, to show the lists of iPhoto events with the most recent first. How can I change these defaults?
I do a lot of typing in Evernote and I really need an 'up arrow' and 'down arrow' instead of typing 'increasing' or 'decreasing'... Ideally pressing Shift and 'Up arrow' would be the best way to get an upward arrow. I've downloaded and tried using KeyRemap4Macbook but I can't work out how to get the up or down arrows.
I just got myself a MBA and I am wondering how do I install Xcode 6 on my MBA? In the Mac App Store I can see Xcode 5.1.1 so I have started installing that on the MBA. But, I want to install Xcode 6 and more specifically Swift. How do I do that?
I have an external USB disk attached to a Raspberry Pi. I've been making Time Machine backups without problems, but today I'm getting an error telling me that the "disk is read-only" and the backup cannot be done. Previous to that, a verification error appeared giving me two options, use another disk or do a clean backup. If I attach the disk directly to my Mac, backups are recognized and I can do an incremental backup without issues. How can I fix this problem so that I can continue doing backups over the network when it's connected to my Raspberry Pi?
I've done a bit of research and it seems ARD is somewhat based on VNC technology. It even has the option to allow access via VNC viewers using a password.
I am using the screen sharing application on a MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.3 to connect to a Windows 7 virtual machine on a different computer. Although the keyboard and mouse work in general (input is received by the VM), the mouse pointer is not synced correctly. I see two mouse pointers: the Windows one and the one from my Mac. However, the Windows mouse pointer is always off by quite a bit. It seems to have a higher acceleration. If I quickly move my mouse, the Windows mouse pointers moves more than my Mac's.
I use OSX and Windows 7 on my MBA. I have an access to OSX partition on Windows 7. I was wondering... is it safe? I mean, could OSX partition be destroyed by some kind of virus? Is there any way to disable that partition in Windows 7, making it unaccessible for any program, virus, etc. ?
I am using the Apple Automator to build a simple program that opens all the documents that belong to a project. All files are in the same folder and can be identified by the first characters of the file name; I am using the 'Find finder items'-action to find all these files, and then open them. However, there also files with similar names in a subfolder, that I do not want to open.
I'm running OS X Lion in VirtualBox on Windows 8 (I know, that's cheating, sorry :) to be able to use Xcode. Everything worked fine, until Apple decided that they don't accept apps to the App Store from Xcode lower that 5.1.1. But it just won't update.
I just bought my first MacBook Pro. One frustration I have is accessing my shared windows-based network assets. I have two servers on the network, but they seem to take forever to be discovered by my MBP. Use Case: I open my MBP Once connected to WiFi, I open Finder and then Go > Network I wait and wait and wait and wait for the windows-based network assets to be discovered
iTunes doesn't recognize iPhone's remote app in any way. Reinstalled OS X Reinstalled Remote app on iPhone Reinstalled iOS
I have the late 2013 MBP 15″ with Retina and recently I've been unable to connect to websites not using SSL with either Firefox or Safari. This includes other applications that use HTTP such as the Twitter official app and the App Store.
Am I missing something or is the search function in the special characters window not very helpful? For example, I'm editing text and I want to insert the character for π (pi), so I select "Special Characters..." from the menu and get the window. Then I type "pi" in the search field and get the following, which is not helpful.
I have a late 2011 mac book pro with bluetooth 2.1 which works terribly with my speakers. Is there anyway I can use my Iphone 5s with bluetooth 4.0 as a sort of replacement. Through USB, WIFI or Bluetooth?
I have a late 2011 13″ MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks updated to the latest version, which was usually connected to a HP Pavillon 23xi monitor using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter. It worked like a charm as desktop extension until 3 days ago. When I woke up the MacBook it didn't detect the external display.
I have written an Applescript to launch and position two instances of an Application. The script runs perfectly fine in the editor using this code:
I'm trying to put together a sheet that calculates hours I work. One thing I want to do is calculate hours that are billable. So I have something like this:
I've been using my username@outlook.com Apple ID on my iPhone for over 2 years. Prior to that I had username@gmail.com and before that I had username@yahoo.com as my prev Apple IDs. When I'm restoring my iPhone backup, I was asked for my current Apple ID (the outlook.com - makes sense) but ALSO was asked for the passwords for the older accounts (unused gmail.com and yahoo.com based iCloud accounts). I guess it's asking because I had apps purchases from those Apple IDs still on my phone so I just hit "skip". Is there a way for me to See which apps are still linked to my no longer used Apple IDs Move those app purchases over to my newest Apple ID Remove those older Apple IDs from future backups (so future restores don't bug me like this)
When trying to choose a dropbox folder location, the folder I want to use is not visible in the file chooser dialog. I can see the folder in finder and terminal. I recently copied my home folder to a new disk but Dropbox has kept the original path to Users/me/dropbox
I have a MacMini which I use as a server and DVR so it constantly has shows and movies playing on it. I'd like to be able to delegate the volume keys on my MacBookPro to the MacMini and control it's volume from my MBP. Both devices are always on the same network with static internal IP addresses.
Not sure why, but after about 5 minutes of scanning, my ScanSnap just bails on me. I would use their documentation, etc. but nobody knows what this error code is so I wanted to seek the geniuses here and I think it likely that others must have had this problem. When I’ve used this scanner with another computer it works fine.
So basically I can't boot from my ssd anymore. It just shows a grey screen with an error symbol. I can't get into target disk mode and none of the other boot shortcuts seem to be working either. When I have my old OSX HDD in there and the SSD attached via USB however I can select the SSD from the boot menu and boot it just fine.
Today I went to: Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Contents and Settings I did this because I was told that would be the only way to get jailbreak off of my iPhone 5C. However, now my phone has been showing the white buffer icon for the past 2 and a half hours.
I have a file called tasks.taskpaper that I associated with FoldingText. When I open the file, the dialog pops up with text
I am using iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1.1 I have a problem from 3 days ago. The battery keeps draining and the phone keeps warm in the whole day.
Yesterday, I started downloading XCode 5.1.1 from the App Store. I have a very slow + limited bandwidth Internet connection. It took almost 5+ hours to download 1.6GB of data. It was really late in the night, and my new MBA had been up for over 7 hours, so I "paused" the download, shutdown the MBA, shut off my modem and went to bed.
I have set up a VPN connection using my FritzBox 6330. This works great on my Macbook Air if I specify a DNS server (192.168.178.1 - which is the address of my FritzBox) in the network settings of the VPN.
I would like to use the password generated by my macbook safari while I am using my iPhone 3gs safari... Is that possible somehow?
10.9.x Finder The effect that pulls all the selected items into a new folder from the right click "New Folder with Selection" is really nice, but way too slow for me. Anyone know a terminal command that would increase the animation rate?
When I connected MagSafe power cable to Mac and close lid, secondary display become a primary and dock migrate to it. But when I disconnected MagSafe power cable - the primary and secondary monitors both are turn off. How can I set external display as primary and turn off internal display without connected MagSafe power cable? I has Mac OS X 10.9.3
MacBook Pro with Mavericks after resume, HTTP doesn't work but HTTPS does. No firewall, no proxy. HTTP does work in virtualized machines (everyone, one Ubuntu, one Windows 7 and a Windows Server 2008) You just try in terminal telnet whateverdomain.whatevertopleveldomain 80 ...just nothing. I'm lost
If I have iCloud turned off on my iPhone, are incoming and/or already received iMessages still stored in the cloud? Can someone sharing my Apple ID see my iMessages even after I delete them on the iPhone?
I recently moved my home folder to another internal HDD on my MacbookPro (early 2011 OSX 10.9.4). I'm having an issue where in-app file dialogs cannot display my new home directory or its contents. I thought about trying to repair disk permissions but the option is greyed out in Disk Utility and I get the following error when trying to run it in terminal I also tried rebooting into recovery mode and using the repair option in the resetpassword dialog but the /Volumes/Data disk does not appear, only the main boot volume.
Is it possible to increase the area dedicated to all-day events? It grows automatically up to 5 events, the 6th is partially shown and from the 7th they are hidden.
Is there anyway natively or with third party extension to bind a Mac so that it can search two domains for Authentication? We have two forests each with one domain in them. In Active Directory terms there is a trust relationship between them so users can log in to Windows workstations with credentials from either domain. As we try to move to a single Domain in a single forest I need to understand if the Mac's can at least temporarily support Authentication against both domains... After sorting that I can see how it handles the same username, Active Directory ID (SID) etc...
I had an iphone 5 with photos on it and was backed up on icloud. My iphone 5 got stolen and i got an iphone 5s. I restored everything on to my new one, but some photos are there in thumbnail form but i cant view the full pictures. It just shows a blank page and says it is loading... 20+ photos are like this.
Suddenly started getting this strange error when attempting to run any command via sudo: I've tried different Terminal windows, repairing permissions, restarting, and tried creating a new admin user but still get the same issue. As far as OS X is concerned I'm still an administrator and can perform any actions that open an administrator's password dialogue box, but I can no longer run any command via Terminal that requires the use of sudo.
I just purchased a brand-new MacBook Pro, Retina (15" screen). The "Hello" pamphlet in the box starts out:
I finally understood why Disk Utility will not change the partitions on my HDD, even though I added the most recent one myself (maybe significant: to test Yosemite DP) with it. Now I see it says it won't change either partition, because it has encrypted data and CoreStorage objects. It tells me vaguely to use diskutil from the command line for this, but this makes me a bit uncomfortable. I found a very similar question here, with a great but incomplete answer about how to resolve this. How can one drop the smaller partition, then? Note that I don't even see my pain partition from diskutil corestorage list (output below), which is worrisome.
I have a late 2009 Mac, and my storage keeps depleting in front of my eyes. Despite disabling local snapshots on time machine, searching for numerous apps to figure out where the space is going, repairing disk utility (which displays invalid block count and then corrects it despite that it'll fluctuate again), and reinstalling Maverick/ restoring from a backup I have been left with my storage all becoming "other."
Is there a way to implement handoff to iOS so my PC running windows can send iMessage/SMS through bluetooth and iOS cellular data connections. This is analogous to MightyText on PC does to Android hardware and cellular service. I know I can do iMessage on the Mac, but I do not own that hardware and would also like to do SMS from my PC over iOS.
Zhora's answer reminds me about the problem in hand. The default search utilities of OSs are unstable because of variety of different filetypes. I personally produce Tex files so no problem in indexing plain tex and searching fast. However, my colleges produce WYSIWYG documents with PDF output. This thing creates a demand for search programmatically.
I am trying to setup a new hard drive into my Macbook Pro. However, I keep getting an error in disk utility that states, "Unable to write to the last block of the device." I saw another person was able to solve this by replacing a dead hd cable. Could someone explain what they meant by dead hd cable, or have any other ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for the help
I switched to iTerm 2 a while ago, but would like to fix this small problem that I have with OS X's built-in Terminal. Terminal is supposed to look like this when it first opens on my machine:
This is basically a follow up of a very similar broader question. Say I have two users, foo and bar. Only foo is logged in. If I manually log bar in I could set up Google Drive to auto start under System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. In fact, it's probably already set up there, and this is what I currently do to achieve what I want: have 2 google drive sessions running simultaneously on my machine.
I am too cheap to purchase a USB charging connector for my iPhone, so I was wondering if there's a way to create a USB cable at home or use some other USB cable and get the job done safely. For example will other USBs, assuming the connectors fit, charge, or no? I figure they would since they are just USB 2.0 based and iPhone can't tell the difference from its hardware perspective.
I believe I created this problem. When I plugged my External HD in last week I accidentally dragged the Ext HD onto the desktop. It then disappeared from view in finder and there is no shortcut on the desktop or anywhere that I can find on my computer. It does however show up in disk utility and when I unplug it, I receive the "inproperly ejected disk" message. Does anyone know how I can make the Ext HD accessible again?
All notes have disappeared from my iphone and cannot be found on my computer or iCloud. Why am I backing up my computer? Are they hidden somewhere? They aren't in Mail, either.
This started after I installed a BootCamp Windows 8.1 partition. That partition ran out of space so I decided to not heed any warnings and tried to format my Macintosh HD into free space, 10G of free space. Still no problems until I decided to boot into Mac OS X and saw that I accidentally deleted my Mac OS X partition! I booted into my Recovery partition and reinstalled Mavericks. I formatted the Recovery HD partition as HFS.. since after I made free space it showed up in the Mac (This is before the reinstall)
I need to print some SMS messages for a legal action. What tool does Apple provide to print SMS messages with their time stamps and other metadata? This is similar to Need to print out iPhone text messages, but I don't need to transfer them to a different email account.
Is there a way to access iPhone in Finder, similar to the way Windows can access it in Explorer? Going through some growing pains in doing things the "apple way" ...
Does OS X have a Windows Shift + F10 equivalent? I need a keyboard shortcut to open the context menu without a mouse.
We all know iOS switches off services one by one when the battery reaches critical level. But is there any fixed battery level to cut down individual services. For example, Bluetooth will be switched off at 20%, Mobile data at 15%, Wifi at 10%, etc. I am searching these in iOS documentation and Googling as well. But I am not able to find such info. Any help please.
I've had this annoying problem with my phone that has happened a few times now. Basically it just totally freezes. My top button is broken, so I can't turn the phone off using that. My assisted touch no longer works, because the screen is pretty much completely frozen.
Problem occurs when pressing the @ and the " keys. They seem to be mapped to each other, so @ -> " and " -> @. The system preferences allow modifier keys to be re-mapped but not these two. Can it be done?
On OS X 10.8, using terminal commands, I'd like to enable SMB sharing as if I had ticked the following checkbox under System Preferences - Sharing - File Sharing - Options:  I've tried the following command: sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist But despite the smb daemon seeming to be up and running, the checkbox is still unchecked, as if something is missing. The same command works, as an example, for screen sharing (com.apple.screensharing.plist) and even for AFP (com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist), only SMB seem to suffer from this problem.
I've searched through some sites and couldn't find any solution for my problem, so finally landed here :) I have two mac's in my job - one has bluetooth keyboard, one wired. I want to permanently disable bluetooth keyboard for that with wired keyboard. Now it automatically pairs with Mac which is first turned on. How I can do that? Thanks!
I have two OSX installs on the same SSD, and when I switch from one to the other, I keep getting hits from the other volume for my Spotlight searches. I solved this by adding the other volume to Spotlight's exclude list in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy, but for some reason this also adds the volume to the other install's exclusion list. I assume this is because the exclusion adds a .noindex file to the volume. Is there a way to make this install-specific?
Basicaly my problem is, that when i mouse over some text, the default "text-selection" cursor appears. But the mouse pointer (arrow) is still present and i can see two cursors.
This doesn't seem to always work. Also (perhaps related?): when I close the lid of the laptop when it's connected to the Thunderbolt display, how do I make the display go black? Basically, I am trying to increase security on my setup overall, if I leave my desk.
I have one (just one) Exchange account configured:  But Calendar shows it twice:
I just installed Xcode 5.1 and the latest round of updates. I followed that with a Repair Disk Permissions. For some reason, Apple installs its software with broken permissions. I then ran Repair Disk Permissions (Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility):
But when I open a .css file the same way then there is no highlighting automatically activated by Xcode. The complete text is written in black letters on white background. I can manually select Editor > Syntax Coloring ▶︎ > CSS in Xcode to get the correct highlighting. But I hate to do this 50 or 100 times a day when Xcode can do this for any other file type automatically.
When using iMovie's side-by-side feature, it cropped the clips automatically by default. How do we make it to fit the clips into the final clip without cropping any parts of the images? Clip1: Clip2: iMovie resulted: Desired result:
I have a lot of photos in Dropbox on my iPad mini that I would like to upload in one go to iMovie. So far I can only figure out how to export to iPhoto, then I have to import to iMovie. Not very convenient or fast! Any suggestions appreciated.
I use both LaunchBar and Evernote, which are both great productivity tools. I would like to have all my Evernote notes indexed by LaunchBar, so that I can access them by typing part of the note title and/or contents. For exemple, if I've got a TODO list note containing Shopping, I should be able to see my note listed by LaunchBar at least by typing "TODO" and possibly even by typing "Shopping" (although this latter part might be best handled by Spotlight). How can this be done?
My iPhone 5S is getting very hot and the battery drains like 5 % in 30 seconds. I've tried it all, restoring and stuff and I've read that the problem is with iCloud. So I've deleted my iCloud account from my iPhone and now it is cool.
I have an ethernet connection which is restricted for a lot of ports (the most annyoing is port 22 -ssh- ). I now have a Wifi connection which is unrestricted. I want to tell to my mac, each time i use the port 22 via the terminal, to use the WIFI and in the other case, to use the Ethernet connexion.
I'm working on a users phone and they're complaining about spam emails that they get on their AOL account. Many of the emails have the same titles, and thus should be easy to delete en-masse.
I would like to lock the computer when not at home but leave the computer unlocked at home. If I choose to lock the Mac after the screen saver starts I can lock it with control+shift+power but then these settings will also force me to enter the password when I am home. Is there a way to manually force a lock without locking the screen saver?
Is there a way for Terminal to simulate pressing multiple keys at once? For example, Shift+Ctrl+R? I am sshing into OS X from a Windows client (PuTTY) and am wondering if I need to configure the client or is there a native way for OS X to emulate these commands on the receiving end.
I am constantly typing résumé in (Outlook) email messages. Is there an easy way to associate this text with a keyboard shortcut? I'd like this shortcut to be available in other applications (e.g. Word, Mail).
I had set up FileVault 2 encryption while using long&strong user password, and later changed user password to a shorter one. At first time it seemed like everything is working as I expect: OS X asks for long password at power on (because this password was used to encrypt everything), and later I can unlock my gear with shorter password.
I recently purchased an iPod 5 and had the opportunity to take videos with it. The videos are great; but, I have a problem. I would love to be able to convert these videos from their original Quick Time format to something that my computer "prefers" playing such as WAV or AVI.
My wife's iPhone 5 is exhibiting strange behavior: It isn't receiving iMessages. It can't access the internet. It can send texts, but they come across as plain SMS instead of iMessage. I'm sitting next to her with an identical phone on the same plan, and mine is working perfectly.
How can I make an iOS device a NTP server ? The reason for this is, the network of devices I have don't have internet connection but are connected via Wifi. So just want to create a device as a server and let others to associate themselves to it.
I opened up Calendar this morning and a new calendar appeared under "Other" The calendar is Mexican Holidays and it is a calendar subscription from iCloud. I didn't add it nor do I live in Mexico. I have seen this on a few Macs in our office all running 10.9.x Calendars include Mexican Holidays, Canadian Holidays and Hong Kong Holidays. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
I purchased a couple of apps on my Mac app store and wondered how I then transfer these over to my iPhone 4S to save having to pay for them again? I have synced my phone and Mac iTunes but nothing has changed. Thanks! =)
My girlfriend recently dropped her iPhone 4S in water. She let it sit in rice for 2 days, but the screen was still broken. However, the phone was still functional, as she could hear Siri working with the home button. The thing is, she needs photos taken off the device. Normally this would be easy since she has no passcode, but my fear is it will need the iPhone to press "Trust" on the prompt that comes up. Any ideas how to get them off while getting around this prompt?
Is there a way to make Spotlight return the sin-1, cos-1, or tan-1 of a given number without opening Calculator.app?
I have a legal copy of Vista which I used to use before I had a drive failure on my mid 2010 27" iMac. Since then I've installed OSX Mavericks, and now it's telling me that only Windows 7 and 8 are supported via Boot Camp.
I have an AirPort Extreme (3rd generation) acting as the router in the house. Unlike the Actiontec router that it replaced, Windows 7 (but not XP) computers connected to the LAN in various ways, either by wired ethernet or wireless-N, cannot access the Internet through it. I can ping them from my Mac on the LAN, but they cannot ping anything on the Internet like 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS). It can't be a DNS issue. I've tried both DHCP and manual setup, mimicking the settings my Mac uses except with a different IP address. I'm no expert at networking, so I don't know what else could cause it. What's going on?
I have some ISO files here with weird volume labels. I want to rename them to something I can easily remember.
There is already a related question talking about setting a png image to file or foler as icon ( How can I change a file or folder icon using the Terminal), but what if my image is an icns? I know pngs may be extracted from an icns, then follow the solution above. But icns has an advantage that it could fit different sizes. So how could I set apple icon image (xxx.icns) to file or folder?
I connected to a public wifi hotspot with my MacBook AIr (Mavericks) and a login window appeared. I can't recall if I first tried to navigate to a website or not. I am familiar with logging into hotspots, where the login details appear in the browser itself. In this case, however, the login details appeared in a separate window (program?).
I have submitted three iOS apps and they have all been approved. I implemented iAd into them, and the test ads show when I test the apps. But now they have been on the App Store for a few days, and I haven't seen any ads when I download the apps on devices that are not provisioned as test devices. I have already accepted the iAd contract, and the iAd page simply says "iAd Network is temporarily unavailable Sorry: We were unable to locate information relating to your account. Please try again later".
I have written a bash script that I manually start when logging in onto the laptop, but I want it to stop running when I lock my laptop. This doesn't seem a very standard scenario, but I don't want to always manually stop the bash script when I go for a bathroom break and lock my MacBook.
I am thinking of buying a new workstation computer, and Mac Pro is like the first thing I thought of buying. I know Apple supports their computers for quite a generous time period, like the mid-2007 iMac is still supported in Yosemite. However, I see that only models going forward from Early 2008 are supported for Mac Pro(source: http://www.ibtimes.com/os-x-yosemite-compatibility-find-out-if-your-mac-will-be-able-update-1594262).
I have a Macbook Late 2010, though it may not be in the best state, but it has been working. Yesterday suddenly the Trackpad just failed to click, I can do other gestures that is I can move the mouse pointer, I can do the 4 finger gesture, for multitasking but it wont click. I am not sure if this is a hardware or software issue as when i connected an external mouse that too was just able to move the pointer but not able to click. I am not sure if I can provide the console data as I am not able to click anything at all. Is there a way to solve this?
The question explains the problem. For months I've never had any problems along these lines. Then, yesterday morning, I couldn't get into my VM! Took a long time to troubleshoot but here was the solution: So, why would this have happened, and more importantly, how do I fix it? I tried dig localhost, which seems to tell me that there's still some kind of connection between localhost and 127.0.0.1:
I am looking for an encryption tool that is completely cross platform - effectively like FileVault or BitLocker but compatible with both operating systems. My use case is that I'd like to encrypt a drive that is used heavily between two sites (it travels, hence the encryption) - one Mac and one Windows. Ideally, I'd like to encrypt the whole drive and when I plug it into either machine, it prompts me to enter a key of some form to decrypt it.
I have an iMac 2008/2009 issue and recently the computer would not boot and I would get a flashing question mark. Ran through all the usual steps, try boot in safe mode, flash RAM, try single user for fdisk, put in OS disk and boot from CD, etc... No dice.
I have XCode 5.1.1 installed, osx 11.9.4. I have no other versions of xcode on the machine. But somehow I have clang version 2.1! I need a more updated one and cannot figure out how to make the upgrade. if I do xcode-select --install I get the following:
If I hit Spotlight type "TextEdit" and hit enter. TextEdit starts and after that I can open any txt file by double clicking on it. As you would expect. If I close TextEdit and click on any txt file it will flash very quick (as if it opens) and than nothing happens. No Console message and it does not open the file. I don't get it. I trashed the "com.apple.TextEdit.plist", but that did not change anything. Restart has no effect as well.
I downloaded two albums from Amazon to the Amazon music app on my iphone. I realise now I can only play them back with a network connection. My iTunes is version 11.2 and I run Windows XP. Is there any way I can transfer them to my computer/itunes library?
I have a hidden file (.htaccess). When I double click it I would like it to open with a certain app (Sublime Text for this particular file type). In order to set the default app I have to open the "Get Info" window for that file (Cmd+I).
I have a iPad-mini wifi only device. Several times I have been able to pull up a map that I have bookmarked without being connected to the internet. This has been when I was in a vehicle with no cellular,data plan, ect. available. Lately this has not worked. I have location services turned on. Why can I pull up the maps sometimes but not always?
What is best method to remove menu bar apps from MacBook Pro Retina running Mavericks? I've tried Broomstick and a few others with no real easy success. I've also tried going through System Preferences / User Groups and then Login Items
I have an aiport express,of which I have forgotten the password. After it has started up, I pressed the reset button for 1 second, but the network stil appears with a lock icon. How do I get back into the network?
I lost my phone and it looks like it was either turned off or died at 5:41pm. When I use Find My Phone, its says offline.
Recently I bought a used iphone 4s that was imported to Sweden. The problem is that I am not able to activate it, it only displays messages about how it tried to but failed. As a result I am getting the "No Service" banner and no connection to the carrier, Telia that I am trying to connect to. I had however a brief moment of luck when I was able to get it "almost" activated and it connected to my carrier and allowed phone calls and texts but no data and since cellular data is very important for me I tried another system restore to get it working but unfortunately I cannot get the phone activated now again and I am stuck with the "No service" banner. In the phone menu inside the settings I can still see the banner for "Sprint-services" could this be a cause of the problem?
I use my Mac in a corporate Windows environment all the time, and have it set so that it doesn't drop .DS_Store turds all over the network. I used the following well-known terminal command to disable it: However, I also have a server at home as well as a Time Capsule, and I would like the .DS_Store file created on those shares. Is there any way to make an exception to the rule? I'm running Mavericks BTW.
Whenever I try to connect to Screen Sharing on my 2012 Air from my Linux desktop, the Air's WiFi connection drops. I suspect this has something to do with Screen Sharing trying to present a login screen, and if I'm actually in front of the Air and I'm very quick on the draw, I can quickly re-select the WiFi network and get VNC to connect, but if I'm really "remote" I'm in trouble. I tried as suggested for a related problem in this answer (adjusted for en0 instead of en1) but to no effect.
While giving a talk (PDF file rendered by Preview) from my MacBook, I'd like to make sure that my upcoming appointments do not show up during the talk. Is it possible to pause these notifications? How?
I got an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 paired with a Sony DR-BTN200 headset. Whenever i get a voice note on WhatsApp and i play it back, music pauses on my BT headset but the voice note is played from the phone's little call speaker (Not even the loud speaker) so it's pretty hard to listen to them.
I never want to see this popup on my computer again. Is it possible to prevent "do not ask again" this type of dialog?
OSX v. 10.9.3 When I "right click" a *.kml file and go to "Open With", the list of applications does not include QGis, my favorite program for medium to heavy duty GIS work.
I'm trying to run a program defined in an alias (and the alias is defined in a source file) Then I go to IDEA and create an External Tool Then when I run, I get the following message: EDIT: I already tried prepending To the command string but the result is still the same
I'm planning on purchasing a Macbook Pro Retina 8GB/256GB to replace a 2009 Macbook Pro. I'm a long time Mac user but my hesitation is whether the Chrome browser battery drain issue in Mavericks has been addressed either by Google or Apple. I use both Safari and Chrome in my workflow, each have their benefits.
I have two MacBook Airs, but I have very limited bandwidth. I would prefer to download updates once and then copy them onto all the other MacBook Airs. How can I download App Store updates once to update multiple Macs?
I store all my music on an external hard drive. When I click on an album iTunes opens but only plays one track. Is there any way I can play a whole album or multiple albums?
I sent an iMessage from my iPod touch to my friends iphone on Monday. It didn't say delivered or not delivered. It was just nothing. His phone is on (I know because my other friends are iMessaging him) and my friend said her messages don't say "delivered" at the bottom but they still talk. Mine always say delivered at the bottom. So is this an error, like it didn't go through, or is he just ignoring me?
This is on a 2012 MacBook Air. I just used Disk Utility and erased the SSD, booted into Internet Recovery, connected to the network and let it do its thing. Its prompting me to install Lion. From this point, how can I perform a fresh install of 10.9.4?
I'd like to capture everything I type into Spotlight and use the text as input for a script, possibly a new instance of a Services workflow. From that point of course anything is possible; the most trivial case for the workflow script is to simply log its input: Notes: If there is in fact a system log for Spotlight's queries, this would be interesting information and would not answer my question [completely]. I am aware that the Service may have to be spawned for each keystroke, since Spotlight shows new results as you type.
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 latest version. Several times a day my phone will fire off the tri-tone sound and I will think I have just received an SMS, but there is nothing, and no alerts in the pull-down notifications. I have been through the list of apps in the notifications. My mail apps are in the Do Not Include section of Settings | Notification Center. Any ideas?
I've spent the last 2 days trying to install Mavericks on my MacBook 4,1. It is from Early 2008. It is unsupported, but I would like to install Mavericks on it. Is there a workaround for bypassing the system check or just generally getting it to install? I've tried: SFOTT (found out it's for Macs that have 32-bit EFI and/or processors; I have 64-bit versions of both) Making a plain USB installer by using DiskMaker X (fails at the prohibitary (⊘) symbol when booting) Doing SFOTT on a partition on the internal HD (same result as SFOTT) Oh, and if you need it, here are hardware specifications: MacBook 4,1; Early 2008 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 160 GB internal HD 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Intel GMA X3100 144 MB 64-bit EFI and processor Current OS is Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) And one more thing: I don't want to give up trying.
I use "Fire fox" as my default browser. For last couple of days, I found my browser, running very slowly. As a step of speed it up, in a phase I wanted to delete all my "Fire fox" Plug-ins. In that time I found in internet that, the "Fire fox" Plug-ins should be stored in the "Hidden "Library" Folder" of Mac. But I didn't find any thing there. Then I kept searching for the Plug-ins & now I find that, they are stored in the "Unhidden or regular "Library" Folder". I am going to attach two screen shots so that you can understand the situation. Now My question is: Why the path is changed? Is it necessary to make it correct? If though, how could I do it?
Something like mockuphone.com. I need to put VIDEOS in an iPhone frame. I have a Mac on OS X. How can I do this?
I want to get the stored resource fork. In PHP, I'm trying to: system('DeRez' . $_icon . ' | perl -ne \'m|/\* (.*) \*/| && print $1; END {print "\n"}\', $content);
I am trying to delete my corporate email account because it simply will not load any emails any more. The first time time this happened I deleted the account and I just re-added the email account after I just deleted it and it worked great. I am running through this problem once again and this time it does not let me delete my email. When i choose to delete it. it just freezes. What can I do to fix this problem so I can start using my email again.
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my old MacBook. The old MacBook has my entire iTunes library on it and is currently running Snow Leopard. The new MBP is running Mavericks. How can I move the entire library to the new MacBook? I tried the instructions on the support site, but they do not make sense to me because the folder names are not called the same thing in both OS's. Any suggestions? Thanks
I have the first gen MacBook Pro Retina 15" (mid 2012) laptop. I'm on the latest MacOS X (10.9.4).
I can transfer data from trough a genuine Apple cable from my iPad to a PC but the same cable will not allow my iPad or iPhone 4s to charge battery using a multi point USB hub connected to a power point. how do I overcome this?
I’m using Mavericks Suppose we have the folder /a/photos which contains And we have /b/photos which contains In the command prompt, if we write Then /a/photos will contain all of them (merge): However, I did the move operation in Finder (command+c, command+alt+v) and pressed the “overwrite” button thinking it has the same behavior as in mv
Let's say a man named San Zhang (张三), a citizen of China. He may be living in China or The US. He has a English name "John Smith", which he wants to use as the "seller name" of his apps on App Store. However, when he tried signing up Apple Developer Program, he was told that the "seller name" will be same to the name on credit card, which will be used to pay for the program fee and receive payment for apps he sold. Now, the problem is: China government doesn't let him use John Smith as legal name. China government doesn't allow him to use a name different from 张三 when opening a bank account.
If I need to download an App, what method of installer should I prefer DMG or Package Installer? Which has greater advantage.
I have an iPad with iOS 7.1.1. I jailbroke it and was able to ssh it from wifi without a problem.
I have just replaced my magnetic hard drive with a new and fast SSD drive. I have placed the old drive in an external case, so all the files are available, and all the data was successfully restored.
All iOS VNC clients I have tried use regular VNC authentication. This is insecure because of the 8 character limit on the password, and so on. Some apps such as RealVNC's VNC Viewer, does have info panels that report whether the connection is encrypted, and it never says that it is, even when I turn both checkboxes in the System Preferences under Screen Sharing's Computer Settings... off. So, I am definitely taking the accepted answer to this question with a grain of salt.
I have had reported on occasions when Safari on Mac is downloading a PDF from one of our sites it will append .EXE to the end of the file. The MIME type is correctly set to be pdf but it still does it occasionally.
I'm considering installing the OS X Server app on my main, day-to-day machine, in order to run Xcode Server and get a GUI for the VPN configuration (I'm already using the VPN with a manually configured LaunchDaemon). Are there any reasons I shouldn't do this (such as security or performance issues)? I don't have another Mac that can run Mavericks at the moment, and would turn off all of the services I won't be using.
I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011, and I'm planning to buy a 4K monitor (*=URL=* However, all the Internet is bloated about 4K support with different answers about 4K support on MBPs. Some say it's not possible, some say only at 30 or 24Hz, some say with multistream etc. What can I exactly get with late 2011 MacBook Pro (Mavericks 10.9.4) in terms of 4K?
I have an old point-and-shoot Lumix DMC-FP8 that I would like to be able to directly connect to my iPhone 5S for editing purposes. I bought a camera USB to lightening connector, but the camera is not supported. I tried putting the SD micro card into an adapter and plugging that into my phone, but it says that the device requires too much power. Do I have any options?
I have a question about private key protection on iOS. I simply would like to know if there is a way of protecting client's certificates when importing them to an iPad. For example, when installing a certificate on an Android device, it forces me to set a pin or pass phrase to the device, which can't be disabled until the certificate is deleted. Is there something like that in iOS?
The Thunderbolt port on my trusty several-year-old MacBook Pro is failing. To connect an external display, I now have to wiggle the cable around, then pull it out a few millimeters until the contacts are lined up just right. It's only a matter of time before the port breaks entirely.
When you pull the power plug off the airport express, a connector appears, similar to the connector on the mac's power brick. These connect perfectly, but I want to be sure: is it safe to use a mac's cable to power an airport express?
I recently bought a large USB drive and stored about 300GB of new data on it.1 I haven't changed anything on the drive, and I'm not reading any files right now. But the drive is active -- I hear the read/write heads flicking back and forth like mad. What on earth is OS X doing?
Is it possible to move between words in iTerm using Alt + Right/Left Arrows ? Now if I press Alt+Left I will get '[D' and '[C' if I press Alt+Right.
well, my iTunes library is on my main HD whereas audio files are on an external drive. I have to change the drive for these files and / or folder name, how do I point iTunes library to that drive/folder?
After downloading a PDF, Preview automatically opens and I'm able to look at the file. Often times I want to move the file to somewhere other than Downloads. In Mavericks I'm able to click on the title and choose a new location in the drop down under the Where: item as shown in the screenshot.
I have MBP 13" 2012, my cpu 2.5 Ghz up to 3.1 Ghz but when I use Intel Gadget, the cpu only reach 2.9 Ghz on render and heavy use situation. Is it possible to make cpu reach 3.1 Ghz by terminal command or by an application ?
Does anyone know how to download Mavericks from Yosemite? I'm trying to get the image to put on a different computer but it won't let me download it from the App Store.
I hooked up a Canon Pixma MP160 printer/scanner to a machine running OSX Mavericks and it complained that there was no driver. Scanning through the list of possible drivers, there were only 1 or 2 Canon drivers and none looked close to right. Canon's website said the driver should be built into OSX. Is there an MP160 (or compatible) driver for Mavericks?
I have been trying to adjust the keyboard shortcuts for omnigraffle and for some reason they are completely gone. I am really not sure how this happened but I can not get my zoom keys to work. This is driving me nuts. Any ideas how to fix this?
The company I work for is developing an app that uses geolocation and drains battery very quickly which is obviously a problem. The customers will have both iPhone 4 and 5s so it would be great if such an external battery exists
I have installed Xubunto instead of Machintosh on my MacBook Pro machine, when i close the screen the apple lamp on the back of my laptop doesn't goes off, and the laptop runs out of power. how can i control this back lamp to be on or off ??, is there away to disable it from my Linux ?
I am trying to connect an audio device (analog synthesizer) to the input of my 13-inch Mid-2012 Macbook Pro running OS X Mavericks 10.9.3. The synthesizer's output is a standard 1/8th inch stereo plug. According to *=URL=* I should be able to switch this from System Preferences. However, my screen looks like this even when my device is plugged in:
I had an email sent to me back in february of this year with an attachment. Now when I view that email, instead of seeing the attachment, i see this:
I have encounter this problem when I was trying to help my friend who want to learn iOS programming but at the moment cant afford to buy a Mac. I have Macbook and Mac Mini. I was avid use of linux in my past and I have used XSessions on linux where I was exploiting multiuser service from a linux machine and had my personal GUI or XSession. As Mac is basically unix based system. I am wondering if it is possible that I can setup my mac mini such a way that my friend can connect to his personal xSession over the internet to my mac mini and start coding on my mac mini.
I am using VirtualBox to run OS X Mavericks. I cannot log into iMessage or use FaceTime. I have read online that it has something to do with the serial number not being present, but the problem is whenever I try to click About This Mac, I am logged out. How can I fix this?
Downloaded and installed the AirStream application, and when I launched it nothing happens. In Terminal the output is This seems to be a Java stub/launcher When I manually run it This is the result
My HP Scanjet 4070 stoped working after an upgrade to the current MacOS. It scans the pictures but then the saved PDF only contains stripes:
I know that selling things without going through App Store In-App Purchases etc. is not allowed widely. Even apps like Dropbox historically had problems with it and even they use in-app purchases for Dropbox upgrades today. If I'd develop an app that people donate charities using an online payment system (like Balanced or Stripe), would Apple still take my app down because I'm not going through in-app puchases?
I installed software which was downloaded from net  But when i tried to uninstall this app in mac, i searched in finder but nothing shows to uninstall. But this app is in installation list
Enter text-insertion mode in a cell, Insert > Date & Time (which enters just the Date, as Friday, July 4, 2014), enter cell-selection mode on the cell, and change the format to Date & Time (which changes it to Friday, July 4, 2014 12:00 AM). So, not that one.
My daughter's Macbook Air does not show a Cursor, although ⌘+Tab shows it. How do I force it to display normally?
Recently I bought a film in iTunes and streamed it using the Videos app. Afterwards I found that my 'Other' memory usage had jumped massively (to the point I couldn't watch or download anything else). I do know that when I download films and then manually erase them the memory is reclaimed.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on an early 2008 (1,1) Apple Macbook air, on which OS X is not present. The machine is not able to boot directly the win 7 iso, supposedly because it lacks some support drivers (if you press alt at boot, it sees the external CD, but then the screen goes black) Since Boot Camp Assistant "erases the external drive and copies the Windows ISO image and support software to it", I'd like to do this process on my own, either under Linux or in Windows Can anyone instruct me how to do it, if it's doable? Note: I'm note interested in partitioning instructions, just how to make it boot win 7 with working screen, keyboard and mouse
So there are a couple of iOS apps that "scan" documents and automatically do some processing to make the image look like a quality scan from a real scanner. When I'm trying this on the Mac with pictures from a DSLR manually with Photoshop the results are usually not as good as what these apps achieve.
I try in recovery mode pressing Alt key during boot. I check my disk and it say that I need to repair my disk because it's damaged. (tryed several times)
I have bought a used MacBook Pro Retina, and after three mounths using it, I think I could do a clean install for my Mac. However, if it has an activation lock will that stop me using my Mac after a clean install as it could ask me for an iCloud account?
I have a imovie project that I am creating and I have video clips and an audio track which plays a song. I see that I can adjust the volume level of the song for the whole song but I want to lower the volume for part of the song (because I want to emphasize the audio coming from the video clip) Is it possible to adjust the volume of a music track for part of the song in imovie?
I spend a lot of time hearing podcast. On the desktop computer, last weeks there were an increasing number of podcast that have a ! symbol inside a circle.
I have a couple apps which I directly copy data in/out of using iTunes (iPhone->Apps->(scroll down) File Sharing. Once there you can drag/drop, but I'd really like to be able to automate this process. Is there any way to copy new "Documents" into an App on my iPhone via the command-line without using the iTunes GUI?
In Snow Leopard, when I install an app from the App Store it automatically places it on the Dock with the "Keep in Dock" option enabled. Due to my poor mouse skills I've made the Dock immutable, so when I install an app from the store I cannot remove it! I have to unlock it, remove the app and relock it again. It has happened enough times by now that it is starting to get on my nerves. Any way to stop the Dock from automatically keeping new items or stop the App Store from putting them there?
I had an iPhone and a Mac connected to an iCloud account, and I recently got an iPad. However, I noticed that I can't see all my tabs on all my devices. It seems like iCloud thinks my iPad and iPhone are the same device:
I have a friend who lives where there isn't very fast Internet connectivity. He has a Mac Book, an iPad, and some iPhones. He has a decent WiFi hotspot. He wants to back up everything, possibly to a disk drive also connected to his home router - either WiFi or wired. He would also like to be able to restore things, should the need arise. Any suggestions?
I recently purchased an iPhone 4S from Craigslist that had been reset when I bought it. When I try to activate the phone with the Apple ID that the previous owner gave me I receive an error saying that the account provided couldn't be used to unlock the device. I know that it needs to be associated with the correct account but how do I even tell what account the phone was activated with originally? The only thing I can see on the activate phone screen is the following:
I gave my granddaughter my samsung android phone when her iphone got broken. I now have an iphone. I have to send her texts using SMS (turned it on in settings) but when she answers I do not receive her replies on my iphone 5. I've noticed my messages to other iphone users are not always iMessages anymore. Frustrated with not being able to communicate with granddaughter. Does it have anything to do with the droid was my phone before and used same number?
My friend violated Apple's NDA a while back with the beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Now he can't update. He was stupid and now he freaks out because he can't update to the final version of OS X 10.9.4. Should he contact Apple? Or is it just his Mac? Like an server issue or something.
I read on iBooks, and some other resources and gather my notes in EverNote. When I copy a text from iBooks to keep it as a note in some other external application like EverNote, it keeps pasting the source info which is so annoying and I have to keep deleting them after every copy-paste. For example:
I have a still fully useable iPhone 3G (2008). I take snapshots daily, and used to put them into iPhoto on my 2008 white MacBook with OS X 10.5.8. Recently, I started using a 2012 MacBook Pro (not Retina) with Mavericks installed, by now Mac OS X 10.9.4.
I'm using OS X Server as a server and access point using built in Internet Sharing. But it really lacks configuration options, IPv6, DHCP server settings and much more. Is there an alternative or an advanced configuration tool? My needs: IPv6 forwarding Changing the configuration of the DHCP to deliver different subnets
I have an external microsoft mouse for my iMac. When I updated to Mavericks it inverted the mouse scrolling but I can't change it back. The mouse has a specific program that controls preferences within system preferences so changing mouse controls to "natural" within system preferences does nothing and the program has nothing to control this setting. The mouse uses bluetooth to connect to a usb connector so I can't connect the mouse directly through bluetooth mouse. How can I change the settings back to normal?
Last night, I installed WireShark and tried to see if there's anything interesting going over the wire. I noticed that roughly around the time I start Super Duper up, I see the following in WireShark:
I already synced my contacts on my iPhone 4s to my Gmail but I noticed that not all contacts were transferred. I am missing 170 contacts so far still sitting on my IPhone. Any explanations? How to make Gmail pick up all contacts?
My Safari is no longer showing on my iPhone 5. Where can I find it?
As soon as I connected with Magic Trackpad (having used MacBook Pro's touchpad) the hot corners stopped working. OSX is 10.9.3 Mavericks For me this seems like a bug as I would want to use hot corners even with Trackpad?
I upgraded my MacBook (Retina, 15", late 2013) to OS X 10.9.4 yesterday. Now Mail Version 7.3 (1878.6/1878.2) does not display conversations correctly:
My company develops commercial Mac software. Our flagship product runs on OS X 10.6.8+. We want to improve our software quality with better and more comprehensive testing.
I'm trying to develop an applescript that sets the comment tag to the track's rating. i.e., if it's a 3 star track, I want the comment to say "3 Star".
Have a copy of iMessages and one in the string is a photo I did not send and looks like it was sent with my name. I know you can delete messages from iMessage string. How is it possible that one I never sent was inserted?
I'm having an issue with my '09 13" Macbook Pro. When I boot it up, it seems to be booting normally until about thirty seconds in, when the Apple symbol is replaced with a kind of 'no-smoking' symbol, without the cigarette in the middle.
Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on an "Early 2009 iMac", I seek a screen-recorder able pause/unpause during recording. Post How do I install QuickTime 10.1 on Snow Leopard? says Snow Leopard comes with Quicktime X, yet my Quicktime-About lists "10.0 (131)", and Update says this is current for OSX 10.6.8. Both Pause screen recording in QuickTime X and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389hhtOXIOc
I use Time Machine for regular backups, and I have multiple HDDs for redundancy. This works fine for my computer, but the problem is that I have many files that do not reside in my computer and should be synced between these HDDs.
Can anyone recommend a good photo browsing application. I have hundreds of photos in well organized folders categorized by year and location where they were taken on my mac but I want a way to actually look at them that fast and simple.
My MacBook Pro shows a grey screen with a flashing question mark in a folder. I tried connecting it to an older MacBook using firewire cable. I restarted the Macbook Pro in Target Mode. Now I see Thunderbolt and Firewire icons flashing and moving in a grey background. There is a green power icon at the bottom as well. I am not an expert even though I have been using Macs for ages. How can I fix this issue so I can recover/backup things in the MacBook Pro hard drive?
How can I restore my past purchases if I wish to change my Apple ID?
iPhoto 9.5.1 recently just deleted my photos. Was there an auto upgrade? it happened overnight so I was not on the computer. I cannot find all those photos in iPhoto/Library under User. Any suggestions? It seems that Time Machine does not back up iPhoto in Mavericks, so I've been reading. I cannot find the iPhoto file anywhere in Time Machine. Where are those photos that were suddenly gone MIA?
I have a new Mac Mini late 2012 model replacing a PC with dual 2 TB hard drives set up in Raid format mirrored and auto save. I want to put them into a caddy, a Startech 4-bay SATA version with a view to eventually adding 2 more as separate drives but for now I need to know whether it will try and reformat these discs when plugged in as there's 1.3 GB of data on each that isn't backed up elsewhere! I could buy an external drive to save the data to but seems a waste of money if this will work without affecting the existing files. Does anyone know for sure either way please or if there's a way of making sure they work?
I want SoX to record audio in .flac files. When I do: …it gives the following error: I have installed SoX from 'brew' and and I do have flac 1.2.1 installed. I have gone though man pages at *=URL=* but did not get the information that I am looking for. How can I add support for .flac files? I am on OS X 10.9.3
I am looking tool or a script that records human voice and displays as text purely on command line. I am not looking for text to speech, but rather speech to text. I do not want to work at all with a UI; all command line. EDIT : I am actually saying to record voice (speech) and displays on terminal. Say my command is 'speak' then when i do now whatever i speak is supposed to be printed like this.
Is it possible to somehow see the cached files by QuickLook? I have found that some data is stored in In here I found a index.sqlite which lists the path of the file (where it was when viewed) and a fs_id which looks like: And then I got stuck... Can I find this cache file somehow and view it ?
I have a video on my icloud that I want to download to macbookpro and save. I can see the video in icloud on my iphone. The video is deleted from iphoto on my iphone and I can't download the video back to my iphone (I can select the video but the icon on bottom left the box with the arrow will not light up). When I log into icloud on macbookpro I can't see any photos or shared streams. Can anyone help?
I'm told by Apple Support I cannot use my MacBook with OS X 10.9.3 with AppleTV AirPlay, so will be using it with just my Samsung TV and a 2nd TV (not a Smart TV Though,) for a family member who is living downstairs he has early lung cancer, & is just discovering computer world, and is in love with YouTube, so I am upstairs with a NetComm modem (TPG) and am thinking of getting a Alfa long distance Wi-Fi. Is this OK, please?
PS1. I am using OS X. But I think for both unix and linux system they should be similar?
I need to have a script that will execute "system_profiler -detailLevel full" command in a remote mac machine. While this is going on, the user on the remote machine should not know that there is something happening. I tried the following applescript:
Is there a guide on how to bless a partition for booting, one that doesn't have the default /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi structure? For example, I installed GRUB on the default EFI System Partition (/dev/disk0s1in OS X, /dev/sda1 in Linux) and I have the file /EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi that I want to use instead of /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi. Normally, following the standard structure, I would copy grubx64.efi to /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi and also touch /mach_kernel in the partition I want to make bootable, then I'd run the following to bless the partition:
Spotlight does pretty much, but it lacks two critical features. It cannot search arbitrary locations. It excludes system locations for a better user experience I guess. It cannot index external drives.
i have a 2009 macbook pro. it has been working fine till now. since the past 2 weeks when i open an application or browse the net it freezes. i see a message saying waiting for cache or waiting for Appcache. this happens almost every 5 minutes. any ideas on how i can stop this and get my macbook back to normal?
I don't always have PC with me. Also, I have quite big music collection on my DropBox. Is there any good app for iPhone that I can use to download music from DropBox and listen to without connecting to iTunes?
I have a MacBook Air 13" (Late - 2013) Haswell. Running Mavericks 10.9.4 and I want to start learning advanced video editing but will my Mac run Adobe Premier Pro well? I tried Final Cut Pro and it worked OK but still was laggy and iMovie does not do the job I want to do, it's not advanced enough.
So I was wondering if I put parallels on a ssd (256 GB) and kept Mac os x on a HDD and had 16 GB ram would It be good enough to play steam games.I dont care about graphics cards, Im just wondering would parallels run almost like a pc os.
I have a mac mini with two monitors. On the main monitor I normally keep two desktops and on the second there is only one. I have been noticing that the main monitor seems to add more desktops by itself. So I am not sure if I might be pushing some sort of shortcut to create another desktop or if there is actually something else happening. If anyone has any ideas or if if you have had the same issue and fixed it I'd really appreciate your help.
I have iOS 7 and I know how to work all of it but when there was iOS 6 all music you've bought on iTunes, could be deleted from the device. Now I you remove songs that you've bought on the device stay there with the stupid iCloud download symbol. I want it to go away completely because I have duplicates of almost everyone of my songs. How will I erase all music from my phone without doing factory reset.
I recently just replaced my screen on my iPhone 4s and everything works fine! But every three minutes my phone will go black and restart again I was wondering if anyone might know at all? However my phone is saying it's got 100% power :/
One day, I took my Macbook to a friend's place. I connected it to her wifi and Youtube was working like before. I came back home and was unable to play youtube videos again. The same error was staring me in the face.
I use file tags in OS X 10.9.3 and I love it. However, I store and access many of the same files on an external drive that I also access with a Windows computer.
I have 10.9.4 with a usb external (2tb) disk, formatted with Macos Journalled format. The drive is also a time-machine destination. I am: unable to cmd-drag files to move them to another disk (they copy) unable to select multiple files and create a new folder from the selection unable to mkdir on the drive
I jailbroke this iPad sometime ago and just updated it to 7.1.2, it's now stuck in recovery mode and won't come out even though I tried the button pressing method. There's a lot of photos on it that wasn't backed up, is there a way to get the iPad out of recovery mode or retrieve the data inside it?
I'm trying to troubleshoot video issues on macbook laptop with no display or a dead? display but can't see what I'm doing. I need a Terminal command to run 'blind' after I boot into Single User mode & enable an external monitor. Hence- How do I enable an external display in Single User Mode via Terminal on a headless macbook?
I'm having issues with kernel panics on a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 15 inch. I have read many threads about this (What's the cause of GPU panics on macbook pro mid 2010?) and the thread that links to are good examples. The panics seem to be related to GPU/especially video for me. Mavericks made them less frequent, but they didn't go away. Apple was able to tell me that the logic board has already been replaced (before the computer came into my hands, presumably as part of the extended warranty that was intended to fix this problem).
Would you tell me How to access ~/Library of my local disk from network booted OSX
I'd like to make backup of some specific console logs. How do I find the location of a specific Console log file on my Mac to copy as back up?
i try to exporting selected outlook calendar event using apple script but get an error: Script is below
I want to configure Safari to run a piece of javascript after each page I visit. The same peace of js should be run after any web page I visit is loaded. How can I configure Safari for this?
Will the Apple EarPods microphone and volume functionality work with Android phones?
I'm using the pages app on my iPad and I have a large document. I need to rename term which is used many times.
I have recently noticed that some of my windows have weird looking corners. It's like they are missing dark pixels right on the edge.
Let's say I'm building a device with an iPod docking connector. Can I use standard software for USB on the device side? Are there any special considerations?
Second thought is also, could I just swap out the drive in the Mac Mini with that of my MBP and be up and running without issue? (I know I'll have to put my MBP in for repair with a drive in, got that thought covered).
If I click on a .txt file, what exactly happens in order for Mac OS X to open my txt file with the Default Program (TextEdit in my case). In other words where does Mac OS look/what exact steps are involved to determine what my default program is and to open that file ? Where can this look up /process potentially/most likely be broken and how can I troubleshoot if Mac won't open the default program. Not for all programs but for one specific program ?
I would like to know if there is a max price limit for an in-app item. I couldn't get a direct answer from Apple.
I work in a research group whose employees use Mac Minis currently running OS X 10.9.3. The other day one of our employees mentioned being unable to get Thunderbird to start at login or cause Mail to not start--Mail was somehow set to start at login, and he couldn't change the setting persistently. Since then, we have found that no matter how we go about setting login options, they are ignored and reset upon logging out/in. It may be worth noting that we use LDAP-authenticated accounts with homedirs mounted via NFS. I've previously been through Apple's standard protocol of checking and changing these settings by right-clicking icons in the dock as well as in System Preferences -> Users and Groups, and checking the contents of /Library/StartupItems (which is empty), followed by deleting the ~/Library/Preferences file and letting the OS recreate it.
I would like to be able to run a script which would look through my Contacts list and output the name (and, preferably, phone number) of anyone whose ‘Anniversary’ date matches today. (The script should be something I can run on OS X 10.9 and output to stdout.) I can do the same for birthdays using the contacts command from *=URL=* (or brew install contacts) but it does not do the same for addresses.
On an iMac with 1 Thunderbolt port, how to have an external monitor and an external HDD work? I can't use the USB port because it's 2.0, it will be too slow (the external HDD is a SSD).
I just got a new rMBP (with dedicated video-card) and as a test I decided to run Diablo III: Reaper of Souls on Ultra settings. It looks absolutely gorgeous but its 10-17 fps frame-rate is very disappointing.
Last week I made the mistake of opening an old AVI file, which QuickTime automatically converted to m4v. Well it tried anyway; when it got to the end it locked up.
in order to migrate to an Ubutun, I would like to export all my password, to for example a CSV file. In Keychain Access, I found export menu, but it's alway disabled, even when the access is unlocked. What should I do?
My friend has a Mid 2010 Macbook pro with Mac OS X Lion installed on it. She wants to restore it (as in format/erase and get a fresh start). However she does not have any disks.
Here's the scenario: I have two MacBook Pros (Foo and Bar), and their drive's are both called Macintosh HD. I have a Time Capsule called Time Capsule, which is used to back up both Foo and Bar. I also have an external disk called Stuff which I connect to both Foo and Bar.
Is there any recommended way of checking for this? There is another thread: How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying?
I have a bootable partition on an external drive with some old data that I want to move to a new external hard drive. The partition on the old drive is 500GB however theres only 320GB of data. So i want to keep the partition bootable and resize it so that I don't have 180GB wasted on my new hard drive. How can I do this with disk utility?
What software do I need to install / use on a Windows box to be able to remote desktop into OSX locally on LAN? Versions don't matter really, but to be specific: OSX 10.7.5, with "VNC viewers may control screen..." enabled, Windows can be any flavor of 7 or 8.
What is the RDUSB00E6Setupd process running by launchd in a Macbook Pro with Mavericks? I can't find any information about this and my computer is running quite slow, trying to figure out what is causing it.
Can i send safari for windows across airplay to my apple tv? There is no airplay logo on my safari even though i am connected to the same network as my apple tv. Cheers for helping!
I have the following on my secondary disk. As I am not satisfied with it I would like to clone everything to the other one which is smaller unfortunately. I would like to clone the whole thing except making the disk2s3 (Data) smaller to compensate for the smaller drive. Can this be done?
I'd like to permanently disable the warning dialog that shows when my Macbook loses connection to a network drive. Is this possible in OSX Mavericks?
I'm trying to add padding to the top of an image using the command line. I've found the sips command and I've tried on an image which is 1920 x 1080. However this adds 50px of padding to the top and bottom. Is it possible to just add 100px of padding to the top? Is there another tool I should/could be using to do this?
Is there way to export a specific email from Mac Office 2011 in PDF (or some other portable document format)? I don't want to export a whole archive, just a particular e-mail to attach to a ticket. External services are not an acceptable solution.
My iPhone says its connected to wifi but it won't let me surf the web. My iPad is using the same connection and I don't have a problem with it. Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong?
I'm continuing to hatch a plan to keep running whilst emergency repairs are carried out on my MBP. Further to a question I posted on Monday I'd like to know if anyone could shed light on whether this is possible.
I bought a book on the iBooks Store. Is there any way to know what format it is and what protection if any it has? (PDF/EPUB, type of DRM, etc.) I use an iPad 3 with iBooks version 3.2 (last update: 2013.11.14).
I am running Mavericks on a mid 2013 macbook air (haswell). I have been getting multiple kernel panics a day for about the past week. It isn't happening on any specific task or time - I can't isolate it to anything. Sometimes i'm coding in Vim, writing an email, or playing League of Legends. I finally got so frustrated last night, I completely wiped the computer (formatting the drive in disc utility then reinstalling Mavericks). Here is the panic log. I would really appreciate any help you can offer with this, it's really frustrating. Anonymous UUID: 9AE0CA41-ADD9-CA6F-9872-CCB660376C1F Tue Jul 8 14:38:02 2014 panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800a6521dd): "zalloc: zone map exhausted while allocating from zone kalloc.8192, likely due to memory leak in zone kalloc.64 (2470632192 total bytes, 38603601 elements allocated)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.110.17/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:2494 Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff8126b23c70 : 0xffffff800a622f79 0xffffff8126b23cf0 : 0xffffff800a65
I've been unable to login to Google Hangouts via the iPhone mobile app. I keep getting "Unable to add account". I've tried restarting my phone, nothing changes. If it helps, I am using a legacy business account from Google. iPhone: 5s OS: iOS 7.1.2 App: Hangouts from Google Inc, 2.1.0
I am running Max OS X 10.9 Installed: -Xcode 5 (latest version) -Fink -MacPorts -Xcode Command Line Tools -Theos I have a shell script running But i am getting this error when running the script It used to work but when i installed Theos it stopped working and gave that error
What steps to do I take to restore one photo only for my iPhoto library from a Time Machine?
As above I've reached the internet recovery screen and entered the correct password for the wpa2 network but all I have is the network selection drop down and a spinning globe with no loading bar. What can I do to troubleshoot this ?
So far I have used an ipfw ruleset with Waterroof but I need to add to it every time I connect from a new LAN (ie. at home it's 10.3.2., at work 192.168.60., from my favorite cafe it's 192.168.1.* and so on).
I'm trying to get around a strange problem concerning an iOS app my company produces. We use a branding process to brand a single executable, assigning it new resources and a new bundle id, but keeping the same core executable across brands. The problem is when a phone has multiple different brands installed, disabling one app for cellular connectivity is inadvertently disabling all of them, and I can't figure out why. To reiterate, each app naturally has its own bundle id, so why would disabling cellular data for one app cause it to break for other brands?
My trackpad suddenly stopped working correctly without good and clear reason to. I've left my Macbook Pro Retina 15" Early 2013 with open lid with only cat in the room for less than two minutes, and when I came back I have noticed my cursor has heavy jitter, so heavy it's almost impossible to do anything — it randomly clicks, moves cursor, swipes to Dashboard and back, selects and drag'n'drops stuff, shows desktop etc. I have managed to turn on 'disable trackpad when external mouse is plugged in', so I can at least use computer inconveniently, but I want my trackpad back.
I am new to Mac OS (2014 Macbook Air). I am looking at the arrow on top right corner of windows, when I click it, it maximizes window over the top menu and in order to switch back I need to hold mouse in top right corner in order for menu to appear and the button with arrows appears again to [kind of] minimize back as it was.
My iPhone (4S, iOS 7.1.2) never fell in water also never fell on floor but sometimes the touch screen stops responding (buttons still work). The problem disappears again by itself but I would like to fix it. How can I approach this?
Mid 2011 imac 27" with new hard drive keeps shutting down randomly. After a bad crash, the imac can no longer boot into desktop. I seem to have a stuck booting cycle with the horizontal progress bar progressing then reverting back to the spinning progress circle but never reaching desktop.
I've read that /tmp will automatically have files deleted that are older than 7 days or upon restart, but I can't seem to find where this is documented. Can anyone point me to a man or web page from Apple?
In OSX if you hold down the Option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar it will show details of the wifi connection - speed, BSSID ,channel etc. Can this information be listed in the terminal?
I'm working on fairly new Mac Mini, running OS X 10.9.4 and VMWare Fusion Pro 6.0.4. For software testing purposes, I want to install both a OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inside a virtual machine. I have access to the developer downloads under http://developer.apple.com/downloads.
How can I install WhatsApp on iPad mini (cellular)? It's not jailbroken and I am using iOS 7 but I cant install WhatsApp on it.
On the settings under iCloud, if I try and log in on the ID I created this morning, it says that the maximum number of ID's have been activated on this device. When I try and create a new account underneath, it says that this device is not eligible for one. How can I resolve this?
After upgrading to the Maverick version, I started having many issues that I never had before. First of all, it is very common my iMac to open in a different user (even there is no other users available, kind of a safe mode I think), where I can basically do nothing, as it says I have no permission. Secondly, my finder keeps crashing all the time, always when I try to preview a file, doesn't matter what kind. Thirdly, my Mail just stops sending and receiving emails sometimes. Fourthly, but not last, after the finder crashes, I can't open any program. At last, my iMac late 2009 i7 8Gb is has never been as fast as it used to be. I hope I had never upgraded to the new version of Mac OS.
This thing has appeared, hovering obtrusively over my desktop (Mountain Lion):  I don't know how it got there. Presumably I pressed some key combination by accident. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of it again. It has "Esc" written on it, but pressing the escape key doesn't do anything. The arrow at the bottom takes me to "Open Speech Commands window" and "Speech Preferences...", but neither has any obvious option to turn this blue thing off.
I've checked System Information, and it shows up when plugged into the right USB port but not when plugged into the left one. I've tried Safe Boot and also logging into the Safari-only guest account. It isn't the USB port that isn't working as I can plug in my Nexus 7 and iPhone into the left USB port and they both still work.
I have done a factory reset on my iPhone 4s and it will no longer make calls or receive them. It goes straight to voicemail when called, and when I dial out it just beeps twice and disconnects.
I'm looking for a fullscreen browser app for iPad with no navbar, so the user can only navigate on the same page but not go anywhere else. Does anybody know an app for this? Or is it possible to do this in standard Safari?
I use MacBook Pro Retina ME864 with Mac OSX 10.9.4 , Recently I download a Word file from internet which use Apple Symbol font and because I don't have this font on my system the characters shows wrong. How can I install Apple Symbol font ?
I'm connecting my phone to my mac via the line in port to listen to podcasts. I'm using the app LineIn to do this and I was wondering whether there was anyway I could have: My audio input be set to line-in My audio input be set to line-in LineIn launch LineIn launch when I connect my phone (any device really, I don't use line-in for anything else) via line-in.
I lost my iPhone so I bought a new one. I am now wanting to get my text messages back.
I recently got back to Mavericks from Yosemite, everything went fine. As I normally do, I checked my HDD with the Disk Utility and found some trouble, then I boot on recovery mode to fix my HDD. I realize that the recovery partition was the Yosemite one (It's easy to see since the UI is different) I want to get back my Mavericks recovery partition, so I followed along this instructions. But my diskutil list output is a little different: I deleted my recovery partition successfully with the command: But when trying to merge using this command: I get the following: I don't know why my disk0s2 does not have a name and why do I have a disk1 BTW, I tried to avoid this trouble just by using the recovery partition I have (from Yosemite), I ran the repair disk option on recovery mode, then I booted on Mavericks and the disk utility says my HDD has the same problem as when I first checked.
I recently upgraded an iMac to 16 GB of RAM using 1600 MHz clock speed sticks. It worked fine, but I came to find I was supposed to install 1333 MHz sticks instead. So I tried switching the current modules with the appropriate 1333 MHz memory modules and the computer won't boot up; the iMac would just beep until I unplugged the power.
Currently I have an 8 GB iPhone 3Gs (A1303). It has become slightly slower so I am wishing to jailbreak it. Will it be safe? If yes give me specific sites which will help me jailbreak it.
I would like to mount an SFTP drive on OS X. I tried MacFUSION but it doesn't seem to work, always gives "Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly". According to Can MacFusion be used under Mountain Lion?, MacFUSION no longer works. Are there any alternatives or workarounds?
Most of the soundtracks in my iTunes library have the Album Artist tag "Various Artists" and so they all appear together in the V's in Albums view. A few soundtracks have only one artist (composer) or mainly one artist, and they appear in a different location. For example, the soundtrack for The Incredibles appears with the M's for the artist, Michael Giacchino.
For copying large files (and/or large quantities of files), especially across disks, I prefer to avoid using the Finder as it often fails with some meaningless error message and/or complaint about permissions. Instead I have been looking at using rsync -- or, more specifically, the latest version of rsync available from Homebrew, which, as of today, is: (Those are the default capabilities that Homebrew uses.) The problem is that rsync is hopelessly complex, and I'm never sure if I am using the proper arguments, or if there are others that I should be using: Args I'm not sure if I should be using or not, mostly because I'm not 100% sure what they do: (one of the other options for links instead of '--safe-links') --relative --sparse --partial Any other suggestions?
How do I make the default Mail app on iOS group by subject? I've enabled "Organize By Thread" but that doesn't help. On my Mac (OS X 10.9.4):
How can I buy an older version of Keynote that's compatible with 10.7?
There are some walk-through kind of instruction on installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro (as dual boot OS along with Mac OS X), such as Lifehacker's post. But they are either too old that I worry if the particular details are still currently applicable, or the source is not particularly reliable. Any pointer to a good, reliable, and current source on this? I intend to install Ubuntu as a dual boot OS on my Macbook Pro (mid 2011 model).
So I was cleaning up my launchpad since Adobe installs a lot of minor applications and I wanted to have them all in one folder. Then I moved all of those Adobe applications to a new folder but the old folder won't go away. It's just an empty folder with nothing in it.
I bought three movies on DVD on eBay. I am trying to make .iso backups onto my external hard drive. The first one I tried using Disk Utility, but it only produced a partial copy (without generating any errors) so I switched to using dd, which worked on the first movie. For both the second and third movie, dd only partially ran through before giving the following error: dd: /dev/disk2: Permission denied 1438432+0 records in 1438432+0 records out 736477184 bytes transferred in 212.743197 secs (3461813 bytes/sec)
For the past few weeks my iMac has been crashing when I watch any Flash or Silverlight video in full screen. I have looked at the console and have not been able to figure out the issue. When it occurs my computer restarts and I get an error with the below info:
OS X Finder does sometimes, but not always, show the dimensions of an image selected in Finder, in the sidebar. Why? Is there a way to force it to always show the dimensions? It seems very arbitrary when it decides to show and not to show. Note: this folder is on a local drive - the default Macintosh HD.
I'm trying to automate running a background application only when my laptop is charging to save battery. So it will launch when I plug the laptop in, and quit when I take it out.
I'm currently using a proxy over Wi-Fi connections on my iPhone 4S, but there doesn't seem to be an option to apply it to 3G connections. I tried configuring a configuration profile with iPhone Configuration Utility, but I couldn't seem to find the option. I even tried to add a few keys to the exported "mobileconfig" file, but that didn't seem to work either. How do I apply a proxy server to a 3G connection? My device is jailbroken, so if there is an easier way of doing this inside the filesystem, that is an option.
I got the following output when I apply ls -l command in my Mac OS X Mavericks for an image file:  I understand what does -rw-r--r-- mean. But what does the @ sign and the number next to it mean? Is similar feature available in Linux?
so i'm just wondering if i've missed something or if it's true - that the proprietary ai format is unusable fully in any other app - or is there one i've missed or a method i failed to find. (?) thanks much.
I have with 'Folder Action' that automatically runs a Photoshop script on each file that is added to the folder. The folder action has two steps: Open this file with Adobe Photoshop CC Open this file with Adobe Photoshop CC Run the following AppleScript: on run {input, parameters} tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC" do action "frame for print" from "Zak's actions" end tell return input end run Run the following AppleScript:
Is there a simple command in OmniGraffle 6.0 x for (a) stretching the character spaces or (b) increasing font size of a word inside a rectangle (enlarge their distances) such that the word fills the entire rectangle nicely? I would like to achieve an effect of the following kind: a square split into equal upper and lower rectangles; shorter word (e.g. "one") in upper, longer word (e.g. "four") in lower rectangle; words should align at their left and right margins and character spacings and/or font sizes should should remain even.
On my OS X Mavericks my time is always a few minutes (about 4 minutes) ahead of my iOS 7.1.2 iPhone. Both devices are set to set the date and time automatically. On my Mac I can choose from:
I have a jailbroken ipad (ios v. 7.1.1) and installed ssh, terminal and many admin tools. So far I am able to open/close an app from terminal and so much more... . Now I want to trigger UI events and control Apps(in effect touching a button, swiping, type a keyboard...) from terminal. Is there any (command line) tool that can help me accomplish that? I saw similar question here but it is more than a year old (some tools might have emerged lately).
My iPhone was lost or stolen and I have lost all my children's photos and need to know how to get into my iCloud account by using a kindle, tablet or a windows phone.
Why am I unable to set new command prompt for terminal in OS X Mavericks? I've tried to do the following:
In previous Mac OS versions (<10.9) I was able to change the images' thumbnails in the finder by zooming or unzooming with the trackpad. Now that I run on Mavericks, I can't find a way to do it. Does anyone know a trick for that ?
I have a 17" Macbook Pro, mid 2010, with a 2.66 GHz core i7. It has 4GB of memory and a 500 GB sata hard drive (5400 rpm). With this specification, if I have to update one and only one part of my machine, which of the following gives me better improvement of performance: 8 GB of ram vs. 256 GB solid state drive? There is a similar question here, but it is not applicable to me since the OP is already having 8GB of ram.
My network interfaces are showing different names to others that I have seen and I believe it may be causing an issue when setting up a virtual box. Isn't Airport the other name for the Wifi? This shows it as the ethernet port.
I want an app(specifically Ip Messanger for iOs) to start on startup in my ipad ios 7.1.1. I saw this 3 years old source in github and write the following .plist file.
Quick question: I know how to mount an SFTP connection in Finder using Transmit, but, at least in my setup, it only mounts the subdirectories in the User's folder (i.e., Desktop, Documents, etc.). How do I mount other partitions? For example, I have a partition that contains the files for my web server, and I would like to be able to edit them remotely.
I have a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012), and had a Dell U24, connected via DVI. I always have the MacBook Pro closed. When I turn off the monitor the MacBook Pro continued working.
Sometimes, when I have many applications open doing many memory and IO-intensive things, my computer inevitably starts to thrash a bit. While waiting for things to settle down, I often decide to close some applications that don't really need to be open. The trouble is that many of the applications (especially ones that have background/idle processes) tend to be intermittently unresponsive until the thrashing subsides, so it either takes a very long time for them to get focus to send ⌘+q, or when I go to close them by clicking on their icon in the dock I am only presented with the option to force quit. I know that those applications aren't permanently unresponsive, so I'd prefer to send them a gentle TERM signal and have them quit gracefully when they are able. I usually end up killing them by using pkill from the terminal, however, that's not always feasible, especially if the terminal is also hosed.
I tried to send DMs via notification center but it didn't work anyway to tweet or mention these two are still working. Are there any way to send the DMs some very simple way? (for example in silverbird use d username to send DMs very easy)
I'm looking for a cheap hack to text myself alerts whenever my server is down. (I know there's services like Nagios etc, I don't want to get into that.) I'm already sending out emails, so I'm looking for a quick way to add my phone as another recipient to the list of emails. I know individual carriers have different ways of doing this, but I'm looking for something apple-specific since all of the members on my team have iPhones but with different carriers.
On my non-jailbroken iPad running iOS 7.1.2 I'm deleting a number of apps that I've downloaded to try but don't want to keep. As I delete them app icons on the page move up to fill the empty spots. Is there some way to also have app icons from the next automatically move up to fill empty spots at the end of the current page?
My mail app does not give me a viewer window and all File options are greyed out & not available. iMac 3.06 intel core 2 Duo OS X 10.9.4
I want to be able to make it so that my iMac doesn't exit target display mode until the thunderbolt cable is pulled from my Macbook. I love target display mode in theory, but every time I lock my Macbook, the iMac exits target display mode. I then have to use the iMac keyboard to set the computer back to target display mode, which isn't a big deal when doing it just a couple times, but is incredibly obnoxious in aggregate. Is it possible to make it so target display mode stays even after locking the connected laptop/computer?
There have been a couple of occasions where I haven't been able to restart my macbook. Both times I've used this shortcut to restart but I am concerned about the state of the system upon reboot. The log says: kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5 a quick search didn't offer much. Official Apple documentation lists the shortcuts, even the one to Power Off after 5secs without shutting down, with no explanation as to the consequences.
is there a way to ask confirmation from the user when someone try to connect via VNC from a Linux or Windows based PC to his Mac? I succesfully connected via VNC from Mac, Linux and Windows, without any problems, but only in Mac to Mac connections the user of the computer I want to access is prompted for confirmation to share is screen. When I connect from Windows or Linux PCs, I just have to type the VNC password and I'm in, without the user knowing that there's someone watching his screen (only if he's fast enough to see the small change in the binocular icon).
Is there any way in Apple Numbers to apply a formula to a selected set of rows, and sum up the results? This is how i'd like to have/use the formula TableB: TableA: Or in Pseudocode:
Sometimes we have very long email discussions at work and thus email threads grow -- email clients automatically append all previous replies in the thread to your newly created message. (Gmail web app does that for sure, and that is what most people at my workplace use.)
My MacBook Pro has settings for putting the Mac to sleep after a certain amount of idle time. My iMac does not have that setting. See the screenshot (sorry, it's in German). I want to make sure that the iMac uses the least amount of energy when not used.
I need to downgrade my Macbook from 10.9.4 to 10.9.3 but I'm getting this error when it tries to install the Mac OS "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer" Any of you knows how can I downgrade the Mac OS version without this error?
I switched off spell-correct in SysPref > Keyboard > Text, but Numbers 3.2 continues not only to suggest corrections, but - when I decline the suggestion by hitting ESC - to replace my text with its suggestion. How utterly annoying of it! Any idea how to shut it up?
I own an iPhone 5S and use the apps Argus and Nike+ Move that utilize the M7 motion coprocessor. A few weeks ago both apps were unable to properly import motion data (they would hang when loading up trying to update motion information). Is there any way to diagnose if the M7 motion coprocessor on my iPhone 5S is faulty?
I know this has to do with my keyboard layout being U.S, but I have no idea what to do from here. I'm using MacVim, so I want to bind <Alt-u> to something, but I realized it was waiting for another character, and sure enough if you type <Alt-u> you can get characters like this: ï if you type another character after it. I want to disable this behavior and I'm not sure where to look.
I have been following this tutorial in order to setup my local ~/Sites folder. /etc/apache2/users/carloabelli.conf:
A year ago I used a folder on an external drive as my iPhoto library. I went on a trip and used another library in my Pictures folder, so now I have two libraries and want to merge them. However, now I open iPhoto, click "Switch to Library", select the external hard drive library, and iPhoto thinks there are no photos there - I get the "To get started with iPhoto" post-it note in the background, and there are no photos, events, etc.
I have MacBook Pro Retina and this issue happens to me very often as I am android developer. Sometime after I plug my Android phone to the USB, my macs keyboard stops responding and only way is to reboot system. I think I managed to brake the keyboard once with a simple pendrive...
I can see still see 'Hitachi' in the 'Devices' Sidebar, but I am not able to view folders and files on this Hitachi XL2000 2TB FAT32 Hard Drive (EHD) that is USB connected to the iMac below. Late 2013 Apple iMac (27-inch Display 2560 x 1440), 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB, 512GB Flash Storage, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2GB GDDR5, Magic Trackpad, Apple Wireless Keyboard and OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks All was fine until I updated from OS X 10.9.3 to 10.9.4 earlier this week, so now when I double-click on 'Hitachi' it just loads and loads with nothing happening and never displays the folder and file contents of the EHD. I have used OnyX and Apple Disk Utilities unsuccessfully to try and fix this problem. Interestingly, Backblaze online backup still sees the EHD and connecting this EHD to a Win 8.1 PC also sees the EHD. Further, I ran the commands below in 'Terminal' to make sure the drive was visible and got the following results which s
When using the Automator PDF action "PDF to images" any annotations made to a PDF using preview are not converted as part of the output images. The base images are there but the annotations are not rendered. Any solutions on this?
Imagine this: you are in a hotel on a holiday trip and want to see something on TV, but your partner doesn't like it and prefers reading a book. There are a lot of small devices you could plug in the TV to transmit the sound via bluetooth, but i don't want to take a bluetooth headset on vacation when i already have my iPhone with me (including earphones). Is there an app that allows me to use a iPhone as a bluetooth receiver, so i can listen to the audio transmitted by the TV (via the bluetooth adapter)?
I have gone into my Finder preferences and selected to show drives, connected servers, etc., on the desktop. They, however, do not appear. I have restarted Finder and rebooted, but they still are not there. Upon further examination, it also appears that when I click on the desktop, finder does not become the active application, clicking the desktop does nothing. It is as though the desktop has ceased to have functionality other then displaying an image. Any idea how to correct this?
For humor, I was considering including a popup message much like this one in an App:  But something like '"App" would like to access your hopes and dreams'. Would this spoof on a common Apple API make the app more likely to be rejected? Or is there any official policy which could be construed this way?
I am part of the Apple developer program, and received the 10.9.3 beta before the full release. In that version, I could place a full screen app to the LEFT of the first desktop. My setup was to have Mail in full screen on the left, Desktop 1 in the middle, and iTunes in full screen on the right. However, when 10.9.3 was released to the public, I updated to it and realised I could not use my setup anymore, as the first Desktop became immovable. I had hoped this was fixed in 10.9.4, but alas, it has not. So, is there a Terminal command or preference switch to fix this? If there is not, I guess my only hope is Yosemite... Thanks in advance, xeni
How can I migrate all data from my MacBook to my iMac without losing it from the Macbook?
I want to remap the keys on my keyboard. I want to do it programatically, because I will use some logic to decide what to input. For example, when a user press "A" followed by "S", I will output "λ". In other words, everytime I type a key on my keyboard, I want to intercept it, apply some logic to it and give it back changed before it goes to the focused app. How?
The sent items folder is about 8 GB and I need to clear it out to free up space. Is there any way to do it without selecting each individual message?
This has been happening on and off since I switched to a mac at work. Google Chome Helper occasionally runs my cpu into the red and has the fan spinning madly. Sometimes restarting Chrome fixes the problem, sometimes not. Eventually it always surfaces again.
Another strange thing is that iTunes does not appear to be totally frozen--for a few seconds the "(not responding)" will occasionally disappear and then reappear. Plus, in those few seconds that it starts to respond again, its status will change (for instance, now it says it is "Processing Album Artwork" and earlier a random podcast started playing). However, this doesn't seem to explain why the % CPU consistently remains at around 100%. [UPDATE: The 100% CPU/"Not Responding"-status may, for some reason, be related to podcasts being refreshed] Currently, the only Applications I have open are: Activity Monitor Google Chrome iTunes Finder
Mid 2011 imac 27", which had a new hard drive installed afew months back. Since having a bad crash, the system had corrupt but seem get stuck in boot cycle on startup. I ran fsck on the hard drive but no problems were found and the drive was caught in some sort of boot cycle on startup.
I'm a web developer using a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.3. Before I started developing in a Mac, I used Cygwin on a Windows machine to see what was happening behind the scene on my web application. I had a Logging system built in PHP which created log files with all the content of the variables I wanted to debug. Basically, this Logging system creates another PHP file with all the debug needed and through Cygwin, every time I refreshed my web application in the browser it would refresh itself synchronously and outputted a new print with all my recent code updates.
I need an app that allows a number of iPhones to exchange information between each other during an event that there may be no WiFi available while myself and two buddies travel overseas. None of us plan on 'roaming' while overseas on our current plan, we strictly plan to either stick together, or communicate through wifi. But what happens if we get separated in a city and need to communicate when wifi is not available, like a walkie talkie function Traveling in Europe.
Don't know why I didn't get a warning about disk being almost full... It came down to zero free space and I couldn't do anything except force-shutdown it. I booted into Windows, deleted some files from OSX drive, but now on boot there is a progress bar every time and when it reaches the end (in 15 min), the computer shuts down. I went into the recovery mode and tried to repair the disk, but it says "The Disk Utility cannot repair the drive... backup files and reinstall the OS" -- something like that. I have a time machine backup but I'm currently not at home - going home in 3 weeks.
I bought a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display (Late 2013, 2.4GHz i5), and it only has 128GB storage. I found a 1 TB PCIe that will fit into the rig, but I'm a little confused from what I was reading on Apple. From what I gathered, it says that the 2.6GHz i5 is configurable up to 1TB, but says nothing about the 2.4GHz. Is this just how Apple sells it - they just don't give the option for 1TB on the 2.4 - or will this much storage not actually work on this computer?
There is a known issue that latest Time Capsule and Airport Base stations have SNMP disabled. But SNMP ports 161 and 162 are still reserved by Time Capsule for SNMP. It leads to the question: Is there someone who was able to enable SNMP on the latest models of TC and AE?
I was wondering if there is any way to keep bluetooth peripherals active for a set amount of time. For example the connection to a keyboard I have just bought is lost after about 10 seconds of inactivity and always misses the first couple of keystrokes when reconnecting. Similar to a bluetooth mouse I have as well, takes a second or two to get it going after it has been motionless for 30 seconds or so. Is there a timeout that I can alter? It's running Mavericks, keyboard and mouse are third party.
I have tried to set up my WLAN with the following topology: Cable modem providing Internet connectivity Airport Extreme as the primary access point Airport Express as a repeater (to extend my wireless coverage)
Today I realized I sort of abandoned podcasts a while ago, and I went to the iTunes store to look for good ones. Every podcast I looked at, though, only displayed some of the more recent episodes. I want to start at the beginning of these! Here are just a few examples.
I'm often victim to some loud sound playing on my computer all of a sudden when I have my volume level turned up already to watch a quiet video. I can't turn everything down to the level of the quietest video I will ever watch; that's impractical. I can't even control the volume level of some applications.
Is there a way to bind the chrome style look up in dictionary to a key binding? In case you don't know what function I'm talking about here's a screenshot:
OSX 10.9.4 Chrome Canary: Version 38.0.2086.3 canary (64-bit) Chrome Stable: Version 35.0.1916.153
I upgraded a test server running snow leopard to mavericks and then was having some weirdness so I decided to recreate my open directory, users and groups. Server appears to be running and I am able to connect from a laptop /user
Whenever I place my Moto X down, face-up, so the center of it is just below and to the left of the fn key on a Macbook Pro Retina 15", the screen goes blank black. When I pick it up, I get the lock screen. I think it may be magnetic, since there are certain locations in that area in which my phone will rotate left or right by itself. Or perhaps it has to do with NFC, because it doesn't happen when I place the phone face-down, and the NFC is located in the back?
I am an iOS developer, and have an old 3G device. If I setup whited00r 7, can I use that device for development as I can use a device with iOS 7? (Register provisioning profile for that device and install ipa on it?) Are there any restrictions?
I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my television. On occasion I have to use my MacBook to screen share onto the Mini. Something happened where when screen sharing, the screen is zoomed in. It is NOT zoomed in when switching the TV input to use it as the monitor. It only happens when screen sharing. How can I get this back to normal? Thanks!
Outlook 2011 has frozen in the middle of moving an email and won't close. How can I close it?
Does anyone know what the "access_bpf" group is / does. I noticed it when I went into Preferences > Users & Groups. I've searched around and found that it has something to do with Wireshark, however I have not installed the program on my Mac so I'm too sure how the group got added.
After I accidentally left my Mac on my balcony last summer and after a heavy rain when typing the mac keyboard only symbols appear. When using external keyboard things have worked smoothly since until today when I turned on Filevault. Now suddenly it wouldn't accept my password any longer. Now I can only access the guest account on my mac. And the Mac wont recognize my password even after the restore password--- nothing happens in keyboard when i try to type these passwords.
I had to do a Time Machine restore on my internal MacBook Pro 750gb hard drive. The complete backup contains nearly 700gb of data. Twice, the restore process failed at the exact same point because of a file that could not be read from my external Time Machine backup disk. When trying to manually copy everything onto my reformatted internal hard drive, I found the corrupted file that was blocking the entire restoring process - a 6,5 mb MP4 clip! My problem, it is: impossible to delete or replace this corrupted file on the backup version of my computer impossible to simply ignore this file during the restoration process impossible to reboot my computer once a manual restoration (minus the corrupted file) is completed - the computer doesn't recognize the System Folder, even though it has been copied in one step, from the Time Machine backup disk onto my internal hard drive. re-installing the OS on my "manually-restored-internal-HD" erased numerous important software extensions
I was wondering if there is a way to automatically tag a file as it reaches your computer, like downloads, copying from an external drive, etc. I would like to simulate gmail filters, like labelling every email as it reaches your mail. I would prefer if we could do this by name, but if it could be done by extension, that would be ok too.
I have a MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010 MacBookPro6,1 ) that the audio stopped working on. The audio jack has a red light on in it. In Sys Pref, under Sound, in the Output tab, only Optical digital-out port is listed.
Just received my macbook air and discover that i can't run port command because of /opt directory not exists. Is it normal? (OS X 10.9)
I am trying to charge my iPad Air via the USB ports on my '15 Retina Macbook Pro. When I plug it into the port on the right side of the device, it charges fine, but when I plug it into the left-side USB port, the battery indicator on the iPad switches from charging to normal and back rapidly and repeatedly. Is this due to different power outputs between the two USB ports, or is something wrong with my laptop that I should get checked out?
I am looking for a way to add text to my App Store screenshots for iOS. An example of what I'm looking for would be the Google app screenshots on iOS. There are many ways to add a device border, such as mockuphone.com, but is there a simple and easy way to add text to those images, preferably not involving Photoshop?
I use Outlook 2011 (14.4.3) to connect to my organization's exchange server from my Mac (OS 10.9). Normally I receive mail shortly after it was sent, but on occasion Outlook will refuse to check my mail for periods ranging from minutes to hours. By "refuse to check my mail" I mean that: When I click the "send/receive" button, the button responds with a click animation, but it does not check my mail. If I open the "progress" window (cmd-7) I can confirm that no activity is shown. No error messages appear in the "errors" window (cmd-8). During these times: I can log in to webmail and confirm that there are messages that haven't been downloaded. My mac has full connectivity otherwise Outlook is able to send emails, which are received by others right away (but my sent mail box isn't updated either). The status message in the lower-right still says "connected to [account name]" and accurately displays the last time it connected to the server. The problem sometimes resolves spontaneously, an
I have "Install OS X Mavericks" in my Applications folder even though I installed it a while ago. Does the system require this for utilities or something, or is there any reason to keep it around?
I am running the latest Maverick. Does anyone know how can I force an upgrade of my firmware?
That was supposed to be my finder window with my backups over time but I only see black screens. :(
I'm feeling a little tearful here. I accidentally neglected to back up properly and Time Machine deleted older backups that contained all my sons photos from infancy. Is there any at all to recover these? Thank you so much.
If I sign into someone's ipod to download something, using my ID & password and forget to logout, will I be able to locate the device using Find My iphone?
Recently I ran Boot Camp Assistant to install a copy of Windows 7. The "Partitioning Disk" process froze and I force quit it - I know, bad idea - and although I was left with a functioning Mac, I noticed that the Mac is split into two separate partitions. One is 2.2 TB, and one is 801.44 GB (I have a 3 TB Fusion Drive). Previously they showed up as one single partition. When I launch Disk Utility, either from Utilities or Internet Recovery Mode, I get "The full size of the Fusion Drive is not available for repartitioning.", and I'm unable to delete/adjust either of the partitions (all the options are greyed out). I have Time Machine and I have a separate HD backup, so I don't mind reinstalling OS X - in fact, I want to - but I want to fix the Mac hard drive so that everything appears as one cohesive partition, but I'm not sure what to do.
How do I get rid of this icon? I'm not even sure what it's for. It's possible that it's for remote CD Drive, but I don't remember how I got it up there in the first place. Details: iMac 27 inch late 2012 OS X Mavericks
I have compiled rsync 3.0.9 just because the one included in Mavericks is so old. Anyway, I am trying to mirror a folder in my main HDD in another HDD. I don't think it matters but both are connected via SATA and both are formatted as HFS (case-insentive and journaled). I ran: and it doesn't skip the m4a/mp3 files it has processed already!
When docking my Macbook Pro Retina to a Thunderbolt display I need to plug in two cables (a power cable plug, and a thunderbolt cable). I read in a comment that there might be a simple way of clipping the cables together so that they can be plugged into the Macbook in one motion. Is there a clip that can be purchased that links the power cable and thunderbolt cable together for individual entry? Alternatively, is there some simple do-it-yourself option for keeping the cable together and in the one place?
I'm a UK iPhone user. Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation has always used a US English voice for me, even though both Siri and Apple Maps use a British English voice. I was surprised recently to hear British English directions in Google Maps on another user's phone. I've never been able to find a setting to change it, beyond checking my Siri settings, so assumed I was stuck with a US voice. How do I configure Google Maps to use a British English voice and British variant words?
I'm using ios7.1 and I was wondering if there's a way to change the transparency of the in-call menu? When I use the dialer's keypad I have about 30% transparency (I can see the background but it's mostly covered in white), but when I'm in the middle of a call, the background is about 70-80% transparent, so if I have a light wallpaper, I can't see the menu or the numbers.
I've tried a bunch of different things but whenever I try to send a video on WhatsApp the app crashes. It works fine in safe mode though. Any ideas? *=URL=* PS: I jailbroke the phone
When I send an email from gmail.com, the attachments I add aren't included in the (rich text/html) email. However, if I attach images to an email via Mail all the images (videos as well) are included in the message. I would like to disable this behavior, how can I do that? One is sent from gmail.com another is from Apple Mail (mail.app):
I have bash script that works on Ubuntu but for OS X 10.9 i get the error for split command: According to the split man page, -d is Is there workaround for this?
I had an crash accident with my MBPro (late 2013). MB fall down and crashed to its top left corner. There is a damage to unibody (its not so big problem for me, I can live with it) but there is bigger problem because probably damage of Retina display - when I look at a screen with dark background I can see very tinny and randomly distributed shiny white pixels. It is not much visible but I think it might be some bigger problem with display.
I last used iMovie 3 months ago, but now it's totally different. I've figured out some things, but under the audio track there is now space for a music track, which I'm not using, and I can't see how to hide it. It takes up so much room that I can't see enough of my clip to work on. Is there any way to hide the music track if I'm not adding music?
I have an old MacBook running OS 10.6.8 which I want to recycle, but its internal SuperDrive doesn't work, so I can't use the install disk to do it. I tried plugging in Apple's external USB SuperDrive which I bought when I upgraded to a MacBook Pro which has no internal SuperDrive, but the external SuperDrive doesn't accept the disc; it's as if the old MacBook doesn't recognize the external drive. I'm thus at a loss as to how to proceed to wipe the hard disk.
At some point way back in the past, I set up some utility to intercept mailto: links in web pages and have Chrome compose a message in Gmail rather than having it open the Apple Mail app. Now, I'm trying to remove it and have Apple Mail open mailto: links, but I can't figure out the utility I used to intercept them.
I used to be able to use all three (3) monitors for almost a whole year on my Mac Pro Mid 2012 tower model (that's before the Cylinder model came out). Here's the configuration that was working before: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (BootCamped, not Virtualized/VM Ware/Parallel) The same Video Card that came with the system: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series Has 1 DVI port, 2 Mini DisplayPorts. Has 1 DVI port, 2 Mini DisplayPorts.
I want to "smart invert" my colors like this app does: *=URL=* I tried the app called "Nocturne 2.0.0" but its "Invert Hue" option has no effect because of this issue: *=URL=* Is there a way to do this? I am using Mavericks 10.9.2 on MBP2011
Okay, so I know this is a tricky issue as OS X's Mail seemingly lacks the ability to automatically delete or archive old messages, even though it has the necessary date-based rules to do so. As such, I'm currently using a smart folder to find all old messages (except in mailboxes I prefer to keep) so that I can periodically delete them by opening the smart folder, selecting everything and hitting delete.
Is the normal, default behavior for an CMD-R based Mavericks OS Recovery to always pull the image over the internet? (I am not talking about a deliberate "Internet" recovery CMD+OPT+R)
Sometimes when I take a photo I like to share it with friends and family, so I press the button that points up, which then leads to a screen where I can share the photo with facebook, flickr and several other things that I don't use. Recently I decided to use instagram as a means of sharing photos, since I had noticed some of my friends on facebook doing it. I installed the instagram app on my iphone and have used it a few times to share photos, but it is missing from the list of things to share with immediately after taking a photo navigated to from the photo gallery. How can I get instagram to appear in the list of destinations that I see when I decide t share a photo from my phone?
I copy OSX system with another SSD, and when want open file, you can see following, that means I can open file with the application in deprecated osx, but I want keep osx for restore oneday. how not show them.And I was confused always.
I've changed my mind about having Safari/iCloud Keychain never remember my password for a given website. I'd like to remove that setting and store the password, but I can't find any ability to delete/change it anywhere. I've already gone into Settings->Safari->Passwords & Autofill -> Saved Passwords, and the website in question does not show up in the list with a 'never' entry to delete. How can I make Safari forget to keep forgetting this login info?
I turned off automatic brightness adjusting in the display preference pane (as explained here). The brightness still adjusts automatically. If I have the preference pane open I can even watch the slider moving to the right. Is this a bug? I would like to set the display to a lower brightness to save battery. This is a Retina MBP from late 2013 with Mavericks.
So I just purchased a Macbook Pro second hand and his contacts are still synced to the messages app on the bottom of the screen on the homepage. Is there any way for me remove his contacts and sync my contacts instead?
I have 2011 13 inch MBP running OSX Mavericks (10.9.4). 2.3 GHz i5 processor, 8GB DDR3 Memory and Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB (VRAM) Graphics.
What happened to the celebrity AppleMasters† program that used to live on Apple's website? Is it closed down? Are there any fan sites out there for the AppleMasters? †) link defunct
Question: How can I restart the bluetooth subsystem from the command line to make it available again? Or (more interesting of course) what is the cause of this infrequent hang and how can I heal it completely? I cannot remember which software I've installed at the time the error started to show, it might have been bootcamp to support a 32 bit windows in a virtual machine or some Citrix software (Citrix Access Gateway)
Bit of an unusual case, but I'm planning to restructure how I use OS X when I next do a clean-install, such that I have a separate user account for casual use and work use, to keep things a lot tidier and to avoid distractions. However, I'd still like to know how many unread messages I have in the other account, either visible from the loginwindow or by some other convenient means.
I just upgraded my from 10.6.8 to 10.8.5. However my local folders are gone. I just tried to use time machine to access them however the time line before I made the upgrade is in red. How can I access those local email folders?
When I click the close button on Google Chrome, it closes all tabs instead of exiting and remembering the open tabs on next launch. Any way to fix this ?
I am following the Lynda.com Git Essential Training. After he downloads and installs Git he enters which git and gets /usr/local/git/bin/git However when I do it I still get the preinstalled path /usr/bin/git How do I change the path so I am working with my downloaded version of Git I am using a Macbook Air - Mavericks - OS X 10.9.4 and followed the default install instructions.
I'm unable to connect to any WiFi network. When attempting to connect, before the popup prompting me to run network diagnostics, the console shows the following in the logs: I was able to connect to a network briefly after disabling Bluetooth, but the activity resumed shortly after. The network card appears to be on: and connecting with a USB ethernet adapter is fine, so I suspect the issue is limited to the wireless adapter. This is occurring on a late 2013 13" MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz i5, 8 GB memory 1600 MHz DDR3) running 10.9.4.
I made a bootable OS 10.6 in my external HD with Disc Utility's partition & restore functions (with the "source" (as OS disc) and "destination" method...) And I used that to do a clean OS install on a new SSD. I then found out I need to return this SSD because of some issues. So, before returning, I'm just worried, did any of my personal data go into SSD from my external HD? All I did was to use the HD's OS partition to install OS on the SSD. The HD has another partition that is a time machine backup, but I didn't use that for SSD. This HD had been used as various data backups before I made any partitions in it. I guess what I'm trying to say is, can data that's currently on another partition or was stored in the past on the whole HD unknowingly transfer into the SSD by just fresh-insalling OS?
I installed the Server.app from the App Store to use the bundeled postgres DB: Then I found out, that the commandline tool "serveradmin" (and others) have not been installed as implied by other postings. Was this a change by Apple, or did I miss something?
I saw the Intuos creative stylus for the iPad, and as much as I like it, I am not a fan of having to purchase a new Mac product just to use a pen that works with the iPad only... Is there a pen out there that works like the Intuos creative stylus pen for iPad that would work with a MacBook Pro? I've heard of using the MagicMouse, but I'm looking for the same concept as the Intuos creative stylus for iPad, where the stylus would connect via a bluetooth, with the same abilities of an Inkling, drawing anywhere...
My hard drive is full and I have a finished project on it that may require some small modification. What is the good way to manage Final Cut X data? I have a 50Gb Final Cut file in my Video folder and don't know how to process...
I am trying to get the Sublime Text to work with Git from the following tutorials *=URL=* and *=URL=* I created a bin directory with mkdir ~/bin and run the line ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl I have then tried the command subl --help but get the following error
My Iphone 4 screen doesn't display properly, contents on the screen are animating as shown in the video *=URL=* . Touch is working fine I am able to open apps... but the display is broken. The same behavior as in the video is observed during resetting, rebooting etc.. Tried factory resetting, updating the software etc..
Since I've updated to Mavericks from Snow Leopard recently, I've noticed that some apps that I download (not from the App Store) won't launch. When I used chmod 775 on them, I could launch them. It seems some apps get wrong permissions upon downloading? Why can't I open only certain apps, and how can I prevent it?
I want to change option in System Preferences "Scroll direction: natural" every time I plugin mouse to my MacBook. And switch back when mouse is disconnected.
So I've been working on a simple AppleScript to try to help with managing my e-mail in OS X's Mail, and I have it seemingly working just fine with one major problem; the performance of the script is horrible. Now, I know AppleScript isn't always the fastest scripting language, but I'm just not sure why the performance is as bad as it is. Even stranger, the length of time to complete each operation in a loop appears to be increasing over time! For example, my script should match about 300 e-mails (processed from a list totalling around 500), after five minutes it will match around 100 e-mails, but after twenty it will only have matched around 125, having slowed down to the point that it takes nearly a minute to process each e-mail, and continues to get worse until the script eventually finishes after about three hours. Here's a simplified version of the script: You'll have to forgive any typos from me slimming things down, but the above is the basic behaviour of the script, and exhibits
Unfortunately, I cannot determine how to accurately reproduce this. It seems to happen sometimes and not others. As well, not all programs seem to be effected (this happens often with Eclipse and Firefox, but never with Sublime Text or Terminal).
I'd like to have a share on a Windows Server Domain Controller (2012 R2) with Mac software for folks on my company to install from. Not everyone who will have access to this share will have a domain account on Windows.
MBP (Early 2011) (15") OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.5) No external displays connected Discrete GPU (AMD Radeon HD 6490M) goes bust [REF-1] I managed to avoid the problem by disabling all GPU drivers to force system use of integrated drivers (intel) Since the GPU failure, my system has seemingly begun to treat the built in 1440x900 screen as an external display - this is what I want to fix This is preventing me from using to GfxCardStatus.app to enforce integrated graphics mode (as the external display is apparently treated as a discrete GPU dependency) For various reason I'd like to stop the system from attempting to harness the discrete GPU
I'm trying to start MySQL server (Maria DB 10.0.12, installed via Homebrew) but it's not working. When I run mysql.server start, it keeps running forever without actually starting the server. mysql.server configtest tells me the config is fine and there is nothing in MySQL error log. I haven't actually changed anything to MySQL recently, though I've upgraded PHP and other modules (but I guess that shouldn't be related). Any idea what could be causing this, or how to debug it?
I'm having issues with sending large amounts of attachments via Outlook 365 (Home Edition) On OSX. I Can find a ton of information and fixes online for this issue in a Windows environment, or an Exchange environment, But can't turn up any information regarding this issue in OSX.
I have a problem with managing purchases from different stores. As you know, Apple doesnt' provide the one global store for purchases made in different countries and some applications are published only in only local country store. Given that, I now have purchases in two countries and realized it's hard to keep track of applications, remove unnecessary and not used and so on. I decided to clean up my account and hide not used anymore applications. But it's a completely mess: something is downloaded on my mac, something on iphone, something on ipad, it all syncs in ununderstandable ways.
On two instances, I've been unable to empty my trash because it contained a pdf that the system claimed was in use. On both occasions, I typed the lsof command to find out which app was using it. In both instances, Preview was indicated -- yet it wasn't shown in the Dock! Activity Monitor does show Preview running. How can this be?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8.5 I can no longer run meld via X11. I get the following. I've tried searching around for solutions but found nothing that works.
The screen on my 2012 iMac stopped working, and does not respond to the usual quick fixes. How can I display the iMac and its menus on another computer to explore other diagnostics? On a Mac Pro?
A while back I had an issue with my (2013) iMac not recognizing the keyboard after it was unplugged and re-plugged in. I had to actually power down the iMac and power it back up before it would recognize the keyboard. After taking it in to an Apple Store (a 30 mile drive, very inconvenient) they simply reset the PRAM and the problem went away.
Im learning python programming, what is the correct way to install python on Mavericks 10.9?. Is it correct just to download the installer or use homebrew instead to install python?.
I need a way to hide the mail icon on an iPad as my business the emails need to be secured. I know you can jailbreak the device and achieve it but this is not viable for me.
What is the best way to add drums after I played my guitar and also what is the best effect for a verse in GarageBand Thank you
How do I stop the Adobe Creative Cloud app from auto-launching on login? I don't see any option of stopping this, and for some reason it's not in OS X's user login options.
As a Linux/Windows user, I am used to switching temporarily to Overtype Mode when using the command prompt. As a new user to the Mac world, I do not know how to change text input mode from normal (i.e. Insert Mode) to Overtype Mode. This is of particular use to me at the command prompt, but also in text editors (eg TextWrangler or Sublime).
I'm unable to connect to a Windows VPN using my macbook air 2013. The VPN Settings given to me are, Server URL Username & Password SSL Ceritificate VPN Type - SSTP
I'm using a Seagate GoFlex that seems to have encountered some trouble. The drive does not appear on the desktop or Finder. I've double checked that Finder > Preferences allows for it to appear in both places. I can see the drive in Disk Utility and have successfully done 'Verify Disk' and 'Repair Disk' however it's worth noting that both 'Verify Disk Permissions' and 'Repair Disk Permissions' are greyed out. The "Mount" option at the top of Disk Utility is greyed out, however "Eject" is not though when selected I receive that it "could not be unmounted." I don't quite know what to do next in order to successfully access the Time Machine backups and other files I have stored.
I am not tech savvy and know almost nothing about computers. Macs are even harder, so I don't know where to start. I did the suggested update yesterday and now it is blocking me on a bunch of stuff but not all. For instance, I can't go to facebook or my school division website, but can google, read news pages, go to yahoo mail......that is about all I do on here.
Apps can open other apps on iPhone using a URI scheme (e.g., open the Facebook app with fb://). Is there a way to disable this?
We have a FreeNAS in the office which we're using as an FTP server, but the speeds are incredibly slow for clients trying to download from it. When I tried downloading directly (via OS X ftp server) from one of our OSX machines it was much faster. So I'd like to try using the Mac as the FTP server, and the FreeNAS for storage. But when I mount the FreeNAS with AFP, it cannot be shared via OSX ftp service. What can we do? Or is there a way to fix the low speed of the FreeNAS? Thanks!
I'm trying to share a CD/DVD drive from windows 7 laptop with my MacBook Pro mid 2010 through a WiFi. I've done all the things specified in official apple guide on how to do this, which was: Install a software update for Windows 7 Enable CD/DVD sharing + ask for permission Disable a firewall (actually, there is only a default windows firewall installed but with both enabled and disabled states, this thing is not working)
I tried Fiddler and Keepass on Mono and both these applications start, their icons jump on the Dock, but no window is displayed.
When my mapro6,1 awakes from sleep it takes like 20-30 seconds before the network (and therefor Internet) is working, when i use WiFi its almost instant. Any ideas? Thanks!
I am having a LED with 1920*1080 resolution .I have connected my Mac mini using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA cable .I am only getting the 1280*1080 p.Why i am not getting FULLHD display
I don't have an iPhone 5S, but I know that I can set my iOS devices to automatically erase themselves, when the wrong passcode has been entered too many times. Does Touch ID on the 5S do the same? I imagine this to be rather inconvenient, since accidentally touching the ID sensor is very likely.
I'm planning on buying a new Macbook this fall. I fail to order more than 16GB RAM for any mobile device, but I remember that previously, with smaller memory limits, some machines would inofficially also with more than just the 8GB.
I need to control myself. So far, I was using a Windows device for work, where I would simply reroute Facebook, news sites and similar to 127.0.0.1. In near future, I will have to use the same device (running OS X) for both private time and work.
Is there a repair I can do to the hard drive bus on a MacBook Pro 2007? I've changed the SATA cable but it still won't see the drive, which I know is good as it boots externally! Disk Utility doesn't detect it either.
I know that Apple says you cannot delete leaderboards and achievements once they are active. Is there a way to get them to not show up on an updated version of the game? Or do I have to delete my app and remake everything? There has to be a way to get around this.
A bank uploads an free application ( link ) on App Store. Application basically displays bank account summary with transaction history. On launch, the application displays below notice to directly debit money from customer account for the app usage. This will not give Apple 30% share of the charged amount since it is direct debit from bank account. Below is the direct debit notice. Why is this not considered a violation by Apple ? If this is valid, can every developer,avoid 30% cut, by protecting his free application with a key to be purchased from his website ?
I like all the multiple screen features in Mavericks except one. I HATE the hit cursor to the bottom of the screen to move the dock. I've searched hi an low for a way to stick the dock to one spot. I'd even buy a product.
I want to buy two 17 inch dell displays to use them with my mackbook pro 13 inch with one thunderbolt port but I dont want to buy them until I know that I can use them haha I want to know which adapter I have to buy (I live in mexico so it might be difficult) or if I can use the normal thunderbolt to vga that I have and this one: http://mlm-s2-p.mlstatic.com/cable-adaptador-convertidor-usb-a-vga-tarjeta-video-externa-14810-MLM20090514678_052014-O.jpg.
Since iTunesconnect won't let me delete leaderboards and achievements, I am considering deleting my entire app and resubmitting it. My app is free, without IAP, was just recently published, and has only a few users, so I am not too worried about upsetting them. Can I reuse the same title or will I have to use something else? Are there other repercussions that I am not thinking of? Is this the best way to resolve my problem or should I go about this some other way?
Can I use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch? I do not know the previous carrier, because the Iphone was reset and has no sim card. Is there any way I can use it as an iPod touch (without activating it) ?
I'm a college student and a student employee at my college's IT office. We recently upgraded to Google Apps for Education for our college email, and we also have a high proportion of Mac users on campus (students, faculty, staff, and administrators).
I am trying to create an automator app which will take all the images which are similarly named and create a folder with that name and move the images then into that folder and then archive that folder. Thus turing the following into three folders: Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 001.jpg Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 002.jpg Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 003.jpg Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 004.jpg Short image name 001.jpg Short image name 002.jpg Short image name 003.jpg Short image name 004.jpg Short image name 005.jpg Short image name 006.jpg Short image name 007.jpg Short image name 008.jpg My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 001.jpg My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 002.jpg My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 003.jpg My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 004.jpg My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 005.jpg My Mom name
The Wifi on my 2012 MBA is busted, and a lab wants $400 to repair the logic board. Could I just buy a USB Wifi dongle, disable the builtin Wifi and set it up via the dongle?
In FCP I went to file>Import>Import iMovie Project. However, I've searched everywhere and I can't find my iMovie project to import. Some people suggested looking in the movies folder. Below is a screenshot of my movies folder.
I am using Mail.app with an IMAP .com email address: For some reason, at 10.9, Mail changed and now the special "Archive" Mailbox doesn't allow for new subfolders to be added within the "Archive". It isn't possible to add subfolders via a menu or to drag existing folders into the Archive.
On OS X, does Time Machine need the index maintained by Spotlight? Will disabling Spotlight completely (via mdutil) affect Time Machine?
My Mac died. When I connect my external hard drive to my laptop I can't access my iPhoto – it says iPhoto won't open because it's a machine backup. Any ideas?
How can I via the command line change the iTunes Media type from Home Video to Movie? After I convert a DVD to m4v via Handbrake I would like to set the iTunes media type. I can do this manually in iTunes but I'm looking for a command line approach so that I can automate it.
I recently did a clean install of Mavericks, and ever since I have, I've been having intermittent DNS lookup failures on the terminal only. Browsers work fine (Chrome, Safari).
I recently installed update 10.9.4, which was recommended for all Mavericks users. My wifi was working fine beforehand and now won't connect to familiar networks. Ironic much? The 10.9.4 update was supposed to fix wifi problems for Mavericks!
For a school assignment I need to add a folder to my classpath. It says that I should do this by adding a line to the file .bashrc. However, this file doesn't appear to exist in my computer. I also read something about a file called .profile which doesn't appear either. I found /etc/profile, but it says I have no permission to open it.
I have Mavericks on my Mac and wish to set up Unison between it and an old PC (vaiolaptop) running Windows XP on my network. How so I specify the path to the remote machine? It appears like so in finder and I can navigate through it in Finder just fine.
My family and I (4 users) are using 4 iOS devices on a single Apple/iTunes account. We started with iPhone 4, and over the years we have added devices for my wife and 2 kids and as a result now we have a massive iTunes music library.
I use iCloud for my calendars/contacts/reminders because it's just so convenient to share all the data instantly between all my devices, but I can't help worrying about what would happen if Apple's servers have a brain-fart. So I'd like to make my own backups. And, of course, I'd like those backups to happen completely automatically, with no human intervention at all, because I'm sure you all know that manual backups are backups that just stop happening. Ideally the code for making these backups would run on the Linux machine that is responsible for all my other backups, and I'm happy to write the code to do this myself. My question is ... can anyone point me at documentation for the protocols and APIs that Apple's applications use?
On Mavericks, I have Voiceover turned off in both Accessibility settings and Users & Groups. In the past week, Voiceover has started occasionally reading small bits of text to me, seemingly unrequested. It seems to primarily be subject lines of new mail in Gmail (running as a webpage in Chrome), but this could be a red herring.
I'd like to be able to hit a hot key, and enter a mouse movement mode where I can move the mouse pointer around the screen using VIM keystrokes - regardless of the app I'm in (ie globally for all apps) For example, just say my mouse mode key was SHIFT+COMMAND+M I hit SHIFT+COMMAND+M to enter mouse mode I use h,j,k,l to move the cursor around the screen, and possibly some other keys to jump from monitor to monitor I hit the enter key to click, and leave mouse mode, or hit esc to exit mouse mode.
I would like to ensure a application is running in fullscreen using a shell command (or script). I've seen some approaches that tell the application to execute a keyboard shortcut (cmd+ctrl+f) but that will toogle the fullscreen mode, not ensure.
Bought a a second hand ipad from a yard sale the person had it set to new installation. I looked at it before I bought it to make sure it powered up, and I got it home and connected to my laptop to start the process I found I i could not go any further be cause the ipad had been locked by another apple Id. When I went back to show the person they didn't know how that had happrned and they didn't recognize the apple Id and now they wont do anything to help try and reset it nor give back my money and now i'm stuck with a locked Ipad and no money. What can I do now?
Just purchased a Mac Mini server. Is there a way that we can allow for multiple sessions for Xcode development within the server? Would RealVNC allow multiple remote sessions? If so how many?
In Finder, if you are at a deep in folders or files while viewing as list mode and then you clicked on icons mode, the Finder shows all folders from the root of volume. That is very annoying. Because now you have to go to look for that location again. See pictures for more details. How do we keep the Finder to stay at the same location when switching from icons to list mode and vice versa?
So, I coincidentally noticed the following behavior: Some windows can be closed by pressing the esc key, like the Preference window in any app or the 'Safari help' window or the 'Fonts' window in TextExit for example. Other windows can not be closed by pressing the esc key, like the Safari browser window or the 'Special Characters' window. The default cmd w always seems to work.
I have new macbook pro and I format whole drive to one partition and restore my backup (time machine). Now I have no "Recovery HD" partition. How can i create it?
I got an Early 2011 MBP i7 2.2 8GB RAM Mavericks latest version I worked with my laptop monitor and an external monitor. The external is connected via the Thunderbolt out with digital. Since recently I figured out some crashes from time to time, when my monitor is connected.
I want to know if there is some way to trigger a workflow when an external HDD is plugged. I want to mirror one folder in my local machine to backup it. Target folder will be in the external HDD and I would like it to trigger everytime the HDD is mounted. Any ideas?
So my son was dimming his screen and then he locked his screen with a password. But the screen is dimmed so much it is black and cannot tell when to put in the code? Help
When I copy/paste a file into a folder where a file with the same name exists, instead of replacing, it changes the filename to 'file Copy'. Is there a way to copy/replace similar to windows or ubuntu? I am using OSX 10.8.5.
I have a Word document that has an image link (it has a URL associated with it). I would like to create a PDF rendition of this document, preserving the image link.
I accidentally pulled an NTFS hard drive out of my Mac OS X Mavericks machine several times and realized that I accidentally created multiple entries of many different names in my /Volumes/ folder. Now I have storage_1, storage_2, storage_3, passport, etc. in my /Volumes/ folder.
I've read reviews about 3 external screens for late 2013 macbook pro 15 retina, and looks like there are different opinions about that. Some of videos I saw demonstrates the fact that it is possible connect all three screens at once. But before buying all necessary components I would like to show what kind of screens I would like to purchase and what type of adapters I am about to use. Could you please take a look for my build and let me know your opinion if it is going to work and if not, could you please describe correct way of connecting it. 3 BENQ Screens (1920 x 1080, 2 ms, VGA, DVI-D, HDMI) 2 screens will be connected using mini display port to HDMI Adapter 1 screen will be connected directly on HDMI port. Do you think that build would work?
I tried using iCloud account. But it did not seem to work. basically, I signed into iCloud on both iDevices with same Apple ID. And making sure Notes was set to on. Newly created notes will show up on both devices. But I also need the current local previously created notes to sync as well. Any suggestions?
My mac wasn't loading past the boot screen (white, apple logo, spinning gear). So I CMND + R and went to disk utilities and ran Disk Repair. It could not repair. I tried everything. Even a an fsck (or somthing like that) command repair thing in Terminal and nothing worked.
When I cd /; du sudo du -h -d1 I get a total of about 160 GB (this is on a 256 GB drive). However, when I look at Disk Utility or About this Mac -> More Info -> Storage it looks like I'm using a solid 230 GB. This is on a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina, OS X 10.9.2. I suspect the problem may be with mobile backups (I'm not hooked up to an external hard disk for backups). I've tried, several times, running sudo tmutil disablelocal but that doesn't appear to fix the problem. Here is the output of df -h after disabling local backups /dev/disk1 233G 212G 21G 92% / After re-enabling: /dev/disk1 233G 212G 21G 92% / localhost:/ebh4eOBPvo122KL1TUyqlO 233G 233G 0 100% /Volumes/MobileBackups Output of ls -l /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyComputerName total 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 16 17:55 2014-07-16-175518 lrwxrwxrwx 0 root wheel 0 Jul 16 17:55 Latest -> 2014-07-16-175518 Output of sudo tmutil delete 2014-07-16-175518 Deleting: /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyCompute
I received an unsolicited email from Apple telling me that my Apple ID was changed. Before the email, my Apple ID was, let's say, 'myself'; after it is 'myself@gmail.com'. After this change I cannot update previously purchased apps on my iPad 2 (iOS 7.0.1). And I cannot see my old purchases in the App Store.
Do the late 2013 models (13" - (ME864, ME865, ME866), 15" - (ME293, ME294)) support RAM upgrades?
I used redsn0w to jail break after upgrading to iOS 6.1.6 via iTunes. Now it shows "No service" with or without the SIM. How do I resolve this?
My iMac has slowed waaaaaay down to the point where even just running a browser feels like running a marathon or locks up my machine completely. I'd like to do a fresh install of OSX, but I've lost track of about 90% of my software keys for things like Office, the Creative Suite etc... Is it possible to do a fresh install of OSX Mav without losing my Applications? Cheers!
How can the virtual keyboard be enabled at the login screen? On Windows it is really easy, but I haven't found to way of enabling it on a Mac.
I had a minor problem with my iPhone so I decided to restore from the most recent iCloud backup. I assumed it worked much like system restore on my laptop. After resetting the phone and following the instructions, I began the restore from a backup less than 12 hours old. I got a message saying that there was a problem with the backup and I should choose another source. I attempted backups from all three most recent backups and got the same message. Is there anything besides a corrupted backup file that would cause this? I do have an iTunes backup but I haven't been as diligent about those since I thought that the iCloud backup was reliable. So if I restore to the iTunes backup I'll lose some data that I really don't want to lose (ideas, work notes, etc.) Thoughts? Suggestions?
I want to give an itunes movie to a friend but can I use the credit I have on my iTunes gift card?
Did you check "Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections"? Add all those to the list, too.
I am trying to figure out a way to be able to right-click on an .epub file and convert it to a .mobi file. Currently (thanks to calibre command tools) I can to the following within the terminal So the fist file name test.epub is the original, existing file, and the second file name test.mobi is that it will be converted to. Is it possible to create a service from automator which could allow we to right-click on the original test.mobi file and then just convert it? Thanks
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
This is a very basic question, as I am a newbie on Unix systems. I have installed latex2rtf following the OS X specific instructions. As I do not have root rights (university computer), I installed Xcode to modify the Makefile:
I'm just getting into using number of cheap server racks. I look into rack consoles and they look pricey for this particular work I'm doing. Do you know if I can turn my old MacBook Pro (early 2011) into one?
What is this icon in OS X menu bar and how do you remove it?
In the finder context menu, there is a list of services at the very bottom. Once this list grows beyond 4, it becomes a submenu instead. Is there a way to affect this threshold, i. e. have five services showing on the first menu level?
I want to setup a Mac Mini Server with the following configuration. The Mac Mini server has 2*1TB HDDs. I want to do the following: Setup the server Create a backup of the system on an external drive with Time Machine Create RAID1 with the two internal disks, according to this Link the disks should be empty then Then I want to restore the backup created in step 2 on the RAID1 Backup all future data on the RAID1 system on the external drive
I am attempting to obtain a list of applications on my Mac using find to search for *.app. However, when running the command, I get a lot of Permission denied messages, as below.
Recently, I purchased a new MacBook and I wanted to transfer files from the old one to the new one. I used Time Machine to back up all my files from the old Mac. Is it possible to retrieve not the entire disk, but a single file or a single folder from that back-up Time Machine to a new Mac?
I'm moving over my old macbook computer to a 2010 macbook air, I replaced the hard drive in the macbook air prior to this so there is nothing on the hard drive that is currently in my macbook air. I have my hard drive with everything on as an external drive and I am attempting to boot from that drive so I can copy all my files over. However when I boot from it I get stuck on a screen (first) asking for wifi (there is no exit or skip to this screen it is part of the start up) when I select my wifi and enter my password it brings me back to the screen I was previously on asking for my wifi. I have tried booting via a snow lion software cd but I still have the same problem. Is there any way to bypass this screen??
All of my calendars are on iCloud (synched to Outlook 2013 on Win7, and on my iPad and iPhone). At least most of the time (possibly every time) I receive an .ics meeting invitation, the time is incorrect. This seems to be exclusively tied to time zone differences, but makes no sense.
Imagine that I have two files of the same name in two different folders. Now, one of them is opened and I am not sure which one is that. How to find it? I tried "save as" option and that is not helping me much. I am using OS X Mavericks.
I am working on iMovie 10 on Mavericks. I am creating a movie that has a video. At times during the video I overlay sets of pictures. I can transition nicely into the picture sets but I cannot seem to find a way use transitions between pictures in the sets. I try to drag transitions down to the pictures which are on top of the video but it iMovie won't let me do this. I would like to have nicer transitions between my pictures.
I wrote the following very simple script: route -n add 192.168.0.0/20 192.168.224.1 route -n delete 0.0.0.0 route -n add 0.0.0.0 172.20.10.1 And would like to just double click it and you know... run it... on windows 8 i would just have to save as a .bat and right click it-> run as admin... How can i achieve similar behavior in mac osx (latest version)? Extra points if i can just double click it (cut the run under elevated mode)
I've just run some commands and have several pages of output in iTerm2. Now I'd like to save it somewhere. (I could have piped it to a file, but I didn't think of that.) Is there an easier way to copy it all to the clipboard that by scrolling back and highlighting for pages?
The text cursor, or caret, is normally in the visible form in applications at the start of its display cycle. It then goes to the flashing sequence once you stop moving it with arrow keys or typing. However, in Word 2011 I'm constantly frustrated because the cursor disappears, or defaults to the invisible state of the flashing sequence, while I'm typing or moving it. This makes it painfully difficult to edit text without using the mouse. As I write this post and keep going back to word I'm noticing that it seems erratic as to what behavior it's acting. I think that it stays in whichever state it was last in, which 50% of the time is invisible.
Do you know if there are any features included in NeoOffice from AppStore but not included in the free version? I suppose not, because as OpenOffice is free software, NeoOffice must be too, so they should release their full work for free.
Before updating to 10.9 I frequently deleted all the small files some apps leave behing by searching for invisible system files. Now it doesn't seem to work, I can navigate to the file manually just fine, but it doesn't show up in the search. Is there a way to index Library?
My Macbook pro OS X 10.8.5 headphone jack seems to work - like it knows when I plug in the headphones - but it only plays out of the right side. I've adjusted the balance in settings but the left side stays silent. I've tried many different headphones and its always the same. Any suggestions?
I have a 13-inch Mid 2012 Macbook Air running 10.9.3. I usually run with the lid closed plugging into 2 Apple cinema displays. Everything works great, except when I accidentally bump the power cable, at which point it goes to sleep.
My hard drive died on Computer 1. Backed up to Time Machine. Am now using Computer 2. I need some files from the desktop of Computer 1. Can I access them on Time Machine? How? I have three computers all backing up to that time machine, but all I can see is the backups for Computer 2. How do I find Computer 1?
I have moved overseas and need to change my apple ID country. How can I cancel passes I still have open?
If I use photo stream and later plug my iPhone into the computer. Will I end up with a bunch of duplicates? Or will it import from my phone only any photos that weren't previously uploaded, for whatever reason, via photo stream?
I recently upgraded my mac Mavericks at the same time as I swapped the hard drive for a new, larger capacity one, making for a fresh install (i.e. not an upgrade of the software). I kept the old hard drive, mounted it into an external caddy, and I am now trying to recover my files.
I bought a second hand appletv. My main concern now is my privacy.
I have a Mac with bootcamp and unfortunately i see myself using bootcamp far too often because I'm a developer and VS2013+SqlServer is way too demanding for my 8gb ram... but i use iTunes a lot... so i was thinking, if i create a Fat32 partition and put my iTunes folder there so i can point both my OSX iTunes and my windows iTunes and be able to not only read but write (app updates, new songs, etc...) will it work?!? or maybe the folder structure is different or something like that?!?
I restored my iphone 4s from a 1/2/2013 backup. Looks like I lost everything that was current like texts. Can I get it back to the state it was in before I restored it from that 2013 backup?
OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 on an MBP I cannot authenticate to any social network from the "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences, usually the response is: "Unable to verify account name or password" (I have checked these credentials at the websites for the appropriate networks) Here is an example result from the system.log:
So I bought my iPod from someone, and their iCloud account is still on here, which means the pictures I take and everything, they can see. I just noticed this and I tried to delete it, but it asks me to put in a password to turn off "find my iphone" and I do not have that password because it is someone else's iCloud account.
I'm trying to load some of my son's favourites videos on his iPad (7.0.4). When I plug the iPad on my Linux Box (mint 17), the iPad folders are automatically mounted in read and write mode. So no problem to transfer the files on the iPad.
My iPhone 4 doesn't turn on unless it's plugged in. When it is plugged in, it briefly shows the Apple logo and then shows my lock screen. Where it should say Verizon and show how much signal I have, it only says searching. It also says my percentage is at 100% but I know it's really somewhere around 30-40% because that's how much charge it had before it turned off on me. Also, when I try turning on the wifi it tells me that the wifi networks are not available, but I have the wifi working at home. What does this mean, or what should I do?
My work exchange account forces me to use an unlock/passcode on my iphone. Is there any way to disable this?
I have been measuring my primary disk I/O with the following command : dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048k of=/Volumes/Toshiba/tstfile count=1024 2>&1 | grep > sec | awk '{print $1 / 1024 / 1024 / $5, "MB/sec" }' This test is obviously for a write operation, read can easily be measured as well. Both read and write give a speed of about 28MB/s which seems pretty poor, despite the age of my mac mini (2GHz core 2 duo). Furthermore, a 1TB usb 3 drive from last year gives the same performance, below 30MB/s always. I have tried changing the file size from 1MB to 500MB, results are consistent. Since both drives behave the same, i suspect a bottleneck somewhere else in the hardware or the software. What are the suggestions to investigate further? Thanks Nick
Ok so I updated and I restored my iPod so everything about cydia on my ipod will be erased? If I go to an airport will they be able to tell that my iPod was jailbroken?
Is it possible to get 'folders on top' on the desktop (too) by any plist file hack or third-party app? My desktop (OS X Mavericks) is a bit cluttered and I've already sorted them on kind, but all .AI, .PSD, .INDD, .PNG, .JPG, .HTML files come first. I'm already able to sort them on top in Finder, via a third-party addon for Finder, but I need it even more on my desktop.
I use the Messages application a lot on my Mac Book Pro. It is lovely! Since most of my friends uses iMessage I could send messages directly to them on their phones.
Confusion has arisen due to my prior installation/update of Mavericks over one of my backup clones connected via firewire 800 - which is a doggy old IDE drive in an ancient icecube enclosure, and it works really well!!
Is it possible to have a program starting automatically when I connect to a specific router, and having it stop when I disconnect from this router? Basically I want a program to run while I'm at work (flexible hours, so I can't just have some sort of timer function) but not when I'm at home - or somewhere else. I'm running: Macbook air OS X Version 10.9.4
I did something silly. I replaced the trackpad in my MacBook Pro 15" mid-2012. It (for some reason) involved taking the motherboard out (via iFixIt's instructions). Everything works now, except the sound.
I hadn't used my iPad in some time, and recently tried powering it back on. As soon as iOS starts up, I am prompted to enter my iCloud password. My home WiFi network has changed since the last time I used the iPad, so there is no internet access. The iPad won't accept what I believe to be the password for my Apple ID the last time I used it (I have since changed it, but imagine it's expecting me to enter a cached password since the device hasn't been in contact with Apple's servers in some time).
How can I add numbers to pages in pdf document? Is there a free software for this? I found in google only full version of Adobe Acrobat, which can make it. This works, but I need to add number in right corner for each odd page and in left corner for each even page.
I'm attempting to load Windows 7 onto an external hard drive in order to boot from the hard drive whenever I play games. I originally split my internal drive to make a Mac OS side and a Windows side, but both sides quickly ran out of room and performance suffered.
What is the reason for the /private directory structure located at the root of an OSX system volume? Why are /etc, /tmp, and /var symlinks to subdirectories of /private?
I've a MacBook Pro and Mavericks. My browsers are blocked by ramsonware. It asks 100 $/Euro and says that your computer is blocked by the Italian cops and constantly redirects you to a fake page.
When I try to change my location for the App Store, it wint load. i go to fetured, my apple id thing, put in my password and everything, but when i click on the country/region button to change it, the page won't load. I have a working Internet connection.
In a particularly 'pesky' website, a dialog box pops up to block (or cover) automated entry of the userid input box. I have used the following code attempting to get a reference & to close this window, but have been unsuccessful. What else is available to find and close that alert box? Edit: The key code 36 will sometimes close the alert, and other times, when it's not present, will submit the page too early.
I'd like to create a new Favorites folder item in the Finder, how can I tell the Finder that I would like a particular folder to appear in my list of Favorites shown on the left hand sidebar of the Finder window and in dialogs to open a file in an application? I expected to find this in the Finder's Preferences, but the Sidebar tab of the preferences only allows you to toggle the visibility of your existing Favorites, not add new ones. I see that applications like DropBox are able to extend this Sidebar, so what about an end user, how can I extend it?
I updated my phone and It updated everything expect my camera. I'm not sure if my phone just isn't compatable with it because it's not an S it's just a 4. The only camera options I have is video, photo, an square. All my othe friends iphone have those and other photo optiin and they have three little colors at the bottom of the screen on the right side. Please help I need to know if my iphone just isn't able to have it like it's the wrong version or generation or if something just went wrong when updating it.
My home network is same and so is the setting, I been using it for months my net connection but today my mother iPhone and my iPhone couldn't connect to home wifi. But my iPad is working fine. I didn't change any setting in iPhone, when I try to connect, it shows busy icon and that's it. What can be wrong?
I have a few videos that previously played fine, and now they play the sound but have no picture (on both iTunes and QT). The only thing that I did was to use MetaX to modify the meta data. The file size is still the same size. I've looked at the QT inspector, and have attached it here. Any thoughts on how to get the video to play? Thanks!
l accidentally did the reset statistics button on my phone and now my phone is all out of whack. What can I do to restore it back to its normal function?
This is probably a really stupid question, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. I want to use the pixel tool in Pixelmator, but I can't find it. Below is a picture of my toolbar. Is there something I'm missing?
My sister transferred her Clash of Clans to her new iPhone. Now I have the old iPhone. I want to download and play Clash of Clans. Will her Clash of Clans be deleted from her new phone if I delete her Clash of Clans on the old phone?
The iPhone keyboard has support for typing characters like ¿ by selecting a similar character on the keyboard and holding the key for a short time. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to type a ~ character (a tilde). How does one do that?
I have a 16gb iPad 2. Most of the space is taken up by games and it's hard figuring out what games I want to remove to open up space. Is there a way to transfer the games wirelessly to an external hard drive? I know on Android, you can transfer games to a micro sd card. Not sure if it's possible on an iOS device.
My Mom's iPhone used to be synced to my computer, a Mac. She recently got a new computer, a Windows laptop, so I set that up for her. I did a sync to the Windows laptop and that seems to work fine except that none of the existing music was deleted. I.E. We want it to be deleted. When I try and sync all her music on the laptop, it complained that there was not enough space even though her entire library is less than half the phone's capacity.
ok so if I have this right milli Amp hour= mAh, Whr = Watt hour, and v = Volt is charge capacity? Where is potential discharge or work capacity and V is the rate at which the "work" is being done?
I want to keep my laptop tethered to my phone's connection and was wondering if it is safe to keep emitting the personal hotspot wifi signal all day and anywhere I go (underground station, work, busy streets etc). Or would that have a risk of intrusion ? My personal hotspot is password protected.
A kid tampered with System Preferences on my Mac Air running Lion, and now, none of the top-row keyboard buttons work. For instance, altering screen brightness, toggling the dashboard, and altering volume don't work.
I accidentally removed my Time Machine backup without ejecting. It didn't show up in Finder after I plugged it back in and Disk Utility cannot repair it. Disk Utility recommends reformatting the disk, but I want to make sure I'm doing it right. I don't really care about restoring the files because they are just old backups of my stuff (I only need a backup that works!)
I open Terminal, type killall Finder, press enter to execute, then Finder icon bounces and the well known error popup appears: I have absolutely no idea why!
My friend had his MacBook stolen from his house but he didn't have a password on his MacBook so if the thief logged out of his iCloud can it still be tracked since he already put a lock on it? If he deletes the iCloud account while the MacBook isn't connected to Wi-Fi can he still track it if the MacBook connects to Wi-Fi?
when I delete email on my email client, these email remain on my iphone. How do I get the iphone to have the same email as the server?
There are about nine thousand apps that will allow me to use my iPhone to control my Mac over wifi. I just moved, and I don't have an internet connection in the new place yet. Additionally, I can't tether with my iPhone's connection (thanks to my carrier's rules).
Currently I am using a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.8.5 & I just notice that there is no "wifi option" in this Machine. Because, to make that back in Desktop menu bar I go to: Preference >> Network >> click "+" button from the left list >> and in the interface section But, I found nothing named "wifi"!
I bought an iPhone 4 online and I'm trying to get my mp3s onto it. I downloaded iTunes on my PC and got them on there, but now I can't get the phone to find the music. I click on Music and it just says that it's empty and you can download music from the store. I'm new to apple product and to smart phones all together (I know I'm late don't judge me.) Please help.
I've downloaded Tumblr on to my iPad 2 and the button in the App Store now shows OPEN.  But when I tap the 'OPEN' button, nothing appears (it's just the same!)
I have a Freeagent GoFlex Drive hooked up to my BTHomeHub3 router. My Desktop PC is backing up to it fine but I'm having troubles with Time Machine. My Mac can mount the drive perfectly fine and use it but it won't show up in time machine's list of disks. I've enabled showing unsupported volumes on my Mac to try and make it appear but it won't appear. Any ideas how I can get it to show up in Time Machine?
I want to create a network in my room with my mac. I have low wifi signal in my room and my ipad cannot detect it but my mac can. However, I am using a retina mac and thus cannot connect the ethernet cable. Is there any way that I could partition my air port to create a network while connected to my home wifi? FYI I am using a late 2013 retina macbook pro with the OS X mavericks
I am trying to remove the following Terminal error message: I recently uninstalled RVM (Ruby Version Manager) from my MacBook Air. The terminal error appeared after I finished the RVM uninstall. The error appears every time I launch Terminal. My troubleshooting so far (seaching google etc.) lead to suggestions to modify my bash files. I have checked the two files listed below and found nothing pointing to "/etc/profile.d/rvm.sh" ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile
I can open a file in emacs with this command: But when I apply the same command to multiple files
I've begun downloading LaTeX and the download is 2GB. My MacBook Air has a 4GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 memory and a 1.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor. Will this large download have any impact of the long-term performance of my laptop considerably?
There are several articles here that address this question, but none offer the help to connect-the-dots. The attached screen shot shot shows Accessibility Inspector for the button in question, which answers to 'process java'. It also shows the properties of the window (bottom) and 2 code strings to have AppleScript press the continue button. These are:
But I'd like to learn if there is a way to replace characters conditionally. I've been googling with: "terminal bulk replace character conditional" "unix batch file name conditional"
I used nmap to portscan my iPod Touch, and found a single port open, which was port 62078, labeled as "iphone-sync". I did some research, and found that the proccess behind it was a program called "lockdownd" which could be used to interface with the iPod. I was wondering if and how I could use this to interface with and possibly control my iPod.
I use iBook author for my school projects and need to collaborate with my group members. Is there any way we can do so like using icloud or google drive? It will be very helpful if it can display who's typing what in real time like google drive/ icould. Thanks
Is there an app in cydia or just anyway to replace the normal interface(having to tap icons in order to open) with a terminal. Im using mobileterminal but its just an app. Im looking to replace it all with a log screen.
How do I create a theme for keynote? I know how to install a theme, and I want to create my own theme. I can create the images my self. Is there any app or anything to do so?
A number of sources confirm that AppleCare can be bought any time during warranty and even in a different country. In my country (South Africa) apple care is not officially supported, the resellers here say that you have to buy their warranty that only covers you locally. However, I plan to travel with my macbook.
Is there any apps for making geometric shapes (math)? I need to make shapes like rhombus and equilateral triangles. I have already posted this in the math forum, but I think this is more related to apple.
I use Stickies very much, and some of them are very lengthy and important to me. Suddenly I lost a sticky which contained crucial information I need to recover. I don't know why it doesn't appear anymore since I don't remember closing it without saving.
Is there some way to get the Maps app in OS X Mavericks to show a specific known latitude/longitude expressed in numbers only? If so, what's the syntax?
I'm wondering if there is a fan in Apple's Airport Extreme wireless router so that I can plan for a low noise environment. Is there any source measuring the noise from this part or documenting the internal construction? http://store.apple.com/us/product/ME918/airport-extreme
My iPhone 4 has stopped being able to be charged. I have tried two different cords and have tried plugging it into my computer, but nothing works. There is not an Apple Store close. What are some things that I should try?
I installed battle.net a long time ago. Every now and then I use spotlight to invoke it by pressing ⌘ + space and I start typing "battle" every time, the top hit is "Battle.net Beta Setup". I do not want to invoke the beta setup, in fact, I am not aware of the existence of these files on my computer, not sure how to search for them except by using spotlight, but there doesn't seem to be a way to find out where they are, and I am reluctant to click on them in case it starts up a setup program and interferes with my existing installations.
Relevant harware and software: 27" iMac (earliest version) 27" iMac (earliest version) OS X 10.9.4 (latest version) OS X 10.9.4 (latest version) iPhone 5s (brand new) iPhone 5s (brand new) iOS 7.1.2 (latest version) iOS 7.1.2 (latest version) iTunes 11.3 (54) (latest version) iTunes 11.3 (54) (latest version) Note: I have no back up of any previous phone, because I wanted a completely clean installation and configuration to try to avoid problems I had with earlier iPhones. I have a new iPhone 5s, I plugged into my computer, opened iTunes, configured it, selected everything I wanted to sync to it from my iMac and proceeded to sync it.
Recently I was attempting to install some new software for a user. I followed these instructions to create a new admin-level account but when I held down cmd+S while booting it still booted into the regular login GUI, rather than into Single User Mode. The user doesn't have Open Firmware Password Protection installed -- what other reasons could there be for cmd+S not working?
But the problem is, the libraries are not beeing loaded, the correspondent sections in phpinfo() are missing. I have tried to: Restart apache Comment out "extension_dir" Use "zend_extension" instead of "extension" Specify the full path to the .so files
I'm having trouble using the 3g network I do believe it was a day or so after apple software update 7.1.2 IOS. I can use wifi but not 3G network for some reason. So I did all of the stuff people were saying reset the phone. So did and then I even did the airplane mode on and off, then shut off the phone. Nothing seems to work. When I'm at work I have no Wifi and resetting the phone over and over has me extremely frustrated.
I am trying to grab some old GarageBand project files from my live Time Machine backup that lives on an external drive that was formatted by Time Machine, and move them to my main desktop drive. I can see three kinds of .band files in my Time Machine files, which I am guessing represent three different versions of GarageBand over the years. I select a backup from fairly far back, like 2012, search for .band files in it, see a bunch of project files with different icons, ranging from the little guitar that GarageBand itself uses (I think these are the oldest projects), to a light gray rectangle (the medium-oldest), to a dark gray rectangle (the most recent projects).
My Mac at home is asleep, but it sometimes wakes up for various reasons, and I want to connect to it via AFP once it's awake so it will stay awake and let me access files. When I do an AFP connection in Finder with shift+cmd+k, it times out after about 30 seconds. Is there a way to disable the timeout so I can let it keep trying until it can connect?
Our voicemail system sends our messages to us via email as mp3 files. When I download the file, it comes down as "message.mp3", but of course OSX will rename them "Message (x).mp3" when you have more than 1. What I want to do is create a script/task that will automatically delete them everyday (or whatever I choose) as long as they're more than a couple days old.
Anyway, I did clear the Flash data in the System Prefs. To no avail.
I have an iPhone that is configured for Activesync and has been working fine. Over the weekend I was completely offline and while my iPhone was not connected to the internet I deleted around 450 email messages from the iPhone inbox. Around 18 hours later I was back in cell phone range, the iPhone synchronized my new email messages, all looked good.
I have a macbook retina late 2013 and a PC on the same LAN (yes, a regular wired connection). When using Microsoft Remote Desktop i can connect to my pc, but the quality is terrible and it disconnects all the time... How can i troubleshoot this scenario?!? Extra Info: Avg ping between the machines is LESS than 1 ms (0.8 ms) There's no package lost (ping wise) The wired connection is giga scale Until last friday, everything was working perfectly I'm using a original ethernet to thunderbolt adapter The pc is Windows server 2012 (not R2)
When you do a movie recording or screen recording, QuickTime stores the in-progress recordings in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information. On my machine, I have a fast SSD mounted on /Volumes/SSD but a slow platter drive on /. I'd like to send the autosave files to the SSD. With professional programs like Premiere, you can just set the scratch location, but with QuickTime it seems impossible. However, I really like QuickTime's screen recording feature and would like to use it with my fast SSD. I tried to ln -s the Autosave directory to point at my SSD, but QuickTime errors out with an "unknown" error after that.
Yesterday I received a call from a strange number: +7 (987) 753-20-26 via FaceTime and FaceTime Audio to my ipad and iphone simultaneously. I did not answer because I didn't recognize the number, but each time my face was visible (as though I was on a call). I had a repairman at the house and as soon as his face was the one that was visible the calls stopped. There were 15 calls, rapid fire, one after the other often at the same time on each device. It sort of creeped me out, but then I wondered if our system could have been hacked. Again, it is an unknown number.
Just today-yesterday I started to see the following text almost on each second page I open in Safari. How to disable this?
Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? I don't need fancy features, fan control, etc. Just temperatures are fine. All of the ones I've found in the App Store and elsewhere are paid, and the only free ones I've found don't work with new machines.
I just recently upgraded to mavericks and I'm having an issue when using applications that have pallets. For example, I'll use OmniGraph. I have my graph window on my main display and the Stencil pallet on my second display. When I switch to another application and then back to OmniGraph my stencil pallet will be on my main display covering my graph. On apps with many pallets this will be particularly annoying because they'll all be stacked on the main display. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks!
Inside my iPhoto library, there are many files and directories. Inside the Database folder: What parts of iPhoto are these files and directories responsible for?
Xcode's code autocompletion is quite good, I am missing one thing though: in vim I can press ctrl+n to autocomplete any word, even those in the comment. Here is a screenshot from xcode to show what I mean:
About six months ago, my Macbook Air started having a strange issue where it would often not be able to find the startup disk, giving me the flashing question mark. Initially, I was convinced the hard drive (ssd) was dead. If I booted from a recovery USB, disk utility would not even find the drive. However, for whatever reason and luck, restarting the computer eventually fixed it; the startup disk would be found and the computer would boot up with no problem. I then checked the disk with a few utilities, none of which found any problems. But, if I turned off the computer, again it would most likely not find the startup drive. I would say it finds the startup drive about ten percent of the time. So if the computer restarts, then I might be rebooting it a dozen times before it boots up. Another thing is that if the computer has booted up, if I put it to sleep, it will not wake up; or it tries to but then it freezes. So that necessitates another round of restarts hoping it will boot. So I
I have a Pioneer T1809 car stereo with aux adapter for Ipod/phone. It will work with my friends Iphone 4 but will only charge my Iphone 5.. No music.. It doesnt recognize it as being hooked up. Will I need to get a new cable or a new adapter for the existing cable. I had to use an adapter to hook it up to the 5 obviously, do I have the wrong one or do I need an entirely new cable.
I've found other forum threads that suggest using a different adapter (e.g. DVI instead of VGA), but given that I've always used this display at 1680x1050 with the same adapter, I know it works...
I frequently prefer to boot into the command line mode (CMD + S on boot) instead of booting to the normal GUI-imposed version. I do most of my work in the terminal, so it's nice to save some time and bypass all the unnecessary UI.
I have a Macbook air 2011 /4g/ 11" , I format my hdd from disk utility and now I want to access to startup menu to reinstall it, I try that with holding option key and it just show me the internet recovery, my internet speed is very low, after about 8 hours it's show me the start up menu finally and ask me to reinstall the lion 1.7 so on that time because of some issues I just turn my macbook off because I think everything downloaded, Now, again when i turn it on for continue the installing process it's show me again the internet recovery and want to download from internet again How can I access to the downloaded data and continue the installation (command+r and option key again get me directly to Internet Recovery)?
I am looking at using the POSIX path to delete the contents of a particular folder on users computers but it must be performed as a particular user. I can deploy the script silently from my side using LanRev (Absolute Manage) so the user won't see the password. In my scenario below, I am trying to execute the script specifying the user as "secretAdmin" and the password will be "secretPass123". The system would be deleting the contents of the folder ~/Library/Keychains/
I recently had to (hurriedly) back up data on an older Macbook before migrating it to a new one. Since all I had at my disposal was a large FAT32 formatted drive, I used that and a manual copy. I've since used rsync to put it back on a (non-journaled) HFS+ drive (under Ubuntu).
For example: $ ls -lsa 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 denis 404 Jul 16 18:36 pgadmin.log For example: cmd+click on pgadmin.log cmd+click on pgadmin.log Sublime opens pgadmin.log (if path is 'pgadmin.log:12', it opens it and sets cursor to 12th line). Sublime opens pgadmin.log (if path is 'pgadmin.log:12', it opens it and sets cursor to 12th line). How to change the App, which opens the file?
Under places in the Facebook app for iPad, I no longer get a mapview as it should be, but rather a listview of the places I have visited. Any tips?
I just got this old iphone4 from my aunt a few days ago and it is locked to AT&T... it has already been updated to the latest version 7.1.2 and has never been jailbroken. I have read that the only baseband that can be software unlocked is the 1.59 baseband... What i would like to ask is if it's possible to edit the iOS7.1.2 IPSW file and make it install the 1.59 baseband instead of the current 4.12.09. I was thinking of something like copying some file from the iOS4.0 IPSW file and replacing a coresponding file on the newer IPSW. I have absolutely no idea behind the engineering of these things, so I apologize if I come off as a noob.
I'd like to know whether there is an app or a service which allows bulk downloading of PDF files from a site page. More generally, is there an app that allows bulk downloading to iPad given a string pattern, like the file name or the file extension?
The MacBook Air 11'' (Mid 2012) I am currently using has a fairly loud cooling fan. It doesn't help that it's on most of the time. Are the cooling fans in more recent MacBook Airs and Retinas significantly quieter?
Coming from Linux I am really missing the good old gmrun -- a run dialog which recognizes your $PATH and allows you to execute any script in it without needing to open up a terminal. It does the job and get out of the way immediately. I am wondering if I can make Alfred or spotlight do the same thing, or perhaps find another tool? I have tried Dterm, but it keeps asking me for accessibility permissions, which I have already granted.
is it possible, when using facetime, to increase the size of my own video frame? as in skype where I can set my own video frame in the main screen and my friend video as the little frame in the corner. I couldn't find an option for that, I can only move the little frame across the screen, but can't increase the size. thanks
I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of graphs based on a table. Instead of having a long list of graphs, is there a way to display these graphs all in the same space, but change between them?
Hey guys I tried to search google for this particular question but couldn't find a solution which fits my question. I'm trying to build an app which works only when VPN is configured properly. (The system-wide VPN toggle should be on because it's an internal network.)
I want to create a second a partition in my hard disk where one (about 900 GB) is used for Time Machine and another (100 GB) is used to store info like a thumb drive. I don't want any existing data to be lost. I know someone who partitioned his hard drive and it is now spoiled and not repairable. I have important info in this hard drive and this is my only one. For your info, I am using a retina MacBook Pro with Mavericks and want to repartition a WD My Passport for Mac hard disk.
Firewall is disabled. All settings are default, which usually means "automatically". Setting them manually or setting ipv6 address to "link-local" changes nothing.
Running the latest version of mavericks and iTunes and my library is about 6000+ songs. But after a few days of listening iTunes will prompt me to sign out and back in for match to work. Sometimes closing the app and opening it up again will avoid the issue. But typically after a week or two iTunes match will not work until I sign out and back in again. This typically solves the issue, Here is the console log when I open iTunes and its prompting me to sign into iTunes match again because there was "an error".
Does anyone know how Mail decide junk message, in addition to trusting spamassassin header? For example, if I mark a message as junk, what criteria does Mail create?
A friend of mine has a PowerBook running 10.6.9. To give it another lease of life, he'd like to install an SSD. Question is: does OS X on PPC have TRIM support?
When having multiple Mac machines running Highpoint RocketRaid controllers and the HPT Web RAID Management software v1.68, results in having multiple copies of an identical self-signed /usr/share/hpt/hptsvr.pem ssl server certificate. The result is that newer versions of Firefox - like v30 - are only able to open the first instance of such a self signed certificate, and access to each other copy - running on a different hostname - is blocked with this message: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial. The Apple Certificate Assistant located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Certificate Assistant.app fails to create a correct certificate for the Highpoint SSL web server.
I have a MacBook5,1 running 10.8, and an Asus VW246 monitor. I connected it to the monitor using a "MiniDisplayPort->DVI(f) adapter" + a "DVI(m)-DVI(m) cable". Now I've bought a single "MiniDisplayPort-HDMI cable", and while it works, now when the Mac goes to sleep, the monitor stays awake in a "HDMI no signal" state. Can I understand who's at fault: the Mac, the cable or the monitor? If it's the Mac, can this be worked-around somehow? If it's the cable, how can I make sure this won't happen with other cables? If it's the monitor I don't think there is anything to fix that, barring using DVI again. Side-notes: the only reason I switched to HDMI is that I wanted a single cable, no converters, and I found a cheap HDMI one the cable namely supports audio too, but apparently this isn't working with this monitor – I haven't tested it with other monitors, thought (I'm not sure if this can help, I'm writing it "just in case") the "HDMI no signal" state is the same as when there's no cable att
I have found many tutorials on how to rename some files using a "batch-renaming" type of workflow, but I have a different issue. I'm moving files one at a time into a folder, not all at once, so the Make Sequential block in Automator doesn't see it as "A1, A2, etc", but rather "another A1, so make it A1-1". In other words, it doesn't see the existing files inside the folder and therefore every time it restarts from the base number I set it to.
I use Preview frequently for the task of combining multiple PDFs. Typically, these PDFs are all created within a few minutes of one another, and when opening from the Finder, they all open in the same window, making it very easy to export a new PDF that includes all of the individual documents. However, I have noticed that if I add a PDF to this group of individual documents the next day, select them all, and open from the Finder, the the latest-added document will open in its own window while the rest open all in the same window. I know how to move the separate one into the other group, but I'm wondering if I can control how they are opened from the beginning.
I just got a Apple-refurbished mid-2013 13-inch Macbook Air. It's great -- except that the keyboard is noticeably noisier than my previous model from mid-2011. Specifically, they make more of a clicky sound, not when pressed, but just when you brush your fingers across them. It seems they are looser and make a sound when the keys move laterally within their slots and touch the metal. Is this by design for this model?
I have a (partially) broken drive which I will send in for replacement. I’d like to wipe the blocks that can still be read / written. I tried using diskutil with the Terminal command given below, but this seems to simply stop when it encounters any bad blocks (the progress bar gets to 1%, but then it stops, reporting “Input/output error”):
After a switch to a new router, I frequently experience that all sites fail to resolve under Mavericks 10.9.4 on MBA mid-2011, both with Safari, Chrome and pinging google.com. It lasts for variable time, from few seconds to several minutes. Same for wifi and Ethernet. However, during such outages: repeated pings to 8.8.8.8 works fine from OS X Terminal sites open fine in Windows under Parallels if network is set as "Bridged", doesn't work when network is set to "Shared" another Mac (MBP 2010) with OS X Mountain Lion resolves and opens sites just without a problem (checked by a script repeatedly pinging google.com) has the same problem as MBA iPhone connected to the same wifi resolves and opens sites just fine Switching back to my original router seems to solve the problem. How to debug and resolve the problem?
After creating an Apple ID in another location, I am forced to enter payment information in the iOS, Mac, and iTunes stores. Even when trying to purchase a Free app, I am forced to enter payment information, and the None option is not present. I am in the US.
Is it possible to enable and disable the Sharing features (ssh, file sharing, etc) based on the current network? For example, I want file sharing and SSH to be enabled on my trusted home network. However, I don't want these enabled when I am connected to untrusted public networks.
I can't seem to change the permissions (let alone delete) anything in directories like /usr/local (which I should be). My research has indicated that it's due to OSX automatically setting everything to be immutable. I was able to work through my problem by booting into single-user mode and remounting the partition with -uw. From there I was able to use chflags to remove the immutability.
I have two Macs that I am trying to stream AVB between. Both machines are running Mavericks and can see other AVB devices and stream with them. However when trying to stream from one Mac to another Mac it does not function. We have tried with an iMac, two Mac Mini, a Mac Book Pro, and a Mac Air.
I have an Epson Stylus NX625 that my family had been using from several Macs and Macbooks until recently. Now when we attempt to print the Mac reports "Looking for printer" for several minutes followed by "Printer not connected." The printer reports no error (it thinks it is properly connected to WiFi.) This problem started around the time I replaced my old Airport Extreme with a new 6th gen Airport Extreme (the tall one, with 802.11ac). My Macs can still print properly if I connect the printer directly via USB (it is normally configured for wireless printing.) I have updated the printer drivers and reset the printing system on each Mac.
I know that my US-based MacBook has NOAD as its dictionary reference. Do other parts of the world have the option of other built-in dictionaries? If so, is NOAD still the default? Does Great Britain have the option of the OED instead of NOAD, for instance?
Can somebody help me find this wallpaper (image taken from *=URL=* I've looked all over the internet but couldn't find it.
My 3 years old son made a accidental in app purchase around 270 pound. I tried refund my money to my account but couldnt do it.Please help me to refund my money because I cant afford to loose a money that way. Thanks.
I've looked for an answer to this but still haven't found one that works. I want to use my iPhone as my primary source of internet. I am currently an ATT Uverse DSL customer, but I want to cut the cord and use our current DSL modem/router, the one and only Motorola NVG510 for it's wireless signal only so that my wife and I can airplay from our phones to our Apple TV. Is it possible to use our Cell Data to stream a video and then airplay that streaming video to our Apple TV at the same time? *Using the iPhone as a hotspot is not an option.
I've seen various topics on how to iterate through multiple file extensions, but in most cases the list is defined. example:
NitroPDF is an excellent software for various kinds of formatting, merging and splitting of PDF files but it is available only for machines running windows OS. What are good alternatives for such softwares on machines running OS X ? The main pdf related features that I am looking for are :- Editing : Allows to edit a pdf Merging : Allows simple merging of multiple of pdf files into one Splitting : Splitting of an existing pdf into multiple pdf Print : Change a pdf from 1 page per side to a pdf of 4 (or more) pages per side. Highlighting : Allows to highlight a part of the pdf. I am not sure if the default pdf viewer Preview provides all these features.
I need to write a script that patches a few bytes at a particular offset in a binary file. I know of textual tools for this task (sed, though I find it utterly hard to use) but can't find one for binary patching. Are there any? If not installed by default, anything I can install with Homebrew would be acceptable as well.
This is obviously a common problem but even after following the 're-boot' advice I can't get rid of it. I can't sign in to iCloud because that e-mail address no longer exists and I can't receive the reset e-mail; the 'forgotten password' system rejects my password, my date of birth and my favourite band - all of which are well known to me. Can anyone help me, please?
How can I download png images from an xml feed that looks the following way? I was taking a look at this question on here about the same topic, except that I don't need to rename them, just download them. Being new to shell scripts, I'm not quite sure how to do this (although I can definitely do this in 2 minutes in objective-c). I have tried creating the following script and running bash myscript.sh
I'm afraid I'm not very wised up technically. I have taken pics on my ipad. They have synced to my pc, in the icloud photostream, where I can view them. I want to attach some of them to an email, using my normal email service. Can I do that?
is there any way to simulate a "Page Left/Right" functionality? With ⌃ Ctrl+↑ or ⌃ Ctrl+↓ (or fn+↑ or fn+↓ or any of the other various ways) I can scroll most Mac windows up or down "a page". However the behavior for left and right is very inconsistent or not present. I really would like to do the same for left and right directions.
So, I am going to buy a new iPhone 5 (not in an authorized apple store, since it's no longer sold there), but when I checked the serial number on the back of the box here, it said that the warranty has been expired. ("Check date" : 21 July 2014) At the end, I haven't bought it yet. So, my question is : "Is it possible for a new iPhone 5 to have an expired 1 year warranty?"
I discovered a number of strange entries in iCal on my iDevices which I didn't enter, and also were just on this device and neither my Mac nor the other device. After a little search I found that my iPhone has a calendar for German holidays and the iPad a calendar for Swiss holidays. This is rather strange as I live in Austria and haven't visited these countries since the time I got these devices (>2 years). These calendars are in the section where also birthdays are and can not be edited or deleted. They also don't show up on iCal on the mac. I also checked the timezone on the devices - but this is set to Vienna - Austria.
I just got a new MAC (my first one) and already screwed up something :P Basically I installed Xtrafinder, mainly to have the dual pane feature that I find quite essential. I launched Finder with the new add-on and the dual pane was there and working nicely. Afterwards, I decided that the list view is the one I love the most, and tried to get that as default view. I managed to find a solution using the command followed by
What applications can add a general autocomplete feature to all text fields in MacOS? There're text expanders, like the built-in one and TextExpander, but they don't suggest things while typing and do not learn from the previous input. iOS has both of these features, but I didn't find similar apps for MacOS.
So I restored my iPhone to factory defaults using iTunes. That didn't help immediately, but in a day or two, my conversations with other iPhone users went blue. So I am happy that works.
My Wifi connection is not stable enough to be able to download 5.3 Gb. Is it possible to download from a thumb-drive? Does the Apple store sell Mavericks on a thumb-drive?
Does anyone know how to bug test Mac Mail? Each time I open it, it starts to hog resources and shows thousands and thousands of "incoming mail messages". I certainly do not have any email arriving... I use IMAP accounts mostly with Google accounts and on Mavericks 10.0.3
I am experimenting with Twitter API. I now have emoji characters in Terminal.app. I don't know how to handle that. How to get rid of that or use it well? see screenshot
*=URL=* It said it is a 2gb Ddr3 1333 So-dimm, is iMac support all Ddr3 1333 So-dimm?
I'm trying to create an automator workflow that starts out by finding all symbolic links in a given directory. What's happening however is that even if I set it to return "all files", I end up with every single file except symbolic links. Automator seems to be unable to see them at all. Is there a way to get Automator to return symlinks (not aliases)?
I looked over a few of the RSS apps on the Mac, but they all seem to be "larger" that what I need. What I'm looking for is an app that checks certain feeds for articles matching a set of keywords, and then notifies me of a match.
I have a shared folder setup on a Mac Mini Server. It has permissions for our company group to read/write. When a mac user adds a file to the shared folder, it inherits the permissions of the folder and everyone can access it (yay!).
I'm looking for an iphone app that can CREATE powerpoints with normal functionality. There are many apps that can view powerpoints but not many that can create powerpoints. Office Mobile (Microsoft) can view and edit them, but not create powerpoints. Office2 Plus can create powerpoints but you gotta pay them to be able to save powerpoints. WPS office can create powerpoints. The problem is either you can't change the background color or I can't find it. I really thought that a basic feature of powerpoints. Does Prezi have an app for creating powerpoints? I would have thought there was one because they have cloud based office suites. http://prezi.com/index/2/
The used disk space reported in About My Mac is inconsistent (MacBook Air, mid 2012).  Notice that the used space for Apps is greater than my disk size. I tried different ways to fix it (Disk Utility, fsck command, etc.), but nothing helps. Any suggestions?
I have an old 2009 Macbook (white) and a 27" LED Cinema Display with a Mini DisplayPort cable. The Macbook only has a Mini DVI connector and I believe it's only single link (since it's not a Macbook Pro).
I can't seem to be able to get the Macally G-S350SUAB2 enclosure that my dad loaned me for development use to boot a copy of OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks which I installed using my dad's early- or late-2011 13.3-inch MacBook Pro (sorry, but I can't exactly remember which model it is…) from my family's mid-2007 24-inch iMac. Near the bottom of its eleventh page, the G-S350SUAB2's manual states that OS X should recognize any drive installed inside its chassis as long as it has been 'initialized.' I assume that 'initializing' the drive inside the enclosure would just mean formatting it.
I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mavericks. I have a "work" and a "personal" account that I switch between throughout the day using Fast User Switching. Sometimes when I switch accounts, the (built-in, only) display turns an awful, washed-out blue. I thought the behavior was random, but I've figured out how to reproduce it consistently. Have multiple accounts. Log into one account from the Login Window. Use Fast User Switching to switch to a different account that you're not already logged into.
Are there any Cardbus expresscards with USB 2.0 or 3.0 ports (one or more) that is compatible with the current Mac OS X (Mavericks 10.9.4)? This most likely mean the card has 64bit kernel drivers.
When trying to install software and prompted for username and password, button labels are missing as well as the stored username:
I was transferring stuff from a 4s to a 5s and accidentally deleted Clash of Clans off of Game Center. It is still stored on my old phone, but not in Game Center. Is there any way that I can transfer it? I have put a lot of time and some money into that game.
Does my Apple MacBook Pro have to have been previously connected to my wireless connection to connect it to that network to complete an internet recovery?
Similarly, does anyone know when apps built using Xcode 6 can be submitted to the App store?
I've tried Firebug Lite for Safari, but content wasn't editable. Is there an alternative to edit HTML, CSS, etc?
I need to send all my messages under a contacts name to an email. Is there a way to select all and then send to a given email?
When i do an update via the Settings app on the iPhone (because the computer i sync to iTune doesn't connect to the net) after the update is done Bluetooth is turned back on. because Updates can be months apart i keep forgetting this so when it comes back on i forget Bluetooth is turned back on and thus end up it having chew up more power. Is there a way i can prevent the iPhone from turning on Bluetooth after an update?
I have "Delete Played Episodes" turned OFF for all my podcasts, both on the iPhone AND in my PC iTunes. Whenever I finish playing an episode on the phone, the episode name remains visible but the audio content is deleted and a "cloud" icon appears next to the name.
i am using Audacity to (attempt to) record a skype conversation. I am using an external mic.
I thought there was a menu entry in iPhoto to subscribe to RSS feeds. I can't find it anymore. Is there still a way to do so in iPhoto 10 ?
(I'd like an HTTP API, but I'll take any API. It's 2014.)
I want to dual my Macbook with Mavericks 10.9.4 and Kali 1.0.8. I have downloaded the Kali .iso and "burnt" it to a USB stick using the dd command from in Terminal. I have partitioned my hard drive and left 50GB for Kali. I want to boot from the USB to install Kali (I'm pretty sure this is the way you are supposed to do it). However, when I hold down the option key at boot time and select the USB, my MacBook freezes. I have read stuff on google about grub. I am supposed to use that to make it boot? What do I need to do to have a dual boot Mac/Kali system?
I'm looking for a way to always display a label on Finder tabs instead of the current folder name, to differentiate them when folder name is not relevant. (Long story) I use tabs to switch between several projects which are in different folders. But when I'm not at the "root" folder of a project, the name of the Finder tab is not the one of the root folder project (but the subfolder name) and I can't quickly recognize where each project is. I'd like to attach a project name on each tab of the same window (above the window, in the toolbar, under the tab, or better, instead of the tab name).
I'm trying to install some drivers (Brother MFC9465CDN) that come pre-installed with OS X Mavericks (and lower) on another computer. Trouble is, when I type the IP of the printer on this second MacBook, it doesn't auto-detect the right software/drivers. Unfortunately, the manufacturers site is having issues when I tried to download them a few hours ago, but more importantly I'm looking for a fix as oppose to a work around on this.
I run MATLAB 2013a on Mavericks (10.9.4) but I encounter a problem while running a simulation using Simulink. Firstly, MATLAB runs slowly on my Mavericks compared to other Mavericks users. Secondly, CPU usage exceeds 100% while running my simulations.
I've already asked this question in the UNIx exchange but I was told to ask here also about AppleScripts if the standard shell does not work. I require a script that will open an application. Wait for it to exit, if the application exited gracefully (I.E: did not crash) relaunch it. Otherwise, keep the crash report open and exit the script. I'd like this script to run until I quit it manually. So far the following has been suggested:
I have a problem with iTunes (latest version) freezing when connected to my iPhone 5 (iOs 7.1.2) via USB. It connects with my elder MacBookPro, with that iTunes, but not on my iMac. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the cable since it connects very well with iPhoto so I guess something has been messed up in iTunes itself. What can I do to fix this, reinstall ITunes or is there any more easier fixes? I have reset the SyncServices but that didn't help and I have tried different cables too but the beach ball keeps coming back after each tryout (and freezes, not continues to work).
My friend is bringing back a new Macbook Air from abroad to the UK for me. New rules have been put in place to power up electronic devices in hand luggage as part of new security measures introduced at UK airports
I am puzzled by it for quite some while now. In $PROMPT_COMMAND of the bash in OS X, there is a command called update_terminal_cwd. I am sure it's not a bash built in, and most likely only exists in OS X. But I don't know what exactly it does. Anyone knows?
We are going to develop iOS application for enterprise. As I see we need take a part in Enterprise Developers Program. But there is a some points I want to clarify:
I am using iTerm2, but I wouldn't mind switching back to the original terminal for just this feature. I open hundreds of SSH tabs every day and often end up working after a while only working on 1 terminal and other SSH tabs don't really matter anymore. In the browser at least you have "closer other tabs", "close left tabs", "close right tabs". Is there any way to have a "close other tabs" in a Mac OS X terminal?
I need to check the path to a program -- I want to point to the binary, not to the ".app" which is a directory. How do I do this?
I just ran this command and saw that Safari was modified. My questions are: Is there any way to see what exactly was changed?
Similar to this question, that has been answered, I have an end user that wants to sort folders in a particular order that doesn't really match any of the basic sorting methods. She doesn't like the list view, instead preferring the column view, so that answer wouldn't really work for her.
I have a Macbook 13' i5 early 2011, with Windows 8 64 bits and recently I bought new RAM kit from Crucial (8gb). After I installed the hardware, the windows OS doesn't recognize all 8GB, like the printscreen attached shows. Does anybody knows why?
I'm trying to install GTK+3 on my Mac OSX 10.9 system to run a pyGObject project I've been developing in Ubuntu. It runs perfectly on Ubuntu, so I wanted to test cross-platform compatibility. I'm following the directions on wiki.gnome.org.
I authored a 1 page document of about 900 words, and an embedded image (a chart). Storing/exporting this document from Pages 5.2 causes the file to expand to 1.6 MB in size. However, opening and saving the same .doc file in MS Word gives me a file (.doc) of only 99 KB. Why is Pages so inefficient (some 16 times larger)?
I am trying to use AirPlay mirroring in a conference room-style setup using a 3rd-generation Apple TV. All software is fully-updated (as of 7/24/2014). All devices are connected to a strong network without any password.
It seems like the recent Mavericks update has broken the keystroke command in applescript -- whenever my script reaches that point, it freezes. (I currently have ~20 zombie osascript processes...) Furthermore, there isn't anything in the accessibility options to allow applescripts to automate keystrokes. This is my script currently. If there's a way to tell terminal to directly open a tab (or if iterm 2 can do that) that could also be a solution.
Is this a known bug? Is there anything on the network side we can do to resolve this issue? I am interested to hear if there is a config change on the Mac we can make to fix this, but it is not a solution, as we need to make as minimal a change to the users personal devices as possible. Thank you.
I'm using Charles to sniff out the traffic on my iPhone at Starbucks and for some reason it won't work with at&t wifi. Google Starbucks wifi does, however. I use my iPhone to connect to the same wifi network that my MacBook is connected to. Then, for the proxy settings on my phone, I enter my computer's local IP address and the port that I specified in the proxy settings on Charles. I'm aware that some wifi networks block certain ports, but even when I change the proxy settings on Charles so that it's dynamic and it finds an open port, it still doesn't work. Any ideas?
I have a few questions to ask regarding the parental controls. I have a MacBook Pro OS X version 10.9.4. and it was bought by my ex to help me with my medical schooling. We’re no longer together. And I’ve caught him logging into my emails somehow recently. Don’t know if he hacked into it or just came across my password.
I am looking for an note taking app with the following features: open source encryption Even better if it comes with: real/fake unlock key - two or more passkeys are allowed, each key unlocks different set of notes backup to iCloud/Desktop a desktop editor
Where is the gray Apple logo shown on system startup stored in OS X Mavericks? I'd like to change that image. I know there's BootXChanger that works on older versions of OS X, but it doesn't work on my Mavericks computer.
I am trying to make a program that records a live stream for a certain amount of time and then saves it on my desktop. This is what I have so far. TWiT Live Recorder (30 sec version)
So, first things first, my mac is a hackintosh so my issue may be some weird issue due to that. However, I was wondering if what I'm experiencing is signs of ssd failure. I have a 128gb ssd in the rig for the os, applications and active projects. Over the past 2 months the drive has been slowly losing free space. I first chalked it up to filling it with projects but all of a sudden it has 100gb used so I check how big my projects and applications are and they are 30gb. I know the os isn't 70gb so I was wondering if this may be a sign of a failing ssd or if it may be something else.
I am being offered an iPad at a really good price but the seller says he can't remember his iCloud information so the tablet is locked. Is there a way to get this corrected?
First I set up an ad-hoc network using my Mac and connect to it using my iPhone. Then I use the GoodReader app to run a server (this is a GoodReader feature) on my iPhone to which I can connect over my ad-hoc network by doing Go > Connect to Server... in Finder on my Mac. Once mounted, I can manipulate files in the GoodReader app storage just like a local folder on my Mac. From the Good Reader app I can then upload my files to Dropbox which syncs with my online storage and have access to the files online. What I Want:
I'm experimenting around with my computer and I realized that all the commands in the terminal that aren't bash builtins were stored in the /usr/bin. So I wanted to see (to confirm my realization) that they would not work in Terminal if they weren't there. So I copied bin to my desktop and deleted bin in usr. Sure enough, I was right. All the builtins still worked but things like 'say' didn't. Feeling content with myself for figuring out something about my computer, I promptly placed bin back in usr and check to see if 'say' was working to confirm no harm was done. It worked. Then some time later I need to use sudo for something and I get an error. I restarted my computer, hoping that would help. Now I can't even use Terminal anymore. When I boot it up it says:
On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:  is by default used to make the application full screen.
Image Capture doesn't recognize iPhone 4S. I'm using OS X Mavericks and iPhone 4S 64 GB with latest iOS 7.1.2
Does anyone else often get blurry images when taking photos with iPhone 5S? I just feel they are more frequent than on my iPhone 4 and was wondering if anyone else experienced the same.
I need to download an app from the iTunes store and have recently changed my Apple ID. I previously purchased this app with my old account and when I try to re-download it the iCloud symbol is the only option available. When I click on the iCloud icon, however, I cannot download it.
I wrote an sandbox specification file (inspired by files from /usr/share/sandbox and manuals like this) and now I can launch some app in sandbox with sandbox-exec $path_to_rules /Applications/$appname.app/Content/.... Fine. Is there a way to enforce the rules when the app is started in regular way (Finder's "Open with...", etc)? I thought about replacing the binary inside .app with wrapper script but it will be overwritten after app update and I will need to restore it every time.
Is there a way to access the call history on an iphone from a computer? My phone has a problem with the display that stops me from using it, it still turns on, but the screen only displays vertical bars, I can tap the screen and it seems to doing something, it makes various sounds that you would expect it to make when tapping the screen, i think i managed to unlock it, but I can't see what is going on.
After opening multiple terminal windows and running commands in them, it becomes difficult to send another command to a specific terminal window. How can we set an alias for each terminal window so we can specifically target it later? Heres a code snippet of what I am trying to do (apparently the code doesn't work)
I was downloading Clash of Clans. I clicked the download button and it did everything normal. But when it finished, the app never showed up on my iPod touch. So then, I decided to delete it and try again, but there was no deleting option that I could find. Can anyone help me?
On my Mac, I have some applications that were recently made in Java that I will be using quite alot. I want to know, is there a way that I can bind a shortcut on the keyboard to open the file?
I have an issue with Finders window sizes. I know that the Finder saves the window size per directory, which REALLY drives me nuts!
I'm trying to upgrade my Macbook pro late 2011's hard disk to an SSD from Corsair. I have inserted the USB stick with the OSX Mavericks installer, and everything went great: I made a GUID single partition table, and then erased the disk as Mac OS X Journaled. Then I clicked Install OSX Mavericks and selected the SSD. After 13 minutes, the blue bar is complete, and on top, it says: 'Preparing to install. Your computer will restart automatically.'. Below the blue bar, it says 'About a second remaining'. It's stuck on this state, with the mouse on the spinning wheel mode, for over a full hour. I'm really starting to worry. I looked online and found a guy with a similar problem, but he only waited for half an hour. What should I do? Thanks!
I am trying to develop iPhone apps on Windows 8. To do that, I might need an emulator to run certain IOS development programs.
Wireless networks listed in the dropdown menu from the menu bar have a quality indicator, shown by the number of "bars" in their icon (1-4). On my 2012 MacBook Pro, this indicator seems to be 3 bars even for networks that cannot be used because they are too distant. Even some 4 bar networks are unusable because of poor reception quality.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the iCloud tabs in Safari (7.0.5)? So far I have to click on the cloud button to view iCloud tabs.
My iPhone 5 with iOS 7 is using data for no reason. I have done everything I can think of to stop this. Turn off your wifi, then reset your cellular network statistics, let it sit for 5 minutes, then go back to the cellular pane in settings and see whats using the connection Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/22tqhd/what_is_the_spinning_wheel_next_to_the_wifi/
Today I was in Boot Camp Windows 7 creating a partition from some free space for Time Machine backups (I know this isn't the best way to store backups, but that's not the problem). I clicked to create a new simple volume and it said it was created as "TIMEMACHINE". Formatted as FAT32. Everything's going fine. Now, I restart my computer into Mac mode, and I find that the "Macintosh HD" option is completely gone.
I've written quite a few tunes with older versions of GarageBand, and I always use the MIDI editor / piano roll (or whatever that note-by-note editor is called) for creating drum tracks. In the older versions of GarageBand, there was a legitimate, real, snare drum roll. It was a plain old regular note in the MIDI editor, just like a regular snare hit or bass kick. But I can't find any such thing in GarageBand 10.0. When I google for how to make a drum roll, all I see is people cramming together regular snare hits, which sounds ugly and electronic to me. For an example of what I'm talking about, listen to my tune here, at about 2:40 and 2:45. I used rolls like these throughout the tune, but these two are longer and more noticeable. Does anyone know how to do this in GB 10.0?
I have done research on Ask Different to see if this has been posted and to the best of my knowledge nothing this specific. I reviewed this but that question is more general.
I'm in Mavericks. When using messages to chat with someone, I used to be able to press CTRL + CMD + SPACE and a little Emoji window would popup and I could choose from an Emoji or type the name of an Emoji to filter the window.
I lost my iPhone 5c in Gypsom, Colorado and am pretty sure it has 50% or more of battery remaining. How can i locate it?
I recently had an update done on my iPhone 4 at a local Verizon store because I don't have internet at home. My phone wasn't wanting to update but eventually did but they ordered me a replacement phone long story.
Using Mail.app, or exporting from same, is there a quick way to print all the emails from a single folder? I have about 50 email messages in a folder and I need to print a copy of each one. I know I could Open each email Print it Remove it from the tray (to conform it printing) Repeat 50 times
This is very annoying and makes me miss important email. After receiving an email, it's marked as read by the Mavericks Mail App. Anyone bumped into the same issue? Any ideas?
My iPad will not send an iMessage to 3 of my contacts. I have been iMessaging with them for years, they are family and all have iPhones and haven't changed anything with their carriers, usage, etc. All of a sudden I got the Not Delivered Message. Can anyone help me figure this out?
Does Safari in OS X have a keyboard shortcut to complete a URL in the same fashion that Chrome does? I'd like to be able to type in an incomplete address like askdifferent, press a key combo, and have Safari prefix it with www. and suffix with .com, and automatically navigate to that URL.
A little background, we have a lot of iMacs at my organization, different models. We have about 5 different servers running Deploy Studio.
I have set up Google sync on my all my devices as I use the iOS Chrome app. When using the Chrome app I click on 'other devices' and my iMac device name shows up as iMac-2. I was wondering if it's possible to somehow rename/change my iMac device name. I've tried unlinking my iMac and linking it back up again but nothing has worked so far. I know it's only a small issue but it's bugging me.
I am unable to dial out receive calls or text messages. How can I fix the problem? I've tried shutting it down waiting awhile then turning it back on and the phone still shows "searching".
I am looking to get a Retina MacBook Pro and I am really torn between the portability of the 13" dual core i7 and the four cores of the 15" quad core i7. The majority of my work will be done using a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion). For this reason no matter which machine I choose I will be going with an SSD and 16 GB RAM. Also, I'm not really concerned with price as I really want to get the best performance. Portability vs. performance is my biggest concern. This laptop will serve as my dedicated workstation.
I keep getting a verify certificate error whenever I add my Google Account. The domina is an old company I used to work at and I have removed all account in reference to that account. However I get the prompt to accept the certificate, I think, after adding my Google account. Again there is no reference to this account anywhere. I decided to check the logs and this is what I see. I've masked the actualy values with MY_OLD_COMPANY ETC. Any ideas how I could stop this from happening and remove any reference to this account? Again I don't have it setup ANYWHERE.
I've used 40 GB of space on my MacBook Pro, and I want to back it up. The only thing I have with enough space is my Dell laptop (500 GB). Is there any way I can back it up onto there? If so, how?
I am using a 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with Mavericks and a iPhone 5s with iOS 7. I want to record game tutorials. Where the game is running on my iOS device and I'm recording the tutorial via a screen capture of an AirPlay on my MacBook Pro. After searching apps from the App Store, I found that there is no apps to record your screen and the only way is through AirPlay on your Mac or Apple TV. Is there any free and legal way to do do?
I often end up in a situation where I connect via public Wi-Fi connection, and it's severely crippled (HTTP only, no SSH, no SMTP). I want to set up some kind of HTTP tunnel for all traffic in the system (OSX) and bypass the restriction. I have a bunch of Linux boxes on AWS that can host the server-side bit. What are my options?
Keynote has a really nice feature that I often use. If I (1) copy a shape, (2) paste it, (3) position the pasted item one centimetre to the right of the original (for example), and then (4) press CMD-V again, a new copy of the item will appear one centimetre to the right of the copy. This is great, because it makes it easy to make a nice line of copies with even spacing...
If I created a new album and placed the photos I wanted in it. If I delete them from photo stream & my camera roll will they be deleted from the new album as well?
My Mail app switches from my iCloud account to Gmail when sending an Email to a Gmail contact. How can I disable this?
I forgot the password to an old Yahoo account as well as the answers to my security questions. When I try to recover it using keychain, I only find a very long series of letters and numbers that is not the password (I would never come up with that, and even when I try to use it to open my account, it doesn't work). Now, I don't rely care about the account any more, but the funny thing is that I can still log in on Yahoo messenger from my Mac, which means that the password IS saved somewhere in the machine. Any idea how I can recover the password itself if it's not in the keychain?
Today I opened new Apple account for enrolling Apple Developer Program for iOS as an individual developer. I followed these steps Verify mail Go Developer menu Click to join iOS program Enroll now button
I was happily using PD 8.0 . Then I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 and now Parallels 8.0 does not work anymore. Did some search and looks like they have fixed it for Parallels 9.0 So I have to upgrade, Ok Fine. BUT is there is a way I can skip re-installing everything again on PD 9.0 and somehow copy whatever I have from 8.0 to 9.0 ?
Connecting with my pc/mac won't make it turn on. ( not enough power) I'm stuck at the activation screen due to the previous two points.
I would like to have AppleScript code like this: When it starts to speak text, it same time continues to row 3. I create my scripts in AppleScript Editor and i don't know enough about process control on OS X to understand backgrounding yet.
I see empty spaces in Finder on OS X 10.9.4, exactly as on the picture. What does it mean? The spaces are in between the other icons, not at the end of the listing.
I have Photo Stream set up and my pictures show up in iPhoto on my Mac. Do I have to import them to keep them permanently? How can I free up iCloud space?
when I updated iMovie back on July 7, I had an error where it kept continuously saying that I had an update, but what it kept doing was installing the same update over and over. At one point I had two iMovie updates going through with one installing and one downloading. Finally it quit, but I was now stuck with this phantom app that does not allow for me to get rid of. Holding option allows for the x to come up to delete, and you can make sure that you want to delete it, but after following the prompt it just sits there allowing for you to go through it again. I am wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of this because it is quite annoying to just see it hanging there. More info: Was on Mavericks when it happened, have moved to the 10.10 beta
On my mac I have Time Machine configured to backup to a Sparse Disk Image Bundle that is located on my Raspberry pi, which it connects to over SMB and mounts on boot. As long as the mac is awake there is no problem at all to backup or retrieve files.
This application shows in Finder at path (with target): and I have not been able to successfully start it with launchd, using Repeatedly seeing the following in console: So, I am concluding that the file is not referenced correctly. In case it helps, the plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents looks like:
I'm a long time customer of the German iTunes store (recently only iTunes match). My VISA was not valid anymore, so I had to change. Not having a VISA atm, I wanted to go for Paypal or direct bank transactions.... however, I could see neither of them on my screen.. This despite internet research showing both apparently are supported for the German store - how can I salvage this?
I found this answer that said there are a few utilities that let you test the responsiveness of your iPhone, but it didn't mention the names of those utilities. It also mentioned a web site named Sparky, but I went there on my iPhone and couldn't do anything there. I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.3.
Lets assume that my iphone 5c gets stolen. If the person who has the icloud account wipe all the data (they dont block the phone just wiped) will it be able to get the factory definitons like its a new phone? so if the thief activated the phone we will not get asked by the icloud account password and id?
How can I disable the tooltip showing up on my dock items on hover?
First of all my broadband is orange and it doesn't tell you when it's gone over the mb so I pay around £20 a month and the end of last month it came up to £65 so mostly I use the phone at work and at home so I thought that if I took out the sim and use the wifi, would I still get charged for that if I took out the sim?
I an trying to sync my iPod Touch 5 to iTunes but had reset my PC. Now I need to erase everything off my iPod Touch. If I restore from an iCloud Backup will my photos go back into Camera roll?
Is there any software that will allow you to recover files from a remote volume? I have a NAS, and one of its volumes lost all its files. I can't just plug the NAS into a computer so I need to be able to do it over the network.
Reposted from What is the difference between an "aggregate" and a "multi-output" device? I am setting up a multi-output device using Audio Midi Setup utility, but I have an Apple TV and three different sets of speakers connected to different AirPort Express stations in different rooms of my house, instead of just the Mac and the Apple TV. How can I make all four (ATV + AEX + AEX + AEX) be part of a single device to receive audio together in sync?
First time to have MBP retina. My issue on my MBP is when I close my MBP to transfer to another location (house to coffee shop), when I open my MBP I notice that it closes the apps I have open before I leave the house.
When using Microsoft Word 2011 on a Mac PowerBook running 10.9.4 I am unable to use the Command-Open command to open more than one file at a time. I can open each file, one at a time, but if I drag several files and drop them on the Word icon or use Command-Open, only the first two files open.
I connected my ipad to the computer for the first time. I tunes showed up and asked me if I wanted to set it up as a new ipad or back up from a previous iphone that is no longer working. Although there are things from that iphone that I would like to be able to retrieve ( some purchased books etc ) I am not sure I want to back it up completely from the old iphone. However I am afraid that if I set it up as a new ipad then I won't be able to retrieve the stuff from the old iphone I would like to keep. Main question really is if I set up as new ipad would I ever be able to retrieve any thing from the old iphone?
I recently formatted my MacBook and used another MacBook Pro to create a bootable USB. Now, when I try to reinstall Mavericks on my Mac using the bootable USB, I get a blue screen in the process.
I have a Macbook Pro 13" with Retina Display running OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 I use Code Editors like PHPStorm which Require me to use the Function Keys as Keyboard Shortcuts like Command+F6. But F6 just increases my backlighting. I want the function Keys to do this special stuff when used alone and behave as normal Function keys when I add something before it like Cmd. For example : F11 should decrease volume, but Cmd+F11 should be a shortcut
I want to disable the the ⌘ [Number] shortcuts in Safari to prevent losing content when I accidentally click it. I’ve followed the method in this answer. I’ve changed the shortcut for Apple to ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ F10 But whenever I press ⌘ 1 in Safari, it still opens the Apple homepage. I make sure that Safari » Bookmarks » Apple menu item is labeled with ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ F10, not ⌘ 1. I’m using OS X 10.9.4 and Safari 7.0.5
Is it possible to restore a Yosemite backup to Mavericks? I downgraded and want to access my most recent restore, or else I'll have to use the Mavericks one from a month ago. I am on a Macbook Pro 13-inch mid-2011.
At first I was struggling to get my Toshiba Hard drive to appear (so I could use it) on my MacBook Pro (as I wanted to put all my photos, iMovie videos etc on there) so I eventually found a way by going to my settings and clicking time Machine and so on. Now that everything from my MacBook Pro is on the Toshiba hard drive, I plugged it into a Windows laptop (so I could put my photos etc on there) and it doesn't even pop up so I am unable to access my photos etc on there and put them on the Windows laptop, but when I plug it back into my MacBook Pro it shows the hard drive with all my pictures etc on there!
I have tried to delete all of the music off through iTunes and through settings. the computer and settings says it is gone but when i go to the music app it is all still there just not downloaded. all of my songs are shown but they have the cloud icon with the arrow pointing down next to them. I went them all gone to the point that I can't even see them on my phone. How do i do this?
My iMac constantly dropping its internet connection in the last couple of days. I'm connected to a 2.4GHZ Airport Express. Not a router issue, because my iPhone and iPad works just fine, no connectivity issues. Also not an iMac hardware issue, because i tried to connect to the iPhone's tethering network using WiFi, works just fine, without any issues. Here is a copy/paste from the network utility when i try to ping google, you can see that the network is dropping constantly: http://pastebin.com/TL3UyQif
I am discussing about To record sounds from 3.5 - 3.5 mm audio in Audacity here. I have connected my iPhone to my Macbook Air (2013 model) by 3.5-3.5 mm cable. My Macbook (OSX 10.9.4) cannot find the device. I see this in my Preferences > Sound
I have a Mavericks server running OS X server 3.1.2, and three AirPort Extreme APs. My server is running Open Directory, and we would like to get the Radius service up and running. I've been running through many other posts with similar problems, but have not found a solution yet. One of the biggest issues I seem to be encountering is that (almost) every article I find says something like: You turn on RADIUS for OS X Server by selecting your Apple wireless device in the Server app's sidebar and selecting “Require user name and password login over Wi-Fi.”
I've added a word to the Mac dictionary. When I spell it correctly, I have no problem. If I misspell it, I don't get suggestion that includes my correct spelling. This happens even when my misspelling is very close to correct. Can I get a correction for a word I added, but later in use, misspell?
I recently attempted to switch OS X Mail from using POP to using IMAP to access my Microsoft Outlook (msn.com) e-mail account. In doing so all mail in my Outlook account older than a week disappeared. Where did this mail go and how do I recover it? FWIW, I've switched back to POP (IMAP appears not really to work), but the missing messages are still gone (and they're missing from outlook.com too). And FWIW, here's what my "Activity" looks like after creating the Outlook.com IMAP account (while nothing beyond a handful of messages has appeared in my OSX client):
I was thinking of purchasing a Wacom Bamboo Pad for note taking at college. I am going to an engineering school, and often typing isn't the primary method I would like to use to enter equations, data, or text.
Is there a way to export a Numbers.app spreadsheet as a JSON formatted file? I know I can do it manually but this will be used as data input to an iOS app and I'd like to have an automated way to do this to reduce errors. Here's an image of the rough spreadsheet:
I own an iPhone 4S with IOS 7.1.1 and started to use iCloud 2 days ago. Today, I couldn't connect to iCloud and the iTunes Store. It appears that I need a wi-fi connection to connect, but I've using my wi-fi for some time now without a problem. I can still use Google and What'sapp, but the iPhone is saying I need to have a good connection. I can use other apps that need an internet connection, but every time I open Safari it says that I need to have an internet connection. I even tried some methods to troubleshoot the problem by changing the date and time and rebooting and resetting my phone. Can anyone pls. Help me???
So I have the same clash of clans village on my iPad and my iPhone. How do I start a new village on my iPad while keeping the same one on my iPhone?
I was wondering if I have 3 3GS iPhones and they are all locked and I set them back to factory settings using iTunes, if I could activate them and just activate using one SIM card and then use them just with WiFi with out the SIM card?
The image below is the header that appears when I open Terminal.app. As you can see, only one tab is open, but a tab bar still shows (just has one tab that says "bash"). How can I prevent the tab bar from showing unless there are >= 2 tabs? It was working correctly until recently but I can't figure out what changed or how to fix.
I created an alias for my iCloud email address and then added it as another address I could send and receive iMessages from. I have subsequently deleted the alias from iCloud email. However, the alias still exists as a address I can send/recieve iMessages from.
Since Lion, I have used the AlwaysAppendSearchDomains trick on mDNSresponder to resolve names with dots in search domains. In yosemite this doesn't work any more. In fact, mDNSresponder doesn't seem to be running:
I cannot input user account in English without changing input mode when to type user account at login dialog box. I have to change input mode to US every time when I boot mac. Settings: Region is english
I am doing antenna simulations in order to visualize the electric field produced by an iPhone and an iPad. In order to do so, I need to know what typical power output these devices have. From Wikipedia it is said that: Whereas a mobile phone can range from 21 dBm (125 mW) for Power Class 4 to 33 dBm (2W) for Power class 1 [...] I need to be more precise than this, so I was wondering if anyone knew what power class a regular iPad and and iPhone is?
I have download photo express mac version on my MacBook Pro and it won't open it said can't opened because it is from an unidentified developer. But I'm using there mac download so what do I do so I can get it to work
I have a problem with my mac. When i am using internal speakers everything works fine however as soon as i insert headphones , the sounds icon is greyed out and there is no sounds to hear. Happening to all kind of headphones. The preferences say " Digital out : The selected device has no output controls."
I need space on my iPhone. However I can not sync photos to my computer. If I want to delete photos off my Camera Roll after transferring them to iCloud, will those photos be lost permanently?
I'm getting the Black Screen more & more often. I didn't have it a few months ago & then it started once in a while in a week, now it happens a few times a day, everyday! My machine is a Macbook Pro 15" from mid 2010 & Apple quarries on the Internet tell me that I can't get it fixed by Apple. What's going on?
Ideally what I would like is: One cable (thunderbolt?) that goes to a box that has two high resolution ports for displays (dvi, hdmi, displayport, etc) and a few usb ports for my keyboard, mouse, and other miscellaneous stuff.
I am trying to make a 28 line legal template in Pages 5.2 but I am having trouble making the boxes work. Does pages have a CA Superior Court template. If not, do you know if Microsoft for Apple has one. I have looked it up on line and there is no data on it. MacBook Air 10.9.4
iCal allows 25,000 event entries to be backed up on iCloud. I need more. Is there a way to go over this limit, or segment the iCal file into years, and only activate locally (on my desktop Mac) the years I need at that time? I only need the last 12 months for my iPhone and iPad, but I need the last 10 years of iCal on my desktop. Any solutions? Note: A good solution for me would be to only back up to iCloud my desktop iCal events going back 12 months, and leave my desktop iCal untouched. The problem appears to be when I go online, and iCal attempts to sync with iCloud, and can't - because the desktop iCal has over 25,000 entries.
to solve my erratic cursor on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro, I brought my computer to the local apple store and had the trackpad completely uninstalled. Does anybody know what it means for the trackpad to completely uninstalled? Ok, anyways I'm going to post a question I never got a reply to on the apple support page. Here it goes. Macbook Pro mid 2010 15 inch Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB
I am recording video with two iOS devices (which I will then use for camera cuts, etc...), and I would like to use a single audio source for both videos. My thought is that I would need some kind of splitter that could take output from something like the iRig PRE, then split that and plug it into both devices as a microphone and it would work as such. Is there such a device? Or am I going about trying to edit video from multiple cameras all wrong? (What I'm doing at the moment is recording the audio line separately, then syncing it to each video, rendering out intermediate sync'd up video, and then editing those files together, which seems like it wastes an extra step; but I've no professional training in how this is generally accomplished.) The only answers I've found here seem to involve using separate headphones and a mic running into the same jack on a device, which is kind of the inverse of what I am looking for.
I've had this problem a few times in the past. How do you get rid of a mailto: or alt tag that won't disappear from the Google screen.
I have two Macs, and one (with Mavericks) is working with a Sharp printer no problem, the other Mac (also with Mavericks) on the same printer cannot print to it. The mac having the problem can see the print can add it, and for all intents purposes it believes it is printing to it. I want to confirm what driver each Mac is using and I cannot locate that specifically. I have looked at all the drivers on each machine and they both look to have the same driver options on each computer.
I am not a mobile app developer, but we do feature responsive design in our website which works very well across all mobile browsers. So if I were to make an app that only contains a fullscreen WebView component that loads the website, would that app be approved to get on the Appstore?
On Friday, I went into the App Store on my iPhone and submitted a review for a game. I just checked all the reviews for that game, and my review hasn't appeared yet. About how long does it take for a review to appear in the App Store?
I've recently just had a horrendous Mac hard drive issue which required an erase of the hard drive and a restore from an old back up. Since it's been back, it's not quite been the same. I had Wine installed however wine my.exe no longer works. I get a -bash: wine: command not found error. I thought it might somehow have become de-installed, but upon trying to reinstall I get: wine-1.7.19 already installed To install this version, first 'brew unlink wine'. I've been having lots of permission errors which can't be corrected by disk utility, all of which are "ACL found but not expected" and brew doctor found a whole load of broken symlinks which have since been pruned. All very odd behaviour.
I'm using a Mac mini with an external 3TB hard drive to run my audio system. I'm controlling iTunes on the Mac mini using Apple's Remote app on my iPad.
I'm staying in a rather upmarket hotel, yet for some reason the Wifi is £7 per device per day. I got it for my Macbook, and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to share the connection to my iPod.
I just wrote an Automator app using AppleScript (along with a couple of bash lines) to start FTP with a single click. However it runs more than a tad slow. Here's the code: Here's what the code does: Check if FTP server is running If yes, turn it off and throw a message box saying "FTP session closed" If no, turn it on and throw a message box saying "FTP session open" along with my IP address and username
Is there a way to maintain a wifi connection after log off on OS X 10.8 Lion? I would like to be able to log in, log off, and log into a new account on my domain without having to plug in my ethernet cable.
I recently had to erase and restore my mac as it developed a terrible hard drive failure, and ever since I've had odd behaviour (already posted one other question today). For some reason the Login screen is mirrored on both my monitors and annoyingly this changes the resolution and aspect ratio shown on the MacBook, I really don't like it, and it's never done this before. It also creates a strange animation as the screen logs in which I fins even more annoying. Before the second monitor would show the background of the login screen but certainly would not effect the resolution of the main screen or be mirrored. What's going on there? Thanks, Mike Two screenshots, one of the displays and a profile error which I can't help but feel is also a side effect of the issue I had.
Is it legal to develop for iOS on a Windows machine? I have researched this on Google, but I do not seem to be able to find a direct answer, yes or no, whether it is legal or illegal to do iOS app development on Windows. Here is an article that I have found regarding the legal issue (or lack of): http://www.pmbaty.com/iosbuildenv/legal.html
When I bring up the spaces option (by either pressing the F3 button or 4 finger swipe up on trackpad), the + button in the top right corner is no longer there and I can't create a new desktop space. I am running mavericks 10.9.4 on a 2012 13" MacBook Pro. Any suggestions/ideas?
I'm unable to use internet when I am downloading a file. I've already completely did a fresh reinstall of the machine. I'm using OsX Mavericks on a macbook pro 13" late 2012 model. I'm using a WiFi connection and 2 weeks ago I had a download speed of 8mb/s and now it hangs on 4.2mb/s and I am unable to open a webpage when downloading. What could cause this problem? Thanks in advance.
I am managing design, build/testing and deployment of 3,500 iOS devices into our Enterprise this Fall. We have been using Configurator .mobileconfig profiles to manage Wi-Fi payloads on a WPA2 Enterprise wireless network. The iPods are enrolled in MobileIron MDM and are running iOS 7.1.2. I have a "chicken & egg" problem concerning Wi-Fi authentication and long-term management of the connection process. I only hope I'm doing a good enough job of telling the story of the work I've done to try and hash this out on my own!
Recently I converted an old MacBook into a server, running OS X 10.6.8 (the normal, non-server edition). I use it as my VPN server, my bittorrent rsync server, web server, ssh server and so forth. Sometimes I manually disconnect the LAN cable from my server to speed up my connection for online gaming, afterwards I plug back the LAN cable.
I would like to be able to do something simple such as open up a finder and be able to select files that are in '~/' or '/' Is there a simple way to go about doing this? For instance, sometimes I would just like to be able to point XCode towards a file that finder doesn't show me normally. Is there a keystroke or something that lets me edit the path I want to view manually?
Is there an iOS 6-compatible app that's just like the iOS 7 Videos.app? I have tried VLC but I want an app that displays the contents of my video library as both text and thumbnails the way the the Videos.app does.
My understanding is that when files are deleted on a computer (and here, I am considering the iPhone a "computer"), those files are typically recoverable using forensic tools. I know there are easy ways to delete everything securely, however... How can one delete individual files on the iPhone such that they are unrecoverable, without deleting everything?
I have a Mac mini that fell from a desk, my kid was playing aroung and it hit the floor, I picked it up and it stared up but when the Apple logo comes up the little cricle appears and thats it, it wont boot, up, I dont know what to do, I tried some of the commands booting up and they dont work but i dont know if its because i have a wireless mouse and keyboard. Also, i gotta mention i have a CD stuck in the drive that I cant get out. Please help, any idea of what i can do?
Can you sign out of Apple TV using an iPad or phone? I logged into my exs Apple TV and now I am not sure what he can see or use in my stuff.
I'm looking for an external LCD for my 11 inch Macbook Air (i5, 2013). The only thing I (am going to) use the Mac for is Xcode so the screen size needs to support development needs. I hear the minimum decent resolution for Xcode is 1920x1080. Is that enough or should I be looking for more pixels?
What I am actually looking for is to get the app download statistics from iTunes connect. Ideally a dashboard would be possible with a full API.
Is there some (worldwide) way to paint or plot a travel plan on rivers and seas with the OS X Mavericks Maps application? If not, is there some other OS X or service application that allows for this?
I need to realize a presentation with this approach:  I want to realize different slide for screen 1 and 2 (or one single slide that fill correctly each screen with different contents). The content or slide scrolling must be synchronized in screen 1 and 2, so if i move one slide right screen 1 and 2 have to move one slide right togheter... I have read about multiscreen support in keynote ,but all i have read seems to limit this support to 2 screen the "laptop source screen" and an external screen, it possible to make a presentation like this in keynote?
i've a problem, i'm able to search for string in messages.app. It actually tells me all the matches for every conversation, the problem is that is shows only the last match, how can i go through all the results?
I have one app supported on both Android and iOS. The app needs a background service which hits a remote server every minute. The job is simple for Android app but since background tasking is not supported in iOS I need to employ push notifications for iOS app. Apple says that the delivery of push notification is never acknowledged. I cannot afford push notification failure since I need to send a very crucial message through notification. My questions are: 1) What is the failure rate of push notifications? 2) Are push notifications always reliable to send important messages?
I use an external hard drive to regularly backup my Mac using Time Machine. However, I wanted to copy the data on this drive to a Windows 7 machine which does not work. It seems, that the PC recognices the external dirve, but does not list it.
I'm not sure this is even a Mac issue, but when using Gmail on Chrome with OSX, clicking on certain parts of the page makes them zoom in. It's a little hard to explain, so here's a vid: *=URL=* I'm clicking once on the new message popup for each zoom you see.
My SSD stopped mounting by itself on boot. So I booted into Single User mode, ran /sbin/mount/ -uw / and exit and it got mounted and I could boot from the SSD. However, after booting all I see is the Guest user and not the admin user.
I would like to know how to reset a user set window size for an application to the one chosen by the developer. Are these settings usually stored in some plist file?
I have a MacBook Pro, and during media presentations, my screen automatically turns off according to the settings app (which of course is operation as usual, to be expected). I'm looking for an Applescript, setting, app, commandline command, etc. that could disable the auto screen shutoff per app rather than constantly having to change the setting globally. I've already looked for a setting within the app itself (ProPresenter, in this case) with no luck. I'm also okay if the solution bases its action on the presence or absence of a second display.
In Safari and the Notes app on iPhone, wherever there are strings of numbers they get linked and treated as phone numbers. I'm sure there was a setting to turn this off but I cannot find it. Where is it? (Note: I'm not asking for how to prevent this happening on web pages as in this question, just a setting for my phone.)
I would like to create Apple ID on my employee's desktop. She has no credit card, I can't create Apple ID without card, having no apple id she cannot update her desktop. Is there any workaround of that?
So should I go and get an SSD with thunderbolt adapter, will it deliver the same speed as the it delivers when placed internally? I'm open to getting an USB 3.0 adapter too (just to keep the cost low). I'm aware of Lacie rugged thunderbolt SSD drive, honestly I don't like its life boat design. too bulky fatso! - - the max i want to use on SSD is a Silicon skin. So please do consider those bold face points while replying. thanks. It's my first post here.
Phone rang, Facetime identified my daughter as the caller. I answered, but it was not my daughter. I saw the caller. Once the caller saw me, she freaked out and hung up. In my "recents" the call was identified as from my daughter. What's up with that?
Words with friends has been updated and now I can't get in because I don't have a safari password. How do I get one? I have been playing this for a long time until the update. there is an ad between each play and now I can't cancel it by pressing the x.
I specifically am looking for an iOS email client that supports IMAP's ability to delete messages "in place", i.e. without moving them to some "trash" folder. I would want to be able to view deleted messages appropriately marked (or greyed out) in their original folder, with a separate option to expunge either a single message or all deleted messages in a folder.
Or, how to log from an AppleScript (saved as application) and/or view the Event Log? None of the AppleScript's log statements can be found. I have tried adding the following to the launchd plist:
I'm using Apple mail with a fresh install of MacOS and I'm missing the Accept/Maybe/Decline buttons on calendar invites. My company uses a Exchange 2013 server and some other users do see the buttons. For me, I just see an email with an attached .ics file for the same invites. Expected behavior seen by some people.... How my mail app shows it...
Is there some equivalent (CLI or GUI) to Linux's /proc/$PID/environ feature?
I was using Windows with bootcamp and suddenly it restarted, but the display didn't turn on. Everything was on, I could hear the sounds, but the backlight is off, the logo light is off. After some time I found out that I can turn on the display if, after loading OSX, I close the lid, wait a minute and open it. I tried reseting the PRAM and SMC.
I've had freezing issues more and more frequently (now multiple per day) with my early 2008 Macbook Pro 4,1 I've pasted a recent kernel panic log beneath, and hope someone can point me in the right direction. This problem was happening on OS X 10.6 recently, and I did a Rember test on the memory which looked "ok", as well as verified the hard drive in single user mode—also checked out "ok".
So last night I was at home watching movies and I went to get on my phone and I noticed it missing. My phone IS on and I THOUGHT the ringer was on until I called it. Many websites say you can download Find My iPhone from iCloud but I'm not sure how to do it.
I have to copy only files from a folder that don't have following string in its filename: NNNNxNNNN (a 3 or 4 digit number followed by the character x followed by a 3 or 4 digit number again -> it's the resolution of an image in the filename) I'm trying for about an hour with the "find" command but it never does what it should do.
My Bundle File: reference.txt My Code: shell returns: How i can show this file on a dialog (or in TextEdit)?
I started seeing an issue in Chrome (38 on OSX 10.7.5) accessing GitHub. I got a Privacy error. One of the recommendations on SuperUser, and the reply I got from GitHub support, was to delete all expired certificates in Keychain Access, close the browser, and reboot the machine. I followed the advice.
I have a Macbook pro 13" that won't boot up. I searched for solutions online and the issue seemed battery related to me. I opened the back panel of my Mac and took out the RAM and placed it back. After this, the Mac started to work perfectly fine. However, after a couple of days of usage, the Mac has stopped booting again. Repeating the above process of re-placing the RAM solves the issue but its temporary.
Currently if I'm searching for something and it happens to be a Google spreadsheet it shows up under other. Is there any way to have .gsheets show up under spreadsheets?
I have changed my Apple ID (email and password) on my computer. However, my iPhone 5 still shows the old email address which is grey so I can't change it. I don't remember the password for that email address so can't log on and can't delete it. How do I recover the password ?
Is there a PoE (Power over Ethernet) kit available for the 802.11ac Airport Extreme? I.e., a kit that will allow me to power the Airport Extreme from PoE instead of from a wall outlet?
I am formatting a bi-lingual text for printing. For this I have decided to columnate the material however, due to the the limits of word-processors in general, I can't use the columns feature. What I decided to do is to use a chart in two columns, however I don't know how to make it spill over onto subsequent pages. How/can this be done?
I have a folder (let's name it main-folder and it's mounted via smb) that contains lots of files and subfolders. I want to copy half of the contents of main-folder to a local subfolder (let's call it my-folder). My problem is that one folder is common between main-folder and my-folder. And even though I have pressed the option key, I do not get the merge option.
So I've got a coworker who uses apple mail. When he sends out attachments, they show up as the attachment as well as an "Untitled attachment #####.htm" file along with it (1 attachment becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, et al). My boss has asked me to look into this because the Mac based coworker sends out several pdf's to clients (This happens on other files too though), and weird attachments may look like spam/viruses to the clients, something we're not too keen on.
We have 2 iPad minis and 2 iPhones on the same Apple ID when I text my husband it goes to all 4 devices including mine twice. When anyone messages from the other 3 devices it goes to all 4 including my phone twice. When anyone tries to FaceTime any of our devices it goes to all 4 devices. How can we get it to only go to one device ( the one we are sending the message to)?
I have a friend who has a fourth generation iPod Touch. Today she told me that they had tried five different chargers and she still cannot get it to charge. What might be causing this and how might we fix it?
I have quite a few documents created using Pages '08, both in document and page layout mode. I see a fair amount of information about importing from Pages '09 into Pages 5 (the most recent version as of this writing), but haven't found any mention about Pages '08. So can it import from this version? If so, are there any additional caveats I should be aware of?
There is a week or so since my macbook stopped being able to go sleep, instead it stops by just sleeping the screen, while the system light does not go blinking (and the system won't go sleep either, as it returns really fast when one key is stroke). Although this does not seems to influence, just for complementary information I have OS X 10.9.4. I've made some research on this issue, and the best topics I've found, for they contain almost every other topics answers in a clear and brief way, can be found here and here. I've followed even before finding the linked topic all instructions, that is: I do not have any sharing options enabled (System Preferences → Sharing). I do not have "Wake for network access" enabled (System Preferences → Energy Saver). It does not matter if the Mac is connected to a power source. I've reset the SMC and the PRAM, but this did not help. and also: I've restarted my mac on safe mode, and tried to enter on sleep mode, but also unsuccessful.
I want to be able to get rid of Safari's 'Search with Google' at the top so I don't accidentally use it instead of my own one down the bottom. Now I realise the actual file / code for the service may be contained inside Safari.app or in ~/Library/Safari somewhere, (though I've had a quick look not finding anything that stands out in particular), but I'm thinking that if I could delete the service outright, it might cause instability, problems, or be re-added when Safari is updated next, anyway. (Though it would be an acceptable second best, if someone can figure out how to do it - without deleting or affecting Safari itself.)
I have the latest Apple TV paired with Apple wireless keyboard. I can pair it in the first time, although not very smoothly. After that, I need to re-pair my keyboard with Apple TV every time. Any hints on how to keep the connection so that I don't have to re-pair?
I can check mail on my Phone because the password was inputted when set up. After a while I forgot it and cannot check mail on my computer! I tried to retrieve it by using the "I forgot ..," but after many tries, not successful. How can I find out the password that I "saved" in my iPhone ?
I have an Xubuntu server set up with SSH. I can connect to it using Putty on Windows and via a Chrome SSH plugin on my Mac. However, when I use terminal client it just hangs for a bit and then I get a connection reset. The debug output is: Does anyone have any advice?
I need to join a client's conference call today but I'm likely to be out of the office. I don't have a company phone but don't want to share my personal mobile number. Is there a way I can withhold my number so they don't get my personal mobile number? I've been looking in the Settings/Cellular and Settings/Network but can't see anything promising.
I have contacts on my iPhone 5 that I wish to transfer to my PC. I know how to transfer photos from iPhone to PC, but I don't know how to do the same for contacts. How can I transfer contacts?
Today I have a new rMBP (bottom of the range latest MBP with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD) coming and I've just found out that annoyingly they have an upgraded model out just £100 more than I paid, with 8GB of RAM and a 200MHz upgrade to the processor (which the latter I'm not bothered about). This is an upgrade to my 2012 Macbook Air 128GB, also 4GB, which I used for Xcode, Terminal, VIM, browsing the internet (same for the rMBA). I always look at my RAM to find that it's usually nearly full, but I don't have any issues what so ever (no slow downs, no crashes, no panics), and it never changes. I don't multi-task (I don't need to). The prime reason for buying a rMBA was for the Retina screen -- I could have got a MBA for the same price. I would like to use this for 2-4 years. My question is whether to get the RAM upgrade or not.
I'm looking for an audio recording app (like Voice Memos) that has hardware button support. Like how you can press one of the volume buttons in Camera to take a photo. For use on a standard device (not jailbroken) I want to start the app, put the phone to sleep and use the volume button to either start/stop recordings or put bookmarks in an ongoing recording. Is there any such app?
I've set up a bunch of scripts that need to happen when I connect my thunderbolt dock at home (disable wifi, enable bluetooth, ...). To detect the thunderbolt dock I make use of the following launchctl service:
I am developing my first serious application for iOS and I am doing it for my friend (not for public use). So it will be a gift. Now question: How would my friend be able to instal this application? Is there any easy way to share my app with him? I am very confused on how I can share my app on private basis with few people only and how they can easily install it.
Why does the activity indicator in the top left corner in the status bar continue to turn after the app download is complete? (iPad 2)
When I open System Preferences, it opens straight to the iCloud pane, which loads a spinner, states that it is loading, and then runs until I give up. While the spinner is up, I can't quit the app or load the pane, nor can I access any other preferences.
While I was trying to fix the Github SSL error caused by the DigiCert certificates, I deleted some of the certificates in the "Keychain Access" application. By doing this I broke my SSL certificates and now I am facing some serious problems. Initially I was not even able to connect to websites such as Facebook or Github because there was some trust issues. I fixed this issue but it seems that I am missing something.
In the Settings app, under Cellular > Cellular Data Usage, I see a “Current Period” value of 6.8 GB. However, I’ve checked this number several times over the years, at all different points in my cellular billing cycle, and it always hovers around 6 GB. Is this really the amount of data that I’ve transferred using my data plan since my last bill? If not, what does the number mean?
How do I set video recording rate to 60 fps or 120 fps and change between the two? I'm looking to be able to use different FPS rates when recording video with the iPhone 5s.
I have 2 computers on which I listen to my music: a Macbook Pro (which I consider to be my "main" computer for my music library) and a Windows 7 desktop, for which the music library was originally populated via iCloud. Both of them are up and running with iCloud and have been for a long time. When I rate a title on one, the rating appears on the other. When I buy a song on iTunes, it downloads to both. Great.
MY daughter is going to college and I have been looking for a safe to store it. Most safes are 12.6 inches wide and her mac pro is slightly less than 13 inches, is it OK to store at a slight tilt?
MBP 5,3 running 10.9.4 trying to make a bootable USB 2 drive b/c my wife's HDD on a similar MBP failed. New drive in the mail. I tried using a 4-5 yr old Lexar 8GB and got this vague error.
I am using Emacs 24.3 on Mac OS X 10.9.4 and I am trying to edit /etc/profile with that. It obviously does not work when starting the GUI version, but for some reason, it also does not work when starting it with sudo from the command line. When I run from the terminal, Emacs still complains that the file is in read-only mode and it cannot write it: What am I doing wrong?
I have installed the Apple Developer Tools 5 on Mac OS X 10.9.4 which comes with Git: I also have installed Git 2.0.1 using the Mac OS X installer. How do I best set it up so that all applications use Git 2.0.1 by default? I could exchange the Apple Git binary for a symlink to the custom one. Alternatively I would have to modify the PATH so that it looks up the custom Git first. Is there any reason to prefer one over the other?
Does anyone know how Activity Monitor.app gets the list of URLs that are related to a Safari Web Content process? Those processes show up as com.apple.WebKit.WebContent in ps output.
iMessage stopped working properly when I use VPN on my Macbook Pro (Mavericks), making me unable to send or receive messages. It says the user is not registered and highlighted in red/pink, but after I disconnect VPN, everything works fine.
There is a pair of pop-ups per drive/server (each drive has its own server, and I configured several drives). I also get a similar message when opening my Chrome browser.
As I don't have enough internal storage space on my MacBook Pro, I used to store my Parallels VMs on an external 500 GB HDD connected via Firewire 800. However, that drive eventually died, and I replaced it with a 3 TB Western Digital NAS.
I'm planning to buy a new MacBook Pro for school next month, and I wanted to know if I can use Migration Assistant or any other tool to get all data from my old hard drive to the new one. The problem is: My old MacBook doesn't work anymore and its not worth repairing it or something like that. I took the HDD out of the notebook, and I can access it on my PC. The OS version it contains is Lion (probably 10.7.2).
I use Mission Control (on a Mavericks running MacBook Air) a lot, and I was looking for a solution to the following scenario: I have three (or more spaces open), and I am on the space furthest to the right (the last) in my lineup of spaces. I want to get to my first space (the one furthest on the left). Currently, if I try to go right from this last space, nothing happens. Is there a way that if I swipe right from the "last space", I can go directly to the "first space", and vice-versa?
I recently enabled time machine by adding an external drive as a location for Time Machine to back up to. However, before enabling Time Machine I took a few old files (totally about 500GB) which I wanted to archive and not take space on my machine any more and copied them to a separate Archive folder on the external drive. Since then I have periodically been watching the drive space to see how much Time Machine is using.
In Safari or Firefox, saving a web page as PDF (⌘P > PDF > Save as PDF...) includes the page's title, URL, page number, and date/time in the resulting PDF. Is there a way to generate a PDF without this metadata?
I had an issue in OSX which meant that I had to erase the OSX partition, and after reinstalling OSX, my bootcamp partition won't load. It's not in the option menu on start up, but is still recognised in start up disk and disk utility. I selected it in startup disk but I got there error mentioned in the title. I can see all my files in finder, but just can't boot into windows. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks, Mike
I am a web developer that works for a company and I am looking to make my Mac feel more like windows. I am having trouble navigating the file system, I am colorblind and the files are all blue and small (I am most sensitive to blue when it comes to not seeing right). How can I customize my Mac for increased visibility and increased font sizes?
I would like to protect my teen daughter by eliminating the use of imessage on her iphone. We have placed proper limits on her texting and monitor her use through our carrier. Like any resourceful teen, she now uses imessage to reach beyond the boundaries. We wish her to have opportunities to interact with friends via her phone, but we don't want it to go beyond the limits that have been set due to some past inappropriateness.
Trying to install Mint 17 Cinnamon via VirtualBox on my MBP OSX10.9.4, with 3 different discs (various makes) made on several machines (Win and Linux). I was able to deploy vm with CentOS 6.4 with a similarly made disc without problems. Mint discs get rejected with error "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." Any ideas?
I'm running 10.6.8 on my Macbook Air. I have been archiving lots of large files to an external drive, but after doing so, my computer doesn't recognize that the files/data are gone. Even after a restart.
If there's an encrypted (filevault) volume, both of these methods in terminal will erase the given drive. However, what differences exist between the two? Which is more secure? Option 1: Option 2:
I have a virtual-credit card provided by my Bank, it is only chargable when i allow it (for a limited time.).
Macbook pro OS X 10.9 If I backup using time machine and 3 months later decide to restore it back because I have a virus, would it be able to eliminate the virus? Also does time machine delete all the new files i've added since then?
I am getting errors trying to set up web starter kit via Terminal. I get an error trying to install the kit: $ cd web-starter-kit $ npm install returns -bash: $: command not found. How do I get this to work?
I have read just about every article on this subject. To wit, I know about: launchctl setenv /etc/launchd.conf /etc/paths /etc/paths.d/* /etc/profile /etc/bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bashrc ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ~/Library/Preferences/.MacOSX/environment.plist Let's start whittling all this craziness down: From other reading, I know that on Mavericks anything that relies on an environment.plist is no longer supported or read. I know that /etc/profile erases any PATH previously set by launchctl setenv or present in /etc/launchd.conf, and uses a default set of paths appended with anything found in /etc/paths.d/* and /etc/paths. I also know that applications launched via Spotlight or the Dock obviously don't read your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc. That leaves launchctl setenv and /etc/launchd.conf (same thing, really).
Is there some way to sort remixed versions of songs in iTunes under the remix artist's name? As an example, Adventure Club has made a lot of songs that are remixes. For now, all these songs appear under the original artist's name with "(Adventure Club remix)" after the song name. However, I would like for all the songs by Adventure Club (remix or not) to appear under the artist, Adventure Club.
I have my Google Contacts synched with my phone. I see all my contacts except the one that I need. I can go to *=URL=* and see the contact in my account, but it is not showing up in my phone! I killed the phone app, turned off Google Accounts then back on, changed from Fetch to Manual then back, searched by name (both first and last), but no luck.
I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. I tried upgrading to Mavericks, but the App Store won't let me download it. It directed me to this page. At first I thought it was because I was out of space (8GB required) so I deleted some things. Now I have 8.17GB available with 5GB of RAM (2GB minimum). The only thing I can think of is that my Mac Pro is arbitrarily too old. However, I don't know how to confirm that. I'm not even sure if there are any upgrade options available. What do I need to do?
Does anyone know a way to ask Siri on iPhone or iPad to play an artist, but have the songs go in album order instead of shuffled? I have tried asking "don't shuffle" and "play X in order" and also "play albums by X"...
I installed OS X Fuse on OS X 10.9.4 as outlined in *=URL=* Unfortunately it does not mount any of my Linux filesystems (on external HD or SD card), either directly or with Disk Utility
I'm running iOS 6.* on an IPhone 3Gs. I noticed that Facebook was talking about redacting support for messaging inside the Facebook app... This slightly bothered me, considering I am Quite happy using SMS for instant messaging, and Facebook for less frequent chat. Regardless of how I feel, I now see that they are "Forcing" users over to their secondary Messenger application... which seems to be quite the ignorant move on their part-
I have a time machine setup where the backup location is on a Synology NAS drive; having recently moved house, and ended up with a different router, I setup the NAS drive again, and it has a different IP address (formerly in the 10.* range, now in the 192.* range).
I have OS X Mavericks with a Thunderbolt Ethernet connected to the internet with IP 192.168.0.1 (which is a subrouter of 192.168.1.1). I set up internet sharing through the Sharing interface and I am able to connect to the network and see it from my iPhone 5. My iPhone 5 is assigned an IP address in 192.168.2.*, but it can't connect to the internet. On my Mac, the Wi-Fi interface shows a self assigned IP address.
My car has an USB connection which I use to connect to my iPhone 4s (with iOS 7.1) as a charger. But the connection also captures audio, so no sound is emitted from the iphone when the usb wire is connected. Is there any way to control what's the Iphone behaviour when an external device is switched on, just to avoid the audio to be captured?
Is there a way to solve the problem? Or is there a way to gather more information (for example logs)? Edit 3 I just noticed that when clicking on "OK"
I have the MacBook Pro & Retina(2012s) running on Mavericks, both seem to be exhibiting a delay when headphone/speaker is connected to the Audio Jack. I've read the thread on the apple forums and it seems this is a normal event, but I find it very intruding especially when I switch sources from headphones to speakers at outdoors. But, while using bootcamp this delay doesn't seem to occur and I guess all these are managed at kernel/OS level. The reason stated at the forums was quite inadequate, because the smartphones today have similar jacks (Audio In/Out) and the switching happens quite fast. Would like to know if it was possible to tweak this event.
MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013. OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) After the update from 10.9.3 to 10.9.4 my cursor/keyboard inputs stutter every ~5 seconds for about a second after my computer awakes from a sleep. The problem goes away after I restart my computer twice (about 90% of the time, about 10% of the time one restart works). The problem always returns after the computer awakes from a sleep.
OS X hostname resolves with the DNS of the domain to be joined to (ABC.EXAMPLE.COM). Test that it works from other machines too. This is a documented reason for failure to join on Linux machines, tested it myself and solving this solved the problem on Linux. Machine is on LAN during the Join (better to disable Wireless while doing this)
I noticed that the Little Snitch's Research Assistant told me that the signature for Safari was invalid so i ran codesign to check and in fact i got this: Is this dangerous? I found out that this issue could be related to 1Password: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/14419/safari-plugin-unverified
My 13" Macbook Air recently started showing the "service battery" alert. It's the mid-2012 model, and is still under Apple Care. The alert seems to appear mainly when I'm running off the battery. Is this a battery issue or a bug in the system?
While still on 10.9.3 I had the occasional problem of the OS crashing upon wake-up. Every couple of weeks, made more frequent by using an external monitor.
Can someone log on to my laptop if the cover is down? I thought by closing the cover it disconnected the internet.
My OS is Mavericks. The mailboxes shown are grouped under headings MAILBOXES, SMART MAILBOXES, ON MY MAC, and MY EMAIL ADDRESS. I have Sent and Trash under each. Their contents are not entirely duplicative. When I go to mailbox/use this mailbox as, the options are grayed out. In Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors all options are checked to 'store messages on server'. How do I combine these mailboxes? Thanks, Rick
How do I recover Game Center password if its different then my Apple ID password. This for my sons iPod, he created this account for his games but cant remember the password. I tried the forgot password option thinking it would reset it for him but it didnt since he has his own password for it. How do we find the password he created?
I got Yosemite via the Apple Beta Program. I installed Yosemite on a separate partition which I had created for the purpose specifically. Now I want to reclaim my 50 GB by deleting the partition. I have already set my startup disk to my original Mavericks partition. So, if I launch Disk utility in Mavericks and delete the Yosemite partition, will my Mac still boot? PS: I am not looking to uninstall just yet, but I'm running low on space and might need to get some space back soon enough (before Yosemite gets stable and I get the upgrade).
We have carts of MacBooks and MacBook Pros that students use and close the lid and put them back in cart when they are done. They use wireless networking and don't have USB or displays connected. I am wondering if there is any way we can wake the MacBook remotely using wireless (WoWLAN?). We don't want to have the setting where MacBook doesn't sleep when lid is closed. Is there any way we can wake them on and have them connect to our wireless when their lid is closed? The remote management software we use couldn't work when they are in the cart overnight.
I am trying to use a Planar PXL2790MW external display with my iMac 11,3 (2.93 GHz 27inch) connected by a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable. The display works intermittently: at random times, it will acquire signal from the computer and then drop it again after anywhere from ten minutes to half an hour. It will report no signal for various lengths of time before briefly coming back on again. Restarting the computer and turning the monitor on and off (in any order) seems to make no difference to whether or not the signal is sent. It seems quite random.
I saw these pictures on a forum and I was wondering what app is it? I am referring to the the nice little UI on the left middle of the screen..
I'm using a launchd agent to run a shell script whenever I connect my thunderbolt dock. I've been able to use IOKit notifications to detect when the dock is being attached, but I also want to run a shell script whenever the dock is being detached. To detect the attachment of the dock I use com.apple.iokit.matching's device-attach event:
I have Parallels Desktop 9 running on Mac OSX 10.9.4. Whenever I try to [sudo] chmod +x a file on the Parallels volume it doesn't do anything. I have to copy the file to a local folder for this to work. I suspect this is related to how the Parallels volume is mounted. Is there a way to get chmod to work on the Parallels volume?
I have a Synology DiskStation NAS that I use for Time Machine backups on my LAN. I want to be able to back up when I'm away from home. I've tried: Connecting via L2TP VPN running on Synology Connecting directly to Synology via AFP Through both of these methods I can mount the Time Machine share in the Finder, and I've confirmed read/write access to the share when connected over the internet.
Our companies email/calendering is run through Google Apps and we all share everyone elses under "Other calendars" within the web interface of Google Cal. So my calendar syncs fine and has no issues with iCal, but invitations/alerts/reminders from the shared calendars show pending actions for each one. I can click on all the normal options "Maybe" "Decline" "Accept" but they just come back as I have read only access to them.
When I'm on Google Hangouts on OS X Mavericks the person on the other side can listen any sound my computer plays. Since I'm using headphones I don't suppose the actual audio wave is traveling to the microphone, but I think there's a software redirection that makes them hear everything. How to turn this off?
I uploaded my first album to Flickr (using the iPhoto share feature, too) and was disappointed that the hundreds of photos from the 90s all have a date of July 30, 2014. Checking the files, there's no EXIF information at all, and the date created/modified are of course still July 30, 2014. So I have three questions and I suppose I'd be satisfied with an answer to any of them:
I am using Safari 7. The Autofill feature is using the wrong card in my Contacts list. How can I get Safari to use my Contacts card?
Where exactly is iTerm's user preferences file located? What I want is to sync this file over Github between several machines.
I'm still using the abandonware Slate window manager (I've tried Phoenix, but it's just not the same). In order for it to manage windows properly it needs Accessibility rights. The guidelines changed in Mavericks and are no longer a global setting, and this is where I suspect the problem comes from. Going into System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy, authenticating, and checking the box works, but only for the current login—when I log out and in again, it reverts back to unchecked and comes up with this dialog:
I'm using mac mail v7.3 in mavericks on an iMac. I'm trying to trim the size of my inbox and SENT mailboxes using Message > Remove attachments. First I sort, say, the inbox by size to identify the largest messages. I select a message -- even a single message not in a larger thread -- and click Message > Remove attachments. Zing! The whole message disappears from the inbox. Then if I search for it, I find it in "All Messages", not th e inbox, and it still has the attachments! Same thing if the message started in SENT -- it gets moved to "All Messages". This is a pain because my goal was to strip the attachments, then save the message to a specific mailbox quickly and efficiently; I can't seem to do either!
I have a physically damaged HDD that can still be detected by disk utility, but I cannot access the files inside. I tried using Data Rescue 3 but the UI was very clunky and I always end up having to restart the computer for it to work. It did manage to scan it once and recover many files, but not some specific file types I was looking for. But due to the clunky UI I couldn't scan it again. Any programs that are reliable and known to recover files from damaged hard drives ? Note : It is connected externally via USB. The HDD was on a Windows Desktop, but using the mac to read it
With Spectacle, is there a way to restore a window to its original size after moving and sizing it? Some of the commercial alternatives offer this feature, but it doesn't seem to be supported with Spectacle.
I am no networking guru so the idea of changing what is reported by /bin/hostname is a bit spooky to me. Should I be concerned? For more background, what is reported by /bin/hostname changes, it seems, currently, with the weather.
Recently, I organized all of the apps on my iPad, and came to a realization: it would be great if I could make the folders have their own icons. What I mean is this (right), as supposed to this (left):
A friend of mine suggested that I learn Swift, as it would help me get a job that I had applied for, and I thought this was a good idea. The only problem: I don't own a Mac computer, or anything with OS X. Is there any way I can try programming on Swift in a non-OS X environment, like Windows or iOS? Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to have to buy another computer just to learn a language.
By the way, if I check Mirror Displays checkbox in Display Preferences after I weak up my Macbook from sleep, the system will halt and automatically reboot. I think the reason which causes reboot is the conflict between the system tries to mirror display and there is no one external display. Does anyone experiences the same issue? I apologise for my poor English.....
So I'm sitting on the couch and I realize that my iPad doesn't have a particular movie that my son is looking for. Ok, no problem I tell myself, I'll just go into the Videos app and transfer it from my iTunes server to the iPad.
When I run $ arch on my 10.9 2012 MacBook Pro, I get the output The manpage for arch says that However, $ file "$(which arch)" gives OTOH, python2.7 is running as a 64-bit executable: Also, the kernel is apparently 64-bit: uname agrees: ..or does it?
I have a brand new MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) and a Dell U3011 30" display. Is there any way to get the full 2560x1600 resolution on the Dell without the $100 Dual-Link DVI adapter?
Safari's Show All Tabs view is pretty useless, it only shows one tab at a time and is fairly easy to trigger with an accidental pinch gesture. How do I turn it off (as least for the pinch gesture)?
OSX has a builtin passphrase dialog for ssh-agent, so that on the first use of a key, it'll get cached. The problem is -- I can't find a way to spawn that dialog by just adding ssh-add. ssh-add will only prompt for a passphrase on the terminal. Somehow, the agent checks the existence of matching .pub and private key files and uses that to know which to ask for and spawn what I assume is a builtin dialog box.
By desktop, I mean creating extra desktops that you can flip to for extra screen real estate, not separate monitors. They used to call it spaces.
Are there shortcut keys or another quick way to indent a text block at once in a normal text area on OS X? So that I can easily turn: Into:
With the release of Yosemite I'll no doubt be needing to update our OS X UI at work, basically just white-labeling various parts of OS X. I lost my bash aliases a while back and have forgotten the command to reload the UI of OS X. I'm looking for a way to tell the OS to clear any frameworks it might have cached somewhere and load them fresh from disk. The ultimate goal in doing this would be to force any changes you made to your .framework packages to get reflected in the OS.
I have got 5 scripts listed in ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ SkypeABDialer.bundle SkypeABSMS.bundle TelephoneAddressBookPhonePlugIn.bundle TelephoneAddressBookSIPAddressPlugIn.bundle Dial with Snom VoIP phone.scpt Since the OS upgrade from 10.7 (Lion) to 10.9 (Mavericks) the .bundle plug-ins are still available within the "Contacts" application, however the AppleScript (.scpt) version is no longer listed at the former entry points. How to fix this?
I received a potentially compromising picture in a WhatsApp chat on my iPhone, I want to get rid of it entirely in everything Apple. I've deleted it from the chat (within minutes), but where else could it end up being stored? Photostream? Camera Roll? Somewhere in my Macbook? Would it be backed up to the iCloud automatically? Please tell me all the places I need to check to be sure. Sorry for the newbie questions.
I am trying to run Eclipse Luna using Oracle Java JRE 1.8.0_11 on Mac OS X 10.9.4. I have added the following line to my eclipse.ini file: Eclipse seems to have picked this up, but now I get the following message when starting it:
I get the pinwheel of death when I try to open Mail Preferences. I'm using OS X 10.7.5 and Mail v5.3.
When trying to shrink the size of a partition, the period before the actual resizing happens (where Disk Utility says "Preparing to partition disk") hangs forever. I dug into Console to see what was going on and I came across this error, which is 100% reproducible for me as soon as I click "Apply" to resize the partition: I found this link which describes pretty much the same issue, but does not contain any useful suggestions for workarounds.
I don't want people to see me in Game Center. How can I prevent others from finding me?
I have OSX 10.9.2 on iMac 21.5 Mid 2011 I've been scouring the forums for pairing bluetooth devices but I can't find any of the options mentioned. If I go to Preferences -> Bluetooth, there isn't an option to add a devices, it just scans automatically.
I am not able to set-up Personal Hotspot in my IPad 2. I have read somewhere that, if my carrier allows me to enable Hotspot, then the IPad also will allow me to enable Hotspot, as Apple has no correspondence with the Hotspot. But, when I connect the same SIM card to my IPhone, the hotspot works. So, is there any way I can enable Hotspot in my IPad?
Attempts to raise the maximum number of systemwide processes above 2500 fail. In an archived Apple article, it's mentioned that as of OSX Server 10.6, maxproc was 2500 for each 8 GB of installed RAM. I'm running OSX 10.9 (non-Server), with 16 GB of RAM, on a 2012 MacBook Pro. By comparison, the ubuntu linux VM running under OSX supports over 30 000 processes without any special configuration.
I have my MBP that is connected to wifi, and I want to share this connection with other devices but via wifi as well. Can this be done with a stock MBP (i.e. no extra wifi card)? I enabled this in Sharing, but my chosen wifi network name was not showing up. MBP is running latest Mavericks (10.9.4).
I cannot figure out how to get View Controller Scene on my main working area in Xcode rather than to have it on top of my working area. I want to be able comfortably navigate thought my view items.
I just restarted my iPhone so it says that i have to plug it in to iTunes, i have downloaded the new version but it is not being recognized. I am using and old 3rd generation iPod nano cord if that makes any difference. i have tried uninstalling and re-installing iTunes but nothing has helped.
I have a PPC G5 running Tiger that I access headlessly via Screen Sharing on my Late 2012 Mac Mini Server [Mt. Lion]. This worked without incident for over a year. Both computers are connected to my Airport Extreme with ethernet cables. After a loudly whirling fan event, the G5 is no longer usable via Screen Sharing because the screen image is just totally jacked up.
My WD MyBook Essential with USB 2.0 appears with read-only permissions. I set the drive up on my old Vista machine, and when Vista began crashing, I switched to Ubuntu. I still have the Ubuntu machine, but started using a Mac.
I have added an note to a PDF file in Preview, and the yellow icon is covering up some text, but I can't move it away by dragging:  Any ideas?
When I try the same thing with my usb input it logs the left arrow as a seperate key press NOT as a compound command. In the image above it logs the left arrow key ,but when using the keyboard to do control left the left is not registered. Does anyone know how to have osx recognize my external usb controller switch as a compound command?
I'm part of a race team and was wondering if there was any way to get the stopwatch on the lock screen. Time is critical in the races we run and it'd be great if I could just glance down and see the time. I'm running IOS 7.
I watch a bunch of movies on DVD that I get from Netflix. I'd really like to watch them from my iPad, but of course my iPad doesn't have a DVD drive.
I made a mistake and accidentally started downloading iOS 7 on my device. I didn't notice it until it finished downloading but now it says it needs minimum of 50% charge to start installation. I do not want to install and and I am concerned of charging my phone as the download might start automatically Will it install automatically?
I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my TV in my living room, connected via my audio received, and via HDMI. If I leave the Mac until it goes to sleep, the TV screen goes blue (as expected), and the Mini goes to sleep. If I then try to wake the Mini using the keyboard or the button on the back, the Mini wakes up fine, but the TV remains on the blue screen, and I have to unplug and re-plug the HDMI cable for the TV to decide what it's doing and show the display.
I want to create an permanent SMB mount and read SMB storage in Finder. So I read following articles. Create a Permanent SMB Mount in OSX (Updated) Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes
Sleep mode seems to cause problems with my MacPro. Is there a way to turn the monitor off and on? In "System preferences/Display/options" I can select "Display Power Button" "turns the display on and off" but that does not work. If there is a key board toggle, that might help.
I know that I can see all my purchased apps in the App Store on my iPad but it doesn't give any indication of whether these are free apps or whether I paid for them. I am in South Africa and have accounts in both the ZA and US stores. Before the ZA store had access to most apps I would buy them from the US store that I had loaded with vouchers. Unfortunately I left my iPad's store connected to the US store and "bought" many free apps there too. Now I keep the ZA store connected and apps purchased from the US store don't update unless I switch stores first.
If you're blocked as a contact on a iPhone can you still contact them by FaceTime audio?
I have checked the breakdown of data used. Under Settings > General > Usage, the Storage Breakdown for apps is: Photos & Camera - 387MB Whatsapp - 378MB Voice Memos - 334 MB etc. (in descending order)
Not too sure how to describe this... but I saw this on a person's computer a cafe today and didn't get a chance to ask him what plugin/application he was using -- I think it best to illustrate with an example: Say there's a directory with three folders, 'kitty', 'doggie', and 'frog'.
I have an apple ID in A country, and now I get a apple ID in B country. I am about to switch to the second apple ID. Switching ID may potentially cause problems, like data loss, information loss and etc. I have noticed that the manual written by Apple discussed: What to do after you change your Apple ID. I am asking: Apple ID: What to do BEFORE you change your Apple ID, in order to protect the data, and transfer safely and seamlessly.
I'm trying to figure out how to perform wildcard searches for filenames with mdfind on OsX? I tried: mdfind -name "*.pdf" but it didn't work. EDIT: I want to be able to find names like "test*.pdf"
I am setting up a webserver but I am currently receiving a 403 error when browsing to Localhost. I am setting up "username.conf" and I have a couple of questions: Since I am not logged in as a user that is not the admin, do I need to rename the username.conf file to the specific user's name? Since I am not logged in as a user that is not the admin, do I need to rename the username.conf file to the specific user's name?
As I understand it, it's possible to listen to YouTube audio in the background, by playing it from the safari app, on iOS devices. What I wonder: does doing this reduce the bandwidth, the amount of data because solely audio (and no video) is being output?
I would like to set Atom as my default editor for open. In order to do this, I set in my .bashrc:
I just bought a new mac. I've been using it a couple of days, and today I find that under "Apps using significant energy" there is a listing com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice.
My MacBook Pro (15", 2014, OS X Mavericks 10.9.4) and my 24" 1920x1200 monitor are not working together. I connect the two with from the Mini DisplayPort on the Mac to DVI on the monitor. The monitor only shows a "static" effect like when an old tv cannot pick up a signal and my Mac's screen flickers ~30 seconds. When I turn the monitor off then on, when my Mac is still connected, the monitor goes blank and the MacBook screen begins to flicker every ~3 seconds.
Allows the app to record audio with microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.
I have found some threads describing this problem on Google, but none of them provided an (working) answer. I have installed beta of Yosemite on my MBA (2013). I made no back-ups, but it's my secondary computer and I have no important data here. The problem is: internal trackpad and keyboard stopped working suddenly - during internet browsing on Safari. What's more, mac was running pretty slow during the first hours after the problem occured. Then, this issue fixed itself. When I connect mouse and keyboard via USB - it' all OK. What I already did: -PRAM Reset -SMC Reset -checked all what I could in system settings UI -Reinstalling OS X -Hard reset (erased disc) to factory settings with Maverics OS. However, it should not be a hardware problem - I can enter recovery mode ( Cmd + R ) with my internal keyboard. Does someone has any more suggestions ?
Are there other large technical differences between those generations, which I should consider (like plastic or Aluminium body, graphics performance, connectivity (USB/FW/...?), etc.? I'm thankful for each advice as my (formerly quite good) knowledge about the generations of Apple products got stuck in the year 2007 :-(
If I AirPlay something from my laptop, which connects to the internet via VPN, to my Apple TV which connects to my wifi router which is NOT VPN protected, is the content I'm AirPlaying exposed beyond my local network?
From my MacBook Pro I send all audio using Airplay to my Airplay Express. I can adjust the volume with the volume buttons (F11 and the F12 keys) but I can't use the mute button on the F10 key. It shows me the following when I press it:
My iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1 will not vibrate at all. I've run through numerous setting suggestions and combos (hardware and software switches), but it won't vibrate for e-mail, for texts, nor will it vibrate when you select a new vibration tone (IIRC, that usually demos the vibration when you do that). It's not the 'do not disturb' on the control center either.
I see the following warning when visiting *=URL=* after July 26, 2014. I get this warning in both Chrome and Safari on my OS X Mavericks-equipped iMac.
I have a text file called stocks.txt it looks like this: The things that look like [00m are colors of the text. When I use cat to read the file in Terminal it lines up and looks organized. When I try to do the same thing as a GeekTool shell command it messes up the spacing. What can I do to make it look right. In terminal:
Does anyone know of a way to get modifier keys to work across USB devices in OSX? I have a USB footswitch that sends a left control key. It sends the signal as expected but does not register shortcuts. Pressing it and then pressing "left" does not trigger the appropriate shortcut, but when I hit control and left on built in macbook pro keyboard it works as expected. I found the following on the kinesis website:
I am currently having problems with kernal_task using ~2GB of RAM and looking at what advice exists I ran sysdiagnose and in powermeterics.txt I found that Vector 0xdd(TMR) was doing ~20,000 interrupts/sec. However, this vector was different than the one the advice that I was looking at suggested would be the problem. However, clearly this happening is also a problem. However, when I'm trying to look for what Vector 0xdd(TMR) does, all that I find are the results relating what the advice suggest that the other problem because it is more common and that all the Vectors are often copied together when asking what is going wrong. So what does this Vector do and now I would go about fixing the fact that it is doing ~20,000 interrupts/sec? EDIT: While I currently still don't know what is caused this issue, it was resolved by Vladimir's answer below.
I have recently installed OS X version 10.9 on my MacBook Pro. When I start it, it doesn't require any password but when I try to install Adobe Flash Player or other plugins I am asked to approve the installation by entering the password of the user who is now "Us" (different name). When I enter the old password I had before formatting and installing new OS X, it kept saying wrong password. Is there any standard password to use?
I have seen 2 different methods of putting your iPhone in Field Test mode permanently in iOS 7, a short one and a long one. The short way:
I've skimmed some literature on the internet, but there doesn't seem to be that much definitive information, just people giving rote directions to flash EFI firmware for those of us who have deleted it. If someone could just point me in the right direction (to learn more precisely about firmware.scap), I would be very grateful.
I used to plug in my TP-LINK TL-WN721N Wi-Fi adapter in a port in my old computer that used to run Windows. That's how I connected to the internet, but now I bought an iMac which I couldn't connect to the internet.
I have a 2009 MBP. For a long time I've had a Bootcamp partition on the hard drive, recently I bought a second SSD and installed it in the Optibay and installed Windows on it. As it was going well I thought I'd give OSX the full hard drive so I used Bootcamp Assistant to remove the Bootcamp partition on drive #1. Drive #2 still has the Windows 7 so I restarted expecting REfit to pick up the changes and assumed I would be working as normal. However when I try to start Windows I get a black screen and the words: Furthermore REfit is still showing the old partition-based Windows install as a boot option but I know its not there. Is there a way of fixing all this without wiping, repartitioning and reinstalling Windows using Bootcamp?
New apple user here, I found this Macbook Air model: *=URL=* When I did a search about the Serial Order (MD760F/A), I couldn't find it! My Question: How to identify this model? Thank you in advance!
Can somebody help me find this wallpaper in high resolution? (image taken from http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/).
I want to move my safari bookmarks from my iPad to my MacBook computer exactly as they are on my iPad. Not the other direction. Not merge. I would like exactly the same contents and order intact. Happy to lose/overwrite the bookmarks file on the computer.
I created a business channel with my Gmail account and then accidentally also created a personal Google+ account with the same Gmail address. I can toggle back and forth between these two accounts, but I can't upload to my business channel anymore from my iPad.
So here are the details. My friend and I both have 13-inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro's. Same processor and specs since they were purchased at the same time, but originally had 250 GB hard drives. His hard drive failed and needed a new one. Put a 500 GB Seagate Momentus 5400.6 in his computer, and tried using a flash drive with "Install OS X Mavericks" on it to install Mavericks on his new hard drive. No matter what, it wouldn't install. I finally was able to install OS X 10.9.4 on it by connecting the new hard drive to my computer with a USB hard drive enclosure. I put the hard drive back inside his computer and it wouldn't boot (stuck on the gray screen with apple logo and a spinning wheel). I then attached to the hard drive to his computer externally with the USB enclosure, and then it booted and worked perfectly.
I spilled water on my Macbook Air last week. The technician had to remove the battery because it wasn't charging. Without battery, the computer runs fine. I'm thinking of purchasing another battery, however, I want to ensure that the problem is effectively the battery and not something else. How can I test the battery and determine whether that's the cause of the problem, so I can decide whether to purchase another one or not?
On my iPhone I find that the google suggestion list has a large portion of my search term already and I'd like to use a suggestion without having to type it. Is it possible to select one of the suggestions and have it fill up my partially typed term but without triggering the search? What happens now is it automatically executes the search when I choose a suggestion even though I want to add more to it first.
I'm amazed that this is normal behaviour in OSX. But if you name your folder "xxxyyzz.download", it creates a temporary download file. This is not the only problem I encountered (there are other extensions that give problems), but I was wondering if this could be solved? I have a naming preference of using dots in the folders - seems this is not a good idea on OSX?
It seems like only the music I purchased in the iTunes store is transferring and I'd like to get the music I've ripped from my CDs onto my new MacBook but there is no CD drive.
On OSX Maps, when I use my "Current Location" always resolves to the house next door. This is easy enough to override, by never using my current location, but is there a way to make it know the real location of my Mac? Like reset Apples DB of where my Wifi is?
I have these two Applescript commands in which they both point to the same file The alias command works just fine. However the file command does not as it reports this error: "Can’t get file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"." Any idea why the file command fails? Thanks in advance, Scott
I know that if your top button doesn't work and you turn off your phone then you can turn your phone back on by connecting it to a charger but is there a way to turn my phone on when the top button doesn't work without connecting my phone to a charger ?
I've been getting used to working with Iterm2 over the past few weeks. I have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as keybinding and color changes.
I turned off my find my iphone in my settings about a year ago. My friend said that he swore it was on a couple of months ago and I swore that it wasn't because I just turned it back on today. Is there a way to check a history of that? We tried the email search but my email wasn't much help. Is there anything I can do to prove that its been off this whole time?
The manual page for /usr/bin/security on OS X 10.9 indicates that there is a -x option for security import to specify that private keys are non-extractable after being imported. How is this implemented? Are the private keys imported through such means really become completely non-extractable, or is there still a way to get a hold of them through some kind of memory dump? How do applications still use such keys for their crypto? I've tried using *=URL=* with the following patch, but I'm getting the following error when trying to export the private key, Is there some other way to get a hold of the non-extractable key?
iPhoto in my Mac mini pops an error, upon trying to import video from the camera: /Users/Pat/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary.photolibrary/Import/Masters/Roll 1/EK000003.AVI Can’t import the videos because the file is an unrecognized format. What does this mean?
I use a mac retina and want to change the pitch coming out of my mac. Its like if I am listening to music, I can up the pitch (like in garage band) and make it sound like a chipmunk singing. Is there any free apps to do that?
She has so much stuff on the device, that she can't do an OTA update - not enough space to download the firmware. She seems to need a computer to download for her phone.
To be more specific, I mean the file that keeps a history of every disk image/volume ever mounted. I know it exists because I found it once, but it was a long time ago and I have no idea how to find it again. It is similar to the InstallHistory.plist file, which logs every program ever installed.
I have a new 2014 MacBook Pro with 1TB internal PCIe SSD. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is reporting read/write speeds of over 900MB/s. I am debating whether to swap this machine for a 512GB one (saving $500) and using an external Thunderbolt SSD drive, which would be cheaper and more practical. My questions are:
I have a bunch of Applescripts that do things like change sort column in Finder windows, but they've stopped working since Mavericks. If I close and reopen the window, then the change takes effect, but this is annoying.
I did a backup with Time Machine on a Netgear ReadyNAS to save complete System(OS X Mavericks). Because I have installed OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Now I recovered this backup. But I lost about 200 GB of 360GB. Has anybody an idea to recover this lost data from SSD?
I am trying to use echo in GeekTool to print text without a newline like this: echo -n "test" When I run that command in Terminal it prints this: test In geek tool it prints this: -n test What is going on and how can I fix it?
I just bought a iPhone 4s and I changed from tmobile to Vodafone using a PAC code. I am now waiting for my new service. However I wrote in my number on the settings>my number. Will this effect my network transfer?
I'm unable to use any of the apps included in the iWork package. If I try to open any one of them, the app opens but I can't perform any action. I click on the bar menu items to see that even 'About Numbers' or 'Open' items are greyed out. I tried reinstalling the apps(even deleting them with AppCleaner so that every app item gets deleted) several times with no luck. Any thoughts?
There seems to be conflicting information on the web, so I wanted to check if there are any problems buying a third party ethernet adaptor (eg this one). This is for a current (mid 2014) 15" rMBP. I'd just like to save a few dollars ove the Apple Thunderbolt one.
How do I get rid of this (see below) grey bar in safari? Its getting very annoying. Bigger view: I am using safari 7.5.
I am connected to a vpn network throught the ethernet port. And I want to share these connection over a WLAN internet sharing my iPhone. Configuration: OSX: Mavericks (Version 10.9.4) VPN: OpenVPN (with client Tunnelblick oder Viscosity) Interface: TAP I tried a couple of tutorials, but nothing works: *=URL=* *=URL=* I also tried the tool IceFloor (hanynet), with the NAT combination and a shared vpn connection: After assign these services, it looks so: And my interfaces are: Is these configuration all, or have i missed something?
I tried to contact Apple for support since I just bought iMovie for my iPhone 5. They just shut me down, no response. I figure it was because my macbook is an older model and out of warranty. I can get my movie clips to show up in iMovie on my macbook. How do I get the new movies I made on my iPhone into my macbook for editing and filing?
What I've searched so far says that my iPhone had goes to Recovery-Mode (Am I right?) because it stuck on Apple Logo and won't start. What I've tried so far : What is Soft DFU mode, and how do I exit it How to Exit iOS Recovery Mode *=URL=* But problem still remains. Please tell me how do I get rid of this Apple Logo on my jailbroken iPhone 5s?
How do I determine if my OS X 10.9.4 is a 32 bit or 64 bit operating system? I've looked at "About This Mac" but don't understand what the processor information (i.e. 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7) translates into as refers to "bits.
So I was watching some great BBC documentaries on YouTube last night, and before I fell asleep, I plugged in my Macbook (early 2013, 13") and set it on my nightstand. When I got up today, I was unable to use the trackpad at all. Keyboard works just fine, but the trackpad does absolutely nothing. No clicks, no movement, no response.
I have an iPhone 4 (iOS 7) with cell plan but no data. When texting with non-iPhone users, I get the texts to and from no problem. When texting with iPhone users, though, the messages will only appear when I'm on Wi-Fi. It appears that when iPhone users (like my wife) try to send me a text message, it defaults on their end to iMessage, and those messages won't appear until I reconnect with Internet.
I'm about to install Eclipse on my McBook Pro (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo - so 64 bits if I'm not mistaken). What are the consequences of installing a 64 vs a 32 bit package?
I'm doing a report and researching various Mac graphics cards and how they would work or not work with pro apps. I'm very confused by all of the terminology and specifications, so I hope I can formulate this question clearly.
Is there any way to access photos from my Photo Stream that were there yesterday before I stupidly downloaded my SD card with over 1,000 photos on it. Are those earlier photos gone forever or stored somewhere in the Cloud?
I am trying to connect my iPhone to a laptop with a wireless connection using a USB dongle. I am getting an error that I have not internet access.
I am using an applescript to activate internet sharing option from 'System Pref> Sharing'. I work on MacOs 10.9.4. I found this script on a forum and am using it. This works fine, when the System Preferences window is open. However,when the System Preferences window is closed, the script opens the System Prefs window and then displays this error message: This is the code for the script
I am having a real hard time installing Apache Hadoop(2.4.1) on my Mac(OS 10.9).Is there any step to step guide that fully explains and more importantly gets Hadoop running on my machine?. I followed a tutorial for installing and currently my issues are these:
I run my school's theatre, and I'm looking for some kind of software that we can put on the projector screen before our school assembly. I want to have some elements update themselves automatically (for example; local weather forecast, time/date, news ticker), and some elements that I can edit myself (to insert school announcements, sports games results, etc). Powerpoint/Keynote would be perfect because of their customizability, except neither of them allow you to insert live data (weather, news, etc) (Powerpoint Windows does, but not for mac). Does anyone know of some (mac compatible) software or a website that has this functionality?
I use iPhoto for my mobile (iPhone, iPad) pictures and I have a separate library in Aperture for the pictures I take with my DSLR. Until now I was just transferring my mobile photos to iPhoto.
I have just edited a song in GarageBand on OS X. At the end of the music I discovered that I have almost 5 minutes of silence at the end of the track after the music stops.
Somehow rabbitmq is installed on my Mac (OS X Mavericks) and I see the following process However, diagnostics shows the following: What should I do?
I have found the nice script below to ping a host to check if it is up or down. However I haven't found a way (and my very basic programming knowledge has failed me here) on how I can ping multiple servers. Ideally I'd go HOST1= XXX, HOST2=YYY etc...
I have a problem suddenly finding myself typing in a completely different part of a document. I'd like to see an option to disable the trackpad while typing, for a user-selected number of ms after a keystroke. That would solve the most irritating thing about the macbook for me.
How can I remove a "shared" drive from the left bar of MAC OS x mavericks? I've tried all the suggestions I can find online, but nothing seems to work. It is a drive called "psce8cef", and I do not know when I first saw it. Thanks,
I am very confused with this problem. So I just recently purchased a 8 core 3.0ghz Mac Pro 2,1 and I upgraded the memory with 16gbs of hynix ram, and everything worked great the computer was reading all 16gbs of memory and I thought all was well but when I tried to restart the computer it just shuts off and the screen goes black and there are no start up chimes or anything. So I have to hold the power button and shut it off all the way and then reboot it and everything works fine again until I try to restart it again? Any help would be appreciated. I am running OSX Lion! P.S there are no led lights that are illuminated on the memory boards!
I've a scanned PDF and i can't seem to highlight the text of course using the preview on my OS X, is there a software that do that like in windows? Thanks
I want to help a friend upgrading her macbook pro macbook 2012 MD101 from 4GB RAM and HDD to 8GB RAM and SSD. Since I am not a mac guy myself, I need to ask you guys what is the compatible RAM modules for this particular mac model. Further more. As far as I know RAM modules should be 204pin SODIMM 1.5 volt? Also does any kind of SSD drive would work (I assume so but again please confirm).
I can't find a disk to back up Time Machine files. According to this I need an external HD. I have imac 10.6.8. Various directions seem to say I can find a disc on my computer except I get no prompt for that. By the date, Airport, and Time Machine etc,I clicked on "Browse other Time Machine disc, and underneath "Open Time Machine preferences". This contains Time Machine backup disk but it is empty.
How do I export a website to an app in safari? There is this feature in iOS 7 called 'save to home screen', I'm looking for something similar on OS X.
I like reading stuff online, and I like flipping through "pages". There's some apps with great UIs like Flipboard, but they only work on pre-curated content. Is there any app like Flipboard that will let me search Google and open any URL I find?
I have OS X 10.8.5. I typically have several windows of some applications open on more than one desktop. When using App Expose, it shows all of the open windows of the current application on all Desktops. Mission Control shows all open windows, regardless of application, on the current desktop but the windows are overlapping. I want to have a way to show just the windows, without overlapping, of the current application on the current desktop.
I have created a Mavericks OS bootable SD card that I am trying to get onto my Macbook pro 2011 model. Every time I try to boot from that card using 'Option' or by selecting to use it as t the startup disk. It just brings me back to the same old Lion 10.7 installer. On top of that I can't get that to install either because when I try to install it I get the error message 'This item is temporarily unavailable, try again later' What do I do?
I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to test the software on older versions of OS X as well. The one problem I have is that neither VMWare nor Parallels seem to work with multiple displays on a OS X Guest (I know they both work with Windows guests).
I need a 30-pin (iPhone 4) to Lightning (iPhone 5) with a long cable (1m) between the 2 ends. Does such thing exist?
Here's screenshot of available keys in Armenian HM QWERTY keyboard:  The thing that bothers me a lot - I can not find the "Շ" letter ("sh"). For instance, here's screenshot of the second keyboard available - Armenian Western QWERTY (Շ is marked with red dot):
I have the ~$80 apple earbuds, and it has a built-in microphone which works fine. I've used it for skype and taking calls. In Preferences, the drop down for Dictation's input has 'Line-in", but when selected, Dictation does not hear me. In Sound preferences, 'Line-in' has the full title of 'Audio Line-In Port', so it is 'there'. So I'm just curious why Dictation won't listen via my earbud microphone.
Earlier i was able to access the NTFS formatted External hard drive in my Mac 10.9 as read only device. While trying to make the external NTFS drive writable i screwed up by unmouting it this link diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s1 Later when i tried mounting it again it failed diskutil mount Volume on disk1s1 failed to mount
So, I wrote a review for an app. Both positive and negative thoughts in it, then I refreshed it and its not there. Help? Do I need a review account because all the people who review have some kind of username.
I have a Dell LCD monitor connected to my Macbook Pro with Retina display (late 2013) via Mini DisplayPort/VGA adapter. It was working fine at the end of last week when I took my laptop home. When I came back to the office this morning, I have the following symptoms: Powering on both devices from cold powered-off state, my Mac boots normally and the LCD power indicator goes from amber to green as normal as it detects a signal The LCD backlight turns on The display is completely black OS X (Mavericks, 10.9.4) detects the display, because I can arrange the two screens in System Preferences and even move my mouse pointer off the internal display I can even change the resolution of the external monitor (when I do, the power indicator goes from green to amber back to green as it re-syncs) The LCD panel's menu works fine, so the panel itself is OK I have tried: resetting SMC and PRAM changing resolution of the external closing the lid of the MacBook Pro booting into the Yosemite Beta on anot
Strange thing keeps happening with one of my clients. They are running 3 iMacs 2of which are running 10.9.3 and 1 is running 10.9.4. While they are accessing a Windows share, they can be working away quite happily until it comes to saving where they no longer have access to the file opened from the server and have to save as a new file. They are accessing using smb://{servername}/{share} What would cause this? Cheers
So I have a script that outputs this What I would like to do it copy it to the clipboard as rich text and not plain text. Is this possible? Right now I have this command:
OSX 10.8.5 I am using lastPass and have the appleID in there so I can copy and paste whenever needed.
I use a swedish keyboard at home, and an english at work. I have one laptop for both places. Every day I have to switch the input language manually back and forth, and for every app I'm using it seems. Is there any way to just have the input language match whatever keyboard I'm using, automagically?
I'd like to share a calendar with my wife that would be visible on our phones. We're both OSX/iOS at the moment, so naturally I set up an iCloud calendar on my iPhone which is visible to her. The only problem is that she does NOT want her contacts, calendars, notes, etc. on the cloud.
After upgrading my MB Air & upgrading to Mavericks, I can't get my beloved tilde character to turn up. I got a Norwegian keyboard, so there is no dedicated tilde character. Answers from Google and search here has so far not solved the problem for me. I tried using KeyRemap4MacBook with option Shift+Escape to tilde, which gives me the > character. This fits what has been mentioned elsewhere: That the tilde on the international keyboard is between left Shift and the Z key - which on mine is > Is there something obvious i'm missing?
The goal: map "Caps Lock" to "Control" from the command-line. I'm trying to update the modifier keys from the command-line with the following command as explained here and here but to no effect. When I do it from the "System preferences" it works right away and seem to be configured the same as when I do it the manually, as seen below: This is the same exact result as when running it manually or from the GUI.
I have brew installed (v 0.9.5) along with Xcode (Version 5.1.1 (5B1008)). When I attempt to install MacVim like so I encounter the following error message: How can I resolve this issue? NOTE: Much of what I've found seems to state that I need to install some command line component to Xcode but I wasn't able to figure out what this actually entailed.
From past experience in answering "did you get my message" questions, I know a voice mail was left. In fact, three of the four messages shown above are 0 length even though I got emails referencing the voice mail message. The majority of voice mail messages are like this on the phone.
We are deploying iPads in an enterprise environment. We have a specific use case where we will use an app for internal use only. We tried to completely lock down access, but we see it is too restrictive. For example, the iPad needs to talk with a time server to sync the date and time. Does anyone know the specifics about what servers the time sync occurs with? Is it just apple.com? Or perhaps a set of time servers?
I have a power mac, which I recently updated to Lion. I've never used a password before and yet after an unusual abortive boot (unusual boot-sequence which hanged, which I had to hard-reset) I now get a login screen, which since I've never had a login in the first place, I can't get past (tried apple-ID for instance, to no avail).
I have bought an iPhone 5s from USA, and sent it back home, however it shows "SIM Not Valid". Is it factory locked, country locked or something else? How can I fix it?
I've been experiencing a strange thing in my MBP 2010 and only in OSX, haven't noticed this when I boot into Windows. Noise happens for a second or two when changing state - loading pages, switching windows etc., this is the extreme occurence:
I was just wondering what is an "iTunes card"? Also, what is an "iTunes card generator"? What is the use of it and how could anyone get this?
I am trying to enroll my iPad to be a remotely controlled device via SOTI MobiControl. The Wi-Fi is internal and is currently not able to access public IPs. After I tap on Install, it times out after 45 seconds. The error message is: Profile Installation Failed The request timed out
I have a dictionary that consists of a dictionary.dict.dz and dictionary.index files. How can I install this dictionary for use with OSX dictionary app (running Mavericks)? It works fine with GoldenDict, but I'd prefer to have this dictionary amongst the rest. DictUnifier, which I have used to install a few other dictionaries, doesn't recognize the file.
Where can I get a copy of the S/W Lion? I want to "clean install OS X Lion" on my MBA 13" 2012, like it originally came. AirRay
On my mac I did find ~/ in the terminal to list all the files in my home directory it listed over 500,000. This seems like an awful lot to me and occasionally my computer is slow. Is there any recommended maximum number of files to have? Even though a lot of the files are little would they cause the file system index to get really large and unwieldy?
I had a long day battling with installing a LAMP environment with Macports. I installed several things, had many problems, tried uninstalling them (not sure if I did), and on and on. Then, I tried doing the same thing in Homebrew. Same story. I then completely reinstalled Mavericks and did it all over again.
I use a speak recognition program Called Dragon Dictation because my hands are disabled. I work at home from a computer and I use the program for mouse clicks but I have to say "mouse click" which doesn't seem like a big deal but when you're saying it 100 times a day it would be so much easier to just say "click". Most of the commands I can see in AppleScript code and I can copy and paste it to make my own commands. However, the mouse clicks are not shown for some reason. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.
My wife has a Dropbox she uses to exchange files (mainly pictures) with a friend, but needs to send files to a printer who uses Dropbox. How can she create a Folder to privately share only with the printer?
I am using /etc/ppp/ip-up to set up some particular routes for an L2TP VN (defined in System Preferences/Network as a service) I now want to add a new VPN service but use a different ip-up script (or at least have that ip-up script behave differently). I cannot see any distinguishing info that is passed to ip-up though. The parameters are the same, and the 'env' also does not contain a hint to the service name. (in this case the second service is to the same VPN server, I just want a different set of routes set up depending on which VON I start, so going by the IP addresses ppp gets from remote is no use in this case) is this even possible?
I wanted to know how I can connect my iPhone to HC-05 Bluetooth module. Is there any apps for it or/and How can I create an app for it? Thanks in advance
I have a problem using outlook for mac 2011, after I imported my emails, the sent items shows wrong date, When i open the message, it shows the right date, how can I fix it? i want to show the right date when i view the message and I open the message. tried to repair the identity but it didn't worked thank you
I am using a Late 2013 21.5" iMac with a 22" Samsung TV as a second monitor. My iMac automatically changes its brightness throughout the day. Is there any way I can get my Samsung TV to automatically change the brightness in sync with my iMac?
I log into my Mum's computer with my iCloud account, and I've found that it has copied over 70Gb of my photos to the iLifeAssetManagement folder in user account on her computer. Her MacBook Air is now complaining about lack of storage space. I scratched my head rooted around and found it was down to this "feature". Deleting will only mean it will return; however can I turn this off? Perhaps I should just decouple my iCloud account from being on her computer, but it is handy for Facetime, etc.
I'm running into troubles with my mac 10.9.4 because I'm unable to assign default programs for certain file types. In my example I'm trying to assign .xml files to always be opened with TextEdit. But no matter how often I check that "Always open with" checkbox it will always be ignored. XML-files remain to be opened with Safari no matter what I can do. I'm pretty new to mac so I have no clue where to look for help regarding this.
I have created two mailboxes in USX mail, but for both of them, I get different sent, spam & trash boxes. But I only have one inbox for both of these mailboxes. Here's a picture so you really understand what I mean.
I want to use the equivalent of net send, but from a MacBook. I want to send a pop up message from my mac to a windows machine on same network. Is smbutil the command to use?
I have jsd 1.7 on my machine and I want to install 1.6 as well I couldn't find a way to do so. Anybody know?
I've recently been researching Swift development as I have grown tired of Objective-C. However, the book I am reading (Apple's official guide) will not update to the latest version on my Mac. It updates fine on my iPhone, but it still has the same version from June that I initially downloaded on my Mac. Is there any way to update it?
Can iPhone sensor usage data (Accelerometer, Gyro, GPS, etc,) be exported to a computer for further analysis?
I have an iPhone 4 (A1349), updated to iOS 7.1.2. I synch on a McBook Pro.
Lately my Mail client can't send my outgoing messages. I have a gmail count, and it's configured properly. I can get the incoming messages all the time, but I can not send any. Also the connection doctor says the server is available.
I have an app that has a lot of product information that scrolls horizontally. Note: I tried an app called Web Capture but it requires a URL and only scrolls vertically.
Is it possible to automatically connect to a VPN when one is connected to a WIFI access point? To manually connect to a VPN after connecting to a WIFI access point works, but it is so easy to forget. I am using Mavericks on a Macbook Pro Retina.
Everything worked fine for a long time, until today. Suddenly I am unable to send any emails using my gmail account from both my iOS 7.1 devices. I am getting this message: Unable to send email
I have erased my network and content setting from iPhone 5s. Now my home screen does not show anything. I want my home screen icons and apps back. How can I do that, or how can I reinstall them? I want this screen, kindly help me out.
My account at work (rtonneyck), is a Windows domain account. That's what I use to login too. I noticed the permissions for my Shared windows drive has my user name listed multiple times. Why is this?? Is this a bug with Mavericks? Screenshot: MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Using Windows domain
I'm a Windows user with a Windows-oriented keyboard, and I switched the Command and Ctrl keys in OSX, because I want to use the same keyboard shortcuts whether in Windows or OSX. This came back to haunt me though when I installed a Windows VM in Parallels, and it broke the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combo to login to Windows in the VM (since the Ctrl key is mapped to Command). I would like to create a shortcut mapping Command+Option+Del to the Parallels menu item Devices -> Keyboard -> Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but the shortcuts section of System Preferences -> Keyboard does not allow me to use the Del key. I tried following the instructions in this answer, adding this: to each of but the key combo is not activating the menu item to send Ctrl+Alt+Del when adding the XML to any of those.
By default, Macports uses HTTP to fetch packages. For example: How should a user configure Macports to use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) instead?
On my MacBook I've got Java 6 through 8 installed and I happen to need and use them all on a daily basis. Lately it has been bothering me that every time I want to install an update to Java7 I need to first uninstall Java8. So my question is: is it possible to update an older release of Java (1.7) without having to uninstall the newer one (1.8)? Trying to run the update without first removing Java 1.8 notifies me that: And the link points to a page that doesn't even exist at the moment.
I want to map left_option to \, left command to / and right command to | when used alone. When used in combination with other keys I want the left_option, left command and right command to retain their functions. How do I do that?
I homeschool my daughter and she takes several complex online classes. The teachers want me to be able to listen in and also be able to talk from time to time. I tried going without a mic, but there is way too much background noise for the listener. Recently, I purchased two Turtle Beach Ear Force PLa Gaming Headsets.
My Macbook appears to get slow after a period of inactivity and then get itself back to full speed after 20-30 minutes. While I have some ideas I'm wondering if anybody else has seen such behaviour or can offer some tips on how to investigate it further.
I've been experiencing this since I got my new MacBook... At my job, we work I'm a Microsoft environment. Our servers use SMB3. Our IT deptartment also doesn't officially support Macs. We also use network/domain user accounts. No local accounts. Therefore, we also mapped my domain drive to the Mac. I have my network drive connect on login and save my files and work directly from that location.
Running Mavericks (OS X 10.9.4) is it possible to change the order that the "favorite servers" are displayed in? Allow me to explain a little more the use case. In Finder if one presses Command-K or uses the "Go" menu to "Connect to Server..." a dialog box appears. In the top portion of the dialog is the current server you are about to connect to and below it the servers you have indicated are your favorites. These favorites are set by clicking the + button to the right of server line at the top. After clicking the plus button, servers are added to the top of the favorite. This results in the most recent addition being at the top.
When in month view, Calendar in Mavericks (os x 10.9.4) normally displays an event followed by the time. Now calendar automatically adds (after the time) month/day/year. For example, if in month view for September 16, I enter "Jury Duty 8:30 AM," into the box for September 16, Calendar automatically expands this to "July Duty 8:30 AM 9/16/14. Any way to get rid of month/day/year?
I was wondering how many fans a MBP 13" retina from late 2013 has, since I downloaded iStat Menus to check for internal temperatures because I thought my mbp was running fairly hot... Now in the menu of the app, I can only see the speed of the RightSide fan, and I was wondering whether there is a leftside fan as well? Can someone also specify the normal working range temperatures of this type of mbp, since I hope these temperatures are not really creating a problem.
I can't seem to load the System Preferences > Security & Privacy settings pane. I inadvertantly changed admin settings on my machine and since then I've been unable to access my documents and other files on my iMac. How can I correct the changes and regain access to my files?
Is there a way to detach a tab in a fullscreen Chrome window? I find no way. When I need to do this, I have to un-maximize the window, drag to detach the tab, and then restore the window in fullscreen again. This is burdensome.
I was using Mail.app v4.6 on my iMac and was happy with it until I upgraded to OS X 10.6.8. Now Mail.app crashes my computer whenever I open the application, which is often as it is the default mail application.
I have a script which perform the following: Load a file into a program (Subler — done separately, not in this script) Confirm the loading of the file (this is where the script begins) Saves the file In the save location window it selects a specific directory to save the file in Presses "return" I would like to know how to perform step 4 with the active (or last used) window instead of a specific window title. This is the relevant code: This is the entire code:
I was upgrading from Jaguar 10.2.4 to Tiger 10.4.8 on my creaky old eMac. Inserted the Install disk. When it restarted, I got the chime and Apple logo, then it aborted and a bunch of (to me) gibberish: "no debugger configured ... Latest stack backtrace... Proceeding back via exception chain... Kernel version... Panic: we are hanging here..." Tried several times, but always stops and same message.
How do i change the answers to the export compliance questions on iTunes Connect once I've entered them? I don't know how to get back to that page. How do I get back to that page? (I'm trying to publish an app)
How to voice activate an iPhone without touching it? Illinois' law states cell phone use must be hands free. I realize they intend for you to use a hands-free kit. How come when, at least when it rings, I can't tell Siri to answer it onto speaker phone? Why isn't she listening for commands like the star ship Enterprise?
I the iOS 8 beta 5 they introduced the new option option, Optimize iPhone Storage keeps lower resolution copies of photos on device, and stores original high-res photos in iCloud. How do you access the hi-res photos when you need them?
Does anyone know of a solution (app or site) that will automatically notify me anytime I get a review on one of my iOS apps?
Would an unlocked AT&T iphone 5c work well with 2G/3G in India? AFAIK, India doesn't have 4G yet. So, I am not too worried about 4G/LTE. Would it latch onto 3G in India? I bought the phone in USA.
I have a MBA 2013 with a Thunderbold-Display (middle) and two USB 3.0 Display-Adapters (left and right). After the upgrade to Mavericks, I have to adjust the positioning of the monitors after every restart. This means: After a restart the Thunderbold-Display is set to be the left monitor, while the other two monitors are set to be the middle and right one.
I have downloaded an java j2ee and jdk installer from Oracle  When I run it I got this error message: At the moment I have only got java 6 in my MBP (running OSX 10.9.4). I would have expected the installer is smart enough to run from the unpacked bundled JDK. Is there any workaround?
Obviously changing the cable seems like an option, but I would like to know if someone knows a way to force the driver/EFI/whatever to force a slower link speed negotiation. Currently I have 6Gbps, but I will like to see if I can boot with a capped 3Gbps.
I installed DiskAid and its not recognising my iPod Shuffle (it's showing message "Please connect your device" when I have already plugged in my iPod). Is there any other good app for OSX which is useful to copy and paste music on iPod?
I have have a MacBook pro late 2010 (now 4 years old), I use it everyday and there's a graphical issue where letters in the browser become blurry and broken, some kind of weird glitch happens all the time. Whenever I scroll on a page or write content in an input, using google chrome letters become like this (click on the picture so you understand what happens).
I'm at a loss of what to try next. I've Googled extensively and have not been able to find a solution, or even evidence that other people are experiencing this issue. I find this odd. Has anyone seen this issue and have you resolved it? Thanks.
I just got a MBPr. When the display switches off, like its going to sleep and I quickly hit a key to wake it back up. It shows a black screen with a cursor for about 15-20 seconds before the login screen appears. Its only if I do it instantly after the screen switches off. If I leave it off for sometime it comes back instantly... Its not a problem when I don't log back in and let the screen go black from the login prompt. I also tried to totally disable the show login screen after screensaver/sleep option and it still take a while to go from black to my desktop.
So something's swallowing about 800gb of disk space on my mac. I've ran Disk Inventory X and Omni Sweeper, and both show that my main OS drive only houses 30 GB worth of data. 10GB of that is Home folders from the network share, and the rest I'm guessing is OS based guff.
In researching Time Machine usage issues, I have come across other questions that might change the way I have always arranged my drives. Back in the 'olden days' when internal drives were smaller--say 10 GB--I would attach an external drive for most of my storage. (Keep in mind that my Mac use goes back to my treasured 128K Mac with no hard drive and has evolved since then.) My current iMac had a 750 GB internal drive which died and is being replaced with a 1 TB drive. I also have a 1 TB external drive.
I have Macbook Pro 13" Late 2011. It has 4GB RAM, i bought 2x8GB Corsair, CMSO8GX3M1A1333C9. It works cool in 98% of time, but when i play games or use very heavy apps like Photoshop, i always get crashes and reboots. I try to use only one slot with 8GB in there – the same problem. On 4GB (2x2GB) no crashes or reboots but it's mush more slower...
I have just restored a Time Machine backup to a new disk, and I am finding that I need to re-enter scores of licenses for specific applications (while others seem to be retained without issue). Specifically, I am using RapidWeaver, and most of the Stacks require license keys. They must be stored somewhere, but I have yet to be able to determine the location. I would like to restore that directory from a backup to avoid countless hours of data re-entry.
When there is an update notification on AppStore and I click on it to install whatever is pending, I typically get taken to the Featured tab. That's offensive! Is there any way to avoid this annoying behavior? iPhone 5 "classic", IOS 7.1.2.
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, 13", Late 2013) running Lion 10.9.4, that I use with an external thunderbolt display, a bluetooth trackpad, and a USB keyboard -- both of which are connected through the thunderbolt display. Often (but not every time), when I disconnect from the thunderbolt and go elsewhere, I find that the physical keyboard & trackpad on the MBP become totally unresponsive. I have only found two fixes for this, so far: Repeatedly reconnect/disconnect the thunderbolt display & retry the physical keyboard & trackpad until they work again -- sometimes this happens on the first try, other times it takes 10, 20, even 30 or more attempts. Hard reboot via the power button -- which is ironically the only key on the physical keyboard that does anything at all. I found mention of a similar problem (without a thunderbolt display involved) that suggested closing the macbook for 30+ seconds, but this does not fix my issue.
I have purchsed the apps & most I have are free but I'm being asked for credit card information for apps that are being updated. I'm not being charged for the updates, am I?
I tried to put two 4GB sticks (OWC) into a MacBook Pro early 2011 17 inch. Either of the 4GB sticks works with either of the stock 2GB sticks but both the 4GB sticks do not work. It causes kernel panics. Firmware is already at the latest version (MBP81.0047.B27). I am well aware of fitment process. Officially it can support 8 gb max.
My ol' clunker is doing very well considering its age, but I would like to upgrade its OSX to see if it runs a bit faster, and also because I can't run the latest versions of some applications on OS X 10.5.8.. I'm just hesitant because I'm afraid to make the computer even slower with a newer version of OSX, even if Apple says that I can run newer OSX... Does anyone have any advice? Much appreciated!
I've tried resetting my SMC and PRAM. Nothing. Bluetooth is off. I tried closing Dropbox (I read somewhere that it might affect wifi connectivity). I tried forcing recompile of kernel extensions with I tried removing the wifi from preferred networks and re-adding it. A few details I'm running Mavericks 10.9.4 on a Feb/Mar/early 2011 15" MacBook Pro upgraded to 16 GB ram and 750 GB Samsung SSD with the anti-glare display.
I am looking into buying a used Apple 4s to use as a Tracfone through Tracfone BYOP. I want to be sure that I know my facts before investing money into this venture. Please let me know if I'm missing something or have the wrong info. Tracfone BYOP Requirements: Used Apple iPhone 4 or 4s/ Verizon Carrier/ Clean ESN/ UNLOCKED/ Must Have Verizon SIM Card/ Must be CDMA Question ~~ Does the iPhone HAVE To Have A SIM Card?
I've got a Mac Mini running the latest version of OS X Server, and two iMacs. Both iMacs are the same model (Mid 2007 20-inch, 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo). On one of the Macs I have installed 10.9.4 and installed all of our software, and I used it to make the NetRestore image on the server. I've tried the image on other (newer) Macs around and it seems to work fine, but when I try to run it on this second iMac (which is identical to the original iMac that I made the image from), it fails. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be going on or how to go about fixing it?
I have an original 13" MacBook Air from early 2008 with a micro-DVI interface and a 2011 27" iMac that I would like to use as a monitor for the MacBook Air. A cable that converts the micro-DVI to a DVI connection came with the MacBook but of course there is only a Thunderbolt display on the iMac and I would like to know if there is (officially or un-officially) a cable that will go from DVI to Thunderbolt so I can work on my MacBook Air and see what I am doing on my iMac please?
In Numbers, how is it possible to sort selected columns by a row? In the following example I want to sort the columns B, C and D by using the values in row 1.
I want to automatically start an application if its not running. My use is case that if I quit a particular application I want to automatically restart. Specifically in my case its the Messages app. I always want to keep the Messages app running so if I quit Messages I want it to restart. What's the best way to handle this?
I am new to Applescript and MACs although my first computer was an Apple II Plus and I programed in Apple Basic and Assembly. I am using it to create a "Silent" alarm button. We have a system in place that via a URL call will send a message to a select group of computers, in this case the ones used by our security officers.
I was using Terminal just now and realized that I was seeing something different on the screen than I have in the past. I can't remember what it used to be, but I know for a FACT that I have never seen "integrativeasheville:~" in Terminal. What is going on?
I accidentally deleted my ~/.zshrc file and I'd like to get it back from a Time Machine backup. When I enter Time Machine I can see my home directory, but all the dot-files in the directory are hidden in the Finder window displayed by Time Machine. How can I restore a hidden file like ~/.zshrc using Time Machine?
My mom has an iPad Air with a T-Mobile data plan. The iPad Air is configured to use the Wi-Fi in her home.
I want to use GIT and directory should be on a network drive (mounted with smb://). Because the software I'm using only supports the file:// protocol I need some kind of mapping the network share as a local drive on Mac OS X 10.9. How can that be managed?
I use my mac for development, and create/delete so many (big) files that I ended up turning Spotlight off, since it was taking so much time indexing these files. I think it would be fine if I would only allow Spotlight to index pdf and doc documents, is this possible?
i have just had this iPad passed down to me. I'm not that familiar yet, I'm trying to download some games, some need iOS 6+ that's fine, but some it tell me I need 5.1.1? I'm probably being daft but I thought that's what I'm on? I'm 1st generation, no frills iPad and am used for web browsing and music/music writing mainly. I have completed the games it had on it already and would like new ones, free new ones lol! Can you help me please, I've been scanning the web but no joy! Thankyou x
I have an iPhone 4 and I need to block certain prefixes between 1-5 digits. For example, I don't want any outgoing calls to be made with numbers that start with "123", "456", etc, so I want to be able to block those prefixes so that any attempts to call a number that starts with those prefixes does not get placed. Preferably, this list should be protected with a PIN so only I can alter it. How can I do that?
I looked at Camera app gone (not deactivated in restrictions), but it doesn't solve my problem. A full shutdown/reboot did not help. Camera app and Facetime both disappeared about the time I did the latest iOS update. Restrictions are off. If I turn restrictions on, Camera and Facetime are both greyed out. I do have an Exchange account linked, but my sysadmin doesn't have Camera locked out (and other people here are still able to use it).
I have bought a new macbook pro retina 15(the latest 2014 model) with dedicated graphic card couple of days ago, and not ever having a mac before, it feels extremely hot to me. I've installed istats to check what the temperatures are like and it indeed seems quite high to me, and that is while not doing any extensive work, and just having a browser, airmail, st3 and slack open. The fans are not really loud or anything, so they don't seem to be running too fast.. Should I be worried? ..and I can imagine you get a lot of these temperature questions, so sorry for another one.
I have a configuration profile for VPN on demand if the VPN server is down then internet is not getting connected. I have enabled on demand VPN connection using below lines in my mobileconfig profile
I'm going to flash my wifi-router with alternative firmware by following these instructions on my Mac but I'm struggling with the step I can't understand, what is this server. Is it DNS-server? I fI try to change address of DNS-server, than it gets cut to 192.168.1.15. How do I need to set up my Mac to allow the router to fetch the new firmware via tftp?
I have an iPhone and an iPad that are constantly connected through USB to my MacBook Pro 8 hours a day. The battery of both device is always at 100%. Will this hurt my devices battery life? I've researched into alternatives to build and debug from XCode via WIFI or Bluetooth but I find out that those features were dropped by Apple due to stability issues. Are there other alternatives?
I just upgraded to Mavericks (late I know), and I'm not much liking the new Finder sorting system. I had it arranged by modified, for workflow reasons, but I liked the grid too, not the coverflow rows that happen now. Is there a way to have the grid and 'arranged by modified'? EDIT By grid I mean the old icon layout, which now only happens with 'arrange by name.'
I just switched to Mavericks (10.9.4) from the latest Mountain Lion and noticed that my screen, especially noticeable with Mission Control, lags a bit when using the discrete GPU. I've recorded my screen and uploaded a video to show the problem.
I'm running into this really strange problem on my 2013 iMac at home (running Mavericks): the internet will work for a while, then at some point it will stop being able to load any websites except for Facebook and Google (and Google-owned sites, like Gmail and YouTube). These sites work fine, but attempting to access any other site will get stuck on "Connecting..." and eventually time out.
When Finder is operating on a file or folder on the system, the file/folder is greyed out and unable to be opened, as well as unable to be trashed. This is most notable when copying or moving a file or folder using Finder; whilst the operation is in progress the destination file/folder is shown in grey. Finder is aware that the destination file/folder is currently in an operation by setting the creation date of the file or folder to the kMagicBusyCreationDate, which is 08:34:56 on 1946-02-14 (+0000).
Anyone experience anything like this? I remember being warned back when I started doing this that Windows wouldn't really care much for this (as it looks like I'm on two different machines, even though I'm not), but it worked fine for years (and I used to switch back and forth a lot more frequently). If it matters, I set this up under 10.6 originally, I think, and was running Bootcamp Tools version 3, but have now upgraded to version 4. I did see this question, and that answer mirrors what my experience used to be.
Ok I get how to disable Image Capture from opening for a specific device, but I'm an iOS developer and I work with a lot of devices. Is there a way to stop this ruddy app from launching the first time I connect any new device? It's a serious invasion of privacy when I connect someone's phone and immediately see their photos plastered on my screen for the world to see!
I have been syncing my iCal with a company email to which I have lost access. I want to remove the company calendars from my iCal, but when I try opening iCal it continues to pop up the following exception: Thoughts?
When I have my external monitor hooked up, I access it by mousing off the left hand side of my Macbook display. Can I switch this so that I can access the external by mousing off to the right of My Macbook display? The reason I ask, is my monitor is on the right side of my macbook, and it's unintuitive to mouse left to get to a screen on the right.
Instead, I also don't get an error. So apparently they interact with each other to cause an error somehow. If I add a delay I can avoid the problem, but I wan't to know why what I have causes an error. I have OS X 10.9.4.
So I saw around on the internet that people have changed their HDD to an SSD on their MacBook Pro which people say helps in speed. This might seem silly to ask here for some of you but I like to get direct answers from someone with better Mac knowledge than me.
Fresh user account. Terminal.app and iTerm2 with UTF-8 set. Accented characters work fine in all applications ("å,ä,ö,é"). But some (wide?) unicode chars is not showing in some command line applications. I first discovered it in weechat, but in the bash shell it works fine. In stock Mavericks bash: Copying and pasting the flag char with mouse.
On a MacPro at remote office, I enabled FTP server with Now it works, but when downloading a large file, it will serve for a few seconds, then stop completely for a minute or more ... then resume (using lftp with multiple connections.) Like this:
I'm changing iPads soon for school from a old ipad to a new ipad air. I was wondering if I used the same Apple ID, could have save the progress from the games or apps I have in the old ipad and keep them in the new one. I know it saves the game so that you don't have to pay for it again just in care it isn't free. But, let's say I wanna save my Flappy Bird high score. If I get the app on my new ipad air, is there a way I could open the app up without having to start from 0 again. Also, documents in the notability app, is their an easier way to transport them to the new ipad. And music as well? Thank you very much!
Opened messages and the crash reporter immediately opened stating that the program crashed. In the reporter it stated: Sandbox Creation Failed: You do not have permission to save the file "Application Support" to the folder "Library". After some research the only possible solution I found involved creating a temporary account to see if its the system or user library and possibly having to delete your current account and creating a new, slightly different account and move your files to that new account. My question was, is there an easier way to fix this without having to go through so much trouble?
I'd like F2 to used as a standard function key. (ie, when I press F2 my screen won't brighten it will send an F2 to the application) At the same time I'd like the rest of the function keys to do their respective special operations, such as lowering/increasing volume. Is this possible?
My setup is: MacBookAir, OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) and two Thunderbolt displays. It seems that the arrangement of the displays after reconnecting thunderbold or restarting device is rather randomly especialy when the devices where powered off in between. I' am aware that i might rearrange the displays using System Preferences->Displays->Arrangment. But what I miss is to define which is my main screen (holding icons on desktop) and how to save the arrangement to be persistent over restart of mac osx and reconnect with thunderbolt displays (that no have been powered on since last connect.) Thanks
I need to configure my company email to iPad. Following is screen shot of the manual for mail configuration which company mailed to me. I tried giving incoming mail server as specified but it didn't work . Where will i add port no? i didn't come across it while configuring. Whenever i try they send me an error "would you like to configure with out using SSL?" Any method for knowing incoming and outgoing server? Screen shot :
I have a iphone 3gs which has a ios 6.1.6. I want to download ios 7 to run applications like Facebook, SoundCloud, etc. But it cant be downloaded on my device which seems fully updated. How may I upgrade it?
On the iPhone I have the same server address, user name, password and the encryption is for all data. Encryption mode is also set to automatic. The VPN to my WHS 2011 is working fine.
I bought a new latest Mac book pro Retina. I see in my mac book, there are two ports: one for thunderbolt and one for HDMI (or HDMI, I don't know).
I am trying to restore my most recent backup onto my iPhone, but I can only see old backups when I click Restore. My most recent backup does appear in iTunes under Preferences.
I just had an iPhone 4S (8G) upgraded to iOS 7.1.2, and now, the capacity of my iPhone is 6.0GB. I restored my iPhone to factory settings via Restore iPhone in iTunes several times. I did not backup anything, and I always choose Set up as a new iPhone, and I did not connect any iTunes or iCloud account. But everytime there are several hundreds MBs of Others (between 500MB and 900MB, values differ everytime). I also tried to reset all settings and data directly from my iPhone, but to no avail. Is that normal to everyone or there's something wrong with my iPhone?
Apple talked a lot about updating iWork for free with the new Mavericks, I bought iWork '08 it was installed on my machine and updated with no issue. A few months back I upgrade my MBP to a SSD, and did a clean install, I put iWork 08 on expecting it to be updated, but this hasn't happened. Has this upgrade no longer available?
I have IOS 7, and I use the default reminders app. One of my reminders is different than the others in a good way. It shows a due date as well as an alert time; and the task includes the name of someone in my contacts and it offers to call them when I click the reminder.
Is there a way to set the brightness for all displays (thunderbolt displays) connected to a mac using thunderbolt syncroniously. If I chnage the brightness using F1/F2 on my Mac Wireless Keyboard. Only the Main screen is affected. But I want the displays to stay syncronized. Any way thought?
My Macbook Pro cannot able to open up "www.google.com" or "www.facebook.com". But I can open up bing,msn and a lot other sites. Oh And also I am not able to Open up App store from my network. My friend's having Macbook pro too and he can reach AppStore from the same network but not me. My Macbook Pro is 15inch Retina Display.
I have just bought a MacBook Pro 15 and I am finding the Menu Bar very difficult to work with. For example; if the calculator is in the bottom right of the screen an I am focussing my eyes on it I can't even see the Menu bar. If I want to use something from the menu I have to push the mouse 3 or 4 times with the track pad to get up to the menu (e.g. for a convert function) then 3 or 4 times to get back down. Is it possible to make the menus appear in the applications?
I have the same kind of issue than here : Create new partition in unallocated space with diskutil but on disk0 ! I don't know what to do anymore :(
The apple icon in the menu bar is a black gradient (everything on this MacBook Pro seems to be a shade of grey!). How can I change the icon to use the classic fruit colours instead?
I have Google Contacts and Office 365 People both on my iPhone/iPad. Whenever a contact is both on Google and Office, they will appear as two different persons in my iOS Contacts app. If I want to update any information about the contact, it appears that I'll have to do that twice. Is there a solution to this problem?
Yesterday without warning, I lost all my google contacts on my phone, which is to say all my contacts. It had been working and syncing just fine, but now, nothing. I deleted the account under settings, revoked the application specific password on the google side, and started fresh. I followed the directions at google to the letter and still nothing. Am I missing something? Has anyone else encountered this problem?
I followed the instructions in this question but still cannot restore my address book and iCal data. I found what I thought was the data file for the address book, AddressBook-v22.abcddb, but when I tried to import it, Address Book didn't recognize it as a valid importable file. What is the filename of the correct file to import from my TM backup? And I couldn't find anything that looked like an iCal data file.
I wrote this Apple Script to bless my Windows partition and boot to Windows only once: However, each time I use this script to get to Windows, and then come back to OS X, it gives me the dialog that says my computer restarted because of a problem. What is the correct "clean" or "official" way to restart with an Apple Script so that I don't get these warnings?
When I do (as root): I get this error: And then when I do this: I get this error: Does anyone know how to solve this? I tried installing Varnish with homebrew and I got this: This was recommend that I do before installing.
I was installing Yosemite Beta, however, I paused the download as I have not backup my Mac. Does anyone know how I can delete the paused download of it? It's driving me nuts! I can't just press "delete" like my other Apps!
My question is directly related to this question in LION version. I use Icon view in Finder and I want to get rid of "Show all" behaviour, i.e. I want all files to be shown by default. Now, I am on Mavs, but still have no way to expand all the items by default in icon view. Can we view all files by default in icon view in OS X?
I have two displays, stacked vertically. The bottom display is my Mac's built in display, and the top display is an external monitor. Here is the screenshot of my multiple display arrangement in Settings > Displays > Arrangement. "Displays have separate spaces" is checked in Settings > Mission Control.
I have an old MacBook Pro (2010) whose hard drive was long dead. I recently had to replace the hard drive in my 2012 MacBook Pro; it wasn't dead yet, but had a bad block. I use the laptop for work, so I bought a new one. Anyway, I decided to try and install the old, bad block drive in the old MacBook 2010.
So there is a whole other backstory as to why my computer would not boot and why I needed to format the drive. The only thing I need to know is how can I install an OS to my computer. I tried CMD-R, but it only gives me the option to upgrade to Lion and when I click to do that it tells me that Lion is no longer available. I do not have access to other macs so I don't know how I can install an operating system on my own. Oh and my computer is one of the 2010 Macbook Pros.
My employer has recently issued me a MacBook Pro to play with. I have a lot of Linux experience, but I was struck by how nice the terminal looks on the Mac in full screen mode, especially when running "top". I think it'd look impressively "hackerish" as a screensaver.
Okay, so I was watching a WWDC video a while ago, and they were doing a demonstration on how to implement some code into your app... And as they were demonstrating the code, the guy who was doing the demo was pulling blocks of code from a small window in the bottom right corner of the screen. I thought that this would be a useful application to have (as I am an apple developer myself) and I thought it would save me a lot of time... The only problem is I have no idea what this application is called and so do not have any information about it... All I know is that the WWDC video is called "Optimize your earning power with iAd" and that the application in question is shown at 37:50 in the aforementioned video. If someone could point me in the right direction as to where I should start my search I would be most thankful...
I replaced the stock hd with a samsung ssd (840) about 18 months ago. It died last week. I tried putting the original HD back in and the computer won't recognize it. Even when I hold down the option key when booting nothing happens. When I remove the disk and connect it via USB it boots up fine as an external hard drive. Any reason why that would be?
I have at Mac mini hooked up to a plain stereo amplifier + speakers and would like to stream some of the radio apps I have installed on my iPhone to my Mac mini and play the music through the speakers without having to turn on my tv. Is that possible?
I use OSX mavericks. My external 1TB harddrive is partially unreadable. I want to salvage its content as much as possible. I have tried dd but it took almost a day, so I killed it, and it could not resume from where it left when I rerun it. I am currently trying moving folders one by one with Finder.
If I open my iCloud account in a new apple device, then which photos would be transferred - photos from camera roll or photostream ?
Every time I sign in to the Game Center via my iPad's Settings, my profile window won't close. Ten minutes later I am no longer signed in to Game Center and have to do it all again. As a result my games' contents are not updating and I lose game progress. (especially in Sims Freeplay) Recurring problem since 6 July 2014.
I have downloaded OS X Yosemite beta version and I want to install it but I want to ask if my files - for any reason - can be deleted if I am running a beta version ?? P.S: Please don't advice me to backup my data.
Look, there's at least 16 million productivity apps and I've tried like 90% of them. Maybe you know of something in that last 10% that will change my life. Here's what I'm looking for: Offline functionality To-do, calendar, reminders, attachments allowed Cross-platform: Macbook, ipad, iphone Aesthetically-pleasing interface (nothing hideous) Here's what I don't need: Multiple users Collaborative functions chat, IM, etc. I've tried Things (but it's really just a fancy program for nested lists and difficult to get an overview of everything at once) and Trello (which I really like -- but it only works online). Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
I have the following problem: Using office for mac 2011 on Mac Os 10.9.4, I can use the font Tahoma in Word and Excel, but it doesn't show in the list, where you have to pick the font. If I just manually click into the list and write Tahoma, it works and I am able to use the Tahoma font. Other applications, like TextEdit, show Tahoma and I am able to use it just from picking it from the font list.
Title: can you get a section of your screen recognised as if it was a webcam, so sites like twitch and omegle will read from it?
While checking out my bugs in Radar on my iPhone, I discovered a "hide" toggle that appears when you hit the arrow at the bottom right if the screen. It is set to hide by default - what is it? How should it be set?
I download virtual box from *=URL=* and extracted it. When I tried to run ova file, I couldn't. The same failure from Finder, it said
I usually end up with a lot of empty desktop/spaces upon disconnecting external monitors. Is there an easy way to close all desktop/spaces that don't have any application windows on them?
I found an auction, where someone put a new unpacked device in iPad 1st generation section for corresponding price of iPad 1, while its clear that it is not iPad 1 just by looking at 1st photo included. The person selling the device didn't write any other informations beside that it has 16GB HDD and is brand new. I have tried to contact the seller to confirm if this is 4th generation iPad or not, but did't receive any answer from him/her so far.
In Ubuntu, if I hit Shift + Alt + A while in insert mode, it moves the cursor to the end of the line and stays in insert mode. Shift + Alt + I does the same for moving to the beginning of the line. But in macvim, Shift + Alt + A produces this character: Å, and Shift + Alt + I produces a carat ^. I would very much like to keep the vim key mapping behavior consistent between my Mac, and my Ubuntu machine at work, but I can't figure out how to do so.
I installed Virtual Box and Windows 8.1 from *=URL=* The resolution of my display is 13-inch (1440 x 900) Also I installed Guest Additions. I can't run most if not all of the application in Windows 8.1 due to the error "The screen resolution for this app to run". But my current resolution is the biggest one. Does the error mean that whatever I do I won't be able to solve that issue on my mac? If so should I download Window 7 instead?
I have an AppleScript that I want to run with a keyboard shortcut. The script uses the current selection of text if it is available, but will also work without it. I have created an Automator Service for this.
I know how to send a message to X@txt.att.net and have it show up as a text message. I am wondering if there is a way to e-mail a message and have it go through iiMessage instead of SMS.
When I click on the WiFi symbol in the menu bar on my Mac I get a list of wireless networks, most of them with little lock icons next to them. But some of them show what looks like a pair of chain links instead (see image below). What does this mean? That these networks are personal hotspots?
What is the quality of the music sold in the iTunes store? Is this quality comparable to that of a lossless file or CD?
I encrypted an external drive with FileVault 2. Now it would be great if I could access it from a Windows PC. Is this outright impossible? I found no definitive answer either way.
iTunes tells me that I have no storage space on my phone. It is the music that is taking up space. But I only have 145 songs on the phone that I have selected (3 playlists). The phone says that there are 600 songs. How do I get only the extra space back from the music I don't want on the phone.
When I want to download something from the App Store, it tells me, "This Apple ID has not yet been used with the App Store. Please review your account information."
I'm confused about why this issue is happening. Ideally, I'd like OS X to always use the internal IP if it has the option. But even if it's using the external IP, why wouldn't it be able to access the server? Is my ISP blocking loopback traffic from my IP back to my IP?
I recently got a macbook pro. Shouldn't programs like iMovie and GarageBand appear in the dock? When I search for them, I cannot find them. When I go to the App Store to download them, it tell me that they are already downloaded. Where can I open these applications?
I have some TV shows in iTunes that I am AirPlaying to my Apple TV, at the end of each episode AirPlay disconnects and iTunes doesn't play the next episode. Is this default behaviour or do I need to make sure that the names/meta data of the TV shows themselves 'flow'?
I am using a keyboard mapping application on Mountain Lion to map combinations like CMD+v to CTRL+v as I'm from a Windows background. However its a bit a hit and miss. For instance Finder still uses CMD+v as does Ableton. Does anyone know how to map these keyboard combinations properly?
The default tmux binding is ctrl+b, which is pretty awkward to hit on a Mac keyboard, because there's no right control. C-a was the default in screen, but that's the default in OS X for going to the beginning of a line (my shell uses vim mode, but it's inconvenient when ssh'd to other machines). You can't use alt as a meta key, and cmd+a is already used to select all text. So - what are others using that doesn't override default OS X behavior that works well?
Is there a reason why ALT+8 / ALT+9 does not produce [ and ] in iTerm2 ? I'm running with defaults and a .bashrc/.bash_profile that produces the correct result in Terminal.app.
I bought a new mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro, and noticed some interesting temperatures in iStats. The idle temperature seems to be around 50 degrees celcius with an ambient temperature of approximately 30 degrees. However, whenever I play games, particularly DOTA 2 in Bootcamp, the temperature shoots up and sustains at around 90 degrees celcius throughout the whole gaming session. Is this normal? Or do I have a defective Macbook?
I have installed the native Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 client on my MBP and it's been running fine for 6 months. Two weeks ago, I moved all emails to a subfolder I created with the name "archive."
I am trying to change a photo from landscape to portrait in iPhoto. I have done it before but do not remember at the moment, can you help? I can go to edit and rotate it there, but the people are still sideways...
This should be easy, but for some reason it is alluding me. For background, I am trying to completely remove Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 due to a bug that renders the application nearly unusable.
I am using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air 13" and the battery life is great! Now I am considering upgrade to a bigger screen and is checking a refurbished Oct 2013 MacBook Pro 15" retina.
I'm using Numbers on my iPad and my Macbook. Yesterday I opened my Macbook and for some reason it opened the Numbers app but didn't sync. I didn't really need to work on the file so I just left it open. A few hours later I wanted to do some work on my iPad. It prompted me with a "there's a newer version on your Macbook" and asked me if I want to sync to that version. I actually forgot I didn't do any work on my computer and tapped on the sync button. Now I lost all of the information since before the sync. How can I restore the older version on the iPad - before the sync?
Whenever I try to start the app Java(TM) Web Start Launcher.app it actually starts a windows7 virtual machine from my installed VMware Fusion. This is really ennoying and I really need to get the java web launcher working in osx. I have already told vmware fusion to never use windows for any filetype or whatsoever from osx. Can anyone help me on what actually causes this strange behaviour and how I can get the web launcher running? Thanks for any help on this! EDIT: if I run java -version, it returns: EDIT2: Since this does not attract any attention at all, please anyone let me know if I have to provide any more information...? EDIT3: as suggested I run javaws from terminal, apart from the terminal output, a windows poped up saying the same message as output in terminal The other ouput follows here:
I am using a shared mac in which a new user account was created by another user. I want to know the dateTime of the account creation. Is there a way to find it out without asking the peer?
I’ve recently started using my Mac Mini as a media server. I really don’t want it to be powered on all the time though. I’ve removed the password prompt and have told Plex to automatically open on startup which works great, but I now need a way to shut down the computer when I’m done using it.
I was rebooting my early 2011 MacBook to run a hardware test on system boot using the shift key. It all went well and the hardware test was accomplished. I rebooted as usual and I get a circle with a line through it instead of the Apple symbol. Regardless of whether I am booting in safe mode it doesn't boot.
For the first time I am working with Numbers rather than Mac Exel, which I was running on my old G4. I now have a 2012 MacBook Pro with Mavericks, and the one function I use more than any other is SUMIF. However, this does not appear in my menu of choices. Can I add it?
I'm trying to get rid of the Time Machine icon in the menubar. Is there a way activate "Enter Time Machine" using a script or something along those lines? I know that we have tmutil, but it can not activate the main Time Machine view to restore files from. Thanks.
I need the smallest and easiest FTP server just to grab some files during development. Homebrew has a discrete selection brew search ftp but I'm unsure which is the quickest to setup. I don't want to use the builtin FTP server. Any recommendations?
I just got my iPhone stolen. I quickly turn on find my iPhone. I wonder if before I did that the thief have reset factory setting first. Is it possible?
I use a program which prompts me often to "make changes" (make a system-level/root-level change). I trust this program and want to always allow it to do so. How is this done? I would expect an "always allow" button, but there isn't one. I know the system directory which the program wants to modify and that I could lower the permissions of that folder; however, that may have an impact on other applications which expect certain permissions on that folder, so I don't want to do that.
I want to use proxy on my iPhone to be able to access the internet from my organization Wifi, but I face a problem when accessing local intranet addresses (e-mail mainly) as it has to bypass proxy server how can i configure some addresses to be bypassed?
Help... :) We are adding an Active Directory server to our network, to assist with larger groups and email issues. Problem is, through searching I've found people who say it is easy and others who say it will just fall apart. But... Nothing concrete about how to properly go about making sure it works the way it is supposed to...
We are using devices we know are capable of AirPlay (iphone 5 on ios7, apple tv3). Sometimes the phone can see the apple tv, sometimes it cannot. When it cannot, we check, and the apple tv IS still on. What must be true for the phone to see the apple tv?
I would like to have the styles guide and direct formatting guide to be on by default. There is no option in the preferences. The options are at the bottom of the styles guide panel, as seen in the image below.
I was watching this video when the instructor was able to position a window by using the maximize button and clicking on one of four positioning options, as seen in the image below.  This was also not specific to the program, as it was done in different windows for different applications.
Company A has an Apple Enterprise Developer account and distributes "in-house" iOS applications signed with its account key. Likewise, Company B does the same with its own in-house apps.
I was just using my iPhone 5s and it was in charging mode, but suddenly it re-boot without any specific reason, I am lil worried about it, I am still in warranty period and will you expect me to go to help center, or its just normal, Help center is really far from my home.
I'm trying to download some songs onto my iPhone (5S, iOS 7), but they are just grey with this little broken circle next to them. Can anyone explain what's going on? I have space on my phone, and when I don't, my computer tells me, but here the songs are just kind of there.
I have been looking around for over an hour now trying to find some way to make all my windows somewhat transparent / translucent ... I found the app Afloat, however that app doesn't work with all other applications, only some Any ideas on how I can turn all my windows semi-transparent in OS X Mavericks? Thanks!
Most OS X programs have a ''default program'' dropdown list in their preferences. For example, here's what I see in Mail.app:
So with a little research I found that control+shift+fn+power replaces the old control+shift+eject on keyboards without eject keys. However I find I have to hold the keys longer for it to work, probably due to the power button having a delay to prevent accidental sleeping/shutdown. What I'm looking to do is throw caution to the wind and remove that delay so I can simply hit the key combo not hold it, as I'm more likely to lock my station if it's quick than if I have to do it with purpose. For reasons related to what system hooks get fired I need to use this method of locking the screen, so other methods aren't what I'm looking for. It looks like I'll be forking on the NoEjectDelay source to make a NoPowerDelay variation if nothing better comes along.
I have a Windows 8.1 virtual machine (VMWare Fusion 6) running on my Mac (OSX 10.9.4). In windows, I am running a site using IIS Express on a specific port. On the windows vm, I can write localhost:XXXXX as my address and get the page. However, the localhost is different on my Mac than it is on Windows, and thus I can't simply write localhost:XXXXX on the mac. I currently have the network to "Share with my Mac" on the virtual machine settings. What do I need to do to access the windows server from the mac? For those finding this page using Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10, there appears to be a difference in how IIS Express works, and this solution no longer appears to solve the issue.
Can anyone suggest any decent software for writing .bat scripts in Mac that transfer over to Windows properly? I've tried using BBEdit and Sublime Text to write my .bat scripts but when I bring them over they don't work properly. Sublime Text doesn't carry do newlines properly (even though it's set for Windows) so the scripts don't run. BBEdit doesn't do certain things properly (like echo) even though I set the newline for Windows and the encoding to Western Latin 1.
I have an update iOS 7.1.2 waiting which I cannot install since it tells me that I don't have enough free space. The update is 28.8 MB and I have 1.1 GB free. But the update apparently requires 1.5 GB free to install, which is absolutely ridiculous. I realize that the update itself will not use the 1.5 GB afterwards, but this just reeks of bad design. This means that on my 16 GB iPad (where I already have to economize the space) I have to waste 10% of the disk in order to be able to install updates.
Last year, I created a Fusion Drive in my 13" MB (2008) by replacing the optical drive with a SSD and link it with the internal HDD by some terminal-magic from a computer magazine. It worked like a charm and was really fast. Needing fast and big storage for video, I was thinking about creating an EXTERNAL Fusion Drive - preferably a HDD and a SDD within one enclosure - and connect it to the thunderbolt-port of my MBP.
I've called Apple Support a bunch of times, but I got conflicting answers. To my knowledge, new technology makes it okay to keep the charger plugged in non-stop, but I want to make sure I am properly caring the computer.
I often leave my Macbook Pro (13" - Late 2011) plugged in while working on it with the charge at 100%. This post suggests that when the battery is at 100% and the laptop is plugged in, the battery stops charging altogether.
How to open an new Safari window from Terminal in the current Space? Now when using the open *=URL=* command it opened the URL as last tab on my first Safari window. I'm looking for a way to open: New Safari window (regardless how many I have opened). In the current Space From Terminal with the provided URL. It probably will need some osascript script, but my AppleScript knowledge is nearly zero... The bonus could be open two URLs, in two tabs, in a new window in the current Space. Could anyone help?
I recently moved to USA for 10 months so I had to get an American number. Can I keep my old foreign number? If so how do I do that?
This is really frustrating. Occasionally, my work requires me to upload a photo from my iPhone (ios7) to a clients PC or Mac. I used to simply email it to my Gmail account and download it from the web but for whatever reason I can no longer do this (seems I can no longer email something to my self via Mac mail). I've got Photostream set up but I cant access it via iCloud - theres just no photo option. Obviously my clients PCs dont always have iPhoto (which is a huge pain to use anyway). Why isnt there a simple way to transfer a photo from my phone to a computer via Bluetooth or USB? Is there just a simple, non-proprietry software solution for transferring just 1 photo between devices?
When using Apple’s Console.app to read logs, the window automatically scrolls to the bottom when a new entry is posted to the log. But I'm trying to read something in the middle of the log. Is there some way to shutoff this auto-scroll-to-bottom feature?
I cannot hear music being played on iTunes on my iPhone 4. The device indicates that the music is playing, but there is no sound coming out of the phone. All other sounds work.
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I know it is possible to hide the name by renaming the file/folder to something else. The problem comes with my cloud showing in the desktop. I want it to show and I don't want to change the names of my folders. I made a cool icon set for the few things I've got in my desktop and the names there just don't fit.
I've made some SVG animations which I'd like to use in a Keynote 6 presentation. Unfortunately, Keynote does not have native support for SVGs (pasting one in will just rasterize it and ignore the animation.)
I have bought iPhone 3GS. But have not got a computer. How do I activate my phone?
Is it possible to show Apple Keyboard function events on all monitors, no just the main monitor? Those of you with an Apple Keyboard, just use it to change the volume and you'll see a volume display appear on the screen, that's what I'm talking about.
The Finder's Go menu offers a bunch of shortcuts to commonly used folders, like Applications, Utilities, Downloads, etc. However, when I try to jump to one of these folders while I already have a Finder window open, Finder takes over my current window to open the special folder. This happens whether I use the menu or the keyboard shortcut. Most of the time, I'm trying to open a new window so I can quickly pull up something (like a utility) or to move/copy files between one of the special folders and another location.
The first time I saw the 'Too many open files' error, I was running a shell script that involved uploading an archive to a remote server and unzipping it. I had done this numerous times before without incident. The number of files hadn't changed. I got this error again while running a Python script to build files using Jinja2. This was also a script I had run previously without any problems.
Since Mavericks I think, launchpad decides on it's own which apps should be shown in. For example, the uninstaller apps of the adobe apps are hidden by default in Mavericks. In Mountain Lion they were shown.
I would like to encrypt the whole content of my Time Capsule HDD. I selected "Encrypt backups" in Time Machine settings but I am not sure if encryption applies to the whole drive or just to the Time Machine backup.
I have obsolete time machine backup file in Netgear NAS with another one. I cannot so just format or erase whole disk. I just need to delete the non-used file from taking disk space. I am running 10.6.8 Snow leopard and I haven't found a way to delete it. TM does not recognize file anymore so I can't use the "star wars" to access it and delete. I tried to delete using view package but nothing seem to happen when deleting files one or many. Normal deleting does not seem to work.
For the first time, I left my iPhone 5c charging all night for about 4 hours. In the morning when I unplugged it, it had turned off when it was on when I left it for charging. I tried to turn it on, but the screen won't hitch. At first I thought it got stuck, but it seemed like the battery had been damaged because it won't buzz at all. What should I do?
I just tested the following syntax on Linux: which works without any problems (See: Can bash case statements cascade?) with GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). But on OSX I've the following errors: It's GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13). Any clues how to achieve the same fall-through behavior on bash v3?
I use Mavericks and want to change the default behaviour in Calendar when a new Event is created. In the preferences it is possible to change some of the settings. But I would like to get two default alerts and no "basso" sound (Only "Message" not "Message with sound"). I Already found that in ~/Library/Calendar/ are folders for each calendar and every calendar seems to have its own settings in its LocalDefaultAlarms folder: "EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm" and "EventTimedAlarms.icsalarm".
I am running 10.9.4 and have a 120 GB hard drive. Disk Inventory X shows only 51.9 GB of data, but About this Mac and Disk utility show less than 10 GB free space. I tried these items: Timemachine is off sudo tmutil disablelocal ran OmniDiskSweeper Can you please help me understand the discrepancy in sizing?
I configured Mail.app to access my gmail account, and I noticed some messages were "flagged". I didn't realise this meant "starred in gmail", so I unflagged them. While I was doing it I realised that: I was able to re-flag some of them, but I wasn't so quick to save them all. Is there a log somewhere, so that I can restore the flag/star to all of them? (using Mail 6.6-1510 on OSX 10.8)
My grandfather has been writing a book as a Pages document, but he told me the other day that he suddenly wasn't able to edit the document. He thinks that this happened around the same time that he upgraded to the latest version of Pages.
have a Linux computer running as a server on which I also installed a time capsule (see for Vortexbox (my setup) but also for Ubuntu). Before using this as my main backup, has anybody any experiences with this? The backup is working - but is the restore as well? ANy comments, experiences, sucess stories? Any tips? I am running Mavericks on my Mac.
I have had my MacBook Pro retina for more than 2 years, without cleaning the insides yet I have used it extensively, many hours every day, and heavy tobacco smoking for a year or so (the fan outlet grills are yellowish)
Is it possible to remove the device name in my shell commands to "save space"? to
I sometimes bring my external keyboard with me on the go and use it with my MBP. I would like to lay it over the macbook's current keyboard without having to worry about it pressing other keys. Is there a way to temporarily enable/disable the onboard keyboard?
I just upgraded my old Macbook Air (late 2010) from 10.6.8 to Mavericks 10.9.4. The OS now sees three ghost monitors that do not exist:
I know the location of my iPhone. However, I want to know the history of where the iPhone has been.
When ever I wake my laptop, but before I am connected to a network, I receive messages similar to the following: If I do not connect to a network and I do not click the "OK" button, the hostnames keep incrementing. If I connect to a network (either wired or wireless), the names stop incrementing. I reset the hostname in the "Sharing" preference panel when the hostnames get in the 5,000 - 6,000 range (every 2-3 days). Any idea what would be causing this?
My audio on my MacBook Air is not working. When I go into System Preferences and go to Sound, the mute box is checked and greyed out. My Mac can't play anything including iTunes and YouTube, even system sounds such as the sound when you send an email.
I have my Keyboard set to Polish Pro and my preferred languages set to English (primary), then Polish. I have 'Correct spelling automatically' selected and 'Spelling:' set to 'Automatic by Language'.
How can i get rid of the gap at the bottom of the screen when i maximized a window? The gap is almost imperceptible but at the bottom of a maximized window a few pixel are not filled, there one can see the desktop. If i go into full screen mode with a window, the 5 - 10 pixels get filled. My os version is OS X 10.9 Mavericks
There are loads of iOS apps for song lyrics, but it seems that they all make me play music in THAT app if I want to see the lyrics. But almost any iOS music app lets me see the artist and song title in Control Center/Lock Screen. So why can't there be an app that just looks at that info and automatically searches the web for the lyrics using the given artist and title? There are of course several open lyrics search engines on the web usable via API. Is there an app that does this? If not, is it technically possible in iOS for an app to read the currently playing artist and title?
I have been using AppleWorks -- and think very highly of it. However, I also know that I need to move on. Is FileMaker the most similar piece of software? Can I transfer files from AppleWorks to FileMaker -- or do I need to start from scratch?
My system specs: late 2011 13 non-retina thunderbolt (1?) optical drive usb 2 sdxc @ 2.5 gt/s firewire 800 128gb ssd I am wrestling with a few options since I don't have USB3.0: USB 3 drive running at usb 2 speed Firewire 800 drive A few SDXC cards I am also considering for the long term: Thunderbolt to USB3 adapter to usb 3 drive (not ideal since I can't use my TB to dvi anymore) Thunderbolt dock (would consider this heavily if it allows me to run 2 external monitors, but I am still not sure if this is possible) Thunderbolt drive (expensive) Replace optical drive with SSD or HDD (expensive)
i just downloaded Thunderbird from Mozilla because it's the only program I can use to access my hosting email addresses in a easy way, but when I try to add my iCloud account, I get an error. Here's how I'm trying to configure it (sorry for the Spanish).
Is 10.8 currently (as of 2014 Aug) fully supported, especially security-wise, or using it might be a security risk?
My MacBook is running Mac OS X Mavericks with FileVault HDD encryption. I use Time Machine to backup this drive to an unencrypted USB HDD.
I just reinstalled OSX 10.8, and I've encountered an incredibly odd behaviour: binding cmd+\ to "Move focus to next window" doesn't work (if I hit it, I get the "pop" error sound). However, binding it to other actions works, and binding other combinations to that action also works. This makes no sense to me. I would rather keep using this shortcut, as I'm quite used to it and I hit it often. Does someone have any clue?
A few of my contacts have mobile phones that do not send or receive text messages. I'd like to prevent my iPhone (4S) from including those numbers as options for messaging. How can I do that?
So I'm no expert when it comes to advanced internet knowledge and I need to update my Wi-Fi router. We have 14 megabits (I think, no pro at this) or something and I have my room in the floor right underneath it and with our current router it's very slow and I called my internet service and they said I should upgrade my router since it's 5 years old.
Here's my problem, I want to automatically mount a network share at a specific location without the requirement of the user entering any details. The share must be mounted in a user specific folder. Why? I have a QNAP NAS which has a share called home and that share points to a different location depending on the credentials used to access it which means that I get issues if it mounts under /Volumes as every user is mounting a home share. First in best dressed in that case as subsequent user attempts will not mount.
I have the following code to change the desktop image of my Macbook How do change all desktops - I have a second monitor.
Is there a way to upload video from an iPhone to Google+?
I have a first generation iPad that was working perfectly well, and was loaded with apps which worked perfectly well. For various reasons I did a factory reset.
We have recently joined three iMacs to our Active Directory domain. I would like to set the account profile photo, however this seems to be disabled for network accounts (I can set it for local accounts). Is there any way to set the profile photo for network accounts?
my friend and I are planning to make minecraft gameplays, but each one from home, so what software I need, I know quicktime records the screen but I need also the recording from the skype call... Please help.
my daughter has an ipad Mini and an Iphone which has games on it, she will now be getting an iPad air for SCHOOL , we do not want all of her apps from the other 2 devices on there, should I give her a different itunes account for the school iPad?
Is it possible to add a document like a pages document or a screenshot into my launchpad? If so how do I do that
I'm trying to build wxFormBuilder_v3.5.0-beta-source on Mac OS X 10.9.4 and yes I have XCode installed and have successfully built/installed C++ projects on this machine before. It comes with a shell file for creating the build files, but it keeps getting stuck with the following error: I am aware that I must first install wxWidgets for this to work, and I have already successfully built/compiled/installed wxWidgets. Here are lines 87-96 of the shell file (I prefixed the line numbers for your reference):
For example, if I compress my iTunes library, and symlinks are replaced by another copy of the file, that's a change in the semantics. If my hard disc crashes, and I restore a copy of the iTunes library from backup, iTunes may not work properly because of this. For example, changing the contents of one file won't affect the other. Deleting the file being pointed to means that you can no longer read the contents of that file via the symlink, which again is different if the symlink is replaced by a copy of that file. iTunes may crash given a corrupt library, or further corrupt the library, which means that the backup failed to serve its purpose.
Is there a way to identify kernel modules that shouldn't be there out of a panic report? For example, looking at this discussion *=URL=* there it was pretty obvious as "elmedia" was easily identifiable. However, when looking at mine, there are some things which seem fairly common but I don't seem to be able to find any information about them in internet. For example, in my report I have a couple of (suspicious?) national instrument drivers called ni488k.
I'm searching a tool that deletes all personal files of an user account automatically. We have a small network of new Imacs for students and they save all kind of stuff on the harddrive. So we want to delete all that crap on a reboot. We could maybe even delete the student account and create a new one automatically. Is there a tool or script to do that for OSX 10.9.4?
When running pmset -g, the sleep value (putting the system to sleep) is set to 1 (sleep prevented by coreaudiod) I have set my screen saver to show after 10 minutes of inactivity. I then set my display to shutoff after 20 minutes. I then modified the disksleep value to 20 minutes as well. At this point, I noticed that I get this "warning":
I don't believe such a thing exists. Maybe there is some intermediate tech I can stick in between my laptop and iPhone to serve this purpose? Something like a mixer, but hopefully significantly cheaper.
I'm planning to buy Apple MacBook Air MD711HN/A. I would like to know whether its compatible with Windows 8.1. Is it possible to have a single OS (Win 8)? I use Windows very frequently and travel a lot.
On my mac hard disk, Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) is almost full, I need to increase the size of Macintosh merging some free space from my another partition. But I tried all possible ways, free space always merged to same partition, not to Macintosh HD.
and:  I already have the site in question set up as a security exception in my Java settings This is on Mac OSX 10.9.4 with Firefox 31.
I have a Mac Server 3.1.2, w/ system 10.9.4 that is not being used as DNS Server. Windows Server 2012 is DNS & DHCP server. On the Mac, Terminal cannot ping hostname of mac, however, it does identify itself with it's hostname so I'm concluding this mismatch is the cause of my issues. Anyone have a suggestion?
I used Seil to change my caps lock button to forward delete. This disables any kind of capslock functionality. I am looking to have shift + Caps lock toggle the original caps lock functionality. I cannot figure out how to add a new change key with the shift modifier.
So I was using my mac and usually when a game or application crashes it would produce an error report that will then allow me to either submit or not to apple. Yesterday this stopped happening, some of my application have crashed and there have been absolutely no error reports whatsoever. I'm not entirely sure what has changed. Is there a way to check that error reporting is actually on? and if not, how do I turn it on? Thanks! Euden
A date and time is incomplete without a location. How do I tell the iOS Calendar app where my event occurs, especially if the event does not have a street address that is resolvable by Apple Maps?
I'm wondering whether I can connect my MBP to a 2560x1440 monitor and whether anyone else has has any success in doing so.
I have a MacBook Air 2013. Suddenly, on startup it shows a sign, then the apple and it goes to disk utility. There I have 4 options. Restore from time machine, reinstall OS X, Get help online and disk utility. I would like to reinstall OS X but that requires broad band Internet connection which I don't have. Is there any other way of getting around this and recover my OS X? By the way, I seem to have a disk 1 OS X 10.8.2 base system... Can anybody help?
I have two accounts on Mail. I want the red number that appears over the icon on the Dock to only consider new messages in one of these accounts. How can I change this?
I have an older Macbook Air. I'm trying to transfer the data onto my new Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt cable. The Apple Store employee assured me that you can connect a Thunderbolt cable to a mini display port. However, using Migration Assistant does not recognize that the two Macbook Airs are connected via the Thunderbolt cable. I learned that you might be able to put the old one into "Target Disk Mode" and treat it like an external start-up disk. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I have shut down the old Macbook Air and started it up while holding down the T key. I have also tried enabling it through System Preferences, but there is no Target Disk Mode option. Both Macbook Airs are running Mavericks. How can I enable target disk mode so this migration doesn't take days?
I'm writing a lot of text with Pages. Upon typing I'm not always staring at my keyboard and from time to time when using the space bar I inadvertantly type command functions. Most of the time I can easily recover this typing errors by looking at the dynamical 1st entry of the Edit menu which suggest to undo the wrong command (shortcut ⌘+Z). But this isn't always possible. Now I just inadvertantly typed ⌘+E. I don't see an immediate and total collapse of my actual page. But I would like to know if this modified my document somewhere else before saving a damaged document.
Some applications, like Unity3D (but not limited to it) open in too low resolution:  The flag "open in low resolution" is not set:
My husband and I recently split up. Both our phones and both our iPads were all on his Apple ID. Would I be notified on my phone if he were checking my iMessages? I have recently created my own Apple ID and changed my phone and iPad to that. Would that be enough to ensure he cannot access my messages and information? I'm asking because he had said he was able to read my messages if he wanted to but I would be notified
If I got an email and it may be in my junk/spam folder, how do I search for it in that folder? (Or "how do I search for an email that could be anywhere, including in my junk/spam folder)
I have a Bot running for my app, with just a regular development account. I want to be able to download the Product that is created, but when I go to the Bot web page, I get an error "Cannot connect to ". I find this a little strange, because I can hit the server web page. Any ideas? Do you have to have an enterprise account to donwload the product? The iPad has all the correct profiles etc.
I'm about ready to throttle someone if I can't figure this out. I have been working to disable all animation effects throughout OSX (10.9.2). since I got my new laptop about 3 months ago. I think I have most of them figured out, but I'm at a loss when it comes to disabling the minimize window application. The dock gives three options, none of which is acceptable for me. How can I disable this extremely aggravating behavior?
I have looked all over the Net and can't find a way to disable middle-click paste in the Terminal application in Mavericks? I want it scroll but not paste.
The trackpad on my 15" 2014 Macbook Pro has some play. When hovering with two fingers - say, when not scrolling in a page, but ready to - I can feel it shift 1-2mm vertically. Not enough for a "click," but enough so that it's distracting.
I had some very critical data that I'd taken down from a meeting in a note inside of Notes.app. I did the following: Select all hit key 'x' (meant to choose 'command-x') I went to another app, then came back and realized what had happened Attempted 'command-z' or 'File -> undo', to no avail
Since notes.app seems to accrue a "rolling history" of data and doesn't automatically save out versions of your files to disk in any reasonable way (date stamped, etc), I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to access the history of the note data you have accrued. Specifically this came up because I am trying to restore something that I have lost, because the undo command doesn't work in the app. Any tips would be appreciated.
If this should be posted in networking stack overflow please let me know, and sorry if this is not the correct place. I'll delete the question if it's inappropriate.
I am currently running Mavericks. I have a Drupal7 Virtual Machine running (on VirtualBox). I am trying to install a tomcat7 server onto the VM. I have used the Terminal to SSH and login to my Drupal7 VM but cannot seem to install tomcat7. I am aware that on Windows you use the command: apt-get install tomcat7, however this doesn't work on Mac. I have tried to use Homebrew, but it doesn't seem to install on the VM through the terminal command. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks!
I'm running 10.9.4 on a MacBook Air, and when I enter composition mode in Scrivener (which is a full-screen mode) I find that the Mac Notification Center is completely disabled. Any alerts I receive will make no sound and I can't see the little windows. If I switch away from Scrivener to another app, then the alerts are visible, but any banners have already come and gone, so I never see them.
Why does this happen, and how can I prevent it? The only thing I can think of is that maybe my sister-in-law has both my wife's phone number and my phone number in the same contact card, so when she starts a FaceTime call, it goes out to both our numbers (and my Mac by extension)?
I use MacPorts to manage my Python installation, and it has worked flawlessly until ... until this moment. And I am completely flummoxed. I am trying to teach myself ReStructured Text, and so, trusting in the power of MacPorts, I did the usual: If I use locate to make sure rst2html.py is there, it is: I cannot, as the documentation suggests, use rst2html.py at the command line: I have my .bash_profile set as per MacPorts' instructions: And I have also used python_select, so that when you run which python you get: Here's what my path environment looks like:
Edit: I should have included, if I add and Addressbook account separately, I am seeing troubles with the user being able to actually pull down contacts. And if I can figure out how to get a valid connection, I'm seeing two contact accounts showing up in the list and one is empty (appears to be read only as I cannot add contacts to that).
Before Mavericks, if I clicked this URL or pasted it into the Finder's Connect to Server dialog: afp://server.example.com/Share/Path/To/Folder/File.txt
I'm trying to create a PDF with a custom page size. Basically, I'm converting a set of JPEGs which are exactly 5:4 dimensions into a single PDF, so I wanted to set the paper size to 8x10, so as not to have "letterbox-type" borders on the top and bottom of the PDF pages. The purpose is for viewing on-screen, not for printing, and these are personal documents which I am not sharing, so there is no need to worry about printability.
I have a Macbook Air 2014 - 128 GB, and I am running out of space. Is it possible to upgrade the SSD to one of bigger capacity?
We have developed an iOS universal application and are trying to upload it to the App Store. From the Organizer window, when we try to validate or distribute the application, it loads for a long time at the login page and then gives a "request timed out" error. It's happened for the last 10 days. How can we upload the application to the App Store?
I'm using Apple Mail on Mavericks (10.9.2). I've configured two mailboxes, both gmail accounts using IMAP.
I quickly activated lost mode in find my iPhone. I worried that the thief managed to restore factory setting before I do that. The thing is before I put lost mode, I disable the 3G dataplan following a stupid advice from my families.
Same message with other computers. Worried that I may have ejected incorrectly. Is there a way to retrieve the information on my USB flashdrive?
In another question I have found a usefull script (below) that works on single and multiple files but only when they are added directly to a folder with action enabled. Problem is my program produces in double-subfolder structure. The structure is: I would like to apply conversion to subfolder burried files and have the output placed in outbox_folder with the same subfolder structure that needs to be made. inbox and outbox are folders constantly present on desktop.
I'm trying to work out how to get the best out of the new multi-display support in OS X Mavericks. I'm very used to my workflow when I was changing space on both displays with single gesture on my trackpad - I'm a programmer so I had text editors in one pair of spaces and engine editor in another pair - now I have to do much more to get the same result. I know that you can disable separate spaces for different displays, but that (for a reason I can't think of) disables dock and menu bar on my second display. I'd like to have either one of Same spaces with menu bar and dock on both displays. Separate spaces that can be changed simultaneously.
I have a WD MyBook World NAS with the set static ip 192.168.0.102 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0) - it might be also defined that the router ip is 192.168.0.1 but I can't remember. It works great on my home network.
My mac thinks I'm my father. When in automator I do this:
I'd like need to drag and drop heaps of texts between documents, and rather copy only the text, without formatting. Is there any way, for example by pressing some modifier key while releasing the mouse button?
My mid-2012 MacBook Air has a spot on the bottom plate. The computer has never been dropped. Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?
I really like the feature of OS X to share it's Ethernet connection over WiFi to other devices. But it appears that those devices are unable to "see" each other (e.g. you can't play a LAN game with two iDevices). I ensured that my firewall is disabled and that IP forwarding is enabled (sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 and sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1). Still, no possibility for those two devices to connect. Is it unnecessary to enable IP forwarding? Is there a possibility to enable this behaviour?
I have an annoying situation where some key combination, not even sure which, starts up an app in a Parallels VM running Windows, Parallels build 8.0.18619. The app is Chrome. Normally the VM in question is not running. So what happens is that I am furiously typing away, hit the oddball combination, and the VM starts up and Chrome loads.
After upgrading from a 2011 MacBook Air to a (refurbished) mid-2013 MacBook Air, I'm getting odd behavior with my external Dell 2240M monitor. Whenever my laptop wakes up, if the monitor is already on (usually asleep), there are this static-like white dots dancing all over the screen. If I cycle the monitor power with the laptop on, they go away.
I entered my username in the sudoers file, but when using sudo in scritps, it still asks for the password. This is my sudoers file: Contents: (*=URL=* (I also tried with %petruza but didn't work either) I have a script to start XAMPP, but it asks for the password anyway:
Each time I run my Django development server, I get a dialog to allow incoming connections. No matter what I do : Click Allow in the dialog box Add to the Firewall via the OS X GUI (both real and venv python executables are allowed, and also the Python.app Self-sign the executable (see *=URL=* OS X still systematically ask me to allow incoming connection. It's not just annoying, it's impossible to work with my IDE which restart the dev server after each code change.
How do I re-sync my iPhone Messages with my MacBook pro Messages?
I have mac mini late 2011, up to date mac OS X and fully charged batteries. It still loses connection about 10 times per hour. It's really annoying I've tried to remove Bluetooth.plist file, but it didn't help. Is it solvable issue? I use Wi Fi, and bluetooth apple keyboard.
As a newbie on an iPhone 5, please how do I set up my phone to give an audible ringtone when I get a phone call, but remain silent when I get an email?
My iMac (27" Mid-2010) and the HDD fan is spinning full speed with a measured HDD temperature of 50 °C. I have removed the dust and dirt from inside and it is pretty clean. Nevertheless even when at idle it starts at 48 °C.
When adding a printer in OS X, and assuming the printer is AirPrint enabled, which driver should I use: 1. the AirPrint driver or 2. the CUPS driver for that specific printer?  My assumption is that while AirPrint is easy to use, it also must be generic enough to support a wide range of printers and a limited number of functions. Thus, while I can easily print with the AirPrint driver, I won't have access to all of the printer's functions and would be better off using the CUPS driver for that specific printer if I intend to print from that printer often or need more control over the printing process. Anyone have documentation to support/refute my assumptions?
This is an issue that I run across every time I modify my two-step verification settings in Gmail or set up a new phone. I've asked this question to Google enough times. Now I think I'm qualified to ask it to myself. If you've set up Gmail as your default Mail app account and you use two-step verification, then Mail won't work if you haven't properly set up your device (and you might not even know it's not working if you're using the Gmail app as your main mail app until you try to share via email something in another app and realize it never gets sent). There doesn't seem to be a simple user-friendly answer to this problem out there, so after running into this issue and solving it yet again, I figured I'd write out instructions for others to follow.
Does anyone know if Mavericks supports SMB3? My work server uses it, and it's been buggy as hell and never keeps connected. If it keeps connected I lose write permissions to files I'm working on. Hoping if I use the SMB1 protocal cifs:// Link about it here: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/27/did-mavericks-kill-your-network-drive-access-heres-a-fix/
I have a Mac Mini which connects to the internet via ethernet, and shares that connection over wifi. My Macbook and my iPhone use that to get at the internet. All are on the latest version of their OS. However, the phone can't connect to the laptop.
Is there a way to delete more than one contact at a time in iOS Contacts? I can add and remove groups of people from the contact list by checking and unchecking groups but I can't delete people without going into their records.
I wanted to view my total download/upload ratio on uTorrent (v1.8.4) of all the torrents I've downloaded/shared. Where can I view this information?
I have a MacBook Pro with a working BOOTCAMP partition running Windows 8, and a damaged OS X 10.10 beta partition. The problem is that I cannot boot with the OS X partition, and in order to reinstall the OS I have to set a bootable media. NB: I already tried to make a bootable usb using TransMac with the InstallESD.dmg extracted from the Install OS X Marvericks.app but it doesn't work Can I launch the installation directly from the Windows partition? Can I launch the installation directly from the Windows partition? Is there any other way to make a bootable media? Is there any other way to make a bootable media?
I want to use my son's email for his new iPad mini, but previously his email was associated with my Apple ID on my iPhone 5c as an alternate email address. I have deleted his email from my Apple ID, but I still can't set up his iPad using his own email address.
My question is very similar to this question: Safari 7.0.4 doesn't remember my login status. "Remember me" not working (OS X 10.9.3) Except it differs in 3 key ways:
I know very little about bash scripting or Terminal commands, this is all very new to me so please bear with me. I would like to use a script I found on littlefield.info as an automator service. This is the original script: Explained by the creator: Cycle through every video file in a folder, Passing it to the mediainfo program to extract the duration in milliseconds, Passing that result to the awk program to add up all the numbers to give us a total, Passing that to awk again to divide that number by 1000 to give the number of seconds, Passing that that to the strftime function to display the result in Hours:Minutes:Seconds format.
When I Command-Tab to task switch (in both Mavericks and Yosemite), occasionally (maybe 60% of the time) the task switcher will behave as if the Tab button was held down. That is, the task-switcher selection will fly over to the right-most icon. If I mouse-over the app icons, the cursor will continue constantly moving to the right.
I produce a quarterly bulletin, which I publish as a pdf. This is written in Pages 4.3 and exported. Previous issues on OS X 10.8 have my name as Author. Recent issues on OS X 10.9 show unknown author. How can I change this on new exports?
I have a capped ADSL account that splits my bandwidth allocation 50-50 between anytime and download time (midnight to 6am). I therefore prefer to have any downloading happen during download time so as not to max out my anytime bandwidth and require top-up purchase.
I have an external USB drive, which I've partitioned into separate FAT32 ("MOVIES") and OSX ("TIME_MACHINE") partitions:  I now wish to remove the FAT32 partition and just use the OSX partition. Aside from reformating the disk with a single OSX partition, is it possible to: remove/erase the FAT32 partition, then expand the OSX partition to take up the entire drive without losing the contents of the OSX partition?
How to set up X's to be able login on your iMac remotely and run graphical applications? When I login I get this:
Is there an equivalent to copernic pro desktop search engine available for mac? I mean something serious not spotlight or found! Something that is able to search terabytes of data and index millions of keywords and search inside pdfs and all sorts of data. I have searched and so far haven't found anything as good as copernic pro for mac.
I have an external USB disk which is backing up my Mac using Time Machine. I need to reformat the external disk for an unrelated reason. If I: temporarily move the Time Machine files off the external disk reformat the external disk, then put the TM files back onto the external disk
Here is what I learned so far: What if I have multiple scripts in `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion.d/? How can I enable all of them? Or, is there a folder in OS X equivalent to /etc/bash_completion.d/ in linux?
I just noticed that I have this file at the root of the disc. The file is empty and it was created August 3rd. I did not created it.
Are we turning it off? Are putting iPhone on standby mode? What mode are we putting iPhone in? Can calls get in? I noticed that musics from music video get turned off which sucks because I want to be able to put my iPhone on standby mode and keep listening to music.
I would like to create an AppleScript to open a specified URL in Safari, login automatically if that would be possible and then upload a file to a form that accepts drag and drop file upload. Would it be possible to automate that event using AppleScript?
This MacBook runs perfectly without a battery. Putting in a genuine new and aa genuine used battery does the same thing. The screen goes dark, you can still see the screen for a second and then it's asleep.
I got an iPhone as a present from a family member. It was working.
I know that one can easily migrate any *.keychain from one Mac to another, however, the "local items" keychain introduced in Mavericks is not stored as a *.keychain file but as a list of *.kb and *.db files. I don't use iCloud Keychain and don't plan on using it. I also don't have access to the same device that was used to create the local items in the first place. The logic board has been changed. As using a backup from time machine only partially restored the local items keychain (a number of entries are definitely missing) I am wondering whether I can in any way or shape extract the previously created items in the local items list and/or import them into a new "real" keychain.
The right fan on my mac stopped working, I have scheduled an appointment at the mac store genius bar (its still in warranty). I have installed a second hard drive in place of the super drive, and also upgraded the hard drive (to SSD) and the ram (to 16GB).
Say I'm typing into a document and I make a typo. I've got to the end of the misspelled word and it has a red line of dots under it. I right click and choose the top suggestion (which is nearly always right) and continue writing my document. It there a way to do this without using the mouse to choose the suggestion?
I also deleted all songs (about 250) from my iTunes library on my Mac (moved to trash). I can re-download them because all songs have been purchased from the iTunes store. When I connect the device to my Mac and select the device's Music list, it shows 7 songs, with a grayed out text color, and with a circle icon with dashed outline next to each song. The device itself does not show these songs.
I'm currently pinging google.com to find a trend and pinpoint the problem. The internet keeps disconnecting every few mins and I have no idea why.
I'm using Mail on iOS 7. I have it set to fetch new mail manually (only when I request it to fetch new mail; do not fetch automatically).
I requested AT&T to unlock my iPhone 5 at *=URL=* . I got an email saying that my device may be unlocked.
My MBA 2012 with OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks won't boot anymore - it simply freezes after the initial jingle. I already tried resetting NVRAM and SMC, but to no avail. I don't have any time machine backups. However, I still have a disc image of Mavericks sitting on an external hard drive, a USB stick and access to a notebook with Windows 7. I haven't yet found any tutorial on how to create a bootable USB drive on Windows in order to reinstall OS X on my beloved Macbook Air. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm trying to back up several notebook Macs in an office. I'm currently trying to backup various iterations of OS X (Snow Leopard through Mavericks) on client machines to a central Mac Mini running regular (non-server) Mavericks over a wireless network. I'm able to get the initial backups established, but I'm having difficulty getting subsequent incremental backups to connect consistently–some work and some don't. Will installing OS X server on the Mini (and enabling the Time Machine server) improve the ability of client machines to successfully connect and complete incremental backups?
I welcome popup spelling suggestions, but I dislike the OS replacing text as I type without any real confirmation from me. I'm aware both behaviors can be enabled/disabled together as one option in System Prefs > Keyboard > Text, but would anyone know a way to disable the autocorrect while leaving the tooltip-style suggestions intact…perhaps via the Terminal? Thank you. Mac OS X 9.4 (Mavericks)
I want to purchase a Mac Mini from amazon.in not amazon.com; local apple store told me that if you purchase apple product from unauthorized reseller they will not provide me any support. I searched for authorized apple resellers and I found amazon.com listed there, but did not find amazon.in.
My 2013 MacBook Pro only runs while the MagSafe power charger is connected. Model Number: A1425 (EMC 2672) When the charger is disconnected system immediately powers off (no shutdown). MagSafe LED is always amber.
Where can I find a list with all iTunes radio stations' names and comments?
EDIT: While I'm still interested in the answer to this, I've since elected to set up accounts using Open Directory. I could not find a reason not to, and I figured that there might be services that require it of which I'm unaware at this moment. This will hopefully ease future migration.
I have two macs, and at some point one of them stopped being able to log into Messages ( just the apple account ) and FaceTime. The other mac worked fine, but was not using iCloud keychain ( at the time I did not realize this was the issue ).
I recently ran into a very persistent bug on my iPhone 5 on iOS 7.1.2. All of the sudden the flashlight button in the control center is greyed out and the rear camera wont work, i.e. showing a black screen and crashing. According to the Apple forums I am not alone with this issue. For some people playing around with the camera worked. Most end up bringing the phone to the store. I am pretty convinced it is a software bug. I tried so far (list will be updated): Play around with camera settings (flash, HDR, ...) Turn flashlight on/off with third-party app - app crashes Regular iPhone restore from iTunes Recovery mode firmware restore
I have downloaded several TV shows that I purchased via AppleTV onto my iPhone (iOS 6). However, I cannot find them on the phone using the iTunes app. All I can get to via the "Purchased" button is the entire cloud of purchased shows. It is impossible to tell from this cloud list which shows are actually on my phone without clicking on each individual show. I am going to be traveling without connectivity and just want to access the shows on my phone now. I know the hack for accomplishing this with music / iTunes Match (going to Settings -> Music and switching off "See All Music"). Is there something similar I can do for TV shows - a way where I can simply view a list of what TV shows are currently on my phone?
I recently purchased a MacBook. It's a model that supports Apple's latest OS (at this time 10.9), meaning that it also supports Find My Mac and such.
Have: iPad 3 (Apple 30-pin connector) PreSonus Firestudio (firewire 400 output) How to connect them?
By default, the Finder dock icon opens All My Files directory. How do I configure it to open a directory specified by me?
I created a .app file that is 303KB on disk. When I right click it and press Compress... I end up getting a 8.4MB .zip archive.
I dunno if this is a virus or not (if it is it doesn't seem to be doing much), but when I open Chrome, for HTML elements with the input tag, I've been getting messed up colours. It's not a biggie, but I wanted to check it's not a virus and see if anyone has had the same symptoms before?
I have an Exchange calendar synced with Mavericks' Calendar app. I've changed time of one event. Since that a window with following message appears over and over: Calendar can’t delete an occurrence from the repeating the event “[event]” from the Exchange server.
I have a client who was using a certain external drive as their Time Machine drive for a while. Then, they misplaced it. So, they got a new external drive and started using that. Now, they've found the original Time Machine drive, and would like to combine the backup from the old drive to the new one.
when I am typing a text message some of the letters wont work,if I am scrolling through or down something its very slow or goes on to something I never clicked on?
I'm trying to do some GUI scripting with AppleScript but every time I try to use the click command, it will work but cause an error. If I use a try statement it works fine, but I shouldn't have to do that. Here's some code that I started to turn on Speakable Items: The 'On' radio button gets clicked, but I get this error aswell: Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I will be living in a basement apartment without physical access to the router and only wireless internet access. I am trying to figure out a way (any way!) to use my Time Capsule, but it seems to be impossible to connect to an existing network.
At least a few times a day I get disturbed by high Chrome CPU usage... I have to open Chrome's Task Manager and see which tab is taking up CPU. For example *=URL=* always takes 20-30% CPU. Today I had the same happen on a TechCrunch url.
I have been a windows user for a long time now and I have been used to pressing just one key in my keyboard to hibernate the machine every night. I recently bought a mac mini and I press Shift + Command + Eject to put it to sleep and then it would go to deep sleep in a while. But I am wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to do this or maybe change the default sleep to a deep sleep. Mac mini late 2012 with standard HDD, i5, 4gb ram
I have two MacBook Airs (Running the latest version of OS X 10.9). On one of the MacBooks I decided to get rid of some of the apps that I know I am not going to use. One of the apps that I got rid of was iTunes. But, the App Store forces me to reinstall iTunes... again and again.
Had a problem with iphone 5 so took phone to Apple rep proceeded to put my phone in restore thinking my photos were all in icloud....well no majority were in camera roll and didnot make it upon the restore. So can I get these photos back or are they gone for ever?
An external drive has TM backups from two Macs running OS 10.6.8 which held thousands of files in common, one copy on each. Now I want to repurpose that drive, but keep a lot of the files from the TM backups for day-to-day use (30 K photos). How do I convert the protected backups into ordinary files I can delete, move, rename and so on? If there's a way to do this without using the console, I'll be in pig heaven. Thanks!
There is no option like that on the Keyboard option. How can I start it, I thought it was an inbuilt feature and reading other pages they have it. The iOS version is 7.1.2
I had my iphone repaired by someone advertising on eBay. I opened the package containing my iPhone 4s and when I turned it on, an email appeared in my gmail account that I sent to myself, which I didn't, that contained information I had in my iPhone notes. Is it possible that the person who repaired my phone did this? Now, I cannot find the note that was sent in my "notes."
I have a Mac OSX. My network is not showing up on my list of networks. I am able to get online on this computer but not on the other computers in the house connected wirelessly. This has been the case today but was not this way before.
In Terminal, I'm trying to replace MY_SUBJECT and BODY_OF_EMAIL from the command below: with the piping of I just can't figure out how to do it, any kind soul to help me with this please?
I redeemed an iTunes gift card and purchased some songs. When i tried to go see how much money I had left on the card it said: credit card total $1.29. This information was displayed underneath latest purchases in my account information. Does this mean it was charged to the credit card or the gift card?
I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with 10.9.4. I've been using it with a Seiki 39" 4K TV as a monitor for about a month now with no problems. (This is using an UltraAV MDP to HDMI Active Adapter cable.) For the first time yesterday I selected "1080p" as the resolution in Display Preferences to see what it looked like. Immediately after going to 1080p resolution, the list of resolutions went blank. I could click (or option-click) on the scaled circle, and there would be a delay of a few seconds, then I'd see a list of resolutions flash up, and then go away. Based on what I later figured out, I think if I had tried to click one of those selections when they flashed up, I would have gotten out of 1080p mode. But I did something else, trying to reset the display preferences to a normal state. (I don't remember what exactly)
My iPhone's calendar + icon has suddenly gone gray and will not allow me to add a reminder. I read through the answers here and it was suggested to slide on calendar in all accounts. That was already done and still nothing. Any suggestions? Im missin my reminders!!!
I own a mid-2013 Macbook Air running Mavericks and wish to boot on a USB stick containing a bootable version of DiskWarrior. The problem is DiskWarrior wasn't updated for quite some time and, though the application version works just fine in Mavericks, the bootable version is old and is based on OSX 10.6.7.
My iPhone is sending iMessages from my e-mail, but when I go to change it to my number it's supposed to be sending from my number? When I send a text message it is from my phone but not my iMessage? I've looked in Settings -> Messages and it does not say waiting for activation as it is already activated. I just want it to send from my number for both iMessage and text.
When clicked on IPv4 address in terminal window, it gets selected as a whole, not a single octet. The same action does not work for IPv6 adress, it does not get selected. I assume there is some setting for IPv4, in terminal settings. I could not figure it out, though. Can I make click selection for IPv6 to work?
Is it possible to configure notification center to show notifications on all displays? (When displays are not mirroring of course)
My Macbook Pro was stolen 3 months ago and I am giving up hope of finding it. I was very much hoping to locate it- not so much for the extensive valuable information I have on it, but because the laptop was taken in the context of an assault on a young child. Recovery of it has been deemed necessary for prosecution. I have Find my Iphone activated on my Ipod 4 (so IOS 6.1.3) and check it each day, but the Macbook is always listed as "offline". My log-in time doesn't last long- I'm "kicked off" after a short time. I also clicked an option for a sound to indicate whether the laptop had been activated.
Does Apple allow me to make an iOS app that uses a desktop/laptop computer as an external accessory? For example, using a computer to do external computation and/or send input events to the phone over the lightning connector cable. Technically I am not the manufacturer of these products but I was wondering whether Apple would allow such an app in the app store.
My iPhone 5s CONTINUALLY downloads songs I've previously purchased, then deleted. I've resolved the issue on how to delete songs that appear un-deletable. Now I need to stop the songs from downloading. The other day, it wasted my entire month's data by downloading 350 songs while I was listening at work. Here's my info: 1) I don't use iCloud for music. 2) "Show All Music" option is off. 3) I don't subscribe to iTunes Match. 4) I sync only one (1) playlist, with 1061 songs, the other day it jumped to 1405 songs. 5) "Automatically fill free space with songs" has NEVER been on. 6) "Automatic Downloads" is turned off for music. 7) I have deleted the library through Settings, and re-synced several times. 8) I have 7.1.2 on my phone and 10.9.4 on my iMac. 9) Songs appear while I'm listening to music. 10) I don't manually manage songs.
When I open the Terminal I keep getting this message, which I suppose is some error: /Users/sinisasasic/.zshrc:export:48: not valid in this context: Support/GoodSync:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin Can anybody help me in translating what this exactly means and what should I do to resolve it, if it’s some problem?
My Macbook Pro has been stolen and I do not have the serial number on hand. The police have requested the serial number to assist in locating the laptop. This is an important criminal case and they need the laptop as evidence.
I'm wondering if there's any way to make Safari be more "obvious" when it starts a download. Ever click on a link on a website which turns out to be a download of, say, a Word document? And you keep clicking, and clicking, and clicking wondering why the browser won't move forward? And then you notice (sometimes, for me, after writing to the webmaster telling them their link is bad!!!) that you downloaded 10 copies of the Word document?
Is there a code that I can just copy an paste into Terminal or Automator? If not what is the best Application to download?
Note: I have seen this question as well as this question, I don't believe that either pertain to this situation. When I press the sleep button on my iMac it consistently takes 30-31 seconds to go to sleep. The computer is reasonably old, it is a early 2008 model and because of this, the hard drive is pretty full (only about 2GB left). When the computer sleeps there are no processes taking up a lot of CPU and most of the RAM is available. The computer wakes up reasonably quickly (1-2 seconds) I would like to know why the computer takes so long to go to sleep, and if there is a solution to the problem. Here are the stats of the computer: OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo If anymore information is needed, just add a comment. Edit: Here is the console output when I put the computer to sleep.
I was messing around with using AppleScript for GUI manipulation so the apps I was making had to be granted access. The very first one I did showed up in Security & Privacy > Accessibility as 04F05B1B-23E7...6027D697DF.app (not the name of the app). So I copied it's contents, deleted the app, and made a new one with the same name. That worked (it showed up in Security & Privacy > Accessibility as the correct name), but the other name was still there, even though the app was gone. AND if I tried to check the box to allow it to control my computer, it would instantly uncheck itself. So not only should it not be there, but it performs weird as well. Now that was my only problem until today, when I noticed that every single one of the apps I had made had its name transformed into some string of numbers, capitol letters, and hyphens. So I copied the folder the apps were in to some other spot and deleted the originals, that didn't make them go away. Then I zipped up the copy folder and delet
Can anyone interpret what this graph is telling me ? It was created using iStumbler. My wifi connection is really bad and it keeps dropping (still connected to wifi but no connection to the internet). Resetting my wifi solves the problem for a few seconds until it starts dropping again. Any help is appreciated.
I was able to follow the steps here to connect my DualShock 3 controller to my MacBook running OS X 10.9.4, however now the direction pad, trigger, and shape buttons are all mismatched when I try using them in games or my web browser. I've tried in Chrome, Firefox, and Portal 2. They all detect the controller but identify the wrong buttons when I press them. How do I fix this?
I am attempting to install the scipy (Scientific Python, including matplotlib) package using homebrew, and I noticed that it fails when it needs to install a dependency (gcc version 4.9.0). I attempted to install it on multiple OSX versions, and even a manual method, but the error always occurs at "make bootstrap" portion. First method: Result: Second Method: Result: Similar output to first one at the end of output.
by any chance does anybody know which wifi usb adapter can I use to get connected to a network with WPA2 enterprise encryption (both password and username needed for login) on a Mac (OS X Mavericks in particular). I don't care much about the speed.
I get this request every time I try to use the microphone on the same web page. Is there anyway to set this so it stops asking for this domain. I understand the security ramifications; however I believe I can trust the site. It would be nice to access this page without having to answer this on every entry on the page.
When I load or start a new game on Minecraft it crashes. It only happened after I installed Java 8.
How can I find Bottom Rubber Feet Foot For MacBook Pro 15" A1398？ I searched Amazon.com and ebay.com, can not find this model.
When I try to start gdisk on my retina MacBook Pro running Mavericks I get the following error: I have used gdisk on this machine a number of times before (last time was probably a few months ago) and am not sure what would have changed to cause this issue. The modified time stamp of libicucore.A.dylib is July 4, 2014, so maybe something changed in an update. Unfortunately, my time machine backups don't go back far enough to try to revert to the previous version.
I'm using the Finder Preferences option, but it still won't show the extensions!
Help! I just got a Mac Air that's running Mavericks, and I was playing with the different desktops. I had Safari open on each, and they both had totally different tabs open. I shut it down, and now, they're mirroring each other. When I close a tab on one desktop, it closes on the other, too. In Mission Control, "Displays have different Spaces" IS checked In Display, "Mirroring Options" is NOT checked. What do I do, so that each web browser is totally independent?
What can you do when your iPhone is in Airplane Mode, the WiFi is off, and the lock button is broken. I can't log in to the phone. How can I turn it off?
I can't find any clear, step-by-step instructions on how to set up a Time Capsule in wireless bridge mode. Eg, how to disable its routing functions and set it up as a switch/repeater connected wirelessly (not via ethernet cable) to another wireless network. I'd also like to be able to connect a backup harddrive to it via USB and have access to it on the wireless network. Anyone know exactly how to do this?
When I bought my Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) it came with a HDMI to DVI adapter/dongle. Now I want to buy a similar, high quality, dongle for my retina Macbook Pro. I prefer a HDMI dongle because it keeps my Thunderbolt ports available. How can I determine quality so I'm not just shopping based on price?
I installed Windows 8.1 using Boot Camp on my new rMBP 13" 2014. In OS X I can connect to the network in my company but when I'm in Windows I can't.
I recently bought a new MacBook to replace my iMac where used Microsoft Office for Mac. I set up my MacBook and transferred everything over, but couldn't run Office without the activation key.
Another way that I have thought is that Macbook turn itself on when plugged in. I tried sudo pmset -a acwake 1 but it doesn't work. Any idea?
I recently moved to Japan and got a new SIM card, with a contract, from docomo (one of the major carriers here). I had my iPhone 5s unlocked by a third party, and inserted the new SIM card into this phone. While my new phone number works fine for phone calls and texts (sent to the number), I cannot connect to the mobile internet network.
Recently I got tired of the smaller kinks that the Fish Shell presented me with (undiscoverable commands etc.) so I decided I wanted to change the shell back to normal and uninstall fish. However in the process of doing so I have done something terribly wrong. I have set it to the normal: /bin/bash However Im represented with a series of prompts (in regards to Vagrant) and have to exit this with the CTRL+C command (cancel)
When accessing a secure note on my login keychain (Using the Keychain Access app) I accidentally selected "Deny" on the prompt. Now I have no access to this keychain anymore. All of my applications that were previously able to access the keychain are denied as well. All items in the keychain have this issue. The "Access Control" on the individual items in the keychain does not indicated that access is restricted. Other keychains do not have this problem. The error that I get is "Access to this item is restricted (-67808)" How do I undo this action?
Nope, just a 635x635 PNG of random noise. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
I have an MBP that is connected to the internet through ethernet. I've enabled internet sharing through wi-fi, my plan being to allow my iPad to connect to the internet through wi-fi.
Is there a way to create Barcodes (128 standard) on a Mac, preferably via an add-in? I need it to create barcodes in Excel sheets (or moreso a friend of mine needs it).
If I am streaming internet radio and iTunes looses the signal it will try to reconnect and then just gives up and moves to the next track in the playlist of internet songs. Is there a way to change iTunes config so that it continues trying to reconnect rather than just giving up? Like a time-out perhaps? I am running iTunes 11.3.1.2 on Windows 7
I have an app on the App Store for people to download where they can use "vouchers" to get discounts in some shops (which are my partners). I would like to know if it's possible to create a "backoffice" app for my partners (for voucher validation, etc.), without being shown in the AppStore. I want to know if it's possible to make a valid iOS Application to give to my partners, either by being in the App Store and not be directly visible to normal users (a private link for instance), or directly "giving" them the App, like with Android. Or is the only way to give them the App, by being publicly available at the App Store?
I'm looking to buy an older mac mini (v1.1) CoreDuo 1.66Ghz 2Gb DDR2, 80Gb HD. My research shows the original OS was Mac OS X 10.4.11. So my question is: if i will upgrade my CPU from T2300 to T7200 (2.0Ghz,Core2Duo) and the FirmWare from 1.1 to 2.1 so I can increase the ram from 2 to 4 Gb. Will this configuration work for lion (Yes, i know 1.1 is not compatible with installer)?
I have been researching about XQuartz a lot but I haven't been able to find much information. I found out that it some kind of window manager provider. I was wondering does it replace the default provider for Mavericks or does it run only for applications that need it? Could I mess up the retina display? I have installed it and removed it and my $DISPLAY variable is empty. When I do echo $DISPLAY I get back an empty line, is this normal?
Somehow in my Finder's sidebar the "Computer" element under devices doesn't show any description text anymore. It won't kill me, but it's annoying.
How can I get the current sound output device name with AppleScript? For example, in my System Preferences: Sound pane "Internal Speakers" is currently selected. All I need to do is retrieve that device name -- "Internal Speakers" or "Headphones" or "Bluetooth Speakers" -- whichever is currently in use. (I do not need a switcher/changer to another device.)
At my workplace we pair program and sometimes need to get on a call with a remote team member. We also have quite a noisy office. We have USB headsets for these reasons. We, of course, use macs.
In Apple Mail (7.3) on Mavericks (10.9.4), when I compose a new message, I cannot choose which of my two accounts to send from. Bizarrely, when I open the New Message window, there is a From field, but it quickly disappears. I'm including an animated GIF showing this behavior below. How do I stop the From field from vanishing?
I'm using OS X 10.9.4 and I have a Brother HL-1440 that I've been using for years, even before I was using an iMac. It's been a real workhorse and doesn't show signs of failure mechanically (it's still on just the 1st toner cartridge after the one included when I bought it). I've never had an issue with this printer working with OS X until about two weeks ago.
I want to act my caps-lock key as control-key. I'm going to preferences ⇒ keyboard ⇒ modifier keys... and say that caps lock should be acting as control.
Under "Sharing" in System Preferences, I do not have anything shared. However, I have a "Shared" folder under "Users". Is there a way to remove this folder?
I want to connect 2 monitors to my MacBook Pro (mid-2010). The problem is that I don't if the Mini DisplayPort is version 1.2, which would support daisy chaining. How can I figure out what version firmware my Mini DisplayPort uses and whether or not it would support daisy chaining?
I have a pending purchase and i just want to cancel it. Its seems that thou may not have an option for this issue.
We have a 12-core R2D2 style Mac Pro at the office. It is very quiet. If I put my ear very close to it, I can hear the fan humming smoothly, but from a distance it's quiet.
I'm trying to improve my workflow when working on certain projects. Depending on what kind of work I'm doing, I'll want certain apps open with certain configurations. Example:
The reset seems to happen sporadically, usually when coming out of sleep. I also experience the monitor going in and out. I've already replaced the Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter.
My mac has several input methods (English, Chinese) When I open terminal / iterm2 , I want the input method to switch to English automatically. When I open skype or chat messenger , I want the input method to switch to Chinese automatically.
I am using a new MAC running OSX Mavericks with a solaris ISC DHCPD server. I have setup some additional options on the DHCPD server but it is my understanding that most DHCP clients don't request all DHCP Options. I'm trying to ascertain how I configure OSX to send a DHCP request that includes these additional options. My overall goal here is to issue option 26 which stipulates an MTU size.
I use Inkscape quite a bit to produce presentations. Since Inkscape doesn't handle multiple pages, I end up with a lot of individual .svg files. I then have to open each one and 'save as' a PDF to then import them all into preview. Which is kind of a pain.
I have an NTFS external disk, And I followed a stupid tutorial, it told me to repair my disk then I can delete the 'un-deletable' files in the NTFS external disk. However, When I done the repair-disk, the files on the disk were missing. But it seems all the files are still existing on the disk, But couldn't be seen on OSX and Windows 7 (I used the parallel to inspect the disk) How could I recovery the data on the disk, thanks T_T
My husband and I share a computer and iTunes. We have separate Apple IDs. When my husband syncs his phone, he gets a whole new page of all the apps from my phone. I can see as it's syncing, that it's "copying" apps that are only on my phone. How do I stop this from happening? He has to go through and delete all these extra apps each time.
Whenever I plug in my usb wireless mouse, my Macbook Air and Mac Pro both think that the mouse is a keyboard and won't register the mouse's movements at all. Is there a way to fix this? The mouse is a cheapy Gigaware wireless usb mouse and I'm running OS X Mavericks.
I have a WDC Passport external drive which I used as a time machine backup. However, I do not want to use it as Time Machine backup anymore, I just want to use it as a regular external hard drive.
There is a coding library Swiss Arrows that uses the operator -<> for a particular operation. I don't seem to be able to search for this in the contents of files on a mac. Is there a particular trick I need to do to enable this?
I'm trying to create Code 128 Barcodes within Microsoft Excel. I have tried all VBA Makros and Fonts I found on Google, but none give's me a scannable result (usually there are weird characters like ó's mixed in). Does anybody have a working solution?
Has there be a successful attempt to turn off the NVIDIA graphic card and use the Intel one? I know that in Linux, it is possible to turn off one graphic card and use the other (using vgaswitcheroo). I am running Windows 8.1 Bootcamp on MB Pro 10.1 and experience overheating due to this issue.
I have downloaded and installed the app What's Keeping Me? This app is quite nice. She tells me that the process mds is using my disk.
I recently rent a VPS and generated a public/private key pair and transferred it to my server (added it there to the authorized_keys file) ... So far on my first login via terminal on OSX I got asked for my passphrase and declined to save it to my keychain. However my terminal won't prompt for the passphrase anymore, instead I can connect instantly via "ssh myserver.com" ... I can't find the key in my keychain (why should I) and can't figure out why it's not asking for my passphrase!
I've tried replacing the stock menubar icons in both Meteorologist and Butler with icons of the same size as the ones they were to be replacing and in both instances the replacement icons appeared significantly smaller than the originals. Neither enlarging nor reducing the size of the replacement icons had any effect on the tiny size with which they appeared. Meteorologist uses .tiffs and Butler uses .pngs. Completely different icons were used for both apps. Butler even includes a submenu function expressly to allow the user to change the icons. Can anyone explain to me why my replacement menubar icons are appearing half to even a 1/8 smaller than they should be and how I can fix this?
I've installed Gnumeric using Homebrew. I first manually installed XQuartz (as required) and then ran brew install gnumeric. Everything seems to have installed fine. Now how do I launch it? When I run /usr/local/bin/gnumeric I see: This is the result of /usr/local/bin/gnumeric --help:
I have to start the WindowServer Via the Terminal: I can not use
I used to have WavTap and Airparrot but their audio interfaces are still straying in my other audio interfaces, and I would like to delete them. How can I do this? I tried Audio / MIDI configuration but can't click the (-) sign to delete them. Example image:
I recently did an update on my mac Mavericks It asked me to set up an account after it installed and now all of my files, apps and software have disappeared. I've read a similar post on here where the advice has been to go into /users, and if your home sharing file is there then simply log back into that account, BUT, my computer didn't have an "account" of such before hand, no password or logging,
Is there a way to make my Mac always choose Wifi for Internet browsing, and Ethernet for local network browsing and file-sharing? My Wifi Internet download speeds are approaching 100Mbps, but when I'm connected via Ethernet, I only get 15Mpbs.
The OS X menu allows exit, minimize and maximize: I know the following shortcuts: Exit: command+Q Minimize: command + M Maximize: ?
I have a Bootcamp partition with Windows 8.1 that I rarely use. Last night I was in OSX, closed the lid, and when I opened it this morning it was in Windows and I cannot get out. Booting with the option key down does nothing (still boots straight to Windows) Going to Advanced Boot Options in Windows shows Mac OS X as an alternative boot device, but when I choose it and reboot, it still goes into Windows. I've read that holding X on boot forces to OS X - never heard of that before, but also tried it with the same results as above. I've reached the end of what I know how to do - other troubleshooting paths to take?
Recently, my Time Machine disk exhibited some filesystem errors. Disk Utility was able to correct them, but I don't trust the existing backup content much, and by extension, don't trust incremental backups made against that content.
I'd like to switch the accessibility preference "Scroll with inertia" on and off for a Magic trackpad. The preference can be found in the accessibility preferences/Mouse and Trackpad/Trackpad Options/Scrolling "with/without inertia" (see here: *=URL=* I think, that this preference resembles the key "TrackpadMomentumScroll" in either the com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad or com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad domain.
How do I know if OS X Mavericks was installed successfully? In the App Store, will the button next to the OS X Mavericks app be shown as "Installed" after the completion of installation?
How can I prevent accepted meetings from being deleted in Office 2011? When I accept a meeting in Outlook 2011 for Mac, it always automatically moves the invitation to deleted items. I'd prefer to see the invitation in my inbox indefinitely. There are how-to guides describing how this can be fixed in Windows machines, but I've explored (I think) all the nooks and crannies of the preferences menu on my Macbook and can't find any equivalent setting in Office 2011 for Mac.
I did a backup of my iPhone 4 to iTunes in anticipation of getting a new iPhone 5S. When I did the restore to my new iPhone after I got the new phone, it didn't give me the latest data that was on the old phone.
How can I find out what my wifi password is for my iphone? I entered what I thought was password but it will not connect. I can't find it written down anywhere to be sure.
I'm using MAMP on a MAC. And in the php info page on MAMP, it says that mcrypt is enabled. However, when I run "php -m" on the terminal, I can't find mcrypt between the php modules.
I want to be able to run a graphical program from the command line, so I add a symlink to the program (/Applications/Stata/Stata.app/Contents/MacOS/Stata) from /usr/local/kkjj/bin/xstata. When I run xstata, I get an uncaught NS. Here's the whole output to stderr: *=URL=* Is there any other way to deal with this than with an alias?
I have files that are named like "clip-2014-01-31 18;50;15.mp4", i.e. "clip-YYYY-MM-DD hh;mm;ss.mp4".
Some images seem to be automatically modified by preview when you open them - in particular, the color saturation changes. For example, I see an image with a certain shade of red in Finder's cover flow, but when I open it in preview, that red is now slightly desaturated. If I save the image, cover flow now shows the desaturated red - so Preview.app is certainly doing something. Why is it doing this and how do I make it stop?
When I setup the account, auto discovery finds everything just fine and logs me in and downloads all the mail, rules, filters, etc. stored on the server. The problem is in Internet Accounts in System Preferences, I now see two Exchange accounts. One for first.last@ and another for flast@
I have an iMac with OS X version 10.9.4. When using the iCal application I cannot change the color of a new event I post to match the color I've chosen for the event. Example: If I post a Red color coded event the lettering for my description is black. I want the description I type for my Red event to be Red, not Black. It would stand out as what color code the event is. Currently if I post a new Calendar event and choose a color for it just a small dot appears next to black font description of my event. I want colored font to match the colored dot on my calendar. Additionally there is a Gray Birthday event option but I cannot place any personalized Gray color coded birthday events. I want the typing font color to match the event color for new iCal events I add and I want to be able to post Birthdays using the Gray color set up on my iCal menu.
My Mid 2013 macbook pro recently will no longer boot. I was using it normally (no excessive use) and then all of a sudden it just went black and shut off immediately. I can no longer boot it (I got it to boot once but now it't having the same problem).
I often have to work with large scanned pdf documents (law reports, not that it matters). It's quite handy to be able to highlight key passages, but for the most part these documents have not been run through OCR, and so each page is just an image. (I'm not interested in OCR-ing them myself, either.) As a result, Preview's highlight tool doesn't work, as it expects to be highlighting text.
GarageBand occupies 13 gigs, but the app itself is only a couple hundred megs. How can I delete whatever files, etc are bulking it up?
I wanted to watch a show on couchtuner.eu (a friend recommended, I hadn't used the website before). I carelessly followed some Java link to update, and…now I have ads everywhere, pop-ups, etc.
When we go to a program we go there to create a new file or resume work in one. When one clicks the Numbers Application icon Why does Numbers in Mavericks list files with different extensions and not just Numbers files? Only Numbers files are allowed a "quick look" and nothing else. This whole thing seems like a waste of time.
-- Day 1: rebooting in endless loop until force quit with power button. Then rebooting in endless loop again until force quit with power button.
I am setting up Maven on my Mac but it is not working because the JAVA_HOME variable is not defined. I had expected the java installer to create this but alas not. Where is java installed so I can create this variable myself?
I work with Axure software that generates dynamic and navigable prototypes in HTML. Once they are done I need to send a ZIP file of those HTML files to clients via e-mail or any download internal service. When they open the HTML files nothing works because since they've downloaded it from the internet (or even intranet) Mac OS X marked them with the com.apple.quarantine attribute and it's causing a JavaScript error. I can run this command on Terminal xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ./ within the folder where the HTML files are located and the issue with JavaScript code is solved. In other words: Mac OS X is messing up with my prototype HTML files when they are downloaded from the internet and "marked" as suspicious files and quarantined. My question is: is there a workaround where I can make this files safe (can be a Terminal command or bash script) so I don't need to asks my clients to run a Terminal command every time I send those project files? Thanks! Edit: adding important info fro
My ipod has a selfie camera but not a second camera. Can you actually build a camera into an iPod?
After choosing Macintosh in my Google Analytics stats and then choosing Screen Resolution as the secondary dimension, I get these numbers:  Which one of these are 15" Macbook Pro, 13" Macbook Pro, etc.
Is there a native dictionary on OSX? I would like to be able to click on a word (in any open window), and get its meaning in a quick popup windows.
When renaming a file in the Finder and changing the file extension, I get the following warning message:  How can I disable it?
I'm tying to configure my IMAP mail account using Apple OSX Mail to behave in what would seem to be the obvious way: sent mail should appear in the special "Sent" mailbox, deleted in the "Trash", and junk in "Junk". Getting this to happen would seem to involve the "Mailbox Behaviors" settings associated with the account in Mail's preferences; but all my attempts result in bizarre behavior. Focusing for the moment on just sent mail, and on my Outlook.com account, which I've named "MSN", here's what I get:
I would like to access and protect this 2000_archive. I want to avoid any modification I could made and wouldn't detect immediatly so as to undo it. This is the kind of event which happens regularly on huge documents which don't provide a clear modification status. iPhoto doesn't provide such a clear modification status. My iPhoto library is already backed up by Time Machine and some folders of it are already exported on DVD.
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out a really perplexing issue we've seen with a Mac server on our local ethernet network. What we're seeing lately is that the server (which we use for Time Machine backups) will seem to "disappear" and "reappear" to our Macs, with a different "identity" each time. What I mean by this is: After connecting to the server through Finder, it appears in the sidebar. However, some time later (usually no later than an hour), I'll get a notification from Time Machine that backups are failing because the backup disk is not available.
I know this is a simple question, but I can't recall a method of doing it. I wrote a service using automator to copy the public URL of a file in my Sites folder. I wrote this script:
Need help with an iMovie I am putting together for a memorial this weekend. I've finished the movie, but was hoping to extend the first clip. Since I am using a 'ken burns' crop for the clip, the view pans from the bottom of the photo to the top in the clip. Once the view reaches the top of the photo, I'd like it to hold for about four seconds. I can't seem to make that happen, even if I'm using the inspector. Any step by step tips folks can offer up would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Leah
When I open a fresh terminal window, the title at the top has this format: [house icon][username]-[command]-[terminal size] The command portion of the title initially says login, then it very quickly rotates through other commands like ps, awk, grep, cat, sed, dirname, then eventually resolves to bash. The title switching happens so fast that I can barely read the words. I'm on OSX 10.9.4 but I believe this used to happen on slightly older versions.
I'm a long time Windows developer guy & did lots of lower-level stuff (hesitate to say power user). I'm very proficient on the command line and using PowerShell... but now that I've moved over to OS X I feel lost at times. I'm not talking about learning the stuff on *=URL=* rather, to start I'd like to get a better understanding of the organization of the file system & working in the terminal. I see /usr and folders in there but my lack of understanding in what I'm typing when I go to install some developer utilities / tools (think stuff that involves Homebrew) feels like I've missed a lot of steps. Any suggestions on where to crash course?
I am trying to use the Apple Installer commands to install a package and the output is that it was successful, however, the end result is that nothing actually happens meaning the package never gets installed or launched. Could someone please look over the commands and tell me what is wrong or try it themselves to see what could be the issue? Or what else I have tried is this with the same result: If I change the target to where I want it to be installed to such as: I get an error that says Installer: error trying to locate volume.
I've lost /usr/bin/as. How does one reinstall it?
I have been having some of the worst performance problems with my Mac Pro that I've ever seen. It seems to start at the darnedest times with no apparent provocation. I've poured through everything from many and varied dtrace scripts to other dark arts incantations to no avail. I was working away when I popped up to iStat Menus for a peak at what might be consuming my processors during a particularly grueling moment and noticed that my GPU was not only peaked out, but that it has been consistently peaked out for a VERY long time:
How do you compare the system resources used by two programs (e.g., Chrome & Chrome Canary)? I think the new 64-bit Chrome Canary is causing my computer to heat up a bit more but I'd like to compare it's system resource usage to the regular version before adopting an opinion.
I have a Macbook Pro with dual hard drives (1tb HD, and a 250gb SSD that I replaced the disk drive with). I have been using the regular HD for my mac and the SSD for my bootcamp. Recently, I found this article explaining how to use the SSD to boost the speed for my mac, as well as my bootcamp. So I want to move everything from the SSD over to a new partition on the HD.
When I press arrow up to search through the command history, some characters always remain at the beginning of the command line. Does anyone know what's going on ? How can I fix it? for example, I ping google.com, it looks like this: then I press up arrow a few times and down arrow a few times, some characters stick at the beginning of the command line like this: those characters can't be removed or highlight, and I can still use the CLI normally, like this: and move between directory despite the leading characters:
I'm planning on buying a second-hand iPhone 5 from eBay and then using it as an iPod Touch (when the time comes, I'd like to activate it and use it as an iPhone). I'm not sure how activation works, however, and a few hours of internet searching have yielded several different answers. So far, I've heard that I'd need to get a SIM card matching the carrier of the iPhone, but I've heard some people say that it has to have been used with an iPhone before that?
Apparently the only way out is to boot in recovery mode and flash the device clean, which means losing permanently access to all apps ever, backwards and forwards in time. (We have been unable to install any new app at all for a year or so.) This means being stuck with a version of Safari that, as you well know, runs out of memory and crashes and burns on most websites. Hooray.
I'm trying to create new users on my OSX server by importing short & long names from a CSV file. When I attempt to import the CSV I get the following error:
I have a 63mb mobi format book. Normally I get mobi books to my iPad/iPhone via the email share setting in Calibre. However the size of the book is too big to do that.
I would like to get everything else to work consistently. It has occurred to me that the Apple TV might not like being routed through the AV receiver, although I haven't tested whether changing it would make a difference; I'd prefer to keep it set up this way if possible.
Basically: I download a MP3 file from an artist (for example) It is saved to my Downloads folder. From there, I want to open it automatically in an external MP3 tag editor such as this one. Then, I will edit the tags and save the file. When the file is saved, I want to have the newly edited MP3 moved to a folder (my iTunes "Add Automatically" folder, Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ Steve ▸ Music ▸ iTunes ▸ iTunes Media ▸ Add Automatically to iTunes.
On July 22 someone at work got onto my iPhone 5s to get emails and other things off of it. They had to enter my passcode but because I used only a 4 digit code they could have watched me enter it in before (now I use a 26 character password). After they got what they wanted (which they did), they dunked it into water.
I am new to writing shell scripts for Unix and need a little help. I am not sure why cURL now all of the sudden after running the script is downloading corrupts packages which cannot be mounted and why running the commands separately in Terminal work, but during the script everything fails such as For cURL it comes back saying command not found For the mv command it says cannot find file or directory and of course mounting and everything thereafter fail. Could you please take a look at the shell script to see what is missing or I am doing wrong?
I've followed the instructions to enable the "Create windows 7 install Disk" in bootcamp but I am attempting to install Windows 8.1. How do I force bootcamp to allow me to create a windows 7 or later install disk?
I don't like native shortcuts for "Show Next Tab" and "Show Previous Tab" in Safari, I thought that Fn would be great for previous tab and Left Control for next tab because I don't use that keys in Safari at all, however I wasn't able to set that keys as shortcuts in Setting>Keyboard>App Shortcuts, how can I do that?
I like to download podcasts to my ipod to listen to them at work or at the gym. However, after I have listened to them, once I sync my ipod with my computer, it deletes the podcasts that I have played from both my computer and my ipod, despite the fact i have the settings set to not delete them automatically after they have been played. I like to keep old podcasts of some shows (such as This American Life) because once they add the new episode to itunes, the old one is only accessible through purchase and I want to save them in case i want to listen to them again. Any idea what's going on?
I have connected my MacBook (Early 2013, OS X 10.9.4) with my iMac (Late 2012, 27 inch, OS X 10.9.4) via a ThunderBolt cable in order to use the iMac screen with my MacBook. I have two related questions: (i) Is there a way to automatically mirror the screen without needing to press Command-F2? (ii) How can I allow screen mirroring to persist when I close my MacBook?
I bought a Macbook Pro with Retina display (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) in April. It keeps freezing and about every 3 days, and I need to upgrade the RAM. Am I able to upgrade the RAM on this machine to 8GB or 16GB?
I forgot my pass code on my iphone 5. I know I can restore from iTunes but what about the videos on my phone? We recently took a trip and I have uploaded all the photos but not the videos,:(. Do they back up when my phone backs up to the cloud? I also haven't backed them up to my computer yet. I really don't want to loose all these videos of my kids!!!! I have an iPad Air also but I know videos don't stream right? Please help me if possible thanks!
Edit: I realised that this wasn't Terminal specific and found the answer.  This toolbar/scrollbar appeared permanently all of a sudden for some reason, and I'd like to hide it, but can't find an option to do so?
I export a directory on a linux box and I can mount it from another linux box using The same command fails on Mac OS X: At the same time, kurush:/var/logs/syslog records this line: When I try to go though the GUI (finder->connect to server->nfs://kurush/media/lynk->connect), I get an immediate failure (unable to connect &c) and the linux box syslog records the authenticated mount request. The problem is solved by using a privileged port: Command line: To enable GUI: then add a line The questions are:
I was looking into pinging a host 5 times per second. I've read the man page for 'ping' for Mac OSX, but I can't find anything that would allow me to do this. I tried setting the -W switch to 5, to try and force sending more packets faster than the reply is received, but no luck there. -W waittime Time in milliseconds to wait for a reply for each packet sent. I ended up using liboping from homebrew. Is there a reason why I can't control the time gap between ping attempts with the default ping utility?
I have an issue many seem to have: Safari 7.0.5 (and now 7.0.6) hangs when loading web pages whereas other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) work just fine. I've ran my tests on WiFi with two different routers as well as through iPhone tethering. Here are the steps I have taken so far but the problem persists: re-installed my MacBook Air completely with the latest image from the App Store Reset Safari Disabled extensions Unchecked "Warn when visiting fraudulent website" Unchecked "Stop plug-ins to save power" In the Develop menu, checked "Disable caches" In WiFi settings, disabled IPv6 Changed DNS to OpenDNS Deleted all Safari plist, caches, favicons cache, etc. Turned off Safari in iCloud settings Fixed permissions, rebooted Disabled the prefetch setting from terminal
The native OSX dictionary (hover + 3-finger-tap) does not work for the Hebrew language. The example below shows its reluctance to interpret the word פרסומת, a valid Hebrew word. Any ideas how to add extra languages to the dictionary?
We have an Apple TV (3rd gen) and a 2 TB Time Capsule on which we know how to store movies already. One can use the Time Capsule and simply add movies stored on it into the iTunes library. However, how could we use the Apple TV to play media content from the Time Capsule without having to run iTunes on the Mac? NB: we want to cut out the middle man, so suggesting to use iTunes on another OS doesn't really answer the question :)
I don't like the default finder navigation shortcuts command-up, command-down because you need to press 2 buttons instead of 1. On windows, delete leads to previous folder ("back") and enter enters the folder instead of renaming it like on the mac. I have already tried in system preferences but mac os won't let me enter delete or enter as a valid shortcut key. Thanks
I seached the whole stack exchange & the inter webs about how to change the names of this install partitions of my USB harddrives. I want them called i10.5 i10.6 i10.7 i10.8 i10.9 Anyone the Magic way?
In Sublime Text 2, there is a save_on_focus_lost preference option. When set, every time you switch to another app all current files are saved. Is there a way to make BBEdit behave the same way?
Find My iPhone locates my phone when it's at home, but when it moves away from home it always shows the old location (Home) and never updates. My iPhone 5 using the same account works fine. How do I resolve this issue? iOS 6.2 or thereabout iCloud and Find My Phone on Wi-Fi on
A folder and all it's contents have changed into an extensionless document. When I open the file in Sublime Text I get 100,000+ lines of text like: 0403 0000 46aa ee00 0000 0000 1800 0000. This is on an HFS+ boot volume.
In answering this question I wrote this script: My question is: in the instance above when I replace the "shell script" statement with the statement below why does this statement work: Example 1: but this one does not: Example 2: nor does: I know there are other ways to make it work like copy to clipboard and then issue a command+c. I would like to understand why the global variable is not being transferred to the textEdit document, in particular in Example 1 above, as applescript does not throw an error.
Any idea how to fix: I kind of deleted it by accident before I realized that being behind a proxy was my issue not easy_install
Based on experience with 3rd-generation AppleTV (Apple TV Software 6.2 (based on iOS 7.1.2) Wikipedia), I have concerns about the privacy of my usage behavior. Not from Apple per se, but from the 3rd-party apps.
In Mavericks, how do you change the user account photo to something other than that gray silhouette? I've searched for an answer to this question and it seems people figured it out in Mountain Lion and earlier, but not Mavericks as far as I can find. I'm using OS X 10.9.4. Thanks.
I have bought a Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch (late 2012 model). I've been very satisfied with Mac OS X so far and I would like to use it on my home computer, which currently has Windows and Linux on it.
I'd like to use my fingerprint instead of entering the iTunes password via keyboard. However, for that to happen, I have to define a 4 digit passcode. And despite the fact that on the Touch ID and Passcode page, i've deselected iPhone Unlock, it still makes me enter the password. How can I use the fingerprint exclusively for entering iTunes and App Store credentials?
Not sure what happened, but when I was setting up my new Mac, something wonky happened w/ the second partition. I ended up deleting it and naming the second partition on my laptop Machintosh HD 3.
I'm experiencing frequent mouse-down errors.  They say Windowserver: Warning: Program "xxxx" posted a mouse-down, blocking hardware events, but did no further mouse activity with various apps in addition to Finder being logged, so the application in-use seems to make no difference. I will be using an application and suddenly the track-pad no longer works. This is will last for about a minute. Sometimes, the front-most window will veer suddenly to the left so that it is halfway off the screen. I will be unable to move it until the mouse-down error ends. Most of the time, I can continue to move the mouse around during these events, but I can't click on or move anything.
How do I open a specific port in the firewall? I can not use the "allow connections from application" as I want to open the port for Jenkins, that is not on the list...
I tried fixing the issue of not being able to access LinkedLn by installing lots of certs from DigiCert in my Keychain and while that fixed LinkedIn, I then couldn't go to Github.com. I ended up having to restore my keychain from time machine, and for the /Library and /System/Library paths, I had to do the restore to a temp directory. THis only affects Safari and Chrome, and not Firefox. Any way, I got my system back to accessing github, but LinkedIn still has the issue. Is there any utility to properly check and fix SSL configuration issues on Mac OS X? Should I maybe just trust the linked in cert (or digicert one)? Safari gives me options:
I am eager to try out the new Yosemite beta, but the confidentiality agreement somewhat startles me. I know I cannot disclose any confidential information about the OS or post screenshots of it anywhere, but what else does that imply? I am a web developer and I use my Macbook for surfing the web, listening to music, programming and web development in general. Can I still do all these things (and the rest of everyday stuff) if I update to the Yosemite beta? What are the legal limitations of using Yosemite?
I currently use Bonjour for my home wireless printing. It works flawlessly, but I have one gripe with software. If my iMac (pc connected to the printer) goes to sleep, the wireless print stops. Is there anyway if the printing can work while the mac sleeps. I understand why Apple did this to conserve power, but my iMac is always connected to power, and running things on the background. Any help, greatly appreciated. :)
I've got a very simple AppleScript whose job it is to type some words into a text box. I want this script to run every time my screen saver activates, and again every time my screen saver deactivates. I installed ScriptSaver and it works perfectly. So far, so good.
I want to configure an exchange account on a Macbook. But Apple sets it up as an "Internet account" and sets that up on every mac associated with that apple id. Is it possible to configure it only on the one mac?
I don't want my private messages popping up on my Mac, so is there a way I can remove my account on my Mac, but keep it on my iPhone?
At the same time I downloaded ODBC Administrator Mac Application and DSN added here shows up in OpenOffice list. Maybe I do not understand something in interface, but I don't know how to add key-value pair here. I can not find a way to actually edit these values. And by default they add Key-Value, Key1-Value1 etc...(See attached image) And this is quite important because you define host, port and database with these pairs. So, what can I do to add DSN?
I'm wondering if StartCom is a trusted CA on iOS. I'd like to setup a mail server for a TLD, and use their free certificate. It's only about $10/year cheaper than more well known authorities, so the deciding factor is if it's trusted on my iPhone. I know it is on OS X, Windows and many linux distributions, but would like to be certain.
How can I trigger an applescript on mousedown? I want this applescript to run when a user doubleclicks on empty space in the desktop (i.e. not clicking on the icons present on desktop). This is my script so far:
Is it possible to turn off the snap-to-road functionality on an Iphone 5 (IOS7)? On my commute to work I ride on a bicycle path next to a highway. The problem is that the bicycle path does not exist on Apple's maps so the IPhone moves the gps position to the closest road. (I ride along the blue path)
I want to invite someone as team member to the iOS developer program. I tried Invite Person and Bulk Invite but the Send Invitation button has always
I accidently created an account in the Apple Support Communities with the wrong nickname because I thought I was logged in within another Apple ID. I always read that the only way is to create a new Apple ID but that is not possible because the iOS developer program is active on this ID. Has anyone be able to change his nickname or remove the forum account?
This is the most bizarre thing I have seen in Apple; here is what happened. In my country, the Apple reseller store for some reason registers all the people's AppleIDs with their own email addresses and names for first time Apple owners (which I am pretty sure Apple would revoke their license if they found out). Anyways, they did that to my parents and downloaded some apps in it at the time. And after that, somehow my mom was able to register her own AppleID to the phone and purchase apps and everything through her own appleid. Today, I wanted to update all the apps in the phone and suddenly I got asked the password of the appleid used the first time Apple registered her phone... I checked out the settings and app store etc. There is no place in the phone where this appleid is used. So, I am just guessing that it maybe some of the apps they have written to this phone at that time and they needed an update. How can I delete all the apps owned by the "old" appleid on this phone? I have n
That must be probably obvious, but I can't seem to figure out how to delete the table name. Only the hide option is available. create table default name "Table 1" appears don't want it - and don't want to allocate memory (...) for it tried among others: select able, tap paintbrush, options... to delete it, to no avail.
Short Story I've installed a program on my Mac that altered some settings (e.g. graphics, position of dock). I've uninstalled the program but the settings haven't changed. Is there a way that I can see the setting that were changed by this program and revert them? Long Story
FileVault 2 is computing a recovery key when I decide to activate this security mode. This recovery key is a mandatory safety belt when someone wants to use serious cryptography. Is it possible to create a recovery key in the same way for a crypted disk image created with Disk Utility or hdiutil? I'm searching a solution around hdiutil for Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and which could stand on future versions of MacOS X.
If I want to ensure a URL, if clicked, will always open in Chrome (instead of the default browser) can I do that by modifying the header? For example, I can get URLs that always open in Evernote, they start with evernote:/// Is this possible, for example to have something like chrome:///www.url.com
I've had a request to share an Automator workflow I made. Where is a good place to do that? Something like pastebin but for workflow files.
Is there a way to determine which Homebrew packages have been installed the most times, either in the recent past or all-time? It would make it easier to determine which formulae are the most useful, and to discover new software I may not have heard of. Currently, I just use homebrew when I find out "I need to install this" for some dependency.
Is it possible to use a Macbook Pro 15" (latest) in a setup where an external LCD is connected and used as the primary screen while at the same time the Macbook's own screen is used as the secondary screen (= extends the primary screen to the right)? (I'd like to work on a big monitor and use the Macbook screen for auxiliary stuff like Terminal windows.)
How can I setup my iTerm to connect my amazon server using the .pem file I have been given. When I try ssh PUBLIC-DNS it returns Permission denied (publickey).. EDIT I have now tried the following without log, including a debug log: Please note that I have removed the following informations SERVER IP, PUBLIC DNS and RSA KEY
I have an Omnigraffle canvas sized at the exact size of U.S. letter format (8.5 X 11 in). I want it to print out without any margins, but can't seem to find the correct settings to do so. I have set the canvas size and page setup properly, but the page always prints out with a small margin on all four sides.
Is it possible to use iTunes with the command line on Windows? I want to pass actions to the program like to play a playlist. Is it possible to use any iTunes functionalities in the command line?
Ubuntu Linux has a great tool called shuf, which works like head except that it gives you ten random lines. I couldn't find it on Homebrew. What is the simplest way of installing it on OS X?
I have a Mac VM running Mavericks (10.9.3), and for various reasons I am trying to write a script in Python to automatically transfer a PDF file to the VM and open it in Preview. For anyone who doesn't know, the command <path-to-Preview> <path-to-file> will open the file. Whenever the script runs, Preview will open, but it will give this error message:
I recently updated Numbers to 3.2. I want to be able to put a date in a cell numerically (8-22-14) and then have it show up with the month name, day, and year (August 22, 2014) without having to do a formula. I do not need the time.
I have a strange problem, when I try to shutdown my Mac Pro. I get the grey screen with the activity indicator, but it does not shutdown, the indicator keeps spinning and spinning. I figured out how to run the mac in verbose mode in order to locate the problem. So I think this is the relevant part from Console.app: Just in case, if this might be relevant: System: Mac Pro 4.1 (early 2009) with OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks Thanks in advance. Best regards, Sascha
I have a probably hardware broken MacBook (Late 2006), which detects an external display without any displays having attached. This happens with a brand new OS X (Lion) install too. The phantom display is named spdisplays_display and have a 800x600 resolution. How can I turn this display off from software?
I originally have a file called config.yml. When I go into Finder and change its name to config.yml.old, it appears to have changed the extension. However, opening the file in TextWrangler reveals that Mac has just appended a "hidden" .yml at the end, causing the filename to be config.yml.old.yml.
python -V shows that I am on 2.7.7 but brew upgrade python shows I have 2.7.8 so clearly my terminal isn't looking at the Homebrew version. How do I fix this?
I purchased a set of studio headphones from Audio Technica. Turns out, the pin is 3.5 mm and is too big for my iPhone 5. Is there some sort of adapter that I can buy that will convert the pin to the one for an iPhone? (Links to the suitable product at RadioShack would be appreciated :))
I notice sometimes when I open the Reminders app (after not having opened it for a while), it takes a second to load. This is presumably because it is no longer in memory and loading from SSD. Is there a way I can tell OS X to never remove Reminders from memory?
When running (for example) a java application (Minecraft) in it's own space (in Mavericks) the menu bar disappears, but then a grey bar appears on top of the space. Is there anyway to fix this? It happens in Eclipse as well. Immediately after giving it its own space it's fine, but after the screen saver or sleep mode (I am unsure what set of events causes the problem in Eclipse) it shows up.
I'm using Macbook Pro 15" Retina Late 2013. OS is Yosemite Public beta. Once in month I usually do diagnostics (Apple's boot time diagnostics, the when you press "D" ). The last the when I did it, I got PPP003 error code which was something like that: "Battery may not be charged. Try to disconnect MagSafe 2 power adapter ..."
I used to play The Sims Freeplay on my iPad, but after playing the game for a week I deleted it, but I did not remove it from Game Center. I re-installed the game, but I couldn't continue my progress. Game Center is still showing the progress of my old account, but I couldn't continue it. Does Game Center save my The Sims Freeplay progress?
What is the best way to print photos from Mac and pick them up manually in a local shop? In iPhoto, only option seems to be to have the pics shipped. Is there any plugin that would allow pick from local shops like Walgreens, Kodak connect, etc.,
In the image below you can see the mtr output while connecting the screen, the red part is where the monitor is connected. The monitor works just fine and has no problems with other computers, it's just that the macbook is apparently slightly crazy.
I have some trouble with my partitions on my Macbook Pro. I created 2 partitions. One named "Yo" where I have installed Yosemite release. Another one named "Save" where I put all the stuffs I need to keep secure for work. I want to create a 3rd one to re-install Mavericks just because one of my app is not working on Yosemite.
When App Exposé shows my browser windows (i.e., 4-finger swipe down or Control-↓), the order of the windows changes from one time to the next, and I cannot find the window I'm looking for easily. (What I'm really after is an efficient way to flip back and forth between the two or three most recently used windows in an application, but that's another story.) Can anyone tell me if there is any logic to the ordering of the application windows in App Exposé, or if it is just random?
Why have vertical lines appeared on macbook pro retina - left side of screen?
I am trying to clean up my iTunes. I have a lot of duplicate files (* 1.mp3 or * 1.m4a). I want to make sure before I find/clean the duplicates ending in ' 1' that they are truly bit-for-bit duplicates of the files not ending in ' 1'. Many are downloaded from iTunes match and want to make sure I'm not deleting a complete file and keeping a partially delete file (if, somehow an error had occurred that interrupted the download), etc. I'm sure there is a script that can compare the 2 files and delete the ' 1' if it is identical to the original but don't know how to write something like that. I would want it to go through my Music folder recursively.
I have an iPhone 4, jailbroken, and running iOS 7.1.2. I opened the Cydia app, it appeared to be loading something so I waited. Then the screen turned black. I can still hear sounds such as the charging tone when you plug your iPhone in to your PC and things like that. A few posts have recommended doing some Lock Button and Home Button combo but my lock button is broken and doesn't work. I can't seem to restore because Find My iPhone is enabled and I need to disable it to be able to restore. Is there any way I can restore this phone and remove Cydia?
I want the full screen button in image 2 to appear in the app shown in image 1 (Photoshop). In Chrome there's an option to go full screen, but in Photoshop and Office this does not exist. Is there any way to get it?
My screen is broken, but perfectly straight along one side and the rest (majority) of the screen is perfectly fine. I would like to adjust my display so that my computer thinks that the display ends where the screen is broken. Are there any utilities, command line or otherwise that would help me here? I have a 15-inch 3360 x 2100 retina display with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB graphics card. The computer is Early 2013.
This is very basic, but couldn't figure it out so far. If you select a paragraph on Microsoft World on Windows you can just press tab and the paragraph will move to the right. On the Mac, however, the whole text is replaced with the tab. In Xcode one can indent a block of text to the right by pressing cmd+] (or cmd+[) to unindent the selected text again. How can I do this in Pages?
I use the following setup: SSD: System Internal HDD: Data (Documents, Music, etc.) Both disks are encrypted via the Core Storage utility. It seems I can't mount the "Data" disk anymore.
I have an Iphone 4 and a Mac Mini running 10.6.8 and Airserver. With iOS 6, I used to be able to stream video from my Iphone to the Mac using Airplay; however, after upgrading to iOS 7, I can't do that anymore: If I start a video, hit the Airplay button in the video player and choose the Mac, it will tell me "The operation could not be completed". If I start a video, hit the Airplay button in the video player and choose the Mac, it will tell me "The operation could not be completed". If I choose the Airplay button in the Control Center and then hit Play, it will ignore me and reset the choice in the Airplay menu to my iPhone. If I choose the Airplay button in the Control Center and then hit Play, it will ignore me and reset the choice in the Airplay menu to my iPhone. The only thing I can "stream" are photos: if I activate Airplay in the Control Center and then access my Photos app, the pictures will appear in the Mac. The only thing I can "stream" are photos: if I activate Airplay in 
I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ Active Directory and Unix Extensions. I have several linux/bsd hosts already connected to the domain via ldap and mapping the uid/gid/secondary groups properly. I'm running a few mac's on 10.9 and 10.10 beta, I'm trying to figure out if its possible to map secondary Group IDs to the AD UnixGID and not the GID that AD creates.. for example, if i run id mikedevita on a linux box it gives me this: if i run the same command, id mikedevita on my mac it gives this: as you can see, the uid, and gid fields are mapped properly (40001, 30000) but all of the domain level groups which the user belongs to as secondary groups don't use the right group ID. Is there a way to remap this?
After preforming a Mavericks-Mavericks migration using Migration Assistant, I have a "Local Items" Keychain on my new machine in which many (perhaps most) items are out of date (using old passwords), and some are missing altogether. While I have access to a copy of the entire contents of the ~/Library/Keychains/ directory from my old machine, which presumably contains all the information I'm missing, I see no way of importing that information into my new machine. How can I import the "Local Items" from my old Keychain into the Keychain on my new machine?
Will having a router at one end, but not the other, supporting UPnP or NAT-PMP be enough to initiate Back To My Mac connections in both directions? That is, also in the direction of a computer behind the router that does not support UPnP or NAT-PMP?
My Macbook: Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 13" (White/07). Main problem: Mac goes black screen and shuts down when I try and load the Apple HW Test by holding down D as the computer turns on. It goes to a black screen with a flashing underscore like it's about to do something but then just shuts down. I am using the DVD as per apple's instructions.
I lost my iPhone 5s while I was going to sale it to someone else, and I restored it completely so it was basically ready to be set as a new phone. I want to know if it's possible to track it though the IMEI or serial number.
A very simple AppleScript like this: results in just “abc” being typed. Online resources suggest this should not be the case. Adding a delay between keystrokes didn't help. What might be causing this or how can I determine what might be causing this?
I am trying to figure out why this script is not binding client computers to the OD server. It is a firstboot script that is part of a netrestore image that runs at login. It does seem to run because it does delete itself upon restore. The bind command in the script does work if i execute it manually on clients, so that part does seem to be configured just fine. Can anyone help me see what is wrong with this thing?
I currently have MiniKeePass on my iPhone and although it does the basic job of storing passwords, I don't have the ability to create random passwords from the app itself and sync the changes to Dropbox. I'm looking for a subscription-free iOS app that had a clean, modern and beautifully designed UI. Any suggestions?
On Mavericks, my monitor resolution is set to 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p) on SMS24A350H. Everything looks great. But I noticed small icons in Finder window with small text. That I adjusted with Finder view options globally. But I could not solve the problem of small fonts appearing in system dialogue windows such as in “Get info” window and System Menu bar etc. It is hard to read text there and icons looks smaller.
I've been using an Ubuntu distro for a few years now and I greatly prefer the default Apache2 settings on Ubuntu compared to OS X. This post aims to provide instructions on how to convert the few settings I want from 'mac-style' to 'ubuntu-style'.
EDIT: OR... would it be easier (and give better throughput) to use Powerline extenders to connect to the outlying room and then set up the Time Capsule & HomeHub in a "roaming" network (i.e. both using the same SSID & security) credentials)?
On my Mavericks 10.9.4 instance of mdflagwriter eats up 2.18G of RAM. I know that it's somehow related to Spotlight, but what is it exactly and why is it so RAM-hungry?
I am using MS Office 2011 for Mac on Macbook air with OSX 10.9.4. In the comment balloon the date and time stamp shows some different language after date. I have added the screenshot of Word document below. How to change it to English? The language in both Word and system preferences is already set to English.
I know it's possible to relocate the home folder on the mac to somewhere other than /Users/[username]. But would it be possible to move it to, say, /Users/[username]/Google Drive without messing up the Google Drive app which syncs files between the computer and the cloud?
I'm a new to Mac and found that Keychain has gathered quite a lot of passwords so far. I'm concerned about the security of these data, and I would like what security settings would you recommend so that my keychain data is secure?
I am having a couple of problems with my Mac (wifi doesn't connect automatically, and audio jack doesn't work unless I restart). Having failed at fixing them for a while, I am wondering if reinstalling the OS (Mavericks) might help in such a scenario and should be given a try? (Obviously, I want to reinstall while keeping all my data, settings, apps etc intact.)
In my hosts file I have: Yet, when I go to home.dev, I get the Google search page, and when I go to *=URL=* I get a blank page. How do I get it to actually go to the index page that says "It works!" (I have index.php in the root directory of /Library/WebServer/Documents with just that).
Is it possible to have applications, plugins and preferences installed on portable media such as USB drive? I have two identical computers, one at work and one at home, and I'd like to have the exact same setup on both. Example on applications I use: Firefox (with extensions) Sublime Text Linux programs in Terminal uTorrent Alfred
I have a MacBook Pro Retina and I run it on the unsupported/non-HiDPI 2560x1600 to be able to work on multiple windows at the same time. This resolution increases the DPI allowing a large screen real estate. Everything seems fine, i sometimes need to Zoom to a particular window (Ctrl+Scroll) but it's not bothering me. I find an issue using Microsoft Office (Excel and Word), where I'm constantly having to zoom in at 200% inside the document to be able to read and write.
What are the differences between using Target Mode and Migration Assistant on the source machine during a migration? Are different files transferred; is speed (all else being equal) different? Assume for simplicity a Mavericks-Mavericks migration.
When Migration Assistant (or Setup Assistant) migrates Keychains, it successfully transfers most items as expected, but behaves (very) strangely with respect to the "Local Items" keychain. It appears, rather than transferring the current contents of "Local Items", to create a new set of items (at least partially) from old entries in the "Login" keychain, resulting in many items on the target machine that are missing or out of date.
A week ago I bought a Macbook Pro Retina (mid 2014) version - and in the first few days of running it I have noticed about 4-5 times that the Macbook occasionally restarts itself - so far always in sleep mode. Even if the lid is closed, I can hear the opening chime when you restart a Mac. I'm concerned that this is a hardware issue and one I'll have to go to Apple with, but I wanted to know if anyone else had this issue that they have already resolved, in case this is something that's due to software rather than hardware.
My Desktop folder is set to launch terminal. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reset that.
Everytime I have to manually select a lot of files by hand picking them from a big folder, I often click somewhere by accident and lose the whole selection and have to do the work all over again. I've gotten into the habit of doing this in chunks, to minimize the pain inflicted when this happens, but would like to find a better solution. My question then is, is there some log somewhere I can query for a list of the last item selections in finder? Or, alternatively, is there some Finder extension/alternative which kills this problem by, say, selecting files by ticking a checkbox instead? I find the design of this has stagnated and there should be better ways on this day and age...selecting and dragging stuff around like that is fiddly and error-prone
I ask this because there is some issue in my Mac (MBPr, Mavericks) due to which plugging in headphones into doesn't have any effect -- neither in the actual sound output, nor in the change from Internal Speakers to Headphones in the Sound->Output pane mentioned above. (And one time it got stuck the other way round: It continued to show Headphones irrespective of whether the headphones were plugged in or not; and sound would only come from the headphones when they were plugged in, otherwise nothing).
Is there any way to turn on rubber band scrolling in Snow Leopard? I cannot upgrade to Mavericks because I need Rosetta but I would like to have the scrolling behavior of Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks. Any ideas?
I just bought a DVD of Mac OSX Snow leopard. I am trying to install it on my PC. I can't install it and don't know why because it is first time with Mac OSX. DVD has written on it Boot Camp but I thought it is Max OSX. When I read the documentation, it has written on top How to install Windows on Mac?. What is Boot Camp?
When I quit an application, Finder is automatically brought up rather than the last application I was using. Why does this happen, and is there any way to change this? Thanks.
For the last three months I have been more or less enjoying my new late 2013 21" iMac. I already have an early 2011 MBP, which is pretty maxed out with a 512GB SSD and 8 GB of RAM, and still feels very, very fast.
I have a friend who wants me to put my music from my iTunes onto her iPad. The problem is her iPad has not been backed up onto another computer, so when I plug it in it asks to set up as new iPad or restore from settings or something like that. How can I do it that her apps and data won't get erased, because she has very important work on there?
Is there a way to change the Karabiner profile (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) using a shortcut?
I saw this question and was hoping that someone could expand upon the chosen answer (which I understood): Can you sudo mv Time Machine backup files as sudo from the trash to their original locations? I have tried doing this as root to no avail (operation not permitted). If not, can you successfully rm them via the trash via the terminal, faster than what the endless 'preparing to empty the trash' dialog suggests, and If you get the files back out of the trash can you tell if they are intact via disk utility (and how) Can you force indexing on a Time Machine drive in the same way that you would a normal drive to rebuild the TM index? I realize that a single answer could clarify all of the above, but I wanted to include details to be clear on what I am asking. Thanks for any help.
I have had my IPhone 4s for a few weeks and I try to add contacts and events but I can't. There is no + (add) button on the contacts and the + (add) button is grey and when I press it noting happens.
I am NOT talking about the simulator. I was wondering if I could simulate a shake on my actual iphone (by plugging it into computer and connected to xcode). Is there a way to do this?
I have a freshly built instance of OSX 10.9.4 running on a Late 2009 Mac Mini with two serially connected firewire Drobos. I can add both of these external drives to the Shared Folders list of the "File Sharing" preferences list, but I can only add and modify the users and their permissions for one of the two shared drives.
I have a FAT32 external disc that was suddenly unmounted as I was using it. When I reconnected it and tried to Repair it in Disk Utility, I got the following messages: I then tried to do only a Verify, which succeeded: I then re-tried the Repair, which succeeded:
I have a windows 7 PC with multiple monitors. It is possible to display the ITunes visualizer across multiple monitors? It currently only uses the one that I am on.
I need to emulate a keystroke using applescript for double time shift press. Adding Part of snippet.. Even tried
At times, the alarm in my iPhone 4S sometimes doesn't go off as set. Or actually, it goes off and I see the corresponding UI on the screen but there is NO sound. This happens very randomly, may be once in ten times but is obviously not acceptable in an alarm application. This mostly happens when the phone is in silent mode (which is still NOT expected behavior I am sure) but has also happened a couple times when the phone was non-silent. How do I fix this?
I have a 3TB Time Capsule ac. Which is used for Time Machine wirelessly. I would like to connect an external USB Hard Drive to the Time Capsule and use it as an extension to TimeMachine to backup more than 3TB.
In the Mac, is there a way to choose whether I want sound output through my internal speakers or the headphones (i.e. the audio port), irrespective of whether there are headphones plugged in or not. I can do this in Windows and Linux and I really need to be able to do this on the Mac as well, for a certain reason. Any help would be appreciated!
How can I copy Sony mobile phone's photos to iPad? Note: I have the camera adaptor cable already, that is used to connect to iPad but it doesn't work for Sony XPeria Z mobile phone. When I try to connect, the iPad gives an insufficient power for that device error.
My MacBook Pro with Retina display (Mid 2012) charger has a rating of 85 Watts. I want to use it on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. (24 hours). (Airbus A380-800). You can plug in an AC adapter - but they have the following rule:
I sometimes need to convert SVG files to a different format. Thus far I tried Inkscape and Imagemagick. I first tried to use Inkscape, but it failed to produce useable results (possibly because of the size and complexity of the graphics I was trying to convert). Inkscape is thus a no go for me. I then installed Imagemagick by Homebrew. It did work but I just could not help cringing at the amount of useless bloat it would pull on. Today's update though installed the n-th implementation of Python -- I already have the native OS X version (Python 2.7.5) and Anaconda Python, which allows me to run Python 3 in its own self contained environment. Call me OCD but getting a completely unrequested third instance of Python convinced me that Imagemagick had to go (and did, I removed it and all associated bloat). Now unfortunately I am without means of converting SVG files. I can, and will, do my best to avoid the damned things, but it would be helpful if anybody can suggest a self contained and u
Hello I cannot select the option 'none' as that option is not available. I'm getting really frustrated as I'm trying to download free aps and it will not let me as keeps wanting payment details. I did enter payment details before for one app however I have no money in my account so my card details keeps declining. How can I set up my appleID to have no payment card associated with it for the App Store?
Word suddenly started crashing every time either a document with «track changes» is opened «track changes» is activated in a document and the document is changed This behaviour started without an update of the OS or Office.
I would like to be able to easily turn on and off notifications for a particular app. I have my reasons for this, and if you'd like to know them you can check the edit history, but please keep responses to the topic of how I can do this, not whether I should want to. There seem to be a couple of options for this, but neither is ideal.
When using Exchange with Outlook, you can easily click in any email sender name and get his photo, name, mobiles… etc. Currently, is this possible to be done with Apple Mail using LDAP directory? I'm using Apple mail with IMAP and I have Apple Contacts configured with LDAP, and I would love to see such integration between them so I don't have to switch between the 2 apps just to check someone information Any way to upgrade Apple Mail (somehow) to have it as a business client email? Note: I'm not looking to change Apple Mail, I click the speed and the integration with Mac in general.
I created symbolic link jboss7 for hard link jboss-as-7.1.1.Final-downloaded and it worked fine in Finder. Then I made backup before modifying JBoss... Later, I renamed the hard link to jboss-as-7.1.1.Final-downloaded-modified and replaced it with backup. The symbolic link properly points to the backup with the same filename (ending with -downloaded), but Finder shows and treats the symbolic link incorrectly, saying it is alias for folder ending with (-downloaded-modified).
I'm trying to solve some problems and have run across a few things in Etrecheck of which I cannot determine the origin. One such item is the Launch Daemon "com.JWVD.cbcache.plist".
I work in an environment that utilizes OS X Server's NetBoot and NetRestore on a daily basis for preparing Macs for resale. I am working on a new, custom image for a customer that has a special request.
The various iOS sync programs (SugarSync, BitTorrent Sync, etc.) claim to be able to read files anywhere on the phone. I don't see how data from my application -- in my app's sandbox -- can be accessed. How is it that these programs are able to read/write outside their sandbox and get my app's data?
How can I use the media keys (previous track, play/pause, next track) for Spotify instead of iTunes? OS X 10.9.4
Some OS X apps register URL schemes and let users open the app directly through browser such as macappstore://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unibox/id702816521?mt=12 to open the URL in Mac App Store. Recently I downloaded RCDefault and discovered some of the URL schemes from apps I’ve removed — Steam for Mac and Monosnap — are still available.
I have followed all the correct steps for carrying out an SMC Reset, however my Mac continues to boot normally. The issues I currently am dealing with are: Slow performance Battery light on power cable not lighting Loud fans when just browsing on Safari
I'm running OS X 10.8.5 on a mid 2011 MacBook Air. Lately I've noticed that when I attach or detach an external monitor, the relevant monitor colour profile is not actually used. When I look in the preferences, the correct profile is always set, be it for the external monitor or for the build in screen.
Suddenly my iPhoto can not open the library anymore. It says it does not have the required permissions to the library. I read many article already, also the official of Apple.
I'm storing MS Word documents in GIT and would like to have an rudimentary document compare system on the rare occasion that I need to diff them. I've seen: *=URL=* and have tried all the solutions mentioned there including Araxis Merge. However at best I get text comparison. Since MS Word exposes Compare Docs as an automator command this should be possible. My goal: an automator workflow or applescript that can be fired from the command line that fires up MS word and compares two versions of a document.
When I first got my iPod I was given the option to set up an iCloud address. At the time I didn't want one; however, I want one now. So, how do I get one now?
The MacPorts installation guide says: Download the latest MacPorts-2.3.1-....pkg installer from the MacPorts download directory. [...]
If I run software update on a Mavericks Mac it will find a caching server automagically if there are any running locally rather than using the CDN Apple hosts on the internet. I'm not so much concerned about security as just knowing when and if the server is running correctly without having any sort of log in to the server itself. Is there a log file on the client end or another way to determine this conclusively?
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and it uses a network login system with my school. This normally wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that I can't connect to a wifi network from the login screen. Is there a way I can accomplish this so that I can log in and get this thing going? I can't use an Ethernet cable, because the MacBook doesn't have a full Ethernet port, but it requires a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, which I do not possess, and neither does my school.
When I search something in Spotlight the top search result is highlighted by default (as it should be). However when I press the down arrow to select the next result, the top result remains highlighted no matter how many times I press the down arrow. The strange thing is that Spotlight responds as if the correct result was selected. For example: After pressing cmd + Space and typing "android":
launchd is producing a lot of I/O activity. In the last day and a half it managed to write 12 GB of data while reading 500MB.
Is there a way to know the last time I reinstalled a specific app? Also, how many times I have reinstalled it?
I can't remove the old data in iCloud or even in Game Center. I like to play games like Hay Day and Township. I have already uninstalled the games and chose to remove the data but when I reinstall the same game, my level still is the same and won't become level 1 and start all over. How can I fix this problem? iPad mini, iOS 7
I've set up an OS X Server, and I'm now trying to make its services available from outside my local network. From inside the LAN, the iCal service works fine when I add an 'OS X Server Account' via 'Internet Accounts' in System Preferences.
I have followed a guide online which requested me to run this command: It was a guide for fixing LESS. Instead of fixing it, it only made it worse. I have lost the file. Is there any way to recover/refetch this file, or could someone upload their sh file for me?
There are some tags in Finder by default. I want rename their name from color. How can I do this?
I'm using Automator to run a shell script (ffmpeg transcode to h264) as a 'Service', so that I can just right click the high res .mov file and select the service. It works fine, but as it's ffmpeg it would be good to see the output in a Terminal window. Is there a way to see the output in real time? Shouldn't make a difference, but here's the script just in case:
I am trying to enable the right click on a Magic Mouse connected to an iMac running 10.6.8, but due to parental controls, I am unable to gain access to the Mouse System Preferences. I know you can change other settings through Terminal, is it possible to change it to enable right click as well? I saw this question, but the command
A while ago I had some liquid spilled on my 2009 MacBook. After that accident the internal screen is not working under OS X but works perfectly fine when using Windows under Boot Camp on the same MacBook. When an external monitor is connected it also works, even under OS X.
When I follow Apple's instructions for preforming a complete erase and reinstall on a FileVault 2 encrypted SSD machine, and choose a high level of security for the erase, I get an error, and the process (apparently) completes instantly. Did this securely erase my FileVault machine? If not, what should I have done; and what (if anything) can I do now (that I've "erased" my machine)?
Hi I have a macbook pro 15", primo 2011. It runs perfect with Mavericks. However recently it has started to get a strange bug from time to time. Some times left clicks on the pad is not working. It happens randomly while I work. It's often happening when I e.g. want to close a window in finder or change/close a tab in safari.
On seemingly random occasions, streaming media from iTunes on a Mac mini to my Apple TV (3rd gen, latest software) will result in slow buffering of movies. The catch? There's no consistency to when it happens, and I don't know how to diagnose it when it does.
I really love typing in TextEdit. It seems to correct all my typos and so saves time in editing. Is there anyway I can get this functionality to work in all applications, especially on Google Chrome's text fields. I've searched everywhere, but I can only find articles about Chrome's own built in Auto Correct (which isn't available on the Mac yet). OS X 10.9
Let me explain so my problem would be imaginable. I have photos made in standard Camera app. I need to upload them from my iPhone to a cloud service. I'm using Flickr for images. Also, I've tried Google Drive - the problem is the same. So, I uploaded a bulk of photos from "Photos" to Flickr via Flickr's app on iPhone. After I've sured they are uploaded - I delete that photos from iPhone locally. But the disk space in iPhone didn't freed. :( I've checked "Usage" statistics and have seen that Flickr's size was increased +2GB. So, I don't have photos locally but Fluckr ate the same space.
Our challenge is that we need to search and duplicate approx 3000 images into a new folder. The list of image names is a csv file. The files are all on one drive, but in many different folders.
(Note that this is a technical question, not a policy one. Also note that I understand any computer can be hacked. This question is more pointed towards assessing typical threats from my friendly sysadmins and their equally benevolent bosses.)
My wife and I both have Macbook Airs with relatively limited internal hard disks. If we could just offload our iPhoto libraries, we'd be fine.
I'm having a weird problem where the system-wide DNS resolution doesn't work, but I don't know how I could fix that, or even find a log (coming from Linux). I manually configured 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 as DNS servers in the GUI, which seems to have taken:
I bought this ipad second handed I already disabled it bt after connecting it to a wiffi its says "This iPad is currently linked to an Apple Id sign in with the Apple ID that was used to set up this ipad" is there anywway i can get pass through that.
Is it possible to make spring loaded folders open in front of the active window? Just recently they have been opening behind the window I'm dragging into and that makes navigation difficult. Ideally I'd just like the folder to expand (in list view) but that doesn't seem to be an option when I'm traversing to different locations (links from the Favourites bar).
I have a dozen or so image files on my iMac's desktop. Most of the time, after booting up my computer, it displays a thumbnail of each image (as it should). But sometimes, the thumbnails won't show up (see screenshot below).
Is the an app or utility for the Mac (Mavericks - in particular) that will allow me to save everything I have open (apps w/files, various browser windows & tabs) so that they can be reopened later? I do a lot of research for various projects. Many times I can't complete the research in one sitting and have to try to remember what apps and more importantly what search rabbit trail I had gone down. It would be so much easier if I could take a "snapshot" of what is open, where it is at, save it as a profile / task group / desktop config (saving their size and location on screen) - call it what you want, then reopen it later.
Now that Apple TV shares synchronized audio&video from my Macbook without any limitations or constraints (seamlessly), it seems pretty common sense that there might be a (Launcher or topbar) shortcut out there that could toggle my airplay configurations between on and off. Is there? Thanks
I have an 80 GB iPod Classic. It has many iTunes U episodes on it that I want to delete. But when it is plugged into my Mac I can't find these episodes listed anywhere. I've looked in the iTunes U, Podcasts and general Music lists. Anyone know how I can get the titles to show up so I can delete them? (Using iTunes vers. 11.3, but this has been going on for almost a year)
I need to make use of a beta version of Xcode and so I created a second account on my machine, account B. I wish to install the beta Xcode onto account B such that account A is not able to see this application, e.g. through the open with menu, or the launchpad. Is this possible? It seems like applications are visible from all accounts whether in the Applications folder of the original user or not.
Found that it's a common problem that the 'Home' and 'End' keys don't function as-expected on MacOS. Found this fix, posted on LifeHacker: http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip--remap-the-home-and-end-keys
So I bought my iPhone 5 in the US and it recently developed the sleep/wake button issue that Apple is fixing for free. Unfortunately, I am not in the US and cannot avail the free repair since the warranty isn't international (although by the serial number alone, it qualifies for a free repair).
i have some videos that i would like to convert to become suitable for my iPad air and iPhone 4s, but i can play around with the audio and video format (ex: video codec, video bitrate, frame rate, video aspect, audio codec, audio bitrate, sample rate) which i don't know which best suits them. i am using "any video converter" to do this, if any one has any idea how to do this please tell.
When I run the df command I'm getting different values for capacity and %iused. What is the difference between them?
Recently I installed the Microsoft Intellitype drivers for OSX so that I could use my keyboard more naturally (e.g., media keys, etc.). However, this seems to have broken some functionality.
Is there a way to change the AirPlay source in Audio MIDI Setup via the command line (currently I'm doing this with GUI scripting)? My idea is to change the source with the defaults command in the application's .plist-file, but I've not been able to find the correct file/value. I've found and looked in the following files, but nothing there reflects the AirPlay source: /Users/Name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist /Users/Name/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.MIDI.xxxxxx.plist /Library/Preferences/Audio/com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist Does anyone know where the Audio MIDI Setup application store it's preferences, and if it's possible to change them via the command line?
I'm thinking of switching to T-Mobile and I am waiting for the 6 to come out. I don't want to switch, have to buy a 5s use it for a week and then turn around and buy the 6. So will the Verizon iPhone 5 work on T-Mobile’s LTE HSPA+?
I have a bunch of .jpg photos containing GPS information. What is the easiest way to extract the GPS information and save it into a .gpx file (or .kml, for that matter)?
I've realised that all new contacts added since replacing my iPhone over a year ago have been going to the wrong account (a non i-cloud one) and therefore not syncing. There are 203 and so it will take hours to manually recreate each one and delete old one. Any clever ideas to move them over? Thanks!
iPad 2 lost all Contacts, Calendars. The data is still in iCloud and my iMac has all this information I've tried Wi-Fi, iCloud, and syncing via iTunes, but can't retrieve information.
When using Preview (on OS X 10.8 & 10.9) I noticed that the scrolling speed is too fast. I often read long documents and want to see in advance what are the chapters coming a few pages later. When I scroll forward as slowly as possible I always get much too far and I can't go back to the point I was coming from. I am lost within my document and have to get to the table of contents to recover my reading. I discovered that ⌥+scroll permits to achieve a much quieter scroll speed where it is easy to go back to a point left a few seconds ago.
When I insert my 64GB SanDisk Micro SDXC Card into my 2012 MacBook Pro (in a MicroSD/SDHC/SDXC Adapter that works with other Micro SD cards), a popup dialog informs me that "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." The card works properly in my phone; it was formatted by a Galaxy S3.
I'm looking for an application like GeForce Experience but for OS X : a software that configures my games depending on the configuration of my Mac. I think there is nothing like that for OS X, so do you know a web site who lists the recommended settings for games on Mac ?
Someone has told me they can read my messages I send through iMessage. Is what they are saying true? Can someone do this?
I have a Mac Mini at home that I would like to connect to using the "Back to my Mac" service. Normally it works just fine. But if I update my Apple Airport Extreme with DNS from unlocator.com (or unblock-us.com), I’m not able to connect to the Mini when I'm not on the same local network as the Mini. What could I do to fix this?
I have a pair of old laptops: 15" PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) with various issues, but a working screen 15" MacBook Pro (2007) with a broken screen, but otherwise fine
I'm using preview for my iOS development to calculate pixel distance from elements. But now, I don't even remember since when it started antialiasing the lines, even 1 pixel line becomes a blurry mess and you can't find out where it actually begins. How do I return crisp look to my images when zoomed in Preview?
I was wondering, since it´s glass, it shouldn´t be a problem, right?
Is there an easy way to find all the extensions that are opened with a given application? I'm asking because I have two versions of a software installed (Sublime 2 and 3), and some extensions still open with Sublime 2 because by the time I specified that Sublime 3 was not available. I then have to quit Sublime, change the program that shall be opened by default for this extension and relaunch.
Just got a new MacBook Pro and can't seem to recall how to get the emacs bindings to work in the general MacOSX GUI. On my old Mac Option + b went back a word and Option + f went forward a word. Option + d deleted a word. Still works fine in the terminal. For Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/162896/emacs-on-mac-os-x-leopard-key-bindings
For some reason I have a blank space on my menubar, It doesn't happen on my second screen, and when i click it disappears but appears in the other screen and so forth. I haven't done anything to the system like trying to remove the spotlight icon or that sort of thing. I have OS X 10.9.4
I hope this is the right place to ask this, we have a iphone 4s and a iphone 5c. My dad recently bought another iPhone 5s, and now all 3 are on 1 apple ID. I shifted my mom's and sister's phone to another apple ID, to give dad exclusive access to his ID, however, when I try to facetime with any of the other phones, it says 'connecting' forever. I tried the advice here, but to no avail. Would appreciate any advice, should we just take it to the apple store?
I bought a Macbook Air with a 256 GB in mid 2013. I bought a Macbook Pro with a 128 GB in mid 2014.
I am trying to install an app in OSX. But I am getting the below error The item “.VolumeIcon.icns” can’t be replaced because it’s invisible.
I have a 17" mid 2010 MBP with 8GB ram. After reading up on some of the latest vulnerabilities, I did a port scan and found port 21 OPEN vs stealth for all other ports. I cannot figure out what is using port 21, but Activity Monitor shows ports 21 and 24 being used by mdflagwriter (see attached screen shot)
Is there any way to embed files in Keynote presentation? So, that others can click on it and download/open it in their machines.
What should I do? Apple does not repair any iDevice in India, and since I don't live in a metropolis, these cellphone repair shops are my only way to get it fixed.
this is what test disk says, which is exactly my partition scheme from before the mess-up. How should i proceed? rewrite the table to contain only EFI and the unknown "macintosh HD" which is the one to be saved?
I had a correct connection to the Internet:  But as of a few days ago, whenever I come back to my computer after a while and jiggle the mouse to turn off the screensaver, my internet speed plummets:
Is it possible to use FileMerge to compare pdf files. I found a post that describes the process, but after following every step I just can't seem to be able to compare two simple pdf files. The preference for FileMerge look like this:
"Your apple ID has been used to sign in to iCloud from an iPhone 4s." email from noreply@insideicloud.icloud.com (not sure about wording, because this one was sent in Greek: Το Apple ID σας χρησιμοποιήθηκε για σύνδεση στο iCloud από iPhone 4s.) "Your apple ID information has been updated" from appleid@id.apple.com "Welcome to iCloud" from noreply@icloud.com
The loading wheel have been showing up for no reason on the home screen of my iPad Air running 7.1.2 that is not jailbroken. It use to only show up when I am downloading apps. Now it is stuck on the top left corner of the iPad home screen, beside the wifi connection strength sign. The only way I know how to remove it is by restarting the iPad, but it showed up again after a while. I also tried the hard restart ( pressing the sleep/wake and home button together and letting go when I see the apple logo) but it only removed it for a while and then it showed up again. Any idea how to fix this?
About a week ago after no particular actions from me, I tried to open linkedin.com and I got the screen you see. This happens with Chrome and Safari but not with Firefox. What should I do? Thanks
Can you choose more than one region to show holidays in calendar Version 7.0 (1841.1)
I can see my external drives on all the spaces on my MacBook Pro's display, but I cannot see those drives on my external display. Is there a way to make them show up?
My MacBook Air's fan is spinning rapidly even though there are hardly any programs running. This normally only occurs when I am using the MacBook at a high intensity. However, the fan stops only when the MacBook shuts down. However, when I turn it back on again, it starts spinning at maximum speed again. Why is this so and how can I solve this problem? I need to use my MacBook urgently without it producing any noise from the fans.
I have an external disk with two partitions on it that I keep plugged into my MacBook Pro when I'm at my desk. (One is for Time Machine, the other just for extra storage.) Sometimes I need to grab my laptop quickly and take it somewhere, but I have to change to a space where I can see the partitions on the desktop, lasso them, two-finger click, and select Eject. Is there a faster way under Mavericks, or do I have to set up an AppleScript like this one with a keyboard shortcut?
I am trying to connect my iPad to the Internet without success.I am able to connect to the Wifi network but not to the Internet from there. This router (let's call it WIFI A) I am connecting to is connected via cable to the LAN main access point, which also works as a Wifi access point (let's call it WIFI B). Now I am able to connect to the Internet using WIFI B, but can't connect to the Internet using WIFI A.
I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu 14.04 and OS X Mavericks (10.9.4) on my 2014 Macbook Pro. When running Ubuntu, I can plug in the Ethernet cable and instantly be connected. But when running OS X, there's no Ethernet connection detected.
Some precisions : I detected this problem by seeing my FitBit One battery life going from one week to 48 hours, exactly from the moment I started to use BT on my Mac. I use my Magic Trackpad only at work, and I already checked, if I leave my Mac working all night my FitBit will loose somme battery life in one night, and my Mac is the only device with BT enabled...
I have a Macbook Pro (late 2012/early 2013) running OS X 10.9.4, and it's recently developed a strange problem when I try to play sound through headphones. Instrumental music generally still sounds fine, but speech is so distorted it's impossible to understand, and the vocal line on songs is sometimes OK and sometimes distorted or completely absent. Instead of intelligible speech, I get odd high-pitched tinny electronic noises. This applies to anything played within my browser (YouTube, Soundcloud, internet radio etc.), streaming apps such as Spotify, and music stored on my computer played through iTunes. It doesn't appear to be a problem with my sound card either, as everything sounds completely normal when played through the built-in speakers. Neither does it seem to be an issue with my headphones: I've tried several pairs as well as external speakers plugged into the headphone jack, and all of them produce the same problem. I've tried cleaning the headphone socket with a paperclip a
I just bought a 24' used iMac. The previous owner reinstalled Mavericks and sent it to me.
My phone Verizon (iphone 4s) is off contract/unlocked and I do not need voice. However, I would like to use it to communicate over WiFi. Is this possible (options) without a monthly phone bill..? John
My Macbook air keeps getting my phone messages but since the computer is a school computer it doesn't allow me to go into iMessage. What should I do?
A recurring issue at work: A powerpoint file needs to be moved in to illustrator and saved as an .eps file. The files are almost always submitted with the font set to Calibri which Illustrator doesn't like for whatever reason. I select all the type and change it to Univers which usually enters Illustrator quite well. I'm looking for a way to speed up this process. I'd like to be able to put all my .ppt files in a folder, select that folder, have all the documents open, the type selected and changed to univers (Univers LT Std 55), then have the file save and close. Any advice? Thanks!
I just installed Wireshark Version 1.12.0 (v1.12.0-0-g4fab41a from master-1.12) on OSX 10.9.4 with XQuartz 2.7.7. Wireshark is doing something zany with my keyboard layout, but other X11 applications are not affected. I don't see a keyboard layout option in the Wireshark interface and Google searchs have been fruitless. Example of what zany means:
It would be great to be able to x tunnel over ssh; why does one have to use XQuartz (etc) instead?
So I recently discovered that most bus stops have a code. If you text that code to a specific phone number, you'll get a response telling you the ETA of the next bus to that stop. I saved the phone number in a contact card and I saved all my frequent bus stop codes stored as a note in that card.
With OS X 10.9.4, how can I limit the number of failed local login attempts? I'm looking for something similar to the Windows Account Lockout Threshold mentioned here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994574.aspx
My iMac was bought in late 2008 and I recently updated it to version OS X 10.9.4. I still have the '08 version of iMovie. How do I update it? And why would I have to pay to do so if it is a built in app?
couple months back I have purchased my first 5Ghz AC wifi router and since than I'm having problems with my iPhone to access internet on 2.4 Ghz networks (any router). Sometimes it works, but most of the time it does not, only if I quickly switch airplane mode on/off it briefly works. I have tried to reset the network settings and it helps but since my home network is 5Ghz, reseting it all the time is not viable solution. Here are 3 speed tests:
I run Lion Server (10.7.5) on an old iMac (2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) and it handles my e-mail for me. I've been having some trouble recently with delays in delivery of e-mail to my server from DynDNS's mail backup service. I have been advised to add DynDNS's IP range (216.146.32.0/23) to my whitelist.
I just checked my Windows error logs and Bonjour has caused a ton of errors. After reading about Bonjour and not needing the networking services it provides, I deleted it. Now when I open iTunes, an error message appears saying that there is a problem and that it has to close. Other posts (1, 2) seem to imply that iTunes can run without Bonjour. How can I get iTunes running on my Windows 7 machine without installing Bonjour?
So there's that app I found from my PC and should like to download: *=URL=* When I click the link, my device asks me if I want to open it in the app store, which I confirm. The store opens but where the app is supposed to be displayed, a white rectangle is shown that stays a white rectangle, no matter how long I wait. How do I resolve this?
If I jailbreak my iOS device with pangu will it delete all my installed apps? How much available space should I have on my iOS device before attempting to jailbreak it with pangu?
It just occurred to me that it would be incredibly useful if I could type a command in one Terminal tab, and then execute it in a new background or foreground tab. For example, this would be awesome when editing files with nano. I could cd to a location and then quickly nano sys_201406271933.log, nano 415ab40ae9b7cc4e66d6769cb2c08106e8293b48.key two new background tabs. The alternative is to manually open two tabs and flip between them, using the mouse to copy-paste the long, unmemorable filenames. I've spent about 30 minutes researching whether this is possible and found no satisfying answer.
I have a mid 2013 Macbook Air with the Intel HD 5000 graphics chip. I recently purchased a 27" Acer K272HULbmiidp 1440p (2560x1440) monitor that just arrived today. I connected it via a mini displayport to HDMI cable, and was immediately greeted with awful graphics that didn't fit. Turns out its a common issue with external displays on macs, which assume settings for a TV not a monitor. Basically, I fixed it by using a Ruby script to force RGB mode onto the monitor. So that's all good now.
I have a script that opens three shortcuts to VNC locations that open in Screen Sharing.app. I would like to specify where the windows go, and their size, when these screenshares launch - one maximized on my main monitor, and two overlapping on my secondary monitor.
I have a iMac running OS 10.9.3 that has 2 monitors connected to it. Randomly, thourhgout the day the dock will flip either to the left or right screen. Its pretty annoying. Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?
I'm trying to choose between MacBookPro Late 2013 with discrete graphics card and MacBookPro Mid 2014 with integrated graphics. Judging from GPU benchmark GeForce GT650M has a minor performance advantage upon Intel Iris Pro. Also Late 2013 Model has 2,3 GHz comparing to 2,2 GHz on Mid 2014. The problem is a cost: at my location i can buy this Mid 2014 model for 2300$ and Late 2013 one for 2650$. My question is: are there any less or more significant benefits of having MacBookPro with this discrete video? I'm ready to pay this 350$ but i don't think 5% of graphics performance worth it.
Ideally, I would also like to use this default dock on other machines in the lab, so if there are some files I can transfer to the other machines and a command to run to apply the settings, that would be perfect. Ideally I will be Apple or Bash scripting the entire process (currently Bash scripting the AD bind, default background, apple ID sign-in removal, etc).
How can I rename all *.txt in a directory to *.csv files in the terminal (Mavericks). I tried following inside the directory:
My iMac connects to the internet (and my local network) via WiFi. Is it possible for me to connect another device via ethernet cable to my iMac to access the internet from that device?
I dropped my iPhone (jailbroken, running on IOS 7.0.6), and it went blank - it has this habit of being switched off own its on when it's dropped. I tried holding the sleep/power button, but it's not showing me the Apple logo (usually, it will show me the logo when I pressed the button). I can't do the DFU or Recovery Mode as my home button is kind of not working, unless I press it with the right amount of force.
I don't want to update my epson printer driver since I'm informed that it's likely Epson's method of preventing the use of non-Epson cartridges. Is there a way to stop the proposed update from popping up every morning when I start iTunes ?
So I have monitors stacked vertically. Is there away to get my cursor to move between the monitors by going to the top of the lower monitor to get to the upper monitor?
Context: From Pages upon exporting a file to a .doc format, I get a file with more than 20 new list styles with names of the form: These list styles don't correspond to the ones I defined within Pages and are associated to lists I defined some other styles for. Since I have to work from there on this .doc file, I need to remove or change all these WW8Num* list styles. Is there a method to avoid this useless creation of WW8Num* list styles? Is there a method to get rid of them efficiently?
So: How can I enable this also on "Mail" on OS X? Or is this a bug, or even a permanent restriction?
i am currently using mac 32 bit.I am unable to open eclipse an error pop up saying that i need to update my JVM from 1.6 to 1.7 and from the java website there are no ver 1.7 for mac 32bit. what am i suppose to do?
Is it possible for me to keep my iTunes libraries in sync with each other on OS X and Windows if so how? My iTunes library is stored on a network share made available via AFP and SMB. Is it possible for me to make it so that any changes made on iTunes on Windows are also shown in OS X and vice-versa or will I have to maintain separate iTunes Libraries resulting in a clunky mess (especially when iTunes Match starts uploading playlists twice and other things)?
I've been a full-time Mac user for 5 or so years now, but sometimes the Apple way still confuses my Microsoft-conditioned mind. This is especially true of iWork. In the screenshot below, can someone tell me how to move the big, main text area up to that red line?
I have a wireless network set up at home via Time Capsule. I also have Time Machine installed on two laptops and they backup to the Time Capsule. I have noticed that whenever a backup is running the wireless connection speed drops from 30Mbps to around 8Mbps or less. Is this normal and is there a way to minimise such drops?
This is not strictly a OSX question but someone in here probably has a solution. I'm running emacs from the command line and I simply can't get emacs to correctly show Unicode characters. Everything outside ASCII is just garbage. There is no problem writing unicode characters on the command line but inside emacs is another story.
We've recently integrated all of our Macs to our Active Directory environment, and some of our users have MacBooks. When "binding" their laptops to the domain, I enabled "Create mobile account at login" so that they wouldn't have to be connected to our network in order to login to their account. Doing this set up a user's home folder on our server, which automatically connects on startup. Here's the thing: If they aren't connected to the network, the home folder on the server can't be found. It takes about forty-five seconds to a minute before getting the error (see below) saying it couldn't connect to the server, and as you might expect, it's frustrating a few of our users (myself included).
I'm curious what solution people use for cleaning off laptop keyboard keys. I've been told that you shouldn't use isopropyl alcohol, because it can wear away at the plastic (I've seen evidence of this, although I'm not sure that it was due to alcohol).
I want to replace the keyboard shortcut for ⌥Option + d = ∂ with ⌥Option + d = ð How can I do that?
I have a podcast that I want to be listed under Religion & Spirituality. I would like for it to be listed when someone selects Christianity or Spirituality.
I'm running OS X Yosemite. I detached the web inspector and cannot find a way to dock it again. The usual dock/detach button isn't there, and I couldn't find any help elsewhere on the internet. Does anyone know how to dock the web inspector, please? Thanks in advance.
After I restart my computer, if I try to open a folder the wheel at the bottom of the Finder window spins and I get the beach ball. This happens for several minutes (over 5 minutes) while loading the files. Finder is completely unusable during this time. I have a MacBook Pro w/ Retina on 10.9 Mavericks. What I have tried (using advice from this question): -Disable AppNap -Clear Caches -Reset Preferences
I just enabled "Back to My Mac" so that I can access my Time Capsule when I'm out and about. I'm just curious if other people can see my Time Capsule in their "Shared" tab in Finder (or anywhere else), whether they are within vicinity of my Time Capsule or not (though it seems unlikely if they aren't near it...). I've only added my own iTunes account to Back to My Mac, but I just want to be sure. Thanks for any help!
Ever since I restored my Mac from a Time Machine backup to return from Yosemite to Mavericks, things have been a mess. I fixed everything but iCloud sync, which seems to be an impossible issue. It simply refuses to sync. The files are always "Waiting", no matter what I do. I've deleted the Ubiquity folder, replaced the Mobile Documents folder, run killall -9 ubd, rebooted about 20 times, and so on. Any other ideas out there?
I am a huge fan of the terminal-based music player cmus. It does everything I want from a music player and nothing I don't. I want to use it instead of iTunes on my Macbook. I installed it via homebrew and it's working great, except for one thing...
I expect this script to switch applications (command tab): But it just prints out a tab: I'm on OS X 10.9.4
When I try to download large apps from the App Store whether on battery or AC power the displays turns off after time set and downloading also stops. The Energy Saver preferences are set to defaults. What should I do to continue download even when display is off? I am using OS X 10.9.4
So I thought maybe I should re-install OS X like someone said on this forum. but the installation also denied to recognize the keyboard, so I stop installing. Could you help me to make the OS X recognize my keyboard, trackpad and stop my fan from sounding like a helicopter?
I've got a MacBook Pro and Apple TV, and I can search and select the movies found within the MacBook Pro's iTunes from the Apple TV's > Computers menu. The problem is that when I try to play the movie from the Apple TV, it often freezes with the "loading" spinner, without playing the movie. If I hit the Menu button on the Apple TV remote, the Apple TV responds instantly, so it's not that the Apple TV has frozen. If I instead start the movie from iTunes on the MacBook Pro, then display it on the Apple TV via AirPlay from the MacBook Pro's Display settings, the movie starts instantly and is shown on the Apple TV. Why can I "push" the movie from the MacBook Pro to the Apple TV via AirPlay, but not "pull" the movie from the Apple TV's interface?
I've got an mp4 in QuickTime which has been split into several clips. How do I export these separately as audio tracks?
I just discovered that the combination of Cmd+F10 (without any Fn key pressed) muted my mac. I wanted to know if it was a built-in keyboard shortcut as it does not appear in the System preferences.
I realize I can sync my Google calendar to my devices. However, can someone explain to me in simple steps how to get my iPad, iPad mini, and iPhone 5S to return the calendar information to my Google calendar. I would REALLY appreciate it:) I have red various preposts similar but most of those questions and answers are about syncing from Google to Apple devices like mine. Be gentle. I am a newbie at this site.:)
The way google is presenting as of today is totally different and I can no longer get the image pages so you can scroll the images before selecting one you want to see. Now there are individual boxes that click through. The entire appearance makes it no longer usuable.. Is there I can do to revert back to the way it was previously? It shows perfectly on Firefox and nothing has changed there.
My console is littered with coreaudio errors. Will trashing the listed components, solve the problem?
I'm experiencing many audiocore errors and am trying to narrow down the cause. A Google search has revealed that WavTap could potentially be the cause of these errors. WavTap is listed in my Audio Midi Setup despite my not having that application installed.
I used this laptop with a different 27 inch monitor (one of the korean monitors on ebay) and was able to get 2560xforgot. If I remember correctly, I connected to the 27 using using DisplayPort, rather than HDMI.
It's a bit tricky but I'm looking for an app that filters RSS Feeds by keywords and redirects links to Safari. My filtered feeds should be notified in a menu like this and, when tapped, should be opened in Safari.. Does exist something like this?
I'm sifting through some incorrect permission issues and discovered the namei command for Linux. Homebrew doesn't currently have a Mac port. namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found Is there a command or series of commands that can be used to accomplish the same thing on OS X?
Part of my regular repertoire of keyboard shortcuts is Opt+arrow and Shift+Opt+arrow for moving (and selecting) a word at a time in apps like Word, TextEdit, etc. A couple days ago Opt+arrow stopped working in most places (though not all). I figured a reboot would clear it out but it did not. The only place I can find that it works right now, strangely enough, is a textbox on a website in Chrome. So I can use it this dialog I'm typing in right now, but not the URL field of the browser.
How do I identify the misbehaving the underlying application – i.e. its name and/or filesystem path? I am running Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.5
Is there an app on OS X that can sort through all your photos within a folder and organize them into folders and name each folder the date it was taken.
I have a new AirPort Extreme and a mid-2014 MacBook Pro. Both devices are 802.11ac but (according to iStumbler) my ac signal is weaker than my b/g/n signal (no matter where I move my antenna).
I installed MacPorts last April in some delusional moment of thinking I was going to learn about the command line & compiling, etc. That hasn't happened and I doubt it will at any point in the near future, so I'd like to delete both MacPorts and any applications I might have installed/compiled with it. Where do I find the latter? And is everything in opt/local MacPorts related or do I have to go in and individually remove all 335 results from lsbom /var/db/receipts/org.macports.MacPorts.bom, preserving non-MacPorts-related items in opt/local?
I made a Service in Automator, but when I was saving mistyped the name. I used Automator to rename the Service, but the incorrect name shows up in my Services menu. I checked the ~/Library/Services directory and the name is correct and the file metadata shows the correct name. Why does the Services menu show the old name and how do I fix it?
I have podcasts stored on my Mac Mini Server. It is in iTunes but others can add the XML link to other RSS readers.
I'm working with LaTex and I'm using a text editor that, when I compile LaTeX files, runs a script to open the compiled pdf in Preview. The trouble is that Preview opens in the same default dimensions every time, which covers up other applications I have open.
I'm connected to WiFi but won't connect to the Web. FaceTime works but when I try to load safari the bar starts to fill and then stops. I've checked DNS and tried 8.8.8.8 as well as the defaults. All proxies are unchecked. I've run diagnostics and it says it's working fine. Can anyone help?
App Store sometimes can't install apps, iCloud icon appearing instead of INSTALL icon, as in the attached screenshot.  Please tell me how to make the INSTALL icon appear again for these apps, instead of the iCloud icon? It usually appears for some apps that I've uninstalled before and I want to install again.
Now I'm trying to sync the phone to a newer mac, because the old one is very slow. When I tried to sync, I got the message that 'this phone is already sync'd on another computer, do you want to erase and sync from this one?" I said yes. It appeared to sync. But I know I need several updates, and I can't figure out where to do that.
I am using a 13-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro that I got about an year ago. I am a writer and work primarily on Word, Safari & Preview. And I work on the machine for an average of about 16-18 hours a day.
I have a MIDI file example.mid on my Mac OS X 10.6 laptop. The laptop is connected to a MIDI keyboard (old Yamaha Clavinova, if it matters) via a Roland UM-One mk2 USB-MIDI interface. Using Apple's Audio MIDI Setup utility, I have configured the interface. Audio MIDI Setup's "Test Setup" feature will make my keyboard play notes. I can play notes on the keyboard, and have them appear in the MuseScore notation app. Thus, I think I have the laptop connected to the Clavinova correctly.
My iPad can only uploads pictures to any website in the browser. My iPad is not jailbroken and I am not planning to jailbroke it. Is their an app in the App Store that can enable me to upload any file I want (ex: PDF, docs) to any website I visit. Their is a app called Iuploader that cost 15 dollars that does what I want but is a bit expensive in my opinion, is their any other app that does the same thing but is cheaper.
I deleted some important data mistakenly from Trash but I need to retrieve it asap. Is there any way to retrieve it either in Terminal or manually?
I've been using my 2013 MBA for music production using Logic Pro X, and I've downloaded all the additional Apple content for it. Also, the MBA has a few other apps and docs I use.
This question is pretty similar to this one: How can I save a Pages document to .docx? Unfortunatly, the answers provided to this old one don't work with: I already found a transition path which is going through the following steps: From Pages export as a .doc, Open the .doc file with LibreOffice and save it as a .docx file.
I bought some program for iPad and this program became crucial for my work - if the iPad will corrupt/+developer delete the program from AppStore I will be in great trouble. So, my question is how can I save the program from iPad to MBP (from MBP to external HDD) to prevent any future corruptions of the program/store etc. Could I reinstall the program back to any new iPad from HDD only (if it will be unaccessible from Appstore).
What kind of hard drive is build into the current Time Capsule? Is it a SSD? Also, how energy efficient is the current Time Capsule, how much energy does it consume? I can't find this info on Apples product pages.
I would like to subtract the last column of a specific row. Since the number of columns is always changing, I need to get it dynamically. I figured there is a function that gives you the number of columns of a row. But I am not able to tell Numbers to use it (because I don't know the syntax).
I was cleaning up my hard drive this morning, 128GB ssd in a macbook pro, and there seems to be about 10GB of data that isn't appearing in the exposed file system. I'm using the GUI interface with cmd+click -> get info, here's the breakdown: Hard Drive: 98.8GB on disk then in the Hard Drive Directory: System: 6.5GB Applications: 23.7GB User:47.5GB Library: 11GB opt:174MB User Information: 4 KB
Obsessed with how much space left in Macbook Air 128GB SSD, I find myself frequently checking the storage information by going to "About this mac" ==> "More info" ==> "storage". Is there a shortcut to do that? keyboard shortcut or desktop shortcut for example.
I have a 15" Macbook Pro, late 2010, and a 21" iMac, late 2009. Can I link the iMac and use it with the Macbook Pro as a second display?
I am going to buy new Macbook and want to transfer all my programs and data to it. I have googled and as I see the Migration Assistant the best way to do it. Is it right ? If it is, I have additional questions: What is the best way to transfer: from old Macbook or from Time Capsule ?
I have run the JDK 1.8 installer from *=URL=* and it all apparently installed correctly. But in the terminal, when I do: It still reports 1.6.0_65 What am I doing wrong? I'm using Mavericks 10.9.4
I have a 6 month old MacBook air. I use it for my online business at least a few hours a day and don't have a wireless mouse so I click the trackpad a lot. Lately it isn't always working when I light tap with my finger. If I use the pad a lot does it break easy?
Trying to create a cheap cockpit type chart plotter/navigation setup for my friends yacht. Thought the most cost effective way would be with an osx laptop we have running inavx (or similar) and an Android tablet mirror. Is this possible?
I typically use my "Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013" MBP at work with the lid closed, connected to an external monitor, a bluetooth trackpad, and a USB keyboard. For the last few months, the results of disconnecting these items and opening the lid have been very frustrating: a black screen that cannot be woken. I end up power-cycling.
The activity monitor of OS X show in the energy tab the energy impact. What unit does this value use? Is it Watts? If so, 327 seems a bit high for my taste. I am running this on the low end 21" late 2013 iMac. Of course, Handbrake will use lots of energy, but I would not think that the iMac can pull as much as 320 Watts.
I have a Western Digital NAS and I've noticed that if I tag any files/folders stored on it, the Finder never shows them when I select a tag in the sidebar. For example, if I add a tag called Work to a folder on the NAS, that folder won't appear when I select the Work tag in the Finder's sidebar, although other files and folders with the tag (that are located on the internal storage) will. And I can browse to the folder on the NAS and see that the tag is applied, so it isn't that the tag isn't being saved or something. Is there any way I can get the sidebar tags to include files/folders from the NAS?
On my MacBook Pro, System Information (or airport or option-clicking on the wifi status icon) reports a "transmit rate" of 176  while Networt Utility reports a "link speed" of 289
Can I do this using Pages? It's basically a simple table made in MS Office Word (.doc) which I need to convert to xml / html, insert some html input blocks (there are cells which are left empty for data input). I remember doing this with MS Office Word (the exporting), but it was a long time ago, I lost the file and now I need it again, but I have the original .doc one on my mail, so I just need to export it once again. So is it possible do this with pages or do I need to do it on someone's PC (I don't have Office for OSX)?
When I select Restart from the Apple menu and get the alert "There is a user sharing this computer...", I would like to know which user (e.g. their IP address or some other identification) is sharing. Is there a (Terminal) command to discover the addresses of sharing users? (I'm not suspecting unauthorised users, rather I am trying to identify the source of a problem).
I have a regular linear graph and have y values running from negative to positive, enabling x axis shows the line at the bottom of the graph. How is it possible to set it to show at zero, i.e. running from the origin (0,0)?
I have a Windows Home server in my basement that I've been using as a backup solution when I had a house full of Windows machines. Since making "the switch" to Mac, I haven't been able to find a backup solution I'm happy with.
I recently updated from Mountain Lion to Mavericks 10.9.4 on my late 2007 MacBook Pro 17". Now every time I turn off WiFi, the computer freezes within a few seconds to a few minutes. Upon reboot, the computer freezes again very quickly (sometimes at the login screen, sometimes right after getting to the desktop). I assume this happens as soon as the computer checks the WiFi state and sees that it's off. It all happens too quickly for me to flip the WiFi back on. I thought I was stuck (save for wiping the computer and reinstalling the OS every time this accidentally happens), but someone found a partial solution, posted on the following thread: *=URL=* The user "Ira Wolf 81" identified 4 steps which I will copy below: Boot into single user mode (command ⌘+S) Make volume read-write (mount -uw /) Edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist to change the PowerEnabled setting for the Airport Interface (usually en1) from false to true Reboot
I remember my nickname for my Game Center but I don't remember what the Apple ID was for it is there a way to retrieve this information
I updated from Firefox 31 to Firefox Beta (32) and when I now do a search in the location bar (the big one to the left) I get results from Bing. How do I change this back to Google?
It's possible to enable spinning down of mechanical hard drives using the "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" option in Energy Saver, and it's possible to customize the timeout period with sudo pmset -a disksleep MIN. However, if I understand the man pages correctly, this applies to all hard drives connected to the system. Is it possible to only target one HDD (ideally, by UUID)? I have no objection to installing a 3rd party app to accomplish this functionality.
I need a way to boot from this USB even though the mac won't natively do it. Is there an alternative bootloader that I can install on my macbook to provide this USB booting functionality?
I have an iPhone 4s and my contacts have disappeared... I have 500+ contacts in my iCloud and I am not able to get them on my phone. I have gone to settings then iCloud and toggled the contacts... nothing is happening...
At work I airdrop files with coworkers all the time but I often need to move photos from my iphone 5 to my laptop but I can't figure out how. If I select the images and open the send page which lists options to send my text, email, Facebook, etc. it lists airdrop above all the other options but it doesn't seem to be clickable. I have airdrop open on my mac.
So I would love to allow one of our users access to not only add their own devices (as they do now by going to server/mydevices), but also decide which group the device should belong to. The user has 3 different types of devices all which should belong in separate groups. As of now we allow the user to add the device using Apple Configurator or by going to the mydevices interface and enrolling it directly from the device, but after that there's no way for them to specify that the device should end up in a certain device group.
We're all connected to the same WiFi but other computers only show up in the Finder when they are close by. According to this Mac Basics article, you need to have Wi-Fi turned on select AirDrop in the Finder be in close proximity (“AirDrop is designed to work within a range of approximately 30 feet.”) (emphasis mine) What's the technical explanation for this requirement?
I'm using Mac book pro 13 inches with retina display. I see that on retina screen, font is smooth, and in almost applications, I see font is always smooth, too but not in Unity. I'm currently using Unity 4.6 free edition and Mac OS X Maverick version.
I am aware that you could list each test-values and conditions, but that is not very maintainable when new items are added. Additionally having separate tables for fruits, veg and meat is not a perfect solution either because I would also like to add a column for 'other', where it can sum up all items which have not already been accounted for in either of fruits, veg or meats.
I'm trying to convert HelveticaCY.dfont to a ttf font. The MacOS softs that I used didn't work well so I tried Fondu which gave me this files :
So I've just bought my iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1.2, moving from Android. I've noticed that my data toll has more than tripled (from around 300MB to 1.1GB monthly) without significant changes in my usage habits.
What about a license that protects me? I'm open to permissive license, I'm not worried about trade secrets ... as far as I'm concerned it could be open source. Don't want to hire lawyers. Where would it be appropriate to ask such questions? I've looked over the apple documentation on becoming a registered developer and generally understand the process.
My current HD status is When I try to remove the "Free" partition, the log returns "Could not find partition to expand, first partition on the disk?" What can I do?
I forgot the password to my iTunes home shared library. I know I can set a new password in the iTunes prefs, but I do not want to update all my home devices to the new password! I cannot find the password in the keychain either.
I have tried deleting preferences and starting "clean" because it wasn't already with a fresh install. (note the sarcasm)
I'm running OSX 10.9.4, and IPhoto 9.5.1. I have an old iphoto library (pre 7.0) on a time-machined backup external drive and wanted to access the photos on it. I tried to 'Switch' to it in IPhoto, and was asked to run the iPhoto library upgrader tool (*=URL=* instead.
Under System Preferences > General, there seems to be one setting, on my computer, that won't save. Regardless of what I set it to, it always reverts to "Always":
Whenever I launch iTunes, I see my computer appears listed among those offering Bonjour services (e.g., by iStumbler), with an entry for "iTunes Home Sharing" even though I have unchecked "Share my library on my local network" in iTunes preferences:  How do I really disable "iTunes Home Sharing"?
Currently, I have a workflow going like this: However, even when I download a file that is not music (".dmg" file) the messagebox will still display. How do I make it so the messagebox only displays when a music file is found? Thanks!
I am trying to figure out how to add new words to the Japanese dictionary. Specifically, my problem is, name of one of my friends is Manaka, spelled 愛可 (yes, that's 可愛い in reverse). Problem is, if I type in まなか and try find an appropriate kanji substitute, the only one that I find is 愛花 (and yes, I've tried looking at the general kanji selection, by the reading, by radical, names, etc). Currently I type her name in by typing in あいか, which is annoying. Is there a way to teach the hiragana input, that when I type in まなか I want to see 愛可 as one of the options presented to me? MacOS X 10.7, MBP 13", English UI with Hiragana input added.
I want to split a cell in the newest version of pages. This was very easy in the previous version but now I can't seem to do it. Any help is appreciated.
All I need, is to reinstall the machine! I do not have a friend with a mac. I do not have a Apple store near by. I don't have Itunes (and can't install it either). I do however have a DVD burner, a extremely fast internet and I don't mind fiddling in the command promt.
Sometimes my Macbook grinds to a halt due to the GPU's onboard memory getting full. (I know this because the CPU use, RAM use and disk use are all low, and because closing things like Chrome tabs and large pdfs tends to resolve the issue.) To avoid this, I'd like to be able to monitor the use of my system's graphics memory. There doesn't seem to be an option in Activity Monitor, but is there some other way I can tell (a) how much graphics memory is currently free, and if possible (b) which apps are currently using the greatest amount of it? I'd much prefer a free solution over a paid one; a Terminal-based solution would be fine.
I am developing my first ever iOS mobile app. I am using OS X Lion 10.7.5 with Xcode 4.6 for development. I completed my app and now want to test on a device. When I am trying to connect iPad Air with iOS 7.1 for testing, Xcode is giving an error:
For some reason the fans in my MacBook Pro (2007 model) seem to run at full speed for no apparent reason, I've been using the "iStats" gem to monitor my temps and fan speeds - what's strange is that the CPU temperature often sits around 40 - 45°C even when the fans are running around the 2000RPM mark - yet occasionally, for some odd reason it decides to boost them up to 5000RPM+. I'll just be happily browsing the web and all of a sudden it decides its time for takeoff...
I came from Windows 2 years ago and I knew there were hidden files in all OS's. As Windows has the simple option to show them to you, I supposed that if I contacted Apple support they would tell me how to show hidden files. But they simply told me they didn't exist at Mac OS. So I had to find the answer myself.
I have an iPad Air running iOS 7.1.2 and is not jailbroken, I opened an application yesterday and when I was finished with it I closed it by using the four finger gesture where you place your fingers around the edges of the screen and you then slide them all towards the middle of the screen. This gesture is supposed to close my current opened application and then display the home screen with all my installed applications on the iPad. But what this gesture did was close the application and display my home screen picture and the iPad froze where I could not see or access any application on my iPad. I only had the display of my home screen with no application visible.
I can enable AirPlay from iTunes to my Apple TV and it works great. In the system-wide audio output devices, the Apple TV is also listed. When I click on it to select it, the selection immediately returns to Internal Speakers. Console notes that I have selected the AirPlay endpoint, but does not give an indication that anything has gone wrong. OS X 10.9.4 iTunes 11.3.1 (2)
I don't want to have the dock bar auto-hiding/showing, so I have it always enabled. When I maximize a window, two things happen: either it goes fullscreen so it hides the dock or I make it bigger (with any tool like snaptool etc) but it goes behind the dock , so I can't access some parts of windows (like in Chrome pages) is it possible (is there any app) that makes the dock behave more like a windows taskbar?
What's the best way to run a script with root privileges whenever any user logs in? It should run in the background without prompting the user for a password.
How can I access the connected iPhone or iPad from within Terminal on OS X? I want to get all the photos (only photos) from the connected iDevice and save it to any directory in my OS X filesystem. I don't want to use the iTunes and instead just want to do it all within Terminal.
In my MacBook's networking proxy settings I have "169.254/16" among the list of domains for which to bypass proxy settings:  What purpose does this serve and why do I need it? Can I get rid of it?
IT guys in here made a "costly" solution by adding a new AP with different SSID in the middle between ME and the AP2 (the one on my floor). This of course fixes the problem, but It's not the optimal way. And it's also a waste of APs.
Source for IOUSBControllerV2.cpp, which throws that error. Sadly, that file is rather aged, as Apple no longer releases that source. The source is for 10.8.4 and I'm on 10.9.4. The error is defined in USB.h as #define kIOUSBEndpointCountExceeded // 0xe0004046 The endpoint was not created because the controller cannot support more endpoints but sadly that's just as little detail. The name of the error suggests that it's an exceeded device limit (dur), so I unplugged a lot of devices and after plugging in just one it was detected and working fine. My questions are: Where is the limitation? Is this documented? Is there a workaround?
Is it possible to display favicons in Safari's Favorites Bar? For example, my Favorites Bar in Firefox looks like this: I've tried using glims, but can't get it to do this.
I have a Lacie petitekey, and when I use it with my mac configuration (10.9.4) it says that the key is in read only. I cannot format it as well, so I cannot really use it anymore regarding that it is impossible to put any data on it. How can I be able to use it in write/read mode?
The question is pretty simple. I just wanted to know for sure but couldn't find an answer on google. Does the hard drive continue to "run" while the computer is asleep? I'd like to know if it does and if that's the case why does it need to?
I was listing my launchd items the other day to track down a constantly-crashing gpg-agent, and I was perturbed to notice TeamViewer in there. So, I removed it, momentarily not thinking much about it; I downloaded their uninstaller and I uninstalled. I made the mistake of not taking notes of exactly what I saw. So, now I'm wondering if my system was, in fact, compromised. Is there any legitimate reason for TeamViewer to be on a Maverics system when, seemingly, 'uninvited'?
I have a new macbook pro and would like to transfer the files from my old macbook pro. I need a firewire->thunderbolt cable to do this. I don't really want to pay $30 to buy a cable that I'm going to use once. Will the genius bar do this for me?
In iTerm2, I can define "Global Shortcut Keys", which is great. I can also "Load Presets" within this view. But how can I save "Global Shortcut Keys"? I don't see an option to do this anywhere: .
I have a 3TB Seagate USB external drive (MBR scheme), divided in 2 primary partitions: one of ~500 GB has been created and formatted on Windows using Paragon Partition Manager with HSF+. I did a full system backup using Time Machine to this partition (apparently, successfully - or so I thought). (Directly, not as an image.)
I've attempted to AppleScript mail in the past but generally have found it's flaky trying to deal with smart mailboxes. (Haven't tried using accessibility scripting, though.) E.g., something like this (assuming I have a smart mailbox called "Unread"), doesn't work:
Okay, this is weird. I can't open Numbers by trying to open the .app file, but I can open it by drilling down into the app and opening Numbers.app/Contents/MacOS/Numbers via terminal.
My webcam on my mac (Logitech C920 camera, Mac Pro 2010, Mountain Lion) shows a reversed image -- as if looking in a mirror. I want to use this to image writing to my friend. (I'm coaching him in math, and it's a lot faster to write math than set it.) How can I correct the image so that both my preview and his view show up properly.
I have a do shell script that I need to run in Applescript, but it needs to run as a different user. It is to be deployed into the student's network drive as a standalone application that the students can run when required.
My iPhone was stolen 3 months ago, it was in lost mode and every time I open Find My iPhone application, it appears offline. But today I see in Find My iPhone app my device doesn't appear anymore. It has just disappeared from my the Find My iPhone app.
I have some useful text expander shortcuts on my MacBook Pro and I would like to get them synced with the shortcuts on my ipad. That way I don't have to maintain the same shortcut list in 2 places. Does anyone know how to do do this? I also know that there are text expander apps for ipad, but is any of them importing the shortcuts from iCloud?
I have a big sparseimage on an external harddrive (HFS+) which I use as a backup place for some special files. After re-installing my laptop, the image is mounted as read-only. How can I convert this back to a read-write? I'd like to avoid copying the files over to a new sparseimage, as moving hundreds of gigabytes over usb2 is not much fun.
I use a MacBook Air at work connected to a larger display, which while working is my main display. I use the MacBook's display as a secondary screen on which I usually have a browser open with some tools. If I cmd-tab to the browser from another application and create a new window with cmd-n it always opens on my secondary display, since I already have one window open there. What I want is for new windows to always open on the main display. Is this possible?
I have an iOS app, I don't want this (only this) app to access Internet. Is there any option in the settings to do that?
I've published a B2B iOS app in Appstore. When I submitted an updated version of the app, Apple rejected it as my app uses a background mode which is not actually required. But I justified the reason of using it and resubmitted the app once again. However, Apple rejected again. I've also contacted "Apple Developer Technical Support" and they are helpless :(
I just switched from Windows and I'm giving Xcode a try. It's really nice, but I have an annoyance when coding - I want to be able to quickly move to the beginning of text in a line of text. However, CMD+left arrow go to the beginning of line, leaving me to manually press right arrow until I get to the first letter. Can I do something to get a similar behaviour as in Windows?
I have an iPhone, with iOS 7. In Safari, I have a lot of pages saved in the reading list. How can I backup the reading list to a computer and then access it ?
When a User logs in to os x , I want to detect if user is a local user or a network account user based on which I have to allow my app to run. Couldn't find any solution which tells that current logged in user is a network account user or local created account user.
I want to salvage the data. To do this, I intend to do copies with the Finder. Thank you for your insight on this delicate matter. The internal disk, and the backup disk, have Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
I am planning on selling my Macbook Pro and buying a new Macbook Retina, however I'd like to sell my current one first before I buy the new laptop, so I need a way of migrating all my stuff from my current laptop to the new one without having the new one available at the time of sale of the current one. I know it's easy to migrate from one laptop to another provided you have both in front of you, however since there will be a few days between selling the current and buying the new one, I'd like to migrate using an external drive as an intermediary, is it possible? What software could I use?
I've made an Automator application that runs displays a notification and then runs a shell script. Works fine. However, the notification centre doesn't display the name of the application, but instead shows some garbled code. I'm using Mavericks. How can I fix this?
I'm using many "spaces" to separate different tasks, and I have blocked the "spaces" switching through this configuration of Mission Control: Nonetheless I have a remaining problem with "Spaces" I would like to fix. I have the same usage problem under "Mountain Lion" and "Mavericks".
I have created new partition by selecting free space option and now I can't merge it or recreate it. I have tried to use iPartition to create a new partition on free space but it said I have no permission. How can I fix it?
I've looked all over for this and I'm not entirely sure how to do this. I want to use a bash script to open an application using 'open' and then check the exit status of the application after it has finished. As far as I am aware, open -W will exit with status 0 so long as the application did open, I'm not interested in this exit, I'm interested in the apps exit. Currently I have the following script:
Is there anyway to find out the email address attached to iphone, when iphone is currently locked to activation mode ? I just needed to know the email address so I can reset the password. The person who attached the Apple ID forgot which account she was using
I'm switching from PC to a MacBook and wondered the best convention for installing new software. For example, I've downloaded the Atom IDE, unzipped the 4 files and put into the /Users/userName/Applications Directory (which was empty, but seemed like a good place). I then added the /Users/userName/Applications/Atom directory to the \etc\paths file, but when I type 'atom' from the bash prompt, it is not recognized. How should I be installing software, is there a convention on where it goes? Do I need to update the \etc\paths file or is there a location where exe's are picked up by the command line?
I just created an Apple ID. Went through the confirmation via email phase successfully. I am able to log in on this page: *=URL=* - and under Apple ID and Primary Email Address it says it is verified.
I use google search with Alfred, but after I press 'Enter', sometime the searched content shows up in a new tab in Safari, which is what I prefer. But sometime a new window of safari is created without any reason. What should I do to avoid a new window? I've already set in the preference of Safari 'Open pages in tab instead of windows' to be 'Always'.
I want to use the trick with HiddenSettings7 to have a panorama for my lock screen, which scrolls as I move the phone (something similar to the feature included in the iOS 7 beta). However, as of iOS 7.1.x, as the Internet tells me, file browsers (more specifically afc2add) do not work, meaning I can't get uncompressed panoramas by inserting them onto the file system's wallpapers folder by using a PC file browser. Saving to the camera roll creates lots of compression, and it's a route I'd rather not take. Is there any way I can fix this?
So I decided to do something else. I put my old HDD to USB converter box, connect it to my MBP, run OS over that. MBP works like charm.
I'm getting this error trying to install or update Percona using MacPorts on Max OS X (Mavericks 10.9 in my case) UPDATE (2014-11-11): @Mark asked what was in the main.log. I did not save it originally but I just had the exact same problem on a different machine and here is what was in the main.log file:
I'm trying to figure out if I'm on IOS 7.1, 7.1.1, or just what? I get 7.1 (11D167). I'm thinking to attempt to use "pangu" to jailbreak my phone.
I changed my ⌘CMD to behave like ⌃CTRL and ⌃CTRL to behave like a ⌘CMD, but this affects also my VirtualBox VM. So I do ⌃CTRL+C for Copy in Mac, but I gotta do ⌘CMD+C to copy in Ubuntu... That's pretty confusing, is there a way to go around this?
Is iMovie available on the MacBook Air 11 inch? The iMovie system requirements say that the minimum resolution is 1280x800, while the 11 inch Air has 1366x768.
I'm trying to set up and establish a VPN connection between my MacBook Air and the Cisco RV220W in my office. The IPsec setup is extremely confusing and the built in client in OS X is pretty straight forward so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Has anyone established a connection between these devices before and how did you do it?
How can I change the system to stop making corrections like so:  Please notice that the two words on the left have the dotted red line indicating that they are spelled in the wrong way. Then, if I click the option "Look up" on the contextual menu on the right, the dictionary says the word is like on the left, where it is marked with the red line indicating the wrong spelled word. I would like to set my system to use the same dictionary on the "look up" option and auto correction options. I also found this post that may be the solution to the problem, but it seems it only applies to Lion.
I have done a program of 'Send-Email-To-Multiple-Recipients' in Automator as see an attachment image below.  But, it does not work to retain font colour of texts in a message body within this program. Also, wondering how to attach an image between the lines. It might be to use AppleScript rather than Automator. Please give me a piece of advice or useful example if you are kind. Cheers, M
After a failed installation of updates the following alert won't go away. It gives me no option to cancel. Any ideas on how to get rid of it short of rebooting the machine? Using OSX 10.9.4.
I uploaded short videos taken w/iPhone 4S (IOS7) to iPhoto on my iMac 10.7.5 "Lion" I want to email them to my family but iPhoto will NOT allow videos.
I thought it was at the bottom left on the phone, but when I cover the bottom and blow on the earpiece, the waveform when Siri is waiting for a response moves.
I've had some problems recently with terminal. The shell isn't able to execute basic commands, since they are not being found. Here's an example : -bash: ls: command not found I've been doing some research and I suspect that it's the PATH, but I have no idea how to fix it or even look at it. Any help would be much appreciated, I'm not the most knowledgable when it comes to this stuff, just fyi.
How can I open a recent "Pages" file when I get the message "The required index.xml file is missing". Can anybody help?
I have iTunes on my Windows 7 PC. I love how flawlessly iPhones sync with iTunes, but I have an Android phone :( Is there an easy way to plug in my Android and sync it with iTunes? If it matters I have an HTC First.
Open all videos in VLC? Currently I have to do this again and again for each extension, like mov, m4v, avi, etc. When I double-click a video file, it's anybody's guess what app it opens in, depending on what the extension happens to be. Can I tell OS X to open all videos in VLC?
On my OSx I want to be able to switch version of software I use. Like right now I have Firefox 29, but I want to try firefox 32. is there a way I can download and install version 32 and keep the old one as well?
Is there any way to increase the price of an app being sold on the App Store? (Where one could increase the price as necessary). Where I could read more about App selling strategies?
I have created a Numbers spreadsheet containing a set of data including email addresses. Some of these addresses appear as hyperlinks, and I can't seem to edit or change them. Every time I try to select one it jumps to my Mail application. I have tried to change formatting to "Text", but this seems to have no effect.
I want to sell my app as a service where customers could pay for using it for a period of time. Is it possible? Where could I read more about it?
I was doing research on my iPad mini which involved taking screenshots and then cropping them, my iPad got to 5% so I decided to call it a night. I was about to set an alarm so I checked my calendar to see what I had going tomorrow. To my alarm there was nothing, the "+" to add an event was gray and unclickable. I could not even see US Holidays. I then checked my notes and there were only 3 left (I had at least 15), one of which said I had written it just then when I had really written it in the first month I got my ipad. All reminders had disappeared. I thought maybe it was that I was running out of memory but I still had maybe 500mb left (I think it's mb, sorry I'm not too good with that stuff)
The command above should include Time Machine's local backup files (/.MobileBackups), Document Revisions, Spotlight indexes, swaps, temporary folders and so on. (I disabled Time Machine some months ago because I keep backups without it.) I periodically run Disk Utility's "verify filesystem" command.
as a "switcher" I have discovered one functionally that I like in Windows and I don't see in Mac. I want to play all the media files in a folder with VLC with the right click and "Play all" but in this case I need to first open VLC, then click in "Open" and then browse through the folders to finally play the files. Is there any way to play a entire folder with only the right button? Thanks in advance, best regards.
Is it possible that I take out the HDD cable and test it with multimeter to see if all wires are connected, etc? Is there a pin diagram for it?
When attempting to download an app from the App Store, I am unable to change the Apple ID as the box is disabled, as shown below. How can I change the Apple ID?
We have a call center with agents taking calls with Bria. Due to limitations of the setup, Auto-Answer is the most convenient way of having calls connected. However, this creates a problem that agents are startled by incoming calls and have to constantly remember to mute their headset. I was wondering if some sort of app exists to make muting less of a guessing game; if we could have a big transparent red floating icon somewhere on the screen to indicate that your headset mic is in fact muted. Subtle menu or dock icons probably won't do the trick here, but feel free to suggest some for thoroughness, or if you can come up with another solution.
I have an iPhone 4S currently running ios7.0.4. I have been using the built in Mail app since I bought my phone years ago and it has always worked fine. I have two accounts set up in the app. Recently (within the past month, maybe two) when I open the app, I am met with the Welcome/set-up screen that lists the different account types that you can set up (iCloud, Exchange, Google, etc.) even though I already have my accounts set up and they were working that morning. If I double-tap the home button and swipe up to close the app, and tap the app again to re-open it, it loads both accounts like normal.
I'm trying to update 3 apps on my iPad and 3 things happen that never usually happen. It asks me to sign in. It asks for my billing information. My card gets denied.
I want to disable the interactive line wrapping that iterm does in my terminal application. I can run to disable line wrapping on output, so long lines like
As you can see in the pictures bellow, this is the palm rest wear I have on my Macbook Air after 1 year of (heavy) usage. I use my laptop professionally, almost on a daily basis for many hours a day. This is the result after cleaning the whole case with a cleaner I purchased from the Apple Store. As you can see it does not really help remove these stains, it does work wonderfully for all other stains... but I'm afraid this wear is actually removing part of the aluminum cases surface, if I'm right, I guess there's not much hope in restoring the finish. I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this and what you have done about it if you have been able to fix it. Thanks!
I own a Macbook Pro in May, 2011 and got two DVD with it. One for installing OS X and another for Application Install. I'm currently running OS X Mavericks and now I want to install applications that came with my MBP (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb etc). The problem is ... I'm unable to install those from my DVD. It says --- The installer could not install the software. The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install.
We use Microsoft Outlook at work so I need to be able to use Microsoft Outlook instead of Apple's Mail program when I invoke it in Bash. Can anyone help me associate programs inside of Bash?
Mavericks has this system tool – I think it's called Notification Center from suggested related questions but I'm still with Lion – which shows notifications from many applications. It also shows Facebook notifications. Trouble is, it somehow logged in to MY Facebook account - on my DAD's computer. How do I tell it to log on to dad's user?
I'm trying to create an alias in my .bash_profile to run an application in the terminal window (Julia programming language), the same way you would run Python from the terminal window by typing "python". I created a .bash_profile and put
I want to build an apple installer .pkg where I run a postinstall script after the files have been copied by the installer. The script is run and everything works perfect except that all the commands in the script are run as root. The question is, how can I determine the id of the user who actually invoked the installer.
I have a second hard drive in my macbook pro that is bootable into my older os install after installing a new SSD with a clean build of OSX Mavericks. When booted into my SSD, I want my old drive to be only used storage space, however it keeps using it for other things. For example when I press open with, it shows me all my apps from the old drive. I already disabled Spotlight for the old drive, but how can I prevent all function except as an external drive?
I have two Excel files on my OSX Desktop. One is an alias and it has the double red lines/logo of Parallels, the other does not. See attached screen shot.
I've left my Macbook pro to sleep with a lot of programs and memory used (probably lot of swap used as well) And when I've waken it up, it started to have 60 s lags then 5-10 seconds of responsiveness and again 60s lag (with death beach ball)
I'll point out that the resolver seems to recognize the option when put in a resolver config file in "/etc/resolver": when placed there, "scutil --dns" shows the option. Of course, it does no good there. I'm on Mavericks, if that makes any difference.
I have a mid 2012 Macbook pro. I want to upgrade it to 16 GB -- I know Apple does not support this but is possible. I would appreciate it if someone can give me the specs of the RAM to order. Thanks.
I have old mac mini upgraded from 1,1 to 2,1 and CPU from T2300 to t7200. Now I have some troubles with my smcFanControl. It show than my temperature is 73-80 celsium when cpu is loaded. Is it ok temp for this apparat???
Safari 8 supports the unofficial APNG extension to the standardized PNG format. Most popular image editors (on any platform) do not support APNG (yet). Plugins are mostly available for Windows software only. Searching Macupdate returned nil as well.
Up until the switch to Mac OSX, I have been using Google Chrome for all my online work. I frequently tend to bookmark web-sites and over the long period, I have accumulated many bookmarks which are neatly organized into folders on the Google Chrome bookmark bar. I feel a screenshot would make it absolutely clear in case of any confusion, so here's one:
So I've been looking for a way to change settings on the iSight camera built into my Macbook Pro. I know iGlasses exists (for those that don't know what it is: *=URL=* I was wondering if anyone had any insight on how it exposes settings to change iSight settings?
Can I access data on a current Time Capsule via the internet? If so, how does it work? Would I be able to make Time Machine Backups then as well? Does it appear as a disk in Finder?
Is it possible to open all bookmarks in a bookmark folder in Safari in a new Safari window? I know that I can do this with a single bookmark, but can I do the same with a bookmark folder?
Of course there is no useful fix suggested. I tried deleting the files from the preferences folder but to no avail.
I have an app in the app store and the distribution profile is about to run out in about a week, but my developer membership doesn't actually expire till next year. Do I need to rebuild and re-submit my app with a new certificate?
I have opened a pdf file in preview, without knowing where this file is located. How can I find out?
I installed via homebrew the new php56 version. To activate it and use it I typed this in the Terminal: But it says: -bash: LoadModule: command not found What can I do?
I'm worried about camfecting (webcam hacking). The built-in camera light on my macbook (running OSX) is not on, but it isn't hard wired so that doesn't say a lot.
Is there any way to use a Web arrive file or a HTML file as your wall paper? I found this interactive website (*=URL=* and want to put it as my wall paper.
This week I purchased an AirPort Time Capsule and attempted to set up my own network in my dorm apartment. The network at my school has two options, one requires me to login with my school ID and password every time I get on the internet and the other is password protected WPA2 which asks for the same information (ID and password) but logs me in without having to type my info in every time.
Is there a way in Xcode 5 to consolidate the console pane/view/area between tabs into a single console? I have multiple tabs open, each for a source file I am editing. Every time I run the app from a different tab I have to adjust the console in that tab. It's annoying. Any suggestions?
Ran into some peculiar behavior in the midst of my developing antics. I have my developer tools set to appear in a separate window - I noticed if I right-click and inspect an element, close the developer tools window, then inspect another element, the first element remains targeted in the DOM inspector.
I use a lengthy postinstall script for an installer package. The postinstall script produces lots of log output which is written to /var/log/installer.log. Is there any chance to show this output underneath or above the progress bar in the installer window, since the progress bar seems to "get stuck" for quite a long time with about 95% finished while the postinstall script is running. Thanks for any hint!
As I'm sure we're all aware, Chrome by default loads background tabs as soon as they're opened - youtube videos autoplay, ads load, it's a mess. To my knowledge (and following from this thread) there is no way to change this natively, and no plans to implement it in the future.
I would like to SSH onto a remote linux computer from the internet at school, which does not support port forwarding. I type ssh root@<myipadresshere.com but of course it fails. Is there a way to SSH to my remote server using any network I am connected to without the ports being forwarded? If I type SSH -A root@MyIP , it times out.
Currently, the protocol handler ssh:// opens the link in a new Terminal.app window. I'd like to default it so it opens it in a new tab instead. How can I change this behavior?
I'm a developer at my small office and we exclusively use Exchange 365 for our email, and I am getting incredibly tired and frustrated of the web interface. I would like to use a local mail client.
For some reason the name of thePath comes up as not defined by my Automator workflow.
I only have one desktop in spaces, and when I take an app full screen, it always goes to the right of my desktop... I know I can re-arrange by hand in mission control, but I'd like to be able to skip that and have an arbitrary app open to the left of my desktop.
When I run ls -l there are files listed with @ file mod for some folders: I realized that the folders with @ sign can not be displayed in Finder. Can somebody tell me what is the @ sign for and how i can remove it?
Two weeks ago, my SSD had been broken due to the "Invalid node structure" error. I cannot fix it by using fdisk_hfs. Then I have to format and re-install, but got another error: "Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X can't be installed on the disk because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more" Visit that article, then resize the partition and try again but nothing changes.
When I browse with Chrome on a web site that has an invalid certificate for some reason (eg my NAS Synology using HTTPS protocol) a warning message like the following Chrome appears to me:  If I install that certificate in Keychain app and I select "always trust", it should not warn me with that message, in fact in Safari warns me too but when I install the certificate in Keychain, Safari stop showing the ad, but in Chrome continues showing message. Can you see my config:
How do I prevent the iPhone 5 from beeping twice when a text message arrives? It beeps twice when there is a new message. I only want one notification. How do I have only one notification instead of two? It plays the notification sound, waits about 2 minutes, then plays it again if the phone is not touched. How do I turn double notification sounds off?
At my office, I have a hardware VPN with a split tunnel that routes all my traffic either to the public internet or to the other office, depending on IP address. However, to resolve the intranet hostnames to IP addresses, all of my DNS queries get routed to the internal server.
Is it possible to write an ipfw rule to: 1 - block a specific AFP Share by the Shares Name? 2 - block that AFP Share from access by anyone but the local network, i.e: no external IPs. And if so could I have an example please based on my AFP Share name of 'CLOUD' Thx. MacPro OSX Server 10.7.latest Netgear SRX5308
After upgrade to iOS7 on my iPad, I cannot see my individual email accounts anymore. The overview of accounts only shows "All" as an inbox. See this screenshot:
I recently lost my iPhone 5 and had to restore to an old iPhone 4S until the iPhone 6 is released. My iCloud backup was current so I lost very little. My podcast subscriptions were maintained through the backup/restore and were available again in the Podcasts app after they downloaded the episodes I previously had downloaded and queued. All of this worked as expected.
How to reverse the mouse scroll so that moving a wheel up will make the page go up, and a mouse wheel down makes the page go down.
I am working to create a function that keeps the data in a cell dynamic until the date is beyond that of the date column. In other words, there is a column of dates, i.e. 9/5 9/6 9/7... and the other columns are tracking data from other fields. If the row date is older than the current date, then the data in the field stops updating and remains at the last known value. Is this possible in Numbers or should I look for another solution?
I accidentally navigated to one of those sites that pops up a dialog telling me that my computer is infected. Upon clicking the OK button, that dialog reappears, ad infinitum.
I know that I can adjust any row height / column width in RTF document by hovering their borders and dragging them. But it seems that I can't do it for the first column... Is there a way to kind of "tab in" tables (adjust the first column's border to the right) in TextEdit? At least by editing RTF sources...
It's hard to describe the noise, so here's a recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDh-2qxeUGw&feature=youtu.be
Applescript allows you to send messages via iMessage and the command line, ie) *=URL=* Is there any way to set the sender of this message to something other than the "start new conversations from" default? I have multiple send/receive addresses and I am able to essentially have conversations with myself and my different verified addresses in iMessage, but only in the native app. Any advice or resources would be appreciated. Thanks!
I just got a Macbook (my first one!) and want to know how to configure Emacs to run in the same way it runs in Linux. That is, if I type "emacs foo.c &" in the Terminal, I want to either open either a new or existing file called foo.c in a separate Emacs window, NOT in the terminal.
I want to initiate a Google Hangouts phone call with Applescript. Hangouts has an AS dictionary, but with only the default suites. I want to emulate opening the Hangouts popup, typing in a phone number, and starting the call.
I've always synced to iCloud for my backup. I got a macbook pro and would like to sync it with itunes, but not lose my apps and photos and whatnot. How can i prevent it from erasing everything and just sync what I have?
I'm curious exactly what in the OS won't allow music to be added to the directory.
I'd like to run windows 7 via Parallels using a new 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina display. Now, I am considering spending extra on the model with a dedicated graphics card: (NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M ) From what I have read, Parallels cannot use the NVIDA directly (unlike Bootcamp), but I'm not clear if it can use it indirectly, and if so, in what way? In other works, if I am running a windows software in Parallels that is visualizing large 3D data sets, how much of a difference could I expect the NVIDIA model macbook to produce in comparison to the other 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display but no graphics card?
I can never use most Apple-made apps on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, as the UI never responds, however Mail gets new emails and Preview displays images. It's just that I cannot click. I can't close it and I can't use the menu bar, however it responds to keyboard commands.
I want to update to PHP 5.6 in shell (via Terminal) before I want to install the Mcrypt extension I followed this tutorial: *=URL=* But when I do all of that and I type in php -v it still says PHP 5.4.24. And when I install the Mcrypt extension with this tutorial: *=URL=* (I used PHP 5.6 instead of 5.4)
Is it possible to remove all/most offline documentation from XCode 5, to free up disk space? I would assume it is possible to make XCode (like Visual Studio in Windows) access documentation online, so removing offline documentation doesn't affect any functionality. Yes?
Is there a way to see memory usage per app in macOS? That is, I want to see the total memory consumed by each app, including its child processes. The Activity Monitor shows memory usage by process which makes it hard to determine, for example, how much memory the Chrome app is using, since it spawns multiple processes.
On my macbook, running OSX Mavericks, my daughter has a standard-user account. I wanted to show her how to change her login password under: SystemPreferences > Users & Groups > ChangePassword That button was greyed out, even after the padlock was opened. Note: she is under parental control, but even after I temporarily lifted that, changing the password was not possible. Any ideas, on how to allow my daughter to change her login password?
Recently, my MacBook stopped powering up. When pressing the power button, nothing at all happened. The usual green-yellow light on the power supply appeared normal, but no lights or sounds came from the MacBook itself. Only very rarely, after trying many times throughout the week, would it power on after pressing "power on". Once on, it never powered it off without me instructing it to shutdown.
Can someone recommend a good torrent client for the Mac, other than uTorrent? [The only problem I have with uTorrent is that occasionally it doesn't respect the upload limit. This is a known issue, and no setting seems to fix it in my case.] I am looking for these features: Ability to select files to download (in case of multi-file torrent) BEFORE the download begins Show transfer rates in the dock icon Assign relative priorities to files within a torrent Good, clean UI (optional) No bloatware/adware like a built in media player, ads, yahoo-search-plugins, etc (optional)
My iOS Youtube app was rejected based solely on section 18.1 (sexual content etc...) They sent me a screenshot with the search term ([s] [e] [x]) and the standard youtube videos displayed. My app is not just a youtube player it is targeted at a specific market and technically / UI features are all good.
I changed my e-mail from hotmail to gmail during 2013. I want my Apple id to follow that. The old email account is still there when I configured my iPhone 5s and tryied to install my icloud and phone settings.
I use the iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1.2. When I unlock the phone with my finger print, there is an animation where the icons move from the edges towards the center of the screen. After this animation is done, I have to wait approximately an entire second before I can swipe left/right on the touch screen in order to get to the apps on the other screens.
I wrote a script to copy files from an SD Card to a Thunderbolt Hard Drive. I wanted the action to automatically do all of this in a single shelled applescript under an automator action. When I run this applescript, it seems to work, but now users are reporting back to me getting errors when copying large files (5-8GB).
My Mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13" (Core i7) with Mountain Lion (10.8.5) always asks for the FileVault recovery key (consisting of 24 digits and letters) when awakening from hibernation. I just get the options "Disk Password" and "Guest User", but cannot use my user account to unlock the drive. After entering the FileVault key, my Macbook shows me the normal login screen, where I have to enter my user password.
I am trying to run a lengthy Rsync (local machine only, no ssh, no lan or wan connects involved) but Sudo is timing out and the script fails. Total runtime of the command is about 20 mins. What is the recommend way to either lengthen the Sudo timeout or disable Sudo from that particular command only? I am the admin of this system but do not log in as root. Thank you in advance.
I have already made my Apple ID through Game center instead of doing it first on the App store. Now I want to download another app so I have to log in my apple ID to app store then when I have logged in something popped saying "This apple ID has not yet been used in the itunes store" then theres options Cancel or Review when i click the review one theres this terms and conditions then agree or back only. i chose agree then the credit card billing appear how can i login without entering credit card informations? And can i use the apple id i made at the game center? i think its just the same, isnt? Thanks!!
Can I use "Share my library on my local network" ? I have my library in a shared folder on my iMac, this is to stop having to have the same music stored twice so my other half can use iTunes as well as me. I was told not to turn this on when helped by apple phone desk when setting this up, but that was quite a long time and updates ago now. I would like to airplay my music to an ATV. Using iTunes 11.3.1 and Mountain Lion.
I have iMovie 09. I'm thinking about upgrading, and thought iMovie 11 is the current version. But when I open the Appstore and search for iMovie, I find 10.0.5? What happened to 11?
Mounting NTFS drives works in OS X natively. Mounting drives with fstab is common and can be seen here and here and here. I was able to successfully do it with the following addition to my fstab. However, on reboot the next time I plugged in my drive it no longer worked. I tried sudo mount -a but that failed with the following error: The diskutil command is my go-to for finding drive information. Once you know your drive location in /dev then you can find the UUID with diskutil info disk1s1:
I have an iPhone 4S and I don't have a SIM/Data card nor can I connect to the internet using Wi-Fi as the module is broken. I am using a Windows 7 Laptop and I'm wondering if it's possible to connect my iPhone to the internet via a standard Apple USB cable. I have confirmed my connection to the internet on my laptop. Thanks in advance. Edit: My iPhone is not Jailbroken
My MacBook Pro froze. I turned it off manually. It won't come back on. It is 1 year old. I can't restart in Safe Mode. I can restart using Command-R and get to Disk Utility but I don't know what to do next. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much
If you minimize a program, then shift+click the icon to bring it up again, the sliding animation is slowed down immensely, making it open at an almost comical pace. I don't understand why this is a feature. Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this functionality?
I'm creating a game where the player can unlock worlds, where they can unlock levels within those worlds, each levels has a highscore, and so on. I was wondering in which way should I store this data? I was originally thinking of making a number of separate plist files, but that seems like an approach which could end up spiralling out of control. Has anyone approached this problem and come up with a decent solution?
I want a folder to be always opened in a tab instead of new window. The reason I want this is so that I have only one Finder window with multiple tabs. If apps keeps on opening new window you may miss the opened folder. New to mac so wondering how to do. I am using OS X 10.9.2
I have an Mac OSx 10.7.5 (doesn't come with iBooks) and iPad -- has iBooks in it. I want to do a simple thing, create a new Collection, and move books from one collection to the other. I couldn't figure out how to do it on the iPad itself. Well, I thought, I probably need to sync it to my Macbook, and do it there, nothing more than drag and drop. But I can't find iBooks for my OSx (above) and iTunes doesn't sync that part of the iPad either.
I just bought a Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard. It is supposed to be one of the most ergonomic yet relatively inexpensive keyboard available. It came out late out in 2013. Microsoft doesn't seem to officially support it even thought it did support its predecessor Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (see the Mac logo at the bottom of the page). When I connect the new Sculpt keyboard I am prompted with this screen:
I'm new to Mac and I want to know the last time I opened an app on my Mac and what the app was. Like for example if I opened Sublime Text at 2:04 pm how would I see that?
I'm currently trying to do something quite odd. I want to automate updates on multiple computers in my office and first I need to open a program and said program has two fields; one for username and another for a password. Obviously walking around the office to 50 computers and inputting my user and password is quite annoying so what I'd rather do is be able to assign my username and password to variables and then pass those variables to the username and password fields in the program.
I use a MacBook Pro late 2011 and I recently bought a Samsung Screen U28D590D 28" which could, normally, bring me a resolution of 2560x1440 with DisplayPort. But, my screen recognizes my MBP only with Mini-DisplayPort → HDMI connection. Mini-DisplayPort → DisplayPort connection doesn't work and I'm limited to a 1920x1080 resolution. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
Simply the question is, what happened to the the Apple made server racks? It is very disappointing to see Apple doesn't support the back-end hardware since 2009. I know there is a Server Mini, and OSX server, but lets face it, we want a professional and fast hardware to backup OSX Server.
2b. Assuming the answer is "install rEFIT on one partition of a USB flash drive and a distro on another partition", what's my best bet to get this to work? I really appreciate any help you can provide
When playing games that use the newish Mac OS X fullscreen mode (i.e. the icon in the upper right hand corner of the window with two little diagonal arrows), moving the mouse cursor to the top or bottom edge of the screen causes the menubar or the dock to appear, respectively. Aside from being a bad experience, in one game it actually causes a blip in framerate. This is pretty distracting given that scrolling around a map in an RTS or other top-down game is one of the most common user actions. I've recently run across this issue in two different games (AI War and Invisible Inc) and I'm really hoping that there is some workaround and it's not just the new normal because quite effectively fouls up the experience of playing certain games on OS X. I wonder if it's possible for the developer to use a different API for fullscreen that makes this a non-issue?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina & Mavericks, with FileVault 2 enabled. I also mirror to an HDMI display, but it doesn't show anything on FileVault 2 login. This is an issue, because I'd like to get a docking station where MacBook is actually closed (clamshell mode). But then I can't see the login screen. Is there a solution? As far I've seen at this point, I need to boot up and login with the laptop open; and then close it and put it in the dock.
I setup iPhoto to use Lightroom 5 as the external editor. Now when I open an image in iPhoto and click edit, it opens in Lightroom and asks me to import the image. Once I click import and make my edits, there is no option to save. I must export the image to some folder and drag/drop it back into iPhoto (which means I now have a duplicate). Is there an easy way to make quick edits in Lightroom and just save over the original file so the original is updated automatically in iPhoto?
I'm putting together a few different music playlists for a friend's wedding and I'd like to ensure that if we switch from one playlist to another and then back to the original playlist that no tracks are repeated when playing the original playlist a second time. Does that make sense? Any suggestions on how to achieve this? Thanks!
I have an iphone 5 that I cannot backup. I have tried to backup via icloud as well as via computer backup but neither works. When I try to backup to my computer I get an error that says iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the iPhone disconnected. I am using a brand new OEM Apple cable. When I attempt to backup via icloud I get an error that just says "the last backup could not be completed."
I have an iPhone 5 and I have been using Google Hangouts as well as Google Voice for quite some time but both apps have suddenly stopped working. I deleted the Google Hangouts App and reinstalled it but when I open the app and click on the Get started button a little bubble pops up that says Unable to add account. The Google Voice app still send notifications when there is activity but there is no content when I open the app and when I click on settings I get an error that simply says Network Error (0). The Hangouts app still rings when I am receiving an incoming call but I cannot answer it. I did not chagne any settings. I downloaded the Google Plus app to see if I could get it to work but I had no luck with that, when I open the Google Plus app I get an error that says Can't connect to Google. Please check your network connection and try again, but my internet connection is just fine. all other apps and websites are working just fine. I CAN go to Google.com but I cannot go to Plus.go
I have some .mbox files containing thousands of emails that were exported from Gmail. I'd like to be able to view mails, by conversation and by label (Gmail label), search, delete some mails, etc.
My ex-wife managed to get on to my Mac (OS X 10.9.4) and change my password for log on. Luckily, I am still able to access my Mac as she didn't set it to screen lock. What do I need to do in order to get back to my old password so that I can set a new one. Can I simply restore from my Time Machine to get it back to my old password? Or do I need more advanced help?
I have a secure login page on my localhost. In my network settings on the iPad I can only change HTTP proxy setting to access insecure pages in localhost. I have configured it this way: Server: 192.168.1.5 Port: 80 but when I want access *=URL=* Safari warns: There was a problem communicating with the secure web proxy server (HTTPS). How can I configure for HTTPS proxy?
Today I bought a MacBook Air with OS X 10.9.4. I have problem with account password. I can log in normally at start, when the screen turns off I get unlock screen, but I can't unlock it and I am 100% sure, that I type correct password. I also can't unlock preferences and do stuff with 'sudo' in terminal. Does anyone know how to solve this?
I am creating some UI designs for an app, but I am struggling to find a template for the time, carrier, battery etc. bar at the top of the iPhone's display. Where could I find a copy of this bar so that I can add it to my designs?
A couple of months ago I had an iPhone. That iPhone was never connected to iTunes. It was configured to make backups to iCloud. It was stolen.
I have two macs. One is a MBP, the other one is a Mac mini. The Mac mini has two displays ( all OS X Mountain Lion). I use teleport to manage the the two computers and the three displays (1 MBP, 2 Mac Mini). I would like to be able to move one application (ie one Google Chrome window) from one Mac to the other with a keyboard shortcut.
reading the console logs has not taken me very far. I have a couple of weird messages from the last.fm client 07/09/14 15:53:50,193 Last.fm Scrobbler[52838]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.automation.osaexecute_run com.apple.message.signature: fm.last.Scrobbler com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.applescript com.apple.message.summarize: YES SenderMachUUID: 4AC11FC1-B379-35FD-B3C9-3CD9798522DE over and over again.
I have a locked appointment on my iPad that doesn't appear on the laptop or iPhone. I can't delete it either... any ideas?
I have a 2006 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard as the OS X and I recently purchased OS X 10.7 from the App Store. After download, I began the installation of Lion, it restarted and just remained at the grayish window with the black apple and the black pinwheel. I left it alone, but after hours, just remained there, no progress
I'm planning to buy a Mac mini i5 as it's fitting my budget. Will be making it a server for hosting websites, so before I buy the i5 version I wanted to know if there is any hardware difference between the mini & mini server. Hardware difference as in working of the motherboard or any thing added extra. i will be upgrading the mini with 16GB RAM & an SSD
I plugged in my iPhone 3 to charge it. When I came back later, the screen showed a connector device with an arrow and an iTunes app circle above that. Can't get the phone to open up. Tried calling my phone, it goes straight to voicemail. I also tried turning off and on several times. What can I do to fix this issue?
I'm trying to back up and restore my iPhone using iTunes in order to attempt to get my supposedly successful carrier unlock from Chronic Unlocks to work. This is what Chronic Unlocks support recommended. I have synced my iPhone to my computer in iTunes and confirmed that I have a recent backup.
mds and mds_stores are constant CPU consumers even when I think nothing should have changed on the hard drive. Activity Monitor:
I'm trying to jailbreak my phone because I have important apps that I need to run that cannot be downloaded on the app store. Neither Pangu nor iTunes are recognizing my device. I went to apple's support site, and they said that I should be showing this driver--Apple Mobile Device Driver--in my device manager. I'm not. I can plug my phone in and use it to get pics off the phone, but I can't use it with iTunes or Pangu.
I have the following AppleScript which toggles the scroll direction on the trackpad: This script runs without issues when the "play" button in Automator is used to execute it. However, when I make a service that runs it and assigned a keyboard shortcut to the service, it fails to run via the keyboard shortcut. Wrapping it in a try block with some error reporting yields the following: Automator Runner is not allowed assistive access. Error number-1728
When I press Control + Command + i I would like iTerm2 to send the shortcut as C-M-i (i.e. ctrl+alt+i) to my terminal. I have How can I do that? I have tried with the following with no luck: Any thoughts on how to get this to work? I read the following here:
Between yesterday and today, my iPhone 4 on Pangu 7.1.2 has gone from 2 gigs of data usage to 9 gigs. I removed all of my videos and images. Why the rapid jump?
I need to get a date (month, day, year) in multiple different formats for each part. So, for January 2, 1999 I need: the month as January and Jan and 01 and 1 the day as 2 and 02 the year as 1999 and 99
How can I determine the location a photo was taken on my iPhone 5s? I've tried the photo app on the phone but the information is too general.
I changed my name in iCloud a while ago, and then reverted that change. iCloud.com, the iCloud System Preference pane, and the info that appears in the Internet Accounts entry for the iCloud account are all correct. In Mail.app, it keeps sending emails as the previous name.
I'm trying to create a phonegap app but when i run cordova platform add android, I get the error: I had run brew install android-sdk before hand. I also ran android and it said I was already on 19. I'm installing 20 and 4.3, 4.2, 4.1.2, and 4.0 now to see if that will meet some kind of dependency. This is what my ~/.profile looks like: export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/22.6.2/tools:$PATH" I also tried it with just this:
So my questions are - does this happen on your Mac? Any idea if this is a bug or a feature?
I am unable to download iOS 7 on my iPhone 3Gs. Why? I have iOS 6.1.6 and if I want to download "Find My iPhone", it requires iOS 7. I've tried to search on what else I can do, but cannot figure it out. I also have about 10 GB of free memory out of 13 GB.
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) Having 2 type of connections available USB/ethernet and WIFI I want to connect both of them because I want to connect to different devices (which don't support that kind of luxury) and because the WIFI internet connection is flaky. Unfortunately it seem that OSX insist on connecting to internet via WIFI even if I turn it off, and totally ignore the USB/ethernet connection.
Whenever I try to upload a file using Transmit. It always displays an error "Transmit can't upload the file. Make sure you have permission to edit this file." I have contacted both Panic, who seem to think it is something to do with my server's configuration, and my server provider, who seem to think it is something wrong in Transmit. Does anyone know what the error means and what I can do to correct it?
I just switched from Linux to OS X by getting a MacBook Pro. A very annoying problem with OS X is that if I download something from e.g. my ISP's CDN, which can max out the connection, I will loose connectivity from all other applications.
I have OSX10.9 and pages 5.2 and want to save the document in Pages as a *.doc. I can already export it as *.docx. I need help as to how to export or save it as *.doc?
I want to pick a color from screen using the DigitalColor Meter. However, I cannot seem to lock the mouse. How am I supposed to use this tool?
Since last year, I have been using and iPhone 5s with iOS7 version. My Problems are: I haven't been able to decline an incoming call for some time. I haven't been able to decline an incoming call for some time.
I recently upgraded from snow leopard to mavericks and couldn't mount a truecrypt volume that was on an NTFS partition (which had always worked before). Following some advice on a forum, I installed osxfuse which didn't solve the problem but stopped the mac booting.
I'm very new to applescripting and I have the following code: This is working fine, with Safari. But the problem here is, script needs Safari to be active. So I cant run against multiple Safari. I'm actually trying to upload files using Selenium against Safari (in which Selenium apis aren;t working here), so gone with this approach, but now I cant run multiple sessions. Any idea will be helpful, if that can be done in applescript?
I just installed rtorrent using Homebrew(on Macbook Air with Mavericks), but every time I try to open it I get the following error message : This is my .rtorrent.rc file :
Our company requires to book every sale we make in our SAP system against a customer name. So when we publish the apps under our developer license, we will need the information of each customer who bought the app. Is there a way Apple will give me detailed information?
I'd like my Dock settings to change automatically when I connect an external monitor, and change back when I disconnect it. I have a 15" MBP and I'd like the Dock to be always visible when an external monitor is connected, but when I don't have a second screen I'd like the Dock to be smaller or auto-hide. Is there a straightforward way to make these settings change automatically when I connect or disconnect a monitor?
In my case, I do not want to use iCloud anymore. So I don't want to sync notes, calendar, pics across my Apple devices, and access them through the web (i.e., icloud.com).
I have a new macbook pro, got it in january of 2014. I am trying to connect 2 USB ASUS MB168B monitors via the separate USB ports on my macbook pro. One will load up and they other one goes black. The system preferences recognizes that there are 3 displays but one of them is completely blacked out. I know both monitors work because when i only plug one or the other, they work fine, however when i try to have both plugged in, one goes black outed (the first one i plug in gets overridden by the second one) thoughts?
At first I thought my trackpad was broke and the clicker didn't work because it didn't always pick up my clicks. However, I've recently realized that is not the issue. The clicker requires a lot more force than I naturally use. It works 100% of the time when I click it really hard and about %25 of the time when I click it with the natural amount of force for me.
I don't use my .signature by default, but often add it to a message after generating the reply. In these cases, is there any way to get the signature to appear above the quoted text? I have the option selected in Mail preferences, but it still always puts it at the bottom of the message anyway.
I just noticed that if I hold down a key in mac when typing, that I get some custom bar that let's me choose between accents. I'm a mathematician, and I like writing unicode math symbols directly (like α). Is there a way that I can customise the toolbar that pops-up, so that I can put my own mathematical unicode symbols in this toolbar ?
I used to have several favorites in the sidebar of the finder window, but today they are gone. I cannot drag folders into the sidebar, and I can't display the ones available to choose from in Finder > Preferences. WTF? Here's a little screen capture of it misbehaving:
I'm attempting to change the settings of a Cisco IPSec VPN connection which was set up through OSX's built in VPN client in system preferences. The VPN functions as expected, allowing me to access protected servers at my company. I would like to access other websites on the internet through this VPN (youtube, wikipedia, whatever). As far as I can tell, my regular web browsing is not being directed through the VPN.
I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and have Dropbox 2.10.29 installed. For some reason I can't permanently remove the Dropbox button from the Finder toolbar. I can remove it temporarily using Customize Toolbar or Cmd+drag it from the toolbar, but as soon as I open a new Finder window it's back again.
I've conducted a research on UNIX operating systems and found out that an experimental OS (Darwin) is used for development of the OSX; just like Fedora on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Darwin OS has a license of "Apple Public Source License" or freeware. Darwin OS can be installed on x86 computer architectures according to Wikipedia. I've searched all over the net and torrent sites but it seems that the links to recent versions of the OS like 13, 12, etc. are very hard to find. I've tried the site "opensource.apple.com" but the "Download" section could not be found. I think that the links are hidden. 1) Where can I download a recent version of Darwin like 12, 11, or 10? I just found Darwin 8.0.1 here. 2) Can I download the source code and just compile it to ISO format? 3) Can you give me direct links? Answers will help me a lot for studying Objective-C (Java programmer here). Thanks!
When I view a flash movie that's embedded in a page in FF 23, Safari 7.0.3, or Chrome 37, I see a black screen where the movie should be. When I right click on the movie, I get a "movie not loaded" error.
Thanks to this question: Customize accents when holding down a key I know understand how to customise the press and hold app a bit to letters. But I'm wondering, could I do the same trick for other keys. For example if press the > (shift + .) I would like to get a pop up where I can choose to select → or ≥. Would that be possible ?
I have a MacBook Pro from work. To keep my browsing history separate, I use 2 different browsers. (Chrome = Work, Safari = Fun)
I have an ancient program called "Digital Radar" (surveillance software) by Connectix. Connectix developed the original little ball webcam, and was later bought by Logitech. I've tried all of their venues of support, but have been told "We're sorry, but this product is no longer being developed. Thank you for contacting Logitech."
A few days ago, iTunes up and dumped every one of my ~300 books (PDFs, added manually from a source) — not any kind of warning or explanation, no upgrade I accepted, the sidebar item just vanished — and iBooks is refusing to recognize a single one of them. It managed to add a whole two, and in the process copied them to another location without my consent. I then created an alias to force iBooks to read from the appropriate location on an external drive. Such was the intent, in any case.
My iTunes keeps crashing whenever I try to show my Cloud Music. I go into Preferences > Store and check the box to show the music, but then it tries to load it and it crashes. It'll keep crashing each time I load iTunes unless i check the box off, but I want my Cloud Music seen. How do I fix this problem?
I have already configured so that F keys act as "standard function keys" (just regular F1-F12). How can I configure F12 to open the Developer Tools on Chrome?
I frequently have applications become unresponsive while they're in the background. That is, I'm not able to switch back to them*, and the Force Quit Applications window shows them as "Not Responding". They never become responsive again no matter how long I wait. Some features that make this problem unusual:
I got an iPad 4 (A1460) for repair and after a day of trying i cant get it boot. iTunes can only recognize it while on iTunes mode or DFU mode but restore it stuck in "Waiting for iPad" or "Restoring iPad". I used a lot of 3rd party tools but with no luck. One of these recognize that it got ios 5.1.1. I checked online and i saw that this iPad shipped with ios 6 so i think that someone tried to restore it with a bad firmware. Can someone suggest me a workaround? I tried itunes restore with these ipsw:
Out of no where the iCal 7 refused to sync with Google by prompting me to input password upon launched. I tried both Google account password and application-specific password but no availability. The error log I gotten from the Console are below:
I have an service in automator, which is binded to the Safari ,no input option. Now is there any way for the service in automator to get the process id of the Safari, which called it ?
I create a new event in Gmail Calendar. Add them user with iCloud email wich use iCloud Calendar. iCloud user receives invitation, which he accepts.
I have a large PDF I want to crop/remove all the whitespace with software that runs on Mavericks The PDF in question is designed for print; therefore, odd pages have different margins from even pages. I tried following the tip mentioned in the 3rd comment to this answer, but it seems that feature was removed from Apple's Preview app.
I'm not receiving all my e mails on my ipad. How do I change my mail settings on iPad and iPhone from POP to IMAP
I will try to access the Server instance in the VM from outside the VM (didn't want that so far) and see whether copy&paste works, when I use a single instance of Safari to do that. EDIT#2:
Often times I find myself searching for a song in my library and as expected iTunes filters my results. I wanted to know is there a quick way for me to be a to jump right to that first result instead of manually mousing over and clicking it to play. You would think it would be the tab button but that directs me to the left column.
When I view calendars on iOS, all can see is an "i" with a circle around it. If I click the i, it just brings up the calendar color. I can not view any of the calendar items. The same calendar on my mac is working.
On my Macbook Pro mid-2014 (have had it for only a week) I am having an issue where the primary hard drive (at /dev/disk0) just disappears from the system, thus crashing. The only reason I know that it disappears is that I had terminal open one time when it happened and did a quick "ls /dev/disk*". I can't seem to find any information about this problem online.
The title says it all ... I have the trackpad speed on my Macbook Pro Retina 13" set to the max, but I'd like to try it faster. I recall some of these things can be configured by modifying ~/Library/*plist files or somesuch. Thanks in advance for any help.
Background story: I am writing this because my cellular carrier claims (Orange RO) that I have used all my data traffic included in the subscription plan (which is exactly 11,79 GB) and, additionally to that, I have used 1,01 GB, all in 14 days after my billing cycle which is done monthly. Hell, in this 14 days, half of it I've been in vacation, had the phone all the time on me and had been in places where there isn't even cellular data coverage, therefore, i find very hard to believe that I've used all that traffic.
I've just had an Apple Wireless Keyboard returned to me. The thing is, it appears the batteries have expires and gone all...crusty. I can take the end off and pull the first battery out, but the other one is pretty firmly stuck in. I've tried scraping a lot of the gunk off with a long, thin object, but I've got nowhere. I've also tried banging it a few times to loosen the battery up, to no luck. Can I crack this thing open and get the battery out, or do I face an interesting visit to an Apple store?
I've just upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. And I see weird things happening to my favicons: - this is how original Trello favicon looks. - this is how original Trello favicon looks. - and this is how it looks for me after upgrade to Mavericks. - and this is how it looks for me after upgrade to Mavericks. It happened over time, on the first chrome launch icons were normal, then after a couple of hours one icon changed the look, then it came back to normal, and then changed again (i'm afraid to say forever). It's also happening to another one user I know - all the icons are looking strange for him, like facebook and google translate favicons are orange.
Does iWork '08 have a sumifs type command? If not, how can I sum on multiple conditions? Essentially how do I fo the following: many thanks!
In the last 6 months, two movies have shown up as purchased on my 1st Generation Apple TV, but neither I nor my wife have purchased them. The first time this happened, I thought perhaps it had been done accidentally by my wife previewing a movie, then accidentally hitting the purchase button.
On the Spotify iPhone app, there is a manual setting to turn offline mode on or off. Ideally there would be a feature that automatically switches to offline mode as soon as a wifi connection is dropped, and switches back to online mode when connected again. Is there another way to achieve this?
Is it possible to have Mail pull matches from an LDAP directory as I type them in the To/Cc/Bcc fields?
I have gitlab connected to my mac but when I do git push -u origin master I get 'Permission denied. Please try later' message which is what pops up when the user gets locked it seems.
It doesn't seem to be a function of the programs I'm currently running, since I've run the same programs in both states, and it seems to vary beginning at startup: Most of the time when I start up it runs consistently at 180-210°F to the point of occasionally shutting down from heat, but sometimes when I start up it runs consistently at 140-160° regardless of programs being run. Are there any startup items or background programs that could be causing this between different startups?
Well, this is embarrassing. It was a case sensitive issue. Prior to posting the -v output on this site, and probably due to looking at this problem for too long, I forgot the fundamental rule of case sensitivity !! Was trying to log into the Solaris server using an all lower-case user name. The user id on the Mac has an u/c alpha first character (remainder is l/c). Tried it and it worked. Just need to find a hole deep enough now but thank you to all who tried to assist.
I lost my iphone5 yesterday, and I already activated lost mode from my mac. Also, I believe find My iPhone is on on my iPhone. Question is, what if the phone gets low battery, will I still be able to locate my iPhone once it is online? I called the phone just this morning, but its not ringing anymore. Thanks..
I sent a text message to (123) 456-7890 and an error message immediately appeared to "use a valid 10-digit phone number" and showed the number I used with a 1 before the area code. I tried deleting the contact's number and re-entering it, but the same thing happened. Why is the phone adding a 1? I've searched through settings (and I did turn off international dialing help to no avail). Is this a setting issue or...?
I am looking into booting the latest Ubuntu distro (14.04) from an external hard drive using my Macbook Air mid 2012 running Mavericks. I've looked around and couldn't find a link to any step-by-step or instructional page to help me do this (or if its even possible).
I connected my iPad to Home Sharing from my laptop. I can play music by pressing shuffle play and pressing next, however I cannot choose which song to play because it is either greyed out (inside albums/artists/etc.) or it is regular but pressing it does nothing (Songs, playlists).
Using Debian linux, I can switch to verbose output during shutdown and startup by pressing F2. I already know how to startup in verbose mode using cmd + V but I would like to switch to verbose mode from non-verbose mode. Is there some way to do this using OSX snow leopard.
I was in the process of upgrading the software on an iPhone. For some reason in the process of updating this phone there was an error and the device completely wiped itself. Using the restore from an iCloud backup informs me that there was never a device backup made. What I am left with is as follows: A Mac with all my iMessages intact An iPhone with Contacts and Photos somehow synced over I was hoping to see if there was a way to move all these iMessages back onto the iPhone, or force sync this data somehow (all the data is tied to one appleID which is setup on both devices). I feel lost at this point, and have unfortunately already lost more data than I'd like to admit. Just to add, there isn't a physical iTunes backup on the mac either.
Literal translation: Simply go to the Music app in your iOS device or to your music library in your Mac or PC and find Songs of Innocence in the Album or Artist tab. Your music is in iCloud: touch the list to begin to listen or the cloud icon to download them.
As far as I know, to terminate hands-free voice dictation mode one must use their hands -- either by clicking 'Done', or by pressing Command + D. However, pressing Command + D also executes the application shortcut associated with that key combination. (eg, in a web browser you trade your dictation dialog for a bookmark dialog) How can I end dictation mode using my voice? Is there an official way to exit dictation without using a mouse?
I was "wise" enough to uninstall system Ruby on my Mac. So the question is: how to install Ruby without reinstalling everything? Maybe important: I can't use AppStore because it wants credit card number, but I haven't got any My friend has the same OSX version, can I copy some folders from his PC and recover Ruby in such way?
Downloaded song and played it for months. It then stopped playing and the ((•)) symbol appears to the left of the song title. What does this mean, and how can I get may song playing again?
My problem is that I can't even update my system or download a free app from AppStore, because it demand my payment information. There isn't any None payment info statement, so looks like it's obligatory. Question: How can I skip entering that info?
Have anyone or know anyone any pointer to some table, where is summarised what versions of some major opensource software was included in different OS X versions? Like in mavericsk is perl 5.16.2 (relatively new), bash only 3.2.51 (very outdated and really wondering about yosemite version ) and such. Exists something like distrowatch.com(Linux) for OS X too?
I am using BetterTouchTool to add more gestures for my Mac. I want three fingers swipes to move me back through the previous apps that I have open. Currently, I am setting the gesture to Cmd-Tab. Unfortunately this cycles me through the last two apps. I want to be able to swipe twice to go back two apps. How can I add this ability to BetterTouchTool?
From the commotion in the last several days/weeks I understood that a fake cell tower intending to play man-in-the-middle uses a 2G connection to avoid the authentication requirement (of the network towards the phone) that's part of 3G and up.I would like to avoid such MITM attacks by turning off the 2G support altogether. I can live with it if my iPhone only uses 3G/4G, and refuses any service when only 2G is available.I am using an iPhone 5S with IOS7.Is there any setting or app I can use for that? (Preferably without jail-breaking my phone, but I know that might be a stretch.) Johan
I use an app called MapMyRun on the iPhone 5. In it is a report that shows elevation changes during the run.
Before the iPhone 6 was officially announced by Apple, several reports claimed that the device will be waterproof. However, the announcement and specifications on Apple's site make no mention of it. It would seem clear that the device is not waterproof, but has this been specifically reported or verified after the announcement?
I have a large email archive that I need to make accessible on my Macbook. The archive is currently in a Microsoft Outlook PST file from a Windows machine. I'm aware of tools like O2M to convert it to a file format suitable for a Mac client. The PST file is 14GB in size. My Macbook Pro is a 16GB model with the top-end CPU.
I came across this post, however all the answers recommend using Applications eg AppZapper or similar to achieve the uninstallation of the App desired. What are the steps required where the uninstallation is carried out by "manual means" by the user to achieve complete uninstallation ?
I just got a new logic board installed on my Macbook Air (running OS X 10.9.4). Before the repair, I used a time capsule for backup (which has plenty of storage left). When my newly repaired MBA came home from the shop and tried to complete a time machine backup to the capsule, a message popped up that asked if I wanted to restore my previous backups. I selected that option, but it did not complete the backup and now I get an error message that says, "time machine cannot complete the backup because the disk is read only". I performed some simple troubleshooting (i.e., turned time machine off and unplugged the capsule), but no luck.
I have moved an installer into the launchpad (uTorrent-Installer). The problem is that I would like to remove it now but as it is an installer it doesn't appear in "Applications" in the Finder. I can't right-click the icon to remove it nor can I drag and drop it into the trash. Can I delete apps from launchpad?
I'm new to using Xcode. When I started using Xcode a couple of weeks ago I had a file list to the left and had three tabs open for different files. I'm not sure if that was a default setting or not.
I swore off Flash for a long while, until the great Safari support in Mavericks. Now I use it without fear.
I have an iPhone 4. I would like to know: since iOS 8 is not going to work on the iPhone 4, when should I be worried about the security of my device, since iOS 7 will eventually cease to be supported by most apps?
I'm trying to remap the caps lock key of a wireless aluminum Apple keyboard and am having a delay on release (not activation). That is to say, if I hold down the caps lock key after remapping, it will act like the key is pressed for a short period even after I release it. The longer the key is held, the longer this behavior happens. I'm trying to remap it to ctrl but have the same problem with cmd. I've found a lot of posts talking about an activation delay, but this is different than my problem. I've tried the built in remapping as well as Seil, and both have the same problem.
I am trying to fix some brew doctor error but now after manually erased some files that brew doctor suggested I get the following error when trying to do a brew update :
After recent upgrade of Foursquare app (v8.0.2), all my Lists disappeared, so I can't find any method of accessing them from the iPhone app (I can still see them when accessing from the website). Does it mean it's a bug, feature or managing of the lists are now depreciated?
Under System Preferences -> Network -> Set Service Order... (OS X 10.9.4) I changed the order for the configured network services to my desires. However, every time my 3G modem connects to the internet it is set as the first service and the order is reverted. (I experience something similar with a VPN service.) This is really annoying since I have a limited data plan on my 3G modem and do not want to use it if a wireless network is available. How can I make the service order stay as I configured it? [Edit] Here is what my console says:
I'm running iTunes 11.4.0.18 (the latest available version) on Windows 7 x64; for reference, I've been having this problem for months, and even on the computer I had before this one, which I replaced in December 2013; thus, this doesn't seem a version-specific or system-specific issue. The only Apple devices I've connected to iTunes are iPhones: I started with a 4, then replaced it with a 5, now I have a 5s; this doesn't seem to have affected the issue in any way.
I leave my Mac at my job and when I come back, someone used it using Guest user. Is there a way for me to check what this person did when he logged in my mac using Guest user?
Since a few days, my MBP (15" early 2011 with 10.9.4) won't go to sleep when I close the lid and the AC is plugged in. I fixed the permissions, repaired the SSD via disk utility, searched in the console to find an issue referenced, try to simulate the closing action with a magnet (the screen goes dark). Since my computer is not power nap capable, I don't understand what's going on. It goes well when I unplug it.
I have a NAS drive attached to my router that is configured as Raid5. I also have three Mac's attached to that same router. In the Public folder on the NAS drive, I created a sparsebundle disk image from one of the Mac's. After it was created, it mounted to that computer just fine. When I try to mount it on another computer I get an error that says "no mountable file systems".
I have two identical Mac Minis and I updated each with all available updates. This caused both machines to go from OS X 10.9.2 to OS X 10.9.4. However, uname -a reports different kernel versions for each machine: On machine oaxaca: On machine morelia:
On startup, when I press f3, I have 42 spaces open in mission control. Is this normal? Is there anyway to limit the amount of spaces that are open on startup in OSX? I don't remember this happening for versions before Mavericks. If it helps i'm on a 2011 15 inch macbook pro (early).
I have a MacBook Pro with a 512 SSD drive that I would like to use to run some Windows games. I would like to install Windows via Bootcamp but only leave enough space to effectively run the operating system. The games I would install to an external SSD drive.
On Google Maps for iOS (version 3.2.5.29671 as of the time of writing), I can save offline maps using the hidden trick described here. This works fine. However, Google Maps also wants to update offline maps periodically (every 30 days, I think). It has an irritating habit of popping up a dialog asking for this when I'm not on WiFi (when I don't want to update, because 3G is slow and expensive). I normally cancel the dialog (I'm in the middle of doing something), but I can't find a way to force the update when I'm back on WiFi later in the day. This means I get the same irritating pop-up the next day. Is there a way to force or manually trigger the updates to the offline maps? (this is on an iPhone 5s, if it matters).
People have described the display in the iPhone 6 Plus as having "3x retina." My question is, What does 3x retina mean?
Is there a method I can employ that will allow me to block or disable the WiFi of an iOS device between specific hours of the day? I am unable to find an iOS equivalent, even looking at installing a profile has come up short on this problem. It is to restrict the WiFi connectivity on workplace devices between specific hours so that employees do not have the situation they can be distracted between our busiest period 10am to 11:30am each day, and not be able to re-enable it.
When using Firefox and Safari, I have become accustomed to using a two-finger gesture to go backwards or forwards. It's a drag that I can't get this to work on my Fluid.app SSBs. Does anyone know a way?
I've had some weird issues with my python install recently but I've usually been able to get it working. However I'm running into a really bizarre issue right now where pip is installing things that disappear. Trying to run through this blog post. In the terminal: Everything installs correctly.
On my new 2014 Mac (OS X 10.9 Mavericks), I have just installed Git using Homebrew. In order to install Homebrew, I had to download and install XCode 5. So now, when I enter the command which git, I can see that Git is running from a different file pathway than the rest of the Homebrew installation. Git's different pathway is /usr/bin/git. I believe it is supposed to be in /usr/local/bin/ instead, with the rest of Homebrew.
You know, iTerm2 will change the color of the tab to red or purple. But sometime when I run a long job in one tab, I have to check if it's done frequently. So.. can I get notification when there's new output in one tab? If so, how?
I have two Apple IDs, because one of them is in the US App Store and the other is in the hungarian Store. I use almost every service of iCloud on the US account except for the iMessage. I still have to log in to iMessage with my older, hungarian account, because all my messages since the service was introduced belong to that. I want to simplify my life and use only the US account (except for purchases in the Store). Is there any way to transfer my old iMessages from my old account to the new one?
I was wondering if core dumps are disabled by default in Mac OS X, or if we have to add the following line to our .bash_profile:
I know my 13" 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina display won't support 4k (because it uses the Intel HD4000 for graphics), but I need a new monitor. I just want a monitor that will look good at 2560x1440 (or 2560x1600?) ideally similar performance to the current thunderbolt display.
The Apple Watch uses the Internet for a lot of things : Siri answers, sending messages... But how is the Apple Watch connected to the Internet ?
I use the following rules to connect to my nginx server on a vagrant machine: after installing little snitch, it seems to have made ipfw useless and i can't figure out how to apply a forward rule to little snitch?
In the Terminal preferences you can find an option to open new windows and tabs in the current working directory. Yet there's a message that says that programs notify Terminal about the current working directory using scape sequences, which I don't know what it means. But the Terminal itself is not doing this, as I would like to create a new tab when I press ⌘+T to open at the same working directory (not ~/). I found this post but it doesn't address this. Here you have a figure with the options:
I was just using it and I let the screen go off and now it will not do anything. I tried plugging it into a computer. It won't turn on or off. The battery was not low.
I have the following scenario: All of my files, documents etc. are saved on Copy.com. I have installed copy on my MacBooc Air all my files went to the following directory: On my Mac's home folder, I want to replace the following folders with symlinks or aliases to the Copy ones: I have tried to delete a folder under /Users/username and Mac prompts: “Documents” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X. I have done this scenario on Ubuntu, that's why I want it on MacBook Air, too.
I use a mac at work and people send me windows file paths all day. Does anyone know how to convert the filepath using applescript in an automator so I can right click in an email and then open it? Windows path: \\Sfa66\devmrkdt$\Donor Relations\FY14\Events\Invitation\Email Mac path: smb://Sfa66\devmrkdt$/Donor Relations/FY14/Events/Invitation/Email
I see the new U2 album in my library. I sync my iPod but the album does not sync. I click the "Add to" arrow in iTunes and select "Add to iPod" but still no luck. Apple discussions appear to be down.
The command ls when using iTerm is behaving strange. It outputs colors but they change at some point and I don't think this is the normal behavior. I have the following alias for ls alias ls='ls -FGlh'. I'm also using the solarized-dark profile from here. The result is as shown in the figure.
iCloud Drive is a file hosting service for devices running iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, or Windows 7 or later. When will we be able to start using iCloud Drive in WIndows PCs? I can't seem t find that info anywhere.
I've got an iPhone 4s from a provider, but they gave it to me without a sim card. It worked but I am wondering if I could buy a sim card, put it in the slot and use the phone with a different carrier, like a prepaid one?
I would like to charge my iPhone using a USB plug on my Windows PC at work. However, any time I begin charging with the phone unlocked, it prompts me:
I have a computer I'm servicing running OS X Mavericks and Office 2011. I open Finder, navigate to a network share (under Shared on the left pane), and see a shared server (shows up as a Mac mini picture), click on it and see 2 folders, go in one I need into and see files. I then switch over to Word 2011, go to Save As, and navigate to the same shared server on the left, and see the folders there, but when I go into that folder, it is blank. If I click on the shared server on the left again, it doesn't show me either of the shared folders. What is going on here? I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the share, restarting the Mac, Office is up to date.
How should i name music artists beginning with a dot (such as .38 special *=URL=* ) so that they are not hidden from Finder because of the dot. I realize that just removing the dot does the trick, but I'm looking to see if there is a for sensible naming convention for this.
I have created an automator service, and assigned it to an application. I would like to assign it to more than application but not to all applications.
I just bought a new iphone to replace the one I dropped in water. The old iphone works except for the screen and I can't back it up via itunes on my computer because I have a password on the old iphone.
I have two directories newdir and otherdir and would like to update a symlink, that initially pointed to otherdir to newdir. When I run: I see a symlink: When I run: I would expect symlink -> newdir, but I see the old link when I run: And I also noticed that a new symlink exists:
I've my column in format dd/mm/yyyy and I would like to sort them by date. But I can't find any way of sorting the column by date. If I Sort Ascending, it doesn't recognise that the rows have the date formats. Any easy way of doing that?
I have an iMac connected by wire to an external (non-Mac) hard drive which is used to store back-up images via Time Machine. I want to buy a second iMac and network the two together. As far as I understand it, this will mean that (subject to permissions) any user can sit at one of the machines and see/use the contents of both hard drives.
If I work in terminal, and, say run rails server in it attached to the current terminal and then close the tab it will not terminate the process making it hang around indefinitely without ability to bring it. Is it possible to fix it? Steps to reproduce: Open new terminal tab (cmd + t);
Let's say the name of my current account is johndoe. Open Finder Preferences, and set "New Finder window show" to johndoe, and add it to sidebar. Then each time opening up Finder after a reboot or log out/in, it will display the full path on the Finder window (screenshot below). Rather than display johndoe as the relevant root, the behavior on OS X 10.7 and before (screenshot below).
I'm looking to buy a used iPhone 5s from eBay. It will be used as an iPod Touch for a while, but I'll be moving out of the US in about a year or so. Sprint phones are by far the cheapest, but as I understand it, you have to be a Sprint customer for 3 months before they'll unlock it for international use (which is a condition I likely won't be fulfilling).
The Apple Watch uses an iPhone for network connectivity (WiFi) and GPS, and reportedly will have some basic capabilities when you don't have an iPhone nearby. But, what if you don't have and don't plan on getting an iPhone? Can you get internet from any WiFi source? Or from a non-apple Bluetooth tether? It looks like an interesting product, but I have no interest in getting an iPhone and am concerned that the Apple Watch might be tied so closely to the Apple eco-system that it isn't worthwhile to get. (Also, looks like somebody needs to create a new "Watch" tag?)
This has been getting me down, and I'm out of ideas. On my main twitter account, for one person I follow (@IndieGala), every single tweet is sent as a notification. After a quick bit of reading, I found two different methods to stop the tweets showing up, and I disabled it. A few hours later, they were showing up again. So I repeatedly disabled them for a couple of weeks, and it didn't ever stick.
I have a Logitech HD C910 webcam for which Logitech has no up-to-date drivers. They stopped updating for Mac at 10.6.
How to forward email without opening it. I am getting scam emails and do not want to open but forward onto report it.
I want to make the following workflow run after login. What is the best way to execute this workflow when someone logs in to the Mac Because if the IP range is start in 172.19 represents I'm in my office. Check the NIC en4
How can I send a text to someone without all of our previous texts attached and without deleting the previous conversation?
My girlfriend stay far way from me, but we have a habit that is listening to music together in the morning. But now we have to do that by playing loud by a Computer so that the quality is so low. I wonder that any IOS app can help us listen to the same song at the same time, i.e. when I press Play button, the song will be played at the same time in my iPhone and her iPhone too.
so I have an old macbook (late 2008 aluminum, running snow leopard). The display stopped working last week and since they told me they can't fix it, I've taken the opportunity to get a brand new macbook pro with retina display. It's running the most recent (so far as I know) Mavericks (10.9.4).
I believe that some of the programs I downloaded in the past have installed some root certificate authorities on my Mac (the OS is Mavericks). After learning more about SSL/TLS, I figure that this is a security risk and I want to fix it. How do I distinguish these CAs from the ones preinstalled with the OS so that I can get rid of them?
Airport Disk - How can I access it over the Internet without iCloud or Back to my Mac? I have enabled the "access disk over WAN" option but when I try the ip nothing happens. The ip is correct, I always have the same one and I've used it to connect remotely to my desktop.
I try to call an application from the console and pass it an argument. This is the script I am using: Somehow the OS is unhappy with this and complains: What can I do?
I am running OS X 10.10, Yosemite, and there is one feature which really annoys me. I know it must be useful for a lot of people but it's just not for me.
Two weeks ago I had my iPhone battery replaced. Before bringing the iPhone to the Apple store I backed up everything on iCloud and reset the phone. After the repair I restored the device and everything works without problems. The only strange thing is that my iPhone is syncing/restoring since the restore: when attached to Wi-Fi the sync icon is turning and when I leave a known Wi-Fi the phone asks to reactivate Wi-Fi to continue the restore. Now everything seems to be restored (all the apps are there, all photos are there and so on) during two weeks it would have been possible to restore terabytes of data (my phone was on and on on Wi-Fi most of the time)
After updating a 10.8 machine to 10.9, the standard user folders--"Documents", "Downloads" and so forth--have lost their special icons and now appear with the generic folder icon. Interestingly, if I create a new user, the new user's icons appear as expected. Any ideas as to why this is happening, and how I can restore the default set of icons for this user?
Which credit and debit cards are currently supported by Apple Pay? Is there an official list?
I have an iPad Mini that doesn't charge anymore because the lightning cable stopped working. Since the warranty is over, I can't get a free replacement. I don't really feel like buying a new lightning cable because they're expensive AND STILL fragile. I thought about buying one of those cheaper, generic lightning cables, but some of them are not compatible with iOS 7, and the rest state that they work only with iOS 7. With iOS 8 coming out later this month, I don't think those would work after the update anyway.
Is there any possibility of getting the OS X Mavericks installation file after OS X Mavericks is installed? I need to use it on another macbook. Or is there anyway to retrieve it?
My order for an upgrade-elegible iPhone 6 at the online Apple Store was interrupted by Apple with a "reservation" for a phone, confirmed by an e-mail with a number identifying my reservation and a link where I could check on the status of my reservation. At the time I made my reservation, wait times for delivery were a few days, and are now much longer, and getting even longer. The reservation expires 24-hours after it was made, though it appears to be making no progress: the status, when it can be found (which is about 1 try out of 5) indicates still waiting to "reach the carrier systems", even though I can now order an upgrade-eligible phone on the same number from the Apple Store without a reservation. Does my "reservation" actually hold a phone that was available for delivery at the time I made it (that is, available in a few days), or is it just a way of saying "come back later"?
I had some background text color styles on my old mac and now have Mavericks - but I don't see any way to create a style for a highlighter-type background (for a sentence, paragraph etc.) - The Fonts panel doesn't have background color anymore, just an entire document background color. Does anyone know how I can get this functionality again?
My iMac freezes up intermittently. The cursor can be moved but nothing responds. I just have to shut it down and restart. It's been doing this before and since my hard drive failed and was replaced. I'd also increased my memory from the original 4GB to 12GB thinking that was the problem. But neither the HD replacement or the memory upgrade changed anything. I can go for days, sometimes or a week or more without a problem. Then it'll freeze a couple of days in a row, or even twice in one day. It's a late 2009 27" iMac, running Mavericks 10.9.4.
I should've been clearer - the USB RAID drive is only sometimes connected. Backing up ~2TB to the cloud will take a very long time (2TB @ 2mb/second ADSL upload = 102 days according to *=URL=* which would tie up his or hers laptop for that whole time. Can we connect the USB drive to the TimeCapsule and it upload to a cloud backup provider?
We have a Macbook Pro 15 Last 2011. The computer starts to boot, it shows the progression bar, then it disappears and the circle just spins.
I'm a pc user that started using OS X a while ago. I installed ntfs-free to be able to write in my external NTFS devices and it worked fine, but with the last OS X update it stopped working. In order to directly use the built-in OS X driver for NTFS partitions I want to uninstall ntfs-free because I'm afraid it is preventing the driver to run. As far as I know there is no program or library deleting app or functionality in OS X, so how can I do this?
Since my printer has scanning capabilities, the Printers & Scanners pane in System Preferences has the "Scan" tab available. This is the only known place to start and scan one's document.
I have a Mac Pro I got in 2008. The original hard drive is failing. I have purchased a replacement drive and have backed up all my data using Time Machine. I will want to put the Mac OS on the new drive upon installation. The Apple Store said they would image a copy of the OS to the new drive free of charge. The CPU is a beast, so i would rather not have to lug it around if i can avoid it. Is there an easy way for me to migrate my OS installation from one hard drive to another? Thank you!
I need beautiful editor that can 'import' more then one local folders as libraries. This would let me search files only from these folders/libraries. But the crucial thing is to have local folders as libraries. It's important to not have the tool impose a custom folder structure, just simple folder and its files. The tools I've dismissed for the job are as follows: *=URL=* - nice, but needs some issues to be fixed and more work to be put in.
What does that even mean? When I go into "My Account" it says that 4 computers are authorized, but under manage devices there is only 1 computer listed and it was associated dec. 25, 2013, well past the 90 day rule. I'd like to get rid of my old laptop, which is why I'm trying to move all my music. Does anyone know what I should do?
As recently mentioned on this webapps question, Google Groups has started re-writing the From: address information on messages originating with Yahoo & AOL users. For Google Groups mailing lists that are set to "replies go to the group", the AOL/Yahoo message originator's email address is placed in an X-Original-Sender: header while the textual portion of the email address (if any) is placed in the textual portion of the From: header along with a "via mailing-list-name" (e.g., "From: myaolscreename via Mailing List Name <mailing-list-address@googlegroups.com>"). This is apparently done so that Google doesn't appear to the recipients' email servers as having tried to spoof email from AOL or Yahoo. In iOS Mail, this header rewrite makes it difficult to determine who really did originate the mail-- since there is (typically) already a contact for the mailing list address on the device, the contact information (e.g., "Mailing List Name") is displayed by iOS Mail as the From: of the AOL/Yah
I just started using Automator for the first time. My folder action gets two Finder items: say 'foobar1.pdf' and 'foobar2.pdf' files, and copies them to another folder. It works but there is a side-effect: also the auxiliary files with the same name but different filename extensions (.aux .nav .snm .toc and .out) were also copied.
The first time: I have not shut down the computer in about 2 weeks, always on sleep at night. Before I turned it to sleep, I used ScreenFlow and perhaps also checked my email. I just moved the computer from room to room and waited about 30 minutes before turning it on. I saw the log in screen for 1 second, and then it went to the gray screen. Here is the problem description:
So when I put my computer to sleep, quite often it wakes up from that movement. Sometimes I'm not even sure there is any movement. The computer just enters the sleep mode, I barely even breathe, and several seconds after the power indicator starts blinking it powers up again. When I unplug the trackball, everything works fine.
Even checking all entries in the finder preferences, the section SHARED never shows up. So far this is what I tired: I killed the daemon running the preferences, cfprefsd, then I removed com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and com.apple.finder.plist. After rebooting, the finder sidebar changed (all my settings were gone) but it still did not displayed SHARED. Any suggestions?
Is there a way to determine which application launched a Automator Service? The idea is to check the app that launched the service, with a shell/apple script and react differently depending which app it was. EDIT: So when I do something like this...
What exactly do these hold-over arrows in OS X 10.9 do?  When I mistakenly press on the right arrow, it just starts flashing/blinking, and the other arrow — the left one — appears to indicate that it's now available, too. Yet nothing at all happens, not even any kind of title or annotation is provided. The right arrow stops blinking and the left stops being bold if you navigate away from the folder, and then go back.
I was using a usb flash drive to make a bootable bootcamp Windows 7 install disk. However, I tried to format it and could not, so I decided it was a good idea to manually delete the files inside. Now whenever I plug my flash drive in the computer it doesn't show up. The usb doesn't show up in disk utility, or on my windows computer. Is there anyway I can resolve this problem? I don't mind loosing any data on the drive. I am using Mac OS X Mavericks.
I have an iMac 27 emc 2390, i just had a hdd failure, so i bought a new hdd, plug it in and then start my imac with the instal dvd in. The point is that my keyboard isn't recognize so i can't boot on the cd so i can t reinstal the OS. Any ideas please?
On encrypted networks, the information is stored in the Keychain Access app as an "AirPort network password" keychain entry. However, there is no entry for xfinitywifi in Keychain Access. I even searched for various other related strings such as comcast, etc. but found no relevant entries (see screenshot below).
I'm using a "Energy BT Sport" headset. Pairing is pretty easy. Obviously I'm not always using the headset, I'm frequently switching between headset and speakers depending the circumstance I'm in.
I have Macbook pro with mavericks and 512GB SSD i accidentally deleted a partition and suddenly my mac could not boot any more and after i tried to do something with disk utility this is gpt -r show disk0 command output: So i followed the soultion on this link and do this command sudo gpt remove -i 1 disk0 then i countinued with this command: and the gpt -r show disk0 command output become like this: and i realized i deleted Macintosh HD volume index so i kept manipulating the table until the gpt -r show disk0 command output becomes like this
I just bought an iPod classic after the discontinuation, and I already have a working one, so I just want to store this one until its needed. How long is it ok to just leave it in the box? I read once that you're not supposed to let a battery sit with no charge in it, and the date on the iPod box says 2009, meaning this thing almost definitely has no charge right? Should I start it on charge cycles or just leave it in the box?
I just got my new macbook pro out of the box, and for my surprise i also noticed the sharp bent on the tip of the charger. Can i 'undo' this bent?
I can't generate link for transferring my old C.O.C account to the new device. Can I use old C.O.C account to other device such iPad and using the old game centre and Apple ID? Will it transfer my previous Clash of Clans Town to the new device? Is it possible?
As stated, I just installed a new ipod touch 4th generation LCD. As many youtube tutorial layout I went ahead after installing my LCD to power on the screen. However, here is my dilemma, the battery has no charge. So I am debating on charging the itouch through my laptop. But I am worried I may damage it. This is because I before when I tried installing another LCD, I went to charge it and then got the white screen of death. However, maybe it was a defective screen and it was just a false positive.
Is there anyway to connect a Macbook Air (11-Inch, Late 2010) to a Macbook Pro in target disk mode? The Macbook Air does not support Thunderbolt and also does not have a FireWire port. It just has two USB ports and a mini display port.
My App Store keeps saying this item is free in the store, that this item will be added to your purchases and it then says cancel or download. I click download and it won't download and keeps popping up the same message over and over again. How do I make it stop? I can't download any apps.
I am unable to use the headphones in FaceTime. Without headphones it works perfect but when I plug it in, a mic-icon appears with a crossed mic. And consequently, the people on the other side are unable hear me. Could anyone please advise?
I am running Mountain Lion. But unfortunately, I'm having trouble downloading Mavericks Installer from the App Store.
I know there was a function in the context menu to join video clips together, but I can't find it in the newer version of iMovie 10. Is it still available?
Does anyone know how long Photo Booth can record video with iSight camera on Mac? I want to record for a few days non stop, and don't know if that's possible even if there is sufficient space in HD? I'm using OS X 10.6.
I've got two Macs, an iMac and a Macbook Pro. I do web development work on both, my data is synced with a local cloud solution. But how do I keep my Macports installations in sync? At the moment I try two manually install the very same packages, but with all the port variants I'd hope for a more sophisticated solution.
I've just come across some bizarre behaviour in the Applescript Editor (Snow Leopard - 10.6.8) that I was wondering if anyone knows how to get around it. Basically, one second a statement will compile and run ok, but as soon as I change the code and revert to the original text it fails to compile again. For example, the following screenshot shows the code compiled and run ok with the results shown at the bottom.
My iCloud account is under a @yahoo.com address which was canceled by yahoo for some reason, and the security questions do not seem like ones I would have chosen. So I cannot get my back up from iCloud as I have just purchased a new iPhone. Is it possible to get my old password so I may change my iCloud email and password?
My App Store keeps saying this item is free in the store, that this item will be added to your purchases, and will be available even if your family sharing status changes. And it then says cancel or download.
I fear I already know the answer to this one, but is there any way to access the locally-stored Mobile Applications in an iTunes library using AppleScript? The selection property appears to not function with apps: With, say, a podcast, I get a result like: But with an app selected, I just get:
I am trying to use cmd+left/right to do "focus to group" in Sublime, but my cursor goes to the beginning/end of line instead. Note that I'm using a PC keyboard.. and I've remapped the modifiers (Super=CMD,CTRL=CMD).
I'm assuming that mDNS is working correctly, as the Airplay receiver is still discoverable by the iPhone. Does anyone know what could be causing Remote to fail to see the library, and how I might go about resolving this issue?
Sometims I’m watching live events on websites that have an embedded flash video player. Is it possible to take the stream to a native player such as VLC? If so, what would be the steps?
How can I install veency over SSH? I've tried downloading the .deb from apt.saurik.com (veency_0.9.3402_iphoneos-arm.deb), then using dpkg -i veency_0.9.3402_iphoneos-arm.deb to install the package, but I am getting the following error:
I want to clear some storage from my Mac and it shows that my masters file is 94.7GB, however I only have 2500 pictures and the iPhoto software says it takes up 15.8GB. Why is the masters folder so large? Does it have every photo I have ever uploaded onto it?
Since yesterday my .xls files will not open in Office for Mac 2011. They have always done so till then. I can still open .xlxs files. The default 'open with' option is still the Microsoft Excel.app. I haven't (not aware of) having made any software updates yesterday. The message I get is that the file c'cannot be accessed' because it 'may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding'. But, it is happening with ALL .xls files,whether on my own drive that I have no problem accessing for other files, on things just emailed to me, or as downloads from a Skydrive facility.
I use my SSD with Mac OS on it on several mac (mine is with apple right now). It works well with one mac mini but fails with the macbook air, is shows the following message : (sorry for french...) So it ask for an initialization which I don't want to do (I'm not the kind of guy whom like to re-install a full backup on a sunny Saturday afternoon) so I tried this command line in terminal : Which gave me this annoying error : I'm kind of lost, any help would be great !
I'm trying to install HDF5 and SZIP following *=URL=* description]. However, I'm wondering where to install it (on mavericks). Google didn't show anything, is there any space recommended as a destination directory? Please indicate for both current user and all users.
I want to virtualize a Mac (the latest, 10.9) on my Mac (MacBook Air). I prefer to use VirtualBox. After setting up the OS X guest, I need to provide a .iso file from which VirtualBox will install OS X. Where can I (legally) get such a .iso file? My Mac didn't come with installation media so I can't just create one from a disc.
I subscribe to a rather odd mailing list, through which I receive emails to which further emails are attached (in eml format). I want to archive those attachments into a dedicated mailbox, all within Mail.app. Can this be automated? So far, I have created a rule that triggers some AppleScript that saves the attachment to disk and then opens it in Mail.app—but this both feels rather clunky and in any event I can't see how to progress from here (since the resulting Mail.app "message" doesn't appear to be accessible to AppleScript).
I currently have the following icons on the status bar. However, I have other applications running, specifically OneDrive, which I believe it is supposed to show an icon.
After turning on my computer, logging in, and waiting for the desktop to load, I try to start a program. It takes a really long time to load, no matter which program I try. After about a minute of the icon bouncing stupidly up and down it finally opens. From then on programs start much more quickly. Why is that?
Ran an virus scan which detected a geneio virus, removed the virus and the computer froze. I only have the Apple icon a spinning wheel. How can I reboot?
How to uninstall this Samsung DisplayLink USB display driver for Mac OS X? I had some trouble doing this, so I figured I could share it, it might be useful to someone.
I recently decided to start off with a fresh install of iOS due to my springboard crashing often and everything being messed up. I went to Settings > General > Reset to reset the device, and it started out OK. Currently, it's been sitting with the spinner icon (The one you get when you power down) for over half an hour with no progress. Is this normal? If not, what should I do? I have an iPhone 5s, 32 GB storage, but only about 6 GB is actually used. The spinner icon isn't frozen, it's still moving.
I've changed providers and gotten a cheaper plan for my iPad. (Running iOS 7) My question is: If I change the sim in my iPad4 (retina) will I have to set it up again?
I'm about to sell my phone and it's worth more unlocked (which AT&T has authorized). But to finish the unlock process, I have to backup and restore. To restore, I have to provide the password I don't have. (I've tried all sorts of permutations of every Apple-related password I've ever used, to no avail.)
Which is the real one? What is the other one? How did I get it?
Since a few days ago, my 2011 Macbook Air running Mavericks 10.9.2 stopped connecting to our TimeCapsule wifi. Other Apple and non-Apple devices connect fine so I've ruled out a router problem already.
It seems a bit wide, my guess is about 25mm (35mm equiv) or so. A Google search didn't find anything useful. Also, any info on usable ISO ranges?
If I'm at a dorm and the only available Wi-Fi is through a public network such as a University's Wi-Fi, how can I prevent others from printing to my AirPrint enabled printer? I would like to be able to print from a MacBook and iPhone wirelessly, but would like to prevent others from doing so. Ideally, I wouldn't want this printer to even show up for anyone except for me.
I once unfortunately closed a program that I found in the Activity Monitor to be using a lot of resources. A bit of Context: that day my macbook pro was suddenly heating up like crazy and the usually silent fan started blaring up! So I guessed that it was the root of all the trouble and force-quoted it, only to be subject to a screen of death notification! So, in order to avoid this, I ask you to help me to be a better judge of the applications for situations as these!
( seems possibly related to Is it possible to have multiple filevault2-activated partitions on one disk? ) I have a MBP with a single internal SSD and I'd like: to have everything on the disk encrypted in case I lose the laptop to have my home dir be case-sensitive b/c i'm used to Linux to have personal stuff separate from the OS in order to facilitate future OS updates to keep the main system volume case-insensitive to avoid possible OSX weirdness It seems like what I'd like is either: two partitions, both filevault2 encrypted, one regular HFS+ and one case-sensitive HFS+, or a filevault2 encrypted CoreStorage container with a regular HFS+ volume and a case-sensitive HFS+ volume in it Do either of those make sense and, if so, are they possible?
So I was playing around with the iOS 8, when I notice that upon typing "new" anywhere, the predictive keyboard suggests the term "NewTerm". I recall using this word in a tweet, so I brushed it off. But then, when writing the word "swift", the keyboard suggested "Swisslapse" upon having written "swi". Now this shocked me quite a bit, as I have only used the term "Swisslapse" in a private iMessage chat, which had been deleted three months back (from all my devices). I tried typing a few other words that I had used recently in Safari (running in private mode), but to my relief the keyboard did not suggest them. However, this creates a couple of questions: Does Apple cache my iMessage chats? Does Apple cache my keyboard input in selected apps? Is it possible to request a purge of my caches? How can I disable further caching (if any).
I recently purchased a new iMac and imported my entire photo collection into iPhoto (about 40000 photos). These were organized as folder YYMMDD - Event Name, about 1000 folders in total. iPhoto imported every folder as an event, which is great. However I would like to organize the photos hierarchally, nesting them by year. Is there any Apple Script or something I can run that will create one album for every event I have (I know I can drag the events one by one into the sidebar but that will take approximately two forevers to do. Is there a more efficient way?
Every time I try to install Xcode from within the Mac App Store, I get "Download for free? This item will be added to your Purchases and will be available even if your Family Sharing Status changes".
I'm doing security research and for that purpose I use an SHA-2 encrypted DMG to store the tools and files I work with (containing confidential client info), to protect them from forensic examination of my hard drive. Thinking further, I'd like to know how (if possible) I could open a shell environment inside this mounted DMG, so my .bash_history, .ssh/config and keys and an ./sbin/ binaries folder are available from a shell but only when the DMG is mounted to protect the info they contain. I also hope to make it portable from mac to mac, with my tool and my key, on any mac on which I open the DMG. Any idea on how to do that?
I need to replace battery on MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 and I've already found the one in the local shop, but I am not sure it will fit. Old non-working battery has the following parameters: Model No: A1322 Part number: 020-6764-A Type: Li-ion Polymer Voltage: 10.95V Power: 63.5Wh The one I found has the the same Model No, Type, Voltage with Capacity 5800 mAh, which is the same if converting Wh to mAh. Should I pay attention to Part Number? On site it is said the new battery is compatible with the following Part Numbers: 020-6547-A, 661-5229, 661-5557, A1322, MB990LL/A, MB991LL/A and with the following models: Apple MacBook Pro: MB990LLA 13-inch, MB991LLA 13-inch, MC024/A 17-inch, MC024CH/A 17-inch, MC024J/A 17-inch, MC024LL/A 17-inch, MC024TA/A 17-inch, MC024X/A 17-inch, MC024ZP/A 17-inch
I currently have an external, non-mac, mouse attached to my MacBook Pro. It has extra buttons that you can assign macros to, for instance I assigned the 'move left/right a space' to two of the buttons, which the keys are listed in Mission Control on system preferences. However, I also want to assign the 'Swipe between pages' trackpad function, whereby I swipe left and right, however I cannot find the keys that enable me to do this and hence cannot define a macro for the mouse. What are the keys-equivalent of swiping between pages?
I used a thunderbolt cable to connect my Macbook and iMac. Pressed cmd+f2 on my iMac and the displays works perfectly. But I cannot use my bluetooth mouse and keyboard to control the Macbook.It cannot find the mouse or any other device. How should I pair those peripherals?
Are the 16, 32 and 64GB models the same weight or does increased memory increase the weight?
I would like to set up an account on several Macs that can be used to send files to them via FTP. Specifically, I have a multifunction network printer whose scan function can FTP a scanned document to your computer, eliminating the need to directly connect to it using a USB cable.
In Keyboard Maestro, is there any way to define a macro that is triggered when two conditions are true? A certain application is active (i.e. on focus)
Why is it so difficult to Bluetooth these two? They are both Apple products and it seems inconceivable that it won't work. I have tried several solutions posted online and can link but there is no data flow between them. Anyone solved this? MacBook Pro with Mavericks & iPhone 4s
2. For the technical readers, I'm talking about derived data that Xcode generates for each project.
I don't know if there's an available app or perhaps a terminal command, but I'd like to forcibly shut down a specific application at a specific time, without the option to cancel. I'd like it so I can choose the time. To make a long story short, there's a game that's incredibly addicting and if I don't force quit it, I can totally see myself getting lost in it for extra hours. I'd rather just have the application quit, regardless of where I am in the game, so I make sure to follow through on my allotted time period for playing. There's something similar, but not entirely applicable here (The info here could help in forming an answer): How can I forcibly shut down my Mac at an appointed time?
After killing Finder, I deleted the large VM file from the Trash manually in the Terminal, using rm in ~/.Trash/. That released a lot of disk space, and after that, emptying the remaining small items in the Trash occurred quickly as normal.
Any ideas? I have no clue at this point why I can't get my Contacts to import an abbu, whether or not iCloud is on. Which means I still haven't figured out why FaceTime is buggy and I get excessive birthday notifications.
As many are facing the problem of IMAP syncing all the mails of Gmail, I want to know how can one sync specific Gmail labels to Mail.app? For example, if I have Friends, Family, Company1, Company2, and Bank labels, how can I only synchronize Friends and Family?
Problem: mid2011 iMac Mavericks was operating perfectly. Logged off, powered down. Next morning, powered up; system boots normally to login screen. No response to keyboard or trackpad...trackpad light blinks trying to link but will not.
I didn't realize this would cause issues, but I used Disk Utility to delete my Bootcamp partition and then tried to resize my main partition to fill the disk. This causes an error and I searched for answers only to be told, You're going to have to reinstall Mac OS X (that's the only solution). You should have removed the Boot Camp partition in the Boot Camp Assistant.
I enabled the full disk encryption or at least I think so. The HD shows up as "Encrypted Logical Partition" in Disk Utility. When I boot up the macbook however I can choose between logging in as Andreas Bonini - with my user account password - or entering the disk password. If I choose the former option, I am never asked for the disk password. This is not what I had in mind -- I wanted something like TrueCrypt, where everything on the disk is encrypted and the only way to access it is entering the disk password; the macbook shouldn't even be able to know what user accounts if any are present before unlocking the disk. My user account password is obviously considerably less secure than the disk password.
I have an MBP with the latest OSX connected to the internet through ethernet. I've created a wi-fi network with the same name as the laptop and set the WPA2 password. I then enabled internet sharing in System Preferences.
In my MacBook if I add the search criteria System Files the default is aren't included, how can I change the default permanently to are included?
I have Office for Mac 2011 which seems to work OK. However if I open a file from one location and wish to do Save As.. to another location, all I get is the basic list of where I can save, but seemingly no opportunity to drill down into sub-folders etc. For instance in the screen shot the location Kingston is an external usb drive with multiple folders and sub folders, but if I click on that, it puts that into the Where box and the document is saved in the root of that. Any ideas please, Gurus?
I cannot find any answers to this. I have seen it asked once already but none of the answers helped.
I was deleting a partition when my iMac froze and rebooted itself. Now I can't get any further during boot than a grey screen. Things I have tried to fix this include: Booting with CMD-R (boots to a grey screen) Resetting the PRAM (boots to a grey screen) Resetting SMC (boots to a grey screen)
Lets all take a long journey back about 21 years ago when apple released their color classic. It was pretty awesome right? Well I managed to get my hands on one but I have some sad news.
So I thought I could click "Remove" by an app in iTunes, and then later hit "Install" to put it back. But I just get an error that says the app could not be installed because it could not be found. This is with an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.
I am wondering if cleaning an iPhone screen with a wet wipe could have any negative impact on the touch-sensitivity of the screen.
On my iPhone running iOS 7, I can only set auto-lock times of up to one hour. My son's can have an auto-lock time of up to three hours, and there's no obvious difference between our two phones.
I've been conducting quite a few MITM attacks as of late on my iPhone with Charles. Many of the apps that I've been yearning to get a better understanding of are easy to reverse engineer simply using cURL to mimic the requests that are being sent to the server. Others however, require a signature that I'm guessing uses a secret key that is used to generate a hash of the payload. When I reverse engineered Instagram's API a while back, it went something like this
I have a folder, that I linked with one in Dropbox using: *=URL=* and was just wondering if that was situated inside a shared folder, would the changes someone else made in the linked folder also automatically get made to the folder on my computer, or would mine overwrite it? And also, if the other person could link that folder on their computer, whilst mine remained linked, would that be okay, and work properly, so that we would both have the latest files/folders/etc. automatically?
I'm trying to create an App Preview for an iPhone app. I recorded a screen capture of the app in the native resolution of the phone. Then I imported the video in iMovie and used iMovie to add transitions and text, and to arrange the clips. According to Apple, App Previews should be 640x1136 for the iPhone 5 portrait size, but the export menu doesn't support this size or any custom sizes.
Hi I would like to ask how do I create a new iCloud account for my iPad Mini. I forgot my old one. How can I do this?
I'm hoping someone can help. I work for a college, I manage about 80 Macs and we've had a problem recently where students are turning WiFi on or off on the Macs that they're logging on to. This is bad for the hard-wired Macs as they haven't been provisioned on our managed Wireless system so it either slows down their network connection or kills it entirely and it's bad for the mobile Macs as they loose their connection to the network and they start whinging that they can't get on the internet. I found the following setting in System preferences which looks like it will solve my problem: Does anyone know how to set this setting programmatically, using a script or a profile or whatever?
I had Internet Sharing working correctly on my iMac with OS X 10.9.4. I was sharing my connection from ethernet to computers using Wi-Fi.
A relative has a 3M MP225 video projector which they would like to use with their DVD player. However, the projector only has a proprietary connector for video input and only came with a 30-pin cable for connecting to an iPhone, iPod or iPad. A composite video cable is supposedly available but I've been unable to track down any supplier that actually has it in stock (and an eBay search for it hasn't had any hits in several months). I've seen products that are designed to plug into an iPhone (etc) dock in place of the iPhone to provide an audio signal - for example this device is a Bluetooth audio receiver which allows any Bluetooth audio source to connect to an iPhone-compatible speaker or audio dock.
Looking for an Safari extension (or plugin) what acts as mozrepl, what works like a charm. :) Exists such thing?
Is the source of Apple's Core Image framework open as other open source projects?
The OSX Mavericks machine that I use for work has Keynote, Pages, and Numbers installed under the company's Apple ID. (It was purchased in December 2012, pre-Mavericks. It was recently wiped and replaced with an image that I'm guessing already had iWork installed.)
The app in question is called RStudio. When I am using it, if I want to look at a file that I have looked at recently, I can click: File...Recent Files...and a menu of the last 5 or 6 files used shows up.
I'm having issues with installing Apple mobile device support. Every time I try to install Apple mobile device support I get this annoying message: the installer encountered errors before apple mobile device support could be configured I have tried these two ideas with no luck. Had this issue, and none of the solutions above worked, here is what I did to fix the issue, Install iTunes like you normally would, admin rights etc. When you get the error message iTunes errors occurred during installation before iTunes could be configured" do not click finish, leave that folder up, no navigate to your appdata directory such as example C:\Users\Your Username\appdata\local\temp, inside there look for a file called iTunes64Setup.log or iTunes32Setup1850.log, open that up and scroll down, look for these key things as in example, so I would navigate inside the folder in my temp called "IXP593.TMP, there you will find all the installation packages, copy all of those files and paste either on your d
Share your experiences on exploring iOS 8 with us.. Whether you found hidden or little-known feature of iOS 8 or can explain how a big feature makes a difference, we're looking for objective reports of how the new OS affects your workflow. Also provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too (hold Home and Lock for a screenshot on your iOS device).
i want to automatically copy a specific folder's items when a usb is inserted at any given time. Program logic: Once usb is available simply copy all content of (/Users/x/Documents/myfolder) to usb folder such as (/Volumes/BOSS/myfolder) deletes copied contents from myfolder What software or scripts could do this?
I've bunch of scan of receipts, the one that are printed on thermal paper which you get from any supermarkets and these were taken on the dark background. I'd like to auto-crop them in batch via some tool, to not include the background. I'm looking for app or tool for batch auto-crop of receipt-like pictures taken either for iOSX or OSX.
My user id has change on my apple support but on my phone the apple user is still the old id. The user id for old apple id does not exist anymore. How can I delete the iCloud (apple id) on my phone and replace with the new apple id?
Tried to restore from backup. After waiting for about an hour, it just randomly stopped at around 40/50% and went back to OS X Utilities. Tried again, did the same thing. Reluctantly tried again, and obviously it did the same thing.
Wow, today I saw a great window. This is a notifier from google maps or apple maps that shows me a way to home from work at certain time (when I usually go home) with traffic jam. Does anybody know what is it and which app / service show me that window?
I bought a new 2014 macbook pro two weeks ago and yesterday I've had 2 consecutive grey screens with restart and another one today. It happened while opening a movie in vlc or when exiting full screen in vlc.
I'm on a mid 2010 15 inch mbp. I just noticed that, even after my computer has been off for a few days, coins are sticking to the back of the display - in the exact area of the speaker next to the built in camera (is that a speaker or a mike?)
My school has 25 iMacs in a lab for students. They each have a wireless keyboard and mouse.
I just updated my iPhone to iOS 8, and after some minuts I ran into a problem.. 10+ open tabs in safari and I want to close them all at once. On iOS 7 I used to press the "private browse mode" and it would ask "Want to close all tabs?" Now it just goes into private browsing mode, without asking. So is it possible to close all tabs at once?
I've got a MacBook Pro 15" retina with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB. I'm looking for two high-resolution monitors to hook up to it. Can anyone tell me what the maximum resolution is that is supported for both monitors in this setup? Specifically, can it support two 3840x2160 monitors? I've got the MacBook screen itself set to 2880 X 1800.
Your Apple ID "xxx" can't be used to set up iMessage at this time. iTunes and Xcode work without complaint.
SO! I've spent 2 days doing this so far and I've gotten so close to accomplishing my goal but I'm on the last step. I've attached my Time Machine HDD to my landlords Mac mini (So I didn't have to carry it everywhere to backup) and installed server, and enabled Time Machine server. I put my backup I made when it was plugged in via USB (said 20 hours over the network, USB3 is much faster :P) on the drive in the sparse image for my MBP. I'm now trying to get Time Machine to "inherit" the backup, which it's not doing even though I'm not getting any errors. These are the commands I've ran through terminal: 1) sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Backups 2) sudo tmutil associatedisk -a / /Volumes/WD\ My\ Passport/Backups.backupdb/Austen\'s\ MacBook\ Pro/2014-09-15-121229/Macintosh 3) sudo tmutil inheritbackup /Volumes/WD\ My\ Passport/Backups.backupdb/Austen\'s\ MacBook\ Pro but yet this still occurs in the TM settings:
Utilize the thunderbolt daisy chaining, using the Elgato thunderbolt dock (which has an hdmi port) connected to the MBP's TB port, you can connect an HDMI display, and then connect the Elgato Thunderbolt Dock to another Elgato Thunderbolt Dock via a Thunderbolt cable. Then, the second Elgato Thunderbolt Dock can connect to a display via Thunderbolt™, HDMI or DisplayPort. Basically using two TB Docks, so you have MBP -> Elgato TB dock with hdmi (first monitor) -> second Elgato TB Dock with hdmi (second monitor)
Suppose that I have multiple VPN connections configured in System Preferences/Network. How do I tell if a particular one (identified by the service name in System Preferences/Network) is up, on the command line in OS X Mavericks?
I installed some packages via brew. But I can not find where they are. I can not get access by typing hping on terminal
Very often by the time I get tothe phone it's lock screen is already on and black so when i wake it up the alarm goes to snooze and i have not found any way to disable the alarm for today unless I go to the alarm settings and switch it off and on again.
I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 7 on T-mobile in the US. I have a wifi network that is not connected to the Internet. When I connect to the wifi network with my phone, my iPhone tries to access the Internet using wifi only instead of using cellular data. Of course my phone cannot access the Internet using the wifi network because the network is not connected to the Internet. However it should be able to use cellular data. How can I force my phone to use cellular data to access the Internet while connected to a wifi network?
My MacBook is connected to an Internet cable and meanwhile sharing the Internet connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. That is, my MacBook serves as a router, which broadcasts Wi-Fi signals. Since essentially, all the Internet packets travel through my MacBook, there must be a way whereby I can monitor which device is viewing what contents using my hot spot. Is there a software (preferably free) or some built-in block that allows me to achieve this?
today I sign out from iCloud from my Macbook and reboot. After that I tried to sign in again from the System Preferences, but I always receive an error said: "You can't login at this time. Please sign in again." Nothing worked so I tried to login to apple.com to manage my Apple ID and that worked.
I submitted an app which got reviewed and accepted. However when I search the App Store for the app, results are empty. The issue was clear when I followed the "view on the app store" link from itunes connect : an error dialog popped up saying that "this item [...] is not available on the french store, but it is in the US store"
I am on os x 10.9.4 If I ping google from the network utility I get 0% packet loss.
I would like to move the Documents folder to a different drive. I am running OS X 10.9.4. I am trying to preserve space on my OS SSD.
I love how homebrew makes my life easier! Though, I just realized that I don't really know who is "signing off" the stuff I get installed through it. So, I ask: Is there a central repo (like Linux distro PPAs)?
I would like to toggle the Do Not Disturb in the notification center with a keyboard shortcut. I am using BetterTouchTool for some extra keyboard shortcuts but it does not support enabling/disabling the notifications in the default options. It has an option for executing a terminal command so I'm asking here how to enable/disable Do Not Disturb from the terminal? I found Schedule ‘Do Not Disturb’ In OS X Mountain Lion With Automator and I tried to run the commands but it didn't seem to work.
When I plug my iTouch device in, whether it be an iPod or iPhone, and use it, my computer asks me if I trust this computer? And if I keep clicking trust the prompt/box keeps popping up. It only goes away when I tap don't trust.
I have a mid 2009 MBP with Mavericks and am increasingly seeing the spinning wait cursor or spinning disc pointer - how do I try to troubleshoot what might be happening? Indeed, in what situations does this object appear - are the situations purely internal in the sense of lack of CPU power or RAM or motherboard characteristics, or can external factors also impact such as HDD or network characteristics? I presume that the spinner appears in response to the current application not to some background event, so, in troubleshooting I'd also presume you would need to look at logs of some sort of the current application and possibly of a general nature, things with which I'm not familiar.
AppStore requests a demo video for my app, but at the moment all I have is an iPad 1 with iOS 5 on it. They don't accept a video recorded in a simulator. Buying a newer iPad is one obvious option, unless there are others.
Whenever I try to import modules from python source code files using the python shell(installed in brew folder), I get the following error : Can anyone please help!?
I'd like to add Courier New to my Font Book "Web" Collection:  I go to the "All Fonts" Collection and search "Courier New":
My twitter and facebook app do not longer have the sound on the iPad Air? The other apps all have sound. Whats up with that?
I created a Smart Mailbox this morning. I programmed it to hold all mail relating to my property purchase. This was successful. i checked it several times and it was full of all the relevant mail.
Can someone use my iCloud account to prevent me from receiving messages on my devices from specific people? I can get calls from a particular person but no text messages for a few days now.
I need a Mac app that can crawl a live website and do a text search (and, as a bonus, a source code search) and report the results. Surely something like this exists. Help!
I got an iPhone 5c off of eBay and I can't tell if it's iCloud locked (Activation Lock) or not because I don't have a SIM card for it yet. It was restored by iTunes with no problems. The phone asks me for my language, country, WiFi, then tells me to insert a SIM. Is it going to tell me I need the previous owners password after I get the SIM card and insert it?
I selected the encrypt disk option from the Finder initially, but after several days without progress (I checked diskutil cs list and it didn't show that it was either encrypted or converting) I ejected the drive, plugged it back in, and tried again from the command line. First of all, encryption status showed Pending and didn't change, so I tried encrypting it again to force it to start, but that didn't work and gave the error shown below.
I don't see any progress indicator, and the title of the window says: Is there supposed to be something that happens to let me know when the search is complete? On some large directories (tens of thousands of files in hundreds of sub-directories) I know the search isn't complete, because it hasn't found files that I know are there, and I usually give up before it finds them. So on a directory with less files it is rather concerning to see no indication if the search is done yet or not, especially when nothing has been found that I hope will be found, but am not sure if will.
I am trying to understand how the continuity and handoff features work and what is the difference between them. I suppose handoff is for specifically transferring activities from one device to the other while continuity is being able to answer call from mac or reply to messages. Although the difference is quite small.
When the iPhone 6 was announced last week, I read that the camera would protrude from the back of the phone, instead of being completely flush with the back like on all previous iPhones. Is this true? On the Apple web site, you can see the following image showing side views of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and neither one shows a protruding camera.
I got a 2011 MacBook Pro and had a Samsung 840 Pro installed running Mountain Lion, then Mavericks for about a year without any problems. Without any apparent reason the MBP just wouldn't boot from the SSD anymore, reinserting the old HDD worked instantly. After playing around a bit I made the following observations about the MBP: won't boot from the SSD even after cloning the HDD or making a clean reinstall not even able to get to the boot menu when the SSD is installed can boot from the SSD when it is connected via USB and the HDD is used to get to the boot menu cannot boot from any other SSD (tried one from another MBP and also a completely new one) Any ideas?
I tried to copy a Linux distro over to my USB using DD. But half way through it failed because the computer went to sleep or something.
My iPhone is not showing me when I have messages on the Messages app, and is also not ringing when I have text messages even though my settings are set to alert me when I get one.
I am having a problem with imported photos showing in thumbnail, but coming up blank with exclamation mark. I am trying to follow suggestions found on the net. But, I don't know what the symbol behind the command symbol means?? I assume it is another key, but don't see a corresponding one on my macbook. HELP!!
In my office I have 2 ethernets to work with... 1 is kinda closed, primarily for development purpose... with it I have access to important stuff that i use very oftenly, such as web-services and dev/staging servers... the other is a FFA ethernet, which is very good because i can access blogs, youtube, and AskDifferent.com... My problem here is that one uses a proxy server for HTTP/S, the other doesn't... So at least 5 times every hour I, not only have to switch the ethernet cable, have to open network preferences and switch on/off the proxy configurations, which leads to my question: Is there a way to automate this? like, if Ethernet A, use proxy, if B don't use or something like that?
I would like to set up Eclipse to run for all users of a Mac running OS X 10.9.4 (Mavericks). I logged in to the administrator account (User) and did the following: I installed the latest version of the JDK (jdk-7u67-macosx-x64.dmg). I downloaded the tarball of the latest version of Eclipse standard Luna. I double-clicked on the tarball (eclipse-standard-luna-R-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz) to uncompress/unzip it. I dragged the created eclipse folder into Macintosh HD/Applications. I double-clicked on the Eclipse Application in the eclipse folder and launched Eclipse.
I just bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my old 2009 model. For some strange reason, the external Western Digital Passport Drive I've used for Time Machine on my old Mac doesn't seem to work on the new one.
I use my gmail as my primary email address and use the gmail app on my iphone. However, whenever I want to send a picture quickly from my camera roll it uses the default mail app and then proceeds to download all the emails it perceives as unread. All this mail is already in my gmail app,filed to read as I like. Is there any way to set the ios mail to send only? Thanks
I am using Macbook running Mavericks OS. Recently I hace synced my Google calendar with Apple calendar in my Mac, but then I regularly get this error message: The server responded with an error. The request for “International Observe the Moon Night” in “kixxxxxxx@gmail.com” in account “Google” failed. The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation.
I have successfully routed my built-in microphone's audio to a Google Hangout through AU Lab via Soundflower, and want to do the same with Facetime. Using the same settings as with the Google Hangout seem to be unsuccessful. The setup for Hangouts is as follows: AU Lab document with Built-in Microphone being routed to 'Soundflower 2ch' In Google Hangout settings, setting the "Microphone" field to 'Soundflower 2ch' In System Preferences, setting Output tab to the default (Headphones / Built-in Output).
Is there anyway to have the Command+TAB app switcher continuously cycle instead of stop at the end when you hold down command and tab like it did pre Mavericks?
I have a small problem when I try to update to the new version of Apache WebSrvr on my Mavericks Mac. I compiled and make installed to a different folder than the native: /usr/local/apache24/. which httpd => /usr/local/apache24/bin/ I set the enviroment variable for it also. which apachectl => /usr/local/apache24/bin/apachectl but when I try to start the server it takes the the binaries from the /usr/local/apache2/ Is there a way to migrate everything to the new instance of the Apache Server?
For example, there is xkb-switch on Linux. Is there some analog in Mac OS X? I googled but found nothing. Yes I know about AppleScript but it doesn't fit to my purposes.
Is there an app / script which will listen for keyboard events and display the action that is triggered? I use Better Touch Tool, and want to run a script on Cmd+F1 but I got the message:
I mean change $HOME not by defining in ~/.bash_profile, but loading the variable when shell opens. By the way, after some misoperation I cannot even get into the Terminal now... It now says [Process completed] and does not respond, as it should when every time it exits. Is there a way to configure or re-install the Terminal?
I'm using the "Word of the Day" screensaver under OSX 10.8. It says "Press the D key to see more.", however hitting the D, or any other key, instead brings up the password screen used to terminate the screensaver and get back to work. Is there something I might have messed up, or it's just a sentence they forgot there but isn't really supposed to work?
See picture. Only cell border and not the cell fill has the option to pick a color from the OS X color picker. Is there any workaround?
The album is instead in my iTunes artist list filed under 'G'?! So my artist list looks like this: Green Day, U2, David Guetta. I do have a song by Green Day and U2 which also appears here but don't know why Songs of Innocence isn't filed under U2 with the other albums of theirs. What is going on and how do I fix it, please?
Hope someone can help me with my locked iPhone 5. I was given it second hand in Japan and want to use it in New Zealand. It used to be on KDDI. When a Sim from NZ is inserted it shows invalid Sim. I tried an R-Sim 9+ but no success. How can I unlock this phone?
The last 3 years I've been making photos on my iPhones which have now turned into a nice collection on my phone. I love looking at those photos as they are all sorted by date, which is nice to scroll back into time. Now I've also had another portable cam those years, which has made some nice pictures which I've got stored on my computer.
I have an iPod classic and tend to keep it plugged into a mains charger while playing music up to 4 hours a day. Will doing this damage the battery? Is it better to use all the battery power and then fully recharge it each time? Perhaps somewhere inbetween the two options above? And when the battery finally gives up the ghost, can I still use my iPod by plugging it into the mains charger and running it off the mains rather than the battery? Thanks for any replies.
Is there any way so when I drag and drop a file from one disk(A) to another disk(B) the files are moved instead of copied? I have a mac book pro and a mac pro(old cool one) and when I drag and drop files they get copied instead of moved. So could I do some automate script or terminal command to enable move files from disk to disk instead of coping them?
How do you record App Preview videos for the new devices? I have a 5S and when I record (on Yosemite) with Quicktime, the video's dimensions are 640 × 1136 - the size of the phone. Which is fine for the video for the (5 series, 4 inch). But how do I record for the 6 (1134 x 750) & 6+ (1920 x 1080)?
None of the keys in my keyboard (Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard) are natively recognized as the Fn key by OS X (I checked with Mouseposé) I have Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro installed but: Karabiner doesn't seem to have a template to map things to Fn As shown below, there doesn't seem to be an option in Keyboard Maestro to enter by hand Fn
Macs come with screen natively installed, but I seem to have a problem with mine. After running screen and creating another window (ctrl+a, c), the split command (ctrl+a, |) won't do anything. Normally it's suppose to split the terminal vertically into two separate windows (typically used to edit and test in one terminal window). Any suggestions?
For reblog likes and new follower instill got the notification but why not for new mail or new ask? I mean I can not get any notifications when I receive a new fanmail and ask or answers from my tumblr, I only get notification for reblog, likes, and new followers, but tumblr app in iPad is always like never let me know when I get fanmail in my inbox, so sometimes it's annoying since friends ask something then I just don't know if there's something comes into my tumblr inbox. Can I get these additional notifications using tumblr with my iPad running iOS 7?
I've had a 13" MBP from late 2011 that I water damaged beyond repair. Today I bought a 2012 MBP, swapped out the optical drive for SSD that was on the old system(had the OSX in there), swaped out the main hard drive that was on old system as well as added back my 8gb of ram that was on old system. None of these seem to of been damaged by the water(or so my tech guys said). However once I boot into OSX, after 10-90 seconds current app freezes, I'm still able to use the mouse but nothing else responds. Anyone could suggest any methods to trouble shoot this? Thank you!
I am using Mail/iCal with a corporate Exchange server. With Outlook (yuck!) or its "OWA" approximation, I can answer (accept/maybe/decline) with or without editing the reply mail. In Mail or iCal, I know three working ways to accept/decline, but I don't see how to edit the reply. (Plus, after declining, the mail/event is gone, so I also cannot reply to the mail anymore.)
I am a developer, and my beta iOS is really unstable, is it possible to update it to the real iOS8 that coming out today? Do you know is iOS8 available for download in Settings yet?
I would like to create a script to install a group of programs. The PKG files reside on a Windows file share. I current can install them one at a time through the Terminal using the following syntax:
When I click the “Other Library...” button, I can select my iPhoto Library file, but clicking on the “Open” button has no effect.  When I Get Info on my iPhoto Library file in the Finder, it recognizes it as a photo library, and the size (418 MB) looks about right.
what should i do to fix this? it is happening past twodays. iam from India, please help me out .
All of a sudden, when I do Google searches in Safari 5.1.10, it now has a black toolbar at the top, options in a left handed column, and if I choose to look at the "images" tab there are only images displayed in four columns and when I click on the image it takes me to another page. I checked other browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Camino) and they still look like Google used to. They don't have the extra top and left menus and the images are packed next to each other. When I click on one it opens up a little larger so you can view it. Then if you like it you can click it to open the website where it comes from.
Every once in a while, my 13" retina MacBook Pro completely freezes while I'm in the middle of working on something. And I do mean completely: it won't respond to any keyboard input, I can't even move the cursor, and even animations (like a scrollbar fading in/out) will freeze in place.
Somehow my OS X AppStore is caught in a loop. It wants to install the RAW updates for Aperture and iPhoto over and over again. What should I do?
I'm planning to give a talk at a conference, and I've been told that slides will be displayed on a screen with a resolution of "2048 x 1080 (16:9 aspect ratio)". I want to see how my slides look at that resolution. I have a Macbook Pro (non-retina screen) running OSX Mavericks and no external display. In System Preferences, I can choose between only two "scaled" resolutions: 1280 x 800 and 1024 x 640. Is there a way that I can use an unlisted resolution?
Apple Maps are very inaccurate. They costs my time and money when I use them by accident. I want to change the default app to Google Maps. How can you change the default Map application in the newest iOS to Google Maps? I really would like to delete the Apple Maps from my phone.
I don't use the launchpad, especially as it has a lot of useless apps in there that you can't delete either. For things like the dock and the dashboard I found guides online on how to remove them, but none for launchpad. Is it possible to remove launchpad completely (on OS X 10.9.4)?
I've just installed ios8 on Both my iPhone 5s and iPad 3 (model md329kn/a). However, I can't get continuity working.
I have a 256G SSD and a 1T HDD in my 27" iMac. The 1T HDD is dying due to hardware failure. Is there a file in OS X similar to /etc/fstab in Linux where I can prevent this 1T HDD from mounting? I'd like to effectively disable/ignore this disk without needing to take it into an Apple store to be removed.
I'm from Bulgaria (but this problem might not be Country related) and after update to iOS-8, I can't turn off my 3G or I have the option to turn on/off LTE only. I don't want to be always on 3G because my battery consumption.
I'm trying to install Mavericks on an old MacPro1,1 (This one), and I need the correct board ID to properly configure the USB install. I currently do not have any OS installed on the HDD, so I cann't access terminal in order to find the board ID. Does anybody know the board ID for this model?
A keyboard I recently installed on iOS 8 provides an option (in Settings) to "Allow Full Access"? What does this setting do?
I have an iPhone5 that was synced to a PC when I first got it. I had an older BlackBerry that had hundreds of pictures and I wanted them transferred to the iPhone which is why the sync happened. I had a friend do it, and now I'm trying to upgrade the phone to iOS 8 but I don't have enough space. I tried to delete some photos but I noticed that hundreds of these photos are in albums that are labeled "from My Computer" and are unable to be deleted. I no longer have access to that original computer that synced the photos, what can I do if I want to keep the photos, but remove them from the phone?
I have been trying to get a handle on iCloud Family sharing before I turn it on. There are two potential issues I could see having with it. First, is iCloud storage space shared amongst the accounts or is it linked a particular Apple ID. Second how does PhotoStream work with it. My wife and I currently like sharing all our photos so we can see what the kids are up to when they with one or the other of us. Will that still be the case?
I used to be able to start typing an application name in the App Launcher (F4) to filter the list. But at some point, this stopped working for some reason. I can't click the search box, nor does typing produce any characters into the search box. Is there a setting I can flip, or could this be an issue with a corrupt system file? Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks MacBook Air mid-2013, Intel Haswell Core i7
Fluid can create a .app wrapper around a webkit instance to turn any web page into an OSX Application. This script can do a less thorough job with Chrome. Is there anything that can do this for a ssh session, possibly through a Terminal or iTerm2 profile, or a standalone SSH client? To elaborate:
I get this notification on forms in Google Chrome. What is prompting it and how do I turn it off?
The other question asks the same but using AppleScript. Apple introduced JavaScript as a new language for Automation in OS X 10.10.
Hazel does not treat the trouble files as images. I know this because I can set a rule to move all files but images to a different folder and those troublesome files will be moved.
Right now, my family and I share an iCloud account for iTunes and App Store. It works well, but the new iCloud Family sharing would put a limit to six members. That would not work for us. I really want to try the iOS 8. But will I be able to set up my personal iCloud and my shared iCloud account for iTunes and the App Store?
I installed iOS 8 on my iPhone 5S today and the got the Health app as a result. It shows on the Health app that it can get data when the app "sends" data over to the Health app. So I assume Nike Running (an app from Nike) probably has that built in? If so, how can the running / walking data be sent over to iOS 8's Health app?
So i'm getting really frustrated with the new and the best feature of iOS 8 - Handoff. I've tried many different ways to make it work, but nothing helped: Tried various methods of restarting both devices (with Handoff checked, without). Tried turning off/on bluetooth, AirDrop, WiFi. Changed AirDrop to Contacts Only / Everyone. Changed different WiFi networks (we're using AirPort Extreme in our office, so that should not be a problem). Tried tinkering with iCloud options (turning on/off various services). Tried to turn passcode on/off. Tried to turn on/off shared apps settings (my apps, app store). I have an iPhone 5S and iPad Mini Retina, so incompatibility for hardware reasons is out of question here.
I have determined that its Google Maps that is causing the GPS to be always on. Is there a way to select an option so that Google Maps only uses the GPS when the app is being used? The only options I see in Privacy > Location Services for Google Maps are "Always" or "Never". In the meantime I've reverted to Apple Maps and deleted Google Maps to save my battery.
I've just downloaded iOS 8 but when it's asking me to set it up it won't let me skip setting up iCloud and it just resets itself! How can I skip this and set up the device?
With my luck I've tried the same thing with my iPad mini (Retina)... Same result, device is now stuck in restore mode and won't update due to error 14. I've tried another PC, another cable, another USB port, switching it into DFU-mode (it jumps right back into restore), nothing worked.
Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac9,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: IM91.008D.B08 SMC Version (system): 1.37f3 Xcode 5.1.1 does not load up on Mavericks 10.9.5 when logging in from my User Account. However it does run from my Guest Account. I have deleted Xcode preferences , reinstalled Xcode 5.1.1 from the App Store and still the same behaviour occurs. Have also tried if changing the security settings Mac App Store only, Mac App Store and Registered Developers and Anywhere ; regardless of the security setting chosen the Xcode application doesn't load. This is truly annoying and stymies my productivity. I am not currently registered on a Mac Developer program but am registered with an Apple ID and can log into the Developer centre. I would really like to get this solved.
I created an account on a website and they installed a certificate on my machine for authentication. I'm not sure how this technically works but the certificate is somehow linked to my GMail address. Now, when I want to write an e-mail from Apple Mail (from my GMail address), Apple Mail asks me if I want to use this certificate that I mentioned above.
I have read so many reports about iOS 8 installation storage requirements that I've lost count, and none of them even answer this very basic question. “The download is 1.2 Gb… the free space requirement for the install is 5 Gb…” etc... But honestly, who cares? We get the space back after it’s done. It's a one time requirement. What's ultimately of interest when I install iOS 8 on my iPhone 5 is: how much space will I never get back?
If needed, I'll attach a copy of the script. It's supposed to be a prank using the say command, any tips for improving the script would be nice ;)
To clear storage space in order to upgrade to iOS 8, I went to Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage/Music on my iPad and deleted all my music (I have it all stored in iTunes on my Mac at home.) I got the space back and installed iOS 8 over-the-air. But now when I go to the Music app, it looks like my music library is still there—the metadata (including album art) still shows. When I tap on a song, the name greys out and a "Stop" icon in a circle appears on the right hand side of the table. (When I go into Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage/Music, it tells me all my songs are still taking up 41.2GB, and lists each artist with their individual usages.) How can I force the iPad to dump and regenerate its cache of Music.app metadata?
My question is definitely related to What option should I give the sudo command to have the password asked through a graphical interface? But my question is slightly different. I know how to use sudo and SUDO_ASKPASS. But I'm still learning the Mac OS X conventions, etc.
I recently received Gatekeeper Configuration Data 14.0 installed automatically without any notice on my MBP, it's not shown on the normal "Software Update" list. But can be found via Apple > About This Mac > More Info > System Report > Installations. (OS X 10.8.5)
Please tell me how to burn a FAT32 CD under Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I have tried multiple approaches, including creating a FAT32 .dmg properly sized for the disc, and burning from the Finder or from Disk Utility. The thread at How to burn Windows compatible CD on Mac OS X Mountain Lion did not help me.
Is it possible to have my iPhone making a sound every hour ? And preferably during day time, like 12 hours a day, and moreover only during weekdays only ?
Videos recorded on the iPhone are huge. I don't know where I'm supposed to store those videos. Even with 1TB of storage, I'd run out of space if I regularly recorded & stored these huge files. Also, they're cumbersome to transfer and stream. Why are they so big anyway, and is there anything that can be done about that?
I have an iPhone 5, and I don't have good reception at home, so I was hoping to use wifi calling after upgrading to ios 8, but I can't find an option to enable it. BTW I'm with T-Mobile carrier.
I have an Excel spreadsheet with the grades of my students. Every so often I'd like to email out their current grades, one email per student, that will only include their last three homework grades or so.
I'm upgrading to iOS 8 and need to make some room on my phone. Under "Usage" (in Settings), my "Messages" is over 2 GB. I assume this refers to the Messages app, including iMessages and SMS. I don't necessarily need to keep these on my phone, but I'd like to archive these for posterity. Are there any good ways of doing this? I would prefer to be able to restore messages to my phone at will, but I don't know what options exist. I've used Phoneview before and found its import/export functionality limited.
I have a 5S that's backed up to my home 13" MBP, as have every other iPhone before it. I am getting a 6, and want to back up the 5S to restore to the 6. I have a second MBP, a Retina 15", at work and I'm wondering if I can simply back up the phone to this Mac and restore from there -- so I don't need to drag the home MBP to work. Can I back up my iPhones to more than one MBP?
I'm struggling to do a simple edit on a photo in the standard Photos app on the new iOS8. Basically, I can select a crop area, but the resulting saved photo doesn't match the area that I chose. Here is a walk through example using screenshots of the steps I took: First, a photo I just took as seen in the Photos app :
It is sort of like a static wave that goes across my screen for a second then goes away. It is rather annoying it comes once every 5 minutes i'd say. 2010 macbook pro 15" 4gb-ram NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB Intel i7 and OSX 10.9. What is the course of action to stop this? Thank You
The answer to a previous question (that I share) suggested going to this file ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences. How does one find that. I don't know what ~/ references and the Library files that I find on my hard drive do not have a Container subfile
The only source for my iPhone contacts is my GMail account. I've cleaned up "My contacts" in GMail, but those contacts didn't get removed from my iPhone/iOS 7.0. I tried to set the GMail contact sync mode to "Manual" and ran "Contacts" app, and tried to set it to "Hourly" - they just won't go. Is it possible to achieve?
According to the update in the App Store, the Amazon app now supports login via Touch ID. Has anyone figured out how to use it?
I ordered an iPhone 6. I've used an Android phone for the last few years. What specific steps to I need to take to: Keep my location from being disclosed Disable ALL automated uploading or backing up of my info to the cloud Prevent automated updating of things
At my workplace we usually connect to our server over AFP (I know it's been deprecated but the workers like to use the color labels). I sometimes use SMB to solve specific issues, including the inability to move/delete some files that lack AFP metadata, and just as a general "Let's try this instead" approach to solve problems.
Bose® MIE2i mobile headset worked great with my iPod Touch since iOS7.. for last one month. After I upgraded to iOS8, it stopped working (Volume control).
I'm not an iPhone user, but help support them at work. We have a user who has a large amount of SMS messages for having the same iPhone for quite a few years. He's trying to delete old SMS messages. On my Android (Galaxy S3), I'm able to set a Text message limit: 200 messages per conversation, so only the most recent 200 messages are kept for each conversation. Is there something similar for iOS?
Is there any way to export non Camera Roll or Photo Stream photo albums from an iPhone to a PC? There are a bunch of "free" software online than can do this, but they all require you to buy the software to transfer the photos, or they can only transfer a few photos before needing to buy the software.
We do not use iMessage in our house (we have our reasons). My son updated to iOS 8 and now he can not text most people with iPhones. His phone keeps telling him he has to use iMessage.
I want backup my MacBook on my external Hard Drive, but when I trying to use time machine, it shows I should format my hard drive. Is there any way to give backup without formatting hard drive ?
I downgraded from Yosemite Public Beta to Mavericks by: Created bootable Mavericks USB Booted Mac to the Mavericks USB Went into Disk Utility > Selected HD and Erased HD Restored to Mavericks Time Machine Backup which was successful
I don't like having to re-enter my password if I've just closed the lid for only 5 - 10 minutes. How can I disable this? I've already tried going to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy, and setting it to require a password only 1 hour after sleep or screensaver. Mid-2014 Macbook Pro running Mavericks v10.9.4
A new swipe-left feature to delete emails was promised to us in iOS 8 for the Mail application. And yet, when I swipe left, it only shows More, Flag and Archive. That is beyond disappointing. How can I get it to show Delete instead of archive from the inbox?
Have Imac with Maverick and Windows 7 running in Parallels 10. Have a LG USB disk drive that is seen by Win 7 and works with no problems. Spins up, displays and works. It is NOT seen by Imac. Every place I look shows no signs of USB drive. It is plugged in same USB port as when it is used in Win 7. How do I get Imac to see the drive?
I want to have a new Chrome window with same origin policy (CORS) disabled for development, while keeping the existing one open for browsing. I already have tried the CORS plugin but it does not work for local files.
Is there a way to paste message if an app doesn't offer the paste option when you hold down in the text area? (Specifically Clash of Clans.) Alternate keyboard for storing text or something like that? Or with iOS 8, a keyboard with a paste button?
Is mackeeperapp2 a safe website? Does that mean I have some security problems? I am in possession of a Mac OS X v.10.9.4, which actually is not mine at all, and I wouldn't like to risk or imperil it. As you can notice, I have not so much experience with Mac OS X.
I have a Chrome App (packaged app, installed from Chrome App Store) that I want to start up upon login on my Mac (Mavericks). I add the item to login items under my User in the Accounts area of Sys. Pref., but it (or any Chrome app) fails to start. The app is located in Users > me > Applications > Chrome Apps. Any ideas why Chrome Apps won't work as login items? Is there something else I can do to get it to automatically start up?
I've installed a 3rd party keyboard on ios8. I didn't like it so i wanted to uninstall it completely. It stills appear under "Third Party Keyboards" when I press "Add new Keyboard..." in the Keyboards settings. Any hints how to make it disappear at all?
I tried to update to iOS 8 today, and when I opened iTunes to do so, it also requested to update itself, as I thought it could handle both things (especially because I assumed it would update itself then, the iPad Mini). Now, the iPad is stuck in a connect to iTunes mode, if I try to open the iTunes while the iPad is connect, the iTunes won't open and if I connect it after the iPad doesn't appear as a device in iTunes. In the Device Manager it states that I have a unknown Device, and in Devices and Printers it is displayed as Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.
I have set up a Mavericks Mac OS X Server machine for my lab, and I am using the DNS service for my own domain. Without getting into too many complicated details, I need to populate this local DNS service with a wildcard host entry, and the Server admin GUI doesn't let you do that.
I'm trying to fix someone's Macbook, and I am a Windows user so I'm having trouble confirming that his hard drive is ruined or unfixable which is what I think is the problem. When you boot it up it takes you to OS X Utilities, and when I try to press "Reinstall OS X", when prompted to select a disk to install OS X, the hard drive displays "This disk is locked." When I go into disk utilities and try to repair disk, I eventually get "live file system repair is not supported" I assume this is a sign that the hard drive is failed and in need of replacement, but I'm looking to make sure there's nothing I can do to fix it.
This problem has been seen on mid-2012 MacBook Pros on Mavericks and on late-2014 Retina MacBook Pros on Yosemite. One day while using iMessage on the Mac, all the contacts turned red and messages failed to send, immediately returning a "not delivered" error. It also reported when trying to resend the messages that the contacts were no longer associated with an iMessage account. Things that didn't fix this behavior: Deleting the com.apple.ids.madrid Deleting the com.apple.ids.madrid Removing the Apple ID information from my phone, turning off iMessage on both of the devices, and placing my iPhone in airplane mode for several minutes before turning it on logging in again. Removing the Apple ID information from my phone, turning off iMessage on both of the devices, and placing my iPhone in airplane mode for several minutes before turning it on logging in again. Could someone help me figure out how to solve this?
I am pondering whether it makes sense to install iOS 8 on my iPhone 5s. I've seen articles like this, that advise you not to install the new OS on the 4s.
I updated my iPad to iOS8, and the Emoji keyboard suddenly appears although I have never set for it. How can I remove that? When I go to Settings:General:Keyboards, I see that Emoji is among the keyboards set, but I can't find a way to remove it.
I don't really like OS X 10.9.5, it has many problems with SelfControl, can I down grade it to 10.9.4? Upgrade: I can't install 10.9.4, here is the error message
I upgraded my iPhone 5S and my iPad (Model #MC769LL/A) to the iOS 8 operating system. Both are on the the same WiFi network. Bluetooth is on on both devices. The iPhone Handoff app setting is on, but not found in iPad settings. I am able to answer phone call on iPad and use iPad to make a call via the phone. However, I cannot handoff from one device to another when using Pages, Mail, Numbers, etc. There is no activity app icon in the lower left corner of the locked screen on either device. What is wrong?
Is it (or will it be) possible to import data already collected by other apps into the new health app in iOS 8?
I have an old iPhone 3G I'd like to repurpose. I've got some apps on it which work fine, but the current versions in the App Store won't run on a device this old. How can I back up the phone and the apps on it in such a way that I can restore and continue using those apps?
Just went to check some emails I sent from my iPhone but there is no sent folder? If i go to setting > mail >[account] > advanced the mail 'sent' folder is selected but there isn't one in Mail's mailboxes page.
I have a small xls file which 200Kb of size. When I export it to csv format, Numbers creates multiple csv files. How do I make it create a single one?
I cannot do it in the phone itself, neither in iPhoto. How can you delete all your photos in iPhone?
So I don't like the idea of using Karabiner. So what is the better way to change the input source?
Is it possible to avoid updating certain Applications in OSX from AppStore. The idea behind is to avoid unnecessary updates. For instance, I want to avoid updating iMovie as I don’t use that so often and it is usually 200 MB.
How can I configure OS X to allow audio playback while I use voice-to-text? --
Every time I turn my iMac desktop on, I'm prompted to sign into iMessage. That wasn't a big deal at first, but it's become a huge annoyance because I can't just click X to get rid of it, I have to go through 3 pages of prompts asking for a password, etc. Have tried to figure this out on my own, but I have been unsuccessful.
I have an iPad that has exceeded the 3 free iCloud accounts but I'd like to sign it up for iCloud (and I'd be willing to pay), but how do I do it. When I get the prompt that says I have exceeded the 3 free ones there is no option to pay for one. Signing up on another device may solve my problem but simply stores up problems for the owner of that device as it uses one of their 3 free registrations which is simply storing up issues for them in the future. Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
No matter what I might be engaged in, if a phone call over the cellular network arrives the world as iPhone know it stops until I answer, decline, or ignore. Can I tell iPhone to simply give me a push notification? Incoming call… in the background
After my wife and I upgraded our devices to iOS 8, I turned on a family sharing account so we could use those features. It's on, and shows up on both of our phones as being part of a family. I also see the shared reminders and calendar. Also, her devices show up in my Find my iPhone.
so with the root account disabled, apple sort of forces you to give sudo privilages to user accounts to be able to do simple stuff, how exactly does that help with security? Or have I completely misunderstood something here?
Here's my MacBook: *=URL=* Here's the iMac: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-3.2-27-inch-aluminum-late-2012-specs.html
I'm giving my iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2) to someone else, and I wanted to reset it. So I went into Settings -> General -> Reset, and I picked the option to reset all content and settings. However it's been stuck at a screen with a loading spinner for about 5 hours now. How long should I expect this process to take?
As there’s not one built-in (see hold ⌥ ALT and navigate to Finder->View->Sort By), I tried to create a custom keyboard shortcut for Sort By Date Created in Finder (such as the built-in for Sort By Name ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD1). However, whichever keyboard combination I assign to it doesn’t work (i.e. ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD8, or ⌃ CTRL⌥ ALT⌘ CMD9, etc.) How can I create a custom keyboard shortcut for Sort By Date Created?
I have tried with a simple command: but it's not working, of course. I have also been searching on the web, but the methods I found are not actually working. How can I accomplish this?
I believe the component that has the biggest impact on battery life is the processor, though also RAM could affect battery life. What about storage? Do you have battery life stats of an upgraded MacBook Air? Power is important for me but also battery life and weight, so I'd buy a MacBook Air, otherwise if I only cared about power I'd buy a MacBook Pro.
I have multiple iOS devices: iPhone 5, iPad 2, 3, air. Is it possible to use iTunes to make one download and update on all these devices?
In iOS 7, the Photos app has 2 default folders for pics. Camera Roll My Photo Stream In iOS 8, the default folders is now: Recently Added Recently Deleted How do you manage what's on Photo Stream and what's on your device?
How do I change the colors of individual bars, in a bar chart of in Apple's Numbers 3.2.x
So I import gifs files from my PC to my iPad but it just frozen like a pic not moving, so what app can I use to play gifs in iPad I've tried some but they can't detect gifs from my iPad, the album shows 0 gifs meanwhile I have abt 200 gifs I've imported.
The problem is that they periodically get a keychain error, where they're not synced after changing on the AD server. I don't know if the problem originates with a dialog box not being checked or a communication issue between server and machine (although there shouldn't be any problem with that...implementation of keychain and AD integration?)
As I've pointed it out in the question title, my 16 GiB iPhone 4s is getting out of memory due to the fact that it has self-downloaded iOS 7(.1.2) without I'd never asked for. As long as it weights several GiB, there's any way to get rid of it ? I've tried to navigate the file system through an app (for OS X) called "iFunBox", but there's no way to locate it. Thanks in advice!
I have received a note that I'm consuming the free 5 GB space on iCloud. I'm trying to purchase 20 GB of space. When I try to do that using my iTunes account I constantly receive the message "Cannot connect to iCloud". What should I do?
I currently have a problem with the App Store on my iPad. The problem is that whenever I click on "Free" and "Install", nor is the app installed, nor does the window appear which should ask for my password. It simply returns to the screen with the "Free" button. First I thought that my disk is full, but even after deleting files I cannot install anything.
I receive text messages on my iPhone. When I forward them, the original sender's contact info and date time stamp do not forward with it. Is there a way to include this information when forwarding to my email?
I am using iTunes 11.4.x, and every time I add a new Podcast I have to change the settings. Where can I change the default settings so any new podcasts I add will have the settings I want?
I am attempting to update my iPod touch 5th generation to iOS 8 but I am unable to do so. When attempting to update over-the-air, I do not get very far into the updating process (still in the downloading phase) when a message pops up stating that the update failed (providing no reason). I have also tried to update through iTunes 11.4 on my computer, however a message pops up stating that the network connection has timed out.
I am new to OS X, but there's one thing that annoys me a little bit, which is that every time I have to clean up all the files (by name, for example) because they are always pasted in an unordered way. I would not like to lose time to order them every time I change the content of the folders.
I am the administrator of 10-15 computers, most of them Macs. One iMac Intel Dual Core, 3 GB of RAM (more than 3 y old) is running Outlook 2011 as an email client. The problem is the Mac becomes unresponsive (beachball rolling and cannot do anything on computer) because the Outlook profile email database is 12 GB in size... I know, I have clean the deleted-spam-send folder, deleted everything... the 12 gig is the result of a cleanup because before it was 20 gig, this is a lot of email... All email must be keep for references... now what i do, the computer cannot be used with outlook open... any idea ?
I have a iPhone 5s, and have still not received any information about on-the-air update to iOS 8. So I decide to update manually through iTunes. iTunes gives me an assuring message iTunes will update your iPhone to iOS 8.0 and will verify the update with Apple.
I am quite new to OS X and I have just discovered a fantastic Python IDE, which is PyCharm. The problem is that every time I want to start it, I need to click on its installer, which apparently is also its 'runner'. PyCharm looks a lot like some Eclipse versions in this sense.
When I perform a task in "do not disturb" mode, I don't want also to be disturbed by a screensaver. Can I automatically turn off the screensaver together with "do not disturb"? I.e. to configure it or to automate it by catching an event and triggering an action.
Notification Center in OS X (10.9, Mavericks) provides a way to control configure notifications for various Apps such as Mail or Safari, but seems to provide on settings for controlling notifications from Finder (e.g., improperly ejected drives) and the App Store (e.g., the availability of updates). How can I control Finder and App Store notifications in OS X?
Is there any benefit to iOS 8 Family Sharing for couples besides finding each other's lost devices and sharing purchases if you don’t have kids? For example there are features like calendar sharing that are possible to do through iCloud without family sharing.
I cannot restrict apps from accessing cellular data on iOS 8, as these settings are disabled. How can I enable them?
I tried to update multiple apps at once. On the available updates screen, I pressed all. Now the icons are black and if I press them nothing happens. They have been downloading for hours, so I tried to cancel the download by going to Settings, however, that wasn't successful. How can I fix this?
While playing with the iPhone 6 and 6+ I noticed that the 6+ has landscape features that the 6 doesn't. But I also noticed that the 6 and the 6+ have a landscape feature that the 5s doesn't which is pinch to zoom out and see all your tabs. Are there any other features like that?
About 2 or 3 times in a week the computer will shutdown to a grey error screen and reboot. It's very difficult to troubleshoot because it happens so randomly. Most recently, I've gone ahead and copied the logs to include in the post to see what folks here might identify as the problem. Running OS X 10.9.4 on a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro (Model 6,2). Any help or suggestions you can kindly provide would go a long way in making my wife happy! Below is a system.log of what was happening around the time shutdown occurred: Then, I collected the error report that was prepared to sent to Apple, which I include here: BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
iTunes used to have an option for syncing an iPhoto library with one's iPhone. This seems to be gone now, leaving only the option of syncing a folder of pictures from one's Mac. Is there some way to sync an iPhoto library, or should I export all these photos to a directory and sync that?
I've created an automator action (service) which looks at two different files or folders and then performs an action based on their paths and filename. The problem is, each pair of files/folders is in a different location. I can open up two Finder windows and select the file or folder in each one, but when I then try to run the Automator action, it only passes the name of the file from the currently selected Finder window. How can I make Automator run the action on files from different folders? My automator has a single action, "Run Shell Script" with the following script:
I'm trying to create an Automator service which "receives selected files or folders". If I select a single file in Finder, then go to the Finder:Services menu, my service shows up. If I select two folders in Finder, I also see my service. But if I select only a single folder, the same menu says "No services apply".
Is it possible to use Time Capsule without the Internet as an offline private wifi network for backup? I have read only tales of terror in my search for anecdotes and instructions regarding set-up other than using the time capsule as the cornerstone of my
On the following screenshot from *=URL=* it looks like I can use an iCloud app on iPhone and iPad. But some webpage such as *=URL=* says that there is no iCloud Drive app. I hunted every where on the iPhone 5S and iPad Air which both have iOS 8 and has iCloud enabled, but I can't find such screen as in the screenshot below.
Whenever I send or receive messages on my iPhone they show up on my MacBook also. I was wondering how I could get that to stop? It used to be that my texts wouldn't show up, and I could message through my MacBook also but now its just annoying and I'd rather not have my siblings creeping through my messages by reading them on my laptop.
How can I load an image from a file as my user image in Mavericks? The interface changed so the Mountain Lion instructions aren't applicable, and the Mavericks instructions don't cover loading it from a file.
I have configured proxy settings (on mavericks) within $HOME/.bash_profile (purpose: to make npm, rvm, git use the corporate proxy) and the configs are as follows: However, I don't need these configurations at home.
I just replaced my home button. But when I reassembled it, the colour went negative. From red to blue and blue to red. Although I've turned on and off the invert colour function, it's still not displaying right. Did the screen break? Or do I just need to double check the cable? The screen also looks like it's flashing really fast which normally it doesn't.
I have bought myself a 2012 Mac mini and have it hooked up to my Dell Ultrasharp U2713H via HDMI. Everything works, but the text and everything else looks fuzzy and not sharp. Plus from what I can tell everything is blown up to be 2560 x 1440, and that makes stuff look large in size.
I have an iPhone 5 (out of warranty) which is eligible for a power button replacement via the Apple programme. I smashed my screen a while ago, and to be frank don't feel paying Apple £200 to replace it is a fair price, so being that I have the know-how anyway, I replaced it myself with a £40 screen off of eBay. My question, being that Apple replace the button for iPhone's out of warranty, will they refuse to fix the button due to me breaking the warranty by opening the phnoe myself?
In iOS 8, the Settings > Notification Center has changed with the addition of an Allow Notifications toggle for each app. If you toggle this to "off", the app will automatically go down into the DO NOT INCLUDE area. However, if you leave the toggle "on", you can also manually drag the app down into the DO NOT INCLUDE area. In the latter case, there is still text under the app indicating what types of notifications it has ("banners, sounds, badges" etc). So what is the difference between these two situations?
I've downloaded the new iOS 8 update on my iPhone 5 but am getting second thoughts about actually installing it. Is there a way for me to delete that download or am I at the point of no return?
Could someone help explain the nuances of what is being backed up in a situation where I have deleted my iCloud backups and have turned off Backup, but certain items are still toggled "on" in Settings > iCloud? Attached is a screenshot to illustrate this situation. Notice how two items are set to "on". Does that mean they are still getting backed up, even though the Backup option is "off"? If not, then what does being toggled "on" mean?
I just downloaded IOS 8. When I turned my phone on and completed the setup it just restarted the setup process and went back to the screen that says hola. I've tried everything and just can't seem to get my phone to complete the setup process. Right now my phone is useless No error came up, it just went back the the begginging slide
Is it normal to have all this stuff in my path environment? /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin
I have a particular process that is having some problems writing to the /private/tmp folder. sandboxd keeps emitting the following error: I would like to understand how to set up my own sandboxd rules either via sandboxd's config file or by creating a new file with the permissions in it.
At my home I have a bundled internet connection and a VoIP landline. These services are provided with a Huawei HG659 Wi-Fi modem.
I have a file type (.mxl -- compressed MusicXML) which if I double click in Finder opens properly in my .mxl reader (Finale 2014.app) but which if I call "open file.mxl" or "open -a /Applications/Finale\ 2014.app file.mxl" does not get parsed by Finale. My question isn't specific to this program, but more general: is there a general way to invoke the behavior on the command line that is identical to the behavior of double clicking in Finder? I would have thought that "open file.mxl" would be it, but the difference in behavior in this program suggests that it's not the same.
Whenever my MBP 9.1 is in sleep mode and plugged in and I unplug the charger, machine turns on and stays on for about 2 minutes and then gets to sleep again. Is there something I can change so when it's in sleep mode and I unplug or plug charger, stays at that state and doesn't hibernate or hybrid sleep or whatever it's name is given by Apple? I basically want to disable hibernate altogether by automatic means. My OS X version is 10.9.4. Thanks.
I have trouble with iTunesConnect. Since yesterday my Apple developer account is activated. When I sign in the Dev Centers it's working fine. But on iTunesConnect, when I try to sign in, I'm connecting to an account where I'm admin AND NOT legal (it's the same apple id, I'm connecting to an account where i'm just a user not the owner). How to sign in my own dev account ?
My university's wifi connection goes up at random times. It's faster, so I would want to be notified when it becomes available so that I can surf faster and I don't have to pay for mobile data that I consume while using my phone as a hotspot.
This is my first chance to use an iPhone with a motion co-processor running iOS 8 (in this case a new iPhone 6 with the barometer built in.) Go to Health > Health Data > Fitness > Steps > Show All Data I'm finding that even during continuous periods of walking (hundreds of steps without a break even for a second) the phone is nearly always grouping them into many, many entries but with only a few (it's usually 5) steps at a time.
Is it possible? I would like something which is the opposite of the command open file_or_folder_name. I have searched on the web but I got no results.
And why Apple didn't continue to create iMacs of different color?
I set up a new iPhone as a new device (not from a backup) but using my same Apple ID for iCloud and so on. Can I view my old iMessages on this phone?
Don't really want to delete things but I cannot get OS 8 on phone due to lack of space. Have backed up phone using i tunes to the mac but don't know what to do after that. Can I delete music or photos and get them back easily after the download?? All the sites addressing this are confusing.
Is there any way I could setup the fingerprint I'd to work in place of typing in my iCloud password whenever prompted, or perhaps even other passwords in keychain? I had to upgrade to a 5s yesterday and as is the fingerprint id thing seems pretty useless if I can't set it up as a replacement for passwords.
When Apple were selling iPhone 5s on the site, the T-Mobile option was a subset of "unlocked". Are the T-Mobile iPhone 6 unlocked? If not how does get an unlocked iPhone 6 unlocked?
I cannot remember the password for my iPhone 5S. The password is written in the Notes app on my phone. Touch ID is not an option because it's not working (I haven't set it up). Is there any way I can retrieve the password?
My MacBook Pro was stolen a few days ago. I have a lock on the start up screen requiring a password anytime the laptop comes out of sleep mode, however when I attempted the "Find My Mac" app, it says it is already locked (despite me not locking it, putting it in "lost mode", or inputting a 4 digit code). It also is not showing up on location map, possibly pending connecting to the internet? Could the laptop be automatically locked (without me putting in a 4 digit code) by attempting a restart or logging me out as a user, or could the thief have locked it somehow themselves?
This is my Bizarro Problem. For a while, I have noticed that my iPhone has lost some of the music files when I sync to the Mac. First it was CDs that I had ripped, and therefore was not associated with an apple id, then it was some music I had downloaded through iTunes.
I'm setting up my parents' iPad (Retina, 3rd gen, iOS 8) and trying to enable iCloud backup. We've purchased enough iCloud storage space to back up everything, and I use iCloud backup on all my devices without problems so I know how it works. But after starting the initial backup, it goes through "Estimating time remaining" for a while, comes up with an estimate (usually something like 10 or 15 minutes) and then starts increasing the estimate, starting at a few minutes and going up continually until it hits several hours. The progress bar moves to a certain point (about 20%) and just hangs. I've left it sit overnight and in the morning the bar has not moved and the estimate is even higher.
When I take a photo with my camera and use a filter, I try to upload it to Instagram but it doesn't recognize the filter. It just shows the pic without the filter.
My son updated his 5s to ios 8 and now for some reason when I call his phone if he doesn't answer it will ring to my daughter's phone and vice versa. I have looked on both phones and cannot figure out why. The forward feature is not on.
I recently decided to do a big cleanup of my iTunes library. I am low on disk space and have quite a bit of music that I haven't listened to since I was a much younger man, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it completely yet. So what I would like to do is move these tracks to another machine or an external drive, but I don't want to lose any of the metadata, (including dates added, play count etc). Any ideas on a safe and efficient way to do this? I'm running 10.9.4 with up to date iTunes.
I've started up Apache on my Mac and get the "It works!" message, but I have no idea where that file is. I've checked the httpd.conf file and the location listed is: DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents" Yet, when I go to the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder, it is empty! This one is driving me crazy, any help would be appreciated.
I got an iPhone 4s 16 GB. I had around 3.5 GB free earlier today. Then suddenly the low memory message pops up. Nearly 2 GB is gone. I'm still on iOS 7. Haven't downloaded anything since I had cleared up that 3.5 GB. What happened? Did my iPhone autodownload an update or something? If so, how do I delete that update?
I sync "All books" from my iOS device (an iPod Touch) and my Mac, in iBooks. When I delete a book in iOS, it is NOT deleted on my Mac. Instead, in iTunes, the setting changes from sync "All books" to sync "Selected books", with the deleted books unselected. Instead, I want to keep it to "All books", and delete books I delete on my iOS device to also delete on my Mac. Is this possible, and if so, how can I do it?
In trying to sync my music and video to my new iPhone 6, I noticed that all of the music and videos that I purchased downloaded to my new phone but all of the ones that I had ripped from CDs did not. Is there a way to sync all of my music and videos from iTunes to iPhone 6? Thank you.
I have downloaded ios8 and I am struggling to delete individual texts from a message conversation. When I open a message and highlight a text bubble, "more" still appears, but when I tick the box, the trash can to delete is missing. The only option given is to click "Delete All". It seems that you have to delete the whole conversation, rather than have the option to select the texts you want to keep/delete within it. Am I missing something? Please advise.
My son's Apple ID has his birthday entered, cough accidentally cough, incorrectly, so it appears that he is 28, when he's actually <13 (it was created when <13 accounts weren't possible). With iCloud Family Sharing, this is problematic. I'd really like to use this, but an adult gets to purchase items without asking permission, so he needs to be a child first. Attempting to change his birthday in the security settings in desktop Safari gives a "this cannot be changed at this time" error, and attempting to do so in the Settings app in iOS gives a "permission from a parent or guardian is required to create an Apple ID for a child of a young age" error.
I would love to use my Sennheiser PC350SE headset with my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013 model). I recently purchased a Startech Headset Splitter hoping that this would allow me to use the headphones and microphone together. However the audio continues to play from the Mac, and only the Mac's internal microphone is being detected. I checked the Sound Preferences and found no entry for any external headset or external microphone.
My MacBook Pro (Mavericks) keeps booting into OS X Startup Utility. Disk Utility shows Macintosh HD volume as unavailable - not mounted. Running fsck_hfs -l /dev/disk0s2 returns:
I am looking for a way to monitor my network so I can know which website that specific application is trying to connect to.
I wrote a script to parse Disk Utility log and output and permission changes that give more access than before. There were 5 results:
I bought a mid-2014 15inch retina macbook pro last week. I didn't have much time to work with it as my main machine, but today I had more free time so I did and noticed that after a few hours of work it really gets warm on the bottom and fans don't go on higher RMP to cool the heat down (It's almost impossible to hear the fans working without pushing my ears against the back of it)
I've released an app to the App Store, it's been waiting for review for about 9 days. Upon running my own dev version I've realised I'd left a critical part out. Would it be worth waiting for release and then pushing an update or remove it and resubmit? Will the update be processed faster than a resubmission?
I'm trying to learn how full disk encryption using Filevault 2 will impact SSD garbage collection. My understanding is that garbage collection involves moving pages in blocks with free space to empty locations on the drive. However, if Filevault 2 encrypts the entire drive, will the SSD recognize free space as free? And if not, won't that dramatically increase write amplification and decrease the life of the SSD? I've found a lot of posts on FileVault 2 and TRIM (consensus is it works) and FileVault 2 and SSD performance (consensus is so long as your SSD doesn't have a Sandforce controller - which uses compression - the performance impact is minor), but I'm having less luck learning about how FileVault 2 and garbage collection.
Woke up this morning, and 3 apps are not working. Pixelmator, FCPX and Motion all are getting the same message, e.g., “Pixelmator” is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete “Pixelmator” and download it again from the App Store. As a test, I tried deleting Pixelmator, and downloading it again, but I get the same message. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, because I have a lot of editing to do!
My wife's iPhone 5 is now stuck in recovery after she tried to do a IOS8 update over the air. Of course she has no backup or anything like that, so this was an all or nothing upgrade. She got to the "verifying install" and then it rebooted and put her in recovery mode. I called apple support and their only suggestion was a complete restore and losing all her data. Any suggestions on recovering data or possibly getting out of recovery mode?
People cannot hear me when I make a normal phone call. When I use Skype or Facebook call it works but not during a normal call. I have done a phone reset already but didn't work Any ideas?
I've noticed using BackupLoupe that stuff under ~/Library/Saved Application State/ pops up in my Time Machine backups. I can't find that much about this folder online, but one site describes it as "where the information regarding files that should be re-opened on startup is stored." This doesn't sound to me like it needs to be covered by Time Machine backups. Is there a good reason why this folder needs to be backed up? The folder is small, but if it changes frequently then its footprint in Time Machine could be large.
I forgot my restrictions passcode so I looked at some websites and forums who told me to erase my iPhone from iCloud and to backup my iPhone. I did this but unfortunately, now my iPhone is in lost mode and has been erased from iCloud and I can't get into my phone. How can I get back into my phone or reset it?
I want to turn off my artwork synch! I don't care if I have the artwork or not! Is there a work around for doing this? My phone always gets locked in a loop when synching and it is "stuck" on step 8 of 8 backing up artwork!
I'm thinking about buying a USB powered monitor to connect to my MacBook. I found so many nice ones and the most suitable was Asus. ASUS MB MB168B+ 15.6-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor Now that got me wondering if I can also connect my iPad somehow to watch a movie or display something for a client that would be very useful. I tried looking up anything remotely related to the subject but failed and thats why I'm here asking the experts. Jailbroken iPad mini 2 and MacBook Air 11″
So, what is the "Master Device" in Multi-output device? Cause I'm trying figure out how MIDI Aggregate Devices work, I need to now what is it.
I'm considering using Swiftkey on iOS8, and I want to turn on the cloud account. However, I'd like to know what information gets synced in my "personal language model." The SwiftKey website says: Typically Cloud works to seamlessly sync your personal language model...
When I create or modify a tag in Finder on Mavericks, the Finder application stalls with a spinning beach ball and cpu goes up to 100% usage for a while (from 30 secs to 2 minutes). I've found that if I force quit Finder, it will restart and function normally. Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?
When my husband sends me an iMessage from his iPhone 5c it sends it to him. If I send him a message from my iPhone 5c it send it to me. This has just happened since we updated yesterday.
When attempting to submit an app from Xcode 6 Organizer to iTunes Connect, I receive the following error: ERROR ITMS-4238 "Redundant binary upload. There already exists a binary upload with build version '1.0' for train '1.0'"
I have a folder containing a bunch of jpeg files and currently all of the filename extensions (.jpg) are hidden. How can I unhide all the extensions in this folder?
I'm trying to migrate some files from my old PowerComputing PPC computer(SCSI) that ran OS 9.0.4 to my current MacBook Pro running OS X (default 10.9.4 but 10.6.8 avail via external disk). I've gotten most of the way there. Short version of my quest below in case it helps others, but have been hit by what appears to be a TCP/network configuration issue between the two networks. Tried the obvious but they don't have compatible ports so no USB(new system but not old - thumb drive, external drive), no Firewire (new system but not old - External drive, target mode), SCSI(on old system but not new).
I have an old Macbook Pro on which I'd like to try Mavericks. Before doing so I want to make a back-up of my current Mac OS X install (10.6.8).
Are there tools or guidelines for slimming an OSX installation down to the minimum needed to run particular applications? I would be interested in the case both with or without the GUI layer. A tool could be something like nLite for Windows.
In earlier versions of Pages, there was an option to make an image float on the page. I loved that and can't find it in the new Pages. Can anyone tell me how to navigate to it?
I have a USB flash drive and I believed someone else may have plugged it in their computer and copied some files. Using my Mac, how do I know when was the last time my usb flash drive was plugged in?
I just updated from iOS 7 to iOS 8, and I noticed that the built-in dictionaries, I previously used, aren't working. I had used American English, British English, and Apple Dictionary. Now, when I try to define any word, I get a "No definition found" error. The dictionaries I previously used show a blue circle (while all the others show the cloud download icon).
I did a clean install of 10.9 and then imported some old emails and my keychain. Now my accounts keep showing an old exchange account for contacts from a previous employer. I cannot delete this account. Every time I delete it, it pops back. HELP!
I recently upgraded to iOS 8 on my iPad 2, now the WiFi doesn't work. I rebooted the iPad and router several times. Any suggestions?
The free trial of MacDrive mounted the drive quickly and easily and I've copied all the data from the drive to my working drives (so I'll still be able to access it once the trial expires). However, I cannot find any files that correspond to the data the user said was on her system. Where do I need to look to find the user's files?
I'm a student and I'm constantly hoping up PDFs for homework. I often end up downloading multiple files after clicking on a link each time I start working. Is there any way to set Chrome to only open PDFs and not download them? THanks
I’m seeing this problem: Siri works fine the first time I try it after a restart, but on the second and subsequent tries, when I press and hold the home button, the screen turns gray and the microphone icon is displayed, but there's no sound and no wavy line indicating that input is occurring. The discussion is detailed here. Some claim that Siri will only work via bluetooth. This appears to be happening on iPhone 5/5S hardware Is there a workaround?
Is it possible to full screen chrome without having it switch to a new space? I use 2 monitors and full screen mode makes my second monitor unusable when chrome is in FS mode commandshiftf Is there away to avoid spaces when in this mode?
So Pages for iOS 7/8 has a software TAB key that changes the indent level of an outline. It also has forward and backward indent keys. Great.
I am getting many offers from stores for Macbook air but I don't know how to choose the newest model. Is there any place where I can check based on the model num (e.g., MD711B) I have tried on Apple website to see what is their latest version is but couldn't find
I tried to use OS X's Mail.app, but when I connected it using gmail, the authentication window showed my real name in Chinese character in the first text field. The other two fields are mail and password, so I didn't log in to my gmail account yet. However, it looks like the Mail.app already knows my real name, and I wonder where it gets the information from.
I have been trying to add wiktionary as one of the sources of Mavericks Dictionary.app but I could not. I have been following the instruction in this StackExchange post but the DictUnifier app get stuck indexing the content. Or at least it takes forever.... I leave the program the whole night (more than 10 hours in that situation) and nothing happened. Does anyone know where I can get a wiktionary version ready to use in dictionary.app on mac?
With iOS8's new QuickType feature (predicting words you're likely to type, based on message context, learning frequently used words), is there a way to show predictions in the language of the message? I'm frequently writing emails in English or German, depending on who I correspond with, and it would be nice if there was a way to have QuickType show suggestions based on the language I'm using in the email or message.
In Terminal, let's say I type a long command, but before I press Enter, I decide that actually I don't want to run this command, and want to run another new command instead. In such case, how to quickly remove everything I have typed, so that I can start typing the new command? Pressing Delete for a few long seconds is not a good solution, I am looking for something faster.
sometimes when i login facebook the profile picture icons just won't load. I tried reseting safari, nothing. When i use chrome everything is ok. I googled it and someone said something about deleting a cache file but i could not find in library the safari cache file (i have no idea what it means, i guess some of you will understand). I have the safari Version 7.0.2 (9537.74.9) and OS X 10.9.2. Anyone got an idea of how to fix it? Thank you in advance
I got this as a skype message: "Your skype does not support extended icons. Please download the extension here: " (skypemoticonscomplete dot com) And then went to the url and downloaded/installed...which I immediately regretted as it became quite clear this is a malware/trojan/virus. So far it has: added this icon to my firefox:
I've recently upgraded my iPhone 5s to iOS 8, and installed SwiftKey. I really like it, and I'd like it to be the default, but my keyboard keeps switching back to the default. I can switch back to the SwiftKey keyboard with the "globe" icon, but this is annoying, especially since the two look similar. Is there a way I can either make SwiftKey the default, or remove the standard Apple keyboard? My Keyboard settings page looks like this (note that SwiftKey is already at the top, which is how I assumed the default was set, but the default doesn't seem to be sticking):
I just bought a wired mac keyboard. Where I would expect numlock to be, it has a key with this mysterious symbol on: ⌧ (a rectangular box with a cross through it) What is this button?
I signed up on the OS X Beta Program site to test Yosemite. Was given a redemption code and automatically directed to App Store. Redemption code was already filled into the manual input box in App Store but there was no option to download. Tried again, and App Store said redemption code already used. Can anyone suggest how I get the download?
In Mac OS X 10.9, once I am connected to a Wi-Fi station the menu bar Wi-Fi icon no longer refresh (the spinning wheel does not appear). This complicates station switching as I have to turn off and on the Wi-Fi. Do you know how to revert this behavior to how it worked in Mac OS X 10.8, or an alternative tool to make Wi-Fi connections?
I am trying to restore G5 Mac for audio recording purposes. I believe the hard drive has failed and I will need to replace it. My research on this computer shows the latest compatible OS X to be 10.5.8. Where can I find this OS X?
A Terminal newbie here. I had downloaded and installed Git, but when I typed "Git --version" I would get illegal instruction. I tried to uninstall Git and now my Terminal window in blank. How do I get Name$ as a prompt again? Thank you!
I typically use the US Extended keyboard for typing, however, I can't always recall where certain deadkeys are. Does anyone make an overlay, or keyboard stickers which can be used to make my keyboard more accessible for international diacritics? Alternatively, is there any software around for making these decals? Note: this answer shows what a US Extended layout looks like for those who are unaware.
~5 years ago an enthusiastic coworker was telling me about some awesome app that would do stuff like automatically change your volume, mount network drives, launch apps, etc. when it notices that your location (I guess defined by network IP address) has changed. I was sort of "meh" and ignored him. Now I wish I had that app, but my google searches are not turning up anything.
Most Apple applications in newer OS X versions, like OS X 10.9, automatically save all changes to all files and documents without your approval, and file versions and revisions are automatically available from within a submenu within the File menu. Where are such revisions saved, filesystem-wise? If one is to exchange such files, how would one ensure that none of the history gets exchanged, too? What if one did want to exchange the history, is there a way to accomplish that as well?
If I select the Run Shell Script action in Automator, it has a drop down menu filled with possible shells: I reckon that some of that list came from /etc/shells, especially as it has tacked on my custom zsh at the end (unless it's read the currently selected shell from somewhere else). I also have an updated Ruby in /opt/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/ which I'd like to use for this shell script action.
I've recently picked up a ATI Radeon X1900XT card that I was told would work with my Mac Pro (original 1.1 version). However when I plugged the card into my pci port and turned the system on, the card's fan started running, but there was no output to my monitors. After a little more research it looks like there are two different models of the X1900XT, and I could use some help determining which one I have. The one I have looks like this: *=URL=* But there is another one like this: *=URL=* Since they seem to have the same model number, is there one that is Apple specific and one that isn't?
I have a few applications that are automatically opened when I start the computer, for example TextWrangler or Activity Monitor. Is it possible to start the computer without this stupid behaviour?
I clicked "Sync Now" in the "iTunes Wi-Fi Sync" section in the Settings app on my iPhone, and it looked like it did something, but I don't see the iPhone in the iTunes sidebar. I looked at "Devices" in the file menu in iTunes and I don't see my iPhone there like I used to.
I would like to add some conversion functionality to spotlight. For instance to convert hex colors to rgb. Is this at all possible?
According to several help posts (for example), you used to be able to enable the option/alt key to act as a meta key. Can you no longer do that in Mavericks?
I have a 10.9 server with file sharing enabled. One of the users decided to change the permissions on the folder and was doing some "spring cleaning" now all of my shares are not visible from the workstations except one "Home Folders" This is the only share that has staff(primary group) where as the others and new shares have "administrators (primary group)". How can I change this as the users that are not administrators cannot see any other shares when browsing to the server.
Relatively new to the world of Mac (few months now) and have a Cable Matters USB wired NIC. WiFi on the mac turned off during all of this. If I reboot my mac with the USB device inserted (and cable) connected, I have no internet connection and must unplug and re-plug in the device, then all works well.
Since the new IOS 8 I have had several problems with my iPad. One of which is the App Store is in Turkish I have checked my country and language everything is fine. Since its in Turkish it will not allow me to update any programs saying I need to switch to the U.S. Store, how do I do that? Several of my games no longer work after the upgrade.
I have a bunch of related topics I teach. Each topic has its own Keynote presentation.
I have successfully routed my system audio through AU Lab via Soundflower, but it clicks. To my knowledge, that clicking sound usually means that buffer sizes are out of wack (either too small, or not consistent across any applications in the signal chain). Yet, trying to match the settings as follows doesn't seem to fix the problem. • In Soundflowerbed, buffer size = 2048 • In Info pane for AU Lab (CMD+i), selected 'Open in 32-bit mode' • In AU Lab preferences, buffer size of all devices = 2048 • In System Prefs > Audio Midi Setup, Format of Built-in Output = 44.1k, 32 bits, to match Soundflower.
I have an iPhone 5 that's eligible for Apple's battery replacement program. I haven't actually had any trouble with it, but I suppose I should take advantage of the offer before it expires. There are two Apple stores in the area, so I'd prefer to take the phone to one of them. But the web page doesn't actually say whether battery replacements are done on site or how long the process takes.
Anyone know how to uninstall Git? I would like to uninstall Git using the Uninstall.sh file that came in the git-2.0.1 install bundle.
I just changed from a normal macbook pro to the gorgeous mbp retina display, I have been using it 3 days and Im starting with headaches and eye pain! I really dont know wats happening, I mean the display is beautiful but although I use it in the minor bright Im still having eye and head issues! If anyone can help me with an experience or something it would be really nice.
My spotlight searching hasn't worked for quite some time and I've tried everything I could find on Google. I can't search for anything on my MacBook.. literally nothing shows up. I'll list the things I've tried and specs: Early 2011 2.2Ghz MBP 4GB RAM OSX 10.9.4 disble/enable spotlight via terminal toggled hidden files and looked for ".metadataneverindex" couldn't find it repeated the previous, using terminal commands.. file not found put everything in the preferences/privacy "prevent indexing" then removed sudo mdutil -i on / sudo mdutil -E / sudo mdutil -a -i on zapping the PRAM
I'm seeking a script that I can execute on a newly installed Mavericks or Yosemite computer, that will install all updates, rebooting as necessary and starting again automatically. For instance, I'd like to: This then goes to my gist, sends the content to my shell, then is the following script (which currently exists in my gists): ``` Unfortunately this script from *=URL=* does not work on 10.9 or 10.10. The Results: There are some clues in the comments of that post, and also at *=URL=* However, I'm not able to find something that can be just a bash script. Christopher Allen
So I bought a Mac 1,1 and it runs great, until I tried to bootcamp it the other day with an old windows HDD i had. I downloaded windows, and tried to bootcamp it and now it will not boot the Mac HDD, but if I hold option on boot the HDD shows up and then i can boot into it. I am on OSX Lion.
I received this brand new laptop yesterday and today the charger isn't responding to being plugged in. (The lights aren't flashing as they should be). The battery icon on the upper right corner has a big X inside of it indicating that there is no battery charge left. However, I continue to use my macbook air as if it were charged normally. I don't know what to do. Please help.
So, a radical edit, since I'm still having issues, and it's NOT the upgrade process, it's just the sync process. Anyways, when I sync my phone to iTunes, a lot of my song files disappear from my phone. The songs appear to be on the phone, the playlist has items, even album artwork. It seems all the metadata is still there. Just the actual songs are missing. Trying to play most anything just fails with a missing song icon on the device as it quickly skips most files in the playlist. Files from iTunes itself do have the files deleted from the device, but then these are streamable files, so I actually get to play something as they stream from iTunes. The iTunes bought files still show up as not on the device though.
Today I organized some of my songs/albums on my Macbook Pro while I was at work. My main/local files are on my PC at home which is also connected to Match. After organizing songs in the cloud, will that sync down to my local PC files and organize them there?
Why does the double click home page store recents and how do I delete them?
My MacBook Pro (2011), with OS X Mavericks, can connect to WiFi in some U.S. homes perfectly fine, but not other homes in the U.S. The "bad home" with WiFi where it fails to connect has other computers (not Macs) that can easily connect to its WiFi.
When I upgraded to iOS 8, I got a new Tips app about new features. However, none of the review sites mention this app, and I'm wondering if only some users got it, since it seems to be entirely pointless and I'd like to get rid of it. Can anyone confirm if everyone has this new app, and if there's any way of deleting it?
Is it possible to delete photos without going through the "Recently Deleted" album in iOS 8?
I did this successfully some time ago by (i believe) finding the place where they were all stored in my iPhone backups and using an application to read the files. They were all there, in one place -- a history of several years that I had deleted. I would like to know how to do this again -- without using iTunes backups.
A quick question: While navigating the Mac and iOS appstores, I often see some apps marked with a grey rectangular box with rounded edges called 'Essentials', which appears just below the rating of the app. The selection of apps marked in this ways seems quite well thought-out to me. Is there a way to see all these 'Essential' apps in one place? For example, 'Day One', 'Evernote' and 'WolframAlpha' are all 'Essential' apps in the iOS store.
When I enable the WMM (Wireless Multimedia) setting, which allows the full bandwidth of ac, and the computer is for instance streaming online video, or video over ip within a browser like a chatroom, I am unable to open another page on the same computer. The browser is academic, including if I try to use a different browser for each. The source of the video does not influence the performance either. I will try to resolve another webpage, which this page doesn't matter except that smaller pages are more likely to go through, but not by much. Sometimes trying over and over again will yield a result, other times not. I have played with the QoS settings to no avail, and turning off the WMM uses the 802.11a standard only and connects at 54 Mbps. Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to fix it?
I have an iPod with iOS 6 (the latest it will support). iTunes shows many of my apps with "Update" but when I synch nothing happens.
I upgraded my iPad 3 to iOS 8. Now, when I go to any iWorks app, my iCloud files do not show up. However, my iCloud contacts, calendar, etc. are all perfectly fine, the problem seems to be localized to iWorks. Further, the 'use iCloud' button in the each iWorks app settings will not stay on. At the same time, the iWorks apps on my new iPhone 6 show the iCloud files. I have tried resetting my iPad, as well as deleting and reinstalling the iWork apps.
My wife recently needed to install Adobe Reader for some of her work (apparently there is some kind of interactive functionality that Preview doesn't support) and in the process managed to install some adware as well. I am trying to uninstall it, but cannot figure out how. All the guides I have found talk about how to uninstall it from various PC OS versions, but don't mention Mac. At the moment there is one extension which shows up under Firefox on her account only: "Shopping Helper Pro 0.95.29", as well as a plug-in "Coupons Inc., Coupon Printing Plugin 1.1.0" which (for some reason) shows up both on her account and mine as well.
I love using the Reminders app for my todo list, and a big part of that is that you can just pull down the "Today" menu and see all your current todos, and check off any you've completed. But now on iOS 8, the Reminders widget only shows 4-5 items and then has a "see all" link that opens the Reminders app. This is a HUGE step down for efficiency for me. Is there any way to make the Reminders widget show all of your reminders, like it did on iOS 7?
The backlight on the display of my MacBook Pro 15 retina early 2013. I have tried to make it brighter by pressing F2 but it didn't work, and when I bring a light from the back of the display exactly near the Apple logo I can see my login screen.
When setting up Family Sharing on iOS8, I can set up a photo for my family user (the same photo will be used for the iCloud account) by going to Settings > iCloud > Family Sharing. The dialog allows me to select a photo, move it, resize it.
Since I currently don't use iTunes Match, but have started to use the new iOS8 Family Sharing feature to share app and music purchases with the rest of my family, I'm curious to see whether Family Sharing also shares the iTunes Match content with the rest of the family. Does data from one family member's iTunes Match account show up for other family members that are part of the same Family Sharing group?
Within the terminal, I used to be able to press Option+. in order to insert the last argument of the last command into the current prompt. On my new setup, pressing this combination simply prints "≥" (everywhere, not just in the terminal). I'm using US keyboard layout, but I'm on a German keyboard because I don't have any other at the moment. The shortcut is incredibly useful, how do I get it back working?
When using the new iOS8 Family Sharing feature, I can download the apps purchased by the other group members of my family. If these apps use In-App Purchases, and one of the family members has already purchased some content, e.g. a new guitar amp for the JamUp Pro XT guitar/bass amp simulator, do other members of the family get to benefit from these In-App Purchases? Or does every family member have to purchase the same content in the app again?
My work colleagues, who use Outlook, complain that the e-mails I forward to them are not always readable, or have a lot of attachments. Is there anything I can change on my side to prevent this from happening?
I use the latest 13" MBP retina and I wanted to use an external display (LG IPS231) through hdmi but the LG doesn't have an HDMI port. So, I plugged the HDMI cable into my laptop to an HDMI to DVI adapter which I, then, plug into the screen. That doesn't work. Both screens flicker when I plug and unplug the monitor and the MBP recognises the screen and its resolution. On the other hand, the monitor shows the no signal screen. I don't have another monitor or other computer to test right now. I included a picture, not sure if it's super helpful.
Apple talks about the M7 and M8 motion coprocessors for the iPhone pedometer and other operations. My question is Why do we need a motion coprocessor? Surely this is just digital signal processing that the massively powerful primary processor can handle?
This is a simple, but annoying case; I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use with my computer when I want to watch something late at night, or just to avoid disturbing anyone, and they work great. However, after I use them my Mac always defaults back to Digital Out as the audio device, even though I have never (ever) used this or chosen it in the audio panel in System Preferences. Instead, I'd like it to just go back to the previous audio device, which is an external sound card (a Griffin Firewave Firewire device, though I may be replacing this with a USB alternative).
Recently I've updated my iTunes to the latest version, 11.4.0.18. Prior to updating it, iTunes didn't stop working, neither did it have any problems. Only after I updated it to the latest version, the dialog box will come up with "iTunes has stopped working" every time iTunes is launched.
I opened all my internet audio streams in iTunes and copied all of them into an iTunes playlist. I would like to sync this playlist with the one on my iPad iTunes but I can't. When I select my iPad from iTunes this playlist is missing from the playlists.
So in the past few days I just retired my old iPhone 5 and upgraded to the new iPhone 6. Once I took the SIM out, I expected just standard carrier calls and texts to stop working (for obvious reasons) but for some reason all forms of iMessage seem to have stopped working too.
when I go to Settings -> Bluetooth and turn it on, devices (both iPhone 4 and 5, iOS7) start searching for devices with bluetooth, but never find anything. On the other hand, when I search from Android, iPhones are always found and can be paired, but sometimes not connected because of not supporting some devices (for iPhone 4 is written for me that Xperia Z2 is not supported).
I recently set up a 3rd-generation Apple TV in my living room. I have noticed that on my OS X 10.10 MacBook Pro an iPad and two iPhones (all iOS 7), the usual name of "Living Room Apple TV" appears with a "(2)" appended at the end.
I'm having a WiFi sharing problem. I'm using my ipad air as a hotspot for my mac osx leporad (which has a airport card). My mac recognizes my ipad but when I click on it nothing happens. so I went to system presences and tried to add a network there and when I get to enter your password, I do that and it says connection timed out or password invaild......(Which I know the password it right)
I jailbroke my iPhone 4 iOS 7.0.4 (11B554a) with evasi0n 7. And that's the worse I did with my phone. I am new to iPhone and was just curious about jailbreaking. But that jailbreak corrupted many of my apps including iOS own apps.
How does AirDrop work? I thought it is just Bluetooth, but I am starting to doubt that now.
I'd like to make my screensaver look just like an unlocked desktop. The idea would be to take a screenshot just before activating the screensaver, and use that screenshot in the screensaver. Has anyone done this before?
According to iOS 8 battery usage list, Calendar is my top battery consumer, however I do not use it! Is there a way to turn the data synchronization to fetch or some other low battery consuming mode?
I often do a secure pass (usually 7) once a month on my Macbook, for privacy reasons and my job. But, it's annoying that I have to continue to reinstall my applications each time. It is possible to some how create an image of a OS with my applications already installed? Surely this must be possible because large companies would likely have a master disk so every installation has the pre installed software needed. How is this possible? Im running an early 2014 MBP.
I'm designing a large photo-based book for a client and he came up with the idea to select the images to include and their sequencing by placing them roughly into a Keynote file. This sounded like a great idea in theory, but it appears that he placed the images as fills inside table cells and now I have no idea how to get their filenames. The filename is the most important piece of information for me because I have a hard drive filled with 25,000+ images so I can't just search for the right one.
How can you have Powerpoint to continue to play the music or video while you are working on another program? It always stops the music or video I am showing to the audience while I click out of powerpoint and work on email while they are watching the video.
I am monitoring the Internet usage of my applications and I noticed that iBooks initializes a connection to 23.221.221.248:443 whenever I select some text and then copy it. Does someone know why, or how can the actual contents of that connection be exposed?
I can see the following mounts on my MacBook: Where are these configured? I see this file apparently does nothing: If this file "does nothing", what configures all the things that are currently mounted on my system?
Two part question really: 1) can it be done at all (standard version NOT server)? 2) if it can be done can I import an existing standard 10.6.8 system from an external disk with VMWare or do I have to clean install and use OSX's native Migration Assistant?
If I leave my MacBook iSight camera always on, does its life get shortened?
I'm going thru a phone swap, and I now realize that I have multiple ID's "codename" "codename@example.com" "realname@example.com"
It seems that one of my all time favourite apps Isolator has been abandoned. While it still works, it hasn't been updated in forever, could use some customization features and it isn't ready for Yosemite. Does anyone know of a great replacement for it, one that will have Yosemite support and be maintained onward?
Under Linux, I can use top to see a live report of what processes are running. An important field I use is the Process Status field, which shows whether a process is running, a zombie, sleeping, etc.
I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 8, I an recently using it in the Middle East, but I would like to make and receive calls to people living in Canada and USA. I have a gmail that has an American mobile number connected to its Google voice. Is their an app that would enable me to make and receive phone calls by using this American phone number to my iPhone. But I don't have the sim for this American phone number, and my iPhone has a sim with a local number from the Middle East installed to it.
I have noticed that with iOS 8, that some mails come up with the 'contact information' at the top of the mail. This is super handy when you want to quickly add a new contact from the e-mail.
I'd like to display a different image on each of my two monitors as the screensaver. The "Classic" screensaver almost does this, but it always mirrors the same image to both monitors. A way to display a single, larger image spanned across the two screens would also work just as well for me.
Basically I want to issue a command in a bash script or an Apple Script and see some string (or icon) in the status bar aka "where the clock is". Something similar to osascript but for the status bar: /usr/bin/osascript -e 'display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"'
The backup volume looks fine. No error reports and it's not full: I found this thread: Time Machine fails related to "Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)" and added some irrelevant path to my exclude list, but without any difference. Does someone have an ides what might go wrong when following the hints in *=URL=* Any clue what went wrong here and how to get my backup history back into TM? Thx
Using I was able to move the position of the dock to the upper left corner below the Apple menu. What I'd really like to do is force the dock to take up the full space available with empty space like this mock.. ↙ Current Wanted ↘
I have a 290gb of data on my old mac. It won't boot up. I have a firewire cable and am going to transfer the data to my MacBook pro which has 590gb of free space. I want to use migration assistant, but want all the files from my old mac to be put in one specific folder. Is there a way I could do this with migration assistant, because this is only a temporary solution. Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated
So I installed the iOS 8 upgrade, however now my iPad does nothing. It won't charge. It won't show anything but the Apple logo. I've tried soft and hard reboot. Nothing! I am furious!
I have setup application shortcuts for my signatures in Outlook 2011 for Mac as described here. However, the shortcuts don't work unless I first click the signatures dropdown. It seems like the shortcuts aren't loaded until I click the dropdown. What am I missing?
I started using the iPhone 6 and my group chats haven't been working. Any new chat created with the new phone works, but all my old conversations show up as individual messages from the members of the group. Send as SMS: ON Send as MMS: ON Any ideas?
I am trying to set duplex as the default for my printer. Many people have told me to just create a preset and use that but there are some apps that this doesn't work for, so I am looking for a different solution. Another option I have found is to modify the CUPS settings on my mac for the printer. If I go into CUPS page for my printer, I change the two sided setting to on with long edge binding to be the default. This gives me an error though and wants me to change the default paper size to "A4 two sided margins". So I do that. Now whenever I go to print something, I get an error message come up:
Upgraded to ios8 on my iPad air. There is no FaceTime app on the settings page to turn or or off. How to I set up face time
Obviously iOS 8 will take a few gigabytes, so I'm wondering how much space I'll actually get to use on the 16 GB iPhone 6....
After reading this page online, I got stunned, please go through the link, you will find that it says: While Apple and the major wireless carriers usually advertise the iPhone 6′s $199 price, that’s just the starting price for those that are signing up for a two-year contract and are eligible for an upgrade. The full retail price for the 16GB iPhone 6 is actually $649 and a lot of people are going to spend that much or more either upfront or through a payment scheme like Verizon Edge, which is essentially a payment plan that spreads the $649 cost over 20 months and allows subscribers to upgrade to the next generation iPhone after just a year. My question is, is it a good idea to use a payment scheme like Verizon Edge with the iPhone 6?
I'm about to trade in a 2010 MacBook Pro with an SSD. However, I'm unable to do a Secure Erase from the recovery disk (as I used to do with mechanical hard drives before selling or giving away a computer) since the "Security Options" button is grayed out. Based on an article in Apple's knowledge base, the button is intentionally disabled for SSD's because:
How do I get current location coordinate by using Google Map or Apple Map? I want to copy and paste to email/whatsapp/waze.
I'm thinking of buying a 13.3" MacBook Pro that a store has at low prices right now. Will this come with the OS registered in the app store? I ask because I plan to switch out the disk for an SSD, and with my previous MacBook Pro I could simply input my App Store credentials during boot and it would download and install everything directly. Can I do this with a new MacBook Pro, or will I have to buy a separate copy in the app store to get this function?
iOS 8 now supports third-party keyboards. I am pretty satisfied with Apple's default keyboard, however one thing is a hassle for me, as a French speaker : typing accentuated characters takes a long time, because you first have to touch for instance the letter "E" and then wait for the accentuated variants such as "é è ë..." to appear. Hence my question : is there a third-party keyboard especially designed for quickly typing accentuated characters ?
I am trying to re-install our Mac Mini. Looking around Apple's website, it seems the Recovery Disk Assistant is the way to do it. I have followed the instructions for the OSX Recovery Disk Assistant 1.0.
I am not used to using OS X as I normally use Windows but in my new job I have a machine with OS X 10.9.5 so I kind of have to use it. Anyways, I need to open port 25443 as I need it to access a website that runs there. I am not using the OS Firewall. I've been reading about it and I tried ipfw but it seems to be deprecated. I've been looking into pfctl but no luck. How could I open that port? These are the outputted messages in different browsers: Safari: Safari:
Apparently, the power button has become pretty insensitive in my iPhone 5. When I say "lock screen" or "take screenshot", I want that iPhone does such activity. Now when I say them, iPhone just googles them that is very stupid. So how can I make Siri to lock screen, screenshot and hopefully other things?
I keep doing the same thing over and over: Copy a url Run a script with the url as a parameter php myscript.php --url "URL"
I have an iPhone 4. I have created the Apple ID. Now when I try to download anything from the App Store and I log in with my ID and password, I see the message "this ID has not been yet used". What should I do? I have no more knowledge about these procedures.
My "user" folder is about 56GB big, but when I look at the contents (and add them up with a calculator) I get up to about 24GB. What happened to the other 32GB? Is there a way to free this space up?
I'm using this arrangement for my notebook + 24inch monitor. I primarily work on my notebook and the big screen is used just for secondary stuff.
Posting this question on apple.stackexchange, after 2 downvotes on SOF I just noticed a change in Apple policy, Apple Store review guideline too seems to be updated, with this context about Location: Location data can only be used when directly relevant to the features and services provided by the App to the user or to support approved advertising uses Read more about CoreLocation here: A paragraph from the link mentioned, which sounds apt as well: Applications must have a very good reason to access Location and make that clear to the user through the provided purpose description text or they will be rejected by the App Store team. So the question is as follows, for using Location with third party ad-network SDKs:
On My macbook iTunes I have an internet tab which has about 4000 music channels in total. Is it possible to play those in iOS device iTunes?
Is there a POSTMAN for Chrome equivalent (or alternative to) for Safari in Mac OS X Mavericks? I hate switching between browsers just to be able to test my APIs.
I have a Macbook Pro 15'' Retina running Mavericks. When I lock the screen when stepping away and then attempt to reactivate it by either moving the mouse or entering some keys, the login screen doesn't appear immediately.
My Macbook pro 15" (early 2012) froze and I had to force restart it. But it freezes in startup too. I noticed that it stops after "VM Swap Subsystem is ON" line in verbose mode.
Only recently, when I launch Terminal in Mavericks, the system becomes unresponsive temporarily: the spinning wheel appears; I can still move the mouse pointer but nothing responds; if Activity Monitor is running, it doesn't update any activity; the seconds indicator of the digital clock on the menu bar stops ticking. Terminal displays 'login' on the title bar. After 5 minutes, Terminal displays 'Log in timed out after 300 seconds' and the system becomes responsive again. I have tried the following to no avail:
I would like to support SharePoint 2013 with default out-of-box settings on iOS 8 devices. I see a lot of forum discussion on both Apple and Microsoft sites regarding IIS Windows Authentication being broken with Safari in iOS 8. Without bypassing Windows Authentication, I'm looking for details on any scheduled software fix in iOS 8, or workarounds like using Chrome on iOS 8 as mentioned in some of the forum posts. Unfortunately the Chrome workaround is a partial fix as iOS 8 does not allow Chrome to be the default browser for links opened from email or elsewhere on your mobile device. Here are the relevant discussions and links I used while attempting to find a solution or verify the problem. Cannot see Sharepoint with iOS8 (Apple Support Communities) iOS 8 Safari not working with [...] Windows Authentication (Apple Support Communities) SharePoint 2013 is not compatible with iOS 8 (Microsoft TechNet Forums) sharepoint 2013 ios 8 safari (Google Search)
iOS7 allows you to delete the iOS8 update package if it has been automatically downloaded to your iPhone (Settings > General > Software Update > Delete). However, then Apple insists on notifying you again of the availability of the iOS8 update (though without downloading it), which means you permanently have a "1" by the Settings icon. Is there a way of blocking this notification?
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.4 and Keynote 6.2.2. I have a presentation done in Keynote with slide and music. Now I want add a voice over. Can I do that and if so how?
I just bought an iPhone 5s and will receive it soon It only has 16gb of RAM I will clean install IOS 8 upgrade (this is best, no?) Will the installation files self-delete after install?
I installed MacVim with homebrew, and specified the option to override system vim. It can be confirmed by looking at the version of vim in terminal.
The Airport Utility shows all 3 of my Wifi access points as being offline today, all have the yellow caution triangle "/!\" and display the message "Device Not Found: AirPort ExtAC was previously part of this network..." I can prove it's wrong, I'm posting this via Wifi! And the Mac toolbar Wifi status shows I'm on my named local wireless network, and I only have these 3 access points. Also, whenever I bring it up, it shows the Internet globe as yellow for a while, then eventually green. If I exit and restart Airport Utility it says the same thing. In the past, when it's misbehaved, if I REBOOT the MacBook then it works. System Info: I'm on a 2012 Retina Macbook the latest OS X with all application updates applied Wifi routers are 2 Airport Extreme AC's and one older Airport Extreme
I am currently using FortiClient. It would be nice to use the native MacOS VPN client (in the Settings) but I don't think it supports SSL VPN. I googled but did not find anything. Does anyone have a SSL VPN mac client to recommend? It has to support SSL VPN.
I got the iPhone 6 the day it was released. I immediately started using the new Health app. I added the basics, birthday, age, sex, weight, and I added the "Steps" and "Walking + Running Distance" to the dashbaord. I notice they automatically started tracking my steps. So I went for a jog, it tracked that also. Awesome, so far so good. But the next day it was all gone. It doesn't matter if I select "Day / Week / Month / Year" at the very top, the stats are always the same, they only show the current day. I've checked each day since I've got the phone, each day it seems to start over. Why is all the previous data disappearing?
In Mountain Lion, my full name is displayed at the bottom of the log in menu. As I want to sell my computer, I was wondering if there is a way to hide this? (it's the only place that you can see it as it is not the user name, and I can't change it in Sharing preferences).
Obviously, the bending issue is a widely known problem with the newest iPhones. Is this a problem with just the iPhone 6+ or also the iPhone 6?
Does iOS 8 allow me to share URLs from eg the built in mail app (or any 3rd party mail apps) via the new sharing extensions, without actually opening the URL first? I'm particularly interested in sharing URLs to getpocket.com or similar services; their app supports the new sharing features, but the only way I've seen to be able to share a URL is to load it first in eg Safari or Chrome; casual tinkering with an iPhone 6 in the Apple store suggests it won't do this (I still only get the standard "save to reading list" options), but maybe I'm doing something wrong...
I'm not sure there is a way to do what I want to do. Now that I have Office 360 + 1TB of free space, I'd like to set my mac to do monthly backups to OneDrive. I'm looking for the following features. Sync + Upload Sync: would be great if it just uploaded changed files Direct Upload: rather than just dropping files into the OneDrive folder, so my local Hard Drive doesn't explode. Sync: would be great if it just uploaded changed files Direct Upload: rather than just dropping files into the OneDrive folder, so my local Hard Drive doesn't explode. Starts automatically, runs in the background
I understand that turning on Find My Mac also turns on a "Guest" account (in "login only" mode). For a variety of reasons, I would prefer not to have an enabled Guest account at all.
I'm relatively new to OSX (running Mavericks), but my goal is to create a script that reminds me to take notes on the day's work. The script will ideally: run upon the user clicking 'Login window' (i.e. lock screen) and prompt the user for whether or not they want to record notes (ok/cancel). If the user answers OK, then the script will ask for a multiline input, then append the date and time, plus that input, to a text file before locking the screen. If the user clicks cancel or 15 seconds pass without interaction, the dialog should be dismissed and the screen will lock. I'm: 1) unsure about how to prompt the user for multiline input 2) unclear how to trigger the script on the user requesting a return to the login window (lock screen?)
Given that Bash 3.2 (the version shipped by OS X) is vulnerable to the remote execution exploit known as "Shell Shock" (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169) how do I rebuild Bash and secure my system ahead of an official Apple patch? UPDATE: Note that Apple has now released the official patch. See below for details.
I purchased a Sprint iPhone 6 Plus 64gb off contract. I paid the full amount which was about $1,000. As of today (2014-09-24), how can we unlock the iPhone 6 Plus which is on Sprint? I am a Sprint customer.
The document "httpd.conf" could not be opened. You don't have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info. This makes TextEdit hang too, so I have to force quit it. I also tried to open the file using my Komodo text edit, which is my normal development environment: The terminal spits out this strange message:
I've searched both here and in all of the iTunes' preferences tabs. I wish there was a way to disable it from autostarting for one user. I need to be sharing my wife's iMac for a while, but each time she connects her iPhone to charge, I get iTunes and iPhoto starting and wanting to import and sync. How can I disable iTunes to autostart on one user account (but not others) on the latest OS X? (Bonus question is how to do the same with iPhoto :))
I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.9 from the app store and connecting to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 based PCs. Although alphanumeric keys work properly, when I type certain symbol keys into the remote computer they come out as the wrong keys, it seems like a mapping issue. The remote machines are both set as "English (United States) - US" for the input language, which matches what my Mac has. The following is example of the key confusion:
I have upgraded my devices to iOS 8. All seemed well. However, today I noticed I was mising some password in Safari. Checking my iCloud settings, I noticed that keychain was turned off. This must have happened during the update. Trying to enable it, I had to authorize via a second device. No problem I thought. But no, my iPad also had the same problem. So now iCloud wants my security code, which I had set more than ayear ago, and cannot remember. What now?
We submitted our binary, but discovered that there was an error. I uploaded a new binary from XCode6 and it shows up in the Prerelease Tab of iTunesConnect. It has a higher build number (#706) as opposed to the "waiting for review" version (#704).
I have been using the gcc compiler from *=URL=* for 6 years. Unfortunately they are not using the most up to date compiler. I have already installed gcc 4.8.3 from mac port. Is mac ports compiler as reliable as the one from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/index.php?
I dropped my iPhone 4 in the toilet for literally 3 seconds, dried it off with a towel, and it was actually lit up and working, so I thought I had just cheated my poor phone's death when all of a sudden it went black. It continued to vibrate when receiving messages and then began to vibrate every few seconds until it stopped working completely. I quickly put it in a bag of rice and the liquid indicating sensors don't seem to be activated but it still won't respond or be recognized by my computer. Is it time to give up or should I be patient and give it more time? If so, how long is long enough to know that it has reached the point of no return?
I am suddenly unable to download or open any files. It says "failed" in my downloads folder for everything I try to do. I don't have any blocks on, no firewalls on, updates have been done and nothing has helped. Any suggestions?
My dad ran the recent iTunes update on his Mini recently (running the latest Mavericks release), and when he was logging back in the system seems to have forgotten his account password. We used his AppleID to reset the user password, and it's been letting him log in fine, more or less.
After upgrading to iOS 8, Google Maps no longer appears in the list of apps that can be toggled on/off for Background App Refresh functionality. Doesn't it need to be enabled for the app to continue using the GPS and giving voice directions while the phone is locked, or while another app is in the foreground?
I have an iMac G5 that won't display anything because (I believe) the video card is malfunctioning. Could the machine still be functional as a headless server? I could modify the settings with a target disk mode boot to make it available over the network then manage it over ssh from then on. Is there anything I'm overlooking? Has anyone done this that can advise me of the pitfalls? Also, should I consider installing a server-grade hard drive?
I downloaded iOS 8.0.1, tried couple of times - 'Install Now', it asks me to enter passcode, then it asks me to accept 'Terms and Conditions', once accepted it shows message - 'Verifying update...', after some time it shows message: Unable to verify update iOS 8.0.1 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the Internet Though I am connected to Internet :( I am trying to upgrade it on iPad mini - retina display. Any clues?
Red Hat recently announced a major security-related bug in the Bash shell. Some are calling it the "shellshock" bug. Since OS X is built off of Unix, is it vulnerable to attacks that exploit this bug?
I was planning to remove my cdrom and add a second HD in my Macbook Pro (2011), but I can't remove the screws. It seems they are stripped, even though I've been really careful (they are really tight). Some images
I have a macbook that recently had a magnet missing inside the screen assembly, so it wasn't going to sleep. However, everything else worked fine - until, of course, I put the new magnet in and put everything back together. No backlight.
Any ideas how I might be able to get Launchpad to behave normally again? Thanks! I'm using OS X 10.9.5.
I've been trying to install Keynote and Numbers, but they hang like so:  This is associated with a shell script consuming 100% of a CPU:
I looked for trouble shooting info and followed the procedures to use disk utility, etc. No issues with hardware were reported. I only had like 3 issues with registry entries I believe. I decided to backup my important files....took me 3 days because each click would take ages to be executed.
I'd love to change the default empty trash / move to trash sounds. I found this on Github, which is a script to change a bunch of defaults. The default alert is mentioned, but nothing about the trash.
When saving a script in Applescript Editor, it defaults to the Script file format. The file produced is binary and cannot be indexed by Spotlight. So if I want to search a script based on a word used in the code, I cannot since script code is not indexed. On the other hand I can save as text, but I must remember to change the format option every time! So what is the advantage of saving in Script format and is it possible to make Text the default? I am using the editor in 10.6.8 Snow Leopard EDIT: Text format files are saved with the extension .applescript and are setup to open by default with the Applescript Editor, same as with .scpt.
I'm planning to upgrade my MacBook Pro with another 4GB memory. How do I know which memory is compatible with my MacBook?
Have a little perfectionistic problem: quite often in Finder Time Capsule's icon not displayed correctly, when I click on it - becomes normal, what's the problem?
I was following a tutorial and put in the following line: Now no commands work at all, not even things like ls. What does the command do that I copy and pasted in and how do I fix it?
Does anyone ever see this DEVICE tab in the Wi-Fi Settings page? It very strange, it's my first time saw this. And even more, while I tried to connect to this SSID. iOS pops up a dialog said "xxxxxx Is Not Connected to the Internet Are you sure you want to use this network?" What is this? And how to achieve this?
I have done a factory reset on my MacBook Pro because it was slow. Now i have lost my pictures on iPhoto. The pictures were not backed up on iCloud. How can i get iPhoto pictures back?
I've got an issue where Finder quits at startup and then every 2-5 seconds after. Problem details and system config are as follows:
I used Automator to create a service that runs pdf2svg from the context menu in Finder. It works fine, except it does not work on files stored in my dropbox folders. How can I fix this?
My brother just gave me his old iPad after purchasing a new one. He accidently left his SIM card in there because he got a different SIM card for his new one. I won't be able to add to my current carrier plan for another month or so, but when I turned on and activated the iPad in order to get to home screen, my wi-fi picked up and asked for my password. It is now working wth my wi-fi with no problems. I turned the carrier settings off, because I know the SIM card is still activated thru his account. My question is by only using wi-fi with his old SIM card, and leaving carrier data off, (until I transfer on my account) is there any chance at all he would be charged or notified it was being used, etc.?
What is the name of the default native App that stores all photos and pictures on an iOS device? Since iOS 8 it seem to be called "Photos" were before Apple used to call it Camera Roll. Or do I mix something here? Update: what is the correct terminology for the default Photos App and for what reasons should the term "Camera Roll" be used?
I am using currently Mac OSX v. 10.9.5 and not being able to cut files or folders is the most stupid thing I have seen in an Operating System, with all respect for this nice OS. Is there a possibility to enable this shortcut or action?
My question is similar to one posted in here but not exactly the same : Creating the same, double applications for iOS permitted? We are building iOS application for museums, the idea is to create application(s), brand it per museum by changing color, logo etc, update museum content and host it on app store. All hosted application will contain similar functionality, but with different content, different users and different branding. According to Apple review guidelines 2.11 Apps that duplicate Apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them, such as fart, burp, flashlight, and Kama Sutra Apps Does our application comes under the scanner of Apple because of similar functionalities between all of our hosted apps?
I am making an app in python named cipherc on mac osx 10.9 This app opens a file type of extension “.secure” Now, in local system, for already present .secure file, its default file opener is some different xyz app. So, how can I make my app cipherc as default file opener for all .secure file extension present in system, as soon as I installs cipherc app. My info.plist is:
I have a White MacBook (2006) with a new battery (2013) that I accidentally let sit discharged for too long (a few weeks). Now the battery doesn't work. If I leave the battery in the laptop while plugged in, it gets very hot as if it is trying to charge but won't. So, to be safe I am running the computer with the battery pulled. Anyone know any ways to revive the new dead battery, or am I stuck buying a new one again?
I'm starting to think I've been hacked because my Macbook Air is frequently jumping to a neighbors password protected network on its own! I see the network in the "preferred network" list and I don't know how it got there! I also don't know what that network's password is but my macbook does! To make matters worse I've also seen my iPhone on the same network! Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on?
I have a specific album on my Apple Mac in iTunes that needs to be copied to my iPod Touch. I have music on my iPod touch that was from another device (old PC), so I cannot sync the entire music library on iTunes (Apple Mac), as it does not have some of the music I have stored on my iPod, and will erase it.
So this has happened to me again, my icons from desktop and the icons on dock and launchpad have been disappeared. I'm guessing that the icon builder daemon has crashed. What should i do to get back all the icons to back where it was?
I have a question about how to pass the applescript input from one computer to another computer's automator input (I created it as a program). I've created the script below to ask for the filename and call the automator script on the target machine. Obviously I should be able to get ret of the dialog and set value of variable steps but just need some help in passing the variable to the second applescript section. Applescript input - Automator script -
I am trying to copy everything from one disk partition to another, so I have used: The copy takes almost 10 hours for about 557 GB. At the end I see: After trying several searches to find the errors in one and a half million lines, I find this: and this: and this:
iTunes continually locks up on me. I have my library set to an external NAS, and I only launch iTunes when connected to this NAS. Any ideas why iTunes locks up - is it related to the library not being on my PC?
This is related to How do I recompile Bash to avoid the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169?, Are Macs vulnerable to the Bash shellshock bug? and Are Bash, Bourne, and Korn shells compiled into one binary in OSX?. Apple has not released a patch for 10.8.5, and there's no telling if/when they will patch the defective software.
Do I need any additional software to run games made from adobe AIR? Do they run as native apps?
Downloaded the Kaspersky app just for fun and to give it go. It had a trial time so when the time was up, I simply just dragged the app into the trash can and then emptied it. However, the kaspersky "K" icon on the menu bar just won't go away.
According to this site, there are three models of iPhone 6: A1549(GSM), A1549(CDMA), and A1586. It says the A1549(CDMA) model "supports all the same spectrum" as its GSM counterpart, but also supports additional spectrum making it a "world phone". Does this mean the unlocked T-Mobile iPhone 6 is essentially the Verizon model with its CDMA capabilities disabled? Could one go to an Apple Store, pay for a Verizon iPhone 6 in full, and pop in a T-Mobile SIM with no side effects?
Because of CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169 on OS X I was wondering: can bash be replaced entirely by another, non-affected shell (eg dash or others)?
I downloaded the IOS8 and all of the sudden my iphone5 needed restoring and i lost all of my data!!!! Now that i can turn it on its like a brand new phone but my problem is that i cant restore my icloud OR my itunes account! i tried logging in my account but it says that my ID or password are wrong. I requested them to send me an email but i didnt receive anything until now. Someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!! someone please tell me whats going on with my software
I have an iPhone 5 and just installed the new iOS 8 update, however I am suffering from a couple of problems: I can't connect to any Wi-Fi and in Settings I cannot even get the push button to move to turn on Wi-Fi. I can't connect to any Wi-Fi and in Settings I cannot even get the push button to move to turn on Wi-Fi.
I have a MacBook Air with OS X 10.8.2 on it. Suddenly the browsers (Safari, Firefox and Chrome) all stopped working although the MacBook is still connected to the internet via WLAN.
After having successfully compiled bash and sh for OS X Mavericks our OS X Server's System Log is flooded every 2 or 3 seconds with: There are no complaints about bash, only sh. What is going on and what can I do to fix it?
I try to buy an old mac book pro mid 2012. Old user of this mac uses mac by electric all the time, so the life cycle till now just 3 cycles, but this computer has been used for 1.5 years. My question is: if this mac is only 3 cycles, does this mean the battery still as good as new mac ? Thanks :)
A key feature of Apple's iCloud Family Sharing is the ability to share store purchases with invited family members. However, like many people, I use a different Apple ID for iCloud and Store purchases (ironically, primarily for the exact purpose of sharing among family).
I just received 2x 4gb corsair 204 pin pc3-10600 ram sticks for my iMac 27" mid 2011. I put them in and turned it on and received 3 short beeps, a pause, and repeat, which I think is the ram integrity error. I ended up taking out the ram that came with the machine (2x 2gb elpida pc3-10600 sticks) and then in worked. Why is this machine not accepting all 4 sticks together? I though you could put in unmatching ram without any problems. Any ideas?
I have installed XCode 6 and it came with the iOS 8 SDK but i need to test on devices still running 7.1 and cannot figure out how to get the iOS 7 SDK now without downloading an older version of XCode than I already have installed. Where can I find the previous SDKs and can I install them in my newer version of XCode?
I am trying to enable SNMP version 3 with a single ready-only user on Mac OS X 10.8.5 so that I can remotely monitor the health of the computer. When I attempt a local snmpwalk, this message is returned:
When I type ⌥ and some letter a special character usually shows up - this would be really useful except for the fact that I have no use for a lot of these characters. How can I customize which characters are bound to these shortcuts?
Does iCloud save deleted pictures from your camera and photo stream? For example: If you saved a picture from Google but deleted it from your camera and the photo stream does it still save it to iCloud?
I've seen cases where people record audio with the headphones port, so is it possible to listen to audio with the microphone port? I do not have any torx or triwing screwdrivers right now so a headphone port replacement is not possible. Thanks!
I have a Time Capsule, which is 802.11ac capable. On wifi I get ~100mbps.
I have macbook retina pro 2013 version with 16gb ram and OS X 10.9.3. This machine works just fine, except just one problem. systemstats hits 100% CPU usage very frequently, at least 6 times a day. I've cleaned up database file for my spotlight and tried many solutions from google search result.
I need to regroup PDF which I have created into categories and to put them on my iPad. With mountain lion I used Calibre to create the categories and iTunes to put the PDF on my iPad as books. After the Mavericks update I realized that the books are now managed by IBooks. Unfortunately I can't use the categories created with Calibre in IBooks and I'm not able to create categories with IBooks. Do you have an idea to do that on Mavericks ?
I have many videos on my computer that i want to put in my ipad, when i use itunes, i have to manually click one video by one video to input the video into the ipad, is there a way i can multiselect or highlight/drag and drop into the ipad. It's taking up alot of time just to tick and untick(remove) them from the ipad. (i cant sync all because i have more than 16gb of videos and it cant fit my ipad). I've tried to google for ways to multi tick them, cntl + A doesnt work.
I'm just moving my coding work from Windows to mac os x. It's really difficult to get used to the ctrl and command key behavior at beginning.
I can't seem to find a way to view the raw HTTP requests sent by safari to the webserver. Does anyone know how you can do this in Safari 8. I did manage to find some HTTP headers in the resource tab of the web inspector But I want to see the raw (in plain text) HTTP request Thanks in advance
So I've finally remembered my APPLE ID that I used in the beginning to activate my Iphone but I forgot the password which I tried too many times and it disabled. Now my yahoo account I used for it is deactivated due to the fact I haven't logged in 12 months. What do I do?! My phone won't activate unless I use the ID I used in the beginning. I really need help! :/
I can't remember when exactly I have noticed this problem for the first time. I am certain that it didn't exist with older versions of Mac OS X (i.e. 10.8 and older), although I must say that when I was last using Mac OS X 10.8 I also had a different MacBook and a different monitor. The general work environment MacBook/clamshell mode/external monitor has been the same for me for years.
Has the "Apple Pay" service been launched yet? I have googled before asking the question but had no results. I would like to try the technology to pay a small amount at KFC using iPhone 6 Plus.
I have a problem to format/erase an usb drive with mac os x on it. It shows that drive is read only.
I am using Xcode 5.1.1 as I require an app which supports iOS 6.1 and Above with base SDK iOS 7.1. I tried upgrading Xcode 6.0 but it is not able to run iOS 6.1 simulators. So I reverted back to Xcode 5.1.1 with a backup that i had kept. As I upgraded my device to iOS 8.0, I am not able to run the same on the device with Xcode 5.1.1. The following is the screen shot of what I See in the organiser.
On the laptop it's a one-touch mute button, nice and easy. On my iPhone there is no mute button, so volume controls must be used instead, which is no problem. When I use the volume buttons when there are no media playing, it lowers my ringer volume. The issue is that I have to wait at least until the video player loads, and depending on which video player I am using, the both volume slider is grayed out out until the video starts playing. The combination leads to a nonzero period of time when I am exposed to the audio while I am lowering the volume. Q: Is there a way to adjust the media volume when there is no media playing [yet]?
We use a Belkin SongStream BT to play music on a stereo via BlueTooth. I'd like our various devices to automatically disconnect before they go to sleep.
When not inside a tmux session, Command-Click on URLs works flawlessly. How can I make links clickable in iTerm2 when inside a tmux session? When hitting Command the mouse pointer changes to the icon, but when clicking on an URL, nothing happens. Note I have the following settings inside my .tmux.conf Disabling them and then reloading .tmux.conf does not resolve the issue. iTerm2 Version is Build 1.0.0.20140629 tmux -V 1.9a
I have an iPhone with a bunch of items in the notes app I don't want to loose. The notes are linked to a gmail account. I want to switch iTunes library for that iPhone. Going from a PC to a mac. iTunes wants to do an "erase and sync". Will that erase my notes as well? Or just the music?
I've made sure I'm logged in to my Apple ID, it's nothing like that. I've also tried creating a separate Apple ID just for the purpose of iMessage, but that did no good either. Please help, it's been weeks and it has become very inconvenient!
SO I've now put the original HDD back and and am seeing if the problems return. It took a few boots (SMC, PRAM resets) with failures after reinstalling it before I could get a fresh install of OS X in and now I'll waiting to see if it starts up again.
The urls after the specific links point to the app icon. The problem is that the image returned for the artworkUrl60 key is not the same as the image returned for the artworkUrl512 key. Example: (I'm sorry that the second image is so much bigger, that's because it's the big artwork) Vizzywig 4K artworkUrl60: artworkUrl512:
I have Verizon and Siri is giving me a fax number for a location rather than a phone number. My friend has AT & T and it displays the phone number. Does it matter which carrier is used? Can I correct this (it is my place of business)
I am running into a strange issue on a web server running OS X Server 10.6.8. Any app I try to open ends up crashing immediately with a segmentation fault. This goes for gui apps like Safari or Calculator, but also command line tools like xcodebuild. Apps that are currently running seem to continue running, but no new apps can be launched. Here is the crash log for xcodebuild:
I received 3 emails from Apple that my phone was tracked using Find My iPhone. It gave the dates and times. Can I find out who is tracking me using Find My iPhone ?
I am still running MacOS 10.6.8 on my older iMac because of software issues-some of my most useful stuff won't run on systems past Tiger. Can I use the patch published by Justin Meyers in "Every Mac Is Vulnerable to the Shellshock Bash Exploit: Here's How to Patch OS X" on my Mac?
I would like my mac (OSX 10.9) to automatically mute during meetings. I have a fully abstracted calendar, with several sub calendars.
Ideally in my browser would store for off-line use every webpage I visit, but since I presume there is no such at the moment, the question remains: Can I program Safari to save every page I visit (or a subset thereof, eg all from wikipedia.org) to my reading list automatically? iPhone sparked the question but using my MacBook to do the same thing would also be good.
I've received 7 emails from Apple that my phone was tracked using Find My iPhone, can I call apple and find out who the device belongs too? I've already changed my password.
I keep getting the following message (see image below) when trying to install a shared printer, I first got this error a month ago and have been trying every couple of days since, but i guess the error is permanent rather than a glitch. Any ideas how i could resolve this ?
Is the email notification from Apple that your device has been tracked using Find My iPhone a new feature?
How can I prevent OS X (and ideally iOS devices as well) from connecting to a WiFi network which has the same name as one of my preferred networks, but isn't the same network? For example say my favorite coffee shop has an open WiFi network named "Free WiFi" and that's fine, but so does neighbor who runs a proxy which changes all the images sent over HTTP to pictures of butts… hilarious… but[t] annoying.
I finally got around to trying out Adobe Edge Inspect today and was extremely disappointed. I found an alternative named Ghostlab but am trying to find a free or open-source alternative. Anyone have suggestions?
I updated from iOS 8.0 to iOS 8.0.2 on my iPhone 6 last night and noticed after the update completed that the Settings app shows a badge on my home screen even though there is no apparent update available in the app (including an iOS software update - which shows iOS 8.0.2 is installed and is the latest version). I saw a comment elsewhere (ios 8.0.1 - download completed but unable to install) implying this was seen with iOS 8.0.1 also and wondered if there is a way to reset the settings app badge or if this may be a bug that remains in iOS 8.0.2.
I wasn't particularly worried about Shellshock until I learned that a malicious DHCP server may be able to exploit my DHCP client to run arbitrary code on my system. It's not clear to me whether Macs are vulnerable, but if so, I want to fix it ASAP. That said, the version of /bin/bash on my Mac is code-signed by Apple. If I follow these instructions and replace Apple's /bin/bash with one that I compile myself (hence not code-signed by Apple), am I setting myself up for trouble?
I just accidentally updated Xcode to 6.0.1 (don't ask me how these things happen). I'd like to downgrade - is there any clear path for that?
I'm trying to buy a new mac book. I have two choices: one is Apple Macbook Pro retina mid 2012 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB. And another is new macbook late retina 2013 using VGA onboard.
Is there a way to turn off email notifications in find my iPhone?
There was a fix that worked with Lion in this question defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false but that no longer seems to work in Mavericks. Has anyone figured out how to turn off the special character insertion popup that appears when you hold a key down in Mavericks?
I would like to have my MacBook's Wi-Fi antenna on, but not be connected to any wireless network. Instead I would like for my MacBook to share its Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet connection so my iPhone can get a taste. (My office was built on an ancient Bermudian triangle sanctuary.) I am using the same settings, toggling things hasn't worked yet: [x] Internet Sharing [x] Internet Sharing Share from: [_Thunderbolt_Ethernet___] Share from: [_Thunderbolt_Ethernet___] To computers using: [x] Wi-Fi To computers using: [x] Wi-Fi (green light) Internet Sharing: On
I'm running Bash version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) on a PowerMac (non-Intel) G5. I often connect to the internet, but not as a server and I believe my version of Bash is vulnerable to the Shellshock exploit. Upgrading the OS past 10.4.11 Tiger is not an option as this computer can't be upgraded for reasons. Can I recompile bash for my system or are there any users who may have devised a patch?
We have submitted an app preview video, recorded using an iPhone 5 along with our new binary. We have also gotten some screenshots for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus using the simulator. My question is, will users who use iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus see the app preview video for iPhone 5 as the first element when they look for our app or will they see the first iPhone 6 screenshot?
One of the purposes I use Find My Phone is to keep track (when needed) of my children. Now they are receiving email messages that I am using the feature - which defeats the purpose of why I use it. Is there a way to turn off the email notifications?
What causes the difference between my mac an my iPhone, where my Mac can boot and become useful immediately after being plugged in, while my phone needs a couple of minutes before it can even start to boot? It's sometimes a bit frustrating, but in many cases, understanding the reason makes things like this less irritating to me.
I recently renewed my iOS developer membership and noticed that my free app, which has been available in the store for a year, is now in Pending Contract status. There is no information whatsoever of what conditions have changed and what I need to renew/enter/accept. Note that my app is free, so I shouldn't need to enter bank details, tax information, etc.
This works, however, I have to manually type in all the URLs in step 1. Is there a simple way to automate all of this (maybe using AppleScript?)? I want something like Edit: I managed to write this code:
Having been part of a complete replacement of a large data center for Y2K, I'm alarmed at the panic that's been generated over shellshock (appropo name, btw). I'm concerned that rushing in quick fixes without extensive planning and testing is going to create far greater problems than the one we think we are facing. For Y2K, we learned that the date code fixes were the easy part.
I have a few 1 watt and 10 watt LED's laying around. I want to compare them to the iPhone 5 flashlight. In another question, I saw a lumen rating, but I want a watt rating. Does anybody know the wattage of the iPhone 5 flashlight?
I am new with osx server in mac mavericks. I want to send message locally between users I create in server. I have searched for solutions in google and apple documents, but I not yet found solution.I configure message in server app by following apple documents like this:
For example, it's nearly midnight now. Look at the information I am provided.
iMessage and Facetime are not activating on my iPhone 6plus, using my phone number (only appleid). ios 8 and now ios 8.02. I have reset, restored, airplane mode, date and time, on/ off, country, phone number in phone showing, backed up, not backed up, tried another sim (Telstra), dfu, icloud, apple account with phone number through web, absolutely everything including waiting 24 hours. Rung Telstra and Apple twice to no avail, visited Apple, DFU restored there again, no avail, went to Telstra shop and no luck...even watched whilst the tech activated iMessage and Facetime WITH phone number successfully on two demo models with his id. Anyone else or am I to be restricted to the land of sms only or iMessage with email only?
How font size is different in iPhone 6 / 6 Plus as compared to earlier iPhones (e.g. 5S)--given both the different screen size and DPI?
A while back, when I moved to a new town and didn't have my hard drive with me, I was running out of room on my Mac (I collect a lot of movies and television series), so I moved a television series that I didn't watch all that often into my iCloud (or so I thought). I deleted it from my Macbook library, but only because iTunes gave me the impression (via warning alerts) that despite me deleting them, they would still be stored in iCloud. Three months later, after cleaning out my Mac, I want to watch the stored series again, but now I have no idea how to access my iCloud storage or how to pull files out of it. I've tried looking for answers online, but I keep getting very vague information regarding mostly how to use iCloud rather than how to access it. Can someone please help me. Please be as detailed as possible. Thank you.
I have an issue where an old iPhone I no longer own shows up in the Bluetooth menu but not in the bluetooth preferences. Screenshots below. Anyone else experiencing this? How to go about removing the item "iPhone-FFFV" below?
After installing the iOS 8.0.2 update I am unable to send email. I can open amd receive but not respond. Here is the message I receive. Unable to deliver mail. An error occurred while divering this message. Can anyone advise me on how to correct this problem. I did not have problems until the update to 8.0.2 this afternoon.
I have someone cyber-stalking me who has somehow learned my iCloud password. I've changed it since, but they are still signed in to the "Find My iPhone" app and are able to make noises and alerts and possibly lock or erase my phone. How do I force a sign out of that app? On icloud.com, under the settings menu, I see the option "Sign out of all browsers currently signed in to iCloud.com", however I know from the notification email that they are accessing the phone via the iOS app. Thanks for any help
I have a new pc and just re-downloaded iTunes. When I tried syncing, the iTunes Library would not update from my iPad Library! instead it tries to replace the iPad library with just the few songs I bought online, which are in iCloud. But I have several old songs I burnt from CDs. Please how do i update the iTunes library with my iPad library?
Apple are no longer signing iOS 7 for devices which support iOS 8, but I want to jailbreak my iPhone 5. There is currently no jailbreak available for iOS 8, so I want to restore iOS 7. Is there any solution for this problem?
Can anyone advise me why my previously working HP printer and IPAD2 connection has suddenly stopped working after the recent IOS8 software update and how to rectify it? Thanks in anticipation.
How can I use mosh via iClouds Back to my Mac, like I can do it with ssh?
I've formatted my Macbook, and attempting to reinstall Mavericks, but I have a problem. I access my Internet via an access point that requires me to log in via the web interface. When the formatted finished, I opened Safari to log in, but it froze. I was forced to reboot.
Having restored back-up from iCloud I am being repeatedly asked for the password for a work-related email address. I was made redundant from that company about 10 years ago and cannot retrieve that password. I'm willing to bite the bullet and erase all the relevant tracks from iTunes in an attempt to solve this problem. My question is, can I identify them all in one go using Purchase History (or whatever) without the password for that particular account, or will I have to trawl through the tracks/albums individually?
After updating OS X on my Macbook 2011 to 10.9.5 I've started facing Firefox (32.0.3) freezing for a minute when macbook is resumed from suspend. Does anyone have thoughts, where to look for a cause of that? As far as I know, no other software is affected.
Excuse my stupidity, I know less than nothing about mobile phones OSes but I have been told that iOS encrypts your data when you set a passcode to your phone. This means even if someone stole your phone, took the storage unit out of the phone and mount it he will NOT be able to to examine your data as it encrypted. Something similar to what *nix OSes do when you choose to encrypt your home folder during the installation process. My concerns are:
Can't seem to install eyeD3, any ideas? For info: OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
can one transfer the ownership of a photostream to another user/subscriber? I need to get rid of the contents of a shared photo stream on my device but I am its owner. The subscribers will still need it. I would like to keep the comments, photos and the public page alive but simply give the ownership over to someone else. A simple thing but I cannot seem to figure out how to do that on iOS. If I erase everything on my iPad Mini in order to sell it will the Shared Photostream also get destroyed? I'm trying to avoid that and hand it over to someone else. Also, should I use the same Apple ID on another device, if I would not want that stream to reappear.
How can I add myself to these groups so that I can have access to these areas in system preferences? I have sudo access but I'm not sure how to accomplish this through terminal.
I want to know if you are connected to your home wifi, and that wifi temporarily loses signal for a few hours, does the iPhone automatically start using your cellular network? I had an issue with my Find Friends App not showing my location for a while, even though I never shut it off. I am just wondering if this could be the cause.
Is there a way to find out what is expected size of the next Time Machine backup? My computer is backed up regularly. I turned off TM for a while and I wish to find out what is the next back up size.
This started happening a couple of months ago and I'm going a bit crazy with this. Is there any way I can know which app is creating / assigning each shortcut? That could massively help narrowing it down. Thank you!
I have forgotten my iCloud password. It has also an old email address I can't change. It is not the same as my Apple ID and password. Now I can't get into my iCloud. My iCloud is updating for 3 days already and nothing is happening. Now, how can I access my iCloud account when I can't change my password there or change my email addresses?
I want to play audio from an iPhone and record it on a Mac or PC. Can a simple male to male stereo cable be used as headphones to the iPhone and a recording device to a PC or Mac?
Somebody installed Avast! on this MacBook running OSX 10.8 (that's what uname said) and now it won't boot, it gets stuck at the apple logo and nothing more, I was able to boot into single-user mode and made a backup. I have already run Avast!'s uninstall script at: But it didn't solve anything.
I saw few people have fancy OS X design that resemble iOS 7 design. I did not find any official information about it on Apple site about Mavericks. Though this theme appears at new Xcode page. I updated OS X but I did not get this design .. and I did not find a way to apply this design via Systems Preferences. So how would I change my Maverics design?
What are some options if I bent my iPhone 6 Plus? I purchased my phone from craigslist so I don't have a receipt. Will Apple even take it back?
I would like to know where the profile picture is stored on OSX that is created when you setup the account first.
I am trying to keep the toolbar visible all the time....when I select 'View' the 'Hide Toolbar' is grayed out. My wife has the same machine, and her's has 'Hide toolbar' not grayed out which I assume she could select and would get the result I am getting. Any help would be appreciated, it's getting annoying now.
I recently bought a LG monitor 22MP55, to use at home as a second monitor with my MacBook Pro. But the color is a little weird! Slightly yellowish. I tried using it with a Windows 7 PC with the same website, and the colors displayed with the PC windows were more accurate and better.
I’m very new to OS X. Just bought my first Apple – Macbook 13. I downloaded “ObsidianMenuBar” to change the menu bar to a black background. It worked but now some of the letters are white and some remained black and thus invisible. I’m told I need to install the “WhiteUIServer.menu” but I don’t have a clue how to do this. Can someone kindly stir me in the right direction? Sorry for showing up with hat in hand asking for help…
How to hide the menu bar that shows up on the second monitor? I tried searching in the following settings: Finder preferences ⌘, Finder preferences ⌘, System settings :: Desktop & Screensaver System settings :: Desktop & Screensaver System settings :: Displays System settings :: Displays
I'd like to be able to stop and (re)start the OS X routing daemon and review the routed configuration file(s). I think this would involve using launchctl unload and load, but I don't know the name of the routing plist file... Any hints on how to track this down?
I got a gray screen due to "A kext releasing a(n) AppleHDAEngineOutput has corrupted the registry." Once the computer restarted, I cannot open iTerm2 anymore. A 1-lined terminal shows up without the prompt and then crashes with this report:
These disappears after a day, but the icons are still gone. How can I get those icons back? I am using OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
I have used linux:Kali for a while and to get root access i just needed to type: su in terminal. But in OSX i need to type in su - what does this - mean? If i just type su in terminal than i get sh-3.2# in next line whereas if i type su - then i get root# in next line. What's the difference between all of these commands. Also i see some other commands to get root access in terminal: (1) su bash (2) sudo su Please help to understand difference b/w all these commands.
My brother in laws daughter is intercepting all his iMessages on her iPhone. Someone sends him an iMessage and instead of going to his phone, it goes to hers???? This started right after she updated his phone and used her info and wifi. Plain texts still go to him
At some point several years ago a former roommate used my phone or iTunes for something. I can't recall for what, but since then each time I get a new phone, or need to restore from a backup, I'm prompted to login with her Apple ID. In the past I would just cancel out of the login prompt a couple of times and then it wouldn't happen anymore (at least until the next time I needed a restore).
I recently installed Windows 7 via bootcamp on my new Macbook Air. I have a Seagate USB 3.0 drive that works great in OSX but behaves strangely in Windows. Windows recognizes that it is a USB 3.0 drive, but tells me that it's connected to a USB 2.0 port. This is especially weird since I definitely have the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller installed. I used USB Device Tree Viewer and determined conclusively that Windows is operating my drive at USB 2.0 speeds. What can I do to get my speed back?
I have lost the "send" icon on my Apple mail, top right corner How do I restore it?
My MacBook Pro kernel-panicked with this message, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again." The same message appears each time I reboot.
I am sure I have got some virus(s) in my Mac book & I have no idea what to do about it. I download torrents on a regular basis. When I am in Safari, every time I click a link of any kind a new, extra tab opens that has nothing to do with what I have clicked. Usually it opens to mackepper or similar type "junk sale" web site. Help!
We have created a lot folders and files that contains the "<" character. Is it possible to mass-remove these characters?
I have a collection of free fonts that I want to install on my Mac. But it is too tedious to double click every one of them and then click "Install font". Is there a quick way to do this? Like a certain context menu to "install all the fonts selected" or a terminal command.
2 iPhones show on my iPad as being backed up. I only have one, so I guess one is my old phone. I would like to delete it but I'm not sure which one I should delete, I don't want to remove the wrong one. How can I tell which is which?
I have a Dell U2711 Flat Panel Monitor, which I have been using with my Mac, preIntel and Intel. Suddenly I cannot acces to any control, instead a padlock appears on my screen. Any help?
We see people talk on bluetooth headsets all the time. In addition bluetooth is used to send notifications to devices like watches. My question is Is it programmatically possible to communicate with Siri via bluetooth?
Is it possible to detect files / folders that are incompatible with Windows in Mac? We are uploading all our files to Dropbox (from Mac) and we have found that folders with names like "< 2014" are not uploading.
My iPod touch 3rd generation takes a very long time to send iMessages. I recently sent a iMessage to my friend, it took about three hours to send. What's going on and how can I fix it? I did try turning my iPod off and back on again.
I frequently both copy (Alt-Drag) and move (Drag) files in Finder from one directory to another. My dexterity isn't so great, and so sometimes I accidentally let go of the Alt key before the mouse button is released (meaning that I might have moved a file, whereas I actually wanted to copy it). It seems to me that a good way to distinguish between these two events, meaning I don't need to go back and check in the source directory, would be for Finder to have two distinct sound effects for them. Is it possible to customise the Finder sound effects so that Move and Copy have distinct sounds? I am on OS X 10.9, for the record, but a solution with wider applicability, in particular for 10.10, would be preferred.
Can I use and external monitor even though my Macbook 5.2 screen goes dark even though I can still see images when a flashlight. The entire system works and I did bring it to Mac in Portland, Maine and the entire display would have to be replaced for $500. So can I use and external if the screen goes dark. I would like to keep this running for another year.
is it reasonable to use a Time Capsule not as a backup, but as a filesystem for a variety of linux/osx computers on the same local network? (is HFS+, which seems to be claimed to be the default format, a network file system, so that it handles multiple computer access?)
I would like to stop receiving alerts every time I sign into find my iPhone. How do I turn off email alerts for find my iPhone?
Today I started getting suspicious that Optical Image Stabilization is not working on my iPhone 6 Plus. These are the factors that led me to my suspicion:
A friend of mine is going to NYC. I'd like him to buy a contract free t-mobile iphone 6 for me cause they are cheaper in the US. I would like to use this phone with my european sim card provider. Is that possible?
Can anyone help me find the cause behind java taking up 300+% of my CPU? I've shut down almost every app and am still having trouble trying to locate the cause.
The ios8 has automatically downloaded to my iPad Air and I want to remove it. For some reason the solution with Settings->General->Usage doesn't work for me. There is no ios update in the usage list. The current ios version is 7.0.4. Are there any other solutions?
iPhone 5S, running iOS 8.0.2. For some reason, I've got 1GB of photos that show up on my iPhone and in iTunes, but I can't delete them. I used iPhoto to sync them off my phone. I also had iPhoto delete them.
Mavericks (10.9.5) Messages app is only showing what other people are typing, and not what I am typing! Has anyone else seen/fixed this?
This question is applicable to both iPads and iPhones: how do I extend the lock screen timeout? By that I mean the time from when I see the "slide to unlock" message to when the screen goes black again. Right now when I press a button to wake my device up, I have about four or five seconds to slide the screen to unlock, before it just goes dark again. I would like to extend this timeout if possible. How do I do it?
How can I proceed with Mac-to-Mac migration? I would like to avoid having to purchase new equipment if possible; is there some way to update the new Mac even though I haven't set it up yet?
I have several iBooks, purchased from the iBooks store that either never had cover images (typically because they are inexpensive "generics") or have "lost" them on iOS (for reasons that aren't clear; but some, at least, are no longer available in the store), though they have covers in iBooks on OS X. It was once possible to add covers in iTunes, but this is no longer comparable with syncing purchases through the cloud. How do I add a cover image to an iBook that lacks one?
I have downloaded the Mavericks OS X Installation and found out it did not work. It gave me this message: This copy of the "Install OS X" application is too old to be opened on this version of OS X.
I have patched bash & sh with the latest patches as described here, but now have some issues with some things in my dotfiles (particularly the loading of rvm and some custom functions and completions). I don't have the issues if I just use the brew version of bash as both /bin/bash and /bin/sh, but I'm wondering if I might run into other problems with system stuff.
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro (10.5.8 OS X - I think it's called Leopard). I do NOT have the installation CD - so I cannot reinstall the OS and thus ensure that I have securely deleted everything from my hard drive. By looking at the o/p from the System Profiler utility, I'm pretty sure my hard drive is NOT a SSD, although I cannot confirm this.
Trying to find out where the initial routing configuration for OS X is stored (plist, or wherever), and what happens at startup to read that configuration and configure the network interface(s).
Why didn't the iPad reflected the change I made regarding the email? This could've solved my problem, but it became stuck with basically a non-existent Apple ID. Why can't I add the old email address as an alternative, or re-associate it with the Apple ID?
I am using the 10.9.5 version and ios 8. When i try to install my certificate i got through my developer account for push notification for my app in the keychain local items, its not importing. The error says: Unable to import the certificate and the error code is 25294
New to the forum. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade OSX to 10.9.4. I have a time machine backup running regularly and have also downloaded the previous version from apple website *=URL=* I did not clone my disk before upgrading to 10.9.5 and don't have another installers apart from the one downloaded from apple website. There is mixed information available on this topic, some suggesting it's not possible at all to revert back to previous version at all. I would be grateful for detailed instructions on how to do this. Thank you I have learned my lesson now not to upgrade so quickly and wait for other users to beta test for me. Thank you in advance for looking into this.
I have a macbook pro retina 13 inchs late 2013, os x 10.9.4 I want to use a Cinema HD as external monitor. Cinema HD uses a DVI interface. If i connect my macbook to the monitor, Cinema HD is recognized but it is not turned on. The right resolution is identified but the led in front of the monitor is off. You can find below a copy of the message that appears into the console when I connected the monitor to the laptop. Any suggestions?
Prior to upgrading to iOS 8.0.2, I was able to set some music playing in Spotify, then press the home button, open Skype and message-away. Now when I launch Skype, Spotify pauses playback. This is really quite annoying. Has anyone else noticed this? Skype 5.5 Spotify 1.7.1 iOS 8.0.2 iPhone 4S
So far I've dabbled in video edition with consumer tools from Apple like various versions of iMovie and occasionally using external programs like ffmpeg or Handbrake for conversion. Now I'm looking at 4k video edition but iMovie doesn't seem to support video of such resolutions (or whenever I import it it always comes in 1080p). It also seems that with the recent iPhone 6 announcement Apple still doesn't want to jump into 4k video recording, so it's not surprising iMovie doesn't handle it at all.
When I was trying to change the font in my xcode, I accidentally dragged a typeface out of the dialog with the mouse, causing the typeface to disappear from the fonts dialog forever.  As you can see, Menlo Regular is gone, (Italic too, because I couldn't help myself, damn me) I can't select it anymore. Funnily enough, you can't drag the typeface out of the window on another machine here. How would I get it back? For clarification, the typeface is still available on the system, just not in that dialog.
I am often on call for work, if my phone rings it's very important that I can answer it. I set the ringer on loud when I go to bed to wake me if called. However the contract only covers certain times so I don't want to be distracted by every notification/message coming in when I am not on duty. Is it possible to configure Night Mode to come on automatically at (for example) midnight? I've looked into some of the Alarm/Timer functions which offer a few options "When Alarm Ends" but I've not seen what I'm looking for.
I have an issue with Mac App store not opening - probably due to using Clean My Mac which has now been trashed! Is there any way I can download a new OS without using App Store - the iMac does;t have a restore disk or partition! Cheeers Ian
Saying that "this episode is temporarily unavailable . . ."
I have two seagate usb 3.0 4tb drives full of music that I want to access wirelessly. I have my Bites USB 3.0 hub powered by DC 5V cord. I want to connect these to my airport extreme (5th gen), but there's a problem.
When I have five windows open and want to consolidate two windows into one I usually manually drag & drop all tabs from one window to the second one. The issue is that you can’t drop the last tab onto another window. My current workaround is to create a new (empty) tab, to drag & drop as usual, and then to close the window with that empty tab. Is there a way to drag the last tab in Safari to another window like in Chrome or do I have to continue using my workaround?
I have a large video (18GB) on my iPad that I deleted, but somehow did not actually get deleted off the device. It is not visible on the iPad itself but I can see it through any iOS file browser (iMazing, IBrowse, IExplorer)... just can't seem to delete it with these.
I would need a powerful way to open default applications. Not only to register them to extension/mime type (like duti), but also to be able to change default application depending on the asked resource.
I use tiny 13'' Windows laptop for work and whenever working from home would like to use my 27'' iMac as a display to it. Is this possible? Would HDMI->Thunderbolt cable do the trick? Is there anything more required?
here is the output of echo $PATH and when I gave cat /etc/paths this is the output I am not sure whether that /usr/local/bin is creating the error (command not found) Thank u for your suggestions
What happens when more than one "source" registered with HealthKit tracks the same activity? For example, if I have Human tracking my activity in general, and then use Cyclemeter (which supports HealthKit in version 10.3) to track particular bike ride, both will (I assume) submit the same activity to HealthKit. Presumably it should be possible for HealthKit to recognize that these activities are likely duplicates and at least ask me how to resolve the "duplication" (much as sync conflicts are resolved). In fact, the activities contain enough data that such recognition should generally be possible to perform automatically.
When attempting to connect to my StrongSwan server I'm getting getting an error message saying the server did not respond. However, looking in /var/log/system.log shows that it is responding but that the system isn't able to open /etc/authorization. My understanding, as a Mac noob, is that /etc/authorization is deprecated in Mavericks which is what I'm running here. Also, the connection is set up through the native Mac networking tool, the certs are loaded in Keychain Access, and I'm using IKEv1.
Right now I am running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) on my MacBook Pro, with Windows 7 via Boot Camp, and I also have a third FAT32 partition where I share data between Mac/Windows. I am going to upgrade to Mavericks. I Googled and it seems Mavericks is not going to be happy with letting me create the third FAT32 partition.
I am trying to reformat my MBP 13" late 2012 as I've sold it on eBay. I have KnowHow support from PC World and they're absolutely useless and just the most arrogant people I've ever spoke to in my entire life. Anyway enough about that...
I know it won't support 4k but it should at least do 1440 right? I can't get higher than 1080p...
The first one looks harmless and the IP hosts a very legitimate looking website claiming that their requests are for research purposes only. The second one is a different story though, it tries to download and run a Perl script. Fortunately I don't have wget installed so this attack didn't work but it seems like it's only a matter of time before I get a request like this that does some damage.
In Numbers, I'm trying to enhance a Concatenated formula of multiple VLOOKUP results. I'm currently producing a result of three concatenated answers (each a specific VLOOKUP formula). I would like to double that to six VLOOKUP formulas...Though duplicating the existing formulas, I keep getting errors. Here is my formula currently:
While trying to sync my phone and update new information this came up. There are purchased items on the iPhone “iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue? How do I do this?
My storage on the iPhone, which I had cleared to 6 GB of free space (I have NOT downloaded 8.0.2) suddenly, after iTunes software update, went down to 3 GB of free space! This happened just with iTunes software update on my computer, followed by a sync.
I have an iPhone 4 or 4s (not sure which) with a cracked screen that a friend of mine asked me to replace. I see online that you can pick that part up for $20-$30, but they are all "aftermarket" (i.e. non-Apple) parts. I've never replaced the screen on an iPhone before, but non-Apple parts in other areas (like laptop power adapters) have always given me cause for concern.
I've MacBook Pro with 2 external monitors connected. Is there a way to configure Parallels so that it allows you to use 2 monitors for Windows and the main one for Mac? I only found option to make it all or just 1. Also I don't want to expand Windows across the 2 monitors (i guess there's an option to do that). I want them treated as separate spaces so i can easily move things around between 2 monitors (for example Outlook on one, chrome on the other).
i have iphone5s just bought it a week back and upgraded to iOS 8 and it started restarting at regular intervals and also gets heated up like crazy please suggest
When I initially set up my Apple iCloud account, I entered my email address incorrectly and as a result have been unable to verify. How can I go back into my initial set up and correct the email address I gave it?
I know I'm going to hit myself when someone tells me the answer, but I set the Default Printer on my Mac, and wish I hadn't. Previously, it would default to the last printer used, which was great. Now I can't find a way to unset the default printer to get back to the last printer used state. FWIW, I'm on a Mac OS X 10.9.5 - Mavericks. Command line solutions welcome too...
I'm using Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2012 with CPU core i7 2.7 Ghz. I see that my computer is too hot as I think for a mac. The keyboard is hot,too.
I want to install MS Office on my other iMac. So I can have it functioning on 2 iMacs. I believe I purchased 3 licenses, but can't find the key. How can I locate my license key?
Today I was about to send an email when I've noticed that on the Compose screen most ribbons were missing. Ribbons like 'Insert', 'Table' (IIRC), were just not there. All I got was a super simple compose window with a handful of formatting options. Do you know how can I re enable all the lost formatting tools? Current Compose Window, note how many formatting options are not present Thanks!
We have an iPad that is running iOS 8 and can't see that iOS 8.0.2 is available. This id true from both the settings app and through iTunes. Other iOS 7 and 8 devices on the same network can see the update and have been able to update. We've done a complete "Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings" but the reset OS also can't see the update. A restore from iTunes didn't seem to fix the issue either. We also tried to update the OS from iTunes and are being told that the iPad is up to date.
I am attempting to create a new partition from a 3TB Fusion Drive on Mavericks, but Disk Utility won't allow it. I successfully created a partition from the same drive last month, so I am not sure why it won't allow me to create another one. Does this have something to do with the Fusion Drive? Is there a workaround? Thank you.
iOS 8 is now implementing MAC address randomization, where it randomizes your MAC address to networks while searching for networks. One article describes it as:
From Apple's 2014 WWDC Conference Sessions Introducing HomeKit (Slide 11) and Designing Accessories for iOS and OS X (Slide 88), it's my understanding that a User can control HomeKit-enabled/compatible accessories even if the User isn't in the same location. I presume this means that the instructions can be transmitted over the internet and I would also assume that this doesn't require a static IP at the end location (i.e. the Home with the accessories).
iMovie version: 10.0.5 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) It crashed with these information: And here is the thread-0 info
I have an imac os x 10.6.8 with 4GB memory and Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The Airport Extreme (already purchased) is compatible with os x 10.7.5 or higher. What is the best and, most importantly, the easiest way to go about upgrading? Which os version should I upgrade to? Thank you.
I've been struggling with this for a few hours now. What I want to achieve is I want to map Left Ctrl to Left Command ⌘. However, I want to preserve the functionality of Ctrl+Tab. So Ctrl+Anything should be Command ⌘+Anything with the exception of Tab. What I could achieve: Leave Ctrl and Command ⌘ as they are (default) Map Ctrl to Command ⌘ (in this case Ctrl+Tab = Command ⌘+Tab) Map Ctrl to Command ⌘ and map Command ⌘+Tab to Ctrl+Tab (in this case Command ⌘+Tab is not preserved) (I might want to add some other exceptions in the future, but seeing the basics surely helps). Thank you.
I just got an Antlion Modmic microphone, along with a Rockit headphone/mic to TRRS splitter. I've got everything set up, but my late 2011 mbp 15" just won't recognize the microphone as an input. I should have under my audio inputs box in system preferences a thing saying "external microphone," but I don't. I also don't think this is a hardware problem, either, it works fine on an iPhone. Things I have tried: -Plug the microphone in the Audio in Jack ----is not a powered mic input that my mic needs -Tried plugging it in to the splitter first then in to the computer- still nothing Is there something I'm missing?
I wanted to install the BASH patch, but the install failed, saying it had to be applied to OSX 10.9.5. But I installed that last week. Looking in the App Store, it clearly says that 10.9.5 was installed on 25th September 2014, but the "About this Mac" box says I'm at 10.9.4:
messages I send from my iphone 4 are showing as "sent as text message" I've read all the responses but no one mentions if my messages are actually being received. How can I tell if receipient is actually recieving my message?
So, we had a short power bump the other night and now I cannot get my AirPort Extreme to come back on. I have completely unplugged it and tried the reset button with no luck. This happened months ago as well, the difference was that after three days of being unplugged- when I plugged it back in it did come on and eventually reset. I'm at a loss and very frustrated- help!
My iphone 4s (iOS 7.1.2) is out of storage space. After spending time pruning old podcasts from my iTunes manager, I began to 'browse' my iphone.
I'd love to be able to control my currently playing iPhone song from my Mac. Does anyone know if handoff / continuity is supported in iOS 8 or 9 Music.app?
so I tried to upgrade my Xcode to 6.0.1 from 5.6 or something. I'm running on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 yet.
I already run the following and I get "vulnerable" Mac cysunza$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c 'echo hello' vulnerable hello I read the post about it but appears to me that his is just for newer systems that mine, so my questions are: I should be worried about it? (my guess is yes) Is there a way to solve this problem, without a new system? if there are such a patch, where I can get it? I upgrade my Mac to the last OS in another hard disk but I felt so slow, that's the reason I prefer work in the system 10.6.8 Thanks
Since I was not able to find it out does anyone of you know if the following INTERNAL SSD will be compatible with my MacMini Late 2012 (the cheaper one)? Internal SSD from BestBuy Thanks :)
I bought macbook pro-13 inches last year September, since last 15 days I'm facing difficulties regarding to booting issues and also some times suddenly the display hangs no controls, keys, trackpad not working the display just hanged. After restarting the device by long pressing power button and power on it after some time some times it shows some black lines appearing on screen after 30 seconds they disappear and turn into black screen sounding 3 beeps.
iOS 8 shows "Low Signal" in the battery usage stats, like here:  How great is the effect of signal quality on battery life? In other words, if the signal quality was better, would the stats be more like, let's say, 10% or 20% instead of the 31% for Personal Hotspot?
A friend just recently bought a MacBookPro10,1 (MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012) off of craigslist, it all checked out and worked fine until we erased the hard drive and reinstalled Mavericks (downloaded Mavericks from AppStore on my computer and used DiskMaker X v3.0.4 to create a bootable usb). It would go through first stage of install (copying files), but after reboot it would hang on the Apple logo plus spinning gear thing. We figured out it would only boot in Safe Mode. After a few hours of reinstalling and resetting stuff like NVRAM/PRAM and trying to get into AHT(unsuccessfully) and a bunch of other things, it finally would boot normally(without Safe Mode or any other keys pressed on boot).
Ok strange one this and really can't figure it out. Took out a dead 250gb apple (fujitsu) drive from 13" 2.53 intel core 2 duo (mid 2009) model.
I have iCloud on more than one phone—my old iPhone 5c broke and the screen doesn't work. I now have a new phone with iCloud backed up and it works fine. I want to sell my old phone but they state that iCloud must be removed. How do I do this on icloud.com without wiping my other phone?
I'm using rsync to mirror files from my internal drive to an external USB hard drive. This is the command I'm using:
Using Mac OS X 10.4 I made a script a while ago for my linux box in order to take archived data off of 300 floppies that automated the process. I would make an image of the floppy and copy the files directly off of the floppy. I managed to install xcode on the machine (in order to install ddrescue) The thing is on a linux box I mounted each floppy to /media/floppy and unmounted it to ddrescue it and copied it directly to a usb drive.
I have an iPod Nano 3rd Generation that I use to listen both music and podcasts from iTunes. Now the issue: I have a bunch of non-iTunes podcasts in MP3 format that I want to add to my iPod as podcasts. So far, if I add them, they get added as music and they get mixed with the music and I don't like this solution because if I shuffle I get podcasts mixed with my music.
I am trying to sync my iPad running iOS 8.0.2 with my iCloud account and it keeps telling me that I need more space. I have deleted everything I can and deselected every single app from the backup but it still says I need 5.1gb of space.
I'm trying to find out if someone has hacked my computer. In case I get the following message in my Terminal window: "Last login: Tue Sep 30 02:02:18 on console" does that mean a person has logged in, or could it be an automatic programme running?
I am running my mac on OSX 10.9.5 I can see Xcode 6 in the app store and there is a button "Update". But once I hit the update button, spinner pops up for a second and then dissappears and that's it. No warning or dialog or anything...It just doesn't do anything. Any idea what's going on and how to fix it ?
OS X's ability to rename or move a currently-open file right inside the application is really handy:  To take it one step further, is there a trick to actually delete the current file inside the app also? (Obviously 'closing' the file would need to be the second half of the process.) It would save a lot of time to not have to close the file, manually locate it in Finder, then move it to Trash - but but just delete it right there and then. I have tried dragging the 'file' (with the file icon to the left of the file name in window title) to the Trash icon on the Dock, but that doesn't actually move it to Trash. The best I can think of is to add ~/.Trash directory as an item in Finder Favorites, then change the 'Where' in the above screenshot to the created 'Trash' Favorite shortcut, followed by a Cmd+W to close it. It's a little clunky, but it's not bad.
Recently Find my iphone has been sending emails after I log in to check my kids whereabouts. Why is this now happening? Has there been a policy change?
I had tried to download the SE iPad app after upgrading from iOS 7 to 8. However, nothing happens when I click the download link. For those unfamiliar with the SE app, it's still in beta, so it has to be downloaded via web. It is accessed via an itms-services:// URL. (It's a bit of a secret exactly what it is.)
What is Mavericks Recovery Partition good for? I have Maverick also installed on an external Hard drive, in case something goes wrong with my main system I can use this external hard. Do I still need the recovery partition? (I also have my old Snow Leopard installation disk).
I am running OS X 10.4 on a G4 using Rumpus software for a FTP server. I keep reading I do not have to worry about Bash Bug if I am not running a web server or other services. does my FTP server qualify as other services. Am I vulnarable
I was wondering if anyone know where I can acquire Apple's 2015 fiscal year accounting calendar? I have tried a few varieties of search term and nothing is showing up.
My Mac is OS X 10.4.11 with Bash version 2.05b.0(1)-Release (PowerPC-Apple-Darwin8.0) on a PowerMac. It is vulnerable and need to be patched. This Mac uses Filemaker 8.5 pro client and hosts the remote files sitting on the Windows server. It also communicates with the MYSQL DB which is again hosted on the Windows server What is the possibility of my Mac being affected by this bug? I do not see any patches for this version of bash.
Due to this its become hard to get right. I have to go through all image preview to select one.
Almost as soon as I open Outlook 2011, Avast pops up with it's shield warning:  That's MSIL:GenMalicious-ALS [Trj]. Outlook has then "encountered an error and needs to close"; too quickly for me to determine which message this is an attachment to. I can delete the file from ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook Temp, but it just downloads and happens again.
If my iPod touch 5 gets stolen and logged out of the iCloud account, can I still track it without having Find My iPhone? If they restore it which would log me out I can still track it by Wi-Fi right?
I am using Genymotion and playing game: Clash of Clan. To Zoom in I need to : Right click + Move mouse to the Left. How can i do this Macbook pro retina display 15 inch. I know that tapping with two fingers means right click. I tapped with two fingers & without pulling them back i moved them to right of screen but nothing seems to happen. I also used my third finger to move right while tapped with 2 fingers but neither of these two tricks worked.
I have an external hard drive, which already has a bootable partition for a Snow Leopard installation disk, and a bootable partition for Mavericks, both created with Mac OS X and working fine in Windows and Mac. I want to create one NTFS partition and one FAT32 partition on this external hard as well but cannot.
A bit of background on our: we have an Apple Time Capsule, 3rd generation, connecting to the internet through a cable modem (WAN IP is configured via DHCP). As we can't get a signal across the house, but we do have interconnected Ethernet ports throughout the house, we've attempted to use a Buffalo (WZR-HP-G450H) router, running DD-WRT, wired to the TC and set up in bridge mode, as a repeater. Our network was as follows: 192.168.0.1 : Time Capsule (Gateway, DHCP Server) 192.168.0.2 : Buffalo (Bridge / Repeater, DHCP Server turned off) 192.168.0.3 - 192.168.0.200 : DHCP Pool (Allocated by TC) 192.168.0.201 - 192.168.0.254 : Unallocated / Reserved
Why? In that case, I think of Steam, which keeps requesting access to the Accessibility Panel. I don't think I want that, because Steam is not an Accessibility tool. What? I'd like to say "No, I don't want to give you access, stop asking". NOTE: Buscar's answer clearly explains why it needs to be accessed, which makes the problem a non-problem.
I have a Time Machine backup of my former computer, but it's filled with stuff I don't want (someone said steamapps ghost folders?) and so I've installed on the new one a new version of Mavericks and I want to just pick the iTunes music folder (and some others) and copy it on the new system. Question is how can I drag (or script-get or whatever-get) the whole folder which is divided between all the backups and drop it where I want it? I don't want to use Migration Assistant, because you have to restore the whole account.
If I’m designing icons/images in native iPhone 5 resolution, what @x multiple do I need to export them at for iPhone 6+? Just use @2x? That’s too big right? Example: an icon is 44px x 44px. If I export at @2x it’s 88px. That’s too large for 6+ right? What’s the right multiple or ratio from 5 to 6+.
The mouse works, but the custom buttons do not do the correct thing until I open system preferences->microsoft mouse. When I open the preferences I do not need to change anything-- I simply open the preferences window and the buttons start doing what I want them to. And The preferences window always shows the correct settings. The continue to work after I close them until the next restart. It's like there's an invisible "on/off" switch that gets activated when I open the settings window Any ideas on how I can get these settings to be enabled automatically without needing to do this every time?
Can anyone please tell me why my iPad automatically capitalises "Bono" but not "the edge"?
Everytime I boot up my iMac (OS X 10.9.3) it doesn't find my mouse. If I unplug the mouse and reconnect it after around 20 seconds, it works.
When sending a notification to OS X's Notification Center via AppleScript's osascript, such as in: The Notification Center shows "AppleScript Editor" as the notification's source:
I need a list of the periods of times I used my MacBook throughout the last 30 days. It would be sufficient to have a list of all lid-open and lid-close datetimes (because I close the lid whenever I don't use the MacBook). A chronological list of all sleep / wakeup / poweroff / poweron (and maybe login) datetimes would help as well. What didn't help: Googling The last command Filtering /var/log/system.log (which btw only contains one day) Filtering the console app (but maybe there's a way...)
So I have account on my iMac (Maverics OS) for children and parental controls are extremely unusable. 1. I created account and did set up whole account and applications 2. child logs in 3. child does not see cartoon folder that is allowed for her as user because of simple finder 4. I enable full finder but then child has access to ALL applications and data that are on external HDD even though permission were set up so she does not have ANY visibility 5. even though child has no permissions or eventually read permission, child can delete files and folders without a problem that are on external HDD even though of permissions 6. for example teamviewer that is installed on computer and some other application (and some I cannot find at all) are constantly popping out and wanting me to allow it. I click ok because I DO NOT WANT TO ALLOW but that does not stop that program to constantly every second pop up and wanting me to allow please, either give me solution how to do it properly and to st
I'm using Preview to add some speech bubbles to a picture. The default speech bubble assumes the speaker is below and to the left. Can I change where the speech is coming from?
Occasionally we have employees supplied with company equipment that leave on less than favorable terms. Some of those devices the employees have locked to their own Apple accounts somehow, which leaves us unable to reset them the normal way. Is there a procedure somewhere that we can restore these to factory (I assume that it would require some kind of vetting process with Apple to confirm the iPad not stolen of course). So, what's the procedure for this type of enterprise iPad equipment recovery (if any, perhaps they're just bricks now)?
I had a couple of notifications on my lock screen on my iPhone, some Facebook, and some SMS. I was logged into Facebook on my PC, and saw the notifications there also, so used my desktop to see what they were. Then my phone screen lit up again, and on the lock screen were no new notifications, but the Facebook ones were gone, leaving just the previous SMS ones. Is there now functionality to remove and/or sync notifications across devices? I note that on my desktop I seem to see repeat notifications appear that I have already dismissed on my iPhone, so perhaps it's only iOS that supports is as yet? Can someone describe the mechanisms used to remove such notifications from my phone?
I would like the developer console to be a permanent fixture in my Safari. Having to hit cmd+opt+C every time I open a new tab is getting old. Rather than using cmd+opt+C to unhide the dev console it would be great if I used that to hide the dev console.
I created my resume in Pages 5.2.2 and converted it to a PDF using the "Export to PDF" feature. Overall, everything seems to work fine. However, I am having problems applying to jobs on Jobvite. When I upload my resume using the "Upload Resume" dialog, it appears to upload, but then the file input changes to "No file selected." and the site freezes. The dialog still says "Uploading" and I see these errors in my web console:
I need to get those flag icons:  Question is How do I do it? As far I've tried : searching the web for them (duh..), extracting them from Ukelele package (only non-retina ones are there), (Unsuccessfully) trying to extract it from this file: /System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat
I've been driving a bit lately up and down the east coast of America and I realized that Apple Maps constantly tells me to "stay left" when going through tolls. Every toll that I have gone through has E-Z Pass only lanes on the far left. Some of them split up early so if you get into the left lane you're stuck there. Does Apple Maps detect the E-Z Pass in my car? If I was more oblivious while driving and I didn't have one, I could end up with some hefty fines.
On our family mac, each child has a separate account, which is very nice. The kids use Chrome for their browser, because the parental controls work so well (much better than the OS X built-in ones!), but the parental control mode doesn't allow extensions, and some of the websites they leave open (ChoreMonster, Mathletics) really peg the CPU. If these sites are left open (on the kids' users) then when my wife or I try to log in to our user, our brand new mac is unbearably slow.
I got a new MBP 13 Retina display, mid 2014. I get on the battery up to 5 hours at most. Is this normal? This is my first product from Apple so I do not know if this is as supposed or I got the wrong idea. Configuration i5 2.6Ghz 16Gb Ram 256Gb SSD
If I go to Settings --> Sound, then there's a checkmark that says "Play feedback when volume is changed." I unchecked it, but the sound effect is still there.
In my OS X Mavericks I did not install Java 6 from Apple, just Java 8 from Oracle, and everything (including Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA) works fine, except JasperSoft iReport Designer, that just closes after you request to open it. When trying to open from command line, using I got: After doing some research, it showed that maybe I could not have some dynlib on same place as Apple's Java have, or even using --jdkhome=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home, but even doing those workarounds it didn't work. After some more research, found And inside it, changed:
This is a follow up to my other question. Now the problem is sometimes when inserting a USB stick, the computer freezes and goes to a complete gray screen(kernel panic). It seems to only happen if the USB is plugged in after it boots up.
I need to toggle "Allow Wi-Fi Calls" all the time. Currently I have to do the following.
I downloaded the update 8.0.2 on my iPhone 5s and it really did mess everything up. Nearly all my apps keep crashing when I try to open them, my imessage does not work. The only thing I can do with device is make calls and send SMS! I have powered off the device and turned it on again, but it doesn't help. Any suggestions what to do?
What should i do to recover the files in that folder? What can I do to fix my External Hard disk ?
I have XCode 5.1 working without problems with iOS 7.1 simulators until yesterday when I upgraded to Xcode 6, the installation was completed successfully, but whenever I try to download and install iOS 7.1 simulator from Preferences -> Downloads, it gives me this weird message: I searched for such error but couldn't find any clue to solve it. I completely removed XCode using CleanMyMac 2 app, restarted the machine, re-installed Xcode from MAC App Store, the installation was successful, restarted the machine again, and then tried to install iOS 7.1 simulator but to no avail.
I have just noticed that for some of my directories on an external disk there is a huge difference in calculated size depending on whether I use the GUI Finder or du (or rather du -h). Using Finder on this directory I get 145 GB, whereas du gives me 135 GB. That is a difference of 10 GB! Checking another directory I (on my local machine) I get 41 vs 43,7. So there seems to be almost a 10% difference here. Can anyone explain this?
i was asking if someone knows a way to: open a desktop folder switch space open the same folder without being brought back to the old space Is there a way to do it?
I encrypted my volume before installation and have added my user as FileVault user afterwards. Now I can login with either the disk password or my user login password at the EFI (Filevault) login screen. (The former option sends me to the regular OS X login screen where I can again login as my user.) How do I hide the disk password login option at the EFI login screen without enabling the input menu (com.apple.loginwindow showInputMenu -bool TRUE)? In other words: How do I go from disk password-based encryption to login password-based encryption, at least cosmetically?
I am attempting to connect to a web proxy server using the Charles proxy application installed on Windows. I have two iPhones - an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.0.2 and an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. I have used both of these phones to connect to my proxy server (both HTTP and HTTPS) for a while now, but this is the first time I have tried to connect the iPhone 5 following the iOS 8 update. I can connect to secure and insecure on my iPhone 4, but my iPhone 5 does not allow HTTPS and gives me this error: I have tried installing the SSL certificate again on my iPhone 5, but this has had no effect. Both phones have identical network configuration and I can communicate with the proxy on the iPhone 5 - just not over SSL. The Charles error is: SSLHandshake: Remote host closed connection during handshake
I wonder if its possible to browser websites on Apple TV without having an iPod, iPhone or iPad to mirror from. If Apple TV has a browser that I can use with my Bluetooth keyboard, that would be awesome. Is it possible yet? Edited to Add: I haven't jailbroken my ATV yet, but I'm open to any solution that requires it.
As far as I can tell, Command-backtick (⌘-`) behaviour in OSX 10.9 works as follows: Given a stack of windows for the current application 1 2 3 4 5 6 in order of most to least recently used: Do it once: switch to window 2 (for the current application). Do it again: switch to window 3. However, if you click on window 2 before doing Command-` for the second time, window 1 gets the focus instead of window 3.
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running OS X Mavericks (10.9.5). When I hook up two displays to the Mini (one Thunderbolt, one HDMI) it will configure and work properly for a time.
As the title says, I've already installed Windows by bootcamp and all works well. Now I've found this windowssupport.dmg in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Bootcamp. Can I just delete it? I'm low on disk space.
I must be missing something simple - I've located my son using iOS 8's Find my Friends app, and now I want to use Maps to navigate to that location. How can I do that? I don't see a way to start a navigation from the Friends app, Siri always wants to navigate to my son's home address (I know where that is, thanks), and Maps doesn't seem to offer access to Friends either...
Is there an actual file where the data is stored while I have something in my clipboard?
Is there any way to make the video on iPhone remember the last watched position of a movie? If I stop watching at like 59:03, I expect the app to open the movie at 59:03 the next time I open the movie in the app. Apple TV does it, or really asks if you want to pick up where you left, or start from the beginning.
Apparently Chrome Beta for OS X is supposed to be 64 bit. (e.g. http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/08/29/chrome-38-beta-arrives-new-user-switching-profiles-guest-mode-64-bit-default-mac/
I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.1.1 and my iCloud is disabled (greyed out) in settings. How do I enable it if I can't select it?
Apple keyboards can have shortcuts using alt/option to type non-standard characters. For example, I can type the Swedish å by using alt+k and then typing a, and the Portuguese ç by using alt+c and then typing c. Now, from a touch typing perspective, how should I use these shortcuts? I mean, with which finger should I type them? I reckon that these resemble all the shift+key combinations, which I strike with the pinky of each hand, but the apple keyboard has only one alt key on the left side.
Now one of the Mac OS X machines that was directly exposed to the Internet is behaving very strangely. I can no longer log into the machine either through Remote Desktop or the normal login window. (I get the shaking dialog box, as if I had entered the wrong password.) Yet I can still login through SSH just fine.
I've been walking around with this problem for a mighty long time and it's really frustrating! I have no idea what the cause is…
My connection right now is 200 Mbit/s download and upload for any kind of internet usage except downloads over the app store. I want to download a software update and I'm getting maybe 1 Mbit/s. I tried these "fixes" I found in the internet: I turned Certificate Revocation List (CRL) in the Keychain Access preferences off. I changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8.
Bare with me as I am new to using a mac so my terminology might not be that great... I have been trying to find a way to keep my windows opening in full screen mode. I have tried to open them in full screen and then close them without resizing the screen, but then when I restart my computer the windows default back to a small screen and it gets very frustrating trying to navigate to another window. Is there a way to set the mac up so it defaults to full screen mode when opening an app (for example chrome). Thanks
I have a Mac Book Air 2010 with an NVidia GeForce 320M chip. When I use Xcode 6 in the View Debugging tool (a 3D interface that allows debugging the view hierarchy of an app), the computer crashes and then reports an error with GPU driver (similar bug reported here).
Every few days this will happen when doing various things in Ruby CLI (notably, using the knife utility for Chef) on OS X (unable to replicate in other environments; Linux, FreeBSD, etc.):
I recently had to restore my installation of OS X 10.9.4 from a backup. Since then(*), the App Store application is broken. It displays an empty window showing the MAS symbol and the menu bar. Clicking icons in the menu bar highlights them all. Nothing else happens. See the console output below: 01.10.14 19:09:08,079 storeagent[759]: * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '* setObjectForKey: key cannot be nil' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c63425c __exceptionPreprocess + 172 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8cdb1e75 objc_exception_throw + 43 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8c52f22e -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:] + 1102 3 storeagent 0x000000010e751b0b storeagent + 31499 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff904df1bb _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff904dc28d _dispatch_client_callout + 8 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff904de673 _dispatch_queue_drain + 451 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff904df9c1 _dis
Here's the log from my problem report. I'd really appreciate if someone could take a look at it. I should also mention that my computer has been freezing and beeping three times. I removed google drive from my computer as I had seen it caused problems with previous versions of OS X, and I reinstalled the OS. Neither has fixed the issue.
I use Calendar on my iPhone, for school timetable. So the lessons are displayed in the Notifications. But I have discovered, that after updating my phone to iOS8, there is a weird bug. On tuesdays, I see the monday lessons, (after reseting the phone, it gets back to normal - shows the correct day). Every other day this works without a problem... Does anyone else have the same problem and any ideas how to fix this?
So my niece frequently asks my sister/parents to screen share with me so we can make funny faces at each other (using photo-booth-like effects). I also occasionally help my parents by sharing their screen, and let me tell you - having them point their phone at the screen is maddeningly frustrating. I used to do this through iChat, then as a part of Messages.app, but I haven't been able to do these things for awhile now. I usually end up apologizing to my 5 year old niece, but she doesn't understand why I can't do the funny faces anymore, and honestly - I don't fully understand it either. How the heck do you do these things in the current version of Mavericks/Messages? I have an AIM account (using an @me.com email), but when we're both running Messages, the "Ask to share Jane Doe's screen" menu option under the buddies menu is always grayed out. It used to work and everything is still set up the same. I've read that these features were dropped by Apple and that Yosemite will re-introduc
On the mac mail I used to be able to select a mail, then press “Command” button and “M” to delete an attachment (without deleting the whole e-mail, just delete the attachment). But right now, when I try to delete attachments in some e-mails by pressing those two buttons, it just make a “ding” sound and wouldn’t delete anything. Can you please tell me how to solve this problem?
My current MacBook Pro is configured to run both OSX and Windows, either via Boot Camp or Parallels. It's backing up to a Time Capsule. I want to set up a new MacBook Pro with the identical configuration along with data and applications that reside in both partitions. Can a backup be restored onto a new machine and have both OSX and Windows partitions?
I recently purchased a Western Digital MyCloud NAS device. I'm wondering if there would be a problem with using it for backups with Time Machine on a Mac mini (late 2012) running OS X 10.9.5. Is there anything I should know?
When I use the combination option-boot, or C-boot, or Option-R-boot, nothing happens... then Ubuntu launches and crashes. I never see the Apple logo. When I insert the CD into the Mac at boot or before the boot, it keeps it a little time at boot, then ejects it. EDIT 1 I have rebooted holding command-option-P-R. No display, the Mac makes THE sound, and auto-reboot.
Okay, so my iPhone and iPod are both connected therefore the iMessages that I receive on my iPhone are also sent to my iPod, but earlier by mistake I disconnected my iPod through my iPhone settings. Couple hours pass by and I just connected them again but I just wanted to know will the iMessages I received earlier ever go through to my iPod or will it only receive the iMessages from the time I re-connected?
Where do AirDrop files go when I transfer them between an iPad, iPhone and iPod? I AirDropped some Google Docs from my iPad to my iPhone but nothing happened; where did my files go? The file was a list of tools.
Ever since I updated my iPad Air to iOS 8, I've been getting constant reminders for the setup cellular data plan. I bought the iPad with the SIM chip just in case I wanted to get data for it, but have so far decided that I don't need it. This popup still comes up even when I go into settings and turn cellular data off. Has anyone else had this problem since upgrading to iOS 8?
How can I display USA content on my Apple TV while I'm in Mexico using a hotel's wifi? (I've been told that AppleTV may only show Mexican content while I'm in Mexico.)
Events like EC.cause/GIGE/LIDO/OHC/PWRB/RTC/USB# can wake up a Mac. Is there a way to programatically simulate either of these ?
I have recently retired Adium in favor of Apple's own Messages app, because it makes my life easier in some ways (especially ever since getting an iPhone). However, there is one feature that Adium had which Messages apparently does not - the ability to set a different user icon on each account. I like having some of my accounts have a different picture for various reasons (for example, having a more professional icon on my work account and a more fun one on my personal account); is there any way to get this functionality back, without having to use both Adium and Messages?
I just updated to iOS 8.0.2, and it really screwed up my phone to the point that I had to restore my phone from a backup. Now, my iMessages on my iPhone are only up to the date of my last backup, while my iMessages are all up to date on my MBP. Is there a way to sync up the messages from my MBP to my iPhone so I can have all of my recent text messages?
There are certain web sites whose passwords I don't want saved, for security reasons. I want to type them in manually whenever needed. How do I configure Safari, Chrome and Firefox on Mavericks to not save passwords for these web sites, and not to ask me? I don't want my browsers to ask me whether to remember the password for these web sites, because I can (and have) selected Yes without thinking, say when I'm in a hurry.
I'm using Apple Mail on OSX Mavericks, with an IMAP account configured (Google). Since all my mails are archived on the server (I'm using Apple Mail just from a few months), when I search emails, I need to retrieve all the emails stored on Google servers. Instead, I can only retrieve recent emails, while on my iPhone (Mail app) the search is distributed on the server.
I lost my iphone5 a few minutes ago. I have activated my FindmyIphone. But since the phone is off it is not being traced. Also I have a 4 digit passcode installed to unlock the phone. Is it possible that the phone can be misused in this case. Also what is the likelihood of finding it through FindmyIphone and IMEI registration, I have registered on both.
If you look at my profile, you can see that i ask people not to capitalize the word "i" in the middle of a sentence. Now, ignoring whether or not this is a good idea, can i make my iPad not autocorrect a lowercase i to a capital one?
Whenever I cancel a Finder operation (e.g. Duplicate), the progress window that pops up never finishes. The Blue/White progress is animated, the X is of course disabled, and it says "Stopping" under the progress bar. But it never stops. All I can do is force quit it, which causes Finder to close and my Mac to reboot. Anyone able to help me resolve this? Opening the "Force Quit" option from the 'Apple' icon in the task bar but then cancelling made it go away. Cheers, Nap
I'm currently working on an iOS application which almost started from scratch (And I did also as I didn't work on iOS before that). My question is : Now that we have iOS8 that is to replace iOS7 and iPhone6 should I bother make my display compatible with iPhone 4 ? I've try to look for statistics on the web but I wasn't very lucky and couldn't find any numbers to help me take a decision... What is really frustrating is that some of the very useful library don't work on iOS8 (or at least not like they're supposed to...) But work like charme on iOS7. If anyone has some knowledge to share... More than welcome ! Thanks
I just got an iPhone 6+ and I want to move my Health data from my iPhone 5. I know I can export it, but I don't see any importation options in Health. How do I move all this data?
I've decided to reistall osx Mavericks on my MacBook, so I restarted my Mac clicking cmd ⌘+R. In recovery mode I erased the main hard drive so I can have a clean install. Then I selected "Install OS X Maverics" and after asking my permission to "verify the installation with apple" I got this error: I restarted, and then it started the "Internet Recovery" mode, which now gives me the option to install OS X Mountain Lion instead of Mavericks, and gives me the same error every time. I've checked the date through the terminal, and it is correct, but I am not in "PDT", I'm in "IDT" time zone.
Is there a way on iOS to turn on the Do not Disturb feature on an app-per-app basis? I have some apps I only use for work related purposes, and I'd like them to go silent on non working hours (to try and recover from workaholism) but I'd still like to receive regular notifications from other apps. If that's not possible, any suggested workarounds?
I am trying to restore my iPhone 5s to iOS 7.1.2 but I only get error 3194. My hosts file is cleaned and I think it’s just Apple that doesn’t let me update to something other than iOS 8. Is there any other way to restore my phone to iOS 7? While trying to restore content and settings it got stuck in an endless spinner.
I know Yosemite(Leaving public betas) is yet not out but i am little curious to clear out few doubts before hand. I have bought my new macbook pro retina 15 inch so i am not aware about few things. If i upgrade from Mountain Lion to Yosemite will I loose all my installed softwares? Data?
Does timemachine backup all keychain access keys for xcode security? Or does that need to me configured to work correctly? We want to back up a IOS App build machine.
I have 2 Hdd's one solid state and the other is moving parts. I have Itunes on my solid state and all of my music on the secondary. Is it possible to to have iTunes play music from that drive without me having to waste all of my ssd with mp3's? Windows Media Player can do it with no problem so I'm sure iTunes can. Anyone understand what I'm asking for or have a solution? If it matters I'm using Windows 7 Pro and Itunes 11.4
Okay, so my machine suffered a power loss this morning, and when Time Machine went to back-up it seems to have decided it can't trust the usual event log that it uses: It then proceeds to do a deep-scan, which is understandable I suppose. However, the required space estimate is far too high; my back-up volume's total size is only 3tb, and the total data on Macintosh HD is around 2tb, this means that if I let Time Machine continue to run it's going to delete all of my backup history and then fail with a warning that it can't backup because there isn't enough space. This is clearly wrong however, as the back-ups on the disk are valid, and should be matching most of the files found on Macintosh HD.
Is there any way to play a YouTube video in the background on iOS 8 so I can have music playing from a video while doing other things with the iPad?
At one point, the keyboard started to behave, so I thought the conniption was over, and it was, for awhile. I turned on my BT headphones and started to watch a movie. After a little while, the audio cut out and I started going through the same process of turning on/off bluetooth, turning the headphones on/off, turning the computer on/off. After a few minutes, I got the error I posted at the top of this post:
What do Apple technicians actually change when they take the iPhone 5 for repairing the sleep-wake button issue? Do they just replace the outer button or something else too? What parts are actually replaced with new ones?
I would prefer to have all parent directories timestamps modified when a file is modified by any program. Is this possible on a mac?
I think it is crazy on this option to send an email everytime. This feature was added so if you lost your phone it could be found but it is also a good tool to check on your children or (spouse). I do not like that it sends my child an email everytime I check it. That should be parental control. Makes you want to get an android that doesn't notify the person their phone was checked up on.
As soon as I downloaded IOS 8.0.2 I'm no longer able to read emails correctly… My staff send me email and I'm receiving pictures as winmail.dat and they're jpeg.
am trying to update my iMac 21.5 inch mid 2010 from os x mavericks 10.9.1 to 10.9.5 to work on Xcode 6 but it always fail and give me the alert message OS X Update could not be verified . It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading . Click download and check the update again can anybody help
The Window All My Files in Favorites stopped showing any files 2 days ago. for me it's the most helpful Library of all, and where I often go for my active files of all types.
I need to work with at least OpenGL 3.1, and i am not sure which version do i have. When i execute this command on terminal: glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" i get this message: OpenGL version string: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.24.16 310.90.9.05f01 However when i check the version on program called "OpenGL Extensions Viewer" it says up to 3.3 but only with core features, what that means? What if i install Windows and update the graphics drivers, i will still be able to use OpenGL 2.2 or more? I appreciate any help. Macbook 15-inch, Mid 2010 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB, OS X 10.9.5
I try and keep an eye on my cell data so I don't use too much. From what I've noticed from my own usage the apps that eat up the most data are the ones that stream music and videos like Pandora and Youtube, so I turned off cell data for these apps. Just yesterday I got a notification from Pandora saying "New music has been added to so-and-so station". I wasn't on wifi and after double checking the cell settings data was still disabled for it. Whats going on?
On startup, I see a corrupted video stream as above. Recently replaced stock video board because I wasn't getting any video output. Any ideas on what might be wrong and how I can fix it?
I just got a Macbook pro 2014 old retina version. When the display switches off, like its going to sleep and I quickly hit a key to wake it back up. It shows a black screen with a cursor for about 15-20 seconds before the login screen appears. Its only if I do it instantly after the screen switches off. If I leave it off for sometime it comes back instantly... Its not a problem when I don't log back in and let the screen go black from the login prompt. I also tried to totally disable the show login screen after screensaver/sleep option and it still take a while to go from black to my desktop.
I downloaded an app for "watching FREE online tv shows" and obviously the app didn't worked, so I uninstall this app and now every time I click on any link in safari (most of the times in youtube) i get a new tab with publicity. Im really worried about this because its something new for me, I can't find a solution, I installed an ad block from safari extensions and restored safari and nothing works. Please help me! Thanks.
I like using Acrobat within Safari as a convenience. But when I try to search in a PDF with command-F, it first brings up the Safari search box, which steals the focus from Acrobat's own search box. This amounts of a lot of annoying extra clicks or button presses to search in PDFs from inside the browser. How can I short-circuit this behavior? And if there's another in-browser PDF reader that avoids this problem (and is also free and is light/fast/safe), I'd take that as an answer as well.
I have three active iTunes Season Passes for various shows, the first ones I've gotten in years. However, it seems that apparently the episodes don't auto-download anymore? Is that right? And you can't even hit "check for available downloads"? Because that was a big part of the appeal for me, back when I had them for LOST and such: having new episodes automatically added to my library, so I could pull them up on the AppleTV or whatever without having to seek them out. Currently, the only two ways I know of to get new episodes are to follow the link in the emails each week, or to manually go to the each show's page on iTunes and download the new episode each week.
I recently changed my text editor default from 'Text Wrangler' to 'Sublime Text' but even then all the default icons for the files types such as .js and .php still show TextWrangler default icon. When I open the files, It opens in Sublime Text correctly. What can I do to fix all these default icons?
I have a network locked phone which my uncle sent my from foriegn. I previously updated it to iOS 7.0.4 and activated it using Hactivate tool because I did not have the network SIM. I used it for 6 months normally. Then I JailBroke my iPhone using evasi0n 7. It again worked normly for 2 months. But it curropted some of iOS applications including Mail, Safari, etc. I tried to restore it to iOS 7.0.4 but Apple didn't allow me. So I made a backup and restored to latest iOS 7.1.2 for iPhone 4. It was sucessful but again activation through SIM needed.
I've an iPhone 5(GSM) running on ios 7.0.3. I can't restore. iTunes says that the IPSW is not compatible?
I've recently extended my iCloud storage to 20GB and now I am wondering how to upload files to it from my iPhone. Is there any way to do it as it is in dropbox's application? Just to open the folder that you want and upload the files. If not, are there any alternatives?
How to disable autoupdate on Mac OS X without removing any files or changing permissions?
Finally, a bonus question is there is a tool or a way to customise ACLs? For example I want to drop export_* from entry 1's ACL (I've also seen that done by StartSSL with their digital IDs).
I just upgraded to iOS 8.0.2. Now there is a permanent keyboard on the lower half of my screen in locked mode and on home screen. The keyboard will pop up every time I receive a text message and it will cause the home screen to lock up. How do I get rid of this?
I recently noticed that there's only 60 GB of my 250 GB Macbook Pro diskspace left. I have been using it for only a few months and have only a few applications installed.
Someone set a passcode to my iPad, and he can't remember what it is. Now I can't open it, I'm always asked for 4-digit passcode. But, I do know my Apple ID credentials, and my iPad is connected to my Apple Account. I know that in Android based devices there is an option to skip the passcode screen using the Google Account of the device, but I can't find similar way in my iPad. Is there a way?
PVstar+ was my favorite Android app. However I got an iphone and it's not even listed... Are there alternatives to this for iPhone?
I am telling it to not backup any of the apps, because I don't want all that dead space on my laptop. The error seems to happen after the backup and when the sync process changes to "Transferring purchases from X" I searched around and wasn't able to find a satisfying definition of error -50 does anyone know what it is?
I am new to Mac's. I have a new MacBook Air OS X 10.9.5. I was given and told to get it on our active directory domain. I was able to figure out how to bind it to AD. I have allow network users to log in at login windows checked. When accessing options, I have allow all network users. Directory Utility User Experience, selected create mobile account, selected Use UNC path from Active Directory, Network protocol to be used smb, Administrative, allow administration by checked and allow authenctication from any domain in the forest checked. I have also checked remote login in sharing. When i log off or restart, I am never prompted with login to login to Active Directory. Can someone help me. Thanks in advance Mike
I use Command+Shift+4 to capture screenshots on my MacBook Pro with a Retina display. I'd like to paste these captures immediately into another app I'm using. The problem I'm encountering is the resolution is so high, I have to first load them into an image editing app and scale them down 50%. I was wondering if there was some system config to control the scaling of screen captured images automatically to save me the extra step?
When trying to update apps on the Apple Store I still get the account of someone who was using the computer before me:  How do I change that, it's the only place where I can't use my Apple ID account. PS: It sounds like I stole a computer but no, my work gave it to me and the employee before me was using it with his Apple ID account and thought he removed everything.
I have an iPhone 5s. I recently noticed that my Settings/Mobile page has a "Data Roaming" switch and an "EU Internet" switch:
After the update to iOS8, the switch to disable the 3G has been replaced by a disable 4G switch. 4G is already off but how could I also disable also 3G (which is still active, as shown on the status bar)
I search for a notes application that supports File sync with Dropbox folder Searching the contents of the text files Import new files from Dropbox folder automatically
I would like to not lose my SMS on my Android phone, how can I transfer them to my iPhone ?
As server assembling becoming less of a norm for software engineers, leave Web-based entrepreneurs with 2 choices: Backend as a service: buy a service (e.g., VPS) and deploy a code on some other company's servers. Backend as a service: buy a service (e.g., VPS) and deploy a code on some other company's servers. Scale/grow your servers: Just buy servers and scaling them to fulfill the need of your apps. Scale/grow your servers: Just buy servers and scaling them to fulfill the need of your apps.
I have a imac as above, which has 2 x 2gb memory cards installed, I would like to upgrade my memory by putting in 4 new ones each being 4gb making a total of 16gb, but what happens to the memory already on the 2 cards in the mac, if i remove them will I loose all the stored memory in my photos, word etc. ? please help, als can I have a total of 32gb in this model?
This is a small thing, but the details are where it is at. I have a new iPhone 6 running iOS 8.02 and the App Store flag says I have four new app updates to download. This was true before I downloaded all the updates in iTunes and synched with my phone. When I click on the App Store app and click on Updates 'Update All' is grayed out and there are no apps to update.
I have tried multiple things to rememdy this issue. I have tried enabling and logging in as root, tried to clone the system preferences app and accessing security and privacy from the view menu and nothing seems to work. I have repaired permissions from disk utility, repaired permissions through terminal at utility repair and still nothing. I will say that there was a previous user at my machine which I went through the best approach I could find by saving the previous home folder and creating another. My new user is set to administrator also. I am open to any suggestions here as I am fresh out of ideas. I also made sure to authenticate via the lock icon in system preferences pane. Im running: -3.4ghz i7 imac -16g ram -osx mavericks 10.9.5 -local network Update: just tried running this in terminal and restarting… also to no avail sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist
In settings, I don't see a way to stop the PC from going to sleep.
I need to copy 20TB of data onto a thunderbolt array. The box where the data exists does not have a thunderbolt connection, so I will need to utilize the local 1GB network for this. (Yes, it will take forever).
I am trying to update XCode. When I go on the AppStore and try to update XCode I receive the following message: email.address@PastUniv.com is an address email I had in my previous university and this email address has now been canceled! How can I update XCode with the Apple ID I am using today?
Like me you may have seen updates available for some of your iBooks, and that might have made you assume that when a book gets changed in the Store, it gets updated in your Library. This appears not to be the case. I’m not sure why some books do get updated that way; but not all do. Apple's own documentation for the Swift language, for example, had changed since I originally purchased the iBook; but no update was produced in the Store (causing me to rely on out of date information) and the only thing I could do was to delete and re-download the up-to-date iBook (which removed all my annotations, of course). Is there some mechanism that I'm missing for ensuring that iBooks in my Library are up-to-date?
Since Apple change my motherboard last week, my early 2011 MBP 15" won't recognize the mic of my headset... I tried to reboot, search in the settings panel but I can't make it work... I tried in both holes, in and out (it used to work with both) with no success... What else can I try ?
I'm using SwiftKey on my iPhone 5s (iOS 8), and have it set as the default keyboard, with Emoji also enabled. I have removed the default keyboard.
After replacing the SuperDrive in my MacBook Pro I copied the Recovery HD to a USB stick and booted from it. Then I ran diskutil cs create MacintoshFusionDrive /dev/disk0 /dev/disk1 (SSD, HDD), reinstalled MacOS from the stick and migrated from my backup. Unfortunately, I didn't think about keeping the Recovery HD, so I ran from the stick diskutil cs resizeVolume on the logical volume and diskutil cs resizeDisk <UUID> <size> "Recovery HD" <size> on the coreStorage disk of the HDD to make a new partition on wich I then copied the contents of my recovery stick.
I'm using Apple Mail on OSX (Mavericks). Since I'm accustomed to use Gmail webmail, which shows labels behind each email, I'm looking for a way to show labels (see for instance picture below) in a similar way on Apple Mail.
I tried google'ing around and I could not find the shortcut that can send me to the "output window(if that's what it's called)" after telling my program to compile and run. Also, how would I switch back to my code editor from that output window? I've done it before, but I forgot it. Thank you
I deleted some playlists on my iPhone 5 to make some space for some apps. But the playlists are not in iTunes. I didn't delete the playlist from iTunes, but when I synced my iPhone with my iTunes, and I checked the playlists to re-sync them, they were missing.
I'm following a tutorial and when I CTRL-drag from the view to the source code in Xcode nothing happens. I get the blue line but when I drop it in the source code I don't get the menu where I can choose options. Please see screenshots:
I can't format the drive, I've tried partitioning within disk utility and in the terminal using fdisk to no avail. Here's some more information:
My apartment was broken into yesterday and my Mac (Mavericks) is gone. I'm trying to dig up the serial number for the police, but I'm having zero luck. Here's what I've done so far, to no avail: Checked Find iPhone through my iPhone and iCloud.com (didn't iCloud show the serial number at one time?) Checked *=URL=* Searched my emails for one from Apple from purchase (found an email with an almost 3 year old Order Number and a Crucial email with some specs) Searched for the box my Mac came in Here are some things I still have that may help: An external drive used for Time Machine My iPhone used the Mac for iTunes syncing Programs connected to the Internet, like Dropbox and TeamViewer
I have been trying for days to get Windows 7, 64 bit installed on my late 2013 Macbook Retina using bootcamp and always run into the same problem - when the Windows installation starts it gives an error message saying "No device drivers were found for my CD/DVD device..." and prompts be to try to browse to a location to find the drivers. When I try to browse for the drivers I see two drives: BOOTCAMP (C:) BOOT (X:) Program Files sources Users Windows Program Files sources Users Windows (C:) is my bootcamp partition and I am assuming that (X:) is my install drive, but the file structure looks nothing like what it looks like from Mac OS X. I never get the prompt asking me which partition to install Windows on.
This tutorial raised a question if you can mirrow the screen of iPad Air through a cable to the newest Macbook Air. So I think the cable should be something the power cable of iPad air To Lightning place of Macbook air Does there exist any such cable by which you can show the picture of your iPad on your Macbook Air?
I would like to install Amazon's Kindle application to my virtual iPad on my Macbook Air's Xcode. However, the developer view is very limited. I can only connect iCloud which shares some details such as emails but not programs. How can you install Kindle to your virtual iPad in XCode?
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 and Tweetbot 2.x, which I purchased a couple years ago. I would like to upgrade to version 3, but their most recent update requires iOS 8, which I have no desire to load at the moment. Is there any way for me get install a 3.x version that works with iOS 7, or am I stuck until I upgrade to IOS 8?
I want to use my iPad to read PDFs of my textbooks. There are often vocabulary terms which I would like to create my own definition for and then be able to click on that word or phrase later in the PDF and see my definition.
My iPad was at the latest iOS 7.x when I decided to update it to 8.0.2 via iTunes. At the end of the update I got an error, 6 IIRC. After that the iPad was stuck in restore mode for around half an hour. When it got out of restore mode somehow (without doing a restore) it wouldn't boot up. It gets as far as the Apple logo then dies after a few seconds. It does the same thing whether plugging into a laptop or a wall charger. To make things worse the sleep/wake button is stuck. How can I unbrick this thing?
My son was playing Clash of Clans on my iPhone in my Game Center. I then started playing it but never saved it to my Game Center and now it says if I want to save it I will have to go to his level. I transferred his to his iPod. My question is how can I save mine to my Game Center now without going backwards to his village ?
How should we reconnect a Bluetooth headset, if we have forgot it from the phone. Bluetooth can't detect the headset again.
Updated my iPhone and iPad to IOS 8.0.2 and now when I get a text or phone call on the iPhone the message appears on my iPad. Can I undo or unlink this feature?
I'm not able to create an iCloud backup for my phone, due to insufficient space. I have 20 GB of iCloud space, currently mainly used by the backup of my iPhone (11 GB):
Yesterday, i was going to setup my new iPhone 6. So i did a backup of my iPhone 5, exchanged the SIM card and restored the iPhone 6. The restore did not went well, so i switched put the SIM card back to my iPhone 5. I left both phones switched on. Now, whenever i receive a call, both iPhones ring. And i can connect the call on either iphone. How is this possible?
When I make photos with iPhone, these show GPS latitude + longitude in many software. My normal camera has no GPS. How to add GPS info to these photos?
I have a problem when I am playing Clash of Clans, a message appears saying connection lost their is another device is connected to another village. I've changed the password of Game Center and Apple ID and iCloud. All of that didn't work. Note that I have all the information of the accounts. I tried to contact Apple and Supercell and nothing worked.
I have one iCloud account, and my wife has another. I have an iPhone, and so does she. It's easy to share calendars in iOS 8, and I'd like to do something similar with our contacts. How can we keep our contacts synchronized between the two accounts/devices?
my facebook wont even open now the update has happended! it flashes open for a nano-second and then automatically closes again. should I also try the delete and re download?
So my hard drive stopped working, water damage I think. I bought myself a new ssd and straightaway put Windows on it as I use it for work. This was a few months ago I'm now stuck as I can't figure out how to install OS X whilst Windows is its main OS. If anyone has a solution that doesn't involve me wiping my ssd I'd be very happy.
When I copy on my iMac using Finder in OS X 10.9.5, the popup window which shows the copy process and other related information (Speed, Files left, etc.) does not appear.
My wife currently owns an iPod nano and is planning on upgrading her phone to an iPhone 6 when she is eligible to upgrade (currently she has an Android phone. She rarely, if ever, uses a computer at home anymore as almost everything she needs to do can be done via her phone or tablet. The only thing she really uses it for anymore is iTunes. Since she would have access to iTunes via the iPhone once she upgrades, it is possible to sync new music purchases to the nano via the iPhone instead of pulling out a computer?
Obviously there is not native support for that. But I wonder if there are any hacks to do that. Or if there are not solutions yet is it technically possible, does apple and google expose API which could make this work?
I am trying to get terminal colors working in 10.9. I have tried ls -G, I have tried exporting CLICOLOR=1, I have set a bunch of different TERM settings and none of it works. Anyone know what the magic incantation is?
I need to navigate a site that makes use of javascript that checks for user agent and only permits IE9.0 (don't ask). I am using safari and can set IE 9 in the user agent submenu of the develop menu. However, when the site directs me to another page in its collection, an exception is thrown because the new page sees I am using Safari. Reseting the user agent in the develop menu does not work because the page reloads as a safari user agent. Yes I edited the com.apple.Safari plist to include the following item:
Recent versions of iTunes have incorporated a new behavior which is to automatically move any previous version of a mobile app to the trash when those apps are updated. As far as I can tell, there is no setting to for the user to change this behavior.
How do I access special characters on the keyboard when writing emails? I push the Shift key and the 2 to receive the @ but it continues to give me a 2 what is wrong?
I have an iPhone 6 and was wondering if there is any app that will simply display the current pressure using the barometer built into the phone? Or an app, other then the built in HealthKit which tracks stairs climbed, that uses that barometric pressure for something?
I have a number of Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Macbook and Mac Mini). I would like to use iCloud tab syncing between the devices, I have successfully enabled my macbook, iPhone and iPad but I'm unable to get it working on my Mac mini.
Mail.app has stopped accessing several of my gmail accounts. It gives the generic error "Mail can't connect to the account "xxxx". Enter the password for user "myusernamehere". When I enter the correct password, it circles back to this error. Going directly to gmail, I can login with that same password. One of the two accounts with this problem is a new one I was setting up, but the other is my "main" account which has been in use with mail.app for years.
On OS X 10.9.5 my bash shell has the following environment variable set: __CHECKFIX1436934=1
My understanding is that the command above shows files that have been deleted but are still open. These files have a “link count” of 0, meaning that there is no directory entry (no link, i.e. no name) that leads to them, but the file data still exists. The file data will be deleted when the file is closed. I commonly see references to this issue when people are talking about log files that the system is writing to. The file can be deleted but the process continues to write to the file and it takes up more and more memory. Other people have identified this sometimes as malicious behavior of malware that is trying to hide itself.
Or if not, is there an easy way to return focus to iTerm/Terminal after opening a file/directory with mate?
Where is the data for the "Messages" iMessage application stored? I can't find it in "~/Library/Application Data".
The issue is not unique to pivotaltracker.com, but is true of any domain that has ipv6 addresses. Os X tries the ipv6 addresses first unless told to do otherwise, which browsers and some other apps seem to do, but ruby and most unix apps do not. wget stalls as well. I will eventually upgrade my router and get ipv6 working completely, but in the meantime I would like to find a workaround. when I run netstat -r, it has an Internet6 section, despite System Preferences>Network>Ethernet>Advanced…>Configure IPv6 being set to Off.
I'm having problems getting automount to mount an AFP share at startup. If I, as a non-root user, issue the following command from my terminal: It works fine, and I can interact with the files.
I sold my iPad (after restoring it and deleting all accounts/data), but it still shows up in iCloud settings under "Devices". Since I don't have access to the iPad anymore, how can I delete it from iCloud.com?
In iPhoto, select some photos in an album, delete them only remove the photos from the albums (but are not actually deleted). How can I delete photos (move to Trash) inside iPhoto albums (like deleting photos in Library > Photos view)?
I just recently bought an iPhone 5s but haven't set it up yet. Is there a way that I don't have to redownload everything onto my new phone?
I have problems when I attempt to upgrade my iPhone from iOS6 to iOS7. I went so many time to general and software update but it will run checking for hours and nothing and I need to have iOS 7 or up.
I'm using iSSH application on my iPhone, mainly for VNC connections. I like its usage. But as I understand, this app is not in App Store now, and the development of iSSH was ended.
I am desperately trying to finish this iMovie video for someone and I am having difficulty with the playback of my still images. They look great/normal when scrolling through the storyboard, but as soon as I press play the images blur. I am using iMovie 10.0.5 on a MacBook Pro from 2009. Any help would be beyond greatly appreciated! Thank you!
My System: MacOSX 10.9 64-bit Hey guys, I am working on Sublime Text 3. I have included the #include <bits/stdc++.h> but when I am compiling the source code, Is there some other header file specific to Mac that is needed to be included instead of this or some tweaking that is needed to be done to Sublime Text 3.Thanx in advance!
I've set up Siri integration with Remember the Milk on my iPhone 5s (I'm on iOS 8, but I used the iOS 7 instructions, as they haven't been updated yet). The connectivity seems to work fine: when I say, "Remind me to go to the drycleaners", "Go the the drycleaners" is added to my RTM list. However, when I say "Remind me to Go the the drycleaners today", the item ends up on my RTM list without a date. I also don't see any visual confirmation on my iPhone screen that it's attempting to add a date. Am I saying the wrong thing to Siri?
How can I add ibooks so that I could sync my books with my ipad?
Can I retrieve Apple TV purchases made on my wife's iTunes-store account?
I've been looking into running a few cleanup commands when a user logs out, however the old logout hook feature, although still functioning, has been deprecated for some time now so may not be with us for much longer. Unfortunately, although launchd provides a convenient alternative to login hooks, there is no such obvious replacement for logout hooks. I've already experimented with creating a shell script that is launched on login, and simply sleeps until a kill signal is received, however this doesn't seem to work (the script never receives the signal during normal operation).
In Safari, is it possible to navigate through links on the webpage by means of the keyboard? For example, I made a search in Google and would like to open the first or second link from the web search. How could I do without using the mouse and clicking on the link?
So I bought an app from the app store and I'd like to run it in Xcode. I know you can hook up your Apple ID to Xcode but I wasn't sure if you can then download previously purchased apps and run them. Anyone know?
I'm trying to compile PHP 5.6.1 on my MacBook Pro but I can't seem to get pass all the problems. I get stuck with the error message at make: I compiled the Apache v. 2.4.10 from source with configure options: Apache is working normally. My configure options for PHP:
I have a lot of files (music, pictures, documents) on an external hard drive that I want to copy into the respective folders on OS-X. I would like to automate the copying process and put all .bmp, .jpg and .jpeg into the pictures folder on OS-X, .mp3 into music and so on for all the different file types. How can I automate this and what software could I use?
Obviously this owes to the selection extending to hidden format characters, but, why does this happen, what causes it and how, if possible, do I fix it? I find it maddening. The pop-up window for creating a drafting a new tweet on the Twitter site proper is the most ubiquitous case; I can select partial strings using the keyboard (ie. shift + arrows) but when the same selection is attempted with the mouse the selection extends both backward and forward to include more text, delimited by lines, sentences (seriously, sentences) or paragraphs.
I have a brand new Mac Mini I have installed the OS X Server app on it. DNS Settings report no problems.
I have a few apps that may not be updated to support iOS 8 and HealthKit, but they do offer CSV export of data they have stored. Is there any way to import historical data into HealthKit and Health.app?
I would like to share my calendar with someone who does not have a user account on my server. We both have our own OS X Servers, both running 3.2.1.
Ever since I changed my user account password, every time I log in to my machine I have to enter multiple passwords. First, I enter the new account password to actually log in. Once I'm at my desktop I get prompted to enter a few other passwords too. Namely the following:
Last month I dropped my iphone4 and cracked the front screen really bad, but still worked. About a week ago I dropped it again and cracked the backing, again, still worked perfectly fine, but the other day I was talking on the phone and after I hung up it randomly went black screen and would not light up yet it still rings when someone calls. Therefore it still works but the screen does not. I Just need to know if there is a way that I can access my phone (pictures ect..) out side of icloud? Being a dummy I did not use icloud. ever. By the way, I only have a PC so, phoneview will not work for me(so I think).
Why is /var symlinked to /private/var? I understand the general purpose symlinks serve, but I'm curious what specifically is making use of this link.
My sister had locked her phone by downloading the IOS 8 and in the process she had turned off her phone. Her whole phone had then locked out and started over. Logically, we would take the phone and put in the iCloud account with the iCloud email and password but the problem is she does not know her password so we went to recover it but she keeps getting the security questions wrong and she forgot what email she used to recover the iCloud account. I´d really appreciate any help. Thank you.
I’m having problems deleting all my music off my iPhone. I have deleted the music through iTunes and tried to delete it on on my iPhone but it still shows the track and just has the download symbol next to it. How do I make it delete off my music library completely?
I stupidly repaired my external hard disk without backing it up via mavericks's disk utility repair option. After the repair, all my folders disappeared but at the same time I noticed that the disk space still remained the same. Is there anyway to get these files back? My thesis is on it.
I just bought one of the last Ipod classics and for some reason when its in shuffle mode (songs - artists or playlists), it shuffles to the next track in the middle of the current song. odd? is there a solution? thanks!
I have tried everything and not matter what I do, none of my photos on my iPhone sync with my "MY PHOTO STREAM" folder on my PC. If I want to transfer my photos from my phone to my computer I have to connect my phone to my pc and transfer that way. It stopped syncing many months ago :0(
I'm completely puzzled by this one. I have refactored my install scripts to use the new brew bundle feature. However, I'm getting "Error: unknown command: bundle" In all other ways, brew is working.
Do not tell me to use this shortcut CTRL + COMMAND + F to exit or enter in the fullscreen mode. I would like to always see the toolbar in the top of the page when I am in fullscreen mode, is it possible? This Mac default style is completely annoying.
If I back all my data on to iCloud will this free my memory on my phone as I only have 8GB and would like more pics songs etc , hope people can help!
In OSX 10.9.5 my desktop folders re-arrange when a new window is opened. I have "sort by" off. I can arrange my folders and then when I open a new window (not every time) all of the folders will randomly rearrange to avoid the new window. What gives?
I did a Google search and I have followed instructions from this link: *=URL=* Is that all I must do? Are there any other things I need to check before selling it?
I have just bought a printer that works via its own WiFi connection, so every time I have to print something, I have to manually switch from my usual internet WiFi connection to the printer's. The issue is: though my internet WiFi is preferred in the settings, usually when my computer wakes up it connects to the printer's (I'm not sure why). Is there any way I can let my computer memorize the printer's WiFi password but never automatically connect to it?
I want to set up a multicamera interview situation and direct stream the content from cameras to hard drives, without running mini DV tapes . I am running Mavericks 10.9.3 on a macpro, 10.9.4 on a macbook pro, Canon ZR800 is my current camera and also using a ZR20. iMovie 8.0.6 will capture from the camera without having to engage the can=mera transport. Later version doesn't. FCPX doesn't. All iMovie and FCP apps show the cameras in their import dialog and seem ready to roll the 'tape' in the camera but show the 'camera not controllable' dialog and do not seem to save the footage. Is there an app which will accept my firewire DV camera and record its output?
I've installed Yosemite in a second partition. Once I decided to remove Yosemite and go back to Mavericks, I am not able to claim the free space partition in the Disk Utility. How can I reclaim this partition?
Previous versions of the iOS Simulator (7 and below) would also show the iPhone skin, which made for better demos:  Is there a way to do this with the iOS 8 Simulator? This isn't as compelling:
I have a Macbook Pro late 2011 and my discrete GPU stopped working about a month ago, so now I have to use the Intel HD Graphics 3000 card only. Anyway, I've deleted some kexts related to my old AMD Radeon 6750M, which doesn't work anymore and I use gfxCardStatus to block my mac from switching GPUs, and sometimes I just leave it with dynamic switching. It never switched GPUs after deleting these kexts (but the GPU is still recognizable through About This Mac)... What I want to know is: Can I update my Mac OS X operating system without creating these kexts again or using the dedicated GPU? I don't know if updating it will generate new kexts so my Mac will try to use the dedicated video card during the update process and mess with everything, but I need to update since I'm currently using Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite DP8 which is unstable. Can someone help me?
I am using message app in mac mavericks and I also have osx server. Messages are achieved when users in osx server send message to each other from PC, iphone,etc. Is it possible to get messages achieved for imessage (between 2 apple-IDs) ?
Using GoPro software, I had imported videos to PC. However when I bought a new macbook pro, I transferred all files onto an external Hard Drive. They are currently in .avi format. I am struggling to play the video files on the MacBook, as the file type is not supported. How can i play .avi files ?
I have an iPad 2 wifi, and it is currently on 7.0.4. I would like to update to 7.1.2 not 8.0.2 which is the default update when I go into iTunes. I tried shift clicking and choosing 7.1.2 I have saved but I keep getting an error that says its not eligible for the requested build. I have checked my hosts file, and there seems to be nothing wrong there. What could be causing this error?
I want the Caps Lock key to be left parenthesis, as in (, and right shift + Caps Lock to be right parenthesis, as in ). Is this possible in OS X? Seil (*=URL=* doesn't seem to be able to do this.
I had an older laptop (Windows 7) with which i used to synchronize my songs on to iPod Nano using the iTunes v10.0. But recently I have shifted to a newer laptop with (Windows8.1)
It is annoying that I just get from some source a music, and I start to listen it and iTunes automatically copy it and save it in its file structure again. Dataspace will be filled up.
I'm using iTerm for my command line needs, and when I open a tab using ⌘T I want it to open the tab cd'ed to the same location as the tab that was open when I hit ⌘T (instead of opening in my /Users/kramer65). I searched around the Preferences, but I can't seem to find it. Does anybody know how I can do this? All tips are welcome!
I would like to download a simple text file using Safari on my iPad and save it to iCloud Drive. However, there is no "Open in..." options in Safari to save to iCloud Drive. I have an iPad2 with iOS8 and I have upgraded to iCloud Drive.
In the new iOS8 predictive text feature, three suggested words appear above the traditional keyboard. The left hand word is frequently, but not always, surrounded by quotes. What do the quotes mean?
Ive been thinking about swapping my MacBook Pro's (late 2012) hard drive for an SSD for a while now, as there becoming more affordable at decent sizes. Apart from the read / write and startup time improvements, do they improve the Spotlight index time of your machine as the image below or is this a process that is carried out by the CPU so a new hard drive wouldn't improve it?
can I somehow track (identify) the possessor of the device used to enter my apple id app (telephone number? UDID? whatever?
I have searched through this site alot and i wasn't able to find any solutions. My situation is the following: I decided to install linux to dual boot with OSX at my 1TB fully encrypted with FV2 hard drive. I opened the disk utility and i shrinked the main partition to 500GB. I created another one with 500GB to install linux there. Right after i did that, i changed my mind :S and wanted to expand the OSX partition again to be 1TB. This is what I get - everything is greyed out and I'm not able to do anything:
There are two WIFIs at work. One official and one for guests (which is also used to connect to for privat devices like iPhones). I have the same Apple ID and keychain access configured on my private iPhone and the MacBook.
Basically, when I go to click on the x in a tab in google chrome (or just the tab in general), click on tabs in my terminal, or any other program, sometimes the left click just won't register at all. It's not specific to a program, just tabs within any program. Well, also sometimes hitting the back arrow or refresh for google chrome doesn't respond either. What I usually do to fix this is click somewhere within the web page again, and then it will respond just fine. However, this happens so often that it is a hassle. It usually has no problem clicking things on webpages or within programs.
I add and remove books en PDFs to en from iBooks. When wanting to sync my books and PDFs on my iPad, through iTunes, the list of books and PDFs available for my iPad (from iBooks) shown under 'Books', gets larger and larger, as it does show the books and PDFs in and added to iBooks, but does not remove from that list the ones removed from iBooks. So, the list gets larger and larger. Very annoying... Does anyone know how to solve my problem?
Although I like the new iTunes Connect interface, there's a massive let down on my app: it will ask for my encryption compliance form each time I submit a new binary. In the "old" iTunes Connect website, it was only asking if the encryption scheme changed (and required a new form, which is understandable), here I have to provide it for every single binary I want to submit. This slows down the validation process for about 3-4 days each time, which is really frustrating.
I know that Apple doesn't want me to run a version of Mac OS older than the one my Mac came with, but is there a way around this? For example: if I buy a new Retina MacBook Pro, is there a way to run OS 10.6 on it without a VM?
As described here, I'm technically vulnerable to the "Shellshock" bug in my shell. I'm running Mavericks.
My MacBook Pro drive died a few months ago. Thankfully it was fully backed up to an external with Time Machine. I seem to grab something from the backup every week from various libraries, but I now need to back up my new drive. I am cheap and do not want to buy yet another external especially as the older backup is a TB and nowhere near full. Does anyone know if I can use the old external with the old HD back-up as a back-up for the new drive without having to erase and reformat (i.e., keep the old HD back-up in tact)? Thanks in advance for a response.
Is there a way to put multiple commands in different voices into the same audio file. I know you can do this: But I have multiple commands in different voices such as:
I get repeated requests to supply my iCloud password each time I use my iPad. I can just hit cancel and move on, but will get the popup again in a few minutes. Is there a way to stop this? I do not use the back-up feature to secure my information.
Now it seems I'm in dire straits. Even before I wiped Mac HD, erasing the Recovery disk went wrong. It left a partition named "blank" weighting about 16 Mo (originally 650Mo) that doesnt show up in the partition part of disk utility. This "blank" partition also showed up on the desk. I've created an ML bootable USB stick with diskmaker but I can't use it, the machine does not want it. I'll spare you the details (blank screen, folder question mark, the globe, asking for the wifi key, error 1005F & s.o. I also tried the target mode with 2009 mac mini with ML, but I got a message error saying disks were not compatible. Is this because of the fusion drive ? Whatever...
Just got this email. Did not open the link (since the price looked ridiculous).
iOS 8 & 7, iPhone 5S I have one phone number my iPhone insists ought to be iMessage-capable. The system is actually an automated response-counter I need for work to confirm I have received job details, & has never been associated with any Apple device. I don't know that device's specifics & probably will never be able to find that information, so all I have to go on is "it never was a number associated with any Apple device or service".
settings > notifications > phone alert style when unlocked: banners so why am I getting 'low battery' warnings as alerts? I wouldn't mind but the fact that the OS doesn't detect I am in the middle of typing or other activity is shockingly bad UI design
I'm using the latest version of OSX with Google Chrome and Hangouts. I'm having trouble with the Hangout's automatic gain control, in that I don't want to use it. The gain control is too dumb to understand that we're using a table top mic and that background noise isn't relevant.
We are using 802.1X connection with "local" certificate at our dormitory. It has been working all well with Moutain Lion, but after upgrading to Mavericks, it just stopped working. The message is: Authentication failed on 802.1X network. The identity of the authentication server could not be established. Contact your network administrator to verify your configuration settings. One thing that I noticed is that apple introduced new app for creating .mobileconfig files, Apple Configurator with Mavericks instead of old iPhone Configuration Utility. Before on Lion, and Mountain Lion there was single .mobileconfig file which contained certificate and wifi setting with TTLS, name password. In Mavericks, the Apple configurator generates roughly the same .mobileconfig file, but when I try to connect it just write: Authentication failed on 802.1X network. The identity of the authentication server could not be established. Can somebody help me with this? Our network adminstrator is not experience
I have a folder that I need to copy into 400 other folders. Instead of writing code to do this is there an easy way to paste into multiple folders?
I have opened python on my somewhat outdated Mac OS X in Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and although it was working fine earlier, my computer will not recognize that I am using python. When I click on the python window, instead of saying python in the upper left of the screen it will just say the last application I have been using, also, it will not let me type or do anything. Also it will not quit unless I force quit it. Python will work fine when I open it, the bug only starts when I open a new window. If it helps when I open the shell it gives me this message: I am not sure that this is the right forum to post this in and hopefully I have provided useful information. ~~~Droonkid
I probably shouldn't have even messed with it, but I followed the instructions to recompile bash here: How do I recompile Bash to avoid Shellshock (the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169)? Following that recompile, if I run something like wget from terminal, I get the following: -bash: wget: command not found
Missing all photos on my iPad 2. Did restore from I cloud it has been nine days saying it's still restoring manually downloaded apps and music. But still no photos
In IOS 8, I have the 1Password extension installed. I move it to the beginning of the queue so that it's the first item in the list of possible actions, but when I restart Safari, it's always at the end. How can I make this configuration change stick?
Do Apple USB SuperDrives work with IBM compatible computers? If not, are there any advantages for buying a SuperDrive compared to a generic USB DVD drive?
I have the new iOS 8, and am having problems deleting texts. I have restarted my iPhone several times and it fixes it for about 2 minutes-then the camera pops back up and no trash can at the bottom left.
I dropped my iPhone and broke the screen (is just black). So I bought a new iPhone but I want to sync all my contacts and of course the screen is locked and moved to the side. It looks something like the image below.
Update 2: I managed to get most of my computer backed up to an external drive, then booted a different computer from that drive. I was able to run through all the affected apps and tasks with no problems. So that makes it seem like a hardware problem, although something that only became apparent after installing OS 10.9.5. I've made a Genius Bar appointment for next week to see if they can diagnose it. If a new hard drive or memory chip would solve my problems, I'd be happy.
I have added the following line in my /etc/hosts: so my full /etc/hosts looks like: After this, I have run the following commands: After which I have started the local server, but
In Mac mail I have most of my email accounts set up Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and Exchange (office365 hosted). When I try to move any of my messages from the first 3 (all IMAP accounts) into my Exchange Folder (where I archive everything), it gives me the error can't move message. Is there any solution?
When searching for podcasts in the official iOS app, is there a way to see which ones are audio vs video? Or filter the search?
I have new iPhone 4S with iOS 6.1.0. Can I upgrade my current iOS version to 8.0.2? Whether there can be a problem that I skipped iOS 7 and jump straight from 6 to 8 version?
When maximizing a Mac window with the green button, it will not maximize to full size, but have a little left margin from the left side.  I guess there is no setting to change that, but that margin has to have a specific size defined. Is there any kind of terminal command I can run to decrease the left margin to 0? I know there are apps which can position windows to any prefered position and size, but I is there a way to do it without one? The strange thing is, that it does maximize to full size without a margin on the right screen when you've got a second display connected.
3 weeks ago I installed Yosemite public beta onto a brand new Macbook Air which arrived with Mavericks pre-installed. To carry out the installation I created a new partition for Yosemite and so had the option of a dual boot. Last week the public beta 4 came through and my existing Yosemite partition was not big enough to allow installation.
I've encountered a somewhat strange problem on my Mac. Recently, all the devices listed in the 'Shared' section of the Finder sidebar have all disappeared and has been replaced an 'All..." option.
I have a problem with the Finder App in Mac OS 10.9.4 where the finder will freeze after a few minutes. This is very similar to the issue here: Finder slow/freeze under Mavericks In fact, deleting the plist file resolves the issue. But only for a few minutes then the freeze comes back.
ps: I tried booting into my windows bootcamp partition but that didn't work. The error message said something about inserting a boot cd if I remember correctly.
I have been using iPhone 3GS for almost 3 years now, and the phone has got pretty slow. I understand that there are many reasons for the phone getting slow, but I want to try to improve its performance, even if it is by a meagre amount, by formatting it completely and installing the latest iOS it can support, i.e. 6.x.x.
I bought a 64GB Sandisk for my GoPro Hero 3+ and it works fine. However, when I either plug in my GoPro directly via a USB cable or try to access the drive by using an SD-card adapter, all that comes up is The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.
I have two monitors set up. About halfway through the working day the sun glare shines on my primary monitor. As a result I have to switch over my windows so my primary monitor faces away from the source of glare.
I have a *.rtf file which I want to open as plain text. How can I do this?
I have two partitions on my usb hdd: The first one is formatted to HFS+, the second to UDF. The partition ID (DOS > 32MB aka 0x06) comes from several manuals and required to make one weird OS tom recognize the partition. The problem is that the UDF partition is not [un]mounted automatically, I need to mount /dev/disk3p2 /some/path / umount /dev/disk3p2 manually as root and it works fine. Is it possible to make it mount automatically?
Recently I installed Windows 8.1 64bit on my Macbook Pro (2011). Everything went fine and I am able to duel boot using Bootcamp.
Basically, I do a lot of work from home, some of which is confidential work. My company has a policy which restricts me from using any form of 'Cloud' to back my files up, so I have set up my time machine to a partition drive on a work server. This however tries to back up my whole Macbook, but I only want to back up the folder which contains my work. Is there anyway I can set it up to just back up the single folder, as the partition will not have enough space to back my whole Macbook up, and I also have personal files on which would not be required.
I just downloaded OS X Yosemite Beta for testing on my MacBook Air 11. But my wired keyboard stopped to work. Both the usb ports won't recognize the keyboard anymore. I also tried to used even without the little USB extension cord that comes with the box. any other idea do you have to make my WIRED APPLE KEYBOARD work again?
I have a Numbers spreadsheet that has years worth of data in it. I'd like to call out specific rows in the spreadsheet and copy just those rows into a new sheet in the same file where I'd like the data collected. The rows I want called out all contain two specific words in the same column. So, ideally, I'd like a function that I can match a search for "john doe" in sheet 1-table 1-column G, select the whole row of data, copy it, and paste it into sheet 2. What function, or several functions, can use to accomplish this?
I use Outlook 2013's calendar and yesterday added iCloud syncing to Outlook. At that point, I saw a plethora of choices for calendars to check. I narrowed it down to three calendars (family members) plus mine. But now I'm getting an audio reminder for events on other people's calendars. I only want to hear sounds for my calendar. I went on my iPhone 4s to Go to Settings; Mail, Contacts, Calendars; under Shared Calendar Alerts, swipe to Off. But I'm still getting their alert sounds--the last one came in at midnight--what fun! Any suggestions to hear sounds for only my calendar?
I recently used an app to enter a voucher code and then redeem it to get free stuff. But it only allows 1 code/ phone. I was wondering, what do the iOS apps use when identifying a phone/user?
I would like to add TextWrangler to the path environment. I have tried with this command on the terminal: alias textwrangler=/Applications/TextWrangler.app and then tried to call it just typing textwrangler, but as you can imagine, it's not working. I did it in this way, because I had done the same thing for mysql, and it had worked.
How do I resize a table in Pages to fit page? I am using an iMac with 10.9.5
I have a Photo in Preview. How do I move it to iPhoto?
Our iOS app is "Waiting for Review" on the iOS App Store. While "waiting for review," do we lose our place in the "waiting for review" queue each time we upload a new binary?
On a Mac Air running the latest OSX I find that the keys that I type are not showing up quickly on the screen sometimes with a multi second delay. It is very intermittent but it happens regularly all day. It's intolerable.
When I try to SSH over USB to my device running linux, I get "ssh: connect to host 10.90.1.2 port 22: Network is unreachable" Mind you, I can run the same command "ssh root@10.90.1.2" on my linux machine and another mac, but on my boss's brand new machine OSX, no dice. If I type "ifconfig" on the working mac, I get an entry like On the non working machine, running if config shows a similar block except the part where I have "inet 10.90.1.1..." is missing. On both machines I have gone to Network and set my RNDIS/Etho Gadget to configure IPv4 manually and have an IP address of 10.90.1.1.
Since I updated my iPad 2 to 7.1.1, whenever I try to connect to iTunes the message come up saying the back up Any help how to overcome this problem. Thanks
I have installed a new HDD on my Macbook Pro. I can't reinstall OS from the Time Machine Backup, it reports an error, and asks me to run the install again. It is the same every time I try. I have now used Migration Assistant to install Maverick from Time Machine, and it went well, except all of my mailboxes in Apple Mail seems to be empty. My 3 email accounts are pop3 type.
I am starting to become an intermediate C++ programmer and messing around with memory allocation and would like to take a look what is going on behind the scenes. For instance, I would like to see whats going on in the 0x7ff8ecaf7 region of virtual memory (correct me if I'm wrong) in the picture below. Is there a way to view the virtual memory contents of RAM in OS X?
So I have this strange issue on my aging MBP (pre-retina generation, running 10.8.5 (need this for Maya 2013 to run), where basically the network is always showing activity even when I am not connected... I am starting to suspect that there is some kind of virus in play, maybe?
When I connect my iPhone to my pc, it shows that the internal storage of the phone is almost full, however when I click the subfolders, there are no photos or videos inside the folders to delete. How can I delete what I can't find?
This is on iOS 8.2. One of the comments suggested I sign in with another account and log out with 'Remember me' unchecked, but I don't see a 'Remember me' check box on either login or logout. Also, this is the Facebook app itself, not the Settings app.
I have tried to add TextWrangler to the path environment modifying the file .bash_profile. This is what I have added:
How do I get rid of the spinning wheel and the flashing question mark? I have tried utility disk repair. I was unable to use the repair button because it is not a highlighted option. I have tried using my Mac keeper to get rid of the spinning wheel but it keeps coming back. What can I do about this problem that I am having?
I'm trying to use Swift on Xcode 6 for an OS X application, but it defaults the language to Objective-C and won't let me switch it to Swift. I can use Swift for iOS but not OS X. I have the latest software so I'm not sure what the problem is. Can someone help?
I will enclose it in a simple app that I will put in the Utilities folder in my applications folder as follows: NameofApp.sh.app->Contents->MacOS->NameofApp.sh. I will have it open on startup by means of System Preferences->Users and Groups->Login Items.
Mainly i want to update youtube-dl on my mac. I have used Linux so for that updating any app is very simple: apt-get update youtube-dl. But how to do it on Mac using home-brew. Is there any kind of general command or something which will work for all the apps?
I just installed Xcode beta, and when trying to open it, it stays on "Verifying Xcode.app" and does not proceed. Why is that? I have the latest OS X mavericks.
When my 2011 iMac's display shuts off - before the computer goes to sleep, but after a screensaver might display - there is frequently a 5-15second delay with the display coming back. What I see is the backlight on the display come on, showing a completely black screen with the only exceptions being my cursor and any notifications in the upper-right that have appeared since the display shut off.
I have a Mac Mini server. I bought it with Mountain Lion OSX and Server 2.2.2.
My Macbook HD got corrupted and it couldn't be repaired. Being a 2011 Macbook model, I decided to buy a SSD to be the primary HD and a second 1TB to be used instead of cdrom (using a kit from maxupgrades).
i just bought my first iPad and am trying to set up video chat . I downloaded chrome as my browser and downloaded the plugin hangout. But when I try to log in, I get the msg 'unable to add contact'. I have no idea what to do next. help!!!
It looks like the shortcut is listed as Command+PageDown, but there's no "page down" on a mackbook air. how can I cycle through the tabs (worksheets) in an excel workbook?
I know that you can exclude entire directories or files with a particular extension from Spotlight. But can I hand-pick files not to be searchable by Spotlight, preferably with a file system flag? I am a writer and keep old copies of my drafts but they muck up Spotlight with lots of search results.
Is there a way in 7.0 to use the feature I'm talking about? I am hoping that I am just too unfamiliar with Mavericks/Preview7 and that the feature wasn't removed. Otherwise, I'm going to need to find another app to replace Preview for editing documents.
I'm interested in excluding certain files from Spotlight, and it was suggested to add the .noindex extension. I'd like to automate this. How is it possible to do via Applescript?
When I Add a number of folders to iTunes it automatically makes playlists of them which I find annoying. Can anyone help please?
I create bak files after every Perl operation. How can you exclude all bak files in your Finder's search?
I just bought my first Apple product (iPhone) a few days ago and from the moment I switched on I have been asked to use the Apple ID and iCloud for pretty much everything. I have a concern, i.e. if I have an Apple ID registered with my real name, address, etc. will Apple and/or iCloud always know all my browsing data, my emails, email passwords, etc.? If yes, is there a way to be completely "cut off from the cloud"? I am not feeling completely secure enough to check my normal e-mail from the iphone until I am 100% sure nobody (at least at Apple) can read it. What steps can I take to ensure that my data is least exposed to the world/Apple?
I only found descriptions were you use the export function of Pages. But there is no RTF option anymore. So is it possible to export a Pages file to RTF?
In energy settings there are several options concerning the power consumption of you mac, like dim display, app nap, but also "Put harddisk to sleep when possible". To my knowledge, an HD hard disk can go to sleep, it will stop spinning and park its heads.
ps. I know I can remove profiles from Xcode - Devices. But that's only for the ones installed with my associated development account. I need a general way to remove all of them.
I had time-machine set up to backup to a disk over a network (SMB mount) and all worked fine. I then had some problems with the backup file (became inexplicably locked) and while I was trying to figure that out I clicked on the "Don't use" option in the disk select panel (big mistake as it turns out). The disk disappeared from the list of those available. I subsequently fixed the problem with the backup file. I can now mount it and time machine can see it under "browse other disks". Is there any way I can "undo" the "Don't use" option to make the disk visible again for use as backup? I can't delete/re-install the remote disk so it would need to be something local. Does anybody know where the flag that prevents that disk being displayed is located? (I am running Mavericks on an imac).
In my iPhone it shows contacts from iCloud, Yahoo and Google accounts. If I add a new contact it added only to my default account which is google. If I made change to a contact which cames from the yahoo contact list, the change happens only to the contact on yahoo.
I have been running Mavericks 10.9.4 on my system. with the release of 10.9.5 I preferred to re-download whole mavericks instead of just the combo update. This will be helpful if I clean install mavericks in that I would not have to install 10.9.4 and then run combo. Also it will take less storage in one pack. more manageable for me.
You can use rsync's --iconv option to convert between UTF-8 NFC & NFD, at least if you're on a Mac. There is a special utf-8-mac character set that stands for UTF-8 NFD. So to copy files from your Mac to your NAS, you'd need to run something like: rsync -a --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 localdir/ mynas:remotedir/
I'm searching for an app to rescue my deleted data on my flash memory. They happily deleted with a Windows virus. What's your recommendation for this case?
Okay, so I've recently shifted to Mac from Windows. I was curious to check out what the Yosemite OS looked like, and hence I downloaded the beta and had it up and running. It was downloaded on the primary hd.
I had to change the admin user name of a new Macbook because his sons name kept showing up, Home Folder etc, So I used, 'sudo mv /Users/oldusername /Users/newusername' and Advanced Options in User account. Now this has worked very well apart from iBooks! iBooks still has the 'oldusername' in it's path.
So. I'm using keynote to build slides for church music overheads. This means I need to build a different slide deck for each song we sing, so that we can change out the songs from week to week.
I have a iMac (compatible with os x 10.9) running 10.4 Tiger. How do I upgrade this to OSX 10.9 as AppStore is not available under 10.4.
I bought an iPhone 6 and I would like to use all the contacts from my iPhone 3GS. Some of the contacts were stored in iCloud. The other ~480 contacts are on my iPhone 3GS. How can I transfer these to my iPhone 6?
I'm afraid I messed up my Iphone. I plugged it into my computer for the first time ever. It prompted me to backup so I did (silly me). At the end of the back up it prompted me to log in with my son's account instead of mine. Now my phone info is gone and my son's phone from 2011 is on my phone and my phone is gone! Help
Is there an easy way I can add custom icons to the menu bar status area? Ideally something like Growl (e.g., where you can just execute a command) but instead of notifications, just renders icons in the menu bar.
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8, connected to Time Machine backing up my files. I see directions you gave for resetting admin password. I'm wondering if I can just keep Time Machine plugged in while I reboot and reset. Will I keep all old files? Do I need to know anything about accessing them with a new password? Just making sure I don't lose files! Tx!
I'm using Mail 7.3 on OS X 10.9.5. I have Organize by Conversation turned on.
From what I see in the Googles, there used to be a way to set it so that each application/window could have its own keyboard layout. I have two different apps, and I need different layouts for each one (Dvorak for one, and US for the other).
How can I disable vibrations for all notifications except for phone calls on an iPhone? This is for an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.
I can restrict Finder searching files by adding .noindex -extension, this thread. However, I want hide those files in Finder search. How can you prevent Finder from showing .noindex -files?
Is it safe to disconnect (unplug the charger from) my Macbook Pro Retina 13" while the computer is turned on and running?
out of nowhere I am getting the following weird characters: $â followed by a paragraph sign. See the below image for more detail:
I have a mac running 10.6 that has a dozen or so different printers set up on it. I am working on setting up a new machine to replace it, but would rather not have to set up all the printers again on the new machine. Is there any way to transfer the printer list from the old machine to the new one?
I have couple of questions to ask related to one topic. I live in japan and had my apple account installed there.
For the first three times, booting up will result in blue screen with black vertical lines, grey screen or black screen. Went to technician at my school for advice, he said to update my Macbook to 10.9.5. I did that, it was fine for around 48 hours or so.
This is my first question on this website. I am using a Mac Air, and I have a flash drive in which I can read from. I am able to copy files from this onto my Desktop, or anywhere on my computer for that matter. I cannot write to my flash drive, however. I know this is a common problem for some people. I looked into their solutions. There is one difference between the cases I've found, and my case. The flash drive's format is normally a 'NT' format, which is a Window format from my understanding.
I am running the latest version of Mavericks 10.9.5 on my Mac Mini Server. Before the upgrade to the latest version of the Server App 3.2.1 I was able to access PostgreSQL in my Ruby on Rails Applications and through the Web Service. After I installed the Server App I implemented Phusion Passenger again in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf. I then opened the Server App and verified that the Web Service was turned on. My Ruby on Rails applications stopped working stating I had the following error:
I'm running iOS 8.0.2 on iPhone 5 and was really hyped about being able to get web search results from Spotlight. Unfortunately whenever I type a query into Spotlight it doesn't display Bing results.
I double-click the .zip, and the resultant folder shows up here: Annoying, but eh. Is there any way to fix this? Similarly, anything downloaded to the folder shows up in the top left, piling on top of anything else that might be there. This ends up in a giant stack of mess that's annoying and cluttered. How do I fix such problems?
I am leaving on a camping trip tomorrow. I have an iPhone 6 from my employer. I would like to use the phone for GPS (vis Google Maps) over the weekend, but do not want to receive a single notification for a phone call, text message, calendar invite or email (I am using the Good app). Is there any way to put my phone on airplane mode but keep GPS on? Thanks in advance.
I installed brew before, but it does not work now. When I run brew, it gives me the error -bash: brew: command not found So I tried to reinstall using the code But it gives me another one :
I am trying to use TimesNewRoman.ttf as the font for *.eps files generated by Gnuplot. I am running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2010 Macbook Pro. Here is my gnuplot script. When I open this file with Preview, I get the error: PostScript Conversion Warning Converting the PostScript file “test.eps” produced the following warnings: · TimesNewRoman.ttf not found, using Courier.
I am running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2010 Macbook Pro. I have two eps files that I want to use Preview to view (Preview really converts the eps files to pdfs). One file is ~/Research/images/test.eps and the other file is ~/Desktop/test.eps. The first file displays sin(x), the second displays cos(x).
I run a small PKI at my house. There's not much too it - a CA, a few servers and a client certificate on occasion.
I have an oldish computer that is running Aplle's Mail program with a large amount of mail coming in (the current number of emails on the computer is in the tens of thousands). Recently it has started to get emails mixed up. When you view all the emails in a table, you will see the summary information (ie, who it was sent from, what the subject is and the time etc) but when you click on the row to show the contents, it will be the wrong email. When I view the inbox from a web browser I do not experience these problems. I have tried rebuilding the mailbox, but although that fixes the problem, it is not long before the incoming mail gets mixed up again.
I have tried to assign a different color on the web and refresh the calendar list in the calendar app on iPad. Still no change. Does anybody have any idea how I go from here?
Is it possible to sign in Message app from terminal ? When I search for it, I only see on how to send imessage from terminal. Thus, how can I do that ?
I have a 16GB Apple iPad 3(with Retina Display). Today, while checking up my available memory, I saw the iPad had about only 1GB left. After deleting major unused apps, I found out that iBooks was using up 1.4GB of storage. I found it to be extremely weird, since iBooks isn't supposed to be consuming so much of space, unless you cram thousands of ebooks in there.
I have tons of *.csv measurement files with following header: How can I change this with command-line in the whole directory to following header: Cheers, Hans
If I install WhatsApp on my iphone, will other other people, who have my number in their address book, see that I installed it? And if yes, is there a way to prevent that from happening?
I've created a .plist file, which should act as system daemon (global with root user). This .plist file listens to the settings directory for changes like changing network settings. When this happens it should start a Bash script.
My iPhone 4s will not let me swipe to unlock, power down or go to the next screen. I am currently accessing it through Siri... How can I fix this?
I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to create and map a keyboard shortcut for the "Suspend" function, but after looking into Fusion's preferences, I'm only becoming more confused. Things aren't working the way I would expect them to, and even after configuring an application shortcut in System Preferences/Keyboard, it doesn't seem to be accessible. What am I not getting about this that isn't contained in the horrible documentation?
There are services like *=URL=* where you can register you UDID and get Certificates and Provision profiles. Are they worth? What danger is there? Signing applications is real? Why I ask: I want to "play" a little with Xcode and Objective-C and have the possibility to test on my iPhone, but don't want to pay 100$ just for playing.
I want to be able to boot into windows. I only have 256GB on my Mac, and my current windows C: drive has over 112 GB in it used. So I would like to keep the on-board SDD free for OS X.
Is there a way to view the list of IP addresses that were assigned to my iMac over a period of time (e.g., the last 30 days)? I'd like to get this information from the iMac itself if possible.
I'm using the OS X server. I'm trying to use the Profile Manager. I need to create about 40 users (each user has yours workspace, desktop, etc.). Due to that, I estimate that the server will need about 1 TB to each user.
(I've tried to research this, but I am a newbie when it comes to this topic, so my searches aren't quite yielding the most helpful results.) Our company processes a lot of Mac Pros for resale, and many come with fiber channel cards that we have at our disposal. I've noticed that the 24 port unmanaged gigabit switch we use for mass net-restores has a fiber channel port. Could we use fiber to connect our Mac Pro netrestore server to the switch to get the highest possible throughput? We could use every little bit.
I am using iPhone 4 which was with iOS 7.0 and I had the common problem with WiFi being grayed out. I am sure that Find My iPhone was active and I restored it in DFU mode. Now, after the restore, attempting to complete activation shows the following error:
I changed the name of my home folder in 2 ways. First I change it using the instructions from the official Apple website: sudo mv /Users/old_name /Users/new_name and then I also changed it going to System Preferences > Users & Groups > Advanced Options. My problem is that the prompt on the terminal is still showing me the last name I had why? Is it possible to make changes have effect also on the terminal?
Good morning everyone. I'm kinda new to this site but I see there are many expert opinions, so I would submit to you my question, hoping it will be helpful for someone else. Before proceeding, I beg your pardon if I make mistakes in my English (I'm italian). Anyway I will try to be as clear as possible. I'm trying to figure out what is the means of the Low Battery logs on iOS.
I would like to be able to run a bash script just before Time Machine runs, every time This script generates some content to be written on a file which needs to be backed up by TM. I have looked around, but surprisingly no one seemed to have asked this before. Any idea?
I am using iTunes on Mac. I suppose there might be a problem with my headphones and it is sending random commands to the computer. When I move my head, my iTunes pauses and sometimes it goes to a different podcast. Is there anything I can do to simply disable the headphones from controlling iTunes?
my iphone 4s was with ios 5.0 and already jailbreak when purchased, I just tried to upgrade it to 6.13, on it own (which is I did not hook up my iphone with my computer nor iTunes at that time), After a while, my iphone screen asks me to connect my iphone to iTunes, so I connect it to my computer, but then, the worst thing happened>> ITunes says it detected my iphone is in recovery mode, and I must restore my iphone to its original setting before it can be used with iTunes. It is a nightmare, I don't want to lose all my data, messages, pics.
I initially had three bootable partitions: OS X Recovery for OS X Bootcamp (Windows 8)
I have the same problem as described in this previous post: Can't install BASH patch: OSX 10.9.5 update installed, but system still says it is 10.9.4
This is really weird, but I tried to open up a new sticky note to paste in a link, and when I tried, the new sticky note started to flicker really fast and I can't right click, close it, or write on it or any other notes either. If I'm on the sticky notes, they won't let me go back to the thing I was on before. Also, the little keyboard icon (next to the battery and wifi connection icon) that tells you the language of your keyboard flickers at the same time. I really need to put some things on the sticky note! Can anyone help? Thanks!
Are the loops and sound effects that are found in Garageband royalty free? Specifically, can I use them in my game that I am developing for the iOS App Store whether I sell the App or make it free?
I want to use automator to extract text from mail. The applescript used to do that is an old version of the scripting language. My mac will accept only the latest. Is it possible that I can run the old program in the automator? The Code -
I use mail.app to interact with about a dozen different email accounts, which I use for different purposes. I need to create a list of the senders (or recipients) of just on of those email accounts. Contacts.app is completely useless as it is mostly full of obsolete contact from previous jobs and I've never figured out how to clean it out. But since recipient auto-complete functions properly, mail.app must have access to senders/recipients directly and I just want to access that information for a specific single email account.
I pressed the home button on my iPhone 6. I noticed that there was a notification on the lock screen - something about iCloud. Before I could read more than a few words, Touch ID helpfully kicked in and unlocked the phone, taking me to my home screen.
Today I installed the OSX 10.9.5 upgrade and it appears to have downgraded my Apache and PHP version. Is there an easy way to reverse this unwanted downgrade? Or do I have to reinstall apache via homebrew again?
I have a problem with my Macbook Pro. Everything was working fine up until yesterday; I can't start it anymore and it "beeps" once every 5 seconds. According to the support, this indicates that "no RAM is installed", which is not true.
We have 20 or so brand new MacBook Pro's and I've successfully installed the Officejet 6500 E709n [DBB4c0] printer on all of them except for one. This one MacBook Projust fails to find the driver for the Wi-Fi-printer. It see's the printer & tries to find the driver. But then fails and offers to install the generic driver. I've updated all the software on the MacBook Pro via the App Store.
My IMAP (and SMTP) server used a self signed certificate. Once I marked the certificate as "trusted" in the Mail app, is there a way to remove that trust again? I tried deleting and re-creating the email account, but the certificate is still trusted afterwards. The certificate does not show up in the Profiles section of the Settings app.
I removed the EFI partition accidentally but I have it on a Time machine backup. Is there a way to simply move it from my external drive to my boot drive.
How do I get the cell in Numbers to expand but not merge with the other cell when the text is too long? To be clear, I want it to stay in the same line, unlike wrap where it'll just force the text down. Thanks!
Simply stated, it is I bought quite a bit of Music and Movies from my native country (be it Hong Kong, France, Italy, etc). However, the iBookstore for that country has very few books on the iBookstore. Therefore, I need to listen to music and watch movies for iTunes store for one country (Hong Kong), and be able to read books on iBooks for the content of USA iTunes store, on the same iPhone or same iPad. Is it possible?
Is there a way to alter the saturation, contrast, and brightness on my camera while I'm in a webcam session in iOS 8? For example, when I'm Skyping or using Google Chat or Facetime?
I have a quasi friend who is a technician for sprint in one of their stores and he is flabbergasted. Has no answers. Any help would be appreciated. Ios 8.0.2 on all phones, and the issue was present on iOS 8 as well
By imessage, I can send and get message from another Apple ID. Message history is storing in /Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages (on my mac)
I hat to bring in my iPhone for repair and I backed up all the data on iCloud and with iTunes (just to be sure). I then got a replacement phone for one week. I was not able to recover my Health data: The data seems not to be synchronised with iCloud (no other device as my iPad or the replacement phone see anything) The data seems not to be synchronised with iCloud (no other device as my iPad or the replacement phone see anything)
Starting up iTunes on my Windows 8.1 computer to sync iPhone 4 via USB immediately brings up the error message: The iPhone can't be synced. An unknown error occurred (-54) Any ideas how to overcome the error?
How can I connect an iOS device to an Arduino device over Bluetooth? I have a hardware device I would like to control with my phone. Does it make a difference if the hardware is a commercial product and I provide the app via the app store?
I had always assumed Time Machine would keep the last backup of a day (and similarly, the last backup of a week), but that doesn’t seem to be true: I made two backups last Sunday and wanted to get a file back from the second one, but found that only the first one is still on the drive. Some digging through the Console logs shows that Time Machine deleted the second Sunday backup yesterday.
I've been using my external HDD a lot of times before on my Macbook Pro 13" OS X version 10.9.5, but it doesn't seem to appear in my Finder anymore. It can be seen in Disk Utility, though. Can anyone help?
I am looking for a QWERTY US layout apple keyboard, on amazon I found several models and this made me confused. My current keyboard looks like this, I thinks this is the standard US QWERY layout, isn't it? Anyways, I am looking for this model. Is it MB110Z/B?
I'm running a setup with the latest Retina MacBook Pro, a Windows desktop and a single external monitor. Both machines are outputting display to a HDMI switcher, which connects to the monitor. I can switch between the sources with a button on the switcher.
I was trying to add fonts to my iPod touch 4G to use it for the music app and notes app through Bytafont app (yes, my iPod is jailbroken). I want to get these on some Led Zeppelin songs There's an existing font which includes those symbols (Led Zeppelin 2, I guess).
Its a common problem that, when unzipping (read: 'open by double-click'), some .zip files result in a similar sized .cpgz file. But you expected an unzipped file or folder instead. The default unzip program in OS X is '/System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app' When you try to unzip it in the Terminal (/usr/bin/unzip) you see the following: I have Mavericks 10.9.5 running, and a unzip -v learns us we are on version 5.52:
I have purchased my Mac Pro ( it is running OS 10.9.5) in Japan. Needless to say that it has two different keys assigned exclusively for English and Japanese (英語 for English and かな for Japanese). But the issue is that I'd like to change the かな key to a third Language (Persian in fact, that I am using in addition to English). Is it possible?
I have a daemon I would like have to parallelize up to the number of cores on a user's machine, but I don't want it interfering with foreground tasks. Traditionally, in unix, I would just run this daemon at nice=1, e.g. The Apple launchd plist documentation features several items that speak to priority issues, but they're vaguely defined, specifically,
Has anyone else seen this? Any reason for it? How can I fix this? I am not considering upgrading to iOS 8 at this time given the unresolved issues and performance impact on a 4S. thanks!
I have a bunch of routes to my LAN line that won't resolve through my WiFi (which is set as 1st order). I have a lot more but that's just a sample. This works great but sometimes I need access to another Network asset which means I have to go add it to the list again. Can I make it so I route any IP address starting with 10 gets rerouted through the LAN router? Something like this: THIS DOES NOT WORK My Setup: I have two internet connections. WiFi - no firewalls - no access to network assets LAN - firewalls - access to network assets I set WiFi first in my order of precedence and I force certain domains through the LAN connection using my host file to resolve the IP addresses and a routes table to direct those IPs through my LAN router. Basically I want my cake and eat it too.
Which application is this? I tried using Google image search to identify this application but was not able to.
Dreamweaver complains that it can't edit some specific files due to the fact that they are locked. With as only options to cancel or view read-only. However I do really want to edit the .html files. This started some weeks/months after upgrading from Mac OS X Lion 10.7 to Mavericks 10.9.
In Mavericks (OS X 10.9), the User's Application folder is a separate folder from the System Application folder. Is there a way to see these two folders as one, similar to how it works on Windows? Otherwise, having both in the Finder Sidebar looks confusing and clunky:
Ok so I want to transfer an app from my IPod to my IPhone. The only problem is that that app got deleted off the App Store so I cant just download it directly to my phone. Is there any way to transfer over the app onto my computer and then transfer it onto my IPhone? Also I am not on a Mac, I am using a Dell Intel PC so the ITunes looks differently then it would on a Mac.
Our company's security policy requires passwords to be 12 characters. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) clients have a limit of 8 characters (I'm not sure why, but I think its due to historical reasons).
So, In Mavericks, you can set text to be displayed on the lock screen by checking the box: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > "Show a message when the screen is locked", then clicking "Set Lock Message..." and entering the desired text. My problem: I want to do this to dozens of Macs by sending them a script. Now, I found that I can set the text to be displayed with this command: But, I cannot figure out how to check that "Show a message..." checkbox via either a script, an MCX setting, or a Profile. Any ideas?
So the question is: Is it a hardware problem or a software problem? What should I do to make it work again? Is it worth it to do a clean system reinstall?
I created a workflow to move items from one folder to another and I want to get a notification when it's done. I could create the workflow without problems but now I would like to show the number of moved files on the notification pop-up. How can I get the number of files?
so i'm starting making gifs and i'm really disappointed in the quality of the gif cause the colors are limited it looks like this when it comes out when it should be like this but i don't have the reduce colors option turned on so how do i keep the original quality?
How can I check which songs or videos that I purchased from the iTunes Store have DRM restrictions? All of the mobile OSes are very impressive to me at the moment, and I'm thinking about trying a non-iOS device again. I want to know now the impact it has on my Apple-sourced music collection though. Is there a date cut-off for purchases when items went DRM free?
I am using a 2011 Macbook Pro and a horrible Dell Display for some extra space. Because the resolution is horrible on the extra screen, the windows are larger then I would like and Mac OS X does not let me change the scale for it. Is there an app of something else I could use to solve my problem?
I have an Apple ID that I use for both the App/iTunes Stores and for iCloud. Because I originally created it years ago, it's an email address I no longer use, let's call it dan@old.com. I would like to replace it with dan@new.com. This is easy enough to do from the Manage My Apple ID web interface, however when I change the address and attempt to update my iPhone and iPad I hit a snag: in order to Sign Out of my Apple ID in iCloud Settings, I must first provide my Find My iDevice credentials, since that prevents a thief from simply punting me out of my device were they to steal it.
The iPad Retina requires 12W to charge. It appears the Mac has special non-usb-standard drivers that step up the USB 3.0 port to provide the extra power for charging. My question is: Does a driver exist to step up a PC USB 3.0 port to charge an iPad at 12W?
So I thought my macbook's hard drive crashed last month when a folder with a question mark didn't allow me to use it. I got it replaced, but shortly after, the problem persisted. I thought it would be the connection between the hard drive and the main circuits, so i changed that wire. It worked again for a couple of hours, but then my computer froze and the question mark popped up again. I bought an enclosure and am now using it with my original hard drive that i thought crashed. I have no idea what to do with my life right now. Classes just started and I need this piece of technology. Someone help me.
my macbook air had problems earlier, so I later had to reboot it. Then I had to accept it through Macintosch. Afterwards, my laptop started working and I found my iMovies app missing. how am i able to get the iMovies app back without purchasing it back?
In Apple Pages 5.2.2, how can I choose view 2-up? It used to be selectable in lower left corner of document...not any more. Thanks for any tips.
My coworkers always tell me to lock my Mac when I get up from my desk, or they'll mess with it. I think it's pretty obnoxious that I have to lock my computer each time I get up for anything, and of course, they messed with some of my settings recently.
I have a MacBook Pro with OX 10.9.3 installed having 5 Gb of RAM. Yesterday I changed the RAM, and since that, my MacBook restarts automatically while working. I thought it was an issue with the new RAM, so I removed the extra RAM, but still getting same problem. Here is the log of my Unexpected restart of the machine :
I recently decided to get the ios8 update for my ipad but after the update, the ipad came up with the sign that I had to plug it up to iTunes. So I plugged it up to iTunes and it said I needed to restore my iPad to get the update. My screen was stuck on the same sign that showed connecting to iTunes so I didn't have a choice but to choose to restore and update. After I updated it, it was restored but there was an activation lock. I didn't recognise the email that is came up with that it was linked to. It was a personal iPad that I used for school so I was the only one who ever used it. I'm unable activate it because I don't know what email it is, even more the password to it. I have kept my receipt for buying the iPad and everything and it also said to try and remove it from Find my iPhone which I did but it still says I need to activate it with the email I don't recognise. Should I just bring it an Apple specialist? I'm sorry if this is very confusing but I have a lot of school docume
I recently received an email from Apple letting me know that because my iCloud storage was full I could not back up my devices and would not be able to send or receive mail. I did the usual deleting of unnecessary backups of emails, apps, and devices. I also purchased more storage.
I run Windows 7 almost exclusively at this point. I use a logitech windows bluetooth keyboard while at home. Running Freebsd through VMware Player, I installed emacs and have had to resort to using Esc instead of Meta. I have tried the following combinations without success: Logitech keyboard: Ctrl, Alt, Windows Macbook keyboard: fn, control, option, shift-option (alt), command
I have a paid developer account with Apple and my phone has a valid provisioning profile installed on it. I jailbroke my iPhone because in iOS 7 there is no 3G toggle switch; without the toggle my batteries drain in ~6 hours. I've tried to launch an app under development in Xcode on the phone but Xcode crashes while checking my iPhone. How can I make this work?
i have a Bose Soundlink Mini connected to a Macbook Air. When the Soundlink turns off after a time (because of energy saver mode), iTunes automatically starts playing music. I didn't find any option to disable that, nor any information about others with the same problem. Do you have any idea, why this happens and how i can solve it?
I recently purchased GarageBand's additional content (the $4.99 for everything one) specifically to acquire the drummers. Now I've got around 10GB of unused content eating up a significant portion of my hard drive. How do I remove the sounds and loops installed by GarageBand?
I updated my iPhone 4s to iOS 8. Now my iPhone is locked, showing the iTunes icon and power cord picture. I tried to hold down buttons but it won't unlock. How do I unlock it?
Is there any way to enable flash video hardware acceleration in Google Chrome? I get up to 300% cpu usage, while playing flash video. Using OSX 10.9.5 and latest Chrome on a MBPr 13" late 2013.
I have a mid-2012 retina 15" MBP. WiFi works fine in OS X, but in boot camp (windows 7 x64): I can see, but cannot connect to my 5 GHz network (n only, 40 MHz channel) I can connect to 2.4 GHz (BGN, 20 MHz channel), but the connection has latency spikes and frequently drops.
What would be an average file size if recording 1 minute of video on the iPhone 6? Normal speed, no slow motion.
Before iOS 8 I could click on a text, get the More option and see a trash can on the bottom of the screen. This would allow me to delete a single text from a conversation.
Does Healthkit sync between devices? For example, if I have IOS 8.02 installed on iPhones 4S and 5S, should I expect that data on the 5S Health Dashboard will appear on the 4S Health Dashboard?
1) Upgrade Ram: Currently it has 2x2GB of RAM in it. This model is rated for up to 8GB but I have been reading online and it seems some people have been able to successfully install 16GB of RAM, so i am confused. Does anyone have a definitive statement on whether or not this Macbook Pro will work with 16GB of RAM? If it does accept 16GB total which RAM should i buy for a Macbook Pro like this? If it only accepts 8GB total which RAM should i buy? And I know the clock speed must be 1066Hz for this Macbook Pro, but can i use DDR3, or DDR4 RAM? Does the DDR type matter?
I'm looking for an app that will save individual frames to the camera roll as it goes, at something like a 1-5 second interval. I'm having trouble finding any apps that don't expect you to use them to make the final video; I'd rather do that at home on the computer where I can use the images along with the ones off the SLR.
i went to use my macbook pro and it appeared with a blinking question mark i got past that page to the OS X Utilities but how do i reboot it without losing everything i have? I don't have a disc or a time machine backup.
I am looking to upgrade my 15 inch macbook pro from 4GB to 8GB of RAM. I have never upgraded anything on a macbook before and I am wondering how important is the specific RAM that i purchase? I read in a couple places than only OWC and Crucial RAM works with my macbook pro. Is this correct? Or can i buy any two DDR3 1066Hz 4GB RAM and just slot it into my Macbook Pro?
I am looking for a phone number in my history. All I know is the area code 808, which will narrow it down immensely, and its having occurred between a month and two months ago. How can I search the call history for the area code? iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2
I'm on mavericks and I am trying to delete a partition of an external hard drive. This is its schema Now I'm trying to Erase the Partition3 from Disk Utility and it fails with the following error: What that even means?
Then I decided to turn off my iPhone and surprisingly the messages keep arriving to my friend. Without the carrier !?
Since about 2 weeks the downloads folder always has the loading line under it, even though there's nothing to download. Do you know what that could mean? There's no antivirus installed on the machine. OS X Version 10.9.5
I'm using Mac Book Pro. For internet I use modem. My question, Is there any way to find out how many data (in GB) I have already used for a certain period of time (in 30 days). Or It will count the amount of data I'll use in coming month or something? Is there any apps to measure it? I'm talking about used data. Not bandwidth. If anyone knows, please share it with me. Thanks in advance.
I tried to setup another computer with a Bluetooth dongle to connect my Macbook Pro (OS X Mavericks). I managed to pair them and ever since then I get these messages every 10-30 seconds and often they crash and freeze the BT:
In automator there is an action called "Extract Data from text". It can extract stuff like email addresses, phone numbers but also addresses. How does that work? How does automator know that the text that it is receiving is an address?
I have installed Hungarian tax reporting software called ABEVJAVA. I put into my home folder. Then for test it I downloaded a report template called NAV_1408.jnlp On windows I have to double click it, and after that in ABEVJAVA a new item will appear to use the new report.
I run brew as root, now it's defunct. No updates anymore. How to fix?
When I use the Find my iPhone for my daughter's phone she receives and e-mail telling her that someone has been using find my iPhone to locate her phone. Can the email notification be disabled ?
I have a Time Capsule and a modem in bridge mode. I would like to switch to IPv6 so that I can stop using NAT. My modem does not have IPv6 support so I need a new one but I can't find one that on the specs is compatible. Is there a list of IPv6 compatible modems? Which do you know they are?
I am experiencing a weird problem, my Mac is running 10.6.8 and I want to download Mavericks, the problem is that when I click "Download" under the purchases tab, I enter my password and ... nothing happens. In fact it does the same thing for every app. Am I condemned to stay under Snow Leopard forever? By the way I have been able to download and install Mavericks in the past.
I accidentally typed (backslash was NOT intended). Fortunately it was without sudo and I aborted it quickly. Nonetheless, it removed a number of files. Most of things seems to work (it did uninstall and application or two). As I don't want to restore all from Time Machine (a week old thing), how to check which system files were removed (and to restore them)?
Pressing on the app icon to expand the description and again to load up details of the app. The "UPDATE" button on the app detail page works for some reason, but strangely keeps prompting me to put in my password for my account. When loading up "App Store" and pressing in the top right "Update All" quickly before it is greyed out actually starts the update of all apps.
Is there any way to delete apps that were added by Apple in the Mavericks 10.9 update? In particular, I'm talking about iBooks.app. When I try to delete it, OS X tells me that it can't be because it's required by OS X.
A few weeks ago my iPhone (5s, T-Mobile) stopped roaming to AT&T "4G" towers. It will still roam to older AT&T towers ("E", edge) and newer AT&T LTE towers. I'm wondering whether there has been a hardware failure and my phone no longer works on the frequencies used by the AT&T 4G towers in question. Is there a way to test whether my iPhone is still functioning properly on the frequencies used by the towers it is not connecting to?
I've looked all over for such an app, however the ones I find are either calendar apps (e.g. Sunrise Calendar) or to do list apps (e.g. Any.do). I was wondering if anyone knew of an app that had both these functionalities and was available both on my MacBook Air running 10.12 as well as on my iPhone running iOS 10.
I need an applescript that will toggle wi-fi off and on at set intervals, say every 10 or 15 minutes. I'm using a 2012 MacBookPro running 10.9.5.
I use mail.app to interact with about a dozen different email accounts, which I use for different purposes. I need to create a list of the Previous Recipients of just on of those email accounts. A forum I was admin for crashed, and we lost the member database. Luckily, to join they had to email the admin account, and I then sent them a welcome email. We have restarted it at a new location. I'd like to notify people who were activated before. Recipients is better than senders so I don't inadvertently invite all the spammers to join! Since recipient auto-complete functions properly, mail.app must have access to senders/recipients directly and I just want to access that information for a specific single email account - the forum admin account and not my personal or other special purpose accounts.
I have an ex that is using my Apple ID, and I want to get him off my account. I have changed my password, but as he was already signed in, it appears that he is still using my account. I remember once in the past when I changed my password, I was given the option to sign out of all devices currently using that Apple ID, but that option seems to have disappeared.
I have connected my Mac to lots of public Wi-Fi networks. I want to know their passwords. What should be the terminal command to list all the Wi-Fi networks whom I connected with in the past with their passwords.
I installed MongoDB using homebrew recently. A few articles on the web advise to start mongo using the following command, But when I use this command, I get the following message,
I have problem on Mavericks 10.9.5. When my macbook air (mid 2012) awake, it freezes on 5-10 minutes. Sometimes I keep up to show process list and I see that "distnoted" service eats all CPU time.
I have playlist on my iphone 5c saved in imusic (imported from itunes). Right in the middle of an important presentation, without touching anything, the screen went to a checkerboard of album covers, and no matter how I scrolled or what I did this screen would not leave and I did not have access to use my playlist (which I had up and ready to go). The presentation music had to be played at very exact times. It had worked fine before. Very frustrating. Not sure what and why this happened. Anyone have suggestions to avoid this happening again?
How do I get music which I have ripped from CDs into iTunes onto my iPhone so I can listen to it? It shows up in my library but I can't get it to sync to my iPhone.
P.S.: I saw there were a few similar questions, but I am addressing specifically the ability to buy/download the app and not just view it (I can already view it!).
I have an old Hackintosh which I no longer use, except as a server to access 2 RAIDs made of 6 disks. The machine is too big, uses too much power, makes too much noise, and generates too much heat to justify just being a file server. So I'm looking for an economical way to 're-house' the disks in some kind of box/enclosure that will be smaller, quieter, and more energy efficient -- and which I will be able to access from my new laptop, preferably with Thunderbolt? The 2 RAIDs contain 6TB of data; they were set up with Disk Utility: A 'safe' 4TB RAID 1 (mirror) made of 2 x 4TB disks, 3.68TB used A 'fast' 8TB RAID 0 (striped) made of 4 x 2TB disks, 2.41TB used
Did the update from 10.7 to 10.9 muck around with what was in /sw? Why did the new identical copy make it work? From what I've read about this error, it seems like xemacs shouldn't even work at all since 10.7 - but it does! I use it all the time at work.
After up grading to iOS 8 i lost ALL my customized "keyboard shortcuts"... be it over a hundred of them. I spent ages setting them mostly for work and now have NONE. Tried upgrading to the latest update iOS 8.0.2 but still none. Because of this issue I have not upgraded the 2 iPads and one other iPhone 5s to latest software - and they all still have my customized keyboard shortcuts Any thoughts?
Old mac died. Have a new mac Mac Have all files from old Mac (did a backup before it died). Have been operating with new Mac for several months now. Needed to use the signatures option in Preview & realized I never transferred them over from the old Mac's backup. So I read this, Transferring Preview app signatures in Lion, and was able to snag the com.apple.Preview.signatures.plist file. But, tho I have the keychain file(s) in the backup, how can I extract just the one I need for this without screwing up my current keychain data?
I've been running a SanDisk 256GB SSD for about a year. A week ago my system locked up and stopped being able to boot from the SSD. Booted from 10.9 USB installer, and went to disk utility, located the drive, and tried to create the partition.
I recently got a new iPhone 5c. When I tried to sync my music from iTunes to my phone, it only synced songs and albums that I had bought from the iTunes store. All of the music that I had uploaded from my own albums does not seem to sync. Can anyone tell me why and how to fix it.
If my iPhone was stolen and they reset and everything got deleted will I still be able to track it if everything has be deleted?
How can I set the positioning/filling of the desktop background image from the command line with one of the available options listed in the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences: Crop, SizeToFit, FillScreen, Centered, Tiled I can set the desired background image itself using: However I'm not sure how to set the positioning/tiling.
Can I receive broadcast TV with Apple TV connected to my television in the antenna port as an Internet provider?
I have very little space on my 16Gb iPhone, however I have a ton of space now in iCloud, how can I move videos from my iPhone to iCloud?
I’ve just tried to install ImageMagick on OS X 10.8. Everything seems to work fine, except the last "verification" steps: Can anyone explain what’s going on here?
I tried to load a free app, but as I have moved to Spain from the UK it wouldn't accept it. I had to change my Google password and I have tried to change my address from my iPhone but it won't let me.
I have recently moved from Windows to OSX. I work with multiple screens, so was used to losing the cursor on occasion.
At first I started playing clash of clash of clans on my sister's iPad, with her Game Center account. As the months passed by my sister wanted to play on her phone, however her phone is also using the same game center and so whenever my elder sister wants to play Clash of Clans it prompts up on the screen Do You want to load "venneline Th8 base"? which is on my iPad. Is there a way I can transfer the account on my iPad to a new Game Center account?
I have seen this useful feature in several Windows File Explorer clones - the flat view. Basically the feature allows you to view all the files in the current directory and sub-directories, side-by-side, as if they were all in the same directory. Useful when trying to compare/find files. I don't think it exists in Finder, but what about the various Finder replacements? Showsize Flat View Example
If iCloud is logged out in iTunes and my iPhone is reset, can I still track it?
Is there a hotkey to choose another button than the highlighted in a confirmation window, like:
Apple granted me access to the Yosemite Public Beta, and I successfully installed it onto my Macbook Pro. I now intend to replace my Macbook Pro's HDD with an SSD drive and I want to make a clean install of Yosemite onto it. I tried accessing the OS X Beta Program page that gave me the code I redeemed the first time and clicked the code, but the App Store says it's not possible to redeem it again. I have access to the iOS Developer Program, but it doesn't seem to allow me to download a build of OS X Yosemite.
I was trying to repair a corrupted partition (OSX Mavericks) the mac doesn't boot anymore (grey apple logo with infinty spinning gear). I've just tried with safe mode, PRAM restor etc... And the recovery HD partition doesn't boot the UD so I had to create a bootable USB mavericks installation and start there the UD.
I want to install OSX Yosemite GM, but final version will release soon, can I upgrade Yosemite GM to final through Appstore when apple release final version? or I have to download another 5GB ?
When I select a file and right click on it to use the "Open With" option I see a list of the most likely applications for opening that file, but in my case, running 10.9.5, I see three and sometimes four instances of each recommended application for opening that particular file - see attached screenshot. Why is this? Is there a way to reduce that to one instance per app? If so, how?
I'm running OS X 10.9.5. Recently, I used Handbrake 0.9.9 x86_64 (2013051800) to convert some WMVs to MP4s. There are roughly 150 videos, and I have attempted to tag them all. When in their respective folders, they look fairly normal, as this example demonstrates:
So UI printing fails with no reason as always. I hope that I can get more details by printing from command line. Tried got: Do I have to install something? (I have OS X 10.10)
I have always wondered whether it was possible to use the same phone number on an "emergency phone" in case the main one gets lost.
I can connect the Macbook Air to the Dell monitor (P2314H) over VGA with a mini DisplayPort to VGA connector. I would like to get it working over DisplayPort though, as I've read that the picture quality will be better then (digital signal).
I use my AppleTV for watching Netflix. But now I am thinking about switching to HBO. Apples press info for the USA and press info for the Netherlands both state that HBO should be available for the AppleTV.
I have 3 different Apple products: iPad, iPhone and MacBook. I had written separate notes on all three. Somehow, the MacBook's notes ended up getting on my iPhone too. I didn't want excessive notes on my phone, so I deleted them. This then deleted the notes off of my computer as well.
I have the new iPhone 5S with 64 GB, which I got so I wouldn't have to be always deleting stuff. Now I've tried deleting both of the 2 backups that were on my phone iCloud - 2.4 GB & 2.6 GB --- to clear out space. It was saying the next back up would require 3.1 GB.
The free command displays the buffer and cache memory on Linux. What is the command to show the equivalent information for an OS X machine?
I have installed git onto my Mac OSX v10.7.5 I have downloaded and double clicked the installer package I also ran the.sh for non-terminal programs When I try to run commands for git in the terminal I just get an 'Illegal Instruction Message" Any Help would be massively appreciated
I have a 1TB Hard drive with multiple partitions where I had previously installed Snow Leopard. Now I'm making a clean install of Mavericks and I have a couple of questions:
Is there any fix or workaround for using this software? I'm trying to understand why it was working only a few short months ago. JD-GUI can be found here: http://jd.benow.ca/
I have a Windows 7 PC and an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.0.2. I would like to use the video camera functionality of the iPhone to record a lengthy (over 6 hours) video. The phone can be connected to my computer the whole time so I would like to avoid using the phone memory and rather use the computer HD (since the phone will run out of memory). How can this be done?
I cannot get my icloud to come on. It is statiing that my icloud is not verified
When I try to create a new notebook in OneNote for Mac, I receive the following error: Cannot Create This Notebook
I just took the hard drive out of my MacBook pro that broke down a few days ago and put it into an enclosure. My questions; If I buy a new MacBook pro, is it possible to ONLY transfer the Macintosh HD partition from the enclosure onto the new MacBook pro, WITHOUT transferring the Bootcamp partition as well? Thanks for your help!
I'm not very computer savvy. I recently got my MacBook back after getting a new hard drive. I've now just starting using Time Machine to back up everything. I live in rural Texas and I only have 10 GB of satellite internet data to use each month and I've used it all in 2 days while barely using the internet.
I have a VPN server set up on my MacMiniColo machine running OS X 10.9.5 server. My iPhone (running iOS 8.0.2) can connect to the VPN server via LTE. My MacBook Pro (also running 10.9.5) can connect to the VPN server IFF if it (the MacBook Pro) is connected directly to my U-Verse modem. So far so good. However (here’s where it goes wonky) if I connect my MacBook Pro to the AirPort Extreme (either by Wi-Fi or Ethernet), then I can no longer connect to my VPN, and I get this message instead:
Summary: The fast/draft printing option is not available when connected over WiFi, but works with USB. (Editor Note: seems to effect many printers from both Canon an other manufacturers)
i am not sure what is causing this problem but i am having problems using git. It seems sublime is somehow interfering. Does perhaps anybody know how to solve this problem? I am running OSX 10.9.3.
I just updated Filezilla, but now it moved strangely out of the screen bounds. CF screenshot.
This morning someone decided via either a prank or otherwise to log in to my apple id, and use Find my Iphone app to lock and then erase my phone, then leaving me the ominous message "This is what u get bitch". From Time stamps, I've been able to figure out what time zone they're in, but is there any otherway to perhaps zero in on where exactly they are so I may press charges or tell apple?
Can I somehow configure Midnight Commander to execute "open %file_name%" command every time when I press Enter? If so, how can I do it?
What are this weird stripes in only this window (AirPort Utility) and can I get rid of them? Sometimes this bug does not appear, but most still it do. I thought it depends on the screen resolution, but I was mistaken. MBP retina late 2013, OS X 10.9.5. Thanks!
If I download an app on my iPhone and it automatically appears on my iPad and I delete it from my iPad that means no notifications should pop up on my iPad anymore because I deleted it - even if I use it on my iPhone, correct?
I usually see the well known rainbow colored spinning wheel when the Mac is working on something, but sometimes there is a blue one. What is the difference between them? Do they come from the OS and have a special meaning or is it application dependent?
I would like to use the following 3 monitor setup because the arrangement aligns logically with the physical placement of the monitors.  Is it possible to bridge the gap between the left and right monitors, above the primary? OR Is it possible to detect and move the mouse via scripting?
I wish for duplex to be the default, but I must reset it each time the application is launched. I would expect to find the option in the Print... dialog of Acrobat, however I do not find it in the dialog or its subdialogs including and I find no Print Setup... dialog. I looked in Advanced but only find Output, Marks and Bleeds, PostScript Options, and Color Management as available and most of those include greyed out options, none being whether to print in duplex. This is for a Brother MFC-8910DW printer via USB. (Acrobat crashes when using wireless connection, this is supposedly fixed in Yosemite.) The Page Setup... and Printer... subdialogs give a warning message when you bring them up:
I've read that beacons need to be calibrated, but with just BeaconOSX and Proximitask, I don't think I know how to do that. I also read that increasing measured pwr increases the signal strength, making distance estimation more accurate. Is reducing that value also a valid way of preventing the triggerings from happening outside my office? Is there software I can use for calibration?
I'd rather have my Mavericks web app use a UNIX domain socket instead of a TCP port to effect a reverse proxy. I've tried using variants of the Apache syntax for UDS in the proxies section of the web app plist but nothing I've tried seems to please OS X Server. Proxying to gunicorn over TCP port 8001 seems to work in the code below but I'd rather use sockets if I can - keeps my apps separate from OS X Servers' apps. [Update: actual code posted above] If you've tried this I'd be grateful to know how you got on.
I received my new iMac today and want to install a Windows 8 partition to allow me to test software I'm writing with Qt on both OS X and Mac (Requirement for uni module). I have a Windows 8 ISO and opened Disk Utility then created a 250 GB FAT partition to hold the Windows file system. Upon launching Boot Camp Assistant I encountered a strange problem, the only destination disk I could select was my 32 GB USB stick which I have plugged in. Why is my new partition not visible to the Boot Camp Assistant software?
My husband told me that he received a FaceTime call from my number but he missed the call. I never called him and I don't have any outgoing calls in my phone or anything. Is my Apple ID compromised?
After a long submission process Apple suggested to deliver an app via VPP for business. The app is marked as "distributable worldwide", but apparently the redeem codes are enabled only for one country. The app is designed for different users (not employee of a single company, so no 300$/year solution) which resides in different countries. Is there a way to give the users redeem codes when they are not necessarily in the country of the VPP store? I've asked Apple but they REALLY didn't seem to have a clear picture of their own voucher code system.
I am a new Mac user and a casual blogger. All the applications listed are expensive, as I am a student. I am scared to set up Wordpress natively on my MacBook Air. Something like the wordpress app on android?
My Auntie died unexpectedly without leaving her icloud information (pretty standard!) I've restored her ipad as I thought it would reset her passcode as I couldn't guess it but now it's asking for Apple ID. I've tried everything but I can't guess her secret info or get into her emails until I go see my grandad and get her phone (he literally lives at the other side of the country.) So now I have this ipad and my cousin has iPod touch which is acting as a paper weight. There must be a way around it as this must be a fairly common thing surely? I don't have her death certificate, there isn't a will and my grandad (next of Kin) is 86 and quite flustered about everything and he's about had enough.
I just bought a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display. When I connect it to a projector using a MiniDisplay Port to VGA cable, the quality of the image is awful in terms of definition and colour. How can I fix this?
I have Yosemite on MacBook Air and continuously get en error about storage usage. It keeps saying there isn't enough empty space on disk. About this Mac says that I have 65.96GB of other type files. When I get info about home directory it says 57.69GB is the size of home directory. However when I sum up the sizes of each directory under home, it is only about 12GB of data. I can't find where the remaining 46GB is. Any ideas?
I reset my iPhone 4 as I gave it to a friend. I am unable to install Find My iPhone as prompt says I need iOS 8 to run this app. What can I do? I know iOS 8 is not available for iPhone 4, but apps should work for the last version of iOS released for the iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.2. What can I do to get this app downloaded or this is a lost cause?
I have a recurring meeting each day on my Exchange calendar at 8:45 AM. In the Calendar application, I get a notification every morning that the event time was updated to 8:45AM. However, the event organizer is not changing the time, and it stays exactly the same.
My macbook pro speakers are totally busted and I think that the soundcard is broken as well because I cannot play music even through headphone jack. The volume is always grayed out muted and no output device is available in system preferences --> sound including the internal speakers.
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.0.2. For the past few days, my phone has been shutting off when the battery reaches around 20%. It will not turn back on until I plug it into a power source. When I plug it in, it automatically powers itself on, and the battery shows about 20%. This is my battery info: CycleCount: 298 DesignCapacity: 1430 FullChargeCapacity: 1000 Status: Success BatteryCurrentCapacity: 72 BatteryIsCharging: true ExternalChargeCapable: false ExternalConnected: true FullyCharged: false GasGaugeCapability: true Questions: does anyone knows why this is happening, and how can I make the battery function until 2-4% like it used to before?
I use Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and email. In the Safari Preferences, Firefox is set to be default browser. Each time I start Firefox, it asks if I want it to be the default browser. Same thing with Thunderbird. If I disable this check in Thunderbird, and click a mailto-link on a webpage, Apple Mail opens. How can I set Firefox and Thunderbird to be the default clients, without having to confirm this each time I restart my computer?
I cannot ssh to any server. .ssh/config (pushing/pulling git works fine) ssh_config
Why does Finder window close when I eject an external drive sometimes? It's still in the menu system, but no open window to toggle to. I was not in any folder on said external drive, but in the Documents folder - I am not even in a folder on the external drive being ejected.. I don't want it to close Please advise.
I would like to have an app that can use existing iCloud notes, but to show them in better way, using eg. simple markdown. So I can edit notes using the simple built-in application Notes or to use this beautiful notes. For example, i could add entries on my macbook using built-in notes app, but use something much nicer on my mobile devices.
My Macbook Pro Running 10.8.5 isn't sleeping when left alone. System prefs has everything set up to sleep but it isn't working. I used the command pmset -g assertions in terminal and I get
I am pretty new to mac, I am on a desktop mac with a Logitech mouse. Every time I right click on some text - it selects the word under the cursor.
When I got my iPhone 5, the Add Event button in Calendar was greyed out. I have tried adding events using Siri, and that doesn't work either. Why not?
I am wanting to do some pretty serious mac synchronisation... I want to know how far I can go in terms of getting my two macs to be always identical to one another. Unfortunately files are just not enough. I want like system images of one exother, but ongoing Where do I begin?
I took burst photos with my iPhone 6. Plugged into iMac, iPhoto opens, I pull all the images off my phone and into a new iPhoto event, they are no longer on my phone. Now I want to share them using iPhoto -> Share -> iCloud -> New photo stream. When I do this only the non-burst images get uploaded. Why? I want them all. I do not have Photo Stream turned on. I don't know if that matters. I don't want it on. I am running the latest version of OS X Yosemite & iPhoto 9.5.1. Thanks!
I'm experiencing an issue where the Dock won't reload an icon I changed for one of my applications. I changed the icon by replacing the .icns file within the application package. The version I replaced it with is currently still there, but even after rebooting and killing the dock process multiple times, the old icon won't budge. Strangely enough, I managed to change the icon for another app with no issue, following the same procedure and rebooting.
I don't want any sound-based notifications on my iOS device, but I still want the visual alerts. Most apps (e.g. Messages, Reminders, etc.) have a None choice at the top of their list of notification sound options (or at least an On/Off switch, e.g. Gmail and Hangouts), but Settings / Notifications / FaceTime / Notification Sound yields no none option. Nothing more regarding notification sounds is listed under Settings / FaceTime, nor in the app itself (which frustratingly has no in-app settings—I think the system settings are crowded enough even without adding app settings to them). Am I missing something? In the meantime, all I can do (it seems) is disable FaceTime notifications altogether. 2012 iPod Touch 5 iOS 8.0.2
I have an iPod Touch running IOS 6.1.6 (the latest it will support) and am thinking of buying an iPhone 5. The iPod has 32GB but I still have 18GB free and was planning to get a 16GB iPhone. Can I copy the contents of the iPod to the iPhone? I probably won't put all the music on the iPhone, and will keep the iPod as a music player. I will probably need to de-register the iPod, as there are 5 devices on the account (2*iPad, 2*iPod and my wife's iPhone 4).
I have been plagued with this problem for well over a year, and am hoping someone can shed some light on what is going on. My setup is that I have a Macbook Pro that I use with a monitor while I'm at home, but I take it out of the house on a daily basis. While I'm at home, I backup the machine to a Western Digital MyBookLive network drive, using Time Machine. This arrangement worked just fine for the longest time. But about last year (sometime in Mountain Lion), I started having this issue where every time I'd come home and connect to my local WiFi, TimeMachine would kick in but soon gives me this message: The backup disk image “/Volumes/TimeMachine/MyMBPro.sparsebundle” is already in use I've looked far and wide for a proper solution to how to resolve this issue, but not found one.
I have a new Mac Mini connected to my HDTV with an HDMI cable and the desktop is larger than my screen so I can't see the menu bar at the top. How do I adjust this?
I've been trying to get my hands on Swift, but I can't seem to find it. Is it released yet? If not, when will it be released?
My MacBook just booted in safe mode. Is it possible that somehow I made it to do so, or can it automatically load in case of a malfunctioning? What does it mean if it did so automatically?
I have connected two external displays to a Macbook and have deselected 'Mirror Displays'. The lid of the Macbook is closed, therefore I am using just the larger screens. The contents of my desktop are currently only shown on screen 2.
Maybe somebody know. How you know, 26.10.14 in Russia will change the time-zones. My mac os x (10.9.5) will automatically change time to new time-zone ? How can i check this?
On a Mac Lion 10.7.5 I have 5 USB external disk and I'm not using them all the time so I want to prevent it to mount at boot and only mount the one I need when needed. How can I achieve this ? Thank you
Ok, I have a late 2011 macbook pro that I'm looking to upgrade. It's sluggish with basic tasks such as right clicking to open the little options menu thingy (like the copy and past menu) and minimizing windows and stuff. I mostly just use my macbook for lots and lots of Internet browsing... And I mean lots (I currently have 20 tabs open on 3 different windows of Google chrome) and I also watch quite a bit of netflix and youtube (but when I'm not watching those I don't have it open in a tab so that shouldn't be that big of a problem). So should I upgrade my RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB or should I upgrade my 500 GB HDD to a 512 GB SSD? Thanks for looking!
I like to show notifications from scripts using osascript -e 'display notification "Some text"'. This works fine from the plain shell but it stop working when in tmux.
I just noticed in my ~/Copy directory there is a file named Icon? that is 0 byte. The file is only visible by a ls command. I'm just curious what for this file exists, does anyone know about it?
Is there a command available that displays the Energy Impact from the terminal? Top doesn't display this info.
When I pair with my bluetooth speaker, the input gets changed to Line In Is it possible to have it not do that? To always keep the internal microphone selected...
how do i Disable the ssl3 cipher in OSX Server so as to not be vulnerable for POODLE ?
I have a MBA mid 2013. I was wondering if a MBA is plugged in charge, does it bypass battery after it's fully charged? Because while I am working it's always plugged, I wonder how this will affect the actual battery life. When I was using my laptop, I used to unplug its battery when I was working with AC power in office to preserve its life cycle.
iOS 8 in my iPhone 5 drains the battery, I'd like to return to iOS 7 if I can. Is it possible?
I have a Mavericks Server with Open Directory, where all my user information is stored. I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server which has hitherto served up files using NFS. My Mavericks desktop is having difficulty with NFS, so - given that Apple is dropping support for NFS - it seems to be the time to move to Samba. So, I'm trying to replace NFS with a Samba server on Ubuntu 14.04.
I have a set of redeem codes associated to a VPP purchase. I went ot my phone itunes and entered the first code. The app download started automatically. Unfortunately, due to a network problem, the download failed. Now returning to itunes I cannot find any way to re try downloading the app. Also re-entering the code obviously does not work (the code has already been used). So how can I re-try downloading the app on that phone without using a different code?
For work reasons I have to dual boot windows 7 in my mac. Does doing so voids my warranty?
My mac won't boot and it maybe a harddrive issue, but I need to get the data off it, is it possible to recover the data using a set of tools if I know the password and have the appropriate cables?
I'm having a problem re-installing homebrew. I am running Mavericks
my son is overseas and I had to send him a new phone...before sending I turned on location services so that I could log onto find my phone on my phone and locate his phone. (his first phone was stolen so thought would be good to have) He is now saying that he keeps getting emails saying I am using Find my phone to find his phone...I have never heard that it sends an email to the person?
Fixing Chrome for the Poodle vulnerability seems to be more difficult on OSX than the other Operating Systems This seems to work... Exit chrome Open Applescript editor Enter this script click run. Check on this page, (you may need to cmd + R) refresh the page. *=URL=* But is there a better way, or have I missed something? Source: How do I disable SSLv3 in Safari (OSX & iOS)
I bought my iPhone 6 Plus in Dubai. I am using the phone in Sri Lanka and I cannot use the FaceTime. How can I use FaceTime while in Sri Lanka?
Is there anyway that I can view the /dev folder with its contained pseudo-files inside of Finder? I can access it just fine in the terminal with cd /dev, but in Finder it doesn't show up even with AppleShowAllFiles active.
I'm ready to resell my Mac, and I'd like to prepare it for the new user, giving them factory-like out of box experience. Even better, I'd like the system to be fully updated, yet come up with no user accounts, starting into the initial setup as if one just unboxed it. Of course performing the updates and software preinstallation requires to set up a temporary user account :(
Today without (yet) no evident change in my working Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.5) I saw at least 10 times an empty window pop up on top of my working environnment.. At each of these events, I noticed that the window in which I was typing lost the focus and consequently what I was typing. After a few quick investigation I found that this empty window is a Finder window and is clearly related to error messages within: as this typical one:
I am aware that mouse keys allows you to control the pointer with your keyboard. When using multiple monitors, however, this is painfully slow. Getting across 48 inches with mouse keys isn't fun.
I just bought a new MacBook Air 128GB SSD. This is my first MAC. As on Windows, I want to create a separate partition for my Data. The Default partition shows around 30 GB used space. Why is it so? I suppose Mavericks takes up around 10 GB only.
How can I simply transfer songs/playlists (including non-iTunes songs) from my pc laptop to my iPod (purchased in June 2014)?
I have a Mac book pro 15 inch mid 2010 & there is a small dent between the touch pad & space bar as i dropped a metal ball by accident however it does not effect the performance of my Laptop at all, can it be repaired ? It does't look good...!!!
I'd like to have a bookmark for a webpage, shown on my desktop that, when clicked, opens that page. I know there are workarounds (applescript etc.) but is there a direct approach? I'm using Google Chrome on OSX 10.9.4
i have an Sqlite Browser App. I would like to view and extract all Contacts of the Contacts App for further use in a FileMaker Pro file ... How can i connect to this database and export its content ?
Has anyone experienced a phenomenon wherein Preview's "AI" for PDF text extraction sometimes strips spaces out of a line or two of text? I'm working with some college documents and need to extract snippets of texts for various purposes. In some (thankfully rare but still hugely annoying) instances, Preview will copy a section of text and it will come out something like
I have moved a large folder with many subfolders to my iCloud drive. If I dig around I can catch a status bar next to a file name (same as during a download), but it seems to be taking a lot longer to upload than I would think. Besides catching an upload in progress I don't see a way to tell what has been uploaded or is waiting. Is there anything I am missing? Dropbox had a nifty menu bar icon that would display progress and pending files.
I installed CUPS 2.0.0 (cups.org) but evidently I needed to include specific architecture flags. Now several things are broken on my mac (e.g. Word won't boot). Error messages reveal that the problem is with libcups.2.dylib ("built with the wrong architecture"). Per advice I found for an earlier version of OSX, I tried re-configuring CUPS using: configure --with-archflags="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" --with-ldarchflags="-arch x86_64"
I want to use my Apple Mac Mini without connecting a monitor through the VGA, I have also a MacBook pro and an iPad. I want to know how I can use the MacBook pro (ideally wirelessly) to act as the display and keyboard and mouse for my Mac Mini.
Is there a way to modify the "open with" list for a file type? I don't mean simply to remove duplicates - that's been answered; I'm not asking how to set the default program - I know how to do that. I'm using OS X Mavericks.
I am trying to reinstall an iMac but I don't have the original Apple keyboard. Instead a "regular" keyboard is attached. I can't find out how to type the "at" symbol (@). I need it to enter my Apple ID so I can download Mavericks to reinstall the sytem. Is there any way to type it or circumvent the Apple ID login?
Yes, I know, I should have made backups, but one reason I was like "YOLO!" was that I took such precautions for the really important stuff which is stored somewhere else and another that I did not have any capacity left for that. That is what is written in system.log when I connect the external drive to the Mac: Ignore the Can't create kext cache stuff, that is independent and written all the time.
I do a bit of Objective-C, Matlab and Python, and start to get tired of the keyboard I use (AZERTY). It is far from being optimal as one need to press ALT+SHIFT+( to get [ for example. I think of buying a new keyboard for programming and QWERTY keyboards seem to be an obvious choice (my guess is that these language/environment were developed with such keyboards). Which keyboard/keyboard layout allow a direct access to programming keys, such as [, { or | for example?
On my mac mini (OS X 10.9.5), I have to Force Quit Finder in order to see the screenshot jpgs in my /screenshots folder I literally just took a millisecond ago. Even if I wait a few minutes, I won't see the screenshot jpgs in my folder until I Force Quit. Why is this? UPDATE: After waiting a couple hours without Force Quit, I now see the screenshot jpgs. Why can't I see the screenshot jpgs instantly like I do on other macs? UPDATE #2: Updating to Yosemite has solved this issue.
I'm looking for the cheapest way to get a stereo mic signal into iPhone 5S A google search shows a lot of expensive mic solutions using the lighting port And some say it can't be done without some special circuit Is it not possible to use an oldschool analogue stereo jack mic somehow? To record the sound, in stereo, using my own stereo mic with mini-jack Perhaps with a converter to fit iphone multi-jack standard?
I was using Outlook (last v., updated) since the Mavericks update without any issue. But since couple of days, when I start it, the main window takes 1 or 2 real minutes to display, and is very buggy (shadow is missing, it's cutted on the rigth), and unusable. I can't figure out what I did whn it happens (only that I used Safari – instead of Fx – for 1 day, but didn't install anything). Capture of the window (in Fr) – yes, no shadow (and I got a message in cosnole related to a bug with a background blur).
I just got an Apple iOS Developer License for $100. I thought it would be effective immediately, but apparently it has to be shipped to me? I'm really confused, how do I activate my license? Thanks.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina, 15in, and I have the above issue. In a related question (Wifi doesn't work unless I turn it off then on again) a user commented:
I bought a macbook pro from e-bay and the man that sold it told me he cleaned the computer and gave me the administrator password that wouldn’t work that I asked him for.I don’t know how to get into the computer and it was working great until I shut it down and tried starting it.When I started it up it asked for the admin.password and I put in the password that the man who sold it to me had and didn’t work.I would like to know if someone can help me. Thank you.
Is the trackpad surface on a MacBook Air different than on a Pro? I found that the trackpad on my friend's 2012 MacBook Pro is much smoother than that of my 2013 MacBook Air. Is that normal or my has my trackpad gone rough by use?
Since upgrading to iOS8, I've had constant problems with the Calendar app. First it started only syncing to the iCloud, and ignored everything from Exchange. I managed to stop this, and "delete all" entries from the Calendar, but no it isn't doing anything at all. The + symbol to create a new event is grayed out. I checked the settings, and Exchange is the default account. How do I get this working again?
I have a macbook pro which I use for development. Keychain used to store and load my ID and PW for localhost:3000, but for some reason it has stopped loading them automatically.
I have several Apple IDs, so how can I login with all of these Apple IDs to iMessage on my iMac at once? I want to send imessage from many apple ID simultaneously. By message app, I sign in my apple ID and I can use imessage. But, if I try another apple ID, the previous apple ID will be unavailable. Is it possible to have multiple Apple ID active at the same time?
I noticed this strange problem when when I was using Final Cut Pro. The top left corner of the display does not appear. The same can be seen on the image below.
I used time machine previously and I have done a clean install to get back some space on my mac. At setup process I skipped to use time machine I just wanted to get my machine up and running and set up a new account with same username as earlier. Am I able to retrieve document from backup time machine used to done?
I keep getting hundreds of these "Could not synchronize record: [...]" errors, but the meetings and emails refered to in the Errors panel do not exist - I deleted them, and confirmed that they are not in any folder, calendar, or anywhere. They say error number: 19759
I use iPhone for analysing trajectory, more here. I am trying to find an app that makes it easy to get Mag/Acc/Gyro data from the phone to let say dropbox. I have found apps that allow you to get only one type of data but I want an app that gets all of the data (not just gyro but all: gyro+acc+mag). Recommendations highly appreciated, thank you.
I accidentally ran rm -rf /usr/local/bin. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot. Is there anything short of attempting to run every single application on my Mac to see what applications need to be reinstalled?
After upgrading my iPad Air to iOS 8.0.2 I can no longer play videos in any application. I've tried playing videos in Safari, Youtube, MVP Video Playlist, and any other app you can think of and nothing, I even tried playing purchased videos from iTunes in Apple's own Videos app and it just doesn't work. Is anybody else experimenting this issue?
My boyfriend bought me an iPad Mini last September and until now it is on the box he didn't open it because he wanted me to open it on my own, but the thing is the iPad will arrived here in the Philippines on December. My question is when i open or turn on the ipad is it updated to ios 8 right away or I will be the one to update it?
So I searched a bunch, lots of threads on this, but unfortunately either they haven't been resolved, or its not helpful. I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011) model w/ the Intel Core i5. It is currently running OS X Version 10.9.5, and I just recently purchased a second monitor for it (Dell P2014H). I am using a Mini DisplayPort to Display port cable to connect this monitor to the laptop, and it is working.
I have the following formula that I want to sum income over the associated month. As you can see, it's not doing what I am expecting it to—how can I effect what I need?
There's a known method for unpacking .bundle by going to Show Package Contents, but what if that option is unavailable? There is a solution that works for .pkg files by using the pkgutil --expand command. Is there any solution for .bundle?
I have a problem with my MAC. Yesterday it got stuck while it was trying to connect to a Wi-Fi network, then, since it didn't respond I decided to turn it off using the power on/off button ('). When I restart it, MAC didn't mount my disk0s2 where OS X is installed (Macintosh HD) and where all my files and programs are stored, instead the OS X Utility appeared. I tried to verify the disk using Disk Utility and the Terminal by running: but I got this message: I thought I need to disable the journal on the volume, but even after this command: If I run again fsck_hfs I get the previous error "Invalid content in journal" again and again. If, using Disk Utils, I click on the "Repair Disk" button, I get this:
Basically I have two jobs: Compiling a code Download a youtube video with using youtube-dl command
I have a document I created with an old Pages version. When I try to open it in Pages '13, I get the message :
I upgraded my phone to iPhone 6 and in the process of erasing data etc on my iPhone 5, i somehow put the lost mode in find my phone. I have since sold my iPhone 5 and now it is still linked to my current apple id. How do i deactivate the lost mode lock on my old phone?
I just upgrade to my iPhone 6. I first made backup (to iCloud) on my iPhone 5, then i restored it on the iPhone 6. Now all works well and everything is there, except all my photos. Anybody has a handy tip to restore all my photos from my iPhone 5?
My question is btw. somehow similar to this I think: Connect Mac to closer Access Point
Sometimes I receive PDF files that open with Preview (Version 7.0 (826.4), Mavericks) with the following message: To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html or sometimes the message is same same but different:
How do I find out what is using the ~6GB? It can't be iOS itself, is it? I guess, I would expect to see a ~6GB difference between the numbers on the 64GB iPad, too, if it was iOS.
I have been working on my scenario for a week on textedit, and this morning while I was making correction my file disappeared, while the other textedit files that were open remained on-screen. I can't find the file anymore. I have tried the library autosave and there was nothing. When I looked in /private/var/folders there are files that correspond to the time this error happened, but they are forbidden from access. How can I get my textedit file back?
I have an Apple ID and I know my password, but forgot the answer to the security question. I tried to change it at appleid.apple.com but we don't have a link to reset it. See the picture. Please help me ASAP.
Recently I updated album covers in most of my mp3s, but their respective thumbnails on Finder did not get updated. Things I tried: Removed (rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist) without solving the issue at all "touch"(ed) the files, which refreshed some - not all - the thumbnails Any ideas on how to force a refresh of my mp3 thumbnail icons in Finder? See the manifestation of this issue below:
When I press update or update all buttons in app store on my OS X it shows a loading animation and does nothing. Before this it was asking for more space. I have freed a space and now it is 8.88Gb available. That should be enough right?
In the left side of the Finder, under favorites and devices there is a shared list that contains computers and other devices on the network. I use the MacBook in two places, both with wifi. When I switch between these places, the Mac automatically connects to the wifi network there, but sometimes the Finder's shared list still contains the devices in the previous network.
I am making an app on osx 10.9 using python 2.7. But when it is launched first time, warning comes.
I have an iPhone 6 and the 2013 rMBP. Both support 802.11ac WiFi, yet the iPhone always sets up the hotspot as 802.11g for backwards compatibility (I think). Is there a way to change this? My unlimited LTE is capable of reaching 60Mbps and WiFi is becoming the bottleneck. I was hoping perhaps Yosemite's instant hotspot would be able to tell the iPhone what kind of a network to set up?
I have to use a backup of my iPhone but iTunes says that is not compatible with the beta distribution. So I need to downgrade to iOS 8.0.2 but it seems not possible. Any Idea? Now I'm downloading it (iOS 8.0.2) manually and I'll try to replace manually.
I am trying to use the product form soma-zone.com called RedHand. The only catch is you must have Require Password turned off in the Security Preferences Pane. RedHand won't start until it is turned off, but I have filevault 2 enabled which automatically sets Require Password to true and immediatley. I can trick it for a few seconds using
I was looking at the versions section of Wikipedia's article for OS X and I realized that all versions are prefixed with 10. Why? What is the logic behind prefixing al versions with a number that never changes?
I'd like to start from scratch with Yosemite. I have Mavericks running on my iMac now but I'd like to just wipe the system and start with a clean Yosemite install. How do I do a clean install of Yosemite on my machine, not an upgrade install?
It's my understanding modern mac laptop don't have removable hard drives -- it's all SSD chips permanently attached to the mother board. It's also my understanding Thunderbolt doesn't have an equivalent to Firewire's target disk mode.
I have a problem upgrading the system from os x mavericks to os x yosemite. I tried to update it through the app store, but it says that it is unavailable in the UK? Can anyone explain to me what this means?
Usually when I type Pinyin input, the suggestions appear over the window like this:  However, when using Google Hangouts, they appear behind which makes it somewhat useless:
Trying to install OS Yosemite and get this: Can't connect to the Apple Software Update server.
Is it possible from technical point of view to replace/upgrade on my own RAM or processor in new Mac mini released today (assuming that I'll use compatible replacement)?
I'm using Excel (v 14.4.4) on my Mac (10.9.5). I have opened a CSV file and I wish to save it to an .xls format (Excel 97-2004 Workbook). I have a column that has 6 digit numbers, some of which begin with a leading zero. When I save my CSV to XLS, the cells with leading zeroes lose these leading zeroes. How do I keep them there?
I have a 17" and a 15" Macbook Pro from about 2010. The 15" one recently has some problem with the speaker. Can I take its hard drive out and install it into the other 17" one? Would it work? The data I immediately want to work on is on the 15" one. More detailed version info: I looked up version information for my Macbook Pro by their serial numbers at *=URL=* and compared to Apple's list of models *=URL=* and determined Macbook Pro 17", Mid 2010 Macbook Pro 15", Early 2011
Since using Yosemite, I've had the annoying problem of my current Terminal window flashing when backspacing on an empty line. I know on previous versions of OS X this flashing was not default, and could be toggled in accessibility settings, but I cannot find the same setting and I'm dying to get this turned off. Any known ways to get rid of it?
It's always annoyed me that I can't write a custom function for Numbers. It would make the spreadsheet so much more useful to me. In Google Apps spreadsheets you can do it, using Javascript. In other words, you write and a cell can contain:
I have a global strategic problem which resembles a philosophic issue (well, sort of ;-)). I have an app interacting via REST/JSON with a django webserver. The web [front|back]end is rapidly and gradually evolving, but, in case of severe changes, we introduced an in-app mechanism to manage API breakages (a popup is presented to the user, inviting him/her to install the updated app from the store). What I never thought about before is how to manage the review process, considering that, if I upgrade the backend just for the purpose of the review process: old applications won't be able to speak the new API language; they will be presented with the upgrade message without being actually able to find it on the store; people will see the upgraded frontend before being able to interact with their own app with it. The only thing that came to my mind is to let the existing users suffer from this change until the moment in which they will be able to download the new version. How would you handle
I would like to update my system to the newest 10.10 Yosemite version, but I use quite intensively Eclipse + ADT to develop apps for Android. Does anyone have any experience with running this software on Yosemite (maybe beta version)?
My installation of the Mac App Store on Mavericks is broken. What alternatives are there for installing the new OS?
I'm getting a really bad power consumption on my mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" w/ OS X 10.9.4. I think the issue is that I have too many tabs open in Safari and SeaMonkey, and they're all taking a lot of power. It seems that even having all such tabs minimised still lets them suck out all the power out of my Mac.
I would like to know if there is any way to transfer your village in clash of clans using iOS 6. I recently erased all the data of my iPod and re-downloaded all my apps. I opened clash of clans with my old Game Center and tried to get my village back but I received a message saying i need iOS 7 or higher to transfer my village, but I can't upgrade since I only have an iPod fourth gen. How can I get my village back?
So, I am making a program to reboot iDevices (if there power buttons are broken), is there any way to induce the iDevice to reboot via the Mac shell?
I have and iMac and a MacBook Air. Somehow, they are registered multiple times in iCloud and I can't find the way to remove them. Apple support says they can't do it on their end! This came up during a call to them to figure out why iMessage doesn't work on either of them. While Facetime has the correct number of computer registrations, iMessage has all these profiles hanging about and gets confused by extras. The *=URL=* site lists my iPhone and iMac once. Are there any other places I can manage my device registrations? Any possible steps I can take? I'm looking for ideas. I want to be able to use iMessage on my Macs and the only way to fix iMessage is to get rid of these extra profiles. I can prove that I have extra profiles. Here's the prompt when removing a google account from iCloud:
I could not find proper steps to use both continuity and handoff with voice calls. I managed to do the following till now and I was able to make calls from Macbook but not receive calls that came to my iPhone. Here are the steps I did, In Macbook pro: Enabled the "Allow handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices" in Settings->General. I ensured both my Mac and iPhone are using the same iCloud account. In iPhone: Settings->FaceTime, I have enabled 'iPhone Cellar Calls'. Settings->General, I have enabled Handoff & suggested apps
How many displays can a Mac Mini 2014 drive? Given that the Mac Mini now has 2 thunderbolt + 1 HDMI video outputs, it would be able to drive 3 monitors right? It ofcourse depends on the resolutions. Not sure what that Intel Iris Graphics card can take.
In Safari, is it possible to set a default user for a site for which you have multiple user accounts? Or sites that have different accounts for different subdomains? As it is, when I login, I have to select which user account to use each time...
I have an iPhone 5 that I use with Straight Talk (telecom provider) and I am trying to "upgrade" it from 7.0.4 to 7.1.2, or any release with the 7.x version for that matter. I specifically do not want to upgrade to IOS 8 just yet.
In Mavericks and earlier, it was possible to make the menu bar opaque, rather than the default translucent look. Now in Yosemite, it looks like translucency is the default, and the setting is gone from where it used to be, to toggle it.
I have multiple devices on 1 apple ID (an iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPod Touch 5, iPhone 4) and would like the devices to have separate apple IDs. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s have separate apple IDs and the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 5 will have the same apple ID. How can I setup the iPhone 4 to use family sharing even though it does not have iOS 8? Is this even possible? Thanks!
A few months back, I had what seemed like a hardware issue, and in the process of troubleshooting it, Apple replaced my handset. They brought me a brand new iPhone 5 out of the storage area in the back of the retail store.
Is anyone having a higher than usual ping when using a thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter? Or maybe the thunderbolt adaptor has a known issue? Found this thread, Ping on Mavericks on late 2013 MacBook Pro slow and variable compared to Windows but it doesn't look to cover hardwire connections.
I have a less-than-reliable internet connection, so my download of Yosemite over the App Store has been broken over several tries. I would like to know if my download is intact. If you can run this command in Terminal:
I've been able to get brew to install many packages on Snow Leopard using just the gcc library without installing all of Xcode. I had installed Python as well as PosgreSQL from the gui installer and both were working fine, but was getting the following error after installing psycopg Tried installing PosgreSQL with brew and got same error so decided to try reinstalling python with brew and am getting following error: It appears that SecurityHI/SecurityHI.h is part of Xcode, the (4 gig) compatible version of which I am downloading now.
Is it possible to configure a Magic Mouse to have identical gestures to the trackpad? The similarity of both a trackpad and magic mouse, but having the gestures not be the same, is very confusing. Two finger scroll? Pinch to zoom? Three finger mission control? Can I get all of these on the Magic Mouse?
This question serves to share and collect the enhancements that make a large difference to how you use your Mac. Please post one feature per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inquestion:this (directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page. The best answers will not only list a feature, but provide details on how to configure that feature, and provide an image of how to use the feature to be more efficient or effective with Yosemite.
As the title suggest, can I just copy and paste an application to my new MAC instead of downloading them all over again? Or is there another way to do this?
My iPad is running 7.0.2 and is jailbroken. It looks like Apple is not signing the 7.1.2 any longer.
After I installed Yosemite I got a notice saying that performance may suffer until my Mac is optimized. What exactly does it mean and do I have to do anything?
How can a person get per-app network data usage information on iOS (iPod Touch)? On my phone (Nexus 5) I get a breakdown for mobile (cellular) or WiFi, for arbitrary dates, for specific apps, and foreground/background in those apps; see screenshots. (Only thing missing is being able to slice by WiFi connection, to see difference between home WiFi and others.)
Instead of playing a sound when volume up/down is pressed on the keyboard it now plays a sound when you hold down SHIFT + Vol Up / Vol Down. How does one configure it to work like it did before?
Is there a failure with OS X Yosemite? I have a MacBook Air mid 2011, with: Bluetooth Version 4.3 Bluetooth Low Energy Supported LMP Version 0x6 Does somebody experience the same behaviour?
Before upgrading to Yosemite, I'd like to backup app icons from Mavericks, as the new icons are so ugly. What's the best way to keep a full copy of old system icons from Mavericks? UPDATE:
I get tons of log entries from Mail.app as: Sometimes up to 10-15 entries per second. Then it stops for a minute or so and begins again. Is there a way to identify the message with the meeting information that is causing the problem?
Since yesterday nsurlstoraged is constantly using a huge amount of CPU. Nothing shows up in the logs but opensnoop shows that the process is accessing
Spotlight default to open web browser and search Internet for [string]. Command Space [string] [Enter] How can I do this? browser choice irrelevant search engine choice irrelevant keystrokes in between [string] and [Enter] preferably zero, else preferably always the same post-[string] pattern. 2013 Macbook Pro Retina OS X 10.10 Yosemite
I'm using developer preview of Yosemite for a while, now that Yosemite is released I want to have it installed on top of my Yosemite partition. Clicking on "Download" in App Store Yosemite page, I see that I am prompted with an error note, saying :
Is a Fusion hybrid drive anything special in terms of hardware, or is it literally a SSD drive and a regular disk glued into one box, and all the Fusion "magic" is done by software? Can you get exactly the same result by installing separate SSD and spinning disks and "Fusioning" them together?
I've been using my MacBook with AC power a lot lately and I thought that if I could use pmset to run on AC power whenever available and keep my battery at roughly 50% that would extend the life of my battery and AC adapter. I know that it's advisable to regularly drain and recharge the battery.
I have Adobe CS5 installed (old version because it's what my institutional site license covers) on Mavericks. Whenever I boot my system, I get the following dialog box:
I have iCloud Photo Library enabled on both iPhone 5S (IOS 8.02) and Macbook Pro (Yosemite) iPhone settings for iCloud (Photo Library) reports that I have 3 photos in iCloud (gallery only shows 1 photo (?), but otherwise it seems to sync to icloud fine when taking a new picture) Where are these photos located excactly (icloud), and how can I see/use them on my Macbook?
I connected an 1 TB Toshiba external HDD previously used on windows pc to my new MacBook Air and a message popped up for if I wanted to use this drive for time machine backup and since this is the first time i'm using mac I clicked "later". I think it got formatted so I tried some data recovery softwares but was unable to recover any data. I had lot of data on it which I would like to recover, is it possible?
I just upgraded to Yosemite today and found that mirroring my laptop to my apple TV is very stuttery... It's not lagging but every second there's a slight delay, both audio and video.
I have just upgraded my machine to Yosemite (as of three hours ago), and I have encountered my first hang (on this laptop, which is about a week old). The system locked up quite hard, with only the mouse pointer movable; after a few seconds, the mouse pointer stopped moving too.
There are many questions of forcing iCloud to sync, but they are generally old and unclear as to the details. I changed the file structure at my Mac, but the iOS App (Pages) doesn't seem to take the new update.
In addition to this question I'd like to start a new question specifically for the new OS X Yosemite. As I'm always curious about the announced items, there are many times hidden gems or nice tricks in new OS X versions.
Previously I can remove the files end with db in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/ to reset the ordering of apps, but now doing the same thing doesn’t help. Do anyone know where the new path that organizes the Launchpad is located?
I just upgraded to OS X Yosemite and as far as I recall the presentation Apple said that iWork is for free now as well? The reason I ask is because there is still a price in the App Store. Or is just the update for owners free?
When I install Xcode from App Store, I can compile programs in Xcode as well as command line too. Several command line utilities like clang, make and git all become available when Xcode.app is installed. So I thought that the separate package of command line tools are only for those who do not want a full IDE installed.
The Personal Hotspot in Yosemite only shows up in my WiFi network list after unlocking the iPhone - is it supposed to be like that? I thought it should be possible to use it "without touching the iPhone"?
I will buy a new Macbook soon. I am german and used to the german keyboard layout: Since I do alot of coding and many special characters are placed inconveniently on the german keyboard (e.g. { and }) I will purchase either a US or a US International keyboard.
I have a dual boot mac pro 3,1 : one hard drive with Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and one with Mountain Lion (10.8.?). When I boot up with Mountain Lion it unfailingly resets the clock to about 4 am. This results in my editing software 'Lightworks' not responding to my attempts to access it. Could anyone help with this problem? It is driving me nuts!
I want to use my ACO color palettes from Photoshop to be available in Keynote, Omingraffle etc. Is there any tool out there to export ACO files to whatever format that is needed to load that palette into Mac OSX system wide color palette? Cannot find anything on the web that helps... Thank you!
I am going to buy an iPhone 5s 16GB. Now my query is whether any videos that I still store in my phone can later get transferred into my laptop? That way I can save spaces by not keeping unnecessary videos, images, etc.
i have a Mac Mini Late 2012 running with OS X Yosemite. When installing Xamarin, i had to enter often my admin credentials, which leads me to the question : Is it possible to enter my admin credentials only once per session, but keeping the permissions until i log off ? Sometimes it takes up much time always entering my credentials depending on the application, so if there is a way, this would be very helpful.
I am able to make and receive phone calls from my MacBook running Yosemite via my iPhone when I am only connected via WiFi to my home network (Airport Extreme). When I connect additionally via my Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter to the same network it does not work anymore. Making and receiving phone calls always fails with the message "Call failed" after trying for some seconds to connect to the iPhone. UPDATE: I can see the following error in the console:
I have updated my mid 2012 MBP to yosemite, and my iPhone 5s is running iOS 8.0. My wife called me last night, and sure enough the call popped up on my MBP. I answered the call, and it works fine.
I am looking for a (most) powercord-safe way to pack my MagSafe adapter for a daily backpack commute. Official Apple recommendations (as illustrated by third-party videos like this) don't prevent the breaks at all, as my experience with 2 MagSafes showed. Third-party supplements promising a solution don't sound very convincing: MagSavior is clearly a hard-plastic solution which just moves the cord breaking point farther from the adapter The Fray Fix seems nearly impossible to install despite looking promising after that
If you are a new disk and wiping them to setup a DIY Fusion disk, how does the Mini carry on working afterwards... haven't you just wiped the OS? Without an optical drive, how can you clean the disks and still be able to reinstall an OS?
I had a bit of acetone on my finger when I pressed on my phone, and now the left corner is kind of darker (like a blue-ish color) than the rest of the screen like there's a layer of water behind the screen!!!! I have no idea what to do! I can still use my phone, but it bothers me a lot! Please help!
It really is bizarre. I am left thinking my only solution is to go through the arduous process of copying all the files to my windows PC and reformatting the HDD :( Does anyone have a better solution to this problem?
For Thunderbird there is the External Editor extension a very very classical piece of software that, when called via a shortcut, pops up your external editor (emacs in my case) and let's you edit your mail there. While editing the compose window of Thunderbird is blocked. When the external editor closes, the compose window is populated with the updated text of the mail. Very convenient to have your mail as one buffer in your emacs, for instance to edit tables, copy computational results, use power editing features like regexp-search-and-replace, etc. My question: Is it possible to implement the same thing using Mac OS Mail + AppleScript or other tricks?
Is it possible to receive iMessages on the device you are currently using, and only that device. If so, how?
iPhone 5s running iOS 8.0.2 I am on a 2GB/month plan so I tend to keep a close eye on cellular data usage. Recently noticed that Settings > Cellular > System Services > Time & Location was almost 300MB in about 20 days. In the past, I have never seen this more than 3-5MB. Checked a friend who has the same hardware & software and his usage has remained under 10MB/month.
I need to install an in-house application on a few company ipods. In order to get them into supervised mode I need to use the Perpare function of Apple Configurator. However, I cannot unselect the 'Update iOS' option, and the app to be installed is iOS7 only.
I believe I heard from the Apple keynote that with the release of Yosemite and iOS 8 we will be able to automatically share the iPhone's internet connection without having to connect every time with hotspot (when within range). I now have Yosemite on my MacBook and iOS 8 on my iPhone, but I cannot see any options to enable this automatic connection. I currently connect with bluetooth to get my iPhone's internet connection. Did I misunderstand or is there such an option?
I have a Macbook Pro, 17 inch mid-2009 with 2 ram chips configured in this manner: I would like to kick this up to 8 Gb of ram. What should I do? OR, can I just add a 4Gb stick on one side and end up with 6 Gb of ram...most sites seem to indicate that the amount of ram in each slot should be the same. Thanks!
Using OS X 10.9 and 10.10 dictation, I can find/use the various grammatical commands as shown here. Is there a way to select back, erase, cancel? When I try these words, they are typed not implemented. Thanks
I have setup iCloud and Keychain on both OS X and iOS, but my Internet Accounts do not seem to be synced (iOS Mail doesn't show all my inboxes). Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
TL;DR: Does a clean install reset everything (like SMC, for example)? If not, what else should I do to be sure the computer is completely reset, like it just came from the factory? My macbook has been acting weirdly for the past few weeks, so I decided to give it clean install with Yosemite.
Just made the upgrade to Yosemite but now my iMac wont restart or shut down. Whenever I try to do any of these it stays on a black screen with a mouse pointer, and I have to turn it off and back on manually. Any help?
I have upgraded my Mountain Lion system to the latest Yosemite release in the App Store. When I click the Back Up Now link in the Time Machine menu it says it's preparing the backup but it never gets past this and actually starts backing the system up. How do I get Time Machine working again?
I am thinking about buying an Apple Developer Program through an offshore company. It has many tax advantages. Is it possible? I have heard registration requires a DUNS number, so will I able to get it? What risks are there when using an IBC?
I've recently bought myself a Macbook Pro 13" Retina Mid 2014 model. I went for the cheapest model but upgraded the CPU from 2.6Ghz to 2.8GHz. The specs are: 2.8GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM 128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage Intel Iris Graphics
I moved my user directory to another hard drive, as I am using an HDD (for Data) beside my SSD (for system). After that, all the sidebar icons in Finder got lost and now that are just folder icons. I tried to drag&drop the icns-files from /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/
I just updated my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) to latest OS X Yosemite (10.10 (14A389)) and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client (3.1.05182) is generating an error while trying to connect: Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client VPN User Messages, Release 3.1 - Cisco states following: Removing library from the cache did NOT solve my issue( Any other ideas?
After upgrading my Macbook Pro to Yosemite, the volume icon at the top right is greyed out and sound does not work. How can I fix this issue?
I have an LG 34UM95 connected via TB on a Late 2012 mac mini. After the Yosemite install, I no longer have the option of choosing 3440x1440 resolution in the Displays preferences. It worked just fine prior to the upgrade. I did do the Option->Scaled bit to see the extended list of choices, but nothing higher than 2560x1080 shows up. Can I get my 3440x1440 resolution back? EDIT: my colorsync profile...
My MacBook Air (2013) doesn't restart or shutdown from the Finder menu after upgrading to OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I have to press the power button. Moreover, it shows the Apple logo and progress bar loads for few seconds and then starts normally but could not restart or shutdown.
As a lot of people here, I updated my Maverick to Yosemite. I've a MacBook Pro 2011 (early) and a Apple Display connected with a Thunderbolt. My question is: am I the only one that see the font edge not so clear? It seems a little bit blurred but enough to be annoying. In particular the font are really annoying in Safari tab title, and system bar.
I just had a clean install of Yosemite Version 10.10 (14A389), and my Xcode is Version 6.0.1 (6A317). When I create a new iOS project, I can choose languages from Swift and Objective-C. However, when I create a new OS X project, the only option of languages is Object-C. Swift seems to be missing from the OS X Applications. So does Swift only work on iOS, not OS X, or am I missing something and I have to do something to enable it? Thanks, Elgs
I am on OS X 10.9.5 and recently (can't remember if this happened during 10.9.4 or not) FunctionFlip has started to work very inconsistently for me.
Yesterday I updated OS X to Yosemite from Mavericks. Today, any time I try to execute commands in SVN (no matter which client I use, including command-line), I get the following error: svn: E175012: Unable to connect to a repository at URL '<correct path>' svn: E175012: Connection timed out
In my terminal basic commands are not found like: But echo is working. Like: mds-macbook-pro:~ ZILLURRAHMAN$ echo $PATH “users/ZILLURRAHMAN/desktop/bioinformatics/bow-tie/bowtie2-2.2.3/BT2_HOME:?? I can call up programs like pico using their full path like /usr/bin/pico.
I upgraded Yosemite, and turns out they changed the "pop" sound that plays when you change the volume. I have another Mac, which is on Mavericks, and I would like to get the old sound back. I saw Where are the Mac OS X alert sound files located?, and it is NOT there in Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ Sounds Any help would be appreciated.
How would I be able to reinstall Yosemite keeping the software I've installed through things like brew or macports but not the "system" files? For example, the system files being /System, /usr, /bin, /Library and such.
After doing a standard, App Store upgrade of Yosemite it seems that the recovery partition is still Mavericks-specific. Whether I hold Cmd+R or Option and select the recovery partition it takes me to the Mavericks recovery. If I choose Reinstall OS X it kicks off the Mavericks (re)install screens.
How do you set a soft limit for maxopenfiles in Yosemite? I installed Yosemite last night, and now it's ignoring my settings in my /etc/launchd.conf file:
I just bought a mint condition late 2011 MC721LL MacBook Pro which looks perfect, but I am curious about the display specs. The screen has a low sheen matte look, but the resolution is 900 x 1440, so it is not the high resolution screen.. It also has the standard black surround, rather than the silver bezel.
I've tried Yosemite on my MacBook Air (testing machine). I think it is ugly, bland, and the most un-Apple-ish OS that Apple has ever released. One of the most irritating design aspects is the RED/AMBER/GREEN window buttons (Close/minimise etc) which look to me like they were designed by a child. Are there any tricks or methods for replacing the Yosemite rendition of these Mac OS X buttons with the usual ones we are all familiar with?
I have been using my Macbook Pro Retina 13" (late 2012 model) for a few hours, shut it down, put it in my laptop bag and went outside. It was pretty cold, I could see my exhaled breath condense; I guess it was pretty cold - probably close to 0 degrees celsius.
I just upgraded my "Command Line Tools" via App Store.app's update process to Version 6.1. It seemed to install just fine, but a lot of commonly used command line tools now have much more aggressive buffering (presumably, a much larger buffer block size). For example: grep: previously I didn't have to use --line-buffered to get immediate output, now I do. jq: offers an --unbuffered option, with desired effect, similar to grep I don't have to use these options when they are the last item in my piped command, i.e., when the output is a TTY; the buffering comes into play when I pipe them into a subsequent command (even just cat).
For the past few weeks my Mac App Store hasn't been loading correctly. Occasionally it does, but i'd say this has only been once or twice in the last month. Here's a link of what it looks like:
I'm trying to upgrade a Macbook Pro to Yosemite. It downloaded everything just fine, restarted the machine into the installer process. That went just fine until it just stopped.
I have a few Apple products: MacBook, iPhone, iPad. When someone sends me a text message, and the entire room starts dinging as all three devices tell me I got a message. Is there an easy way to say, in effect, "I'm at my laptop, just tell me there."
I'm creating an app preview for an iOS app using Apple's instructions (record video using QuickTime, import into iMovie, File -> App Preview) yet I get the following error message when I attempt to upload the video: "Your app video preview is in the wrong format. For more information, see the Developer Guide".
This is a direct follow-on to this question. Before Yosemite, I'd add the "-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains" argument to the mDNSResponder plist file so that all local resolver lookups added the search domains, regardless of whether there was a period in the label to be looked up. For example, whether I try to ssh to hostname foo.bar or foo, the search domain of baz.com should be tried, not only for the latter case, as was (and is) the default behavior.
I want to trigger a workflow in automator every time I receive a new email in "mail.app". How can this be done?
I just want to restart my iPhone not turn it off + turn it back on. In Android there is an option.
I am aware of solution for linux here. How should one correctly copy public and private keys from one mac to another?
After upgrading to the OSX Yosemite, Textmate's duplicate line command ctrl+shift D produces an error warning: -K is specified; it is for 1.8 compatibility and may cause odd behavior. Previously, this was fixed by changing the PATH to /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin But now this does not work. How can I fix this issue?
I would like to share a folder like Dropbox does, but under Share I can not find such an option.
I am using OS X Mavericks and when I boot the machine I only see the guest login. When I log in as a guest everything functions correctly but I can't access my files.. I ran OSX utilities and all my drives were verified with no errors. How do I find my accounts again?
How are Application folders treated or considered on multiple volumes of OS X? Are they treated and indexed with equal priority as the root /Applications?
I use an IPad, a Windows XP SP3 desktop and a Windows 8.1 laptop. I usually use the IPad and I delete emails from there. I do not know how to sync all three of these machines to get rid of the deleted emails and update everything else. Can someone tell me how to do this? I am new at this syncing thing.
Maybe I have a case of acute OCD, I don't know - but this issue irks me more than it really should. I set up my Finder settings to display four files or directories horizontally, snapped to a grid in which everything's symmetrical and really nice looking. However, if I don't have more than four items in the directory, the folders don't snap to to the grid like they're supposed to. Here's a quick fifteen second vid displaying the issue as well as the Finder settings I've used. So my question is simple: how do I fix/enable snap to grid functionality for directories with four or less items in it?
I have some bash scripts to connect my VPN but since Yosemite was installed they doesn't work anymore. I tested directly on Terminal with and without sudo: but nothing happens
I just got an Asus PB287 4K display. I was hoping to use it with the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock. The display works fine when connected directly to my 2014 rMBP, but with the dock it only gives a 30Hz refresh rate. I spoke to Belkin and they said this was a known issue and would not work the the newer Thunderbolt 2 Express dock, either. Is there any Thunderbolt dock that will work with 60Hz refresh and a 4K monitor?
Previously when editing the information about a song, you could press Alt+G to go to the Genre, or Alt+A to the artist. This seems to not work in the latest iTunes 12. Is there a way to get the shortcut keys back?
I have: replaced/soldered a new keyboard connector on the logic board as it had a missing pin, replaced the keyboard twice (the second and third keyboards work correctly), tried jump starting the computer on with the jumpers but this did not work, performed many PRAM resets, repaired Disk and Permissions in Disk Utility, ran Apple Hardware Test in short and extended mode without any issues identified, attempted to do an SMC reset (although I don't see any sign of rather it happened or not).
I use spaces heavily and I have my windows arranged in a particular order. If I restart every application will be launched in the same space with many empty spaces.
In previous versions I get the ESD dmg file that contains everything that I need to install. But I can't find any kind of that link with Yosemite. All of the current ones redirects to the Mac App Store. I need the final version released yesterday, Betas or GM aren't an option
Now although Network Connect launches it hangs at the "Establishing Secure Session" step. It seems as though the connection is established (since I lose internet access in this period) but it can't create a tunnel. Network Connect log
So what should I do? Do I have to choose to use iCloud with either my Mac or my iPhone? Should I go back to Mavericks? Is there something I'm missing, or is there any other way?
I am unable to upgrade to Yosemite because when I press the "Free" button it takes me to a page where I must verify my billing info., then when I press done, it gives me "your payment method was declined" !!
Hey so i'm trying to encrypt my external hard drive (Seagate) and I right clicked on it and selected Encrypt [name] from the menu. Made my password but could not move forward because I got the error "A GUID Partition Table (GTP) scheme is required" so then I went into Disk Utility and tried to change the partitioning scheme but it looks like it will erase all my data.
I tried swiping it, but my movies for some reason show up vertical. So swiping, doesn't work. I can't seem to find a way to get it off my phone and it's taking up more then half of my storage! I need help a soon as possible
On my work Mac, which stays physically in my work office, I want to keep my work stuff separate from my personal stuff by using two different user accounts. I normally stay logged in as the 'work' user. But I want to have them visible at the same time, since I have a large screen. I think I could get a nice setup if I could use the built in remote desktop client or a 3rd party VNC client to connect to the login screen of the existing machine, so that I can select a different user. Or if I could connect as a specific user, even though the physical machine is already logged in as someone else.
I am contemplating purchasing a mac mini. However, now that Apple has just released newer models of the mac minis, I find myself a bit confused. Basically, my requirements are: A mac to learn and develop ios apps, within a $700 budget. Apple hardware is expensive and because I will also need to purchase an iPhone and iPad, I want to ensure that if I buy a Mac Mini it should at least last me for 3-4 years (i.e., support iOS development for 3-4 years) with only the occasional RAM or HD upgrades needed. My doubts are:
I've got a triple boot system on my Early 2013 Mac Book Pro: OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I'm using rEFInd as my boot manager. My Windows install boots using legacy BIOS boot, and OS X and Ubuntu boot with native EFI boot.
I am currently using the newest version of keynote and have run into a major issue. I am playing audio throughout the entire presentation but i would like to add videos into the presentation.
I have a 13 inch Macbook Pro, early 2011 with its original OS. I came to a point where its battery needs to be replaced, and I can't use it without using its charger/adapter. One time, I accidentally pulled out the charger and it turned off. It was not my first time so I just didn't worry. But when I plugged it back and turned on the laptop, it just got stuck at the gray screen with the Apple logo, the wheel, and a loading bar. At first I thought I should just wait, but later I realized it's still stuck for almost an hour! I tried to Google and I read that something is corrupt.
I cannot use iCloud since I forgot the password for my MACBookPro original APPLE ID. The email address associated with this ID is no longer valid and the security question was never set up. How do i reset the password? I want to change the ID and use new PW to access icloud.
I have a 2nd gen Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch. For pretty much the whole time I have been running it at the scaled 1680 x 1050 resolution (1 up from the "best for retina" resolution). After randomly playing around with the different resolution, I came to notice that the "best for retina" display is in fact better quality to my eye (so much so that its almost painful to use any of the scaled resolutions now):
I'm curious, assuming that the Thunderbolt bus has sufficient bandwidth, would the Iris Pro graphics be capable of driving a 27" retina display?
I currently use this AppleScript to try to set focus to the most recent window of a PID, in example here my pid is 450. This works wonderfully in that it doesn't ask for accessibility approval. The quirks though are: It ignores minimized windows, thus if all windows are minimized, nothing is focused
Is there any method to display the battery menu bar status item with AppleScript? I’ve tried to browse the script library but unable to find one that matches this capability.
I have a very weird problem with iTunes lately. When I go to Apps → Updates, all apps that show up there, don't have an update description text. The app is displayed, its version is displayed, vendor, size, etc., but no text. I tried to clear the cache from within iTunes, but no luck. This is how it looks like:
I want a second user (but NOT all users) to have complete read/write access to a user's Home folder – both users should have the same level of access on all files within, even those created by each other.
I've just installed Yosemite on my iMac and noticed that my PDF files viewed with the Preview.app don't look the same as in Mavericks. If I view the PDF files directly in Safari, all looks like it should. Against this in the Preview.app it looks kinda trashy.
I don't know if other people have notice this in Yosemite: With a file in Finder in focus, when you move the cursor to "Open With" entry, whether from context menu or menu bar -> File, a "Fetching..." subentry appears.
Is this Apple MacBook Pro ME665LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop with Retina Display (Old version) meant to come with an extension cable to plug into this charger? This is the cable I think is missing from my package, and the cable I got:
I need to pass to a .jsx script (a Photoshop script written in JavaScript) a list of image files as arguments when they are added to a folder. According to the Adobe documentation, you can call a .jsx in the following way:
I have a vast gap in my knowledge as to why this issue exists on OSX and would love to hear from people here what the nuts and bolts issues are. To my Windows leaning understanding I could understand this with a major version increment but I don't get understand why a minor version number update would be such an issue.
I'm on Yosemite and trying to download Enhanced dictation language files for English (USA). Default language is set to English (Australia) I don't know why.
As much searching and trying I have done, I can not disable text anti aliasing in Firefox. Can someone please show me a screenshot of Firefox in OSX with no text aliasing. Also, how would I achieve this? Do I need to edit the Firefox source code and call one the the Apple Quartz apis to disable test anti aliasing?
On Yosemite the direct posting of both Facebook and Twitter is missing in Notification Center. How can I put it back?
Regarding the ability for 10.10 to be paired with an iPhone to make phone calls: does the Mac act as a bluetooth headset, -or- is bluetooth just for "pairing", and the voice actually goes over wifi (voip)?
Whenever a phone call comes in I can answer it on my iPad but not on my macbook(2008) running yosemite. I also can't call my contacts from my contact list. Any thoughts on this?
I disabled imesseage (and removed the addresses) on my iphone 4. Afterwards, some old messages to some friends disappeared from my phone. I don't understand why.
I updated my MacBook 13″ mid-2012 from Mavericks to Yosemite and everything was perfect, until I recognized that I couldn't check my YouTube feed. I tried again and again, but it didn't work. I tried it with other DNS Servers like Norton Security Free-DNS or the Normal Google DNS, but nothing happened. In the end, I tried to use the Google IP in my Browser, but that only worked always for one link. Running the Ping - Google.com results in cannot resolve google.com: unknown host
This is happening even if I have Gmail account or Yahoo it does not matter the server. Any idea of how to stop this? I just need to mark as read the e-mail I read from the specific email account, not from all of them.
I have a 1TB harddisk that has 20GB space left. I want to encrypt this disk. Will encryption take up more space, and if so, is there an estimate, a percentage or something how much it will cost?
By what I've already read, I know that if you have purchased an app in the Mac App Store with the account X, then you can update it only by logging into X. Now the question that arises is: What if the downloaded app is free, does the same rule apply or not?
Since I upgraded my iPhone 5 to iOS 8.0.2 I have started having issues with the calendar syncing through Microsoft Exchange. The event description created on the iPhone do not appear on Outlook, only the subject and address are synchronised. The description of the event remains blank on Outlook.
In Mavericks, I was able to scroll through PDFs in Skim by pressing the up/down arrow keys, with the down arrow navigating to later pages in the document, and the up arrow navigating to earlier pages. In Yosemite, it appears that the up and down arrow keys have reversed when viewing a document in either "single page" or "two pages" mode (not continuous); now, the up arrow goes to later pages, and the down arrow to earlier pages. Is this a Skim-only change, or is the change more system-wide? If it's system-wide, is there a way to change it back to the Mavericks behavior? Edit: It seems that some people aren't able to reproduce this, so it might be a particular choice of settings that is causing this strange behavior.
In Mavericks and prior, one could use the following commands to pin the dock to either the top or bottom corner of the screen, if the dock was placed left/right, or to the left/right corners if the dock was placed at the bottom, by using the following commands: or
Can anyone help me get my original disk back into functioning form? If I can just get the disk erased and partitioned, I can load my Time Machine backup and be off to the races. Thanks!
I have a new (2013) 15" Macbook Pro. The USB port provides 500mA which is not good enough for many devices I use (Hard Drive, 3G Dongle...) Reading this article: *=URL=* it seems that these ports are capable of delivering more power, but it's limited to Apple products. Is it possible to hack the mac, and change this default value (to something like 900mA?)
After OSX Update -> Yosemite: No option to login and run the system. Via Firewire (T) and Diskutils && Diskwarrior: "Unvalid Disk-Label @ 499239710720: cksum mismatch" Diskwarrior: no option to rebuild Diskutills: Unvalid Disk-Label @ 499239710720: cksum mismatch
I like to keep the running apps in the Dock organized in a logical fashion, so that similar apps are grouped together. I don't pin all of them permanently because that would reduce dock icon size.
Is it possible to activate some safety check, like "Warn Before Quitting" in Chrome, to quit Safari? Sometimes we can press ⌘Q by mistake, and it's a pain to have the entire application closed.
I've checked my MacBook Pro (later 2011) and my version of bluetooth is 4.3.0f10. I know that HandOff needs at least bluetooth 4.0 to work and BT LE. I have my bluetooth superior to 4.0 but my LE is not suported and so HandOff and some features of Continuity. I've read that some guys can make this work in a MacBook Air (mid 2011) and iMac following this tutorial: *=URL=* My question is:
I have upgraded to Yosemite and iOS8.02 on all my devices, including a MacBook Pro, an iPad2, an iPad Mini, and an iPhone 5c. I understand that one can use iCloud Drive to share documents produced by any of the iWork apps and also some third-party apps that have been specifically upgraded to use iCloud drive (such as the Readdle suite of apps and Day One).
Preview before yosemite had the ability to click on the Text annotation and allow you to continuous annotations without having to repeatedly press 'Text'. I want to be able to annotate anywhere on the pdf - is this possible with the upgrade?
I've upgraded to OS X Yosemite and now my wireless bluetooth keyboard is not connecting anymore. I have a bluetooth Belkin 10 keyboard.
I would like to delete the source column for a formula in Numbers 3.2.2, without destroying values in the formula's output column. Specifically, I have a column of "Last, First" names, which I parse by comma and output to two separate columns, "Last" and "First". How can I delete the "Last, First" column without destroying the output values in the "Last" and "First" columns?
I have enabled the three-finger lookup, but it is not working since I upgrade to Yosemite. How to fix it?
In Android, it's possible to dismiss an upcoming alarm before it goes off (for example, because you woke up before your alarm). Is there an iPhone alarm app that provides this functionality?
What is the easiest way to delete photos from Camera Roll that I haven't put in an album?
If I go through the process of erasing all content and settings (performing a factor reset), is the phone still activated/connected through my carrier? That is, can I perform a factory reset and then immediately make a phone call (or send a text message)?
I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how I can use apple script to delete this folder? Users/user1/Library/Application Support/Skype/tankitan
OS X Yosemite brought support for recording iPhone/iPad screen natively without having to using AirPlay applications like AirServer or Reflector. How do I record the iPhone screen on macOS ?
I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite. Everything works fine but for some odd reason my cursor fails to highlight (provide feedback on anything I hover on any options). As an example (if I'm not explaining this very well):
Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, search no longer works properly in Finder. Spotlight works fine but Finder search just gives me a blank window with a spinning ball.
I really like that iTunes (Yosemite, iTunes 12) shows OS notifications when a new song comes up. But when I am using iTunes in miniplayer mode, I don't need these notifications. Is there a way to get iTunes to only show the OS notifications when it is in the main window mode?
It seems that Little Snitch 3.4.1 is a rehaul of the old version and this solution to disabling it in the guest account posted here Disable Little Snitch in guest account? doesn't work anymore.
I have a problem in that any .sparsebundle I create in my home folder tree is not getting backed up to time machine. It is like an 'exclude by path' but I can't remove it or see where it is defined. Any ideas?
Over the years I have imported photos from iPhone to Mac and organized them in folder by month. I now want to import all photos I have on the iPhone and compare those with the files that I've organized in folders over the years - if there are any missing. Is there any tool (included in OSX or free/purchaseable) or other procedure that can compare folder content, with one folder holding the files in root and the other in many subfolders?
I synced my iphone 5 with itunes and one mp3 should be then on my iphone. I cannot find that one. There is only lists of ones they are trying to get me to download. Where can I find the one that I synced with itunes? And how do I get all the other ones they want me to download off of my phone?
If I want to perform a clean install of OS X Yosemite, can I restore my Mac with a Mavericks Time Machine backup after the Yosemite installer finishes?
Can I set two passwords for the same user account so if one password is entered the computer opens up normally, and if another password is entered, Applescript locks certain applications from opening? I have a macbook that is often used by other people, and I would like to be able to give them access to only certain parts of my laptop, not all of it
I use Mozilla Thunderbird on OSX but I am considering getting an iPad. Thunderbird allows me to add any kind of custom email header. For me, this feature is essential. Will I find an iOS app that can do the same?
My sister made an iTunes Connect account and signed up for the developer program (she is over 21). I am the developer of the account; i'm just not exactly 18 yet (will be in a couple months).
I am trying to annotate my documents with text. In the old preview, I could change to Text Box and click where I wanted to place the text on my document. It would stay on text box and I could click around and conveniently put multiple texts boxes around the page.
Tinkertool took care of most of the too-small fonts (are any Apple designers over 40?), but the white text on my preferred light desktop is bad. Linux GTX has a rather tricky file to hand-edit to fix a similar bad default. Does Yosemite have any well-hidden way of changing the desktop icon font color?
I use both the Apple VPN client (L2TP over IPSec in Network preferences) and Checkpoint Endpoint Security client to connect to work. I installed Yosemite last night and today I can not connect to work using VPN. It connects to the server but fails.
Since 10.5 are so I have been using this command to flush the dock to the upper corner of the screen: defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;
I've been on the Yosemite and noticed only as of just this morning that my screen was on with a screen saver running. I have screen savers set to never start, and I have Display sleep set to 10 minutes under Energy Saver. I went away from my computer again today and came back to find the display on again with the screen saver on again. I realize I could have processes disrupting display sleep, but why would the screen saver come on if it's been told not to?
I just used Airdrop to transfer a .avi file between OSX 10.10 and iOS 8. After that I can't locate file in iOS. I searched it in Videos and Photos. Where is it? And how I can delete it if I can't use it?
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, still running 10.6.8 but I'm getting incompatibility messages from various other sites and software. Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
I upgraded to Yosemite yesterday, and just now I got a Time Machine alert Disk is Full
As you can see in the images the icon for the external drive Quetzalcoatl has update to the Yosemite version, however the Time Machine disk hasn't. Is it possible to force the use of the new icon?
I am experiencing a bug with iOS 7 and iOS 8 that renders me unable to unlock my device (iPad Air or iPhone 5). I have made a video that shows the bug here.
_xcsbuild and _devicemgr and _calendar processes seem to be the bulk. None of them are using significant rescues but there are dozens. How do I identify the launcctl jobs and turn them off?
I get this weird error message after reinstalling Mac OS X on my Macbook Air These apps cannot be accepted by your Apple ID. These apps were recently assigned to another Apple ID, and they will be available in that Apple ID's Purchase list. If you don't have access to that Apple ID and want to receive future updates, you will need to purchase the application. I don’t even know what these apps are, I've never used them, although I might one day. I’ve got one other machine, which I bought myself—the MacBook Air is for work—and I sign into the app store on my account; I buy software and expense it.
I have this weird issue, where my cursor isn't changing to a pointer (or any other cursors) when I'm browsing the web or in Mail. MBPr mid 2012, OS X Yosemite, Safari 8 Anyone knows how to fix this?
I just updated my MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 model to OS X Yosemite, and the icons on my desktop are behaving strangely. When I try to move a file or folder to a specific place to keep my desktop organized, it doesn't let me put them where I want them to go.
Alright, so I pulled an image off my phone, edited it, and now it's not in Desktop, Pictures, Downloads, etc. I have no idea where GIMP saved it. If I search for the file in Spotlight, it will list the file and preview it if I hover over it. How can I find the file path of said file?
I was recording a video on an iPhone and I had it "upside down" by mistake, meaning the camera was in the bottom-right corner rather than the top-left. When I watch the video on my Mac in Quicktime, the orientation is fine, anyway, but when I watch it in VLC, then it is upside down. I want to fix the orientation because I want to convert the video from MOV to MP4, and this would also make it upside down (because it loses the orientation/rotation metadata that the MOV file contains, to properly orient the video). How can I properly rotate the video so that it looks correct?
Spotlight (in Yosemite) has the ability to search the web. However, this only works with Bing. Is it possible to switch it to using Google?
I have reset the PRAM and the SMC. I have reinstalled the OS, and have restarted the computer many many times. Under the hardware portion of the System Update, both USB ports are visible (and show the external drive when it is connected). When I went to the apple store, they said I needed an expensive new logic board. But that is what I have been told every time I have taken a computer to the apple store and then I usually find a solution on my own. Console report: And with Seagate drive:
I want to run my Django website on OS X Server 3.2.1 running on Mavericks. These more detailed considerations arise from my question. Can I deploy into OS X Server 3.2.1 without interfering with the reliability of OS X Server's own apps? Can I use the Server App's GUI to install new sites and manage existing ones? Can I use Django as a web app that I can 'bind' to other websites in the manner of OS X Server's "hello world" python web app? Can I use different python versions and use virtualenvs to manage package versions? Can I use UNIX Domain Sockets for interprocess communication between OS X Server's http server and a wsgi server like you can between Nginx and Gunicorn? Can I use Fabric to automate Django deployment to OS X Server?
I have some filters set up in Gmail, for things like mailing lists. Messages skip the inbox, get tagged, and go straight to archive. This was not a problem in Mavericks, but now I'm getting the "new mail" noise all the time, when really it's a new message in the archive, from one of these filters, but nothing is new in my inbox. The setting in my preferences is still: New message notifications: Inbox Only.
All HTTPS websites (such as Google) are showing this message I'm using Chrome 38.0.2125.104 on a mid-2011 iMac with OS X Yosemite. No other browser works at all, such as Safari, Firefox etc, but all sites work on other computers. Using a socks proxy works, but that is not ideal, and I don't want to be stuck using Bing or restoring to Mavericks. Thanks in advance.
I wanted to install the latest Xcode 6.1 from here *=URL=* because a lot of things cannot compile with Xcode 6.0.1 on Yosemite. However, I want to know whether this will force me to manually update Xcode in the future. Can the Xcode installed from other sources benefit from auto update in the App Store? Or is there builtin updater in Xcode?
Is there any way to replace the desktop with launchpad? I would like to do this thing at this point
I want something simple - and I have found how to have preview pane on right (as opposed to bottom half of screen) OR remove individual message previews in the email list - but not both. I just want a list of messages on the left (without preview of their text) - and to show the message on the right. This is simple in Thunderbird - but apparently impossible in Mac mail? Can I do this? Thanks.
I just updated my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) to OS X Yosemite, now iMessages is no longer working. I turned it off/on on both my computer and my iPhone, reset my Keychain, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing worked. How can I fix this ?
Steps to reproduce problem: Crop a photo in the Photos app. Crop a photo in the Photos app. Open the FaceBook app and post the picture. Open the FaceBook app and post the picture. Once it has loaded you see the original un-cropped image.
Yosemite has brought a new feature in safari which is bring favourite when we click any filled address bar. But the favourite webpages don't popup when we click an empty address bar. Does anyone know how to bring the favourite popup below the address bar for a new/empty tab.
I am trying out iCloud Drive as a potential replacement for Dropbox. One of the nice things about Dropbox is that it produces little green checkmarks on file and folder icons to let the user know that a file or folder has been synced with the Dropbox server:
One of the new features in spotlight was supposed to be information from wikipedia, web when anything was searched. However, I don't seem to be getting this information when I search in spotlight. Is this feature only available in certain countries? (Im in India, and all the reviews I've read about Yosemite are US or Europe based websites).
I'm trying to get the path to the wallpaper in the active desktop. However, I'm having trouble reliably getting this. The following sources indicate that ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db is a sqlite database with information about the background. http://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2013/10/28/setting-a-desktop-picture-in-mavericks/
How can AppleScript be used to make the mouse cursor search for a colour on the screen and click on it when found and return to its starting position after? How to make a script that can do this process: define a colour by selecting it from a screenshot search on that defined colour and click it then return back to starting position
Xcode 6 on Yosemite crashes everytime when pressing Build&Run on Device. Current window disappears and Start screen appears. Anyone else experiencing this? UPDATE:
I have a MacBook Pro 13' retina from April 2013. Yesterday I wanted to do a clean install of Yosemite. I formatted my USB as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and made the partition to be a GUID table partition. Then I run this command to copy the bootable installation files of Yosemite to the USB: Everything went fine and to be sure I verified with Finder that the installation really was in the USB and not corrupted.
I have an iMac running OSX 10.10 and iPhoto v9.6. I have multiple iOS devices, mostly running iOS 8. How can I let the iOS devices browse the photos on the iMac without physically storing the files on iCloud or some other cloud service? Is there a way to just serve my photos from iPhoto to other devices on the local area network?
After upgrade to Yosemite I get this when trying to launch new Emacs app from command-line. I've spent yesterday trying to figure out what's the problem, so today I decided to ask here. Edit: might be helpful, info from /var/log/system.log:
I have a Mac Pro from 2009. Its in my bedroom. Prior to 10.10 I was able to disable periodic wake (when Wake on Lan is enabled) with adding -DisableSleepProxyClient to com.apple.mDNSResponder. I was able to wake my Mac with a magic packet (WOL). In 10.10 this was changed to discoverydp and now I am wondering if it is still possible to disable this. console log entry if it matters
I have used SelfControl to block the internet for some time, but now it won't block anything anymore. (Edit: Well, acutally one moment SelfControl blocks some sites, then allows them again, apparently randomly.)
Assumptions: Yosemite installed on a Macbook Pro Retina iOS 8.02 installed on an iPhone 6 I was able to receive a call on my iPhone and have the handoff of the call to my Macbook Pro work successfully. This article suggests that handoff is available for Safari.
Currently I'm running Windows 8 in Boot Camp (MacBook Pro Retina Mid-2012) and get a free update to Windows 8.1 Pro from Windows Store. My question is... Should I change the startup disk to Windows in Boot Camp Control Panel before upgrading to 8.1? Should I change the startup disk to Windows in Boot Camp Control Panel before upgrading to 8.1? Can I just download and install it from the store and then just reinstall the Boot Camp Drivers to the newest (5.1.5621). Can I just download and install it from the store and then just reinstall the Boot Camp Drivers to the newest (5.1.5621).
I recently purchased a new 2TB Time Capsule. Can I connect my old Time Capsule to it to serve as an external drive?
I've wanted to download an app from the Mac App Store. But the download is much slower than normally. What can I do?
When I drag music files from iTunes (desktop) onto a connected iPhone, many times the files just don't copy to the iPhone - the tracks appear in the list on iPhone, albeit grey and the most-left column is a dotted circle with a to me unknown meaning (it might be a progress bar really...). iTunes 12.0.1.26 (OS X Yosemite) You can see some of the files copied, while others did not, in the screenshot:
Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid 2014) is visible (in "advertising mode") on Bluetooth (at least to my iPhone). It was not visible prior to Yosemite, and there's nothing that I did on my iPhone (that I can recall) to make this happen. Why is my Mac visible on Bluetooth, and how do I hide it again?
Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid-2014) advertises itself on Bonjour (with "whats-my-name"). It was not visible in this way prior to Yosemite, and I have no sharing features enabled on my Mac. How do I hide it again or turn off the "whats-my-name" service?
It's AngryBirds that I want to remove from the app update list. Users can't hide 3rd party updates. So I tried to get rid of it by trashing it from Applications folder (2 years ago maybe). I hope it would disappear in the update list after I trash it. But it still appears in the App Store update list.
I'm considering to delete iMovie since I'm not using it at all and it takes more than 2.5 GB. But before deleting it, is it possible to reinstall it in the future in case I want to use it?
I used to playback Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (in iTunes) with this QuickTime plugin: *=URL=* But this no longer seems to work in OS X 10.10 (probably also in 10.9, I don't have many Ogg files/FLAC files, so I use it not very often). Is there any possiblity to playback Ogg Vorbis/FLAC in iTunes? Using another player like VLC works of course...
So I'm considering updating to Yosemite, but I have a 2011, low end MBP, and Im a bit afraid that its going to be slow. If I do upgrade, is there anyway that I can revert back to mavericks? I've seen a bunch of things online, but that was only for the developer previews, which rely on the Mavericks installer still being on the app store, which I don't think it is. Thanks.
Since Migration Assistant blew up while moving to my new Mac, I've had continuing problems with permissions throughout the system. I believe the problem is that the Apps can't save into my Library. I have only two permissions across my entire Home folder tree, me read-write and everyone read-only. I seem to be the owner for every file.
Every time a system notification sound should be played, the screen simply flashes. The Flash screen option in Accessibility is turned off but the system seems to be smart enough to flash screen instead of playing a notification sound when it is unable to do so. Every other sounds works, even Skype's notifications.
I was trying to read into the differences between OS X server 3 and 4 (Yosemite) when I stumbled upon this rather interesting page. OS X Server File Sharing service lets users store and share folders and files on the server. Users can access file shares from Mac and Windows computers and from iOS devices, with no special software
I have a MacMini that only has a firewire port, I want to connect it to my MacBook Pro via its thunderbolt port, can I do this so that I can then (using target mode) display my Mac mini on my macbook pro)? What equipment would I need todo this?
Running Yosemite 10.0 with a clean erase and install, when I reboot, all my launchpad apps are totally disorganised, folders and un-official apps disappears... After reorganizing the layout twice, I don't want to keep sorting my launchpad every time I restart my Mac.
I know the 2012 mini has 2 video outputs but I've seen in the past PCs where one DVI output could be split to two displays. So is the limit one monitor per physical display port (HDMI & whichever proprietary socket Apple were using that month) or something else?
A friend of mine recently bought a used Macbook (I believe it's the model before the last Macbook model from 2011). It had OSX Lion installed. I rebooted the system, held down Command + R and used Disc Utilities to to wipe it out. When I went to reinstall Lion, I get an error say that the item is not available and to try again later. Of course, trying again later has done me no good.
I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, technical term, piece of code, etc.). I have been disabling it app by app, although even then it doesn't always work - for example, when doing Google searches in Chrome it still shows up, even though I've disabled "check spelling while typing." I've also gone to System Preferences/Keyboard/Text and unchecked "Correct spelling automatically," but this still doesn't seem to do anything.
I just upgraded to Yosemite, and R (installed from *=URL=* is no longer in PATH. Since this appears to be relevant to other packages, I wonder if there is a generic solution (not involving reinstalling everything).
Yesterday I updated my 2012 MacBook Air to Yosemite. Everything was good, everything working great, but, at the end of the night, my laptop’s battery was low so I decided to shut it down, instead of just sleeping it.
I have a Windows 7 PC which is getting old and flaky. I am switching to a Mac Mini as my primary desktop (since I also do Mac development) but will use it mainly for Windows.
I just upgraded to Yosemite and my current best interpretation of what's happening is that there's a new behavior that "helpfully" moves the mouse (and a window if you're moving one) closer to an edge of the screen when moving quickly enough. I really dislike this, in great part because it causes very strange behavior when I'm playing a game. Is this a setting that can be changed?
I’ve updated my system to Yosemite and now I wonder if there’s a way to increase tab font size (or make it bold).
I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.4. I changed my username and this may have caused that I am not able to open any files. I still can see my PDFs and photos in Preview! I get this: File XYZ couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
When I open up the AppStore, under updates, the application thinks that I need to update the same application several times. In this case Command Line Tools is listed several times in a row. How do I remove these multiple entries from the app store.
When a symlink is created, it gets the icon of the target folder (with the addition of a black arrow in the lower left corner). The issue I am having is that the symlink icon does not update when the icon of the target folder changes. Deleting and recreating the symlink does not fetch a new icon from the target folder: the symlink continues to show the old icon.
If I change a setting within iTerm2, using the Preferences panel ex. under Window i set transparency and blur. This works as long as I do not close iTerm. Once I close the app and reopen, everything is reset to as it were before.
I recently installed Yosemite, and am now trying to upgrade all of my brew installs (brew update, then brew upgrade). After remembering to do xcode-select --install, I finally got all of my installs upgraded except for encfs and osxfuse (encfs depends on osxfuse). Now, when trying to upgrade, I get the following results (entirety included because it's not that big):
In the description of the action "New mail message" in automator, it says that it will send a mail message with the text that I have set as input as the body of the email. That is not happening. In my automator workflow, the action preceding the "new mail message" is "run applescript" and this is the script that I am using -
I have a MacBook and have tried browsing with both the Safari 7 and the Chrome browsers, but every time I go from one domain to another, it automatically creates a new tab. So if I click a link that goes from Yahoo to, say, the IMDB, it will create a new tab for the IMDB site. This is really annoying because the back button will only navigate me back to the beginning of the history for that domain. On my PC, no new tabs are created unless I specifically create them. Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour?
I just upgraded to 10.10- Yosemite. I have an external 4TB hard drive. These are the problems I see with Disk Utility: No more than two partitions are allowed. Changing the partition size I can only use the slider, so I can't enter a number for the size of the selected partition. Changing the name of the parent partition is not possible.
I'm trying to do a simple calculation of 12 $/h multiplied by some other cells which represent days and hours. This is a simple multiplication on Google Spreadsheet, but in Numbers units are automatically added (ie. 252d, 8h) and this somehow resulting in totally wrong calculation results.
Since upgrading to the first stable release of Mac OS X Yosemite a few days ago, my Mac Mini wakes up roughly every two hours from sleep for about a minute, then goes back to sleep. This is particularly annoying at night since I sleep my Mac, and it's in the bedroom, so I notice when it turns on. In my Console, here's some of the lines from it from when it wakes up:
I'm trying to open a new app that I downloaded on OS X Yosemite 10.10. Specifically, it is Android Studio.app version 0.8.13. When I open it, I see the following dialog "Verifying Android Studio.app...":
Please see the attached image which shows an error/information message I am seeing regularly since upgrading to Yosemite. I don't know which website is asking for Java, as there is a different site showing in Safari each time I see it, but I do know that I am using the latest version of JRE so it's not clear why this message is being shown. Can someone please advise me the best way to check what process is generating this, and how I can fix it?
I can set this up for 7 days in rules fine - but if I enter any other value, save it then go back. It always says 7 days.
I have a Macbook Pro from 2011 currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10. Before i upgraded to Yosemite, i was experiencing a common wifi issue that was that the wifi disconnected from the internet and it couldn't be turn on or off; sometimes, when i turned on the mac, a "No hardware installed" message showed. I replaced the wifi card but the problem persisted and now that i upgraded the OS, the configuration didn't recognise any hardware and no Wi-Fi interface is shown on Network Preferences. I know there is a file Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInteraces.plist that contains these interfaces information.
My volume icon disappeared after I updated to OS X Yosemite 10.10. I still have sound. resetting the PRAM didn't work. I have refurbished 2012 Macbook Air
I use Spotlight in OS X, and I have long disliked its attachment to the menu bar. Now, in Yosemite, Spotlight shows up as an overlay in the middle of the screen when summoned, much like other launcher utilities like Quicksilver or Alfred. But the Spotlight icon is still stuck in my menubar, even though clicking it now shows a totally detached overlay.
Since upgrading to iOS 8 on iPhone, the Weather app will occasionally show a "blank" temperature (using an underscore: _ for each empty digit, so two underscores: __). The blank temperature also appears in Notification Center.
I know about other similair questions on AD, but they are from quite a while ago. Things can change quickly. I do know about this method: *=URL=* But iFaith can't find any SHSH blobs for my phone. I have not saved any SHSH Blob's because got the phone and jailbroken it two days ago. So here's the september 2014 question:
I cannot for the life of me figure this out. I have two monitors. If I'm focused on the left monitor, I cannot use a shortcut to switch spaces on the right monitor. Or (as often happens) I click my right monitor to focus it instead of alt tabbing, and then I cannot switch the left monitor space with my keyboard without clicking on that screen. Is there not a way to control the space of another monitor with your keyboard?
I installed ElementaryOS on a separate partition of my HDD. Not sure what happened but the audio in OSX stopped working after the installation. After trying everything else, I found resetting the PRAM resolved the problem.
So I recently installed OSX Yosemite, and one of the immediate changes I noticed was the lack of sound when changing volume. In System Preferences I found you can turn it back on, but instead of the "pop" it plays a woodblock sounding noise. I know where to find where the sound effect is stored, but how do I change it back? Also, it appears that the old sound effect is nowhere to be found, so if anyone knows where I can find or download it again that would be lovely.
I created a Ruby file called Player.rb in the following path: Jwan/studio_game Jwan is my name so I think Jwan is my user file. How do I permanently add the path to the terminal so I don't have to type in pwd and cd commands everytime I open the terminal?
I reinstalled Yosemite clean, reformatting the disk before. I want to recover the Time Machine settings, specially the exclusion list, from the time machine backup of Maverics. Any idea how to do it? I copied com.apple.TimeMachine.plist located in /Library/Preferences/ but it didn't work. any other idea? thanks
I've lost all the Dropbox context menu options in Finder after updating to Yosemite. All indications of sync status on the files in my Dropbox location are also gone. The odd thing is, those context menu options are visible, along with the sync status for each file and folder, from save and open dialogs in applications. They've only gone away from Finder windows. How can I get sync status and Dropbox context menu items back in the main Finder window?
I have this problem only on the terminal. When I would like to write these symbol, for example "@" or "#" the Terminal write this "?" and a do a sound bell. screenshot:
It takes a number of seconds before Mac Mail marks a message as "read". I would like for it to take no more than 0.5 seconds, though instantaneous would be best. How can I adjust the time required to view a message before it is no longer considered "unread"? Mac OS X, 10.9.4 and 10.10
In Yosemite, when I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Air through USB the iPhone becomes a internet hotspot for my Mac, even though I've connected the MBA via ethernet. If I enable Wifi, then Wifi is prioritized. Can I change so that ethernet is prioritized over the iPhone?
I am using Safari Version 7.1 (9537.85.10.17.1) on OS X Version 10.9.5 Which I got free from Apple when they were offering it. My Mac is about 5 years old.
This article, "What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network", demonstrates how dangerous it is for you to turn on Wi-fi on your phone. It advertises the name of every network it has connected to. And will connect to any network named, for example, “Starbucks”, even if you are not near a Starbucks. I know you can turn this off when you are in range of a network by opening the Wi-Fi settings tab, clicking a few times and then checking “Forget Network.” But it doesn’t seem like there is a tool for managing these in bulk. I was wondering if there are any tools—built-in or otherwise—for manually removing networks from the auto-join list. Mac OS X for example allows you to add/delete/reorder networks:
I'm on an older imac on SnowLeopard and didn't upgrade as was happy with the OS and heard there were bugs with Lion etc. I didn't realise Mavericks was going to disappear from the app store. I'm not sure if many of my apps like CS5 are going to be compatible with Yosemite, and I only have 4GB of RAM.
I just upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10. During the final step of the install, my network connection dropped while trying to set up the iCloud settings. As it says that I can skip this step and configure it later, I did. Now, I am trying to set up iCloud and upgrade to iCloud Drive. When I click on the iCloud icon in System Preferences, the App freezes (beach balling) and I am forced to force quit it.
I just upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 and Alfred 2 fails to launch. In Activity Monitor, it reports that it is not responding, and the only thing I can do is Force Quit it. Console doesn't report any messages except the kill message from my force quit. Any advice would be appreciated.
What is meant by backing up computer vs. creating a copy of entire hard-drive? Are the meanings the same? How to create entire bootable copy of my computer using time machine? I have a time capsule. Is what I have an exact copy of my computer?
i recently bought a power Mac but it recognizes my dedicated wifi but when I got to open a window no connection. And that's when it connects on wifi after many attempts. My iPhone and iPad are working online fine. I am using xfinity as my internet provider. Any help? Henry
I assumed that by upgrading to Yosemite that would take care of that, but it didn't. I am still seeing it.
Anyone know of a way to make Safari show favicons in Yosemite? I was using Glims under Mavericks but that no longer works. I tend to have lots of tabs open and sometimes it's easier to find the proper tab by the favicon rather than the text.
Can I copy my entire hard drive to my time capsule? I mean a bootable copy (carbon copy)?
I have a library for iPhoto and a separate library for Aperture. A random sampling of hundreds of events (ex: "Jun 22, 2014") which consists of thousands of photos are suddenly appearing in Aperture. I thought they may be coming from both my iPhoto and Aperture libraries at the same time, but they're actually duplicates from iPhoto in the Aperture library. The event folders aren't complete; they may only have a fraction of the photos that iPhoto has in the same event. None of the iCloud options in my preferences are enabled, as I thought they may be coming in from some iCloud sync action, but that's (probably) not the case.
I want to block the Facebook app on my iPhone. I've blocked facebook.com in restrictions and every single Facebook URL for servers I can find - this works great in safari, but open the Facebook app and nothing is blocked. What URL do I need to block to fix this? EDIT: I know school filters somehow are able to do this so there has to be a URL..
I have a mid 2007 Mac Mini that I bought to hook up to a tv and use for Netflix, tv, etc. When I connect to the tv it shows a mode not supported message. I followed the instructions on the web and I can remotely log in when it's connected, and it is running at 60Hz and I tried most of the resolutions all to no avail. Has anybody had success connecting these two devices?
I think I installed rvm correctly. When I type in rvm -v it outputs
Does anyone know how I can solve this annoying issue of fullscreen video in Chrome displaying very choppy and jumpy? It's unwatchable. I've had the problem in Chrome ever since I got this 2014 Mac Pro. It's not the Chrome pepper flash plugin because I've disabled that and it's no different, and besides - it behaves the same with YouTube's HTML5 video player. I've tried disabling all plugins, disabling all extensions, and it still is the same.
Upgraded from Maverick. It froze every 60 minutes, exactly (yes, I timed it). Had to long press power button to force it to shutdown.
How do I get rid of it? Is there a way to delete it on the device, or do I need to do it through iTunes?
From time to time (I did not yet figure out a systematic way to reproduce the error) I get an error message when a new Time Machine backup begins: it says that the identity of my Time Machine backup disk has changed (see also this article from the Apple website). I recently made a clean OS X Yosemite install. I also noticed that my Computer name changes automatically from the name I gave it in the first place, MyName, to MyName (2). I am not 100% sure but I think the number in brackets increase with every such error occurring. Is anyone having similar problems? If so, what is the reason, can I avoid it? I am using a 3 TB Time Capsule (current model) to backup my HDD. The following are the (I hope) relevant error messages from the console (I think you can see that the name of my computer has changed and the sparse bundle needed was renamed appropriately): 20.10.14 07:23:59,664 com.apple.backupd[14231]: User continued after being warned of changed destination volume identity 20.10.14 07:
I'm trying to get this 70mb video, which I have uploaded to a public Dropbox folder onto this lady's iPad. She doesn't have a computer and I don't want her to have to do too much work to get this video into the camera. How exactly do i do this? The extremely useful Safari doesn't allow saving videos to the camera roll. I should also add she wants to save the video to the camera roll, not anywhere else.
How can make my macbook wake up from sleep mode automatically ? That is I will fix up a time for it to wake up and when the time will come it shall automatically wake up from sleep mode. Can this be done?
During the video I am just surfing with Safari or clicking around in Finder on the other screen. This blinking takes place all the time. Sometimes it is colored, sometimes just bright or dark. It is really distracting when there's a blinking effect in the corner of your eye.
I have developed an iPhone application and submitted this to the iTunes Connect successfully. My app status has got change to "Waiting For Review". I would to know that if i have already requested for expedited review of my previous application before one month, is it possible to request again for expedited review in the app store for my current application? I have heard to peoples that we can only request for expedited review once in a year.
I have a few hundred iPads that are suddenly unable to enter Guided Access mode locally on the iPads. When we triple-click and triple-click is set to Guided Access, nothing happens. When I add something like voice-over to the triple-click functionality, I get the menu where I can select Guided Access (or voice-over), but again when tapping Guided Access nothing happens.
Now on OS X, when I want to select some text, I have to press the "hard" key on touchpad with thumb and drag through the text with another finger on touchpad. With linux on the same macbook pro, I could quickly touch the touchpad twice and start selection/dragging behavior without pressing the "hard" key on touchpad with single finger. I feel the way in linux is much easier for fingers and quicker. Is it possible to configure OS X touchpad behave in the same way?
I've just upgraded to Yosemite and started using the new Safari 8.0. For a while, everything seemed fine, but then all got ever so slightly slower and slower, especially when switching desktops. After losing patience, I opened Activity Monitor and to my shock, I found around a dozen old Safari Web Content processes still running and using a lot of memory, despite the tabs having been closed already.
How can I add a command line tool I've installed manually to the system firewall? The tool is Mobile Shell (mosh) installed via the excellent Homebrew)? Specifically, I want to add a rule for /usr/local/bin/mosh-server that allows incoming UDP traffic on 60001-60999.
I'm aware of displaying more resolutions with the option key like in this answer: *=URL=* but after upgrading to 10.10 the resolution of 3840x(i think)1080 of the lg ultrawide is not available anymore. The display is connected via thunderbolt. It changed after the upgrade, before it was no problem. The max resolution available is 2560x1080.
I've seen a good price on a refurbished Apple Cinema Display, the 23-inch Aluminium version that was sold between 2004 and 2008. Everymac says this display has a DVI port. Will I be able to connect the HDMI output from a standard DVD or Blu-ray player to this display, via a suitable cable or adapter, and watch DVDs on it, or is there something I've missed that would prevent this working?
With the iOS 8 Continuity features you can make and receive phone calls on your iPad or Mac using your iPhone, provided they're all on the same WiFi network and using the same iCloud account. However, my wife and I both use the same iCloud account and we both have an iPhone. It's the same iCloud account that's configured on the iPad (and on my Mac). In the settings for FaceTime both on iPad and on the Mac, under the heading iPhone Cellular Calls it says These calls will use the caller ID +xxx xxx xxx xxx, and the number is my wife's cell phone number, not mine. In the situation I'm in (2 iPhones using the same iCloud account in the same house), how can I tell FaceTime which iPhone it should use for the continuity calling feature?
I upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X Yosemite. I had a AMP stack installed via Homebrew on Mavericks and it worked fine. After upgrading to Yosemite, I have the following problems: when trying to load phpMyAdmin at *=URL=* I get the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin on this server. The error log shows: [Mon Oct 20 11:34:17.235518 2014] [authz_core:error] [pid 70303] [client ::1:50374] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/share/phpmyadmin
I set the default app to open the files with special file extension by mistake: the app could not open them at all for they're only file fragments (or, say, no app can until I combine them as one file). So I want to clean the settings of default app (set no default app), but no solutions found. Any ideas? Hope for your answers!
I have a camcorder hooked up to my iMac running iMovie 10.0.9. When I try to import the video, I get question marks, and then the HDD Camera clicks off the menu. How can I get the video into iMovie to edit?
In other words: Do I have to update both my Macbook (from where I manage the remote OS X Server) and the Mac Mini (where the Server is actually serving) to Yosemite and OS X Server 4 at the same time? What do you mean: "Nothing can go wrong: all your Keychains; SSH keys; Certificates; Open Directory settings; web apps; .... will migrate just faultlessly."?
New apps will appear in the preference pane when they are run. Notification settings can be changed. After rebooting, the app disappears from the notification preference pane until I run it again, at which point it appears with default settings.
I upgraded to OSX 10.10 Yosemite yesterday, and accepted Apple's offer to encrypt my hard drive as a part of the upgrade process. However, Apple did not offer me a recovery key and did not offer to store a recovery key for me on their own server. Is there a way for me to obtain those features without decrypting+encrypting? I do know that I can set a personal recovery key from the terminal using:
So one of the deal breakers that was preventing me from upgrading to OS X 10.10 is how ugly the dock looked (to me). Since I had success getting some of the Yosemite's apps up and running on Mavericks (Yosemite's terminal for example, it supports scrolling with trackpad for some cli programs where you normally have to scroll with C-n, C-p or directional keys), naturally I tried the opposite, i.e. running Mavericks' Dock.app on Yosemite. Surprisingly, it worked! At least, partially. Functionality-wise, it works just fine, but on the looks it is missing the background image of the Mavericks' Dock.app.
In Apple Numbers the app can work out the number of days between dates, but then if I times this by a number (ie, a %interest rate and an amount of money) Numbers insists that the answer is a number of days! Even if I go to Cell>Date Format and change it. The system ignores this and returns to displaying the answer as a number of days. How do I force the system to show this cell as a number and not in the date / days format?
I am suspicious of the mail, but don't know how to check that. I'll post a separate thread (Question about Mai. How to limit amount stored locally. Where is mail stored?) for that as it's a stand alone question I'm interested in regardless of whether or not it is the culprit.
In the worst case, I'd be willing to simply remove the accounts from Mail and go back to simply looking at them through Safari. Will this remove the email from my local machine? If not, how do I do it?
Suddenly (as in, not associated with the actual update or any actual trigger that I know of), my iPhone stopped displaying any images that were associated with previous messages. All I see now are filenames and broken images, as shown in the image below. This is infuriating. Some things to note: I have tried a restart of the phone, and no difference. I also turned off and back on iMessage on this device, also no change.
There is a question that deals with the different behaviour of the fullscreen button in the window bar. There, it is shown that by doing: ⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green or outer right icon (plus icon) I can maximize a window in both width and height to the current screen.
After solving unrelated problems, my 10.10 machine finally logged into iCloud properly. Most everything connected immediately, except iCloud Drive. For this I had to click the button to upgrade, which I did.
I just upgraded to Yosemite, and sometimes perform outbound cellular calls from my Mac using my iPhone. However, if I call a company that has a phone menu I have to enter specific numbers to choose from those menu options. Is this possible, and if so, how can I do this?
In iBooks on 10.10, books can have series metadata as shown in the image. What metadata do I need to add to an external epub (i.e. not from ibook store) so that it can be displayed as a series?
I have build a Web Frontend for my own Server to share files with my co-workers. They can upload images and animation-videos there. Now, if a co-worker has uploaded many files, it would be nice to download all of them all at once.
I'm on 8.0.2 but it happened on 8.0.0 too.  Spotlight just won't show anything no matter what I type.
a text replacement file with all common "long-form umlaut" ("ue") words so that they get replaced with the proper ones? I don't want to make it myself, this is a big task. The reason this is option (2): AutoCorrect has language recognition, text replacement doesn't. a way to make AutoCorrect more trigger-happy (probably a bad idea) or understanding of German typers with English keyboards somehow? a way to make AutoCorrect more trigger-happy (probably a bad idea) or understanding of German typers with English keyboards somehow? I don't want a suggestion for tools that change any "ue", "ae" or "oe" to the respective umlauts, I regularly type in English and in German there are words that contain these characters without them being umlauts.
I'm trying to clear the cache of my calendar, since I'm having trouble with calendar notifications after connecting to a Google Calendar. One of the recommended solutions is to clear the Calendar cache as described here *=URL=* However, within my Library folder I cannot find the suggested subfolders in which I would find
I need to restore my iphone, to do that i need to turn off find my iphone but the apple ID is different to the one i use now, i cant remember the password
After Yosemite update Mail crashes as soon as I open with an 'Absolute path' error. I've tried all the usual things removing the Envelop Index (hangs without crashing) turning off all the mail accounts in System Preferences
My office is looking to get a Mac Mini for testing our website in Safari. Because Apple now allows you to run previous versions of OS X in a VM, we will be looking to run at least Mavericks and Mountain Lion VMs on a Yosemite host. We're going w/ the Mini's because we'll be stuffing the box in the server room (or somewhere) and connecting remotely from our Windows developer PCs.
I have two accounts: primary and guest. In the primary account headphones is using as an output audio device and for the guest account USB is using. Previously all outputs are configured automatically. I mean when I enter in primary account headphones sets as default audio and when I enter as guest USB sets as default. I didn't make any manual switching. After update to Yosemite, the guest account was to inherit the settings of the main. It is possible to set the audio output by default for all accounts except one of them? UPD: I did some tests and came to the conclusion that the system now does not remember settings for each user, and applies the current setting of audio output for all accounts.
I have the following code in Automator but it fails to load the variable with the output from the command. I want to parse the output of that to see if it's verified or not however the variable is coming back empty.
How can I change the position and size of an image in Apple pages 5.5? I have tried all the things I used to do but now when I import a photo, the handle bars do not show up, nor does the image editor as it used to do when clicking on the image.
My MacBook Air mid-2012 model running OS X Yosemite logs off automatically without any prior warning when I am working on it. This has been happening since the latest update, to Yosemite. The logs from the moment of logout are here: *=URL=* To be more specific my Air has been connected to an external monitor both times and has been charging both times too! Similar problems have been discussed on Apple Support Communities: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2742595?searchText=automatic%20log%20off
I have an OSX machine which houses 2 RAIDs made of 6 disks. The 2 RAIDs contain 6TB of data; they were set up with Disk Utility: A 'safe' 4TB RAID-1 (mirror) made of 2 x 4TB disks, 3.68TB used A 'fast' 8TB RAID-0 (striped) made of 4 x 2TB disks, 2.41TB used
I am currently running Mountain Lion and have Safari 6.2. I need to upgrade Safari to version 7 to run some tests for a particular application. However, in order to upgrade Safari I need to upgrade to Mavericks.
Every 10 seconds i get this error in my console: 20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9850]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 45: Operation not supported: com.viber.osx 20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) enabled Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service on my Mac; I would like to disable this (for security policy reasons) but wonder if some feature (perhaps something new with Yosemite) will be lost if I do so. What, if any, features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service?
I'm trying to take a screenshot of my screen with Accessibility display features "Invert colors" and "Use grayscale" enabled, but the resulting screenshot images do not have any of the visual modifications. They appear as if the Accessibility features were turned off. Anyone know how to capture this type of image? Normal: *=URL=* Inverted & Grayscale: http://3gfp.com/i/inverted-colors_and_grayscale.png
Whenever my MacBook (with OS X 10.9.5) wakes from sleep i.e. when I open the lid I notice that "automatic backups" is turned off. I switch it on again but that setting just won't stick... Why could that be?
I've been using Boot Camp with Windows 7 from almost the day I bought my MacBook Air in 2012. Recently, I noticed that I had a lot more free space in Windows than I needed so I shrunk it using Windows' built-in tools, intending to allocate that extra space to Mavericks. I've been trying to expand my primary OSX partition and disk utility allows me to increase the size, but then when I press 'apply', a few messages show up above the button as if it is performing the change successfully, but then the partition layout diagram 'jumps' back to the original position. I verified and repaired the disk (in recovery mode) due to inconsistencies but that still hasn't changed the behavior of disk utility.
Anyone aware of a way to customize the appearance of the screen during fast user switching? I'd like to disable the background blur to make it look more like it did in Mavericks.
I noticed that every time I upgrade OS X to a newer version, a significant amount of disk space (10-20 GB) is freed up. This applies both to minor (10.9.4 -> 10.9.5) and major (10.9 -> 10.10) upgrades. When upgrading to Yosemite, no less than 27 GB was freed. What exactly gets deleted that returns all this space, and how can I free up (or control) this supposedly unneeded space when not doing an upgrade?
I can't remember my passcode for my iPhone 5s—can I reset the passcode?
iPhoto starts launching when iPhone is connected even though it never used to before Yosemite. Steps described in: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open does not work in Yosemite. Yosemite seems to ignore the iPhoto settings.
I have a Windows 7 Virtual Machine setup, that I remote into using my Macbook Pro. I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop 2014, and have Folder Redirection setup. I don't see where the redirected folders are supposed to show up on my VM? It should be a folder called Projects. Screenshot below shows no redirected folders:
I cannot install matlab 2011a student on yosemite. I click on the OSX installer, a matlab screen pops up then goes away. Has anyone install 2011a on OSX Yosemite ?
Upgraded to Yosemite over the weekend and before the upgrade had I no issues with internet connectivity. After upgrading I noticed that I was unable to connect to the internet at home, but presumed it was a random issue and switched it off. On bringing my MacBook into my work I noticed that it would also not connect to the internet connection in work ether via both WiFi and cabled connections, though I could still connect to LAN devices. The odd thing is that when using the System Recovery screen the internet connection appears to work fine as it was downloading the Yosemite image to reinstall it (though this kept failing because of too many people attempting to download the new release so was unable to attempt a reinstall) which makes me think its more of an issue something added to the recent OS upgrade. Does anyone else have this issue, or know how to fix it?
I have a 1 TB USB drive. I've been using it for months. My main iTunes library is on it. As of yesterday, for no apparent reason, it has become read only. I can't open iTunes.
So I know Apple removed mDNSResponder in Yosemite, but it appears that a bunch of apps are still trying to interact with it and failing Chrome still works fine (is there a separate resolver in Chrome?) but Firefox does not, I can dig google.com and it will return the correct results. I've tried with both my ISP's DNS servers as well as 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 with no real difference. The very weird thing is, if I restart I'll get a few minutes of fine performance before this happens again. Any ideas? Evidently if you unload/load discoveryd things start to work (past instructions have been to unload/load mDNSResponder) at least for a little while:
Option + F1 takes me to Display preferences, instead of using the current app binding, as it did in Mavericks. Is there any way to override this behavior? I can't find the binding in Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. I see the binding on the Apple shortcut page, and I think it's always been there, but previously applications could overrule the setting. If it's relevant, the app in question is IntelliJ Idea.
I currently have 3 Apple devices tied to my iCloud account: Macbook Air (2012) - just upgraded to Yosemite today iPad with Retina Display (4th edition) - iOS 8.0.2 iPod Touch (4th Gen) - iOS 6.1.6 When I was asked in the Yosemite upgrade whether I would use iCloud Drive, the instructions warned that my iPod cannot be upgraded to a newer OS, and therefore would not be able to use iCloud Drive.
I'm running Yosemite and looking to launch Terminal with a keypress in any application. One solution was creating a Service in Automator that launched terminal and assigning a key to it in System Preferences. However there is an annoying delay before launching Automator services, I'd like something immediate. Is there a way to do as such, preferably without installing software that runs in the background?
Hopefully that question is clear enough, and hopefully this is just me being silly. When I boot into the Recovery Partition, go into Terminal, and run 'diskutil list', I get quite a few tiny and seemingly invalid disks (starting at /dev/disk2): I ran 'diskutil info' on each of the disks and received the following output:
Due to a recent syncing issue with Dropbox I ended with a lot of conflicting copies and corrupted files across different machines. Especially PDF documents seemed to be corrupted in some way that Preview (and other PDF readers) refuses to open them (error "file empty"). I’m not to worried about the data itself, as I have individual backups of those files around and could still restore them directly from Dropbox. However, since I have almost 10,000 PDFs in my Dropbox, I’m looking for an automated method to at least identify them.
The admin account is on the system disk, the user account is on the user partition, using a symlink in /Users. This setup worked with 10.8, system partition encrypted, user partition not.
I came from OSX Mavericks, and since the update to Yosemite I gained 20+ Gigabytes of space. I would usually expect to lose space. Did the update delete some files that I am not aware of?
In OS X Yosemite, my "iCloud Drive" folder is always empty. My Macbook is running Yosemite, and my iPhone and iPad are running iOS8. I have gone through the iCloud Drive migration process and it does work on my iOS devices - along with iCloud.com.
I have a 27" iMac hooked up to 27" Thunderbolt display, providing me with a standard dual monitor configuration. Both the iMac and the secondary monitor were purchased on the same day in early 2012.
I accidentally deleted /usr/local/bin which contained brew among other things. I reinstalled homebrew and ran brew prune to get rid of broken symlinks, but when I run brew doctor, I still get the following warning: If you want to see the full list, check here: http://pastie.org/9663902
Does anyone know where the pressandhold.app file is in Yosemite? I used this answer (How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) to customize mine, but lost the customizations upon upgrade. Now the System/Library/Input Methods folder is empty. Thanks!
I am currently running iTunes 12.0.1.26 on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), and every time I try to play any set of songs randomly the songs get grouped by album. I have had this problem with previous versions of iTunes running on OS X Maverick. I would like to be able to shuffle the songs individually.
On Mavericks and previous, the "ENTER" key on the numeric keypad mimicked the "ENTER" key on the main keyboard. I can't find a way to map this back to working like an "ENTER" key again. Where this is showing up is while using the Terminal app in xterm emulation. It is only a problem in Terminal. I am using a full size Logitech Illuminated K740 keyboard.
I've just "upgraded" to Yosemite, but I really hate the design and I want to go back to Maverics. I have a copy of my MBA in Time Machine (made before upgrade). My question is - how to downgrade and bring back everything to the state before upgrade?
Is there a third party way to use a Mac Pro as the "computer" and a laptop as the Screen, mouse, keyboard, speaker, ext?
Anybody have any idea if / when Apple is planning on releasing WorkGroup Manager for 10.10? I dug around Google but couldn't find anything. Otherwise, I'm not upgrading.
Right now I can't seem to send some text messages from my OS X. Here is a list of things I have done that will have caused the error: I fresh installed Yosemite about 2 days ago I updated my iPhone to 8.1 this afternoon I paired my device (I was able to send some texts from OS X) I fresh installed iOS 8.1 on my iPhone I can't send some text messages from my computer
I had 3 different macbooks, macbook 13, macbook 13 retina and now I have macbook 15 retina. When I bought macbook 13 retina I've noticed that keyboard and touchpad differs a little from what I had earlier: keys and touchpad pressings became quieter and shorter, but on retina 15 I have the same keyboard and touchpad as on the first one. Is this normal? I've bought it from resellers and wonder if there any trick from their side. Thank you!
I updated my retina MacBook Pro to OS X Yosemite and noticed that a number of the icons in preference windows are appearing at 1x, which looks terrible. The weird thing is that it seems to be the same couple of icons that appear at 1x, even though they're used in different apps.
I have a late 2009 iMac running Mountain Lion, I also have a Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I have been planning on installing Mavericks on the iMac, but now that Yosemite has been released, Mavericks is no longer available on the Mac App store.
BetterTouchTool still works. Restarting, stopping BTT doesn't help.
I am using a 2013 MacBook Air and considering to upgrade from 10.9 to 10.10. Is there a performance gain after the upgrade? Is Yosemite faster than Mavericks, say, regarding UI responsiveness?
when I log in using SSH I get pts/1 let's saybut I do not understand why there are those root ttys[N]. Somewhere on google I found that it is equivalent to pts but the second question, why two different names for pseudoterminal? And the third question is for the command part of the ps output, is it just a pseudoterminal for sh (shell)?
I have been looking all over the place and can't seem to find an answer. (I'm probably not using the correct terminology)
I've just upgraded from mavericks to yosemite, the download was sluggish but eventually worked so I don't think any of the files were corrupted. There was no hitch with the installation as far as I know either. All I know is that when I woke up after leaving my MacBook Pro (15 inch, mid-2010) its fan was spinning out of control at the login screen.
This month my data usage is very close to my plan limit, so I am trying to limit usage to prevent going over. But every day I notice it is still creeping up, and when I look at the log my provider shows me of data used, I see lots of (mostly) little transfers at times when I know I was definitely in range of WiFi. I am especially sure of the ones in middle of the night; these are something like 20-50kbytes of data, so I was wondering if I am missing a setting that lets the phone switch over the the (lower powered?) LTE after being asleep for a certain amount of time which I could switch off, or if there is some other reason that it isn't using the WiFi connection.
When submiting a app fro review I got the following message: Missing Push Notification Entitlement - Your app appears to include API used to register with the Apple Push Notification service, but the app signature's entitlements do not include the "aps-environment" entitlement. If your app uses the Apple Push Notification service, make sure your App ID is enabled for Push Notification in the Provisioning Portal, and resubmit after signing your app with a Distribution provisioning profile that includes the "aps-environment" entitlement. See "Provisioning and Development" in the Local and Push Notification Programming Guide for more information. If your app does not use the Apple Push Notification service, no action is required. You may remove the API from future submissions to stop this warning. If you use a third-party framework, you may need to contact the developer for information on removing the API. But I couldn't find how to remove the Push Notification service in the link that wa
In Mavericks I could use ⌘ + ↑/↓ for Page Up/Down but it's not working anymore. I googled it and some people said it's fn + ↑/↓ but thats also not working. How can I fix that?
I’m trying to run some X apps, but I am missing the intended fonts and the ones being used are not fixed width. Is there a way to install other X format (not TTF) fonts? I’m not trying to use the system TTF fonts as the app only uses bitmapped fonts.
Since Yosemite, the green button in the upper left corner on each window activates the fullscreen mode. By holding alt, it works as before (Mavericks). Is there any possibility (Terminal?) to change this behaviour back to "normal"? For example: holding alt for fullscreen mode? Update You can change the behaviour back to "normal" with BetterTouchTool.
I had added keyboard shortcuts and those were working pretty fine on OSX Mavericks but not working in Yosemite. On pressing shortcut for switching tab terminal just flashes. Check screen shot of my settings I want my shortcuts working on Yosemite like those were working on Mavericks
I'm not too sure if this is the right title but anyway... I have an old macbook early 2009 that I bought through my school and purchased the digital software as well- I have no disks and I don't know how to link anything to my name? Is that even possible if someone else set it up? So my old laptop has great programs to use on it but I now have a new 2014 macbook pro mid range and I would only like to transfer some of the applications, but from my research- correct me if I'm wrong, large applications like adobe acrobat pro have files throughout the computer and can't just be copied over. I don't want all the applications so a time machine transfer is out of the question. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
I am on Yosemite on Mac Air of mid 2011. Bluetooth Low Energy Supported : Yes LMP version : 0x6 Then why does Handoff not work ?
There are several updates for apps I have installed, but whenever I try to download them, I get the following message This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled. I have never asked for a refund, or canceled a purchase, and I only have one Apple ID.
My chooser (file-picker dialog) goes under the dock so I can't see buttons. What can I do?
The following is an applescript which is meant to take the body of the latest email and extract text out of it. As you can see the result is shown below. This result is show as the script was running correctly before. Now it is not.
I've recently switched from Chrome back to Safari and i'm liking it so far. The only issue I have is that there is no way of telling if a non-active tab has finished loading.
I have an shared OSX machine (now running Yosemite) that is used by a large group of people, most of which are not normally Mac users. A couple of the most regulars such as myself that need persistent storage have accounts of our own with things costomized the way we like them. Anybody else sitting down at the machine uses the guest account and everything is nuked when they logout.
I left my laptop unplugged last night and woke up to 0% battery. This is not usually what happens. Is there a way I can find out, this time or next time, what caused that? I assume something was running that prevented it from going into low power or sleep mode.
I've just upgraded to Yosemite. I'm trying to run the latest version of Eclipse but I get an error saying that Eclipse cannot run on Java 6. Running java --version on Terminal gives me Java 8. Why is Eclipse using Java 6?
I usually work without using the mouse too much. In Mavericks the active button (the one that's pressed using the spacebar) had a nice blue outline. Any way to get that back?
I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Yosemite, but the App Store won't let me install app updates. It says "Sign in to the App Store to download apps." I'm already signed in though, and the sign in box that pops up won't let me change the Apple ID to mine. I've restarted, logged out, logged in again, and it still won't work. I'd assume that this is because they were installed with a different Apple ID. Can I uninstall and reinstall the apps without buying them/losing data? Will installing the apps myself again without updating get the updates and stop telling me about them? Or is there any way to install these updates? Also, they're for the Apple apps like iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, but nothing other than those Apple ones. Thanks!
I've just created a Public/Private key to access my server via SSH, this has all worked fine but I added a passphrase to the key when it was created. The first time I logged in via terminal and Cyberduck I was prompted for the passphrase but now I am not. I chose for my password not to be stored and I can't see anything relating to it in my Keychain Access program. It must be being stored somewhere, so how to I make sure I am prompted for the passphrase each time?
I've downloaded iOS8 and updated to each version up to 8.1. However, the disk-space on my iPhone is shrinking and shrinking with this OTA update.
I have noticed significant performance degradation on my Samsung EVO running on an Old Macbook Pro, Intel Core 2 duo. Are there any SSD tips that I should apply to this hard drive? Will Trim Enabler make things quicker?
I've read that some people have troubles with Tab-autocompletion and umlauts. I do not, it works just fine, and I do not know if that is related.
i got one of these Samsung 840 Evo Basic 500GB on an iMac (used externally in a TB case - standalone, not Fusion). I know there's a firmware update out which is already available for Mac users too but they only offer an iso image that only seems to work when used on a self burned CD. As i don't have an external CD for my iMac and not planning to have one i wonder what other way would be possible to update the firmware and probably use thise Performance restauration tool from Samsung that they offer for Windows. I've already tried booting into Bootcamp where this tool runs fine and also recognizes the SSD on the Thunderbolt port but it won't work as it only recognizes NTFS partitions and mine has HFS+ ofcourse.
I'm trying to restore a handful of photos from my TimeMachine on Mavericks. Here's what I've been doing: Connect back up drive Go to Finder, search for file name "S0077"... (which has been deleted, thus cannot be found on "This Mac") "Enter Time Machine" and go back to a back up, where it can find "S0077" Mark all the files I would like to restore and click "Restore"
After I updated to OS X Yosemite, I have noticed that I keep hearing a sort of 'chime' sound every now and then, randomly. I don't know what it is, and it seems to happen often when I'm watching YouTube. Please help if you have any idea why this is happening, and how I can fix it – It's very annoying!
I have an 11" Macbook Air + Yosemite with vertical dock. The dock causes a large irritating shadow over any windows... I have tried these (found on various sites - reference Mavericks): The shadow remains after running all of these.
I updated to Yosemite on Saturday and everything has been working fine, I have been able to shut down and startup as normal until today. A couple of days ago I forced my Early 2011 MacBook Pro to shut down and now it will no longer get to the login screen. I hear the chime, the Apple appears with the Yosemite status bar underneath, it takes a long time to get about halfway then both the Apple and status bar disappear leaving just a blank grey screen. I can get into Single User mode, using "fsck -fy" it reports that everything is OK. I can't get into Safe Mode, I just get the Apple and status bar followed by grey screen I have reset PRAM The Internet Recovery globe and status bar appear followed by the Apple and status bar then grey screen
I usually changed my MAC address with the following commands: When I enter:
I have updated my MacBook Pro 15″ late-2011 to OS X Yosemite from Mavericks and now my ZTE USB Modem (unclear model) for the internet will not work. How can I get the hardware to work with 10.10?
Couple of months ago sending messages and making FaceTime calls started to fail from my Mac. I never found the energy to look into this but after upgrading to Yosemite and still seeing the failures I gave up and spent some time on this.
I have just updated to Yosemite and something must have changed in the way Preview renders fonts. I find that Preview display of text in PDF files is rather sloppy, I am pretty sure it used to be much sharper in Mavericks. At the very least now Preview is significantly less sharp than Acrobat Reader, you can check out a screen-shot to convince yourself of what I am talking about.
I have enabled email notifications in Server.app (2.2.4) on Mac OS X server (10.8.5) If port 25 is not being blocked at the local firewall or the ISP, this generally works ok. I've found that if it is being blocked by the ISP, you can go the mail settings within server.app, and set mail to route all mail traffic through ISP and specify your ISP's SMTP gateway, even if you don't actually have the mail server enabled and/or use the mail server. The problem that I've run into is that I have a client who uses an email hosting provider that requires a valid MX record for the domain that an email is coming from. Their admin@companyname.com where they want to receive their Mac OS X server alerts cannot receive the alerts because the messages are seen as coming from an invalid domain with no MX record. The Mac OS X server is called macminiserver01.local or macminiserver01.private and when the email alerts are sent out from server.app, the from address becomes root@macminiserver01.local or root
I previously had about 200 .txt files saved in iCloud via TextEdit. After installing the Yosemite (10.10), there is now a folder hierarchy in iCloud, and all my previous files seem to have disappeared. I have looked in /Library/Mobile Documents -- they're not there. I have tried showing hidden files and looking through the Library with no success. update - I have several Time Machine backups made well before I updated to Yosemite, but there are no documents in /Users/(username)/Library/Mobile Documents/(textedit folder)
I have three nested folders in my trash: folder1/folder2/folder3. They were on an external FAT32 drive but were deleted, along with all the files inside them, a while ago.
I have a brand new MacBook Pro Retina (8GB, 256GB SSD), which has experienced some issues for past few weeks. I decided to run memtest after a complete OS X reinstall. Here's the log : The guys at the Apple Store are sure there is no problem with the RAM.
Updated to iOS 8 some time ago, now I have to rotate a picture and the "rotate" option is gone. Where is the functionality located?
After updating to Yosemite*, I noticed that QuickLook now displays .txt and .log files like this:  It still displays .plist files and other textual files like one would expect, with a small monospaced font on white background. How can I make QuickLook display textual files in a more "traditional" way? = The Yosemite update might have been a coincidence, and I might just not have noticed it before.
I am using OS X 10.10 with iCloud Drive. I am thinking of upgrading to a bigger storage plan (at the moment: 5GB). I am running this Version on a MacBook Air with 128GB. If I buy the 500GB package, does it mean that I fill up my local hard drive automatically when I upload things to the iCloud Drive? iTunes has the Option of stream the music i didn't download yet.
I have a 2013 MacBook Air and it won't wake up from sleep. Worse, it won't let me hold down the power button to force it to power off so I can just cold boot. It just shows a black screen when I open it, and when I hold down the power button, it just goes back to sleep. Then when I wake it, it shows a black screen again, repeat step 1.
Spotlight seems to always suggest the wrong thing and doesn't learn when I don't choose the Top Hit. Is it possible to change the priorities of Spotlight? The internet suggests that there has been a way to edit keywords (or Spotlight comments) under "right click/Get Info". But there is no such thing here in Yosemite anymore.
I would like a certain applescript to run every 10 seconds but only when a specific application is being used (i.e. both being the front application AND the mouse or keyboard being used in the last few seconds). How can I create such a trigger?
Since installing OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), my console is full of error messages regarding fmfd, like fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD This happens mostly at startup and when starting programs. I just want to know what it is, for my peace of mind and that my console can lose some weight ;) Here´s some more (hopefully useful) information from one report:
I have a MacBook Pro 13" and have plugged the iphone 5 headphone into it. When I touch the jack they make some noise, I doesn't matter how gentle I touch they always make a noise. They seem to fit tight into the jack receiver. What could the problem be?
I have a certain program that doesn't work right unless I run it as sudo. I don't mind having to type in my password, but I'd like to get out of the whole process of opening command line and typing "sudo ./"+script name. If you create a script that runs as sudo and click it, it just fails due to permissions. Is there a way to do this more quickly?
Do I need an internet connection on my iPhone 6 to use Apple Pay?
When switching between two screens, all the icons in the menu bar appear to be re-drawn, causing an annoying jittery effect. This started happening after upgrading to Yosemite.
I have an iPad 2 and it currently has iOS 8.0.2, it says to install iOS 8.1 but when I click on update it brings up the agree or disagree the terms page as normal, and I click on agree and nothing happens, it just freezes and then times out! What can I do about this?
I installed Yosemite today on a 2010 MBP, 8GB RAM, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. Its awful, its so slow, everything seems to hang, even simple things like Finder. Chrome is going as a snails pace and Mail is struggling too. Its nearly, very nearly unusable. My attempts to optimize the Mac for speed are as follows: I have disabled all extensions in Chrome, turned off a whole host of stuff from 3rd parties in OSX that I thought might be giving me issues. I can see CPU usage is high for a variety of tasks every now and again, including; md_worker Setup WindowServer Any ideas anyone to speed up my Mac or diagnose what is causing the slowness?
I know they probably have stocks to finish, but I waited precisely one day after the presentation of Yosemite (October 16) to order my new Mac hoping it will come with Yosemite preinstalled. Bummer, it came with Mavericks. So what do I do next?
I was beta-testing an Operating System and set up a separate 50 GB partition on my single 500 GB SSD. Now I cannot remove the beta partition. It shows up as another disk entirely. What can I do?
My daughter lost her iPod. I do not believe it was stolen. She has tried the "find my iPhone" app, and it tells her the iPod is offline. She last used it about 27 hours ago. The volume is turned off, but the iPod was not. It would likely be "asleep". Does offline mean for sure that it is away from WiFi signal, or could it means asleep?
I pay for iTunes Match, account is in good standing, auto-renew is turned on. I just update to iTunes 12.0.1.26 now I have ads when using iTunes radio. How do I get rid of them? I've already tried these recommendations.
I'm a web developer and like to develop with a narrow browser window to somehow emulate how my website will look on a mobile phone. With pre-Yosemite-Safari it was possible to create such a narrow window that you could easily judge the look of your site on mobile. With Yosemite, this seems to be impossible. Any suggestions?
I believe I followed the advice here: How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks? Post upgrade to Yosemite, the Notification Center icon shows up in the menu bar, but clicking on it does nothing, as noted by this individual: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142921/96853
I was using built in ScreenSharing app to connect to a VNC server running on a Linux box. After upgrading to Yosemite the ScreenSharing icon on my Dock is a question mark now. Does OS X no longer have a built in VNC client?
Why does my new Macbook Pro ship with Mavericks instead of Yosemite even after ordering it after the release of Yosemite?
In the "To:" box in the Messages app on OS X, when I start typing in a contact name, I get old "iMessage" contacts which I've long since deleted. They certainly don't exist in my contacts; the only place I think they could exist is in my iMessage History somewhere on the iCloud servers. In any case, how can I delete them? Thanks.
I recently purchased a Mac Mini late 2012 Ivy bridge 2.3ghz i7 quad core and upgraded to 16GB memory. I understand the pre-installed OS is 10.8.1 (12B2080). I could update to OS 10.10 but I want to ask the question if I need to. I am a basic user making the switch from Win XP. My thoughts are, "if it ain't fixed, don't broke it". I am mostly concerned with updating for security, but dont wany any system conflicts.
…which does return results, but not in the way I expected, i.e. it returns many files, only some of which have the (1).mp3 at the end of them. Most of them don't have this and are just normal tracks with .mp3 at the end. e.g. The Beatles - Ticket to Ride.mp3
I have FileVault enabled, so my home directory is encrypted. However, programs and libraries often use directories outside of /home; and Disk Utility allows us to create encrypted files and directories at arbitrary locations.
Why is Google Gmail telling me they no longer support my version of safari when I already have the most current version, 5.1.7, for Windows 8? Then they point me to a Safari web page that has no download link. Am I missing something?
I have tried to find how to remove the email addresses to which you have sent emails in Mail. They are not in Contacts -application. Not in Settings.
I noticed that when replying to emails from my iPhone, they are no longer being grouped as a conversation in Gmail. If I receive an email and reply via my iPhone email app, it will show up in my send folder on my desktop. But not grouped in the conversation thread like it should. Until recently, no matter where I replied from, the reply always ended up as a reply in the same conversation.
I purchased my iPhone 4S on November 8th, 2013, now the iPhone first started having problems in summer, maybe in July. The phone first died at 15%, eventually the problem got even worse. The phone then frequently died at 50%. Now don't stop reading yet. The phone then died at 60, then 70, then 80, then 90. When I plug the phone in the outlet the phone will zip all the way back up to 100% in 5 mins, then the phone will go down to 92% and die. Then i charge again, take the phone out and it goes down too 82% and dies. Can someone please give me some healthy, useful, advice so I can get my phone up and running perfectly again?
After upgrading to Yosemite, the color of the folders in Finder changes from a nice soothing blue to some brighter blue that has much higher contrast. I am curious that is there any way to change that back? Like creating some user defined css file. There is a dark mode for the system wide menu, is there a dark mode for the Finder?
I can use ssh-keygen to set up accounts on my two Macs so when I type "ssh me@my-other-mac" from here, it doesn't need me to type my password again every time I connect. Is there a way to set up Screen Sharing similarly?
I have a Macbook Pro (Early 2008) running on Mountain Lion with a Samsung SSD. Just a few days ago i've noticed significant lag when switching desktops or using any intensive video program and generally the whole desktop experience feels really "heavy". I run the AHT just today and i've got this error "4vdc/1/40000003" which is allegedly a problem with my video card and also after checking the GPU temparature, it's constantly on 78 celcius.
Is it possible to send video through AirPlay and have the audio on the iOS device? I want to watch a movie on the Apple TV but have the audio in my EarPods connected to my iPhone. The Apple TV can send audio through AirPlay but I can't find an app for iOS that can receive audio without jailbreak.
I already have one VGA monitor connected to my Macbook Pro's Mini Display Port, but there is only one mini display port on my mac, so I'm not sure how to hook up a second external monitor. Should I get a VGA splitter and power them both from the one mini display port on my laptop? Should I find a USB to VGA adapter? USB to Mini Display Port? Something else entirely? Please help!! Thanks!
I was trying to make some changes with PATH (mostly add a new PATH) to my .bash_profile and the last line entered was source .bash_profile. After I saved and restarted the Terminal app, instead of the shell prompt I see PATH values continuously popping up on my Terminal window tab. Only CTRL+C will kill it but now I see 'Application Closed' message and that's the end of it. What do I do to restore the shell back to my previous status? I tried running the repair permissions under Disk Utility but that didn't seem to fix my issue. Thanks in advance.
I have a question about multiple desktops. This function is super helpful since I only have a 13 inch macbook pro and my screen economy is vastly improved with multiple desktops since I am using ruby, sublime text, web browsing, and (due to my ADD) VLC and quicktime at the same time. Questions: 1) How do I get multiple desktops to start at startup?
despite recent walks being recorded correctly in the dashboard ("Today" is Oct 21),  and despite the fact that those walks are from a different source (which I can confirm by choosing "Share Data" in the activity and selecting the source).
Is it better to just close the lid on a macbook pro or should I shut it down? When I restart a computer, and I have multiple desktops open, will the desktops all restart with settings saved to reopen applications on those same desktops?
I've been Googling so much my eyes hurt. I have a 2014 rMBP. I want to use it with a 4K display or UHD TV at 60Hz that's at least 30" big. From my research, this means either using something with a DisplayPort input, or with HDMI 2.0. The MBP only has HDMI 1.4 (I think) and is thus limited to 30Hz. There are no >28" 4K monitors for less than $3,000.
I'm looking for a simple (or complex) iOS app that will allow me to put some pictures in virtual "rooms" (like an art gallery) that can then be viewed on the web or smartphones. That's all.
My recent upgrade to Yosemite (from Mavericks) took about 6 hours, nearly all of which time was used in processing the contents of /usr/local (e.g. TeX, etc.).
I want to make educational videos like Khan Academy on my Mac. I am looking for a good app that works just like SmoothDraw -- which is what Khan Academy uses. I have found apps that let me draw on the screen using a tablet, however I have not found one that lets me scroll the "whiteboard" down in the way SmoothDraw does. What app would you recommend as the equivalent of SmoothDraw for the Mac?
For some time, in Mavericks, I had an option, which I had disabled, in Users & Groups > Password to reset the password using Apple ID  This option vanished after a migration, under Mavericks, to a new machine
What I'd like to do is to ping an IP while the latency is above an specific value. I think an example will help: Let's suppose I have the following result to the "ping *IP here*" command:
How can I find MacPorts after it's been installed? I'm trying to use it to open GIMP but can't locate it. GIMP gave me the message "There is no application set to open the document fimp-2.8.14.dmg.torrent - so, that's why I downloaded MacPorts, and now I can't find THAT - Please Heeeeelp - Thank you!
There is a simpler way to verify this problem/bug. 1) Click view option. 2) Press Down key a couple times. You would expect focus would move to Songs, and then Albums, right? Nope, you are just moving through library items in the background, all the while the menu is still in display in the foreground. So, my question boils down to, how can I move cursor focus to this pop up menu?
Recently Preview has started hanging for me whenever I open any pdf or image. I keep getting the spinning balloon of death and am unable to do anything in Preview, so I have to force-quit the application. Is there something I can do about this? Crash report is here.
I use Chrome on my Macbook to send an email through Gmail. While in Gmail, on the top right corner I can see my Google (g+) profile image, but when I hit reply button to reply to an email, then instead of my Google image, it's the default icon that came with my Macbook Admin account (a hawk) being used. Here is a screenshot of the issue:
I am wanting to add custom favorites icons (i.e. new tab page) for my website in Safari 8 on Yosemite. I have tried the open graph tag og:image with both png and jpg formats. I have also looked over the source of several sites that had the custom icons in my favorites page, including a site that appeared to update its icon, and I still cannot find the right way to include these icons. Any help? Thanks.
Is the internal or external mic used? Is there a difference in quality between the two mics?
I am facing a strange issue with my track pad. My machine is a MacBook Pro Retina Display (Mid 2012) updated with Yosemite. So when i click on the track pad's right side, the track pad clicked down properly but nothing happens, although the left side is working properly.
How do you turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite? All the previous methods—such as the one’s listed here—that have worked on Mavericks no longer work on Yosemite.
I had problems with Mavericks in getting full resolution in my monitor Dell U2713H (connected to a Mac Book Pro). I used this solution from this site to fix the problem: I downloaded the file from *=URL=* and after copying it to /System/Library/Displays/Overrides and rebooting, my display was showing again its awesome full resolution.
I have a bunch of files that I moved or deleted in Finder, and now iTunes shows exclamation marks. I would like to delete these from iTunes and from iTunes Match / iCloud. How do I do that, using free software? One can't sort by the exclamation mark in iTunes, and Super Remove Dead Tracks costs money. This is regarding iTunes 11 on Mavericks.
I do not like folder names with a space in them...  Can I rename iCloud Drive to another name, say, iDrive?
I'm getting an ipad mini and I already have an ipad. I'd like to restore from icloud onto the mini so I can get my apps and savegames, but after that I'd like to diverge the backups so I can configure them both differently.
I have a really strange issue since i updated to Yosemite. When i wake up my 2012 Mac Pro, the network connection is totally lost. Output from dmesg (sorry, couldn't copy/paste at this time):
For the most part, there is a one-to-one relationship between any given contact and the email address I select as a 'from' address. Is there a way to configure Mac Mail to change the value of the 'from' field according to whom I am sending mail? OS X 10.10
I'm copying 2 TB from one Thunderbolt external hard drive to a USB3 external hard drive. I started the process using command line program rsync with option -avz but this was very slow. I'm wary of the Finder's copy-paste functionality. What's a fast, fault-tolerant program for copying massive amounts of files from one hard drive to another? If your answer is a command line program, please give an example analogous to this: rsync -avz /Volumes/External_1/ /Volumes/External_2
Recent changes to my machine as the result of an upgrade to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) have made my machine visible on Bluetooth and Bonjour, where it was not visible before. Is there a command line way to disable/enable the relevant features so that my machine can be restored to "invisibility" to these services (e.g. when I'm in a less secure environment)?
I just got Yosemite and now my Press and hold accent capability seems to have disappeared with my old software. I tried using /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app in Terminal to find Press And Hold but it comes up saying -bash: System/Library/Input: No such file or directory and I am not even able to use defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
Being a zealous user of keyboard navigation, I activated All controls in Full Keyboard Access (Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts). In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks I was used to having a blue outline on the button/input box that was active, and I could see it move to the next one when pressing Tab.
I am trying to install Mavericks (I have my reasons not to install Yosemite yet) on my MacBook with Lion. Obviously the possibility to upgrade to Mavericks from the App Store is now gone so one must install via installation dvd. I have downloaded one, mounted it, but when I try to start the installation, it fails with: To download and restore OS X, your computer eligibility will be verified with Apple. When I press Continue: Could not find installation information for this machine.
I have an encrypted disk image that I use to store some sensitive data. It also includes a license key file for an application. Upon boot, I automatically mount this disk which restores the pre-defined symlinks and makes the license available for the application.
In my company, people use shared Exchange calendars to organize their work. They see all the public calendars in Exchange after they login. Sadly, this doesn't work for me on Mac: after adding the Exchange account in System Preferences I see only my own Exchange calendar and none of the shared ones. I read here about using delegation, but I don't know what e-mail to type there, as others see these calendars just as "public". Any hints?
Trying to update to Yosemite. Unfortunately I'm encountering the Verify File System and Repair Fail. Ive got no backup whatsoever prior to updating to the new OS. I have Windows and I can boot on that just fine. How do I solve this problem and how do I recover my files on OS via Windows.
Hi I'm using some VPN software that isn't the default OSx VPN support. When it connects it clobbers my routing table, putting all traffic through the VPN. What I want to do is have something like this route defined (I see this auto defined when I'm not on the VPN) ... Where that Gateway Address is the Mac address of the 192.168.1.2 machine. When I connect the VPN and new Netif is added "utune0" So I've tried ... And end up with
Since updating to Yosemite a couple of days ago my Back to My Mac feature has stopped functioning. It is activated in the Sharing Preferences and I didn't change anything on the router settings. In the iCloud settings it says (in french): that Back to My Mac doesn't work properly because the DNS server doesn't respond _ that I should contact my ISP in order to get a new DNS server address I am accessing Internet via a Fritzbox router and everything worked just fine under Mavericks iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
I have a 13 inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro and I want to connect my LaCie Thunderbolt hard drive and my extra 21" Monitor but the MacBook Pro has only one thunderbolt port... How it will be possible?
Hitting option + e then a vowel has no effect (same for option + u then a vowel, etc…) → Solved by deactivating and and activating again this configuration. This is the only working configuration. Bug on kotoeri
After installing both Yosemite and the new iWork suite updates (Pages 5.5 and Keynote 6.5), I've noticed I can't 'Show Package Contents' in order to access/modify the media associated with these files. Does anybody know how to get in to these seemingly new formats? Doesn't seem like a simple unarchive, either...
I've been looking into making my terminal more visually expressive. So far I've found , and learnt how to import themes and customize color schemes, but I was wondering how people get these cool icons and visual modifications as seen in these images. Can anyone provide me with some useful links?
I love the apple magic trackpad but, I don't like to use mouse to chose something while I'm typing.  Is there a way, to pick the option using the keyboard? PS: Note that sometimes it may exist more than one option to pick
I'd like new messages that I create, including replies to messages I receive, to automatically get a "Hi <name>," inserted in their first line. <name> should be the first name of the first recipient. How can I create such an automation?
Retina Macbook Pro's battery life is amazing, and it is handy having an accurate estimate of how much longer it will last on the remaining charge, in hours and minutes. While charging however, it provides a far less important figure: how many hours and minutes it will take to fully charge the laptop. Ideally, while charging, my laptop would tell me the exact same information: How long (hours & minutes) will my laptop battery last if I were to stop charging right now? MBP Retina 2013, OS X 10.10 hh:mm
A couple of days ago I updated my Macbook Pro to OS X Yosemite, the update was fine and everything seemed to be working. However since this whenever I had shut down then later logged back in or restarted my macbook I have encountered the screen pictured below.
The default behavior in Yosemite for apps with combined window title/toolbar in full screen mode is, that the window controls (signal lights) slide in from the left when the mouse the mouse pointer reaches the top screen edge. Is there any known Terminal defaults command to disable this behavior and always show the "signal lights"? I'm asking because I find it annoying especially in Xcode when I want to press the Run button but instead close the whole workspace :( Thx
The default mail client can't seem to open email links using chrome at all. I have deactivated safari. Is this a glitch? Should I stop using the default client? Thanks.
Mostly as the title says; I have a bunch of movie files that I encoded especially using Handbrake (veryslow preset, de-noise filter, nothing else changed) and which worked fine in iTunes 11. However, since updating to Yosemite (and iTunes 12), none of the files play properly. They play perfectly in Quicktime Player with no additionally codecs installed, and they import correctly into iTunes 12, but instead of playing smoothly I just get still frames with no audio; I can skip around but all that does is change which still frame I'm stuck on.
Every time I open App Store on my iPhone, I am prompted for my password, which I do – and then, the message “Cannot connect to iTunes store” appears. Here's the thing: Everything else network related works on the phone. I can browse the web, I can even browse the app store from within the App Store app, and I can update apps when required. I just can't buy any new apps. I have tried everything on the following knowledge base articles, to no avail: Can't connect to the iTunes Store iTunes: Possible iTunes Store errors iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting What to do?
I would like to read, and ideally write to, my HealthKit data from a computer's web browser. Is this possible? I have not found any tools so far that let me do it. An out of the box tool is ideal, but a script-based workaround that syncs with Google Spreadsheets or Dropbox would work as well.
Ever since upgrading to Yosemite 2 days ago my notifications no longer work. I can't even open the notification center by clicking the icon in the menubar. Nothing happens when i click it. Anyone know what's going on or where to look to further investigate the issue?
It is expected that shell environment variables won't be available in GUI apps launched via Spotlight or Finder.app. But until Mavericks - I could launch an app via Command line such as:
My text messages are also appearing on my husband's iPhone. How do I get them to not sync?
I still love the old pages '09 I run it side-by side with the new pages on my two iMacs. However, on my new Macbook it is not installed and I want to run it on there (the new pages doesn't have some of the power features I need).
I'm not exactly sure how to describe this, but in Yosemite, it seems like the indicator for the currently focused field seems weird. I'm not sure whether it's a bug or intended behavior. When switching between UI elements that allow for interaction, there is some attention grabbing animation, and after the animation, the indicator seems so large that my assumption is that this is unintended. I've included some pics below From xCode:
After a lo-ho-hot of trial and error to get this to work properly I still was not able to find the sweet spot. The problem is simple. I am on OSX Yosemite and use the Mail.APP for my Google Apps for Work account. I like mail that I delete to truly be deleted, it may be moved to trash first, as long as when I delete it, it should truly be removed from Mail and Google. However, now when I delete a mail from the trash I won't see it in my Mail.APP but it does still appear in the Google trash. So technically it still exists.
I just discovered the new green button behavior in Yosemite that causes the window to go to full screen instead of maximizing it. That's fine, and I can live with option+click to get the old behavior, but I can't figure out how to exit full screen mode. I'm doing it in Chrome 38.0.2125.104, if that makes a difference. The Esc key certainly doesn't work, and there's no longer the blue double arrow when you move the cursor to the upper right hand corner. How do I exit full screen mode after entering it by clicking on the green window button on the upper left corner of the window?
Is there a way to use Terminal to check to see if Screen Sharing/Remote Desktop is enabled? Or is there a file which will have a YES/NO of it? The one catch; it must work without sudo or admin privileges.
Under OS X Mavericks and below we just could launchctl unload the dynamic_pager plist, but trying to unload this plist doesn't have any effect since OS X Yosemite. What is the new way to disable swap files now with OS X Yosemite?
Using Yosemite (OSX 10.10) and the included Mail application (which describes itself as "Version 8.0 (1990.1)" to read mail held on a company Exchange server, I am finding that the unread marks for messages are not being reliably updated. Before the Yosemite upgrade, whenever I selected the message summary in the left hand pane, it was instantly marked as "read". This no longer happens reliably: some messages are marked as read, others are not. For example, in this screenshot, I have clicked on all of these messages, and some have updated and some have not:
My specific situation is that I am trying to find out whether Apple bumped the system version of libcairo to 1.12.16 in Yosemite from an earlier version of libcairo in Mavericks. I can somewhat easily find the version on my current system by inspecting the header files, but I can't seem to find that information online. Does there exist a reference online for all the files included in different versions of OS X, or a way to find versions of system libraries (short of having access to a computer running a specific version of OS X)? Failing that, I'd appreciate someone running Mavericks taking a peek in /opt/X11/include/cairo/cairo-version.h and telling me the version listed there.
Why can't I share a pdf file from the Application Preview and mail it in Yosemite?
I have iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1), and I am trying to use a 2013 MacBook Air (OSX10.10) to call using the iPhone. I am getting this error message
Prior to Yosemite, setting the following invisible preference would cause Mail.app to show duplicate messages rather than its default behavior of hiding them: % defaults write com.apple.mail AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
The Mac Pro from 2008 (MacPro3,1) is still a fairly relevant machine in the modern OS X as not only does it run the latest releases of OSX, but also the 8 CPU cores that it came with provide enough power to do all but the most demanding tasks. Yes, they've made faster machines, but this old one still holds its own well enough.
The output of groups after sudo bash lists the following groups: What is the wheel user group for and why is it called wheel?
Prior to upgrading to Yosemite, I used Keyboard Maestro to invoke this Applescript with a shortcut: It behaved just as expected, toggling bluetooth whenever I pressed my shortcut.
Is there a way to check what flags were given when a package was installed with homebrew? For example, the emacs formula has an absurd number of flags. If I did I would like to later determine that for the homebrew installation of emacs I gave the flags --with-glib --with-librsvg and not any other flags. Test case with lua package: Before installing the package, info shows all options. I install the package with just the --with-completion flag.
I have to admit I don't really like the new design of OS X Yosemite, and I would like to get the good old Mavericks theme on the current Yosemite install. Is this possible?
I install Emacs via Homebrew and create a symbolic link: /Applications/Emacs.app -> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.3/Emacs.app
Yosemite install (from Mavericks) has automatically changed the names of my network computers as shown in the Finder sidebar. For example, my name IMac now displays as my name iMac(2). My two additional Mac Airs are displaying the same problem. I have tried changing the computer names in System Preferences (sharing/computer name/edit) to no effect with or without rebooting. How can I return to the original computer names?
An AOL rep reset my Safari, and since then, whenever I hit commandI it brings up mail instead of italicizing words. How can I change back?
My iPhone 6 receives text messages of local news stories, from a local news source. I can't discover how to unsubscribe from these messages. How is it done? This is my first iOS device.
There's a plugin for Firefox called Vimperator which is what it sounds like -- a vim style interface for Firefox. It has the curious ability to nearly remove the titlebar of the Firefox window. This functionality is accessed with vim-style commands. Default Firefox
Is there any hotkey to delete mail in Mail.app without selecting next message in Yosemite? In Mavericks it was "Option + backspace" (*=URL=* but this doesn't work anymore.
When I connect from my laptop to my server with Apple Screen Sharing, it is extremely laggy, even over gigabit ethernet. Files copy at expected speeds (~100MB/s) but Screen Sharing is terribly slow. Any way to speed this up?
While upgrading to OSX Yosemite, I quickly skipped forward in the different menus, and must have inevertenly created a new account. Now my old proper account has become a guest account, with parental restrictions and what not. I cannot edit the account in the System Preferences, the user is greyed out even though I've unlocked it.
While it is possible to set a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Notification Center in Mac OS Yosemite, I cannot find a way to switch between the panels "Today" and "Notifications" via the keyboard - it only seems to be possible using the mouse/trackpad. Is there anything I overlooked?
When I built my Mac Pro 3,1 machine (Early 2008) back in the day, I chose not to get an Airport Extreme card since I only intended to connect it via an Ethernet cable. However, I've noticed that the new Yosemite Handoff feature apparently requires not only Bluetooth 4.0 but also 802.11ac. There is some debate on the web as to whether just getting USB dongles will work, but I figure it is worth seeing if any official products exist seeing how the mini-PCI port used for the Airport Extreme seems to have been used across several models of Macs.
I have tried to send pdfs via email from Preview but the app is not letting me. The share button only gives me the option to send via "message" and "airdrop". I want to be able to send via Mac Mail and Outlook. What can I do to add these options under the "share" button. Thanks Brandi
I use a piece of specialty software that seems to be dealing badly with App Nap. Is there a way to retroactively list when App Nap acted on a specific process? The Console log shows symptoms (Spindump reports when an app is throttled for excessive wakelocks or cpu use) but I can't find anything related to the third type of App Nap throttling (priority reduction), quoting from developer docs: For any app that is not performing important user work, App Nap triggers a number of measures, including: Priority reduction, which reduces the process priority of an app so that it receives a smaller share of available processor time Priority reduction, which reduces the process priority of an app so that it receives a smaller share of available processor time Timer throttling, which reduces the frequency with which an app’s timers are fired Timer throttling, which reduces the frequency with which an app’s timers are fired I/O throttling, which reduces the rate at which an app can read or write da
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro 13'' mid 2012. I have an external HDD and when I insert it, it doesn't appear on the desktop. If I go into Disk Utility I can see it, but it is written in light gray and I can't do either "Verify Disk" or "Repair Disk". Connecting it to a Windows PC, I see correctly the contents of the disc so it should not be a disk problem. In recent days I have had some small problems with other hard drives or USB flash drives, but they were resolved by themselves or with a simple "Repair Disk".
Since iOS7 installed applications on iPhone and iPad are automatically updated. Is there any way to also automatically update the applications in the iTunes library (either direct or indirect via an iOS device)?
I have £5.02 left on an App Store card and wish to buy an app costing £1.99 but it asks for a credit/debit card number. How do I get it to come off my credit?
Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, I have been experiencing cloudd quit unexpectedly bug reports popping up at front very very often. The issue is :
Today I opened Health on my iPhone 6 and I realized that it is counting my steps. However I never enabled this functionality. Is there a way to disable it?
From time-to-time I want to transfer only one or a very few photos FROM my PC (Windows 7) to my iPhone (currently an iPhone 6). I can find plenty of advice on how to transfer from the iPhone to the PC, but there seems to be a dearth (severe lack) of info on how to do the converse.
As you can see, my brightness window has a mysterious line towards the top of it. Is this by design, or did I really break it? If so, how can I fix it?
I have an imac which is about 5 or 6 years old. I had been running Leopard on it but my iphoto quit working so I reinstalled the OS X that came with the computer. Although it shows 366 GB are used on my hard drive I can't see any files. How do I restore my computer to where it was? Time machine shows no back up.
I am having issues with Brew. It was working fine, but now it's a little wonky. Tried re-installing, but I get this error:"fatal: cannot create directory at 'Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.10': Permission denied" Anyone know how to fix this?
I am working with a new iPad Air 2. I cannot figure out how to change the view to landscape.. There is no side button, and I am tired, but I cannot see a preference in Settings.
Whenever I receive a phone call, my phone starts ringing (which is fine) and one second later, my iPad and Mac starts to ring as well. How do I disable or, at least delay the notification of phone calls to my other devices? My devices are on iOS 8.1 and OS X Yosemite.
It is stated on the iOS 8.1 release notes that users can now select 2G, 3G or 4G LTE as their data network. I've since updated to iOS 8.1 but I could not find where the option is to select 2G data network. Where can I find this setting option?
I have an old Macbook Pro running OS X Lion that has been completely wiped. I want to reinstall OS X. I first tried going into Recovery and using the Internet Reinstall, but the download/install timed-out and froze.
I'm trying to install Yosemite onto a 15" Macbook Pro / Late 2008 model with OS X Mountain Lion on it. I've checked Apples site and it says I can install Yosemite on this machine with these specs. When I click through the installer and get to my harddrive it won't let me select it and I get an error message that reads "This Disk is used for time machine backups" which it isn't. I have an external drive dedicated just for that purpose. I do not have the external connected when I try to install and I have time machine turned off in preferences. Also, my harddrive is not listed in the drive list in time machines preferences. I have no idea what's going on. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious. Can someone please help me? thank you, Justin
I have about 4 devices always using the internet on my home wifi network. Everything is fine and dandy until I start to do intensive bandwidth stuff like gaming and streaming movies. So I thought this was an issue with my internet speed so I upgraded to 100mbps down and 20mbps up but this hasn't improved the issue.
I have a 128G SSD for my main drive and it is nearly full, I'd like to move the OS (Yosemite) and all my data to my second drive, a 1TB hybrid drive which is installed in the DVD drive bay. How do I move all my data and make the hybrid drive bootable without losing the data that I already have on the hybrid drive? I also need to add a system recovery to the hybrid drive somehow.
I am running a MacMini 2013 that has Mac OS X 10.9.3 installed and I want to use SD memory cards with Time Machine. Can I use the SD flash memory for a backup drive? What is the maximum size supported? Is the drive bootable for a recovery option? Would anyone recommend doing this?
I have a Macbook Air with 128GB SSD and 4GB RAM with OS X Mavericks. I was using my Mac normally but suddenly Chrome got stuck. So I held down the power button and force-shut down the Mac.
I have a spam processing script that I use to forward spam messages as attachments to my spam filter using the 'send' command in AppleScript. Everything processes and delivers fine, but later when I go to quit Mail, I'll have a new message window pop up with one of the messages that was sent in its own window as if it were a draft I was working on.
I just had an update for iTunes to version 12.0.1.26. The old way to import images to new albums in iTunes has changed. How do I import in the latest version?
Tried to upgrade to OSX Yosemite on my Mac Mini bought this year running OSX Mavericks. It failed. When I checked for issues using Disk Utility I saw:
I don't have a retina display, and display settings doesn't show any relevant info. How can I see what my DPI in OS X is?
I even thought it could do something with my USB ports, because of this (only a few keys worked on login when external USB hub with Yeti mic plugged in): Some keyboard keys are not working on login to Yosemite but after some more testing, I can rule that out. It's reproducible with no devices connected over USB.
i've installed the new OS X Yosemite recently. Now i'm trying to view the TLS Certificate and the Certificate Chain in the new Safari. In the older versions of Safari one just had to click onto the padlock to view the connection properties. I know, it's all possible by using another Browser, but i like the new Safari ;-) Best regards, Jonas
I have 2013a installed and the patch from here. The patch should work, but when I navigate to the application, there is a "stop" icon above the app icon which still prevents the patched version from launching. How can I remove this disabled status? For now I can only launch matlab from inside the app content.
As of today I experience random wifi connection drops on my MacBook Air 2012 that force me to reselect the network every ten minutes. The only recent change to the system was an upgrade to Yosemite. A google search indicated that others have the problem as well, yet as of yet I could not find a solution. How to fix this issue?
I have two users. In "Get Info" I shared a User1 folder with the User2. But how can I access the folder from the User2 account?
In Yosemite, the new Safari "hides" part of the URL, how could I show it without going to the address bar every time? e.g. *=URL=* becomes google.com.br
I'm bored of pressing 2 key shortcuts need to write a script that tells mission control the following: if not at desktop1, switch to desktop 1 perform "show desktop" (windows will be hidden\displayed, depending on how they are now) currently i use it like this: but there is no check for "i'm on desktop 1 already", and no toggle (show\hide windows)
I produce a lot of pdf files using LaTeX and thus, I also read a lot of such files. After the update to OS X 10.10 the fonts are not smooth anymore. However, Safari seems to handle it much better than Skim (see screenshot for comparison).
I've set up a custom shortcut for Terminal to change tabs: cmd+option+left/right (the same as in most browsers, for convenience). I did this by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and adding it to Terminal as shortcuts for "Select Next Tab" and "Select Previous Tab". It worked perfectly.
I think I would like to install Mavericks over Snow Leopard on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro because I imagine it is more stable than Yosimite and I'm doing a lot of development on it, for which I want Port Tree (Fink in my case) packages to be available for items like Python, PostgreSQL, etc. But Mavericks doesn't seem to be available on the App store anymore. Tried downloading from CNET, but all I seemed to be finding was an update. I am tempted to just install Yosemite and would love to get some input.
I just updated to Yosemite, and now I cant access newly added files through the dropdown menu the Dropbox icon in the toolbar provides. Previously it was possible to reveal a newly added file in finder if a file on the dropdown list was pressed(See picture) But now nothing happens! Am I the only that has this problem?
I have an iPhone 4s, and have installed xender for iOS. When I record a movie in mkv and flv video from android via xender, the transfer to the iPhone completes but the movie cannot be viewed.
I'm considering getting a display with thunderbolt connection, to use as extra screen space and as docking station (on a macbook pro 2012) Right now I'm using a USB hub for all the peripheral devices (music keyboard, soundcard, external harddrive, printer etc.) If I plug that usb hub into the usb port on the display (or directly, without the hub), will it all function as it did before?
Yosemite's new "Text Message Forwarding" feature is a great convenience for communicating with friends and colleagues who use SMS for texting, but it has the potentially to fatally* undermine 2-factor authentication schemes that use text messages. Is there a way to limit which contacts' text messages can be forwarded?
I try to make a long AHT test on my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. When I press D (same with alt-D) on boot it says : After a few seconds, it launches the basic AHT test. But the Apple document says it should show an icon where I can launch the long AHT test.
I had a cron job that ran every morning at 10:30 to call into our daily status meeting on Go2Meeting. After I upgraded to Yosemite it stopped working, and I figured out that it was because
I am unsure of which iphone I need-64gb or 128gb. I mainly need storage space for photos and videos and I dont think 64gb would be enough. Someone has said that due to iCloud drive a 64gb would however be sufficient but I am unsure of this. When my memory is full will it allow me to carry on taking photos and videos and store straight to iCloud or will I get the usual notice saying there is not enough storage space?
When I open Safari, in my Bookmarks tab it shows me a pop-up:  What does this mean?
I dropped my MacBook (six years old, running OS X 10.6.8) on the ground, and have observed a couple of odd problems since then: Whenever I open my MacBook it attempts to eject the CD, makes a couple of violent-sounding noises, fails, and gives up. (Also, the software no longer recognizes that there is a CD in the drive.) Whenever I try software solutions (e.g. drutil tray eject) it does the same.
I purchased a MacBook Pro Retina on March 2014 to replace my old MacBook. Both were running Mavericks, but I decided to clone the disk into a partition on the new MacBook Pro and keep the ready installed software as a separate bootable backup partition. I have a 2 TB Time Capsule that I access the internet through. This did back up my new machine until a couple of months ago, and now is not found on the network even though it is still providing me with an internet connection.
I'm a developer, but it is more of a user-centric question. How can one "unregister" a Finder Sync (or any other, presumably) OSX 10.10 App Extension? I've removed the app that's hosting it (FinderSynctest), but it still shows here:
iOS 8.1 is out and there is a public beta for iCloud Photos. There are many differences between the new iCloud Photo service and the old Photo Stream, but for the scope of this question I am only concerned about my iCloud storage space. One of the major drawbacks of iCloud Photos is that it counts against your iCloud storage quota. The current Photo Stream feature, however, does not. It is effectively "free". My question is this: Does anyone know if Photo Stream will go away when iCloud Photos is finished and released in iOS 8.2 (or whatever)?
I have some old OneNote files (with .one) extension from those long ago years when I still suffered from Windows. Additionally I have some current template files with .one extensions. I no longer have (or want) access to a Windows machine with or without OneNote. Does any means exist for me to import such files into my new OneNote for Mac?
How do I download a purchased app on iPad to an iPod touch with a different Apple ID? My daughter purchased an app and put it on her iPad, and I want to put it on an iPod touch that I gave my grandson with my Apple ID. It won't let us do that.
I have a wifi extender (TP-Link TL-WR700N). It works great for iPhones, iPads, Windows laptops, and Android devices. However whenever my MBP (running Mavericks) switches to it from the main network, I get the ! and lose internet. If I then tell my MBP to forget the network and reconnect to the extender, it works fine... until I move back in range of the main network, at which point I get the ! again and lose internet.
I bought an Apple Time Machine. I have a home studio with several hard drives. I'm trying to find the best way to setup Time Machine to keep all my storage backed up all the time. Studio Computer (12 Core Mac Pro) 250 GB - Internal SSD System Drive 2 TB - Internal Media Drive (Audio Samples, Sample Instrument Files) 2 TB - Internal Storage 1 (Recording Sessions) 2 TB - Internal Storage 2 (Recording Sessions) (Note: Internal Storage 1 & 2 are used until full and then they are stored away and new drives are purchased to replace them) MacBook Pro (13″ i7) 250 GB - Internal SSD (OS X files and software only) 1 TB - Internal Media (Audio Samples, Instruments, User Folder, Etc.) Questions: What kind of setup do I need to back all of this up? Do I need a big USB hub with a hard drive connected that mirrors every drive in my system? Do those drives need to be larger than each of the primary drives? Should I get a Drobo or some kind of RAID drive?
Is there a way you can place a shortcut or a link to a website in the dock in osx ? Similar to how you can save a website to the homescreen of ios. Id like to do this on 2 machines - one is on osx 10.9 and one is on 10.8.
Can I use my iPad to connect to my PC over USB and receive internet? My iPad has Internet but at the moment my PC doesn't and I don't have a wireless router yet.
I received an iPad Air 2 recently and am trying to order a screen protector for it. Can I use an iPad Air 1st Generation screen protecter? Are the width and height the same on both generations?
After upgrading to Yosemite, I can no longer see my other computers that I was able to access with Back to my Mac, under previous OS X versions (while I am away from home - usually accessing my home computer(s) from work). As each one was upgraded to Yosemite (10.10), each one in turn "disappeared" from being accessible by Back to my Mac. I'm pretty sure its the O/S, but the question is - why?
My Mac is running OS X Mavericks (1.9.5) and iTunes 11.1. After I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7 to iOS 8, I get a message saying that I need at least iTunes 11.2 to connect to this iPhone. However, when I click on the "upgrade" button, App Store only gives me the option of upgrading to Yosemite. I can't find a way to just install iTunes 11.2 or whatever version without upgrading to Yosemite. Is there any place where I can download older iTunes versions? thanks!
I opened the Storage tab in About This Mac and it says that 61.57 GB of my 121 GB Flash storage is used on Applications. I opened the Applications folder, highlighted all the apps, opened the Inspector and it told me that it only took up 9.34 GB altogether. I've only had this Mac for less than a week and I don't understand where all my memory is going! MacBook Air 13″ early-2014 121 GB Flash storage
My macbook pro (mid-2010 running 10.9.5) has been crashing a lot lately. I haven't made any changes to it (either hardware or software) or installed anything new but it seems to be something to do with a kernel process "mdworker".
EDIT/PARTIAL ANSWER Turns out, even if you put TextEdit into Plain Text mode, it's still using 'smart quotes'. Typing out and saving the script through the Terminal and THEN running it worked like a charm. 0942v8653 was kind enough to help me out in chat, and also provided a command to disable this 'feature': defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool false Still looking for a solution to the password issue.
I am having trouble upgrading my MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 13") with a SSD. 3 weeks ago, I installed the Samsung Evo 840 (500 GB) into my MacBook Pro. It worked fine for 3 weeks, then two days ago, my MacBook freezes. I restart it, and a Finder symbol with a question mark appears. I open Disk Utility in several ways (connected my old HDD through USB, or used cmd + R), it shows the SSD but I can neither repair nor verify it. When I start the MacBook Pro, it tells me that it cannot read the internal SSD (or something similar).
I have a problem with my G5 PPC with OS X 10.5.8. I bought this Mac from an English friend of mine. He forgot an administrator password. I don't have the system CD or Internet connection. I tried to follow your instructions in other post (command+s) but this is what happens when I do that (on the Mac).
Since upgrading to OS X Yosemite I've experienced that sometimes when reloading a web page (CMD+R) Safari doesn't reload the page but downloads a file named Unknown.  Is there any way to fix this?
Ever since upgrading to Yosemite my Mac Mini is filling our network firewall syslog every minute with a UDP denial to a private address (10.61.0.119) outside our network. I made sure that updates were done, signed out of face time and messenger. Checked to see if it was browser related (Chrome) but even when Chrome is closed we still get the hit.
I know this problem could be trivial, but it just bothers a lot. I can use the highlight function of preview properly before like the following:
I've had a 48GB SSD in my ExpressCard slot on my '09 17" MBP for the last 8-9 months and haven't had a problem up until this past week. When I look at spotlight it says that it is indexing the SSD, and it won't stop. I've left the laptop on over the weekend and I come back and its doing the same thing.
I recently upgraded the memory in my 27" iMac, mid 2011. took out the two, 2 gig in the top slots & put in two 8 gig units. For some reason I wasn't thinking about putting the 2 gig units in the bottom slots. Is this ok? Will it help any? Thanks
There are literally hundreds of threads on dozens of different internet forums about iOS devices that get stuck on "Waiting for changes to be applied" and/or "Waiting for items to copy" while syncing. I have had that problem intermittently for two years, on iOS 6, 7 and now 8, and frankly after trying all of the fixes I have read about, I have given up on trying to solve it. That's not what this question is about. What I want to know is: What's supposed to happen during those stages of the sync?
I am utilizing Microsoft OneNote version 15.2.2 on a Mac. Is it possible to share sections from the notebook via email as an attachment that can be edited, instead of only in the body of the email?
Short explanation. After I've created .bash_profile file and added the line export PATH=/PATH/TO/YOUR/sbt/bin:$PATH into it, my terminal stopped working properly. Could you please help me to fix the problem?
I am fairly confident I could use the service below in MRD before. I am not sure when I lost them, maybe it is related to the Yosemite upgrade (I noticed this on 10.10.0) or some recent MRD update (8.0.9 from Mac App Store). In any case, the Services menu (from the app's menu on the menu bar) lists the services I want to use, but all are greyed out an inaccessible. Why is that? Can one undo this?
I'm investigating some slowness with my late '13 rMBP which I upgraded to Yosemite on Sunday. Problem is, I can't boot into safe mode by holding the Shift when restarting or powering up.
My console.log is filled with "stopping Handoff advertising" messages, I counted 29 in the last 3 minutes. I also get the occasional:
I have upgraded my iPhone 4S to the iOS 8.0 version and it has made my phone extremely slow. Can I restore my iPhone 4S to its original state before any upgrades were done?
I would like to use an iphone 4s for the Tracfone BYOP program. Does the iphone 4s have to be used to work on the Tracfone BYOP program, or can I use a new phone?
I was trying to save a file on my Mac and it said The document could not be saved. You don't have permission I have papers to write and recover because they decided to delete themselves How do I fix this "You don't have permission" error when using Pages on OS X?
After it has finished downloading, does installing Yosemite require an internet connection to install?
I installed Yosemite on a blank external drive. For the past half hour, it has been frozen on the Transferring your information screen, saying 20 minutes left, but not budging. Aside from waiting indefinitely, how do I break out of this non-progress, and what domain need to do to resume the installation process, preferably without starting from scratch?
Previously, when selecting the "text" tool in preview in order to add a note to a PDF, I could specify where to add this text note by clicking on a particular place of the pdf before actually typing in. However now it seems to be not the case anymore: The text box automatically appears exactly in the middle of the current page. This is incredibly inconvenient as I have to drag the them around after typing to put them exactly in place. I can't believe they have dished out such an un-intuitive design. Is there a way to revert to the old fashion, or do I have to change software for PDF?
Edit: I've also tried booting to my DiskWarrior DVD but it just hangs on the Apple screen and never gets there! My next approach is to build a Mavericks USB bootable drive and see if I can install from there. It seems clear that my main hard drive is locked or disabled somehow, I just don't know how to get it turned back on.
I have an external screen connected to my mac. I have my Dock configured to be always displayed (not hiding it below the screen) How do I make the Dock appear on both screens at the same time?
My sound does not work whe I try to turn up the volume it just show this  I tried looking on the forums but they didn't help. Thank you for spending the time to answer, if you have any questions please comment them down below
I have a Gmail account which I access using Mac Mail. I still am able to receive messages but cannot send messages in Mac Mail. I receive the following message for each unsuccessful attempt to send: Cannot send message using the server smtp.gmail.com: (and my e-mail address) The SMTP connection to server "smtp.gmail.com" failed.
I recently updated mavericks 10.9.5 from 10.9, it shows on Update Installed in last 30 days, but when I see About my mac info it is still showing 10.9  Again going to app store and clicking update it ask me to restart, to install the update I have restarted many a times but it is still 10.9 please help as I want to install X code 6.1 for learning swift
I had begin the update and left it overbite for download, it downloaded completely but then failed. I started the download again and this time it had finished successfully but I didn't notice it and thought it had failed again so started the download again. When it downloaded about 3 GB I saw the Yosemite installer and upgraded. But now the second upgrade icon is still there. How do I remove it and its data?
I have a lot of logging noise that seems to be malignant, and doesn't scream "problem" when I look at it. It is just so frequent that it's almost endless, and that it's related to wireless networking I'd like to know what it means (for various reasons like security or battery life...).
So, is there any way now to mount and write to an NTFS-formatted USB drive in Yosemite using either open-source software or free, unencumbered (not spyware/malware or bundled with useless toolbars etc.) software from the App Store?
Yesterday I upgrade my MBP to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, everything went well. But When I try to start Pycharm, it shows me this
I obtained a packet capture file: $ sudo tcpdump -w file.pcap I obtained a packet capture file: I can then analyse that file: $ tcpdump -r file.pcap I can even use file redirection to read from standard input: $ tcpdump -r - < file.pcap I can then analyse that file: I can even use file redirection to read from standard input:
When I was running Mountain Lion I selected "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere" in Security & Privacy. I updated to Yosemite a few days ago. The update set that back to: "Mac App Store and identified developers". I want to run some software from elsewhere. When I select Security & Privacy and click the padlock icon, a pane comes up asking me to enter my password. Since I don't have a password I simply click "Unlock". The padlock unlocks for a few milliseconds and re-locks far too quickly for me to change the setting. I know that I don't need a password as that pane lets me click Authenticate during software installation from a .dmg So what do I have to do to change Allow apps setting now?
I have a generated PDF with precise dimensions. I verified the dimensions in Preview.
I've set up the new Family Sharing in iOS. How do I go about sharing a specific app from one Iphone to another? Do I need to use iTunes on the desktop? Does it depend upon whether the developer has approved sharing? The app I wish to share is this one: Theory Test and Hazard Perception Pro by Deep River Development Ltd https://appsto.re/gb/rYTHJ.i
From time to time Xquartz opens without any application being called. Is this some virus that tries to exploit bugs in x11? Is it gnu emacs that was not fully ported and calls X stuff?
I noticed, after updating I believe, that the inbox of the mail app in IOS 8.1 only lists emails coming in, so making out the back and forth conversation that often replies turn into is impossible. On my mac, it still groups in and outgoing emails in the same thread (ordered by time) so that the conversation becomes apparent.
The menu bar seems to redraw itself each time I switch from monitor to other. here's a short video of this happening. This guy seems to have the same problem. I tried using guest account without any 3rd part applications but the same problem persists. Any help troubleshooting is welcome.
I have a very important document that I wrote in Pages (the version prior to Pages 5.5). Now on Yosemite and Pages 5.5, I can't even open the document.
I've upgraded my mac from Mavericks to official Yosemite. In the first day my mac was normally, but in the second day, it was unusable, very slow and it was not responding, The third day(now) still like that. I dont know what to do, I've already reset pram, reset smc, repaired disk permissions, tried to reinstall Yosemite and nothing changed. I think it can be the file vault that I had activated when I upgraded to Yosemite, but I can't even know the percentage of the process. My MacbookPro is a version late 2011, processor i5 2.4Ghz, 16gb ram, 500gb HD. I would appreciate if somebody could help me.
I Installed Yosemite and it won't recognize my (admin) user password. Yes - I am positive that I am using the correct password. No - Caps Lock is not on. What is the problem?
I two days ago got a second hand iPhone 4s. I notice that when I start using it, it becomes hot on top right side (if you look from front) and on left top side (if you look from back) near back camera and side steel too. It becomes hot and battery also drops quickly like 9-10% in 12-14 mints. I resetted the network settings too but it didn't solved the problem... :(
I encrypted my internal hard drive with FileVault a while ago on Lion such that it prompts for the disk password when I restart the computer and recently upgraded to Mavericks on my MBPro Retina. It was a variation of one of my old passwords and I can't remember it after I hadn't restarted in probably a month, so basically I am stuck at the login screen.
Current system, OSX 10.9.5 I've followed the instructions in this MacWorld hint and by reading the Apple doc for Autofs and several other places but I can't get autofs to automagically mount a remote AFP share on my NAS box: The permissions on the Shares directory:
I'm trying to organise a bunch of movie files that I've acquired from various sources, including my own DVDs, into iTunes. However, one thing I'm uncertain of are the extras, things like deleted scenes, making of documentaries etc. Unfortunately none of the files I'm importing are available on the iTunes Store (as otherwise that's where I would have got them). So what I'm wondering is, how is content from the iTunes store organised in relation to extras, and how can I do it myself for imported content?
When you hold down the option key before clicking on the wi-fi menu, you get all sorts of detailed stuff about your current connection. Is there any way of making this the default behaviour? A terminal command perhaps?
My MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite Version 10.10 (5 years old at least) keeps crashing and I don't know what to do? I run an online business and it is becoming impossible to look after as my computer keeps crashing. I upgraded to Yosemite in the hope that my computer would stop crashing, but it is now crashing every few minutes. HELP!!!
I'm not ready to commit to Yosemite yet as my primary OS. So I thought I'd load up a Parallels VM to try it out.
My headphone jack and my speakers are not working at all. They just randomly stopped when my macbook air was closed. Is there any system preferences that i need to change?
I have files that I link images to regularly and now when I go to the main folder location, the finder does not search in the subfolders. I get the “Name matches” line but it does not find anything. This is on a Mac Pro using 10.9.5
With the new line up of Mac Minis we can have up to 16 GB of RAM, and 3.0 GHz CPU, and therefore they can act as a server. But why did Apple just drop the 'Server' keyword from the Mac Mini category?
I have a file open but don't know what folder it's in. How can I determine it's location?
I have subscribed to a podcast added several of the older episodes to iTunes 12 on my PC and downloaded them from the cloud. Before syncing my iPod Touch 5, I have selected the that podcast to be added to the iPod. The episode appears on my iPod, but requires that I also click the cloud button to download it to my iPod. This is more than frustrating considering the number of episodes and that I don't always have WiFi connectivity when I want to listen to the podcast. So, is there a way to tell iTunes 12 on my PC (or the iPod) that when I select an episode to listen to, please automatically download it to my iPod without requiring me to click the cloud button?
I never upgraded to Mountain Lion or Mavericks and now that Yosemite has arrived I thought of upgrading but I find that some of my software will not work with it. So I would like to upgrade to Mavericks for now. Is it still possible to get the free upgrade? I no longer see it listed in the Mac App Store.
Since Yosemite was released this month, I decided to inaugurate it by downgrading from Mavericks to Snow Leopard. I decided to back some files up in a partition (on Mavericks) before wiping the main partition out and installing Snow Leopard.
How to display the current space number in the menu-bar with Mavericks? Like it had been possible in previous versions of Mac OSX?
Apple's Bug Reporter site sometimes provides numbers of related or duplicate bugs, but I see no way to locate the referred-to bug, and the search feature only searches bugs that I've submitted. How do I find a specific bug, not submitted by me, (e.g., using the bug number) on Apple's Bug Reporter?
Seeing this repeated pretty frequently in the Console logs for on my Macbook Pro running 10.10: Any ideas why?
Why is that? Has it become impossible to repartition a drive in use? Or have i generally misunderstood something here? (MBP Mid 2014 | 1TB | Yosemite OS X)
On Snow Leopard you could "jump" from the last space to the first space by hitting cmd+right arrow. How to do this in Mavericks?
I have a 3 yr. old MacBook Pro. Current OS X is 10.9.5. I have lost Dashboard. Geek Squad work over an hour to restore with no luck - any ideas?
I have my Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro attached to an external display. I use both displays. At night, when I leave my computer, I want to close the lid to put the Mac to sleep.
I've been looking into various distribution options for enterprise-y iOS apps and one question I can't figure out remains: if my client does a volume purchase and chooses to use redeem codes to hand out to the end users, is it still the case that ownership of the app ends up at the end user's Apple ID? Are there any mechanisms (short of MDM) that allow the purchasing client to retain ownership?
I stupidly downloaded the new OS X Yosemite 10.10 on my 2011 iMac that does all of my Pro Tools work and now some of the things I use aren't compatible yet. So I'm trying to figure out how to downgrade back to OS X Mavericks 10.9. I also stupidly don't have a Time Machine Backup or this would be way easier.
My Cinema Display bit the dust, and all the symptoms seem to point to the 150W power supply brick, which is apparently not an uncommon problem with those models. New power supply bricks are close to $200. Ouch. Usually one bad component in a power supply is a lot cheaper than that, and I've soldered together a power supply or two in my day.
In the newest Apple Contacts version 9.0, how do you export all contacts or an .abbu file to a .csv file or other usable spreadsheet format? Dragging and dropping to Numbers does not work. Exporting to Vcard does not work...only exports a small handful of vcards out of over 4,000 and data is not usable in Numbers, Excel, or Outlook/Windows Live Mail. Please help!
I recently had to re-install 10.9.5 (default install) and am now finding that bash scripts that run perfectly from the command line (~/Me...) no longer work using crontab. I use crontab to invoke "Diskutil unmount volumeX" but am getting mail from cron saying "diskutil" command not found. Is it a PATH issue and if so how would I fix it. Thank you in advance for any help.
The iPhone has a great built-in web browser, and since its first introduction it was touted as being able to run the full web, not the watered down mobile versions many phones use. Unfortunately, people have seen the need to "optimize" the experience on mobile and as a result, a significant portion of the features I can access on the desktop are simply not available on my iPhone. Furthermore, faulty redirects compound this problem, and make entire pages of content inaccessible. I was excited to see the new iOS 8 Request Desktop feature, but due to a faulty redirect I was never on the correct URL long enough to request the desktop version of the site.
I have an iPhone 4s. It is the 16g model. I just purchased an iPad mini 64g.
All the screenshots I can find of Mail in Yosemite show the new Mail message view: Whereas I like the old view:
I'm doing a bunch of python development and also just updated OS to Mountain Lion. I had replaced to original Python versions with Snow Leopard using the GUI from Python.org, then added links in /usr/bin: So now I have what I think are all the python version that are part of OSX 10.8.5 (2.5, 2.6, 2.7) located in: and linked from /usr/bin And ALSO the ones I installed with the GUI located in: But I'm planning to use the versions I install with fink, which is a port tree similar to macports which are/will be located in: So I have commented out the PATH exports in ~/.bash_profile that pointed to the non-fink executables: And added: I don't totally understand shell scripting yet, but init.sh initializes fink, I think mostly by adding elements to $PATH and other environment variables. Previously I have installed various packages with homebrew, macports and various GUIs and am hoping to have a more comprehensible environment this time around. At the moment I need to install postgreSQL and a 
My daughter has a user account on our iMac. She is not an administrator, and parental controls are not enabled.
tl;dr How can I add additional valid display resolutions to the Retina 5k iMac under Windows 8.1?  So I just picked up a new Retina iMac, immediately threw Boot Camp and Windows 8.1 on it, and started pulling my Steam games over.
how does the remaining battery life when plugging in factor in to the overall amount of usable computer time? E.g., with a full-charged deep cell battery, a fully-charged laptop, a power inverter, and a laptop charger, suppose I decide I am going to use my laptop until I no longer have any power left in both my deep cell battery and laptop battery. [How] Would the total amount of computer time possible vary across the multitude of combinations of laptop charging vs discharging over time? OS X 10.10, rMBP 15"
So I want to backup my Ipod Touch 5 because I'm gonna have to exchange it for a new one and I have tons of photos and notes I would like to back up. I tried backing it up to itunes but its taking a long time and nothing seems to be moving. I deleted all my apps and all the non important photos and decided to try icloud instead. Most websites said I needed to make sure I was under my 5.0GB mark and my Ipod said I had 5.0GB available but when I try to back up it said there wasn't enough available storage. I deleted more photos but it still couldn't backup. I dont want to buy more storage or contact the Apple Support until I'm sure of what's happening..can someone please help me?
My Yosemite installation was at "less than a minute remaining" for about 5 mins. Then my battery died. When I charged and turned on the power, I got to the Yosemite login screen. When I log in, the password succeeds, then the login screen reappears but the screen freezes.
I use two languages on my iPad. Both show up in settings, but the "world" key, used to change from one language to another on the keyboard, has been replaced by an emoticon key. Emoticon does not show up on the list of languages in settings. How do I get rid of the emoticon key and replace it with the "world" key on the keyboard?
If I activate the Facebook calendar sync on my iOS device all events are input in my calendar. Even those I denied. It's there a way to sync only those I accepted?
I am using Zim note app *=URL=* in Ubuntu and I want to use the same in my OS X. So I've installed Zim and can launch it through X11 from menu. But all GTK apps look ugly: bad fonts w/o antialiasing etc, standard theme looks terrible
Is it possible to connect one Apple TV to multiple iTunes Home Sharings? I have two Macs that are connected to different Apple IDs, and I want to access both of them via the Apple TVs Computers section. The problem is that I can enter only one Apple ID for Home Sharing on the Apple TV. How do I connect to the second iTunes library without losing the connection to the first one?
I have an iPhone 4s. I am not updating to IOS 8 as I have read enough warnings not to do this. All my apps now want to be updated, but most of those updates say that they are for IOS 8 compatibility. Should I do these updates? Will the apps still work normally for me?
Regarding MacBook Pro early 2011: sound loop, black screen It happened again and it's the 5th time in one month. Everytime I play youtube videos on Safari only the screen just freeze and the fan gets much louder. I forced it to shut down and when I turn it on again I got black/grey/blue screens..
I'm saving data to iCloud in my app using iCloud Documents capability, however I'm not using the Documents folder, instead I'm hiding my files in another folder i.e. User'siCloudContainer/MyFolder.
I tried enabling "iPhone cellular calls" on my iPhone 5S, and the phone informed me that Wifi calling must be disabled to enable this feature. So it seems that the two features are not compatible with one another. Is this iPhone 5S specific? This is quite disappointing as I was hoping to have both enabled (cell service in my house isn't the best). It would be nice to know why they're mutually exclusive.
I have a Softether VPN server v2.00-9387, which is OpenVPN compatible. I am connecting to it via L2TP protocol on my Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.9.5 computers, using built-in network connections, without any problem.
I'm interested in driving a 4k display by using an eGPU. I've acquired a Sonnet Thunderbolt ePCI expansion chassis (see here) -- which will allow me to hook 1 double width ePCI card or two single width ePCI cards to my MacBook Pro via the Thunderbolt port. Ideally I would like to hook an nVidea based GPU to this setup and then hook it to a 4k Monitor (so I can run CUDA stuff).
I can't get the MacOS screenshot app to change the file format. I've tried to change the settings with rebooted, just in case, but when trying to save a new screenshot, I still can only save it as a .TIFF-image.
I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
I bought an iPhone 6 T-mobile from Apple store. I tried my SIM from Sweden and it worked. However tried with another SIM from Ghana but it didn't work, showing "no service". Does that mean the phone is locked or something else is wrong?
I've upgraded my OS X to the latest Yosemite GM Candidate and cannot for the life of me figure out how to partition my SSD for BootCamp. Here are some screenshots of the problem:
In Mavericks I learned that the keyboard combination control+option+command+B would allow the user to cycle through the various background effects (blur, no blur, black and white, etc.). However, this keyboard combination doesn't appear to have any effect in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Is there a way for the user to accomplish this task in Yosemite? System: Mac mini, late 2012 running OS X 10.10 with the Apple Wireless Keyboard
I have a combination of Win7 - XP & Apple macbook machines, running on my windows network. The macbook up and till recently had Mavericks 10.9.5 OS X ,, a few days ago I upgraded the macbook to OS X Yosemite. With upgrades you do get the odd thing going wrong but I have managed t resolve all but one problem in that I can no longer see any of the macbook-shared folders within the XP network icon. I can see them and login to them via the Win 7 machines network icon, but I can not see any of the mac folders ( or drive ) within XP … I therefore have to do the following :- Start - Run
How to let Time Machine automatically delete older backup files to free up disk space? It does not seem to automatically do it as it starts a backup and failed at the middle complaining not enough space available:
During the installation of Yosemite, I got locked out due to my hard drive having some errors. Thankfully I had a Windows partition and am able to access my files.
When trying to close a document, it won't close. A message appears stating: Word has quit unexpectedly.
Okay, so after spending a lot of time encoding (or re-encoding) files to mp4's hoping they'd be compatible with iTunes, it turns out that iTunes won't play files with DTS or AC3/A52 audio, so I'm going to have to re-encode the audio on such files to AAC (where before I simply passed it through). Anyway, I need a way to find all files with these audio types or, if it's easier, all MP4 files without AAC audio.
Is there any app for signing the documents (PDFs) by electronic signature? Similar to on-line solutions such as HelloSign, EchoSign, XolidoSign, eSignly, DocuSign, Signsquid, RightSignature, PDFFiller or free Fill and Sign PDF Forms (Android app), but as an application for OSX.
While I've had my ups and downs with the "All My Files" folder in the Mac sidebar, it is a really useful tool for unclogging my hard drive of large files - this is especially important because of the small hard drive in the Macbook Air I'm now using. Some time ago, the "All My Files" folder/view completely disappeared from the finder sidebar, and I havent' been able to figure out how or why, or restore it to finder. Because of my search for an answer, I'm now learning about creating smart folders, which is great, but I still can't figure out how to create an "All My Files" smart folder, which REALLY shows all the files on the Mac! Any ideas out there?
I recently got a time capsule and I wanted to know if the time capsule uses wifi to copy movies, music ,etc. onto it?
I wanted to have a clean Yosemite installation. Therefor I deleted the existing partition to make sure a completely clean installation is made. The problem is that I cannot choose the partition to install to any more. After accepting the license there is no partition to select from. Except for the recovery partition itself. Macintosh HD is still there in the partition tool. but I cannot select it or rework it in any way because all options are greyed out. Tried booting via recovery partition and stick. How do I get back to having a partition to install to?
I recently downloaded Yosemite, and I'm trying to update my Xcode. I hit 'Update' in the App Store, and but it's been stuck at 'Waiting' for the past 30 minutes.
I'd like to upgrade my Mac Pro 1,1 (using the EFI workaround hack) to run Yosemite so all my Macs are running the same version of OS X. This old box is only used as an HTPC, so smooth 1080P video playback and good UI response is all I need -- I don't game or do anything serious on it.
I recorded an AM radio interview via the Tune In radio app on my iPhone 5S. I would like to share the recorded program by sending the link, if there is one, to someone else by email or text. Is this possible?
Since upgrading to Yosemite, I'm unable to connect via SFTP to any site. It allows me to open a terminal and connect... so the credentials are good. I have reinstalled Coda (including removing the Library files and using "app delete" to remove all references - then re-installing) I have performed a "repair permissions" from the disk utility I have added new sites to the site manager, and they all fail Any ideas or suggestions? here is a screenshot:
Why can't the Continuity feature use only wifi, or even only the Internet? As I understand it requires Bluetooth 4.0 and doesn't work without it. Why? Is it for communication between OS X and iOS? If so, why it's not using other available communication channels, such as wifi or the Internet?
I have recently acquired a refurbished iPad 1 WiFi + 3G. Straight out of the box it wouldn't boot up at all. No logo, or anything. Upon plugging the device into the AC power charger, the Apple logo blinks on and off every 5-10 seconds. When connected to a PC or Mac via USB, the Apple logo does not appear however, you can see the backlight lighting up & turning off every 2-3 seconds. I can set it into DFU mode when connected to iTunes, and iTunes detects the device and offers Restore mode (to iOS 5 - iPad1,1_5.1.1_9B206_Restore.ipsw), which I have already downloaded from the official Apple IPSW repo. After selecting the IPSW and initiating the restore, the following happens: Things I've already tried: Different USB cables Disonnected all other USB cables Tried different USB ports Attempted restore a bunch of times Uninstalled AV and Firewall software Made sure no other phone software was installed No dice. I've also played the game where you hit the sleep and home buttons the minute the
I'm running OS X Yosemite, and don't want to spend money on a Wacom tablet. Is there free software or code that can disable the acceleration of the touchpad so I can write effectively with a stylus?
Problem with temperature on this mac: Now I have temperature about 80-100C in 90% of time (without load temperature about 65-70C). I think maybe problem with thermal paste and heatsink. Before I install Yosemite 10.10 temperature was aroud 60-70 (except youtube videos or some heavy work like video editing and similar). I tried to disable coherence, reset smc and nvram but without any changes, temperature high even on simple tasks like browsing or work in simpe apps like text editor. How can I try to prevent overheating or it's a normal temperature for this types of cpu/macbooks? Cooler works, system show from 4000 to 6200 rpm (that is noisy).
I have recently acquired a MacBook Air 2011 off of ebay. In order to avoid second-hand Mac issues relating to iCloud remote shut downs, I have performed the following actions: Secure erase (using parted magic), deleted old partition and created a new partition (using gparted). Secure erase (using parted magic), deleted old partition and created a new partition (using gparted). Cleared PRAM/NVRAM using keyboard procedure a few times, after HD was already wiped. Cleared PRAM/NVRAM using keyboard procedure a few times, after HD was already wiped. Installed Ubuntu (I will be using Ubuntu, and maybe Windows through VB). Installed Ubuntu (I will be using Ubuntu, and maybe Windows through VB). Is there any way that Find My Mac capabilities could have persisted, and would it be able to shut me down if I connect the MacBook to the internet and the seller (or sellers seller) decides to lock the device on iCloud?.
I have a MBP retina 13" running OSX 10.10. I am developing an app for Mac App store. Since I am having a retina display, I am not able to test the application for non retina models ? So how do I test my application for non retina displays. Will it work if I reduce the screen resolution ??
About my Mac Storage states that I have used 173 GB of my hard drive in backups. Where are these? My iPhoto library disappeared, and I have been unable to restore through Time Machine because it says I don't have enough space. How can I free the storage or find the backups to restore the iPhoto library. OS X 10.9.5
Keyboard shortcuts across OS X and applications are an amazing productivity booster that have proven to be worthwhile, notwithstanding the sometimes arduous task of first memorizing them. Is there a setting, app, or hack of some sort that would allow me to go about my business as usual and display any extant key combination as actions I perform match mapped shortcuts? This would stimulate passive learning of keyboard shortcuts -- and for ones most relevant to the user no less! Keep track of my actions so that I could assign shortcuts to series of actions would really be something. What aspects of the OS libraries available could a developer use write such software?
I would like the .tex files to be opened using TexShop by default. So, I am trying to change the default behaviour by clicking right mouse button --> Open with --> checking always open with and choosing TexShop. It then opens this particular file with TexShop but it doesn't work later (files are still opened using MacVim). How can I fix this? I'm using OS X Yosemite
I've upgraded to 10.10 on my iMac. I've connected my iPhone6 running 8.1 with a lightning cable. But when I go in to quicktime to record the iPhone screen the iPhone doesn't show as an option.
In iTunes I have backups of my current jailbroken iPhone (iOS 7). Can I setup new iPhone (from store, iOS 8, not jailbroken) from this backup? I don't care about Cydia and Cydia apps.
I am using 2 displays on my Mac Mini (late 2013), and have 6 desktops on each of the displays. Primary display: 6 desktops Secondary display: 6 desktops However, after upgrading to Yosemite, it adds 1 more desktop and moves all additional ones to the primary monitor on startup: Primary display: 13 desktops Secondary display: 1 desktop
I will soon buy a new iPhone. If I log in with my Apple ID in my new phone could I still access my Clash of Clans village without starting from scratch?
Is it possible to add new currency to the spotlight currency conversion? I'd like to have UAH (Ukrainian Hryvna) in my spotlight.
How can I keep HDMI playing movies while using other apps on my handset? I initially thought that the adapter merely mirrored pixel-for-pixel, but during movie playback it is possible to reveal the double-tap application menu without affecting playback; selecting an app results on its being displayed on both displays and halting movie playback. iOS 7.1.2, Apple Lightning-to-HDMI adapter, HDTV, Netflix app. I would prefer a factory setting or approved app to achieve this, but please do include jb solution if applicable.
My friend deleted some hidden files on his Mac (OS X 10.9.4) laptop. After restarting his laptop the Mac just shows loading progress bar and nothing else. How can we restore the hidden files and get the computer working again?
Me and my partner are using Xcode's built-in git to edit code together. When I tried to pull a change, I am having .DS_Store files conflict.
I find it hard to accept that any app can cancel an otherwise smooth shutdown of my mac. Is there a setting somewhere that I would be able to approve certain apps, but not others, to the prevent shutdown? OSX 10.10
I have often wondered why Apache is installed on my Macbook. I have been working with web development for several years and often wondered; why does Apple install Apache on a Macbook. Recently I have run into several issues with setting up an Apache based local development environment, and I would like to know if I can replace Apache entirely, or is my Macbook Pro relying on it being installed?
Note: The only thing that changed in my setup is installing Yosemite. Since installing Yosemite, I'm having a somewhat peculiar problem: WiFi works fine, and BT works fine. But WiFi + BT working together at the same time is a different story.
I have a shared photo stream in iCloud with a couple thousand pictures. (This is not My Photo Stream, but a stream I created separately.) About half the pictures were shared by me and the other half were shared by my wife. I wanted to import my wife's photos into my iPhoto, so I right-clicked on the iCloud album in iPhoto and clicked "Import". This imported all the photos into a new event in iPhoto. It imported all of my wife's photos, but it also created duplicate copies of the photos that I had already shared and were still in my iPhoto library. The photos imported from the photo stream have a lower resolution and file size than the original photos in my library. My questions are:
My son gets his homework assignments online as rtf files. On his Macbook, they are automatically opened with textedit which won't display graphics and other elements correctly or at all. So, he will need to convert to pdf (or open with another app). What's the best and most MACcy way to do that?
I just installed Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro 15" (Mid 2012) with Bootcamp Assistand. I am very happy until now. The only thing that bothers me is that when I turn down/up the sound with the keys on the MacBook Keyboard (F11 & F12 keys), it makes weird quack sounds. Is there a deactivation for that sound?
As soon as I attempt to connect my MacBook Pro to my Apple TV (in extended desktop or mirrored mode) my Macbook loses its wifi connection. Sometimes it will attempt to reconnect to the network, sometimes it won't. Even if it succeeds in reconnecting it will very soon drop again. I have not been able to test whether using a wired connection on either the Apple TV or MacBook makes any difference yet but can try to give it a go if it's likely to make any difference.
I use my iPhone/iPad screens as digital message board. A bit like digital message boards you might see in airports, doctors waiting rooms or train stations. My current strategy is to open a photo editing app on my iPhone, write a message, save a jpeg in the photos app, sync the photo across my iPhone/iPad and then assign the photo as wallpaper for the lock screen. But I'm wondering if there is an app which I can display messages as wallpaper in the lock screen and sync across iOS devices?
Something came up today that bugged me a bit, I left my laptop on battery power before going to bed. When starting it up the battery was dead. I plugged it in, and here is what happened: The startup progress bar came up for a while and then a forgot password prompt came up, with questions like: "set a new password" + 2 other options that I can't remember (they weren't relevant) and a previous and next arrows.
I installed Yosemite yesterday and it was working fine. Now whenever it tries to boot it runs Safe Mode and fails 1/3 of the way through. From what I can remember I went to enable FileVault and backed out of it as I didn't enter my correct iCloud information, and didn't want to go down the key generation route. I also tried to enable TRIM.
I have noticed a weird WiFi bug with OS X Yosemite. This has never happened in any previous OS X that I have used. I have a Early 2013 Macbook Pro with Retina display 13 and I updated to Yosemite a day after it launched. I usually do not shut down my laptop and just keep it in sleep. After the update, sometimes when the laptop wakes up from sleep WiFi is completely switched off. On trying to turn it on I get the following message in console: Upon restart the WiFI icon becomes a grey icon with a cross mark and says either "No hardware installed" or "WiFi not configured".
I had Yosemite on my old iMac (21.5", mid-2010), then decided to try Snow Leopard on it. (It came installed with Lion, but this model did ship with Snow Leopard previously.) Basically, I tried doing what's suggested in this thread: How can I downgrade an iMac12,1 from Lion to Snow Leopard?
I put an SSD drive into my macbook pro. I should say that this drive hadn't been formatted and was a bootable drive with Yosemite OS on it, taken from another macbook pro... I booted the system up in restore mode and began the process of restoring from a time machine back, on an external plugged in via firewire 800 caddy. It said, "erasing drive", it asked me for a password, I wasn't sure why so typed my usual system password. I received the message, "drive could not be erased" Since then the SSD drive has only show up in disk utility, not on deskop or in finder, and it cannot be erased in disk utility. I gather from speaking with a few more enlightened apple people that it has been converted to a core storage drive... I will post up a couple of helpful terminal read out pictures. How do I get my SSD drive back?? Thanks in advance, Chris
I recently brought my computer (Mid 2010 Macbook pro) into the Apple Store because it had been crashing recently. The first time I brought it in, they did a clean wipe of the hard drive and restored it back to 10.9 Mavericks. When I restarted the computer, I chose not to perform a restore from Time Machine.
I have a Mac mini late 2012 running the i5 2.5 processor. In the mac system information it has number of cores - 2, however if I boot to Windows 7 on the bootcamp partition the system information shows i5 2.5 with 4 cores. Im inclined to assume OS X is going to be more accurate and correct, but does anyone know why this might be showing as different?
After mounting an exrenal hdd that is formatted as hfs journalled( with help of a post on this website). Can a dmg file downloaded from the net be installed to install mac osx on the external usb drive. My MBP only responds only in single user mode or the windows partition. It has mountain lion installed as an upgrade over snow leopard. Help will be appreciated.
Before I upgraded to Yosemite, I used to see the number of unread and total emails in a folder in the title/header bar, e.g. Inbox (23) 64 messages I no longer see this - is there any way of getting it back?
I can't remember my passcode and I have Find my phone app turned on my phone is disabled and says connect to itunes but it wont let me restart my phone as i have find my phone app turned on i have deleted my find my phone account in hope it would fix it but it didnt and now i cant get it working at all what should I do? :( and it also wont let me connect to the wifi or data as it is disabled.(IPhone 4s)
Is there any way I can completely uninstall an app for free? I know there are apps that delete the app and the leftovers but none seem to be free.
Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 (14A389) my computer name keeps changing adding a (2) and (3) and so forth. Any ideas how to fix this?
I just updated my iPad 2 to iOS 8.1 and some bugs were fixed by this upgrade, but a new one has started. I have Xfinity Home as an App which allows me to monitor my home security cameras through my WiFi. It worked fine until I put in iOS 8.1. Now it tries to boot but just briefly flashes the home page and the goes black. I've tried deleting and reloading the App several times with same results. Any ideas out there?
When I click on Air Drop on the side panel, I see my wife's MBP show up. However, I click on it and nothing happens. What am I missing?
My iMac started to have a problem when booting. It begins to boot where you hear the optical drive and Mac sound goes off, but then it gets stuck on a black screen where it's not responsive. After 10 to 20 minutes it might turn on. Most of the time if I unplug the back power cable and wait for the Mac to cool down then plug it in, it starts normally. If I then restart the computer, it goes back to the same problem. Overall, the Mac works well when it's on.
I'm using Windows 7, and have my headset almost always connected to the laptop. However, sometimes I need to hear something from the iPhone, and I need to take off the headset, connect it to the iPhone, hear, then switch back. Is there any way to make it so the iPhone plays everything (wirelessly) in my PC?
I've enabled dragging in the touchpad settings in Accessibility, but I've also chosen "without drag lock". However, the dragging still continues after I lift my finger, just as it does when I choose "with drag lock". Is this a known problem in Yosemite?
I pre-ordered an album, but I haven't been able to download the singles released because when I type in my apple ID it asks for verification, and every time I try to answer one of the verification questions it says I'm answering it wrong. I'm not though. I really need to download more songs because the album comes out tomorrow. What should I do?
I followed the instructions here for older iTunes but things have apparently changed in iTunes 12.0.1 and iOS 8.1. The drag-dropping and the double-clicking the M4R file do not work anymore. So How can I create a ringtone to appear in iPhone and iTunes ringtone folder for iTunes12 and iOS8?
Does anyone know how to disable blurring of the log in screen background images? I know it's a long shot, but I really miss being able to see my pretty background images :(
Repeating series of actions := productivity lost. Is there a way I can arrange, and save for later loading, an arbitrary arrangement of open programs, closed programs, and arrangement of windows? The "reopen windows after restart" checkbox comes to mind... Dramatization follows:
I've got a SIM from a windows phone for which tethering (internet sharing over wifi) works fine. When I put the same SIM into my iPad (3rd Gen, iOS 8.1) - it tells me that I need to contact my carrier to enable Tethering. (I have a second SIM for which tethering works just fine on the iPad). My question is: Is it possible for tethering to be SIM-disabled on one device - but work fine on a device from other vendor?
I recently switched to Dvorak, and I'm using the Dvorak - Qwerty ⌘ layout. It works in most situations, except some applications don't honor the Qwerty shortcuts. That is, if I were to press what would be command+c on a qwerty keyboard, some applications recognize it as command+j, which is the equivalent key in Dvorak. The applications I've noticed this in are Eclipse and Android Studio, both IDEs, and Terminal.
In the stock OSX firewall settings I can add applications to the rules table, and then give them a red dot (block) or a green dot (allow). I've got 6 apps in the table. Some green some red.
So after a long unsuccessful day trying to find OS X Lion 10.7 build 11a2063 (let me know if you have the dmg!) with the intent of reinstalling OS X on my MacBook Air, currently without an Operating System, I have decided to give up and try the internet recovery option.
I have the new Yosemite. How do i downgrade to the last version?
I have a problem with FaceTime. On my MacBook, when I try to log in into my FaceTime it says Your Apple ID "my e-mail-address" can not be used for FaceTime.
When I try to access my gmail account the following message appears: "This version of Safari is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser."
I have upgraded my macbook's OS to yosemite(MacOSX 10.10). Since then whenever I connect my dongle(Tata Photon 3G), it crashes with a crash report.
iOS app reviews generally take around a week or so. Since Apple now requires that new TestFlight beta apps go through the beta review process as well before we can send it to external testers, I have been wondering how long will this process take.
I have a weird problem with Mail.app (7.3) on mavericks (10.9.4) where every folder is now set to 'sort by unread' I can change the sort order while I'm in the folder, but if I leave, and return to that folder.. it switches back to 'sort by unread' again.
What I need to do is to disable the iOS camera (and any apps using the camera, of course) when entering a specific location. I know that I can use a configuration profile that disables the camera completely, but that's unacceptable.
I use Preview.app to view PDFs which I am creating with pdflatex. In OSX Mavericks, whenever the PDF changed I would switch windows away from Preview and then back, and the view would update, scrolling to the top of the current page when in continuous scroll mode.
I made the biggest mistake of my adult life and installed Yosemite without backing up my HDD. Fortunately, I do have most of my actual files and programs saved to my external HDD, but that leads to another problem.
I've been regularly backing up my 2011 MacBook Pro using Time Machine with two separate external drives (1Tb at work, 2Tb at home) while running Mavericks. Today I upgraded to Yosemite, and Time Machine seems to think I have a brand new computer - the backup on the 1Tb disk failed with "not enough space", and the backup at home is currently attempting to back up the entire 350Gb on my computer. (Previously with the 1Tb drive, Time Machine would automatically delete old archives when the drive was full.)
Recently upgraded to OSX 10.10 on a Mid 2012 MBP (13 inch) - no problem encountered. But a few times now I've experienced a white-screen crash. When waking from sleep the system just shows a white screen with the round user avatar picture in the middle. Nothing I do can bring up the proper login screen except a hard reset. Does anyone have a solution for this?
I have a very recent (mid-2014) MacBook Pro Retina 15" that has been working fine since I got it (about two months). Suddenly, it has begun to run very slow in all apps, even though CPU usage is very low, and it does not seem to be under stress. Additionally; The battery is not charging, The battery is stuck at 22%.
I tried to change the Sublime Text 3 icon on the dock changing the Sublime Text.icns file in path /Applications/Sublime\ Now in the dock appears the default app icon (the one for apps that doesn't have an icon). How can I resolve it? Also restoring the original Sublime Text 3 icon, and after restarting dock (with killall -KILL Dock) nothing happens.
This is definitely some issue with my iPhone 5. What could the issue be? I am really worried because it is out of warranty now.
For nuisance apps that set a badge notification icon, but which are not in the Settings Notifications center, is there a way to block the badge icon? Spotify, for example, creates a notification for every insignificant event, with no way of blocking it in app. Personally I don't understand how apps are allowed to show a badge icon without being in the Notifications center in the first place. Example:
I plan to buy a used Mac Mini, my only requirement is to be able to run on in Yosemite.
Since 10.10 and iOS 8, AirDrop is available between Mac OS and iOS if you have a fairly recent Mac (>= 2012 for MacBook Pro) and I don't understand what changed between 2011 and 2012. I know that for older Macs it's a bi-band issue (Why doesn't AirDrop work on older network adapters?) but as AirDrop works between Macs, what's changed in AirDrop with iDevices?
I reset my iPhone 3Gs but am unable to install Facebook Messenger back on my iPhone as it requires iOS 7. How can I install Facebook Messenger on my iPhone 3Gs running iOS 6.1.6?
I've looked up various answers, but none of them worked. One involved squeezing the corner near the power button while pressing it, the other involved going into Settings > General > Accessibility but I don't have Accessibility menu for some reason.
I am looking for Mavericks on my iMac. I have looked in Finder but I do not see it there. How can I find out if Mavericks was installed on my iMac?
I formatted a 1TB Seagate USB 3.0 hard drive as ExFat to be used on both a MacBook and a Windows PC. The formatting was done on Windows and there isn't any issue when I access it through Windows. I have tried the hard drive on 2 MacBooks so far and it doesn't come up on either one of them when I plug it in. The MacBooks are running OS X 10.7.5.
I have a 500GB SSD in my MacBook Pro. I have been using my laptop for over three years - and it was migrated using Migration Assistant from a previous laptop that I had been using for five years before that, so there is probably a lot of crud accumulated. I have manually cleaned up a lot of space - I have about 390GB free on this hard drive now. I want to set up Boot Camp to dual boot into Windows, and will crate a partition as part of that process. I know that HFS+ automatically defragments files normally, but only those less than 20mb.
If my family has family sharing, do I have to use the family credit card for every purchase, or can I buy some things on my own for my personal use and other things through the family sharing?
When importing photos from an iOS device into iPhoto (v9.6 if it matters), iPhoto displays each picture in its window one picture at a time (each for a fraction of a second), like a nervous fast-forwarded slideshow or something, presumably as each photo is imported. I suppose someone might want this feature, but I find showing me each photo for 1/10th of a second to be ridiculous. Displaying the first few thumbnails and a progress bar seems sufficient.
My 15" MacBook Pro Retina has an issue that, on startup, the initial all-white screen shows in conjunction with the start-up chime and remains there for several seconds (up to 15-20 in extreme cases). When I originally purchased the product, it would only take about 3-5 seconds for the Apple logo to appear and for the boot to continue. Are there any steps I can take to cut down on the time the system spends on this all-white start-up screen?
So when I upgraded to Yosemite, I can remember turning on FileVault. I cannot remember the password I used. Is that password is the same as my login password for my administrator account (the only account on the computer)?
I noticed that I have a small scratch on my Macbook Pro Retina's screen. When this has happened on my desktop LCDs I've used some Vaseline to hide it. While I know that doesn't actually fix it I am looking for a technique to make this scratch less noticeable.
I wanted to update Xcode 5 to Xcode 6, but the App Store said I had updates available for other accounts. I then uninstalled Xcode but now when I go to the App Store it still says Update rather than Free?
I am having difficulty getting Handoff and Continuity working correctly. Devices are iPhone 4S (iOS 8.1) and Mac Mini 2013 (Yosemite 10.10 14A389). Here is what I have done/confirmed: Both devices are logged into the same iCloud account Both devices are connected to the same WiFi Network Both devices have bluetooth enabled OSX > System Preferences > General > "Allow Handoff" is checked My problem is that on the iPhone, Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps does not exist as an option in the list. I have deleted Bluetooth preferences on OS X as suggested on this answer. Anyone know why this option is not presenting itself?
I'm using an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1. I've been sent some songs(*) via Whatsapp, and I'd like to copy them to my music library in the iPhone, so that I can listen to them, add them to my playlists, etc., but I can't find the way. Here are my limitations: Whatsapp only offers the option to share the songs via Whatsapp or via email.
Sometimes, Yosemite will randomly log me out without warning or a chance to save work. This has happened twice so far since I've installed Yosemite on my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro. Needless to say, this is very unnerving and reminiscent of malware activity.
I recently setup my Time Machine so I can easily restore my system if I break it. Problem is that when I start the installer from my USB-drive the option "Restore from a Time Machine Backup" is not present.
I have a script scheduled to run as LaunchDaemon. Script runs fine when launched manually through terminal. I have two commands plist below
I prefer "natural" scroll direction when using my MBAir trackpad, but "unnatural" when using the mouse. I frequently switch back and forth depending on where I'm working, so I've been using a bit of AppleScript to switch the setting. This script stopped working when I upgraded to Mac OS Yosemite. It still opens the Scroll & Zoom pane of the Trackpad preferences, but it doesn't click the checkbox. I've tried a few things but I can't get it to work.. I'm not an Apple Developer, so I don't have any debugging tools. Any tips?
At work we use Google Apps for Work. The calendar feature in Google Apps for Work allows you to add other colleagues' calendars to your own so that you can see their schedules. When I import my work account into Calendar.app, I see each of my colleagues' calendars as an option that I can display or hide.
Don't hate me but I love using Finder's spotlight feature. In Yosemite they changed Spotlight (I like the changes) but they moved the spotlight dialog position to the center of the screen. I want to move it back to the upper right side of my screen (where it used to live). Also is there a way to darken the background of spotlight results. Spotlight gets lost among the mass of windows I have open.
Ive setup mail accounts on an employees computer and noticed that they were able to view the passwords by looking in the keychain, what id like to do is not allow them to view the passwords stored in the keychain unless they have the administrators login / password, in a similar way to when they try to install software they get prompted for it. Is that possible to do ?
Has anyone experienced any issues with using finder since updating to Yosemite? Since updating, I can't open finder at all. I click on the icon and the pc just hangs up and in activity monitor, finder is just (not responding). I've rebooted the machine, tried to open/locate a file in spotlight search and when I find a file, it won't open. Any help/thoughts what to do would be appreciated.
Mail is downloading 250-500Kb/sec and has been for a while now. I can't figure out what it's doing. Is there some way to find out? I tried Window->Activity but it didn't show anything being downloaded.
Is there a way to make un-bold the name of the sender in mail.app, after it is read ? Present/default behavior Unread Messages are marked with a blue dot The sender font is bold After the message is read, the blue dot goes away. The sender font is still in bold.
While writing an answer to this question Should I defrag my SSD before creating a partition for Boot Camp? i wondered if a Boot Camped Windows profits from a Fusion drive like OS X on the same drive in the sense of faster read/write access does.
*=URL=* For example I don't use Heroku so I want to comment out Heroku stuff. But I don't know how to do that. I have forked this script and want to customize it
After upgrading to Yosemite, I see just noise on the external monitor, using a MDP to HDMI converter and an HDMI to DVI cable. It worked very well on Mavericks. I have no display now after updating, it just shows grey noise. Tried resetting SMC & PRAM. Additionally, I have tested each of the cables individually and they are okay, so it has to be a software problem. Display screenshot:
I'm not sure if this is a global OS X setting or per-app implementation of an Apple API. Anyway, is it possible (specifically on Google Chrome) to disable that visual "spring effect" (I don't know how to call it) that we have on Mavericks when scrolling up/down or swipe right/left and we reach the boundaries of the page? I mean this one:
I was talking in face time with my husband and he sent me a message to I message, my phone vibrated but there wasn't a sms or notifications for the sms. After 3 seconds my phone vibrate again and then show the sms. The question is how can iphone 5 vibrate twice for same sms.
There is now VMWare Fusion 7 which is supposedly "Ready for Yosemite" and I'm happy to upgrade but wondered if anyone has had any negative experiences that I should be wary of e.g. losing data, not being able to start the VM etc.
When I launch a specific application in Mavericks I'd also like to automatically launch and execute another one. Is it possible/how?
For Apple's mobile devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad): Does Apple allow hardware differences among models of a single device family?
Is there a difference between these two replacement parts ? 60 Dollars 55 Dollars 30 Dollars
In a Spotlight search instead of clicking on the search-results, one may press ⌘ Cmd-R. This shows the file in Finder. Problem: this always opens the result in a new Finder window (despite having set the general setting in Finder as Always open in new Tab).
I have a WD My Passport Ultra and I had it plugged into my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2012 Model and I had just closed the lid and it went to sleep. Then I came back hours later and when I opened it a message was stating that it had been improperly ejected even though it was still plugged in. I wanted to know if this was normal and if anyone else is experiencing this.
I have a 2010 Mac Mini with no DVD drive and a 5,400 RPM hard drive. Of late, it's begun to get quite sluggish, and I'm fairly sure it's the slow HDD that's to blame. I took a look at the means of upgrading it, but since it involves practically taking the entire thing apart to get to the hard drive, I decided it wasn't something I wanted to do myself.
The title is self-explained: I want to change the hard disk name (not the partition). I am not able to do it with Disk Utility. Any solutions? I'm on Yosemite
I already asked this question but because I didn't sign up it won't let me respond to anyone, but here it is again *with more info. I made the mistake of installing Yosemite without backing up my HDD. Fortunately, I do have most of my actual files and programs saved to my external HDD, but that leads to another problem.
Whenever I reboot Yosemite (MacBook Pro Early 2011 model), it keeps giving me a bunch of these messages. I have included an image of the , but then when it opens up System Preferences, RightZoom is already checked, so shouldn't it have access? It is annoying because the new full screen functionality is a bit aggravating
I was staying in a hotel last week and when I connected to their WiFi network with my iPhone 4S, after agreeing on their terms and conditions (you must choose their network and it takes you automatically to the hotel's site where you agree some terms to complete the connection, many hotels charge you this way for their WiFi) a push notification trying to sell something came into my screen; this notification had "accept" and "later" buttons. Does anyone know how this happened, is it a notification launched by the website or sent directly though the WiFi network? I didn't have any apps related to the hotel which may have launched it. This was not the kind of notifications you can look at in the notification center, it was more like a system alert.
If I share to her gmail account, it never gets to her. If I share to her @icloud.com account, she gets all invites, and actually gets the notifications in her Gmail. How do I get this to work without the extra account?
On iOS 8 on an iPhone 6, if I go to the Photos app, select one photo, and share via Messages, it will transfer at excellent quality. However, if I select 20 photos and share via Messages, it transfers at noticeably poor quality.
I have a new iPhone 6. It is replacing an iPhone 5S. I plug this into my iMac every day via an original Apple Lightning cable, and iTunes automatically creates encrypted backups.
When I attempt to set the Show Desktop hotkey inside of Mission Control to a mouse button it never seems to work. My preferred mouse button would be mouse button 4 (which is a little thumb button on the side of my mouse).
I am running dual boot on my iMac. I upgraded my OS to OS X Yosemite yesterday,and now I can't boot into Ubuntu. How can I fix my issue?
I forgot the password of my iCloud account. I'm using iPhone 4S I am afraid that if I updated to the new iOS, the phone will be locked and I wouldn't be able to use it. P.S. I have tried iForgot to restore my password, but it didn't work out as it keeps telling me that my answers are wrong.
Need some help with installing Cairo Graphics using home-brew. Am I missing a step somewhere? 10:02:30-MaxAir@[~] $ brew install cairo Warning: Building source; cellar of cairo's bottle is /usr/local/Cellar ==> Downloading *=URL=* Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cairo-1.12.16.tar.xz ==> ./configure --prefix=/Users/MaxAir/Homebrew/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1 --enable- ==> make install make[3]: *** [cairo-xlib-display.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 2 I managed to install Cairo manually, but that was a real pain, and not managed by home-brew. *Update with this error Error: BuildError: Failed executing: make install 1. raise 2. ignore 3. backtrace 4. irb 5. shell Choose an action: 3 /Users/MaxAir/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/debrew.rb:10:in raise' /Users/MaxAir/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:575:insystem' /Users/MaxAir/Homebrew/Library/Formula/cairo.rb:51:i
So I'm trying to capture the IP address of a Parallels VM guest (Win8) from the host (OS X). I thought a bash script would be good for this. The ultimate goal is to have a single command that will fetch the IP address and then initiate an ssh port redirect. I am aware of the prlctl enter command, and I do not believe it supports port redirection. My script thus far: output: So it appears that the CMD variable is being populated correctly, but something is getting lost when trying to assign the output of the command to the IP variable. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
I am getting updates for an other account in my mac, I get updates for an account which is logged in a different mac. why will i get updates for an account which is not active on my mac. Can I disable it? Please suggest me something.
I need my command history to be shared across all terminal sessions and all commands available for immediate recall from any other terminal. This is the default for old school ksh shells but hasn't been the standard for as long as I can remember with bash. It was achievable however with a bit of a workaround (and is described in various stack exchange posts including 131504, 1288, 36886) thus:
Now - my son's user account and my user account are linked and synced through iCloud. He can see all my bookmarks, and I can see all of his. I'm sure everything else that's stored on iCloud drive are also synced between our two user accounts.
I have MySQL installed. When I had the previous version, it used to start after boot automatically. This is not the case after I updated to Yosemite. In System Preferences there is an icon for MySQL and "Automatically Start MySQL Server on Startup" is checked. I tried unchecking - restart - check - restart still the same..
We have a site running on https in production. In QA we run it on https but we don't have a valid SSL cert for it. So on iOS Safari 8, we get a error message saying that "Server identity cannot be verified". The error appearing is fine, but the problem how do I add an exception so what Safari allows it for my domain.
I Can't control my iPad master volume with Siri, and I'm surprised about that. Is there a way to do it? If not, why?
In OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan, when starting Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, there is an invasive, annoying, and persistent notification, titled "Try the new Safari." There is only two options in the notification. Clicking on "Later" will have the same notification come back next time, and "Try now"… well, I dislike being forced to do things on my own computer. This notification reminds me of the annoying popups coming in another famous operating system, Microsoft Windows, and this is one of the many reasons why I am not using it anymore.
Is there any mini game available for the today section in notification center yosemite like that tile game in dashboard.
On a 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, does dual-booting the pre-installed OS X with Linux (say Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/etc) void the hardware warranty? Does installing Linux and removing OS X void the hardware warranty? I do not mind the entire hard disk being erased and set to a default OS X install if the machine has to be given for repair under warranty.
A user is wanting to get started with Ruby (and Ruby on Rails), and they don't have XCode installed, and the current internet connection is rather weak. Are there any major implementations of Ruby (MRI, JRuby, Rubinius) that can be installed without installing XCode? I know OS X comes with a system Ruby, but I've heard that "Don't touch nothing" is the best advice with regards to it.
Until OS X 10.9 I could also run Bootcamp within Virtualbox (through a .vmdk file). In order to do this, I needed to unmount the Bootcamp partition after changing the permissions during the OS X startup process in the rc.local file. Now, with OS X 10.10 rc.local does not seem to work anymore and I cannot start my virtual machine without first manually execute the terminal commands that are in my rc.local script. Here is my rc.local content: sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s4 diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s4
I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 8.1 with iTunes, after the update my iPhone 5 is stuck at apple boot logo. I tried to enter into the DFU Mode but the screen still stuck on apple logo. I also tried to enter recovery mode but i couldn't. How can I unbrick my iPhone ? P.S My Sleep button is not working
This is a follow up to So my Yosemite install is slow - what to do? Since installing Yosemite a week or so ago my machine is very sluggish. I am a web developer so I change windows/apps a lot. Changing apps makes my machine hang for 2 or more seconds.
Yosemite introduced a new feature to quick reply within a notification. Mail offers the options to trash a new E-Mail or reply to it. But, instead of trash, I want to archive it. Can I change somewhere the buttons/behaviour within notifications?
After I had sorted out OSX' PATH issues up to the Mavericks release, the problems come back in Yosemite!!!
I have a software called Daisy Disk and it says I only have 70 GB left in my drive. However in Finder I see 131 GB available. How is this 60 GB difference possible?
After I open Terminal in OS X: I have no idea what I did or how to fix it.
I was working on MacBook Pro (2012), the battery was full and the MagSafe adapter light was green. When I connected an iPhone USB cable, the MacBook Pro immediately went black (it shut off without shutdown process), and the MagSafe light won't light up. After I did the SMC reset, the computer won't turn on, the MagSafe light would be green and blinking for a minute, and then disappear again. What can be done?
Macbook Pro Retina 13 (late 2012) SSD replacement, putting in a SATA 2.5' drive? Before you jump in and say no it can't be done please read the below information to see it can be done. The late 2012 Retina is a mixed breed laptop, the old generation used SATA drives and you could upgrade yours to a SATA SDD, while the new generation macbook use a "stick like ssd" that connects directly to PCI-Express. Now, the late 2012 Retina is a hybrid between those, it still uses SATA but the connector looks like mini-SATA and similar to PCI-Express but the pinouts are mixed around. If one could find an adaptor from the main board connector to SATA and get the pinouts connected right it would be possible to connect a SATA SSD, there is even enough room under the trackpad. Photos of the SSD tray: *=URL=* I'll post pictures of the pinouts later. Has anyone found an adapter like this?
We have about 10 Mac Minis in the office. All are running Mavericks. I want to update them all to Yosemite but each downloading the 5GB update seems a bit inefficient. Is there any way to download Yosemite once and somehow get this onto each of the minis?
It seems like Yosemite doesn't keep track of where it inserted my signature the way that Mavericks did. Does anyone know how to get the previous behavior?
I got a kernel panic. When I restart the laptop the system gets stuck in the loading screen (Apple logo and loading gif) with the fans spinning as if there was no tomorrow. I tried booting in safe mode (power the computer holding shift) but no changes. I've been waiting for 1 hour in the loading window already—this is not normal.
I use an external monitor with my laptop while at work but when I'm not working I just use the regular MacBook Pro display. What I would like is for the windows I have open on the external display to be moved to their own space when I disconnect it instead of moving to space 1 on my MacBook. It just gets a little crowded and moving 4-5 windows over to a new space manually every time I disconnect has gotten a little tiresome. I'm running OS X 10.10 (14A389) on a late 2013 Retina Pro (15") in case anyone was wondering.
I use a MacBook Pro and found that my Gmail calendar doesn't sync at all. I guess it is because of the fact that this Gmail account also happens to be my Apple ID. My question is, how to synchronise Google's calendar with iCal when the Gmail ID is same as the Apple ID?
I did a clean install upgrade to OS X Yosemite (from Mavericks). Prior to doing that I backed up my entire hard disk using a disk cloner (Carbon Copy Cloner in my case) Is there a way I can transfer a few specific apps from my previous installation (including settings, licenses etc) to the new one?
I am trying to remove a duplicate copy of my iCloud account from Apple Mail that seems to have managed to get stuck there. I cannot remove it from the Internet Accounts or iCloud panels as it does not appear there, just in my account listing for Mail. If I try to remove it there I am told to use the Internet Accounts panel (where it isn't). I have tried changing the name and gripping the contents of Preferences and Application Support for the unique name, but no luck. Where does Apple Mail store it's account information and can I remove the account from there?
I used the migration assistant to transfer files from my MacBook Pro (2011) to my iMac. Both computers run Mavericks. Now I'm not allowed to modify files which originate from my 'old' computer because of file permissions. The folders have this red sign and if I look with GetInfo the only authority with read&write access is "fetching".
I've got a MBP (mid-2012) that is currently running Mountain Lion and I would like to upgrade it to Mavericks. Now that Yosemite is available, it seems that Mavericks is no longer available for download. Is that correct? Is there any way to download a Mavericks installer?
I am attempting to set up a music library to use on my wifi based Sonos system. I have moved a copy of my iTunes music collection to an external USB 2.0 drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Drive) which is attached to the USB input on my AirPort Extreme (ac version). On my MacAir, I can see the drive as a shared drive, and I can access all the files, including the music files.
My media keys on my MBP for iTunes 12 in Yosemite don't respond. Spotify works fine. I'm using the FN key to access the standard F keys. These all work: Screen brightness Expose Launch Pad Keyboard brightness Volume Power key Is this a known issue or something I'm missing?
I'm running 10.9.5 on an iMac, where I have two hard drives (SSD + HDD) and Superdrive installed. The way the disks are mounted is not conventional: disk0s2 is internal SSD drive and disk1s2 is internal 1TB HDD drive.
I use a 13 Macbook with a thunderbolt display on Yosemite. Since the installation of last osx version, if I try to open Time Machine I can only see a completely black screen on laptop screen. The other screen remains with previously opened windows. So, time machine is completely unusable. I can only use ESC to exit. Any ideas of what can be happening here? If I don't connect my second monitor, works fine. This is my displays configuration:
I have updated my mac os x to 10.10 and got a lot of problems with program compilations. It looks like that default /bin/sh are not reading .profile anymore. So, all scripts, which are dependent from environment variables don't works. Even make cannot perform compilations because it cannot find compiler executables in non-default paths. Some (but not all!) macports ports are broken now, I think because of this problem. Does anybody know, how to fix this? Thanks in advance, Pavel.
This only happens to me on Yosemite. I gave Steam access as per my previous question. Steam worked fine until the upgrade to Yosemite. What may have changed, and has anyone a clue how to fix that without deinstalling a few terabytes of video games?
I used this script to modify settings on my mac. See full script here
Since I upgraded to Yosemite a couple of days ago, I’ve had a problem with the Mail app. Whenever I click on the “Drafts” or “Sent” folder, the app hangs (i.e. won’t accept any input), beachballs, and seems to stay like that until I force-quit it using the Finder (I’ve left it for a few minutes and haven’t seen it crash of its own accord yet). I’ve tried removing my one third-party add-on (SpamSieve), removing Mail’s saved state, and removing Mail’s container folder, as described here: http://www.macissues.com/2014/10/19/fix-mail-crashing-after-upgrading-to-yosemite/
Before the update, photos saved to camera roll would automatically go to photostream, too. You could then delete them from camera roll but they would remain on your photostream. Now, you can still add photos just like you could, but as soon as you delete them from your camera roll, they are also simultaneously deleted from your photostream. Any help on how to keep your deleted camera roll photos on your photostream?
How can one change the system font system wide in OSX Yosemite? I am using Tinkertool at present but it only changes font in applications and not the Finder, status bar or any other fonts!
A client wants to send me a very large file (3+ GB), but I'm kind of at a loss on how to receive it. My Dropbox is full, and I don't have any other kind of file sharing service. Sites like WeTransfer.com have a file size limit.
I recently updated to Yosemite, now my pen-drive (USB flash drive) isn't working on my Mac. iPhone is working fine but pen-drive gets detected in disk utility but it is not showing up on the Desktop. I did format the pen-drive several times from Disk Utility but it didn't show up in the desktop...from the FINDER on top of the screen, then to preference I did marked on the "external drives" but still not working.... What to do???
I have just updated my Mac to Yosemite and after that when I try to open .numbers file, I couldn't, and it gives me this message "edit 1.numbers can't be opened". I do not know why and I really need this file.
All of the sudden, I am not able to open PDF's that are attached to emails, UNLESS I save/copy them to different location. Once I save it/copy it or drag it from the email to my OSX 10.8.5 Desktop, I can open it. I run Win 7 on an MBA w/10.8.5 running in a Parallels vm. Thanks-
I leave my Mac running 24/7, but I'm not always sitting at it. Is there any way to tell the Mac, or Messages specifically, if my phone isn't on the local wifi subnet, don't take messages, leave them for my iPhone to pick up. Currently, if for some reason I'm out of iMessage range but capable of receiving SMS, messages never arrive at my phone & are not re-transmitted after failing by the sender, because the system considers that handing them to my Mac is sufficient proof I saw them. Missing jobs I was offered 6 hours ago, just because I was afk, is not a happy sight to return home to.
I have an iOS developer account for which 50GB of space on iCloud Drive (or whatever the overall service is called these days) was allocated, when I installed iOS 8.0 beta on one of my devices (an iPhone). When iOS 8.0 released to the public I got an email saying that my 50GB limit was to be withdrawn.
So this is a bit complex of a question. I have a domain, and I recently switched it from one host to another. Unfortunately, Safari doesn't realize that, and instead of loading the new server with data on it, it loads the default error page of the old one. It's not a hosting issue -- other browsers are working fine even on my computer. So the question is this: where does Safari store this data, and how can I destroy it? Edit: I have cleared Website Data in Preferences, History and Website Data in the Safari menu and Caches in the Develop menu.
In OS X Yosemite, a new feature is that when you double-click on the title bar of an application window, the window will maximize: *=URL=* Is there a way to disable this behavior? I am accidentally double-clicking and maximizing terminal and VirtualBox VM windows, and this sometimes causes problems.
I tried to reset my AppleID password but I do not remember the Email account or the security questions I used to create the AppleID. Is there anyway to change or find the email I used for my AppleID?
I would like to know the shortcut to left align selected objects in PowerPoint Mac. Some web pages show that it is alt+1, but I don't think it works. By the way, I have a french keyboard. Could anyone help?
I have a dual boot Macbook Air with Yosemite and Ubuntu. I would like more space on my Ubuntu partition and need to therefore reduce the size of the Mac partition. I assume this will cause some damage to my Mac HD but I'm completely fine with that. The question however is; how in the world can we do this properly? The terminal diskutil gives me a very reasonable overview of the size of the complete HD and the partitions. iPartition for some reason spits out the unexplainable 85 gb as a current size and Macintosh's pride GUI the Disk Utility also is a bit out in the blue when it comes to what is actually on the total hard drive and how this is partitioned:
I tried some iOS IRC clients, but when I put the app in the background, I am logged out. Are there any iOS IRC clients that stay online when in background?
After a few days of good experience with Yosemite, my Macbook pro cannot boot anymore. After 30 or 40% of boot, it just restarts. Here are what I did to fix it:
I am using an iPhone 4 and I have many photos taken in different locations. Now I am planning to get a new iPhone 6. Can I sync these photos to my new phone? If so, can I see the locations on the new phone?
for some reason the toolbar that is normally at the top of my notes plus app is at the bottom and the shade that you pull up so your palm doesn't Touch the glass is on the top. What can I do to straighten this out?
When I try to convert a regular (internet downloaded) dmg file to an encrypted dmg (256-bit AES) using Disk Utility on Yosemite it gives me this error message: How do I get this to work on Yosemite? If not via Disk Utility, is there a way to convert it using Terminal commands? I was aways able to do this on Mavericks, but after I upgraded to Yosemite I get the above error message. I'm sure that the dmg isn't corrupted as I downloaded AirSquirel's Reflector trial dmg, tried to convert and I got the same error message. If it helps I'm using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air.
Since updating to Yosemite, Finder has been acting strangely. I can usually get it to show a normal-looking and -behaving window for a few operations, and then the window will either: Be blank, showing no files or folders where I know it is pointing at a non-empty folder. Be blank, showing no files or folders where I know it is pointing at a non-empty folder.
We will be changing the format of our Active Directory usernames in the near future. This is going the effect about 200 users with Macs with local home directories. The main goal is to have the users be able to use a shorter username and we will be changing the Active Directory home folder name as well. I thought of preemptively changing the full name on the accounts to the new username ahead of the Active Directory changes (I will upgrading RAM on most of these computers soon, so I will have a chance to be hands on) but once the Active Directory name changes are made the renamed Active Directory home folder doesn't appear in it's usual place in the dock. I am tasked with making this change with minimal impact on users, but I have not found a method yet that doesn't involve me touching every Mac before and after the change. We are running a mixed 10.8 & 10.9 environment.
I own a 13-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHz i5 processor and 8GB of RAM, running OS X 10.9.5. I came to notice a while ago, that after having forced a reboot (by holding down the ⌽ Power button) the system asks if you want to restore the windows that it previously had open.
I was wondering if there is a way, like using the Tab key, to switch with the keyboard between buttons on a dialog box, where a program asks for a decision? (Example below)
My printer stopped working since I upgraded to Yosemite. The print queue window says only "Stopped - 'Filter' failed". From /var/log/cups/error_log:
I currently have this "applet" listed as being able to control my computer. Is there a way to identify exactly what this is?
Is it possible I use same name but different icon for an App I sumbit to App Store?
I need to test a web application with JRE 6. I am using a Mac with OS X 10.10 and Java 7 for development. How can I install JRE 6 next to Java 7 on this Mac?
I was trying to get Hadoop working in standalone mode on my MBP (OS 10.9.5), but I kept getting "connection refused" errors. I found that telnet localhost 9000 gives the same error, which is what I was told to try as a diagnostic. The same thing happens if I try 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, or if I try ftp instead of telnet. However ping localhost and ssh localhost work fine.
If I play a radio station through the BBC website, e.g. (I believe this is available worldwide): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_two
Sometimes, QuickLook doesn't work right with certain file types, even though it should. Or a file now looks different in QuickLook than it used to. How to find out which QuickLook plugin, or .qlgenerator, is responsible for which types, and what to do about it?
My new MacBook Pro Retina 13″ (OS X 10.10) gets completely unusable when I attach the HDMI cable to the HDMI port. I have noticed that there are few processes that will start to consume crazy memory. In particular "SystemUIServer" process, around 65 GB RAM (which I do not even have from an hardware perspective), and the "kernel_task" process several GBs of memory usage. The problem is that the resolution of the screen is changed once the HDMI cable is plugged and, even after killing the SystemUIServer, if i try to open the monitor settings to change the resolution this task will hang for ever making the usage of the laptop connected with the beamer impossible. I have tried to search on internet but seems that no one has got the same problem.
As the title says, I'd like to treat an app fullscreen as a desktop in the matter of navigation in Yosemite 10.10. I’am working with 2 monitors + 3 apps in fullscreen mode and do a lot with the keyboard. My problem is that I often want to change the focus between the monitors or between two fullscreen apps of one monitor. My question is, is there a shortcode for changing the focus between different spaces? I know that you can change the focus between each app/space by walking through apps with cmd + tab cmd + arrows to switch to neighboring spaces ctrl + number to change to a specific desktop (not fullscreen spaces)
I just upgraded my MacBook to Yosemite, and the new sound effect for the volume button is just awful. Is there a way to change out the sound file so I can hear the old version on Yosemite?
I am an app developer, and I have to transfer an app to a company, so the app won't have my name under the title in the AppStore. So it looks like they made it. My question is, do they have to pay for an enrollment, or can they just recieve the app for free, and if they can, how can they recieve it from me? I know you can transfer it from itunes connect, but it seems to me that you have to pay for an enrollment to get access to itunes connect.
On iOS 8, there is the battery usage screen showing an estimate of the battery use, per application. It also has an entry for "Main screen". I assumed it was just displaying the main screen with the icons, but I got 40% of that during night, during which the screen was indeed off. As such, what does "Main screen" refer to, exactly?
First of all, it said Could not download OS X Mountain Lion due to an unknown error; the application can be found in Purchases in the App Store in a dialog window. Not cool, but I wasn't even downloading OS X Mountain Lion! Next, when I clicked F4 on my Macbook Pro to see my Launchpad, OS X MAVERICKS was in there and paused. Finally, Yosemite seemed to be still downloading; there was a Yosemite button icon thing, and it said downloading.
I have 17000 pictures in my iPhoto library. How do I transfer them to iCloud Drive?
I just got the new Mac Mini and plugged in my display, but it's not showing the full screen. Here's how it looks like:
I am on Yosemite since today and am trying to connect to network printers, but System Preferences doesn't show any. The printers use Bonjour and I read that the associated process is mDNSresponder. Checking Activity Monitor I see it is not running. Googling how to manually restart it reveals tips such as these. However, the .plist file does not exist, neither does /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder.
So, I'm trying to write an automator application that runs a simple script. where Contents is the contents of the .app. When the script is run it is run in ~ not in the working directory (wherever the file is placed on a system). Is there a way to do this? Note: I am not taking any input to the application, you just double click it. Thanks, Harry
I am backing up my computer to a sparse bundle on a USB drive attached to my airport extreme. If someone were to steal this drive, would they have access to the full contents of the image, or is it protected by my system password?
I'd like to add some videos to my iPhone (from my Mac or PC), but I don't want to be restricted in video players (Infuse, Nplayer, etc). I think I need to copy them into the iPhone Video Library so all video players can access it, but how can I do this wirelessly?
I have an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) running on two pairs of brand new VALUESELECT Corsair memories - 4 slots, 4GB each. OSX (both Mountain Lion and Yosemite) is detecting available memory accordingly - 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. But it will suddenly crash, with no explicit link with an app or activity. Returned the old 2GB memories, it works just fine again. - I wonder if anyone can point me a direction on how could I solve this thing. So there goes the crash log: Anything will help, a lot :) Thanks!
After updating two distinct Macs (a MacBook Air and a Mac Mini, both using the same iCloud account) from Mavericks to Yosemite, I noticed the following weird bug: All keyboard shortcuts in Safari and Firefox (not in Chrome, nor in any other app I've tried) have stopped working. When using a shortcut in Firefox, the corresponding spot on the menu bar is briefly highlighted (for instance, ⌘T flashes File), but nothing else happens; in Safari, not even this menubar flashing occurs. Weirdest of all: on both browsers, if I first open a menu by clicking on the menubar, then any shortcut works (while the menu is open).
When I make the ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Opt+P+R it shows a dialog with lock symbol and to proceed I have to give the password but this way I'm not able to proceed with the resetting of the PRAM. How can I reset the PRAM with this kind of obstacle? I have a 2008 iMac with Yosemite.
What is the most simple way (for a non-techie) to back up my text messages, including the pictures within iMessages?
I am using a custom CUPS backend for printing on Mac OS X. The backend works by forwarding the print data to another machine (using ssh) and feeding the data to the printer from there. For this to work, the backend (implemented as a shell script), needs access to an ssh private key. Problem: since I upgraded to Yosemite, the script can no longer access the file containing the key. Instead I see the following error message on the console: and in the CUPS error log file. How can I inject a file into the sandbox used to isolate CUPS backends?
If I connect an iPhone to my Mac (any iPhone, whether one that is synced with my library or not), iPhoto will open and directly show the photos stored on this iPhone and allows to "Import Selected". Without selecting any of the pictures, does iPhoto somewhere store the thumbnails that it displays on this screen? If so, where is this cache folder on OS X? The reason I'm asking is that I connected a foreign iPhone and iPhoto popped up displaying the photos stored on the device and I want to erase any image data that potentially got transferred to my Mac.
This setup would allow other applications to be installed and use the same Qt framework and dependent dylibs... But I read something about apps not working if the dylibs are modified ? Which is the best way and in that case, which are the best folder locations ?
In Google Docs there is a nice Paste Special > Paste Format Only funtion; is there anything like this in Mac OS X? If not by default, is there a way to get this?
My mid-2009 17" Macbook running Mavericks is running really slow and constantly freezes. I went to Disk Utility and ran "Repair Disk," but after about 3 minutes it said: "Disk utility can't repair thsi disk, Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
I am running out of storage space on my 2011 MacBook Air. I was thinking I should clean up before I contemplate adding more storage. I notice though, that while I have ~30 GB in ~/Documents, ~2 in ~/Movies, ~10 ~/Pictures, I also have ~70 GB in the ~/Library folder. What can I safely delete (if anything), and what is the best method to delete from this folder? Here is the result of the cd ~/Library; du -sm * | sort -rn | head -16 script:
So I am afraid that there is no way to tell what is causing this change, whether it is that I have been wearing out the trackpad on the left side (since that is where I rest my thumb to actuate the click) or whether it is because of something else (like the battery possibly expanding). But what is definitely different is that the trackpad's very nice tactile click feedback is no longer working properly at the left side which is where I like to use it with my thumb. The resistance force (and "click") decreases proportionally to how close to the left edge that I press down. When pressing down on the trackpad from the middle of the left edge of it, it goes down with almost no perceptible click. However, the click is registered in the OS. This is sort of okay because it means it's still functioning, but now I can't really tell when I am clicking or not so I get phantom clicks. Has anyone experienced a similar issue?
When Do Not Disturb is on it shows in Notification Center. When it's off, no toggle. I just want it there all the time so I can flick it on while I focus for an hour or so. Anyone know how to make that happen?
I have an Android phone and an iPod Touch. The camera on the iPod Touch is front-facing and much better than the one on the Android, and with so much communication among my social groups moving towards photo/video I feel kind of left out because my phone sucks at this. Unfortunately, I can't just switch from my current phone to an iPhone, but really I already have a Touch so ideally there would be some way for me to just get it to act as much like an iPhone as possible. How would I do this, and is there a way to do it without being reliant on WiFi?
My husband would like to install OS X Mavericks, not Yosemite. He's using Snow Leopard right now on his MacBook Pro (early 2008). How could he do that?
After upgrading OSX to yosemite, my local apache2 server is no longer working. Running
Is it possible to paste a file to a subfolder in Finder with the keyboard? I can paste into it with the mouse (using the paste command from the context menu) but CMD-V will always paste to the parent folder:
I have a few audiofiles on my PCs (Windows/Mac) that I would like to listen to on the go on my iPhone. Is it possible to copy them somehow onto the mobile without using iTunes?
I'm sure everyone knows about the standard changing default location where captured screenshots are stored. A simple should have sufficed but nothing happens. My screenshots still save to desktop but the worst part is, when I read the file I've just written to, it tells me that the location that screenshots are being saved in is the folder that I've redirected to! gives
How do I reset my main keychain and completely delete the old one? I changed my password and its been coming up with all of these popups asking for my new password when I first login. If anyone can help with updating my keychain I would appreciate it or you can just help me completely delete and reset it.
So I used to have Garageband on my Mac before I updated to Yosemite. After the update, it is no longer here. Where do I now find Garageband after the update?
I would like to be able to see/monitor how a software "works" once it's running. For example I would like to see what happens internally when you click on a button, or any other interaction within an app. I tried using Instruments (xcode), but Instruments only let me select an application that's already running. Which means I always miss the initial process of when the application starts running. I am not looking for resource usage, just trying to understand how the internal files work.
Is there a way I can parse a log in OS X to determine the total time the computer has been in use? By "in use", I mean logged in and not in sleep mode. If there is no such pre-existing log, is there software I can install or even a script I can modify to log this data for me?
Hej guys, my case is like this : i have cover images under diffrent folders Now i would like to duplicate those cover.jpg image , one is original cover.jpg and another one with lower resolution with a name cover_thumb.jpg. so finally i would like to have it like : I found few solutions with mac preview tool, but its not duplicating all images at once. Any smart solution for this case,
I have an iPad running iOS 8.1. Can I include a world clock pane with GMT? I see London as an option, but it appears that it adjusts for DST.
I'm running the most resent version of Yosemite and have noticed something called SIMBL Agent in the login items setting. I've tried to remove it but when I do it my computer locks up and I can't get rid of it. I've done some research into and I'm just wondering if someone knows how to get rid of it. I've read that it's something to do with Apple developers.
I want to disable banners/notifications in OSX Yosemite. The problem is the notifications keep getting reset to the default. This has happened twice since installing Yosemite on release day. This is annoying as my work computer is showing private messages when clients are being showed something on my laptop!.
I have a 1TB SSD in a 15" Mac Book Pro It took about 30 hrs to Encrypt, which during, the computer was virtually unusable. It just finished with that and now it says it is optimizing with 5 DAYS!!!! remaining. I wish I never agreed to do it. Has anyone turned it off after the whole process is complete and if so how long did that take?
I recently switched my apple ID to a different email. The problem is that I can no longer use the previous one. The previous one is still there and won't go away. I can't edit anything as a result. Every 3 seconds I am bombarded with the old email/ID which I cannot use anymore. Does anyone have an answer to syncing my current email so I can make the edits. No internet, contact and so on can't be use at all. My iPad is literally jammed. Shutting down and erasing things is useless because I can't use a password that recognizes the old email. Can any one help me?
If I try to do the same thing with a parent directory (which is the root directory of the server), then the connection appears to be successful and prompts me to "Select the volumes you want to mount on 'xyz.server.name':" with a listing of directories. The directory that I previously mounted (which auto-unmounted) is listed, but is ghosted out and therefore unable to be selected. When SSH-ing into the server, there does not appear to be any problem with accessing the directory. This problem occurs for other remote directories as well (though I have not been able to test it on another server). Also, when trying to reconnect under this scenario, Console reports the following issue: "30/10/2014 11:48:20.520 am NetAuthSysAgent[3346]: smb_mount: mount failed to my.server.com/mydirectory, syserr = File exists" Questions: i) What is causing the directory/volume to be unmounted? ii) How can I prevent the auto-unmount from happening? iii) If an auto-unmount occurs, how can I re-mount the direc
Since upgrading to Yosemite, the calendar icon in my dock has been stuck on October 17. I have had no luck getting it to display the correct date.
Apologies if this has been asked before, but when you trust a computer, what data is shared? I'm on iOS 8 and have been plugging my personal phone into my work PC for charging. I click "trust" because I thought if I clicked "don't trust" it wouldn't charge.
I have downloaded and made a bootable USB of Yosemite but once I boot holding the option key and attempt to install I get an error stating that Yosemite is already installed on my computer. I'm running Snow Leopard and I made my bootable USB using Diskmaker X.
I have a MacBook Pro and a iMac. Recently I upgrade to Yosemite on both.
Is there anything that can be done? As it is, I can't get my computer to even see the 3G, much less charge the phone through the computer or allow me to access the phone's drives and my pics. I'm currently charging the 3G via wall plug/USB, which I think will allow me to look at my photos on the phone itself once the phone is juiced up ... but I really just want to recover and transfer my images off the iPhone 3G for safekeeping.
I installed gcc with homebrew: I can see the result: I also see gcc-4.9 in /usr/local/bin The issue is that typing gcc still refers to the system gcc
Since upgrading to Yosemite, Apache httpd is no longer started at boot time. I've tried: sudo launchctl load org.apache.httpd.plist but I'm getting a service is disabled error.
I faced some issue with Homebrew. I upgraded to Yosemite. After the upgrade, homebrew seems to be broken. I would run any brew command and get this error How to resolve it?
I have a wireless model, but they have provided the driver for Windows only. I would like to use it in my MacBook.
I have a problem where the Yosemite install does not see 240GB Mercury 6G Electra SSD during an install from the USB drive. I'm using a USB thumb drive installer. It boots up fine. Except that when I get to the page where it asks you what drive to install to, all I see is the USB drive itself, and no SSD.
When I was beta testing Yosemite I had installed the beta version in a partition on my disk. Now that I have upgraded my computer to Yosemite I would like to delete the beta testing partition. However when I run Disk Utility I no longer see the two partitions as children of a single disk but each with their own parent disk (which I presume is because Yosemite converts hard disks to use Core Storage volumes?)
I would like to record what I hear and what I say from my EarPods, I thought I would use Soundflower but unfortunately it looks like it isn't compatible at all with Yosemite. Any ideas ?
Our build bot Mac mini has a big problem since a few weeks: It seems that usbmuxd will open plenty of sockets and let them linger around. At some point, there are more than 50000 sockets opened in netstat and lsof, and no other connection is possible on the computer. In the console, I see a lot of messages like these: Everytime this message appears, 2 sockets are created and linger in "CLOSE_WAIT" state:
Is here possible to have OS X (10.10) view like in FTP clients (e.g FileZilla) I mean two columns with list view, and of course without need of opening two seperate windows. I am aware of tabs, but can one show to tabs at once?
Whenever I login to my machine some green text appears in the top left saying "Profile". It has done this since OSX Mavericks too. Here's a screenshot:
I would like to make a Python program executable, like in Windows, when you use a program like cx_Freeze to make Python programs become .exe. I would like to do the same for Mac, I would like to make it an app... I know I can put as first line of the file, a sheebang, or that I can change the mode of the file, but this does not make the program an independent application...
When I try to connect user WITHOUT home directory - services only  to the Mac OS X Server 3.1.2 on Mavericks I get the error: On the client side in the console log you get: When creating the home directory for the user there is no problem. Could you help me with that, what is the problem ? Here are advanced option of that user: Advanced option of the user:
I am trying to connect video from 4 laptops to a big screen monitor and be able switch from one to another easily without having to connect and disconnect cables. Thanks
Suppose I have an iMac and a Macbook Pro. My Macbook Pro is my primary workstation, and when I switch to the iMac I would like my environment to be exactly the same in order to facilitate switching between the two during the day.
I let iTunes copy the files i add to it into the iTunes Media folder. I have recently learned that I can delete songs from my mac once they are in iTunes. Having not known this, the amount of storage being taken up by audio on my laptop is huge. I was wondering, if there is a way through iTunes, or perhaps a AppleScript, that will locate all the original files of my iTunes and delete them as they are not needed as they are stored in the iTunes media folder. This would mean i have over 100GB of space saved on my laptop (Yes I have a lot of music). Anyone able to help would be wicked, Dan
I have some user script that runs every about 10 minutes on specific page at opened tab in Safari 8. The surprise is that safari somehow suspend javascript execution when tab is not active by user for a while. The question is how to force javascript execution and prevent this behavior?
I have a huge Lacie Thunderbolt only drive and I want to connect it to pre-thunderbolt computers but no matter where I look there doesn't seem to be a device or adapter which can achieve such. I've looked at Lacie, Apple, and all over the internet but nada, nothing, zilch.. Rather than toss the drive in the attic I'd like to give it some new use but the machines it will connect to don't have a thunderbolt. Newer drives at least give you the option of using both but I was wondering if anyone out there might have some suggestions.
I accidentally turn off "Show Pre-Release Updates" settings in the system preferences. Change option does not appear in the relevant section. What is your suggestion?
I used to open the annotations toolbar and I could select, for example, the arrow tool. Then I would click from A to B and draw the arrow. Now when I click the arrow tool it plops an arrow on the screenshot and I have to manually drag both ends. This seems like extra work compared to the old way, what am I likely to have done to have caused this and what can I do to fix it?
I'm using OSX Yosemite and I hate how windows maximization works... previously (with Mountain Lion) I was using RightZoom, in order to always maximize windows as it should be (using the whole space). I discovered that by clicking on the green button with ALT + SHIFT the maximization is applied as I like, BUT is very annoying... so I created a shortcut (CMD+SHIFT+M) by going to preferences > shortcuts > app shortcuts > clicking on "+" and creating a shortcut named "Zoom"... it works great for all the applications but not for the Java ones (or at least it does not work for Intellij Idea and PyCharm)... so... are app shortcuts available only for native Cocoa applications? Is there another way for a fast and simple maximization? (I was thinking about some kind of "defaults write blahblah", but I didn't find anything)
Can anyone help me? My iPhone 5S is on iOS 7.1.1. Can i still update to 7.1.2 without Apple forcing me to update to iOS 8.1?
I like to keep my dock tidy with almost only the applications I'm currently using shown. As such, I tend to completely quit out of apps so that they don't clutter my dock. However, there are apps which would be advantageous to allow to update in the background (e.g. mail). Is there a way to allow an app to remain open, but hide the icon when there are no open windows? I've seen ways to completely hide the icon at all times, but I would prefer that the icon was there when there are active windows open. Any clean way of doing this? Thank you much.
So when you start Ultracopier this warning message shows up. The replacement of default copy/move system is not supported and blocked by finder of Mac OS X. You need do the copy/move manually by right clicking on the system tray icon near the clock (not the dock icon). Is there a way of unblocking the default copy/move system and let ultracopier use it?
Call comes in. Sweet! I can use my headset! Hold down ⌥ and click the speaker icon in the menu bar Select output to go through my headset. Repeat #4 Select input to come through my headset Stop pandora so it doesn't interfere with the phone call Answer call just in time to hear someone say "call me back" or just hang up Make phone call on my phone, defeating the entire purpose
After updating to OS X Yosemite (Public Release), Safari and several other applications stopped recognising ⌃+⌘+F as the shortcut to enter Full Screen. I can use Shift+Command+F to enter Full Screen in Chrome, but not in Safari.
I use Xquartz.app (latest stable version, 2.77) fairly regularly. In Yosemite (fresh install) I've noticed that it takes a long time to start up (I've got a SSD so it shouldn't take so long to launch). Here's the relevant part of my Console: Does anyone know what the problem might be / how I can fix it? Thanks!
I used to be able to silence the ringtone while my phone was ringing by hitting a volume button. It appears that this is broken after updating to iOS 8.1. Does anyone know if this is deliberate, or if it can be reenabled with a setting? Or is this just something that's messed up on my phone?
I would like to use OS X Server to set up a git server that I can ssh into from other machines on my network. I realize that Xcode Service has repository functionality built in, but I am looking for a more universally accessible system (from Windows or other machine without Xcode), and my Xcode Service setup broke with Yosemite anyway. I also realize that git is already installed on my machine and that I can set up an ssh server by a method like this or this, but I don't want to make a new user or deal with things on the local machine level like the first post says (I have a full server already and I want to use its resources), and I don't want to install gitolite/gitlab/etc.
I am need ing to know how I can use my cell phone number to send and recieve messages instead of my email address. When I go to my settings to change it my number is in grey and my email address is in black and I am needing to know how I can fix that?
I remember when thunderbolt came out there was a lot of discussion of how it had interesting magical bi-directional capabilities. Does that mean there is a way to use an iMac Retina 5K as an external, secondary monitor for a recent MacBook Pro?
been given a iMac to configure for my new job. Its a 2009 20" iMac. I recently clean installed Mountain Lion, as I knew it was stable and I had a boot USB. I thought Mountain Lion would be enough but now it turns out I need to upgrade and can only now be Yosemite.... My question is, will Yosemite be too much for my 2009 older iMac with 2GB Ram? Currently it runs fine, and ram can be upgraded to 4GB but not for a while.
My sister upgraded her 2011 MacBook Pro 15" to Yosemite from Mavericks. As far as I have been able to glean the upgrade went without a hitch, but now her computer is mostly unusable. It is very slow, to navigate about the finder, slow to open programs, and largely unhappy. She has over 100GB of free disk space and has 4 GB of RAM. Any ideas about what went sideways? The safari crashdump is too long to post here, so I have posted it on Dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9371124/safari_crash_dump.txt
My system (Yosemite / 10.10) has been paging out to swap memory despite my memory pressure reading less than 50% over the last 7 days (tracked with iStat Menus). How is this possible? It would be one thing if memory pressure exceeded 100% at some point in the last week and then the swap file was activated, but that doesn't seem to have happened at all and yet I've got 1.25 GB of 2.00 GB being swapped right now, with 36% memory pressure. Shouldn't the new memory model introduced in Mavericks behave differently?
cant upgrade my 2009 iMac 2009 20" with 2GB for a few months but need to upgrade to 10.9.4 to install Yosemite. I am currently running 10.8.1 as a fresh install of Mountain Lion which runs fine, but I dont want to install Yosemite and have OS hang and beach ball on me. Not running anything to intensive, at most; Sublime, Spotify, terminal, Firefox
I have a 120x120 png and I need it to be converted to a 180x180, is this possible using iPhoto or other Apple software for a mac? I do not care if the picture turns out good or not I just need it to be that size. I am running OSX Yosemite.
After installing Yosemite I attempted to open iPhoto on my 2008 iMac. All my iMac does is show a white screen with a symbol of a file with a ? inside it. I cannot use my keyboard either. What happened and how can I make iPhoto work again?
I have an iPhone 5 that is currently running iOS 6. I do not want to update the phone to iOS 8, but would like to back up the phone's texts, reset the phone, and restore the texts onto the phone.
I have a large set of mp3s that I need to listen to and evaluate. If I add them to iTunes, it wants to play them consecutively without stopping. I need to listen (once), think, possibly replay, etc., until I'm ready to go onto the next.
I'm a boarder at a school and some sites are blocked. I normally access these sites via Opera Turbo on my MacBook, but on the iPhone I can only use it via the Opera app. Is there any way to route this though the WiFi settings so iPhone/iPod apps will use the internet via Opera Turbo?
I have a Qt app set as a bundle, and it requires a resources database. If I place it inside the bundle, how do I open it ? The app was created in Windows, and in Windows and Linux, I can use the path for the database: I can do the same thing in Os X with a path like "/Users/Me/Company/Product/resources.db" or "/Library/Application Support/Compay/Product/resources.db" 1) What path would I use for the resources.db if I want to place the database in Contents/Resources ? 2) Would I be able to do anything to access the location using an Open File Dialog ?
Is there an equivalent product/method for AutoHotkey. For those that don't know, its a product that allows you to program your mouse movements and keyboard. This allows me to "macro" certain functions on programs instead of having to do it manually. In the old days they used to call them keyboard stuffers. But that is only half of the solution as I need a "mouse movement" stuffer as well. Is there such a beast?
Accidentally I used wrong naming convention for my Bundle ID in my App, and I want to delete that App from iTunes Connect, is it somehow possible? I already removed from developer.apple.com > Identifier > App IDs that certain Bundle ID. What else I can do? App is still in Prepare for Submission state.
I upgraded to OS X Yosemite and I have lost all my files or I don't know where they are or how to get them. I didn't realise that upgrading would delete all my files. Is there a way to go back to retrieve these files? All my business files, pics and personal files are gone.
On OS X Yosemite, where are the image files for system UI elements such as buttons, sliders, menus, traffic lights, etc. stored?
I have a PCIe serial card in a Mac Pro based on the 16950 that's been working fine up until Yosemite. It's been working with the built-in Apple16x50Serial.kext driver. With Yosemite, it looks like the driver loads okay, but no serial port appears under /dev/, and no IOBSDSerialClient for the card appears in ioreg either.
I receive iMessages on my iPad and not on my iPhone. I receive SMS messages on my phone but not on my iPad. This is really bad and has caused me to miss 2 work leads in the last 24 hours. Where's the syncing in that? I've read through loads of posts and what people seem to be saying is that as iPads don't do phone numbers, SMS messages will only show up on a phone. Don't ask me why iMessages can't make it to my phone too. I have spent hours trawling around and have come to the conclusion that my only option to reliably receive all messages is to turn iMessage off.
I'm wanting to create a live usb linux so I can easily access it everytime when I need it without taking up any space. But with other sources, they say to rEFInd and I did so, however when restarting and accessing the boot menu, nothing happens. I am running Yosemite 10.10 on a Macbook Pro - I still have rEFInd on my mac. I already have .iso version of the linux and UnetBootin Any way how to make a live usb linux on a Yosemite Macbook Pro?
After beta testing your app in TestFlight, do you have to re-upload the app build for the Apple Review Team for Public Release or can you release the build for release right away to the App Store?
I have a requirement in our automation to upload our file using Selenium. Selenium Safari file upload is not working and its already a bug. And doing this way in js also not acceptable : Gives me: Due to obvious security reasons.
I want to to make another clash of clans base but when I log out of Game Center and log into another account it doesn't ask if I want to delete my base and sign in with the new Game Center. Is there any other was i can get a new base with out loosing my old one?
I was on the Yosemite Developer Preview all summer and now I can't install OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 1.0 1) It alerts me that there is an update (everyday) 2) I open the App Store and click Updates 3) OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 1.0 is listed as available 4) Click UPDATE 5) Restarting Your Computer prompt appears and I click restart 6) Available updates have changed appears and when I click Show Details the alert hides 7) Back to step 3 Any help would appreciated
I'm a mac user. Latest yosemite and itunes installed on my mac. Want to download all data from iCloud photo library and to disable auto upload future. Is there any way to download all photos and videos all at once?
My external drive with all my Time Machine backups has been stolen. Can anyone access this data or will they need my Apple ID and/or password?
Whenever I use headphones to listen to music or synthetic noise (e.g. one of those white noise / natural sound apps), it sounds like the source is coming from inside my head instead of somewhere "out there".
After updating to Yosemite, I find that I can't install myEclipse again. Installation error:insufficient memory,zero virtual memory. I also tried the sysctl vm.swapusage command, the result is vm.swapusage: total = 0.00M used = 0.00M free = 0.00M (encrypted)` Does anyone know the solution?
Mac OS X QuickLook supports the Collada interchange format with .dae file extension out of the box. There is CaniVIZ 3D Preview available for 59$ and there are free standalone viewers for CAD/3D files like eDrawings Viewer. There’s even a plug-in for .stl files popular in 3D printing. Is there a free or cheap (< 5 USD) QuickLook plug-in, maybe part of a viewer application, that is capable of formats like .dxf/.dwg, .3ds/.max, .obj, .skp/.kmz?
Is it possible to edit cookie values in Safari, either by using the Web Developer tool or another 3rd party extension?
In Outlook (both for Windows and for Mac), the default behavior is to automatically respond with tentative to meetings requests, which results in meetings automatically added to the calendar. I receive a lot of meeting requests, and only need to attend a few of them (which I manually accept), so I'm not interested in all those meetings requests cluttering my calendar.
I'm actually working on a website development and I configured all the needed hostname on my /etc/hosts files. Actually in our office we use an internal DNS for the QA servers and we override requests with hostfiles because hostname must be equal in both case, anyway. I write (server-side) on the page the IP address that is serving that page and in my iOS Simulator there's no way to show up 127.0.0.1 it always show to me the QA IP. I read online that the entry on the hosts file must be wrote one-per-line or the Simulator will not work. Actually I have: Before I had: Side notes: My OS: OSX 10.10 Yosemite Here we are behind a proxy.
I have just bought myself a new Mac and am finding the new OS a little alien at present. I've just downloaded a new background screen and moved it to the /Library/Desktop Pictures/ folder. However when I go to "System Preferences"->"Desktop&Screen Saver" none of my newly downloaded images are showing up for me to choose a new background image. Any idea why this is happening as I was told that that folder was the default location where all desktop background images are stored (NB: I do NOT want to leave my newly downloaded images in any other folder but the default one)
The problem is that every time I start my MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011, some of the (native) keyboard keys stop working. However, if I click a restart button - it is all fine. It is definitely not a hardware issue and this did not happen on Mavericks ever.
I have implemented a VPN auto connect option via Applescript [see code]. It works like a charme there's only one problem. Every time when i open my MacBook I get this [see printscreen] notification. A few seconds later it reconnects as it should. How can I stop that notification from showing up? It's very annoying.
I want to remove the symlink and instead insert the file it links to, if possible all with one command so I can have it as an "External Tool" in phpStorm.
i have one free application on app store, two months before my developer account was expired and recently i have renewed my account.But in iTunes account i am getting pending contract request.Can any one suggest me how to resolve this issue. Regards Bodul Babu Shaik
I've installed osx 10.10 ( Yosemite ) and since then the device (NI-USB 6210) is not working anymore. The problem is obviously driver related. I called National Instruments and they confirmed the issue, and they also told me that the problem will be probably fixed in the next release of the nidaqmx, that will happen not so soon. So their suggestion is to downgrade to Mavericks, which kinda suck. They also told me to check the compatibility table http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/i/
I have a mid-2013 13" MacBook Air and I like to use the keyboard whenever possible as opposed to clicking. In Mavericks I could open Launchpad (Fn-F4 in my case), navigate to a folder using the arrow keys, open that folder with the return key, navigate to an app icon using the arrow keys, and open that app with the return key. All good.
Why does my screensaver continually revert to the default when I've changed it several times, to use My Photos? This is very frustrating!
I am using Yosemite (OS X 10.10) on my MacBook Air mid 2011. In the version 10.9 and before, annotation (making strokes or arrows) worked liked this: Selecting the form you want to draw Select the colour you want to use AND THEN you can draw it by hand The new behaviour is: Choose the form you want to draw And then, it's immediately there. You have to move the form to the exact position and have no chance to draw it like in 10.9. Is this a bug or where can i go back to the old behaviour?
Is there a way to have lock screen notifications which notify only that an activity has happened (SMS message, Facebook message, etc.) but doesn't show the content of that activity? (I suspect there isn't, but thought I'd ask just to make sure.)
So, my problem is that the UI lags. Not immediately, but after a while (either using the laptop or have it in sleep mode and then use it) the UI gets laggy. Yosemite eats up all my RAM, and I don't really have that much apps open. Today, I had 3 PDFs open in Preview and was using Safari. Mission control and Expose were very slow and laggy.
In Mavericks and lower, when a confirmation dialog, such as , popped up, there were 2 states. The button that would be activated if you hit the space bar and the one that would be activated when you hit return.
I have a "folder" (as it appears from Finder), but I can't cd into it from the terminal. if I ls -la this is what it looks like. What is it and how do I make it a folder or at least cd into it?
I use the utility GRAB occasionally. It does not show in the utility list under applications in Finder. However, I know it is there because when I search I find it - How can I make it appear on the list?
I would like to see how certain volume shares are connected to my Mac. I'm on a Windows network and need to know if shares are connected over smb2 or cifs or afp protocol... etc... Do I need to restart my Mac each time to get an accurate reading? (cache)
I need to transfer some files into a guest computer in VirtualBox, and I think FTP would be a good way, but am having trouble connecting the two "computers". I tried running: then running: and grabbing the address returned that wasn't 127.0.0.1. I even downloaded the FTPD Enable app, but when I visit ftp://192.168.1.119/ in a browser it's just an empty directory. Is there a setting in Preferences -> Sharing I need to set, or is the FTP leading to a directory somewhere that might just be empty? When going to higher level directories, (ftp://192.168.1.119/../../../../../../../../../), they all look the same. I wouldn't think it should be necessary to install OSX Server for this.
Does anyone know anything about this cache and/or how I might trigger Mail to refresh the signature with my script or some other trickery? I'm not even sure where to start looking for this sort of thing.
When I quit an application (e.g., Excel) with Command-Q, a dialog box pops up, asking me to select between don't save, cancel and save. I can hit Enter to select save, or I can navigate the mouse to don't save, but how do I get that without the mouse? On Linux and Windows I can use Tab to switch between the 3 buttons. What do I do on Mac OS X? Excel for Mac 2011 (14.3.8) I tried: Tab shift-Tab control-Tab option-Tab No go.
I am trying to clean up my Iphone 4S and moving photos to icloud. I tried to create a photo stream but I do not have the option on this phone. any suggestions?
Note: A question similar to this one was asked here about a week ago. I am attempting to install Octave on OS X Mavericks. I ran the following: which resulted in this error: So I followed this advice, which gave this output:
I asked Siri to turn on the flashlight but she answered "Sorry but I'm not able to do that". Is there any way to enable Siri to turn on the flashlight? I use an iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 8.1.
Is there a way to find the time and date of when Activation Lock was activated on an iPad? Also, can I find the IMEI and serial of the iPad? My iPad has few iCloud IDs and I know just 1 ID. What can I do to get useful information about which iCloud ID caused the iPad activation lock and when?
I have a large XML file (11MB) which I need to open in Excel for processing. I have MS Excel for Mac 2011 and when I try to open the XML file, it just opens it as plain text (seems that this is a feature not supported by Excel for Mac 2011). I was expecting to see the XML item data split to rows and columns, just like Excel for windows does.
We're replacing our BlackBerry handsets with iPhones, and we'll be using OS X's Profile Manager for MDM deployment and management. I've done some exploratory research and I'm happy with the general principles, but I'm wondering if the MDM server needs to be publicly accessible for remote management of iPhones, or is the functionality exposed via the carrier?
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina, Early 2013, my wifi drops roughly ever 2 or 3 minutes when running ArchLinux (OS X works fine). As far as I know this problem is related to that there are no official drivers available and thus there are no solution out there.
Everytime I reboot my mac (10.9.5), I get a notice that "iCloud Keychain Was Reset". I can set it up again without problems, but I shouldn't have to keep setting it up. What's going on?
I'm setting up an office network consisting of: - ATT ADSL2 Modem -> CISCO Router (198.x.x.x) -> Airport Extreme  I'm having an issue getting the Airport Extreme (6th Gen) to connect to the network. I want to use the AE to serve its own 5Ghz and 2.5Ghz network. The issue isn't configuring the wireless details - it is how to get the airport to connect to the router correctly. Upon connecting the AE as a fresh factory default device, it reports:
There are several questions that ask whether you can control an iPad from a Mac (like this one). But is it possible to view your iPad screen from a Mac when it's plugged in via USB or wirelessly without jailbreaking it? I can remote login to my Mac at work and my iPad is connected so I can debug on it via XCode, but I can't see the results.
I have a lot of photos in iPhoto that are not correctly rotated. They do not have a horizon in the image, but they do have clear faces so an algorithm could use that as a reference point. I was hoping iPhoto had this function built in, but I can't find it.
Yesterday I installed the drivers for my printer (Epson Stylus 1500) on my Mac. During the setup I chose to connect over WiFi (the printer had already successfully been setup for WiFi printing from my Windows computer). After the installation I tested this by printing a test page and everything worked as expected. Today I wanted to print a PDF file and following message was given in the printer status window: The printer is not connected. And on the document it keeps saying: Printing - Searching for printer.
I'm having a dispute with a landlord, garden not done, so she's charging me. Anyway, the agency has sent me her photos. is there anyway I can see when they were taken. I check the properties of the photos and yet they only give todays date, but they do tell me longitude and latitude and that they were taken with and iPhone 4 plus f number if there was a flash etc but not the date taken. Do is there a way for me to extract this information if the photos were emailed to me?
Anyone remember Konfabulator / Yahoo Widgets? Anyone still use it/ them?
I recently installed yosemite (fresh install) on my mbp retina and i notice that the login screen has a grey background with only my account pic. I can login normally and without any problems but it is strange that i don't see the blurry background. This happens only when i login from normal startup and not after waking from sleep mode. Is there a way to force embed the blurry background on the login screen? Thanks.
While activating my iphone, I accidentally skipped the section where you call and activate your phone. My phone isn't sending messages or calls, and cellular isn't working. Is there any other way I can make it work?
Apple has a list of dictation commands online here *=URL=* and here *=URL=* Does anyone know where I can find the French versions?
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro and updated to OS X Yosemite a few weeks ago. Several times since then the GPU has crashed where I can still move the mouse cursor around the screen and listen to audio but everything else on the screen is unresponsive. I've only managed to remedy this by rebooting the machine. Is there any way to prevent this happening? The error logs have multiple instances similar to this:
I write in both English and French, and quite often I need to switch between them. I'd like to know if I can achieve this using a voice command?
I have upgraded my MBP 5,1 (2,53 GHz) from Snow Leopard to Yosemite. The install went terribly wrong and now neither a fresh Yosemite, nor a fresh Snow Leopard would boot. Moving away /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResmanTesla.kext in Yosemite or NVDAResman.kext in Snow Leopard makes the system bootable. Howver, the graphics under Yosemite are extremely slow and full of artifacts withot this kext, so this is no solution. These are the graphic cards: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT.
Every time I add a few MBss of files to my SD disk, Spotlight starts eating battery (per Activity Monitor Energy Impact) for one to several days indexing them. How can I make indexing to turn off automatically when on battery power, and enable again when Macbook is powered from an AC outlet?
I accidentally did a hard reset on my mac by doing contorl+c when my mac was booting up. I typed /sbin/fsck -fy because it was supposed to fix my Mac so that it is no longer stuck in safe boot. It said to type reboot, but now my Mac won't start outside of recovery mode. I need help trying to recover data and starting the computer.
The minimum requirements for RAM for Yosemite is 2 GB as stated in apple literature. What are the optimum real world requirements for Yosemite to achieve a noticeable improvement. In particular for an early 2011 MBP 2.3 GHz which currently has 4 GB.
I am using iOS 8.1 with Healthkit and Strava version 4.2.2 with sync enabled in strava to push cycling data to Healthkit. My cycle data is logged with Garmin which uses garmin connect to sync to the Garmin cloud, and the data is then pushed to Strava cloud and from there can be viewed on the Strava app on iOS. How is the data meant to go from Strava app to healthkit? Is it possible to use strava and healthkit in this fashion? Note at this point in time garmin connect does not support pushing data to healthkit.
I see this Apple article on converting a local user account to a network user account: *=URL=* However, I'd like to do it in reverse. I'm comfortable with some of the steps, but for example this I'm not sure what the opposite is: What are the steps required to convert a domain user to a local user on Yosemite?
I accidentally deleted a lot of text messages on my iPhone 5 and would like to restore from iCloud by choosing "Erase all content and settings" and then restoring from a backup made last night. However, my iPhone is running iOS 6 and I would not like to update to iOS 8. If I restore my phone from the iCloud backup using "Erase all content and settings" will iOS 8 be installed or will it restore the iPhone with iOS 6 as it was last night? I would try it out, but I would prefer to find out before rather than after...
Is it possible to "restore" an iphone backup to an ipad, or an ipod touch? Obviously there are iphone specific apps etc. but can you get most of your data (like passwords f.ex.) into an ipad/ipod touch from an itunes backup of an iphone?
Is there a way to transfer songs from one iphone to a new iphone that were NOT purchased from iTunes? I am talking about songs that were from cd's that I or my son own. They are on my old phone but will not transfer to the new phone because they weren't iTunes purchases. If this is a "feature" of an Apple iPhone, I can understand peoples frustrations.
So I installed a second HDD that I plan on eventually using as my main system disk and did a fresh install of Yosemite on it. The thing, is that I'd like to boot back into the original Macintosh HD so I can start going through what needs to be migrated. I can browse the disk through finder (at least the folders I have permission for), but I can't boot off of it anymore. When I go to Systems---> Settings--> Startup disk. Only the new drive is listed. Even if I reboot and hold down option, it's the same thing. Did something happen to to the original Macintosh HD disk after installing Yosemite on a separate drive?
Here's the deal... I have relatively brand new Macbook pro, I purchased it in late June 2014 and right now it's November 2014. Recently, my Macbook will not keep an internet connection to wifi. There's no problem with the router; I've had no trouble with my iPhone or PC's or even other Macbooks in this house. Additionally, I've noticed the same problem with my computer in other networks, but I can't offer too much information about that, because 99% of the time I have my computer in my house. More details:
I recently got a replacement Ipod touch 5. I restored it and got all of my songs off of icloud. However. Songs I didn't purchase (such as being downloaded from CDs) are in my itunes library on my computer. I have synced my ipod to the computer multiple times with all the songs checked but it only transferred three songs. The rest have a circled '!' on the left and will not show up. How do I get my songs from my library onto my ipod. So I only have what was purchased through itunes on my new ipod.
For some reason, from my own iTunes library on my Mac, I can see another computer's (running Windows 7) iTunes shared library, even though they are not sharing their library (via Preferences -> Sharing). I myself have shared my own iTunes library, and they can see it just fine. But I should not be able to see the other person's library when they are not sharing it. I checked the preferences myself. Also, my own iTunes is logged into my iTunes account, while the other computer is not logged in to any iTunes account. Why is the other computer's iTunes library visible to my own iTunes?
Any ideas? It seems that mail knows to use TLS for port 465 only if it's a "default" port, and won't use it if I type 465 in directly. Here's a bit more information: Successful connection to Gmail:
Is there any way to recover an application once it freezes aside from killing it? Context being, I have been working on a couple of files in TextMate 1.5 and TextMate has stopped responding, I have not saved these files, and I really do not want to loose the work. I've killed all other running applications and have let the computer idle for quite some time but TextMate still remains unresponsive.
After the update to iOS8, the switch to disable the 3G has been replaced by a disable 4G switch. 4G is already off but how could I also disable also 3G (which is still active, as shown on the status bar)
Ever since upgrading my iphone 5 and Macbook Pro to the latest versions of iOS 8 and Yosemite, I've not been able to connect bluetooth devices that were working seamlessly before. Resetting PRAM and network settings does not seem to do the trick. Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a working solution?
I upgraded my Mac to OS to 10.10 Yosemite. Dropbox no longer lets me copy the file link to send someone to let them download files. I don't get the choice anymore in my right click info. Can you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, or is Dropbox not able to do that anymore?
Any idea how to import albums from one computer to another via Home Sharing on Yosemite / iTunes 12? All the pages I've found tell you to click a Show menu at the bottom of the window which is no longer there. *=URL=* http://support.apple.com/kb/PH986
I tried clicking on Edit and then dragging the widgets around. I also tried doing so from the System Preferences Extensions pane. And either ways, I am successfully able to change the order in which the widgets show up. However, once I restart my computer, they go back to where they were before I made the changes. This is what my (widgets') order defaults to all the time: Socials - Calculator - Calendar - Weather - Reminder (I have turned off Stocks and World Clock as I don't need them) Whereas, I want them in the following order: Socials - Reminder - Calendar - Weather - Calculator
First off I know there's a Weather widget in Today view which is working fine for me. What I am referring to is the weather information that shows up right on top under the big date section for some users as below:
Battery life catastrophic since upgrade to Yosemite - activity monitor shows 'spotlight web content' items using large amounts of CPU for webpages that are not even open?? Does anyone know why this is?
i have an iphone 5s with ios 8.1 and would like to silent my phone at night and only to sound when i receive and email sent to my specific email address. Is this possible?
But, I am wondering, how does Karabiner do its magic on the inside. My understanding is that ultimately, Karabiner has to pass the key-remap configuration to the OS, right? Or does Karabiner insert itself into the system (i.e., as a kernel module) and watch all keys typed on the keyboard to detect the Ctl and Fn keys? More importantly, is there anyway (similar to xmodmap in Linux) to achieve this key remap without Karabiner?
I was using the dev beta of Yosemite, when it was released to the public I updated, however I'm missing some components of Yosemite, I'm having trouble launching particular applications that make use of Yosemite 10.10 specific libraries as "DeveloperExtras" or WebKit2, something I noticed recently is also missing functionality on my settings, as the "Dark UI" mode which is supposed to be on System Preferences->General , This is quite strange as I have Yosemite version 10.10 installed, no update is required in the app store. Guidance or any kind of suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks.
I wanted to upgrade my iPad from iOS 7 to iOS 8.1. I downloaded an IPSW from ipswdownloader.com and tried updating by alt+clicking the update button. The update process stopped at around 10%. I tried restoring the same way, again stuck at around 10%. See this: http://cl.ly/image/2a1S37272C27
Holding down backspace on iPhone deletes about six characters per second. However, after about three consecutive seconds of holding down backspace, entire words start disappearing by the pair at a rate of about three pairs per second! How can I disable the "feature" that starts chomping two words at a time a few times per second when holding down backspace on my iPhone? iOS 7.1.2, iPhone 5s
About a month ago I bought a new iPhone. Previously, I had been playing Clash of Clans on another device on one Game Center account. When I bought the iPhone, I set up another Game Center account. I would like to sync my base from the old account to the new account so I can play on my iPhone. How could I do this?
I am using Yosemite on MBP 15 mid2010 I already tried this tutorial *=URL=* Didn't work for me. Also tried Splix: *=URL=* again, didn't work. Any idea how to get the printer running?
Here is the screen shot and it's not working anymore after upgrading to Yosemite NOTE: Although if I add this shortcuts under all applications then it works. I don't know why it's not working, wasted my time and I found on apple discussion forum that in Languages there should be only one language and that doesn't work for me.
I have a 21,600secs (4hours) job using launchd.plist. I have 2 mac, main and sub. With main mac, my plist works fine. But with sub mac, which is wakes up 3~4 times per week, my plist does not seems to run properly. Apple's man page for launchd.plist describes:
Is there a consumer-level NAS (e.g. making a NAS out of a Mac Mini is at the other end of the spectrum) that supports Spotlight search? That is, searching for the contents within files without needing to download the entire file from the NAS?
In previous versions there was a way to set the window configuration as default. But now in Yosemite they seem to have got rid of this option.
MY iPhone says it's overheating, but I have felt the back of it and it feels fairly cool. A week ago, I did however drop it in the toilet. I did leave it in rice in the hot press for a day and a bit. Does anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me that it is overheating when the temperature is clearly not the problem. Also I would like to do this without wiping it. Thanks.
When I press the o key on macbook pro i get multiple o's . They also pop up in the middle of writing other words as well.How can i fix this. The o's run across the screen.
This does not happen in any apps. In apps the keyboard always appears where it should.
Is it possible to / is there an app that can turn off your iPhone lock when the device is connected to your home WiFi?
My audio intake from iPhone outweighs that of my Macbook by a double-digit ratio. Sometimes I encounter an audio track on-the-go that I would like to delete, remove from the playlist, or at least remove the track from the rotation. In iTunes, I would delete the file from the library or uncheck the box next to the track's name. How can I remove a track from rotation on my iPhone?
My wired mac keyboard is acting weird. Some keys perform weird extra insertions. The problem introduced itself when I relogged in after sleep mode and persists since then. The internal MacBook keyboard is not affected. I suspect some corrupted driver settings/files. I tried the following already, without change: login with a different user restarting the mac dis-/reconnecting the keyboard Some of the extra insertions happening: u => u[ 7 => 7- return => creates a new line and an * m => m and a space character j => j' right arrow => performs a return I am on OS X 10.9.5
I used the following Terminal commands to disable animations: from here: How to turn off all animations on OS X Are there Terminal commands to re enable them, just in case? Also, that link suggested TinkerTool, but which option in TinkerTool is for disabling the Quick Look animation?
I'm using iOS 8 with jailbreak on iPhone and Yosemite on Mac. Can I install WhatsApp on my Mac?
I have a iPhone 5s which is iCloud locked. I know the Apple ID's email but I don't know the Apple ID's password. I can access to the email which is the Apple ID's email. I want to reset the Apple ID's password and then enter my email and password to the iPhone. If I reset my Apple ID's password and then enter email and new password on my iPhone, will it unlock?
I was trying to install rake and rspec using ruby gems. I changed read permissions on /usr/bin Now my terminal window looks like this: login(388,0x7fff73cd5310) malloc: * error for object 0x7fdb79c05290: pointer being freed was not allocated * set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug [Process completed]
Long story short: I'm on OSX 10.6.8 and I'm trying to download the Yosemite package in order to (re)create a bootable USB. When I go to the App Store, I go to the first tab and click on "Free" under yosemite and the OSX icon appears on the bottom bar:
Can someone please let me know which model to chose (from the US) for someone who would like to use iPhone 6+ in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for carrier Etisalat or DU. Where can I buy the phone? Is there an international version, can I buy a normal version? Thanks!
I did a video capture with my phone. While viewing the video, some of the frames have a person with the red eye effect. What can I do to edit the video file and remove the red eye from the affected frames?
When I start Google Chrome (seen from 38.0.2125.111 to 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit)) on my 15" Mid-2010 MBP (NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M) on OS X Yosemite (10.10 to 10.10.3) the display often (not just the displayed browser) changes to a much cooler colour, as if I had set a different colour profile. (The colour profile in the settings remained the same) When I shut down Chrome, everything looks as expected again. What's the reason and how can I prevent this behaviour?
A friend has the iPad Air with iOS 8.1. She has used Safari to add a bunch of Youtube videos to her home screen. That way she can touch an icon on her home screen and it will immediate load the video in Safari. But a few times now she has seen all of those Youtube icons on her home screen change, as can be seen in this screenshot (the "Coffee Hous", "2 Butterflies" and "Homeward" icons are supposed to be Youtube icons):
After an update installed, none of my iOS devices recognize my Apple TV from the Remote App. They just say "Turn on Home Sharing..."
I am having a problem with the Finder, Copy and Replace to be exact, and I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot. I am have been on Yosemite for one week and just noticed the issue a couple of days ago.
How can I change the refresh rate of a 2014 retina MacBook Pro? System Preferences doesn't have this option, so I guess it must be buried in a plist somewhere. I want to use 72hz for video playback because its a multiple of 24.
I am trying to set up a proxy on my iPhone, so that I can view web traffic coming in and out of it. I've tried using a few tools such as Charles and Mitmproxy, but every time I set the HTTP Proxy for my wifi on my phone and open Safari, it just says that the network connection was lost. I turned on the proxy, and set the proxy settings using the IP of my mac which I obtained like this
Can I save a Note I created in my documents? I don't know how to saVE A NOTE to my documents or elsewhere, I have tried all I know. I know there is textedit, but I have had it lose some important docs and don't trust it. I would use it if someone could tell me how to find a doc that wasn't saved then computer shut down. In word it at least auto saves. Thank you in advance B
I opened the Camera app, then it told me I could not take anymore time scale photos because I was out of memory. So I swiped the word to the left to get to the video option, and it says I don't have enough memory to take any video. So now I want to switch from Video to Photo mode, and it won't let me. I've tried swiping, I've tried tapping, and it refuses. I've tried closing and restarting the app, I've tried rebooting the phone to no avail.
I did all the basic steps to sync the facebook with ios i.e.,add a account in settings and check the calendar to sync with iOS. After adding my account, It's not getting synced. How can I sync facebook birthdays with my iOS Calendar?
I am hoping to buy a couple of foot pedals that I could use as Ctrl and Shift for my MacBook Pro. Is this at all possible with an OS X machine? I have read that Kinesis foot pedals (e.g. this one) cannot be used as modifiers in combination with other keyboards. Is this correct? If so, why?
I am running Mavericks 10.9 on my imac. It does not have the same ability of slideshows with music in Garageband as I had in Snow Leopard 10.6. Is there any way I can return to Snow Leopard?
When I scale a screenshot of the same image from my iPad 3 retina to that on my MB Air the resulting image appears more saturated (unsure if it's a uniform saturation). Why does this happen? Can I transform my screenshot from my LCD monitor to match a screenshot from my iPad 3 by changing the resolution, saturation, contrast, etc?
This is a bit of a strange one. I've been using a Dualshock (DS4), aka a PlayStation 4 controller on my Mac pretty successfully for the passed couple of weeks.
I would like to install GNU Profiler (gprof) on Mac. I tried to install binutils using Homebrew; however, the package that Homebrew installs from the following address does not have gprof. According to binutils website, it should have gprof in it. Any suggestion for installing gprof is welcome.
Would it be possible to configure iTerm 2 to go backwards and forwards one word through the curent text in the command line using a keyboard shortcut?
My MacBook Pro fails to start. I hear the "ding" sound, the keyboard lights up, but the screen stays black. After a couple of minutes, I hear the fans growing louder, until after a few minutes, the computer stops.
iTunes 12 (of the garish red icon) shows your name in its top bar. For me this says 'Thomas', but I'd like to switch it to 'Tom'. How can I do so? It's not in iTunes preferences, and I've just changed my Apple ID first name from 'Thomas' to 'Tom' and that hasn't changed it.
So there is a this thing called computer name that can be set either via Preferences -> Sharing, or sudo scutil --set ComputerName "My Name" When I use and then use
I have a Numbers document where I would like to insert images into each cell in one of the columns, in one of my data tables. The images are quite large, so I would like to insert the images as a thumbnail, and have them "pop out" when I click or mouse-over the image, so that I can see the full-size image. How can I accomplish this effect? Is this at all possible?
Since I've upgraded to 10.10 (from 10.8), the screensaver is now unresponsive for some random seconds (~1 to 10) after it starts. This is very annoying, since I like to have a short "screensaver: start after" time, coupled with a "security: require password after", so that the screensaver starts, but I immediatly hit a button and I can get back to work. I've already had to increase the "require password after" from "5 seconds" to "1 minute", but this doesn't save me from wasting those unresponsive seconds each time...
I updated to Yosemite from Mavericks. Everything seems to be working normally, except Finder. When I open a Finder window it is empty. Even if I open the Applications folder - it is empty. The files on my desktop also look normal. When I open Pages and then go to open a file I can then navigate to i.e. my Documents folder and I see all the files normally. Just when I use Finder directly it does not display anything.
I initiated a call on my MacbookPro (running OS X Yosemite), but I cannot transfer it to my iPhone while it's in progress, as advertised on the Continuity feature. The Apple Support article says: Transfer the call to your iPhone: Unlock your iPhone, then tap the “Touch to return to call” banner at the top of the screen on your iPhone. When I unlock my iPhone 6 Plus (running iOS 8.1), however, no banner appears at the top of the screen, and my phone seems to completely ignore the presence of a call. Since there are no troubleshooting steps listed on the Apple Support guide for this issue, is there any way to troubleshoot this issue or to fix it?
How do I get the movies that I have uploaded to iTunes from my Mac to show up on my iPad? I have several movies that I would like to see on my iPad. I figured the best way to upload to iTunes, but when I launch iTunes on my iPad I cannot see or find them.
Asking for my six year old. Her iPad has no weather app or calculator, which is apparently making her very unhappy. She can see myself and her mom using both of these apps on our iPhones, but her iPad somehow doesn't have them. What can I do to calculate and look for weather on an iPad Air with iOS 8.1 on it?
Since the Yosemite and iOS 8.1 updates, we can now receive our non-iMessages (SMS) messages on our Mac (more info). However, the following strange scenario happened to me: I was using my Mac and my iPhone — just near me — was locked, the Message Mac app notifies me of a text message from my friend's phone (definitely not an iPhone user), 1 minute later, my iPhone vibrates and finally notifies me of the same text message. Since my iPhone is the first and only device to get the text message from my cell phone provider, why did my Mac notify me first?
iPhone rounds cellular data usage reports to the nearest tenth of a Gigabyte (eg, 1.8GB) by default. Presumably the phone knows exactly how much data has been used and rounds the number for my convenience. Is there some way to cajole (or even coerce) a more accurate cellular data usage estimate out of the phone? iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2 and iOS 8.1
Please help. I wanted to install linux so I follow this guide: *=URL=* I used my external hard drive to do this but then after I finished everything, when I plugged in my external hard drive I get "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and I cannot see my external hard drive in Finder, but I could see it in the Disk Utility. Does this mean all my data was erased? How do I get my external hard drive back? Thank you.
How do I expand the file path in Spotlight in Yosemite? In previous OS versions it would scroll to see the entire path, but now it only shows the end of the path preceded by ... Many of my files are PDFs of scientific literature and all I can see in the file path upon holding the command key is the end of the title.
I've tried different settings but it hasn't helped. My TV and cable work fine with the MacBook so why would it be worse with a newer, more powerful Mac Mini? I'm running Mavericks on both Macs.
When I try to follow the procedure laid out in Backup iPhone to external drive on Mac and run to change the backup location for my iPad and iPhone terminal tells me that the file directory doesn't exist... what am I missing?
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and I would like to know if is possible to disable the "force shutdown by pressing the power button for 5 seconds".
I have a number (3) in red on my FaceTime icon on my iPad but I can't see what it's for. I've been onto my call history and no missed calls and I've now deleted all the calls made and received but the little red number is still there and I can't get rid of it. How do I do this and what was it for?
My MacBook Pro freezes after it's being woken from sleep mode. I can move the mouse but can't click anything and the password form courser is not blinking too.I recently installed a SSD and did 2 fresh installs of Yosemite with no Time Machine backups or anything, just a clean install. I tried to disable hibernation and unchecked energy saving for the hdd in the system prefs but it still happens and i would like hibernate to be honest. I would be happy to provide more info if needed. Specs: MacBookPro8,1 Intel Core i7 @ 2,7 GHz 8 GB RAM Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB HITACHI 500 GB SuperDrive removed SystemLog of a freeze:
I have 84GB free on my Flash hard disk but in 3 hours it fills up to 0B. When I restart the 84GB is there again and something starts eating my HDspace again.
I use ClickToFlash to switch most videos from Flash to HTML5 (QuickTime) versions in Safari. HTML5 allows for variable speed playback, but not in the quicktime plugin for safari so far as I can tell. Any suggestions? Looks like there's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en
I have an hour long video that I have from a trip and I want to create a highlight film (around 5 mins).. Using Imovie, is there any particular feature to do this. I see there are the movie trailers but those seem much shorter (around 30 seconds) and I don't see a way to make it longer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have just bought a new Mac Mini Late 2014. I noticed that the System Preferences > Sound says that there is no sound input device. This is causing me lots of problems in the app I'm developing in XCode. My older 2012 Mac Mini shows an "Audio line-in port" and my app works.
I'm trying to change the Increase brightness key from F1 to F7. In order to do that, I went to System Preferences and tried to make a custom shortcut, but I realized that I didn't know the menu command name for adjusting brightness, if it exists at all. I tried "Increase Brightness," "Brightness Up," "Increase Display Brightness," all that stuff but none of them worked. Any help?
My daughter of 18 months loves to play with my iPhone. I'm okay with her randomly rearranging the home screen, resetting highscores and such, but now she's discovered how to make calls from the contacts list, and explaining to work contacts why "I" called on a Sunday night is getting awkward... is there a parental controls setting or somesuch to lock the calling feature while leaving the rest of the phone available to her?
How do I disable imessage sharing between my iPhone and iPad devices? In other words, I do not want messages sent to my phone to display on my iPad and likewise I don't want messages sent to my email to display on my iPhone. Is there a way to unlink my phone number from imessage on the iPad?
My phone has recently been stolen. I have been trying to locate it. I had previously set up the Find My iPhone app and after the theft, I have changed all my iCloud and Gmail passwords. Can the person with my iPhone change it over to his iCloud account so that the Find My iPhone app won't work for me?
If this is the case, I should be able to lock everything down when I'm logged in to my account and no additional configuration should be needed to allow Find my Mac to call home from the Guest account. However, the reason I'm asking the question is that I tested it and Find my Mac doesn't seem to be getting out from the Guest account. (I don't believe this is already answered, as the other questions don't seem to involve the Safari-only Guest account.
I'd like to be able to only see minimized windows from the current space on the dock. Currently it shows all minimized windows from all spaces. Is there any setting or tool that I can use to accomplish this?
Today, professional skier Tom Wallisch (at one point on the US Ski team) uploaded a screenshot of his phone: tom wallisch olympic icon http://thumbs.newschoolers.com/index.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.newschoolers.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F17%2F00%2F73%2F51%2F82%2F735182.png&size=400x1000
I know how to block certain website, like if I want to block google I can use this line in the host But my question is how can I block certain IP address? Like how can I block certain IP address like 17.154.66.79?
When I shut the lid on my Retina MacBook Pro (2014), how can I tell it's gone to sleep correctly? On my previous MacBook Pro (~2008), the fans were audible, and there was a sleeping LED indicator in the lid latch that changed from "on" to "pulsing" when it was asleep. I used this as an "okay" sign to put it in the laptop bag.
Have a friend that's running OSX 10.5.8 and claims it's still supported by Apple and has the same security patches as needed as any other version of OSX. Does Apple still support 10.5.8? What if any know security holes are there? Does Apple have a public statement on which OSX versions are supported, how, and what this means to the user, in the context of OSX 10.5.8?
I tried to upgrade to OSX Yosemite on my MacBook Pro. I had only 4GB of free disk space. Everything went fine until it said only a minute remaining. This was on for 8 hours. Eventually I restarted the system. It booted to OSX Utilities.
If I lost my iPhone and suspended the number but iMessage from my laptop, do the iMessages I send from the laptop continue to be sent to my phone? The people I iMessage are getting the messages as my number--which I suspended. I'm confused because I don't want someone to find my iPhone and have all of my messages and information along with my apple ID. I have not tried to contact Apple yet but that will be my next step.
I can't for the sake of it turn my bluetooth on in Yosemite. It is greyed out and the menu bar shows bluetooth disabled with a grey wiggle line through it. Anyone have a solution?
After upgrading to Yosemite, I found there are quite some Google Chrome Helper (not responding) processes after MacBook resumes from hibernate (closing the MacBook cover). It seems to me close-and-reopen Chrome will clean up the (Not Responding) processes. What is the problem?
When I delete messages from my iPhone, my Macbook Air keeps copies of the messages, is there a way to enable sync so that when I delete the messages from iPhone they delete on Mac and vice-versa?
There's an application for windows only I was wondering if it was possible to run it on my MacBook 2008 on Yosemite. I have tried using VMWare fusion but it is too slow. Are there any faster alternatives? I also don't have any windows computer. Please help
In iTunes, in "On This iPhone" I have all of my music files deleted, but on my iPhone in the "Music" app it shows a bunch of my old music albums and files, opening an album it has the "Download from Cloud" icon to the right, so it is not really on the iPhone. How can I get rid of all these old albums/files cluttering my iPhone Music app? I will never want to download them from the cloud, and they are still there even after I tried restoring my phone. Thank you.
I have an encrypted dmg (Mac OS Extended Journaled) read/write and it shows a size of of 768.46 GB unmounted but only has a mounted capacity of 665.72 GB. I think something may have been corrupted when I resized it from 500GB to 650GB. I attempted through disk utility, which proceeded to appear to freeze, so I let it go for about 15 minutes and then I checked the log and it said "resize successful". I then proceeded to check the capacity of the image mounted and it still said 500GB. So next i tried resizing through hdutil which led me to where I am now. Unmounted size of 768.46 GB but a 665.72 GB capacity. Any ideas how I could fix this?
I configured my Facebook account in OS X (both Mavericks & Yosemite) using following article >> *=URL=* I have 200+ friends on FB, but on Contacts app it just shows 38. Remaining are missing, I don't know what I have done wrong. Moreover, I have allowed events and birthday calendar to sync as well, but not all birthday events are showing up in OS X calendar app.
In the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, this is the one shortcut that can't be disabled. It's disabled if you turn off Chinese keyboard input, but I want to keep the keyboard input. I got hopeful when I found this technique for editing the symbolic hotkeys plist: *=URL=* But I haven't been able to find a symbol corresponding to this shortcut.
Can someone watch you on face time auto without you knowing it? On my iPhone there are calls I never made and the light turned on by itself saying facetime with a number by it. Is someone watching me and using my phone?
I had folder on local Mac drive. And when I ls on terminal I see this:
I've come back from vacation, and I have an unknown large number of e-mail alerts piled up. Hitting the x in notification center only cleared some of them - I'm assuming it was the last 5 since that's what I have it configured to show.
After some research got to know that security find-generic-password -l "Safari Extensions List" -g command gives the extensions and their states. The output of the command is not in readable format. I tried saving the password as a plist and opening it, but then it is same. Can someone please guide me how to get the safari extension enable/disable state on different mac versions?
There doesn't appear to be an eject button on the new 12.1 menu screen. Is this correct, or have I missed it?
Okay, so I have three main volumes for my system; one for the OS (SSD) one for users and files (Fusion Drive) and one for backup. All three are encrypted Core Storage volumes.
I can't change permissions of external HDD folders The file system is ExFAT and I am on OSX. Here is what is shown when I do ls:
When I plug or unplug monitor so the screen configuration changes, or if I open/close the MBP lid, then: The audio stops When I try to change volume, the volume symbol is crossed like this: Ø
When I click Resume, nothing happens. There is no icon in the launcher, and running xcode-select -p outputs: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools But there is no 'XCode' in this folder.
I've always set LSUIPresentationMode to 4 in iTerm and Firefox to hide the annoying unnecessary menu bar taking up precious vertical space on my macbook. If I needed the menu, I could just move my mouse to the top of the screen, and it would appear. The rest of the time that space was used by the terminal and the browser.
This is not practical, because ethernet cables are in public rooms at my residence. If I spoke on Skype there, I would disturb everyone else in the room. Sharing my phone's data plan to my iPad This would probably get expensive way too fast. Sharing my phone's data plan to my iPad This would probably get expensive way too fast. I have a Sony Vaio laptop, but the fan makes a lot of noise, and Skype conversations are impossible.
Add the account through 'Internet accounts' in System Preferences. As the exchange server, I've tried: m.outlook.com and s.outlook.com.
Through my high school I have a Macbook Air. Because I am the technologically curious person that I am, I found a workaround for installing apps by putting them in the package contents of other apps (i.e. Google Chrome). I did this with Steam. After doing this, they found out about it and cleared out all of the apps' package contents. They don't specifically know that I did this, but now every time I restart my computer a pop-up comes up saying that I don't have permission to run "steamclean".
I have two partitions set up on my MacBook and I'm having issues when installing software on the new partition as it says it is already installed. The application is installed on the other partition but should not be recognised by the new partition.
I'd like to know if the following is possible with Automator. I want to be able to move any files, but in my special case videos and photos, from any possible device ( iPhone, iPad, SD card, but perhaps also from other directories) to my NAS, ordered by date. Each file type should have a separate directory, eg. What it should also do: within those separate directories, there should be a folder for each date a photo or video will be moved to(and it would also be important that you can customize the date format to yy-mm-dd , dd-mm-yy or the like, before you run the workflow ) Now every video made on november the 5th should be moved to NAS://imported/video/2014-11-05/video_file1.mp4 I know that it is no problem to move files by type into certain folders, but I dont know how to create date-specific folders for each file before the move-command.... I'm on MacOS 10.10 (Yosemite)
I've had a recurring issue since last week where I wake from sleep on a new external monitor, and several of my already-open Chrome tabs have their content resized (i.e. into a 600x600 viewing area).
Having been a PC user for a number of years I'm now seriously considering purchasing an Apple iMac (21.5″, 2.7 GHz). Is it possible to use a USB flash drive to copy files from my Windows 7 PC to the iMac?
I have Xcode 5.11. If I try to install the newest (6.0) Xcode from the Mac App Store, will I be prompted to keep my current Xcode?
Is there any way of disabling the warning popups in the current versions of Numbers, Pages and Keynote that popup when files are opened? For example:
I am going through trying to create a NetInstall image using System Image Utility and am curious about how the "Apply Computer Name and Local Hostname settings from a file" option works under the Apply System Configuration Settings task in the Automator Library. Could anyone perhaps give some insight about how this works?
Someone asked me this - I think the answer is no for a number of reasons, but I wanted to confirm. Is there any way to open an iPad app on a mac desktop or laptop? For example I download a publisher's ipad reader - call it the WSJ's, for example - could I run it on my iMac and buy issues etc?
I recently upgraded to Yosemite and following that upgraded to an SSD drive. Life is good and I am happy with everything except that since the upgrades I am seeing a silly variety of names for my computer.
I want to remove the following frequently visited items and favorites under the address bar in Safari 8. How can I do this?
I was installing Win8 on a Mac where I got the error that I can because of GPT disk I dont know what MAC I have but the Mainboard is number is Apple Mac 942859f58194171B. I tried formatting the specific partition not the disk but unfortunately, I formatted the disk which contained my MAC OS together with the Recovery. I am now stuck in windows and I don't have the MAC Recovery Disk. What can I do to recover my MAC OS and potentially recovery in Windows?
How can I stop using iCloud for email storage and just store emails on my computer (a MacBook Pro)?
I have Windows 8 installed on my MAC but I don't have sound. The Internal speakers are not detected by Win8. In the charm, it show this; No speakers or headphones.
So basically i got this macbook used and when i got it it had windows 7 and no mac os x at all. I tried to install Mac os x from usb but it wouldent boot because the keyboard was not working... then i tried to use transmac to install the mac os x installer onto the internal hdd from a windows 7 desktop and now it says no bootable drive whenever i turn it on. Help me please!
I like to have all my desktop icons and shortcuts in very specific places. When I take a screenshot of the screen (for example) and it is saved to a file on the desktop, all the desktop icons arrange on the right of the screen by name and I have to move all my icons back to where they were. I have my desktop set to "none" sorting and "snap to grid" turned off so I can always keep my icons exactly where I want them all the time, without them moving around randomly whenever a file appears on the desktop.
Occasionally, my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) won't go to sleep when I close it. When I close the lid, the fans keep going and the computer slowly becomes warmer and warmer, louder and louder. Also, when the lid is closed, the little white "sleep light" on the front of the computer ignites solid (does not pulsate, as it normally should do when asleep).
I know that it's possible to record the screen on Yosemite and take screenshots that have 9:41 am. Is this same functionality possible with the Simulator?
My Safari 8 was hijacked by Open-Search.com after updating OS to Yosemite (10.10). The effect was two fold, my home page was hijacked by Open-Search/MacKeeper and the CPU started to load spikes at regular intervals.
i ran a script to change a tiff image, now it created the new image but kept the original with the file extension ".tif~". Is there any way to search for all of the files in Finder or in another way with the .tif~ extension to remove them all? I tried searching for system files and including invisible files in the search.
Last week I upgraded to Yosemite and I work a lot with saving files to a network share, mainly updating existing templates. Usually I just copy the newest template to the network share and it asks if I want to Overwrite/replace. Now when I attempt that it never asks me if I want to overwrite. It just hangs. Then if I attempt to change the file on my desktop, like rename, I get the error -8076. To resolve that error I have to run killall Finder for it to release the file. I am however able to delete the file and then copy up the new one but when working with 40-50 new files a day that is a burden especially with large files. Any help would be much appreciated.
The updated version of Preview has so many features I can use it instead of the complicated photoshop. However I have found there is no way to rotate/angle an inserted rectangle or square. can it be done?
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to Yosemite. Everything was fine ... then suddenly the MacBook Pro does not start up. It boots with some distorted graphics, and then just immediately restarts.
I am currently downloading yosemite from the app store. I have Lion installed. I want a clean install. But i don't have a bootable cd/usb and I don't need to save any data. Can i do the following or is there a better way?
A folder or place search place that contained everything I used "Today" and "Yesterday" is missing from my new Yosemite finder on the left. Is it not possible to have this? It was a quick easy way to recall specific things when working on a lot of different things.
I have 2 disks in my Mac - a new SSD which is my boot drive, and the original disk which came with the mac, which still has OSX installed on it (I haven't figured out what to use this drive for yet). I noticed when installing an application I got this message and I was surprised because I was sure OSX let you do this.
I am trying to create a workflow in Automator that will find hidden files in a folder by searching for files with names that begin with ".". Currently, the Find FInder Items action is as follows:
I am using automator with the Watch Me Do.action to scrape text from an very old application. Everything works okay, except that when i click on text and highlight it, it wont register the highlighting of the text.
I like safari to open links in new tabs in general. I.e. when I do a search, I want results I click to open in new tabs in the same window. This allows to have multiple windows with multiple tabs and have them grouped by topic.
After my upgrade to Yosemite, I am seeing a couple of extra shared computers in my finder sidebar. There are two additional computers that seem to be copies, based on their naming, having (#) appended to the computer name.
I've got a lot of highlighting and notes in iBooks that I've read, and would like to be able to collect them in one easy to use and manipulate format (e.g for writing papers and citing quotes). For example, I'd like a highlight like this
So I'm attempting to somehow access the files located on the old TM drive by connecting it through a dock to my Mac Mini, but can't seem to get that to work. The .sparsebundle file located on the drive is shown with a red circle with white bar icon, and I have no access or ability to double click and open the sparse bundle.
I've got an SD card and want to create a partition on it for the ext4 fs. The partition must start after 1MB. This 1MB will be used for a bootloader (u-boot). I'm doing this on OS X Yosemite. Here's what I do and get:
Whenever I set a piece of paper or a notebook with paper over my trackpad, it begins to act erratically for hours at a time. By erratic, I mean the mouse jumps around the screen and sometimes even clicks / right-clicks. This has been happening for several years (my MBP is from 2010, late-fall 15" i7).
My iTunes Match account is due for renewal, and I have some money credited to my account. I would prefer to have iTunes just credit my card versus using this gift card. When I look this up online, a lot of people reference that it does charge the card, but requires you to have another payment option.
When you click and hold the icon of a running application in the OS X dock you get a list of current app windows that you can pick from. The list of windows appears after some time interval. Is there a way to reduce this interval?
I was thinking it might be possible to replace my 5s screen with my buddy's 5 screen if all else fails, but I'm not sure if thats possible. Maybe someone can answer that too. Thanks guys!
A few times each day, the email logo bounces up and down and asks me to (again) input my aol password. Why is this? And what can I do to stop this happening?
I want to test a piece of a very simple javascript and print out the result. The Script Editor however only prints out undefined in the Result pane. What is the easiest way to print out the result?
I have an iMac11,2 running MacOS 10.8.5. Time Machine (TM) has made backup on a LaCie 320GB Firewire400 HDD for almost 2 years now. It stopped working 2 weeks ago, stuck on 'looking for drive'. My HDD is full, but I am quite sure it already deleted older backups successfully. I tried: to connect a new external HDD (Seagate 2TB with USB cover) and switch TM to this, formatted in MacOS extended,journalized (no encryption); to turn off TM, delete /System/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist, turn on TM, reselect my disk; once again rebooting before turning on TM; entered StarWars mode, copied com.apple.TimeMachine.plist from my last working backup to my internal HDD; copied Backups.backupdb from the 320GB to the 2TB disk; I can enter StarWars mode and browse, but still the infinite 'looking for drive' message
I have an iPod and iPad which I sync with my Mac. My wife has has an iPod, iPhone and iPad which she syncs with her Mac. These are all associated with the same Apple ID. I am planning to buy an iPhone, basically to replace my iPod. I understand there is a limit to the number of devices, although I have not been able to discover the devices associated with my Apple ID. *=URL=* has instructions which I have followed. There are 3 computer authorisations listed, but there seems to be no Manage Devices on the Account Information screen.
I have a mid-2011 macbook air. When I start up my computer, it automatically goes to recovery mode. I have a backup of my data, so I don't care what I have to do to get OS X working again.
I have not configured any mail settings and have no saved mail to worry about. I just need it to run. I have 4 Internet Accounts configured: iCloud Photos Contacts Calendars Reminders Safari Find My Mac Photos Contacts Calendars Reminders Safari Find My Mac Google Contacts Calendars Contacts Calendars Twitter LinkedIn (Contacts not selected) I have no mail configured.
I'm having a error when trying to ssh into my mac, from a linux VM if I try with the verbose option I get this I don't know what could be wrong, firewall options are ok. Searching the web I found a temporary solution, disabling the "remote session" option and then using this command: Don't think its a propper answer. This problem started when updating to Yosemite OSX. Apreciate the help.
I have several external drives, which I don't use constantly, and so they spin down, and rest. Unfortunately for me, every time I have the "Open..." or "Save..." dialogs, Mac OS X spins these hard drives back up, even if the currently displayed folder does not belong to those drives, and even though nothing of those drives appears anywhere (no treeview on the side, no folder from those drives in the sidebar). I don't have Spotlight enabled. Obviously a solution would be to disconnect/reconnect those drives, but that is something I would like to avoid. Is there a way to tell Mac OS X not to eagerly/preemptively fire up the drives?
I just moved my IMAP email from one server to another and now while I'm trying to delete any emails, Mail produces the following error: An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)”. I Google'd for it and found a lot of folks out there who are having the exact same issue but was not able to find solution.
sometimes this doesn't work, and my selection won't stick. and instead of restarting and interrupting my wifi each time, i found from a number of google search results, like macrumors forums, to use these either of these codes in terminal: and
I have a Macbook Air (with OS X 10.10 Yosemite). I've set the wallpaper to a folder and let the wallpaper change randomly every 30min. When I work at my desk, I have an additional external Display, and what I want is that that screen has the same wallpaper like the main display. Is there a way to do this or do I miss an option?
I just upgraded my 2010 MacBook Air to Yosemite. It froze during installation, I shut it down and when I restarted it booted normally to Yosemite.
So I a trying to open some lecture slides from my university to study however when I try to open certain PDF files the system becomes extremely slow and unresponsive. Details of the PDF (Blurred out the names):
Are there any caveats when removing the Superdrive from a mid 2011 27" iMac and replacing it with an SSD? Which SSD should I buy? Is there maybe an installation kit somebody has already installed successfully? My intention is to combine the SSD and the existing HDD into a Fusion drive.
I'm planning an upgrade of my iMac 27". An SSD will be added and combined with the existing HDD into a Fusion Drive. I have just reinstalled everything recently and like to keep this installation. My plan is to clone the HDD to an external drive using SuperDuper or something along these lines, the install and create the Fusion Drive and afterwards clone back onto the Fusion Drive.
Since this morning I noticed that some of the user images of this site are not displayed, both on safari and on chrome (all the "fractal" images are displayed, and alo some pictures, but others are not). Is this a problem of StackExchange or of my computer? I have OS 10.10 Yosemite, and the latest versions of safari and chrome.
Is it possible to hide dock bar permanently? I know we can make dock bar hide/appear automatically. But I don't want dock bar to appear even when the arrow moves on it.
I'm looking to replace my home server with a Mac Mini. I do a lot of conversions between movie formats (ie MKV to mp4) and was curious if it made more sense to go with the 2012 server model or the brand new (2014) model.
I am running a MacMini (late 2012) with OS X 10.9.5 Server as a media server connected to a TV via HDMI. The Mac ist mostly used as a Plex Server/Player and a SickBeard client (running on Python - GitHub install). Screen Sharing, SSH and Remote Management are enabled and everything has been working flawlessly - until recently.
Last night Apple put forth 14B17 a Pre-release: OS X Update Seed 10.10.1 I don't want to install it, but it doesn't go away.
I am trying to upgrade a 2008 MacBook Air from OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) to 10.10 (Yosemite). I understand from the Apple web site that the minimum required version of OS X is 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) for an in-place upgrade. However, I am assuming —correct me if I'm wrong— that the pre-existing version requirement isn't relevant if doing a clean install from a USB boot disk or other media? In any case I have had trouble doing this, hence this post:
I have the newest Macbook Air with maximum flash memory and processor power. Still, the search functionality lacks i.e. there is a time gap when hitting a button and getting the result in Finder. No such gap exists in Terminal. How can you take of the new features of Transparency and others which can make my Yosemite faster?
When I logging into www.icloud.com via the browser, i see all my contacts in my iCloud's address book. Here are 3 groups. mobile contacts all contacts wgroup
However logcheck, which is installed by homebrew can't work well since the lockfile-progs is a prerequisite. The error message is:
I represent a commercial software house that is about to develop an iOS app for a single client company. Our aim is to develop multiple apps for multiple clients over time. The client needs the app to be distributed via the App Store. I've read that for the client to appear as the seller in the App Store (although it will be free), they would need to enrol in the developer program. I foresee that we'll have to advise all our potential clients to enrol which seems illogical as they are employing us to do all the work so to avoid any 'technicalities'. Does anyone have real life experience of how to manage enrolment in these cases?
I enabled 2fa for my apple account, and now iCloud keeps asking me my password a lot of times every time I login. I think it doesn't even bother to check it, since as soon as I enter it, it pops the window again immediatly after I hit either login or cancel (it gives up after a few tries). I've created an application-specific password and I'm using that one, to no avail.
How to create a Wi-Fi hotspot (infrastructure network, not ad-hoc) on a Mac without any Internet connection? In Windows, we can easily create an infrastructure wifi LAN hotspot with: It is compatible with most devices like Android/Windows/Mac/iOS, and it does not require an available Internet connection. So, is there a similar solution on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) that: can create a Wi-Fi hotspot; compatible with most devices; does not require an Internet connection?
I have a new iPhone 6 and need to get my non-purchased music from the old iPhone 4S to the new phone. When I connect to iTunes on the new PC (with the old phone) and select Sync Music I get the warning asking me if I'm sure, and do I want to remove existing music etc. from this iPhone. And of course I don't because all the music I need is on that old iPhone. The old PC crashed and is no longer available. How can I transfer the songs to the new phone without having access to the old PC that the 4S used to sync with?
I ran Outlook for a day after updating to Yosemite, but after a reboot, it no longer works. When I click on the Outlook icon, it bounces a few times but never runs. Looking in system.log (via Console.app), it complains about a call to gestaltSystemVersion from both Outlook and Microsoft Database Daemon. (see below)
Tough question to frame ;) .. but I have a situation that plays out often: firing up the laptop (latest MacBook 15") at Starbucks will often never connect unless I restart the entire box. This tells me there is something amiss somewhere, to which I have no clue. I run nothing out of the ordinary and see no pattern.
How do I change the color of the fonts on my desktop to black? HELP has been no help. Also, on Safari, lines are so thin and light grey I can't see them; that's not good in a roadmap. I would like to change the color of the file names on desktop to black (from white) without changing anything else. I tried reversing the color and that made everything icky and dark. I calibrated the display to recommended settings but that doesn't help much; adjusting the angle of my laptop screen is no help. In Safari, I click on the top of a menu bar to drag a window and find I'm in the web address box because I can't see the border, and that triggers a menu full of icons. Google map road lines were barely visible. The font is so fine the numbers are hard to distinguish and read. On this page, the words under the Title AskDifferent are aqua and so small and light they are barely readable. I'm sure that some of this problem is developer-based but there was a time when I could change my desktop appearan
I upgraded to Yosemite and now my Imovie 06' will not work. I need to open and finish projects that are due in three weeks. What are my options?
I want to run Chrome in full screen mode on both my monitors, using Cmd+` to alternate between windows. Cmd+` seems to work fine for alternating between windows when not in full screen mode, but it seems as though when I'm in full screen mode there's no way to do it, and my secondary windows are inaccessible. The Q&A on this page states that it's "not possible": Full screen mode in two monitors
Today I was installing yosemite on my macbookpro 2013. 15inch. everything went smoothly till after restarting for further installation it states unable to install as hdd is locked. it then goes to disk utility. How should I continue when hdd is locked. the worse thing is i did not do any backup. please help Regards Herman.
I am getting lots of log messages in my 10.10 Server install. This was an upgrade from 10.9.5. I will get hundreds of the Gesture Started and Gesture Ended messages in a second with different numbers (i.e. 503xxx becomes 504xxx). Any ideas?
I have a mid 2012 macbook pro with a GT650M graphics card. From my research I have found that the maximum resolution for this card is 2560 x 1440. I currently run a thunderbolt external display with it.
I am trying to restore an old backup of mine to my ipod, my backup is a year old. I wouldn't need to do this if apple didn't screw up my ipod during my 8.1 update where it just kept restarting and eventually didn't turn on anymore. What i did then is i restored my ipod clean. Now what i want to do is to recover as much of the files I can so i decided to use that year old backup, everything started fine i can find it in my PC it started restoring but in the middle it returned an error. Any ideas on why this is happening? my ipod is running the latest ios version.
my Mac is not supported for Internet recovery, is there any other way/option to do Internet Recovery (boot-able tool to launch Internet Recovery )? edit: Macbookpro2,2 with blank hard-disk
Is it possible to use iCloud as solely cloud storage, where files aren't synced to my Mac? I'm trying to keep a copy of my music files and some other stuff on there (I don't want to use iTunes Match, I just want to files on there) and I now have two copies of all my music on my Mac - all 35GB of it, so 70GB in total! Has anyone else come across this or managed it? [More information edit]
But I still don't have autocompletion for git commands. (I used macports before, but completely removed it because I couldn't get git commands to autocomplete no matter what I tried.) I am on OSX 10.10
On a MacBook Pro, is there a way to change the text in the battery life drop down? Specifically, where it says "X:XX Remaining" I want it to say "X:XX of Apple Juice Remaining"
I have the Kohl's app installed on my iPhone running iOS 8.1. I notice that whenever I enable Location Access for that specific app, it starts pinging my location immediately, based on the location services icon in the status bar, and the purple location services icon next to the app in the settings. This takes place even though the app is not running, and I have Background App Refresh turned off for that app, although it shouldn't matter as it is not even running in the background.
I have a number of bluetooth headphones, and when they are connected to OSX, I notice some annoying phenomena. That phenomena is, when I do not play audio, the bluetooth headphones will quickly go into power-saving mode. And when I resume the audio, it will have a tiny explosion sound and then it will skip a second of audio. This is particularly annoying when I am working on music tracks. Can we disable the power-saving on bluetooth headphones or find a way to prevent it from going into power-saving mode? (Like looping a very silent sound in the background...)
How can I find out if a text was sent via an iPhone instead of a Mac? I want to see if my kids are texting me from their iPhones or iPads to make sure they are where they say they are.
I found mention of this with this example (but no more info)  And we are having a problem (only on iOS8 on the ipad) causing this problem on our website:
I tried NGINX as a webserver and PHP (both from homebrew) is able to connect to localhost. Any more ideas as to why it would behave this way? What could Apple have done to their configuration of Apache in Yosemite that would cause this? What is gained from disallowing/denying connection to localhost?
I have attached an HFS+ hard drive with Mac OS X installed to an Ubuntu machine because while booting the Mac shows a blinking folder with a question mark. I searched Google and the results say that the 3 TB HDD is damaged. When I attach the HDD it reads well in Ubuntu. So my question is how can I reformat the HDD with HFS+ in Ubuntu without using Mac OS X?
I have keys responding problem on a brand new iMac (Yosemite) with new numeric keypad. The right side keys doesn't respond in any application. IT'S NOT the Num Lock (Clear) button! Just checked it. Also checked with old keyboard - same problem and the other way - the keyboard works perfectly on old iMac.
As we all know Maverics is not available on AppStore anymore so I downloaded my "purchased" Mavericks from another MB Pro I have. Someone here asked the similiar question and several people advised to make a bootable usb-drive and restore the system from it. My questions is - can I use the 5,33Gb file I downloaded from "purchased" to simply upgrade without the need to backup my MB Air first? Should I copy the file to a specific folder or may just use Desktop? Thanks!
Currently I have a Nokia 6300 and a Mac with Mountain Lion installed. Calendar and Contacts sync through iSync via Bluetooth without a problem. I'm thinking of upgrading to Mavericks or Yosemite, but as these newer OS'es miss the syncing services necessary for iSync to work I wouldn't be able to connect my Nokia anymore. I don't want to buy a smartphone just so it will sync with my Mac, so therefore I'm looking for a "dumbphone" that can sync with my Mac on Mavericks or Yosemite. So my question is:
I have a macbook pro 13" 5,5 late 2009 edition, I use it all the time for taking notes and research at college etc. but I also use it to record music for my band and occasionally I play games on it. I am quite a mobile person and whilst a desktop isn't out of the question I'm a student so don't really have much money. I have recently started to play more games and record more music and I'm becoming increasingly aware of my Mac's low performance when gaming and occasionally when recording so I looked online for ways to increase the performance. I've been considering upgrading to a SSD and changing my measly 2GB of RAM to 8GB.
My iphone 4s will not let me take pictures or videos it keeps telling me that i do not have enough space available. But i have recently taken all my picture off and put them on my computer. So i have very few picture on the iphone and very few apps. I have tried deleting both more apps and picture but it does not seem to help. What is going on? this has never happened before what should i do? Thank you! :)
I'm very new to Mac and right now my operating system is 10.10 Yosemite. I installed XCode and Xcode CLT, gcc came along with it as well. I was asked to change the default compiler to gcc. I went online to this question here to find out how to do it - How to set gcc 4.8 as default gcc compiler and these were the instructions I chose to follow (They seemed pretty straightforward) -
I'm not certain if the Adaptive Firewall in Yosemite Server 4.0 is just not working or just not working for screensharingd. I have a Mac mini Server in a colo and get lots of attempts at screensharing. So I turned on the adaptive firewall as per Apple docs and it does not seem to be doing anything. Whats my next step?
Although my settings are Pacific Time (Cupertino), the time shown on incoming mail messages is one hour too late, using the web interface. The message time on my iPhone is correct. Hunh?
iTunes is lacking some features I could really use for burning MP3 CDs for the car audio system. Ability to convert AAC to MP3 Ability to group non-album songs into folders In itunes, the process appears to be: find all the songs you want to burn to an MP3 CD figure out which songs are not in MP3 format tell itunes to make duplicate versions of these files in MP3 format figure out which are now the MP3 versions and drag them into a playlist edit the copied MP3s' meta data to 'fake' a new album so it's grouped on the CD correctly Is there a piece of software that can do what I'm looking for and/or is there a way to do what I want in iTunes that I'm somehow missing?
I would like to change the default sound ("basso") that plays when an Alert is fired from iCal in the notification center? I have tried changing the sounds in notification center, but it seems to be overridden by the iCal settings. Can the sound be changed to "glass" or any other?
I am trying to open a file on an smb share in preview from terminal. The following command opens the containing folder in finder instead of the file in preview. open -a /Applications/Preview.app "smb://myshare._smb._tcp.local/path/to/file/my_file.pdf"
After I've upgraded to Yosemite, I've started to receive email alerts about upcoming events from my Calendar. This is a typical email
I tried to update iMovie and got the following error. Update Unavailable with This Apple ID This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled.
I'm trying to set up an Exchange server in Mail.app. The username in the preferences is incorrect, and I can't connect to the server because of that. There's no explanation in the UI, or any help section to explain.
Currently running Mavericks. Got a LOT of things installed through Homebrew and a handful through Ports. Are these going to survive the upgrade? What is best practice in this situation?
I have to join a shared calendar for which i have a https url (like *=URL=* How can I join it on the Calendar App? I only managed to subscribe to it, although when subscribing I cannot add my own events but only see what others are publishing. It works perfectly using Thunderbird Lightspeed, but I want to be able to use the Calendar App for my convenience
Looking for phone setting preferably. Turning off Hotspot not acceptable option. Is turning off USB network in System Preferences on the laptop the only way?
Is there a way to remap keys in foreign layout by modifying existing layout or creating your own? Yosemite (as well as Mavericks before that) has "Russian-PC" and "Russian" layout, both missing "ё" letter. PC layout normally would map it to '`' key, to the left from 1.
But to actually access the folder i had to chown it to my user. What is happening here? The mac also randomly choses to fail at the boot screen, but after some fsck -fy in SU mode it boots again like nothing happened.
I just reformatted and did a clean OS X 10.10 install on my MacBook Pro. When setting it up the first time I enabled FileVault. I then noticed I had configured my account wrong, so I created a temporary admin account (simply called Admin) and removed my initial account, and created a new account with admin access. I then logged in to the new account and removed the temporary Admin account. Now, when I start the computer, this happens (Dropbox video link).
I have just updated my 2013 MacBook Pro 13 inch with 10.10 Yosemite, but now I can't webcast. How do I turn the camera back on?
The password is entered, the return key is hit. The password bullets highlight and the system sits and gives no feedback as to the auth status. The clock is still running, so the system isn't locked up. If I sleep the device (Either by closing the MBP or by hitting the power key briefly) then when the login screen comes back up (after reawake) a new set of issues occur. Now the password bullets simply clear whenever the return button is pressed.
If I quit Parallels when there are virtual machines running, then these machines are automatically started the next time I start Parallels. Is there any way to make sure that Parallels never automatically start any VM at startup?
Since upgrading to Yosemite (did a wipe of my HD before installing, so no settings was there from Mavericks) I can only connect my Magic Mouse normally once per boot. Normally you would be able to connect the mouse, sleep the computer, connect the mouse again, however I have to reboot my MacBook Pro after the sleep, if I want the Magic Mouse to work again. I can see the device in both the Bluetooth preference pane and the Bluetooth menubar icon dropdown, but clicking connect in either of them does nothing. Sometimes deleting the pairing and re-pairing with the mouse works, however most of the time it doesn't. I have tried to reset my nvram and deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist, without any success. When using Mavericks and below, I have never had any issue with my Magic Mouse and the problem still exist when using a different Magic Mouse on Yosemite. Any suggestion on how to fix this, without downgrading to Mavericks?
Where can I download iTunes 11? I have an older Mac, max OS X 10.6.8 and have problems with synchronising iPhone iOS8 and iPad iOS7 with iTunes 11.4 (the latest version on this OS X-system for this old Mac ;). Synchronise stays grey. So I searched and searched for answers. On the AppleSupport I found a solution: trash iTunes 11, empty the trash, restart, reinstall iTunes 11. Now I can't find iTunes 11 on the web(site) to reinstall.
I installed KeePass as described here but it KeePass does not start - Activity Monitor tells me that Mono is not responding. I have never used KeePass before (if this is relevant). I am using Yosemite I am not sure if this a Mono or a KeePass issue, but I also tried Mono 3.10 version and the same happened. Any experiences with KeePass / Mono under Yosemite or ideas how I could troubleshoot what is happening? I know about KeePassX - but the consensus seems to be that KeePass is the better option? EDIT: I just ran keeps from the command line, and got the following output (no idea what it means...):
I've created a shell script wrapping ssh to change my terminal background when connecting to a server following one of the many examples on this site and stackexchange. As you can see, which ssh does correctly find the script I placed in /usr/local/bin, however whereis ssh does not, and when I run ssh user@example.com, I still get the system ssh without executing my wrapper. I'm forced to call it directly via /usr/local/bin/ssh user@example.com to get the color change. Any idea what's missing here?
When I try to open images or pdfs with preview, the application starts but the files never open. When I try to open them from the command line, I get the error message: This was working yesterday, so presumably I did something to break it since then, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could have been.
Window Finder periodically receives the default size . I updated to Yosemite clean and updated, but it is repeated. Removes p.list, D_Store: sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm {} \; contents of folders Preference, the result is 0 the error persists . Who has this bug , is there a solution? Thank you all .
I have a folder containing files like ABC - 2001 DEF EFG - 2001-2002 HIJ KLM - 2003 NOP QRS - 2004
I have a problem with my G5 PPC with OS X 10.5.8. I bought this Mac from an English friend of mine. He forgot an administrator password. I don't have the system CD or Internet connection. I tried to follow your instructions in other post (command+s) but this is what happens when I do that (on the Mac).
created App ID - DONE created development provision profile - DONE when creating App in iTunes Connect I would hope to select appropriate Bundle ID, but that is not listed
So I have an Applescript to launch xemacs, but I thought it would be nice to have something I could drop files onto (and have an app to choose from contextual menus in the "open with" submenu), so I tried making an Automator app. I called the app "XEmacs Opener.app" and it works... once. But it will not launch new XEmacs windows (unless I just click the run button from automator itself) until the first one is closed. I tried running the shell script with nohup, used the '&' to put it in the background, and called exit afterwards, but this does not solve the problem: Here's a screen-shot in case I didn't fully explain how it's set up:
Update: here's the results of running kextstatus while in single-user mode. If StackExchange makes it awkward to read, you can also find a gist of the same information. Update #2: In the interest of clarity and completeness,
My iMac hdd is starting to go and I am trying to recover files I had on the Windows OS through boot camp. I cant seem to find the path to get to my Windows directory. the only way I can get in the hdd is while I am in single user mode. I tried to connect as an external hdd to pc but it would not initialize the disk and when connected externally to Mac it does not even see it. In single user mode I can explore easily but I cant seem to find where the files are.
I currently have Mac OS X Mavericks. When I try to download Yosemite from the App Store the file begins to download and shows an estimated time. After a few minutes the file stops downloading and the estimated time is now replaced by "calculating". After calculating for a minute or so the App Store stops trying to download and shows an error has occurred. I have deleted the file and started fresh several times and restarted my computer each time ending up with the same error each time. All of my updates have been installed. Please help!
I don't really know what it is called but it was an issue for me. So here is what I was doing: Created Directory with content and have it open in finder Open a terminal and go to the same directory. In finder I delete the folder, it goes to the trash. Recreated folder in finder, with the same name, different content. Do a ls in the terminal, which prints out the old directory's content.
Plain and clear : How do you cancel a click after you press the mouse. Say for example I press the mouse on a close button to close an application, but then I change my mind and want to cancel the closing. In windows you just drag out of the area and let go of the mouse, but that doesn't seem to work in OSX. Any ideas ? NB : Using Mac OSX Yosemite
I want to upgrade to Yosemite but before I do, I need to know if the upgrading process will require I reinstall all my apps once the upgrade is done. I am in the middle of a lot of work and don't have time to re-install every app again such as Photoshop, Lightroom and a host of other phoography related software. Thanks for your help. Charles
I run an OSX server in my office (Previously Mavericks now upgraded to Yosemite) and I need to allow a few Windows laptops to the server. I have never been fully successful at doing connect to the OSX server but I have had moments when I can see and connect. Mostly I cannot connect at all, I don't know why that is. From Windows network, I can see the OSX server however when I attempt to Authenticate it fails.
When Yosemite went live to all users, I updated but a week later I wasn't happy with the performance of the mac and certain apps. So I installed the OS from scratch, I made a backup, erased the Macintosh HD and reinstalled, all went right.
I heard somewhere (urgh! not a good start to a question) that with Yosemite + iOS 8.1, i can now turn on my iPhone personal hotspot remotely, and then try and connect to it (assuming the iPhone is near).
Just what the title says, I deleted a group message in Messages, but it's still showing the unread number from that thread (see screenshot) and I can't bring up the group message because I deleted it. Short of having someone text in that group again to make it reappear, anyone know how I can fully delete the thread, or clear the unread number?
Lots of similar questions, but I can't quite seem to find anything that is an exact match. I am using the default Terminal (in Yosemite) to SSH into a VM. The VM's terminal is set up to use TERM=xterm-256color properly, and 256 colors works locally on the VM with the same terminal settings, but the colors will not make it over the SSH connection. Does anyone have any idea what it takes to get Terminal to just treat the output as normal 256 color sequences?
I have a pair of Beats Studio Wireless headphones. They work great most of the time. However, sometimes, they will start to skip and drop in and out (as if I were plugging and unplugging an audio cable). The speed of the audio will increase after it skips to "catch up".
My new iPhone 6 Plus (iOS 8) doesn't show an option for AirPlay in the control centre, and on the few occasions that it does, it only shows itself as a target.... Not my Airport Express. I can't see the airport in airport utility either.
I'd like to apply a quartz filter (Reduce File Size) through Preview Export using the command line while passing in the input and output filenames through CLI. I'm thinking the best way to do this is through Automator since it seems there isn't a way to access Preview through CLI. I'm thinking it would look something like this in the end: But I'm probably completely off. Here's the basic workflow, which doesn't work as hoped:
I have been using a 24" monitor with my macbook pro early 2011 connected via a mini display port to DVI adaptor. I recently received an HP Z30i 30" monitor. When I connect to it with an mini display port to display port adaptor, although it displays at the monitors native 2560x1600 resolution, the mac is scaling the desktop display down so as to leave a 1cm or so black border around the desktop. The mac reports using a resolution of 2560x1600 and the display reports this also. This makes the display blurry as single pixels become sub pixels. The display looks like the same effect as having "under scan" turned on when using an HDMI cable at 1080p.
Today, suddenly, my MacBook Pro is gone mute. The speaker icon on the top bar is faded gray and within the output devices there is not the option internal speaker anymore but just digital output and two Soundflower options. I've tried what was suggested in the thread Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite but it didn't worked. When I restart my Mac, it makes the opening sound and it works with headphones. What should I do to restore the sounds?
The only options on the location privacy prompt are 'Allow' or 'Don't Allow', with a 'Remember my decision for one day' modifier checkbox as well. But what if there's a site that I trust in perpetuity? I want to give it permission to access my location forever. Why can't I do that? Safari 8.0 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
My mail folder is using a lot of memory. Can I simply empty the folder in the Application Support folder or do I have to throw mail in the trash using the Mail program?
To clarify, I have two iTunes folders, one on an external HD and one on the internal HD, and it appears that when I open iTunes it knows about both folders. I only want one folder (on the internal drive) so that, for instance, if I disconnect the external HD things don't get confused or messed up.
When I take a pic on my iPhone it syncs to my iPad as well, but when I delete a pic from my iPhone, it doesn't get deleted off my iPad. iOS 8.1, iPhone 5c, iPad Air The following settings are enabled: Settings > iCloud > Photos > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing Settings > Photos and Camera > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing on the iPhone Settings > Photos and Camera > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing on the iPad Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue?
I have just backed up my iphone on my laptop for the first time in a while and updated my handset. After I finished, I then realised that I was logged into my friends iTunes account on my laptop. Does this mean that my friend will have access to everything that is on my iphone when they log into their iTunes? texts / contacts / emails etc? I am worried that all of my information including text messages has now been uploaded to their handset and I don't want this to happen. I want to make sure that when they back up their phone, they won't be uploading my information from their home computer to their phone. Can someone please tell me that the back up is just on my lap top and not on their overall iTunes???
My 2012 Mac Mini (Mavericks) is plugged into a USB audio interface which is selected as my sound in and sound out device. All works great, except for the startup sound which still comes out of the internal speaker. Is there a fix for this?
I have a classic British Windows keyboard plugged into my Mac Mini. I'm sure I had it working but now it's not... I can choose between these two layouts but neither is correct:
I'm having trouble renewing my Developer Program Account which expired a month ago. I have emailed Apple about this issue a few times but their help was, at best, unclear. I log into the Member Center, click on the Your Account tab, and under Account Summary (on the left) I have 3 sections: Apple ID Summary, Contact Preferences, and Memberships. The Memberships section tells me (currently) that my Developer Program Status Enrollment was Withdrawn, with a button to "Join Today".
It is not straightforward that the owner of the product is who uploads the binary? Why do I have to set the year at copyright field? Next year I have to update it?
I opened Disk Utility and the "minus" button. Disk Utility told me both partitions would be merged then. However it miserably failed. My main hard disc suddenly had errors which couldn't be repaired and even two of my other external hard discs could not be mounted any longer. I eventually restored the hard disc from Time Machine, which worked well. My second partition is now listed as free:
I just bought a Mac mini to use as our office server (Yosemite). How can I search the shared folders with Spotlight from my client iMac?
I've got a phantom update notification in Mac App Store which I really want to get rid of. The notification is for AngryBirds but I don't have this app installed anywhere on my mac. The issue is pretty much like this question: Phantom Update Stuck In Mac App Store
After connecting or disconnecting external display some lag appears on every scroll in every app. Only restart helps (or windowserver restart).
On Yosemite I disabled notifications with the following terminal command: Does anyone know what I need to type to restore the original default notification setting?
I accidentally told my Mac laptop to forget my bluetooth speaker. Now I can't undo the 'forget device'? Can i reset it so i can reconnect my wireless speaker? I have tried to find a reset button in settings but I can't find one?
I work on an iOS app for a company that sells educational courses, to access the app you need an account and paid subscription on the website. Apple have recently rejected our application (out of the blue) quoting section 11.13 of the App Store Review Guidelines. Additionally, we found that your app provides access to account registration. As this also provides the user access to mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, this is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.
I wanted to buy an Apple developer account, I live in Pakistan and my country is not in Apple supported countries. I asked my friend who lives in the United kingdom to buy an account for me and thanks to him he did. Now, I have an account, but I need to setup Baking and Tax information in iTunes connect. That is where I need your guidance! Can you help with these questions?
My phone has 32 Gigs and 24 Gigs are already used. 15.4 GB of them are because of the videos. The rest is information I am willing to erase if I can save those videos.
I have an IIS hosted website. With iOS 8, some of the page looks ugly now in Safari. Until we have the resources to determine what's wrong so we can fix the website, I was hoping I can set an HTTP Response Header to set "compatibility mode" somehow in Safari?
I tried searching on web but could not find any substantial answer about the meaning behind this icon.
I was using rEFIt to work with Ubuntu with my Mac. After the upgrade to Yosemite I had a problem with rEFIt. I found the following solution on ubuntuforums.org but rEFIt still didn't work:
When I check logs (Apache, Ruby on Rails) it appears that my development Mac Mini Server is being scanned. I would like to install mod_security. I'm currently running the latest version of Mavericks but plan to install Yosemite within couple of days. I use Apache 2.2.26. Where are the Apache modules located on the Mac Mini Server in Mavericks and Yosemite?
"\n" is mentioned in some pdf's I have. When I search using quotation marks in both Spotlight and Preview Apps they have issues pulling up this exact phrase. Does anyone have a suggestion for finding this phrase?
I use my iPhone for conference calls regularly, with a Bluetooth headset/microphone. Often I keep my mic muted except for when I speak. It is awkward that when I want to speak, I need to wake-up and unlock my phone, before pressing the mute button. Is there a way to make my phone stay awake during calls, without changing the sleep/lock settings generally?
1) Recording videos and having them be small in the first place? (the length of the videos are going to be around 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes. I am willing to compromise on quality but not size, 30 videos of each 1 minutes size is not a solution to my problem). 2) Compressing the video files that I already have on my MAC book pro? To get a better sense of what my goal is, I would like to have videos of the quality of the following: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett
A certain Safari tab is asking for a username/password that I do not have. I can click "Cancel" on the authentication dialog but it immediately pops up again. The dialog is modal, meaning that it disables all other UI elements of the window except the minimize/resize buttons. How can I close the problematic tab without quitting the application?
I've got my headphones connected, and I've checked system preferences to make sure they are the audio output device. Most sound comes out through the headphones, like Spotify and YouTube. But, system sounds come out through my thunderbolt display, like dragging a file to the trash. Seems to only be a problem since I upgraded to Yosemite.
In a text box, I can right click and select Transformations > Make Uppercase. Is it possible to create my own text transformations? a super simplified example would be to wrap the selected text in parenthesis.
Just within the last day or two I have had Messages go out on me. It happened with 10.10 and then the same is occurring with 10.10.1. I see that others around the web are experiencing the same or a similar issue from the way things are phrased, yet no one seems to have a clear answer. One individual seems to have gotten some help by talking with Apple and having them look at their Apple ID account and changing something on Apple's end... but after being on hold for an hour and them telling me that they're just going to have to have someone call me back, I thought I'd start asking for some additional input here: The first indicator of the problem is simply this message in iMessage whilst trying to sign in:
Figuring out what is causing this panic attack.. Can anybody help me with this?
Just saw an article about the vicious malware that is Wirelurker. In short, Wirelurker can attack even non-jailbroken iOS devices, and has great potential to turn these wonderful iOS devices into dumb bots:
I can't scroll using trackpad in Word since I upgraded to Yosemite. I'm on a MacBook Pro. It seems fine in all other areas, just in Word. I have to go to the sidebar and drag it up and down to scroll. Ideas?
So I have been trying to log onto a virtual machine (a linux server for my school). I have Remote Login enabled, and it worked perfectly prior to the update. Now when I try to use ssh, it just does nothing until I get the error: sh: connect to host **...* port 22: Operation timed out. If I try to use Remote Desktop, it says I have to either activate remote desktop or it is a problem on the other side, which I know it isn't because I am able to log onto the server on other computers/Macs. Anything I have to do? Thanks
tl;dr stop hanbrake from rotating my original videos once it compresses them. I know that similar questions about rotating have been asked, but they are more in the lines of "how do I rotate a video". Mine is a little different. I could use some of the solutions other question provide to rotate my video, however, my original video was on the right orientation to start with!
My notes have been deleted after updating the OS on my Macbook Pro from Lion to Yosemite. How can I recover them? MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
On most systems, one would just run java -version and a non-zero return code would indicate that Java is not installed. One could do this on OS X, but a nuisance-prompt comes up to ask the user if they want to install Java. This is irritating in automated scripts. How can one detect whether Java is installed on a Mac, without getting the popup?
I'd like to keep my Flagged mailbox visible and I'd still like the regular Inbox to show the count of unread email. However, I'd like to remove the number being displayed beside both the Flagged mailbox and the Junk mailbox. Is there anyway I can easily do this? Thank you much.
How can I change the aqua theme/skin to a dark one in Yosemite? I'm referring to the window title bars, scroll bars, buttons, etc (the cocoa aqua ui theme?). Everything is grayish by default, but i'd like a dark theme.
So I dragged my .gif onto he default globe, and it shows the popup allowing me to edit the dimensions of my image. While I am zooming in/out, it is still animating. I was overjoyed at this, thinking that if the image animates in the edit panel, then it will animate on the login screen. Nope.
I have 2 external drives that I use respectively for Time Machine and for all my work. I installed OS X Yosemite today and now every time my iMac goes to sleep (I never turn my macs off) it attempts to eject them. This never happened before and is a pain as all my work could potentially get lost or corrupted. Help!
I will be preparing some iBook files to use on an exhibit in a museum, and I am afraid that visitors accidentally (or not) delete the book from the iBooks app. I looked at the Restriction Settings, but I didn't find anything that could help me. Is it possible to do that?
I want to find IP Address of Iphone which is connected through usb to my Mac. Kindly note that Mac and Iphone are on different networks.
I want to watch videos on my Mac but I don't like QuickTime. I was wondering what the community recommends.
I just downloaded HandBrake on my Mac to edit videos (and compress them). The GUI works fine, however, when I type the command HandBrakeCLI in Terminal, it does NOT find the command. The specific issue I am trying to resolve is that I want Terminal to know where to find the HandBrakeCLI commands and related tools. How do I do that once I have a working GUI? How do you "activate" the HandBrakeCLI command on MAC? This is what I am typing into my terminal: I got the idea to type that command from: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide
I have Outlook 2011 installed, and in the finder "all my files" shows me my e-mail messages, contacts and events. Are these Items saved as files on my mac? can I disable this?
I need to be able to control how I zoom in and out of my videos. For example, if I can't control very granularly how I close my video is, then it might not be useful.
So...I'm still on iOS 6.1. I know, I know, pretty much nobody has iOS 6 now if they can help it. Well, I've recently freed up enough space on my iphone 5 to update to iOS 7, but I don't want the iOS 8, and I can't seem to get past that on the software update. Is there anyway I can get the 7 without having to get the 8 at all? Someone once suggested force update by computer, but I'm not sure how that works. Does anyone know, or am I stuck with iOS 6?
How do I fix this message, I am Admin, Mobile. Even if i login to a root account this message still appears. I have iTerm so if any commands need to be inputted to fix this problem I can still do it. This also happens with activity monitor. Mavericks
After updating to Yosemite the only trouble I have is that VMWare Fusion (Professional Version 5.0.5 if that helps) fails to start showing following error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make surethat the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. I've tried to google the issue but the only relevant thing found was this:
On my Windows machine I use [Win]+R to bring up a RUN prompt where I can type in a URL to quickly go to the web. I've been searching to find a Mac equivalent (without installing any special software) and haven't had any luck. Is there a Mac equivalent?
My daughter accidentally turned on the Guided access, and the dilemma here is that we forgot the password, and we can't turn off the iPad to reboot, because it is stuck in app which she is using. How can I remove the Guided Access ?
I'm following instructions from *=URL=* But when I type in "git --version", I'm seeing:
I'm running Yosemite, a clean install. launchd continuously runs at 100% CPU. Since the Yosemite upgrade I can't change the log level with 'sudo launchctl log level debug'
I am not technologically savvy, however, I'm not completely useless. I've spent too much time watching YouTube videos and asking Google ONE MORE TIME how to fix my problem and I'm done. I'm about the just throw my Canon MP560 into the parking lot outside my apartment and smash it to bits, while laughing and crying.
I've noticed a drop battery life as well as performance from my macbook since the new Yosemite update a week ago. The performance slows down greatly, even with my 8gb of ram. Animations are very choppy and the entire system just slows down.
So when I have, say, Safari open, or Firefox, but not Chrome, and go to (in Safari) FILE>SHARE>EMAIL THIS PAGE (or the equivalent in Firefox)...suddenly Chrome opens to the Network Solutions webmail login, which I was working in earlier, until the server locked up. I've dumped caches, cookies, histories, run diagnostics...no luck. Ideas?
Have this little problem, anyone knows how to fix it? Update the app didn't help. Tnx!
I have iMac (2012) with OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) currently on it. I am a iOS app developer and need my mac best performing and can't let my mac go down for even 2-3 days.
I thought this was already possible in earlier versions of OS X but Yosemite seems to be missing the 'Web.qlgenerator' quick look plugin (or at least I am) How do you enable .url quick look to see rendered html in Yosemite? I found this question of someone who wants to disable the rendered html and have it show to source code instead, so it should be possible
One of the things I always backup when re-formatting a Mac are the digital signatures I have saved in Preview. For this, my go-to reference used to be here: Can I export my signature from Preview on one Mac and import it on another?. But OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) seems to be doing things a little different.
Is there a way to increase the font size of the Reminders app? It was easy in Mavericks, by changing a text file inside the app package, but I can't find it anymore on yosemite. The text is just too small, isn't it?
MY iPad 2 was updating to iOS 8 since 2 days ago and up till now, it's still not finished. I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but the progress bar is at the same spot for a whole day already. Can somebody help me?
There are many forums answering this question for previous versions of MAC OSX, but 10.10 doesn't seem to have the service 'com.apple.metadata.mds.plist' in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. It has 3 others (com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist, com.apple.metadata.mds.scan.plist and com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump.plist). When I try any mdutil commands I get:
I'd like my shell script to verify if the /System/Library/Extensions folder (and subfolders) contains any kexts that don't pass signature validation. How do I do that? There are a couple utilities that seem to include that kind of functionality, e.g.
If I have a visible tab (non occluded window) open on Gmail, my Safari (8.0 running on Yosemite) keeps downloading data at a rate of 1 MB/s. The same does not happen with Chrome. I'd like to understand what this is for, and if possible, make it stop. Some info: logs don't show anything suspicious. caches are ok network panel of web inspector shows no activity lsof output: https://gist.github.com/Agos/78fa61943af31d634a99
I have a brand new iMac 3.5GHz i5 with 8GB of RAM with a non SSD drive. When I boot Yosemite it takes 52 seconds from the gong to the desktop, most of which is spent with the progress bar. This seems like a long time to me, but I have no point of reference. Is this normal? additional information: I upgraded from Mavericks. Disk permissions have been repaired. Disk has been verified. Printing system has been reset. All peripherals have been disconnected. WiFi has been turned off. All login items have been removed. FileVault is turned off
I replaced the Superdrive of my iMac with an SSD. Next, I trimmed down the partition of my existing HDD (2TB) as much as possible using Disk utility. This resulted in a 140GB partition. Then I used Disk Utility to clone the reduced partition over to the 250GB SSD. If I check with DU, it tells me the amount of data is around 140GB and Finder shows me the same.
I was previously running Windows 8 pro in Fusion 6 on Mavericks. I had the VM configured with 2 processor cores and 4GB RAM. The main applications I use in Windows are as follows: Visual Studio 2013 SQL Server Express SQL Server Management Studio IIS Express Google Chrome (for testing and debugging with Dev Tools)
I have a backup drive connected to my mac mini, which I just upgraded to yosemite. I created a guest account, and unfortunately, the guest can browse the backup drive. Is there an easy way to prevent that?
I imported all the contacts to my iPhone via .vcf file and now they are not sorted by name. They are all under the # sign. Screenshot http://shrani.si/f/32/wx/1Nv0cI53/unnamed.png
OSX features full-screen mode in recent versions but that's not really the same thing as automatically resizing a window to use the full desktop like on Windows... And, what is the + button supposed to do exactly? It generally seems to make the current window a bit bigger but not in an obviously consistent way. Somehow I can't figure out how this is supposed to work (or I'm too used to the Windows way of things), so any explanation would be apprecated.
In iOS6 and before, you could double-press the home button then swipe the bar of running apps right to get to music controls and an icon for the app last playing (or currently playing) music. This was very convenient to quickly get into Pandora/Slacker/Spotify/Beats/whatever and thumbs up or down a song. In iOS8 (and 7 I'm told although I skipped it), it seems the only way to reach the app last playing is to scroll through the obscenely widely spaced full screen images of running apps and guess the one you think was last playing. Is there any simple way to get to the app last playing or currently playing music?
What will this command do to Yosemite/the Mac? Can it have any other side effects?
Recently I was zooming on a picture on Yosemite and I came to this : Which changed to this :
When booting up and logging into my MacBook Pro, I get the following error message: This is an image of the error:
I have a Macintosh [MacBook Pro] with multiple monitors. There's the built in laptop display and I additional have a Apple Thunderbolt Display and another third party monitor attached via Thunderbolt/DisplayPort adapter. This is a total of three displays.
How do I fix my Mac? Okay so I'm in a weird spot with my Mac. It has no startup up disk. I have the installation disk for it but my super drive does not work. I'm wondering can I boot it from a USB? I do not care if it uses apples software or Linux. I just want to get it to work so icon access the internet.
I'm using a macbook pro running Yosemite. I was trying to create installation media to install linux on an SD card, and I used a USB key that had a bootable windows installation on it. I thought I had overwritten it, and booted from it, expecting the linux installation to boot up. Instead, the old windows OS started up, and after I shut it back down, it kernel panicked every time it tried to restart. After glancing around, it appears that the windows installation added an MBR boot partition where it shouldn't have been, and overwrote the normal EFI scheme.
I need Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) in order to work with some legacy software and I want to buy new Mac Mini computer. Is it possible to install this OS on a new Mac Mini or it's not compatible with it? If so, what is the latest model of Mac Mini that I can use in this scenario?
I recently updated my Mac Mini Server to Yosemite and the Server app 4.0. When I tried to verify that Postgres is available by executing sudo serveradmin fullstatus postgres I get the following error: When I attempted to execute sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist I got the following error: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist: No such file or directory I tried doing the same in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgrd.plist and got the following error:
I'm on OS X 10.9.5. I do not like using mouse/trackpad, and mostly work with keyboard only. One annoying thing is that when the OS is locked (screen lock) and the power saving for the monitor is activated, I can't wake it up with a keystroke. I MUST move the mouse cursor to let me type in my password to unlock the screen. Does anybody else have the same problem and if so is there a workaround?
Not sure where else to turn - just upgraded two Mac Mini (late 2012 models) to include 120GB SSDs. The first one went fine - took the update and booted properly. Great.
I am creating this service for Finder that will receive image files and pass to a shell command. The idea is this: I select image files on finder. I right click and choose the service I am creating the service receives the files and passes to sips, so it will scale the images to a given size. this is how I created it. sips would run on terminal if I type I am hoping that $* would pass a list of arguments to sips, but this is not working. How do I do that?
I am using OSX and would like to be able to convert pdf files to text. I would like a free application to do this, as I am sure there must be some.
I'm new to iMovie I have imported the raw footage I want to edit Here is the noob question: How do I select the parts I want to use? It seems, in older versions of iMovie, this was done simply by marking (click and drag to select) the part, and then move it down to timeline How is it done now? Macbook Pro 15" retina 2012 with Yosemite
The new "Search Tabs" feature of Safari 8 is pretty nice. When "show all tabs" is activated, you can type some text to filter the tabs to the one you want. However, once I have a single tab visible, it would be very nice to be able to activate that tab. This would allow "spotlight" type functionality for tabs.
I'm having to get a very quick intro to iOS development to support apps for my organization. We would like to post a notification to users of one of our apps that it is being replaced by another. I suppose this would look like a banner when the app is launched.
I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.5. In Finder windows, besides the sidebar, there is a sort of "upbar", right below the name of the folder you are viewing but before the colum/list/icon view of it, where you can put shortcuts to files. This is a screenshot of a typical window on my computer: Edit - it's called the Toolbar, I've edited the Question title to make it easier for others to Google.
CMD + LEFT is a really important shortcut that i use in multiple applications on my mac: (go to back in google chrome, to put the cursor in the beginning of line in any IDE...etc.). however, it seems that in Yosemite(?) this command seems to move my window left.
My wife mutes her iPhone 5 at work because she has many landline phone meetings during the day and doesn't want the sound to play over her conference calls. The problem is that she often doesn't unmute the phone when leaving work. So, after leaving work, she will often miss calls or texts because she has muted the phone.
As seen here, the top of the line MacBook Pro Retina (with NVIDIA graphics card) has an option to upgrade the processor from 3.7 Ghz to 4.0Ghz via a "Turbo boost". I am generally wondering what kind of use would warrant this upgrade? More specifically, I am wondering if it would be of any benefit to web browsing with hundreds of tabs open, 3D rendering performance, or mass processing of images?
I want to run a bash script on my jailbroken iPhone whenever it is being charged. Currently my script looks like this:
I went to play some music on my iPhone (iOS 7) but whenever I tap a track to play it just greys out and a little circle with a stop icon appears next to it (download indicator?). Any idea why this is or how to fix it?
I am unable to activate SMS Relay (aka Text Message Forwarding) between my iPhone 5s running iOS 8.1 and (a) my iMac running Yosemite and (b) my iPad Air running iOS 8.1. Neither the iMac nor the iPad displays the activation code which is supposed to appear when Text Message Forwarding is activated on the iPhone.
I want to use folders other than iPhoto and Photo Booth when adding media in iWork applications. For example when using Keynote, this pops up:
I have lots of emails on my iPhone from an old account that I no longer use. Mail reminds me often that it cannot connect to the account. When I uncheck the account from email preferences, the account disappears completely from Mail. How can I keep the emails in my application so I can browse through them, while configuring Mail not to try checking for new mail? iPhone 5s iOS 7.1.2
I have had many 1TB hard drives and have used TMB since its inception. but recently i bought a brand new HD and set it up.. after only a few back ups, i got an error message saying there was no space on my harddrive.. i used omnidsic sweeper to check out my disc to find that it was saying it had over 4TB of stuff on it!? I know thats not remotely possible,. but im curious why it would say that and more over, why is TMB taking full size back ups? i checked and there is only 3 on the drive. i have backed my puters up for years on just 1TB.. any help? thanks in advance
I just got a new iPhone 6 for my SO and noticed that it is quite toasty to handle with the battery draining quite fast. It has been 24 hours since I first set it up. I plugged it into Instruments and loaded the Activity Monitor and noticed that accountsd is chewing through 80% of the CPU:
I have a really nice Matrix inspired screensaver. I would like to have the moving screensaver to be placed as my Desktop background image. How can I set my screensaver as a background image for the desktop ?
Is there a way to retrieve or push google plus notifications using applescripts to have them show up in OSX Yosemite notification center?
I just replaced my optical drive in my 2010 macbook pro 15 inch with my old 500GB hard drive that used to be in the HDD bay and placed a new SSD in the HDD bay. Now i have 256 GB of SSD storage which i would like to use for only my operating system and applications. The rest of the data (music, movies, text files, pdfs, etc) i would like to be stored on my other Hard drive. I reformatted both hard dives to be Mac OS X Extended (journaled) and am currently installing the SSD with OS X Yosemite. How do I tell my mac that i want to install apps on the SSD but storing music and other stuff should be done on my HDD (which now is in the optical bay).
This is a big change from my old mavericks where it took longer to boot up but instantly logged me in. I thought SSDs had super quick boot and log in times. Here is a video of what is occurring to me.
Is it possible to find the RGB values of the "Apple Brown" highlight color Apple introduced in Yosemite?
I am looking for the full url of this video on this portal: *=URL=* In source of the HTML I found this:
I want to downgrade from Yosemite 10.10 to previous operating system (i think its name was Mavericks). I am not experienced in Computers so please explain to me in simple, step by step way. Why i want to go back to Mavericks?
There are lots of ports in my small office but sometimes I want to kick out people who are accessing internet instead of doing their job. With arp -a i can look for all of the connected users. But how to kick them off a network. Please don't tell me Router's conf. I want to do this via terminal itself. There are ways to do that, i saw my friend doing that.
It is very annoying that the menubar automatically appears when I hover the upper area of the screen with the mouse. I do not want the menubar to show Just with the mouse, but rather add another keyboard key for example so that when clicked and the cursor is on the top of the screen the menubar will then appear. Any suggestion how to disable the menu bar from showing with the mouse placement? (I'm using Yosemite if that matters!)
On my wifi network there are two Mac (MacBook,MacBook Pro) and two iPhones (iPhone4, iPhone 5). The MacBook Pro has been updated to OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The MacBook cannot be updated to OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Location Services work fine on the phones (but they have GPS in any case).
I'd like to make the WhatPulse icon white to make it match the rest of the icons in Yosemite dark mode. I've looked in the package contents of WhatPulse.app, but I don't find any images in the resources. Does anyone know where they're hidden?
I would like to purchase the new iPhone 6, but as I travel a lot between the US and the UK I have to make sure I buy a model that works well in both places. The idea is to buy an unlocked device so I could switch between American and British SIM cards.
I am using an iPad 4 with iOS 8.1. I have logged out from another Apple account and logged in using another email address. However, the App Store keeps asking me for the password of the old account (showing its email and there is no way to change it). I have done a full reboot but no help.
I recently noticed that within Pages ('09), Numbers ('09), Keynote ('09), the menu entry: File > Save As… had been replaced by a new one: File > Duplicate
I have purchased the Snow Leopard from the UK store for my iMac (Version 10.5.8, 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM memory). I received the redemption code 6 months ago and was so confused as it where to put this code. I wasn't around for the last 6 months and now want to try again. It says I need to enter this code in the app store but can't download this app store until I update my software! When I click the apple icon and go on software update, it says my software is up to date! This is such a catch 22, I really don't know what to do!
I am looking for an extension for spotlight on Yosemite, which allows an offline translation of english words into german and vice-versa. Similar to the inbuilt dictionary, but rather giving a translation of the word instead of a definition. It should also be lightweight, so not slowing the system or spotlight down. Is there such a software?
When browsing web pages I like to tilt for landscape view. It seems that I can't get it to rotate the image anymore. Is there a setting for this?
After updating my iPad Air to iOS 8, keychain is not working correctly. It will occasionally ask to save new login data but never offers to fill in that info when I go to that website. All the logins from iOS 7 are in the password file but it never uses any of the old data nor ask to save those websites again. The password file has the four digit password which I did not have on iOS 7. I have checked the settings several times and tried different settings and nothing works. The settings appear to be correctly.
I have a Macbook White from 2010. I have been using it for a while and everything works except the internal keyboard which is broken because of a tea spill. An external PC-keyboard (USB) is attached though but it doesn't work properly. I had installed Yosemite and it worked fine, but later I decided to reinstall Mountain Lion again. I tried to enter the boot menu with the alt-button to reboot to my second partition but it didn't work. So I've changed the Start Volume in the System Preferences in Yosemite which was successful but now I'm stuck in the 'Mountain Lion Install'-partition which just loads to a grey screen and nothing else happens. Is there any solution guys?
While uninstalling/removing home-brew, node, and yeoman...I noted that I don't have a .bashrc or .bash_profile in my home directory. I only have .bash_history present.
I use a 3-years old Nokia X2-01 phone and moved to the Mac recently. I'd like to copy some files to the phone but I do not see it in the Finder. In Windows, I used to be able to plug the phone in via USB and be able to access the phone's internal memory.
I recently deactivated my old iPhone 4S after buying a new phone. I want to trade it in, so I'm trying to reset it, but it won't accept my Apple ID.
I had troubles installing node with Homebrew as Homebrew does something weird to the node install that installing Yeoman generators seems to be hindered a bit. My issue, however, is that I think Homebrew messed up my $PATH. I installed node via the download from their site and it says: Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH. However when I go into iTerm and type echo $PATH I get: Is this normal, or do I have to fix something? I thought it would just spit out /usr/local/bin/.
I have a Canon Pixma MG6300 printer/scanner for which I properly installed the drivers. I know it is supposed to show in the Preview app under File > Import from Scanner. This menu item, however, is greyed out. Does anyone know how I can have my scanner show up in here? Running on OS X Yosemite.
My iMac is stuck after downloading Yosemite and opening the install. It is stuck on the dark grey screen with white box in the center labeled Install OS X with the X in a circle below the text. Status bar shows all the way blue, but no prompts. I've tried shutting down, even unplugging for several days before restarting, and still stuck on the same screen. Help! This computer is essential for school. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated!
I installed Yosemite on one of my machines (and uninstalled it a short time later). Now, running Mavericks, every time I open a program that uses iCloud (like Numbers), I'm greeted with this message.
When my Iphone is connected to the PC Itunes shows it contains 301 photos in the storage bar at the bottom of the Window. However when I check the DCIM folder in Windows Explorer, there are only 94 photos. These are photos taken with the Iphone.
How do you get Spotlight to search in sub-directories like Windows Explorer does? Here I have done the same search on the same directory - the root of the usb drive SFD223128GB using both OS X Finder and Windows Explorer (via Parallels). The results are different - it seems that the Finder doesn't search within sub-directories. Is there a way to change this?
I've opened /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict in vim, and it looks like jibberish. Is there a way to convert it to human readable just to see what it contains?
While it's possible to remove the Today Summary from the view you cannot remove the date. It's superfluous while using a calendar app such as Fantastical. Any way to tweak this? Thanks.
I have an aluminum Apple USB keyboard plugged into my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). Command+Tab works fine to switch applications. But Command+Shift+Tab doesn’t! The same shift key works to capitalize letters, so what on earth is going on?
On a Macbook Pro early 2013, I am trying to run a 4k Samsung TV. It's almost working (though the text is awful, I think it's just that the TV is not really suitable). The issue I want to ask about is that the Mac is sending a 4096 pixel wide signal to the TV, instead of 3840. The TV accepts the signal fine, and then trims off a strip from the left and a strip from the right. In other words, it's doing what used to be called overscanning. This leads to critical parts of the picture missing, because of the controls that live in the top-left and top-right corners of the screen. The TV has a function where it tells you the input characteristics, and it indeed reports 4096x2160. How can I tell the Mac to run the external display at 3840x2160 instead of 4096x2160?
I tried putting this in my ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict: When I log out and log back in, but it still doesn't work. command+delete (as labeled on my Macbook keyboard) still deletes to the beginning of the line. I also tried
When I extend my MacBook display to my TV using my Apple TV, both the video and audio work well, being output through my TV. However, when I disconnect my Apple TV, the video disconnects, but audio from my computer is still output through my TV. I tried going to System Preferences > Sound and toggling the output back to my Internal Speakers, but this doesn't seem to work. Any idea why?
When I search for a term like "formation water", preview returns everything starting with formation and not the term "formation water". How can I search for a phrase in Preview?
I got a new iphone and wasn't ready to transfer data from the old one yet (lots of photos I wanted to get off it), so I began using the new phone - taking pics etc. When I got ready to transfer the info off of the old phone, I backed it up and then restored the new phone to backup. My question is - is all the data that was on the new phone (none of it backed up to icloud or itunes of course) overwritten and therefore completely irretrievable even by a data recovery program? That's my assumption. Just confirming.
How Do I change the user for the Boot login? I had changed my username recently and have deleted the temporary admin that has been made to change my username, but the Boot Login has somehow changed to the temporary admin. Is there any way to change the Boot Login so that I don't have to deal with putting in two passwords everytime I turn on my macbook?
In Pre-Yosemite, I had some finder menu services (i.e. Right-Click, see 'Services' in menu, hover over, and you'd see Services created in Automator) that I made. As a developer, these were very handy as I'd often have to rename a large amount of files to some criteria (i.e. removing/replacing/adding text). I can make services fine now, and even get them to work within Automator (dragging and dropping the file(s) into Automator). However, if I right-click the file(s), hover over 'Service' and select my service, it never runs. In fact, if I check Activity Monitor, I see 'Automator Runner' just hanging there (one for each time I try). I have tried restarting and logging out and in. This doesn't fix it. Note: I am running OS X Yosemite.
Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite? I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar I love using full screen mode, but I'm frequently accidentally triggering the toolbar which covers up whatever I'm trying to access at the top of the screen.
Any ideas why this started after upgrading to Yosemite? I checked the activity monitor and not much else is going on the network.
I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop on OS X Yosemite to control a Windows desktop and a few virtual machines. Whenever the display on my Retina MacBook Pro turns off, it closes all remote desktop sessions.
It's a new macbook pro retina with gt750m, mid 2014 I'm moving firefox constantly from one monitor to the other, it glitchces similar to #50956 and #81021 - Doesn't seem to happen with Chrome however I didn't push/try further The retina screen renders everything differently, so a re-rendering occurs at each switch, doing this consecutively causes this very temporary glitch Since it's a new/week old macbook pro, I'm wondering whether it's a hardware or a software issue Tested further, happens always with firefox, never with chrome, I also recall a similar momentary glitch during a genie effect once, happens on both monitors, the glitch is confined to the program/animation, so I'm hoping it's a software issue, all temperatures are always very low, below 50C Disabling hw accelleration at Firefox prevents the issue, so the question is, is it a hardware issue or a hardware incompatibility issue, I would be glad if someone with a late-macbook/gt750m/external-lcd can test the behaviour
We have a newly created website, with lots of contact information for different employees. The color of the phone numbers in the website are all in black, except for when viewed on an iOS device,
Is there a way to view the machine name on the Yosemite login screen? It's been a few versions, I believe, since this was a default.
There is a process running on my iOS device (7.1.2) called 'lsd'. The file is in /usr/libexec/lsd. What is it and what does it do? Device info:
I have a late-2013 Retina MacBook Pro, and it gets really hot really easily. I've monitored the temp with htop and iStat and they both show the same readings. It's supposed to be able to play some pretty graphics intensive games, at least that's the impression I got. I tried playing Rust (very basic graphics for those unaware of the game) on medium settings, and my cpu temp was hovering around 100. I also tried playing Endless Legend, and my cpu temps were hovering around 100 before I even got into the game, just looking at the menu, in windowed mode, at 1280x800 resolution, with low graphics settings, with no other applications running. Is this normal? Is the game performance of the Retina MBP this bad usually or is mine unusually bad? Are these temperatures safe or will they decrease the life of my computer if sustained for a few hours at a time?
When I tap any app icon the app launches but doesn't respond to any touches or gestures. This happens to both Apple apps (Settings, etc.) and third-party apps. The iPad still responds to system gestures though, like four-finger pinch to go to the home screen.
I had pinch to zoom working fine after installing Yosemite but after a month or so it's stopped working. The setting is enabled in Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom and it seems none of those gestures are working anymore. I can use 4/5 fingers outwards for Expose though. How can I get the full functionality back?
I do not realy like this iTunes syncronization, connect device with cabel, start iTunes, .. too complicate. Can I sync and play music via CloudDrive?
I installed an iOS 8 beta on a test iPhone I have back in the summer, and forgot to keep it updated with more recent betas, and now it's not allowing me to get into it due to the beta being expired. Is my only option to be able to use it again to restore it from scratch and lose everything? Or is there some way to update it to the actual released version of iOS 8?
So I've already tried to find a solution on Google, but I'm not really good at following some broad IT instructions. If you guys could help, that's be more than awesome! After I installed OS X Yosemite, all my stuff was gone! It's like a whole new Mac! Meanwhile, I have figured out that my usual stuff is still stored somehow on my Mac, but I don't know how to get it back to being my regular account. If I go to Finder > Macintosh HD > Users, there's a folder with all my stuff in my regular account. Any assistance would be truly appreciated!
This message is always displayed in the console log at regular intervals. Can anyone explain why it's displayed and if it has any impact on system performance, as well as how to get rid of it?
I want to hide some specific shares in the sidebar from Finder because I never access them and it get's confusing if everyone in my local network is online.  Is there a way to hide for example only the shares marked with the red arrow?
I have installed Scilab a few weeks ago, and when I tried it for the first time it worked, but now when I try to run it, it seems it will open (it jumps) the application, but nothing happens actually. What could be the problem and how can I solve it?
I'm running OSX 10.9.4, and my default shell is set to z shell. I was just working out my installation of Ruby and RVM and playing around with irb when I suddenly notice that my window title says "bash" instead of my default zsh heading. Running echo $SHELL returned /bin/bash, and I confirmed that I was running bash. The (temporary) fix was simple - run chsh -s /bin/zsh, but this instance repeated the switch to bash every time I executed irb. I was not able to replicate the situation, but I was wondering if anyone had insight into this issue so that I don't run into this error again.
I have a little problem with the Weather widget in Notification Center in Yosemite. It appears to be missing some of the info from the server.
Calling my friend XYZ using voice dial has become as easy as dictating one if his cell numbers to dial. Siri will recite: I have two numbers for XYZ. Which number would you like to call? (abc) def-ghij or (pqr) stu-vwxy? How do I pick? I try insisting the first one, to which s/he replies "I don't know what you mean by 'the first one'". How do I select a number without touching the screen and without reciting the entire phone number back? I am looking for an answer other than choosing unique types (eg, setting one of his cell numbers to "pager" instead.) iOS 7.1.2, iPhone 5s
I'm looking at the Health App Graphs. The scale doesn't appear to be linear.
After upgrading to Yosemite / Chrome updating (one of these two), I have difficulties to submit files via Google Chrome because the popup window for submitting is huge and lower buttons cannot be seen at all. The only way to operate that - double click on the file (I found that after some days!). Look at the screenshot - it is the lower visible part of the popup window, but it is not a lower border of this window.
In previous versions of OS X, you could click the Spotlight icon in the menu bar to show the status of the Spotlight indexing, and it would show an estimate ("6 hours left"), along with a progress bar. I've updated to Yosemite yesterday, and I noticed that Spotlight is not showing some expected results, i.e. files I know to be there, but it just doesn't find them if I type in their name and file type ("kind:excel vacation"). When I start typing in the Yosemite Spotlight window, it shows a small progress bar under the search box, but there's no estimate.
I want to list contents of a compressed archive file, then choose some individual files to be extracted. Archive is password protected.
I was wondering if anyone has figured out a way to enable the press-and-hold accent popup in Terminal.app, where it does not work out of the box? Does not have to be press-and-hold, but some way to bring up the popup.
I want to automate repetitive actions for a game on my (jailbroken) iPhone 4. I hesitate to mention the name of the game in case you would be abetting me in violation of its Terms of Service (ToS) by automation, but its player-base recommends replaying the tutorial to reroll an early game RNG element. The tutorial is easy but time-consuming, making it a prime target for automation. I stumbled across AutoTouch in the Cydia store, but it requires purchasing a license to run scripts for longer than a minute or some-length and I am skeptical of its performance. So, is there an (preferably cheaper) alternative to touch-automation than AutoTouch?
I subscribe to several podcasts, but only want a small few to be downloaded to my phone. It does not appear to be possible to specify which podcasts the Podcasts app should be downloading and which ones it shouldn't. If this is possible, I would like to know how.
I am trying to connect my Raspberry Pi to my iPhone 5 with iOS 8 HotSpot. This works so far without problems, but when I try to connect to it with SSH, the connection always times out. I tried connecting to pi@raspberrypi, pi@raspberrypi.local and then went on trying to connect to a bunch of adresses in the DNS Range like 172.20.10.1-5 but without success. Does anyone of you know whether it is possible to establish a ssh connection this way? Thanks in advance for your help.
I like the idea of local Snapshots for having the possibility to restore accidentally deleted or changed files. My question is, when unchecking "Backup while on Battery Power" is Time Machine still creating those Snapshots?
I am dealing with this mess of icons in OS X Yosemite Safari's Favorites view:  Note how nice and easy it is to visually locate the IPython and AWS icons: I would like to have similar icons displayed for my other favorite go-to sites, most of which are hosted off of various subdirectories of a single private web server (call it "foo.lan").
I upgraded my mac to Yosemite and now I can't find my photos or video folder. My iCloud just has the 'loading' spinning circle so I'm not sure if they've gone there? Just can't find them anywhere!
Is it possible to disable automatic rearrange of background apps in iOS 8? For example if I open ibooks notepad and skype, when i answer to skype message app stands in first place, after switching to ibooks skype will be on second place, but it's not comfortable because I want go with swype to notepad and write note. it is become more complicated if open more apps. So is it possible to lock background app positions (or pin like in browsers)?
If I want to use these 2 apps do I need any sensor to check about the health related data available in app If no external device or sensor is required then how to use health and nike+ ipod app
ok -- so my wife lost her contacts on her macbook pro (and icloud as well), but we use time machine -- i was trying to look around for help in how to restore ALL her contacts using time machine -- is there a file somewhere that contains all the contacts on the system that by replacing it with a full batch of contacts would replace the empty one i have how??? thanks keith
How can I disable the Macbook builtin keyboard which is defective (looks like the Shift key is always pressed). I need this in order to avoid starting with the Shift key pressed otherwise the Macbook always starts in Safe Boot mode. I have an external keyboard attached now with which I can work in Safe Boot mode.
I'm trying to add a rule to my computer which was working on my work computer. strangely enough there's no rdr program on my Yosemite. should I install a particular package to obtain it?
I have an 8GB Macbook Pro (2013) and have recently upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. Everything has been fine except when I wake it from sleep. Firstly, it brings up the login screen but the picture and box for my password are disjointed and not in line. When I try typing my password, the cursor moves but the box remains blank. When I enter my password the screen turns a transparent white and a loading bar fills up at the bottom of the screen before finally allowing me in. Sometimes it even starts a full reboot and I have to wait for a bar to fill up.
I've an encrypted Time Machine with the password saved on the keychain. Now, trying to plug in, it ask me the password and it's always wrong. I've checked hundreds of times and it also allowed me to change the password, but the disk won't mount. I've tried to verify and then repair the disk from Disk Utility, but after verified it shows me this message:
Is there a way to always keep the menu bar visible in full screen mode? When developing I like having certain applications take up the full screen but I find the delay in bringing down the menu bar slightly annoying. I'd like the menu bar to be always visible. I followed the answers from this post but changing the LSUIPresentationMode did not do anything. If anyone has a working solution I'd be happy to try it out! Thanks!
I'm running Skype version 6.15 on Lion, and very frequently after a communication I discover I can't quit it with ⌘+Q. Within this situation the menu file displays the entry Quit Skype greyed.
Say I want to jump to my Storyboard file, or my Images.xcassets file. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to be able to jump to it?
I like using this feature, but it's too slow for me now and I'm finding myself hitting the Delete key now because its faster. The Delete key doesn't animate the previous page in, it just goes back right away. How can I speed up the swipe back animation, or skip it all together? I'm using 10.10 (Yosemite).
My husband died. I have the death certificate. Also using his iPhone. Don't have his password. Would like to obtain it. How do I do that?
I've recently upgraded iMacs the other day. Can't figure out how to toggle the following overlay to show up when switching inputs using keyboard hotkeys
I try to avoid external drivers that require root permissions to install, as they might break regular functionality/integrity easily, yet it seems like a must to install them sometimes. I bought a USB 3.0 HUB with an Ethernet port, it seems to use an AX88179 chip, a common one as I see, it doesn't get recognised automatically Should I risk it and install the drivers or keep using the Wi-Fi instead and not fix something that's not broken?
I know that Mavericks removed the PreferPlainText preference, but I have a client that uses AOL and must use the web-client that always created HTML formatted emails with a text size of 10px.... I get a lot of email from her... Is there a way to fix this?
The title says it all. Prior to iOS 8, one could use iPhone Configuration Utility, but that no longer works. Is there any other way to access these logs without installing the gargantuan XCode? Are there any third-party utilities that can do this?
I was working in the reminders app last night and noticed that it failed to sync across all my devices, which run the latest version of OS X and iOS. I've tried to sign out of iCloud on my iOS devices but it keeps asking whether I want to delete the content from my iPhone and wasn't sure what to do.
Twice I put in an incorrect password. I did not want to be locked out.. so I stopped trying.. I know that I can set a new one.. BUT I would prefer to keep the one that I have for the time being... If I wait a full day.. will I be allowed to try my password again (twice if nescessary) or will I be locked out if I try it once more - even if 24 hours has passed? Thanks
How do you delete a page within a note in (specifically) Notability for iPhone? This information seems to be missing in the app's Help documentation.
From the research I just did, it seems that I had to upgrade to Yosemity using a different drive!? Where as I added Yosemity into the main drive. Am I right in thinking that I now can only downgrade by reformatting the hard drive (loosing my data and so forth)?
A relative of mine managed to delete all of the files under "All my files." I am restoring from a recent time machine backup, but am trying to figure out which folders need to be restored. So far I have: Desktop folder Downloads Documents
I have a script that worked in the past, but seems to be having issues now (I believe it's due to Yosemite). What I had done was created an environment variable that was set to "false" and then my script would set it to "true" so that if the script took too long and started again before it finished it would not attempt to run again concurrently. However, it doesn't work anymore. I set the variable initially with /etc/launchd.conf And the part of my script that doesn't work anymore is
I encrypted my computer with FileVault full disk encryption on Yosemite. FileVault gave me an emergency decryption code to use when I forgot my password.
I will be travelling overseas without mobile data. International SMS will be set up, but I have iMessage linked to this mobile number. I have other iPhones, iPads and Macs which also receive iMessages on this account. Do I have to disable iMessage on all my devices before I travel to ensure when people send a message to my mobile number, I will receive it as an International SMS? Thanks in advance.
I have two Macs on Yosemite, and one got a malware/adware bug that will not go away. I am going to do a fresh install, and would like to use Time Machine to restore to the point before the malware was installed (I know the time it happened). Can I use my working mac to reset the bad macs time machine folder to the appropriate time? I have seen many other posts on using tmutil to do similar things, but not this exactly. Thanks!
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 15 inch and i just upgraded to yosemite with a fresh install (no data on any hard drives). I am trying to set up FunctionFlipper, a third party preference pane that will let me turn my dashboard key into another key (i ant to use it to show launchpad).
I have a iPod 5 touch with the iOs 7.0.4 and I can't get through the Activation Lock and I have no contact with the Apple ID owner. Is there any bypass for this? Please Help
In the first floor kitchen, which is two floors below, but directly under, the base station Time Capsule, I get 15mb - 35mb download speed. But I don't need Netflix in the kitchen!
Suddenly, all white and transparent image backgrounds appear pink for me (but only on images, not on anything else that's renderered). For example, the SE searchbar looks like this:
I've just completed an App Preview video for my forthcoming universal iOS app. I did it by capturing an iPhone 6 using QuickTime then editing in iMovie. If I only submit my iPhone 6 App Preview video (750x1334), will iPhone 5/5s and 6 Plus users be able to see the video on the App Store? Or do I have to create and upload separate iPhone 5/5s & iPhone 6 Plus videos? Thanks.
Apple Mail offers the option to decrease or increase the size of an attached image. The options are "small", "medium" and "big". But how can I display the actual size in KB or MB? I am using Mail 8.0 in OS X Yosemite.
I am using OS X Yosemite version 10.10 on my iMac. For about a week now, I've had problems with my Internet connection. I am connected via ethernet. I can use Gmail, Skype and Google Calendar without problems but when I access other websites, I often get "website doesn't respond" kind of answer. It helps when I restart the computer but the problem returns after a while.
Why is my phone ringing when someone calls my husbands phone? The number shows up on my phone and says "from your iPhone".
Our OS X Server machine has had no issue at all with being in the Windows AD domain right up until we updated it to OS X 10.10. Now it behaves bizarrely, refuses to connect to our Exchange mail server, and even rejects the DNS lookup for all of the other servers on the network. I tried removing and readding the Server to the domain, but I get "Unable to add server. Authentication server could not be contacted (5200)" Is there any way of finding out what the solution may be?
I am new to using a Mac and haven't got completely used to the Command key, yet. As such, I am regularly closing my terminal session accidentally. (Fortunately, I'm running tmux, so my session is preserved, but it's nonetheless getting pretty annoying!)
This sort of works in that it modifies the correct .plist file and updates the preferences I tell it to. But it doesn't seem to be compatible with the caching that's used in Yosemite. As soon as the app tries to read the same preference, it reverts back to what was set previously. Is there any way to make this work reliably?
I recently read a question which explained that the ability to search Notes was introduced in OSX 10.9 and above. Earlier versions will show you which note a search query exists in but will not search the note itself. My question is:
Last year I was at a job where I logged into my iCloud at work. I set my computer up with my iCloud so that everything would be hooked to my phone as well. Long story short, I am not at that job anymore and my boss is still using that computer and I can see all of the things he's bookmarked since then on Safari. How do I go about unauthorizing or removing that computer from my iCloud so I don't see his stuff and he doesn't see mine?
I am using numbers 2014 - above is a screenshot that should explain it.
I had two partitions, one "clear" and one encrypted. Had my iPhoto library. On the encrypted partition. I am slightly panicking now. Any ideas on how to recover my data? Various relevant outputs;
I'm looking for timer that also count money. My work is paid hourly, so I want to see how much I get. It's give me energy to work a bit more. It's like regular timer but with money earned number in the next line. I've seen it in "On the job" app, but it looks abandoned and I do not need invoicing. Like this one: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/cash-clock/
In terminal, trying to do the following: I get the following error: Is there another way I can delete old backup files to release disk space? And Time Machine window shows
So I've begun the long-awaiting switch from PC to Mac in the office and picked up a new Mac Mini yesterday. We currently use dual screen on all machines in the office. I'm wanting to hook these up to the mac mini and use dual screen. The mac mini has thunderbolt and hdmi output. I've done some research and what it looks like I would need is a:- DisplayPort Thunderbolt to HDMI / DVI / VGA Adaptor (like the one pictured below):-
Question: How can I restore the legacy metadata editor in iTunes 12?
I have had Windows 8 installed with bootcamp on my Mac. The disc was partitioned to allow both Mac and Windows to be used.
I'd like to be able to dismiss and open notifications with the keyboard (Not talking about opening/closing the notification center)
I have a problem with an IMAC 27' 1: the osx was corupt so it wasn't boot anymore. 2: i changed the batery from the keyboard so, i canot use the keyboard for startup key combination to reinstal the operating sistem
The problem only occurs when using the external keyboard. Left ⌘ + Z is working fine on the MacBook itself.
What is best OS for MacbookPro 2,2 with new Harddisk(empty), 3GB RAM and 500GB HDD ? Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7 Retail will work ? ps: I am not having the Restoration DVD's came with macbook.
Does anyone know of any good desktop applications for Atlassian JIRA, preferably free/open-source? It is no longer maintained by the developer, I tried to run it anyway and it threw an NSURL error when I attempted to login with it so I'm assuming it doesn't work anymore.. Looks good, and may go with this but it's $29 per license and I'd prefer something free, open-source would be ideal.
I have several books in my iBooks app on my iPad, but when I'm without wifi, ibooks doesn't even show the books are sitting in my library, why?
I have all of these apps installed on my computer, and I installed Telegram for example just right now and even that is does not appear as installed. So I can't update any of my applications, and this forced me to install all of them again! As you can see, it always shows "No Updates Available":
Some apps like Evernote and Superevent require iOS7, and have been "optimized" for iPhone 5 and above. Will such apps work fine an iPhone 4 that has been upgraded to iOS7.1? On a forum I heard that upgraded iPhones have "missing frameworks" or something, so I don't want to buy this iPhone if I cannot run Evernote and Superevent.
I recently had a problem with the Macintosh HD that could not be repaired using the disk utility so I erased the disk (using disk utility) then restored from time machine (most recent backup) Does this result in the HDD being reformatted or could any potentially bad disk areas be reused inadvertently?
I have been able to add events on my iPad calendar but I don't see how I can delete an event.
I have several songs in the Play Next queue. I am not playing anything at the moment. How do I play the queue. Clicking play prompts me with a dialog asking if I want to overwrite the plainest queue or play the song selected in iTunes, but I just want the play next queue
The AppleScript code: The Problem: At the top, it says ("Google, YouTube, Wiki, Dictionary, Apple, Adobe, or Google Images") I want to make it so it puts a question mark at the end, like so: ("Google, YouTube, Wiki, Dictionary, Apple, Adobe, or Google Images?")
One a new mid-2014 macbook pro: This is what System Report reports, there is no card in the reader, is this normal?
How can I add annotations on my book using iBooks? Any time that I try to create an annotation, iBooks wants to create a new copy, with this message: The original document can't be changed, so a duplicate with your changes has been created.
I got a WASD mechanical keyboard with mac mode keys which has the all the media shortcuts such as play, pause, volume up/down etc except for screen brightness control. Even though in System Preferences F1 and F2 are set up to control the screen brightness for my iMac, they don't work when I press them on their own or in combination with Fn/ Command/control/etc. Is there a way that I can have keyboard shortcuts to screen brightness control?
I occasionally play music using itunes, and I tend to pause the music rather than e.g. quitting from itunes. This afternoon I received an email with an audio attachment, which I played. As soon as the playback finished, itunes started playing, quite likely the song I had paused 2 weeks ago. I don't ever want it to do that again. Is there any way to control this behaviour other than explicitly quitting from itunes whenever I'm done with it, and making sure I don't select "Open at login" in options? I'm running OS X version 10.9.4, and I'm not a power user.
It seems like the following AppleScript is no longer working in the latest version of the OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): This were supposed to get all notifications listed in the Notification Center. However, the count attribute always returns 0. Does anyone know how to retrieve all notifications in the Notification Center different than the script above? Thnaks for the help!
I have broken the disk of my Mac doing partitions with gparted. Now, nothing boots (except pendrives) and the OS X Rescue Disk recognizes the disk as Virtual Whole Disk. Nothing works, repairing or partitioning the disk throws errors.
I'm looking for a recommendation for a GUI SCP client that supports private keys. All of the ones I find don't support private keys. Thanks
I want to set up iCloud keychain on my apple devices. To do so I went to settings > iCloud > keychain and turned it on and a button 'Approve with security code' appeared. It asked my iCloud security code and after it asks for 6 digit verification code that has been sent to my old phone number that I no longer have access to. After trying to find where I can change my number. I already went to settings > phone > my number and entered my current number but the phone still has sends the verification code to the old number. I am using an iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1 Also tried to set it up on the a macbook with Yosemite but it also send the verification code to the old number.
Yosemite doesn't seem to understand any domain that ends in .local My DNS server is pointed at the ip of the debian box, which runs dnsmasq. It has a ton of apache sites configured that all have names like clientname.debserver.local - all which resolve fine from the other machines around the lan (not Yosemite). (tried flushing cache, resetting network, rebooting, all the usual suspects)
As far as I can tell, I have all iCloud settings turned off, but I am still incessantly asked to log into iCloud. Is it possible to not use iCloud without being reminded every 5 minutes to log into iCloud? I'm on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.5. Any insight is much appreciated!
Have searched far and wide with no answers. I want to never enter any passwords again for my entire OS X experience (except internet passwords, of course). Please do not answer "it's a bad idea"; I know the risks, and they are mine to take.
I have a friend's flash drive that has been acting very strange. I am able to get the Sandisk factory partition that is 64 MB to show up, but not the actual 8GB partition with all of his files. Nothing has been intentionally formatted. Anything I can do in Disk Utility to solve this issue? Thanks for your help! Scott
We have a scenario in our current iPhone app development project. We need to restrict our app to run only in our Maas360 MDM provisioned devices. Ours is an in-house app for our certain employees.
When a pdf file opened by Preview is updated by another program (such as pdflatex), Preview will automatically reload it, which is good. However, Preview always shows the first page of the updated file, which is inconvenient.
I had xcode 5.1.1 running on my Mac air. When I tried to update it to Xcode 6, it threw an error "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." I have tried uninstalling the older version, restarting and then installing the new version. Nothing has worked so far. Any idea how to fix this?
Trying to change the default screenshot directory to a specific folder in my google drive, but when I try the following command I get this error and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
When I maximize some Flash (version 15.0.0.xxx) videos to fullscreen, only the top left quarter of the screen is showing video, the rest is completely black. I've tried this on OSX 10.9 and 10.10, 2014 Macbook Pro, 3 browsers (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) with no plugins, no additional screen, and hardware acceleration set to enabled and disabled.
Here's what I think I know so far: It would be useless to crack the user password, since it's already known. I'm still kinda iffy on keychains, but they only store the current password, correct? Previous user login passwords are not stored anywhere, are they?
Is there some trick to get pictures off an iphone 5 with ios 8 on a Windows 8 computer? I can get my pictures off my iphone 5 with ios 8 on my Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP computer but not my Windows 8 computer. I have tried multiple Windows 8 computers and it won't work on any of them. Yes I know you have to unlock the phone on Windows 8 and I did that.
Running find command on root folder : Keep seeing errors like
I just discovered that one of my apps X "disappeared" for whatever reason from my iPad. It contained MBs of valuable data, and luckily I have an iCloud backup dated a week ago or so which have it all. However, I installed two dozens of new apps since then and likely created some amount of user data that I'd like to keep. How do I restore that single app with all its data from iCloud while preserving all the other apps and their data installed since the date of iCloud backup? I've read the related question, but it doesn't directly help in my situation:
I know its possible in Garageband but is there a way to apply a reverb effect to video or audio clips in iMovie? By the way I have iMovie Version 10.0.6 installed on my mac. Any suggestions would be helpful.
After upgrading to Yosemite, my Macbook Air drops off the WiFi connection many times a day. The following ping test demonstrates that restarting WiFi leads to a successful reconnection.
Due to a bug with postgresql when updating Server.app to 3.2.2 I now have to re-enroll almost 250 iPads worldwide manually. These are all supervised and "enrolled" with the old server setup.
When I turn my iphone 5 sideways it has no problem going into landscape mode but when I try to lock it, it goes back to portrait mode
How do i go about restoring OS X or refind? Refind website says it's recommended to install refind via OSX if running on a mac as installing via Linux will corrupt the partitions...further
I've added some files (photographs) to iCloud drive on my iMac. Now, I'd like to access the files on my iPad. I've enabled the setting in "iCloud" on the iPad, like all of the tutorials say. Now- how can I find those files using my iPad?
Are there any alternative Intergrated Development Environments (IDE) for Objective-C instead of Xcode? If so, are there any plug-ins for Eclipse for developing in Objective-C?
I have several tasks that I run from launchd using StartCalendar interval. Under Yosemite these do not necessarily run. (Under Mavericks and earlier they did run) How do I see what launchd is doing and thinks should happen, how can I get launchd to log what happens(The tasks themselves write to logs but if they don't run I obviously get nothing)
I followed this similar question to set my environment variables in Yosemite: *=URL=* I want to do the same thing, but for sudo but somehow, it does not show if I go in a terminal afterwards and run the command: What am I doing wrong ?
I sometimes accidentally trigger the horizontal swipe/scroll gesture on my magic mouse. Especially in X11/Inkscape, if I work zoomed in on a big canvas, this often moves my canvas several screens to the right or left and I have to carefully swipe/scroll back to my original view. I would like to make the swiping more explicit by allowing only two finger swipes, which should then just work as vertical/horizontal scroll gestures, as if I had triggered them on a normal mouse (with 2 scroll wheels).
I made a great picture and place it as background at my iphone , now i cannot find it anymore at my camera roll. I need this picture that is still as my backgroud image. Just give me route or a path or an program to recover it, and NO, is not at any of my backups any more...
To avoid false gestures, I would like to disable the lower touch area of my magic mouse. I tried to use an option in Better Touch Tool (BTT) that is supposed to do this and in the BTT live view, I can see that BTT ignores any touches in this area. However, the touch area still works in all apps. Is there another way (e.g., via Terminal) to savely limit the touch area of a magic mouse? System specs: Macbook Pro Retina, Magic Mouse, OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks), BTT 0.9985
In Pages 5.5 on Yosemite how can I add a page break into a table?
I recently noticed that Mail on my Mac would automatically remove flags from my messages. I had set up a rule to flag every incoming message so that I do not forget to reply to a message even if it is marked as read.
Since upgrading to Yosemite this morning, the iTunes visualiser runs in fullscreen and I can't get it back to windowed mode. The general iTunes Fullscreen shortcut has no effect, nor does the green maximize/restore icon - in fact, that is hard to click anyway, since there's no mouse pointer shown in visualiser mode.
iMac screen stuck while watching youtube. After restart system stuck on grey screen :( Tried All these given below Did reset PRAM Did Hard Drive Verify Re-install Yosemite Clean install Yosemite Working in safemode
I'm restoring iPad from iCloud (context) after factory reset, but the app I need to restore from iCloud doesn't show up as scheduled for install: App Store > Purchases shows an icon to download the app from the cloud (which will not restore its data, as I've seen before the reset). How can I restore the app I need and its data from the iCloud? I know the app is there backed up as it's shown in the list of iCloud-backuped apps (iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage > (my device) > Backup options) now after reset-and-restore--and also was there before I initiated factory reset.
Safari has the option to subscribe to RSS feeds, so you can watch them in the 'Shared Links' section of your browser. I'm wondering, is it possible to receive "push notifications" for this in the Notification Center?
What I want is: when I click app1 icon in the dock, activate the windows that are only in the active display. For example: suppose that none of app1 windows's are activated; if I am in display1 and click app1 icon in display1 dock's, only app1 windows that are in display1 are activated (keeping whatever was in display2 as it was).
My Wi-Fi router is provided by BT and works fine for my iPad and Mac mini. However, my MacBook Pro now won't connect to the router but will connect to the external BT hotspot.
What font is used for the prompt ('>_') in Terminal's icon in OS X 10.10.x 'Yosemite?'
I have Mountain Lion and want to upgrade to Yosemite. I need to use iCal on my old iPad (iOs6). I heard Yosemite asks you to update to iCloud Drive (that can't be installed on iOs6/7) and that you won't be able to sync some apps until you update. Will iCal sync on Yosemite if you don't upgrade to icloud drive? If not, should I update to Maverick instead?
I would like to audit an executable binary from an untrusted source, and ultimately maintain whether it is safe to run it. My main interest is to establish, in a safe fashion, whether said binary tries to manipulate system resources, do some sort of privilege escalation or modify anything else which might compromise integrity or safety of the system. I have looked into sandbox-exec but could not find any current documentation on the available options. What is a good and reliable method of establishing that an executable is safe? Is sandbox-exec the right tool? Is there a place which offers up to date and comprehensive documentation on OSX sandboxing? Is there a place which offers up to date and comprehensive documentation on OSX sandboxing? What could be alternative strategies? What could be alternative strategies?
Does anybody know if Apple will approve an app whose sole purpose is to provide one (or several) today widget(s)? Somehow I have a feeling that they won't, but the fact that keyboard-only (or crappy non-keyboard emoji apps) exist makes me wonder. Does anybody know of any similar app that has been rejected or approved?
Then I got caught in the disaster that is the iTunes update fiasco! My iTunes is basically my laptop access to my iPhone, I don't use iTunes for anything else really. So I reluctantly updated iTunes. Ugh.
I'm wondering if it is possible to use iCloud Drive as a 'mounted drive'. As of now, I have a photo's collection of around 50GB. I'm keeping the files on an external HDD as it hogs my Macbooks' SSD. I'm loving the new iCloud Photo's Library (even though there isn't a Photo's app for OS X yet). I noticed that iCloud Drive is actually using up space on my SSD. Transferring the photo's to iCloud when the photo's app comes out doesn't seem like a solution as it would still hogg my SSD. Is it possible to mount iCloud Drive as a network drive?
I've got the following setup: DSL modem connected via Ethernet to an Airport Express A second Airport Express extending the first Both Airports Express are the current model, running version 7.6.4 of their software. Between the two I have nine working wireless client devices, mostly Macs and iOS devices.
My friend isn't very technology literate, so I backed up his phone to my computer for him. The problem is, his new phone doesn't have as much space, so I can't load up the back up on there. Is there a way to extract at least the photos and contacts from the back up? Thanks in advance!
I am listening to my local radio (www.otvoreni.hr) using iTunes (i have downloaded stream.pls file and opened it with iTunes) and it is playing properly. Now, no matter how much i tried, i cant find an option to show current song name/artist... and it is driving me crazy -.-
I'm running Yosemite on a Mac mini (Mid 2011) and I use Synergy in client mode on this machine. The screensaver setting is disabled ("Start after" is set to "Never") and display is set to sleep after 1 hour. However, after 10-15 minutes of inactivity, the screensaver comes on. Is there some other way of disabling it?
I have a number of web pages added to my iPad home screens. After rebooting the iPad , I noticed that many of the favicons disappeared and were replaced by a generic image. Is this a bug in iOS 8? Why does this happen, and is there a quick way of restoring the favicons?
I have one partition with Yosemite and another partition with Mountain Lion for some legacy software. But I want to also install Windows 8.1 and use it in dual boot.
An imac retina 27" i5 (model 15.1) comes with 8GB (2X4GB) of RAM. I am purchasing 2x8GB chipsets. Will I cause a problem with my imac if I just add the 2x8GB sets yielding 24GB, or must I remove the original 8GB (2X4) first as apple suggests.
A totally blind user wants to make use of the KNFB reader but does not want a cell phone, some of the reviews I have read suggest that it works best on the iPhone 6, other reviews suggest that that iPod touch 5 is a suboptimal version of the iPhone 5. I have near zero knowledge about smart phones and less about apple devices. Is it possible to tell if an iPod touch 5 will provide the same level of function with the KNFB reader as users are seeing with the app on the iPhone 6?
I have fallen in love with the new Spotlight window in Yosemite as a replacement for Quicksilver (or Alfred, or whatever). However I would love to be able to "search" into Chrome favorites and history. A bit like if I searched into Chrome's address bar. Is there any way to make it happen?
I ran into a bug (or feature) in OS X 10.9 that I can't figure out. If I'm trying to log into two servers, and I use "guest" credentials to log into one of them, things get screwy. Example:
I have to go to the spotlight menu under system preferences and change and re-set the keyboard shortcut to Cmd+Space and then it starts to work again. Has anyone else also experienced this? Anyone know what causes the shortcut to stop working?
Question: Current hardware is a 2007 Mac mini running Lion. From what I read, I cannot upgrade to Yosemite (if incorrect, please let me know) but the question is that I also have an iPad 2 and will I be able to upgrade to iOS8 if only have Lion on the desktop/mac mini?
Why do you need a SIM to "activate" an unlocked iPhone, even to use with iTunes? What happens if you use a SIM from another network than that you intend to use?
I recently install Yosemite, I then found that every time I turn my computer off and turn it back on, it would ask for my password for an update (Update Required) it would then go through an update with a progression bar and then boot as normal. I have been on the App Store and checked if I require any updates for anything and it just says I am up too date. Any suggestions on how to make this stop or what it is actually doing would be most appreciated.
Sometimes I like to have monitoring data to be displayed on an external monitor to be less 'in my face', even so I would have place for it on my main screen. So, is it possible to attach an external monitor to the new iMac 5k? And can somebody with powers maybe generate a new tag iMac5k, if it is considered useful?
I'm SSHing into my mac and doing some stuff remotely through tmux (namely uploading some stuff to github). When I just tried to run a git push, my command kept stalling silently. I found ssh stalling on this message, debug1: key_parse_private_pem: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed, and divined that the password prompt was being caught by the Keychain app and being displayed on the screen. I was able to get it to go through by using teamviewer to enter my password on-screen.
I am having issue with chrome, when ever I want to download or upload any item, the default window which appears, I cant see the buttons of that window, they kind of go down the dock, until unless I click the browse button (marked in black) to collapse the window and scroll back full again, only then I can see the buttons. Is it issue with chrome? Check screen shot for details.
iPhone Safari is wasting a lot of screen space in Reading List mode:  Is it possible to adjust the width of left and right margin?
While play count is quite accurate in estimating how long I have listened to certain songs for, it isn't entirely precise. For example, if I have two songs, one that is 4:00 minutes that has been played 25 times and a song that is 5:00 minutes that has been played 21 times, if I sort my songs by play count the former song ranks higher. However, in terms of total playtime, the first song has only played for 6000 seconds, whereas the second has been played for 6300 seconds. Assuming there are no tools which already provide that functionality, how can I accomplish this with AppleScript?
I previously used Image Capture (ie. this solution: How to mass delete your photos in your iPhone?). It seems like the delete functionality was removed in Yosemite. Now what? I have 800+ photos and I don't want to select them one by one. When I connect to iTunes, it says "iCloud Photos is On" - and does not allow me to sync through iTunes.
I use my mac (yosemite 10.10) at work with bluetooth mouse and at home with just the trackpad. Whenever I bring my mac back to work and start it up, >90% of the times it can't find the mouse. Turning bluetooth on/off, trying trickery with turning mouse on and off and all that doesn't work. Restarting blued didn't work. Removing mouse from bluetooth settings and trying to re-pair didn't work (could not find the mouse). Changing the batteries didn't help. The only thing that works, is rebooting the mac. After this everything works as it should.
My config is following: Apple SSD Controller: Command for test: Before enabling FileVault [1.338061 secs] After enabling FileVault [1.008163 secs]
My hard drive malfunctioned and I had to have it replaced with a new one and reboot my Mac. Now iPhoto, iMovie and garage band have all disappeared and are no longer on my Mac. Is there any way to get them back without having to pay for them?
Since enabling FileVault (I think only after I did that for my second hard drive), the desktop background keeps resetting to the default at every startup. It suffices to select another folder in System Preferences -> Desktop to make it switch back to the one chosen by me, I don't have to actually set it explicitly again. Does anyone experience the same issue?
I'm enrolled to receive OSX Yosemite beta update (AFTER the official release of Yosemite). I installed OS X 10.10.1 (14B17) without problems and now have IB423 available in the app store. I would like to view a list of changes / release notes relating to the build. Is this available somewhere?
Is there anyway to force or speed up the change? My alternative is to change the name of the hotspots, but do not want to go through the hassle of setting everything (range extenders, devices) again.
I'm trying to write an AppleScript to make a temporary alias on the desktop from a folder that resides in the Bundle's Contents:Resources folder and then execute a terminal command that has an argument from a file that also resides in the Bundle's Contents:Resources folder and then remove the temporary alias from the desktop upon finish or exit. How do I fix the following code to accomplish this? This is the error I get: I think I've corrected it down to... but still having trouble with the middle lines and the proper syntax of what I'm trying to accomplish.
I've got myself an S/MIME certificate from StartSSL, which I have exported from the browser, imported into my keychain and as expected Mail.app is now signing my outgoing messages. However some clients seem to have problems trusting this certificate. I've tracked the problem down to the fact that the attached smime.p7s is not complete.
I have problem to backup my iPhone (both to iCloud even to Computer). iTunes only says: 'iTunes could not back up the iPhone because an error occured' and backup is terminated. In iPhone's log I see this record:
Is there a command i can run from terminal that will show what type of accounts are used something that reports the username and type of account like below
In a related question I asked about the functionality of an iPhone 6 as compared to iPod touch 5, The answer indicates there could be a significant difference. The person I am asking on behalf of is currently using a tracfone for cell service and paying $80 per YEAR for more service than she uses. It seems possible to purchase a iPhone and not get a data plan and to use old phone as an development device Apple even posts some about using a iPhone 3 without a plan. I found an older post about switching SIM cards but I am not seeing anything about purchasing a brand new iPhone 6 to use as an iPod without a contract. There are some options to use an iPhone on tradfone but again only with old phones that have expired contracts.
I am thinking of purchasing a 13" rMBP. It has two cores. My question is, are two cores enough ? there are other laptops with 4 cores at much cheaper rates available. How does apple seem to pull it off with only 2 cores ? will the performance of a rMPB and a quad core(similar specs) have the same performance? and, is it worth buying the 2 cores ?
I'm working on Yosemite Finder sync extension, and I need to know if I'm able to enable it by myself without forcing users to turn it on. I've noticed that on start it writes message into log: Can I turn it on manually somehow? Thanks!
First a flashing file came up on my mac. When i go into disk utility's and it just shows disk0 and Mac OS X Base system. I've followed everything that I've found on the net: I've tried to start in safe mode (shift on start up) I've tried fsck but it won't go past the flashing file I've also tried ctrl + V on start up, ctrl + S and ctrl + P +R. Still nothings happened so are there any other options i could try?
Is there a way, via the command line, to check if the current user has the desktop? That is, if I run a shell script in a window, I want to be able to tell (in the script) if the user has switched to another account via Fast User Switching. The shell script is still running in that command window, but since the user has switched to another account, the Desktop doesn't show that command window.
Meanwhile - on my iPad - in the upper right-hand corner (where the battery life is displayed) - you can see the "plugged in" icon (lightening bolt) rapidly blinking on and off. In other words - it seems like, when it's plugged in - it's rapidly connecting and disconnecting (several times per second). If I click "OK" on that dialog window on iTunes - it instantly pops back up, and continues to do so as long as I keep the iPad plugged in. So - bottom line - I cannot connect my iPad to my iMac. I'm virtually certain that I was able to connect my iPad before I upgraded to Yosemite on my iMac, and iOS 8 on my iPad. Thanks in advance for any help!
Problem I'd like to teach myself to type slower and more accurately. Solutions? I was thinking of playing a sound when I press backspace displaying wpm/accuracy in the menubar Aside The reason I want to do this is I went to a conference the other day where I saw a live coding session where the guy didn't make a SINGLE TYPO for the 30 minutes I watched, - and apparently, he had not made a mistake for the 30 minutes before.
I have a very new MacBook Pro. I have an old Windows laptop that died. However I suspect the hard disk is fine. I also have an external HDD that I had used as a backup for that machine (although I hadn't been diligent in actually making backups). I wasn't using special software to make the backups, just dragging and dropping in Explorer.
Is there a way to make all Finder Column Views automatically 'right-size' all of their columns individually by default in OS X 10.10.x 'Yosemite?'
skype informed me that they no longer support OS X 10.4 Is it possible to update my computer or should I trash it. the processor is Dual 800 MHz powerPC G4 , 2MB SDRAM , Start up disc macintosh HD, Built around 2001. It has 2 extra hard drives. I would get a mac mini if I could use The 22" plasma screen monitor but it is connected with a large plug so I'm not sure it would work.
But I'm not really sure what any of that means. I could, of course delete and reinstall the printer, but would like to get more of an idea about being able to configure it properly so that command line printing can work along with GUI methods.
Recently, my email setup using Emacs/24.4 + Gnus/5.13 on OX Yosemite stopped working against the Apple smtp server: smtp.mail.me.com. It has been working fine for years before. It seems that it times out during the STARTTLS handshake as you can see below. Does somebody know how to further debug the issue and fix it?
I have some daily Automator tasks on my calendar which open URLs in Safari. (A "Get Specified URLs" task followed by a "Display Webpages" task.) Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, however, there's been a bit of an issue. Sometimes several tabs are opened, and it's no longer handling that very well.
When I try to open safari it says: The procedure entry point sqlite3_wal_checkpoint could not be located in the dynamic link library SQLite3dll. then it says:
I have looked at the Q&A regarding downgrading from Yosemite to Mavericks, but the Mavericks installer is no longer available in the App Store. Is there a way to get a hold of the installer? Yosemite broke my VMWare and I can't access any of my PC files. Any suggestions or help is appreciated.
Okay, this is extremely frustrating and weird. I've had syncing of notes to iCloud turned on for a while, and I was never really able to figure out when the notes were synced. It always seemed pretty random. Anyways, my notes from iOS 8 on iPhone 5S are synced to iCloud just fine, but the Notes app on my Mac refuses to sync to iCloud. As a result, no edits/new notes are pushed to iCloud, and the notes from my iPhone are never synced to my Mac.
I would like to assign Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-F to flag an email item, but that combination in mail is already assigned somewhere, and I cannot find where that is. It is not in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts. It does not seem to be on any of the Mail menus. The action that it causes seems to be "position to a specific mail item in one of the folders".
The free U2 album was downloaded to my iPod Touch. It does not show up in my iTunes library on the computer. I do not want this album. How do I now delete the songs from my iPod Touch?
Since upgrading to Yosemite, I can't enter a New Event in Calendar using the 24 hour clock. If I try to enter the start or end time as 14:00, it enters the 1 and then beeps at me.
I'm about to set up a Mac mini to dual boot Mavericks and Yosemite for software development purposes. What's the recommended minimum size of a Yosemite partition?
I am looking for software to copy a DVD home created without copy guard. Roxio Toast stopped working after installing Yosemite
I have a 13" MacBook Air (2012) and I would like to connect it to two external Lenovo Thinkvision monitors. Both monitors are identical. They have both a VGA port and a DVI port on the back (see photo).
I love my MacBook but I'm not a huge fan of Mail. Can I make GMail in Chrome the default email application for Yosemite so that when I click on email links I am sent to a new draft there? I've done this before on other systems.
I have the newest Pages 4.3 and Yosemite 10.10 so the report makes no sense, Pages has been messed up. I tested the conversion between pages file and zip and it recompiled pages to a folder but it did not work -- only getting the error: you need the new Pages. How can I fix this I-Cannot-Open-Any-Pages-File-On-My-Computer-Anymore with Pages?
I have an HP Pavilion 22xi, which is 1920 x 1080, but my external display settings only go up to 1080p, even with the option click trick on the scaled button.
I am fairly new Mac user, so sorry for a newbie question. I work as a webdev and i have hundreds of login credentials for websites/FTPs/cPanels for different clients and so far i used a text document to store and manage them all (what can i do, Mac newbie lol).
I have an .mp4 file and an .srt file. How do I play video to Chromecast with subtitles? [edited] Applogize for the lack of information, i'm looking for iphone / ipad app for streaming to my chromecast
I have got a Mavericks (10.9) installation on a Mac and a AWUS036NH WiFi card. There are several drivers to get WiFi card working. There is one of them in this page (*=URL=* and another in the bear extender page, device that uses the same chipset. The thing is that I installed the driver and the tool that is installed does the wifi connection to the router, its says that its connected but when I use the browser or other application, there is not internet. Airport is disabled. I dont know what can I do.
I have got a /home directory with no content. When trying to delete it by sudo rm -rf /home, OS X warns "rm: /home: Resource busy" and refuses to do it. Tried reboot. lsof returns nothing related. Does anyone know why could this happen, and, especially, how can I remove it?
Huh? “To improve reliability, ... will remove your existing backup history” Doesn't that kind of miss the point of having backups??
How do I permanently stop iPhone text messages from appearing on my iMac. I don't want to send/receive/view messages on my computer. I only want to use my phone for sending/receiving/viewing messages. Also, I'm hoping the fix doesn't require constant maintenance. I've gotten advice for this before, but the fix has to be repeated every time I restart my computer.
I have several email accounts, and I keep having to put in the email passwords, my login details and my system passwords! I think it happens when my Mac has slept - overnight etc? Help!!?
I'm changing my highlight color via a command I find in Mathias Bynen's dotfiles like so: I'd like to change it to something other than green, but I don't understand the syntax that is used for the color configuration (i'm a web developer so anything behind hex or rgba is dark magic to me). First, what is the color specification? Second, is there any documentation behind AppleHighlightColor?
My MacBook Pro 13" Late 2011 is running Yosemite. I am trying to install a Linux distribution on a partition of my hard drive. I used Disk Utility to resize the main partition on my hard drive and it completed seemingly successfully. I was left with the following:
I recently did a fresh reformat and install of Yosemite on my macbook pro, it was working as expected until today when i noticed that whenever i use the top keyboard row keys to change something like screen brightness, volume, backlight level, there is a black box around the rounded box that normally pops up. Is this a common problem with yosemite and is there a fix?
Whenever I try to resize my OSX partition on my SDD from 251GB to 210GB, I get this error: Couldn’t modify partition map because file system verification failed. I've tried Booting into recovery mode and trying from disk utility there (repairing and partitioning) Booting into single-user mode and running fsck -fy like seemingly every website suggests
I wanted to know, how compatible is FCP7 with Yosemite? FCP7 is the mainstay of my business and wanted to know if I should upgrade. Thanks,
I have successfully upload app in app store Our app showing like this. in that i want to change By eGInnovation to By eG Innovations. What can i do?.
Since updating to Yosemite, whenever I plug headphones into my MBP, it selects Soundflower as the default output device. I then have to manually change it everytime. Anyone know why this is happening, or how to fix it? Also, I can't get rid of Soundflower for some reason.
I am getting an iPhone 5S, Verizon version from USA and I plan to use it in India (on a GSM network). I read that Verizon iPhone 5S are GSM unlocked globally and can be used anywhere in the World. Is that true? Is that for only select model numbers/batch? Or does it apply to all Verizon iPhone 5S? PS - I will be not using 4G/LTE, only 2G/3G is enough.
I just installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. When I want to add a new music album into my music it is Displaying as individual songs in Music Library. Kindly Find the Image Attached. FYI
I have a Server running Mavericks, all works fine. My domain is server.myawesome.com, of which Im managing all my devices successfully using profile manager.
I'm using Ubuntu on a daily basis, and recently (6 months ago) I bought a Mac, so the first thing I did was installing VMWare and Ubuntu on my MBP. Also I'm a developper and I was a huge fan of Terminator (*=URL=* , you can open multiple file in one window, and code separatly on them, and many other great things .. I thought that if it runs on Ubuntu it could possibly run on Mac OSX but it seemes that it does'nt work .. Can you give me Terminator-like terminal for Mac OSX Yosemite ? Thanks !
I'm using Yosemite and store the ssh passphrase in a separate keychain (not the login keychain). This all works fine as long as the keychain is unlocked. When I lock the keychain, I expected ssh to ask me for the keychain password, instead it asks me for the passphrase of the key. If I unlock the keychain manually before trying to use ssh, it works fine. Is this a bug, or can this be fixed by some setting?
I’m from Maldives and I am buying an iPhone 6 plus from a shop in Male. They say that there is a 1 year Apple warranty but they aren’t providing me with any slips of the warranty. How can I verify whether my iPhone is covered by warranty?
I am using Terminal version 2.5, where I have two requirements: I need to be able to type the <META> key. I need to be able to type the # character.
I came across this today :  At first I was like : "Caching bastard." but no... The finder is right and the diskutil is wrong... Why ?
I've got a problem: 500gb take up space on my HD, but don't belong to any visible file or folder. This may have something to do with a disk image of 500gb I created and deleted some time ago. Is there anything that can be done with this except backing up the disk, reformatting and copying the contents back in? (That will take a lot of time.) The format of the disk is Mac OS extended, encrypted, journaled.
I use to generate report on my website to pdf on my mac with safari 7.0. It also works on Yosemite and newest Chrome. It looks like that: Since I upgraded to Yosemite with Safari 8 fonts in PDF crashed.
I have just purchased an Ipad Air2. I wish to transfer games, letter, books stored in IBooks and photos. I also want to transfer my contacts for emails and Facetime. I apologise as I am not that computer literate.
Since Yosemite i'm having this strange problem with Quick Look (giving previews of files when pressing the space bar): whenever i preview my files they are displayed transparently. Pretty irritating for images, and very inconvenient for text files (see image). I've tried switching off the 'Reduce transparency' option in the Accessibility preference pane, but to no avail. Does anyone know if this is a bug in Yosemite or some strange setting i can change?
I have a MS Wireless Laser Mouse/Keyboard 5000 set where both connect to my Windows desktop using a special USB bluetooth receiver. I'm not sure if this is generic USB technology that will work on my Mac Mini (2012), running OSX Yosemite - I am hoping to switch to that as my main device. Can anyone tell me if it will/should work without problems?
I've also downloaded gfxCardStatus but I couldn't change to using Integrated video card only because system would find External Display attached and there was none of it. Note: when my Pro crashed, there was no external monitor attached to it.
I have programmatically replaced an app's icon with the icon from another app (see code below). Now I want the change to propagate (visually) right away™ … But the former app still keeps showing the old icon in Finder, Dock and Application Switcher.
Curious, I called the number. It was NordicTrack's warranty renewal department. The gal that answered the phone addressed me by name without me telling her. I have a treadmill and they wanted $100.
I want to display the list and order of domains used by the resolved on OS X 10.10. I know that they are taken via DHCP and you can overwrite them using network configuration tool but connecting to VPN can also change them and I do want to see the current list in the console. How can I list them?
Can I download Google Chrome on my Mac and switch between it and Safari? I have a website update I need to do and don't want to change my mac but must use Google Chrome for the updates.
When I click the Share arrow in Yosemite / Safari, then select 'Email this page' Mail.app opens a new email with my signature and the link below the signature:  I want the link to appear above my signature. Is there any way to change that?
I'm using Mail client that's built-in into the system (Yosemite). I've decided that I want to use CTRL+V, CTRL+C and similar instead of CMD because I work half of the day with Windows and it's impossible for me to easily switch off my habits every half a day. I've considered 2 options: final switch between CTRL and CMD which had a lot of consequences that I didn't wanted to tackle switching on Shorcuts option available at System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and adding here any "special" shortcuts on per app basis.
If I installed Java (or an older version), will the App Store update my local installation, even though I installed, and updated it outside of that? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
I'm trying to share my wifi connection with to-link TL-WN725N. I've found the drivers and its works and I connect to WiFi with this or AirPort in the same way (for the first I use Wireless Network Utility). I can share from USB Wifi Card -> Wifi Built-in with Connection Shared in Systems Preferences but it doesn't work in the other way (Wifi -> Usb Wifi Card). Have you any idea how can I do this? The problem to use WifiCard -> Wifi is that the Card is slower than AirPort and, while the shared connection can be slowly, the connection on mac can't be slow, so I need to connect Mac with AirPort and share with Usb Wifi Card.
I found answers but they don't work: I added this line in .bash_profile: It outputs: Instead of:
My MacBook Air drowned today and it was connected to an external hard drive encrypted with FileVault. I can't remember password for it. Will new Mac sync that password from iCloud or is the encrypted partition lost?
This the result i got when I run shasum, I am getting a checksum error on installation file.
I have a mac book pro that is crashing everytime I logged in (with every users). The cause may be that my gf put so many pictures and video on the hard drive that it can't even start (from the restore utility, it has 40mb of free space). I am looking for a way to recover the data from the hard drive , before I can restore it with a clean setup.
Is it possible to find out if the Chrome is running in incognito mode? Also, I want this script to keep running. That means as soon as user opens Chrome in incognito mode I will show alert. Like this: If this the correct approach?
I want to use an auto configure for my new email address - but it says it can't do it automatically because my email program isn't a v10+. What is the problem - is there a Mail upgrade??
After upgrading my MBP from Mavericks to Yosemite, the "CPU History" option of the Activity Monitor only showed one aggregate graph. After reinstalling Yosemite from scratch, I suddenly have 8 tiny graphs, one for each core, which I find too tiny to be useful. Is there any way to switch the Dock icon of Activity Monitor back to the single graph?
I have a macbook pro late 2011. At this moment I am running the basic 2x 2GB 1333MHz rams ,but I want to upgrade. Now,I have read on some forum that this macbook can run 1600MHz rams even though Apple sold it with 1333MHz rams. Any ideas what's up with this?I am a bit confused at this point as I don't know what to buy. Also, are Kingston memory sticks good?I had a kingston SSD a few months ago and it was just great ,but don't know about rams.
I recently bought an iPhone and can't get the delivery confirmation when i send an sms. I went from reading this thread at Apple forums and have some clarifications.
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina, and am using QuietComfort20 headphones that previously used to work. Now, after a clean install of OS X Yosemite, I'm unable to use the headphones, no audio comes through them at all. When I adjust the volume use F11 or F12 I get the following
I have just obtained a Macbook Pro with Yosemite installed and am trying to connect to it from another host on the local network via ftp. The connection is refused. So I get into the preferences in the Yosemite system and look of ftp option in the file sharing preferences. There isn't one. There is options for afp, smb sharing but not ftp. On my other Macs there is an option for ftp sharing.
Android devices have a "Dual Networks" feature where you can use both the wifi and 3G network adapters concurrently to increase your available bandwidth:  Can I do something similar with my MacBook Pro, for example if I have both ethernet and wifi connections? Assume that the wired connection uses a different router/gateway than the wireless one.
I'm on 10.8.2. Finder always freezes. I have way more CPU and memory than this OS needs. It's only Finder. CPU usage spikes, spinning beachball, the whole thing. I cleared all my caches, disabled the "all my files" finder window. What else can I do? Does this get fixed in 10.8.3,4, or 5?
Is it somehow possible to rename/delete/copy files when saving a file and the Finder window pops up? I know you can do it with Windows, is it possible with Mac OS X?
I was trying to make a USB boot loader for Yosemite using this command I borrowed it from the original
Using OS X Mavericks, the CM Storm Devastator keyboard backlight does not light up. The light is usually activated by scroll lock being enabled, but in OS X, there is no such thing as scroll lock.
Some of the bookmarks in my Favorites screen are consistently defaulting to an ugly gray icon even though they do have icons elsewhere. I don't know what to do about this. For example, here's what my favorite screen looks like:
I have a BRAND new Macbook Pro running Yosemite and xCode 6.1. EVERY TIME I try to open xCode it completely overheats my computer and takes 15 minutes to open xCode. I have no idea what is happening. I was going to remove and reinstall xCode but it is now done through the Mac App Store. Any help or advice would be much appreciated!
Safari's Top Sites has two buttons, the X to remove and the pin to "pin" the item to the Top Sites. The pin is easy to see (hover over the site images) and "undo" (you just click it again), but if you click the X you've essentially black-listed the website (or at least the specific URL) so it won't come appear in top sites to review or undo. The problem is, accidentally blocked sites, or sites I've changed my mind about, can't be reviewed easily. For a specific site that I know is missing, its easy enough to manually add it to top sites (same as adding a regular bookmark), but I can't find any way of viewing the list of sites blocked from Top Sites. Is there a way to see/edit the list of black-listed items from Top Sites?
There is a directory in System/Library for startup items I presume: StartupItems I need to have a shell script that will configure ethernet interface at start up, with local network address and subnet mask. I need to do this because the network preferences for configuring the ethernet interface will NOT set it using manual settings. THIS appears to be a serious bug, or my installation is bad. I was given the advice to use networksetup from the command line but that will not configure the ethernet interface in such a way that the configurations will be there on reboot. The script needs to do its work with root privileges, or with sudo, but I am assuming that if it uses sudo, there will be a password dialog presented at boot time when the boot process gets to that script. (I have had enough experience with FreeBsd and Linux to find my way around in the terminal, but not necessarily as it applies to Mac OSX)
In iOS 7, one could train spellcheck to recognize acronyms by, e.g., typing 'My Story (MS)' so that when you subsequently typed 'ms' it would appear as 'MS'. This no longer works -- or, at best, works occasionally and often forgets. The iOS 8 advice, e.g., from *=URL=* to select text and double-tap the shift key to get 'all caps' suggestions in QuickType, is tedious and works only occasionally. How does one train the spellchecker for acronyms in iOS 8?
In System Preferences, under Dictation & Speech, there is a Speaking Rate setting:  Is there a way to change the Speaking Rate to a value that is not on that slider bar?
Border may not be the correct term for what I'm describing but I would like to change the color layout in OS X. That is, when I open a browser or the terminal, the borders are a light gray color. How can I change this color?
It seems to be a problem that at least two other persons are facing. When I watch a video it works fine, but if I switch to full screen, the area where Flash should be rendered is totally black. The right click is showing me the Flash options which means that the plug-in does not crash, just it does not display anything. Could anyone solve this issue or should we just wait for some Flash update?
Is there anything like this in iOS for iDevices ?
I just got an iPhone5S and want to use an mp3 I have in My Music as a ring tone. How can I do this. The manual only seems to talk about purchasing tones. EDIT I have made a 40 second m4r file and it is in My Music on the iPhone, but I can't find it in Ringtones. I cannot find "Sync Ringtones" in the phone sync options.
I’m trying to build the Eigen library using the CMake GUI. I’ve downloaded the library from the webiste (.tar.bz2), extracted it, and used the extracted path as source location for the CMake GUI, the CMakeLists.txt was already provided with it. I’m able to build the library in other places, but when I set destination path to:
Ever since I enabled iCloud Photo Library, only my most recent photos have been appearing in apps. For example, if I go to upload a picture to Twitter, only the last 70 out of 300 pictures are shown. This holds true for other apps like Instagram and Dropbox, but the numbers do vary slightly (anywhere from 70 go 66 photos). When I change my profile picture on Instagram, I have access to Momements, which includes all the photos, but not when uploading a picture to post. Is there an issue with my iPhone, or is this a bug?
Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, the accessibility zoom feature is unusable when connected to an external monitor. Steps to reproduce: Enable Zoom in System Preferences - Accessibility. Connect an external monitor, not using mirroring (second desktop). Zoom in using CTRL+(two finger gesture) - or OPT-CMD-= Expected: Zoom is buttery smooth, everything renders at 60fps, no lag whatsoever Actual:
I replaced my MBPs HDD with an SSD and put the HDD in the optical bay. Since then, I was missing the Recovery HD partition. That was still on Lion Now I have upgraded to Yosemite, and running diskutil list gives this:
I have a .mp4 video clip recorded with a GoPro camera, that I like to stabilize. I want to use iMovie, which I understand should have an antishake function according to this information. In iMovie I apperently can't chose the antishake function, I can see the icon, but it's grey and can't be selected?
Im going to update my mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro to an SSD drive (Samsund 840 250 GB). I am currently running Yosemite on my old HHD drive and was simply going to make a bootable USB with Yosemite on it to install onto the new SSD drive once I got it into my computer. But then this mess with TRIM and kext came to my attention. So, how can I get Yomsemite onto my new SSD drive so that it will recognize it?
How do I renew my Developer Program Account. The Account I used to have has expired. Please give very clear and specific instructions.
Another simple question for those keeping track, but I was wondering how and where I could setup the startup routines for my mac. What I would really like is for email to open, messages and activity monitor to open but not in a new window, and for safari to open in fullscreen mode in a separate pane. Is this possible or at least where might I look? I'm less interested in accomplishing this as learning some of the more behind the scenes stuff related to the operating system.
While I was charging my iPhone4s it turned itself down then it turned on again by itself then it turns on again then off then on and so on. How will I fix my phone?
Clean install of Yosemite. Using self-signed certificates, turned on Profile Manager, downloaded Trust Profile and created an enrollment profile from the web interface. Fails in Apple Configurator.
I have developed an iOS app using Phonegap technology. I have uploaded it on Apple App Store & it has been approved, is ready for sale & is live on AppStore. The problem is that I want to change developed by name of the app. How do we change it? Can anyone guide me?
My group runs a bunch of Mac Pros and xServes of various flavors, and being a fairly recent hire, I am getting up to speed on how to monitor them properly. We use SolarWinds NPM and SAM, and monitor those Macs via SNMP. Problem: some of them do not report CPU and memory load, and one - volumes. snmp configurations on these are identical.
I have a bluetooth trackpad and a pair of bluetooth headphones and ever since I upgraded to Yosemite I've been having problems with both. The trackpad fails to re-connect after the laptop wakes up more often that it before as do the headphones, on top of that the headphones are a lot choppier, to the point I can't listen. When connected to my phone they work flawlessly. I'd unpaired & re-paired both devices & also removed them by deleting them from the .plist file directly, this improved things for a few days, but now it's back to the same problem.
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2010 Model 6.1 i7 17" with 8GB RAM inside. I want to upgrade to 16GB. I have seen that it should be possible on the model 7.1 but I have 6.1 Can I upgrade? Does it work on my MacBookPro?
I'm looking for an application to measure words per minute when typing. It's just a general application without training, and of course it won't detect the wrong typed words but it's ok. Command line application or GUI application is also fine.
I have Outlook 2011 installed (owa access) if a flag an e-mail to follow up, it doesn't appear in the smart-folder flagged mail. I tried rebuilding the database, delete and recreate my account nothing works. The Filter in the Smart-Folder is set to Follow Up Flag -> Not Completed any suggestions?
Safari keeps on crashing or is unusable for some other reason and I have no possibility of reinstalling it without reinstalling the OS. What do I do?
Look at this line chart. I wonder if its possible to force Numbers to show Y=0, for example, without needing to add a data entry point to make it happen. - Is it possible?
Is there a way in which I can automate port forwarding on the mac? I want to forward a computer to port 22, and my purpose of doing is so I can ssh from a remote location, making ssh easier.
At work I have a MacBook Pro connected to a 27" Thunderbolt display. I take the MacBook home with me in the evenings.
I was recently testing our internal SUS but am wanting to get back over to the beta update catalog (one used to get 10.10.1 beta) but did not make a backup. Does anyone have this or know where I can find this?
I am running a file ./setWLSEnv.sh which has the following output: *=URL=* BUT when i go in the same terminal and i execute echo PATH is still have the old path ...
I saw a previous poster had a similar issue but the problem solved itself in his/her case. Anyone got advice on how to fix this? Regards Edit: Here is the mail setup
I'm going insane trying to simply use an external mouse. This can't be as hard as it seems. The external Logitech mouse I am connecting to my MacBook Pro is way too freaking slow and I can't find any settings to improve it. I have tracking set to max and I did some terminal thing where I set scaling to 10 which helped if I move the mouse quickly but if I move it slowly it crawls slower than a freaking snail trapped in molasses. How can I get my mouse to just work normally where a couple inches crosses the screen at a steady rate no matter how fast I move it?
On Yosemite, I was using Bootcamp to install Windows on a part of my internal hard drive. When, bootcamp was finished (before booting into Windows), Time Machine popped up and asked me if I wanted to use the 500GB USB external drive as a Time Machine backup disk... I told it I did NOT... Despite my answer, I'm now receiving "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer". I have the following per terminal:
I could have sworn that Google Hangouts used to provide a settings panel for testing and adjusting audio settings. I know I've used it in the past: it was a facility that showed volume levels, let you play a test sound, etc. Now I cannot find it anywhere. After starting a video Hangout in the latest Safari or Chrome on OSX 10.9.5, clicking on the gear icon in the top portion of the screen brings up a dialog that has only the following options:
When I am traveling I need to be able to connect me to the office and get the same IP address as I have in the office. Would it be possible to configure this with an Airport Extreme and if so how? I understand that Airport Extreme can not act as a VPN server. If that's what I need - is there some recommendation on a simple VPN server that is reliable? Regards Oscar
So my iPhone 5 digitizer broke, and since I have an upgrade coming up soon, I'm trying to do without a working phone until i can get the new 6. My problem is, however, that I have some websites I need 2FA for, and it's set to send codes to my cell phone via text message. Siri is still completely functional, so I've been making phone calls and dictating text messages through her, but when I ask her to read a message with a 2FA code, she not only speeds through the code so fast i need to listen multiple times, but she also doesn't diferentiate between lowercase and uppercase letters. Is there any way I can set Siri to: And can I change these settings with Siri, not going to the Settings app? Thanks!
I installed OSX Server and activated FTP for Downloads folder. Now folder looks like file in Finder and Downloads info looks badly. Also when i trying to delete Downloads, OSX required password and then said The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8003). Screenshots:
One day my Mac just stopped working when I connected it to my TV using an adapter and HDMI cable. Every time I plug in the HDMI and turn the TV to those settings both my TV and Mac screen go black. I can see my cursor on my Mac screen but it is very small. I can only then do a forced shutdown and restart my computer. I at first thought it must be my HDMI adapter, but I just got a new one and the same thing happens. I have all my updates and none of my settings have changed that I know of.
I'm running Xcode 6.1 on OS X Yosemite and I'm unable to create a new project, as you can see below it just says 'loading'. I've removed the product and org name for the purpose of this image. I have tried uninstalling but that didn't work. I am new to Xcode and coding in general so I would appreciate it if any solution could be given in lay terms.
Just wondering if anyone has been having this issue and found a workaround: My wifi works consistently both on Ubuntu and Android. Sometimes it also works on OS X, other times it does not - not even after rebooting. No idea what's the problem.
How do I paste or type without moving the insertion point? I am currently on 10.8.x. I want to be able to type where the insertion point (blinking I-bar) doesn't move but the text I type goes in front of it.
Running iOS 8.1 on an iPad mini, Yosemite on an Air, and 8.1 on a 5C. For whatever reason, the 5C has stopped syncing reminders to/from iCloud. Works fine between the iPad and Air.
I hid mach_kernel and private, but the cache.db, cache.db-shm, cache.db-wal of both the system and user folder are, also, visible. Yesterday, I had to restore from a Time Machine backup because something had suddenly eaten all the space on my startup drive. However, these files were visible prior to the restore. So, why are they there and how do I safely dispose of them or hide them to prevent their return to visibility? Thanks.
I've been searching for a while to figure out a way to get Safari to keep loading (buffering) paused videos when the tab containing the video isn't the one I'm currently focused on. If I go to another tab in Safari to read something while the video loads, the video stops loading. But also if I leave the tab in the front and go to another application to do something while the video is loading the video stops loading.
Not sure if its a software or hardware problem. When I turn on my macbook pro (2011) it asks me for a password, shows some progress bar after (it fills up to like 30%) and then it just reboots and starts the whole process again. I tried all kinds of recovery methods (USB stick with repair tools, another USB stick with a fresh version of Yosemite, Internet recovery...) but I always end up at a grey screen and nothing is happening.
I am trying to edit one of the names of a Favorite in the Favorites List in Finder. In most parts of OSX, one can simply position the cursor to the name and and editing box opens up, but not here. Any suggestions?
I have been playing on two clash of clans accounts on one device for a long time but just recently i cannot switch from my lvl17 to my lvl75. The switch villages option is not popping up for me and I don't know why. Can anyone help me get my main account back?
Regarding stackexchange post how to get shell scripts to run at startup on Yosemite The offering here is interesting but all I want to do is set the ip address of one of the ethernet interfaces, en0 with ifconfig. I don't want to launch a deamon. the command to run is just:
I have an iPod touch 4th gen and whenever I go onto imessage, it first crashes about twice, then on the third time or so, it causes my iPod to turn off completely. This happened after I someone gave me thier contact info and I tried texting them for the first time. After that, the app didn't open again.
So I installed OS X Yosemite almost a week ago, and within this time frame have experienced 2 crashes. Basically, the OS freezes, and then shuts down, and doesn't start up again until I press the power button myself. I am unaware whom I should report this problem to. Furthermore, it doesn't seem that the problem is being reported to apple since no message indicating such reporting is presented after the crash. Any suggestions on what actions I should take? I have a mid-2012 15' RMBP. Edit: System Log
I'm in the process of switching my dev environment from Windows (where this wouldn't have been a problem) to Mac so apologies if I'm missing anything. How do I make sure I can see and use this Dropbox directory when viewing its parent using http://localhost?
I'm working with MacOS X 10.6. I'd like to define a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-m, which does the same thing like RETURN does, without deactivating RETURN.
I installed Ubuntu Server 14 on my Mac Pro and now after a successful installation, when I tried to reboot it, the computer chimes like a Mac always does, but does not load any further. Normally I would see a grey screen then code as ubuntu loads and finally I would be prompted with a password.
When I installed wine I followed all the instructions, but then when I went to type 'brew docter' into terminal a error appears saying Error: Unknown command: docter I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it but the same appears. what should I do?
I've already reverted the CoreStorage volume. And I've resized my "Macintosh HD" volume (by dragging it) and want to increase the size of my "Yosemite" volume. How do I reclaim the space (in grey) from the first partition.
Our trusty 9 year old Mac G5 hit what appears to be a dead end ... the graphics card died and thus no picture, just a black screen. In desperation -- because we're a busy design and education company -- we purchased a brand spanking new 2014 27" iMac. Beautiful machine. That was the easy part. And we bought the necessary cables to speed the transfer of data and applications from Firewire (G5) to Thunderbolt (iMac).
My display went black suddenly while I was online banking. I tried to do a hard shutdown but had no control over my keyboard. After approximately one to one and half minutes of attempting shutdown, the screen with my banking info reappeared. Any ideas? Was I breached? I checked my firewall and it showed as turned on. I also checked to make sure all share settings were turned off and they were. What else can I do to protect my info. especially while online.
Since upgrading my MacBook Pro to Yosemite I noticed that a lot of programs pop up dialog boxes BEHIND the Dock, making it hard to select buttons. This happens in lots of programs (including some Apple programs). It does not seem to be possible to move the dialog boxes.
I tried to fix it in system preference...but when I did, it made a weird ticking noise rather that the noise it used to. How do I get this to go back to normal?
I downloaded Clash of Clans and I found that my Apple ID already had data. I change my password, but I found that this stranger still can play Clash of Clans with my account. How can I stop this?
Regard maximizing the Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi signal, just for my curiosity and knowledge, from the hardware standpoint why is not recomended to place the Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme in areas surrounded by metal surface on three or more sides?
someone logged into their game center earlier on my phone. Then, they loaded their Clash of Clans village and played it. After they were done, I logged them out of the game center and logged myself back in. Later on I went to play my village and it's stuck on his village. I've logged into multiple different game centers to see if it would load their village or start from townhall 1, but it's always stuck on his village. I want to get my village back. What's going on? Why won't it load another game center progress or even start over then have a pop up asking if you want to load Town hall 8 village?
What does this error mean in iTunes Connect when I am trying to submit an update to my app?
Is there any way to batch export PDFs, instead of going through each one and going Export as PDF? I was thinking there must be some utility I can run from terminal. This is to basically get around an issue with Preview having some issues displaying unrendered equations - if I export the PDF from within Preview there are no issues viewing it.
I have an SSD in my MacBook (Pro 9,2; encrypted), and until recently, the apple icon appeared almost immediately after pressing the power button. Soon after that I would be able to unlock the disk using my password and then boot in ~10 seconds. A couple of days ago, I installed rEFInd on a flash drive and then booted from it as a test (I need the stick to boot into Ubuntu on my second drive and was in the process of reinstalling it). I was then in the rEFInd menu and chose one of the tiles (I think it was "Boot Linux from 16GiB FAT volume" or something like that). Naturally, since no Linux was actually installed, I was met by the black screen with the blinking cursor and powered the computer off by long-pressing the power button.
I have MacBook Pro, late 2010. For a while I was using OS X 10.6 and sleep logic was next: 1. after closing lid macbook go to sleep (with momentary wake up on lid open) 2. after day or so of sleeping macbook changes it state to hiberante (ram2diskc I suppose). wake up should be performed with power button and it will take some time (like several minutes or so)
Why does my iPad 2 version 7.1.2 show mail usage 1.4 GB when I have only four emails in all boxes? I have erased all mail from my computer mailboxes also...
I've thinking to upgrade my iMac late 2009 with an SSD. Its has a SATA II port and now uses a HD Hitachi 7200rpm. In your opinions, if I'll upgrade, I can see an increase of performance or not? In my project i've thinking to put SSD (250GB) in HD slot and buy an external case for HD in order to store photos and other big files.
Do the files that I download (purchased) from iTunes contain references to my Apple ID? Could you (or anyone else) know what Apple ID purchased the song just by having the .m4a?
I am a fan of Spotlight and always tend to use it for navigating through my opened apps and docs. However I found out, that when it comes to xls files that are already opened, I get a popup with a message asking me to confirm if I would like to reopen a file or use an existing one. It looks like: "filename.xls is already open. Reopening will cause any changes you made to be discarded...". I wonder is there a way to skip getting the popup message and just focus to an already opened xls window? I am using Yosemite Microsoft Office Excel 2011 14.2 version
I need to programmatically open a shell script in a Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges. I'm using osascript as it displays a convenient prompt for an admin login/password. I'm currently using this : The trouble is, even after entering the credentials in the OS X prompt, the newly opened script will beg for a password at the first sudo command. How do I pass the admin credentials to the opened script?
I always used the accented character pop-over menu often, by holding a key for a second or two. Now, with Yosemite suddenly all I get is something like: Resumeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee When I want the chance to type: Resumé I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
Is there anyway to create a script that will automatically shut down the WiFi when I power down my machine? Maybe in Automator?
Whenever I start Safari 8.0 (on Yosemite 10.10) after resuming my Mac from sleep, it kicks off a web process which consumes 100% CPU and soon gets the fans on my MBA going:  What's strange is that it's always the same URL (*=URL=* which is a site I haven't visited for a very long time, certainly not since I upgraded to 10.10. I have no idea why it's picking up that URL. The only solution is to force quit that process and from then on Safari behaves normally until the next time I put my Mac to sleep. Very frustrating. BTW: the site is the site of a local private hospital, nothing special.
Hi I am now successfully running my MacbookPro off of a bootable external SSD (which is runnung Yosemite and onto which I cloned my whole system) and I would like to switch it out with the old HDD inside my laptop (just have to wait a few days until I can borrow the screwdrivers). I assume I can just follow the normal steps of replacing a hard drive since everything is operating off the SSD at the moment and the HHD is prettymuch dormant, but I am not well versed in this area so I just want to check before I go doing it. So, do I need to do anything special in this case?
I've a MacBook White (Mid 2010, 13-inch) with 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. I want to upgrade it to 4GB RAM. I'm looking for 1066MHz RAM in local stores but couldn't find one. Instead everywhere I can find the 1333MHz DDR3 RAM only. So before buying RAM, I want to be sure if 1333MHz RAM will work on my MB White without any troubling issues. So please give me an expert's advice. Will 1333MHz RAM work on my MB White Mid-2010 model? Or I'll just continue using my MB with 2GB RAM? 1066MHz RAM is not available in my city and making order from Amazon (or similar sites) is not possible for me as these websites do not provide services in my country. My MB White (Mid 2010, 13-inch) specifications-- Processor- 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory- 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics- NVIDIA GeForce 320M OS- OS X Yosemite 10.10 Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion
I have been receiving new iphone 6 hints in my Notifications but when I go to try one out and go back to read it again it is gone. How do I retrieve them and where do they do they come from?
My ipod doesn't start anymore. I didn't drop it or anything like that... It just went black screen while I wasn't looking. I can't start it and charging doesn't do anything. What can I do?
I have OS X set to require my password immediately after “sleep or screen saver begins” (and I'm assuming this includes display sleep). Since Mavericks, there seems to be a one-second grace period: if I trigger the screen saver or put the display to sleep, and then immediately hit the shift key or move the mouse, I'm dropped back into my account with no password prompt.
I sent a text, it went to the servers but it hasnt delivered to the person yet. So I did that method I read about to block him until he comes online, then the text wont deliver to him.
BitDefender's Dock icon pops up randomly and I have to quit again and again. I tried to contact the support but got only some generic response. Does anyone have the same problem and have a workaround? Here is the example of the icon appearing after closing iPhoto:
My phone is disabled and I have no access to iTunes. It is telling me to try again in 23,805,632 seconds but of course I can't wait 50 years!
These empty folders are in my Library > Preferences. Have I been infected with malware?
Does anyone know here how to move files using just shortcut keys in Forklift for Mac? I just don't like to click File > Move to, to move files/folders from one tab to another. I think there's a short cut key or I think I can set a shortcut key, but I just don't know how to do it in Forklift. It's not even in their FAQs and I cannot find any post online regarding Forklift shortcut keys. I just want to select files and copy/move from one tab to another fast, without pointing my mouse to the move to link under File in the top menu.
Recently I decided to recycle one of my old Macs into a home-file-sharing-server. The Mac running Yosemite is connected to a router with Ethernet and is running PLEX server. A hard drive is also mounted. Everything workes fine. I can access the Mac with ARD, start and control downloads with remote Transmission, and Manage my Plex server... everything from work. Sometimes I download from another Mac on my local network, aiming my server as a destination folder... never had a problem. But when my wife tries the same from her computer, everything changes.
How can I extract email passwords from an encrypted iOS backup stored in iCloud?
I am designing an icon for use with an Xcode template and need to know what display-resolution and pixel-density settings I need to use for each of the PNG files I'm exporting from GIMP into my .iconset folder. Specifically, what display resolutions and pixel densities should I use for the icon_512x512@2x.png, icon_512x512.png, icon_256x256@2x.png, icon_256x256.png, icon_128x128@2x.png, icon_128x128.png, icon_64x64@2x.png, icon_64x64.png, icon_32x32@2x, icon_32x32.png, icon_16x16@2x.png, and icon_16x16.png images in my icon set?
I wanted to have dual-boot setup on my MacBook Pro. So after searching for a bit, I found a couple of sites that offered a step-by-step explanation on how to do it using rEFInd.
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro under the same network connected through AFP file sharing protocol. Before I upgraded to OS X 10.10, the speed is very fast - copying a 200MB file would take a couple of seconds. Now as I have upgraded to 10.10, the speed slowed down drastically. When I copy a 200MB file it took me around 10 or 15 minutes. The iMac is connected to the router directly through Ethernet and the MacBook Pro is connected through wifi.
I have an AirPort Express with a 1 TB harddrive, obviously this airport is connected to the internet and in the next month our house will be conected to the optic fibre network giving us 200 megabits/seconds connection speed. Now to me this looks like a great opertunity to store some fairly large files on a shared disk.
I'm on Mavericks and I run a python script to have a minimalist local server. Anytime I launch the server the firewall popup comes in and asks me "Do you want the application “python2.7” to accept incoming network connections?" I click "Allow". I have inspected the Firewall Options from "Security and Privacy" and there is an entry "Python" that points to my virtualenv version of python that is marked as "Allow incoming connections". So everything seems ok but this popup won't go away, it is always there anytime I launch the server. Might be a problem linked to the different virtualenv installations of python?
I'm trying to install OSX Yosemite. I start the download from the app store and it sit and thinks for 40 minutes or so and then gives me the following error:
When I'm opening macvim in full screen mode I have black stripes in bottom and top. So I can't see some part of code. In none full screen there're no black stripes. Is there a way to get rid of these stripes?
My friend gave me an old iPhone 3. I have an iPod touch 4. I tried to set up iMessage with my current apple ID but it won't work. No messages will send and I won't receive any on the iPhone. In my settings it says my iMessage is connect with my apple ID. Is it not possible to use iMessage on an iPhone 3 that has no service? If it is how do I do it? it has iOS 6.1.6
One of my clients publishes a number of podcasts. He would like to add links in our HTML site that would open the Podcast App and load or prompt to load the episode indicated in the link. Is that possible?
I'd like to print a lot of text documents and I'd like to have a file location on the footer of each page of all documents. Of course I don't want to add them manually, but I'd like to set have them there automatically added just for printing. Is there a way how to achieve this in TextEdit or Pages?
I want to restart one of my games on my iPad, so I uninstalled it, but when i go to reinstall it and start over, it just shows me the cloud option to continue from where I left off. Please help?
While on OS X 10.9 it works nice to switch windows of all apps (not produced by apple) I am using in my work like Google Chrome, SublimeText, iTerm from keyboard using: cmd ⌘ + ` On OS X 10.10 it works only with apple apps ;( Is there something changed, what third-party applications developers should change, or is some other keyboard shortcut to get this working as it should? UPDATE: - I restored all keyboard settings to default, and things started working as expected.
For example, there's this server based game. You delete the app, log out of gamecenter (since they claim to save your progress on the cloud) but once you redownload the app again, you return to where you left off. How is this possible?
I accidentally deleted an iMovie event with an important school project within it, but I recovered it by going to Finder, then clicking Movies. I re-uploaded them to iMovie but now they are so blurry, I cannot see the video! Please help me revert it back to its original state of clarity in time for presentation date, being Monday!
I'm trying to paste text into Terminal (v2.5 build 343, I'm running Yosemite), and it seems to consistently omit characters. For example if I copy the following text to the pasteboard: Then in Finder Edit -> Show Clipboard I can verify that the text is all there. Next I open Terminal and type: Then paste the above text and press Ctrl+d. On the screen I get this: but the contents of the file "test" match the original text which I copied to the pasteboard. Is there some reason why Terminal would drop characters when echoing to the screen during a paste operation?
If there are a lot of files in the trash, sometimes the Finder will display a progress bar saying (for example) "Preparing to delete 62,736 files", then another progress bar for the actual deletion. By comparison, deleting those same files from the command line is nearly instantaneous.
I've done my research and found some really ancient questions, including this one, Always Asked to Configure Firewall for iTunes, where the firewall on OS X asks to allow incoming internet connections every time I launch an app that is internet connected. This has only happened since I upgraded to yosemite. This is also doing the same for apps like steam that need to use accessibility features for in game overlays. I've tried several fixes, including re-installing apps, to no avail. It seems that since the yosemite upgrade, it just doesn't seem to store preference information, like it's stuck in a certain state and nothing will override it. Any help out there please as it's becoming quite an annoyance!
Updated ipad to 8.1. On safari now I have a bookmark/reading list/link column on left of screen. It takes up about 1/3 of the screen and I want to delete it. I can not figure out how to do so.
I bought a used iPhone 4, got the carrier to unlock to use, but I still can't use because I don't have the previous owner's Apple ID or password. Is there any way to unlock to use?
I have an old iphone 4s but just upgraded to a new iphone 6 and switched cellular service from the 4s to the 6. Wifi broke for some reason a long time ago on the 4s (the buttons are permanetly disabled).
I'm trying to determine whether I'm having a ram, drive, or board issue. I used to be able to log in and actually use my laptop but it would run slow and over little time the fan would kick on and freeze up or the screen would show multiple lines or have a blue screen. But Now it won't even go to the log in screen and right when I turn my laptop comes on it has lines running through the screen with the apple logo then it will hang there for a while and go to a blue screen with multiple lines running through it. I hope this is no expensive fix I was thinking it's a possible ram issue due to how slow it started runnin but could be a possible drive issue as well but when I hold down the option key and select either bootcamp or the backup it will blue screen. It wouldn't let me do anything after the latest update it started doing this. I hope someone answers this soon I'm lost without making music. Thankyou all for any future input
I have a folder with files on my Time Capsule. As I know I can set the tags for files and quickly find all files by tag just clicking on the tag on the sidebar of Finder.
If I understand correctly when I reboot my Macbook and click on Time Capsule - Data on Finder, OSX mount this folder(drive?) to /Volumes folder. Here is my /Volume:
Suppose I have an AppleID linked to my credit card in my country. Now I would like to browse the ITunes Store of another country.
(At least) twice now since I updated to Yosemite I've noticed I'm suddenly getting notifications from an app I had turned off. Then I go to Notifications in System Preferences and notice that every checkbox is checked again for every app that has an entry in Notification Center.
Suppose I would like to play a video file (avi/mp4) in AppleTV 3. I see two options: play the file in the laptop and mirror the screen via AirPlay on the AppleTV. play the file in the laptop and mirror the screen via AirPlay on the AppleTV. import the file into the ITunes in my laptop connected to my home network, enable home sharing, and make AppleTV play this file from the ITunes. import the file into the ITunes in my laptop connected to my home network, enable home sharing, and make AppleTV play this file from the ITunes.
My team is developing an iOS app, which is still on the Beta phase. When we show the app to potential partners, we use testflight to share the app with them. Alas, testflight requires the user's UDID which is obtainable only through iTunes on a Mac, which is cumbersome. We would like to be able to email users with app invites using their email address only. Can we use the iOS Developer Enterprise Program to let potential partners try the app using their email address only, without UDIDs involved?
My nan's iPad volume isn't working. She asked me why and I'm not sure why it could be as the volume is turned up and she can hear her music but she goes on to Snapchat and she can't hear anything but when she uses her headset she can hear.
I got like 11000 emails available through the iOS mail app, and single keyword search no longer works for me. I would like to exclude specific words, like in google: (food -fast). Are there special boolean operations or shortcuts availble to be entered into the iOS mail app?
Ok so I have a 32gb iPhone 4s that is updated all the way. When I plug it into my computer (PC) and run iTunes it (iTune) will tell me that I have a ton of free space on my phone howeer, when I look at my phone it says I barely have a Gig of free space. I am really confused. I don't have a lot apps or a lot pictures anymore so how do I sync iTunes with my iPhone so it will tell me how much storage space I have?
How do I get Final Cut Pro to work on Yosemite? Any fixes will be greatly appreciated thanks.
On a Windows removable disk, I have a folder called audio jukebox. Under that folder I have a folder for each artist and under each of these folders there are one or more folders each representing an album and in each of these folders are the songs in that album. Windows reports that I have 1,445 folder and 10,498 files.
My son is playing with his IPad instead of doing his homework on it. Is there an app to see what apps he is using along with how long he is on each app?
Cannot enter startup manager or perform any other startup action on my mac mini. I tried installing Windows 10 (Tech Preview) alongside Yosemite. The mac mini automatically starts into Windows, resulting in the following error:
I tried to install a new SSD with a higher capacity in the optical bay. But OS X cannot format the SSD. I also tried to swap with an HDD but the same problem occurs with an HDD. Failure format or something like this. The drives have SATA III, I checked Mac info. Intel 6 series chipset with 6GB for both HDD and optical bay interfaces which means SATA III (?). When I format the HDD through USB I can write to it via SATA, but Disk Utility suggest repairing. If I check this drive, Disk Utility cannot repair this drive. How to resolve this problem? Macbook Pro 13", late 2011
I just gave in to the App Store's constant nagging about upgrading to Yosemite. Aside from an unhappy Chrome, there is this kextd process that's constantly running close to 95% CPU. This results in the fan also running constantly and my battery being drained. Things I tried but didn't work: removed all the .plist files upgraded to 10.10.1 when it came out this morning called Apple support who had me delete a cache file (/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache/loadedkextmt.plist) The process doesn't start straight at boot, but maybe 10 minutes later during use. How can I get this kextd process to quiet down?
I have a problem with switching between windows in Mac OS X the way I use it. For example, I have 2 opened windows of PDF files in the background, and on top of them there is another window of excel sheet. Now when I open a new window of PDF files, I don't want the other 2 windows of PDF that were in the background to come to front. What can I do?
I plan to use both /Library/Webserver/Documents and ~username/Sites/. I have phpmyadmin folder in /Sites directory. If I go to it works, but if I go to
I am having trouble running any third party applications that are not created with pure apple native UI. Example, Google Crome, Firefox and Microsoft Word.
MacBook running slow. I want to do a wipe, clean install (OS X Yosemite) and restore. I've copied my home directory to an external drive and could transfer it back after clean install. I'm also doing a Time Machine backup to the external drive.
I'm travelling from Australia to the US. Apple Pay isn't available in Australia yet. My question is: Can I use Apple Pay in the US with an Australian AMEX?
Both devices drove me nuts until I caved and increased my iCloud storage for backup. I couldn't find a way to change default to my Dropbox account. Please tell me how....
I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and I noticed that the file copy dialog in Finder seems to have disappeared. Instead, I am shown greyed out entries of the files being copied in the destination directory, with the successfully copied files turning to black.
My iPhone 5S won't show street/road names. All I can see on the map are the 2 dots from/to my destination. I use to be able to see the streets, interstates, cities, etc. The background is basically blank.
I have an ipad 2 and its just 2nd hand. My ipad 2 had been reset and then when I open it up it says that I need to connect/sign in to an Icloud account while I dont have one. What should I do?
I installed Yosemite on an external 3TB drive. I made a specific 300GB partition on it to hold the system and a second for data. Installation worked fine. However, according to Disk Utility in both Mavericks and Yosemite there is only a little more than 800GB available on the whole disk. When I run diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list it says there are no CoreStorage Volumes, but I knew from the Yosemite installation that there is one.
I am curious about whether there is a way in OS X to hook to some events to find out whether the laptop is plugged into power. (And furthermore how we can control the "Reduced Transparency" settings option via script)
Lately, I will go through periods where iTunes keeps opening itself repeatedly. It never plays anything or loads any files or URLs. But I can't figure out what is triggering it to open. Is there a log somewhere that shows why an app opened? Presumably it's due to a file association somewhere.
I named my system "Foob" on my 2012 MacBook Pro. Yosemite has renamed it "Foob (4)". I wasn't sure where that "(4)" came from so I renamed it back to "Foob" in the Sharing Preferences. But, I looked today and it's now at "Foob (2)"
I updated my Phone 5S with ios8 mostly just to get rid of the Notification on my Settings Icon. Now every time I open the phone to use it I am asked to enter my iCloud password (yes, same as iTunes) and yet I have never established an iCloud account.
I recently bought a new MacBook. It's running Yosemite and I managed to transfer my old user profile from the old computer via migration assistant.
The latest release of an app I love is completely buggy. Can I recover it from a backup without recovering everything else? My last backup is quite old :-(
I noticed that AppleTV has a micro USB port. How and why will one use it ?
Suppose I have iTunes in a Windows laptop. Can AppleTV stream the content from that iTunes directly (as it is supposed to do with iTunes in a Mac) ?
I updated my MacBook to OS X Yosemite version 10.10. Everything seems to be fine... apart from: My WD hard drive won't open now - it appears on screen, allows me to enter the password to unlock and then give me this message: NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk2s1 at /Volumes/My Passport because the following problem occurred:
A friend recently updated to iOS 8 on his iPhone. The iPhone is jailbroken and has an iOS 8 supported iFile version installed.
I have found some answers on here but need to check something. Is there a way to check the failed login attempts form previous days? I have tried: but that only gives me results for the current day and I need them for the past 4 days ideally. Have also used And again only todays results. Thanks in advance!
Prior to Yosemite Notification Center settings stored in an sqlite db in ~/Library/Application\ Support/NotificationCenter/ Now this folder does not exists anymore, where does the OS store those settings? TIA!
I can't get the following formula to work in Apple's Numbers.app. I need the second IF to be BETWEEN 33.3% AND 66.6%. This is what I have tried but it does not work: Thank you for any help!
I have just installed Yosemite and have issues with my mouse logitech M-RAK89D. First I couldn't use the clicks. However, I could move the cursor and scroll normally. I tried to install the last version of the Logitech Control Center.
I was wondering if anyone could explain the meaning the command below in mac terminal: dhcp-74-148:~ Noticed it for the first time today and just wondering what it meant. Thanks
Say I have a local network on which my computer's IP address is 192.168.0.2, and I've setup my router to forward port 80 to that IP. I also have another device connected through my computer via internet sharing, and it has an IP of 192.168.1.2. Is it possible to forward port 80 from my computer to this other device, if so, how? I should mention that my router isn't capable of port forwarding to 192.168.1.X, even though it otherwise happily routes the traffic from devices on that network.
My MacBook Air's fan is spinning rapidly even though there are hardly any programs running. A couple of weeks ago my mum accidentally spilled water on it and we had to take it to get fixed. After it had been fixed, everything was working fine but my laptop has been very noisy ever since. Even when there are no programs running. How do I stop my laptop from being so loud?
I was troubleshooting my wifes iPhoto library and rebuilt a duplicate library. I didn't want to fill up the 2TB external hard drive used for Time Machine, so I excluded the folder that contained only the rebuilt library. I now have deleted the old Library and want Time Machine to backup the new, rebuilt library, but it won't. I moved the rebuilt library to the ~/Pictures/ folder and deleted the exclusion from Time Machine, but the Library doesn't get backed up. I deleted the com.apple.timemachine.plist, formatted the external hard drive, and started all over with a new Time Machine backup, but the iPhoto library still won't get backed up by.
I have an if then looking for a certain set of files. They all start with lib, so I could either set an if then up for each one or I was hoping there's a way I can use an asterisk. Here's what I have and what I tried.
It's more it less an order of operations, but should I format and encrypt the external hard drive first without any data and then run TM? I figured that way would be faster rather than TM having to encrypt the data on the fly.
How do I make an Apple Script (or something similar) that will tell OS X "do not launch/run (n) app from (x1) time to (x2) time?" Thank you.
I followed some tutorials and created a HTML signature for Mail Programm. I used my HTML code inside a .mailsignature file, saved the file,checked it as "Locked" and now I'm able to use my signature in mails. Everything works perfect, but I want to able to edit my signature in Mail-Programm. But I cannot edit my signature in Mail programm. I mean if I delete some text or change the text in mail programm it doenst save the signature and I guess its because the .mailsignature file is locked.
I seem to be having persistent issues with Bluetooth connectivity, especially after waking up my Macbook Pro from a long sleep. I have a speaker that automatically turns off after a certain period of inactivity, and my use case typically is open the laptop, turn the speaker on, and when the Bluetooth driver is acting normal, they will automatically reconnect. However, the problem seem to be that the my Bluetooth peripherals do not reconnect if my Macbook has just been woken up from a long sleep. After searching around, I found this script to relaunch the bluetooth kernel extensions, but it didn't seem to work on Yosemite. Here's what sudo tail -f /var/log/system.log gave me after doing a kextload and kextunload (hostname and username redacted): uname -a output (hostname redacted):
Is there an archive of old FileMaker Trial installers somewhere? I have a legit (seriously!) license for FM12, but the installer is nowhere to be found.
My macbook air (13-inch, mid 2011) battery drains from ~100% to ~85% over night. The problem only started a few months ago. I'm currently running yosemite, but the problem started while on mavericks. My battery cycle count is ~130.
I have even gone full scorched Earth on the laptop. I wiped the hard drive clean, re-formatted it and reinstalled Yosemite and everything else to see if I could get it to work. I did this mostly in the name of Time Machine, but it's still pushing my buttons. The same issues are still happening with the index, heat and battery life.
by mistake, i accidentally blocked my I cloud account.password, security codes, lost the lot. Is it possible to use the time machine to come back a few days ago when my passwords were still working?
I'd like to be able to view the full path of a file, rather than just its file name, in document-based apps like Preview & TextEdit. Is this possible?
Is it possible to configure TextMate to launch the program I am currently writing (using the Command+R shortcut) with some command line parameters?
I'm trying to run SimCity 4 Deluxe on my 12 Core Mac Pro with OS X Yosemite (10.10), but the game keeps freezing when I'm playing. Have to cmd+option+esc, and constantly save during the game so I don't lose much data. It's a pain to have to relaunch the game every 3 minutes.
How does one disconnect from a wifi hotspot on Mac OS X? The only way I found how is to Turn Wi-Fi off then back on and finally select a different access point... Surely there must be a better way.
Only on move. The problem happens only when the message is moved. If a message is already in the Junk mailbox and I mark it as junk, Mail.app does not copy it to trash. I suspect this is the key to the problem.
I am running a Ubuntu server on my off of my 2008 MacPro, it runs great and works really well except I am not able to run any raid setups directly on it. I have a large library that needs to be accessable from the web on my 12TB raid running raid 5...right now the drive is formatted as HFS+, however I can change the format to anything as long as it mounts to a MAC as Read Write.
What is currently the best remote assistance/remote desktop application for Macs? I think unattended access (no remote user needed) and file transfer would be useful. Teamviewer seems to fit the bill, but I am not a Mac guy so I was wondering if there were other/better options for the Mac.
The Teac A-H01 requires an audio driver, otherwise the sound becomes watery. Teac hasn't released a driver since Yosemite came out.
I'm about to upgrade my Mac OS X to Yosemite version 10.10.1, but since its broken on icloud.com and iOS 8.1, I'm asking this question. I have a critical Notes page in my iCloud account which is there, at least on my iPad which does not have 8.1 installed, which I was trying to access on my macbook via the Notes application and icloud.com. Neither are showing this note.
Can I use shell scripts, AppleScript, or some other form of scripting to get my mac to reboot and login at a specified time? If so, how?
The option to erase junk mail does not show up when I right click and in the menus it is grayed out. Any idea how to get it back. I am running Yosemite, 10.10 on an iMac. I couldn't find anything using google except someone else with the same problem and no answer. Thanks.
I disabled virtual memory swapping using OnyX in Yosemite, but the program can't turn it back on when I click Turn On. I already tried:
Back when the iPad generation was first out, I remember a setting which allowed you to shrink the screen to iPhone resolution. It would fill in the remaining portions of the screen with just black, allowing the screen to look like you're running an iPhone on the iPad. Is this still possible?
My Time Capsule disks shows "Internal disk needs repair".  How can I repair the disk (without erasing it)?
I just bought a new Mac and I'm manually migrating everything over given that it's been a while since I did a clean install and that the new Mac has less storage than my existing one. I will be wiping the old Mac after I do the migration.
I am a first-time user of Facetime. My Facetime are activated but I can't make avideo or audio call. The video or audio symbols are not available. I goto Facetime setting and couln't sign in the account to view the account. Message was"Unabe to contact the Facetime server". What's wrong ? My connection to the web is OK, my wife's Ipad facetime is functioning OK. I still can't call on Facetime.
I have an iPad 2 running iOS 8. Is there a way to edit a photo and save both the edited and original versions? Does it matter if I make the edit from the photo stream or camera roll? Thank you.
When I connect to iTunes it says I have the current update. However the version is 4.3. My nephew would like to play some games including words with friends with me and this old phone would make him a great iPod.
My wife and I have a shared calendar set up. When she adds, deletes, or changes events, I get a notification, as expected. However when I do the same, she gets no notification. The changes still propagate to her phone, but it happens silently and she doesn't get notified. We both have Shared Calendar Alerts enabled in Mail, Contacts, Calendars in Settings. She has an iPhone 5 and I have an iPhone 5S, both running iOS 7.1.2. Here are some other things I tried without success: Toggling the Shared Calendar Alerts settings Restarting the phone Checking settings in iCloud Tried changing the default alert time, as described here: *=URL=* Tried deleting other calendar apps Still no joy.
I've got a MBA Mid 2013 and since installing Yosemite, I've had 3-4 sleep wake failures. Generally I'll close the lid, head home and either when I open the laptop at home or back at work the next morning I get message (not sure of exact text) "Your computer failed to wake properly and has restarted". It didn't happen with Mavericks nor ML before that. 2 Times it stated the process was Activity Monitor and this most recent time it was airportd. I don't really lose anything since all my apps open pretty much where they left off it's just a big annoying. Any ideas? https://gist.github.com/dstarh/77180ee3382cdca03afb
First, my question: Does swapping out a foreign SIM for the Sprint SIM that comes in new Sprint iPhone 6's prior to the first power up in any way prevent the iPhone from being locked by Sprint for international use. (I understand that unlocking Sprint iPhones for domestic use is impossible; I'm only asking about international use)
Starting four days ago, I wasn't able to open any of the icons at the bottom of the page of my MacBook. I downloaded Snow Leopard, and now I can open all but GarageBand. This is a complete mystery to me.
Is it possible to install Solid State Drive with 6Gb/s speed in Mac pro Mid 2010?
I have 8.1 GB on my 5c and 11.3 GB on iCloud but I can't take a picture because my phone says there's not enough storage. What's going on?
After changing my AMD Radeon HD graphic card again, and seeing so many complains about the MacBook Pro 2011 issue online, I decided to plan to make the my MacBook only work with Intel HD 3000 graphics no matter what, to avoid the amd discrete graphics from ever overheating and failing again. I saw so many suggestions online about this, but I haven't found a real solution if the AMD is still working, and it needs to be disabled all the time no matter the application running. Please, I need suggestions. I don't want this AND graphics to fail on me again, if I keep on using it or in automatic graphics switching. Thanks.
I cleaned backup disk as it was full and started a clean (empty) Time Machine backup. On a disk of 465Gb my data occupies 321Gb. Time Machine has started backuping files and I found interesting that estimated backup size was increasing during the day. Left it to work overnight, and in the morning at time of writing it has backuped 485Gb out of estimated 533Gb. The difference between backuped files and estimated full size is increasing as I see.
I’m trying to use Apple Script to execute a shell script file in a new Terminal window, while sending it options. How do I do that? It seems as if Terminal only interprets the path to the script, and ignores what comes next. I'd like to use something like that: The script runs but it doesn't get -option.
I have tagged a folder about a dozen folders down the hierarchy but the folder does not appear in the tagged folders in the finder after tagging it with right click and tag color selection. How can I create a link to a folder using tags that works?
Working with Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). I have an application that is launched with my session and displays its menu from the status bar. Also, I would like to know if there is a way to prevent this application from also showing on the Dock since I have the possibility to access its menu from the status bar. If I remove the icon from the Dock, then the application quits. I've been searching on the web for a solution, I found that modifying the info.plist of the content of the app adding :
Is there any way to hide apps without windows from ⌘+Tab app list? So I could close skype, mail, adium, etc. and still receive notifications from those apps. So for example when I receive message in windowless skype and it creates a window I can switch to skype, But skype window does not appear in ⌘+Tab app list, since I switch a lot at work.
I use Yosemite 10.10, and I need to build and install the OpenCV library using cmake-gui. I was able to configure and generate the binaries readily. But when I try to 'make' the library using the terminal sudo make -j4 in the binaries folder, I get the following error - I get that in multiple places in this particular file,
I'd like to organize my books into different collections and have a "completed" collection for books to be entered into upon their completion. The problem is that it seems iBooks will allow a book to exist in only one collection, meaning putting it into "completed" takes it out of the other collection.
I have iTunes 11.4 running on Mountain Lion 10.8.5. The iTunes permissions are constantly in need of repair and I'm considering moving to iTunes 12. Can anyone tell me if they're using it on Mountain Lion, and does it work well or are there problems. Thanks!
Is there any Mac app that can visually compare data like SQLyog's Visual Data Compare? One where you can literally select the rows to copy over and which not?
I've been trying to build OpenCV in a mac (Yosemite 10.10) using cmake-gui and the compilers gcc,g++ and gfortran given by MacPorts. I HAVE to use those compilers. I configured WITH_OPENCL to be OFF and generated the binaries. But when I try to make it in the terminal I get the following error :
I could successfully use hdiutil for creating a dmg file for my program in Mountain Lion, but after upgrading to Yosemite (and after updating it to 10.10.1), when I execute I get following error: Verbose mode didn't reveal anything useful. Folder build/Thonny.app contains a Python application. Any idea what this error means and what to try next?
I had an iPhone 5 before upgrading and its keyboard never froze on iOS 8, but with my iPhone 6 it is happening all the time. I already redefined my keyboard dictionary. Bringing up console I see a error on TextInput: Anyone has any idea why is this happening/how to fix this?
This may turn out to be two different questions/answers, but I suspect they're somewhat related. Let's see... Among other things on my home network, I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2010) and a Macbook (late 2009), both running 10.9.5, and a 2nd gen AppleTV and a 3rd gen AppleTV, both fully updated.
My Time Capsule harddisk was dead. The problem is, why it takes 19 days to erase it?
I've used a script called appify described here *=URL=* to create /Applications/Emacs.app that runs the actual Emacs.app at /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.4/Emacs.app installed by Homebrew. I did this because Spotlight was not indexing the symlink I previously had, and while it did index the Finder alias, it was quite down there in the search results, which is far from idea for launching an app frequently. Is there anything special that the Spotlight indexer expects from an .app container in order for it to be allowed to be indexed?
Edit: I stopped using OneDrive because it kept losing pictures. Switched to Google Photos and it seems to work correctly. Edit: And now Google Photos as a button: "Free up storage" which deletes all the photos that have been backed up.
Sub: The easiest way to access the photos from Ipad to Windows PC. I got a ipad from my sister. I like to copy the photos from it to pc. I am using windows 7. I failed trying with iCloud, iTunes, Photo Sharing and so on.
Is there a way to mass delete compiled list of emails on iOS devices (like can be done in os x)? I only know two options: select individually & swipe "left" and from bottom select "edit", then selecting each message individually. I tried solution described in similar question without success (described as iOS 7).
I am on a flight that requires Adobe flashplayer if I want to watch movies. I have an Ipad 2 and wonder if there is another Apple app that will work?
Does Apple Pay require password unlock protection on the iPhone? I know I am a party of one for feeling this way, but having to use the password unlock routine is just too cumbersome for the immediate use of my phone. Please don't slam me over the virtues of it's use, or the idiocy of not using it. I just want to know if it can be eliminated to use Apple Pay.
Is there a way to create a Smart Playlist in iTunes that will show songs that aren’t rated?
We have a Mac Mini running Server 4.0 and are using the Software Update service. Where are these file stored?
I have a new app update I cannot install. When I review my installed user I see my @mac.com address. When attempting to update Cobook, I'm prompted for my @gmail.com account. The strange parts are: I'm clearly not logged in as the gmail account The gmail address is configured as a verified alternative ID
When booting OS X in verbose boot mode (⌘+v on startup), the log is printed on screen. It seems different to the kernel font, but it might just be a smaller version of it. inverted screenshot Yosemite 10.10.1 Anyone know what font is used and have a credible source?
Any extension for the browser? I only want to invert safari's colors, not of the entire system.
I cannot find the web sharing option in the system preferences under "Sharing"(where the web sharing is supposed to be). I am using Mac Os x 10.9.4
I'm having a problem with Yosemite, it won't set the environment variables when doing: no sign of myvar. I've managed to get Yosemite to set the environment variables for terminal sessions etc using the excellent suggestion here. Why is it not working for the ssh session?
I need to export video events to my external hard drive. I am using iMovie version 9.0.4. How do I do this. All the instructions I'm finding on the web are for later versions of imovie.
Hello Community Members, I am using iOS device (iPhone) with latest iOS version. I am facing an unusual problem with WhatsApp. When I get message from one of my contacts and screen is locked, WhatsApp shows that I got message from name (name it uses is set by user, and not as saved in my contacts) Example: If I get a message from my brother, whose contact is saved on my device as "Bro" and if screen is locked, it reads 1 message from Mr. Mehta (which is set by my brother as his display name on WhatsApp)
Could someone guide me to setting up OSX (10.10 Yosemite) so that I can ssh from Windows using putty to Mac, but using ssh key rather than password. On the Mac I've enabled remote-login under sharing preferences, but unsure how to setup the private/public keys. All articles that I find on the web guide how to connect to Linux from Mac, but I want the other way round and where the client is Windows. PS - I'm a complete noob when it comes to Mac and have only been using it for 2 days now!
The post I found on this forum: "Apple Cinema Display Brightness no longer works in Mavericks or Yosemite" explains how to fix it using kext files but I can't figure out how to get the kext file to use with the KextBeast program. I bought a used Apple LED Cinema Display and need to be able to adjust brightness to calibrate it.
I have the problem that occasionally on startup, icons are missing from the menu bar. This includes e.g. Clock, User name, Wi-Fi, Menu Meters and Notification Center. It does not apply to e.g. Little Snitch, lastfm, Spotlight and Watts. So it is not an issue of OS X versus other apps. It looks like this:
How can I keep photos on icloud that I want to delete from my phone? If I delete a photo from my phone after I have backed it up to iCloud will it stay in iCloud the next time I back up my phone?
My Macbook Pro (13-inch, mid 2009, Intel Core 2 Duo) has an odd problem with the USB ports. Occasionally, when plugging in, removing or restarting a microcontroller such as the Arudino or Teensy, the computer abruptly turns off and restarts. Afterwards, the computer displays a gray screen that says "Your computer restarted because of a problem... etc."
I've been trying to set up my iMessage account so that I can receive my texts and messages to my computer. I've set up my iCloud, and my AIM, and my FaceTime, but I can't figure out how to set up my iMessage, any help?
I clean installed Yosemite on my macbook air. Everything went ok with the install, and when I restart, there is a second user named [Update Needed] . The password for this user is the same password I set for the hard drive encryption. I have tried restarting and this user is still there. I have logged in with this user and installed all the updates, still no luck.
I have an apple machine running Yosemite. I use Apple Mail. I recently received a message from a colleague. When I try to open this message, Mail crashes. In fact Mail crashes even if I scroll through the message without actually opening it.
If I was to install a SSD in my MacBook Pro (Mid 12) where currently the Superdrive is attached and continue to use the preinstalled HDD for other files, can I run OSX from that new drive? Or in other words: Is EFI configured to always use the first SATA to look for a bootable volume, or does it test all attached sources?
So I dutifully went back to the Brother site, downloaded the software, and installed it. The printer now works perfectly for printing and scanning.
I am using my iPhone 5 for iOS development so it is attached to computer via cable and often when I hold it and rotate it to see screen in a different orientation and I accidentally touch the cable at the neck, Xcode warns me about lost connection, and the lightning sign disappear from iPhone screen on the top right corner and I can hear this irritation charging sound. What can be the problem? The screen is a little bit scratched. If I would replace screen would it solve the problem? I have bought and tested with a brand new Apple cable.
*=URL=* Apple does not list the Mac Mini 2014 in above link in the Mac's that can use MST to achieve 60hz on 4K via Displayport. On other places I read that this is due to the limitations of the Intel processor: This type of resolution is supported on 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family (Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200 / Intel® Iris™ Graphics 5100, Intel® HD Graphics 5000 / 4600 / 4400 / 4200) See the following supported screen resolutions through DP 1.2 DisplayPort* 1.2 / eDP* H-Processors: 3840 x 2160@60Hz U-Processors: 3200 x 2000@60 Hz, 3840x2160@30Hz My question is, if I get a Mac Mini 2014 and upgrade the configuration to 3.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i7, will is still not be able to run at 60hz?
In sound preferences the only input device available is "internal mic". I have Audacity as well as Garage Band and I.Movie loaded. Mini jack works fine as o/p but will not "see" any line level feeds (standard stereo jacks used). Also tried usb - no joy there. Is there any inexpensive software around which will "wake up" the line - level input?
I've noticed that at the bottom of my desktop Yosemite has started displaying a strange sort of indicator - it looks like a horizontal scroll bar, it's a thin grey rectangle with rounded ends. If I use large dock icons it overlaps with the dock itself, if I shrink the dock you can see that it is unrelated to the dock. And no, it's not part of my wallpaper!
I have an early Early 2011 MBP, which I installed 16GB of RAM in, despite the fact that Apple claims the maximum is 8GB. This is a hack which is known to work, but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result. It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB; consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails. Any ideas on how to correct this?
I went searching for this answer myself today after upgrading from Lion to Yosemite. In earlier versions of Apple Mail, one could use an undocumented preference to set a minimum font size for reading messages: defaults write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 12 I found several references lamenting that it no longer had any effect in Mavericks or Yosemite, and that it was no longer possible to affect font sizes when reading HTML messages.
Screenshot:  When I wake up my computer, the login screen is placed up and to the left of where it should be. Fortunately, the login screen otherwise functions normally, and everything is placed correctly after I login. This problem started happening some time after I upgraded to Yosemite. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite 13" mid-2013 MacBook Air, Intel Haswell Core i7 Any idea what might be causing this?
I have an external disk connected to MacBook via USB. From time to time the system alerts that the disk is unreadable, but sometimes it seems to connect and I can browse it in Finder, and even open some of its files with Quick Look, but some folders became empty although the disk has the same amount of free space. The Disk Utility can't repair the disk with alert: couldn’t unmount volume for repair. How can I possibly restore my data? My computer is MacBook Pro (early 2011), OSX Yosemite (10.10). The disk has its own power adapter. I've tried Data Recovery app, but it doesn't see the disk file system and can't scan it, while at the same time I can open some files on the disk in Finder... I also need to force eject the disk because it never ejects normally. I've tested the disk with the case and power adapter which work for sure (with another HD).
I'm planning on making SwiftKey my default keyboard and deleting the "stock/default keyboard" provided by Apple. But first, I want to make sure I'll be able to get that keyboard back if I need to. Will I be able to get it back after deleting, and if so, how? iPhone 6 Plus (iOS 8.1)
I had my iPhone stolen earlier today. I went through the steps of trying to find it using Find My Phone, etc.
I'm a developer who has delved a little into Android and iOS development. Both huge markets in terms of downloads, exposure, and opportunity to make a little bit of money.
EDIT Update: The problem has gotten worse. I used to be able to lock my screen Ctrl+Shift+Power/Eject and it'd prevent it from closing all apps. But not even that is doing the trick any longer. I'd try locking then closing the lid and that still does not work. This is even happening when I'm plugged into a power source. Output of Console where I believe the MBA killed all apps.
I was trying to upload a few images from my iPad Photos app to dropbox. However, when I clicked on the share icon(the box with an arrow pointing upward),I don't see any Dropbox to select from. The only options I have are Message, Mail,Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Snapchat, Pocket, LinkedIn, and Evernote.
I am trying to ssh with ipv6 in my mac machine but I am getting error "No Route to Host". I can it successfully with ipv4. Can anyone guide me please if it require any network setting or else? I am using OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite. Thanks!
During my time with Yosemite, I've had an innocuous issue that gets logged to system.log non-stop. This question is not about solving the issue. I'd like to stop the chatter, because they're writes to the drive which is an SSD, and could do without them. How can I silence or prevent the writes to the log?
Engineering has determined that your bug report is a duplicate of another issue and will be closed. This is a message I see quite often these days at *=URL=* and it is frustrating for several reasons: you submitted a bug for nothing without the possibility to check the database first you can't check if it is truly a duplicate there is no follow-up on your issue you'll never know if they are fixing the bug I can't believe that these major disadvantages are on purpose. So: Is it possible to view bugs submitted by others to Apple's bug reporter?
I try to setup up bower on my Mac Pro. Info: Mac OS X 10.9.5 node v0.10.5 npm 1.2.18 The command i use is: The install doesn't work and i get the following error: What's wrong with it?
I just removed two document folders from my Sidebar in Finder, and now I can't find them! Any ideas on where they could have ended up? Thanks! Emma
Can you use the Find My iPhone app without it locking the phone your trying to find? I only want the location, not to lock it.
I have a Mac with two network interfaces, connected to different networks. For the sake of argument, let's say one is connected to a private network and the other to the Internet. I understand that I can use the Networks system preference pane to place the Internet interface higher in the "service order" than the private network and that, by doing so, its "Router" will become the system's default gateway (and the other interface's "Router" is ignored).
I loaded the My Meetups Calendar from meetup.com into my gmail account which I synchronize with Calendar.app. The My Meet up a calendar is in the calendars list in the menu, but not in the sidebar, and that means I have to specifically open a separate window to see the events on my meetups. Illustration: How can I fix thhis?
Imagine that you open an app that takes several seconds to load like Photoshop and you don't want to just sit there so you move to your browser to check whatever. Now, as you interact with browser or other app OS X will move screen or switch active window to app several times during the start.
I'm trying to share macbook folder with asus o'play. OS X recently updated to Yosemite. Here is errors in log:
When I try to shut down OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Air, the screen goes black almost immediately with the mouse pointer remaining visible (and moveable). However, it appears that irrespective of how long I give my Mac to shut down, it never does.
and with both I got the same result. The command doesn't return any error but when I run ifconfig again the mac address is still the same.
Since upgrading to iOS8 I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the number of system dialogs that iOS randomly asks me. location in background set up family sharing another email address added to another device etc, etc, etc. I find it really frustrating when I reach for my phone to take a picture and there's an alert dialogue sitting on top of the screen, it feels like I'm interacting with Windows 95. Is there a way to reduce amount of popups and alert dialogues that iOS8 asks the user?
I am an avid user of the launch application Alfred. I already have key bindings to open specific directories but when initiated, they always open the directory in a new finder window. Im looking for a method to change the directory of the existing finder window rather than opening a new one. Im open to native or workflow-based solutions. Any help or ideas are appreciated.
I have two accounts (one for work, the other for private stuff) on a Mac, which is running OS X Yosemite. I would like to share a directory, say ~work/Documents/SomeDirectory/SomeSubDirectory/, such that the other account (say ~home) can read from and write to it. I know how to do this with Unix access control, but I don't want to go through the trouble of creating groups and checking all the parent directories.
Is there a compatible Open GL graphics card for my 17-inch iMac (MA590LL) to support 3D software?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between the "Today" and "Notifications" tabs in Notification Center in OS X Yosemite? I'm looking for something equivalent to the cmd-shift-[/] shortcuts in Safari.
When I restart yosemite and I select 'reopen windows when loggin back in' I have a lot of apps that open in the same space. For example when I have sublime text and libreoffice open in a space and restart, the space they they were on will be empty. They will all be on a single space but only in the mission control view and not in the actual space.
My IPhone was on 20% last night and I immediately plugged it in to the wall, it continuously kept connecting and disconnecting and at times giving "Charging is not supported with this accessory". Today, when I woke up, I noticed that my phone was off. I tried to charge it, I used 2 different chargers, I tried it with USB and plug. I know it turns on because when I hold the button There is an image of a battery with the thing.
I'm trying to copy stuff (including tables) from a web page and paste it into a Pages document, retaining html formatting (as much as possible). With Pages'09 this used to work using OpenOffice as intermediate pasteboard: copy html - paste in OO - copy in OO - paste in Pages. Quite silly, but at least it worked.
I have an Acer UHD4k2K monitor hooked up to my Retina Mackbook Pro. I was previously using an HDMI cable (only 30Hz), as that's what came with my monitor. A Thunderbolt cable that's long enough arrived yesterday and I can't get it to detect the display.
What steps will reproduce the problem? 0. Using RubyMine 1. Use IdeaVim 2. Hold down "e" to auto-repeat end of word 3. Hit a : at end of word 4. See picture! I can pick lots of strange "e" characters.
I am trying to install Fish shell using homebrew using command: But the installation fails with the following error:
I used to be able to screen share with my cousin using Messages. It is now broken. What does he need on his end to get screensharing to work again? I have an AIM account setup in Messages on my Mac running the latest version of Mavericks. He has the same setup on his Mac. He doesn't have an AIM account, just an iCloud account. Does he need an AIM account, too? He is logged into Messages with his iCloud account, but the screensharing option is dimmed and I cannot ask him to share his screen. Thanks, Walt
I have found that in all my years of use with Macs, multiple OS versions, multiple hardware configurations, that it never queries anything but the primary DNS server. Why is this? We have spun up many different internal DNS servers and have tried specifying both internal and external DNS servers on the client. It will only resolve hosts in the primary DNS and completely ignores any DNS specified after that.
I have a late 2009 i7 iMac that spends most of its time reading and swapping files from the 2TB hard drive, even though it’s only 40% full. I want to buy an affordable (240GB/£160) Firewire external SSD, and install Yosemite on to it, then use that as my startup disc. Will I get an appreciable jump in speed, or will I be limited by Firewire 800 speeds ? Has any one tried this ?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 2014 with OS X 10.9.4. I use the Fn+F11 key a lot to show desktop. But since yesterday, the Fn+F11 has stopped working for me. I have a bluetooth keyboard as well, and it doesn't work on both the keyboards.
I use screen shots all the time (Cmd+Shift+4 ftw). But suddenly, I'll go to take a screen shot and the shortcut doesn't work. I go into System Preferences > Keyboard and see that ALL the screen shot shortcuts are unchecked. I check the shortcuts on, but then a few seconds later, they will be unchecked. I click Restore Defaults to turn them on, but they still disable a few seconds later.
I would like to have notifications on my left monitor and not my right monitor. It's hard to see them when I'm looking at the left monitor (since they're all the way on the right side and they're rather large monitors). Is there any way to keep the screens in this order but have the notifications appear on the screen I want them to appear on?
I use Mavericks with Bootcamp on my iMac. If I upgrade Yosemite via AppStore, what happens to Bootcamp? Can I start it as usual or will the Bootcamp partition become unusable?
I am cleaning up a bit. I know how to search for files of a certain size (see below). Is there a way to search for folders above a certain size? Shell commands are ok, but gui is preferred. To search for files above a certain size:
Before iOS 8 was released, I remember watching an Apple demo where they sketched on a picture inside of the Message app before sending the message. Does anyone know how to do this? Was this functionality pulled from the release of iOS 8?
I really really don't like the look of Yosemite. How do I downgrade back from Yosemite to another OS?
After installing on my iMac the new system upgrade OS X Yosemite I cannot open any Microsoft office programs anymore, they crash while starting up. The following error message appers: Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0
I have a time machine backup drive that I have renamed to Home Backup. Whenever I forget to take backups, OS X tells me "you haven't backed up to the drive My Passport for 10 days" Running tmutil destinationinfo I get this: I looked in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file, but it doesn't contain the destination name. How can I get the volume name and the time machine internal name to match again?
I accidentally clicked to upgrade from iOS 7 to iOS 8.1.1. The problem is, I am a developer and want my device to remain at iOS 7 so I'm testing with the same OS and browser version that my corporate users are using in the field. However, there is no "Cancel" button (seriously, Apple? ...seriously? )
I'm running DNS on a Mac Server V2.4. I want to log all DNS queries made - is there a way of doing this? TCPdump only shows me whats happening at a moment in time and is difficult to read, what other options do i have?
Whenever I move my MP3 files to my USB and play it in the car, the files get cloned. For example: Sia - Chandelier Then the clone looks like .Sia - Chandelier
I want to change the privilege of a specific folder for the "everyone" group to No Access. I have tried chmod o--- that doesnt seem to work but I am most likely doing it wrong. I know that If I click "get info" I can manually adjust it but I want to be able to do it in Terminal so I can deploy this command to numerous Macs. Thank you!
I currently have iOS 8.1 running on an iPhone 6 Plus. I just switched back to Apple after being on Android for a year. On the Google Play store, after making a purchase & entering my password, I could choose the amount of time that could pass before I'd require that password again. I can't remember if this is possible on the Apple App Store, but I haven't been able to find that setting if it is. Does anyone know if/how this is possible on iOS?
Is there any way to get to 7.1.2 without going to 8 on my old iPad?
After upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite, most of my music files appear to have gone missing. Whenever I try to play music on my Mac, a pop up shows up saying: "the song you're trying to listen to could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" And if I choose to locate it, the only thing that happens is the last Finder window I was in re-opens. How do I get my music back?
After I upgraded my macbook pro to yosemite 10.10.1, suddenly the mail won't connect to the aol mail. It returns with error message "Mail cannot connect to aol account" and continuously asks for the password. The password and account info is correct as I can log in using the same credentials on the web and the same mail was working just before the upgrade. Anyone has any ideas?
I upgraded to Yosemite on my 2011-12 iMac, from system 10.6.8. It worked to a point, but with major problems with the mail - crashing and not working, basically.My Mac tech said it "should work"...but we tried reinstalling 3 times to the same result. Given Mavericks is no longer available, does anybody have a suggestion other than a clean install of Yosemite? Or is that the only option?
This might be a network forum question, nor sure but here is my question: My router is AirPort Time Capsule, the new model that has wireless ac. My laptop is Retina Macbook pro and looks like it also supports wireless ac and my phone is iPhone 6 and I think that one is also wireless ac. Why when I go to SpeedTest application on the iPhone my speed does not show higher than 20 or 30 Mbps but when I do speediest on browser on MacBook then it goes to 50, 60, or 70 Mbps?
I am trying to ssh with Mac OS X (10.10.1 Yosemite) terminal using ipv6. If I use command like
I have links to my contacts' social media profiles (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn) saved on the Mac copy of my contacts. They are saved as copies of URLs (e.g. '*=URL=* pasted into the "profile" entries at the end of each card. These are synced over to my iOS device via USB and iTunes.
As the title states, my Mac started a FaceTime videocall automatically with a friend. My friend said that he saw me via the iSight camera, but the green LED was not active (and showing me that my camera was on). iDevice: iPhone 6 iOS version: 8.1 Mac: Retina MacBook Pro 13" 2.6 Core i5, 16GB RAM OSX version: 10.10.1 Handoff enabled so continuity could be a contributor.
I get the following error after submitting the app to itune: Our model is that we sell the same app as a white label to other companies. I've being uploading the code with no such issue many times before.
I have a problem with icons in files. Particularly it's only HTML files. I uninstalled Coda 2 app (deleting all relevant info, also clear my cash) and continue to use Sublime Text 3. But I have this (see the screenshot below) and this icons are not updated as my .css or .js files do. How can I fix it?
I hope some real OSX Nerds read this. Since Yosemite I have the problem taht I can't use the Magic Mouse anymore. It disconnects and reconnects every 5-60 second. I find this in the console logs:
Recent Items under the Apple menu or in the Dock could be an excellent way to quickly access files that you have been working with recently. Alas, it's functionality is destroyed by obvious document file types not being included in the list. If you open a PDF it's included, if you open a Word file it's not. That makes no sense. You can see in the picture above that even though Office applications have been included in the recent list, the actual documents (.doc[x], .ppt[x], .xls[x]) that were opened have not. Is there a way to adjust the file type list to go into Recent Items/Documents to a useful set of document types?
Firstly, some background information for the problem: My girlfriend's Macbook Pro had an issue that was annoying, but not fatal. Roughly once a day (but sometimes not for a few days, and sometimes twice or more in one day) the laptop would suddenly freeze and turn itself off. It would sometimes immediately restart itself, and sometimes remain dead until the power was turned back on. Either way, if it was turned back on very soon after the crash, it would more often than not die half way through start-up. If we waited ten or twenty minutes to turn it back on it was usually fine. This never resulted in any lost data and there were no other signs of a problem during normal functioning, so it was never more than a mild inconvenience, until last night that is.
Is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut that would input a short defined sequence of characters into whatever text field is currently active? Is it maybe possible to achieve this with AppleScript or Automator?
I have a problem with autofs on mac. I made some shares: auto_home: auto_remote: auto_master:
I tried to configure 3 finger swipes to a new app. after I added them 3 finger swipes stopped working on all apps.
Why when deleting from a USB or an external HDD on mac the occupied space wont be free untill deleted from trash? Is there a direct way to delete from the drive and freeing the occupied space instantly?
I was trying to upgrade Xcode because it didn't let me upload to apps to iTunes Connect. Now it's stuck in installing state (few hours) and doesn't start: what do to?
My router is AirPort Time Capsule which supports wireless ac. My iPhone is an iPhone 6 that also supports ac mode. I was looking at data in AirPort Utility and for my phone it was showing it is on mode 802.11 b/g which I think is old and slow but my iPad 3 was on 802.11 a/n mode. Does that mean there is something wrong with my iPhone wireless?
If I type the % character in the Terminal, it breaks that shell and every new shell I open until reboot: Does anybody know why this is? To expand a bit more, if I open a Terminal, and echo "100%", this happens:
Is there any way to embed an SVG in an email? If I try to attach it the same way I'd embed an image file, it comes out as an attachment, rather than a visible image.
I downloaded a dmg which apparently OS X mounted as a drive or something. Then I googled around to find out I should ctrl+clicked -> open the program and get past the warning messages.
since a couple of days iam facing the problem with internal memory of my apple iphone 4s device so can you help me to find a solution for this. my ios software is 7.1.2 and not the jailbroken piece
You lose the small tab counter, telling you for instance you have 3 new emails in Social. The counter resets itself as soon as you hit the tab in Gmail. Not in OSX Mail
I created a HTML5 presentation that I would like to run fullscreen (no toolbars, just viewport). With a simple command line I can open the presentation in fullscreen on Chrome: However, because the presentation uses some heavy HTML5 and jQuery, the animations run much smoother in Safari (optimized for the MacBook). Is there any way (or command line argument) I can open Safari in true fullscreen mode on Yosemite without toolbars or address bars?
When binding to AD why does my dash become an underscore? Put in name M109831-TED117 when binding and it shows in AD as m109831_ted117. can this be changed?
I am trying to connect my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.9.3, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB DDR3) to Panasonic Viera TH55AS670D LED TV through Mini DP to HDMI connector. When I connect the wire my laptop screen blinks (which means it detects external screen) but the TV stays black. When I go to System Preferences and open the Displays tab - it shows the exact model of my screen, but nothing shows up on my screen.
I recently clean installed Yosemite on my 11" Macbook Air and my Google calendar will not sync with Calendar.app. Everything else on my Google account syncs with no problem, but the calendar refuses. I tried with another google account and had the same problem. Turned off 2-factor auth, same problem. Tried with CalDAV, doesn't work.
I have a macbook pro running mavericks and recently changed my password per corporate policy. I have done this regularly for the past two years without issue. However, it has now been two weeks of hell being constantly locked-out of my account. I have deleted/recreated my keychain several times. Cleared all cached passwords in all browsers several times. Yet I keep getting locked-out and need to request unlocking by admins.
I have two monitors, but only one dock, which is somewhat annoying, so my question is, how do I get multiple docks? (One on each screen)
I just called by my lawyers 133 times for some very important message. My iPhone is just 3 meters in front of me being charged. Finally my lawyer come to my apartment and we both saw that the iPhone is fully charged but not turned on. I thought charging iPhone would automatically turn it on.
Terminal.app does some very odd color shifting that makes it impossible to match colors consistently, and I'm wondering if there is any way to disable it or better control it. The "magic" is what shows purple instead of blue, for example, even when the ansi color for the theme is set to plain blue. This behavior appears to be tied to setting the background color... setting any background color (with terminfo setab capability) disables the "magic" color shift, while an attribute reset (sgr0) re-enables it. This is my test (sets the foreground, prints some unicode filled blocks, explicitly sets the background to black, prints again):
We use local DNS servers and my Network preferences show only those local DNS servers. (192.168.20.10, 192.168.25.10)
I want to arrange different calendar events with different colors. I work on several projects, and use different colors to identify with calendar event corresponds to which project. My company uses Google calendar, but I use the Mac Calendar. I can not find a method to change specific events to the color I want.
I got a new mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro about a month ago, and am running into a problem with the Thunderbolt and USB ports. At seemingly random times, but at least once a day, the ports become nonfunctional and I have to restart the computer to use them again. Here's how I'm using the ports:
I downloaded a free podcast, I see it in my saved episodes. I want it off of my computer and ported to my cell phone. I am new to this interface, and while I understand there are many ardent fans, I find it mostly confusing to the max. I mean, can they make the print smaller?
Looking through some log files today I found something strange : Apparently api.smoot.apple.com is used for Spotlight search suggestions in Yosemite, except during the timeframe the log was taken I didn't even pull down on my home screen to open the search, and the spotlight suggestions are disabled in the phone's search settings - for the other hosts they are linked to iTunes but no info on what they do exactly... I did some testing and it seems like every time I unlock my phone after a bit of inactivity, or shortly after I lock it again a request to that host is fired and gets a response with an average size of 5kb... All these URLs were called when the device was idle, freshly unlocked and on the home screen with no apps in background. Can anyone shed some light on this ?
I have an application that I'm running through Wine 1.6.2. I need to simulate a keypress of Windows' "Insert" key. How can I do this?
My iphone 6 plus will not revert to SMS when another iphone user is off wifi. No problems before when I had an iphone 4s full plan and hubby had iphone 3gs go phone (no data) the imessage app worked great. Now the iphone 4s is a go phone (no data plan)upgraded to ios 8.1.1. The iphone 6 plus is also 8.1.1. full plan. The send as SMS is on on both phones.
Almost all my files now have a null kMDItemDateAdded field: How could it happen? What do I need to do to restore it?
I have an automator workflow which works fine except for a part of it - applescript. This is how the workflow goes - Run applescript (this part works fine) - Set value for variable (The name of the variable is 'number')
TB display and MBP (mid 2012) both go to sleep and cannot wake until hard restart. External monitor will work for a few minutes but eventually will go black along with laptop (laptop was open whole time.) I've updated to 10.10.1 I've tried this: *=URL=* ...along with SMC and PRAM resets. pmset g- assertions: status system-wide: BackgroundTask 0, ApplePushServiceTask 0, UserIsActive 1, PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0, PreventSystemSleep 0, ExternalMedia 0, PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0, NetworkClientActive 0, Listed by owning process: pid 68(hidd): [0x0000001f0009016e] 00:43:24 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle" Kernel Assertions: 0x24=USB,THNDR id=503 level=255 0x20=THNDR mod=11/20/14, 2:44 PM description=NHI0 owner=AppleThunderboltHAL id=505 level=255 0x4=USB mod=11/20/14, 2:55 PM description=pci12d8,400f owner=AppleUSBEHCI –
On Yosemite, I don't use Safari at all. Never. Every now and then (like once a week or so), Safari automatically opens, without my interaction and it does not even come to forefront, it just remains in the background, and I notice it when I go to the dock to open something else and notice it is there. It appears to just want to connect to apple home page (no suspicious tabs or anything that I can see). Anyone has any suggestions?
Is there a way to set the default photo aspect ratio to 3:2 (from 4:3) in the default camera app in iOs? I know it can be done using different photo apps, and I know that photos can be cropped to a variety of aspect ratios after they’ve been taken. But I’m looking for a way to set it before taking photos, using the default camera app.
I have 2 computers : an iMac and a MBP. My old MBP is dead. I've Time Machine backups from the accounts of this computer. How can I restore those accounts on my iMac to have access to their data?
I have two windows(e.g a document and a browser). I have maximized them such that the document completely occupies the left half and the browser completely occupies the right half of the screen ( I do this easily with the keyboard shortcuts of Spectacle) What is the keyboard shortcut to navigate quickly between these two visible windows? Cmd + Tab is not ideal because if I use multiple virtual desktops(like workspaces in Linux) and I go to a third application there in another desktop, when I come back to the virtual desktop which contains my browser and document, Cmd + Tab brings in the third application to the mix. Cmd+Space and then typing the application name(e.g the browser application or the document application) is the closest I could get to what I originally wanted. Is there a software or configuration that I can use to get this functionality?
I'm trying to set up Internal Testing for my iOS app. I've submitted the build to the app store, and it is awaiting review happily. I have a group of Technical users in iTunes Connect with Internal Testing available, and I have invited them all to test the app.
I have CarbonCopyCloner but it cannot see my new SSD in the destination section. The destination drive is a USB-attached SSD. How do I clone to this drive in CarbonCopyCloner?
When using Microsoft Office 2011 (Word, Powerpoint and Excel) on my Macbook Pro (running OS X 10.9.5) the option + left arrow, option + shift + left arrow, option + right arrow and option + shift + right arrow keyboard shortcuts don't work as they should e.g. skip (select) forward or back a word. This functionality works in non-Microsoft programs such as at the command line. All other keyboard shortcuts are working as they should.
In the usage section of IPhone 5 it says I have 349MB inn Mail. However, I have deleted ALL inbox, sent, trash etc...there is nothing in the mail. How do I get the Storage in the Usage section to empty this mail? Thanks
EDITED The Apogee Jam 96k seems like an appealing upgrade from the previous model with 44.1k sampling rate. I'm trying to decide how much upgrading would benefit my playing and recording.
Using Finder: In some folders, I can move the files around. Place them where I want in that folder. This is very good for the eyes, when the folder holds many files and only a handfuld om them are important/relevant
I hope I can get some help with a rather strange problem on my late 2013 MacBookPro running Yosemite 10.10.1 Up until 3 days ago, I could ssh into my server without any problems. I then updated to 10.10.1 and started to see some strange behaviour. At first I didn't notice, but it turns out I can not connect to remote ssh-boxes anymore. Local connections (including those via open-vpn tun-interface to a remote host) seem to work fine though. Looking at a TCP dump when trying to connect to a box via internet revealed the following strange fact: Doing the same one an up-to-date Mavericks box shows no signs of "gl02.opentracker.net" address and everything works just as it should be.
Are they possible? According to this it is possible starting from Mac osx 10.9. Ctrl + F for "New support for Abstract namespace sockets" on that page. But I was not able to find one single example for Mac.
After the upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite, some Java applications begin failing. Specifically, the error message is The workaround to Apple's old Java 1.6 package is to manually install the latest JDK/JRE and link to it But this leaves the Current and A directories How can I update these directories to the latest JRE?
Can i upgrade my iPad 2 iOS 7.0.4 to iOS 7.1.2 ? I dont want to install iOS 8. I'm afraid of the performance issues and jailbreak possibilities of my iPad 2 running on iOS 8.
From the tests I have done it seems that if I delete songs or playlists on my iPod touch and then sync, the song/playlist is deleted in iTunes. This is a problem if for eg. someone else uses my iPod and deletes something, when I sync I won't even know that I have lost stuff in my master library - any ideas on this?
So this is not my computer, but my girlfriends. She was doing thesis work in the library when all of a sudden the screen to her Macbook began to malfunction. At the point it is at now, whenever it is booted up, it makes the normal booting sound yet the screen is completely black with gray bars in the center. The bars span the screen vertically, but are compacted into an almost solid gray bar horizontally.
I am getting this strange error on Mac OS X. When I am trying to open a text file using 'TextEdit' or 'TextWrangler' I am getting this message "Verifying filename.txt". This message pops up and then after a while whole system comes to halt. I have to forcefully shutdown the system. I was able to open these files previously with either of the two applications. I have OS X Mavericks (10.9).
I have a very large window on Mavericks. The window is so large that I can't seem to get the mouse to the lower right corner to shrink the size of the window. How can I reduce the size of this window? Is there some keyboard shortcut?
I'm developing an app for iOS and since it's not going to be published by my company it looks like I have to get my own developer license. I can live with that, but there's a part of the app that I'm stuck on that I need to get a third-party to help me work through. Some of the libraries I use for the project have problems with the simulator, so what I need to know is: Am I stuck having to buy two iOS developer licenses (one for the third-party programmer, one for myself)?
This annoying behavior started happening in 10.8 or 10.9 and I'd like to turn it off and make it never ever happen again. What happens is that when dragging a window from one display to another, when I let go of the mouse button on the second monitor, the window doesn't stay where I left it upon mouse button release, but instead it snaps to the top of the screen where I did not position it. Does anyone have any idea how to disable this annoying setting? Thanks in advance.
I upgraded to 10.10.1 and now I can only reboot to Safari mode and enable parental controls on guest user is greyed.  Does anyone know how to get the real guest user account back?
Since upgrading to Yosemite I've been having issue with OS X creating additional desktops on my main monitor for no apparent reason. I usually have 3 different desktops setup on my main monitor and just one on my second monitor. By the end of the day, OS X will usually have created 2-3 extra desktops automatically.
I got a new iPad and gave my daughter the old one. She is unable to get on it using the password and ID I gave her. So I changed the password on mine -she still can't use that password- is it different on all devices and I forgot it?
I want to install JDK version 7 on my mac Snow leopard 10.6.2 (32bits). How can I do it ? Pleas give me some help ? is it possible or not ?
Say I have a list of files and I want to open and process them one by one through a third party program. Does this third party program need to support Automator, in order for me to do this?
I accidentally moved my /var folder to trash and now unable to login to mac. The only solution I found until now it to recover OS X. I have tried to move /var back to /private folder in single user mod, since it is Read-only and not allowing me to perform this action. Is there any way I can move /var folder back without re-installing OS X. I am having Mavericks as OS.
I am having issues installing Adobe Flash Player on my 10.5.8 Mac. I uninstalled the previous version. My understanding understand is that i need an older version of flash player as this is an older Mac.
The question kind of says it all. I have an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.1 (not yet 8.1.1). Connecting to this iPhone with my iPad Air 2 through personal hotspot works just fine (I'm actually using that connection to write this question). I'm sitting right next to the phone and my mid-2013 15" rMBP sees the network and connects to the network, but can't get an IP address. At first, I get a funky self-assigned IPv6 address, but then it reverts to the standard 169.xxx.xxx.xxx self-assigned IPv4 address. My rMBP is running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 (14B23).
I have really unexpected problem with my iMac. Yesterday I've decided to create a Copy of my system, and today I've done a rollback, but suddenly I've added the appsstore to ignoring list of TimeMachine, so I'm really in deep confusion. How I can fix this situation?
I'm using a jabber account with Messages for voice and video calling, as well as chat. I also use a headset most of the time, and have it set as my primary audio device, but want to hear if someone tries to call or send me a message. Does Messages support the ability to set different speakers for conversations and notifications a la Skype? I have poked around in the preferences and done a bit of Googling, with no luck.
I would like to activate SMS on my iPad but when I go on my iPhone, this one tell me to enter a code which appears on the iPad. But I have no popup on my iPad. I have the same iCloud account on both devices and activate FaceTime. Why I don't see this popup ?
I purchased a license for MAMP Pro and copy/pasted the license on the webpage when I ordered it. But there is no record of the license key on the invoice or on when I login to their support system.. I am retiring this computer and transferring my work to a new computer so I am trying to find my license so I can reinstall MAMP on the new computer.
On prior versions of OS X and Xcode I constantly used the title bar right-click to view the folder hierarchy of the Xcode project: right-click the title bar and open up the containing folder (or an ancestor). However now that Xcode has no title bar I can't do this anymore. Is there any way to bring back the title bar so I can open the containing folder quickly and easily again?
I had a basic Automator script I was using with a keyboard shortcut to bring up the login screen as a sort of lockscreen. It was working mostly fine until 10.10.1 (I had to manually launch from 'Services' in a given app before I could use the shortcut from that app for some reason). Here is the Automator portion: Here is the shortcut:
I have a budget with a Column for "Categories" and for "Amount". Within the Column for categories, as one might expect, is a category for "Groceries". Groceries is column "C" and Amount is column D. In a separate column I typed the following formula: =SUMIF(Category); "=Groceries); Amount Where have I gone wrong?
I'd like to make an Alfred workflow that would send a file as an attachment through Airmail. I noticed that Airmail has a "Share Menu" extension to do just that.
My daughter has a MacBook, 10.6.8 and we have the install discs. It's gotten to that age, 5-6 years, where it runs sluggishly, and I'm thinking to wipe the drive, maybe replace with an SSD, and reinstall the OS.
I accidentally ejected an external drive in the finder, is there an option to hide or remove/disable eject button from finder?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini, and a 2012 MBP Retina both on Yosemite. Airdrop worked very well under Mavericks, and I waited to see if the 10.10.1 update would fix it before posting this. My MBP detects my iPhone 6+, but not my Mac Mini, and my Mac Mini does not detect Anything with Airdrop. My Mac Mini is ethernet, but wireless is on, just not connected. How can I get them to see each other?
Trying to understand how font sizes in 3rd-party apps will be different on iPhone 6/6+ compared to 5S when all apps get iPhone 6/6+ support: What are Apple's guidelines for app developers in terms of font sizes for 6/6+? How are they different compared to earlier iPhones?
I am about to buy an Apple charger on Ebay coming from USA, yet I am not sure if I can use it here in Europe, more precisely in Portugal. I'm not concerned with the plug itself since I have the plug from my old broken charger and given that I can easily detach and attach it to the new charger this is not a problem. My concern is related to the different electrical system used in USA and in Europe, so do I need to buy a converter or is it safe to use it ? Best regards, Filipe Silva.
and run it as ./script.sh /Users/me/some\ directoy\ with\ whitespace/, it correctly shows me the content of the specified directory. I'm not sure why, though.
I'm receiving unwanted photos on my photo stream from another user? What setting needs adjusting? It's an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1.
I want to install parts or the whole content of a preexisting open source package to another directory than what the package is set to. I assume this means I need to modify the package, correct? At least I'm not aware of a way to redirect the installation path when installing.
I recently got an iPhone. I already had an iPod touch, and used to use iMessages on it with my Apple ID(email only). Now that I went into iMessage on the iPod today, for the first time after setting up my iPhone with the same apple ID- I got a notification asking if I'd like to send and receive text messages on the iPod using my iPhone. It then gave a confirmation code and asked to enter it on the iPhone. I cancelled it on the iPhone, thinking I don't need having my iPhone messages on the iPod.
I have hundreds of folders with a few text files in each folder. I'm trying to concatenate the files of each folder into a single text file. One file for each folder. Ideally, the concatenated files would be saved to another location.
Is there a reason to use caution when installing packages from Macports? I'm still new to *nix land, more a result of projects like Ubuntu making things like installing programs easy. I always felt confused and lost trying to compile programs, so package managers like Aptitude are wonderful and magical inventions to me. And it never occurred to me to question the integrity of a package. I assume there's a real team of humans policing a given repository somewhere.
I've installed Ouimeaux to control a Belkin Wemo on OSX, and it's working correctly in Terminal - meaning that the following command in Terminal will toggle my Wemo switch on/off: It works. Now, I'd like to assign a hotkey to that with BetterTouchTool. It seems like it'd be as easy as selecting the option to Execute Terminal Command in BetterTouchTool... but pressing the hotkey does nothing. It works in Terminal though. Do I need to write it differently for BetterTouchTool?
After upgrading to Yosemite I am not receiving iMessages in the Messages app. SMS forwarding is working fine.
I own an iPhone 5s with iOS 8 (or above) locked to T-mobile carrier (USA), although I do not have the original sim. I am stuck on the setup page since I had reset the iPhone to factory setting and it keeps asking me for the original sim which i do not have. (IMEI checks does show that the iPhone is already activated as it was used on the original sim before) However, i put in a new sim from optus carrier (i am now in australia) and the network shows signal with 4G data, I have attached an image of it. Now my question is, is the iPhone sim locked? Can i just unlock the sim or would i have to unlock the iPhone?
I was prompted to install JRE version 8 after upgrading to Yosemite on the family 2010 21" iMac. After I installed it (and checked whether the correct version was installed on the site of Oracle) it prompted that it wasn't installed although it was. I tried just following the steps they gave me to install it, but to no avail. Yosemite still asks to install the JRE on restart. Does anyone know where the problem is or how I could solve it?
I have upgraded to OSX Yosemite from Mavericks 10.9.4 and a very weird problem is happening. I use a Hostless Wimax USB Modem from Qubee (Wimax ISP from Bangladesh) for internet. So, there's no driver or connection manager has been required so far so use it. It has been working pretty good so far in all operating systems I use. But After upgrading to Yosemite, If the modem is unplugged by hand or disconnected or even a very negligible disconnection happens, My Mac gets a obvious Kernel Panic and without a restart it can't be used.
my browsers started crashing immediately on launch on my late 2012 mac mini. i reinstalled yosemite 10.10.1 again, and for a whole day, safari behaved perfectly. then both browsers started crashing again. i reset PRAM, installed latest java, ran virus check, but no dice. any solutions to this found?
Yesterday I realized that that my late-2009 Macbook White (A1342) does not display red colors. Sometimes it works correctly when I turn on the computer. Then, after a few seconds, red color starts flickering (in large rectangles and lines), then goes out completely. The screen becomes bluish, and everything that should be red seems black. I've attached a photo. It's strange that sometimes it just starts working correctly again after some time, even if I don't touch it.
I have somehow screwed up my iTunes database such that iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml contains network paths: Most of the files are where they belong, in file://localhost/Users/Shared/..., but not all. Furthermore, all of the files are located on the local disk, e.g. /Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Artis/Album/Track.mp3 has been copied into the local directory /Users/Shared/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Artis/Album/Track.mp3. I used File > Library > Organize Library..., and enabled the Consolidate files checkbox (along with Reorganize files in the folder "iTunes Media"), but this did not move all of the network-located files onto the local disk. iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml itself appears to be a write-only file, based off the contents of the binary file iTunes/iTunes Library.itl, so closing iTunes, editing iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml to correct the paths, and restarting iTunes doesn't fix the issue.
I saw an AppleScript on Github to automate toggling F1, F2, etc. as standard function keys, but I don't know how to install it to my system and trigger it via a keyboard shortcut. Help?
Smart tap tweak is when you wake your ipad by double tapping the screen, does this tweak has any negative effects on an iPad such as draining a lot of battery? Thx in advance,
I recently installed Windows 8 on a Mac with boot camp. The partition was working fine. However, I recently reinstalled OSX and now I am unable to select the Windows partition upon startup. How can I fix this issue? Thanks
iCloud and OS X Server: Limits for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders? For iCloud, there are some limits detailed here: *=URL=* However there is no mention of such limits when running your own OS X Server. Does anyone know the limits of OS X Server Calendar (CalDAV) and Contacts (CardDAV), if there are any?
I bought a used MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 with Mountain Lion. I can't seem to find the QuickTime Player anywhere. There is no such app in Apps nor in Utilities. When I right-click a video icon, Open With doesn't offer QuickTime (even if it's a .smil file, which is more QuickTime specific, not to mention any other type). Simply, there is no such thing as QuickTime Player on my system. Is this possible or am I doing something wrong? How can I get it (the current one, not the legacy one)? Apple doesn't offer any download as far as I can see, the page claims I have one. Only, I don't :-(
My iPod has not been backed up in six weeks. And I need 5 GB to back it up. 5 GB is my max storage. I don't want to have to delete everything i got to back it up. What do I do? Please help.
I have bought a Mac mini today. My monitor is only VGA. After connecting HDMI to VGA converter my monitor is not getting any signal. How can I fix it? Please help me. I am so frustrated.
I just updated my 13" MacBook Air (early 2014) to OS X Yosemite. The close button on the semaphore buttons at the top-left of the window has the x in it off center! That's not something I expect from Apple! It looked fine in Mavericks. I don't have this issue with my MacBook Pro at work, since that one has a Retina display. I Googled for it and some people report the same thing, but nobody says anything about fixing it. Has Apple acknowledged this and plans to fix it? I used Linux in the past and I'm seriously considering installing Linux on this machine due to this.
I'm looking at my next computer and am debating on whether or not to invest in a Fusion Drive. I'll be using Windows heavily on it though, and would like to take advantage of the SSD on both operating systems rather than just from within OS X. I'm pretty technically savvy, so I wouldn't mind using Windows, Linux or another operating system to accomplish this task. Thanks!
I have a mid-2012 13'' Macbook Pro. I'm currently using a Thunderbolt to VGA to use a second monitor.
I have an Ipod touch 4th Gen on ver 6.1.6, it is not jailbroken. Whenever I try to sign in I get these results
I love everything about my Macook Air except its very low maximum memory (and yes I bought it with the maximum available at the time). So I'm thinking "I know how to solder... how hard can it be?". It's not that unusual for the theoretic limit at the time a computer is manufactured to be surpassable later when modules with more memory become available.
The question: How can I increase the timeout for querying the forwarder DNS on OS X Server 3.1.2 ? I get DNS errors, which I believe could be solved by increasing the timeout for querying the forwarder DNS server. My environment:
I'm new to applescript and coding. I'm trying to make a little Applescript application that plays an audiofile contained in the .app, using: The problem is; how can I make the app work on an another mac, without having to change the /username/ manually?
How can I disable the Top Sites on OS X ver 10.9.5? I have deleted the cache and locked Safari so that new windows images do not get saved. I know how to Delete but need to know how to Disable the Top Sites in Safari.
The weirdest thing. Where the heck is ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks/C pointing to??
Unknown Reason for Excessive repetitive removable volumes with either no files inside or inaccessible directories. I have been getting these artifacts as seen in the image since installing OS X Yosemite. Very mysterious. Anyone with similar errors or with an explaination, or even better - a solution, I would be most grateful to hear from you. Thanks.
I ask because I have a key missing and my keyboard and would like them both fixed at the same time.
I'm not sure that this is the right place but I really need some help!!!I connected my ipad with my laptop and my brother pressed sync with the library itunes , but my laptop has not the photos and all things that had my ipad so everything form the laptop passed through the ipad and everything from the ipad deleted!!Basically, if anybody knows of a program to get back my files, you are a hero!! I didnt make a safe copy so I cant reload the photo or files! I've never encountered this sort of problem and I don't know of any programs that are legitimate that do this; so if you guys could tell me of one I could easily get a hold of (preferably free) then I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
I am a freelancer programmer and so far I have only worked on projects on Windows platform. I don't have much idea about OS X hardware. I am not looking for a very high end configuration but integrated development environment and one database server should just run fine. I have a Dell laptop i7 processor, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD; I am fairly satisfied with the performance. I am mainly going to use it for app development and not for any rich graphics app development. What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for Xcode development on OS X?
On both Dock and Launchpad. I opened App Store by mistake, and now I cannot remove the badge which is designed for reminding me updates, except I install all the updates or delete all the apps which have updates.
Can I put only HD to sleep when possible, without putting SSD (inserted in superdrive slot) to sleep? (surfing on some forums I read that some problems may arise with SSD stop mode)
How can I get this (and other) files copied? I kinda need them. In case it's relevant, the file was created with 7-zip, and the VPN software is Cisco AnyConnect.
To run programs as sudo without password, I edited /etc/sudoers with wrong content. Then I re-edited it with Mac's default text editor(course sudo cannot be used when /etc/sudoers is wrong). I tried to run sudo agin, and get this error:
Since the Yosemite upgrade, my VPN isn't able to connect using either PP2P or L2TP protocols. L2TP is giving me this output: *=URL=* PP2P results in this output: *=URL=* It seems that both protocols are able to connect to th server, but something goes wrong when receiving the server configuration.
For the first time I opened iCloud on my PC. All of the bookmarks in Chrome are synchronized to Safari on my iPhone. I don't want this. And when I delete from Safari, I don't want the deletion to sync with Chrome. How can I stop synchronization? Another thing, how can I see how much space bookmarks, favorites take on iPhone?
I’ve picked up my new iPhone 6 yesterday. I’ve set up my Apple ID and connected it to my WLAN normally. Internet works, but when I launch the App Store it just says “Cannot connect…”.
I have some store credit on my iTunes account that I got couple months ago and am gifting a film on iTunes for my sisters birthday.. If i gift the film does the cost come off my store credit or my credit card?
I would like to configure Safari to block cookies from specific domains, but looking at the settings I couldn't find any option. Then I searched for extensions that could implement this feature, having no success with that either. Is there any way to block specific cookies?
How to turn off software updates?   iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1. Everything seems to be turned off, still software updates is using the greatest amount of cell data. By resetting the stats we still see data being used.
I am selling my MacBook Pro and want to totally factory reset it so none of my things pop up. How do i do this without the disc?
Under Usage my Messages shows 1.1GB Used but I don't see any messages. How can I find them and delete all 1.1GB of the messages?
I am trying to install convex optimization package OBOE: *=URL=* I followed its instruction, but I run into errors in this step: I think fink is properly install because: is run successfully; while tells me:
I have a MacBook Air (mid 2011) running OS 10.7.5. Last month I bought a new Time Capsule, and I would like to reformat/erase my old Time Capsule (about 5 years old) and give it to a friend. But right now, AirPort Utility cannot even find the old Time Capsule.
In Mavericks (OS X 10.9), I can simply Cmd+~ because it is another window in the same app group, but how can I do it in Yosemite?
I have a lot of backup data from TM (>800Gb) in my trash and I can't delete it. Trying everything what I find in "AskDifferent" & also this. It's too long - over 2 hours left and nothing! I can not recover these backup folders or delete them one by one. Maybe I should use Disk Utility and erase Time Machine property (it's under MacBook Pro.sparsebundle directory, not Time Capsule, where there are other files)? I need to save info in my TC, only erase backups in trash and others. Please help...
I upgraded from the Mavericks to Yosemite on a Macbook Pro. All the contacts in the address book which is now Contacts in Yosemite are gone and when I try to restore it from the back up it gives a message that all the contacts will be replaced which is ok in this case. However when I close the address book after the import and re open it the address have disappeared. After a few attempts it now gives the same message but now the contacts don't even show in the address book anymore. Is there a solution for this? Thanks Usman
I have a Mac Mini 1.1 on which I updated the EFI firmware to v2.1 and installed Mac OS X 10.7 I'm wondering how I can cool the Mac with an external fan somehow. I found the internal cooling to be slow, so I put an external handmade USB fan on the system in an open case and this works well for my purpose. The problem with the external fan is that when I put the computer to sleep, the fan keeps on working and I don't know how to make it stop.
I am running 10.6.8, on a 2.1 13" white-2008 Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Am I able to upgrade to OS X 10.7.5 "Lion & is it free or $20
Now I see that one of the apps on the old phone is subscription based, so that I need a password to use it. The password is stored, so I don't have to enter it on my old phone. But I do not know that password, and for various reasons, I'm unable to use the app's forgotten password function.
It's been a while since I used Pages, but the last time I used it, I dragged and dropped a photo into a blank document and there were options to add nice borders to the photo. Specifically, I added an effect which made the photo look like it was peeling off the page on the left and right side, and there was a shadow underneath each corner giving it a 3d appearance. I can't for the life of me find that feature in Pages (using Page '09).
3TB Airport Time Capsule (FW 7.7.3) DHCP sends the correct DNS address to hosts for the Primary network, but sends the Gateway address for the Guest network. If I correct the DNS manually on a host, Internet works fine. What's the problem? Any LAN Host: DNS 172.16.42.1 Should be 8.8.8.8
As for testing purposes I'd like to get into WiFi settings much more deeper and want to use some WiFi managing app like Airport on OSX which I recently did use on OS X and wonder what's the counter part on iOS, if there's any. Get an idea here: *=URL=* Am keen on any feedback, as you can imagine.
I own a macbook pro retina, mid 2012. I bought like 2 years and 2 months ago.
Finally there should be a version of Chrome 64 bit for Mac. I received an email from google groups: Switch the Mac build from 32-bit to 64-bit.
Not sure if this is an implementation bug or iCloud clogged up. On one mac I have uploaded a folder. I know upload is finished because when I log into icloud.com I can see the files and download them. Yet on another mac the files show like this:
When taking a screenshot using the keyboard shortcut shift+command+3 it yields a screenshot with a filename of Screen Shot 2014-11-23 at 3.25.36 PM.png. I would like to make a change so that the filename would be scr-20141123-152536.png. This would be the same exact date and time but altered to what I have been using for the past 13 years on other systems - it just works better for me. Is it possible to make this a permanent change? And, if so, how would I make this change? UPDATE: I don't want to install Macports or Homebrew, or other package management system or apps that require the user to disable system security in order to run. My system: Mac mini, late 2012, OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite)
I want to record a video+audio on hangout (not sure if on the web or on an app) while i'm in another meeting. I saw this tutorial using quicktime: *=URL=* However it won't record audio when my Mac is muted. How can record audio as well without actually hearing it when played on my Mac?
I have OS X10.8.5 (fully patched). I'm using Office for Mac 2011 (fully patched).
Is there a tool for OSX or Windows that will automatically download all the current iOS ipsw files? I work at a school and when someone has a problem with an iPad and we need to restore it, we have to wait for iTunes or Apple Configurator to download the latest update. It would be really handy if we could automatically pre download the IPSW files so that they were ready to go as soon as they were needed. Any ideas?
I just got my first iPhone. There’s an issue with connecting to the App Store, so I’m watching videos on youtube.com in Safari. I’ve noticed that the videos are low-res. I don’t see the setting to turn on HD video sources. (I’m connected to my WLAN.) Is it not possible to view HD videos on YouTube in Safari?
Is there any command to control the intensity of keyboard light of a MacBook Pro?
I installed Yosemite 10.10.1 about a week ago. Preview crashes all the time whenever I try to perform a search on certain documents. Unfortunately, I can't upload this document because of copyright infringement issues. I never experienced this before (in the many times I searched) with Mavericks but it has happened quite often with Yosemite. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? What is a possible solution? Kind regards, polarise I would happily securely send the actual document to an Apple employee to reproduce the fault.
We can change shortcuts in System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts. And many preferences has its associated file. So I wonder if there is any file related to the shortcuts. Then I can use version control or Dropbox to make it sync-able.
Well, the following error occurs every time I try to copy a file from the university's file server when I use a VPN connection. That happens since the update to Yoseminte a few days ago, didn't occurred on Mavericks. "Task could not be completed due to an unknown error (-41)"
What is the equivalent of Linux's netstat -tln on OS X? Options:
I have bought a used iPod which the previous owner had loaded photo albums on. I do not have iTunes and it will not let me delete the photos/photo albums without it. How do I delete the photo albums that are on this device?
By default in Yosemite Spotlight shortcut is assigned to ⌘SPACE, but change language is also ⌘SPACE so for a multilingual person it turns out to be a tough choice which one to use. I am wondering if there is a way of assigning a different short cut as ⌥SPACE for a spotlight or the language switch? I know I can disable language switch and only use 'next language' as ⌥⌘Space, but I am looking for an easy 2 keys solution
I know you can extract account password from an encrypted backup .. But it's not that simple .. And not everyone can do it !!
In my Dropbox, I have files inside a number of custom-made folders. I am able to view these files and folders inside apps that support Dropbox on my iPhone.
I updated my iPhone to iOS 8.1.1 last week. All data got restored correctly (i.e. I could access my apps, documents, etc) after the update with the exception of my ringtones. However, I no longer see my purchased ringtones in the list under Settings > Sounds > Ringtones. I saw a similar thread whose solution mentioned running iTunes and syncing the iPhone, so I made sure to sync iTunes with the iPhone - still nothing. EDIT: I could not recover anything under the Purchased tab in iTunes.
I'm trying to add a movie file to iTunes 12. I've tried dragging and dropping and "Add to Library" from the iTunes File menu, but neither work. The movie isn't being sent to the "Home Movies" section, either. Any ideas as to how I can resolve this?
I noticed that I often open 4 games at once. Hay day, clash of clans, infinity blade, and boom beach. I wonder if I should terminate those apps when I no longer use it? If i keep it on will it consume battery>
There is no mention of this on Apple's web site, that I can find, but of course they're focused on new features, so that's no surprise. It seems unlikely that they would remove features, but that's not without precedent.
My brother has a Windows Phone, and an iPad. Whenever I try to text him, it sends him an iMessage to his iPad, not a text message. Since he does not always have his iPad with him, he doesn't get my texts most of the time. Is there a way to choose when a message is sent via iMessage, or via SMS?
Is there another way to get gpg-agent in? I need GPG2 signing for RVM in order to provision a server. The message Unfortunetly nothing too informative...
My mouse is choppy as I drag it around the screen. The buttons on my keyboard occasionally get stuck "on", resulting in a bunch of spaces, or periods, or triggering the special character pop-up for other letters, or deleting too many characters. I'm on OS X 10.9.5 on a late-2011 Macbook Pro.
I restarted my macbook pro this morning and it started up with a chime and now is stuck on the grey screen. I have tries holding any different key combinations, none of them work, except resetting the pram, which does cause the computer to restart. I have tried option, r, s, d, command shift v, command v, shift (before and after the chime), command option d r.
I am trying to charge my phone using my laptop but that requires the laptop to be on. On my Lenovo, I can do that without turning the laptop on. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
I'm having a very weird problem. I'm not sure when it started happening or what I did but I cannot seem to fix it. When I open up my Notes app, its entirely blank. If I attempt to create a note and start typing, it just beeps at me. When I open the console, this is what I get: 11/24/14 11:14:34.146 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform. 11/24/14 11:14:34.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: TextEdit(550) deny mach-lookup com.apple.webinspector 11/24/14 11:14:34.403 AM Notes[2917]: * WebKit discarded an uncaught exception in the webView:didFinishLoadForFrame: delegate: * -[__NSPlaceholderArray initWithObjects:count:]: attempt to insert nil object from objects[0] If I search a note through spotlight, I can open it, but the window with all the other notes still doesn't work. I verified that all my notes are still there with the following command: Any ideas what this is or how I can fix it?
When I add a picture to document in Pages, the Text Wrap is always Automatic. I want to set "Above and Below" to be default. How can I do this? The version is 5.5.1(2111)
My device is iPhone 4. I forgot my icloud username and password. How can i recover my username and password ? Would you please help me ? Its important as i cant use my device.
I am trying to install ssh-copy-id, and it wants to be placed in but when I do it responds with Is this because I have a fresh install of Yosemite and the changed the location of /usr/local/?
My computer becomes extremely slow when I connect TWO 27-inch thunderbold screens to it - a Macbook Pro Late 2013 (16Gb Ram/2.7 quad-core/Yosomite 10.10.1). I am suspecting that the graphic card (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB) isn't strong enough to drive the 3 screens (including the built-in Retina). I am looking for a way to minimize all graphic effects to speed my computer up. Anyone have a (possible) solution? Thanks in advance for reading and providing with suggestions. Best.
This website has a useful list of the various iDevice models. And the "identifier" column is helpful for any iOS developers, as this is the string you can fetch in your application to determine what kind of device your program is running on. However, for reasons, I am interested in determining via Terminal what sort of devices is plugged into my OS X computer. Using the following script in Terminal, I can grab the "version" of my device: And for the devices I can get my hands on, these numbers somewhat line up. My iPhone 5s gives me version 6.01 (versus "iPhone6,1"). My iPad 2 gives me version 2.40 (versus "iPad2,4"). My old iPhone 4 gives me version 3.10 (versus "iPhone3,1").
As a brand new Mac user this might be my naivety or an issue with the OS. I bought a new Macbook Pro today and wish to partition the disk to allow Windows to be installed and Linux too. I was advised in the shop that this was straightforward using the Disk Utility tool. However, when I attempt to create a second partition, I am presented with the following:
Using Yosemite, can I transfer a call from the iPhone to Facetime on the mac? I know it is possible to go from FaceTime on the mac to the iPhone. I want to go the other direction.
I jailbroke my old iPod Touch 3rd Generation, with IOS 5.1.1, using the latest version of absynthe. It worked for several months, but then it randomly stopped. It went into safe mode, but the touch screen wouldn't work. It showed the lockscreen, but nothing worked at all, except for the physical buttons. The only way to reboot is to follow the same steps as DFU mode (Hold power button 3 sec, then home button AND power for 10, then just home for 8)... However, it always boots right back into Safe mode.
How do I fix my little Apple ecosystem, iPhone (8.1) and Mac (Yosemite), to not associate any email addresses with my identity? Background: Years ago (may well have been before Mavericks), you could set up Message (on your iPhone), and iMessage (Mac OSX), such that any message sent to you from other Apple users would appear on all your devices, as well as any messages you would send out as well. This was awesome for me, as you could converse on a thread with iMessage on the Mac, and then leave your Mac, having just your iPhone, and continue to follow the conversation.
I need to open some terminal sessions via iTerm 2 and execute commands on each terminal (e.g. rails s ; rails c) How to do it via automator or alfred?
My iPad is showing my old Apple id, so I am unable to sign out of iCloud or turn off "find my iPad" I need to sign out so that I can type in my new Apple id. The system is only allowing my to reset my password or find my apple id
My ex husband bought our daughter an iPod touch and put everything under his email account so when she try's to text and stuff it goes to him. Is there a way to reset just the email to hers so she can talk with her friends in private. I would reset the whole thing but she has already bought a lot of music and we don't have iTunes or Internet on home computer.
My laptop connects to my Wifi but my iPhone does not. I connect my macbook air from the basement to the wifi and i get all 3 bars, but then i connect my iPhone from same place in the basement, the iPhone keeps losing the wifi.i had an iphone 4 before so I thought it was just the Antennas of the iPhone 4 that was weak. Now I have the iPhone 6 plus and its the same issue. what do you think is the problem? is it my router? i have a netgear WNR1000v2 and it is upstairs, about 50-60 ft away from my room in the basement.
Why my iPhone cannot detect the location? I enable the lost mode and its confirmed by email but the device did not show any location. But when I first set my lost mode they asked me a pass code, but now if I turn on my lost mode the phone never ask me a pass code. It only appears on the screen that it is done. What is the problem with that? It's possible that my lost mode and Apple ID are hacked by the thief or they deactivated it.
When I transfer photos taken and edited on the iphone (iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1) to iPhoto (9.6) on my mac (OS X 10.10.1), only the original picute is transferred but not the modifications. Is there a simple way to transfer both the original and the modifications? Apple recommends to send the edited photos by e-mail but this does not seem a very good solution when you have tons of edited pictures.
I often use the builtin Script Editor.app to write, compile, and debug AppleScripts before I copy/paste the polished code into a shell script (with #!/usr/bin/osascript). That said, one really annoying thing is that the code I copied from Script Editor always uses CR as line delimiters, rather than the Unix (including OS X) standard LF. As a result I always have to tr '\r' '\n' before pasting into scripts, or they won't work (and won't even cat nicely).
I have not been able to connect my retina Macbook Pro to my iPhone 5s Personal Hotspot since upgrading to OSX 10.10 (Yosemite). While I can see the phone in the list of wifi APs under the "Personal Hotspot" sub-list, attempting to connect to it fails every time, even though the devices are only about two feet from each other. • I attempted to "forget" the AP and re-add it, but this did not resolve the issue. • My provider is Verizon.
I need to record a demo on my iPad's screen where I narrate what's going on but I also want the sounds from the iPad to be in the video. It seems that choosing the Mac Built-in Mic option causes only my voice to be in the video while choosing the iPad Mic option cause only the sounds from the iPad to be in the video. What can I do to put both in the video?
How could I possibly eliminate the user accounts at login to start my mac automatically? Actually I have a couple of user accounts both admin / guest however I do not want to login by entering passwords.. How could I set it up such that it starts automatically without requiring any verification?
Can the front facing camera of iPhone 6/iPhone 6 plus achieve the 240 fps slow mo capability? I searched and cannot find information about this. Any help would be appreciated.
When I go into settings>gamecentre>profile to change my nickname, a box pops up when I click Done saying, "Missing Security Answer Please enter the answer to your security question." I've tried everything from logging into my apple ID and changing the security question and answer to restarting the ipod. I'm not sure what's going on or how to troubleshoot this.
I've noticed that when my laptop is on its sleeve and I slide my laptop on it the screen goes black. This doesn't happen when I have the laptop on my lap. Its consistently reproducible. It's somewhat annoying as sometimes when I adjust the laptop on the sleeve the screen goes black. Does anybody know why this happens? Is some static being created when the laptop is moved when on the sleeve that causes the laptop screen to go black and back to the lock screen?
the new "ding!" notification sound in Yosemite really gets on my nerves (and I don't like any of the default ones), I would like to add (or replace one of those with) a custom sound I have. I found out a dirty solution is digging into /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AlertTones and replacing one of the default tones files with my own, converted to .caf (core audio file) using the afconvert command line tool. Is there any better way of doing this?
This is happening occasionally and I can't nail the source. What happens is that sometimes after my Mac wakes up from a sleep, I can not launch any apps using Launchpad. I can click the launchpad icon, and I can see the launchpad, but whatever app I click there - it won't run. Only after few minutes all the apps that I've clicked start all at once and then launchpad starts to work fine.
I can see Dropbox but I can't find Google Drive on my Finder. If I want to sync a file to GDrive, I have to open the folder GDrive by click on the symbol of Gdrive. It's very inconvenient. I'm wondering if there is a way to display GDrive on the Finder, just like where Dropbox is?
I have iPhone 5s. When I try to download any app in App Store, it shows you have not verify your Apple ID tap ok to review the instructions on how to verify your Apple ID, and when I click ok, then it shows that verification email has been sent to my email. I never received that email, so what can I do?
I'm looking for a way to zip (or 7z) files via a file manager in such a way that the original folder is deleted right after the zipping finished (less clutter when batching compression of multiple folders). In "Total Commander" it was called "Move to Archive". Is there any OSX file manager which has this functionality? I've tried PathFinder 7 and ForkLift, but they don't seem to have this option (or it is hidden somewhere). TIA. Karol
I keep getting a pop-up window that states "To view this content you must download Java Runtime Environment". I even got it while using Pages. Now supposedly one cannot get viruses on Macs (really?).How can I solve this issue without having to install any programs?
That works fine for me. But when my partner switches to her user account, the mounts aren't accessible for her. Moreover, when she starts the same script as i do, the paths are getting messed up: If two users mount the network shares, two different folders exist on the system: /Volumes/music for the first user and /Volumes/music-1 for the second user, which messes up all file paths (especially in iTunes, but also in Lightroom or other apps).
I have my screen saver set to display images from a folder in my ~/Pictures directory, and the "Shuffle slide order" box is checked. In Yosemite, I find that occasionally one or both of those settings will revert to the defaults; the "Source" menu will revert to "National Geographic", the "Shuffle slide order" box will be unchecked, or both.
Is there a way to modify /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist to turn on mdnsactivedirectory after a reboot? If so, what do I need to add to the plist?
Yesterday, suddenly my Macbook's WiFi stopped working at school. I have reason to think that only the 5GHz band is effected. Personal Hotspot connection via my iPhone still works and my Wifi at home also works.
I was rebooting my MBP when i turned off abruptly, now when i turn on my Mac again i just see a Flasing folder icon with a question mark instead the Apple Logo. i have MacBook Pro 15" Late 2012 (Non retina) Bootcamp (MacOS X Yosemite - Windows 10) The HFS+ partition currently has Journaling Enabled (i didn't find a way to disable outside MacOS X, that i can't use it rigth now) What have i tried so far: Initialize Recovery Partition ( no partition in the hard drive is recognized by the EFI loader) Using Disk Utilities [Internet Recovery] (the partiotions doesn't appears on the utility application) Trying to install Mac OSX from Internet recovery (But Hard drive doesn't appears on drive selection menu. Booted with Ubuntu 14.04 LiveCD tried fsck.hfsplus on it ( Ubuntu can actually see all the partitions and running fsck with foce parameter reports everything its OK with partition). I don't know what to do ...
I made a hotspot using a Wi-Fi external receiver connected on my laptop running Windows with a program named Connectify just today. My PC gets the Internet connection via the Ethernet connection and share it with Connectify. The name of my Wi-Fi network is "connectify". I have noticed that only my iPad and iPhone are able to connect to it. My MacBook just says "invalid password" when I know for a fact that the password I configured is correct.
I'm new to mac and I really like the way you can assign a window to be it's own desktop via fullscreening. However, I have an issue with the default way the menubar works in fullscreen.
I have iPad Mini 3 with iOS 8. I set the restrictions under Settings > General > Restrictions but some important settings are not covered like WiFi, Proxy and DNS settings.
Within my work I regularly open files with Pages, Numbers, Keynote… and even if I typed anything within these files I want to be absolutely sure I didn't modify them in any way. Moreover I want to be absolutely sure I didn't touch their modification time since I didn't modify them in any way.
I made mistake of using my iTunes account to sync and update my wife's iPad, and used her ID for this. Result, all of her apps merged with my apps for my iPhone & iPad. Got rid of those, but her iPad still shows up when I open iTunes in my User account on the Mac. I have the problem on both Mav/iTunes 11.4 and Yoemite/iTunes 12.x. Nov26,4:34 EST. How do I stop that -get rid of her iPad appearance?
I am working with a huge photo library and from time to time I experiment quick editing on some pictures. Sometimes I also make uncontrolled changes which apply on a set of pictures I can't correctly see. In these situations I would like to be able to exit iPhoto without saving these unwanted modifications.
Is it possible to specify which network device should be used when running something in the Terminal? Like
Like the title says, running os x 10.10.1. if i have an entry in my hosts file and do a dig or nslookup it still shows a different IP than what is in my hosts file even after trying to flush various caches. I have tried the following.. flush mdns and udns caches by running: sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache; sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches; sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache; sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches; flush cache using dscacheutil -flushcache reload the discoveryd.plist file sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist my hosts file looks like this..
This morning my external monitor refused to turn on. After examination I found my second thunderbolt port damaged. A small metal plate/contact on the top of the port had been dislocated, bent out of shape and was preventing the monitor from plugging.
So I bought a replacement home button for my iPhone 5. I tried to gently lift the screen with a suction tool, but when it finally lifted, it yanked something off and now the screen won't work :(
Wifi speed in my flat is not that good, and I often have to copy big video files from my nas to my mac. In these situations I'd like to be able to start playing the file after few seconds and that the transfer ends in the background while I watch the move. Is there a video viewer app that handles such a use case?
Until Yosemite, I could work in the Terminal and file system changes would be immediately updated in Finder. Now, however, Finder seems to be out of sync with the filesystem. Finder shows files I have moved or deleted as still being in the original folder.
What else can I do to make my iPhone 4S work for as long as possible? I have done all the "standard" battery saving techniques recommended on most sites, like: turn off background app refresh, automatic updates lower brightness all the way / disable auto brightness
I have a 2009 320GB Toshiba Hard Drive, and every time I plug it to my macbook pro 13inch Retina, I have to go to Disk Utility -> Repair Disk. Why is that? Whats the solution? Please help!!! Thanks
I enabled the annotate option on the Tools for Mac Preview Application and now I cannot draw a rectangle without the Fill option. How can I get rid of the Fill option so that I can draw a rectangle without filling the contents in it. Here is the example of a filled rectangle in it.
My iPhone 5s screen is blacked out and I can't turn it off by using the screen and buttons. How do I open the phone so I can remove the battery to turn it off?
I'm transferring files over Airdrop between 2 Macs running Yosemite. Before (10.8) it was pretty fast, reaching around 30M/second. Now (Yosemite 10.10) it's around 300k/second. Is this drop in speed because of the Yosemite upgrade or is something wrong with my Mac (it's a mid-2012)?
I often have SSH connections through Terminal that stop responding (like if I've left it overnight) but when I try to use the dead connection Terminal doesn't respond for several minutes until: Is there a way I can tell bash to immediately disconnect (because I know the connection is dead) without closing/opening a new window?
Everytime I connect my iPhone (4 or 5) to iTunes (v. 12.0.1.26), it begins syncing but hangs on step 6 of 7, "Importing photos".
Using the top command in Terminal, and ordering the list by state, I see a number of processes on Yosemite 10.10.1 whose state is stuck. I've looked through man ps and man top for an explanation, and done some googling, without enlightenment. Nothing's apparently wrong with the system - in fact, coreaudiod (one of the stuck processes) is racking up CPU and merrily driving the sound system - but I'm curious what is "stuck" about them and whether this is cause for concern.
I keep getting Facetime Audio notifications from a cousin of mine at random times even though my phone doesn't ring. The notifications always come in pairs with the same timestamp. I thought my cousin was just playing around with me but I have received notifications when he is away from his iPod touch.
On 10.9 and previous we used MCX to manage proxy settings on a per user basis. (User level MCX).
I put this Samsara movie into my youtube favourites. There are two unexpected issues here. If I try to play that movie either from iPad or iPhone and display it to my Apple TV my Apple TV said that it can't play this movie.
How do I restore and upgrade my iPod Touch 1st generation so I can download newer games on it?
I've already considered moving the databases into the user's ~/Library/Caches folder but this is a lot more complicated to manage. The database is also useful within the package as it eliminates a somewhat lengthy pre-compute step.
In version 8 of safari the URL of a webpage is displayed centered in the adress-field, and the favicon (or apple-touch-icon) is invisible. Only when I click into the adress-field the URL moves to the left edge and the favicon becomes visible. What must I do to always have the URL displayed leftbound with the favicon visible? This is what I've got now, but don't like: This is what I want: How can I get it?
I am trying to disable the following dialog box that pops up all the time when I open Mail.app:  Is there a way to do so using terminal? Thanks!
Should in-app purchases transfer between different devices that use the same Apple ID? Is it up to the developer?
My MBP (mid 2010) is suffering from the Intermittent black screen or loss of video issue. More specifically, it may happen that when switching from dedicated to integrated graphics, the screen goes black. Only a reboot helps in this case.
I'd like to be able to add, by script and by hand, files on dropbox to the print queue and for these to be retained there until I'm at a specific printer with my Macbook Pro. As it is now, I add docs to be printed when the printer isn't available and after a while these are removed before the printer becomes available. Is there a setting in OS X I can use to retain the files of the print spool until the printer in question is available?
Anybody has any clues regarding this problem? It happens at least once a week. Thankfully most data is preserved after the restart, but it is worrisome anyway.
My husband loves this game, called Hellcats Over the Pacific, that I really want to figure out how he can play. It is a 1991 Macintosh floppy disk. Is there a way I can play this on my macbook with a floppy disk drive and a virtual environment? I know there are some ways to get data from floppy disks, but can you actually play these old games without an ancient computer? Any advice from someone who was successfully accomplished this would be greatly appreciated.
my 2TB external HHD has decided to fail to mount with the error "invalid content in journal" so i removed the journal using the terminal and tried to mount it - still fails ran verify disk on the partition
I have a 48GB WinTec filemate ExpressCard SSD which I'm not currently using for anything. My idea was that I would re-partition it with a 16GB partition for swap and virtual memory (I have 8GB of RAM), and the rest for either random files, or maybe stick a flavor of Linux on there.
I'm trying to listen to a podcast through Apple's headphones on my Macbook Pro (Retina, 13 Inch, mid 2014), running OS X 10.10.1, but the audio keeps cutting out. When the audio cuts out, the following log messages appear in the Console app:
We are running a Yosemite SUS in our company and have to set to automatically retrieve the latest updates from Apple but 10.10.1 can not be seen anywhere in there. Anyone have this issue as well?
I want to monitor HTTPS network traffic on the Internet and not Intranet. I would use a tool like Charles or Fiddler and setup a proxy but I could only host through Intranet. Plus, I have the issue of decrypting https traffic.
Bash and vim's file completion facilities are effective for navigating through a few levels of a directory structure, but can be cumbersome when working with unfamiliar directories. Alternatively, I use a fuzzy search plugin in vim, which is effective within a project, but less so across the full drive.
Upon updating to Yosemite, My finder column view preview window displays the Modified and Last Opened options as "Today" or "Yesterday" etc. I need to see what time yesterday in the column view without the extra step of having to Get File Info. Is there a way to get an actual timestamp to display in the column view? I see no option in settings for this.
I don't know why but when I am using my 2011 Macbook Pro, there are some very weird thing happening. When I key down "{", it will automatically become "%{", when I touch the right arrow, it will automatically insert 8 into the text, and when I press 1 it will be mapped to the volume up button. do you know what is going on with it?
Is there any way I can import a .vpl file? This is the only way of connecting I have and for now I can only do it on Windows (with FortiClient 4.x.x) because 5 doesn't support importing .vpl anymore.
So when I maximize a video on Mac (Yosemite) it renders my other monitor useless. It sucks when watching videos on Lynda.com and trying to work along with it. Is there a work around or an option to disable this "Feature"?
When you hold the home button on the power off screen of an iDevice on the lockscreen or Springboard, what is it supposed to do?
I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to switch between input languages:  But this shortcut doesn't work at the login screen. So when I resume from sleep, I have to use the mouse to change input language. Is there a way to switch between input languages via the keyboard from the logon screen?
We just received a brand new Mac Mini, which came with Yosemite pre-installed. Our UPS is set to shut down the computer after running on battery backup for 1 minute. I have tested this with an iMac running Mavericks (10.9.5) and the UPS behaves as expected, but on the Mac Mini running Yosemite the computer does not shut down and just continues to run off the battery.
Just want to know why so many homebrew packages with underscore, are they beta release? Usually I don't install any packages with underscores, just want to know the reason behind it. Few example luajit (2.0.3 < 2.0.3_1) macvim (7.4-73 < 7.4-73_1) mysql (5.6.10-boxen3, 5.6.13 < 5.6.21) node (0.10.32 < 0.10.33_1) ossp-uuid (1.6.2 < 1.6.2_1) osxfuse (2.7.1 < 2.7.2) Thanks
I can't print a PDF in Safari. I hit Print but nothing happens. This never happened until I downloaded Yosemite.
I have two DisplayPort monitors. These are regular DisplayPort monitors, not mini-Display Port, not made by Apple and not made specifically for Mac.
What the title says. I'm trying to delete all the data off my macbook air. I pressed command+r, went to disk utilities, selected my disk in the slot to the left, went to the erase tab. The "erase" button is faded so I can't click it. Format is at Mac OS Extended (Journaled) already, but it's also faded out. Almost every option is faded. What's wrong? Why won't it let me erase the disk?
I just noticed that I have a 2MB ~ file in the root of my Macbook HD. This wasn't here last time I checked (probably months ago,) and my guess is that it is from a system crash the other day or maybe from the upgrade to Yosemite. What is this file and can I delete it without incident?
I can't figure out, anymore, how to download my podcasts onto my ipod.
I’ve added my Google account to my iPhone (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars) and activated the “Contacts” switch for it, but I still don’t see my Google contacts in the “Contacts” pane of the Phone app. Why are the contacts not being fetched?
I feel that this must be a common and easy feature on the iPhone. I am looking for the ability to map between two distinct points on the iPhone by thumbtack.
When I try to install an app it said I my passwords wrong and I forgot it but it still wouldn't let me install
I have an iPhone 5s. I want to have my own custom ringtone on my iPhone.
Will Mavericks server cache Yosemite updates? I can't tell—is it possible to actually see the saved cache?
iTunes have recently released their App Bundle feature, but the documentation seems to be varying on how these actually work in terms of appstore sales. I understand how the bundle works in essence, but what I am interested in knowing is how does this affect the individual app ranks, since the toplists are (mostly) sorted by number of downloads.
I am using OSX already for a couple of years, but I still have trouble finding a good workflow for cleaning up photos in a folder using Finder. What I like to do is view each of the photos and delete some of them. What I currently do is:
The file in question looks like this: http://​website.com/somenumbers/somenumbers/somename.ts.m3u8
I have a late 2013 MBP, OSX v10.10. I have a drive mounted via ssh tunnelling. The basic command looks like:
I'm using Xcode for developing in C++ language. Is it possible to add a couple of txt files to write and read from them? It is a very cool feature to test a project in a lot of tests.
I spilt a little bit of juice on my Macbook Pro keyboard which causes the spacebar to stick (it still works but is not so convenient to use). I took it to a non-official Mac service where they told me that it needed some cleaning that would cost around $60. Then I took it to an official Apple service where the guy without any deeper investigation told me that a brand new replacement top-case is required for $600. The computer is otherwise completely functional. I still have a warranty until February that would probably be void if a non-official service fixed it. Do you think the $600 offer is realistic and this much has to be paid just to fix a sticky spacebar? Update: my girlfriend accidently spilt a half glass of water on my keyboard, and after drying it, the stickiness vanished :D Gotta admit, Macbooks are of high quality and I should care more about my computer.
I've manually imported my Google Contacts into icloud.com (via a vCard file). Now I'd like to have these contacts available on my iPhone. My iCloud is property set up (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > iCloud). "Fetch New Data" is set to Push, "Contacts" switch is turned on.
I'm struggling to find a solution for displaying Application Windows into a stacked/grouped/cascade view. I'd like to point out that i'm not referring to the general Mission Control which displays all aplication windows. I'm referring when displaying windows of the same app.
Open the Photos app Select an image Pull up the menu (bottom left icon) Available apps are Message, Mail, Twitter, etc. Google Drive does not show up in that list (which seems to be called "Activities"). I have signed in to the Google Drive app and even restarted my phone.
In Yosemite, is there a way to start a phone call from the command-line aka Terminal? Something like:
When I move a message from one account to another (by dragging, or "Move to"), or to a local folder, I expect the message to be deleted on the original account. However, what Apple Mail does is archiving the original message. Is it possible to realize my desired behavior (e.g., via a rule or a script)?
In About this Mac it shows that the OS is Yosemite but the version number is 10.90. Is this normal? I thought Yosemite is 10.10, and Mavericks was 10.9.
One of my contacts is annoying me with text messages. I could block them, but then I'd never be able to see the messages they send and I want to have the ability to do that. So instead the idea I had was to turn off text message notification sounds / badges / etc for just this one specific contact.
i upgraded my macbook air to OS X Yosemite and my tata photon plus huawei modem model no. EC156 not working with my mac. its getting installed well but when i tries to connect, it shows connection terminated. I have tries all the possible things explained in the forum earlier but i think those were only for tata photon 3g not for tata photon plus. Please help?
I am trying to create an applescript that will grab all of the labeled phone numbers of 'mobile' and 'iPhone' from the every contact in Contacts App (specifically the phone numbers from the iCloud account), and then send an iMessage or SMS to them using Messages App. I think I have a good part of it, but I get 2 errors that I can't seem to understand.
I am completely new to the Mac and I am planning to buy MacAir (256 GB/ 8 GB/ i5) model and want to use Windows 7 along with it using BootCamp. I have no problem with MacOSX but need to use Windows (Visual Studio 2013 specially) because of my job demand (.Net Developer). I want to use Mac mainly because of Battery Life and Performance. My question is that Can I experience the same when I will use Windows?
When I turn on my iMac ( 16 GB, Intel Processor 3.1 Ghz, Fusion drive year 2013) now it takes too long for the log in screen to appear. Before that I see a gray screen with a progress bar at the bottom but it takes about 2 minutes !! That did not happen with Mavericks
I believe the app switcher (command + tab) is tied to where the dock "is". The dock is available on both displays, but I believe the last display in which you clicked on the dock is where it actually is.
I updated to Yosemite a couple of days ago. When I watched a streaming service using Google Widevine it all worked fine but after a reboot Chrome keeps asking for me to install Widevine, and when I do and restart the browser it is still not working. Widevine seems to be installed because it works fine in Safari.
I have a script that needs to be running in the background periodically (I've put it there with Lingon X). That script (PHP based) is 1. polling a server, 2. retrieving a PDF file from the server 3. Saving it to disk 4. Printing it using exec("lpr myFile.pdf"); 5. Playing a sound using exec("afplay ding.mp3"); When I run the script manually (php myscript.php), everything works perfectly. However, when the script is running in the background, it does 1, 2, 3 and 5 normally, but does not print at all.
I want to install SET from this link: *=URL=* If I am right this is the github repository. I have brew installed can't I grab it with homebrew and then use all the tools like I do in Kali?
Does anyone know if there is a way to make google calendar alerts more intrusive on an iPhone? Currently, you just get a weak push notificiation, which is very easy to be ignored by accident. One way would be to automatically sync calendar events with phone alarms (which are very intrusive, as they have to be manually disabled by users). Is something like this possible with a jailbroken iPhone?
Okay, had a brief power outage today that shut down my computer and external drives, so I figured I should run a quick disk check just to be safe. However, when I run try to verify with Disk Utility, one of the volumes (an encrypted Fusion Drive) is getting stuck on the "Verifying storage system" step. I've tried leaving it, but even after more than eight hours it wasn't showing any progress of any kind. I've tried using both the Disk Utility app as well as the diskutil verifyVolume command line utility, but nothing happens.
How can I stop iTunes from transferring purchases from my ipad ? I just want to backup everything besides the apps since they can always be downloaded back from iTunes store and I do not want to waste my macbook space. Thanks
I have 100 pictures on my PC that I want to load into my Camera Roll. The PC is running Vista so I can't install iCloud onto it. On iCloud.com, I only see Notes, Contacts, etc, but not Photos.
The above alert pops up every time I open an app whose access to cellular data I've turned off. This adds an unnecessary step every time I launch one of these apps. My feeling is, "Who cares if cellular data is disabled for Photos? I just want to see my damn photos." This happens with 3rd party and native apps alike. I first noticed the issue in iOS 7 and am seeing it again in iOS 8. Is there a way to turn off these alerts?
Ever since updating, and also now having a done a clean install, my 15" retina mac book pro crashes every time I plug a thunderbolt connector into it - whether its the thunderbolt diplay, or a monitor, doesn't matter. As a laptop it great - but I need to be able to hook it up to other display options.
There is a problem with resolving DNS in my OS X Yosemite. Safari doesn't load web sites, ping says "unknown host" to google.com. DNS servers set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. dig google.com
The following is the output of "netstat -p tcp" on my mac. I "whois"ed the 1st and 3rd ip and they belong to Apple. I did not visit stack overflow since morning and also my browsers (safari and chrome) were not running in background, then what is stack overflow.co.http doing in my network. I do not have any program except for a terminal and preview for ibook running when i checked the netstat connection list. It is in ESTABLISHED state as you can see above. Do i have an unknown program running in background that is creating a connection to stackoverflow ? If anyone happen to know any thing about this please share the information Also is there any way I can see which program has established a connection with stackoverflow.co.http. Thanks, Ankit
When I log onto my Mac with FileVault enabled, I am prompted for the user/pass prior to the OS loading, as my boot drive is encrypted. The problem I have is that, counter-intuitively, it always shows my name as the login user! I just want blank fields that ask for the username and password respectively, not a prompt for my password. Does anyone know how to fix this? Edit: This is a screenshot of how Users & Groups is configured:
A few weeks ago, I took out my early 2011 13-inch MBP's optical drive, put my 500GB HDD in the optical drive area, put a 120GB SSD where the HDD used to live, and made a DIY Fusion Drive according to the instructions at Macworld's website. I got amazing results at the time (a formerly-1:21 boot time became 0:18!), but a few weeks later, I tend to get rather un-Fusion Drive-like speeds. I've seen Fusion Drives duplicate a 4GB file in 21 seconds (source), but a test run I did just now took 1:31. What can I do to restore my Fusion Drive to its youthful glory once again?
Should I charge every night? (Assuming that I consume more than 50% during the day, but sometimes not much more.)
My roommate moved out. He and i are both administrators on my iMac. How can I delete him? I have tried going into system preferences, users & groups, but even after I unlock it I cannot make any changes to his account.
I am using a Retina MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014 with Mac OS X 10.0 (Yosemite) installed. When I plugin my Android phone via USB, the trackpad and keyboard stop working. Things are still happening on the screen, though, so it's not completely frozen. The only button that works is power button. It happens like 20% of the time I plugin a smartphone. Tried various phones and the issue is still there. dmesg: http://pastebin.com/sRU5gKTd
What are the consequences of disabling Kest Signing on OS X Yosemite? I have disabled it to keep TRIM enabled on my aftermarket SSD. What are the security issues I could run up against? If I install applications only from trusted resources can I run in any kind of trouble?
I've been using iBooks to read .epubs that I've downloaded from the Internet, and made many annotations in them. How can I export the annotations to another Mac, or share them all at once?
I have two Pages documents in a local folder. They should be synchronised to Google Drive by my Google Drive client. The documents appear as folders remotely. I'm getting "Upload error - an unknown issue has occurred". Now if I open the GDrive folder in my brower, instead of SomeDoc.pages, I see a folder with the same name and a structure like so:
My storage is almost all used up and I cant update software or take pictures. It looks like Music is taking up aLOT of space. How can I make sure that if I delete off phone it doesn't delate on iTunes also?
I tried to hide an app's icon on the dock but the app (Clock) could not be launched. I googled and found some solutions to dock icon hiding. I modified the app's Info.plist by adding the following two lines: I also tried this:
My iPhone was stolen and I made the mistake of choosing erase my iPhone in iCloud. Is there any way to un-erase my iPhone from iCloud?
I have a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8.5 currently installed. I have the corresponding Xcode as 5.1. Now In order to use Swift we need Xcode 6 and above which is only available for OSX 10.9 or later. My question:
all of my Macs are running OSX Mavericks right now, except one iMac that is still on OSX 10.8.5 I've tried to find a possibility to upgrade to Mavericks, but can only find Yosemite upgrades in the appStore - is there another possibility up upgrade that machine? Thanks for your hints and ansers, Thomas
Is there and app or something that gives Yosemite the functionality that Ubuntu HUD has - search menu for items? I am switching to Mac from Ubuntu. Even thou I was on Ubuntu Linux for only a few weeks and originally came from a Windows background, I got super used to the HUD functionality. I would like to take that with me if possible.
I record a lot of voice memos for songwriting, melody ideas, rehearsals, etc. and have recordings going back to 2010, so knowing what they actually are is incredibly important.
In Alfred, if I type > ls must open iTerm2 with that command. Well, does not work for me. In Application if I select Terminal instead of iTerm2, works.
Activities such as: Phone Calls that last around 10 minutes 3G Browsing for 5 - 7 minutes Watching videos for 5 minutes Using apps such as facebook / instagram etc for 5 - 7 minutes, lead to my iPhone 5S severely overheating. It heats so much at times that it can't be held any more and you have to set it down for it to cool down.
I've purchased my sister a gift from iTunes for tomorrow (29th Nov) and was wondering what time roughly would she receive it? - GMT
I bought a second hand iphone 5s, I erase all content and settings, then i want to create my apple id, to download apps and all, i completed the procedure to create an apple id but at last the device showing me that "this device is no longer eligible for creating a free icloud account" how can i solve this problem?
I want to try out and compare both the Cocoa- and X11-based versions of Emacs. In general, I try to install all such packages through Homebrew, but in this case it looks like I Homebrew requires me to choose one of the two versions. Is there a way for Homebrew to install and simultaneously manage two parallel installations of Emacs?
I was messing around with a large (4GB) csv in pandas, when I noticed activity monitor was reporting using more RAM than I physically have in my laptop (15GB instead of the 8 I have). I was wondering what's really going on and how this is possible internally?
I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (early 2013) running OS X 10.10.1, but this issue has occured as early as the opt-in beta releases of 10.10. I have done fresh reinstalls several times.
So I suspected what might be the error, so I ran disk-utility and checked Yosemite partition for errors. Apparently there are a lot of errors, so I booted into single user mode, and ran the following commands.
I'm trying to create a developer account at developer.apple.com, but every time I click "Register", it says the server at developercms.apple.com couldn't be found. Is this happening to anyone else? How can I get past this?
In Yosemite, the Calendar application will automatically clean up addresses entered in the Location field of a calendar entry. Unfortunately, it does so badly. For example, an entry for Brasserie Zedel, 20 Sherwood Street W1F 7ED gets corrected to 20 Sherwood Street London England W1F 7ED United Kingdom, adding some information that's not needed (London, England and United Kingdom are all pretty much implicit) but deleting the crucial item, the name of the restaurant. Is it possible to disable this flawed autocorrection? Disabling general text autocorrection does not do the trick.
Every other time I boot the MacBook it hangs at a grey screen with the prohibitory sign. Verbose reveals a "still waiting for root device" error. Now if I reboot from that hang, it boots fine, but then will hang again the next time. It keeps alternating like this. Any ideas?? I am not running any third party trim software, so that's not the issue.
In Yosemite (present in 10.10.0 and 10.10.1) Finder regularly and repeatedly (not just randomly) freezes when in column view. I always use column view by default, so it happens often. It seems to happen when you click on certain file types-- I suspect the "preview" in the right-hand-most pane is causing the problem. It seems to be related to certain file types (but I haven't figured out which ones yet) If a specific file type causes a freeze, it always does If a specific file type doesn't cause a freeze, it never does
I'm trying to narrow down the cause of a problem that I'm having with OSX 10.10.1 and wanted to see if anyone on here could help weigh in. I have a Linux-based Samba server running the latest version of Samba (4.1.13). I use this server as a NAS and connect all of my machines to it. I have never had any significant problems in the past connecting my Macs to this NAS.
Does Apple tolerate a "buy me a coffee" feature as In-App purchase ?
In my Finder windows I have many aliases that target other folders or documents. At the shell prompt in Terminal, these aliases show up as regular files. How can I get the target of an alias so that, for example, I can "cd" to it or perform other command-line operations on the alias target?
I'm proud to say that I'm the happy owner of an almost antique 2009 MacBook Pro. I've had this 15-inch MacBook Pro for quite a while now and I'm not planning on changing it (have you seen the price of MacBooks these days?). As it is quite old now, it is not really working as well as before and my optical drive doesn't work anymore. It does not recognise any CD and keeps burping them out. It doesn't really matter as I've gotten used to it and don't use the optical drive now. So here is my question: Can I safely take the optical drive out and not replace it with another one?
It's been worse since Yosemite. From the same exchange account (office365) I will send and receive emails instantly on my phone, but they will take several minutes through the app. Loading existing conversations also often takes a long time. Conversations often get jumbled up and emails that don't belong will be added to a conversation.
When connecting my iPhone (4S or 6) to a JBL Flip 2 bluetooth speakers, the minimum volume is too loud. Under that, it mutes. It is not a problem of the speakers, as the volume using another, non-Apple, phone, can be reduced much more.
For years I've been annoyed by how most of the time I can drag the favicon from a web browser's address bar to a window in the Finder to create a bookmark file but sometimes the Finder has a tantrum, refusing to accept any more such drags. I can never figure out the pattern. Many macs later, many versions of Mac OS X later, and still the same occasional stubbornness by the Finder.
What should I do to aggressively lower the memory usage of my Mavericks installation ? The only things I need to run are XCode and Firefox, everything else can go out the window; I'm not opening any app and yet I already feel the system's slowness, which is understandable because it runs with only 2,5GB of RAM but unfortunately I can't upgrade right now, so what should I disable and where ?
Is it a violation of apples terms of service to replace the factory installed hard drive with a larger third party one? I understand that it is a violation of the terms of service to install OSX on non-apple hardware and I was wondering if installing a third party hard drive would be a violation. If so would I need to buy a first party hard drive directly from apple, or is it completely taboo to poke around inside an apple product? Simply put can you replace the hard drive of an Apple laptop with a third party hard drive?
Due to battery backups not working properly in Yosemite, I need to downgrade a machine to Mavericks. Unfortunately, this is a brand new Mac Mini and it shipped with OS X 10.10.0 installed.
Is there a way to install Adobe Flash to the Guest account (only)? I'd like to install to the Guest account so it gets wiped out on reboot. I rarely use Flash, so I want to not have to track updates. Either that, can I install it to a non-Admin account that I can wipe out when I need to.
I have OSX 10.9.5. It seems to happen once or twice within a few minutes after I come out of sleep. A smallish banner on the top right kind of slides in place. It's always text that starts with "Breaking Apple News" and then it advertises something.
While at home for the holidays, I noticed that the old iMac is probably on its last legs. I'd like to get a Time Capsule so that the documents are backed up when the time comes. However, the thought crossed my mind that the old iMac with OS X 10.5 might not be compatible with the new Time Capsule.
I want to make the gesture "three fingers up" to to desktop 1, "three fingers left" go to desktop 2, and so on.
Lately when I try to use the Notes app on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I get a message saying "Notes can't connect to the account JW IMAP", and asking for my password. If I enter the password, then a minute later the same error comes back.
The previous owner of my MacBook Air seems to have deleted my game center application. Is there any way I can get that back?
I can't get Facebook Messenger on my iPhone 3GS. When I reset my phone, it made a new account. Now it just says I need iOS 7. What should I do?
I want to play songs on my Apple TV from my iPhone5 running 8.1. After about three songs, it stops playing (tested three times). Is there any possible explanation for this? My question is: Why does my iPhone5 playing songs through my Apple TV times out after three songs? -- EDIT: Router: Netcomm NB9WMAXX
I have an iPhone 4S, and I am thinking about upgrading to an iPhone 5S. I know that the iPhone 5S has the new Lightning connector, so I will have to get new cables. But what about the USB power adapter? Can I use the iPhone 4S USB power adapter with the iPhone 5S? I found an Apple page that discusses their iPhone 4S USB power adapter, and they do not mention the iPhone 5S, so I'm not sure if it is compatible with the iPhone 5S:
I'm trying to get Mail.app on OS X Yosemite to autocomplete contacts on my Gmail "Other" group - i.e. the contacts google creates for you once you've sent them an email. I have a Google "Internet Account" setup in OS X, which syncs Google's contacts, but only the ones in my Gmail "Address Book", which does not include the earlier "Other". If I try to set up a CarDav account in Contacts with my gmail credentials it tells me it's a duplicate, and if I try to add some extra dots to my email, it will create my account, but immediately turn it into a Google account as opposed to a CarDav. I would ideally like to achieve a similar setup on iOS, having the Gmail "Other" available for autocomplete on iOS Mail Any pointers would be greatly appreciated
I upgraded from Mac OS Mavericks 10.9.5 to Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.1 and have issues with Mac App Store. If I search for an item, I get results, but if I click a result, I get a blank page, whatever the app's page I want to see.
(Translation it->en: Your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using.)
When I am running brew doctor I am getting the following list of errors. Is there any way I can eliminate these error reports? Thank you.
I just got my new Macbook Pro Retina and update it to Yosemite. I now want to recover/get some files from my Time Machine backup of my previous Macbook but don't want to migrate my whole Time machine onto my new Mac. So for example I want some folders from my Documents folder of my older Mac, but not the whole folder. And some specific Apps/Programs and not all of them.
For some reason looking for an macport package what containing an specific file, in this case looking for the file: and some php package should contains it. I have installed the php55 macport but it doesn't contains the above file. Unfortunately the port contents portname show only the content of already installed packages.
Some programs take some time to open in OS X on a stressed older machine with a spinning hard disk. This is fine and understandable. I would appreciate so much if someone would teach me how to instruct a programs that I launch to do so in the background?
I use iMessage/SMS on my Mac linked from my iPhone, I have been having issues with it on my Mac lately with the unread count being incorrect. It says that there is a message unread when its been read on both my phone itself and my Mac. I have even deleted the conversation from my Mac but the count is still there. It seems to be from the SMS messages I receive, I have tried enabling and disabling iMessage on Mac but that did not fix it. (I have the latest versions of Mac OSX and iOS installed)
I have a problem with my Safari. I can not install any extensions. Whenever I install one they work fine, but the next time I open Safari, the extension is not there. So I have to reinstall them at every launch.
I'm using zsh with prezto as my shell with iTerm as terminal app. I always get the message "You have new mail" when opening a new prompt. I don't have any new mail in Mac Mail and I don't run a mail server. How can I get rid of this message? Thanks
Instead of using cmd+tab to switch between open apps, is there a way to create hotkeys for selecting the running instance of emacs/firefox/whatever? (Preferably opening them if they aren't running.)
After a month of usage, he noticed the device is heating up when connected to the charger. Suddenly, the device display is off, and can not be charged. When connected to a USB port on a mac, or PC, it does not get detected. I tried to hold Power button+Home Button for 10 seconds then releasing the Home button, but it did not work.
I try to write an Applescript that would sort playlists by album. That is, a playlist P might contain 20 tracks split on 4 albums (A1, A2…). Each album has 10 tracks, in other words, on this playlist, the albums on average only contain half of the tracks. I have found a lot of examples where you can query iTunes for all tracks that belong to an album on the library level, typically something like this while I want to do something like this
I've added some words that are not in the standard Apple dictionary in Pages 5.5 via the 'learn'/'ignore spelling' function. Is there any way where I can see a comprehensive list of the words that I have added to the 'learn'/'ignore' list? Thanks.
Can any body help? i use iphone 5, the power button does not work, what shall i do to decline the call when the screen was locked? are any software? or some combinations?
I have the following problem. When I connect to the server via ssh (client is PuTTY under Windows), I don't get UTF-8 locale. Here is what I see on MacOSX (Yosemite) after ssh connection:
I'd like to implement a mitmproxy for a single application on my mac. Pfctl doesn't natively have (from what I can see) support to set rules based on the application source/dest of the packets, but the Application Level Filter (ALF) does. Is there a way to combine the two? From what I can see, the only rules you can apply to ALF is a simple accept/deny flag, nothing more. I'd ideally like to apply a 'rdr' rule within alf
I tried normal quit, and it closes and immediately re-opens. I tried force quit, and it closes and immediately re-opens. I tried force quit from the Activity Monitor, and it closes and immediately re-opens. I tried to restart; this was not allowed because Chrome was open. I turned off using the power button, and turned back on. Chrome opened (despite not being in my login list, and despite me specifying NOT to open the windows that were previously open) I tried to delete Chrome; not allowed because it's open. I tried to force quit then immediately delete, but it opens so fast I can't do that. I used the terminal rm -rf method of deleting, and pages of text appeared, all saying essentially this but with different things between 'contents' and 'permission denied'. rm: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources: Permission denied
I have some image files that have a messed up extension. The files are of the following format: "filename." "filename.j" "filename.jp" I need to find all these files which are in several folders and rename all of them to .jpg.
While my dock "auto-hide" is enabled when, in full-screen app, if I put the pointer to the very bottom, the dock won't show up. Unless, and this might be a bug, I move my mouse horizontally and it reaches and already opened app. Sounds weird but I don't understand
I'm running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 on a mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro with the 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. The hard drive (the 500 GB, regular HDD) was replaced about a year ago (close to 10 months after purchase) following a failure.
I have been having an issue with Mail.app. After I create an account, even if i do define the password (whether it be via programmatically doing so using applescript OR manually), after I save my changes and close the "Preferences" frame for Mail in which the password can be changed, the password text box resets to be blank. NONE of the other properties change (the username, email, servers etc all are saved and do not reset to be blank text boxes). Here's a visual of the preferences frame with the blank password box issue:
I'm a hoarder of contact info in Contacts.app. I always keep people's old contact info in their Contacts.app entry so that, for example, their pic will show up in Mail.app on even old emails from them.
I received 3 text messages within 10 minutes from my cellular carrier as I was driving in my car with iTunes Radio streaming music. 10:20 pm - 65% of my 1 GB plan is used. 10:22 pm - 90% used.
I just upgraded to XCode 6.1 I started to create a Mac, Cocoa application. In story board, i put a button on view controller, and tried to CTRL+DRAG it to the source code. Problem is that it doesn't work, at least i have to see the blue line despite of where im going to drop it, but nothing happens at all and blue line doesnt appear and control stays put :-s What am i doing wrong?
Is there a way to show the space number in the menubar so you can easily tell which desktop you are on in yosemite?
So I have a macbook pro and I recently made a new apple ID account due to a muck up with the old one the whole family was using. I've changed everything on my mac to make sure that my apple ID account is the only one logged in and everything which is working fine, the only problem is, 2 original apps that come with the mac (iPhoto and iMovie) need to be upgraded but every time i try to upgrade them it asks for my old apple id which is disconnected so it won't let me update them. I'm not great with technology so if you have any ideas to help please put every step and detail in. Can I delete these original apps off my mac and re download them under my new account while saving all my photos?
Spotlight is great to do some fast calculation and conversions. But can he also do some geeky conversions like Integers <> Hexadecimals or Integers <> Binary ?
My MacBook pro keeps restarting while booting. I showed it to Apple care. They said they will check. But I might loose my data while they do so. In hardware test they did everything was fine. Including hard drive. Is there a way to backup my drive?
I would like to automate, with applescript, the back up a mailbox of mail, which is manually done with the menu "Export mailbox ...", but: I can not set the folder where the mailbox will be saved; I can not set the mailbox to export, it works only with the mailbox that I've previously selected manually with the following command: Click menu item... The lines of the script, which does not work, are: **UPDATE**** The intention is for the script to be run every week and it will have to backup the following inbox and sent mailboxes highlighted in red.
I'm having difficulty with the iMessage app in the sense that I would like to be able to send an iMessage from my IMac @home to my IPhone @On the road? How do I do this without creating a different Apple ID for both? They are both mine - but I want to be able to communicate between the two. Is this possible? Thanks. Theresa
I really hate all these windows cluttering the desktop, and spring-loading isn't a big help. So to have a more Windows-Exploreresque view, I try to use the collapse/expand triangles in List view only, to be able to sort my files properly in the folder hierarchy.
Is it possible to turn on my hotspot on my iPhone 5s (running iOS 8) without wifi or 3G connection? I would like people to connect to my network to play LAN games while overseas. However, I do not want to turn on my 3G so as to save money from the data charges. Is there any way to turn on your hotspot while your 3G/4G is off without jailbreaking?
I just tried to install BootCamp for Windows 8.1 on my new retina MacBook Pro and it was making the USB stick for like 1 hour then it partitioned the disc and after that, when it should restart to install menu, it automatically restarted back to OS X. So now my disk is split but I can’t run the installation since it has automatically booted into OS X. Any solutions?
Whenever I try to copy or compress Xcode.app on a computer (downloaded from the Mac App Store, currently version 6.1), the system completely locks up, just allowing me to restart with Ctrl+Cmd+Power. It does not even matter where I try to copy it, to an external disk, to the internal disk, whatever. Console.app does not show anything suspicious at the time of lockup. However, when I try find /Applications/Xcode.app -type f -exec md5 {} \;, everything runs through and exits cleanly.
How to add my telephone serial number, if it's already registered on another ID? I got this phone in exchange for my broken previous one in tech. service, so I think that it was used by someone and registered early.
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5 and I would like to mirror its screen to an Apple TV via AirPlay. Is it possible? And if yes, how can I do it?
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro (has Thunderbolt port) and I would like to use a TV as my monitor. I understand this is possible if you are running OS X but what about Windows?
I have a safe mode issue with my iPod touch fourth gen. IOS: 5.1.1. It was working just fine for about a year and then the other day I installed a tweak that allowed for vertical scrolling of the home screen from HYI repo (I tried to install the same tweak a few months ago along with another tweak and I got booted into safe mode but everything worked fine in safe mode, so I went into Cydia and uninstalled the two tweaks thinking that they were conflicting with each other. After that I re-sprang it and it worked like normal.) and I got booted like normal but this time it froze on lock screen and then booted into safe mode. (o_O) THIS time my touch screen wouldn't work. So I forced re-booted it by holding the home and lock button until the screen flashed white and then showed the apple boot logo. After that I uninstalled the tweak and it worked fine. Today I just installed two add ons and upgraded HTML Widgets related to SB Settings. The other two add ons were iOS 7 ringtones and notific
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (12 GB, several hard disks). On OS X I run Yosemtite, On Bootcamp, Windows 7. All works fine. Yesterday I installed a "new" Radeon 5770 to replace the aged (and very slow) Radeon 2600 that came with the system. Installation was easy and the system came up perfectly. The one weird glitch is that pressing the Option key during boot up no longer works. Worked before but not now. Id I do press Option during boot (before or after the chime) the system just hangs and it never comes up. I have to turn the system off and back on. I use the Option feature frequently as I am a software developer and need to use both Mac and Windows.
My WiFi router, a Netgear Nighthawk, can do 2.4GHz and 5GHz; and it can have the same SSID or different for those ranges. We run MacBooks, an iPad, an iPad Nano and an iPhone 4 on the network. Does it make sense to have both ranges on one SSID and let the devices pick the right frequency or keep them separate?
While installing Mountain Lion on VirtualBox, it starts booting, then stops at the line "root device uuid: xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx". I've allocated all the required RAM and memory, but even after looking online and fiddling with my settings I still can't get it to work. Any thoughts on how to fix it?
On iTunes radio I have been unable to find any new news channels with the exception of public radio in every city. Are there any other news stations on iTunes Radio?
Is there any way to hide an app from the Launchpad in Yosemite? I don't want to delete it or something like that I just want to hide apps that I don't use frequently, and I have a lot of them, putting them in a folder that I ignore makes the Launchpad slow to process, any solution to get rid of them without deleting them?
Do any iOS versions come with a built-in RSS reader?
I have latest software on both Macbook and iphone 6 plus. My imessage thread on Macbook is not in sync with the message thread on my iphone for a given phone #.
(Note - I have too many apps needing Rosetta to jump to 10.10 full time. Not ready to drop $hundreds on updated software.)
I made use of Time Machine to restore my Mac's OS and data to a new drive after the old one failed. Time Machine doesn't seem to recognize that the new drive and the back ups are related. Is there a method to connect the two, or do I need to wipe that drive containing the old history, and just start a new TM backup?
Running FaceTime 3.0 on MacOSX 10.10.1, there's an annoying behavior that I can't seem to change: When I first get an incoming call, the FaceTime window jumps to the far right of my rightmost display (an external 30" Cinema display), and can't be repositioned until the call is fully connected (at which point I need to move it more than a yard to the left to center it with the camera in the MacBook Pro). Why can't the window just stay where I put it?
I have 15 inch macbook pro and the keyboard recently stopped working completely. None of the keys work. I got a wireless apple keyboard, to fix the problem. The issue is that I need to login in order to set up the external keyboard, and since the keyboard is broken, I obviously can't login. My trackpad still works though.
Whenever I connect my USB drive or insert a disc and view the contents every folder is opened in a separate window, how do I prevent this? 'Open folders in tabs instead of new windows' in the Finder Preferences is ticked. Im using a MacBook Pro Yosemite 10.10.1, I also experience the same issues when using my works iMac. I should mention that the USB drive was formatted on my former computer which was Windows 7 and also the CDs that I have inserted have also been created on Windows. Could this be the issue? Best regards Elbow
It's a mid 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina. The wi-fi is an ageing Dynalink that only supports 802.11b/g. I have a VPN installed but not active, and many apps:
Yosemite 10.10.1 on a 2012 MBA Samba 4.1.13 on a d-link NAS via the miracle of fun_plug What works: Saving a file to the share from an app's save dialog Making new directories on the share from Finder deleting files and directories on the share from Finder Moving a file from one directory on the share to another in Finder What doesn't work, and how: Copying a file from my mac to the samba share in Finder: Finder Error -36 and a 0-byte file Duplicating a file on the share in Finder: Finder Error -36 and a 0-byte file cp $file /Volumes/$share/$file: "could not copy extended attributes to /Volumes/$share/$file: Operation not supported" BUT file is created properly on share. my smb.conf:
I just bought a used MacBook and I want to wipe it clean to start fresh. It didn't come up a DVD or anything.
In one of our company MacBooks (MacBook7,1), the CD drive acts weirdly - any time a CD is inserted, the icon will appear for a few seconds in the desktop and finder, then disappear for another few seconds. This keeps happening, and the CD can't be accessed. I'm totally new to the Mac environment and workflow, so excuse me if the answer is fairly simple.
Whats the best way to have everything with iTunes/iPhoto just go to an external drive? And is it possible for both of us use the same set of drives? Could we just use an Apple Time Capsule for both of our machines? And then couldn't we just figure out how to make iTunes and iPhoto to look for that network drive to work?
I purchased an iPhone 5S and it was turned on at time of purchase. However, I did not completely back up all photos to iCloud from old iPhone 4. I cannot get the iPhone 4 photos to upload to iCloud in order to put them on new laptop. Help
I've just installed a new version of Yosemite on a third party SSD (Crucial). When I boot it up it hangs on a gray screen. Steps that got me here: Connect SSD to Macbook Pro (with existing HD) using USB2 Install Yosemite onto SSD while connected to MBP Complete installation (at this point, I'm up and running with a working Yosemite running on the external SSD) Install SSD into internal port Boot MBP Immediately hangs on gray screen I've read about issues with Trim and Yosemite, but to my knowledge I've never enabled or installed Trim on this SSD. The Option key and Command-R are both non-responsive during startup.
Before I go ahead and spend money on new kit, I'd like to run by you my proposed network setup to see if it's feasible: Cable Modem <--> Airport Express <--> Airport Extreme (bridge mode) | +------> Clients +------> Another Airport Express ----> Clients The Expresses extend the wireless network from the Extreme.
Is it possible to schedule a Mac to sleep just one time? I know I can set a schedule for it, but I want to have control over it.
I'm trying to use tell application "Google Chrome" in order to script the OS X Chrome app, but this keeps being interpreted as referring to a virtual application with the same name which refers to the windows "Google Chrome" inside a parallels desktop virtual machine. (Parallels Desktop automatically creates dummy OS X applications corresponding to all of the windows programs, so that they can appear running in the OS X dock etc.) How could I differentiate between applications of the same name in such tell statements, based on the application path or some other attribute?
When I click on a link while in Safari - or put a query into the search I repeatedly get the beachball - this doesn't happen with Firefox or Chrome. What can I do?
I'm using Apple Script to distribute a signed applet, and would like to use a custom icon. However, as soon as I export it from Script Editor, the bundle loses the custom applet.icns file I put in it. It's reverted to the standard script icon (see screenshot).
I want to develop a Microsoft Office Word Add-In for Mac Users. I would like to know if we create it using Visual Studios in windows will it be compatible with the Mac version of office or is there a whole another way to develop for Mac?
Title says it all - I'm unable to connect to any VPN server. It doesn't matter if I'm using WiFi or Ethernet and I've tried multiple routers in different locations as well.
As you know in new oS X yosemite we have built in notification system. Which is good. For instance, you can answer on Skype message from notification popup, without (almost) losing focus on current task. But problem is, you need to find trackpad or mouse to click on reply section in small popup window. It would be really great to have hotkey for that. Is it possible to get it with help AppleScript ? Or any other solution available ? Thanks.
How can I use hyper-V in windows 7 on a Macbook pro using Bootcamp ? When I try to connect to server localhost there is an Error LIKE THIS : "Hyper-V has not been installed on computer localhost" I have searched internet but couldn't find anything useful to solve my problem I m on macbook pro with retina any idea ? thanks
I am not everyday user of iphone. So I connected iphone 4 with ios 7 to my Ubuntu 14.04 machine, Nautilus opened and I copied mp3 files so Downloads folder. Then I disconnected the phone and opened Music app, but it was empty. Where should I copy mp3 files so Music can see them? Can Music app see WAV files as well?
I have disable find my iPhone from icloud on to the internet and from my phone as well, but it still showing on from apple website, tried turn on and off again tried so many things but its is still sowing that its on, and I am unable to reset the phone on to factory settings, when I try to reset the phone after apple bar it goes to the spining wheel and it spines for ever but does not reset the phone on to factory settings
I have looked at other people's problems regarding this issue but the way they solved it cannot fix my problem as I don't have any options to change anything. see images.
I've downloaded ffmpeg static binary. If I wanted to 'uninstall' it from my computer, is deleting the static binary enough ? My understanding is that static binary contains all of the required libraries/code within itself and therefore it does not need to 'install' itself per se… Am I correct in saying that ? So I never compiled it, never used homebrew, just downloaded the file, extracted it to downloads folder and used it to convert videos.
I bore this problem for a long time. I even formatted my disk and have a clean installation. However, this problem does exist.
I can move a message from Trash to inbox, but is there a better way to undelete a message? I find that when I go to the trash folder, it's really easy to mess up and delete rather than move.
When My boss and me scheduled meetings we used to send via email and you could click on the invite and it would automatically open that date and time with the meeting information in iCal. All of a sudden I no longer have that ability. I click on the invite from my boss and it does nothing. What happened and how do I fix it.
Some websites (e.g., for academic journals) show PDF files in frames. Sometimes I would like to download the PDF file, but doing so is annoyingly difficult: right-clicking on the PDF brings up a contextual menu that does not have an option to download the PDF — it only includes an option to open the file in another application (Adobe Acrobat, in my case):
Is there a way to access a file that's attached to a message stuck in my iPhone's Outlook outbox, unsent? I attempted to send two large voice memos to an email recipient as attachments, but the server rejected the email (I suspect due to the size of the attachments) and it remains unsent on my iPhone. [The original voice memos in my voice memo utility have since been damaged (my fault, long story) and I'd really like to retrieve these two files if possible.]
My contact list does not display the entire phone number. It displays (xxx)XX... or if the contact has been named, it will show part of the person's name and then ... How do I set the phone to show the entire number? I would like to easily see the number. Thank you.
I'm trying to write a little script in order to check whether or not bluetooth is on and whether or not an ethernet cable is plugged in. I searched the System Preference dictionary built in the app but it seems there isn't any help about checking if the bluetooth is on or off.
As a Windows Phone user, I can see the number of new mails for an account on my lock screen. I'd like to have the same effect on my iPhone, without seeing the mail's preview content. Is there a way to do this without jailbreaking the phone? Note that I realize I can have mails in my notifications area, but that involves seeing a mail preview.
It isn't like the network isn't regularly used as the Mac acts as my home's iTunes server and is left on all the time. As well, I don't have power saving features enabled which would suggest dropping the network.
I was really impressed with Shuttle app for mac: *=URL=* I want similar app which can manage the frequently accessed folders/files and commands (like start/stop/restart of apache, mysql server etc.)
So some time ago i used boot camp to install Windows 8 pro. Now i want to switch back to my mac/osx but there is no osx partition Screenshot of boot camp on windows: (Ingore the langauge, it's in Danish)
Since upgrading to Mac OS X Yosemite, when I open Time Machine on a folder, I can't navigate backwards in time anymore, on any folder. The arrows are grayed out. Usually, this is because Time Machine needs a bit of time to load older backups, but I have given it a few minutes to load and it still does not work.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 running on iOS 7.1.1. I checked Cydia and updated a few tweaks and since that update, my tweak called "f.lux" wasn't working so I deleted it. After deleting it, I would swipe to unlock my home screen but my phone would just shut off and restart. Restoring it in iTunes didn't work and errors would always pop up. I tried using TinyUmbrella and it didn't work. I also tried downloading an ipsw file but that doesn't seem to work either. Do I just need to buy a new phone or is there a way of fixing it?
The question really says it all. I'm especially interested in getting Dutch as a possibility in Mavericks, because I am Dutch.
I'm trying to pull a prank on a friend. I have a shell script that continuously cats a C source code file so make it look like the terminal is "hacking" something. The next thing I would like to do is have the script make the terminal full screen. Is there anyway in the default terminal app to make a window full screen based off of a PID or some other identifier?
I usually use the "graphit" appearance in Yosemite. With "blue" I don't like the selection color. However I miss the red-yellow-green colors on the left from the "blue" appearance. Is there some (cli) tool where you can customize the appearance and mix both themes up as you desire? Bodo
I read about Medical ID in the Health app on my iPhone 5S, and have created one. The app talks about "tapping Emergency" when locked to access. Where is this "Emergency"?
I recently upgraded to Yosemite (10.10.1). Today I tried to unzip a .zip file for the first time since upgrading. I already had 4 or so unzipping apps that worked just fine on my previous OS X, so I just double-clicked on the .zip, and Yosemite tried to open the .zip with the default unzip app. Unfortunately, I then discovered that the default unzip app and all of my other ones were not compatible with 10.10. I checked online and found that according to Apple, in 10.10, to unzip a .zip, you just double-click on the file and Yosemite would unzip it for you. However, whenever I double-clicked on the .zip, Yosemite would only try to open it with the incompatible default unzip app. So I deleted all my unzip apps and rebooted.
I've just installed the Steam installer on my new iMac 5k, and downloaded the latest version of Steam onto it. When loading Steam, the login window loads, but all of a sudden the application freezes and needs to be "Force Quit". Any thoughts what a solution to this might be?
I recently reinstalled Yosemite to fix the notorious WiFi bug, and i have two hard drives, one SSD which i reserve for apps and boot, and the other HDD for data (including user data). I started up my mac made a user account on the SSD (aside from my original one, this is a safety precaution in case the HDD goes down and i need to log in to an account on the SSD), then i copied my user folder to the HDD and went to the advanced settings for that account and pointed it to the new location on the HDD.
Please help me figure out how to set a system wide PATH..... I have upgraded svn to version 1.8.10 on osx 10.9 One of the required steps was adding the address of the current svn to the PATH. Doing it in he current terminal, it allowed me to see the svn --version as 1.8.10, but upon closing the terminal, the version reverted to 1.7 I read that I can add this line to ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile These files do not exist on my mac
My DNS cache is broken for a few websites (most notably codeship.com) so I need to clear it. As instructed on numerous websites I've run in various permutations, including rebooting, but it has no effect. When running dig I get no ANSWER SECTION, but I don't know how to interpret the rest of the info.
I just received a bunch of videos (for editing) and something weird happened. I was told the files are .mp4, but when I received them they did not have a filetype assigned to them.
I have an old scanner a UMAX Astra 6400 which I can't get my newly upgraded Yosemite system to register. I'm using the FireWire 400 interface and the scanner is powering on correctly. I think it might be TWAIN compliant and I'm aware support was dropped for TWAIN back on 10.5. I have also tried installing this TWAIN Bridge package to see if it would work, but still no luck. Also tried VueScan which is apparently compatible too but I get the following error.
I am just getting set up with my first mac. The current annoyance is that I am downloading xcode from AppStore (2.5 GB!!), and every app in the Launchpad is hidden - there is just the downloading progress of xcode.
I've run in Japanese input mode for 6 years now. I generally had no issues. Now with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) I can no longer type a backslash.This means in order to use the Terminal I have to completely get out of Japanese input and switch it US input where as before Yosemite if I was in Romanji mode things just worked. How can I either (a) get it to work like it did before or (b) how do I type a backslash while in Japanese Input mode?
How can I copy all of my IPhone Notes that are in ICloud into a Pages doc. I have been googling this for a couple of days but haven't found any answer. I don't want to use iTunes & a computer. There should be a simple way to move all my notes into one Pages doc.
I have two unsaved images open in Preview. My Mac is on strike, no screen usable, but SSH is working fine. I really want to salvage my images. Where can I find my images ? At worst, I would accept memory dump as an option.
The old version of numbers had a "hide column or row" feature. I could right click a column and the "hide" option appeared on the same window as "add/delete" and "merge." However with the 3.2 update I no longer see that option. Is it somewhere else?
Am having finder freezing problems on Mac Pro 1,1 running 10.6.8. I want to run Apple Hardware Test software but I don't have the disk. I downloaded the program from Github and copied it to DVD, but when I try to run the program from the DVD while starting up, it does not load. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks.
I write Automator workflow which will attach google image miniature, able to be selected on context menu or hotkey enabled. Now I am trying to figure out which type of object sees Automator when I right-click on image in safari. I tried web-content, image, documents, everything else, but nothing works. Also I tried actions like Get opened safari document + load images from web-content, but it is not my case. Is it possible at all, to add context menu option to google image?
As seen below the given hostname is not pingable presently. Note that the internet IS reachable: Let us take a look at the net config:
I have a Mac with Word 2011. Every now and then when I print an email with a Word attachment, my HP printer prints an icon with a question mark instead of the Word file name.
I want to copy with mouse one line from one vim terminal to another vim terminal. This line is huge and has a hidden character (I presume at the beginning) that I do not want to copy.
I've created two boarding passes in Passbook using the Easyjet airline app. My question is: Can I delete the app now that the passes are in Passbook? Or will deleting the app remove the passes from Passbook?
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 and yesterday my external screen suddenly showed glitches on the screen; much like the screenshots you see from other 2011 MacBook Pro's that have a failing GPU. As I work with the lid closed, I opened the lid and closed it again and the problem would disappear for a few minutes. I then disconnected my external screen and tried my MacBook pro's build in screen. After working with that for an hour it also started to show glitches. These did not go away after opening and closing the lid.
I have a few .asp files that I want to edit with Sublime Text, however, I always have to change the syntax to PHP under View -> Syntax -> PHP. Is there anyway that I can make Sublime Text automatically read it as PHP?
How can I get a formula to apply to every cell in a column? (i.e., I want to subtract a number I just entered in one cell from a total I have in a previous cell and I want to do it each subsequent cell I enter)
I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8. The processor is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 and the machine has 4 GB of RAM. How can I boot the computer in 64-bit mode (instead of 32-bit mode) so that I can upgrade to OS X 10.9 and run Final Cut Pro 10.3?
We've been looking into using the Google Chromecast with a custom receiver to allow a user to use an app on iOS, Mac, or PC (node-webkit is used for Mac and PC) and then show different content on the TV with the Chromecast to what is being displayed on their device. So that we can do stuff like reports, status boards, etc.
I had iMessage working just fine with the latest iOS8 on my iPad, iPhone & Yosemite OSX on my MBP... then after a system restart on my MBP a week+ ago iMessage is all out of whack. It works fine and as expected on my iOS devices (iPad & iPhone), but on my MBP, while I can receive & send messages, I have the following symptoms:
In Windows, you can use the Win key + arrows to snap windows to half the screen. Is there a OSX equivalent?
I have intermittent issues where Mail.app on Yosemite (10.10.1) sometimes fails to sync my Exchange Inbox. From home, I use OWA, and I see a different view there, with a number of conversations that don't show up in Mail.app. When I move the conversation to a different folder, it does seem to be synced correctly. Anyone has seen this before, or know a work around to sync better?
I do have the same issue like Wanda. I did restart the phone many times. Still the "trash" bin does not appear on the bottom page. And that's not only on my iPhone5, but also in the iPad. This problem started once I did update to IOS8. Together with some slow reaction from my devices. No idea how to fix it.
I'm trying to use Mail.app in English in Yosemite. The reason for this is that when the app is in another language, it uses that language's headers for replies and can be very distracting to the other reader.
I was looking into buying dual monitors for my Mid 2012 non-Retina MacBook. I really liked the looks of the Dell UltraSharp 24 (U2414H) According to Dell, the Monitor supports MST for the Display Port. Does my MacBook support this multi streaming technology?
I travel a lot and I use a memory card reader on my iPad to import my GoPro videos and pictures while I am traveling just because it is easier than bringing my whole MacBook along with me. Can I then later take those videos and put them onto my MacBook? I basically use my iPad as a temporary storage device that way I can get them on my MacBook to edit them and upload them appropriately (hopefully). Appreciate any help!
Is there any reason why the text to speech reader will sound choppy? On the first attempt to read a block of text, it stops for a split second every few clauses - even failing to say some words along the process. On the second pass, it does a lot better.
I'm trying to reinstall OS X Mavericks on a MacBook through internet the error that i receive is: "This item is temporarily unavailable."
Is there any simple way to run rosetta under Yosemite? If not, am I correct that Snow Leopard Server will run on Parallels (and it seems this is the 'legit' way, I'd like to be 100% legal), and that would solve my goal of hanging on to some PPC apps without the constant need to reboot to other drives or use multiple machines? I'm running a mid-2010 Mac Pro, and need higher than Snow Leopard to run the new TurboTax, but wanting to hold on to an investment of $$ in PPC-only apps.
I have a mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro and two Thunderbolt displays purchased in mid-2014. The MBP sits plugged into one of the Thunderbolt displays almost all the time, unless I'm using it away from my desk. Lately, I noticed that the computer's charging behavior was odd: The menu bar's battery indicator did display the "charging" lightning bolt; The percent charged number did not change over the course of many plugged in hours; The indicator light on the MagSafe charger did not turn on.
I have a mid-2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15". I also bought a 27" Acer K272HUL and I've connected the 2nd monitor to my Macbook via HDMI.
Everytime I try to download an app onto my iphone it says I have the wrong password and I have been writing them down because I am so frustrated. I then try to login on my PC and indeed it does not remember my password and I have to reset it. I have gone through about 5 resets recently and it is getting frustrating. Any suggestions?
I am a college student and every time I log onto my iPad it says my iCloud storage is almost full. However, I know the storage being added to the iCloud is not all mine. Is their a way I can get my own cloud but still use my parents Apple ID?
If I let my computer sleep my VPN connection seems to die. Mac shows it as still being up, but nothing over the VPN works until I reconnect and disconnect. I am happy to have a my monitors sleep, but I want my network and VPN connection to stay active.
I have a mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro Retina. I've got a bunch of plugs (HDMI, 2 mini DP) and my external 27" ACER K272HUL has HDML, DP and DVI. My assumption is that there are differences between the plugs (support of different resolutions). What is the best way to connect external monitors to mid-2014 Macbook Pro Retina so you can get the best resolution?
I have 700 photos on my photo stream (recovered after a lost phone! and older than 30 days) but I can't figure out how to download them. only the most recent (100-ish) photos upload to iCloud photos. How can I get all of my old photos off the stream?
My wife received a text message on her iPhone with my name in the contact information that was not sent by me. The text was not directed to her and was not sent by me. I contacted our provider and they have no explanation.
My Macbok Pro is wanting me to reset my password. I know my password but I can't get past this screen because the touch mouse doesn't work in this reset mode.
I just wanna use socks proxy for some ip addresses. I found this setting:
I am on a Windows corporate network. Since I've upgraded my MacBook Pro (2014) to Yosemite from Mavericks, I am unable to find local machines on our network via DNS. I can get onto my corporate network.
I'd like to create a service to open a link in Chrome. I already have this service installed: Safari Extension for right click menu: Open in Google Chrome?
I'm using Alfred v2 on Mavericks. I would like to use it to quickly locate documentation of LaTeX packages (PDF files). I have TeXLive 2014 installed in /usr/local/texlive/2014. I added /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/latex to Alfred's search scope, but I'm not having any success. I tried searching using open and the backtick (file search) to no avail. I tried rebuilding the OSX metadata, but not joy there either. The locate command-line utility quickly finds the files in question, e.g.:
I couldn't find any information about that problem, First of all, it's not always like that, sometime it's working fine. I thought that it is a problem with the iOS because it's affecting both cameras, but a settings reset didn't helped, should I try a full reset of the device? I just found out today that when I apply some pressure on the back of the device the pattern change, so I'm not sure that it is a software problem.
I need to repeat bi-weekly events. This is on either the second Wednesday of the month and the first and third Thursdays. When I specify biweekly events and there is a fifth Thursday, that is included. As a result, the first Thursday of the next month is skipped and chooses the second and fourth Thursday. Can this be done with iOS calendar or a third party app?
How does one get a mini CD out of a Mac Mini? It got stuck in there pretty deep and I'm scared to take the drive and shake it. I tried getting it out by "levering" w/ a pen clip but that didn't help. Help me please!
What are the different (and the best) option for connecting my mid 2012 Macbook pro to an external monitor. Three connections I know of are VGA, HDMI and DVI. What is the difference and what cables do I need? Are there any other options I can consider? Are there any adaptors that let me switch between VGA and DVI?
I have read that the format that Apple Mail stores and exports its messages is not actually standard MBOX format. It is a proprietary format in which the folders end in ".mbox", and contain directories within them named "Attachments" and "Messages", along with a file named "Info.plist". The Attachments folder contains a bunch of other folders with numbered names. The Messages folder contains files with numbered names and the suffix ".emlx". The numbers of the Messages file names and the Attachments folder names appear to match. If you suggest a utility that handlex .emlx files, will it preserve the attachments in the other directory?
I have my own router and it has a strong signal full bars, but sometimes when I leave my macbook for a time and come back I notice that it connects other random anonymous wireless networks. how can I disable it, so it only connects to my router?
We are currently negotiating with a company where that company will use our technology (image recognition) to create an iOS app. We will receive a Royalty based on sales and we do not know the company enough to feel that we can trust them. Neither me nor my co-workers at our start-up are Apple developers.
I made some purchases on the Egyptian store, now i'm on the US store and the items that i purchased is no longer available unless i switched back to the Egyptian store. Is there a way that I can use different stores but still can download the same items that I purchased in different stores ?
Early 2011 13" MBP, formerly 500GB HDD but changed to a 620GB DIY Fusion Drive a few weeks ago. I've been on Yosemite since the first days of the Public Beta, but starting earlier today my computer started crashing every time I tried to do anything. A verify/repair took more than 20 minutes, and a permissions verify took so long that I gave up on trying to wait it out. Even when I came home to my bootable OS X USB drive, everything hung: A disk verify, a permissions repair, and even an OS reinstall all found themselves hanging. Eventually I decided to do a total wipe/restore, but even then the OS X reinstall got stuck. I'm ready to admit that it may be a hardware problem, but without my disk drive I have no way of running Apple Hardware Test. Two questions: What other troubleshooting can I attempt, and where can I go to get my computer looked at and fixed despite its modified hardware?
So after a pretty catastrophic failure (see: Yosemite Upgrades: Lost and Broken User Accounts ) I have reinstalled Yosemite on my old tower-style Mac Pro and begin the work of restoring from backups. A new strange behavior has cropped up - occasionally, when waking the computer from sleep and attempting to log in, the external USB keyboard (a Das Keyboard 4) won't work. There's no input in the password area, etc. The external USB mouse works just fine, and upon unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in, the keyboard works again. There's no obvious failings of the keyboard, and I've tried several USB ports in case that was the problem, as well as resetting the SMC. Any ideas what's going on?
In Mavericks it was simple: click "Get Info" on any file and you could copy/paste the file path. This is no longer included in Yosemite. I need to need to copy/paste paths frequently, like "/Users/Whoever/MyPath/File.app". Is there any way to do this in Yosemite without resorting to the terminal?
Mac Pro 1,1 running OS 10.6.8, I am having finder freezes that forces me to force quit using the power button. I do not have the disks that shipped with this computer which would have included Apple Hardware Test. I have downloaded what is said to be the AHT for this computer but I can't get it to run from a disk that I burned.
I have been having issues with Safari not showing https sites. The best solution I have found googling around seems to be to delete either com.apple.security.plist or com.apple.security.revocation.plist, but in Library/Preferences I have no mention of any com.apple.security file.
I have older Pages files I need to open. I am running Mavericks and get the "This file is too old..." error that tells me to save the file with Pages 09. So I reinstalled Pages 09' at it won't even open without updates and the AppStore says there are no updates. My 09' instal is in the applications/iWork folder. How can I get these files open?
Model No: A1186 Mac Pro 3,2 I think it's a 2008 with an unknown version of MacOSX installed.
I usually have music playing on my Mac while wearing earphones. And I often change the volume with my wired keyboard keys. I imagine that it is an issue with the keyboard itself, but sometimes (rarely), when I increase the volume, despite the fact that I'm no longer pressing the keys, the volume still goes up to the max. And of course, my earphones explode on me before I realise what's going on.
Here's what I need. I need a folder action that hides files according to their extensions. (I do not need a folder action that hides extensions for visible files.) This action needs to apply to every file in the folder and to every file that is added to the folder in the future.
Well, the past few days have been a near disaster. This whole problem started when I was using Chrome and I suddenly couldn't access pages. I checked Safari, and it wasn't working either. Since I was getting the "Oh snap!" page from Chrome, I X'd it out and tried to reopen it. Chrome's dock icon would just bounce once (usually it bounces until it opens) without opening. I tried to restart the computer, but the "Restart" and "Shut Down" buttons on the Apple Menu weren't working, so I held down the power button and did a force shutdown. When I tried to turn the MacBook back on, I was stuck in the grey screen forever. I have tried everything on the Apple troubleshooting pages. I tried Safe Mode and I was still stuck on the grey screen. I tried the Safe Mode showing progress, and for some reason I could get back in, but then the cycle began anew with Chrome not working. I tried the PRAM reset or whatever it's called.
Is there a way to disable inertia scrolling (scrolling speeds up the faster you scroll the mouse wheel) for Yosemite for only the mouse? I understand the reason for inertia scrolling for the trackpad, but makes no sense on the mouse. I've tried various fixes in regards to this issue: Downloading Scroll Reverser based on this thread. Downloading Scroll Reverser based on this thread. Tried this thread's fixes. Tried this thread's fixes.
I have searched iosfonts.com and only see Zaphino as a native cursive font. Are there any others? Or do I need to install them into my app or make my own images?
When using the new continuity feature in OS X Yosemite together with my iPhone 5S running iOS 8, I can't dial from my MacBook. Here's what I do: Both devices are on the same Wifi network Both devices are logged in using the same iCloud/Apple ID On the MacBook, I open FaceTime and type a phone number into the search field Next, I click the phone icon next to the number and select the "Call Using iPhone option" A popup is shown indicating that the phone is dialing the number After a couple of seconds, the following message is shown:
I am trying to enroll into iOS Developer Program as government organization. One of the requirements is: The legal authority to bind your company/organization to Apple Developer Program legal agreements. I am having some confusions with understanding that. Is it just requiring an ID for a responsible person on the organization, let say the IT manager?
I recently purchased a used MacMini3,1 (Late 2009) with a 2.26 Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2 GB of memory. The seller shipped it to me with Snow Leopard installed, and it ran smooth and fast. I just upgraded it to Lion and it's very sluggish. Would adding more memory fix this, or possibly upgrading to Mountain Lion make the computer run better? I installed Yosemite and it was unusably slow. I realize the computer is old, but does anyone have a solution?
Before Xcode 6 one could go to the Xcode Organizer window. Tap on the Devices tab. Select the connected device and click the "Use for Development" button. See here.
Applications like for example TextEdit show multiple entries in the Open Recent list despite that the number of recent items is set to none in the system preferences. Is there another way to adjust the number of recent items? Or to automatically clear the lists of all applications on logout?
I have read similar topics here, but unfortunately these solutions does not help me. I would like to recompile all installed software (or at least some formulas) from Homebrew using gcc from Homebrew.
Xcode 6 has Run, build, pretty much everything in debug menu greyed out for a single C file that I open in Xcode. This is a prebuilt program. I wish to debug it, and make changes to the file, but it seems that it must be a project to use debug functionality. Is this true?
I'm using homebrew and have a lot of libraries in /usr/local/lib as well as include files in /usr/local/include. What is the easiest way to make sure that clang and ld in all circumstances will look into these directories?
I'd like to use the Display Calibrator Assistant without going through the process of opening the system preferences. Does anyone know where the program is located on my hard drive? I've done a search for various keywords without being able to find it.
my Macbook air is called Johannes-Air. But when I open the terminal sometimes it says Johannes-Air and sometimes johannes-air. Does anyone know why this happens and how to stop it?
Is there a way to run a specified script or program when the screen is locked or unlocked? Ideally a bash function or an AppleScript.
I received an email in Mail (OS X 10.8.5), with a couple of links to Dropbox files. I CTRL-click on them and choose the option "Download linked file", and the download starts… but there's no progress indicator anywhere (unlike with Safari downloads). How can I check whether the download has finished or not, or even if it's progressing?
My text messages from my iPhone are appearing on our iPad, how do I stop that?
When they are mounted, they take the names of the folder you are mounting. Both servers are mounted on the same folder name so its really hard to tell the difference.
Is there a way to view the detailed header of an email in Mac Mail without having to include all that detailed info when forwarding an email? I am periodically interested in the header information from emails so I want to keep the option of viewing those details in my Inbox. However, I do not want to have Mail include that information in forwarded emails.
But that didn't work for me. At least newPasswordRequired=1 did work. Anyways, maybe Script is not the answer, but can someone help me make a user, when given a computer, get prompted to change his password? Again it could be after a certain interval of time if it has to. At the very least I would like to remind the user to change his password if a prompt forcing him is not possible. Thanks for the help, in advanced!
I worked at a company that used GOOD For Enterprise. I installed it on my iPhone 5s and now that I've left the company, would like to remove the profile. I've deleted the GOOD application, but I cannot remove the profile. There is no red "Remove" button like all of the tutorials show. I just did a full wipe and restored the phone with my iCloud profile and sure enough, it's still my one and only configuration profile on my phone. How do I get this off of here? Here are some images...
After upgrading to Yosemite I see under App Store > Updates. This update is for an app downloaded with a different Apple ID. Sign in with that Apple ID and try again.
Okay, so I have a late 2013 model retina macbook pro. A couple a days ago i placed a sensitive file on the desktop, and later deleted it by emptying the trashcan. I then read that was not the way to get rid of a sensitive file. I still have a copy on the file stored, on my other computer, and I was wondering if putting the same file in the same place (the desktop) would overwrite the old file I had deleted which now is allocated as "free space". I can use disk utility because I have an SSD. Then I can do a secure delete in order to erase it completely.
I just upgraded from an iMac with 10.6 to a newer iMac with 10.9. When I use the Mail 7.3 program and go to print and email, it prints all previous emails from the same sender as well. I don't want all the other emails printed, just the current one. Is there a way to disable the other emails from printing, or to disable the grouping of emails? Thank you...
I want to add a 5TB HD (NTFS) to my time capsule. I have both Mac and PC's and will like to access the drive from both. I can see that the drive is attached in airport utility on my windows pc but I can't access it(probably because of the NTFS partition). I am not seeing anything at all in airport utility on my Mac (probably because it's not in HFS+ format). I think I can partition the drive into two drives, one NTFS and the other HFS+ but I will only do that if it's my only choice. I would rather have access to everything from both Mac and PC............
Ever since the upgrade to Yosemite, the softwareupdated process always consumes around 100% CPU. I noticed this the other day when I closed my laptop at the end of the day and the area above the left side of the keyboard was very warm. Looking at Activity Monitor, the softwareupdated process was running at full blast. That also explains the horrible battery life that I have had since upgrading. I waited to upgrade to Yosemite until after the first xx.xx.1 point release and ever since then the softwareupdated runs constantly, no matter how many times that I kill it. Is there a solution for this? MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I've got an early 2011 13" MBP with a 120GB SSD, formerly part of a DIY Fusion Drive, that I'm trying to install Yosemite on. Every time I try to install from my bootable drive, it hangs at the exact same point: ETA 11 minutes, last log entry "PackageKit: Extracting file:///System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystemResources.pkg (destination=/Volumes/SSD [that's my drive name]/.OSInstallSandboxPath/Root, uid=0)". That's happened even after I erased the disk, and also after I reformatted the drive. I left Internet Recovery to run a download/install overnight, but I woke up to a gray screen that I couldn't escape from. I tried remaking the bootable drive, but still no change. My latest attempt featured an install initiated from the HDD (that's now plugged in where the optical drive used to go), and that hung for literally two hours. What do I have yet to try, or how can I find out if there's a legitimate hardware problem? (A recent Verify Disk claims the SSD's okay.)
there is a apple wireless keyboard and the apple keyboard with numeric keypad. Which one is better for the overall healthy of my wrists and arms? I suffer from RSI and I want to buy a wireless keyboard but I'm afraid it will injure me.
I'd like to fire an event via launchd whenever my DHCP lease changes the IP on my WiFi interface. My question is similar to what's being asked in this question, which makes me thing I can watch /etc/resolv.conf for changes via a launchd agent.
I have a problem with Macfusion. After following the instructions here: *=URL=* I set up an SSHFS connection in Macfusion, and after about 5 seconds got the error "Could not mount filesystem: Authentication has failed."
I'm trying to decide if I want to buy an ipad. My question is, Will I be able to connect with family members who have iPhones on FaceTime if I have an iPad ?
I updated to Yosemite 10.10.1. I sent an invitation to a colleague. Now I have a Red Dot with 1 in it on my iCAL icon. I deleted the invitation, but the Dot and one remain. Does anyone know what this is?
I would like to know if there is a way through Terminal commands in Mac OS X to find out if an external drive is SSD or HDD.
How can I See failed login attempts on OSX Mavericks? I cannot look in /var/logs/system.log because I am not an administrator, and /var/logs/secure.log does not seem to exist on OSX Mavericks.
I'm using Google Apps at work and it adds a bunch of calendars for my coworkers to Calendar, which is exactly what I want. However I keep getting invitation notifications for events I'm not actually invited to. In order to clear the notification I have to Accept, Decline, or respond with Maybe.
I am trying to determine if these are the most RECENT texts or most FREQUENT texts. Dialing "+1" in the "To:" field of imessage, will bring up a "recent" list- even if the text thread and/or the contact have been deleted. If the "recent" has been deleted from your phone, it will appear in a gray font with an "i" to the right of the number. If you click on the "i", you are given the option to delete the number from the "recents" list- but are NOT given the same option if the contact remains in your phone.
How do I get rid of "null" app on list when I got into manage usage?? Gives option to delete app but keeps coming back on list. Shows no data associated with IT
Trying to have two monitors connected to Mac Mini mid-2011. It has one Mini DisplayPort and one HDMI outputs.
I've read that only the OWC one supports this but then again some people claim it's bogus. So I was wondering what SSD brand and models I can get to upgrade my Late 2012 MBP that when I upgrade to Yosemite, it won't break as apparently if you have any non-Apple SSD, Yosemite will crash and display gray area due to kext signing.
Edited: Orginal question: My iPhone 4S shows that I have 1.3GB of photos but I don't have any. How to empty this amount of space and make it available?
I shutdown my computer when I left work and when I got home turned it back on. When it booted back up the second drive (in the dvd drive bay) had a strange name like A[]\tr/sj or something like that. My desktop background was the stock Mavericks background. Google Drive, Skydrive, and Dropbox all complained they couldn't find their respective folders since they were all on the drive that got re-named.
I'm currently trying to get Apple's automount working with osxfuse and sshfs. The result should be that a specified folder gets automatically mounted if it is used. What I've done so far: installed osxfuse and sshfs from the official packages (versions are osxfuse: 2.7.3 / sshfs 2.5.0) created a symlink /sbin/mount_sshfs -> /usr/local/bin/sshfs appended the following config line to /etc/auto_master : /- auto_ssh -nosuid created the /etc/auto_ssh config file: /mnt -fstype=sshfs,sshfs_debug,allow_other,idmap=user,follow_symlinks,max_read=65536,rw,nodev,cache=no,IdentityFile=/Users/myUsername/.ssh/sshfs remoteUser@remoteHost:/path/to/folder created the /etc/auto_ssh config file: afterwards reload automount via : sudo automount -cv afterwards reload automount via : sudo automount -cv If I now try to cd into mnt i get the following error: The console contains the following: Does anyone have any idea how to make this work, or what to try next?
I would like to be able to change the title of a shortcut (especially web shortcuts set as icons). Is this possible?
As an ongoing issue (for at least the past three major OS X versions), I find that when trying to remote to another machine using Screen Sharing, the remote screen gets painted completely black. Moving the mouse will result in the area immediately under the pointer being redrawn correctly, and dragging a window (in the remote session) off screen then back on will redraw that window. Sometimes other areas of the screen will redraw themselves (usually when there is an actual change), but most the screen simply remains black, sometimes even repainting back to full black again.
Is there any way to change the pause required before Voice Commands in OS X Yosemite? I.e. if I want to dictate "hello world" then move the cursor on the left, I'll have to say "hello world move left": I would like to define how long the pause between "hello world" and "move left" should be in order for Yosemite to recognize that "move left" is a voice command.
Is there any way to rename an advanced voice command? For example, I would like to rename the advanced voice command "copy that" to "copy" without having to disable the built-in advanced voice command "copy that" and creating a new voice command "copy".
How can i disable completely the notifications from appearing in the lock screen? I unchecked these options:
Is it possible to change the speech recognition speed vs. accuracy trade-off in OS X Yosemite dictation? E.g. in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 professional on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate I can change it like this:
Is there any way to turn on the built-in voice dictation in Yosemite with a voice command (just like we can do using the voice command "wake up" in Dragon NaturallySpeaking, or "Hey Siri" in Siri)?
Is there any way to alter the dictionary used by OS X Dictation, i.e. add/edit/remove a word? I use OS X 10.10 a.k.a. Yosemite.
I have installed SquidMan and gave it the following details: General tab: Parent tab: Then I clicked save and Status: Squid is running Now, How can I force my installed applications to use it for all HTTP and HTTPS connections?
I'm seeking an equivalent of a common Linux based process monitor, which shows a history graph for each CPU core. This can help identify programs that are effectively using all the cores (here, Google Chrome). Is there a way to get Apple system monitor to do this?
I jailbreaked (not for pirates) my iPad 4 (iOS 8.1) several weeks ago and found it unable to ssh root@127.0.0.1 via Prompt 1 or 2 on iPad. Even I cannot connect via LAN IP (e.g. 192.186.X.X). However, there's no problem if I ssh root@LAN IP on my iPhone or Mac in the same LAN.
I created a bootable thumb drive using the instructions here: How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X. I installed the 32bit and 64bit version. I got a MacBook Pro (15" End 2011) Processor 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7 Storage 16 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB & AMD Radeon HD 6750M, 128 GB SSD
I have been trying to decide if there will be a substantial difference between the i5 and i7 processor for compiling and running VMs. I expect to run Windows with Visual Studio in a VM as well as a lot of XCode. I don't know how much difference the following benchmark and processor differences will translate to in compiler performance, especially if running them in a VM. I looked at the Geekbench3 and pulled out the following figures from the averaged charts at Primate labs comparing the two Macbooks against my current desktop. XCode can compile using multiple cores as can Visual Studio (at least if I boot with Bootcamp, not sure if will work under a VM).
My MacBook Pro was stolen recently. I had it encrypted using Filevault and it required my password for login after woken from sleep. My password however is just a word of three letters, not abc, def or klm but more like tfj, ksa, ale, etc...
Is there any way to assign the tilde character '~' as system-wide shortcut for Command-Tab to switch back and forth between two recent open apps? Currently I assigned tilde to my iterm as system-wide hotkey however, I can't figure out how to do so in System Preferences.
I'm curious if it would still be possible to develop for the iPhone with a non Mac laptop. Assume I buy some sort of "Mac in the cloud" solution (they exist), can I download apps I'm developing onto my iOS devices from Xcode on this "remote Mac" via my iCloud/developer account or do I need physical access to a Mac (usb cable) to do that? This answer seems to indicate that it's not possible to load apps onto local devices from a remote Mac, but he's not sure. EDIT: Actually, it seems to be possible to debug too, see my answer below.
Here is some background: When I'm on the move, I often have to use my mobile phone as a hotspot. Usually I will realise that after having woken up my MacBook, otherwise how would I see that no WiFi networks are available. However, OSX does not seem to rescan too often, I don't know the interval, but I usually end up turning off WiFi and turn it on again. A much better solution for me would be a button / service / ... that I can nudge and that will then Search for available WiFi networks NOW Any solutions?
I have the Mac Mini late 2014 and want to hook up 3 monitors in total. It works great with 2 displays (1x Thunderbolt + 1x HDMI). Once I add a third monitor to the second Thunderbolt port, just nothing happens. What can I do to get my third monitor working?
I have currently no power connection to my MacBook Air, but I have a Display connected. I want to close the lid and only work on my external display.
This does not seem to happen with SFTP connections. Also, I successfully uploaded the very same upload queue to the same server using FileZilla on a Windows machine – without any problem. I wonder if somebody has had similar issues or even a solution. Regards, Daniel
I need a terminal command to delete all images (*.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.JPG, *.PNG, *.GIF) stored in myfolder and its subfolders, preserving the folders structure. I do not need to move them to trash folder. I guess that some regular expressions are needed, but this overcomes my skills.
I have been using Dreamweaver for many years simply because it has a built in FTP manager. This makes working on a website very efficient. The code editor isn't all that great but I manage with it ok. However I now have a problem in that Dreamweaver does not support key authentication on any of it's versions. I am having to access a website that will only allow access using a key, passwords are off limits. I have had a look around and there doesn't seem to be a solution.
One of the nicest features of the new OS integration between iOS 8 and Yosemite is the ability to text and receive phone calls from my iPhone while on my Mac. However, when I work from home, I need to use Cisco AnyConnect to create a VPN network. When the VPN network is active, I can see phone calls from my iPhone on my Mac, but answering the call on my Mac will cause the call to disconnect. Trying to call from my Mac will show the dialog box that I am connecting, but the iPhone never responds. If I am on a call on my Mac, and start up the VPN, the call disconnects. I have a 2014 13" MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5S both running the latest OS with all the patches. What is going on, and is there a way to fix the problem?
I use a wireless Apple keyboard at home and a wired (full sized) one at work. Now I constantly get confused when I want to do a forward delete, since I'm used to the fn+delete combination.
I'm getting a similar warning as this one:  Whenever I get to Settings in iOS. I have deactivated Cellular connections for everything (including Settings) but Chrome Browser. I'm wondering if anyone know why Settings needs a Cellular connection? As seen on this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6567893
I put Mavericks on my iMac and Time Machine quit updating. I just want to erase all the TM files on the external HD, but cannot. Looks like reformating is the only answer. Any solutions? Using SuperDuper! now.
I have already used disk utility to resize and create my extra partition. However, I am not able to actually start the OSX Mavericks installation. The error is "This copy of the Install OS X application is too old to be opened on this version of OS X."
There are several ways (loginhook, launchdaemon etc.) to automount a sparsebundle before logging in, but there's none without writing down the password in plaintext for automount an encrypted sparsebundle. Reading out the password from the keychain requires to unlock it before, therefore it's not possible to automate the process without user action. For further informations see:
I am searching for a application with the following functionality, but cant find one: I want to read PDFs. I want to highlight some text from time to time or add a note (with its timestamp). The summary of all highlights / notes should aggregated together so there is some special page(s) / section that contain only the highlighted text and notes.
I just noticed that Grapher fails to evaluate a function at a constant. In the image, the graph of y = c should of course be a horizontal line. Is there a way to fix or work around it? This seems like such a fundamental bug that I can't understand why I haven't run into it before.
I'm new to the Nike + run app for iPhone. On my activity list, what does the red shield with the number in it mean?
FOr example, in linux you can boot to a terminal, you don't have to load a desktop, window manager, etc. Is there something like this in Mac OS X? And like in Linux, is it possible to switch to one of these from in the desktop?
Okay, so I have a non-Apple keyboard and wanted to bind function keys to the basic media controls such as play/pause iTunes, change volume etc. So I decided to create a service in Automator with an Applescript task to perform the desired action, these are all configured for no input and availability of "Any application". Here's a simple example for the play/pause iTunes script that I'm placing into the Automator workflow: This seems simple enough, and once saved it appears under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services where I can set a shortcut key such as F1. However, while the command works fine from a few applications such as Safari, the Finder and iTunes itself, it won't work at all in Mail, and actually doesn't work in Automator!
I have an odd issue on my MAC. I installed java 1.8 sdk so I can use some Java applications however when I run any java based apps, they look real weird or I can get an error saying to use the latest java. When I am on the command line and I type in java -version it shows 1.8 Any ideas on why my java apps don't seem to work? The odd thing is if I run the application from a disk image (before i move to the applications folder) it works completely fine.
I bought a headset recently (HyperX Cloud) and i've installed windows via bootcamp, but my mic don't get detected by windows 8.1, but if i use it on my mac partition which has mac os yosemite installed it does. I've got bootcamp v5 drivers and even tried to reinstall them, didn't work
I restarted my iPhone 4S because the apps kept backing out instead of loading but my phone has been showing the Apple sign on the screen for about an hour. I've already tried pressing the home button and shut off button. What else can I do?
So my question is: When iTunes is playing such files, is it actually playing them at full resolution, or is it down-converting them? (Or whatever the technical term would be for storing or playing the files at something less than full resolution.) I can't tell by ear because I don't have my computer hooked up to good speakers.
Recently, I upgraded to iCloud Drive and began storing a number of files in it. I created a new folder in iCloud Drive (not one of the default "Pages" or "TextEdit" folders) and put my files in it. However, because I use it so frequently, I would like to put the folder in my Finder sidebar. When I tried to do so, it would not allow me — it simply gave me the option to drag it into an existing folder in the sidebar. It did not even display the circle with the cross through it ("do not enter sign," if you will) that often appears when I attempt to drag a folder to the Favorites bar that cannot be added. However, I was able to add the default iCloud Drive folders ("Keynote," "Preview") to the Favorites sidebar without any issues. I have also tried CMD-dragging to create an alias on the sidebar, but to no avail. I'm running a late 2013 iMac on OS X Yosemite 10.10.1.
My laptop (Yosemite) is now 'PPPoE' connected over wifi, what is this and what does it mean? Previously I was just connected by wifi (there was no mention of wifi) My AirPort base station connects to my cable-modem via PPPoE (using an ethernet cable)
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 professional on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate I can change the minimum pause length required before a voice command in the option menu:  Surprisingly I can't find the setting in Dragon Dictate 4 on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Did I miss something or is there really no way to change the minimum pause length required before a voice command?
What is the highest OS X upgrade to run smoothly on my MacBook Pro4,1? It is still running OS X 10.6.8. and I just loaded iTunes 11.1.1 and I'm still able to backup the new iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1.1 directly to computer. What is the highest pairing of OS X AND iOS AND version of iTunes, that will run smoothly on my computer and still allow me to backup my iPhone to the computer? What is the highest pairing of OS X AND iOS AND version of iTunes, that will run smoothly on my computer and still allow me to backup my iPhone to the computer?
The operating system of my MacBook Pro is Mac OS X 10.5.8. What is the compatible browser I can safely download?
Sometimes my headphone jack stops working and I need to restart my computer. I can also put the computer to sleep and it will wake in the proper mode (headphone vs. speakers). Is there a way to reset whatever is causing this problem without restarting?
Is there any way to set a print range in Apple Numbers.app spreadsheets, to print just a subset of cells rather than entire document?
Is there a way in OS X to change the desktop from Finder to something else (for example KDE from Fink)? Basically, I want Finder to not boot up at startup, so no icons, no dock (but keep the menu bar)
My dog decided it wanted to make my MacBook Air Charger (MagSafe 2) his new chew toy. Is it possible to buy just the cord that connects to the charger and the MacBook Air? I can only find the charger box (for lack of a better term) and not just the cord which is what I need.
So far so good, the folder disappeared. However, when running locate anaconda in a Terminal window the folder Anaconda is still there (only the first couple of lines are shown in the screenshot below).
I've been using swift player for speeding up video lectures. But upgrading to iOS 8 have broken the player. Is there a player which support faster playback of YouTube, vimeo, Ted, etc, videos?
How can I do to tell the system that every time that takes an screenshot place it on Desktop, but on Second Monitor? It only must be placed on Display 1 when Display 2 won't be available.
What exactly are these "domain" and "service targets" and how do I associate them with plists for use by launchd? OS X 10.10 introduces a new launchctl API for managing LaunchDaemons and launching plists. Log messages and man pages suggest that keys like KeepAlive and RunAtLoad should no longer be used and that subcommands enable; bootstrap; and kickstart should be used in preference to load -w and unload -w However it is not clear from the man pages how to associate a plist with the "domain" and "service target" it talks about and without which these commands cannot be used with existing plists that seemingly were quite sufficient for OS X 10.9 For example [updated]: A basic plist we are trying to "launch"; seemingly bootstrapped into "system" domain but subsequently not recognised in "system"
I recently upgraded to Yosemite and I seem to have some sort of line on my desktop near the dock that won't go away. I've changed my background, moved the dock and even rebooted and it stays there. It looks like something that I can click on and drag up but it doesn't do anything if I click on it. Did I install something that is causing this?
I added a CD to my iTunes Library yesterday. I could not find them under Recently Added playlist or under Music. So, I created a Smart Playlist for the Artist and they do show up.
I have an app installed on my device running iOS 7.1.2. Say I delete the app. In a few months I CANNOT download the app without updating to iOS 8.
Is it possible from the command line to identify whether the current Wi-Fi connection, or a detected SSID, is an iOS personal/instant hotspot? I know OS X can detect this, as it shows a specific "hotspot" icon in the topbar when scanning the list of SSIDs or when being connected to an iPhone (see screenshot) I tried using /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I and ifconfig but I'm not able to find information that helps me identify an iOS hotspot.
I have a Early 2011 Macbook Pro 13" running OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite). At work, I have a Apple Magic Trackpad and an Apple Wireless Keyboard, both which use Bluetooth. When I get to work, my Mac automatically connects to both of them (if Bluetooth is on).
A few iterations ago, Mac OS X had a "Save as PDF-X" option available via the print dialogue, with an associated file at /Library/PDF Services/Save As PDF-X.workflow that handled the magic suff I assume. My understanding is that the PDF/X format embeds fonts and does other "preflight" stuff to make a document good for printshops to use. Outputting in this format is possible with Illustrator and other Adobe products, but I would produce a printshop-ready PDF/X file using software I already have (LibreOffice, Word, etc.) In Mac OS X 10.9, this "Save as PDF-X" option is nowhere I can find. Is there any simple way to create PDF/X format files? https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PDF/X
Command+Tab and Command+Shift+Tab - toggles between apps Command+` and Command+Shift+` - toggles between windows of the currently active app Is there a way to switch to another app but only to the most recently active window (so that it doesn't dredge up the rest of the app's windows)? I have multiple windows open for some apps and having this would be very handy especially if I have one has limited screen space. If not available, is there a way to create such a shortcut through System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts for all applications? Thanks!
I cannot view my daily appointments or view pending calendar invites since I updated my iOS software to 8.1.1.
I just set up my new Mac/iPhone combo, and am having trouble getting phone calls via continuity to work properly. I can both initiate and answer phone calls from the Mac, and the status popup shows correctly, and allows me to control the call. However, as soon as the call connects (either incoming or outgoing) the audio only comes out of the iPhone. This happens regardless of whether I am attempting to use the computer's internal mike/speakers or my attached Bluetooth headset. I suspect that I am missing a setting somewhere, but have no idea where to start looking.
When I open Mission Control, I see that I can drag windows between Spaces and that moves the window to that Space. What I want is to copy the window instance so I can interact with it on any of the Spaces.
I want to do a fresh install of Yosemite and I got a brand new 8GB flash drive and I followed this tutorial. I formatted the USB drive and was copying the Yosemite installer, however I got the following error
I'm having some really odd problems with my new Mac, that I haven't encountered ever before. Every time I restart my iMac, Safari 'forgets' all cookies and stored website data, which means I have to log in to every site again (usernames/passwords are still auto-filled, it's just the cookies, local storage and history which are gone). I'll do that on a regular basis, but daily is a bit too much for me, especially with 2FA activated on most sites.
to install 20 apps, i need to type apple id password again & again, if idle to installing the next apps more than 15 minutes is there a way to disable/bypass/extend the time limit?
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro. The Superdrive broke, so I installed an SSD and put my old HDD in an optibay. The old HDD had a bootcamp Windows installation on it. Since I can't use bootcamp without a Superdrive, is it possible to install Windows on my SSD from within my HDD installation of Windows? Or do I need to do the installation through bootcamp? Thanks.
My GF's MBP running on Mavericks broke down 2 days ago. First I tried to copy the contents of her HDD to an external HDD but got the I/O error time after time. Then I tried all the basic things like repairing the disk in Recovery Mode and try and verify/repair permissions in disk utility, cause I read that that could also help but that didnt do the trick either.
I would like to know how to set up the Apple podcast app to remove clutter (on the phone) and centralize all controls on the computer's iTunes client. Basically I am trying to replicate the workflow I was using before the podcast app. So I want to : 1) download the podcasts on the computer in the iTunes client 2) transfer the latest 10 episodes on the phone 3) remove from the phone any mention of podcasts that are subscribed but that do not have new content 4) remove from the phone any mention of podcasts that are subscribed but which new content wasn't yet downloaded. Is there a way to do that?
For example: instead of: Is it possible to make it work like that, as in GNU command line utils? TIA, Karol
There are some devices (mostly car audio) which can play iPhone sounds, read music file info and control playback via USB connection. I'm wondering what technology is used for this? Are there any specs or API?
Short question: I just bought a new iPhone and am can't figure out how to transfer my message history onto the new device from Messages.app on my Mac. Long story: My old iPhone had something corrupted in the OS so I didn't want to do a backup/recovery approach to the migration through iCloud to prevent the problem from coming along with the data. I've setup new one using the New iPhone workflow and have connected to iCloud so all my contacts, calendar info, etc., are now on the new phone.
also wondering if any way to have a return of incoming mail being individually numbered as existed in mail used with 10.6.8
When I use ⇧+⌘+3 to take a screenshot with my laptop connected to a external monitor, it output a couple of images, one for each display.  Is there any way to take the screenshot of just the active monitor instead of both? BTW, I know that exist ⇧+⌘+4 that let me select a region, but this is not the idea. I found the command screencapture that can capture only the main monitor with -m option. But, what about second monitor?
I want to open the firmware settings. I have a Mac book Pro end 2011 and yosemite. When i press Option+Cmd+O+F while booting nothing happens, it continues to boot. What do i have to do? Background:
I'm trying to turn a python script into a OS X App that you can run directly from Finder. I'm trying out Platypus, which seemed like the simplest option. The problem I'm running into is with the packages I'm including in the script. I installed them through pip into a virtualenv. Wondering what the best/most proper way to include those files in the Platypus bundle would be. I know I could just copy them over to the same directory and include them in the Platypus bundle, but would prefer to do something cleaner like including the virtualenv, although it seems like that would then have to be installed by the users of the app. I also ran into py2app which seems to be able to achieve something similar to Platypus, but their documentation is somewhat obscure.
I ve installed the latest version of MacPorts and Xcode CLI tools for OS X 10.10 - I don't want download 4GB of data because I need only GCC. Everything looks fine - I can download and compile ports, except the one thing - every time when I try to install new port I get following messages:
Me and my mum have separate Apple ids, and I was wondering can she set it so she can see my messages? Because we used to share an Apple ID, and she could do it then. But with us now having separate one can she still do this? Thankyou to anybody who helps!
Which one amongst Mac Dictation and Dragon Dictate has the highest speech recognition accuracy for English?
Is it possible to import configurations that have been created elsewhere into Little Snitch? For example, a ready to go basic ruleset for someone who wants to block iCloud's more intrusive features. Is this possible? Do such communities exist that share these?
I am looking for information on whether there is a limit to the width/height of the OS X extended desktop. I have seen setups with 2 rows of 3 displays, resulting in a 7680 x 2880 desktop.
If I search for something in my mailbox, select the message I'm interested in, then clear the search box (because I want to see the other messages that came in around the same time), the selection resets and I lose my selected message. I thought there was once some option like "View message in mailbox" that could be used to select a given message without filtering out everything else, but I can't find it anywhere.
I need a cloud service to storage image for blog. I write my blog in markdown language, I need to get the url of images after uploading those to the any cloud service. Is there any cloud service or tool can let me do it ? The url of images should be permanent for my blog , thanks
I am using MobileTerminal on iOS 7, and want to know how to change the default shell from sh: to bash:. I assume I would need to change the login command for this, but how would I?
With my 2012 MacBook Pro, I'm trying to reinstall Mac OS X (any version that will work) onto a new Solid State Drive that replaced a broken one. I can get to the Internet Recovery screen just fine when directly connected to the Internet (ethernet). The problem lies AFTER the Internet Recovery installation succeeds.
I am using parallel desktop. Before I installed parallels drivers both were isolated. Now all my folders are shared with Mac and Windows mutually. I can't simply uninstall the drivers because drivers fixed my windows resolution. Now, I am running Windows on Retina Display. Please help me to fix this sharing issue without uninstalling the parallel drivers. I have tried to change the sharing option in preferences options for windows but even that didn't fixed it. Sharing drivers is still their.
A MacBook Pro running 10.10, which backs up to the server. Backup encryption is enabled.
I received this iPhone 4 from work, and they don't have access to the Mac used to supervise it anymore. According to this Apple support article, device supervision can be removed by using "Erase All Content and Settings". Unfortunately, I just found out that the device was jailbroken so "Erase All Content and Settings" will put it on a bootloop. I can't seem to put the device on DFU mode; is this because it's supervised? Is there anything I can do to unsupervise this device?
My attempts I've force enabled HiDPI modes via Quartz Debug and it has given me one HiDPI mode. 720 x 450 PX @ 2 DPPX. I've installed SwitchResX and although I can add custom resolutions, I can't force it to use the graceful scaling I want, and I can't see a way to manage the DPI or DPPX. To summarise I want to run my native MacBook Air 13-inch display at 1440x900 PX and have OS X upscale to this from 1280x800 PX @ 1.125 DPPX, still 128 DPI, using the same DPI scaling technology that makes "retina" displays look so clear.
Is there a way to disable the sound made when sticky-keys are enabled or disabled by press-shift-five-times? Since changing to OS X 10.9, this sound is played every time on startup, which is quite annoying.
Install or Remove Windows 7 or later version - this option is Not available Check On My iMac Screenshort ... How Do i Fix it ?
How can I turn off VoiceOver and get back to normal ?! As I follow the instructions how to turn off 'VoiceOver' in Setting on my iPhone, however VoiceOver icon get back on quickly after double click... (haven't upgrade iOS 8.1.1 yet) Tried to do double click 'Voiceover' icon in Setting, but doesn't off and switch on back quickly.. Tried to do double click 'Voiceover' icon in Setting, but doesn't off and switch on back quickly.. Done press 'Home' button 3 times quickly, but Top page shows up later.. Done press 'Home' button 3 times quickly, but Top page shows up later.. Done turn off the phone, the VoiceOver shows up with passcode screen.. Done turn off the phone, the VoiceOver shows up with passcode screen.. What else I can do for turning off the annoying voice?
My photos are spread across 17 seemingly randomly named folders in my iPhone 5's DCIM directory. I can't make any sense of this and it is quite painful looking through all of these directories to find the photo I'm looking for. Why is my device doing this and can I make it stop?
My husband's and my phones both ring when either one is called. How do we unlink them?
Connecting two external monitors to my Retina Macbook Pro 2012 has no problem except for more fan noise, which is a little bit annoying since with one external monitor one doesn't hear the noise at all. I'm wondering what's the cause of this? What is the bottleneck here? Is it because GPU Clock Speed or Memory of Graphics Card?
I create a lot of mockups for my mobile phone. I recently heard of the brilliant idea to just put your current mockup as an image into your Dropbox (or whatever cloud your using). Then just take your phone and open the image. This is a lightning fast way to check how your layout feels in your hand and how reachable everything is. Also your colleagues can check it out and keep track of what you're doing / give you feedback.
If I shut down my MBPr and unplug the power cord every night then in the morning plug it back in and turn on the MacBook, will it have an effect on the battery charge cycles?
I've had my iTunes collection on my NAS for years which is shared between several computers in my house. Computers and mobile devices can access the iTunes library. One Mac mini is used as the "manager" computer. All other devices can access the library, but all organization and management features are turned off. All management and additions to the library are done through the Mini. I recently moved to a newer Mini and want to know the best way to make it the same as the old one.
How do I overwrite my game data in Shall We Date?: Ninja Assassin+ by deleting my old Game Center account for it on my old iPhone? Because my current data on my new phone is more up to date than the data on my old phone. How do I sync or overwrite the data so it can be the same data as on my new phone ? I also have the Game Center update on both phones .
Then I plugged in a USB Mouse, left the lid opened, and let it go to sleep for 1 hr. When I waked it up, the keyboard/mouse were unresponsive. Then I unplugged the mouse usb, let it go into sleep mode, and closed the lid .. for few minutes. Then I opened the lid, waked it up .. this time both were responsive and working. I was able to reproduce the above scenarios, so it is not a random thing. So, is there some kind of a log or test I can use to reproduce or while reproducing the unresponsive case above so I can understand if it is a hardware or software problem ? [edit] You can get the system.log from here *=URL=* Also, here is the result of 'pmset -g' [edit 2] Sorry I undo the selected solution as it did not fix the issue, as I have new information, they are unresponsive again and this time I see this keeps showing in the system log, any idea ? [edit 3]
I have an iPhone 5s, bought 14 months ago (without Apple Care, so out of warranty). Background Information:
I am using git to manage a project that has a few binary files that need to be closed before being committed. So I need a git hook, that checks to see if the application that has these files open is running. Here is the script I am using
How can I move an exiting OS X (10.10.1) USB Time Machine backup history to an OS X (10.10.1) Server (version 4) Time Machine service?
I'm relatively new to the App Store (not new to Objective-C, though) and I'm wondering how easy it is to track how much money each individual app you have in the app store is making. I have an App in the store already, and I haven't received any sort of income statements yet so I don't know how they're split up, but I have a friend who wishes to work on my next project with me - we want to split the profits 50-50. Say I have two apps in the app store, is there a way to find out how much each app is making, if they both use the same revenue models (fremium, iAds w/ IAP)?
Even though I switched on "prevent automatic synchronization of iPods..." in iTunes (translation, in German it's "Automatische Synchronisierung von iPods, ... verhindern"), iTunes won't stop synchronizing when I plug in my iPod touch. How can I really deactivate it? I use iTunes 12.0.1.26 with an iPod touch 32 GB (4G) MD058FD/A with iOS 6.1.6 (the newest supported version).
I filled a bug for this with Apple. The Radar number is 19169435. I would encourage you to also file the report at *=URL=* Note in your description that it is a duplicate of the above bug report number to help the support staff categorize and prioritize this bug.
I use an iPhone 5S, as I was unable to wait until the 6 came out (my screen was destroyed on my old phone). Is there any peripheral which allows me to use Apple Pay on my phone?
in a Terminal session the command does not list the pdfs (or whatever other file format) as expected, as the -l option seems to be ignored. Everything works fine if I issue a simple
I have several password protected word docs that I have forgotten the password for. Is there a way to recover them? I am using Word 2011.
My 160gb iPod Classic will not turn on or do anything It does not get recognised by iTunes when I hold the Menu and Centre button the apple logo appears but does not start, if I hold the same buttons for longer a red circle with a cross inside it appears. Any ideas how I can get my iPod started or do you think it might need a visit to apple support shop.
I am looking for a dwell clicking software that supports as many following features as possible: left and right-dragging double/triple click a shortcut can be defined to change the mouse mode the mouse mode window is always on Top
I'm playing Township on my iphone. I just found out you can play it on your macbook as well. Is it possible to be continue with the game on my computer without starting over? I have connected my apps from my iphone to iCloud. Is there any chance i can keep playing my game but on my macbook?
I've tried using karabiner to remap keys, but can't seem to figure it out. I looked on the XML key list, but can't figure out how to remap the windows key to the mac ctrl, and the command key to the windows ctrl. How would I go about fixing this?
I am selling my iPad as I have a new one. How do I erase all my music so there is nothing in the music app? I've deleted the music but the albums are still there.
Recently I bought the iphone 5s and I am under my boyfriends icloud account. today I shut my phone off and turned it back on and when he texted me is icloud email showed up. when I text his phone number he gets it but when he replies it comes back under the email. How do I fix this problem?
I have a nifty setup on my MacBook Pro, where, upon connecting my iPhone, I have AutoImporter.app (/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Application/AutoImporter.app) automatically import whatever photos are on my camera roll, delete them off the iPhone, and simultaneously open a Finder window with the folder that I have set as import folder ('Pictures', for me), so I can look at the imported photos immediately and work on them in Photoshop or similarly work with them in the file system directly. It's lightning quick, and extremely convenient. Now, on my MacBook Air, I am trying to emulate this setup and I have forgotten how I achieved the final step in this process, where a Finder window automatically opens (on top of whatever you're doing), once AutoImporter opens and starts importing the photos. (The first step of the process, can be described here.)
I'm trying to get Silverlight to work on Mac OS X, any browser would do. I'm not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the Web. To start with, can anyone tell me if this Silverlight test works for them on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) ? http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/iis-smooth-streaming/demo/
I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in downsampling an external monitor for a Macbook Pro. I currently have a late 2013 Macbook Pro (Retina) with Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics card. I just bought a Dell S2740L monitor and I realized it only goes up to 1080p :(
I would like to show the Dock when all windows are hidden/closed/minimized. Is this something that can be done with AppleScript? Where can I learn more about the specific capabilities of AppleScript?
This Question - Getting loads of Open error 5's when using Terminal to repair permissions - raises the question, Does mounting a drive in Target Disk Mode bypass SMART, preventing any lockout if the disk is failing & you need to recover data? In the past, I have always put suspected failing drives [often Windows NTFS drives] in a USB enclosure & attached to my Mac to scavenge/repair, as that way I am ignoring both SMART & any OS intervention from Windows etc. For a Mac, would Target Disk Mode be just the same as an external USB for similar tasks, or could SMART potentially restrict operations?
Maps on OS X 10.10 has an annoying blue circle (around current location?) which obscures the detail you are trying to view. How can I turn it off
I designed a holiday greeting card in iPhoto (which is great) but I wanted to see if there was a cheaper option for printing. I'm able to export the card as a PDF by CTRL + right-clicking on the background
When I open the photos app, all the albums are completely empty. I have done countless soft and hard resets but I can't get rid of this phantom 16gb of used photo storage. I've also tried countless suggested fixes from web searches but nothing is working. What can I do?
My wife and I just bought an iPad and I set it up using my iCloud account info. Is it possible to have her receive text messages also.
I have had my Macbook Pro MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 for about 3 years now and it has gradually got a bit slower in responding. I have a very fast internet connection (speedtest 5 mins ago 79Mbs download) and i use chrome. The internet can be very slow on my machine with entries I have typed taking a few seconds to appear on screen. Other functions such as loading programmes also produces the dreaded multicoloured circle. It is very frustrating. It seems to have got worse since I installed yosemite. I was always pretty savvy about Windows, but I'm still floundering a bit with OSX. Any help much appreciated. I'd buy some software if it would help speed things up. I've even thought about swapping to a solid state hard drive.
Can an iTunes store account be transferred from one country to another if someone moves country, with the same balance in it as it was before?
iOS6 used to have the option to disable automatic connection to specific Wifi networks. This is gone in later versions of iOS yet is crucial in urban areas with abundant open web login networks in cafés etc. Has anyone figured out a hack, a third party app or so, to bring back this crucial feature?
I just bought a used MacPro3,1 on Amazon. The system came with Mac OS X 10.6 but I downloaded Yosemite and it states that one of the 2GB modules is faulty.
Is there a way to share iCloud storage between family members? I included my wife's iPhone into Family sharing, but I would like to have one storage bucket (20G) that would allow us both Apple ID accounts to backup more then default 5G per device. Is it possible?
I booted the system via CMD+S in order to search for those applications. find . -name "Safari.app" had no results. As a proof that find works I searched for a file I know that exists in my backup: find . -name "certain_file.jpg" and I had a correct result. I don't even have a terminal (except the CMD+S shell).
I need and Applescript to replace some text as follow: Original text: The required output is: I can do it in the terminal with this command: By the way, i'm using bash version 4.3.30 and sed 4.2.2, both from homebrew.
I own several albums from the same band and want to import all of the .mp3 files into iTunes (v. 12.0.1.26). However, iTunes will not add a few songs from 3 of the albums. All of the other songs were imported without a problem except for these few.
my son tripped and dropped his MacBook Pro. One corner of the screen is now black - looks like a crack on the inside. Apple told me it would most likely be about $500 to fix. Are there any other solutions? It works fine, just the screen.
When I try to swipe between pages on Firefox, nothing happen and further two-finger movements (including scrolling up and down) are then not functioning. When I open a new window, the scrolling up/down is working again. How I tried to solve this issue
I moved some mp3s to my iPhone using AirDrop expecting they would be available in the Music app, but I can't seem to find them. Where can I find them on my phone?
Ok so I have been trying all day using all sorts of ISO's that I can find but I run through the process in Boot Camp Assistant ensuring that all three options are selected and I point to my ISO but after the system restarts I just get the "No bootable device" error. I can access my OSX partition by holding alt/option at startup, Windows also appears here but selecting it just results in the same "No bootable device" error.
I have heard that updating iPhone iOS versions will eliminate jailbreaks. Is it possible to tell if an iPhone updated in such a fashion had been jailbroken at one point?
I wonder what secd process does under OSX Yosemite. I am pretty sure I have seen this process running in earlier MacOS versions, but I don't remember it gobbling up all the available memory so boldly...
Just recently when I take turn off vibrate om my iPhone, it has been playing alert sounds at random times without showing any notifications, no new emails, calls, texts, app updates, etc. It's really bizarre and makes me wonder if the phone is hacked.
I'm just wondering how this comes:  So there are 3 units sold, but apparently just one of them was paid. Do you know why? The screenshot was taken when having Transaction type activated.
I'm back some twenty years after my last Mac. I've got a brand new iMac running Yosemite and I do need to access an external HD formatted on (Gnu/Linux) ext4 (a journaling file system). I downloaded a library (FUSE for OSX), which is able to read that file system and a complementary app (ext4fuse), which works as a client interface to FUSE. I can mount the disk and navigate it on the finder or on a terminal but, when it comes to actually copying files (either on a terminal [see * below, pls] or on the finder), I get an error such as "Cannot read the file" or even "File does not exist". I suspect that it has something to do with permissions, so I thought that doing the copying as root might help.
I just got a new iPhone 5s and I've been trying to adapt it to my needs. I do remember that on my 4s, I only switched between silent (with vibrate) and Do Not Disturb modes. When I was using the phone on do not disturb, it did not vibrate but a banner appeared when I received a new SMS or WhatsApp.
I want to define a voice command that outputs "\ref{}" in Dragon Dictate 4. When I define the following voice command:
In Dragon Dictate 4, when I say "Hello world period this is a test period", it outputs: Hello world. this is a test."
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking's Advanced Scripting Command on Windows, HeardWord is a function that enables Dragon NaturallySpeaking to behave as if the specified word, word sequence, or voice command was received by the recognizer. HeardWord can be used to create a command that executes a series of other commands, or that has the same function as an existing command but a different name. Here is an example to type a closing remark, in bold type, at the end of a document.
I've got a old web cam that takes an image every 5 minutes and uploads it to an FTP site (which I can access from an http url). I'm looking for a simple iOS 8 today view widget that I can point to this URL so that I always have the most recent web cam photo in the notifications panel. For the life of me, I can't find a widget that offers this simple functionality.
I have libreoffice 4.3.4.1 on OS X 10.10, it only has one libreoffice launcher in spotlight/launchpad. Is it possible to add launchers for subprograms like writer, calc, impress, draw... ?
I am a programmer who used to constantly copy directory of a file from its "Get Info" menu. Since Yosemite, the original pure path is replaced with a "user-friendly" kid-version directory, which cannot be copied. Like this.
Text messages to my number are received either by my phone or by Messages.app (iMessage), but not both. If I leave my computer on then I will inexplicably not receive texts on my phone (until the computer goes to sleep, I suppose). How do I configure my devices so that Messages would contain the same information as my iPhone? OS X 10.10.1, iOS 7.1.2, iPhone 5s, MacBook Pro 2009
I have an email account under a domain that has been decommissioned. The domain still has an MX record, but its been disabled at the mail server. When someone tries to use the email address, they get a "550 Domain has been disabled" response back.
I was using hardlink (*=URL=* to point an important folder to my new google drive folder and my machine crashed. Right now I have no access to OS X so I connected my HDD to a Windows 10 machine with bootcamp drivers installed. I can see all files there, but my senstive folder looks a file, instead of being a folder.. So I can't enter the folder to get the files and I believe the files are still there. Orphaned.
I just can't add my credit card into Apple Id, I've tried hard, really. I've manage to find a way how to install xcode, new iTunes and so on, but still not last OS upgrade. I've found information about downloading ISO and performing a clean install, but I don't want to loose my settings and everything. Is is possible?
Hello may be this is silly question and may be asked before it but i am not getting proper solution for this. I have downloaded one project from the internet and when i am trying to run it/build it the xcode says : The file “PROJECT NAME” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it..
I would like to achieve the same effect as is described in this question, which doesn't seem to have a suitable answer. I develop on a macbook pro. Often I use it on its own, but sometimes I connect it to an external display (of various sizes).
I have a "MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2008)" with a broken hinge problem. I'm presently outside the US and wont be able to go into a Genius Bar anytime soon. Besides, the laptop is far outside the warranty period so it is unlikely that any servicing could be done by Apple.
I have lots of files stored in iCloud documents at the moment, if I upgrade to iCloud drive, are those files automatically copied across to iCloud drive, or will i lose those documents if i upgrade?
My console log is flooded with the message They appear in bunches of many identical messages within only a few seconds, separated by short pauses (some seconds to some ten seconds). I have a feeling that this started with updating Mavericks to Yosemite, but I cannot be sure as I am a fairly new Mac user for about half a year and am only now discovering the depths of the system. Looking up the problem on Google seems to be extremely difficult as the msg string appears as an occasional side effect in many posted logs that discuss other topics. My current system is 10.10.1
Okay, so I have a system with multiple user accounts setup, and I have two monitors. The first monitor is fine on its native resolution, but the second is too small, so I've been setting a lower resolution to make it more readable. The problem is that this change is only being remembered by some of my user accounts; the others continue to switch it back to its native resolution. I'm assuming the problem is with a preferences file somewhere, but I can't seem to find it; the only path I was able to lookup was ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.preference.displays.<UUID>.plist (where UUID is an identifier for your Mac) but that may have been for an older version of OS X, as I can't find such a file on these user accounts.
I get tons of messages of this style in my console log: The effect started after updating OS X from Mavericks to Yosemite. Updating to Yosemite 10.10.1 did not help. I have installed VMWare Fusion 6.05 which should be compatible to Yosemite and the effect happens also when Fusion is NOT running. The problem is hard to investigate as the string appears in many posted logs that discuss other topics.
How can I software update over cellular data? I've got enough data on my SIM but when go to update my iPad to iOS 8, it requires Wi-Fi. I do not have a router.
I get messages that my Time Machine backup volume is full and TM has deleted older backups. But my backup target disk is an external 3 TB HD and Finder reports that over 2 TB of it are free (only some 820 MB used)!
Does anybody know how to configure the status bar (bar size, icons and font size, and so on)? I'd like to do it while keeping the screen resolution, of course. I've browsed and searched both Ask Different and the web to little or no avail.
I do not like Yosemite's default Spotlight search. It is in the middle of screen and I can see very little outputs at once. It is so much helpful when it is full screen. Example of the window which has limited height and central location: How can you change the location be at the top right corner and height of the hits full height?
Where does Homebrew install it's software? I've installed Maven with Homebrew and searching for the Maven installation directory, so that I can set MAVEN_HOME.
I have problems with my white unibody MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009, 10.10.1) - it can't go to sleep. I've read dozens of forum threads and could not fix it:
I experience reoccurring incidents of fontd eating up all the process power. What could be the cause of this and how do I make it behave again?
I hate that I have to use both hands on my keyboard to change spaces (one for control, one for arrow keys). A much more practical shortcut would be, for example, control + mouse wheel. However I don't know if it's possible to do so. I'm using 10.10 Yosemite. I'm also open to third-party software.
I am experiencing odd "click" noises from my MBP, while sound is muted, it's unplugged from the power source (ie running only on battery), and Windows in Parallels shows a message dialog. To reproduce: Unplug the laptop (right now, 94% battery) Ensure the volume is muted In Windows on Parallels, do something that shows a message dialog
I have had a dummy email (with a non me.com domain name) address created for my website and this email is redirected to my me.com account. This works fine.
So I'm using Pages on my Mac and I once was able to switch the windows (NOT the application, but the windows in Pages) with the shortcut command + < or command + >. Now, they apparently removed this function.
The way I imagine it working is: I navigate on the web. I hold down an image or selection. Some "drop points" appear on the side for me to drag and drop it into. I can have as many drop points as I want and they can have names.
I'm having trouble zipping a .app file. If I zip without -r (recursive) it is really shallow, if I zip with -r it's really dense. The zip doesn't unzip correctly regardless.
I have Yosemite. I am considering installing OS X server 4.0. According to developer.apple.com: You can, however, install OS X Server and enable Xcode Server on your development Mac.
Whenever I put my MacBook to sleep and then let it run out of battery, it takes a very long time (5-10 minutes) to wake up and let me log in, and then it runs slowly for 15-30 minutes after that. This is slow enough that in many cases, I would rather just restart my computer and pull up the work I was doing beforehand by myself. When I open my laptop's lid to wake it up from sleep, is there anything I can do to interrupt the wakeup process and immediately have my computer restart instead?
I have a MacBook Air 2012 (A1466) and it developed some memory errors. It crashes every half hour and Apple Hardware Test says 4MEM/9/40000000: 0x79eea590 Unfortunately, RAM is soldered on the motherboard and it is not replaceable. I did some research and found that it is possible to tell the operating system to ignore wrong memory addresses if you use Linux: Ubuntu Forums: Exclude Bad Memory Is is possible to somehow exclude faulty RAM addresses in Mac OS X? I currently use Yosemite (10.10) but, I am willing to downgrade if necessary.
I used the application "HDD Cleaner" to clear up my ~/Library/Cache folder. After this action I see the following dialog, whenever OS X asks for my sudo rights:
I'm trying to create a developer account at developer.apple.com, but every time I click "Register", it says the server at developercms.apple.com couldn't be found. Is this happening to anyone else? How can I get past this?
I am using the new iOS8 Health app and I'm confused. The steps and walking & running graphs are showing but without data. I've restarted, updated, and tried again and again but it is not functioning.
New apple user here, I am trying to downgrade matplotlib to 1.3.1 after coming to this potential solution: *=URL=* I just have no idea how to do that.
When I first setup my OSX laptop, my filevault and user login password were the same. At bootup, I only had to login once (with my username and password).
Recently decided to replace my nearly full 500GB HDD with a 1TB SSD to breathe some new life into my mid-2010 Macbook Pro. I used a toaster-style drive cloner (Dyconn Dubbler) to do a sector by sector duplication of the drive. Everything went smoothly but when I booted up from the new drive, I seem to only have around 500 GB of total space, almost all of it full. I fooled around with the partitions a little in disk utility, hoping I could maybe create and delete one, but haven't had any luck. Thought I would be able to drag the partition size but that doesn't seem to be an option. Here is what I see in disk utility with the drive attached/mounted from my other machine:
I initially connected the MBP 2012 retina 2.7 GHZ to the 4k display it showed me 3840x2160 correctly. But when I was optimising some display settings I changed to 1080p after that I no longer get the 3840x2160 option at all.Yet I could still load into my Windows with the 4k at 30 hz. It would be great to know how can get the 3840x2160 resolution option back.
so I am now using vmware player to mount the osx now, and since I accidentally installed the svga display driver with the vmware tool one from darwin now I cant change the resolution of it so I need to uninstall the svga. I try to find system/library/extensions so that I can uninstall the svga driver but I cant find it in the library. Where can I find it or it is just hidden in the library folder?
I'm copying a slab of plain text that contains URLs into an RTF file in TextEdit, which I am hoping to automatically, (as there are a lot of them in the text), 'linkify' into rich text hyperlinks - make them clickable, and underlined in blue or as per the default appearance. In WordPad on Windows, if you paste plain text, WordPad will automatically linkify any links, but TextEdit, Word 2011, and Pages on the Mac all will not. I've also tried to export the text to PDF in TextEdit, Word 11 and Pages and fiddled around with Tools in Acrobat Pro itself - all to no avail. An AppleScript would be fun, but (even if hooked into FastScripts), still not as quick or elegant as Windows' WordPad's instant and automatic linkification of URLs upon insertion into a document. Is there something this elegant in OS X?
I wrote an application in Applescript to open a black picture and fullscreen it in preview. I need the app to "cd" to itself, no matter where it is. That means if it is on the desktop it can pull up that picture from within the apps files, and if the app is moved somewhere else, it can still pull that picture from within the app. Should the app just create a directory in the Application Support folder or is this possible?
I am trying to get rid of one of the volume ("mountain Lion", the second from the top) of the partition of an external hard-drive. In disk utility I get what you can see in the pic, namely it does not allow me to modify the partition saying "You can't resize the partition on this disk because it uses the Master Boot Record partition scheme". Do I have to repartition the whole thing or is there a work around? (I am running Yosemite) Thanks,
I would like to change the screensaver "Flurry" by the Ken Burns without using the Preference panel, directly using terminal or command.
How do I delete synced photos from my iPhone when the same photos are already deleted from my iMac and also the trash?
I've had issues with the stock iOS podcast app for a while now- syncing was broken, it kept crashing while downloading, etc etc. I decided to move to Downcast. Anyways, after deleting all my podcast subscriptions, and then telling iTunes not to sync any podcasts to the device, I still have 3.3 GB of "documents and data" from the Podcasts app.
I have a number of files on my new Mac mini, imported into iTunes (12) from an external drive that had been serving as storage for my previous iTunes library on an old laptop that is now defunct. For some reason, most of these video files got changed to have their media type be “home video”. I have changed the media kind metadata on the files that were DVD rips, but I cannot change the media kind for the files that are iTunes purchases. These identify (in the File tab) as “Protected MPEG-4 video file” and play fine. I can also see these files through Home Sharing on iPads and my Apple TV.
Is it possible to bind more than one items to the clipboard on osx? Which would possibly get evoked by different shortcuts? If it is how can I set it up? I simply need to have a string always available at my disposal, but would like to keep my clipboard free for other uses.
As with a lot of posts my Finder constantly crashes. I've de-coupled Dropbox and Google Drive. I've deleted Finder preferences and it's still the same. Here's a screenshot of Diagnostics filtered Finder, I can see there's a problem, just not sure how to fix it.
My Mac has been running fine until I decided to upgrade to OS X 10.10, Yosemite. When it is installing I get the message: File system verify or repair failed.
What's the best solution to connect 3 iMac screens together so they're all usable as one large screen. I currently have 2 iMac's connected together via a single thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable (Which works fine, mouse goes between the 2 screens etc).
I have a bluetooth headset (Logitech UE9000), I always found the sound quality on OSX to be less than when connected to my android phone. Further investigation leads me to believe that there is no stereo sound being outputted. A simple youtube stereo test (e.g. *=URL=* has the result of left or right channel to be outputted simultaneously to both earspeakers. This is not an quality issue, the sound is clear, as such, the advise which is littered everywhere on the web to up the quality by doing some command line magic is not helping: By alt-clicking on the bluetooth icon I can see that my active codec is "AptX" which should be the correct codec for high quality. Do others have successfully connected their headsets with real stereo/separate channel audio?
2 days (on Sunday) ago I performed clean OS X Yosemite installation over OS X Yosemite that was upgraded from Mavericks previously. I have a time machine backup. So, latest backups in time machine was written by Yosemite. In new system I have an account with the same username.
I don't know what happened, but suddenly my FaceTime app is missing. I can't find it neither on any of my settings nor on my home screen. However, I can see it on my notifications setting. I tried to FaceTime someone once using Siri but she said FaceTime is restricted on my iPhone.
I'm working at a University and we are restoring our Macs using Apples ars which works great. The process is to manually go to the computer - reboot it in recovery mode and then run the ars command to sync the image from the server.
I understand that Finder is treated differently and that it is a special application, but it just seems awkward and inconsistent, because to me as a user, Finder is a file manager and I expect it to respond to command+q like any other program would. Why does Finder even appear in OS X's Application Switcher (command+tab), if it cannot be closed?
I want to expand my Windows partition. I saw all the tutorials on youtube and they said to drag the drive on the corner. However, the Disk partitions doesn't have a drive for me to drag and said that it was a startup partition so I can't decrease it's size.
I have two WAPs in my house with the same SSID, different channels, far apart from each other to offer coverage. When I physically move my laptop, while on, from one to the other it loses the wifi connection. I have to turn wifi off then back on to get it to work again.
I'm trying to edit my hosts file, because doing ssh <some host in hosts> fails to translate to ip. according to the Finder UI it is found under: however when trying to run cat hosts from the terminal I get an error: I tried to create a new hosts file but then I see another one is created next to the first one
I have a shell script that is run by an AppleScript app. That shell script restarts the machine at some point with shutdown -r now. How can I avoid having the AppleScript application automatically launch itself again after the reboot? The app is not included in the startup items The app is launched again just like any other open app when the shell script restarts OS X The sequence is this: I double click on the AppleScript app AppleScript launches a shell script in Terminal The shell script, at some point, reboots the system The AppleScript app starts again after the reboot
I want to use my MacBook as a monitor and keyboard and mouse for my Windows PC. Basically I want to use my laptop as a remote control for a headless Windows 7 PC without lag. I want to play some Steam game that is very graphic card intensive. I do not want to use a slow Wi-Fi connection to do this.
When Facebook or other developers ask for access to your address book, what content can they see? For example, is this only limited to names and email addresses and phone numbers or does this include everything including notes, anniversary dates, birthdays, etc.?
Is it possible to start into Recovery/Internet recovery mode in a virtualized Mac OS X in Parallels? It would come in handy to take screenshots of those UIs or running apps to exemplify some steps especially here at askdifferent.
There are a lot of fields that are not described in the man page (as far as I can tell anyway). In particular these 3: BOOSTS %CPU_ME %CPU_OTHRS
I have an MBPR (15in) that is about 18 months old (no AppleCare). The battery has only 331 cycles on it, and Apple states it should last for 1000. The battery is fully charged, at 100%. If I remove the power cord, the machine dies, like the battery is dead -- it completely dies, no sleep. Consequently, if it is powered off and I turn it on, and then unplug it pretty quickly (before much s/w is loaded) it dies, just the same -- no sleep.
Up until recently, I've been able to download the photos and videos off of my iPad mini onto my Windows 8 box. However, the last time I plugged it into the computer, Windows updated the driver that it uses to get at the iPad's files, and now all I see in the Explorer window is an empty Internal Files folder. How do I get at the photos and videos from my PC? I might add that they're all in the camera roll, so according to this answer to another question, I should be able to see them.
when I take a picture (not connected to wifi) and delete it before I connect to wifi, it still appears in photo stream once I connect to wifi. Is there a way to turn that off and not just turning off share to photo stream?
I have a iMac and Macbook for work and another set for home. I end up getting a new one every couple of years so I end up re-setting up everything atleast couple of times a year. So I wrote a script to automate as much as possible: https://github.com/pathikrit/mac-setup-script/blob/master/setup.sh
Let's say I have an app with two versions that target different versions of iOS: Version 1.0: Deployment target iOS 5 Version 2.0: Deployment target iOS 8 My understanding is that when a user goes to the AppStore to download the app, this is the version they will get: iOS 5: Version 1.0 iOS 6: Version 1.0 iOS 7: Version 1.0 iOS 8: Version 2.0
I have an interactive DVD that came with one of my college course books. I need to use this for some homework. When I try to open its says I can't run start projector because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. I have Lion Version 7.1. What can I do? Can I download anything that will allow this to work?
I am running 10.6.8 (Snow Leo) on a 2010 Mac Pro. The finder frequently crashes and restarts when I try to scroll through the finder view just looking at the list of files. I've gone to the user/library/preferences and deleted com.apple.finder.plist, but no improvement. The drive containing the OS isn't the issue, only another installed drive. A clean install of the OS hasn't helped, either. Any other ideas to fix this? This is what console showed after crash - ``` The report listed above, in the Log folder, is huge, over 3 full pages, if printed.
I have my Mac set up to switch spaces using Cmd + Num but sometimes, out of the blue, they will stop working unless I do the command when in mission control. Anybody have any idea why this happens?
I am on Yosemite (10.10.1) and I noticed the annoying habit of not wanting to empty the trash -- it keeps whining that The operation can’t be completed because the item “whatever” is in use. This is starting to piss me off - I can go to .Trash and remove stuff by hand, but is going on? Once a file is not in use and has been binned, why can't the OS recognise it's not actually linked to any application? This problem has come up whether the app used for that kind of file is still open or not btw.
If you use FV2 to encrypt a disk, can the root user of the computer access the unencrypted contents of the disk or is it truly only accessible by the user that initially setup FV2. We are trying to deploy FV2 across our company and trying to see if we should set a Firmware Password to restrict access to boot commands or if FV2 will be sufficient.
One of the problems with the game involved the game completely freezing up. To assist in debugging, I used the Time Profiler from Xcode Instruments and attached it to the game. When it froze, I could see what exactly was using up processor time, and I've reported this to the developer.
I would like to be able to access services on devices that are connected to my shared network. Basically I have set up network sharing such that when I connect via Thunderbolt-Ethernet I share the connection over wifi. In order to do this my mac (I guess) creates some virtual network for devices to be be issued an IP address on. So what I would like to be able to do is to bridge (??) this network so that I can access the devices on it. More specifically I would like to be able to access a service on a specific port that a device on the share's network is hosting.
Is there any logic behind OS X's file sorting patterns? Here is a screenshot of two file dialogs open side by side:
MacBookPro11,3 2.5 GHz i7 Intel Iris Pro and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (auto graphics switching on, it was on intel) OSX 10.10.1 The system appeared to freeze. iStat Menu's clock stopped, the cursor wouldn't move, etc. I tried (physically) closing and reopening, but it didn't go to sleep and the apple logo light on the back stayed on. Option-command-power and option-control-power also didn't do anything. After force shutdown (long press of power button) and startup, it asked if I wanted to reopen Finder windows after force quitting it, "you shut down your computer because of a problem", and:
I'm connecting my MacBook to the internet via a current generation Apple Airport Extreme (late 2013). When I'm standing next to the Airport, my Mac's wifi indicator shows full signal strength (duh!) and I get excellent download speeds (30-50mbps). When I'm on the other side of the house, my MacBook still shows full signal strength but I can barely load anything (.25mbps... if I'm lucky)!
Is there any way to toggle it with i.e. osascript? I'm on Yosemite.
How can I delete an Apple ID from an iPad without the password to the Apple ID? I am purchasing a second-hand iPad from my friend's shop. The previous user of this iPad didn't reset all the content and I do not have his Apple ID password and his email. Is there a way to delete previous owner AppleID account?
I'm using Automattic's iOS app for Wordpress and I'm trying to log-in for the first time to my site. I clicked the "add self-hosted site" option and put in the username, password and my self-hosted wordpress blog, and when I try to sign in I get a 403 error spit back at me. Any ideas?
I have a launchd plist that uses StartCalendarInterval to start my python script at the desired time and day of the week. Now I want to create a launchd plist that both starts and terminates a different python script at selected times. Where is the "KillCalender" command or equivalent? Essentially, I want the program the controls my Christmas lights come on at 1800 and go off at 2200. I suppose I could write the main loop in my python program so it terminates at 2200 but I was hoping launchd could do this for me.
I recently purchased an ultra wide monitor, with a native resolution of 2560x1080. This is great but it's only working with Windows ! Apple is limiting HDMI resolution to be no more than 1920x1080, for no reason at all. I read everywhere than I need to buy whatever cable or adapter and to use display port, but I just can't. I also tried SwitchResX but same problem, resolutions over 1920x1080 are not available. So I searched for a solution, and I found something interesting there : *=URL=* It seems that increasing the framebuffer size will set bigger resolution available.
I had a strange issue recently where I had to reset PRAM after using an HDMI cable with my MBP (it had a blank screen on boot). I feel like this is again related to the HDMI cable. After using it, all my Desktop icons have disappeared. I've run killAll Finder and rebooted and it hasn't restored them. Trying to avoid resetting PRAM again.
I just got a new 13" rMBP with Yosemite installed. I chose to enable FileVault when I set the machine up.
I installed brew and then Install flask with pip Try But I got exception Set and export PYTHONPATH
I have an old iMac 24 2.8 of 2008. Is it a good idea to upgrade to Yosemite? Now it has Mac OS 10.9.5. It has 1TB hard drive, 4GB Ram. Will the upgrade make it go slower? Is it safer to keep the old opeating system?
Is it just trying to download software from Apple? Do I just have to be patient?
I have been having issues with Finder and the Dock ever since the upgrade to 10.10.1 (I can't be certain they weren't there in 10.10). I am unable to drag items off of the Dock (to remove them). I also can't drag items from the download stack that I have beside my trash can in the dock. Dragging the item simply does nothing. If I drag it somewhere and release the mouse button, it just opens the app/file. And in Finder, I am only able to drag and move/copy 86 items. I can select more but when I drag them to a new folder or other location the most that will get moved is 86. I have confirmed the issue with a friend but have several other friends for which everything is working fine.
I would love to keep all of my personal files (docs, photos, videos, music) in my user folder where they're supposed to be, and still have them on iCloud for my mobile devices. I thought of putting symlinks that point to the user folders in the iCloud folder in ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Does anyone have authoritative information to tell if these symlink targets will be synced with iCloud similar to the way symlinks can be used with Dropbox?
Is Preview.app buggy in OS X 10.10, Yosemite, or is it because of the Nvidia Web Drivers? I opened an image in Preview, copy the image, created a new file, and pasted it. The color looks more purple?
Bit of an emergency so any help really appreciated. I am trying to work out whether or not the there is a way for me to see the details (specifically names) of external drives that have been connected to my machine in the last 6 weeks. Basically a hard drive with confidential information has gone missing and I would like to see if it was ever connected to my machine, does anyone know how or where I can find this information?
I am trying to replace my wife's HDD with an SSD. I performed the following attempts using System Recovery to no avail: Fresh install of Lion...seemed to get stuck after reboot Restore using Disk Utility from the old HDD to the new SSD...stuck at 15%-ish, and now the drive will not erase (gets stuck at 15%-ish) Question Is the drive just bad or is there some other technique/process I need to use in order to change the drive out other than what I have tried?
I used to store my valuable files on Apple software RAID (mirror). Recently one disk has failed and the mirror became degraded. I rebuilt the mirror using new drive, following this guide, but seems like there are no partitions on it.
My problem is, that the server of my exchange account crashed today and it is maybe not possible to restore the database of the server. Are there any files on my Mac or in my TimeMachine BackUp, where for example my notes, or calendar entries are stored for offline use? I only found the stored data from my iCloud account in the folder: user / Library / Containers / com.apple.Notes / Data / Library / CoreData / ExternalRecords / B059E164-CC3A-44ED-AB92-C703BDD09455 / IMAPNote / _records /...
I have a late 2014 13" Retina MBP. It's connected to a 24" Philips 246EL Display by using an Apple Mini DV to DVI adaptor. The brightness and contrast on the external display are terrible, and no amount of fiddling with the settings seems to help. I've tried using Displays > Color > Calibrate, but no matter how I set monitor Brightness and Contrast, I cannot calibrate them correctly. Previously, I had used the same external display with an early 2011 15" (non-retina) MBP, and it never seemed this bad.
I want to stop payments from Apple as well as I planning to revoke my bank account. How can I do that legally for itunes connect? Some money amount is remains on my apple account(amounts owed). All my applications is now free and I do not need to remove them and want to keep my developer program. Is it real? In fact I'll have problems with tax authorities if at least one payment from apple will done with my current bank account
I have a mysterious element appearing on my dock that looks like the indicator under a folder but isn't actually attached to anything - any ideas how to get rid of this?  If I turn on dock hiding it disappears when the dock is hidden but reappears when the dock is visible. Hardware: Macbook Pro Retina 13 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
I tried to edit textfile via Pages, but it does not handle pure text file?! I can not believe it. Any idea how to edit / read it?
Where can I get an exhaustive list of all graphics cards ever put in a mac? Or at least in the last 10years... I am NOT interested in mobile devices, just desktops and laptops.
I have tried adding the full URL to the JS file on Adblock Filter, but it still loads. Is there anyway that I can block specific JS files? (Or any files, really). I know how to block hosts, but not specific urls/files.
I have an iPhone 5s and whenever I try to update it to iOS 8.1.1 it shows the error message below: iOS 8.1.1 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the internet.
I'm trying to move my Backup folder from the SSD to another internal HD via symlink using this command: the problem is, when i hit enter instead of creating a Symlink I get an Alias. Any suggestion on why this is happening?
It's quite remarkable that when I am sending files from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro over Airdrop that all network speed seems to go a lot slower. iTunes Match tracks take up to 10s to load, same goes for almost every website I try to load in Safari or Chrome. Seems quite odd to me since this only occurs when Airdropping, I'm not having this issue when I'm transferring files from a server to MacBook over SSH or FTP.
we have been using messages.app for communication in the office, but we often find that the client doesn't stay logged in. We have it set to auto-start at user login, we have it set to login when users resume activity, but many times, users still end up logged out. They don't realize it, and others in the office are trying to send them messages. Is anyone aware of a way to force messages to stay logged in?
I own a MacBook Pro with Retina display early 2013 with Intel HD4000 + GT 650M 1 GB. I'm looking for a high pixel display, and narrowed it down to two options: 21:9 34″ LG 3440x1440 or 28″ 4K display. I'm currently using my MacBook Pro with 24″ 1920x1200 as a secondary display for work with Ps, Ai and Ae, and Mac is beautifully quiet even with 8 virtual desktops, Ps, Ai, Safari with ~30 tabs, which I love most about Macs—I start to hear the fans when using Ae and rendering/saving to RAM which of course is understandable.
From time to time, I have to turn off my Apple wireless keyboard to save battery when I'm away from the computer to run an errand, and when I come back to the computer, I would turn the keyboard back on. After turning the Apple Wireless Keyboard off and on a few times (running errands and back to the computer then goes out running errand again and back...), the keyboard becomes unresponsive (registers no input, and when I hit the caps lock button, the keyboard wouldn't turn on the caps lock light).
I noticed that in the InternetAccounts folder in the System Library on my iMac's HD (late 2012) that there are a bunch of folders that contain ".iaplugins" from such unwanted companies such as Facebook, 126, 123, AOL, Google, LinkedIn, Flicker, Yahoo, and Twitter. I have no idea what these are for and have no desire to have my Mac associated with any of these "accounts" (there are a few for Apple accounts, such as iCloud, Mail, Notes, AddressBook, etc.). I assume I should leave the Apple plugins, but is it safe to delete the third-party plugins, and, if so, what is the best way?
Is there device that will extend the range of Bluetooth? We currently have a Mac Mini setup to control a board room, but we have problems with a magic mouse when it is on the other side of the room from the mac mini.
I've also tried Handyprint for this, but it is even worse. An error is created everytime a print job is sent. Looking in the logs, its a "filter" error.
When I try to backup my iPhone, iTunes gives me an error, saying that it cannot make a Backup because the backup is damaged or not compatible. To move the backup folder I have followed the steps as below: Copy the Backup folder from the original path to the MacintoshHD Change the name of the original folder (From backup to backup-old) to try to avoid conflicts Run the command ln -s /MacintoshHD/Backup ~/Library/"Application Support"/MobileSync Run the command
I have two Macs, backed up on a 3TB Apple Time Capsule. But I also have a Debian machine on the same local network, and I would like to back it up (at least one of its hard disks) on the same Apple Time Capsule. Is this possible?
I have a iMac with a hard drive of 1TB. Used 536 GB. It has an external hard drive of 1TB with Time Machine and the normal copies. The computer had a problem that did not afected the hard drive and has been 2 months to repair.
I have a user on a MacBook Pro with Yosemite that tried to install Flash. She downloaded the installer and ran it. It said it completed, but Flash is not working in Chrome or Safari. I downloaded the uninstaller from Adobe and ran it to uninstall Flash. It said it was successful. I then redownloaded the Flash installer and ran it successfully. Still, Flash is not working in either browser. Ideas?
Is there any software to do so, and what would it take to install it? Another person had physical access to my phone, so I suspect the possibility of installation of such software. Even photos which I immediately deleted and those, which went straight to application got in other hands.
Is it possible to create a file of autocorrect entries for iOS devices and deploy it to all my company iPads (8 of them right now)? There are about 150 autocorrect entries that we'd like to setup on all the iPads. Ideally, we would find a way to manage them centrally.
I like having a hotkey to bring up the get info box for the current iTunes track so that if I'm using another app and a song comes up, I can quickly edit it. This works (though if it's not the best way, please let me know): I've assigned that a hotkey in BetterTouchTool and it's great.
Thought this might be of help to those who have cloned a Yosemite hard drive but are now missing the Recovery Partition. To restore the recovery partition on a Yosemite install, you’ll need a few files from the Yosemite Installer, a script, and Apple’s Lion Recovery Updater. Make sure you have backed up your drives before doing anything to your boot volume! Login to the computer as an administrator. Login to the computer as an administrator. Download the Yosemite installer from the App Store and look for "Install OS X Yosemite.app" Download the Yosemite installer from the App Store and look for "Install OS X Yosemite.app" Right-click on Install OS X Yosemite.app and select Show Contents. Right-click on Install OS X Yosemite.app and select Show Contents.
I'm trying to update sidebarlist without rebooting computer (in this case they sidebar is updated well after changing values). My operations are: Convert into XML Editing changing things (adding, removing, etc ...) Convert into Binary again Trying to restart Finder in many ways but the sidebarlist never won't update ... As I said if I reboot computer, then I see changes.
I've deleted "notes" IMAP folder. Now I have no notes on Macbook, iPhone, iPad. Please help me to restore my notes. I have TimeMachine backup.
After switching from PCs I was astonished to find I could only write emails in black, unless I wanted to take extra steps to change the black to another color, wasting time. Is it so difficult to provide default color? It's done for email "quote levels."
On my old computer I had a bunch of songs on itunes, and when I went on my mac there are no songs on that computer even though I am logged on my itunes account. Where are my songs?
I am searching for an accurate way to start using storage tape drives for backing up my data. The only people I know of using tape drives on Macs are Mac Pro users. I'm an iMac user (2011, 27") and the choices of cables are very limited.
I need to install the rabbitmq management tool, but enabling results in the error (please see below). I am on OS X Maverick. I tried "rabbitmq-plugins disable Mochiweb" but Mochiweb could not be found
First the sound went out on my macbook air. I was in the airport and tried everything I knew, nothing worked. Then I went to plug into an outlet I found, and realized it wasn't charging. It does supply enough power to use the laptop, but there is no light on the maglite charger. I tried SMC reset (pram as well), heating up the maglite unit, and a few other random things. Anyone have any ideas?
In the com.apple.sidebarlist.plist file you can find different CustomListItems for the "Favorites" items in Finder's Sidebar. For example: What are "Alias" and "com.apple.LSSharedFileList.Binding" data and how to create your own data? I guess they are icons or path to them, but how to generate these data strings, what are the specification for those icons and where do they have to be stored?
I've started diagnosis mode on my iPod Classic and went to SMART DATA. This basically means th iPod runs in disk mode as an external hard drive and is connected to a windows pc. I’m unable to research these data points and don’t know what they mean: When I load more than 2GB of songs onto it, it loads up the software and then it sipmly says "no songs" on the screen, even when itunes shows that some memory is occupied Can any of this explain what’s wrong with my iPod?
It is often convenient to name files and folders with a date and time, such as standard ISO 8601 format: 2014-12-10T22:35:28.460Z. Unfortunately, the Mac’s HFS+ file system uses the COLON as a path separator just as Unix-like OSes use SOLIDUS / (slash) and Microsoft OSes use REVERSE SOLIDUS \ (backslash). All three characters must be avoided when naming a file or folder for compatibility. What character might be commonly used as a replacement for the COLON? Using a HYPHEN - makes it tricky to programmatically reverse the conversion to standard format.
I've just upgraded my MacBook Pro from 4GB to 8GB. Before the upgrade, I looked in the Activity Monitor and it said that it was using almost 3.98GB of 4GB (I'm a web developer, so I usually have lots of apps open.) Then after the upgrade Activity Monitor shows that it is using about 7.50GB of 8GB (with the same apps opened.) The upgrade improved the performance of the Mac, it is surprisingly faster than before, but I was hoping to see more memory available after this upgrade. Thanks for your help!
I own a Mac and ssh into a Linux server. How can I view a file on the Linux server using the Preview program on my Mac, without having to explicitly copy it to my Mac beforehand?
Will this monitor plug-and-play with Yosemite on this MacBook model without having to install Xcode and mess around with creating custom settings? Can I have two of these plugged into this MacBook and run them both at 4k (at either 30Hz or 60Hz)? - I don't care so much about refresh rates as I do about resolution. I won't be gaming or watching movies on them.
I just upgraded my Mac Mini Late 2012 to an SSD. Now, I wanted to boot from my bootable USB and then install Mac OS X to my SSD but it does not find the SSD when I want to select it. The SSD is from here. This is the screen I'm stuck on:
I originally bought my Mac mini on Yosemite. I wanted to downgrade to mavericks, and on this website I read that if I went into core services and changed my SystemVersion.plist from 10.10 to 10.8 and download Mavericks from the AppStore, I would have mavericks. Guess what? App Store doesn't even work! All of my apple apps don't work because it says I need 10.10, including text edit. Can someone please help me? I even called apple and they didn't know what to do. HELP!!!!
Hey guys it's been a week since my MacBook Pro had water leaked into it, I'm pretty sure something is wrong :( But now when I try to boot it up I hear the startup chime, what does this mean? Should I buy an Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable or give up and just try to back up stuff from the hard drive?? *=URL=* Thanks for the help!
I've never had this issue before: I had an OWC ssd in my 2009 macbook pro, and I put it into a 2008 aluminum macbook. It worked perfectly. Then, I took it out and put it back in my macbook pro, but the computer wouldn't start up. It wouldn't even get past the grey screen (not even an apple logo!). Now it won't work in either computer. I've tried starting up in recovery mode: nada.
The tip presented here (*=URL=* no longer works. Is there a new setting we can use? I know how petty this sounds, but 1000 milliseconds is far too long to wait.
I have an iPhone 4s still running on some version of iOS 6. Is it possible to upgrade to only iOS 7.1.2 without going to iOS 8? Apple stopped signing iOS 7.1.2, which makes me wonder if I can do this. Thanks!
I am jailbroken running iOS 8.1 and was wondering if there are any working app cracking scripts similar to clutch or rasticrac. So far, the ones I have tried do not fully work on iOS 8.1. I do have experience so I do not mind advanced methods. I also do not want an illegal App Store that allows you to download IPAs. Also, are there any free tools for Macs that I could use? Thank you Edit: I am not going to use this for piracy
So I received a photo from a friend and I have done this with 3 different photos 3 different friends where I saved the photos weeks after they sent them to me and they show up in a photo stream from a week or month earlier. I am wondering does the iPhone save the photos to your photo stream of when they actually took the photo? Is that why I am getting one showing up in my june photo stream that was sent to me in October?
I was formatting my iMac g4 for installing OS 10.4. When half of the installation was completed, power failure occur which caused interrupt in installation.
The native integration of facebook and Mac OSX Yosemite. I am trying to post a photo with the native integration and the dialog already has "Timeline" Selected but yet it posts to "OS X Photos" album on FB.
There is no file explorer type utility in iOS just like we have it on Android system. So how can I copy files from/to my iPad from/to other computers (MacBook/Windows)? Specifically I am interested in the video created by the iOS Camera app.
I am trying to set up my computer (running Windows 8.1) as a headset for answering/making calls for my iPhone 4S. I have connected my iPhone through bluetooth, and can listen to music and create keyboard inputs, but cannot use Handsfree!
I've enabled the builtin Mail rules to move junk mail directly to the junk folder. But the messages do not get marked as read, so they are shown/counted as unread in the Mail sidebar. How can I mark mail that goes to Junk and Trash folders as read automatically?
It seems there is a formatting issue / dead hdd in my macbook, as I have the infamous ? despite ensuring a good connection with the sata cable. Is it ok to plug the 2.5" macbook hdd into the standard sata & sata power cables on my windows desktop and check it out from there? If it is working, will it show on windows? I have no other mac to use or a sata-usb enclosure... Thanks, nuggetbram
I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) with a 500Gb SSD hard drive. Today suddenly it said that my hard drive was full, so I started removing the files. Got rid of lots of Gigas, even the sleepimage file, emptied all the trashes, etc. Still, it shows like nothing was deleted, only has 500 Mb free and nothing is changing. Do you know what the problem could be?
On my iPad I received an email with an url of a video file that is stored online (public access). I am able to watch that video on my iPad without any problem. My Question: HOW do I download that video to my Photos app on my iPad?
I messed up with my contacts a bit on iPhone 5 and then did not do the smartest thing — connected it to the computer and it backed up, erasing all previous contacts from the computer too. However, in \AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup folder (Win7) there are some previous backups for my iPhone (from November, October, etc.), which hopefully contain the contacts.
I recently tried to update my iMac OS to Yosemite as most people had already done it a while ago. it downloaded the package when rebooted to install it. It was stuck with error message.
Re: Yosemite does not like emptying the trash So I'm not tech savvy but am having this very same problem with the trash after upgrading to Yosemite. I typed lsof +D ~/.Trash and this is what I got I am not sure what to do next.
I've just been given a corporate iPad mini that previously was used by someone else in my team. It appears to have been factory reset - it is taking me through the welcome and setup process (language selection/wi-fi selection/etc.), but once I've connected it to the network, it says the iPad is currently linked to an existing Apple ID (it masks it with stars, but shows enough information that I can see who that is) and asks me to sign in with that Apple ID (which I don't have). The person in question is uncontactable. Is there any way I can forcibly reset it and remove its link to that Apple ID? If not, are there any options which make it more useful than a lightweight doorstop?
The Background: I use Dropbox to back up my minecraft worlds, configuration files, and various other folders (bin, launcher_profiles.json, mods, resourcepacks, saves, servers.dat, versions). I put symbolic links in "~/Library/Application Support/minecraft" which point to the files and folders in Dropbox.
An iPad I have was previously set up with a different Apple ID (see my question and its duplicate). I have since obtained the Apple ID and password for the previous owner, and used those to proceed through the welcome/setup process. It then asked for an another Apple ID for iCloud, and I gave it mine. Does that mean that it is now fully 'switched over' to my Apple ID, or might the activation lock still be associated with the previous owner, were the device ever to be reset? There doesn't appear to be anywhere in the settings screen explicitly associated with the activation lock, just the iCloud ID (which according to the setup process is a separate concept).
On Lion (from memory, and I can't check anymore) this method: open a one page PDF doc2 (with Preview), open a one page PDF doc1 (with Preview), drag thumbnail from doc1 onto doc2, save as (⌘⌥⇧S) onto doc3 was an easy way to make: or in Unix talk: Apparently (fixes appreciated) since Mountain Lion this simple receipe doesn't work anymore. What is the easy way to achieve such a basic operation for PDF files: given 2 PDF documents doc1 and doc2, I want to get doc3 = doc1 + doc2, with as simple an application as Preview, within a few seconds of click, click, click…. I need this basic function for users running Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite.
Ever since upgrading my mid 2009 MacBook Pro from OS 10.6.8 to 10.10.1 Yosemite, the backgrounds to all my windows are vibrating flickering pink which is quite undesirable. At first I thought it was the acid flashbacks they promised me in high school but it's definitely only on my computer Seriously, though, any idea as to why and any fixes? I have reset my PRAM
I have a Windows keyboard that attaches to a KVM that I use to control my Macbook Pro and my desktop. Pressing scroll lock twice on the KVM switches between the two computers. On the Macbook scroll lock is mapped to the decrease brightness button, and pause/break is mapped to increase brightness. I can switch between the two machines, but the screen changing brightness is a bit of an annoyance. Is there a way to map the scroll lock button to using scroll lock on just the USB keyboard?
My mid2014 retina pro keeps crashing, can't boot into safe mode and can't choose utilities when booting into recovery mode because no mouse commands are accepted. (not sure what key combo would choose a utility such as disk recovery) it resolves itself over time--not sure how.
On a current iDevice, such as an iPhone 6 or an iPad Air 2, is it possible to deactivate the Lightning port? I don't want to break it, just temporarily disable it, similar to how Settings > Bluetooth can be used to temporarily disable Bluetooth.
I'd just like to see who is connecting to my computers Access Point wifi. I'm sharing Internet from Ethernet to wifi with a password, etc.
I have purchased, downloaded and installed Apple Remote Desktop 3.7.2 from the Mac App Store (onto a computer that's running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1). When I first open the app, I am prompted to agree to the licence. Once I indicate my acceptance to its terms, the licence dialog disappears and the app stops responding (nothing further is displayed and the cursor turns to a spinning wheel if I try to access the unresponsive menubar; I am left with no choice but to force-quit the application). Executing the app binary directly reveals the following messages on stderr: I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling ARD, to no avail—although it may be significant to note that, besides /Applications/Remote Desktop.app and ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.RemoteDesktop, none of the expected file paths exist.
I want to send an email to a large list, using Mac Mail. How many email addresses can I have in To: or cc: or bcc:? I recall there is a limit.
I am trying to figure out the name of a tiny black doohicky part inside my 2012 15" Macbook Pro (unibody, non-retina). It's right below the RAM slots, between the RAM and the battery when you open up the laptop. I have circled the part in this picture from the iFixit teardown of said laptop.
I have no idea how they got there. I am syncing the Calendar app with Google, Facebook, and Meetup, but I can't imagine how that would produce such a ridiculous number.
I am trying to update my apps but cannot. When I tap the update button in the App Store it simply launches the app, not triggering the update download. I have a 5c running iOS 7.0 Would anyone know how to fix this?
In Dragon Dictate 4, the voice command "wake up" can be used to turn the voice recognition on (provided that the microphone was asleep, not off). It tends to get triggered too easily: when I discuss around with colleagues as the microphone is asleep, Dragon often believes I have said "wake up", and subsequently turn the microphone on. Is there any way to avoid this situation?
When installing an application from a DMG file one needs to drag the new application into the application folder (or some other folders). Is there any way to avoid this drag and drop (any new installed application would be automatically placed into the application folder)?
I had to replace the hard drive in my 2010 21.5" iMac. When I went to install the OS, I rebooted into the OS selection screen (using option). The Mac OS X install disc was there (but my external HD, where I back up wasn't), so I selected it.
Few days back I installed Team Viewer on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks. It worked fine at the first. Now the app is stuck on the dock saying "Application not responding" and it's running indefinitely. Force Quit from Dock Killing from Activity Monitor Tried to restart the mac and the app launched automatically even though it's not set to launch during startup under system preferences. There are two processes using the CPU which when I try to force quit gets automatically relaunched.
In iOS 8, I can't delete one single text. I can delete the whole conversation, but not a single text.
I am having issues with Adobe Dreamweaver on my Mac running Yosemite. I will be in the middle of saving a file to my server and it just locks up. Nothing will happen after that. I try and force quit the application and it closes fine. However, when I try and re-open it, it just bounces. *=URL=* I have to restart the Mac 4-5 times a day because of this. Is there a way to "clear" whatever is happening on a restart through a terminal command? Its bad enough it locks up like this but if I could quickly clear the application from memory or cache; it would save a lot of time restarting.
I keep getting this message: I’ve reinstalled the os, i’ve “fixed permissions” Nada
In Mac OS X 10.9's System preferences > Energy saver, there is a warning that says: Never letting your display go to sleep may shorten its life
In Mac Dictation, I wonder whether enabling Enhanced Dictation impacts the speech recognition accuracy.
I noticed that sometime some application are using some impossibly high amount of my CPU according to the Activity Monitor, as the screenshots below illustrate. How comes Activity Monitor displays such high percentages?
I just bought a new iPad and would like to give the older iPad 2 to my kid. He's used the iPad a lot to play a variety of games, all under my user account. Is there a way to create a new user account for my kid (I'll make it part of Family Sharing, etc) without losing the game scores?
Photo streaming to and from my iPhone 4 (iOS 7) and iPad Mini (iOS 8) was working well, but suddenly photos taken on the iPhone will not stream. Furthermore, in iCloud the phone is no longer listed under "my devices" and the only photos in the iCloud album are those from the iPad. Yet photos taken on the iPad DO stream to the iPhone, so something is connecting the two devices. I have already checked the relevant settings on the phone, and all iCloud functions are turned on (as they have always been). The only change I know of is that the iPad is now using the latest OS 8, but the new OS does not support iPhone 4. Why is the phone still able to receive streamed photos but not showing up on iCloud, and how can I get photos streaming again from the phone?
A few months ago, I partitioned my hard drive to install OS X Yosemite Beta, everything was fine but now that I'm trying to access to some data on my old partition user account (running on Mavericks), it looks like there is nearly nothing that remains, just some data in my documents and download folder. I can't remember if the data was meant to be on this account, or if it was on another one that would have been accidentally deleted/hidden. The only thing that makes me think that I could get quite easily this data back is that this partition has got lot of data, something like 80 GB, compared to the extremely small size of my user folder, which is only about 4 GB (and I don't think that the apps would take as much space as 80 GB)
I have an eject icon in my menubar that I cannot remove by command-dragging it out of the bar. Is there a command I can run in Terminal?
I'm trying to steer clear of Excel, despite my sister's nagging, and I've done pretty well to create a Quote and Invoice workbook in Numbers. The problem I am having is working out how to automatically populate and update a pop-over menu.
When I'm at work I have my Macbook Air mid-2013 hooked up to a Samsung SyncMaster 2443 display via a ThunderBolt-to-HDMI adapter and then to a HDMI-to-DVI adapter. Almost every second time I switch the display on, the display is just noise. The resolution is correctly detected but the display is like this:
Rebooted and tried again but this time I didn't see my Main. I selected the time machine backup, because the Extra hard disk is there. But I couldn't choose Main as a restore point! I checked with disk utility:
On my MacBook, whenever I wake it up from hibernation, it briefly displays static for about 2 seconds before showing the login screen, very like an untuned analog TV. The problem is purely cosmetic, because after that it functions perfectly. It doesn't seem to happen if I simply sleep it though.
Until now, I could change Release Date on videos without problem. But, from now, If the video hasn't Release Date field, when I tried to edit, it always appears 05/06/05 on that field and I could not edit it. Is this a general issue? Any way to update that field? iTunes 12.0.1.26
I have a MacBook Air bought in early 2011. Lately it just can't seem to stay cool. With normal load, the CPU hovers between 80ºC and 100ºC, and if I use iStat / Fan Control to turn the fans up to full, completely idle my laptop will still only cool to 75ºC.
Is it possible to auto-archive mails, after sending - or adding a separate "Send and archive" button? I use the Inbox Zero approach, so now I need to manually archive conversations that have ended.
This is a typical share menu:  For an unknown reason, mine looks like this:
At home I have a Dynalink RTA1025W DSL modem. MBP can obtain IP via WiFI MBP cannot see modem or get IP via ethernet. Ubuntu/Win7/Win8 can get IP via the same ethernet cable & modem. At work: MBP can see the LAN and obtain IP via ethernet using the same USB ethernet adapter.
I am very new to using Macbook Pro, and was recommmend finding on the new Yosemite system that there are far too many prompts and synched uppdates etc. Does anyone know how I can do a general disabling of them? For example, I would like to remove the prompt like auto refill, when I am filling in forms for payments or I get email and facebook uppdates when I am in other apps.
I'm experiencing an issue where the Firewall in OS X Yosemite is repeatedly preventing me from launching ARD Admin. Symptoms: Launch ARD and no window appears. I am forced to force-quit the application.
I have seen Finder is giving some issues. For me, it is working fine as long as I use Latin characters. Since I work with Tibetan, I was used to search for text. When updating to Yosemite, it stopped working properly. I have checked with various friends and all have the same issue: Yosemite indexing has changed from Mavericks.
I'd like to have all my client invoices in a Numbers document, including invoice number, service period, daily rates,... and generate a invoice from that with a template I have created in Pages. How can I accomplish this?
Yesterday everything was fine but today my macbook freeze/stuck during the boot. I've done this: check + repair permission (nothing changed) check + repair disk (nothing changed) tried safemode (doesn't boot) resetting pram with cmd+opt+p+r (nothing changed)
Is there any way to not have an app (browser, gmail, Facebook) refresh when coming back to it? I don't understand where this behavior comes from or why it would be desirable.
Please I wanna ask you if you can help me to resolve this issue. I have make a handling to downgrade from Yosemite OS to Mavericks OS. After this, my Mac cannot start up, it displays a folder with question mark I've tried to boot with (cmd + R) but I got this strange error "-2003F"
I don't seem to be able to use multiple UDB external HDD on my MacBook Air. When I plug in a second HDD, the first one is ejected. Is there a limitation or is there a function that I have not selected? Thanks
I'm at a conference and the only plug is a "Uni Pak II" which is a dimming power source (here's the manual). At first my charging indicator on the end of the MBA plug didn't light, but I slid up the analog slider and it lit up (I knew it had worked yesterday!). Is there any chance of it harming my MBA or power supply to use this?
I've syched and restored my iPhone, but without any results. All the music is still there in iTunes on my home computer, but only the minority of songs purchased via iTunes is showing up on my phone.
I have the following: I can run them fine from the Admin account and it works, but is there a way to do this on a non-admin account? Even Sudo did not seem to work exactly.
I never thought I would replace my old Apple Extended II, but after getting a Wired Keyboard with my Mac I found it to be a great alternative - and with all those Eject and volume keys... But it's big. Big enough that I'm always hitting the right side of it when I'm gaming. Wide enough that I want to try something else. So I got the Apple Wireless Keyboard. It uses someone else's mechanism for the keys, and they are harder to push and mushy. My typo rate soared so I returned it.
I have 2 excel sheets (Using Microsoft excel 2011 for mac) I have applied 3 rules using conditional format: 1. If any of the data in Sheet2 matches with Sheet1(ColumnD) - Make text as blue 2. If there are any duplicate values in sheet2 - Make text as yellow 3. If the above 2 are not there - leave it blank
I bought my husband an iPad and put 50.00 on it. He doesn't want the iPad so I would like to use. How do I get everything including the credit into my name?
This has to be my #1 wish for iOS, bar none. I swear the look of the GUI in iOS 6 fits my brain far better than that of 7/8. It's not just a matter of cringing every time I look at it; there is no contest in terms of my productivity being much higher on iOS 6. Is there any way (via Cydia etc) to make all apps (or at least some of them) use the old GUI style? I know there are lots of apps in the app store that simply haven't been updated and so use the old style so it seems that a small amount of runtime injection could achieve this.
Please give me advice with iOS apps for data sync via sftp. I've tried using google... But there is no result. I need to sync iOS 8.1 with debian via sftp in live mode.
I am getting this error much too often. I am copying a big number of files from a slow device (external hard drive) to my Mac. When the copy is completed, the last top folder is still marked as "incomplete".
I have just tried 28 different apps that claim to download youtube videos for offline viewing/listening, including Instapaper and Pocket. None of them do it; they all expect there to be an internet connection. Is there just .... 1 app .... that works?
A click on "Install App" does nothing. No error message, no download. I am trying to download an app appropriate for my installed OS.
My iPhone 6 running of iOS 8.1.2 won't store all my flagged emails, 5 and only seems to remember 3 out of the 5. Until you actually search for the emails it can't be found by looking through inbox or updating. Restarting the phone does not do anything. This is also the case for regular emails where older emails seem to vanish until you search for them too. They are not stored in trash, junk or in archive. On settings I have checked that emails will not be deleted without asking first. Please help. Many thanks.
I have an odd, highly specific problem when using my third-party USB keyboard with my MacBook Pro: option + left-shift + right-arrow (which as Mac programmers will know means "highlight the word to the right of the cursor") does not work. The reasons behind this are unclear, but I know it's not to do with user-level software preferences, nor directly to with a low-level hardware problem (see my original question on superuser for the full troubleshooting logic).
I just bought an iPhone 5C. I can't figure out how to make a call. My contact list was uploaded to the new phone but there are no phone numbers listed. Email addresses are listed for some of my contacts. Do I need to go to a different screen or do I need to manually add phone numbers?
Following is not following the child "sql.py" python process: Here is the output - which shows no evidence of following the invoked python:
Is there any way to configure uBar so that the application list spans on several columns (instead of having to scroll as we need to by default)? One column = need to scroll:
Is there any way to remove the taskbar transparency in uBar? (i.e. set the transparency to 0%, i.e. 100% opaque)
Is it possible to avoid maximized windows to overlap with the uBar's taskbar? By default when I maximize a window it will overlap with uBar's taskbar (but not with the Dock). Example:
I don't seen anything different like below picture.
In our school environment, we have a WPA2 network with simple username/password for joining all our Apple TVs. Eventually we replaced this with hard-wired Ethernet connections. Faculty and staff join another WiFi network which students may not access. This network allows staff to see Apple TV in AirPlay while students may not.
How can I have two versions of the same app listed in Launchpad? For example, I have both Processing 1.5 and Processing 2.0 installed. Only one shows up at once - is it possible to have both?
Typical way of typing national characters (if you need to use them) on a keyboard looks as follows: This is an example for Polish ą character: Push ALT. Push a. Release a. As a result we 'll see ą on the screen. Now, the question: I am looking for slightly more convenient solution: Push and release ALT. Push and release a. As a result we 'll see ą on the screen as well.
I typed "Finder" in Spotlight. Finder isn't shown. Why? I use Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
My username in the Mac login screen ("My Name", there is a space) doesn't match the one in Finder and terminal ("anothername"). Which one is my real username? The reason I'm asking is that I want to share media files over my home network, and when I was trying to access the media from another computer, it ask me for username and password. I don't know which one is my username I only know the password. I tried both and neither worked. Always says wrong username or password. I'm sure I know my password because that's how I login to my Mac. Could there be a third username? I'm completely lost.
I see the gray screen and nothing shows up for minutes on the screen not even the blinking question marked folder. Does anyone know how to get it to boot as I have a new hard drive I installed and want to install Mac OS X Lion via the time machine backup. The old hard drive works fine but the boot up using the USB stick does not work.
I feel I'm making this post more for validation than anything, but I want to get some of your opinions as well. My friend contacted me the other day asking how she could make her MacBook Pro run a bit faster. I had her send me a screenshot of what she has and it's a Mid 2009 MBP with 4GB of RAM. I had her send me a screenshot of activity monitor and it shows she was using 8 MB of swap. In my mind, she is going to see a better performance boost from upgrading to an SSD instead of RAM, here's why:
I just installed the SSD and I cannot detect the SSD in Disk Utilities of the recovery disk. Even trying to restore from time machine backup it cannot find any disk it can restore to. I am restoring Mac OS X Lion backup and using the Lion bootable USB stick.
With Yosemite we got handy, growl-like, alert popups from the notification center. It's great but it often hides handy utils which also take the top right position of the screen. Is there any way change the position of those alerts (via system preferences, plist, or an app)?
The old battery of my MacBook 13" white (mid 2007) is dead (as I always had the MacBook on my desktop and did not bother calibrating or discharging the battery). I bought a new one (original Apple battery) and I wonder how to treat it to get optimal performance and a long life. I found general tips on the apple.com homepage, but they are for MacBook Air/Pro Li-Ion batteries, and if I am not mistaken, the MacBook 13" has a Li-Polymer battery which might be a different story. So what do I do with the new battery? first use/charging daily use
I am a newbie of Mac user. I can see there are gcc, git, etc in the "/usr/bin" folder. But when I want to use them, it prompts like this: Does it mean I must install xcode to use gcc or git, thanks very much in advance!
Is there any way that I can add automator itself to the list of services I can automate? For example right now I can go and add a launch application action to the workflow and within that action launch automator. Effectively this creates a level of control over automator but only by routing it through the utilities action item. I know that you can add new application action libraries to automator to control any app that releases a library for it. So is there one for automator? Where is it if there is?
My iPhone 5S 16GB is complaining about disk running out of free space. When I check it in settings, it shows me I have 1,5GB free space.
When using my iOS 8 iPhone 6 with a cellular mifi, it sometimes thinks this device has some sort of webpage login page, the way public wifi does (I guess sometimes called a landing page). However, it does not. Is there a way in iOS I can mark a SSID as never needing a login page? I suspect the reason it does this is this: The mifi gives out DHCP before it has connected to the internet via cellular iOS sees that it has a local IP address but can't reach the interent via some sort of test Thus iOS assumes this is a scenario where you have to login, and tries to bring up a landing page - its blank but has the domain name that the router uses a shortcut to get to its web interface Thanks!
I'm looking for the font that Apple is using for Special Key Symbols on their keyboards. I know that Vag Rounded is used for regular characters, but that font does not support characters used for the special keys. I've been searching for a font that would look at least similar to the symbols, but so far I haven't found anything satisfying. For example, here are some of the keys with the special symbols: Return(↩) key: Tab(⇥), Caps Lock(⇪), Shift(⇧), Alt(⌥), Command(⌘) keys:
After finally looking at all file system objects affected (defected?) with these long keys it appears that most were files or volumes that are not local to my machine. Several were Public folders on my partner's iBook, two were virtual Windows disk volumes (one from VMWare Fusion, one from VirtualBox) that they are all references file system) and one left from a USB flash drive. All of the items were no longer accessible but I'm not sure it that mattered; they all just happened to be gone. But there were at least two volumes, one on a constantly connected USB drive and one that resides on the second partition of the internal SSD. (The USB drive was divided into 5 partitions yet only one of them had acquired a huge Bookmark key value; the other partitions were defined normally.
Can you set your own track/album prices when selling music on iTunes? I was able to find answers on several forums (not on Apple's website/KBs), but they were contradictory (some say that it's $0.99 automatically, some that you can choose the price). Can someone clarify the pricing parameters an artist can use on the iTunes store?
I did my Time Machine back up using my hard drive. After that, I didn't realize that I lost all my files that were in the hard disk. How can I get the files back? MacBook Air
I have create my apple Id online using chrome and not from the App store or Itunes. Now when i try to download any free app from the app store it gives me a error that the Apple id i am using has never been used before. It takes me to a different page where i have to agree to the agreement and demands the credit card info on the next screen where the "none" option is not available.
I am having an issue with the AppStore, and this is a related, but different question. How do I find and remove all bits of the AppStore application? Besides the obvious app itself, sitting in the application folder, what prefs, helpers, etc are there that must be removed?
I have a Netgear router (CG3100) which is in my office and the base of our wireless network. A few rooms to the back of the apartment we have an Apple TV but the wireless connection here is flaky and keeps dropping out so I want to extend it. I found an old AE base station (A1088) which is good and working - I understand though that this can't extend the Netgear wirelessly as you need all Apple products for that, but it can extend the network when connected by Ethernet. Been searching for how to do this but can't find any info.. can anyone point me in the direction of some resources/how-to for this or let me know how to do it? Cheers!
I used 2 backup disks , Macintosh HD and Seagate . My macintosh was unable to perform a backup due to lack of space while my Seagate is unable to perform a backup until the first backup is complete. And I happened to remove Macintosh HD from the back up disk and I couldn't set it back because the name Macintosh HD is no longer under the "Available Disk" besides Seagate
How do you "save as" in the same folder as the original document. When I open any file on my hard drive, and make some changes, but want to keep the original, when I try to "save as" a different name, the original folder where original document came from, is not the default, or even a choice on the "save as" screen
When I try to install Yosemite the SSD is not found. the Disk Utility lists the SSD, but does not give me the possibility to erase the disk. Any advices? Thanks
I have some problems with cookies, I don't want cookies everywhere, but only for certain websites. What I have done right now is I allow cookies, then do the thing where a cookie is saved, then block cookies. But some websites requires me to always have cookies on for some reason, in this case Stackexchange and another website. So does anyone know how to do this?
I've been waiting 8 hours now for my iPhone 5C to erase content and settings and still not finished. How long is it normal to take to reset an iPhone to factory settings?
I want to share my media files on my Mac to my home network, however when I tried to access them from my PC I was asked for username and password. I'm sure I entered them correctly (I mean I can log out and log in my Mac no problem), but it kept saying unknown user name or bad password. What could possible cause the issue?
I'm on OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite. How can I force a newly launched application to open to a specific monitor? How can I force a new window that a current application is opening to open in a specific monitor? Failing sufficient answers to these first two questions--how can I move a borderless window?
Recently I did some updating on my computer just to make the display better, change sleep length (extended, not shortened), and to add hot corners. Well, now when we play up to two or three songs on iTunes, the computer logs the user out with no warning. I've gone to different timing settings, but I can't seem to find the problem. Anyone know how to help?
I want to create a separate library for Christmas music that is not on my main iTunes library. The plan is to wipe my iPod of regular music and replace it with Christmas music just for the season, then wipe it again and return to normal music. Any ideas?
I have an eBook that I downloaded and then manually synched to my iPad. I have managed to somehow delete the original file from my laptop, and so I cannot synch the book to my phone to read there. It no longer appears in my library in iTunes either. Is there a way to transfer the book from my iPad back to the iTunes library so that I can synch it to other devices?
I once bought a macbook for my friend. I logged into it using my own apple account to make sure it worked properly before delivering it to him. However, he now gets a copy of my iMessages. How can this link be removed so he will no longer be able to see my messages?
I would like advice on whether it would be safe to block users not in the appropriate group from accessing my home directory. I have some servers running on my Mac (10.9) under a different account, and wish to decrease the consequences of a hacker exploiting one of them by preventing this account from accessing any of my personal files.
Is there something I can do to force Mail.app to work normally with that account? All others are fine.
I would like to get the Spotlight prompt under the magnifying glass positioned in the top right of the screen under the menu bar. Yosemite shows it in the middle of the screen. Is this configurable or hackable?
I was a big fan and heavy user of the list interface in previous iTunes. For example, it had the columns at the top, Genre, Artist, Album (i think :) ).
I have a song that is primarily in 4/4 but has two places where I had an extra half measure. So for part of the song where I go from the verse to the chorus it is on the 3rd beat (half was in the middle of the measure). For some reason, even though I use the exact same length (12 measures) for the "verse" part of the drummer, the entrance is automatically modified to some kind of fill instead of a normal verse entry and is messing me up.
I'm not sure what happened, but I don't see Archive mailbox in Mail.app.  Compared to iCloud.com, there is a Archive directory.
Hey Siri is too short: it keeps getting triggered when people talk around. Furthermore, I have several iOS devices: I would like to have a different voice command for each device. Is there any way to rename the voice command Hey Siri to turn on Siri?
How do I solve this problem? The storage space does not increase when I delete files. Yesterday, I deleted 250MB of files but made zero change to storage space. I have emptied the trash. I don't use Time Machine
My MBP has an AZERTY keyboard (a French keyboard, more precisely). I usually type English, French and Vietnamese. For the latter I use the built-in Vietnamese Telex input source. Since I'm used to type Vietnamese on QWERTY keyboards, I want to change the layout of this input source to QWERTY as well, but I didn't figure out how to do that. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
I would like my MacBook Air running Yosemite to sleep once I close the lid, even if an external monitor is attached. Before Yosemite this could be achieved with sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0. This has stopped working after the upgrade. Is there another or a new way to achieve the effect I want?
Is it possible to add a custom dictionary to use for the "Define" feature on iOS? For example, I want to add a dictionary of unix/linux commands so that in situations like this a definition is provided:
Note: The issue with delay was fixed in OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, Applescripts that use delays have stopped working. How can I fix this? Here's the world's simplest Applescript, for the sake of an easy example:
So, I have Google Maps for iPhone (not the latest 4.0.x version, but the immediately previous one), and there's an arrow on the bottom right which enables "My location". When it's enabled (the arrow turns blue), the map is always centered in your current location…
We have lot of machines and occasionally experience slowness in some devices and wanted to see if it has something do with a device stealing the bandwidth. So I would like to measure the bandwidth utilized by each device.
So this is kind of a follow-up to How do I make OS X auto focus on the window in the screen the mouse moves into? because I'm having a different problem but looking for slightly different functionality.
I want to create an Apple-ID to download viber on my iPod. Having selected "None" for the payment method and having inserted my address, it takes me out of there. So, I don't get an email to verify the Apple-ID. What's going on?
It's always bothered me that certain directories on OS X will open like this:  And others will open like this:
I have a Mac Book Pro Retina display running OS X Yosemite and recently it has started acting up. Occasionally, upon a trackpad click, the machine stops responding, you can move the pointer, but the keyboard does nothing and clicking the trackpad does nothing. Holding down Command-Option-Esc does nothing. I'm only able to hold down the power button until it forces a reboot when this arises. Upon boot, the machine reports a graphics error: A graphics problem has been detected.
By accident, I see a strange behaviour when creating a folder with an extension .md It gets the the same icon as a file with extension .md (the MarkdownLife icon). For other file extension, I do not see this behaviour.
Before reading this long question, please note that it is mostly outdated in light of the more recent developments reflected by the top answer. Unfortunately Apple has decided to create kext signing in Yosemite that creates issues for SSDs that require Trim support for optimal function and longevity. Whether this is vendor lock in or not, it's made upgrading a headache. If you bought a SSD that needs trim support (at time of writing, all SSDs benefit) such as the Samsung 840 Evo, there are many reported issues when performing PRAM reset and potential future system update conflicts in addition to the current security tradeoffs (see below). Trim Enabler author says using Trim Enabler by turning off kext signing is cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer.
Is there a reason for iPhone to save screenshots taken as .PNG instead of .JPG? Screenshots won't have transparent background anyways.
in iOS 8, multiple entries of "Local Disk" spawned every time I use Windows 7 File Explorer to transfer files to my computer.  How to remove those? and when will iPhone / iOS re-index those random sub-folders in DCIM folder?
I used iMovie a lot in the past days (Mac Mini Late 2012 - Mac OS X 10.10) but now if I press the icon in the dock it just does nothing. With spotlight search the same and opening it from the Finder makes no change either. I looked at the Console and the error was the following:
Is it possible to configure Macintosh Explorer so that pressing ENTER opens a file or a folder (as we can do in Finder)?
Is it possible to configure uBar so that clicking on a non-leaf element of the start menu does not open the corresponding folder? E.g. if I click on "Applications" (a non-leaf element), it will open the application folder:
Server.app got deleted and it was not able to find it in the backup to restore that app. How to I get this back? I says my system is still Lion Server but I need the Server.app to control some services via GUI. I wanted to start the time machine service so if someone know a command line way that is also fine.
I have an iPad 2 (Wi-Fi) which I want to update iOS 8, so I downloaded iOS 8.1.1 for iPad 2 Wi-Fi's IPSW. I updated with iTunes on my PC but it says that it cannot update my iPad! I want to install iOS 8.1.1 but current version on the iPad is 6.0.1. Why can't I upgrade it?
I am having issues installing Windows 7 through Bootcamp on my Mac. I want to be able to natively boot into my Windows installation so Parallels or VMWare will not work for me. I am using an early 2013 MBP with retina.
I had a user come in where I work, and she said that she didn't get emails on her iPhone 4; she was running iOS7. I have an iPhone 5c, and I failed to receive emails around 8:30 PM today.
I am trying to transfer my existing (Early 2008) Mac Pro to a new (refurb) 2013 Mac Pro. I'm still in "setup assistant" mode.
According to Apple's How to identify your MacBook Air guide and a search for Macbook Air, they list only up to Macbook Air 13-inch, Early 2014. Similarly, so does EveryMac.com. On the other hand, Engadget, Maclife, PCPro UK, Macworld, and Apple Insider all list the Mid 2014 version of the 13-inch Macbook Air in their reviews. So before I buy a Macbook Air, I'd like to be 100% sure: Is there really a Mid 2014, 13-inch version of the Macbook Air?
A few weeks ago I installed OS X yosemite.I did it on the standard partition, but I had a dual-boot with ubuntu. I realised that the ubuntu boot was gone so I tried to redo it. But in disk utility, when i tried to make Macintosh HD smaller it gave a "Error: -69803: Couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed " How do I fix this, not just for dual booting but resizing partitions?
I want to upgrade my RAM from 4g to 8g. my mac specs are:
Is it possible to enable automatic brightness on my MacBook when I use Windows 7 ?
I have a cable box that has usb ports. I plugged in an external hdd to one of the usb ports and I can access it from my mac book pro (yosemite) using ftp. I would like to use this drive for my time machine backups since I don't want to plug in my hdd to my laptop every few days. I tried transmit to mount the drive but time machine doesn't recognize it as an external drive. Any way to make this work?
I've got a tag in OS X which is labeled "To-do", and I want that Finder shows the files (and folders) that are labelled with this tag when I open a new finder window. So that the view that is shown when I click the tag in the sidebar to be set as Finders default view for new windows.
I'm using a recently purchased 2012 Mac Mini and installed the latest Yosemite. So far, it's being used headless as an iTunes server and I also have OS X Server 4 running on it for some basic home server stuff.
I have not done this for a while. The iTunes version 10 or so was quite intuitive to do this task. The current iTunes version does not seem so obvious anymore. Any instructions would be appreciated.
I am using a Mid2010 Macbook Pro (2.5 GHz i5, 8GB RAM, regular HD (no SSD) and still on MacOS 10.9). I am fully aware of the fact that, as the computer gets older, it may get a little slower due to more space used on the HD, more applications installed etc. etc. However, I feel that in the last few months I feel like the performance has degraded more than it should be. What do I mean by that? Well, it takes longer and longer for me to boot the Mac, applications take longer to start and it happens more and more often that they simple freeze for a short moment. Lately, I even had to use a cold reboot by pressing the on/off button long because the whole system froze when I was simply watching some videos.
I imported some videos from my phone onto my laptop. They are mp4 files and when I play them they play properly. However, when I import them into iMovie they are all really laggy and the video lags behind the audio. I tried to delete them and import them again many times and it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to fix this?
How can I connect to ftp server in terminal? What is the command? For example for the ssh server:
I'd like to create a savedSearch in Finder that looks for recent Documents AND pdf's. If I create a rule such as:
I was asked to block netbiosd, but do not know what is. I must to block all connections from netbiosd?
Can I use iCloud to transfer photos from my new iPad to 2008 refurbished MacBook 13"?
In Terminal, I noticed I have /Volumes/Storage Drive. On my mac, I have no drive named Storage Drive. Furthermore, no Storage Drive appears in Finder or Disk Utility. When I cd inside Storage Drive and ls -a, it is empty.
I am looking for a file browser for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with as many following features as possible (approximately ordered by descending importance): has a treeview along with the main pane automatically synchronize treeview with main pane editable address bar pressing ENTER or mouse single left click on a folder/file opens it display file extension tabs can display a folder's content as a detailed list bookmark / favorite can display hidden files a decent search feature automatically expand tree node on selection still maintained Macintosh Explorer (free) is the best I have found so far: it fits all requirements except that it is no longer maintained, does not automatically expand tree node on selection, pressing ENTER or mouse single left click on a folder/file does not open it.
My teenage daughter's Mac Mini (running OSX 10.8) was cluttered with all sorts of stuff, even unwanted and inappropriate popup windows when using Safari, and more. So I made a final TM backup. Then I did a clean install of Mavericks. Now, I wanted to bring back individual files and folders from that TM backup, BUT...
I have a macbook pro 15 inch mid 2010. For school i have to use mostly Adobe applications but they take so long to boot up. Not only these programs but other programs too. What should i do to improve my macbook. I was thinking to upgrade my ram from 4GB to 8GB. I was also thinking to buy a Samsung Evo 840 128GB SSD. But i don't know which one should i buy first.
I have a removable 16gig flash drive from lacie. Everytime i put it into a mac computer that hasn't used that drive before, the files that stood on the drive once but are already deleted from it show up in that computer's trash. I don't know why this is happening but it's annoying. Thanks for the help!
I've removed Windows partition (might be label as Bootcamp) using Disk Utility. and after that i found that i made some mistake because in actually i should remove it via Bootcamp Assistant. What's wrong with me now?
I feel like both of these problems are deeply intertwined, maybe my map is fine I am unsure but it doesn't look right to me. Any ideas would be appreciated thank you.
I'd like to tell an older person, how to open images from his USB stick or SD card and continue to the next images in the containing folder very easy. On Windows, he can plug in the memory device, wait until an explorer opens and double click an image. Then he can use the arrow keys left/right to show the other images in this directory.
I was at the Genius Bar recently and the techs had a tiny tool on their loop of cables that looked like a pin with an oval-shaped loop at the top. Anyone know where to acquire this tool?
I'm quite a new OS X user and come from a linux background - usually to debug my problems I consult the logs as per /var/log/syslog however with Yosemite i'm not sure what i'm looking for. Any way my problem is that I will load Skype and video call someone which works fine but the moment my mac is locked or goes into hibernation mode the next time I try video call the web cam is not detected - if i attempt to use Photo Booth this too doesn't detect a webcam. Some google searches has revealed it's a conflict where the camera is "in use" when it isn't - and other articles seem to point towards AirParrot which i do not have installed. How would I determine where the fault is? How do I then resolve this fault? Rebooting does seem to be a solution but IMO theres a bug that needs fixing because rebooting to get a cam to work is just simply absurd - even Windows can function more reliably.
I am having a problem with the Dock popping up when I have my mouse near the bottom. Before, the Dock would pop up when the mouse was at the very bottom. But the current behavior makes it difficult to access things like tabs on a spreadsheet because the Dock comes up and covers them. What is to be done?
I sent my files(pdf, docs...) from macbook to iphone but i did not open my files when received. And now i can not find my files anywhere. Is there anywhere or removed?
I'm trying to figure out a way to update several text files with new content WITHOUT replacing the original files. Essentially, the files exist on a shared webdav (network drive), and the software reading the files has created generic "permanent links" to the files.
Is there any way to move the treeview to the left side in QuollEyeTree? By default the treeview is located at the top half:
I have an MBA running Yosemite. Apps like Mail, messages, calendar, and FaceTime have 'banner' notifications that pop up in my laptop's built-in display but they don't pop up on my external monitor that's plugged in via a thunderbolt adapter. How can I get notifications to display on my active display? Is this even possible or a feature that is yet to be implemented by Apple?
I originally created an Apple ID for use on the App Store in iTunes. When Apple introduced iCloud my Apple ID ended up being used.
I recently noticed that a strange padlock icon with a "T" in it on my status bar. It is not rotation-lock tho. What exactly is this? iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.6
I am trying to create a new iCloud account. This requires me to enter security questions. I normally have no issue with this, but I am offered only 6 choices, and frankly I don't know the answers to any of them.
I'm running Yosemite on a mid-2012 MBP. When I try to upgrade to iCloud Drive on my iPad or my MBP it states that my MBP will not be able to access files on iCloud Drive until I upgrade it to Yosemite. I'm already running Yosemite. Is this a bug?
There's a work computer (iMac) I'll soon stop using, which might be used by other people in the future. While I've mainly used a separate work-only Apple ID on the computer, I suspect I may have used my personal Apple ID on the computer from time to time.
I have a Mac mini (Mac Mini 5,1 Mid 2011 , 2.3GHz intel Core i5, 4GB RAM) model that has a stock HDD (Toshiba MK5065GSX 500 GB SATA III 5400 RPM). The HDD has a SMART issue and I have ordered Seagate's ST500LM000 (500 GB laptop thin SSHD). The only thing I am worried now is that Toshiba HDD had 9.5mm size while the SSHD has 7mm thickness. Would new SSHD be compatible and inserted without any extra stuff,effort and adjustment OR should I stick to a 9.5mm drive only ?
How do I recover and set my ringtone to the lollipop guild, a song I had already purchased?
Now my wife is holding iPhone 5S. She can't remember even though she created Apple ID and I cloud mail. She asked me, please create an Apple ID for her on my iPhone. Because I am working on abroad. Let me know how to create an Apple ID on another iPhone.
I am using the new outlook (Blue Icon) for OSX with a microsoft-online subscription account. I noticed there is an option called "Edit Message" when viewing an email in the sent-items.
Ever since I migrated to a new Macbook Pro Retina (MacBookPro11,2) and to OS X 10.10, iPhoto won't run. I was running OS X 10.8 on a Macbook Pro (MacBookPro7,1) before. I have tried uninstalling iPhoto and reinstalling using the App Store. The error I receive is this, full crash log:
When you right click an application in the dock, a list including the opened windows for that application is open, like this: *=URL=* The problem is this: I would like to specify the ordering of these windows some way. Or at least understand what is the criteria for ordering these windows. I see no apparently logic for this window order. Look the following: http://cl.ly/image/2I0E1A0y2A1q
How do you reinstall a free app that you deleted on an iPad? I tried to go into the App Store and go to updates and purchased and went to not on this device - because it was not a purchase it just says open! I can't reinstall it!
When I trying searching for a file/folder on Finder, I get way too many results. I know that I can narrow down search results by pressing the [+], but is there a way of narrowing the search results by typing something in the finder search box? Thanks!
Since upgrading to iOS 8, I've noticed that the Events list inside iPhoto is no longer in reverse chronological order. In fact, it's not in any order at all. This makes the Events system almost completely useless for me.
My MacBook Air won't shut down when an external hard drive is connected. The screen goes black, and the mouse pointer is still there. I think this started happening when I upgrade to Yosemite. Any suggestions as to how I might fix this?
With iOS8, there was a new album called "Recently Deleted" in the Photos app. Is there any way to delete the "Recently Deleted" album or any way to disable this feature ?
In System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General, Location Services lists a variety of items that you can opt to give permission to accessing your location. I have listed in this pane an application which I deleted and which I am unable to find any other trace of on my computer. EasyFind usually works for me to find any hidden file, but it's not happening this time. I want to remove this item from the list of things I can grant location access to since it's not even installed anymore. How do I do this? Where is this item hiding? Rebooting does nothing to change the situation.
I have migrated to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Sometimes I use an 'on my mac' calendar. I just wanted to create one for one of my projects, but I can only see "Exchange", "google" and "iCloud" but I don't want any of those, just a local one.
I want to install xcode on vmware image mac os x lion 10.7 .. I went to app store but it won't let me download because it's the latest version which not compatible with lion 10.7 .. I don't have an developer account .. So, is there any way to install an old xcode ?
The phone highlights colour as wrong, but not color. I want to force British English spelling.
Then, when I launched it, my computer became (not surprisingly) unresponsive, I did managed to force quit the app though, at which time OS X triggered me an error panel, telling me that there was a graphic error (and I could signal it), but it didn't blocked anything. A little bit later, after I ran another benchmark, a small black line appeared briefly on the screen (something like 0.5 seconds) and then disappeared.
When using the Pages app, how can I reduce the space between lines of text to LESS than single spacing?
I had another external drive transferred to this one with all my data on it and now I can't access it. What can I do to access the drive and data?
But when I play them back I get stuttering. :( Sometimes it's ok for a minute or 2 and then we get a little stutter, other times its stuttering every 10 seconds. It seems to stutter mostly when there's a big change in the image and lots happening in the audio - that could be my imagination.
I have an iMac running Mavericks. My music files (mp3) are stored on this machine. I also have a windows 8.1 laptop running VLC media player. I can access files on the iMac from the windows machine over my local home network using windows explorer with no problem. However VLC running on my windows 8.1 machine cannot access the files on my imac: I get an error saying "VLC cannot access the MRL."
I need to transfer my iPhone 6 contacts so I can use them on my Mercedes Benz C300 handsfree device without having to manually dial a phone number on my iPhone while driving. I used to have a BlackBerry and the syncing worked perfectly. Now I just can't find a way to transfer the contacts to the car.
I'm searching for an app like iTunes or iPhoto but for documents which manage documents for me. I assume the finder itself could manage documents, but please explain how the helpful properties of finder or another app can work more like iTunes and iPhoto on OS X.
According to several news stories, the iOS 8 betas included a new feature: Safari now blocks ads from automatically redirecting to the App Store without user interaction. (The last link makes it look like the feature did get into the released version of iOS 8, not just the betas.) However, certain sites (with ads) are still managing to open the App Store on my iPhone 5S. Is there a way to ensure this setting is enabled?
It seems to me that those scripts that are saved as *.applescript are always meant to be the raw, uncompiled text while those that are saved as *.scpt can be either the raw text or the compiled program. What advantages/disadvantages are there to using each extension?
My brother bought an iPhone 6 Plus, and it has a small problem. When it connects to a wireless network, it will disconnect, and reconnect within a couple of seconds about every hour or so. He has made sure that the software is up-to-date, and that didn`t help.
I have a WD external hard drive. I've been running the routine tests to make sure all my stuff is safe lately. In Disk Utility, I did Verify Disk on both the disk itself as well as the main partition, which is in the encrypted HD format. I ran across this error on the partition: Invalid Disk Label @[number] cksum mismatch
I have problem of connecting to iCloud with iCloud Control panel for Windows. After a while it errors with can't connect because of server error. And gives me a link to iCloud status which is always all green.
How can we access all browsing history from Chrome on iPhone? Does Google Chrome on iPhone have a SQLite database I can access?
I bought a mid-2014 MBP Retina (activated on 30/09/2014) from a friend and did a re-installation of Mavericks, then upgraded to Yosemite right after the re-installation (without associating the mac to my Apple account. I only did that after upgrading to Yosemite.)
This morning I took my iphone 5c to the genius bar and they refused to repair my cracked screen of the iphone initially agreeing to repair and then backing off citing water damage. My iPhone is in standard 1-year warranty yet, so I don't understand what the connection between water damage and a cracked screen is. Can someone explain Apple's reasoning or decision?
Somehow in the past 24 hours, I have only a basic menu for the Apple Menu and my early 2011 MBP running Yosemite 10.10.1 also always starts up in the Simple Finder. I especially miss the Recent Items in the Apple Menu. No idea what happened.
My question is fairly simple, seeing as iPod has full support for executing JavaScript (proven my bookmarklets (See below) why doesn't it have a "dev tools" option, or at least a JS console? Is there a specific reason for this feature not to exist standalone mobile?
Most people seem to want to get their new Mac to inherit their old Mac's backup. I seem to have the opposite problem.
I backup my iPhone to iTunes manually about once a week, and backup to iCloud automatically every night, when I charge my iPhone. If I want to restore from an iTunes backup, then I just connect my iPhone to my Mac and hit "Restore". It will restore the device to exactly the same condition as the last backup, including all media, etc. because all that media (music, photos, app data) is stored on my Mac.
I tried several solutions to disable completely the notification center in Yosemite. For example, see *=URL=* or *=URL=* These solutions disable the notification panel, but, in Yosemite, the notification icon of the menu bar is still there. How can I remove the menu bar icon ? I know the bartender software can do that but I am looking for a solution which does not require addind another app. EDIT: I have already tried to remove NotificationCenter.app in /System/Library/CoreServices. I also tried the following command: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist; killall NotificationCenter I also tried the following command: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist; killall NotificationCenter These two techniques remove the notifications but do not remove the icon.
After my PC died I have started to restore my data from backup. I have backed up the entire iTunes folder and successfully restored it. I do not put my content in the standard location...I do not put it on the Windows drive for example. Now that I have reinstalled iTunes, how do I tell it to use the content I restored? Right now it just shows all my music as existing on the cloud.
I have a rather difficult question. When I got my iPod I didn't have my own laptop, so my brother set up a joint account for both of our iPod's on his laptop - using his email and his personal account. Unfortunately my brother has recently passed away and I have no access to his laptop, email or iTunes account.
I have an iPhone that I use mainly to connect to internet and another device that simply makes calls and not have much features. It becomes frustrating using two devices when answering calls. There is a feature called "Call Divert" which charges for each call diverted, and using a Bluetooth headset is inevitable especially when you are having much less call frequency. So is there any app, without the need to be JAILBROKEN to connect the iPhone with other Bluetooth enabled device and simply act as a sound pathway so that calls and music on the other phone can be heard on this iPhone. More like using an iPhone as Bluetooth headset.
My computer seems to be keeping a local copy of my iCloud Drive folder. Is there any way to disable this? I know this because in my "Library" folder, there is another folder called "Mobile Documents" that links to the contents in my iCloud Drive folder. Also, when I click on "About This Mac", under "Storage", it includes the iCloud Drive folder's contents.
X11 forwarding has stopped working since I upgraded to Yosemite. I tried reinstalling XQuartz, but that did not solve the problem. Has anyone faced the same problem? EDIT: I was finally able to fix the problem.
Is /usr/bin/etags severely out of date in Yosemite? If so, what is the easiest way to get an up-to-date version of etags, to use with Emacs from *=URL=* I am using:
I can click to disconnect the drives, or open finder and re-access the drive, which clears the message. This is the state exactly after wake: (You can see the drive is actively mapped, but there's still a prompt to disconnect) It's no hassle for me to open finder, but in the context of end users, I'm hoping to be able to stop that disconnected drive message from appearing on wake. Any suggestions? Note: Using OS X 10.10.1
I'm trying to get the Mindstorms software on my MacBook, and this is part of the requirements: What are the service packs it is talking about? Were they on older versions of OS X, but not on the current version? I'm confused because I thought service packs were a Microsoft thing. EDIT: I'm currently running 10.10.1 (Yosemite).
Did you navigate to a page that produced a popup that says (among other things)... Suspicious Activity Might Have been Detected
Check this out - in Sublime (no hidden characters):  Now in OneNote (a simple command + c / command + v):
Total Mac OS noob here, after spending a lifetime on Windows I have my first Mac. Every couple minutes I hear an odd sound (playing through the speakers), it sounds like two beeps in quick succession, with a puddle-like noise in the background. It doesn't seem to be anything listed under Sound Effects in the control panel. What does this sound mean, and do I have to do anything?
I miss a feature of the windows taskbar; I could see each application instance separately keeping an eye on my actual open Windows and not Apps.. This is useful especially in debugging, keeping two Chrome windows open - comparing - etc etc.. Is it possible to alter the Dock in a way that will give me indication of the Instances of One app, rather than a single application icon which I have to right click in order to see how many - if at all - instances are open? I am asking either for Add-on apps, improvements, hidden gems, settings, anything...
When I got my MacBook Pro (1st version) last week on OS X Yosemite, it came with iWeb and iDVD but I deleted them and now I want them back. I haven't backed up using Time Machine.
I had a problem trying to clean the data from my Mac and now I can not start it. It ran Mavericks. I tried to make a swipe date but did not work and lost the system. I have backups of my personal files more unfortunately I do not have the system. Is there any way to install Mavericks again through a partition of an external HD? I already have this HD two images of the maverick acquired in apple store. One is the .dmg extension and the other is in .iso extension that I converted in linux. Is there any solution?
Checked my hard drive with fsck and everything is fine. Also tried /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs. Nada. My last line in my boot log is UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: CNPluginHandler en1: Inactive. If I boot to safe mode, the progress bar loads, it hangs on the gray screen for a while, it flashes blue for a split second and then hangs on the black screen. Regular boot just hangs on the gray screen. Any ideas?
I accidentally spill some liquid on the keyboard of my MacBook Air. It wasn't too much and I turned off the computer right way. The computer works perfectly fine, but after I log in the keyboard and trackpad stop working. Does anyone have any clue on what is going on?
I have a 2012 MBP running Yosemite and a Live CD of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It runs fine, but when I get to the install part it only gives me options to delete the hard disk (no operating system detected) or something else (which im not comfortable with).
Can anyone advise what a stable OS version would be for my mid/late 2007 Mac Book Pro? I am running Snow leopard 10.6.8 and know I can upgrade to Yosemite but have my hesitations after reading many comments on blogs. I've started to notice the effects of Snow Leopard being fazed out and want to upgrade but don't want to kill my machine while doing with a OS thats too much for it. I also don't want to lose apps in the process due to incompatibility. My basic specs are as follows: Processor: 2.6 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hard Drive Capacity: 320GB (27GB available)
I have reasons to modify my Java 6 (legacy) runtime resulting at the torrent client BitThief failed to run. I didn't like the application anyways so I am looking for an alternative. I did a Google search and found a few torrent clients on OSX that supports sequential download but I still like to get some experienced opinions. What I am looking for is a less resource intensive and stable client. Thanks.
So my iPad in setup to my newest Apple id. Every time I try to enter an app like Facebook it asks me for my old Apple id that I don't use anymore. I can't enter the apps without it. Does anyone know what to do? Thank you.
I recently had my screen replaced on my I phone 5c from a vender in our local mall. The screen had been previously cracked for about 6 mnths and functioned fine until I dropped the phone after being outside in freezing weather for a few hours. At any rate now it is acting all hay wire like my touch screen doesn't always work properly... I press one thing I get another... Especially if the phone is cold or my hands are hot then the touch screen doesn't work at all... My question is should I be heading back to the mall and asking some questions about my repair? I was reading previous post on calibrating touch screen and I tried a couple ideas... It mentioned something about it being in the front panel which I just had replaced so I'm wondering if I got a faulty repair or if it's something else entirely?
I changed my Mac HDD because the other one was corrupted. But when I do the Internet Recovery install, the bar on OS X Mountain Lion Install Page (Downloading Additional Components) goes all the way to the end when it says remaining 0 seconds and then the minutes go up again like 43 min remaining but the progress bar is stuck at the end of the bar, like it is in a download loop.
I have viewed almost all the files and still unknown with the file that contains the passcode. It would be great help if anyone would point me into the right direction. If any other security app such as Applock is present, where does its passcode resides.
This is not a question about transferring from one iOS device to another (straightforward and addressed at length in How to transfer Clash of Clans from one iOS device to another. This is a question about transferring from one Game Center account to another. It happens that in my case this is within a given device.
Garage Band for iOS has a mode to use real instruments. The documentation is unclear, however, how to connect those instruments to the iOS device. What options exist to connect an electric bass guitar to an iOS device to use with Garage Band?
I have tried network reset, phone reset, hard reset, turning on and off both services but no luck. How do I go back to using FaceTime and iMessage on my original network?
I bought an iPhone 6 from someone and the phone is still logged into his iCloud and find my iPhone is still on. I need to reset the phone. If I restore the phone using the home button and then connect it through my iTunes will it ask me for the the iCloud password of the previous owner?
As the title says, I have a process called Dropbox109 asking to access the internet. I have denied it. I have Dropbox installed since Mavericks, and its been working fine (uploads/downloads/sync). What's suspicious is I got this Dropbox109 internet access request for the first time in a year of having Dropbox installed, and I couldn't find any information online. Does anyone have any idea if it is a malicious program/virus or a legit process?
My Macbook previous OS is Mavericks,one day, i use find my iphone to lock my macbook and the Computer started to prompt me enter password(not the lock my mac Firmware password, i removed it right after the first Firmware password prompt) before the OS start to boot(It's like asking for password on BIOS if it were a PC).Then i upgraded to Yosemite and it's no longer ask me for password before system start booting up. The question is how i can get back the old password prompt, or is it just me confusing that the password is prompt before system start.
On Yosemite 10.10, I was trying to use defaults to modify the Info.plist file of an app, but after such command, osx does not reload modified Info.plist. I've tried to move the app around and reboot, as mentioned somewhere else as a way to force osx to reload Info.plist, but failed. So here's the problem, How do I force osx to reload the Info.plist file of an app? Specifically here is what I want to achieve: Currently the flash in Firefox runs in low resolution when in fullscreen mode, to fix this I need to make the Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app HiDPI compatible. According to this, after this command: defaults write /Application/Firefox/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app/Contents/Info.plist NSHighResolutionCapable true
How can I keep my iPad from asking me to log in to iCloud? I don't want anything to do with iCloud and I don't want to be constantly hounded by Apple to log in.
I want to see the exact commands of some processes in activity monitor, as most linux process monitor can do. Is it possible with activity monitor?
This is related to the iPhone and iPad. Every single device I came across has sequential bluetooth and wifi mac addresses. Except for one device and I think it might be jailbroken I am not sure (it was a friend's phone). Is this always correct? Every iPhone/iPad has sequential mac addresses except for the jailbroken ones? If not is there a pattern between bluetooth and wifi mac address?
I have a Mac Mini, running OS X 10.7.5, and I try to upgrade it, but I cannot for some reason (in short - I want to install the new XCode and code in Swift). When I click the "Free upgrade" button nothing happens (pic below). I have triple checked Little Snitch that nothing is blocking the App store or something similar, but found nothing. Any suggestions.
I saw this post: Creating A Bootable USB Of Windows 8.1 On OS X? but here the final destination seems another Mac. Have I to follow the same procedure?
I recently updated to new 10.10. However machine is on the end of its life and usually I would do a clean install. Somewhat I always have troubles with the update. Yet again, here is what happen when I did just an update: In my observation not all of them fails all the time, but it does give rather hard time on my machine. I tried to reload the modules with launchctl, but does not make a difference.
My Macbook Pro was broken and I had to fix it at a Apple support. Afterwards, I noticed that the wifi symbol is not showing up on top of the upper task bar. I opened system preferences and went to network, & noticed that the wifi and the bluetooth tab is gone, it shows only ethernet and firewire, so I set a service order and no wifi tab pops up, only the ethernet tab and the firewire tab.
Right now I have a few .sh scripts that are being deployed via Deploystudio. I've created seperate scripts and tasks for each command. Though, it doesn't really function. The logs tell me that I need to specify each location for each script.
What do we do? Is this a file type incompatibility issue, or a software issue, or what? I was under the impression that the files on MiniDV tapes are natively DV-AVI (or is this wrong?). Do you have to convert these to MOV or something else while transferring if they are going to be used on a Mac? What do we do?
I'm running OS X 10.10.1 and keep getting thousands of lines like the following in the system console log. It seems dnsextd is always exiting with error code 1. Has anybody had the same issue? Any ideas on how to fix this? I've tried rebooting, stopping/starting dnsextd from launchctl, but had no luck.
My iPhone 3GS was lost and I don't have any iOS device to login and erase the data. I logged in using the browser on my Windows PC but it says I need an iOS device to locate my phone. Can I erase the data I have in the phone in any other way?
I just restored a phone from back up for my daughter. Now my text messages say they are from her. We both have IOS 7, and share an Apple ID.
Did Yosemite eliminate the Menubar icon for Messages? I don't see any preference to turn it back on. I found an Apple KB article that seems like it would offer the answer, but always results in a blank page. *=URL=* The irony is that I always previously disabled it, but the continuity features in iOS 8 and Yosemite have made Messages appealing to me for the very first time. Thanks. Update: Thanks to @Tetsujin I was able to see the KB article, but apparently something is different about my preferences since I don't see the option described.
This seems to be rather hit & miss, but often a link posted on SE leading to support.apple.com/kb/[reference code] seems to just give a blank page, as though it neither loads nor times out. Sometimes a refresh will load it correctly, sometimes not. Is there any workaround to this issue? Edit: I've tried the Remove all website data suggestion, which worked for about 2 days, so I'm back to the manual 'cut the kb number, paste it into the main page' method.
I have two different 3TB SATA hard disks: a Toshiba DT01ACA300 a Seagate ST3000DM001. I also have access to two different USB 3 HDD docks: a Connectland DOCK-CNL-YJK3519-V3+ES a Focus SATA + IDE dock (exact model name unknown) It turns out that if I partition a disk on the Connectland dock as GPT with one HFS+ volume, the disk would become unusable when I plug it onto the Focus dock; OS X Yosemite would complain that the disk cannot be read and suggest that I initialize it. Same thing the other way around: if I partition a disk on the Focus dock, the disk would be unusable on the Connectland dock, and OS X Yosemite would complain that the disk cannot be read and suggest that I initialize it. This happens to both Seagate and Toshiba disks.
Using Yosemite, is there a way to display events from my calendar in the command line? I'm aware of the stock calendars apple supplies for things like holidays and such, /usr/share/calendar/ and the command 'calendar' to display events listed in these. Is there a way to do the same thing but list events from my own calendars?
Waited until drives were wiped and then exited out of the utility program and back to the main screen to then click on Reinstall OSX. This installed with no warning messages and then rebooted my server for me. Once it reloaded back up this is the message I get, which launches into an infinite loop of restarting my machine from an internal error to then let me know the same error occured, to then restart all over again....
In Yosemite, there is a log file here: ...but it's always empty. How do I make the system write events to it, assuming there are any?
Macbook Pro. Trying to reinstall Yosemite. I can get to the "Install OS X" page, but the only destination given is "Recovery HD". I can go to disk utilities and see that "Macintosh HD" is there, and I can hit the "Verify Disk" and "Repair Disk" options and those run through with no errors. The partition map shows one partition covering the entire disk (449.42G) with a Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" format. How do I actually install to "Macintosh HD" though, if it doesn't show up as something you can install to?
Sometimes when I press and release the CTRL key while my cursor is in a text field, the letter "I" gets inserted and an autosuggest list gets opened.  I really really dislike this because I often press and release the CTRL key without wanting to type anything. How can I disable this functionality?
I have an iPod touch 4th generation with iOS 6.1.6 and my MacBook has OS X 10.9.5 with iTunes 12. I have some books (epub) in iBooks, but I can't transfer them to iTunes nor synchronize them with my iPod.
I have an interesting situation where when I monitor my disk activity, I find that mds_store is continually running between 1 to 35 megabytes per second (averaging around 3-5 MB/s) on the read and write is not nearly as active. When I start poking a bit, I find that sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mds_stores yields entries such as this pouring out: From sudo iosnoop I'm getting results such as:
I am trying to set up a very simple network using a Netgear 5 port Gigabit switch, a Mac Mini, a Seagate Central 4Tb NAS and an Apple TV to serve movies to my Samsung TV. I followed a guide on WikiHow, connected up all the devices, set the IP of the Mac manually and assumed that would be that.
A pop-up will appear on my phone asking me to accept the new terms and conditions. To turn off these notifications, I need to turn off iCloud. Unfortunately, when I go into my settings to turn off iCloud, it requires me to accept the new terms and conditions in order to even turn off iCloud!
I have installed Mac OSX server onto one machine. Caching is enabled. How do I now configure a client Mac on the same network to start using this cache for both web browsing and software updates?
Is it possible to put the iMac G3 in Target Disk mode, such that one could copy or image the HDD? This particular G3 does not have a FireWire port, only two USB 1.1 ports. It's the tray loading model from 1999 (iMac,1), and is running OS 8.6.
How do I transfer a folder from desktop to an imovie 10.0.5 project?
I've been doing some testing as my company is planning to integrate our mac users into the windows active directory environment. Joining/removing computers from a windows domain is cake, everything can be done via the Mac's Directory Utility. Is there a way for us to control which active directory users or groups can login to this mac?
I know the history is stored in /Users/<username>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync History. Does anyone know if it's possible to change where it's stored? I'd like to save conversations to a cloud storage directory.
I have tried a lot of things. Most drastic was to remove the gmail accounts from mail.app, exit mail.app, turn off IMAP from the gmail side, turn it back on, re-add the gmail accounts to mail.app. Everything seems to work fine, there is no activity happening in the activity window, and yet, when I search for anything in mail.app I get zero hits. Any ideas?
The biggest RAM hog on my computer is my unhealthy habit of keeping too many Safari tabs open. Even when I close them, their associated processes don't necessarily disappear if those processes were also supporting still-active tabs. I know that quitting a Safari Web Content process in Activity Monitor force-refreshes the websites that that process was supporting, but is there a convenient way to do this to all of the Safari Web Content processes at once? I know that restarting Safari works, but I'm hoping there's a faster way.
When I go to settings, iMessage does not show up under anything and I cannot access iMessage settings straight from the iMessage icon. Please help! There was a previous answer that said you could press command and comma, but when I press this, I get this picture.
Ideas? Hopeless? Thanks! 2014 13" Retina MacBook Pro Mac OS X v10.1 Yosemite (14B25)
I am using Codeblocks to develop C++ code on OSX Mavericks. I am currently running into the problem where the software occasionally will crash and than continue to crash every time the software is started again. I know for this software package there is a bunch of different sources: code blocks pre built apt, mac port version, and I believe even a version you can download through svn or git hub which is the nightly build. Additionally, I also have problems with the auto complete sometimes not working.
If I have "Automatic Downloads" enabled for some or all of the categories (Music, Apps, Books, Updates), then these items will download when available, while I'm connected to my home's WiFi network. I enabled these settings recently, so I'm not quite sure on this yet, but if I'm connected to a public network, then will they still download? Because public WiFi networks are often quite slow, so I think the downloads might stall. Is it possible to instead keep these options enabled, but prevent downloads from taking place on WiFi networks that are not my home network?
I've been getting messages recently that "My startup disk is almost full," and I'm quite sure I haven't used the full 250GB of my Macbook's hard drive. Using "Get Info" on Macintosh HD says that I'm using around 245GB (aka 5GB from being full), but I have no idea what could be using that much space. My home directory (with Photos, Movies, Downloads, etc.) is only around 34GB. Applications? only 11.
I have an iPhone with iOS 8. Is there a way to setup my phone where it doesn't require a passcode to unlock if it has been closed in the last 5 (or some amount) minutes? I know that my computer has a 15min feature. Thanks
My first question is do Thunderbolt to HDMI adapters exist? The reason I'm specifying Thunderbolt and not DisplayPort is because I have a Belkin Thunderbolt2 Dock. If I use a MDP>HDMI adapter and the HDMI port on the unit, only one display works. However, after borrowing my friend's Elgato Thunderbolt dock and connecting it to the TB port on the Belkin dock, I could use the HDMI port on each dock on both monitors, no issue.
Is there a way I can navigate the sidebar items using arrow keys? I am using Yosemite.
Does anyone know this might be? Hardware issue, like failing motherboard or something? Or (hopefully) some kind of software bug?
It seems that iTerm2 is hardcoded to highlight search results using a yellow background color. I tried both the latest release and the nightlies but could not find a way to change that color.
I'd like to record a two-day long time-lapse video with iPad Air 2. How long can iPad Air 2 record (charging while recording) time-lapse video in iOS 8.1.2?
I have a 2008 Mac Pro that I used to have a USB 3.0 card installed on that has stopped working with each OS release and is dependent on the use of a Kext Wizard which can create compatibility and sometimes other issues that make it more difficult to troubleshoot and lag a couple months behind a release of the OS update as well as getting rid of the kexts can be a pain if they are creating conflicts. It also is an issue when doing clean installs.
When OS X Mavericks was released in 2013 with tagging support built directly into Finder, I expected tagging on OS X to gather steam (at least among “power users”). However, the number of tools and solutions for using tags remains limited: Homebrew’s tag Leap Yep I am looking for tools to support maintenance jobs like merging tags, listing tags according to frequency, mass re-tagging. Are there other tools to help with these jobs?
I noticed that even when Safari is closed, many web processes are active, and these processes are active even when I just restarted my Mac. Actually, I noticed that this process is in the Spotlight web content group, what is the purpose of it and when will it stop ?
I have inherited some Mac-based machine, but when I power it on - virtual machine with Windows XP starts. I cannot figure, how to exit this mode or restore Mac to factory defaults. I tried booting with pressing Fx keys, ⌘ Cmd+R and C. Nothing works, and Windows XP is booting normally.
I have a MacPro 1,1 bought in early 2007. Earlier this year I was about to recycle it but tried installing an SSD as a boot/apps drive. It has been a great success, it now feels like a new machine and I'm contemplating souping it up to 16GB of RAM and using it to run Windows VMs (I'm a .Net developer) in Parallels Desktop or VMWare or similar.
I don't know exactly how/when/why this behavior started, but recently whenever I perform a paste operation (mostly this happens in a browser, from one tab to another), my entire system (2013 MBP running Yosemite) will hang for a number of seconds (~30-60sec). I'll copy some text from one page then paste it in another (e.g. a form, a gmail compose window, etc.) and on the paste operation, instead of the text getting pasted, the mouse cursor becomes the circular, colorful "waiting" icon. At this point the entire system appears to be "hanging", although I can move the cursor. For example, during the hang, even my Parallels Windows VM is unresponsive. When the system returns from the hang, the text is not pasted. I also tested this with a non-browser application (Notes) and it still causes a hang, so that's why I'm implicating the OS. This is obviously a fairly serious and limiting bug, so your help is appreciated. edit 1: I tried disabling the auto-correct spelling setting (under Keyboard
I have a macbook pro (mid-2011) and an HP Pavilion 22bw (prob inconsequential) connected via a Thunderbolt DVI Adapter. Ever since installing Yosemite, I now need to open the macbook pro and log in via its own screen, rather than the external monitor. It simply does not display / send any signal to the external screen until AFTER I'm logged in.
I have my MP6,1 connected via Ether to my Time Capsule, and my ATV connected via Ether to the same TC. Everything seems to be working, but my ATV cannot see my Home Sharing movies.
I had to run find / -name foo > found.txt and stumbled over the following output: I'm not using NFS nor have I ever mounted a NFS volume. Where is this coming from?
I'm now having major problems with my iMac. I had a massive software failure running Mavericks, it damamged the OS and I lost the recovery partition, I then wiped the hard drive clean and tried to upgrade to Yosemite, it failed numerous times (unable to verify etc etc) I then tried to create bootable Yosemite...also failed with installing one of the essential packages. I am now running the iMac off a cloned version of my damaged Mavericks OS and the recovery partition says it's Yosemite and doesnt work. I have also tried to reinstall from Lion CD, again not working. Also the Internet Recovery does not work. I seem to be in a loop of trouble....how do I go about just doing a clean install of anything?
For some reason I cannot find Notification Centre section on my iPhone 6. It's where you can set the today view to appear on lock screen, etc. I set it up a long time ago (probably in iOS 7), and I think there used to be a "Notification Centre" section in Settings. Now All I see is: -Notifications (control notifications from apps) -Control Centre -Do Not Disturb
After consulting the programming section of StackExchange, I have been referred to apple.stackexchange instead. I am using the following template: *=URL=* The associated forum (*=URL=* suggests that I should run the following commands to solve a coding issue: latex article.tex bibtex article latex article.tex latex article.tex
I would be so happy if someone could assist me in creating an Applescript to send some emails. I have seen a few examples but I am not confident that I can adapt them to my own needs.
I'm using OS X as a Server, running Server.app 4.0 to provide email hosting/etc. Attached to this machine I have a PROMISE Pegasus R2 RAID drive mounted at /Volumes/RAID6-11TB, and I changed the default service storage location so that the Server.app data would be located on the RAID drive (for redundency, and so that Backblaze can backup my precious email, which normally ignores /Library).
I swim with (some) regularity. Is there a way for me to edit the Health app fitness section to add a Swim chart / category?
How can I customize the Guest user Dock in Yosemite? Here are a few approaches I've tried but haven't been able to complete:
I need a little help here, I have attached my MacBook Air Mid 2013, to an Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD. On the product page it says that one can connect two monitors. The only condition is that one needs to be an Thunderbolt display. So far so good.
We just bought a new Mini with 10.10 on it (updated to 10.10.1) and it won't list any of the computers in the Windows Workgroup. I can however ping them by WINS name and connect using smb://EXAMPLE/share/ so WINS lookup seems to function.
I liked the transitions (fade-in, fade-out, sliding) and animations (when switching pages, or apps) when I did not know them. Now, I´d like to disable them everywhere. Is that possible? Is there an app for that? Could an app at all do such a thing? Good example is:
I'm using a device called a DualHead2Go that lets me plug two external screens into an early gen Macbook Pro. This device basically presents the two screens to the mac as if they were one gigantic 3840x1080 screen.
I am developing an iOS application for a business associate of mine. Is it possible to associate a second bank account for the revenues of that application? Or do all funds generated from a single Apple ID flow into a single bank account?
First of all i need to know if mail's passwords stored in keychain or not ? If yes .. how to extract passwords from keychain especially [APPLE ID] ? That's it
I have a Macbook that the OS has crashed (I am not 100% sure if the Hard Drive is dead, but I would like to save the files before anything else). When I boot up, the screen just remains grey and there is a spinner that stays on forever. I thought that if I got a thunderbolt cable and connected that Macbook to my other Macbook Pro, I could boot the crashed drive Macbook into Target mode and then get access to the files.
This may have been asked before but I couldn't find any reference to it. So Control-Click on a file brings up the context menu with "Open", "Open With.." and a number of other options. I often want to open a text based file in something other than the default application – for example, opening an mxml (Flex) file in BBEdit. The default application for that is Flash Builder and I don't want to change the default. Is there some kind of extension or service I can add to have an "Open with Running Application...(list of open applications)"?
In the following Terminal command sudo shutdown -r now, there is a time set ("...now"). Is there a way to set a specific time. For example, could it be sudo shutdown -r -int 1200?
I have 8 GB of ram and I have only 1.25GB free memory left, not enough to run 2 tabs of gmail. for chrome keep asking me to kill the process of my Gmail which 2-3 days ago I'm always have like 2-3GB free memory after opening 2 gmail accounts and some others websites.
I have an external device which mounts as an external drive and which I must format in FAT, not FAT32, for use elsewhere. Is there a way to do that from Snow Leopard?
Preview, by default, persists edits to the underlying file immediately. (i.e. if you crop something, the underlying file becomes cropped). I find this behavior very irritating.
The Time Machine control panel gives information on in-progress backups. For example
Is it possible to connect a Macbook Air 2013 to Macbook Pro 2009 through a thunderbolt cable in order to transform the latter to a second Display ?
On my computer I'm developing some simple front-end web pages made of typical structure: HTML source code for structuring the elements; CSS classes linked to the HTML; JavaScript files linked to the HTML as well. I put everything on a Dropbox folder and I'm so able to view all these files from my Dropbox application on the iPhone.
I would be extremely grateful to anyone pointing me in the direction of the Mac OS X analogue for the free Windows image-editing software Paint.NET. Basically the way I use it is I take lots of screenshots for work, then put arrows in there, some ovals and text - it's all for documentation purposes - mainly for Confluence.
I updated to Yosemite. I organized my launchpad but when I turned my laptop on after shutting it down, my apps weren't grouped together like I did before. What do I need to do to keep the layout I defined?
I would like to start a process and monitor its LOG_DEBUG syslog messages. I know that I can change the filter of an already running process with syslog -c process (and then monitor its messages with syslog -w -k Sender process), but that requires the process already to be running and furthermore fills up logfiles with messages that I only need temporarily.
So I just got my iPhone and I made a new Apple iTunes account and I verified my account through email then I tried to download a game and it says please sign in so I tried signing it and it said I need to complete my registration and to put in bank details , which I already did signing up... so I put them in again and this time it came back with " card declined, payment method didn't work" blah blah blah.. I cannot download games and I cannot access my emails or apples iTunes I cannot sign in it wot let me can someone help?
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It has an ExpressPort Slot connection that seems to have no uses without something else to connect in there. What are the possible things that I could use this port for?
My set up is macbook air mid 13 with i7 processor and 8GB of ram running OS X Yosemite. Which is plenty for my use, at least it has been. I usually have no more than 3 apps running as notes, reminders and safari. I also use statsbar to watch the performance and the usual is 1/3gb of ram free. The problem I started noticing is in the past week the machine has started overheating as I can feel it by touching the laptop and hearing the fan, which only used to happen when I tried to turn on all I could to see if the machine would handle it.
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.0 When I take photos using the built-in camera app, and transfer them off my phone using DropBox or PhotoSync the photos mostly end up as low-res versions. Not all of them, but about 90%. I've spent some time trying to work out what is going on and its melting my brain. Things I know: The problem is related somehow to the iPhone camera app as it doesn't happen with Camera+. The problem is related somehow to the iPhone camera app as it doesn't happen with Camera+.
Intermittently (relatively frequent) when the MacBook wakes from sleep and it kicks the external displays on, one or all of them may be fuzzy like this. I have one display in a Thunderbolt port, and the other one is Apple HDMI adapter in the HDMI port.
I have a contact with multiple (two) mobile numbers. How do i know to which number the sms (text message) was sent? The system did not ask me which telephone number to use. Is there a way to check it?
I've set up my Macbook Pro 2011 to run a linux home server through virtualbox. I noticed that this laptop seems to get hot after a few hours compared to my previous laptop (toshiba, windows 8) which I could leave running for days and it never heated up. I am curious though how long I can safely run my Macbook without putting it to sleep? (I have NoSleep installed) I have no problems rebooting once a week or so, just want to know for certain if this actually necessary, cause otherwise I'd put a fan on it and stick it in a corner and forget about it. CPU usage seems to be around 10% when running the server from what Activity Monitor is telling me.
9 months of emails are gone from my iPad. They still appear on iCloud on my computer. How can I restore them to iPad?
I just bought a new iPhone. I'm trying to sync music to it. iTunes get stuck in "Waiting for changes to be applied..." for what seems like an endless period of time. Furthermore all of the songs appear on my phone, but they have the cloud icon next to them, which means they aren't actually present on the phone, only the metadata is. Photos and other data syncs without a problem. I've tried unchecking the "Sync Music" button in iTunes, but now it still hangs.
Why??? Couple things to note: This Mac was passed down to me, I do not have a Mavericks installer and never purchased one.
That is, is there a difference between the Yosemite install "app" that I would get on the Mac App Store, between the one I would get on a MacBook Air vs. on a MacBook Pro? Trying to download it on my Air and install it clean on my Pro.
We wanna start doing car rallys and these routes are delivered using a GPX files. What we are looking for is an app that can make a route from our home to the start of the gpx file and then start navigating the GPX route.
How does one add iPhoto to the list of choices when right clicking on a photo in the Finder?
Excuse me for my english, I'm french and I try to find a solution for my new Mac Mini buy in December. My new Mac Mini it's configured with Yosemite 10.10.0. and it's a problem for me because I use some professional music software like Cubase Elements 7 or Studio One 2, it's not compatible for the moment with Yosmeite. I want to downgrade and I read your post and I'm in panic because I view that not possible to downgrade my new Mac Mini in OSX Mavericks. I have created a external bootable usb key with a Mavericks in my other Mac. When i restart on my usb key bootable, appear this symbol
I have a 2014 MacBook Pro. I want to restore my OS from a Time Machine backup which is on a shared network volume. When I restart in recovery (Apple-Opt-R), it boots from internet, but if I try to restore from Time Machine backup, it fails to see the server where the shared volume is. Do I need to log/mount the share somehow?
I've setup the Thyme app's notifications to be "Alerts" style, which requires the user to interact with it to dismiss it:  However, they dismiss on their own after about 5 minutes. How to configure these so they never dismiss on their own?
I sometime notice this random behaviour of the bookmarks not closing and it leaves me with something like this, any suggestions? I'm running Mavericks with everything updated.
I had also updated my iPhone few days ago. Noticed the timezone had changed on the calendar appointments. After working with Apple support last night, suggesting restoring phone to earlier back up when it worked. I did a restore last night, but still have the version 8.1.2. Big issues. Can't turn off google calendar. it freezes completely (when trying to turn off calendar). Calendar is blank then crashes.
I installed OS X Server 4.0 on top of Yosemite and my VPN got hosed. I've tried many things to fix the issue including attempted uninstall of OS X Server. Now I am going to re-install the OS. In preparation for said install, I setup time machine for the first time.
The other goal is to add a pseudo screen, without getting an extra monitor. Can't use os x native screen sharing as that will always have the same content as current action space. Any ideas..?
The VIPs folder on iOS and OS X seems to have very different behavior. On iOS it shows only messages from VIPs that are also in the inbox. On OS X it shows messages from all VIPs in every mailbox. Is there any way to get the VIP folder in OS X to act like the one in iOS?
I created a Family Sharing invitation and sent it to an email address. In a new iPad mini (running iOS 8.1.2) I find the email message and click on the "View Invitation" link. It immediately takes me to the iCloud settings, but there are no details about the invitation and no indication about how I should proceed. This iPad has not been previously associated with any Apple ID. How can I associate this device with the Apple ID associated with the invitation?
I am trying to save my files on my Hard Drive that has a crashed OS. I created a Bootable USB with Ubuntu and successfully booted. I can see my folders, but I can't actually open them because I don't have permission. I tried to do this: Where Pictures is the name of the folder I want to change permissions to. All I want to be able to do is to copy the folders & files from my Hard Drive to my USB drive. How do I do that?
I have an Excel spreadsheet that is pulling in data from an external CSV. I want it to refresh every time I open it, because eventually it's going to be pulling data in from 20 different files. At the moment it says security warning "data connections have been disabled" And then when I override it, it prompts me to reselect the file in Finder.
I would like to know if OSX supports ssh -X right out of the box? Using the command launches XQuartz and interestingly both are NOT working: e.g. displaying pdf files returning :
I have a retina monitor, but I can see horizonal "pixel" lines on my screen. This occurred soon after I installed Yosemite, then the problem disappeared, now it has reappeared again. Restarting the computer or restarting in safe mode does nothing. How can I fix this issue? My system details are as follows: OS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.1 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1526 MB Color LCD: Display Type: Retina LCD Resolution: 2880 x 1800 Retina Retina: Yes Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Built-In: Yes
Whenever I try to turn on my Macbook, the fans are super loud straight away. My battery is removed (manually because it looked like it was going to explode).
Can I hook up my 15" macbook Pro thunderbolt to my 27" iMac thunderbolt, and operate the MacBook pro in Windows 7 in order to have a large monitor to run AutoCad? Both computers are running OSX Yosemite and Bootcamp Windows 7.
Yesterday I downloaded the 64 bit itunes for my PC in order to play a podcast. I am unable to hear any of the podcasts. After I click play nothing happens. No audio. nothing
Here are the specs: iMac #1 (the one with all my data on it): 400MHz slot-loading G3, Model #M5521, 20.4GB hard drive (may not be the original HD - think it originally came with a 13GB), 320MB memory (256 and 64 cards), dvd drive, serial #RN9445BXHCW, and is running OS 10.3.9. The hard drive says on it: Maxtor HD model # 92049U3, 20.4GB, manufactured 15 July 2000. iMac #2: 333MHz tray-loading G3, Model #M4984, 6GB hard drive, 288MB memory, CD drive, serial #XB9361VUGSQ, and is running OS 9.2.2.
When I connect an HDMI display to my computer, it uses it as a display. I can't figure out how to use the HDMI cable for audio only and only use my laptop monitor. Is this possible?
I was trying to update to the latest Git version in my Terminal. I've no clue what I did and all I remember was that I removed the previous installed Git I think because when i run the following commands: My question is what should i do next so that I can use Git ?
With OSX 10.10 you can now send and receive text messages through your phone, from your mac. Is it possible to do this programatically? Either via applescript or a reverse engineered API?
I have an Iphone 4s that is linked to an Icloud account with an old email account that I no longer have access to. Is there a way to delete that old account and recreate a new account with my new email address?
Does anyone have any ideas to suggest me? See the Problems report from my MacBook Pro:
So this just occurred to me: What if I installed Windows as a Parallels VM and used bootcamps drivers instead of the parallels drivers, would this work? Something tells me it won't, and that this is a really stupid question, in part because the VM is not actually your machine, but then again, it's a VM working ON the actual machine... no?
How do I change the Apple iCloud password that is synched to a computer no longer available to me? I am trying to backup my contacts to my new computer. I have loaded the latest iTunes application on my notebook. updates my iPhone 4S iOS8. The mobile icon doesn't appear in iTunes. The folder shows up in the drive tree. So I am trying to backup everything to an iCloud account however I can't access it.
So here is what happened. I installed Ubuntu onto a flashdrive hoping to be able to dual boot Linux/OSX. I burned Ubuntu onto the flash drive on my desktop PC (windows 8.1) with universal USB installer, I believe. I plugged it into my Mac OSX, rebooted, held the option key, and booted from the flash drive (it recognized it as "windows" by the way). It then started to install and I must have somehow clicked install onto the hard drive because now both my hard drive and my flash drive are Ubuntu (both recognized as "windows" in the boot screen) and I really need to get my Mac OSX back. I get this screen every time I boot from the hard drive then get stuck at a blank (looks terminal-ish) screen which doesn't load.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC. (It does not change states to me.)
Prior to upgrading my MacBook Pro to OS X Yosemite, I was able to clear individual types of browser data (such as cookies, visited URLs and website data) in Safari. However, the "Clear History and Website Data..." option in the new version of Safari only lets me choose how far back I want to clean the data; it doesn't let me choose what types of data to clear. How do I enable the option for choosing the data types? I'm sure the solution is very simple, but I can't seem to figure it out for the life of me.
I can't find any way that I could have prevented that large automatic download. Is there a way? (It's true that it doesn't install until you approve it, but it downloads automatically.)
It all started this morning, since I listen to podcasts on YouTube before bed. I barely use my Mac partition, but still update it. I use my Windows partition for most of my stuff.
I have a microphone with a 3.5 mm jack. Can I use this for recording in garage band in my ipod touch. Thanks for the help.
All my notes are synced to my gmail account and can be accessed. Now if I delete all my notes on my ipod, would it also delete all my notes in my gmail because it syncs. I do not want the notes in gmail to be deleted.Thanks for the help.
I'm running a nearly vanilla installation of OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 with the usual Homebrew, MacPorts, and Fink. I have barely anything installed with these utilities. For some reason, my Terminal.app is not producing an audible bell, even with the preference enabled. I have since enabled the visual bell, and at first it didn't produce a result either until I disabled the "Only when sound is muted" option. I do not have my system's default audio device muted; it is in fact at 100% volume and fully functional. It seems like Terminal.app is under the impression that my system audio is muted for some reason. How can I get my Terminal.app to beep like it did in past versions of OS X?
Is there any way to log the use of / gather statistics in Mac Dictation, such as the following: Use of commands (e.g. log command name, timestamp)
Is is possible to use an external drive to play Blu-ray discs on a MacBook? It has a Core2Duo processor and 9400m graphics. does it need any software, either paid or free?
I read Mortimer's answer here *=URL=* and added this file in /Users/MyName/Library/LaunchAgents called environment.plist: Restarted my laptop, opened a terminal, and ran echo $GRADLE_HOME but it is still blank. How do I set an env var that is persistent throughout terminal sessions in Mac OS 10.10?
I have my Mac OS X Yosemite system configured in spanish, but I have an app with a horrible spanish translation, and I would like to run it (and just this app) in english. How could I do that?
Is there a way I can make a keyboard shortcut for this? Tab, Tab, ⬇︎, S, Return ⏎, Return ⏎
Actually, two fingers for scrolling still works, but all other gestures don't. None with 3 or 4 fingers, and even side scrolling notification panel with 2 won't. Out of the blue, it just stopped! Any clues?
I have multiple devices, all handled with iTunes in the same PC. Each device is associated with a different Apple ID.
The latest git installers linked to from *=URL=* all seem to be for snow-leopard *=URL=* I'm using a mac 10.9.3 (which I believe is Mountain Lion). How do I obtain the security update for git (the need for which is described here http://wptavern.com/critical-git-vulnerability-patched-update-your-git-clients-immediately)
Apple says to remove an item from the dock in Yosemite, drag it from the dock until you see a puff of smoke. I drag it from the dock, it has a tag called "remove" but it never goes up in smoke.It just returns to the dock.
I have a late model 2011 MacBook Pro, and I upgraded to Yosemite two weeks ago. Yesterday I was working in After Effects on some pretty big movie files when the laptop screen just went black. Now when I restart it, the apple comes up, then the thermometer shows for about a third of the way and then the mother blue and grey screen of death. I have reset the PRAM Tried starting in safe mode, same thing happens Tried starting with cmdD, same thing happens Tried starting with cmdoptD got the terminal spewing out a bunch of tech stuff then went to the the blue grey screen. Tried fsck, indicated nothing wrong. Tried resetting the NVRAM, would not work, also went to the blue and grey screen. Tried starting with cmdS and emptied trash through the terminal. Tried rebuilding permissions in terminal, but was unable to as I was signed in as a single user.
The first time I got the message, I was willing to believe I just needed to free up some space, so I uploaded all my photos and cleared them off of my phone and deleted a few apps I no longer use, which should have opened 2-3GB in storage space. But the phone still shows 13.5GB used, 0 bytes available. When I add up the usage - 6.6GB for facebook, 1.1GB for music, and 1.45GB by other apps and games for a total of 9.15GB - it does not total the 13.5GB the phone shows in use. I don't suppose there is an easy way of fixing this?
I have an external HDD, formatted exFAT, I believe. Whenever it is re-mounted, it gets assigned a new volume name (e.g., "MyVolume", "MyVolume 1", "MyVolume 2"...). As far as I can tell, this happens whether it is properly ejected, or if it is still mounted when the system is powered down. Aside from going in to /Volumes/ and deleting all the existing "MyVolume*" files before attempting to mount the drive, is there a way to prevent this from happening?
mid-2011 13" MBA running Yosemite Coffee spill has left keyboard of mid-2011 13" MBA non-functioning. Even power button doesn't work, I boot by shorting the two solder points on logic board. I've tried to run the AHT with both the broken 'D' and a USB kb 'D'. Neither seems to be registered, as it just boots normally. Are there any other workarounds for running AHT? Thanks in advance.
Recently, Safari unexpected crashed while I was using my desktop. Now, when I try to reload, it keeps saying it "unexpectedly quit" and will not reload (even when I push the reload button). I have restarted my computer multiple times but it will not open Safari and I keep getting the same error messages over and over. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I just opened my new iMac, and the bluetooth keyboard is terrible. When I press a key, it can take up to 3 - 5 seconds to respond, and sometimes, the keyboard acts as if I've been holding the key down.
After I installed on my mac a second drive I figured out it was a good idea to use the old HD for storage. So I symlinked ~/Downloads, ~/Documents, ~/Music, ~/Pictures and ~/Movies in order for them to be actually located in the old HD, while I'm using the new SSD as a startup disk. Everything works remarkably ok, except, now the icons in the finder sidebar for those folders are the default ones:
I've got a 13" Retina MacBook Pro and an NEC PA241W 2560x1440 monitor. What adapters do I need to connect them at full resolution?
I'm finally fed up with AT&T's exorbitant cost and ready to switch to T-Mobile. I'm well past my contract obligation and have maintained my iPhone 5 in near pristine condition. Can I have this phone unlocked and use it with another provider?
I created a Yosemite boot USB, from the App Store version 10.10.1. When I hold option during Boot, the USB drive doesn't show up on the menu.
I am keen to know if there is a way to open not an empty new file but a new file with some predefined template. I participate in online coding contests and for every new file (which I save as a '.cpp'), I have to Cmd+C and Cmd+V all the preprocessor directives i.e. #include <..>'s and #define's from one of my earlier '.cpp' file. Is there a way by which I can have all these things written to some file and every new file that I save as a c++ file this data gets loaded onto it thus saving my copy-pasting/retyping. Eclipse IDE has this feature, I wanted to know if its possible somehow in Sublime Text too. Thanx!
This might be a vague title, but it's hard to explain what I'm doing in a short title. I have a tool that removes adware and it mainly runs in bash. Some of the programs I want to kill may have multiple PIDs or output files. Here's what I have and what I want to do: So I have this which gets the PIDs for the application and I can then output using 1> to a text or something, but what if I want to output the PIDs to a
I'm looking to install Proxmox on my MacPro3,1 and it's suggested that if you plan to use the system for 5 years that you install a Hardware RAID card with a battery in it, so that if the power goes out your "last writes" will be written before the machine runs out of juice. Are there any Hardware RAID cards I can use in this machine? Also, how does one know when the battery on the card is dying?
I'm using an image editing program, and I'm trying to do a large clone. This requires me to keep the mouse button down (virtually, this is on a trackpad) for a long period of time, and any mistake means I have to start all over. (Not to mention, if I get to the edge of the trackpad and still need to push the pointer further I am in trouble!) So I have been looking for a way to keep the software thinking the button is down without having to keep my finger touching the trackpad for an extended period of time.
the top of my photoshop is hidden under my mac menu and I can't seem to get it back to normal
I'm struggling with something simple so I'd appreciate your help. I'm looking for a Twitter app for my iPad to do the following: Let me tweet (obviously)
Yesterday, my mac wouldn't boot up. When I restarted, I could get the whole way to the User login screen. No matter what user I chose, the boot bar would get about 1/3 way finished and I would get the circle with the line through it (prohibitory sign). I couldn't boot into recovery, and internet recovery > Disk Utility would hang on "checking prerequisites". The disk in questions is an SSD called "My HD"
I just bought a 512 GB hard drive to replace my 250 GB hard drive, which currently has a Boot Camp partition (pretty vanilla, just running a standard Windows 7 install). I was planning to just clone the hard drive using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy, but will Boot Camp's existence make this problematic? Asking because I'm not sure how the extra 250 GB will be allocated. Should I just uninstall Boot Camp, delete the partition, copy over my Yosemite partition, and then reinstall Boot Camp?
I'm not a morning person however occasionally I have to do things in the morning. Currently it's up to me to adjust my alarm clock based on the events in my calendar for the next day. I'd like to stop having to do this. So here are my dream requirements and I'd like to know if through a combination of apps and/or just basic configuration it would be possible to do. Lets me set a general wakeup time for weekdays and weekends. Adjusts wake up time based on what events I have the next day. Lets me set a time I have to be at work by and makes sure I don't snooze too long. Integrates with home automation systems so I can either open blinds or slowly turn the lights on Doesn't require me to open an app or anything in order to use it. Makes it simple to add one off exceptions to this. I know this is somewhat subjective because people have different needs but I think at least everything except the Home Automation is useful to everyone.
I have an iphone, which has some apps installed. The Apple ID used to sign in (to iTunes store and App strore) is, say, ID1. When updating apps, in some cases it asks for the password of another ID, say, ID2. Is there any way to know what Apple ID is associated with each app? I know that I can remove an app and purchase it under a different ID (which may have cost), and I know that there exists Family sharing, but that does not answer the question. This is a related question.
For some reason, iTunes has suddenly decided it won't let me sync tunes onto my ipod which were bought with an old Apple ID (even though the email account is still active and linked to the new Apple ID) and is saying my laptop (which I've been using for years) isn't authorized with that old Apple ID? I can't remember the password for the old apple id. If I go to the login screen and click on "forgotten password" it says it will email me with a link to change the password but no email ever arrives in that account so I'm completely stuck. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I forgot it in the train station in a backpack. The Mac is locked with a password. It has Mavericks installed.
I am using OS X 10.9.4. I have my music library on an external NTFS disk. When I open these files in iTunes, there are no problems. However, when I view the files in Finder, the icons are grey. If I try to open them, I get the following message:
Once emacs of ubuntu is launched, the Kill Menu (see Edit -> Paste from Kill Menu) is empty. If I want to copy a text from Chrome under Mac to Emacs under ubuntu, I can use Command+C (which saves the text into the Kill Menu of Emacs) then Command+V or Ctrl+V. I can also copy and paste a text within Emacs by using Command+C (which also saves the text into the Kill Menu of Emacs) then Command+V or Ctrl+V.
I am setting up File Vault 2 on my Macbook Pro under Yosemite and I see the following message, each user must type in their password before they will be able to unlock the disk
How do I properly mask/escape illegal characters like /:@\ in passwords added in the mount command? The question arose in the answer here:
I have so far learnt to use Apple loops and thirsty to learn more: more loops, try some inter-app audio apps and so on. Please recommend inter audio apps for GarageBand.
I have zero disc space left, I cannot even perform a screen capture or do rudimentary things on my mac, and I cannot find the video rendered (data exported) so far that has clogged up my system to full... where is it being stored? what do I need to delete to get this space back? please help urgent, i need to get this wedding slideshow out by tonight and move on to other editing tasks.
It's my understanding that personal data on the iPhone 6 is automatically encrypted with the user's passcode. This is why when you boot it for the first time the passcode is required instead of the fingerprint.
I have been using notes.app for a while, especially for its ability to use iCloud to sync. Everything has seemed fine, though it seems like some of my older notes' bodies are showing up blank.
When I reboot with Control-R pressed as suggested by many, I see the spinning wheel for more than half hour and the laptop does not show the recovery options. I have Yosemite and want to go back to Mavericks for various reasons. Any suggestions.
Last year, I switched from an iMac to a MacBook Pro, and I restored from my Time Machine backup. I've been using Time Machine since then, and never checked it until now. I just found out that my backups are split into 2, "dee's iMac" and "dee's MacBook Pro" when I expect them to be just one backup since I moved everything from my iMac to MBP. The "dee's iMac" backups aren't accessible through "Enter Time Machine" and aren't deleted when Time Machine is full; instead, it will delete the newer backups from my MBP backups, which currently holds only the past 2 months while there are backups from my iMac from last year.
When I end a phone call I find that the screen has gone black. I have to turn it on and re-enter my password to hang up. Is there a way to keep the phone from turning black during a call? The call is not affected.
Google Chrome and other apps are not opening, they just bounce and then stop without giving me any error message. I also re-downloaded Google Chrome and still not opening. Recently I installed windows 8 via bootcamp and I had to delete lots of useless files I maybe deleted an important file by accident.
I'm trying to embrace Yosemite's full screen by default. Mostly I'm getting used to and liking it... except for the fact that without a menu bar I can't check the time at a glance. What are some easy ways to display the current time on Yosemite without using the mouse/trackpad?
I have been using a sim for two months on my iPhone and now I gave that sim to my cousin. What I am worried about is will she recieve my WhatsApp chat history when she downloads WhatsApp to her phone.
Is there anyway to stop the FaceTime ringtone heard on an outgoing call? I have tried the iPhone mute button and FaceTime mute icon with no success.
I use VLC as a video player for many reasons but mainly in order to benefit from the A-B Loop function where I can select a particular section of the video and watch it over and over again at different speeds. VLC for Mac OS does not allow users to add a loop button on the controller bar at the bottom of the window such as VLC for Windows.
When I open my terminal I see the following message I have tried to run brew doctor but the error remains. I am using homebrew dd7511b3 If I run brew remove php5, I get How can I resolve this issue?
I would like to retrieve all the Reminders in a specific reminders list with Automator. Searching for reminder, the available actions are “Delete Reminders”, “New Reminders Items”, “Filter Calendar Items“ and “Find Calendar Items”. Find Calendar Items allows you to search for reminders, but the search parameters available are Title Notes Priority Completed URL Date Due Date last modified Date completed Reminder has (alarms) Reminder has no (alarms) The “Reminder has (no)” query is fixed on alarms, no other options are given. Is there any way to get all the Reminders from a given list? I’m running Yosemite and Automator 2.5.
I installed Yosemite Server and I had previously configured the Apache for web development. Now, It seems that the configuration and everything is messed up. How can I reset my web server configuration to factory settings, like after installing a fresh Yosemite? Does an uninstall of Yosemite Server affects my current web server configuration?
I have a Macbook pro with 2 internal HD (stock HD for data and data doubler + SSD in place of the optical drive, hosting the OS). I'm now trying to optimize this setup to take into account the presence of the SSD, and I want to move the temporary folder from the SSD (/private/tmp) to the secondary drive (/Volume/MacintoshHD/private/tmp). Following this (*=URL=* here's what I did :
I have an old e-mail address linked to my Mac Mail account. I have made a rule that forwards new mail from a specified address - call it johndoe@test.com - between my old e-mail and my current e-mail. Right now, I need to manually open the Mail application for the rule to apply to new mail.
I know you've been dealing with this for two years. However, none of the recommended solutions works for me. iTunes will play one song, and stop. Or, it will play one song - over and over and over. I am using iTunes vsn. 12.0.1, updated on 10/21/14, on a Mac running OS 10.7.5.
HyperSwitch Alt+Tab behaviour stopped working 2-3 days ago. It simply does nothing. I haven't changed my HyperSwitch's preferences and I don't remember installing or updating anything that would create a conflict. However cmd+tab window preview is working, so the app is clearly up and running.
I am trying to update my wife's iPhone from iOS 7 (.x.x) to 8 (the latest). I was trying through iTunes because the iPhone says only around 300MB is available. iTunes shows around 7GB as available space. But when I hit update, it complains that at least 770MB should be available and it is not.
does anyone understand what this error code could suggest?
I've made many small tweaks and preference customization to the Mavericks install on my Mac. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will those tweaks and preferences be reset and would require me to re-apply them?
I need a text editor on mac that could open arbitrary file and show its content. Edit: I dont want to "decode" the files, I just want to read them byte by byte, as they are sitting on the filesystem, just like fopen() in c. (No parsing!) Is there any editor that can do that?
I've been happily using VLC for all video playback but now realised it's missing a feature I think is quite essential – having subtitles placed on the black bar below a movie instead of in the actual picture where it wastes screen real estate and annoys. VLC has a 'Force subtitle position' option which does not do anything useful with negative values. MPlayerX allows adjusting the position relative to the bottom, again, no use for negative values. Can anyone suggest a player that can do this?
I am upgrading my phone from the 4 to the 6 and trying to back up all photos and videos and everytime I move a photo from the Camera Roll to the Photo Stream to upload to the Cloud and the erase from the Roll it also erases the same picture from the photo stream. It defeats the whole purpose...Help !
I added an SSD to my system, so now I have a boot drive on the SSD and my home directory on a different volume. I successfully changed the home directory as specified in Change Users Home Directory. However, this breaks all of the symlinks I've set up for my dotfiles, since things like .bashrc which used to point to /Users/me/.local/dotfiles/.bashrc are now broken.
How can I find out the current resolution the screen is running at, in OS X 10.10? Under settings -> display (which is where I think it used to be), it shows the refresh frequency, but not the resolution. Using the monitor's controls, I can see it's running at 3840x2160, but how would one find this out from OS X?
I'm having a problem with my Retina iMac regularly generating a "A graphics problem has been detected" error. The iMac has the AMD Radeon R9 M295X option.
I am used to of the old private browsing mode in Safari, where you can keep a login session between tabs. But since this new Safari came with Yosemite, the tabs maintain their own sessions. Is there any way I can keep the login session between safari private tabs till the private window closes, just like how Google Chrome does?
Is there a way to force focus to a new tab in safari when you cmd+click on links in google search results for example?
I recently purchased a new MBP to replace an older one. However, I forgot to disable the iMessages feature on the old MBP before giving it to a family member. That family member and I both discovered that the messages that should be going to the new MBP are going to the old MBP.
I am looking for a start menu and taskbar for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with as many following features as possible (approximately ordered by descending importance): Start menu:
Problem: Occasionally when someone tries to FaceTime me they get someone else (but the same someone else every time)
I don't need to set a default size for all icons to load. I prefer the default size for most use cases, aside from this one. See below for an example showing my workflow issue. tl;dr I want responsive design applied to my finder icons!
How do I sign out of iCloud on iOS6. I have created a 2nd AppleID I want to use for iCloud synching, but the only option I get is "Delete Account". I don't want to delete the AppleID (which is used on other devices), just change to the new account
Is there a hack or extension to make the active tab in focus a different color than the others? I tried GLIMS but apparently that extension is borked for the latest version of safari.
My brother-in-law works at a bar. He has had an iPhone 5C there for months, so he took it and tried to find the owner's phone number so he could contact them about their phone, but iCloud didn't let him get far.
I'm a longtime Opera user, and, now that I'm moving to Mac, I want to install Opera on it. On Windows and Linux, I can add icons to the toolbar - such as turn images on/off, control the zoom, wrap the text. Yet, on Mac, with the latest Opera (26), there doesn't seem to be any way to edit the toolbar. How can I add icons to the toolbar?
I have two Macs. The AppleScript code below runs on one Mac ("Mac 1"), but not on the other ("Mac 2"). Mac 1 is running Snow Leopard, where Mac 2 was upgraded to Yosemite, and the AppleScript below no longer runs.
Short version: Is there a program that can move the focused/active window to the bottom/top monitor with a keyboard shortcut? Long version: Sometimes I need to move a window to the bottom/top, in my case between monitors 3 and 4 and between monitors 5 and 6:
Does updating the Macbook Air to an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, and 512 GB Flash Storage negatively affect the 12 hour battery life?
I have a Dualshock 4 controller and can't play certain games like portal because there is no PS4 support. I heard on windows are drivers that trick the computer into thinking that the PS4 input is an xbox input but can't find ANY for apple. Is there a workaround or are there drivers for mac that allow me to do the same?
I was originally trying this with Automator, but if someone can guide me to accomplishing this easier with Applescript then feel free, though i haven't worked with it before. I'm trying to get the Crop Images and/or Scale Images actions running in a Preview service. I've saved a workflow with some Watch Me Do actions, and I'm able to run the service from Preview -> Services. But if i add either of these actions it skips the Watch Me Do actions and hangs. It seems as if these built-in actions are not using the open image that the service is already processing. How can I include these actions in my workflow? It seems Automator ignores anything i do with the area selection tools (like the "rectangular selection") so i have to use these built-in actions. If this can be done only in an application or workflow, but not a service in the way i describe, that's fine as long as i can have the watch me do actions and scale/crop actions done on the same file while it's still open, and then loop at
I am looking for a way to update a Broadcom driver without using BootCamp or external boot drive. I have a Macbook pro mid-2012 (non-retina) and successfully had Windows 8.1 running on it, except it does not detect any ethernet and wifi devices. I used Bootcamp through which I believe I got the latest Windows-support drivers and firmwares.
I have got an Thinkpad external keyboard with my mac. The keyboard has some mouse buttons and trackpoint. The trackpoint mouse function with two mouse button works fine but scrolling with middle button + trackpoint isn't. Is there any chance to configure scrolling with trackpoint? I have Logitech mouse with scroolwheel, that works out of the box. I use Yosemite. Thanks
Sometimes I need to use the Maps.app, and as a Chinese person, a map with Chinese characters is more comfortable for me to use rather than English. So when I use the Maps.app, I have to temporally switch the primary language into Chinese, and then switch back to English after using the Maps. But, it's really inconvenient to do the switchings all by clicking the Settings icon, clicking the Language item, and dragging the language up and down.
My laptop is showing 4-5 wifi networks available in my area. But my iPhone is just showing 1-2 wifi networks. Even when I'm trying to add/search manually, then it is showing error couldn't find network. Anyone have any idea why?
Tomorrow I will collect my iMac 27 from the service, after they have replaced the screen (due to yellowish smudges). To my surprise, I was requested to give them my password. I did not expect they may need it, and did not erase my data at home. I have just made a backup to an external drive. Still, all my documents, photos etc are in my iMac (no porn luckily). How to know if Apple service staff copied or looked into my private data?
I am looking for a way to edit the open with settings in 10.10.1, i have looked through older questions and have attempted to rename the launch services plist and have gotten no where. I have looked through the /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister and my /Users/J/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist and I was able to remove text edit from random extensions but i am still unable to remove numbers or find its assoisation to .py files in a /lsregister -dump Here is a picture to clarify, i would like to remove numbers.app and pages.app along with xcode.app as options to open up files with a .py extension.
I purchased my Iphone 5 in New-York but i live in London, may Apple restrict me from replacing the Power/Sleep button outside of the US?
Is there any way with Mac OS Yosemite's built-in firewall to throttle or queue connections from a single application, on a single port or to a certain hostname? The App in question would be the Quicktime plugin in Safari - ever since the HTML5 beta I've been using that on Youtube instead of flash, for obvious reasons. But while the videos are loading, my internet connection is so saturated, that everything else comes to a halt, sometimes other applications even time out. Since all questions answered here and tutorials floating around are hopelessly outdated I hope someone can help me with this annoyance without relying on third party tools, since I can't seem to find anything that works with my intended case.
I'm using Mail.app to sync three email accounts on my Mac. I find that usually my Junk Email is usually filled with a lot of emails. It is possible to disable this tab entirely ?
I have a mid-2011 MacBook Air (model A1369), whose screen has attracted some unsightly but superficial scratches. They look like smudges, but I suspect a layer of coating (or similar) has come off. Most likely, the scratches stem from frequent transport with the screen pressed to the keyboard. The screen is not protected by a glass layer – I hope it has a removable user-facing plastics film.
Is there a (free) PDF reader that could restore last viewed page when opening a PDF in OS X 10.10?
I've recently found a (factory refurbished) logic board from a Macbook Unibody 5.2 (mid-2009; 820-2496-A) and want to replace the logic board of my Macbook Unibody 4.1 (early-2008) with it, so my Macbook can run a newer OS. I've already upgraded my Macbook with a 240GB SSD and 4GB 800MHz RAM.
It's pretty weird, seeing that HDD's are recognisable, and that SSD works when in an enclosure (Crucial M500). I've read somewhere that it could be an issue with the cable, but I bought a replacement cable, and it doesn't recognise the SSD either. One idea that I have might be the issue is that the SSD needs 1.7 A of current, while the HDD I tested it with only 1 A.
I have a Yosemite Mac Mini with performance problems. When looking at the disk activity with opensnoop I noticed that automount is performing tons of accesses as follows
If I plug something into one of the USB ports on my Mac 17″ (after upgrading to Yosemite) my Menu Bar at the top of the desktop keeps disappearing and reappearing. The icons keep flashing on and off. This only happens when I plug something into a USB port. It's very annoying and frustrating as my Mac now fails to fully recognise my iPhone and I am unable to sync it to my iTunes and my graphics tablet is acting weird too.
I have got iMac (2014 model), which I want to use as external display for my windows laptop. Is is possible? if yes, how?
I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.10.1. Is there a way to get a full screen app into a window? Example:
Many searches and tutorials all showed that if you drop an .iso file in Disc Utility and go to Burn it will make a bootable disc but when I do it in Yosemite it will burn a copy of the .iso file. How do I make a bootable disc in Yosemite?
I just bought a free contract iPhone 6 with T-Mobile SIM card. I want to use the iPhone with another service provider but i'm worried. Should I plug the device and initialize it on iTunes first or can I simply change the SIM card before turning it on?
My iMessage is not working after I have changed my MAC address. I have restored my original MAC address, but it is still not working. My phone is an iPhone 4s, 6.1.3 jailbroken.
My iphone got wet and although it is switched off and the sim card is removed, it is still showing as online on icloud so I can't disable the find my phone to enable me to claim on the insurance. If I erase the phone from icloud, (by clicking on the x next to the device) what does that mean to my data on my phone when I replace my phone? Does this action of deleting the device from icloud just mean that I have only disabled the find my phone app?
If I type any of these in Spotlight (Yosemite): par para parall parallel etc Parallels Desktop is suggested as the program to launch - which is what I want. However - if I type 'paral' - what you would think was a good short bet to load the app - it suggests 'Pages. I endup typing 'paral' a lot as it used to work. I found nothing on Google.
I have a Hackintosh dual booting Windows 8.1 and Yosemite. The two OS's share the same iTunes Library. Every time something new is added in either OS, I would like to be synced to my laptop's iTunes Library, and whenever I add something in my laptop's Library I want it to sync to the desktop, no matter what OS it's currently in.
I have an iPhone 5s running iOS8 and a first generation iPad running iOS5, both logged in to my iCloud account. I'll skip some details and jump to the fact that I deleted my latest iCloud backup both from my iPad and my iPhone, as well as my computer running iCloud for Windows. I did it from all 3 just to make sure the backup got deleted (it wasn't initially showing it deleted, so I did it from all 3).
I've a Macbook Pro retina 15'', mid-2012 with nVidia 650M graphics card. I've a 4K Dell monitor attached but the result is a bit choppy and my guess is that it's because of the bandwidth limitation on the Thunderbolt port? If so, can I somehow combine both thunderbolt ports and connect the external to both together? Thanks
The location in the weather widget of the notification center is permanently wrong since September 2014. I was in Ampus for vacation. But today I'm at home and the location is not changing!
OK I have been upgrading and moving things around between computers for years and in that time I have managed to have a lot of duplicates in the iPhoto Picker: I have consolidated the libraries down to three but the iPhoto Library Picker (hold OPTION when launching iPhoto) is filled with a bunch of old cruft that I would dearly love to remove. Problem is I can't find where this list is kept. It does not seem to be in any of the iPhoto preferences in my home or system folder nor in Application Support either. Any ideas where this data is stored?
As of Yosemite, DIY, or non-Apple installed SSDs have Trim support challenges using applications such as Trim Enabler. Assuming one keeps their TRIM supported SSD in Yosemite, what is a good strategy for using Trim Enabler periodically so there are no issues with kext-signing and potential OS update conflicts while Trim Enabler is disabled? Can this be worked around by periodically using Trim Enabler? How long should Trim Enabler be run? How often?
I have an iPhone 5S. I want to see my playlist by albums instead of by songs. When I add an album of songs to the playlist, it shows all the songs. I can do it on iTunes on the computer but it doesn't seem to allow you to show playlist by album instead of by song.
I'm trying to make the best out of the programming calculator in OS X, but I don't know these functions: byte flip word flip X< X>>Y RoL/RoR (are these just sll/srl?)
I'd bought an SSD that I'd put in my early 2011 13" MBP to make a DIY Fusion Drive in conjunction with the original 500GB HDD. A few weeks ago, I enabled TRIM (using TRIM Enabler). 5 days later, the SSD totally died. Now, I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but could enabling TRIM be what broke the SSD so much so that even a total reformat (which I've attempted to no avail) couldn't fix it? And if so, how do I un-TRIM it?
A friend of mine has some trouble with his AirPort Extreme (Router). All of his clients (Macbook, iPad, iPhone, ...) do not connect to the internet, except one iMac in his office.
I use nowadays Opera because it just works for these swf -files. No other browser work. However, the problem with Opera is that it is big. Is there any tool by which you can just view SWF -files?
I'm having some trouble nailing down a problem I've had with Yosemite for a few weeks now - when I issue the open command inside tmux, all files (PDFs, text files, applications, everything) fail to open with the error code -10810 for all files. Following result:
I am having trouble visualizing dates in a presentation. This image is a good example of what I'm hoping to have, but I would like a way to make the slide from a table of dates (rather than making each box by hand, which is what happened here).
Somebody has given me an Apple Macbook Air 1.1 to fix. Unfortunately I have very little experience with Macs. Symptoms are:
With iOS 8, It was made possible to get relevant battery usage for applications on iOS. Is there any way to find the battery usage of the system processes on iOS 8? I'm looking for Jailbreak tweaks or Diagnostic tools because there aren't any other options.
I am interested in buying a barcode scanner (for a one off to read ISBN numbers on books). I have looked at some at the cheaper models on eBay, but they don't give much information.
I am looking for a program that can copy any selected text to the clipboard automatically. E.g. if I select some text in Safari or Eclipse, it should automatically copy it to the keyboard. The Google Chrome extension Auto Copy 3.0.3 can do it in Google Chrome. The application PopClip displays a popover menu which appears when some text is selected in any application but there doesn't seem to be any way to automatically copy it to the keyboard.
Rented a movie from iTunes. Tried to play it. Got error: "This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes." Movie is 720p HD mp4.
I'm a complete Apple newbie - just bought my first mbp two days ago. I'm trying to connect to my WD my book live NAS (working fine under my existing Linux set-up). The set-up instructions from WD tell me to launch Bonjour from Safari - but I can't find any reference to Bonjour in Safari - or any where else, for that matter!
I just got a new (well refurbished) MacBook Pro running 10.8.3. I am a programmer, so I have need of a case-sensitive filesystem. It is fresh and I am reluctant to upgrade it or do much with it until I can change the partition to be case-sensitive.
I have looked for it everywhere, I can't find any clue where to start or how to do it. I have an Apple Mac Mini with OSX Server that I would like to use as an APNS server to send push notifications for my iPhone application. I'm currently using my Macbook for the sandbox gateway through terminal running a php script. What I did/have: Generated development/production certificates. pem/p12 files. PHP Script for sending.
So recently I took a picture for my iMessage profile using the camera, I ended up really liking the picture so I was thinking if theres any way I can save it or find it
I'm using OS X Yosemite and in Pages table jumps to the next page (and leaving text on the first page) when it gets too big, how can I stop it?
I've been using my iMac (mid-2011, OS X Yosemite 10.10.1) without any problems since I purhaced it. However, today a distracting yellow square pattern started to appear. It only appears over application windows, ie. I can't see any pattern over my desktop, but my browser is covered with it. It doesn't appear on every window, but almost all of them. The pattern moves if I scroll and it does change if I refresh a webpage. It also appears on screenshots I take. I've tried rebooting and updating my OS without any change. Example screenshot:
I would like to know if there is any Mac Safari plugin to block any web page containing a specific word in its url or in its content. For example, suppose we take the word 'abc', the following link must be blocked : wwww.dfrrraabc.com A web page containing 'abc' in its content must also be blocked. I don't know if a plugin like this already exists for Safari.
Is there any way to set hours I want to see in Week view in Calendar? I do not need hours marked with red ellipsis's and need only hours marked with blue rectangle. If I try to resize window, then it compresses the whole view, i.e. everything becomes smaller and still shows hours I do not use... How can I make Calendar to show only specified hours in Week view, which is most convenient in my daily activities - need to see the whole week at once.
Since upgrading to Yosemite, when my MacBook automatically turns it's screen off to conserve energy it also logs out which bugs me because all of my processes are killed off; this never occurred on Mavericks. Also, since upgrading to Yosemite why is there now two log-in screens? When the machine is booted there is one login screen; When the machine is powered on from sleep mode you instantly need to login, then once the mac has booted and all devices are loaded (after ages) you need to login a second time;
The letter ℂ, which is unicode U+2102 behaves strangely in Keynote. If presented by itself in a text box, one font is displayed. However, if it is prepended with the letter , which is unicode U+1D53B, a different font is used. I'd like the fonts for all double struck characters to be the same, but I'm finding it impossible to get ℂ by itself in the same font as . How can this be done?
I have a iPod touch 1st generation and was about to sell but somebody said to me to get in touch with Apple because apparently they are recalling them and I could get a iPod touch 5th gen? Is this right, and if so how could I do that?
In iOs you can setup notifications in order to receive them only from users you activate them for. Is it possible to achieve the same in Yosemite notification center? Thanks
I don't often use mission control, or extra desktops (spaces). Every so often, I do open mission control by mistake, and I have dozens of spaces showing at the top of the screen.
How can I be sure that an app I download from the App Store is indeed from the vendor it is supposed to be? Anyone with a developer account can potentially pretend to be for example "a bank" and sell a fake app through the App Store. The only way I can think of is that you go to the website of your bank, verify the SSL certificate and from there follow a direct HTTP link to the App Store. Any other way of making sure the app is authentic?
I have the new in ear headphones from apple. I don't know if it's fault of the headphones, but the volume for certain apps, especially calling, and podcast, is very low! I mean when I'm driving the sound of the engine or the wind is stronger and even if I use the phone external speaker I can hear more. Some apps, like music apps have a slightly louder volume.
I know the disadvantages of disabling kext signing, but I was wondering how I can actually disable this on Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"?
Using osx 10.9 and packages for making package installer. While installing a package made using Packages in /Applications location on a osx 10.9 machine, installer is asking for Admin password. Even though I had unchecked 'Require admin password for installation' while package making.
I have ipad , I want to change language of facebook interface to Arabic I tried to change (Settings >> General >> Language & region >> Region) to Iraq and now its Iraq , then I uninstall facebook application and re-install again but interface still in English.
I am working with SVN for version control, and whenever I'm ready to commit some changes, I have to stage them all with the following command: svn status | grep -v "^.[ \t]*\..*" | grep "^?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add As you can see, it's quite complicated and I therefore went looking into making an alias for this command. When opening ~/.bash_profile, I added the following line:
I accidently set my husbands new iPhone 6 up under my back up. Now, when I receive texts he receives them too. Its making it appear that I have two phones. We share an iCloud account. Can I do a complete "erase all content and settings" to fix his phone? It won't deactivate his phone with Sprint?
I keep all of my music in a folder on my back up drive. I use Media player to edit and genre categorize the music. Then copy / transfer the folder to Itunes which converts the music to ACC format. My problem is when I add a new song or album(s) to my master folder, Itunes wants to copy the whole folder again causing massive duplications and it wants to change my genre categorization on some songs.
How can I delete the music from my iPhone WITHOUT deleting it from my iPod?? Also, how to prevent it from just automatically loading them all back on when I sync my phone/computer. This is what happened last time, and why I don't have enough space on my phone! AGAIN.
All my old notes seem to be OK. Probably sync by wire under iTunes before iOS8 My email seems to sync correctly iCloud shows all notes over a year old in its list (but then shows ion screen the one I just typed in on my IPhone) iPhone and Mac seems to be in sync for up to last Monday (Note as Monday 22nd now it looks odd for iPhone to show Monday for notes update on 15th Dec) How do I force a sync How do I debug this - what logs etc
I 've installed mysql server with brew, and i need to run manually this command each time my computer start to make it work with an application that I can't edit. What I can do to call this automatically? I tried with Automator, but I don't want to enter my password each time, what is the right way to run this or to fix this? (may changing permissions and running this as normal user) Mysql is running with my normal user, not root.
I'm having an issue where my spaces keep randomly switching without me doing anything. I haven't managed to work out any sort of consistency to the behaviour yet so impossible to reproduce, but I'm trying to find out if anyone's had the same problem and knows how to fix it? I'm running OSX 10.10.1 on a Late 2008 aluminium MacBook.
I have 2 monitors for mac, one extended the other. How do i switch virtual desktops on one monitor only? For example, When I do 4 fingers swipe left/right on screen1, I expect the switching happens on screen1 only. BUT both monitors will switch virtual desktops at the same time, how do i avoid that?
I am putting together an Automator workflow that will allow me to bind a hotkey to a Smart Mailbox listing and effectively automate the task of clicking "Unsubscribe" in emails which have that text string. So far, I've been marginally successful if the actual URL has the word "unsubscribe" in it. What I would like to do, instead, is find where the word Unsubscribe appears and instead grab only those URLs. So in HTML terms, imagine I am finding a link by its text and then acting on the href
My iPhone is not sending text messages through. It will take a long time to send (progressing the little bar at top very slowly), then it says "Message not Delivered". Why and how can I resolve this?
I have two wifi access points at home: "downstairs" and "upstairs". They're both WPA2.
Can I copy a video file to the iCloud of my friend from my MacBook ? Suppose I know the AppleId and the password.
I have an IMAP account and iCloud account set up on my local Apple Mail client. Is the location of these ~/Library/Mail or somewhere else? I use OS X 10.10.1. For my IMAP account with domain mykolab.com, the relevant folder seems to be ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-@mykolab.com@imap.mykolab.com and the inbox is INBOX.mbox, but I can't see the matching location of an email in the client in this folder - there is no option to do so from Mail, and the timestamps for the message files in INBOX.mbox seem to be older than current messages. Is there a way to pinpoint the exact file location of an email in the client? If I delete an email and empty trash in the client then is the deletion done securely, using srm or in a non-secure way?
The desired behavior is that which would result if the top display was just as wide as the bottom, so there wouldn't be any disconnect between the displays. However, I want to keep the top display oriented at its current orientation. I am using a retina macbook pro, early 2013, on OS X 10.10.1.
Not really sure how to ask since I have no idea what just happened, but I'll try my best :-) I just typed "I" into a textfield here on Yosemite and then tried to click on an icon in the Mac OS status bar (with the option key and some other key pressed AFAIK), but I missed and the next thing I saw was a dropdown that contained the entries "He", "She", "It", "You", "We", ...I am unable to reproduce and would like to know what this was and how to make it happen again?
Is there a way to completely disable Spaces in Yosemite (without turning off Mission Control, Dashboard, etc.)?
I have an iPhone 5c and would like to restrict any and all music, including the music app in the restriction settings or just plain delete the radio all together.
I've changed some options related to font rendering by defaults write command in past (I can't recall was it lcdfilter, or something else). Now when I turn off antialiasing in system preferences font are still looks antialiased, but have less weight (see screenshots).
There is a large discrepancy between the memory usage as reported by my iPhone and that as reported by iTunes - as well as between iTunes' Settings pages for the iPhone and the iTunes memory bar at the bottom of the screen. iTunes reports that the iPhone is set to sync my entire music library,
Whenever I disconnect a mouse (a generic cheapo Lenovo branded one) and reconnect it, I lose the ability to right click using the mouse. I have to resort to using CTRL+Left click. I have tried it with a different mouse (non Apple) and experienced the same problem. I also tried switching the secondary button to Left just to make sure it wasn't something specific with the L/R button. When I do that, the secondary click doesn't work even if it is the left button.
If you are going to format your computer, and you are running OSX 10.10 or newer, what is the best way to backup epubs and pdfs that weren't purchased from the iTunes store? I have a lot of books, exporting them one by one could take a long time. I'd ideally like to preserve highlighting and bookmarks. Google unfortunately returns surprisingly little information on how to backup ibooks.
upgrading my mom's mac to yosemite - her internet connection is slow. Would like to put the updater/installer on a USB drive. on the apple site, there are direct downloads for older versions of iphoto, but not the latest.
The Script Editor (formerly AppleScript Editor pre-Yosemite 10.10) saves .scpt files as binary files, not plain text files. It makes working with them in source code control systems somewhat cumbersome.
In iOS 7, when a Reminder notification showed up on the Lock screen, I could tap it to Snooze it. Since I upgraded to iOS 8, the option is no longer there..
I really like the 3rd party Swype keyboard, but it is missing the Mic button. Is there a gesture or something to engage the Siri Microphone?
I have no option to delete old photos off my iPod. They are old photos, by that I mean they were on my iPod then I got them off, and about a year later (I had synced it a couple of times in between) I synced my iPod to my laptop and they all came back with no option to delete them off.
My iPhone (5s) has randomly started to ask for verification (before you can make purchases, you must tap continue to verify). Now my problem is that with my apple account I already have a bank account linked to it which I have used on several occasions. Now it's saying my payment method has been declined, and the problem isn't with my bank account because I have tried to put in 3 other bank cards all of which been declined for no reason.
My windows PC crashed and I need access to my photos from iCloud. I installed the iCloud control panel but it only shows my photo stream which is roughly 30 days of photos. I need to restore ALL of my photos from an iCloud backup to my windows PC. Is this possible?
I cannot reinstall OS X Yosemite now, as there's no hard drive I could see. I had erased the HD with the idea that it will create a new partition but it didn't, so now I can't see a hard disk on disk utility. I have tried with diskutil command, but didn't succeed.
What is the best method for moving a user from an old Macbook Pro to a new Macbook Air? Is it disk cloning? Or the migration assistant from Apple? I need to move all the data, applications, settings, etc.
When I have Terminal.app open for some time (mostly after 2-3 hours), everything starts getting slow. When I type there is a delay for each character, and all applications lag when I scroll. If I restart Terminal, it goes away and my mac is quick and snappy again. But the problems comes back after some hours. It's especially bad when I have a ssh connection open to one of my servers. I use Terminal a lot (I'm a developer), so it bothers me to have to restart it.
Background: I moved the Microsoft User Data from ~/Documents to ~/Library/Preferences because I didn't want Google Drive to sync my Office files. I can run Office products fine, but I can't search my mail because Spotlight can't search my .olk14Message files (under ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/hobbes3/Data Records/Messages/). Here is the weird part: If I'm in ~/Library/Preferences then I can use Spotlight to search for all my mail .olk14Message, but if I'm one folder up in ~/Library or higher then I can't search for my mail... And of course I can't search for my mail from Spotlight globally (which breaks my Outlook 2011 searching).
I have a 15" Mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro and would like to hook additional monitors to it. Ideally, these would be 4x 27" Apple Displays of some sort.
I've been trying to remove a specific text from my iPhone's SMS database. The text is too long (tens of thousands of characters long, if not more) and is causing iOS to crash whenever I view the conversation it's in. I'd greatly prefer to remove it without removing any other text. I've tried downloading the SMS database file and: Modifying the text to [Removed] and saving it to the phone Modifying the text to [Removed], saving it, backing up, and restoring Modifying the text to [Removed] and simply replacing the database file in a backup, then restoring Removing the text from the database and saving it to the phone Removing the text from the database, saving it, backing up, and restoring Removing the text from the database and simply replacing the database file in a backup, then restoring
I need to convert 100 photos into a pdf file thats less than 6 mb. I use iPhoto to store my photos in. HELP!
I have all of mine and my kids Apple devices set up on Find My Phone. We're always misplacing one of the ten! Today when I went to find my daughters IPOD Touch it shows that the location of it is near Santa Rosa California. We live in St. Louis MO. We played the sound and found the touch in her bedroom, but it's still showing on the map that it is in California. What can be making it show that it's in a different location than it is?
I want to create sport training videos like here that requires trimming, merging and audio changing. It would also be extremely useful to change the speed in videos. How can I do them?
I'm new to macs so please bear with me if I say something dumb. I recently switched over to Mac, and purchased a new MacBook Pro, but found that the computer did not have enough ram for everything I am doing (large photoshop files etc.) I was wondering if there is any way that I could get external ram or some type of upgrade for my computer. Essentially, can I get an external ram drive, or should I go back and upgrade the computer itself?
I want to bind a shortcut to run a command in Terminal with text that I selected while web browsing. How could I do this?
I tried to install Windows 8 using the bootcamp assistant, but when I got to this screen,  The BOOTCAMP partition created by bootcamp wouldn't accept the windows install. Meaning, I reformatted it, and normally the little sun button "New" would then allow me to proceed with the Windows install. I thought it was very weird so I instead deleted the partition, which turned into a 47.3Gb of Unallocated Space. I tried formatting said unallocated space which created a bunch more partitions, but ultimately the same problem persisted: Can't install Windows. In OSX, the Disk Utility wouldn't let me actually delete or remove the partitions so I went back to the Windows install menu and turned all the undesirables into unallocated space. Here's what my Disk Utility looks like now:
Following a new security vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol software package, Apple has provided a software update for Mountain Lion and newer versions of OS X. As usual, the older versions of OS X that one may be stuck with (because the hardware does not support newer versions, because one needs Rosetta, …) are not covered by the security update. My questions are: is disabling “set date and time automatically” in Software Preferences enough to ensure that ntpd is not running? is disabling “set date and time automatically” in Software Preferences enough to ensure that ntpd is not running? what might break if the ntdp binary was simply deleted for safety on OS X Snow Leopard or Lion? what might break if the ntdp binary was simply deleted for safety on OS X Snow Leopard or Lion? In doubt I might use these instructions to limit the scope of ntpd without completely disabling/deleting it, but in this case there remains the risk of getting it wrong and leaving ntpd exposed.
I've tried the following setting: I connect my iPhone and the docking station via a cable (the docking station does not support the Lightning connector), I get music from the docking station. But when I pair iPhone and Soundbook via Bluetooth, the music stops at the docking station and only plays on Soundbook.
I just quit TextEdit and forgot to save my files that I have been working on for 2 weeks. I'm about to cry. Please tell me how can I recover them?
I often find it useful to have two tabs of one spreadsheet open in separate windows. In Excel this is easy (Windows/New Window). Is there any way to achieve this in Numbers (as of Version 3.5)? For the record, I've tried searching for an answer to this, but needless to say, searches including "Numbers" and "Windows" doesn't lead to anything useful.
In addition to this question I would also like to use Kaleidoscope as the external merge tool in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA. Under Preferences\External Diff Tools I've checked Use external merge tool and set Path to executable to /usr/local/bin/ksdiff and parameters to --merge --base %2 --output %4 -- %1 --snapshot %3 --snapshot. The parameters passed to the command line argument from Android Studio are: %1 - left (Local changes) %2 - base (current version without local changes) %3 - right (Server content) %4 - output path
I jailbreaked my iPhone 5S with evasi0n7 [iOS 7.0.4] a few months ago. The thing is, that I accidently broke my USB driver on the iPhone (I can still charge the phone but not connect it to any USB data port).
I use an e-book reader (Icarus Excel) to make notes on PDF files. When looking at the output PDF (which merges the notes with the PDF document) in Adobe Reader, the notes are present. However, the same document, when opened in Preview, does not display the notes. What would be the reason behind different ways of displaying the same document in the two programs and how to make Preview "see" the notes?
On my MacBook Pro Retina late 2014 running OS X Yosemite, there's something weird going on. If i look at the storage tab in the "About my Mac" menu, I use only 67 gigabytes of storage but it says 151 gigabytes are used on apps alone. Maybe this screenshot is a better explanation:
After upgrading to Yosemite my external HD is not being recognized. My HD is a WD My Passport 1TB USB 3.0 and I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011 It does not show on Finder It does not show on System Information It does not show on Disk Utility (even after using the Debug menu) It does not show on /Volumes
In my experience phones have been locked to the carrier, requiring a hefty fee and a contract payout to transfer them to another carrier. (Just because they can). This commentator writes: Oh all iphone 5 and up are not sim/network locked (didn’t know that) My question is: Is the iPhone5 and up not Network locked? (I'm aware that Apple has patents for future Sim-less phones that will further obviate this problem).
OSX's speech assistant must be the most underrated feature of any product ever. The complexity of speech recognition algorithms is colossal. I have been tracking their progress for years, as I have injuries from using the computer and depend upon speech recognition.
I know that iOS 8 encrypts Bluetooth connections: *=URL=* https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht3647
I updated candy crush saga as instructed by King on my IPad 1. Now it doesn't work at all and won't even allow me to reinstall after I deleted it. Is that because I'm still running IOS 5.1.1? Can I upgrade my operating system to IOS 7 or 8 on IPad 1?
Windows can perform "VPN Single Sign On" whereby a (pre-configured) VPN connection is initiated from the login screen using the provided user credentials and, once established, the user is authenticated against the corporate directory server. Only after successfully completing such a login can a remote client be used. How can the same be accomplished with OS X?
I have a few .mp4 files that I have added to iTunes. Some are classified as Home Movies and other are My Movies. I was wondering if there is any way to change this maybe by converting to a certain file type. I was also wondering how does iTunes determine this.
Problems I have are following with parental controls (on children account): If I limit applications, some applications that run on startup are constantly popping up, it does not matter if I click ok and do not enter password, they keep popping out until I allow them to work (applications that I personally use like Teamviwer, Brother printer software and so on, no malware).
I want to expand my MB Pro diskspace by a seamless SD-card. There are different Jetdrive Lite versions, but they're specified for the MB Pro 13" back to late 2012 only. Any experiences with MB Pro 13" early 2011?
I wondered if there was a way to tell the device being used to broadcast a location in Find My Friends. As in, if someone switched over their location from iPhone to iPad to show that they were at one place and left their iPad there to broadcast the location but weren't actually there?
Apple released the the patch for an NTPD hole. This patch is automatically updated if you have SystemPreferences-->App Store-->Install system data files and security updates; checked. Which we don't. You used to be able to run in terminal the command: this would force a check for updates to xprotect.
I'm running Yosemite on a late 2011 MacBook Pro. I did this to upgrade XCode from a downloaded DMG after the App Store repeatedly stalled.
My old MBA (2008) is not booting anymore from hdd. I tried to repair it with disk repair and with a DiskWarrior CD-ROM, but nothing. I need to copy some data from the hdd, before replacing it. Any ideas on how to do that?
I had assumed they wouldn't be reviewing apps during this Dec 22-29 break (ARGH!) but on appreviewtimes.com there have been several postings both today and yesterday.
I have used my own apple ID to sync music and apps for long times. About 5 months ago my friend installed a new app by his own apple ID on my phone and now unfortunately I can't sync any app or music. iPhone 5s iTunes version: 12.0.1.26 iOS version: 7.0.4 How can I fix this problem ?
How do I get the Dock to go to the bottom on my Mac Pro with Yosemite? It will go on either side, but not the bottom. It goes on the bottom on my Macbook Pro, but not the Mac Pro.
I just set up family share and my account is listed in my son's iCloud settings. How do I change this so he is the primary account on his device?
i have three emails addresses in my Iphone and need to delete one of them. i need to move the contacts that have been added to that account to another one. how can i do that?
I was using Safari on my iPad and suddenly a pop up message saying "your device has a virus" appeared. I just clicked okay because that was the only option and then it redirected me to youradexchange.com. Is it possible for my iPad to get a virus? I'm using iPad mini Retina with iOS 7 and it is not jailbroken.
Prior to Yosemite release I had installed the developer preview build on my Macbook. However, even after the public release I continue to get 'beta' updates from Apple (see included screenshot). How do I prevent this, and go back to the de-facto public version?
I have a Mid 2011 MacBook Pro. (Lion 10.7 - without the EFI Upgrade ) The OS partition was deleted (when I couldn't boot my mac). I have a recovery HD. When I try to Use internet recovery, I get an error, that the data is temporary not available.
I know that the 'Develop' menu allows me to block all images in Safari, however I have a couple more requirements: Blur, not block, all images from all webpages Click to show blurred images
I've got a video app, AVPlayer, on my iPhone. When I put videos in there, and then sync and backup to iTunes, the videos are also backed up. This can take up a lot of time and space to backup those videos.
This is not the zeobit version. Adware scanner doesn't find anything. It pops up (or under) whenever I close Safari. I have Mac OS X 10.7.5. It is advertising MacKeeper and I would like it to bug off.
I have a 13" mid 2012 MacBook Pro, and I want to upgrade the storage capabilities. Specifically, I want to replace my 125 GB SSD with a 250 GB SSD, and my optical drive with a 1 TB HDD.
The password for my iCloud account has not been entered on the iCloud page under settings and I don't know what it is and therefore because it's not already entered on the iCloud page I am not able to follow the instructions to turn off Find my iPhone without the password. I need to turn off Find my iPhone in order to delete my iCloud account. iPhone 5 and iOS is 8.0.2. Any suggestions what I should do?
I've inserted music into the presentation and the song is 5 mins long. There are 21 slides. After exporting the presentation to a movie, and then playing the movie, the song stops playing at 41 seconds, at about the 4th slide. It doesn't matter if I move the slides arounds - the music always stops at 41 secs when saved as a movie.
OK. So after the Apple hack when celebrity nudes were stolen I changed my password to something more complex than I can easily remember. (My password is now stored in the password manager app and is something like this u7GhY53bAhh2x.)
I have a very urgent question. I made my dad buy a MacBook Air just 3 days ago, I configured it completely and installed Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, so far so good.
Imagine I'm running an up-to-date Yosemite. How could I check what information a third party could obtain from the device. If information could be found, how to hide it?
I was trying to update YouTube on an iPhone 5S with iOS 7.0 but it asked me for Yahoo password, not iCloud password. How am I supposed to solve this problem?
I have the problem of installing Windows via bootcamp onto an external Hard drive, I previously installed windows via bootcamp with no problems, Now when I try to do it via online guides to install windows via bootcamp onto my external USB 3 Hard drive, On the select language screen I don't get any function from the track pad or keyboard. Ive tried to connect USB2 keyboards and mice and it still doesn't work. If I am to install Windows onto the Hard drive via a Windows machine, and then install bootcamp drivers onto the Hard drive, Will I be able to boot onto the hard drive on my mac?
I play poker semi-professionally online and live. When I play online I have a hard time limiting the amount of time I play. There is a free application I found called self-control. It allows you to block domains, ip addresses and ports to applications under what it calls a "blacklist" for a specified period of time. I entered into the blacklist the name of the poker website hoping its client side poker software connects through its main domain and even when self control program is blocking access, the program program still connects to its server. Question-Using terminal or some other utility how do I determine what servers or ports to block to prevent the poker software from connecting to its severs?
Is it possible to secure a Mac Mini (2014) for use in an scenario where users have access to the ports but not full physical access to the computer's internals? I need to be able to disable cd boot, usb boot, net boot, target mode, and possibly other things, in such a way that the user can't re-enable them via the keyboard during boot. Potential attackers will not have enough physical access to take the machine apart and change the internal disk, but they will have keyboard, USB port, and power button access.
I believe this is not a hardware problem and I can fix it as soon as possible. But how? I cleaned it, performed reboots, cannot reinstall OS though - simply cannot click "next"!
how to designate a photo not to go to the cloud at all. I'll do something like take a picture of an item at Costco to look it up on the net later. But I don't want the picture bumped to the cloud, then to my Mac and pad. It's going to be deleted once it's done it's job. As it is, I have to delete from my phone, the cloud, the mac and the pad, which gets old. Or simply leaving them there cluttering up my photos collection.
I want to expand my startup disk space from 25gb to 40gb using this guide: *=URL=* But if I do umount /dev/disk0s2 as the article says then it says the disk is busy. If I do diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s2 like the terminal advices then it says it failed to unmount. I can't go to disk utility and do this either because then it gives this message: That's why I'm using this article that says you need to use the terminal to expand the disk instead and here is what I've tried:
Anyone know why there would be a difference between the number shown at the bottom of the hard drive icon and the number of available space in '7.6 GB free of 272.42 GB' in the screenshot below?
I've been using parallels for a while and I want to use that partition for bootcamp. I've read about doing it the other way, using bootcamp in parallels but not from parallels -> bootcamp. How do I do this? Thanks.
I'm hitting brick walls it seems on finding any topics that pertain to streaming video and / or live display to a PlayStation 3. I am not sure if I'm just missing the correct terminology or if a solution simply doesn't exist.
I have a USB drive that was formatted for a Mac and now I want to use it for a PC. How can I do to make it?
I had my rescue email to my old email that I deleted later. Then I realized that I forgot my security passwords and the only way to find it was to send an email to your rescue email. I didn't know what to do since its been a long time since I deleted that email. What should I do?
I have an early 2011 MBP that came with Snow Leopard. I have now upgraded it to Yosemite. Yesterday, when I tried restarting the computer it did not recover from gray screen (kernel panic?). I tried the SMC reset, PRAM reset. Safe reboot does not work. I went into the recovery mode and tried to do disk repair. I get an error message which states that the disk cannot be unmount. When I try reinstalling OS X (through Internet) I get an error saying OS X failed to download. Any suggestions?
I need to extract the phone number of all the contacts in a particular group and for that I am using the following code - But whenever I run the code, the script editor crashes and asks me to reopen it even though I have only one contact in that group. What's happening here?
My IOS devices DO NOT auto-connect (auto-pair) to a bluetooth audio receiver device. However this works as expected on Android and OSX Yosemite. Thus I do not think it is the Bluetooth receiver that needs to be reset. What am I doing wrong? How do I correct this?
The Trade Agreement Act (TAA) of 1979 was designed to improve trade agreements, foster an open world trade system, expand US commerce opportunities, and improve international trade rules. *=URL=* Are iPhones and iPads TAA compliant?
*=URL=* explains as it claims in its title: 'How To Send Text Messages to Multiple Recipients Using iPhone'. However, what do I do if I want to prevent each recipients from seeing all the other recipients in the address field (ie I want this to be a Blind Carbon Copy)? For my iPhone 5s, I already tried *=URL=* which claims:
What can I do? I've spent hours in the past reorganizing, renaming files and making various playlists and I don't want to have to do all that again, especially not on Christmas eve. When I go into "settings>about on my iPod, it says 133GB free" on a 160gb iPod so SOMETHING is there. I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium.
On my Mac I use an Admin and an everyday User account (without admin / sudo privileges). Currently I am setting up a new Yosemite system and found that after installing MacPorts (using its installer), I cannot do sudo operations, such as sudo port selfupdate. In the user account it tells me that it does not have sufficient privileges and on the admin account the command port is not found.
I have Garageband 6.0.5. Why does updating to Garageband 10 (next version, don't get fooled by numbers) cost money? I thought updates were free!
I have some speakers connected to an Airport Express, and can easily send audio to them from a computer. So far, so good. However, I also have an actual stereo system (receiver, CD/tape decks, etc.), and I'd like to be able to send the output from that system to the Airport speakers as well.
I have a vintage 2009 iMovie project (.rcproject) I rescued from an old Time Machine backup, and I'm trying to open it in iMovie 10 under Yosemite. It's large enough that I'm pretty sure it does actually have the video in it.
I need to restore my iphone firmware on my work computer, without installing any other program other than the iTunes already installed on it. I'm wondering if there's some kind if app or jailbreak tweak I can install on the iphone and use to back up all my apps into ipa, copy to PC, then install later again.( I could always use appcake to install back )
I have a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5. I just got a new mac running Yosemite. I have everything from the old mac backed-up on Time Machine. How do I transfer all my files, apps, email, photos in iPhoto, music, etc., to the new mac? I want to get everything I have on my old mac, plus anything new on the new mac, such as new apps.
But when I run some application from the terminal, is says in terminal:
I just updated a contact's phone number in the Mac Contacts app. Now I want to call them on my iPhone (4S), but my iPhone does not have the new number. Both the Mac and the iPhone are configured to sync to my iCloud account. How do I force them to sync now, one after the other, so I can make this call?
I have an Airport Extreme (with Gigabit Ethernet) connected up to my cable modem, my Mac, and my PC. I have one spare port on the AE and thought about hooking up a spare 10/100 Ethernet Switch I have (D-Link DES-1105). I could hook up the Blu-ray player, etc, to this.
This is the idea: if I move my iTunes library to a NAS and enable Home Sharing, will this feature continue to work if I then turn off my PC? I would like my Apple TV to access my music and videos but without having to keep my PC running, ideally only the NAS should be running. Is there any way this could work?
When I have .txt files or .py files, I can Quick Look those files in Finder. I have .jl files that are codes written in the Julia Language. Of course they are text files. They will open in a text editor like Sublime Text. How can I Quick Look these .jl files in Finder?
currently i am asking which is the best practice to connect two HDMI monitors on my Macbook Pro. I have on HDMI slot and one Display Port. It is possible to chain the monitors via one display port or i have to connect one via hdmi and one via the mini display port? Thanks in advance.
I've recently started reading up on RAM disks, and they really do sound like they could boost a computer's speed. However, I was wondering if there was a way to go even further and make a RAM disk one of the volumes in a DIY Fusion Drive. Is there a way, keeping in mind the fact that RAM loses its data upon losing power, to safely make a DIY Fusion Drive featuring a RAM disk?
I have a Seagate GoFlex home 2 Tb external drive that was installed on my Snow Leopard Mac and configurer with Time Machine. A year ago, due to issues with my Mac, the (internal) hard drive was erased and I subsequently installed Mavericks and re-configured Time Machine with the external drive. I would like to retrieve the files from the Snow Leopard backups, which included many photos for example but I am unable to see them in Time Machine. I can only see the Mavericks backups. Here are additional things I tried:
Wondering how could I set some sort of partial OS X installation on an external drive, I searched Google only to find that I may be the only one looking for this. The goal is to get both the Applications and Library directories (those from OS X installation's root, not user's) to run them on any Mac, always keeping the applications' preferences in the Library directory, on the drive. You may see that as some sort of partial OS X installation. Is this possible and, if so, how ?
For 10.6.8 would it work to open the 10.8 NTP update.dmg with pacifist and put in the new versions of the following 6 files?:
My Mac mini (early 2009) was getting slow, so I decided to do some upgrades. I got 8 GB of ram and a 128 GB SSD from crucial that their wizard verified as being compatible. I downloaded Yosemite from the app store and made a bootable USB drive following Apple's instructions. Then I did a time machine backup to an external drive. Finally I did the RAM and SSD install. I inserted the Yosemite USB drive I made earlier and did a fresh installation. On startup, I migrated files and settings from my time machine backup. I logged in to my primary account and did the software updates from the app store and rebooted. At this point my family started using the computer and is very happy with it. Startup, login, and application loads are very fast. There's no more freezes or beachballs.
I made a song in Propellerhead Reason 8 and I named the file ".cubicle..reason" but now I can't find the file. I was wondering how I could use terminal to locate the aforementioned file.
In Finder under the File menu, the "New Tab" command has ⌘T as a keyboard shortcut. However, when I use those combination of keys, a new tab does not open. I am currently running Yosemite, but this was also the case when I was running Mavericks. Is there a fix or workaround for this?
I have iPhone 4S was working perfectly on iOS 7.0.1. After updating to 8.1.2, cellular networks fail often on my iPhone 4S. I've performed these steps: restore it from iTunes downgraded to 8.1.1 and 8.1 (While that sign iOS is available) but still its not working. reset network settings restart the phone correct the date on the phone and enter Airplane mode / verify the correct time / exit Airplane mode The WiFi works continuously - but resetting
So, I was just trying to watch some video online in Chrome, and when I get to the page I'm told I "need to install Quicktime to play the video". This is odd because I clearly have Quicktime in my applications on my Mac. It seems to be a Chrome problem, but I've read I should go to chrome:plugins and make sure it's on there; Quicktime does not appear on that list. It DOES appear under "Extensions", where it says it's enabled, but still nothing. When I click the little dropdown box that says I need Quicktime to watch the video, I'm just taken to a page that tells me "Quicktime comes with Mac" with no apparent link to download it independently. Does anyone know what the issue could be?
I cannot open iCloud account in my device . When apple ID & password input then I get this message. "The maximum number of free accounts have been activated on this iphone".
I was trying to install CLI package from github but I messed up during the process and ended up getting this error. It is persistent and won't go away. Terminal wont accept any commands like mkdir, ls, clear screen. To fix this error I ended up deleting the info.plist file for the terminal ( I am not a very smart person) which somehow bricked terminal and it won't start anymore. I decided to download iTerm, and it still launches with the same old error. What am I supposed to do. Please help me .
I am using OS X 10.8.5 and fairly new on Apple systems and especially running scripts. Can anyone describe how to start Keychaindump, does it need to run thru Terminal, or i need a additional program for it? I admin the machine, but need a lost password on a other users account, is Admin enough to run the program or do i have to be Root? I have access to the other user account. Some passwords on this account i can find as wifi's etc, but i try to access the master keychain pwd, because the login id been changed, and so far there was not yet a reset on the keychain pwd. The program i downloaded as .zip but i just needs more information how to run the script, sorry this maybe a inconvenient newbie question for most users here, but anyway thx in advance for any information provided to get me running it. Here the link to the developer https://github.com/juuso/keychaindump
My laptop is pretty old (late 2008 MBP), and I've been trying to get Bluetooth to work under Boot Camp because I just got some wireless headphones. Thing is, Bluetooth doesn't show up under device manager. In fact, I install the following three drivers from the Boot Camp support package (version 4.0.4033), and the following happens: AppleBluetoothBroadcomInstaller - success, driver being used AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller - success, driver being used AppleBluetoothInstaller - success, but "Not needed (no device for update present)"
It's quite easy to start two instances of any app from the command line. In this case:
I have an OSX VM (using VMWare fusion 6), and want to delete it. VMWare's docs say "Apple's updated license agreement allows you to install up to two additional copies of Lion on your Mac which is already running a retail version of Lion" I remember something in the installation, possibly linking to my Apple ID saying that I could only install 1-2 copies in a VM too (I installed Mavericks, 10.9) If I'm going to delete this VM, and want to create other OSX VMs in the future, can I/do I need to "unregister" this VM?
Is it possible to quickly remove a notification badge from an app in the Dock? I'm looking for a solution faster than opening the app itself and performing whatever task is required to mark the notification as read.
Translation of this window (according to my poor English, messages with en-US locale should be different): Top: Installing TeamViewer Left: Introduction License Destination Select Installation Type Installation Summary Right: Select a Destination
How can I connect an older iPod touch second generation to a lightning dock? The iPod has a 30 pin connector and the dock is a lightning connection.
I was thinking what I would do if my macbook pro with 512gb storage failed, the technical service delays would certainly disrupt my workflow severely I have a macbook air that I use seldomly, in addition to my main macbook pro (the macbook air is my previous macbook) Is it possible to: Connect a >512GB external HDD to the macbook air Restore the time machine backup to the macbook air's external hdd Use the macbook air for a while Get another time machine backup from the temporary external hdd setup Restore the time machine backup of (4) to the macbook pro when it arrives from the technical service - therefore restoring the original functionality/setup The steps (2) and (5) are the issue here, as I haven't done any macos restore's and don't know about the process
I have a me.com email account and I need to reset my password but cannot figure out how to do it. I need assistance in finding out how to reset it. Thanks
I have an iPad Mini, the screen has broken and is unresponsive. Although the device is still on and getting notifications. I need to backup the device and download photos, but cannot do this until the device is unlocked using the passcode. How can I unlock the device without the screen working? Or how can I back up the device even if its locked?
I am using late 2014 retina macbook pro 15 inch but first when i click the iCloud settings it takes 15 seconds to open it. When I enable the contacts, I can't open the Contacts app it says contacts quit "unexpectedly".When I try to enable Calendars, I get a dialog box asking if I want to merge calendars on my Mac with those on my other devices and I get the spinning icon with the "Setting up..." text and after a few minutes, nothing happens and the checkbox is left unchecked. When I try to enable Reminders, I get a spinning icon to the right saying it is "Setting up..." and then after several minutes it does nothing and the checkbox is left unchecked (no dialog box reporting any problems). I tried everything, logged out and logged in iCloud several times, tried to add accounts to calendar and reminder separately but nothing works. Does anyone know the whats going on with the iCloud? Thanks.
I've partitioned 0.75TB of external harddrive space for photo backups, which is shared on the network with a PC. However when shared I am unable to open the folder in Finder, as it will hang for 2 seconds and crash - even when nobody is accessing it.
i downloaded a song via music free download app and wanted to know how can i move this song from this app to the iphone5 music app where is usually stored our music from Itune ??? please can someone help me
For the 1st problem, ok it's fine, although it should have asked for my approval before importing the passwords. The 2nd is really annoying. Please suggest me a way to get rid of those popups (without disabling Keychain of course). Thank you in advance for your help.
On my husband's iPad 2, we are able to play Hoopla movies on our Apple TV (using AirPlay and mirroring) with no problems, however if we try to use my iPad 4, all movies are fuzzy. We have compare all settings on both devices and they are the same. If I play a Hoopla movie on my iPad4 screen only, it works just fine, very clear, not fuzzy at all.
I downloaded an application from internet but it won't open even after I changed the system preferences. When i am trying to open the downloaded app it is saying that "This application can't be opened". How can I resolve this?
How do I change the IMEI number of my iPhone?
Why does "my music" in ITunes have multiples of the songs I have loaded? How do I get rid of the duplicates without manually deleting each one?
I have MacBook Pro late 2011. When I am at home, I use it with my external monitor, when I connect external monitor for the first time (after reboot), everything works fine, but when I disconnect the external monitor and reconnect it again, the external monitor starts flickering and external monitor screen starts turning on and off. The MacBook's default screen works fine. If I reboot macbook and then connect monitor, everything works fine until I disconnect and reconnect it again, then it starts doing that weird things again.
I just got a new iPhone 5/5s/5c and it comes with a fresh install, or factory reset, of iOS 8.1. I didn't get a SIM card with the phone, and it will not let me activate/use it without one. I am concerned about the finicky behavior, and even the technical aspects of this.
I have recently bought a rMBP with i7 4578U intel 4th generation cpu. iStat usually shows cpu temperature readings of ~50 degrees which is normal.
I'm developing app now, and when I debug it - I open debug folder and drag app into Preferences->Privacy->Accessibility->List. When I want to show demo, I drag this app to applications folder and remove old app from accessibility and add new one from applications. Today I can't drag nor add by + this app.
I have around 140 tracks in iPod nano and recently synched a new track on it. The problem is that the track is not playing completely . It skips the track after first few seconds.
I have recently obtained a MacBook 1,1 from my older sister and it happens to be quite old. I have attempted to revive it with boot camp but my windows installation is stored on a USB drive instead of a DVD, and Boot Camp refuses to use it. I have OS X 10.5 Leopard installed. Also, I tried to burn a Windows xp disk, but Boot Camp wouldn't accept that either. Any help would be appreciated. Info: Nice Name: MacBook 13 inch White Core Duo (Mid 2006) Machine Model: MacBook1,1 Name: MacBook (early 2006) ModelCode: mb Family name: A1181 Model Number: MA255 Group1: MacBook Group2: nothing Generation: 1 CPU speed: 2.0GHz Screen size: 13 inch Screen resolution: 1280x800 pixels Colour: White Production year: 2006 Production week: 39 (October) Production number: 350 (within this week) Model introduced: 2006 Memory - flavour: DDR2-S-667 Memory - number of slots: 2 Memory - maximum total: 2GB Memory - largest module: 1GB Factory: 4H (China)
I just recently faced this problem, while I have high quality broadband bandwidth and each devices (laptop, apple-tv ,etc) can stream 1080 flawlessly, but the moment I hit the apple tv button, the online streaming (fb or youtube) stops playing back. If I cancel sharing the screen with apple-tv it resumes playing back!!
My daughter was using my old iPod Version 6.1.3/Model MC54LL/A, and Santa just brought her her own iPod Version 8.1/ModelPD717LL/A. I had her email going to my old iPod. It is going through my own server which is a POP3 server type with POP3 incoming on port 110 and SMTP outgoing on port 25 or port 2525 (with SMTP-AUTH outgoing server authentication). I added the email account settings to the new iPod, but it shows up as an IMAP account. How do I change the settings to old school POP instead of IMAP?
I was downloading ios 8. it was almost complete and suddenly ipad became dead and couldnt start again? tried rebooting too but couldnt start. Could anyone give an advice please.
Which of iOS apps that allow customizing font sizes: either through support of DynamicType / LargerText system settings (and BoldText that can be helpful to improve readability) or have their own settings for font size--and how broad is the size range available? One of the goals for such a list is to help understanding how font sizes can change when switching between devices with different DPI and resolution--given current variety: iPad Mini/Air, iPhone 6/6+, earlier iPhones. Ideally I'd be happy to compare screenshots, but doubtful how it can be achieved here at SE with reasonable efforts.
I have HP-2000-Notebook Pavilion series with windows on it. More my notebook doesn't support visualization technology.
I have a partition on an external HD with some Time Machine backups. I decided to encrypt the partition using Finder and used Apple's built-in password generator to create the passphrase.
A couple I know have two computers I'm supporting - one is a iMac which I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Yosemite (10.10). The printer is attached to this machine. The other computer, unfortunately, is a 450MHz Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) running the last version of Panther (10.3.9). Surprisingly, the 14-year-old computer still works and is actively being used (primarily for AppleWorks documents, which is another "ugh").
I need help. so the photos from my iPhone 5S, when connected to the iMac, will automatically sync and the photos from my iPhone 5S can be seen on the iPhoto on iMac. how do I stop this ? I don't want anyone to check my photos when using yhe iMac. I want privacy. I want to set a lock on the iPhone to prevent the pictures from being synced and connected to iPhoto.
I'm using Calculator on Mac OS X 10.7.5. I switched it to the "Programmer" view, and the upper right only has "8", "10", and "16" buttons, which means it only allows you to enter octal, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers. How can I enter binary numbers?
I'm trying to move all my music to another drive and I don't let iTunes organize my music for me. I moved the "iTunes" folder to my external and I also moved my Music folder which is also outside of my external but the issue I'm having is when I export the XML file. In Itunes I went to File > Library > Export Library which exports an XML file. In the XML file I see a ton of paths that begin with: So my plan is to change all the files from beginning with that to:
My father-in-law had forgot his Apple ID on his iPhone. He had his friend enter his details to download some apps on to his phone. He's since reset his password and set his phone back to his own account (both the iTunes and iCloud are using his email address). The issue is, when he goes to upgrade some apps it's asking for the password for his friend's email account? How can we resolve this?
I am using a Bose soundlink mini on an 2013 Imac to improve the sound. I would like it to be always on and connected but the connection is lost at some point, when idle or standby i guess. Any ideas?
I've got a very simple situation, which is: I have a generic record player with a preamp and RCA outputs (red/white). I have a pair of speakers connected to an old Airport Express, one connected to a new Airport Express, and an Apple TV.
BUT the problem is: I have locked myself out of the admin account somehow. The admin password I login with, does not work anywhere else. For instance it does not unlock anything that requires to unlock the padlock - such as System Preferences. I cannot access Disk Utility, cannot unlock or put in my admin password. I cannot turn FileVault off or the Firewall I cannot upgrade software that requires admin password.
i have just purchased a dell p2715q monitor and while i understand that my early 2011 macbook pro will not run it at the full resolution, it should be able to run it at 2560x1440. However the only option from the list of resolutions that works (1080i) (i.e. any other res I select makes the monitor go dark, still active as i am able to drag windows to it, but not see anything on the monitor). I have spent literally all today trying to configure it and nothing works.
My prepaid MasterCard didn't have enough value so a problem occurred at my last purchase and I can't download any already purchased music or free updates anymore as I have to update my credit card information. If I enter the prepaid data it says invalid because it does not have enough money on it, and due to holidays it will take another few days for my bank to transfer the money to it. Is it possible to fix this issue by redeeming an iTunes code (5€ for example?) or does it only work with a credit card?
Chrome for Mac used to have the behavior that clicking the green "maximize" button would resize the window to best fit the page content. For example, if your Chrome window wasn't wide enough horizontally to fit the text of the webpage, clicking the green button would expand the window horizontally until it perfectly fit the text. It seems in recent versions of Chrome this was discontinued in favor of the green button full-screening the window.
Do cheap iPad lightning to USB adapters (from websites such as eBay) work or can a get a genuine Apple adapter for a lower price somewhere? I do not want to pay at least $39 AUD for one. My iPad mini is jailbroken and I wish to use one to symlink apps to a USB flash drive because I only have a 16GB model and I'm always trying to find things to delete to free up space. Is it worth the money for an Apple branded adapter?
I just got a new Mac, and everything went fine (I've owned like 6 different macs in my lifetime.) At one point however, I simply wanted to update my XCode app.. so I opened the App Store and clicked on updates, clicked on the update button, but the App Store is requiring me to sign in, but it's asking me to sign in with a different email address (ok I remember I once used a laptop of a coworker a couple of jobs ago and I had to do some updates. I have no idea how this is linked to my laptop now.) Anyways, I have no idea how to change the apple ID here!
I get the healthy package of Jun 2013 from a friend and tried it. When I enter admin password, it starts validating package and then immediately throws the following error:
My iTunes will not open under my username after an update. It pops up an error message saying "iTunes will not open. An unknown error has occurred (13001)". However, I tried troubleshooting it from the Apple website and got no where except I know it works under a different user. Can I fix my iTunes without having to delete it?
I am trying to administer my Western Digital MyBookLife home network drive, using the Java based admin console provided by WD. The console is a web application served up from the drive itself. However, since I upgraded to Java 8, the Mac is preventing me from loading the page (a Java applet), which is on my network at 192.168.1.2 I opened the Java console and added *=URL=* to my trusted network site list, however it is still rejecting me. The message says Also, I am getting another prompt that says again "Application Blocked by Java Security" but this time it says reason: Your security settings have blocked an application signed with an expired or not-yet-valid certificate from running
Because of that I can't even get the hidden files to show up. What should I do? EDIT: when I run /bin/echo $PATH I get: /usr/local/heroku/bin EDIT: Almost **** myself when commands very working but I I was able to run /usr/bin/open ~/.bash_profile -a and comment out export route defined by Heroku Thank you
I have a 16 GB Apple Mini iPad using iOS 8.1.2 and am unable to install the bookmark found here that renders LaTeX in the Math Stack Exchange chat room. I can't find a browser with a bookmark bar to drag the given link to.
My son has Clash of Clans progress on an iPad1 with my Apple ID that we want to transfer to a iPad Mini 3 with a new Family Apple ID. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?
I've been trying to learn to automate my home Mac environment with Applescript. I've had some success, but am running into seemingly inconsistent and troublesome errors. In order to diagnose the errors, I've broken the scripts down into their component parts and narrowed the most troublesome issue down to the Screen Saver. When I activate the current screen saver via a script, or if I access the Screen Saver control panel via the System Preferences, I get
When resuming music playback after a break (10 minutes, few days, another app playing content) it ignores whatever playlist, album, artist or other refinement was placed on the music list and simply plays at random from the entire library. Is there a way to set it so that resuming playback will resume in the playlist it was last playing? If the music app is opened directly, it remembers where it was, so why not when using the play button on the lock screen, or when attaching a Bluetooth device, or plugging it into a speaker?
I want to exchange files between two users on the same mac. To do so, user one copies the file into ~/Public folder. I double checked that the folder and all files are readable and writable by all users. If I change to the second user, the folder is empty. Any ideas what's missing?
Can I delete music off my phone without this deleting my music on my iTunes account? If I can then will the songs reappear once I plug my phone back into my mac I need space on my phone but don't want to loose it completely or for it too reappear when I sync it.
I am just wondering I already have an apple ID created on my iPad and I recently got an iPhone I am wondering if I keep the same apple ID for my iPhone will everything I download on my iPad come up on my phone? (like apps and music)
It's possible to change the font and the font-size for 3-finger lookup popup. You just need to edit css file for dictionaries you use, e.g.: find html.apple_client-panel body { and edit properties
I sold my MacBook earlier and I want to reinstall Yosemite. However, I have FileVault enabled and I want to essentially "throw away the key" and "reinstall Yosemite" so none of the data is recoverable.
Please help Me get find my iPhone off a second hand iPhone 5 need to get this off before I can use it for my son
This information was enough to give me a diagnosis, and I'm supplying that as an answer below. I included a lot of detail in the update so that search engines will index the clues, for future people with this problem.
When I make changes to Contacts on my Macbook, they tend to take a while to get synced up with my iPhone 6. I was wondering if there was a setting on the iPhone (or perhaps even on iCloud.com) that would allow me to set a more frequent synch schedule.
I've got an early 2011 MBP with an upgraded AirPort card. I know that one has to jump through kext- and Terminal-based hoops to enable Continuity, but I also know that Continuity Activation Tool does the entire process at the press of a button. The one problem is that whenever I install a software update or reinstall Yosemite, it undoes the Continuity-enabling process. My question: Is there a way to make the Continuity-enabling process automatically run after every update/reinstall?
Is there any way to convert .ps to .pdf every time automatically as a .ps is downloaded onto a Mac machine? (Using Mountain Lion 10.8) can Automator perform this task? convert and then delete the .ps It's annoying that it has to convert from .ps to .pdf in preview every time I open the file, and quick preview doesn't work on .ps.
I have Mavericks on my mac and I want to make it look like Yosemite. Is there an alternative to Flavours (my trial period is running out) that will allow me to install a Yosemite theme for FREE? I found out about Flavours here: *=URL=* Direct link to Flavours theme: *=URL=* If you have Flavours copy the link below (auto-link does not work) flavour://903EB28F-54EB-4100-9957-F6F8BCF7C483
I was importing pictures from my Nikon d3200, i had to stop it early, so i pressed the stop importing, and the delete the pictures that you have already imported, then I left. Now, it won't close out of iPhotos and it says it is importing photos, but it said that all day. Since it won't close out, i can't shut down my Mac or restart it. And I can't import the rest of my photos either. What should I do?
I was cleaning my MacBook Pro, erasing all unused files I had on it. After that I decided to erase the free space, so I will have all my files organized and cleaned the "used space". After that I verified the disk that shows the following error:
The only thing I've seen that seems sort of suspect is an error message from the kernel in the wifi log: Unsupported ioctl 181 but I haven't been able to determine what this means beyond the kernel asking the wireless driver to do something it can't, so it may or may not be significant. The other potentially significant thing is that at one point this machine was restored from a time machine backup of a completely different computer (a MBP). It's my understanding that time machine backs up the entire drive, so restoring a backup from a different hardware configuration seems like it could break things, but nothing that a clean install of OSX couldn't fix. I've tried to do the built in hardware test but it doesn't work for some reason, maybe because this machine has an after-market hard drive upgrade (the original failed). So this brings me back to wondering whether it's a software issue, particularly something to do with the router but that seems strange since nothing has changed on the
I have an early 2009 iMac (The last one that was 24 inches) and a Macbook Pro from work. Occasionally I work from home and would like to use my iMac as a second monitor with the Macbook.
I bought a iPod 5 over the summer as a Christmas gift for my daughter. I purchased it from an estate sale; as it appeared to be in working order. However, my daughter tryed to setup her own iCloud account yesterday and received a message saying "This iPod belongs to m......@icloud.com enter password". I have no idea what her password is and don't remember where the sale was, what can I do?
I recently fell on my iPhone while it was in my back pocket. The screen wasn't cracked but it refused to show the home screen. All the same noises were present (i.e; siri, charging). I tried a hard reset and now it won't turn on or light up at all and it buzzes constantly while on the charger. Any suggestions?
When I first purchased the machine in 2008 it ran flawlessly under Tiger I believe was the OS at the time. Ever since I upgraded to later iterations of OS X, my machine would randomly wake up from sleep but it's not a full on wake as the monitors don't turn on, just the audible click sound from the Mac and a few minutes later will go back to sleep again. Happens 3-4 times through the night when I'm sleeping.
How to tell iPhoto to ignore the specific faces permanently if I want to ignore them. When I click close button it doesn't work, because the next time when I find faces, THE SAME faces appear again and again. Anyone knows how to fix this issue?
I accidentally created an @icloud.com address for my kid's (under 13) Apple ID, and now I want to change the primary email to his correct address. However, there is no option for setting a new primary email when I sign into his account at appleid.apple.com. The correct address is listed under Alternative Email Addresses I thought maybe I'd have to change it through my account, but I couldn't find any help there either. How can I change his primary email address?
in Finder I can use the arrow keys to go up and down and with "left arrow" and "right arrow" I can expand a folder while being in List View mode. However, when I'm in Cover Flow mode the "left arrow" and "right arrow" do the same as "up arrow" and "down arrow", i.e. just go up and down in the list. How can I expand a folder while being in Cover Flow?
I've successfully got two monitors running on a 2012 Mac Mini. But how do I get each screen to have it's own identity ? That is, how do I get windows 2-3 open on monitor A, and windows 4-6 open on monitor B? They should be able somehow to have separate and distinct displays, right?
For example, in folder A, I have foo.jpg and bar.jpg. In folder B, I have foo.png and foobar.png. I only need one version of the file regardless of the extension, so I only want move foobar.png to folder A. How can I do this? This is a simple example, there are almost 2,000 files in folder B, so comparing manually would be very tedious.
My portable external Toshiba hard drive is now unreadable on my MacBook Pro early 2008 aluminum computer. Since updating to Yosemite OS X 10.10.1, I cannot recover my files stored as Time Machine backups on my external drive. In the finder, it cannot be see under devices, however in Disk Utility, it is visible. The mounted partition is not viewable, however. My own native hard drive is 200 GB while the external hd is 500 GB. There's no creating a 500 GB image on my hard drive, in other words. I've tried the latest versions of Paragon NTFS and Tuxera NTFS with no avail. How am I to recover my files, most importantly my Time Machine backups, from my external drive? MacBook
I need to remove the orientation "flag" of a batch of images (jpeg images), without changing the displayed orientation of the images. Trying to make it clear : if I have an image in portrait orientation with an orientation flag, I want it to keep this portrait orientation, but get rid of the orientation flag, as it seems some application are not able to handle it correctly. It's a kind of fusionning the image with its orientation flag. I guess this means recompressing the image, but that is not a problem.
I opened 128 .png files in Preview, hoping to use it to create a PDF out of them, as I believe was possible in earlier versions using the New from clipboard trick, but apparently, on Yosemite, not any more. Now I want to close the newly created documents, but it'll require me to click Don't Save 128 times. Is there any way around this?
I have 2 MBP. A private (late-2013) and a work (mid-2012). My private MBP can detect the external monitors instantly without any issues. My work MBP can only detect one of the monitors.. The monitors are exactly the same (Fujitsu Thor) and I use a mini-DP -> DP cable. I've tried resetting PRAM and SMC.
I recently acquired a refurbished iPad 2 WiFi and, being an iOS developer, I would like to use it as a test device and load beta iOS versions on it. Apple offers two different downloads, one for an "iPad 2" and one for an "iPad 2 (Model A)." I'm not sure which one I can safely use. This Ask Different answer states that iPad 2's with model number MC979 are not Rev A, whereas A1395 MC954 (black) or MC989 (white) are Model A's. My iPad 2 has "Model A1395" written on the back, however in Settings -> General -> About, it lists the Model as FC769LL/A. Is mine a Model A or not?
I have a Samsung U28D590 plugged into a Late 2014 Mac mini (with Iris video graphics) via Thunderbolt 2 to DisplayPort. In the display options it does not give the option for 3840x2160, even after holding the option key while clicking on "Scaled" Both the monitor and Mac mini support this resolution according to their documentation, so I wonder if I need to install some extra drivers or something like that.
I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my Mac (10.7.5) but I'm running into some big issues. First I'll explain what I already did. Created a partition with the Boot camp assistant (151 GB) Installed an ISO on my external hard drive. Rebooted my Mac holding the ⌥option key so I could choose a start drive disk Selected EFI BOOT Entered my serial number and continued. And here does the trouble begins: Now a see a list of drivers and my partition but I can't select my Drive 0 Partition 4: Bootcamp These are the errors I get:
Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, I've had an issue with the admin login screen. It looks like this:
I want to give a folder a localized name. In one of Apple's articles, I found out that the ".localized" file (e.g., in ~/Downloads) is responsible for indicating this, but all of the .localized files are empty (length 0). I can't find any documentation for the content of this file, or even if it can have any at all. How can I make a folder whose name is "One", but whose Spanish name is "Uno"?
On my MacBook's 'About This Mac' pane there is a section that is taking up a lot of storage it is titled 'Backups'. Now I do use a Time Capsule but I don't know why it would be labeled under my MacBook's hard drive. Can anyone help me identify and solve this problem? Here is a screenshot of what I see.
I know that this question have been discussed before on AskDifferent, but none of the threads really satisfied me. For Windows you have a wonderful program called Sandboxie *=URL=* that let you easily set up sandboxes with different rules and privileges. What is the eaisest and most secure way of sandbox really malicious programs?
I'm not sure if it was that recent security update, or the fact I've bought a new television, but it seems my Macbook Air no longer wants to play with the television at all. It's a little old, Late 2010, 1.4gHZ Intel core 2 duo macbook air, and i'm trying to get it to connect via MiniPort/HDMI cable to an LG55LB650V. It was previously connected to a two year old LG 42" television without any problem via the same cable i'm using here (or not using infact)....
How do I fix this? What does it mean? I'm not sure what do to, I am very good at OS X and Mac Software, but I've never gotten an infection notice by ClamXav and let alone in /private/var. EDIT: Also, infection name: Html.Exploit.CVE_2012_1537_1.
I installed Yosemite now and after the installation the terminal is not working. It used to work before, but after installation of the new OS X on Mavericks it is no longer working. How can I resolve this? If I open the terminal this message is shown:
I'm running the latest version of OS X and Preview is hanging whenever I try to start it. It attempts to open the documents which I previously had open, which is ~10 PDFs and ~3 PostScript files, and it seems to be permanently get stuck whilst "converting" those PostScript files (even though opening them was no issue before).
I'm trying to install AdBlock Plus so pages like beliefnet.com won't have so many ads. Safari says my extensions are blocked. HELP?
How do i make OSX go through a proxy server for all the applications that use internet? The system preferences proxy network setting only routes depending if the application supports it, but an ideal solution would be a way to tunnel everything to a proxy.
My menu bar looks like this:  As you can see the battery icon is missing because I accidentally removed it by CMD+Click+Dragging it off of the menu bar. Also, the customize toolbar button is not clickable.
I happened to name some of my photo folders "*.Playground" (e.g., some date plus the ".Playground"), it got picked up happily by Xcode and now OS X treats it like a file associated with Xcode, even changing the filename doesn't help. Does anyone know a way to force the file to be treated as a Folder?
I have Sony NEX 3N. I can find AVCHD file when camera plugged to the computer
This is the script I've found on the web I'm trying to just have the script drop items for me by pressing 1, but it works only for a little while before script comes up with an error "error "System Events got an error: Connection is invalid." number -609" I use this script
As you can see, I have FDisk_partition_scheme which is 500.1 GB and my main Apple_HFS called, Mac HD which has all my files and folders, that is 399.2 GB. I wish to make my Mac HD ~500 GB so I can recover that 100 GB that has disappeared.
I'm running Yosemite 10.10.1 on a MacBook Air (early 2014), and I'm not seeing some icons on menu bar and folder and on browsers too. I have been trying to look for what's wrong on System Preferences, but I can't seem to find the answers! I attached the images to make it more clear.
I have small space on internal hdd. Therefore I use external hdd. My phpstorm projects are located there. If external hdd has been reconnected phpstorm project needs to be reindexed. It takes too much time. Seems indexes are located on internal hdd. Is it possible to store indexes on external hdd? How to set it up? UPDATE: here is my properties file
In this picture you can see that Safari recognises the correct icon for the bookmarks:  However when I look at them as part of the drop down menu in the address bar a lot of the icons are missing:
I have a late 2010 13" MBP. I have OS X 10.9.5 installed. Also I have iphone 4s. I would like to record video directly from my iPhone's HD camera to my computer since I can't record long videos because I only have 8GB on my iPhone. I tried to use iMovie but when I select the iphone camera, it only shows the videos I have on my iphone. I want to record from the camera directly! However choosing the iSight camera from iMovie, it allows me to record. This is very strange. Any ideas?
Is it possible for my ex husband to receive my message on his phone. Because I don't understand how he is finding out things he shouldn't know and relieving pictures sent to me that I have not sent to him. How do u stop this from happening.
I've got the following apps installed: Text Wrangler 4.5.12 XCode 6.1.1 Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.12 I've installed the updates no less than 7 times in total in an attempt to get rid of this and it's still trying to push the same versions on me. I was hoping that the recent OS X NTP Security Update would have fixed this (I was thinking that the date issue might be the cause) but these updates have just appeared again. What can I do to stop this ridiculous situation?
I have installed the OSX 10.10, and the update 10.10.1, and nothing I do can make my Photoshop function. (CS3) I wish, therefore, to uninstall Yosemite 10.10. However, I have never set up Time Machine. Can I do this?
Has anyone got a neat solution to this problem? (Apart from cloud backups and proprietary third-party backup software, both which I already know of).
I shut down my iPhone 5 phone in the middle of an iTunes purchase download. I went to an At&T store and they reset the phone. After three hours the phone went blue. Phone will not turn back on now after doing the recovery via iTunes on the computer. The download did complete. At this point I can get the apple logo to show but that is all.
I was given a late 2006 iMac with the hard drives erased and no OS loaded. The iMac boots to flashing folder. I purchased a Mac OS Tiger Install DVD but it is not bootable. I also have a Mac OS Leopard Drop-in DVD that will boot to the installation menu but will not install because 10.4 is not found on the HD.
I just transferred over from Windows to Mac OS X and it's great, I like it a lot. However, my day job is programming and I'm hungarian - you'll see in a bit why that is important -. All the alphanumeric characters are on the right place after I've selected the hungarian keyboard layout, however for some reason Apple decided to go total nuts and change the position of all the special characters on the keyboard. As a programmer this is a really big turn off for me, since I have to use special characters all the time. To give you an idea how big of a change they made: Regular hungarian keyboard layout: Link OS X hungarian keyboard layout: ... Had to remove the link since I can only post 2 links with such low reputation.
My iPhone 5 will not ring when a call comes in. It is not set to vibrate on the side of the phone. What do I need to change in settings. I have tried all I know how. When i get a call the phone has no sound for ringer but when I select ring tone it has sound
I've exhausted all the things I could imagine trying to solve my problem but unfortunately nothing helped. This is the 40th time today that my MacBook Pro suffers a kernel panic and then shuts down. I can't get my MacBook up more than 2-5 min. I've read everything about kernel panics and tried many different solutions but not one single change in this problem. I've stoped using all applications that consume the most CPU, RAM and Graphic Memory like Google Chrome, Adobe illustrator, Photoshop but it only relieves for a couple of hours and then the continuous shut downs come back again. I have 8Gb of RAM and installed Memory Cleaner and only work with minimum of 4GB of RAM Free but it keeps shutting down. I opened my Mac and cleaned the fans from dust. I've tried many different reboots. This are the specs of my MacBook Pro: This is the last kernel panic report I've received:
I have just installed VLC for Mac, after I added a video file to my play list all I can see is this window + the audio played. Please let me know how can I show the video playback?
My goal is to have the MTS files in PhotoStream so that all of my iPhone applications such as video collage creator apps can use them. MTS video files are files created by Sony Nex 3N camera that are downloaded to MacOS X and Dropbox.
I have a sparse image of hundreds of gigabytes that I run hidutil compacton now and then. This process takes hours. I'm just wondering, if I interrupt this process, or if there is a power outage, is there any chance that the image will become corrupted or that I will have data loss? Or are such data rearrangement programs written with failure in mind, so that any possible loss is minimal?
If I navigate as high as possible in Finder (under 10.10.2, but this did not appear only recently), I see this window, with many volumes which are long unmounted, ejected and erased.  But if I tried to look around in the Terminal to potentially delete these, it only found the reasonable ones: Disk Utility only sees Macintosh HD. What is going on, and what is there to do?
I am using a monitor as my second display for my MacBook Air. I have Netflix fullscreen on my second display. Whenever I want a Safari window on my primary display, I have to go to the second display, create a new window, and drag it over to my primary display. this disrupts Netflix, as I have to click to leave full screen then put it back to fullscreen. Is there an easier way to achieve this?
How can I name photos in IOS 7 ? I wonder if there is a way to rename the photos.
Iphoto is putting a high number of unnamed faces in pictures of food in my oven. It's not happening in other pictures, at least I can't see another pattern. Why is this happening and how can I avoid this?
My new black Apple TV (3rd generation) is plugged into my flatscreen by HDMI. All worked fine.
There is a well-documented method of getting Unix to automatically mount a partition on Mac OS X, namely adding something like this to /etc/fstab: However if the partition is encrypted, this won't work. Does anyone know is there a way to get Unix to mount encrypted partitions?
I am on Yosemite 10.10.1. For some reason (maybe corrupted initial download) the 1.2MB installer stops at around 30% (34%, 35% or 36%) downloading the full installer.
Updated my os from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion a week ago and noticed strange filesize info inside 10.8.5's finder. The info on filesize/foldersize in 10.8.5 is different from 10.6.5. While a folder that consist purely of symlinks was stated with few kb in 10.6 is now stated with symlinks resolved sizes. For me this is very disturbing and i wish the size info like it was given by snow leopard's finder. Example (finder's view | term's du output):
I have connected an external monitor to my macbook pro through a thunderbolt vga adapter. The monitor has several USB ports on it and if I plug a mouse or keyboard into them, they will not work. Is there a fix for this?
I haven't made a single change to my wireless network over the last few months. However, lately, my macbook pro will NOT connect to either of the 2 SSIDs that I have broadcasting. Both wireless networks are using WPA2 PSK.
I have no idea how to sync them WITHOUT the laptop. I have done it with the laptop but is there a way I can do it without setting up to the laptop each time? Surely is should be something easy? PLEASE HELP!
I upgraded my Mac to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 recently. Since then the dictionary lookup stopped working in Chrome. Tried both keyboard shortcut and context menu. Know of any workaround for this issue?
On Yosemite I would like to have an application show up as the top running application (it takes over the screen and hides the menu bar). When you set up an application for startup in the user account under Yosemite, the application starts but finder always comes up on top of it and any applications set for startup behind it.
I have a broken iPhone 4S with iOS 8.1.1 jailbroken. It fell a lot, and the battery connector (I forgot to screw it back in) ripped out of it and the screen is broken so even if I place it and hold it with my fingers against the pins, it turns on but the screen is not possible to see as it just flickers. It also does not turn on all the way and right when it does, it just restarts so I can't connect it to my computer.
This is my configuration: Samsung S22A300B monitor (with VGA and DVI input) Computer A 2,6GHz Mac Mini from end of 2014 HDMI to DVI cable Thunderbolt to VGA cable 2,6GHz Mac Mini from end of 2014 HDMI to DVI cable Thunderbolt to VGA cable Computer B Mac Book (yes, old) output video to DVI cable (forget the connector name) Mac Book (yes, old) output video to DVI cable (forget the connector name)
I have a white 13" MacBook (late 2009) with 2GB memory. It is currently running Mavericks. The machine is too slow, probably because the memory is just 2GB. I'm considering downgrading it back to its original OS, which was Snow Leopard. I bought Lion from the App Store when it came out, but I can't find it now, only Mountain Lion and Yosemite. What would be the ideal OS X for this machine? What would be the ideal OS X for this machine? If it is Lion, how would I go about getting another copy, given that I've bought one once already? If it is Lion, how would I go about getting another copy, given that I've bought one once already?
I wanted to add new tags to the standard set AND to give them colours of their own but I have not been able to do it. For instance, I would like to have a brand-new Black tag. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Nacho
For some reason, I can't seem to update permissions on the affected files. After a sudo chmod a+rwx * I still get this permissions string from ls: -rwx------@ The files are stored on a smb share from a local networked server running ZFS on FreeNAS 9.2.1.8; I believe I first encountered this issue sometime after updating the FreeNAS version, but I can't be sure whether or not that caused it, as I'm sure other software on my computer changed during that period as well. At some point in the past I changed some Finder preferences to disable .DS_Store creation on network shares, as there is no .DS_Store file generated in these directories
I've got FreeNAS 9.3 server (HP Microserver N54L) and connecting to it via NFS from my multiple OS X systems (running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1). I've always had low performance over the network (1Gig ethernet) and have roughly 40 megabytes per second transfer rate, while locally on file server, write speed is about 140-150Mb/s. via NFS: locally on FreeNAS:
Got a Fire HD 7 for christmas present. My iMac desktop & printer is wired via ethernet into a Motorola SURFboard eXtreme Wireless Cable Modem & Gigabit Router (3 products in 1 device) My question is HOW do I set up Aiport(WiFi) on my "stuff" so I can use the Kindle in other places in my apartment using wireless????and still be hardwired for desktop & printer??
I recently upgraded from iOS 6 to 8. Previously, the show's icon did not appear in the video viewer if there were no shows uploaded to the iPad. Now, they all show, presumably so that you can download cloud versions at any time.
Is there a faster way to switch between applications on mac using ⌘ cmd + tab??
I would like to delete every possible file read, created or cached by iTunes on a Mac and reinstall the whole thing from scratch. What do I need to delete? Obviously everything in /Applications/iTunes.app, what else? Here are some: ~/Library/iTunes ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iTunes
I had an app on my ipad a while ago. I cant remember the name of it, but I can explain it.
we already have an id and password with around 5 devices on it, we have just gotten another device but with a different Id and password. My question is can I/how do I get the games that are on the other devices onto the new device.
On occasion, I get a "black screen of death" where the mouse cursor is visible and working, but no amount of mouse or keyboard activity will wake the machine back up. This typically happens after using fast user switching after wakeup from sleep. The computer is a 2012 Mac Mini with OS/X Yosemite (fully patched).
I have a video clip with extention ".h264" on my online storage, and i want to save it in "Photos" app on my iPad and watch it there... Is there an app for that? I think it might need to be converted to a playable format even before putting it in Photos. Thanks!
I have an additional user [Update Needed] appear on login screen at every boot, which doesn't affect usability but a bit annoying. I googled for solution, but all of them are just disabling and enabling FileVault again. That would be time-consuming, somewhat harmful to the SSD, and would leave bits of sensitive data unencrypted on the disk. Is there any other way? Like some terminal commands?
I have an iPhone with iOS 8 and a Mac with Yosemite, which means I can send SMS messages from my Mac (which I absolutely love). However there are some special cases that it doesn't handle as I would like it to.
A picture is worth a thousand words.  I have a shortcut (not sure what the official word for this is) to my Applications folder in my Dock. When opening it, I see multiple copies of the icon "Xcode.app".
I'm synchronizing a folder structure between my MacBook (OS X 10.6) and a PC with Windows XP (soon Linux or Windows 7). My problem is that Windows shortcuts or OS X aliases seem to be unusable on the other system, so those symbolic links can not be synchronized with the other machine. Is there a common format for symbolic links which works on all 3 operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux)? Can I convert the existing aliases and Windows shortcuts to this format?
How do I print my iCloud contact list? When I printed it the first time, the format was out of sorts, rendering the printed version un-usable? I thought that Apple was supposed to be easy. I was shocked to discover that the Outlook contact list is much easier to deal with. Please help.
At one point I tried to download an app (game) and it started well, but my iPad crashed during the process. When I now try to re-download the app, it shows the following message: You've already purchased this, so it will be downloaded now at no additional charge.
I have Family Sharing turned on currently, but no longer wish all my family's purchases to come from the one credit card. As some iOS apps have been bought for the benefit of the whole family, what happens to these apps if I were to turn off the Family Sharing feature? I note that any In-App Purchases will not be shared (which is fine), but: Will the apps continue to reside on all the other people's phones and be updatable etc? Presuming 1. to be "Yes", what happens if in the future they remove it from their phone, but then want it back again? Does it show as purchased on their accounts? If the answer to 3 is "no", would turning Family Sharing back on temporarily solve this? Thanks in advance.
Since OS X also supports exFat, I figured I should be able to see the partition I created on Windows. This turned out to be wrong. When I connected the HD to my Mac using a docking station, the HD was visible in Disk Utility, but there were no partitions associated with it. diskutil list shows the HDD as follows:
I am looking for a virtual emulation of an Ipad or Iphone that I can run on a PC machine so I can create video tutorials on things such as setting up our corporate email or how to connect the devices to our network. I have found some applications via Google and youtube, but so far they do not support a network connection. I know there are android emulators that do this, but haven't found an IOs one. If anyone could point me in the direction of one it would be greatly appreciated. I would prefer free software, but am willing to pay as long as its in a reasonable price range.
I have several Mac Minis using several OS (10.7.2-Intel Core 2 Duo, 10.8.5-Intel Core i5, 10.5.8-Power PC, 10.9.5-Intel Core i5, 10.6.8-Intel Core 2 Duo). I am using serving pages from all and built the sites using Sandvox. Until a couple of weeks ago everything was running fine. Also using DynDNS. Recently i modified some info on several and now Sandvox replies: Only reachable within local network Every pertinent port in the router is open… internally the page is webserved… help! thank you for your time and knowledge
I want to sign up as an individual or as a company and sell apps on the App Store. SInce I have not purchased access to Developer Program I cannot check which countries are eligible..Any other way I can check this?
I have a Mac Mini (Yosemite) on my local network and it's not running a DNS server at all. When I want to access it over SSH from a Terminal on my Macbook Air (Yosemite), I can type: And that works fine. But I wanted to avoid having to type the ".local" domain every time, so I added the "local" domain to the Search Domains list in Network Settings (for my Wi-Fi adapter which is the one currently in use in my MBA). If I then try: that doesn't work (Could not resolve hostname). Any idea why?
In text editor my quotation marks keep getting replaced by non ascii versions. So if I am editing an XML document the double vertical line type quotation mark keeps getting auto-replaced by the curly type that breaks the XML document. I have turned off the Text replacement option in preferences but it keeps happening.
My macbook pro will not sleep with a VGA monitor connected, via a MiniDisplayport to VGA adapter. When I close the lid, all of the windows shift over to the second screen, and the light on the macbook continues to stay solid (rather than pulsing like it usually does when the monitor is not plugged in). I can unplug it, but it is a nuisance and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix it.
If I use Spotify in Offline Mode on my iPad, I need to go online within 30 days or I will lose the offline songs. But do I need to open the spotify app when the device does have internet connection, or can I just leave it close, and it will automatically inform the server? In other words, do I need to take care about it and open the app when I do have connection, or this is done silently in background as soon as I connect to the internet (even with the app close) ?
The music player on my iPad iOS 8.1.2 has started crashing. After playing half a dozen songs or so the music player stops completely. This is very recent behaviour. Whether the music is downloaded or cloud does not make a difference. All music is in my iTunes account.
My daughter's MacBook Pro (Late 2011 model) just went off while she was using it. Battery was reporting that it required servicing, so apparently, she was pushing it. After it went black, it would not turn on anymore, even though it said the battery was full (before it went off) and the charger was plugged in.
Is there a way to do a double superscript/subscript in keynote? I mean superscript of a superscript, e.g., (in latex notation) $a^{2^n}$.
I have a Spotlight to search for the applications.  However, nothing shows up when I searched the application.
Is there an encryption app or password manager available for iPhone that doesn't have a cloud connection or that can be disconnected from the cloud and the Internet?
Command-` switches between windows of the active app, but it doesn't work if the windows are full-screen. According to this question, this was added in Yosemite if the windows are on separate monitors. Great! Is there any keyboard shortcut that switches between full-screen windows on a single monitor?
I need some way to control an Android mobile phone or iphone 5 to allow me use a external microphone in the headphone 3,5mm socket and output my voice (in real time) to an external bluetooth speaker via the mobile bluetooth system in the phone. In fact its like using a mobile phone used as a PA system. Can anyone help?
Is there any client or method to connect to Cisco Jabber in OS X? My company uses this and I hate to keep checking my RDP'd Windows screen just for Jabber when I'm working remotely.
I recently imported all my photos from my iPhone to my Mac. Now they are on both devices. I would like to delete some of them from my phone camera roll, but i want them to stay on my Mac. Will the photos/videos delete from both devices
Are there consequences to turning a kext on and off repeatedly? Also, How can I check to make sure a specific kext is already on or off?
My son went out of town and, upon returning, turned on his iMac. It rebooted and went into the progress bar typically showing during updates. It goes to the 50% mark, fairly quickly but then stayed there for 10 minutes. He rebooted and tried again but, this time let it sit overnight, at least six hours, but still stuck at 50%.
Recently I was trying to train an Automator script to run some mundane tasks - unfortunately it stops at the first step. I clicked the "record" button on my old Mac OS 10.5 machine, opened Keychain and did a few more steps. It failed on the first step unfortunately - the cursor just points to the spot a little to the right of where Keychain shows on the bottom dock. (Yes, I tried turning off autohiding, and the jumpout effect) On a newer Mac it was actually worse, when recording and playing back the steps it didn't give an alert saying it failed, it just kept pressing the mouse down, down, toward the icon, and never clicking it. If Automator isn't the best tool for what it says it does, what is the best solution? Since this will be programmatically called, one natural choice might be the Java Robot class - unfortunately it seems this does simple key press, key-up, mouse movement, but doesn't seem to have the smarts Automator has.
Can anyone tell me what was wrong? My brother is mad the he won't get his used iPhone and I don't want him to be disappointed.
my Macbook Air says it is running the latest version but it is stuck on 10.6.8. When I check for updates it says there are no new updates. I don't want the latest one which seems to be problematic for everyone (is that true??) but I would like to go to 10.9 or the one before the latest one. How do I do this? I have tried through the store but it just says I already have the latest software.
Like in iTerm, I'd like to be able to set a keyboard shortcut to switch to an application, which in this case would be Aquamacs. This would be really useful to know in general. Would an Applescript or Automator let me do this?
I am trying to address the question here about transferring the videos between OS X and iOS from the iMovie perspective. Because iMovie is Apple product, I hope there is some easy synchronisation. There is iCloud in iMovie OSX but I cannot see it in iMovie iOS (iPhone 5) so I am worried that I am just wasting my times to work with projects requiring both iOS and OSX. Is it possible the get the iMovie projects synchronised between OSX and iOS? How can I transfer my iMovie project from iOS to OSX? How can I transfer my iMovie project from iOS to OSX? How can I move my iMovie OSX project to iOS? How can I move my iMovie OSX project to iOS?
I am running Mavericks OS currently on my iMac. It has been a while since I set up a web server on my iMac. I went to my Firefox browser and went to localhost:8080 and it returns a simple string "SUCCESS". How can I determine what server is responsible for this and where the source file is located? I have searched multiple locations and can't find it's location. I have looked at /etc/apache2/sites/...conf file and it shows /Users/(me)/Sites but the index.html located there is not what I'm seeing. I would expect that to be on port 80 anyway and it won't load, suggesting that the apache server were running, which I'm pretty sure is not, based on the Activity Monitor.
Clicking on the tell me more button I go to this link which states: QuickTime Player plays Motion JPEG-based AVIs created by many digital cameras. Other forms of AVI media may require third-party software for playback. But it gives no further detail about this third-party software. Playing this video file on my VLC.. it crashes with this crash log:
My kids locked my old account by putting in the wrong password too many times. I can't remember my security questions and I don't remember my recovery account email address. How can I reset my password and change it all over to my new account?
i can't access itunes, appstore, even the website www.apple.com using my wifi, both on my iphone or pc. i've tried to looking for the troubleshoot problems using my windows pc and it says "Windows can’t find the host name "apple.com" using DNS" what should i do?
I want to buy some apps in the appstore but I don't want to use a credit card or paypal ; is there a way to purchase apps say with a prepaid Itunes card?
how do i launch safe mode on mac, with boot camp installed(windows 7)? Without boot camp u just press shift on the sound, but with bootcamp installed it always login in windows? help!!macbook air.
So, this is a small and very annoying gripe I have with Yosemite: Whenever I close a window, say a Chrome window, it automatically switches focus to the next open Chrome window, regardless of the last active window I was in before closing the Chrome window. So if for example I'm closing a window in the background, I completely lose focus of where I was before. Any way to rectify this annoyance?
I got iPhone 6 plus and now want to transfer the health data from my old iPhone 5s to iPhone 6 Plus, but I don't know how. I've backed up the old one with iTunes and restore my iPhone 6 with the iPhone 5s backup file, but I can't see the heath data on iPhone 6 plus. Help.
Now while many users know that it is possible to run a Windows Boot Camp partition as a VM under OS X via VMWare or Parallels - however is the opposite possible? That is, in my case - I would like to know if I can boot into Windows 8.1 on my Retina MBP then access my OS X partition as a VM.
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.2. I used iTunes to create a backup for it.
I understand that iMessages are stored on Apple's servers regardless of whether my iCloud is switched on or not. Can the messages stored on Apple's servers be accessed either by myself, or by anyone else using my AppleID? I am concerned that other people may be able to access these messages.
I've been dealing with an issue for a very long time, I feel like it used to be a problem randomly, but at least for the last few months it's persistent. The Finder no longer lists mounted Disk Images (.dmg files) in the sidebar. Not for DMGs, nor external hard drives / external media.
I would like to know how to subscript/superscript "single" character in Text Edit. I have followed this question: Entering superscript text (exponents) in TextEdit?, which is format-font-baseline-Subscript but it subscripts/superscripts single line, even if I highlight single character. I tried to use different fonts, but it seems like I cannot select single character and then subscript/superscript it. Thank you for every answer.
Where would I be able to acquire Yosemite's new "traffic light" icons? I have found the SystemAppearance.car file, but I do not know how to decompress .car files, or if the file even contains the icons.
I have recently configured Family Sharing (2 accounts are currently part of it). Most of the apps download just fine, but there are some exceptions. Example: account A has Twitter in its purchased list; if account B tries to download Twitter from the store, the little cloud icon appears (and this is expected, since the app has indeed been downloaded by a family member already), but the download fails with an error message that says that the app has already been purchased by another user. Is there a way to solve this?
I was wondering if there is a way to recover photos and things alike from a MacBook after reinstalling the OS X. Like when you reinstall Windows there is the "Windows.old" folder and you can recover some of the data from there.
I currently have Yosemite and I am new to mac. I have an issue with my keyboard. I tried to look under preferences of the keyboard but couldn't find the proper virtual keyboard matching my actual keyboard which means that not all my real keys correspond. I am playing a guessing game to figure out where "à" is for example. My actual letters are good but not the rest (punctuation, etc...)
starting the standard camera app shows a black screen. It is possible to switch between "modes" (video, photo, square, etc), with always the same black screen. Sometimes it's possible to switch to the front-facing camera, which appears to work normally; when switching back to the back-facing camera, the image blurs and the camera app appears to be hung
I wanted to try the solution from there (and many other sites point to this solution) but the preferred network list and all the buttons (shown in the step 4) are greyed out on my Mac (10.9.5). How do I remove a known network from my Mac?
When I use the iTunes library text filter option to search for love with, I get the song I'm in love with the hero but also several hits for song titles where the words love or with appear separately. Is there any way to tell iTunes that I'm searching for a full string instead of separate words? If I enclose the search term in quotes like Google the filter doesn't return any hits, and the search question mark icon doesn't seem to have any other options that fields.
Here are already some questions about how to connect to mac's screen from windows, like: screen sharing from Windows to Mac over LAN Screen Sharing from windows to mac with no software on the windows computer
I have a lab of VMWare virtual Macs on a network with no Internet access. What options do i have for managing these Macs, other than one at a time? I am looking at ARD and JAMF at the moment...
I upgraded a Mac to OS X Yosemite and would like to find the age (when it's been released). In previous OS it was given here:
I'm trying to trigger a function key using applescript. I need it to press the 'volume up' key with fn. I wrote the following AppleScript but it isn't effective: just executing key code 111 gives me the same result as the code above, doesn't seem to effect the behaviour of the script, the f12 key is being pressed, without the function modifier. Is there anything like just like there is for the command key or is there any other way to achieve this?
Calendar does not show times in month view, and there is no box on Preferences to Show Times in Month View, as some have said there is.
When trying to create a NetRestore image in SIU on 10.10.1 and trying to add custom packages the build will always fail with Error Code 2. I noticed when you try to Customize Packages that "Essential System Software" reads as 8.03TB but the SSD inside the computer is only 256GB. I have tried to redownload the "Install OS X Yosemite" from the Mac App Store three times and with all 3 sources the "Essential System Software" will still always read as 8.03TB. Does anyone else experience this and know how to resolve this?
On an admin account on my MacBook Air mid-2013 I have tried repairing the disk and disk permissions, tried doing it from recovery partition and have even reinstalled the OS. This is the diagnostic log that keeps coming up. Is there anything else to do in order to fix it?
I have a 2011 MacBookPro running OS X Yosemite. I was browsing online when suddenly my entire screen went grey (no cursor, completely unresponsive). I restarted the laptop & got the usual "Update Needed" user (I have FileVault on). As soon as it reaches halfway thru the progress bar, it reboots on its own! I tried resetting the SMC, as well as holding down Cmd + R to access recovery. In the latter case, the Apple logo appears with a progress bar underneath. As soon as it reaches halfway thru, the screen turns grey & it just sits there. The same thing happens when I try to boot into safe mode.
I have several tv series on my ipad mini running ios 7.1.2 and itunes is on windows 8, now my ipad has started to sort the seasons so that a few episodes are under 1 season tab and the rest of the season is under another which is very annoying as for example it shows me having 2 tabs for the 1st season of something. I have tried using itunes to change it but cant see how too and I deleted and re-downloaded all the series I'm having problems with but nothing has worked, please help me sort this
I'm trying to create more than 2 partitions on my mac book pro retina 2014, 256ssd but disk utility only permit me to add one partition.  Why this happen?
I'll buy a Macbook air and wonder how I can transfer my files from external hard drive I used for windows to the new Macbook Air?
I lost my old router, and I need to know its MAC address, only info i got is the log of my Mac (Yosemite), i have found that with this command i got a lot of info about the preferred networks (saved networks) on my Mac. And it outputs something like:
I want to do the opposite of this question: Clean Lion install, keeping Time Machine history? I backed up my computer, erased the disk, and made a clean install of Yosemite. I want to make sure that the old (Mavericks) backup never gets automatically erased; if there isn't enough space on the backup disk I want the backup to fail, not overwrite the old one. How can I be sure that it won't be deleted? Would it be safe to move the Mavericks backup out of Backups.backupdb? Ideally, I'd be able to treat it as a second machine. In the linked question com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist is mentioned; it would be nice to generate a new one.
I am looking admiringly at the roost for my 17" MacBook Pro. The height to which the MacBook is raised is terrific—higher than any other solution I'm able to locate online (also here and there). The promise of less strain on my neck is appealing. Since I'm looking for a portable solution (hence three phone books do not do the trick), the roost's weight is also appealing.
I use my calendars very often to keep track of things. Ever since I upgraded to iOS 8.1.2 (or possibly 8.1.1) the phone lets me create a new event with my timezone, but as soon as I create the event and try to edit it, the times are converted to GST (which is not my timezone). Is there a way to fix or disable this so that iPhone Calendar is easier to use like before?
When less(1) is looking at a file with a long name, pressing = updates only the final line on screen. For example, with the Terminal window at 80 columns and 27 rows (the default, I think), if I do: and then press =, the bottom line says:
I'm using a Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 5 command to take a screenshot of a desktop, but it doesn't work if I switch to the dashboard. Is there any way to take a screenshot of dashboard elements?
I have installed citrix receiver on my home macbook. It auto starts on login yet it does not show an entry in the Login Items tab under the Users and Groups pane of System Preferences. How can I disable the service from starting on login?
My new iTunes music I have bought on my iPad isnt showing up on the iTunes on my computer so I can put it on my iPod help!
When I take a screen capture using 'capture selection from screen' or using 'control-command-shift-4' and then paste it in an email, the clip cannot be seen by the receiving party. Instead they see a blue question mark in a box. Has anyone else struck this problem ? Saving the screen capture direct to disk works fine.
I have the app Photos on my iPad mini, on iOS 7. I am viewing a stream shared by a friend. When I am on a photo, I can save it to my Camera Roll.
Yosemite Mac Book Pro 2011 (host system) Latest VM Fusion Latest Kali Linux (virtual os)
One of the keys (keycap) of MacBook Pro keyboard broke. It's one of the hooks that keeps it in place. What can I do?
I would like to know if it's possible to use the new Workflow app to do the following. My company has 50 stores. Each store is in my contacts as: Store 101 Store 102 Store 103 Store 104
I always charge my iPhone with the charger that comes with it but I was wondering could I use different kind of USB devices to charge my phone? Will it damage my phone?
So, I rented guardians of the galaxy to watch on a plane ride, I downloaded it the night before I left so it would have enough time to download, I checked right before I left and it was fully downloaded, then when I went on the plane and no longer had internet connection the movie was no longer in my movies or in my unwatched movies.I never started playing the movie so I should have had 30 days. what should I do?
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro to a Canon LCD projector with a native resolution of 1400x1050. The maximum 4:3 resolution that Mac OS X offers is 800x600. With the SwitchResX utility I've managed to get it to display at 1024x768, but no higher without using widescreen resolutions. In Windows running via Bootcamp I can use the projector's full native resolution (so I know it isn't a hardware issue), and projected images look a whole lot better.
I was wondering how to use find my iPhone? I mean like the tracking thing where you can track your device how do you do that?
I have a new Macbook Pro. I have an external USB Superdrive. I have a Windows 8.1 DVD and legal product key. I have a blank 8 GB USB Drive.
I'm thinking of setting up Boot Camp on my early 2011 MBP for gaming purposes because, obviously, VMs just don't cut it when they have to share their hardware with OS X. However, several forums I've read say that a Boot Camp partition could make the computer susceptible to malware that can somehow access the OS X partition. Short of using two separate drives, is there anything I can to totally isolate the partitions from each other, or otherwise keep the OS X partition totally safe? Some links about it.
I am struggling to build a climate model that depends heavily on C and Fortran compilers installed on the machine. I installed XCode and its default compilers, but I had to install more recent versions from MacPorts since I need updated compilers. Therefore, I currently have two distinct versions of the compilers installed on my Mac (using here gcc as an example, but it is the same with gfortran): gcc, from XCode, installed on /usr/local/bin/gfortran gcc-mp-4.9, from MacPorts, installed on /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.9
Have researched this and no fixes have helped. I have songs on my iPhone 6+ that I do not want on it, and I have completely deleted those songs from my iTunes music library. So when I then sync iTunes to my iPhone, those unwanted songs still remain on my iPhone. Shouldn't the syncing effectively "overwrite" the library that's on my iPhone? (this is also happening with my iPad) Appreciate suggestions - thanks!
I tried to launch an app in Launchpad, and then couldn't leave. Here is a somewhat anonymized picture of the result.
I gave my daughter my old iPhone but I forgot all the information about the apple ID. I want to create a new one and disable the other one, or just delete the entire ID. Any ideas?
I've got a late-2009 Mac mini that has begun to perform very poorly after some time on Yosemite. Safari takes about a minute to launch occasionally, as an example. Granted, I've got a number of background tasks running (Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync, AirServer), but that's unchanged compared to before upgrading to Yosemite.
This script stopped working in Yosemite. Any suggestion would be much appreciated. I get the following error: get every message of mailbox "INBOX" of every account whose flagged status = false and was replied to = true --> error number -1728 from mailbox "INBOX" of every account Thank you! Michele
I booted to a live Ubuntu USB, wanting to delete partitions on an SD card, and ended up deleting all my partitions on my MacBook Pro's internal hd. I have already tried gpart (which gets stuck at "Begin scan...") and testdisk (which can't create partitions since "Function write_part_mac not implemented"!).
I've a strange problem with my macbook air. When I use it on my legs, wifi doesn't work or disconnects. I need to raise up the mac in order to get the signal. I'm in a small flat and the signal is very strong. Anyone has got a similar issue? thanks UPDATE 1 It seems the position won't cause the problem, but using a ping command through automator will help to not disconnect.
I desparately need to migrate from Mac OS X 10.5.8 running on a rather old Mac Pro to 10.10 running on a new Mac Mini. To achieve this, I was planning on using the Migration Assistant (MA) tool with a Time Machine (TM) backup stored on a USB drive. However, MA keeps telling me that there is not enough space to complete the migration, even though the TM backup is ~24 GB, and the Mac Mini comes with a 500 GB HD. I have checked here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/11412283#24471966
What I try to achieve is that the dialog should output the IP adres that is in the list. it gives an error: error "input of {DNS1:\"8.8.8.8\", DNS2:\"8.8.4.4\"} kan niet worden opgevraagd. " number -1728 from input of {DNS1:"8.8.8.8", DNS2:"8.8.4.4"} If I do: it works, so my guess I should do something with variable input.
I want to update my iPhone 5s which now has iOS 7.1 to iOS 8.1. My question is: If I update it from iTunes is the 5.1 gb iOS 8 going to remain on my computer or it will be deleted after the update is done?
I am not sure if this is a problem with my TV or my Retina MBP. I've had an early 2011 MBP before my rMBP and this was never an issue.
Seemingly overnight, my iPhone 5 went from working normally to requiring very firm presses to register the home button. I've tried the single water drop trick posted on Youtube (put a single drop of water on the home button and rub it around while holding the button pressed), and I've tried the "recalibration" trick (go to a factory installed app, hold the power button until "swipe to turn off" appears, then hold the home button until it goes away). I've tried using an isopropyl alcohol wipe on the home button the same way I would with the drop of water.
On my mac I have 2 accounts and the both are normal account. So in this moment I don't have a Administrator account, only one that was in the past a administrator, but now is not. How I can have again a Administrator account?
My primary hard drive died recently and I had to replace it. I'm using an Early 2009 24" iMac with 4 GB of RAM. The original drive was a 1TB and I replaced it with a 2 TB disk. I have several Time Machine backups on an external drive. Because this is a new drive, there's no recovery partition. So, I'm trying to use my Snow Leopard installation media to restore from Time Machine. The process will get to about 2% when it will fail with the following error messages: OSInstaller[145]: [RESTORE] Error -36 while restoring /path.
I can't download a PDF from iCloud that someone is sharing with me. I get an email from the person with a link to iCloud.
Is there a Developer and Inspect feature in Mail.app? Within Safari.app, I have a developer menu which includes an Inspect item which allows me to investigate issues with HTML in the browser. Does such a feature exist in the Mail.app?
I have Vlc version 2.1.4 operating on Mac OSx Yosemite. When I open any VLC video to fullscreen, it opens into a separate window, or desktop. What i want to do is to be able to fullscreen the video yet have it stay within the desktop that I used to open the file. Is that possible?
I created a slide show by prefixing my filenames with numbers so Preview would show them in the desired sequence. But after showing the slides once, I added a new slide later, with the correct number, so in Finder it shows up in the right sequence.
In Safari 6, the keyboard shortcut ⌘ Command-1 opens the first bookmark on the bookmark bar. In Safari 5 I used a macro activated by that same shortcut to activate ⌘ Commmand-] to go forward a page.
I think I got a virus in Safari because I was downloading an app and now Safari will not open. It keeps asking to reopen the last windows closed when opening and whether I click yes or no it doesn't matter. It then crashes and shows a "send a report or ignore" option because Safari will not open.
There are some podcasts that I listen to infrequently, but when I do, I want to listen to all of the previous episodes. After I stop listening for a while, however, iTunes stops updating automatically. How can I ensure that it always automatically keeps downloading new episodes of these podcasts?
I use Fluid to make webapps that I want open all the time function more like independant native apps, so they're not lost in a tab in my browser. And Fluid allows for tabbed browsing, so I can choose to open another tab for a link, say, if I don't want to open it in my main (non-fluid) browser:
I have this program on my mac that streams my gps location over the private network. When on the road, my program needs an internet connection as well as the gps data, so I need to pair to my iphone to get internet. After doing this, however, my program can't determine my iphone's IP address so I can't get the location data.
In OmniGraffle 5, how can I constrain connecting lines to be only horizontal or vertical? In other words, only angled at 0, 90, 180, and 270º?
I have an iPhone 4S/16GB running OS 5.1.1 and would like to upgrade to at least 0S 6.1., or v 7.1 if that's more bug free and as fast running as 6. I put off upgrading the OS previously because I assumed that the phone would run faster on an older OS. Now some of my apps won't run unless the OS is at least v6 so its time to upgrade. The problem is that now after trying every possible way I can find online, I just get error messages (3194, 11, 4016) and can't upgrade/recover my OS to v6.1.3 or v7.1.2. I've used Tiny Umbrella to try and solve verification problems, but all without success. It seems I don't have the necessary shsh 'blobs' to allow the upgrade ??
When I purchased my Time Capsule, I was told that it provides two terabytes of storage on the actual capsule and two on "the cloud". Does this happen automatically or do I have to set up something different? Also, how do I access this?
How can I delete all her apps and Apple ID from my phone? (I mean I need to reset to original factory settings to use my own apps and Apple ID.)
Recently, my iPhone 5 was stolen, and while I have a new iPhone 6, I received a message from a number of someone claiming to be in possession of the device, with a new number. All images, contacts, Outlook mail, you name it, are still on the device. While I realize it's my fault for not having it connected to iCloud to wipe manually, is there anything I can do to have this sensitive information wiped from the device?
Is it possible to trigger an Automator script upon text selection on Mac OS X? I.e. if I select some text in any application (e.g. Safari, Eclipse, etc.), it should trigger an Automator script. I'm open to suggestions using other languages / automation programs.
What was the name of the jailbreak app/tweak that allowed you to open web pages in a popup web browser instead of going directly to safari? I remember it in iOS 7 but can't find it now.
I lost my iphone 6 maybe 2 hours ago and proceeded to do some damage control by accessing the Find My iPhone feature on iCloud. In the following order in the span of maybe 10 minutes, I turned the iPhone on Lost Mode, selected the remote wipe, and selected "remove device from account." I also called my carrier to make sure the account with that phone is cancelled.
I am trying to get data out of a table in Numbers. I have an index number, I need to get the name associated with it in applescript. (Eventually I need to set names of files with one of columns of this number sheet) here is what I got:
When I fire up Mission Control, there are some corrupted textures ("glitch") overlaying Unity3D window. The texture is different each time I enter Mission Control, and they are related to what other programs I'm using. After I switched to Unity window, the corrupted textures disappear. I'm using the 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display Late 2013 with dedicated graphics. I've also seen corrupted graphics in Yosemite Safari and Preview after waking up from sleep with external monitor, and zooming makes them disappear. Is it a Yosemite bug or a hardware defect? Some samples:
I have a desktop (Mac Pro 5,1) and a laptop computer (MBA 4,2). Both are running 10.10.1. I have an iPad3 and an iPhone 6. Maybe there is a new method in iTunes, but I cannot see either device on either computer.
I have an Automator app called convert2xlsx.app that takes file inputs and runs the Convert Format of Excel Files action to turn .xls files into .xlsx files. I can call it from the command line for one file like so: and it works just fine. I also have a command-line query like this: that finds all .xls files in the working directory and below. I would really like to marry the two together but I can't seem to get it to work. My first thought was this:
Is it possible to make the iBooks search useful? It seems to totally lack any way of forcing capitalisation or word boundaries. I would use Regular Expressions if necessary. By way of example I was searching a Python book for the word "Eric" but could find no way of stopping it telling me the thousands of references to numeric or numerical
I installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on Parallels Desktop 10. and I installed Parallels Tools and gave 2 Cores, 2GB RAM and 384MB to that VM. But It's only showing 256MB VRAM on the About Mac section. and It's not smoothly working (giving tearing effect when scroll through Launch pad Apps). Anyone running OS X as a guest OS on Parallels or VMware fusion without any problem ? ( I'm running on Late 2013 15" Retina Macbook Pro 2.3GHz i7, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB PCI-E SSD , 2GB NVidia GT750m dedicated GPU, Host OS ( OS X 10.10.1 - Yosemite )
Last two times I started the box, Safari, which I just ran to save a wallpaper is stuck with a great big spinner. Nothing else can be run and even the top bar was missing. When I turned the computer off and on, I was sent to System utilities which made me suspect a harddisk failure is imminent and perhaps the root problem. I have now let the computer sort itself out - when I woke it, all tabs in Chrome were in a state of loading, but immediately got the pages loaded and I have for now as I write this a very responsive system.
I am sure by this time a lot of us are using 2560 or a new 4K displays, which allow to fit a lot of content in. However, the size of the menu bar becomes pretty difficult to read on them so my question is whether I can scale the size of the menu bar to improve readability on high resolution displays?
How can I on the iOS App Store see what an app that I've already bought costs at the moment?
I know in the past OS X did not support indexing network drives. Has this changed? Do more recent versions of OS X such as Yosemite support spotlight on network drives?
According to other sources, I've disabled the NSScrollViewRubberbanding system option, and it works in my browsers and other softwares. But it doesn't work for the Preview program, specifically when I read the PDF files. How can I disable the effect for the Preview too?
I just realized that my home folder (/HD/Users/Bob) has Everyone 'ReadOnly' permissions set at its root level. If I browse this folder from another account, I can view the folders, but I'm not allowed to open the standard OS X folders (Desktop, Documents, Music, Movies, etc...). However, I have created a few folders on the root level of my home folder, and those ARE accessible to this other user. They can open folders, and open some of the documents with ReadOnly access.
Does OSX have support for unlocking the screen (or logging in) using a NFC or RFID tag? The ACS ACR122T USB NFC dongle (a PC/SC device) seems to have working OSX drivers, but no software suite for login is available. Rumors has it that Dangerous Things are working on that.
Where does Safari 8 store buffered videos? I want to save a buffered video permanently to my drive for later viewing.
(Yosemite, if that's important. In general, I have a lot of files with cyrillic filenames — and they are displayed just fine (including on flash drives from windows users etc).)
I have a 13 Inch Macbook (2014) running Yosemite - the computer has been attached to an external dell monitor via the HDMI port. The screen works fine but on waking the computer from sleep, I see noise (see image below) on the external monitor. I have to plug out the monitor and plug it in again to make it work.
I am interested in buying the new Apple MacBook Pro 15''. I wanted a somewhat personalized version though (500 GB SSD / 16 GB ram) which is not the "basic" one. My question is this: does the Apple Store have all kinds of combinations, hence buying from the website or from the physical store is identical, or the Apple Store has only the "basic"/default configurations and if you want more (e.g 500 GB SSD vs 128 default one) you have to buy online?
I have two external hard drives (ExFAT formatted) which I need to keep in sync. Specifically, drive B must mirror the contents of drive A and drive A must not be modified. How can I do this without having to do a full copy of drive contents every time? I'm on OS X 10.10. This is simply for periodically backing up the contents of drive A.
My iPad 2 has a hard time locating our Wi-Fi network at home. About once a day it will find it and connect but only for an hour or so. It's not like I'm getting a "can't connect error", it just doesn't see the network. It seems to have no problem connecting to networks outside the house (coffee shops etc). Also, all of our other devices have no problem connecting to our home Wi-Fi.
Newbie here! I just replaced the hard drive (to a 1T senate SATA) in my MacBook Pro and upgraded the RAM from 2, 2GB cards to 2, 8GB cards. Hardware install went smooth, backed up old drive to time machine & made a USB of OSX for install on new drive. I've gone in and reformatted the new drive with the proper settings (1 partition, journaled, etc...). When I go in to boot up the system, the computer goes to apple logo grey screen and the loading bar comes up, loads to exactly the halfway point in about 6 minutes, then just sits there... For hours. I've tried it many times always with the same outcome. I need my computer for school TODAY!
I've opened a PDF file with /usr/bin/open, and now I'd like to close it from the command line. (I'm writing a script.) How might one go about doing that?
where can I download the Adobe Flash Player.app file NOT as a .dmg Installer package to put into the Applications folder. I have done so with other files, but cannot seem to find the executable Flash Player file to put into the Applications folder. I just want the .app file.
Finder does not show file and directory names in my home directory in list and cover flow view modes. Other columns are okay but name column does not not have a title and it is empty. I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5. How can I make it show file/directory names properly in all view modes?
I have two MacBook Pros: one with Retina, and one without. Although browsing the web with Retina has much sharper text, most images appear noticeably blurry.
I was following a tutorial trying to install Laravel (5.0). The tutorial showed to add export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin/laravel" to the .bash_profile document. Since then, I am not able to execute any command (nano, ssh, etc). Nothing happens when I executed this in terminal: My .bash_profile looks like this: I tried logging out, restarting and entering the following commands: Can anyone help?
Any time I try to open the section "All My Files", it takes a long time to load because it has so many of these files on it:  I believe there are several thousand of these files. The only thing that I can think of is that these files might be from Eclipse, a Java editor (I am learning to code in Java). How do I make them go away without messing anything up? Thanks in advance!
Is there any way to prevent files from being renamed when camera uploads to Dropbox is enabled in Mac OS X?  By default all imported image files are renamed into their timestamps:
Where is the bash profile on iOS, I am jailbroken and can't find the bash profile, I would like to create some aliases and edit it.
Would I need to enable TRIM support with a Fusion Drive? Would the Samsung 840 Evo or anything else like that support all that I need? Thanks for any help :)
I need to find all empty folders using smart folder. Is there a way to do so?
I use fish shell, it's has option "suggests commands", so it is works like in the next screenshot. Examle: You type command git status. In the next time when you type just g or git fish give you hint (like in the next screenshot), so you can press ctrl+F and you are getting full command git status(like tab arrow in other terminals).
I'm trying to install Java on my iMac running 10.9.5. I downloaded and installed JDK according to the official Oracle instructions. When testing via the web-page at the end of the install, Java is detected. However, when running javac or java in the terminal, I get an error reporting I must install a JDK. I understand that there are different Javas for web apps and desktop apps, but why can only Safari detect my Java? Is there another way to install Java that I'm missing?
I want to use my developed music in iOS Garageband for apps in iPhone. How can I do this?
After upgrade to iPhoto 9.6 / Yosemite, none of the books are working in any way. I click on them, and they highlight, but nothing happens (no freeze -- just no response).
I would like to change the directory that homebrew uses when it builds programs Is that possible? I didn't find such option in brew command
Is it just controlled by Safari's data. cookies, etc. somehow? I'd think not since that'd be a major security hole. In any case, are there any tools for deleting the cookies from the browser used by the captive/public wifi login screen?
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I just bought a 2nd hand broken iPhone5s which stuck at restore mode, restore failed every time. This phone is still under warranty,and i wanted to send it for repair but it's have be service from out of my country. So i would like to know does apple repair any phone that have activation lock on.
I am thinking to Purchase iPhone 6. The problem is that in my country there are no Apple Stores. I need to purchase it through shops who import iPhone's from UK or USA. My friends are telling me that iPhone's that are sold in some shops are Refurbished or opened to replace original parts with duplicate that are similar to original. The cost of an iPhone 6 16GB in my country is around £480 or $750 which is comparatively high than original price on which iPhone are sold in Apple Stores.
I formatted my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 with Windows, now I can't install any operating systems on it. I tried to install Windows 8.1 on my MacBook, then at the final step I received a message saying that an error occurred and the installation failed.
How can I unlock an encrypted DMG on login? Something graphical to hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/secure.dmg
For security reasons, I have a different password on my keychain than my user account password. I have achieved this by opening Keychain Access.app, right-clicking on the Login keychain, choosing update Keyring 'Login' settings and then changing the password and selecting lock keyring when computer is sleeping.
I'm trying to change my default engine in Safari (running Yosemite) from Google to DuckDuckGo and I'm not successful. I changed the default engine in "Safari→Preferences→Search". When I type into the address bar I see "DuckDuckGo search" in the suggestions, but then the search goes straight to google.
Is there any way to encrypt content in clipboard to provide more security and protection from malicious software?
How can I replicate my mouse config (in the images below) through command line?
I used to be able open a Finder window by Cmd clicking the title at the top of the Xcode window. However, in Yosemite, with its new slimline display, the title is no longer shown. Is there a fix or an alternative way of doing this?
How can one import Outlook mac archived files in Windows Outlook 2010? Given that the size of the archived files is 48GB, can it be done safely?? I mean NO LOSS of Data or any other files???
I have used iMac or Mac Pro for my Desktop system for the past 5 years but now consider replacing them with MacBook Pro Retina in desktop environment. The reason is mostly because I don't like bigger screens; 11 ~ 13inch for mobile and 15 ~ 21inch for desktop is the best combination for me. Also, I prefer the amalgamation of keyboard and trackpad as seen in the MacBook line.
I want to play musi from my iPhone on a sound system but connected to the mixer wirelessly. What interface an I get to plug into the mixer that would receive the music output. Looking at distance of about 25 yards and no wi fi hotspot available. Or can I remotely control An iPad or Mac hard wired to the mixer wirelessly with an iPhone. Thanks
Yosemite 10.10.1 and iOS 8.1.2 On my Keychain Access on OS X, I have the "login" default keychain and an "iCloud" keychain (I have iCloud Keychain ON for all my devices).
I have an MBP Retina with a Thunderbolt display. I have them arranged non-mirrored with the thunderbolt display in front of me (bluetooth keyboard) and the laptop to the right. I'm using the TB display for most things and the laptop for 'overflow' when needed. The problem is that whenever I start a new program it appears first on the laptop screen and I have to drag it onto the Thunderbolt display. Why is it doing this, and how can I have it start programs on the thunderbolt display?
I've a Macbook Pro Retina 15" Late 2013. My MagSafe 2 connector (T connector) gets really hot when charging.
My question is what could possibly be wrong with my mac and how can I get its performace as it was before the rain incident. The 8 GB RAM isn't improving the performance. I am thinking of getting a SSD hoping it will improve the performance but I highly doubt that.
I'm in a huge trouble as my new iPhone 4s can not restore a backup of an older iPhone 4s backup. Few days back i had to change my 4s iPhone which was a locked phone( gevey sim) with iOS 8.1.2, so i created a backup of it before resetting it to factory defaults. Then i purchased a new iPhone 4s factory unlocked and tried to restore that backup but it failed with an error message telling me that "Cannot restore backup because it's either corrupted or not compatible with this device".
I'm trying to automate the following process: get all versions of a document, check in each version to a repository (Subversion, in my case) As a half-solution, I'd already be happy with: get all versions of a document, name them to include a version info (an incrementing revision number, a timestamp, whatever), place them in a common directory.
I've had my iPhone 4S for 3 years and it now runs iOS 7.1 Battery was performing badly so I decided to replace it. I bought a spare battery online by duracell direct (average quality good!) Replaced battery by myself (easy!) First 2 running cycles are OK
I'd like to have my device constantly streaming airplay. Now the challenge is, if the device is on stand by, it reverts to it's original state, which is not to stream. Is there a way to avoid this behavior, and have it stream to Airplay as soon as the device is back online?
While watching YouTube videos on my iMac, the screen intermittently switches to a lower resolution (the video gets blurry). Then, after 5 or 10 seconds it switches back to normal imagery. The symptom is the same even when I'm using Apple TV. What's happening???
I recently bought an SSD and an IDE to SATA adapter. I've installed these into my iMac G4 (it's the 20" 1.25GHz model) neither the Leopard installer or Disk Utility will recognize it. The SSD is *=URL=* And the adapter is *=URL=* I've heard that some iMacs will only work with SATA II, but I've also heard that this doesn't matter if using an adapter.
I like to listen to audio files on my Iphone 6 while jogging outdoors. My girlfriend wants to join me (jog with me and have her own headphones listening to the same audio). How can we both pair our wireless headphones to my Iphone simultaneously so that we're listening to exactly the same thing? (And these audio files are not available in some shared location like Spotify.) (Also, we own a headphone splitter, but using wired headphones is inconvenient since cords make running difficult.)
As titled. For example, if you bring up the Fonts dialog in Mail.app (⌘-T), and add a wrong font by accident to the Favorite collection (gear icon → Add to Favorites), how can you remove it?
I've added events to the sunrise calendar app on my iPad, and the new events don't sync with the sunrise app on my computer. How do I fix this?
On OS X 10.9.5, the Calendar.app toolbar sometimes adds this button:  There's no tooltip, and the Calendar toolbar isn't editable so there's no way to show a label for it. I can't find anything in the online documentation about it. I think it has something to do with remote/subscribed calendars, but what, exactly?
So I am wondering what are my options to avoid this situation. Some approaches I could think of imply additional problems: Are you aware of any alternative approach, that does not require disabling kext signing?
Is there a simple setting to allow a MacBook to continue running with the lid shut? All signs that I found pointed to no supposedly due to concerns about overheating, but when docked, a MBP is able to be used if the monitor and keyboard are plugged in. My use case would be running a terminal command that takes awhile, leaving my desk, locking my account, and closing the lid to keep nosy people out.
I was trying to create a bootable disk with Windows on it through bootcamp, but something went wrong during the installation. Now I have a read-only USB stick with corrupt files I'd like to fix. My USB stick doesn't have a read-only feature. Is there anything I can do to force a reformat?
My 27" iMac on Yosemite, presents the same symptoms described in 'VLC in Mac does not show video window 2'. I tried all the actions available ie reinstalling, trashing preferences, the solutions proposed in the above mentioned questions etc but the result is the same: for all formats on file open or on double click, the application opens a new video window who closes immediately and the clip plays only the audio track. The same clips play OK on QT, RealPlayer, MPlayer etc.
I'm running OS X Yosemite. ⌘-Delete deletes a whole line in every app. In some apps, it deletes a whole line and keeps deleting lines after that. In some, it deletes a whole line and stops, so I have to hit delete to move up to the previous line and then Command-Delete to delete a whole line again.
I'm not sure if this is possible. I have an encrypted partition on a USB drive, when I mount it I want to run a script in iTerm2 or Terminal app.
For a long time I've used the HISTFILESIZE environmental variable to control the number of lines that get written to my terminal history (the default of 500 is not enough; I set it to 10000). Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, I've been having trouble searching my history for commands I've run in the past. I double checked to make sure the variable is set correctly--it is--but the history is truncated to about 500 lines.
So everything was wonderful before iOS8.1. Now I can no longer log in to Stack Exchange via Facebook on Safari (diagnostics say it's an HTML 5 issue), but can log in via Facebook on Chrome or via Stack Exchange on Safari. However, if I leave the screen, either going to another Safari tab or another app, I have to log in all over again. This never used to happen in "the good old days."
In Linux and bash I use alt + bksp to remove the word before the cursor. On mac the option / alt + delete does not work. e.g If you typed aaaa bbbb you will get aaaa afterwards Any suggestion?
On brand new Mac running Yosemite, Messages (Version 8.0) not showing video icon at all. No "Video" tab in menu options at the top either.
I have a screen capture of my computer screen using QuickTime's Screen Recording feature, but that it saves too an MOV format. I'd like to export it too MP4, is that possible without installing anything else? I'm using Yosemite, and I'm pretty sure I could do that with Mavericks.
I have a 2011 MBP and I just replaced my optical drive with a hard drive. I wanted to know the easiest and free way to boot up windows 8.1 on one of the hard drives using only the iso and a flash drive.I attempted using bootcamp, but it wouldn't work because I don't have an optical drive anymore.
I am living in an RV park while going to school. When I moved in, the park's wifi worked great, but recently a new (unrelated) wifi network popped up. When I try to get on the park's wifi on my iPhone, I am unable to. Is the other network blocking the signal, and is there anything I can do to fix this?
I have a table. I want a cell that spans two columns, so that text in this cell with span two columns. In Microsoft Word, I can use erase tool to erase a line between two cells but I don't know how to do this in Apple Page. Please teach me. Thanks :)
I have a web page where the content changes hourly. I'd like to use this as my iPhone's wallpaper. Is there a way to have the wallpaper update automatically / on a schedule, with the contents of a web page? I don't want to jailbreak my iPhone to do this.
I am an admin that wants to access other users' files. How to do this via the Terminal?
I've created a service in automator and assigned a shortcut, and it works.  But this doesn't start a new iTerm terminal. It only reveals the already running one How can I start a new "tab" or a new "iTerm window"?
My Mac was stolen on a train and I only noticed it shortly before arriving the final destination. The thief most likely left the train at one of the earlier stops.
I'm logged into the guest account of a borrowed MacBook Air which is running OS X Version 10.9.2 and I've been trying to transfer a 2.19GB video file to an admin account, a USB or external hard drive, or online. 1. Transferring the file to the admin account: Apparently if I log out of this guest account, the file will be deleted. So, I tried transferring it to a shared folder, but I can't find/access a shared folder... perhaps because I'm on a guest account? I tried using Terminal and codes I copy-pasted from Google, but they all require the password of the admin account, which the owner can't remember. We've been working together the whole afternoon to try to remember the password, but the owner says he'd be able to guess it if he had the "password hint". Unfortunately, we only know how to view the "password hint" by logging out of the guest account, which we obviously can't do, or else the file will be deleted. Transferring to the admin account: FAILED :(
I accidentally deleted files under /Library/Ruby/ and /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/ folders. Now, is there any way to recover them or install fresh Ruby setup?
Let's say I have a particular folder, that has never changed, in the first backup, eg my MP3 music collection from 2009. (I know my important files should be saved elsewhere, but it's just an example). In one scenario, I deleted the folder, and in another, the folder is still in my home folder. I dont understand what this means: The oldest backup are deleted when your disk becomes full. Does it means that when there is not any space left on the drive, Time Machine will start deleting my music ?
I have Chrome open (Yosemite 10.1) and there are 7 instances of Google Chrome Helper running. There is a single tab open in the browser. I have 3 extensions installed AND running (1Password, JSON Formatter, and Postman).
I have created a custom bullet list style in Pages (5.5.1) which works great within this document. But now I want to have this custom list style as a default option in new Pages documents (Keynote too if possible!). How can I add my custom bullet list to the default bullet style options? I have tried searching the web, but have only found how to customize, not save bullet styles...
I have a MacBook Pro Retina mid 2014 running OSX Yosemite (10.10.1). I have connected an external 4k monitor (Samsung U28D590D), but I'm struggling to set the correct resolution. When I open "display" I don't get the same scaling-options on the 4k monitor as I do on the Mac internal display. Here is what I see on my Mac Retina display: And this is what I see on my Samsung 4k monitor: As you can see, it's not showing the scaling options on the 4k monitor (Larger Text, More Space, etc...)
How to increase graphics memory in OS X running as a client in VirtualBox? I installed OS X in VirtualBox and I have 4 GB graphics but it is showing the graphics display as 3 MB. How can I increase the graphics available?
I don't exactly remember what I did last night, but ever since I get this message everytime I launch terminal. Not that it stops me from doing anything, it's just really annoying. Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
How do I restore the latest backup from the Time Machine and get all the data/desktop - in fact all the files including the OS Yosemite? Genius support installed a new battery so working off a clean install. The automated Restore from Time Machine / Macbook only installed basic version and not the applications such as MS office or any document files.
What I have: macOS 10.10.2(Yosemite) on an iMac mid-2011 + original wireless keyboard. Suddenly, buttons for controlling iTunes (they are located on F7, F8 and F9 buttons) stopped working. Meanwhile, other buttons (volume, brightness, launchpad, etc.) still work. The keys work in other applications but not with iTunes.
I'm upgrading a 2010 Macbook with an Intel 730 SSD. Since Trim Enabler is still available but more risk, I'm trying to get by with just Disk Utility.
I'm having real difficulty finding an answer to this problem and since the device is out of warranty, Apple want to charge £25 for me to even report the problem. We have ONE film that we've purchased on the iPad mini but it was accidentally deleted. Everyone tells me I can simply download it from the store again for free, however the "cloud" icon is greyed-out. We decided to bite-the-bullet and buy it again, but that won't work either, it says we already own it. I've been told that I need to fix this by connecting to a PC, but this iPad has always been stand-alone and I don't have iTunes (or anything else) loaded on a PC.
Previously, in OS X Mavericks it worked to minimise games, or navigate through open apps with cmd+tab even if the game was opened in full screen but now you can't do that anymore. Pressing cmd+tab doesn't have any effect. Also I can't find any way to minimise the game. I don't really know whether this problem is only for steam games or any other game, as I don't have any non-steam game.
Can you change your alternate apple id - somewhere? it is does not allow that on the current apple id screen.
Safari 8.0.2, OS X 10.10.1--Problem occurring in Mac Pro 2009 and MBP ret 2012. Once I log into my employer's VPN, Safari has a quite unique problem: if I go to Google, do a search and click on any result link, I get a "Safari Can't Open the Page" screen if I go to Google, do a search and click on any result link, I get a "Safari Can't Open the Page" screen if I do the exact same Google search on Firefox or Chrome (latest versions) they will load the linked page without any problems if I do the exact same Google search on Firefox or Chrome (latest versions) they will load the linked page without any problems if I type any web address in the Safari URL bar, it will load that page normally if I type any web address in the Safari URL bar, it will load that page normally if I click on a Safari bookmark that page loads normally
I have a 2TB WD MyBook Studio drive connected via FireWire to my MBP. What I would like to have is two encrypted partitions. So what I do: Disk Utility > Partition and then right click on each partitions and say "Encrypt Volume".
On Mac OSX 10.9, how do you convert a DVD into an ISO that I can use with players such as VLC. I wish to achieve this without buying a program. Steps I have tried:
Recently I purchased an HDMI to VGA adapter that actually converts the digital signal to an analog VGA signal to connect a computer to an external monitor. It works perfectly with a Windows PC that I tested, but with my MacBook Pro Retina (early 2013 model), no display is detected. I've tried SMC and PRAM resets, several restarts, and hot plugging both ends of the converter, to no avail.
I've been trying to find an adapter for a Late 2014 MBP Retina SSD. Standard msata didn't fit, and from a few consumer reviews of other enclosures and adpaters, it seems to be uncertain if one exists. Its a "mini PCI-e" interface, but its been hard finding an enclosure using that term that doesn't end up being an msata one. The SSD installed has 28 pins (12+16). I've seen some mini PCI-e to usb adapters, but they are from sketchy sites with no product reviews. I was hoping someone here had experience with this and could recommend one that worked for them.
I want to make a USB bootable to downgrade from Yosemite to Mavericks. I don't have Mavericks in my recent purchases in the App Store because my Mac shipped with it. Recovery mode just installs Yosemite. Does anyone have a link to where I can download the OS X Mavericks installer?
Once a family sharing plan is established is there anyway to change the "organizer" to another account? Based on my research it looks like the only way to accomplish this is to disband the family sharing account and then recreate with a different account as an organizer. I am hesitant to do this as some people have reported getting locked out of family sharing after disabling it. Can anyone suggest any alternative means?
I've got socks proxy server running on iPhone, it is possible via Tethering app from Emu4iOS. iPhone connected to wifi hotspot and, as I can see in tethering app, connection is active. How can I connect to this proxy from Yosemite Mac wich connected to same hotspot?
However, when I set up the L2TP share, in the same manner, the ipad connects to the wifi (airport) well enough, but refuses to get to the internet. The MBP itself can reach the internet, no problem.
I've given my 9 year old daughter an iPad for Christmas. I'm confused about how to set it up with regards to using my Apple ID, or creating a separate AppleID for her. I've read some things about Family Sharing, but it doesn't seem to address what I want to do.
I sometimes need to copy a lot of files from here and there to an external drive. What I do is copy some files, paste it in the drive, copy some more files, then paste again etc. But this makes the files copy parallelly which slows down the drive. Is there a way (maybe a third-party app to install) that would queue the second copy until the first copy operation is completed?
I updated my Apple-ID password after losing my Mac. Will Find my Mac still be able to find it? If so, how does the authentication/identification work?
How can I disable/hide the App Name in the OS X Yosemite Dock?
Based on Apple's documentation, my Mac mini (Late 2014, mid-range model with Intel Iris) should be able to support 4K video through HDMI. I've plugged in my Seiki 39" 4K TV (SE39UY04), but when the "Best for display" option is chosen, it outputs 1080p, rather than 2160p. If I choose "Scaled" for the resolution, the only options are 1080p, 1080i, 900p, and 720p.
What is iPhone 6 Plus 128GB 1080p 30fps Maximum Video Time Length? Is it "Available Storage Space," or is there already a fixed time limit? Digital Still Cameras are generally restricted to 29 minutes because of tariff restrictions (vs. being categorized as a video camera). Will iPhone 6 Plus do the full 29 minutes, or longer, or is there a shorter technical time limit?
I need to do some clean up on Spotlight comments. Is there a way to read the Spotlight comment, then set it to another value ? For example let's say I need to remove one specific word in the comments. Adding is easy, with Set Spotlight Comments for Finder Items. I'm looking for the opposite action.
I want to display A.png and B.png together, A left / B right or A top / B bottom. I can of course
I installed iTerm2, played a bit with the preferences. Now I would go back to the initial configuration, but removing the app and finding and removing any file on the disk apparently related to the app does not help: after reinstalling, the preferences are still the modified ones.
this really bemuses me. i'm using pages 09 (version 4.1) on osx 10.9.5. when i terminate a scroll downward, the document makes a little "jump" to the right. this is maybe hard to visualize, so i made a gif: *=URL=* also notice in the gif, there's a little gray area to the right of the document: when i resize the window the document grows or shrinks accordingly (zoom is set to "Fit Width"), but the gray area stays there.
I downloaded the pygtk pkg file from macpkg.sourceforge.net. I want to remove this installation and instead use the version that is provided by homebrew. What files do I need to remove?
I took my mac mini in to a computer repair shop, they said I needed a new hard drive, so I paid them $300.00 to do the repair. Later on when I went to set up my mini mac it wouldn't work, and I found out that they replaced my apple hard drive with a toshiba hard drive. why would they do that
Taking out the hard drive and re-initializing it on my older eMac with Mac OS X Panther. The hard drive re-initializes OK but it doesn't change anything else, so it appears to be a firmware issue.
I recently renamed my home folder on my new MacBook Pro (Retina, 13"). I restarted my computer not realising that it would result in a complete wipe of my drive. Previously having backed it up with Time Machine, I wasn't too worried though. Looking through the Time Machine backup files, I also did see everything I had had previously saved, and since I have the backup on an external, I restarted the computer and pressed command+R to perform a complete restore.
Can you AirPlay YouTube from OS X to a Bose and Apple TV?
My wife forgot the password to her Apple ID account. Her Macbook Air (OS X Yosemite) restarted to install some updates. She has her user account set up through her Apple ID account. Since she forgot the password she reset it from my laptop. She can log in to iCloud and Apple ID with the new password, but cannot log in with the new password on the Air. When she tries to log in she is greeted with this message:
I have spent 20 hours trying to install Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit on my MacBook Pro Retina MGXC2B/A I created a ISO image of my Windows dvd, put it on my desktop. Inside Boot Camp it asks for the Iso Image, I set this to read the ISO file on my desktop Inside the Task Status window, I see the text "formatting selected drive...", which then changes to "Copying Windows files..." When the loading % bar in this window reaches around 50%, a window pops up stating. I have tried this 10 times now, its the same error over and over, there is nothing wrong with my internet connection or networking, what is the issue?
Is there any way to get BitTorrent Sync iOS app Camera Backup feature to sync all of the images from a burst mode photo set? By default it appears to only sync the individual image that iOS selected.
I have enabled the option to quit Finder. However, if Finder is the only remaining open app and I quit it, it will launch again.
When one resets a phone it asks for the AppleID password. I entered that and then the iPhone was reset.
I have a problem with a 2012 MacMini. diskutil list shows an internal 500 GB 5400 rpm drive as having 0 Bytes.
I have a Macbook Pro running Yosemite (10.10.1) and an Asus wifi dongle. I would like to connect to two wifi networks. One is a normal home/office/hotel/conference network with a connection to the outside internet, the other is a local internet with two other machines on it (a windows tablet and a PLC controller). How do I do this?
I have already booted up my pc pressing Cmd+R and tried to erase the Macintosh HD partition, but I still can't do it
I've tried to run the following command to install "automake" package on my Mac: The problem is shown in the line:
I will make a presentation about my project in my college, and I will use Keynote to make the presentation file because I found it better than Powerpoint. I have a Macbook Pro and I can't connect it to the projector directly. Is there any way to use the Keynote file on Windows with all the features?
I bought some tv show episodes and a couple movies on iTunes, but when I try to download them on my iPhone 3GS it downloaded one movie then says "You can download past purchases on this device with just one apple ID every 90 days." What do I do?
I have a 2013 MBP on 10.10 that I've tested on multiple wireless networks. On all I see this behavior: I get an IP address and DNS servers, but cannot ping mg router or DNS servers (request timeout) or internet IP addresses (no route to host) or URLs (unknown host).
I lost my phone when I was out earlier, and concerned about the data on it, I used "erase mode" on it. Unfortunately, that seems to remove the ability to set a lost message on the phone. Is there a way to set one now? It's in airplane mode, so I haven't been able to try to call it either.
I received a message that states my Apple ID and phone number are now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new phone. I haven't gotten a new phone, so what does this mean? The same message appeared on my IPad.
I have tried to check "Decline without asking" (Translated). Now, it won't show where I am on maps and so, but even though I use VPN, Google/Facebook/Youtube and other websites know that I am in Sweden? How can I disable this? Say, I want websites to assume that I am in the UK, or in the USA?
I recently bought songs from iTunes and every time I go to listen to them they get deleted. I'm able to re-download the songs but they don't stay on my phone for more than an hour. iPhone 5c
My regular user account on my Macbook Pro running Mavericks froze and I had to shut down the computer with the power button, but every time I restart the computer and login my user account it freezes and doesn't respond to any command. It stays with the spinning beachball and does not respond to any menu (not even force quit). I have already tried safe boot, restart in recovery mode, checked the hard disk and permissions with disk utility and still have the same problem: can't use any programme on my user account. When logging with other user account the computer seems to work fine. Any thoughts on how to fix it? I need it fixed asap!!
For a couple of weeks, my Mac has been going to sleep by itself. This seems to happen more often when I'm running more stuff on my Mac (Chrome + Spotify + etc…) In my console, the message is the following: Followed by: This seems to have some sort of correlation with watchdog, a daemon process on my mac (In this case it's happening after, but it's usually before). Here are some more logs: The SystemWillSleep messages:
This has been happening for a week. Can I use imessages on my mac, or must I also have an iPhone?
I accidentally spilled water on my iPad. I cleaned it up right away and it's perfectly fine. I can hear stuff and it turns on but when I call people, they can't hear me.
When I try and repair my external hard drives (I have two corrupt now some how both I think from improperly ejecting from the same machine), I get this message: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, ?reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
When connecting a second external monitor kernel_task spikes to 600%+. This makes the computer unusable. Before Yosemite, this worked fine with 3 monitors. Here are the specifics: When I connect one monitor to either DP or HDMI things work fine. When I connect a second monitor with either DP or HDMI kernel_task spikes. When I disconnect either the DP or HDMI sometimes the kernel_task rapidly returns to normal levels.
I use Transmit as FTP-client and Sublime Text 2 as text editor. When I open file from Transmit to edit it in Sublime Text 2 it opens in new window. It's pretty awkward. Is there a way to open files from Transmit in Sublime Text 2 as new tab of same editor window, not as new window at all?
On Pages, how do I ignore an autocorrect suggestion? I use the esc key to ignore the suggestion, but as soon as I press space bar it changes the word anyway.
When I go to arbitrary (usually blank) page, then return to library and reopen book, the page in question sometimes shows its content. But all other pages are blank as clean paper.
Macbook suddenly froze while I was using Google Chrome so I waited for 15 minutes hoping it would un-freeze. After 15 minutes, I decided to force the power off by pressing and holding the Power button. When I tried to turn it on again, I heard the chime, but the screen remained white, and the hard drive started making clicking noises. Model identifier: MacBook6,1 OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Some things I have tried: It has been removed from favorite servers and I also cleared the recent servers list in the "Connect to Server" menu. This had no effect.
I am using a sparsebundle store on a linux server. It worked well until today.
How to mark multiple contacts on iPhone 6 (ios8)for messaging severally the same text as bcc. This feature exists on Android phones wherein you write text and tick as many contacts you wish and the message goes to each one of them individually.
But that doesn't apply only to TextEdit, I tried Text Wrangler, Photoshop, Grapher, only Blender, which doesn't use native window system allows me to save it anywhere. My question is, is this common behavior? Is there any workaround (except for saving it to non-hidden+copy/paste), or some hidden setting? EDIT: adding picture
I get disconnected from the internet whenever the speed reaches 2.5 Mbps Is there any app to limit the internet speed below that. I am not talking per application based. Using MacBook Pro (mid 2013) Yosemite
Ive got a time machine hd (its actually a samsung external hd configured as a time machine) plugged into an external monitor at work, when i connect my laptop to the monitor via 1 usb and 1 thunderbolt i get connected to the time machine and it automatically backs up. When i leave each day and want to take my laptop with me i used to just disconnect all the cable and go, but now because there is an HD attached i need to disconnect it first, before i remove the cable. Is there a way to tell the time machine to auto disconnect itself after a daily backup or auto disconnect after each backup ?
In Powerpoint 2013 (Windows) there is a function "Paste formatting only" (Ctrl + Shift + V) that will apply formatting of the object in the clipboard to the currently selected object (see list of shortcuts). In Powerpoint 2011 (Mac) so far I could not find a similar function (see list of shortcuts).
I've tried changing DNS servers to OpenDNS's, I've cleared my history and website data from Safari, and I've uninstalled all extensions… but the browser just won't load Gmail! Whether I click on Sign In at google.com or enter gmail.com in my address bar, the page just never loads.
I wrote a simple script that mounts a ram disk: But when I logged in, the disk is gone. It looks like the disk is unmounted. I'm not really sure why. According to /tmp/log.1 there's no errors. P.S attached the setup_run_shm script:
So a while ago I made the step of going completely over to Ubuntu on my laptop and I completely removed Mac OS X and just had Ubuntu going. Now I want to re-install Mac OS X - I remember having snow leopard on my machine previously, but do not hold the install disks any longer. My CD drive has also broken, so I cannot use a disk anymore. I have seen on eBay and other websites that you can buy a USB stick with OS X Lion 10.7 booted on and then boot this from the USB. Is this possible, without the need of the first ever install disks?
For some strange reason, Finder has changed to a different layout and I can't figure out how to revert it to the standard one. This is what it looks like now:
So I was playing around with Disk Utility today. I created a second partition. Format is Free Space.
My computer's been really slow, to the point where it's almost unusable, and according to Activity Monitor, it's because the physical memory's basically all being used (the CPU usage is fine). However, the processes' memory don't all add up to the total memory usage reported by Activity Monitor (I did show all processes, not just the user's). Where is the extra memory usage coming from?
I recently upgraded from a March 2011 15" MacBook Pro to a 2014 15" MacBook Pro Retina and was disappointed that the wake from sleep is much slower on the new computer. Is there a way to speed this up? Note, this is not from standby mode per Is a 3-5 second delay normal for a Retina MacBook Pro to wake up from sleep? The problem can be replicated as follows: wait in front of the computer screen goes blank immediately press a key screen stays blank for 1-2 seconds then wakes.
My m4b audiobook will NOT sync to my ipod. Can play in iTunes but shows up grayed out in the list. Why? iPod 5th gen and iTunes latest
I plan to use the MBP to edit a lot of pictures. I am torn between spending less than $600 on a mid-2010 MBP 15" (Core i7 2.66Ghz) or a 2012 MBP 13" (Core i5 2.5Ghz) for less than $800. The MBP 15" tech is too old and it doesn't even have a USB 3.0 port but has a fast processor while the MBP 13" screen is too small for editing pictures (but I can attach it to an external monitor, no problem there). Should I just wait and save up for the MBP 13" or buy the MBP 15" now? Can someone share they experiences and advice including the Graphics performances?
I just bought a MBP 13" mid 2014 with a 128 GB SSD. When doing a disk speed test with the Black Magic Design-app, I only get about 210 MB/s write and about 510-550 MB/s read. All the benchmark videos I have seen using the same app all get about 310 MB/s write and up to 700 MB/s read.
They are 3,500 out of the 4,000 of the latest messages. They are always of the form:
My MacBook Pro boots to the hated gray screen. Things I have tried to fix this include: Booting with CMD-R (boots to a grey screen) Resetting the PRAM (boots to a grey screen) Resetting SMC (boots to a grey screen)
I submitted an app to the App Store yesterday, but now realize I should change by answer I checked for the "Third Party" content Yes/No question. Is there an easy way to do that? I can't find one.
I just installed Java 8.25 but I'm still not getting 'legacy' applications to work. I tried verifying the version in terminal:
One of the requirements to use clamshell mode is to have the power adapter plugged in. Is their any file modification or app that will work around this? Like to switch throughout the day from a sit down desk to stand up and bringing the power adapter back and forth, is becoming more of a hassle.
I can't update my Apps, or download Free ones. Also when I go into Settings there isn't a None option for payment options. I tried to enter my credit card but it says "Your payment method was declined" My iPhone model is an iPhone 5c.
I'm using an iPod Touch 5G with iOS 8 and I would like to get the full path to a file, e.g. an image in the Camera Roll. I couldn't find a native option to do that - do I need to download an app for that?
The dropbox icon keeps reappearing in my finder toolbar, no matter how many times I Command Drag it off, or remove it in customize toolbar. How can I get rid of this annoying button that keeps coming back?
Weird! Fine, I'll relaunch Finder. That usually clears it up. Er:
On my new mac, I have noticed in Messages.app, I can no longer purge message threads via cmd+shift+w like I could on my old computer. Every time I have to manually hit the "x" and delete them. Update: I am trying to "close the conversation" not delete it. Thoughts on how to fix this or add the binding?
I am using OS X Yosemite. I am seeing 2 accounts on my login screen. One is my account and the other has the name "Other". What account is that? When I click on it, there is no username. When I try to shut down my computer, I am now prompted to enter my username and password. Previously there is no need to do so. I have tried the suggestion here How to get rid of the "Other..."-Account on the login screen? but that only hides the "Other" account. I am still prompted for my username and password when I want to shutdown. How do I remove/disable the "Other" account, not just merely hides it? Thank you for the assistance.
So i was was using find my iphone to track my wifes location. She was at her mothers place then the next minute she was 100kms away. Any ideas how that can happen? Thanks
When I look at my available disk space on my imac it says ive used 700 gigs for "other" files. How do i find these files and delete them?
When Dropbox (for example) is installed, it adds a “Favorite Item” in the Finder Sidebar Favorite Items List with his own icon and pointing to its custom folder. How do they do it ? I’ve tried adding with PlistBuddy modifying the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, but this is too limited, since I cannot add binary data, the bindings, TemplateSystemSelector, and other stuff needed in the array of the dictionary. Maybe it’s a simpler way through Xcode coding…
Is there any way to change an In App Purchase display name after you've created the IAP? I see the option to change other items, just not that... am I missing something? Thanks! This is referring to the Display Name in iTunes Connect when you add an IAP item.
When I open a picture in fullscreen, it has an overlay like this: Is there a way to permanently disable it?
If your app indicates that it is optimized for the iPhone 6 Plus, at least one 5.5-inch screenshot is required. Up to four additional screenshots can be uploaded. You can rearrange the screenshots when you create or edit the iTunes Connect record. I am about to submit an iPhone game, in my .xcodeproj file I have Devices set to iPhone, so it is supposed to run on iPhone, and iPad in compatibility mode.
I'd like to find a way to add a specific SSID to the top of the preferred WiFi networks in System Preferences > Network > WiFi > Advanced. (10.9 Mavericks and beyond) According to the man page, this should do it: -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex hardwareport network index securitytype [password]
For some reason, now every time I start Finder or ask for a new window, it occupies my entire screen (note this is not full screen mode, it is just normal screen mode but the Finder is resized maximally to fit the entire visible area, except the bar at the top). I tried resizing this Finder window and closing, then restarting but end up getting a new Finder window that is resized occupying my entire workspace. Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Running Yosemite latest on MBP retina 13.
I changed a username in Yosemite, and now everything under that username is wrecked. Chrome won't work at all, saying it can't read or write to a data file. All of my son's Minecraft data is lost, and the minecraft launcher won't run, saying something about Java not being able to set up a directory.
I plan on selling my late 2013 rMBP soon. I was wondering what your opinions are on me using a 3 pass zero on a SSD? Is it enough? I do have some sensitive data on there (bank info, passwords to important things at work, etc.). I also don't want to damage the SSD because I hear these passes can hurt the hard drive. Apple said that I don't even need to do that because SSD are just that great. Is that true? Thank you.
My wife is taking an online class and it says it needs to launch using Java Web Start. I've changed the endings from .ed files to .jnlp files and make sure I click open other and select Java Web start. Tech support wasn't helpful at all.
Department of Telelcom (India) just blocked some sites in India. But, only Government-based ISPs block access those sites. Other ISPs still have these sites working. One of those sites is Github and I want to use Github. How can I apply proxy settings so they work for git sessions to Github in a Terminal? (Note: I saw this link for doing this in Linux but I guess OS X is little different from Ubuntu?)
So my MacBook was on 2% so I tried charging it but it worked at first ,but then a little later another message came up saying that the macbook was low battery and then I realized that the cord was not plugged in so I plugged it in to my MacBook but it won't charge this time. I figured since the computer was kinda overheated I decieded to shut it down and then charge it but now it won't charge, I even used a different charger (that works) but nothing and using a different outlet as well. When I try turning it on it just has simple of needing to be charge but when I plug in a charger it won't charge my MacBook at all. Can someone tell me what to do?????
I am setting up a Mac mini home server as an HTPC and to run other processes (FileMaker Server, web dev server, etc.). I want to make a user with limited privileges to be logged into while Mac mini is connected to TV. However, I want other processes to be running on admin user account while I'm logged in to user with limited privileges. Is this possible or do I have to be logged in to the admin user to run the processes?
My IPad 2 crashed recently and I was forced to upgrade to IOS8. However, when I try to restore my local backup it no longer recognises my password. What do I do to restore my data??? I'm running Windows 7.
I would like to ask if in OS X there is a similar functionality of "Get Info" (Cmd+I) but from the Mac OS X Terminal.app? I mean something like finderGetInfo /path/to/a/file.ext which will output the infos for the file but in the terminal console? Like this:
I thought my problem might be a minor fluke so I restarted my computer multiple times in an attempt to fix it, but nothing happened. I went through forums and only found problems vaguely similar to mine. None seem to have the problem of left clicking just cutting out randomly. Some forum posts suggested running an Apple Hardware Test and mine came back clear. Others have said to make sure there's no external mouse on bluetooth, but I don't have one.
I'd like to examine the event log for things like unlock events (successful and failed), charging times (connect/disconnect), network access (connect/disconnect) for both wifi and data, and power cycles (on/off). Bonus points for what apps run and when. All going back several weeks (if possible).
Is there any possible way to disable find my iPhone without just turning it off? My parents are extremely clingy (in a very bad way) but luckily I am at least privileged enough to have my own iPhone. Every once in a while my parents use the "find my iPhone" app when they're nosing even though they promised to only use it in emergencies.
I'm doing a research on different ways to manage windows on a computer and for that reason I'm searching for a program that automatically tiles all opened Windows including new ones. I know that there are some programs that use certain Shortcuts to tile all Windows but I don't know if one of them can be configured to do that automatically, so that there are basically no overlapping windows.
If I click the Show in Finder link in Chrome's Downloads pane, every Finder pane I have suddenly comes to the foreground. If I have several open I have to hunt around to find the Download I'm looking for. Is there a way of disabling this action so that it only shows the Finder for this particular task? This behaviour also happens elsewhere - very annoying.
I have two 15" Retina MacBook Pros, a 2013 which is my work machine and a 2014 which is my personal machine. I'm trying to transfer some files between them using airdrop. Both have Yosemite on them and are on the same network. Both have been rebooted whilst on this network.
I am using many signatures under Mail. I noticed that unlike many professionnal E-mail programs Mail doesn't automatically include the standard E-mail signature separator. The command: didn't let me a lot of hope. Is there any way to configure Mail so that it will automatically include the standard separator -- \n with any signature ?
My Safari isn't updating passwords anymore. It was working fine until recently. Safari is still populating the username and passwords. In the case where my password for the web app has changed I type my new password. Safari prompts me to update the password (in case it's a domain password it asks to update all). Even though I confirm, the password change is not reflected. E.g. if I quit Safari and browse to the same website it's again the wrong (old) password and if I look in keychain the password is indeed not updated.
Since I upgraded to Yosemite on January 3rd, my Apple mail app is misbehaving. When I get new messages from gmail, they show up in the Unread and Today mail folders but not in the overall Inbox folder. After they are read, they disappear from Unread (of course) and are lost in the ether. If I search mail for a specific message, it finds it and indicates its either in an Important folder or simply in the inbox. Otherwise the message doesn't show up in Mail at all. Also the mail remains on the gmail server when I access it directly on the web. I've tried to synchronize the mail accounts but nothing changes. I also turned on iCloud and iDrive at the same time.
I am trying to persistently define some aliases for my everyday terminal use. I started off with this tutorial: How to persistently define aliases in Terminal, more precisely with Mike's comment. As he suggested I created a .bashrc file and symlinked .bash_profile and .profile to it. My two aliases I created in .bashrc are the following: alias showFiles= ‘defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder’ alias hideFiles= ‘defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder’ Now I have a problem, when i open a new bash window in Terminal, i get this error message: Could someone please explain why I get this error and/or how to fix it ?
As an iOS developer, I am extremely curious about this case: Battery usage on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1) shows that the main reason of battery draining on my phone are Facebook and Twitter, both have a label "Background activity" below their names. I used to think, that this label is shown when the app does background app refresh, but that option is switched off on my phone. There is one other way to have the app run in the background: background location updates. Since neither of these two apps have this authorized at me, this can't be the reason. (And GPS icon was not shown either.) So my question is: How is it possible to have Facebook and Twitter app running code in the background without background app refresh and location permission?
I'm running a vocabulary app and I've a problem with fonts as you can see from the screenshot  On another macbook it works fine, on this one it has this issue, I've no idea on what it could be
I have been able to run snow leopard by executing I think need to sneak this somewhere into the yosemite installer.. Or perhaps install yosemite with a different laptop and then swap the drive into my old firewirebroken laptop after running my above command. The yosemite upgrade hangs around the halfway point..
I don't know if it is only my issue. I have a 2011 iMac i5 with 2x2GB RAM modules.
I don't want to lock down my machine for the install. Can I hand it off to a virtual box process? Open virtual box Open virtual box Create virtual Mac Create virtual Mac Attach Mavericks install pen drive to virtual Mac Attach Mavericks install pen drive to virtual Mac Attach real external HD to virtual Mac Attach real external HD to virtual Mac Boot virtual Mac from Mavericks pen drive Boot virtual Mac from Mavericks pen drive Install to real external HD from inside virtual Mac Install to real external HD from inside virtual Mac Would/should/could this work? I'm stuck at step 3. I've entered: which outputs:
Say you have the iPod connected to a dock to your home stereo. Is it possible to pair another bluetooth enabled device with it and stream music to the iPod? In effect making the iPod like those Bluetooth adapters out there that add Bluetooth capability to the iPod dock.
I just recently reinstalled OS X and forgot to back up all my sweet 'profiles' aka colour schemes. It would be very helpful if I could find the location of these so I can recover them from backup.
I want to install MongoDB on my MacBook, and I would like an no-problems installation experience such as Homebrew offers. However, it looks like brew install mongodb will give version 2.6.6 and adding the --devel flag will install version 2.7.7. I would like version 2.8, which is still in "release candidate" stage so that I can use the new Wired Tiger storage engine that is available with version 2.8. How can I use Homebrew to install version 2.8 of MongoDB on my MacBook?
So, my question is, are there any issues with removing OS X from the system completely? Will it break anything? Is it needed for anything? EDIT: Upgrade to Lion is out too, according to wikipedia support just run out - Oct '14.
As I explained here, I have an old MacBook and I am planning to replace OS X with either Windows 7 or Linux. I was wondering if it is at all possible to virtualize the physical Snow Leopard partition. In Windows you can convert a physical machine to a virtual machine using VMWare products. Could I do something like this for my MacBook? The idea is to wipe everything, install Windows or Linux and have the original OS X partition as a Virtual Machine in case I need something.
I am searching for the iOS system-roots keychain. I found a file (certsTable.data) in /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/, it could be, but i can't open it because if i unextract it with ttdecomp i get a data file which contains only apparently random data, in the unextracted state strings find some human readable stings like ")Starfield Class 2 Certification Authority" in the same folder there was a certsIndex.data file
I'm trying to set up a new Retina MacBook Pro, which is running OS X 10.10, by transferring data from my old MacBook, which is running OS X 10.8.6, via Thunderbolt. My old laptop is in Target Disk Mode instead of using Migration Assistant due to the OS mismatch (the new machine wouldn't let me migrate with Migration Assistant). As far as I can tell, this all matches what Apple says should work. However, I have ~350 GB in my home folder, and my new laptop can only see ~50 GB. What's going on, and is there any way to fix it? A few things: I tried copying my data once already, but almost nothing got copied (I think even less than the ~50 GB). I tried copying my data once already, but almost nothing got copied (I think even less than the ~50 GB). I can't update my OS on my old laptop, because I don't have enough space. I can't update my OS on my old laptop, because I don't have enough space.
I don't know how to sync videos using itunes, it is appreciated if you tell step by step to get videos from pc to iphone. IOS version is : 7.0.4 itunes version : 12.0.1.26 thanks guys
To take advantage of Mac-continuity, Safari, Photos, Passbook, and Keychain sharing features, I have to use the same account on all my devices. But, location sharing is also enabled through iCloud and it only allows one device to be specified. I want to share the location of each device at the same time. All devices are using iOS 8.1.2.
There is an old shared connection that I had setup to a PC to transfer files from the PC to the Mac and I cannot get rid of it.  Here is a shot of the message when I drag to the trash; control click give no trash option.
I'm trying to reload NFS mounts on my machine. What has worked in the past is: But now I get the error: Doing a shows there's only one process (besides the grep command itself) that contains "automount": I've tried killing it and rerunning sudo automount -vc and sudo automount -vcu, but no luck. Has anyone else encountered this error message, or have any ideas on how to fix it?
Recently, I noticed that on the files on my external hard drive are not shown in Finder. All folders can still be navigated, but the files are not visible. When I check the contents of these folders in terminal, I can see the files are still on those locations and can also be opened with VLC for example.
I'd like to try Windows 10 Technical Preview before it is released for purchase. I am curious and have never used a windows based machine before. Question: Is it possible to install and run Windows 10 Technical Preview under BootCamp
I have a certificate and/or private key file (pfx) on my OS X desktop. I'd like to look at its information (CN, SAN, OU, thumbprint, etc) but when I double click on it, it attempts to install into my Keychain. Once its in there, I can see the info and then delete it.
Is there a way to permanently save a cookie in ios8? So I can clear every other cookie and browsing data but that cookie? My banking makes me confirm the computer/phone I'm using through email and code, I have to do this each time, only if the cookie is deleted. I'm using the iPhone 6 no jailbreak.
I am on a Macbook Pro with OS X Yosemite. I have another Mac Mini running Windows 8 that I have connected to via a Router.
How do I make my system preferences show up again? I tried logging in as another account on the same system:
I want to do this in my dotfiles script. I managed to download the preset I want using curl and open it, but I don't know how to set it in the default profile:
My machine is MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS 10.10.1 (14B25). I just tried to make a voice call in Google Hangouts, and Hangouts does not pick up any sound. I checked System Preferences -> Sound -> Internal Microphone, and the Input Level meter shows no activity - not when I talk, clap, or hit the case. How do I fix this and get my internal microphone to register an input correctly? More info:
iTunes software update keeps appearing in the app store even after several updates of the same. Has anyone faced a similar issue? When I try to update it, the download begins and installs and again reappears on the App store. Moreover this is happening in my new mac. I'm unable to find the root cause for this issue.
When I use magic move with connetion lines, they disappear and reappear in the next slide. It seems like magic move doesn't recognize the connection lines (or can't match them), so it just redraws them, instead of leaving them there.
I'm uploading some of my albums and I have a few things (such as soundtracks) that have multiple artists on the album. I want the individual songs to show up under the artist instead of the "various artist" label. I've tried unclicking the "part of compilation" button, but it isn't quite working. Any suggestions?
Is there a software that I can point to a folder to see a map of the area of all the pictures present in that folder? With tiny thumbnails or dots. Similar to what can be done directly on the iPhone, but for OS X.
I'm writing an applescript in which I need the POSIX path to an .icns file that the user selects. For some reason though, it refuses to accept .icns as a valid file type. This will work: But this won't: When the script is run, it won't let me choose any files, including .icns files.
I have a 2007 iMac and an Epson 730HD projector. I want to dedicate this iMac to playing media on the projector but I'm having problems with extending my display.
I have an iPhone that I back up to a Mac (via iTunes), and the backup is failing. The error shown in iTunes is useless, but the console shows this: Jan 6 20:53:58 aron-mbp.local AppleMobileBackup[71561]: ERROR: Backup message response: 101 stat error: File name too long (63) at path "/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/C3147DA8-A001-4A6C-BF8D-971DC2678722/Documents/iCache/pinterest.com/nevadamagazine/dataimage/pngbase64iVBORw0KGgoAAAAN....nT+soTf+" (MBErrorDomain/101) (I've snipped quite a lot of characters out of the file name, as it is, in fact, extremely long.) So, it looks like some app has created this huge-named file, which is stuffing up the backup process because iOS can't stat it and barfs.
Happy (belated-ish) new year! Hope it's been a great one. Any Dropbox users out there will recognize the drop down menu that one can add to their Finder toolbar.
The Reminders application in Yosemite has what it calls "Lists". The left sidebar has entries:
I'm using the Calendar application on Mac OS X 10.10.1 "Yosemite". The calendar is laden with many years of history, and I've just imported some data from a phone as well. It turns out that some of the phone entries were new, but some were duplicates of entries already in Calendar.
Previous OS X versions allowed one to select the startup disk using Cmd-Shift-Up when on the Desktop, or "from" any Finder window. In 10.9.4 this works only from the Desktop. When a Finder window is active, the menu item does appear when holding down Shift, but is greyed out. The startup disk is visible on the Desktop, per Finder preferences. Any ideas? I can make a workaround using Keyboard Maestro or the likes, but..
I am looking at buying a Macbook Air in Australia whilst I am here on holiday. When I get back to the UK will it work?
I have a spreadsheet which contains a mixture of text strings and empty cells. I'm looking for a formula to replace the value of all non-empty cells with a single character 'x', while leaving empty cells blank.
I'm running OSX Yosemite as my development machine. I run a VPS for the product I'm developing at cursiveclojure.com. Every so often (3 times now over the last month or so) my Mac somehow gets into a state where it can't resolve that domain, even though it seems to work from elsewhere and the server is available. So right now:
I recently bought a Mac Mini Late 2014 intermediate version of the three available. I have the following issue. Sometimes when I turn the Mac Mini on or from standby I get this chromatic aberration
My daughter currently uses a Microsoft laptop for university and other day to day tasks. I'm about to buy her a Macbook Air for her 21st. What Microsoft Office software for Mac does she need or would be best purchase?
It seems I am unable to login to Apple Support Communities with my Apple ID. After login, I keep being directed to the following page: https://discussions.apple.com/backsoon/error.html
I have a TM back up from a retired drive. The folder info screen looks like this.
I just turned on my Macbook air this morning and now the top keys aren't doing anything (F1, F2, etc). I can't turn down my keyboard light or anything. I tried going to system preferences and checking "Use all F1, F2, etc keys.." option but I am still not able to do anything like turn down volume or anything. I am using OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1 .
I updated from 10.6.8 to yosemite and since then preview crashes every time I open an image. I rolled back to 10.6.8 and installed mavericks and got the same problem. Can anyone figure this out? Here is the crash report:
Using postgresql I've noticed strange ordering issues. While investigating further, I've found a very informative post. I've inspected further and it is true that LC_LOCALE files are the same for sl_SI.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 locales (and probably all others as well!). A simple test-case on OSX: create a file named de with contents:
I am borrowing someone's iPad 4. The iPad was set up by my landlord's son who lives out-of-state. I use my landlord's WiFi with her permission. My landlady mentioned that her son remotely controls her computer.
I am having a hard time connecting to my office server in which I am the admin of. I have recently wiped the hard drive and re-installed os x yosemite with os x server. I use a Windows 7 machine at home which I am attempting to connect to my mac server with. I know the public IP works because I can SSH and VNC in just fine. Up until the wiping of the server I had fully working VPN services so I know they work. That and pings go through to my public IP without trouble. I keep getting as far as verifying the username / pass and it hangs and then gives an error 629 message. I have... Pinged the public server IP with 4 successful packets, every so often some have weird times like 9ms. Flat out turned off my home windows firewall and also tried adding the proper exceptions. Have tried using os x server automatic wizard to adjust my router port forwarding/opening of ports, as well as tried manually entering my local server ip address and port to open in airport utility. Tried pinging and the
Recently, whenever I attempt to compose a message in Apple Mail, my entire system slows to a screeching halt and I have to shut mail down before I can have access to any other application. What's strange is that opening messages in my inbox and reading them has no effect on my computer's performance. I managed to boot up Activity Monitor during the most recent episode and it told me that Mail was using over 40 GB of memory. I'm no computer expert, but I'm fairly certain this is not supposed to happen. I've attached a screenshot for reference.
I have just purchased a WD My Passport Pro. It comes in a striped RAID 0 configuration comprising of two 2TB drives. I want to partition the drive into 3: Photoshop Cache Lightroom Catalogue Video files I am not worried about backup as I am backing up regularly from this RAID.
turned on, password prompt on the filevault disk. Same behavior, password would not work. (at this point, I'm worried) power off, power on again, this time using the power off button at the bottom of the filevault unlock screen. password worked first time after that boot.
I want to use ntopng to monitor my internet availability. I installed it following the instructions shown here and Run ntopng. However I'm getting the following error:
Why can't I see httpd in activity monitor nor top in Mavericks?
What is the highest capacity hard drive model that would fit and work reliably in the optical bay of a 15" late 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,2)? As far as I can tell, the issues at play are physical dimensions and the well-documented SATA III compatibility issues with this generation of MacBooks. I purchased a HN-M101MBB/ST1000LM024 but, contrary to its data sheet, the drive turned out to be SATA III (6 Gb/s) rather than SATA II (3 Gb/s), and did not work reliably. Which brings me to the question: which 1TB+ HDD models can I expect to work?
Hello I have an Iphone 5 GSM it was jailbroken, i tried to do a manual update with the phone itself. Since then the devise is stuck on the apple logo and the loading bar is not moving. I tried to restore it with Itunes but it is not working, it says waiting for the Iphone but Iphone stays on the apple logo. Can anyone please help me?
I have a question regarding the Facebook Messenger App regarding the multiple login on different devices and some kind of report of that. So here's what happened (I'll make it short): I have an iPhone and an Android tablet, but I lent the tablet to one of my friends for 2 weeks. Now I am pretty sure that he read all my incoming messages because on my iPhone they were already shown as "Read by me" when I opened the Messenger app and these are the only two devices where I check my messages. I asked him, but of course he said that he didn't read them. Now I would like to know if there is any chance that I can see when I used the app to read messages and especially where (so that I can exclude hacking), so basically some kind of report for every read message or at least a usage report with data about my account. Thanks for your help in advance!
My sister used to be a mac user and recently switched to a PC. She has her mac stuff backed up on two hard drives, one is formatted as a time machine. We've transferred all her important files to the other one that is not a time machine, so the time machine one is empty. She wants to use the time machine one as a backup drive for her PC but I"m not sure how to get it to reformat... help?
I am building an automator script to do automatic backups to a network drive via rsync. The shell script works perfectly fine in terminal and completes and everything, but when i run it from automator, it just hangs at that steps and never proceeds, e.g. the process keeps running in the background and the automator workflow never goes to the next step.
Is it possible to charge a different price for the two types?
I'm a 4S holdout but would like to upgrade the camera (particularly the sensor). Is this possible to do? Is there an improved part that I can order and do the replacement myself?
I have a GoPro 4 which ends up creating very large high quality videos, when connected through USB the Gopro importer app automatically copies the files to a subfolder named by todays date in /users/apple/Pictures/GoPro . Once the files are copied from the GoPro to the /Pictures/GoPro/DATE_Subfolder they are deleted from the GoPro automatically. These files fill up my macbook hard drive fast so i have brought a external SSD to house all my video files as well as Final Cut Pro X. What I would like is a script which auto runs on connection of the external SSD, to move the contents of /Pictures/GoPro to /Volumes/Ext_SSD/GoPro then delete the original files from /Pictures/GoPro
If I turn autocorrect off for a short amount of time, will it forget the corrections it knows? on an iPod touch 5th generation, it will often mess with audio, and I would like to turn it on and off, but I am worried it will get rid of certain phrases that it autocorrects because of me using them so much.
How do I get the battery percentage on the top right of my screen please help I tried many other things but didn't work
I am having a problem "Finder isn't responding" on my mac pro retina 10.10.1. All my files on my desktop are gone and the rainbow ball is spinning forever. I've tried many times to relaunch "Finder" by using command + option + esc, yet the problem still exist. So anyone has any idea to fix this problem? Please kindly help.
I have an iPhone 5s and I dropped and smashed it the other day and now it has just stopped working. The screen is fully black and I cant see anything nor touch the screen but it charges and vibrates when i get messages. I want to back it up before getting a new phone but when I try and back up it asks for me to put my passcode in which I can't do. Is there any possible way I can actually back up my phone?.
Okay, relative newbie here, but I have searched all the answers and tried most of the suggestions and cannot find a way to automate using Applescript or Javascript within Applescript to click a button on a specific website. I can't provide the website because it is part of a protected medical record software, but as far as I can tell the button is encoded as follows:
Is there any way to disable the delay for text dragging in OS X? There is a small delay between selecting and dragging text, if you start dragging the text right after you selected it - it will instead re-select the text which can be annoying. Some apps don't have this delay (for example Sublime Text 2/3 where you can drag the text immediately after selecting it) but in most apps you would have to click the left mouse button and hold it for a bit before you can drag the selected text.
I was attempting to free up disk space on my MB Pro - and subsequently deleted most of the iPhoto files & folders as I was constantly receing a 'your start up disk is almost full (e.g. 2.5 gb left out of 499 gb available. So, having done that, my Hard Drive capacity is now showing only a 250 gb capacity - despite there apparently being a Hard Drive & a SSD each with 250gb. How can I restore it to its full capacity? Below is the output from diskutil:
Can anyone tells me how to view my text messages on iCloud? I know that iCloud will back up my messages on my iPhone 5S, and I am very curious about checking the iCloud messages. Is there any solution?
I can see people access into my Wifi by going into AirportUtility Here is a list of people that are connected to Wifi at the moment. There're 2 of them in there that I'm not sure - how they get in there ?
I want to buy a "new" MacBook to replace my white MacBook 13" (Mid 2007), which makes me mad especially because of its limited RAM (only 3 GB possible). I want to buy a MacBook Pro 13" and I'm not sure if it is worth taking a really new model (13" or 13" retina) or maybe buying a used one which might be much cheaper. I saw a MacBook MC700LL/A MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011" 2.3 GHz (8 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD built-in later) and I wonder how much it is different from the current "normal" 13" MacBook Pro which seems to be nearly unchanged since 2012. I can compare the technical specs, but I am not sure how much difference they will make in my daily life and especially if I could maybe regret to buy a MacBook with an older USB/Airport/Bluetooth standard... if there are other differences / disadvantages of the older model How much "better" the smallest current MacBook Pro 13" Retina model would be compared to the 2 of them - which use cases would justify buying this one? I'm currently using my MacBoo
Consider the following commands What is the difference between a service-target and a service-name? How can I learn a service-target of a service from it's service-name?
Here's the problem: I just finished burning a CD using the standard feature through Finder, I could hear the "done" sound.
The goal is to track when kexts are installed and determine whence kexts came. For instance TRIM is disabled for 3rd party drives in OS X Yosemite. To use a utility like Trim Enabler one must disable kext signing globally. WRT to *=URL=* – specifically: “It is important to note that the kext-signing setting is global, if you disable it you should be careful to only install system drivers from sources that you trust.”
I've recently been called in to deal with the IT infrastructure of a small non-profit organisation that is going through a restructure that involves purging all its staff and employing new ones from scratch. They have 6+ Mac Minis, an iMac, a MacBook, a MacBook Pro and a Mac server (not a Mac Pro, a silver desktop box). One of the things I would like to do is take backups of hard drive content, then re-image them with 10.8 and reinstall Microsoft Office 2011. My research seems to indicate that I need to press ⌘ + R at the BIOS screen, but then other places indicate this this will keep files. With 10+ (I'm still finding computers in cupboards, the old staff did not keep an asset register) computers, downloading the OS 10+ times seems slow and useless. I have also seen indications that this will only download the version that came as OEM, which means I would need to update them as well.
Since updating to iOS 8.1.2 I can't see old photos on messages just new photos
Where does OS X store license/registration keys for apps? Is there any way these can be moved over to a new Mac?
I uploaded the past months several iOS apps made with Cordova and when they were published all shown in its app details that the languages are English and German but I want to display Spanish because the apps are oriented to the spanish market. An image as example:
About three weeks ago, it started that I could not send my MacBook to sleep anymore. In the beginning I investigated the problem only a little bit, tried to create a new user account and see if this user could send it to sleep, but that did not work. Three days ago, I read more about this problem and Apple says you should try booting safe mode and see if it can go to sleep in this mode. I tried it, it did not work and when I tried to boot back to normal mode I got a “prohibited sign” after I saw the Apple Logo while booting.
I've tried my iCloud password too many times and it got disabled. I got the following notification: Email has been sent. When you receive your sign in information, follow the directions in the email to reset your password. Return to My Apple ID How to restore access to my iCloud data?
My current MacBook Pro, a early-2013 13" i5, is getting very slow and I therefore want to buy a new one. However, I want to wait until the next generation comes out. In the meantime I will change the RAM from 4GB to 16GB. My questions is if the RAM for the early 2013 macbook will work in the new MacBook Pro?
Hi, I installed windows using bootcamp, but i made the mistake to make the bootcamp only 20gb, so i want to expand it. I found a way to do so, but firstly i need to shrink my other partition - Macintosh HD, why am I unable to do so? Thanks
Sometimes I need to use ShadowsocksX to bypass GFW, but ShadowsocksX will clear my proxy configuration file. When I come to my company, I've to set proxy configuration file manually, I'm wondering if there any OSX's command can help me to set proxy configuration file? So that I can create an alias in my zshrc file.
My 2012 Mac mini/thunderbolt are in one room I want to sit in another room and work on the Mac mini. I have a second monitor and bluetooth keyboard accessories. I do not want to set up a second computer, but I do have an iPad.
A baby, playing with my iphone 5, made a folder disappear. I don't know if she deleted it or not but if I spotlight one of the apps, it is still on the phone and shows the old folder name. However, none of the apps that were/are in that folder have icons on the screen and I have to spotlight each of them to start it. Any ideas for restoring the folder or the individual icons so I can make the folder again?
Before I spend a lot of money. What are the main benefits of using Centrify over the Mac's built in ability to bind to Active Directory? After many years of using the "magic triangle" and defining what can be done and cannot. I cannot see what the big difference is with Centrify. Is it more geared towards large schemas? Please can someone shed some light?
I was surprised to see my iPhone 5's personal hotspot available as a WiFi choice from my iPad. I checked the phone and personal hotspot was turned off. I turned it on and off again and it still appeared. Using Airplane Mode and rebooting the devices did not help - it just would not turn off.
I have a 128gb SSD running MacOSX, I have another 2TB spinning disk too, I have a bunch of symlinks so that ordinary directories that do not need SSD speed are put on the 2TB disk (Downloads, Desktop, etc, for example). I have purchased a bigger and faster SSD and I would like to replace my existing SSD with this new one. I have set it up on an external disk mount that connects via USB, and cloned my main using Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDupper, with both I could not get it to BOOT after I replaced my main disk with the bigger one inside the casing.
In previous versions of Safari one could CMD-click on the webpage title at the top of Safari's window and get a menu with the website's folder hierarchy. For example if you're at *=URL=* clicking on the title would give you a menu with the following items: *=URL=* *=URL=* https://apple.stackexchange.com/
I charge my iPad. Later, I notice that the battery is charged at 100 %. Now, what is better to preserve the battery capacity ? Unplugging the cable. Leaving the cable plugged. The answer may vary depending on whether I leave the iPad sleeping or whether I use the iPad.
The same applies if I click on the shape and drag it around. Afterwards I can use CMD+C and DEL.
Which is the maximal refreshment rate for two connected Thunderbolt Displays? I want to connect them via Mini-Display-Port to the Thunderbolt Ports of my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014. I want to use the maximum resolution (2560 px) on both TB Displays. Is it possible to run them both at 60 Hz and max. resolution?
Activity Monitor tells me that my Disk Activity is too high even when I'm not running 'heavy' programs. I have an iMac with Mac OS 10.6.8, processor 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4GB.
would anyone know how to delete and create user accounts in recovery mode? Precise steps would be awesome because im not too experienced with UNIX. I already tried the userdel and useradd in urs\sbin folder.. "command not found", sudo or not.
I looked thru all the similar questions. I've gone to System Preferences and drug the whole disk onto the privacy tab. I've taken the disk off that tab and just selected one small directory there. Supposedly if you close it (preferences) it will index the disk and then find your file. No go.
When I try to copy 50 GB to external HDD it succeed only when copy dialog is active. If I activate another app it fails at about 10gb with error "the operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8084)". If I switch between apps often enough it also succeed. I tried it with 2 different external usb3 drives. It looks like mavericks decides to lower priority or freeze inactive copy process which causes copy error. The error tends to appear only when copy dialog is not visible (fully obscured by another window, minimized, another fullscreen app is active). How to fix this?
I have a Raspberry Pi I want to automount on my Desktop (Yosemite 10.10.1). I've installed OSXFuse (with the MacFuse option) and SSHFS both from *=URL=* I'm using the password method for now and will establish certificates after I get this problem solved. The following command works fine from Terminal:
I previously asked this question for iOS 7. I am on iOS 8 now and in the Settings for Touch ID, there is a specific toggle for Use Touch ID for iTunes & App Store.
I bought my son a new iPhone at Christmas so I now have his old one but it has his iCloud account on it. If I delete the account on this phone can I make a new one for me and will his account still be active and ok on his new device?
It appears that the only option iTunes offers me that is obvious would be to wipe my iPod and then start synchronizing data from the PC to the iPod. This appears to be due to setting it to manually manage music and videos (see below). Effectively this would remove the data from the iPod and thus not leaving anything to copy to the iPhone.
I need to get a large rack mountable, 16 port or larger, cascadable, VGA KVM that works with Macs. I've tried the iogear GCS1716, which claims mac support, but refuses to display video from my xserves or minis. Support says it's because of the mini displayport to VGA adapters. I've tried Apple official ones and third party. Since no modern Macs come with VGA built-in, it seems iogear's attitude is "Sure, Apple devices are supported. Unless you do the thing required to actually use them. Then, they are not supported.". Natch. I have another KVM from another brand that escapes me at the moment that works fine, but it not cascadable, so we have out grown it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The MacOS stores icloud drive files locally in ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Where does windows7 store icloud drive files by default? I had not customized the location while installing it in my windows machine.
I'm looking to record my screen similar to how Quicktime does it, but I need zero-compression, since I need the pixel colors to remain correct. Basically, I need a automated series of screenshots, if that's possible - lossless PNG at half-second intervals. Are there scripts or other tools to do this?
I have an MP3 file that I'd like to stream from my Mac to an iOS. I think VLC can be used to achieve this, but I couldn't find the right settings on the VLC app and in iOS. If I pick RTP multicast, for instance, how can I listen to this stream in iOS? Eventually, I'd like to be able to do this from a live audio from the microphone, but I think the MP3 stage should come first. Any thoughts?
I just installed MacTeX onto Yosemite and it installed everything in usr/local/texlive However if I am in Terminal and try to compile a LaTeX file with pdflatex foo.tex, it cannot find the LaTeX tools. Further whereis pdflatex returns no results. If I specify the entire path of pdflatex (e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2014/.../bin/pdflatex) it all works well. How can I get the LaTeX tools to work from the terminal without specifying the entire path?
My macbook doesn't respond to any commands at startup (command + s, command+r, shift, command+alt+p+r). It wants to go straight to the apple logo then to a blue or white screen. Applecare is no longer on it. What should be my next step?
I have an old hybrid ISO, WAR2BNE (Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition) in fact, that I am trying and failing to mount. The problem with the auto-mounting is that it uses the Mac portion and I need access to the Windows files. A few web searches came up with various solutions, usually years old, that no longer work when attempted: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* I'm not afraid of the Terminal, I'm just not sure where to start researching to solve this.
My iPhone 5 successfully connected to the Exchange server during the setup of my Exchange email account on device. All Mail settings match other users who successfully connect and get mail, except of course the specific user info for me. Password is correct.
My mac book pro (mid 2010, running 10.10.1) is currently operating normally. I would like to clean it up and create a bootable clone to an external hard drive. Diskwarrior seems like a good cleaning/maintenance software from what I have read, I can't find a simple, clear answer if it can be used to make a bootable clone of all my software, files and operating system. Thank you for educating the newbie.
I have an iPhone 5 with an unlimited data plan. I usually have it at home where I only have a mediocre cell signal. I don't want to put it in airplane mode just in case I get a call or text so would turning off wifi help save battery life even when I could be on wifi? I mainly use it just for communication if that helps. Thanks
I have two Macs, each with ^-1 through ^-4 configured to switch between Mission Control desktops in Keyboard/Shortcuts. When I use Screen Sharing, these shortcuts always go to the local Mac, never to the remote Mac, regardless of whether the remote Mac otherwise has focus.
I kept having some bizarre search results return, and I just noticed when I type something into the Safari omnibar, it's trying to search on the register.co.uk. My default search engine is set to Google:
I know of this, these are separate questions. I have seen Apple's feedback pages here, but there appears to be no way to give feedback about FaceTime. Would this be categorized under something else?
I've been using ffmpeg for the occasional video conversion for quite some time, and recently discovered that H.264 (libx264) videos generated by ffmpeg aren't working in iMovie or QuickTime (nor will they play or show a preview in Finder with the quick view feature). If I generate videos using OS X applications which internally use ffmpeg (e.g. MP4tools or Adapter) the videos work fine, but not when I try to use ffmpeg directly, e.g. to convert a video: or to combine some images into a video: iMovie just imports the video as black/blank, quick preview just shows the file info, (but no video preview), and Quicktime tells me it cannot play it:
I partitioned a USB flash drive as GUID and used it to install FreeBSD 10 for x86_64 off a DVD on a MacPro1,1. I was able to select the installation DVD as my startup disk in Mac OS X just by going to System Preferences > Startup Disk and selecting it. But OS X (I tried SL, ML, and Mavericks) can't read FreeBSD startup partition on the flash drive because it's formatted as FreeBSD_UFS. As a result, I can't select the FreeBSD partition as my startup disk.
if anyone can find software that will allow keyboard shortcuts to do a different action moving a window dependant on where it currently is. e.g. in Windows 7 and above you can hit Windows+Left over and over and the window will first maximise half left, then maximise half right on the display to the left of the current display, then to the left of that display and so on. Likewise, Windows+Down will first restore a window, then minimise.
I have an iPad running iOS 8.1.2. I have added a manual proxy to the Wi-Fi connection but it seems that only the HTTP (port 80) and HTTPS (port 443) traffic is going through the proxy. Is it possible to pass all traffic through the proxy?
I've recently set up a print server with a Raspberry Pi and a Canon Pixma iP4850 printer using CUPS and have been able to print to it no problems with every Windows Computer in my house. However, I haven't been able to connect to it with my Early 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.1. (If I connect directly using USB, it can print fine.) The MacBook can ping the server and even open up it's CUPS web interface.
I go to the Email app and open an email that I want to reply to. I type up my message.
I am using: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2014-10-20 on builder10-9.porkrind.org, on a MacBook Air 13 running OS X Yosemite (10.10.1). If I use the command "dired-do-copy" to copy a file from one place on my hard drive to another, the date/time of the copy is the same as the original. If I copy the same file to a Volume that is a memory stick,the date/time of the copy is not the same as the original. Function "dired-do-copy" relies on "copy-file" (a primitive function written in C). I can try the same copy directly using "copy-file" and verify the same behavior. Why does the date/time for the copy of the original file change when I do the copy between different volumes, yet not change when the copy stays on the same volume?
Pulled my original iPad out of my bag after returning from vacation and it had an alert on screen saying it required activation. It connected to my home wi-fi fine but failed when trying to activate. After a bunch of retries it went in to recovery mode.
I've got a .ts video file on my harddrive, and I would like to transfer it to my iPad to watch it there. Here's some data about the file in question: Size: 3.5 GB 1 Video Stream: h264, 1920x1080 2 Audio Streams: 1st: AC-3, 5.1, German 2nd: AC-3, Stereo, English 1st: AC-3, 5.1, German 2nd: AC-3, Stereo, English I only care about the English language track, getting rid of the German 5.1 audio would be fine.
I would like to make a partition for Linux. Here's what diskutil coreStorage list gets me (identifiers omitted): and diskutil list: Currently FileVault is turned off.
On Yosemite. The sed is old: does not understand \t for example. I installed coreutils and can not find any sed associated with same. What are my options here?
Since Office Mac (2011) can only be installed 3 times, and I have installed it 3 times already, is there a way I can get it from one of the old devices I have previously installed it on to my new Mac without buying Office again?
How recent does the backup has to be when you're about to jailbreak an iPod Touch?
I am trying to setup an OS X server so that I can see it from outside of my internal network. I have OS X Mavericks with the Server app installed as a VM for testing purposes right now. It has access to the internet and I can browse it from my local Macs on the network. I would like to be able to set it up as a basic web server to which I can set up a website or a small cloud backup etc. I have various domain names which I use for my website and I could repurpose one of these or purchase a new one if needed. I tried just turning on the Websites option which didn't work, I did have a play around with the DNS options adding in the IP of my domain etc but didn't get anywhere.
I just incidentally discovered that within Mail, TextEdit when typing two dashes in a row, the string "--" is instantaneously changed to "—" (i.e. a long dash).
I'm using Parallels for running windows 8. My question is: In windows 8, the network icon always shows ethernet although I have selected Wi-Fi network in the settings. If my mac is connected to internet, my windows will connect normally.
just a quick question. I want to make a website that has an embeded HTML5/flash audio player in with auto-play enabled, now I know there has been some talk that Apple blocks that on all iOS devices, does anyone know why? Is it a technical problem or just a business decision from Apple to not to enable that in the SDK?
I have I believe is a second generation AppleTV. A few weeks ago, I could no longer stream PBS content. I can get all other channels without any issues.
In Messages and other apps, the date linking is sometimes a little unnecessary: Is there a way to turn off data detectors on Yosemite across the board? I know you can turn off Mail data detectors with this command defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES and then restarting the Mail.app but I'm looking for a broader elimination of them from my system.
I often write short articles and am limited to 100 words per document. Can I find word counts in pages 5.2.2?
I need to create a capital Greek delta with a circumflex on top of it:  How do I do that in Word or any other text editor (on a Mac)? The file will be mailed to a publisher, so the letter should appear the same on his computer (so the method should use some standard font). Note: I do not want to create an image!
Is there any way to run .app (standard OS X application, written in Xcode, achieved and copied from products folder) in windows (any apps like crossover or vine loader)?
I would like to change the time before my screen saver starts based on WiFi network. I am running Yosemite (10.10.1). I will use Keyboard Maestro to trigger the action.
I work for a large faceless corporation, and they're rolling out some new software for email. As part of the install, it's asking me to install a "Profile" which contains a "Device Enrollment Challenge".
I've a problem which is my headphones' jack is broken into my computer. I can't hear any voice neither from headphones nor from internal speakers. What I need is, to hear some sound from internal speakers while my headphones' jack is broken in my computer. Thanks in advance..
Time to time I have the issue with music which I bought in iTunes Store and loaded via wifi to my iPhone 4s. Music may randomly load or unload regardless my preferences. I can find some albums loaded in the morning, but I remember that I deleted them some days ago. And vice versa, songs may become deleted from iPhone, but these songs were loaded some time before.
I have an iPhone 5 and a laptop. My emails used to sync (if I deleted them from my phone they deleted off my laptop). They no longer do that. I have to delete off each device. When I try in iTunes to fix this it only has outlook for mail but I don't think I use outlook because when I went into it it didn't have my email address. Can someone help me? Not sure if this happened because of an iOS update.
I've got an AppleScript that I usually launch out of Quicksilver, but occasionally, the script hangs, never exiting. (I think it's waiting on a non-existent window to appear). This results in Quicksilver being monopolized, waiting for the script to die off.
To be more specific, I am saving a file from my markdown editor. Within the save dialog box, I navigate to the folder I wish to save the file. I then decide to change the name of the file. I put my cursor at the end of the text string and hit CMD + Delete. The expected behavior is to delete the entire string. Instead, this deletes the previously selected folder I highlighted in the dialog box.
I have an iMac 27", Mid 2010 (11,3 model). Can it take 8GB RAM modules? Apple's website *=URL=* says "The maximum amount of RAM you can install in your computer is 16 GB (a 4 GB SO-DIMM in each slot)." But people say that 8 GB sticks ARE in fact supported. For instance, according to OWC, (*=URL=* 8.0GB PC10600 DDR3 Module (*=URL=* works. In particular, can I use Transcend JetRAM DDR3 8GB JM1333KSH-8G *=URL=* ? And how about Transcend JetRAM DDR3 4GB JM1333KSN-4G *=URL=* ?
Is there a way, or a Safari extension, to do this? I want to replace a particular word with some other word on all webpages, across all tabs. Essentially I'm looking for something like this Chrome extension which replaces "every occurrence of certain words in webpages with replacements specified by you."
I remember reading somewhere that when you connect to a Wi-Fi network, Apple tries accessing their own URL which is guaranteed not to follow any redirects. (E.g. *=URL=* If it sees a redirect, it assumes you are on a Wi-Fi network that needs you to login, so it presents the login screen. Otherwise, if it was able to reach that URL with no redirects, it will just assume you are connected to the internet normally. What is this URL, and where can I get more info about the mechanism Apple uses?
I have a unibody 2012 macbook which appears to have some kind of grease around the battery area, between the battery and the case. This machine has been serviced by a third party applecare provider for hard drive cable failure several times, and I'm wondering if that's something they might have left in there for some reason? Are there any pads/components/labels that sometimes leach grease under high temperature? The only other plausible explanation would be that it has somehow leached in through the screw holes (there is no contamination in the keyboard/motherboard/optical area, so it can't have come from above), which I also find pretty hard to believe. Visually it looks like a sticky drink has dried up, but when you touch it it has the consistency of vaseline. Picture (apologies for poor quality, phone is all that's available):
I'm a new mac user and I'm going to start using Homebrew to build my environment. My current environment I've installed piece by piece. What I want to check is what to make sure I do, so I don't get conflicts and i'm not running a load of software that I don't need. Is this just a case of through the terminal uninstalling, apache, php, mysql etc and clearing out my usr/local/ folder and starting with homebrew?
I have an iMac from 2011 and I have installed Yosemite as soon as it was released, without any issues before this one. Here is what happened: it has suddenly shut itself off, after turning it on, it goes into the loading screen, loads to about half of the loading bar and restarts itself, this happens in a loop. I have tried internet recovery. After choosing the network, connecting, and going through the loading screen, the screen becomes grey. Same thing when I try recovery mode or when I boot from external usb device. I am able to enter the verbose mode and I was able to do system check, which did not find any issues. Not sure what to do and whether this is a hardware or a software problem.
I created a second Admin account on my Macbook Pro (Yosemite) and also enabled Guest login. Now I can only access the second account and the guest login from the login screen, the primary admin account is no longer shown. It is also not shown in the fast user switching menu, nor am I able to log into it when I select username and password as login option.
In the last 24-hours my Safari has gone haywire. I cannot access the program to even get into my Safari Preferences without getting the following message! Any idea how to cure this?
Can the status bar font be enlarged? Is this size hard-wired and unique? Is there any other (configurable) font size anywhere which could correspond to this one on user space?
I'm trying to partition a samsung ssd and want to perform a fresh OS X snow leopard install from dvd. When I try to partition the disk in diskutil I get: Looked at this link: *=URL=* The hardware is a MacBook Pro 2010 and it had Yosemite running for a few months and it would not boot anymore. Any ideas?
So, now that I have my new iMac 5K, I'm pleased that it can text like my iPhone. My Windows PC of course cannot. BUT I do NOT want anyone sitting at my iMac to read my text messages, or even know to whom I am texting. My question is, can I disable the nonhelpful message status icon that iMac throws up when I text on my iPhone, but still use the iMac as a text machine whenever I please? Thanks, Ed
Hopefully someone can help me. I've tried so many options. I purchased a used MacBook Pro, late 2011 model. The person I purchased it from said he wiped the hard drive, but when I got home, it seems he did that, however his login was still there.
I am looking for an iOS application that can display the speed limit of the road where I am located. I am mostly interested in the USA, particularly Boston and California. Gratis is better but not necessary.
So I was derping around on my computer (it has a 250 gigabyte hard drive) and thought,"hmm I wonder what happens if I partition off 75 gigs of this". believe it or not, it partitioned off 75 gigabytes on my hard drive, so what's the problem? well I have no idea how to make it one big single 250 gigabyte partition again. I tried everything, I did the minus on the partition, I did the slide, I repaired with disk utility, same thing with disk utility from the restart CMD+R, and spent hours on the internet looking for a solution. Is there anyone who can help me here?
I submitted a RSS reader app, but it just got rejected from the App Store, with this cited: 8.5: Apps may not use protected third party material such as trademarks, copyrights, patents or violate 3rd party terms of use. Authorization to use such material must be provided upon request We found that your app contains features that may infringe on rights owned by various news and media outlets. Specifically, we found that your app provides users with a news feed generated from them. Please provide documentary evidence of your rights to use this content.
I had over 4 GB worth of photos on my phone and a month ago I deleted them all. As of recently, the 1600 or so photos in the "recently deleted" album were automatically deleted. The usage section in the Settings app says that I still have over 1800 photos and that I only have 1.5 GB of space left on the device. As far as I can tell I have less than 100 photos left in the Photos app.
I am in China and bought an iPhone 4s here. It has been updated to iOS 8.1.2 . I want to change the App Store country from China to India. How do I do this?
In my contacts, there is a contact wrongly labeled as 'me'. What should I do so that I can label the right person as 'me'? How do I change 'me'? I'm using iOS8.
I want to leave my Mac locked, but display a web page (representing a web-based dashboard) in the lock screen. The idea is to leave this web dashboard showing 24x7 but without letting anyone else get access to the rest of the system.
The most annoying part is the battery just not knowing when it's about to force my machine to sleep. If I can fix that, even with shorter battery life, I'd be thrilled.
My ISP, injects JavaScript code into every website I visit. Is there a way to filter all incoming traffic in OS X and remove that injected code?
I'm referring to the Macbook Pro Retina 15-inch (2013) model. I read that it supports three streams, and that it supports both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.
Example: In Preview, basically all shortcuts seem to by language-dependent. For example, View → Thumbnails which is ALT+CMD+1 will be something entirely different.
That's it! That's all the electronic things I have. And a Wi-Fi repeater which plugs into the downstairs router via an Ethernet cable.
Every time I open my TextEdit app it starts with the File Open dialog open. How do I stop this?
I have figured out how to change the icon for my program that I made in java, but now the default icon goes and nothing is there, is it because of the incorrect dimensions? I currently have a 16x16 logo, is anyone able to help me with what the dimensions need to do in order for it to display correctly? Additional Note: The icon is a .png file if that helps in any way.
I am using Windows 7 and have the latest version of iTunes installed. The USB port is disabled for security purposes but I want to sync my iOS device to my PC, so I am thinking that I can use Wi-Fi. How can I do that?
I am using VLC to multicast an audio stream - song on my OS-X mavericks. I need multicasting streaming only here. However, I cannot hear the audio. The volume level of my machine is fine. Looks, like the audio streaming or receiving is not working.
When I click on "Log out User A" in the Apple menu, then click the Log Out button, the current user is logged out. After I get back to the user selection page, I can pick another logged-in user (call them User B), but almost as soon as I see their desktop they start logging out as well. By the time I return to the user selection page, all users including User C and User D are also logged out. I saw this a few times when using they keyboard shortcut (CMD-SHIFT-Q) for logout, where I'd quickly switch after logging out a user and see the "log out" popup prompt for an unrelated user, but I figured that somehow the keyboard input was being relayed to a background user's account (which would also be crazy, I grant you, but less crazy than this).
I shutdown my iPad and left it for a while. Now I want to start it again and I can't open it. I've used the sleep/awake button, also use that with the home button but I can't open it at all. It sits there with the Apple icon on the screen and sometimes it has a spinning little icon in the middle. I sure would appreciate some help.
I want to prevent inbound and outbound connections to one application. I can buy Little Snitch if it's the best option, but it feels like I wouldn't be getting much value out of it for that one use.
Years ago I saw someone use a program for Windows and I was hoping that someone can tell me if there is a Mac equivalent! Say you are watching a YouTube video and the audio is up full but it's still quiet. The audio on the video is out of sync too.
It turned out that /tmp was there, but it was a symlink pointing to /private/tmp, which was missing. I tried simply creating a new folder under /private and calling it "tmp" and to my surprise that worked. Until a few days later, I got the same runaway CPU, found the same errors in Console, and discovered that /private/tmp had been eaten once again.
I have a 2007 model Macbook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.1. My father recently upgraded my hard drive for me from the stock 320GB hdd to a hybrid 500GB hdd. He's not really a Mac user and said there were some kind of issues partitioning the hard drive so right now I have 320GB of available space with 180GB of unallocated space.
When I open Spotlight on iOS8 on my iPhone 6 Plus I get the Spotlight Search but occasionally I have no keyboard. Any suggestions how I get the keyboard back other than rebooting which takes a significant chunk of time?
I'm not quitting the app, and the drive still shows up under diskutil list, so that's something, but I'm not expecting any progress here, so I appreciate any other suggestions. (I'll update this question if/when I do see progress in Disk Utility.)
I have my iTunes library on a network volume that is mounted on startup. I did this by dragging the volume icon into my login items. When I restart my computer iTunes starts before the network share is mounted.
When the AC router's 5GHz channel is set to operate between channels 36 and 64, my rMBP (mid-2012) can connect to the wireless router just fine, however at very low speeds. But as soon as I change the range to 100 and 140, the rMBP can't detect the wireless signal anymore. Is there a reason behind this ?
Can someone tell me what size icons I should be including in an iPhone app. Can I assume also that I should include two resolutions? Any help would be great, thanks.
I live in USA and took my VZW iPhone 5s to Scotland; I never purchased a SIM card to use there. I noticed that my iPhone pictures uploaded to Flickr have accurate location data associated with each picture. Example, I was walking around Edinburgh and taking pictures without WiFi/cell connection, but the images still display accurate location of where I took images. How is that possible?
I recently traded in my iMac with 1TB HDD for a MacBook Pro with a 256 GB flash drive. I want to restore my previous hard drive but obviously it won't fit on the new hard drive.
Over the past few years, I have downloaded various apps onto my iPhone from the App Store. I have noticed that the App Store remembers the apps that I have downloaded. So, for instance: If I download an app and then delete it from my phone and go back into the App Store, the download icon is different (it doesn't say "+Get" like apps that I have never downloaded before, instead it will have an icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downwards). How to I get the App Store/iCloud to forget these programs?
This window has been popping up repeatedly: I was sure that I already had the latest version of Java installed, but to verify I went here: *=URL=* And sure enough I have the latest JRE. Then I went and followed the directions here to find the JRE via my command line: *=URL=* which says to enter: $ /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java -version and the terminal output was: java version "1.8.0_25" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)`
When I receive an iMessage, chat or Message on my desktop (iMac), it is read out loud. After the upgrade to Yosemite it does not work. I continue to receive the message that "AppleScript timed out." I click on "wait" and it will read it. This occurs when I SEND as well as when I RECEIVE messages, although reading aloud is only on receive. - I would love if someone might address this issue! It still works great on my previous OS version on my laptop.
Mail.app goes unresponsive whenever a specific Gmail account is added. If I quit the process and go to System Preferences > Internet Accounts and disable the account, I can start Mail normally.
Is it possible to create a Mac-bootable thumb drive containing gparted or Parted Magic without installing a full Linux distribution? I tried several methods like unetbootin (some blogs suggest this though the unetbootin site explicitly mentions that it isn't possible) sudo dd if=/.../.iso of=/dev/rdiskx which both failed.
I had a 4th generation iPod touch and lost it over a year ago after I received a fifth generation. Now I would like to at least view the notes I had written on my old iPod but I don't have a gmail connected to it or anything that I know of that can allow me to do this. Ideas?
When I plug my ipad 3 in to charge while using it, the battery icon shows it is charging but the battery level percentage doesn't change. If it's at 18% when I plug in, it remains at 18% until I put it in standby. Is this normal, because generally my ipad charges far faster than I can deplete the battery?
When I Get Info on a pdf or an image it gives me the dimensions in points, which is great. I need to know how big an image would be, at full size, in inches. Is there somewhere in OS X where that info is available? I found this question where you can get that info via Preview, but having to open each file is painful.
I am trying to use AirDrop to copy some files to my iPad Air 2 but have some problems. In my AirDrop folder, it never asked me whether I want to share it with Contact or Everyone. I have my ipad AirDrop turned on but it does not appear on my Mac's AirDrop folder.
So I have a Time Machine backup (on an external USB hard drive) that was made from a 2010 MacBook Pro. I think the computer was running the latest OS at the time the last backup was made -- Nov 2013, probably Mavericks, but maybe Mountain Lion.
Some pages, sometimes on Apple's on support site simply display as blank pages. The same page displays perfectly on Firefox or Chrome. What is this strange behaviour? For example, this link: *=URL=* shows a completely blank page.
I am syncing my iPhone with my Mac using iTunes. How do I make the iPhone have priority over the Mac? I mean, I want to copy what is on the iPhone to iTunes, deleting from iTunes what is not anymore on the iPhone. I hate when I clean my phone, do a sync, just to have iTunes copy everything back, because iTunes database regarding to that phone is not the same. iTunes gives what is on iTunes a priority and I want the reverse. thanks.
There's very little information on how long time machine migrations are supposed to take on Google. I have 200GB or so under my user and it has been stuck on "preparing to transfer user documents" for 14 hours.
Has anyone zero'd the cells on an SSD? I've read that this is possible essentially making your ssd "new again"—has anyone tried this method? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_memory_cell_clearing
I am trying to create a compressed disk image of a Time Machine backup (that is stored on an external HDD) on Yosemite. hdiutil fails on the first symlink it comes across. Before the failure, there is also an authentication error followed by a GUI password prompt. If I deny the authentication, the following happens: If I type in the password, this happens: CodeResources is the first symlink the process comes across. I found the same issue discussed here, but they never seem to get to the bottom of what the problem with the symbolic link is that is causing copy-helper to fail. Why does hdiutil prompt for ownership permissions, and why does it fail on this symlink?
I'm trying to see how does certain ios apps executable files look like, what I do is export the app files to my computer using iexplorer, I then took a look at the info.plist to see the executable files, after that I opened them with my notepad to use the UTF-8 Encoding, but here how does things look like in both files-in the opening of both of the files I see english words that are expressing directories: Sample of file 1: Sample of file 2:
Is there anyway to activate the Show Library Folder option from the command line? I know that I can unhide it with the command chflags nohidden ~/Library', but for several reasons I would prefer a defaults command.
I have an NFS export on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I can mount it just fine from the command line in Yosemite:
When importing video files into iTunes (through either File > Add to Library, drag and drop, or the automatic import folder), is there a way to show errors or a log explaining why a file was not imported? When using the automatic import folder, the rejected file is moved into the Not Added folder, but iTunes doesn't give any reason why the file was rejected. Is there a way to enable logging in iTunes to show what went wrong (e.g. wrong audio codec)?
Apple Pay commission fee is much lower than 30% for In-App purchase. It seems it is more worth to use Apple Pay.
On my previous installation, I had a small tool that took text from e.g. a web form after pressing e.g. ⌘ + E, pasted it in the editor of my choice where I would edit it. After saving, it was pasted back to the original place. The app was on the App Store in its early days, later pulled and still available from GitHub. I can't remember its name, can you? Thanks.
In Linux machines, there is a command called taskset, which can be used to do the processor affinity. In mac(from mavericks) are there any commands to the same job like taskset? Else how one can achieve processor affinity on mac? Thanks in advance.
I am running 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and have about 12GB available on my hard drive with 2.2/2.4 GHz. I have noted that performance has been getting slow (esp. on startup) and was wondering if there are any obvious ways to improve performance?
I need an application, which will: Activate Parallels Desktop While holding Opt, select 'Actions > Suspend' Activate SmartSleep Minimize SmartSleep Click 'Hibernate' of menu item 'QuickSleep' of menu After resuming the Mac, resume vm also. Here is my try:
If you force integrated graphics in GfxCardStatus, Mac OS X (up to Yosemite at least) doesn't allow you to use multiple monitors (even though the built in Iris Pro can do it). If I disable the discrete GPU from EFI, will macOS think that the integrated GPU is the one installed and will it let me use multiple monitors with it? If you force integrated graphics in GfxCardStatus, Mac OS X (up to Yosemite at least) doesn't allow you to use multiple monitors (even though the built in Iris Pro can do it). If I disable the discrete GPU from EFI, will macOS think that the integrated GPU is the one installed and will it let me use multiple monitors with it?
In Safari on my iPad, I want to find all the questions I have visited recently on Ask Different. I type apple.st. Safari suggests me some pages. In Bookmarks and history, Safari gives me at most 5 results. How can I have all the results ?
If I recheck the iTunes store, it still shows as unsubscribed. Why? Why? Why?
I remember I have used a Windows proxy testing software a long time ago. The software allows me to input say 100 proxy at a time, and I could set a destination url (for example, Google.com or Facebook.com/messages/) and then test how many proxies in the list can visit the destination url (and at what speed). I am wondering if there is a similar application on OSX can do the similar thing. Thanks!
My iPad is telling me that my card is invalid and I've used it before. When I go to the payment method my security number is gone from the info. When I input the number it says my payment method isn't valid. I don't know what I need to do. My card works and I've used it before. Why can't I use it now?
I have an iOS developer account and I would like to test 2 apps with the new Apple TestFlight service. Is the 1000 limit for external testers per app or per developer account?
Does anyone have the default SArtFile.bin (path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SArtFile.bin) for Mavericks 10.9.5? I was tinkering around with the file listed above but forgot to back it up. Does anyone know how I can restore the file to its original form so I can undo my changes, or how to restore default system files?
I am on Mac OS Lion and wants to prevent users from creating sub directories inside a folder but at the same time users should be able to add files to the same directory The following command does not allow user to add files to the folder chmod +a "user allow add_file" test What should I do to allow users to add files and not sub directories? here are links to Screen Shot 1 Screen Shot 2
Does anybody know how to prevent filename and username to be revealed when printing to a network printer? I would like to hide that information by default, specially the filename since it might reveal a lot of information. (Im using Yosemite although I doubt that matters at all)
I'm thinking that a possible course of action would be to (1) backup, (2) restore to factory settings, (3) login to GameCenter and create a new village, (4) restore from backup. This should work but it's a bit involved. Anything easier?
So I have this script that I saved as an application and added it my login items. However when I login I get an error dialog with this message "Connection is invalid. Finder got an error: Connection is invalid. (-609)"
How can I uninstall the FTDIUSBSerialDriver and FTDIUSBSerialDriverInstaller from my MacBook Air with Yosemite? They are shown in System Information → Software → Installations. The files are highlighted in blue below:
How do I transfer MKV file from Windows PC to iPad Mini? I have installed iTunes on Windows PC but I can't any option to transfer file.
Is it some sort of chrome malfunction? - The process seems inactive, it has "*=URL=* ..." as the name, with a lego-like plugin icon, a default icon I suspect it might have been an orphaned chrome-flash process, yet I haven't visited imore.com, which makes the situation very suspicious (It's using 145MB Ram, it seems to be inactive with no disk/network/cpu operations)
If I paste multiline chunks of text into iTerm2, I always a get mess of output. It seems limited to only some programs running interactively (such as Bash, IRB - Python / VIM work flawlessly). Using Apple's native Terminal, I can paste whatever I want wherever I want - it works. For example, this sample text (full text on pastie.org): pasted into IRB produces this in iTerm2:
Is there a way to record multiple midi inputs to separate tracks simultaneously using garageband? I'm holding an interview tomorrow and want a microphone for the subject and myself. I need to separately edit the tracks.
When I boot up my Macbook Air (circa Sept 2013, running Mountain Lion), I get a folder with a "?", indicating the SSD is not visible. This started when I tried installing an Office upgrade, and powered off the laptop midway because it appeared like it froze :(
I use Mail.app and iOS Mail to access 3 different gmail accounts. Currently I have all of my mail in folders "on my mac", but I'd like to be able to access them from my mobile devices (iphone, ipad) or when logging onto email from another computer (using the webapp). When I drag and drop folders into my gmail accounts (as per this answer), the nesting/sublabels/heirarchy is lost. How can I migrate preserving the proper structure? My Folders looks something like: and the new gmail labels look like:
I am getting weird time in my click (attached is the screenshot)  And it's not letting me change my time and giving me error "Could Not load Date & Time preference pane"
I recorded a slow motion video on my iPhone and I can play it back on my phone just fine (with the slow-motion effect), but when I text the video to someone who has an Android phone, they don't see the slow-motion effect. Do I need to purchase another application to send a slow motion video to a non-iOS user or sharing slow-mo videos with the slow-mo effect supported out of the box with iPhone 6 (running iOS 8)?
I have video of my son's sports games. During each game, when he makes a good play, I note the elapsed time (like 3:17, or 3 minutes 17 seconds in).
I have a slot on the left-hand side of my MacBook Pro (late 2007, NOT a unibody) and am wondering: is this slot suited for an SSD that I can simply stick in? Or would I have to install an SSD internally?
My external drive recently died, and my local backup failed (a string of bad bad luck). Good thing I have offsite backup, done with one of those cloud backup companies (backblaze).
Today when I set up my Keynote presentation, the "presenter view" appeared on the audience screen and the audience view appeared on my MacBookPro. The MacBook is a brand new computer and the Keynote is ver. 6.5.2 (2119) I have used this same computer, Keynote and projector for the past 4 months and never had this problem. I tried disconnecting the computer from the projector and restarting Keynote. No difference. I disconnected the computer from the projector and restarted the computer with the projector connected. No difference. I looked in preferences but did not find anything helpful in the display settings. I'm obviously missing something. Has anyone had a similar experience?
So I used to use CCC to clone my external drive to another external drive for a backup copy. What I realized is that I want incremental backup that is versioned. So I can go back to a copy that is on a specific date in the past. I don't want to use time machine for this because right now TM is already being used to backup my main drive to a time capsule. As far as I know, I can't setup TM to backup my main drive to time capsule while choosing to backup an external drive to another location. I guess I'm looking for 3rd party solution here?
This might seem like a simple question but what is the downloads folder on an iOS device? Is it OK to remove the contents of it?
So how can I save my file on the disk. Any method to copy the file to another disk or repair the mobile disk?
I generated ssh keys (public and private) and stored them in ~/.ssh/myServer/. I added the public key to the server's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and everything works great! In my effort to try and understand how the keys work I deleted them and was surprised to find that I was still able to connect to the server. Why is it that I am still able to connect without a password?
My Mid 2014 Retina MacBook Pro is connected to two Dell external monitors (U2713HM) via lightening-to-displayport cable Some day my MBP and the two monitors can momentarily turn off and then turn back on. These error messages appear a lot in the console log:
My iPhone 4s has suddenly deleted all photos that were in my messages. Instead I see a blank space with what seems to be a file number which is underneath a question mark.
I have some weirdness on my mac's filesystem nowadays. I have a dir in my home dev to store my programs and git repos. Size of the dev is 630 MB. Size of the dev/todos is 637 MB and there a re some other sub dirs in this dev of 175MB and so.
I am using a MacMini runing OS/X for some work, and I'm n00b to OS/X - and I often leave a USB drive plugged in when I switch off at night. However, when I re-start, the drive is not detected and needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. Is there a way to force the Mac to re-detect the drive?
The other day I looked at my Lock Screen and to my surprise there was a calendar looking icon on the bottom left. I thought it was kind of odd since I've never seen anything in the bottom left. So I tapped it and sure enough my calendar came up.
I would like to be able to print emails without including the default email headers (from, to, title, date) from Apple’s Mail application. It looks like I am not the only one who wants this as the question has been asked numerous times on the Apple Support Communities.
I live in a country which has few registered Apple Maps addresses. All that i want is to store GPS coordinates in contacts to use those at the Reminders app. I came from diverse forums like this and this but it seems that there isn't a final answer to this issue. This is what i tried so far.
On OS X Yosemite, I can't rearrange my dock icons. I click one, and drag, but it just stays in place and stops highlighting. Here's a demonstration
I have a problem which requires I regularly restart my iMac, up to several times a day, to get devices recognized. When I re-connect a device, iPhone, iPad or iPod, I regularly get the message:
When somebody calls my iPhone it rings on my Mac Yosemite, too - which is great! But i would love to only have the visual hint and a silent ringtone!
I logged as a guest before. But now I need to change user. Where I can change login data to connect to nfs as another user?
Since a month or two, I started seeing an X11 icon in my dock. Killing it does not kill any other app. Is there any way to see what process launches this app?
I'm using smart playlist synchronization to store just that segment of music on my iPad that I like to listen to often. However, since the update to 8 or 8.1 or thereabouts, for some reason the synchronization silently fails on a number of songs, primarily mp3s that were not purchased via ITMS or created by using iTunes to rip a CD. According to iTunes on my PC, the songs in question exist (and play correctly when I ask it to), and are in the playlist designated to sync to the iPad.
I tried installing Kali Linux in a separate partition on my MacBook, but after installation was completed, I was unable to boot back into Mac OS (displays a prohibited sign). I think everything went wrong when I let it install GRUB, which may be responsible for the messed up partition map.
My Macbook pro is Japanese with a Japanese keyboard. I want to get a wireless bluetooth keyboard, but I am currently living in the UK and cannot get a wireless Japanese keyboard here. If I bought a US wireless keyboard, would this work with my laptop?
What is the point of using commercial apps like Carbon Copy Cloner when disk utility can also clone your drives? This article here http://www.macworld.com/article/2461362/drive-cloning-utilities-the-best-mac-apps-for-making-a-bootable-backup.html
EDIT: Sometimes, this happens even without being connected to the monitor. The MacBook just goes into sleep mode, and begins beeping. Only a hard reset remediates the issue. Can someone provide me with a documented cause of this issue, and a fix?
I would like to know the exact difference between 'Steps', 'Flights Climbed' and 'Walking+Running Distance' on iOS8. While 'Flights Climbed' clearly refers to the number of flights of stairs climbed, how is it different from 'Steps', unless 'Steps' refers to the moving of the feet regardless of terrain, in which case it should be no different from 'Walking+Running Distance'. Therefore, it seems to me that there is a superfluous component, in either one of the three categories. (Note that I refer to the manual inputting of data into the app. I believe that third-party apps would have their own way of inputting data into the app.)
I'm really used to move editors caret with numpad. From it I can move to the end-beginning of a line, I can go page up & page down and of course move the caret in text editor up,down, left and right. Is there anyway to accomplish this on mac? Using the arrow keys to move is hell slow for me. Cheers.
I recently upgraded some gear and I am no longer using my Airport as a wireless host. Instead, I now have another device acting as the primary server for DHCP, Router, and WiFi.
I have submitted an app to the app store about a week ago. As far as I can tell, it wasn't reviewed yet.
I'm an external hard drive docking station: *=URL=* I'm currently using the USB2.0 cable that comes with it. I wonder if I could use Firewire or Thunderbolt or USB3.0 to speed up data transfer with it.
An app I submitted a while ago to testflight changed to "in review" a couple of days ago, and is still in review. Is this normal to be in review for this long?
I used to be a Windows Phone user and I loved the way the calendar (a today's agenda) is shown on the lock screen. So I was wondering if there's a way to see a days's events on the iPhone lock screen. It happens that I feel I am out of sync with day's events without having it on my lock screen.
The app store says that, when it does load, that it isn't connected to the internet. When I try to logout and back in, the app store crashes. What should I do?
I have got an iMac (EMC 2638) here, with 1TB hard drive. I have read that there is a PCIe SSD slot on those iMacs as well, originally for the fusion drive. Is it possible to upgrade my iMac with such a SSD module? I don't care if it would work as a fusion drive, or simply have it as the main drive for OS and programs.
Seemingly every single document that I created in the previous version of Pages (I update regularly whenever I see that a new update is available) on this same MacBook Pro with Yosemite will now not open with Pages after the latest update (5.5.2). I am still on Yosemite and nothing has changed aside from updating Pages, Numbers & Keynote.
The problem with using Disk Utility or dd if=/dev/zero to erase a disk is that: It applies unnecessary wear to SSD drives. It applies unnecessary wear to SSD drives.
I've got a working bootable mavericks thumb drive, but I haven't the installer from Mac App store... Can I upgrade from mountain lion to mavericks doing the installation from usb drive or must I do a clean install? Can I boot from usb drive and upgrade, or when I boot from usb I'm forced to format and do a clean installation?
I'm having the most frustrating problem with iCloud on one of my Macs. Firstly, the Mac (a late 2012 iMac) was working flawlessly with all iCloud services up until a few days ago. Now, I am able to login to iCloud in my OS X user account fine, but no messages are ever displayed, no continuity features work, Messages will not send (some users show as not being registered with iMessages, some the message simply fails to send, and if I text myself I see the iMessage on that Mac only), FaceTime tries to dial but never completes, etc. This happens on all user accounts with all iCloud accounts on this Mac, not just mine. The same iCloud account works fine on a different computer (MacBook Air) and an iPhone running newest version of iOS 8. I'm not at all sure if it's related, but I created a Mavericks VM in VMWare Fusion and signed in to iMessages on that VM on the iMac just before the time it started having issues, which worked and continues to work fine (the VM running on the "broken" iMac)
I use MacPorts to manage certain *nix packages on my Mac. One such Mac has multiple Python versions installed. When I switch between Python versions, I use a command like: to set the default python to the Python 2.7 that my Mac shipped with from Apple, as described here. However, MacPort's select command doesn't change any of the utilities that use python, such as easy_install. This means that regardless of which Python is active, the supporting utilities are always the system default ones: Notice that installing a Python version with MacPorts brings along its easy_install command, but switching to that python using port select --set python27 does not also set /opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.7. This leads to confusing errors where the wrong version of Python was used to install packages. Thus, my question: How can I instruct MacPorts to make appropriate symlinks for Python's additional utilities, not just the single python command?
When I get a new text, it appears both in the Messages app on my iPhone and in the Messages app on my Mac. The iPhone text show the person's name, and the Mac text only shows the person's number. I have Contacts checked under iCloud sync. Both OSes are latest.
I have an essential PPC OS X app. I want to use Leopard (10.5) in a Virtual Machine (Fusion). I have the ISO but when I attempt to install, it says that its not supported. Any workaround to this?
I'm experiencing an issue sending out email using Mail.app on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C94b). ... shortly after hitting "Send message" button, I'm receiving following error: I have NO problem sending out email from my iPhone 6, using same settings and from same network and I am able to connect to remote smtp server via Terminal.app as well. I rechecked my username, password and the rest of the settings MULTIPLE times and not really sure what else to do... Any ideas?
I've just upgraded my Macbook Pro (15 inch, mid 2009) to OS X Yosemite and it is running slowly and my Finder is not responding at all and none of my documents are on my Desktop. I have tried taking off the transparency and nothing worked. I am not even able to access ⌘ CMD+r to reboot my system. I just went into Terminal and used the:
I have recently bought a new Mac which contains Yosemite. Unfortunately i have problems with some of the programs I'm trying to run so i want to downgrade back to mavericks. i have constructed a USB flash drive that consists of Mavericks, however every time i select to boot from the Mavericks install USB a circle with a line through it appears on the screen. is there ways past this?
How to view Export Mailbox status in Mail App? I am trying to archive my mails: I created a Smart Mailbox, which includes the mails received in last year, then right click Export Mailbox to a .mbox file.
I recently started getting performance issues with my MBP while running apps like Xcode and Eclipse. A quick diagnostic of the system showed that it thrashed over 458k times. I just ordered a SSD to replace the HDD, will this help solve the problem, and also how do I get OSX back onto the computer if I replace the HDD and the new SSD is empty?
I have a feeling that I may have toggled some settings, but I can't find it anymore. Basically I am trying to monitor requests sent from my webapp. The usual method is Inpect Element -> Timelines -> Network Requests, where Safari gives me a graph and a list of all the requests made. Now I can see the graph, but I can't see the list of the requests made. Here's a screenshot illustrating where I'd like to see the requests:
I installed an App called cocktail and disabled spotlight. But now the Application does not start and it gives an error of some sort. I deleted the App and I do not have Spotlight anymore.
I just got iPhone 6 last month and since yesterday afternoon I encountered a couple seconds where the phone is irresponsive and I had to restart to make it normal again. After that I couldn't make any call, either a normal phone call or from wifi, it said Call failed, or no sound. I tried everything: Skype, Facetime. There was one time I managed to make the call (after restarting) but the person could not hear my voice. I opened Voice Memo to check if the microphone is working well but record button is disabled (greyed).
On yosemite. I want to install octave: but hdf5 can not be found. So I went to try to insstall hdf5 directly:
In order to avoid some non wanted modifications or corruption of pictures files, one possibility is to change the permissions of the files (in ~/Pictures). Do you think that this idea is a good one? And which permissions? 644 on files and 755 on directories?
As long as Chrome just was 32 bit, the Java plugin was not supported since Java for Mac OS X is 64 bit but now when Chrome (since version 39) is 64 bit, how do I install/enable the Java plugin? Googling just returns old results such as *=URL=* (that refers to this blog post *=URL=* *=URL=* (talking about Java 7, I have Java 8).
Every single page I go to, the Timelines->NetworkRequests tab shows lots of requests and their timing (top half of the pane), but the bottom half is empty, making it impossible for me to see what requests were made. I know this is something simple I am overlooking, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out what it is. Here is an image from loading Wikipedia:
Powerpoint has a file open that I simply can't close. If I try to, I get a white screen - and the Powerpoint Title Line - but I cannot switch windows to a different pptx. I've tried saving it with a different name, closing and reopening Powerpoint, etc. - but when I do re-open the application, there is the wretched file.
How can I make FaceTime appear in the iOS with an iPhone bought in UAE and used in another country?
is there a way to use Logitech Anywhere MX's back/forward button on OSX Finder? I can use these buttons on Chrome or any other browsers succesfully, but cannot find a way to do so on Finder?
I'm using an Elgato Thunderbolt 2 Dock which has a second Thunderbolt port and a seperate HDMI port. I have an HDMI display connected to the HDMI port and a LaCie HDD connected to the second thunderbolt port. On that LaCie HDD there is an LG ULTRAWIDE connected via MiniDisplayPort to DisplayPort.
How do I disable Wi-Fi and bluetooth on my supervised devices using Apple Configurator? I see options for deploying SSID setup uniformly but not the ability to disable. We're attempting to use iPads with pre-loaded references in the classroom so we don't want the student to be able to get onto the internet or connect to any bluetooth devices.
Can we install Oracle 12c Database without using any Virtual Machine ? Currently I have installed it in VMWare Fusion but it is consuming a lot of power.
I have an Apple wired keyboard and a wireless Microsoft keyboard. I have been working with the Apple keyboard for a couple of months. Today I started my iMac and it didn't recognise the keyboard, I plugged the Microsoft keyboard (I worked with it for a year before I had the Apple keyboard) which works via USB (but wireless) and the iMac did not recognise it either. I tried the SMC reset, as shown here but it didn't work.
However, my Apple TV has not automatically updated the channel. I did get the other channels which came out around the same time as this YouTube update. I've tried rebooting the Apple TV (soft and hard) as well as checking System > General > Software Updates, but no luck.
I'm having system-wide random crashes when trying to record computer screen and audio using Screenflow 5.0 Computer MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris 1536 MB OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) I did the online Apple Hardware Test and everything looks ok. Any leads? Here's a crash log:
My Desktop Mac is about four years old. I don't remember the original OS but it has been upgraded to Yosemite. At the time of purchase / original setup I don't remember what user accounts I set up. It may have been my name only Simon xxxx or it may have been my wife only Lesleyxxxx or both. I seem to remember setting up a guest account. At some point early on I imported lesley's iTunes. After a year or so of being totally confused about who's iTunes was doing what and who's mac it was "lesley's Mac" / "Simons Mac" I decided to delete her user account & iTunes. I was then either left with "guest" and Simon xxxx or "guest" and created "Simon xxxx" making simon the administrator. The problem or rather annoyance I now have is the name lesleyxxxx appears randomly from time to time. For example I have just set up an airport extreme & Mac TV both seem to be called "lesley's". In my user groups the only users appearing are guest and Simon xxxx. However, on opening the Terminal the first two li
I created an app for iOS for a company and I want to distribute this app ad hoc over the air. In iOS 7 and greater, I need an https site to install this app. I created my own certificate locally and I must install my cert file via email or a direct link on iPhone to Trust this certificate and then I can install my app. I want to know: if I buy an SSL certificate from legal seller like godaddy or geocerts and set it to my own website, do I need install a cert file on the iPhone or not? My company's site is offline and not connected to internet.
I had my iPhone 4 stolen a couple of years ago I thought recently to check I cloud find my phone to see if anything has changed as in come online. It hasn't . when it happened I went into icloud find my phone. It immediately said offline so I clicked lost mode. With failure of anything happening I clicked erase . it said erase will happen when iPhone comes back online. But it has never been back online.it had a 4,digit lock on it. When it was stolen i rang it and then it was switched off. I'm just wondering if find my phone was off will a erase of all my photos info texts etc be erased if it ever comes back online? And what could the thief of done to stop it from coming online and a working phone?
Does anybody know of any non-USB chargers for iPhone (lightning connector)? I need a charger that can only plug into an AC outlet and not have any type of USB connector.
What am I missing? I've verified that all the outputs on my laptop work, all the inputs on the monitor work, and all the cables work. I'm out of ideas (and also curious to see what other people think). Just to cover a few bases, I tried holding the cable at different angles, I tried leaving the monitor off (in case the gremlins inside can be killed with a lack of electricity), and the monitor was working on Friday Jan 2 (then I was gone all week last week, and it started being picky yesterday morning).
I have MacBook Pro Late 2008 version. Recently I updated my OS to Yosemite 10.10.1. Ever since I've installed it I've been experiencing problems. The screen would freeze and nothing except the trackpad works. Actually the mouse pointer turns into the circle with rainbow colors and you can just move it, but you can't click on anything. After a minute or so everything turns back to normal and everything works fine. This was happening once per week or so and I was OK with it.
Older versions of Safari/iOS remembered the last used PDF viewer, or at least displayed my preferred one automatically e.g. at the top in the PDF preview of safari, 'Open in PDFExpert or so. With the introduction of iBooks -- which is lacking annotation, dropbox, and other crucial features for working with scientific articles etc. -- the default has become the annoying self-promotional 'Open in iBooks' with apparently no way to change it to something useful.
I recently bought the 13"Macbook Pro retina (mid 2014). When I try to shut the laptop down, it doesn't work. I tried by manually closing all open applications but nothing happens when I press Apple Menu > Shutdown. I also tried by pressing control+option+cmd+off but same results.
I have a latest 13 inch MBP retina, running 10.10. I am wondering, is there a way to run the machine with the lids closed WITHOUT an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse? We are using the machine as a server in a confined space, and would like to keep the machine closed, but still running. Thanks
I have a 2009 Mac with a new blank SSD. I have a Snow Leopard install disk but it doesn't work (it was a replacement installer disk and has never worked), so I don't have a working OS X install. I do have a Windows 7 machine.
I've looked and looked and don't see one. Do they just not exist?
I've tried rebooting my ipad and waiting a few hours and trying again. Still no luck. I have a strong wifi connection and get to the internet just fine. I've tried resetting network connections via Settings, General .. no luck. I've all tried resetting "all settings", with no luck. It seems icloud can see the ipad just fine, and I can send a lost signal to it.
I have an iPad connected to an HDTV using the [Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter] (*=URL=* When the iPad is on everything works nominally: the iPad screen is mirrored to the TV.
I'm in a very frustrating situation. About a year ago I acquired a white Macbook (model A1181, 2007 version) running OS X Lion. I was using it happily until last week, when my hard drive suddenly failed. I installed a new drive into it, and got it going again, though I had to start from scratch. A lot of my stuff is saved in Google Drive, so for the most part I was ok, but one really annoying thing is that iPhoto was no longer on my computer, which I use quite a bit. I went to the App Store to re-download it, but it said you need OS X 10.10 to download iPhoto. And my computer doesn't support any OS past 10.7. So I'm kind of stuck. I don't know what to do, but I need iPhoto. It seems ridiculous to get a whole new computer for just a single app, and one that I had before my hard drive failed! Is there any place I can download an older version of iPhoto?
I want to be able to play my own videos out of iTunes 12 to an external monitor (HDMI) and keep the iTunes interface on my laptop screen.
Now it is requesting to connect to iTunes but this iPad was never synced with the iTunes. I know i can restore to factory settings but I don't want to lose everything.
On two separate MacBook Pros (one brand new, one several years old) running OSX Yosemite, all bluetooth audio devices are choppy (audio clicks in and out, skips like a scratched CD). I have tried playing audio through Spotify, iTunes, YouTube with Beats Studio wireless headphones and a Big Jambox on both, in separate environments. Sometimes the sound is perfect and clear. Then it suddenly becomes choppy. I've looked at Activity Monitor during choppy times, and nothing seems different from normal. For the record, using the same Wifi and devices, iOS8 iPhone 6 and 5S both do not have this issue. I'm curious how to even begin to troubleshoot the issue - It's hard to troubleshoot as there's no way of knowing if it's interference, app performance, etc.
Can I load the songs/games I purchased using my Itunes account to my husband's iPad? My iPad is not working.
I get a dialog with answer choices "Always allow | Deny | Allow" and text of Safari Security wants to use your confidential information stored in "Safari Extensions List" in your keychain. What is the purpose of the question? I need a little help in understanding the source of the question and its intended purpose
I updated to Maverick and found that CALENDAR no longer could integrate "To Do" Items with events. Will Yosemite have this needed capabiity?
I need to repeatedly capture a fixed region from each of a sequence of web pages to a series of images that I can then compile to a PDF. Ideally I could just navigate from page to page and press a hot key to capture the area and save the image to an automatically incremented filename each time. What I want to stop doing is manually defining the region each time (it's irritating and when I drag to create the region it's even more irritating to try to get the exact pixel dimensions correct), which seems to be the only option with Skitch and others I have tried. What software will allow me to do this most efficiently?
I'm planning on upgrading to Yosemite from Mavericks on a Mid-2010 MBP 15" with a Samsung 840 PRO drive as the primary drive. I have TRIM disabled! The process I want to use is as follows so I'm just looking for a validation please!
(Before anyone advises about not bouncing spam – I don't need this for spam, or at least typical spam. I need this because of having been added to some "BCC" mailing lists which it would be politically awkward for me to request removal from – such is my digital life. . .)
I would like to delete one of my custom templates I made in Numbers - in previous OS versions you went to Library>iWork>Numbers>Templates and just trash it - but, since I updated to Yosemite - I only see Keynote in the iWork Library folder? No Numbers? Any ideas? Thank you.
Are there any tools that integrate OpenPGP/GnuPG with the mail reader on iOS I've heard that iPGMail and oPenGP, probably SecuMail too, all require that you copy & paste an encrypted email into the application, which sounds obnoxious. Any of these tools managed to actually integrate with iOS's mail reader the way GPGTools does on OS X yet? Yes, I'm aware Apple's Mail readers support S/MIME, but that's less secure in practice.
I am on iphone 6+ and ios 8.1.2.I keep getting the following error Incorrect Wi-FI password message for Wi-Fi networks that do not exist . I am not sure why is my phone trying to access these networks if they do not exist of the wifi list and why am I getting this error.
I originally created an Apple ID for use on the App Store in iTunes. When Apple introduced iCloud my Apple ID ended up being used. I recently creating a new iCloud ID for my personal use, retaining the original for Family Purchases. I just realised that I have lost all my Notes, although these are still on the web in the original iCloud account.
When I backup using time machine to my Time Capsule, does this use network bandwidth? I'm uncertain as I could see it creating some sort of ad-hoc network between the computer and the disc to do the back up but I'm completely unsure. Just don't want to be backing up hundreds of gigabytes over a network connection
I turned Internet Sharing back on, no security. Now any Wi-Fi client sees my network is set with no security: iPhone doesn't show padlock. But the client asks for a password.
I have been trying for months to log into my iTunes account on my iPad but my usual choices of passwords are not working. When choosing "forgot my password" it wants to email me at an old Verizon.net address that has been long disabled. Before arriving at the security questions it prompts me for my birthdate, of which it too says is invalid...I'm at a loss. I know my birthdate is correct but I am stuck. Is there any way to find out the password when the email it is tied to is long gone? I even attempted to start over by creating an entirely new Apple account but I can't reset my iPad without the old password. Aargh! Please help
Suddenly my wired Apple Keyboard isn't working anymore. My MacBook don't recognize the external keyboard, and the keyboard is only two weeks old. Is the Keyboard physically broken, or is it a software issue? What can I do to fix it?
Xcode 5.1.1 and Xcode 6.1 crash on create new Project /File/Workspace on Yosemite 10.10.2 I'm running xcode 6.1 and 5.1.1 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. I'm unable to create a new project, as you can see bellow it just says 'loading' Please suggest to fix this issue process: Xcode [2792] Path: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode Identifier: com.apple.dt.Xcode Version: 5.1.1 (5085) Build Info: IDEFrameworks-5085000000000000~10 Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
On Mountain Lion, when I launch Chess, it automatically launches Game Center as well, asking me to sign in with my Apple ID. Can I play chess without doing that?
I have been trying to transfer music from my friends iPhone to my laptop but I can't seem to do it. Is there any way to transfer the music from his phone to my iTunes?
I am using a 13-inch mid 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display. It is about 3 weeks old and already has clocked 13 charge cycles. Is this too high ?
Late 2008 Macbook aluminium, OS X 10.10.1; I've got a 3g USB modem (Olivetti Olicard 300) which I use to connect to the web. As soon as I disconnect it from the USB connector my mac restarts (kernel panic). I had some other 3g USB modems before this one, but I unistalled all their relative applications after I saw this problem with this one. I've tried to call the customer service of the manufacturer and they told me they are going to release some updated of their drivers for Yosemite (they told me this like 5 months ago and they haven't released anything yet). Strange thing is that my sister has a macbook pro (10.10.1) and she doesn't face my problem with the same USB modem.
How can I make Pages to auto-correct my text at the end of the line and break the last word to fill all the line like LaTex does. I have Hyphenation check but when I writing greek it doesn't working... For example: Once in a while we all need some kind of document, it may be a busi- ness plan presentation....(continue)
I am getting a customised MacBook Pro Retina and it will have a AC Cord for Britain, but I need one for EU/Germany. So can I easily switch the AC Cord of my MagSafe 2 to a German one? Are these Cords somehow patented or normed, so I can use every cord on any adapter?
When I am at work, I mount a number of shared drives to use during the day. At home, I mount drives on my home network for home use. Is there a way that I can automatically mount the correct drives based on the network I am connected to? Ideally I would do this based on IP address, as I connect via Ethernet cable at work.
I am in need of an iPhone app that will count down or up from a particular number for a visually impaired individual. For example if 60 is entered a voice would say 60,59,58,57 and etc. Does something like this exist for an iPhone 6?
I need to make room on my phone and while searching for things to delete I found that ICloud sharing and my photo stream take up much more space than I'd like them too, so I was wondering if I turn them off will it delete all the photos from camara roll?
I have MacBook Air MD232. As we need to test our software on all OS X from 10.7 to 10.10, we need to install them all. Is it possible to install them on my MBA? When I buy, this MBA has been installed with Yosemite. I tried to install any other OSs by using "restore" feature from Disk Utility. However, restoring process were successful and pressing alt/option during restart, I get only gray screen with a stop sign and nothing happen afterwards. Would you please tell me how?
We have a few Mac's that choke on folders that have a lot of .TIFF files in them. The quicklookd process, and Quicklook Helper processes skyrocket in RAM and CPU usage.
When running ncurses-based tools like elinks, PuTTY (for Windows) allows you to click on links. However, in Terminal, you need to navigate via keyboard.
I have a 16gb USB pendrive that I want to partition to be able to use it as a Window 7 and Mac OSX install drive (probably using a bootloader?!?) I want to be able to use it on our Macs and PCs as a single all-singing all-dancing install drive.
While looking at Activity Monitor processes, I noticed a process whose name started with "*=URL=* Shortly after observing and screenshoting the process disappeared. This morning, it briefly re-appeared and then died. lsof and dtracte indicate the process is looking at standard system libraries, one of which is /private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages. Any ideas on: Whether this is a normal process?
I was under the impression that the iPhone 4S recorded video at 1080p by default (using the native camera app). But when I send a video to myself via email and look at the video properties it is 568 x 320 pixels resolution. I wonder if this has to do with some compression given that it is being "shared" by email. In that case, how do I extract the video without losing its pixel resolution? Using iOS 7.
I've seen this divided dock twice in Yosemite, but I can't find any documentation on it, and don't understand what it's supposed to represent, nor which conditions cause it to occur. When I click on the leftmost item, it takes me to that application, the division disappears, and I cannot reproduce the conditions which made it appear in the first place. Can anyone explain this behavior please? And what does the mini monitor icon represent in the upper right hand corner of the (in this case) safari icon represent?
I'm using Gmail on my iPhone 6 (IOS 9.1). When I archive some messages (by swiping left on the message in the Mail.app), they disappear from my Inbox, then get added right back a second or two later. This has been going on since IOS 8.1 and still isn't working right since upgrading to IOS 9.1 I figured it would have been fixed, but it's not.
I am trying to put the two different Eclipses into the Launchpad at the same time. But it turns out that Launchpad only show one of them no matter what I did. What I have done: Download the two Eclipses Extract them Rename the dir for Eclipse JEE to be eclipse.jee and Eclipse CPP to be eclipse.cpp Move the two dirs to /Applications Change the Eclipse.app to Eclipse.jee.app for JEE and Eclipse.cpp.app for CPP In my case, I do see the Eclipse.jee shows up in the Launchpad, but no Eclipse.cpp. What I have tried:
With a Macbook Pro Retina running OS X 10.10 and Boot Camp Windows 7, my Mac HD is encrypted with FileVault 2 and the Boot Camp partition is unencrypted. Does this weaken the security of the Mac HD partition?
My husband now has my ipad but it has my itunes account on it instead of his, how do we change it to his account?
I would like to run linux as the primary operating system on my MacBook Pro to replace the OS X that was pre-installed with the MacBook. I would then like to run OS X inside a virtualbox guest running on the MacBook. Is this configuration legal from a licensing perspective?
I'm helping a friend with his MacBook. The problem is that his MacBook is kind of slow. He has 2 GB of RAM. I'm not familiar with Apple things at all, so I tried to see RAM usage with the activity monitor. It shows that he has about 30 MB of ram free on his 2 GB of total RAM space. This wasn't a new MacBook, so he never "formatted" it (I know we don't format a Mac, but you can reset it to factory default). Can you point me in some direction to troubleshot this slow MacBook?
If the push service at an email server (like Office 365 for instance) fails or is not available for some reason, and you have your email settings set to Fetch Schedule manual, you will not get emails notifications; correct?
Is it possible to open a file from the Dock using a non-default app? For example, I prefer most .pdf files to open in Preview (thus it is my default), but some need to be opened in Adobe Reader. Is there a key combination shortcut (for example) to bring up the "Open With" list when opening the file from the Dock? I would prefer not to have to go to the folder in Finder...
When opening multiple .jpg files (or other format) I can use the "Move to Trash" on all but the last one standing? Here is a example of two images, and if I select one then the Move to Trash works.
After exiting out of the Windows installer, I booted up my Mac again only see the Windows partition as an option. When I go into recovery mode, I see the partition still there, but I cant really interact with it. Does anyone know what I need to do to make my OSX partition bootable again? I went into DU(Recovery Mode) and tried mounting through DU but nothing happens.
I wonder if anyone on this amazing site can help. I have an iphone (have had for years). Recently it went automatically to 'blue' imessages as default. This caused problems as it requires me or the receiver to be in wifi range for messages to be delivered, so I disabled it on my phone. So now all my messages sent are GREEN sms messages via the mobile telephony system (i.e. normal). These are free to me as included in my monthly contract.
I have had this happen many times in the past few months. I spend quite a bit of time downloading all the episodes of a podcast so I can listen to them in my own time. Then when I refresh my podcast list to download my daily podcasts all of a sudden it will refresh and all my downloaded podcasts will disappear! It's very frustrating. Is there a way to get back the episodes I've "lost" and how can I stop it from happening again?
I tried to download and install the Facebook app on a first generation iPad and I get popup saying: "this application requires iOS 7.0 or later". How do I get this app on to my iPad?
My machine is a late 2012 rMBP which happily powers two displays at home and two different displays at my office in what is essentially the same arrangement. My laptop is on the right with the two additional displays to the left. I consistently plug the same monitors into the same ports.
Basically what the title says; when I'm redeeming a code in the AppStore, there's no option for me to authenticate via TouchID, it always asks me for my Apple ID password. Am I missing something?
Someone is trying to email me a Quicktime file from their Mac to my Windows PC. (This is audio for a presentation.) They swear that the file contains audio and video on their end, but when I get it, the file is only 14KB in size and plays as 25 seconds of blank screen and silent audio. The Properties in the QT player show that the file should be 67MB.
Is there anyone out there using a Synology DiskStation running Directory Server (their LDAP implementation) to provide authentication AND network homes for OSX? I've tried setting it up and have hit a roadblock with getting the OSX clients to automount the NFS export where the home folders reside on Synology. I would love to know if anyone out there is doing this and how they configured the clients to automount the homes.
I monitor all my traffic using Little Snitch. Recently, I've noticed strange IP addresses making connections to the "mach_kernel" process. Most of these IP addresses seem to originate from other programs (for example, I might see a Google address connected to mach_kernel when I'm browsing Gmail via my browser).
I deleted Music and Video from my Iphone 5, 8.1.2; But whenever I hook it up to the PC it still shows the deleted files as ghost datas under "On my device", furthermore Itunes says that my device has 6.05gb free space but my Iphone says 8.00gb free space. What is wrong with this? Thank you for the help.
I have Logic Pro 9.1.8. Can I update or upgrade this to Logic Pro X? If so, how, and is there any cost?
I have been waiting for a new version of Skype to come out but I am getting impatient. Skype one day just stopped launching. It will launch with these two windows and then crash with a segmentation error.
We have a problem about the FaceTime app and Parental Controls on our iPad Air. Even after we disabled the FaceTime app by Parental Controls, our iPad Air(Wi-Fi model) tries to connect to the FaceTime server (init.ess.apple.com). We see a lot of the same kind of packets going out to the Internet and our firewall drops them although we use our iPad Air only for internal services in our LAN. Apple technical support said that iPad Air should not try to connect to the FaceTime server with the FaceTime app disabled by Parent Control. Could you please let us know if you have any idea about this issue or have the same problem? Thank you,
I am trying to automate using Applescript uploading of files to a website. I have gotten to nearly the last step, but can't seem to get a Finder (file chooser) window to respond to scripts. Here is what the site looks like (i can't give you the actual site, because it is a secure medical record).
I am getting notice while adding my debit card that your payment method was declined app store. I used my Debit card because it has zero balance to add purpose only. But app store is saying that payment is declined. So it means Apple will charge without asking me? How much will Apple charge and Will that amount be refunded or not, if refunded after what time?
Can anyone suggest software for making Process Flow diagrams on Mac OS alike the ones available for Windows like Ansys?
I have created a user for my roommate on my mac. I gave her restricted access using Parental Controls. However, now I am testing out this user, I notice "Prevent the Dock from being modified" under the Apps tab of Parental Controls is checked and grayed out. I've been looking for a way to uncheck the box, but I think it might be an option that is fixed after you pick it when creating the user. Does anyone know about this?
So, I have run into a bug where iMessage syncs my normal SMS-messages with Messages on OS X. The problem is that the message doesn't want to get read. I click on the sender (automatic SMS from a computer notifying me of an email), the (1) disappears for a second and then returns. The message does NOT show up unread on my iPhone or iPad, I've tried the following: - Restarted Messages - Closed the conversation - Deleted the conversation But no luck.
The error appears when choosing the movies tab. I am noticing it in Popcorn-Time Version 0.3.5-4 (0.3.5-4), OS X 10.10.1. Also noticed that the movie thumbnails are not appearing.
I've got a Yamaha mixing panel which accepts my Mac's audio output via USB. Great. Now I would like to pipe the output of the mix back to the Mac's input, and have its speakers play the sound. Is this possible? At the moment, as soon as I select the Yamaha mixing panel as sound Output, the built-in speakers go grey, suggesting that they are not used.. but the setup I'm after needs them to be used, but in a very non-standard manner. If it's not possible, then I "just" need to hook the mixing panel to an amp and speakers, and I'm trying to avoid that.
I have 2 WiFi's (A and B). Whenever I connect to A, my Mac drops the connection to a certain websites and often loses connection to the WiFi. But when I connect to B, everything's fine. No disconnection and no "server dropped connection unexpectedly". This situation does not happen when I connect to the same websites with Windows. Why is this happening and what can I do to solve the problems when connecting to A? I tried restarting WiFi but it does not solve the problem.
When I start my MacBook Pro Retina, the resolution is the non-scaled option. But on my user account, I have selected the 1680x1050 scaled option. This means that when i login the resolution "jumps/flashes" from non scaled to scaled. Is there a way to make the login screen the same resolution or is there another solution?
All my contacts have disappeared from my iPhone 5. I have tried to delete end reinstall my exchange account but that did not help. Also I have tried resetting network settings and turning syncing contacts with iCloud off. My mail and calendar are syncing just fine. Solutions please?
When I connect to a Mac with Screen Sharing enabled, I get a screen which asks for the Mac's username and password which I need to type in before I can see the actual desktop. Is there any way to stop this so I do not need to login? Thanks
I'm a beginner at programming on mac os x. I am following this tutorial. And I have this program: What I am doing wrong, because I do not get the callbacks when I insert or remove any hid device in the USB port.
OS X Yosemite introduce few extensions like sharing extensions. With some defaults one like share with Apple Mail, iMessage, ... but today thoses extensions are missing for me. Is there's any knowed way, even with CLI to restaure them ?
I would like to ask if you encountered similar error, and what have you done to solve it. When I open multiple PDF files in Preview ( mainly text), and then search for some common substring like building, typing firstly b, then u, then i, then l, and usually preview crashes after typing 4-5 characters. I emphasize I have opened 10-13 pdfs,(one is max 2 pages long), and it crashes everytime when I try to search by aforementioned method. Has it happened to you and how did you solve it? I submited a bug report to apple anyway. EDIT: added code I tried to reinstall preview using this guide *=URL=* from fresh Yosemite installation, without any result, it still crashes. EDIT: Seems like this is not only related to text searching: preview crashing with yosemite and mavericks
My wife and I use the iCloud shared Family calendar for scheduling family events. I would like to be able to view this calendar from my work Outlook account. Is there some way to share the calendar with non-Apple calendar applications?
I have a basic PPTP VPN connection set up, but when I connect to it, my Mac immediately looses internet connection. Skype still routes and works, but internet connection dies.
I am working on completely resetting my macbook air. So far I did a 7x disk erase and reinstalled OS X. In addition I cleared the NVRAM and the SMC. Is there any other possible system settings I can reset besides cleaning the disk, reinstalling OS X, clearing the NVRAM, and clearing the SMC?
I hope that somebody here can suggest me a way to make the TAB key indent a text selection (i.e., could be multi-line and not just one line) in Xcode. In Xcode preferences, I set TAB as the shortcut for the "Shift right" function but it does not work: instead of indenting, it deletes the text. Thank you in advance for your help.
I have an app bundle on my desktop. I change its icon by changing the icon in its /Contents/Resources/ folder. This updates finder. However I am trying to update the dock. I have figured I can changed my main dock icon with setApplicationiconImage (Objective-C) but I am having difficulty setting the image of the miniaturized icon on the mini window please see graphic below. Apple docs say: here Cocoa applications can customize both the application's Dock Icon and a minimized window’s Dock icon. So I know it's possible to set the minimized windows dock icon.
An iPhone has a dead battery. While off, an iMessage was sent at 3:45pm. The phone was recharged and turned back on at 5:00pm. Will the iMessage come through as being sent at 3:45pm or 5:00pm?
I know that there are voice commands for inserting a new line or inserting punctuation, but I was wondering if there's a voice command to send a text message once it has been dictated. I tried saying the word "send," but that didn't seem to work. Is this possible?
I've been using Yosemite happily since it was released, but yesterday all my icons disappeared. See the attached screenshots. My dock only shows the icon for the Finder, and within Finder itself none of the icons for applications or folders show up. The only thing that seems to work is thumbnail previews for things like Word documents, PDFs and image files.
On my IPhone, my ICal calendar displays only a monthly calendar. How do I switch it so I can see a weekly calendar? I have clicked on 'TODAY" ; CALENDARS; AND INBOX, and find no way to switch to a weekly display.
Testing netboot on a Macbook Pro 9,2 with Yosemite installed. Infoblox DHCP/DNS (Linux style) giving out IP address. Reservation for this Mac is set - Logging into OSX provides correct IP etc. I have a OSX Server with Netinstall running.
using Mac Pro first generation any type of graphics extension cable makes my cinema display have flickering green over the black ares of the screen if i connect directly to the cinema display the flickering green starts again none of these cable used to be a problem and i've tried a new cable since the problem started and this did not solve the problem if i repeatedly disconnect and reconnect the video cable what i see is that the problem is not there for 1 second (everything displays normally) and then the green flicker kicks in. and if try for 15 minutes i can sometimes lock in a good picture without the green which will persist at least until the next reboot
My iPod touch 5th generation has VoiceOver enabled and is not letting me into my home screen. Triple-pressing the home button doesn't work. How can I unlock my device?
I am going nuts trying to figure out how to fix this. When I use my Apple TV for Netflix, Youtube, NHL, etc it all works just fine. When I try to rent a movie from Apple (iTunes) it has a black screen, the message "Could Not Sign In" and an okay button and that is it.
Few hours ago I am trying to sort a table! I don't know where is this think but is so annoying that I can't find with ease this thing. I saw many articles saying that you have to go to Inspector, table tab and there is an option there, but this is the old version, I own the new one 5.5 and there is no such option. Do you know guys where is this thing?
I'm trying to keep an inventory of where each application in my Mac came from (context: I'm trying to be disciplined and install things only through the App Store, Homebrew or Caskroom). Apps that came from the App Store can be identified because their application bundle contains a _MASReceipt directory. Is there a similar trick to identify the built-in applications? One idea is to check if CFBundleIdentifier in Info.plist starts with com.apple. Any others?
I want to make small changes to the screenshots for my iOS app and have misplaced the original files that I uploaded to iTunes Connect. Was going to download them back to my computer, but the interface of iTunes Connect is acting up and only shows me the iPhone 6 screenshots, without any way to change to iPad and other phone sizes. That was also puzzling because it would also not allow me to upload any new screenshots for other screen sizes either :(. I found RMConnecter to help with the uploading process, but it still does not seem to have the ability to download existing screenshots.
I've just changed to a SSD and am trying to enable TRIM by following this guide - *=URL=* Everything executes fine but when I look in "System Information" TRIM support says no. Tried running the commands twice and nothing. I am on 10.9.5
I'm running OSX 10.10 Yosemite. When I try to shut it down, if I have an external drive connected the shutdown stalls on a black screen with the mouse pointer visible, and movable. This happens even if no applications are running when I shut down, so it doesn't appear to be the case that OSX can't unmount the external drive.
Since I started using custom keyboards on iOS (I'm using SwiftKey) I get an intermittent problem whereby Messages freezes. Also, other apps sometimes can't access the keyboard at all.
E.g. /desktop/a/b/c/file.txt and I want to move the text file to /desktop/x/y/z/ Thanks for any help!
I am looking for something to create .pkg files to use with System Image Utility. The old school PackageMaker that was included in Xcode Aux tools make be causing errors in Yosemite so I am wanting to test this with another tool. Goal: Create a .pkg that will contain Firefox, Chrome, other software to installing during the imaging process
I'd like to have signatures configured as part of my preferences in Apple Mail, but not have them auto-inserted whenever I create a new email. Is there a way to default to "None", but still have signatures associated with the account?
What i would like to do is be able to manually switch to the internal speakers even if something is plugged in to the headphone jack. Reason being my docking station has a connector plugged in but i do not have an speakers attached (nor do i want to attach them). I think the connector is adjustable/removable but i'd really rather not mess with that.
I've been building a Neural Network that analyzes large amounts of data (40G), and my iMac kills the process after it's been running for about a day. In the past, on Linux, I've created a large swap file to get around memory limitations. I see:
Some of my photos disappeared from iPhoto recently. I did not delete them or format the hard drive. I have been a mac user since 2003 and am fully aware of the mac os and how it stores files. However this issue is new to me I have searched all system folders and packaged contents of iPhotos but the folders are missing? and they are not in the trash can either. Its like there is no record of the photos ever being uploaded except for a blank event in iPhoto events where the photos were originally uploaded and I could view them. Not all photos are missing only the most recent upload. I do not have time machine backups, so can't use this method to recover files, as I have just purchased a new macbook pro and haven't got round to setting up time machine yet (I should have known better). I tried using a 3rd party data scan software package and the software can locate the missing photos! however it will charge me to recover these photos. I don't feel I should pay for a 3rd party solution, bec
I want to know how to get the new photo filters in the camera on my iPhone 4 because my friend has them on her iPhone 4s. How do I get them?
I want to create 2 iTunes libraries on my Windows 7 PC so that my wife and I can separate our music and more easily sync to different iPods. However, we also want to be able to share some of the music between the 2 libraries. First question: Is the current default iTunes library folder located at \Libraries\Music\iTunes? Question 2: If I allow iTunes to create duplicates of all the music from the original library in the new library, will I then have 2 physical copies of all music files on my hard drive?
Often (not always) I try to call my mother using FaceTime it calls totally the wrong person. The wrong person it calls, is always the same wrong person. How is this even possible?
My router is an Asus RT-AC68U, and the shared drive is a Bubba B3 (basically, a Debian based media server). This is frustrating, as I have to shut off 5 GHz on my router to do backups via Time Machine. Regardless of what protocol my MBP is using to connect, the laptop and the shared drive are on the same network, and in the same subnet. I can connect to the B3 via ssh, and I suppose I could just do a tar based, command line backup of my MBP and scp it over to the B3, but I'd really rather use Time Machine, as it does what it's supposed to do quite well. Any thoughts?
What is this symbol? On my iPhone 6, it's on the top by the Bluetooth symbol.phone with keyboard?
I just noticed that my camera light was on on my MacBook. I looked down at my dashboard and it said 9 users were on my FaceTime. I freaked and shut it down. Now is there anyway I can find out who was watching and how they turned it on?
If I purchase a brand new iPhone 5 and it has iOS 6.0, can I still upgrade to 6.1.4? I do NOT want iOS 7 or 8.
I have a Windows system and a Mac. When I create a file (e.g. a.cpp) in Windows (with vim), Google Drive creates a lots of files like a (1).cpp, a (2).cpp ... Some of them are delete by Google Drive after it creates them. Some are not. Why does Google Drive generate so many files?
I used to be able to disable it in iPhoto but now iPhoto is not part of the OS, I don't want to download iPhoto to just use it to disable itself and Image Capture. Any way to kill the auto pop out feature? Okay, got it finally.
How do I transfer my entire itunes library (including the specific music playlists) from my original iPad iOS 5.1 via wifi to my new Macbook air with Yosemite? The bulk of my music library is CD's that I have imported manually. I have authorized both computers in the iTunes account tab.
How to check owner of an Appstore application? And licences used for downloading it. My problem is the following:
I'm trying to create a calendar event and want to add a location for which there's no address. It's a run in the forest, and in the map application itself I can set the pin at the location I want (start area), but the address it tells is just the nearest. I want to have the location in the calendar to be the exact location, so I can find it in the forrest when I arrive. Is there I way to manually place the pin for the location in the calendar app?
The Yosemite upgrade completely hosed Mail—it just won't talk to the Exchange server anymore. "No problem," I think, "I'll just delete the account and start over as it's all on the server."
Is there a way to duplicate a Safari (Safari 7 for OS X) tab and carry its browsing history to the duplicate? Like, when I do Cmd-L, Cmd-Enter the copy has no history, as if I just pressed Cmd-T and pasted the URL of an existing tab. Any suggestions on how to implement such a feature in case none exists will also be highly appreciated.
In every single browser on every single OS (with a keyboard) I've used, backspace would go (history.)back to the previous visited page in that tab. For some reason this doesn't work for me on my new MacBook with OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 in Safari 8.0.2. Is this normal behaviour (seriously, why?) or can I somehow enable it? It does work in Chrome and Firefox on my MacBook.
It seems really hard to me to permanently delete all photos and videos from iPad. I tried different solutions, like: Transferring them using iPhoto and then deleting them by iPhoto Using iTunes to sync the photos from an empty folder on Mac
I am Robert and have been using macbook Pro for quite sometime. However the color display had been a problem from the time of purchase. I tried different ways to calibrate but to no avail. Finally tried Colorsync Utility option for repair and first aid. It indicated that the system has 4 bad profiles which the automatic first aid did not fix. The bad profiles are; Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/RedBlueYellow.icc Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/smokey.icc Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/TealMagenta.icc Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/TotalLinkPreview.icc I have been regularly updating the OS and now am on Yosemite... Could someone help me to set it right please.
I use my MacBook Pro on battery as much as possible, recharging when needed and once a month running it down to recalibrate etc. However, when the battery is charged to 100% I unplug the charger from the electricity supply and the MacBook from the charger, but I wonder is the latter precaution necessary? Is there any power exchange between MacBook and charger when the latter is unplugged? It's not too important but would save me some scrambling around under my desk.
Here's a list of docs with date stamps at the end of the filename. Some contained typos (which I'm about to fix) causing them to be one character longer than the others. This extra character changed the sort order in a surprising way. Why is some name 2015xxx before some name 2014xxxX (when it is after some name 2014xxx)?
I have both 'sort by' and 'arrange by' sorted as last opened and still finder is not showing the files and folders correctly. e.g., I have some documents made in 2014 but finder shows those documents as if they were made in 2013. Even 'last opened' shows them in 2013! I am pretty sure that the dates are correct because those documents are from my bank and they didn't exists at all in 2013. When I put or open a file at a certain date in a sub-folder, why is the date last opened of the 'master-folder' not affected?
In Outlook there is this highly useful feature to automatically search and complete a mail address in the recipient field (To:) with CTRL+K. Even if you never mailed with someone before, it will search for your input in any global address books you're syncing with (like your company's account). When there is only one match, it auto-prefills it, so it saves the hassle of looking someone up, copying their address and only after that pasting it in your mail window Can OSX mail automatically search and complete a mail address you've never mailed with before, but which is in one of the address books you're syncing with?
I have this problem that bothers me a few weeks now. In my Apple Mail on MacBook Pro I have 4 Mailboxes. One of them is Gmail synced via IMAP.
I have one Mac (10.10.1 BuildVersion 14B25) that is experiencing periods of sluggish wireless networking. I am seeing system.log messages around these times of the following sort: Jan 16 08:02:50 mac kernel[0]: ARPT: 139243.965792: wl0: 802.11 driver DPC, reinit reason[5], count[13] Jan 16 08:22:08 mac kernel[0]: ARPT: 140402.354334: wl0: 802.11 driver reinitializing, total count of reinit's[196], @'wlc_dpc':466
I have created by accident about 70 tags. by copying them into the finder tag window by accident. I am using only 6 of them. How can I delete all the 70 tags except those 6?
For a long time I have had an issue with display color—it strangely has more red color in it as I can see. As far as I understand, it is due to how transparency is displayed. The upper menu bar is having this redness, or in Preview.app for example, when viewing PDF files, it is blinking between normal white color and red background transparent color as you keep scrolling. I tried to calibrate system color in System Preferences, but without any positive result. Here are examples when using viewer to read some pdf file: Here is how all the images are displayed (this redness I tried to explain above): Here is how all the images are displayed (this redness I tried to explain above):
I don't seem to be able to synchronize my iPad (2) and IPhone (5s) to access the iBooks documents saved across the devices. They are both updated to the latest iOS. I Have looked into all the settings and they all appear to be OK, but still don't know if I am missing to set the the ones that engages the iBooks. I noted that in the iCloud "settings" I don't see the iBooks icon as I do with the Photos, Mail, Notes, contacts, Calendar, etc., which I manage to see across devices. However, I don't find a way for iBooks to add it or for making it into my iCloud Settings screen menu. Can I kickstart a sync to get iCloud working for iBooks?
My iPhone 4S is very slow. Is there anyway to downgrade to iOS 7 (legal or jailbreak)?
I have so many apps in the Applications folder that I forget what some of them do. Is there a way to customize the name to be more descriptive, other than renaming the app? I am afraid that if I rename the app it might not work, like if the app checks to see if it's name has been altered.
So it seems you have an either/or choice for the character accent menu or normal press-and-hold for key repeat behaviour. Surely it's possible to have press and hold bring up the Character Picker accent menu, then - after a set delay - start repeating? Is there any way to enable this behaviour?
How do I quickly inspect an element using Safari's Web Inspector, preferably by keyboard shortcut? In Chrome, command+shift+c enables the function and the mouse then selects an element.
I linked my iPhone to my account in hopes of transferring the photos off of my phone to free up space. What happened was four years of photos transferred to my phone and it will not let me transfer the older ones off - what can I do to reverse this?
I have a list called num. I have converted it into a string. I want to return that string so that the next action called "New text file" in my automator workflow can get the string. This is my code - It doesn't return anything.
Recently on my new macbook when I try to open up the messages app it won't let me open it and gives me the error: And no matter what I do it won't go away and work.
Is there a way to view ios 8 health data externally? For example, with iCloud sync it seems feasible to be able to access the data through a website (i've checked *=URL=* but it's not visible). I really like the Health app dashboard but I'd like it more if I could also see it from other devices :)
I have a magic mouse with 100% battery level indicator and am recently finding (since I changed the batteries) that when I raise the mouse off the surface and move to get more room for a motion and when I place it back down, it now often loses the connection. Is there a loose connection in my mouse that is getting jostled when I place it back down again? Is there something wrong with the new batteries? Please suggest how to get a reliable bluetooth connection to my MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite.
As a developer, I will be running and testing the web apps that I am developing locally. But Chrome and Safari are not allowing me to hit my local server with SSL enabled.
In OS X 10.10, Apple moved from AFP to SMB3 as the default method of connecting to servers (Command + K). Anyone know a way to restore this back to AFP?
I am constantly being warned that my 32GB iPhone is running low on free space. Looking at Usage in Settings I can see that 10.5GB are being used by Photos & Camera, with the breakdown: Photo Library: 9.2 GB Synced From iTunes: 137 KB My Photo Stream: 1.1 GB Shared Photo Stream: 227 MB
I've got a fairly recent model Time Capsule running backup for my Macbook Pro (Late 2013). Ever since upgrading to Yosemite I've noticed an occasional slow down when bringing up a file open or save dialog in most applications.
A final note: when I got 1 it probably came with some default password. It was 3 years ago so I don't remember. Can that be relevant here? Since I did a clean install (IIRC) I would be surprised but I guess there are different ways to reinstall a computer and I don't remember exactly how I did.
Is there a way to make the finder show icons in newest to oldest order in a grid? As it is when I pick "View->As Icons" and then "View->Arrange By->Date Modified" the finder displays them in long rows. The first row is "yesterday", the second row is items in the previous 7 days, then a row for 30 days, then a row for the previous year. There's 286 files in that row. Navigating by scrolling across the row is nearly useless. There's a "Show All" but that' also useless as it shows all the files a year old but in alphabetical order so for example if I want to find files from November last year I'm S.O.L. Is there way to just display them in one long grid in newest to oldest order?
I'm dealing with my friend's Macbook White A1181. Original hard drive died a few weeks ago so we installed a brand new Samsung 840 EVO (256GB).
I have an iPad running iOS 8. I have several accounts attached to the Mail app. In the last two weeks however, the mail app has refused to stay up. When I open the Mail app, a blank screen shows up, with the reply, delete, trash icons in the upper right. The border dividers are visible (inbox/reading pane) but nothing else shows up. After a few seconds, the app will promptly crash. The same thing will repeat after opening it up again.
I use an extension cable with my iPad2 to connect to an external amplifier with a built-in Dock. I have recently purchased an iPad3 (awaiting delivery) and was wondering if the cable will work with the updated iPad, or do I need to procure one specifically made for the iPad3. The cable supports AV, so it's not just a matter of charging/syncing.
I have an iPad 2 with an almost fully updated iOS 8. I have an iOS update that is supposed to fix something about ringtones and security. I have the prompt that is asking me to download it, but when I do so, after hitting around 80- 85%, it says "Software update failed" and asks me to try it again.
My mother's iPhone has collected over 1000 family pictures from the camera, emails and WhatsApp. I am definitely not an Apple guy and I don't know where to even begin.
I am going to be installing a SSD into my 2011 15" Macbook Pro. After I install the SSD, how should I boot into OS X Recovery? Should I use Internet Recovery even though my Mac came with OS X 10.7; Now running 10.10.1? Or should I create an OS X Recovery USB Drive? Once I get into Recovery, I will use my Time Capsule restore to my SSD.
I would like to share a family calendar between my wife (Android phone) and me (iPhone) using a Google calendar. Currently I don't store my personal calendar in the cloud but only locally on the iPhone. The family calender shall be a second calendar. Only this second calendar shall be synced through the cloud.
I have a terminal profile in which I changed the highlight color (let's say, to green). I didn't like it so I changed it back to blue. Now, whenever I am targeting the window and I highlight, the highlight color is blue, but if I click on another window (the terminal is now a background window), then the highlighted portion turns back to green. How can I change the highlight color so that it stays the same as when the window is targeted?
So my phone would only turn on when it's plugged in and I just bought it yesterday so I'm kind of frustrated because I don't know what do about it.
I've just set up a new mini running OS X Yosemite/Server 4, and am using a Drobo 5D for file storage. All of the files on the Drobo have been copied from an old Xserve setup and various external drives and at least one other Mac's user folder.
Recently, I have been trying to install WordGrinder on Yosemite. First I tried getting the latest tar packages from the developers' website and using them, but I ran into some library linking errors with lua and ncursesw. I tried using MacPorts because I assumed that it would do all of that for me, but it turns out that the problems I encountered first were just confusion left over from some earlier dirty MacPorts installs - I ran port selfupdate and those went away. After yet more difficulty with MacPorts, I decided to reconsider building from source. But now, when I use make, I get the following series of errors:
I'm a Mac user who is a Japanese. I usually type Japanese using Google IME which enables me to type it with predictive texts so that we can type it faster.
I'd like to run a Spotlight search to find all email messages that contain a specific attachment: I tried the keyword "attachment names" in the Spotlight search window and in Finder's search field, but it returns no results. I suspect that this may be due to the space in the keyword "attachment names". When I define the search criteria in Finder and pick Attachment names from the menu, it does return the correct results (see screenshot #2, I cut out the actual results).
Is there a way of transferring iPhone voice memos to a Windows computer without linking it to the computer by iTunes or sending them via mail? Thank you.
How to install and open KeePass on Mac OS X form the User Interface and not just open a terminal and type commands?
I am trying to create an Automator application which I will be distributing to other users on the network. The automator app will be accompanied by a ZIP file and a PKG installer file.
Before this update I used to be able to open images, PDFs, etc. from the command line. Now I have to open the directory, and click on the file to open it, which is a waste of my finger strength. Anyone know how to make it work again?
I have an iMac whose wifi connection has always worked very well. Now that I moved in a shared house with a shared wifi internet, the iMac is not able to see our own wifi network, but it is able to see other wifi networks in the vicinity. I have another laptop with ubuntu installed, and that is able to see the network and to connect, from the same room where the iMac is. I have tried to make a new connection with the name and password of the network (which I know for sure because they are the same used on the ubuntu connection) but it does not appear in the network list. I have tried to read more on the internet, but all the thread are related to connections which can not be accessed, while in my case the iMac can not even see the network.
Ok OSX wizards... I have a dilemma. In order to use handoff/continuity at work I need to connect my Mac and iPad/iPhone to the same wifi network. Moreover, I also need to be connected to the separate office ethernet LAN to get my job done.
I'm running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 on my Late-2013 MacBook Pro. A couple of days ago my Safari (8.0.2) started behaving a little weird when searching. This became really annoying and I have no idea how to fix it.
Can I upgrade on my MAC from Snow Leopard to Maverick or do I have to upgrade to Mountain Lion/Lion first? Also, which OS has less problems Mountain Lion or Maverick?
On opening whatsapp, if I want to send any photos via option 'Choose Existing Photo' to any of my contacts, the only thing I can browse is 'Camera Roll' and 'Favorites'. Apart from these two I have many folders in my iphone.
How do you restore emails from a Time Machine backup? I am uncertain of how to use Time Machine back up to restore emails from my Google folders.
I am having an issue since I have upgraded to OS X Yosemite. I used to previously remotely access my work's Windows system from my Mac (OS X Mavericks). I had installed XQuartz and Java and was using Firefox as my browser. Since I upgraded to OS X Yosemite with both Java and XQuartz installed I can access the secure global desktop site and can also enter my log in details. The screen then moves to "loading" and then freezes with a final message that states "Failed to install SGD client".
I would like to know if it's possible to make an AppleScript of the following terminal command(s). Also, I would like to know if it's possible to tweak the unrar e -r -o- *.rar command. Following situation: When I login in to Terminal and use the command unrar e -r -o- *.rar, everything from the subfolders will be extracted to the Main_folder. Is there a command that will extract the *.rar in the same subfolder as where they are stored? For now I have… This works fine except that subfolders are still extracted in /******** instead of their own folder and that my files aren't deleted.
I bought my mother an iMac. In order to maintain my tenuous grip on sanity, I would like to be able to manage this machine from my home office using my own Mac. I have a Cox cable connection, she has a Verizon wired connection. Is this possible with Apple Remote Desktop or similar?
I have an iPhone 6, updated to iOS 8.1. Since my storage space is limited, I wanted to transfer all my photos to my Mac and delete them on my iPhone. Once I did that, I looked at the "Usage" tab in Settings. After deleting every single photo, video, and disabling Photostream and iCloud photo sharing, it still says that my photo library is 1.1 GB.
Are there any Mac apps that are very similar to Microsoft Paint besides Paintbrush and Paint.net? I've tried those apps but found a lot of quirkiness and am looking for something more polished and user friendly.
My 2012 MacBook Pro has always played nice with my old Samsung monitor, connected with a Mini DisplayPort > VGA adapter plugged in to the Thunderbolt port. The Samsung monitor is rotated 270 degrees, and OS X has never had a problem with it.
Prior to this iTunes 12 update, there was a way to navigate to the apps on your iPad and select a third party app from the App Store, then be able to 'add media' to that application. I would put home videos and other content to CineXPlayer this way.
I'm looking for an app that have this features: Scan all archive files inside a directory (say, Downloads folder) Determine whether if I have already extracted the archive files or not (inside the directory)
Using Yosemite, I want to use CMD + mouse wheel up/down in order to zoom in/out(CMD +/- equivalent). How can it be achieved?
I'm converting a pages document to word. I've tried the export and save as .doc method. Both files appear identical but when I try and open either with word, it says the file is corrupted and it cannot open. I tried the option of open and repair, but still no luck. Any suggestions on how to get it to work? I need to have someone edit the pages document in word because they only have access to word.
Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9.5) and Yosemite (10.10) offer a mouse and trackpad gesture, Swipe between full-screen apps. Works well as full-screen apps are treated like a Mission Control desktop. Magic Trackpad – Three finger swipe to the right or left. Magic Mouse – Two finger swipe to the right or left.
I would like to remove an erroneous email address from an event's auto-completion list (via Add Invitee) in iCal. OX S' Mail application provides a Remove from Previous Recipients List option, accessible from a drop-down menu located at the right edge of an email address:
I'm trying to install a USB certificate token on OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 (14B25) and the guides tell me to check that a certain daemon named pcscd is running and to start from /usr/sbin/pcscd if not. Here a link to the guide: http://wiki.infonotary.com/wiki/Installation_of_smart_card_reader_and_smart_card_drivers_in_Mac_OS_X#Manually_running_and_stopping_pcscd
I have an application, Firefox, I launch it with different command line arguments: -P "dev profile" -no-remote -P "ext testing" -no-remote -P "Main" -no-remote
I created some text "shortcuts" (well..not very short) in Keyboard. For example, when I type \alpha I get α, and if I type \sigma I get σ. While this works in almost everything on my computer, it doesn't work in Microsoft Office (e.g., Word and PowerPoint). I wonder if there is a way to make these shortcuts also work in MS Office. Thanks!
How do I read messages on kik without sending the read receipt? Is it possible to do this by turning off internet connection while in the list of conversations and then clicking on one? If there is a method that does not require jailbreaking, will it allow me to view multi-media messages as well?
After trying to drag the single partition in Disk Utility from 500GB up to 1TB, and then clicking ‘apply’, the process appears to proceed, and complete; but as soon as the completion message appears in the bottom-right, the partition map reverts to what you see in the screenshot. It never succeeds in re-sizing to 1TB. (Here's the verbose log, along with some other details obtained from the command-line.) (Attempting to do the same from the recovery partition's Disk Utility gives an ‘Error: could not unmount disk.)
A few days ago I was charging my phone in my car and it stopped charging, and I noticed that the cord had a little hole and smoke was coming out of there. I was buying some food from a local shop, and the guy working there knew me and said he had tons of cords, so he gave me one that he had at the store. After I started using this one, my battery has been going crazy. If I charge it to full power, I would wake up and find it under 10%. And if I charge it and use it during the day, it would drain very quickly. I thought the problem was because of the cord he gave me so I went to Best Buy to buy an Apple one and the guy there said that that was a long shot, and it's probably something else. I did use my uncle's iPad cord and the same problem is still there. I have no clue what happened. This battery thing literally happened overnight, it wasn't gradual and it's never been this bad. Can anyone help? P.S. I have iOS 8.1.2 (not the latest one due to lacking storage)
My MacBook got a small water damage some time ago. Luckily everything still works without any problems except the iSight camera, which is no longer detected. I reinstalled Mac OS X a couple of times since, so I'm sure it's not a software issue. Since a replacement looks pretty cheap and I have all the tools to open up my MacBook, I was wondering, if there are any guides on how to replace the camera. I googled a lot and also checked on Youtube, but could not find anything suitable. How hard would such a replacement be? Can I make sure it's the camera and not some other hardware issue before I try to replace it? On the other hand how much would it cost to have the camera replaced by Apple?
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a legit question here, but I don't know where else to ask. I have installed the Call of Duty 2 MAC version on my iMac. My system capabilities (RAM, processor, video) are way above the recommended requirements, so I would have expected the game to run smooth.
Is there anyway to prevent that whatever app change the default app for some kind of files? As an example, my default app for movies (mp4, mkv, avi, ...) is VLC, and I don't want this to be changed for whatever reasons.
I want to multiboot my MacBook Pro, I'm trying to make partitions but in Disk Utility I can't make my partitions, only can divide by 2? Why? It's a normal SSD not a fusion drive (SSD+HD). Now I'm fresh installing my Mac with internet recovery... (Second time) but this time in Disk Utility by internet recovery instead click on erase I clicked in partitions and make a partition named Macintosh HD. What I'm doing wrong? Outputs: diskutil list: diskutil cs list: sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0:
I am on OSX 10.10.1. As of very recently (can't be more than a couple of days, else I would've noticed it sooner I think), I am able to quit the Finder by hitting ⌘-Q, which will quit the Finder app, not only close the window. There is also a Quit Finder menu entry, I don't know if that was there before. I asked someone who also uses Yosemite and as expected, they can't do it. The question is: Why is this suddenly possible, has anyone else experienced it and how can I revert this change?
I'm helping a friend update her iMac's OSX from 10.6.8 to the latest available for the hardware. That would be easy, if it weren't that the computer has only a 56k connection to the Internet, and so downloading updates would be unfeasible (and ridiculously costly). I don't have access to any other machine running OSX, only Windows and Linux. Also, I only have an unlimited internet connection at work, so physically bringing the computer there is not an option. The computer is an iMac10,1, Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3,06 GHz, 4 GB RAM. What are my options?
I installed a windows 7 on macbook using bootcamp. Everything looks fine, but one thing. Here is stated that "Apple’s Boot Camp driver package automatically installs an HFS+ driver for Windows, which allows Windows to see your Mac partition. This partition shows up as “Macintosh HD” under Computer on your Windows system." But I don't see this partition. I tried to download and install bootcamp drivers manually taking them from apple page, but this didn't help. I tried to download HFS+ drivers, but when I install them the system sais that they are installed already.
Last week, my 6-year-old lost a Minecraft Pocket world / save and was devastated because our last iTunes backup was from before she created it, and our last iCloud backup was made since the world was deleted, and as far as I can tell it looks like the iCloud "backup" is a snapshot of the entire filesystem at the time it's made, with no history. So, the Apple-provided backup mechanisms failed me. They're not granular enough and don't keep a history of file states. I need to back up individual files.
I ran various commands in Terminal app, including calls to "open" from Midnight Commander (although, that might be completely unrelated) and suddenly it started to behave strangely. The cursor was gone, I could type commands but could not see them on the screen. I tried typing "reset" but that did not help.
I create quite a few screencasts to show colleagues how to do more complex tasks and share bugs that i am finding. For this I use the File > Screenrecording feature in quicktime. Once im done recording i save the video to the relevant location, but the exported videos are often 20-30mb even for a relatively short one. What i tend to do at the moment is then run these videos through Handbrake (open source video compressing software) which gets the videos down to a much more manageable (email-able) size, usually between 2-5mb. The only issue with this is its another step, and involves opening other software letting it process etc. Is there a built in export / compression tool in quicktime where i can export smaller videos ?
I have created a number of "internet" accounts for mail in Mac OS, but for various reasons they didn't work, and I deleted them from the listings in the preferences, and of course they therefore don't appear in the Mac OS Mail app either. In fact, there are now zero accounts registered with mail abilities and zero appearing in my Mail app. BUT, if I go to Mail, and choose Connection Doctor, it still scans those old email accounts to see if they can connect or not!
We use Trello (Kanban project management / collaboration app) allot at work, every one has it set up on their iPhones. When a person is mentioned / contacted in the app they get an iOS notification / alert, this is fine during working hours, but over the weekend / late at night i guess this gets quite irritating. Is there a way that an end user can put select app notifications 'to sleep' for certain hours of the day / days of the week ?
I add the account, it appears correctly in the Preferences settings as an internet account with "mail" checked... it creates entries in the left pane of the Mail window. BUT... nothing ever appears in the Inbox. AND, it DOES succeed in loading the many sub-folders within the mail account that I have configured in yahoo... AND, if I click on one of those, then after 20 seconds, it loads the folder's contents fine. AND, when I SEND mail, it sends out just fine. But nothing in the normal, plain Inbox!
I need to move about 550 photos from iPhoto on an old eMac to a new iPad Air. The eMac won't be used anymore after everything is transferred. I already tried the following approaches, but they didn’t quite have the expected result:
We have Wi-Fi at home but each time I turn on my Mac it goes to an unlocked Wi-Fi not our own and I have to go into Wi-Fi on the menu bar to select our own home Wi-Fi. I just want to eliminate those competing options and save the step of always choosing our home network.
I have run ping youtube.com and it reports Request timeout for <ip-address> at times corresponding to my outages. Note that it does not say No route to host.
I already have a recurring scheduled DND set for my phone for every evening through morning. However, I have calendar events that I would like to automatically trigger DND. For example, let's say I have a meeting with a co-worker, I'd like to be able to enter that into my calendar and select a "DND" option for that time. So, once the event is over, my phone is back to normal, and I don't have to worry about silencing it myself. Is this possible?
I see a number of posts on how to delete the WhereFrom extended attributes data, but I would like to do the opposite and extract the information into a file. I download Creative Commons photos from Flickr and provide photo credits on my blog.
For the last few weeks, I keep getting the same spam message sent by my iCloud account to my iCloud account. I'm not seeing any other weird behavior in my iCloud.
I suspect my Macbook Pro has been hacked by sophisticated hackers who may have even customized some special malware for my computer. Is there anyway to tell from looking at the MacBook Pro Activity Monitor like spotting hidden files and other potential unknown processes. What can I do above and beyond installing an anti-virus program to identify if someone is hacking the computer? Energy usage and server traffic statistics..? Thanks in advance everyone.
This has been mentioned in this question here: What's the difference between alias and link? But I am not even sure what I am looking for. I wish to create a hard link of the type where if a program 'uses' it in the specified directory, it will actually use it from the other central location.
In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when a PDF document opened in Preview is modified by an external application, Preview automatically reopens the new version with the same page displayed as before. After updating to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite this behavior changed, and each time a PDF is modified externally, Preview reopens it on the first page. This is quite annoying to me, since I work with many LaTeX documents, which I recompile often to verify how changes in LaTeX code render in the PDF. The question is, can I bring back the previous behavior of reopening PDF on the same page in Preview or I'm forced to change my default PDF viewer to other application?
Is there any way to show gif (animated) images in a slideshow or a screensaver? The screensaver app does not animate the gifs and the only way to view gifs is through Quick Look.
I am trying to include a command in a TeX file to a bibliography file that I am storing centrally. However, when including the filepath, like
Due to Verizon's recent X-UIDH/packet sniffing shenanigans, I've installed a L2TP VPN on my iPhone. I have no trouble connecting to the VPN, but I have to remember to do it every time I connect to Verizon's network/open my phone etc.
My mac knows about 50-100 different Wi-Fi network names. I'd like to know where they are remembered, I can't find it. I've searched.
The ⌘ + G finds the next occurrence. ⌘ + ⇧ + F does NOT do the right thing: it brings up the Find/Replace dialog - and if you just hit ↩ it does not properly default to Replace and Find. I am NOT going to mouse over to manually click on it since this is a highly frequent activity. So then what is the way to do the find/replace just with the keyboard?
I just got my iPhone, and before I make any default changes, I just wanted to make sure it doesn't do that.
I accidentally deleted the Applications link in Favorites in Finder. (I dragged it into the Terminal hoping to do a cd to the Applications folder---not that that matters.) How can I restore it?
Since yesterday the icons on the top-right of my macbook (yosemite) are constantly flashing. Looking at system.log it seems like the gui is crashing and restarting every second. Here is a copy of the crash report.
I recently purchased a mac pro w Yosemite. I left my wife set herself up as an additional user, which later I removed. Now 3 apps (numbers, Keynote and Pages) which need to be updated are listed under her apple ID and requires her password. Being my laptop, I want to correct this and use my ID.
I'm using a MacBook with the latest Yosemite update and I need to install a tool from a 3rd party website. (not from the Mac App Store) I'm new to Mac OS X, can the tool access my files after I installed it? I read that apps are sandboxed but does that mean that viruses, keyloggers and that stuff are not able to harm the MacBook?
I am able to rearrange the dock icons for a period of time after each restart, though I have not been able to determine the length of time. Then I am not able to rearrange the dock icons again. I have tried the solutions found here: Can't rearrange Dock icons The killall Dock command did not do anything. Deleting the com.apple.dock.plist file only seemed to work due to the restart because after a while the issue came back. Is there a way to fix this issue so that I do not have to restart every time I want to rearrange icons?
I recently switched from Ubuntu, and I was feeling very comfortable with using Ctrl + Alt + T to launch terminal. Can I assign Shift + Cmd + T to do the same thing in Yosemite? Specifically, I want a new terminal window to be opened.
The iOS 8 Health app shows the current day's data for steps in the Dashboard and when viewing Steps individually. If you pick View Data, you can see individual recording of steps; there are many of these per day, usually 5-10 steps at a time. However, I see no way to view the totals for a previous day, i.e. if I walked 10000 steps yesterday, is it possible to see that within the app?
Is there a setting that would allow me to wrap workspace switching? For example, what would I have to do to make it so that if I kept switching left I would eventually end up where I started. I'm using Yosemite if that's relevant. I have tried searching, however I think I may be using the wrong vocabulary since I haven't found anything yet.
I, perhaps unwisely, installed iFunBox based on an article in a respected Computer Magazine APC. This appears to have installed a Search Engine in my browsers. It was easy to remove from Firefox, but I can't seem to delete search.strtpoint.com from Chrome. Safari now crashes whenever I run it. Any ideas on how to fix these problems? EDIT I have managed to fix Chrome.
I just upgraded to Yosemite and I noticed in Mail that the folder/account are listed in the Inbox section right after the subject. I don't remember seeing this before. Is there a way (terminal flag, perhaps) to turn this off so the Subject of the message isn't truncated?
I have a business colleauge that my mail prgramme thinks is sending junk mail. I have added them to my contacts. I also set up a rule that any email from that address go into my inbox, but neither of those steps have worked and all messages still go into junk.
Is there a way to reset a iPad or return it to factory settings if you don't know the iCloud password?
My ical has recently started to default to GMT as the timezone. I have my correct timezone selected in the top right drop down of the ical, but every meeting goes in as GMT and has to be manually changed back? Would appreciate any tips
My iPhone 2G (first generation) can't be recognized by the current iTunes 11. (Tried both DFU mode and recovery mode but failed.) So whats the best match iTunes version (and where can it be downloaded) for iPhone 2G so that this ancient guy be can recognized.
I've looked a lot on the web for this and done a lot of trial and error on my end but I cannot for the life of me figure this out... I have itunes match installed, it works great! I can stream all of my itunes collection using wifi or celluar network.
update2: I tried to use mdls and ls -l@ as advised but didn't get an answer. It just shows that file sizes are different but didn't show why. Here is some additional info: . . As you can see src.mov has different size in ls and mdls while for copy.mov they are the same.
How can I delete a song both from a playlist and the iTunes music library when viewing the playlist in iTunes 12.0.1.26. I've tried several key combinations with Backspace and Delete (in the Editmenu) is disabled.
Random apps are crashing as soon as they open, such as Acrobat, Word, Distiller and a few other smaller apps. I tried opening the apps on a 2nd user account and they open fine. I have also tried deleting my preferences via ▸ Users ▸ imac ▸ Library ▸ Preferences, but that has not helped. This is getting very irritating! I'm running Yosemite on an iMac.
I have 20 iPads I gave to 20 clients. How I can I deny the users the ability to upgrade to the iOS version when available? So my question: is there a method to disallow the user to update the iOS version on the iPad?
Is it possible to change NTP server in AirportExpress? Is there any other way to control this device than Airpot Utility?
I would like to buy a second-hand iPhone 5C and use it for testing purposes. Aside from hardware specs, are there any limitations specific to 5C that I should be aware of? Also, given that I want to buy it second-hand, what should I be looking for to ensure the phone can be used for development?
How can I remove the duplicated menu items? They show duplicated in the Dashboard Dictionary widget as well, so I guess they get manifested from some general setting. I am new to Mac, thank you.
Is there a way to change how the selected window in Mission Control is highlighted in Yosemite? Between my aging eyes and background image, it's just a little too subtle for me to easily notice.
Is it possible for a "family member" that knows my passwords and has had access to my iPad to control my iPad from a different location? ....Camera or even turn off my iPad completely? Recently my iPad screen had been completely locked out without my knowledge. The timing of this event was after an argument with this family member. I had to take it back to store to activate it. Can the iPad be controled from a different location?
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1.2 and I cannot delete a cloud calendar. When I edit and go to the calendar all I get is the name of the calendar and the color that represents it. No delete button at the bottom. In fact, nothing below the colors. Has anyone had this issue and are there any solutions short of a reset?
I have a 500 GB external hard drive that I want to use with my new Mac (OS X Yosemite). I simply want to clear the external drive of everything that was on my old Mac (I don't want to transfer any files) and start from scratch. How would I go about doing this? Seagate doesn't address this question on their site and they have not responded to my inquiry. When I attempt to erase using Disk Utility I get this error message: Disk Erase failed with the error: Couldn’t unmount disk.
Can anyone tell me how to batch repack a bunch of mkv files to mp4 keeping the same file names using the Mac command line.
Hardware: Macbook Pro Retina 15" 2014 OSX: Yosemite 10.10.1 with Fusion 7.1
I have a number of mp3 files that I encoded via LAME from the original super nes sound files. They sound fine in the following: Windows Media Player Foobar2000 (windows) VLC (all platforms) Clementine (linux) doubleTwist cloud player (android) But there are constant sound flubs in itunes in sierra (as well as the last umpteen versions of itunes dating back to mavericks (when I first had this problem) as well as doubletwist on mac.
There is a known issue in Network Link Conditioner where if you install it in the normal way (Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools > Install Hardware Tools) it will run from an Admin account but crash in a Standard account. For increased security, I develop from a Standard account. Is there any way to run Network Link Condition from my standard account without switching to the Admin account? Related questions: Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on? Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on? Network Link Conditioner not working Network Link Conditioner not working
I'm running 10.6.8 and when I try to use BootCamp, it tells me I need "at least 10GB of free space", which is interesting since I have 21GB of free space. However, trying to fix this issue has seemed pointless at this rate and I remember there used to be way to create bootable USBs using only Disk Utility during the Vista era. I had tried converting my .iso to .dmg and mounting them and 'burning' them to the flash drive, but nothing has seemed to work. All the tutorials I have found online use BootCamp, which is what I want to stay away from since it does not work for me.
I'm going to have to trade in my work laptop and it's connected right now to my personal Apple account for things like the app store etc. How do I unlink the Apple account before I get a new computer?
I have an iPad 2 that my grandson dropped and the screen is now cracked around the edge, none of the cracks extend into the touch area of the screen. All of the cracks are in the outside edge where the screen is black. Do I have to repair the LCD or is that something that can be fixed without replacing the LCD?
When a new document is opened, the Left/Right arrows work properly for Page Up / Page Down. However after having browsed in the document, it frequently occurs that Left/Right arrows only move single characters to the left/right. I have not been able to discover what sequence of browsing causes the behavior to change how to revert the behavior back to full page incrementing Tips appreciated.
I'm using the built-in SD card reader on a Macbook Pro (15", late 2011) running Yosemite, and it treats every SD card as write-protected regardless of the position of the physical switch on the card. Apparently this is a fairly common problem. I've already tried all the solutions given in this question, with no success. The only thing left that I can think of to try is making physical repairs to the drive. Since this problem is likely caused by a malfunctioning sensor for a setting I don't care about, that seems like overkill if there is a way to do it in software. Is there any known way to tell the drive or the OS to ignore the write-protection setting and treat a protected SD card as writeable?
I am currently using a desktop iMac, and I recently purchased the 15" Macbook Pro with retina display. What is the best way to transfer all my files to the new laptop?
When I plug my ethernet cable in, the TP-LINK box doesn't pick up that the MacBook is connected. It is not faulty because it worked OK with my previous Windows PC
In the accessibility settings on Yosemite I have enabled the "Reduce Transparency" setting multiple times. The reason I am turning it off is to try to fix the issues causes with the menu redrawing when multiple monitors are connect and eventually slowing down the machine to a crawl. Each time I turn it on and go back in and check it has turned itself off.
I am trying to delete a directory with rm -rf however I keep getting the error Directory not empty. If I do an ls on the directory I see this message ls: HTML : CSS: No such file or directory.
I gave my old iPhone 4 to my friend and it has been unlocked however we seem to be linked as she receives all my shared photos. Now she wants to set up Gmail on her phone and it seems locked on my email address. Can you help please.
How can I permanently disable the startup sound (or chime) in Yosemite? (I am using a late-2014 13" macbook pro) I already tried several options found here and there : installed StartNinja.app => did not work installed StartNinja.app => did not work installed Auto-Mute.app => did not work installed Auto-Mute.app => did not work tried to install the old StartupSound prefPane => did not work tried to install the old StartupSound prefPane => did not work tried the command "sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80" => volume does not change (I also tried other values than 80, such as 00, 01, or nothing) tried the command "sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80" => volume does not change (I also tried other values than 80, such as 00, 01, or nothing) NOTE: I know that it is possible to mute the next startup sound by turning the volume down, but this is not a permanent solution.
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro 13'. I've faced a strange problem: my Macbook does NOT switch into sleep mode when the lid closed. Same when open the lid - it does not wake. Instead of closing/opening the lid I have to use the Power button. It seems to be a mechanical problem, cos I've reinstalled mac os and it was in vain. Guys from my local official apple service said, that there is probably a lid-open/close sensor failure. But all they supposed to do - buy the new motherboard. Bad idea=) So, maybe you do have some ideas about that? Have anyone faced the same problem? Or maybe you know something about this sensor? Here's the result of pmset -g
Is it possible to submit an iOS app to the App Store, where the content requires login/password and the publisher keeps control over who can have the account? It's somewhat like an Enterprise Distribution, except we don't want to be limited to the employes of the company. This way we could also give access to the content to selected clients.
I would like to convert mp3 files for podcasts into "plain" mp3 files of the kind that when synced to iOS will show up in the Music app's playlists but not in the Podcasts app. I've had some success in the past with converting ID3 tags to version 1.0 (Convert ID3 Tags ... in context menu) but for some reason this does not seem to work with current iTunes 12. So how can one perform this conversion on OS X Yosemite (with iTunes 12), preferably without third-party software?
I just tried using Airport Utility's Timed Access Control for my Airport Express and MacBook Pro. Unfortunately the Airport Express cuts out all communication with a device during the restricted time, including the Airplay "channel". Is it possible to configure the Timed Access Control such that only WAN access is blocked and the Airport Express is kept working in "LAN-mode"?
When I cd ~/.Trash in the terminal, it shows that there is a folder Downloads, and inside the Downloads folder, another folder Reactions, and inside Reactions, there is a file called  Shutting down or restarting the computer does not work to empty the trash. Also, I should say that the file is hidden and is not showing when I open the Trash folder. Is it a virus? If yes, how do I get rid of it?
10.9.5 here Suddenly my Application Switcher won't cycle anymore on hold. It still can cycle between apps one by one, but if I hold command tab it will stop after reaching the right end of the row. Before that it used to keep cycling until I release command tab.
Sometimes, instant hotspot works in a split second. Sometimes, it works after 30 seconds, and other times, it just says "failed". In all cases, the state of the Mac running Yosemite or the iPhone is the same. To fix it, I have to restart one or both devices. What is the factor that is causing it not to work so I can always just turn it on without guessing which device to reboot? Is it something with bluetooth?
Today, I went to a river and forgot that my iPod was in my pocket. I was in there for about half an hour, and only noticed it once I was changing into my other clothes. Is there anything I can do to fix it? Please help :(
Today I was editing my music library, deleting old songs and such, and then of course, synced my iTunes to my iPhone. Everything synced fine until I realized my iPhone was only showing music purchased from iTunes. Nothing I downloaded nor my CD's were showing up. My playlists were all gone as well. I have tried to sync multiple times today and nothing has worked. I am NOT on iTunes Match.
I'm looking for an online backup strategy for my photos but there's something that none of the systems I've looked at addresses... I keep my most recent photos on my mac and move them off to an external drive from time to time. I can't keep them all on my computer because I don't have enough space.
I don't know much about how Mac processes keystrokes, but if I wrote a simple AppleScript that opened a TextEdit document and started typing a huge block of text, would this effectively mask my typing if it ran in the background? Or does Mac process the AppleScript keystroke input first then whatever I'm typing second?
There are three user accounts on a system running Yosemite 10.10.1. When a specific user logs in, Finder does not start. The keyboard shortcut for Force Quit (⌘-⌥-esc) works, but Finder is not on the list. The keyboard shortcut for restart (⌘-⌃-⎋) also works. Finder does start when either of the other two users logs in. In the affected account's ~/Library/Logs folder, I noticed SystemUIServer_2015-01-14-135204_ComputerName, including the following, which may or may not be relevant:
I want to hide icon of running app in Dock without installing any apps like Dockless. Maybe there is some CLI unix trick. This Info.plist trick does it but modern Code Signed apps don't work: Hide a running app from Dock?
I'm trying to create my ~/.ssh/config file for simplify my work life on the server connection. In Mavericks all worked properly and with the tab I was be able to autocomplete the hostname with file like this:
I now have two iphones. both use same email address and apple id.My wife is to use the old one. I wish to have a new appleid on one of them whilst keeping the original on the other. how do I change the appleid on one without changing it also on the other. ? I am worried that when I change it on the new one it will also change it on the old one.
I own a MacBook Pro 13 Retina, OSX reports disk usage as 450Gb, but utilities such as DiskInventoryX tells a different story reporting 226Gb as used disk space:  How can I convince OSX to give me back my disk space? Given that DiskInventoryX (and other I tested) cannot find where these 411Gb marked as "Other" are what can I do to identify the issue? Output of df -h
I have an early 15" 2011 Macbook Pro that is affected by the defective discrete GPU. I know there are workarounds in OSX to force the use of the integrated Intel GPU, or disable the drivers for the discrete GPU. However these workarounds either make the computer too slow to use or are not reliable: although initially disabled discrete GPU may be activated when using some software and then the computer would stop working. I have found these instructions for Arch Linux that look promising, because they mention a way to enable only the Intel GPU: *=URL=* This is a similar question, that would achieve the same goal, but it is unanswered and does not mention running Linux: Macbook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI?
Is there any such cable? I'm trying to connect a monitor with display port connector to a MBA with Thunderbolt port. I know I can use a Display port to Mini-display port cable but I'm wondering if there is any Thunderbolt to Display Port cable so that I can get a better resolution.
Since upgrading to Yosemite, the screen on our PowerPC desktop Mac is totally black and the light on the bottom right of the monitor flashes 'dot dash dot' repeatedly. We can't seem to find a solution having tried the obvious e.g switching off and on again. Please can anyone help?
Preview shows the currently opened document’s name in its title bar. When hovering over this name, a arrow appears at the right. After a click, there is a dialogue where you can chance the file name, the file tags, the directory and set the file as protected. This is quite handy if you want to add a tag without opening the file's preferences from the Finder view. How can I open this dialogue using keyboard shortcuts? Thanks for help.
I noticed that OSX reports a wrong disk space amount, reporting that "Other" space is near to 170Gb. Digging into the issue here "Huge inconsistency in disk space measurement, missing 50% of the disk" I discovered that the root cause of the issue is the MobileBackups.trash folder that contains some files, really old, and a backup of a VM created more than one year ago. I tried some suggestions that says to disable local backup with no luck (running sudo tmutil disable local had no effects on disk space). I can manually delete the above files using for example GrandPerspective, but I suspect that manually is not the way to go. What is the correct way to purge that folder? Update: seems to be somewhat related to CrashPlan, that I used to have installed at that time and that seems to not really like to coexist with Time Machine
Try checking your data usage history, as it seems like a known issue. A lot of people did complain but I can not find a solution to it.
I have a large number of audio files in a folder on my onedrive that I want to listen to on my iphone. I have the onedrive app installed, I can see a way to listen to individual files, but what I want to do, is get all of them onto the phone so that I can listen to them as a playlist. How can I do this?
My MacBook air was stolen from my apartment a few days ago. I got the address on the find my iPhone app, but then it said that the MacBook was locked, requiring a code. I didn't lock my MacBook from find my iPhone, and when I spoke to the Apple store they told me that it was probably locked because of the thief entering the wrong password too many times.
I just got a new wireless printer and I love that it lets me print from any device on my wireless network, even my iPhone. There is, however, one feature that appears to be missing.
I have many problems with my Mac OS X. The system is only reachable via SSH, but not with FTP and not with SMB. So I tried to concentrate on FTP, seems easier to debug and may be it's one problem for both services. First I enabled ftpd with:
Why does this work? …but the commands below don't work? I had to rename the folder "Youtube" from "Youtube - Downloads", just because this don't work:
Since a little while, I always need to restart my airport express for airplay to show up on my computers. I use my airport express solely for the airtunes feature, and actually use a different wifi router that both my computer and airport express connect to.
I've been successfully using a script for a long time, which uses Chrome to calculate execute some javascript and return the result. Today, after many months, I tried editing the script but the AppleScript Editor is refusing to save it (even without any changes, e.g. after typing a space and then deleting it...), showing an error message: while highlighting the 1 of tab 1 as being the offender...
Static electricity can exert incredibly high voltages (upward of a thousand volts) which can zap sensitive equipment. Hence, all videos that explain opening up your Mac feature some form of exhortation to first touch the heater or something. But how do you actually keep statics to a minimum? Do you have to touch the heather/an earthed part every two minutes, every three?
Since Yosemite, the Script Editor allows using javascript. What is the best way to execute javascript from an applescript? My use case is an existing applescript which needs to send some parameters over to a piece of javascript code, which makes a complex calculation and returns a result to be used as part of some appplescript-powered automations. For clarity, I'm looking for an alternative to a tell application [browser] to execute the javascript using the new native javascript support of Yosemite, NOT for an alternative to a do shell script.
Support for javascript automations started with Yosemite. How could I run using javascript an external command? (i.e. the equivalent of do shell script of applescript?
Is there an easy way (without completely formatting the disc) to clean all the files in the system folders like bin etc and just leave the needed ones? Different pythons installations like anaconda and playing around with brew or macports left a lot of unneeded files and different versions of different libraries. Would a repair installation do this?
Okay, so I need to restore a machine from a Time Machine backup, but before it failed it had two separate volumes; one for the OS, apps and the administrator account, and one for all other user accounts. However, both volumes were lost, and will need to be recreated from my backup.
I would like my mac to to say 'Login Authorized' as soon as I exit screen saver mode. Where should I place the script? Thank you in advance!
When I charge my MacBook the battery goes only up to 99% and doesn't reach 100%. Is this something to worry about and if yes, how do I fix it?
I want to add my signature to PDFs in Preview, but the Trackpad/Camera method is terrible. Any way to add a scanned signature to Preview??
Is it possible to make a Smart Album in iPhoto that gathers all the photos without any location info, to facilitate geo-tagging them? I can't seem to find "lack of location" as a filtering option on its own for Smart Albums, but I'm hoping someone can finagle a sideways solution that comes out to the same thing?
I have got macbook pro early 2011 model. Initially it came with Mac OS X Lion. Later on I upgraded it to Mavericks. Recently I thought of upgrading it to Yosemite which I did. On successful installation I realised that It is extremely slow and found out that it is encrypting my whole hard disk. I left it for hours and hours but it looked like it stuck on that process. And also did not allow me to stop the process. I turned off my macbook using power button kind of hard stop thing. When I tried to turn it on, it stuck on safe mode and nothing was happening. I could not log back in and I tried all the diifferent methods like PRAM reset, safe mode, disk utility tool to repair the disk but nothing seemed to work. Luckily I had backup in Time machine from last year which restored my system back to Mavericks. I started using it and it was working fine. Yesterday while closing my system I used Power button and did that forced shut down kind of thing again and since then it is not turning back
So I am going to put a new hard drive on my Macbook Pro. After I install the hard drive how would I go about putting Yosemite on there? I have a pc and a 32gb flash drive. Could I download it through the pc onto the flash and then after I put in the new hard drive could I install from the flashdrive?
I'm using OS X 10.10.1 on my Mac. I use Parallels Desktop 10 and VMware Fusion 7.1. I do use windows a lot on Parallels and Fusion (Several Virtual machines). Windows 8.1,7 and XP. I've installed Avast free AV on OS X. Do i need to install separate Anti viruses on VMs ?? or do OS X Avast antivirus detect Windows viruses and malware ? Please explain. Thanks :)
I bought an unlocked 5c for my kid to use without data etc as an iPod to later use as phone when older but it wants a SIM card to activate the phone what do I do
My daughter wants to rename her iPad mini, and I told her I thought the only way to do this was to connect it to iTunes on a computer, but when we connected it to my laptop, we got  This is disturbing, since obviously I neither want to set up the iPad as new again, nor do I want to restore over it with a backup from another device. Both would wipe it, and would make absolutely no sense.
A while ago I remember being able to navigate through search results using J and K. Is there anyway to do that in Safari 8? I've tried changing tab behaviour in Safari prefs to tab through every item, but that's too many tabs to accomplish what I want to do.
HSTS.plist. Anyone know what this file is about? I thought it was a mal file slipped in, but it does seem to come from Apple. I have accounts at none of the sites listed in the file and visited twitter (it's listed in the file) only once recently to see what William Shatner had to say. It is found in ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist Delete it, it comes back. Found in both Mavericks and Yosemite.
I would like to keep my iCloud addresses in sync with my Thunderbird address book. Is there a way to do this directly? Currently I sync both with my Gmail contacts, but the results are not very reliable.
I'm on my MacbookPro and using TeamViewer for remote access to my 2k3 Server. On this server I installed VirtualBox to create a virtual machine. But now I stuck at this screen and no more can use my mouse. How can I release the mouse capture?
Suddenly, My MBP sound isn't working. I have tried couple of way to resolve the problem but nothing is working. Here is some of the screenshot:
I periodically get the following dialog box on my MacBook, running OS 10.9.5: App Store is trying to install Apple-provided software. Type an administrator's name and password to allow this.
If you have code-level questions after utilizing the above resource, you may wish to consult with Apple Developer Technical Support. When the DTS engineer follows up with you, please be ready to provide:
Is there a way to use my voice to "press" a button on the numeric keypad during a phone call, resulting in my handset sending the appropriate DTMF codes to the device on the other end? I like to conduct business while riding my bike, and Siri can help me with most requests hands-free. However, interacting with a phone system on the other end seems to be where her assistance hits a hard stop -- I can't find a way to have Siri "press 1" or anything to that effect during a phone call.
I would like a method that does not require an additional application. Please do not post links to apps which attempt to route the connections on a per-app basis. It should be possible to do this without one.
The trackpad on my mac book pro (mid 2012), isn't functioning properly. Sometimes it behaves as though I'm holding down a click. For example when working with a text editor I move the mouse across the page and the editor selects the text I move across (without me clicking).
I'm using the Bluetooth Apple Keyboard with Chrome Remote Desktop on my iPad and I would like to map the CMD key to the Windows key. This is the default behaviour on Chrome Remote Desktop on OS X, but for some reason the CMD key is not being recognised on iOS.
How do I prevent an app from adding itself to the list of Login Items every time it starts? The app in question is Unified Remote, which seems to completely wonderful apart from this "bug".
I bought a Crucial SSD compatible with my MacBook Pro (late 2007) and an enclosure. To my frustration, it would not mount and I think the hardware may be defective.
I was wondering if it would be possible to create a line separator for the finder app, just like the one found next to the trash can?  The only behaviour difference that I'd like is for the line to display to the right of the finder app, not left. I've done a lot of googling with no luck, I can only find a command to create transparent seperations: Using: Is anyone aware of how to do this?
I have a Numbers (v3.5) file from a Yosemite install. I have since abandoned Yosemite (here is why WindowServer high CPU on Yosemite).
I have an Android phone with WhatsApp installed on it. I want to move this Sim-Card to an iPhone and installing WhatsApp on it. Is it possible to backup/transfer/restore the history over to iOS?
More often than not I am getting this error when connecting to a brand new Mac Mini, firewall disabled: (For security reasons, I have [fixed_ip] and [username] instead of the real values above.)
I've got an iPhone 5s 8gb with about 1.4gb of unused storage. Within the last week this storage goes down to zero multiple times a day just through normal use. When this happens iOS "cleans" all apps and frees up the storage back to 1.4gb. I've turned app background refresh off but still hasn't improved the situation. I suspect there's an app using storage without my knowing it. Is it possible to find the app causing the problem without restoring factory settings and reinstalling apps one at a time?
I no longer have the toolbar at the top of New Message (The one with buttons for Send, Add Attachments..). It is only missing in New Message, if I for example reply to a message, the toolbar is correct.
My iMac runs Mac OS X Yosimite 10.10.1 I accidentally had "Remote Login" enabled in my Mac's system preferences, so the sshd was running.
I backed up my old iPhone 5S with iTunes on Mac OS X 10.10，But It seems that it's not easy to find the folder. (In Windows，It's C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\backup)
I've researched but am still unclear whether NVIDIA GTX660 or Zotac GeForce GTX 760 will just slot into my Mac Pro 2009 without buggering about with power supplies etc.
My girlfriend has a 2014 MacBook Pro Retina that we tried to install Windows 7 on through BootCamp. The install failed (I don't remember how... It actually got partway through the install), and since then it looks like there are loading screens (Similar to the "Windows is loading..." screen on the windows 7 install media, before you see the blue background with the installer) during boot.
I have an iphone-5, ios-7. I use fantastical 2 to manage multiple google calendars. When I create an event the event is created in my LOCAL time-zone (pst). When I view the event the event is displayed in my LOCAL timezone. However, when I want to edit the event, the time shows up in GMT... Originally Time Zone Support was turned off.
Connect the iPhone to the computer, click on the device in iTunes, and under Summary there are two buttons as described in the question. What is the difference in terms of what is actually restored?
Recently my mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro's trackpad has started exhibiting some strange behavior. Attempting to scroll up or down using the two finger gesture randomly seems to trigger the page back/page forward gesture. I've tried rotating my macbook slightly to correct for any slight variation in my finger positioning, however that doesn't seem to help.
If 'yes' is selected, then a process owned by the user runs forever, incidentally consuming up a lot of RAM. Whether 'yes' or 'abort' is selected, the same dialog comes up on the next reboot. In Activity Monitor, the process is just called "Installer." Things we know were not initiated: any system upgrade.
I created a folder in the Yosemite Contacts program and added some people to it. I'd like to remove a contact from the folder but keep the contact in my overall contacts database.
Sometimes when I double click a downloaded .pls file to launch a music stream in iTunes, the music is REALLY squelchy. It literally hurts my ears. If you have ever heard an old Telephony modem, it sound very similar to that but at one constant pitch. If I stop and restart it usually fixes the problem (by double-clicking the same .pls file) , but I want to know why it does it in the first place. At present I do not have a recording of the issue, but I will add when I can reproduce it. OS - Yosemite Macbook Air
I currently have the 802.11n model and all my devices run on 802.11n is there any benefit to the 802.11ac upgrade or should I just wait?
When restarting the computer, a grey screen with error icon appears.
Corporate environment. Outlook 2010 running on Windows 7 32bit. iOS 8.1.2 running on iPhone 6. Scenario:
With my built-in iPhone keyboard that is easily possible, but I can't seem to find the setting on Swype.
Will RAM from a mid-2011 MBP work in an early 2011 iMac (and vice-versa)? Both are listed as 1333 MHz PC3-10600 DDR3. I have 16 GB (2x8GB) in the MacBook Pro, and 12 GB (2x4GB + 2x8GB) in the iMac. I want to swap the MacBook Pro's RAM with the 2x4B set in the iMac.
I'm trying to capture data from a Serial Port by opening 'screen' from the terminal. It works, I see the data coming but I can't figure out how to save it to a file. I tried to redirect the output of screen by adding > file.txt to the command line that opens screen, something like this: But it didn't work, it creates an empty file but I still see the data on the screen window. Ideally I would like to redirect to both, I mean keep it in the window and at the same time feeding the file, probably by using the tee command.
When I upgraded to Yosemite, I happily used Notification Center to receive alerts upon getting a message or so. I then turned them off at some point and recently changed my password (not sure if that matters). Since then, despite the notification type being set to "Alerts" and having updated the password in Internet Accounts, I do not receive Notifications. I can use the notification center to post to Facebook, which makes it weirder.
Are there any plugins that will allow me to see a waveform when using Quick Look on an audio file? (I'm using Yosemite.)
I'm thinking of a way to easily switch browser or simply open pages in Chrome by using the share sheet. Can an app to create an icon in the share sheet that opens a third-party app? Does UIActivityViewController allow this?
I have Yosemite, and my Keychain Access only shows the login keychain, giving me no option to switch between keychains.  As you can see, my sidebar on the left is missing. I try toggling it with ⌘+K, but to no avail.
Can anyone advise on how to stop this happening. The external monitor attached to it goes black for a few seconds but then comes back to show the Desktop etc.
When a contact in my iPhone has multiple phone numbers how do I determine which number that person called me from? Short of asking them of course.
Is that last statement really true? That in all cases, (or in almost all cases, with certain exceptions) when the computer looks in one of the three Library directories it looks in the other two as well? For example, can a user move something that was installed in /System/Libary/Extensions/ to an Extensions directory he creates in his home directory's Library/ and expect it to be loaded from there at login, the way that, say, a property list found in ~/Libary/LaunchAgents/ would have been found just as easily had it been located in /Libary/LaunchAgents/?
I purchased a used iphone and now I cannot transfer my information to it because it still has the former owner's Apple ID.
I had an existing USB drive which was already encrypted (ad the file-system level) and then I opened Time Machine and also selected "Encrypt backups" when choosing the disk and now I have a very slow progress bar showing "Preparing disk for decryption". I can't cancel it. Why would it be decrypting anything?
Is there any way of Filtering out messages from OS X system log? I am looking through the log on an old MacBook running Lion. This has an error message every 10 seconds from an obsolete service: The actual app is long gone, it was only the launch service that is generating error messages (for the last 5 years!)
In the finder I made hidden directories visible. The odd thing is that any system directory (IE one whose name starts with a ".") I can't open them by double-clicking on them. Instead I have to right click and and select to open in a new tab. Is there a way to change this behavior? I'm using Mavericks, not sure if this issue is specific to Mavericks or not.
I have a 2008 Mac Pro running Yosemite. I just purchased a solid state hard drive which I want to become my boot drive. I do not want to transfer the data from the original boot drive to the solid state drive; I just want to be able to access the data on it. Is there a way to move it to another slot and not have it run as a boot drive, so I may access the contents? and/or Is there a way to essentially turn it into an external hard drive, so I can easily access the contents? Thank you
I plan to make a trip up to the apple store tomorrow. I need them to put in a new hard drive in my Macbook Pro mid-2010 15". Do I need to make an appointment with them? or can I just show up and drop it off with them? Thanks
I recently bought a new iMac and installed Yosemite on it, but for some reason whenever I try to update I just get this message: "[Name of App] was purchased using the App Store on another computer. To use [Name of App] on this computer, sign in using the Apple ID and password used to purchase it."
We have started to replace hard drives in some MacBook Pros and Airs that are about 3 years old. We found out the hard way that FileVault encryption requires a recovery parition. If we install Mountain Lion or Mavericks from the USB installers that we have created, we do not get the option to create the recovery partition. So far, we have only found 2 methods:
I'm running some cron jobs on my machine and every time I fire up a terminal session I'm getting a 'You have mail.' message. Any way to turn this off?
I recently noticed that my iMac lists my macbook pro with 2 different icons (the normal laptop one and a generic pc one)  I am worried this means i have a server running on the background or some other possible security issue. I disabled file sharing completely (SMB and AFP) and they both disappeared, but im still worried this might happen at some other time without my knowledge thus being a security issue.
I've opened up my water damaged iPhone and it seemed like the battery was screwed (air bubbles around the battery's lining), not necessarily any of the chips. Although I'm no expert and most of the chips have metal casings covering them. There was a small amount of a white-teal miss-coloration, probably from corrosion, around the battery's connectors but I cleaned that off with 100% isopropyl alcohol.
I've Mac OS X 10.9.5 installed. On this machine you can find the calendar app. In Outlook it is possible to add a shared calendar from exchange. Here I don't need a username/password. I can easily add this calendar. Can I add such a shared exchange calendar to the calendar app?
I am trying to find what causes the "Storage Almost Full" message to appear on iOS. For example, is it: Less than a specific number of Mb of storage is available (if so, how many Mb?) Less than a specific percentage of storage is available Does it vary across device hardware / iOS versions? My reason for asking is that I am trying to maximize the amount of content that I can load onto a device before I see the message.
I have 2 same files residing on an NTFS filesystem: According to ls they have same sizes and same attributes: But according to Finder and mdls they have different size:
It is not clear to me how the file system in iOS 8 works. Consider e.g. the Dropbox app, when I open a document in another app, what happens? It looks to me as: copy of the file is created file handle to the copied file is passed to the other app other app edits the file other app keeps the file A few question regarding this: Is this how it works? Where is the new file stored? Does iCloud work the same way?
Sometimes I notice that the screen is bluer than usually for a few seconds/minutes then goes back to normal. It does it even if no screen is plugged and no matter which applications are open. It's a MBP 15" 2011. Here's the log I just saw:
Many programs are not removed from the dock when quitting them (using apple-Q) or when closing their visible windows. I know this behaviour is on purpose, but I don't like it. Is their a way to consistently enforce that programs are really closed (i.e., the process is terminated), and hence removed from the dock when quitting / closing the windows?
For some reasons, I have to use a SOCKS proxy to access Gmail, otherwise, the connection will be blocked. I tried the global SOCKS agent, and the Mail.app worked fine. Nevertheless, when I turned to use a PAC file to configure system agent automatically, the Mail.app wasn't able to access Gmail. My questions:
I've searched before asking but couldn't find any related question with the problem that I'm facing. I have a new Macbook Air (1 month) with Yosemite 10.10.1 that from the beginning is having some strange behavior on boot-up. Specs: 1,7 GHz Intel Core i7 128 GB SSD 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB When I press the power button the screen remains black (I notice a different black when the room is dark) for more than 1 minute before the apple logo appears and then it's seconds to go to the login screen. However, when I boot-up with the Alt key, the screen to select the startup disk is very fast to appear and when I select the "Macintosh HD" disk, the Apple logo appears right away and then again it's seconds to go to the login screen.
My MBP13 Retina freezes when I print a file from Preview. I can continue to use the computer on other softwares but Preview is freezing... I have 4 network's printer and one unplugged USB printer. Do you have any idea for solving this trouble? Partia Preview's log (hang log): NB: MPB13 Retina mid-2014 OSX 10.10.1 Preview 8.0 (859) NB: Same problem when I have no install printer (so I can't print in PDF...)
My macbook pro has started making a repetitive clicking noise every 4 seconds. It kind of sounds like a woodpecker or something, not a scraping noise.. does anyone know what could be wrong?
Whenever I drag & drop an epub into iBooks, the book is automatically added to my library, but it is also immediately opened for reading. Is there a way to add a book to the iBooks library without actually opening it?
I'd like to automate the invoices I receive from a particular company. Unfortunately they name the files very strangely and the filename is not at all related to invoice number, or date. So I'm trying to find something to extract information from inside the PDF. I would look for particular strings and numbers. I can think of Spotlight that would be able to do that, but I don't think that's the best way. Suggestions and solutions to this particular problem are welcome. Thank you!
I want to export all my accounts login/password from Keychain. But you have many categories like : login, iCloud, System... in the Keychain menu. In fact I want to export them to 1Password, so I follow this overflow answer. But in ~/Library/Keychains/ I have only the login.keychain and not the hopefully iCloud.keychain... I have 422 accounts in the iCloud category and only 5 on the login category... So my question is, how can I save/export this iCloud category
I've just bought a new iMac with Yosemite and set up my mailboxes with rules for sorting incoming mail. The rules work fine but no badges are shown for any mail sorted into subfolders. Badges only appear for mail that goes directly into my inbox. In previous operating systems badges were shown for every new email whether it was sorted or not. Is there any way of forcing Yosemite to badge sorted, unread emails?
As technical guy, I do hate the markup support in Notes.app and I would prefer to be just a smart text one. Here is my wishlist: Use a different font, like a fixed width one Drop any font/color/size on text paste Prevent replacing quotes with smart-quotes/curly-quotes (I like this while typing an email but not here where I copy/paste even code!)
I've been getting various "too many files open in system"-type errors on Yosemite (10.10.1). Searching around suggests setting kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperprocess in /etc/sysctl.conf. I've tried this, and kern.maxfilesperprocess sticks after a reboot, but kern.maxfiles doesn't. (reboot) If I set it manually at the command line, it works, so it doesn't seem I'm exceeding any upper limit: I have seen warnings about these values being overridden in /etc/launchd.conf but I don't have this file:
Is there an escape sequence which I can use to jump to an absolute column in OS X Yosemite Terminal or iTerm? In other words: Would produce the following output: I want to send this code from R to format progress output.
I saved an important password in an iCloud keychain, then deleted it there, and then forgot the password. Pretty dumb, I know. Still, is it somehow possible to get an older version of that keychain that still keeps the password?
I understand I may have to jailbreak my phone to access this, but is there a way to view a list of networks my iPhone has remembered and get info on the date they were last accessed? I know there are some apps that allow you to view all the stored passwords for previously accessed networks but I'm also interested in seeing the date they were last accessed. Thanks in advance of any help you can give.
Is there a way to push an Apple ID to the iPads with profiles via Apple Configurator? I have several 100 and would like to push it so we do not have to enter it manually for each.
New to apple so is there a way to debug why a laptop will not print to a printer? It is an HP Color Laserjet 3000n. The laptop will recognize the printer and stay in a sending mode or sometimes the printing job will vanish. Works fine for other monochrome laserjets.
Namely, look at this image. This is how my Music app looks like when I open it.
It takes around ten seconds to process a voice command, whereas speakable items are instantaneous.
We have some systems used as general-purpose systems. We configured the systems to enable the Guest user; periodically, when trying to log into the system, a keychain notification pops up saying it can't access the local keychain. Once logged in, opening applications like Safari gives an error message about not being able to access a keychain ("Do you want to reset to defaults?!") Reboot the system, it acts normal...no keychain errors.
This is the text box. They're iCloud abbreviations. I want to export them, but I don't know how to do it. Can someone help me?
Can two apps have the same name in the app store as long as there is a slight difference? For example if there was an app that already existed called "FatCat" would an app get approved that was called "Fat Cat" with a space?
Ok, I need to compare "A" column to "B" column. I have a billing agency that generates a number i.e. 00125785231... This number could be in column A at A80 and then in column b at B801... I need something to show in column C801 that it has a match in A column.
I came to understand that the following is the way to toggle the visibility of hidden files: Is there a way to show/hide hidden files without killing the Finder?
My mail in iPad is acting terrible. Many mails seem to have their contents and the header (sender, cc and subject) mixed up, contents from one mail have the headers from another mail. How do I fix it?
I usually have my keyboard backlight either: all the way up, at the lowest setting or off. It is (slightly) annoying to have to hold down F5/F6 keys, when I never use the middle values. Is there a way to increase the increment? Alternatively (perhaps even better), is there a way to get and set the value directly from the terminal or AppleScript?
I downloaded some ring tones from Zedge in m4r format directly into the Tones folder in Finder; but when I go to sync in iTunes, they don't show up when I click my phone tab. What am I doing wrong?
I tried following Apple's instruction to change a file icon, but it didn't work they way I expected. File type: "web internet location" or Inbox.webloc So this it what I've tried so far.
I am getting a lot of Kernel Panics recently, sometimes several per day. Here is the most recent one which occured when running Pro Tools HD on my MacPr 2,1:
I have Parallels installed on my MacBook Pro. I have a headset plugged in. There is no option to choose to play sound on the headset. My options are Internal Speakers and Internal Sound or Parallels Access Sound for both input and output. What do I need to change in order for the headphones to be usable?
I did some research, and discovered that people have had nightmares with syncing notes from the Notes app via iCloud, in that all of the notes get permanently deleted. Before seeing these articles/forum posts, I had considered activating cloud sync for my notes, but given the danger, I don't think I'd like to do that.
I have a MBA (m2011 - Yosemite) with an external monitor setup (Dell 2007FP). I would like to use the Dell monitor in vertical mode by trying to rotate 90 degree in Display setup but the screen stay in horizonal resolution (black area above and below). Does anyone know how to fix this?
I have a single keyboard that is paired to multiple iOS devices. Once it's actively connected to one of them, it seems the only way to get it to be willing to connect with another is to turn off bluetooth on the current device. Is there a magic key chord or something that will kick the current device off so a new one can connect?
i just re-installed my mbp, and have deleted whole disk. i think my music is safe because i had sync it to my ipad.
So I have a plist to keep monit running: I can do launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.monit.service.plist to start the service, but launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.monit.service.plist will not stop it. I can see that the process keeps running no matter what I do. The process shows up like this(note how the binary path doesn't show up, only the last argument): output of ps aux: How can I write the launchd plist so that it will actually stop the freaking process whenever I want it to stop?
I get a popup "The contents list can’t be created for compressing." every time when I try to compress a file. And also thumbnail preview is not working. I am sure if both issues are related but they both happened today. I've tried repairing disk permissions, deleting finder plist, restart but none of this works. I am running Yosemite 10.10.1 Any suggestion? =================================
I have MacBook Pro from late 2011 era which I recently upgraded to Yosemite from Mountain Lion. But unfortunately I need some application that only worked on Mountain Lion and I cannot restore back to Mountain Lion as I did not have backup. Now is it possible to install Mountain Lion on USB disk from which I also boot from without actually installing on my MacBook AIR Samsung SSD drive ( the only drive on the system) on which Yosemite is installed and running?
This is an 3TB external hard disk I use for external storage (e.g., Time Machine backups, other data), and it is not bootable. diskutil list shows that it is partitioned with 2 partitions (one for Time Machine, one for data) but no EFI partition. I suspect the partition table was created under Linux rather than Mac OS X. The disk has been working fine up until recently. I did read Why does Disk Utility create EFI partitions on external disks?; that and other sources gave me the impression that a EFI partition is not strictly required unless you want to boot from the disk.
For some reason Time Machine doesn't think that the backups on my external drive are for my current computer. How can I point Time Machine at the former backup files so it can pick up where it left off?
Recently, I've been a bit worried about malware, so I've been examining my system and searching for out-of-place applications/programs, and this one stood out. For one, when looking at the file in Finder, it's called Wi-Fi.app, but when looking at it via the command line, it's called WiFiAgent.app. In other words, in Finder, I see only a "Wi-Fi.app", but on the command line, I see only a "WiFiAgent.app". Moreover, I tried searching for both apps, with neither returning very many results. What is this app?
Is it possible to use someone else's computer, log out of their iTunes account, log into your own account and access your own library on their computer?
My Bluetooth Serial seems to always be busy. lsof /dev/tty.BluetoothModem yields nothing. sudo chmod 777 /var/lock seemed to have no effect. screen /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem tells me it's busy.
I have this Mail rule:  The Move Message works great and all messages that fits the rules has been moved to the selected folder. The issue here, is the Mark as Read part of the rule does not work. If I alter the order (Mark as Read first and then Move Message) the Mark as Read not works. Don't know if matters, but the rule applys to an exchange account. Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
I want to switch between headphones (jack) and internal speakers without having to insert/remove the jack? Is it possible ? And how ?
I recently updated to Yosemite. Now when I log out and then log back into my computer, I have to enter my credentials for all my applications. At the same time, dozens of windows pop up from applications that are not even open, asking for me to enter the keychain password.
In Yosemite when I press a window's green 'fullsize' button, it will be full size, but somehow differently from earlier way, I can not use change between windows shortcut, because window will claim the whole screen. Any idea how to use it earlier?
I have to get a device to test my apps on 64bit processors, and I am interested in iPad Mini 3. However, I would like to know, if I can run apps using iPhone compatibility to see how they would work on iPhone 6 [ and iPhone 6 plus if that's possible].
I just started using XCode to do basic C++ programming. I have noticed something strange. When Im working on a C++ project, and want to add a new C++ source file, the automatic generated file is formated as a C file, even though its extention is .cpp.
As the title says: is there a way to permanently show the markup toolbar in Preview? (working on OSX 10.10.1 Yosemite)
As far as I understand, open -a my_emacs_app /path/to/file is the same as opening file in application from finder. So that's why I am testing my_emacs_app using open command.
You can't do it, in wunderlist, reminders, any.do, etc. You really need to ruin your eyes to read you notes.
I'm looking for a svn client for Mac Yosemite (10.10) which is similar to TortoiseSVN on Windows and RabbitSVN on Ubuntu. I came across SCPlugin, when I could see that its latest version is dated as Feb-2010.
Is this a general problem or can I solve this somehow? I saw other people using Chrome without experiencing these problems so I hope there exists a workaround. Thank you :)
I noticed that in my Notifications system preferences there two entries for Twitter (the old one with the white icon) and the new one.  The old Twitter application is long gone. How can I remove obsolete entries in the list?
What ports does iCloud and iMessage use and is it possible to use SSH port forwarding via a proxy to use them on a network that blocks the services?
OSX Mavericks, MacAir11 My built-in keyboard suddenly does not work anymore. Even when I did not turn on caps lock it stills capitalize all letters for me. I relogged but does not work. After testing I found out that the Right Shift is glitched. This makes me unable to enter the password of my Mac correctly and leads to the second problem. I don't know if it's because the keys are malfunctioning or I get infected by a virus.
I was playing around with Test Flight - to put a version on my colleagues phone took 24-48 hours while we were separated. Normally he would work beside me and I can just directly compile to the device with a cable. IIRC before Test Flight was absorbed by Apple the process was virtually instantaneous now it seems there is a giant propagation delay and nobody is talking about the delay or there is little mention of how long the whole process should take. Have I done something wrong on my part or is this just part of the process?
I typically maximize my windows to the full size of the screen and then rather than clicking windows to navigate through them I cmd+tab to switch between applications. The only problem that this causes is that whenever I have to drag a file from my finder to the desktop all these maximized windows are in the way.
I am considering purchasing a used iPad 3rd generation 8.9 size. This iPad is advertised as a used 64gb Verizon iPad. I only want to use the iPad on wifi and do not want to connect to Verizon or AT&T. Can I do this or do I have to go through Verizon to get it to work. I have never had an iPad and I am 67 years of age so I am not familiar with what I need to look for or be careful about in buying a used iPad.
One of my external drives with all my photos stopped working - it does not mount, even though I see it in Disk Utility. Using DU I tried to verify and repair the disk and got this message: 'Invalid B-tree node size' Following the advice in this link: I tried to list my drives with the Terminal command df -hl The specificied disk was not in the list When I tried the suggested tail command tail -f /var/log/fsck_hfs.log I saw the name of the disk as Following that, I used this command (also suggested in the above link) sudo fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk3s2 Instead of the expected proper outcome, what I received was an error message in Terminal as below:
I could not edit value of cookies. How can I edit my cookies in Safari Web Inspector?
I have an old Kingston 2 GB USB flash drive. I believe it was bought in 2006.
I use Reading List to mark items to read later. I don't like deleting read items because I do sometimes refer back. In any case, items added to Reading List sync properly across my iCloud devices.
How can I launch some command (console application) in iTerm2 on system boot? There should be only one instance of this application.
I connect my iPhone to the AUX cable in my car and play music. This one time I wanted to video record, but when I switch to the video camera, it turns my music off. Is there anyway to record video on iPhone 6 while playing music, so that the music is in the video?
In finder, I can cntrl + click on a file and click "compress"... Sometimes. It seems that randomly the option just won't show up and I have to open a new finder window, or duplicate the folder first, or something ridiculous like that. Is this a bug, or is compress only supposed to show up under certain circumstances?
If I have multiple PDFs open in preview, as shown with the "table of contents" sidebar, if I click on one of the other documents and then return to the current document, it returns me to page 1 instead of the page I'm on (in this case, page 9). Is there any way to have preview return me to the page I'm on?
It happens after I get a new macbook for work. This is a Macbook Pro(Retina, 2012) with OS X Yosemite. I created a new user, and checked 'click or tap with two fingers' for the 'Secondary click'. However, the right-click menu doesn't show up when I tap or click with two fingers, nor if I right click an external mouse. I have to right click twice, very quickly, either on the trackpad or an external mouse, in order to get the pop-up menu. This is really annoying and I haven't found any solutions online.
I have an OpenLDAP instance running on Amazon AWS. I've got a few users and groups set up, I'm able to use ldapsearch from my macbook to bind and search the server. I would like was trying to add my OpenLDAP server as a node in my Directory Services, and I provided all the necessary information, but it will not connect giving the oh so informative I've tried to debug this with dcsl (granted I just learned what it was today) and I can see the new node
I'm still stuck on iOS 7 because iTunes and the blessed updaters don't work. iTunes will start the download, but always drops the connection before finishing. It appears to be incapable of resuming an interrupted download.
Around January 2014, my original hdd died on me, I bought a new hard drive and let the old one sit. Got myself an external enclosure recently, to recover my old work, only to realize my main folder had been encrypted with FileVault and i'd forgotten the password. (It was encrypted on OS X 10.6, with legacy filevault)
When I'm reading this guide it seems to be quite straightforward. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18705?viewlocale=en_US
I decided I will give 8.1 another go - as the partition was there and so I wanted to use it by trying to install over it again. I chose the EFI install and went for it, but the installer informed me that it will not install, because the partition has MBR instead of GPT. So instead of running the installer again in normal mode - I logged back into OSX deleted the BOOTCAMP partition (or so I then thought), ran the installer again in EFI and told it to create a partition for itself in the free space and install Windows.
nvidia GEFORCE GTX 750ti stuck at black screen tried installing custom nvidia driver, no dice any suggestions? running mavericks but trying yosemite because nvidia has newer yosemite drivers trying this as well sudo nvram boot-args="nvda_drv=1" but i'm not sure if that command is only for hackintoshes or not (i don't have a hackintosh)
When moving some dock icons around, I noticed screen burn, basically my old dock icons were burnt into the screen, is there a way of fixing this issue? I'm running on a MacBook Pro and Yosemite. Is the burning the type of thing that's going to disappear after a while?
I know for sure that Mac Pro late 2013 supports 4k screens flawlessly, but is HiDPI supported?
Two days ago suddenly Apple services started to fail on my Mavericks machine. I couldn't shut down (logind - or something like that - crashed but could not be force-quit). I shut down twice from terminal. Then I wanted to repair whatever is happening from recovery mode. I don't remember the message but the next thing I know it won't boot anymore.
Is there a way to get Do Not Disturb to automatically turn on when a certain app is running? In the DND preference panel, you can tell it to engage whenever you're mirroring to a TV or projector, presumably for a presentation. When I give presentations it's using GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc., so I am trying to reproduce that behavior.
I am on 2014 Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I have two tables. In table 1, I have a cell that should store the number of cells in column A of table 2. In the same table 1, I have a different cell that stores the number of cells in column E of table 2 that matches the text "MATCHED". How do I write the formula for each case?
On the router there is Two other computers (labeled by names) and two android phones (also labeled by names). So I can tell which device is the only Mac on the network. None of the other devices's IPs match the Mac's. And the router states that the Mac's IP has been given the exact IP the Mac says is taken.
I've never actually restored with Time Machine, not sure how it works. My machine is messed up since updating to a Yosemite Beta and installing nvidia drivers. How do I go back a few days?
I signed up for Yosemite betas at *=URL=* but am having issues. Is there any way to go back the "standard" version of Yosemite?
I have VMWare Fusion 6.0.3 and I upgraded to Yosemite. Oops. I can't open VM because its not a compatible version. Can I still upgrade the VM without losing my data?? I really need to NOT lose my data. Note: I did not backup my computer before this...
While trying to set up a server, I appear to have disabled user logins and now when I start my MacBook I only get the "Name" input field (followed by a red dot), the error message “Network accounts are unavailable” and a password field. All external access has been shut off to this server. I have run Disk Utility and fixed permissions and I have re-installed Lion (not a clean install). The only access I have is via afp to shared Public Folders. Running commands in Terminal does not seem to be an option as I seem to be locked out of the main directory. Is there some way I can re-establish the normal login window?
For the past several days, I have been unable to install ANY apps onto my iPad. When I click "GET" and then "INSTALL", it just says "Waiting..." below the app icon. This is what it looks like (not from my iPad, from Google):
I use my iPhone to wake me up for school in the morning. The one flaw in that workflow is that, as any student knows, snow day season is very much upon us. I also have an iPad (school-given and limited accordingly) and an MBP. iOS 8.1.2 (non-jailbroken) and OS X 10.1.1.
Is it possible to extend the time i'm logged as administrator when enter sudo mode from the console? If yes, how?
I recently upgraded Chromium manually from *=URL=* I tried loading some Flash content and it won't load. First I was thinking that maybe there's a problem with the plugin so I went to "chrome://plugins", it wasn't there, I tried installing, still wasn't there. Went to /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/Versions/42.0.2286.0/Chromium Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/, there was no PepperFlash directory. I copied from Google Chrome, reloaded Chromium, still nothing (No content and nothing appears in chrome://plugins). Tried installing the Pepper Flash specifically from *=URL=* (Selecting My current Mac version and the PPAPI plugin from the other list below). Still not working.
I have tried to quit, force quit and so many more things in Terminal and all over the place but it's still there.
I've tried to remove all folder after disc ejecting, but it didn't help. I've noticed following messages in log file:
I recently tried to install a bootcamp instance of Win 8.1. The install failed for some reason (wasn't clear from the error message). This left me with an unaddressable partition. I erased that partition in Disk Utility but now I am left with a hunk of Free Space that refuses to be deleted or merged with my Macintosh HD partition.
Time Machine does not backup log files in ~/Library/Logs But it does backup logs files within application containers. For example, log files in the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail. My Mail and OneDrive logs are currently adding about 2 GB per backup. I could manually exclude each of ~/Library/Containers/*/Data/Library/Logs but that is a lot of exclusions and would be a list which needs addition whenever I install a new app. The ~/Library/Containers/* folders were introduced to support sandboxing applications, but Time Machine seems to have not kept up with these changes. Is there a better way of telling Time Machine to not backup the /Log folders within Containers? I am using OS X Yosemite 10.10.1.
I am not sending smses but am being charged for the sms being sent to some ISD number from my I Phone 4s. The number and message text supposedly sent does not appear in the sent items. How to stop messages being automatically sent to this number from my phone? Service provider IDEA in UP. Can anyone help solve this issue please?
For example with CleanMyMac username option I can see users like "Kerberos FAST Account", com.apple.calendarserver and large number of others all with system privileges with id 260 or below except for Message Bus which is 500 MacPorts also has a user with id 503. Anything below 500 has a "system" in name. All "real" users that I have created are above 500. so what would be the list for valid users that I should see in the space below 500 in a standard Yosemite installation with OS X Server on it...
Where is the option to set the global keyboard shortcuts for volume controls. I have a non-apple keyboard and by default none of the F keys work as media controls.
I have a Mac with Yosemite (don't remember the exact version) I used CleanMyMac today, but it broke something; after using it, I can't open most Apple applications (I can't open App Store, Mail.app, Safari, System Information; it's not working). Opening the console, I found that the problem seems to be 24/01/15 17:35:36,253 Mail[468]: Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting 24/01/15 17:35:36,255 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mail.7700[468]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1 This happens with almost all Apple applications. All other apps work fine; Chrome, iTunes, Finder, etc. I need to find a solution that does not involve bringing the computer to the Apple store; I have a lot of exams in these days and I need my Mac to study.
I have an iMac (bought in 2011) and I recently upgraded it with Yosemite. I am trying to install Windows 7 on it via Bootcamp. However, its optical drive does not work, so I chose the USB key solution using the trick of modifying the file info.plist of Bootcamp (type 'usb bootcamp youtube' in google to see a video of this trick). So I follow the process religiously and end up with the classic and famous boring screen 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key'.
I'm trying to create a sparse bundle image from Disk Utility directly on my NAS (through a mounted smb volume):  I then get the following error after a few seconds:
So I have a file which when read causes an IO error
Is it possible to sort iOS Mail.app by size? How can this be done, because it's default ordered by sent date. I'd like to remove the biggest mails from my iPhone.
I have a drive used only for Time Machine.  The drive is 3TB, with 1.75TB showing available, so TM actually has used only 1.25TB, yet the total reflects 50+ backups of 80GB each.
I marked my Sent folder to be used in offline mode, and asked the messages to be downloaded. I saw the status bar show my messages being downloaded. But I can't figure out where the messages were stored. My profile folder doesn't have any new files, nor any that start with the word Sent: Where should I look for my downloaded messages?
MS Word has positioned what they call a "toolbox" so that the area you click on to drag it is hidden behind OS X's menu bar, as shown in the screen capture below...  There is no place on the palette (or "toolbox") where I can click on it to move it. I tried hiding and showing it again via View > Toolbox, but it always reappears in the same inaccessible location. I tried restarting the machine. How can I release it from captivity?
I have a dual screen setup and its easy enough to switch between active applications but I was wondering if there was a way to bring the mouse over to the other screen.
I have a Thecus NAS N5550 connected to my Mac. When I open the folders it sometimes takes up to 30 seconds until i see anything in the folder. I'm using OSX (10.10.1) what is going on?
I'm looking to connect two Thunderbolt displays to a single MacBook Pro. I've seen another thread here which mentioned hubs and display ports, but it seems this can be accomplished natively with the ports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP1thwUcO9c
So I have a MacBook Pro (Late '12), has run seamlessly with all OSes that I have put on it, (not to say that this problem is due to the OS). (I'm trying to be as detailed as possible so bear with me.) (Side note: I posted this exact same question in the Apple discussions but no one could answer my question.) The other day I simply opened up Finder and went to my movies folder which is housed on my 2TB Time Capsule that I connect to wirelessly. After taking the usual 5 seconds or so to pull up this particular folder, Finder stops responding so I do what any tech-savvy person does: pull up Terminal to kill Finder's process. Normally Terminal will login as your user, this time however, it somehow gets stuck on the login part, simply displaying 'login:'. Won't let me type or anything. I shut down the MBP and boot it up to find a flashing folder with a question mark on it. Okay, that's fine. Plug in an external with OS X Utilities and Recovery on it, attempt to verify my internal SSD which 
I have FreeNAS server partially set up on an HP Microserver, but just realized that I may lose all my extended attribute metadata on the files that come from my Macs (which is what most of my computers are). This metadata is somewhat important to me, so if FreeNAS will lose this data then maybe I need to rethink my strategy. I was going to use FreeNAS for both Time Machine backup and as a file server, so the metadata would be relevant in both cases. Will FreeNAS keep the metadata if I connect to it using AFP, or will it lose the metadata?
I am using PHPStorm 8 for programming. PHPStorm automatically creates a hidden folder called ".idea", where all project-specifiy settings are stored. How am I able to find all these ".idea" folders in the entire system? (I like to find and remove all of these folder) Thanks!
I have two languages I am actively using. English is my default, but in some applications such as Skype I use Russian. Every time I am switching from Skype to Safari I have manually switch back from Russian to English and this is annoying. How can I configure so that language switch is handled by operating system automatically when I am changing windows? In Keyboards->Input Sources I've ticked Automatically switch to a document's input source but it doesn't work, still if I've switched to Russian it will stay while I will change it again. I am on Yosemite 10. Thanks for any help!
After deleting several applications I downloaded from App Store, I don't seem to be able to download them a second time as there is no Install button. Is this normal? Are they lost forever?
I'm using the stock terminal with zsh and vim. After I exit vim, the file contents remains in the terminal. Ideally, only the previous history would be in the terminal when I exit vim (such as the behavior I've seen with linux/bash). How can I accomplish that? Update I'm running os x Yosemite 10.10.1 I tried glenn jackman's suggestion below, but still no dice. Additional information: echo $TERM produces ansi I also tried in bash with the same results. I also tried removing .vimrc completely with the same results.
My app status changed to Metadata Rejected because they needed to ask me something. I answered 2 days ago and haven't gotten a reply nor has it changed back to in review. Is this normal?
Is there a built-in way to find out the temperature of my Macbook Pro?
What I have decided would probably be the easiest course of action would be to backup my OS X partition, do a complete reformat and reinstall from back up. However I would like to retain my system exactly as is with the two user accounts, all their settings and apps still installed and operational. I am thinking cloning my partition would probably be the easiest but I am unsure as to how this would work with an encrypted OS X partition and if it would still retain the MBR error. My current choices of action from what I can tell is: Cloning the partition Migration Assistant Time Machine Backup If anyone could give me some ideas on which would be the best solution for me it would be greatly appreciated.
Alright, so about a few hours ago I purchased OS X Server, being intrigued by it's VPN capabilities. I enabled VPN and set it up, however I'm unsure if I even did this correctly. I'm pretty sure I've set it up incorrectly or the information I'm putting in my connection on my iPhone 6 (Settings>General>VPN) is incorrect.
I'm a gamer and one day i was playing mine craft when this blabbering thing just showed up. I went to activity monitor and there was a process called com.apple.dock.extra. From the first day there was a annoying voice all the time and when i went to internet pages, i could not scroll down as it would go back up to the top again. Just yesterday i was playing mine craft when my up key stopped working. After some investigating, i think it has to do with com.apple.dock.extra. Whenever i press up, the annoying little black box goes up to multiple links and says them out to me. Finally, there is a big black box that appears telling me where my system is. My computer is a 13 inch MacBook Air version 10.7.4 and i have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4. I have a 1.8 GHZ processor. Could someone PLEASE tell me how to fix it, as this is my school computer.
holding D during start up and running the extensive hardware test. No problems were detected.
Yes, time machine missing backup folders/files has been asked before and gone unaswered. I can't touch those threads as a new, reputationless member. It's very dissapointing to discover missing folders and files from full time machine backups.
Anyway, in that folder are 3 more (1 is an alias for /Users), and the other 2 are Library and System. I suspect these 2 folders must be from Mavericks. So, I'm wondering, is it 100% safe to delete this monster?
When apps get updated, little blue dots appear next to the app name in iOS 8.1 (and some earlier versions as well). This is just a pet peeve, but those blue dots annoy me. For example, if I update 10 apps, I have to open each of those ten apps to make the blue dots go away, which is a pain. Is there any way to disable the blue dots so they don't appear for new/updated apps?
The search suggestions in Safari always suggest results in Dutch to me, despite using my phone in English, and my Google set to English by default. I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, so I guess this is intended behaviour, but I find the Dutch wikipedia pages to be lacking quite often, for example. Is there any way to change this language?
But the other problem is, since it only has 4GB of RAM, I often use a lot of it. I like to have safari open a lot of the time and it uses a lot of memory. However, the "memory pressure" in activity monitor is usually OK. Also, my thinking is that with an SSD, the RAM might not matter so much since the swap would be faster.
I have reviewed the comments already posted about an unresponsive screen on my iPad air. I have tried the following: Turned itself off and won't turn back on
I have an iPad 4. Still have ios 6. Want apps I can't purchase since they require ios 7. How much space am I losing to upgrade to current ios 8 version?
Here is my situation: I've only the mouse paired with my iMac because I rent the keyboard to a friend. Unfortunately the startup disk is set to a fallacious Windows partition that don't want to boot. It sucks on "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" so I can't boot in any working partition. So, I've two questions: There is a way to change boot partition or to go to recovery using only mouse? If I buy a standard usb keyboard, can I just plug the usb cable and use it to change the boot partition or it won't boot, because of the drivers?
I accidentally removed iCloud drive from the Favorites sidebar (in Finder). Dragging it back isn't restoring it. How could I restore it?
I have installed Windows 8 through BOOTCAMP, and now i want to remove it and leave it for a clear OSX. Is there anyone who know how to remove it completely? (I mean nothing related windows left).
Okay, so one thing I've wanted to be able to do for ages now in OS X is to create or view a combined Applications folder that displays the contents of both /Applications and ~/Applications (assume it exists). Now, I know LaunchPad can do this, but I'd still like to be able to do this in a regular Finder window, for example using a Smart Folder. Is this possible, and if so, what are the steps for doing this (either in the Finder itself, or via command line)?
I know that you can trigger a notification using Apple Script: However, I also want to be able to prompt for certain values in the style of iMessages reply-from-notification-popup. For example, I want to be able to do this from shell script: Is this possible at all?
However, call me lazy but it's still something that matters to me, I frequent Netflix & Hulu and other websites at minimum 4 times a day. I would like to add a functional command that will automatically open a webpage correlating to that command. since open file is different than run file, i'm trying to autonomously open Safari + the name of the website in URL form with dictation? The good thing about this is it automatically makes whatever application you reference the front-most window. So coding should be minimal, and I really don't want to create a service for this [my services are growing, currently at +55 in total].
The issue I'm having is that I manage three Mac Mini servers. Two are for work, one is for me. I can log into our main work server and my personal box using WebDAV, however, the second work server rejects my login credentials with "The user name or password was not accepted by the server." errors.
I have a few aliases set up on my mac. But for some reason they don't seem to work anymore. I'm not sure why either. Even when I type in alias to see my list of aliases nothing happens just this: If I go into my ~/.profile script with nano I can see the script exists and has values though.
Being a newbie to Mac I found it very strange that Ctrl+Cmd ⌘+Power instantly kicks my computer to reboot without even printing a warning of any sort. The problem is that sometimes I mix it up with Ctrl+Shift+Power which is for screen lock. Neither I use any of these very often hence few times I accidentally hit reboot instead of screen lock, luckily without any unsaved work to recover.. Is there a way to either disable a instant reboot key combination or, if that's not possible then force to bring it up some "Are you sure" message ? It's quite strange that such a dangerous feat is so easily accessible without any confirmation or keypress for X seconds before initiation of reboot is something user would expect at least.
As stated, I now have an iPhone 6. It's running iOS8 but has the same problem on my 5s when it was running iOS7. Please help, I find this frustrating and haven't seem to find any posts that help.
I have pdf files in the Dock of my MacBook Air, I just left them there and everything was fine, now all of a sudden a large question mark comes up and I can't open them. Any thoughts?
I purchased an iMac in late 2013. This model has no disc drive. It came with Mountain Lion pre-installed. If I ever needed to perform a clean install of Mountain Lion, how can I? I don't have an installer file and no disc came with the computer. What's the official way to deal with the fact that I essentially don't own a copy of the OS my computer came with?
I own a 16gb iPhone and currently running out of space. After inspecting the storage manager I found out that the most storage has been consumed by messages. I tried to look for ways to see or order my dialogs biggest to smallest size by didn't find a way to do so. Is there a way I can do it on my phone or laptop or is the only option is blunt deleting all dialogs? Please don't suggest deleting other apps
Our home MacBook has two users on it: my wife's and mine. This morning we noticed when logged in as my wife's user that in the KeyChain Access it has all of my web passwords. Including passwords I only use on my work laptop. How is this possible? To clarify exactly what's going on let's define some things: MacBooks Home-macbook Husband-work-macbook Home-macbook Husband-work-macbook Apple/iTunes accounts Wife-apple-account Husband-apple-account Wife-apple-account Husband-apple-account OSX users on home-macbook Wife-osx-user (uses Wife-apple-account) Husband-osx-user (uses Husband-apple-account) Wife-osx-user (uses Wife-apple-account) Husband-osx-user (uses Husband-apple-account) OSX users on work-macbook Employee-osx user (uses Husband-apple-account) Employee-osx user (uses Husband-apple-account) So this is what happened exactly: On Home-macbook, logged in as Wife-osx-user, we could see passwords in the KeyChain Access program that were only ever used on work-macbook as Employee-osx.
I am trying to achieve a chart in Numbers 3.5 where both axis scale linearly. Right now, my chart looks like this: Obviously, I want the x-axis to scale because the 100.000 bytes message is MUCH larger than the 10.000 bytes message, and the current chart is misleading.
This is more of an aesthetic question rather than a functional one, but after upgrading to OSX Yosemite I don't have the iCloud drive or history icon in finder, it just gives me the default. In finder preferences, the icons appear normally...Any ideas why?
I have a Mac Mini 2006 and I accidentally set one of the permissions to No Access and so now the OS X will not boot up. ⌘ Cmd+R and ⌘ Cmd+S will not work. All I can do is hold the Opt and choose what to boot to.
Say I have two monitors, one an LCD on my laptop and the other a HD 21". I've disabled display mirroring as I want to use the extra space to view another window, however I want the items on the desktop of both screens to be the same. Is it possible to mirror the desktop to both screens in this way?
Can I set up Chrome to not store passwords in the Keychain? I'd like to be able to use Chrome as my browser on her Macbook, without having my passwords shared into Safari and Firefox (which she uses). That's how we've shared this computer for a long time (which means I don't have to bother logging out fully and logging in as my own account), and since upgrading to Yosemite it has changed behavior here.
I'm thinking of trying to minimize distractions while doing homework by locking myself in an account managed by self-inflicted parental controls. My problem is, I don't want to not have access to my school files while I'm in the admin account. How can I give both accounts access to my school folders while keeping the convenience of having them on both accounts' desktops? (i.e. I'd very much like to not go to the Public folder every single time.) Early 2011 MBP, OS X 10.10.1. EDIT: Also a viable option, if anyone knows how to make it happen: A way to turn self-inflicted parental controls on and off at will despite being an admin.
I'd been using a spelling auto-correct in Windows that worked amazingly well (without being annoying). It basically uses the list of most commonly typos from Wikipedia and substitutes any occurrence from it, if the user types that, with the correct spelling. *=URL=* It uses the software Autohotkey to do this.
We're trying to transfer large files from NY to LA, from one Mac to another. Both sites have 100/100 mbps internet. Both report full speed at www.speedtest.net. But we've tried AFP, SMB and SFTP, and can't get it to go any faster than 20mbps. Tested with iperf -- with parallel connections got up to 16-20 mbps.
I often have to find email addresses using the 'search' window in OSX mail. The search function will frequently find an address for someone, and show it in the popup window below the search window. But it often fails to find the underlying message, so I cannot open an actual existing message from the person.
I use zsh. For some reason, with zsh, when I type open <TAB> (which should list the files to autocompletion), it opens Finder in the current folder.
I bought a Seagate external HD 500gb with my Mac. Recently started using Photoshop and Lightroom, which take up a ton of space. I was thinking of moving my entire iPhoto to the Seagate to free up space. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about it?
I am having problems changing the Permissions on the "username.conf" file in the /etc/apache2/users/ folder. It needs to have the permission of -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 298 Jun 28 16:47 username.conf but I am not able to achieve this. I have tried changing the permissions with the command sudo chmod 644 username.conf;and it didn't change. I am using this tutorial: *=URL=* When I check the permission of the file, it's -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 155 Jan 23 23:30 Owner.conf When I navigate to *=URL=* , I get 404 Not found.
I am using iAd producer this afternoon to make iAds for some of my apps. I have googled around but I still cannot figure out how to remove an action that I have added to an action list. I have tried dragging the action out of the list, control clicking, alt clicking, command clicking, but I can't figure it out. How do I delete the action?
My brother downloaded some books on my iBooks account and I want it permanently off my purchased and all books thing. I have iOS 8.1.2 so none of the answers in the previous question.
Is there a way to use Thunderbolt display with mid 2010 MacBook Pro that only has a Mini DisplayPort (i.e. no Thunderbolt)? I understand that Thunderbolt displays are officially supposed to work only with post 2010 Macs, however I only care about the display functionality, i.e. I want my Mac to simply see it as a monitor.
Is there an app for iOS where I can see all my photos from the iOS Photos app, with their filenames next to them? Preferably without duplicating the photos, but rather just mirroring them and showing the metadata associated with each photo.
I've always loved the functionality Preview.app provides for marking up PDFs. Using Dropbox allows me to easily see these changes across my mac's, but I'm stumped as to how to not only see, but continue to markup PDFs when I'm using my iPad.
I am screen sharing from an iMac 10.6.8 looking at a MacBook Pro 10.8. Quite often, but not always, the shared screen looks like this on my iMac.
I much prefer the way Chrome allows me to use ⌘+# key to switch directly to an open tab. For example: ⌘+3 takes me directly to tab 3 in Chrome, but in Safari it loads the third bookmark from the bookmark bar in the current tab. How can I make Safari behave like Chrome when I'm using ⌘+# key shortcuts and switch tabs instead of loading bookmarks?
I want to read through my reading list in the order that I add links, but making use of the seamless page to page scrolling functionality requires that I read them starting with the one I added most recently. Is there a way to reverse this?
This looks like a file browser but I don't know name of the tool. Can anyone help? Thanks!
How can I disable the unread badge and jumping for attention on an app icon in my Dock? It is an app (Line chat) which isn't in System Preferences > Notifications, so can't disable it from there. Would like to disable the badge as well as the jumping for attention, as both are quite distracting.
In Mail.app I have several mail addresses and incoming mail to some addresses is already being forwarded to my primary mail address. I don't want to have an inbox for these secondary emails (I've got them on my primary anyway) but I want to be able to send from those addresses. I've tried adding my secondary account as usual, and then disabling it. But then I can't see that address' SMTP server to send from when sending. If I enable it, I can see it, but its mailbox automatically comes back. How can I have no mailbox for a mail account, but still be able to select its SMTP server to send mail from that address?
When entering an email address into the To: field of Mail, usually the full name of the recipient is displayed instead of the actual address. When entering my own address, however, I get the following:
iTerm2, on startup, opens as many tabs as were opened in my previous session. How can I disable this behaviour? I don't need those empty tabs.
I am attempting to clear the "form & search history" in Firefox, and the box is completely grayed out and will not allow me access.  Any thoughts or suggestions about how to fix this?
I'm using an external hard drive to download songs to itunes. When I'm done syncing, I get a message saying my ipod cannot be ejected because some of the files are being used by another source. Somehow I think some of the files from the external hard drive got downloaded onto the internal hard drive. I'm not super computer literate but I really don't remember doing anything other than moving the file from the external hard drive to iTunes. Why is this happening and what do I do to fix it?
I have some old Keynote presentations. When I try to open them with the latest Keynote (6.5.2 (2119)), I get the following warning: I've managed to get Keynote '09 installed, and I can open with that, save, open with the current version, and save again.
Somewhere after Lion (from which I upgraded to 10.10), Apple has changed the shortcut to show/hide the toolbar in Preview from ⌘-B to ⌘-I, at least it says so in the menu entries. But when actually using the shortcut, what pops up is (as one would expect), the info window.
My Mac constantly wakes itself up from sleep for apparently no reason. Middle of the night, middle of that day, it just can't stay asleep. Why? I ran pmset with the following results:
I have a 2013 model iMac at work with Core i5 processor (the first generation with the thin edges). It is running OS X Mavericks - the IT department here at work states that I can't upgrade the system to Yosemite due to some "open directory related integration issues." But I was given the green light to install Windows 8.1 in Boot Camp.
I am somewhat a novice when it comes to the Apache web server. I currently host Ruby on Rails applications on my Mac Mini Server (Mavericks) using Phusion Passenger. I know that some of the config files are in different libraries than the standard Apache implementation. I'm currently using Server.app to host one HTML website. I would like to stop using Server.app to host it but I do not know how to set this up in Apache on an Apple machine. The solutions I have found are not specific to the Apple setup for Apache. I would appreciate help on how to do this from anyone who has done this.
I am amazed that there doesn't seem to be a decent multiple connection capable FTP/SFTP client for Mac. The only one I've seen is CaptainFTP, which looks awful, like it's from the last century. There's also iGetter, which is equally ancient, and not really set up as a browser, more of a download accelerator. I've been using lftp, which is amazing, but CLI only, which makes it a pain. Does anyone know of either (a) a "modern" client app which supports multiple connections, or (b) a GUI for lftp?
I was trying to set up my Mac to run custom Python scripts from anywhere without having to type python [script.py] or the explicit file path. The script is called "testscript". I put the script in my own bin directory (separate from /usr/local/bin), called /User/Patrick/bin, and added it to my path so when I type echo $PATH it comes up correctly like so:
I am using Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. Recently, I have noticed that the application is not highlighting my typos and spelling mistakes, neither autocorrecting it. I have checked some online helps but nothing is helping at all.
when I go to icloud on my iphone 4s is says verifying email address. It will not let me click on any of the settings to turn off my phone or will not let me change the email address because it is still verifying. I do not know the password for the email account
Is it possible to pair two iPhone 5c phones with Bluetooth? Both phones have OS 8.1.2, both are shown as having the same name; they are in the same Verizon plan. I’ve gone to Bluetooth, activated it, and both phones are shown as discoverable. Neither will show the other device. Can they be paired? If so, how do I accomplish that?
There's "ghostet text" in my terminal (see screenshot), and I'm hoping someone knows how to fix this…  Turning background transpareny off fixes the problem, but it's not a solution which I'm a fan of. I tried cranking the opacity up to 100 % (thus turning transparency off), ran some commands, and turned the opacity back to 75 %, which made the ghosting appear yet again. I love working in the terminal, and really hope someone have a suggestion for a fix :) Specs which might be relevant: OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Macbook Pro 8.1 (early 2011) Integrated graphics Using TotalTerminal 1.5.4
Long story short, I am using Citrix to remote into my PC at work, and several applications require the use of the INSERT key, which, as everyone knows, Apple chose to eliminate from their keyboards. I've tried everything I can think of, and never been able to find an easy way to send this keycode via Citrix. I'm sure there are other uses for this, and I've read quite a few people's questions on the subject, but no one seems to have offered a viable solution.
I performed hard restart on laptop after it froze during a restart. When loading again, the apple logo displayed with a loader then displayed a prohibitory sign. After some time reading and many failed attempts, I have been unable to restart mac successfully -
I found an Applescript at apple's support site to sort any contact with the "Company" checkmark checked into a "Business" group: It fails on: With error: Does anyone know of a method to sort out all contacts checkmarked as "Company"? For example I do NOT want anyone who has a company name but is an individual card:
For quite some time I've been having a few problems with menubar icons. Specifically long ones being cut off. Here the Adobe Icon and the play icon (for an app called Bee) are being cut off
I gave my Macbook Pro to my partner, after reinstalling OSx on the laptop. My info was deleted by me before reinstalling the OS, but my Apple ID still shows up in iPhoto.
I have Macbook Pro ( late 2011) which I recently upgraded to Yosemite and works fine. It has only one hard drive which is 256GB SSD (Samsung). After purchasing I received Mountain Lion as an app in Apple Store and it is downloaded and Apple is not going to ship physical CD.
Occasionally my ex and i will have texting conversations. I would like to be able to save these digitally for my records. Is there a way to save these conversations as a text file? Right now I only know how to send myself an email with a singular text. Not useful for a 50 text back and forth conversation about our kids. I have an iphone 6
My father has a 1st generation iPad. I can't seem to find a single eBook reader that is compatible. iBooks should have a compatible version, but it won't install it. I have read about using iTunes to sync older versions, but his Mac mini is so old it won't even 'see' the iPad on iTunes. Any ideas?
I have so far tried Keka and Unarchiver, but they both don't allow browsing the archive content. They simply extract everything contained in the archive which is not a desirable behaviour. Is there any free (or cheap) alternative to winrar for osx?
DriveDx claims that there have been 2051 power cycles on my Fusion SSD in 17 months. For the Fusion Hard drive part it claims 6402 power cycles count. SSD power on time has been 12250 hours and the hard drive 13343 hours? This seems a lot as I keep my Mac on all the time and do force reboot very rarely only if nothing else helps = rarely.
The iTunes Store has an annoying habit of localising song metadata based on the system language: for instance, if I have my system language set to English but buy from the Japanese iTunes store, the song name "以心伝心" will instead appear as "Ishindenshin" in the store and metadata of the downloaded file. Logging out of the store, changing the system language to Japanese, and then logging back in corrects the issue, at least until the system language is changed back. I tried setting iTunes to always open in Japanese as follows: but while the rest of the app obeys this nicely, the store doesn't, and insists on continuing to localise content. Anyone know if a similar setting exists to set the store language/localisation without changing the entire system language?
Some time ago I managed to force Mail to always put attachments at the end of the email. Now I would like to revert this setting. As I don't find anything in the GUI (preferences) I suppose that I changed some preferences with the terminal. I see that I have AttachAtEnd=1 in my preferences But it seems that I am not able to change it or How can I remove it?
So, recently I got a Mac system and I was planning to put in an Intel WiFi card (as an upgrade for its current card). Now, as we know, Apple and Intel do not get along WiFi-wise. However, this same card works in Linux.
I use iMessage on my mac so now many of my friend and coworker uses it like if it was SMS. I would like to know if there is a way to redirect my iMessage on my generic mobile device (not apple nor android)?
I've had this problem ever since I upgraded from Mavericks. Whenever I open Photo Booth, the application seems to be stuck on startup and I have to wait for like 50 seconds for it to become useable. A few months ago, it used to be like 20 seconds but it seems like the waiting time gets higher all the time. Im using a Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch Early 2013.
I have a MacBook Pro, running Mac 10.9.5. I connect wirelessly to the Internet through my home Cisco LinkSys E900 router, which sits just 10 feet away from my computer. However, frequently when I leave my computer inactive for a period of time and then return after waking it from hibernation, my Internet is connect to an xfiniti Wifi hotspot, without my having done anything. How do I configure my Mac so that it will ignore the xfiniti Wifi hot spot and remain connected to my home network?
My company has a network printer KONICA MINOLTA C353, I have added it on my Mac. I know there is still a password needed to fill in, but I can't find where to input it. What a bad luck is that I can install the latest driver on osx 10.10 (you can see the two disks are gray, you can install on it)
I have Open Directory configured on a brand new OS X machine with Server.app set up on it. I'm trying to configure the mobile account setup on the server, to allow users to sync their home directories up to the server volume (for backup / recovery purposes). I cannot seem to get this to behave correctly, and the documentation from Apple on this is thin at-best.
Running Mavericks and Disc Utility and fsck report no errors. Safe Boot reports Unable to open /var/db/BootCaches/PreheatedUser/Merged.playlist. Found a tutorial (or three) recommending to enter Single User mode to: However /etc/launchd.conf doesn't appear to exist. Additionally I'm starting Safe Boot in verbose mode (⇧ + ⌘ + v while starting) it says it's logging to /dev/console but I'm not sure how to access the data say by having it written to a file I could later read or pipe to mail or printer. At the moment the computer, even in Safe Boot, gets stuck somewhere between loading the desktop image, status bar at the top and showing the apps at the bottom of the screen.
Is it possible to manually update the iCloud Drive folder on OS X? Sometimes the folder does not update for ~10-20 minutes after establishing a good internet connection, so I'm hoping that there is a keyboard shortcut or menu action to refresh the iCloud Drive folder and download any documents made on another computer.
I find that there are two versions of Dreamweaver CC for Mac OSX, one is Dreamweaver_14_LS20 and another is Dreamweaver_13_LS20. Can anyone tell me what is the exactly differences between these two versions.
I am having an issue with Time Machine. Since upgrading to Yosemite Time Machine has not been working. I have seen this seems to be a common issue but have not seen reference to my specific case.
Yesterday I noticed that I could no longer ⌘ + TAB, minimize/maximize windows and that the Dock was missing. I've tried numerous things to resolve it: rebooting reseting PRAM killing Dock with killall -KILL Dock That last one should restart the process, but it didn't appear to initially: I opened up the Activity Monitor and noticed that it was repeatedly trying to restart the process:
In OSX (Yosemite) I've figured out how to switch between showing a file as an icon or as a preview in Finder. I can go to Finder > View > Show View Options and then toggle the Show icon preview checkbox.
Currently I have 10.9 (Mavericks) installed. I use an external USB mouse on a day-to-day basis, with the "Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present" option ticked, which prevents the flicking mouse pointer behaviour.
how do I create a signature on yosemite? preview does not offer that option as shown in the youtube of how to create a signature.
I would like to be able to get texts on my iPad running iOS 8.1.3 from some people (work contacts) and not others (Wife). Is this possible? or is it an accept all or none feature?
I have an old app I need to run. How can i run SL as guest with Yosemite as host with MacBook Air 2011 and vbox? I own SL retail and the MacBook Air is apple, there shouldn't be any legal issues.
Yesterday everything was fine with the battery in my MacBook Air 13'' 2012 (2 years old). It was lasting for 4-5 hours like new. Today, all of a sudden, the battery has stopped charging at all (I have only 40% left). While the power cable is plugged in, its LED doesn't indicate any colour. I rebooted the system, no difference. In System Info I have: Cycle Count: 409 Condition: Service Battery
Given a system with a fast internal SSD, and a slower external HDD, is it possible to improve the HDD's performance using free space on the SSD without creating a Fusion Drive? In my case the external drive is always connected (the system needs the extra capacity). Really I'm looking mostly to use a big chunk of space for read-caching, and maybe to buffer writes (provided the content doesn't stay there for long, and is safely written out before being unmounted). Unfortunately the SSD isn't big enough to take the full contents of the HDD, and I'd like to avoid having to manually symlink folders, though I may do it for some temporary/cache folders where it won't matter if they're moved.
I'm looking for a way to automatically have my computer generate and print PDF files from a folder full of markdown files. So, every morning at 5AM I'd want my computer look at my /markdown-files folder, create a bunch of PDFs to go into a /PDF-folder and also run the printer so the pages are waiting for me. There are a couple of requirements that might make this a bit tricky: The PDFs should have the file title at the top of each page The page needs to be A4 The lines should be double spaced at least. I used to use WKPDF to generate PDFs, but it no longer works on Yosemite.
If I'm not mistaken (since I don't have the actual instructions), I believe from Windows, if one had the instructions, it likely should still be possible to generate the certificate request file to then submit on Apple's Safari developer portal to then generate/get the final developer certificate. So that one could build extensions on Windows Safari 5, if the extension need not be Safari version targeted/specific.
In Numbers, when I enter 0.981, it gets automatically formatted as 1. How can I increase the precision? When I double click on the cell I can see 0.981 but as soon as I deselect it, it goes back to 1.
What's a Freshbooks-compatible native Mac time-tracking app that is still updated? I found a few that work on Freshbooks's site, but it looks like they haven't been updated in years. I can track via Freshbooks's web app, but I'd prefer not to have Safari running just for that. That's why I'd like to find a native Mac app.
I would like to know, how to remove FileVault2 keys from memory, when I close the lid on my Macbook pro 15" running Yosemite. It works, when I leave the computer as it slowly goes into standby by itself (first lock-screen then the screensaver and then standby). I had manage to do this, with this classic command:
While in Chrome or Sublime Text and mail for sure, my window will lose focus on 5 minute intervals. How do I determine culprit so that I can eliminate it? I've tried a reboot and closing applications that I think might be responsible and can't figure out what's actually causing the problem.
I have an iPod Touch. If I plug it into the AC outlet, with a AC/USB power adapter, the iPod will charge to about 20%, and then stop charging. However, if I plug it into a computer USB outlet (using the same USB cable), it will charge fully to 100%. Electricity is electricity, no matter where it comes from, so why wouldn't it charge from an AC outlet?
I don't know how to explain it too well. Here are some places I see this happen: On the Minecraft main menu, I can see through to the desktop, While watching a youtube video (in full screen) I can see remnants of the previous page, etc.
I would simply like to activate Application Window when clicking on the dock icon. Currently you must hold the icon to activate the functionality I would it to automatically occur just like Ubuntu's when making the 2nd click. Please refer me to a different site if this should be posted elsewhere.
After deleting an open e-mail, is there a way to return to the inbox by default instead of opening the next e-mail in the list?
Is there a way to cancel or disable the minimize animation completely in Mac OSX?
My iPhone claims I have no disk space left on the device. This is simply not true. Rebooting the phone did not help. Is there anything else I can do?
I'm currently making an experiment that requires taking loads of pictures and then putting them into a video for analysis. However when I import them to iMovie 09, it gives the Ken Burns effect, which I don't like. I have to have the pictures in the 'fit' mode when cropping. I can change this feature manually for each picture but this takes a lot of time.
I bought an iPod Touch 5 two months back, I love the sound quality of the device. But after 1 month when my brother bought iPhone 5s, I checked the sound output of the device through the same earpods that came with my iPod. The difference in sound output was huge, I am not talking about the sound quality but the loudness. I checked everywhere but there was no proper explanation why the difference in sound is so huge. Is it because the two DACs r completely different or is it something to do with Output Source Impedance?
Something that I found interesting is that when I centered the document, the center point of all of the text is at the 7" mark on the ruler, even though the ruler goes clear up to 20 inches. So, I'm curious as to why this is? However, the frustrating part is when I close the document and then at a later point reopen it and start to type on the first line again. The entire first line automatically moves from being centered, to being aligned at the left of the page. The remaining lines of text remain centered at the 7" centering point discussed above, whether I type new text onto those lines or not. The only line that is affected in this manner is the very first line. Additionally, whereas on the original document there were only the three symbols above the ruler, the reopened document has numerous left indent arrows on the ruler as well as the original two down arrows and the "T" symbol. If I then click the "Center Text" button on the document, while my cursor is still on this first lin
Recently i upgrade to Yosemite, but i can't start my Xcode, when i try to start it via terminal using i got error: Any ideas?
When I log in after every OS X update, I get a push notification saying that my computer is being optimized and that performance and battery life may be affected until it's complete. Is it dangerous to restart my computer again immediately after getting this notification? (I have to reboot in order to make my manual Continuity activation work.) And if so, how can I tell when the process is done?
When I attach a document to my email, it can come out as an icon, or sometimes as a printed document. Can I control this?
I'm currently working with OS X Server (Yosemite) to try and create profiles for certain devices. It appears that I have configured the server correctly, and I have assigned a domain to it. When I try to enroll an iOS device and click "Enroll", I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Same thing happens on the Mac. Is this a common issue, or is there something I forgot to configure?
Running 10.9.most recent. As of this evening my Mac will not start up normally from the internal drive. The Apple logo appears and the spinning disc as well, but nothing happens thereafter. I have waited as much as 20 minutes.
I own a 2012 Macbook Pro with Core i7, 1GB Nvidia Graphics, 8GB RAM and 1 TB HDD. I want to connect 2 external monitors to it using the thunderbolt port because thats the only port I have. It doesn't have HDMI or VGA port.
Previous versions of OS X had a dropdown menu under Viewing in Mail Preferences that allowed you to choose the type of heading or no heading at all when viewing an email. The drop down menu is still there but now there is only one choice available: "headers". I can find no mention of this issue on any Apple forums. Maybe no one else uses it? Or am I the only one with this issue? Would appreciate any suggestions for a fix. I often save emails as PDFs and prefer not to have header info showing.
I’m using the latest iPhone OS (I believe 8.1.2). When using an Exchange account, sometimes I get mail with multiple people on the “To:” line, and others on the “CC:” line. When I reply all in the mail app, it moves everyone by the sender to the “CC:” line.
I just got a pair of Blue Yeti USB microphones. Unfortunately, my Mac only wants to recognize whichever one was plugged in last. To be more specific, they both appear under USB in System Information, but only one in System Preferences and Audio MIDI Setup. Is it possible to use both at once?
(My iPhone syncs fine with a bunch of other computers.) iTunes won't run after installation. I Download 64 bit iTunes from *=URL=* The installation on Windows 7 Enterprise goes without a glitch.
So, I upgraded router to latest DD-WRT firmware. Now, for some reason, can't see my Mac Desktop from my MacBook if connected to Ethernet. Macbook has DHCP, Mac Desktop has DHCP with manual IP. I can see the Mac Desktop if I connect via Wi-Fi, but not through ethernet. I've released / renewed DHCP a few times, rebooted, flushed dscache, power cycled router.
I have just noticed that command line utilities such as ls (/bin/ls), touch (/usr/bin/touch), cat (/bin/cat), etc. are very slow when I run them from Terminal or iTerm on my MacBook. For example: ls'ing while in an empty directory takes 1 second (it also takes 1 second in a non-empty directory, both with lots of files or with a few files); ls'ing while in an empty directory takes 1 second (it also takes 1 second in a non-empty directory, both with lots of files or with a few files); touch'ing a new file takes 1 second (it also takes 1 second to touch an existing file); touch'ing a new file takes 1 second (it also takes 1 second to touch an existing file); cat'ing an empty file takes 1 second (there is also a 1 second lag before anything happens when I cat a non-empty file). cat'ing an empty file takes 1 second (there is also a 1 second lag before anything happens when I cat a non-empty file).
What are the correct permissions for files and folders in ~/Library and ~/Library/Preferences? And how do I set them?
I installed Windows 8.1 pro on my late 2011 mbp and now I'm having issues with audio and display drivers. I can't get the audio to work at all. I have tried updating the drivers and reinstalling them, but nothing has worked.I am also having trouble with my display driver because I can't project to an external monitor. I have also tried updating drivers and reinstalling, but nothing has helped. I don't really know what to do now, but open to any suggestions on how to solve this.
I have kdiff3 installed on my Mac (Version 0.9.97, 64 bit). Here's my ~/.gitconfig:
Of course, by holding down on an icon and tap the x lets me uninstall an app. But take a look at this:
Every time my Mac starts, about ~210 processes are launched, requiring about ~1000 OS Threads. With every Apple update this number increases. My laptop freezes for 1-3 min a couple of times per week because some process I've never heard of starts consuming 100% of CPU time till they likely crash. From googling process names the Apple process launch policy on laptops with limited battery life seems to be: launch every time everything for anything anyone might ever want to do. Is there a way to do something about this? What I've found: Some of the processes are started by root (I don't want to do much about those). Some of the processes are started by root (I don't want to do much about those). However, most of them are started by my user, and most of those are for things that I do not need or that I have explicitly disabled in system preferences (keychain, messenger...). However, most of them are started by my user, and most of those are for things that I do not need or that I have expl
Recently I got some money in my Apple ID and a few years ago I made a rescue email ( which I forgot how to enter ) and put some security questions I forgot how to awnser and I cannot buy apps ,music or movies because I need to fill in the security questions ! If I don't find an awnser on here, I will call Apple customers support.
what is the solution to provide a group of iPhone users (personally owned devices with users own AppleIDs) with an group-contact list that is centrally managed by an admin (i.e. the group contact list on phone always being sync'ed with central admin version)? E.g. consultants in a workgroup being able to get hold of each other and ensuring contact list is always up-to-date.
For last times i have kernel panics at least once a day. Anyone have suggestions how i can find what cause issue and how to fix it?
Ok, if you use ALT + CMD + H you can hide all windows except the active one. How can I minimize (or hide) all windows except a set of 3 or 4 windows chosen by the user? Is there any app for that?
I usually listen to Mac output through headphones, which I keep plugged in almost all the time. I'm happy to have speakers squelched. But there are some alerts--e.g. message coming in from IM, or notifications from a web page, that I'd like to hear about if I'm across the room.
I'm on OS X 10.10.2 and How to upgrade bash to v4.0+ properly? Update: After installing bash with pkgsrc I got newer bash but it isn't default: How to make the newer bash the default one?
But on mac... I found a huge list of application that or doesn't do a proper tracking (harvest, timings, tyme) or doesn't give me reports I want like RescueTime.
How can I set the log level of launchd in MacOS Yosemite? I've tried launchctl log level debug but it doesn't work.
I hope this is possible. I have set multiple locations in my MacBook to toggle between various networks and connections.
I'd like to write a script to backup some files to my iCloud drive. The drive shows up in the Finder, but I don't see it from the command line. Is there a way to do something like: cp mystuff.tgz /iCloudDrive/backups/
I need an java application to run 24/7 on my mac. Unfortunately the JVM process sometimes gets stuck and thus the java application does not respond anymore. Is there a possebility to detect if a given process has crashed (or at least is not in a proper running state) and restart this specific process subsequent? I found which lists the java process (/usr/bin/java)
Lately, I am holding a lot of vconfs on Google Hangouts. I'm using a headphone set but the internal mic is capturing the input sound. Apparently, if I move a bit away from my iMac or if I speak softer, the system increases (adjusts) that volume automatically. That is all very nice except that then, I start hearing my own echo on the other end! (I mean, transmitted back to me from my vconf partner amplified and delayed).
For example, I need to know where the Automator folder icon is. I want to use it for a thing.
There are many answers online on how to hide old events from iCloud calendars, but not many on how to actually delete them. From the settings, it appears to not be possible to do automatically. There may be, however, a command-line way to do it. I’m looking for something that doesn’t rely on AppleScript to call the Calendar app and doing it there, as I’ve gotten mixed results with such solutions, and would rather not invoke a GUI.
I just purchased iPhone 5s and as a surprise I see no 2G/3G toggle switch. Am from India and I stay in a place where I have poor 3G connectivity. D we have any app in the App Store that can facilitate this option?
I'm trying to send a group MMS message to a group of friends from my mac. Some are Android users and some are iMessage users. I can add all of them to the conversation from the mac, but as soon as I add an iPhone user, the entire thread automatically changes to an "iMessage" and I get the error "Your message could not be sent... xxx-xxx-xxxx is not registered with iMessage." See image below for an example:
I recently purchased custom build PC with Asus Z87 Expert Thunderbolt motherboard, Intel i7-4790K processor, Sapphire R9 270X 2 GB graphics card, etc. It's not working with my Apple Thunderbolt display 27″. I have installed Intel Thunderbolt driver as well.
I have a MacBook Pro 13″ and after I had upgraded to Yosemite the device does't go in sleep mode when I want it (anything is disconnected from the device). I went to energy power savings to change my settings but still doesn't work. This is what terminal shows to me with pmset -g assertions command: 2015-01-29 12:02:35 +0100 Assertion status system-wide: BackgroundTask 0 ApplePushServiceTask 0 UserIsActive 1 PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0 PreventSystemSleep 0 ExternalMedia 0 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0 NetworkClientActive 0 Listed by owning process: pid 76(hidd): [0x0000de4e000908e3] 00:17:53 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle" Timeout will fire in 286 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease No kernel assertions.
What's even stranger is that the Calendar and Contacts apps can log into the Exchange server just fine, and if I look in their prefs for the account settings, they've got the correct username. It's only Mail that's got it wrong. What I've tried so far:
I've got a device that connects to a computer using Bluetooth's SPP (Serial Port Profile) which is widely supported by almost everything however is now considered legacy. I'm struggling to get my device to work in Yosemite and it doesn't seem to support it?
Recently I edited a *.plist file of an App in order to hide it from the Dock. Everything works but I can't click on the menubar anymore when the App is selected..! Any help? This is what I did this is what I get: "resource envelope is obsolete (custom omit rules)" what does it mean?
Since I updated to Yosemite my mid-2012 MBP crashes when I open the lid after a long sleep. I have read numerous posts about other users experiencing the same issue, but all of their solutions have failed for me. I am attaching the error report information in hopes that someone might be able to shine some light on the issue(s). I have upgraded the HD to a samsung evo SSD and the memory, but never experienced any issues like this before Yosemite. I am getting extremely frustrated as it is difficult to resume work after shutting down from work to home and losing anything I have open. What can I do to fix this issue? What has worked for people with the same issue?
I know that RAM is soldered onto the mainboard on the latest MacBook Airs, which makes a DIY upgrade apparently impossible. But would Apple do it instead though? The guy at the Apple Store told me that I could send the Mac back to Apple and they could upgrade the RAM, but he didn’t look very convinced if I must be honest, so I wanted to double check here.
I have opened a file on *=URL=* I was supposed to click on a torrent file but I clicked on the big DOWNLOAD link.
I've been suffering with this for weeks. I'm running Yosemite on a 15" MBP. I am told daily that I have no more disk space and no matter what I end up deleting I'm left with 1GB minutes later. About This Mac Storage (and Daisy Disk) say I have 247GB in Other. Disk Inventory doesn't recognize that and just says I'm using 37GB of my SSD. I can't remember the terminal command I used from another thread but it showed mobile backups and another folder taking up well over 100GB of my space but no one told me how to either clear those to free the space or how to prevent it from reoccurring. Important to note I used crashplan for awhile and removed it about 3 months ago. I desperately need my hard drive back!
When I run Python through bash it keeps seg faulting on me. The crash happens for example if I just type >>> "\n \n, but also for a lot of other cases. From my limited understanding of the stack trace, the problem is originating from readline.so. I've googled it but can't find anything mentioning this for Yosemite. It also doesn't appear to be an issue on any other Yosemite machines I've personally used.
I would like to check the contents of a USB stick drive from a not-quite trusted source (my sister): is there a safe way to do this in OSX 10.9.5 or 10.10.1?
In my Macbook Pro 15inch, late 2013, the SD card reader doesn't work after installing Yosemite 10.10.2. Doesn't load cards at all. Tried to blow out slot, fiddling with switches inside port, nothing. How can I analyze and fix this issue
So I'm a DJ and I was going through my music files in Itunes when I made a bonehead mistake of deleting about half of my music library! Now I go to my Trash Bin in hopes of being able to recover those files that I deleted, however I am unable to sort through the files by "Date Added" in the trash bin. When I select "Date Added" as a column, all of the dates show "--". If I have dates, I can look at everything I deleted when I made my mistake, and simply "put back" all those items. However, my trash bin is not showing me any dates in this field! Is there any way to bring dates into the "Date Added" column, or if there is any other way to sort through my trash bin to recover those files into iTunes? FYI: I currently use OS Mavericks Thanks!
So it is weird, I cannot find any details online, but we just set up multiple AppleTVs in our office for meeting rooms today. They are hard wired to our network which is connected with our WiFi network. All access points and hardwired devices connect to the same network switch/router.
I have a mid-2007 iMac that can't boot into OS X Lion unless it's in safe mode. When I turn it on, the Apple logo appears, then the loading spinner, then a white screen with no cursor.
Text messages are disappearing when sent between two iPhones. The issue of iMessage losing messages sent to users who have switched to non-apple devices is well documented, but in this case we're seeing one iPhone user message another, and the message never gets through. There's no indication on the sender's side that the message failed- we just happened to notice it on our own. It's happened at least twice within the past few months (though probably a lot more)
I would like to get an iPhone 4S to run iBitterlich but don't want to get internet service for the iPhone. If I buy an iPhone 4S somewhere, can I download the app via wifi to my HP Pavillion 6 laptop (and it's internet), and run it without any internet service on the phone?
I was just (unsuccessfully) playing around with setting up a vpn in OS X Server, and now all my new terminal prompts begin with "vpn" followed by my user name. Anyone know why this is the case and how I can revert back to my default prompt, without "vpn"?
For example, when visiting eBay.com or cnn.com, a dialogue box pops up asking if the site can send notifications to Notification Center. If you initially choose deny, but change your mind later, how can you go about adding a site back to notifications (manually or otherwise)?
I am using somewhat "unofficial" names for people I work with in my Address Book. Basically, I add an emoji after the first name to help me recognize the contact faster (extremely helpful on the iPhone and on my email app on desktop - my contacts are synced between my mac and my iPhone..). The thing is that somehow when I send an email to someone he see himself the way I saved him, resulting in an awkward situations sometimes... And even If I send an email to a colleague and he forward that email - the name with my emoji stays!
Since a few months, iTunes is listening to the track-pad fingers command previous and next (3 fingers swipe) even if it's not the active application (ie: has focus). This is extremely annoying when browsing the web and listening to music. How can I disable this shortcut that I didn't set up ? I've searched in the trackpad settings, the itTunes ones and the keyboard => shortcuts but didn't find the solution. BTT screenshot:
I have an iPad 2 which I have neglected to update for some time now. The iPad uses iOS version 6 currently. iOS 6 has never given me issues the way i use my iPad so Should I update to the new version?
My version of Google Chrome on OS X doesn't seem to detect updates properly: There is a new version (40.0.2214.93 as of this writing), as the Google Chrome release blog shows. It doesn't give an error code. How can I resolve this?
I am coming from Win and I am so disappointed by Mac's usability so far. My current problem is with maintaining photos. I usually take lot of pictures with my DSLR and I want a very simple solution to: browse through pictures where they are - without the need to copy them to some library like in iPhoto ability to easily rotate one or more of them at a time - unlike in preview where you can rotate only one picture in only one direction
I'm thinking of setting up family sharing for our family. We're all adults, so we buy apps for ourselves, but it would be nice if we could share the apps. Will I lose the ability to buy apps with my own Apple ID if I join my family?
So I recently removed Windows 7 from my iMac, but Bootcamp didn't let me do it. I used Disk Utility instead. The old Windows 7 partition now shows up as free space. I want to reinstall Windows 7 again on my iMac, how do I set it up? Can I use the free space again? I want to give the Windows partition a bigger size than what the free space currently holds.
I was silly enough to add a very large amount of non-previously-installed fonts into such Library/Collection (around 1000 of them). It might also be relevant to add that all those fonts are stored in an external hard drive. So when I added all those fonts, my computer just froze.
I just had a major hack and had to change password. Apple mail will not accept my new password with Gmail, so I cannot add that mail account.
I am using VMware Fusion 7.1.0 on Mac OS 10.10.1 Yosemite. Every evening, I send my iMac to sleep. The next morning the mac usually sits in login mask - so it has rebooted. After login, I get "sleep wake failure".
I am using Apple Mail 4.6 and have simple text lines for my signature. Even though I have the "match text in email" box checked, the signature shows as much larger (obnoxiously large) to many recipients. I've also tried it with that box unchecked, but that didn't change anything. How can I make the signature lines match the text font and size of the message? It looks fine on my computer but arrives huge to the recipient. MAC OSX 10.6.8 (Yes, we do have plans to update some day)
I just did a clean installation of 10.10. Now some command line tools won't work anymore. In example gshred is not found anymore (always worked on Lion) and man gpg gives "No manual entry for gpg".
I'm an ex windows user and I loved to move windows clicking on the windows logo button and using arrows. Is there something similar on Mac?
The issue has been widely documented, e.g. here on stackexchange. There used to be a fix on Yosemite by setting new defaults: This does not work on Mavericks though: Writing new settings to com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent does not affect the actual bitpool settings on Mavericks. I am able to set Bluetooth bitpool settings in the Bluetooth Explorer App (which is part of Xcode):
When I put my password into my mac and log on I get my gmail screen with its messages appearing together with other items how do i stop this happening. I am using OSX version 10.8.5 Thank you IR.
Yosemite has a new feature where my Mac rings when I get a phone call. Annoyingly, it continues to ring for 30 seconds or so, even after I've answered the iPhone.
I was just using FaceTime audio and my phone told me I was running out of space. I was curious as to how this was possible as I knew I have about 2GB free yesterday. I kept going back in and checking space whilst on the call and it eventually got down to 0 bytes free. Once the call was over, it went back up to 2.4GB. Given that RAM and SSD space aren't wildly different things, it seems possible that FaceTime would overflow it's RAM usage onto the SSD.
I'm trying to figure out a very vexing bug (which might well be a mobile Safari issue) where opening a URL from an app is causing the page to load with a large negative scroll value and only the Smart Banner appearing. In the example below, window.scrollY = -324. This is on iOS 8.1.2, both iPad and iPhones.
I'm curious if anyone has any idea or insight as to what exactly changed with Yosemite and why would it be taking so long for either Apple or Citrix to come up with a fix? You would get the impression that either Apple has completely broken the support and just doesn't care or Citrix can't get an engineer to make some tweaks. Any idea as to what exactly was the breaking change and perhaps why would this be such a difficult problem to fix?
When I double-click, for example, a pdf file which is in the Desktop folder, I'd like it to be opened with Acrobat Reader. However, if the file is in any other folder, e.g. Downloads, I'd like it to be opened with Preview.
I have setup a domain on OS X server, pointed the domain to my public IP, and enabled port forwarding on my AirPort router. My services are set up in OS X server, and I can access them from my computer.
I'm using a homebrew installation of python and getting an error using pip within a virtualenvwrapper environment: Homebrew has a formula for libffi (brew install libffi), which seemed to be successful. I can run which yields: So should I "add the directory containing `libffi.pc'"? echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH yields an empty string. [Someone on SO had recommended][3]: or Would I add the line: to the ~/.bash_profile? or possibly export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7
I've used the defaults command to tweak my settings to some sane defaults, but I have been unsure if I should run them as root or as my regular user. Seems to work either way. It is possible to do both, so my question is: is there a difference?
I updated to Yosemite a while back, but yesterday iMessage started sending the error message "Not Delivered". I can send messages to non-Apple devices (SMS?) just fine, but not to Apple clients (Apple server?). No problem at all with iPad Air or iPhone 5S, both iOS 8.1.3. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! -Macbook Pro Retina (late 2013) -iPhone 5S -iPad Air
I'm trying to figure out where my missing hard disk space is going. I'm using du and df from the command line and there seems to be a clear discrepancy. So here's the du output: Now here's the df output:
Is it possible to configure Karabiner (formerly keyremap4macbook) such that clicking the 3rd or 4th mouse button (on a trackball mouse) will toggle using the pointer to scroll? Ideally I would like to be able to click the 3rd mouse button, after which moving the trackball will scroll (a webpage or whatever else is on screen), and will return to moving the cursor after the 3rd mouse button is pressed a second time.
Our Mac Mini went belly up, so I just got a brand new one. I had a nightly scheduled super duper backup to an external drive, which works fine on other Mac's (i.e. I can boot it up and run) On the new Mac mini, any attempt to boot from any external drive, will just display the circle with a line through it, then eventually power OFF.
I browse to a folder, then expand through a directory tree to find the file I'm looking for. Now I want to create a folder at the current location within that tree. "New Folder" from the menu creates the menu in the top-level directory instead of the current directory. Right-clicking doesn't give any way to create a folder "in-place" - ie with reference to the file or directory I currently have clicked/highlighted. Simplified example (thanks soulshined): The finder window is opened on the /Users/user/Downloads directory, but I have used the tree-expanders to be looking at the files in .../Downloads/Pictures. I want to add a folder under Pictures, but irrespective of how I invoke it, the new directory will always be created under Downloads. (Obviously in this example it would be trivial to move it, but imagine the folder is a byzantine corporate shared directory tree,...)
I tried to install the new apple update. for 12 hours now the screen says "verifying update" and I can't even turn the iPad off? it is plugged in. Please help!!!!
My Macbook air has OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on it. There was a software update notification for it so I proceeded with the upgrade. After installation the computer restarted and during restart it went blank and displayed a black screen with a symbol. Every time I restart now that is what I get. Please see attached picture to see the symbol. How do I recover from this? thank you, Shar
A few months ago all my U-verse services quit working well. The wiring was updated to CAT-50. My modem was changed to the Motorola (Arris) NVG589. Now web browsing is slow at best and my web hosting no longer works. Either my websites do not display at all or they display with no images. I assume the DNS is set up properly for the web hosting because the correct websites show up. I did a clean install of Mavericks and put the same DNS settings as I had when everything was working. I also did a Server Hardware Test just in case something was wrong with my hardware, especially the memory. No problems with the hardware were found. I came to the conclusion the problem is with the NVG589 modem.
I want to buy a 4k or 5k monitor but I'm worried about watching 720p and 1080p movies on it. I have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor that I watch lots of movies on and just wondering how would I watch movies on a 4k or 5k monitor if it has much more pixels?
Can no longer use X11 with ssh. Have XQuartz2.7.7 installed. Logging in with X11 via ssh gives the warnings Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. In my own system, echo $DISPLAY gives /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.GuewxwWwKS/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
I must have triggered some bizarre mode and I don't know what it is or how to turn it off. I can't get it to happen predictably-- whenever I try to make it talk, it won't. But whenever I try to just put on a song and listen, it starts saying the name of the song and artist, then reading off the names of random playlists even though I'm not using a playlist; I always just pick out of Artists. And it does it repeatedly, it won't %^@#ing stop. It's infuriating. I'm trying to listen to a song and it just keeps telling me the name of the song.
I need to make an applescript to press the keys fn + f8 at the same time. The only problem is those are both keys without names!
I'd like to run a Freeboard.io dashboard (HTML+JavaScript) on an older iPad to visualize a bunch of things persistently. This would be fine as a Safari home-screen-ified app, except there's no way to prevent display sleep without globally changing the iPad's lock settings. It's easy enough to programmatically disable sleep in an iOS app, but I don't want to pay $99/year for an Apple developer account just so I can make a UIWebView in an app that disables the sleep timer.
I am setting up a MDM server on OS X Server. This is just a personal project, so I am hosting off of my iMac running Yosemite and OS X Server. I have configured port forwarding and DNS records so that my domain can access the iMac. The problem is that ports 80 and 443 are unavailable (due to my ISP), and I need to forward them. I can either do domain.com:1234, or somehow tell the domain to point to port "1234" (for example?)
I've seen several threads to this effect, but none that have resolved my issues with logging in successfully after sleep for a relatively long time, or after working with an external monitor, then sleeping and waking/logging in...in these cases I'm frozen and have to force shutdown, then reboot. I'm on Yosemite 10.10.2 (was same with 10.10.1) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013; 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory) with last Console log entry below (quite a few minutes prior to attempted wake). I don't see errors at time of freeze; next thing is my reboot. Oops, was hoping to enter most recent log following no sharing/VPN/backup test, but >max allowable characters per body post...deleting previous logs to free up room...see comment at current bottom of thread.
I am having the weirdest problem since upgrading to OSX Yosemite. If I select a bunch (hundreds) of files and try to move them to a different folder, only a few (under 100, like 86) of the files move. The rest are still left selected in the original folder. I could not find anyone else experiencing this problem. Anyone know what is going on?
I want to get rid of an old email Apple ID on my iPhone 5s. At this point I just want to wipe the entire phone clean and start over. How can I do that if I can’t turn off “Find My iPhone”?
I have an Apple mini displayport to VGA adapter connected to an older Samsung SyncMaster 906BW. First time I plugged it in everything was working just fine extending my desktop as expected. Yosemite detected it as a SyncMaster monitor. The external monitor would wake up when my macbook air came out of a short sleep.
Now that Microsoft's released Outlook for iOS, does anyone know if it will sync calendars, contacts and tasks with Outlook on a Mac?
If you show a * in the Gpt column for Disk 0, could you report back the "model identifier" or "model/screen size/year" of your apple computer. It may also be useful to include the version of Windows and OS X you are using. Apple recommends a standard where there is one partition for OS X and a second Boot Camp partition for Windows. If you are using a nonstandard partitioning scheme, try to indicate how you differed.
I did try to install Mavericks from the original installer package onto a separate disk via Firewire. The machine used is a MacBook Pro which is newer than the Mavericks package. As usual, after starting the installation from the desktop, the system rebooted to perform the installation after a minute or so. After rebooting it got stuck on a grey screen with a slashed circle on it. I did remember that Apple some when in the past introduced this nice feature to prevent installing an older MacOS on a newer Mac, so I booted into the recovery mode and installed on the external disk from there. So fine, so good - but when I unplugged the external disk to reboot into my normal system again, I ended up on the grey awful screen again - looks like the Mac insists to continue the failed installation which is not possible. Using the option key on booting to select my normal boot partition does not work, it does not show up. So I assume the installer has put something to mark this system as install
I recently migrated to OS X 10.10 from Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux). In Ubuntu, I could make any key of my keyboard do anything I liked. I used to have the F1, F2, and F3 keys set to function as the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top left of the screen (which are the same as in OS X). This was ridiculously useful, and I want to do this on my Mac, but I don't know how I can.
Please can anyone help? I have tried cp -S, -R, -F and I can't get it to cp or mv. I just need to write that lib back and I should be good to go. I don't know what I was thinking when I did that. Running Yosemite 10.10.2, Late-2011 mbp. Libxml2 from homebrew is 2.9.2 I think if it makes a difference.
how to change the carrier name in my iphone 6 without Jailbreak? Can anybody help me?
Cheers! I have an iMac 27" mid 2010 with Intel i7 2.93Ghz and MacOS 10.9. For now it have 8GB stock 4x2GB RAM but I want install at least 16GB+ RAM.
I have enroled in iOS Developer Program. I'm creating a simple location app, but it is targeted for our company employes only. Now, I've figured out that I enroled in the wrong program, as it should have been Enterprise. I'm certain that my app will never pass in App Store review.
Power nap is a good idea when my laptop is plugged in at night. However I notice that it also happens when it is not plugged in.
I have a larger, external monitor connected to my MacBook Pro and have arranged it such that the dock is in the external monitor (via System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement, by dragging the white bar to the larger screen). This works fine, except for the fact that every now and then, the dock will suddenly shift back to my MacBook screen, but when I open up Displays to change this back, the white bar is still on the external monitor. So I have to drag it to the smaller screen, and then drag it back to the external monitor.
I would like to replace the standard icon for an Automator application that I created with a PNG. Unfortunately, the resulting icon is the generic PNG icon, not the actual PNG image. Steps: downloaded the desired image (512 x 512) verified that the image had a transparent background Opened the file's inspector window (⌘+I):
Mine is late 2012 and has 8GB RAM. His is late 2014 and has 16GB RAM. Both have an SSD (although of different size) and both are running Yosemite. We set the brightness to 6 pips each and turn off Bluetooth and the keyboard light.
I like to use my photo library for a screen saver (have 10,000 photos - it's nice to get to see them more often), but ever since I've downloaded Yosemite, every time the computer goes to sleep, it defaults back to the National Geographic photos (there are maybe 30 of them). Really, really frustrating, and I can't find where to change the default settings to try and make an adjustment. Anyone know how to change that default setting or have any other idea what to do?
My MacBook Air mid 2009 worked for 3 months without any problems on Yosemite. Two days ago the built in mouse stopped working along with the built-in keyboard. Right after it woke up from sleep mode but the light is still on. After pressing the Power button, it asks me to shut it down, so the system did not crash.
it is a macbook 2008 2ghz intel core 2 duo, NVIDIA Geforce 9400m 256mb, software ox10.9.5 (13F34) serial W8843A9J1AQ THANKS ANDREW
I am having an issue viewing email on Office 365 with Mail app. After clicking on the Office 365 mailbox to read the emails the message list goes blank after about a minute, I then have to click on another mailbox then back to the Office 365 one to view the messages again but you only get about a minute until it does it again. This is frustrating when you are reading a long email. This only happens with Office 365 accounts, I also use iCloud and Google mail accounts without any problems in Mail. I have run connection doctor but it says everything is ok.
I use BindFS with OSXFUSE to mount some folders on an external drive on mount points within my user home folder. This is a sample line from my fstab: Things work pretty well like this, except that if I turn the extended file attributes on (xattr-rw or even xattr-ro) I lose the writing capability on the mounts with a suspicious error: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50).
I recently got my very first MacBook Pro. It has OSX 10.10 Yosemite on it.
I've been having a number of issues with external disks force unmounting (most often while waking from sleep). Where can I look in Console.app to track down the potential issue?
Is there any way to list only those processes which are hung, i.e., "not responding", in Terminal? The only way I know to do this is look in Activity Monitor for the ones in red.
I use IFTTT to send me iOS notifications for some of my recipes, but for some reason, every time it sends me a notification, it sends it twice. So every notification I get from IFTTT is duplicated. Anyone know why this happens, and how I can fix it?
In the past few months, I have been unable to paste text into XCode. I can paste from xcode to xcode.
USB High-Speed Bus: Host Controller Location: Built-in USB Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCI PCI Device ID: 0x3b3c PCI Revision ID: 0x0006 PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086 Bus Number: 0xfa Hub: Product ID: 0x2514 Vendor ID: 0x0424 (SMSC) Version: 0.03 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Location ID: 0xfa100000 / 2 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 2 USB Flash Drive: Product ID: 0xc75c Vendor ID: 0x05dc (Lexar Media, Inc.) Version: 1.02 Serial Number: 20130610231308265957 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Lexar Location ID: 0xfa130000 / 7 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 200
I'm trying to write an applescript that reconnects a VPN that gets disconnected (sort of like this one) and I want to test it to see if it works. One of the key parts of the script is being able to tell whether the VPN was disconnected by the user or by a network error. What other ways can I test if the script works other than waiting (maybe hours) for a VPN disconnection to occur?
On iOS, I have the history of Safari. I want to delete some entries one by one. Is this possible ? I have tried going left — to no avail. I have an iPad mini on iOS 7.
I am using Safari 8.0.2. Safari 8 introduced some really great features, but it made the omnibar tiny - it now occupies less than a third of the toolbar, and it seems impossible to adjust its size. I find this incredibly irritating. How can I enlarge it so that it fills the majority of the toolbar again? Is there an extension that does so?
Environment: Windows 7 and iTunes 12 Situation: I want to import a 33-disc audiobook. In Import Settings, there is a checkbox for correcting errors (such as due to dust and scratches). I know that using error correction will slow down the import process on older computers. If I disable error correction, will iTunes alert me in some fashion either during the process or at the end, such as "Import complete but with errors," at which point I can choose to import again but with error correction enabled?
I was hoping to do something like: but if only one language is listed in "Preferred Languages", then defaults read -g AppleLanguages returns an error: The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleLanguages) does not exist
Whenever I open the computer the login screen shows up with my account picture and full name. Is there any way to remove it or replace it with the account name or something like that?
Anyone know of a menu bar app that will allow you to pick a song out of your iTunes library and play it, without having to have iTunes running. Alarm Clock allows you to do that (but you need to create an alarm) but it's a great way of just playing the odd song or two. I know there's CloudPlay but I'd of thought there was a free menu bar app out there. There's apps like Ecoute but I just want something that is minimal for playing something when you want it.
I have installed OS Yosemite 10.10.1 a couple of months ago. Everything was ok especially with mail. However a couple of days ago it just stopped to sending emails with no apparent reason since none configurations changes or updates have been done. I keep having the following error message every time I try to send an email.
Why would a Terminal traceroute #.#.#.# show different results than using Network Utility.app? Here is the first 3 hops. I am connected to PIA VPN but regardless both methods should show the same results I would think. Terminal Network Utility.app
Where are java.security and deployment.properties files located on Mac OS Yosemite??
I have songs on my iPhone 4S that I never intentionally downloaded and can't seem to delete. I have tried to delete them through iTunes but I just cannot seem to get rid of them. Swiping left on the undeletable song will not show any option to delete the song (oddly enough, swiping left on other songs allows me to delete them). Going into Settings > Usage > Manage Storage allows me to delete all of the songs on my iPhone except the undeletable song.
When I try to insert a special character/symbol/pictograph that has an emoji equivalent, it always changes into the emoji instead. Is there a way to make it not do this? I am not asking about how to disable emoji substitution when typing smileys in Messages. This is happening wherever I try to insert a symbol--in Safari, TextEdit, and I even tried symbol and text substitution in System Preferences but the symbols turned into emoji there also.
Is there any way to set a limit so that thousands of emails aren't downloaded from my email server and stored as copies on my iPad Air running 8.12? Early version of ios for my old iPad allowed me to set a limit through [Settings] which worked great. If I needed to find a specific email that wasn't stored on my iPad, the search function went to the server looking for it.
When my 13" Retina MacBook running Yosemite is powered off and I open the lid, it immediately starts booting up... without pressing the power button. Is this a new feature (maybe part of Yosemite) or is my MacBook misbehaving?
I have 3 different versions (jdk) of Java installed: 6, 7 and 8. In bash_profile: However, at
On a Mac, entering a non-breaking space is very easy. On my iPad with iOS 7 installed, I want to enter a non-breaking space. But I find no way.
I would like to replicate the conventional zoom behaviour of 'ctrl +'/'ctrl -' with the mouse scroll functionality. Probably a new feature, but I preferred the original behaviour. Consequently I would prefer the zoom mechanism to only effect the active window as opposed to the entire desktop? How do achieve this?
I accidentally run command chown -R paulie /usr/local (I needed to add some subfolders). How can I get it back? Now I already resolved problem with mysql data, but still have problems with gcc, for example.
There is a shortcut to switch to desktop 1...N in OS X. But usually I have only one desktop and other apps (Chrome, iTerm, etc) in full screen mode. Is there a way to make shortcuts to switch to these apps? For example, I would like this configuration: F1 - switch to desktop, it holds Skype, Finder, etc (already done) F2 - switch to Chrome (full screen) F3 - switch to iTerm (full screen) and so on
When I try to launch MC it says I have to have the latest java (OSX Yosemite) this is the day after I updated. So I download it, open the dmg and then to find out that it is not a jar launcher file (btw I know where it is located and how to use jar launcher). It is a .pkg that opens with the unarchiver.
Recently we've set up family sharing. Now my SO has done an in-app purchase. So far no issue. But when I told her she was a little upset that there was no way to make the payment herself. Because obviously I got to see the purchase. So, how can she pay for her own purchases, whenever she desires? This article suggests it is not possible, except when using iTunes store credit or vouchers. And will the receipts for purchases based on her iTunes store credit or vouchers also end up in my mailbox?
I tried SMC fan control and Temperature Monitor but it does not update the temperature and I do not wish to change the fan speed.
How can one adjust the view settings, so that the Navigator-Menu (see image) appears on the right or on the bottom, etc.?
On the image below this is what I want to do. I want to be able to switch tab options with TAB key.
I bought a new Macbook pro the other day and I set up my mail account on it. It started syncing mail from about two years ago. I was worried that it might be storing mails on the storage disk and since I have the 256gb SSD, I didn't want the space to be taken up by emails from ages ago. I just wanted to know whether it does store a copy of the emails on the storage drive and if so, is there any way to just let it sync emails from only the last two months or so.
Question is simple, how to use paypal as payment method? I don't know is this important, but I am no-U.S. citizen.
Cheers! Which RAM will be better for my iMac 27" mid 2010 with i7 2.93GHz and MacOS 10.9.5:
I somehow screwed up my ruby installation. It says:
I am considering to use iCloud Photo Library to store a growing number of family photo albums, shared to web or set of AppleIDs. I dont need to keep original photos on iDevices for 99.9% of photos.
I have a logitech c170 USB webcam plugged into my 2012 Mac Mini. The camera works fine on Skype, Facetime, and Photobooth for taking pictures and videos. However if I try to apply and video effects such as the rollercoaster, I get into the following loop. Step out of the frame Step out of the frame I step out of the frame and it says Background Detected, immediately followed by this. I step out of the frame and it says Background Detected, immediately followed by this.
Anyone have any ideas what cause my iMac to crash? Here are some panic reports...
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro - I am planning on swapping out the Optical Drive for an SSD in the near future, and then re-installing OS X across the Hard Drive and SSD (in a Fusion Drive format). I have about 2-3 years worth of backups on my Time Capsule - my question is, will I still be able to access them once I've reinstalled OS X? I don't want to restore from Time Capsule (I want a clean install) but I need to be able to access my backups so I can get some data back (by this, I mean go into Time Machine, go back in time to a backup and select a folder to restore). If I can't, and I have to start my backups from scratch and stuff, I will just move some stuff over to a Hard Drive and then re-import it once OS X is reinstalled.
My early 2008 MacBookPro has a different DVI to later 2008 and the adaptor I need is not in stock anywhere I am considering putting Apple TV from my Humax to enable my MacBook Pro to link wirelessly
I have set weekday time limits & bedtime under parental controls, but my son and his friends have figured out how to bypass them. When he gets a notification that he has x time remaining, I have seen him switch rapidly to mission control and then the notification goes away and never logs him off. I am running Mavericks. Does anyone know if they fixed this bug in Yosemite? I logged an issue with Apple and they never responded.
Second, is it a default for the Mac OS to keep old email accounts forever? Whenever I delete an account from Mail it leaves the entire IMAP-me@oldaccount.com email mailbox structure intact. I assume I can move these off my SSD. Does Spotlight still index them? Finally, any way to associate attachments with their respective emails without somehow going through the Mail client?
On my iPhone, the App Store has a badge saying "2". When I open the App Store and go to the Updates page, there are two apps at the top, which for a split-second say "Update" and then immediately change to "Open". But the "2" badge remains. The apps are in the "Pending updates" section. So I can't even update these apps if I wanted to, because either they have already updated or they are preventing me from updating.
I noticed that my OS X sometimes goes very laggy and it does everything slowly. I opened up Activity Monitor and I saw that it's using a lot of memory. Any ideas on how to fix this (because I guess it should't be using 3.98 GB out of 4 GB + 1.75 GB of swap memory)?
After installing a ssd into my Macbook pro mid 2012 (not retina), i noticed that the startup chime is coming only from the right speaker. (I am not sure if it was always like that or if its because of the installation). However when I am in the OS, both speakers work perfectly fine. I reseted the NVRAM a couple of times already. Is the chime supposed to come out of the right speaker only?
I can't all of the sudden turn on WiFi on my MBP. I have upgraded to Yosemite half a year ago and it was all working fine until today. I tried some tips from this thread Can't turn on wifi on Mac OSX Mountain lion MBP 2012 like sudo ifconfig en# up(tried all numbers because I don't know which en is WiFi...
One my favorite OS X features is creating folders through the "Save As..." dialog. But recently I've run into an issue. When I try to browse to folders recently created using the "Save As..." dialog, they are not visible in the Finder. Mysteriously, they do appear in applications' "Open" and "Save As..." dialogs. I have to relaunch the Finder (I used killall Finder in the Terminal) to get the folders to show up. When they appear, they don't disappear again, and the contents I saved are there and are intact. How can I restore the Finder's ability to see all newly created folders as soon as they appear in the file system?
You can endlessly click disconnect, but you are never disconnected. On the OSX Server (Yosemite Server.app 4.0.2), you can see your user account still connected, on the client (Yosemite 10.10.1) the finder still shows the folders and the disconnect button. Any ideas?
I used to live in Arizona. I now live in Virginia. When entering an event on the iPhone, I enter the time, say 9:00 AM. My iPhone calender is sync'd with the Outlook calender on my PC. When the alert for the event entered on the iPhone, appears, it is two hours early. 9:00 AM is now 7:00 AM. This happens on both calenders.
My MacBook Pro have only two thunderbolt ports. My new external monitors are Dell U2414H connected to MacBook Pro using Display Port to Mini Display Port cable each one. In this situation I'm unable to connect Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter cause of no free ports.
After updating to OS X 10.10.2, I can no longer use Quick Look on HTML files – I just get a blank preview window, and the issue persists through a reboot. But all other files types work fine. Is there a cache I can clear or something else I can try to get this working again?
I'm looking for music software that will work well integrating with a large (~1TB) music collection on a Synology device. Requirements: Fast searching Fast connection adapts happily to NAS being available/not available (no need to manually reconnect/reload) keeping up to date passively when files are added to the NAS library. ability to easily copy files over.
I'm running OS X Yosemite and I'm trying to setup Apache so I can access files over my WiFi for my Chromecast application (runs using NodeJS). So I followed some tutorials online (*=URL=* and I can access my websites at: *=URL=* I can also access something at: cameron.local/~cameron
All I can find on the internet is info on MacBook Pros. I have a regular MacBook, model 4,1, with a Mini DVI and a Fire Wire port. Currently I'm connecting an external monitor using a Mini DVI to HDMI converter. Is it possible to connect two monitors to a MacBook 4,1 (Snow Leopard), using either a combo of Mini DVI and Firewire, or a splitter on either port?
I have a 15 inch 2014 MBPr running windows 7 in bootcamp that I use for games. I bought a Razer Kraken headset due to it having a 4 pin 3.5mm jack and adapter for 2x3.5mm for compatibility with as many devices as possible. The issue I am having is that when I plug the jack in all that comes up is the headset, no mic.
I have a 1st Generation iPod touch. When I try to charge it, it goes into a loop: The very low battery logo displays The black screen with white apple logo is displayed The screen shuts down And repeat.. Is the battery totally knackered, or is there anything else I could try?
I know it is possible in xcode with ⌘ + ⌥ + [ or ⌘ + ⌥ + ]. But it doesn't work in Notes. Any ideas?
I recorded few of the videos in past with quicktime. Size of those videos is too big (~5GB). I have a macbook pro 15-inch retina version. For cutting down the size I am using HandBrake. With that a 2 GB video would come up to 45MB but then video resolution goes really down. Is there any other recording software that can record videos at relatively smaller size?
I have removed the "guest user" account by: System Preferences → Users & groups → Guest User → Remove. It still remains as an option under users (but states disabled). It still shows up on login screen and if selected allows guest to logon to computer. How do I remove guest login completely so that is is not even an option at login?
Time machine was running for the first time and it was NINE hours into the job, when it got stopped (I inadervently removed the usb connection). Is there any way to get it to resume? UPDATE The issue was that the Time Machine icon was not in my Dock - so I did not have option to right click which is where the "Back up now" option lives.
I'm on a MacBook Pro, mid 2009, OS X 10.10. An update to Yosemite (10.10.2) came out five days ago, but going to the Updates tab in App Store only returns a dialog box with the following message: I have turned off Firewall, logged out/in from App Store, removed App Store cookies - but despite this and after googling over an hour I'm still clueless. Any ideas what could be the problem?
Please explain briefly why repairing of permission is one of the maintenance tool for mac os x exclusively . Why it isn't done on windows?
I am new to Mac and was wondering where application/OS settings are saved.
I installed Nix package manager, and now I would like to remove it completely. How can I do it?
Whenever I try to connect to app store I got this error:  I tried everything I could find in internet, but always the same problem. OSX: Yosemite Model: MBPr 15 mid-2014 Any help?
I upgraded to Mavericks ages ago, but only just noticed this problem. Having arranged and sorted a folder by date modified, using icons, all items in the folder are listed as the wrong year. I have items grouped as being "Today", that's correct! But I then have "2013" items (which were all modified in 2014, I checked with Get Info) and "2012" items (which were all modified in 2013, again I checked them.
Every graphic-heavy application I have used has recommended storing files it uses on a separate disk from the boot disk (preferably an SSD), however with the new MP this isn't an option. The only way to utilise a second drive is as an external drive.
my internal speakers on my macbook pro just stopped working, they have disappeared from the sounds preferences control panel. the only option is 'optical digital outport' the headphones still work, but there's a red light coming out of the headphone jack help?
I have come across this problem several times now before I finally decide I should try and be doing something about it. Basically this seems to be happening when I am multitasking with iTunes playing files stored on my local SSD, Safari open with multiple tabs, and a text editor / IDE for work, and I may have Preview, Excel and Mail open too. I have the Macbook Air Mid 2013 with i7 processor, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD, on Yosemite (pretty sure it happened on Mavericks too).
My Macbook has 250 GB hard drive but I'm at 220 GB of movies and music. If I transfer those files from my Mac to iTunes will if free up space on my Mac?
What I would like to be able to do is set a certain part of a webpage in the viewport of Safari and then "Lock" the scrolling temporarily so that I can't accidentally scroll up or down and move what I have set up in that window.
I need to replace the original internal SSD (256GB) with a 512GB that has Time Machine on it and up to date. I am hoping it were not required to involve yet a third disk - e.g. another USB hard drive in this process .. but am not clear on it. Let us call this 1TBdrive Specifically it seems one solution would be: attach the 1TB hard drive and make it the time machine backup. power off the MBPro and physically swap the 256GB with the 512GB attach the 1TB USB hard drive and boot up, keeping the option button pressed to induce booting to time machine restore from 1TB TM to the new 512GB internal drive
Internet connection is really so slow on MacBook Air 13' Yosemite . Called tech support of ISP and they said my connection is OK . My internet plan has 16 MBPS speed but when I do a speed test on my MacBook, it's just 2-3 MBPS . But in my mobile phone, internet connection is really good. So I thing I have a problem with Mac OS configuration. These are my System Preferences > Network settings :
Instead of handing over cumbersome (and likely to get lost) business cards, I like texting my vCard. However, I'd like to not share some of the information in my vCard—most importantly, my home address. Additionally, I taught Siri my entire extended family, which now gets shared with everybody I send my vCard to. This feels less than professional.
I know how to change key-bindings. My question, which is almost nowhere to find on google: could someone please tell me, how to change the comment-symbols. For example, I want to sometimes define them to be #, sometimes %, sometimes //, etc.
I added Sublime Text to my Login Items, so that it starts up automatically when I start up my Mac. However, even though I have the Hide box checked already, the app still does not hide on startup. Is there anything else I can try to get it to hide on startup?
I use my Apple ID as my Mac's account password, so now I can't enable auto-login. Is there really no way to re-enable auto-login even if I'm using my Apple ID for my Mac account? Or is there something I can do to re-enable auto-login again so I don't have to type my password in every time I start up my Mac?
I have not been able to figure out a way to remove that default alert of one day events in iCal? Is there any way of doing it? I use quite a bit of full day events as remainders of things, and I hate that I always have to go and manually remove the alert of each event.
I have an update for iTunes and iCloud yet neither will download. It downloads less than a megabyte but hangs up. My internet connection is fine and very fast. What is going on? Note: I am on Windows 8.1 64bit.
I'm trying to use a script to call compare file size. Unfortunately the version of find on my mac does not support the -printf switch. Any suggestions?
Is there any way to copy an event in iCal in iPad or iPhone and paste it to a different day? At times, I want to keep the original calendar entry, but repeat on a different day? I am not looking to use the repeat function, as that forces one to use more predictable repeat.
I have a table in numbers, and I want a cell to equal the value of a cell in a different table. Following the advice of this Apple discussion, I tried , with Units Sold being the table with the value I wanted, and B2 being the value I wanted in the table "Units Sold".
I'm developing an app that has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than specific external audio-related hardware. While running my app in the iOS simulator, I got a message from my LittleSnitch (that's a firewall) that the process geod (iOS) is trying to access irs.gov. As if that wasn't enough, the next attempt was to azadiradio.org. I blocked both but I'm wondering: what is going on within my iOS simulator?
I've installed the Gmail app on my iPhone 5s (running iOS 8.x). However, when I'm done taking a photograph (or directly from within the Photos app), if I choose to share I'm presented with a list of options (Mail, Messages, Facebook, etc.) and the Gmail app isn't one of them. If I go a step further and click the More link to see the list of all apps on the phone for which sharing can be enabled, the Gmail app isn't even in that list (while things like Slack.com and other apps I use are). I use the stock Mail app for my work (Exchange) account, and I could if I wanted share a photo just fine using this, however I prefer the Gmail app's categories of mail. Do you know a set of steps that can get the Gmail app to appear in this list of sharing options? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, please advise if you need more details or clarification.
Help!! I'm lost with the interface for iMovie 10.0.6. I have created iMovies with previous versions of iMovie (the most recent being iMovie 9). When I installed and then opened iMovie 10.0.6 on my MacBook Pro running Yosemite, it also imported every last movie and clip I'd ever used and placed them in Events and Projects with no rhyme nor reason (at least not apparent to me). Now I can't seem to create a new Event or Project without part of a previous project being a part of it. I'm lost - obviously - and no, I'm not computer illiterate just iMovie illiterate I guess!!
I suppose it is possible that the the responsibility for this rests with the publisher (i.e. maybe they are just copy/pasting text from their website and not properly coding the episode description) but if so it seems to be a universal problem; I've never seen a podcast in which this did work. It seems more likely to me that neither iTunes nor iOS is set up to handle live links in episode descriptions.
I want the shutdown feature to activate whenever I turn down the lid and close my MacBook Pro. It's a machine I use for work so I need the disk encryption to kick in every time I'm travelling with the Mac, and its easy to forget turning it off. Is there a setting somewhere that allows this, or is there an app/script I can run?
I don't want to sound stupid, but what happens if someone were to delete the .Trash folder using Finder and emptied it. I know it's possible unless there is something that just stops it from happening. defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall finder can be used to show the folder. Then go to ~/ in finder and delete .Trash. Open trash from dock then empty it. What would happen?
Update 2 So I delete the LVG and LG and went to Disk Utility... (See screenshot3) But my disks are in red and DiskUtility is forcing me to fix them... (Screenshot4) And when I do Im back to the same setup... (Screenshot5).
I use Image Capture to import photos from my iPhone. I noticed recently that it shows two copies of every photo in the Image Capture window, both in list view and grid view.
Virtualbox complains that VT-x isn't available and running securable confirms that it's not available. My 2012 rMBP has an i7 and intel clearly states the CPU does have VT-x, nevermind the fact that Virtualbox works just fine under OSX. This is where if I had a PC I'd check if it was enabled in BIOS. What can I do?
I have the latest hardware version of Apple TV and fully updated software. As a screensaver, it shows some Flickr images. However, I haven't logged in to Flickr, so the setting is still default. Can anybody give me a hint as to what Flickr channel these screensaver pictures are coming from?
I know this has been asked about two or three times here, but none of the solutions work. Basically I have a frozen PC, a Mac w/o virtual Windows, a Windows ISO, and a USB stick. While I initially thought that using Bootcamp will solve the problem, the Windows installer created using bootcamp is not recognized by my PC. Are there any solutions to creating a Windows 7 USB stick to work on my PC?
How do I resume normal Time Machine backups without having to manually erase old backups. I know I can delete files from Time Capsule Running: 10.10.2 Time Capsule : 461 GB of 2TB available...backup error is
Trying to get SSH private key from *.pk file. Currently use app to extract this file from "external source" and it gives me an options to open this file in mail app / dropbox / btsync but not in notes app, for example. Is there any tool / app to do that?
I bought the 5s new in October 2013 without AppleCare, so the one-year warranty has lapsed. The metal band around the edge of the phone has scuffs and dings. I certainly can't prove it, but that damage happened months before the screen separation. What I suspect is happening inside the device is that the battery has altered its shape and forced the screen to detach. Or perhaps an adhesive has deteriorated.
Is there a way for me to create an account using my Mac's Mail app and have the account sync over to my iPhone or vice versa? I have iCloud setup on both my Mac and iPhone, but I don't see the accounts added on one device syncing over to the other.
A good friend of mine recently spammed my phone with close to a thousand messages... It's technically my fault since I was telling him that he should learn a scripting language. Ooops. Anyway, is there a way that I can "group delete" text messages (perhaps with an app) instead of individually checking each message or deleting all of them?
I've just upgraded to Yosemite, and I'm getting the following dialog box:  The "cc" command requires the command line developer tools. Would you like to install the tools now?
I've enabled the 'Recent Applications' folder to appear in my dock: Is there any way to increase the number from 10 Recent Applications to 15, or preferably, omit specific applications from being in it.
I have a iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5-12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 I have installed a Samsung SSD 850 Pro 128GB drive . I put a new install of Yosemite 10.10.2 on the SSD and have it booting to my new drive. I would like to know how to remove the OS from the old 1TB drive and move over my user information? I would also want to remove the OS from the old drive? Is this a possibility or have a going about it the wrong way. *****I may have not stated this correctly in the first post of my question.***** I have left the original 1TB mac drive installed in the system and added the second drive with the new installed OS.. So right now I can start up in what ever one I want to.
I am wanting and Applescript to fill certain parts of a Json script via user input prompts, but not sure how to place the results in the correct areas? And to then have the result copied to the clipboard for pasting. Json script is as follows: /spawn {"notif":" WordA ","spawns":[{"name":" WordB ","count": Num1 ,"x":[ Num2 ],"y":[ Num3 ],"size": Num4 ,"hp": Num5 }]} WordA, WordB, and Num1 - 5, are the areas I am wanting to fill in via user prompts.
Can I List USB devices on OSX - similar to lsusb on Linux. I know I can access from System Information.
I already read this : *=URL=* But I have a question... 1.Are we allowed to use sound effects from GarageBand as sound effects in our game without any modifications of original sound ?
My yahoo account has stopped working on my iphone 4s. I can access the account on a desktop but not the iphone. Comes up with 'The IMAP server "apple.imap.mail.yahoo.com" is not responding. Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the "incoming Mail Server' field.'
I'm trying to transfer photos, for example, from an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3 to a MacBook Air, mid-2011, running OS X 10.10.2. In either of these scenarios: iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone Finder open to AirDrop on the Mac Select a photo on iPhone, select Share, the Mac does not appear in the AirDrop pane or iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone Pick a photo on the Mac, select Share, Airdrop, no devices appear in the Send via AirDrop dialog
I have this Realtek USB 3.0 to gigabit ethernet adaptor. Using either the included drivers for OS 10.8.x or the official Realtek drivers from December 2014, it hard crashes the system every 5-10 minutes. I have about 120 GiB of data to transfer to a 13" Pro Retina and no external HDD - is there a way to make the Realtek adaptor work under 10.10.x or a quicker way to transfer my data?
I am using iMac (Yosemite) and Logitech K800 wireless keyboard *=URL=* (specifically the Finnish version of it). When I press Alt on bootup, regardless of when I start pressing it, the operating system selection menu does not appear. I have tried 30 times, with different keys etc. No use. Is it really impossible to go to the selection menu with a Windows keyboard?
Can I try to reinstall the internal macbook keyboard drivers w/o entire os reinstall? thanks.
I had Xcode 6.1.1 installed together with the iOS8 simulators but I need to be able to test websites with iOS7 also so I installed Xcode 5.1.1 also and named it to this. (I also renamed Xcode 6.1.1 to that instead of just Xcode).
I upgraded my iPad 2 from iOS 6 to iOS 8. However, I cancelled the upgrade by turning the iPad off because I thought that my files weren't backed up to a PC. I used OtA upgrade. When I turn the iPad back on, there's an image of USB connector and iTunes icon signifying to connect it to iTunes.
I killed a process (a simple .jar running in the background as a global agent) by pkill -9 java. Since the global agent in launchd is configured as keepAlive the process gets restarted immediately. Unfortunately this nasty popup ("The action Run Shell Script encountered an error") comes up and prevents the restart of the process without user interaction.
I'm having an annoying problem with Mail on Yosemite, which I didn't notice on earlier versions. Basically if I suffer a connection issue with my ISP's mail service (which does sometimes become slow to respond during peak hours) then Mail seems to try alternative ports. This would be fine, except that it eventually settles on port 143 with SSL disabled, at which point it refuses to connect (because it can't send my password securely), but it has now changed the account's port permanently to 143, meaning I have to change it back before I can use my e-mail account again.
Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C109) I have four monitors connected to my mac pro. One connected to the HDMI port, one connected with a passive (single link) DVI connector and two connected with dual-link DVI adaptors (the ones with the USB power and thunderbolt connectors). When I reboot, the dual link adaptors are disconnected until I unplug and replug their USB parts. The HDMI and passive DVI connected monitors are always active on reboot. What a pain to get under the desk to reconnect the monitors. Apple support techs send me to *=URL=* which doesn't address this problem. What can I do to get the third and fourth monitors to work immediately on reboot?
I know this is similar to other open questions about mounting network drives, but this one is slightly different. I have an AppleScript that runs at startup that looks like this:
Is there a way to setup the notification center stays visible until closed manually i.e. via keyboard shortcut? For example, if I’m using a calculator I sure don’t won’t to open/close the thing for each calculation.
Every now and then I get an annoying gong sound while I'm working. I could turn the sound off, but I would prefer to find out what is producing the sound. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks
I am planning on buying a Macbook Pro and Parallels Desktop 10, but I also love PC video games and I want to know if anyone knows how/if Steam games can run easily through Parallels Desktop. Also if Steam games can run, how well does it run? Do you think I would be better off getting Boot Camp?
Is there any way to switch the iMac into TDM without using the keyboard? Maybe by logging in remotely? I found a few similar questions, but... no answers! Is it possible to have an iMac maintain target display mode even through sleep/screensaver Target Display Mode: how to automate and persist on closing laptop Anyone?
Note the time difference in the screenshot of Calendar.app.  The appointment has been created directly on the google calendar webapp. It starts at 9.00 and ends at 10.00. After syncing with Calendar.app it shows up as you can see in the screenshot.
In my iPhone calendar, the "+" sign is grayed out and will not allow me to add an event. I have tried going to calendars in iCloud (Settings, iCloud, turn on Calendars) and calendars was on, so I turned it off, waited a few seconds, and turned it back on; no success. I closed all programs and rebooted the phone and still was not able to add an event into calendar, also went to Settings, Mail, Contact, Calendar and all is on there as well.
We are trying discontinue our user's use of iPod touch devices in production. We want users only use certain apps. The rest of the apps should be hidden or locked.
I recently installed an SDD into my MacPro, and was paying attention to the storage used, both to be comfortable the SSD size was going to be enough, and also that the TM backup hard drive wouldn't fill too fast. This morning I noticed the /private/var/vm folder had swapfiles totaling 64GB. My question would be how to reduce this and to understand why it happens. The SSD size is only 128GB, and was running 60GB or so. This runaway issue was about to create a 'no room' problem, although I suppose that would have forced a reboot anyway.
When I'm logging into my Apple ID (*=URL=* in the tab "Password and Security" there are security questions, just like this article says: *=URL=* The thing is - I know answers to my security questions, I keep them in text file, just like my other accounts, so I have no chance to forget them. But nevertheless my answers are not right according to what the page says when I click "Continue".
Or maybe some custom keyboard that would make this simple? (I haven't used any custom keyboards yet.) Some of this is in built-in apps (iMessage, Mail), others are in 3rd-party apps ("Alien Blue" client for Reddit, Facebook app). In case it matters, I use an iPhone 6 and an iPad Air, both with latest iOS 8.1.3.
I never had a single issue with yosemite, until yestersday after updating to 10.10.2. Now I press a key and hold it and it is not repeating anymore.
I've recently had all the info in my Contacts underlined (not the name but phone numbers, addresses, etc.). I hate the look (makes it look busy and it's unnecessary), but have no idea how this occurred. I'm still using the older OS (not 8). Anybody know what I should do to get rid of the underlining? Thanks.
Is there a way to type with Hebrew nikkud/ niqqud (diacritical vowels) on an iPad? There is a Davka app which allows you to type with nikkud within the app, but I'm looking for a way to type text with nikkud into a graphics app or into the web browser. I am especially looking for a way to insert the nikkud/diacritical characters for free.
I am a web developer and I have had issues where designs have too little contrast, and customers complain, but it looks fine on my nice MBP display. Most of the computers at Best Buy are sold with crappy panels, and I agree with the customer than on cheap displays, there is too little contrast. Is there a way to simulate a typical Cheap TN panel in OSX?
Can't rename LV (Logical Volume) Name:  I cannot change LV Name neither in Finder or via Terminal. The name looks strange, thanks to my 2.5 years daughter. I have no idea how she changed the name, but it happened. If I try to rename simply in Finder, the message is that I should use either smaller number of symbols or avoid using commas et cetera. This message appears even if I try to use a single symbol like 'd' as a new name.
fseventer does not support Yosemite until further notice and the suggestions here don't work for me so how can I monitor an installer as it writes files to the file system? I also tried Sloth but it only shows currently open files at a specific point in time.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do to fix Time Machine? I just want it to do a full backup, not skipping anything. As a last ditch effort I could blow away my Time Machine drive and start from scratch, but I really, really don't want to do that because it contains several months worth of backups, and I occasionally do need to go back and get older versions of files. Edit:
Today I noticed that a lot (!) of my stored "internet passwords" disappeared from my keychain. Plus, some of the few remaining are mixed up (wrong domain for the account).
I'm new Mac user, on Yosemite. Some apps, like Chrome Sublime Text, when I double click on the title bar doesn't fit my screen, check the image Also for some others apps, Like Xcode or Safari it works fine - double click on the title makes my app fit full screen. How to fix?
How is vm.memory_pressure's value bounded / calculated on OS X 10.10.2 - Yosemite? I've researched several answers to this question and am trying a few things on the command line to get exact values rather than looking at the graphs in Activity Monitor. With the system under light load:
I am currently using RVM for managing different gemsets for different versions of Ruby. RVM has made changes where the RVM folders must be listed first or else I have to manually set the gemset each time.
When using text replacement, “replace all” and “replace in selector” are grayed out and I can’t click on them. How do I get the ability to click on them?
When I open this chrome this file downloads automatically. I don't know what is it. But I think this is some malicious file. How fix it? An other get around it, other than just quickly resetting everything?
After I installed Yosemite on my MacBook Air, the battery icon is just an X. I have tried restarting the computer, and turning off the computer, then back on, but nothing is happening! Even the charger won't recognize that it is plugged in. This Mac is less than two years old, the battery should be fine.
When I go into iTunes and do a manual back up now it deletes the previous backup (as seen in Preferences > Devices > Backups. Is there a way to create a new backup without deleting/over-writing the old one?
Hopefully a simple solution. I installed a recent Starbucks app, and noted it was tracking my location and popping up on the lock screen. I do not want that. At all. Even after setting not to show on lock screen, it shows. I finally just removed it, but wondered as to how to get it to stop? I even turned off location tracking and yet it continued. I wonder if having the older version still on my phone might have caused this?
I am running OSX Yosemite. I had free space on my partition, (see picture below) but now it wont delete. I change the format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and then when I hit the " + " button it loads for about 1/100 of a second, and then shows on the screen that it partitioned it. When I click away from the partition tab onto the first aid tab, it goes away and becomes free space again. (NOTE: I am trying to MERGE the free space with my first partition, not make a new partition, but i have to make a new one to merge it with my first partition.)
I'm attempting to install a Safari extension and I'm getting a error that says: I thought maybe the 1Password was actually corrupted so I tried Ghostery and got the same error. Any ideas? EDIT I'm on Yosemite 10.10.1 - Safari 8.0
Mavericks OSX 10.9.5. I need to locate a file in the Time Capsule. I can navigate into the directory I want to search in, and using OSX find, I can "search" for a file that is right there and there are no results. For example navigate to directory Website containing two or three files including index.php and search for "index.php" yields nothing. I think that I'm not actually navigating to a directory, but that the OS is displaying a virtual directory based on the Time Capsule database. How does one search for a file within Time Capsule backups?
So I went to my MacBook the other day and the screen shows nothing but a folder with a question mark flashing. It won't reconize my hard drive. I can still hear it spin up and running so is this still a hard drive issue? I have tried all the recovery and Cmd Opt P start-ups and have still gotten nothing.
Is it possible to disable the confirmation dialog when moving/removing/deleting a file from iCloud Drive? The constant barrage of dialogs is incredibly irritating - I understand that removing the file from iCloud Drive will result in the file being removed from all of my iCloud Devices. There is no Finder preference that I could find, and a Google search has not yielded anything.
Since Yosemite, my tmux, which I installed via MacPorts, "hangs" when I re-attach it after my user has logged out and logged in again. I.e. it cannot start new processes, like a new command line. The logs in console do not show anything. I do not even know how I start to figure out what's happening here.
I use a printer on a Windows server configured as as it requires authentication after the first use I had to give my credentials which where then stored in the key chain. So far so good.
My iPad game center app shows friend recommendations. That list includes people that I do not know, people I have heard of but have never had direct contact, as well as people whom I regularly communicate with but never via Apple products. It is freaky. What information is friend recommendation based on?
I want to add a network printer on my MBP13R mid-2013. I open the dialog box Add printer (Addprinter.app). I begin to fill the form for IP adress of my printer (by typing the hostname). I only type a few letters and the window hangs. The only way to stop it is to use kill -9 PID command in Terminal (using ps aux|grep -i print for obtaining the PID of AddPrinter.app). After this I obtain the following lines in Console: Do you have any idea for solving this trouble? Details: Network: wire connection (thunderbolt adapter) with DHCP Yosemite 10.10.2
Let's say that I turned on my MBAir at home; wifi networking works. Then I close the lid (MBA goes to sleep) and go to different place with different wifi network. When I change the wifi network (eq when I go to nearby coffee shop) something strange happens: from that point I can not reach most of the internet. Even when I come back home, the same problem exists! This is a summary of what I have found: DNS is working reseting DNS (using com.apple.discoveryd.plist) does not help ping is working traceroute works turning wireless off and on does not help (via ifconfig) however, I can not connect to port 80, for example, using wget results with "connection timed out". browsers doesn't work (obviously) this issue is not related to a target web site, this happens all the time. other devices in my network work fine, so its not a router issue. re-adding network doesn't help. The only thing that helps is switching computer off and then back on; but this is not a solution for me. Can any one rec
I noticed DNS issue on my MBP where all of sudden (in the middle of my work, nothing changed) my DNS simply stops working. It's easy to notice that, so I do the following: first I check if DNS is really broken by eg pinging google.com, when DNS is not working, ping is not working either then I execute the script with following commands: sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist then I execute the script with following commands: This is all happening on MBP 2013 with Yosemite installed, sometimes more often, sometimes less. Is there a way to fix DNS issues in more better, systematic, way; so I dont have to manually fix it by myself? EDIT Log:
I imported some random photos from my desktop computer to test the photo import option on my new IPad Air. These photos are visible when I click on My Photos on the main menu screen, along with photos taken with the IPad, but are not visible when I click on my Photo Booth, which seems to store only pics. taken with my IPad. I want to delete the photos imported as a test but when I select them in My Photos the option to delete them (the dustbin) does not light up as an option. How can I delete them? Any help appreciated.
When having multiple terminals, I would like to quickly know what is the active terminal. iTerm2 has an option to dim, but this is not so great because inactive terminals are not that good to read (e.g. htop).
There are two ways to factory reset an iDevice: On the iDevice, open Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings. (Reference)
I have just added a second hard drive to my mac mini and would love to use the new partition to store files on iCloud Drive. Since they are on the cloud, it would clear some room on my back up.
I updated my iPhone with the iOS update 8.1.3, and now I am unable to activate my phone because it shows a connect to iTunes screen with no other option. Finally, when I connect to iTunes, it gives me a message to update or, if it is still not working, completely restore to factory settings.
I've just upgraded to the latest version of iTunes (12.1) for Windows -- the first proper 64-bit edition of the software for Windows -- and now all my music has stutters, pops and clicks when playing music. I have an extremely well-specced machine. Intel Core i7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 16GB RAM Windows 8.1 64-bit
My screen keeps going black as if it is going to sleep but will then not wake up, no matter how many various key combinations i retry. I get the following stack trace upon restart which makes it look like there is potentially something wrong with the video card driver? Some suggestions would be much appreciated because my macbook is out of warranty now and i guess it will cost me a lot to get repaired :(
I have parametered my Mail (Mac) so that the font color of all my emails are Green, yet each time I write an email, I must change the color myself. Why didn't it take? Which box should I have/not check(ed)?
I use Preview to crop a PDF file but it says that the content outside the selection will not be deleted, i.e. they are just hidden, and when printing there do appear. How to save the cropped PDF? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
I am trying to add internal beta testers to my app. The app is still in development, so I do not wish to submit the app for review for external testers. It seems the only way I can add an internal tester is if I add them as a new iTunes Connect User. When I try to though, I cannot because the Apple ID (email) of the person I want to invite already has an iTunes Connect account. Is there any way I can add people who already have Connect accounts as internal testers?
I have submitted an app to App Store. It has been downloaded almost 300 times. 5 in app purchase happened. But I do not get any review. I guess it depends on the users, whether they want to express their feelings or not. Is it any statistics when I can get the first review?
How can I write emails in another language, with a spell check for that language? Is there a language dictionary to opt for?
There were errors with my Mint install. The installation did not complete, but the "free space" was formatted during the install process.
Taks needing and admin password, like deleting certain files in the Finder or running an application installer, hang for minutes with a beachball. After a couple of minutes the dialog asking for an admin password appears finally.
It's been a long saga getting to the point where I am comfortable that my new Macbook Pro has FileVault 2 enabled properly on Yosemite. I ran into the "Encryption paused - connect power adapter" problem several times. Had to do a hard-disk erase and full re-install twice, and spent hours online with Apple support. Eventually, encryption completed and it told me "A recovery key has been set" ... but never told me what the key was! Today, I disabled encryption, rebooted, and re-enabled encryption - with the same result. Eventually, I used fdesetup changerecovery --personal to create a new recovery key, which I was able to validate with fdesetup validaterecovery. I now have that key stored in a very safe place (nowhere near my MBP).
I bought a MacBook Pro 13" late 2011, Yosemite, which had a 256 SSD already installed. I recently installed a 1TB 2.5" SATA3 7200 Hard Drive internal drive in place of my optical drive. The HDD keeps unmounting and have to constantly reformat it because it will not repair. Comes up with message "File system check exit code is 8" & "Code - 36" when coping any type of files. I have triple checked all interior connections. I have attempted repair in Single User Mode fsck to no avail. Adjusted my Sleep Settings. Is there anything else I could try? Or is it a faulty HDD?
I have downloaded these apps to conveniently shutdown or restart my MAC from spotlight. Usually I used the shutdown app which worked great. Today I used the restart app. Since then my MAC is restarting gives me the login screen, I type the password, the desktop starts to show, and before it finishes loading, boom, another restart.
I recently ran into this problem when doing desktop support for a user, and wanted to share the solution. They had deleted the Google Drive app and re-installed it, but then kept seeing this error dialog when they tried to open the re-installed app:
This is part of a screenshot showing how my father sees my contact page on iOS 8 on his iPhone:  The four contact details are, in this order: Phone number (Android device) Phone number (iPhone) FaceTime email address Email address (attached to iMessage)
You can leave your phone plugged into the charger overnight without too much risk, provided it’s not a counterfeit charger, and you don’t let your phone overheat. For best results with your smartphone charging, here’s what to remember: Always use official chargers and cables, or certified alternatives from reputable brands and retailers.
I have an iMac (newer than 2007),and I need to run this year's version of Turbo Tax. I am getting a message indicating that my current OS X, which is 10.6.8, is not sufficient to run this year's Turbo Tax (premier version).
Our Open Directory server messed up last week and it resulted in the whole thing having to be rebuilt over the weekend. Most of it went smoothly however as the Open Directory Host Name was changed things got a bit funny.
I recently tried to update, but even though iTunes shows this as being modified, the iPad has an old version. (In fact this is an even older version from 17 November, so my past update mustn't have worked either.) I tried to delete the old, and create a new spreadsheet with a new name, but this doesn't work either. How can I fix this?
I have been having trouble with my Mac mini. It randomly crashes several times a day. Sometimes it seems to be triggered by using any browser, but Chrome is the worst. YouTube seems to be the biggest culprit. I have completely wiped out the drive and re-installed the OS, but it didn't fix the problem. Here is my crash report. Can anyone help me figure this out?
When I turned my computer on, it got stuck on a gray screen (nothing, no apple logo, but occasionally a spinning wheel, and I could move the mouse). I rebooted in recovery mode and got the various messages when I tried to repare using disc utility: "incorrect block count for file 0.indexDirectory (it should be 1508 instead of 754)" then "the volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely." Then the alert that this disk could not be repaired.
I have an old ipod with a lot of songs my son loaded years ago. We cant figure out how to get the songs off the ipod and onto my itunes account. Can anyone help with this
Exactly as asked - I couldn't figure out why exactly this is happening?
I have an iPhone 4S, and it is in recovery Mode, and when I want to restore it, error (1) pop-up. like in photos below I did search on Internet, people say it's an electronic part issue, is it true?
HFS+: Using MacDrive Pro in windows to have read/write access to mac partition, i guess there's a way to allow linux support for hfs+. Heard some good & bad things about MacDrive but still not so sure...
It seems to me that all photos taken with the iPhone go into: the iPhone Camera Roll the iCloud photo stream
My 2nd gen Apple TV pretty consistently freezes the video but not the audio of purchased content (movies or TV shows Edit from iTunes-see comment below) at exactly 10 minutes in. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, but it does probably 75% or more. My work around is to hit the menu button to exit the movie and then play it again resuming where I left off. Usually it'll only happen once, but rarely it will continue to freeze at random or at 10 minute intervals. I have fast internet and a good WiFi connection. This has been happening consistently for over a year. Has anyone seen this problem? Any idea how to fix it?
I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. The files are both H.264 AAC. Can someone explain what causes this error?
On occasion cannot rename or delete files & folders on a Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB share from a Macbook. Mac OS X 10.10 build 14A389a The SMB share has granted "Everyone" with Full Control permissions. Windows 7 desktops access the share without issue. Error messages received are:
I enabled FileVault on my Yosemite Mac, and selected the "Allow apple ID to reset password" option. I paid attention to all the dialogs and though they said to write down my recovery key, it was never shown to me.
I have already gone through the creating an empty folder and synced just that folder and when that didn't work I unselected the box to sync photos and that also did not resolve my issue. I'm at a loss on how to remove the data from my iPhone5. I currently have 250 photos/videos on my phone that are just over 2gb...I would really appreciate help clearing out such a large portion of my harddrive
I am on OSX and using my terminal to access my Keychain Access. So I use this command
Here is image of that strange effect. Is Apple is going to implement some new feature or a bug.?
In OS X when Calendar.app is closed I get notifications about events; how can I have this work in Mail.app? While Mail is closed I want to get new email notifications.
I've recently heard the that statement that the left navigation button should be a previous button and should not be used to display a menu. Is that statement present in an offical guideline document or a WWDC video ?
I have the following MBP which is currently running Yosemite V10.10.2 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Long story short, my oldie MBP 2011' battery started bloating, I've contacted a repair service center and they advised me to remove the battery and use it on AC power, while they get a new battery for a replacement. What I've noticed a few days back, that my MBP starts extremely lagging from time to time. After a restart, it works fine for 12 - 20 hours and then the problem appears again. I've noticed that when the lagging starts, kernel_task begins consuming up to 500% CPU. So I bet that the problem's source is kernel_task, but what causes its extreme rise? Could it be a removed battery?
Is it possible to access, the "password assistant" also known as the password generator located inside the Keychain Access via terminal or otherwise? Steps to access in UI: Launch Keychain Access New password item Select padlock item (generate password) Create random password according to security level
On Mac OSX 10.10.1 I get command not found for anything installed in /usr/local/bin (however command is found if I use sudo) PATH variable contains this path. for example pip. Here are some lines from terminal: What could be causing this behaviour and how do I fix it?
On Mac's application switcher I want to hide some applications such as Stickies. I always use Stickies, it is really useful for me that's why it's always running. But, I'm really fed up with it on ⌘ CMD+⇥ TAB. I want to get rid of it Is there a way to do within altering any settings in macbook or using any third party software?
The problem is that I can't turn it off. I don't think the power button is okay, it only locks and unlocks the screen but does not shut the device off. My ipad however, I think, is also broken, i can't use it, nothing is responsive, the screen is empty, only the wallpaper is on there. The assistive touch is pretty much the only thing that is responding, with the volumes plus the notification center. But that's it. Even the lock screen button from the assistive touch doesn't respond when I hold it to shut the device off. What am I gonna do?
I know how to create custom color palettes in MacOS Keynote. I also know that different presentation templates come with different set of preset colors. However, I can't find a way to change this set of preset colors in a customly created template. Whenever changing colors, instead of clicking on the preset colors button and selecting the color (2 clicks, marked A on the diagram below), I need to click the color wheel, select the palette and select the color (3 clicks, marked B on the diagram below).
I created a rule that applies a mint green color to a lot of emails in my mailbox. I no longer want that color on those emails and I do not see a way to remove this highlighting for even a single email. I know I could create a new rule to give them a different color, but there is no rule semantics for removing color either. It seems that all of my email's subjects in Mac Mailbox are now permanently stained.
I have this AppleScript find all documents whose content matches the text 'theMessage' and it works perfectly fine: set matchText to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind \"kMDItemTextContent == 'theMessage'\"") set targetMatch to (choose from list matchText) as string if targetMatch ≠ "false" then tell application "Finder" to open (POSIX file targetMatch) as alias but I would like to improve it so that I can search for any text I specify For example: set searchText to text returned of (display dialog "Enter your search text:" default answer "") and then continue on with previous script, with this simple change: set matchText to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind \"kMDItemTextContent == searchText\"") I just can't seem to get it to take searchText as a variable
I've faced with the problem of using simple shell commands like AWK and print within my sh scripts on my Mac ( the same script works perfect on the Linux). For instance below script which seek for the columns within given input files didn't works output: Here some tests of the shell:
I just put a nice new Samsung 850 SSD drive into my Mac Pro 5.1 and noticed that it maxes out at 250MB/s write/read. The drive should be capable of speeds around 500MB/s, so the culprit here is surely SATA II port inside the Mac Pro.
While trying to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my MBP Retina today I really messed up. After getting into the drive selection in the Windows installation utility I deleted the other partitions (3 of them - as I remember one 60mb, one 200mb,) to get more space for my Bootcamp partition. After I deleted them (not formatted anything - just deleted) it just showed one huge unpartitioned disk with the whole ~250gb of my ssd. I realized that I messed up and exited the installation routine just to find out that I can't boot into anything right now. When I do a regular restart it shows an error message "no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key" - I also tried the "alt+cmd+r" method which doesn't do anything... Please send my any ideas/tips how to go on - I have really important documents on that machine and I haven't made any backup. UPDATE:
Not sure how long this has been happening, but I just noticed it AFTER Yosemite update. Mission control just does not work: using hot corners, keyboard shortcut, or even double clicking Mission Control.app, there is no way to make my Mac go to Mission Control/Exposé. By the way, I have hot corners for showing desktop and app windows exposé, neither of which work. Hot corners for dashboard and Notification center work as usual. Any ideas why does it happen, how could I solve it? Thanks a lot.
When a number is labeled as "mobile" in your contact list, you can click the little "cloud" shortcut to send a text message to that number. If the number is labeled as "Home" or anything else, that text message short cut goes away (because the system thinks it is not a mobile number) My question is, can you use a custom label and somehow tell the system that the number is a mobile number so you can send text messages to it? I have a lot of contacts that have more than 1 cell phone and it would be nice to be able to label them as something other than "mobile" so that I know which cell phone i'm texting. Having all the numbers labeled "mobile" does nothing to let me know which number is which.
If I fill up the space on my iPhone with photos, but those photos are synced with iCloud Photo Library, how do I remove those photos from my iPhone without deleting them from iCloud Photo Library. Hence, when I try to delete a photo it says: This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices. Seems like I'm stuck?
I'm developing a game for ios and notice surprising results performance-wise between my devices. for example, my iphone 5 will perform better than my ipad mini retina. I really have no point of reference on how the two should compare. If they shared similar processor speeds, it would make sense that the ipad might suffer a performance problem since the textures are twice as big.. but I'm just guessing here.
I have a question. How can I disable the login on mac with os yosemite 10.10.2 Everytime when I want to start on the laptop I have to input my password and login. I want to disable this one. I tried to disable from security& Privacy section or users and groups but failure....can somebody help me please
I started a new calendar. Can anyone get in and see my appointments? This is my private calendar to make my appointments. I am starting new job I want to make sure that old boss can't see anything.
We would like to configure OS X to only allow Remote File Sharing (SCP) from a specific range of internal IP addresses. That way they only accessible when the user is connected via the VPN.
I'm trying to empty my trash, and it seems that I having some problem with encoding: Ok then, let's see what's inside:
Can anyone direct me to a template, method, or example for solving systems of equations with Numbers? Excel supports this with its SOLVE facility, but I see nothing obviously like that in Numbers. Some additional information, I found the following on Apple's Support Form:
I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to kill all processes that aren't essential to maintaining system stability in an efficient manner. I'm guessing the easiest way to do this would be to find out which processes are owned by Apple Inc. and exclude them from a kill list, if possible.
I have iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 and I have installed a 128GB SSD into the system. Formatted it for mac and it is sitting empty right now. I have the main 1TB drive still installed and working right now with the OS on it. I would like to install the OS on it and put all my other files on the 1TB drive that has everything on it including the OS Yosemite 10.10.1 . I have tried to set this up myself but have had to start over and ask for help from you fine people here. I got as far as installing the OS on the SSD and it worked fine, did not know how to remove the os from the original HHD without killing everything on the old HHD so I stopped pretending that I know more then I do. So as it sites right now 128GB SSD and 1TB HHD installed on this computer I have a time machine backup for the main HHD now.
I'm trying to figure out a way to do the following: when I quit Logic Pro X, I want to also automatically quit other apps that I use with it, as they are no longer needed. Is this possible?
So my buddy's macbook one day just booted up with a folder with a question mark in it. Its an old laptop from work, which he doesn't work at anymore. I've been trying to help him out, but I've exhausted my knowledge. We tried to hold down the option key, but it wants the firmware password, which we can't get. I've seen an article on how to decrypt it, but we can't get it to boot, so we can't use terminal, and single user mode wasn't working either. Is there any way we can grab the password or get it to boot in single user mode some other way than holding Command + S? Thanks.
I have a really annoying issue that happens when I am using Adobe Dreamweaver. During saving when connected to a server and pushing files to it, it will often freeze. The issue is, it locks up the app completely and I am forced to "Force Quit" the program. However, once I force quit I cannot re-open that app again without restarting the mac. You can see a video here of it happening: *=URL=* Something type of Cache or temp file is being cleared on restart and I would like to know if anyone knows of a way I can perform that same task through terminal?
I have two external monitors from my iMac, both are rotated in portrait mode. I assign apps to the outside displays via the dock so they open in a particular display.
I recently broke my iPhone 4s and am not due for an update for another year. My friend is going to let me use her old iPhone 4s. How do I deactivate my broken phone so that my friends phone will now be usable as mine? My carrier is Verizon
I am a long time Windows User, but newbie on OS X This is a wonderful OS I use. I have a macbook pro with 500GB HDD inside. I want to one HDD install both OS X 10.8.5 and OS X 10.10.2, plus one more partition for save data, so when as need, I format any two OS X partition will not data lose... (So Total 3 partition base on my case there). But I search APPLE official KB, not find any document as example like my case, just only see how to install the OS X on ext HDD only (Not the way I want to be).
I'm trying to export all emails from an account I have setup and mapped to Apple mail on my computer. There are 1200 emails. The account is no longer active so i'm trying to export all the emails in the mailbox in apple mail to an .mbox file that I can import somewhere else. The problem is when I do an export of the mailbox and then import it somewhere, there are only 88 emails when there should be 1200+. Why is this only exporting some of the emails and how can I make it so it exports all of them?
I'm completing an audio recording setup. Equipment: Macbook 13" Retina late 2012 with Two Thunderbolt ports One Focusrite Saffire audio interface (Firewire 400) One OWC Mercury external SSD drive (Firewire 800) I already own One Thunderbolt/Firewire adapter
I have an iPhone 5 with various photos. I have a Mac desktop running OS X Yosemite.
Sometimes the text cursor stops flashing, and when I type nothing shows up. Then I click the mouse, and suddenly everything I just typed appears, and the cursor's frozen at a new location.
In both Chrome and Safari mailto: links open up iTerm instead of Mail. This seemed to have started happening right around the same time I added a shortcut through Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts to use command+enter to Send in the Mail app. But I have no idea if that has anything to do with this problem, or where else to even begin looking.
I've been trying to find an answer to my problem all day with no luck. I tried installing windows 7 via bootcamp this morning. I accidentally created the partition before creating a bootable usb drive with the copy of windows 7 on it. Now when I boot up my mac, it goes to an empty grey screen then goes into the "no bootable device" screen. I have tried pressing and holding option once I power on the laptop but that still takes me to the same "no bootable device" screen. I am currently in the process of creating an EFI bootable usb and hoping that this will work. Is there something I haven't tried yet?
For the last few days I've been getting scared because of these messages that appear very frequently on wakeup, and almost always when I wakeup after a long duration. Sometimes it says "you restarted your computer because of a problem" and others it says "computer restarted because of a problem".
Is possible setup multiple .local hostname on one physical computer? Background:
What I really want is a simple tool which has two keyboard shortcuts: The first starts/stops a keystroke recorder. The second then plays back that recording. I don't need anything else and though I'm open to more useful features, I don't want it to conflict with Alfred's brilliant multi-clipboard or Dash's brilliant code snippet macros.
I have a Macbook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. My university uses a captive portal to connect via Wi-Fi. I was able to connect and log in just fine, but after I updated from 10.10.1 to 10.10.2, I can connect and get a valid IP but I cannot access the log in page through the captive portal. When I try to display the log in page from the browser (I have tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome) the result is the same. I get the server not found error on the browsers and the website couldn't be loaded error on the captive portal.
Why doesn't OS X remember the Size of the Finder window and the size of the columns in Cover flow (or any other) view? It seems like something very basic that should just be there but it's really frustrating when I have to continuously resize columns to see filenames and resize the window so I can see a reasonable amount of stuff.
I want to find files modified on a specific date. It is not important what time of day they were modified. I tried the following and got an empty list (no error):
I have a problem with charging of my Battery which has been appeared last night. It was working perfectly well for a long time. All of my friends who had different laptops were so jealous at my Macbook, because their laptops must have been plugged-in mostly to function well. I am worried that may laptop may being like theirs.
I'm tring to write a shortcut script in spark for opening the terminal. how can make this work? I'm using 10.10.2 as OSX version.
I use my iphone with a apple id until now, unfortunately because of some personal issues I have to change my apple id. I only worry about my contact numbers. Is there any way that I can save them and change apple id ?
I set the red tag for the folder ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData but if I search all files or folders with the red tag, this doesn't show up.
My daughter needs help. She was updating her iPhone through her (MacBook Pro) computer. After hours of updating the update failed and her screen (I think it's her computer screen) says this, "restore phone to factory settings and erase phone". She is devastated that she'll lose all her pictures, videos, etc. Are you able to help her so that she won't lose anything? I think she was saying her phone won't turn on.
UPDATE: "Please note that data for Feb 3rd and Feb 4th is currently incomplete. We are working to correct the issue and apologize for the inconvenience." Sometimes pops up now. In the notification, only the 3rd was mentioned before, but now apprently they updated the message. former question:
In recent days I've slowly been losing my mind trying to copy and paste URL's, code snippets and other bits of information. Assuming when I paste and see "old" pasteboard content that I hadn't pressed CMD and C correctly. But I've pinned it down to only happening in popup light boxes, I disabled all extensions and it's still not working. Any ideas?
My old HDD died, I restored data to a new one, but now I have two versions of backup: new and old The name was MyVolume, in Time Machine I have now MyVolume and MyVolume1 I already tried tmutil addexclusion and exclusions in Time Machine options I tried to rename my new HDD, tried to use another empty HDD with the same name but this old backup is still there How can I remove one of it?
Is there a keyboard shortcut that will trigger the AC button on the OS X Yosemite calculator? Escape key triggers the Clear (C), but hitting escape again does NOT trigger the AC. Only a mouse click does.
I know how to disable iCloud, but I want to completely remove the possibility of using the service from my Mac for security reasons. I tried to delete the related files, but I do not have permission. So how can I make sure that no user or application or system process is able to access iCloud?
I haven't upgraded to Yosemite on my Mac yet and still using Mavericks. I wanted to purchase an app during its promotion period but the app min version is 10.10 so Mac App Store complains saying that the app cannot be installed and does not even allow me to purchase. Is there a way where I can just purchase even though I might not have to download and install it. I searched and could not find any way (iTunes does not support). While I might upgrade shortly, it might take time since I want to take proper backups and then upgrade during which the promotion of the app might be over.
Basically, my problem is that my Open With list looks like this for .html files  I want to be able to manage it somehow. For example, I often open those files with PHPStorm but that list is obviously full and I have to click Other... every time for eg. PHPStorm.
Suppose I want to find (for tax purposes) the amounts of all payments I made to the App store during 2014. In the App Store application, I did not find this information in "Purchases" nor in "View My Account". Is there something easier than finding the dates of my purchases (under "Purchases"), then looking for that date in my credit card statements?
Typically I come into the office in the morning, connect my laptop to the Thunderbolt, then power on the iMac and switch to Target Display Mode. My laptop is now happily running two external displays:
See my former thread here. Now when I wake from sleep, login seems to work, but it takes perhaps 15-30 seconds to restore to functional state. Log below, starting from wake_reason at 09:35:49 through last log msg at 09:36:18 prior to functionality being restored. (See bottom, where more recent wake log issues listed; now wake takes less time, but still much more than with Mavericks.) Sure appreciate anyone's input...Jim P. Here is some more recent code, following wake attempt 08:46:25:
Context: My mid-2010 MBP 15" has started to get random GPU panics: My system has two graphics subsystems: the built-in Intel HD Graphics and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. I've heard anecdotally that the NVIDIA 330M is problematic. (I also heard that I just missed the deadline for an Apple warranty repair for that very problem...sigh.) So I'd like to try forcing the system to always use the Intel HD Graphics and see if that makes the problem go away. My questions: Will forcing the system to use the Intel HD Graphics will cure the panics? If so, is the gfxCardStatus app the recommended approach?
When your phone backs up the photos, can someone see the photos?
I've recently started to get crashes when changing to GPU (I'm using gfxCardStatus and I know which apps/plugins etc use discrete GPU). It only happens sometimes and I can't really examine a pattern. It's not bound to a specific app, specific time, I don't know, it just hangs the system completely sometimes when changing from integrated to discrete GPU, the screen, including the cursor is completely frozen, and the only way out is as system reset by pressing the power button. I've been using my computer for longer than a month and I've started having these crashes only in the last week or so. I don't want to disable automatic graphics switching as it helps me to preserve battery when I travel, and I also play games/use graphics intensive apps like Photoshop, Premiere etc. so I also can't stick to integrated too.
Can call friend and he can call and text me, but I can't text him. I get the following message on my iphone 4S:+1(1)(216)116-11 8061092 Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. This is the only contact that I have this problem with. Any ideas?
I need to do some tests on a MS SQL (not MySQL) database. But without the burden of having to open a hosting account, create a remote database, connect to it, and remotely insert a million records. I need to create a MS SQL Database locally on my computer only to be used on my computer - and I need to be able to import it using Navicat software. How can we create a local MS SQL database on OS X [Yosemite]?
I have a MacPro5,1 with 8 cores (2 quad-core processors) running OS X 10.10.2. From what I have read as per EveryMac.com's information about this unit it should be possible to have far beyond the normal maximum noted by Apple: Actual Maximum RAM ...
single user did not work. rescue boot did not work. usb bootable installer via terminal diskutility did not work.
We don't know what triggered it, but the specific name of our iPhone 6 "Nancy's iPhone" suddenly lost it's "name" and became "iPhone." Now we're having issues backing it up, as the computer doesn't recognize it (since the name is now different). How do we change it back?
How do I insert a row in one column only. By moving the current data down and inserting a row above it. I don't want to insert a row across the entire spreadsheet - just that column.
How to remove those directories permanently? Not just to hide them, but delete. Every time system reboots they are recreated and I have to sudo rm -rf NastyDir*. Is there anything I can change in system settings?
When using the iOS keyboard and inserting an apostrophe or a space the keyboard automatically toggles from the numeric screen back to the qwerty input screen. I'm finding this really annoying, so how do I turn this 'feature' off?
I have a huge problem. My hard disk seems to be dead. I did a lot of things but I guess it's really gone. The thing is that I don't have CDs o DVDs of the OS X Lion (it's a macbook pro A1278 bought in 2012) and no backup in time machine. I lost all my files so I'm already grieving. The thing is, if I buy a new HDD, how do I get the OS X there?
Is there a quick and easy way to tell about how many files I have on a given HFS+ formatted hard drive? On Unix, I use df -i, but HFS+ apparently doesn't use inodes and returns a silly answer based on the percentage of disk space I'm using: Of course, I can find /Volumes/BARRY | wc or something, but does HFS+ keep track of how many files are on a given filesystem?
I regularly log on to a financial website using Google Chrome This requires me to enter a Account number, a password and also an Employer number. I store the Account and password in my Keychain, but have to enter the 8 digit Employer number each time. Is there any way of getting Keychain to remember this additional number.
I run the latest versions of OS X and iOS. Is there a way to mass-delete all completed reminders in both iOS and OS X? I’ve looked but can't seem to find a way so far.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) onto my new macbook air (OSX Yosemite 10.10.2). I'm using the Boot Camp Assistant and am at the point where it's asking me to create a partition for windows (with a slider). It won't let me reduce the Mac OSx partition smaller than 38 Gb. It currently says it's using 20 Gbs for OSx (18 Gb free), but I can't make it so that the MacOSx partition is only 20 Gb, which will give me more space for Windows.
They seem to have redundant copies of all my other photos, but bundled into month groups? I have iCloud turned off in iPhoto. But maybe I used to have it turned on.
I had a old Macbook Pro 2010 mid 15" buy from 2nd market. And it still shipping yet on the way ... Just know it still running the very very old 10.6.8 on it ..
I am trying to copy files from the server to Macintosh_HD (/Volumes/Macintosh_HD) via scp: scp -r username@IP:directory-path . But it is showing an error: Permission denied, please try again. I am logged in as admin, and the above command is working fine while copying in /Users/home. Kindly suggest the probable solution.
On Windows, I would just hold control, and click the 30 links on the page I wanted to open. How do I do this in Mac?
I maintain a very clean address book (OSX), complete with photos and profile info of my contacts. Contacts are on iCloud and Exchange.
I am looking for a solution to launch the iOS Simulator from command line with Safari launched by default. Launching the simulator from command line is easy. So is the launching of Safari. But I want (rather need) to do this in a single command line statement which will be executed from some third party tool. Is there a possible way to do this?
I posted this question on the Apple support forum, but no one could give me an answer. I am researching iBeacons for my final year project at University and I'm interested to know the position of the Bluetooth antenna in the iPhones.
I'm using Mail.app to read my gmail via IMAP. I recently realised that, since I have a huge amount of mail in that account, and a fairly small SSD, it would be wise to reconfigure the account the save as much storage space as possible. I've done that, but it seems the old mailbox file hasn't been removed. In particular, ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-{email account}/[Gmail].mbox/All Mail.mbox
I have just down loaded the newest version of iTunes (12.1.0.71)on my Laptop and lost all my playlists and CD's I burned....all that is left is the music I have purchased on iTunes over the past 8 years. I called Apple support they said they were sorry but there is no way to recover your playlists.....can anyone help
I'm on Yosemite (10.10.2). Since upgrading I got some DNS issues, it seems my loopback isn't working any more. When I'm talking to my app locally via *=URL=* localhost in some cases (sorry for being vague here) gets resolved to my current local IP. (observed with rails and openstack) some analysis: etc/hosts: etc/networks:
Is there an easy way to download a video from an URL to the device or to your Dropbox? The only way I have managed to do that is using Mercury: manually copying the URL, going to the download manager and then pasting the URL there. Then, from Mercury I can save it to my camera roll or upload it to Dropbox.
There is no option in the Bootcamp wizard to choose the Windows ISO.. Any ideas?
built-in display flickers during boot and continues to flicker regardless of which OS I boot or display resolution. the flicker is hardly noticeable when displaying a white window full screen but very noticeable on darker colours. If an external display is attacked, that works fine.
How do I make ⌘+← and ⌘+→ move the text cursor very left and right of the terminal entry line. This keyboard shortcut works on most things on my mac book but not the Terminal.
I want to stop Filezilla from ever bouncing in my dock. It just keeps bouncing and bouncing and derails from my work. Is it possible to stop one app from bouncing?
Saw an app during a Apple video, i was wondering what it was called.
I have an App (Transmission) which won't launch after it hangs and I force quit. It won't launch from the Dock or applications folder. A reboot will resolve the problem but I have another long running process which I don't want to interrupt. Is there some way to get it to launch without rebooting? Transmission is not listed as a running process in Activity monitor or ps -ef | grep -i transmission OSX version 10.8.2
Edit: after connecting at work today, the Time Machine settings dialog said something to the effect of, "Next backup: when disk is connected." I unplugged the disk, then plugged it back in at 1:57 PM and it changed to, "Next backup: Today, 1:47 PM." I still don't understand why it doesn't seem to detect the disk when I initially connect it.
I purchased an album this morning on my laptop at home. I got on the bus and realized that all of the songs hadn't downloaded. I logged onto itunes at work and the album shows up under purchased music, but it won't let me download it to my music on my iphone. I've authorized the computer, I've checked that the purchase isn't hidden and I've tried to drag and drop the album into my music. It will pull over to there and it shows the little plus mark, but it doesn't download it to my music. Please help! I can't figure this out.
After a clean install and a few weeks, I had the same problem. So I started thinking the SSD was failing. After another few weeks, I couldn't even boot (prohibitory sign at bootup).
I have a 2TB external HDD, formatted using exFAT. It seems that, even after I eject the disk, the mount point remains in /Volumes. Thus, every time I plug the drive in, a new mount point gets created in /Volumes using a numerical incrementer: /Volumes/external_drive/ /Volumes/external_drive 1/ /Volumes/external_drive 2/ etc.
My office uses the small Apple bluetooth keyboards. I have a user who is requesting a numeric keypad. Apple sells a Belkin wireless keypad on their website, but it has terrible reviews and it isnt cheap. There are countless USB numeric keypads that are a fraction of the price, all designed for Windows.
I'm sending a Mail message with text that looks like a link. I've color-coded this text, and I don't want it transformed into an underlined blue link. How can I stop Mail from "linkifying" my text when I send it? Note: I know that I can right-click on a link and select "Disable Link", but unfortunately 1) these links don't show up until the email is sent, and 2) disabling the link doesn't seem to change how it displays the email when it is received. I did a test with the word link.google.com and this is what the raw source looks like after sending:
I play games on my Mid-2014 retina MBP, which has both Iris Pro and GeForce 750M 2GB. One of the games that I play (League of Legends, which has a 'beta' OS X client, but I highly doubt that this is the reason) sometimes runs slow on graphics-intensive scenes. Today, I forgot my GPU on 'Integrated only' (I use gfxCardStatus) and entered the game. Interestingly, the game almost never slowed down at all, even on graphics intensive scenes, running smoothly on 60FPS. I've upped the settings and it was still running smoothly at settings which severely affected GT750M's performance. I've doubled checked the active GPU and yes it is Intel Iris Pro. How can this happen? How can integrated graphics perform better than a GT750M on gaming? I know Iris Pro is a great 'integrated' card (compared to other integrated cards), but I highly doubt that it does better than 750M. If it really did, then why would it co-exist with 750M anyway? Why would this be happening?
Can I download a version of iWorks from Apple that will work with 10.6.8 before I upgrade to 10.7 or above. I have a lot of Appleworks files I want to convert before I upgrade the system.
I've used iPhoto for many years and found that it was suitable for what I wanted to do. Since Apple has discontinued iPhoto and Aperature in favor of their new Photos application, I'm seriously considering switching applications for my photo management since I'm just not happy with the direction they're taking the software. All well and good, but the annoying thing is that I've spent hours of my time working with the face detection feature of iPhoto and I'd hate to lose all the work tweaking the exception cases (i.e. iPhoto couldn't make out who someone was and I had to manually tell it).
Is there any tool that runs on current Macs providing a flashlight effect to highlight a portion on the screen? In the past I've used OmniDazzle to create screen casts using this effect. On recent OS X versions it doesn't work any more, though.. Any hint appreciated!
Sometimes I notice CPU load for no reason and I see in Activity Monitor that VTDecoderXPCService is using 15-30% of CPU. After I restart Safari it is ok for some time until it happens again.
I am developing a game using sprite kit. When we create a new Spritekit project, by default a spaceship image is present in it.
When I add an event to my calendar on my iPhone 5s, there is no "Save" button, so nothing gets saved to my calendar! I can set everything but I can't save anything.
They work perfectly in the english keyboard layout in almost any window with text input. But as soon as I switch keyboard layout to something not-english (russian in my case) those shortcuts stop working.
So - I have a question about using rsync in Terminal. I need to move a Time Machine backup off of an external drive in order to reformat it. The 'backups' folder is nearly 300 GB. At first I tried to use CarbonCopyCloner to create a sparseimage on the disk I am moving the data to. That didn't work because, according to Bombich, TM backups are treated differently and can't be processed by CCC.
On Linux, I use the noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,data=writeback mount optioins in /etc/fstab to trade filesystem safety/consistency/integrity for speed which makes sense for local development. Is there a way to do something similar or to otherwise make such a trade off for the other OS X developers on my team?
In FaceTime on OS X, I'd like to make the little corner preview of the local camera feed bigger in size. Dragging it by the edge doesn't work.
I am asking about a software to draw figures and diagrams using the trackpad. I am already aware of Inklet, which works only in conjunction with other software like photoshop. I need another free stand-alone software that does not need other programs pre-installed.
I'm using an iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.1.6) and would like to stream video from the Safari browser or an installed app to my TV over the connected Apple Composite AV cable. Is that possible?
I have a problem with configuring my iPad to work on a local, isolated Wi-Fi network that does not have a DNS server on it. The problem is in how to convince the iPad that it is actually connected to the network.
As can be seen from the screenshot, I have selected "Add text at cursor" and entered the desired text. But as can also be seen - there is only a tiny very narrow entry there - I can not even discern if any text were actually being displayed.
I have a MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2012 with 4 GB RAM. I want to upgrade it to a SSD drive. I have 2 questions:
As shown in the screenshot there are no options for changing the font under tools. I went through all main menu options and no features for manipulating the color, size, etc are there. This should be a dead simple operation - any tips here?
I cannot resize the HD of a new Mac Mini. The Mac HD shows 700+ GB on one partition with Yosemite on it and another partition of 200+ GB named "Free Space" and I cannot figure out how it got there. The output of diskutil list:
My son spends hours on Star Wars Galaxies. Does anybody knows how to shutdown automatically the Mac after one hour of gaming and to let it turn on again only after some time? I tried to identify the executable in a top command but I do not master enough shell and crontab to do something useful. Best
I recently updated my 2008 MB Pro (2 GB RAM) to Yosemite from 10.6 and I've found that it's often unusably slow. After keeping an eye on Activity Monitor over a couple weeks, I notice that the Image Capture Extension and software updated processes are often using over 400MB of RAM, 95% of which is compressed. Quitting the processes seems to make the system more responsive, but I assume that these are supposed to be running in the background.
I recently acquired a Logitech MX Performance mouse that has tons of buttons. I really like the Mission Control button but I was hoping to be able to swap between screens in mission control with one of the buttons. I've setup (in the Logitech configuration program) what I thought would work for me.
Sometimes - often when waking from sleep - the wifi service on my early 2011 MacBook Pro will simply stop functioning. I can open the wifi menubar icon, but clicking "Turn On" or "Turn Off" won't do anything. After dealing with this problem for several days on Mavericks, I upgraded to Yosemite, and when I sleep the laptop and then wake it, in the menubar which appears before logging in, the wifi connection symbol is simply gone; logging in makes it reappear in the menubar, but it is always then in a disconnected state. In an attempt to try to slap the wireless device drivers or services or other misbehaving process into obedience, I have tried the following commands:
I got a directory /private/var/directory that I'd like to index using Spotlight. It looks like everything under /private/var/ is excluded from indexing. I tried to import it using:
I'm trying to send a file from Android to Macbook via bluetooth. I pair them successfully and when I'm sending a file from Android, it just ends up saying "file not sent". In the Macbook does happen nothing at that time, no pop up window or something. That's it.
I cracked my iPhone 5 screen and the right side of the screen is black and un-touchable but the left is fine. I want to back my phone up to my computer and when i try iTunes says "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be backed up." but i can't put my password because i can't touch all the buttons to put it in. HELP!!!
I got my Mac 2 days ago and installed a few softwares, Xcode, Android Studio and stuff. Today I noticed my Storage as this:
When trying to ssh into a remote OS X machine, I get: ping or traceroute do not reach the machine either. The interesting detail is that if someone is logged onto the machine as a guest, then the machine is reachable and it can be pinged.
My Macbook was running really slow after opening it up and so I opened Activity Monitor and saw one process called softwareupdated that was not responding. It didn't say it was using any CPU but my laptop was crawling. I force quit it but then it restarted again. So I looked it up online and saw that App Store uses it (and maybe others). So I opened App Store and ran update. It seemed to use the process as it showed 104% CPU. Then when it was done it went back to 0 CPU. Still it showed in red that it was not responding.
My iPhone cable is the only one that can recharge my iPhone 5. I have tested around 5 other iPhone 5/6 cables and none of them work. I am apprehensive of either losing my cable or breaking it.
I would like to expand the system search to DjVu -files or find an alternative way to do this. My current OS X is Yosemite 10.10.2 but this can a Unix tool tool. DjVu contains an OCR text layer, making it easy to perform copy and paste and text search operations. The search is also more efficient than in PDF.
I know this discussion about spell checkers for Pages, here. I am searching for the files ending with .aff or .dic. Without them, you cannot use them in system. My current OS X is Yosemite 10.10.2. The manual of OS X says that in Settings > Keyboard > Spelling > Set up ... To add an additional spelling dictionary, copy the dictionary files (.aff and .dic) to the Spelling folder in your Library folder. Is there any standard dictionary for Finnish?
I've a MBP with OS X Yosemite & I want to remotely connect with other Macs over internet, primarily for troubleshooting purpose. I currently use TeamViewer but I'm not satisfied with it.
I have no consistent behaviour here because I can try whatever I want, PRAM-resets, reboots, deleting display settings etc., changing the cables, I cannot force the second monitor to work, too. It randomly works at some point. What can I do to fix this or at least force the second monitor to work, too? Remember: OS X recognizes both monitors with their correct color profile and resolution and often, it DOES work (I use the MacBook in clamshell). Console output opon connecting the second monitor alone:
I can't find out any info about if iTunes is able to play H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format. Do you know if this is posible? Yosemite 10.10, iTunes version 12.1.
I have installed Yosemite OS on my Mac and I encounter the following problem. Whenever I clear Safari history, then I always have to login to iTunes if I want to use the online services (e.g. internet music or online radio). Is this a bug or that's the way it works?
Is there a Safari extension for rendering LaTeX in webpages? That is, take expressions like $...$ and replace them in the page with the rendered LaTeX. I couldn’t find anything on Google.
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with a recently replaced logic board and SSD upgrade. I haven't yet upgraded the RAM.
Lately it seems like there's a new "critical" update to Flash every week or so. And every single time this happens Firefox begins prompting me to Allow or Disallow flash on every single website I visit which uses it. Until in frustration I give in and update Flash.
I have OS X Yosemite. Was adding a podcast to an older nano, and iTunes crashed. It's still running, but when I try it won't force quit. I tried to restart or shut down, but the system wants me to force quit Itunes, but it won't. Any suggestions?
What is the largest internal hard drive a Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008) can support? I read here that it's around 1.2 TBs is that correct? Also I plan to run Proxmox on it, not Mac OS X (well, I might run it as a VM, but not directly on the bare metal).
Let's use "Coda 2.app" as an example. If to rename it to "Coda.app": Will it affect the functionality of the app? Is the app still be able to access the sites data saved in Keychain previously? Is there any problem for the in-app auto update? Thanks.
I dont have "auto hide" enable for dock. but in all previous version dock will hide if I enter in full screen mode for vlc player or for chrome. Now its no longer the case. If I enbale "auto hide" then its hide it but that's not what I am looking for as I like to see dock all the time except full screen mode.
I have a CM Storm Devastator and cannot get the backlight working on Mac. I have followed the instructions below : Go here: *=URL=* Click the little "Download sample code" button Open the downloaded folder and go to Build / Release Drag the HID LED test tool file to your Applications folder Launch the OS X "Automator" program Choose "Service" document type Under "Library", click "Utilities", and drag "Run Shell Script" to the blank area / workflow pane. For "selected service receives" choose "no input" in "any application" (important) For "pass input" choose "as arguments" (important) For "shell" choose "/bin/bash"
Recently we have moved my HDMI cable to use on a different TV and when I brought it back to my room and used it to connect my MacBook Pro to my Hiteker TV, my mac recognizes the TV but the Tv doesn't recognize the Mac, it says no signal. I've tried putting the cable in the other HDMI port and the same thing happened. I have also unplugged it while both are on. Please help.
I currently have a Late 2010 MacBook Air and looking to get the new Air when it comes out later this year. My question is, I have just made a bootable USB installer (by using createinstallmedia through downloading Yosemite from the App Store). However, I am not sure if I can use this to install Yosemite on the MacBook Air 2015 without losing some features i.e. Hand-off, which are not available on the 2010 version. So could I use a OS X 10.10.3 installer from a MacBook Air 2010 and use it to install Yosemite on the MacBook Air 2015 with all the features enabled?
I recently updated my MacBookPro from Mavericks to Yosemite and found that Time Machine backup speed has really slowed down. I realized the amount of new/changed files jumped quite a bit after the upgrade, so I expect the first backup to take a while. However, the backup speed seem unusually slow.
Looking at my iPhone via iTunes, i see a very questionable amount of "Other". What is it? How can i delete it?
Apple announced a new 12" MacBook. The only port other than a headphone jack is USB-C. Since it is new technology I do not have any USB-C memory sticks. What adapters will let older USB sticks work with this port and Mac?
I have an imac and most people that text me on my iphone 4 comes through on my imac via icloud. It's still working well for all my contacts except one and it comes up red. So when i recieve texts from this person on my phone I cannot see it or respond on my imac, and if I try to text them on my Imac it shows undeliverable?? Help
How do I download purchased songs to my PC? I am missing songs from several albums. I cannot get the album or individual songs to download.
I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, like CMDkey + 1. However, that 1 has to be from my top row numeric keys. If I try using CMDkey plus a number from the NumPad on the right side of my keyboard - this fails. Even though when I plainly type numbers, my NumPad will type the number just like my top row numeric keys. Why does CMD+1 work if using my top row numkeys, but not my right-side NumPad?
In iOS 8 Safari, when it autocompletes a url one begins to type, it would be useful if we could move the cursor to the end of the autocompleted url so we can append more path and file info. Is it possible to append an autocompleted URL in Safari for iPhone ?
As much as I hate the new Pages, I use it because it was a resource all my devices could update/re-upload before Microsoft Office came out on iOS devices. However, there are some fonts missing that are clearly OS installed.
Unfortunately is not possible synch the PDFs files using iBook, so i'm looking for an alternative. I have a huge collection of PDF file and i work with different computers. I'm looking for an application that can takes care of all my PDFs and generate an archive that can be put on Dropbox / iCloud Drive.
My mental model of a charger is that you plug it in and electricity fires out of it like a hose whether you like it or not. When I plug in my macbook charger, it often takes a few seconds before the light comes on and the menu bar icon says charging.
So there is this iTunes Plugin I wanna install called iSpazz that makes your keyboard backlight flash to the music from iTunes I dragged the file that I downloaded into the iTunes plugin folder and iTunes doesn't load up because the plugin is designated for 32-bit versions of iTunes so I right click on the iTunes app and set it so that it runs on 32-bit mode. It doesn't let me open iTunes and gives me this error iTunes 12.1.0.50 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris 1536 MB
I have bought a 13 Retina Macbook Pro -my first Mac, just a couple of days ago and I found something odd. Apple claims that after an hour or so of sleep, the Mac should go to deep sleep -AKA hibernation. Well, yesterday night I closed the lid and the Mac entered sleep mode. The expected behaviour according to Apple is that when I wake up in the morning, the Mac would turn on and load the RAM image from disk back to the main memory, taking many seconds to wake up. Instead, it woke up immediately -like if it never entered hibernation. 1) Why doesn't my MBP do what Apple claim it should do when "sleeping"?
I'm trying to install FUSE for OS X, but it fails with the message: Unapproved caller. SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software.
I don't seem to find Chrome Extension's Setting Files/Databases in OSX, it is not in the extension folder aka ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions.
I have an iPhone but just recently bought an iPod. I want to put all my songs on the iPod and just have my favorites on my iPhone but all that seems to show up on my iPhone are the songs i bought from iTunes. How do i get the cd's i imported to show up on my iPhone? I can see them when the phone is plugged into the computer but once i unplug and look up the songs on the phone there are gone.
iMac, 27" screen. Came with 4 gig of memory. I never used all 4 gig until I started using IMovie. Bought 8 gig extra memory, now have total of 12 gig. Nothing speeded up at all. When monitoring the memory, it seems that I'm always using over 8 gig and can only clean up the memory to about 6 gig. How did I ever get by with 4 gig? Nothing adds up.
This is a follow-up question to the one at "Is /usr/bin/etags severely out of date in Yosemite?" The Emacs in question is from *=URL=* (GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2014-10-20 on builder10-9.porkrind.org). If I start Emacs from the dock, then I don't see in PATH:
Im trying to find an app that will allow me to listen to my phone's microphone remotely over 3G. Like a walkie talkie but you press to listen, rather than press to talk. It needs to run iOS and Android. Does such an app exist?
I want to find out: What apps are in my iTunes Library that are not on my iPhone. What apps are on my iPhone that are not in my iTunes Library. Is there any way (either in Windows or using third-party software) to find out this information?
Google have come up with a really good service at Inbox. I find it very easy to manage email that way and have been using it on my Windows PC as a chrome application for a lot of time.
For example:  Notice how Sublime Text 2 (the application on the right) is visible and I can see chrome in the background. This is expected behaviour as I have Sublime Text 2 open and in use. But then when I swap back to Chrome, the app disappears in the background, because chrome is now in use (which I guess is expected behaviour).
I'm using a macbook pro, now the TrackPad could not be "clicked" when I press the bottom right corner. I couldn't do the "right click" now. This is awkward. I know that in System Preference -> TrackPad, I could set the "Tap to click", but then I couldn't use the three fingers swipe to toggle different screens. Any idea to fix it?
How we can install XPDF via Mac Ports? Or if another methods for the installation of XPDF in the Mac/OS platform exists?
i have to replace my broken logic board on my MacBook Pro retina display early 2013. I am wondering what alternatives I have: since I have to replace it, can I also speed it up with something from the late 2013 or 2014 series? Where can I order replacements? I tried fixit.com, but they only have a used 8GB board.
I am on Mavericks and I am running emacs 24.4.1, but I have the same problem also with 22.1.1. When I open mac on a terminal on the remote host, it does not recognise option key (alt) like the meta key. I have modified the .emacs in the following way
I hope to find an iphone app that remind me to focus, snooze every 5 minutes, can be configured to play a ringtone or just vibrate. If the "5 minutes" is configurable, that's even better.
I had previously installed an app for syncing my Android phone with my Mac. I deleted the application, however, today when I checked the system logs, I found out that its running every 10 seconds. How can I stop this? Here's the system log:
Some sites, just navigating to them, in Safari, I have not tested in any other browsers, will auto download a file called snippet.cgi to your ~/Downloads folder. I just went to www.cliftonchilliclub.co.uk/ and merely loading the page shoved 6 snippet.cgi files to my ~/Downloads folder. The OS renames them sequentially. snippet.cgi, snippet-1.cgi, snippet-2.cgi, snippet-3.cgi. Opening snippet.cgi in TextMate ( Basic Mac OS X Text Eitor ) and the file contains "Cant get component". Here is a gist of what is going on: *=URL=* Here is the raw data: Quick trip with curl to download the file:
The command does not actually work properly on mac it seems: the process is suspended. Issuing appears to be required to reactivate the command. Here is an illustration: Now, on Linux the process would not have been "stopped" by issuing that command.. In the above case: if we issue
I encounter a problem, I want to mount a shared remote directory, but the url has Chinese characters. 图片 are Chinese characters, which mean picture in English. When I execute this command, I get below error: mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument 16384 I can confirm it is caused by the Chinese character, because I can execute below command: Both hehe and 图片 are remote shared directories.
I find it easier to use the keyboard to navigate around my Mac. Most of the apps I use work OK with keyboard shortcuts as they tend to highlight the currently active control. However, I find the Mac App Store difficult to use with the keyboard as it does not highlight controls as I move around the app's window. To give an example… I launch the Mac App Store.
Is it possible to get Safari 5.1 running on Yosemite next to Safari 8? (For testing web pages)
I'm trying to report a bug where the cursor shape matters. The two easy screen capture methods exclude the cursor: Command-Shift-3 The Applications->Utilities->Grab program
I'm trying to move many mail messages to subfolders and they won't move. They moved before—what's going wrong?
Obviously fsck is pretty safe to run in single-user mode. I'm using gtypist to learn touch typing and would like to be able to run it in single user mode so that I don't have to load the whole OS just for a command-line app.
If I sign up for the iOS Individual Developer Program (rather than the Company one), will I be able to set up multiple users within iTunes Connect so that I can have some TestFlight internal beta testers?
I'm moving my iTunes library to another computer that already had iTunes on it (both are Windows-based). On the original computer, video files loaded and played fine (I sync to an Apple TV). I tried to import video files that worked just fine on the original into the new one and they don't come over. If I copy the files into iTunes on a Mac, they work.
I want to forward all SMS and iMessages received on my iPhone to my e-mail address. I have tried IFTTT, but can't see a way to do it. Has anyone else managed to do this?
I bought a used iPhone 4 with iOS 7 from a local shop. I am not sure as to how to be sure if it is not stolen. I was able to do a factory reset on the phone and use my own Apple ID to use the phone. I tried going to iCloud to check if Find My iPhone was active on the device and I found out that it is activated but using my Apple ID only. I know that I should do a proper verification before I bought it but I think it is too late now and nothing can be done about it other than checking next time I buy a used phone. As proof of purchase the store owner wrote the Price on a Plain paper with his name and phone number and handed it to me.
PDisk will not let me open the disk to be rewritten. pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk1' for writing (Resource busy)
I have a folder structure of thousands of pictures and videos. They are all exported and therefore have the same creation date, time. I would like to set the creation date for all the files according to the names the have. All files follow the same naming convention and have the date and time in the file name. Example: My current version of the code includes the touch command and I go recursive through the folder structure, but this seems to get stuck after the first time I reach the lowest folder path. I also have thought about the find command, but I am not sure how to then extract the date and time from the filename for the touch command.
I'm using the following code to set a Philips Hue bulb with specific hue, saturation and brightness using Applescript. It works perfectly.
I have read tones of advice on this and I still have no solution and just wanted some personal advice. My macbook pro mid 2010 keeps restarting randomly, not always on the same program. It works fine in safe mode. I just wondered if anyone had any advice on how to stop this happening, I've tried uni stalling certain programs, deleting files, everything I can think of. Please can some help me :( Thanks in advance.
I want to back only one or some of my folder with time machine. Is it possible somehow to back them? And so I can maybe push down the datastore requirement down below 8GB, and so a flash drive will be enough to be always with me.
Is it possible to jailbreak the 64 bit iPad Air 2 with 8.1.3?
I have an iPad Air 2 8.1.3 and I would like to make it 8.1.2 again. Is this possible?
My iPhone 5S is stuck on the "Connect to iTunes" screen after trying to install the iOS 8 update. I can't connect to iTunes because I have a Google Chromebook.
Short Question: Versions of iTunes 12 previously allowed users to use the “old style” iTunes metadata editing window layout when clicking alt/option and selecting “Get Info…”. That has seemingly disappeared with a recent update to iTunes 12; specifically version 12.1.0.50. Is there any way to re-enable the “old style” metadata editing window in this new version of iTunes 12.1.0.50.
My iPhone 6 camera protrudes slightly and so does my iPod touch 5th gen, but I don't worry about scratching my iPhone camera because I know it's coated in sapphire. Is the iPod touch protruding camera also sapphire? Or is it just the same glass as the screen?
So my child ran out of their alloted time on the computer today, so I went and gave them 4 more hours. This is the parental controls where you select how much time to add, and you add your own (administrator) user name and password.
My friend's iPhone just fated out today. The screen is just white when she turns it on. The apple store told her she is going to lose everything... this is stupid because I'm 100% positive a hard drive failure has not occurred. Alarms are still going off. Reminders work. Notifications are being received. We know this because each has it's own respective sound that is getting sporadically emitted.
Is it possible to create a dock icon that shows the desktop? Ideally I'm looking for 10.5.6 support and up.
I'm trying to set my Macbook Pro to use Google's public DNS, but when I go to the DNS settings (System Preferences > Network > DNS) it will enter the new IP address but then immediately reverts it to the original. How can I fix this?
I recently changed my AppleID and iCloud passwords. I can log into the services on my Mac, but my iPhone stubbornly refuses. I've already reset all the device's settings, but I still get this error.
I'd like to be able to enter a command that registers a speakable word that OS/X can listen for all the time. When the user speaks that word, it should launch an app. Similar to the "OK google" idea.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro that I'd like to add a hardware RAID card to. I am running VMware ESXi with various OSes running as VMs. The Apple RAID card is not what I'm looking for.
About This Mac: OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 & MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). While trying to access GitHub · Build software better, together. (using Google Chrome Version 41.0.2272.43 beta (64-bit)), I'm getting following error: NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID I'm able to access same site using Safari and/or Firefox.
I am trying to install Windows 8, efi, on my SSD. I am getting the error code:
I have Safari set to open a blank page when I open a new tab. I like it better than what it is normally set to, but unfortunately I work late a lot and the giant white area on the screen bothers my eyes a considerable deal. Does anybody know a way to make the blank page darker so that it's easier on the eyes? Just for reference, here's the blank page I'm talking about: http://cl.ly/image/1l1P47351D1o
I am trying to run a simple script which simply opens a new tab, but am getting execution error: An error of type -10810 has occurred. (-10810) I am running on Yosemite. This is the script:
I took the top off again and shorted the "SMC RST" (SMC Reset) pins on the board. This didn't resolve the problem, the behaviour remains the same. However, I've noticed a very faint ticking noise when I first connect the MagSafe cable to Macbook. It's very quite but there are exactly 8 ticks evenly spaced over about 2-3 seconds. This is pretty odd as the only moving part in the whole thing is the fans. Yet I hear this 100% reproducibly when I connect the power cable. Update 3:
I have a problem with ethernet connection on my ATV3. It started about one month ago. ATV randomly drops ethernet connection for a two seconds. Here is the screenshot from my router:
I was wondering, is it possible to allow for simple latex formatting on iMessage? At least for just greek letters, it shouldn't be too different from the emoticons support.
I have exported all my data out of Mac Thunderbird, all the emails, contact list and address book entries, as for now I am ketting go off my mac book pro. I have got a new windows laptop that have pre-installed Office 2013 in it. I need to import these files in WIndows Outlook 2013, please can anyone help me with this as I am new to windows environment. You help will be really appreciated
Maybe someone has idea how to solve this problem. I have display Dell P2314H it has BGR subpixel layout instead of common RGB. If to turn on font smoothing on Mac - fonts are looking terrible. I have tried to edit ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver..plist, trying to modify PixelEncoding property from from --------RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBB to --------BBBBBBBBGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRand also some other combinations. Rebooted after several modifications without any success. On Ubuntu there is dconf-editor, where you can modify /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xsettingsand set rgba-order property to bgr
I am trying to compile ncmpcpp|mpd in Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but it failed, since libmpdclient 2.1 dependency is missing. I didn't find any working dependency for libmpdclient 2.1 that uses the gcc compiler coming with Xcode/Apple Developer Tools [3.2.6], so I can't compile it either. Also I don't use homebrew, fink, mac ports etc.. right now. The last four lines of the compiling-process [see complete log/output]: checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for libmpdclient... no configure: error: libmpdclient >= 2.1 is required! Can anyone provide a source for libmpdclient eventually?
I recently upgraded to Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. For a couple of days, my mail app was working. Then suddenly it stopped working.
Is anyone here using todotxt and iterm2? I'm having a weird issue. When using default terminal app in OSX, my todotxt color is working just fine.
I would like to buy a 2nd hand iPhone. is there any service exist where i can check when it was activated or when actually the user started using this iPhone.
iPhone 4S disabled after a number of passcode incorrect entries. I followed instructions to hook it up to an iTunes account etc and then to restore it to original settings. The screen that no appears is iPhone disabled, emergency calls only. There is a valid sim card in the phone. The error that came up after the restore was 'could not connect phone to iTunes as valid passcode required' Any ideas?
Sometimes, when waking up my mac, I get the message "Alert: No internet connection" on the Wi-Fi icon. I can solve it everytime by turning Wi-Fi off and on again. Is there a terminal command I can use to detect the current connection status? I would like to run a script to turn Wi-Fi off and on automatically on waking up if so. Other solutions are welcome, too.
Why are supported devices for Handoff feature so strict to a small set of devices? http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6555
I have the iPhone 5s which I bought like 2 months ago. The new software update iOS 8.1.3 wont install. I press the Agree button for terms and conditions and it just wont do anything.
I am planning to create some app tutorials (screencasts) using Screenflow on my Macbook The apps are iPhone and iPad apps so I want to show the live app in the tutorial and mix in other aspects which Screenflow lets you do. I think therefore I just need to get the iPad to stream to a Window on my macbook - then I can capture it. I have an Apple TV and I think I read that this is the best way to do this - but not sure the exact set up - can anyone advise?
I am trying to find any default tool in OS X by which you can see in Terminal the encodinf of a pdf file. You can do this visually by clicking info on the file.
Suppose I want to run an application I have downloaded and I am prompted with the following dialogue.  If I enter my username and password, being user that has administrator privileges, and press ok, does this mean the process can do absolutely anything (e.g. change my password or install a keylogger)? This Q&A is the closest thing I could find on this site, but I wanted a more conclusive answer.
I have a late-2010 Mac Mini (maxed out at Mac OS X 10.7.5) with 2 bluetooth devices (keyboard and headphones). I've had intermittent issues with bluetooth connectivity, but this past weekend, the connection went out while I was watching a movie and I could not get either device to reconnect. So I think that the antenna has just gone bad. I discovered that I can confirm this diagnosis using "Bluetooth Explorer" (part of XCode). I installed that remotely and intend to test it out when I get home. Assuming that I confirm that the antenna has just gone bad (or even if it hasn't), can I just purchase a bluetooth dongle, such as the "Kinivo BTD-300 Bluetooth 3.0 USB adapter" and expect to be able to circumvent the issue or will the built-in & faulty bluetooth capability interfere with the use of the dongle?
I need to move all my data from a newer Macbook OS X 10.9.5 to and older one, OS X 10.6.8. I have tried using a thunderbolt cable and tried wirelessly through migration assistant but the computers cannot find one another? Any thoughts?
I'm familiar with some Terminal's, like in Linux, that have an option to "flash" or "change color" the tab's title text, whenever new text is "displayed" on that screen (for instance, tailing a file). iTerm can do it in OS X as well splendidly, changing the font color, etc. Is there a way to do that with the built-in mac Terminal application? I'm not talking about some special "when you finish this command, flash a growl message" just a general small notification when new text is received.
Activity monitor shows me that I have 11Gb wired but only 5Gb used for 2 processes (others are neglible). Where are other 6GB? When I try to start new virtual machine with 500M RAM it says that I do not have enough so looks like this memory is indeed used.
Is there a system-wide text manipulation app that enables you to select text and convert all letters to upper case or lower case, like a code text editor would? Also, this is certainly wishful thinking but having a multi-cursor functionality across OSX (like Cmd + D in Sublime Text) would be amazing.
I am trying to install windows 8 on my mac osx yosemite using boot camp. I created the bootable usb myself and will download windows assistance software later.So I ticked gthe last option only. Problem is when the system reboots for installing windows it is not accepting the partition which was earlier created for windows. I have even tried formatting it from windows setup. How to solve this issue?
I have a Dell monitor connected through a thunderbolt port. Sometimes my Mac for some reason is attempting to play audio through that port. How do I stop this from happening?
I've been using my Mac to access my organizational Exchange account for years. I'm presently running Yosemite (10.10.2). Recently, my Exchange account started acting bizarrely in a number of ways: (1) Mail will sporadically quit updating e-mail, requiring me to rebuild the inbox to get it to download mail again, (2) Calendar no longer seems to allow me to accept event invitations (although it shows them coming in). (The calendar issue is especially problematic, but I mention the other in case it is related.) When I do try to accept a calendar invitation, it says it is unable to save it to the server and offers me the option to "Ignore", "Revert" or "Try Again." None of those actually get me out of an error loop. I looked in the Console log and here is the error:
I have recorded a memo and while I was recording it. The iPod died. When I turned it on it show I taped something by show 0 minutes. I try to share and it says file is 2.7mb but won't let me share and I can't hear it. How do I retrieve this?
I am trying to copy a custom print preset from one computer to another. My understanding is that the presets are stored in ~/Library/Preferences with the name com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.<name>.plist. I have copied the preset into my preferences folder, yet the presets for that printer (a Canon ImageRunner 5075) have not changed.
The SMB stack Apple has made is notoriously slow. It freezes, stalls, crashes finder. It’s my single biggest issue with my Mac.
I have the following terminal command, which matches volumes called A001R45R, A123R45R, etc. But I also want it to match volumes called B001R4G5, B150R4G5, etc. How can I use the OR expression in the wildcard? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: I'm using bash.
In Outlook 2010 on Windows, I use the quick steps functionality a lot to automatically sort incoming messages to different folders. The good thing is it applies these rules on subsequent messages as well. For example - if I don't want to be part of a conversation, I create a rule called "Mute" which will move that message to a folder called "Muted" and Mark as Read. All future messages with the same subject line automatically get moved to the Muted folder. I have several such folders like Follow-up, Hold, Archive etc. All new messages automatically flow to those folders. It helps me keep everything organized.
I have my phone/mail(s) connected in iMessage The other user has all of this information in a single contact card for me When they message me, they are prompted to pick one of the 3 methods - why is that? This user's chats are showing up as multiple separate threads on my phone, really annoying!
MF519LL/A, iOS 8.1.3 General -> About -> Photos = 700 photos General -> Usage -> Manage Storage -> Photos & Camera = 900 MB
I just tried to connect my stereo to my mac via bluetooth. However, my mac does not find the device. Is this expected? Which devices does OS X Mavericks support for bluetooth? Although bluetooth uses a common standard it does not necessarily mean that all devices that supports bluetooth are supported by any other bluetooth device.
So I found this location on my Mac: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books
Is it possible to invoke a keyboard shortcut from applescript? For example I like to run the F11 keyboard shortcut.
Problem description: Macbook pro 2011 15”, upgraded ram and ssd from owc. computer crashes, screen gets scrambled and only way to fix is it to restart. Sometimes it goes to black screen when restarting and hangs on it and the fan revs up to max speed. EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121) Report generated February 9, 2015 at 4:35:12 PM EST Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Given that I have a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro with the old low-res iSight camera, is it possible to upgrade that camera to a modern FaceTime HD camera like the kind in the modern retina Macbook Pro. I'm curious if I should look for a particular part number or maybe this is just not supported and someone can save me the effort now before I go down a costly path of purchasing parts that could never work together. How would you do this?
We have a mac mini running OSx 10.9.4 with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB. We use this as a "server" so people within the company can remotely place files that need to be uploaded onto our DAM system. We are now getting a message that says "No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept". Can you tell me if the number of connections can be changed or is there a set limit? Thanks in advance.
That's all i'm trying to do. I realize that what I did was actually the long way (and pointless) to the results i'm trying to get. But how can I do this? I'm not worried about losing any info, as to me this comp is brand new. However, I don't have a USB stick with more than 8g, so I can't create a bootable disc for Yosemite, and pretty much need to install from app store download.
I noticed in my sharing settings that my boss has Remote Management access over my computer, with all options checked (Observe, Control, Show when being observed, Generate reports, ...). Will I receive any notification when my screen is being observed?
Recently I bought a Magic Mouse from Apple & I want to enable the middle click to use it in some apps like Chrome, Safari etc. The native configuration include only left and right click, but is there any way to enable the middle click? Thanks in advance.
I use gmail will the OS X mail app. When I get a new email, there's about a five minute delay until a notification appears. It's instant on my android phone.
So, I have a 13" 2009 Macbook Pro that I've upgraded as far as I can go without changing the motherboard/processor (8 GB RAM/2 SSDs). My question is, since the unibody case is the same, is there anything stopping me, other than common decency, from getting a replacement motherboard and processor from a newer model and throwing it into my 2009 vintage MBP? Thanks
I can't connect audio from my MacBook 2009 to a Sony HD LED TV, need some help.
Why doesn't Finder remember the damn window size and location? I keep reading crap about holding down Option key while dragging but that doesn't work. It just reverts back to its microscopic size the next time i open it. It's useless and very tedious and it really aggravates me.
How do you stop the notifications on the notes that says the cellular data is off? I know it is off. I turned it off. I do not want my notes on my phone and my iPad to sync. Both places gets messed up.
I want to restore my iPad to factory settings. Its an iPad 2,1 running iOS 8.1:
I Have a Xserve!When i Power on the xserv this window opens!where can i found serial number? or how i can install a new mac os x? please help me
I am currently having an issues on a couple OS X 10.10.2 servers where users are intermittently getting the wheel when trying to save a document to the server (Word, Excel, InDesign). Sometimes, when opening folders, they take an excessively long time to list the files and folders (about 30s to 60s)
Does anyone know if it's only possible to add 3 external monitors if at least one of these is a thunderbolt display? I'm asking since I would love to hook up 3 Dell monitors to my macbook at work. Connection options are HDMI, DP VGA and DVI only. Currently I have one connected with HDMI and one with VGA - works both with the built-in HDMI port and the minidp -> hdmi adapter.
So, I have a Mac Mini with a 160GB drive (it's an old model but it's only for testing). It had 4 versions of OSX on it but one needed more space so I removed the oldest version (Lion) and want to keep it to "latest", "latest-1" and "latest-2".
I'm on OSX 10.9.1 and I changed settings on my user folder. As far as I can remember I "only" pressed cmd + i on the user folder and under access rights I chose apply to all sub folders. Don’t ask me why - I know I was being stupid and I won’t do it again .. promise! So from what I understand that means I changed all files and folders inside of my user folder to belong to the root user and therefore don’t allow me to do any file operations for example copying files etc .. What can I do to fix this?
I have the iphone 6 and it will not update past the current OS 8.1.3 The process gets as far as the terms and conditions screen and will not go any further. Have tried turning the phone off and on but still the same. Have also done the two button reset but still no joy.
We have three Linux development servers which are available through SMB/CIFS, and I mount them on my Mac (using an Automator script in my Login Items). The problem is that the SMB shares are username based, so all three shares show up as the same name in the Finder. If one looks carefully in the Volumes folder, then of course they are given different names, but those names are arbitrary, based on the order of successful mounting, I suppose. And anyway, the different names don't show up in the Finder. I would like to be able to easily know which one is which - even a colored label would be nice, but I can't seem to be able to edit tags or labels directly on volumes. Right now I can do one of these two things: Open each of the "username" volumes, look at the list of folders inside, realize that these are not the projects I'm looking for, move on to the next folder.
I've got a brand new mac with Yosemite 10.10.2 and I dislike the blue color of the folders I'm looking for a proper way to change ALL folders's color I've seen that *=URL=* But I can't find the folder CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ Is this because I've got Yosemite 10.10.2 ?
I have a Mac Mini (Mid 2011, 8GB RAM) with Yosemite which is getting slower and slower. But the weird thing is that only opening applications or starting new processes (from the terminal) is terribly slow. Once an application is started (it can take up to 5 minutes to open Excel) then it works without any problem. What I looked so far: the log files seem normal monitoring the system with opensnoop shows a lot of activity from Spotlight (mds_stores ist the process using more CPU time and mdworker) in general the CPU is almost idle
Hey so I bought a heap of songs off iTunes tonight. First 20 I bought off my phone through iTunes, no worries with them. I then got another 8 but these I bought through iTunes on my pc. These 8 won't do anything. They are grey with circles to the left of the check mark. Tried transferring all purchases, downloading all available downloads, Iv checked my account settings there is nothing that says these items are hidden, logged on and off again to iCloud still nothing. Am in-visioning a laptop sized hole in my window :/ any help? :)
Is it possible to reserve exact amount of space for the indexing and virtual memory? I have Macbook Air with 128 GB SDD (with OS X Yosemite). When I run out of memory (free space less than 1 GB) the computer slows down and even hangs up. I suspect that this slow down is due to the impossibility of indexing to be written on the disk and due to a lack of space for the virtual memory.
I have an iPhone 5s and have enabled the iCloud Photo Library. Recently I shot five video clips with my phone and they got synced to iCloud. One of them plays fine through icloud.com. Three don't even show a thumbnail (and won't play of course) and one shows the thumbnail but doesn't play (shows a "cannot load video" message). However, all of them play fine on my phone and I can even download them from icloud.com and they play fine on my Windows computer. Has anyone faced a similar problem?
He thought he was installing it with Boot Camp, booting with option held down shows 2 HDs (Windows and EFI Boot) and clicking on either of them just launches XP. So, option doesn't work, R doesn't work, C from the OSX CD doesn't work. It doesn't read the OSX CD from within XP. Apparently he overwrote my Mac OSX HD with XP. (I would love if this is not actually the case, but since neither HD selection launches OSX, it doesn't look good.) I want my Mac back!
There is generally a dictionary.app on the Mac-OS. But there isn't any dictionary development kit on the X-Code. Now i use the X-Code (Mavericks and Yosemite). So I downloaded the the auxiliary tools package from developer.apple.com/downloads and applied it to the /Applications/Utilites/. And run the command "make" and "make install". But when I reopen Dictionary.app, it couldn't do any action about of my Dictionary file. What's the problem? I want to make my own dictionary now.
TL;DR Short version: I have a bunch of files that were created with iWork 08. Is there a way, maybe using AppleScript or Automator, to convert them to the new format (Pages 5.5, Numbers 3.5) without going through them individually and manually opening them in iWork 09? Detailed description
I am looking for a PDF reader on iPhone which can read notes on PDF. I tried Adobe Reader(see below), which does not work in this way.
I use an audio interface (namely a Roland Edirol UA-5, but that doesn't matter) which does not support volume control. I can only control the volume with the physical volume dial on the audio interface. Now, by combining two freewares from RogueAmoeba, Soundflower and LineIn, I am able to enable volume control on any audio interface by: Selecting Soundflower as my primary audio interface Routing Soundflower to my Edirol UA-5 with LineIn Thus enabling my native volume to control my audio interface. This is my question now: is there a native modification I could make to OSX (a flag somewhere, a special kext) that could make this process easier?
When i create a new contact and go to insert a phone number the default category for this is "Home", I don't have anyone's home phone number now as this is 2015 not 1999. How can i change this default so that the category that appears first is "Mobile" ? IOS 8.1.3
I have an iPhone 5s and ever since I updated to iOS 8.1.3 I can't play videos. Online videos, such as YouTube, look like they're playing (the progress bar/timer moves) but it is just a black screen. Videos that I have recorded using the iPhone camera just won't start (the first frame of the video shows up on the screen, but no playback happens). Is anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas on fixing it?
In Preview, Command-D will allow you to bookmark the current page of the PDF for later reference. However, when viewing the PDF in two-up mode (Command-3), it will always bookmark the right-hand page. How can I bookmark the left-hand page for those times when it's that page precisely that I want to bookmark?
I've recently switched from using the native Mac Mail app to using Outlook 2015 for emails. It seems that Outlook automatically gives me access to my Mac address book. What's the best way to synchronise the Outlook calendar with the calendars in the native Mac Calendar app?
Recently I noticed that Xcode writes too much data to the disc. Within just 40 hours it wrote more than 13GB to the disk.
And I don't mean like StatusDock, which will move it to the menu bar but also keeps it in the dock. I'd prefer it to just be gone from the Dock. Any way you can do this?
My MacBook Air was stolen a couple of weeks ago. It had iCloud / Find my mac activated, so I activated stolen mode, and requested it to be deleted if it ever came online. This is exactly what happened today. Question is: Can I see where the MacBook was when it came back online? It does not show in the map in Find My iPhone, but obviously, it's not online anymore - it has been wiped. Is it possible to track the latest known location?
Microsoft released the windows 10 technical preview . I am not 100% thrilled with the user experience of windows 8.1 so i wanted to try this out on my new Mac Pro (the garbage can black one). Does anyone know if it should work with the version of bootcamp 5.1 on this mac pro? I know i couldnt run windows 7 because the drivers werent written for it. Apple doesnt specify Bootcamp and windows 10
I would like to build an AppleScript Application that when run will do the following: Open up Safari and navigate to a specific URL, or a line delimited file, or CSV. This is not required but would make generating multiple screenshots of different pages a lot quicker.
My Macbook Pro was purchased late 2013. I now have OS X 10.9.5 (13F34). All of my Apple drop down menu items have become dysfunctional. I consistently cannot shutdown or reboot. What can I do?
I have a problem with Homebrew especially with Jenkins formula. Ok, I strongly believe that I completely uninstalled the formula. The problem is that the Jenkins formula installs every time when I do brew update;brew upgrade. How can I uninstall Jenkins completely?
I have Word 2011 for Mac. When I want to save a document for the first time using Save As, in the 'Where' box I have 'Documents' showing. When I click the arrows to the right, I thought all Word folders would then appear but they don't—only 'Recent Place' appears. The only way I can get round this is to save the document in a 'Recent Place' then go into 'Finder' and move it into the correct Folder before I forget where I put it.
I had a directory encrypted with encfs by MacFusion. I deleted some encfs file from there (something like .encfs6.xml, can't remember). I still have files and remember the password.
Every time I try to download an app, it comes up with a message displaying "Verification Required". So I try to verify my information and it says it's declined. I've made purchases before and never had problems, I don't have any outstanding payments due. I'm only 17 for gods sake. There is no "None" option when trying to cancel the payment option.
I have tried many a thing to solve this matter. Long and short of it is I am getting the standard "connection timeout error" but only on some networks (which are successfully connected to by other Apple devices). What I have done (after extensive reading) and things worthy of note:
This isn't my screenshot, but this is what is happening in Photoshop CS6 after updating to Yosemite, the top of the open dialog gets chopped off. We've tested and this only happens when the second monitor is plugged in. We've adjusted the resolution of the second display and switched it back again which works to resolve it, but once you close Photoshop it returns to the broken dialog behaviour. This Apple discussion is the best discussion I've found but doesn't have any suggestions outside of the resolution one we found.
Something very strange happened to me. My company application was rejected in first place because App Review Team reported that it crashed in iPad Air 2. We bought a new iPad Air 2 and I faced no issues there.. However I did some small fixes here and there and uploaded a new bundle of the app. Even in this case the app was rejected with the same excuse. I had a long conversation in the Resolution Center with the App Review Team with me explaining that the app never crashed even with the new device we bought. As last thing I requested to have a video/screenrecord of the crashing moment.. After some hours surprisingly I got the application approved and ready for sale. My problem now is that I can't access the resolution center anymore. I need to have this conversation documented because my chiefs have it hard to believe that the application was accepted just at surprise :) Can anyone help please ?
The company is out of business and I abandoned the account due to all the problems caused by Apple corporate. However, when I log in with my email address, its still attached to the non-existent company under the abandoned account. I'd like to contact Apple support and have my email address separated or disgorged from the company and the abandoned account.
I have a launchd job plist that runs a simple shell script that invokes rdiff-backup to backup a remote directory over SSH to my computer. The job runs every hour and it works well.
I'm experiencing problems with homebrew in OS X 10.10.2 and it seems that curl is causing them: Somehow curl creates files that are way too small: Any thoughts? I have tried *=URL=* but that didn't work. Path:
I have a 200Mbps plan via Time Warner, and a very recent cable modem (the model name/number escapes me) capable of close to 400Mbps. I've achieved the full speed of my plan regularly until yesterday. Nothing in my setup changed, so this almost certainly can't be a result of anything I've done.
The whole thing happens in about four seconds. The WiFi icon on the menu bar will show WiFi on, and trying to connect (to our corporate hotspot), then the WiFi Off icon will show. I get the following errors in Console:
I'm used to see this checkbox in the Energy Saver window:  When I turn it off it will switch to the discrete GPU. Now I'm using a program (gfxCardStatus) to switch between GPUs as I wish, and when I opened the Energy Saver window again I saw that the checkbox was replaced by this:
Can I import an old Address Book file without replacing my current contacts? In other words, can I merge an old address book file with my current one? I use address book on OS X 10.10.1 and iOS 8.1.3 so whichever can assist can be used.
I have too many passwords to track on too many devices. With my apple devices & services, it would be easier for me if both my iCloud and Apple ID passwords were the same.
I am running 10.9.5 and some folders in list view have no triangles by the subfolders. I would love to know why this happening and how to fix.
I accidentally went to Siri settings and changed the info to "Cassie" one of my contacts that isn't me. I don't want her knowing any info at all. I can't get rid of the contact so it could go back to nothing. How do I get it to go back to where she doesn't know any info?
Screen sharing between my iMac and my Mac Mini stopped working after I applied the 10.10.2 update. I'm trying to access the Mac Mini from the iMac. I get the standard error message advising that I should check the Mac Mini is on the network etc. etc.
I'm having trouble using aliases across user accounts. I have two existing directories: /Users/foo/stuff /Users/bar/stuff I'd like to alias /Users/foo/stuff to be accessible at /Users/Shared/stuff.
This Emacs LISP script reveal-in-finder.el allows one to quickly open a directory in Finder from an Emacs buffer which has the directory opened in it in dired mode. But on my computer, I uses Path Finder instead of the standard Finder. If I run open /path/to/dir on command line, it opens the directory dir in Path Finder rather than Finder. Any idea how I can modify reveal-in-finder.el to open directories in Path Finder?
I have a Data partition between OS X Mavericks and Windows 7 Boot Camp. I have my Dropbox folder in the partition. I have tried using it in the past formatted as exFAT. This was unsatisfactory in that it would not stay indexed in OS X, and there were other issues.
I have a MacBook mid 2014 with Yosemite on it. If I buy a new MacBook, can I clone the disk from the old MacBook to the new one and have it boot up just like if it was the old one?
I saw these three console entries today: 2015-02-10 17:31:05.596 pkd[451]: UNINSTALLED:com.apple.Preview.Markup com.apple.Preview.Markup(1.0) 0E04B4EC-64DB-4C7F-B79B-AD11187C18FF /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/PlugIns/Markup.appex 2015-02-10 17:31:05.600 pkd[451]: INSTALLED:com.apple.Preview.Markup com.apple.Preview.Markup(1.0) <__NSConcreteUUID 0x7fb3b8f4d030> 5DD65E58-F722-4DF9-9850-6098D7ADC739 /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/PlugIns/Markup.appex 2015-02-10 17:31:05.653 pkd[451]: PLUGIN REMOVAL:com.apple.Preview.Markup RESULT:3 I do not know what triggered that uninstall/install process.
I logged on to a Wi-Fi network on my friend's computer and they forgot their admin password. They want me to find out the password, but I can't get into the keychain. But I am still connected to the network, that they want to connect to on another computer. I heard there was a way to do it in the terminal but I can't find it. What is the command line? All i know is that there is a command line in terminal that allows you to view the password of the wifi network you are currently connected to. Thanks in advance.
I just got a new Yosemite HD. I am trying to get a page count on my pages documents. The directions say to go to the box in upper left corner, select 'word count' and select 'page count' on the pull down menu but all I ever see is '425 word count' on any document. No pull down menu and beyond changing to 'show' or 'hide' nothing else happens. Thanks for any help given.
How might I activate an application that is hidden from the OS X Dock? The following only works for applications that are displayed in the Dock.
Backstory...my mother-in-law fell and has a spinal injury (C5), and she has no finger use, just her arms. I want to give her some control over her iPad to play or pause movies and music. Anyone have a script to assign the play/pause button as a single tap to the magic-trackpad? Also, any other simple yet clever scripts for handicap use with the trackpad would be most appreciated. Thanks, Don donroy (at) gmail.com
The screen I'm on does not have a time remaining estimate, that was the prior screen. This one simply shows the Apple logo and a plain status bar with no percentage or time indicator. Perhaps it's just the boot up screen. At any rate, it's been stuck exactly at the halfway point for about an hour. No clue what the proper course of action here is. It's a 15 in MacBook Pro, mid 2009, Latest version of Snow Leopard with no history of install related or hardware issues at all.
Is it possible to adjust the line spacing on title screens (specifially: scrolling credits) in iMovie 10? I can find some references on how to do it in previous versions of iMovie (see e.g. font panel here) but I can't seem to find the right setting in iMovie 10. The fonts window doesn't show the spacing control, even when resized.
I want to install the latest version of NTFS-3G on my Yosemite box. The latest version (as of this writing) is 2014.2.15 available here. However, only the source code is available and there aren't any instructions on how to compile or install it. How do I do it?
I understand that Mac OS X is free to download and install however It would be nice to have a DVD backup printed and shipped by Apple just like older Mac OSX releases. Is this still possible?
After upgrading to 10.10.2 when I lunch a GUI app from a terminal using open -a app the app doesn't see the path currently set from that terminal session. Before the upgrade that was working. Any idea what happened?
I have the following rule in a file in /etc/pf.anchors/ The intention is to forward all local traffic to port 25 onto port 1025, this is so sent emails can be captured before they are sent for testing email delivery on websites locally. I then have added rdr-anchor "foo" and load anchor "foo" from "/etc/pf.anchors/foo" into /etc/pf.conf. When I run pfctl -v -n -f /etc/pf.conf I get the following: So it looks as if it should be working, however if I run an nmap scan on the port it says closed, or if I send a test email with echo "This is the body of a text test-mail" | mail -s "Email test" test@test.com the email is not caught, but also doesn't seem to get sent. The most strange thing is that I have pretty much the same configuration for pf on my work Mac and the forwarding works fine. Any ideas would be great as I don't even really know how to debug this issue.
Is the Touch ID sensor good enough to deliver surveillance images (e.g. if Apple or some researcher/agency did it) ? Would it be possible at all to get any usable imagery from the environment using only this sensor? Maybe at least good enough to detect and distinguish gestures and motion near-field? What is its angular/distance-specific resolution? Scanners for example could be used as cameras in combination with advanced image processing to compensate for out-of-focus issues.
Every SSH connection exits with an abnormal code. For example results in Why is sshd exiting with a non zero return value (i.e., 225)?
I am looking for a nice and quick way to display the resolution of an image from OS X 10.9. Presently, I have to open the image in photoshop and then enter a menu to know the resolution. The process is too slow when I have to browse through dozens of pictures and get those with resolution big enough.
As absurd as it soundsmy macbook shows the connection to WiFi but does not load anything when connected to external monitor. I use MacBook Air 13 inch 2013 1.7 i7 chip and 8gb ram and DNS L270 1440x2560 monitor connected via display port and mini dp to dp adapter at 60 hertz (NTSC)
What is the appropriate/reccomended location in the drive hierarchy to place the folders shared by the users accessing the server (as fileserver) ? Is it in /Groups /Users/Shared or ~/Documents/ ? Or should I create a separate folder in /Users for each group ? Is there a document/webpage that supplies instructions about that ?
I just upgraded my old MBP to SSD and put my old HDD in my optical drive space for a duo-HD setup. I am running Yosemite on the SSD.
I'm using macbook pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. When I plug in the device on USB, I can see this controller is up 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller' in the system details, but i have no idea what to do next.
I can't reproduce what is described in this Cnet article. Here is my screenshot.
I'm creating a template on Numbers and I would like to know if there is a way for the formula to ignore, or skip over some cells or even entire columns. I need these columns for some calculations, but need them to be overlooked for others. The catch being, which column will have to be skipped over will be different every time. Maybe there is a way to "mark" a column to be ignored, with the help of a checkbox, perhaps? Or is there an even easier, more obvious way that has eluded me?
I have some text hovering over my screen, in all my spaces, for at least the past 2 weeks. I cannot recall when this started. And, unfortunately, I do not know how to replicate it. Several attempts to contact Evernote for support have been fruitless. This is what the text looks like :
I want to install some rare bitmapped1 fonts on a Lion2 system. I have not been able to find these fonts in formats that Font Book will immediately recognize. I would like to know if there's a way to convert or re-package these fonts in such a way that Font Book will accept. One of the fonts ("pcsansi") is a single file with extension fon. The other one ("Terminus") consists of multiple files with extension bdf. (FWIW, at least one of these fonts, Terminus, is a font, but for all I know both of them are.) Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?
I recently got divorced. My ex-husband has changed the Apple ID password for his account and won't share it with me. All three of my boys are on his account. I can no longer see them on Find My iPhone, or have any access to their texts, web browsing history, etc. As their mother I need that. I want to know if I can create a separate Apple ID for them, use it as their iCloud account, but use my ex-husband's account for their iTunes so they can still have access to all the music, movies, and apps they have accumulated over the years. Any help anyone can give me would be much appreciated.
How can I format a USB disk as ext3 using OS X Yosemite? I want to use it on another system that is linux based but I wish to format it first before connecting to the linux system.
I tried for a couple days to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro which has OSX Yosemite (10.10.2). As you see in the capture, the third checkbox is disabled. I have created a Windows 7 Install disk on a USB flash and downloaded the latest Windows support software from Apple, all I have to do is install it on the Mac. What's the problem here?
I am trying to install an app form App Store and getting "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." Tried to install the app on different macs (with the same icloud ID), but still getting the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Here's a weird one. I have an iPhone 6 Plus, and the last phone I had was the iPhone 5 so this is the first device I've had with Touch ID. I'm using Apple's leather case and no screen protectors or anything. I use it as an alarm clock and so sometimes when I wake up I notice there's something like an email I need to see immediately.
There is [un]surprisingly little or no useful information I could find on uninstalling individual components when you install the full Office365 suite on your Mac. All I want is Word and Excel, and want to get rid of the rest. Shall I just send the apps to the Bin? Thanks
I'm playing around with StrongSwan to setup a VPN connection between two mac's on Ubuntu and OSX. I'm having a mac specific problem with racoon. I've tried on four different mac's and half of them are having an error coming from the racoon daemon
I'm using brew. I have node installed, using brew. I want to use an earlier version of node. Online, I find instructions such as, for example: The problem I have with this is that brew doesn't seem to have a versions subcommand:
I tried to set the screen from the Panasonic to best fit. When I did that on my Mac mini the screen went to snow. I tried to get it back by on losing the HDMI cable power of the Mac. Nothing helps. When I start up the Mac the screen is going to snow. It works well on 720p and 1080i but can't go back there.
Of the three vocalizations dolphins produce, my iPhone 6 earbuds have started making two: whistles and clicks. This clip is the closest I could find to the sounds I'm hearing. Now of course, these noises only approximate dolphin-y noises. The whistle sounds more electrical, the clicks more mechanical, than the organic noises of actual mammals. But they do share many aural traits with dolphin vocalizations, so it's a quick way to explain what I'm experiencing. Some of the traits held in common are pitch, note length, and note frequency. I'll visualize their amplitude over time with some rudimentary ASCII charts. Time → Amplitude ↑ Whistle (pitch is high): _--````````````------________ Clicks (pitch is Mid-range): _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _-
I have a shell script that runs on my mac (./go), it opens a ssh session on a raspberry pi then runs a script which streams video from the raspberry pi to a UDP port on the mac. I also need the mac to run a receive script (./tsplay) so it can view the streamed video. The problem is that I have tried to use the command open -a Terminal.app ./tsplay before the SSH session is started, a new terminal window opens but it doesn't wait for stream data to come in and it exits - [Process completed]
I have a non-jailbroken iPhone running iOS 8. I'd like to automatically have the device never auto-lock / sleep when it is plugged into power, but auto-lock after a set idle interval when not plugged in. Is there a way to do this without jailbreaking the device?
When I type or paste a domain into the Safari URL bar that starts with *=URL=* it always adds www. I'm a web developer and have setup dozens of sites with the local. prefix but now can't test them in Safari.
We have employees who are issued both an iPhone and an iPad. The iPads are on Verizon and have unlimited data. The iPhones are on AT&T and have limited data.
I'm considering giving my 2010 Macbook Pro an upgrade. Whether upgrading its 500 GB hard drive to SSD drive is a priority depends on how much it bottlenecks the computer's performance. Is there a reliable and quantitative way to measure this? Update: Current system configuration: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Mac OS X 10.10.2 Macbook Pro 17" (,id 2010) Macbook Pro 17" (,id 2010) Memory: 8GB Memory: 8GB CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB Hard drive: 500GB SATA disk Hard drive: 500GB SATA disk
I have Logic 10.0.7 and got a notice to update to 10.1. I press on the Update Now button but nothing happens. I have OS X 10.9.5 installed. What should I do?
How do I move a Share Point under Mac OS X 10.8 so that it points to a folder on a different volume? I have currently have 8 Share Points located on an old external RAID. I am upgrading to a new RAID. I have copied my files over to the new RAID. Now I need to tell Mac OS X Server that the Share Points should use folders found on the new RAID. I don't see any way of re-targeting the Share Points.
I have a 17" iMac that I want to hook-up a 2nd monitor to. I bought an adaptor on eBay, but the plug does not match the back of my computer. It's not a Thunderbolt or FireWire. Not sure what kind of adaptor I need or what it is called. I have a photo, but not sure how to post it here.
Problem description: After having made the mistake of running a Unix command that altered more files than I intended and possibly damaged the file system, I decided to restore to a previous state with Time Machine. Evidently, something was corrupted with the latest backup, since the system said it couldn’t restore every time I tried to use it. But I succeeded with the second newest backup.
I want to get font size (and font family, if possible) that is used in any Mac applications. For example, in Calendar.app, you can find that the date is bold and bigger than any texts that is displayed on the app.
I desperately need to use the intersection symbol for a stats assignment but kind figure out how to do it in word.
My friend wanted to jailbreak my phone and she took it and jailbroke it then I told her I didn't want it so I restarted it and now my phone is stuck on the apple logo with a loading bar at the bottom. Is there a way I can fix it? Will apple fix it if I tell them?
I tried to embedded apple script in a link in HTML, but all it does is brought up the Apple Script Editor Application with profiled script in it. I want it to execute after I click on the link - so I don't have to press the play button. Can someone help me fix this real quick ? link.html Result:
I have an iPhone 6. I clean up and only delete certain texts. When I do that the name and group of texts does not fall into the chronological line up, it stays at the top. Does that make sense? Why does it do that?
Using Family Sharing, I granted approval for my daughter to install an app. I now wish to rescind permission for that app, so that if she wants to download it again, it will ask me for permission again. (ie. I want to put the state back to how it was before I granted permission). How do I do this? Is there a way to manage the app approvals individually?
Any idea what could be causing this? It started when updating Mac OSX to Mavericks, which has different CIFS network code. It still happens with Yosemite.
my users file in macbook air 11" is 30 GB. How can I free up some of this storage space? I can't upgrade to Yosemite until I have more free storage.
I’m trying to create a service in automator, which allows me to add files/folders from Finder directly into my mpd playing queue. I tried the following, the command runs, but nothing happens.
How can I see all windows which belong to the same app in some desktop? (in OSX 10.9-10.10) I know about Mission Control -> Application windows but it shows all windows from all desktops.
Is there a way to compile an an applescript from the command line similar to the following.
I am trying to map my C-h, C-j, C-k, C-l keys to be able to navigate vim (running in iterm2) splits but if there is no vim split to move to it should figure out that I want to jump to a different iterm2 window. Pretty much this *=URL=* but without having to run tmux (or at least without needing tmux to do the multiplexing)
Whenever I use Windows 7 through Bootcamp, my keyboard mappings are totally different. Many special keys get mapped to what they would be on a PC keyboard, which is a real pain since I program on both platforms (and I am mostly used to the mac layout). The problem characters are these: []{}|\ On my SE Mac keyboard, I use these combinations: [] - any alt + 8/9 {} - any alt + shift + 8/9 | - any alt + 7 \ - any alt + shift + 7 When in Bootcamp, it behaves like a Swedish PC keyboard: [] - right alt + 8/9 {} - right alt + 7/0 | - right alt + > \ - right alt + ?
Setup: brand new MacBook Pro with Retina Display plus two 27" Thunderbolt displays. So, three displays in total, which works like a charm in OS X. Unfortunately, when boot-camping into Windows 8.1, it detects only two of these: the one on the MacBook and the (first) external one:
iOS (and presumably OS X) understands the underlying Unicode descriptions for Emoji icons. When reading iMessages back to you, Siri can use these descriptions to translate Emoji into words. For example, Siri is able to describe all of the following: is read aloud as "happy face with open mouth" ❤️ is "red heart" is "sushi" is read as "poop"
Why does music play when I'm watching videos? Sorry re lack of detail. I have a Mac Air. I use Firefox.
I recently encrypted my 2014 Mac, OS X 10.9.5, using FileVault2. I noticed that the computer shuts after 5 minutes if there is no activity on the login screen. I believe this is a feature of FileVault2, but I am unable to confirm through Google searches. If this is the case, is there a setting to prevent shutdown?
Whenever I hand the iPad off to one of my kids, I would like to quickly disable or limit internet browsing on the iPad, not necessarily internet altogether, but anything that can be accessed via Safari or an in-app browser. I know there are the in-built parental restrictions, but modifying the Web restrictions is a six step process to limit sites before, and a six step process to re-enable after. I would like something that's quicker to use and preferably pin-protected, and something along the lines of "disable for 1 hour" or "disable until I say so". It doesn't need to be a complete disable of web-browsing, but at the very least, some child-safe mode. In short, I would like something similar to iOS's own web restrictions, but much quicker to access.
I just finished editing a 2hr HD video interview of an oral history about a famous artist on my 2012 MacbookPro retina running OSX 10.8.4. And now I'm being asked to put it on DVD (not what the original delivery method was going to be).
Is it possible to make the default of Terminal such that when I use the ls command it lists the directories first and then the files? I figured out that this can be done by using coreutils and the command gls --group-directories-first, but I was wondering if there was an OS X native way to do this without coreutils.
I have two iPhones and I would like to have them nicely synced calendar and task, but to keep different contacts. One is an office phone and I would like not to have my private numbers etc. Currently, on my old phone I have mail + contacts synced with Google, and Calendars, Reminders on iCloud, same as on my MacBook Air. Can I sync some data but not all of it?
Cannot Download Photo. There was an error downloading this photo from your iCloud Photo Library. Please try again later.
I started my OS X PHP test server by typing I updated my PHP on OS X to 5.6 and when I check the version through the command line by typing: It tells me that I have "PHP 5.6.5" When I start my PHP test server and look at the index.php file that has the phpinfo(); function, it tells me that I still have version 5.5.14 that comes with OS X. What can I do to get my PHP version on localhost:8000 to reflect that change?
If I take out my logic board in my MacBook Air 2011 11-inch i5 2 GB RAM and put in a MacBook Air 2011 11-inch i7 4 GB RAM, will it work? If not why?
I'm trying to help a sight impaired and somewhat physically impaired person. They have an assistant that uses the Macbook Pro while he watches on an external monitor. The only thing is that for the sight impaired person to see what is going on while the assistant is working the resolution (mirrored) is so low, meaning bigger fonts, that it makes it difficult for the assistant to work on the Macbook Pro in that environment.
What is the difference between Apple iPad mini MD531LL/A and MD528LL/A I want to purchase a new iPad and I don't know what this means is there a difference between the two?
I get a ton of spam every day and it makes me crazy that to mark it a spam or delete it I have to select the email, which opens it and loads all its images. We all know spam emails contain distant images that are used for tracking, and opening the email is bad as it marks my email address "active" to spammers. Many email clients have an option to prevent loading external images by default, is there a way to do that with Mail.app?
It honestly really annoys me that every time I have to scan a document it requires me to do an overview scan. Isn't there a way to skip that part if you just want to scan A4 color/B&W using Image Capture on OS X. I've got a Canon MG5300 printer, although this is irrelevant as an overview scan is required on every printer. If this can't be accomplished natively, a (great) third party app would be sufficient.
I'm writing a C program that links to libxml2: On Linux the libxml2 headers are in /usr/include/ and the compiler finds them automatically. However in OSX, the path of the headers depends on the version of the OS. On Yosemite, they are in:
I use Spotlight's Calculator feature occasionally, but I've noticed that it has stopped working recently. Instead I get a "No Results" message:
Berkeley Software Distribution, או בקיצור BSD, היא מערכת הפעלה נגזרת של מערכת ההפעלה UNIX, שנוצרה ותוחזקה באוניברסיטת קליפורניה בברקלי מאז שנות ה-70 עד לאמצע שנות התשעים של המאה העשרים. כיום, המושג 'BSD' מתייחס לאחד מצאצאי BSD המקורי, הווה אומר מערכות FreeBSD, NetBSD או OpenBSD, שגם הן מערכות דמויות UNIX. אחד הרכיבים של מערכת Mac OS X הוא Darwin, שהיא ליבת מערכת שמבוססת על FreeBSD.
Is there a definitive way to stop Google Earth from crashing when it loads? I'm on OS X 10.9.2 using Google Earth 7.1.2.2041 I've tried reinstalling, I've looked on various forums about removing Internet plugins from the Library folder - nothing seems to work. Crash report fragment:
I have installed RedQuits on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Unfortunately, it is not working at all. I have made sure that RedQuits has access to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, but it seems to not work. Currently, the RedQuits website states it works with Mac OS X 10.6. Does anybody know how to get RedQuits working with Yosemite, or of any alternatives that will cause the close button to quit an application?
I currently using for my php testing server on OS X. I am trying to use OpenCart which requires mcrypt and OS X does not come with that. I installed Homebrew, php 5.6.5, and mcrypt. It still says that mcrypt is not on when I try to install Open Cart which requires that. How can I be sure that the correct php version from Homebrew as well as mcrypt are linked properly?
I'm experiencing issues sending iMessages from my Mac. It used to work, but stopped. I tried a bunch of "fixes" I found online: sign out of iMessage and log back in another day rebooting restarting my phone None of these worked to resolve the problem. I tried to reset the Messages app by removing some .plist files, but that didn't work (those instructions are from 2012).
I've verified that it's in the /Library/PreferencePane (the root one, not the user one). I've tried installing it through the root user, through the admin user and through a custom user. I've tried adjusting permissions on the PreferencePane file itself. Nothing seems to be working
How might I run code(for example display dialog("test")) using AppleScript only if the "Finder" Application is currently in focus/active.
I have a question. Is that possible or not i really don't know.
I use a Mid-2011 iMac 21.5" (with 4 users on it). I have noticed that the computer is runs quite slow when I am the only one logged in. The only applications I typically have open at once are Xcode, Safari and occasionally some other applications such as Reminders and notes. When I checked Activity monitor to see how much RAM it was using, I noticed it said it had used 3.97-3.99 out of the 4 GB of ram that it has (See Screenshot).
I have a Mac Pro 4,1 that was just upgraded to OS X 10.10.2 (14C109). I've used an ASUS PCE-AC68 wireless adaptor since Mavericks, and haven't had any problems before now. I understand that this isn't exactly a supported configuration, but the card was plug-and-play since I first purchased it.
Is there a way to play a file or folder in iTunes without adding it into iTunes library? I have quite large collection of music that i want to listen to but not necessarily keep. So i want to be able to listen to some music files in a given folder (be it a complete album or just a collection of various songs) and once i'm done listening and close iTunes i want all the files that i just listened to be gone from iTunes library. I want to be able to do it with iTunes, because I can control iTunes with apple remote and with alfred remote. And if it is not possible, maybe there is a workaround to achieve similar results?
I have a pretty old Aluminum Macbook (late 2008). I pretty much have the original MacOS installation, continuously upgraded to Mac OS Yosemite. Nowadays, it is kind of hard to get by with 250 GB of HD, so I thought about upgrading to a bigger HDD.
I use top-notch MBPRO15 Late 2011 with the latest OSX and all the recent updates installed. I had booting problems before which I managed to solve through command+option+P+R. I'm not sure what exactly caused the problem, but it helped a couple of times. But starting from yesterday I'm failing to make it boot whatever I do with it. So I'm having this: I turn on the Mac Chimes go as expected and the initial login screen appears I put my credentials and booting progress bar starts up After like 30-60 secs the progress bar disappears leaving me only with a grey screen. Two options possible afterwards (i) the screen stays grey for as long as I wait or (ii) the mac reboots leading me to the initial login screen.
Is it possible on OSX to push buttons that have an underlined character? In Windows you can hold in ALT and push the key that is underlined on the button. Example: On Windwos I can hit the "Replace"-button by hitting ALT+p, the "Replace all"-button by hitting ALT+a, etc. How can I achieve this on a mac?
When installing a new app, and even though i have space left in my home screen, why does it create a new screen and create the icon there? Is there any configuration to, when installing a new app, the icon be created to fill the space in already created screens?
I have an SSD onto which I've installed the operating system OS X 10.10.1, as well as my applications. I also have a much larger and much slower internal HDD for storage and other rarely-accessed files. I use Logic X for audio editing, and I have historically enjoyed having access to the 40GB of instruments and sounds referred to as "additional content" optionally available for download from the program menu. When attempting to download the additional content, Logic informs me that there is not enough free disk space to download all 40GB, which is just as well, because even if I had the space I would prefer that these 40GB of additional content files remain on the HDD rather than the SSD. How can I specify an alternate location in which to keep Logic's 40GB of additional content files?
I am trying to locate the actual location of app installed on iOS Simulator. I am using OSX 10.9.4 with Xcode 6.1
Does the (camera + internal microphone) system use a single internal 2.0 USB interface that connects to logic board? This seems to be the case according to Wikipedia, and ifixit, even though I cant get 100% sure. Also, is LVDS cable involved here?
Is it possible to release an update to an iOS app on iTunes Connect only to certain countries, while the app has been available worldwide? The intention is to release the new app gradually on a country per country basis.
I am transferring a lot of data to a large number of iPads from a Mac Mini, over USB. I am finding that the late 2014 Mac Mini is significantly faster at completing the transfer than the Mid 2011 model. If it's relevant - I'm connecting to iPad 2s. I think I can rule out any CPU / Ram differences.
then other window open which shows internet written their and they says no airpot found searching for it....!2 and if i go to disk utility there is only one hard drive shows "machinetosh hd"!2 i have no idea what to do now.i want backup my pc.need help! I m new on mac world
long time no ask! Anyway, I've been tasked with a project that involves sorting folders into new folders based on type. I've been working on an Automator action, but I haven't had much success. What I'd like to have the folder structure look like is: Main Folder
I am trying to repair Homebrew. I recently tried to reinstall it but when I typed "brew doctor" My output was: I have tried to re-install it by typing this into the command line again: But my output is: How can I fix my Homebrew install? Thank you.
FileVault slowed my MBP. So, I am going back to Mavericks. How can I make sure that my files saved on Yosemite will not be lost? If I go back using Time Machine, how do I access my files that were saved on Yosemite? Do I have to make copies of all these files on a separate flash drive bf going back using TM?
Is there a scriptable way from the terminal I can tell Messages.app to take all my accounts online?
Maps is not getting my address right. It has the street right but when home it says I'm not. I have tried everything.
A while ago I used to use the recaudio console application provided by Erica Utilities, installed in Cydia on jailbroken devices. It doesn't seem to work any longer, which isn't terribly surprising, since it was built in 2008. When I run ./recAudio, I get: I had read that this was due to the binary being compiled for an older processor, and some people had recommended running: And while this helps, now I am getting:
Using an iPad Air (still running iOS 7), is it possible to search through an iMessage conversation to find a specific message (or highlight all messages) that feature a given string I've searched for? So far, in my attempts, a search for a given string takes me to the last message in the conversation, which, given the (at least) several hundred messages, is not spectacularly useful. I suspect that, with an iMac, or MacBook etc, this would be easier, but I don't own one; and sadly the convenience isn't quite worth the cost of purchase.
In the last update, the Facebook app for iOS 8 has started adding squishing/swooshing nosies as you navigate or like posts. How do you disable these annoying noises? I have notifications set to off, sounds set to off for the app, but short of muting my entire phone, they keep existing. I don't want to have to mute everything, just the in-app noises for FB.
I have a local webserver running on my machine (Mavericks). How can others on my network view the page that I'm hosting?
i have configured my Google APP email account on my new MACbook Pro (OS x 10.9.4). it was working fine for couple of days but now any attachment that i try to save it get save with ZERO size.
My wife's iPhone 4 just died: it won't turn on and doesn't charge. It's basically a brick right now. She needs to recover the photos on it. Is there any way to recover this from the iTunes backup files?
The built-in camera of my Apply Thunderbolt Display (MC914LL/B 27") is always blurry. Items up close look better, but are still blurry. In fact, everything looks bright and washed out like a bad Instagram filter, like the beach after waking up from a sandy nap, or after walking out of the eye doctor with those dilating eye drops...
I want to rent a movie on my MacBook Air and my husband and I want to watch the movie together using two separate headsets. Can this been done. I have 3 headsets to choose from, Wireless Bose, Logitech usb plugin and a set that uses the pin plug in. I am not able to bluetooth my bose - only works on my iPad. The other two pin plug in and USB plug in only allows one to work at a time. Is it possible for both of us to watch a movie using separate headphones on MacBook Air??
I got a new SIM card and now I message is not working. Firstly I could only select my e-mail address as the means of being reached and my number is not in bold and can't be ticked. Also when I turn I message activation off and back on again it comes up with an error and just says waiting for activation. Any ideas?
Someone in US is sending 25 dollars as a gift to me in Ireland, how would I know when I recieve it? And can it be done in the first place?
If I untick 'Enable iMessage' in prefs on my MacBook Air, will that stop messages going to it? I only want them on my iPhone. If I do the 'Delete account' thing as advised in one video, I am worried iMessage might not work on my iPhone either.
Is there some sort of secret knock to use with AirPort to get into advanced settings? Or should I be using something else to configure them?
I bought a program on the Mac App Store (Desk) on one of my computers. I am running Yosemite on a different computer and I tried to install the program from the Mac App Store - while I was on a public WiFi connection that blocks the Mac App Store. The download failed - but any attempt since then on that computer fails to download that one app. Whenever I attempt to "Install" the program in the Mac App Store it eventually times out and I receive the following error:
I haven't backed up my phone in almost a year. Now today I had a strange issue appear that the phone froze for hours and I couldn't do anything at all. Now it mysteriously unfroze and i'm afraid that if I don't back it up i'll eventually have to restore it and I'll lose everything.
What setting do I need to change? Yes, I've got iCloud setup. Do I have to upgrade to the new iCloud storage?
The printer I'm trying to use requires a department ID and code for authentication and volume tracking. I'm using RAW protocol on port 9100 but could change this if necessary.
I travel a lot to the same 5 cities for work. Sometimes, if I have a spare hour or two I explore and sometimes on those explorations, I find great places. I'd like to tag those places on a map with an iphone app. But google map app doesn't allow that. I can't find software for this.
Edit In response to Tetsujin's comment, further details now are provided for reproducing the slowdown, and for reverting back to normal speed. The usual caveat Experimenting with system-level bugs is inherently risky. You are advised not to do so, unless you have a working understanding of users, groups, and permissions and you possess reliable system backups. Here's a "weird trick" that instantly makes my MacBook Pro / Yosemite system run slow slow slow ... create a circular group inclusion in the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences.
Update: while waiting for a response I managed to solve the matter, first by running mail from a different account (it worked flawlessly); and second by running Onyx - it has the feature of rebuilding mail envelope index - which resolved whatever issue my system had. Anyway. Thank you for the helpful suggention.
I have a GPU issue with my MacBook Pro late 2011 which requires 3 weeks in repair (until the required parts come in). I took out the hard drive and put it in an external casing. Can I safely use this hard drive on another MacBook Pro (late 2009) and still use my data/applications/OS X?
I've a Mac Mini Server (Yosemite server) where is located the folder: 'Studio'. This folder is shared in the same network. I've a Client iMac (Yosemite) that access to that folder 'Studio' located on server.
I was planning on switching in between these two using sudo xcode-select -s PATH. As far as I can tell, this command works, and I can check the result using sudo xcode-select -p. Further, I have CLTs installed in /usr/bin, so that e.g., which g++ shows /usr/bin/g++. Still, if I switch to the older Xcode version, the package won't compile. Interestingly, find below the output of g++ -v for the two different versions of Xcode: For Xcode 6.1.1: For Xcode 4.6.3: So my questions are:
Does anybody know how to setup a smart folder as Finders default folder? If I try to select the smart folder in Finder settings, the "choose" button is deactivated like the screenshot shows:
There's a few apps that keep prompting me for incoming network connections, which I prefer to deny, but whenever I open these programs, I'm re-prompted to Allow/Deny incoming network connections for them. Is there a way to permanently Deny an application so that I am no longer prompted? (I'm currently using Yosemite)
I recently bought a new iPhone 6, because my iPhone 5 had some weird battery issues: when I was on 3G or 4G, the battery would literally go down from 50% to 10% in like 10 minutes. On the Wi-Fi, it was pretty OK.
Goole Maps on my iPhone have has stopped changing the orientation of the map in cycling mode. The first image is a screengrab of Apple's maps. You can see the arrow is the same direction as the direction im going.
How can I turn on my MacBook Air model A1370 mid 2011 without a keyboard? I need to find the power on pads for the Mac:
Is there anyway to force/change/reset the profile image that shows up for an Artist in iTunes?
I'm using only 5% of 1TB given by Dropbox and it regularly chokes my Mac Mini's HDD by "Downloading file list" too often. I think it's just a poor performance (it started since the last Dropbox version) but Dropbox support does not understand the problem. So I would like to limit reading and writing by the process.
I use two I phone. I changed SIM card of my iPhone 4s and replaced it with a new one. But I don't see the contacts that are in my iphone5s on my 4s. I also have same Apple id
i want to know which apps comes free when buy apple macbook pro os x yosemite new. I want to see 1st look of app. Can anyone tell me. I m afraid if i missed anyone while reinstalling again!cos i feel i had 2 pages when i 1st time start my laptop. Is final cut pro and logic pro comes free when anyone buy new macbook? I feel i had this, just a doubt :(. or if i give them back to fix will they install?
The notification center clearly posts its alerts visible on my screen faster than my iPhone alerts me. Does the path of my incoming texts change when I have the Messages.app configured to sync with my phone or does the Messages.app just alert faster, or is something else going on?
PopClip is a Mac app that adds the iOS functionality of a bunch of options showing up above selected text. PopClip automatically appears every time I select text, and that's annoying, so I want to trigger it from the keyboard instead. I'm trying to set up Launchbar to launch an Applescript to cause PopClip to appear next to selected text.
If you purchased the home and student edition of Microsoft office, can you legally install the software on more than one computer?
I have a iMac circa 2009/2010 running a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 2GB RAM installed. If I was to upgrade to Yosemite, even with an upgrade to 8GB RAM, would this be enough to run Yosemite well? (Well as in comfortably useable, not freezing and becoming sluggish each time you open a browser tab or app).
In iWork Numbers, why is the command Hide Column greyed out? What format do I have set up that does not allow me to hide that specific column? I have un-merged all the cells.
I find my self on my iPod (5th Gen) late at night (until 12 or 1 in the morning), and want to know if there is a Cydia tweak that locks me out of my device at a specific time.
Are there any binaries available via the command line to get information from the GPS on a jail broken iPhone? I've searched through Cydia and haven't found anything, but I wouldn't imagine this would be something brand new that hasn't been developed. Has anyone come across anything that can do this?
I'm using Google Chrome and whenever I want to login to a forum site, a dropdown with a list of misspelled and wrong names gets displayed as soon as I click on the username field. How do I delete the list of the different usernames, leaving only the corect one there?
If possible I don't want to have to keep my MacBook turned on all the time. I.e., it would be nice to just have the USB hard drive plugged into the modem and access my library on the Apple TV without my MacBook being turned on.
So here is my dilemma- I'm addicted to the internet and I don't want to have the option of using it in my home except for particular times. On my own network, I plan to change the password to something long and unmemorizable and write it down and leave it somewhere else (say the coffee shop) /tell it to a friend etc so that I can have the option of using it- then tell my key chain to forget the network's password. Problem solved!
This is not in the program "preview". This is when I am viewing folders (read only) and they need to be viewed well in cover flow.
I've had an iPhone 4S for about 1.5 years now. I have never had a problem taking tons of videos and pictures until now. Out of nowhere it says "can not record" because storage is full. I'm like "what, I have only one video".
While I was upgrading my early 2011 13" MBP's HDD to an SSD by the instructions on iFixit, I think I broke my camera cable. When I tried to talk to my friends on Google Hangouts later that day, my computer didn't detect the camera. There wasn't a "no signal" error or anything; the computer just had no idea that the camera exists (but for the record, the microphone still works fine). That was a few months ago, and the camera's never come back since then. My questions:
Today I installed a program that I'm familiar with and that I have used before called Filezilla using SourceForge. I've never had a problem with it before, and I only uninstalled it because I had no need for it. So I moved to install it again and thought it was strange it kept asking for key permission (so I said no). All the sudden my fireox browser disappeared I had some crapware installed I had no interest in, plus another unpleasant surprise: whenever I load firefox OR Safari Yahoo search comes up even though my default for Safari is google search. How do I fix this? I'm trying to delete the program it came from but it says that it's 'in use', but when I pull up the task manager all that shows up are finder and Microsoft Word. Any word on how I can delete the covert adware/malware?
I just bought my wife an iPad mini 2, ( it was still factory sealed) it has 7.2 on it and I'd like to know if I can still update it to 8.1.2 and jailbreak it. I know downgrading from 8.1.3 can no longer be done but what about upgrading from older firmware to 8.1.2? It's this still possible even if apple is no longer signing it? Thanks, Ocha
What's the difference between the M7 and M8 coprocessors? I've been unable to find a clear answer online. On the iPhone 6 webpage, Apple simply states:
I am trying to have all the photos from both my iPhone and my wife's iPhone linked to the same iCloud Photo Library so from both of our devices we can have access to the same Photos without needing the same iCloud account on both devices. Is this at all possible or is there a workable work around that will get the same functionality?
Is it possible to imprint date and time on the photos taken using iPhone ?
If I click an RSS feed in Safari on iOS 8, ie. from this page, the Podcast app is mysteriously opened, showing the feed as if it were a Podcast. The feed cannot be read however.
I want my wiki to be in a certain language that is in Mac OS X's language list, but not supported. Can I make my own language pack?
Should I, or do I need to, disable memory swapping when my OS is installed on an SSD? I run OSX 10.10.2 with 16GB of memory. Currently, Activity Monitor reports I have 16GB of virtual memory allocated, with 0Bytes actually being used. 5,28GB of Memory is in use.
I'm thinking about buying an iMac 21,5 inch. It would have an i7 QuadCore (3,1GHz up to 3,9) with a GeForce GT750M 1GB graphics card and FusionDrive.
I have a system with integrated graphics to which OS X has assigned 1.5gb (out of 16gb) of RAM, however iStat Menus is currently reporting this at around 95% full, even though I'm not currently running anything that should be making much of a demand of the GPU. Of course it's possible there's something I'm not aware of that has been using the GPU, but only restarting has completely cleared it. I was playing Civilisation V yesterday, but even while playing it didn't fill my video memory, and that was over 10 hours ago (my computer hasn't been asleep since then, as I'm still running through a large initial backup of a huge volume).
Two days ago I lost my iPhone 5s. It could have been stolen. I've reported it to my carrier and police yesterday as stolen.
Anyone found a way to set up a dual-boot environment (preferably Mac OS X 10.9 and Windows 7) in a Mac OS X VM using a type-2 hypervisor like Parallels or VMware Fusion with Boot Camp Assistant? Starting Boot Camp Assistant in a Mac OS X 10.9.5 VM to add a Boot Camp partition just throws an exception:
I see the answer for printing from an iPad to a Windows enterprise, but I just want to print from an iPad Air to my home printer (HP Officejet Pro L7590) that is running on my network from a Windows desktop. Is there a solution simpler than Presto?
I can't get flash to work properly on an older version of Mac OSX (10.5.8) running the latest version of chrome I can run on it (21.0.1180.90).  There are several of posts that have no real resolution on this, and none of them have a clear solution that works. ATTN: Mac OS X 10.5.8 users, How to "fix" Adobe Flash issue tutorial How do I update Google chrome/Flash on Mac OS 10.5.8 Annoying problem with Adobe Flash, Mac OS 10.5.8, and Google Chrome Why does Chrome insist Adobe Flash Player is out of date, but I have the latest version? What I'm running OSX Version 10.5.8 Chrome Version 21.0.1180.90 Flash 10.3.183.19 I can't actually update the plugin-in, Adobe doesn't support 10.5.8.
Probably 3 or 4 times now I've gotten some spam that made it through the various filters and into my inbox. I then mark it as junk using either built in mail application on my Mac or iPhone, and the next time I check it is back in my inbox.
When trying to send a picture to a non iMessage contact on my iPad Air (WiFi only) it says that MMS must be enabled. Am I not able to send MMS on WiFi only?
Occasionally I get the message about TouchID needing my password after reboot. Problem is, I haven't been rebooting. So I'm concerned my phone is rebooting itself in my pocket without me knowing it. I want to know for sure if my phone is rebooting by itself, or if the TouchID message is just erroneous. How can I find out if my phone is rebooting? iPhone 5s, iOS 8 (latest)
I moved a folder and now the dock item cannot find the application. How can I view the path of the pointer in a Dock item?
I want to encrypt some folders on my Mac. I know there is a way of doing it by making a dmg file, but I also want to keep editing those folders. So I just want to encrypt that folder while being able to add more things in the encrypted folder. You know, it should act as how the password works on a user account, if that makes any sense :P
I got this message when trying to back up my Macbook Pro using time machine: The disc image MAMA'S’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle is in use, try ejecting the disc image. How do i do it?
That is, how can I change the keyboard shortcuts for the application commands (I say application commands in an attempt to avoid confusion with the use of the term "command" in the shell command sense, given that the application under discussion here is Terminal…), that, by default, are accessed using the cursor up and down arrow keys? I would like to be able to move back and forth through my shell command history using some other pair of keyboard shortcuts than the arrow keys. I just know somebody will (misguidedly) ask, so I'll state in advance that: the reason is that the unmodified cursor keys have been re-purposed (their new employ is no one's business but mine, and it certainly has no bearing on the answer to my question), and the shortcuts I'd like to use instead are ⌥-↑ and ⌥-↓.
Terminal.app Here are the my preferences settings: !/Users/Parker/Desktop/0.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/0.5.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/1.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/2.png Here is the contents of my .bash_profile: When I launch Terminal.app, I get this: !/Users/Parker/Desktop/Screen Shot 2015-02-15 at 10.25.50 AM.png
I like to set up unison through Automator to run in the background to sync up two of my folders in a dropbox-like manner, but Automator apparently fails to run unison through shell script. I have tried both the regular terminal command: and the full path for unison:
My mid-2012 MacBookPro (Model 9,2) has developed an issue with power in the past few weeks. When it is left awake for several hours, but is idle, it powers off. When I turn it back on and log in, it does not give the typical message about being shut down unexpectedly. I have noticed this in clamshell mode with lots of USB devices and an external monitor attached as well as when it is left open, but told not to sleep in the Energy Saver Preference Panel. It always happens when left on over night and today happened after it was left idle for about 2 hours. The problem has just started happening, but I cannot remember if it started right after I upgraded to 10.10.2 or not. pm -g assertions reads: 2015-02-15 18:28:53 -0500 Assertion status system-wide: BackgroundTask 0 ApplePushServiceTask 0 UserIsActive 1 PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0 PreventSystemSleep 0 ExternalMedia 0 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0 NetworkClientActive 0 Listed by owning process: pid 77(hidd): [0x00003f3700090493] 00:03:0
I currently have Yosemite on my Early 2009 iMac. This iMac has a 2 GHz CPU and 2 GB of ram. However, whenever I try to run Xcode 6 on this Mac, it is slow-very slow. When monitoring my cpu, it hovers around at most 25% use when I'm running it. However, the RAM is using 1.99 GB out of 2.00 GB. My question is will my slow Xcode problem be solved by upgrading my iMac to 8GB of RAM?
One last thing I'd tried (the first) was to connect to Ethernet via Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter. This did not work and I'm assuming that's because I don't have an Ethernet driver, either. I couldn't even connect to the network.
So when using full screen on any app is there a way to disable the top menu from auto showing when you hover over it? It's pretty annoying because when it pops open it shifts down the entire screen. I have a 2014 MacBook Air running Yosemite.
I would like to record my voice, a guitar and an electronic drummer through a mixer into Garageband. When I click on 'New Project' I am not sure what format (piano, voice, etc.) I should be using. Can you steer me in the right direction?
I lost my copy of a downloaded audio book from iTunes. I also accidentally deleted my computer copy.
I am seeing some strange behaviour. As you can see here:
Is there any way to make also native OSX apps behave the expected way? I'm on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 but I think this issue has been there as long as I can remember.
For instance, I'm subscribed to 3 different sports teams calendar. Which is nice for me knowing when games are, but can be cluttering when I'm working. Now I know this is only 3 calendars so it's not a big deal to just uncheck them. But say I wanna add more.
I upgraded openssl from version 0.9.8zc to OpenSSL 1.0.2 version. I used this web page How to upgrade OpenSSL in OS X? to do this. The next step I upgraded php to 5.6 version from this web page *=URL=* . When I checked openssl version in terminal it was correct version 1.0.2 but phpinfo() always shows old 0.9.8zc openssl version . What is wrong? Is in my mac installed new version but apache uses old version? How can I change it?
I have two CoreStorage volumes on disk, one is 200GB the other is 50GB. I want to make the 1st 125GB and the second one 125GB.
I want to draw on any app pdfs, videos, code. It would be helpful to aid in demonstration in a class setting for me. Do you know if any such app exists that does not require an external pen i.e. using mouse or trackpad to draw.
Which version of bootcamp 4.x do I need to install Windows 7 (64 bit) on an iMac7,1 with Yosemite? Specs: 64 bit Core 2 Duo, 4GB, 16GB Flash, optical drive, Windows 7 install DVD Everything goes fine until during the install process Mac reboots to install windows then: 1 2 Select CD Rom boot type: I can't enter anything because keyboard and mouse are unresponsive and I assume the correct drivers were not loaded.
I have a Google group of contacts setup (that is, it's a group I created and stored using my Google account). I'd like to send an SMS message to the group from my iPhone 5s with iOS 8. How can I do this with free apps?
I like to work with many mac desktop with two monitors. It is a bit bothersome to click in a particular desktop to activate it to work on it. So, I think that it could be a way for doing this more easily... This is when the cursor enter on a desktop screen, it be activated. Does this option exist?
Figure out some way to combine our two libraries together (we have the same music collection anyway), use one iTunes Match account, but set it up so that we can access our music collection on both user accounts. Note that we'd still need to continue using our individual Apple IDs for most things on the phone, including for Contacts, Notes, Reminders, etc. Furthermore, we each have our own playlists and statistics so I'm not really leaning towards trying this.
Just got a new mac. When I right click a .zip file, I don't see the Decompress/Archive option. Do I need to download something or change a configuration option?
My iMac is from early 2009 and currently is running Mavericks OS X and has 2 GB of RAM installed. I then purchased 2 x 4 GB strips of RAM that were manufactured by PNY. Specifically, DDR3 RAM which is compatible with 1333 MHz and 1066 MHz.
I just want to burn some music for my Mom to a CD-R. I've done this multiple times. If I check MP3 CD box, I receive message stating all music is not MP3, and it won't allow. If I check other option, Data CD or DVD, it copies but if I insert into CD player, message is, " No Audio." This can't be this hard. Any help is appreciated. I have OS 10.7.5 Thanks
iPhone automatically deletes voice messages sent and received through iMessage within two minutes of sending one, and within two minutes of listening to one received from someone else. How can I change the amount of time that iPhone will wait before deleting sent and received audio messages? iPhone 5s, iOS 8
Also, can someone explain the difference between installing the SSD in the main drive vs. the optical drive? What is the difference exactly and how can I take full advantage of it to maximize the performance of my early 2011 Macbook Pro? For example, if I put a Crucial M500 into the main drive bay, would updating the optical drive bay as well make absolutely any difference in my performance?
We are accessing an URL (*=URL=* but it is not opening in iPhone 5s & iPad using Wi-Fi but the same URL is opening in 3G. This URL is opening in Android & other different iOS phones using Wi-Fi.
I have iphone 5s (ios 8.1.3), lately I started using a navigation app and noticed that my GPS signal is not accurate means that the speed is not working and my position is stuck or moves slow. I downloaded some other GPS apps to make sure it isn't an app problem, same behavior. I used some GPS tools (such as GPS status app) and noticed that I'm getting only 65 meters accuracy while using another iphone (with the same app in the same location on the same time) I'm getting less than 10 meters accuracy.
My USB modem has issues so my Mac doesn't recognize it. I created an ad hoc wifi hotspot on my Windows 7 laptop with WPA2 encryption and shared the internet. My Macbook Pro sees the wireless network but when I enter the password I get a connection failed warning. I tried connecting also with my iPhone and before I entered the password I got a messag/e that "MyWirelessNetwork" is not connected to the internet. How can I solve this issue
I purchased an iPhone 6 with FaceTime from Saudi Arabia. Can I use FaceTime while I am India because someone told me that if you purchase an iPhone in Saudi Arabia the FaceTime does not work anywhere.
Getting this weird UI whiteout on all toolbar icons all of a sudden. Any idea how to get rid of this? I have been using this version of OS X for a while with no problems at all.
How can you change the phone Nr. from showing up on iMessage? I'd rather have it changed to my email or Apple ID instead.
What options do I have? Jailbreak, iFile and manipulate the file where iOS stores it's bookmarks manually? Really?! Considering Tim Cook held a strong speech at the recent cybersecurity summit, it would be great to not only do the PR talking but also provide key functionality to restore privacy.
On iPhone one can switch to the week calendar view by turning the device into the landscape orientation mode. If you are on a day the week shown is the week, where the current day was. There are always three days shown in the week view. The first day of the week is either the current day or the selected day is in the middle of the three shown days.
I see advertisements on eBay selling Apple Care for half the price. I bought my iPhone 6 a week ago. Can I still buy discounted Apple Care from eBay?
I did read iTunes keeps starting automatically but since I don't have the console output mentioned in this thread I don't know how to pin down the problem. So iTunes keeps opening when connecting my speaker (UE Boom) via Bluetooth. I did read that iTunesHelper could cause this. So I quit the process in Activity Monitor, removed it from the login items and renamed the application as suggested in iTunes Helper still running even if it is off. But iTunes still keeps starting, iTunesHelper doesn't it seems as I cannot see it in Activity Monitor anymore. I am running Mavericks 10.9.5 and have iTunes 12.1.0.50 installed. What can I do to prevent iTunes from starting automatically?
I have one Mac running Mavericks, and the other running Yosemite, and I have upgraded to iCloud Drive. Does that mean that my data in (2) above is moved to (1), or that it's copied?
Every time I try to download a free app or update an old app it said verification required. I sign in and it take me straight to the billing/credit card page and I can't get out of it. I have even tried putting in my card number and stuff and it just says that I have entered a wrong number but when I look at my bank account it shows that it took out $5.97. How do I make it stop so I can update my apps?
I'm on OS X 10.9, according to support.apple.com I can flush the cache with Unfortunately this does not really refresh my DNS cache at all, also not like this: E.g. If cache were cleared it would be showing a number close to 86400, 3600, 300 or 60 are the TTL values offered by my domain name provider). If I add @dns-host to dig it works as expected:
While using empty stack securely under Yosemite, it halted with the message: You can't copy the item InfoPlist.strings because its name is too long or includes characters that are invalid on the destination volume. What's the matter and, more important, what can I do about it?
Currently I have an older style Timecapsule 2GB, the flat type, connect to my cable modem, and distributing network to my apartment both through cables (Xbox, PS4, Apple TV) and WIFI (everything else). I want to move this to a different room and in its place put a newer Airport Express thus having three base stations to provide wireless access to the network. Reading the article leaves me with three concerns: Move the Timecapsule to a different room and ask it to join the WIFI network set up by the Airport Express Hook up nearby equipment (a computer and a NAS) to the Timecapsule, and thus spread the network to those units as well? Still continue backing up my iMac and MacBook Pro to it, without changes (provided I keep its name) I read this article: Wi-Fi base stations: Extending the range of your wireless network by adding additional Wi-Fi base stations and it has this section: Wirelessly Extended Network (802.11n) I understand the part about being nearby, but the webpage mentions ba
I know I can make a group in Contacts, and send a message to the group. Is there a way to hide the list of recipients? I have this setting in Mail prefs:
A MacPro '10 running 10.6.8, connected to the network via Ethernet. If I'd like to add a webcam is a router required or can I set up direct access? i.e. can AirPort act as an access point?
In the image of an OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 Finder window below, you can see that the content of the 'blog' folder has been most recently modified. However, the 'Date modified' sort of the parent folder 'D' is not showing the 'blog' folder at the top of the list.
Using Mac Server on 10.9, with only NetInstall working (we use InfoBlox for DHCP) I can successfully NetBoot to our only image from a iMac Pro (Core2Duo), but not from a MacBook Pro (Intel i7, ~2012). I captured the NBI on the newer MacBook Pro (Deploystudio Netboot Set) Both devices list the boot image in the boot options menu at startup. Both devices allow me to SELECT the image. Both devices send a BSDP ACK[SELECT] to the server. Server sends both devices at least an ACK pktsize 300 to the correct IP.
When I try to make a new directory on my external hard-drive I get a message saying that it is a "Read-only file system" However, it looks like from the permissions, that the owner of the drive should be able to "write" Since I am the logged in user: and I "own" the drive, why can I not make a new directory? (Note: I am also unable to make a new directory using Finder.)
Hi everyone I have encrypted a partition of an external hard drive from the mac desktop. I pressed that key button then pressed memorable and it changed my entire password unknowingly. I need help. All I know now is that its 12 characters long.
I am using OSX - Snow Leopard on my Mac. I could find the Application folder is empty, please help. Thank you! Regards, Krishna
On an iPhone, when I want to delete parts of a conversation from the Messages app, I tap and hold an individual message. This displays Copy | More…. I tap More… and tick the relevant text messages to delete. The trash bin appears in bottom left corner and I can delete.
My emails are not updating on the iPad. They are ok on iPhone and on my pc. I have tried resetting, deleting account on iPad, turning on and off, resting broadband, nothing works.
I have a MacPro 13.3 Inch mid2011 with 500GB storage and recently while performing a Mac update, it froze and was still stuck on a grey screen even after multiple restart attempts. I finally tried Command+R to attempt Time Machine(none were available), Disk Utility but "Repair Disk" was greyed out, and finally tried to reinstall Mac OS X but when it was close to completion, again, it showed Macintosh HD is damaged. I bought an external hard drive hoping to save my school work from Macintosh HD. Disk Utility>External Hard Drive>Partition>GUID Partition>Mac OS Extended
I'm using a late 2014 13 inch macbook pro retina. I'm using a scaled resolution of 1680*1050. When using this resolution, i don't know why, my laptop gets overheated. How can i fix it?
I sometimes work from home (MacbookPro-10.6.8) and would like to screen share with my iMac(10.9) at work. The screen-sharing is easy enough, but I share an office with several other people. To put it nicely, my coworkers haven't grown up yet... When I work remotely they are able to see what I am doing, then go to my desk, take control of my mouse/keyboard, make changes to my code "as a prank", etc. It's quite frustrating to say the least. Is there anyway to screen share without allowing someone else to have direct access to my work?
What's the significance of Users listed in the Users folder? Are they different than users listed in System Preferences under Users & Groups? Does the concept of a unix-like root account factor in anywhere here?
My iPhone 5 has 101 photos (& 7 videos) but on my PC > iCloud Photos > My Photo Stream only shows the last 23 of those photos.
I installed Garageband 10.0.3 on my MacBook Pro 2013 when it was running Mavericks. I then purchased the additional sounds. I delayed downloading them all because at the time I didn't need them right away. I installed Yosemite, and now want to download them, however when I go to GarageBand > Download More Sounds the option is grey and clicking on it does nothing. I tried signing into the Appstore and opening Garageband through there, and it didn't work. I've restarted Garageband several times but with no luck. I'm wondering if I need to reinstall it, however I'm not quite sure how to do this. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know. If you need more information or this question needs to be edited, please let me know. Thank you for your time.
Apple Touch Icon is a icon used in Safari 8 favourite new page on OS X,or web clip in Home screen on iOS. *=URL=* there is two way to set it,one is using rel="shortcut icon",another is using rel="apple-touch-icon" like *=URL=* do.So I can find icon URL *=URL=* However apple.com doesn't use those two method.How can I find apple.com's apple touch icon URL?
I run geekbench on some computer on 10.10.2 get 7500,and on windows on same computer get 7200,does this mean OS X 10.10.2 faster than Windows 8.1 on same hardware?
I've been looking for a todo-list app that can sync directly (via local/tethered USB) between my MacBook Pro (currently running Mavericks, upgrading soon to Yosemite) and iPod Touch 5 (running iOS 8). Apple's Reminders and Notes can only be synced via iCloud.
In Windows, you can edit an application shortcut and change the shortcut's target. How do you do this in Mac OS? For example, I want to change my Chrome application to do verbose logging, by appending this to the run command: --enable-logging --v=1.
I started up Disk Utility to mount an external HD and noticed an image file decryptedFile.dmg Any idea where this file could have come from ls -l@ shows:-
My car has Bluetooth integration, yet even when parked with the radio turned off, so long as the engine is running, the car's mic takes precedence over the very nice Bluetooth dictation mic I'd prefer to use. How can I force my iPhone to choose the dictation mic when parked without unpairing from the car?
I opened my MBP and certainly the system gives the following warning "Cloudd wants to use the "Local items" keychain" and asks me for my keychain-password. After cancelling this warning, it kept coming back, over and over again. After a forced quit and a system reboot the warning was gone.
If I have an app on my iPhone and I want to recommend it to someone else who might be interested in downloading and using the app on his/her iPhone - what's the easiest way to do this? Is there a native way of doing this? Through another app?
Last night I discovered what looks like an unusual file named "~" (tilde) in the root of my "Macintosh HD" directory on my MacBook. Finder reports the file is 2.2MB in size, of kind "TextEdit.app Document", and was created on 22nd January 2014 (so about a month ago). I haven't noticed any operational issues with OS X or it's applications.
I am developing an Android-app in OS X, and want to use some third-party icons. I have downloaded and extracted the icons into this folder structure: drawable-mdpi ic_icon1.png ... ic_icon1.png ... drawable-hdpi ic_icon1.png ... ic_icon1.png ... drawable-xhdpi ic_icon1.png ... ic_icon1.png ... drawable-xxhdpi ic_icon1.png ... ic_icon1.png ...
We are in the process of upgrading our servers at our school. Right now we use Safecom to manage our print queues for each user. Each user that is allowed to print can do so via logging in using an RFID printer tag. What I would like to know is whether there is a similar solution that runs on OS X? It should be able to: Allow users to push their jobs to the printer, collecting them later using the RFID tag to log in. Allow administrators to check how many jobs have been sent, cancel jobs, add users and so on Allow us to import users from a directory service of some kind
I have several .vncloc files what contains lines such: e.g., double click on the file starts the Screen Sharing.app, and connect to the defined vnc URL. By default it connects in control mode and I need switch manually to the observer mode. It is possible to add something to the .vncloc file, to connect in the observer mode by default?
Obviously, since I'm reacting when I notice a hang, I run diagnose several seconds after the process started. The output lists many system calls, but I wonder whether I'm missing anything important.
I was trying to wipe the free space of an external USB 3.0 disk in OS X (Yosemite) disk utility. However, I receive the following error:
Sometimes I experience strange behaviour within the Finder. When I drag files to another Finder window the highlighted drop zones are incorrect and if I attempt to edit a file name the location of the edit-textfield is wrong as well.
I would like to put all this information back on my iPhone. But how?
Firstly, I typed some thing on insert mode, like At this stage, if I didn't exit from insert mode, delete works and can delete the whole word if I want.
Is there a way to disable smooth scroll in Outlook (email reading pane)?
If I try to call 9-1-1 using Siri, she says "Calling 9-1-1. I'm sorry, I can't call 9-1-1."
In Yosemite spotlight sends all requests to multiple third parties depending on your settings. I've disabled all of these options, leaving "Calculator, System Preferences and Applications" out of principle. Disabling conversions however, seems to have disabled the calculator too. My question is how can I enable the calculator without enabling conversions?
I have installed many python packages via sudo pip install and some of them have messed up the system by overwriting or updating preloaded python packages. Now I want to revert all the damage done and install my own packages only in a virtualenv. Is there any way I can obtain a list of python packages, preferably with their version, that comes with a clean Yosemite?
Pressing TAB in the terminal (and in fact some surprise places in OS X's GUI!) either completes the only filename with the prefix provided to the immediate left of TAB, and when there are several such names (or no such names!) the terminal simply beeps. In the latter case, pressing TAB again either beeps again (because there are no such names at all), or displays a list of the choices.
When copying text between a Windows client and the OSX host Parallels converts line endings, which is a big nuisance. Can this be disabled?
I'm trying to set up my Mac so that it will exclude files in a folder called 'XYZ' from the search results in spotlight only. The reason is because these files are mostly private, and I don't want them to pop up in a spotlight search.
Is it possible to create a mac OSX dock icon that activates the page down key?
The internal disk of my Mac book pro is partitioned as follows: The operating system (os x 10.9.5) and all my files are in the mainHD, where I'm running out of space. I would like to delete the oldHD so that I can increase the size of mainHD. When I try to delete oldHD via the graphical disk utility I get an Alert (null) box where I can select cancel or remove, if I click on remove nothing happens and in the log I see: How can I get oldHD deleted and mainHD resized?
In Terminal, how do I add a host key to the file known_hosts? Also, how do I remove a given host key from the same file? I trying to ssh into a computer at my school and when I type in the command johndoe@mu.math.umn.edu, it returns: I am not sure, but I think want I want to do is add this "finger print for the RSA key" to the file known_hosts.
I have a Mac Pro on Yosemite and I only use Active Directory when accessing server folders and my email. My account locks me out regularly and I can't seem to figure out why. I have disabled all devices except my computer and hoping someone here can help me determine what is going on. My help desk here can't seem to help. Here is part of my recent system.log file.
When you are logged in with into the Mac App Store and it prompts for the password like this:  how do you log out without entering the password?
I forgot my iPhone 5 passcode when I was changing the code. A window appeared on the device screen saying that iPhone is disabled.
I want my mouse to rapidly auto-click when I hold the left mouse button and to stop as soon as I release the left button. How can I do this?
I was trying to download OS X Yosemite. It is very big - more than 5GB.
My MacBook Pro kernel panics daily. I have clean-installed Mavericks yet it's not fixed. Could you tell me what is wrong from these reports?
I have downloaded an iPad app called LaunchPad in which you put sounds into buttons aligned in squares so they can be easily played. The problem is that this LaunchPad app only accepts .wav audio files and all my audio effects are in the .caf format and they are like a hundred sounds. Is there a program to convert multiple files (a whole folder of files) into another format?
When creating a Smart Playlist, what does placing a "All of the following are true" nested group when the playlist is set to "Match all of the following rules"?  I've tried reading through it logically a few times, and I always end up with it not actually contributing to the flow of the smart playlist. If all the items in the nested group have to be true, and all the items directly under parent must be true, it seems that this configuration would only serve as a way to group similar items to a user's preference. Is there a logical precedence that I am missing where having a "match all" nested group on the first level of a "match all" smart playlist makes sense?
I have a MBP 17 2010, equipped with a Vertex 2 SSD 120GB as boot disk. It's an old hardware but I don't want to change it, the problem is the SSD is performing poorly :
My laptop locked up (black screen, spinning beachball), and after leaving it to see if it would handle whatever it was doing on its own overnight, I went and held the power button down to force it to shut down. When I brought it back up, everything seemed okay until I went into Mail.app ... which is asking me about my account information, as if I had never used it.
I recently upgraded Python (via downloaded .dmg files). Before, my $PATH looked like this: Now when I run the command: the following two lines are added: I've noticed that my ~/.bash_profile has only the following content: So, if the original versions are saved in their respective, python-specific .bash profiles, can I delete this content from my ~/.bash_profile? Why would these duplicates be added to ~/.bash_profile in the first place?
I have as my iTunes balance around $52. When my son, using the Family Share program, requests to purchase a song and I approve, it is bypassing the Gift Card balance and charging my credit card. Any suggestions?
I'm using readpst to extract emails from a bunch of old outlook .PST files. It does a great job of pulling out all the emails .EML files, with attachments included. But how do I bring these into Apple Mail? Any of the "Import..." options create a separate mailbox for each message. I want to be able to import groups of messages into a particular mailbox. (I know that readpst can also generate mbox files, which Apple Mail handles OK, but slowly; but this is not what I want to do.)
We've got a DMG from a vendor that we put on our web server for download. After download, the file on my Mac (OSX 10.10.1) is identical to the original file (did a hex compare), and the DMG mounts fine... but the installer inside the DMG will not work after download. To put it a different way, I have two seemingly identical DMG's, both of which mount, but only one of which will actually run the installer in the image, once mounted.
I have TDM working with my iMac. I am currently have two MacBook Pro (2012 and 2103) and was wondering if they support this? I have not been able to get it to work. Has anyone else gotten this to work? I am currently running 10.10.2 on both computers.
I installed mysql via homebrew in osX 10.10. It comes with plist file located in /usr/local/opt/mysql/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist. The contents: I created a symlink, added permissions and stuff and said launchctl to load it and save.
I have a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) running OS X Yosemite v 10.10.2. Mysteriously, a rectangle has appeared in the middle of the screen.
I'm looking for a way to change the default Active Directory password expiration prompt at login from 30 days to our current IT policy of 14 days. Every time a user logs in on a Mac with Active Directory, they get a 30 day notice, but on a PC they get a 14 day notice, so I know it's something local to the Mac and not something controlled through the servers. I cannot for the life of me find the .plist that controls this and all other information I can find is extremely out of date. Any advice?
I'm in a group chat with 3 others. We all have iPhones. About a month ago, a new group chat was created with the same group. I deleted it, but it came back. 3 of the 4 of us experience this problem. The other guy has no idea what we're talking about when we say "this is driving me crazy." Many others seem to have also experienced this problem: "iOS 8 creating multiple group messages with same recipients" (Official Apple Forum) There is no answer in the above thread. How can we fix this issue?
So my mum recently called my iPhone, she uses a Samsung I think, and I was using it at time and was on the Skype app typing, but then she called at the same time and she said that her call stopped and a voice answer said that I was online or unavailable to pick up a call, but then she called again straight after and it went through. Is this true? If so how can this be turned off? If its locked she can call, and even if it's unlocked it rings, and I've tried it with my brother while it was locked and when I was using an app and it went through.
I was trying to enable php, mysql, apache on my macbook pro running yosemite. I followed this guide but it doesn't run. What's wrong in setting up a local web server on OS X Please help.....I get an error saying *=URL=* is not available
I mean a package of tools like those in the Kali Linux distribution.
My 2010 i7 iMac running off an internal SSD is currently on OS X 10.8.5. I need to upgrade it to at least 10.9 to use a certain software package because they stuck fixes for a 10.8 compatible version in with a feature that necessitated a higher OS version! My question is this:
I have my Retina Macbook Pro's built-in display set to the scaled resolution "more space" in System Preferences. Whenever I connect to an external monitor (extended mode), the resolution resets to "default". I have to manually change it back to a larger resolution. Is there anyway to lock it on the correct resolution and prevent this behavior?
I accidentally turned off the power strip that my iMac was plugged into while it was still running. When I turned it back on again, it put me at the "Set up your new Mac" screen, asking me to accept the Terms and Conditions and create a new user account.
Most of my phone's memory (almost 11 GB's of it) resides in my pictures and videos. I want to clear most of it but not even my completely empty iCloud storage can handle all of it. Anyways, when you're looking at your photos and you zoom out into "years" and you click one of those years, a big map will pop out and you'll literally see every single place you've taken these pictures at. I think that's really cool since I went to a lot of places last summer and in general think it's a cool feature. Back to the point, is there any way I could save that location information when I export these pictures to my laptop? Would a copy/paste just be sufficient? I don't have a Mac either, so I don't know if it will be harder or impossible. And if it is possible, is there some sort of app that you can use on your laptop to pull up that same view you have on your iPhone and see everywhere you took your pictures?
I have a Mac 2009 mid-model running OS X 10.9.4. When i click the App Store icon in the dock nothing happens. And I am not able to download or update my applications. My firewall is off.
I'd like to do a few things, either: Safely move my iOS notes to the OS X Notes app That is, sync my existing notes with the OSX Notes app and then delete the couple of thousand notes from the iOS app. I assume this would be done via iCloud, but I'm not sure how to save my notes permanently on my Mac and subsequently delete them off my iPhone. Safely move my iOS notes to the OS X Notes app
I am running Server 4.0.3 on a Mac Mini running Yosemite 10.10.2 and am having trouble with setting up a secure website. In my DNS, I have a primary zone with a machine record for my website,e.g. www.abccompany.com. In the website settings on Server, in addition to the default website of Server Website and Server Website (SSL), I have my website, www.abccompany.com for all addresses on port 80. I can access this from both within my lan and from the wan.
I am running Yosemite and the color picker is supposed to have a magnifying glass. Except I do not have this and cannot turn it on. I do not see the magnifying glass as shown between the tool bar and the colour wheel.
I am completely new to Apple machines. I have got a MacBook Pro. I want to see all available drives on the computer. The computer cannot boot into OS X.
How can I move all my emails including the mailboxes from Outlook mac to Ms outlook 2010?
I need to invert the behaviour of 2 key in my keyboard ("<" is inverted with "\"). I can do this easily with "Karabiner", but for me is a solution without an explanation. I'm linux user and usually a do this directly from "terminal". So, if Karabiner can do the trick, I suppose that I can do it too!
My 5th gen. iPod is disabled because my son tried too many wrong passwords. How do I unlock it without a computer or iTunes. I just want to restore, there's nothing important on the iPod. I've already tried holding power button with home button at the same time.
Experience already tells me the answer is 'yes', but I'm curious if anyone has a reference. Recently, my cable internet went out. I think: no problem, I've got all kinds of purchased movies and TV shows already downloaded, so I'll watch them until the internet comes back!
A week ago, I had a slider when playing music that let me scan through music really quickly. Now it's gone. Here's a screenshot:
Whenever I activate "reduce transparency" in the accessibility menu, the onscreen keyboard keys stop moving. Normally they make an effect that seems as if they were actually pressed down. Does anyone else have that issue?
What are alternative ways to switch between applications? Cmd+Tab doesn't work for me in some games. For example on steam; "Crusader Kings II", "The Talos Principle".
Is there a Terminal command which will show me how many GB has been written to my SSD through the whole lifetime of the disk? I'm asking because I want to find out how many cycles have been done. SSD are able to do about 1000–2000 cycles depending on type.
When I connect my Macbook Pro to an external monitor with a different aspect ratio than 16:10 (which the Macbook Pro has) and let it mirror my display, the resolution is automatically changed to something that fits the external monitor. Also, my MacBook Pro screen is cropped.
Old ipad charging indicator comes on but doesn't hold a charge. Doesn't build charge either? Any suggestions already tried cable and new transformer.
When the login screen appeared I may have waited a few seconds for the bluetooth keyboard to connect. The icon showed a full signal.
I work as an iOS developer and have a number of development iPads at work. They are generic ipads used for testing and demos, none should apple ID. When I plug such iPad into my mac, two things seems to happen: iTunes opens and offers me to "set up my new iPad", even if it is already setup I close iTunes I unplug the iPad, but now it has my personal apple ID remembered in "iTunes and app store" in preferences.
i read online recently that there is a way to disable safari's cache on the iPad using the mac's safari developers tools as long as the iPad is connected via usb. I can't find the article i was reading but is this possible? If so please provide steps.
If I go  -> Sleep or even hold the power button, my Mac goes to sleep but when I go to wake it up I immediately see the screen I'd put it to sleep on. Before I was asked for my password again upon waking my Mac. I know that you can quickly tap a key after using the power button shortcut to prevent it going to sleep and you won't be locked out, but even after having my Mac in sleep all night last night and waiting a few seconds or minutes before attempting to wake it today I'm not prompted for my password which worries me because I have sensitive information throughout my Mac.
I am making my own application and I would like to change some values in my Info.plist file using terminal. I have tried doing defaults write Info.plist CFBundleExecutable -string <Executable> and defaults write Info.plist CFBundleExecutable <Executable> however it never seems to work. I don't get any output so I don't even know what it is i'm doing wrong. Thanks for the help
I am using yosemite iTerm 2 allows me to full screen without switching to new space and preserves cmd + tab application switching via keyboard. when i press cmd + shift + f in chrome it switches to a new space, and disables switching to chrome via cmd + tab - is it possible to full screen chrome without switching to new space and keeping cmd + tab functionality in tact (just like iterm)?
It's been some weeks now, whenever I try to used my Youtube app, it tells me it's impossible to connect to Youtube. Since it's an iPad 1, I have had trouble finding information online.
I intend to replace the default Python installation with the one from Homebrew. Below is a list of steps that I want to take, but I first want to make sure that I'm not doing anything destructive, which is why I'm posting this question. :-)
I purchased an iMac from a buddy and recently upgraded to Yosemite so I am learning as I go about Macs. However, I decided I wanted it to be quicker so I purchased an OWC SSD to install as a primary and use the 1TB HDD as a secondary. Before the install I wanted to remove everything and that included the partition for Boot Camp that shows up:
new here and hoping some wiz can point me in the right direction.... pictures folder showing 39Gb but there are no files in it trash is empty have tried rebooting searched everywhere on the net, no one seems to know whats up Mac OSX 10.6.8 on an old Macbook 13" 2007, 4Gb ram, 160gb HD HD is pretty much FULL so need this sorted coz things are grinding to a halt! any help appreciated :)
Somehow the calendar on my phone is showing only the 2015 yearly calendar. How do I get back to seeing daily schedule?
I recently tried to install a bootcamp instance of Win 7. The install failed for some reason. This left me with a partition that I can not access via Disk Utility If you notice..the +- can not be selected and hence I can't delete the partition and recover the space on my drive I tried to follow the instructions posted here by klanomath but have had no success. It could be because I have 2 CoreStorage logical volume groups about which I have no clue as to what it is
how can I get my numbers off my IPhone, I dropped my iPhone in water and I need to get my phone numbers off my phone
I'm almost embarrassed to post this: I can't re-order the songs in any playlists on my Mac. It's iTunes 12.1.0.50 on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2.
I recently purchased and iPhone 6 and sync'd my data appropriately. However, all of my contacts were apparently still associated with my old work email. I have since moved on to another job and had to delete that email address - and with it - there went all my contacts. Through the current contacts app, I only have anything I have added after I deleted that work email address. I even tried resetting it from a previous backup from my computer, not iCloud.
Just noticed it works on Maverick.. the colon character : is valid for file and directory names (I accidentally entered it for a filename in Atom). Can't find any reference to it becoming valid though (*=URL=* still marks it as invalid). It works in the Atom editor. I can create a file called : with nano. This works echo 'test' > : && cat : In TextWrangler it only works if the file already exists but won't create it (with command line tools installed edit :)
I am using OS X 10.9.5 When every I click in any browser, it creates a new tab with some site like "www.detoxmymac.com".
When I go to my disk utility, my main hard gives me results like this  It's showing capacity 499gb but only remaining 10mb. Now please see the second image
Unable to close apps from mission control, Mavericks OS X. I do not get an "X" to close, and after downloading BetterTouchTool and attempting the close window with cursor over window (which says is suppose to work in mission control) I still have no luck. After reading some reviews I am going to wait downloading Yosemite and become comfortable with Mavericks. New Mac user as of 2/16/15.
I'm doing an accessibility stuff and I need to access the source file (.epub file) of the sample books in iBooks for Mac OS X. I did look for one at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks but that only stored bought books. Does anyone know? (My OS is the newest version of Yosemite.)
I delete an app that had some service running through launchd. Now launchd complains all the time in the console for not being able to launch the service:
I have a way to list all the accounts in Mac via terminal using the dscacheutil command. Is there any way to get to know if a particular account is a mobile account or not from the terminal?
If App Store review team rejects your App, can you be sure that the issue they found is the only one? Or they just stop reviewing once they encounter an issue?
I did a clean install of yosemite on my MacBook Pro. I have not partitioned my hard drive and have left everything by default. I would however like to use the recommended schematic for Linux systems (Partition for the OS (root directory), Partition for /Home and one for my data). Is there a way to do this with mac? I am not aware that i could have done this during the installation process especially choosing a partition for the OS. Furthermore I wonder if it would be possible to partition the HD after the installation and move all the data later. I'm looking for some kind of guidance how I can do that clean.
Is there any way of limiting the space devoted to log files? I was running a little short of disk space and checked where it was used (if anyone is interested the following shows directories > 1GB) sudo du -hxd1 ~/Library/Developer | grep 'G\t'
I just purchased a 4-pin to 2x3-pin audio adapter to use my earpods on a PC. However when I test the microphone all I can hear is a high pitched noise. The earpods are confirmed working on a retina MBP and android phone (everything works on MBP, mic + centre button works on android phone but no volume control as expected). I have tested a pair of beats in-ear earphones with the new splitter, and they're working perfectly (audio + mic). The beats earphones also work with my MBP. Any ideas on why the earpods don't like my splitter? I'm fairly certain beats and apple use the same CTIA standard.
I have a big Swift project. It's about 40 ViewControllers, 2 storyboards and some frameworks. When I make some changes XCode begins indexing all the project and it takes a very long time! How can I disable indexing and compiling some unnecessary Swift files?
My project contains the word "beta" in name, but has nothing to do with beta. Renaming project is kind of tedious so I wonder if ios app store may reject my app due to that fact? Should I keep trying to rename the project? What is your opinion? Thanks in advance
This interface bridge100 has been introduced with Mavericks and exists on Yosemite. (On Mountain Lion the same kind of mechanism was taking place with the bridge0 associated with the visible interface: Thunderbolt Bridge).
Safari download bar rar shows file icon as VLC icon, but .rar is associated with associate to The Unarchiver and should show its icon
A strange thing happen to my chrome web browser, and I don't know why, I hope you can help me. In my chrome tabs the bootswatch symbol appears in the tab icon even when I'm not in the bootswatch website!!
is there a shortcut for this: I'm on Safari and see a term I'd like to google. Maybe an obscure term or something I want more information of (gadget, e.g.) Now what I do is: I copy the text open a new tab paste the text and press enter.
When on my Mac I right click on a link in mail and select "Open Link Behind Mail" nothing happens. I tried opening Console and seeing if there was an error message when I did it again, but I didn't notice anything new. (I looked in "SYSTEM LOG QUERIES > All Messages")
I entered Apple ID to my iPhone 5 which "Find my iPhone" button was on and someone changed the password. Now every second I use the phone they ask me to sign in to iCloud. How can I remove this ID and unlock my iPhone?
I have a terminal shortcut on my dock which I use every day. Depending on my monitor setup (extra, 2 extra, etc.) to my Macbook Pro, I like to have a different launching scheme (either 4 windows or 5 windows). Is there a way to have 2 (or more) terminal launchers on the dock, one which launches the "4 windows" setup and one which launches the "5 windows" setup?
On the version of the Safari web browser that's included with Mac OS Yosemite, trying to go to any web site whose hostname ends in ".local" will cause the browser to sit there forever waiting for a response, never timing out. For example, "*=URL=* or "*=URL=* Same thing happens when running Safari in the iOS Simulator on a Mac (but on a real iOS device, the request properly times out).
Note that my problem cannot be solved by simply gathering "all the characters I need" in the favorites Section of CharacterViewer. To exaggerate slightly, every epigraph has its own characters and I need to update my set of characters periodically. The typical character I need is often in the "Private Area" of the Unicode standard. The most comprehensive font I found so far is ALPHABETUM, and with the old Character Palette I regularly discovered new characters from ALPHABETUM.
Apple are very quick to downgrade paid iCloud storage accounts when billing fails. Data are then deleted indiscriminately within 15 days of payment failure.
This error code pops up in a dialog on my MBP with 10.10.2 and doesn't go away until I restart. I tried quitting all open applications but it still didn't go away. It wouldn't even let the system restart so I had to do a hard power off (long press power button). Does anyone know what this is about ?
This error might be related as well. I see this a lot in the log and iTunes were running at both crashes. No Idea what it means and Google didn't turn up much?
I created a text file with a specific extension: Vendor_0408_Product_3008.idc It displays in finder link this:
I am new to using a macbook terminal. Initially when I used the terminal for working on Raspberry Pi everything was great. But now when I try to use the terminal and type sudo it keeps giving a dyld message. And also rejects my commands. The message is : dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid Password:
I am looking into iCloud backups of iPad. How many backups are kept in iCloud ? For how long ?
Can you merge two conversations from the same contact if one is sent from an email and the other from the phone number?
Im a complete new Mac user. When I have a youtube video playing in safari window, and I'm typing an email in a different safari window, I have to click twice to pause the youtube video, once to focus the window, and once again to actually pause the video. But if I double click the video it will switch to full screen! I have to click twice with a pause... Is there any configuration I can change so that I only have to click once? I Googled the problem and I see a lot about "focus follows mouse" plugins, but I'm not sure if that's what I need, I just want the click to go through, instead of a "dedicated focus click", because that doesn't make much sense to me.
My whats app is requesting me to update in the App Store, when I agree, it takes me to a screen which requests my password, but the id is not mine, so I cannot update it. This only happens with whats app, and not with any other apps. I had no problem with previous Whats app updates. Please advise. Thanks
On my PC, I can place (or doc) the MS Word styles to the right of the document/screen. Is this possible on Word 2011 for OS-X?
The Preview app has markup / annotate tools like rectangle, oval, line, text, speech bubble, thought bubble. Is there a pen or pencil tool that lets you draw lines in a freehand way? (I'm using Preview version 7.0 (826.4) in OS X Mavericks 10.9.5)
Closing means on the left panel of Messages. Hover over a person. An X appears in the middle of their "card" on the right. Click it. This closes the conversation and does not delete it.
Our app was rejected recently with reason Google+ signin, which we understood is not according to Apple policy and need to fix. While discussing about this issue we came across an interesting question with Apple review process, does Apple review team list all issues (if more than one exists) while rejecting app (or) would they stop reviewing other areas as soon as they found an issue (in our case Google+ signin)?
I recently switched from Chrome to Safari for a few choice web applications, and I found that I couldn't disable extensions like Lastpass when browsing privately, at least not apparently, like I could in Chrome (which disables extensions by default in Incognito). Is there any way to do this from the Safari UI? I have an Applescript snippet I'm using to disable extensions, and toggle them back on when I'm done, but it's sort of a hassle, and I'd like to make this a default for Private browsing.
I am working on a way to import a RootCA into the login keychain of OS X and set it to always trust, the cert is located on a file share server. I am relatively new to the whole Bash scripting scene and have been actively researching this issue for a few weeks now with some success. I have been able to import and trust a RootCA locally, but unable to reach out to a server and import the cert. Here is what I currently have: When I replace "$HOME/Desktop/rootCA" with my server path, I get prompted for a password, then receive a message: Error reading file "Server path"
I have a mac book air, which was formatted a long time ago, and only has windows running on it. I would like to run Mac OS again instead of windows. Or if that isnt possible, have both OS's. How can I get Mac OS installed on this machine again?
I have one of the faulty mid-2010 MacBooks with a GPU panic problem. I cannot work, while keeping a sane state of mind. My machine is restarting 4-5 times a day. Here is a example of the log: Any ideas on how to fix this?
I want to receive iMessages with my iPhone and iPad. I have one small issue being that my iCloud account is shared with my family.
Here is my situation. I have a large iTunes library that has songs tagged with the "Year" in iTunes. I have a Hazel Rule for the noodlesoft hazel software which reads from Finder's "Year Recorded" metatag. I would like an applescript that can recursively for all tracks selected read the iTunes "Year" track and embed it into the file's "Year Recorded" metadata so Finder/Spotlight will then see that information. I saw this: Applescript to update year tag for audio files but it is not what I need. Any help on this would be highly appreciated!
I have OS X 10.9.5, and my Calendar (version 7.0) will not let me change the "Days start at:" and "Days end at:" in Calendar general preferences. It will allow me to change the times inside the actual preference box (in the scroll menu), and it will stay to the specifications I set it at. However, it does not change on the actual calendar: every day in the weekly view starts at 1am and ends at midnight, no matter which time it is set to. The "Show: ... hours at a time" option works still; it's only the "Days start at:" and "Days end at:" options that don't work.
Recently I replaced my RAM in my Mid 2009 iMac. I replaced the current RAM with 2 x 4 Gb. sticks of RAM. However, now that I replaced the RAM, my computer has started to randomly crash often although I am able to use it for 10-60 minute periods before the crash. Does anyone know how to fix this? Here is my crash log:
I have found that I can programmaticly create reminders in Reminders.app from applescript or using automator on the command line, but I'd like to be able to do so while taking advantage of the intelligent due date parsing of the Reminder App. So currently when I run my command line automator workflow or apple script, I could create an event and name it "Do some work at 9pm" and I'll be left with a Reminder called "Do some work at 9pm" in my app, however, I'd like it to work like it does in the app where I'd be left with a Reminder called "Do some work" with a due date of tonight at 9pm. Is there a way I can take advantage of the intelligent task parsing in the app, but from applescript or automator?
I have a MacBook Pro and use an Apple Magic Mouse. I want to pair a wireless headset but have not been able, I cannot even see where to start.
Is it possible to cast either the same tab or different tabs from one mac to multiple Chromecasts on the same network? It seems like when you open another tab and try and cast that to a different Chromecast it stops casting to the first Chromecast. The Extension is in Beta but it would be very nice to cast to multiple Chromecasts at the same time!
I am a freelance writer and I frequently use Pages to draft my articles. I appreciate having the word count on the bottom of the document because I am often paid by the word. Periodically, I'll see how many words I've written, break out my calculator, and see how much money I've made for a bit of motivation.
As of upgrading to yosemite the apple script choose color no longer works. The color picker app launches but the eyedropper doesn't function. Does anyone know a work-around for this?
Something happened(crashing and graphic issues) to my MacPro(3.1) and so I decided to reinstall the OS with the factory discs. When I try to boot off the discs I get the following error.
My 2008 iMac, which has been extremely reliable for several years now, began to show the spinning 'beach ball' one day, and then would become unresponsive. After a couple of forced reboots, the internal HDD failed and would no longer start up. I had replaced it with a 1TB several years ago, so it was not the original. At the same time, however, the Seagate 2TB External Firewire HDD with Time Machine backups failed. When I booted from Snow Leopard, Disk Utility could not "Repair" either volume. A different drive connected via USB is OK. The biggest problem was that Time Machine never worked correctly, claiming some issue with the backup, so that I frequently had to wipe the TM volume and start again, so I had not run it in a while. How likely is it that both drives would fail? I am concerned about a virus or malware, though none was detected. It's terrible that both the backup and main drive would fail at the same time. My iMac and drives are on a UPS, so a power surge seemed out of the
No internet access here except iPhone. Therefore, I can't download an iPad file explorer, nor email a PDF to myself. Is there another way to "reverse sync" a PDF? (Backup will NOT do it).
I have just migrated all my data from my old MacBook Pro (early 2011) to my new MacBook Pro using migration assistant with Thunderbolt connection. Before starting, I have created a user account on my new Mac, with the same name as the old Mac had, that this time opens with my Apple ID password.
I added another user to my Mac and then didn't know how to fill out all the technical questions. The problem is I cannot use my trackpad when the computer starts. I have to use a mouse.
I have an application that is not working properly (I always get an error). I know other people who have the same app and for them no errors appears. I thought that maybe there are temporary data stored and getting rid of them would solve the problem.
We have developed an app according to Apple standards which are defined on Apple's official site. Despite this, our app was rejected 2-3 times for different reasons.
I'm using a mid-2012 MBP. I've got 2 external monitors hooked up - 1 on each of the DisplayPort ports. During the day I run Parallels in full-screen mode on one of the external monitors. At night I move the mouse into the upper-right corner - which is defined as a Hot Corner to put the displays to sleep. I've noticed that if I shutdown Parallels, or even just take it out of full-screen mode, when I go to use the machine in the morning everything is cold (to the touch) like I would expect it to be. However, if I leave Parallels running in full-screen, then in the morning the palm-rests are warm and the bit of metal just north of the keyboard (between the keys and the screen) is hot. My research shows that this is where the Nvidia graphics card is housed - which leads me to believe that the graphics card is not shutting down as it does if nothing is left in full-screen.
Last night my iPhone 4S was running iOS 8.1.2 and safari credit card scanning was working perfectly OK. This morning I upgraded to iOS 8.1.3 and the functionality is now broken.
Since I upgraded to OS X Yosemite I do have massive problems with environment variables that I really, really NEED for development of some projects. The Problems is: Every time I install some kind of update from the app store and my macbook restarts in order to install it, it will delete all, but really all of my environment variables which then costs me nearly an hour to set it up again. I've tried so many different solutions until now (I don't want to start listing them up here, I really searched the www for some hours...) and nothing has worked as permanent/persistent environment variable. What I need to do:
A dead key (a key that does not generate a complete character by itself but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after) is indicated with a yellow background to previous the final character.  It's perfect when you write black on white, but not when you write white on black, like in some Terminal configurations.
My MacBook Pro was working fine until my friend stopped the Disk Utility from partitioning and force quit the application. Ever since it seems that the problem has grown larger and larger as I used it.
I try to kill a buggy application without success. I tried the Force Quit… feature in the Apple menu but it doesn't work. In order to find the PID I tried the following command from the Terminal but it doesn't match anything:
I want to start over on PlunderNauts because I bought something with in game money that really wasted my antimatter. I want a way to revert the purchase or reset game. I would much prefer reset game. P.S I'm not a complete noob when it comes to technology.
When I try to install the Xcode Command Line Tools I get the error message: "The package “DeveloperToolsCLI.pkg” is untrusted." I can't seem to find the answer to this problem anywhere, how do you fix this?
Given two Macs running Yosemite and one iPad running iOS 8, how do you retrieve a PDF file put on the iPad from Mac 1, using Mac 2 ? Let's say that I don't currently have access to the Mac used to put the file in the first place. I can see the file in the Books section of the device in iTunes, but that's all I can do right now.
I need to create/print a booklet that is 1/4 size of a sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper. From this page, How can I print a booklet from a pdf file?, I know I how to create the booklet. But this is larger than I want.
I have a graphics card that has a standard sized display port(DP). If I purchase a male-to-male display port to mini-display port, will I be able to connect my 27" Thunderbolt display to my PC?
I understand that the kernel_task process is linked to several .kext files found in System/Library/Extensions (and possibly Library/Extensions ?) How can I identify which files are contributing to the 400+ MB memory usage identified in Activity Monitor? Is there anything I can do to uninstall or delete unneeded processes to reduce memory usage here?
Once I press some key,OS X shows partition get info in fullscreen in big icon in black background,I don't know how to do it again.
I restart my Mac (for various reasons) often, about once a day. Recently I found about the key shortcut to do this: Cmd + Ctrl + Power. I really like this because it's fast and avoids that annoying prompt about "reopening windows when coming back".
I have some Mac OSX machines that i'm managing with an OS X server, clients are authenticated using Active Directory (golden triangle) and i'd like to disable version control for Pages/Numbers/Keynote as it doesn't work well with user profiles stored on an SMB share, The commands that achieve this are as follows: This setting appears to be per-user I tried to save these into a logon script file with .sh extension, I chmod+x the file to allow me to import it into OS X server but it doesn't work :( There's a section in OSX server under preferences which has a load of .plist files in there but I couldnt find any good documentation on how to use it ... and I can't locate the plist file for Pages itself.. Sorry for the poor description, i'm new to OS X administration in this environment Thanks in advance (This query is actually solved now but just FYI it was OX Mavericks 10.9.5 client and a Mac Mini running 10.9.5 with Server 3.1.2)
I am having a strange problem where my 'About this mac' > ' Storage' is showing that I Have 470gb of Apps install on a 250gb SSD. I have used 3rd party disk scanners and they are all showing the correct data. Any idea what this issue is?
I'm trying to submit a Java-based app to AppStore. After having the worst headaches in my life trying to sign everything my last problem (I hope!) is this:
How can I set the default width and height of my Mac terminal window so that it always opens the way I'd like it to. Currently, every time I launch the terminal app, I need to resize it.
We use Outlook at work for scheduling. By default, the work schedule is 9AM to 5PM. You can easily change this to other hours under Preferences, but you are limited to full hour boundaries. I can't, for example, change my start time to 8:30AM, I can only choose 8AM or 9AM. Is there is away to set a start time and end time on half hour boundaries?
I've seen the terminal command ncdu is available in various flavors of UNIX. Does anyone know if the same terminal command is available in OS X? Thanks for any help. It is greatly appreciated.
When downloading most applications from websites they are usually packaged into dmg files. Is there any specific reason why people distribute apps in dmg files instead of zip files? If so why do some apps still packaged as .zip?
Can I ask a for a recommendation for an app. I am looking for a user friendly app that I can use to make, resize, and save in jpeg and png format, icon size art. Being new to Apple I have no idea. Free would be good too. Many thanks.
I've been seeing this error a lot lately:  Could not save [file] because write access was not granted I've checked all the standard reasons why permission to save a file might be denied: The file is not open in any other application The user does have access to the drive and directory No other users on a network are accessing the file The file is not read-only No other save operations are happening The connection to the drive is fine
I had read that you can "quietly shut down to single user mode" by running, within terminal: This sounds far preferable to having to restart the computer and hold CMND+S. However - at least in Mavericks it doesn't seem to work. I'm getting: I thought that anything within square brackets was optional. When I run it with the -k flag (which kicks all users off): sudo shutdown -k now, the output is: Then if I try to open a new terminal: Restarting again and terminal login is restored. Can anyone offer some insight as to what's going on here?
I move my monitors around a bit during the day. Specifically I rotate them or move my laptop to different positions. Each time I have to open up System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement and make the corresponding changes. I'm looking for a tool or AppleScript approach for quickly setting a displays arrangement so I can quickly switch to proper arrangement.
I currently have a MacBook Pro that I'm using at work, but it has now become so slow that I wish to do a reinstall of the OS. It has a recovery partition that offers such a reinstall. I do not want all the content back onto my computer after the reinstall, but I want to keep my time machine backup in case I forgot some important files. Is there an option so that I some time in the future could be able to get files from an old TM backup?
What is this output of ifconfig telling me? Any explanation of the first in particular would be sweet.
I am streaming YouTube to my appleTv and after a few minutes my iPad goes to sleep. I have tried using Mobile Safari to stream and the YouTube app from the iOS app store. Can the auto sleep be turned off while streaming? If so, is it also possible to preserve 2 minute sleep otherwise?
Is there a way to transfer the step data (ideally, total steps per day) from my iPhone to my computer? Thanks!
I was running Mavericks on MacBook Pro (mid 2012 model). I started upgrade to Yosemite. All seemed well on download, and the laptop re-booted to complete the install. The installation screen with OSX logo appears, and progress got to over 90% complete, with "2 minutes remaining" displayed. It remained like that for around 2 hours, before I decided something was likely wrong. I have started the machine a few times, and by default it boots back to try the install again, and stops in the exact same place.
When I booted my Mac last night I got a flashing folder against a gray background. The computer started fine this morning, but when I closed the lid and opened it up again I had to reboot, and now it's persistently in this flashing folder state.
I am unable to upgrade iOS from 7.1.3 to 8.3 on my iPhone 5S. Can I upgrade directly to 8.3 or do I have to do it in stages i.e. from 7.2 onwards?
I'm having a weird problem that just started with my 2012 15" Retina Macbook Pro with Yosemite. The ability to tap and drag using the internal trackpad has stopped working. All the other gestures work just fine, including three finger drag (when I enable it - it's off by default) and two finger scrolling. I can perform the gesture just fine using a wireless Magic Trackpad.
Then I move the same file to my Ubuntu virtual system. Runs it. I got ：
Is there any way to use Xcode on a computer that I don't have admin permissions for? Is there a way to at least use command line tools like git and gcc?
What is the set of things that differentiate one application from another from the point of view of right-click on dock icon -> Options -> Assign To (All Desktops / This Desktop / None)? I've experimented and haven't been able to hit on a combination of actual binary name / Info.plist values / PkgInfo string that will make Mac OS X workspaces think a duplicated application is different from the original for purposes of automatic desktop assignment.
Safari is NOT on my iPhone 6 anywhere. It is not in a folder as I have not put any extra folders on it. I also do not have the use of Spotlight. Cannot figure this out.
In what situations will a message just say delivered but not read? Like if they blocked you number or deleted all messages before opening it. things along those lines?
When I click on the Apple Logo->About This Mac->Storage it says that I have 45GB worth of applications . I downloaded and ran OmniDisk Sweeper it says that it found 22GB worth of files in total . Any ideas how I can find and remove these "applications" and free up disk space?
I'm using a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch 16Gb Processor 2,5 Ghz Intel Core i7 Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 Mb OS: OS X Yoseminte v10.10.2 I'm having a problem with my ram. I think its eating too much rum when I'm not doing anything.. Please find my screenshots attached.
I would like to configure the 'Scaled' property of my Macbook Pro display using the command line. How could I do that?
After reading articles about the state of Truecrypt in February 2015, I decided to download the last stable version of Truecrypt that allows full usage of Truecrypt: that is, version 7.1a 7.2 version that can only be used to view, but no longer to create new, TrueCrypt volumes. see *=URL=* I then proceeded to install this on my Mac, running on Yosemite 10.10 But I got the error message "truecrypt 7.1a requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later", see below.
I recently had to restore my ~/Library/Mail folder from a Time Machine backup, and upon opening Mail it imported the mailboxes seemingly successfully, however my Smart Mailboxes no longer function, despite appearing to be correct. My smart mailboxes aren't anything fancy, they basically just group similar items; for example, if accounts A and B both have an IMAP folder named "Newsletters" then the corresponding smart mailbox simply combines messages that reside in either folder; it's a simple match any rule for each mailbox.
I'm running VMware Fusion on my Apple Macbook Pro (15 inch, Mid 2012, OSX 10.10.2), and have several VM images that are stored on an external USB3 disk (WD Passport). The external disk is fine for regular usage, but the performance difference between running a VM from the external drive compared to running it from the internal SSD is huge. As my SSD is limited in size, I'm unable to host all of my VMs on it, and constantly moving VMs between the external disk and the SSD is quite time-consuming. Here's a screenshot of test using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test software on the USB drive:
I have a Nas with my iTunes library, /Volumes/music is my itunes mediafolder. I created one playlist and today I have something strange for some songs video is a volume on my nas…  + i (information) for this song > name : Dragon II (2013), artist : empty, album : Mozart greatest hit Another mistake (red line is for /.../.../....nfo) :
Dropbox seems to auto-update itself on OS X. Problem is that the latest version of Dropbox doesn't support OS X 10.10.0 which I have to run for compatibility with other apps. I tried re.installing an older version of Dropbox, which then works for a few minutes before it updates itself again. Is there a way to stop Dropbox from updating itself so I can stay with an older version of Dropbox?
Can anybody help me out. I want to create a smartfolder with all my mp3's. I renamed all my mp3's to correct full name. For example:
I would like to be able to connect to my cars dashcam via wifi while in the car but still be able to use my iPhone's cellular connection. The way the dashcam works, it appears as a wifi access point so the phone tries to connect to the Internet through it. How can I be connected to the access point while still using my phones cellular?
I tried to use the ln -s command to create a symbolic link to offload storage onto a separate volume and get the following error: Can't interpret what was illegal about what I did. Can anyone walk me through it.
Whenever I open Messages, enter my credentials, and attempt to login the status indicator spins forever and the application never authenticates me and loads. I had this issue on Mavericks and still have it on Yosemite. I tried removing the frameworks for Messages/iMessage in OS X and even reinstalled the OS from the recovery partition, but nothing works.
Windows keyboards map pretty intuitively to OS X, leaving only the "context menu" button a little purposeless. I would like the menu key to behave as another Command key. How does one define what the "context menu" key on Windows keyboards does in OS X?
I am attempting to print PDF's (and save documents as PDF's) as close to full bleed as possible. Right now I am losing approximately 3/4" in margin left, right, top and bottom. Any way to adjust margins in Preview? I do not see the option to create a custom size paper as I've seen suggested as a work-around. On a related note, it appears that an email that is printed from Mac Mail is first converted to a PDF. Is this correct and is there a different method to print email that will not cut off text top and bottom besides pasting it into a Word document?
I've just recently bought an iPhone with iOS8 last month. I noticed that although iphone has a control center when locked, it doesn't have any way to toggle Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from the notification center, that's available via apps/default in android phones.
I'm a bit stumped. So I was trying to add some MP3s to my iPhone 5 using iTunes and it simply doesn't react to the clicks on the respective symbols anymore. Here's a partial screenshot:
I would like to use Homebrew to install some stuff, In the mean time, I have already installed my local gcc, and I want Homebrew to use this specific one (this gcc at /usr/local/bin/gcc is frequently upgraded by myself). Unfortunately, Homebrew always figure out its gcc dependency, and related libraries, then download them all at /usr/local/Cellar. For instance: On my Mac, which gcc indeed points to /usr/local/bin/gcc, when I brew install suite-sparse, it downloads gcc-4.9.1, while I already have gcc-4.9.2 locally.
I have a hard drive which was encrypted with XTS-AES 128-bit on OS X. I know how long the password is but that's it. How long would it take to decrypt it already knowing this? I have read that in years to come when quantum computers are available it can be broken. Dont comment "never" or "6 billion year" Think outside of the box with advancing technology in years to come. I have memories on here.
I am trying to transfer movies from my linux box to my ipad running iOS 8. I first just mounted the ipad and copied a movie to DCIM/100APPLE where it is sitting with all my other photos and movies taken from the ipad camera. How do I find the movie I copied to play it on the ipad?
My cousin wanted to buy something from the app store. I let her use my account to do so. It asked us to answer security questions but I couldn't remember them. So I tried to reset it but the link to reset my questions ended in .cim instead of .com. So I couldn't send a link to reset them. What should I do?
I switched from the iPhone to a Samsung last May and today decided to charge my old phone to use it as a regular iPod. However, when I turned it on all of my music was gone. The computer I had it back up on crashed last year too so the music on my phone was the only copy. Any ideas on what happened or how I can recover it?
I can't update my apps. I click on the update button and it asks for my Apple ID the just changes back to update. Iv tapped it several times and just goes back to update button. Iv force reset my phone a few times doesn't work either. I don't know what to do because my apps won't let me open them until there updated. Please help?
Messages on Yosemite used to work fine until this morning, repeatedly asking me for my Apple ID password. Months ago I had setup 2 factor authentication for my Apple ID, but it never complained. So I set up an app specific password, Facetime took it no problem, Messages didn't and kept asking for my password. I quit, log out, restart, disable/enable from my phone, nothing works. So I disable 2FA, try again and now Messages gives me a blank window when it starts. Is there any way I can reset it somehow ?
I have OneDrive on my new computer and I have about 50gb to upload using the OneDrive client from the Mac App Store. It scans the files but always hangs after trying to upload a few kilobytes. Any help?
I was in the process of installing Wine on terminal (via Macports), and encountered this hurdle while "computing dependencies": "---> Verifying checksums for xorg-libpthread-stubs Error: org.macports.checksum for port xorg-libpthread-stubs returned: libpthread-stubs-0.3.tar.bz2 does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/xorg-libpthread-stubs Error: Failed to install xorg-libpthread-stubs Please see the log file for port xorg-libpthread-stubs for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_x11_xorg-libpthread-stubs/xorg-libpthread-stubs/main.log"
Mavericks on Macbook Pro Retina A1398 (US keyboard with horizontal Enter) shows Japanese keyboard (JIS, with vertical Enter) on enabled keyboard viewer. How do I make Mavericks to recognize and to show its native US Keyboard layout? I have tried to reset SMC and PRAM with no success. p.s. I have tried changing input sources to U.S. as well - does not change the orientation of return on bluish keyboard on the right - mac OS still thinks I have JIS...
How do you remove Safari 7.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.7.5?
I've been having graphical performance problems with Yosemite since early developer previews. The main expression of this is trying to switch applications. When going from Terminal to Messages or Adium or any other application that has a text entry field, it is readily visible that the app is very slow to respond in allowing the user to actually enter text into the field. There is a 1.5 to 5 second delay each time one switches between such apps. This is not an issue in Mavericks and after having spoken to some other developers, there is a known bug in the Window Manager that is causing some serious performance problems, but I'm not sure if it is this precise problem. Has anyone seen this issue and / or been able to resolve it properly?
I would like to design a simple Automator service that would delete last page from PDF passed via finder. My proposed syntax for the Shell Script is:
I will be installing a new 500GB hard drive in my macbook. It is a late 2008, aluminum, 13-inch screen. Once I install it, how do I get an operating system that's 10.7 or newer (downloaded from the App Store) on to the bare/unformatted drive?
I have two Dell P2715Q 27" external monitors I want to connect to my 15" MacBook Pro 11,3 with OSX 10.10.2 ordered around September 2014. I've tried connecting it as follows: note: tb = thunderbolt, dp = displayport, mdp = mini displayport tb 1 -> Dell P2715Q #1 dp in -> Dell P2715Q #1 dp out -> Dell P2715Q #2 mdp in In this case the two Dell screens will only mirror, and OS X does not seem to recognize that there are actually two displays attached. thunderbolt 1 -> Dell P2715Q #1 displayport in thunderbolt 2 -> Dell P2715Q #2 displayport in In this case one screen will go on, but the other remains black and says there is no signal. I also have an older 1920x1200 Dell display I want to use via HDMI for a total of 3 external displays, but I need to get an HDMI cable plus the first two screens working first.
I am having a hard time finding an adapter from Thunderbolt to two separate (not mirroring) VGA outputs. You would imagine that if it is designed to do that Mac would make an Adapter for that very application. Any one have any suggestions? I am using a Mac Pro if that helps at all.
I'm in a root Finder and trying to delete Google Chrome.app in another user's folder. I get the error message The item “Google Chrome” can’t be moved to the Trash because some of its plugins are in use The other user is logged out, and there are no running processes of it associated with any user
I have an early-2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.2 (also Windows 7 Professional on a Boot Camp partition), and recently upgraded my hard drive to a 500GB SSD (Crucial MX100). The speed is amazing, but I don't want to load too much data onto the drive since TRIM cannot be enabled in Yosemite without disabling kext signatures (I'm utilizing the disk garbage collection and do not wish to enable TRIM; the more disk space available, the better the garbage collection firmware works on the SSD).
Ok so I'm trying to work with swift on XCode but every time I start to run my code I get this Thread 1 Queue: com.apple.main-thread(serial)
The name "Deepali Goal" has appeared on my Itunes. It is in a tab shaped like a house. When I click on this I have an option for My Library or Deepali Goal's Library. What does this mean??
My graphics memory (4gb) is getting eaten up by my 3 or 4 apps that are open. Is there any way to allow the graphics card to use free RAM instead of swap memory? The second the graphics card dips into swap my system gets really slow even though my memory pressure is only 10%. Thanks!
I have a jailbroken iPhone 6,but I've been using it for 1 month and I decided I didn't want to anymore so I went on settings and erased all content and data but it made my screen stuck on the boot logo and loading bar ,what should I do?
My Mac Pro 3, 1 began rebooting randomly one day and the next it wouldn't come back on. Pushing the power button results in a fan clicking in to life for half a second and then all power is lost. The RAM board LEDs and Diagnostic LEDs OT A and OT B both flash momentarily. When the diagnostic button is pressed on the logic board the Trickle Power LED lights orange.
For years I've been sharing Internet on my MacBookPro Wi-Fi coming from USB connected iPhone. After OSX 10.10 Yosemite things started working erratically and now definitely stopped in 10.10.2. Hardware connection: iPhone->USB->MacBook Pro (hotspot/tethering active, Internet is working on MBP) Sharing preferences: "share USB iPhone to computers using Wi-Fi" Now I'm not getting the usual "arrow up" icon instead of WiFi on the menubar and sharing is not working.
I am currently reading a few websites in European languages (Spanish, Italian, German and French), and I'd like to be able to quickly translate words that I don't know (not the entire articles, which is why I don't want to use Chrome's translation). I know there's a "define" feature, and it is nice, but it only gives definitions in the same languages as the word of interest, so it is not exactly useful for someone unfamiliar with the language.
I copied "Dead Island" to HDD from DMG file and it showed a "prohibited" icon instead of the game icon (2nd row, icon in the middle). I had to kill/restart Finder to solve it, but would like to know what is the cause for this and how can I prevent it from happening again?
I am using tikona broadband internet and they usually have a 5 IP address restriction. I managed to by pass that by using a linksys router WRT120N . I setup the router to distribute IP addresses as 192.168.1.2-20. However, when i am connecting my new time capsule, it seems to distribute IPs from DHCP as 10.x.x.2 onwards only. How do i set up the time capsule so that it takes 10.x.x.x a its IP from DHCP and distributes over the network IPs as 192.168.1.X onwards? That is also needed so that i will not have to login on each individual device with the ISP username and password on their website.
I keep getting notification of missed facetime from an email address, they come 2 notfications at the time. I've tried blocking the caller, but it's not a caller it's an email. how can I stop this
What are the drawbacks of updating my iPhone 4s to the latest iOS? What are the advantages? With my phone plan, I cannot get the newest iPhone yet.
I am very new to coding, especially to using an IDE like XCode. I have a finished app that I'm done compiling and testing it within XCode itself. I wish to create a file that the user would double-click to run. How do I get my program out of Xcode as a self-standing application?
I would like the following behaviour of the Safari PDF Download button: On clicking the PDF download button by moving the pointer to the bottom of a pdf/ps, the file is downloaded to the Downloads/ folder. Instead, I would like that to work as a "Save As" button so that I can save the pdf by a different name and in a location I prefer. I know there is Cmd-S but I would like to use this as an opportunity to learn about Apple Scripts if that kind of idea can be used to solve this problem.
In iTunes, in Artists view, after I've used Command+L to go to the track currently playing, how do I exit and go back to showing All Artists? I currently have to scroll to the top of the Artists list (on the sidebar) and click "All Artists" every time. Is there an easier way?
I installed a new keyboard then deleted it now I've lost all my emoji off my standered keyboard just got a-z 0-9 #+= Someone help please?
Just got this Kernel panic report. Any thoughts on next steps or ideas to fix?...
Since a few days, an app called qlmanage seems to show up on my Dock as a running app constantly. Have tried restarting, but it shows up again. The app has no window, and clicking on its icon on the dock seems to does nothing. Trying to quit the app has no effect either. It seems to be part of OS X ( https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/qlmanage.1.html)
I know I must be missing something obvious or completely silly but I'm at my wits end. I haven't been able to find anyone explaining this issue via Google (Or I'm just having a bad day for searching). Can anyone point me toward what I'm probably overlooking or just totally missing?
So if i have "Program A" open and click on "Program B"... "Pro A" windows minimize and i get "Program B"... if i click on the "Prog A" dock icon... "Prog B" windows minimize! Please help. I have tried changing the Mission Control settings but this is infuriating.
In OSX, how do I have a true full screen? When I go to full screen mode, the tab and navigation bar are still showing. Those toolbars are annoying when I try to watch a movie, etc. This is the shot of the top of the screen: EDIT: I realized this may apply to other browsers such as Safari
For the majority of PDFs I view in Safari, they are opened in-line, which is what I want. For example, these all open in Safari: MSP430F665x Data Sheet MCP1700 Data Sheet BAT54 /A /C /S Data Sheet
There are a whole bunch of IP-addresses that list specific gateways. I checked some of those IP-addresses, and they are related to the network that I use the VPN for. Does the fact that the first default is my own modem/router mean that in fact not all internet traffic passes through the VPN?
I have an iCloud account out that there that is attached to an email address that is no longer working. So I cannot do a password reset, because that email address is not working. So I cannot re-set it.
This is probably something simple but its driving me crazy... I was just able to build my first automator workflow, which is quite basic and uses the Subtitles application to download subtitles for movies in a specific folder. The Actions are: Get Folder Contents > Filter Finder Items (to only movie files) > Open finder item with the Subtitle app It works fine when I execute the workflow from within Automator because it has a "Folder Action receives files and folders added to:" clause in the beginning which tells which folder to use. However, I want to save that as an application so I can schedule that on iCal but, when I save as an app, the clause which tells the folder is no longer available and looks like I need to pass the folder name as a parameter/argument and I have no idea on how to do that. So, what I need guidance is on how to have the app executed in iCal while telling it which folder to use. Thanks in advance...
Is there a way to hide the subject field of messages which appear in the top right corner of the screen when I receive an iMessage on my computer? I know there is a way to hide it on messages that come to my iPhone. Is there a way to do the same on Mac OS X?
I want to download the latest iOS version for offline restore for my iPhone 4. I want to know what is the latest iOS version and how can I download it?
Are the apps like TextWrangler sandboxed when I download them from the OS X appstore?
I get the following message when I try to open mail 'You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS x You have Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085). It can't be used on Mac OS X version 10.6.8 )build 10k549)' I have read the help info I have made sure Mail.app is in the application folder Thanks for any help with this
I want to leave my AirPort Extreme (version 76400.10) at one end of my house, and use my iMac with Internet Sharing activated at the other end of the house. Ideally, I would be able to walk around the house with my phone and seamlessly connect to whichever access point has the better signal. I was told this could be done if both networks have the same network name and password, but I'm having trouble setting it up. I have both Airport and iMac set up with the same WEP password (WPA not available on iMac internet sharing). Still my phone insists that there are two separate networks and doesn't magically stay connected to the internet as I walk around without manually switching.
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When I have an application that I use the contextual menu for 'Show in Finder' it opens finder, but it always opens it in the 1st space, never in the current space i'm in. For example, I have Xcode in space 3 always, and when I right click and show item in finder it opens the finder window in Space 1 always, same across all other applications and instances. Even worse, it doesn't autonomically teleport to the 1st space I have to manually do it. I'm running 3 monitors which makes it a little more aggrevating Heres my settings : Altering any of the group choices etc don't have any effect. I would love to have it open in the active or current space i'm in.
I uninstalled Google chrome by deleting it from the Applications folder and I also deleted the associated profile data from ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome But I have failed to remove all the chrome apps icons from launchpad.
Why there is no way to share a photo to whatsapp or evernote? Is this whatsapp and evernote faults? Or Apple's programmers fault? This is only possible if you give the app access to ALL of your photos. You just want to share one. To Facebook it's possible. In android this is beautiful. Why iOS has to be like this?
I recently did a clean install of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on my MacBook Air. I was making a credit card payment on the Barclaycard website and received a dialog window saying ""Safari" would like to control this computer using accessibility features."
I am facing very sluggish performance in my MacBook Pro after I upgraded it to Yosemite. Mine is 8GB, i7 mid 2012 system. Usually I find my unused RAM <25MB even if I work in terminal, say around 8 Safari tabs open (excluded fb) and some light-weight programming editor open.
I have had my macbook air for 2 and 1/2 years now. Is this a normal time for the battery to be needing a replacement?
Is there any way that connections are blocked by the System? This also happens for some other applications on different ports and servers.
I am still a beginner with using terminal. I am trying to ssh from my mac at home to a linux at my university. I am using VPN to connect to the network. When I ping the IP address of the computer I want to connect to it responds. I can connect when I am on campus, but not when I'm off. When I try ssh -v username@IP this is what I get: Running traceroute gives Any help would be much appreciated.
I understand in Microsoft Excel you would use the format string $#.##,," M" so that 12,271,359 would appear as 12.27M I am alittle confused with the Numbers app on Mac (the excel equivalent) and I do not have Excel on Mac. Thanks!
My FileVault says that I have to wait for 43 days for it to finish optimizing something. As soon as I launch any application it stops working. So the only time that I can dedicate for the FileVault to finish optimizing is 8-12 hours of night which makes 43 days in reality 86 days. The readings are always jumping, one time you might see 3532 days remaining but never goes below 20 days. On the other hand when working on battery it eats up my battery power of which I'm being informed by clicking on battery and looking through the list of "Apps using significant energy"
When I put a scheduled reminder with a daily repeat mode, it won't dismiss. It keeps on showing and just changes the date to the next day. Is this a bug or a feature?
Problem with mac is that it allows space character at end of file or folder. If this file or folder with space character in end is beeing copied to FTP using Filezilla or Dropbox then mac makes folders with "Foldername_WhiteSpaceConflict" To get rid of this problem all files and folders with space character needs to be renamed without space character. What solution could be the best using terminal or some program?
External 3 TB disk. Stopped working after a power bump. GPT reports as follows: This looks normal. Repeating this makes no change. DiskUtil reports as follows:
Just yesterday I finally got my hands on a MacBook Pro in which I was planning to install Ubuntu and Windows aside from OS X for studying purposes. I was barely beginning by partitioning the disk, or at least attempting to do so and found myself not being able to take advantage of most functions of Disk Utility like in the picture below:
Macbook Pro 2009 with 500 GB HDD and 4G RAM running Yosemite. Been slow last couple of years or so. Got 30 GB left out of 500 GB hard drive. Opening an app can take minutes and dozens of icon bounces. I shutdown and restart quite often, and run CleanMyMac once a month or so. Those actions only temporarily help before the beachball comes back again. Would replacing my HDD with a new one speed laptop up like new? I though of replacing with SSD but ilthose are still quite expensive. Thank you Edit: Apps I run almost everyday: Safari Word Excel Mail Transmission Apps I sometimes run (maybe once a month or less): Photoshop Lightroom
I am using the iCloud Drive, and sometimes the name of an app folder is too clumsy and too long to own a place on the Finder sidebar. Per the previous attempts by others, the Finder sidebar uses only the original folder name, but ignore the alias name for all its items. So using alias isn't a viable approach to workaround the name of app containers.
I was playing around with Apple's Testflight lately. Everything works fine, I can upload and test my app internally. However, I stumbled about something curious while looking into it.
I am trying to use the Audio MIDI Setup program to aggregate two USB Sennheiser PC8 stereo headsets so I can use both simultaneously on Skype calls and GarageBand recordings. So far I am only able to use one at a time by deselecting the other USB device under the newly created aggregate device. How can I get both two work at the same time!? Thanks! Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 13in Macbook Air Mid-2012 Sennheiser USB PC8 Headsets (http://en-de.sennheiser.com/usb-pc-headset-stereo-pc-8-usb)
My goal is when I message someone for first time it always displays my phone number. How can I control this from my iphone5s?
I want to import photos I made on an iPhone to a MacBook so that I can, firstly, keep a copy on the phone (to be able to quickly show photos to someone), and, secondly, to be able to delete photos from one device and get those photos deleted on the other. In other words, I want the photos synchronised between these devices. I tried to: Import photos with iPhoto via cable — it works, but the photos are not synced, just copied;
In my case, I have an unsigned kext that I'm willing to trust, but I also like the idea of the safety net only loading signed kexts provides in the general case. I'd rather specifically allow this one that I trust rather than just turn off verification wholesale with the dev mode boot option. ALTERNATIVELY
Is there a way to initiate a FaceTime call but block my identity from the person I'm making the call to? Reason: my daughter has lost her privilege to use FaceTime, but I looked at her Apple account a few minutes ago and it said that her iPhone was using FaceTime at the moment. I want to find out if she is, in fact, breaking the rules. Thank you.
I would like Mail on Yosemite to load remote content from senders in my contacts and not for everyone else. I have remote content disabled now and I have pieced together an AppleScript to click the button but it doesn't seem to be working. Here's what I have: This script is hooked into a rule in mail were that script is supposed to run when "sender is in contacts"
Is there any free SSH GUI client for Mac OS X? Coming from Windows I would be happy with something as simple as Putty. Features: Free Connection Manager SSH tunnel support Yosemite ready (and retina pretty) Currently active (development not dead) Support for private key authentication I’m aware of similar questions posted here but I haven’t found a good alternative covering the requirements in items 2, 3, 4 and 5.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina which had a cup of tea spilled on it. The machine works perfectly except for the 3 key which is not responding. I've taken it in to an Apple Authorised Repair Centre who said they needed to replace the keyboard, battery etc to fix it at a cost of £600. Is there any other way to get this single key working for less than £600?
Is there any software out there that will allow me to remotely control my phone from a windows 8 computer? Either through Bluetooth, WiFi or direct cable connection? Something like AirPlay but with the ability to actually use the phone from the computer, make calls, use applications, play music and so on.
I have an iPhone 5s that ATT will not unlock. Can I make calls via WiFi if the SIM card is still in it but I have no cell carrier? Phone is at IOS 8.1.3.
Ive seen this popup a few times in my internet tracking. So, what is Apple using this url for? What happens if I block it?
Is there any way I can set up a keyboard shortcut to move full screen apps (i.e., desktops) between my main display and my external display in OS X 10.10? I know about tools like BetterSnapTool, but it looks like it doesn't support moving full screened windows between displays. I also tried TotalSpaces and SizeUp, but unless I missed something, no dice there either. My problem is that I have several full screened VMs from VMWare, and every time I unplug and plug in my external display, they move from my external display to my main display, and it's a pain to drag them all back every time.
My husband and I share one log-in account, with our own Mac pop mail account. When someone sends an email to both our email addresses, it goes to his mailbox, but not mine, even though my address is also in the "To" space.
My first Bluetooth headphones ever (Amazon) just arrived today, and they work great on tests in YouTube and QuickTime, but for some reason, when I moved files to the Trash (and out again via Undo), the sound effects played at full volume out of the computer's built-in speakers. I've replicated this several times, and the issue persists even after relaunching Finder. As I was writing this, the "new email" notification sound just played out of the computer's speakers too! How can I fix this? I'm on an early 2011 13" MBP with an upgraded AirPort card to support Bluetooth LE (gotten for Continuity support), running OS X 10.10.2.
We bought a used iPhone 4s and couldn't activate because it was still linked to the original owner. We contacted him and copied/pasted how to deactivate and deleted the phone from his account. He went into his account and it doesn't show up there any more. What do we do now?
Is there a way to combine two versions of the same Word for Mac 2011 into one document? I have multiple revisions with comments from co-authors and would like to combine the documents with comments into one document.
I am trying to change percentage symbol on charts in Apple Keynote. Keynote automatically put % symbol before numbers. Is there any way to change/set it as after number? Thank you!
I have 3 groups on a slide that I want to highlight 1 at a time. Is there a good way to do this? My slide has a gradient background so putting a rectangle over the objects and faking it mucking with their transparency doesn't seem like a good approach.
When importing, in iMovie 10.0.6, a video and then exporting (using the "Share" button) as a file, I realised that the new file is much bigger than the original (about 10 times bigger). My question is how to export the file to original size (or equivalent) (i.e. using the same codecs I guess). Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
I have iTunes 12 and it will not play albums in order - just one song at a time. I have tried all kinds of things to fix this. Something I noticed is that none of the songs are checked any more and I don't know what that means.
As of a few days ago, some Safari webpages (the first and most frequently-occurring of which was Facebook's News Feed) would start loading but then freeze up. I went into Activity Monitor, and while it did say that Safari Web Content wasn't responding, it also said that Flash Player (Safari web plugin) wasn't responding. Force Quitting the Safari Web Content didn't do anything; the page just reloaded and froze up again, but when I forced Flash Player to quit, the misbehaving webpage refreshed and worked perfectly. After several more instances of the problem I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash Player, and the problem happened again.
Is there any way to move a window to another workspace by a key combination? For example, in Ubuntu I can do that by "Ctrl+Shift+->" if I recall correctly. In mac - only by mouse? It's not convenient.
It shows up sometimes and I lose my 4g and go straight to that and have no connection, how do I get rid of it?
In OS X 10.10.2 the Finder's Preview function is not working. If I select some image or pdf files I cannot see file's preview and only see wait logo. How can I fix these error?
Am I allowed to use in my iOS app a prepay system, where user can upload bitcoin to use in-app premium services? I want to avoid pay 30% for Apple.
There will be many Safari browsers running in my machine. I want to execute the some javascript commands on specific Safari using the PID's. I have the code in applescript for it here:
I have been having an Internet-related problem on my iPhone 5S for a while now. It started out with seemingly random Internet disconnection even when there is a perfectly good cellular (4G) or WiFi signal shown on my device. For instance, no emails or messages (like Whatsapp or iMessage) are being pushed to my device, or when I try to search something on the mobile browser, it shows that there is no Internet. One thing I noticed is that when I do a search on a mobile browser, it seems to load for a long time (more than 10 seconds), only to return a 'No Internet' message.
I am using Mac OS X 10.9 and I am trying to update my keychain password. I have just changed some Facebook password so that now when I log into Facebook, the password that is put by my Mac OS X system is the older one. How can I update my keychain password ?
My computer is a iMac (20-inch, Mid 2007). The model identifier is iMac7,1. The processor name is Intel Core 2 Duo, which means I have a 64 bit machine. The Apple web site Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems shows the only downloadable Boot Camp support software for my Mac is for the 32 bit version of Windows 7. I can successfully install the 64 bit DVD installation versions of Windows 7 and 8 on my machine. The problem I am having is with the Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033. When I follow the instructions and double click on setup.exe, I get the following popup.
Keeping hidden files hidden, how can I see content inside hidden directories using Finder tags. I can assign a tag to directory A, but it does not show in Finder when I list all tag-tagged content. Is this possible? EDIT: I was able to successfully retrieve any content inside directories like Documents, even if those directories have been deliberately hidden via chflags hidden <FILENAME>. This is not too bad, but it would be useful if I could add tags to some of the contents inside .directories to quickly access them via the GUI, but without turning hidden files on. EDIT2: This could help some people, but it's not quite exactly what I want to accomplish. EDIT3: The first answer here also helps, but I was hoping I could use tags instead of dragging a directory to the sidebar.
I'm using iPhone 4. Recently I have reset my iPhone settings. After that the cellular data doesn't work and I cannot connect to the internet at all although it shows 3G. Before I reset the settings, it worked well.
Either I'm being stupid (probably true) or there is hadly any documentatio to address the question: How can I distribute an Enterprise Mac app which uses MapKit?
This maybe a little silly question but I am very confused executing pkgutil in shell I get the above tells me version 6.1 and gcc version in shell tells
I have created an OS X application and signed it with my Developer ID. I archived the application and then just exported it as Application and here it is working fine. But, when I exported it as Package installer it had an issue.
I'm using the philips SHB7000 bluetooth headphones with my MacBook. They paired fine, but the audio quality over bluetooth was terrible. I remember having this issue on my previous macbook, and promptly found that the preferences for BluetoothAudioAgent need to be adjusted:
OS X 10.10, Yosemite Xcode 6.1.1 Downloaded the library from xiph.org/downloads I tried .configure: …and then make: Any pointer is most welcome.
I'm trying to find out when I last installed a specific app on my iPhone. I know the app's name but I'm trying to find out when I last installed it.
I am trying to use XCode as my training environment for simple C++ programs. If I create a new project, I can successfully complete everything (compile, run) but If I add one more file, it can't compile as a separate one. That means that I need to have a main2() and a main3() etc. because having 2 files with two main() in the same folder lead to an error. In simple words, I want to write code for 30 C++ examples, each one in its own .cpp file and compile every one of them separately and not as a whole project (all files together that If there are two functions of the same name, it will crash).
Apple newbie here. I tried to update OSX from Mavericks to Yosemite. The downloading failed. It showed me a message saying "an error occurred". So what I did is to search on google what were the recommendation. I followed this video tutorial to reset the download again here. After doing that the message was gone although the button now turns to just "Download".
I was fooling around with iPhone 6 plus and found that when you place finger twice on finger scanner or rotate your finger on the scanner the currently running app or the menu views move down to half for the screen.  I'm not worried of this behavior but I am curious why such thing is happening.
I am connected to an old NETGEAR smart-switch which only supports IGMPv2. It doesnt route multicast traffic to my mac because it joins the group using IGMPv3. I tried this: but it doesn't work - OSX still sends out IGMPv3 packets (confirmed with wireshark). Is there a way of forcing IGMPv2? Im using Yosemite (10.10.2), in case that makes a difference.
Most of my songs on my iPhone are ripped from CDs. In this case, song information like artist name are typed by myself, saved and synced well to my iPhone through iTunes but some cases, the information is automatically changed then saved. I'm perfectly sure it's the songs from artists that i've purchased from iTunes before. For example, if I ripped songs then put the artist name with all capitalized like "KING CRIMSON", and sync to my iPhone, it shows me the exact same artist name. But if the songs were from artist that I purchased before from iTunes, then the artist name capitalized is changed as uppercase remained only on first letter automatically during sync process (e.g., "BEATLES" → "Beatles") The point is that even songs ripped, not purchased from iTunes are changed, too if the artist's songs were once purchased before. See screenshots below—first one is song information ripped from CD (you can see artist name all capitalized) and second one is captured image from my iPhone (art
With the recent Yosemite software update (I updated on 23rd February 2015) the cool 'bubble' sound that the volume keys made when pressed is now gone and replaced with a different sound. How do I get the old one back?
I followed the instructions here: Stop TextEdit to iCloud Save However, after a period of time, Textedit reverts back to blocking when I try to open or save a file. How do I stop Textedit from doing this once and for all?
Running Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C109). The icons in the Dock cannot be dragged. When I click on an icon, it darkens, but then moving the mouse simply removes the focus on the icon. I cannot move the icons around, or off of the icon bar. Things I have tried: - killing Dock process - deleting/moving preference files - restarting
When Presenting a powerpoint I tried to minimize the PP and go online to demo. The site comes up on my Laptop but not on the projection. That only displays the home screen.
I am using Apple Numbers and find it frustrating that cell arguments containing empty text (and sometimes contain numbers from other sheets) are not converted to a number of value 0, when referenced by a function that expects a numeric value. For example, a function in cell: with J5 being empty, yields an error message So I tried to encase J5 with VALUE(J5), and got another message: Is there an efficient way to treat all spaces as 0 for the countless cells that may have that situation?
With a trackpad, one can do a pinch and see all open tabs. It's a very nice interface and really well done. The thing is, with this feature, there is really no need for the tab bar, and things would look a lot cleaner without it. Yet Apple doesn't seem to give us the ability to hide it when more than one tab is open. Does anyone know any hacks to hide it?
I just finished building my PC. It has no optical drive but I made a bootable usb with my iMac. When I plugged it in my PC motherboard recognized it, I chose to boot from the USB but it takes to me a blank screen.
My Macbook Pro (Yosemite) early 2011 sometimes unexpectedly turns off when running heavy tasks on battery power. Is there a way to confirm this is because of overheating?
I noticed Mavericks prefers the DNS server to /etc/hosts (scutil --dns). There used to be a good 'ol "order hosts,bind". Is there anything equivalent for Mavericks so my hosts file is consulted before reaching out to the DNS server? Thanks.
I don't want to waste tens of gigabytes of space on my laptop to store apps that I can just as easily download from the App Store. Assuming I would have to recover an iPhone backup from iTunes to a brand new replacement iPhone, what will I lose if I don't agree to transfer purchases when making the backup?
I bought a refurbished 13" Macbook Pro (late 2013 model retina) from the Apple store website in Sept 2014. It worked great till last month, when I had some water leak out in backpack and get through the ports in the Macbook.
I have a late-2009 iMac with Yosemite 10.10.2. Recently, I've noticed that some system fonts randomly become blurry, as though there's a problem with the anti-aliasing. This affects: The OS X Menu bar The right-click context menu The side-bar in the Finder window Etc. In this screenshot - you can see how the text in my browser window looks sharp, but the right-click context menu items are blurry:
Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically bulk remove punch holes from scanned PDFs? It should really do its job mostly autonomously since it will be used on a few hundred pages. It should be compatible with Yosemite (10.10.2).
As stated in the title some keys don't work when trying to input my password into the Yosemite login screen. The weird thing is that if my mouse isn't plugged in (Razer Naga) when I turn on my Macbook Pro the issue doesn't occur and if I restart my Macbook Pro, even with the mouse plugged in, then everything works as expected. Anytime the Mac is restarted in the keyboard works as expected on the login screen but when powering the Mac on it doesn't.
Every so often my MacBook Pro starts getting very intermittent network connectivity. I have a Virgin Media SuperHub. Pinging my router gives me lots of request timeouts: Sometimes the timeouts last only a few pings sometimes many. Through experimentation I've found that flushing the arp cache using
Reading the upgrade instructions for Yosemite, I see that "Some features require an Apply ID; terms apply." However, I haven't managed to figure out what features this pertains to.
You have an audio book consisting of multiple CDs. In addition to joining the tracks on each CD, you want to merge the CDs. If it's a small book of only a few CDs, then you might want to merge all CDs into one CD. If it's a big book, then you might want to merge (for example) the first 10 CDs into "Part 1"; the next 10 CDs into "Part 2"; and so on. How do you do it in iTunes 12 on a PC?
How do you delete all inbox mail messages in iPad iOS 8.1.3? It doesn't support prior move tricks many have posted as a method since it is unresponsive to the Trash target mailbox if you use the 'move all' trick.
Hardware: Mac mini (Late 2009) OS: Yosemite 10.10.2 Problem: cannot read CDs/DVDs, either by internal drive or external drive. ...
When trying to open either Word or Excel, I get an error saying Microsoft Word (or Excel) cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Microsoft Word works with this version of OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and OS X. I believe the two applications update in the background occasionally, but they were working fine until mid-last week.
Given a font that is advertised as having multiple styles of numerals (text figures and lining numerals), presumably via OpenType, is there a way to use the alternative numeral styles in Mac OS X in general, or maybe within an app like Pages specifically?
The audio sent to the person I'm talking to is very faint when using my USB audio headset and Google Hangouts, even if I turn the level up high in System Preferences. In Skype, everything is normal. What could be going on? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) 10.10.2 Plantronics .Audio 478 Stereo USB Headset Chrome update: it seems that refreshing window (essentially re-joining the hangout) causes the correct mic to be detected.
When both better touch tool and three finger drag are activated, the three finger drag becomes unresponsive sometimes. The issue is resolved by restarting better touch tool, but it occurs again around a half day after.
i have an iphone 4s. some of my apps where installed with my original apple id from years ago. at some point apple required/changed everyone to use email as their apple id. Now when i try and back up my phone it asks for password, but it never succeeds because of the mismatched appleids. i cannot complete a backup in itunes. anyone elese run into this issue?
I am trying to restore a new SSD I placed into my MBP using a Time Machine backup on an external HD. In order to do this, I read I need to be able to go into recovery mode as I boot my system up. To do this, I am supposed to press ⌘ Command R at startup. This is not working.
I'm trying to run Javascript on the Safari, whose frontmost is true. But I get an error like this: where I'm making mistake?
folks. I'm incredibly new to AppleScript...just starting to open up my world to coding, and thought I'd start here. (I did BASIC back in high school. haha)
Does anyone know of any software that will allow me to send a pdf from my iMac to iPhone 5 when I have no internet please?
I have a server running on my iMac (port 8000) and I want my iPad to be able to visit it through the local network so I set this rule using pf anchors (hence ipfw is gone). It doesn't work, what am I missing? file: /etc/pf.anchors/com.test enable the command: Visiting my iMac's IP-address from the iPad 192.168.1.1 gives me an unreachable message (Safari) From my iMac all seems OK:
When you copy or move files in the Finder in Yosemite and there is a conflict, a small dialog box pops up proposing: (or "skip" if you press option). However, I can't find any way to choose one of the options with the keyboard.
I need a tool that will allow backups of specific folders to a remote Windows Share. The Macs connect via SMB or CIFS, meaning AFAIK rsync is out of the question. I only need it to backup on folder, but having it automatic would be preferable.
As I sort through thousands of MP3 files in iTunes, I notice that I have many files that are DRM and "Purchased By" another Apple ID (that I have no access to). How would you locate those MP3 files, searching for the name in the Purchased By field?
I was about to buy a Thunderbolt Display thinking that I'll be able to connect my existing Dell 2713hm to it, so that when I connect the Thunderbolt to my rMBP, everything would just work. But as I recently discovered, based on this document, where it says: This Thunderbolt port is not compatible with DVI, VGA, or DisplayPort displays or adapters. probably means that it's not gonna be possible.
I have two versions of emacs on my machine. One came preinstalled and I have just installed a newer version with homebrew.
I got this error with everyday tasks. I tried verifying disk, permission. fsck -fy - files has been modified, then disk is ok. I repaired keychain.
But I don't want to manually add these drives every time I log in or restart the Mac. So I add these network drives to "System Preferences->Users and Groups->My Name->Login Items" by simply dragging their icons from the Desktop to the item window.
Once I get the Text Box working, I then need to be able to quickly replicate the Text Boxes for the various sections of the cheatsheet. I am hoping I can simply copy/paste more of them into the document and resize them as needed.
How to remove the camera button on the iPhone lock screen without removing the camera from the springboard I don't want to allow people without access to take pictures using my phone (pictures are shared automatically by iCloud) But in the same time, I want to be able to use the camera from the springboard. I'm searching for a native solution under iOS 8.x or later
If I use that green button to maximize a window  it will enter full screen mode and move my window to a new "virtual" display to the right (those which you can switch by swiping with three fingers on the touchpad). If I click the green button again, it will leave fullscreen mode and move back to the initial display. I'm wondering if there's a way to make the fullscreen application stay on the same display it used to be before maximizing (or even better to disable multiple displays per monitor at all).
Running the Macbook6,1 with Yosemite installed. I have my macbook set up so that when it powers on, it automatically logs into my account. When I boot up my macbook, it goes to the log in window and shows my desktop background all blurred (like it is meant to) and attempts to log me in. After that, the screen just goes black and my cursor remains on screen.
At the moment i'm trying to switch from Outlook to Apple Mail / Cal.app and would like to know if anyone here has found a way to batch import Calendar events consistently from CSV files. The usual CSV -> Google -> iCal route is not what i'm looking for. Maybe an alternative (calendar) app for the Mac?
I've remapped Caps Lock to F19 in Seil. In Karabiner, I've remapped F19 to Hyper. Now, I'm trying to get Hyper remapped to be mouse scroll when used with HJKL. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? (For reference, I also have the following in my private.xml file for making Control-HJKL arrow keys)
I have a username@me.com email address that I've had since around 2011. All of a sudden, about two weeks ago, I've stopped getting replies from people. Turns out that my emails—including responses to an already-ongoing thread—are ending up in people’s SPAM and Junk folders.
How do I add a hidden administrator user to my Mac if possible? I don't want it to show up on the login screen.
Or by chance does anyone have any good idea on how to create custom login window backgrounds and user backgrounds to work on any type of Mac with any resolution? (Just like the OS does when you select "Fit to Screen" in System Preferences) Thanks!
When I click on GetInfo, here is what I see  And I can wait for a long time but never get an estimate of the size of this directory. I tried to estimate its size via the Terminal: I tried to delete .Trashes but I get this window popping up
A contact is receiving download photo notifications I'm not actually sending that are empty after they are clicked. Whats causing this? Is my phone spamming some body?
I never realised any advantage of having that feature turned on, nor turned off. How can educate myself about what it does so that I can choose whether to turn it on or off either for the entire system or for specific applications?
On Yosemite in current Chrome (and random other places, but let's try to just solve it in Chrome), if i selection some text (say the "sk differ" in "ask different"), then hold shift and press right arrow, it will expand the selection to include the next character to the right (selection becomes "sk differe"). If i then press left arrow, i'd like the selection to (again) become "sk differ". Instead, in some apps (at least Chrome), it becomes "ask differe". So it seems that it will only expand the selection, so pressing either arrow key only grows the corresponding end of the selection. How can i make it so that it selects from a caret position that is at either end of the selection (NOT both)?
Why does the iMac display show non-zero values for blue and green pixels for a .png image whose blue and green color planes are zero? I used the digital color meter to show the non-zero values for the blue and green pixels and I confirmed that the .png file has zero values in the blue and green color planes by using python scripts to inspect the array values.
I'm using the Mailbox for Mac app. (It's the latest version, which is 0.4.0 at the time I'm posting this.) When I type names into the recipients field, it shows me some names (I assume they're names in my gmail contacts, but I'm not sure).
I have two MacBooks, one with a fresh OS X install and one with an older install. The older one has a kernel_task taking 1.52 GB of RAM. The newer one—416 MB. These aren't identical machines or anything, but I am curious about the magnitude of the discrepancy and what contributes to it. Is there any way to inspect what comprises the kernel_task footprint, ideally without needing to experimentally uninstall various applications/services at a time? I did try:
I am wondering if there is a downside to using multiple mail and calendar apps on my iOS device? Specifically the iOS devices come with apple provide apps for both, but I have found 3rd party apps that work better for me. If I have both (Apple's app as well as the 3rd party app) configured, am I doubling the amount of data & memory I am using on the iOS device?
Once you type the text to be searched on the omnibox, it is replaced by a long URL, e.g. *=URL=* Then, if you want to select some of the previous text, tap and hold will not work. Is there other alternative?
I use it regularly to clean my rmbp screen, and I've noticed a small scratch on the black panel few days ago, I thought it might be because I've used tap water or it was there and I didn't notice it. Now I used it to clean a second hand iPhone. I bought before putting a protective guard on, and after I cleaned it I noticed small scratches and I don't know if they were there or not (the seller had it for about 3 years, so it could have had scratches and I didn't see them because the screen wasn't clean). Is the cloth microfiber and is it ok to use it to clean screens?
I recently discovered this nice little spotlight feature in that you can convert a number of bytes into a human readable format. E.g you can type 2147483648 bytes and it will give the corresponding number of "gibibytes" in the preview window. (I think it's documented somewhere that it can do conversions "like" calculator, but the standard calculator doesn't have a conversion for bytes, so this feature seems to be undocumented).
Is there a way to prevent TextEdit from changing the file extension on a file that I open it with, or at least prompt me? Example: Open somefilename.yyy Save becomes somefilename.rtf I have looked through TextEdit preferences without finding a setting.
How to properly uninstall The reason to uninstall it is that it is incompatible with Homebrew.
I have problem with zsh at command line for non English language characters but after enter key the language show the right word. i was check the locale everything is utf8
I bought an iphone 5 off kijiji and was able to restore it however the previous owner still had it connected to itunes therefore am unable to use it. Hiw do I completely wipe phone clean nd start fresh creating my own itunes account
Recently, I upgraded to µTorrent 1.8.7 and found that it has annoying ad in the side bar which was not present in the earlier version. Can someone explain that how can I stop the ads?
When releasing to the App Store after using iTunes Connect Testflight beta testing, what's a good way to ensure that external testers get cleanly upgraded to the official App Store version? Specifically:
I'm looking to write a script which outputs a list of all the window titles of all the currently running programs. Is there any way to do this with AppleScript? I tried running the following code: I put it in a file called lawl.scpt and then ran the following in the Terminal: However, it just pauses for a few seconds, then exits without outputting anything.
Is it possible to share multiple contacts in a similar fashion to the way that you would share a single contact from contacts.app? Specifically is there a way to expediently share the list as well as, once received, add the list to the contacts.app on the other persons phone?
As the arrows point, the little blue points before Evernote and MS OneNote.
I've Java 1.8 installed on my Mac OS Yosemite... and Terminal shows the following: But SQL Developer still starts with some older Java 1.7 and complains... how can I fix this?
I'm looking for an app suite of iOS and Mac apps for editing RTF files (originally created with TextEdit) and which allow sharing the files through iCloud. I considered getting the WriteToGo suite of apps. This seems to do pretty much what I want. But I noticed in iTunes that these apps were released in 2013 and haven't been updated since. I'm hesitant to pour money into what seems like old apps with little developer support. So I was wondering whether someone can recommend this(*), or recommend another app suite? There's a related question on finding an “editor for both iOS and Mac OS X designed for writers” but, as far as I can tell, the options mentioned there don't use RTF as their native file format (being able to convert from/to RTF and the app suite's native file format is not what I'm looking for). (*) If anyone is using the WriteToGo suite, I was also wondering what the difference is between the two different Mac apps “WriteToGo knapsack” and “WriteToGo pro”?
If both devices are on the 2.4 GHz network, there are no problems. If even one of them is on 5 GHz and the AirPort is misbehaving, we can't communicate with them. The behaviour makes me wonder if the AirPort is isolating clients from each other somehow, but I've gone through the settings and updated the firmware, and still have problems. Is there something I can change in my setup to resolve these problems?
I have a question about Apple network traffic. In my network program I can see these three domains (GET) *=URL=* *=URL=* https://service1.ess.apple.com/...
No Swype, no SwiftKey, nothing fancy, no other customizations—I just want… bigger… keys. I have thick fingers and I dont want to use auto correct or prediction.
I've done a presentation in Keynote. On the first screen I included a few links to different slides. I tested them in Keynote and they're working, however when I export to PDF they're simply not there anymore. Note that used Export to > PDF and not print as PDF and I also looked in the export settings and saw nothing related to links..
I'm trying to expand the hard drive of my Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox from my Macbook Air terminal. But when I type in I get this output: Usage: But I specified the operation though, so I'm a bit confused.
Is there a way to hide files and folders from Finder like I do with Nautilus using .hidden config file? On Nautilus I can create a file named .hidden and put inside it a list of files I want to hide.
I have a folder that has several hundreds of thousands of files named like "ABC 123456". I need to add a dash after between the two blocks of text like this "ABC - 123456". Leaving the trailing space. Automator does not offer a method for counting 4 characters in and inserting an new dash and space. I have this terminal command and have been tinkering with it. Anyone know of an Applescript or can help with the terminal command that will help me rename the files?
Is there a way of using third party software like Better Touch Tool to configure a 4 finger dragging gesture? I want to reserve 3 finger gestures for many other actions.
I have a MacBook Pro on OS 10.6.8 I have tried to upgrade to the current OS. The download appears to work fine, but when I select restart to install, the Mac starts to shut down, then just hangs. I can only start the Mac again by holding down the on/off switch to turn off, and then turning on again. What is the solution?
I have a 40 page Pages document which is a transcript from a hand written diary. I wish to use Text to Speech to read passages from my Pages document so that I can check the text against the original version. This works well except that when highlighting a portion of text in the document and I wish to stop (pause) the Text to Speech it only starts at the beginning of the highlighted text and not restarting from the point of being paused.
I have a 2011 Mac mini server (quad-core i7, 2.0GHz) and the fan is going bad. The current fan, part no. 610-0164 is rated 12V 0.66A.
In the latest release of Microsoft Outlook for iOS (as of 2/26/2015), is there a way to change the sort behavior of message within a conversation? If I'm not mistaken, the messages are sorted from oldest to newest, which requires scrolling to see the most recent. I'd like to change that to be newest to oldest so the most recent message is on top. Is that possible?
Recently I witnessed how iTunes, which is linked to a certain iPhone may unlock it's first screen - the one which requires a password. I also know of a few tools which may mimic this effect;
I just recently upgraded to XCode 6.1.1 from 5.1.1. When I launch iOS Simulator. I get an error "Unable to boot device in current state: Creating". I have tried deleting the devices and adding them back manually. But that is to no avail. I have reinstalled XCode as well after uninstalling and cleaning my Library and Preferences folders. That also has not worked. I am not sure if there are artifacts left over from 5.1.1 that are causing this. Does anyone know what the root cause/solution is? Please Advise
I accidentally executed rm * on / and since then I am unable to see my desktop. All I see is a blue screen with spinning gear.
Can I delete the Developer > Xcode > Shared folder? I want to clear out space and noticed that it takes up 2 gigs of data. Is it safe to delete? I use Xcode often.
I was trying to organize and select all my old music from my previous computer and copied a folder with all my music files to my mac book desktop. Started deleting all the songs I didn't wanted and after all done, accidentally I selected all the music that was left on the folder and deleted it as well. Is there is a way I can access the trash and see only the latest music files I deleted? If I could see the time they where deleted I knew which music files I have to restore, so I don't have to be restoring all the files, including the ones I do not want!
I have a Mac Mini with Yosemite OS X Server, i would like to install WordPress and Magento on the server and use it for local development before I push my completed sites to the live server with the hosting provider. How to Install WordPress / Magento on Mac Mini Server? Is Installing WordPress on Mac OS X server different from installing on Mac? How to access such Sites on local Network and from outside the local Network (example let customer preview the website).
I have used the Terminal app on my OS X Yosemite Macbook Pro to SSH to a Linux machine. I have opened "vim" text editor, and want to send the "insert" keypress via SSH to vim, to start editing. Sure, I can hit "i" to start doing that, but I have been using vim for about 97 years, and have taught my fingers to type "insert".
How do I export a Bundle with changes (delta) from Textmate 2? I have installed the Bundle manually and it appears in the ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Pristine Copy/Bundles directory. But I've made edits with the bundle editor so there are also "delta" files in ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Bundles Is there a way to merge these or export a combined version besides manually editing as XML?
I was reading a post about using Bittorrent Sync on OS X that includes a launchd plist that's supposed to keep the app running in the event that it crashes. It doesn't seem to work, though, since I've had the app crash and not relaunch. I'm looking for help fixing the plist. The plist looks like this:
I want to have Preview default to Thumbnail view in the Sidebar. There is a Preference option to display the Sidebar or not. But, there is no option to choose which Sidebar option an individual might want as their default. Is there a way to do this? MAC OS x 10.10.2 Yosemite -Dennis
I submitted an app to itunes connect. As I remember, I selected the aforementioned field instead of the other one with automatic release. Now my app status is ready to sale, what should I do next? Where should I "manually release" it? I can't see such option in itunes connect. Thanks in advance
I enjoy using the Sublime Text 3 editor—especially the multiple cursors feature. I constantly find myself in need of the multiple cursor functionality in other OS X apps like Finder or Outlook. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to go about doing this?
Trying to migrate software on two OS X macs with different operating systems. Source is running mountain lion and target is running Yosemite. Is this an issue?? I'm using an ethernet cable, have turned off firewall and wifi.
The (1) icon is shown. But it shouldn't. It should show the (3) if I did everything right, otherwise it needs to show (2). (1) is the icon shown in the finder (2) is the icon shown in the inspector:
I am reading this documentation: *=URL=* In order to register a pass type identifier, I need to be an Apple developer. My pass will be available on a web page (not an iOS app). Which of the developer programs should I enroll to: iOS/Mac/Safari?
On my iPhone5S I wanted to rearrange some apps to be on the 1st screen in iTunes. This appears to be almost impossible (at least for anyone over the age of 65). iTunes keeps dropping apps I am trying to move into a group. How do I stop this from happening?
He can't turn on WiFi at all. Tried resetting network settings, but haven't restored. Not jailbroken.
I use a MacBook Pro, 99 % of the time with a bluetooth Apple Magic Mouse, so I don't want to turn bluetooth off. I have an Onkyo sound system at home, which everything goes through, and also accepts bluetooth connections, I don't want to turn that off. I have my MBP paired with that system so that, when I want, I can send my music to my home speakers. I don't want to unpair those.
When downloading a trial product from adobe through the creative cloud manager, where is the compressed install file temporarily stored before its extracted and installed?
I wanted to install Windows on my 2011 Macbook Air running 10.8. I had approximately 40 GB of a 120 GB hard drive free and I set Bootcamp to create a 20 GB partition for Windows. Halfway through the process, the computer completely froze for hours and I had to restart. When I reinspected my Mac partition, the total capacity was only 100 GB and the 20 GB Bootcamp partition was nowhere to be seen.
If I have an external hard drive with a bootable cloned backup (via SuperDuper) - if I encrypt it with the Finder will I still be able to boot from it if necessary? Are there any solutions to enable my backup to be both encrypted and also bootable? I currently use FileVault 2 to encrypt my main SSD, and if I try booting from that (i.e. just booting up my computer) it asks for my password. If I try to boot from a bootable external disk (which happens to be encrypted) will it just ask for the disk password on boot [that is, after I select that as the boot disk], similarly to how I would be asked to enter a password to unlock the SSD encrypted with FileVault 2?
I have figured a process called 'Safari networking' (I think it's the process of safari browser) consumes lots of bandwidth. It's about 1 GB in 1 hour, but I didn't download anything. I have also found that it eats bandwidth only when gmail is opened in a safari tab. If you close gmail tab, bandwidth usage is normal.Any idea why this is happening ? OSX Yosmite 10.10.2 Safari 8.0.3
I know it sounds like a silly question but my girlfriend is buying a new Mac Book Pro soon and we found that the flash drive mac's have less memory when it's a flash drive but more expensive whilst the hard drive mac has more memory but it's less expensive. Is this like a new and better version to pick the flash drive memory I guess? What's the difference? We need the best one because we recently lost all of our old files on our blog which really sucks so we are willing to get the best one so we avoid this issue in the future. I'd appreciate any of your help, thanks a lot.
I've a customer claiming that the default function for F5 key on his mac is to launch the widgets screen. Is this true? Can be an old apple keyboard or an old OS X such as Snow Leopard with this default setting?
I'm on youtube on Safari on my Mac. I'm on "View Actual Size", and the browser is taking up my entire screen, and yet, for some bizarre reason, the width of the content is exceeding the width of my screen, so that I constantly have to scroll back and forth to see all the content.
I currently run XBMC/Kodi which runs in fullscreen so OS X notifications do not display on top. When the application is in windowed mode, notifications display as normal. I have looked through the settings and their seems to be no way to change this behavior. Is anyone aware of a script/plugin/hack that will achieve my goal?
I'm on the page *=URL=* There is a large blue button "Download Chrome" and below it "For Mac OS X 10.6 or later".
As I have limited storage on my iPhone, can I delete photos from my iPhone and they will still remain on the iCloud? Or can they be accessed on my iPad which has more storage? I think when I have deleted a picture on any device, they delete from the iPad as well (presumably through the iCloud).
I have a Numbers sheet that I use to forecast the monthly interest payments on my mortgage and it's working well. The only issue is that the date cells auto-sets to the first day of the month. Is there any way that I can make a cell automatically set to the last day in the month?
I need to create a .css file on my Mac. I created it with TextEdit. How do I now save it with a .css extension? It seems that very single File Format it offers will give it a different extension (rtf, html, odf, docx, xml, doc)?!
I created a *.pkg installer for a command line tool following this guide: Packaging a daemon for OS X. After running the installer, and selecting "Install for all users", I can't find where my installed files are. The installer says the setup will take 57.9MB and the copying section takes quite some seconds, so I assume files are actually being copied and there is not an issue with my installer.
I would like to record a screen film of my iPad. If possible, I would like to include my spoken comments. How can I do that ?
I want to store my configuration files in source control and symlink them so they will be used by MacVim. Looking at :scriptnames I see vimrc and gvimrc being used in: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/vimrc My source controlled vim files are located in: ~/Programming/Personal (both gvim and vimrc are here)
Since I upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard, my 24 inch 2009 2.93 Ghz imac has been quite slow. It's slow to open up programs and slow in general.
Below is an EtreCheck report on my system. My problem is that I have <3 GB or 2.5 GB even after a reboot, with relatively few menu bar applications starting up. (This drops to 20-300 MB once Chrome is running!) I know I could try a clean install, maybe that would take me less time than a cleanup. Still, if I'd start a cleanup, which seem the more important things to start with? Launch agents or launch daemons? Any of them in particular? Extensions? Any of them is more notorious than others? Thanks. Problem description: My system has less than 3 GB free RAM (out of 8) even right after a reboot.
I want to create a full video on IOS device but use a predetermined asset for an intro screen. I have added a JPEG to my iCloud account formatted to video screen size. I then created a movie project on my phone (6 plus) and clicked "add media " icon, then browse to iCloud and I can see the file, but it isn't selectable. So what am I missing? Is it a file format issue?
In terminal I ran: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE and killall Finder If I CMD + SHIFT + G /usr/local/.git I can see the folder. However, if I CMD + SHIFT + G and go to /usr/local I cannot see the folder.
Since I upgraded to Yosemite and Safari 8 I have to press Ctrl+Delete or Shift+Delete to delete the text I typed in web forms. Nothing happens if I press Delete key by itself.
When you run sudo fullstatus caching, it lists all the relevant data for how the caching works on the server. There is one particular line that shows what port the caching server is using.
I need to test an app i'm developing for iPhone 6 device. Can I use an iPhone 5c charger to connect the charger to my MacBook Pro and the iPhone 6? Would the iPhone 5c charger work for iPhone 6 or does iPhone 6 have a completely different charger?
I'm trying to paste these Chinese letters: 你好世界 to my Terminal, but instead I've got "^L" or some other weird characters. The same happens for other unicode characters (such as £āēīōūśṣṭēīōū) when pasting or pressing Option+e, then a for á, e for é, i for í and similar, then I've got C!C)C- instead. In Terminal Settings, I've got Character encoding set to Unicode (UTF-8) (Preferences/Settings/Profiles/Advanced) and in Encodings tab I've UTF-8 enabled. I've LANG=C, however setting it to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 doesn't help. However it works when I run echo: My Terminal settings are:
I like to work with scrollbars always visible, especially when working with a traditional mouse, but I don't like the ultra-skinny, rounded-corner scrollbars when "always visible" is turned on. How (if possible) do I customize the scrollbars?
In other apps I use Command-UpArrow / Command-DownArrow, but those go to beginning/end of file in TextMate.
It was working pretty well until last night and began crashing again. This time it looks like a different crash altogether, but doesn't look like it's pointing to a folder etc.
My mac isn't responding. I can move the cursor around and click anywhere but I can't exit or quit anything because it doesn't click on the actual GUI. Closing and opening the lid doesn't help and I can't restart because I can't press that button in the menu. What should I do?
So I upgraded my friends 1st generation iPad from iOS 4 to iOS 8.1 on my MacBook Pro. Now he's complaining that the Internet sometimes doesn't work and when it does it works extremely poorly and he's blaming me that it's due to the iOS 8 upgrade. Was the iOS 4 version 1st generation iPad not supposed to have been upgraded to iOS 8.1?
My mini iPad reports I have 1701 photos. But after deleting most photos,maybe a hundred left. My iPad still says I have 1701 photos.help
I forgot my password for iPhone backup. How can I recover the password so I can turn off the backups?
Are both my discrete GPU and my integrated GPU damaged?**
I am getting a lot of conflicting information to this simple question. Basically I need to understand which devices will support WiFi direct. Is this device specific or is this iOS specific? Can I run a Wifi Direct App on say a iPhone 4s with iOS 7? How about a iPad Mini and iOS 8?
I created a automator workflow, add a Run Shell Script part and put these lines in: /Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/tools/android avd I saved it as an app and it works. But I will always see a gear icon on the menu bar. I tried to put a & or nohup, if so the program won't start.
I have a blah.app, and on desktop there is an alias to this app I went to blah.app/Contents/Resources and replace the icon with my icon, same name I went to blah.app/ and created a new folder next to the blah.app/Contents folder, this made the blah.app icon update to show mine however the icon of the alias file on desktop did not change.
My iPad mini says I have 1701 photos. I deleted all except maybe a hundred. Ipad still says I have 1701 photos. Where they at. Tried everything. Checked forums and they have same problem. What good is ICloud if they want store data and photos because I need storage. But it says I have 5 Gigabytes free. Help
iTunes changes the number (and therefore) the order of tracks in an album when make a new playlist. Therefore, I cannot listen to an album in the correct order. I want the tracks to stay in order when I create a new playlist. It is worse than shuffle because the actual number of the tracks gets changed, so I cannot tell what order the tracks should be in.
If I upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite, will I still be able to recover items from my Time Machine backup?
Is there any way to download app from the Mac App Store which requires a more current OS X version than I have running on my Mac? I know it will not run, but I need the actual file.
If I run the following command in Apple Script Editor directly, I can see a notification as expected However if I tried to invoke it via command line:
I have a lot of ??_doc.xml files in a folder, it's like: The filenames are all like two digits with _doc.xml combined together.
I accidentally stumbled upon this issue: I copied a file of 119 MB size in Terminal with time cp file.zip file2.zip and it took about 20 seconds. As this seemed quite slow to me, I went to the Finder, selected the same file and hit Cmd-D (duplicate) and it took less than 5 seconds to create the copy, that is only 25% of the time it took with cp! Is there an explanation for it - might this be systematic? MacBook 13" white (2007) OS X 10.6.8 Internal hard disk WDC WD10JPVT-00A1YT0 it really seems to be a cache issue: I tried the opposite order with another file and copied it first in Finder and then in Terminal, and in this case also the second copying was much faster.
Can an iBeacon range and/or region event (for an iOS app that is not running in the foreground) somehow have a "dynamic" notification send to that iOS device (i.e. a notification text that is not hard coded in the app but rather comes from a server)? An example use case that everyone can relate to is that your local super market implements beacons and that as you walk pass the milk section you get a notification saying "Milk half price for the next half hour" (because the "use-by" date is near).
I need to create a Keynote (6.5.2) presentation for school that contains text and no graphics, but implicit silliness is highly encouraged. As such, I was thinking of having some fun with current events and finding a way to reference The Dress. I was wondering, can anyone come up with a way to make that optical illusion happen in Keynote?
The last physical volume was the one I ran removeDisk on. Attempting to run it again says it does not exist. This completely messes up the LVG and it has to be destroyed in order to work again.
I'm trying to play an audio file from my Mac Mini over an iPhone call. I tried using a male to male audio cable to connect the Mac's audio out port, into the iPhone's headset jack, but I guess that would be too easy. I also have a headset splitter but that doesn't seem to work either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The only thing I can think of is that, for some reason, the script is run by a 'different user' when launched by an Agent and therefore has different assistive devices allowed? Seems unlikely, however, as the TCC.db does not seem to be user-specific and the agent is located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Help, anyone?
I went to *=URL=* to remove the album but it still won't go away! I signed in with my apple ID and when i hit "sign in" it just prompts me to sign in again straight after. It also did prompt me to sign in on my phone 4 but that also didn't do anything. when will it go away??
I want to create an Alfred workflow with some dotfiles (i.e. zsh config files).
Having had a hard drive failure, I'm attempting a clean install of Yosemite on a 2010 Mac Pro, with a brand new 120GB OWC SSD. I've tried using a Yosemite boot disk, using both an external hard drive and a USB memory stick, which both suffered the same symptoms, and now I'm seeing something similar with an old Mavericks USB memory stick, which I believe has worked before.
How do I install ss on OS X? I couldn't find the iproute package in homebrew. Red Hat recommends ss over netstat in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. ss is provided by the iproute package. Red Hat Docs
I run OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on a first generation 27" iMac. Over night the computer apparently crashed. All applications I had open had gotten all jumbled in the restart so I pressed the F3 to see every thing and saw the following pop-up message:
After my time machine backups got stuck to finish at some point, I decided to do a disk check using disk util. I'm getting the following output while running "verify disk":
I am trying to patch Lion (10.7.5). According to shellshocker.net, I am vulnerable to 6 out of 7 possible exploits. The download link for Lion is broken: *=URL=* leads me to the following empty file: *=URL=* Is there anyway to report this without paying 30 for tech support?
Why do I see stale files on my MacBook Air 13 when I use 'Android File Transfer'? I have a LG Volt (LGLS740) running Android 4.4.2. The MacBook Air 13 is running OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) & has app 'Android File Transfer' installed (Version 1.0.50.2266). When I connect the Android phone to the MacBook Air 13 via the USB cable I see stale files in 'Internal storage/Android/data/com.StyleTap.StyleTap/import' that I don't see when I use app 'File Manager' on the Android phone. I am using the Palm emulator from 'www.styletap.com', but I don't believe that the stale files are specific to this usage.
Yesterday I reinstalled Snow Leopard because Yosemite is too heavy for my MacBook. How can I get the tags section on the Finder sidebar on OS X 10.8.5 like Mavericks or Yosemite?
Can MacBooks (late 2010 Air in particular) backup when in hibernation mode? The reason why I am asking this is because I want to backup my MacBook air at midnight however I am not sure if my computer will be in hibernation mode when its midnight. I want to backup at midnight because I cannot back it up when using it during the day.
For the second time now on our annual trip to the Keys, my 2012 MacBook Air's display has gone blank and only flickers on occasionally. Same thing happened last year. The problem disappeared completely on our return to Michigan and had not resurfaced again until I returned to Florida. Another possibility is higher voltage here? Could it be a bad charger?
my iPad iPad mini retina is out of warranty I forgot to plug in my iPad after the critical battery warning and it went some minutes following the warning. I was not worried because same thing had happened a few times before and iPad was perfectly okay after charging it. However, this time I remember seeing a flash of blue screen immediately after it went black. Then, I plugged it in an waited for a while and tried starting it. Ever since, it fails to start hanging on the apple logo with white background screen.
I can't start any programs or open any document from the spotlight since yesterday. It finds the right program / document, but when I press enter I only get the spinning beachball for about 40 seconds and then spotlight closes without opening anything. Any ideas?
This is the background: in my company, we use Google Drive and often have to tell each other the path to a particular file. Paths are long as we use a lot of nested folders, so it's pretty boring and time consuming to browse through all that. Now, in my previous company, we used a central afp server, so the path was common to everyone, therefore I had created an applescript script that could get the absolute afp path to the file, people pasted that path in a mail or chat and the end user could click on that path which automatically became a link and the finder would open, selecting that particular file or folder that the link led to.
Question: I would like to migrate both my current installation of OSX and the installation of Windows to their respective new (differently sized) partitions on the SSD, without having to re-install the OS'es. What steps do I need to take to make this work? (Any pitfalls?) Update: Command output requested by David Anderson:
I printed an important receipt and quit Safari, only to learn the job never printed because we no longer own the network printer the computer was expecting to find. Thus, the only remaining copy of this information is in the print queue. How do I salvage the information waiting to be printed so I can use it again?
Can I stop hard disk drives from spinning using Terminal? The reason why I want to know is because I have my Mac to backup at midnight however I do not want my HDD to be spinning all the time. I would also like a way to spin it back up again. This is an external drive.
I had Mac OS X 10.8, Fedora and Windows XP triple-boot in refit. I upgraded to OS X Yosemite. The refit screen disappeared. I used command
My Macbook Pro (Mid 2012, OSX 10.10.2) sometimes gives the Low Battery warning, then immediately after dismissing the notification the battery pops back up to about 25% battery, still showing a red battery icon.  It is above 20% but is still red. What could have caused this, is it an error in Yosemite OS X, or is it a reserve battery power I did not know about, or is it something completely different
Since moving to Yosemite and Mail.app 8.2 I've noticed that some messages show attachments in the message list and some, well, don't. The loss of this little icon seems to impact those messages searches in which I'm looking for messages from a person with attachments. I've attached a screenshot that shows a message that recognizes there are attachments and one that clearly doesn't:
I have noted that to view a desktop site in iOS 8 (such as Ask Different) that you need to refresh the page after you clicked on 'request desktop page'. Why do we need to refresh the page when the loading bar move after you click request desktop site?
How do I delete a text message that is not there for me to delete? The number still shows that I have messages but I do not.
When showing the desktop after starting up the computer, the wifi symbol in the superbar shows the network searching for a wlan connection. Very often, every other startup or so, it won't find the connection to my wifi network. Turning the machine off, plugging the power cable for 20 seconds, plugging the cable back in, wait another 5 seconds and turning it back on usually helps.
I've followed this tutorial: *=URL=* I'm not familiar with Mac OS X's NTFS support, having used only ntfs-3g in Linux. Does making the volume writable with OS X's native driver via fstab pose any risk to my data or volume?
Basically, I was following this tutorial to enable writing to an NTFS Volume (which works when the Volume has a LABEL or UUID). I have an external USB drive with an NTFS volume that doesn't seem to have a label or a "Volume UUID", therefore I can't use LABEL=foo or UUID=xxx in /etc/fstab. How can I target this volume in fstab so that I can do something like or
I’m trying to reinstall postgresql on my mac (yosemite) after installing parallels seemed to mess up permissions to directories that psql and homebrew need. I was able to force-uninstall psql, but when running brew doctor before reinstalling I get: The other Warnings I get apply to /usr/local subdirectories. I see many similar threads that recommend changing ownership via: ...but my question is, if I use this to change ownership & permissions back to my user account will this mess up Parallels? Sorry, new to this, don’t quite understand the relationship between parallels & /usr/local/
So this is my first iPhone and I'm used to Android. On Android, if I click some link or something that opens another app, I can click the back button and go back to where I was, even across apps. Example: I'm using Chrome and click a video link, link opens the YouTube app, when I'm finished, I just click the back button and now I'm back in Chrome exactly where I was when I clicked the link.
I have a simple "Hello world" script that I want to turn into an executable. The problem is that even though I went through the steps of declaring the path of the Python interpreter in the first list of the code and made it executable via chmod, it does not run as an executable. Instead when I click it my text editor opens up the file. This sounds really stupid, but I've tried everything. ./hello.py prints Hello world in the Terminal. I've tried changing the file to open with the Terminal instead, but it's greyed out. What I typed in the terminal: Output: The problem is that double clicking the script opens text editor instead of running it as an executable. What I tried: Changing what the file uses to open itself by having it default to the Terminal, but OS X grays out that option.
I'm using MacBook pro. My problem is: every time when I want to download an app it's asking about my credit card information. I used to have a credit card but I don't have it now. I can't even download free apps.
I am a new MacBook user. I am thinking about *=URL=* for downloading DMGs. Does it have any security/virus issue? If there are other sources then please let me know.
I often use the same emoticons in Messages and would like to quickly access the same set both in my iPhone, iPad, MacBook and iMac. Is there a way to achieve this?
The Messages app in iOS 8 provides a convenient function to record and send voice & video messages as part of an ongoing chat dialog. Receiving a call while using Messages' build-in recording functionality results in a total loss of the recording in progress. Assuming immediate access to any and all resources necessary, how can we go about recovering them?
I have a Mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro running OS X (Yosemite) 10.10.2. It has a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB of RAM, and a 750GB HDD.
I'd like to have some feedback from those of you who have experience to share about upgrading OS X on MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2010 - MacBookPro6,2). I'm running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, and I've never needed to upgrade because I use my mac only for software development on the java environment, so I've never needed to stay up to date and I don't even have Apple or Android devices to sync. So, just consider the main use I do of my Mac is about developing on the java platform (ad just for fun). Now I need to move to Java 7 or maybe Java 8 and I need to upgrade Snow Leopard to one of its successors: Mountain Lion (10.7.3 at least) Maverick Yosemite
I am using CHMView at the moment. The problem is that when I do a typing mistake in one word. I have to wait for long time. I would like to have no continuous search. Only searching when I hit enter. Is there any application for CHM where the search is not continuous?
I want to use BibTeX with Apple Pages for creating references to my .bib bibliography and also insert the bibliography into a Pages document. I would like to use .bst style sheets to format the bibliography. I'm currently working with BibDesk but could change to JabRef.
Is it possible to automatically propagate tags that are generated for an alias to the file/folder it points to?
With the great fullscreen support in Yosemite it would be nice to have certain apps always open in fullscreen. Is this possible? If not out of the box with a 3rd party tool?
Do you also start facing such strange Chrome behaviour? I am facing it mostly when browsing websites like YT with flash content. The browser freezes and I can not do basic things like e.g coping the selected text... STRANGE: Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) OS X: 10.10.2 DISCLAIMER: I got my Macbook PRO retina 3 days ago from service, where they replaced graphic system (whole logic board). EXPERIMENT:
I am using my Mac to write Java code in Eclipse. Not frequently, but commonly enough I need special characters such as ^, ~ or `. The problem with these is that I have to press the key(-combination) followed by a space in order to insert the character, since these keys are used to create special characters such as ã or è. However, this is really impractical since I can't use them in Java anyway. Is there a way to disable this feature globally on OS X Yosemite (german keyboard layout)?
b) I want to look straightforward at the screen but not use an external monitor. Thus I would position the keyboard 12 inches below a small pedestal for the mac
About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that my Mac Mail on Yosemite no longer fetches contact information from my Exchange contacts when suggesting email address autocompletes. Under "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences, the Contacts check box automatically unchecks itself whenever I check it. How do I re-enable the sync?
In Calendar on Yosemite, I want to change the default Calendar alert to an email. I know how to access the default calendar alerts, but those only allow me to change when the message alert pops up, not whether it's a message or an email. I'd rather not have to create a custom alert for every single calendar event I create. I know I could use Google Calendar as my main calendar, as it allows me to configure the default alerts I want, but I'd to keep everything in my Mac Calendar.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, late 2011) When I upgraded to Yosemite, it was fine until a month ago, then there is no day that my computer does not restart/freeze randomly. I am really tired of it, so any help is really appreciated. What I have done? Basically everything: Start up in safe mode Reset parameter random-access memory (PRAM) Repair the startup disk/ disk permissions, I tried to use Apple Hardware Test, but I get error 2002D error After all that I did, I even clean installed Yosemite (I mean, I formatted my disk and then installed again) it was okay for a week but then started again. Here is the problem what i normally received *=URL=* Can you please share your knowledge with me? Please find below the console message
I've tried following every instruction available to prevent my desktop mac from receiving my text messages or notifications that texts are being sent or received and can't get it taken care of so far. I want to completely disable the feature on my desktop. Does anyone know how/if this can be done?
I had a Galaxy S4 and I just bought a iPhone 6. Is there a way I can transfer my music using an app to iTunes? Or do I have to download iTunes onto a computer?
I have run out of space on my 16gb iPad . Over 7.2 go are my photos and video. Is it possible to separate my photos and keep most on iCloud or iTunes, accessing only when I wish to review them. How can I do so if possible. I need to free up space. Also, any quick way to delete duplicate photos or files?
I've been having this issue since 10.9. cd into a reasonably long path, e.g., cd /Volumes/Storage/backup/long/path Enter a moderately long command, e.g., curl -X GET *=URL=* ctrl+R, type curl ctrl+E The command displayed is shifted to far to the left and leaving whitespace to the right like so:
I want to cycle through recently used tabs in Safari 7.1.3 (MacOS 10.9.5) like one can in in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. I predominantly run Opera 11.64, and it exhibits the best behavior for this recently-used-tab switching. Is there a way to do this in Safari, even if it requires an extension/plugin/addon of some kind? Note: cycling/switching between tabs in most-recently-used (aka "visited") order is different than simply cycling through all the tabs as they are listed at the top of the browser; the latter seems more-commonly discussed.
When I mouse over a phone number in Safari, it is now a link which tries to call via Skype. I can't see any option within Skype or Safari to disable this. How do I do this? I'm using latest versions: Safari 8.0.3 and Skype 7.5. Edit: There is no extension in my Safari for this:
I have a Fujitsu S1300, and a MacBook Pro 15″ with Yosemite. My patience is running thin. I can scan using Fujitsu's software. But I can't using Preview. But when I look at Preview > File > Import from Scanner, it's greyed out. I've done all the things listed here.
I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro 15" retina, 16GB memory 1TB SSD. I use Visual studio on day time on windows 8 and work on Mac, open source technologies at night and on weekends. I first thought of using VMWare and load windows for my day time use but i am a little confused on which config i should do. I am thinking of using bootcamp since all i do is windows during day time(may be dedicate 250GB ?) I am thinking of using bootcamp since all i do is windows during day time(may be dedicate 250GB ?) dedicate 500GB for Mac OS . dedicate 500GB for Mac OS . Dedicate 200 GB for VMware on MacOS to load windows for some rare scenarios where i need to test both windows and mac apps at the same time (like Xamarin) Dedicate 200 GB for VMware on MacOS to load windows for some rare scenarios where i need to test both windows and mac apps at the same time (like Xamarin) Is this a bad idea to config my laptop like this or do you guys have any ideas that you can share for this scenario ?
I have a Macbook Air (mid 2013) and two Dell U2715H monitors. I am able to connect the one monitor to the Macbook via the DisplayPort-MiniDisplayPort cable. This works great!
I plugged iPad 3 and iPad Air 2 into laptop through iTunes. All apps are showing except for "Geocaching". I cannot drag it from iPad 3 to iPad 2. All I get is a box with the line through. How can I get this app I purchased on the iPad 3 on to my new iPad Air 2?
So I have this problem with Photoshop CS6 and NetBeans being very sluggish and laggy on my new rMBP 2014 15" 16GB RAM. It's running perfectly fine on my iMac 2009 21" 4GB RAM school computer, except for the occasional lag of RAM. Activity Monitor shows that there's plenty of RAM and CPU power at all times, and still it's so sluggish and laggy. Specs: Processor 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7, Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1024 MB, Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) Does anyone have any idea on what is causing this and how I could possibly fix it?
I want to mirror the screen of an iOS device onto a Windows PC. I only found solutions which either uses a VGA-adapter or AirPlay. Because AirPlay uses WiFi I seek for a more stable and independent solution. I stumbled on iTools but it seems it isn't developed anymore. It used a USB connection for showing the screen.
Is there any way to create custom keyboard shortcuts that do whatever you want through a third-party app or just through default OS X apps, like Automator and or AppleScript? I want to create a shortcut that will bring up the power dialogue box, as shown in the image below.
I'm trying to write a script which changes the underscan value on my Mac mini, but I haven't found the .plist file containing the setting. Does anyone know where the underscan setting is saved?
I've always used my USB on this computer. The only issue i would have is that it wouldn't always appear on screen, but i would just eject it and put it back in and it would all be ok. Today for some reason it wouldn't recognize it. I go in disk utility and it doesn't say anything (see image) i need to access this USB for work, so please someone help. I don't know a lot about mac, so please help with whatever you think you can.
I have a macbook pro mid 2012 non retina facetime hd camera. It is advertised as having a facetime hd camera however the frame rate seems to be very low (14.5 fps). Is this normal?
A few days ago, my MBP had a lot of issues like multiple beeping sounds as well as black screen anomalies. The beeping issue goes away when I force a shutdown.
I'm not overly happy with the UI for interfacing with the scanner on my Epson WF-3250 series scanner that's provided by the latest Preview that comes with OS X 10.10. It's clunky and awkward, crashes often. You have to reselect your options every time you use. It's just, honestly, not very Apple-like. Is there reliable third party scanning software that I could use in place of Preview for obtaining PDF scans of multi-page documents on the Epson's auto-feeder?
If you delete a file, but it's still in use (e.g. a document still open), and then try to empty the trash you get something like this:
I want Apple script which allows me to toggle comment/uncomment in Script Editor, using (* and *). I found this link, but it is not exactly what I am looking for. Can anyone help?
Several days ago, I installed the text editor TextMate 2. I notice that the icons of my .h and .m files which were created in Xcode have been changed to the new one. Like the screenshot below which shows the new icons (i.e. AppDelegate.h) and default icons (ViewController.h) at the same time. I am not sure it is the TextMate that caused this issue because if I right-click -> get info on the new icon, it stills display the default one. My question is how to restore the file's icon to their default looking? Thanks.
I used to work with multiple workspaces, putting my dev apps on one space and music apps on another. I want my Chat apps in one workspace where I want to protect it with my password, because I will be sharing my system with my colleagues while pair programming. So considering this, is there any way I can do this with Mac OS X Yosemite?
I want to get model number/family number. *=URL=* I have found the above link that have listed all the Model number. That information does not exist in the SystemProfiler.
I'm using Apple Mail on Yosemite with my Gmail account(s). At the moment I have around 10 GB (!!) of mail database locally. Is there a way to use iMail so that it does not cache anything? It would then basically only work if there is any internet connection.
on MacI sync my PDF files normally between my Mac and my iPhone and iPad. Bookmarks and resume options are working between iOS devices for epubs. However, no PDF can be opened in iBooks on Mac — it gets opened in Preview.app instead and bookmarks and resume aren’t working (while they still do work between iOS devices).
Somebody sent me six images with SMS to my iPhone. I want to email these and get them on my Mac to use there. Short of copying them one by one into an email on my iPhone is there any way I can transfer these into Photos so that iPhoto will import them to my Mac?
I want to create a live USB to run a Linux derivation and followed these guides: Make and create Live USB Linux for Mac? How? Making a Bootable USB Stick on an Apple Mac OS X from an ISO Everything just went fine following the tutorial, but when I restart my MacBook Pro I cannot choose the USB drive, it just doesn't show up.
The same page is also linked in this related thread, including a step-by-step installation guide, but it doesn't work for me. Did someone get a 4-pole headset to work including the microphone on an iMac with the Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 07) sound card?
I don't want to update to Yosemite but need to update to at least 10.9 or higher so I can re-load my iPhotos app after doing a factory restore. I've tried both suggestions on here already and neither are helpful.... How to upgrade my MacBook Air from 10.6 to 10.9? Thank you @Tetsujin for your answer re Mavericks...very helpful
I've recently purchased a second hand iPhone 5. They demonstrated the phone making calls before I purchased it.
I know someone or the other has asked about disabling ⌘Q, but I like the shortcut, and I use it often. However, I use an email client called Airmail that unfortunately does not keep a service (for notifications) running in the background when it is quitted. However, if I press the close button a service runs in the background, allowing me to receive notifications. But since I have a habit of pressing ⌘Q all the time to close apps, I was looking into a way I could disable it for only Airmail. Anyone know of a what to do this?
This has been happening for around 6 months and it has gotten worse. I thought it was the battery because it had close to 1500 cycles. But I recently replaced it and now the problem seems worse. The MacBook randomly shuts off plugged in and on battery. I did the SMC reset by pressing control-shift-option and holding power for 5 seconds but that did nothing. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
It seems that CURL on OS X (10.10) is broken because it does not contain the same set of root SSL certificates as Safari. Due to this it seems that there is a high chance for your to be unable to use curl with some HTTPS sites. I observed that there is a guide on getting a list of certificates from *=URL=* but this seems bad for two reasons: You are forced to get the certificates using HTTP instead of HTTPS so with minimal effort someone could give you a wrong list of certificates. You are forced to get the certificates using HTTP instead of HTTPS so with minimal effort someone could give you a wrong list of certificates. These may get outdated and I would prefer to use the same set of root certificates as the rest of the OS. These may get outdated and I would prefer to use the same set of root certificates as the rest of the OS. What steps can be taken to get curl to match Safari when accessing web certificates?
Last Sunday I was looking through Finder on my mid-2011 MBA. (I was clearing out my 'cache' and 'preferences' folders.) I must have either clicked something (I use an external mouse) or pressed something on my keyboard because suddenly all the folders started opening in separate Finder windows! There were lots of them and they completely covered the screen! But then I closed all the folders (when they'd finished opening...) and my screen looked normal again. Is there a menu option for 'opening finder folders in individual windows' or something?? Or a key combination that I was unaware of? Grateful for any help - intrigued! Thanks Harry
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). Does it support 5 GHz Wi-Fi? I found the following details about Wi-Fi module there: If 5 GHz are supported, then will it work with 2.4 GHz in parallel?
I have a Magic Trackpad that sat unused in a work drawer for a few months. Like a total noob, I neglected to remove the batteries. I recently reconfigured my workspace and decided to start using trackpad once more, but to my horror, the batteries had corroded and the one furthest in, is very very stuck. I have tried a long neck, thin screwdriver to try and pry away some of the corrosion around the edge, and lot of banging/ knocking/ cursing, but the battery is still in place.
Error using mex No supported compiler or SDK was found. For options, visit http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2014a/maci64.
I used Filevault to encrypt an external USB 2TB drive. Last week, I used the drive as usual, entering a password to unlock it to use.
I have a .zip file which has been embedded in a .xlsx file (excel ). But everytime I double click on the file it keeps giving this message:
My mac randomly wakes up for no reason and says the user is the reason, when it is not. Here's syslog |grep -i "Wake reason": Here's pmset -g and assertions: Edit: I still have the same problem but a different assertions results:
I used Documents app by Readdle, but now when I open it, it shows me the last document I was reading. When I try to switch back to file browser, it hangs, and I can't press anything. The question is how can I save my files and reinstall the app? Currently it has no updates on App Store.
But, most of the time the google search comes up first. That's so much pressing I might as well have just used the pointer.
Even if iPhoto tells me all the files are deleted, I can still find them on my iPhone under All Photos. There has to be a way to delete all pictures without separately selecting them on the small screen? Image Capture does not allow me to delete anything either:
Since I don't have too much space on the bootcamp internal hard drive (50 GB) I installed MSVC2013 on the external hard drive's Windows part. After the installation I learned that I didn't save too much space, but it worked and I had no problems with it. Since I didn't need it anymore I uninstalled it, but then for some reason I had to install it again. For some reason when MSVC2013 was uninstalled I changed the external hard drives Windows partitioned part's driver letter to a different one. When I tried to install MSVC2013 again it didn't let me, since it wanted to install it to the same place where it was before and I couldn't change the installation path, because it was grayed out. I read it in some forums that this is a "normal" behavior from MSVC2013 and to change the installation path you need to format the whole OS. Formating at that time was not an option for me, so I thought I create a small partition from the external hard drives Windows partition with the driver letter what
A few days after upgrading to Yosemite, I started noticing that Safari was moving VERY SLOWLY. After a day or two of this it stopped loading webpages at all! So I switched to using Chrome, then my Mail app stopped receiving mail, it would send mail but again it is VERY slow. Then messages wouldn't sign into my AIM account, and I noticed that the App Store won't load any pages at all. I've searched around the web and found that some other people had the same issue, here's a link to one comment on an apple discussion thread that helped me several times, but now that doesn't even help anymore! So the question: has anybody over here had this issue and found a solution to it? Thanks in advance!
I was running a Python code which may have increased the need for memory. Anyhow, the following happened, and I feel it should not. I have 16 GB memory and it shows only 3 GB allocated to Python Remainder of memory apparently not allocated to anything
Suppose I have an event at a building of which the location can find the address so I get a nice travel time estimate. Problem is, the building contains an awful lot of rooms and I'd really like to add the room number to the location (as that shows up in my overview). So how can I add the room number to the location without the automatic travel time estimates breaking?
I bought a Mac Pro (Late 2013) about a year ago. I recently ran out of space on the built-in 250gb SSD (Windows was the culprit of that), so I bought a 1tb ssd replacement from eBay. I just installed it today, and I want to move all of my data over to the new SSD.
So, I was messing with this folder and while doing this I turned show hidden files on and saw some strange files. These are the names of them, and sizes
I accidentally put a USB to Lightning cable in the washer and dryer. The cable is mostly ok, but the plastic at the lightning end got a little warped. Am I risking anything by trying to connect a device with it? I'm reluctant to damage an iPhone, but at the same time, those cables aren't cheap.
My kids spend way more time on ipad. I want to limit the time each child spends on iPad on a daily basis. Any apps? They yell at us for taking away the iPad.
I added lustyExplorer to ~/.vim/plugin. Then I ran MacVim and tried to run it with ":LustyFileSystemExplorer". Error "Unknown Function: lustyExplorer#LustyFileSystemExplorerStart" In the documentation it says: I also tried :lf and got Error: can't open errorfile errors.err
I'm running Yosemite with the latest updates. softwareupdated is using approximately 380MB of memory. That seems quite high to me. Is that normal? Is that indicative of a problem? Does softwareupdated have to be running constantly or can I safely remove it from launchd? Can I configure softwareupdated to use less memory?
I've got a 4K monitor attached via Dual Link DVI. It does 4K, but only at 30Hz. It does 60 Hz up to 2560x1440; anything above that is 30Hz. Is that a limitation of DVI?
A while ago, I had the idea to use the bootable Mac OS X USB drive-making procedure on a hard drive partition, so that I could basically have a version of the “Recovery HD” that doesn’t need to download Mac OS X every time. Then I realized that since I have that partition, I have absolutely no use for the original “Recovery HD.”
A good tutorial for writing such a broadcasting/multicasting application on iPhone is Michael Tyson's "The Making of Talkie: Multi-interface broadcasting and multicast". Suffice it to say that my application conforms with all requirements (e.g., setting socket options SO_BROADCAST, SO_DONTROUTE, and IP_MULTICAST_IF where appropriate).
I'm running Yosemite, up-to-date on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. I removed the optical drive, moved my internal HDD to its location and placed a new SSD in the original HDD's location. This has been great for a few months now. I've had a working Boot Camp setup that also was working fantastic.
On iPhone (iOS 8.1.3) If I run a search on the Google search app (the one with the Google Now integration) for something like a song, some of the results would be, of course, Youtube videos. If I click on one of those videos, the internal browser will open the Youtube mobile site. I want to open it with the Youtube app. I tried tap+hold on the link on the results page but the only options are Open, Add to Reading List and Copy. So, is there any configuration I'm missing to tell the search app to send those links to the Youtube app? Thanks!
I have a 17" Macbook Pro from late 2011 and recently it's been shutting down randomly, but almost always when I try to move the machine. Nowadays it's happening once every few hours and it makes it very hard to use the machine.
I'm using a Mac Book Pro. I boot my Windows 7 from an external drive. As this drive is getting full, I want to replace it with a bigger one. What should I do to move the Windows 7 from the one old to the new?
In OSX 10.10 Mail app a message gets read immediately when as soon as it is selected. Often this happens by accident; i.e. when organising folders, or it gets auto-selected when you delete/move another mail. Suffice to say this behaviour can disturb a workflow.
I want to buy LG 31MU97-B as a new external monitor for my Macbook Pro Retina 15" late 2013 with Intel Iris Pro only. But this monitor has real 4k resolution of 4096 x 2160! Can i get this resoluton at 60Hz on my rMBP?
In System/Library/spotlight there are several files like " Application.mdimporter " which seems they appropriate searching for spotlight. Can I add any file like them? Is there any way to make files like them? Can I find files of this kind produced with developers?
I have the most recent 1.8 installed from Oracle, and this is the install I would like Eclipse to be using. The following image shows the info from the Java Control Panel including the version number and the install path.
I found this nifty command which sets volume to 50% (or any level desired): I'd love to have a script or function that lets me type v 50 or v 30, etc. to easily change the volume levels. I tried making this bash function: However this gives: How can I make this work?
Okay, so I have a speck candy shell grip on my phone, I have never dropped my phone before but yesterday I let my friend do something on it in the YMCA and he dropped it. It was only from no more than about two feet and it fell on the spongy-soft floor. I'm really paranoid something may have happened but there is no damage and it functions no differently. 100% perfect. Any way anyone can put my mind at ease?
I have a Power Mac G5 (Model No: A1047 EMC 1969C). My problem is that it doesn't properly boot anymore when powered up. When I'll press the power button, the white LED next to the button will illuminate briefly and the fans come on for very shortly and slow down again. The screen stays dark. Then the fans very slowly increase their speed until they seem to reach full speed. This takes probably around 5 minutes and the fans stay on unless I force my Mac to power off with the power button. The screen stays black the whole time. The white LED next to the power button doesn't blink. Any idea how to trouble shoot this?
I'm on Mavericks and after I eject most SD cards, it takes a minute or two and process UASysAgent is taking 80% of the CPU... quite annoying, does anyone else experience this? Something that can be done about it?
I installed tuxera-ntfs in mac os x and am able to mount my external disks and use them without any issues. I can delete files, copy files to my external disk and from my disk
How to I sync contacts between Outlook for Mac (2015) and Google Contacts?
So my friend wanted to watch "50 shades of grey" (I know) and so I showed her how to install Bittorrent and download a torrent file. 2 days later (today) she messaged me saying that her browser settings have changed, the mackeeper icon is in her dock and that she couldn't even open google drive. I am mostly concerned about the mackeeper icon since I have heard very bad things about it. What is going on?? This didn't happen to me (also on a mac). How do I fix this without any kind of damage?
I just want to remove all music from the my device file in Itunes. I do not want to change anything in my Iphone, just the content of the my device file.
I have an issue. My client loved the report I generated using Numbers on Mavericks OS X. The bad news is that the data is being processed on a ubuntu machine running python and django. I want to automate this report generation which involves exporting to pdf and then sending it out via email. I have no problems with the web programming, the email automation using Python and Django. The bad news is I cannot seem to replicate the beautiful layout in Numbers. I may have to resort to AppleScript. How do I go about solving this issue assuming I really have to use Numbers? If I need to get a Apple Server, which version of OS should I get so I can use the Numbers?
Is there a way to mimic Firefox's Pinned Tabs in Safari on Yosemite? I love the Pinned tabs in Firefox because they allow me to easily keep a few key tabs (webmails, calendar, todo list) open without them taking up too much space. But I love Safari because it syncs with all my other devices. I tried to search for extensions that do this, but was unable to find any. Note: Pinned Tabs (or App Tabs) offer several functionalities: they allow you to select tabs that should always be loaded when Firefox starts these tabs are minimally represented in the tab bar
I have a MacBook Air running Yosemite. I have an external SD drive that I save files to frequently.
I'm looking for a quick and safe way to browse potentially malicious / infected websites. So far all of the products I've found are PC only. I can run a Virtual PC environment but it's a pain and I'm looking for something simpler. I'm on Yosemite.
I'm trying really hard to find a simple way to fetch all network UUIDS on my Mac to be able to do some plist magic. Is there a command to do such a thing? If I look in the plist I'll find for an instance "Service Order" But is there a simpler way than just writing a long script deleting the parts before and after? All computers running Yosemite. Final Script - Thanks to @Asmus for providing answers to get this working
I didn't think that caching needed the DNS service to be running in order for it to work. Is this true/false? I've been reading a lot of forums where it says you should get the server DNS right in order to make sure all the other services work but I just wanted to make sure.
I am trying to create a minimal dock through Profile Manager (OS X 10.10.2/Server 4.0.3) but I need to include the users' Download directory. Profile Manager has an option to add the Documents folder but not Downloads. I figured I'd add it in the Dock Items, but so far it isn't working. In Dock Items, I've tried: The last configuration shows a proper folder on the client dock but it has a permission denied icon present and it clearly is not pointing to the right place.
How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript? I found a script for automatically going back to the inbox in Office 2011.
My videos encoded as Apple ProRes are playable in Quicktime but not in iTunes. Is there anything I can do to make iTunes play them? Apple's support page suggests to me that iTunes can play any .MOV file: QuickTime and MPEG-4 movie files that end in ".mov", ".m4v", or ".mp4" and are playable in QuickTime Player.
I have a mid 2010 Macbook Pro running Yosemite that I foolishly did a reset on while it was connected to an external monitor that was designated as default in settings And connected to a USB keyboard and mouse. Now I have the white screen of death on startup.
OS has been upgraded to Mavericks. Can I still run the SMC firmware update 1.7 said to be for OS 10.75 and 10.82? Would it hurt anything to try this firmware update with the later OS?
I've got a mid 2012 MBP 13" in which I inserted a brand new MX100 in the place of the old HDD. I've put the old HDD in a case in the superdrive place and tried to install 10.10 but the install failed.
I used to have an extension that hided the toolbar completely (which I installed from a website, outside the extensions market) giving a minimalist look, but it suddenly got removed from my Safari for some reason, and I can't find it back in Google. Luckily I had a screenshot of the extension running:
I have got very slow internet connection. Last time, it took me 8 hours to download the Yosemite installation files. Is there anyway to clone a clean copy of OS X to another drive?
I would like to change the brightness settings of a USB webcam. Is there a way to do that without installing extra software on Lion?
I am trying to make a list of all AirPrint printers on the network at a school. We have many of them because of all the classroom and office printers, but they have not been set up with meaningful names. I tried reading the DHCP allocation table in the router, but many of the printers do not report a host name. I can't check printers in-person because of the disruption to classes from going in to every room and playing with the 1-3 printers there.
A long time ago, I made a game center account to which I attached my CoC village. This account hasn't been used anymore, and I have forgotten the ID and the password.
Is it possible to have a single wireless headset that works simultaneously with both an iPhone and a MacBook Pro? Imagine this scenario: I am watching video on my screen, listening via my wireless headset. My phone rings. To answer it now, I have to remove my headset and put on the second headset paired with my phone. In scenario two I am having a Skype call on my computer when my phone rings.
My computer was restored from my ex-wife's laptop 3 years ago. Her maiden name pops up as the user-folder name on all my files, and it's been wearing on me for a long time. I used this Q&A to try to change it, but when i get to tubedogg's 5th step, I can't figure out a way to change the folder name, even after double-clicking/going to the file on the root-user account.
My iPhone 5s camera takes random size photos. Sometimes they are large and at other times they are postage size images. Any answers ?
I have a pair of earpods and when I connect them to my MacBook the sounds is more bass-y that it should.. The fun fact is that if I don't plug the mini jack completely into the port the sound is 'as it should be'! But when I put the plug correctly for 1 second the sound is ok an then it turns to very bass-y again... I presume that something is wrong with configuration or something?! When I plug it into my iphone is the same effect.. Anybody knows what's the problem??
When I connect the Macbook to a TV monitor it does not duplicate my screen. It shows the Yosemite screen. It doesn't change as I open different files.
I am trying to get into the Volumes directory. Hidden files are being shown.
I recently got the OS X 10.10.3 update, which got me Photos for OS X and the opportunity to use iCloud Photo Library. However, I'm a little worried about maxing out my iCloud storage if I upload every photo on every device I own, since I currently only have the free 5GB and I'm already cutting it kind of close. I was wondering, is there a way to figure out how much iCloud storage my combined photo libraries (MBP, iPhone, and iPad) would eat up before turning on iCloud Photo Library and learning the hard way?
My iPod Touch ran out of battery and died for a short time. When I plugged it back in and it turned back on, all of my conversations on iMessage had been deleted. I still have the contacts but all of my texts and messages were gone. Why did this happen and is there any way to get my messages back?
I got to the log in screen, I logged in, and then navigated to my encrypted .dmg file. I clicked on it. Much to my astonishment and consternation, it duly mounted the partition without asking for my password.
Is there any way to hide a shared network drive in Finder? I don't want to hide all shared drives, just one. I am using an NAS server for backup purposes and I don't want users to be able see or eject the drive in Finder. I know how to hide mounted network shares with chflags, but I want to hide the drive too.
I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro and I had Mavericks, which ran just fine, but I upgraded to Yosemite after hearing some good reviews. I didn't back it up in time machine. It made my laptop extremely slow and glitchy, it's practically unusable now. I followed this *=URL=* to try to downgrade back to Mavericks, and I believe I successfully made a bootable Mavericks Install Drive. Everything worked just as it should have, I shut down my computer, pressed alt while turning it on, and chose the USB drive. It loaded for a few moments but then in place of the apple symbol, it just showed a prohibited symbol (circle with slash through it).
I have a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 Router with an attached HDD which I'm trying to access with the ReadyShare feature. I've created 3 shared folders: no_pass (no password required) pass_write (password required for write access) pass_read (password required for read/write access)
This is because of the long name, I think: Hans-Jorg Oestern, Otmar Lorenz Trentz, Lorem Ipsum Lorem Vascular Injuries- Trauma Surgery I (European Manual of Medicine).pdf I search unsuccessfully Hans Hans-Jorg Hans pdf Hans-Jorg pdf
I have Yosemite 10.10.2 installed; in my System Preferences > General, my default browser selection allows me to choose VLC. Why does this happen and can it be removed?
I'm using Spectacle for Window Management and I regularly use the commands to split my screen horizontally for exactly two windows. It works quite well for most things, but not for applications like Terminal.app or Emacs, which size themselves down just a little bit so that the window size goes together with their monospaced text view. I see Spectacle resizing them to exactly half of the screen, and then the windows resizing just a tad right after. Emacs on the left, Terminal.app on the right:
I have a phone that has a friends iCloud account on and they don't know the password for it. How do I get rid of the account.
I just noticed that the Ethernet port on my old Macbook Pro 5,1 (Late 2008, the first Unibody model) that is supposed to be Gigabit is limited to 100Mbps after I installed Mavericks. Does anyone know how to fix it? It's just a basic install of Mavericks, no strange configurations, I'm using it as a home server.
I recently had a Mavericks system die. The replacement is on Yosemite, so MacPorts can't be directly copied. Instead, I installed the macports base and now I'm trying to restore all the packages. The migration instructions start with getting a list of installed ports on the old system:
At the office I use a Windows running PC, in which tons of fonts are installed in .TTF, .OTF and .FON formats. I am using an iMac at home and sometimes I have to finalize my designs at home.
As I am currently using Outlook 2013 for Windows 8 and I have some crucial mails to access, which are in the form of Outlook für Mac-Archiv.olm and Harrison.olm in My Pen drive, I just carried out these mails from office PC and currently I am on holidays for 2 weeks, so please, its request for a reliable solution as soon as possible. I will be extremely appreciated your assistance.
The group discovered that this vulnerability can be exploited by using a client and making a connection via a weak key. Once the key is generated by the server, it is reused until the server is restarted which can potentially be months. The group was able to crack this weak server key in 7.5 hours using Amazon EC2. Once this is cracked, potentially all the communication can be downgraded to use weak keys and MITM'ed.
I am trying to do a time machine system restore from an encrypted sparse bundle. I have a mac with OS X 10.10.2 and the sparse bundle is on a time capsule. I rebooted with cmd+R and selected “Restore from a Time Machine Backup”. I was asked for the time machine password and then selected the sparse bundle I wanted to restore. At that point I was asked for the sparse bundle password, which however the system keeps rejecting.
I was able to isolate the issue when a project's test suite was running slowly. I found the (higher level) culprit to be a call to socket.getfqdn(). Running the following command in the terminal on OS X 10.10.2, demonstrates the problem:
From what I've seen it seems like the basic hotkeys do not allow such a thing, besides if I use the following command on the terminal : It only copies the screenshot to the clipboard but doesn't create the file screenshot.jpg at all (-c copies to clipboard and -i makes the user select a rectangle region to capture) Thanks for your help.
I am using the terminal app to ssh and when I do, it conveniently tells me (at the very top) what and where I am logged into for example: user@computer:/home/user/directory/
How do you search for a file of a specific type in OS X Yosemite? I cannot seem to find any instructions on how to do this. In the Finder search I enter: kind:zip
Does anyone know of a list of iOS serial numbers that marries the respective device types to the last 3 characters of the device serial? I know there are query sites out there where you can pump in the entire serial number but I'm looking for a comprehensive list that accounts for all models and sub-models. In example: CP7 --> iPod 4th Gen FHW --> iPad 2nd Gen 196 --> iPad Mini 1st Gen I'm trying to avoid compiling this for all devices in my environment but I can't seem to find anything that already exists.
Everything I read (specifically: *=URL=* states that the Apple TV A1469 running Apple TV Software version 7 and newer offers Wi-Fi Direct (aka peer-to-peer Wi-Fi) connectivity for Apple devices running iOS version 8 and newer so that AirPlay can be used without either device being connected to an access point. This is almost exactly the setup that my family has - an Apple TV A1469 running the newest Apple TV Software version 7.0.3 (6917) and an assortment of iDevices (iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPad Air, iPhone 5, etc) which all run iOS version 8.1 and newer.
I'm downloading family shared purchases (music) to my iPhone. It seems as though after I sync my phone to my computer it removes all the shared content I downloaded. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
I'm trying to system restore my computer (MacBook7,1 running 10.9.4), but want to keep Microsoft Office and Logic Express that I have installed. I do not have the disks to reinstall them, as I lost them during a move. How can I restore my computer and keep my purchased software?
Are there any weather apps for iOS that report the amount of snow accumulation, not just precipitation? Something like 3-5" of snow is expected.
Is it possible to send audio through both the headphone out jack and line in jack on my MacBook Pro? My reason for doing this is because I'm trying to monitor audio on headphones on a mixing program while sending audio out to loud speakers. I know it would be possible if I bought an external/USB sound device, but I'm out of the country for the next few months and finding a place that sells one will be difficult.
I have setup my macbook to sync with my google account for notes and apparently for each note that i start to write on my mac several versions, i believe all versions of the notes (after each modification) are saved within all mail in my gmail, however only the final version of the note is kept under the label notes. Is there any way to prevent mac notes to save drafts on the google server?
Oftentimes, after I wake my Mac from sleep, powerd (which is the power management daemon? Which in particular deals with sleeping the Mac and waking it?) uses high CPU, usually around 25% to 50% on my i7 CPU.
When starting a terminal in iTerm 2, my .zshrc is executed twice. Possibly has something to do with the "last login" printed at the top of terminal by iTerm? Anyone know how to fix this? Example output, new terminal:
Recently I upgraded a Mac to OS X Yosemite. When upgrading, a new user account was unintentionally created. Now, that newly created user account is being "recognized" as the main account [note:on this new account it's as if the computer is starting from the beginning, none of the previous settings or preferences are there, BUT all of the information is still on the computer]. Even at log-in the original user account is not there to log-in to.
I've had this iPhone 6 for a week now. Today my WhatsApp duplicated itself with a 'grayish' overlay on it. I can move it around, but when tapping it nothing happens. How does this happen and how can I get rid of this?
when trying to install Ruby, Vagrant, and Grunt using terminal I am still required to use sudo on my installs. I am sole proprietor of the laptop and have an administrator account. Shouldn't I be able to install software without using sudo?
I have a win 7 computer with vmware workstation 11 and I need to install Yosemite in it. I got the Yosemite OS iso after downloading the os in a mac from the appstore, as outlined in this guide (Official way to obtain an OS X ISO file). Now what I cant seem to find anywhere is how to create a vm with that iso. When I create a new vm in workstation it asks for the iso file, then I don't see the option to specify OSX as my OS in the wizard. Is there a way to create a vmx with this iso? Have any of you done this before? Thanks
I'm trying to install silverlight in mi Mac pro (retina) with Yosemite bat I can't. I install de package, it says correctly installed but when I try to run netflix it ask me again to Install Silverlight. might be a problem with Rosetta but I dont know how to uninstall Rosetta. Appreciate any help
Just logged in to amend settings on my Apple ID. When entering new email, must have typed it wrong. Never received verification and now can't log back in. Can't 'find Apple ID' as I don't know what my typo was. How else can I retrieve it as am now logged out on all my devices.
I've been working on my early-2008 iMac of late, replacing the HD with and SSD, and upgrading the CPU to 2.8 GhZ. The SSD and new CPU seem to be working fine, except after I finished I ended up with this weird audio problem: ALL audio is distorted. I've shared a couple of links to demonstrate: Clip of Middle C Stars and Stripes Forever
I keep receiving the following error message when copying files, from my iMac and my Macbook, over to my Mac Mini Server. The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “filename.pdf” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)
In my .ssh/ directory, when running But looking at the dev file
About 2 weeks ago, I updated my late 2011 Macbook Pro hard drive to a Crucial MX100 solid state drive. The drive installation and data migration went fine with no issues, but today I found the computer in a state where the screen just showed the "flashing folder" icon indicating an issue with the main boot disk. I restarted the computer in recovery mode and verified the disk, and Disk Utility said the disk was fine, with no issues. I then rebooted into Mac OS X (Yosemite 10.10.2) as normal and the computer is working fine.
Every few minutes I need to click a button on Yosemite's menu bar and select an option. I'd like to automate this task by somehow recording this action and scheduling it to execute via cron / command line. I've tried creating an Automator workflow using the "Watch Me Do" feature, but although it executes fine inside Automator, when I run automator myclicks.workflow in the Terminal, it gives me this cryptic error message: The action encountered an error. How can I get automator action to work?
I have an iPhone 4s with iOS 7.1.2, and I sent some photos I took on the phone to iCloud, via the right-click menu (not sure what that is called). But they do not show up when I log in to iCloud on my Macbook. iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4
This is on the latest version of OSX:  I have never seen this separate dock before, and I don't know if it's something native to OS X, Chrome, or maybe something else (Parallels perhaps)? It has not right click context menu and I cannot drag it. This is on a new MBP. Any ideas?
My iMessage is working with all iPhone users, except with a specific contact. iMessage is working with this contact, except that he is only able to receive my iMessages as my email address and not from my phone number. I use my email as my ID for both iPad and iPhone. I have my send & receive settings set to only my phone number, so when i try to send an iMessage to this contact, it automatically fails to deliver. Anything i can do about it? Is it something to do with his settings or mine?
I tried to install pymol using macports (after trying to build from the source code failed): It did install it, giving me two warnings:
Based on Applescript - the activate command makes application "half-active", I wrote the following Applescript which would allow me to click the green (zoom) button at the top-left corner of an window. I want to apply the script to MacVim and others which have the green button as "AXFullScreenButton". But, running the script makes the window to FULL SCREEN rather than a "maximized" window. Can anyone tell what is wrong?
Is there a way to not get old iMessages/SMS notifications that I've already dealt with on my iPhone after I wake up my Mac? It is rather annoying, they are not new messages so why are they behaving as such?
I want to display a video on an external monitor while the computer is locked (so that no one can walk up and stop the video, access my account, etc.).
So, I'd be using my Magic TrackPad or listening to music via Bluetooth headphones and suddenly the mouse cursor would start jumping around or the Bluetooth audio would start breaking up, and that's when I know that my colleagues iMac has connected to my computer. I go to the Bluetooth menu and I disconnect it. After a little bit or awhile, it connects again... No one knows how or why this happens. Could someone please tell me what's going on and how to stop it? Oh, I forgot to mention, another one of our colleagues also complains about this particular iMac connecting to his MacBook Pro.
I have an iPhone 6 iOS 8.0. And I want to restore it. So I downloaded the iOS 8 firmware for iPhone 6 from this link then I opened itunes and pressed shift+click on restore button and then chose my downloaded ios 8.0 firmware, but I get the below error message:
I need to have a script return a date that a particular application launched (in this case Parallels, but solution should be non-specific) so that our asset management system can mark the license for re-use. So far I've tried using the Spotlight metadata tag kMDItemLastUsedDate with but this does not always return dates that match the last time an app was used. Any other ideas?
I installed Google IME and uninstalled it. Then, as shown in the image below, an empty group is left in Launchpad. (I think it should have been removed automatically when the group became empty.) How can I remove the empty group manually? OSX 10.10.2
On many occasion thinking that my Mac was disconnected from any form of network (with or without wire), I discovered that in fact it was confortably chating at full speed with the rest of the world through a forgotten connection. Typically: displayed a high speed movie about domain, bootpc, http, netbios, https, 5223 (unassigned)… trafics. For the wireless side, there is a nice function to be aware that a Mac is connected or not: the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar. But for infrared, Bluetooth, Ethernet, MacOS X seems to miss the same usefull and simple function. Is there a trustable software or method to be sure that a Mac if fully disconnected from any form of network? I would be mostly interested by something as small and as visual as the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar.
I have an iPhone 6 plus 128 gb and it is running iOS 8.1.3. The phone was never broken.
I have an odd issue. Sometimes it happens that application (happens almost always to NetBeans) is stuck in the dock with "Not Responding" - I can't open it, if I select "Force quit" id doesn't do anything (both from dock and from "Force quit" window. The most annoying thing - there is no associated process that I could kill! The only way to start application again is to restart the whole osx, which is PITA. How can I force-force-quit of such application?
I am trying to launch the D programming language compiler DMD, but the terminal is giving the following error: But there's not folder called dmd2 under /Library/Compilers. I can launch the dmd compiler from this path /usr/bin/dmd, but I don't want to type this path every time I need to compile a source code file. This is my $PATH: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin Is there a way that when I type dmd it launches /usr/bin/dmd, instead of trying to language a compiler under /Library/Compilers/dmd2/osx/bin/dmd?
It stops and now the virtual machine screen is black, except for: "Windows. Click to Start." If I click on that, it goes back to step 4.
I am thinking to give my macbook pro to apple service. Because on the right side, USB, hdmi and sd card reader are not working. According to the people in the store, it will take about 3-5 days to fix the problem.
The MacBook Pro would hang with a "white screen" during the boot process. A bit of boot splash would show up, but the gray background would at some point just hang. Booting recovery mode did not work, as far as I remember. Booting recovery mode did not work, as far as I remember.
I am trying to make a presentation, and am facing a problem. I am facing picture compression issues . In addition to this saving problem, that pictures become worse quality every time I save the file, I am experiencing problems while trying to insert files. All pictures are inserted blurry. This applies for emf, png and, pdf.
In the past few days I've seen a strange "box" coming up next to the first icon on the dock on some Macs here at the office. The same box can be found in the CmdTab menu. This happens only on some of our Macs, which have the same version of OS X (10.10.2) and the same AppleID - but other Macs with the same OS X and AppleID don't seem to show the same behaviour.
My phone was taken by my teacher because i play with it while the school time, is it safe to turn it off for 3 months with battery 100% ?
I have a 3rd party form which has a lot of fields to be filled in. I started entering the information on a Windows PC and saved it to Dropbox. When I open the form in Apple Preview on my OS X Yosemite machine the fields that I filed in are all blank! If I open it in Adobe Reader instead the information is present but when I save the file and open it in Windows again all of the previously saved information from my initial Windows session has gone. Please tell me how I can stop this happening as I use these forms on a regular basis and I need to edit them in Windows 7 and Mac OS X Yosemite.
I have an iphone backup with screenshots I'd like to extract. They aren't on icloud/iphoto.
I am trying to remove some clutter from my HardDrive. I notice that I have both iMovie 10 and iMover ver8.0.6 installed. Similarly I have Garageband 10 and Garageband 5.1 installed. I would like to remove the plists, folders and anything that is specific to the old versions without deleting something that is also used by the newer versions. Can anyone list for me all the files and folders that are necessary to run just iMovie 10? and a list of the system files and folders necessary for just Garageband 10? Thanks.
Firstly - I know this has been answered, but I am hoping for a more broken down answer, as I am not quite so technically minded, but I can follow instructions! So in summary I have tried to install windows with bootcamp. Something failed and I ended up using Disk utility to try and remove the partition created by bootcamp. Big, silly error I know!
I was updating my macbook air to Yosemite. When I almost finished the update, my battery died. I've charged my laptop, but it won't turn on again. The screen just stays black. What should I do?
I recently discovered Shazam has an app for mac, it seems it works by listening on the built in mic (or any mic presumably). I wondered if there was a way I could get it to listen to the soundcard instead? I typically listen to radio streams over VLC, through headphones and thought it would be awesome to be able to use Shazam for those unknown tunes. I found out about the Audio MIDI Setup.app which you can create aggregate devices, I thought maybe I could somehow forward the output into the mic- but I don't really understand it exactly truth be told. Is there a way I could get this to work?
Context: I am in the process of migrating from an old MBP (10.6.8) to a newer MBR (10.9). This is not an in-place upgrade or Time Machine restore; it is a manual migration to new hardware, new OS, new disk partitioning, and new user accounts.
In my terminal, when I ask to show Dimensions (profiles -> window -> dimensions), it shows the dimensions as Columns x Lines, but when I use resize -s 25 200, I am actually resizing as Lines x Columns, so I would like the dimensions to display in the same way. Is there any way to get the Dimensions in the title to appear in the same order as the parameters in resize -s?
There are several files on a remote Buffalo drive that I can't delete. I'm using a Mac (OSX 10.9.5) and Finder reports the drive's filesystem as "SMB (NTFS)". I have tried from the GUI and from Terminal, but I always get "Permission Denied": Even with "sudo": Here is a directory listing:
After adding a new email account (call it gmail-2), my default note app account has been accidentally changed to the new gmail account(gmail-2). I did not realize it until after tons of notes to it. So right now I have two accounts on my iPhone both have a lots of notes. So I wonder is there any way that I can transfer the all notes in the gmail-2 to the old account(call it gamil-1) automatically without copying all of them by hand?
I have Frequent Locations turned on and it does a great job recording everywhere I go and for how long. A few nights ago I was at a residential address for about an hour, however Frequent Locations did not record it. Is there a reason why?
Is there a way, or ways, to retrieve iMessages or text messages sent to me by a number or email address I have blocked on my iPhone 6?
I guess the vulnerability has been around for a decade [ars technica], but should we just stay away from using any personal information until there is a security patch?
I have Time Machine backups from my iMac Early 2008 (20"). Can I determine from those backups what OS X version was running on the machine at the time of latest backup?
Most iOS apps that open web pages open them in in-app browsers. These are somewhat restrictive, in that they don’t support bookmarks (and hence bookmarklets) or Handoff (although they do support AirDrop). Is there a quick way to open them in the full Safari iOS app?
I am (have confirmed I have rights since I can remove and join a Windows 7 box) having problems joining a Yosemite OS X 10.10.2 to the domain--I receive a "authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation (5202)" no matter if I use the GUI to join the "Network Account Server" or use DSCONFIGAD command-line command at Terminal. I was able to join two Mac Minis on 10.10.x a few months ago but I am having problems with a new-out-of-the-box Mini right now. Even tried erasing and reinstalling from a OS X 10.10.2 thumb drive.
The process softwareupdated seems to be taking up way too much memory. It can take up to 400 MB RAM sometimes. I can't nail down what is causing this to happen, so I've been watching my console closely. I've narrowed one incident to a 15 minute period, but I still can't see what might be causing this. I am attaching the console output below. Usually softwareupdated only takes up 18 MB. When it gets up to 400 MB, it won't ever go back down unless I restart my computer. Its like it can't release the memory or something. Its very frustrating since it slows my computer down considerably. I have also had my computer freeze a few times requiring a manual shutdown. It seems the problems started with update 10.10.2, but this may be a coincidence.
As of today, my 15" 2010 Macbook Pro has randomly rebooted twice within an hour. I'm including the Panic Report that was displayed after the computer rebooted. I'm running OS X 10.10.2, connected to an external monitor via mini display port to VGA adapter, and I was using these applications when the reboots occurred: firefox vlc skype finder
I am new to Mac OS X Yosemite. How do I make TextEdit show recent documents? When I go to File and select Recent Documents, it does not show the last few documents like it used to.
This may initially sound like a question, and I'm by no means a amateur user of the OSX Operating system(s). However, upon recently upgrading to Yosemite, my system has become SUPER slow to boot, and I'm wondering if Time Machine will at all aid the start up time by distributing the burden to two disks? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Per request...
I accidentally formatted my SSD's GPT while formatting a USB in Linux's gparted. Now, when running gpt in Mac's command line, this is how my SSD looks like:
I am planning an international flight. I have the flight details, with local departure times and arrival time at destination. I have entered these into my Calendar. Due to the differences in timezone this appears as an 8 hour trip, when in reality is is 19. Is there a way to enter timezone so the duration shows correctly and so when I adjust my timezone on arrival, it will show the correct local time. I have turned on timezone support, but there seems to be no way to have a different timezone for start/end times.
Every time I view an image using Preview, it gets stored, and when I open preview again, everything is there, like this- How can I clear that? Thanks (for reference- I use Yosemite on a MacBook Pro)
Would you help me to find a way how to assign a keyboard shortcut to a Smart Folder in OS X? That is, when I'm in Finder I'd like to open a given Smart Folder with the shortcut like I can do it with e.g. Documents using Cmd+Shift+O.
So SMART seems good, maybe onyx is in fault. But my cksum mismatch problem is still here When I run disk utility and I perform a verification on my hard drive I always get this: Invalid Disk Label @ 250123653120: cksum mismatch And sometimes if I wait enough time (a few days) after a repair (with the cmd+R on boot utility) I get this kind of error: Incorrect block count for file (...) This last problem seems to happen with files I downloaded and most likely which I didn't finish to download. What I think: When Yosemite came out I installed it, but since I found that even resizing a window wasn't as smooth as on Mavericks I decided to downgrade using my Time Machine backup.
A lot of hard drives delivered with Macs come with an Apple logo. Is it possible to put those drives in other laptops like Asus, Acer, Toshiba etc.?
The HTTPS protocol is clearly missing but I cannot fathom why. This is really puzzling -- what has happened (yesterday I could run brew update && brew upgrade without any errors.
The memory compression caused frequently lag so I tried turning it off by using the command The lag was gone but I got crashing freeze when I opened some memory hungry apps. During freezing, it was not possible to quit some apps. I could only move the mouse cursor around. After several 10 minutes, OSX simply gave up and restarted itself. It seemed that OSX was out of memory. Is it true that the default pager does not use swap?
I want to reset OS X Applications settings, like TextWrangler or some other applications. I kill the TextWrangler Process in Activity Monitor, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.textwrangler.plist, but nothing happened, settings doesn't reset. I need to reboot, then reopen the applications, and the settings are reset. Running OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) How can I manually reset settings without reboot?
So basically, my sister blocked me on her iPhone (iOS8) because she's being immature and I really need her to read my message. If I iMessage her through my Messages app, and start the conversation from one of my linked e-mails, will it go through to her? I just don't know if when someone blocks an iPhone number, it automatically blocks all linked accounts... I kind of feel like it's not that advanced.
I tried to install Apache and PHP on Mac OS X version 10.9.5 exit with this error local/Cellar/apr-util/1.5.4/libexec/lib/libaprutil-1.la -lexpat -liconv /usr/local/Cellar/apr/1.5.1/libexec/lib/libapr-1.la -lpthread Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_TLSv1_1_client_method", referenced from: _main in ab.o "_TLSv1_2_client_method", referenced from: _main in ab.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
I'm getting this 'grey bar' in my home icon row:  It is the same colour as the 'grey dot' underneath some of the applications in the home icon row that are active.
OS X Mail - How can I setup multiple e-mail addresses under the same mail account? I use two addresses with the same account one is me@myworkdomain.com and the other is me@mypersonaldomain.com. On iOS I can add the second address to the mail account configuration and I can send from both. How is this done on OS X's Apple Mail?
The date picker in iOS is awful. Every time I put something on my calendar it's a "game of chance" if I will notified about it. Combine that with a touch screen and you have a recipe for scheduling disaster.
I'm trying to recover an apparently corrupted disk. It appears that through improper shutdown the drive has been somehow killed. It's the main partition of a Macbook Pro.
I have set up iCloud and Apple ID, but keeps telling me to verify my Apple ID. It won't let me download the Gmail app to access my emails to verify my Apple ID. How do I fix this?
I'm attempting to start QuickTime from AppleScript and select the camera of my iPhone like I do from QuickTime. I can't seem to make it change the camera. The script I have now is: Of course the part of setting the camera to iPhone is not working.
But also:  What's going on? :-/ I look into my DCIM folder on my iPhone through Windows Explorer and it's empty, too. Update: I have no photo syncing going on in iTunes, nor do I have any "recently deleted" items on my iPhone
I am trying to figure out why I have 2 Macintosh HD Drives Appearing in disk utility. One of them i can mount and shows it as being a logical drive and the second one i can't mount but it says it has no disk errors. also shows it as being a core storage physical drive, and has the same amount of gibbets as the other but has no data on it. please help
Does anyone knows a way to preconfigure a WPA2 WiFi network on Mac OS X (Yosemite)? I'm preparing an iMac for a friend and would like to setup his home WiFi while currently far away from the network.
I just got a MacBook Pro laptop and am in early stages of learning. The calendar that comes with the computer does not transfer the appointments to my iPhone 5S. I could never get Microsoft Outlook calendar to transfer either. What do I need to do to get the transfer to occur?
I know, OS X 10.10 memory management knows what it does, it is good, you shouldn't question it. But this, I do not understand. I have 16 GB of RAM, 6 GB used, plus 2.5 GB app-cache, 1 GB file-cache and 1.5 GB reserved is a total of 11 GB used memory. But for some reason, I have 1 GB of compressed memory and about .5 GB of used swap. Whenever the system starts to use swap, it get's noticeably laggy. Because of this, I have to reboot about once a day.
I have an IMAP mail account in the Apple Mail client that I want to delete. I first goto the Accounts preferences pane in Mail. When I click the minus icon to delete the account, I get a message about having to do it in Internet Accounts.
Up until Yosemite I have always had a text to speech service menu option and have been able to readily use a command key combination to trigger the reading of selected text in just about any application. Under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Services, looking under the Text subsection, there is nothing there to enable for text-to-speech. Further, System Preferences -> Dictation & Speech -> Text to Speech has "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" enabled and a key combination set and this key command simply doesn't work (and yes, even when I change this to another set of keys). Neither of these have functioned properly for me since my initial usage of Yosemite this past summer and I am curious as to whether others have found a solution. Does anyone: Know how one can make TTS appear in the service menu again and Have you figured out a way to make the key combination work reliably in applications?
Okay, I see this question has been asked a few times before (here, here, here and here), but none of those really answer the question for me. I don't want to use the AppleScript suggestions provided to enable/disable Internet Sharing since future updates to the System Preferences GUI may break the AppleScript, as was the case in the linked posts above, and the solution seems a little clumsy, to be honest. On Yosemite, sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist no longer works as there's no longer a .plist called InternetSharing. I tried sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat NAT -dict-add Enabled -int 1 which I saw somewhere else, but that only toggles the actual checkbox in System Preferences and doesn't actually enable IS.
I'm building an iOS 8 iPhone app that lets user upload photos to Facebook. Can I set the term Facebook as a keyword for my app in iTunes Connect or will that lead to a rejection by Apple?
Everything I download will not open. OS X says the file is damaged and can't be opened and should be moved to the Trash. Like Adobe Reader, for PDF documents. JPEG files will not open. Office files will not open. Yet the thumbnail preview is perfect and I can flip the pages to see the information is there. I tried to download OpenOffice for the Office documents but it says the same thing, damaged, cannot open, should be moved to the Trash. MacBook Air with Mountain Lion
After some random amount of time (and sleep-wake cycles) multitouch on my laptop became very jumpy. All multitouch actions start to perform only after I take away fingers after swipe. For example, both on external and internal trackpads scrolling became very hard when this bug appears because I need to replace single big swipe with many short ones. System reboot or killing WindowsServer process (or just logout, not sure) normalize multitouch behaviour, but only for some amount of time. Scrolling with other devices (like logitech mouse) works fine, so I think it's something with trackpad software. Hardware: MacBook Pro 15" 2012 on Mavericks and Yosemite MacBook Pro 13" Retina 2014 on Yosemite
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I have: Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.10.2 iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.1.3
There are a few answers on old questions about the same issue under Lion / Mountain Lion. Now with Java 1.8 and OS X 10.10 I wonder if anything has changed? Would be great to have exact removal steps. It really is asked too much, for Oracle to provide a proper uninstaller?
There are 2 rating dialogs in the AppStore, one for the current version and one for all versions. Does that mean that a user can rate every update of an iOS app?
I installed gnuplot on my yosemite system using brew. When I try to plot cos(x) the way I would on ubuntu, I get this:
I recently upgraded to Yosemite, and now my laptop has the following issue: Each and every window (the AppStore, Chrome, etc) seems to be continuously and very slowly redrawn, to the point where I can see the screen go white, and then slowly be drawn back in from the bottom to the top.
I now run OS X 10.9.5 on my office laptop, which is monitored by my company. App Store alerted me about Yosemite, and I chose to download and install it. After download completed, I got a notification saying that my company does not support Yosemite and the installation was terminated.
I want to write a Q with a dot above. How can I make it happen? I need it in omni graffle.
I"m using Mac 10.9.5 with bash shell. Occasionally when I ssh into another machine and then the connection dies (e.g. the Internet goes down or I move to a new location), the terminal window with the open SSH session is frozen and the only way I seem to be able to move ahead is to close it and start a new session. Is there some way to configure things such that if the SSH session's connection dies, I will be returned back to my normal bash shell, as it was before I executed my SSH command?
Is there a script that could be written to achieve this: In System Preferences/Displays... is it possible to relocate the menu bar ...via a script? My set-up is one monitor and a Cintiq. I either work only with the Cintiq, or I work with my 28" monitor several times a day. I always need to go to do this manually. I really wish there was a script that can do this. I tried Automator, but it's not recording the action. :(
How can I determine whether the heat sink is no longer firmly heat-tied to the CPU? This appears to be the case for a seven year old MacBook, but I'd like to confirm without going to the trouble of re-applying the thermal paste just to find out that the old CPU (a core 2 duo) will indeed trigger the fan even for simple tasks. I am looking for a recipe such as: Running a given process on a MacBook with a core 2 duo in a room with ambient temperature of 20C will not trigger the fans for at least 10 minutes.
On OS X 10.8.x I had an Automator service set up to paste a password from clipboard into the password window that pops up for mounting an encrypted disk. I don't wish to store the password in my keychain, and it is long and tedious to type out.
I spent some time entering a Calendar event on my Mac. I was viewing on my iPhone, and somehow "moved" it around. Can I undo this?
I've just bought a new Macbook Air (running Yosemite) and I am trying to create a partition from my Macintosh HD SSD for dual-booting Ubuntu. However when I try to create a partition in Disk Utilities, I keep getting the error "This Core Storage operation is not allowed on a sparse logical volume group." I have tried restarting the system in Recovery Mode and verifying and repairing the disk, but it did not work. What can I do to partition? (I would prefer to not format the SSD.)
I'm trying to screen share on from within the Messages app with another iMessage user. We're both on Yosemite, and we've successfully used Messages's new screen sharing feature many times. One day, we discovered the screen share button was disabled. It has never come back.
I have a Macbook Pro 15-inch, Early 2011 running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2. When I start it up, the time is always 11 hours ahead of what it should be. But when I then enter the Date and Time Preferences, the time shifts back to where it needs to be. For example: When it's 2pm on the 7th of March 2015, it'll say it's 1am on the 8th of March.
How is it that Disk Utility allows you to resize the partition that OS X is botted from live, while the OS is running? Can there be problems doing this? I would have thought that booting into recovery mode to do these things would be a requirement. Here's what I mean, Disk Utility will allow me to "Apply" this change while booted in OS X:
In Excel, how do you delete line breaks globally? It's totally messing up my text-to-column I need to do.
So I got a new iPad. Which I would like to setup with iMessage same as my current iPad. When I set it up it asks if I would like to set as a restore backup. I think I want to do this but I don't want to effect my current iPad in any way. Is that how this works? It mirrors my current iPad but does not change my current iPad in any way?
I took two 4K videos of about 1 and 2 minutes each on a GoPro and since I couldn't get the full resolution videos directly from the GoPro iPad app, I used AirDrop on a MacBook to send them to the iPad. I have been unable to play them back on the iPad, so I just want to make sure that they don't take 10+GB of space for nothing.
So this seems like an obvious one, but after some searching around the web and Dropbox's bad help section I've really come unstuck with this. I'm trying to delete the official Dropbox app from my Macbook and everytime I try and move the .app package to the trash by right clicking it says that it can't because the app is being used elsewhere.
How do I control the text box size in Keynote? My main problem is that I can't even select the box, though I can select text within the box. When I click on the paintbrush on the upper right of the keynote page, and then select Arrange, the dimensions of the textbox are shown, but greyed out.
I want to play music while chatting in Google Hangouts and let both parties hear it, as well as our talking. I'm using Apple earbuds with a built-in (external) mic on a MacBook Pro from about 2009. Conversation works fine, and when I play iTunes or something in QuickTime, I hear it through the earbuds, but the person I'm talking to can't.
My mac pro only has 13GB left, with more than 24GB are backups, how can I release these space?
I have inadvertently deleted my Applications folder from the dock. I tried accessing the Applications icon in a Finder window and then I tried to drag it down to the dock. I did so to the lower left hand of the screen, but the Applications icon went away with a cloud image. Now, I have no access to my Applications. How do I recover access to Applications?
I have a recent backup of my iPad. Where can I find the clipboard in the backup ?
I've been avoiding updating my OS because I didn't want to lose the use of older applications. I just bought a new Airport Extreme which requires OS X 10.7.5 or later. I'm currently running OS X 10.6.8 and need to know if I upgrade will it run Creative Suite CS5?
I've noticed that when I have Transmission running my network speed becomes very slow. Even if I'm only uploading data (the same is true even if the upload rate is low as 5KB/sec) via Transmission the download speed becomes very slow throughout the computer. It doesn't mattet if I'm browsing using Safari, streaming music in iTunes, if a software is upgrading itself etc they all become slow. As soon as I close Transmission everything speeds up again. I'm connected through my Airport time capsule. Cheers. Edit: This is to clarify some things as mentioned in Tetsujin's response.
I am trying to set up a calendar event in my iPhone 6. I key the entry in and hit add but it's not added to my calendar. What am I doing wrong?
I have U2's Songs of Innocence in My Libray of my iTunes. I have a PC. How do I transfer/sync this album to my iPod? Clicking the "sync" button does not do it; it only syncs up all other albums. And, I have an iPod 5th Generation, not and iPod Touch.
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8 installed and have blocked a person who is harassing me via my txt messages. I do not have a phone number for this person as he is texting me via iMessage with his email address. This person lives in Norway and I in the US.
Time ago I split the hard drive (500gb) in two partitions (250 each), now I don't need them anymore, so I have first erased successfully one partition and now I have still the second one (Mac HD 2) See the image attached
I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed OS X 10.10 Yosemite on my Late 2013 Macbook Pro. So far everything's great, but within the last two days I haven't been able to access any google services through HTTP. Websites that access ajax.googleapi.com or fonts.googleapi.com load extremely slow (because they have to timeout first) and Google, YouTube, Google+, none of it will load unless I put *=URL=* in the front of the URL. I can't explain this behavior, and was hoping perhaps someone here could. Here's a cURL to Google:
I am trying to delete Safari Private Browsing on a 10.8.3. It requires the Xcode App that is only available for 10.9.4 or later. Is there another App I can use or some other way around this that will allow me to disable the Private Browsing? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I recently bought Logitech G402 and I've got some problems with its customising. I use OS X.
I clicked a link (turned out to be Breitbart) that said "your Flash is not updated", despite the fact that I just installed it yesterday. The two choices were "Update" and "Ok". Strangely, there was no ability to simply dismiss the popup without clicking one of those buttons. I should have force quit Safari, but instead I clicked "Ok". Then it tried to download something! I immediately dragged it to the trash, but when I tried to empty the trash it said that file was in use! I don't recall clicking on it or giving it any instructions to open so I immediately pulled the plug on the computer. I was able to delete it once I restarted. Three questions: 1) Why did the computer download software from a random site without being given permission? 2) Why did it say the file was in use when I very clearly did not open it up? 3) Can the Mac actually install this kind of garbage without my permission?
iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3. How do I email photos with full resolution. I go to Photos, select some photos, pick Mail, then compose the email. No where in "New Message" does it give me an option to pick the resolution. Once I press send the email is sent with the photos at 1280x960. Follow-up - For some reason the photo was less than 500KB thus the email app didn't offer an option to resize it.
I’d want to filter a bunch of spammy sites from the search results on Google, just like the Personal Blocklist extension does on Chrome, is there an alternative to Google’s Personal Blocklist extension for Safari? I’ve found this but seems outdated.
I've tried three different ways to create a symbolic link to Sublime Text on my Mac and, after restarting terminal each time, it still keeps telling me command not found. I'm using a Mac with Yosemite (OSX Yosemite, 10.10). How can I create a symbolic link so I can open Sublime with the sub command? One Two Three (no quotes)
I was doing some traceroute test yesterday, and today, my Mac terminal's user prompt becomes Also when I'm doing traceroute like: it stops with this log:
To my greatest stress I did following today sudo rm -rf * tmp/ instead of sudo rm -rf tmp/* from home folder. And ta-da everything is gone from my home directory. Unfortunately I dont have time machine backup either. Can anyone suggest best recovery software for this situation?
I tried to make an 8 GB partition on my hard drive so I could make it into a bootable drive, like Recovery HD but without the need to redownload the OS, but for some reason Disk Utility wouldn't let me make a partition smaller than around 40ish GB. After some trial and error in an effort to make a partition of no more than 8 GB, I wound up with quite a bit of unused free space.
Our fully operational Internet-facing OS X Server with its own OD Master needs to be moved to a new Mac with newer, larger disks. How do we achieve this with the minimum disruption to our users? Would this strategy work? Temporarily take the old machine offline whilst we 'recover' the old OS X Server to the new Mac either from Time Machine or directly from the old machine. Put the new machine online with the same network name and IP number as the old machine?
I recently found a rather romantic exchange on my boyfriend's iPad. He insists that he does not have any record of this exchange on his iPhone (which is linked to his iPad) nor does he know the phone number that sent the messages. The iPad has the other person initiating the conversation and his responses. Is it possible that he was hacked, or is he simply lying?
On OSX Yosemite an annoying pop-up comes up quite often saying: To view this web content, you need to install the Java Runtime Environment I know the solution is to install java; however I'm wondering what's the cause for that. A quick ps -axww tells me: I dug around and I found that there is a LaunchDaemon that references this in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.java.InstallOnDemand.plist:
I am able to see image's location on Photos tab on iPad, but how to preview the same in Albums tag using iOS 8 Photos app?
On the keyboard, shift + E will expand my window to the largest size. I can't type capital E, unless I toggle caps lock. I have BetterTouchTool, though the developer said it was unrelated.
I've spilled a coffee on my keyboard, as a result right and left arrows don't function any more. Is there a way to change locations or maybe to create a shortcut to represent those keys? for example shift + up arrow = right arrow, smth like that?
I purchased mac pro 2 model no# a1186 few days ago with a new Hard drive . Now im trying to install os x from usb. i made bootable usb through another mac mini machine by formatting it through disk utility and transfer dmg OS X lion 10.7 in it.
I changed my residence and cancel my old credit card. Now I did a clean install of OS X and want to download purchased apps and free apps (Aperture, Keynote and iPhoto) but the App Store asks me for my credit card info and since I don't have it anymore I can't do it.
Is it possible to use the same time machine backup for two different machines? Is it possible to take the backup of my laptop and push it to my desktop? If I make changes to one machine do the changes go to the other machine?
Macports sets up the ownership of its Python site-packages directory as root.wheel with world-readable permissions. Python packages instally via port install have the same This of course prevents individual users from using pip install to add packages, which is just fine since that really ought to be done as root. However, if one uses sudo or a root shell to pip install, the packages are installed by pip as readable only by root.wheel (740). This precludes my user account from actually importing or using the package (*). How can I get pip to always put reasonable permissions on installed packages? Update (edit)
My MacBook currently shows this even though the MagSafe charger has a green light. Does anyone know why this is?
I have an iPhone 4s that was updated without being backed up first and that contains a voice memo file for a school project that is due tomorrow. The update failed, although the cause isn't known. It was over wifi and the wifi signal was strong and consistent. Maybe the actual internet service cut out. I don't know. Now, the phone has been replaced, so it no longer has cell service either. I've been asked to retrieve the file off of it.
I have an iPad 2 which I would like to mirror NBC Sports Live Extra to my Samsung TV. My cable provider, Verizon Fios Quantum (New York City), does not carry the channel but allows subscribers to access it online using their Fios account. I, like many others, are hoping that Apple will announce a brand-new 2015 Apple TV at tomorrow's (3/9/2015) press conference or in the very near future. Until then, other than using a variety of cables and adapters or devices such as Roku 3, is there any way to mirror my iPad? Would Chromecast do the job? Thank you
Using OSX 10.10.2 on a MBA 11" I can't access *=URL=* I flushed the DNS, rebooted my machine, connected via iPhone instead of WLAN (I can access the site via iPhone directly, but not when using the iPhones Network-connection on the Mac. Tested on all installed browsers. The results of ping, traceroute and dig: So, I'm out of ideas and look forward to yours.
I want to set up iTerm2 to pass scroll events to tmux, so I can trivially enter (and exit) scrollback mode for whatever pane is active. Is this possible to do with iTerm2, or automation of some sort, or ...?
iTunes 12.1.0.50 on OS X 10.8.5 MacBook Air is showing weird behavior recently. When I rent a movie from the iTunes store I have the following problems: download is incredibly slow (ETA keeps going up to several hours) and the movie will freeze when I unpause movie playback.
I migrated a MacBook pro to a new iMac with Yosemite. I then upgraded iPhoto to v 9.6, and when I try to launch iPhoto, it does not launch, stating: iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem. I found the fix to the problem on a related question on this site that references: http://www.sanebutdifferent.com/iphoto-11-nyxaudioanalysis-crash-error
I am trying to copy a whole bunch different files' contents into one big file. Is there a way to do this without having to open up each individual file and copying and pasting the contents? Is there a quick way to just right click a file and copy the contents directly? Thanks in advance!
I have a Macbook Pro 10,1 (Mid 2012) running 10.10.2. Over the last few months, I have had issues with the system suddenly hanging - mouse won't move, keyboard does nothing, and the clock is stopped. I have to hold down the power button and restart the computer when this happens.
when OpenSCAD is not already running. When OpenSCAD is already running, then open -a openscad --args --help simply brings OpenSCAD to the foreground. What I really need is for this to work:
I'd like to try to organize the songs in my iTunes library (rename artists and albums, etc.), but my library's pretty large and it would be time consuming to manually edit my songs via the Get Info screen.
On Macbook Air, I have OSX 10.9.4 and it allows me to update to Yosemite, will this affect the Windows 7 partition that I installed using Bootcamp ? Edit: seems to work ok for one windows/bootcamp partition, but an additional windows partition will cause problems. I will add a detailed answer to my own question.
According to Apple, the mid-2010 MacBook (not MacBook Pro) will support a maximum of 4GB of memory. I am seeing some references like this one which indicate that the latest SMC and EFI updates allow for more memory. Are there any more authoritative references to more than 4GB of memory working in this model of MacBook?
I have a Mac in a remote location that operates as a server. It's configured (from Energy Management) to automatically power up in case of blackout as the power comes back. How can I tell if a power outage has happened (and the mac self-restarted later) and when ? I guess I can inspect the console, but what should I search for?
I have a lot of files in a directory that have [!] in the file name. Is there a way to trim that out with a command in the terminal? Here's an example filename. file001[!].ext
If I deleted something from iPad notes can I get it back somehow?
On my iPad, I was writing an e-mail. I switched to Mail, and my e-mail in progress had the text “Chargement en cours…” (“Loading”) in grey instead of my text. I waited. To no avail. I have a backup of my iPad. How can I retrieve the e-mail in progress ? At worst, I might rely on the snapshot of the screen of the app Mail. How can I find the snapshot of the screen of the app Mail ? I have iOS 5.
How do I set the default size of my finder window to a size of my choice? Currently each time I open a finder window, it opens up in a very small size and I have to adjust it before I can start looking for my files. I'm running Yosemite.
I'm using the beta of the new Outlook 2016. When I try to add my own exchange account I constantly get the dialog telling me the server is being redirected. So then I tried to use the 'import' feature and grab the database from my Outlook 2011.
I (somewhat) recently did a fresh install, and the system was feeling a bit sluggish after installing Chrome and some extensions so I checked the Activity Monitor and found the below process. Anyone know what it is? I can't seem to search for it as none of the search engines I tried would take the special characters.
While playing a video in MPlayerX the right and left arrows skip ahead and back 10s respectively. When paused, the right arrow goes ahead 1 frame but the left arrow still goes back 10s.
I had hoped that this would remove all data so that when I reinstall via Xcode or Test Flight App, the app would start just like a first time user again. However this is not happening, the app still seems to remember some settings, in particular it thinks I have already send my device token and wont prompt me for it again. Question How should I be uninstalling an app form a device so that all app data is removed and the next time a reinstall I am treated as a new user?
My Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) came preinstalled with Mavericks. Can I have Yosemite safely installed next to it on the same machine? If so, how?
My iPhone is simply not charging unless I switch it off while it is already plugged in. I suspect it to be a software problem, as when its off it charges. Windows does not seem to recognize the device but still charges when it is switched off. I have tried cables that work on my friends phones and original cables, still no luck. Any ideas?
Is it possible to set up he following combination of partitions; how? two OS X partitions, each bootable (one for the main system, another for testing new OS X releases) a Bootcamp bootable partition for Windows 7 data partition shared between OS X and Windows?
How can I set SelfControl to only accept visits to stackoverflow.com, but none of the other sites on the stack exchange network? I want to become more productive, but the clickbait with abusive bosses, dumb coworkers and D&D rules are all too enticing...
I would like to know Safari's cache lifetime. In case it has limited duration, also how to extend it.
Every 20-30 minutes, my internet seems to be unresponsive for about 10 seconds. I can easily see this if I'm running the ping command while it happens:
I have an iMac Retina 5K (27-inch, Late 2014) with 8 GB of RAM (2 * 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory modules). There are 2 memory slots free/available, and I want to add RAM to these two slots.
I created 5 partitions on my portable-drive via DiskUtility. The problem is DiskUtility skipped disk2s4 somehow. I've no idea why. Can I rename disk2s5 to disk2s4?
When writing a message using Siri, the software will stop listening for the message at the slightest pause. For example: Me: Send a message to John Siri: Okay, what would you like it to say? Me: Hi John... Siri: Okay, your message to John is "Hi John", would you like me to send it? And this continued every time I left a pause to think what I wanted to say next.
My problem is same as with this question -1006F error message when trying to recover mac I have follow that question which direct me to this thread *=URL=* from this link it says I need to buy new harddisk, so I bought a new one and installed it. Now when I boot up the macbook it automatically goes in to internet recovery, but again in middle of loading I still get the -1006f error again?
I've recently reformatted my MBP to Yosemite and have run into an issue with my Logitech mouse. After doing some research I discovered that this is a longstanding issue. In the process of trying to fix this, I've installed (and tried to uninstall) several different driver kernel extensions. I've removed these drivers from system preferences (by right clicking) but I've noticed that there are still the .kext files in /Library/Extensions folder. Is it same to simply delete the related files and restart my computer to remove the extensions, or do I need to use some kind of tool to do so?
on yosemite i now get chrome error when clicking link from skype or using alfred to open customized urls. the links and custom urls fail to open and instead I am presented with a dialog that says 'The application google chrome is not open anymore', even though the application is open.
Gmail I cannot configure Apple email on my MacBook Pro to allow me to send iPhotos (for example) via one of my two gmail accounts. I do not normally use Mac mail but I'm stuck with it as part of my software. One message, for example, claims "Gmail not online" when in fact it is. I have put in the passwords in both the Account tab and the Advanced tab.
I have recently purchased a Dell S2340l monitor to extend my MBPr late 2013 screen. So far I can say it's a great monitor, colors are great, but still in the test phase...
I'm using OS X Yosemite - version 10.10.2. I have 1.12 TB fusion drive on my system. Recently I wanted to make a partition on my system, while making the partition on the system using disk utility some error occurred and partition was not created successfully. The unusable partition of the disk.
I have a command line utility, let's called as: produce_image. So i can do the following in the Terminal: also, I have ImageMagick installed and Xqartz too, so I can do the following: The above opens an X11 window with the image.
Is there an way to get the photos off my iPhone without losing the filters and edits that I have used? I just want the jpeg files, I don't want to sync the phone to a database like iPhoto or (now) Photos.
I updated GIMP from MacUpdates since then I got two Gimp icons in Launchpad. I also deleted the Gimp.app from finder but now i get this question mark on the gimp icon in Launchpad. How to completely remove both of these icons?
I went to edit my /etc/hosts file and found a bunch of entries for google urls that I never put there. When I try to delete it, it just comes back. I tried searching google for it but to no avail. Here is a small sampling of the entries:
I was in terminal today and noticed this:  Jeremys-Iphone: I have no idea who Jeremy is or have a friend named Jeremy. Do you know what this means, and how this might have happened? Thanks!
A friend of mine gave me a MacBook Pro that is two generations newer than mine, but is of the lower configuration. Should I switch over to that?
Following the pricing announcements on Apple Watch, it seems that the "Watch" edition is priced 200$ above "Watch Sport" ($349 vs $549 for the 38mm model). I can read the spec sheet but apart from different band options and another type of front glass and don't understand the differences.
It seems that the new USB-C connector is good for charging, good for HDMI output, good for connecting to new devices that use USB-C connectors, and good for older USB devices like an old scanner, printer, external hard drive, and video capturing box. I suppose the older devices can be connected by using a USB-C to multi-port USB hub. However, I wonder how this USB-C connector can be connected to multiple USB-C devices, HDMI output, and older USB devices? For example, let's say an HDMI output adaptor is plugged into the Macbook, then how do you charge the Macbook, and how can another USB-C device as well as an older USB device be both plugged in?
I'm trying to set the values of some file metadata attributes in OS X Yosemite - kMDItemDateAdded and kMDItemLastUsedDate - the values of which can be shown using mdls <filename>. I'm trying to set their values using xattr. I've tried this: I've tried this:
How would I remove all of the items returned by mdfind? For example, I want to remove all files relating to "MacLaunchpad", so I did Which returned I wish to remove all of these files; how would I go about doing that?
So my computer crashed due to a power cable issue. Now that that's resolved I was attempting to send messages to known iMessage users (ie people I've sent iMessages to prior to the crash) and now something doesn't accept other users as iMessage recipients. It says I'm sending an iMessage and it failed because the user is not registered for iMessage. How do I fix this?
I sync my iOS (now v8.2) email to my paid gmail google apps account via Exchange Active Sync / aka Google Sync. This is accomplished on the iPhone / iPad by adding an Exchange account. All works fine but flag syncing seems to have been broken since the first release of iOS 8.
I added all up all of the usage data on my iphone 5s(16gb) and it came up to a little over 1gb, while it says 11 gb is used, with only 1.7 gb is free.
I regularly listen to Podcasts from a radio station. These normally consist of a number of segments, which I download as individuals.
I download pdf files on my Mac, and often transfer them to iPad to read. This used to be straightforward, but the process seems to be much more complex. I need to select the pdf, select "Open in iBooks" (which actually displays in Preview) then go through the process on iTunes to transfer it to iPad.
I cracked my iPhone 5S screen on pavement. It's currently not covered under AppleCare. I'm wondering, though, if it's worth it to take this to one of those companies that replace broken screens. From what I know, they just replace the glass -- am I wrong in thinking that it's not just the glass that's broken here?
I just installed oh-my-zshell. And my terminal looks like the image now. What is git master there? I installed oh-my-zshell on other macs, the look is not like that. I am on the root here BTW. Can you explain this, please?
I want to prevent my step daughter deleting message from iMessages so they can't be viewed (once you delete that using the more button you can't see it again) Is there a way to prevent that (disable that function)?
I have tried this on both Outlook for Mac 2011 and native Mail app on Yosemite. The issue is all folders of email i.e Sent will be updated with the latest email but not on inbox. I can only download the latest email if I empty the cache or re-create the account.
I have set up a family group and added my husband. From his iPhone running iOS 8 he is able to see and download my purchases, but it is not working from iTunes on Yosemite. There is no trace of my account on his Purchased page. We've logged him out and in of iTunes, the App Store and even iCloud, and restarted the computer,to no avail. He has only one Apple ID and is logged in under that ID on all devices. All is working in the other direction; I can see his account in my iTunes on Yosemite. What can we do to fix this, or even troubleshoot it? Nothing is written to the console when I load the Purchased page in iTunes on his computer.
Lately, my computer will not let me move my files to the trash. It doesn't give me an error or anything, it'll just give me the usual 'moving file to trash' message and it gets stuck right there. I can't stop the process and the process of moving the file into the trash never finishes. I have to force reload finder to get rid of that message and even then, the file is not in the trash. I'm honestly not sure why it's doing this.
Recently I have been facing issues with multitasking with my Macbook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) and decided to upgrade my RAM. Now, my laptop currently has 2-2GB DDR3 1333 MHz for a total of 4GB. I wanted to upgrade my RAM to a total of 8GB. Here's my confusion: The Apple Support page on upgrading RAM recommends 1600MHz for my model.
I am more of linux and windows user, now forced to use mac as testing device, for testing a webrtc app, I want to block all the UDP ports in my macbook, how do I achieve it from commandline( or some tools)
According to this Apple KB article, it's not possible to re-connect a Thunderbolt Display to Windows Bootcamp without restarting the computer. A directly-connected Thunderbolt device that is removed by disconnecting the Thunderbolt cable will not be recognized until you restart the computer. But if the reboot sequence is able to send a signal to the display to power up, surely it must be possible to write some code that will run in Windows and do the same thing? Are there any tools out that can do this, or anyone with competence on the area that would be interested in writing a tool to do so?
I got my Macbook Pro 15" around 2011 to edit videos for my film school. I carried my MacBook around with me using Final Cut Pro 7 with no problem for around 2 years. I stopped editing videos after I graduated, but time to time I tried using Final Cut Pro again, but it won't let me edit without a huge lag. (I always use an external HD when editing videos) I can't even play the preview especially when I have some effects on it. I also tried using Premiere but my mac just half-freezes. Is it because my Macbook is too old and the processing speed is too slow? I'm not trying to make a 2hrs long feature film, it's more like a short film. This MacBook still works great with other software, so I wish I can find a way to edit videos again with this MacBook.
I wrote a python shell script and it fails in automator workflow : The problem occurs on post["n"] and post["d"] which have utf-8 symbols. Is it a common issue ?
I'm working on script which should do something if application is running or not Also there should be a timer of checking(60 seconds) The problem is that "if" statement which is checking "count" doesn't work. Here is a script:
I learned here that this specific action uses spotlight to provide the results. So this makes sense, as the newest files created might still not be indexed a few seconds later. So the question is, how can I make sure that the parent folder or the files are properly indexed before using the "Filter Finder Items" action? I've tried using the "Pause" action, but depending on the hardware or system load, we are quickly in the tens of seconds to have an uncomfortably uncertain reliability of this workaround.
I charged my MacBook Air (Late 2010) up to 100% charge overnight however my battery died within 1 hour. Because of this I want to use the Apple Hardware Tool (AHT) to diagnose the issue. My Mac is 4 years old and holds up to 70%-75% of its original capacity (6,700mAh). I have tried holding the D key when booting my computer however it boots up normally. How would I accesses the AHT?
I have an Apple Time Capsule model A1254. It has a 1Tb drive. Is it possible to replace the drive with a larger capacity unit? It seems a shame to replace the whole unit. Thanks
Wikipedia says it doesn't. However, iCloud it self say it does Your photos and videos are using 1.1 GB If you want to stop using iCloud Photos Wikipedia said: While Photo Stream uses the iCloud servers, usage does not come out of the user's iCloud storage allowance Okay looks like there need to be some form of explanation
I'm starting to run into repeated Kernel Panics. My Retina iMac (no user-installed memory) has begun panicing repeatedly since March 2nd. An example log is shown below, and it is ALWAYS the same crash on exactly the same code.
I opted into an experimental new Stack feature (coming soonish!), and now I want to opt back out. To do so, all I have to do is delete a cookie called purple. It should be easy. Just go to Safari preferences, privacy, cookie details, and...
I want to do iPhone development with the MacBook. The MacBook only has one USB-C port, so I may need a USB-C adaptor to load my apps on my iPhone. Is the USB-C adaptor necessary to load freshly compiled iOS apps on my iPhone?
My 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7 Lion would not start up properly (it has the doomed flashing white question mark on a grey folder). I have tried the following: couldn't access Safe Mode; holding the 'option' key when turning on does not show 'Macintosh HD' only 'internet recovery'; there is no Recovery HD drive present; tried Internet Recovery -> Disk Utility, but my Startup Disk (named "Macintosh HD") doesn't appear in the left column (only SuperDrive appears, and disk0); and PRAM & SMC reset didn't help. I also tried booting a Linux OS from the CD Drive, but it would not boot as there was 'no bootable device, please insert disk and press any key'.
Currently I boot OS X and Windows Boot Camp from an external Thunderbolt HDD. LaCie just announced a new external USB-C (USB 3.1) hard drive enclosure. Will I be able to boot OS X or Windows Boot Camp from this or any other external USB-C HDD on the new MacBook?
This happened with the most recent update. I tried reinstalling iTunes and shutting down phone without success. My audiobooks are downloads from public library as MP3s.
I just purchased a MacBook Air and I'm trying to sync my music library from my iPhone 6 to the new Macbook and only music purchased from the iTunes Store shows up on the MacBook although I have lots of other albums on my phone?
I am at my school and the computer I am currently using is connected to a Wi-Fi network. I want to know the Wi-Fi password and I am on a Mac. I know there is a way to do it through Terminal. What I am using is:
I'm using OS X Mavericks (latest) on a 15″ 2014 MBP. There's an option to make the system not lock the screen for x number of seconds/minutes after the screen goes dim. I'm looking for an option to not disconnect the network for x number of seconds/minutes after the screen dims.
I was on a Mac with no plaintext text editor installed, and needed to make a very quick change to a HTML file saved on a shared drive. I opened it in TextEdit, set it to "Plain text" in Preferences (which had no effect), hit Format > Make Plain Text, hit undo since that didn't help, then I closed TextEdit without saving.
Given the new 12" Retina MacBook doesn't have a Thunderbolt and only has a USB-C port, how do I connect it to an existing Thunderbolt display?
I replaced my CD drive with a Western Digital 750GB hard drive using the iFixit guide. My Mac for some reason throws error on any interaction with the hard drive, for example on disk utility when I tried to create 1 partition of FAT:
I have a scenario where I'd like 2 separate applescripts. The idea is super simple. 2 Applications, but only one runs at a time. Example: Close application 1, launch application 2 (and vise versa) Here are the 2 scripts I have:
I tried with OS 10.10, 10.9 and 10.6 on three different devices. All systems crashed, so it's not my Mac.
I picked up emacs for first time in decades last night on ubuntu. It was sweet: opened up in a GUI and I was able to set up CUA mode - but still able to access the CTL-C and CTL-X actions via META-X. Nice.
having recently taking my phone into an Apple Store with what was a manufacturing fault,2 months before the warranty ran out they exchanged it without hesitation, 12 weeks on and now the new replacement phone has a number of faults now happening, Did the warranty begin again on the new replacement phone or does it just transfer over meaning the warranty ended in January as it would have on the original phone?
How can you tell what's an official part of the system, and what isn't? How can you uninstall 3rd party crap, short of rooting out individual files from within alllll of the folders in the three different Library folders, not to mention anything hidden in the /private directory?? Thanks.
I use Time Machine with a NAS. It works well and it mounts a disk image when doing backup or when I enter Time Machine. When the disk image is mounted, I can access all the directories of my backups.
What is SiLabsUSBDriver.kext? Is this part of the official Yosemite system and if so, how do you know? Where can someone go to find this out from Apple directly? Thanks.
What is AELWriter? It's in my daemons and appears to be from Apple. What does it do? Is it part of Yosemite? Or something else? How can you tell?
After updating to iOS 8.2 I got a message saying "Your SIM sent a text message." Then I tried to send someone an iMessage and it sent an SMS instead even though that person is able to send and receive iMessages.
Is it possible to disable time machine prompting when inserting external disks? I use an appliance with SATA disks that regularly formats the disks. Whenever I plug such a disk in I get prompted again for time-machine - since the time-machine opt-out file is deleted. This can happen 10s of times per hour and is rather frustrating. I'd be happy for total disable of prompting, but better would probably to make it per interface (ie USB - i use a USB->SATA device) or per device (ie just the SATA dock I'm using)
The question is in the subject. Iphone 6 plus - ios 8. I know I can tell for individuals, but not for groups - or at least not obviously. Can I?
I'm trying to test a network service app that allows for a large number of simultaneous socket connections. I have adjusted /etc/sysctl.conf with the following:
I have a new car with a Bluetooth Audio System. I have successfully paired with my iPhone5S, and transferred my contacts.
in line with the question above, where should I store the projects/source files for my C++, Java, IOS, Android, etc. projects? I feel like my system right now is very unorganized with some projects on my desktop, home directory, etc. because of my ignorance on these things, I want to find a good, organized system.
I am trying to copy a photo that I just took with my 1st gen iPad mini (with iOS 8.2) onto my late 2011 MacBookPro (with 10.10.2) and I can't seem to use Airdrop. Is this a restriction of the OS or the hardware and is there any way to overcome it?
I'm guessing Spotlights results are cached, and it's just using the cached results. Long story short: when trying to get Spotlight to show only calculator results, I unchecked everything in Spotlight's preferences except for Calculator. However, then Spotlight didn't work at all, even for simple equations. I tried to tinker, and checked Applications, and entered 5*3 and hit enter, assuming the Calculator would be used, but instead the DVD Player app was opened. I unchecked Applications and checked Conversion, which made the calculator work. But now 5*3 results in the DVD Player app opening, not the calculator.
I have a 5th generation, 16GB iPod Touch that has iOS 8.1.0. I have a fairly recent version of iTunes.
Seems like everywhere you can go to purchase a laptop they specify the Intel SKU for each CPU option - except Apple. If you have a Mac, you can apparently find this info using the following command: For instance, on my Mac, this returns: The number I am interested in here is the "i5-3330S", the Intel SKU.
I applied the software update from 2015-03-10 on my 2009 MacBook Pro running Yosemite. Upon reboot, I get a grey screen with a circle and a slash through it. So far, I have tried: Rebooting Rebooting while holding down Command-Alt-P-R Rebooting while holding down Shift (safe mode)
I've been trying to upgrade my OS to Lion (still old, I know). The installation failed because "recovery system can't be created". So I backed up everything, and installed Lion on an external drive. From there, pressing cmd+R upon start (a feature available for only Lion and above), I was able to use Disk Utility to erase/reformat my normal HD. After that, I tried reinstalling Lion on my normal HD, with the external drive attached. This time the installation progressed quite far, almost to the end, but eventually it failed for the same reason as before ("recovery system can't be created").
Afterwards, I use the ls command to check whether things work as expected. The presented list shows me what I expected: The old file name does not appear, but the new one does.
The individual contacts in my Contacts app have numerous social networks associated with them e.g. a Facebook profile and a Linkedin profile. They have a different pic for each social network. How do I select which social network photo is used as the photo in the Calendar app?
This is the disk storage info:  This is the Applications folder info:
I am trying to create a iOS development certificate in the dev center on apple. When I go to create a certificate the "OS App Development" option is greyed out and I am unable to select it. This has noly just happened, has been fine before. Any one have any clue?
When receiving e-mails on my three PC-s (all with the same e-mail address), on the other two e-mails arrive within 2-3 minutes while on the MacBook Air e-mails come in with a one hour (60 minutes) delay.
This is very frustrating. We are not able to download apps from App Store, as we keep getting error message "The AppStore is temporarrily unavailable. Please try again". I falied also to login to App Store. I log in to Member Center, but fail to login to "iTunes Connect-Submit and manage your apps on the App Store." It it app store which has issue or it is the app.
my girlfriend broke her trackpad of her MacBook white 2009 and now she's using a USB mouse. This does not work properly and gets often stuck. Do you think the sto issues are related? DO you have any suggestion on how to fix this?
The new MacBook 12" has been launched and on the apple store the processor says 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.4GHz) Does this mean that the Core-M processor will run at 2.4GHz or will it run at 1.1GHz? If the Core-M does run at 1.1GHz would you be able to manual turbo boost it to 2.4GHz through some software?
I would like to know how, when I check the box next to a song in My Music then sync my iPod, I can make sure the song is uploaded to my iPod. It's a new iTunes installation (v. 12.1.1.4 on Windows 7) but an old iPod (2nd generation Nano, running up-to-date system 1.1.3).
I Had purchased Mac Book Pro before around 14 month from one of the apple store. It just blinking and doesn't start. As per customer service they ask to replace logic board and It costs almost around $650 (38500 Rupee). And my warranty is just expired before two month. I believe that I got defective model of Mac Book Pro, As In My warranty period also there were such issues and it was issue of hard disk.
I have a MacBook Pro which goes straight to Disk Utility when I try to start it (it totally froze and I forced it off and on). And no luck in repairing the hard disk (Disk Utility can't repair…)
I can email photos from iPhoto as follows: Click on an event to open the folder. Select photos (with shift and command). Choose Email... from the Share menu. This will send an email from my @me.com address. How do I send photos from another email address (such as gmail)?
On Macbook air ~2014 when I created the bootcamp partition and the Windows bootable stick, it made a stick that can start an install just fine on Windows computers. Why doesn't that bootable stick start anymore on Mac after the botcamp partition has been deleted? What special setup does that bootcamp do on the partitions/setup process ? Can I re-create the proper environment with a partition manager starting with the blank hard disk ? I tried erasing all paritions and then try to boot from that windows stick that bootcamp created but it doesn't boot a Mac anymore (boots fine on PC).
I've been encountering an extremely annoying problem since I upgraded to Yosemite. FCPX (but I've been having reports of this problem on other computers with finder.app and safari.app) sometimes will crash on exit (with no detectable log trace) and its icon will remain in the dock with the usual "this application is not responding" menu warning. Force quit won't work Rebooting can only be done the hard way because the stuck app is preventing a soft one yet no single process regarding FCPX is listed when in the activity monitor nor there is one in psaux. No zombie processes to be found; computer performance is fine. If I open an FCPX library, I'll get a dialog stating that "The application "Final Cut Pro" is not open anymore", which is quite irritating q: I'm on a MBP Retina early 2013 15'
I have a script that I want to set for 3:30am daily and it does run at the set time but it also runs on every restart of the computer which I do not want. How do I make this work with just the schedule in place and not run on every startup of the computer? Here's my plist:
This is just a convenience question. I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones. Whenever they are turned on, I want sound to come through them. When they are turned off, I want sound to come through the speakers. Is there some kind of app/utility that automatically switches the sound output device based upon the status of my Bluetooth headphones?
I have set up our family with iCloud, using iCloud Family Sharing. Currently, myself and my husband define our Family and use our Family calendar for household events.
What happens if I call or send a message to a contact I have blocked? Does that contact show up on the recent contacts multitasking menu?
The audio input of my MBP 15" 2011 is pretty bad no matter if the ambient noise reduction is checked or not. I've tried all kinds of sound adjustments from the control panel but I can't get it good.
About a couple of weeks ago, I tried turning on my Macbook Pro and it seemed completely dead. I plugged in the power cable but it still didn't work. Since it's not under warranty anymore, I opened up the back, disconnected the battery, plugged the power cable in and this time it worked. After booting it up I plugged in the battery and it started charging, I can use my Macbook without the cable fine, but other issues occured. Battery status:
I have four apps that are no longer available in the App Store. They're not installed on my phone (which is fine). Every time I connect my iPhone to I get this message in iTunes: "Some of the apps in your iTunes library were not installed on the iPhone because one or more errors occurred."
I have a large iCloud photo library. Once in a blue moon my iMac running Yosemite decides to forget all about the synced libraries, and I have to re-enable the iCloud streams. However, my little DSL line will then be clogged for hours on end, because OS X downloads gigabytes of pictures.
How does one create a caption for an image in Pages? In Word it is easy, you simply right click on the image and “Insert Caption…”, but I cannot find any way to do it at all in Pages?
So Microsoft released a free preview of Office for Mac, and it is pretty sweet. One of my biggest problem when using Excel on a mac has always been that the most popular/frequent shortcut (F2 -> edit cell) was not available on macs (there was a default replacement, cmd-T I think, but not half as handy as F2).
Will there be a reason not to use an Airport Express (latest model) as the main wifi router and then have the network be extended through an Time Capsule (4th Generation) on bridge mode? Is the above possible? Thanks,
I need to delete email after reading them on my iPhone, but do not want to delete them on my Mac, so I can file the emails later. How to do this?
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro (2.4Ghz) with 4GB of RAM (2x2) and a 250GB hard drive that's about 85% full. It's been running pretty sluggishly lately even for basic tasks. It is 5 years old, but a new laptop isn't really an option for a year or two. I use it primarily for web browsing (lots of tabs) and some Photoshop work.
I recently began working for a company that has an OS X Server with a PROMISE Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID (RAID 5) attached as a file server. Within my first couple of days, it became apparent that users were having performance issues reading from and writing to the file server (which had been a problem for several months before I started.)
I am facing this problem when ever I am visiting any website that has go a Menubar on the top, then the part remains half invisible in Safari. See below: Here is screenshot of SoF site on Safari:
I installed AVG antivirus then deleted it using the AVG website. I keep getting popups on my iMac using Yosemite 10.10 stating Problem Report for Loader Agent. The popup persists even though the program has been deleted properly. The path to the file is: Library/Application Support/AVG/*/LoaderAgent.app./Contents/MacOS/. AVG support has not been helpful to delete the popup. Please advise.
Since upgrading from Mountain-Lion to Yosemite, my MacBookPro5,5 (13", 2.26GHz C2D, GeForce 9400m) is (almost always) showing bad performance while working with native windows like Finder, System Preferences and Application Switcher. Even simple things like scrolling a folder in Finder spikes the CPU up. 'WindowServer' process shows high cpu usage (above 50%) while doing these and always tops the 'Total cpu usage' in Activity Monitor.
Ringer and message alerts does not always working. Volume up in settings and silencer is off. Help. I have tried shutting it down.
I recently introduced a dual-band router into my home network, which includes two laptops (mine and my wife's), an AppleTV, and a headless Mac Mini running as a home server. The router is a Linksys AC1200
Recently I'm seeing my time machine backups get big. On a typical daily time machine backup, they've gone from a gig, to 5 gigs, to today... Time machine wants to back up 329gb. I've not moved huge files around. I've not fired up VMs.
I have this folder /private/var/folders/bf/ with 3GB of what seems temporary files. Can I delete this folder?
I'm having issues installing apps on my new iPhone, because I am not authorized on my computer. In the last 8 years I've been changing computers and reset the OS a lot. I didn't think of a limit with authorized PCs on iTunes.
I'm writing a launchd plist and a shell script on my MacBook running Yosemite to automate the following scenario: Here's my script:
I've installed Windows 8.1 with the Boot Camp Assistant on a solid state drive with a CoreStorage volume. Booted to Windows I can't see the files on my Mac volume anymore. I'm confused since this is the same setup steps I used to install Boot Camp on an iMac previously and that Windows install has no problems to see the Mac volume and read the Mac files. How do I regain at least read-only access to my Mac files on the SSD MacBook Pro? Output of diskutil and gpt:
I have a Cooler Master Storm USB keyboard. I have plugged it in to my new MacBook Pro. The OS took me through the keyboard setup screen, and 'recognized' the keyboard as a standard US one. Some keys work, other keys do strange things. When I press c, it types a c after the cursor, instead of before. When I type e, it types an e along with a space after it. Is it possible that this particular keyboard will not work with Mac OS X?
Whenever I type something that involves order, like 6th or 2nd, in Pages, I want it to be able to do the behavior that Word does, i.e, make the 'th' or the 'nd' part a superscript. Is there any setting to do this? If no, is there any other possible way?
I'm looking to buy a MacBook Pro (13"), but I want it to be as quiet as possible. So, which MacBook Pro doesn't have fan? Only the Gen-5 Broadwell CPU?
I just got an iPod Touch 5G (iOS 8.2) and I would like to open text in an installed apps, e.g.; TextCrafter. Is that possible? Images can be opened in a number of apps but how to do it for text?
Anyone know of an "Office Timeline" plug in for Powerpoint on Mac? I love *=URL=* but it's for Windows only. Mac must run Fusion or such to support Windows Office, not Mac Office. I'm looking for suitable functionality for Office Mac Small Business Premium SP3 (build 14.3)
I don’t know if it was a change to less itself or to the Terminal app, but when I upgraded to Yosemite I noticed that I could use the mouse scroll wheel to move around in less. Whenever I use this feature, though, I end up scrolling down too far and exiting less by accident. (I have the -e option in my $LESS environment variable, so less will quit the second time I reach the bottom of the document.)
When trying to run a command: it raises an error:
When using a newer version of iWork software such as on Yosemite to open older documents and presentations, Pages reports "This document can’t be opened because it’s too old. To open it, save it with Pages ’09 first." and Keynote reports "This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old. To open it, save it with Keynote ’09 first." How can I open these files without finding and installing an old version of iWork?
Is there any way to rename Siri on the iPhone? I'm looking for any and all solutions, including Jailbreak tweaks. I love the new "Hey Siri" feature, but my SO and I both use iPhones with this feature, and when we're both laying in bed at night trying to use it, it leads to a bit of confusion between our devices...
Is it easily possible to have some sort of cron job or something run on my Mac that alerts / notifies me when a certain program isn't running? I use an app last.fm, and since it doesn't run in my dock I don't notice that the process might not be running any more.
siri - Here is a article about Time magazine. (WTF) me - Ok Siri, Time, time, time. siri - It is 19:08. me - fckiss you siri.
For what feels like forever (but is probably only a year or two), OS X constantly ‘loses’ my Gmail password. This is particularly annoying, because I use two-factor-authentication with my Google account, and have to go generate a new password every time I see this bug:
Now issue is they asked warranty Magsafe piece, the installed it but machine still not turning on. THey say at Apple Service retailer that could be Logic Board, but does that even make sense? Could a MBP still be on and working if logic board is damaged? I mean, the machine never got turned off, it was alive until battery drained out...
On an iPhone, I was writing text. Among the keys, I have seen arrows for moving the cursor right and left. How can I have these keys on iPad ? These would be very useful. Why aren't these keys present on iPad ?
I "reset all settings and erased all data" on my iPhone 3G yesterday using iTunes. The phone is locked to At&t, and since I do not have a SIM from At&t, I am unable to go past the lock screen to view the firmware and the iOS version. What firmware and iOS version does iPhone 3G have after completely resetting it using the latest version of iTunes?
Quicken for Mac continues to suck, so I'm wondering if there are any viable alternatives. I've tried a few, but none of them are able to automatically download activity from banks ("Direct Connect"). Yes, you can manually download an OFX/QFX from the bank's website, but I want the app to pull down the data without me having to go to a browser. gnuCash seems to theoretically be able to do it, but it's incredibly complicated, ugly, and I couldn't get it to work.
When I connect the other camera, iPhoto does not launch automatically. If I launch it manually, the camera does not appear under "Devices", and there does not seem to be any way to get iPhoto to recognize that the camera is connected, or to import video from it. Instead I have to navigate to the AVCHD file in the Finder, open video clips using Quicktime Player, and then use Quicktime Player to Save the clips to my hard drive. (This method works on the other camera, too, of course.)
My iPad unable to open or view video online with subtitles. But when I open the same website with my lappy, the video and subtitles work well. There have something wrong with the website or my iPad?
I've recently went to an Apple store and the guy reset all my settings. Lately, whenever I text people with iPhones, they tell me that I don't text from my number anymore, but from my Apple ID email. I tried going into Settings and changing some things, and texting some of my friends to see if it's changed but they keep saying I'm still texting from my email. How do I reverse this or text from my regular number?
new Mac (Yosemite) and setting up a new dev environment. At the moment cannot find any error_log folder at the following paths: Any thoughts on where that folder may be?
I recently had an app called ZipCloud appear in my Launchpad applications - overtime I drag it to trash, it simply goes back. How do I delete it? The page *=URL=* says to drag to trash Why do some things not go into trash?
I have recently broken the screen on my iPhone 6 and want to back everything up before I take it into apple to be repaired. My problem is when I go to back the phone up in iTunes, it wants my pincode. I can't put my pincode in as my screen is broken! The screen seems to be responding to key presses as it vibrates when I touch the screen where I think the numbers are, but this still doesn't work. Does anyone know a way I can get a backup of my phone despite this issue?
How do I turn on an iPad (first revision) during it is loading. Or how do I turn it on at all?
myfonts.com has a create feature where we can choose sample text and selected size while browsing hundreds of fonts. This makes my life much easier when I need to decide which font to use in my design. I like to know if there is a desktop application that does the same thing (either system app or App Store apps that runs on OSX). For those who don't know what I ask, I did a screen shot to demonstrate what I meant by 'where we can choose sample text and selected size while browsing hundreds of fonts'.
If I uninstall Terraria on my son's ipad 2 will he lose all his work and worlds done to date? I haven't done anything yet as I want to know before I uninstall if everything will be lost when I reinstall Terraria.
Background I live in the USA and I have an iPhone 5S (version A1453). It was bought under contract to Sprint and is currently locked.
Since upgrading to Yosemite, the current application -- could be anything from Sublime Text to AppCode to Chrome -- will lose focus while I'm typing. This happens with an external keyboard or an internal keyboard, with the computer lid closed (MBP Retina) and open. Any advice or event hints?
My iPad 3 will not turn on. It started freezing up and would reboot and then it would have a black screen with white text. It's currently stuck on the iTunes logo. It will connect to iTunes but it will not update or restore. HELP!!
I currently deleted Apple Legacy Java SE6 on my macbook because I've already downloaded JRE8 on my machine and I think I no longer need the older version. After I deleted it, every time I opened Intellij it popped up a window and asked me to get Legacy Java runtime 6. In the meantime, Android Studio and Eclipse worked perfectly fine without popping up any window notifying me about the installing. So my questions are: Is there any way I could use jre8 instead of jre6 to run Intellij? Why does Intellij require me to install jre6 while Android Studio doesn't? What is the benefit to install Legacy Java runtime 6?
I need to know that my mac was working perfectly fine till today. I wanted to visit same sites which i have visited yesterday in safari,and they were working perfectly fine, so today when i tried to open the page. It opened for few seconds and then went to another page of ads, where i couldn't see any cross option to close this ad. I have tried other sites to check ,but sadly same thing occurred. Only main site like mac,Facebook and this site working fine.
I have noticed that a couple of shortcut keys have stopped working. Thinking it could be another app using the shortcuts I've been into keyboard settings and restored all the default keys. This has not affected the problem. The issue appears to be happening across different apps (I'm testing in Finder, Safari and my text editor).
For a few weeks, I've noticed that my keyboard layout keeps reverting to U.S. each time I reboot. To be precise: each time I reboot, my System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources window looks like this:
So I have quite a specific situation where I need to dig out an old email I have backed up to Time Machine, but I can't remember when I received it. Could be anywhere between 6 months to 1 year ago. Following the advice here, I ran the following in Terminal: Which found me several thousand results matching "search term" (the subject line).
icloud said it will not let me in for security purposes. Suggested change of password. Told me my birthday was wrong. Then said it sent me email to change password and no show. This is ongoing.
I want to install HideMyAss VPN software, but after login they suggest to me to install the tuntap driver. The software worked before, but lately they want to install extra kernel extensions? My question is: With UNIX under the hood, why do I need such a kernel extension to make VPN work?
I am using Linux Ubuntu. When trying to use www.icloud.com/#find any mouse movements like zoom or scroll not working. Any solutions?
As I said in title? How a wifi/bluetooth speaker can get audio data from your device such as phone or PC? I have an bluetooth speaker and any sound from my phone is sent to that speaker - How they can do that. Even with wifispeaker, I see that some must run with a program, but some doesn't. Just turn on speaker, connect to your device and you can stream any sound to it. Thank you
I was trying to clean install OS X (from *=URL=* I made the bootable disk, booted from it, and tried installing. Something happened and installation began. I went out for 20 mins and when I returned, I saw the installation welcome screen again. Proceeding on which I found that it came to installing it once again, but this time the internal Macintosh HD was not showing only the USB (Install OS X Yose..) was shown.
When playing any kind of audio (for example the Music or Spotify app) you see media controls on your lockscreen. They are handy, but also cover the wallpaper I like to see (I can control the music player with my headset). Is there a way to disable those media controls on the lockscreen?
The Macbook Air B and C are connected to the Access Point and are working perfectly. But the Macbook Air A, when it's connected to the AP (Conn 1), it cannot see the printer nor the NAS, but it can access internet and access to the router administration page. Other computers can be randomly seen (I believe that the devices on the AP are seen by A). But when the Macbook Air A is connected to the router's wifi (Conn 2), everything works perfectly.
My dad and I used to have the same Apple id, but recently I made his own (he didn't know how to work his) and I changed it on his phone. I kept mine on a new device. But he still keeps getting any app that I download. I don't know how to make it stop transferring all my data to him.
I can only select the portion of the screen to record manually. I want them all exactly the same so that when the videos are played sequentially, it all lines up.
How can I get colloquy to catch up history of a channel when I turn back on my laptop? I assume its something like leave a bot in the room. Thanks, Martin.
I am looking to get the new 12″ MacBook and as a result I would like to know the clock speed (in GHz) my current MacBook Air (late 2010) is running at so I know the processor on the MacBook will cope. At the moment I know my processor running at the lowest frequency is 1.86GHz (as shown in System Information) and when I look in Activity Monitor as suggested here it only shows me the CPU usage and not the current clock speed. I have also looked at this suggestion but again it does not show me my processing frequency.
I bought the iPhone 6 gold 64 gb three months ago from USA. But now I'm resident in India. Is there any way to transfer the warranty in India of my phone?
I did a full restore on my iPad the other day and right before the end with error 6 on iTunes saying it couldnt contact the update server (even though it did it the first 3 times fine) and now my iPad can only boot into DFU mode... If I try to restore now I just get an error saying: "iTunes Could not contact the iPad software update server because you are not connected to the internet". I ping gs.apple.com, it just times out. I have looked in my hosts file, nothing in there. I have even tried it on a machine thats never even gone near my iPad before and it still does the same...
Research: I have researched this topic. Majority are out of date, or are about iPhone TO mac hotspot, rather than Mac TO iPhone. Or they discuss from wifi to wifi. Seems no one uses ethernet anymore. (Ethernet OP btw).
As much as I hate HTML frames, a vendor uses a documentation platform that makes heavy use of them. Whenever I search for a documentation page, it displays in a frame, and I would like to be able to copy the URL of that page inside the frame to share with colleagues.
I'm getting vast amounts of these messages in my Console: and WindowServer is consistently at around 16%. I'm using DisplayLink. Is there anything I can do about it?
The scan says the threat is blocked but for more safety I'm considering removing them. Is it safe to do so since some files seem to be system files.
I would like to know if I am able to use a 45W MagSafe Power Adapter in my MacBook Pro Retina 15 with a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Adapter. I am normally using the original one (85W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter) but I just want to know that the computer will charge correctly and that the battery won't be hurt.
I turned on FileVault (on my Enterprise attached Mac) and it's no longer prompting me for my LDAP credentials. After the filevault login, it just tosses me straight into local administrator. LDAP still shows as on and "working", but does not appear to be. My old Mac (with an old OS) used to ask me for the admin filevault password, followed by my LDAP password, and then continue on by logging into the appropriate LDAP user account. Have I missed some configuration step on the new Mac, or has there been a change in how the newest OS X handle filevault+LDAP?
edit: I don't use this feature, don't need nor want it running in the background. Is there a way to deactivate the service?
I cannot upgrade to Yosemite- company policy- but would still love to use OneNote. Does anyone know a link where I can download the older version? thanks
I’m working on an annoying problem with my Mac mini (running OS X 10.9). I have postfix and pfctl scheduled to load as system daemons using launchd, and they do so successfully. However, they do so between the Ethernet link going up and IP addresses being assigned. As a result, pfctl cannot properly resolve the self keyword and only adds the localhost equivalents to pf’s rule list. Similarly, postfix terminates because it cannot reach the network interface.
I have 2 monitors, a retina, 15-inch, mid 2014 mac book pro. I plugged the hdmit output to one monitor, and a mini-display to dvi to the second monitor. On mac book preference system perferences->displays-> arrangement tab I can see all three screens, however the one connected via mini display port - dvi isn't getting any signal. Can I used two monitors with a mac book pro, without having to buy some fancy extra device?
When I boot up one of our computers it gets a static DHCP address which is specified in our DNS as client1.domain.com and so on. The hostname sets automatically from reverse DNS at bootup and everything work fine. But after a while I see that the computer changes hostname to Users-MacBook-Pro.local.
Is there some 'defaults write' or other trick to tell OS X to never mirror displays? (Unless they're at least as good resolution as the retina display.)
This has happened 4 times on my MacBook Pro Retina in the last 6 months but also on two other Macs. Beats headsets to cheap Logitec. It is high volume, high pitch, spontaneous, comes out of no-where and definitely damaging to ears. Has anyone else experienced this?
The Mac Mini has an optical input and an optical output. I want to route the audio from my Apple TV through my Mac Mini and then back out to my receiver. This way both devices are connected without any need for switching cables.
As a matter of fact, my 1 TB External hard disk has three partition: "MAC OS", "NTFS" and "FAT32". All of the partitions worked very well in the past.
I want to make a purchase from the Apple Store as a gift to my friend. The purchase is a physical item (e.g., iPhone), rather than an app to download.
I've got a certain 'system' I'd like to set up. However, for convenience, I'd like to be able to save a redirect shortcut (such as a shortened bit.ly URL). However, the only method I know of adding a shortcut to the Home Screen is by visiting the page. What's the dilemma? It automatically redirects me, leaving no time to save the shortcut to the Bit.ly page directly. When trying to save a shortcut to another website, it lets you change the name of the link, but not the URL it links to.
I was using my Facebook messenger app, and it suddenly crashed. I tried to open it again, but it kept crashing either instantly or after 20 seconds or so.
This PDF uses the embedded fonts Graphik-Regular and Graphik-Medium. When viewed in various readers on OS X, Windows, Android, Acrobat, the font appears correctly. When viewed in iOS, the Graphik fonts appear as a Helvetica variant. Is this a problem with iOS, or a problem with the PDF? The PDF was created using the open source library libHaru. Here are the document font properties as seen in Acrobat
How do I convert DMG files to IMG files? I am trying to use 'Q emulator' to run XPpro and it requires an IMG file of the XP disc.(legal copy) I'm using a late model G5 PPC with Leopard 10.5.8
How do I remove the factory loaded Apple app known as "Calendar" from my iPhone 5?I have tried to remove this application by placing my finger on the application's icon. All app icons on the iPhone "jiggle" and display an "X" in the upper left hand corner of their icons. When touching the "X" on any given app icon, the app then disappears, and is essentially removed from the iPhone's memory. However, the factory loaded Apple application named "Calendar" icon does not display an "X" in its upper left hand corner of its icon. Therefore I can not remove the "Calendar" application. Is there a procedure which will allow me to remove any factory loaded applications on my iPhone 5?
Open the Terminal app. Type: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force Press Return. When prompted, enter your OS X user password, and press Return. Wait until the text prompt returns, at which point the process will be complete. Restart the computer. FAN The Fan stay lot of time on and there is no software open. Thanks in advance for your comments Pablo
I think my computer is randomly not syncing email correctly with Apple Mail, but it's only a problem when it wakes from sleep. That issue is neither here nor there. What I'd like to do is write a script / something that will quit Apple Mail if it detects that the computer is going to sleep. Ideally, there'd be a similar process to open Apple Mail upon waking from sleep, but that's less of an issue. I tried looking for a system event library of some kind, but all I can find is fsevents (which I don't think has anything about sleep). Thanks!
I have a launchd task that periodically initiates a time machine network backup. I've had problems with corrupted sparse bundle disk images, which I've assumed is due to the either the computer sleeping during a backup, the NAS sleeping while the sparse bundle is mounted, or some combination of the 2. So, in order to fix this I run caffeinate with launchd task and have caffeinate run my script. I found, however, that the computer still goes to sleep when I close the lid, even when AC power is connected. I did a simple test, and found that caffeinate works as expected when I use it in a terminal, and does keep my computer awake, however, in that same test initiated with launchd/caffeinate the computer still goes to sleep while the script is running.
Really simple question: Is there a way to fix incorrect GPS data? A recent trip lead to a bunch of pictures taken in the same place getting sometimes wildly wrong coordinates appended to them (probably because the photos were taken indoors). I'm looking for official Apple products or solutions that run on iOS or OS X if they exist.
Today I started the upgrade of my Mid 2011 iMac 27 from Mavericks to Yosemite. Initially it got stuck at the end of the first part of the installation. I could however pull up the installation log using Command-L and so I could tell it was still doing something. Eventually it completed and rebooted. It then got into the Completing Installation phase with a similar progress screen. It's been at "Less than a minute remaining" for the past 4 hours and no sign of activity. I also can't pull up the installation log by pressing Command-L. I just hear the familiar error sound when I try that. I do use Homebrew so there's probably a lot of stuff in /usr/local causing the installation to take a long time, but I figured that's what caused part 1 of the installation to take so long, but it doesn't explain why part 2 is taking even longer.
How do I run a bash file such that the application that open appears to be native? For example I am running an old version of iMovie HD in Yosemite. I would like to open the application as if it was native with an appropriate icon.
As of version 15.7.1, MS OneNote requires OSX 10.10: Yosemite. But company policy prevents me from upgrading to Yosemite. Any idea how I can download an older version of OneNote that is still Mavericks Compatible?
When I try to use packaging with my .app to create a Mac installer, and I run the installer, it creates me a folder named "Contents" in my /Applications folder, instead the "bundle app" as it should. I've test with pkgbuild + productbuild: And just with productbuild: In both cases, I run the installer, everything seems fine, but in Applications folder I see "Contents" (that is the content of the app bundle) I've tried with "./myapp.app/" also in --component attribute, and even adding "/Applications/myapp.app" in the --install-location
I have an old PowerBook G4 12" with 1,25 GHz and 786 MB RAM, actually MacOS X 10.4.11 is installed. I'd like to give it to my son, but he likes (among others) to use learning games/software, which are made for Windows (.exe). What is the best way to run Windows Software on this old Mac? Do I need to install Windows in a VM, or is there something like WINE which lets me install the .exe directly? (I had also considered to install Linux on the machine (e. g. MintPPC *=URL=* ), to have a more recent OS, if that would help or make any difference...) I already found the PowerPC section in the WINE project, see PowerPC Mac, but I don't fully understand which options do exist in my case and which should be the best one. They write:
What are the experiences with the internet recovery and to install Yosemite over an existing installation? How safe is it? Alternatively, are there other options to clone my internal SSD to the new JetDrive SSD?
When I drag and drop a file from Finder to Dock, it creates a copy of the file somewhere? I would like to create some type of link as I know from Windows. Until now I created a link (context menu -> Create a link) and used a this link instead of using original file. What procedure is correct?
On my iPod I have activator to automatically open Spotify when I plug in my headphones and I would like to know if I can do a similar thing on OS X. What I would like is to automatically play Spotify if the application is already open, otherwise, I would like Spotify to open automatically then play the music. I would also like it to stop the music when my headphones are unplugged. Does anyone know if there is a Application that allows this to happen?
My AppleScript app on my computer gives a error. Here is the code: And the error:
From what I understand, if you create a file on OS X it will have a Uniform Type Identifier. I'm not sure if it's part of the file system or the file itself. If you copy the file to another file system (say NTFS), will it still have the UTI associated with it if you copy it back?
I just purchased a new MacBook Pro and migrated everything over from the old one. I had imagined that it was the old one that was preventing me from being able use Font Book (Font Book.app); it’s not that. When I attempt to open it on the new machine, looks like it is going to work for about five seconds, then becomes completely non–responsive, including the spinning wait cursor, until I use Force Quit. So far I have tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FontBook.plist, ~/Library/Preferences/Saved Application State/com.apple.FontBook.savedState, and ~/Library/Fonts, and then rebooting, but to no avail.
You can use pi to do calculations, but I also want to add tau and more math constants, is there a way to do this?
I get the following error and cannot start Bootcamp after accidentally deleting the EFI-partition of my main drive. This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk. Here is my diskutil list result : And here is my sudo gpt -r show disk0 result : The currently installed OS is Yosemite. How do I fix that error?
I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.1.3. I have removed all photos from the phone (i.e. the Camera Roll is empty). However, under Settings -> General -> Usage -> Manage Storage, it reports that 1.9 GB is still in use for Photos & Camera. Specifically, underneath that, it reports that 1.9 GB is being used for the Photo Library (which is ostensibly empty). This is a large chunk of the storage on my 16 GB phone!
I've moved from the US to the UK and I'm trying to change my country in the App store on my iPad. I have family sharing setup, and a child account included in the family sharing.
I'm currently using Keyboard maestro to create a macro that allows me to move the cursor to certain coordinates and perform a left click. Unfortunately under Yosemite it doesn't work as expected, since it clicks sporadically (it always moves the cursor but doesn't click everytime).
I was wondering what this app was called that i also saw during an Apple video.
I trying to get started using leJOS NXJ to develop in Java for my Mindstorms NXT. I've installed Oracle's Java 8 JDK, Eclipse and leJOS NXJ on my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion. When I try to link the HelloWorld tutorial program I get the following error: Is there a 32-bit Java Virtual Machine for OS X?
Dropped my iPhone 5 now screen comes on but also has horizontal lines on half the screen and won't respond to my touch . Is it fixable?
Is there a way that you can set the printer driver for a printer that is already installed (other than deleting it an reinstalling). When you install a new printer you get an option to set which print driver it uses (see image below). But i cant seem to edit this once created.
My mac is constantly recording any output sound into my microphone when I'm using my Apple earbuds. This means for example that as soon as a sound is played it's transmitted on Skype when I'm in a call. It's as if I would have had Soundflower or similar software enabled, although I've made sure I do not. I've also made sure that the issue only appears with the earbuds. I've verified that it has something to do with the combo sound port (I'm using a 2013 MacBook Air) since if I plug the headphones in half-way I don't have the same issue but then only one the left side speaker works because of how the connector is set up. Basically this guy sums it up perfectly but sadly several years have past with no replies: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4448648.
Unaware of the current issues with Third-Party SSD support on Yosemite I went ahead and bought a 128 GB Crucial MX100 SSD. I hear a lot of problems about enabling Trim on Yosemite etc.
My wife's MacBook Pro has begun shutting down unexpectedly, at seemingly random intervals. This started occurring after I (very carefully) upgraded the machine from 4 GB to 8 GB of RAM and replaced the old battery, which had reached the end of its life.
I know how to find it out in Objective C, but I need to do this in a shell script. (I could compile and install one of the example programs given in the link, but surely there is already a command line program installed that will give me this information?) I have MacOS X Yosemite, 10.10.2.
My battery has expanded and has to be replaced, but I am currently writing my thesis and intend to only keep using my MBP for a few more weeks before I buy a new one. I have heard that it is dangerous to charge the battery once it is in an expanded condition, but I cannot remove the battery myself. Is there a way I can use my Mac with the A/C chord without charging (and without using) the battery?
Everything starts ok but then it comes to a halt and does not move. Even the HD light stops :(
I'm looking to reproduce the font for the red text Selin ve Sercan to use on OS X. It is very important to find this font's name for me. Does anyone know the exact name of this font?
Wikipedia says: "Like the video version, FaceTime Audio is currently only available between Apple devices." So...I was going to ask how to make/receive SIP calls from Facetime...but that's not an option. what's a free SIP client for Mac OS x laptops?
Is there an app or existing command to report the battery time since the laptop was last unplugged from AC but exlude the time spend during sleep on battery? This can be inferred from pmset -g log so I'm looking for a way to do this without using an app that stays resident to detect plug/unplug events.
Since iTunes tries to steal my 'Play' button on my keyboard, I disabled it a few months ago. I now wish to buy a movie from the iTunes Store, which means I have to re-enable iTunes.
I'm having trouble creating a bootable USB for my mac. I have an iMac, and I'm wanting to install a copy of Windows Server 2008 x86 onto it. I've tried BootCamp, but I'm getting errors when selecting the ISO because it is "not Windows 7 or later". Does anyone have any idea how I could create a USB that I can boot on my Mac, with my Windows Server 2008 ISO?
I downloaded the .dmg for Firefox, clicked on it, was prompted to drag it to the Applications folder, did so, but cannot launch it. The directions are to drag the icon from Applications to the dock...but I only see the .dmg file in Applications. How do I know that it installed correctly? It's in the folder: and before I dragged it with the mouse, the OS confirmed the .dmg file. Type of Mac: Here's where I'm at:
My iPad Mini reports in General | Usage that it is using 440 MB for photos and camera. iTunes Mac version 12.1.0.50 reports my iPad Mini is using 13.05 GB for photos, and that the device is Over Capacity. This version of iTunes Mac also reports "iCloud Photos is On." Is there a version of iTunes for Mac where the memory usage report takes into account that photos in iCloud do not use memory on the IOS device?
I want to increase the target resolution when exporting slides as images in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. In other forums it says to go to Preferences -> Save, and from there you can change the dpi. Here's a fuzzy screen shot of what it should look like:
My IPhone 4 has some carrier features I would like to disable: When ever I miss a call this thing opens and I have to close it. If I do not close it(say for ex. a missed call at night) the screen will stay on with this thing till I close it. It will often even drain the whole battery. I'm using IOS 7 on a jailbroken(I did this hoping I would find a solution there) iPhone.
With iOS 4.1, it doesn't support iCloud, but I can't get it to sync my contacts manually. I was hoping that when I connected my iPhone to iTunes, that by clicking the 'Sync Contacts' under 'Info', it would just pick up all the iCloud contacts that are stored locally on my Mac and treat them as regular contacts.
I recently bought a 5th generation iPod touch, but was dismayed to learn that I can't use Siri to play music in my car because it doesn't work offline. Is there a voice control app that I can use to choose songs without a wifi connection?
I have an iPod that has been in use for some time. I now want to sync it to iTunes on my macbook pro so I can copy some songs from the macbook to the iPod. when I connect the iPod to the macbook it comes up saying The only options are to set up as a new iPod or restore from a backup, neither of which are what I am trying to do.
I have two Macs, and I use Google Drive to sync my data. I created tags in Finder on one Mac for some of the files and directories in Drive, and they don't appear on the other one.
The B&O H8s work great some of the time wirelessly (iPhone) and wired, but not with MacBook Pro 15 early 2011 (Airport/Bluetooth card upgraded to BT4.0). However, sometimes, they will start to skip and drop in and out (as if I were plugging and unplugging an audio cable). The speed of the audio will increase after it skips to "catch up". None of the online fixes seem to help this out. Can't get the RSSI above -60 dBm. Appreciate any help at all. Thanks.
I have a Macbook Pro (Mac OS 10.10.2, late 2013 model) and am considering to buy an AirPort Extreme 2TB. I want to use it not only for TimeCapsule backups, but also as a general-purpose storage disk (as discussed here Can I use a Time Capsule as an all-purpose storage disk?). Can the data, which I save on AirPort Extreme not in the context of TimeCapsule, be encrypted with FileVault? My question is not if TimeCapsule-backupped data can be encrypted - as I understand this is possible - but my question is if the other data, put onto AirPort Extreme outside of the TimeCapsule functionality, can be encrypted with FileVault?
The keyboard of my iPhone 6 is often blocked and does not respond to touch when I'm using Whats App, so I'm unable to write messages or reply back.
I can send pictures from my mac to my iOS devices via airdrop. But when I try to send a pdf, it is not working. After a while I get a message on the iOS device saying that the transfer has been canceled. On the mac, I get a message saying that the iOS device has refused transfer. Is it normal? Is there a way to send my documents via airdrop (i know I can use dropbox but sometimes I do not have access to internet)?
On an iPhone 4, running iOS 6.1.3, when I'm listening music, I regularly hear noises related to cellular phone network. For example I hear cellular traffic noise: when I was out of reach of cellular network and entering a new phone cell, just before receiving a new SMS, just before receiving a phone call. I would like to get rid of these "cellular traffic noises". Does anyone else hear these "cellular traffic noises"? Do they occur on more recent versions of iOS? Are these "cellular traffic noises" interference noises and hence fully hardware related? Do the new models of iPhone (5 or 6) avoid these interferences?
I like to continuous viewing Apple TV preview movies or songs. Don't know how to set? Help Thanks
Okay so a few days ago I wanted to install Ubuntu GNOME over regular Ubuntu and it gave me the option to automatically overwrite my Ubuntu installation (that I had on a separate partition from my OS X Yosemite). After I installed GNOME this way though, it appeared that the installer also removed my OS X partition.
I was trying to add something to my $PATH variable, but I think I made some sort of typo. Now, I am trying to fix this, I want to remove what I added, but when I type e.g. open .profile, it tells me -bash: open: command not found How can I fix this?
I need help implementing the answer to WindowServer[250]: _CGXGLDisplayContextForDisplayDevice: No matching context for device (0x7fcfcaf18220) - disabling OpenGL by inserting the following into wherever it goes: I'm not a coder but I can get to Terminal and past in code and press enter. That's the extent of my ability. So, if there's something to do before putting this statement in Terminal I would need to know what, where, and how, etc. Thank you.
I want to know how to show the UNIX directories (/usr, /etc, /dev, ...) in the Finder, but not all the files starting with a '.' (Basically everything you see when you ls /) Everything I've found on it has been outdated and doesn't work on OS X 10.10.
I installed MySQL on my Mac, and now I would like to add it to my $PATH variable. I want to be able to type mysql anywhere. I tried adding the following to my .profile file:
Is it possible, via an AppleScript, a background service or daemon, or any other programmatic way, to catch the following events: a specific app (eg Aperture, Excel ...) being launched, an app being closed or quitting, an app going to the foreground or background ? Purpose would to be change some system state/pref (eg keyboard layout, screen profile etc) in an app-dependent manner. Of course, suggestions of existing solutions are welcome.
My airport extreme is configured as bridge after a linksys (wifi) router. Using the airport I don't see the shared folders on my synology(DSM 4.2) in finder, except by connecting through the IP. This also means timemachine doesn't work using the airport network. Synology has fixed ip in network. Using the linksys wifi network or networkcable everything works fine. Same problem for my sonos system that isn't discovered through the airport network except after switching to the linksys network first.
How often does this Turbo Boost kick in? If it does so often, I'll definitely get this one.
I'm trying to rename folders containing iTunes music files. How to safely update iTunes library to avoid missing tracks? The reason why I need to rename folders: The music files are on a USB drive, and iTunes auto-tidying-up tricks don't seem to work. My folders are not named after the artist-album-track canon.
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Model : MGX82xx/A with Windows installed only (no Mac OS X on a different partition, no Boot Camp used (manual driver installation after windows installed.) and a copy of VeraCrypt 1.0f1 installed. Inside the VeraCrypt Volume Creation Wizard I have selected the options to Encrypt the whole drive. I am being prompted with a yes/no Question - Encryption of Host Protected Area Which states the following
I’m using the Finder’s built-in Connect to Server... feature and use it for connecting to a read/write WebDAV server. Everything is working except executing files hosted on the server. I tried mounting the server using the mount_webdav Terminal command, and got the same result as using the Finder. Running ls -laF /Volumes/webdav results in:
Is there a way to add an Old English dictionary to the Dictionary app? I would like to three-finger-tap a word that's Old English and have it translate it for me.
Apple – Press Info – Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend (2001) listed seven languages for 10.0. From an archived Apple knowledge base article Mac OS X 10.6: Changing the direction of text I know that Snow Leopard included support for right-to-left and bidirectional text. From the knowledge base:
I have a self-playing slideshow in Keynote, with 20 second transitions (each slide is shown for 20 seconds). The last slide plays a movie, which is longer than 20 seconds. How can I set the transition to longer than 20 seconds for the last slide only?
I just installed a JetDrive 725 and it is really nice! As I am using Yosemite, TRIM can not be enabled that easily, and the TRIM Enabler is needed. Now there is a certain risk when using it, as kext-signing needs to be disabled.
It seems that at least some bands are supported, like au does bands 1 and 18, Docomo does 1 and 19, and Softbank does 1 as well. In the Phillipines things look a little better with all three of Smart's bands (5,3,1) showing up as supported.
I download some music on my iPod that I have on my computer. I created a playlist and download about 25 songs through iTunes and it took all of the music. Suddenly my iPod shows no list and no music. On my desktop I can see all music I tried to load in iTunes but not on my iPod. PS I tried to sync and no changes
I have two Macs, a Lion and a Yosemite. I have several accounts on each one, both user and admin. I activated file sharing on both Macs and selected AFP. I can connect from any account on one Mac to any account on the other one Mac as expected, with one exception. "As expected" means: Select go->"connect to server" in the Finder menu, then enter one of the users names on the other Mac and its password when prompted, then choose which of the folders on the other Mac to mount.
I am looking for a Safari extension that allows me to change any CSS on any website. The things I want to do is change the white background to black and the black text to white, I also want the links to be green. Is there a extension that allows me to do this? This is the OS X safari and not iOS. I have looked at this one but don't know how to use it. Thanks
Anyone that's tried to connect to a remote drive with a lot of images or movies on it knows that the Finder just falls to pieces when you do, as it hammers the server with requests to generate all the previews, usually crippling the connection into the bargain. I can create .DS_Store files in specific folders on writable drives to disable icon previews, but this doesn't help with read-only drives, or with new folders that don't contain the file.
For some reason, while connected to a projector, when i use any of the obvious means to advance my slides (space bar, click track pad, right arrow key), the keynote presentation instead exits the presentation mode, remaining on the first slide. Why? How can I advance the slides?
I have an Apple LaserWriter II NT from the late 80's. Is there a way how I can print to it from my MacBook Pro?
I'm running OS X 10.10.1 on a 2007 iMac (Intel based) I have tried to boot into the recovery HD, but it just continues with the boot as if I have never pressed cmd-r. When it does finally boot; it goes to a screen with the spinning beach-ball of death and a blurred background. I have reinstalled the RAM twice, and have reset the NVRAM and PRAM. Any help or suggestions are appreciated!
Using OS X 10.9.5 I got this message after logging out and back in with different UID. Screen is frozen except I can move the mouse courser around just cannot select anything. Display sleep mode does work. How long does this take? Is there a key combination to stop optimization or reboot? For more context please see link: What is happening when my Mac is being optimized after an OS X update?
I click the green circle at the top left of my screen so my window can go into full-screen mode. Then I have to wait while my Mac performs some unnecessary animation to show me that I'm going into full-screen mode. Can I eliminate that animation and go into full-screen instantly?
I just installed Security Update 2015-002 (Version 1.0) on my MacBook. The latter has a 1.0TB internal hard drive, backed up onto a 2.0TB external USB2.0 3.5 inches hard drive. However, after mentioned update, when I start the computer, I have the following message: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer And I have 3 options: Initialize... Ingore Eject Clicking on Initialise... brings up Disk Utility, where the external Time Machine disk is now seen as "2 TB External RAID Media" unformatted...
New user--just switched from Windows to an iMac running Yosemite. In the Mail app I use 'Forward as Attachment' a lot, with no problems.
Anyone have and idea what could be happening? Why is the hard drive not working when the case screws are installed? Edit 1 After a thorough search, I realize the HDD flex was a little bit shoter and the flex screws are missing, I supposed that the old owner (The mac is used) make a swap of the flex, and if you screw the flex the flex do not reach the main board, but the Mac was working good without that screws for several time.
On my mac I used to be able to send to other mobile devices from my iMessage but now it won't send to phone numbers. It sends to iMessages and emails but not non-iOS phone numbers. I've tried to delete the iCloud account from my Mac and re-enable it. I've also done the same on my phone. Still getting the name highlighted in red
I would like to know what is the method to do syntax highlighting in terminal. I am trying to avoid my mouse to become more of a keyboard junkie so I am working more on Terminal and trying to learn vim. When I decide to look back at some previous commands on terminal, its tough to read. So I was hoping that a syntax highlighting will differentiate the line I enter to that from the machine. I did see a previous post at Can I make my Mac OS X Terminal color items according to syntax, like the Ubuntu terminal?. But as it was asked in 2011, I am hoping the process has got easier.
How do I enable the root account? I don't see any options related the system user. Do I enter the server as "localhost"?
I recently deleted a partition and have 60GB of free space. I would like for my main partition to use that, but whenever I go to resize it, I get the error "You can’t perform this resize unless it has a booter".
I want to upgrade my old MacBook 3.1 late 2007 by replacing the hard drive with a SSD (Crucial MX100) and updating Mac OS X from 10.5 (Leopard) to 10.7 (Lion), which is the latest compatible version with it, as I know. My question is about Mac OS X 10.7, I plan to buy it on the Apple website, and I was wondering if I will be able to install 10.7 on a new drive, after reading this: System Requirements Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended) It suggests that you can only install it as an update on an existing OS, and not on an empty drive.
If I delete a game from my Game Center on my iPad, will it delete the game off of my iPhone?
The new macbook is awesome but, it brings up a question. Why is the macbook air still around if the new macbook is lighter and thinner than the air? Thanks!
I've been monitoring Activity Monitor on my Macbook air running Yosemite for a month or two now and I've noticed my network data usage is pretty high (this is what I think). I usually reboot my computer about once a week which resets the Activity Monitor data. The highest I have ever seen for Data received is over 100 GB and for Data sent is over 170 GB. Also, for both packets sent and received it is normally around 50,000,000 but has gotten around 150,000,000 or higher. I never download any more than 5 GB a week and lots of web browsing. It does not affect my use on the computer at all. So my question out of curiosity is, is this normal for a single weeks usage? If not, what can I do about it?
Which character encodings does Mobile Safari support? I'd like a list that I can verify, if possible.
I would like to know if there is a way to turn on and off a Macbook Pro Retina connected to a Thunderbolt Display monitor when it is closed. Should I open my MacBook Pro Retina each time I need to turn on my computer? Is the only solution to not turn it off and putting it into sleeping mode?
I just added two pdf files in a Tag group and I the filename is blank even though in a normal finder windows I can see it. An other problem is that if I select the file and I press enter to edit the name, nothing happens. I tried to add extra files on the group and it seams to work fine with everything else. I also tried to change the Tag group of the file, but same problem.
So, my questions are: What's the best way to access and organize the files and applications on my HDD? Can I just copy over specific applications? How do I copy their settings? Are there things I should remove from the HDD? Like the old User Account? Thanks in advance.
Is there any software out there that can do this for i5/i7 processors? Or perhaps editing the config file?
I noticed that on icloud.com, when i add a reminder, it automatically gets sync on my phone when i turn on my wifi. Which is great and i really love that feature.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask: but i have a Win7 machine and i want to save apartment space by foregoing the monitor, and use my existing MacBook Air screen as a temporary monitor when i reboot my Win7 machine. Does that work?
I found a link somewhere that uses mdimport -f command, however, when using it on the command line, I got the message that says warning, the -f option has been obsoleted, and does nothing. So, how can I add a custom path into spotlight index in Yosemite (10.10)
I am not sure how much logical my question is but I am planing to purchase MBP for the first time and looking at the options I have in place, I am all confused. I am looking at these 2 options MacBook Pro with 1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm and 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM MacBook Pro 8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 memory 128GB PCIe-based flash storage there is some difference between the processor, but I am not much concerned with that. I will be using the MBP for the development which includes a development editor (Eclipse), a tomcat server and some other tools. My only concern is about the Storage as with the second option, it seems to be quite on the lower side. Can any one suggest me what is the other difference between these 2 MBP (other than Retina display) which can be critical in taking the decision (with the fact that I will be using it for development most of the time).
I am trying to cut myself off from the family shared AppleID. I've just bought myself a new Macbook and have set up a new Apple ID. I have also just got a iPhone 5 to replace my dying 4.
On Linux, I can "tail" the jitsi log: However, I wasn't able to find a .jitsi directory specifically, or configuration files for user applications. Are they generally in the home folder? Specifically, where's the jitsi configuration and log, please? My system:
I used accessibility inspector to try and figure out the names of the windows so I can use the same process i did to launch the plugin but I wasn't able to comprehend it. The name of the window itself is predictable so I can take the name of the file I open and add "Tracing for:" before it.
For context, SIPSAK is the SIP Swiss Army Knife: sipsak is a command line tool which can send simple requests to a SIP server. It can run additional tests on a SIP server which are usefull for admins and developers of SIP enviroments. *=URL=* SIPSAK seems to work with macports: at least according to their github web page.
For an event I need pictures displayed on a screen right after they are taken on an iPhone. I tried doing this with an Apple TV and the photostream view, but the photos take some time to show.
I bought a used Mac Mini late 2012 with installed Yosemite and two drives: SSD 128 GB and HDD 500 GB. I want to create a Fusion Drive and downgrade to Mavericks via bootable USB flash drive. What should I do in which order? 1) Boot into recovery HD and create a Fusion Drive (erasing all data) 2) Install Mavericks on SSD part of Fuzion Drive? But if I already have a Fusion Drive how do I choose explicitely that I want OS to be installed on SSD not HDD for performance boost?
When I am using Chrome on my Mac (OSX Yosemite 10.10.2), it shows the handoff symbol on my iPhone. But when I open it, it hands off to Safari, not to Chrome on my iPhone (iOS 8.2). How can I make Chrome on my Mac hand off to Chrome on my iPhone? On another note, when I use Chrome on my iPhone, it successfully hands off to Chrome on my Mac.
I'm trying to open a video embedded in a page and a giant play button appears and the native video player opens and plays the video. Instead I want to open the video in the YouTube app so I can see who uploaded the video and related videos. Am I missing something? An example would be: http://sc2casts.com/cast17669-StarTale-yoe-vs-JINAIR-Best-of-5-2015-Proleague-Round-2
Recently bought just released Bang-Olufsen H8 headphones (wireless, BT 4.0, atpX A2DP). These paired perfectly with iPhone 5 and my MacBook Pro 15" early 2011, however, sound drops out on the MBP with little to no "provocation" of head turn; forget about range/direct line of sight distance--can't get more than 2' away without sound drop occurring. Avg raw RSSI is approx -72. At first it was thought that b/c MBP was BT 2.1 and the phones were 4.0 they were incompatible. After I modified the MB appropriately with new Broadcom Airport/Bluetooth card to enable BT 4.0 connectivity and found no change at all in sound drops/range, I discovered through conversation with Bluetooth expert that BT is backwards compatible so he wasn't surprised at all with continued sound drops despite modification to MBP. If the sound drops for more than a second or two, the audio somehow speeds up to sync with the place where the sound should be.
I hope someone can help me out with this issue. I have installed the latest version of SoX (14.4.2) on my Mac and I keep getting the following error message: I have tried to re-install it, as suggested in another thread on this forum, by running the following: but unfortunately did not the trick for me. By typing : I can see the "tick" against the flac option but then when I run the command: I keep getting the same error message. Any help/suggestion is very much appreciated. Many thanks!
Unfortunately - I had the USB hub plugged in while installing the driver. And now the LAN doesn't work.
I'm trying to renew my Apple paid developer membership but I keep being forwarded to a page to renew the membership for individuals but I'm going for the enterprise membership this time round. Can I do this without creating a new Apple ID?
I need to install the newest version of Perl on Macbook running Yosemite. It currently has Perl5.18 built in. I understand that the system sometimes needs this version and it shouldn't be altered.
I'm running into an issue where I'm trying to follow the advice of a comment on this SO Q&A titled: Use PPK file in Mac Terminal to connect to remote connection over SSH that suggested you could install putty via an Subversion repository like so: When attempted I get this error: NOTE #1: I believe the port used by Subversion is blocked by a corporate firewall. NOTE #2: I'm ultimately trying to work around an issue with the version of putty that's included in Brew.
I should be able to update Mac software from the View menu of System Preferences. However, I don't see a Software Update option. Here's what I do see:
The title says it all, but I'll repeat it here: What is the meaning of the "§" symbol (on the upper left corner of the mac keyboard) as highlighted in the image here? Apparently, this is not printed on mac keyboards sold in the US, though it is on models sold in Europe (or Israel, in my case).
My external hard drive is partitioned into three parts - but somehow I made one of the parts go away/stop showing up in the Finder. I ran a set of recommended commands in terminal, and this is what I came up with:
Is there any Safari extension similar to "WasteNoTime" that allows you to attribute different amounts of time for using different sites? For instance, let's say one wants to block completely Facebook full day but allow himself 30min of YouTube, 2h of Netflix and full access to Financial Times out of working hours (8h to 17h). I couldn't find such features in the extensions like WasteNoTime. Coud someone give me a help with that please?
When opening a PDF in Yosemite's Preview.app, I can select text using the Text Selection tool from the Markup Toolbar. However, if I don't click directly on the text, a blank text box will appear. For some reason Preview thinks I want to add an annotation everywhere I click even though I have not selected the Text tool. This is a problem in that it signals an edit to the document, thus changing the modification date and creating an auto-saved version with no meaningful changes.
A few years back I got a Mac Pro desktop to go alongside my MacBook Pro. I cloned the MacBook Pro user to the Mac Pro so everything would be the same. I've been using ChronoSync to make sure all the documents are the same on each machine.
I upgraded my 4s to an iPhone 6 yesterday at the Sprint store. They transferred my data from the 4s to the 6, then erased the 4s. Now when trying to upgrade certain apps (such as Find My iPhone, Facebook, Linkedin Youtube, etc.) it prompts me for a password, but the associated username is an e-mail address I've never seen before and has no association to me or my Apple ID.
My macbook pro, running OS X Lion (10.7.5) got stolen last night. Luckily they didn't take my external drive, where I have a Time Machine back up of all my data, which is extremely important to me (mostly, unfinished music productions projects in Ableton) Since new MacBooks ship with OS X Yosemite, would I able to restore my Time Machine backup on a new laptop?
We buy apps using Volume Purchase Program with managed distribution through OS X Server's profile manager. One of employees left, so I removed his user account from OS X Server. However, the licenses for apps we bought him are still unavailable to re-assign to other users, and I can't remove them from his account manually because it has been deleted. Viewing the app's info page in Profile Manager shows that we have 13 - 3 = 10 licenses in use, and only lists 9 people who currently hold licenses to the app:
My MacBook Pro from 2009 restarts itself and doesn't charge, I tried recovery hd but I hadn't used Time Machine so the option is not there and now I'm trying Internet Recovery it give an exclamation mark on the big round web icon.
This page claims that both XCode and MacPorts should be reinstalled whenever a major system change occurs (e.g. upgrading version of OS from 10.8 to 10.9). I have done this before when upgrading from OS X 10.9 to 10.10 (of course, XCode and many other things got updated at the same time). It took a while to migrate MacPorts afterward, but it allowed a port to install that wasn't installing otherwise.
We commonly know that system updates will fix the kernel defects that have been discovered or not previously disclosed, to make the OS more secure. However, what if I accidentally deleted some kernel files, will a new system update recovers the kernel files I deleted?
I have only had this phone (iPhone 5s) a few days and transferred my number. The problem is when my phone is on 3G it's no receiving iMessage, I have missed important messages. Can anyone help?
G5 quad core PPC with an SSD in it. Should I continue looking for 'trim enabling' software? It doesn't seem to exist. Does the PPC architecture have a built in feature that manages SSD space?
Needless to say the scanner is switched ON and the cable IS connected. If I reboot my macbook then everything works fine. This is a pain in the neck though. I would like to find a way to get the scanner working without having to reboot. Full details of my setup: Macbook Air running Mavericks 10.9.5 -->connected to CalDigit Thunderbolt dock -->connected via USB and HDMI to Dell monitor -->connected to printer via USB cable I don't doubt the intermediate elements in the USB chain probably contribute to the problem (same issue with printer directly connected to laptop), however I will note that everything works fine after I reboot my macbook (with printer switched on and connected). Also: the Mac recognises whether the device is switched on or off when connected can even get ink levels from the printer ...just fails to 'communicate' when trying to scan. I don't mind if it's a fiddly hack, deleting plist files etc, as long as I don't have to reboot.
Every time I click to open a link, other windows start opening. They all want to sell me Detox your Mac or have warnings about how my Mac is at risk or infected. How can I check for malware?
I noticed after upgrading to Yosemite that none of my upgrades in homebrew would work anymore. I noticed that it was a problem in general with compiling any kind of C code. The error I get is: I get this with every C code I try. I updated XCode to 6.2, and the command line tools as well. The strange thing is, this is on my mac mini, but my MacBook Pro does not have this issue at all. Any hints/ideas?
Every time I try to synced music from my laptop to iPhone I get this message; I tried to reinstall Itunes I updated the iphone software, nothing works!! I can't transfer any music on my Iphone from my computer !! This is insane
I'm using Mac 10.9.5. When I'm at a Starbucks, my computer will automatically connect to their WiFi network. However, after an hour, they kick you off and although you are still connected to their network, beneath your "WiFi" icon in your Network System preferences, you now have a "Self Assigned IP" and are unable to connect to the Internet. The only way to reconnect is to click the "Turn Wi-Fi Off" button and then click "Turn Wi-Fi On" button to re-enable things.
I've had random kernel panics on my computer since about the time I updated to OSX Yosemite. I should add that I have a crucial m500 SSD and use the mini port to connect my laptop to a large external monitor which may be causing part of this. I probably had 5 kernel panics throughout my day (I work all day on my laptop) and noticed that this often happened after I had been away from my laptop and it was in sleep mode or when I used google drive spreadsheets and typed in any information.
How might I run 3+ versions of google chrome so I can log into to 2 different google accounts. More specifically I am looking to have separate icons in the dock for the 3 separate running applications.
I've downloaded Droid Sans, Droid Serif, and Droid Sans Mono fonts from google.com/fonts and the first two have installed just fine. OS X 10.9.5. I'm extracting the font file from the download ZIP file, double-clicking the TTF file, then clicking "Install".
I have a wired mouse connected to my Macbook Pro, OS X 10.9.5. The mouse is powered, but completely unresponsive. The mouse works on my windows machine, and the usb port on my Macbook works with other mouses/devices. The mouse is detected in my System Information as I have tried resetting my PRAM, with no effect. Does anyone know what steps I can take to fix this?
My battery will not charge. The ac is connected and it is a new. The green light is on. I have tried the reset. Any Help? Here is the stats:Battery Information: System Power Settings: Hardware Configuration:
If we create another icloud e-mail can we: 1) Add it to our phone to send and receive emails without affecting the Apple ID being used on the iPhone 5?
I got a notification saying a MacBook Pro is using facetime with my Apple ID, but I don't have a MacBook Pro. How do I verify what device this is and where it is coming from? Should I be concerned about this?
Not sure how I did it, but iPhoto is gone from my computer, along with all of my 800+ photos. How can I get my photos back? I reinstalled iPhoto and signed in, but it is empty.
I made an 8GB partition on my HD to serve as a bootable OS X Yosemite drive, but it seems to still have 2.63GB free after the bootable drive-making procedure. Does the bootable drive need that space to be able to function properly, or can I bring it back into my startup disk partition?
Whenever I want to share my screen to my apple tv, I first need to find the apple tv remote and turn it on. I used to be able to, at anytime, go to the displays dropdown and select my Apple TV to share to. Now, my ATV only shows up when I turn it on first. I see the setting "sleep after X" on my ATV but I don't think this setting is the solution. Is there a setting I'm missing?
I’m on the iPod Touch (5th generation)—that is a jailbroken device—and did an erase all content and settings an was. I followed all kinds of steps but it didn’t work because I got to the restore part but there is an update that came out and I can’t restore without updating.
I'm trying to recover some data such as movies, pictures, etc from my brother's macbook pro before he takes it in for a depot repair. Anyway, like i've been told, I boot his macbook into target disk mode and connect it to my macbook via thunderbolt cable. After I unlock his hard drive it just doesn't show in my finder window. Is there something wrong on my end? Some sort of human error? Mind you the macbook is going in to get it's motherboard, fan and hard drive replaced. I figure it's due to one of those but just incase I just thought i'd reach out.
I am using the version of gui-based emacs. After using the mac shortcut to access the Menu bar, I am able to use the mnemonic to access the individual top level menu items: e.g.
There is no none selection for payment options and it keeps asking me to verify my card info when I want to update apps or get free apps. How to remove my card info from my iPod?
Yesterday I got crazy with a very special behavior of two of our iMacs (running with the latest Yosemite). If you open a browser Tab in Safari or Chrome on the first iMac, it automatically opens in the task bar of the second one (Screenshot).
I was reading online that you can replace an iPod classic hard drive, my question is how do you manage to duplicate the iPod OS onto the new hard drive? How do you mount the iPod classic hard drive to take a backup? What kind of connectors do you use? Is there any way to mount the iPod hard drive onto a Mac, so that I can use the Disk Utility and make DMG's of the software and EFI?
Equinux VPN Tracker 6 won't start on Mac OS X Yosemite. When starting up, a message says Unable to load kernel extension And invites you to restart, but to no avail.
I have deleted all my e-mail accounts from Mail from the iPhone -- iCloud, my work account, etc., and have reset the phone (powering off and then back on) a couple of times. In Settings/General/Storage, I still show 186 MB of data being used by mail. Is the Mail app itself 186 MB? If not, how can I free up some of the space being "used" when there are no accounts at all on the phone?
Background: I use a Henge Dock for my MBPr with a headset for things like Skype. Because the Henge Dock uses an extension cable to make the audio 'Combination Output' (TRRS) port accessible, the microphone is only detected if it's plugged into the extension BEFORE the MacBook is docked. This is a very common issue and well documented.
I have created two mail signatures for one gmail account. But I can't see a signature dropdown or any possibility to add a signature to an email.
Can I connect iMac 21.5 mid 2010 as an external monitor of Macbook Pro Retina late 2013 15"? How can I connect them? I read some articles that say it can be done with Mini DisplayPort-to-Mini DisplayPort like *=URL=* but I’m not sure if the author is referring to the 27 iMac only or all iMacs mid 2010. Has anybody had some experience in connecting these? Here’s my iMac details:
I might have to bring my Early 2013 MacBook Pro Retina in for service as the screen shows some strange smudging (I just post it here as it looks quite strange...). But I replaced the internal SSD with a JetDrive 725 recently. Will my my AppleCare Protection Plan still be valid, or should I just put the original in again?
I recently had my iPhone stolen, it was recovered but both of my apple ids were altered and I can not use them. the person who stole the phone must have set up one or more accounts because when setting up new account it error messaged maximum number of free accounts activated. What is the maximum number of free accounts on iPhone 5? I have new phone and would like to know the maximum allowed..
I'd like to charge my rMBP battery only up to 85% or 90%, in order to preserve it. Is there any app that stops charging at user selected percentages?
I already have a MacBook Air, and I just start my new job. My boss gave me a new Mac laptop. It's a little over kill to bring in 2 laptops in everyday for work. I notice another Admin account in this laptop. I was about to link my Dropbox and iMessage in there, but I decide to hold on to it. I have so many questions right now. What would you do if you're in my situation? Should we link our personal stuff with our work computer ? What do I need to consider ? Can Admin see messages, emails, browsing history on other account ? Do they have even have the right to see other people personal stuffs ?
I have many, many windows that must be open all at once (VM, Email client, browser, IDE, source navigator, issue tracker, notebook, etc...), and have often bumped up against my MacBook's 16GB of RAM. Would it be more efficient to have these all in 1 or 2 desktops, or to have as many as possible fullscreen in their own desktop?
I have an application (closed-source tool not developed by me) which requires another process to exist before executing properly. When I quit this application, I also want that custom process to be killed. My solution is to have a shell script "launcher". I can handle creating shell script menus, the on-close event, and opening/killing the processes. The problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to open an application from Terminal but keep Terminal locked on that application so that when I close the Terminal window or send CTRL+C the application closes. If you're familiar with Linux, a simple example of my desired behavior is just "gedit file.txt". The text-editor would open but it only lives as long as the terminal window does.
I'm working on a security agent. Wherein I do not want to allow any user/admin/root to delete my security agent application normally.
I want my Mac to show hidden files when i hit ⌘ + H (like ubuntu). I can see hidden files by putting this defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES command in terminal but i want to get a keyboard shortcut for it. Also, if ⌘ + H is already used by some other process please let me know what might be the closest and most related shortcut for this new process and how to assign it to the respective, show hidden files process.
In the past few days, my 2011-model iMac with Yosemite 10.10.2 has started dropping wireless connection, yet it doesn't seem to be aware. I'll be using the computer, and notice a sudden loss of internet connection. The WiFi status indicator on the toolbar hasn't changed, holding option while clicking shows that it thinks it's fully connected, shows the signal strength info I would expect, says the internet is "reachable", etc.
I would like to know if there is a way to modify / add something on this script to see similar progress, either tell terminal to open while executing the script or a detailed progress bar pop up. This is the scrip I am currently starting with
I'm managing a half dozen devices with Configurator. I'd like to set the unlock passcode on all of the devices to friend. Is this possible using profiles or some other method in Configurator? If so, how? I can't seem to figure out how, and my Google-Fu isn't giving me answers (too many wifi answers).
Is it possible to disable the trackpad and mouse temporarily while you have an external mouse and keyboard plugged in. The keys keep getting accidentally hit while I have the mouse and keyboard plugged in. Edit Thank you to everyone who answered, because of this I was able to make an applescript to toggle the builtin keyboard on and off:
I got the preview release of Office for Mac and everything works but Outlook. Every time I launch it immediately crashes with
When somebody sends me an e-mail that is marked as "High priority" it does not show up any differently than other e-mails. I am expecting to see a red flag or other indicator to show that the e-mail has been marked by the sender (which could, for instance, be my boss) as more important or urgent and in need of immediate attention. Other e-mail clients I have used in the past did this automatically.
Today, I installed Windows 8.1 using Bootcamp. After installing the Bootcamp Support Software, I was surprised to hear that I could play sound through my MacBook's speakers. I have looked online in the past trying to find a way to override the headphone port in OS X. The general consensus seems to be that it's simply not possible, because the speakers are disabled on a hardware level by the piece of headphone. Obviously this is not true, since Windows is able to play sound.
I'm coding a website, just with a text editor and my browser. I use Sublime Text 3 and Google Chrome. When I hover my text editor over my browser, the background color of my site gets a bit darker in the area's of the shadows of the text editor. I don't really know how to explain this so have a look at this pic:
How can I get rid of the Right hand column (with Margin, layout info) on the Pages. I just want the page to show my letter when sending. I run Pages v5 on OS X Yosemite.
I am looking to install SQL developer I downloaded the .app file. When I try and open it I get “SQLDeveloper.app” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed.
Instead of "from" showing (Name,Name)blablabla@hjgy.xxx - just show blablabla@hjgy.xxx. Only want my email address to show on certain outgoing emails from certain servives, ex. show Name and email address from Verizon service but (no name) email address only when sent from Gmail service. Thanks
When my music transferred from new macbook air to my iPhone 6 it seemed to become stored in the cloud rather than available to me on the phone when I want to play it and I am not always near wi-fi. I purposely purchased an iPhone 6 with 64k memory to avoid not being able to hear music and now it has happened anyway?
My Messages app out-of-blue started to complain that my GTalk credentials are being sent in non-secured manner. Your name and password will be sent in a way that is not secure. Do you still wish to connect to this server?
I'm thinking of getting a new SSHD for my early 2011 13" MBP, and if I do, I had the idea to give my 500GB HDD to my friend who has a 2007 MacBook (white polycarbonate). He seems to think that his computer can only take 80 and 120GB hard drives. Is this true?
Today my app's metadata was rejected by Apple. Reason -
So I need to run Install Xcode, which, apparently, isn't a script or executable...I'll click it with the mouse. For posterity, I thought I'd at least mention this to anyone else that there's an extra thing to do to install XCode.
Background I was presenting at a venue where the projector supports 1280x720px resolution (16:9) via VGA cable (I've previously used the same room and equipment on an older 2011 MacBook Pro running Mavericks). Yesterday I used a newer 2014 MacBook Pro Retina running Yosemite, and was unable to set this resolution - the closest I could choose was 1280x1024px. When the MacBook is mirroring to a projector via VGA cable, the > System Preferences > Displays panel looks something like this: In my case the only options were 1280x1024px and 800x600px (this image is from the web - I didn't get a screenshot at the time). My question Is there anywhere, other than the > System Preferences > Displays dialog, where you can explicitly set/force the output resolution? My only options were 1280x1024 or 800x600, yet I'm positive the projector supported 16:9 since I've used it before.
Recently, I was using my rMBP on battery power, with about 20%-30% remaining battery, according to the battery indicator. It suddenly shut off, and would not power on (not even showing the "battery low" screen) until I plugged in. After starting back up again, Yosemite now keeps enabling the "reduce transparency" option when I log in or lock the computer.
I have several bluetooth speakers, and more than 2 iOS devices. Once a speaker is paired with one iOS device (iPhone, for ex.), the next time I turn on the speaker, it connects (with beep sound) to that device again, even if that device is OFF, preventing it from connecting to a different iOS device I'm trying to use it with (iPad, for example -also previously paired with the speaker). I'm wondering if the latest Bluetooth specification has eliminated this annoying trate.
As near as I can tell, Jitsi is able to dial out and make a phone call using babytel: but where are the settings for accounts actually stored? The configuration files? I also tried a search of "this mac" from the Finder GUI.
I've a security daemon which performs many security related tasks. Daemon plist is part of /Library/LaunchDaemon/com.xyz.securityservice.plist also KeepAlive flag is 1. The daemon I've currently can be stopped using this command - sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemon/com.xyz.securityservice.plist I wanted to restrict security daemon from unloading by this command.
I have an applescript that I am using to clear out a huge folder. I can select all of the files but how can I indicate the "command delete" key while keeping all of the files selected? Basically after the "command a function" if I try to preform the "command delete" function it deselects all of those previously selected files.
My PC is always recently showing low disk space despite me eliminating files. I ran Tree size and discovered large volume from iTunes sync backup. Before deleting in iTunes>preference, May I just copy/paste this directory C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
What file systems can work with OS X File Tags? (HFS+, ExFAT, NTFS, etc.)
I have default mail , Gmail , calendar and google calendar apps on IPhone. When I get an event (from lets say meetup ), I have to copy paste bits and pieces from mail/Gmail app to Calendar/Google Calendar! What gives? Isn't there an easy way to export a Gmail (event) to IPhone Calendar/Google Calendar app on IPhone?
My iPhone 5 frequently and randomly decides to turn itself off. When it is about to go, it freezes, shows the 'turning off wheel/circle' and then goes black, with the exception of a tiny red dot in the middle. Then after a few seconds it goes completely black. My lock button is also broken so without a charger and a powerpoint, I am unable to revive it!
A friend of mine has a setting turned on on his macbook. As you can see in the screenshot below, the shift, function, control, alt and command keys show up in the top right corner when pressed. Where can this setting be turned off?
My husband has an iPhone 5s, and my stepdaughter has an iPhone 4 as this is her first phone. They both have same iTunes and iCloud account. All we want to do is disconnect the iCloud account from the 4s, and switch this off on her phone as when we are deleting some of the contacts that are in the 4s, which are the same in the 5s, it's deleting in both phones, so we do not want to delete the account and clear the 4s in case this happens with the 5s.
Since iOS 8.1 Siri stopped working for me. The sound and wave animation appear, but it seems the microphone does not register my speech, or it is not processed by Siri. I have read various "solutions" and tried to troubleshoot it, but I am running out of ideas.
I've just install the Server.app on a mac mini that run yosemite 10.10.2 and the Software Update Server don't work. I've got this error messages :
I'm looking for a mac app that captures the screen (video) on specific app window (for example, Safari), and keeps recording what that window sees even when minimized to the dock for example. Or even if a finder window is over it (without recording that finder window). Anyone knows an app that can achieve what I'm talking about?
There are 2 brand new iMac running Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Both machines have a wired ethernet connection to a wired Samsung CLX-6260ND MFC (multifunction) printer.
I constantly find myself ⌘CMD+Space to do some arithmetic based off numbers I have in front of me. The problem is, as soon as I've entered the first operation, Spotlight expands and opens over some/all of the source of my numbers. Is there a way I can add an opacity to the Spotlight overlay so I can see through it to the windows below?
The HDD of my Early 2011 MBP broke, and I'm considering if it's because of the heavy workload I put it through by installing, deleting, downloading, copying and erasing files, over and over. I thought about it, and logically it would make sense that this would eventually wear down a HDD, but since I'm not an expert, I was wondering if I was right in this assumption, or if I was just unlucky with my HDD? Also, I'm using my new computer now, and I'm worried the same might happen to it eventually, if I don't take preventative measures early on.
I have an iMac running Mavericks that was previously administered by the user, and it still requires a FileVault password when the system is rebooted, however FileVault is off. At some point FileVault was turned off as well as the OS updated from 10.6.8 to 10.9. What order all that was done in, no one knows, so I don't know if that had something to do with it. To make sure that the GUI wasn't lying to me, I ran a diskutil cs list and got the following: How do I turn off the prompt at boot?
I just had to install the latest Security Update from the Mac App Store and it started auto updating. Then when I completed the update (and restarted) my Mac asked me to enter in my Apple ID password and asked me if I would like the 'Cloud keychain thing', after that it said it was setting up my mac (just like the first installation!) it did however keep all my data.
I have tried to download apps from App Store, but they require iOS 7.1.4. Please can you help me to upgrade my iOS 5.1.1 iPad to iOS 7.1.4?
I typed in my email address incorrectly once, and autocorrect will not let me forget it. This leads to problems all the time (with autocorrect changing my email address in forms when I hit "enter" to submit). I miss receipts, keep signing up a stranger for different services, and so on.
I bought an iPhone 4s used and the previous owner did not clear their iCloud account. I need to reset phone, but can't turn off "Find my Phone" because of iCloud password! How can delete iCloud without a password?
I've got a webpage that I have to access for work each morning and it continually asks to use my location. Is there an way to block this from asking for my location? I'm not so much concerned about it knowing my location as I am tired of the Safari drop down alert asking for it over and over and over again.
On my old laptop, I used a shared Apple ID to purchase music on iTunes. It was a little tedious because it was connected to my sister's bank account, so I had to send her money before each purchase I made, so that her account wouldn't overdraw.
I have the late 2008 edition of the unibody MacBook. It has a built-in HDD which became unbelievably slow. The other tech-specs are:
Is there any way to check whether the phone has MLC or TLC, just by serial number or batch number? I will be buying iPhone 6, Space Grey, 64GB. From what I have read, 64GB version could be TLC or MLC.
Among the many promising features of OS X 10.10 grouped under the label "Continuity" is the ability to make and answer iPhone calls from the Mac. The Mac uses the iPhone's connection to the carrier's voice network. I think this technology works over wifi.
Since apparently I can't set a passcode automatically with configurator I'd like to not have a passcode required (I'm okay with the user setting one themselves as long as it'll get wiped when I reset the device). Is it possible to have configurator do this?
Please do not mark this question as duplicate. There are some similar questions, but they are stale. They are about old versions and none of their suggestions solved my issue. (eg: How to increase font size of Eclipse globally?)
Is there a shortcut to focus the folders area in the save dialogs? I've found the followings shortcuts, but I would like to be able to just focus the currently selected folder. Cmd ⌘ D Changes focus to your Desktop Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ A Changes focus to your Applications directory Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ H Changes focus to your Home directory
I noticed in Yosemite, Messages has two menu options under the View menu, "Make Text Smaller" and "Make Text Bigger." But unfortunately neither option does anything at all. Is this a bug? Do I have something in my settings preventing this from working?
I may or may not be be getting the new Apple Watch. Before I think about it I want to know if I can use it with an iPod Touch 5th generation instead of an iPhone.
I'm running Little Snitch and every time I open Spotlight to find something it makes a bunch of http requests out to various websites, some I've visited in the past some I've absolutely no idea about. I've no idea what Spotlight is doing and why it should be reaching out, but in anycase I'd much prefer if it didn't. Is there any way to restrict Spotlight to the local machine and not have it make these requests?
I left my phone on the roof of my car today and drove off and the result was that I reversed over it and smashed the screen. I am insured so that is OK. The only problem I have is I haven't backed it up for 14 weeks as was running low on iCloud storage. I've taken all photos off so that's not the problem, but just need my calendar as I run my hairdressing business off it, and I cannot see all my appointments. Does anyone know if there is a way to do this on my PC?
I am running Remote Desktop to connect from my MacBook Air with Yosemite to a Windows computer running Windows 8.1. Both my Mac and the Windows computer is configured with Norwegian keyboard layout. It seems "\" backslash is impossible to input in this keyboard configuration. I would guess it's the same for Danish and Swedish keyboards. Is there a way to easily input this character in RDP for Mac using this keyboard layout? (I would be willing to map some key combination if that's possible, but I don't want to switch to some other keyboard layout, since I need to input Norwegian characters now and then)
I'm trying to add a Canon MF8050cn to print from OS X Yosemite that works fine from Windows 7 machines. I installed the Canon 8000 driver Mac_MF_Ver1040_00.dmg for Macintosh. I can ping the printer successfully at 10.1.10.18 from my Macintosh. In the Add Printer dialog on the Macintosh, I enter the static IP address of the printer and Internet Printing Protocol and use Canon MF8000 Series, however, when I click Add on the dialog, it gives the error: Choosing Continue gives a printer that when you print to it gets the error Printing - The printer is not responding. How can I configure this printer for access from my Macintosh?
I've tried Chrome and Firefox as well, and this is the common error they give me:  Whatever I do, I cannot allow for Java applets to be run on any browser.
I have a Macbook Pro 2011, running OS X Yosemite. I am trying to use my headphones, which contain a mic and speakers (as most headphones do). However, I can only use the audio jack as input or output. I have tried to change it, but whenever I go to the sound menu to select it, it only gives me Input or Output. See:
I wanted to ask which version I should download and install. First, I need to tell you that I use Windows 7 64-bit bootcamp on my Mac. I access it mostly via a virtual machine (VMWare). My Macbook has 8GB RAM and an about 3.1 GHz processor. I have about 10GB of free space on my bootcamp. Which version of Microsoft office should I install, 32-bit or 64-bit? Does 32-bit even work on my bootcamp?
I noticed some apps that sync data using iCloud have visible folders in the iCloud Drive on my Mac, yet others are hidden. Why is this?
I want to know if I can change this behaviour. .doc files are shown in the usual Word icon, as well as .dot and .dotx files. .dot files. Only the .docx files are shown as blank paper. I have attached a picture for better understanding. I use Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. Output of /S*/L*/F*/C*/V*/A/F*/L*/V*/A/S*/lsregister -dump | grep -B 7 '.docx' in Terminal:
Can I connect an external hardrive with time machine to someone else's mac and then access one file on time machine?
I'm trying to change the Apple ID on my iPhone 4 to match my iCloud one (already changed Apple ID here) but it keeps asking me for the password linked to the old ID to turn off find my iphone (activation lock), in order to delete the old apple ID account from the phone. I need to do this so I can sign in again with my new ID. This password of course won't work as the password has already been changed on icloud so the old email address/ID (now showing in the pop up box) doesn't exist! How can I change my Apple ID?
I'm running a iMac with 10.9.5. Recently I installed Adobe CC, and ever since, I've been having issues with my admin password. My computer no longer recognizes it. So I'm effectively unable to update or install programs, or change any settings. Somehow it shifted from requiring a login password at start up, to logging in automatically, and then I get the message "accountsd wants to use the login keychain." The admin password works in this case. I reset my keychain, but that didn't solve the problem. I tried to repair the keychain, but that requires an admin password and in this case it doesn't work. I'm at a loss. Any ideas?
The Spotlight application handily locates files for opening immediately. However, I want to know the found file's address from Spotlight in order to navigate to that location in Finder and move the file elsewhere.
I went into Settings > Messages > Learn More and it says that iMessage only works in Wifi mode. I am on Wifi and I have been trying to send iMessages to another person. Each time I send it "delivered" appears under the message. The other person calls me saying that she has not been receiving my iMessages. However, when I turn off iMessage in Settings > Messages, she starts responding to me, implying that regular SMS messages work. I am wondering whether the iMessages that I've sent have disappeared forever or will she start downloading the undelivered iMessages them when she attains wifi access?
I want to display favicon on my Safari Tab :  I am using Yosemite 10.10. I've tried Glims, it doesn't seem to work with Yosemite. I'm wondering if there are other way around to tweak this natively or with a third party tool.
I would like to use (or write) a timer that I can setup to use with my kids on Mac OS X (Yosemite). The functionality which I would like, which I haven't found off the shelf is:
For the second time in four weeks I've had to re-solder the mag safe cord back on to the power supply. This time, unlike the first, the cord broke on the negative terminal on the circuit board itself. I was able to put a dab of solder back on the terminal to keep the power supply working, but the connection is weak, and I'm not sure how long it's going to last (I repack my charger a few times a day when I'm in school).
I recently purchased the Macbook Pro 13 in (Early 2015) model, with specs in the title. I was wondering if this is good purchase for a power user who does software engineering, UI / UX Design, database creation, etc. I have been previously using a Q200E Asus Laptop with a modified SSD/HD harddisk but found that the laptop was too slow at times and that was really cutting into my dev time.
I have an iPhone 6 which is NOT Jail Broken. The current version of iOS on the phone is 8.1.3 and yesterday I wanted to update to iOS 8.2 . The download went through without any problem but while installing, it gave the error - "Unable to Install Update An error occurred installing iOS 8.2". Tried installing after switching Off and ON and also tried Hard Reset (Holding Home button and On/off switch). Same error displays every time. Also the Touch Id has stopped working and I find that the Settings - Touch ID & Passcode - iPhone Unlock is OFF. When I try to switch it ON, the system displays the error " Failed Unable to complete Touch ID setup. Please go back and try again".
Related: the iPad Mini is running iOS 8.2 (fully patched). The MacBook Pro is running OS X 10.8.5 (fully patched). I have an iTunes account but it won't be accessible. I don't have an iCloud account and I don't want one (I have actively refused it since the iOS 6/7 days).
I reinstalled OS X Yosemite, I am now using a new admin password (I also changed my iCloud account password.) Upon setting up iCloud, it reused the iCloud data. Everything is running fine BUT on each reboot I am asked to enter the "old iCloud password" for all system agents using the "Local Items". and it only accepts my old iCloud password, not the new one ...
I'm a bit confused about iTunes in the Cloud vs. iTunes Match. My understanding is that iTunes in the Cloud allows me to have my songs in the cloud. I can see all my songs by turning on "Show all music" on my iOS device. iTunes Match allows me to add music to the Apple cloud that was not bought in iTunes. I have enabled that on my Mac to add music I buy from Amazon.
On my iPhone I see a list of songs I cannot delete. Here's what I tried: Go to settings -> memory usage -> iTunes -> delete all music Disable iTunes Match Disable show all music Connect to iTunes on the Mac and manually remove all synced songs Swipe to delete does not work The songs do not show any sort if cloud icons iTunes shows 3.3GB of Audio on my device which I cannot get rid of. Any other ideas what to try?
I am reviewing a document on behalf of someone. I use Track Changes and I am inserting comments. I want the name of the my colleague to appear in the comments and not mine (mine appears by default as the software is registered to me).
When I go to settings -> user & groups then, all text and components in the container are reversed like the picture and clicking a component will not response anything. It is shared mac mini with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, I connected it with VNC client. Logout and login do not help. Can somebody help me how to fix it?
There appears to be only 1 account - the standard account I am logging in with. There appears to be no admin account of any kind.
I tried updating my iOS, nothing. I checked using iMazing at my phones directory structure (it allows you to view folder sizes) and none of my folders had 40GB, the total amounted to what my phone was reporting (~15GB). I have no idea why it's doing it, so I'm going to go for a full restore from my newly created backup.
The *=URL=* service doesn't find a newly connected Synology NAS device. For that case this website suggest to download "Synology Assistant 5.2 5005 for Mac". After opening the application straight from the DMG DSAssistant crashes. Regression: When copying the application to the /Applications folder, DSAssistant also crashes when starting. After deleting the corresponding user preference file ~/Library/Preferences/com.synology.DSAssistant.plist and emptied the trash, there is still the crash KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018 with application specific information objc_msgSend() selector name: _getCString:maxLength:encoding: on starting "Synology Assistant". Any suggestions how to get the "Synology Assistant" application running?
A friend has given me his old iPhone but it still has his Apple id on iTunes and the cloud and won't allow me access. How do I erase this and input my details instead
I would like to have the ssh-agent socket inside my home directory, but currently it is created inside /private/tmp. I see that the agent is managed though launchctl and this plist: /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist, but I don't know how to modify this file to have the socket, for example, at ~/.ssh-agent.sock.
I have an early 2009 13" MacBook Pro. I have used it a lot and at the moment and for a while now it is quite slow. I need to use various applications like Mathematica (for which it is quite slow if I use it now), Latex, web browsers, and a few other programs. Right now compiling Latex documents or running easy Mathematica code takes a long time and sometimes even will crash the computer for a couple of minutes.
My iPhone 5s which I bought a year ago shows "Call Failed" whenever I hit "send", it doesn't matter which number I'm dialing. I can get incoming calls, FaceTime calls, messages, and apps are working fine. I placed my SIM in another device and mananged to make calls, and I tried putting another SIM in my iPhone, and once again got the instant "Call Failed" message.
I want to turn off the restoring of an application window (in my case, iTerm). How to turn it off, but just for this specific application ?
I'd like to know if anyone has found a way to sync the new Photos app on Yosemite with a Synology diskstation. I know backing up is easily done either using Time Machine or another app, but I want to sync the 'Events' of Photos to my Diskstation to allow for it to index the files to the built in Photo Station application on the NAS.
I posted this on the apple.com forums, but haven't gotten an answer Hi, I know this has been asked, and I've read a ton of posts here and other places, but still not sure I know what's going on. I have a 15 in late-2008 MBP. The battery had to be removed a year or so ago because it had swollen up to the point that its was affecting the trackpad, and as I mainly work at my desk, I've never replaced it, and so obviously, only use it when it's plugged in. It's a 2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo 2GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MP OSX 10.9.2 (13c64) 250GB HD (which is almost full and I'm currently working on cleaning off... mostly pictures) 2GB RAM (I thought it was more?)
Our organisation has ordered several 1000s new iPad minis for frontline staff. One of the things the management want is the ability to import analog video (ie, from a VHS) directly to the iPad (please don't ask why). I've seen devices like this for sale: www.elgato.com/en/video/video-capture
I realized that I somehow deleted some very important files on my computer. I am working with QGIS and I deleted (in my python system's native folder) some eggs and other things which led to the inconvenient outcome that my QGis is not working anymore... Luckily, I have a backup from yesterday night.
As shown in the screenshot when I do a command-F (Find files ?) all of the files in the directory just do not show anymore (there are hundreds of files in the /shared directory)
I am using Apple Configurator 1.7.1 (550) on 10.10.2 (Yosemite). Is it possible to prepare a device and assign the static IP address for a WiFi? I am able to successfully prepare and supervise the iPad, but since we use static IP addresses for each device, I am having enter these details in manually every time I have maintain and add some update to the device.
Just a little time, my mac has some problems when start. a prohibition logo appear and it's so slow until the system run... My mac run on yosemite 10.10.2
So I am following How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password? to create a new administrator account.
When I go to organize my desktop by moving multiple Files, Folders, or Icons at the same time it groups them all together. How to I prevent it from doing this? Thank you. (System - Macbook Pro OS 10.9.5)
However, if I run "cat -u < /dev/cu.xxxxxxxx" and THEN set the baud to 19200 while the cat is running, the baud rate will stick. This is also the case when I write some test code and execute the C system command open("/dev/cu.xxxxxxxx") and freeze the program.
I Phone 5S not showing calendar entries over 30 days old.
I've got my Mac speaking me the time every hour, but I'm currently trying to learn French so I thought it would be a good idea to make it speak the time in French. However, rather than saying "Il est 11 heures." she says "It's 11 hours." (in a lovely French accent). Is it possible to make her actually speak French?
I have an iPhone that I need to wipe because I need to send it to Apple for the Lock Button Replacement Program. The only issue is I need to restore my iPhone and I don't want to lose my text messages and iMessages. If I backup my iPhone to iTunes will I be able to recover them when I get my iPhone back and still use them with the 'messages' application and not a 'SQL lite' app?
Instead of From: listing { "Name" } and showing up on recipients email as such, I would like to only have the email address shoe up so the above would be - { ,xxx@yyyy.zz }. I have three domains I send and receive from I would like to keep one of them private, without my name showing. Thanks iciarch
I'm on Yosemite, using vi mode in bash (set -o vi in .bash_profile) and I want to have the prompt indicate if I'm in edit or command mode. I looked around and found that this feature has been implemented in bash 4.3 (see *=URL=* and can be turned on by setting the variable show-mode-in-prompt to on. I installed bash 4.3 using homebrew following these instructions. Now, when I execute bash --version I see GNU bash, version 4.3.33(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0) and brew info readline returns readline: stable 6.3.8 (bottled) so it looks like I'm using the correct versions. However, when I execute set show-mode-in-prompt on or add it to ~/.inputrc based on the readline manual, the prompt still doesn't change based on the vi mode. What am I doing wrong?
My IPhone 4s recently decided to stop charging for some reason. If I put the charger into my iPhone, it doesn't respond at all, doesn't charge or give any signal its charging. The only thing the charger has effect on is when my iPhone is completely off, it will go on if I put the charger in. So far I didn't find a similar problem so maybe someone knows what's wrong/has had this problem already and maybe have an answer for me?
I have a single partition disk whose filesystem will not mount properly. I don't care about the data and I would like to try reformatting the disk but I keep getting errors related to a failure unmounting the drive. I have tried the following in both normal and recovery mode: reformatting in the Disk Utility GUI sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk3 GPT JHFS+ New 0b sudo diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/rdisk3 sudo fdisk -i -a hfs /dev/rdisk3 sudo gpt destroy /dev/rdisk3
Trying to use an application in fullscreen mode, but if I move the pointer just a little too far when trying to select things at the top of the display the menu bar drops down instead. Is there a way to disable this, either in per-app settings or from a particular monitor/display? Using OS X 10.10.x
I have a user that was having an issue with his mac where only 1 administrative account was showing up. He'd log in, then have to log out and could see the other two accounts (his personal account and another administrative account).
I downloaded all my photos from iPhone to Macbook Pro, and now that I have a new iPhone, I want to download from my iPhoto's photo album to my iPhone. How do I do that?
How and where is this installed from on a Mac? For context, SIPSAK is the SIP Swiss Army Knife:
I bought an iPhone 5S in Chile, model A1457 knowing that it doesn't have the LTE bands that are needed in Argentina. It was the only model available.
So literally out of the blue, my MB Pro is giving me the rainbow for minutes at time for 99% of the things I try to do. I maxed out the memory to 8GB last year, and that made a huge improvement, but like I said, this afternoon it went from being a really productive machine to acting like a 10-year old computer.
I used my MacBook Pro and iTunes to download updates for my mobile apps. I then sync'd and the apps were updated. I verified they were updated through the device's Settings app.
I have a shared drive mounted via SMB. The "Get Info" page shows that the Last Opened time is January 1, 1970, which is obviously impossible. What is the cause of the issue, and is it possible to fix this?
I started an OS X Yosemite download. I did not want to download it or install it; rather I just wanted it to show up under purchases so I could install it in the future after Apple removes it from the App Store. It will avoid problems like Where can I get a copy of Mavericks after Yosemite has been released? The Pause button is not available (its greyed out), so I can't pause or stop the download. How do I abort the download now that the "purchase" has been made?
I installed MySQL:  but MySQL certainly isn't on the path when I open a terminal, nor do I see it in applications, as I seem to recall Windows handles MySQL.
Now, I recently moved to Japan and upon seeing these iTunes cards on the convenience stores, I am really tempted to buy some. (I don't have a JP-based credit card and I cannot, should not, must not use my PH-based CC to do purchases).
This computer would sleep fine before. Now it wakes up immediately after sleeping, either from a timer, or from the Sleep menu item. Even if all USB ports (except the wireless mouse) are empty Even with a non-wireless mouse Even if Bluetooth and WiFi are off Even if Time Machine is off Even after Apple Hardware Test has shown no problem
MacBook Air 13-inch (MBA), Mid 2013, 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, OS X 10.10.2; 24-inch LED Cinema Display (3 cables: power, USB and Thunderbolt); iPhone 5 (and above headphones, with integrated mic). when the a/m MBA is connected to the Cinema Display and I plug the headphones, the sound still comes out of the Cinema Display, instead of the headphones; when the a/m MBA is NOT connected to the Cinema Display and the headphone is plugged in, sound is cut from the MBA speakers and is redirected to the headphones as it should be; in order to get the sound redirected to the headphones, I now have to launch System Preferences, Sound and switch manually to Headphone port; I also tried to change the headphones, but the problem remains. This started maybe a week ago (but after upgrading to 10.10.2, from 10.10.1, not saying that the upgrade is at fault, though). Any ideas?
I would like to ask if someone knows where can I find all the possible printing options the can CUPS send to backend/filter etc. These are some of the possible options: I would like to get the full list of these options, but can't find any specification for that. https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/api-cups.html#cupsParseOptions
How do I just get the MySQL Admin GUI to run:  then:
So I just had a bit of a panic and realised that the app name I want may not be available. Just went ahead and created an app in iTunes Connect using the bundle id, sigh of relief, it is available.
I updated some tweaks in Cydia. After doing it, my iPhone is now stuck on the home screen. I am not even able to slide and unlock it and if a call comes, I cannot attend it. What do I do now?
I saw this helpful answer, but cannot find the Software Update.app file when I search for it on my Mac (Yosemite) to insert it into the iCal event. So how can I schedule software updates on Yosemite?
Is there a way to move the OsX notification center, or at least the notification alerts, to the left side of the screen?
I am using iPhone 5 (32GB) updated to iOS 8.1.2. Recently I opened the Photos app and saw that my all albums are gone but the photos are still visible in Moments.
Error: This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk. As mentioned, this is a non bootable drive. The documents in the drive are very important, so a format would be detrimental.
I am going to sell my MacBook Air when the new MacBook comes out and so I want to make sure there is no personal Information available to the next user. I am going to wipe my SSD and reinstall the OS however since I have to download the installer from the App Store will information like my Apple ID be copied onto the computer during the installation?
When I press the volume button (F11 and F12) nothing happens. Also the mute button (F10) doesn't work. I tried resetting my computer. Plugging in and out my headphones. Nothing worked.
I have a Macbook Pro mid-2010 (Macbook 7,1) that is acting a bit weird. The battery status always says I'm connected to a power source even when the charger is unplugged. The battery still discharges, but the battery status says I'm connected to a power source. The exception is when I'm at the login screen, where the battery status displayed in the menu bar will be correct. What I have tried to do: Done a clean install of Mavericks Reset SMC Reset PRAM Reinstalling the battery Using another charger Boot from my Macbook's original HDD But to no avail.
I'm using an EVGA PLUS to run multiple monitors. Whenever I boot, restart, wake from sleep, I have to go into displays and reset the arrangement. Is there any way I can save my desired arrangement as the default? OSX 10.10.2 three monitors across, one monitor above of the left monitor: -
In System 7, when the user tries to open a document of a type which multiple installed applications can open*, it pops up a dialog asking which one to use. After one is chosen, that application seems to always be used to open that type of file, by default (although it can be manually opened in the other application(s)).
Old discussion about this topic for OSX Lion here. However, I think there is no good answer to this topic, since pgfplots is not already installed so not only a .sty file problem, like Alan writes there. I am trying to run this script here but get the error about the missing pgfplots, after the generation of the Liste.dat:
I have a PowerMac G5 PPC running Tiger and an old, white, Santa Rosa MacBook running Leopard. If I create cloned disc images of these OS drives, will I be able to run them in VMWare Fusion/Parallels/etc. on a modern Intel Mac? If I were to create bootable clones of these drives, would these need to be formatted as APM on FireWire drives that would only be accessible from the G5 &/or SR MacBook as opposed to bootable clones formatted as GUID on USB drives accessible from any modern Mac? Is there any reason I would want to clone the drives via Target Disk Mode, hooked up to an Intel Mac, as opposed to cloning them directly from their own interfaces or from an Intel Mac with access to them via ethernet LAN? Thank you
I have IOS 8 and I want to know how to save ALL of my notifications. What I mean is, I unlock the phone and then the notification disappears and I didn't read it. I have looked all over and there's no way I've found.
Does anyone know of software that would allow me to pull up a set of finder windows based on a project type. I'm a user experience manager who's constantly switching between projects and it would be awesome to be able to select "cart/checkout redesign" and it brings up all folders right where I left them. Finder windows are just the start to this dream tool of mine. Would love to be able to pull up everything right where I left them: files, applications, emails, etc. Almost like having a different computer for each project. I've researched the heck out of this and have found nothing like this. Spaces doesn't do it. There's lots of tools for managing windows but none that will pull up a set of windows and file locations based on a preset. "Finder Window Manager" is an old piece of software that sounded promising, but it didn't work at all given what I'm looking for.
I'm teaching a class on Sunday and my wonderful but occasionally rebellious students love to quietly play Minecraft during class. Is there a way I can disable the Minecraft application during class time?
I'll be overseas and don't want to be racking up roaming or whatever other charges. Typically I would use the Airplane mode, but I still want to be able to take photos that have the geo locations recorded.
I’ve got Power Mac G5 running Debian 6 in headless mode as a media/home server. When booting it without an attached screen, the fans ramp up from the idle speed to maximum over a couple of minutes. The red interior warning light is not lit. The server is ping-able the entire time, but startup utilities such as SSH and other are never started; or at least they aren’t reachable.
I'm on an older Mac Pro, and I bought the ASUS USB-BT400 so that I can use Yosemite's Handoff feature. The problem is, I don't know how to disable the internal Bluetooth and force my machine to use the USB Bluetooth instead. I searched around but didn't find anything that worked.
After doing the recent iOS 8.2 update, my photo stream has disappeared. I have checked all through my phone and on the icloud and my photo stream is ticked. All I have left is 3 folders: one says All Photos, one says Videos, and one says recently deleted.
I have been using MplayerX and recently thought of trying out VLC for watching movies. I noticed that the VLC player does not remember the last played position of the video. If I quit VLC and play the same video again, it plays it from the beginning.
This is the scenario: I have some macbooks bound to Active Directory, so that any AD user can log in. Per requirements from above, all user data needs to be encrypted. Encrypting the entire hard drive proves to be problematic because it prevents authentication against AD when the laptop just boots up. Is there a away to put the entire /Users directory on an encrypted partition so that a user can log in and then decrypt the Users partition?
Assume you installed Imagemagick by but it does not get into your PATH. For example, I run unsuccessfully since imagemagick is not in PATH: -bash: compare: command not found. The command ls -l /usr/local/bin/compare gives My .bash_profile Echoing $PATH gives which seems to be ok because /usr/local/bin/ there. The command brew --prefix gives /usr/local so ok. The command brew info imagemagick gives which seems to be ok. I run the command brew link imagemagick and get
I have 2 extra monitors on my MacBook Pro. They are positioned like this:
I have an Arc Touch Mouse SE (Bluetooth edition of the Arc Touch Mouse) and though I remember long ago it worked for the most part in 10.9, it doesn't seem to work in 10.10 and I'm trying to determine if it's one of the 'mods' I've installed that are to blame. Here's how it works right now: I have to delete it from Bluetooth preferences if it exists already, and manually pair the mouse to get it to work. It will work until I turn either it or Bluetooth off, then it'll refuse to connect until I repeat this process.
I have a MacBook Pro (I think mid 2012). About three months ago it started running really slow, so I renstalled the OS with a recovery partition. For a few weeks it ran very well with an overall very seamless experience.
For some reason Mail shows me 100% account usage on my Gmail account. I've deleted most mails with attachments, erased deleted items and did a rebuild. However, the account information still shows 100%, I don't get new mail and nothing seems to work. When looking at gmail.com, there's 1% used. I've already removed the account and added it again, restarted the Mac and now I'm running out of ideas. Anyone knows a solution?
I have an iPhone 4s that works with Virgin Mobile USA. Since carriers must unlock phones now I'm wondering about unlocking this one. But I haven't been able to determine if it would actually be worthwhile. Specifically, whether I'd be able to use the phone with a different carrier.
I run a multi-monitor set-up on a single "Desktop". All of my applications when opened run on the primary monitor, which is the smaller monitor. I would like to have some (e.g. browser, mail client) open on my secondary, with others (e.g. IRC, terminal, etc) on my primary. I'm unsure if there's a method to do this natively or if this requires coding, however I'm happy with either solution.
So I was using Safari on my Mac Pro and randomly, for the first time ever, the system became unresponsive, except I can still move the mouse cursor (which is stuck as an I-beam), and I can login to the machine over AFP, browse its drives, etc. I prefer not to hard reboot my computer. But I cannot alt-tab out of Safari, I cannot force-quit Safari, and I cannot click on any menus or use the Dock. Which is odd because I can still move the mouse cursor.
How to can I manually update all the drivers. I see my Nvidia card's support software always says new update available. Is it safe to update drivers from Nvidia site, some other sites(for other drivers) or Apple releases special type of drivers for there hardware and only those will be supported?
I have used Clonezilla when I was a windows and linux user. I really liked how Clonezilla allows you to rename your backup to anything. It is possible to do so during Time Machine backup? I want to name my backups so I might not flash something else that I don't want.
I have a powered USB 2.0 hub which suddenly started acting weird. No new devices or anything. It is the same setup as before. All connected devices are still working, except one. The one device (a driverless sound card) did work when connected directly, and it is not USB-powered. Same problem on two machines, one running 10.9, one running 10.10.
Whenever someone sends an email to sid-sales@mydomain.com, I receive it on sid@mydomain.com and on the Apple Mail. So far good.
I did the iOS update a few months back and noticed that the songs I had downloaded in May and June 2014 were missing. Since the computer I used that had iTunes was stolen in July 2014, I had no way to access iTunes. Finally tonight I was able to plug in my phone to iTunes on the computer. The playlists showed up with the missing songs in them. I then selected sync hoping they would be moved to my iPhone 5, Instead my playlists are now empty. Is there a way to get my songs back?
I install the first dependencies of Shotwell successfully Some discussion about this issue in this thread but the accepted answer is misleading, since it is about how to install pyexiv2, not gexiv2. I run ./configure and get I run make and get My .bash_profile Echoing $PATH How can you install Shotwell in OSX Yosemite? How can you install the dependency gexiv2 in OSX Yosemite?
Facebook says it needs IOS version 7 to run, I had Facebook on it before I wiped it. Can I get an older version of Facebook back?
and that's it. In a terminal I get But Firefox → Tools → Add-ons shows Java 14.9.0 (and says it's outdated), though there is no option to de-install it.
My wife and I both have 5s and both connect to BT Home Hub on default settings. Through the hub I can see she is connected using 5 GHz but I am connected using 2.4 GHz. How can I make mine use 5 GHz, at least as a preference?
Finally, I tried killall -9 Dock and it does nothing. This is happening quite frequently off late. Last day it happened to my Outlook app, I had to restart to get rid of it. How do I solve this problem?
I've been thinking of getting a Mac Pro to do some serious graphics work. However, I don't have the funds to get it along with a Retina display at the same time. The display, keyboard, speakers, etc. would have to wait a few months.
I added a mail account as Exchange. It brings in all my mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks. I use flag for followup for my emails. These show as tasks in outlook tasks. In iOS reminders, only tasks I create display. Flag for follow up taks do not appear. How can I make the flag for followup also show as reminders in iOS. Using iOS 8.2, outlook 2013, office 365.
I have used Parallels. Windows installed in Parallel VM supports most of the trackpad gestures( including three finger ). How to enable them in Bootcamp version of Mac. Any external software to enable those features. By default, I only get these features.
I noticed that the Yosemite system has been creating files with names just "()" and "()!" in places where I recently made bash commands and want to know why. I can't even delete them use rm as after I press enter the cursor just moves to the next line like a unfinished command. I tried google but I guess the keywords () is too general to give me back a meaningful answer.
My family all shares one itunes account, under my dad's name. My family all buy music from itunes but I have definitely accumulated the most, and have spent hundreds of dollars on music. I just got a new iPhone and I will be moving out soon, so I think it is time for my own personal account (I don't want to share iMessage or Facetime anymore). On top of all of the purchased music from itunes, I have tons of music from cds also on my library on my laptop. If I make a new itunes account and connect it to my computer, will all of my music (cd and itunes- purchased) be gone? I only have one laptop, so I need to know how to transfer all of my music from my current library to the new one I will be making shortly.
I have a project I've inherited from an ex-employee that is missing the source, so I am attempting to debug from the temp files it creates in a directory. The issue is that it creates and deletes some of these files so quickly I cannot move them to another folder. I've tried AppleScript or Automator to automatically move files, however it doesn't seem to work on files created by the app, but does work if I move files into the directory in Finder. I've also tried a looping shell script that does a mv *, but it also doesn't catch all files. Is there some other way to automatically move files to another directory before they are deleted, or prevent the files from being deleted in the first place?
All of a sudden today my iPad stopped syncing iMessages. I turned iMessage and Facetime on and off, and reset my device, several times but nothing worked. So I signed out of iCloud, reset my device, then tried to login again to iCloud. The Settings screen has been stuck at "Verifying" for 15 minutes, and I have repeated this process a few times with the same ending. While it's "Verifying" the Settings screen is frozen. I can't scroll or tap anywhere, but screen rotation still works and I can go to the App gallery and all apps work fine. FYI my internet is working just fine as I am writing this post, and I can also login through icloud.com just fine. Note I have 2-step verification on. Thank you.
On discussion forums, I read that I have to go to iMovie Preferences and ask to display timecodes. *=URL=* But my preferences window only contains two checkboxes, none of them related to timecodes. Do you know how to see the timecode for a given image in a movie ? Thanks for your help !
I have just looked on MacRumours and found out that Apple have stopped support for installing Windows 7 with BootCamp on the 2015 MacBooks (Air and Pro) (link). Since I am going to get the new 12" MacBook I am guessing that too doesn't support Windows 7 using bootcamp.
This thread is based on my attempt to parse windows syntax to unix in this thread. I run successfully brew reinstall tofrodos and get I run hash -r; tofrodos --help and get Also no manual existing: man tofrodos gives How can you use this tofrodos command?
I've noticed that in iOS 8 (I think in 7 too), you can't seem to get back to the camera to take another picture, when looking at albums/photos. For example: Launch camera Tap small photo icon in lower left corner to view latest photos taken Tap All Photos in upper left Now you can't get back to camera to take another photo
Last September, I upgraded to a late 2013 model rMBP (Core i5 2.4ghz with Intel Iris 5100). It has largely been fantastic for gaming in Windows 7 — I've played through Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored, Dark Souls and others all without many problems and with a good performance and quality.
I want to use Sublime Text to edit a text file within one of my installed Applications. The application I am trying to edit is Mailbox. I have been trying to edit the following file - /Applications/Mailbox (Beta).app/Contents/Resources/compose.css.txt. I have been trying to rewrite the css on lines 21 to 25
I have wine 1.6.2 installed currently through brew running Yosemite 10.10.2. I would like to simultaneously have an older version of wine on my machine to run a program that does not work with newer versions of wine. The version of wine I need is not available through brew versions wine so I will need to build from source if possible. I need to try with a number of versions of wine from before version 1.2. Can this be done and how do I make both versions of wine available and prevent naming conflicts etc. ?
Here is a full list of all applications installed on the device:  I have already used Battery Doctor (and other apps) and cleaned cache. So what is 7.2 gb used for? How can i clean it? I don't know if it can help but the phone was already in use before. Update: Settings -> General -> About screen:
I have a recurring problem in Messages on my Mac where, in one group conversation in particular, the text box occasionally disappears. Instead of having a text box at the bottom of the screen I can type into, the conversation simply goes all the way down. When this happens, the text box still appears in every other conversation; I can also still send messages in that conversation from my iPhone. It disappears only on my Mac, and only on that one conversation. The problem persists when I shut down Messages and start it back up. Sometimes the text box comes back, and then later disappears again, on a pattern that I have not been able to discern. Any thoughts? Messages 8.0 Mac OS 10.10.2
I want to keep >100 tabs open. Closer to 200. Used to be able to do that with Safari. What has changed ?
I screwed up big time when I tried deleting my Windows 7 VM on VMWare Fusion 7 on my Macbook Air. I put the VM in the Trash and emptied the trash. Now when I try to create a new VM, I get File Not Found. I tried moving VMWare Fusion into the Trash so I can uninstall it and then reinstall it but it's not working. How do I fix my problem so I can install a more recent Windows VM? Thank you.
I've been using the beta iCloud Photo Library for a week and a bunch of photos got duplicated and I'd like to wipe all the photos out and start over. I have backups of all the photos and have turned off iPhoto Cloud Library on all iOS devices. When I log into the web app - it still shows dozens of albums and I can delete all the photos, then go to deleted items and then purge them, but the ghost albums are still there messing things up. I've turned off the library entirely and you can see there is a 30 day waiting period.
Recently, when I am on a call that requires pressing a number on the keypad (for instance: to select an option or join a WebEx), I can press the appropriate button and I see the press respond and hear the tone, but the other end of the line does not recognize that the number was pressed. I thought it was only WebEx, but two other calls did the same thing today (one of them being an Apple support call). How can I fix/debug this?
Dashboard Widgets would be much more useful as MenuBar apps, but some aren't. Is there a way to force OS X to display active Widgets in the MenuBar or as application windows?
Am I able to recieve or send text messages from a android user if I don't save their number and my airdrop is turned on to "contacts only"?
I currently went from Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to 10.10.2 Yosemite. I am kind of impressed of the "new" Notification Center" and asking myself if there is any way to integrate Thunderbird's Lightning Calendars and Tasks into this.
I recently downloaded an app (Rival Knights) which I already had on my iPad, but not on my phone. It gave me the option to write over my saved data and I declined. However now, I've changed my mind and want to start again. I've tried deleting and re-installing the app, completely resetting my iPhone, deleting the app from my game centre, and making a new apple ID, however none of these have worked. Is there any other way I can make my phone forget the app so I have a chance of starting again?
I have an iPad which I would like to sync with my desktop Mac. I don't know where I should go to see the icon which shows the iPad is connected. (It used to be easy; I could look on the finder and see it, but now the iPad doesn't show up in the Finder at all.) For my old iPod, it was visible in iTunes, but this iPad is not visible anywhere that I can see.
Not the /Volumes/backupdrive/Shared Items/Backups, but the actual Backups.backupdb you see in backing up locally. Where does it store that data? I know an external machine backups successfully to it often, but the data doesn't seem to be anywhere. Any ideas?
Usually, when I launch iTunes on my Mac and I have my iPad on nearby, iTunes shows the iPad at the top right. Then I can do a backup of my iPad in wi-fi. Sometimes, randomly, iTunes fails to show the iPad, and I have to plug the iPad to the Mac so that it appear in iTunes. I have encountered this problem with my 2 iPads. How can I have iTunes show the iPad ? Besides, it would help to know what conditions trigger the failure.
This is the second time this has happened to me in the past couple of days so it starts to bother me: somebody sends me an iMessage, that I never get on my iPhone (4S iOS 8.2) but I do get on my Macbook's (OS 10.10.2 Yosemite) Messages application (v8.0). Even days later the messages are not appearing on my iPhone. Do you have any idea why this is happening and how I could manually force a synchronization?
I can bind a function to run when Emacs iconifies a frame This runs my my-handle-iconify-frame function when I use M-x iconify-frame or a key binding that calls that function. However, it does not run when I use the iconify icon (-) in the window frame. I also tried adding before advice on iconify-frame but that also is not called when I iconify a frame via the window frame icon. Is there some other hook or binding where I can set window manager event handlers? I'm running GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
I have an iPhone 6 Plus. There is a fairly recurring display bug concerning the AirDrop/AirPlay area in control center. Sometimes it appears squished, so that only a few pixels of it is visible. Whatever is there can still be tapped. Screenshot:
I've got a new FreeNAS setup, and I'm trying to get Time Machine backing up to it from both of my household's laptops. I've set up an AFP share for one of the datasets on the NAS and have got my laptop backing up automatically after solving an issue supposedly related to mDNS. However, applying the same workaround that I used for my laptop to my girlfriend's doesn't quite work:
I dropped my iPhone and the screen is completely unusable. I got a deductable for a new one and the instructions said to turn off find my iPhone for my original device, so I did from my computer. However, the next instructions were to restore it to factory settings, but since I turned off find my iPhone I can't restore it now. Help?
The Spotlight icon isn't showing up in the upper right; even if I try to launch it manually from core services, nothing happens. I'm running Yosemite. How can I get the icon back?
It looks like I will be moving shortly (From Australia to America) and I am wondering if it is possible for me to keep my app store purchases when I get a new phone in the USA. I currently have a 'few' apps that are paid for ( maybe $200+ worth ) from throughout the years, spread across my phone and a few ipads.
I recently moved my some keynote documents into backup HD. And I found I can't open some of those someday. It showed that "xxx.key can't be opened",and then I just try open it in PDF preview, it showed that "It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize."
I've seen this icon in a tutorial I watched on YouTube. What app is this icon? Have searched through Google Images but found nothing.
I label my emails as spam or better "Junk email" in my iPhone and MacBook Air but the emails continue to stay in my inbox. I want to get rid of them without removing them so I can later improve my spam filtering with SpamAssistant in my server. How can I hide spam emails in my inbox of OSX Apple Mail app?
During a system update on my MacBook (Mac OS X 10.6.8) it restarted and during the restart I have got a screen where it looks like the homepage but doesn't have the menu bar at the top or the Dock at the bottom and it would make a noise when I pressed the screen. Apple Support had me verifying stuff on the Disk Utility then it cut off. Can anyone help me? I can't download anything till this is sorted.
I have an iPhone backup on my computer and I'd like to restore just a couple of files. (I already know which files I need, even though their names are obfuscated.) The backup is very old so I don't want to just restore the entire thing, which is the only officially-supported action. What tools exist to do this kind of thing? I'm not willing to jailbreak my phone for this.
I got tired of having to do this, so I switched to my guest account to see if I would have better luck. So far, I've been able to connect to my network just fine which is both great and confusing at the same time. The only caveat is that I can't seem to get Youtube videos to stream. When I go to a video, it just loads and loads but nothing happens.
Is there any way to automatically download or sync all photos backed up from my phone to Google+ to my Mac? I know there is an upload tool, but I want the reverse. Can they be viewed from Picasa somehow?
I've got an OS X Snow Leopard Server config on a Mac Pro 1,1. I can't upgrade any further on that hardware. However, I've got a spare MacPro 3,1 and wondered if it would be "simple" to just move the disks to the new hardware? I thought I'd ask first just in case the disks get updated with something which means I can't go back to the old MacPro.
This might be obvious, but probably worth a question: I took my MBP (Early 2011 15"), downloaded Yosemite and created a bootable USB device from which I later clean-installed the OS. Can I use this same USB device with a different MBP (i.e., Late 2011 13"), or do I have to download the installer again from that macbook app store?
I have MacBook Pro Retina running Windows 8.1. I do not have a PrtScr key. Also, shift+fn+f11 key combination doesn't work. What is the shortcut to take screenshots?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. My husband reset the password for iCloud and iTunes and now I cannot get access to my computer. I can put in the password at login then nothing but a black screen with popups saying "login" keychain for multiple apps like calendar, messages, address book, etc. The password for iTunes and iCloud is not being accepted.
Does anybody know if there is a way to "add to wish list" some apps at the Mac App Store and get noticed when their price drops just as in the iTunes Store? Thanks in advance!
I just got a "new to me" iPhone 4s, set it up, and updated it to the most recent version of iOS v 8.2. This is my first iPhone, and though I've searched using Siri, Google, and the Stack Exchange search, I've been unable to find a solution to my problem
Have a Mid 2010 model computer IMac 21.5 that is acting up. Won't work in normal start up, will start in safe mode, but cursor shows strange black lines (see attached photo). These lines follow the cursor around. Running Yosemite
I have an iPod Touch 5th gen (latest). After I upgraded to iOS 8.2, the Spotlight display looks like the following. Instead of the icons fading out to nearly invisible (as it does on my iPad and an iPhone 4S I tried), the icons are shown in chunky black and white.
In order to use the Fn Keys on Windows VMs with Parallels 9 you have to set them as standard function keys on Mac OS, which requires you the press the Fn key to access the special functions (brightness, playback, volume etc.). Does Parallels 10 fix this, allowing you to use the special keys on Mac and the F keys on Windows?
I have a Keys to go Bluetooth keyboard that I use with my iPad. When I turned off the Bluetooth of my iPad, and paired the keyboard with my iPhone, it worked fine with the iPhone. The issue is that when I turn off the iPhone Bluetooth trying pair back to iPad, the iPad doesn't recognize the keyboard. I could make the re-paring to my iPad only after my forcefully un-paring the device manually with my iPhone.
I still cannot find locate Google drive on my mac sidebar. I cannot find the google drive folder to drag and drop. When I click next to my user, the drive does not appear.
How do I use MySQL from the CLI? When I use the terminal, I get: As you can see, MySQL is installed and running:
I am trying to install VirtualBox on my iMac and it keeps failing right at the end of the installation process. The end of the log file shows I have tried the installation several times after using the Uninstall tool included in the package but it keeps failing each time.
I've got a 2015 iMac running Yosemite, attached via HDMI to a 1080p TV, in extended desktop mode that I use simultaneously as a video server/media player and an occasional work machine. In short, I'd like to sleep the internal display but not the external on demand. More detail: I'd like to be able to run a video player (Plex) in full screen mode on the TV (Screen 2), but set the internal display (Screen 1) to automatically sleep if I'm not doing anything else on the computer but playing video on Screen 2.
I have imported a CD into my iTunes library on my iMac. The import worked fine and all songs and art show up in the iTunes library on my iMac. However, on my iPhone 5s and iPad 4 using music match, the new album does not show up. On the iPad, I tried turning off match and turning it back on, but no different result.
I'm really hoping someone here can help me, as I'm getting pretty frustrated with my macbook now. I have a late 2011 model 15" macbook pro running OSX 10.9.5 that refuses to connect to Internet on my home network. I have the same problem whether it's WiFi or through ethernet cable, I have full signal but not getting online. Every other device connects fine; android phones and tablets,xbox one, iPhone and other macbooks, all online and browsing the net. I have had no problems connecting to other networks with my macbook pro before and I just tried at a friend's house to check, with no problems. A little something, that may be a clue to someone: when I open network diagnostic tool, my macbook pro connects for something that seems like a microsecond and it tells me I'm connected to Internet and everything seems fine. My IP is 192.168.0.5 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and IPv6 is set to automatic. None of the options are checked under the proxies tab. Now I've tried the following, in different
My email is an iCloud email that ends in @me.com and my display name is incorrect. I look at my apple ID account name and it is correct. I look at my iCloud account and my name is correct. But when I send emails it says an incorrect name. Where can I change that?
I understand which Apple devices support wireless AP handoffs, though when roaming around our office with my Macbook Pro it usually takes my mac about 5 minutes to actually assess which access point may be more optimal and to trigger a handoff. Is there a way to increase the frequency of handoff scans, or simply decrease the time it takes for the system to detect there is a better access point?
I want to switch to Tuxera NTFS for better support. But don’t know how to uninstall all these apps before completely switching to Tuxera. I also install fuse_wait.pkg but I am not sure how to unistall .pkg file. I followed this video for NTFS-3G installation in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
How do I stop the iCloud registration pop-ups on my computer? I don't want to register. I don't want to use it.
To be more specific, i'm thinking on buying this ram for my mid 2012 macbook pro. According to this post it seems possible to run 2133, though i'm still not sure if it's really running 2133 and would it give better performance rather then 1866? I'm running heavy virtual envs. on my macbook, and my current 8gb ram is way not enough.
Finder crashed on a external drive which caused an abrupt eject. I rand Disk Utility over the drive and the operation finished with the message: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required Its a FAT32 partition, it already existed, and it was not bootable so its not clear to me what required updating.
I recently switched an iPhone from iOS 6 to iOS 7.1.2. Within iOS 6 I was using Calendar on the day display and week display mode continuously. It was easy to a point I can't even recall how I did this switching (we should take notes when we see an interface which is working nicely). With iOS 7.1.2 I have a serious interface problem.
my Mac is running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2. I recently found out that in my console such messages:
I've got a problem with the Thunderbolt display firmware 1.2. My screen is not compatible, because it was purchased in 2012 and the update can not be performed. However, the update keeps reappearing on the App Store updates.
I am trying to make entries in the calendar on iPhone 6. I complete everything as on my previous iPhone, but there is no 'done' button. Checked online and it says to press 'add' once complete.
I have just over a thousand (1000) files whose suffix/extension has been changed by a database engine all to the same thing (eg. fileName.abcd where .abcd is on every file regardless of whether it is a jpg, pdf, or whatever else). The goal is to convert all the files to PDF but I first just want to sort the various file types into separate folders. I use Mac OS X and figure that there must be a Terminal script that would:
I erased my MacBook Air hard drive - which came with Yosemite OS X - because I wanted to roll back to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), since Yosemite was giving me problems with my files from the previous MacBook Pro. I deleted the drive using Disk Utility. While partitioning, I forgot to make a GUID partition table. I tried installing Mac OS X on an USB-stick. It's not showing my drive, but just my USB Mac OS X installer. When I click on it, it shows the stop sign. How can install Mac OS X without using the Internet Recovery for Yosemite
I've just moved from Android to iPhone and I'm struggling to configure my Gmail notifications to work in the same way. On Android, I had it configured so that I didn't receive further notifications until I dismissed the previous one. If there was more than one unread email, the icon would be a multiple-envelope symbol (otherwise it was a single envelope). In case that wasn't clear, here's a little timeline of events for my Android Gmail app:
During demos in the WWDC videos, the presenter will often paste code into Xcode to save having to type it in. How are they pasting each different snippet without switching to another app to copy it?
I have a cable broadband which works flawlessly; I am using the same to ask this question from my Android. But it doesn't work on my MacBook (10.10.2). Basically, no websites open, although I can ping all the websites, sometimes Google websites open fine, but that too only in Chrome (not in the incognito mode though). I have tried Safari, it had the same problem. I have tried removing and adding the wifi connection. I have tried flushing the unicast and multicast DNS cache with the recommended commands. I have tried adding Google & OpenDNS servers to network settings for this wifi connection. I have verified that the wifi connection works fine on Windows and Android devices. I have reset the wifi router. I have verified that the MacBook works fine with all other wifi and other kinds of internet connections. I have tried connecting the MacBook to hotspot (Bluetooth) with Android, but still the websites don't open. Any help will be truly appreciated, but please, don't suggest things I've
I am looking for a (free) way to transform .VOC files to, lets say, MP3? I just found Vidego, but I am not happy with the price of the software.
I have a new MacBook Pro Retina 13 Early 2015 with the Force Touch trackpad. It's described to have the following feature: Click and continue to press on the trackpad to enable new capabilities, like looking up a word's definition, previewing a file in the Finder, or creating a new Calendar event when you Force click a date in the text of an email. Generally: How can I change, tweak, tune, enhance the 'capability' of this force click? Particularly: I'd love to have it do translation in Safari and Terminal much more frequently than I want it to do dictionary lookup.
The question is: can I have different "Preferred Networks" when switching from one to another Network "Location"? This issue has been discussed before at Ask Different: Can't I use different WiFi networks for different Locations?. However, I do not like a solution that ought to use some external App.
When you set a static IP in iOS and you don't specify a in IP address for DNS, which IP does iOS use to resolve hostnames?
I have a 2008-era 15-inch MacBook Pro, with Yosemite on it. The battery recently failed and, using only the power adapter, with the battery removed, the status bar gets stuck at 50%. Is it only a battery issue, or is this a different problem?
Anyone knows how do I solve high memory consumption of the process "kernel_task" ? I tried to delete .plist files from folder bellow, but the problem still continue My Mac: Macmini6,1 /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources/
Use createinstallmedia on the other partition. Tutorial here. Install my new SSD.
I currently own a 15 inch MacBook Pro with retina display model ( early 2013) . My Mac was working fine and all of a sudden my Mac won't boot up. I see a flashing folder with a question mark symbol on my screen.
In the past few months I've been getting more kernel panics than usual. This is on my late 2012 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini, running OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.2.2) with 16 GB of RAM.
I have multiple Wi-Fi access points in my house. What's the best practice, should I use the same or different SSIDs?
I recently switched to Keynote for writing scientific talks. I use tons of greek letters and need a fast way to type them in. I have seen on other questions and forums that people just change the auto-correct settings to replace things like \lambda with the Greek letter. However, in Keynote 6.5 I cant seem to find the auto-correct settings to do this. Its looks like they moved it out of the preferences menu. Anyone know where this is, or have another solution?
I was unable to successfully copy my 20 years of Eudora emails to Thunderbird. The process is difficult to follow & just seems to hang.
Why is my Macbook Air MagSafe Pin becoming extremely hot? I fear that my laptop will burn out. Can anyone help me on this?
I bought a used iPhone 5s and unknowing to me it is locked to an iCloud account with a gmail address (p*****@gmail.com). I formatted the iPhone and upon activating it the iCloud prompt appears and frankly speaking I can't trace the old user of the phone. Please what can I do to activate it because i don't have a clue where the previous owner lives. Please help me because I used my savings to purchase the phone.
I use Alfred instead of spotlight but sometimes I accidentally press cmd + space( Spotlight Shortcut ) instead of double shift( Alfred Shortcut ). I want to disable Spotlight( shortcut + not run it in background as well ) so might not open it. Also, does Alfred use spotlight file indexing if yes then I might not want to disable that but if no I would like to disable that as well.
I want to use iCloud Photo Library just to get photos I take on my phone to my computer. My Photo Stream would work fine if it was reliable. Now I have more than 5GB of photos so I have to pay at least $1 a month just to sync photos unless there is a way to download only or archive some photos not to be synced with iCloud Photo Library (yet still viewable in the app).
I would like to set calendar alerts to happen at the scheduled completion time of my events - whatever that may be. I can't seem to figure out a way to do this. You can create alarms that go off before an event starts, at the start time, or a fixed number of minutes after start time. But is there a way to set an alarm that triggers AT OR AFTER the completion time of an event, without having to specify the exact date & time?
I wish to know what the purpose of item "Nike + ipod" is in the Settings app on my iPhone?
I have an old Mac Pro with the following serial number G87391T6UPZ. Can I upgrade this computer to 10.9 or 10.10?
Now for some reason my Mac thinks it's smarter than every one else and puts all of his turds in every folder. I understand there's a value added when doing this on local HFS shares (or on the server's HFS TimeMachine partition). However when dealing in public (I mean on a server shared with foreign OSes), I think it should behave and keep it to the minimum.
In my Mac Pro, I have two boot volumes — one stable with Mavericks and one for testing Yosemite. When running Mavericks, I want Spotlight to ignore the entire Yosemite volume, and vice versa. But Spotlight privacy preferences seem to be shared between the two systems.
I'm deciding on whether to spend the money to upgrade my RAM or add an SSD to my Macbook Pro. Here's the stats... Early 2011 MacBookPro8,1 i7 2.7Ghz 8G RAM STBD1000400 Seagate Hybrid 1TB drive I could spend about $130 on either... 16G RAM 250G Samsung EVO 850 SSD (replacing the DVD drive)
I have had a 1TB Western Digital Ultra external hard drive for nearly year. Out of nowhere it will not show in disk utility but it does show in system profiler. I have a Macbook pro mid 2012 running Yosemite 10.10.1 I have of course tried searching myself but found no clear answers. I tried verifying the main disk and found nothing wrong. Other external drives work fine with this port and cable. Could it be a hard ware failure? Thanks for the support guys I'm just trying to identify possible causes. Details given by system profiler:
When I have a terminal window open, ⌘N opens a new one. Is there any way to get the current directory in the new window to automatically be the same as it was on the window where I pressed ⌘N?
How I shuffle by disk in iTunes? Would I mean is if an album has 5 disks, I like each disk to treated as a separate album only for shuffling purposes.
I have an older AirPort Extreme (UFO, Version 5.7). I can connect an Epson MX330 printer to the USB port of the AirPort Extreme and it appears on the AirPort Utility "Printers" tab, and I can print to it. I can connect a Ricoh Aficio MP C4500 directly to a MacBook Pro (10.6.8) USB port, and it automagically downloaded and installed the driver and will print to the Ricoh. But when I plug the Ricoh into the AirPort Extreme USB port, it does not show up on the AirPort Utility "Printers" tab, and of course, won't show up on any AirPort connected device, either. I have tried re-starting both the Ricoh and the AirPort Extreme while they were connected. Any clues on how I can get this $20,000 printer to work with AirPort Extreme like the Epson that came free with my MacBook Pro does?
I updated my phone using my husbands itunes acct. and now lost all of my pics and contacts and his are now on my phone. How can I get them back. Doesn't look like I had mine backed up. Please help.
Is it possible to completely hide the menu bar on an external monitor? I'm using my laptop with a projector, and while I can set the desktop background to completely black, the menu bar is still there. Even in dark mode there is still text. I would like to avoid showing any desktop UI if the presentation (Keynote) exits.
Currently I am running Yosemite, I am trying to ascertain if it's possible to add a delegate mailbox to the mail.app. As of yet I have been unable to do so. Unfortunately I cannot have this particular mailbox as another account as it doesn't have the ability to be logged into. Thanks, Brendan
I like a very lean Mail system and have been searching for a way to hide the Archive folder in Mail. Is this possible? If so, how?
I am using MacBook 2010 with OS X 10.6.8. Today when I started my laptop it kept showing the Apple logo longer than expected. Then I read online to hold the shift key while booting. Doing that it started showing a folder icon with a question mark and it keeps showing untill the laptop gets shut down. Right now I don't have any disk utility tool either. How do I solve my problem?
I'm running the 10.3 beta on my iMac, using the new photos app. I imported about 1,300 pics I took over the weekend (live performance) and want to share them online with some people.
I can't change country/region of my Apple account. The steps I followed: Tap on the App Store icon in your home screen Tap on featured on the bottom left corner of screeen Scroll all the way to the bottom where your Apple ID info is Tap View Apple ID, you may have to enter your password Once the page loads change your country/region
Sometime back I have synced my iPhone with My Pictures folder in a PC. That PC is now gone. I dont have those photos anywhere but in my phone. I can't see them from iTunes when connect my phone to PC. I can't see them thru Windows Explorer. I can't delete them in my phone. When I try to turn on iCloud Photo Library, it says 1600+ photos will be removed. I would like to copy them to my PC and delete them all from my phone. How do I that?
See the 3 screenshots below. There are several different green hex values amongst them however the CSS is declaring the correct hex (#A0CB3C), and the image has no colour profile data attached (saved for web from Sketch3). Chrome Firefox Safari My iMac has no special colour calibration for the display, and no special colour settings set that I'm aware of.
I have a new Mac with OS X Yosemite, which came with a 1 year Office 365 personal subscription. This is the family computer and I have set up 3 user accounts. I installed Office 365 through my account, as the Admin, but the applications do not appear in my partner's or son's user accounts on the same computer. Is there some way to get them to appear in all 3?
Is there a Lync alternative on a Mac such that I can still use my Microsoft contacts? Note that I desire to keep all my outlook contacts from Lync but simply using a different service to communicate with them. For example, if I could chat with my outlook contacts via iMessages, that would be ideal. However, if there is a 3rd party messaging service which will allow me to chat with outlook contacts, that will be good too.
My mom bought this ipad mini for herself but didn't like it and gave it to me...now I'm trying to restore it to factory settings, but when I try it says it needs her apple id password - only it won't accept it - says it's incorrect. How can I restore it without the apple id password?
I have added accidentally a table to my pages document on iCloud web interface. Any idea how can I remove. I tried several different shortcuts, remove columns, rows etc.
Why are they created in the first place? Is it some keystroke I don't realize I'm hitting? Do they not consume system resources?
My MacBook constantly freezes because of using all RAM (8GB). The disk cache seems to be the cause. The command sudo purge only helps a little bit. In some older versions of OS X, my MacBook worked fine because it had (just) enough RAM for running Xcode (with big project) without constantly swapping.
On my iPhone (iOS 8.2), I installed an app that wasn't coming from the App Store. I chose to trust it because a serious news website had spoke about it, but now I'm a little bit worried of what this app might have done.
A few days ago I tried to uninstall an app and now it won't reinstall. It just comes up with this blank icon and I can't reinstall it. I've tried to reset and hard reset, installing the app from iTunes and it won't remove. I don't know what to do. Can someone help me? I have iFunBox too. It also won't remove from Storage Settings. Here is what the icon looks like:
I have a very frustrating issue with mail app. I am using the mail app for my gmail email address.
On OS X Yosemite, I'm using Messages.app to chat with my contacts. But I can not participate or read group chats from Hangouts within Messages.app, for that I have to use the Gmail/G+ page. So, anyone knows a client/app for OS X (or even an extension/plugin for Messages.app) which enables me to chat one-on-one and even on group chats?
I would like to forward my iPhone notifications or alerts to an Android phone. Is there a way/app to do this?
I have done something stupid and need help: I have 3 external drives attached to my Mac and in an attempt to make the partition names more meaningful, I renamed them using finder/get info. My user account was located on one of these drives, the other 2 are for TimeMachine. Now of course, I cannot access the user account because I forgot to change the path in System Preferences.
I have a Mac Pro 10.6.8 which will not start. I wanted to re-install my Mac Pro (Intel dual core 2.66) which is currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I am trying to upload my entire iPhone 6 content to the icloud. When I fire up my phone there is a spinning circle to the right of the wifi symbol but in the left half of the screen. When I just turn on the screen but do not unlock it, and it is plugged in to charge, the spinning circle is now in the right half of the screen to the left of the "Battery Charge" and "Bluetooth" symbol. Is something different being indicated by the slight change in position of the spinning circle?
I did an update to Yosemite yesterday, but today I turned the computer on and tried to type my password in. I couldn't because the keys I P A D K L M C don't seem to be working, I have tried three different keyboards and none work. Two of the keyboards are official Apple. I tried them in my windows laptop and all the keys are working fine. I then booted into the recovery on the MBP and I could type with all the keys. I thought it was fixed so restarted. I then had the exact same problem and am at a loss of what to do. I've tried Apple support, but they are about as useful as a chocolate tea pot. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Sometimes when I take photos in my iPhone 5s they automatically show up on my iPad. But most of the time they don't. How can I analyze and solve this?
I'd like to be able to edit a long url in the Safari browser on my iPad 2 running iOS 8.1.1. I can select it, but I can't scroll through it to add or delete something on the end. I generally copy/paste it into Notes, do the edit, then paste it back into the browser window, but that's a number of steps and becomes tedious. Is there a way to do that type of edit inside the browser window?
Hey is there a way to prevent xcode from switching to the debug navigator every time an app crashes? I'd rather stay in the file I am working at a time, the "new" view is completely useless for me
I am storing various passwords (e.g. for remote email servers) in my keychain. From the command line, when logged in locally, I can retrieve these via: However, the results cannot be achieved when run remotely (ssh'ing in to the box from somewhere else): Moreover, the return value of the final command (using -g) is 36. I've dumped the output of set from a local login and compared it to a remote one, and the missing environment variables are:
I'm in trouble with my Linplug - Morphox plugin; I mean, yesterday I installed the morphox.component into the right folder Macintosh-Library-Audio-plug ins- component. When I open Logic Pro 9 (32-bit) and I choose the new AU, I put the correct serial number and everything works perfectly. Today when I open Logic Pro 9 again, and I choose the AU morphox, any kind of wave, in the waves window, is shown, so no sound for me, but yesterday everything was working fine, and I saw the waves in the "OSC1" and "OSC2" windows. I've attached a pic of morphox so that you can see what I mean at the left top of the pic, two windows without any wave.
I work in a shop which necessitates strong administrative controls. However, a few teams use apps which are only found outside of the App Store and require fairly frequent updates - those updates themselves require downloading and fully installing the new version instead of a helper tool. Without allowing the user to be an admin themselves, is there a way to essentially "whitelist" the apps to allow their accounts to install specific apps and not need our admin credentials? Edit: I'd like to mention that these are network user accounts.
We have fleets of laptops that have limited space once our software is installed on it. What ever the issue that is causing the creation of theses files and --err not flushing them, we are ignoring for the moment. But I would like to automatically delete the contents /private/var/folders/. We have maybe 5-10 students log in to a laptop a day. Not sure if that will be an overkill. Any help would be appreciated.
I've recently been working on a script to backup files, etc. for my own use but recently I thought it may look nicer if I was able to cleanup and have everything nice and tidy (with colours and what not). I was unable to complete this though. In a shell script I have written the following and despite what multiple combos I've tried I am unable to get this working. Testing this on Mavericks as I can't update to Yosemite yet. Can somebody shine a light on this?
I get a black rectangle with the "f" icon, but it won't play when I click on it. Apple stopped updating OSX 10.6.8 so is its Flash too out of date to run?
The question sums it: How can I buy from the iOS App Store and have it download to my iOS device, perhaps telling it? Anytime I attempt to go to the AppStore website, it keeps trying to push me towards iTunes, which I don't have installed on all my computers (e.g. my work computer). I'd like to fire up a browser on my work or other machines, log into the AppStore from the desktop browser, purchase and push the app directly to one of my AppleID linked devices, it's gotta be possible in this day of cloud and mobile computing. (like Android or Windows Phone 8/10).
For a Mac mini or such acting as a server in a server room or colo, accidentally choosing the Apple > Shut Down… menu item is a major problem. Without physical access, you cannot start the Mac up again. Is there a way to make it more difficult to inadvertently shut down a Mac?
Under previous Mac OS's there were widgets like "Modern Moments" and "Desk Photo" to display photos on the Dashboard. I tried them under Mac OS 10.10(.1) and they do not seem to be working. I'd like to see photos of my family/partner occasionally, e.g., when I use the Dashboard. Are there widgets that still work? (Hope this question isn't too specific.)
OS: OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite) Machine: Macbook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) iPhone: 5s on 8.2 (12D508) So I import all photos/videos off of my iPhone to Photos on a daily basis after upgrading from iPhoto and it works well overall, so far. The problem is that, while Photos does give me the option to "Delete items after import", the option becomes greyed out after some imports and there are some items that get left behind on the iPhone (they are successfully imported but do not get deleted).
In Finder, every single file on my disk is classified under the "Other" section. However, when I go to "about this Mac", it shows only a fraction of my disk is actually "Other".
I have the iPhone 5s with iOS 8.2, and the fingerprint sensor suddenly stopped working. It worked fine earlier today and before.I had the fingerprint feature on since i got the phone when it came out with no issues until now. I deleted all of the fingerprints and tried to set them up again, but now it keeps saying that my fingerprint are unreadable. But a few times it makes it through the set up, but they will not work unlocking the phone. I tried resetting it a few times with no avail. Hoping someone here could help.
Basically, I keep a lot of files on the network. In (at least) 10.8, there was a little spinner indicator that the directory contents were still loading, that tells you that something is happening.
I've seen lot of guides how to install Yosemite etc which are "free to download" that start with "download OSX from Apple Store". That is nice, but works only if you already have a working Mac that supports that target OS you want to get, otherwise you can't download them. In case you have a formatted Mac, some older model (I have mac mini from 2008), where online recover doesn't work - how would you download it? There are torrents that contain .dmg file, but I don't think that is OK to use.
I just recently bought an iphone this year, and need to know if it has any led flash light for letting my know that it's charging? I have iPhone 5c, and it's got this setting for light for call and message alerts. I'm trying to look for a similar setting for when it's in charging mode. Please could someone provide any help regarding this?
I'd like to get a list of all indexed files and their path that spotlight came across. How would I do that ? mdutil does not seem to be of any help.
I've deleted every E-Mail in my iCloud account. But the storage overview shows me 2,2GB used space for my Mails.
I'm experiencing trouble with my Apple Mail app. I've multiple mail accounts configured on it and when I'm replying from any of them, app displays correct value in From field. But just after I send it, in the Sent catalogue appears absolute different (other account's) From email address in that message. And people always get my mail from that one account no matter what I set in the From field when writing. Do you have any ideas what is wrong, what should I do? By the way, I'm using Yosemite OS.
I'm using separate magic trackpad and (still, but that's not a requirement) Mac OS 10.9.5. I'm looking for some convenient and free way to decrease tracking speed on demand, for example via additional gesture or a keystroke. I'm a developer, so, quite often I need to precisely move cursor one-two pixels aside while inspecting layouts, picking colors, moving panels here there and currently with magic trackpad that's terrible. One of good options I'm looking looks like this: scrolling while holding a key produces slow and precise mouse pointer movement. Tried to search, but not very successfully: MagicPrefs: nothing like that, but, seems some plugin may achieve that. SmoothMouse: nope. SteerMouse: paid, does not support Apple Magic Trackpad. ControllerMate: paid, looks like this is what I need, but I didn't manage to achieve what I want (too much time spent). iMouseFix: nope.
I have an app that I sell using Apple B2B / VPP. When logging into iTunes connect to add a new Apple ID (for a new customer) I am finding that clicking "Add Apple Id" is doing nothing (e.g. the page reloads, but I can't add a new Id).
Is it possible to combine the feeds from a USB webcam / IP video stream (iPad) and the built-in iSight camera on my MacBook Pro (early 2011) running Yosemite into one video feed for use in, for example, Skype, but also other applications. My use case is to record myself playing guitar from two angles simultaneously.
I am experiencing a massive memory leak in Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C2513). I have 16 GB of RAM and the used memory rise to circa 15 GB in ~3 hours. Top applications usage is relatively low, circa 200 MB per application (10 top applications). I solved it only shutting down the system. Is there any update for this?
When saving a file without an extension not even OS X is able to open that file anymore. Still it is very easy to accidentally save a file without an extension. Example: When using Firefox and you save an image with the "Save image as..." context menu, the whole filename including the extension is marked for renaming and as soon as I entered a custom name the extension is gone and I have to reenter it. How do I solve this problem?
Someone here at the office is getting an Apple machine and I need to integrate it into Active Directory. I need to map shared drives, apply group policies such as disabling the firewall, distribute updates thru WSUS, and install software/certificates that involve creating VPN connections. What is a good add-on or tool to do all this simplifing my life as a Windows administrator?
After months of frustration with Yosemite performance problems, I finally gave in and completely re-installed the OS fresh. I reformatted the drive and did a complete re-install, but migrated my user files and settings when prompted via Time Machine, as part of the install process. Question: How can I get the newly-installed OS to recognize my old Time Machine backups?
I'm on Yosemite (10.10.2) and using iTunes (12.1.0.50). I read that iTunes saves the rating of the songs on its own database, not the audio files tags themselves. Is there a way to make iTunes to write the ratings on the files? Because if I move the audio file to any other place, the rating won't be recognized.
Is there a way to send Google Chrome Notifications (you know that annoying little bell in the menu bar) to the OS X Notification Center? Instead of receiving notifications in different positions and styles (native OS X Notifications, Growl, Chrome Notifications), I would like to see them in one place - the OS X Notification Center. Is there an easy way to configure this, or a tool that can help with doing this? Update I've found Hiss, which allows to send Growl messages to the OS X Notification Center, which is great, since it minimizes the number of notification styles.
I recently switched to Mac and spent way too many hours on PC trying every duplicate removal app, eventually discovering that byte-by-byte checking was necessary to get accurate (safe) results, and finally then settling on AllDup as the best app for this purpose. Mac options seem more limited and I have not found any that do byte-by-byte checking, they don't even necessarily state on their website what algorithm(s) they use! Any tips? Must also work on Yosemite.
I am trying to add a Pharos printer to a Mac, running Yosemite, and the command isn't working. The problem is that the printer queue has a space in the name. The genius that set it up didn't think that would ever be a problem. The command is:
Is enabling horizontal scroll for TextEdit (for Mac OS X 10.10.2) possible? After going to Preferences and checking or unchecking the box labeled "Wrap to page", the text still wraps to the next line once it reaches the end of the TextEdit window.
I've often found that when using iTerm2, I'll have like 3 or 4 panes open in one tab. And the shortcut keys for moving between them Cmd + ] and Cmd + [ are very useful, but unpredictable. The reason is because "next" and "previous" panes are determined by the order in which panes had last focus. So if I have 4 panes open in a window shape, sometimes Cmd + [ may circle around them clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, and sometimes neither. And I can't remember which pane had the 3rd last focus. The problem is correctable by simply clicking on each pane in clockwise order and then using the shortcut keys, but this is kind of annoying to have to do each time. Is there a setting where I can lock the shortcut keys into clockwise (and counterclockwise) rotation only?
However, this makes my downstairs Airport Extreme disappear from Back to My Mac. Using Bonjour Browser on a remote Mac, I can see only the upstairs Airport Express:
My external HD isn't mounted and can't be repaired by Disk Utility. However, I'm also unable erase the disk:
I'm trying to find out what the "Quick Website Search" checkbox does technically. My guess is that it prefetches data or somehow sends my search terms to siri or another apple online processing engine, but I'm unable to locate specific documentation or files on the system that control/cache these search results.
When I try to install flash player (the latest security update as of 3/25/15) on my machine it crashes. Removed the old one, both using the uninstall and the manual uninstall (removed plugin and install manager folders), verified that mach_kernel is not missing, and rebooted. The installer crashes every time.
We have a number of Mac workstations (OS X Mavericks) which connect to a fiber attached SAN. This SAN is also accessed by a number of Windows workstations.
My MacBook has 2,880 × 1,800 physical, R/G/B pixels in its display (1800p). However, macOS renders at 3840 × 2400 virtual pixels (4k). I don't know or care why, but I do know that this makes things unnecessarily blurry for me. It doesn't do this with external displays, so I know the OS is capable of outputting to the native resolution. How do I force macOS to output to the native resolution of its integrated display?
I can't really figure out a way to connect to another machine once the device is in Supervised mode. Supervision Mode seems to embed itself into the operating system. I am getting this error every time I connect to iTunes on a different machine (Windows 7 32-bit, or Mac OS X 10.10.2):
I'm having an issue where the Mac version of nl will mark a new line after 2048 characters. I tried it on Linux, and it doesn't do this. Any idea why it does on Mac, and how to fix it?
I hate to use Private Navigation so I disabled history (locked the History.plist file) but when I enter words in my search, auto completion sometimes show somethings I'd rather not show to my friends / familly (ie. searching for "poker" and seeing "pornhub" appear. Do you know how to disable this ?
I have a Time Capsule that I'm using to back up a number of macs. How do I back up my Time Capsule?
I am on Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C2513). I am using Inconsolata patched font from here. But I also tried to patch the font myself. The result is the following:
I have a jailbroken iPad and a Macbook Pro running OS X Yosemite with PPSSPP (PSP emulator) installed on both. What I need is to make folder with saves automatically sync every now and then. My first thought was BitTorrent Sync, but it seems it can't sync system folders. Is there any way to do this or I'm stuck with playing only on one device?
During the installation, Mac asked to install Bootcamp drivers, but I chose to skip this step and just install Windows. However, now Windows does not work well. Some problems I've noticed are: No sound Bad video performance No right-click functionality on trackpad How can I install the drivers now, after having installed Windows 8.1?
I have two MacBook Pro laptops, a 17-inch MBP and a 13-inch MBP. The 17-inch MBP is connected to an Elgato EyeTV HD Video Capture Recorder (and thence to a cable TV set top box). I use that to grab video off of my STB and to record live TV. The 13-inch MBP is my general purpose laptop, and I also want to use it for iOS and Android development. Eventually I know I will get a RAID unit from Synology or a Drobo (in order to do automated redundant backups of the media on my 17-inch MBP and on the array of external HDDs that are connected to it), but not immediately since I'm trying to save money and pay down credit card debt, etc.
How do you remove icons from the Menu bar? I'm running OS X Yosemite and I tried Command + Click + Drag to get rid of them but it isn't working.
I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro with 750GB HDD. I was running Yosemite 10.10.2. I had about 250GB of partitioned HDD that i wanted to add to my main partition 'Macintosh HD'. It let me remove the second partition but i couldn't do my normal drag and extend the 'Macintosh HD' partition to take full advantage of my HDD space. After hours of searching i plunged into recovery using Disk Utility and Terminal tried to extend the cold source to use the whole HDD. It still wasn't working so using my critical thinking skills i decided i would just use terminal to wipe the whole drive and start fresh just like i can do in Windows. This failed miserably. I can't do anything at this point. Every time i try to do anything it gives me cannot unmount error and when i try to back up from time machine the only thing its see's is a DISK0S1 that's only 210MB. It boots into recovery and that's about it. I would like to just get my MacBook running again and if possible using the full 750GB HDD. Im not sure 
At the end my OS X frozen and I had to do hard reset, repair my SDD in recovery mode and fixing afterwards (recovering lost work, fixing application conflicts, checking my lost+found folder, Chrome/Terminal tabs gone, headache, etc.).
The external monitor used to be working before, but now, there's no video being sent. The monitor is sleeping when I connect, even though the mac says it's connected. I am using a SyncMaster390b as the monitor. I tried turning it on and off and reconnecting everything, but still no luck. Any help?
Usually after reboot/crash all Terminal windows are re-open automatically, this time they weren't. Where (which folder/file) Terminal.app stores the session/information about its windows which suppose to be re-open?
Is there a way I can see 2, 3 or 4 lines of text for one event in my OS X calendar? It is currently just one line. A long time ago it used to be convenient to see the complete text at once. All of the text was shown in several lines in one event. Sometimes it was one line if I had a short event, but would expand to multiple lines when I had a longer title. I'm not sure what happened to this cool feature! Right now I have to write 4 separate short event titles, just to see a quick overview for today and only because a long titles disappear after one line is reached to the end.
I have a MacBook air On clicking on the search bar or any link, another tab is opened with some ad on it. I tried to download things like adwcleaner etc., but I can find them only in .exe extension.
So, I've been rattling with myself about this for a bit. I've followed 5SH-2a's guide of EFI Bootcamp to no avail. I decided to try it on my own, by mapping an NTFS Partition on my hard drive to a VMDK, and using VMWare Fusion to install it, but that has not worked. I am on a Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro (Identifier: MacbookPro9,2) running Yosemite v10.10. I am trying to install the Windows 10 Tech Preview. When I try and boot via EFI, with my CalDigit Thunderbolt Hub active, Windows goes into an infinite loop, and never boots, while simultaneously power-cycling the devices attached to my hub. When I deactivate the hub, EFI Boot works just fine. When I boot in eBIOS mode, regardless wether I have my hub active or not, Windows boots just fine, using my hub natively. Could this be an issue with Apple's implementation of EFI not connecting the hub to Windows? Any help would be immensely appreciated. Thank you very much for your time. Edit: This issue happens differently on Windows 8, where Wi
I recently tried to download the Aldi photo upload program, although half way through the download Safari quit and now it won’t turn back on. I keep getting a error messages, but it never goes past reopening safari and back to the error messages. I have been onto Console and found the below details of the errors, can anyone help? I don't have another browser on the laptop
Has anyone downgraded an iMac 5 (Retina 5k, 27-inch, Late 2014) pre-installed with Yosemite to an older version of Mac OS? My Pro Tools 10 does´t work with Yosemite. I have two days to resolve this, if not I have to return the computer. I have tried it to downgrade and it appears this symbol:
I want to monitor app wise data usage, and I reset the data counter approximately 48 hours ago. The reset date and time shown at the bottom is correct, but the corresponding current Period is only 1 Hour, 52 Minutes. And it is stuck to this value for the past several hours. Is this an issue, or is my understanding of current period wrong?
How do I paste a file path into a standard file open/save dialog? I have googled this and found articles that say that the normal ⌘ CMD-V will work, however it does not work for me. I'm running Mac OS 10.10.2 with minimal system customizations.
What operating system was installed on the original Apple 1? If there was none, what software enabled users to interact with the hardware? Im asking this for a school research paper.
I would like to grant accessibility permission to some apps on Mac using Terminal as per this intruction *=URL=* which is the accessibility tab in System Preferences Or this *=URL=* I would like to do that using Terminal so I can setup to install apps (i.e: BetterSnapTool) for many Mac at the same time, given I have admin privilege and this should be applied only on Mavericks and Yosemite Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks
I have an OSX machine I'm trying to automatically run applications on remotely via SSH. Everything works great, as long as the user is already logged into the computer. If I log out, or reboot the computer, my application fails until I log in again.
I recently bought my self an external mouse for my MacBook Pro Retina. It's great except I have one difficulty. In Safari and most apps the scroll speed is fine. But in some applications, the scroll speed is uncontrollable. Is there an app that lets me change the scroll speed for specific applications or something like that?
In the Finder windows, the iCloud Drive and Downloads icons are missing from my sidebar. I use CleanMyMac 2 could that have deleted the icons by mistake? I have rebooted the icons are still gone. Yosemite 10.10.2 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I am trying to pick the most appropriate hardware to speed up build time for iOS projects - I don't know if I should favor faster processors (3.5 GHz) with fewer cores (6) or slower processors (2.7 GHz) with more cores (12).
The usually behavior for iMessages has always been (or always seemed to be striving towards) to mirror messages, even after they have been received by another device. For instance, if my Macbook is turned off, and I receive iMessages on my phone, those messages will then be added in bulk next time I turn my Macbook on. I like this behavior. However after a recent iOS update (I can't pinpoint which one), this behavior has stopped being the case on the iPhone.
I recently upgrade my MBP from mid 2012. I added an SSD from Plextor M6S 256GB. There's a recurring problem that the MBP crashes after long periods of hibernation, and the following error is given.
After using few hours (3-4hrs approx.) safari rendering the web pages very slowly. And after few mins of that it's just stopped working. It's can't even open the google. This problem can't get resolved by restarting safari. First I suspect low memory or slow internet as the culprit, but at the same scenario other browsers like "firefox" are working smoothly. How do I get rid of this problem? I am using MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Safari (8.0.4)
When I plug in my usb memory card reader nothing happens. It was working ten minutes ago when I used the xbian installer to put it on the sd card, but now nada. Something briefly flashes up then disappears in Disk Utility. I see this in the system.log The owner/group of the root folder is my user account and staff
Why is “Spotlight Web Content” using so much (32.56 GB) virtual RAM and CPU (up to 122.41% apparently)? More interestingly, how can I prevent it from doing so? I am running this MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM and OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite.
At first I did not notice our headphones had been switched, because they look the same. However, when plugged into my MacBook, the sound was just not right, as if the trebles had been removed from the music, resulting in songs without singers. When I tried with my iPhone and my other friend’s MacBook Air (bought in China), there was no problem whatsoever. I was worried that the headphone jack hardware itself had been damaged, but other headphones worked, so I concluded that both headphone jack as well as EarPods themselves were usable, just not together.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro i7 and I have upgraded the memory to 8 GB and the HD to an SSD 500GB. The other day I had it running for 3 days non-stop and when I tried to use it it was frozen. I reset it and when it went to the boot screen the graphics looked funny like 16bit color mode, and it got stuck after a couple of seconds. I removed the hard drive and I noticed that I can access all the files and I backed them up. I downloaded Yosemite and I tried to install it from an USB stick but after loading for a while the screen turned gray and it froze. I'm a bit baffled as what might be the problem? Do you think it's the hardrive or is the hardware failing? I'm attaching screenshots of the bootup srceens.
On the Contacts app (V9.0) of Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite I want to read and write programatically the texttone property in some of my contacts. How can I do this with Applescript or another scripting language?
I've been having a problem where my wifi dies frequently, and won't turn on again until the computer is restarted. By "dies" I mean no wifi networks are visible - when you click the WIFI icon, it asks if you want to "Turn on Wifi" even though you never turned it off. If you click "turn on wifi" nothing happens. So I've been restarting the computer a lot. It's a 2013 Macbook Pro running OSX Yosemite, but the wifi problem existed before upgrading to Yosemite. I believe it's a hardware problem. Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, how did you resolve it?
I set my Mac to receive the date and time from time.europa.apple.com, and my iPhone is set to find a time zone automatically. But they both show me incorrect time. one hour later. Well, I live in St-Petersburg, Russia, and some years ago we had this "timezone changing", to not differ from Europe, but later we returned back to the previous. So is the Apple server set up incorrect, or do I have to change something?
For a long time, I have accessed my calendars (iCalendar format, *.ics) via WebDAV over TLS with client certificate authentication. I now want to provide access to my calendars to another person who uses an iPhone. I have issued a client certificate and installed it on the phone, but (on iOS 7) when setting up the calendar account it demands a username and passphrase. I enter bogus values to satisfy the form, but then it fails to connect via TLS anyway.
How can we create a keyboard shortcut to switch to desktops #5 and higher? Under preferences, seems like #4 is as high as we go
In the last few days I've started to have recurring issues connecting to my Bluetooth devices. It hadn't happened since I've had the computer (several months) and then suddenly all of my Bluetooth devices (keyboard, trackpad, iPhone) would disconnect and not only can the computer not connect, but Bluetooth preferences won't even display any BT devices.
I'm trying to get into using the Notes app for just keeping track of my thoughts while I'm working. As I'm typing away I might decide to make some text in italics and then later revert back to normal text. You know, absolutely barebones basic rich text editing.
I run OS X 10.10.2 now, and when I started out with 10.10, I was delighted that Notif Center would send me Notifications when something happened, after I had added the Account in Internet Accounts (I used Lion previously). However, some months ago, it suddenly stopped working, with no clear cause. It was not installing the 10.10.1 update, for instance. Since then, I have been unsuccessful in diagnosing the problem and fixing it. Removing and re-adding the Account did nothing. Two things I have noticed:
Suddenly, my Safari Reading List is completely empty on my Mac (OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite, Safari 8.0.4). I already tried turning iCloud syncing for Safari on and off again, clearing the Safari cache,... On my iPhone, the reading list is still filled with items. Does anyone has a solution for this problem?
I want to change my mac wallpaper daily with microsoft bing images. I found this script that download the daily picture automatically, but I sill have to set the wallpaper automatically. Is it possible to write a script (either terminal or applescript) that set the downloaded picture as wallpaper automatically?
I'm using Yosemite (OS X 10.10.1). If I search for the term "foo" and want a list of all files that include that term, I get foo.doc and bar.foo.doc and foodstuffs.xlsx and even The Foo History. But it does not include snafoos.docx and AllTheFooReports.xlsx. How can I change it to the (obvious!?!) behaviour of returning all results which include the search term? I'd like to be able to do this from within Finder, not just in terminal.
According to Apple's Wi-Fi base stations: Setting up and configuring a roaming network (802.11 a/b/g/n), there's an implicit assumption that I want to use a wireless for everything. That is, the extended base station backhauls its traffic using Wifi.
I really need to change my apple account country. I would like to see a TV show but I can only find it in the US store, and because I am in the Emirati store, it won't show up in that store. I do not understand why apple has placed the 'country store' system because when someone in a different country wants to buy a certain item, they aren't allowed to. Can I change my account store or is it not possible?
My issue is that OS X is finding multiple versions of applications. When opening a file with the "Open with ..." option, I see multiple versions of an app.
I have a mid 2013 Macbook Air and I want to purchase two 4k monitors and hook it up to the MBA. Will my Macbook Air be able to hand the two monitors at it's full resolution?
EDIT2 – I tried all three cables, and the wall adapter, that I had at work, in the outlets I use at home. None of the cables worked. The wall adapter worked with the lone cable I have at home that works. In summary, even using a (working) wall adapter, I can't charge using any of three cables at work. I can charge my phone with those same three cables tho if I turn my phone off! At this point, I'm worried some aspect of my work environment caused, directly or indirectly, damage to the cables, so I'm loathe to bring my lone working cable from home to test it. But the cables work if I turn my phone off!
Is there a way to configure an Apple Script (or any script for that matter), to be run every time an application is focused? For example, if I am on Safari currently, and I tap on a QuickTime window, I want it to run a script that I define.
I have several books on sale in the ibooks store. A couple of weeks ago I did a minor change to the subject category of all my books. About a week after that I started to notice a drop on sales. I am trying to figure out whether this drop might be due to normal seasonal cycles or it might be that my change got propagated and classified the books in the wrong pile.
I was working with Xcode and it stopped responding so I force quit, reported the error, and tried reopening the app. When reopening the dock hung too so I ended up having to restart the dock with killall -KILL Dock. Unfortunately now OS X thinks Xcode is running but hung. Long pressing the icon in the dock or going to the force quit screen clearly show the app but selecting "Force Quit" does nothing and the app does not appear when I do ps -e.
I thought I was reasonably early to the party, but the first Mac I owned - an SE 30 - was running System 6.06 when I got it & after a brief foray with 6.06 we had 6.07 with actual multi-tasking… …but what machine ran System 1? …& was it even called that at the time?
This is a weird problem, I write a lot of different languages on my computer, and since my keyboard doesn't have all the keys in the world, I have made certain key-combinations that replaces them with another letter. For example, "†˛" becomes "þ" and "∂∂" becomes "ð". Now that works fine, but I have also added "œœ" that is supposed to become "ǫ", but form some reason that special replacement does not work while the others do. EDIT: To be able to type the ǫ letter I must also press space ("œœ "), while the others work perfectly to write in a word without pressing space.
Is there a way for me to convert a Google Maps URL to an Apple Maps-friendly format so it opens in the correct place? I might be in the minority, but where I am, Apple Maps offers vastly superior driving directions.
I have a Mac Book Air mid 2012 and want to connect two Samsung monitors- I have one through the thunderbolt and the other through the USB port but it is not working properly
It seems that nowadays, the only time I hook up my iPad or iPhone to a computer is when I need to upload some videos to the Video app on iPad/iPhone so that I can view them offline. I started uploaded some videos using a 256GB Macbook Air to the iPad and iPhone (both of which has 128GB). Next time, because the Macbook Air has only about 1GB disk space left, I tried to use my Macbook Pro to upload the video, but it couldn't -- when I drag the video to the "Device" section on iTunes, the video icon will bounce back to the Finder window -- it seems that I could only use the Macbook Air to transfer because somehow, it is "tied to that iPad/iPhone".
I am looking for a command/script to disable the printing sharing feature via terminal. Does anyone have any idea or know how to go about doing this?
I was sitting at work when my iphone 5 showed that it was not connected to the network anymore. I went into my settings, clicked on the network I wanted and it told me I was unable to join the network. I then tried to forget the network and try to reconnect but the same thing "unable to join network". I then went a step further and reset my network settings under general settings. Now I am not only unable to connect to the network but it is also now asking for a username. It has never asked for a username before.
Currently I am encountering an issue with loading a webpage with Mobile Safari on my iPhone5. The site was just deployed with AWS (Amazon Web Services) here is the link *=URL=* The site works perfectly when using Safari browser with my MBP I've done the following.
The last answer in this thread makes iTunes 12 shortcuts for shuffle (on and off), but I was wondering if it were possible to make shortcuts for turning on the repeat playlist, song, and turning off repeat. By doing 'Off' (as it appears in the menu) it only affects the shuffle command. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
How do I install/allow php to run on Yosemite? I've read a lot about doing stuff through terminal, but none of the 'tutorials' are thorough, they just tell me to do 'sudo....' I've tried it, and still, I cannot get php files to work (I'm making a website and I need a php file).
I'm using the OS X text to speech feature for some eLearning stuff. Some of the voices, in particular Lee and Tessa seems to be better quality. However, they mispronounce the words 'git' and 'GitHub'. The American voices pronounce 'git' correctly.
How can I make 3 external displays (4 total, or 3 if running in closed book mode) function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)? Regardless of closed-book/clamshell mode, I am unable to make 3 external displays function. I am able to connect it all and power any given two at a time and it obviously has enough power, but it doesn't seem to want to run 3.
Sometimes I'm on call for work overnight and would like to know a quick way that I can silence all notifications except for the call ringer. The closest thing I see is allowing calls from everyone on do not disturb but that will allow messages to ring as well.
Why doesn't the root user on OSX automatically default to the same shell as other users? Seems like this would avoid a lot of complications, but I guess there must be complications with the shells being the same for root as others, but I just don't know what they are. I have googled this and searched Stack Exchange, and have not found an explanation for it.
Safari keeps warning malicious javascript detected on this domain, and there is only a OK button to click. It is stupid to click OK again and again. How to prevent this? I think the so-called malicious javascript is just some code for ads, because I saw this warning at a few websites of large company.
I have used a thunderbolt connection and pressed Command F2 to allow my track pad and keyboard on my MBA to run both screens. However, I want to use the wireless track pad and keyboard that comes with the iMac instead of the laptop track/keyboard. In other words, I would like the iMac to be the primary computer and use the laptop as a secondary screen (with all control remaining with the iMac). Is this possible?
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina-display (Late 2013 model) I recently bought a very cheap HDMI cable to plug it on my tv in my room (for Screen Mirroring and sometimes, Screen extend). Since it's cheap, I'm quite worried on a possible effect it would bring to my MacBook's resolution or display or maybe performance or at least, something.
I was gifted an iPad from a restaurant owner. This iPad was provided to the restaurant and used to relay orders from a third party service who would deliver their food outside their normal delivery range. The third-party company that provided the iPad is now defunct, and the iCloud email address has been out of use for long enough to bounce emails back to me immediately.
I am doing an editorial job and need to underline some words with red dotted underlines. How do you do this using Word for Mac users? The version I have is 2011, on a MacBook with Snow Leopard software.
My Apple TV works perfectly as a stand alone machine. It plays the channels I want to watch. However, Neither my MacBook Air, My iPads, my iPhone 6 and my iMac will no longer connect to AirPlay. All these devices worked perfectly until recently, AirPlay was a wonderful method by which I could stream videos to the Apple TV for watching on the 'big screen'.
Is there a way to figure out from a script whether a Mac needs to reboot? A file, the presence or contents of which I could monitor perhaps?
The situation: iPhone is low on battery I receive incoming call I try to pick up and phone turns of during that moment In this situation incoming phone number is not registered on the recent call list. Is there a way to fix this?
My friend wants to buy new refurbished MacBoook Pro 13" mid 2014 MGX72 in Malaysia. He's afraid of defects. So he needs advice on how to check whether it has problem or not. If it has, he must report it as soon as possible to the Apple Reseller where he bought it in Malaysia, before going home to Indonesia. I know this site is not for a question of which Mac I should buy, but I ask about technical advice on how to check a new refurbished MacBook Pro 13" after I got it, so if it has any problem I can detect it and report it soon, so I won't have any problems when I'm home. What I currently know is only check whether the display doesn't have dead pixel, and checking the battery (is it running up to around 9-10 hours as promised and calibrate it). What else should I test?
I've been trying to debug a "Waiting for index to be ready" issue with my Time Machine volume, and one piece of advice that I've encountered is re-creating the Spotlight index on the volume. To do this I ran the following commands (as sudo): However, I'm now trying to re-enable Spotlight with the reverse of the first command, but this is what I'm getting:
I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking for a way to run another OS X Yosemite inside it. I tried Virtual Box, and installed OS X, but it doesn't support guest additions for OS X guests. It keeps the display at 1024x768 and the mouse moves very slowly.
I'm not finding the ken burns effect any more in iMovie 10.0.7. Is it not included anymore? Went to "crop", nothing there this time but crop itself. No more "adjust" tool either. Where are you, Ken Burns?
I have a Mac Mini Mid 2011 Model. Earlier when I used OX X 10.7.5 my microphone was working fine. I updated my system to Yosemite 10.10.2 and my microphone stopped working. In System Preferences-->Sound-->Input, I am getting Line In (Name) Audio Line-In port(TYPE). I am using Iball headphones.
I have a Mid-2010 4 core MacPro. I mainly run 10.6.8, as I have a large software investment I'm not ready to abandon. As part of my migration to the present day OS, I have multiple startup drives, 2 PCI based SSDs. When I am running 10.6.8 and attempt to reboot into 10.10, I see this;
I recently installed Yosemite. A couple of days back it changed my prompt from Macbook:~ adnan to Mac-e80688dc7a26:~ adnan I have no idea why did it happen and how do I restore it.
I use a catch all email address on my domain, and would like to be able to figure out what address is being sent spam email. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to see what address an email in my inbox was sent to. Is there a way to determine the addressee of an email in iOS 8?
I want to factory unlock my iphone 5 from Sprint operator. Can it be done for free or have I use an internet ? Thanks for helping:)
I have LG HBS 730 Bluetooth headphones. I would like them to automatically connect to my Retina Macbook pro. How can I achieve that?
Looking at: *=URL=* How do I set the clock to use UTC with NTP? (This is in the context of synchronizing the Mac with the Linux server, both should be using UTC and, preferably, connect to the same NTP server.)
Did another SMC reset and System Information was unable to load information for Power. I recently did another SMC reset, upgraded to Yosemite, and am still getting the no battery available symbol. But now this is what's showing up in System Information:
The application list in Settings is becoming very long. I can hardly scroll to the bottom. The list might have repeated for more than 40 times. I don't know how this happened (suddenly or one by one). I think this is a bug, but I don't know how to reproduce. The phone is an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1.3.
I have a paid Apple Developer account, and want to create a Beta-Partition with Yosemite. I thought the way is pretty straight forward: Downloading Yosemite Install it Choose second partition
I mostly use Macs and iOS devices, so I've started using the iCloud password manager for better account security. Of course, all the world is not a Mac, but passwords are ubiquitous.
I've been trying to set up my new MacBook Pro [with Retina display 2015 edition]. I use a lot of university software via Remote Desktop connection, it worked very well on my Acer laptop and it's vital that this staff works as good as on Windows machines.
I like having the Messages app on my Mac, but I have one problem: When I delete a message thread on my iPhone, it doesn't delete from my Mac. In other words, if I delete three messages from the same person, on my phone, I see the previous messages and the later messages but not those specific ones. But on my Mac, they're all still there. And I don't see a place to delete them on my Mac the same way you delete them on the phone.
I have a Mac Mini configured just the way I like it with 10.10.2 installed. I need to deploy that to a bunch of other computers around campus. The usual process for me in the past has been to use an external USB drive, with OS X installed, to boot the target Mac and capture an image. That really doesn't seem to be working in Yosemite. I can boot to my 10.10.2 USB drive and run Disk Utility, but odd things happen when I try to create an image. When I try to image the partition, OS X doesn't dismount the target partition/disk. In past versions of OS X, the target partition was immediately dismounted after I entered my password. Lastly, I cannot "scan the image to restore", that part fails even though I can successfully create the image file. The error message is: Unable to scan "image.dmg" (internal error). Has anyone else seen this? I've tried making several images already. Thanks
I used to be able to send txt messages from my computer through the native messages app on iOS. I recently updated and now I'm not able to send txt from my computer.
I'm currently at college (living away from home) and my iPod Touch is at home. Its jailbroken and has OpenSSH installed through Saurik's Cydia repo. Is there any way I can SSH to get a theme file that I installed on the phone and pull it to my computer? I can ask my parents to unlock the phone to make sure its connected to Wifi as well as to tell me the Local IP address of the phone as well. What other steps do I need to connect from my computer to my phone? Short version with no explanations I want to SSH into my phone from a different wifi network.
Because of some other bugs with Mail.App's handling of certain email formats, I've installed Thunderbird to give that a try. I configured it to be the default (from the Mail.App preferences). That seems to work. BUT if I search for an email via Spotlight (Thunderbird's search is...well, I'm using Spotlight), clicking on a found mail item from Spotlight still launches Mail.App. I suspect it's a setting in a plist; how can I convince Spotlight to open Thunderbird instead of Mail.App?
I need to get several users session logged-in as soon as the computer starts. Manually I would have to log into the first user and then start switching to each one to open their respective sessions. I need to automate this process. At the end sessions must remain open so each will have some program instances running. Thanks!
Similar to this question, but my iPad is ringing, not my Mac.
When I create a new file or directory, it does not dynamically appear in Finder. I need to manually relaunch the Finder.
I accidentally deleted all 47,000 e-mails in my inbox. Most were unread. Just after I did this, I issued the command to "undo Delete 47,000 emails". For the last hour the mail activity has been grinding away on my disk and the bar still shows "Copying messages, Moving 23250 messages…" I don't know why it's copying or moving messages since I did "undo" before it had a chance to do anything, but anyway, I noticed that it marked all my gmail items as "read" even though it did not do this to my other inboxes. Also in the console, I'm seeing a lot of messages show up like 3/27/15 5:55:34.620 PM Mail[5285]: open on /Users/me/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Deleted Messages (Gmail).mbox/EF46037D-AF1B-42A8-B540-A00F046DBD62/Data/0/7/2/1/Messages/1270000.emlx: No such file or directory.
I'm just getting started with web development and I'm trying to set up my environment, and I can't do that until Dr Homebrew has discharged me from N00bcake Hospital. This is what I'm getting:
I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro (Retina), running OS X Yosemite. I would like to run OS X Lion within a virtual machine. Is this setup supported by Parallels/VirtualBox/VMware, even though this MacBook would not run Lion natively?
I added one of my classes to my phone calendar and repeated it to every week. For some reason I think it synced with my iCloud or uni site or something so all the details such as what room the tutorial is in, my teacher, what subject it is, etc, is all filled out in that event.
I re-ran the jdk-7u71-macosx-x64 and it complains during validation. The extremely informative: The Installation encountered an error ... blah blah.. go contact someone who cares. No details as to why it fails.
The wrong name appears attached to my email. It is not on my vCard - I have checked. I have deleted the card of the person who's name is used. I have checked "Previous recipients" and he does not appear at all. Somehow, somewhere at some level, Mail thinks my email address is titled with his name.
I have had several occurrences where I dragged photos from my mounted SD card to upload to my google plus account but then after the photos were successfully update, my SD card was unable to be ejected when I tried. It complained that the SD card could not be ejected because it was being used by a "Firefox" instance. When I opened up a terminal and did a lsof on my external SD card it showed something like this: When I went in and deleted the .Trashes folder, and did another lsof, it showed this:
Okay, I'm struggling a bit here. I'm not all that good with Terminal and sorting out network issues using it but I've managed to scrape by so far. Without using Internet Sharing (because controlling that via Terminal as per my question here doesn't actually seem to work in Yosemite) how can I share my internet connection from one interface (lets say en0) to another (again, lets say en1)? I kind of understand that Internet Sharing creates a bridge (usually called bridge100) and then uses bootpd (I think) to establish a DHCP server and NAT to route all traffic from 192.168.2.xxx (which is the bridged network) through to your primary network. How can I get the same result without using the Sharing pref pane?
I have set the time and date to update automatically on my Mac running Snow Leopard, however the time and date do not update. I ran ntpdate -q using time.nist.gov & time.asia.apple.com and receive the error message: no server suitable for synchronization found
Where do I have to go to find out how much space I have left on my hard drive? As you can imagine from the question I am new to Apple and don't know where to look. I used a program called "Cleanup" on my old Windows machine which did what the name says, great little program, is there anything similar for Apple, something which cleans up files like cache and cookies?
I have following problem: I have Boot Camp Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.2). I observed, that I couldn't connect USB flash drives to that Windows system, so I installed all Boot Camp drivers from the Boot Camp Assistant. I copied them to a USB flash drive and installed them on the Windows 7 partition. The problem was, that when I connected a USB flash drive to my Windows 7 partition, it was recognized as Generic USB. I actually couldn't eject it anymore. I read somewhere that this error was caused due to a version of the Intel USB driver i had installed earlier. That's why I deleted the Intel USB driver in the control panel. Now I can't seem to connect USB flash drives at all. I tried to drag the drivers to the Windows 7 partition via VMware, but it didn't work. When I double-click on setup.exe, it won't start. I have access to following programs or systems: VMware Fusion, Boot Camp Assistant, Windows 7, OS X partition. How can I install the Intel USB drivers since I can't us
Does anyone know how to do the shrinking of chart animation in WWDC for the speed of swift?
For the past few months I've been doing quite a bunch of heavy load things on my Mac. So I wouldn't worry about the Fans running at full speed. Recently I've started to do more casual things. I've noticed when I turn my computer on the fan starts running at full speed. My computer's temperature is usually about 170 (150-220). The fan stills runs at full speed even when the total CPU usage 4% and with a low GPU usage. The only way I can turn my fans down is to open Macs Fan Control and set it to "auto". I have installed some fan control apps in the past but I uninstalled those. Could it be possible some leftovers are messing with my fan? EDIT: I have removed all leftovers and the problem still continues
It seems that the only way to do that is to turn off Touch ID (the fingerprint reading). I don't want to turn off Touch ID.
I am trying to install new applications, but I keep getting this error message from the "Copy" application: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -60008). The applications I am trying to install are: git from git-2.2.1-intel-universal-mavericks.dmg SourceTree from SourceTree_2.0.5.2.dmg The message is given after I drag the application on the destination directory, and after being asked if I want it to replace the old one. In the past I had no problems with them.
Whenever I use Homebrew or Apple Store to download a large application, it sucks all my available bandwidth and I am then unable to browse the web. How can limit the bandwidth per-application or per-process in OS X Yosemite (command line preferred, but GUI apps accepted)? I've played a bit with IceFloor application, which suggested I use ALF firewall, but I don't know how to set it up.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 running 7.1.2., I tried using the cydia tweak lowpowerbanner but I don't think it worked. So if you could suggest another tweak that'd be great.
I would have expected to be able to right-click (secondary click) on a thumbnail of a picture and have the contextual menu give me the option to show the original picture document in Finder... but it's not there and I can't find it anywhere. I couldn't stand iPhoto, but at least it would allow you to access the original file directly in Finder. I understand why the Apple want to restrict direct access to the originals (stops users from moving files and screwing up their library), but what if I want to do something other than email or post the picture to social media? EDIT: I know I can just "Show Package Contents" or use the terminal to access ~/Pictures/Photos Library and hunt through the folder structure manually, but it's painfully inefficient considering all the sub folders It may be a (deliberately) missing feature, but if anyone knows any way of jumping directly to the original instead of copying or exporting it, that would be great to know.
I'm trying to follow this RVM installation guide, supposedly for Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (I should point out that $ rvm -v returns -bash: rvm: command not found), but when I run $ curl -L *=URL=* | bash -s stable --auto-dotfiles --autolibs=enable --rails it ends in this Then I ran:
I like to create a bin directory in my home directory and make it the first item in my $PATH. I then create symbolic links to override the default MacOS installed version of certain apps. I have done this in the past with Emacs. BTW I also like to launch emacs from the command line so, I create an alias of 'alias e="emacs -nw"' in my .zrshrc or .profile file.
I frequently use Command-Option-Power shortcut to send my Macbook to sleep (especially since closing the lid when I have external monitor doesn't trigger sleep). Unfortunately, this shortcut is very similar to Command-Control-Power which invokes cold reset of my Mac. I quite often accidentally press Command-Control-Power instead of Command-Option-Power.
I have this noise problem recently. Everything was good a few weeks ago.
I am using internet via wifi connection. Now I want to share my internet with my iphone. In the preferences, I found the option Internet Sharing, but there is no "wifi" option under "To computers using:". "Only ZTE WCDMA Tech" and "Thunderbolt Bridge". What to do?
I have a used little MacBook Pro 13 inch Late 2008 5,1 and I was told it needed a battery. It charges, then it doesn't, and it shuts off at the most random times, so the thought occurred to me to take the battery out and run it straight from AC power.
I want my VLC player not to minimize while I am on the windows of other applications. Whenever I click another window the VLC player window will go behind the my currently clicked window but I want it to resist being on top.
This is similar to Safari can't connect to https, but is just for one single https site. Safari can't connect to my local NAS' HTTPS site anymore because it "can't establish a secure connection". This is an administrator account, every other newly created account on the system works fine.
I have an MBA with 500GB SSD; However I have 850GB of data; I would like to split the data to something like 300GB in the SSD and 550GB in an external drive; And I would like to have one Time Machine backup... Is that possible?
I tried to transfer my wife's files from her MacBook, running 10.8.4 to my MacBook Pro running 10.9.5. We have identical logins on both computers. I was using Migration Assistant on both Macs which are on the same local network. I got the following error message:-
I am running short of space on my OS partition for some large files I want to install. I note that du shows 15G /.MobileBackups I have 2 Time Machine drives. One attached to my MacBook Pro (at least when it is not being used as a portable), and a second, which is attached once a week. This was last updated yesterday.
I'm trying to make a local website using OS X Server (4.0.3), and am following the tutorial that comes with Server. When I use Safari on another Mac, when I try to go to the website (myserver.local) the website doesn't load/is stuck 1/3 of the way loading. The Server Tutorial is in the help menu (Help > Server Tutorials > Host a website > Lesson 1): I've summarized the steps I took, and there didn't seem to be anything wrong following each step: *=URL=* In this lesson, you’ll learn: How to create a private website on your local network that uses a web app to produce webpages How to enable and select Python web apps How to use a built-in Python web app as a default webpage
When I play a song in Quick Look it sounds oversaturated and distorted. If I open it, it sounds great. What can be happening?
I want to remove podcast episodes on my iPad to free some space. But I don't want to lose them nor do I want to remove them from the saved episodes. I want to "re-cloud" them basically. Is here any way to do this without factory resetting the iPad regularly?
I finally decided to upgrade my Mac Mini HTPC (Mac Mini Server mid-2011) to Yosemite. I run the installer, says it's going to install, reboots, does the spinner for a bit, reboots again and I'm back at the login screen in Mavericks. If I login, it's like I never tried to install. No errors, no messages, just ... back in Mavericks.
How do I select and then play all songs from release year? e.g. Play all music from 1969. Even better, play all rock genre music from 1969.
My Mac book pro 13.3 inch retina display August 2014, did not boot after a normal shut down. It gave sound on power on but after stays grey. I tried all options available on net CMD+C, C, SHIFT+CMD+V but no success.
What's the optimal formatting for a MacBook disk? My disk seems to be formatted as a LVG (Logical Volume Group) and it seems super slow...
I want to use my 2014 macbook pro 13's monitor for my windows 7 pc . How can I do this ? my MacBook is running yosemite.
I have two iPhones, one is a 4s and the other is a 5s. One is for work and the other is personal. How can I prevent sharing contacts between each without opening a new iCloud account for each?
In TextEdit, ⌘F sets the focus (which means your text marker is in the box) in the “Find” textbox. ⌘⌥F sets the focus in the “Find and Replace” textbox. Pressing ⌘⌥F followed by ⌘F keeps the entire dialog open. In Xcode the focus is ALWAYS in the “Find” dialog, no matter what hotkey you invoked it with.
What is causing this? This actually is really annoying, as I find myself opening this dialog upwards of 30-40 times a normal work day, causing the dialog to frequently go off the screen, causing inconvenience in saving the files and similar operations.
I tried downloading apps with my new Apple ID and it asked me to review it. After filling in the information it shows an error and asks me to insert a billing address with atmost 70 letters or numbers. My address that I mentioned is correct. How do I get past this?
I have lots of files from a database which are to be copied to a new database, but the files for these are corrupt (They are zero-byte in size and contain no data). Rather than the new database showing an error when the file is encountered, I want a text file to read "This file is empty". Making the placeholder text file is easy, but how can the file be renamed for each of the potentially hundreds of files it is to replace? The source files are numbered like 1234.txt 2345.txt 34455.txt etc The replacement files need the same name but need all have the exact same content (message) wording I specify. I thought AppleScript could simply record and repeat my actions of file selecting, name copying, file deleting, duplicating, moving etc but that didn't work (AppleScript didn't even notice me selecting the files). I thought I could do it with Automator, too, but surprisingly could find no rename function that would replace the file name with text copied to the clipboard, so that didn't work 
One of my programs require CTRL key to used very frequently. But it is not very comfortable in my case and I would like to change it to 0 button on the right side of my keyboard. I've been downloaded and try to use BetterTouchTool and Karabiner but unfortunately you can bind a key only for already pre-defined keys for you, but cannot add your custom there, like in my case I want on 0 click -> CTRL be pressed as well.
I use homebrew as a package manager for certain web development app. To keep brew up-to-date I run update brew every couple of days and also run brew doctor. Usually, this is fine and brew tells me I'm ready to brew. Every now and then, however, I get the following error: Warning: /usr/local/etc isn't writable.
Whenever I have to search for something, I have to open Safari and then type in it. Is there any way to search directly, like type it in Spotlight and press click something and Safari will open automatically and search whatever you typed in Spotlight?
So the end goal of what I am looking to do is this: When I am at work I use an external monitor with my MBP. I have a consistent set of spaces and apps that I setup everyday. What I would like to do is create an applescript or combination of applescript & automator application that once launched will create the needed number of spaces on each monitor and open then the appropriate apps into each space. I don't know if this is best accomplished completely in applescript or as I said using a combination of applescript to create the spaces and automator to open the bulk of the applications and browser windows that I use.
I want to synch my iTunes library favorites only to my iPhone 5s. That's about 550 songs. The complete library is too large to synch to my iPhone so I only want to synch favorites. How do I do this?
I created a service for starting a Virtual Box headless, which works fine - but the service does not end until the virtual machine is stopped again (the spinning wheel is in the menu bar (or whatever the bar in the top right is called). This is understandable, as the command runs until the VM is closed again. I tried appending "&", using "nohup", "exec", but still, the "spinning wheel" does not disappear until the virtual box is closed again. I also tried to create an automator app, but the same. Is there a way to either background the command, detach it, or make at least the spinning wheel to disappear? EDIT: Here is the plist: And a screenshot:
I'm currently using a blackberry 9900. I use it for work and personal. I have different ring/notification profiles setup. When at work I have it on vibrate or silent but if I receive a text or email from a specific contact then I get an audible alert. Actually this works for any profile I have active; text or email from a specific contact will always push thru. I also have certain contacts who if the call me, I will get a push thru notification but not if they text/email.
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 and I have upgraded to SSD when on Mountain Lion. Installed Yosemite as soon as it was out. The SSD works perfect until day before yesterday. Mac has become too slow, every click takes 15 seconds to respond, boot takes 5 minutes. I then cloned the SSD to a normal HDD and replaced it with it. It boots and works very well from the HDD. I have tried fresh install on the SSD by placing it in the same main harddrive bay and left it for 10 hours but it won't finish installing.
I have an iPod Touch 4th-generation currently running the latest iOS software supported by it (iOS 6.1.6), and it is jailbroken. I am trying to find a solution to mirror its screen to a TV.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina. When I capture an image in Skitch, it is always twice the size. I shrink them back down via Preview for social media.
I upgraded my Mac Mini's HDD to a new SSD... Since then the fan has been running at full speed constantly. I placed back the old drive but that did not fix the problem. I also tried using SmcFanControl but that does not work at all.
Since upgrading to Yosemite when it came out, windows in different apps randomly appear in odd places - eg, not connected to their parents window. Here's the Chrome search bar:
One can use pmset -g log to get to the info about Wake and Start events of Mac OS. But pmset doesn't seem to make any special assertions to the log when system goes into screen saver mode, and what particularly of interest to me, when the screen saver quits. What command or log file I can use to find out when the last wake from screen saver event occurred?
I know favorites can collapse completely but how possible is it to make a dropdown collapse inside the Favorites itself so that when the items reach about 5, it automatically hides all others with a dropdown arrow for seeing the others?
If I move a photo from iPhoto to the desktop, and then trash, is the original still saved in the library?
Can someone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut for auto completing a URL in the safari address bar? PS: Like in chrome or Firefox the keyboard shortcut is Control+return, Command+Return.
I have a 2014 Macbook Air running Yosemite 10.10.2 that is "soft freezing" regularly. By that I mean that the (built-in) keyboard and trackpad do not respond at all anymore, but I can see that if there were any animated webpages running at the time of the freeze, the animation continues to run, meaning that at the very least the GPU and Safari seem to be still running. Note: I've had a Bluetooth mouse connected (which also remains completely unresponsive after the freeze) the last times it has frozen, I can't recall whether that was always the case. These are the last lines of my system logs the last time it froze: Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Hi I want to skip this update in Yosemite and cannot hide it by right click > hide update because the right click simply does not work. Also tried in terminal: softwareupdate --ignore Pre-release Any thoughts?
My photos are taking up 5 GB on my phone and I only have about 100 of them. I do have a bunch of ghost photos that I can't delete though. They are from my old phone which is not an apple product and I am having storage issues because of it.
I just picked up a used Mac for a great price (I might add but doesn't have much to do with my question); and the old users App Store Account is still linked to him, even though I have everything else going with my iCloud account and or Apple password. How do I change it back?
A week ago I inserted a USB cable into my MacBook Pro (late 2013) which resulted in the laptop immediately shutting down. After a lot of searching how to boot it up again I had to reset the SMC. After this it booted normally. A few days later the MacBook Pro started hanging and freezing from time to time.
In OS X Textedit, I was able to remove unwanted material from images scanned to JPEGs by using the select tool to define the area to be removed and then pressing "delete", resulting in a white area on a white background. How do I do that using Textedit Yosemite?
I have an early 2013 15-inch retina Macbook Pro running the latest stable version of Yosemite on which I've encountered the fabled GPU hang-ups, detailed in this question. I'm almost certain I have the same issue as described; I see similar messages on the console, and it seems to only happen when I open an intensive app like photoshop, thus causing the computer to switch between graphics devices.
I had my Macbook running in Boot Camp. I used the Boot Camp Assistant and selected to reboot into OS X. When it rebooted, it immediately started up into Recovery mode. I did a verify disk and it said that the EFI partition had a problem, so I clicked repair disk and restarted.
I'm running Windows XP on Virtual Box. I'm trying to write to a USB pen drive. VirtualBox detect the pen drive but its name is greyed our in GUI. And I couldn't pick it from the list. How can I use this pen drive with the virtual machine?
having a trouble to access few folders in my root user. For example: cannot access - Ideas Infinitas, Treehouse workshops folders. At the same time I can access test_app and some other folders.
I've got Time Machine backing up to a local USB hard drive (i.e. I plug it directly into my Macbook Pro). I now want to use this hard drive as the Time Machine drive hooked up to my AirportExtreme. Will doing so require reformatting the HD? Or will it be a simple plug-and-play
I was looking for an app that records audio during specific time. For example: I want talk for 1 minute and this app should record just 1 minute. The audio recording should be stopped after this time automatically.
In order to run Chrome from the Terminal application, I have to do rather than just something like "chrome index.html". The same also seems to be true for Firefox.
Recently, my 2011 MacBook Pro 13' produces strange instantaneous jumps in battery percentage. Sometimes, when it is discharging, it drops by ~40% (and if it was near or at less then 40%, it shuts down unexpectedly), sometimes (both when discharging or charging) it suddenly increases by 40%. The output of coconutBattery shows that the maximum charge is at the half of the design capacity when the 40% is "missing":
My Mom (+ 70) longs for the day when her Windows Paint Shop program would walk her through creating a 2-fold 8 1/2 x 11 card. She could assemble the card one page at a time and not think about what needed to be upside down or right side up. One single-sided page is folded two times yielding a somewhat floppy card. Four pages (front, inside Left, inside Right, back.) Two of these pages must be printed upside down to make the folding scheme work.
In System Preferences, there is an option to change calendars. Does anyone know if it is possible to use multiple calendars simultaneously, for example Gregorian and Hebrew?
Using the built-in OS X calendar application. I've got events broken down by general, school, friends, concerts, etc.
my entire HD is now "Mac OS X Base System":  ps: Mac OS X Base System is Disk0s2 I cant delete this partition to install Mac OS X; I already try the terminal, but message reply "you cannot erase the boot disk". Does anyone have any idea how can I fix this?
I've below output from scutil --nc show <service id> I wanted to take out ip addresses from Addresses : <array> from below How to write regular expression for it?
I would like to know weather I can keep my appstore revenue with apple and withdraw whenever I like..?
On a MacBook with Bootcamp installed, I got three partitions: OS X 10.10 Windows 10 OS X Recovery On boot, with 'alt' key down, I get the bootloader and I can choose which partition to boot. On this screen, how to change the Windows (or OS X Recovery) picture?
I've got a PDF file with an Image inside that has a url link to a page. I need to see that link without opening it. I expect to see this link when I move the mouse on the image, but I can't see it anywhere. Is there a way to see the link in Safari or in Preview in Yosemite?
I've been finding Finder slow on my brand new Retina MacBook Pro. I've got two external disks connected to my Mac most of the time. One is a Time Machine backup, the other is a Clone, also for backup. They spin down when not in use which is great. However, I've noticed that Finder is slow to respond. When I access Finder, I hear them spin up and then it is responsive. Is there anything I can do about this?
I have two questions regarding nfsd on OS X: What is managing the start/stop phase of this daemon? Launchd? It has an enable and disable mode, but I don't know what does this do.
I have a IPhone 4S with TOM TOM installed (bought from Google Play), I now need the app to be copied to my IPad. Is there anyway to do this with out buying another TOM TOM app.
I use pf (BSD packet filter via Terminal). The recommended use of pf is to block all incoming ports and then open those you need. I want my system to work properly and don't miss things like Automatic Updates, AirPlay, AirDrop, etc.
Quotation marks go to the top of the line in MS Word, like “this”. However, official EU text as well as some Dutch publications use quotation marks as follows: Van Slingelandt: „We vinden het belangrijk dat gemaakte afspraken nagekomen worden.”
I have dropped my iPhone 5 last night and since then its either been flashing the apple logo on and off or just stuck in recovery mode. I have tried restoring it, but I just get error 21 or error 2002. I have tried using reboots, holding the home button and the on/off button and nothing seem to work. How can I restore the iPhone?
I am currently paying like a dollar a month for 20 GB iCloud storage, but I am just now building a new computer and am hoping to install an Amahi server on it so that I can have my own 'Dropbox' type of cloud access wherever I go. Am I able to use a service like Amahi (or anything else) to redirect my iCloud backup from apple's servers to my own? Instead of paying $12 a year for 20 GB of storage, I could be paying no subscription for 3+ TB of space.
I just bought an apple mac pro retina display 13", I set up my apple account but changed my password on my phone, I came to log back in on my laptop and it wouldn't let me with my new password, I tired my old password but it still didn't work. I did a factory restore on it and It seemed to work, but I then noticed it deleted apps that where already installed on the computer such as iMovie, when I go on to the app store it now askes me to pay for these. im not sure what I should do, any advice?
i know we already have topics about it, but i did not found my solution. So i don't want to start iTunes, when i plug in iDevices. We have like 300 iPads, and i am using the configurator. iTunes still starting automatically, even when the Configurator is running.
Trying to connect to my schools wireless network, but the 802.1X Authentication wont finish. It also says that I have a self-designated IP.
Mac pro 8 core early 2008 mountain lion installed. I need to clean install Yosemite.
When playing games on Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012 md101 under Windows 8.1 the temperature rises to 100 degrees pretty fast and gpu starts throttling giving a huge slowdown in games. Is this a normal behaviour of this Macbook? If not what should I do to fix this? This notebook has Core i5-3210M and Intel HD Graphics 4000 I was thinking about changing termal paste.
I have some pretty invasive adware going on right now. It is in both Safari and Chrome, so I don't believe it is an extension (I have also looked through all extensions). I have also tried searching for all the recommended adware agents found on the Apple Support Forum (*=URL=* I have also looked at recent downloads and I can't find anything suspicious. I am wondering if anyone can recommend some safe software to target the adware.
Software update always tells me Xcode 6.2 is available. Other updates install when requested, but when I click the XCode update button it asks me for Apple ID and password. Other items update without asking.
I have an epub for a hundred-year-old book with the illustrations from the original missing, and no links from TOC to the appropriate places. Wanting to correct that, I tried to open it from iBooks Author 2.2. The pub is grayed out in the Open dialogue. If I select "all files," it is un-grayed, but either way, it cannot be selected.
Have Modbook Pro with OS 10.10.2 and a powered seven-port USB hub. A 750-GB bus-powered drive has no problems with the hub in-between. But a powered drive with three partitions, one of them a Time Machine partition, always gets a failure in backup. Works fine when the hub is not between.
I have my workstation with Windows and a MacBook with Mac OS X which I attach to the same monitor. The monitor provides the switching but I don't want to have two keyboards and two mouses and neither use an external switch (already enough cables).
I need to connect my Macbook Pro Late 2011 to external (LG) monitor via Minidisplay port to DVI. I have the latest drivers for my Intel HD Graphics 3000 and the latest Bootcamp as well.
When I use spotlight (on Yosemite 10.10.2), Quick Look doesn't display a preview in the right panel anymore. Only when I click on a folder in the left panel it displays the contents of the map in the right panel. But when I click on either a .pdf or a .pages file in the left panel, the right panel is empty, whereas a few weeks ago it still did display a preview in the right panel in those cases.
OS: 10.10.2 w/ Server.app I had created a LAG (link aggregate group) on my Mac Mini server. Since then DHCP services stopped working. This is my current bootpd.plist file. The LAG is called bond0 according to my Mac.
My iTunes (v.12.1, on OS X Yosemite 10.10.2) opens and functions just fine. But every time I quit the program, about ten seconds after quitting a dialog pops up informing me that "iTunes quit unexpectedly".
I recently run the OS X Server app on Yosemite. Now each time I shutdown or restart my mac, it asking for administrator password. I don't want to run my MacBook Pro as a server. I ran this app just to test something, now I want to reset to the previous state. Now I feel that there are some daemon process running because of the server app, that slows down my laptop. How to uninstall or reset all the changes made by OS X Server app on Yosemite?
How to make fullscreen app's space appear next to the current space? Normally it goes to the end of the list of spaces.
I have an iPhone 5, which works great at coffee shops, home, work etc.. but when I am on campus it cannot find the wireless network. There is not even a listing for the network, or the guest network that also exists. But, anywhere else it works fine. I tried resetting the device, but the behaviour persists.
Okay, I've had this problem for like 2 years and I'm absolutely pissed off about it. For some reason, (even though I have set "Delete History" to "Manual") my Safari history keeps getting deleted. For example, my oldest entry is 2015, 29 January. Yesterday when I checked it, the oldest date was 2015, 28 January. So for everyday that goes, it keeps deleting my history!
In order to fix this bug I've been trying everything I could find on the internet. Basically whenever I try to sync music or videos from iTunes to my iPhone (they have both the latest version) and during the last step of that, iTunes would randomly stop just few songs from the start and it would wait until sync timeout. Then I've also tried to export the songs with CopyTrans Manager which is a 3rd party tool similar to iTunes, but I get the same error: sync -> then stop at a random song -> app timeout. Then I've tried an app from the store called PlayerExtreme, and I've tried exporting song to that using iExplorer but I still get the timeout. The only error I got was that my iPhone disconnects during the process, which is weird since I've tried using 2 different USB cables (both original) and both of them randomly disconnect during the sync and they both reconnect few seconds later. Other stuff I've tried: toggle sync / no sync music from iTunes sync only selected music and videos manu
The safari in my iPhone 6 can not play audio file in Wikipedia, for example, the following picture shows a audio file one a Wikipedia page but I cannot play it. what's wrong with it and how to fix it?
got an mp3 via email from a musician friend of mine today. when i try to open it (in any app... itunes, quicktime, vlc, etc), i get this message as if it's a new Application that i just downloaded from the internet. i KNOW what to do if it's an app (keep my system prefs security settings & secondary-click on it & choose open that way) that i trust, but i've never experienced this happening before with "Files" that i trust.
I have a Netgear wireless router in one room, and a TP-Link powerline adaptor with wifi in another room. I'm using a 2014 MacBook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.1 Previously I had separate SSIDs for each of the wireless access points, which meant that I needed to manually change the wifi network when moving around the house.
hey guys i have the iOS 8.1 update on my iPhone 5s. I have downloaded iOS 8 over-the-air and it takes up too much storage space. So I was wondering if it is possible to delete that update to go back to iOS 7 and re-download iOS 8 on itunes so it can take up less space.....
Im using the MacBook Pro Retina and currently using an external hard drive to store many datas using the Time Machine, i.e: songs, images, movies, docs and so on. I was wondering what will happen if I switched TIME MACHINE off? I have backed up everything to my external hard drive though and currently my storage in the macbook is showing 29.01gb BACKUP, I was thinking if by switching the Time Machine could it allow more space on my disk?
When you put System Files and Applications in the exclusion list, it is not clear what specific files and folders are being concerned. Is it just the /Applications and /System folders?
I am trying to change my right command key to be ShiftAlt. This is because it gets annoying to press AltShift8 to get a "{", and i never use the right command any way.
I am using Attract Mode for Mac and I changed the default font to a font that isn't in the font library. Attract Mode will no longer start up. How do you change the default font from the package contents?
I've got an early 2011 13" i7 MBP, OS X 10.10.3 (the public beta version before the one released last night) with 10 GB of RAM – one of the original 2 GB modules in the bottom slot and an 8 GB module that's now a few months old in the top slot. Yesterday morning, I opened my computer to reveal a black screen after it had just been working a few minutes ago. I tried to turn it off and back on, and ended up getting the three-beep pattern that indicates bad RAM. I opened up my computer's back, and here's what I tried (and what happened when I attempted to power on after trying it): Pulling out and reinserting the RAM - no change. Pulling out and reinserting the RAM - no change. Pulling out the 8 GB and trying to boot with just the 2 GB - no change Pulling out the 8 GB and trying to boot with just the 2 GB - no change Pulling out the 2 GB and using just the 8 GB in the top RAM slot - no change Pulling out the 2 GB and using just the 8 GB in the top RAM slot - no change Putting the 8 GB in 
If I get a call while I'm busy with another call (call waiting, normal call, not FaceTime), can I reject that incoming call? I'm using an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.2.
I have recently purchased and downloaded an ePub book from a website, and safely kept it on my ~/Books folder. To read it, I used Add to Library from iBooks for Mac. I noticed that it then copied the whole book (630MB) to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/. Is there a way I can prevent it from doing so?
I keep a drive attached to my MacBook for Time Machine backups when I'm at my desk. I also regularly work from places other than my desk. Most of the time, if I close the laptop lid I intend to leave my desk, so I need to unmount the drive. Is there any way to automate this, so that the OS automatically unmounts the drive before sleep? I figure my options are
I powered off my old iPhone 5 after getting the iPhone 6 six months ago. Today, I tried to turn it on and the iPhone will not start.
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2010 that started to not see it's internal SATA HDD. I can connect the HDD in question to the computer via SATA > USB adapter and it works fine (Mac can even boot from it that way). What could be the problem and how do I diagnose and fix it properly?
I'm using Windows 7 and I'd like to be able to group my apps by Apple ID, but there is no option from the list view:  If I browse to the directory using Windows Explorer I also cannot see the Apple ID listed. Is there anyway to quickly see which Apple ID each app belongs to? Thanks
I do a lot of selecting, copying, pasting, and moving around on a single image in Preview for Mac. But I'm having trouble ordering the layers of an image so that the layer I want visible is on top. Is there any way to define layer order in Preview?
I want to disable the Bluetooth Sharing that is located in the sharing preference section. I want to be able to disable it via terminal, does anyone have an idea on how to do that?
A friend of mine found an iPhone 6 in a festival but she didn't have a way to charge the phone for a couple weeks. She is a maid here in Brazil and didn't have the proper charger neither knew how to use the phone. When she finally gave the phone to me to charge and try to find the owner, I've found out that the phone had an iCloud activation lock. We took the phone to the carrier but they said that the sim card was deactivated already and belongs to a corporate account with more than 100 numbers associated.
I'm configuring a mac mini server (latest Yosemite) and I'd like some advice/guidance. I have a registered domain in use for my website, mail and some subdomains – all externally hosted. I'd like to add a subdomain that points at my mac mini server for public access to jenkins, profile configuration, vpn, etc. I'd also like the mac mini to handle DHCP, OpenDirectory, and local DNS for the local network.
I'm looking for a commercial command line utility to transcribe my MP3 voice memos into text files. My workflow is to record voice memos through out the day and upload these memos as MP3 files to Dropbox. I would like to convert these MP3 files to equivalent TXT files on a batch basis. My voice memos range from < 1 minute to a max of ~10 minutes.
Signing out of all other iCloud devices, including another Mac, an iPhone, and an iPad. No effect.
I wrote a bash script in order to directly start eclipse from different workplace locations. Each workplace contains the script, after running it, eclipse is started with the respective workspace set.
I want to add <key>LSUIElement</key> <true/> to the plist of Calendar.app like I would other apps because I don't want it in the dock or my task bar. This being a super-special Apple app, I need special permission. Could anyone tell me how to safely do this?
Using other applescript as template, I've been trying to modify this particular one to do the following task: Extract "Author" tag from a PDF file and write it automatically in the iTunes12 "Author" tag and for as many PDF files I select in my Books collection in iTunes (yes! I got rid of iBooks and got back Books in iTunes)
I'm new to iPhones and Mac, but I pretty ok with Linux. I think I could solve some of my networking issues, if I could just get into a bash shell, but I haven't been able to locate a shell.
I noticed that the iTunes purchase history only shows the first time you downloaded an app, and doesn't show every time, it was redownloaded. Is there a way to view how many times, or the most recent time an app was redownloaded in my account?
I added an OWC 240GB SSD to my 17" MBP a couple of years ago and installed Trim Enabler. Everything was dandy until yesterday when my computer somehow updated itself to Yosemite and I was faced with the "grey screen of death". I had an empty external drive already hooked up so I went ahead and installed Yosemite on it and copied up my latest Time Machine backup onto it. Starts up fine but I need to get my SSD back online. After researching I figured out that Trim Enabler and Yosemite were now bitter enemies. I am just trying to figure out now how to "disable" Trim Enabler from the SSD. Since I can't access the drive through Disc Utilities I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Do I have to take the drive out and hook it up as an external to disable Trim Enabler? Will that even work? I've since come to find out that Trim Enabler isn't really even necessary on the OWC Mercury that I have.
On my 2009 MacBook, my friend signed into his Apple ID to check it. Now, I can't sign back into mine to download things. Does anyone know how to get my Apple ID to sign me back in?
I am using 10.9.5. I started having this problem recently.
When I access the internet on Mac 1, the other Mac (Mac 2) has a extra icon pop up and can see what I access. Both Macs use the same Apple ID and are on the same domain. Two different users are signed on.
Okay, so I use Teamviewer to remote into this computer while at work, that might explain why the BSD process name corresponding to current thread is TeamViewer_Deskt, not sure. I was on today and it just booted me off, couldn't reconnect, got home and couldn't get anything to display on screen, tried rebooting, heard the boot up chime twice, then nothing. I removed the Radeon 5770 that I have installed and inserted original card, was able to get in although graphics were very choppy (Yosemite on MacPro 2,1 - not sure why it's listed at 1,1)
If I uncheck the Safari option under iCloud settings either on a Mac or an iOS device will the links stop syncing between devices?
Is there any way to find what apps are downloading stuff in the background? And what stuff they are downloading? I've done a little research and gather it's the Background Transfer Service doing the work. But no hint of how to monitor what its doing. This other question is a bit more general and the answer was "there's no way to know" but it's a bit old and the answers aren't authoritative.
I do not have a SIM card in my phone. Before my iMessage used to work even without a SIM card. But now it doesn't, why?
My friend in Malaysia is visiting me in Australia and is bringing me a Apple 64gb tablet as a gift. As I have been given conflicting answers to this question; Will the warranty on the Apple tablet be honoured in Sydney Australia or is it only the iPad that is not under warranty in Australia.
I just limited all my SSL ciphers to TLS 1.X and TLS1_RSA_AES and my up-to-date OSX machine is no longer able to connect to the server via Outlook 2011. I can use Safari to connect to the same host, so this is probably an app-specific issue. How do I, in OSX, figure out what TLS cipher and protocol is being used to connect to a given host? This is necessary to remove security risks with SSL3, BEAST, CRIME, POODLE, and other security risks. Ideally I will remove all ciphers locally that use RC4 and other risky protocol negotiations.
My 2013 MacBook Pro will turn on fine and go to the user profile page. When I click my profile type password and login it gets to 50% on the loading bar and freezes.
From one specific iPhone user, I keep receiving multipart texts for small messages. Instead of 160 characters each, I'm getting about 60. It looks as though if any part of the message contains a Unicode character, the entire message is chopped up as if each character is 2 bytes. I've investigated slightly, and sure enough, the apostrophes I've been receiving are ’.
I'm successfully able to transfer files from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro using AirDrop, when connected to my home wifi network. But I'm unable to determine how AirDrop is creating the connection between the phone and laptop. This page says: AirDrop uses Apple's Bonjour technology to listen in on a wireless connection for another Mac to announce AirDrop capabilities and this page says: AirDrop uses Bluetooth to create a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network between the devices.
I'm trying to download a .mp3 file from MediaFire on my Apple iPad, but whenever I click on "Download" button, a new tab opens and it plays the file. I need to store this file in my iTunes instead of playing it, is that possible? Please note that I do not have access to a computer and I do not want to jailbreak my iPad.
I want to support encrypted IPSec communications, and DANE certs in DNS. Notably, DNSSSec is a prerequisite is IPSec (secure IP addresses from DNS) How can I configure my OS X computer to use DNSSec when available, and to refuse incorrect responses. I understand that DNSSec is best done on a server, and have your workstation point to THAT, however, this also applies to OS X Server.
I recently bought a MacBook Pro Retina and for now I'm a little bit worried. Everytime I hold it up by one of its edges or even press this part (video), it makes this strange noise, like its gonna break. I thought the material was resistant. I'm pressing the downside of the notebook, like at the start of the notebook. Downside, of course. If I hold the notebook to get it by this particular corner it also makes this strange noise. I'm a little worried. Should I take it to an Apple Store? Here is a video with the strange sound! Picture of the exact corner:
I'm trying to follow these instructions on configuring QuickTime so I can use a browser-based web app that uses QuickTime as a plugin in FireFox: *=URL=* I'm using QuickTime Player version 10.4 (833.1). The instructions I'm reading clearly indicate that QuickTime Player should have a Preferences option in its menu bar, as shown in this picture:
Out of necessity I decided to migrate all my personal/work data to a new external hard drive (HFS, encrypted) and left the internal HD for the OS. Because of the fact, that I am now fully reliant on this external HD for the iTunes/iPhoto libraries and numerous other things I need to ensure that this drive won't get accidentally ejected/erased and doesn't show up as an option e.g. in the Boot Camp installer creation wizard. To make it clear - only this specific drive needs this special treatment, the rest (like flash drives) should be treated as usual. Is it possible to target this via some Mount Point setting, perhaps?
I understand this issue arose over the past 2-3 years, but I haven't seen any solution. A workbook created on a Windows PC using Office 365 - transferred to Mac (Yosemite installed) - opens in read-only mode in Office 365 for Mac.
I upgraded to the latest OpenOffice (from 3.4.1 to 4.1.1) with brew-cask without realizing OpenOffice 4 was already installed: I'm worried that the old install with ~400MB is still there just not linked. Or does brew-cask writing the the symlink over the old app effectively delete the files? / Perhaps BrewCask was smart enough to take this into account? How could I check? update: did as @njbook suggested in comments: There's no mention of the an old install being removed. Another way to phrase my question perhaps more directly is in a unix system if a directory is replaced with a symlink pointing elsewhere are the files within the directory still taking up space on disk and if so how can they be found?
I'm trying to solve the mystery of a crazy high cpu usage on kernel_task. MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, Yosemite 10.10.2
But when I try to install pending software updates (that is, OS X system updates!), the window that pops up has the the e-mail address of my colleague filled in and greyed out—and I can't change it.
I do not know what account my contacts were earlier synced to. Now when I try to deactivate my exchange account, I lose all the contacts saved on the iPhone. When I log in using the multiple iCloud IDs and don't recall which is correct, it doesn't sync. I want to sync my contacts to the Gmail account and keep them available on my device.
I am using an iPhone 5 with the iOS 6.1.4 and usually it will get notifications to update the iOS. What are major differences between these two and WHAT ARE BENEFITS OF RETAINING THE 6.1.4 AND THE BENEFITS OF UPDATING TO 8.2? My dad is using the same phone as me however, he is experiencing battery shutdowns quite often and he using iOS 8.2 I would like to know whether retaining my iOS without updating is good? or is it better for me to update to 8.2? I would like to listen to good experience and knowledge before I proceed further.
For India they have Hindi language but it does not have an Indian flag on it. Is there any way to add custom flag images in menu bar?
On Windows, you can specify non-breaking spaces in Excel formulas with char(160), for example: On Excel for Mac (2011), however, char(160) maps not to the non-breaking space character, but to the "dagger" character, † (†).
In Preview on the Mac, how can the default Selection be changed from 'Text Selection' to 'Rectangular Selection' I am opening PDFs and want it to default to 'Rectangular Selection' Currently I need to go into the menu bar -> Tools -> Rectangular Selection. How to change default? I am using Yosemite.
I know I'm supposed to enable text replacement via Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement but… I cannot find that menu in Chrome at all. Help?
I lost my phone on vacation and activated 'Lost Mode' for a couple of days. The night before heading home I decided to do the Remote Erase ´cause I thought there's no way I'd get it back, I also called my carrier and canceled the data service on my number. The phone has been offline ever since but the hotel just called to say they found my phone at the spa and they are mailing it back to me. So I want to cancel the 'Pending Erase', all I care about is recovering all the pictures from that trip that I hadn't backed up on iCloud yet... Will removing the device from my iCloud account work? And if I don't have service on the phone, will the 'Erase iPhone' command still go through when I turn it on? Please help! I have two days to figure this out
I have a simple script written that successfully saves the current date in the format I need. I also have saved a destination range in the active sheet. I just need syntax to paste/insert it into that range of cells.
I had to rebuild the OS for my iMac/Yosemite system. Homebrew persists in installing software to the old, corrupted profile. What should I do? I think that I should remove Homebrew and re-install it, but I'm really scared of screwing up. Please help with basic, solid, fool-proof advice.
Is it possible to hide the status bar (battery indicator, time, etc.) on an iPhone? I can't find any indication of this in settings but I can't figure out if it's just not possible or if I'm looking in the wrong place. I went into Settings and looked in General and Display.
Looking for hints or a code snippet that will show me how to use AppleScript to play an iTunes Radio Station (with cover art, add to iTunes wish list, play more like) vs. playing an iTunes Internet Radio Station. I know how to do the latter.
I messed with my httpd.conf file, and I'm not sure what the original one looked like. Can someone upload a copy of their httpd.conf file so I can switch the text in mine with theirs?
I thought I saw this question answered before but I'm just not seeing it now. If I can't access the file itself I know I can get a screenshot and crop out a little bit but I'd like the whole image if it is possible. I looked in Photos but didn't see it, and I looked a bit in the wallpaper preferences and didn't notice anything that would help. I'm looking at a friend's iPad with iOS 7 and I'd like to get this wallpaper image before updating.
Can I remove one song from my iTunes account so that it doesn't appear on my iPhone without disabling Show All? Muse made their upcoming album Drones available for preorder at the same time that they made one of its tracks, Psycho, available for purchase so, instantly, I bought Psycho from iTunes and, later on, preordered the Deluxe Edition of Drones from muse.mu. I then found out that the Deluxe Edition of Drones comes with digital downloads of any singles that have been or will be released which I initially ignored as I already owned Psycho but I later realised that the MP3 file had a much higher bitrate than the iTunes file. So, I deleted the iTunes file but, when I play Drones on repeat. Psycho plays twice because iTunes is streaming the track attached to my account and then playing the local, as you can see here:
Looking for a source of iTunes Internet Radio Station URI's. Any suggestions?
I tried the same with Java 6, and there the flag works. So I supposed that I don't have a 32 bit version of Java installed. I checked all installed versions of java with /usr/libexec/java_home -V and get the following list: I then run the same command with the -d32 flag to check for 32 bit VMs and get the following list:
I have been troubleshooting why my Mac Mini is running slow and stumbled upon this:  The memory usage is in the GB! On my MacBook the two processes take under 10 MB together. Why are these procs taking up so much memory, and how can I fix it to resemble usage on my MacBook? Mac Mini Server (Late 2012) Mem 4GB OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
I would like to check if Safari is visible, my AppleScript code was this, but it doesn't work ... How can I check the visible with AppleScript?
Does anyone know of an application or service that I can enable that will log and record a count of the total number of words that I've typed over the course of a day? I don't want or need a full keyboard log of all words, and I certainly don't want any of that being stored. I just want to know how many words and characters I've typed over the course of the day, irrespective of application.
I have 2 separate AppleIDs and noticed that purchases on one account populated the other when I logged into the other account with the app installed. Does purchase history transfer between the two accounts?
This is a problem that is driving me nuts. I have tried everything I can find to get this to resolve. When I start my computer, I get a popup that wants my icloud password. I enter it and the password is not accepted. I then go to the browser icloud log in and I can log-in just fine. iTunes has issues as well. I plug-in my iPhone 6 (IOS 8) and the program does not see the phone. I went so far as to reinstall the ios in the phone. Was better for a while but now just does not see the phone. Prior to the iphone everything worked without much trouble. But was not using iCloud sync service. I also have a pop-upo on start-up requesting my Keychain password for call.app and sometime messenger.app.
A few days ago my iPhone stopped downloading new emails. The Mail app now brings up an error: Cannot Get Mail The connection to the server failed. Though it can't connect to the server to download or send emails, it can connect to verify my username and password:
I injured a hand six weeks ago, and, being a programmer/sysadmin, I'm looking into ways to control a Terminal application using my voice (or, I suppose more broadly, not using my left hand). I am getting a feel for the built-in Mac Dictation (in OS X 10.10), but have not found it to be fruitful with terminal, even when I created advanced commands (which didn't work for me in Terminal.app). Has anyone had success using Mac dictation (or some other technology) for accessing the command line?
I am behind corporate firewall/anti-virus and only use Java for local, proprietary applications. The disk has been verified by Disk Utility.
We've an application which we are planning to add to App Store. Till now we were hosting an installer on Enterprise Servers and users were downloading it from server. Does App store support such applications which requires multiple components to be installed using an installer?
The documentation for shuffle/shufflable in the iTunes Applescript dictionary is really confusing, at least for me. As I read it shuffle seems to be a property of a playlist (not a state of the program itself) but in the regular UI there is no such property for playlists (I would love to have it so I could set some playlists to always shuffle by album while other should always shuffle by song).
I'm running a zsh terminal under Yosemite and have defined a simple alias to place files in Yoink: This works great but for some unknown reason the tab completion to specify the file does not work after yoink. It simple says -- no matches found --. Is there a way I can use tab completing in combination with this alias? Thanks. ps: Not sure if it's related, but I'm using zprezto.
In brief: ls -a /tmp works but ls /tmp -a does not. I recently started using Macbook Pro. Coming from a Linux background, command like ls /tmp -a seems perfectly fine to me.
my software update is iOS8.2 but i don't like it because it took a lot of memory 1.3GB but what i want is just iOS7 not iOS8, how to do this?
I shared a calendar as a public calendar in the Apple Calendar app:  How can I update the shared calendar when I add or modify entries? I assume this should happen automatically, but even after 1 hour nothing happend. How can I force an update?
I have OS X Yosemite, it comes with default Apache 2 and PHP versions. I want to set up a development environment with older version of Apache (2.2) and PHP (5.3). I have a product set up running on different Linux and Windows machines which runs on these specific versions.
I have already tried more than 5 chargers but still my iPhone 5 is not getting charged. If I buy a new charger then it works fine for a week. Why is this occurring and how can I fix it?
My iPhone 5s always (since I bought it 14 months ago) connected to my Wi-Fi at home in priority over the 3G or 4G connection. Recently (for about 2 weeks now) it gives preference to 4G for some reason and my mobile internet service limit (200 MB) goes over in a few minutes if I'm watching a video, for example. Why would this happen? I don't remember changing anything in the definitions/options, only thing I did was an update to a new version of iOS, but then it only started to happen about 3 weeks after I did that update, so it seems like it's not related with that. Can I do anything to stop this from happening? Is it possible that I'm getting cuts in my wifi service and while the phone does not get connection with the Wi-Fi it starts to get it from the 4G connection without asking or even letting me know?
There's a pretty general solution for disabling the non-breaking space in OS X for some apps: *=URL=* Unfortunately, Xcode is not one of them, and the solution does not work. Any ideas on how to disable Option-Space for Xcode specifically? I'm using a slightly customized keyboard layout, created with Ukulele; perhaps it could be used to remap that particular combination? I'd rather not use stuff like KeyRemap4Macbook (or whatever it's called), since I've experienced a considerable, unacceptable lag during typing when using that app with some remaps.
I just replaced my Macbook Pro's Mid 2012 HDD with a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. The performance is great and I am very happy, but I noticed that the fan seems to run faster. It is not a drastic change, but it is noticeable. I have downloaded iStat Menus, the Exhaust of the fan is 2000 rpm and the Temperature is a bit over 50°. Is that normal and is there any chance I did something wrong while replacing the HDD? I am running Yosemite and I did a SMC reset.
I am looking for a way to (not necessarily permanently) increase the stack size available to terminal applications in OS X 10.10. I know there are a lot of questions related to changing environment variables, including stack limit, on the internet and here in particular (e.g. this one) but none of the proposed solutions I have found seems to work for me.
Every minute there is a woman's voice saying 'helo' (it doesn't sound like 'hello'…) coming from my MacBook (OS X 10.10). It is freaking me out. I tried closing all my Apps and rebooting my Mac, but it keeps coming out all the same. I tried turning off the Wi-Fi, but it is still there! This voice starts even though I don't log into the desktop after rebooting! Is it a weird virus on Mac or my Mac has been cursed?
I use multiple displays, and the available options for Spaces that I am aware of allow surprise Space-switching, even when working in a completely different space. Ideally, interacting with the Dock will only affect the same Space on the same display on which I used the Dock. This means: If app clicked in Dock, and no copy of app is running on any space, then start the app and confine it to the current Space. If app clicked in Dock, and the program is already running in another Space, then either 1) open a new window if the program allows this, or 2) silently move the app to the current Space without disturbing or changing any other Space or display. If app clicked in Dock, and the program is already running in the current Space, then change focus to the app.
For example, Mail's main window puts itself in the top-right corner. I can move it back to the left side of the screen, but when I try to resize it, as soon as I start to drag the corner, the entire window jumps back to the top right corner of the screen. Simply moving windows, though, still works correctly. Short of rebooting (ugh), is there any way to reset OS X's internal concept of how windows should resize? UPDATE: I unplugged the external display, and it's still happening with the built-in display.
I have an iPhone 4s. My camera doesn't have the live filters at the bottom right. I went to the settings, but it doesn't have anything that says "live filters".I'm very confused and want to know how to put them on my camera.
In contrast, Mountain Lion performs so well in Parallels 9 and 10 that I forget I am using a virtual machine. Really! I set the Dock to the opposite side of the screen to remind myself that I'm using a VM. Apparently the difference is due to a "software emulation of 2D/3D acceleration officially supported by Apple" (per the tech note linked above). Apparently that emulation in provided in Mountain Lion as well, but not Yosemite.
I found a question (and answers) about What exactly does kernel_task do?. What I want to know is how I can inspect what kernel_task is doing at any given moment in time? Does it get logged so that I can inspect what is been doing for a while or can I even observe it at realtime?
I made a folder with some content into a disk image and assigned it a password. I unfortunately have forgotten the password and cant access it. Any work around solution to the problem?
Using terminal, I want to disable the feature of iTunes that causes it to run whenever a device is plugged in, but I want to do this entirely from the terminal, so that it can be part of an OSX setup script.
How can I use my 120GB USB Drive as an ultimate IT tool? I want to have the following ISOs partitioned off and accessible through a bootloader (any): Windows 5,6,7,8,10 OSX 10.6,7,8,9,10 GParted (Live) Kali (Live) Hiren
Recently my online savings bank (CapitalOne 360, formerly ING Direct) forced me to change my credentials and now doesn't allow me to use a simple x-digit passcode to open my iPhone app. I have to type in my strong web password every time - this is stupid; my iPhone is secured with a strong password/TouchID and I shouldn't have to type in my entire website password every time (for access through the web makes sense because anyone could try to access my account from anywhere and TouchID hasn't been introduced on Macs). So either I have to make my web-password insecure enough so I can remember it every time, or I have to look it up .. every time I use the App! Looked around and don't see many options - does anyone know of a good bank or credit union (US-based) that has a decent iOS app with TouchID functionality? Note: thought about using 1password browser/safari plugin, but features like check-deposit don't exist on the mobile site, and require the app. I am willing to move my account to
How can I get the Volkswagen RCD 310 radio/CD player to work with Siri? When iPhone is connected to the car using Bluetooth telephone connection and I press and hold its home button, Siri starts, but nothing happens in the car: It does not stop playing music, the alert sound does not play over the car's speakers, and I cannot hear Siri answer my request even though the conversation is displayed on the phone's screen. Version indication: iPhone 5S with iOS 8.2 [EDIT] when using the phone as Bluetooth media player, when I press the home button to start Siri, I can hear the tone, but I cannot hear the answer to my requests.
When I double-click "Installer.app" in Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ CoreServices, a dialog pops up that says "You can’t open the application “Installer.app” because it may be damaged or incomplete." Also, the icon for "Installer.app" has a white circle over it. I have no idea how this happened. OS X Yosemite version 10.10.2
Need to use some Greek letters using pages, 5.5.2?
Finder menu > Preferences > Advanced > "Show all filename extensions" IS checked, and I'd like to keep it that way if at all possible. But there is one particular app that I'd like to hide the extension of, and can't figure out how. To feed any curiosities, the app is called "Obscurity", and yes, I've messaged the author & gotten no reply (yet). Things I've tried that DON'T work... I have gone about a week working with the Finder Preference mentioned above unchecked, and it just doesn't work for me. I have enabled the "root" user, logged in as root, and the option in the Get Info window is still greyed out (to my surprise) - yes, I've subsequently turned off root. I've tried typing this in the Terminal.app (which required downloading some Xcode stuff), but it didn't make any difference (& yes, I relaunched the Finder after each try)... sudo SetFile -a E pathToApp I've tried typing this in the Terminal.app (which required downloading some Xcode stuff), but it didn't make any difference 
Has anyone successfully been able to start a webapp via a webappctl configuration which specifies a launchd configuration in their webapp.plist launchKeys key? Specifically, with Server.app installed, one can, in theory, configure custom web applications which would show up in the Server.app GUI under the "Advanced Settings" of a Website configuration. If you take a look at the ReadMe.txt in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2 there's a section which states: You can also read the man entries, as suggested in the ReadMe.txt by these terminal commands: There's also a sample webapp configuration /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/com.example.mywebapp.plist which has some comments in it about how this plist could be configured. In my case I have added a webapp.plist to the /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/ directory which looks like this: Paying specific attention to: which specifies my launchd.plist which is located at /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDae
I don't know is question silly but I couldn't find any answer. I am also an android developer and I built a file sharing application (for android) which allows two devices in the same wifi network to send files to each other. Actually the application acts like a simple ftp server and client. Files are sent over FTP.
I hit esc on keyboard, and mac restarted. Error message came on screen saying something has crashed.
I want to run a program in Terminal and set its environment variables. According to my research one can do this using:
In particular, I use spaces as a substitute for multiple monitors, plastering each one with a grid of windows. But I often find myself frustratedly trying to switch between applications in different spaces with no quick way to do it.
I can't get Messages to work on my Macbook Pro (retina). One day it just went offline, and I can't get it back online. When I try to login I get this screen and it won't accept the password, even though I input the correct password. Can anyone help get it back online? I've tried all the suggestions listed here so far without luck :-(
I am attempting to download and install both SciPy and VisualPython so that I can get them to work with each other. I've looked at the release notes for SciPy 0.14.0 and 0.15, and they appear to be compatible with Visual Python, which requires Python 2.7.9. After downloading this version I checked (using python -V) that my computer uses this version. I downloaded Anaconda and Visual Python, but upon running two test files provided by my professor, each returned the following error: I tried running these programs while in the parent directory, where I got this error:
Everytime I open up Firefox and Photoshop CS on my macbook and close them up via the X button at the top left corner of their windows, their windows close but my macbook still lags and shows my memory unchanged. I open Activity Monitor and the applications are still open using up to 1GB of RAM each. I have to click on each app and Quit (not Force Quit) them in order for the RAM to open up and be freed up. Why aren't these apps closing out automatically each time instead of being closed via Activity Monitor? These two apps take up a lot of RAM on my macbook.
I have a .dsk file, as used by Apple II emulators. It's DOS 3.3 format. How can I get the individual files off it as single files? Nice would be either an existing tool or documentation of the sector structure of DOS 3.3 (I don't mind writing code, not at all). (I used tag apple2gs since it already exists, and rep 101 not enough to make new tags.)
This problem never happened before. The gmail has been banned in China so I can’t check some mails sent on my gmail accounts unless I connect to VPN. For microsoft outlook, there is no such problem but still I can’t open mails on macbook.
My daughter downloaded a lot of pop music through my iTunes account which re downloads to my iPad and iPhone every time I sync them. How do I delete this music from the cloud. I do not use Match
I think it must have a different name. I run and I get
I want to make a slideshow that shows photos in random order, but I don't see the option to do it. I only have an option to sort images by name or date or things that do not apply.
I have a MacBook Pro 15″ Late 2008 (5,1). Sometimes it just won't power on. It works fine. I shutdown, then when I go to turn no it just does nothing. Previously I removed the battery and the charger, pressed the power button for a few seconds (so as capacitors can decharge etc) and then it powered on. The last 2 times, I couldn't turn it on for two days. After two days I just pressed the power button and it turned on.
I just noticed that I've got a mysterious file simply called ~ in the root of my harddrive. I suspect that I've created it by accident while using terminal. I know about using ~ as an alias to quickly get to the current user and I use it extensively, so there is a reasonable chance that I've been wanting to create a new file and possibly been in the process of writing something in the lines of touch ~/new_filebut changed my mind and accidentally pressed enter after touch ~? But that does not explain the fact that the file is 3.1MB?
Mac Mini c. mid-2011 500GB HDD The existing HDD is failing, have backed up and now looking to replace the drive. Don't want to spend $$$ for Apple service so going DIY. The hardware installation looks easy enough, and I can create a bootable USB key using a second Mac Mini at work, but...
I have a couple of different symptoms of extreme slowness in Messages which I think are related: Opening the Messages app itself sometimes takes 20+ seconds Opening a conversation within Messages takes 10+ seconds, often loading just the most recent message instead of the whole history Opening up Messages settings in the Settings app takes 10+ seconds
My 17 Inch, Late 2011 MacbookPro has a problem with its discrete graphic card it boots with vertical pink stripes screen then switches to a gray screen where it remains stuck for a while and then automatically reboots. I googled the problem and figured a workaround. I just need to wait for the gray screen where my mac gets stuck, close the lid and wrap my mac with a blanket until it overheats and auto-shutdowns. I immediately then turn-on the overheated mac which will make it boot with the integrated card, and problem solved! After I login I use gfxCardStatus to set the graphics to integrated only.
Some applications show up in the "Open With..." menu for a given type. But some applications that don't show up in that list still show up in the Recommended Apps list if you choose "Other..." and choose manually. What is the difference between these two lists, and what would cause an app to appear in one but not the other? (Lightroom is one example that doesn't appear in the Open With menu, but does show up in Recommended Apps.)
I'm learning about how to add accessibility into my website and want to include Apple voice dictation as a way to navigate the site. Actually writing this question using voice dictation and hope that there is some way to navigate webpages without using my hands.
i have been using my itunes account on my phone to buy music, but when i went to log in on my PC it wouldn't work(i was using the wrong email) when i went to make a new one i put in an itunes voucher that had been given to me and created that account on the email that i thought my original account was on. but i have now managed to find my other email and itunes account. is there a way that i could transfer the money from one account to the other?
I have observed slow indexing and/or hashing in OSX which are expressed in the SSD disc which is nearly full (about 5% free space). This bug has been reported to me to exist in earlier OSXs too so not only OSX Yosemite. The system is Macbook Air 2013-mid. This bug may be related to the similar bug with long filenames which indexing and/or hashing takes much time in the same system and settings, here discussion. I notice slow indexing and/or hashing in installing basic commands through homebrew and just doing basic search in Finder with long filenames: Slow rehashing (reported to me no indexing necessary) in nearly low SSD-memory system of Macbook air 2013-mid; I have reproduced it in OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 See this post here where patrix deleted my notice about slow indexing. Slow indexing and/or hashing also occurs in searching long filenames, discussion here. To reproduce it, you need nearly low SSD memory This indexing problem may be caused by handling of SSD memories and temporary me
I scanned a file to my desktop, uploaded it to a website, and then deleted it from my computer. Now this document seems to be gone forever but I need some information from it.
I've got a 2012 Macbook Retina talking to a Samsung 4k TV. I'd actually like to revert back to 1080p. All the google searches I try talk about going to 4k, but I actually want to go the other way, back down to 1080p.
I've got two 2009 Macbooks. One has 4 gigs of RAM and runs os 10.10; one has 2 gigs and runs os 10.5.
I am constantly getting emails of the form "Node status bad", "Node status ok", "Node status unknown" and I would like to know, for example, if an email of the form "Node 3 status bad" came in and then 20 minutes later "Node 3 status ok" came in, how to mark them both as 'read'. I am pretty good at commandline scripting and was wondering where these files are located in my directory structure. I can easily write a script to parse the files and search for keywords, etc. - I'm not worried about that - I'm just wondering: (1) what folder/directory are these emails stored in (on my local system) and
1) Where can I change the time of this setting? I've looked at the files that the Apple man pages for emond refer to for their default settings and I don't see anything in there for the 300 minute block. The only other time I find is in DHABlockList.plist and it's only set for 60 (minutes, I presume). 2) Where can I change the number of failed log in attempts before the user gets blocked by emond?
So I now know that Macs can run Windows, but I just want to confirm if it runs Windows like a normal Windows would run on a PC, with full functionality. In other words, just like you get an HP-Laptop with Windows in it as the operating system, is it the same thing with installing Windows on a Mac? I just want to be sure that they are one and the same, and not just some emulator with restrictions.
My iPad keeps ringing when I get a call on my iPhone. I have disabled FaceTime and Messages, but it still doesn't work.
I am using Paragon HFS+ for reading my Macintosh hard drive in windows but when I open my Macintosh hard drive I saw lot of window's garbage that I never kept inside of it. Can I delete .exe files and EULA stuff? How to stop windows from keeping it again automatically to Macintosh drive?
Today for the first time I have this issue where any app showing a file browser (load/save) dialog box hangs indefinitely until I kill it. The Finder works just fine however. I can browse everything, iCloud and network locations included, there. I haven't found a common point in the traces where the apps hang, so I'm not sure what might be the cause.
I purchased Bose MiE2i in ear headphones today and as I am walking the track skips forward every 5-10 seconds or so. If I stand still there is no issue. I performed a hard reset and verified I was running iOS 8.2 with no change. I duplicated at a table moving only the phone and not the cable to rule out a short (it still skipped). I tried my wifes iPhone 6 and had the same results. I used a regular iPod shuffle and it works fine. I am thinking it has something to so with the step monitor in the health app but there is no way to switch it off to verify. Any ideas? Jim
So I have a 2010 15" macbook pro (MBP6,1) and I replaced the optical drive with a hard disk. I wanted to install windows 7 on the hard disk with boot camp with a USB and ISO image. After searching I found that I need to modify my plist.info to allow my boot camp to create a bootable USB (since normally it doesn't have the option to create the USB for my model since it came with a disk drive).
I have tried 3 keyboards and every one does not get power until after OS X starts it's boot sequence, it seem the USB bus is not getting power until about a minute after startup. I am therefore unable to launch diagnostics, reset NVRAM, PRAM and all the other good stuff I need at present because my SSD is dying and I'd like to upgrade it's firmware Any ideas?
I am just trying to install Livestreamer on my MacBook but it looks like the only way to do so is with: I entered this in the terminal and hit enter...but nothing happened. Is that what I'm supposed to do? I know it's a total n00b question but I can't find any help on installing Livestreamer for Mac via Google.
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Apple Mail will display localized versions of subject prefixes, even if the original received mail used the English prefixes. I find that quite annoying, as this does not conform to standards and conflicts with other mail clients. So in my German Mail.app, I get Is there a possibility to get back the old behavior which uses the English prefixes?
Edit: I do in fact see a [E] tag for explicit songs downloaded from iTunes, but as the title states, I want to see a [C] tag for clean songs downloaded from iTunes. I have edited some song meta data using mp3tag to make the [Clean] tag show up in iTunes. This worked perfectly, but after syncing the songs to my iPhone, the tag does not show up in the Music app.
I have a fresh install of OS X Yosemite. There is an issue where the screen goes black or seems to go to sleep while I am using it. When this happens, it's iffy on getting it come back on. The esc key works sometimes. Closing the lid and logging in works too. I have three console copy and paste of the times this event is happening in the hopes that someone can help me troubleshoot. I thought maybe it was my DNS servers so I added Google DNS, but not sure this is it. Here is my two logs from my console which should be very helpful in diganosing.
Typically on OSX remaping of keyboard shortcuts works well. In "Microsoft Remote Desktop (MSRD)" it works well too but previous keystrokes still exist: I can close with Alt+Shift+W and also with the default Cmd+W. This is not OSX default behaviour so I think it is BUG. Does anybody have a solution?
First time using SuperDuper and after an hour of attempting to copy files, the process is still in '1. Prepare to Copy Files'. Is this normal?
Yesterday, I was using my Mac OSX and some applications were using a lot of memory. It wasn't possible for me to finish my Mac correctly and I decided to turn off the computer with the On/Off button. Now, when I try to start it again, a question mark appears. Questions related to the question mark is very common, but I have a strange problem, I can't do any of those process if I start my Mac with the Option button held down, or with Control+R it starts Disk Utility. If I try to start the System Recovery, any Disk is listed. I can check the disk (it says all is OK), but if I try erase the disk I can't because all fields are disabled. What I can do?
I'm trying to transfer my pictures from my old phone and it's deactivated but doesn't give me the option to turn on the wifi. How can I get on wifi?
I have 2x Dell U2412M monitors connected via Thunderbolt/Mini-DisplayPort. Even when I swap the ports connecting to the Mac, the monitors keep their #1 and #2 designations. My physical monitor plan: Macbook Pro, Dell #1, Dell #2. Software ordering in OS X: Macbook Pro, Dell #2, Dell #1. Is there a way to get OS X to change the order of recognition for these monitors so that I don't have to physically swap their positions on my desk?
In a script, how can I check if user "Bill" is a member of the admin group (group 80)? I plan to use this in a script to check if he is and if he is not, make him an admin user.
I'm going to set up an Apple TV at the office to show the company's own videos. I thought about using YouTube, but I need to make 100% sure there are no ads are ever shown before nor after the video.
I know that a spotlight query is capable of reading the "Artist" ID3 tag of mp3 files but is it also possible to read out (speak) the "Artist Album" ID3 field? This source doesnt say anything about it?
The default DNS setup leaves me with a record pointing server.example.com to my IP address. I've added a couple of aliases like www, mail. But how can I add example.com, essentially the root domain so that when I type example.com in the web browser my web server gives me the page? For example some DNS providers use a special syntax @.example.com -> server.example.com to specify the requests need to go there.
How can I print a path in Terminal with the home folder path replaced by a ~? But I want to something like this
I'm trying to record my iPhone screen via reflector and airplay but I couldn't find the airplay symbol in my control center if I swipe from bottom to top. There is only airdrop no airplay. OS: iOS 8.2 Device: iPhone 5s Recorder Device: Mac Book Pro Recorder OS: 10.10.2
I periodically get the following lines in the log. Why is this happening? Wasn't Apple supposed to configure this for me somehow? Apr 04 14:40:17 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (tried to use unsupported auth mechanism): user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.10.3, lip=10.0.10.3, TLS Can I fix it? OS X Server 4
We need to connect an industrial machine to this network in order to exchange UPD-Packets. This machine unfortunatly has a static ip-address in the 172.31.x.x range.
I use my dock without any applications ever kept in Dock. Only applications that are open are in the Dock. When I move an application within the Dock, OS X thinks I want it kept in the Dock. Does anyone know how to disable this 'keep in Dock on move' feature?
I have tried using the instructions by selecting one and holding down move then unselect the one and send to trash. I then go onto trash, edit and delete all. But then when I go back to my all mail box the emails are still there and they haven't been deleted. What do I do?
I've created a theme using File > Save Theme and would now like to share it with others. Where in the world is it though? It's visible in the File > Change Theme area but I can't find the source folder. Googling gives me reference to /Library/Application Support/Keynote/Themes or ~/Library/Application Support/iWork/Keynote/Themes/, both of which aren't right for Keynote 6.5.
I have been trying to collate all my photos & remove the duplicated ones. I have purchased a few apps but none do the job properly, they are still there the next day, I have 3 hard drives so plenty of space. The pictures seem to get duplicated every time I try something. I have tried iPhoto but still get the same problem.
I have an iBook G4, HDD wiped clean. I attempted to install Tiger from the disk. It got a bit into the install and it shutdown, so it did not complete the install. Also, it will not power up now so the disk cannot be ejected.
Converting string to int doesn't work properly in terminal. I want to find how much time specific string occur in a big string. result But the result actually should be TwoOrLess but inner part works well result
I just upgraded to Yosemite, and noticed that in Mail.app spell check (as you type) doesn't work properly if two words are connected by a dash (hyphen) and only the second one is misspelled. For example: test-test (no squiggly) test-asdf (no squiggly) asdf-test (squiggly on first word) asdf-asdf (squiggly on first word)
Every year when I go to do my taxes, I use the Annotate feature in Preview to quickly fill in my forms. I like to drag all of my forms into one document via the thumbnail view.
In Chrome, when adding a new bookmark, you can choose to add it to a new folder you create at that time, through "Choose Another Folder" > "New Folder". However, in Safari, I find if I need to do this, I have to go create the folder first in my bookmarks, then add the bookmark to this folder. Is there any way I could do the same thing as Chrome in Safari?
I am trying to install Snow Leopard Server in a virtual machine, but I can't seem to get the mouse to work properly.
I have photo stream turned on, on my iPhone 6+, iPad 2 and my Mac with 10.10.2 I just took some photos with my iPhone, to share via an email. I sat down at my Mac to type the email and attach the pictures within mac mail. But they are not showing up in the photo stream when I click on 'Photos' under media. I see things from yesterday, but none I've taken so far today show up. Is there a way to 'refresh' photostram for iPhoto on my mac? Michelle
I am trying to install windows as a boot camp partition on my main hard drive ssd (after spending countless hours trying to get it installed on the optical bay hard drive). I assumed this would be simple since o am no longer trying to install to an "external" hard drive. But it has turned out to be just as difficult.
I've got a setup where we backup our server every day to an external thunderbolt drive, and we alternate between two different drives. I've got an Automator script that ejects the drive every week before it gets swapped. After the new drive gets plugged in sometimes 1 of 2 partitions doesn't mount, I'd like to use Automator to check and remount the partition so that it's backups can take place.
I'm not sure if we should be worried... Mom does not change passwords for her iMac system login, nor do I, but when I went to update some software this morning, the password doesn't work, nor can I login at Keychain repair. I opened Keychain Access and see that a file named Apple Persistent State Encryption - application password - was modified on April 2, 2015. I know she worked on the computer on the 3rd, but don't know if she tried to update software or do anything that would have called for a password.
My friend's Mac has lost its dock. It boots up, apparently fine, she logs in, but is then confronted with a blank screen - as in a desktop background image but no desktop interaction elements.
My headset doesn't work on my iPhone (4) But it works on another iPhone. Sometimes when I turned off my iPhone & unplug the headset it works but now. How can I fix that?
im having various issues with my current install of Mavericks on my mid 2009 iMac (non unibody). Including the fact that I cannot open the AppStore. I have tried multiple solutions to fix this with no success. I decided to reinstall from recovery by booting to it on startup. When I try to re-install I get a message saying that 'this item is temporarily unavailable'. I have read that this is either due to account issues or a few other issues.
A Macbook screen goes black randomly, sometimes completely black and sometimes near black (you can still see the GUI). This happens in OS X Yosemite and also during USB (Mavericks) (Yosemite) install wizards. However the screen remains perfectly bright in the boot selection menu. You can see it clearly in this video.
I inherited an iMac and it has an issue. It boots up fine but within the first five minutes the fans start to slowly ramp up to full speed. After about five to ten minutes of the fans running at full speed the screen goes black and I lose control of the computer. I cannot see anything on the screen, not even the cursor moving. I am also not able to shut down the computer using keyboard shortcuts. I have to hold down the power button.
I have set up my macbook with all the files, apps and configurations I like. In about a week, I am upgrading to the 15" model. Is there a way to create an easy-to-restore backup file / iOS image that I can put on an hard drive and then use for a quick and painless restore after I get the new macbook? Appreciate any suggestions, thanks in advance
Assistive Touch on my iPad mini is getting turned off automatically and when I go to Settings to check the status it will be in the off state.No-one is changing the status from on to off.I don't know why this happening.
I was on a normal day, doing my thing when I noticed a pile of dust on my screen. So I did what most people would do, I grabbed a clean microfiber cloth, took another barely damp microfiber cloth and carefully cleaned the area on my MacBook Pro, once I was satisfied, I went back to using my computer and instantly I noticed a bright 'line' on my screen. In the picture it looks small but it is very obtrusive. I have tried running those pixel-fixing videos, I've tried to do the 'eraser' thing but the pixel, works fine, it's just very bright in that area. Have I messed up my Mac's display? I've this since Late November 2012 and I never purchased Apple Care. Thanks for your help in advance
I have enabled USB tethering from my iPhone to my MacBook pro, and it works perfectly. Nevertheless, I would like to automatically disable USB tethering when the MacBook Pro is connected to a wireless network, to save mobile data consumption. How can I configure that in OSX?
I'm using Safari 8.0.4 on OS X 10.10.2. Anywhere and everywhere, Safari refuses to play any (mp4) video on any website. Youtube and Apple's website are the only places where Safari plays any videos. Even on my own Google Drive account, my uploaded videos fail to play. This is what I see:
Concerning a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. As you know when pressing alt during startup there is the possibility of selecting which disc/drive/memory you want to boot from. For example if you have a CD/DVD inserted in the computer or Bootcamp Windows installed they can be selectable to boot from.
For a bit of background info: I have a 2010 MacBook Pro 15 with OSX 10.10.2 installed. I'm looking to make the laptop go to sleep even when a proccess that sets PreventUserIdleSystemSleep=1 is open. In this particular case, it as coreaudiod. I was thinking of something similar to the Windows powercfg -requestsoverride for specific processes/drivers.
I am writing a script to turn off audio on my mac, but need to check if its coming from the browser or an app (say Spotify). Is there a way to detect which app is playing sound?
I have Macbook Pro retina, model 2013. It started to randomly shut down for no apparent reason. The system log always contains this message: Previous shutdown cause: -104
But there is no "unlock" button on iCloud:  When I click "Play Sound" a sound is effectively played by the Macbook:
I was told I could monitor my 13 year old daughter's messages on an old iPhone through Wi-Fi. I was told to set up message on the phone with her Apple ID and password.
I just got my MacBook Pro back after lending it to a friend, and restarted with Cmd+R. I erased my system disk and now i'm trying to install Mavericks. For two times it downloaded the "Additional Updates" (it takes three hours with my internet connection) and after finishing downloading it just goes back to the initial screen - Restore from time machine backup, reinstall OS X (which just repeats the download), Get help Online and Disk Utility. I could try installing Lion from USB, but i don't think i should have to pay for it and i'm afraid i buy it and download it and somehow it won't work. I'm stuck here, i'm desperate.
I'm running into issues with Preview on 10.10.2 and annotation opacities. Preview seems to not honor opacities set by other programs, and clears all annotation opacities in a file when saving a new version.
I want to edit three lines of file  Whenever I try to edit it this comes up
Can a user use Express Replacement Service to get a new battery if still under warranty? How's that different than Battery Replacement Service again under warranty?
does the complimentary one year warranty cover replacement of batteries that go below 50% of original capacity? What is 50%...? Like how fast does it have to drain? Is there a way to measure without bringing the iPad to an Apple store?
I was looking at the specifications of the MacBooks (pro) on Apples website and I saw this. Built-in battery (10 hours)².
I created several Time Machine backups while I was running Mavericks. I upgraded to Yosemite and also backed it up on the same backup drive. I now have multiple backups of Mavericks and Yosemite on the same drive.
I'm fairly sure permissions are right, I'm logged and as the default pi user and used chown -R pi /mnt/seagate on the pi to own my HDD mount for the pi user. This didn't work so I tried setting permissions for my /var/www folder with chmod -R 777 /var/www, resulting in the same error pictured above. Checking the permissions in the Finder for the home folder (which should be no issue, being logged in as the pi user) I see that everyone has RW permissions.
I going to sell my iPhone. I want to know if all my progress in Clash of Clans will be saved within Game Center so that I can recover everything when I buy a new iPhone and login again in Game Center. Assume I am correctly logged in the Game Center with my Apple ID Achievements are visible in the Game Center app I'm level 18 and have 790 trophies and I don't want to lose that progress.
I tried to log into my daughter's iMessage on an inactive iPhone. She called Apple because she got an email. They told her it was an iPhone 5c black. How did they know that? Do they know who the owner is? Is there a way to block my old iPhone so Apple can't trace it?
On my Mac Air, the return key sends the message, rather than moving my text to the next line. How do I move my text to the next line or can I change Preferences so that I can use the return key to advance to the next line and another command to actually send the message.
I use the keyboard viewer as a cheat sheet so I can guide myself in the horrible fields of OSX keymaps and I realised that pressing some keys will display a few keys in orange. What does that color indicate?
Google Sheets only does data filters in the browser, their mobile app does not support that feature. Is there another iOS spreadsheet app that does support such a feature? Basically, I want to be able to filter data for a column in a spreadsheet on my iPhone.
I recently purchased a Seagate Slim 2TB external HD. I connected it to my 2010 iMac, formatted it as exFAT, and moved a bunch of files. I don't remember exactly what process I went through with disconnecting it, but I have never been able to retrieve the files on a mac. I connected it to my Windows 7 PC at work, and can access everything just fine. I am currently on a 2014 MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.2 The drive shows up in disk utility, but it wont verify or repair the drive.
Here is my basic script: I need the script to stop if the user clicks the "Cancel" button. As it is now the script waits until the user clicks either button and then proceeds to run the bash code. How can I kill the script? This to be able to run on Mac OS 10.6 through 10.10, no third-party add-ons.
Recently got a new Macbook Pro. It has Force click technology where you can lookup the definition of words by clicking hard on the trackpad. It worked bon day1 but it does not seem to work anymore and I am not sure why. The feature itself is definitely enabled, although I am not getting any feedback / popup with info.
I tried to create a script on OS X. I do something wrong. I want to execute 2 command: and I saved and chmod the file but I got some errors:
I have an old (Maxtor One Touch) 300G drive that years ago I used for backing up files from a Windows PC. It's NTFS. On my (MacBook Pro, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, Yosemite 10.10.2) system I can easily access it as USB, and copy over all of the files - except one folder.
I'm trying to update hard drive in my Macbook to the new SSD one. Notebook model: Macbook Pro 13' Late 2011. SSD model: Samsung 850 Evo 250Gb. Then I connect SSD thought USB adapter notebook can see it, format it and install OS on it.
Has anyone gotten software problems after performing the iOS diagnostics test offered by Apple? (where you get a test URL from Apple support)
I have noticed that iMessages usually fail when outside a reliable data network area. Only after iOS attempts to deliver the message and fails does it offer to send it as a text message. Often the failure takes some time, and is not brought to my attention immediately. When circumstances are such that I reasonably suspect that iMessage will fail, I would like to skip the failure and send an SMS immediately. How can I opt to send an SMS message instead of an iMessage without first attempting to send an iMessage?
I have used Find My iPhone to track down my iPhone 6. It's running iOS 8 and the iCloud web app shows that someone has travelled a fair distance with it. How should I go about protecting access to my data on the deviceas well as not ruin all chances of finding it. My worry is sending a remote wipe will reduce the chance they can get my data but I won't be able to track the device further.
MacBook Pro 15, Mid 2014, Yosemite + Windows 7 (Bootcamp) This problem started today after waking up. Yesterday night I had no problem whatsoever with my computer.
After it would hang up, the keyboard lights would stay lit indefinitely. I've tried resetting the SMC and NVRAM but they didn't work. I did a verbose startup and this was the screenshot before my computer hung up.
First of all: No I didn't get the phone off of someone else and no I can't get the password by going to iforgot.apple.com (because the email address used for the account has been deleted, so emailing doesn't work) The iPhone is currently in the state where it acts like you just got it (because I tried to reset the phone by typing the wrong passcode 10 times), but after going through a few steps it will ask for the iCloud username and password. I don't care about any of the data on it, I just need to delete everything off it, so I can actually do something with it.
I have an iMac mid 2011 with Maverick which i have replaced with a iMac retina 27" with Yosemite Preinstalled. I did a Migration Assistant to transfer files from old to new mac. Now i want to downgrade the new machine from Yosemite to Mavericks. Can i use a TM backup from the old machine made AFTER the migration, to do this? (Using the OS X Utilities restoring from TM Backup).
Recently, my sister picked up an Early-2009 MacBook at a Flea Market. Everything worked fine, but it had belonged to a school, and it had DeepFreeze installed on it, and it really bothered her. She got her hands on a Snow-Leopard Installation Disk, and tried to reinstall OS X. When she put the disk in and held down C, it booted up in Snow-Leopard, but it said "this OS X Cannot Be Installed On This Computer", and proceeded to try to go to TimeMachine. So this is where it gets interesting. She read somewhere to ignore any messages that pop up, and she went ahead and in the Disk Utility, she deleted the "Macintosh HD", so there is no longer an OS on the drive.
I'm having an issue with a simple automator action, "Import Files into iTunes". It's the only thing I have in the workflow but when I drop audio files onto the application, the action encounters an error. In trying to figure out what was amiss, I read that there was a version number conflict after iTunes 10, so I followed the instructions here but they did not fix the issue. Does anyone have a suggestion on what to try or how to diagnose the issue? I'm running Yosemite (10.10.2) and iTunes 12.1.0.50. Thanks for the help!
I was given a MacBook Pro 13″ A1278 laptop. While using it, a folder with a blinking question mark came up in the main screen. I could not find a way to get rid of it, so I formatted the HDD and completely erased every thing including the OS, but when I turn on the laptop, the folder and the blinking question mark is still there. I do not know the original OS. How do I fix that blinking icon?
I have a large iTunes library of lossless music. Some of it is 24-bit, which does not work on iPhones nor with Google Play (most audio is 16-bit, and this metric only applies to lossless formats). I'd like to isolate the 24-bit files so that I can convert them to 16-bit formats. How can I find them?
How do I change my device in iTunes. It shows an inactive iPod but I need it to show my iPhone. I could not locate the area within iTunes that this change should be made.
I am making a video that contains both video footage and still frames but I can't find where to change duration of still frames to longer than 4 seconds. How can I change the duration of a still frame to be longer than 4 seconds in iMovie 10.0.7?
My magic trackpad keeps getting knocked around in my bag and I feel like protecting it more. What are some good options for a case/sleeve for it?
On my Mac terminal, I typed and I do a dig Seems fine, but when I ping It use a Russian's IP address of 193.107.16.114, and I don't have this entry in my /etc/hosts/ Any idea? Update: Look like problem solved when I edit/save the /etc/hosts/ file again, but definitely I don't have those strange IP 193.107.16.114 on my file, so I suspect due to any malware?
I am running OS X Yosemite, and every time I try to open Bittorrent, it crashes. I can't think what has brought on this problem, but it was working fine before. I have attached a log file for you to look at, I am not very experienced in this kind of thing. I have tried reinstalling it, and removing the preferences file in ~/Library/Preferences/ but that has not worked.
I have downloaded the ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso. How do I create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick using my Macbook Air which is running OS X 10.10.2? I cannot create a bootable CD, since the Air is designed without the optical drive.
I have noticed multiple crashes in my logs of a process called wpsd. I am running OS X Yosemite v10.10.2 on a MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I could not find what this process is used for. Anyone has a clue?
I received a strange Pop Up message. The unsettling part is password will be sent in clear text. Is my phone affected with any malware or app virus ?
In Yosemite 10.10.2 after verifying my startup disk in disk utility I got this message... "This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility."
In iPad how many items can be stored in the clipboard? How does one select from one of the past entries? Where does it get stored and how to access it?
Is there a way to install or run jdk 8 without admin privileges? I would like to compile a java project I have that requires jdk 8 on a computer that has only jdk 6 installed. I am not an administrator on the computer.
I have an LG 42UB820V 4K IPS TV - 3840 x 2160 @ 60hz which I connected via an active mini display port to HDMI converter to use with my Mac Mini (HD4000) at 3840 x 2160 @ 30hz. Everything works fine and dandy, using SwitchResX to make a custom resolution for 30hz.
I am looking for an app that works on the Mac as well as on the iPad. At work we have daily tasks that do not occur on a set schedule (aka they are on an as needed basis). This app would allow us to create checklists for these tasks (think pre-flight checklist for airline pilots) that would be "resettable" and reusable. Any thoughts?
How can I make Finder default to "list view" whenever browsing a removable drive (and it's subfolders)? I need it to remember this preference even after the removable drive has been ejected and then remounted. I'm running OS X 10.9.5.
I am getting a 1st gen iPod touch for a friend and I was wondering if you can download like apps and games on it and if it has emojis? It would help to get an answer before I buy it!
My music keeps deleting off my iPhone 5s by itself. I go on iTunes and download the songs again but the next day half my music is gone again.
Ok, so according to *=URL=* I should be able to encrypt ANY external drive..."with ease" using FileVault 2. I have a brand new (empty) 2TB Fantom Drive model: GFP2000EU3 (Hitachi Drive) Disk Utility: I tried to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) Returned Error: "A GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme is required."
Apple has refused my app, but I can not accept reason. They said it is not able to fully loaded, but on all device, conditions etc. work well for me. Do you think is it any chance they read my complain, and tries to recheck my app, or better to submit and wait an other 1 week for review?
Okay so I asked this before well not exactly but can you get emoji's and the first gen iPod? I have and iPod 4 and an a iPhone 6 and they have emoji's but now I am buying the first and need to know. Thanks!
I've read endless threads about this issue, but there is something I haven't found yet and I hope somebody could suggest something. For what I've read so far, a considerable amount of MBPs manufactured during 2010 has a latent problem in the hardware that crashes the system. This problem has emerged usually after upgrading the OS to Lion or latter versions.
I can't find any way to keep my dock to resize only horizontally when new apps appear there, atm when one does, whole dock shrinks vertically and expands horizontally. Is there any way to keep the change only for horizontal expansion?
Okay so I talked to somebody and I didn't really get it. Is there a way to get a App Store on the iPod Touch 1st gen?
Is there a good way to verify the various files in Mac OS X? Ideally, one wants to verify system files in an installed system, but right now I'm curious about verifying the Yosemite installer. If anyone still has a copy in /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app, then maybe they could produce a signature of some sort? I produced this hackish signature with these commands :
I plugged it in via USB today and finder and disk utility show that all the space is available. 1.92TB.
I am only 11 years old and don't have the best understanding of Apple devices. I have one computer that I have downloaded iTunes on and have many apps and songs on it. Another computer I have also has iTunes on it. I currently have my iPhone 4S connected to the computer with all the stuff on it. The problem is, that this computer is is old and takes forever to load up. It has so much stuff on it on my dad's Apple ID. I want to transfer this content off the old computer and onto the other newer one. I also don't know whether I can buy songs and apps on my own Apple ID and keep my dad's Apple ID connected to my phone and have both Apple IDs content on the phone at the same time. I have a very negative view on Apple and their need to keep all music and apps exclusive to apple devices. I know this question will probably sound stupid to you and if so, I would appreciate it immensely if you politely informed me that it can't be done. Otherwise it would be great if you could tell me how to do
I'm hoping to graduate from manually copying important files to multiple external desk or portable drives; affordably. We have 3 Macs and an iPad or two. I have just now learned about Drobo, who as I understand it offer a very user-friendly RAID system, which for any uninformed readers is a redundant array of independent discs, so that your data is backed up on at least two discs, interfaced as a single drive (very simplistic explanation/understanding). It definitely seems more sensible to be purchasing a single "case" for multiple hard drives as opposed to more than one portable drive, and then adding/replacing the functional aspects of the drive as needed. I'm not looking for full Time-Capsule style OS-system backups here - just reliable back-up of specific files. The Drobo conversations I'm finding here on Ask Different seem to be a few years old.
My computer is getting old (almost 6 years old I think) and is becoming increasingly slow. The past few week were pretty bad and I am now realizing that my computer is continuously short on physical memory. Here is a screenshot of the memory activity showing that 3.98GB out of my 4GB of physical memory are used.
Is there a way to maximize windows by dragging the window to the top of the screen? I'd also like to be able to drag windows to the side of the screen and have them take up half the screen like in Windows.
There are some messages in folders On My Mac in Apple Mail that are from a listserv, so the "to:" field shows "to:list@thislist.com" or whatever. I know that in the headers of the messages, one of them will show my actual e-mail address like this: Received: by nz-out-0304.google.com with SMTP id h74so2095083nzf for <myemailaddress@mydomain.com>;
They used to show a preview, but don't show anymore on my iPhone or iPad (synched to the same library). The videos under the Home Videos tab appear with normal thumbnails, but the Movies tab are just gray film strips. Is there a way to fix this or trigger iTunes to regenerate thumbnails?
Apparently is IS possible to change the size of the font in Reminders under Mavericks via a modification of "a text file inside the app package". Can someone please post these instructions or point the way to finding them? Thank you
I have a 27" iMac (from 2011) that's running Yosemite and each time I turn the power on, it shows me the Apple logo, it starts to load, and the screen goes white and simply hangs there. To solve this problem, I've done all of the standard procedures: resetting the PRAM, trying to reinstall the OS from a USB stick, attempting to use the Internet recovery feature, etc. But no matter what, it ends up on the same white screen. When attempting to launch into safe mode, this is the last thing I see before the computer cuts to the white screen:
The default grays in Numbers don't suit my needs (the gray is too dark). Is there any way to adjust this pallette? I always find myself diving into the colors palette but this gets time consuming and leads to inconsistent colors across my documents.
I am trying to remove the locations listed in my Reminders app on my iPhone 5c (iOS 8.2). I have several that I no longer use/need but cannot work out how to delete them? I have the 'home' one and that's the one I use the most.
How do I check in AppleScript, if invisible objects are visible? If visible, do: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0 in invisible, do: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1.
I need to record a video call to someone on an iPad. Any suggestions on what /how to do that? I'd be using a Windows PC or iPad2 on my end.
I know I can fine adjust the volume by pressing ⌥+⇧ and using my keyboard's volume control wheel. How would I make fine adjustment the default behaviour, without having to use any modifier keys?
Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini in order to upgrade to OS X 10.6.3 server? (The Goal: to quit 10.8 Server in order to use Rosetta software again)
How do I create a keyboard shortcut for conditional formatting for Excel 2011 in OS X? I am unable to find any such shortcut.
I removed the drag-and-drop Abbyy Finereader 8 and installed it again. The same problem persists.
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running 10.10.2 that I use as a server on my home network. A few months ago I've started finding it switched off at what seems like random times. It's not connected to a monitor so I've never actually witnessed it shutting down myself. I thought of two possible reasons:
I'm looking for a fast and reliable method to monitor changes in some windows belonging to a application. After I hit a hotkey I'd like a method to monitor those windows for a change in specific pixels, and if it detect any changes it should trigger an action (more specifically move that window to other coordinates).
As the title states. Has anyone done such a repair by Apple?
My iPhone 5 keeps asking for an inactive iCloud password. I plugged my phone into my computer and it backed everything up to my last update of an old work phone. I inactivated an account because it was not matching my iTunes in my new phone. So I created a new iCloud to get the passwords all the same. Now it wants a password I cannot recover?
So that GNU Make could access my iCloud Drive folder, I removed the space in 'Mobile Documents'. So I changed my iCloud Drive path from: to As far as I can tell, my Mac has automatically re-created ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ (ie, it has re-created my iCloud Drive folder). On my Mac, the only folders that are now showing in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ are Preview, Numbers and Pages (ie osx and iOS apps).
I have a retina MBP (MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)) with an SSD of 256GB. Using it for a month or 2 now, I'm noticing that I'd like some more space (for using a Virtual Machine). There isn't yet a way to upgrade the interal drive, and I've been wondering what the more efficient upgrade is: Transcend Jetdrive Lite (Claims Read speed of 95MB/s, Write 60MB/s) USB3 memory stick (Bigger in physical size, smaller in disk space) External USB3 SSD / HDD (Which is what I'd least like in physical size) The ideal "upgrade" would be small size, so I can leave it in and forget about it, but fast enough to use for my Virtual Machines (and big enough).
I have my Retina Macbook Pro connected to a ASUS 2560x1440 display via the HDMI port. I keep the laptop lid closed so the monitor is the only display in use.
I've been using my iphone 5C with operator Mobile Vikings (prepaid) without a problem in Belgium. I bought a europe roaming pack and was hoping to use this in Croatia. But after arriving in Croatia, my APN settings changed and I'm unable to modify them... I can find them, view them, but when i modify them the changes are not saved... Am I doing something wrong? What's going on? How can I correct this to use mobile internet again? The phone is unlocked, using iOS 8.2.
I have a cluster of computers used for teaching. I have parental controls turned on which prohibit the kids from playing Minecraft without an admin password. We use Minecraft in some of our coursework so I would like to provide my instructors with a "switch" by which they can toggle on/off access to Minecraft from the instructor's machine rather than having them go around typing the admin password on every machine individually. How do I go about setting that up? We have OS X Server on the instructor's machine.
The internal microphone of my MacBook Pro late 2011 doesn't work. When I try to do an audio recording, the microphone doesn't record.
I'm using iPhoto '11 (version 9.4.3) on a Mac running (10.8.5). I often need to remove a lot of poor quality photos on my iPhone from within iPhoto (ex.: 50 photos to remove). I want to manage this process from within iPhoto because I have a global vision of what I'm destroying and the risk of error is lower. I know how to remove photos within iPhoto, and this isn't my question. I know that tranferred photo could be located within my library and then Photos > move to trash will really delete the selected photos. But I would like to avoid the time waste and the risk of errors due to these 2 independant operations (total loss and duplicates). Is there some hidden menu entry which permit to straight forward remove a bunch of photos without transferring them?
I'm trying to track down a problem with launchd on OS X 10.9.5. Once every minute, launchd spikes to 100% cpu for about 20 second or so, then goes back to minimal cpu usage. So thats ~20 seconds at 100%, ~40 seconds at 0%.
New to the site, and I am having a little problem. My wife's Macbook has me stumped. It was working fine, (running Mavericks) and then just powered off. On powering back on we are now treated to a blank grey screen. I attempted resetting the PVRAM, and now we have the chime back, but still the grey screen, nothing else. So far I have attempted safe boot, verbose boot, single-user mode and I still have the grey screen. I attempted to boot from my back USB, via the startup manager, and bootable media (c key) and same outcome... gray screen.
Is it possible in Yosemite to limit my downloading bandwidth use to for example 300kbps using the terminal? I dont want to install software to do this.
I have the iPhone 5s that is 16 GB. I deleted many apps and photos, but I still have no storage and memory. My only option is to restart my iPhone completely, meaning to erase all my data and media on it. I'm wondering if this was disconnect the service with my Verizon carrier...
I have a MacBookPro11,3, Intel Core i7, 2,5 GHz, ROM: MBP112.0138.B14 with Yosemite natively installed. I also use FileVault. Here are my problems with external USB 3: One of my FAT32 external hard drive is not showing up (neither under Finder, nor in Disk Utility). And for mounted disks (either FAT32, or Mac FS), read/write rate is always thus of USB 1. The weird thing is that when I use another user account, exchange rate with same hard drives plugged in is thus of USB 3.
Ever since updating to new operating system I cannot delete iMessages from my iPad. I had an Ipad 2 and bought a new iPad Air 2 today, but I still have the same problem.
I've come to the conclusion that I don't want to use my current iCloud account any longer, primarily because I used to register to various online services with it which won't stop to send me mail. Is there a way to delete an iCloud account from Apple's servers?
I connected my new K272HUL display to my Macbook Pro Retina 15". The issue is that the resolution that the monitor displays seems to be too large (2560x1440) and my mouse gets lost in the display. My menu bar is completely hidden and I can only see a little bit of it if I hover over it. Any clue on how I could fix this? Thanks!
I do not remember doing anything unusual to my Mac, but when I tried rebooting into Windows partition, nothing happened. If I didn't hold alt while booting, I got white screen stuck for ages. If I held alt and picked Windows partition manually, OS selection screen would become frozen. Apparently, since my BC partition is NTFS, I am unable to check it, but Boot Camp virtual machine works just fine for some reason. What is wrong, and how can I fix it without doing a reinstall?
I've done some searching around, but haven't found anything. Basically, I have set several contacts as 'favorites' on my iPhone (6) and have enabled 'favorites' and 'recents' to show in the in-app multitasking view. The issue I have is that some of the contacts I have nominated as 'favorites' are also showing in my 'recents' section, so I'm effectively doubling up. I was just wondering if it is possible on iOS 8 to prevent this from occurring i.e. if a contact is nominated as a favorite, do not show it in the 'recents' section.
I can do cmd-N to create a new note. What I'd like to learn how to do is: get the cursor in the search field, then use up down arrows with enter to select the right note it would be great to also cycle through notes with the keyboard, similar to cmd+shift+[ and cmd+shift+] in Chrome How can I learn to do these things?
I have a bash script (saved as myfilename.command) and would like to schedule its run. I've tried to use Calendar event for this (which works fine with Automator scripts), but I get the following error - “myfilename.command” can’t be opened because CoreServicesUIAgent is not allowed to open documents in Terminal. Is there any way to fix it?
Apple refused for the third time my app. For first two times reason was about semantical, performance issues. Now something wrong with meta info, I forget to set appropriate adult classification.
After installing NTFS write software on my mac, I found two problems. The Windows system in bootcamp does not show in the startup disk in Settings app. The Windows system in bootcamp does not show in the startup disk in Settings app. Parallels Desktop can't suspend the Bootcamp virtual machine because such software installed. Parallels Desktop can't suspend the Bootcamp virtual machine because such software installed. Both the problems can be solved by removing the software. What's the reason behind this?
I have my iPhone 5s with headphones plugged in and listening to Spotify. The phone is in silent mode. The problem is that I do not hear any sound through my headphones when receiving text messages. However, if somebody calls me, I do in fact hear the calling sound in the headphones. Does anyone know how to get sound when receiving text messages?
I was wondering if I can set up my laptop with a HD monitor. My computer is a 2011 Macbook Pro and doesn't have HDMI output, but it has the Thunderbolt one.
I want to delete iCloud Account, but I can't remember the password to gain access to my Apple iCloud. Can someone please help me as there must be away that I can delete the account.
I make intensive use of Office autocorrect feature for fast typing (which I use as a kind of autocompletion - shorthand / stenography). I have been able to modify the ACL file for Office 2011 applications (which works great in Word), but Office 365 comes with a separate 2015 version of Outlook and I cannot find the dedicated file for autocorrect entries.
I am a new Safari user, and I want the browser to open a new tab instead of the current tab when I select an address and click "Go to address", just like in Chrome. Can I achieve this without plugin?
I am the owner of some content being sold through ibooks (*=URL=* Some other websites are adding ibooks links to my books and I would like to know how many clicks to these links resulted in actual purchases.
If I try "cancel", the same dialogue box pops up immediately. If I try "reset to defaults" it asks for my login password. I enter it, it tells me that it wants to use the "Local Items" keychain, asking for a password. At this point I can enter a password (which it tells me is wrong) or click cancel which starts the loop over again.
I just found *=URL=* but I will not pay 30 bucks just for adding some notes to my mails. Are there some free extensions or alternative mail apps that support adding notes to emails?
I'm aware of this question but it is now quite old. If I create a collection in iBooks on OSX (Yosemite, 10.10.3) and add a book (epub - not puchased via iBooks), it does not sync to my iPad (3rd gen, iOS 8.2) over wifi. The name of the collection itself is synced to the iPad but it is empty. Both devices are on the same wireless LAN and connected to the internet.
I am using 10.10.2 and I have limited experience with Terminal. I would like to create a script which would notify me (on screen) when all of the startup processes are completed, post-login. The boot process on my MBP (mid-2012) is not excessive but I would like to know when the OS is ready to start an application through the dock or other means, e.g. a notification which flashes Ready as a notification: maybe by detecting a certain percentage of CPU idleness? Are there any simple guides available or can someone direct me to an online resource that could provide a guide to a script that might do that?
I'm using Sublime Text 3, and I've got its icon in my dock. However, when I try to start it by clicking the icon, it immediately crashes with the following error (in Console);
But as you can see there is nothing specific to Safari here. Another update I just closed down Word and opened it up. The behavior seems to have been fixed: bullets are now appearing. It is very strange that the given key combo had been consistently and repeatably redirecting to safari before Word was restarted.
I have iOS 8.2 running on my iPod Touch (7); and since I downloaded iOS 8, all of my apps update automatically. I personally don't like that at all, I want to see what updates are available and what apps want to update before they do, not after. Is there any way that I can disable this feature?
I have a problem. On my mac, when i start and hold the ALT key, or the Command-R Key, then it doesn't boot into Recovery HD or even show it. I need it to repair, mount etc. my disk. I tried disk utility and repair disk, though that did say Recovery HD is fine. Is this because it is hidden, or because there is FileVault blocking it? And can i make FileVault enable it, or should I just disable FileVault?
I had a USB flash drive plugged into my MacBook (running Yosemite), but that drive is now missing. Somebody must've taken it (unplugged it) from my computer while I was at work or while carrying it in my backpack. When I now opened my MacBook, it showed the message that the disk wasn't ejected properly.
I just noticed a thing called "Hazel" has appeared in my System Preferences. I've no idea what it is or how it got there. When I googled hazel mac, it looks like it's a popular app with glowing reviews...
My friend is using her iphone only for imessages. She is using her email address as her contact name. So when I send her a message I type in her email address. Whenever I send her a message using a device other than my iphone and I type in her email address will she still get it on her iphone or will it only go to her email account?
Can I use dictation to have Firefox/ Safari to read me pages? Using a MacBook Pro - OS X 10.9.4
I am using a Mac computer, and my calculator looks like the one below. Can anyone help me change it back to a normal simple calculator?
Below is the report. It looks like a USB device, but how can I tell which one?
I want to create a bash alias on OS X, because I need to type on a really large command. I've found some answers about the same issue on ubuntu, like this one, but they mention the ~/.bashrc file, which doesn't exist (at least by default) on OS X.
My iPhone 5 has an album which has been saved onto it through iTunes from another laptop, when I try and delete the album through iTunes it doesn't seem to give me the option to do so. If anyone could be able to inform me on how to complete the action of deleting the album I would appreciate it, Thank you.
My photos stopped going to the iCloud in February. When I logged into iCloud.com, there is nothing after 2-28-15. I went to the Apple Store, and the genius guys said "fascinating." They checked all kinds of things, and couldn't solve it. My phone is 2+ years old, and I am due for a new one. Will a new phone solve this problem?
I've googled a lot on this issue, yet still seem to have found nothing that quite matches my situation. Initially, I saw a lot of this error in main Console, repeating every 10 seconds I have found a lot… a lot.. of tweaks & fixes for this, but combined with this error in /var/log/mail I could find nothing except references to Mac OS Server & the inet_interfaces structure. I'm running regular Yosemite on a Mac Pro 3,1 - no server structure at all on here. From my 'not geeky enough to qualify' perspective, it looks like it's trying to find some kind of IPv6 connection yet failing...
I double checked that I did not input the DB credentials incorrectly by changing the configuration.php file. When the info was incorrect, I would see an error that told me that there was an error connecting to the MySQL database. Also: Accessing the administration page gives the same errors.
I encountered a weird glitch with my iPhone while listening to a Youtube video over headphones. One of the earbuds shorted out (they're old and somewhat damaged), so I unplugged the headphones and tried to continue listening to the video over the iPhone's built-in speakers, but there was no sound. Also, I noticed then that the Youtube video failed to auto-pause when I disconnected the headphones, which is what normally happens. I then went to idiot-check the volume level using the buttons on the left side of the device, and low and behold, the volume bar display that pops up indicated that headphone volume was being adjusted instead of speaker volume. So my questions are how exactly did my phone become deluded into thinking that headphones are jacked in the first place, and, of course, how might I resolve this problem?
I’ve just upgraded to Yosemite (10.10.2) and would love to know if anyone can help me figure out how to make my finder window display a line at the bottom letting me know how many files i have in each given folder as well as remaining space left in my mac (like i used to have with version 10.9.5). I know about the command+shift+i, but was wondering if there was this more fixed way of having that info always hanging out on my finder window! Thanks in advance for your help,
Probably a strange question - not sure if this is possible or not....I purchased a utility app for Mac recently to manage my NAS and external hard drives. Works great, only thing that's really annoying is the music/finished "beep" it plays as the "confirmation" beep. I'm fine with regular notification alerts, but this gets very frustrating after a while. I could, of course silence the speakers, but with how frequently I use the app, it will often come on without me remembering to silence it (and it's just plain inconvenient, if I want to listen to something else.)
Has anyone found/created a working solution for searching inside Google Docs using Spotlight (their contents, not just their names)? Precipitate used to provide this functionality, but unfortunately no longer works and is no longer maintained.
Preferences app launches fine and all but one prefs pane work well -- the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane yields the following message: "Preferences Error. Could not load Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane."
OS X 10.10.3 is released with an all-new Photos app. On launching Photos, it asks me if I want to enable iCloud Photo. I already use it on my iPhone / iPad, so off course. The next question is which storage plan I would like, as the 85 GB of iPhoto library won't fit my 20 GB plan. However I'm fine with my current plan and I don't wish to upgrade. I'm fine with not having all my photos and videos available on all my devices. However I would like to have my recent photo's synched between my devices. How can I achieve this?
We recently purchased a WD MyCloud EX2 NAS storage drive in my office. On our local network, we're able to use Finder>Go>Connect To Server, mount the drive, and access files simply through finder. This is all good, but we would like to access this remotely as well. We have the option to do this, but we are forced to download WD's software, and I was hoping there was some way to accomplish this simply through finder like when we're on the local network.
I have built an app. It's a magazine and a few brochures with rich content. I will upload it as a multi issue app. Once it's approved and available in the iTunes app store, I would like it to be available only to those who have a password to download it. But I'm not sure that it's possible to do this. I hope my question is now clearer. Thank you.
OSX 10.10.3 has been just released and I immediately migrated my iPhoto library to Photos. More or less there's everything I'm used to in iPhoto but Apple's removed a useful function: I can't reverse the order by date of an album! I mean, on iPhoto I have some smart album sorted with recent photos on top and older bottom but, by default it would be otherwise. In iPhoto there was a menu voice to set it but in Photos, actually, there isn't. I tried searching album source file (as a .plist) to modify but I can't find it. Has some one any idea on how to manage sort options on new Yosemite's Photos?
I just upgraded to OS X 10.10.3 and decided to try out the Photos app. So I enabled iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone to upload some photos.
My iPhone 5C dumped information already set from calendar and won't save new events to the calendar. I am able to enter the event information but when I tap on "add" the information is not saved to that calendar date. it was working fine then all of a sudden pre-entered events are missing and new events are not saved when "add" is tapped.
Generally speaking I like to change the battery once the battery is completely used up, but the system will kept notifying me once the percentage dropped below 20%. Is there a way to turn it off (or make the notification only comes up once it dropped below 5%)?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Late 2013) is crashing frequently. Specifically, for about five seconds, the screen dims but does not turn off and the backlight on the keys remains on, and then the computer turns off. When I turn the computer on, I have to select the user, enter the password, and login, after which applications start normally. There does not seem to be a pattern to when it will crash. It has crashed less than a minute after restarting, during Internet browsing, and while using R Studio (for statistical analysis). It seems to crash more frequently when it is not connected to the power supply, but it also crashes when it is connected to the power supply.
After installing the 10.10.3 update I noticed my App Store no longer has an icon image, it's just a blank space now in the Applications folder and dock. This persists after a reboot and I'd like my icon back. Clicking on the App Store text loads it just fine, just missing the icon, anyone else come across this or know how I workaround this other than a Time machine restore?
Hello I am trying to remove this update. It was not working and I ended up downloading the Xcode update directly from apple.developer, it gave me no problem. This has been my spring cleaning project so now i am still update date with my Xcode but this resume update remains. The update has actually also been updated to 6.3 as well. Any advice or direction outside of third party solutions would be very helpful and appreciated. Thank you,
I know that Apple Watch comes with Siri, which is capable of understanding spoken phrases and respond with a short answer. But can it also read an entire website or web page, similar to Android apps like Culinary Pal or Wiki Pal?
With iCloud Photo Library, assuming I have purchased enough storage space to store all my photos, can I then share all my photos to other my family members who are using different iCloud accounts? (This question here seems to imply there is a limit imposed by Apple that is not publicly-known.)
I have two MacBook Pros running Yosemite and both have an incredibly slow Finder. Finder was blazingly fast with Mavericks: as soon as I upgraded to Yosemite it became sluggish. When opening a folder, even a simple one, it takes seconds (from a few to some dozens) to display its content.
Our daughter has an old MacBook Air (2010 model) that worked fine until a few recent OS upgrades. Now it's almost unusable with its 2GB RAM that can't be upgraded, so she is considering cleaning her MBA and reinstalling an old OS.
Continuing the thread about whether it's worth downgrading the OS on an old MBA Late '10, I'd like to check the downgrade options. I am not sure my daughter still has an original CD with the OS. I assume not. And she has not been using TimeMachine. So what she can actually do to install the original OS?
I would like to sync my photos from my Mac to my iPhone using the new Apple Photos app without using iCloud, like it was possible with the old iPhoto app and iTunes on the Mac.
I have got this kind of glossy window on top of other windows regularly in OSX Yosemite 10.10.2, two times per month approximately. You cannot press anything there. It blocks the user interface completely. To restart the system fixes the problem temporarily. The window stays there although you switch a program.
I have a mac that I primarily use for xcode (so I am not really familiar with how Macs work). I develop iOS apps. Of late I have been running out of space. I delete as much as I can and the space keeps filling up. I have an external drive that I can move thing to. So I moved a bunch of stuff last night so I had 8 GB free and tried to do the update. In the morning it said the update failed because I don't have enough space (400 MB available). I deleted Xcode 4 which freed up 10 GB of space. Immediately the available space started to drop and now it is down to 8 GB. The only thing that seems to be running is Application update.
is it possible to make Cmd+Page Up / Page Down shortcut performing switch tab in Terminal? At the moment I can use Cmd+Shift+[ or Cmd+Shift+] shortcuts to do the thing, but this is horrible for me. I'm using external USB Keyboard and Karabiner, if that may help somehow.
I have just upgraded OSX Yosemite and have been looking at the new Photos app. It seems all of my events have disappeared. How do I get them back?
I have about 1500 photos on my iPhone which I imported from my old HTC Titan, through iTunes. I recently tried to turn on iCloud Photo Library and it said it would delete all my photos from my old phone (!) How can I combine my old photos with my current ones?
Just came across this, seems as Photos created a duplicate of the iPhoto database instead of just using that one. Now I'm stuck here with two 50+ GB libraries, eating up space on my HDD. I think iPhoto uses the Photos database, so would it be safe to delete the iPhoto database? I'm still going to use iPhoto (because it's easier than Photos).
I am wondering if someone could help me with the following: I have a 15" macbook pro late 2011 and I am trying to find a way of changing to an SSD. I have backed up my machine using time machine onto an external usb hard drive. I am wondering if the next step is to install the SSD into the laptop OR if there is a step required so that I can install the operating system (or will I be able to install it when I switch on the machine for the first time with the SSD installed and then restore my files via the external hard drive?). I am able to to find lots of tutorials but they all seem to use a USB cable connected to the new SSD which I do not have. Any help would be good, thanks!
The 4th generation Time Capsule has a security slot at the far right of the back panel:  However, the manual does not mention what kind of lock I can attach to it.
Basically, I have a Seagate Expansion Drive (1TB), I have ejected it from my MacBook and mounted it into the guest virtual machine, it comes up with the message: This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. as if it were recognized, and then when I go to Devices and Printers, the Hard Drive is in the "Unspecified" section, and has a warning sign next to it, I click on it and then it says it needs troubleshooting, I go through the troubleshooting process, and it says that I need to re-install the device driver, so I click "apply", and it searches for a driver, and then it shows that it's installing the device driver software and it comes up with: Device driver software was not successfully installed It says the hard drive has a driver problem, when I have been using it fine on OS X?
I have an old Power Mac G4, for which I acquired an AirPort card, and tried to follow these simple instructions from YouTube but it turns out that the card does not physically fit into the slot. It's too wide.
After installing Apple Photos as part of the 10.10.3 update and attempting to migrate my Aperture library I get an error message about "permissions" on my Aperture library:  What does this mean and why is it happening?
After having cleaned my mac with some antistatic foam product, weird keyboard problems started happening: with keyboard viewer, pressing CTRL does not enable CTRL, however if I press LEFT SHIFT, it enables BOTH SHIFT KEYS AND CTRL. This quite a handicap because I use modifier keys regularly. (I did reset the SMC and the PRAM, noticing that the combo SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-POWERBUTTON (PRAM combo) works, which makes me think the issue is at the software level, not hardware.) thanks for your answers :)
I am trying to get the iOS 8.3 update on my iPhone 4s and I have deleted all my apps and photos including the recently deleted. I then went to my settings and my non-existent 'photos' are taking up 3.1 GB of my storage. I don't understand.
What is the max amount of RAM that Windows 7 64 bit Boot Camp partition in my late 2011 2.4 i5 MBP 8.1 with OS X Lion can utilize?
Is it possible to delete a file from a folder via the Dock? I know I can drag the file to the Trashcan but I'm curious if there is some key combination perhaps that I can use to click on a file via the Dock Grid and delete it quickly and without closing that Folder in the Dock.
I updated to the new OS X last night and uploaded my 70gigs worth of photos to iCloud. I plan on doing a backup on my raid as well, just to be safe, but am I okay to delete all my photos that are stored locally on my computer?
I'm having problems clearing our a backup drive. I want to get rid of a couple large files so I can preserve the other incremental backups. I can't use the tmutil delete command on entire backups since I'd lose all files from that interval and not just the offending file I want to purge. here are the permissions for the library package file/folder: When I use the Time Machine interface, it errors out and I don't know which file or instance has errors:
I have over 7,000 pictures on my iPod Camera Roll. I recently signed up with iCloud but only the pictures I take after signing up with iCloud go to my Photo Stream. How do I get the first 7,000 pictures onto my Photo Stream? I want all of my photos to be available on any iOS device where I sign in with my iCloud account.
I have Mac1 connected via ethernet to a router. The Mac1 has the IP 10.0.1.5 On this IP I have a Python-server listening to incoming UDP packets.
Running recent Mavericks (10.9.5) I am wondering why I can only sometimes redirect messages, as opposed to forwarding, as in principle being offered via "Message > Redirect". Sometimes this works, sometimes not, i.e., "Message > Redirect" is a grayed out option. Ts there a somewhere documented pattern for this behaviour?
After successfully installing Windows 8.1 on my 2010 MacBook, running Yosemite as its primary OS, my Windows OS rebooted 5 minutes after a fresh install and now I'm stuck in the "automatic repair loop". I also get this error after trying to repair:
I have some slides in a presentation where images appear on click in full screen. While creating and editing the slide, the image is always above the text and basically I have to move the picture somewhere for editing my text and finally move the image back in place.
I need to set my screen resolution 1280x720 (this is a requirement for a screencast I need to create). When I go into the Display - Scaled menu this is no longer available as an option on Yosemite, even though it was available on previous versions of the OS on the same laptop. Is there a way in Yosemite to access or force different screen resolutions for this?
Is anyone aware of an iOS app that can sync with CardDav to get a contact list and can then print off a nicely formatted contact card? Basically, I want to be able to print information for referrals for patients. Contacts can work great for holding this information, but we can't print it from iPads
I have upgraded OSX Yosemite and now have Photos instead of iPhoto. I have a question regarding usage of Events and Albums.
How can I use iTunes with an email address that isn't actually an email address?
I have a small renderfarm of mac minis and they should all have exactly the same settings, get the same updates, etc. etc. I'm sure there is a solution for this and I would love to stop repeating myself :). How does this work at the enterprise level?
Please help and thank you in advance. :D UPDATE: I resolved the repository issue (it was an issue with the url I provided for the network sharepoint).
Just about ready to launch this machine out the window it's driving me crazy. Ok so a rundown of what has happened thus far. Bought a Mac Pro Tower around 2010, worked like a dream for 3 years then due to circumstances it had to be put into storage for the past 2 years.
Does GarageBand have the option to play in 415 hertz ? The default is of course 440 hertz (concert tuning), but can you change that? And how ?
I'm on a 2011 MacBook Pro trying to install Windows 8.1 from a USB. I tried creating bootable FAT32 and NTFS USBs from my Windows ISO with Rufus, but still I don't see anything in Startup Disk in Windows or OS X:
this seems to be a long standing problem (link), and one that i've recently encountered on my new macbookpro11,3. i've tried all the recommended solutions (delete network profiles, network plists, deactive bluetooth, PRAM reset, SMC reset).
Is there a way to populate the Exchange Global Address List of contacts under iOS? Contacts > Groups > Exchange Global Address List Currently the list is empty - I can only search for contacts. iPhone running iOS 8.3.
I originally had my current email address set as a rescue email, and my old email as the original Apple ID. When I deleted my current email address off the rescue email list, I was unable to set it as my Apple ID address. How would I be able to set my current email as my Apple ID?
I noticed that the VPN menu in the iPhone settings menu has two different kinds of VPN connections and I am troubled by it. There are two different types of VPN connections shown, Personal VPN profiles and a type for VPN Configuration profiles. After searching for a while, I haven't been able to find out the difference between the two. EDIT: After reinstalling the profile, I realized the Personal VPN configuration isn't signed like the regular VPN configuration.
I can't seem to find a definitive answer anywhere, but are Mac OS X Security Updates cumulative? The update in question is 2015-004. I've checked *=URL=* but it doesn't list any requirements.
I just upgraded to OS X Yosemite with the new Photos application. I have seen screenshots online where we can view photos on a map, however I can't get to that map. How can I see all of my photos on a map, like in iPhoto/Aperture?
I am encountering problems syncing iMessages with my Mac. I can send and receive text messages and iMessages on my iPhone. I cannot send and receive iMessages on my Macbook, but I can send and receive text messages on my Macbook.
I have tried anything I could think of and also consulted the "photos" help as well as google but I could not find a way to geotag photos in "photos". Is there a way to do this or is it really only possible to view photos on a map if they have been geotagged when imported to "photos"?
I'm using Mail v8.2 on Macintosh OS X Yosemite and would like to transition to a new email address. Therefore, I'd like to keep using my old email address for the time being and I have configured my new address to forward all email to my old address. Now, I just need to set up my reply-to in every email I send, to default to specifying my new email address, so that recipients will eventually start using my new email address over time and eventually I can pull the trigger and drop the old one and switch to the new one.
I bought a new keyboard that, of course, works almost perfectly, minus the media buttons. Luckily it has open source drivers specifically for linux and mac, but unfortunately the media buttons (specifically the next/previous) do not work. I have the ability to run a command when they are pressed; I was hoping to recreate the Apple Keyboard next/previous functionality where it skips the song of the most recent media player. I've found several scripts that will skip iTunes or Spotify individually, but I have music in both that I like to listen to. How would I tell the last played media player next track?
I am a brand new Mac user, having recently purchased an iMac updated to OSX 10.10.3. I also have installed Adobe Lightroom 5, and I have a bunch of photos synced to iCloud and available through the Photos app.
I have just upgraded OS X and opened the new Photos app to import my Aperture library. Everything went well (Photos work fine) but I am surprised to see that I didn't loose 100Gb free space on my HDD.
I just upgraded my iPhone 5s to iOS 8.3. I found that I am unable to access the contents of Apps using software like iTools, iFunbox and PhoneView. Does iOS 8.3 change security settings in App document folders? Tried software: iFunbox iTools (latest version & version 2013) PhoneView (demo version) iMazing (trial version) iExplorer (trial version) UPDATE Here is the security content change log of iOS 8.3 regarding the document access (CVE-2015-1087): Backup
I sent a bunch of invitations for users to join the TestFlight beta for my app. For the most part, it's worked fine, and many people are using it successfully. But one user, who received the TestFlight invitation and installed the TestFlight app, does not see my app available to download when they launch TestFlight.
I just tried to install the OS X 10.10.3 update from the App Store. My internet is slow and after several hours, it finally finished. It asked to restart, and I accepted. But nothing happened. I clicked the "Update" button again, and told it to restart several times, to no avail.
10.9.5. I have to click on scroll bar and manually drag or click to get pages to scroll --in safari, in Pages--in anything. Did I turn something off inadvertently? I seem to remember not being happy with the horiz scrolling but...
I am looking for a app that allows me to set profiles consisting of apps to close or open on profile change. Example. The following processes are currently open Dropbox Chrome Foo Bar After activating "cafe profile" Chrome Bar Terminal
In Numbers, connected to wifi (good bandwidth), after modifying a spreadsheet I go back to "Spreadsheets". Then I wait for the Arrow ￪ to appear, as it indicates that Numbers is syncing with iCloud. However, sometimes it is instantaneous (does the sync immediately) it takes a couple of seconds it takes 10~30 seconds, or (rarely) more (stuck?)
iPhoto had it's own trash, and when you've emptied it, files moved to the system trash. I cannot find this in the new Photos app. When I delete files, they don't appear in the system trash.
Is it possible to make a Windows 8.1 VM running on Parallels think it has two monitors but in reality these monitors are just two separate "desktops" as far as OSX is concerned running on a single real monitor?
How to access Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) via VNC-over-SSH? asks how to tunnel ARD traffic over SSH. But the answer provided does not detail the steps required to do so. Would some please provide the steps to setup a MacBook to: Disable ARD traffic on all forward facing interfaces Enable ARD traffic over SSH ARD must be disabled on forward facing interfaces because it has an 8-character password limitation.
I am having problems installing the old version of grails on my mac, with homebrew. The spot where I get stuck is at the brew versions grails as it will say that versions is no longer used. I have executed brew tap homebrew/versions but the versions command do still not work. How in the newest version of brew can I install Grails 2.3.5?
I need to export my contacts to my Google account but whenever I select all of my contacts and click export vCard, the website does not do anything.
How can I use my Home as the Desktop directory in Yosemite? Deleting the Desktop directory doesn't work after a restart. I would like to do this because I don't like to switch to Desktop dir everytime I take to Terminal and would like to see all my dirs on the "Desktop" screen.
Is there a way to see the contents of my clipboard in a way that shows me what formatting metadata is included? Or to get to the question behind the question: is there a way to generate output in a script so that if I pipe the output to pbcopy it will include the formatting?
I managed to install the free vmWare ESXi 6.0 hypervisor on a Mac Mini 7,1. It's running rather nicely from a USB memory.
I got the new Photos app + iCloud photos library going. It's great But if I want to send an email from, say Gmail, and include a photo from my computer.. I can't choose from my photo library The photos folder simply cannot be chosen when browsing local folders So I have to first drag the photos to the desktop, for example, and THEN choose these files from gmail, and delete them afterwards Is there not any other easy way to do this? Thanks
My system is divided in two and shared using Boot Camp feature. Recently I needed more space on the Mac partition and whiled loaded only in the Windows partition, I have shrank my Windows partition by 10 Gb using Windows disk management tool.
I recently acquired a new power adapter 85W for my macbook pro retina late 2013. I made sure the specifications matched the official Apple adapter and in fact I have not noticed any performance issues.
I had a fully working iTunes library, the .itl on my MBP, and music in my organised folders on my NAS share. This setup I would like to keep as iTunes manages my iPod but nothing else. So I don't need to have my music local, and I don't need the entire itunes stuff (itl, xml etc) on the nas.
I'm trying to create an iso from a directory on my computer. I've tried using both the Disk Utility method and just Terminal but I keep getting Operation not permitted errors regardless of my method. I've tried adding sudo to the front of my command and even changing to root using su but I keep getting the error. I realize that someone asked a similar question already, how do I create an ISO/CDR file from a hard disk?, but I need the iso I don't need to just make a backup. EDIT3: The command that I used in Terminal is sudo hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o /Volumes/Link/Users/magavendon/Dropbox/Mac\ Stuff/Work\ Files/Projects/CARSR/Builds/Build\ 270/Disk/lrr_01_netra_0270_a.iso New_Build270 EDIT: I have even changed the permissions for the folder and everything contained within to 777 and the owner and group to myself.
I want to edit some com.myApp.plist. I'm running OS 10.10.3, and I do have Xcode installed. But every time I try to edit the file, it's locked and I can't save my changes.
I already unchecked all shortcuts in the system preferences that could block IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts. I also quit almost all running applications, no success.
It’s stuck at the login screen syncing home share. I have confirmed that it’s connecting to the wireless network. The beach ball just keeps spinning. I’ve tried time machine-no backup, repair permissions and disk-no dice.
I have have was cleaning up my Macintosh's Hard Drive. I was using Windows 8.1 for that purpose(Bootcamp). I found that the size of spotlight folder was too big(951 MB). Is it normal or I should delete the folder and re-index? BTW, I have disables spotlight. I have been using alfred for a long time. I currently using Yosemite 10.10.2
I'm trying to get Jabber working on my OS X laptop with no luck.. I can get a windows version working on a VM running on this same Physical laptop.. OS X laptop Process: Open Jabber
How does Apple prevent users from deleting App Store or Chess app etc.? Can the same logic be used for third party apps?
Will the new photos app still try to guess who everyone is in all my photos? I'm really hoping this is one feature that was deprecated! FYI if anyone is wondering, I personally did not like this feature because it consumed at lot of CPU and kicked my fans up to 100% with no way to limit or control the process.
I recently purchased both a Dell P2715Q 27" 4K monitor and a 13" 2015 rMBP. The monitor is not recognized when I plug the laptop into the monitor via the monitor's provided DP cable (into either Thunderbolt port). When I plug in the laptop using the Monitor's HDMI cable, it shows up and can render at 4K, but only at 30Hz. I also tried plugging the laptop into another display with HDMI and that one also worked fine. Unfortunately, I don't have access to another display that has a DP port. My research prior to purchasing the laptop and monitor suggested that I should be able to connect them easy-peasy and get 4K at 60hz using either MST or SST signalling. However, I am very new to Macs, so my question is whether or not I need to do something special to get this to work? A Thunderbolt to DP cable perhaps? The monitor also has a miniDP port as well, do I have to use that? Did I somehow end up with a broken DP cable? Any ideas?
I continue to get this error each time I try to install xcode: "Xcode failed to download, use the purchases page to try again" This is with the newest OSX 10.10.3.
When I leave my computer alone for around five minutes, to get the "w" key to function I need to spam press it, after which it starts functioning correctly. Holding down the key for ~10 seconds also works. Thoughts?
Is it possible for Photos to automatically include all files in a given directory as part of its Library? Picasa, for example, offers this.
This is related to CVE-2015-1130, a.k.a Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X. It appears Apple has refused to fix it in OS X 10.9 and earlier. Emil Kvarnhammar, the one who reported this vulnerability to Apple states: Apple indicated that this issue required a substantial amount of changes on their side, and that they will not back port the fix to 10.9.x and older.
I rented a movie on my iPod touch 5th gen and want to sync it to my computer so I can watch it there. It won't transfer however. What do I do? Do I have to rent it again on my computer?
A lot of emojis replace characters that I already use, usually imported from a symbol keyboard; but it doesn't mesh well with monospaced, small, or formatted text; for example, I like to flavor my documents with text art (art made (usually) from a monospaced font, and its characters). Such characters include;↔↕↖↗↘↙➡⬅⬆⬇⚪⚫⬛⬜, in this case (on my end) some of them worked properly. the rate at which this happens is inconsistent, even in the same document!
So here's my questions: 1. Which drivers are they talking about? 2. Is my version (5.1.3) of Boot Camp Assistant the wrong one to use and that's why it failed to install the Windows 8.1 64 bit version? Ultimately, I like to know which version of Windows (7 or 8, 32 or 64 bit) can I successful install using which version of Boot Camp Assistant? I'd appreciate any suggestions or advices.
As a terminal junkie, I've started messing around with a combination of mpd (Music Player Daemon) and a player, ncmpcpp (NCurses Media Player Client C++). I installed these via Homebrew - a simple brew install mpd ncmpcpp. A bit of configuration later, and the apps are running quite nicely. The effect is actually rather impressive:
I'am an iPhone + PC (Windows/Ubuntu) user. Nowadays, I'm used to download photos from iPhone to local folder, sort them and then backup them by myself (by syncing to remote disk and burning onto bluray discs also).
I have a slight annoyance with rotating pages 180 degrees in Preview. The next page is selected automatically after rotating either left or right (90 degrees). This behavior adds a step. Is there a way to disable the auto-advance, or perhaps a keyboard command that rotates the page 180 degrees? (I don't want to flip the page vertically.)
I have been trying to find a solution for a very very long time on how to have the longer names of my folders and files to drop down to a 2nd line when viewing in the "Grid" Icon view in the My Finder window. In Leopard 10.5 by default you are able to see long folder/file names drop down to a 2nd line, but I can't find a setting to replicate this action in any other OSX after that one. It makes it harder to see a folder/file name when it is truncated or non-wrapped. So as an example; Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited looks like Williams...ted as a folder title and I would much rather prefer to have it look like the old style; Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited
At the bottom of iPad screen, when I swipe up and that pop up appears, there's no picture of rotation lock. Then in settings under General there is a USE SIDE SWITCH TO: Lock Rotation (blue check). How do I unlock rotation? I click on the blue check but it doesn't disappear. EDIT: Every app I click on that used to rotate orientation, now don't rotate.
I made an App Preview video only for the iPad resolution and uploaded it to iTunes Connect. If I don't upload a video for the other iPhone resolutions, will the iPad video by shown on the App Store when an iPhone user comes to the store page?
In OS X Yosemite (update 10.10.3), there is the new photos application. I am unable to access the edit function when I use this application.
A disk's data directory seems to me to be the most vulnerable Achilles's Heel to protecting data. With the 2 clicks of an accidental quick erase and format via Disk Utility, the roadmap to potentially multiple terabytes of data gets erased. Even if zero data files were overwritten and all of the data files get recovered (though it may take days), (please, please correct me if I'm wrong) data recovery software can't retrieve the filenames, folder names, and the organizational, hierarchical structure, which then can only be painstakingly rebuilt by hand.
I downloaded the update for OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. I restarted when it told me, but the update did not take effect. When I manually rebooted, that didn't work either. How do I solve this?
This is a pretty simple question and I'm thinking the answer is no, but can Mac's Startup Manager be used to boot Linux based operating systems? I'll probably end up installing a tool like rEFInd later on but I want to double check first.
The short version of the question is: is there a way to preset the hibernation file to be 8GB so that the Macbook Air can always hibernate? My Macbook Air only has 256GB of SSD space, and right now it has about 3GB of free space. And when the Macbook Air is not plugged in to the power, sometimes I come back and the machine is already powered down.
Hello I just upgraded to iOS 8.3. My emoji is now default to kind of yellow colour, which is super annoying. Any ways I could set it back to previous default colour. Thank you!
I'm trying to set up a site to require client-side certificates for authentication. However when I browse to the site, the only certificates I'm able to present to the webserver are those listed in the "My Certificates" section of my keychain. My certificate is just in the "Certificates" section. How do I get the cert into the correct location? The + icon is grayed out under "My Certificates"...
I have notes on my iphone. However the notes are in different account and not on the icloud account and I am unable to see the notes when I login to my icloud account. I have notes back up turned on. Is there something I am doing wrong?
I am trying to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Develop > User Agent > Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone menu item of Safari web browser. But in the System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts, when I enter Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone, the keyboard shortcut does not work.
I have multiple keyboard attached to one of my macs. One is more of the gamer type the other is the usual bluetooth keyboard. One is French (Windows AZERTY) the other one is US (Mac QWERTY). Is it possible to use both without having to switch the layout manually every time we switch from one to the other in OS X?
I want to update my iPhone 6 to iOS 8.3, but my device is unlocked with R-Sim. I want to know if the new iOS firmware will update the baseband & relock my device. Please help.
With the introduction of OS X Yosemite every once in a while little snitch (network monitoring program) pops up a requestor asking for permission to allow nsurlsessiond a connection to some ip address. I understand that nsurlsessiond provides an API to allow any program using it to retrieve data via http or other supported protocol. In fact it acts like a proxy.
After installing the most recent security and Safari updates (7.1.5) on Mavericks, Safari and other applications (those using NSURLConnection/CFURLConnection) no longer recognize any root certificates as valid. The root certificates in the System Roots keychain seem to be fine, as far as Keychain Access is concerned. However, Safari, iTunes, Chrome, etc. fail to validate all root certificates ("This certificate was signed by an unknown authority"). Already tried deleting the /var/db/crls/crlcache.db and /var/db/crls/ocspcache.db to no effect. System time is correct. Any ideas?
I have encountered this question and in accepted answer there is information that doesn't click For instance, the iPhone 5 should theoretically be able to handle up to 14 connections, but both AT&T and Verizon limits it to 5. How can carrier limit hot spot connections? To clarify I own iPhone that uses sim card, and live in Europe.
How can I download the last iPhoto version for Yosemite? Looks like any links are invalid now that Photos is out.
A friend today mentioned in conversation: You know that iPhone 6 you're carrying in your pocket. It has more computing power than the Cray supercomputers of the 80s. That sounded vaguely right, but I wasn't sure. My question is: Is the iPhone 6 more powerful than a Cray supercomputer?
Suddenly, the option to open in Safari is missing from my share menu. It's not even listed in the "More" options menu. The only unusual thing I've done recently is to install iCloud for Windows on my laptop at work. It never did fully install, however, so I'm not sure how that could affect anything as I sync to iTunes on a MacBook Air.
A copy of the file (using Treminal) to the same folder can be be copied without trouble. (The original and the copy are really identical, according to md5) Renaming the file in Finder doesn't help. Deleting the .DS_Store file in the folder and remounting the drive doesn't help. Really weird...
The problem occurs after closing the lid of the laptop and it goes to sleep. When I open the lid, I am prompted for the password for my user as usual. When I press enter, there is no reaction.
I am trying to create an Apple ID for my 10-year-old son. However, I do not have a Credit Card, only a Debit Card. I'm using the iCloud 'Family' setting, but it says 'Credit Card Required'. I guess this is because, legally, someone under 18 may have a Debit Card, but you must be 18 to have a Credit Card. How can I bypass this? I'm using an iPhone 4S, running the latest iOS update (I updated today). What should I do?
The new Photos.app does not come with Automator support (although there are third-party actions available). It does, however, have some basic AppleScript support, including support for importing a list of files.
I am deciding to get a 2015 MacBook Air for iOS development, and was wondering how well my specs on the custom macbook I am ordering. I am getting the 13 inch 2015 MacBook Air 8 GB RAM 1.6 gigahertz fifth generation Intel processors. Would these specs run well with Xcode 6?
For some reason, for exchange accounts, if I accept/deny calendar invitations on one computer, it would still stay as an alert on my other computers. The alert would not ask me to accept/reject, instead it would just ask me to dismiss it with an "ok" button. It's super annoying because that means I have to click "ok" for each calendar invite for each computer I have. Is there a way to fix this or at least a quick way to dismiss all incoming event that have already been accepted?
I just updated to 10.10.3 today and got this warning about incompatible software:  I got the same warning during the 10.10.2 upgrade.
Yesterday my iPhone was stolen but I can not find it in my iCloud account with the Find My iPhone app. Currently I have access to my iCloud account but I dont see the iPhone in the tracking app. I can see it in another section and registered to my personal account.
I've got a mid-2012 13 inch MacBook Air that I've owned since new. Quite soon after I bought it, the drop-down menu that appears when I click the battery icon in the menu bar included the item "Service Battery". I never did anything about this, as although the battery seemed to drain more quickly than I would like, I'm usually close to a power outlet and use my MacBook while it's plugged in.
I was in a directory where I had a ~ and I went to remove it by doing rm -f ~
I connected today my Book studio for the 1st time and my mac crashed when creating a backup with Time machine. As a consequence I would like to delete the info that this external hard drive ever connected to the Mac. For instance, I see it in Time Machine preferences as a backup destination. I can see that I connect My WD Book studio in the system information under hardware /firewire/firewire800/Book 1
I am learning Postfix and how it works with SMTP, and here's a sample session that the book shows as an example:  I ran the command hostname on my Mac terminal, and it showed <some_id>.ant.amazon.com (it is my office laptop). So I tried And I got the error message:
Since then iTunes won't start up. If I click on it, there is no response.
My fdisk commands: sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1; p; setpid 1; 07; flag 1; p; write; y ...seems to work. See attached image.
I use a remote volume on my wife's Mac Mini as a shared music library. How do I know how full that volume is getting without logging into her machine? Get Info is unavailable.
Does a Corsair CMSO8GX3M1C1600C11 RAM works on a MBP mid 2012? I know Corsair has mac compatible memory sticks but this one I mention is the only one I can get at my location. From what I see the latency is a bit different: 11-11-11-28 instead of 11-11-11-30.
After I updated from 10.10.2 to 10.10.3 on my mac, the new Photos app was added. What i'm asking is can iPhoto do any thing that the new photos app can't? Basically, should I keep using iPhoto or should I start using the new photos app?
I am having several issues making sense of the new OS X 10.10.3 Photos app after using iPhoto for years. I imported some photos and am used to them splitting events by date into separate "Events." I don't know what the equivalent is for "Events" in this new product. Am I required to make a new album for each date if I want them separated? Is there a "manual" of sorts for the new app?
I just installed OS X 10.10.3, and it is noticeably slower than 10.10.2. How can I figure out what's causing the slowness, and then how can I fix it?
I've just updated to the new Photos app on OS X and migrated my iPhoto library to the new app. While getting used to all the changes, I've noticed a problem: it seems that the Last Import album is stuck in the iPhoto Events folder for some reason. (Does the iPhoto database consider Last Import to be an "event"?) I can tell that the lone album is Last Import because: I've moved all other albums out of the folder, but it still says that there is one album left inside, even though the view shows that it is empty inside. I've moved all other albums out of the folder, but it still says that there is one album left inside, even though the view shows that it is empty inside.
I have an iPad Air 2 64GB now running iOS 8.3. I've experienced problems where when using Keynote on my iPhone 5S to remote control a keynote presentation on my iPad, the connection will be dropped at random times during the presentation. I attributed this to Keynote bugs, but then my iPad also started randomly losing connections to my Logitech Ultrathin keyboard cover (the onscreen keyboard would appear) or I'd type a certain character and it would start repeating ad infinitum. I removed the interference factor from the equation by noticing that the problem would also occur within my office with thick walls and no bluetooth devices nearby … so I had Logitech replace the keyboard, but the connection drops still occur. I also reset all settings on my iPad, which didn't help.
I have the screensaver on my MacBook set to kick in after two minutes of inactivity and require a password immediately after it does. Normally, this works fine, but in the last week or so, the screensaver hasn't come on at all. After skimming pmsets manual page, I made this discovery:
I checked my certificates in the Keychain Access and I don't see anything wrong with them. I've also tried deleting some files related to certificate caches as I've seen mentioned somewhere else, but it didn't help either. I'm using OS X 10.9.5 in a MacBook Air, Late 2012. This problem also applies to some systems updated from OS X 10.10 Yosemite to OS X 10.11.1 (15B42) El Capitan.
In iPhoto, I put a shared iPhoto library on a network external hard drive accessed by multiple computers in the family. Even though two computer cannot access the library at the same time, the whole family can add to and edit the same (huge) library. In Photos, I can't seem to select the "Photo Library.photoslibrary" from a second computer (via network shared drive). If it's no longer possible to share a library from multiple computers, that would be a huge functionality loss for us - to not be able to keep one library for the whole family. Our library is too large/expensive for iCloud Photo Library, which also would require all computers to sign in with the same iCloud account (no good for everything else). UPDATE: since my shared Photo Library resides on an external hard drive, I tried attaching it directly to the second computer and then was allowed to select it (Option-launch Photos App) as well as setting it as the system library. So it appears that the difference with iPhoto is t
Somehow the text field in System Information appears truncated: If I reduce the overall size, the content of the bottom pane disappears, kind of goes below the left-hand pane:
The recent update to iOS 8.3 on my iPad mini 1 doesnt seem to have gone well with the location service. The Location Service is enabled in the Settings but it doesnt really get my current location. When I ask Siri about my current location, it doesnt have an answer. Also, if I try to check in on Facebook App, it doesnt get the location either.
My boss is going to sack me tomorrow, because he says I used my company phone whilst driving the company van. I definitely didn't use my phone. Sometimes I might audio FaceTime my girlfriend on my iPad (which has a different SIM card and is not a company iPad.). And she may phone me back but even though it rings on my phone it also rings on my iPad. How does this happen?
In any case, I can pair my device, enable internet sharing in OSX and connect via PAN. But I can't seem to get internet on my phone. How can this be done in Yosemite?
Since I updated my iPhoto to new Photos App from Apple, I cannot find where to change or add location information to pictures. I had a rich collection of places in my iPhoto.
Could someone decrypt this so I can understand what is randomly crashing my Macbook Pro 13" Early 2011 please?
I sometimes want to tweet a link from my iPhone (4s / iOS 8). On iOS 6 I used to simply copy the URL from Safari and paste it into the text field of the twitter app. Placing the 'cursor' inside URL field inside Safari's URL field choosing 'select all' from context menu clicking on 'copy' in context menu switching apps –> twitter choosing 'paste' from context menu
I bought a new portable drive to use as my Time Machine drive, but stupidly forgot to backup some files from the old Time Machine drive before I formatted it, and now I need to recover some files. I searched through this website and found that TestDisk has been repeatedly suggested for this situation. I have downloaded it but found it rather cryptic to use. Its website does not have much help either. Can anyone walk me through how to use Test Disk please? Thank you EDIT: More details My original partition was this: Partition 1: Time Machine, 600GB Partition 2: Regular backup drive, 400GB Current Partition: Partition 1: Time Machine 1, 500 GB Partition 2: Time Machine 2, 500 GB Two Time Machines for two devices.
How do I reset my phone if the home button doesn't work? I try'd the assisted touch but it still won't let it reset.
I'm trying to troubleshoot some wifi issues I'm having after I updated to Yosemite. I'm using Wireless Diagnostics to try to figure out what channel I should force my network on because I noticed events such as kernel[0]: wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid ... very close in time to when my connection drops.
I have just purchased a MacBook Air. I have a non Apple monitor that I wish to use. I have connected the Air and the monitor correctly. My Apple keyboard ( had a previous owner) will not work with the monitor or the Air? How do I get these to work?
The other day I went to update Pandora so I could listen to music and once I press update it asks for Apple ID password. This does this to all of my other apps that must be updated.
My MacBook has a 250 GB SSD and I have a 500GB iCloud Drive. The total size of files stored in iCloud is currently about 100 GB, which by default maintains an identical copy of all files in both locations without any user control. The local copy is hidden in ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents. What files will be removed from the local copy, when the iCloud Drive file size begins to exceed 250 GB?
How do I make an event from my last import using Photos? Does Photos only use albums rather than events? Is it still possible to merge events?
I have a question, is it possible to share a developer account between a couple of devices? The reason is, I want to build a certain open source software myself, and upload to mine, and mine friends devices. We do not want to sell any applications etc in store, just use open source software, modified to our needs to communicate with each other. Is it possible? Or maybe there is a some free alternative besides jailbreak?
I am troubleshooting network connectivity issues and I found some log messages that could point to their root cause. What could trigger the authorization time out? Looking at the logs I also see something weird. Apparently the bssid didn't change but my Mac thinks so, and it doesn't look quite right. Is there something wrong in my network setup?
I normally charge my iPhone all night to get 100% power, does this charging way harm my phone? Or, specifically, phone battery?
Here is the setup: I have an iPad air 2 and a server in my homenetwork that runs torrent client Transmission and a Plex-server. I use the server to stream media to the iPad while i'm home, direct media to my chromecast etc. I need to solve two issues:
OSX has two methods of dragging with the track pad, “drag lock” (double tap then drag until you tap to release) and “three finger drag” where you touch three fingers and drag until you release. The problem is, it forces you to select one or the other.
I can sign in to iCloud, iTunes and download from iTunes so I know the Apple ID works. I can Go in with my Apple ID and FaceTime, works fine. So I know then iPad, FaceTime, andiMessage work. But when I use the new ID for my daughter, the screen in FaceTime or settings-FaceTime circles says, "Verifying" and just returns to sign in with no error message.
Can anyone tell me how to disable itunes match from my iPhone 5 if my subscription has expired? I have all of my music saved to my computer in iTunes but when I link my phone to sync music I am unable to as it says that iTunes match is on. There is no option on my phone in settings to turn it off either as it only says subscription expired! So I now have half my music on my phone while the rest is on my computer but am unable to sync it like before. iTunes match is turned off in my computer settings. I just want to sync my music manually like before.
My system was working fine, but when I was updating iTunes this problem happened.
Just upgraded older iMac with neatest software. Now my spouse's text messages show up on iMac. Her iPhone software is old and she cannot turn it off from her iPhone. Is there a way to turn it off from the iMac?
This is nothing but a minor annoyance: It does not interfere with the startup or operation of olad If I dismiss the dialog, it doesn’t bother me until the next time I stop and launch the daemon. If, on the other hand, I enter my credentials, I can stop and restart the daemon without further interruption, as long as I am at home and Puck is reachable. In that scenario, mount shows me the following:
Does anyone know how to retrieve the version number of a .pkg file which isn't installed yet? I'd like to use something like pkgutil --pkg-info, but that only works for installed packages. I've also tried installer -pkginfo -verbose, but that doesn't show the version number. Is there a built-in command to do this, or alternatively, could someone suggest a one-liner please? Thanks.
iPhone 4. When I'm in the app store, and I want to update an app, I go to the updates tab and I click update. It proceeds to open the app without updating it. I have tried hard shutdown, soft shutdown, and deleting the app. Any help?
When I share a photo to iCloud using the Photos app, subsequent edits to the photo in my library seem not so sync with the shared photo. Has sharing created a new copy of my photo?
What happens when an Aperture stack is imported into photos? It seems that all of the images in the stack get imported as individual images with no relation to one another. Can that possibly be right?
I have large numbers of files in my Photos from my recently migrated Aperture library that show a crossed out reference icon  indicating that the "referenced file is offline". If I try to access such files I get a dialog asking me to indicate a specific folder to allow Photos access. Sometimes this (tedious) process works, but often it does not, since the specified folder does not exist. This happens even though the referenced file was present in Aperture before migration. What's the user model here; where did my photos go?
After updating my iMac (late 2013) to OS X 10.10.3, my cursor has begun to move very sluggishly and erratically. In addition, my Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse both randomly drop their connection entirely, often taking minutes to reconnect. The keyboard will also occasionally send repeated keystrokes to the computer, continuing until I physically turn it off. I have tried to restart the computer (many times), reset the SMC and NVRAM, boot into Safe Mode, and turn Bluetooth, WiFi, and the peripherals on and off, all to no avail. Several times the machine would boot without any lag, only to begin lagging when I opened Messages or Safari. There is no Bluetooth interference, as none of my other nearby devices experience any Bluetooth issues. I have also noticed that USB peripherals work perfectly, without any lag.
I have an Apple TV (3rd Gen A1427), connected to my Airport Extreme (6th Gen). I often stream music from iTunes on my retina MacBook Pro. The Apple TV, Airport and MBP are all connected on the same WiFi in an open plan lounge, dining, kitchen room. The TV, Apple TV and Laptop are at one side of the room, the Airport on the other, the only physical object between the Apple TV and Airport is a couch. The room would probably be less than 20m wide. What I'm finding, if I walk or stand between the line of sight between Apple TV and Airport, the stream drops out. Has anyone had this same experience with a similar set up?
I use software development tools including Java, MySQL, Apache, PHP, LaTeX and Homebrew on OS X 10.7.5. What problems might I encounter on upgrading to Mac Yosemite and how can these be resolved?
My laptop (a MacBook) runs 10.6.8 and I want to use my iTunes to move my music across to my new iPhone 5s, but the two won't 'talk' to each other. That is, there seems to be no drag and drop solution, like with other Apple products.
My MacBook Pro came with a 500 GB hard disk, and I used about 250 GB. I was trying to get a new logic partition using the OSX disk utility, and then my Mac Book Pro froze and I had to quit the Disk Utility. Then the available space just disappeared. Disk Utility shows that the logic partition has a total capacity of 498.88 GB, available 10.48 GB, used 243.75 GB, which does not add up. Disk Utility shows that the hard drive has a total capacity of 499.25 GB, available 19 MB, used 499.23 GB. running df -h shows Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk1 237Gi 227Gi 9.8Gi 96% 59509256 2559899 96% / running df -h shows Things I have tried: all check and repair functions in Disk Utility fsck -f
How do I check if it is safe to delete the following file? Note: the date of the file indicates it is about 1 year old. the first 4 characters of the file are "xar!"
I don't understand why it fails just for this shortcut? I've read that some Cmd+… shortcuts are special and can't be overridden, but why does it work with cut/copy but not with paste? And why does it work in all applications except Safari and Mail?
I want to use a remote control app for presentations I'm giving offsite, using my Android phone as a remote for my MacBook. (the software is Unified Remote) I have no guarantee that I can access a WiFi network offsite (or that there will even be one), so I wanted to keep things simple and just setup a private AdHoc network. To my dismay, I have discovered that Androids do not recognise the AdHoc network created by MacBooks. What other viable solutions are there? I have to give presentations often, so I'm hoping for a solution that is easily switchable between normal WiFi use and "presentation mode". Other options I've looked into Using the connection sharing under Sharing -> Internet, but as I have no other active connection, this is disabled. I've tried the solutions listed in this Stack Overflow question but they seem to be windows only.
My friend gave me Mac mini Server saying its Mavericks. When I switch it on I see 2 hard drives only and no operating system. I tried to use my Apple ID but it doesn't work. In disk utility I saw 1st hard drive has partition named "os" which I am not able to delete. How do I completely format both the hard drives and re-install Mavericks on that. I have a very slow internet and I don't have another mac, of course I have Linux and Windows dual boot machine.
I use 3 languages intensively on my iMac - English, Ukrainian and Russian. In some applications, however, I'd like the input to be automatically changed to a particular language. For example, in software development applications, in console and in launchpad, I'd like to always get English turned on automatically. Are there any ways to configure this?
I have expanded my iCloud drive storage to 200GB. Right now, I have 170GB free. I want to offload some large folders from my ailing laptop to iCloud. When I try to do that, I'm told there is not enough space. The folder I want to move is about 30GB. This is on 10.10.3
I know that Macbook 12 inch was created for battery life and it's lightness instead of performance, but I am really curious about it's performance for development purposes. Did anyone actually test it on the real device? If so, what do you think? If not, what's your opinion anyways?
If I delete photos from my All Photos, will they be deleted from iCloud also?
My ex-partner had an account on my Mac. When we broke up, we deleted his account. However, some of the applications that he has downloaded keep asking for updates. I cannot delete these apps, as it wants him to sign in but I do not have his log-in details. How can I delete these apps and stop the computer from continually asking for updates!?
I installed the new Photos app and imported my Aperture library (about 50.000 photos altogether. As I had a bad experience when my hdd with my pictures was stolen, I want to upload all of them to iCloud. (I am not a professional photographer)
I am using an EU keyboard layout and the button below the ESC key is "double quotes" on OSX 10.10.3 Suddenly that key is automatically changed to the < >| key I checked keyboard layout and it is correct.
I am trying to use vpn to access a Windows based server. I set up the VPN when I was at the office, and was able to connect when I was connected to the internet at the office through VPN, but as soon as I went home, I tried it and it did not work. I have no idea what I am doing wrong I even read to send all traffic through the VPN and tried that and it didn't work. Is it possible to access VPN with a Mac into a Windows based server.
I've tried jailbreaking my 4S running 7.0.3 using evasi0n, but this resulted in a bootloop (i.e. stuck at apple logo) which seems to be quite common! :/ Anyway, I've searched the net for solutions and it seems the only way to get this fix is to restore using IPSW. But since I'm running on iOS7, I wanna keep it that way.
I've observed something weird with Safari search. The search is unable to find words that are obviously present.
Is there a fan in the Late 2013 iMac? The model identifier for this iMac is iMac14,2.
I am trying to reset my iPad, but now I am stuck at the LogIn screen to the iCloud. I can't remember either my password nor my username. What can I do to activate the iPad and/or get my username/password combination?
When I mount a Mac hard drive on another computer, I often get prompted to "unlock" the drive. What does this mean? Is a locked hard drive different from an encrypted one, or is "unlocking" just decrypting the drive for one-time use (as opposed to permanently decrypting)? When I boot the drive in its normal computer I'm not prompted for a FileVault password, which is what's making me wonder if this is encryption-related or not.
Desktop 1: pdf0 opened, maximized. Create desktop 2, pdf1 opened and maximized to the left, pdf2 opened and maximized to the right. etc...
I am trying to build myself a new version of rsync 3.1.1 under Mac OS 10.10.3, as the mac comes with an older version, and the project does not distribute binaries. I followed this simple script but it hiccups on gcc. (I am not sure why — though I removed XCode to save disk space, I have the command line tools, incl. gcc in /usr/bin etc.) I would try to build it with clang instead, but how exactly shall I do that? Here is the error from the script: Or even more from the relevant sections of config.log: By the way, I know I could have just stuck with Homebrew, but now I want to learn.
This morning, when I woke up, my phone would not connect to my home network. My Airport utility app has both router and internet on green, other devices connect to home network. However, when I try to connect in Wi-Fi settings, it will move my home network up from the list to just below my Wi-Fi switch, but no checkmark, just the spinning circle. Any thoughts?
Why am I getting an error in that last command?
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By alias, I mean the folder shortcut created when you right-click a folder in Finder and select "Make Alias". I can traverse symbolic links in Terminal with cd, but it doesn't work on aliases: bash: cd: example-alias: Not a directory. Is it possible to change directory to an alias's destination in Terminal?
After upgrading to Yosemite I did not migrate to iCloud Drive and iCloud text files were in a local folder which was very difficult to locate. I can't find these files now. They were in a folder that had a long "com.open" or similar name.
I have a very annoying problem. My old Mac Book White with OS X Lion try to find if there is a CD/DVD every X minutes.
I have created a m3u list file for some mp3 files. How could I schedule the macbook to play it, e.g. tomorrow 6am?
So – I hope somebody can maybe help me to understand what is going on? Is this a hardware issue – or maybe a 10.6.x bug? Any pointers would be appreciated. PS: so far other devices (printer, scanner) have not been complaining – seem to be content with whatever USB port they're connected to.
I added a new gmail account to Mac Mail via the File> Add Account, but the mailbox does not show up in mail. If I try to add it again, it says the account already exists. It does exist in System Preferences > Internet Accounts, but does not exist in Mail. I am updated to 10.10.3 and Mail.app is Version 8.2 (2098) Anyone have a fix?
But what about the others? With unknown MAC addresses? Some are piggybacking on my existing. P2p0 uses my Wi-fi MAC address. Bridge0 uses all zeroes which I think means it can use any available MAC address. When I turned all these extra interfaces off, via Terminal, my connection improves dramatically. But they were off already. They show as such in the network settings.
On many smart TVs or Windows computers, there is a feature called smart audio adjustment. It basically prevents the audio from going too loud or too quite when playing files that has audio output, such as a movie. I like to know if there is a similar feature or if there is an OSX application that can accomplish similar goal.
I have iPhone 5S and I want to create a powerpoint presentation but want to keep on the original resolution of the photos I take from my iPhone. How can I insert the photos from iPhone to my power point presentation AND keep on the quality of the photos? Thanks!
Currently cmd-enter in iTerm2 toggles fullscreen mode. Is there a way to disable this keyboard shortcut?
I need to briefly connect several hundred devices to the iPhone 6 Hotspot to test their Wi-Fi functionality. I only need to connect 3 or 4 at a time, and each is only connected for a few minutes. After checking about 12, no more devices would connect to the phone. If I power any of the first few back up, they connect to the phone just fine. If I try to connect any of the later devices to a new Wi-Fi source, it works just fine. It really seems like the iPhone has run out of IP addresses to allocate to new devices. Is there any way to reset the allocation so it will reuse addresses it has used recently?
I have 75gb of storage used in iMovie but there are no files showing up there, How do I find these files?
With the new app photos for mac, I'm getting a little confused. I didn't have that many photos in my iPhoto library, and yet it says that it is uploading 4000, where are those photos coming from? Are they coming from the shared photos in my shared photo stream? If so, how do I stop that from happening?
I need to authenticate against Open Directory on a linux box that has open-ldap installed. The program wants me to enter a username and password that can authenticate against OD. However, I do not want to provide my diradmin/password as its a read/write admin account. How can I create a read-only user?
I started to have notification pop-ups called NDTV since a week ago and I can't find a way to remove it. I certainly didn't install a 'NDTV' app and I checked it is not in the application directory. I also used the AppCleaner to search for it but there is nothing. So how can I keep getting those notifications? They are really annoying and suspicious and I really need to get them off my system.
I have an iPod Classic 160GB synced with iTunes in Windows on a desktop computer. Volume from the iPod through headphones is too soft. When I'm away from the desktop, is it possible to connect the iPod to my MacBook Air to listen to content through the Air as if it were a docking station? I could use headphones on the Air.
I use the iOS Simulator often to check webpages so I run it and pick "Keep in Dock". That's works except every time Xcode upgrades it's no longer in the dock and I have to go digging for it again. Is there any way to keep it in the dock permanently across Xcode upgrades?
I am working with iCloud, iPhone and Macbook Pro on Yosemite. I receive ICS calendar invites via mail from a user using Outlook. When I click on the ICS file in the mail, it opens and I can add it to my calendar without a problem. It also syncs nicely on all my devices.
Same question as this one on superuser: where is telnet's escape character, ^] located on an AZERTY (French) keyboard?
I set up some custom date formats, and while at first the date in the menu bar did honor them, now I've noticed it stopped and it's just using a standard one. How do I switch it back? Screenshot: If I click on it, it shows it using my custom format, but that's infinitely pointless. I'm running 10.10.3, IIRC I updated yesterday (from a 10.10.?, likely the one just before this one), but I'm not sure it's this update who broke it.
I'm trying to help a colleague whose MacBook periodically switches off without warning (I've had similar problems on a Mac Mini, so it's not power related). While investigating the logs in Library/Logs, I found a file talagent.log with something very odd, last updated very close to the time the computer last switched off without warning: What the heck is talagent and what does it mean that it is "Exiting out of boredom"? I've read this thread but it doesn't help me understand what's going on here. My first thought was that it must be a virus, because that's such a non-professional thing for a log entry to say, but that linked thread seems to imply it's not such a concern; but it doesn't help me understand what it is or what that means. We use Symantec as a virus scanner, and the Mac in question is on Mavericks (can't currently update for unrelated compatibility reasons).
I'm trying to find out what does "iTunes Accounts" traffic stands for on iOS, since it has gobbled 850MB on cellular data in 13 days. I have iTunes Match on but have disabled the Music app to access data on cellular networks. I'm on iOS 8.3 since today, data was consumed on 8.2.
I'm trying to debug a strange problem that is causing a Mac to unpredictably switch off instantly without warning. Looking at logs, the entries most recent before this last happened were to do with ubiquity, which I gather is to do with iCloud syncing (specifically, mmcs_engine_create, which I can't find any relevant info about), and TALagent, which I think might have been monitoring the live-ness of ubiquity.
How can I change the PDF reader on Chrome from Preview to Acrobat Reader on MacBook? The Adobe program is much more versatile and I prefer that one to Preview. In my Plug-ins in Chrome the Adobe Acrobat has the option to be de-activated as if it is the program I am using now. But my Chrome automatically opens PDFs with Preview.
Okay, so I have: One external display connected to my Mac Twenty Spaces (i.e., Mission Control), with ten Spaces on each display My keyboard shortcuts are [Ctrl + X] for the left-hand display, and [Ctrl + Alt + X] for the right-hand. My Mission Control settings are Displays have separate Spaces = ON
When I clicked on a proprietary dmg, I found this garbled alert. Whereas previously in the 10.8.x version, this DMG message is clear, it is unreadable with 10.9 and later.
I am new to scripts and automation but I wrote a script to help me on my daily job of watermarking and burn in timecode on videos. I created an Automator drop on app to convert videos and watermark and it works perfect, but I was trying to include also burn in timecode then it doesn't work anymore. Can someone help me? This is the script that works fine, when I drop a video on it, it open a terminal window and process the video When I did the same thing with the drawtext timecode it didn't work.
I have searched and I find a lot of results for specific methods of sending an iMessage with Applescript, but they all seem to contain extraneous code for specific needs that I don't need. I'm wondering how I can schedule automated text messages based on a repeating time. For instance: text my wife every morning at 9am, or text my bank every morning at 5am. So the specific help I need is (I think): how do I send an iMessage with Applescript,
I created a full backup from OS X 10.10.3 and I'd expect that sub-minor upgrade to be included in the backup. However this seems not true when I apply that backup in the initial setup-process of a mint MacBook—it will be a 10.10-version.
How do I open Windows through a virtual box on a Macbook Air? I tried to select a virtual CD/DVD drive, but was not sure which file to select.
Just update OS X 10.10.3 on my macbook pro VLC 'not responding' when I try to watch a video. I tried to use different media player, same thing happened. Someone help please.
How do I fix this? Is there some way to reset the URL bar's idea of what's in my bookmarks?
I have recently brought my self a MacBook Pro (2015) battery life because I was getting 4 hours or less on my MacBook Air (2010) that had about 800-880 cycle counts. Because of the battery issue with my MacBook Air I would like to know how to extend the battery life. Is there a way how I can make sure my battery lasts for more then 4 years while staying close to 10 hours? Cycle counts (1 cycle count is 50% to 100% back to 50% etc.) It is best to keep your battery between 20% and 80% (is it true?) More information on how cycle counts work (not sure if I fully understand them) How to reduce number of cycle counts (less is better) What is the battery life of an average use with 60% battery (between 20% and 80%) (need to last at least for 8+ hours without charging) Any applications that prevents the computer being charged over 80% (if possible) Any other tips for extending battery life I want to have good battery life (~10 hours) all the time and at least 8 (or as much as possible) hours i
I was very timid to check out the new Photos.app, and therefore decided to just start a fresh library and have it sync what my phone had through iCloud Photo Library. After checking it out for a bit, I think I want to move forward entirely with Photos. But at this point, I don't know how I can add in my Aperture library without opening it as a different library (holding down Option), but then don't know how it handles the current iCloud Photo Library.
The new Photos.app allows you to hold down option to open up other libraries, for example Aperture and iPhoto libraries. How does iCloud Photo Library handle this? Does it work in a way like iTunes Match, where a 'central' library lives in the cloud, and various libraries add to it? Or will you have to overwrite the library if you open another. This question stems from another question I had on how to import an Aperture library after setting up a new one, but is more tied to how iCloud Photo Library handles this more than the Photos app - and the workflow/system around this.
Is it possible to run Adobe Illustrator CS6 with the current Oracle Java 8 rather than the legacy insecure Java 6 provided by Apple? I know this is related to this question where the generic answer was that it may be incompatible, but I'd like to know if there is some shady hack that makes it run anyway.
When pressing and holding a keyboard button, i.e. an a, a character pops up.
I am trying to reset my admin password using recovery partition. When I type resetpassword in terminal, a window shows up but I don't see my drive in the top box.
(Sorry about the title, I had trouble figuring out what to name it). Anyway, a few days ago, someone asked me if they could text me. I readily agreed but then discovered that they couldn't because if they sent to my email it went to my email. I don't want that person's stuff in my email, I want it in my texts.
I set up my iTerm to work a lot like OSX does in other text fields, eg ⌘ Command+Delete = delete line backward, ⌥ Option+left arrow = "move cursor back one word" and ⌥ Option+Delete = delete word backward, but the way I have it, ⌥ Option+Delete in bash/iTerm doesn't count / as a word separator, so if I have cd a/path/to/a/folder and I hit ⌥ Option+Delete it deletes the whole path, instead of just folder. How can I set it up so that ⌥ Option+Delete only gets rid of folder? I realize this might need a bash solution, or an iTerm solution, but I don't know which. Or maybe it needs both.
So I created a .webloc file using a .vncloc file as a template (standard xml/plist format), but instead of opening in a Safari window, it is downloading the html of the website into a file. My goal is to eventually write a cronjob that keeps the URL of a server with a dynamic IP address up to date in the file (in dropbox) so that I can just double-click it anytime and get the correct server page. The contents of the file look like this: How do I get the .webloc file to actually open and display in Safari, as if I were to have entered the URL myself?
I'm looking to do something that I think is fairly basic, but I'm not aware of whether Airport Express hardware supports this scenario. Basically, I just want to tunnel audio via IP packets / my home network, from a home theater, to a set of outdoor speakers. [For the scenario, think: being able to follow the action of a sports broadcast when I go from home-theater room, to outside my house, where my outdoor speakers are.]
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.10 on my 2007 Macbook. I need OS X back. I burned OS X Lion (10.7) to a USB, now what?
I've downloaded the new Photos.app and migrated my iPhoto Library and now all my full screen images are replaced by a grey exclamation mark. This is being logged in the console : Does someone as any idea how to fix this ? If I explore the package of my Library the Masters folder contains all my files.
Suddenly my iPhone won't let me add new events to my calendar. In the upper right hand corner of the 'month' calendar there are 3 symbols. A rectangular box with 2 lines underneath. A magnify glass. A '+' The first two are red and active The third one is gray and inactive.
I have a macbook pro 8,1 that is having issues starting up. When I first turn it on, there is a small grey loading bar beneath the apple logo and loading circle. After the loading bar is ~20% done, it disappears. After this, the apple logo remains, and the loading circle continues spinning, but it stays like this for over an hour, until I eventually have to force shut it down. I cannot boot into safe mode, but I can open up Apple Hardware Test, which after multiple passes has not found any issues (both regular and extended tests) The DVD drive has had a disk stuck inside of it that cannot be removed, so I can't try to boot off a disk (even if I had one).
This is a problem new to Yosemite. I have a folder called "com.acme.epub". The Finder sees this as an ePub file and won't let me access it as a folder. I can access it as a directory via the Terminal but if I do "open .", then it launches iBooks (which is not my default epub application). How do I get the Finder to see this folder as an actual folder/directory and not as an epub file? Note: Renaming the folder is not an option. This same behavior occurs with folders that end with a ".key" string; it probably happens with certain other strings as well.
Following a system update, all Apple apps looking to Google required new Google Application Passwords. Generating and entering this enabled Mail, Notes and Messages to sync again.
Did clean install of Yosemite. In Finder I can't move files to a folder. I must authenticate almost all move operations. After entering password the file is not moved, but copied instead. Apple is not much help. I have been told I have created an encrypted volume and have to bring in computer. I don't buy it. Another consultant said I need to turn off FileVault and unencrypt volume, but FileVault is already off. Anybody familiar with this problem?
Is it possible to keep using iPhoto after starting to use Photos?
My website contains some user pictures that weighs about 70kb. Using Safari on Iphone 6, there're some images that aren't displayed (blank content) in HTTP but are in HTTPS. It well works using an iPhone 4S with simple HTTP. I don't figure out the reason, any idea?
How do I determine what version(s) of xcode command line tools I have? I tried doing Is the Apple LLVM version the same as the version of xcode command line tools?
Context: I wanted to install Windows 8 onto my Mac by repartitioning my FusionDrive. Using the partition BootCamp provided didn't work, so I found a "solution" on Apple forums to create empty space instead and have the Windows installation media create a partition. Windows created the partition, but wouldn't install.
I am running macosx 10.6.3 and trying to mount/access the internal hd through diskutility: it does not show up here. I tried this: *=URL=* What could be the reason why I cannot access my internal hd anymore?
I have a perfectly fine scanned image of a signature. It is unnecessarily inaccurate to hold it in front of the camera instead of using the image directly. How to enter the signature from the image file directly?
I have recently damaged my iPhone 5s screen and have had to buy a new phone. I'm trying to backup the damaged device to my computer and iTunes is asking me to authorize access to my iPhone, which I can't because the screen is not responding. Is there a workaround?
A few days ago, I have seen the newly released version of Xcode (6.3) in the updates section of the store, so today I decided to update it. Updating from 6.2, the process started normally (Xcode was closed during this time) all the way until I could see on launch pad that the download and installation are completed. In the App Store updates section, I can see in recent updates - Xcode 6.3
I'm using OS X Yosemite, just updated to 10.10.3 and the at command and related (atq, atrm etc) have stopped working. Has atd been disabled in the latest 10.10.3? If so how do I investigate and reenable the required permissions?
I don't turn off my MacBook Pro very often, and sometimes it just freezes and restarts itself after a few seconds. Its very annoying, especially when I'm working on something. I contacted support a few times and I did everything they said, and recently I started monitoring my memory usage and I noticed that Safari is taking a lot of memory, so I started to restart Safari when I see that its eating up my memory. My MacBook started acting better until just now. While I was waiting for it to restart it self, I saw that the memory levels were ok. So I'm wondering, is there any way I can see the history of Activity Monitor? Or is there any log I can check to see what the error is?
I have a small SSD as my main drive, and a large regular drive for data files. Noticing that my mac is currently downloading an XCode update of about 2.5Gb and an OS update of about the same size, I wondered if I can configure where OSX downloads these temporary files to?
I had an iPhoto library in a non-standard folder and it was not recognised by Photos (which is OK). I would now like to import all the photos and then delete the old library. How?
I would like to copy files and folders recursively from an external drive to my internal SSD. However, when I drag and drop, and, subsequently, when I use the copied files, I am always asked to enter an administrator credentials. I don't know if it is a chmod or chown issue, or both (difficulties to making the difference between them). Is there a way (through Terminal I guess) to copy the files:
I've noticed an issue. Are you facing the same?
I have a main folder with about 80 folders in, each with about 10 items in. I want to be able to use a Terminal command or something to just move every item from each sub-folder into a new one (i.e the newly created folder would have around 800 items in, not separated by individual folders). Doing this by hand would be very tedious. Is there a way to do it easily and quickly? I have looked at ditto, but couldn't figure out how to use it for my use case. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!
Is there a way to include folders and files to a Time Machine backup, say, because they are on another drive? I am using Yosemite version 10.10.2.
How can I remove unlinked folders, such as "Readdle Documents" in iCloud Drive, left behind after uninstalling the app?
I'm working with a MacBook at different locations where monitors are then in a different positions relative to the MacBook's screen. As a result I have to rearrange the monitor setup every time I use a different workplace. Is there a built-in way in OS X or a tool to save an arrangement and easily restore it, preferably from the menu bar?
When I go out to the shopping center, there are various free hotspots hosted by companies, such as MacDonalds and even the shopping center itself, and when you log in, it prompts you to accept T&C(s) and other various things on a landing page. But when I am at home and when I login (obviously with the network keycode), the same prompt comes up... It brings up the Apple test page, and when I press 'Cancel', it immediately disconnects.
My aunty bought an iPhone 5s from a second phone dealer for my kid sister as a gift but the phone appears to be icloud locked but not in lost mode. Since it's not in lost mode, I'm supposing the phone isn't stolen and would like to contact the previous user to help remove the phone from his icloud account. How will i get the email address used for the icloud account? Can anyone help us out?
I have an unusual but annoying problem with my MBP. The problem occurs often when running my laptop with an external monitor connected, and watching YouTube in Chrome. The problem is that the video will (seemingly randomly) freeze, audio will continue playing, and the computer becomes completely unresponsive aside from the mouse still moving. If I then shut the lid of my laptop, eventually the computer will sleep, but the screen remains black (no backlight) when attempting to wake it up again, although you do hear the CPU fan and HDD spin up like normal.
I use the workflow ios app and I have created a workflow that opens a certain url once. This works fine and it opens this one url in a new tab. However, if I set this to repeat x amount of times it opens all urls in the same tab. (It could also be that the app "refuses" to repeat the command, hard to tell the difference. The central point is that I can only get one new tab, not more.) The URL I use is *=URL=* which is a link that redirects to the URL of a random unread item in the bookmarking service pinboard. The actions I use now are: With repeat it is: Is there some way to open one or more URLs in separate tabs with one workflow app workflow?
Any changes in Finder gives the popup window where I am asked to type my password. I can delete files so not that earlier discussed problem. Any file taken out of finder is just copying, not remove it. It started after updating to 10.10.3 and both on iMAC and Macbook Air.
I have been trying to download Apple HIG in PDF, only thing I found was Apple HIG documentation which just gives me an ePub file for iBooks. Things I've (unsuccessfully) tried: share/export from iBook as PDF (no luck) looked in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books (no PDF) open ePub in iBooks Author (can't open) So how can I either get the latest HIG as a PDF or convert the ePub into PDF?
I want to get the nickname of the currently logged in OS X user via Apple Script. Currently can only retrieve the full name or the nickname of a contact, I wasn't able to combine the two scripts. Returns my full name. tell application "Contacts" to get nickname of person "My Name" Returns my nickname. I'd like to get the nickname of the vcard of the currently logged in user.
I'm trying to install OS X Yosemite through 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' downloaded from the Internet. When I try to open it by double clicking it, nothing happens. When I use the terminal I get the following message:
I recently got a new MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.2, and I installed boot2docker 1.5.0 on it. Aside from Chrome, this is the first program I installed on my new machine. However, when I try to run it, the terminal window opens up for a few seconds, saying boot2docker is up, and then my computer restarts automatically. I tried to uninstall 1.5.0 and install 1.4.1 (as that is what I was using on my last machine), but I encountered the same problem. The last thing I see before my laptop restarts is this:
So, my dog bit through my MacBook Air charger and i just ordered one online without really knowing what all the specs meant. Now my question, does it hurt my battery to use a charger with a higher charging capacity?
Looking for a means of reconnecting a network home directory without having to log out and back in. Unfortunately due to server maintenance or even sleep issues with the client, the network home directory connection is lost.
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i bought my MBP Retina display 13"(late 2013) 5 months ago; a week ago i had to change its battery at an authorised reseller when my small sister accidentally dropped a whole glass of water on it. i think my new battery isn't the same as the one i had before. i paid a LOT of money to get it fixed... my question is: is there any way i can find out my old battery's information and/or serial # through my MBP's serial number? or if anyone has the same mac model would you be kind enough to share your battery(original) information? MacBook Information: MacBook Pro Core i5 2.6 13" Retina Late 2013 Current Battery Information: Model Information: Serial Number: Manufacturer: SMP Device Name: bq20z45 (i researched and there should be a 1 after the 5) Pack Lot Code: 0 PCB Lot Code: 0 Firmware Version: 702 Hardware Revision: 3 Cell Revision: 379 Charge Information: Charge Remaining (mAh): 3870 Fully Charged: No Charging: No Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6211 (I believe this should be around 8000) He
I have a Mac which was reinstalled from scratch, and the owner accidentally changed her username when installing it. Current user id is "Jane" but old time machine backups were made when her user name was "Jan". Now, she can't access her old backups.
I spilled coffee on my keyboard and most keys are now constantly pressed so the machine is not usable so I disabled the built-in keyboard in order to use an external keyboard but I am having some problems. I do not want to replace the built-in keyboard, I just want to disable it and use an external keyboard. I searched around and found that I could disable the built-in keyboard by typing the following to disable: And the following to enable: I typed the above but it didn't work so I typed:
It seems the clipboard does not work - either direction. I can not copy and paste into or from a Preview edited PDF doc.
Last night my phone just turned off even though it had 53% charge. it would only turn back on if I plugged the charger in, and after being on for 40 seconds or so the phone turns off again, the screen turns green and slowly fades away. It has been absolutely fine before this and the phone will not turn back on. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Is there a trackpad gesture to switch between Chrome browser tabs? I understand there may be one for Safari.
I have a small network consisting of a couple of iMacs hardwired to an AirPort router via CAT 5e cable, and a couple of iPhones. Since the iMacs are hardwired, I'd normally leave Wi-Fi turned off on those machines. However, I have found Wi-Fi to be useful for AirDrop between the iPhones and the iMacs, and for AirDrop between the two iMacs. Here are my questions:
After upgrade there is no folder icon in Finder:  Does somebody have problem like this? Could you maybe help me with some advice?
I just sold my old iPhone 4s, but it was still logged in to 'Find My iPhone'. How can I log it out without having the phone? I have changed the password and told the person who bought it to see if they can log it out, but it isn't working.
Reminders on iOS is often out of sync with Reminders on my other devices and iCloud. How do I force it to sync?
Does anyone know how to do this? I already unchecked birthdays in the iCal > preferences
In iOS, if “system services” are active in privacy, my “frequent locations” are recorded, but I can only see, for each of them, a fragment of a map and a quite generic description: the name of a road, for instance, which is less than useful for a long, out-of-town road without specific nearby points of reference. Is there a way to get more useful data, such as latitude and longitude?
I have two WiFi networks: one at home and one in my office. Both are basically quite similar – same connection provider, same connection speed, same modem, same router – the only difference is that at home we use an AirPort Extreme station to broadcast the WiFi signal. My MacBook Air (1.85 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.7.5) does automatically recognize and log in to the AirPort Extreme powered home hotspot – but it won't auto-login to the office hotspot even though it does remember the network and lists it in the Network Preference.
I'm just wondering that why Mail keeps quitting after the 10.10.3 update. The mail app worked fine and I never had to quit it, but now it happens occasionally.
I had no success. I tried to partition it without success. When I try to re-install the OS or restore from Time Machine, the hard disk doesn't appear. It's like it isn't mounted.
I have a Deltaco USB 3.0 hub which I've connected a Thinkpad USB 3.0 Ethernet Adapter. When I boot, or wake, my MacBook Pro (late 2013) won't detect the network interface to be connected at all. I have to re-plug it on the Deltaco USB hub, and 3-5 seconds later I'm up and running. What I'm wondering is how do I fix this?
I'm hoping to setup a script to run automatically when a USB device is connected, however I'm not certain how to trigger it. Unfortunately the USB device isn't a volume, so I can't use the onmount trigger for it, and while I have a script command to interact with it, it doesn't include an API to trigger actions automatically; i.e- I can verify that it's connected, but I'd have to poll continuously until it is. I don't expect to be able to get the developers to add such functionality any time soon either (if at all).
I'm trying to have launchd run a shell script when I join a new WiFi network. I've created this plist file (closely based on this SuperUser answer) at /Users/myname/Library/LaunchAgents/my.networkChangeListener.plist: My user is the owner of the plist, and the group is "staff". When I try to load the file by running launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/my.networkChangeListener.plist, I get an error saying "Invalid property list". However, when I run plutil ~/Library/LaunchAgents/my.networkChangeListener.plist, it returns "OK"
After a while, lookupviewservice will occurred and use more than 2G memory (even more than this after a few days). I have to end the process manually, but after a while, it comes up again, even though I have never used the Dictionary app.
My MBA's model number is A1369. I bought this power adapter: 85W magSafe 2 Power Adapter. Model number A1424. I know it's not the ideal power adapter, but will it work on my MacBook without a converter?
When I run the networksetup -getdnsservers airport command in terminal, it says There aren't any DNS Servers set on Wi-Fi. I need my primary DNS to fix my NAT Type on Xbox One.
Any ideas please? I have to put it on do not disturb, which is less convenient than pressing the volume button.
I am booting my macbook through an external usb drive. At system preferences - startup disk when I try to select my internal harddisk it says: What could be the issue with the internal drive or how can I fix it?
So my problem is that my mac is not booting up. Also,the OS X recovery HD is not available. Also, the internet recovery is not detecting my WiFi .. so i intend to clean install Yosemite on my mac. I have the Yosemite.app and a boot-able USB and windows. But i don't know how to install from the .app file . please help
Do normal card readers like these detect automatically on a Mac or a separate app should be installed ? Do DSLR camera's SD card detect on a mac just like a normal SD card or should I install a separate app for it ? Will the Mac detect my Motorola G when I connect it via USB ?
Since the update from Mavericks to Yosemite I have a very strange and annoying problem. When I move a bunch of files to an external harddisk (drag & drop) the last file of the group is not moved. It is only copied. The original file remains at its source! I have to delete it manually afterwards. (Sometimes I forget to do so!)
today I was looking after my Java Version and I got very confused. I found three different ones: If I look in Webstorm it uses: 1.6.0_65 If I make java -version I get: 1.7.0_45 If I look in the system settings I get: 1.8.0_45 What can I do to just have system wide ONE Java version which will be the version which I update via my system settings: 1.8.0_45?
I have bought a new macbook pro 15" retina in March 2015, but with less than 1 month of usage, I feel that my enter key is very loose and probably (or almost) broken. Maybe it's not broken and the quality of Macbook Pros is getting worse and things deteriorate really faster than the older ones. Aesthetically the keyboard looks normal, but when typing, specially the enter feels horrible...I can't stop thinking I've spent 2K euros in something that is worse than cheap competitors. The product is under warranty, but I don't know for sure if the authorised firms will do something about it — they might say that this behaviour is normal or that I used it badly (which is not true).
presently when I attempt to group files in Finder (Yosemite 10.10.3) by kind the created Documents category creates a vast number of files including CSVs DOCX etc: Is it possible to make this groupings more efficient, by: Grouping files by extension -or-
Is there a way I can have my terminal dynamically change covers based on the host I am on? For example, the default background (as determined by terminal profile) is black. Maybe there is another terminal profile that is the exact same except that it has a blue background. Now, if I SSH from black_host which is the default into blue_host, my terminal profile switches (or the background changes from black to blue).
I've read the user manual and FAQ on ports for the new 2015 Retina MacBook and can't tell if it supports target disk mode. Apple's article on target disk explicitly says Firewire and Thunderbolt are required for target disk mode but the excellent iMore review article says:
Every time I do something in Terminal where you need a password following thing comes: Sorry, try again. Sorry, try again. Sorry, try again. sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts What am I doing wrong?
Is it possible to use Messages (Apple iMessage) with Adium or any other third party client.
I have a Mac running Fedora with no recovery partition and no access to any computer with Mac OS X. How can I reinstall OS X on this computer?
I have an administration acct and a standard acct in my computer. I go to delete the standard but, after unlocking the lock, it does not allow me to select the standard, only the adm. What am I doing wrong ?
I already tried this: Changing trackpad scroll direction with AppleScript in Yosemite But don't worked. What I need is when I use macbook pro trackpad scroll direction it is natural scroll direction; and when I use external mice it is "non natural" If it is impossible, how can be the following alternative: when i plug in mice switch to "non-natural" scroll direction, and when i disconnect mice switch to natural.
How ever if I try to open a website nothing opens and the page loads simply forever. I am connected either with Wifi or Cable but the same result. I tried to activate/disactivate without success the network adapter. Of course I restarted modem as well. (Besides with my tablet and phone the same modem via Wifi works perfect).
Only approx 200 M of internal drive storage left, but over 19GB of iCloud storage available and yet I am unable to run the latests iOS update as there is not sufficient space. Could someone explain why that is? Is there anything specific I need to do so the iCloud storage can be used for the update? I'm sure I ran updates based on free iCloud storage space alone in the past and worked fine.
I'm switching to using Photos and I'm trying to import all my old photos. I select them all in Finder and drag them into Photos, some import and for some I get the error "Unable to get metadata". However, if I individually select any of the files that gave an error and drag them in, they import without errors. I still have several thousand to import and I don't want to have to find them individually and drag them in, any idea whats going on?
I am using Mac book pro with OS X 10.9.5 at work. To connect to internet, I am connecting over Wifi and VPN. Also I have to use a proxy server in order to connect to Internet.
I was using Disk Inventory X to visualize my hard drive storage and help me find some extra space. It appears that iPhoto Library takes 52.0 GB and Photos Library takes 49.4 GB. Is this a known issue that moving from iPhoto to Photos duplicated everything or is this just a sym link under the covers?
I have an application that is fully functional when opened from Show Package Contents > /Contents/MacOS/app however when I click the icon in the Applications folder the icon just keeps bouncing. Here is the console output when the Icon is clicked: Can someone tell me what this means and why this would happen?
I have a subtitle .srt file. Is there an app which can change the encoding of this file. (I guess it's encoding is Arabic(windows-1256) but vlc and MXPlayer didn't open it.) The link of subtitle is here.
I have used Windows for all of my life. In Windows, shortcuts are (almost) always initiated with the Control key. Modifications to those shortcuts are then done with the ⇧ key. So, for example, you move to the next tab using ControlTab ↹ and move to the previous tab using Control⇧Tab ↹.
I accidentally closed all my windows in safari and wondering if there is any way to reopen them? Some of them had been open for days so I don't know if I can find correct ones from History. No back up.
I use Google Calendar for my calendaring app. I am trying to solve a problem where calendar invites sent from other people using iCloud won't show up in my Google Calendar (I'm accessing gCal through Sunrise.am, but I don't think that's relevant). I found this thread on support.apple.com which suggests if you have a Google account with the same email address as your Apple ID, then Apple will send the invite to your iCloud calendar instead of your Google Calendar, unless you log into iCloud and disable the "Use iCloud for incoming invitations" setting: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3454604?start=45&tstart=0
I've just seen a video on the new Music app in iOS 8.4 Beta. Now if possible I would like to try it, so I simply googled "iOS 8.4 Beta download". I was hoping to find it in some developer section of an Apple website, but only found it on third party websites. Can I assume that the software is going to be safe, when downloading it from websites like Chip.de (which is usually a trustworthy source). How would I go about installing the software, as there are normally updates in iTunes or on the iOS device itself?
I have users who want to share a highpowered mac in a lab. It has a decent processor and a ton of RAM. They want to be able to remotely access this mac from both PC/Mac just like a user would be able to do for Windows using remote desktop. It is possible that two or more users (but no more than 4) would want to access this machine at the same time. It should have enough ram to handle this. They also want a drive on this mac that they can all share on their lab network.
I'm trying to find all files that have no extension in a Finder folder. I know how to search by extension and exclude a specific extension but what do I type in the box if I want no extension at all?
How to purchase a song/album using iTunes store credit? I tried to purchase a song but iTunes Store is asking my credit card while in fact I just redeemed a $15 gift card. Please help.
I'm streaming a basketball game on one computer, but I want to simultainiously share to another computer in the house. Is this possible? Thanks
This is an issue at my school district where I work as a network admin. Right now, I could see around the list of at least 15-20 Apple TVs that is located across school buildings when I press on AirPlay function on my iPhone 6. Our only security we have is right now that all Apple TVs require password to access before we can use them.
I got a new iPhone, and I gave my old one to my husband. Naturally, I want to disable my Apple account and iMessage on the old phone. How do I do this without affecting my own account? Each time I receive a message on my new phone, he is receiving the same message on his phone. We have two different phone numbers.
Is there a way to bold the color of the current active terminal tab in iterm2? I do not see an option to do that on the appearance tab of preferences. I know I can change the tab style, but I still want a really bold appearance.
Recently here in this site, with the help of one of the members I got a script problem solved. Or sort of. THE PROBLEM I say sort of, because even when the script will do the task flawlessly if no special character is in the name, the script has a huge limitation: It won't read, write or both, text containing special characters. EXAMPLE: Mercé Lamás del Jagüey Nuñez becomes in iTunes Merce\U0301 Lama\U0301s del Jagu\U0308ey Nun\U0303ez-
All of a sudden, while playing a song on the itunes store or a podcast on the podcast store, I can't skip ahead to a specific time. When I click ahead, the cursor reaches that location, then immediately pulls back and fast forwards the play location by about 5 seconds. This is extremely frustrating and is seemingly happening out of no where.
I'm wondering if there is any meaning to the combination of button presses I make to use keyboard shortcuts. I'm hoping to speed up the learning process of learning keyboard shortcuts in this way. I figure if I have an idea why (for example) I might press fn+delete that it performs the same function on a mac keyboard that traditional keyboards do when just delete is pressed. More examples of keyboard shortcuts are ones that everyone knows like command+c or +v or +x for copy, paste and cut.
Time Machine keeps hourly backups for 24 hours by default before purging for daily backups and I'd like to extend this further (to a week of hourly backups). Is there a way to change the backup retention policy config to allow for this? There doesn't seem to be an option in the UI. Failing this, I'll have to install something else and I'd rather stick with Time Machine because of a fairly large initial backup (millions of files, TB's of data, already under backup with Time Machine)
My current Magsafe 2 charger broker, and I was wondering if my other Magsafe 1 charger can replace this Magsafe 2 charger?
Result: Thunderbolt screen remains blank/black/not turned on when I plug it in. Also tried to restart the desktop while the two are connected, no luck! 2, Desktop <==(HDMI)=adapter=(Thunderbolt) ==> Display Results: Exactly the same as above. Any suggestion folks? P/S:I've paid $2K for two of my Thunderbolt displays thus don't want to throw them away.
On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? I just want the red line to appear on words. But autocorrect is terrible and ruins most everything I say. So I just want spell check only. But when I turn off autocorrect then spell check turns off also. How do I fix that? I'm on iOS 8.3 on a 5S.
Is there a way, using either applescript or a shell script, to change the scroll speed? I don't even know where to begin to look for a mechanism for this. Oh, and no third-party applications either, just plain vanilla applescript/shell script so as to be completely portable and should be able to function on Mac OS 10.6 - 10.10.
I have various Mac Minis that I use as kiosks. I set them up to have an admin account and a user account managed with Parental Controls, which the machine auto-logs into and runs my native app full screen.
I'm a programmer, so it'd be useful for me to have access to F1, F2, etc. while working on my laptop (a 2013 Macbook Air). That said, I'm not really willing to give up the music or volume control keys. Is there a way to bind F7-F11 to their respective OS X specific features?
In short: On a mac with a clean installation of Yosemite, doubleclicking a compiled Java mac-style .app application bundle fails to launch the app, unless Apple's Java 6 is installed, even if the current version of Java for the Mac from Oracle is installed. At length: When Apple developed the Java SDK for macosx, you could open a .app mac-style application bundle written in Java by doubleclicking its icon in Finder, its app icon will show up in your dock while it was running, and its menu items would live in the Mac OS menu bar. Java apps behaved almost like native Mac apps. On the other hand, if you install the current Java SDK from Oracle, you can execute your Java application with java -jar YourApp.app/Contents/Resources/Java/yourapp.jar, but you get a generic dock icon, your menu items live on top of the window instead of menu bar.
How do I turn iMessages off on my MacBook? I have tried to go to settings but those were in the old version! I don't know how to turn it off in the new version.
I felt that my iMac late 2012 became pretty slow, above all after login. Now when I look into disk utility, it seems that my disk doesn't behave as Fusion Drive any more:
The title says it (I mean, when a new file is created in an other application). This started happening today, and I think this may be related to an error message which I got the first time in yesterday evening:
Sometimes on OS X Yosemite my connection to a shared network server is stick connecting, while the server is available. OS X simply won't connect to it using Finder and the Connect As... button doesn't respond. It won't eject either. Only a restart fixes everything again, a relaunch of Finder doesn't help. I am wondering if there's a fix or easier workaround for this.
I am developing a script which deals with sound recording. As user potentially can have multiple sound cards attached, I would like to give him/her a chance to select desired one. The software I use for actual recording asks for numeric "Device ID". Is there any way to retreive list of Device IDs along with soundcards' names from command line (terminal)?
Hi my iPhone 3gs is currently operating on 6.1.6. I'm trying to load an app & when I push install a window comes up telling me I need to update to iOS 7 or later. My software updates say I'm up to date.... Is there a way to force an update???
So, I had an app, and removed it (moved to trash) Now, I can see its icon in launchpad (when I click it says "You can't open the application "Name" because it is in the trash.). With only button OK. How do I remove it from Launchpad completely?
3) I tried Force Click on other functions (eg: calendar, quicktime, dock, etc) all are working fine. This indicates that hardware is good. 4) I upgraded OS X to 10.10.3 and it does not work still.
I write mathematical computer code. I frequently need Greek letters such as ø My current workflow is terrible: hold down OPT and run my finger across the three rows of the keyboard: ... And see if I can find what I'm hunting for. Failing that, typing 'alpha Unicode' into Google hope for some symbol I can copy and paste. I discovered that in system settings -> keyboard -> keyboard, I can "show keyboard and character viewers in menubar".
Specs indicate just 1. Has anyone connected more than 1 monitor successfully? How many can you connect in total?
I'm about to migrate from Linux to OS X and I wonder if will encounter issues with development, as I probably will need lots of packages which are available in apt, yum package management systems. How can I find out whether these packages are available for OS X as well?
I have just recently bought a used Macbook Pro with Yosemite installed. So far everything seemed to work ok, except today I tried to tag a folder with the coloured dot and found it not possible. The dots are there, but they have no colour. This doesn't look right and I haven't seen anything like this before. Has anyone encountered anything like that? I would greatly appreciate your help? Please check the screenshot attached below.
I took my MacBook Pro to an Apple recognized provider for repair, and as part of the repair setup they asked for my account password... Is that a regular routine?
Since a couple of days, I experience the weird issue that OS X 10.10.3 does not react to keyboard or mouse inputs, except multitouch gestures like 4-finger swipes. The unresponsiveness will persist for ~20 seconds (I haven't counted yet) and then all clicks and key presses I made during that time seem to be executed quickly one after the other, as if they had been buffered somewhere and the buffer had then been flushed. I have associated this problem with the following log message in Console
I have thousands of photos with IPTC metadata -- I'm mostly interested in the star-ratings and the tags -- and I'd like to create folders for those images that automatically stay in sync as I change the metadata. When I create a Smart Folder, I don't see any way to use IPTC metadata. (Though I see old posts on forums that make it seem like this was once possible?)
I have MacBook Pro mc700 with OS X Yosemite installed. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to format my HDD and install a fresh version of Yosemite, so I copied all contents of my iTunes folder into an external hard disk and installed the OS X. Now when I copy the iTunes folder back into my MacBook my iTunes app can't recognize it and so nothing happens. I know probably I've done something wrong about "just copying" the iTunes folder but I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me to save my old iTunes library. Thanks.
Finder has shown, for a few weeks now, the following symptoms: About 12 to 24 hours after a restart Finder shows refresh issues. That means that new files are not shown, old files however are still visible. This is not happening in all folders either but in a few. After a few more hours, Finder starts to display no files in the affected folders anymore. Any of the common refresh tricks (like switching to another folder and then back do not help.
I checked VLC's preferences but it seems that Show/Hide Playlist is the only player's button that doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X version. Is there any way to control that?
I use Back-To-My-Mac to log into my office computer from home and vice versa. Normally, after I log into my home laptop, I darken the screen for both energy efficiency and privacy and that works fine. However, when I log into my iMac at work, I noticed the next day that the screen-darkening trick is virtually pointless as far as privacy is concerned (I share an office). The lowest brightness setting of the screen on my iMac is nowhere near a level that would prevent others from watching me work.
I've been texting my wife's number from this phone for months. Suddenly today I am getting an error message telling me I need to use a ten digit number. The number the error thinks I'm trying is my wife's number but with "11" added to the beginning. So far I can still text other people without the error.
I have an iMac with Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). When I open the Mac App store, and try to download an App, it asks me for the login. When I enter my Apple ID's email and password and click login, the button become gray for a moment, and then asks me for the credentials again. There is no error message displayed. The email and passwords are correct, since if I try an incorrect password it tells me that it is wrong.
Preview has the ability to "share" documents by mailing them. When I select this feature, nothing happens. I don't get an error message.
In Finder, I see a file with the ".rel" extension. I'd like top open it in TextMate. I don't see TextMate in the list of choices, and, in fact, can't find it anywhere in the list of applications when I try to choose the application to open it with.
Is there any way to automatically set the alarm clock on my iPhone if my calendar has an event in the morning? The calendar events are being added from a variety of platforms via Google calendar, and I'd like there to automatically be an alarm on the phone (if the event is in the morning.) Thanks
I am new to Mac and am trying to install a Hex Editor. Google sent me to "Hex Fiend", but, when I try opening it, I get "'Hex Fiend.app' can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer."
I wanted to run a script that changes my background image whenever use the printer. Is it possible? Is there a way to know when OS X is printing something?
Every time I insert an SD card or a drive via USB, dang Image Capture pushes its way to the front of my screen. This is just since the Yosemite update--I can no longer find an option to only launch this with certain SD Cards, etc. There's no eject button in the bottom left corner. I can't find any preferences or other features that would allow me to turn autorun off. It's not listed in my autorun programs in System Prefs. Here's a screenshot of the guilty app: Appreciate any tips!
I am using a Macbook Pro Version 10.10.2, and I have OSX Yosemite. I've been trying for hours to get Wine, and I downloaded the 1.6.1 version of Wine. Then, on the Windows file, Pokemon Uranium Beta 4.0.msi, I right clicked the file and opened it with Wine. Then I followed the instructions How to run Uranium on Mac OS X
I am going to submit my first iOS app in the next few days and I am a little unsure about what to do with the privacy policy. Is it enough just to have it on the App Store page or do I need to include it in the app? Do I need to display it to the users from within the app before the register for an account? Finding it hard to find any information on this.
I want to give different sound for each sender in whatsapp ( not group ) Example: i have 10 contacts in whatsapp so i want each person when send massage i give it different sound means 10 different sound for 10 different contacts. Thank you
I was wondering if adding more RAM would help the stalls and poor performance of a mid-2011 iMac. It was working great until I upgraded to Yosemite and the newer Parallels.
No additional questions. I'm fine with installing an additional program.
I would like to share my iTunes with my niece who lives outside the US. If I give her my iTunes ID and password, will she be able to listen to the music I have in my account? And more importantly, will she be able to access anything else other than my iTunes music?
I'm using Safari 8.0.5 on OS X 10.10.3. We have a server that's accessible over both FTP and HTTP. This server's name begins with "ftp." Whenever I try to connect to this server over HTTP, Safari dumps the connection attempt off to an FTP client, even if I use "*=URL=* (for the sake of an example) in the URL. This is super annoying. The only way I can get the correct behavior is to use a different web browser, such as Chrome or Firefox. Can anyone suggest a way around this? Thanks, Sigsegv
Doing Quick Look on .txt files if very convenient (select in Finder and press space). Is there a way to enable Quick Look for other text files which don't have the .txt extension (e.g., .strings files)?
I was installing Office 365 on 2008 Macbook with OS X 10.6 and about half way through the installation a pop-up said to close Safari to continue installation. When I did, I received another pop up that installation failed. Was I suppose to X out of Safari which is what I did?
This dreaded issue started at some time after upgrade to OS X (Yosemite) 10.10.3. accountsd uses about 60% CPU constantly, making the laptop hot and noisy. I'm not using iCloud at all. Killing it doesn't help, because it starts again quickly. Probably related question, but it's about iOS: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU?
All my photos transferred just fine from iPhoto to Photos. My albums (smart and regular) are also all there too. I'm using iCloud to sync my library to my iPhone and my iPad and at first it removed all my photos from both devices and then re-downloaded them. So now all of the photos are on my devices but when I go to albums on my iPhone or iPad there are only the regular Albums and none of the Smart Albums I have on my Macbook Pro. Does anyone know how to fix this?
It seems that I am asking for something that doesn't exist? Here is the modal
I have a long set of lines within a text box extend beyond the height of the text box and slide. I wish to create an animation that will scroll to the bottom of the contents of the text box. I have seen this before in presentations, but have been unable to figure out how to reproduce this effect.
I'd like to change the thumbnail selected by Photo.app for some of the people on the Faces album, but I can't seem to find that option. Also, consolidating some of the suggested names –which I suppose are contacts in some of the cases– would be great.
Using latest operating systems on both iPhone and iMac. The photos taken from iPhone are not showing up on my iMac's Photos app. I have "My Photo Stream" turned on in Photos' iCloud preferences. However, they used to show up within seconds on Aperture on iMac.
Is it possible to use SmartNav in a Windows 7 that runs on a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp? Ideally I would like to use it in a multi-monitor configuration.
I am preparing technical presentations with a lot of graphics using PowerPoint 2011 for Mac (version 14.4.9). Whenever I insert an image, it is set to crop to fill by default (the most useless option in my opinion). Here is how the default option looks like:
Is there a way to deactivate bad RAM regions on a Macbook Pro Retina 13"? I was not able to update my Mac to OS X 10.10.3. Complete reinstall was also not successful. I ran diagnostics and memtest86, both revealing bad regions of RAM. What can I do other than repairing the Macbook? I don't have an APP so repairing would be very expensive.
Here are the steps I used open Xcode create a new project choose the command line prompt On the the option for new project I put the product name For language I choose C++
Is there any way to know if my phone's SIM port is working, even though it's locked to Sprint and I don't have access to a Sprint SIM? I tried using another one but it says "no sim" instead of "no service". Should I go on with the unlocking or there is something else causing it to say "no sim"?
1. I went online to see how to delete the album and was redirected here: itunes.com/soi-remove
I have an iCloud backup from an iPhone running iOS 8.3. Now, I'd like to restore another iPhone from this backup. The problem is that the other iPhone is running iOS 8.2 (this iPhone cannot be updated to 8.3 as I need it to run this very version).
I installed Yosemite 10.10.3, which comes with the new Photos app. Seems nice so far... When deleting a photo on my MacBook, a warning message is shown:
So I installed Windows 8.1 x64 using the Boot Camp Assistant on my Yosemite, iMac 5K 27". The max screen resolution is being reported as 3840x2160.
There's an update for Xcode 6.3 and it includes a new version of Swift (1.2). If I update, do I have to migrate all my Swift code to 1.2 or can I select an older version of Swift?
How many Safari history entries are kept on iPads until automatically deleted? (Not sure if this depends on iPad model or version of iOS…)
I am looking for a control / app for sound output control which has function that allows me to have selective sound output for any app that plays sound or music. Examples:
There are default apps on the iPhone 5 (and the others I'm sure). How do I remove them off my screen? Such as the default Mail client? I have my own that I use and like.
This is how it looks right now  These are my "Language & Region" settings
Is there an app that can keep longer than a week or so of browsing hisotry, which is what seems to be available in Safari? The longer the better...
I have an iPhone 6 that is running iOS 8.3 Last night I got in the rain and my phone got a little wet too. Later I noticed that when I try to speak on the phone I cannot hear a single thing, also if I try to play music or use siri I cannot hear anything, but if alarm sets off or a timer or I have an incoming call the sound is working.
If I update my iPad 4 to iOS 8 from iOS 6, will the standard Over-The-Air update procedure delete any of my data? I don't have a computer to back it up, so this is important.
The first Airport is connected straight to the ethernet socket wall outlet. The second Airport is connected by pairing to the first Airport.
There are plenty of instructions on how to to make a Yosemite installer USB drive that work using either the createinstallmedia program or Diskmaker X. However, when I take that drive to a machine which cannot be connected to the internet or to wifi, the installer tells me the OS cannot be installed because an internet connection is required. For all previous versions of the OS, it was trivial to do this with Diskmaker X because the installer did not require internet access. Assuming this is possible, how can I make an installer USB drive which will not require network access?
I have a MacBook Pro from late 2008 running OS X 10.9.5. Is it possible to stream contents, playing in Safari, to Apple TV?
I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro 15 Retina Mid 2014 and it comes with Yosemite. yesterday the Contacts app was crashing and refusing to open and giving me the following error: Contacts quit unexpectedly with a long description of the error. Today the contacts problem is gone but I can't open iTunes, when i do it opens normally but if I tried to do anything it tells me can't find server even though the internet connection is perfect and working, then after few minutes it quits and tells me: iTunes quit unexpectedly with a long description too. I tried to update Yosemite to 10.10.3 but it fails all the time.
Hey I am using the stock apple iPhone images to place my screenshots over: *=URL=* My app has a tutorial screen in it where you can swipe between screens and get instructions on how to use the app. I would also like to use these images for the tutorial. Is this allowed? I noticed there are two points on the page:
As you can see, I use Time Machine to backup on drive "Data" on "ZRH" which is a Time Capsule. To the best of my knowledge, I selected "Encrypt backups" when I configured this backup a few weeks ago. But as I have a look into the configuration, the box "Encrypt backups" is not checked. I wonder whether my backup is actually not encrypted or whether this is just sort of a "bug" in the configuration menu that the checkbox does not show the actual encryption state. I have File Vault enabled. (Trial and error is not an option in this case, since it's a 500 GB backup which would take forever to rebuild.) It would already help if a few of you could just have a look into their backup configuration and check whether the checkbox is checked for encrypted backups.
Longtime macports user (tmux / 256color etc worked fine). Recently decided to switch over to homebrew. Have most things working again. tmux throws the following error when launching (have not changed terminal or .tmux.conf)
I was reinstalling 10.9 Mavericks on my dual boot setup. I had 2 separate HDDs for 2 OS, both Hitachi 500 GB. But i accidentally formatted the Windows 8 HDD (NTFS) to Mac extended journaled.
Is there a way to change to a particular font style using a single function key? For instance, I would want to be able to change any font to "Helvetica Bold 16" every time I press F5 if rich text is selected, regardless of application.
I was an idiot, clicked on a zip file from a scam (notice to appearing court). How do I know if the malware did in fact get installed and if it did, how do I get rid of it?
Yesterday I started installing Yosemite on my MacBookPro 2011. It all went well until it started rebooting. It is stuck on the Apple grey screen for over 20h now. The progress bar is at the very same point (half way) since 20 hours ago. What to do?
This is likely a silly question, but I can't seem to find anything official on this subject. Often on pages for upcoming games and applications, you'll see an image that states "Coming to Apple Store" (Along with similar mentions of FaceBook, Windows Phone, Android, etc). My application is currently in development and I intend to being it to the app store, however, I am not yet an approved developer.
I installed Colloquy and then LimeChat IRC clients. I realized Colloquy opens automatically when clicking on a link like irc://irc.freenode.net/kolab How can I changed these links to open in LimeChat?
I have iPad 4 with iOS 8.2. Also, I have a child. I want to set some time limit (per day) of use of iPad for my child.
Which gives me freedom of movement to the top of both my screens. However this is at the cost of all Xwindows disappearing when I switch “focus” to another application: obviously undesirable if I wish to reference my current work in an X environment, from another application.
I just upgraded to OSX Yosemite. I am trying to open my Adobe Flash CS6 app, but it says To open "Flash" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. A simple google search yields this page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604985
While my MacBook was connected via HDMI to a external screen it froze and I had to hard-reboot. Now I have the question-mark-folder-issue-of-the-death. I reset PRAM and SMC but nothing changed. When I boot with the alt I have only access to the internet recovery, I can not get the disk util... And I cannot connect to my wifi. Last, I have a Crucial SSD (2 years old)
Let me just clarify it with the picture below.  As you can see, there is much free space on the 'SSDaeffer (1)' partition, but as this was my OS X Beta partition, I want to transfer that free space to the second (SSDaeffer 2) partition and then extend that partition with all the free space. The first partition will be deleted- in the future, just not yet.
I dropped my iPhone 5c and the right hand side of the screen doesn't work but I need to wipe all my data from it, how can I do this using my laptop?
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and also a third generation Apple TV. Lately, especially after 10.10.3 update for OS X Yosemite, I am having mirroring issues. I have checked all the links, forums etc on google and still no luck. The problem is basically, my ipad 2/iphone 5 can successfully mirror to Apple TV, but when I try to mirror my MBP, it only shows black screen with audio..
I just got a MacBook Pro and am in the process of trying to get GNU commands installed. I'm following this guide, but I don't know how to do: Then add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc: I did a cd; ls -a and I don't see any files called .bashrc or .zshrc.
i used my friends apple id to download a music app that she had downloaded as i could not find it on my apple id, will it erase if i update my phone on my iTunes off my laptop?
I am preparing to submit an app that records trails (like Runkeeper) to the app store, and I think that it would be great if the screenshots of my app shows it filled with trails on the main screen. But the problem is, it is very time consuming to record trails and save them in the iOS simulator, and heck, I've got to do this time-consuming task for every iPhone and iPad required. You may think that it is less time consuming if I recorded trails with real devices. But I don't have all the devices. So I've come up with a solution to use Photoshop to fill the main screen screenshot (only the main screen, only one screen) with content, but fake ones, but they look really real, and it's hard to differentiate between a real one and a fake one. But does App Store Review Board allow this? Thank you very much.
I've noticed after updating to the latest OS X update 10.10.3 my desktop wallpaper flickers frequently. The flickering will momentarily go if I have a window cover the location of flickering but it will appear again about 10 minutes later.
I'm running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on my Mac Book Pro Retina 15" early 2013 and find that starting back around Mavericks, my Adobe Acrobat Pro X and now XI crashes frequently. Sometimes with Yosemite, I also see the finder crashing. I'm not seeing issues with other applications. I visited the genius bar today and the person there suggested to re-image my computer. I'm hesitant to do this because it is a big time commitment and I'm not convinced it will resolve the issue. I would have to back up everything and deactivate all my software, re-image, and then reinstall all my software. I imagine this would take around 5 hours to complete all those steps. I report the crash to apple each time it occurs, but not sure that has any effect, as I've been reporting for a long time now, and it still persists.
Sometimes I want to play a video but I'm in a meeting or a place where I can't afford to wait for the video to start to then quickly press the volume buttons to make it softer. Is there any way I can mute the audio for a video before playing it? It seems like a valid scenario.
On my iPhone6, I have set a passcode to unlock. On a locked home screen, the screen can be slid up to run some apps (e.g. flashlight, timer/clock, calculator, camera, YouTube) in the locked state. Is it possible to add some other apps to run while it is locked? For instance, I want the phone to have a passcode to unlock, but want to let the Dictionary app to be run without requiring to enter the passcode. Is that possible?
I am looking at my daughter's MBP. It is circa 2010/2011, and has a 2.4 i5. Why are processors today called the same name, but are advertised with slower clock speeds?
My friend can get iMovie for free on his iPhone, but I can't. I still have to pay $4.99 for the app. I've asked 3 other friends about the app and all of them get it free. Why can't I get this app?
Will my app pass Apple's review process if I list the names of donors in my app? I don't have any link to donate in the app, and there is no way for users of my app to donate in the app. All donations are handled externally. Donors do not get any additional features.
I've seen plenty of tutorials for this around for Windows but I'm wanting to do it on OS X Yosemite. Is it possible to configure the firewall such that torrent traffic will only ever be permitted when I'm a connected to a VPN?
I am currently using a MacBook Pro 13" 2015 model with a Samsung U28D590 UHD display. Currently I am using the HDMI port of the monitor with a mini-displayport to HDMI adapter and receive 4K 30hz output. The display is kind of laggy at the moment, with noticeable input lag with the mouse being the main issue. When I switch to a lower resolution it returns to 60hz output and it is much smoother (less pixels) and the mouse input lag is gone. My question is if I just use a displayport cable and receive 4K 60hz output, will this input lag disappear?
I want to concatenate in BSD Join. Data and error configuration in ybar which should be Unix variant join A B does work according to my friend. How can you concatenate the two files in OSX Join i.e BSD?
Let's say 2 different locations have the same WiFi name "MyPlace". Each have their own configuration, password, etc... Different companies, they just happen to have the same name.
I have an external SSD which i used on my previous mac. The SSD had couple of files tagged in various colours (green, red etc) When i moved to new MAC, the files still retain their colours and is not corresponding to new mac, though the colours are same. Green was from my old MAC, and I have no option of removing it from my new one.
EDIT 2 After giving rsync a try as outlined here it seems that my concept of what a .sparsebundle is, is wrong.
I have a MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and was thinking about buying 2 Dell UltraSharp u2414h monitors. Would it support daisy chaining these two monitors with the mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connected from the MacBook to the monitor, and the other mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connected from the monitor to the second monitor?
I ran sudo killall VDCAssistant, SMC and resets and still it shows my camera isn't connected. I have recently updated OS X to Yosemite and it was going fine for a month or two but now my Photo Booth and Skype isn't working.
I just noticed them, I suspect/hope Chrome somehow placed them there, they are not removable by normal methods, they only open Chrome when clicked and nothing else Google is getting pretty creepy, when a new thing appears that I didn't put, I generally suspect malware (Photos icon kept for context)
I've just performed a clean install of OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 on my new hard drive. Before installing i formatted the disk as an encrypted drive. When i start up my machine now i get to select between my account and button showing a question mark stating update required before the actual booting starts. I assume this is for decrypting the drive. When selecting my personal account the machine boots right into the operating system without a detour. When selecting the question mark i get prompted to select my personal account after the process of booting is finished.
My iPad is connected to charger yet battery level decreases (not as fast as plugged off but still). Is it a fault that can be directed to Apple Support for warranty or normal behaviour? I though that charging by cable and using device means power is taken directly from grid while battery loads.
Is it possible to download apps on iPhone 4 without creating an Apple ID ?
My Quicktime Player (Version 10.3 727.4) can play mp3 files without any problems, but when I use AppleScript I get an error message: The document “audio.mp3” could not be opened. The file may be damaged or may not be a movie file that is compatible with QuickTime Player. I've been trying different sound files, different compressions, aif, wav, with the same result. A minimum script goes: Does anyone have any suggestions of what I'm doing wrong or any other solution to script a media player.
My logic board was short circuiting some where that controls the headphone jack. Initially this prevented me from using the jack but eventually caused my mac to crash several times before I brought it in for repair. I believe that it is the this crashing that is responsible for my back up not being accessible but that my data may still be intact. Thanks for any help you may have!
I just bought a brand new 15" Macbook Pro (mid 2014) and it came with already 2 battery cycle counts, is that normal?
Why is the SE app title hidden? I'm jailbroken on iOS 8.1
I'm looking for used macbook pro and found this one. Why there is no date of manufacture in 'About this mac' window? Can it be hacked mac? Also on second screen shot there is mystical '1Tb flash storage', does it mean 1Tb SSD or why then this hard drive called 'flash storage'?
How do I upload my photos from my iMac to an iPad 3? My operating system is OS X 10.9.5
I am trying to put together several albums and some of them have a picture from another album. For example a parties album and a birthday 2015 album or a granddaughters 2015 album. So how do I put the same photos in these 3 albums, and are they duplicated or just cross referenced?
What should I do now? Will my computer be okay?
I have a bunch of photos that I have hidden, but I can still see them in my albums. Is there a way to hide them totally?
System information: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory, running on Yosemite 10.10.3, 2014 Macbook pro retina model Sound on my computer keeps lagging, but not sound on videos or anything like that. If I get an iMessage to my computer, I'll get the message right away but it will make the sound for it 5 minutes or so later.
We want to give our teen a phone for talk and text only. She has to earn trust again before having access to anything online. We are upgrading and would like to hand down one of our old phones. Our plan is through Sprint if that makes a difference.
I have location services on (for Maps & Safari only) and I randomly get this location notification on the top menu bar saying: " Apps using location: findmydeviced" What does this mean?
Are there any apps to can monitor iPad network usage per app? What's going on is out of no where one of our iPads will start uploading to Amazon's datawarehouse. Even if I double-click the button and shut everything down, it still finishes it's "sync" -- whatever it's syncing.
Keychain offers to auto complete forms including passwords even in private browsing mode. How can I disable this? I'm using Safari 8.0.5 on Yosemite 10.10.3.
I have my beta partition on my SSD and I want to create a backup of it so I can identically restore it on a different partition, later. My simple question is: Can I? I've got multiple partitions and I thought I'd create a time machine backup of that partition solely, excluding all different partitions, and then on a later moment have a fresh partition and restore that time machine backup.
I'd like to be able to connect to a specific remote desktop when I start Microsoft's RDT client. I'm running the latest RDT 8.0.15 client on Yosemite. How can I do that?
I have a dozen different email accounts for different roles, all of which I interact with through mail.app. I had a hard drive disaster, and restored from TimeMachine. It did an impressive job of restoring my complex email structure for backed up email, and of course new emails coming in are fine. But I am missing the month (urgh) of emails between the most recent backup and the restore. They are still on gmail (some POP and some IMAP accounts). How do I mark them as not already downloaded, so that they'll be retrieved from gmail?
Because of marketing considerations, I think it would be best if I mark my app as free for the first, say, few weeks, and charging a price for it after that period has gone up. I think I've seen this practice on the App Store before, but I just want to make sure. Does App Store allow this? Thanks.
How to show/hide invisible files and folders from Service menu? By default files and folders whose name start with . is invisible. In order to show them, you can use the following command in Terminal. To restore the default state, in which those files are hidden, use the following. How can I toggle the status of AppleShowAllFiles key without launching Terminal?
My 13" 2010 MBP worked well up until I upgraded from 4GB memory to 8GB memory. At this time, I also upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8.5 (I believe these are the correct versions, not completely sure). After this, I noticed that things began to get pretty bad: MBP would restart itself randomly. MBP would freeze up when watching a video or other visually intensive things (such as using corners to switch between programs, or when maximizing a program, it would freeze right in the middle of the maximization, creating a weird looking warped window.) When frozen visually, the audio would still work. Occasionally, when frozen, if I held down the power button (playing chicken with it), and released it just before I expected it to shut down... suddenly the freeze would subside and MBP would come back to life.
I have tags assigned to my user created text file and it wouldn't show on finder. I have assigned, Green icon / tag (renamed to environments) to associate a text file. Tag gets assigned good. Atleast thats what i see. But when i click on the Green tag on the sidebar of the finder, to get all files associated with green, it does not work. I did try restarting my Mac for the settings to take effect to no avail. Image attached. This is in relation to this question posted here. Unknown tag in finder
My iCloud is full and I checked what is in it. I have my current iPhone and I have two old broken iPhones and a broken iPad in there. I'm reluctant to delete them in case they have some of my much sought after photos on them. Is there any way I can access the photos and save them to my computer?
Every time I add a location-based reminder to Reminders on iOS, the Reminders.app on OS X asks for permission to obtain my location. Is there any way to get OS X to permanently give permission to Reminders.app to obtain my location? Since I want to use Reminders.app this way it is unnecessary for it to ask every time.
In Mac OS X Yosemite, I find that the scroll bar is a small target for the mouse, and sometimes when I wish to scroll, I end up moving the whole window by grabbing its edge to the right of the scroll bar. This is never the behavior I desire. How can I disable the ability to move a window by grabbing anything other than its title bar?
When trying to update my computers with itunes version 11.4, a message says it will change my personal computer's hard drive. What will it change?
I use Parallels on my iMac and Macbook Pro. It seems to run fine on my iMac but kind of causes my MBP to become a little sluggish and fans to get pegged. I was speaking with someone that runs several VMWare VMs on their Macbook without any problems at all. They mentioned my MBP should have more than enough resources to handle several VMs. Does VMWare generally perform outstandingly better than Parallels on Macs? Here are my machine specs (both running OS X 10.10.3): iMac 3.2 Ghz Intel Core i5 16GB DDR3 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 1024 RAM 500GB SSD w/25GB free space VM is allocated 2GB of RAM Macbook Pro 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i7 16GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 RAM 500GB SSD w/47GB free space VM is allocated 2GB of RAM
How can I hide Xcode's toolbar in fullscreen mode (cmd + ctrl + f)? I tried to hide it and then go into fullscreen but it appeared immediately. Also I tried to hide it using right-click -> hide toolbar but that did not work:
Under the old version you could make the part of the video clip you liked and it would show GREEN after you moved it into the the timeline. This version shows the make area in the menu, but does not work. The menu is light gray and there is no "heart" icon on the screen for the "favorite" part of the clip. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for the help.
I am using the new Photos App (Yosemite). Everything is synchronised (iCloud) but the faces. Is this a feature or a bug?
I have an iPhone 5S with broken screen. I need to save my photos to my PC/Mac; I can't authorize iTunes cause of course the screen is broken and I don't have iCloud, so the only way should be a root access, does anyone knows how to?
I added my iMessage account to my work MacBook and now I want to remove the account, but Messages won't let me. I Signed Out of the account and deleted the message history, but now when I start messages it still prompts me to login with the account, and if I go to Preferences the account still appears (inactive) in the list and the Remove button (- sign at bottom) is greyed out. Is there any way to remove the existence of the account completely?
In trying to zoom down, the mouse has taken to zooming in his entire screen. As in, magnifying the entire screen, focusing on where the cursor is.
When I tried to open iPhoto, it says that I needed to update to the latest version. Im using OS X Yosemite system. When I search on App Store it says that "The item you've requested is not currently available".
It's a bit odd then that Apple TimeCapsule offers network backups - does it suffer same problem? I'd buy one if it works reliably, though I don't like that it's only single disk and no RAID.
I am having trouble with an email attachment that I received. I use an icloud email account and am accessing it from the Mail app on my iPhone. The attachment is a PDF file but when I try to open it, the file only contains this message: "Trend Micro Antivirus has quarantined the previously attached file, if this is a genuine file please contact Consortium Group to have it unblocked."
Most Linux operating systems have a package like command-not-found (*=URL=* which provides suggestions when a shell command was not found, e.g. because the command was misspelt.
I happy accident occurred this weekend when I left my camera's USB cable at work. I discovered that I have an SD slot in my MacBook Pro.
PC got 3 HD, 2 of which i want to share with Mac. I used this topic (with comments) as a main information source, and also googled a lot.
Oddly recurring message in syslog. Note that the warning message in Syslog, isn't proceeded by any SASL warnings. Unless "Mail[378]" is exactly that.
In The about this MAC- under storage- thedrive is full. The colour bar named "other" takes up 170G. I want to clean my hard drive to open up some operating space
Most photo applications provides some way to toggle between the original (unedited) version of a photo and the current (edited) one. In Aperture, "M" toggles between the two, many iOS photo apps let you touch the screen to compare the edited or filtered version to the original, etc. I can't find any way to show the original in the new Photos app other than "reverting," which removes all the edits. I don't want to remove them, I just want to compare the two. I realize that I can "revert" then undo, but it's hacky, slow, and worse, dangerous - counting on undo to preserve work in any app is iffy, at best.
I am running OS X 10.10.3 and I tried to rotate the internal display of my Macbook Pro using this rotation trick. After I selected the 180 degree rotation, the screen rotated properly but all the rotation options were grayed out so I closed the System Preferences to try the process again. When I go to my OS X Display preferences I get the error "Display preferences pane could not be loaded". How do I reorient my Macbook display back to the standard orientation without erasing everything on the hard drive and reinstalling OS X?
An iMac has 5 green vertical bars/stripes that appear on the screen as soon the system starts booting. The OS is Yosemite (10.10.?) When I try to boot the computer normally, safe boot, or diagnostics the computer gets just beyond the Apple logo with progress bar and then restarts itself. I can successfully boot into Single User Mode without the green bars appearing. My first question is do you know of a fix/reason for the green vertical bars?
I recently noticed that the color blue looks kind of ultraviolet on my brand new Macbook Pro, I noticed that from the facebook header it's not really blue, it looks ultraviolet, is it because the screen is IPS screen? is that normal?
Today I ran into a big problem: I was trying to make a bootable OS X thumb drive with Unibeast but haven't been able to format or partition it. The error shown when i try to format or partition in OSX 10.6.8:
Was trying to run the Java update earlier. But it couldn't launch the installer after downloading. Here's the log: Does anyone knows what's going on and how to fix it?
Regulary, a duplicate certificate of COMODO RSA appears on my keychain (Google Chrome?) and when I browse on a website which use a COMODO certificate. Google Chrome blocks the website. (Normal). I muse delete it and restart Google Chrome to be able to open the website. How it's possible to have this king of duplicate EDIT: A website using a Comodo RSA Certificate: https://www.graylog.org/
The cursor changes to a mickey mouse glove when hovering over links. I'm coming from the Linux world and there doesn't seem to be an option in the settings that can change it, it is driving me insane. Wondering if there is a 3rd party app or hidden setting that affects it. Thanks.
I've got a 2010 MacBook (MacBook7,1) with 8GB RAM running Mavericks 10.9. I recently replaced the stock HDD with a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD and restored from a Time Machine backup. Though Disk Speed Test reports performance going from ~50MB/sec to ~250MB/sec (what you'd expect for the SATA II interface), I can hardly tell the difference in performance or even battery time.
I end up with lots of screen shots that look like this:  Obviously after a while I do not know what they are. So I open them in Preview to see, and would like now to change the file name to something meaningful. How do I change screenshot name while viewing in Preview.
I had MySQL installed via the MySQL installer and it was working great. I managed to corrupt the database somehow and it wouldn't start up anymore. I didn't have any data I needed so I figured I'd just uninstall it and reinstall.
I have had a recurrent problem with the login screen getting stuck at 50% for a long time. One possible cause is that after an update, OS X is attempting to move /usr/local out of the way and then put it back. As I have many files installed there with homebrew, the update can take many hours. This is certainly true for OS X upgrades as reported here.
I have an odd error that I have not been able to associate with an application or PID properly. In Windows, there is Process Explorer with the very handy target function that allows you to click it and then select a window to find the owner process:
I have two Macs: my work MacBook Pro (retina, 15-inch, mid-2014) and my personal MacBook Air (13-inch, bought July 2013). Both are running OS X 10.10.3. When I click on the WiFi menu on my Pro, I see "Personal Hotspot":
The Viber app preventing my Mac from display sleep. I want to start screensaver while Viber is working, so killing Viber's pid is not an option. How to remove assertion on Viber?
Every time I start my new photo app, it NEVER starts in full-screen. Even if its was previously closed in full-screen!
I'm using iTerm2, and my hotkey window used to slide down and then back up. A while ago, the animation changed to having it fade in and out. Is there any way to get it to go back to sliding? I prefer that animation.
Screenshot no longer works on my iPad Air 2. Tried turning on/off, resetting, resetting settings, rebooting. Both the home button and power button work individually and my iPad used to take screenshots. How can get my iPad to take screenshots again.
Just today, my iPhone 6 was left on the top of my friends car and I forgot to take it down. So when we drove, it flew off the top and got destroyed by another car. When I went to go pick it up, the entire screen came off and the entire body of my phone is destroyed. It hasn't yet been a year since I bought the iPhone with AT&T. Do you think I can get a replacement for the phone? any warranty benefits? Again, my phone is completely destroyed but the SIM AND BATTERY are perfectly fine. What should i do?
I'm on my way to buy my new mac mini for my IOS development and I'm a bit unfamiliar with Apple products so I just want an advice from experts about that. my budget is not that high so I have 2 options and need to know which the best i can buy for IOS development : 1) used Mac mini 2.3 quad core 16 GB of RAM with HDD 5400 1 TB (But it almost used for a year) 2) New Mac mini 2.8 dual core 8 GB of RAM with 1TB fusion drive.
I replaced the optical drive in a 15" Macbook Pro (late 2011) with a new 2TB Samsung HDD in a caddy tray. It formatted fine and Disk Utility says it's OK.
Update #2: The MBP crashed at 1:31am in the morning while sleeping. Console log and kernel panic log enclosed below: ======== Console Log: ======= ========
I have recently re-setup the message app on my iPhone to sync with the messages app on my MacBook. New messages are now appearing in both places, however messages that had occurred before syncing these two devices do not appear on my mac. Is there a way to have my pre-sync conversations to appear in Messages on my mac?
Is there a way to get iPhoto back after installing Photos? When I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.3, it installed Photos. I am not really liking the format or the design.
I recently reformatted my machine and am trying to shrink my OS X partiton to make room for a linux partition, following instructions at *=URL=* . I am at the Resize Partitions step, and when I opened up Disk Utility, there was no way for me to drag the existing partition to shrink its size and create free space. When looking at the GUI, the normal resize handle is missing, and the help text sounds much more restrictive than it has in the past.
Been using and taking care of Macs since 1985, and I've never seen this before. Can't find anything online. Anyone? Graphics card going south? Reboot fixed the problem, but it returned 2x the next day. Have zapped the PRAM, waiting to see if that helps.
I know it's Apple mail because the PID of the running Mail is 378 In the Syslog file I'm getting is: Does anyone have any idea why this shows, or what this is. I'm running postfix and dovecot on 10.10.3
When activating Calendar app I get double and triple notifications on my appointments - for example birthdays, holidays etc. How can I get rid of these double notifications?
I have bought 2 iPhone headphones from Amazon, good quality earphones with 5-star reviews, but unfortunately there seem an issue where it randomly initiates commands. Music forwards, music rewards, Siri asks me if I have a question, all features that would be normally initiated by pressing your headphone buttons. So the headphone mostly make listening music on the iPhone impossible, because of all the random control features being initiated.
I work a lot with bash scripts and some of them can get pretty lengthy. Up until now, I've been using BBEdit as my editor of choice because of the way it handles locked files and permissions. But ... BBEdit doesn't support code folding. Xcode does, but it seems to only allow code folding in Obj-C and Swift. Is there any way to enable code folding for Bash scripts? If not, is there any app out there that can fold code in a bash script (preferably with syntax highlighting too)?
In Numbers 3.5.2 I manage to get a cell address sting (I compute it based on some data). Now when I have it, how can I get the value behind that address without copying the result of my function to the another cell and adding = before it?
I recently installed Outlook 2013 on my iPhone 5C. But I cannot find any option how to add a new contact to my list. Secondly, how can I sync my iCloud contacts with my Outlook 2013 installed on iPhone 5C.
Last few days I am spreading everything to separate screens, and noticed that I have few more GB of RAM free this way. I use everything the same way as before. Do applications use less memory when they are moved to separate displays?
After upgrading to 10.10.3 X11 applications are not opening anymore from the terminal. The X11 symlink in /usr is correct I reinstalled XQuartz (2.7.7) $DISPLAY is set
I have Apache2 web access logs that are created in /var/log/apache2/ that I want to preserve forever so that a web statistics analyser can process them and show me how page hits are changing over a period of months. I use Time Machine as a backup, and hoped that it would backup these log files too, but have now discovered that they are not included (tmutil confirms that the individual files are excluded). There are thousands of log files (one per day, for each of 10 virtual hosts) and at least 10 are generated each new day, so manually including a rule for each is not possible. Is there a way to tell Time Machine to include the whole of /var/log/apache2 and its sub-directories (the TM Preference Pane makes it easy to exclude folders, but I don't see a way of telling it to include folders)? I'm running Mac OS X 10.10 on a recent Mac Mini and using the MacPorts version of Apache, but I doubt that my question is specific to this hardware/software.
Question says it all. Current versions of Yosemite (10.10.3) and Server (4.1). Under Server > Settings Enable screen sharing and remote management checked. Under Server > Access Admin and a non-admin local user listed. I can log in Screen Sharing as the Admin user but not via non-admin accounts.
We've got an application that we're overhauling and putting a new skin on. Marketing within our company has made the decision to cut ties with the previous application and try to market this new application instead. Because of this, we have to delete the current application on iTunes Connect. This I can do. What is being asked is what kinds of ramifications are there to deleting the application? What will happen on a customer's device that has already downloaded the app? Obviously, if they never connect to the internet, it can continue to work as before. But does Apple do anything special when a cert is canceled or removed or an application is deleted? Do they wipe away the application if you try and sync the device to iTunes?
Any ideas how a Puppet manifest for OS X should look like to enable the use of NPAPI plugins in Chrome on managed clients? I would like to enable this settings for a big group of users remotely.
I have a pack of rules, which are intended for automatically marking as read & deleting messages when some criteria is met. They work fine when applied manually, but sometimes they are not applied automatically when new messages are received and I have to run them manually. And as I wrote, all rules are active. Is it possible to fix this behavior? Probably related: Rules in Mail randomly don't apply
My Macbook Air is randomly restarting — a real problem when I have it set up to give a presentation, and walk to the stage to find it back at the login screen. How can I diagnose the cause?
I have a MacBook Air 6,2 (2013) with an i7 (1.7 GHz normally). When I was installing Debian on it I completely forgot about the "Turbo Boost" feature — my CPU was clocked at its highest possible value, and consistently reaching 80-90 degrees. I've since clocked it back but I just wanted to make sure it didn't hurt anything.
I am a proud owner of a 2001 iMac, with a 10GB HDD. Is it possible to install in its place a Maxtor ATA/133 HDD of 40GB (produced Aug 2003)?
I have an SD Card I bought from ebay. It works, sort of. Recently, it somehow acquired the weird habit of "forgetting" things I copy to it. For example; I would normally place my music folder to the left taking half of the screen, and the window with the sd card to the right taking the rest of screen. I would then copy a folder to the sd card safely remove the sd card (or not, tried it both ways) Pull it out Place it into my phone (or back into the mac) Can't find the copied folder, like I've never copied it.
Suddenly T.M. posted 'delayed' when backing up to an external 250 gb drive. I have deleted perhaps 10 old back-ups but freed up space does not show on T.M. Shows 47 gb of space out of of total 214 gb. How can I get this freed up space to occur? Running OS 10.6.8. 2.33 ghz Core 2 duo. Thanks for any assistance.
I have the Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD (Model no. F4U085) and I have a question to ask. The dock is attached to a Macbook Pro and everything works fine (audio, ethernet, USB devices etc). However, I cannot connect dual displays to it. My dual monitor setup is as follows: I want to attach one monitor via the HDMI port on the dock and the other via the thunderbolt port on the dock, using a MiniDP to HDMI adapter + HDMI to DVI cable to the external monitor. When I tried the setup, one of the monitors (the one connected to the HDMI port) has no output to it. If i connect it to the HDMI port on the macbook, it shows the output. According to the official product guide, it says:
is there a way to export or save safari history right on the iPad using an app maybe? I don't want to move the history over to another device, but just want to see the full list of history (that's not yet deleted) because the regular history section you can pull up on the left side of screen in safari is too narrow to read the entire URLs.
Besides the thunderbolt displays by Apple, are there any other monitor manufacturers that make monitors with thunderbolt interfaces? I could only find the Apple thunderbolt displays and 1-2 models from LG. Thanks in advance!
I am attempting to build VMware Fusion images with each recent point release of Safari. I've had success with the versions bundled with OS X updates (10.10.1, 10.10.2) but I am not sure if it's possible to download a point release that has been superseded by a release in an OS X update. I've found version history with knowledge base documents for each version, but haven't found a way to download them. *=URL=* Example: 10.10 shipped with Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25) 10.10.1 had Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25.1) Safari 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 were in security updates - KB HT204421 and HT204424 10.10.2 had Safari 8.0.3 (10600.3.18) Safari 8.0.4 was in a security update - *=URL=* 10.10.3 has Safari 8.0.5 (10600.5.17)
What time period was PowerBook G4 Model M8407 manufactured and sold?
I've got an old MacBook Pro with a Core2Duo CPU that regularly has a load up in the 3s or 4s. This clearly isn't a CPU issue. It doesn't appear to be a memory issue. Disk IO doesn't seem to be an issue. Some of the "stuck" processes were things I could kill off, but the load has only gotten worse in the last few minutes. How else can I find out what's lining up waiting for attention?
I want to buy an external charger, it has USB. Are there any adapters (including transformators, I think that might be needed, right?) so I can charge my MacBook with the external charger?
I recently rebooted an OS X machine on which I had an ongoing conversation in Messages via text with a phone number on a non-iOS phone. Now, though I am able to continue sending texts from Messages on iOS to exactly the same number, I can no longer send texts to that number from Messages on OS X, instead messages fail to send, the two conversations are no longer synced between OS X and iOS, and I'm told that the "phone number is not registered with iMessage". How do I get OS X Messages to remember that I can, in fact, text that number?
Having acquired a second hand Mac Pro (A1481) I want to upgrade the internal SSD drive from 256GB to at least 500GB. I have spent hours searching online, and can't find a provider other than OWC The one I have in place is Samsung, is there no online provider of these drives? furthermore, a few ebay auctions suggest that a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air SSD drive would be suitable. Can any one point me to a reputable source for these Samsung drives?
My school computers have OS X 10.9.4 on them but they don't want to update them because of incompatibility with their Music class software. From what I see on Apple's website Xcode 6.4 and 6.3.1 both need Yosemite. Is there another version of Xcode that I can download somewhere so I can code using Swift?
After updating to OS X 10.10.3, I opened Photos.app and imported my iPhoto library. Around ~3,000 photos were uploaded to iCloud, but the upload process stopped before the remaining 7,200 photos were uploaded. I can't figure out how to get the rest of the library up into iCloud. The screen capture below shows is from the Photos app. It has displayed the "Uploading 7,200 Items" for days now.
I have multiple MacBook Airs on Mavericks that need to be updated to Yosemite. I currently have a Mac Mini Server on 10.9.5 – I'm using the Caching service to download the software to have it locally available. Is there any way I can use ARD to assist in this process so that way I don't have to click through the installer screens and automate some of the process? Thank you in advance.
My name is not an English word or common enough name to be in whatever list of proper nouns it has, and I always have to capitalize it manually. It doesn't even show up as an autocorrect option. Is there a way around this? It seems like a phone that can do so many things should at least be able to learn my name. iPhone 4 with iOS up to date.
I have a USB Speakers and I want to record the sound from WNYC Radio to listening to it offline on my iPhone. I'm able to alternate them, but not listening to both at the same time. Can anyone please advise?
Please help me. I have deleted apps and photos to get memory on my iPad, and it still says I have 0gb left. It has been a couple of weeks. All photos have been deleted from the 'recently deleted' album. It says the camera roll is using 7.5gb, when there are no photos. It's affecting my iPad speed. I've tried rebooting my iPad. I can't install anything, as my memory is used up. It has 16gb, and I think it's an iPad 2. Note: I don't have a Macpro, MacBook, iPhone, iPod, iMac or anything else made by Apple.
In the new Photos.app application, the export of photographs to other services is via the OS X extensibility feature. Sharing one picture to Flickr shows the picture's filename as the title and empty description and tags even though the pictures had these three fields filled in the 'Info' window. This metadata was exported fine with iPhoto which had its own sharing mechanism so this issue is either with Photos.app or with the extensibility feature of OS X. How can I upload pictures from Photos.app to Flickr without having to retype all the metadata for each one of them?
I am using my iPhone to listen to audio books. When the iPhone stays on, I can stop listenting and when I restart it remembers which file I was last listening to, and where in that file I was. However, whenever I turn off the iPhone, it forgets where in an audio file I stopped listening; I have to manually fast forward to where I was. Is there a way to get the media player to remember where in a file I was when turning off the iphone, or is there a different player software that could do that for me?
The Apache httpd 2.4 server is bundled with Yosemite. It seems to me that the directories /etc/apache2 and /private/etc/apache are the same. However I don't see any symlink. Did I missed something ?
If I'm running within tmux and I try to update an environment variable with launchctl, I see an error like this: But it works fine from outside of tmux... any idea why that is, or if there's any sort of workaround?
BetterTouchTool keeps exiting. How do I make sure that it reopens when it exits, and that duplicate processes aren't spawned? Thanks
In the new Photos app, you can still use face detection (or manual face tagging) to label faces, so you can easily pull up all pictures with a certain person in them, etc. Faces now lives in the "Albums" tab, where there's essentially a "faces" folder. But when you open it... ...there seem to be two categories: A few "featured" faces on top, which are larger (I'm not sure if these are "most recent" or "most photos" All the other (smaller) faces.
I've just updated my iPad to the IOS 8 and I can't download the English (Oxford) and French dictionaries, as many users have already complained. Please, tell us what is the way to solve it!
Short version of the question: can iTunes 12.1.0.50 on Yosemite using ExFAT drive as the Library or how to make it work? I have some USB Flash drive and external SSD drive. It seems that I can format them as ExFAT and then use it with iTunes 11.4 on Mavericks (using the drive as the iTunes Library), but when I use it with iTunes 12.1.0.50 on Yosemite, it gave me an error that iTunes cannot start. So I have to reformat it in HFS+ (the Mac's file system), and then iTunes would run with it.
I don't have an Apple device and I need to create a iOS app. I was wondering if I could do it from a VM running OSX. I know that you can do this for testing, but can I upload the final version to the App Store?
for about the last week my podcast app on my iPhone 6+ has been preparing to download episodes but not downloading. Ian on iOS 8.3 This is serious I need to listen to Hansel minutes and history of revolutions! I have tried shutdown app, clear download, logging out of iTunes etc. Any suggestions
My iPhone 4s with iOS 8 has stopped functioning correctly all of a sudden. It shows searching for network and keeps heating up. I have already tried resetting network settings and have also put it to factory settings but no avail. If I try to search for a carrier manually, it shows "No service" but keeps heating up. If I remove the SIM it just works perfectly fine and there is no issue at all. I am able to use all apps etc perfectly. Any clues on what I can do and if this issue can somehow be corrected?
I have 2 iMacs at the office and at home; an iPhone; and an iPad. I recently installed the new Photos app on both iMacs. In both cases, I’m using iCloud Photo Library. So, any new photos I take on my iPhone appear on both iMacs. This is great — now I know my photos are backed up (both on iCloud and on two iMacs), and they're available from any machine on which I'd like to access them. In other words, as I understand it, Photos and iCloud are keeping all my devices in sync.
I have an Macbook Pro with retina display and want to connect additional displays/monitors to it. But sadly 2+1 isn't enough for me, so I'm searching for solution: I want to buy two USB3.0 to VGA/HDMI adapters and my questions are: Will it blend... ekhm I mean will it actually display anything (I'm asking if are there any forced/purposed limitation on the macbook itself to only allow 3 monitors at any given time) Will it blend... ekhm I mean will it actually display anything (I'm asking if are there any forced/purposed limitation on the macbook itself to only allow 3 monitors at any given time) Will it be smooth enough to be usable? Will it be smooth enough to be usable?
I am currently running MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with Yosemite 10.10.2 For iPhoto I have a current library and 2 older libraries and now wish to: Merge all three into one iPhoto library Remove duplicates How can I accomplish this?
I want to use my Macbook Pro as a screen of my Mac mini(with both OS X and Bootcamp Windows). I've following cables: 1. Thunderbolt to Ethernet 2. Thunderbolt to VGA Any possible solution?
This occurs even when no applications are opened in that session. I have no idea how to debug or troubleshoot this problem. Please advise.
Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3? I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro.
Searching for a solution how to use the 1 TB free flickr storage to sync my photo library. I use the new Apple OS X Photos app and don't want to sync with iCloud (just 5GB free storage).
I used to be able to connect to VPNgate's servers but ever since I changed to a new router (one of the new Netgear Nighthawks), it just stopped working.
I want to use the three finger vertical swipe to switch between header and implementation files on Xcode, but this stops working when I have three finger drag enabled in system preferences. I've tried using defaults write with some trial and error, but am unable to get it to work. Looking for something like this:
I am getting only 1080p on my 4K TV, via thunderbolt to HDMI adapter. I want to know how to get more resolution output.
Forgive me if there is a better way todo this, but I have an app that is generated without a plist, this is partly due to the build system that is cross platform. Is there a way to generate a plist from the command line? I looked at defaults but I can't seem to generate one. I need to be able to set one key CFBundleExecutable. Thanks.
I have Xcode setup with distribution certificate, when i run the application, It gets installed in the device but halts the connection in Xcode and throws an error. The issue is, the application crashes for some reason after running in device, to get to know reason behind the crash we need access to log, and since Xcode stops the connection post installation, we cannot collect the log.
I have an iMac with the Energy Saver schedule to turn off at a specific time and then restart in the morning. It does not work if I am logged out. How do I make it work if no one is logged in?
I've got a Late-2011 15" MacBook Pro stuck in the gray screen when booting AFTER login. I've tried removing the drive (it's non-retina) and booting from a working bootable Yosemite installer, no luck. (it sees the startup USB drive, the progress bar progresses, but stuck at the gray screen again even without a drive. Tried NVRAM reset (cmd option P R), it has reset (the login sound's volume changed) but nothing changed. Tried holding D on startup, AHT doesn't start, instead, it tries to boot into the OS.
My less than 1 year old iPod touch (A1421) lasts about 8 hours with no use other than listening to podcasts. Is this level low enough to justify an in-warranty battery replacement? If so, do I need to do anything to provide proof or will they just set it to play and see the power gone after 8-9 hours?
I've been using Calendar with iCloud for a long while without any problems. Now, I have a permanent error displayed in Calendar: The request for account “iCloud” failed. The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation
Edit2: This link *=URL=* seems to have a similar problem, and it is also ressolved, but I cannot make their solution work as I don't know what brew is, nor do I have gcc-4.9 working. But I thought this might give a hint.
For some reason when my mac is at the login screen, moving my external USB mouse will cause the cursor to only move up and down. Once I am logged in, the mouse functions normally. Does anyone know the reason/fix? Steps I have taken: Reset SMC/NVRAM Reinstalled OS Tried another USB Port Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3 with iHome wireless USB mouse. I tested it and mouse works fine without problems on my Windows PC.
I recently reset all settings on both my iPhone (5) and iPad (Air) and set them up as new devices, no settings carried across, nothing. I set up my mail accounts on both in exactly the same fashion as I always have done and have no trouble sending/receiving email.
On a Mac running Yosemite, I moved my iPhoto library to an external hard disk, just by cut and pasting it. After running iPhoto, it could not find the local library anymore and asked me for the library location, I easily selected the external storage location, and it worked.
I am using a MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite, v 10.10.1 Just recently I have started seeing the titles of my minimized windows listed on my desktop. The problem is the text bleeds through to other opened windows where I am trying to work. The titles are not links and I can't select them in any way or move them around.
I have an old iPhone 4 that has been sitting unused since I got my new phone - it has now sold and I have to clean it out so it's ready for the next person. Here's the problem: The wifi doesn't work and the phone's inactivated (so I can't get online). It is asking for a restrictions passcode I don't ever remember setting.
For example, Sublime Text's is 'subl', Kaleidoscope is 'ksdiff'. Great, but you need to look these up for each and every program. And there are lots of identical questions, about Finder for example.
I have imported a bunch of mp4's for my daughter on my iphone (my little pony episodes). They don't show any artwork on the iPhone. The mp4's do show artwork on Windows. Is there an easy way to use the artwork that I see in Windows on the iPhone? I've done the obvious but tedious step of taking a capture of the image in Windows Explorer, saving it, and using iTunes to set the image as artwork. It works, but way too slow. I've also tried to play an mp4 in itunes and use "Set as poster frame"; that did not work. Ideally iTunes would just use the same artwork I see in Windows, but failing that, is there a Windows tool that would batch export the artwork, then I could manually set the artwork for each file in iTunes (at least saving me the step of taking a screen capture).
I just air dropped .avi to my iPhone which had no compatible app to open it, now my iPhone did receive the file but since there was no app to play it nothing happened after receiving it. Where did that file go ? Is it deleted or stored somewhere ? I dont want it to eat up my memory.
I am trying to apply for the WWDC 2015 scholarship. I have an app that record trails (like Runkeeper) that I'd like to submit for the scholarship (and submit it to the App Store). However, in the scholarship app requirements, it states that the app must tell something about the developer, and the app must have the developer's name as its name. However, the app that I'm trying to submit neither tells about me, nor does it have my name as its name. Does the scholarship accept these kind of apps? I could extend my app to include info about me. But does Apple allow submitting an app to the app store and modifying it so it abides the scholarship requirements? I'm sorry if my question sound stupid :)
I have two macs running OS X 10.10.3. One has Server.app installed, is connected to the internet via ethernet, and also has a 2 TB disk attached via USB, with two partitions - "Backup" and "Storage". My other mac is a laptop used for schoolwork. Using the Time Machine feature of Server.app, I was able to use the standard Time Machine interface to begin backing up my local mac onto the "Backup" volume on the server mac over the network. However, I discovered that it takes 7 minutes to copy a 1 GB file over AFP, so backing up 300 GB on my local mac would take at least 35 hours.
I’m just beginning to learn the use of screen sharing between two Macs. Today I’ve successfully implemented it with two different computers on my desktop, using the "Sharing" section in System Preferences.
I have already changed in settings on my phone (iPhone) and when logging in on computer next to my picture in iCloud top right, it reads the name I want. I am divorced and do not like my prior last name showing up when I email people. How can I change this?
Can someone help me to find out how to send non-HTML mail from Apple Mail client?
I have a friend who is currently in China. We talk a lot using iMessage. The problem is that sometimes the iMessage isn't delivered and my iPhone sends it automatically as an sms (= fee !!).
Over a year ago, I took photos on my iPhone and sent them to someone via Verizon Wireless. The GPS location and date are stamped on the photos. The person receiving the photos (who is on my Verizon Share Plan and also has an iPhone) now has to prove he was not at the location where the photos were taken. Yet there the photos are on his phone, showing date and place, even though he was not present. Is there a way to prove that the photos were sent to him and he was not present and did not take the photos himself using his own phone?
I want to restart Domination on my iPad iOS 8, but whenever I delete the old village is there and I have already removed from iCloud. It's there as a history of downloaded apps. There is a cloud with an arrow whenever I want to install it. Can anyone help?
First of all, there's no firmware password or anything fancy. I'm trying to diagnose a late-2011 MacBook Pro 15", and I'm trying to get into the single user mode. I press and hold Cmd+S (the left Cmd, if it changes anything) but I'm not getting into the mode. I've tried pressing (and holding) it before pressing the power button, at the same time, a little after etc. I've tried all the combinations. It just won't enter. It will keep booting or let's say (try booting) into the OS where it gets stuck. When I press Cmd+S, however, I can see a very brief terminal in the middle for a very short/split second, and it disappears as I haven't pressed it all. What am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to add a Google account for use with the native calendar app on a new iPhone with iOS 8.3. This Google account does not have Gmail set up for it, but I am using it for Google calendar.
The default photo library is system library. Any new library created is non-system photo library. How to sync the photos in these library into iPhone? In iTunes it seems that you can only sync the system library. Is there any app useful? Yosemite 10.10.3 Photos 1.0 iTunes 12.1.2.27 iOS 8.3
In the screenshot below, find the stack trace and look at the last stack(s). Is that just a programmers (@Apple) frustration or is there any acronym? I tried looking for some meaningful values
I recently uploaded some videos into Photos after compressing them in Handbrake. Now, when I try to export the video back out of the Photos app, it gives me an error:
I have enabled remote logins via SSH on my Mac. But how do I enable logging of all log in attempts? And where is the log? My /etc/sshd_config has this content:
I have a client that has upgraded from iPhone 5 to the iPhone 6. On the iPhone 5, exchange calendar worked just fine. We use the same setting for Exchange and it appears to connect. Unfortunately, the Exchange calendar does not show up in the list of calendars. Yes, I have checked to make sure the calendars setting is on: Settings> Mail> Exchange> Calendars We have deleted the account ans set it back up numerous times with the same result.
Before iCloud Photo Library and Photos.app in OS X 10.10.3, we had iCloud PhotoStream. iCloud PhotoStream synced its photos to the ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement folder (and subfolders). Even though PhotoStream only synced 1000 photos, that folder could get rather large, but you had to live with it.
I recently had some issues with my computer and since I had a backup of all of my files I decided to just wipe the hard drive clean. After, what I thought, was a full reset I am beginning to suspect I did something incorrectly. What used to take about 15-20 seconds to go from powered off to using my computer now takes about 2 minutes. Also, when my computer goes to sleep it says "My_Name_MacBook_Pro(2)" where as it used to just say "My_Name_MacBook_Pro". I was hoping someone could give a possible explanation as to what I might have messed up in the factory reset process before I take it in to the Apple Store.
Issue & Question: I've lost the ability to add apps to an iPhone 4S through iTunes ever since the last update; does anyone know if there is a block on loading apps onto iPhone 4S now? Also, what is a great workaround for this issue? Steps that I have tried taking: Connect iPhone 4S to Mac Open iTunes Select the iPhone 4S in iTunes' header Select "Apps" on the sidebar Cmd + O, or File > "Add to Library..." Select the .ipa file The app propagates in the list of apps Click "Install" next to the app name Click "Apply" in the bottom corner of the window Result: When the app finishes downloading, a dialog appears on the iPhone 4S: "iTunes Sync -- '[app name]' failed to install." What Does Work: I am able to load apps this way onto iOS 7 and iOS 8 (even though I could choose to use TestFlight on iOS 8).
I'd like to make double-sided printing the default for all applications. This item tells how to set it for one application, but by experimentation it only affects that application, not others. I Googled, looked in the system prefs, looked on this site - no luck. Is there a setting somewhere?
Apple says that a shared iCloud photo album can contain a maximum of 5000 photos. What will happen once that limit is reached? Will it not be possible to add any more photos? Or will the oldest photos just silently be deleted to make space for the newest?
When running ettercap on Kali Linux using my cellular connection from AT&T, i monitored the web traffic of my iPhone 6 of which I believe has been hacked by ex boyfriend. What was incredibly strange and without any plausible explanation, there were two external IP's broadcasting, as if they were clones of one another. They had the exact same configuration with the exact same ports open, with the only true difference being the last set of numbers on the IP. Is cloning an iPhone or perhaps the SIM being cloned a feasible explanation and are there any other sure fire methods of determining what is going on with my phone?
I stumbled upon errors when I tried to partition my HD for an ubuntu partition. First it kept saying Partition Failed: Filesystem Verification failed That problem did disappear after a while. Probably when I repaired permissions. Then it kept saying Could not unmount disk "HD" I tried unmounting disk manually, though that brought up Filesystem verification failed again.
I'm not sure this is the correct place where to ask this. If you can indicate me another Stack Exchange website I can use instead would be great.
I want to select non-consecutive items on a list, without using a mouse/trackpad - there should be no clicks involved. In Windows and Linux (at least Ubuntu) an item can be selected using Space/ button, which, in combination with arrows and Ctrl key allows me to select multiple items in any environment (file manager, IDE etc.) - e.g. Enter a directory -> hold Ctrl -> down arrow twice -> press Space -> down arrow twice -> press Space.
The photos that are shared through iCloud Photo Sharing shared albums are typically favorites, for example the best photos that you wanted to share with family over the course of several years. Over time these shared albums become valuable because they provide a filtered view of favorites from an otherwise huge and possibly unsorted photo library.
I want to find a way to share some Microsoft RDP configuration information with my team. Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its connections and configuration?
I have a mid-2012 MacBook pro running Yosemite and an iPad Air 2 with the latest iOS 8. The 2 devices can connect via Bluetooth (at least they claim to be connected), however, neither initially showed up in the others AirDrop widget.
I duplicate a file in photos app for mac and it references the same file rather than export a new file. I use a referenced library.
My iMac trash folder takes forever to clean out. I had 4 files in there today and when i went to empty it, it was saying there was 1,590,715 items in it. Can anyone help please.
I've downloaded the "Pro Video Formats 2.0.1" update at least twice, but it keeps showing up in the Mac App Store. How do I fix this?
I've noticed that every minute or so, the wifi on my 15" MacbookPro Retina just doesn't seem to work, yet the icon displays full bars (4/4). In the exact same location my iPhone shows 2/3 or 3/3 bars and the wifi works excellent. What is wrong with my MacBook Pro? How do I resolve this? Shouldn't the MacBook get better reception as it has a larger and more powerful antenna?
Thinking about it, I'd also quite like to stop it auto-deleting any favourites links, even if they never work and are genuinely broken links: if a folder link breaks, I'll want to be able to look at the old file path to help me work out where a colleague might have moved it to. So solutions that turns off all auto-deletion of shortcuts is also welcome.
I'm in OSX 10.10.2 and like to use Stickies (as a quick text dump before moving on). I have perhaps 100 notes and everything was fine until recently when the app stopped remembering the position I had dragged a note to.
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2011) with a 320 GB hard disk, and I have a 200 GB storage plan on iCloud. The problem is that I cannot simply copy the Applications folder to iCloud Drive and restore it later in the event that I lose all of the disk storage. I would like to save all the operating system files, the applications and almost everything on the disk (I need about 150 GB for that).
I have a conversation between three users. When I look into this conversation the last messages are from Friday, which is wrong. These messages are always at the bottom (appears at last). So always the same messages appears at last despite there are newer messages.
I had English language in iTunes Connect, but today it's changed to russian (I'm from Russia) and I cant find where to change the interface's language back to English (Russian localized - bad).
So if I have this image:  And I don't want the status bar in the screenshot:
I know it's a bit late to ask Aperture questions, but anyway... I run Aperture on an iMac with a self-created FusionDrive. The FusionDrive's volume is called FusionDrive, and it consists of an SSD called SystemSSD and a large HD called BigDisk. In almost all Mac programs, only the volume FusionDrive is visible (i.e. it appears at the root of the file system) -- as it should be.
After the update to Yosemite 10.10.3 finder takes a long time to show the files. MacbookPro Core i7 8GB, HD120GB solid, 15G free
On my iMac I imported my old Aperture Library to the new Photos app and then enabled iCloud Photo Library. The library has about 10000 photos and I expected that once I started the sync Photos app would upload all photos at once. I've been watching this for a few days, and it looks like Photos uploads data for about 5 - 10 minutes, and after that pauses for anything from 30 to 90 minutes. Does anybody know if and how I could tell Photos to just keep uploading without any waiting period?
I am trying to create a script to extract a list of data from column A on document 1, and then use columns A & B on document 2 as multiple find/replace data. Everything works in so far as grabbing the data required but I don't understand how to write the script to do the find/replace. I want it to run through the entire list from document 1 whilst referencing the first row of the find/replace list (document 2), and then to do the same with row 2, and so on until it reaches the end of document 2.
I have tried googling around, but I cannot find any information on how to extract app data from a backup. I would suspect it is a SQLite database or even just a hidden file in the iPhone home folder that I would need access to. Any ideas?
Does anyone have an updated version of this workflow for adding a Bounce Message feature to Apple Mail in OSX 10.10.3? Applescript: I've followed the guide but do not receive a bounced email into my inbox when testing as a sender.
Will the file be saved onto my backup drive? Is there a possibility that I might corrupt my backup?
How do I disable Safari in OS X? The desired effect is the same as in iOS: in iOS, you can easily disable Safari through the Restrictions settings, and the app just hides but is not uninstalled. You cannot search for the app, see an icon, or open it in any way.
I can't log out of my user account. I am running 10.10.3 (14D136) on a 2015 rMBP. FileVault is active. I get this console message The bigger problem is, I can only shutdown the system via the terminal.
I have a problem with VPN connection on OS X Yosemite I imported certificates, set them "Always trust" policy and created connection (I set User authentication: Password, Machine authentication: Certificate in "Authentication settings..." dialog). However when I try to connect, I get "The L2TP-VPN server did not respond" error message. here what I get in /etc/log/ppp.log file:
I have an iPhone 5 with a damaged SIM slot. How does one restore an iPhone using file backups made from iPhone 5 without having to insert a sim card or using Xcode? Using the MDBACKUP files or restore from a IPSW file? Is there a way to convert the last phone MDBACKUP files into an .ipsw and then load this file in iTunes via recovery mode to restore it?
I understand I could forget the Dropbox beta. I could also talk to them. But this has been crashing ever since Yosemite went to public beta testing, and no update to the OS nor Dropbox ever fixed this. The Dropbox beta is not that far ahead from the release anyway. Is there anything to check here other than a reinstall or even a migration to a new mac?
I haven't noticed any odd behavior anywhere else. I tried repairing my disk (which did need to be repaired), but now everything says OK and the behavior still persists.
When I'm playing music in Spotify or any app with Apple earphones or auxiliary cable in my car, I can't turn music up to full volume. It goes as far as yellow indicator and 'High Volume' but won't go into the red. I wanna go up to 11 baby! Strange thing is it used to work a month ago, it used to go to the red. I didn't upgrade iOS or anything, I'm on jailbroken 8.1.1. I also have volume limit turned off in Music settings. I checked the earphone jack for lint and it seems clean.
I am receving messages from my phone to my mac and I would like to turn it off, can anyone help? I am new to mac and really just can understand how to make my messages go to my phone and mac I would like it in just my phone.
Okay, so I use iTunes for both music and video (movies and TV shows), however, when switching between the two I can't figure out how to resume the music that was remaining in my Up Next queue. I can open the queue and see the items, but how do I actually resume playing from it (and once the queue is empty, whichever playlist was selected to follow it)? I've never been able to get iTunes to reliably let me do this, as it usually just asks if I'm sure I want to clear the queue, regardless of how I try to resume; this even happens if I had no queued items at all (just a playlist set to shuffle) and hit play or shuffle from the same playlist. To give an example use case: Select a music playlist and hit the shuffle button to start some music playing. Add some music to Up Next via the Play Next and/or Add to Up Next options (via right-click or plus button in search). Switch to the Movies or TV Shows tab and start watching something. Return to the Music tab. At this point, how do you resume y
I'm not understanding the iOS App Store's algorithm for Family Sharing of applications. Here's how it works (for me): If user A shares with use B and wants a free app that A owns, it is impossible to download (the App Store asking for A's credit card security code and then rejects it); but if B wants a paid app that A owns, don’t even use Family Sharing and just charge them.
I would like to color some parts of the output of the command man, specifically I would like to be able to change the color of the most important things, for example the options or the first introduction to each command. Is it possible?
In iOS8, is there an easy way to insert the current date (or current date/time) in Notes?
Hardware: Late 2009 27" iMac (it's the first generation 27") OS: Mac OSX 10.7, Windows 7 64 bit on Bootcamp Last night, I decided to upgrade my OS to Yosemite, and seeing how old my Mac OS is (haven't touched it since 2013, I have a MacBook Air that I use as my main machine), I decided to do a fresh install.
I have a little snitch rule effective in all profiles to allow any process to connect to *.apple.com Why do I keep getting request for applications to connect to apple.com? Here are 4 different processes requiring permission. I thought that the rule above should cover these...??
I wanted to buy this iMac. Does anyone know if I could upgrade the RAM to 16?
I was using my father's computer while mine was in the shop, and thought I would clean out under the keyboard to be nice. Unfortunately, I managed to break his D key in the process. Needless to say, he's very unhappy about it.
My Mac OS is OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10.2). Normally I put the mac in Sleep mode before going to bed, and I realize very often that the machine starts to run in the night just for several minutes and then back to silence. I guess there is some bad process/software in my Mac that wakes up the system from time to time. I know that Activity Monitor could check processes, but I have no idea how to see what is wrong... Could anyone help?
My office VPN called Juniper does not gets installed on Mac OS X. I am using Parallels to run guest Windows on my macbook pro with OS X Yosemite. I don't know what I am asking, and if it is even logical or not, but here is my question:
I currently use a 2Ghz i7 x 8gb Memory 2013 MacAir. With this I am able to effectively run a windows 8 VM running Visual Studio Professional and other developement apps simultaneously, or Ubuntu and Eclipse with no issues. I get an occasional memory error in windows guest if I have too much open but this is rare.
I recently updated my phone, and yesterday I realized that I wasn't able to play many of my songs. When I checked, it wants me to redownload all of my songs. I tried to do that, but it won't complete a full download on any songs! I have no idea what is wrong with it.
I'm trying to clean up remnants of an application that was removed: It's an unrelated issue to what I am trying to do, but I'd like to clean it up. I believe libmonoboehm is an Apple framework. From Too many levels of symbolic links, its likely that soft links point to one another. Question: How do I clear this error?
I recently upgraded our family iMac to 10.10.3 from 10.9. I migrated the iPhoto library to a Photo library almost immediately after upgrade. I am seeing the following behaviors occur 6 or more hours after the migration completed: Thumbnails display as blank white rectangles for some photos in the library, including some taken last year. Double-clicking on those thumbnails to open the photo will open the photo for viewing with some of them, for others, it will display a only the blank white background of the interface.
This is one feature I have to toggle frequently and there doesn't seem to be a shortcut for this. By default it is a 3 step click : Settings -> Mobile -> Mobile Data. Is there a way to add a shortcut for this ? The web site brdrck.me/settings/wifi used to give custom shortcuts, but not anymore.
How will app ownership be affected by this change? Will apps disappear because the original purchaser is no longer logged in on the iPad?
I go back and forth between using a Dvorak keyboard layout and a Korean input method (2-Set Korean). The way that 2-Set Korean is set up, when a modifier key like ⌘ Command or ⌃ Control is depressed in combination with a regular key, the output follows the QWERTY layout. I would like the modified version to follow the Dvorak layout. I'm willing to go to some trouble in order to have this if it is possible. I saw this question but I'm not sure whether or not the answer there has any relationship to my question.
In family sharing, can non-organizers make purchases with their own credit card? And will those purchases be private or shared?
I have a large library of old photos stored on my External Hard Drive (EHD). I would like t bring these old photos into Photos (Mac OS X Yosemite). How can I do this, what's the best way to do this?
I've developped a website using JSF, which is accessed by Safari mobile running on Iphone 5C. Most of the Iphones behave correctly, send the text encoded as it should, but on one of them, text is badly encoded. Exemple: "Début" is written "Début" (it's french) I suspect one of the user changed the settings on the Iphone. What setting could it be, and how can you change it back ? EDIT: The website is rendered correctly, the problem arise when the user type text in a textbox and submit it to the server.
I think what I'm looking for is a .plist file. specifically what I want, is it possible to clear whatever files saves last opened windows that are re-opened on startup that get saved after a shutdown from the power button or general power failure without disrupting general use.
as you know we mostly forgot pdf applications other than Preview, yet it may not came handy for every task. I have scanned some documents recently and need to tilt them only a few degrees right or left. Is it possible to do that using Preview?
2 days ago I accidentally deleted my work folder which include many projects aI have worked on them for last 2 weeks and I didn't packed them up at all. I used Dr.Cleaner to clean up "un-wanted" files, but it seems (i don't remember exactly) I deleted many files permanently and my work folder is one of them. After that I used my computer for many operations (read/delete/add/copy and past files and folders), for about 12 hours until, I discovered the sad news. Unfortunately I didn't use Time Machine, I didn't backup manually at all, and I didn't have any software installed prior deletion to help me to recover what I have lost. I stopped doing any internal operations (mentioned above) to avoid overwrite the physical part on my hard drive (hoping to recover that area using 3rd part software). Right now I'm using "Wondershare Data Recover", "Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery" and "Disk Drill" to recover what I have lost, but nothing promising yet.
The Dock kept showing it as 'running', but clicking on "Force quit" did not have any effect. I restarted both the Finder and the Dock, but Chrome kept showing as 'running'. However, no process reminding me of 'Chrome' was listed in Activity Monitor or in ps aux in a Terminal. So I decided to restart my machine and it was embarrassing:
My friend doesn't have an Apple ID so she uses mine sometimes to just download apps. But me and my mom were talking about some really private stuff and we're using iMessage since she's living in another city so we don't have much time to see each other and talk about this. My friend never activated the iMessage feature on her settings, but if she does turn it on she might use my Apple ID right?
Today I had the strange behavior that I added some files to a folder in Finder (that happens to be in dropbox) from Outlook, but Finder did not show them. I could see them from the Open File dialog of Outlook and of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, but returning to Finder, still not there. Hitting the F5 key to force a refresh, still nothing. Finally, I forced Finder to quit and relaunch, and they showed up. This is OS X Yosemite v10.10.2.
I have a VMB key that I use with a SIM card to connect my MacBook to the Internet while mobile. Recently I've formatted my Mac and I decided to avoid installing Java. No problem until I tried to install latest VMB software: it's based on Java! Are there some alternative softwares independent from Java?
I've tried configuring the test application to not listen to ports 631 and 515, but still the print job gets stuck. Killing the test application allows printing to work fine.
I restored my contacts from iCloud after restoring my iPhone 6 Plus and setting up as a new iPhone and then imported sim contacts. I am now having an issue when I get an incoming call; it shows the caller's name but when I go to recents it only shows the number!
I need to know if I can select some text and copy it, and then paste it on an Apple Watch.
I'm using OS X 10.10 and my iTunes (version 12.1.2.x) keeps opening. the only behavior pattern I could observe seemed really bizarre - It would open when I would click in my Firefox window. I retested many times, but I couldn't reproduce this after I removed my headphones.
I lost my iPhone 4 and really need my text messages. I always backed up everything to iCloud. I don't have a new phone, but I do have a computer. How can I go to iCloud and recover my texts?
After upgrading to 2.2.1, VLC videos plays in a separate window, but I want the controls to be in the same window as the video (just the way it was before I upgraded). Am I missing something?
I have researched this for hours. In Single User Mode, I used: My external USB is mounted on /Volumes/MyBackup
I connected my earphone and when I tried to change the volume, I got a prompt like  Except that there was a small "cancel" icon in it (like this). I could not change the volume. I had to unplug and plug again the earphone. What does that mean?
So I got some freeze issue and beach ball indicator was appeared for me. So I was watching rotation of it during ten minutes and then hard reset my mac. So did because I can't click any buttons or apple menu. Just keyboard caps lock pressing shows me that there is some reaction from my actions. After reset I pick a user entered a password and then saw this screen:
My Macbook, Version 10.9.5 Build 13F1077, AppStore is somehow broken. It's like the formatting of it is broken. See attached image. Any idea's about what happened or how to troubleshoot or fix?
I've ditched Carbon Copy Cloner now that it went commercial, well I felt guilty about using a closed source application anyways. What rsync options do you prefer when maintaining your bootable backups?
I have an existing Yosemite installer app from the original release of 10.10 (e.g. Install OS X Yosemite.app) but can't seem to download a newer installer. When I click Download, I'm presented with this dialog:
I bought a Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" but eventually upgraded to a newer Retina Late 2013 13" model. I'd like to get another charger, but I'm curious if I could use the old charger that came with that laptop with this new one if I buy the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter. They both use a 60W adapter, so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't work.
I have Mac OSX Yosemite, 10.10.1 and halfway through last month my computer decided to download about 500MB every day. I even quit all programs and it still downloaded 447MB. I am seeing this number in the network section of Activity Monitor and the Process name listed is nsurlsessiond. What is this downloading and how do I stop it?
The kids have loved making movies in iMovie on the iPad. So much so that they filled it with their clips. So I synced to my laptop and selected the "delete from device" option in Photos figuring that iMovie had its own copy and it would free up space.
I'm using an iPhone 5 (running iOS 8.3) and update my health data manually with 'add data' feature. However in some mornings when I open health application, all data seems missing. Charts, dashboard settings, everything. Like I opened for the first time. If I reset or restart my phone, data comes back.
Mac App Store sometimes downloads whole apps, instead of downloading just the differential update needed. Take the latest iMovie update which is a bug-fix update and shouldn't be larger than a couple hundred megabytes, but instead it downloads the whole 2 GB app. (This happened for Xcode 6.3.1 and downloaded the whole 2.6 GB app, while 6.3 which was a major update was OK and downloaded much less than 2.6 GB) Recent minor updates of Pages, Keynote and Numbers were OK and each was a 30~40 MB update.
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest version of Yosemite and the most up to date version of iTunes. When opening iTunes up it shows that I have 6 songs, I've tried to delete these songs multiple times by right clicking, pressing 'show in finder' and then moving them to the trash, but they still won't disappear from iTunes no matter what I do. I've even removed the caches folder but no luck even after restarting.
Have recently purchased new MacBook Pro 13″ 2015 (128 GB) and noticed that "About my Mac" displays 1.31 Gb Audio, 750 Mb photo and 410 Mb Films. Does it mean that someone else stored this data on the notebook or it's preinstalled data by the manufacturer?
In iPhoto I relied heavily on the events feature. I had about 100 events. In Photos for OS X I'm totally ok with the new albums that replaces events somehow. But I am looking to automatically create an album of the pictures I import.
I've imported 1,000 photos into Photos on my Mac, and my settings are "Store in iCloud", it is over an hour since I did the import and when I log into iCloud.com via Safari I can see the photos there in Photos however they do not show on my iPhone 6 (logged into the same iCloud account) which has iOS 8.3 and uses Photos. I wonder how long does it take to synch to my devices or is there another step I need to take to get it to synch.
My Mac mini keeps crashing multiple times a day. I have no idea why it happens. It seems to happen at random. Here's the crash report:
I like to get a clear view at how an iPhone's file system. Especially in the case of damaged data. Apart from using a professional (and costly) data recovery service, what other ways do exist to transfer (dump) the disk data from an iPhone to a computer.
I have a Windows Laptop and a MacBook and I like to keep them both in the same place. Is it bad to stack them on top of each other?
When walking around with the iPhone and not the Apple Watch the iPhone records steps. However when looking at the Apple Watch activity app the previously recorded steps are not shown there. Why is that?
Some time ago, I installed Python, LaTeX, C, Perl, Fortran, etc. on my Mac for some college work. I think I used Homebrew to install at least some of them. Now I am not sure how to remove them as I don't can't find where they are. I went to the Library directory but don't know what to look for.
For a few hours after I set up my Apple Watch, I saw iMessage and other notifications on my watch instead of my iPhone. At some point, however, the notifications started appearing only on my phone; the watch didn’t seem to catch them at all.
I can't seem to manage to transfer voice memos from my iPhone. I've read that all I should do is to check the "Include voice memos" box in iTunes Music Sync Settings: Of course, I've synced, re-synced, connected, re-connected, backed-up, re-backed-up my device several times, however, I don't have any "Voice memos" playlist appearing in my iTunes library:
The retina iMac has a display with the huge resolution of 5120x2880. While I'm pretty sure the included GPU (AMD Radeon R9 M290X) must be definitely powerful enough for everyday use, I wonder if under full-screen stress it would still be performant, considering I would also add a second monitor (a normal 1920x1080). I mostly use it to develop both 2D and 3D games with Unity, but I'd also like to be able to at least try the Unreal Engine. So, the question is: is this graphic card powerful enough to handle this high res and still have good performance?
I imported my bookmark folders from Chrome, which I now hate. How can I open a subset of bookmarks in a folder, but NOT ALL bookmarks in the folder, each in a NEW tab. I am using Safari 7.1.5 and OS X 10.9.5
The Apple Watch supports workouts called Indoor Walk, Indoor Run, and Indoor Cycle, and it also has Outdoor versions of these. The Apple Watch User Guide explains that
Most of the instructions I've found online (this, for example) say all I have to do is select "show icon preview" in the finder view settings. But that doesn't seem to be working. What's the problem here? This is OSX 10.8.5.
I know people can put virus or other dangerous programs in email attachments and send them to you, but is that just for the computer world and not tablets? I mean, if you get such an email to your Gmail account and open it on iPhone for example, is there still a risk of having your information secretly stolen or something?
I'm currently using internet sharing to share my WiFi (en1) connection over my Ethernet (en0) port. I have a computer plugged into my iMac's ethernet using a crossover Ethernet cable (bridge100).
How do I permanently delete text substitutions from System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. I have deleted them several times using the (-) key, but they annoyingly reincarnate themselves after a restart.
My MacBook's (late 2008, unibody, 13") battery has just become very bad. I also have a MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 15") which has a still-ok battery. Now, since I take my MacBook (the old one) everywhere I would like it to have a good battery life.
I organize all of my photos into folders. I have years of photos organized properly by year_date_event_name. I would like to import the folders directly into the Photos app as Albums named as the folder name. I can't seem to even find a way to import the folders as albums, let alone having the folder name used as the album name.
I recently had a little mishap on my PC machine and now my HDD is completely cleared. I have a 32GB USB, a Windows 8.1 full DVD iso, and my macbook pro 2013 with Yosemite on it.
I am unable to delete large folders from my icloud drive.( I have tried it both from my phone and from icloud.com) get an error saying “There was a problem deleting “folder name” try again later”
I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library. Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X?
I tried to install omnet++ on my Macbook pro (OS 10.10) yesterday. I got an error so I delete path in my bash-profile.
I got Yosemite 10.10, now I want to use reinstall option from recovery menu. I hold cmd+r and see this screen:
I am going to be replacing the Hard drive in my Mid 2010 Mac Book Pro (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) and I noticed that on the box the Hard drive claims to support Mountain Lion or Higher. I am wondering if this is just placed there for convenience (claiming to support highest firmware since most people will have it) or if this means that it will not run with OS X 10.6.8? HD model: WD WDBMYH0010BNC Does the firmware impact how / if the Hard drive will function?
I accidentally created a user with a duplicate UID. I need advice on how to fix this predicament. As you can see, running dscl shows two users with the same uid:
I just switched over from using Chrome to Safari and I really like it, but I find the search function in Safari very limiting. Are there any extensions for Chrome-like highlighting in Safari? For those of you that are unfamiliar with it, I'm referring to ability to highlight all instances found on the page. Also, a great feature of Chrome highlighting is when it shows the instances on the scroll bar, so I know where the keyword is most densely (or sparingly) used. More details on this: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13651/is-there-a-name-for-the-ui-that-marks-key-positions-in-a-scroll-bar
So once I tried to face time my friend, but when it connected it was a random dude that I have never met. This has happend to me three times now. Each time it is a different guy. Help, I don't know if it is my account or hers.
I accidentally clicked 'do not trust' on my computer when I plugged in my iPhone and I want to know to to get the option to click trust again?
I am going to be reinstalling OS X and I was wondering if there was a method for determining when the base (OS X 10.6) Operating System was installed?
I tried to use the suggestion here to combine the videos. Specifically: This works great for the first (front) video track but completely removes the second (rear) video track.
Since MBP early 2015 use PCIe SSD, do I still need to enable Trim through Chameleon SSD Optimizer or Trim Enabler?
How to Change the Dock Indicator Lights Color in Mac OS X only for an app that I'm using right know? I have 10 Firefoxes in my Dock with 10 different profiles, and sometimes I'm lost - I'm not sure which one of them I'm using right now.
I have activated the Keychain Menu Bar icon so I can relatively easily click Lock Screen to lock the screen of my MacBook. Is there a way to do this with a shortcut or via the command line? I know you can lock the keychain via the commmand line, but I cannot seem to find the how to lock the screen as well.
When trying to access a couple of high-profile websites (*.apple.com, twitter.com) via HTTPS, they've since recently been getting their certificates rejected by some client apps (Chrome, App Store, curl) but not by others (Safari, Firefox, wget, lynx). This is a bit paralyzing, because with App Store unable to talk to identity.apple.com I can't get OS updates anymore.
The image below represents what I mean: Even though there is only one Bartłomiej Semańczyk in my Contacts, that person appears on the list below twice. How do I remove repeated options on the list when I search to name faces?
I am writing to find out the best option to amplify the existing WiFi signal in my house in order to be able to be online in my backyard with my MacBook Air. Would purchasing an AirPort Express be a good solution, or a simple extender/repeater would do the job?
My first iPhone app is currently in "pending developer release" mode. At what time will the app be released if I choose to release it on a specific date?
My watch and phone work really well together, if I'm wearing my watch then notifications pop up there first and don't show on my phone. When I take my watch off or when I'm using my phone the notifications appear on my phone.
So has anyone noticed Chrome (around version 39?) keeps creating an Application folder in their Home folder?
I'm observing regular and abnormal CPU usage on my macbook pro. quicklookd in par with revisiond are eating together over of 50%. It drains my battery significantly and makes the whole machine hot. I'm not sure when exactly it started but I'm suspecting latest 10.10.3 upgrade as I didn't notice this before.
Is there any way to turn off receiving SMS on Mavericks but still get iMessages? I find it a security flaw for SMS code login for secure websites, if somebody gains access to my computer they could also login to these sites.
I've been recently trying to fix an issues with Messages.app. My iPhone sends/receives all of the messages fine, on my Mac Messages.app will display these messages if the Mac is switched on. However, if I leave my Mac off then the messages do not appear in Messages.app which is incredibly frustrating.
I will release my iOS app soon and I read that there is a delay for up to 5 hours until the app is available on the AppStore worldwide. I'm in Austria (Europe), how can I check if the app is already available on the US AppStore? (or better yet if it's available everywhere)
My iPhone 5 will not connect to some public Wi-Fi connections. I have found that if I turn off cellular data it will usually connect. It is as if the two are competing. Anyone know why this happens or how to fix?
I've installed NodeJS for all users on my Mac and when I do a whoami in the terminal it says 'cameron' and I can access node, npm, and grunt globally. However when I try and run these from PHP e.g. exec('npm install'); I can't run them because they don't exist! Doing a whoami in the PHP reveals that I'm running the website as _www which isn't an actual user on the Mac...
I've been doing a clean out and I found an original Apple clock. It's over 13 years old at least and is in mint condition in a metal apple box.
after you paste a URL in Notes, is there a way to have the hyperlink(?) turned off so you don't click it by accident and be taken to the webpage? It'd be nice if the URL can be there just as pure text.
I am trying to create a bootable flash drive that is named Untitled from my MacBook Pro Retina with Yosemite 10.10. This is what I am getting in Terminal: Can someone help?
I have messed out a lot of things with currently installed apache. It doesn't work at all. So, I want to delete apache completely and re-install everything. I want to do completely clean installation. How would I do it? OSX version: Yosemite Package Manager: Homebrew
The first version of my iOS app got approved by Apple and is now in "Pending Developer Release" mode. I just set a "future release date" under iTunes Connect Pricing and got this message:
I have a laptop that I would like to get in working order. There are 2 main issues: I forgot the password. When I boot the laptop, I am seeing the flashing folder with a question mark which indicates that the system software cannot be found.
I dropped my phone in the water and everything works, except my front facing camera. When I go to change from back to front, it freezes and won't let me go back to the back camera, and it's blurry.
I connected my Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse and in order to leave it closed, you must have it connected to power. When my Macbook is closed, does it ruin my battery because it's always closed?
I can’t find the .plist file for TextEdit, Preview. I’ve looked into /Library/Preferences, ~/Library/Preferences, and ~/Library/Containers. I have tried opening the app and changing the preferences and still it doesn’t create them. I run the following command in Terminal to find it:
We can enable/disable smart quotes for many apps by going to Edit → Substitutions. However, In Google Chrome, “Substitutions” does not exist. When searching online, though, it seems that it might’ve existed at some point, as I find multiple posts on how to disable the feature. Is it no longer available (and if so why) or is it something on my side?
I have an iPad 2, which was running iOS 5.x. I could mirror every app on a TV using a VGA adaptor. I recently upgraded to iOS 8.3 and, unbeknownst to me, the new OS's default settings also updated all my apps. Now I find most apps still mirror, including YouTube, but a couple apps (the kind requiring a monthly fee for streaming video content) no longer mirror video content.
iPhone 5, iOS 8.3, PHOTOS How do I delete an untitled folder in Albums iPhone 5 PHOTOS app?
I have a bootable USB for 10.8, but my Mac's HDD is completely empty. How do I install this OS to my Mac?
I sent an SMS text instead of using iMessage to a family member when I had bad cell service about a week ago. I have FaceTime-d with them since and even deleted and recreated their contact info, but my iPhone and MacBook still keeps sending SMS texts to this one specific phone number. It is not doing this for anyone else that is sending my family member iMessages, so I know it's on my end.
My mid-2010 macbook pro was running just fine on OS X 10.10, and then I decided to enable the guest account. My account still works fine, but when I login into the guest account, I get an annoying dialogue box: OS X wants to use the "Local Items" keychain. Please enter the keychain password.
I use OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and have VMware Fusion 7.1.1 where Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed. Moreover, I have installed VMware tools patches.
I submitted my WWDC Scholarship app and the first time I tried submitting it, it just logged me out. The second time it worked but my .app file was in the Xcode project, is that ok?
I'm about to buy SSD for my Macbook Pro mid 2010. What would you recommend for the following specification: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
I have been shutting down Pandora using swipe-to-close to deal with its high battery usage. However, I've recently found that it's still somehow active in the background. I have my phone synced to my car's bluetooth, and when I got in the car yesterday, my phone connected and started playing music. The music in question isn't on my phone, and seems to match the Pandora station I was last listening to. I can see in Now Playing that music is indeed playing, and I can hear it, but Pandora isn't open. I also have a Pebble with the Pandora app, and that's not showing the song title, as it would were Pandora open.
I can't figure out how to get Automator to automatically recognize when a specific file/folder has been changed or updated then automatically copy it somewhere else. Suggestions?
It sort of feels like a hard drive problem, but I have no proof of it. Since everything else comes up clean, I'm left with the logic board, but no way that I know to test it other than the Apple Diagnostics tool (which shows no problems). I’d hate to waste money on replacing the hard drive or on repairing the logic board without knowing which is failing (if either). Any suggestions on further troubleshooting steps, particularly to determine if it’s the hard drive or the logic board? Side note - yes, I have backups to restore from :) Thanks
My phone has been acting up. It turns on and off by itself. My apps also freeze and crash. Im not even able to back up my phone because every time I do it, it cancels. I turn my phone on and off all the time and I restart it (by pressing the home button and power button at the same time) and it's no help at all. I was thinking about resetting my phone but I'm afraid it won't work. I need help. I don't know what I should do.
If I visit a site in Safari, and before it loads, create a new tab or switch over to an existing one, the loading stops in the initial tab. Has anyone else experienced this as well? None of the Yosemite updates has fixed this issue for me. I've reinstalled the entire OS as well but the problem still persists.
In Pages and Numbers (I guess Keynote too) for iCloud if you share a document and then send the link to other people you get real-time collaboration between the contributors as they edit the document and you can see the edits taking place live. Does this work on Pages and Numbers for Mac/iOS?
As a new Mac user, I'm surprised to see that Chrome doesn't track the list of downloaded files anymore. I can't even see the current download speed in the Finder.
I have a Mac Mini so, as every other Mac Mini owner, I have an other-brand monitor. But Apple, is used to use their integrated monitors that wake up from sleep quickly. My LG monitor is a very good monitor but it's slower than Apple's monitor waking up so, every time I wake up my Mac, monitor wake up just in time to show me all notifications, received while mac was sleeping, disappearing from screen because they were already displayed for 5 seconds from Mac's woke up, while monitor was turning on!
More or less from iOS 8.2 update I suffer a little, but very annoying, trouble in Safari. I open Safari, I type in the search bar what I need (web page or something to search on Google) then I've to wait from 5 to 20 seconds to launch the command. Until the table under the search bar is empty, pressing search button doesn't makes happen nothing!
I have a LaCie NAS at home which I use as a central place to park all home admin docs, Time Machine back ups etc. I want to be able to access it easily from my work iMac (different LAN) so it appears there in the Finder side bar as Dropbox does… I can access the file server via a web browser but this is slow and clunky. Someone mentioned something about port forwarding and Bonjour so it appears as a server in the Finder sidebar?
CHM is an extension for the Compiled HTML file format. There are many viewers with different quality. xCHM has been my choice because of robust search, here their homepage. I however just noticed that some files are incorporated with videos but my viewer cannot show them.
I had some updates that prompted me to restart for a long time. Finally, I agreed, but the restart process hanged with the rainbow mouse pointer, so I did a hard reset. Now I still have update notification in App Store, but it doesn't seem to work. Regardless of what I press, it just changes the active tab icon, but the window body itself only displays this:
So I can find no good solution to this. I have a macbook pro running yosemite that will take down the interface when I lock it. How can I configure it so the network connection stays active when the computer is locked? Also note that recommendations to install "lock me now" as a workaround won't work, as that app isn't available in my area (according to the app store).
I can access all users even root using remote desktop from Windows to Mac with the TightVNC Viewer. The problem is trying to access root from my PC when someone in Mac already logged in root, then TightVNC Viewer freezes and I have to close it. This only happen to me since Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10. I gave permissions to every single user.
I want to blur sensitive information in my video. How do I do that in iMovie 10.0.7? "Adjust", "Video Overlay settings" options are missing.
I recently installed leksah on my Mac (once directly, once via brew cask). When I try to open it in Finder, Dock or use spotlight the window flashes open for a second and then closes immediately. When I open it via terminal using open -a Leksah or open ~/Applications/Leksah it opens just fine.
I bought my Mac in Spain. I cannot find change keyboard type in Keyboard preferences. I have set to English language but many keys are physically different. How do I change the physical layout of the keyboard to standard British keyboard?
I just tried to create an ad-hoc network on OS X Yosemite and noticed there are no password options. Are they hidden? If so, is there any way to enable them? Is Terminal an option?
In Pages you can set shortcuts for the different type of fonts:  But it only saves the shortcut for that one document. Does anyone know of any way to save the shortcuts for all documents? (I've looked in Pages preferences)
My iPhone 5's (bought on January 2013) battery life is now something about 5-6 hours. I found some possibilities how to buy new battery and replace it. Does anybody have some experiences with this replacement? Does it work and solve the battery life problem? iPhone 5 new battery
There are a number of tutorials and blogs which suggest that auto-renewable subscriptions are not generally permitted by Apple in the App Store unless the app is a newsstand app. The problem is, they are now all a few years old. Has anyone had any recent experience with the App Store review process and this kind of payment methodology; does anyone know if it is likely that an app which bills for it's subscriptions this way will be accepted? I'm aware that you can use a non-renewing subscription for this, but it's not very user friendly.
For a couple days now, whenever I try to download an app from the App Store on my iPhone 5s with iOS 8.3, it brings up the 'use existing Apple ID' or 'create new one' window. When I select the existing one and fill in my account information it closes the pop up window and starts to download the app (indicated by the circle starting to turn) but after one second it goes right back to the 'get' button.
In Mac Systems - safari browser im accessing the xchange email. When I have 10-20 jpg or pdf files are there in finder, Im coping them and pasting in the email only for the txt message not attachment, i will get as full path for the individual images a lengthy one.
So there's this gesture on touchpads where you move 4 fingers downward so you change between multiple windows of the same application. I'm working on an iMac now, so I don't have a touchpad, is there any keyboard command (or maybe a gesture on the magic mouse) to produce this?
I'm having an issue with the play command. It seems that if I use this command to play a song within a playlist, it will play that song and then stop.
There is a U2 album on my iPhone which I didn't download & isn't on my Mac & I am unable to remove it. I deleted all Music app storage from the phone, then re-synched with 1 playlist from iTunes on the Mac, but the album still appears on the phone under genres, artists & albums but not playlists.
Recently Apple started including "sales" in iTunes Connect Sales and Trends which denotes the total revenue your app has made before Apple takes its 30% cut, while "proceeds" is what you made after the cut is subtracted. Why is it when I take my lifetime proceeds and divide it by my lifetime sales, I only get 66-67% instead of 70%? What is happening to this other 3-4%?
What is the OS X modifier key symbol that looks like the control icon (^) but with the addition of a line over it? Symbol:
I'm trying to create an App Preview Video for a game we did. I recorded using QuickTime, plus iMovie to create it. I recorded the videos with iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and iPad.
I upgraded to Yosemite and migrated my iPhoto library to the new Photos app. I'm happy with Photos and don't plan to go back to iPhoto. This Apple support article makes it clear that the photos don't really exist in two places, but leaves it vague as to where they actually are. I don't like having an iPhoto Library that my Photos library is dependent on, and I'm bothered by the weird and misleading sizes reported by the Finder. How can I get rid of the iPhoto Library without damaging my Photos Library?
I have used iTunes to create various Smart Playlists that contain podcasts using intelligent criteria (unplayed and most recently added podcasts; least recently played music + 3 hours of unplayed podcasts, etc.) I am able to transfer these playlists to a 3rd generation iPod Touch running iOS 6.1, or a brand new Nano, and get the listening experience I expect.
I am using iCloud Drive on my Macbook Pro, and I noticed that even if the iCloud folder has my files, they're not really synced on the cloud. Many files still have the cloud icon next to them:
Orphaned Entry in Default Calendar App Preferences (OS X Yosemite)? The image below is the preferences pane in Calendar.app. This is where the user sets the default calendar app used by OS X globally. In OS X 10 this is set to Calendar.app by default. I use Fantastical 2 as my default calendar app. The problem is an orphaned entry is appearing -specifically MobileCal.app- (as can be seen in the image below). As far as I can recall I've never installed an app called MobileCal. Please let me know i) how to remove this orphaned entry and ii) how it got there in the first place. I'm running OS X Yosemite 10.0.3. Thanks! Additionally I'm receiving the following error when I attempt to open a reminder from Spotlight Search:
I go to photos app. I DO NOT select "Delete after import" (for the purpose of seeing if it mattered). I import photos from iphone.
Upgrade to 8.3 at the time of backup I had 1.2gb of used Other Data. Hooked up the watch, used it over the weekend and now up to 89gb of Other Data.
I really have a problem with my HDD. I was working on it, it was my local HDD installed on a MacBook 2009 but some day my Mac turned off suddenly and it didn't work again. I installed OS X on a new disk and tried to attach the other in an external case but the volume doesn't mount. The now broken disk contained one visible volume and OS X 10.10 Yosemite was installed. Here are the partition infos I can see: The output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk1 and sudo fdisk /dev/disk1: Apparently it doesn´t have an active partition but I tried by different ways to fix it and i couldn´t.
For some reason that is not clear to me, the Photos app icon on the dock of my Yosemite OS now displays a badge (the number 1 in a red circle top right corner) First of all, I have no idea what that badge is suppose to represent. Second, when I launch the app I have not idea what the thing is that I'm suppose to look at, acknowledge or in some way "touch" so that the badge goes away.
DHS found an issue Is this a false positive? Anybody else with the same message?
A few days ago, I got my Macbook Air battery changed at an Apple store. Since then, about once a day, I've had a "kernel panic" crash, which seems to happen randomly while I'm working. (I've never seen this before.) I did an extended memory test, which showed no problems, but a disk test on the built in 128 Gb SSD showed these errors:
Is there an easy way to insert photos into apps of this nature? Note this is not restricted just to messaging apps, but any app that offers importing of photos where one might want to use something from their OSX library.
How can I enable MAC Filtering on my MAC OSX 10.9.4? I tried adding
A generous soul shared some useful information about this issue here (*=URL=* but there are a couple of details that might be obvious to a veteran Apple person that are not obvious to a newcomer such as myself. Primarily, it's not clear to me where the steps are executed. I'm assuming that all of these steps are happening on a computer with iTunes installed, and that step 4 is referring to plugging the iPad into the computer. That makes the most sense to me, but this is all new to me so some clarification would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any way to get this property back? Being able to have finder windows on top of the safari window makes it so much easier to drag links from the URL bar to the folder.
OS X tends to try and help out and reopen everything to just the way it was before it crashed. I mean this in two ways:
Computer is new 13" retina MBP. 2.9GHz i5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD.
I have recently experienced two Kernel Panics on my MacBook Pro (13 inch, mid-2012). The first one happened during the upgrade process to 10.10.3 right at the end. The second happened today while browsing the web. Apple Hardware Test and Memtest turned up nothing. An Apple support rep guided me through deleting chaches, lauchdeamons, startup items and some other stuff. Can anyone tell from the logs pasted below what the cause of the problem might be? Given the timing, could it be something to do with the 10.10.3 update? First Report (end of upgrade to 10.10.3): Second report (browsing the web with Firefox):
My wife's 16gb iP5 is not optimizing iCPL she is now out of space. What do I need to do to fix this? I've read that if I turn off iCPL on her phone and then delete all the pictures in her photos app including Recently deleted then restart her phone and turn iCPL again it will revert to optimizing again. Is this an acceptable method for fixing this what I consider to be a still in beta Apple app. Very disappointing.
I have been using IMO messenger on my iPhone 5. 3 days ago imo was not working. I delete app and re-install it but the result is I can't get past the screen where I have to enter my mobile number and country. Still the page is in loading but I have not been able to complete the installation. Can anyone have a solution for this problem?
I replaced the hard drive on my Macbook Air. When I press the option key while powering on it takes me to a screen where I select a WiFi network and nothing else is on the screen. I connect to WiFi and then nothing happens. There Are no other options. What should i do? I have also tried the same procedure with the old disk, but the same strange thing happens. It connects to the WiFi network but that's all.
In Windows one can right click, head over to display preferences and have the OS increase everything globally ... icons, fonts, etc ... by a certain factor. It's really helpful for "old" eyes. Is there an equivalent for Mac? I have found zillions of places to tweak things piecemeal. But am looking One place, One setting. Am certain it exists, but as a Mac novice I have struggled. Am using Mac Air; OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
Specifically, I am used to typing Command-1 in a WordPress admin area to specify some text as a Header 1, (and Command-2 to specify Header 2), but when I do this now in Chrome, that command seems to change the current browser tab. Is there a way to edit or remove the chrome keyboard commands so those commands will work with WordPress, (I am assuming that the Chrome commands over-ride the WordPress admin ones)? Using an iMac running OS X Yosemite.
Recently, I've gone through the trouble of replacing the hard drive on my Mac with the model A1174, which the Internet says is a iMac "Core Duo" 2.0 20-Inch Early 2006. Needless to say that I do not have the install discs for it anymore! But I do have another Mac computer, so I followed these directions to create a boot USB but did the same thing for Yosemite: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-to-install-os-x/
How do I unlock iPhone 6 plus IOS 8.1.1 from sprint?
I've spent some time teaching Photos on my Mac to know which face belongs to what name and now have a nice set of groups. I'd like to be able to access that metadata on iOS - preferably through automation and the iCloud Photo Library. Is there any way to see these groups/tags/keywords attached to photos in any usable way on iOS? macOS 10.12 - Photos app Version 2.0 (445.1.15) iOS 10.0.2 + Photos
I have seen people say to click get info then do something with the 'open with' but when I go to get info there is NO open with option, no options to change at all. I cannot drag the files into VLC like I could before the upgrade either. Please help me out! I am not real tech savvy, but I can do basics and follow instructions. Thanks.
I know that I can open a file with an external program from the Terminal with open, and that works for most applications. However, when I try to use a command like open -a Preview info.txt, it launches Preview, but the file is not opened. I am on Mavericks 10.10.2. Is there a way to use the open command (or any other built-in command) to actually open a file in Preview from the Terminal?
I did a Reset printing system..., thinking it would remove all printers I installed. I didn't think it would remove everything, including the default Postscript printer. EDIT: I'm on a MacBook Pro mid-2014, on OS X 10.10.3. I went to Printers & Scanners I right-click on the printer list Then, I chose Reset printing system...
Sketchup is designed for use with a third mouse button (particularly the pan and orbit functions). Can I emulate the third button for SketchUp using a MacBook's trackpad or user gestures?
Yet again I have a task to do that would be great to automate. Yet after searching for examples that are even close I am nowhere.
I have iPhone 5S and about two days ago updated to IOS 8.3 but now there are some apps that don't open like "youtube", "doulingo" or "Line" ( when I want to open youtube it is jumping out ). Now it is appreciated if you help me to fix this issue.
I have two Apple ID accounts and wish to remove one as it causes confusion with password issues. What problems will this cause if I delete this app from my iPhone.
I have a 2011 Macbook Air. The original Magsafe cord was getting flimsy, so I cut the old cord, got a spare one from eBay and soldered it to the power adapter. However, I realised the wattage rating information built into the connector's chip is 60W in the new cord (which was probably obtained from a dead 60W adapter), as reported by "System information" and CocoaBattery, while my adapter's actual rating is 45W. So far the Air seems happy with this new cord, but I wonder what risks this might incur, especially since 60W adapters are supposed to deliver 16.5v, instead of the 14.5v the Air needs.
I am having serious WiFi issues on my MacBook Pro (retina Mid 2012 with Yosemite) where the connection continuously drops making Internet impossible to use. I have already tried all of the options described on various blog posts, including Fix Wi-Fi Problems in OS X Yosemite.
As you can see, I defined shortcut, restart system, but it is still not visible. Why?
This is the method in Linux: How is it done in OS X?
My app crashed, and I just took a screenshot before closing the window. Instead of the screenshot, I really should have copied the whole log... I can't reproduce the crash, and really want to see the rest of the details. QUESTION: Can I get the full details of the Problem Report, even after I have closed it? Or is it too late, and it is lost forever?
I'm mainly wondering about the media keys, but I think that the general question is interesting as well. I have an extension in Chrome that allows me to use the media keys on Youtube, Soundcloud and lots of other sites, I have Spotify installed, and off course, I have iTunes. It doesn't seam predictable what whill happen when I press the 'play' key. So in cases where it's not based on focus, how does OSX routekeyboard events?
I changed the HDD of a Macbook with OS X Yosemite by taking the HDD out of the computer and making a byte-by-byte copy with dd on Linux. Now MS Word refuses to start saying the copy isn't licensed. It seems to calculate a checksum over the license key and hardware serial numbers and fail due to the change of the HDD.
I plug my MacBook Pro to my Belkin Express Dock HD via Thunderbolt, but I see that my battery is getting down. I was hopping to get power from the Dock. Is there any solution to this problem?
I know that I can use network sharing to share my cable network connected to Mac mini and turn it into a Wi-Fi hotspot. I haven't purchased a Mac mini yet. From the description on Apple Store, Mac mini currently has a 802.11ac wireless connection. I believe using a Mac mini won't perform as well as a Airport Extreme, but I have very few wireless devices(an iPhone, a Macbook and a Playstation), so would there be any big difference between using a Mac mini and an Airport Extreme?
I use OneNote to maintain notes on my iPad. I want to know how I can determine how much space each notebook is occupying so I know how much space is left. However, I have no way of doing this. Also, how much free storage does Microsoft give for OneNote ?
He tells me that he installed some hacked "distro" of Mac OS X called "Niresh". He tells me that he assumed that it was legitimate because it appeared to be supported by a large community of computer enthusiasts. He actually said to me "It wouldn't be on the Internet if it was illegal".
My 1/8" headphone output is not giving me full level in one ear. After deciding it was not my headphones or the cable (it worked in my iPhone), I instantly went to turning my mac off and resetting the SMC. Didn't work. Do I have a hardware problem that will be a costly repair or is there another way?
I work sometimes till 4 am and my friends and the rest of the world obviously don't know in advance that I don't want to be called at 8 am. Is there an app or setting that can allow me to have an emergency override list of people I need to be woken up for if a possible emergency arises but ignore all other calls until I wake up?
I can send but cannot receive an sms on my iPhone 5s-this just came about out of the blue!
I am having a problem, as a program is requesting my RSA password but my Mac won't let me see it. As I check the "show password" (mostrar contraseña) chechbox, it immediately unmarks itself. I already tried "Repair" and turning the computer off and on again (as if it ever worked) and of course, it didn't fix it. Any suggestions?
Any iOS app can let its users pick a file on iCloud Drive with the proper chooser dialogue. This dialogue allows to search files based on tags. Here is a screenshot to make crystal clear what I am discussing here:
I understand that the Apple Watch needs a connection to an iPhone for most of its features to work, but am curious if Bluetooth can be turned off on the Apple Watch. Does the Apple Watch provide an option to disable Bluetooth?
How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file? I am currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.
I am the owner of an iPhone 4s. One day I tried to put my SIM card into my iPhone and the next thing I saw on my phone was "Activation Required".
Some time ago I saw emoji in my Google Plus and thought, that it is another crappy update, but seems like is it Mac OS who place them instead of text.  How to turn them off? Mac OS X 10.9.4 Or is it about Chrome 41.0?
I have to copy and paste a lot of stuff and it bugs me when the formatting is copied over, In pages there's a way to paste using the destination formatting but the keyboard shortcut is 4 keys long which annoying.  Is there anyway to change the in-app shortcuts or generally just swap them around so cmd + V will paste and match the style? I've already looking in system preferences but I can't see anything like this
I have a Canon PIXMA MG5500 and a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.10.3 The printer and scanner are supposed to be wireless and I have no problems with the printer but when I try to use the scanner it just won't cooperate.
I would like to avoid any future problems with aliases (empty files created with the Finder, not to be confused with symbolic links) I might have used in the past and which may stay within the system. I discovered a lot of problem with this type of file: to backup (with rsync) to migrate on another file system (with cp or rsync) to migrate on another system (with rcp, scp or rsync)… Now I want either to get rid of all of them or at least to know the size of the risk I still have with the remaining ones. How may I find all the alias type files within a given filesystem using command line (shell script) using for example: mdfind find
I have a iMac we purchased last year (27inch, 32GB Ram, 512GB Flash Storage, OSX 10.9 Mavericks) with Adobe CS6 installed on it. About 2 months ago our Graphic Designer started having problems where when she went to save a Photoshop file the Mac would freeze up and just show the spinning pinwheel, after this happens we are unable to to even shut the system down and have to resort to holding the power button until it shuts off. Now this doesn't happen every time and we went almost a month with a problem but it has started back up and is happening multiple times a day. We have tried re installing CS6, creating a new profile for the user, deleting the library folder, saving to the desktop instead of a network location but nothing has seemed to do the trick. I'm a Windows Sysadmin so I'm out of my depths here and my poor Graphics Designer is getting really upset. Has anyone out there every had something like this happen?? Forever Grateful for any help that could be given -Giles Marsha
I've seen this error in a few other areas of the forums; however, I'm trying to understand what does "key 'privateKey'" means. I'm trying to authenticate to a VPN portal and this is the error that pops up when I browse to the site. I was provided a .pfx file, imported it into my "login" keychain, and now I'm trying to use it when browsing to this site. Perhaps my understanding of all of this is horrible, but I thought I'd at least post about it and see if anyone could provide any valuable feedback. Also, that "using your key 'privateKey'" is not very specific, so I have no idea whether it's trying to use the right private key or not.
I'm rearranging my launchpad and I can't seem to figure out how to change the name of one of my folders with the yosemite update.
I have Yosemite 10.10.2 on my Early 2008 24". Time Machine has been backing up to my WD external hard drives for years. I just purchased a new 2TB My Passport using USB 3.0. It's formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The device shows up on by desktop and it does store files that I drag into it. However, Time Machine does not recognize it.
My iPad 2 has been crashing recently with no warning and then takes several hours charging before it comes back to life. When it crashes there is only a low battery icon, and no charging symbol when it is plugged in. When it comes back it shows 100% until it crashes. The Low Battery charge crash log shows Hardware Model: K93AP Awake Time: 10:48:43 (38922) Standby Time: 62:01:16 (223276) Partial Charge: 0 Capacity: 100 Voltage: 3709 mV
Normally I have all my Finder sorted alphabetically but, for some folders, order by date would be better but changing order in those folder will change order for all Finder... Is there a way to sort items in a different way only for that folder?
Everything I have searched for has something about not being able to boot and the fix is repairing the disk via recovery console. That's not my issue. I can boot just fine. I just can't read this USB HDD. Anyone else run into this?
After I updated my Kindle for Mac app 2 mos. ago I can no longer find the azw book files on my Mac to convert them so I can read them on my KOBO ereader. I use to find them in a My Kindle Content file but that has disappeared. I have Ult. DRM & Calibre but they won't work without the azw files, and I can't find them on my mac anymore. Can anyone help me? The answers on this site about this are years old & do not apply to my problem.
I have seen a few posts where they recommend me to backup the system and then reinstall the OS. I cannot backup and I cannot reinstall.
I have a large collection of photos (80Gb) stored on my Macbook and I've imported them to Photos, these are now available through Photos on my other devices with the same iCloud account. Does Apple move the originals into the cloud and free up the 80 Gb space on my Macbook?
How do I know what photos have been downloaded to Photos on my iPhone? Does Apple continuously remove the copies from my local device after a period of time so that I don't run out of space? E.g., I have 80Gb iCloud storage taken up by Photos. I browse my photos through the iPhone Photos app and it downloads images that I linger on. I only have 12Gb space in total available on my iPhone, will I run out of space in the near future or are these downloads removed and reverted to thumbnails at some point?
I am releasing a new app to the App Store, and I think that I would be great if I can contact my friends to post reviews on the app. But Apple says that developers that attempt to fake reviews will be expelled from the Developer Program, as indicated in App Store Review Guidelines rule 3.10. However, I also saw an article on the Web that recommends the approach of contacting your friends and acquaintances to post a review on the App Store for your app (thinkapps.com/blog/launch/create-successful-app-4-ways-grow-users, in section Where to Start/Launch/Step 1). So will I be expelled from the Developer Program if I contact my friends to post reviews for my app? Thanks very much.
Have iPad Air Apple TV 3rd generation and wireless internet at hotel but cannot get Apple TV to connect cause no login page to accept hotel agreement
In Chrome when I have many tabs open it simply reduces the width of each tab. I'm trying Safari for the first time in years and am not enjoying the tabs that get smaller towards the edge. Is there a clever tab setting or tab management extension? (Glims no longer works). I've spent >1 hr with my friend google but appear to be asking the wrong question.
I am seeing baffling behavior with my wireless mouse (connected via USB) and my gigabit ethernet adapter plugged in simultaneously. If my mouse is plugged in and working fine, if I plug in my gigabit ethernet adapter (even without the ethernet port plugged in) to EITHER thunderbolt port, my Logitech m510 mouse stops working completely.
I did some partitioning to install Linux. Then I decided to erase that partition altogether. Now I am left with a configuration like this:
I want to type unicode characters with the keyboard. I'm looking for a solution with no mouse usage. For example, below I have a line with the unicode "PILE-OF-POO" character:
My 2009 Macbook pro is not charging. I recently bought a new power adapter and when I plug it in the computer starts up fine although the date is set back to Jan 1 2001. When I click on the battery icon I see a message saying that it is not charging even though the green light is on and the the icon shows the charging symbol. It also always says the battery is at 42%. The battery has been replaced once about 2 years ago. When I unplug the power adapter it immediately dies. Any ideas?
I appreciate the "open" terminal command to launch OS X apps. When invoking the open command for any purpose, it is overwhelmingly likely that I will have at least one other command I would like to type into the terminal before tending to the application I have just summoned. How do I keep focus on the terminal when using the open command?
I am new to iOS App Development and my account type is individual. I already created 2 apps with valid dev certificates(unexpired as they are still new created this April) but when I create a 3rd app and added a 3rd development certificate under Certificates tab in memberscenter, the iOS App Development choice is greyed out.
Please refer to the Mac OSX search attributes mentioned below. Any idea what's the difference between "Document Container" and "Folder Name"? Also what's the expected value of "Containing Folder Names" - a slash-delimited list of folders?
I switched from iPhoto to Photos and now one feature that was important to me is missing: "Show referenced files in Finder". For example, that feature was useful to me for selective sharing. Also for other things, like complete Library backups, I think it is very important to know how Photos.app works and where it stores the files.
I just bought this Dell UltraSharp U2312HM monitor to use as an external monitor of my Macbook Air 2012 model. And, I'm looking for a cable that will connect from thunderbolt port (mini displayport) to displayport of the monitor and wanted to confirm if this cable is the right one. Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Cable M-M 2m
There's an option to stop mission control from rearranging spaces based on most recent use, but it looks like there's no equivalent for doing the same to windows in App Exposé. Whenever I swipe down to display App Exposé, my windows will be arranged in a order seemingly based on most recent use, and that will change next time if I dare select a different window than the last opened. This is very confusing when working with extremely similar windows.
Homebrew-cask provides the possibility for users to conveniently install the applications with GUI, I want to confirm that: while I try to uninstall a software which was installed by homebrew-cask, will it remove those Application Supports, Caches, or related files too? By the way, If I manually update a software (which was installed by cask) without using command provided by cask, will it corrupt the cask function (such as updating that software in the future with cask again)?
I have MBA and I access internet using ethernet to USB adapter. Now I'm sharing wifi to my other devices, but I want to know the information about all clients of my hotspot. Not only mac address, but names and time they're connected too. Is there a way to do that or an app?
What is the function of com.apple.CoreRAID.plist in LaunchDaemons? What happens if I disable it? In general terms what is CoreRAID? Thank you in advance
Photos.app on Yosemite takes forever to upload its library to iCloud, and can slow the WiFi network to a crawl while it does so. I know that I can pause it in the app's Preferences, but this is complicated to explain for friends and family who are not good with computers! I would like to make some sort of easily-accessible icon/button for pausing/unpausing the upload, that I could put on the desktop/dock/menubar. Is there any way of doing this (for example with Automator or AppleScript)?
Is there a way to add watermark to all (mp4) video files in a folder. I have like 1000 videos in one folder and It'll take a long time to change one by one manually - so, maybe, there is some kind of a tool / software? Maybe, it's possible to do somehow with mencoder that I can run in terminal?
I'm assuming Messages.app uses images for their status bubbles like other graphics in the app. Here are the bubbles I'm talking about:
I have a 2008 iMac (with mini-DVI and NO Thunderbolt) and I want to use it as a secondary monitor for my MacBook Pro. The FAQ for Target Display Mode says that it's possible to do it with an 2009 or later iMac but not with the 2008 version I have. Are there any tricks to do it by adding any kind of software, hardware, cables or adapters?
I have a Macbook white model A1342 that I'm fixing for a friend of mine. The macbook will freeze up totally randomly (usually while surfing the net but it happened even when no browser was opened). Freezes are usually 2-3 per day, but once it starts freezing it will freeze again in due time It freezes without any beach ball spinning up, the cursor remains where it is and the only solution is shutting it down via the power button. When I took it from my friend for fixing, it had only 2gb of ram and mavericks installed, and was painfully slow. I thought that was the culprit and installed 4gb of RAM, but it freezed again, today, just after installing the RAM, like nothing changed. AHT and memtest won't report any errors, and the system log reports warning like disk swapping but nothing too dramatic. Tried etrecheck too, apple support's app for checking your system and nothing wrong reported here too. Here is a list of what I tried so far: upgraded to 4gb of RAM clean reinstall of mac os l
I don't see any options for deactivating automatic downloads for OS X and individual apps in the App Store app.
Yesterday I plugged Apple earbuds into my iPhone 5 and the sound from the right speaker was very low, almost mute. Assuming something was wrong with them and having just lost the 3rd party earbuds I normally use, I bought another set of 3rd party earbuds in the evening and found them to have the same problem, but now with those the left side is almost mute and the right is fine. Of course my assumption then was my iPhone has a problem. Now I'm at work and just tried the new 3rd party earbuds in the Mac Mini I use, and I have the same problem.
My iPad won't play YouTube videos. I order to solve the problem I have tried: Turning the iPad off and back on. Refreshing the YouTube webpage in the browser. Open the webpage in a new browser tab. None of these actions have solved the problem. What else can I do to get the YouTube videos to play?
I am using Final Cut Pro on Mavericks and Yosemite. Even though the one on Mavericks says: the latest version cannot run on the current OS -- must install the latest compatible version instead. However, both versions on Mavericks and Yosemite report version 10.1.4. And when I create a DVD disk using Share -> DVD and create a disc, burned by either the SuperDrive or a Pioneer drive, the disc cannot be played on a set top box DVD player... the disc I created using iDVD on an old Macook with Snow Leopard, can be played on that set top DVD player though. Is there some way to make it work?
I have an old Macbook with Snow Leopard on it, and a newer Macbook Air with Yosemite, and a newer Macbook Pro with Mavericks. The old Macbook is taking about 4 hours to encode videos to burn to a DVD disc using the highest quality setting, so I wonder if I install it on the Macbook Pro, whether it can be much faster. However, since iDVD is discontinued since Lion, there might be 2 ways to install it on the Macbook Pro or Macbook Air and I wonder if they will work. Buy iLife 11 (produced in 2011) from Amazon and install on Mavericks and Yosemite... but I wonder how compatible it will be, and whether the installation may write some outdated material over the newer, more current files (of the OS). Buy iLife 11 (produced in 2011) from Amazon and install on Mavericks and Yosemite... but I wonder how compatible it will be, and whether the installation may write some outdated material over the newer, more current files (of the OS).
I set up shared mailboxes on Exchange server. The shared mailboxes work and receive mail on the desktop but while they show as mailboxes under the main one on my iPhone (Outlook 2013 app) which I tried first which didn't work, they do not receive mail either way.
I currently own a MacBook Pro, Late 2011, With a 2.4ghz intel core i5, 4gb memory DD3. I use my mac mostly for web browsing and iTunes, and use (bootcamp) windows for programming. Recently, I have seen my mac slow down at times. When I click an application on my dock, takes aprox. 5-10 secs to open the application. I have seen lag when having multiple applications open at once. Running Windows 8, I do not see any lag unless I am running the debugger on visual studio but that could a VS issue. One of the reasons I want to upgrade is booting time. I am constantly changing going from OSX to Windows and can take up to 30-45 seconds to boot into either operating systems.
I was told that some search terms appeared in the search bar of an iPad because that person had gone to a "bad" website and the terms must have come from that visit.
I am using a PC keyboard on my Mac. Today, it stopped recognizing the Command and Option keys. This likely happened because I experimented with Karabiner and Yosemite Modifier Keys yesterday. I have tried: Resetting modifier keys to defaults. Checking private.xml through Karabiner (blank). Undoing my settings on Karabiner. Uninstalling Karabiner entirely. Restarting OS X.
I’ve had a very sluggish Finder recently on my Mid-2012 MBP 16GB 2.6GHz i7. Looking online I found that deleting the Finder preferences can solve the issue, but when I went to the Preferences folder to look for com.apple.finder.plist I also found files like these: com.apple.finder.plist.DUkfEQe and com.apple.finder.plist.DUkfEQe2 and others with random strings at the end. Any idea what these are and which one is my 'actual' finder plist?
A group I am a part of uses Wiki Server 4 to share information. Recently, I've found that when I upload/embed images from my computer onto a Wiki Page, those same images are not visible on other computers (even within the same browser - Safari). Is there anything I can do so that embedded images are visible within a wiki page for all users on different computers (and different operating systems - Windows 7 verse OS X)?
I've tried deleting these files, but it is rather a chore to have to delete a file every time I save a file. Is there some way to disable this previous version saving? Another issue it presents is if I change the file on another device, I have to close the file and reopen it, because reverting to the previous version is going to the previous version TextEdit has saved, not the latest version on disk.
For some reason - & this has been the case for as long as I remember, years at least - I have two sets of iCloud Contacts in my Contacts address book. One is called 'iCloud (me.com) the other just 'iCloud'
On my previous mac I was also experiencing problems with this account. In particular it seems that any system preferences that I modified for would only last for one session, and would be forgotten when restarting my mac. One example is the hiding of the dock and also on my new mac osx forgets that I want to hide the dock. Question: Does anybody know what is causing all this?
My virus scanner (Sophos) showed that it was scanning a file named rt.jar plus several other .jar files. I was a little bit surprised because I didn't think that Java was installed. Yet, when I search using Finder, I can't find any indication that this or any other .jar file exists on my system (OSX 10.10). Any suggestions about where/how to look?
I run xvinfo and get I do not understand. No previous google match for it. Something wrong with X11. The command brew doctor gives
I have tried the advice given on here to restore iTunes from backup but I don't get the dialogue box pop up which asks if I want to create library or choose library.
I have found the corresponding Activity app on the iPhone, which shows exercise history, but is there a way you can see the history of each heart rate measurement in bpm? Maybe through a HealthKit application?
I'm trapped in a HDD nightmare with my MacBook Pro mid-2012. I updated to Yosemite 10.10.3. A couple of days after the update, I was watching a movie on my TV screen via HDMI. In the middle of the movie I removed the HDMI cable from the MacBook Pro and everything freezes. I forced shut down (Note: My HDD was encrypted). After I forced shut down, I tried to turn on and the loading screen would never stop loading - like, 14 hours stuck with the progress bar. Since I have backups, I decided to access DU and format my HDD. I tried everything. For real. Every command line I could type on Terminal to format, repair, erase and/or partition. I read almost every issue-related questions on the forums and stack exchange groups for a week (even posted my issue here: Erasing and Partitioning Hard Drive from Internet Recovery). So, I decided that it was a HDD failure and bought a new one.
So yesterday I tried opening one of my apps an the Dock just froze completely. I tried every tip I could find online like Command+Option+Escape and killall -KILL Dock, but nothing fixed it. I was finally forced to restart my MacBook Pro. Now, my Finder looks like this:
Dragging text used to be instant. Now, especially after an application’s been open a few minutes, it takes forever from the time I press the mouse button on text until I can drag it. (If I try to drag it before the cursor changes form the text-insertion icon to an arrow, the text is deselected.) I’ve timed the delay a few times, and the longest one was about 35 seconds from mouse-down to cursor-change.
I don't think I can find a valid answer for this: how do I actually order or re-order the video clips I added to iDVD? I actually have video clips named
I took it to the genius bar and they seemed to think it was hardware related. They quoted me 500 CAD to replace the top case. This was not acceptable.
Recently I was attempting to upgrade from mavericks to Yosemite and was having difficulty getting Yosemite to run. I left the machine running rather than shutting down and it went into sleep mode. Several hours later I took out the Yosemite disk and replaced it with the one on which Mavericks was installed and hit the start button only to have the computer come to life immediately and started writing to the Mavericks HDD. Needless to say I now have a corrupted Mavericks installation with about 500 gigabytes of images and video recordings which I cannot access. Is there any way to recover files off this disk or should I just wipe it cut my losses.
These are the specs of my mac book, currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I'm trying to upgrade my browser, as Gmail says it's out of date, and I can't access the playlist on amazon prime.
I swear when I first installed windows on a partition of my Mac HD my computer would restart in the last operating system used. By that I mean that if I hit restart whilst in Windows, my computer would restart and boot up Windows and likewise for OS X. Ever since I was messing around with my system preferences and selected a startup disc, I now have to pick weather I want it to always restart in OS X or always in Windows. How do I get it back to the way it was (or was it never that way)? Thanks.
I am new to the MacBook Pro laptop. Why does the trackpad have to be pressed down to register a click, rather than just touching on the pad? Is there a way to change this? Please advise because it is very irritating to have to press hard on the trackpad.
I mounted external server via sshfs root@example.com but I cannot access user files (ie someuser:somegroup) that have no permissions set for other (ie drwx--x--x. 17 graphica:graphica foldername). There is no problem accessing this folder via ssh or sftp when I access the server as root. Shouldn't sshfs have the same root privileges as ssh?
I would like to play a video in cycle i.e. to start again after end. How can you do this? I did not find any setting in the program.
Is it possible to let the phone ring when received gmail of with title="urgent, please notice"? Gmail App has vibration when emails are received, the vibration sometimes I have missed it.
How can I get my computer's location to the granularity of city and country using the command-line? I know I could get the IP of the correct network interface and do an IP lookup but I wonder if the system has a quicker way to access this. The system clock has the location so I am wondering if it's possible to get it that way.
I am having graphical glitches - a couple of different ones, but this is the one that's bugging me the most right now. (Link is to a screen recording made with QuickTime Player.)
My iPhone 5 is updated to iOS 8.3 but when I'm trying to download any apps from the App Store, they keep telling me that I have to have an iOS 7.0 or higher. How do I solve this problem?
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported Volumes: disk4s1:
Android apps can be directly installed from apk files from Android phones. Is it possible to install iPhone App in iPhone directly without using iTunes or Appstore?
This commentator writes: The iPhone 6 has an FM receiver chip Apple disables, forcing you to use iTunes… My question is: Does the iPhone 6 have a disabled chip capable of receiving FM Radio?
I have an email address (bartleyemail@emailhost.com) hosted by Google, I would like to be able to send emails from the iCloud.com mail app from this address via my iCloud account (bartleyemail@icloud.com). I don't want to have to use my mail app. Is this possible? (I can successfully send emails from that address via the mail app in OS X and iOS).
13'' macbook pro retina. I want to connect two monitors that display different desktops (not the same desktop in stretch). At the moment I am using both the available thunderbolt ports (1 for a monitor and 1 for an ethernet cable). Thus at the moment I have only 1 hdmi, and 2 sub entries available to connect the additional monitor which has vga out. How can you recommend setting up this dual monitor setup?
I need an AppleScript to select a specific text field of an area, paste a text and click enter. I have inspected the text (research) field. Here is the result: Here's what I tried so far, but without any success:
I'd like to be able to cycle through open message windows in Mail.app using a keyboard shortcut. Is this possible without installing a third-party helper application
I have two factor authentication enabled on my google account and I was really happy when Apple finally started to support that. However there is a slight nuisance: OSX keeps asking for a password every week or so and I have to reenter the security code for two factor authentication.
I have a 750GB Western Digital external HDD which I use for Time Machine backups (MBP, OS 10.10.3). Today I had the need to boot to recovery, which I did from said backup. But I was unsuccessful in doing it again, whenever I booted with ⌘-R, OSX went straight to internet recovery. I can still boot to recovery from it by holding ⌥ at boot and choosing the disk. Now, when booting from my internal disk and running a Verify Disk on the backup drive, it says Meanwhile, running diskutil list reveals
In iTunes 12 how do I finish the current album and then queue another album. I then want both albums to repeat (back to the start of the first album after the second one completes). I have set "Repeat All" via the controls menu (can't see any other way to do that) but can't see how to queue the next album.
Hello I received this notification, I would like to know what to do next if I do not know the MacBook Pro the notification is referring to? I have checked my icloud and do not see this device in the list. I have since changed the password to the icloud and my email. Any direction would be helpful. Thank you
I need to have two iCloud accounts, one for work and one for play/personal. Is there an easy way to move all contacts from one iCloud account to another via iCloud.com. For example, if I have 400 contacts in my personal iCloud account and none in my work iCloud account, how would I lift them from the personal account to the work account?
Is there a way to copy music from one computer to another using itunes and keeping them in sync? My understanding of how apple does their stuff is so confusing when you come from a windows/linux world.
Using "Photos" Version 1.0 (209.52.0) that just got "put" on my computer at last update. Here's what my share menu looks like:
I am running on an iPad Air 2 with iOS 8.3. I do some JavaScript coding on it from time to time, and one of the things that I do with it is when ready to release, I pack it several times so no one can steal/modify it. I am trying to use a few obfuscators like this and this.
Safari won't load YouTube videos fully like a 10:00 video it only load 6:50 of it A. Iv tried restarted my wifi. B. Iv tried refreshing. C. Restarted my I pad. D. Iv tryed the YouTube app
How can I limit TCP connections on Mac using Terminal? I used iptables on Linux (eOS) to limit the connections of an application (Ace Stream Player) as follows: Then I started the application and typed: If there is a similar program on Mac, how would these lines look like?
I'm trying to add new stocks to my stock widget but it won't let me do so. It validates the symbol and then does nothing. I have to remove a current stock and then only will it let me add a new one.
All my friends and I have read receipts turned on, and on their phones, delivered turns to read, but mine never does! Can anyone tell me why and how to sort it so mine turn to read as well?
Does anyone know if it's possible to swap out the "Superdrive" optical drive on this model and replace it with an SSD? Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.5 13" (Identifiers: Mid-2012 13" - MD101LL/A)
I have the iPad 2 and it has always worked, however, I have had it paired with the WIFI and Bluetooth and it has worked for 2 years, for the past week it will not connect the Tauras AKB34 keyboard to the Bluetooth and the WIFI at the same time. I am unable to use the keyboard, but the iPad 2 still works manually. I have tried everything I know and nothing works.
Can an iPhone redirect a call to another iPhone? For example, if I receive a call on my iPhone from one party, can I tranfer that call to let's say a coworker that uses an iPhone?
Right clicking on the textbox itself brings up the following - note that no way to change any text font/size. This is absurd.
I'm trying to zero out a drive to use it as a Time Machine backup, firstly tried to format and "unable to write to last block" showed up. I tried to zero it out, but it took a large amount of time, because the bs= was relatively small (using sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=15b) 15b is the maximum that I can use because of the specific amount of space left on the drive. The drive had corrupted data that erased drive space, so it has an irregular amount of space. Disk Util reads it as this: Media Name: Indigita Generic 1394 dev Media Type: Generic Connection Bus: FireWire Writable: Yes Ejectable: Yes Total Capacity: 137.44 GB (137438952960 Bytes)
I am trying to run the following Java applet in the following web page: http://artint.info/demos/rl/q.html
I have a the IFTT app set up to send me very important ios notifications. I need it to wake me up at night. How can I make the notification sounds max loudness and ring for as long as a phone ring?
I am using the new Apple Photos app on Yosemite, but I don't want to use iCloud for my photos, and I don't want to keep all of them on my computer. So I as wondering if it is possible to have my main photo library on an external network drive, and to sync only some of them with my computer.
The captions I added to my photos in iPhoto are not showing up when I play slideshows in Photo. I can still see that the information is there when I click on a photo's Info in the album view. Is there a way to have the captions show up in slideshow mode in Photos.app?
I have a habit to download the latest apps gone free, however This results in many unused apps. (Lots of space gone!) Deleting the apps the casual way, (tap'n'hold, delete) works, but takes too long for the confirmation to come up.
The problem is that I cannot put items on my Calender beyond the date of 29 April 2017... Why can not go to farther years which appear in the calendar
I would like to keep an ssh tunnel alive. Below is my launch agent plist file but it only keeps the tunnel up for a day or two at the most. I'm using OS X 10.10.3.
I am using multi-screen: I am using the primary screen of my MBP plus two external monitors via displayport When I start the screen recording, it is the message I see on my screen
What exactly is included in the Other (blue one) part of the Storage space on my Mac? What could take 31.2 GB?
My MacBook Pro (Late 2013) running Yosemite (10.10.3) seems to have decided my password is incorrect and fails to log me in. I have managed to change the password via my Apple ID but I'm concerned that the system has somehow been compromised. The previous password was typed correctly, numerous times, on the built-in keyboard and a wireless keyboard. That password had successfully allowed me to login several hours prior to the problem. To the best of my knowledge, no software was installed and no system settings were modified during the session prior to the problem.
In the Finder of my mac, it often happens that some photos in a folder are displaying wrong previews. The set of photos which have this problem is random and unpredictable: sometimes among 10 photos in a row there is one with a wrong thumbnail. The wrong thumbnail is always another photo in the same folder. Rebooting the machine does not help, which means the wrong information is stored somewhere. When I duplicate the photos (as an experiment), the new copy is OK. I wonder if there is a way to force refreshing the thumbnails. MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) I have also asked this question on *=URL=* but received no answer yet.
When I open an Excel file from Finder and close the Excel window by Command+W. The active window remain Excel. Is there a way to make Finder active window when I close Excel? If I close the Excel window by Command+Q, the Finder become active but I prefer to keep Excel in memory.
I have the Sony MDRX10. When I use the cable with the mic, I get lower volume level and distortions at max volume but when I use the headphone only cable, I get much better volume control.
I downloaded a clip from 56.com or youku.com, and then found that the video and audio is out of sync. At first, near 6:00, the video is about 0.7 second slower, and I used iMovie to "detach audio" and then drag the audio to play 0.7 second later and saved the video. However, I found later that at around 50:00, the video was about 4 to 5 seconds slower. So the video is constantly slower, not by a fixed amount. (I suspect that it is some 23.97 or 24 frame per second issue, but 4 seconds out of 50:00, and that is 0.13% off... (and 23.97 vs 24 is also 0.125%, so they seem quite close).
I'm using pmset to set battery-power sleep time independently of display sleep time on my 2014 15" MacBook retina. Before I did that, these values were in lock step when you changed the "turn off display after" setting in the Energy Saver control panel. If I change the control panel setting now, it only affects display sleep. I'm curious what setting I can use to make the control panel setting affect both display sleep and sleep again?
When opening a PDF in preview there often are streaks like this:  Does anybody have an idea where this is coming from?
Just to be clear,. this is the section of the Dovecot configs that deals with handling this. BUT.. On the MAC-Mini, SHA512-CrYPT is unknown. So the question is, what Encryption should I be using, and is this an Apple thing, or a MySQL thing? thanks Robert
I'm about to have a coding session with some buddies. Problem is, one doesn't have a laptop. He's pretty new to programming so I was going to set him up something either on a rickety laptop or my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard / mouse. Is there any app that would give me these capabilities: Java IDE compile java locally run java locally
I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone that share the same iCloud account. On my Macbook's Photos I have a smart album that contains 52 photos. On the iPhone the album contains 40, with 12 photos are missing. How can I resync the missing 12 photos with the iPhone?
We have been trying to send emails to a specific gmail address that certainly does exist for many months now but we are unable to and receive this message: 'Cannot send message using the server x...x@x...x.com' - a message we usually get when our internet connection is off. We are still able to send emails using any of the servers to all other email addresses except this one. How could we fix this issue? Thank you!
I have a mapped network drive on a windows tower. I can connect to it, I can read from it. I can't send files to it, though.
Additionally shifting my desktop on the one monitor I created (with 2 monitors plugged into my MacBook Pro) shifts every desktop. I don't want this feature how do I turn it off? I just want to be able to create one desktop on one monitor and keep all the rest of my monitors desktops the same.
I'm currently using a combination of a DD-WRT Router and an Airport Extreme (the previous form factor that only did N). The DD-WRT router has better signal and routing capabilities but I really like the Apple-specific features like wireless wake on LAN and the other random Bonjour stuff the Airport Extreme provides. Is it possible to have the non-Airport be my primary router (the one plugged into the Internet) and configure the network in such a way that I still get the Apple-specific networking features like Bonjour sleep proxy. I would think there should be a way to do this but wanted to know if anybody had tried something similar before. Note: I have to use both routers because i have a 100 year old WIFI-DESTROYER house and I have one router in the front of the house and the 2nd connected via power line networking to the back of the house.
I want to dual-boot Ubuntu (14.04) of my Mac running OS X 10.10.3. I want to make sure that I can use my backup to fix any issues I might have dual-booting. I have a bootable USB with Ubuntu on it, and a partition on my internal hard drive to install it on, but I want to back up that Mac partition, including the OS, so that I can use that to get everything back to how it is now, no matter what error happens during dual-booting. What is the best way to do that?
How to close a window without the application quitting? does not address my question, strangely. I don't want to hide the application windows like Cmd+h does, and Option+click didn't actually do anything for me, and isn't what I want anyway.
I have an iPhone 4 and just just downloaded iTunes on my computer. I wanted to save all my music to my iTunes so i could later transfer it but i synced it and all my music was deleted. Is there any way i could get it back? I have all my music on another iTunes on another computer but that computer is now broken.
I've got an encrypted USB drive and I want to check I know the password. At the moment everything is in my keychain, so it works, and I can see its contents, but I want to make sure I'm covered if I need to replace my computer.
Is there any possibility for me to upgrade to any iOS on my iPhone 4G from iOS 4.1? Mine is still a nice stable phone, but I can't download any apps. It is jailbroken, unlocked and I have saved the SHSH blobs if that would help. I have tried updating for a long time, but it did not work because the Apple signing has ceased by the time I try.
How do I completely remove Coda 2 by Panic!? I love the app, and have been using it for years, however I did a fresh install on a new mac, and had it all set up, then I went to add some plugins and it screwed it up somehow. None of my preferences are stored, none of my ssl's are stored. I can't reconfigure the app, cause when I go into the preferences every time it crashes as soon as I close the pane out. All in all I know the app works well, but it seems theres a glicth in it somewhere that can only possibly be resolved by completely removing it.
Are the iPhone 4 charger and iPod 4 charger different? I can charge my iPhone with both, but my iPhone charger will not charge my iPod. (I'm thinking it might be the length of the 30-pin connector, because the iPod touch is curved) I know the outlet and wall adapter work.
Why doesn't Spotlight work now that I've upgraded to Yosemite? How to fix?
I have some animated gifs in the Photos library on my Mac. When I sync them to my iPhone (using iTunes) they either don't transfer at all, or they show up as jpegs of the first frame of the gif.
what happens if I update unlocked iphone software? I have iphone 4s with iOS 6.0.1 and I want to update to iOS 8.3 My iphone was unlocked by Goguo i-4s v6.1 card What happens if I do this update or reset my device? Does it re-locked again?
I realized that the hostname had changed while I was doing some work using terminal in OS X Yosemite. I thought there might be an IP address conflict so I reset it. However I still get another device's name (someone else's iPhone, to be exact) when I use the hostname command: What's going on and how can I fix this?
I am specifically talking about the Edispatch App. I have an iPhone 5S. I am an NREMT-B in Texas. The county I live in used the app as a back up for our pagers. The app is a necessity. However, I have found that it doesn't go off when my phone is on silent. When it goes off it calls, sends a text, and the app it self sends an alert.
I purchased a new phone at Sam's club and they transferred the data from my old iPhone to my new iPhone. But now more and more apps will not update with out the password for an iTunes account that I don't know who's is. Even apps that I have downloaded since that data transfer have this problem. I have tried rebooting my iPhone, logging in and out of iTunes, and deleting and reinstalling the app but nothing works.
I can't access the internet on my iPhone 4, even though it says it's connected to Wi-Fi. It's not a problem with my home Wi-Fi, and my phone also won't connect when it says it's connected to 3G. This happened yesterday, but it went away after a while. It started again at the same time today, but hasn't started working again like it did last time. I tried turning my phone off and on again, but it still doesn't work.
I use OneNote for Mac, and my friend uses OneNote for Windows. I shared a notebook with him, and when I change things, the associated page titles in the right-hand list become bold. I can't seem to achieve the same experience with OneNote for Mac when he changes things in the notebook. Is this an omitted feature?
I am looking at purchasing a mac mini and need to decide on a storage option. I want either an ssd or the fusion drive however I am not sure whether OS X can be installed on the SSD part of the fusion drive which is one of the main reasons that i want an SSD.
I am attempting to rsync from a network mounted volume to my Desktop. However some but not alll of the files are not copying because of an rsync error. I am using rsync 3.1.1 from Brew. I'm using this command: However, I receive this error for some of the files:
I've run a EtreCheck on my OS X 10.10.3 just now and I got some error messages. I did some research from Google but seems I cannot find some useful information. I am a little bit worry about the system since these two components come from Apple.
I have and iphone three and I forgot the password on it and it didn't work when i went to restore it. I really need to get back on it again.
Using automator, I know how to "Launch an App". I would like to know how to "Launch an App in a specific way".
I've just installed OS X Server. Whenever I try to shut it down (as a local interactive user), I keep seeing a prompt that requires me to enter an admin's name and password before proceeding with the shutdown:
I just got my new Macbook Pro, I tried to make two new partitions using Disk Utility but I could only create one. After googling I found out that I can't create more than one additional partition in the CoreStorage and I need to revert it back to HFS+ in order to do that.
I created a new Apple ID and verified it. In the App Store, when I want to update or upgrade my OS X, it is asking me to sign in to download. I try to sign in but I cannot — there is no error or warning. I click sign in button and the sign in button appears again. I tried to reinstall OS X but during the reinstall I am asked for my Apple ID and clicking the sign in button has no action and I am asked to sign in again. What is the problem?
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My iPhone seems to disconnect the VPN as soon as it goes into sleep mode. I use OpenVPN connect for iOS. iPhone 5s and 6, iOS 8. Is this behaviour as designed or am I missing something?
I want to connect my PS3 controller to my MBP 2015 however my MBP does not seem to detect that it is there, or at least I cannot view it in the menu. Does anyone know how to solve this? If it helps this is what I have done so far. Plugged my ps3 controller into my MBP 2015 with the cable Looked in the Bluetooth menu (cannot see it)
I've downloaded and installed Java JDK 8u45 for OS X 10.10.1 and after the installation has completed (successfully), java -version produces the following: Unable to locate a Java Runtime to invoke. Is this an installation bug with this particular version, or have I forgotten to do something?
I'm using the /etc/resolver technique for a dev domain as explained in some blog posts around the web (like this one). I used this technique previously on 10.9, but on my new Yosemite there seems to be one small problem: the TLD itself, i.e dev, does not seem to be resolved by the custom DNS. In other words on 10.9 both dev and *.dev would be passed to dnsmasq and resolved correctly, but on Yosemite this only happens for *.dev. dev is resolved by something else to an address other than the one configured in dnsmasq. I know dnsmasq works properly: however: My /etc/resolver/dev is:
I ran into some major problem today when trying to delete old TM backups from an external drive. Now that I have a Time Capsule I wanted to clear the old backups from another external drive. At some point, Yosemite suddenly stopped working properly, Keychain errors popped up, my Desktop was empty, user folders cleared, etc. It looked like I accidentally deleted my own User folder. I checked the Terminal from where I attempted to delete old TM Backups and it really looked like I did nothing wrong. I thought, well, I must have overlooked something but for that reason I have Backups in the first place, so I booted into recovery and selected restore from Backup to facilitate my new Time Capsule. Since all Backups are password protected I tried to enter my password but got the error message that the system could not connect. I rebooted into what was left of my user and checked that the Time Machine password was in fact correct. Anyway, now I got access to the TC via tmutil and was wondering
I use Chrome on my desktop and Safari on my iPhone and iPad. I have Handoff already set up on my devices so that when I am browsing on iOS, I get the dock icon on my Mac and can open the page in Chrome. However, I haven't been able to figure out to do it the other way around. I have a page open on my Mac in Chrome (or even Safari) and I want to open it on my iPhone or iPad. How is this done with Handoff?
Does this Macbook support any kind of dual 3.5mm connection headsets ? Acording to this link there is in fact an audio in port but I have never seen that symbol for "audio in" been used
It does not matter if the person has an iPhone or not. The iPhone might send a plain text but no longer will send photos.
I just imported a bunch of photos from my iphone 6 to my mac book and I have migrated to the new Photos app. When I go into the Photos app, I do see these pictures that have been imported but when I go to another app (like facebook) and try to add a photo to a post, I go into Media => Photos and none of the newly uploaded photos are showing up. I am not sure if this is related to migrating from IPhoto to Photos on the mac but any suggestion or explanations on what could be going wrong here?
Is it possible to permanently overwrite the 'Hide Toolbar' and 'Hide Sidebar' setting in the Finder, particularly in DMG images with downloaded Applications, so that the toolbar and sidebar are always visible? That way it would be possible to drop applications directly into the Applications folder.
I'm having a strange problem with iTunes U (in iTunes). When I click on a non-video item in the lecture feed, it simply plays the last video. The item I'm trying to view is clearly not a video, as indicated by the book-symbol:
I have in my iPhone iOS 8 and old contact called Salvador. This old contact has his mobile, and some notes, and that is fine.
With the new OS X Photos app released in OS X 10.10.3, is there a hard limit to the maximum number of files (either photos or videos) that the app will support? Or is there a limit to the maximum size of the library? Or are there recommended limits defined by Apple? Basically, how well will Photos handle large libraries, and is there a certain point where it would be smart to split a library into multiple libraries?
I have searched for answers this problem, but nobody seems to have such a basic problem as I have. I have Java 1.7 installed and tried to install 1.8 - both through the Java control panel and manually downloading 1.8 (45) and running that. Each installation method appears to work without issue, however, Java 1.8 is not to be found on my Mac. I have looked in the following locations: I even resorted to a comprehensive search after Spotlight failed to find it: That find(1) found the 1.7 installation, but not the 1.8.
I can use Ctrl ⌃ and the left/right arrows to switch individual desktops on a multiscreen system but can you switch all of them at once?
Normally I like to keep my iPhone volume quite low, so that when audio plays, it isn't too loud at first. However, when I connect my iPhone to a Bluetooth speaker, I want the iPhone's volume to be maximum, so that the audio that gets outputted to the speakers isn't too soft, and I can from then on control the audio with the speakers instead of the iPhone. Is it possible to have the iPhone automatically increase its volume to maximum only when connecting to Bluetooth speakers?
I have a clip I want to show with slow motion. That clip has a soundtrack, but I need to slow only video without sound? Is it possible?
After I split clip, now I have two parts of one clip. However my split was very useful, now I prefer to join it back, but my option to join clips is greyed out. Why?
This is the square I mean. I know what is it for. It means that two clips have strong connection in these particular places. But now I need to remove these relative connection:-) The question is HOW?
How can I connect 2 Yosemite Macs (iMac Retina to MacBook Pro) via Thunderbolt for bi-directional file sharing? I've tried this connection and the computers are not visible to one another.
If I buy an apple laptop overseas can I get the apple protection back in UK? If I buy the laptop and Apple protection abroad, if something has gone wrong will it be protected when I am back in UK.
Recently, I've found that when using the pinch-to-zoom motion with the trackpad while reading a PDF in Chrome, I no longer get the preferred behavior: Chrome's zoom ticking up discretely by 25% or so. Instead, I get a continuous "screen-zoom" effect (similar to holding Control and scrolling), inside the Chrome window (as opposed to the actual screen-zoom, which is independent of the application). Chrome's usual zoom controls still work, but I have to access them either by keyboard shortcut or clicking the respective buttons.
For some reason whenever I delete a photo on my camera roll, the corresponding photo on iCloud photo stream would also be deleted. Am I going crazy here? I thought the whole point of photo stream is to back up your photos so you don't have to keep them on your phone?
Until recently (2/2015) when I plugged in my iphone to my mac the Image Capture app would auto launch. I could then select all the images and drag them to a folder in the finder.
Under the Energy Monitor in Yosemite, it shows Chrome having the highest energy impact. Is it possible to figure out which Chrome tab is the one that is consuming the most energy?
When I text my husband something like "I picked up Hailey from school and am on my way," Siri always misspells my daughter's name as Haley (with no "i"). I have an entry in my contact info identifying who my daughter is, but when I'm dictating a text or other message, that appears to be irrelevant.
How do I remove header and footer in newest pages 5.5.2 easily?
When I type some chinese input word, mac may freeze and start spinnig pizza ball. this is system.log:
Does anyone of you see a solution? Or do I have to delete all my old backups to reach my goal?
Now I have just installed a new Virgin Broadband Super Hub 2ac (it's a customised Netgear cable modem router with built-in wifi) and for reasons of local layout I have set it up as router and as a wifi access point. It works very well. I have put the old AirPort Extreme into bridge mode so it just serves as a switch, and have reset the Airport Express to join the new wireless network.
it normally shows in the bottom corner as a sort of 'pie' that fills up as the picture is downloaded, similar to the 'app downloading' pie when viewing a downloading app on the home page/s prior to this the picture resolution is terrible
It has determined a number of faces (as you would expect from any facial recognition software) but it has also figured out the names, despite me never having entered any
I was using aperture with referenced images. The aperture library is about 20gig, the folder containing the referenced images is 200gig. I exported versions of a selection of my pictures (6000) and imported those into photos.app for a trial run. The settings (checked) in photos.app are: iCloud Photo Library, Optimized Mac Storage, My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Sharing.
I'd like to read books in a foreign language while listening to its Audiobook version. Is there an app that can do that? Notes:
I am using Apple Mail with three IMAP mail accounts (not Gmail etc. but from my hosting provider).
I use a Tascam US-122mkII audio interface to record music with. I recently upgraded my Macbook to OS X 10.9.5 and tried to update the drivers for my Tascam but they don't seem to be installing correctly. The control panel for the interface displays a blank after the 'Driver Version' label. Consequently, I'm not currently able to use the device.
In Yosemite, I am trying to upload a photo to website. So I open Photos, select a photo and then try to locate the location of the photo. However I could not find it. Before Photos it was possible in iPhoto. Is there a way to locate a photo in Finder? By the way if relevant, I am also using iCloud Storage for photos. However my hdd is big enough so it should be storing photos locally too.
I am able to create the Wi-Fi signal through my MacBook Pro, though it doesn't connect to internet when I use it in other devices. I am using OS X Yosemite and I tried to use the Wi-Fi created from my Mac in my Lenovo tablet and Samsung smartphone. I called Apple service and they say they cannot help for I am not using Apple tablet and Apple smartphone.
I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 8.3. I am trying to send a file from a Mac to the iPhone through AirDrop. Mac notifies that if I want to share a file with someone using iOS, he/she must open Control Center and enable AirDrop. However, I tried to follow these steps, but there is no AirDrop option on my iPhone.
Ever since I upgraded to 10.10.2 shortly after boot my whole system becomes unusable. Any app that interacts with the volume freezes up such as Finder. Killing the Finder process does not fix the issue. This happens when I mount my Synology NAS as an AFP volume. Before 10.10.2 I could mount the same volume as AFP without issue. After my system is up for a little while I see this repeated over and over in my system log
I wanted to see how much power the Anker Astro external battery draws when charging from the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) (right hand port next to the SD slot), but when listing the USB info in System Profiler, the battery doesn't show up as a device, it does receive some power though, but I thought to get more than the standard 500mA they would have to register and activate high-power mode (which I expected the battery to do). Additionally it lists the SD card reader as requiring 896mA, but there's no card plugged in, seems odd that the empty reader would need that much power. So I don't quite trust the output here, is there another way to list devices / get info from the hubs about how much power they are distributing?
I have a 4th generation ipod from 2004 and have wonderful playlists and music that I want to get onto my 2015 MacBook and in turn onto my iPhone. Can I do this?
Apple's website for the Mac version of photos.app states that external editors and filter apps (extensions) will be able to be used. The iPad version achieves this, but I note they don't seem to be reflected to the photo stream. Are there any apps that support this functionality yet on the Mac?
I have strange problem since two or three days with macbook air running osx 10.10.3 yosemite. When I finish working I just close the lid and macbook goes into sleep mode. When I open the lid again it wakes up and everything works fine except the trackpad is not responding to clicks.
When I'm on my iPhone, pictures downloaded from the Internet are automatically uploaded to my iCloud Photo Library. I want the same thing to happen for pictures downloaded from the Internet when I'm on my Mac. Let's say I want to upload to the Icloud Photo Library every new image in the folder Downloads. Is there a way to do it seamlessly ?
I've transferred a single song to my iPhone 5 through RhythmBox from my Ubuntu PC, however, when I open the "Music" app, it's not showing there. But in RhythmBox, it does show it's present. RhythmBox:
using iMac 5K OS 10.10.3 When there are no USB devices connected to iMac, it keeps showing this. I tried SMC resetting, booting through Safe Mode, and nothing is working to make this alert go away. Has anyone had the same experience?
I'm experiencing what I'm pretty certain is new behavior since switching from iPhoto to Photos. When I tell iTunes to sync my photos from the last month, I get photos going back to 2006. My iTunes sync settings look like this:
I'm using 10.10.3. iCloud keychain is enabled. Anyway, I find that Safari will ask to save passwords for some sites but not for others. examples of sites where I get prompted: eBay, amazon, some local discussion forum, stackexchange examples of sites where I don't get prompted: macrumors, xdc-developers and many others
I have notifications in the OSX Notification Center, as for most of my apps I am using the setting, "Show in Notification Centre: 10 Recent Items" This is a good setting but rather than have a very full Notification Center, I would still like to clear it from time to time with 1 click. I am using Yosemite 10.10.3
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2009 running Yosemite 10.10.3, and I installed Macs Fan Control which is similar to smcFanControl. Basically, whenever I put my Mac to sleep the fans stop spinning (I have them set at 6200rpm) and the Mac is asleep but less than a minute into sleep mode the fans start spinning again (I can tell since they start at 6200rpm) but the screen is still off. Is my Mac really going to sleep or does the fact that the fans are spinning mean that it's not asleep. By the way I have wake for network access turned off.
I'm working on the key remapping on OS X. I don't always use Caps Lock, but I want to utilize this key to be: Command+Alt+Control, how is that going to be possible?
I'd like to add System Apps to menu items toolbar e.g. show I am hotspotting with my iPhone?
I got it into power reserve but can't figure how to resume normal mode. I have tried tapping and pressing the screen and holding both side buttons.
I would like to change the default screenshot location for OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 using Terminal. But this command is not working, where subfoldername = "name of my sub-folder" I want to store my screenshots in.
My camera on my iPhone 4 is showing nothing but a black screen. Front and rear camera and it happens in all camera related apps as well. When I reset my phone it fixes it, but the problem keeps reoccurring. How do I permanently fix the problem?
A few months ago, I downloaded this Xbox360ControllerDriver, which I believe it was the .11 Version and was working fine by the time. Recently, I bought a new wired Xbox 360 controller, thinking that it would be the easiest and fastest to hook up with the iMac. When I first plugged in the controller into the computer, the Xbox360ControlllerDriver recognised it very well. Although, the program I was trying to use the controller with didn't recognised it at all, which led me to download the new version of the Driver, the .14 version. After downloading and installing the Driver, I've got the following error:
I'm having this problem since I am using an Exchange Account with my iPhone 5. I get a new mail and receive all notifications correctly. But if I try to open the new mail by either swiping from the lock screen or tapping on the banner when my iPhone's active the Mail app will just show me the last mail I had open. This seems to be a problem specific to the Exchange-Account since my Gmail-Account is working as expected. What I've tried so far:
I have an iPhone 5s and it's connected to a Wi-Fi network. I have a personal hotspot set up. I'm currently using this hotspot on my laptop and am just wondering if it is uses my phone's data or the Wi-Fi connection.
In my contact list, I have a number of contacts that share the same work phone number (synchronized from exchange server), because they are work colleagues. For instance: James (Employee #1) George (Employee #2) Sarah (Employee #3) the work name
I noticed that if I turn on Do Not Disturb on the watch, it turns on on my phone and vice versa. The same thing happens with Airplane mode.
I have iCloud photo library enabled on my iPhone (6, iOS 8.3). Since the weekend it does not upload the photos anymore. When I go to the Photos settings, it gives me the following messages in a loop: 2324 Objects waiting for upload Uploading 2324 objects
My MacBook Pro (mid 2012) 15″ goes black for a second or two while I'm using it and then comes back on as soon as I touch the trackpad, or sometimes it comes back on its own. It's very sporadic. Why is this happening and how can I prevent it?
I have two similar images that represent the same thing (a happy and sad face for a particular character). I use magic move for most slide transitions in my presentation, but obviously that doesn't work for the different images. Is it possible to tell Keynote that the images should be related somehow? If not, what's the best way to "fake" the magic move for these images?
I just updated to ios 8.3 on an iPhone5S. I notice that since the upgrade I no longer see the minimum and maximum number of steps or distance i have walked in the health app. It only shows an upper and lower line, not an exact number. It still reads the average over the period but i want my minimum and maximum back. Any ideas on how to do this?
I have an iPhone 6+ and my girlfriend an iPhone 6. Can I backup her phone on my iCloud account? I have 200 gigs of space and would like to share backup space. Her phone is constantly displaying a message that her iPhone does not have sufficient space for backups.
My elderly father enjoys watching movies through YouTube through Apple TV, which we purchased in 2012. Last night, I was woke up because the icon of YouTube has disappeared from Apple TV. I tried searching Google, and performed the following changed my location to my current location reset Apple TV reboot the Wi-Fi Others suggest seeing a movie on iPhone and iPad and then clicking the triangle in box to make it play in Apple TV. No matter how many times I tried explaining this process to my father, he couldn't understand, and was very frustrated and irritated (he suffers from lot of chronic pain, so seeing serials from YouTube's Apple TV gives relief, it takes his mind away from things) What other workaround can I try so that the YouTube icon will appear on Apple TV? UPDATE:
I am looking for a free tool for drawing diagrams (either for OS X or online). My goal is to keep for myself a clear trace of the organization of my project. Something like OmniGraffle. Any ideas? Actually, I want to design a class diagram.
Some months ago, I purchased a couple of tracks from iTunes. I purchased them on my iPad. Now I would like to transfer them to my desktop computer so I can then transfer them to an mp3 player. I signed in to iTunes on my desktop and went to all my Purchased music. Most of the tracks have the Cloud icon to download them. However those other two tracks don't have it, ie the Cloud icon is just not there. I'm assuming they won't be downloaded even if I click "Download All."
In an attempt to troubleshoot an apparently "stuck" upload process with iCloud Photo Library, I tried a suggestion I read about in Apple's own forums: Disable and then Re-Enable iCloud Photo Library. Unfortunately, after doing so, I've apparently run into an unforeseen edge case from Apple. My iPhone refuses to re-enable iCloud Photo Library due to insufficient iCloud storage. The assumption from iCloud seems to be that all my local photos would be "new" to iCloud. In reality, my iCloud storage is adequate, since all my local photos should be detected as duplicates and not actually added to the iCloud Photo Library.
Even though my inbox shows no mail, there is a note at the bottom of the screen that shows "787 Unread". How can I clear or delete that note?
My iPhone has just been stolen. The chances of the thief resetting is high but will still be locked to my iCloud. If they reset it and connects to a Wi-Fi in hope it's not locked to iCloud will Find My iPhone tracking still work?
I've jailbroken iPhone4s (iOS 7.1) with pangu. Through cydia I've installed Terminal app. Then I've uninstalled the app. But the icon on the screen is not going. Does that mean uninstallation was not successful? If so how can I remove that completely? Steps taken to uninstall cydia -> installed(option) -> chose terminal -> modify (top right corner) -> chose remove
However, when I login with a user B, everything loads fine. (Of course, all the files I need are on the user A login. I barely even knew I had a second user account until I started trying to fix this as I had an auto login setup.)
I went ahead and then swapped the drives in the laptop and booted it up. At about 30% the start up hangs on the grey screen with the apple logo. I tried booting into recovery, and it hangs at about 20%, never successfully loading the recovery.
I've some files appearing in Trash folder. How do I check from where they were removed?
My question is more clearly related to this answer: which is, if these Macbook Pros only accept a powered/line-level input, then how do they recognize the iPhone earbuds/microphone? I have not seen this addressed anywhere else.
I am trying to set up signature blocks to attach to emails sent using mac mail. I want part of the signature block to be in script, but using the font option I cannot get it to a script.
The cause was a mal-formed PAC file. Our network admin accidentally put a parentheses inside a quote. The system completely disregarded the proxy until the syntax error was fixed.
After a network configuration reset on my iPhone all Wi-Fi passwords were lost. They were stored in iCloud Keychain, synced with my Mac, where they disappeared too. This is very frustrating since it seems that they were store only on iCloud and I can't restore them via old Time Machine backups. (In Keychain on my Mac I have only some of them, 90% are lost.)
In Photos.app, I have the special Favorites smart album and an iCloud Shared Album called Shared Favorites. I display Shared Favorites as our AppleTV screen saver. The issue is that when I favorite a photo, I have no easy way to reliably add it to the Shared Favorites album.
I have 2,260 photos in my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. Somehow they all got stacked on top of each other. When the camera upload is complete, it launches the camera uploads folder in finder in this stacked view. This pretty much instantly brings my computer to a halt and crashes finder. I have tried refreshing every plist and cache I could find to get finder to "forget" this stacked view to no avail.
Regarding Photos and its file structure, if I want to back up my photographs to an external hard drive, what files do I identify to be copied over? That is, if I back up the Photos Library, am I actually protecting the pictures themselves (or just links to them)?
Can anyone share original IO80211FAMILY kext file for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 as I by mistake deleted it and now my WiFi has stopped working. I could not find it on Google, please if you have the 10.8.5, please share original file.
I use BetterSnapTool to resize my windows with keyboard shortcuts. Since upgrading to Mavericks, after I've used my computer for 6-12ish hours, scrolling and moving things around the screen using the trackpad becomes sluggish and stutters. When I close BetterSnapTool, it fixes the issue, and it stays fixed until I relaunch.
I tried settings-safari-advanced-website data - delete. It released most of my memory but no all. I still have a couple of LOCAL DISK files that cannot be deleted and take up several GB
I have 3 iPhoto Libraries. Have already converted 2 of them. Went back to open the first converted and it would not open. Nothing.
How do I disable WebEx Assistant on startup for Mac? I dont want to remove the application completely, but I dont want it to launch automatically at startup.
I recently changed from iphone to android and i have been having trouble recieving messages from my iphone friends since my iphones screen is broken i cant do anything on it. Any way to fix this problem through icloud or something?
Given that I had never had kernel panics before and the horror stories I read about their frequent recurrences once they start, it would be very helpful for me to know what was the likely explanation for this panic and what steps I can make to prevent future occurrences. Do you think the description above points to a more definitive cause? [crash report attached below this line]
But this is when I run into space issues: I want all the originals to live in the cloud and have a thin library on my Mac. With storing the originals on the external hard drive, this was working (still ~50 GB on my Mac). But now it seems to store all the originals on my Mac anyway. I have selected Preferences->Optimize Mac Storage, yet it claims there is not enough storage on my mac to keep all the optimized version:
I am somewhat new the world of Mac and "i" devices. I have an iMac 9 and I am thinking about buying an iPad mini but have read statements on the web that if I write my own app I will go through the App Store to get onto my own iPad and pay a $100 annual fee. How mush truth is there to this? This is very extreme for someone that wants to write apps for my own use. Thanks in advance.
My mid-2012 MacBook Pro is worse at waking up from sleep than I am. I mash some keys to wake it up, enter my password, and it just hangs on the login attempt. There's no crash and no error, like I've seen in many other questions here - it just sits there. I can still hit "cancel" and go back to the Enter Password screen, and the "go back to sleep" function works fine. But attempting another login just results in another hang This usually happens only after an extended period of sleeping - almost every time it goes overnight, but not when I step away for an hour or so. It seems to have begun recently when I upgraded to Yosemite.
I deleted every file that was contained in the console's logs listing of my Macbook Pro 15, including the "All messages,". Now when I click to open the app, the program opens but no GUI will load. The only way I can get the GUI to load is to manually open a log file, and the tab under "System Log Queries" is empty.
Is it safe to delete my Time Machine sparse bundle file? Can a fresh time machine backup be recreated WITHOUT reformatting the drive or affecting any other files on my external Time Machine drive?
I have an Dell external display which has the best resolution @1440*900. My laptop is 2015 13 inch rBMP MX840. The problem is that when I connected this external display into the Mac, it cannot show correct resolution, it only shows some general old 4:3 ratio resolution such as 1280*1024 etc.
In fact, nearly identical without BT device paired:
Can one advise an application that can notify me each 1 hr 30 minutes during the day (let's say I can specify it to be from 10 AM till 11 PM). I've tried Alarmed, Beep me, AidaReminder but all of them can not handle this simple task with almost no effort of the user. The point is: if I want to arrange my everyday life and get used to: Take pills at certain time Smoke just 1 time in 2.5 hr Have meals at a certain time Take work breaks once in every 45 minutes that are lasting for 10 minutes Plan to go to a gym every 3 days Go to swimming pool every 2 days Pay rent every 15th day of every month etc. I know most there is a calendar and simple alarm for most of those tasks, for productivity at work there is pomodoro technique, for tasks like repeating an event (let's say allowing me to smoke once in 2.5 hr) I still have not found a good solution.
I have re-installed Yosemite on my MacBook Air because of frequent crashes, thought it would fix the problem I did it several times After a few days, it crashes and I have noticed that it changes my device name to the same name but with (2) this way: MyComputer MacBookAir => MyComputer MacBook Air (2)
Sometimes (randomly as far as I can tell), my Mac mini refuses to go to sleep. I press the Sleep item in the Apple-logo menu on the menubar, display turns off, after several seconds computer goes silent, the power indicator starts flashing. It flashes for a few seconds (like 2 or 3 seconds), and then computers wakes back up. pmset -g assertions output is the same right before pressing sleep and after it wakes up: The timestamp is different, the rest is identical.
As you know Apple just updated the look up function and added previews of the link you highlighted. As a non-native I often use look up to see the meaning of a word. When the word appears as a link, or within a link highlight shows the preview instead of dictionary. I was wondering if there is a way to switch between them or disable preview options.
Is there anyway to make the maximum page width in iBooks larger than 560 px? I am using iBooks in Yosemite as an EPUB reader but find it frustrating that text columns' maximum width seems to be fixed at 560 px (see image).
The sound output is not stuck in digital mode, actually the output is stuck in "headphones mode". It works when the headphones are plugged in.
I have a MacBook Pro 2012 mid 13" (with the newest Yosemite update) and some time ago I noticed, that startup sound was gone. I googled a little bit and saw that resetting PRAM should solve the problem. It did. But after a few days startup sound was gone again. So I reseted PRAM once again, and it fixed the problem. Now the sound is gone again and I'm tired of reseting PRAM, I'm pretty sure that's not how it should be. Does anyone have any idea what's the problem here? Maybe that's a sign that I need to change my RAM? :s
In iOS 8.2 I just discovered a misbehaviour of Messages application within the function to delete SMS. When a given discussion is opened, I want to select and delete a set of SMS. To achieve this I usually long-tap on one SMS to make the Copy | More… menu appear, and choose More…. Then the current SMS is automatically selected and the bottom changes to a menu with a blue trash on the left and a blue arrow on the right.
I've just updated from 10.10.1 to 10.10.3 and now all of the folder shortcuts on my sidebar have disappeared, e.g., 'Desktop', 'Downloads'. Does anyone know how to fix it?
The Apple Watch is fully working. I can open the apps, see my clock-face and so on. But in the menu bar, there is a red strikethrough iPhone icon. If I open the Apple Watch app on my iPhone and tap on start pairing, my Apple Watch does not show the pairing image as it did first after unboxing it. Do I need to completely erase my watch or is there somehow an option to start pairing my watch again?
So I've discovered Apple's mystical implementation of hard linking with the new Photos app library and the old iPhoto library. Although Finder reports that both take up a significant and similar number of GBs on the disk space, they apparently are pointing to the same data on my disk, so data hasn't been duplicated.
I have an iPhone 4 that I shut off with the touch assist because my lock button is broken. How do I get my phone to turn back on?
I'm using Google Chrome both on my macbookpro and my pc. On my PC which running IDM extension on Google Chrome. But on my Mac i really don't need that.
Since I did this OS update my Wi-Fi will not stay on all the time, it has trouble (dropping). Also, once I turn on my laptop it will search for Wi-Fi for a while and in turn sometime never find the saved Wi-Fi network. I am doing this all from my home and trusted network. OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I have been using Onenote for some time and quite enjoyed it. Although now, I am faced with a strange problem. Onenote is refusing to respond to the right side of the keyboard. It's not one of those bugs that I can work around either. It's becoming very difficult to use. Please help me.
I had to repair my phone and forgot to save all of my photos to my iCloud account. Is there any way I can get them back?
I'm a first time MacBook owner and have recently completed the data transfer from my Windows Laptop to my Mac. As a result of this, I now have two separate profiles and would like to merge them into one. Is this possible?
Is it possible to change the order of the VPN connection in the OS X VPN Menu?
Is there a way to use iCloud Photo Library and merge the photos on my wife's iPhone with mine? I'm willing to subscribe to the iCloud Photo Library service, but I rather one of us pay for the cloud service and not both. I've looked at Family Sharing option, but that seems to only be for iTunes Store items such as apps.
The HDMI port on my MacBook Pro doesn't seem to be functioning normally. When I plug it into the TV, the screen temporarily turns black as if it is connecting to the TV, However, it only shows part of my computer desk top. I can see the background and the top row of information. Nothing else is up there...no mouse, no folders, nothing along the bottom. What is the reason for this? It was just working fine a short time ago.
IPhoto had a trash bin, I need to delete images when and if I want, but I can't find the bin on the new Photos? The whole new system is freaking me out, I preferred the old.
I need to wipe my Mac Mini and reinstall OS X. Booting into recovery mode (holding command+option+R), I try to erase the disk in Disk Utility but it says it cannot unmount the disk or gets stuck on "Unmounting disk" with an infinite loading progress bar. I have also tried booting into the recovery partition by holding down option at launch, but the same applies.
I am on OSX. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it working. I am on iMac, disabled all adapters (Network prefpane in System Preferences), including Network adapter, Bluetooth adapter, Firewire, only Wifi active. Changed the Wifi MAC using WifiSpoof app and made sure the new MAC is changed (checked in Terminal) starting with a number 12 (e.g. MAC address changed is 12.a1.. etc), disabled network adapter for all virtual machines created in Virtual Box. I also deleted the settings configuration file for GPMM app and still getting this error. I also disabled bluetooth completely to check if any difference, but that wouldn’t affect it because Bluetooth is virtual interface so it’s enough to disable from the Network prefpane and it gets disabled.. see the log below.
How can I fix this? How do I have to set up the permissions so that TV is the only account who can access the automounted share? Here's what my automount files look like: auto_master Permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel auto_nas Permissions: -rw------- 1 root staff /NAS (the mount point) Permissions: drwx------@ 1 TV wheel The MM is running Yosemite (10.10.3).
The other day I noticed my mobile Internet was not working on my iPhone 4s. I thought I had used it all up. Turns out I have 1 GB of data, so why is it not allowing me to access the Internet?
I have an SSH private key with password, and I'm able to add it to KeyChain/ssh-agent and have the password automatically used without having to enter it. Now I'd like to add one more thing: I want keychain/ssh-agent to forget (or lock) the password after a certain time elapsed or the screen is locked.
I am running Parallels 9 with Windows 7 on a 2011 27" iMac with 20gb of ram, i5 3.1 processor, etc. On the windows side, I have both a Home (//psf, though sometimes loads as Y:/ after a while) and Host(Z:/). What is the difference? Am I supposed to be able to access files the same way through both? I guess they point to different levels of my Mac Drive - the Host the whole drive, the home just my user folder. But why? Why are they both their? What is their purpose?
I'm writing a Python script that changes network settings with commands like networksetup -setv4off 'PANTECH UML295' and networksetup -setdhcp 'PANTECH UML295'. When I enter these in Terminal, I enter my root password, and then nothing changes in Network settings. Enabling/disabling WiFi using networksetup setairportpower en1 off seems to work fine, however. Any idea on what might be the problem? Can't seem to find anything through search. Thanks.
When I set an alarm on my Apple Watch, is it possible to copy this automatically to my iPhone so that both devices alert me?
In Applescript, I can specify the voice the system uses to speak text as follows: In Javascript, I can do something similar:
I'm testing the following command-line in the Terminal: which I'd like to use to save all my passwords into a file. However when I run it, it keep asking me for each item if I want to allow the access, despite I'm selecting 'Always Allow'. Is there any workaround?
I'm trying to download CentOS' ISO from a mirror, and the download fails all times (connection lost). It fails after downloading something like 3.5 GB out of 4.5 GB. The problem is that every time that I click on the arrow in the downloads tab it restarts from the beginning. How do I restart a download and keep the piece that I have already downloaded?
I'd like to record part of my screen, but the QuickTime screen recorder dims the rest of the screen while it records (the gray in the screenshot below). How can I turn this dimming off so I can use the rest of my computer normally while recording.
I've always been able to upgrade OSX versions by removing the FireWire related kexts in single user mode on first boot of the upgraded system, but for Yosemite that approach does not work (the system hangs). Has anyone managed to upgrade to Yosemite with a broken FireWire module on the logic board?
I'm not understanding how my Java environment is getting set up. If I have multiple versions of Java installed how does the correct version get selected when I start a Java dependent application? I have both Apple's original 1.6 version of Java and Sun's more recent 1.8 installed. If I type java -version I get ls -l /usr/bin/java produces lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 74 Jun 16 2014 /usr/bin/java -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java where Current is pointed at Apple's 1.6 Java install.
Whenever I open my notification center to check the weather all the locations I have set up all show the same result as my current locations weather (see screenshot below). For example Houston, TX shows the exact same weather as it does in my location Glendale, CA. Anyone got a clue why this is happening? Yosemite 10.10.3 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I copied an image into the clipboard: but there is no paste option within Keynote. So.. how to do this basic operation?
I understand it's possible, through the Photos app and iCloud, to create a sharing stream of photos. What I am wondering is if it's possible to get a public URL from any given photo in iCloud.
I'm having trouble creating a website in OS X Server (10.10.3) using the Website tab. I've created a DNS entry, so I have a green light when I enter the same domain name in the "Domain Name" field.
I have a macbook air and this is what essentially happens: I connect external monitor using thunderbolt to DVI converter The monitor works correctly I lock screen, monitor goes blank
Is there a way to include files on external drives in the Finder's "All My Files" view? I found this older answer, but it's not working in OS X 10.10.
in the Text Style, we can see that there is still large space between each bullet item. How to compact them?
My family is using outlook.com for their calendars. All events are stored there for all the family members, and everyone has access to everyone else's events (at least for reading, some for writing).
I have a used iPhone 4 with 16GB of memory in it, running IOS 7.1.2. The problem with this iPhone is that the volume is really quiet whenever i'm playing music or making a call and setting the caller on the speaker. The volume is currently at it's max (by tapping the buttons on the side).
My Photos Library is Inactive when I try to open an image from external drive, as it is on the image below.  What should I do to be able work with images from my Photos Library? My photos Library is located on the external disk.
Other information (about me to help your answer help me): I'm not experienced in programing whatsoever. I would like to be but my few attempts at it have been fails. So I would like to avoid Applescript as much as possible, If you have to suggest Applescript in order to answer my question please be as explanatory as possible. Meaning, help me learn how to create the code myself don't just tell me the code to put in, where to look up the commands, what my code should look like, etc.
My iPhone 5 was stolen and I erased and removed it via iCloud. After three days I found it and want to active it again. What is the procedure for recovering the content and activating it again?
I'm looking for a tweak/trick/tip that will display my internal ip in the control center when I pull it up. what options are available? [options for jailbroken devices are fine too] edit: I know there's ShowIP for NotificationCenter, I'm basically looking for the same thing but for Control Center instead.
Not able to update apps. Keeps prompting for password and despite resetting many times still no luck. I've reset but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a local account and a network account on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I am running Yosemite 10.10.3. I mainly do my work on my local account and then when necessary I log onto my network account. I wish to share my users/localusername/work/ folder and all the subfolders with users/networkusername/work/.
I migrate a wiki that had a lot of broken link to a domain that no longer exist. How can I massively update my database, instead of change any single link? My idea is to connect in postgres and update manually the database with
I've got an app on my iPad Mini that has a weird bug; the app in question is Trello and whenever I try to write a new card it changes the columns to display sideways and half off the screen. I've tried to get around this by just deleting the app and re-installing it from the app store, but when I do that it has the same bug (I've tried the app on other iPad minis and it works fine) so I'm guessing some of the settings / content of the app are cached on the iPad - is that correct? If so is there a way to delete an app and its cached content / data at the same time?
I have a mid 2014 15" MacBook Pro Retina connected to 3 1920x1080 monitors on thunderbolt+HMDI ports (NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB). The monitors are in portrait mode with total screen resolution of 3240x1920.
My iPhone 5 was stolen and I erased and removed it via iCloud. After three days I found it and want to active it again. What is the procedure for recovering the content and activating it again? also when I turn on the devise a massage as below is appeared:
I am using an Iphone with iOS 8, and just installed the latest version of WhatsApp, which allows for voice calls from inside the app. Everything is fine... except that I don't see where are the calls logged. They don't appear in the calls log of the Phone app, nor there's any icon in that person's chat history. Where are they?
While using Safari, I accidentally three-finger tapped on a link and Preview of that web page popped up, like below. I think it's pretty useful.
Is there a way to connect two macs to a single cinema display? Of course I won't use them at the same time, but I want them to be connected to the display.
Recently I noticed my pkg updates are being extracted rather than installed. (for example the MS Office update wanted to extract the file) Is there a way to ensure that pkg files are installed?
On their new TestTube page, YouTube writes: And if playing 4K videos at 3840x2160 isn't enough to melt your device, try doing it at 60 frames per second. Is the latest MacBook Pro 13 able to play such videos smoothly?
I replaced the hard drive on my MacBook Pro through Apple. I backed up files on my computer but not my Applications.
I have 30,000+ photos synced to iCloud and am trying to get their thumbnails to show on the Photos app on iOS 8.3. On the (first) Photos tab, viewing at Years or Collections levels shows lots of grey placeholders instead of photos. Only when I click into Moments do the thumbnails actually load.
I have tunes that show on iCloud but I can't get them on my iPhone. How do I restore these? These represent about half of my saved music. When I backup I only get the songs that are currently on my iPhone. This happened when I upgraded to the iPhone 6 from the iPhone 5.
When I export an email to a .pdf file in Mac OSX 10.9.5 it often splits sentences horizontally:  This also happens with images. Is there a way to prevent this (e.g. to push the last sentence to the next page)?
How can I use AppleScript to save .png files from the start and end of .mp4 files with QuickTime? This is something I am doing a lot of and it would be good to automate it. I have some scripting experience but not a lot.
I have a frequently used folder set up in my dock to display as a list, organized by date modified. The problem here is that I have several hundred items in that folder, and most frequently I need to access the ones that are most recently modified, but I always have to scroll to the top of my long list, since Apple defaults to showing the oldest modified (i.e. the bottom of the list) by default. How does this make any sense for the user?
Third party apps usually have their own "record your exercise" button. Will the exercise ring be able to reflect data recorded by these apps, even if the automatic trigger for the Watch to consider something to be "exercise" is not tripped?
I want a workflow like the cask / brew workflow for Alfred workflows. Does this already exists?
Additional note: I can re-create/convert the Blackberry emoji in vector form, all I really need to know is how to install it as a keyboard. Is this possible on non-jailbroken devices? Alternately, is there a way to send a vector image through IM?
As a disclaimer: Yes, I know Thunderbolt (2) is multi-stream capable of up to 6 devices in a single chain. Yes, I know you can add a single DP monitor at the end of a Thunderbolt daisy-chain as an extended desktop. That said...
Will my apps get taken down on the App Store if I allow my developer account to expire?
I have 3 macs that all produce this error repeatedly in the console, and I cant figure out the root cause of it. It leads to various system stalls and memory issues. (Currently troubleshooting on Yosemite 10.10.3 on a 2011 imac, 8 mb of RAM.) 5/6/15 11:21:31.433 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.502) Service "com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000038.AppleSpell" tried to hijack endpoint "it (Apple)_OpenStep" from owner: com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000004.AppleSpell Ive read through various forums, some suggest its a hard drive failure, but all tests have shown my drive is totally fine, and because its a problem occuring across 3 different machines, I doubt its a HD issue.
Also, Library > Application Support has 21.8 GB. And Application Support > Adobe has 20.2 GB.
Well some days ago my mac got broken, I had an Ubuntu on it and booted through it, first thing I did I copied mac partition to an external hard partition, something like this: I was able to mount the sda2 partition in Ubuntu with hfsprogs, but I wasn't able to mount /dev/sdc2, I made a diff on two devices (with cmp) and they were just identical, now I erase sda2 and installed Yosemite again but I can't mount sdc2 even on mac (here it's disk2s2). When I try to mount, verify or repair it, I get this error: (this is the same error I got in Ubuntu for this partition), it's really weird cause I'm sure this partition is identical to the real one (and I was able to mount the real one in Ubuntu) I tried fixing it with DiskWarrior 5, it did its job without any error, but it didn't fix it.
I use iPads as a POS for processing transactions. The iPad is in Guided Access mode, and both Notifications and iCloud drive are turned off.
I am getting this message that repeats every 10 seconds on my Mac in Console: "com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.cloudpaird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds." I saw a similar question with "com.viber.osx" but with mine there is no reference to a missing program. What I entered in quotes is the entire message.
For Mac OS X, how do you disable Incognito mode in Chrome? The desired result simply being that the user cannot browse in Incognito mode, even if they know the keyboard shortcut or something similar.
I've just installed a new SSD on my old Macbook mid2010 in the CD unit, so i took away the cds, to upgrade to this new extra Hard drive. On the other side, I replace my old HD for a new 1tb HD so I can save my Multimedia data on it, without taking place of the space the SSD has for opperational use. It works great, because I start over with the finder and it runs great booting from the SSD. But I still have the question if it would be better, if I plugged the SSD in the old HD slot. The question came to after i did the whole upgrade. Should be better the other way around?
I'm a total newbie Mac user. I got a Powerbook 3 Pismo off of ebay, got OS 9.2.1 installed, and enabled file sharing. Web browsing is working and I have an IP address. How do I access the shared folder from my windows 8 machines?
How can I change my Apple ID on my iphone 5 to match the Apple ID on my iPad Air? I have an old email from school that does not exist anymore attached to my iPhone5. I am trying to get the same Apple ID on both devices so that they will communicate with each other. I will be getting a new iPhone 6 this week so I don't know what to do first because I will be trading in my iPhone 5.
I'm using a MacBOok Pro, Mac 10.9.5. It happens frequently that when I wake my Mac from hibernation or simply reboot, my home network is not automatically selected in the "Network" section in my System Preferences. When I open the "Network Name:" drop down menu, I don't see it in there either. However, if I click the "Turn Wi-Fi Off" and "Turn Wi-Fi On" one or multiple times, it does eventually appear and eitehr it gets automatically selected or I can select it myself.
Apple maps shows "1 of 3 Suggested Routes". How do I get to see the alternatives?
I'm using a MPBr + Yosemite with 2x 27" monitors. I also use parallels with Win8 for development.
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro, and my sister has a mid-2012. I've already seen the suggested duplicate possibilities that say that just swapping the hard drives shouldn't be problematic, but I've got another layer: I've got 10GB of RAM, an eBay-bought 8GB module and one of the OEM 2GB modules, that I'd very much like to keep.
I'm using 12.1.2.27 iTunes and I'm listening to The Dan Bejamin Hour podcast, which, has video. I know because I have listened to this podcast before and there are video windows pop up when I start listening and I can see Dan there. But I have once closed it and then now it does not shows up when I play anymore. So is there a way, a secret menu or some shortcut to bring up the video window again?
Too many major websites are using features that in-effect are "walking away from" my old OS 10.3.9 and Firefox 2. (That is, my favorite browser, and its available plugins and extensions, are starting to no longer render some common websites properly, or at all.) I would like to experiment with alternative browsers but do not know which ones have archived "antique" versions that can be downloaded and installed on such an old Mac. Any advice (apart from "Upgrade to 10.4...")? My machine is a PowerPC "iMac" -- the version with the white half-sphere base and the moderately thick flat-screen on a "stalk" -- sort of like the movie "Wall-E" but with a rounded body.
I'm following this guide to install Linux commands onto my OS Terminal: *=URL=* and I see that the second line tells me to add a line to my .bashrc file, which I have to create since I don't have one. Can anyone explain to me what this does? As well as the PATH command in general?
I always have the problem in my dock, where the download bar just stops and stays froze. I know you can do a killall -KILL Dock and it will fix the issue. Is there a way to click a button or do a keyboard-shortcut that runs this Terminal command?
Yosemite switched the UI font to Helvetica Neue, but it's not quite the same font that you get when you select Helvetica Neue from FontBook or in any text field. There's a bit more space between characters in the UI font.
I need to update fcp on my macbook pro (yosemite) but every time I try the app store asks me to enter my ID and password but it won't let me click on the ID box to put in my email and just gives me a generic example email in the box. I've tried just entering the password but then it tells me my account has been disabled due to security. I have tried changing the password but it does nothing. My details are working elsewhere, iCloud etc. It's just for fcp that it won't let me enter my email. None of my other updates required a password so they worked fine.
I know there's a CD by an artist named Šaban Bajramovic. Sometimes it's visible in the finder and sometimes not, and it comes up in ls, but not ls -l! It's not just the filename because I can make a text file with the same name and it seems to behave normally: Then I thought, maybe it's just one of the non-ASCII characters and tried creating a new file including BOTH non-ASCII characters and got THIS: There's also a file with a non-ascii character behaving similarly: In he case of Drei Lederne Strömpf_.mp3, it is visible in the finder. Based on python code, I'm fairly certain the OS is using utf-8 encoding. I'm currently downloading the Šaban Bajramović directory to a local drive to see if it behaves any differently. Insights hoped for.
I can't seem to drag-and-drop photos from the Photos application into Photoshop, I could do this with iPhoto... How do I edit them in Photoshop?
I have a fresh installation to which I want to transfer my Firefox and Thunderbird user data. I have my Time Machine backup available from Other backup disk and could in principle restore the hidden Library folder. However, I don't want to migrate everything from my old Library to the fresh install. Which Firefox and Thunderbird user data folders do I have to migrate to my fresh installation?
I have 200 GB of iCloud storage, but my Mac only has a 128gb drive. Say that I would fill my iCloud drive, so that it would require more space to sync than what's available on my Mac. What would happen? Dropbox has a feature called selective sync that allows you to select which folders get downloaded and synced with the each device, but iCloud drive do not seem to have anything similar.
I have a late 2013 27" iMac running Yosemite, and it randomly shuts off every now and then. I tried everything Reset SMC. Diagnostics, reformat Macintosh HD but still occurs and running out of options.
My MacBook Pro late 2014 is making a ping sonar-like noise every 30-35 seconds, even when muted and the laptop is turned off. It seems to be coming from the left side of the MacBook and is very loud. I've made a video so you can hear the sound and how frequently it occurs (first noise at 0:14, then 0:53 and finally 1:31).
I'm experiencing playback issues with all media, streamed and local. Whenever I play a video or listen to music, the audio will occasionally go out of sync with the playback. (A lot more of an issue with video but this also happens with general music playing.) I'll then have to pause the media, wait about 10 seconds, and hit play again and then playback will be fine until it goes out of sync again 20 minutes later.
I plan on buying the latest 2015 13" Macbook pro while travelling for video and photo editing (among other activities such as programming). The SSD size will probably be 256 or 512gb along with a 2TB WD passport external I own. Will transferring a large amount of video clips to the SSD and deleting after completion regularly wear out my Macbook pro's lifetime significantly or only by an unnoticeable time?
I'm not that computer savvy, but I'm not new, so I turned it off and then on again, it fixed the issue temporarily. Now if my computer goes to sleep and I wake it up, the sound doesn't work, I have to close the program, and start over. Everytime I've used headphones, I can get the sound to work after messing with the options in sound preferences. However with headphones in, no matter what I try, I can never adjust the volume or mute. I never had an issue on my previous macbook, which is why I bought another when it was time to upgrade.
I've added a signature in Mail.app and it works fine. It's a basic HTML table with images that are hosted and never attached directly. The problem is that when I attach a file (not images), the signature becomes an attachment file (.html) and it isn't displayed in the mail once the receiver reads it. I've tried to edit the signature directly from the *.mailsignature file with the same result. Does someone have any clue?
I have developed an app which supports opening of text files. Everything is working fine except when right clicking on .txt files and choosing open with... it displays my application with its version in brackets. TextEditor (1.0.0.0)
I currently have 3 monitors (Asus VN247H) connected to a mid 2014 15" MBP Retina. Two connections are on thunderbolt (with TB->HDMI adaptors) and one on the HDMI port. I would like to use one of the thunderbolt ports for another peripheral. Is there a way to daisy chain two monitors on a single TB port?
I just noticed that brew cask install symlinks to ~/Applications. This works fine, but the application item in my dock does not show apps from that folder. Is it supposed to work this way? I expected to have an aggregated view of /Applications and ~/Applications in my dock.
Spotlight does not show contents from the internet. It only searches my mac HD. What should I do? I am using MacBookPro Retina 13" with Yosemite 10.10.3
I am trying to re-activate my Apple ID which I have not used for about 1 year. The issue is to be able to re-activate my Apple ID (after being de-activated), I need to answer my security questions or enter my old mobile phone number. The only issue is I have forgotten them. How would I go about re-activating my Apple ID again?
I have Dailymotion app in my iPhone 4s iOS 8.3! Plz tell me how to sync Dailymotion videos so that I can watch them offline?
Can I make that a specific file opens in a specific space? (For instancem can I make that "receipt.pages" document always opens in space 2)
While trying to install fink-0.38.4 I get the ERROR: There is no C compiler on your system. Make sure that the Developer Tools are installed. I have got errors about missing a C compiler while trying to install some other things too, but I don't remember which packets that were.
Now with more El Capitan, and a change of screen layout. Apple seems to be deliberately mocking me!
I work in a HIPAA environment where we purposefully put passwords on our certificates. However, when connecting to one of our servers via SSH, it seems keychain is 'remembering' the password between restarts and hasn't been prompting me each time (as it needs to). How can I disable this session-like behavior, so certificate passwords produce a prompt each time they are used?
I want to search documents from by disc2 to which I created a symlink to disc1. However, I think this is not the way to go by creating a symblink to a current folder: because the files are not searchable by Finder, for instance. I think mounting is an option but not sure here. How can you search contents of symlink in Finder? or How would you mount contents to the location such that search works in that folder?
I am on OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 on MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and I am not able to connect to internet from any browser except chrome. I am not even able to ping from terminal as well. Please help. When I try to use diagnostics Internet and Server shows Red, rest all are Green.
When trying to use Safari on iOS Simulator (I'm running on the latest Yosemite build with about a 2011-ish iMac), WWW is automatically prepended to my urls. I'm trying to debug a site I'm working on through the ngrok tunnel service and I can only access the url without www...any ideas on how I can fix this?
I am trying to Launch a process using NICE but this process is starting other process by itself and they are not affected by the priority of the main process ( main process has the correct nice but sub process priority is set to default) So I am trying to renice those process while they run. I tried
Is it possible to change the color of the window title bar (possibly with Terminal.app) like in Firefox?
All of a sudden some running applications were not shown on the ⌘+⇥ on-screen list. I had to restart my MBP, running Yosemite 10.10.2.
I have a 250gb Photos library on an external harddrive. Recently Photos has begun to crash after about 15-30 seconds of use. Every time.
Can I use Time Machine to restore my machine to the iPhoto app without destroying the files that Photos has converted? I don't find Photos intuitive and I'm up against the clock on a project (Photoshop) and can't spend time learning how to access file I can see but can't access. Maybe at another time - I just want my old system and thousands of image back where they were.
How do I delete individual text messages from my watch? I can delete them from my iPhone but I can't delete from my watch.
System specs: 2010 MacBook Pro Mountain Lion. It all began with the grey screen and spinning wheel..... there were no prior symptoms indicating problems, plenty of available memory... etc. I have fsck'd in more ways abd more times than you might be able to imagine I have used Disk Utility from the Recovery HD in the start up manager and it reported permissions problems.... but also said the hard disk was okay.
How do I change Cell margins and padding? I'm not seeing any options for these anywhere. Is that possible with Pages?
I'm looking to buy my first macbook and I am unsure which one to buy. I will use my laptop while travelling mostly next year on my working holiday visa for general purposes (web browsing, watching movies etc), photo editing (Photoshop), occasional video editing (premiere) and android development. I cannot decided which model to buy: 13" MacBook Air full upgraded ( 2.2GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, 256GB SSD) vs 13" MacBook Pro (2.7GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz, 8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, 256GB SSD) both are priced at S$1,968.00 - might even go for the 512GB - also same price for both (S$2,388) but I'm not sure yet as I'll carry a 2TB external with me. I'm frustrated why Apply still use Dual core CPU when there are so many quad cores available My questions:
Ever since upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite I'm experiencing this annoying bug, where OSX switched the default audio output to external display connected via DisplayPort. This display has no speakers nor audio port of any kind.
There is e-mail group that I'm a part of. I don't want to quit the group, because occasionally something interesting gets posted. However, I get a large volume of e-mails that are not interesting. Is there a way to mark these e-mails as read in mail app automatically? Just to be clear, I want to keep everything else unread unless I read them. I just want the e-mails from this specific group to be marked as read.
I have 2 iCloud accounts and don't know how, I tried to delete the deactivated one (the bottom one in the image) but when i deleted it, my mac deleted the other (which was active).  When the 2 accounts was deleted I created again my iCloud account but still have 2 iCloud accounts. How I resolve this issue? Any help will be appreciated.
The Apple Watch Activity allows for setting an overall "Move" goal, but I don't see how to change the "Exercise" goal from the default 30 minutes. Is there a way to accomplish this?
When I share photos from Instagram to Facebook (using the Instagram app on iOS), by default they get "Only Me" sharing visibility:  That doesn't seem very useful to me - I'd rather my friends saw them. In fact, Instagram's help page says that is what is supposed to happen.
So, I saved my contacts from a .vcf file to my iPhone, then I created an iCloud account to back up my contacts. The iCloud only saved contacts that I had manually created in my iPhone but not the ones I save from the .vcf file. Help please!
This is very frustrating. One day I wanted to try iCloud keychain. I turned that on without knowing I will be struck with it forever.
My macbook pro automatically restarting and it shows your computer restarted because of a problem... How can I solve this problem?
I just recently discovered what terminal was. I started using it today and every time I try a command (like shh) it says that the command was not found. I was instructed to type in echo $PATH and this is what I got
One of my backup disks is full. How can I Erase & Reformat the drive? I use Yosemite OS. The External Hard Drive was formatted as Partitioned Mac OS Extended (case sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted volume) Disk. I tried under "Disk Utilities", but got this Error Message: Disk Encryption failed with the error: Unable to delete the Core Storage logical volume group.
Please check attached image  Anyone faced similar problem? any reason for odd behavior?
Regarding How do I request a read receipt when sending e-mail with Outlook for Mac 2011?:
I've bought a iPhone 4 of an auction site. When this iPhone got delivered and I turned it on, it asked me for the PIN code of the previous owner and noticed that the iPhone 's language was completly in French. When trying the most common PIN codes (0000, 1234, 4321, etc...), and all attempts failed (from all the tries, I had to wait an hour to try again....), I decided restoring it in iTunes.
I am thinking about doing something like that. Or would it not work?
I have just got an Apple Watch, and have adjusted my calorie and stand up goal and received some achievements from my Watch. When the Activity app is open from my watch, I can open the Activity app via Handoff, but when I search the app from Spotlight, I can't find it. I went through all of my apps in my home screens, I can't find it anywhere. How do I open the Activity app on my phone without Handoff?
A friend of mine has something weird going on on his Mac. When he's in the overview tab in the "About this Mac" section his version of OS X is displayed in a weird form - with numbers. The screenshot will explain more:
I have installed wakeonlan using MacPorts, but I can't get it to work over WiFi. I can, however, use ssh from my MacBook to log in to another machine in the network over WiFi (an Ubuntu OS system) and use WakeOnLan in that machine to turn on another machine in the same network. Explanation:
I'm looking to brew a package (graphviz) and see it has one option—amid others— I might want that, if only I knew what it means...? What might with-bindings mean and why, or why not, would I want that?
When Xcode project window is collapsed to dock it shows name of the current file: Is there any way to customize Xcode, so it will show project name in the dock, or "project_name - file_name"?
Is it possible to trick the Wi-Fi Positioning Service using proxies? My Mac got stolen a couple of days ago in Rome Italy and located in Algerie today.
I use the default Music app of my IPhone to listen to podcasts. I want the podcasts to restart where I left them. Sometimes it does, but sometimes it restart at the beginning of the song, which is very annoying. Is there something that explains this behaviour ? When does a song restart from start, and when does it restart from the last played position ? If a consistent behaviour is impossible to achieve in the default app, which app would you recommend ? I just need that feature, I do not need a fully featured podcatcher, because I download the podcasts from my PC then transfer them to the IPhone. I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 8.3.
I recently added my son to our "iTunes family"; I have set his Apple ID up as a child account and have checked the "Ask to Buy: require approval from parent for all purchases ..." checkbox. Yet today I received an app store invoice for an in-app purchase my son made in one of the games he plays. Do in-app purchases not fall under the "require approval from parent" rule? (I know that I can prevent in-app purchases by configuring "Restrictions" on his iPad, but that is not the point)
I have 5 Macs and want to use one as the source for updates. Do this have to be OS X Server or can I use 10.6? See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/apple-os-x-server-caching-and-software-update-services/
I recently purchased a Dell P2715Q for the express purpose of using as the primary display for my 2012 rMBP running 10.10.3 when "docked" at home. I have the laptop in a vertical holder that holds it in the closed position. The monitor is connected to the rMBP using a mini display->display port cable, provided by Dell. In case it matters, max res from the laptop is 2560x1440 (my older rMBP apparently can't handle the full 4k res the monitor can do...whatever). My rMBP was the top-of-the-line when I bought it, so it has the NVIDIA GT 650M 1gb.
I’m ready to upgrade my hardware but in a dilemma over what to buy, since I’m not completely sure what I need. I have a feeling that I’m going to throw money at a setup which will end up being serious overkill. I’m a web/graphic designer and web developer with a view to possibly get into iOS development in the future.
I have 0.80$ credit and I need to use it in order to change my region, so I can buy more store credit, since my credit card is not from USA anymore I moved back I need to find a way to use that amount, do you know any apps? how do I find an app in price order?
At work, I cannot get home sharing to work with the iOS Remote app to see my Macbook Pro's iTunes instance. Both the laptop and the iOS devices are connected to the same network (have tried both wi-fi and Ethernet for the laptop) Going into the app, no devices show up and it says to enable home sharing. Home sharing is enabled in iTunes and as soon as I go home and connect to my home network, I can see the MacBook Pro's iTunes install via home sharing.
My Yosemite spotlight does not start app anymore. I tend to use it for quickly starting up apps like Terminal, but now it just sort of hangs... Any ideas to fix it?
OS X has a configured VPN connection using the native client. I want all connection to be enforced down the VPN only, disabling any other network connection. I am doing this by applying Firewall rules that allow all traffic down utun0, and have a default deny with limited traffic allowed such as DNS, DHCP and an IP connection to the VPN Server.
Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and subscribe to iTunes Match. One of the first CDs I imported after having activated iTunes Match was a really old compilation CD, with various tracks from various artists.
I have mail.app setup with several personal accounts and use my inbox as a todo list by archiving completed tasks/emails. I need to add a shared email account and can't archive the inbox items otherwise other people wouldn't see them, so now I have all the shared account inbox items filling up my inbox.
I am a domestic internet user on my Mac through a cable modem with a wifi router provided by a very large cable TV & broadband provider. I have a 7 Mbps connectivity with a download limit of 25GB. I have been using this for the last 18 months and my usage used to be below 12 GB per month. The last two months I have been getting huge bills from the ISP claiming that my usage has gone above 40 to 50 GB. There is no change in the usage pattern or even the software deployed in the last many months but the billed usage currently is unexplainable. The router does not have wifi range out side my home where one Mac and two iPhones are only used. The internet usage on the iPhone is also limited to some emails and simple browsing which we have been doing for 18 months. Now, sometimes the usage statistics from the tool provided by the ISP shows 700 to 800 MB usage in 20 to 30 minutes even when all my systems are idle. How is it possible for me to plug this hole?
I am trying to format an SD card and an USB flash drive. When I use the Disk Utility application I receive the following message: "Couldn't open device" I also tried via terminal and the message I get is "-69877: Couldn't open device" If I try to repartition the drives I get the same message. Please note that those usb flash drives and SD cards work fine in Parallels/Windows7 setup.
Is there any way to get exercise like weight lifting to count towards the "move ring" of the activity app. I realize it will count a small amount just from moving the wrist around, but some days I would like most of my calorie burn to come from weights and the basic app doesn't seem to cover this.
I currently use a 13" Mid 2011 MacBook Air, and the thing I dislike most about it is that it can get very hot. I'm particularly physically sensitive to the heat for some reason, and at its hottest it makes me uncomfortable even to just sit at a desk with my hands on it.
According to specs on Apple site it is not possible, but they not always accurate. Have anybody tried this?
In Keynote it's easy to build an animation wherein you scale or rotate an item uniformly on horizontal and vertical. But is there a way to scale an object only on the vertical axis? This is on the latest version of Keynote (6.5.3).
In Safari 8, after doing a Google search from the navbar, the focus stays on the navbar instead of focusing on the content like any other webpage. This prevents the use of Google or DuckDuckGo keyboard shortcuts to open the first result quickly, for instance. You need to click on the page content first, and then you can use the keyboard navigation.
We have three different forms of distribution for our SaaS (Web, Android and iOS) all currently reviewed and in-store in their free form ($0). Our business model is focussed around a single subscription across all platforms and was hoping to use our existing system of Stripe > Webhook to updates all services of a users status.
I've inserted a 2 column Table into my Pages document. How would I remove the very faint light gray line that appears between the columns? This line is not just a formatting feature but shows up when I export the document to PDF.
Replace the 1 TB hard drive with a faster and larger regular hard drive. This limits the need to transfer to/from externals through the USB 2.0 ports.
Our Mac Pro is showing our old address as the location. How do we get it to change to new address? We have switched on and off, reset and it still not working.
Macbook Air gets hot near its processor and gets sluggish for a while, whenever I make "heavy" tasks at the same time. I wonder if a fan under its base would make any difference since mac has no ventilation. In any case, would it help at all?
I'm using a 13-inch 2013 macbook air with 4gb memory, and after a near disaster with a spilt drink I've realised I need to start backing it up. I don't know what size external hard drive I need though, as I don't want to spend lots of money on something if it's not entirely necessary. Any suggestions?
I have recently brought a HPw1907 external screen for my mac but having trouble connecting it. I have connected a VGA cable but as soon as I turn it on, the monitor goes straight to sleep. When I open the display setting, I don't have the 'gather windows' or 'arrangement' setting unless I choose 'apple tv' in the drop down menu but that detects our Apple TV rather than the screen. Any tips?
I am running a mac osx version 10.9.5 I have 2 administrators running in my mac (admin A and admin B). admin A is the primary account that I am using and it contains all my files there. I was supposed to delete admin B but I accidentally deleted admin A and chose the 3rd option which is to delete the home folder. I thought that I was selecting admin B but it turns out I deleted admin A. Yes I know, I am stupid. Now I can't see my files even if I look into Macintosh hd/Users/ there is no admin A folder or admin A (deleted user) folder but when I viewed my total storage space, It still has the same capacity before I stupidly deleted my primary account (admin A).
Based solely on the hardware used (including the power supply, logic board, RAM...) and assuming that the Software will not be updated (remain at OS X Tiger does Apple specify what a reasonable expectation for the lifespan of an iMac G5 from Mid 2005 would be? Does (or has) Apple provided specifications such as these for any of its products? I am looking into purchasing one from eBay and want to know if it will last and if I can expect to receive one that is "fully functional" even after ten years.
I am trying to update to OS X Yosemite. It is asking me for an iTunes Store password of a different email address and I can't change it. What should I do?
Thunderbolt is very fast on OS X, but do we get the same speed when accessing Thunderbolt devices through boot camp? Meaning, if I wanted to install Steam games from my Boot Camp partition onto a Thunderbolt drive instead of on the partition itself, would I see any deterioration in quality?
My boyfriend bought me an iPhone 4 a year ago off a friend of a friend and I have since had a baby, so it is full with 700 odd pics which I want to keep safe of my baby boy on iCloud. Thing is I've went to Settings → iCloud and the guy's iCloud is still logged in. I went to press delete so I could put my Apple ID in but it says it will wipe all pictures/data off the iPhone (obviously don't want to risk losing all my pictures of baby). How do I set up my own iCloud and delete old person's without losing all the pictures?
This question is very similar to Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs?. How to show hidden files and folders in finder? is also related. However, I don't want to always show them, and that's what defaults write ... AppleShowAllFiles ... does.
I recently moved from Windows to OSX, and find it frustrating that typing Chrome, Sublime Text or Terminal in Spotlight do not allow me to open a new window, but instead takes me to an open window of the application. There's the option of running open -n "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/" from terminal but, that defeats the purpose of Spotlight. I'm also aware of Alfred, which is not a solution for me. Is it possible to change the behaviour of Spotlight to suit this?
I'm having a conflict with a formula and a particular version of Boost. Ideally, since this is really just a build conflict (it's not using a Boost shared library), I'd like to automatically use a specific version when building. I doubt this is possible, so I'd really just be happy with it as a conflict or as dependency, but I can't find documentation for that. What I found is the generic dependency example: Is this even something I can do?
The iOS Apple Watch app has a setting (General > Automatic Download > Automatically Download Apps) that is described as follows When this is on and you have apps on your iPhone that also work with Apple Watch, those apps will automatically download and appear on your watch home screen.
After editing .bash_profile, .bashrc, .inputrc dotfile config my aliases went silly. Some aliases work as expected. Others for no apparent reason return: No mapping found Press ENTER or type command to continue *=URL=* bash GNU bash, version 3.2.57, Yosemite 10.10.3, iterm2
The Apple Watch Activity app purports to measure what it calls "Active Calories" which it counts towards its "Move" goal. But Apple's definition of such calories is clearly its own, not counting (at least apparently), for example, calories from weight workouts, Pilates, or yoga or 7-minute workouts?
I have a previously broken iPhone 5c that I removed the offending parts from. The screen was shattered beyond repair, and the battery was in pretty bad condition. I'm planning to buy some new parts and repair it, but I don't want to spend around $100 and find out that other parts are broken and it's non-salvageable. Is there a way to test the phone, maybe by making it ring or vibrate, without a battery or a screen?
I have a PDF that has some embedded images, and for some reason I'm not able to extract them with wondershare PDF editor (they're not even seen as images). So I tried to make a screenshot with cmd+alt+4 but the captured images have a too low quality, specially when I insert them into a powerpoint presentation. This is how they are seen in the PDF: And this is how they appear in the presentation:
Can anyone explain this to me? My drive clearly does not have 140TB of backups on it...
I've got an Airport Extreme (AE) router that I currently have configured as a Wireless Access Point on my network (a different router is handling Internet/DHCP). Up until yesterday, everything was working fine with the AE, all the wireless devices in my house connected just fine (I've got a MacBook, 3 iPhones, PS4, PS3, Wii U, two Windows Laptops, two Raspberry Pis, and two wireless printers).
I need to to do a diagnostic test on my hardware, but don't have the diagnostic DVD anymore. can I download it from some database? it is a macbook pro 17" i7 2.66 Ghz model 6,1 mid 2010
I have three plugins installed in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components however Garageband only finds the first one I installed, Crystal. The others, Synth1 and TAL-Bassline are ignored, even when I restart Garageband. Crystal works fine, and is available.
Will an Airport Utility archive action delete files on the target disk? I have an older Apple Time Capsule 2TB and I have a Laccie 6TB USB3.0 drive connected to it in "safe 3TB" configuration. In my Airport Utility app, it shows both disks.
The Apple Watch Workout app offers an option to "Save" a workout when it has been completed. Where are such saved workouts saved?
When I enable Glances for the World Clock app on my Apple Watch, I see (only) the city that with the largest positive offset from UTC, not the one I want to see. How do I select which city appears in Glances for the Apple Watch World Clock app?
I typically tax the limits of my computer systems' system resources, and "obtain the appropriate hardware to perform the kind of computing you require" is not the solution I am interested in for the purposes of this question (though it is the best solution). I am seeking to understand what happens inside the computer system when its performance begins to slow and, for all intents and purposes, hang and halt.
I recently got an iPhone 6 (iOS 8.3, Verizon), and I've been having recurring issues with Google's apps not being able to access the network when on LTE or 3G (Gmail, Google, Inbox, Play Music, etc). The problem does not occur over Wifi, but my LTE/3G connection is perfectly reliable for non-Google apps (streaming video with Netflix works great). I tried the following to troubleshoot this issue: Uninstalled every Google app from my phone Cleared the iCloud backups for all of them
My available disk space seems to «vanish» magically. OmniDiskSweeper tells me that 69.5 GB data is on my hard drive, but how come Finder and Terminal (and OmniDiskSweeper's drive list itself) tell me that 110.7 GB is being used? I can't find the remaining 41 GB of space on my own, I don't have any backups on my startup disk, I tried a lot of things: Rebooting, installing updates, looking through my Application Support folder, Clearing caches, First Aid in Disk Utility app, CleanMyMac, ...
Recently I bought a SSD and install it on my macbook pro early 2011 regular bay, but when I trying to install new OSX on it (SSD) installer stops with this error: and when I run command kextcache -update-volume /Volumes/SSD -Installer I got this exceptions:
Since about 5 days ago all system icons in the Finder sidebar (folders, disks), the Finder Menubar (view options, buttons, back and forward) and in the display menu bar (spotlight, wifi, bluetooth) have disappeared:  When I log in as a different user or as a guest, the problem does not present itself. Also note that it's not just system icons, Alfred.app and Flux.app are missing from the menu bar too.
Hi I have applied the unix time code formula And it works! But the result I get on my column only shows the date and not the time. Does anyone know how to fix this? I attached an image to show what happens. Thanks for your time. Image *=URL=* The box on the top is the formula, the box on the bottom left is the "Formula Result" but the box in the row is the actual result I get. I want the timecode too not just the date to appear in the rows.
I have an old 2008 MacBook with 4GB of memory. (Memory from About this Mac, everymac.com gave me a different number.) I know it's old, but it almost seems like it's slower than it should be. I have a lot of software so I was wondering, how could I easily find memory leaking processes?
Not permanently but longer than the usual default time that's say half a second. It would be nice if a string of symbols like ".", "..", "..." or "....." lengthened the default pause time after a full stop in proportion to the number of symbols. Personally I would find this very useful after a paragraph is completed and before the new paragraph starts - or perhaps there is already a way to get the program to distinguish between end of paragraph and end of sentence?
I'm getting kernel panics more often than I'm comfortable with. I got one yesterday and one this week, not sure the exact frequency before that, but I got at least 4–5 of them within a day last week. If anyone would care to look at the log it would be much appreciated. I will keep posting logs here as they happen.
When I click on software update the little working icon shows up and all it does is spin and spin like it's working but the software latest version never pops up so that I can download and install. What do I do ?
I recently jumped from an iPhone 4s running 8.1.2 to an iPhone 6+ and suddenly there is no more room for iCloud backups. When I go into "manage storage" I can see my old phone at 2.6GB and my iPad at 1.2GB.
I dont want few icloud book copies to be occupying my screen space. Is there anyway possible, going to the folder directly on Mac, to delete the copy of the ibooks?
Devices: Router: 192.168.0.1 MacMini 192.168.0.97 MacBook 192.168.0.19 Printer 192.168.0.99 Windows 192.168.0.49 So, my problem is that a strange one. All my devices are connected to the same router. Here are the Ping Results. Router - MacMini: Response Router - MacBook: Response Router - Printer: Response Router - Windows: No Response MacMini - Router: Response MacMini - Windows: No response MacMini - Printer: No Response ManMini - MacBook: Response Windows - Router: Response Windows - MacMini: No Response Windows - MacBook: Response Windows - Printer: No Response MacBook - Router: Response MacBook - Printer: Response MacBook - MacMini: Response MacBook - Windows: No Response.
I'm at my wits end here with a new Mac Mini. I bought a brand new mac mini, took it home, and did nothing but create a user account. When I try to connect to my network (Comcast Xfinity), I continuously get a "connection timeout" error before it even authenticates my password. The same thing always pops up when I try to connect to ANY network around me, even using my phone as a wireless hotspot. However, another MacBook Pro, iPhone 6, Lumia 920 (Windows Phone), and Surface Pro 3 in this apartment are able to connect without ANY issues whatsoever, so it is definitely isolated to my mac mini.
I am operating my MacBook Pro early 2015 within a Henge dock (HD03VA13MBPR) , connected to two external displays and external speakers. Both displays and speakers get power from a power distributer that offers a switch via USB. Whenever the USB has power, the monitors stay on. Take off USB power, and the displays shut down.
iTunes shows as running in dock but cant open or quit, force quit, or even shutdown computer. Running OS X 10.10.3, don't know what iTunes as can't open it!
I would like to know how can to create an applescript which is executed when I connect the power cord to my MacBook. I would like it to say "Thank You"
Today I stumbled over hundreds of symbolic links in my OS X /tmp folder. I can delete them, but after minutes the folder is stuffed with those links. Only when I remove all printers, the symlinks will not be created. Is it normal? How can I prevent it?
I am currently having problems with 3 Apple wifi-capable devices in the same location - in a garage outside a main building. All three devices can connect to the wifi network with no issues within the main building. Once moved to a garage, the Mid 2014 MacBook Pro and new iPad 2 are still able to connect to the wifi hotspot and they both indicate strong signal strength: MacBook Pro shows full 5 bars and the iPad shows 2 (out of 3) bars.
When I tried to erase space on Disk Utility, it couldn't create a second temporary file for my startup disk.
I've got a MacBook5,1, and I replaced the CD drive with a SSD. Then, I made a "DIY fusion drive". Before doing it, I was using the regular setup, with Boot Camp. Then I put the SSD and made the Fusion drive, and restore a Time Machine backup, so I didn't modify the wWindows partition. I was using that for more than a year. Last week my "regular" HD started to fail (remember, it has a small partition for Windows and a big one as Macintosh HD), so I bought a new one with the same size of 1 TB.
My MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2012) has what sounds like a failing sound. I've uploaded a recording to Dropbox however it's hard to hear.
I would like to get my iMovie project on my iPad. My iCloud Drive is turned on on every device. I mean the project, not the result from the theater. Video from theater is there on my device. But what about project? In my iMovie preferences my checkbox Automatically upload... is checked...
The syntax of a simple Excel if statement is: This places the contents of cell b2 in the current cell if cell a1 contains the character "a". Otherwise the current cell is cleared. How is this statement, for example, entered in Numbers?
I have a MacBook Pro which I use Time Machine to back up usually weekly. Its hard drive broke recently. I got an exactly same hard drive and installed it into the laptop. How do I restore the computer into the most recent state using the Time Machine backup which was made when the old hard drive was installed? Is there a better way to achieve the recovery than what I'm planning to do here?
My brother installed Windows 7 on my Mac. Now I am trying to install OS X Lion but when I select Reinstall OS X, I am not able to select any drive. One of my drive has 1.27 TB of data. Is it possible to install OS X without losing data?
Apple describes its Watch as being "ideal for quick looks and fast interactions", but most (in fact almost all) of third party Apple Watch app Dark Sky take 20-40 seconds to launch — during which time I could have removed my phone from my pocket and launched the corresponding iOS app. Is there something I need to do to get this app to launch faster than I could launch it myself on my iPhone?
When I delete a message in my iPad mail inbox, it often gets moved to the junk folder instead of the trash folder. I can't find a pattern related to the sender. Often it will be a message from someone with whom I've emailed hundreds of times. Any ideas?
Is it possible to delete an app from my Apple account; (not from my phone, from my apple account)?
MBP (mid 2014 model), Mac OS X 10.10.3. I have two USB input devices: DasKeyboard V4 and Logitech Trackman Marble. Suddenly all input devices stopped working including the keyboard and trackpad on the laptop. Only power button produced any response (the usual power off dialog popped up). No beach ball, no nothing. This happened twice, and only when I was using it with USB input devices. This is what was in system.log around the time.
I installed Git using Homebrew: and then it gave some outputs Do I need to do any additional post-installation configuration to have all these work?
I currently have elementary OS installed alongside Yosemite. When I try to resize Macintosh HD to give space for a Windows installation, I get the "filesystem support for resizing required" error even though the OS X partition is HFS+. The disks are like this:
I'm happily receiving and sending iMessages on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.3) and iPhone 4S (iOS 8.3). When I've read a message on one device it notifies about receival (after 30 seconds or so) on the other device but doesn't play the sound, which would be really annoying.
I'm a long time Android user and have several magazine subscriptions on Google Play Newsstand. I have a new iPad and installed the Google Play Newsstand App, expecting to be able to read my magazines. But to my dismay, the iOS app does not support "magazines"!!?
I recently wanted to play my music through multiple output devices at once: My Macbook Pro's internal speakers Bluetooth Speakers
I would like to add an artwork to an album which has files saved in .wav format. I know that it is not possible to attach an artwork to a wave file, so I'm trying to add a standalone artwork.jpg file to the album in iTunes. I found out that: it is not possible to attach an artwork to a track or an album directly placing an artwork.jpg file in the album's directory doesn't work. I learnt from other sources like this that there iTunes saves artworks somewhere in the Album Artwork folder (probably here: /Users/user/Music/iTunes/Album\ Artwork). My questions are: Is it possible to add an artwork manually somewhere in that Album Artwork folder? Is there any other hacky way to make iTunes actually load an artwork to an album in .wav format? Note: The album is not available on the iTunes store, so the album hasn't got the official artwork which could be downloaded by iTunes on its own. Note 2: the traditional way of adding an artwork using Get info does not work for .wav files.
Does the Apple Watch use the same mechanics of the iPhone in terms of backup data in the cloud? For example, if for any reason, such as password forgot or whatever you need to reset to factory setting the apple watch, can you make a restore from a backup or do you need to sync again all the info from the Apple Watch app on your iPhone? How does it work? I am pretty sure that I understood that when the Apple Watch is paired with the iPhone it continuously sync data with the iPhone and the iPhone itself does the cloud back up, but I would like to know more about it.
I am running a 13' macbook pro early 2015 inside a Henge dock (HD03VA13MBPR). It works perfectly despite the fact that on reboot the system will crash after login credentials have been entered. I have to take it out to reboot and then put it back in.
Since I'm a Hungarian, but I learn and work in English, I switch the spelling settings in System Preferences approximately 50 times a day, because I'm constantly working with both languages. Is there any fast way to change the spelling without opening the System Preferences every single time with a shortcut?
So, one of the CSV files I'm using has lumped the address into one single cell, separated by commas. For example: 12 Fairy Tale Lane, Wonderland, Oz, Neverland I need to separate these into Address 1, Address 2, Address 3 and City columns Some help would be really appreciated. Many thanks in advance
My mini ipad was stolen, and I was wondering if they guessed my password and then reset my iPad would I still be able to get it back? Cause I know you can track it, lock it, erase iT, etc. But if they reset it, will it still work? How do I get it back then?
Is there any way I can sign out without their password? They refuse to tell me (would you tell someone your iCloud password?), and I can't disable Find My iPod. I'm on the latest iOS (8.3). Thanks for your help!
How do I open migration assistant on an iPad-2? I have tried in settings but can not find it.
The news app I use most frequently is buried in Home->News->Newsstand. How can I move this app up to my first main page of apps?
I don't mind that it showed up. But I want it gone.
I want to create a short cut to create new folder from the right-click/contextual menu in Mac Mavericks. What is the procedure to do so?
I am trying to figure out why iTunes is not starting on my mac. When I double-click on iTunes.app in the finder, I get the usual animation of the icon indicating that the app is starting, but then nothing happens. Digging a little deeper, I see the following entries being created in the console:
I tried previous suggestion to have my MacBook to read PDFs with speech. I tried Edit -> start speaking in Preview. I also tried the regular way of of using a shortcut key preset in System Preferences for a highlighted section. Nothing happens. I checked to make sure it reads using other documents and/or screen text.
I was wondering if there were any simulators that I could download that would emulate the functionality of an Apple Watch? I know the watch was just released, but is there something that simulates its functionality?
Is there a way to have a wireless keyboard produce the soft tapping sound effects that the on-screen iPad keyboard makes? The point is that I want to be able to type and not look at the screen at all for a long period of time. Can’t do that with the touch screen, I just want to be audibly certain that that what I am typing on the physical keyboard is actually going into the document.
I have an iPhone and an iPad. iCloud keychain sync is on. I'm in a location with a secret wifi password that is on my iPhone and not on my iPad. My iPhone isn't jailbroken and I already know I can't see the wifi password on my iPhone. Is there any way to pass the wifi password from my iPhone to the iPad?
I want to create a shortcut to open a Terminal window from within a folder using contextual menu in Mavericks. What is the procedure to do so?
I want the OSX to show all kind of hidden files including ._ files too. I do not know exactly what I did, but I am successful in seeing .DS_STORE files, but not ._ files. Any idea how to achieve that?
I have a certain app installed on my iPhone 6 Plus device. Due to some technical issues with this app, I need to completely remove it from the device and re-install it. Although it seems like I can remove it from the device itself (long-tap and clicking on the "x" icon at the corner), when I go to the App Store, I get this app downloaded from iCloud and not really fully re-installed and still holds all the settings and data in the app. I need to know how to completely remove this app from my device AND account, so it can be re-installed from fresh. Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.
I would like to know, if there is a way to make an Automator service or an Applescript that automatically trusts a root certificate. If possible without a prompt for password or Admin privileges. Could it be possible to do that maybe with tell application "Keychain Access" or If possible without the sudo.
A friend has an iPhone whose camera she uses with the default settings of 2592x1936 pixels, which is pretty big when attaching pictures in e-mails. The files are very big and I need to scroll down/right to view the whole picture. I don't own an iPhone, and was wondering if it's possible to reconfigure it to:
To view an email's source code in Mail.app, you can press ⌘ cmd+⌥ option U . However, the source view is cut off every line on a certain character. Changing a line like this:
I recently changed my hard drive for a SSD device. The removed storage device can be used as an external drive, via USB. I want to delete everything on this HD, but it is asking me for a password when I plug it in the Mac. I forgot the password.
I an using 2015 model of MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Yosemite. I have installed Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.26 which runs Ubuntu 14.04 operating system. I have also installed the guest edition to improve performance.
So I installed Bootcamp with Windows 7 Professional on my late 2013 15in Macbook Pro with Retina and I have it installed and booting up Windows 7, however it doesn't seem to pick up any of my hardware (Aside from my keyboard and trackpad). I read that the solution it to download the bootcamp udpate, but I have no way of getting it on the Windows partioned hard drive it it doesn't pick up my USB. It also does not let me drag and drop the update file into the Windows hard drive while using OS X.
We have a late 2010 Macbook Pro 15, 8gb memory, 512mb video. When we have more than one Adobe product open (And sometimes only one product) the computer will freeze. Our designer who uses the computer is blaming it on the lack of video memory. Do I need to order a Mac with at least 1gb of video memory to run the new Adobe products or is it more a function of RAM? We are using Adobe suite cs6 (Photoshop says version 13) Photoshop InDesign Illustrator
I am using default write to set/unset Block all incoming connections option of OSX firewall. I realised that the option is not set if the preference panel is open. Is there a way avoid this behaviour, possibly refreshing the Preference Panel UI after setting the new value?
My work uses Microsoft Exchange for our mail system. I've been using Outlook for Mac 2011. Occasionally tried Mail.
Several times lately, when I have tried to open a Keynote file, I get the following message: Unable to open “file name” because it isn't a valid Keynote document. The odd thing is that these are files I created in Keynote and used within the last week. Any idea what's going on? Thank you!!
I'm using my Macbook while it's connected to a larger display. I'm mostly working off the larger display. Is there a way for notifications to be displayed on both screens simultaneously? I'm specifically concerned about Slack, but if there's a way to do this for all applications, knowing how that works would be much appreciated.
My company changes my screensaver settings to some default they want. I want to keep my settings, so I would like to change the settings either on a timer or on login back to the settings I have chosen.
I've got a mid-2009 macbook pro that generally runs well. Unfortunately, though, I've started having problems with one key on the keyboard ('o'). It works intermittently. To type the letter I either need to press the key several times or hold it down for several seconds.
this is my first question here. I suppose it belongs here to the Apple StackExchange, but I'm not entirely sure it's not actually more of a Bash question, so in case I apologize for the error.
I'm using a MacBook Air 13" mid 2012 with Yosemite 10.10.3, it rebooted itself this morning without a reason and since then the screen saver is no longer asking for a password on unlock. This is a great security flaw but I can't find a solution, I've tried modifying the security option by unchecking and checking everything again but it just does not work.
Is there a recommended process for reliably connecting a Mac to an iPhone Personal Hotspot network via Wi-Fi? Here is the method that I have been trying: turn on WiFi and Personal Hotspot on iPhone turn on WiFi on Mac
I download some files. Using Path Finder, it says Today under the Date Added column. 4/5/14 under Date Modified. I then copy the file off to a external hard disk, but there it shows 4/5/14 under the Date Added and Date Modified column.
I have a MacBook Pro that is almost always connected to one of two Thunderbolt displays. Sometimes it will also be connected to a USB headset. Every time I disconnect the headset the audio input and output gets set to the build in speakers. However, when the headphones are not plugged in, the display speakers should be used and I have to switch it back. Is there any way to set device priority similar to how you can do it with WiFi networks? It would be awesome if I could set a rule like "Prefer headset over Display over internal", just like I do for WiFi networks. Sounds like a small problem, but it get's incredibly annoying throughout my day, because I switch between display speakers and headphones a lot.
I, my wife and my three kids all have apple devices and IDs. However, some of my kids have credit balances from gift cards. If I turn on Apple Sharing, can those gift balances still be spent?
With family sharing the docs say ALL purchases are charged to the organizers credit card. Is there a way to charge a purchase to the account owners credit card rather than the organizer accounts credit card?
I might be mistaken, but I seem to remember there once was a visual confirmation when changing the keyboard layout in older versions of OS X. It was some kind of small grey window in the middle of the screen showing all currently available layouts (and highlighting the active one) for a few seconds after each change.
My clients have OS X (as I do) but have trouble installing the GoToMyPC app, and indeed, any apps — TeamViewer requires that the client install their app, too. Is there a remote management/screen sharing program that does not require the computer being helped to install anything at all?
I started recently using GeekTool and I used some Geeklets for weather, date, and time, things that I had to let it refresh every two or three seconds. Here is a screenshot of my desktop I know (but I'm not sure) that this might cause the computer to run slower, but I would like to know if really does cause performance degradation on my Mac?
I think this topic would be worth to be addressed in official Apple documentation. It is a usability problem. Possible a harder task for users than Apple's UX designers and developers thought, particularly regarding internationalization/localization. Maybe in English the semantics and mental concepts on "related name" are very clear, but in other languages it may be more ambiguous. A small tooltip which clarifies the relationship in a full language sentence such as "Jane is Jon's daughter" could help to establish certainty and/or avoid false usage. ANSWER: The correct scheme is: a) Daughter: Jane (= Jane is Jon's daughter)
I upgraded CUPS from 2.0.0 to 2.0.2 on OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite for security reasons per advisement from a Nessus scan. I committed the cardinal sin of not backing up my OS before making this change. Unfortunately, many x86 apps on my system are now displaying this fatal error: Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000 Application Specific Information: dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
In several places in the iOS Apple Watch settings app, important functionality depends on "you" wearing the watch. Critically under the settings for unlocking the watch without requiring a passcode (Security > Unlock with iPhone): When this is on, unlocking your iPhone will automatically unlock Apple Watch — as long as you're wearing it. Does the Apple Watch really form a signature for recognizing a specific user (analogous to fingerprint recognition), or should the above read "as long as someone is wearing it (in BT range of your iPhone)"?
How do I use a cable lock with my Mac Mini? It doesn't appear to have any mounts for the typical cable lock. Do I have to get an enclosure and secure that to the desk?
I am using a Mac Mini with Yosemite, and I noticed that the Spaces desktops keep increasing. I delete them to keep one desktop for each of the monitors I am using, and I end up with 26 of them on the main monitor. What is causing this, and how can I fix it?
Is there a way for me to export my system preferences on my Mac for quick install on another machine? An example of what I am trying to accomplish is, when I start a new job, I would like to import my settings and have my system preference work without having to manually configure all of my custom settings. I am most interested in exporting settings for : Trackpad / Mouse Keyboard Dock dashboard (I like to disable it)
I just did Trying to use meld continues to give same error:
Screenshot today. It popped up about six times in a row.
Is there anything I can do about this? I want my computer to always boot into Mac OS X, even if I last opted to boot Windows, unless I go via the boot menu. My old Macbook Pro (mid 2009) worked that way, and I've come to prefer it.
The app never updates and it keeps telling me to put in my password.
I have loaded windows on the SSD of the macbook. I have plenty of windows softwares that i wish to install but that will be at the cost of the SSD which has a limited space. Is it ok to install the remaining softwares on the external HDD. Is this what the others guys are also doing???
I am running Yosemite on My MacBook Air. Spotlight settings are as below:
I have many emails in the junk folder in my yahoo email. How do I delete them all at one time using my iPad.
iPhoto allowed you to email photos from within the app, letting you choose a nice layout (like a birthday card, etc). I can not find any email capability from within Photos; any tips on emailing from within Photos is appreciated.
I have been unable to reclaim the disk space from the deleted partitions. I've tried booting into recovery mode Command+R and repairing the disk. The disk repairs successfully, but still remains the same size, and will not let me increase the partition size.
I was wondering if it is possible to hide icons on the dock of apps that are running on other spaces. Also I would like the app-switcher to show only the apps that are working on the current desktop I'm using. Do you have any idea?
I don't really know the right words to describe this problem, but every once in a while (sporadically, maybe about twice a day), whatever view is displayed on my iPhone (iPhone 6, iOS 8.3) screen will slide down to about a third of the way down the screen, as shown in these three screenshots:  (I've whited out personal data.) After a matter of seconds, I think it slides back up on its own, though I've discovered that the most convenient way for me to cancel this phenomenon is by pulling the notification center into view from the top of the screen and then pushing it back up, which causes the main view to slide back up right away.
I want to do manual testing of an iPhone app on my Windows laptop. Is there any tool or simulator. How can I install the build on that simulator?
Here's a strange one. I have Yosemite 10.10.3 and no updates required but don't seem to have Photos app. Any suggestions as to how I might get it?
I have random connection issues after using Tunnelblick or Viscosity, where existing connections don't seem to drop (SSH, Skype, Hangouts,...) but nothing new can be established, ie. ping to 8.8.8.8 times out. It is pretty obvious because IRC warns about reconnections. Using a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015 with Yosemite 10.10.3 connection issues last between a few seconds and up to 15 minutes, I monitored this with a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 and other destinations, and they time out, eventually working again by itself connected by wifi, but connection to router is not affected, ping to 192.168.1.1 works fine even when external ping is timing out other computers/phones in the same network don't have this issue, including a 2011 MacBook Pro with same 10.10.3 that IIRC used TunnelBlick recently wifi disconnect/reconnect fixes the connection, and so it does refreshing the DHCP lease with echo "add State:/Network/Interface/en0/RefreshConfiguration temporary" | sudo scutil
Whenever I have a sprite frame, and I open it in Preview app, I can't see the exact edges of the image because the background of an image is transparent. Therefore, I can't see if there is any padding around it. Is it possible to turn on image borders in Preview app?
Since I upgraded to Yosemite, the Mail app shows an irritating sort bar at the bottom of the message list. I like to view my email messages with the oldest message on the top. But now this sort bar is overlapping the newest message at the bottom. Is there a way to move the sort bar to the top, or get rid of it all together?
I want to share my playlist with my friend. He can give me his apple ID. I have a big playlist on my computer. I have not made any changes in the Preferences yet. Help appleseeds?
Until about a week ago, Apple offered a signed version of iOS 8.2. Now the file is not signed anymore. Is there any place where I can still download the signed version of the file? Does anyone still have a copy?
I have a problem with my iPod nano which plays a track initially and later skips to the next track. I tried the same track in itunes v12 and it plays with ease. I had asked for this here for which I got an answer as to try doing the reset+delete all. But my doubt is that if I am doing the reset (which I have done) then am I not in-directly deleting all the songs+the voice over If I am wrong with the above then could please tell me what exactly is the difference in the reset and the delete
When I make purchases from my Apple TV it won't automatically download to iTunes on my Mac Mini. All software is up to date via the current versions available from the App store. I have reset the Apple TV and resetup the devices. Created new user on Mac Mini. Signed into iTunes on the New account and the same problem exists. Checked for available downloads via the "Store" option and get a message : "All purchases have been downloaded for this Apple ID."
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8 installed. Sometimes, when I charge the iPhone with a mophie Juice Pack Case for iPhone 5, the power of the battery pack gets drained up in merely 5 seconds. This does not happen a lot, it happens randomly. I am sure my Juice Pack is fully charged.
I am on Yosemite and have used a (seemingly older version) of Go2Shell to open Terminal windows at the current Finder location. This worked flawlessly for a long time, until something, suddenly broke with no apparent reason. When clicking the icon in Finder, a terminal would open up, but not in the current directory. I then installed the most recent Go2Shell and reinstalled iTerm 2. Go2Shell version: 2.2 iTerm version: 2.1 Go2Shell command: cd %PATH%;clear;ls Symptoms
Can anyone help with a homebrew formula to install emacs' VM ("View Mail"), located: I can get as far as a script, that should look like this:
A few days ago, some coffee went on my MBA(4,2). I immediately took it down, unplugged it from the magsafe, and started to open it to dry it the faster I was able to.
I am switching to a new macbook and am in that case wondering, if it is necessary to backup my e-mail. All my mailboxes are Exchange or IMAP. I mean they are already located on the server, so is it even necessary to back up my mailboxes. Can't I just add the accounts on the new computer and they will sync automatically, leaving me at the same place as I was on my old Macbook? Thanks in advance.
My students are using the Ipad Notes app to pass notes in class. Some are not appropriate either. Is there a way to disable the Notes app on an ipad?
In windows, it is easier to do cause there's shortcut via win+1 or ..., I'm wondering that I could do about the Mac, I did not find any stuff like that.
I use two browsers: one for personal use (i.e. email, social networking, YouTube, etc.) and one for professional/school (i.e. developing, school links, school-related searches, etc.). I recently stopped using Firefox as I was tired of the lag and slowness and replaced Firefox with Chrome. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro and it has made a world of difference in my browsing experience. I've noticed that Chrome is heaps faster and more responsive.
I have a mid-2007 iMac. It's been getting kernel panics and locking up. I noticed it does this immediately when needing to use accelerated graphics motions, such as running Launchpad, using a translucent dock, etc. When I run in Safe Mode, the system seems to run alright, as accelerated graphics is off (as I understand it anyway). I have a picture of a kernel panic (couldn't copy-paste, had frozen by then) if this helps.
What is this "1" alerting me to? There does not appear to be anything in any of my Calendars that is requiring my attention. How can I get rid of this?
Then during normal use the machine can be running fine, but flicking between finder windows, quick previewing an image in the finder using space bar, move files can cause it to hang when ill then have to wait, or force reboot the finder, using force quit. Generally though everything seems quite lethargic.
I've got an external USB hdd that I wish to use entirely as a TrueCrypt volume. There was one pre-formatted partition, so I'm trying to erase that with Disk Utility. But no matter what I do or try, whenever I Erase the partition (or the entire disk), it keeps automatically re-creating a new partition.
My Macbook Air has only one Thunderbolt port, but I need to connect both to my internet cable and also to my VGA monitor. I have an adapter to do each, but obviously I can use only one at a time. What do I need to buy to be able to connect both the cable & the monitor?
Latest OS X version 10.10.3 For the past few weeks my Messages app takes forever to open - about 20 bounces in the dock before it finally opens, if it was quit. Then it works fine until I quit and reopen it again. Why / how to fix? Console entries when I first click to open Messages: Then after about 20-25 seconds Messages opens and these entries show up:
I installed Meld using homebrew on a stock OSX 10.10. It works, but it doesn't seem to understand the size of my screen (actually two screens, same behavior on both built in and secondary display). Meld window only occupies lower 2/3 of the screen and can't be moved above the invisible line. When I maximize it - it takes full lower 2/3 of the screen, upper 1/3 is available and I can drag other apps there. This must be some known issue, sorry if my description is too vague.
I recently purchased an iPhone 6. I neglected to remove data from my iPhone 5 before activating my new phone. Now it seems impossible to remove data from my old iPhone 5 as it is not active or connected to anything!
I have an app that I bought, unfortunately the company was also bought and the new version is seriously worse. Hiding is not possible for third party software. Removing MAS receipt makes the software "damaged". Setting softwareupdate ignore cobook, does not work either. There has to be some hack available, I don't want to "update" by mistake, and it bugs me to see the red "1", since I usually keep my software updated. This would however be a downdate.
I was hoping to find a single tool that could arrange, in any configuration, any audio inputs and outputs on a Mac. A specific example follows. Devices MIX
On Mac Book Pro retina ( 2014 ) Mavericks running Boot Camp, one hard drive partitioned to dual boot OS X and Windows 8. While messing on Windows 8 I mistakenly deleted a partition which is now showing unallocated 621 MB, using Disk Management. ( it was showing a weird phantom SD drive which i thought was some improperly mounted ).
I want to buy an iPad mini Wi-Fi for my sister whilst she is in UK travelling. She will then go back to Australia. Will it work there if she has downloaded apps in UK? Can she change her account to Australian store once home months later? It is only the Wi-Fi version I am looking at and not the the latest retina display one.
Since two weeks I see an incrementation in odd, graphical rendering issues on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). These issues include flickering, oddly shaped figures, graphical noise and other annoying stuff.
What would happen if I (remotely) ran a say command on a Mac that's logged out? Would the command run? Or wait until the user logs in to run?
I want to connect second display to my 13 inch MacBook pro, which will be connected and disconnected 2 times a day on average. Is it better to use HDMI or Mini DisplayPort as far as durability of the socket is concerned?
I'm working on template in Numbers. Some cell in template can have only specific values from code lists, so I decided to add pop-up format for them.
Since updating to Yosemite, ssh from my Mac to a DNS alias takes about 7-8 seconds. I've observed the following on multiple Macs running Yosemite. Assume I have a host name alpha, and a DNS alias to it named aa. The OS of the target doesn't matter.
Every time I hit ⌘ + Q in Safari it freezes it completely and goes unresponsive, so far I have done every thing possible to fix this issue. I made a video if you don't understand what I'm talking about. I contacted Apple and they told me to do a Time Machine back up than do a complete OS reinstall. I reinstalled OS X from the recovery menu and than I migrated to my Time Machine back but Safari still doesn't work when I hit quit. I also tried everything here I deleted all the Safari caches, preference files, application saved states. I'm gonna head out to the Apple Store in a bit just wanted to see if I can get some last minute help before I head out. OS X 10.10.3 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) Safari: Version 8.0.5 (10600.5.17)
I recently reset my MacBook Air to its factory settings. I am now reinstalling os x yosemite but the installing process is taking forever... is it the wifi that's having problems? Or is it just my laptop? Is there a way to fix this, make it faster?
I have a Plugable 7-port powered USB 3.0 hub. I use it to connect my external hard drives (I have three) to my Macbook Pro (that has only 2 USB 3.0 ports).
My mac was so painful slow so I had to do clean install but the problem still. Obs: I have one Macbook pro 13' 2012 with i5 and 4gb of ram. Edit: After the install took 12 hours, the problem still here's the log Edit: Safe mode on don't stop this errors Edit: I did a clean install, because I am a developer and I need my mac 100%, but when I open any app take minutes to open, the worst its finder and spotlight, I dont know what could happen to him... ): Installing the yosemite again take 9 hours or more, I am thinking in sell it and take one windows, this problem upset me.
When I go to send a text message on my Apple Watch, whether it be through Siri or the messages app, it always tries to send a text message (green) rather than a iMessage (blue). I have tried turning on and off iMessage, restarting my iPhone and Watch, unpaired and re-paired my watch, and setting it up again as new. My watch will appear to try to send a regular (green) text message through my phone, but will get stuck on "Sending..." even though the text actually gets sent. I can send iMessages just fine on my iPhone. The people in my contacts who I am messaging do have iPhones and their contacts are set up as having an iPhone.
I think on previous versions of OS X, password were stored in the /etc/shadow file. Nevertheless, this file doesn't appear to exist in the later versions of the operating system - specifically OS X 10.9 which is the first of the non-cat named OS releases. Does anyone know where the password hashes are stored on OS X Mavericks?
Does anyone know of a terminal command which lists the current administrator account?
I usually write in English, but I often quote things in other languages like German or French. I know that you can set the language, like the font under Tools -> Language. Is there a keyboard shortcut to make this easier?
I want to create a script that takes the current file selection and moves it to an already existing folder. I will then duplicate this code for 9 other folders and assign them all keyboard shortcuts.
Is there a way I can use an iPhone/Android phone as an external microphone for my Mac? Ideally without a cable i.e. bluetooh/wifi. Edit: Since this hasn't been answered yet, I would be okay with using cables too if people know how to do that.
I often "reverse outline" my work by printing out my file, numbering the paragraphs by hand, and then making an "outline" of my essay/piece which then will help me to conceptualize what I am doing - and how to rework it. Is there a way to automatically add numbers for paragraphs in Word so I don't have to do it by hand? I know that you can add automatic numbering for lines but I can't figure out how to do it for paragraphs.
I'm currently using 2 screens for work and I CMD-Tab a lot. But I always have to move the mouse to the other screen. Is there a shortcut / an app to center the mouse on the current window?
Parallels Desktop enables internet connection on your VM by sharing your current Mac's connection via ethernet-like network. I want to access on my Windows VM wifi connection, not get it from Mac but to actually connect on it's own - how to do that if there's no wireless adapter device nor wireless icon in taskbar?
I want to install Microsoft Office 2001 on a Mac OS X whose version is 10.6.8. There is a folder and it has folders named Clipart, Office, Read Me, RESOURCE.FRK, Shared Applications and Templates. It also has Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage, these are Unix Executable Files. I'd like to know how I can install Office 2001 on this machine. I don't have any prior Mac OS experience. Thanks.
I am currently developing websites and ios applications. Recently, I decided to install a home server for cloud/back-up purposes and especially for xcode server(helping me test my builds) with version control system. I also know its possible to install xcode server on your development Mac but im looking for a remote machine. With mac mini, i will be able to instal OS X Server and get all the services I want.
Is there a way to add a signature to automatically show up in the text box in iMessage. I know that you could create a keyboard shortcut to type in everytime you text but there are two problems with that: every time you would use that shortcut normally (without the intentions of using the signature, the signature would come up), and I would need to put in the signature's shortcut every time I text.
I noticed today a higher kernel_task CPU usage when playing audio through Thunderbolt Display from my Macbook Pro (early 2011) on OS X Yosemite. Although the CPU usage is not very high (15 - 20%), it certainly gets the fans spinning fast enough to get my attention. I would not expect this as a normal behaviour.
In windows TortoiseGit has the wonderful option to show the pulled diff after doing a pull. Is there a Git GUI application for OSX that can do that? I've tried SmartGit, SourceTree and the GitHub GUI but none of them seem to have this option.
I don't have a USB-C cable or USB-C adapter. How do I sync my iPhone 5s with my 2015 MacBook? I thought I could do it over WiFi? 2015 MacBook's don't have USB ports I also have a MacBook Pro but I don't want my iTunes library on this machine.
Occasionally when I am working and put my MacBook to sleep, when I wake it up again, I am unable to switch to apps that I have had open in full screen. Similarly, if I open an app after sleep, switch to full screen mode and then command-tab to another application, I cannot return the full screen app. Mission Control ceases to operate and gestures for switching (multi-finger swipes up to Exposé and to the side for screen switching) also fail. The only fix I have found is a full restart. My setup is as follows: MacBook Pro 15" Retina Early 2013 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB RAM OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E17e) Built-in screen and external monitor Apple Magic Trackpad (issue also present with built-in trackpad) The issue presents itself sporadically and has been present for at least the last few Yosemite releases. Any help would be very well received :-)
Is the one year limited warranty provided by Apple with a MacBook Pro international? If I buy the MacBook Pro from US and use it in India, will the limited warranty be applicable in India?
I can successfully bridge my WLAN and Ethernet on my macbook(internet sharing) and have each network adapter set to dhcp. In my case the macbook is connecting to the internet with wireless and the ethernet port on the macbook allows another older laptop(which does not have wireless) to also access the net through the macbook. When i inspect the ip address of the wireless interface, it shows the expected local ip and gateway. However, the ethernet interface of the mac shows a private ip, 169.254.135.163 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. The older client laptop shows an ip of 192.168.2.2 and a gateway of 192.168.2.1 How did the macbook decide to pick these numbers and dole them out over its ethernet port?
For school I need to make some assignments in ASP.NET on windows. I Have a MBPR with OS X 10.10 and Windows 8.1 (VMWare) running on it. When I run my project in visual studio, google chrome is opened in Windows. This is not a problem, but I want to view my result in safari (Mac). When I enter the IP address and port (192.168.70.140:1102) I should go to the homepage, but instead I see an error message "Invalid hostname".
I'm a complete nube to Mac (bought Mac Mini 10/Apr/15). So far I have cloned OSX from Internal HDD to USB SSD which is to become my Boot Disk. The HDD is solely to hold a recovery partition, and Data i.e. Photos, Docs Music - how do I achieve this?
For some reason, I keep getting this message 5 times on the console every second (approximately): What does this mean? What are the symptoms of this? If it helps, the following processes I am running: Chrome, Skype, Photoshop, Xcode, Calculator, Applescript Editor, Terminal, Disk Utility And I also have a no-ip DUC Daemon running UPDATE: It stopped, and threw some logs similar to this: and an extremely long log with kernel: at the start: *=URL=* UPDATE: It started again, so I restarted and now the mdworker shows a message 14-17 times a second.
My husband and I both just upgraded to iOS 8.3. Now I notice that if I have a missed call it shows up on his notice screen and all my calls show up in his recent call history (and vice versa).
With my Mid-2012 MBA running Mountain Lion, I have no issues at all in rotating my display after hitting display in preferences while holding cmd + option keys. However, I've run into a snag with my Late-2013 27" iMac running OS X Version 10.10.2. I would like to rotate my display 270 degrees. What's a workaround I can use to do this? Edit 1: To be clear, I'm trying to rotate my actual iMac display in the same way I can with my MBA.
Currently I am using a following command: while true; do python [file]; sleep X; done I was wondering if I can stop the loop if the result prints a word that I'm looking for. Plus is it possible to make a sound when it stops?
I have a rather odd issue. I'm running in a Mac/PC environment at work. When I email an image (JPG or PNG) to someone from Outlook 2011 Mac and they open in Outlook for PC (2010), the picture always ends up "washed out" or "faded."
I'm new to AppleScript and Automator, I've reached to stop and play next and previous track in Spotify, here's what I use inside the AppleScript: for play/pause^. for next and previous track^.
I have installed a fresh copy of Outlook for Mac v15.9 twice now and after a few days of use the ribbon disappears from all of the windows (main window, email window, etc). When I select View > Ribbon in hopes that it will turn it back on, nothing happens. How can I get this crazy ribbon back so I am no longer using the menu to send and reply to emails?
My iPhone 5 was updated to iOS 8.3 with a different computer. Now the apps I downloaded before the updates by computer was made, are now bothering me a lot. Any time I want to update them, my iPhone asks me to enter the password for the Apple ID of that computer I used to update it.
So I'm configuring some Default User Template LaunchAgents to configure a default screensaver for some of my company's most popular fan art. (It's actually been really well received by the team). They're designed as first-run images when they log into their forced-Local Active Directory users. However, I'm getting very inconsistent results now...namely it's not working at all.
Is there a way to temporarily disable "Mail" for a given account when the password has changed other than deleting the account (see screenshot below)?  What cannot be seen on the screenshot is the following message:
I'm trying to play a game on my MacBook (The Settlers under DOSBox) that makes use of something the manual calls a "special click": holding down the right mouse button and clicking the left mouse button. It seems to be impossible to do that using the trackpad. Apart from attaching an external mouse, is there any way to simulate such input?
My photos app says it's "Updating". It has left my machine almost unresponsive for several hours now with iStats reporting 50-70% CPU usage and SSD usage at about 50 MB/s. I installed Photos several weeks ago and haven't added more than a couple photos recently. Although when I installed it originally (by upgrading Mac OS), it did spend an incredible amount of resources as well. My photo library consists of 7600 photos and 325 videos that I loaded in from an iPhoto library. There is no significant network traffic going on.
I have an iPhone which I use for work and private. Now I'm on holidays for a week and I don't want to see any notifications or e-mails. Is it possible to mute (or completely turn off) the iPhone Outlook app?
I'm trying to find a way to import data from an Excel file into OS X Calendar app, but I can only find articles related to iCal, which I am guessing is the iOS App. Basically we need to import a list of birth dates into the Mac OS Calendar app, through a file exported from Excel (maybe a CSV file?) How do I do this?
I'd like to know if I need to keep a iOS7 device laying around for a test case or if ultimately every iOS 7 device will be upgraded to iOS 8. I have several iOS 6 devices that cannot be upgraded to iOS 7.
since updating to iOS 8.3 and probably enabling some new sort of iCloud system, all my photos in the photos app showed a white circular progress indicator in the bottom right the first time I looked at the picture, which seemed related to network activity. No idea why this was happening but ended up noticing that a gif viewing app I was developing was suddenly showing many fewer gifs than before. Upon further inspection i found that those gifs I hadn't looked at in the photos app, and hence hadn't done their white progress indicator thing, were missing. Once I'd let them do their white progress indicator thing they showed up again.
I want to run fuser to determine what process is using my sound card, but I don't know what file to use. I ran fuser on /System/Library/Extensions while playing a YouTube video, but did not see any process IDs.
I'm using Fluid.app as a way to display content from URL for monitoring my servers and other services in my data center. I have a few tabs open in this fluid.app window to display another URL with other data.
I run OS X 10.10.3 and occasionally notice (must've been there forever, it's not very obtrusive, but occasionally annoying) that windows which are maximized but not in full screen leave some space at the bottom. I changed the desktop background to a garish green and added the red frame to illustrate the issue (it still gets muted by the window's drop shadow, so it's not always easy to see in practice). Exhibit A Exhibit B
I had to uninstall Kapersky by deleting the application but the item still shows up on my task bar when I restart. Also, I have PGP installed on my mac, but when I telnet to port 25 of another server, I get a "PGP Universal Proxy" service that I want to disable.
I installed TeamViewer Host (v. 10.0) for making remote connections back to my Mac. It loads on start up automatically, and there doesn’t seem to be a preference to disable that behavior*. TeamViewer also does not appear in the “Login Items” system preference pane. I only need TeamViewer periodically, so for performance and security, I’d rather run it manually.
I closed the step counter by accident and now I can only see floors and miles. I cannot find the page where I can re-open the step counter to add to dashboard.
When dragging contacts to a newly formed group in OS X, a duplicate card is automatically created and the contact in not added to the group. Repeated attempts to drag the contact name to the group name continues to duplicate complete cards of that contact. Only about 1 in 5 attempts are working correctly. I am having to delete a duplicate card for each attempt to add that name to the group.
I use Homebrew on my testing server on OS X. I have php56, autoconf, and mcrypt installed through homebrew. I was successful doing this on a different Mac but I am not having any luck this time. When I type: like I did on the other mac, it says: Despite it stating that is "already installed", when going into /usr/local/Cellar/ there is no folder called "php56-mcrypt" like it had on my other Mac.
When I purchase a TV show or movie on my iPad from the iTunes Store it goes directly to the cloud. I want it to stay on my iPad so I can watch it on the plane in offline mode. I checked and I do have 2 GB of space available. How do I download the content to my iPad?
My audio is not working, I have searched online and tried many things: I have tried the following: killing the audio process via Terminal (sudo killall coreaudiod) inserting/removing headphones into the headphone jack running apple hardware test, it found no issues resetting PRAM and SMC re-seating the audio cables inside the computer re-seating the audio cables inside the computer Ran this command via Terminal, kextstat > ~/Desktop/kexts.txt Ran this command via Terminal, kextstat > ~/Desktop/kexts.txt Found AudioAUUC.kext in my Extensions folder. I downloaded Pocket Audio and my microphone is working fine but I cannot get sound to work.
Is there a way to prevent OS upgrades on an iOS device, such that the user is unable to remove the restriction (without going into full "kiosk mode")? We will be loaning iPhones or iPads to people, and don't want them making ANY changes to the devices, but we do want to let them use all the applications that are on the device. I see that parental restrictions will let me prevent users from adding or deleting apps, but there isn't an option for OS upgrades. If I tell iTunes to stop doing updates, and then prevent the user from accessing the iTunes store, will that do it?
I don't see it listed under /dev. dmesg doesn't help. Apple diagnostics is missing from my computer and I believe there may be an issue with the hard drive so I was hoping to restore it from the install cd as per instructions elsewhere on the web. I believe late 2007 iMac running 10.8.5 Just to be clear the iMac won't start up, not even in safe mode hence the single user mode reliance.
When I click on software to update to iOS 8 on my iPhone 4, it responds that my phone is updated with iOS 6.5. What do I do to get 7 &/or 8?
My MacBook Pro seemed to get hung up in Chrome. Was able to quit Chrome and all other apps running (Mail and TextEdit) and tried to restart. Screen went black, trackpad still moving cursor but didn't restart. Tried to force it by holding down power button but now it won't shut down either. Also tried command-option-eject with no effect. Can't get to Apple Store until tomorrow. Aside from waiting/hoping for battery to drain is there any other way I can force it to shutdown or restart.
Can I access my mail and iMessages without wiping the iPhone first? I want to return the phone to its pre-loan state when I'm done borrowing.
When I checked my public key, it shows ssh-rsa mykey hari@Hari-Mac-mini.local But I'm using macbook pro. Also hostname is correct. My old machine was mac mini.
Instead of replacing a my macbook's broken display, I would like to utilize the Macbook mainboard's display interface with an external monitor. In what ways is the Macbook's built-in display interface usable without using displays designed for this purpose? This is a MacBook Pro (Late 2009) 15 inch. Example: Is it possible to pin out the mainboard interface to HDMI or DVI?
How do I select a directory to save files into? In Pages I get the choice of Favorites or Recent Places?
My calendar events sync only one way between my iPhone and Microsoft Exchange If I enter the event in my iPhone, it won't appear in Microsoft Exchange, but the other way around works
I am looking for an App that reminds me of Birthdays and Anniversaries. If app can remind me of other dates, it would be "icing on cake" (added advantage). I know notifications can be handled by native/default Calendar app available on any iOS device. But catch is, App has to scan contacts and show/notify Birthdays and Anniversaries.
My machine consumes all CPU for one or two hours processing some systemstats. So far I work around that by regularly cleaning the huge amount of data in /private/var/db/systemstats/
I had a Macbook Air Yosemite which was FileVault 2 encrypted. The laptop was stolen from me. The thief was able to reinstall OS X and some apps (was bringing it to market for sale). The laptop was then recovered and returned to me.
I have just received my 2015 Retina MacBook. I would really like the battery to last long. Is there anything I can do to extend the battery life because my retina MacBook Pro's battery got progressively worse over time. I am not familiar with the battery technology in the 2015 Retina MacBook but on the website its says: Built-in 39.7-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
While the question "is it safe to delete /Library/Caches" is commonly seen, OSX also has another path for storing caches (not sym link). Keynote has another cache stored at /Library/Container/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Caches. In particular, a subfolder named DocumentCaches store a some of my slides created in keynotes. Is it safe to delete this folder?
If I set my Apple TV to a lower resolution, will Netflix download less data?
When I turned on my mac this morning, the world logo flashed and then took ages to boot up and finally when my logon screen came up. An extremely long password started typing itself out. I deleted this and typed in the correct password (it is correct, been using it for five years) but it won't allow me access. I've tried rebooting with Cmd ⌘ S Cmd ⌘ R Cmd ⌘ Opt ⌥ PR and whatever else I've seen on forums and nothing works.
After doing the last iOS update, I can't enter an event in my calendar. I checked iCloud and calendar is activated.
I installed the latest version of Java 1.6 provided by Apple and didn't realize that the application I have to do development for must use 1.6 update 35. Is there anyway I can uninstall the latest version and downgrade to 1.6 update 35? I think what I need is Java for OS X 2013-005 instead of Java for OS X 2014-001. The 2013-005 version won't let me install it now since a more current version is already installed.
I've got the problem that my Systems is often freezing and than shutting down or restarting. I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina and before Yosemite I've never had such problems. Just while writing this post my system froze again, this time with a crash report after rebooting. Crash 1: 14:17 (time displayed when frozen) Do you guys have any idea on what might be the problem?
I recently request help about modifying firewall settings via command-line (see my previous question). Everything is working, but I have noticed that whenever I use this command in an applescript, the file group changes from wheel to staff. Before: After running the script: Repairing Disk Permissions fixed the issue but change it to admin instead of wheel. After fixing permissions: However, I want to know: Why is this happening, and if it can raise security issues?
I have a Mac Mini running OS X Server 10.10 (Yosemite). It gets it's network connection over ethernet. I would like to bridge that connection through WiFi. That's easy enough with Internet Sharing, but then I end up with a new private network. This question makes it clear that Internet Sharing cannot be used this way: Internet sharing without DHCP However, since this is OS X Server, is there a way I can manually configure things to have the same setup without using the Internet Sharing feature?
I needed to disable my internal keyboard for a while. What I did was try this: Though that showed an error:
I believe this is the best forum to ask this question. This issue is with iOS Safari's "Add to Home Screen", and is particularly specific to Google Keep.
My son's find my iphone page, when I looked today after his phone number it has (2) - right after it. Yesterday it did not, and none of our other devices have that. Just wondering what that stands for?
I wrote a cron job to do backups over wifi to another computer. It works perfectly when I'm using the machine, but I prefer to schedule it at night when I'm not using it. The first step is to ping the backup server once and fail the whole script if that step fails.
I use photos from a digital camera and work with them in Photoshop/Lightroom. Today I again imported pictures from the camera into photos-app on my MacBook Pro, mid 2014, Yosemite 10.10.4/3 (I had the problem on both versions, stable and beta), and then, before I saw the export-option, copied the pictures and pasted them into Preview.
How can I restore my Keynote database from iCloud?
My 2014 MacBook Air was recently stolen, but I have a full backup available via Time Machine saved to an Airport Extreme base station. For now I'm using an old MacBook 5,1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB RAM. After using the Air for so long I kind of like the feel of this machine better and don't mind of the bit of extra weight. I am inspired by all the info available about upgrading this model, and I think it's a better solution for me than buying a new MacBook. There seems to be plenty of info available about the process, but before I dive in I'd like some input from the folks that know a helluva a lot more than I do about this kind of thing:
How do I get my windows keyboard to work on my Mac? I want to be able to bind the keys so it's like I'm using a windows computer, i.e. ctrl maps to command, but I've tried everything to no avail. Also, how would I map the symbols to the correct places, for instance \ is where ` should be, etc.
For example, where could I find the info document of bash on mac OSX. I only know the man page is stored at /usr/share/man/ but doesn't know where to find the info file.
Today I discovered this: If I search my iOS 8 iPad for a certain name, I find three different Emails. All of these are drafts. If I touch one of these findings, mail.app opens the drafts and show them completely.
I'm running 10.10, and have a wireless mighty mouse. I want to turn off the right click on the mouse. I went to System Settings > Mouse, and set the "Right Click" function to "Primary Button" instead of Secondary. However, this has no effect, and the right click still functions as a right click. Why is this?
I had 3 GB of free space on my 32G SSD drive when I decided to do an index rebuild in my apple mail. It ate up all the free space. I connected an external drive and moved some applications to free up another 3GB. I redid the rebuild and it ate up another 3GB. Then I moved the V2 folder from my home library (mail folder) to the external drive and created a symlink. I relaunched the mail, launched 'rebuild' and during reindexing it popped up a window saying that my boot volume doesn't have enough free space for the system memory, while in fact I have somewhat 15 GB of free space on my main drive. And 1.5TB on the external drivre. How do I fix this?
On Mac OS X Yosemite, you need to enter in your password to change DNS entries. Otherwise the entries are all greyed out.
Recently, I have been playing around with editing System Preferences without GUI and using the defaults command. I have tried for example:
I have the dreaded issue with recurring sync service processes wreaking havoc on my MacBook Pro with O S X 10.9 Mavericks and stealing my CPU cycles for no apparent good reason. Usually with a 3 month hiatus, strangely enough. It might run most of the times, but it doesn't interfere with heavy workloads in other apps, like music production software.
I bought a new MacBook Air and was able to connect to the internet at first but now it won't connect. I have other devices as well as other computers on wifi but my Mac won't connect. When I try and click on the wifi, it tells me that it can't be joined. How can I troubleshoot?
Last night a "storage almost full" message popped up on my screen and it says I have 73GB worth of movies, but I can't find any. I have no iMovies or Photobooth videos, and no real movie downloads, and just 2 small iPhoto videos.
Considering buying a mid 2011 Mini i5 OSX 10.7.5 (16GB) to run Lightroom 6/CC and Photoshop CC. They require 64 bit systems. My Air (4GB) doesn't have enough RAM to run efficiently. Will the Mini boot in 64 bit as is, will I need to hold down 6 + 4 during start up, or do I need to upgrade to Yosemite?
It looks like my favorite OS X "window management" app, MercuryMover, is becoming abandonware. I'm looking for a well-supported alternative. I like MercuryMover because it is keyboard-driven, has a HUD that shows me the dimensions and position of the window I'm moving, and has a standard preferences screen for adding custom sizes and positions instead of a text-based configuration file. Any suggestions for an alternative?
I have a Macbook air with a 128gb SSD. Not a ton of space. I also have a Mac Mini that I use as a web/media server with a 500gb HDD. Much better. Both are networked together locally over an Airport Extreme and I have pretty good speeds on file transfers.
I know there are thousands of iterations on this question, but I can't find one dealing with Photos.app from 10.10.3+. I just want to stop it (or anything else) from opening ever. None of the answers I've found for Image Capture or iPhoto work anymore, as far as I can tell. To be clear, I know I can go into Image Capture and change the setting per-device, but I am regularly plugging in random devices I've never used before, and I want to turn this behaviour off globally. Is there a way to do this?
I have to say first, I have almost zero experience is the use of Terminal, an usually I'm very careful with what command I use. I have tryed to create a bootable Android x86 usb and it was a success, it booted perfectly on a windows pc. I hope it worked on Mac too, sadly it was not.
Certain applications seem to disable ALL font-smoothing (including AA) at certain small font sizes. This is by far most annoying in mathematica.
I use Yosemite with Chrome version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit). When writing in a text area the spell checker correctly detects English and French, but does not detect Spanish, and so it marks as wrong correctly written Spanish words:
In Aperture I understood the process to be that changes made in post processing where stored as "instructions" (not sure of real term) to be applied to the original and in that way saved space for storage over iPhoto where it appeared to me that a duplicate copy of the photo was made. I'd like to understand what the new Photo does. I would bet the same as iPhoto?
On MacBook, video shows 22/05/14 2:26PM. On iPad, in Album view, it shows the same time and date. But in Collections view it says 23/5/14 12:26AM. The video was taken in another time zone and I suspect that time and date in iOS Collections is the local time equivalent in my current timezone.
MacBook Pro on 10.7.5 (Lion) static ip 192.168.10.5 using wireless connection ethernet jack connected to raspberry pi raspberry pi has static ip 192.168.2.3 when internet sharing is enabled and firewall is enabled -raspberry pi can surf the internet through browser -terminal cannot ping macbook, cannot ping any ip on internet -macbook can ping raspberry pi when firewall is disabled -terminal can ping macbook, can ping any address on internet
Is there a way to quickly get to the first page of a tabbed app? For instance, the Home screen is an example of a tabbed "app", with the dots at the bottom. Except, to get to the first page, you of course just hit the Home screen. But in other apps, you can't do that. So, is it possible to do so, or is the only way to do this is to swipe all the way Left until you get to the start?
I have been searching for a terminal command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication, but not the network interface. I was searching some help pages and it showed command lines to export and import 802.1x settings/certificates but not disconnecting and connecting.
I updated my Mac to 10.9.5. Ater updating, my Vodafone 3G dongle started crashing. Full crash log is here (Github gist).
The Mail app on my iPhone 5s crashes while launching. I assume that it is trying to restore its last state. Unfortunately that last state was what originally crashed it. So restoring that state results in a Mail app that will always crash on start up. What can I do to prevent the Mail app from restoring its last state on start up? I already tried the following: disabling all Mail accounts send myself a mail to launch the Mail app from lock-screen closing the Mail app rebooting the phone contacted Apple support - only to find out that restoring an old backup is the only thing they know will help I do not want to restore from a backup, because it is probably not possible to restore the Mail app backup only.
I would like to know if: it's possible to configure Adobe Acrobat so the tool bar is show in one line, as the present arrangement wastes a lot space. Remove create and cloud buttons that I never use
I wanted to know if there is a way to reset my son's iPad mini, because he forgot the Apple ID password. He accidentally reformat, and now, he doesn't know the password.
When trying to update my whatsapp version, the email that is provided when required to input my password is incorrect? I am also unable to change it my correct email??
When I try to do the following calculation using Calculator app I get 0. where N_a is Avogadros number 6.022x10^23 mol^{-1}, h is Planck's Constant 6.626 x 10^-34 Js, c is the speed of light 2.998 x 10^8 ms^-1and \lambda is the wavelength of light, so lets say 400 x 10-9 m I should get 299 kJ mol-1 but Calculator gives me a big fat 0. If I input Planck's Constant and try a simple operation on it it returns 0. Obviously the issue is with small exponentials but they are not equal to 0! Am I overlooking something obvious?
I want to install java based "lp_solve" LP solver on my MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite. I tried to follow the instructions given here. But when I run sh ccc.osx, it is not creating the liblpsolve55.dylib and liblpsolve55.dylib. I need help installing this solver. Or maybe suggest me a similar solver which is easy to install on OS X Yosemite.
I have the following code, but I do not want it to continue to many lines. I want everything in one line. How can you prevent this from happening?
I have a computer that doesn't not require a password. I'd like this to continue into sudo, but unfortunately it doesn't recognise a user not having a password. According to Apple the sudo command requires a non-blank password: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202035
I've got several machines that I administer, a mixture of macbook pros and mac minis, that are 90% of the time all in the same building. (Macbook pros sometimes leave). It's beginning to get quite tedious to install updates, add printers, add software etc to all these machines. Is there a way that I can have administration access to these machines and run updates, installs etc from my machine?
I moved to Photos and iCloud Photo Library, and I am happy so far. Because of previous imports, crashes and re-imports, several thousand duplicates (identical pictures - not of the same photo) in my library. Now I would like to identify these and delete them. I have upgraded my Duplicate Annihilator from Aperture to Photos but my 56000 photos seem to be to much for it, because they claim that it is Photos API which is causing problems and slowness. Is there an other way of finding duplicates and deleting them from my iCloud Library?
On my iPhone, I can force-quit the active app by double-clicking the home button and swiping the app to the top. How can I force-quit / terminate the active app on the Apple Watch without restarting the entire device?
I just bought an LG 21:9 monitor, with a native resolution of 2560x1080p at 60 Hz. Now, my mac mini late 2012 (HD4000) allow me to select resolutions up to 1920x1080p and no more. The monitor is connected via HDMI, but the HDMI on the mini should be able to output up to 2560x1440p@60Hz... Any advice?
Apparently, the feature to right click on a location ("what's here?) and get GPS coordinates for a location while in Google Maps has been changed recently. Now all I get is street addresses or worse when I right click on a location. Are GPS coordatines available through Google Maps now? If not, can we get that feature back? I'm simply using a laptop that runs MS Explorer---nothing fancy or overly-mobile or exotic.
I dont have a credit card, and so I am unable to complete the Apple billing address, which means I can not download anything from the App Store. It there a solution for this?
According to *=URL=* you should be able to set a different port for dns, ie: but:
Long text notifications banners on MacOS X are cropped. The missing text makes them hard to understand, or even incomprehensible. How can I read the full text of these banners, if nothing shows up in Notification Center? This is a general issue, and happens with all kinds of notifications on OSX. The example below appears when trying to call a contact from Contacts.app in Yosemite and something is not right, which I can not fix, because the message explaining it is cropped. Examples:
Searching samsung site, I was able to find an upgraded firmware "for mac users", but you know that a firmware alone does not solve the issue: data have to be re-copied from decayed cells to fresh cells. This is what Magician software for windows does. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html
My photos file names have the date in them e.g. 2015-05-15-123.jpg so when I do a Search in the iOS app for say 2015 I get all photos taken in 2015 but they are shown in a flat list. Is there a way to group them by Album instead?
This is a follow up to Workaround for YouTube to appear in Apple TV I got my father AppleTV 3rd generation and he HATES the YouTUBE User Interface. He says if YouTUBE API for old Apple TV (we purchased in 2012) is 100, the new YouTUBE UI is 5. He is even willing to pay $20/month to use the old UI if Apple is offering it.
Every time I try to connect to a simple file share set up on Mac client - started with Mavericks, is still an issue with Yosemite (not server version), I get a long delay. There are lots of references to this problem... like: Why is my OSX client having so much trouble connecting to our SMB server? and *=URL=* The issue is that it tries to authenticate using a kerberos method and fails. Here's an example from my console (I edited the domains):
I need an easy way to take a stereo .mov file and convert it to a mono .mp3 or similar formatted audio file. I use Ecamm's Skype Call recorder to record interviews, which I send out for transcription. The call recorder creates an .mov file with 2 channels--one for each side of the call. The transcription software only plays one channel, so the audio sounds like it's one sided. I do this a lot, so I'd like a simple, one-step way to merge the channels and convert the file. I've tried ffmpeg, which I like, but I'm only getting one channel when I do this:
The original MacBook Air's charger looks a little different than the L-connector MagSafe 1 that the later gen Macbook Air's have. Here's the first gen:
I have recently installed a 1TB hardrive on my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I understand that it is possible to install Windows 7 through BootCamp (by partitioning the hardrive) on Snow Leopard but is it possible to install OS X Tiger as well?
Recently got new iPhones. Due to update issues, I'm having to use a different computer to sync 4 different devices. I have Home Sharing turned on, so I have access to all the apps stored on iTunes on our original Home Computer.
After upgrading OSX to Yosemite and Skype to 7.7 (335), Skype gets stuck on "Signing in..." when starting. It does sign in, as Contacts > Add Contact forces the main window to open, but "Signing in..." never goes away. Already tried, but didn't work: Signing out, quitting ("Signing in..." stays even when signed out), then signing back in. Signing out, quitting ("Signing in..." stays even when signed out), then signing back in. Everything on the Skype support page for Why can't I sign in to Skype for Mac OS X?. Everything on the Skype support page for Why can't I sign in to Skype for Mac OS X?. Removing ~/Library/Application Support/Skype. Removing ~/Library/Application Support/Skype. Reinstalling Skype Reinstalling Skype I'm using my Microsoft ID to sign in. Any clues? Following the @Buscar advice I used nettop in terminal to monitor Skype connections.
I have a windows program that I have a licence on, and I downloaded that program onto my macbook. It works fine, but it doesn't include the full version functions. I have to deactivate and transfer the licence onto my mac in order for the full version to work, but I'm not sure whether Winebottler will work with licenses.
The computer is a MacBook Air. I have OSX Yosemite and Linux Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot. I messed up and damaged my Mac EFI and hence OSX ceased to work. Recovery disk was destoyed too. FileVault is on and I just changed my login password (which I remember but can not use) before the problems appear. Please help..
I cloned my hard drive onto an SSD using SuperDuper. Now when I boot using the SSD, xcode opens an obscure source code file living in /opt (always the same file).
I have both a mac and a PC. One simple extremely useful feature on PCs that I can't find on a mac is the shortcut Windows+RightArrow to maximize the active window, but only take up exactly the right half of the screen (and vice versa with Windows+LeftArrow).
Being silly I have agreed to update my iPhone 5c to latest iOS and now my phone looks dead. When boots, it displays the following screen
Specifically, I just purchased a fully refurbished iMac G5 and I am interested in playing several old games on it (most likely Marble Blast Gold and Knights of the Old Republic). Although I know the games will run well on the computer, I am wondering if (generally) running graphics intensive programs will decrease the life expectancy of an iMac (specifically with regards to an iMac G5 Mid 2005 Model) in both the short and long run. Will frequently running graphic/hardware intensive programs harm (in the long run) an older iMac?
What is the maximum size drive that can be used with various versions of Mac OS X? On a white Intel MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.x, the Disk Utility app recognizes a new Seagate 4 TB (terabyte) drive as 1.8 TB when attached via FireWire in a NewerTech Voyager "pop-tart" style drive holder.
I have erase a disk using disk utility then try to reinstall os x but it pop up saying could not find installation information for this machine. Can you tell me what's that mean and how do I fix it?
I have an old Mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro (unibody) that I'm not using anymore. I've already pulled the superdrive out of it.
I'm doing a fresh install of Yosemite on my mac, but stopped at format step: I noticed various options: plain format encrypted case sensitive So, I'd like to know:
My dad and I share an Apple ID (even though I've asked him time and time again to get his own for this reason). I accidentally clicked on both games my dad's account that is on his iPad and now I can't get to my own account. I have tried logging out of the Game Center and logging back in but neither will prompt to switch to my game. I also tried deleting it off my iPhone 6 and clearing it from the Game Center then re-download them and they both just pop up under my dad's account. Any advise to get my account back? Or start a new one?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.10.3 with Java 7 update 75 installed (java 8 broke stuff last time I tried "upgrading"), and ever since I installed a certain java application whenever I open ANY java application (not just the last one I installed) it automatically expands to fill the screen. Is there any way to stop this behavior? So far my searching has only turned up ways to program this behavior in specific Java apps, not a way to prevent it, or any sort of global setting that could have been changed to cause it.
Today, I inserted a CD into my 2007 iMac desktop, but when I tried to eject the CD, the optical drive made some odd whirring noises, and nothing was ejected. After further research, I tried every kind of software solution available, from Disk Utility to typing drutil eject in Terminal to restarting while holding the mouse button, but I am convinced this is a hardware issue.
I'm considering purchasing bluetooth audio or other solutions, but I'd really like this to just work like it has for years! Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated! --
When I right-click the Downloads folder in the dock, and select Open "Downloads", instead of the expected thing happening, an app launches. The app is one I created myself using Automator. And it is on the Desktop. I can move it anywhere and rename it, but this doesn't fix the problem. Other steps taken to resolve: reboot -> not fixed switch user to guest account -> fixed delete the app -> fixed zip the app, delete the original -> fixed unzip the app -> unfixes itself! Might be relevant: I use Quicksilver, but behaviour occurs even when QS is not running System info: Yosemite 10.10.3
I am trying to set up iCloud Family Sharing. I have tried on OS X, iPhone and iPad. In Settings/iCloud/Manage Family I click on the "+" button (which is greyed) although a pop up balloon says "Add family member" but nothing happens. I have 2 accounts.
I did not find anywhere such an option. I do not want this
I like to download books and games on the internet and so my MacBook Pro had acquired some malware. I did not know this, but eventually I installed Avast. It detected that I had acquired a couple of adware and I deleted them. Recently, I performed a full system scan and found 13 infected files. The names of the adware/malware I found were (found some of them in several places): Mac-OS-Genieo-V [Adw] Win32:PUP-gen [PUP] Win32:Malware-gen MacO...K[PUP] … and several others I can't recall.
I've used *=URL=* before but for company things it's not appropriate since it becomes public. I need something that lets me record my screen and gives me a small well encoded file that I put into dropbox. What's my options?
My safari refuses to let me install any extension. All installations ended up with a message: Safari can't install this extension An error occurred while installing the extension <extension name>.
There way on lion was this.From a previous post but the first two files don't exist on Yosemite
Recently I'm experiencing some odd behavior from Xcode. It jump up and down on its own, it does not render codes correctly. Like this screenshot ↓
I have iPad Air (first generation) with iOS 8.3 installed. I have iTunes 12.1.2.7 installed on my Windows 8 PC. I have authorized iTunes to access my iPad but I cannot see any apps in my iTunes when I connect my iPad to PC.
How can I open several instances of the kindle reader at the same time, so that I can have a different book open in each one? I found this: Multiple Kindle Windows on PC, Mac Which suggests using multiple cloud readers, but I want to use the desktop version.
I performed an NVRAM reset and splitted the two drives via the usual terminal commands, and installed Yosemite on the newly formatted 840 evo, Internet installation. Installation succeeded, and system rebooted, BUT with no luck: it entered in the efi boot menu. Rebooting with command pressed (boot menu), the machine doesn't even see the installation partition on the ssd. I tried to install osx on the machanical drive, but again with no luck: disk utility shows it as locked, impossible to unmount. So my questions are essentially three: Why my system installs osx on the ssd with no errors, but doesn't see the installation? Why my system installs osx on the ssd with no errors, but doesn't see the installation? Why the mechanical drive is locked? Why the mechanical drive is locked? It is possible that my mini hardware is failed? It is possible that my mini hardware is failed?
When I'm starting the WhatsApp web client in a Fluid app, this JavaScript exception is thrown: This leads an infinite loading screen. When I launch WhatsApp Web in Safari e is a IDBFactory, but it looks like the IndexedDB API isn't available in a Fluid app (there e is null).
I have an almost new macbook pro (~2 months old now) that has managed to accumulate 200gb worth of core dumps in the /cores directory. How can I find out what is causing this?
I'm in the process of implementing a captive access point and when testing with iOS 8, I don't get shown the captive network assistant. When I use Android and BlackBerry, they're able to detect that they're on a captive portal. It just seems like iOS which is the odd-one-out, refusing to display any kind of prompting for the user to sign into the network. My portal is implemented by redirecting all traffic at an IP level to a local server, which then generates a genuine HTTP redirect to our portal.
I bought a MacBook Air 13.3″ i7 8 GB RAM 128 GB SSD (early 2014) some months ago and found out that the 128 GB are definitely not enough! To somehow rectify my problem I though of buying a fast external HD, make it bootable and do everything from there (I need the space on my startup disk because of the big iTunes collection, at least 500 MB).
I am a filmmaker who wants to be able to use my macbook as an external monitor for a video camera in a studio-interview type setting. The camera is decent, but its screen is small and I don't have any external monitors handy (money is tight). Is there some software that would be able to receive an HDMI-out signal from my camera and then display it on the macbook screen via an HDMI → Thunderbolt adaptor (I have one)? So the flow would look like this: Camera → HDMI Cord → HDMI-to-ThBt Adaptor → Software to look at what the camera is sending → my eyes. Recording the feed is not necessary.
Updated: I am using a MacBookPro8,1 with a non-replaceable battery. Recently that battery charging status was saying,Replace soon. But it was working fine and kept enough charge for my daily works. So I didn't need to take the charger at work. But when I shut down the laptop for few minutes, then I cannot turn it on without the charger plugged in. The battery status is now Replace Now. when I press Battery indicator button at side of the laptop case, all LEDs start blinking at same time (5 times). The MagSafe LED is also green. Also Mac OSX shows that 98% of the battery is charged. But when the laptop is off, pressing the Battery indicator button doesn't turn on any LEDs (Normally it should turn on all LEDs as it is charged 98%) Also, more importantly when I plug out the charger the computer turns off instantly. Not even with a second delay. On the other side, when I turn on the laptop the time goes back to 2001. I tried to rest SMC by holding Shift+crtl+option+power and then releasing
I recently purchased the latest version of the Apple Extreme Base Station and I have 2 Y-cam IP cameras (Knight S and Cube) that I use for baby/kid monitors. I want to configure them to be viewable from the outside internet and I cannot to get them working.
I work with 4 desktops, and every time I shutdown my machine, I tell it to re-open all windows on next boot. The problem is, with the exception of iTerm2, they all re-open on the first desktop (probably because it's the one showing by default).
I've recently upgrade my iMac to Yosemite. So far, NTFS devices (such as pen dirves or hard drives) were not a problem, but with Yosemite I can't even mount them. I can see the devices with the Disk Utility app but whenever I try to mount them I always get the same message "Disk could not be mounted" with no further explanations.
I've got an early 2011 13" MBP running OS X 10.10.4 PB, but this issue has been happening on literally every version of Yosemite, stable and public beta, since the initial PB release. You know how if an app has no active windows but some windows minimized, clicking on that app's Dock icon will open a minimized window? Well, that just doesn't happen on Activity Monitor.
I just updated to the new Photos app on OS X and let it go through the process of importing my iPhoto library and uploading to iCloud. But it looks like about half of the library won't upload. It seemed to claim that it worked, but looking at iCloud.com shows that only about half of them are there. The iPhoto events were successfully converted to albums, but many of them are empty. I went into the Photos settings and un-ckecked and re-checked the iCloud option, and saw this:
I have a large .mdb file attached to an email which I can only access on my phone, as it's being blocked by webmail on my home computer. I need to get it to my computer but when I try to forward the email the attachment is removed. I can't download it to my phone because it's too large. I've tried uploading it to Google Drive via my phone but it takes too long and times out. Any ideas?
My iphone 4s charger/connector broke. My phone ran out of battery, is unchargeable and unbootable. It also will not connect to any computer or other device. I took it to the Genius bar and they said there was nothing they could do to restore the phone or retrieve the data.
Can't get the boxes to empty or the number to change or disappear. Don't know if there are any real emails stored somewhere or not
I have way too many apps on my phone, so many that I can't find any given app in the folders and pages of the springboard home screen any more. If I can't find it, how do I delete it? I don't want to use iTunes for this if there's any way at all to avoid it.
I just finished importing my Aperture library into Photos using the official import process. My Aperture library used referenced masters on an external drive, and I had my external drive connected during the import process.
After I quit the Messages application, I will still receive my iMessages on my Mac. I don't want to disable my iMessages completely but I'd like them to stop bothering me when I've closed the application.
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, I just learned that CMD + M will minimize and bring to the dock the active application. But what is the opposite shortcuts in order to bring back the application to the screen from the dock? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
The home button dismisses Notification Center as usual. This behavior has persisted across several restarts.
When content of RTF folders changes, convert the files to MMD and put output into the MMD folder. AND vice versa. But, obviously, this will create an endless loop, because each action will trigger the reverse action, endlessly. One possible way around this endless loop might be this:
I want to be able to have the login screen of OSX Yosemite display the list of users and a name and password field. I have seen it done on my school's computers but they were connected to a user server, but I don't have a server. Is this possible? If so, how could I do this? In settings it only allows the selection of one or the other.
Is there an easy way to open links in a private window in Safari in OS X? With this, I mean copying the link and pasting it in a new private window not as being easy.
Ok so i have a 2007 MacBook2,1 - 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - OS X 10.5.8 - Memory 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. I can't currently sync my iphone 4s (IOS 7.1.1) or ipad (IOS 8.2) because i can't upgrade to itunes 11 which i need IOS 10.6.8.
Can I create an active, small but uncropped video window, whilst working on a different window
In the mail window, you can put a tag to your mail boxes below the taskbar (see screenshot) that you can click to go to that mailbox. The tag has a number indicating the number of unread messages. For me, this number is always wrong.
I really liked the colour folders / files you could set in osx 10.8, the ones where the entire folder / file line would be coloured as opposed to the little coloured dot in Mavericks and Yosemite. Is there an option to turn back on the full row colour fill in either of these versions of OSX ?
And by "different accounts" I mean other email addresses (and aliases) that have been setup as send (or send/recieve) accounts within the one outlook.com account. For example, within my <me>@outlook.com account at outlook.com I have configured the following accounts/email addresses from which I can send email, one of which is set as the default: <me>@example.com (Default) <me>@example.org <me>@example.net However, when composing a new email on the Outlook iOS app I can only select from other accounts I have setup with the iOS app itself (by tapping in the "From" field).
I'd like to list all images in a folder (and subfolders), but I get no results in Finder for any search unless I search 'This Mac'. I select the folder I wish to search, select 'images' as the 'kind' in the search box, top right, but although it says 'Searching "foldername"' nothing ever gets returned, unless I select 'This Mac', what am I doing wrong?
I've noticed one thing that annoys me about switching apps using the dock - if I have say, 5 different PDFs and 5 Firefox windows open, sometimes I'd like to switch back and forth between one pdf and one Firefox window. If I click the app icons on the dock, it brings all the windows for that app forward. Is there a way to force it to only bring the most recently active window forward? I've developed workarounds of course, but it'd be nice to have this. I'm using Mavericks, if it makes a difference. Thanks!
my iPad Air 2 used to text to all apple products and now I can only text to iPods and iPads that use email. I looked at what everyone else did but it didn't help. I get the red error when ever I do try. Please help!
I don't have the power brick for my Mac mini with me but I have cord that plugs into the back of it, can I use it without and plug directly into the wall? Any harm? The model is A1347
I would like to give my daughter access to my complete iCloud library on her iPad. The only problem I see is that she might accidentally deleting Photos. Is there any kind of access restriction would make this scenario safe?
I have all my photos in Photos.app. I also maintain them in Dropbox. My workflow is: Import from camera/iPhone into Photos Organize photos into albums - some into new albums, some into existing albums. Export unmodified originals from Photos to a folder structure that matches the album layout in Photos using File > Export > Export Unmodified Original
I'm fairly certain that, prior to Yosemite, it was possible to click in a non-active app's edit pane to put the caret at that point. It now requires two clicks: one to change which application and then a second to put the caret at the desired place. Has anyone else observed this change or know why it was made?
I have added descriptions to my episodes using Subler and for some reason neither iTunes or the Apple TV shows it correctly. iTunes shows it in the episode list but not on the info page. The Apple TV doesn't show it all. This is what it looks like in Subler I guess this is because of the 255 character limit that iTunes have for the "short" description but if I copy the text from Subler into the description editor in iTunes for the episode and hit OK, it works as it should since iTunes then takes the description and truncates it to 255 characters. Can I somehow automate this process for multiple files?
I'm thinking about buying a refurbished iMac that has a 1 Tb fusion drive. Is it possible to replace the stock HDD with a 3 Tb drive?
My iTunes is suddenly only showing music purchased through iTunes. I have tried renaming the files per as mentioned on this Apple Support Communities thread and had no luck. I am also not using iTunes Match.
Briefly my Mac Pro (4,1 Early 2009 ) stopped booting which I eventually traced to the plastic clip holding the north bridge down failing. Seems to be a common issue.
I've got a unix-shell script that's supposed to work on nix machines. This doesn't run on OS X however, due to "cp" command not defined. Changing it to "copy" didn't help. The script should make a copy of files changed in last git commit.
I have a drive that is corrupted. Disk utility could not repair the disk, so I attempted to follow some tutorials and repair the partitions using pdisk and testdisk, but things have gone south. Now the drive no longer shows up at all in Disk Utility, and diskutil info gives this output:
How do I retrieve erased text messages on iPhone 4s? When I do a spotlight search part of the message is displayed so I asume the whole message is There, I just don't know how to extract the file.
In an earlier OSX release, the combination alt-cmd-P-R reenabled sounds after a restart, but not in Yosemite. In some version of OSX, the command sudo killall coreaudio works but not in Yosemite 10.10.3 on a mid-2013 MacBook Air. This problem occurred also in Yosemite 10.10.1 when upgrading to the new release. I managed to get sounds back by the above procedures. I see no audio sources in sound settings after this problem appeared, even after those two attempts to solve this problem.
I have a bash script that utilizes some osascript -e code for a dialog. I want to use a custom icon in that dialog. However, I don't understand how to code it so it's completely portable so as to make it executable no matter where a user may put it in his file system. Solutions should be w/o add-ons and must work on Mac OSes 10.6 - 10.10. Appreciate any help you can render.
I run anything there on document or selection I get /bin/sh: pandoc: command not found
I just updated Xcode. When the simulator opens, the actual screen is bigger than the overall screen. Here is an image:
My boyfriend and I are using the same Apple ID on both of our phones. I just want know how can I link my phone to his?
That's it. What's going on and how do I fix it?
I just got a new iPhone 6. I synced it to my computer through the last backup I had saved from my old phone. Unfortunately, at the time I was using a different Apple ID, and this ID no longer exists. I want to sync it to my new Apple ID, but first I have to turn off Find My iPhone using the old ID. I can't do this because it no longer exists, but it still asks for the password. I've tried entering in old passwords and sending an email to reset the password, but none of it works.
I am creating a slideshow for an event that individuals are adding to a shared album on iCloud. I would like to shuffle the photos. How do I do that?
I have a dedicated Mac Mini in a colocation that I access via Remote Desktop. I trust the colocation provider, but I don't trust my password is secure enough. Without resorting to a more secure password, is there an app that alerts me via E-mail or Push Notification via OS X server whenever the mouse moves on the Mac?
After I have downloaded Google Chrome because my Safari wasn't finding servers, multiple google apps appeared on my launchpad that I can't delete. I uploaded a picture so you understand what I'm talking about: *=URL=* When I click on them, they open and instantly close. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I notice that when emails are sent to me from Microsoft Outlook that include smilies, the emoji is rendered as a 'J'. Is this a known issue with a fix or work-around available?
I recently got an iMac and I set up that my photos and music from my iMac get downloaded to my iPhone. But now my messages on my iPhone are getting sent to my iMac. I went on my iPhone and clicked Settings > Messages > Send and Recieve but it doesn't show an email that is set up to my Mac. I also can't find preferences for messages on my Mac. How do I stop iMessages from my Phone going to my Mac?
Wandering around Spain, I took a lot of pictures with an iPhone 5s, latest IOS. Uploaded into the new Photos (which is IMHO a step backward from iPhoto).
I've been a happy user of flac on the OS X Terminal. I mostly use it to either encode, or decode wav -> flac or flac -> wav. What I'm meeting nowadays is this:
I need to use Evince for pdf and djvu files, so I installed it with MacPorts. However, whenever I want to open a pdf in Evince, I have to open x11 and navigate to the document and open it.
I have been getting this ad popup for the last few months(green banner on the left). It happens on some web sites but not all.
This problem has occurred with a dozen or so hard drives. They are formatted as "Windows NT Filesystem" (as read from "Get Info" menu) The problem has occured with previous versions of the OS (Mavericks and Mountain Lion). I have usually backed up with FreeFileSync, to copy large number of files at a time, and the problem has occurred that way too, not just copy-paste via the Finder. MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
When I open web pages, the page automatically redirects to "youradexchange.com" or some other ad web site. Not been able to resolve the issue.
My original setup: Coax from Cable company into house Cable split in two, one for TVs, other for Internet/phone modem Ethernet cable from modem to Time Capsule (latest one w/ 802.11ac) Used to use wireless connections to everything.
Lately when I try to print from Safari (Version 8.0.6 (10600.6.3)) on the latest Yosemite, the job won't be printed, keeping the "Printing..." status forever. That happens every time. If I save whatever from Safari to PDF and then send the PDF to the printer, it printed it without issues. There is no related logs on the console.app when this happens.
Is there a way to stop Mail from automatically selecting messages? For example when I delete a message, it will immediately select the next one and mark it read. Then if I don't want to read the message yet, I need to mark it as unread.
Is it possible that it's the app itself that chooses the secondary display instead of primary for full screen work? That wouldn't make much sense.
I have a broken Macbook Pro HDD with two partitions on it: OS X and Bootcamp. I need to take some files from both partitions:
Every time I save a file from a web browser or copy files from our local server to my machine, the default permission "for everyone" is set to none. I'm a web developer. Files that are non-readable will not be displayed when accessed from an Apache server. That means I always have to go through every file manually and change their permissions. Is there a way to tell OSX that all files should be readable?
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro Retina and unfortunately the built-in VPN client (Cisco IPsec configuration) doesn't work. Whats interesting third party VPN Tracker 8 works. I'm running Mac OS X is Yosemite 10.10.3. Logs after getting connected status using Apple build-in client:
I want to use ssh to get into my mac from an iPhone over Wi-Fi LAN with no connection to the internet. I want to do this to get access to the command line (for playing with programming related stuff) while I'm on the couch.
I am a frequent user of Apple's built-in Text-to-Speech. I write a lot of articles in a CMS where the formatting has to be entered as HTML. If I use text-to-speech, it reads the HTML tags. Is there any way I can get it to skip the tags?
With first one power supplying is clear. How does second type can charge MBP? Is it possible to charge laptop through thunderbolt without MagSafe?
Does anybody sell a composite (RCA) cable to lightning adapter for video input on the iPad? I'd like to use my iPad to monitor some video feed but I can't find anything that will do this. I know it must be possible because a few companies are inputting video to the iPad (Elgato EyeTV, DJI Phantom, etc).
My (UK) MacBook Air keyboard doesn't have # marked. It has ± and §, which I have never used, but it doesn't have #, which is an extremely common character in computer code. Instead, I have to use the unmarked OPT+3.
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, on my mac wireless keyboard, has been a couple of days that every time I click on the Volume Down (F10) key, instead of rising down the volume it will move the application. I made a small video so you can have an idea. How can I change to default factory?
I can't get easy_install to install anything as it complains it gets a connection refused.: If I query the interface I am told the proxy is setup and working (which it definitely appears to be as I can browse, etc.) Visiting *=URL=* manually in a browser also works. It gets more confusing; I tried setting the proxies manually instead: Still no dice :/ Edit: More urls appear to be affected, unsure if this is some weird resolving error I just happened to have hit at the wrong time: I've checked and I can access the script directly in a browser, trying to go to http forwards me to https automatically.
My late 2013 Macbook Pro was stolen a week ago and I've been tracking it with 'Find My Mac'. The thief would turn the laptop on for a few minutes at a time in the evenings and probably try a few passwords.
I have an iPhone 6 plus whose casing is made of anodized aluminium and stainless steel. This was recently marked by a case (see picture below). The makers of the case are insisting that the phone has overheated and caused the problem. I was wondering how hot does the phone have to get to mark this anodized aluminium or stainless steel finish? Is it possible for the phone to get hot enough without it tripping the phone and turning it off until it cools?
I am going to be setting up a new (to me) Mac Pro 4,1 with multiple internal hard drives. I want to run Yosemite most of the time with Windows 7 virtualized in a window for a few programs I need to run that require Windows. Occasionally, though, I would like to boot directly into Windows at startup for maximum performance (for games).
I would like to have a screen saver display (hopefully) a large text of today's day ... the message option on the screen saver seems to only allow fixed text with no meta tag support.
My IPad Backup failed because the back up is corrupt. Deleting the back up using iTunes or Windows File Explorer and repeating did not work. During Backup to my PC I got multiple popups from ESET NOD32 stating I had "adware" spyware on my IPad. NOD32 erased them on my PC but not IPad. Repeating the back up failed again. I temporarily disabled NOD32 and the back up worked. But my IPad still has spyware on it.
I have a problem with installing windows: Before I created a (what I classify as) bootable disk properly, I have went through the USB being corrupted because of me killing the dd process when running: sudo dd if=/path/to/windows.iso of=/dev/rdisk1. I forgot the bs=1m, so I killed the process. I used Internet Recovery to reset my disk because normal Recovery HD showed the error "Could not open device". The USB is a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3. Internet recovery deleted my Recovery HD partition and rEFInd.
I can login to safe boot without issue. I created a new admin account through safe boot, but upon first full login into this new account, the same behaviour as in the title showed up instantly.
I've accidentally clicked Duplicate Items in context menu after selecting 100+ photos in Photos app in Yosemite. Is there an automatic way to remove the duplicates now? An app that integrates with Photos app and removes duplicates would be fine as well. Thanks in advance.
I use Time Machine to create incremental backups to an external USB hard drive. Backups used to complete properly, but now Time Machine wants to backup much more data. Instead of the couple of GB of new data, the Time Machine menu bar icon popup menu reports it is going to backup 400+ GB! I stopped the backup as soon as I saw this to avoid filling up my backup drive. This is the relevant part of the backupd log:
I've tried lots of different solutions to get these two working nicely together. So far I've tried: Re-Pairing the devices Re-Pairing the devices Removing and recreating all the Bluetooth plist files Removing and recreating all the Bluetooth plist files Executing (defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 53) Executing (defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 53)
I use to store older backups of my iPad, iPod and iPhone made using iTunes. So, as long as some data (i.e: photos) is stored on one of these backups, I feel free to delete it on the devices.
My iMac (late 2009 ) keeps hanging and the screen freezes.
I've installed Windows with the Boot Camp Assistant Tool but I want to create a third parition to install Ubuntu. On the Mac I can't change the volume size, is not that i receive some error, is just don't give me the ability to shrink it. If i try to resize the Windows partition from Windows (so to get some free space from there), Windows says that the maximum aviable space that can be reduced is 600 MB (even if I have 30 GB free on Bootcamp partition). Is there a way to create another partition without deleting Bootcamp?
My photos from Photo Stream on my iPad were here one minute, and gone next. I charged it, but it didn't show up still.
I haven't played a video game on my computer in over a decade and I'm unfamiliar with modern technologies. If I want to buy Pillars of Eternity, am I better off getting it through the mac app store or through Steam?
I tapped on Safari and suddenly it sent me to the App Store. I tried going back to Safari but it just kept going to the App Store. It just wants me to buy random apps that I don't want.
I would like to be able to delete certain emojis on my keyboard. How do I do that?
I deleted every single photo from my iPhone (after backing up on computer), including both camera roll and photostream (I disabled photostream afterwards). For some reason it's still showing 1GB of "camera roll" in settings -> general -> usage -> photos. When I connect it to iTunes, it shows something weird like "189mb" of photos. Anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it? Even if there are still photos in some apps shouldn't these be in the "documents and data" category not photos?
I'm just getting started with Terminal, the other day I might have messed something up with my urs/local/bin. When executing echo $PATH it returns me with /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin the original path was /usr/local/bin How do I set it back to factory settings? Thanks in Advance for your Help.
Using Safari Downloader+ on iOS 8. How can I prompt download for streamable media? Direct links to files work without any problems whatsoever, but streamable media doesn't prompt anything more than streaming (in what seems to be Apples QuickTime player).
I have read here that ⌘+k clears the terminal output. To implement this in a script, I used AppleScript as suggested in the accepted answer to this question: Finally, my script closes the terminal window with
I have an iPad Air 2. I was having problems with volume until I loaded the 8.1 OS. Now I have volume but my orientation is locked. I checked, orientation is not locked in the slide-up menu and I cannot find in Settings/General where I may have it locked.
I have been unsuccessfully trying to change the Mac sidebar icons without the use of 3rd party software. As pointed out here, Change Mac OS X Finder sidebar icons, it would seem that editing the file /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Info.plist should be the answer. The original file converted to xml looks like this: To test this, i thought if i would change SidebarDesktopFolder.icns to SidebarDocumentsFolder.icns and Sidebar Desktop Folder Icon to Sidebar Documents Folder Icon and the string sbDt to sbDc i would reroute the reference for the sidebar icon. However, this did not work, nothing seems any different. Does anyone know where the reference to the icon file is that needs to be changed?
I need to have iOS simulator for my Linux Mint OS to check my website responsive in various iOS devices is this possible as I know this feature is available in almost all Macs but I cannot afford a Mac right now.
The click events wont fire in a newly created user account in my MacBook Pro Mountain Lion. The click events works fine in my first admin account. But when I create a new user account, (standard or Admin) I am not able to fire click events from my track pad in that account. PS: I don't have a bluetooth mouse anywhere!
We can install GNU coreutils via brew. But there's no ps in the utils. Can we use gnu ps in OS X? I'd like to use GNU ps as it has more options and features.
Does anybody know how to get of the jumbled output? It kind of looks like a format string vulnerability or something similar to me.
As my macbook doesn't have enough storage for my family photos and videos, every 1-2 years I'd start a new iPhoto library, and will place the old one on an external USB disk. I have 4-5 iPhoto libraries on an external disk now, altogether it's around 180gb.
For some reason, my samsung monitor started giving me some problems when I use it with my mac pro. It works perfectly on PC, and it used to work perfectly on my mac too, but recently when I connect it to my mac pro, it started showing the screen with wrong resolution when the lid is open, but when I close the lid it gives "not optimum mode" message. I need help.
Would it be possible to submit an app with iAd in it, without having your iAd contract completed? Since it would be like 7-14 days for Apple to review the app and publish it. Could I submit my app now, and do the iAd contract tomorrow and everything will be fine?
But I cannot delete any of them. File explorer says:
I use my Mac for private and work. Between this two scopes I share a lot of configuration. Because of that I want to use only one account. Here is my question:
I'm trying to update brew but I get this error message:  The directory /Library/Formula doesn't even exist. What should I do?
There is a problem with the microphone on my MacBook (Yosemite 10.10.3) The internal speakers work OK, and if I plug in headphones, they will work too. Unfortunately, the internal microphone doesn't work. When I plugged in an external microphone, it would't work either. Does anyone have any ideas what could it be?
The battery of my MacBook Pro 15" (early 2011) died recently and I happen to have the battery from a 13" MacBook Pro (2010) handy. Does anyone know of any reasons why this battery would not work? I'm not concerned about battery life - I just want to be able to power the thing up. Any ideas? Thanks!
Question: Where do these forks fit in the file layout? There is no mention in the file layout about the forks. Are these two forks integrated to make a final mach file? Can the ._filename (resource fork) have malicious code?
In Windows, there's a really useful keyboard shortcut for scrolling the current text editor window up or down by one line without moving the cursor. This appears to be implemented in the operating system because it works in almost every application. The shortcut is ⌃ CTRL+↑ Up Arrow to move the viewport up the document and ⌃ CTRL+↓ Down Arrow to move the viewport down the document. Is there something similar in OS X?
Just wondering if some hardware guru can explain why this happens? If I plug my full size USB keyboard into my Early 2013 MBP 13" Retina running Yosemite 10.10 without the USB extension cord it comes with, my Bluetooth Magic Mouse has intermittent problems, and can't pair. But if I add the extension cord, then it works like a charm.
I recently left a company. The i4 phone is mine, but my old companies mailbox is on the phone. I can no longer access these emails. I want to delete the mailbox but I am afraid I will lose all of the contacts in the process. When I delete the mailbox, what exactly will be deleted?
I'm interested in creating a bootable usb working on Mac, with Android x86 on it. I tried a couple of methods without any results. Well, maybe a bad one as I said in my other question (if you could be of some help even here, I'll really appreciate that). Except that, I found a topic who redirect me to this method. Now I think it this one could work fine (it was similar to the one I tried, in fact it even warns about the error I encountered) but I want to be veeeery sure this time. Has any of you tried this one yet or have the proper knowledge to asure me this works without complications on my MacBook mid 2010 (still with OS X 10.6.8)?
I'm using a Aten CS533 to pair a USB-Keyboard with my PC, a MacBook Pro and my iPhone. I'd now like to upgrade the wired keyboard to an Apple Wirless Keyboard. But I'm not sure how to pair them.
I've recently seen this app show up in the dock a couple of times. Any idea what it is? I'm slightly concerned as it doesn't look very official and I fear it could be malicious:
How can I see months other than the present one on an Apple Watch in the built-in Calendar app?
I shut my iMessage off last night on my iPhone 5s. I turned it back on this morning. How can I get the messages I didn't receive?
I have a several-year old pre-unibody Macbook and am wondering if my family member could have ever put some kinda tracking or monitoring device or software in it either directly or by remote access? I don't exactly know how they would do such a thing. I recently ran Norton antivirus with nothing found, but can it miss some things sometimes? For example i am concerned about it being GPS-tracked or my computer activity being monitored by unknown screen sharing or keyboard tracking ... etc etc
I often use my MacBook Air (running OS X 10.9.5) closed at a docking station, where it's hooked to external monitor, keyboard/trackpad, and power. All good. The only issue is that occasionally the external power will come loose or jostle*, which turns off the external monitor or causes it to flicker. I understand the system is designed to work this way -- no external monitor when closed unless the power is plugged in.
I am considering two options to encrypt some data: add a new encrypted partition add an encrypted disk image
In iTunes and on iPods (excluding the most recent Nano) there is an option to playback a playlist shuffled by album. This option does not exist in "Music.app" on iOS-devices. However, since you can play a playlist in order I was thinking that it would be possible to emulate the shuffle by album-behaviour if you somehow managed to sort the playlist in a random by album order and then just play it from the first track with shuffle disabled. This raises two questions: What determines the sorting order for a playlist on an iOS-device? Can you somehow (maybe with an Applescript) sort a playlist in iTunes in a shuffle by album order?
I work at a university and a professor running a lab would like to keep Workgroup Manager but run Yosemite clients. I can not find any specific documentation on this. Except : "Note: Workgroup Manager and previous versions of Server app are not compatible with Yosemite." But I believe that is just that there is no Workgroup Manager that runs on a Yosemite server.
In iPhoto, there was an AlbumData.xml file with information about all the photos like title, filename, etcetera. I was planning to use it from within a Python program to automatically export photos in certain albums to my website.
I am installing Ubuntu on my Mac to exist as in parallel with OS X Yosemite, version 1010.3. The screenshot looks similar to previous questions, e.g. How can I resize a partition with Disk Utility?
I am trying to install mysql via mac ports and having no luck: Below is the build portion of the port mysql/main.log. It looks like it is failing when running make, but I'm having trouble understanding why..
That's a pain. How could I reset this? I see nothing in Safari's Preferences.
I just got an iPad Air 2. I would like to lock the screen rotation but it doesn't have the rotation lock switch. I also checked this community and tried someone's answer, which was to go to control center. This didn't work because I didn't see rotation lock control in control center.
What are the tech specs of the Built-in iSight Camera of the MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)? Especially: What is the focal length? Does anybody happen to now, if there is something online, where all the technical specifications of my camera are listed?
I just bought a Samsung ATA III SSD drive, the Samsung 850 EVO. I installed it in an external enclosure that I know works with an ATA II drive, but I don't see the new drive in Disk Utility. Thinking the drive was DOA, I exchanged it for a new one. This second one just arrived and I have the same problem. This is all on modern hardware (MacPro Tube, MacBook Pro Retina).
Using the command line, I wanted to see all available drives on my machine. So, I type and besides Recovery HD and Macintosh HD, I notice this:
I need to execute a shortcut key of CMD + =, problem is that the = on my keyboard (non usa, european) it is obtained by pressing the Shift on the 0 (zero) ... So I tried doing CMD + Shift + 0 but this doesn't work, infact it does something completely different. In xcode the shortcut is used to "Size to fit content" Anyone know what the solution is ?
I turned the show all music option off on my iPod, but now the button has disappeared and hasn't reappeared since. How do I make the button reappear? I've already tried restarting my iPod, and the worst part is that I can only see my music on my Windows 7 PC.
I have NTFS-3g installed and working. I don't want it to mount my Boot Camp partition; I do want it to mount any other NTFS drives I have. How do I do this?
Situation: When I launch Xcode, socketfilterfw, OS X's application based firewall, starts using a lot of CPU.
I want to start Jurassic world over on my iPhone but everytime I reinstall the game, it comes back to the level I deleted it at. My iCloud is off and it says nothing is stored there.
In the OSX dashboard, the world clock doesn't have a UTC option. Choosing London only works half of the year (the other half London is on Daylight Savings Time and is UTC+1). I could choose Atlantic/Reykjavik, which is always on UTC, but it seems like a hack, and I'd rather have my clock display "UTC" instead of "Reykjavik".
Whenever I log into my MacBook Pro the CPU cranks up to 100%+ for a few seconds, my board gets hot, and the fans start going. I open up Activity Monitor to find that the culprit is 'photolibraryd'. What's going on? What's it doing that uses so much CPU?
Sometimes I notice that the Internet connection in my house becomes REALLY slow. Disabling WiFi on my wife's iPhone fixes this. But how can I tell which app/process does this?
One week ago my Macbook crashed while I was working (only the spinning wheel was moving but the system was unresponsive in every other way) so I turned off the computer by pressing the power key. When I turned it on again it showed me a stop sign at boot but after a minute or so it booted up normally. The next day it totally stopped booting, hanging on the stop sign and not moving from there anymore. I thought that maybe my ssd failed after 4 years of intense use, so I took it to an Apple Store and the Genius told me that they couldn't do anything apart from replacing my old hdd (which is working fine) but they couldn't assure me they would be able to recover my data (my last backup was old).
I have about 20 login items in my profile, and I often can use Alfred from the very beginning stage of the system start, but sometimes not. Will be great if I can say the system to load Alfred first and then the others. Is there anyway of doing this?
I have an iPad 3 which I love but sometimes the Wi-Fi cuts out whilst listening to the radio. I would like to plug in the iPad to a cradle or docking station which itself has an Ethernet port and so can draw internet directly.
I have a Macbook Pro, which unfortunately the screen has died on. External displays do not work either.
I would like to run yosemite in virtualbox on yosemite. I've tried many step-by-step guides, without success. While there is a lot of descriptions on how to install hacked OS X on windows, I want to stay legal and use unmodified OS X, only in a virtualized manner. Tried: create ISO from /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app (at least two different ways) and supply it as Bootable CD and create bootable USB and attached it as virtual disk
For some time ago, I've exported my voice memos from my iPhone to my Mac for back-up purposes using iExplorer and deleted the originals. Now, again using iExplorer, I tried to copy them back to my iPhone, to their original place although nothing copied showed up under Voice Memos. Probably iOS has a database file concerning the recordings. I've the previous database as well but copying it will for sure mess up the current new recordings under iOS. The web is crowded with how to export your voice memos to your Mac but no one is talking about how to import them back to your iPhone and since my try failed, is anyone aware of a possible solution?
Looking to tidy up my iMac. Like everyone, I have lots of files/folders on my iMac. When they get dragged and dropped, or moved around, they retain their position, and the only way to fix this is to right click on the mouse select 'Clean up By' > 'Name' I'm wanting to run a script in Terminal (or similar) that will do this to every file/folder on my iMac
In my mail message I want to attach an image. I located the image via spotlight and now I want to attach it to my mail message (plain apple mail). The image file is somewhere deep in my folderstructure where I don't want to go now. How can I achieve this with as less effort as possible?
I am planning to buy an iPhone 6 from an online store. But I have been told that if I buy from anywhere except the Apple store, I won't be able to enjoy the benefits of the warranty and guarantee. Is that true?
I ran into an issue where my volume buttons on my mac weren't able to adjust the volume of my computer. I sought a solution and someone suggested using sudo killall coreaudiod. Now I have no volume on my computer at all. How do I fix this?
I've only been using my MBPr for a few weeks and it's been crashing often. It'll freeze and then either restart on its own, or what's often the case, need a hard reset. It started doing this on the second day. Currently, I've got Bootcamp going with Windows 8.1. I've noticed, though, that the crashing occurs way more while on OS X. I've tried: resetting NVRAM and SMC reinstalling Yosemite What I've done on my Mac as of recently re: Bootcamp are: Install 8.1 through BCA Remove Windows partition because I realized that I need a larger Windows partition Reinstalled 8.1. through BCA I've noticed that crashes are more frequent when viewing videos (on VLC) and/or when playing music (iTunes, Spotify) but there also very random instances while browsing (used both Safari and Chrome) and just earlier when I used a new printer. This is the log from the most recent crash (around 5 minutes before and until the crash):
I created a custom layout with Ukalele. This file is here: *=URL=* The filename is: koray1.keylayout I copied this file to /Library/Keyboard Layouts However I do not see it available for selecting:
I have a new app update that shows version number 2.5, but when you tap the app for more details and check the Information section the version number is still 2.4.2.
Is it possible to recover emails from an iPhone 5s that completely disappeared the other day? It is through Outlook Express, have AT&T and it is IOS 7.0.1 version. They were not deleted. I was on my phone back and forth from facebook to email to safari and the "manage your storage" message kept popping up. A couple hours earlier, I had deleted some photos from photo roll and text messages to make more room and I was also deleting unwanted emails thinking that would help (which upon further investigation it does not) because I knew my storage was low. I had deleted like almost 2000 emails from Hotmail earlier and I think later when I went into Hotmail it picked up other emails that must have been "hanging" out there and when there was room they started updating or downloading but it was when I went into outlook later that 850 emails just disappeared. They are not in trash. I looked into all those iPhone recovery downloads but it doesn't look like they can get emails back. Would iTunes b
I have a launchctl .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons as follows: For those who are wondering, I use the slocate port from MacPorts instead of the native locate database that ships with OS X. This .plist job updates the slocate database specific to my home directory at 5:45 AM daily. The Umask setting of 077 makes the output file readable only by me. However, the file is created with the ownership of root; not what I want.
When I tried to open Photoshop I got a message that files were missing. Someone (mis?)informed me that I had to uninstall Photoshop and then hit the button to reinstall. Instead the whole file along with Acrobat Pro and a whole bunch of other stuff disappeared. And there was no reinstall button. Is there a simple way to fix this? I have the license key for the suite. Do I need anything else?
If you disconnect your MBP from the external monitors and reconnect them, the window positions are restored. After changing the workplace and the monitor models, the window positions are not properly restored - sometimes they are mixed up, sometimes they are reversed.
My notification center is completely frozen. It's still in the upper right hand corner of my screen, but when I click on it, nothing happens. I do not get any notifications in a popup window when I receive a message from iMessage or Facebook like I had been. I do still get a little red 1 on my iMessage app in the dock, though.
I recently got a new MacBook Pro. On my old computer I had a Bootcamp partition that runs Windows. Everything installed on the new one fine, but I have a problem. Why can't I see my Mac files from my Windows system? On my old computer, I could see and move them while running the Windows system. The Mac side has no problems accessing my Windows files. Does anybody have a clue what I should change and on which system?
I've recently had an app of mine accepted for distribution on the iOS App Store. As usual, I selected to allow for publication on all App Stores. The app was approved and the app was available to download on all the international app stores. Approximately 24 hours later, I received the following message in the Resolution Center: We are writing to notify you that your application, application name, will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines :
My 1.5 TB WD drive failed out of nowhere and now it shows up saying "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" This is how it shows up on Disk Utility  This is what sudo gpt show disk6 shows: This is what diskutil info disk6 returns:
The loading of the installation from a Yosemite USB installer drive is interrupted by a blank screen about ⅓ into the progress bar. The same USB drive works on another (older) MacBook Pro. The MacBook (8,2 which should be early 2011 but on the back it says 2010) is equipped with a blank SSD drive. The following boot options had some effect: alt (boot select) allows me to select the USB drive. alt (boot select) allows me to select the USB drive. cmd-alt-P-R (NVRAM reset) had some effect (screen is brighter now), but did not solve the problem. cmd-alt-P-R (NVRAM reset) had some effect (screen is brighter now), but did not solve the problem. alt-R (internet recovery) loaded all-right, went into the phase where there is the Apple logo and the spinning lines below, and then went blank. alt-R (internet recovery) loaded all-right, went into the phase where there is the Apple logo and the spinning lines below, and then went blank. alt-D (internet HW test) is executing, but does not find anythi
I'm trying to take a screenshot of the "hard-pause" dialing feature. If you put a semicolon after a phone number you can provide, for example, a conference line pass-code as part of a phone number. The call screen then shows a little clickable label in the bottom left-hand side of the call screen to appear I try to screenshot that, but pressing the home button causes the call to end and I get a screenshot of the hanging up call screen.
After updating to Yosemite you can now run applications in 'Full Screen Mode' (Application runs in full screen without the OS X toolbar at the top) if it's supported. I am running 'real VNC viewer' to access my Raspberry Pi's screen over the network. The only issue is when I put 'VNC viewer' into full screen I still have the OS X toolbar at the top. Is there a way how to fix this? As you can see, the toolbar and window buttons (quit, minimise and full screen) are visible. The OS X toolbar an window buttons have now gone. Is there a way on how to do this?
How can I set my macbook pro to type the French accents by showing them on top of each vowel instead of pressing option keys? On a English keyboard.
Sometimes when I share my Internet network from my iPhone 6 Plus to other devices via Wi-Fi, the status bar shows '3 connections' when I really know that I only have 2 connections: sometimes I get one phantom connection to my iPhone (I guess) via Personal Hotspot. Why does this occur and how can I prevent it?
I have a Time Machine back up setup on a Freenas 9.3 server. It works really slowly via WiFi attached to my broadband router. So, I attached it directly to my iMac via Ethernet instead - a full backup takes less than 2 hours now. Problem is how can other Macs on the network see the Freenas server through the IMac Ethernet connection via WIFI? I know the IP address of the Freenas server but can't figure out how I can Time Machine back up my Macbookair via Wifi?
Cannot seem to update apps or download from iTunes on my iPad Air anymore. If I hit Update on an app, the circle appears, then just goes back to update status. Same applies if I want to download something: the circle appears and then goes back without doing anything.
I am using the google inbox app for iPhone. Is it possible to set it up, so that it does not show pictures of people who is writing to me? I need to recieve work relevant emails from persons whos profile pictures I find offensive, and do not want to look at. I have been through all the settings I could find and I don't know of a search term or documented feature to allow this
I recently edited a picture in preview by adding text to it. I then saved it, not realizing that the original would not be saved (without the text). When I went in to the picture later to delete the text, it was not possible. Is there a way I can either recover the original photo or delete the text I already saved?
I followed the directions in How to put a custom launcher in the Dock (Mavericks) but my case has a different twist. I have an Automator application which runs a shell script that (1) changes the stack size with ulimit and (2) runs an application. I would like to add this to the Dock. I can run it from the Launchpad and everything works correctly. It shows up in my Dock, but only as the application, not the Automator version. As a result, if I right click and enable 'Keep in Dock', then close and run again, the stack limit change of (1) is ignored. How do I put an icon in the Dock which runs the Automator application and not just the application?
I have accidentally changed my user ID picture on my Macbook Pro (running OS X 10.7.5). The original user ID snapshot is very dear to me and I can't find the original file saved anywhere. Is there a way to reset/recover the original User ID snapshot? I have tried to find it under Library/ User Pictures/ but only the pre-installed icons seem to be showing here. Any help would be much appreciated.
Without practise when every user drag and drop the link from desktop to favorite? My users every day change the working place and this practise is wrong. thanks for all answers.
But today when I woke it up it didn't enable the WiFi. I tried to disable WiFi and enable it again but it didn't work.
I want to share our account because we both use the reminders, photos, notes, etc., and when I tried to set up a new apple ID, it nearly took those away. I, or he, would've lost our notes, etc. I don't want to lose stuff, and I was able to separate them before the latest big upgrade back in 2014. Surely I can do this again. Same ID, but different, separate users. How is it done? Please and thank you!
I'm looking to connect three GoPro cameras at the same time. Each GoPro needs its own network, and my computer needs to access all of them at the same time. Also, my computer needs a fourth wireless network of its own for accessing and uploading images to the internet.
I need a way to make apps use the second input line from USB sound card. By default the all use input one. Does anyone know how to split the two input channels into two separate devices or alternatively merge the to inputs into one input channel? It seems like OS X is treating the two channels as one Stereo channel instead of two separate inputs.
The App store is repeatedly wanting to update the same version of Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) version 6.3. Is there a way to triage or diagnose this systematically? If not, does anyone know a janky trick to allow the installer check for this package to complete successfully?
I want to start an game from the beginning, so I deleted it but when I load it back on my iPhone, it starts where I left off before. It is not in my iCloud or Game Center. Help! It's not listed in setting, general, Usage, manage storage.
I have a Mac Pro (Early 2009) in which I am running two OS's. 10.10 on a Mercury Accelsior SSD and Snow Leopard on a conventional drive. Before upgrading the SSD from Mavericks to Yosemite all was hunky-dory. I could restart between the two OS's using the start-up drive selector in the system folder. Now I have gone to 10.10.3; when I switch from Yosemite to SL and restart from the conventional drive I cannot see the SSD Yosemite Drive in system prefs only the Snow Leopard drive is visible (and the network option) Restarting FROM SL and resetting the PRAM eventually brings me back to Yosemite. OR using the sudo bless command -mount /Volumes/"name of 10.10.3 start-up drive" -setboot followed by a sudo shutdown -r now also gets me back into 10.10.3 However I dont like doing this as it feels rather the same as pulling the plug; the Mac is not going through it's correct shut-down process. A long conversation with Apple arrived at the suggestion I should re-install SL something I do not wan
I am running Maxima from the terminal, and there are some things that annoy me a little bit. For example, if I want to move left or right, instead of doing that, the terminal prints some weird combination of letters, for example ^[[C (when I press arrow right), ^[[D (left), ^[[A (up) and ^[[B (down).
I have to use the following script to terminate it every time I restart my Macbook: Is there a way to permanently prevent it from starting?
My photos are no longer organized by Events in the new Mac Photos. How do I search the new Mac Photos by events?
I have Yosemite 10.10.3 and I recently downloaded macvim using homebrew. I find a vimrc file under the directory: /usr/share/vim
I am writing a script and I need to figure out current key codes for brightness up and down. I know the standard for a MacBook is 107 and 113, though as soon as I connect a different bigger apple keyboard, those changes to 145 and 144. And also, is there any way to find out if fn is needed for the user in order to change brightness? I need to be able to get this information out of the terminal. Is this possible?
I have a weird problem on my mid 2013 27" imac. A few days ago, I started getting kernel panics and crashes every few minutes. After discarding software issues, I started testing the ram sticks. I have 2 sticks, 4GB each. I ran memtest and Apple diagnostics. Memtest gave a clean bill of health. I ran apple diagnostics individually for each stick, in every slot, and always came out OK. However, with the 2 sticks inserted (I tried all slot combinations several times), I occasionally got a memory warning.
I do not use it, or at least haven't set it up l, but App Store show my app as it would use In App purchase. How can I avoid to show it?
My ipad was not downloading photos from icloud photos, and was stuck uploading xxx photos. I tried turning icloud photos (and photo stream etc) on and off, and restarting the ipad, with no change in behavior. I then turned off icloud photos, deleted every photo off the ipad, turned it on and noticed that now, it says it is uploading 5 photos. These photos appear to not exist (the library is empty, the deleted files album is empty, and i have removed all albums, and are not visible either using image capture or windows) and I presume this is the source of my sync problems. I then backed up the ipad, and restored from backup, and the problem persists.
We've got the following printer setup: This information comes straight from CUPS. In there I tried to "Set Default Options" for that printer. What does work out but, I changed the "Color Mode" to "Grayscale". Unfortunately the default preset remains like it was (the Black & White checkbox doesn't get checked).
I sometimes put my headphones in and find that music is already playing - I can usually tell how long it's been playing for depending on where I was last up to. Same for podcasts.
I'm not techie at all. But I manage the basics.
Is there any way I can unlock an iPhone 6 in Japan and use it in Kazakhstan? I heard from reading other forums that it's got to be unlocked, but aside from that how can I be sure it will work back in Kazakhstan? Also what are the cons of buying and using in different country? Following some answers, to clarify
When I'm running several instances of the same app (might be Chrome separate windows, or several IntelliJ projects) in fullscreen mode, I can't navigate to concrete app using ⌘-Tab, it will just show one icon of the app but there are several running in the background. Also there is no application specific shortcut to do so.
My phone is iOS 8.3 and my computer is OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 (iPhoto doesn't works anymore, instead there is another application called Photos) I have 3.2G of photos are automatically saved in iCloud photo library, now I would like to download all those photos and release my iCloud space and no longer use iCloud. I tried as following:
How can I type Mongolian Cyrillic on an iPhone? I'm currently on version 7.1.2, and if possible, I'd like to use an Apple-produced solution (eg downloading keyboard info from Apple if that's possible) rather than a third-party app.
Since Firefox 38, it is no longer showing in the activity monitor in the energy tab, are other people experiencing this? How can a process hide from the energy monitor in the first place? I think this can be abused by apps which are trying to hide the fact that they are using lots of energy. In the image note that 1) Firefox is running as indicated by the Dock 2) The energy tab should show all apps, not only big energy wasters which it does, except for firefox. Crossposting: Mozilla support forum
I would like to install some particular applications, which I have on one iPad, to another iPad (I don't want to copy all applications and copy settings, so iCloud backup will not work here). The same Apple ID is used on both iPads. I thought that I can do it thru iTunes applications installed on my Macbook. But it doesn't display all applications installed on my first iPad, synchronization also doesn't help. I understand that I can manually install needed applications on the second iPad, but there about 30 of them.
I've recently started playing Minecraft that uses control and click as the main game controls. On Macintosh, I can't seem to use them both at the same time, it takes me to mission control. Is there a system preference to allow this?
What are the risks of losing what's on my hard disc--especially programs--when I update Yosemite?
On Yosemite, using Command+Tab will bring all the windows of the selected application on top of everything else, similarly to using 'Window->Bring All to Front' when inside the application. Note that Yosemite does manage interleaved windows, when manually clicking on background windows. It is possible to have two applications A and B, each with two windows each, and have (front-to-back) A1, B1, A2, B2 interleaved windows. However, when using Command+Tab to select application A(or clicking on the application icon in the dock) will bring A1 and A2 on top of everything else. It would be really nice to be able to only bring on top the last used window of a given application (namely A1), instead of all of them, hence preserving the interleaving of the other windows.
The iCloud calendars in my iOS Calendar app do not sync manually (for at lest a couple years now). In order to get them to sync, I need to trigger a manual sync by selecting the list of calendars in the iOS app, and dragging down and releasing. This reliably works to trigger a sync, but I see no setting in the app to sync automatically. Sometimes changing or adding an appointment in the iOS app will also trigger a sync, but not always. Is there a way to get iCloud calendars to sync automatically with the iOS Calendar app?
I need an app for iPhone (iOS 8) that would: allow me to save places on a map and group them by categories (e.g. restaurants, bars, clubs, ...) be more useful if I could change the name of the locations and add some comments to remember details of the place
There's a Mac on my job that recently got installed Adobe CC. I, myself, haven't used CC before, always CS6 so I don't know about the common errors, bugs, crashes or fixes. Moreover, I'm not a designer, I'm just the IT guy (I have only used CS6 for really basic stuff). I've gone through the basic check, which included updating from Mavericks to Yosemite, and check adobe updates but the issue still persists. The problem seems to happen by doing the following: Open Finder and navigate to a folder with 2MB PDF files. Drag one of those 2MB PDF files and drop it on the Photoshop icon located in the Dock It may stop responding here, or when opening the Crop To dropdown box. Any ideas?
Months ago I performed a clean install of Yosemite, and as you can read elsewhere, drive was formatted as Core Storage. Later on I partitioned and put on Windows 8.1 through Bootcamp.
RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work. You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell. Sometimes it is required to use /bin/bash --login as the command.
I'm creating enterprise signed builds of an iOS app for our test team. The app is 1.5 gigabytes. When I compile and run from Xcode it takes a couple of minutes to install. If I create an IPA and have them drag it into the device browser in Xcode, it can take an hour to install.
My storage is almost full, I can't seem to update my IOS. Is there a way to update my iPhone 5s when my storage is almost full?
I need to access my computer running nginx on port 8080, but I do not want to turn off the firewall. I know that I can allow application to connect, but I can not figure this out with nginx. The binary is added to the "Firewall Options..." from /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/nginx I have also tried creating a code-signing certificate, but no luck.
I am an eager Terminal user on Mac OSX Yosemite. From time to time I mark text in the Terminal window to copy(right click or cmd+c) onto the clipboard.
When I accept or decline a meeting invite, Calendar automatically sends an email to the person that invited me to the meeting. OS X 10.10.2 calendar app How can I turn this off so that no response is sent?
I'm in the process of setting up a DeployStudio system. Part of the requirement is that the server be able to connect to a Repository of files. On my server, that Repository is located on the partition "NetRestore-Images."
I'm currently working in OS X 10.10.3. I made a bit of a jump from 10.6.9 as our system was falling behind from the person who previously held my position. All of my customer files are stored on an external HD and up until my Yosemite update, indexing has worked fine. I've reviewed several other posts and gone into Terminal and disabled/reenabled all volumes to index and still nothing. It is getting very difficult to find files that I didn't file when I cannot search my drive!
Lots of popular dotfiles repos (stemming from this one) include this: It looks bad. How do I change it back? What was the original value?
It used to be that if I connected my iPhone and clicked Import All in Image Capture, it would import only the new photos. Now it imports all the photos even though it recognizes that most of them are already imported and it shows a green checkmark on them. How do I import only new photos without having to select them one-by-one?
Is there a way to ignore incoming Bluetooth sound-volume control in OS X? And is there a way to disable outgoing volume control via Bluetooth?
I am looking at some Word files last edited by a former assistant. With "showing all non-printing characters" off, it looks ok other than some strange font changes. Turning on "showing all non-printing characters" shows formatting that makes it look right but it is clearly not the formatting typed in by a person. An example - The original document had line numbering every five lines. This version seems like it has line numbering but they are just characters. It has a section break just before each 5th line. To make a modest sized edit I am exporting it all as text and starting over putting in the formatting. Any idea how this could happen? Might this have come from OCRing a PDF? Any magic way to correct it?
I have 5 year old 17" MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard that, without any warning, is suddenly unable to locate its startup disk. I've tried every possible boot key combo, but only zapping NVRAM works, everything else results in a grey screen including the startup manager and diagnostics.
I recently tried installing rEFInd on Yosemite using the command ./install.sh --alldrivers however it would not recognise the ubuntu 14.04 x64 for Mac disk I made and so I would like to uninstall rEFInd. I have tried removing rEFInd from the EFI directory, however the EFI directory does not exist. How do I uninstall rEFInd 0.8-3.7 using OS X 10.10.3? Edit Here are my drives if this helps (found using diskutil list Ignore disk0s4 because I am going to remove it (that is where my Linux partition would have been)
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro that I use for research involving a lot of statistical computing. Some of this requires a decent amount of memory (storing hundreds of thousands of iterations of simulations, each having many parameter values…). It's fairly slow and seems to be swapping a ton on many of these runs.
I'm in the unenviable position of having a pretty maxed out Mid-2009 15" MacBookPro (1TB SSD+8Gb memory), and I've been getting almost 6 years of continuously decent behaviour out of it... Except... The line-out / headphone-plug jack has never been amazingly solid. And in the last week or so, I've started experiencing behaviour where even if I plug in a cable, OS X or the hardware might not recognise that the cable is plugged in, so I will sometimes be stuck with laptop speaker output only. Are there tricks that I could use / try out to make the plug "work better"? Unfortunately, Apple just discontinued mid-2009 15" MBP Logic Bus manufacturing / sales - so I cannot dish out the 700Eur to get the Logic Bus replaced at repairs.
I am long time windows user with who just started using Mac. All my external drives(1 & 2tb 2.5 portable drive ) are formatted in NTFS. But I found that my mac cannot read or write on that. So, where are my questions: How can I make my mac read/write the files in an NTFS partition?
New computer, fresh start. Was installing bower from terminal and got this ERR! message in return. Seems common, but i'm hesitant in forcing it with sudo. OSX 10.10.3 git version 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55) npm (2.9.1) node v0.12.3 are installed. npm install -g bower
To make a charging station effective, it needs to be able to charge all recent Apple laptops. As you know, Apple chargers are not cheap. So, we'd like to buy as few chargers as possible. Given this article, what would be the most cost effective way to set this up?
please, how to set up keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place", that must be added via "Mission Control" and by mouse click to "plus button" (top right corner)?? I'm looking at "system preferences" -> "keyboard" -> "Shortcut" ... but there is no any settings for "add new desktop" or someone same.
The Photos app opens whenever I plug in my phone. How can this be prevented? I have seen many solutions for the old iPhoto app that involve changing the "Connecting camera opens" option, but the new app has no such option.
I was wondering how I can access these five programs that I downloaded without having the proper knowledge of uninstalling them. They have been messing with my system audio output through the speaker and I am trying to locate and delete them. Any ideas?
Is it possible to tell the speed of R.A.M of a Mac Mini by the serial number, and if so where would one do that? I need to know whether or not a Mac Mini is specifically Pc3-8500 through the serial number alone.
I'm testing the app that is built using latest iOS8 SDK, but deployment target is set to iOS6 (it still has to run on iPod Touch 4th gen). I know that there is no iOS6 simulator available on Yosemite, but I'm trying to deploy it via old USB 30-pin cable on the physical device. Seems like I'm always getting "valid provisioning profile for this executable is not found" error message, even though that profile is correct (which I'm 99% sure). Should such configuration work and I just need to make sure profile is ok, or is it unsupported combination?
I cracked the screen of my iPod 4th gen, and bought a replacement kit to replace it. I replaced it, and before applying adhesive, I checked to see it work. It worked fine, it was responsive, etc. But I couldn't close the case because the digitizer extended to the top part of the screen, and needed to be put into place. While doing that, the screen attachment came off -- while the screen was still on, and it went pitch black. Now it does not respond to anything. It's not recognized by the computer and iTunes either. What could have happened? Could it be fixed after this point? Edit: connecting to power does not turn it on either.
I am trying to programmatically invoke an OS X editor from a script which: does not add smart quotes or any non-ascii characters while editing will work "out of the box" on any standard mac system allows the user to click the mouse to position the cursor Sadly Nano and friends do not allow cursor positioning, and Apple lost its mind with TextEdit upgrades and really destroyed that editor!
I have a 64GB iPad and would like to be able to create and then store directly onto my iPad a newspaper like document. So that I can have access to it without a wifi connection. Can this be done? I am new to Apple so still learning what it can do!
Bear with me as I explain how Safari prompts a user to search: Previously, when I would open Safari or open a new tab within Safari, there would be no cursor present (I think). When I would begin typing, all inserted text would be placed in the address bar/URL bar.
How do I reclaim the disk space used by my former Windows partition? Clear free space in Disk Utility
I have a Macbook Pro 6,2 (mid-2010 model) with Yosemite installed. Recently, my computer has started crashing in a number of ways. First of all, it often crashes and bumps me back to the login screen (which normally is disabled, as I'm the only user of my computer and I just have it start up on its own). This seems to happen most frequently while using Firefox, but also happens occasionally at other times. Firefox also often crashes (without the computer's crashing), and every so often Google Chrome crashes too.
I have strange problem, my Preview app is not responding and can't kill it.  Force Quit button also doesn't give any result. ps (and Activity Monitor) is empty: It's not a zombie because next command is also empty: ps aux | awk '"[Zz]" ~ $8 { printf("%s, PID = %d\n", $8, $2); }'
I've bought a new iPhone 5S and inserted a nano SIM into it by purchasing a nano sim with same number. How can I get contacts from my old sim to new SIM?
We are going to have over a hundred MacBooks in our school. We would like to create a master image with all our base settings and applications so that it can be installed on every new MacBook that comes in. We use Cisco Meraki to send out settings to them right now, and that will stay.
Overcast for iOS has a feature that allows you to either skip forward in the track/podcast or move forward in the playlist of tracks/podcasts depending on wether you just do two short clicks on the headphones play/pause button or one short and one long. For moving backwards in the podcast or in the playlist it's three short clicks or two short clicks and one long click, respectively.
A user has an iPhone that is using Exchange email. The email password recently changed and the iPhone kept trying to connect using the old password, which kept locking him out of his email on his laptop and tablet. I tried to change the Exchange details on the iPhone but it refused to authenticate, and I decided it would be just simpler to remove and re-add the Exchange account on his phone.
I have quite strange problem. I had some water damage on my computer few month ago. After it dried completely computer worked only when I unplugged the battery but if I unplugged the charger my computer was resetting itself (date and time were resetting, it took much longer to load)meaning that it had to be always charged in order to work. So I decided to buy new battery. After I inserted it the magsafe charger didnt work but the battery did (it was on the 50%). I tried also with two other chargers with no success. So computer was working just until my battery didn't drained completely. I did SMC reset wich didn't help. After I unplugged the battery computer worked again. What do you think is causing the problem? Can I do something to repair it? Is it wise to buy another new battery? Could it be a problem with a magsafe board or with a logic board? Can I replace these parts by myself and what are the costs? Thank you for your help, Greets
I know I can take a selfie with the built-in camera via the Photo Booth app. However, is there a way capture an image via command line, in sort of lolcommits style?
Every time I take a screenshot, I get this error: You don't have permission to save files in the location where screen shots are stored. How do I fix it?
How do I mirror my hard drive? I want to preserve programs for which I've lost the license number.
Running a Processing sketch which saves .txt files to a folder. Have a folder action attached that prints new files in this folder to a thermal receipt printer.
We have an old iPhone 4 that we use as a music machine in a spare room. Will using the flash as a nightlight overnight cause any damage? My guess is no, but a part of me (maybe thinking of old camera flashes) thinks I should ask first. Thanks.
I want to have an alert / dialog box to fire up periodically in foreground. I tried a combination of AppleScript and launchd and managed to have the script (actually converted to a app) fired up periodically via launchd. However, the alert box does not show up in front of all other windows (rather totally hidden until I tab to it – though it does get started via launchd). How can I get it in front? My script is as follows: My launch.plist is (in /Users/bernhard/Library/LaunchAgents/):
I love the restore functionailty of the Terminal.app when the app crashes or I need to restart my computer, Terminal.app will show me the recent scrollbuffer for the tabs I have open with a - [Restored] - key word below. So I know what I did in each tab.
Which iPhone will work with handoff in between macs and itself. I'm looking into buying one and I want to make sure I could use handoff.
I see on a Macbook Pro, you can expand your current storage space with SDHC or SDXC. Being a Linux user I know you can use RAID to expand storage with 2 disk, so storage looks like 1 HD. However, most of the time this setup happens when NO O/S is currently installed on 1 of the 2 storage units. Would is be possible to expand my storage from the current internal flash storage that host the O/S to a SDXC card, so the storage virtually looks like 1 hard-drive from the mac os desktop? This should be resolved software wise, however I do not think Disk Utility can accomplish or this can be naturally accomplish with out erasing the OS 1st(Which I do not want to do).
I use Spectacle to allow me to hit ⇧ + ⌥ + ⌘ + F to maximize a window. However, sometimes I miss the ⌥ key, and this results in the system shortcut for moving the window to a new space to happen instead. Trying to set ⇧ + ⌘ + F as the key combination in Spectacle produces a "this is a system shortcut, please disable it in system preferences" message, but I can't find that shortcut anywhere under keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences. How can I disable ⇧ + ⌘ + F? This is OSX Yosemite.
Before 8.3, I was able to clear recently used emoji by clicking on Settings->Reset->Reset Keyboard Dictionary. Now, that does not work.
My Western Digital external hard drive is full. How do I transfer data to its replacement? I want all the data to be saved to the new external hard drive so Time Machine will continue where it left off with the backups.
The iPhone allows you to say that calls from certain contacts can get through when the phone is in Do Not Disturb mode. In my experiments it seems that it's not possible to allow text messages to get through as well. Is this true, or is there some setting that I am missing?
I'd like to hide the icon of the stocks app so it doesn't appear in the collection of circles. Apple's documentation says you can't do this, but I hope someone finds a back door or way to minimize it past the normal icon size. “You can’t hide the apps that came with Apple Watch.”
I've switched my Ctrl and Cmd key to replicate my hotkeys on Windows. I've fixed my home and end keys to behave as I'd like and now all that's left is remapping my Cmd+← and Cmd+→ to behave properly.
I naturally think of sketches like SMSs - you have a sequence of the old ones lying around you can peruse. The other model of online messaging is snapchat, where your messages disappear after sending. I've got a couple of sketches from a friend I'd like to replay - I'm wondering if this is possible, or I'm just thinking in the 'wrong model'. My question is: Is there a way to replay old sketches on my Apple Watch?
I need to purchase a new Mac computer to start developing iOS apps using Xcode and Swift. It's my first time Mac ever so I'm confused. I know its kinda of portability choice between the 2 models but It's not an issue with me as I'm not travelling a lot nor develop outside home. So my main concern would be the possibility of coding as well as option to make me comfortable with coding. (screen size factor, Retina display, ...etc). Any advice would be much appreciated!
So, I tried a phone bounce, disabling/re-enabling iMessages, disabling/re-enabling MMS. Disabling/re-enabling WiFi (TMobile, allows WiFi as an SMS/MMS transport). No good. A simple text message worked tho. just no pics Tips?
I really love FIGlet, and use it frequently in my code and emails. It's really easy to install through the terminal in Linux, but I can't figure out how to install it on a Mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10.3). Does anyone know how to install FIGlet straight for Mac so I can run it from the terminal?
I'm aware of applications such as this which allow windows to be "halved", allowing the screen to be divided up. But are there any apps out there that split the Mac screen within applications and within windows? I'm aware that split screen editing is available in Microsoft Word and Excel, but is there an app which is allows a universal split screen across all applications?
It would appear the Apple Watch has the ability to communicate via wifi. When I set mine up, I didn't have a step to identify my local router, so I assume it may have obtained configuration about my local router from my phone, or that it doesn't connect (directly) to my router at all. My question is: If the Apple Watch has wifi - does it connect to my local router?
objc[63077]: Class JavaLaunchHelper is implemented in both /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java and /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libinstrument.dylib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Imagine I visited a website: *=URL=* with the title Delicious Cake. When I use Safari and start typing Del, one of the suggestions shown by Safari might be the aforementioned website. If I hover over this site, my address bar will contain the title of the website: Delicious Cake. I can visit the site by pressing enter, but how do I get Safari to just fill the URL into my address bar? For example, if I wanted to visit *=URL=* I want the address bar to contain *=URL=* and then delete the cake.html.
Does anyone have any experience creating a multi-partition USB Stick with bootable partitions for installing Mavericks, Yosemite and Snow Leopard? I have a 32Gb stick I'd be perfectly willing to devote to this venture - if such a thing is even possible to create. I have experience creating a singular Mavericks installer USB Stick - but does Option-booting a Mac allow for booting from multiple partitions?
Since this modification my network is working perfectly (and in fact much better). Alice can access the Internet with ssh, http, IMAP, smtp… without a glitch, but for printing. Alice does still see Clara as a shared printer, but printing dosen't work, and the printer window stays on the message:
I recently tried to install rEFInd onto my Mac but it could not boot into the Ubuntu disk. To uninstall It I formatted my drive and reinstalled OS X along with my backup.
I am trying to restore a set of my iPhone5C backups I made in iTunes to my iPhone4S. My iPhone4S is still running on iOS 7.0.4. I don't want to upgrade it because iOS8 on iPhone4S will almost be unusable (the current iOS7 is bad enough on iPhone4S).
I can't add subscriptions to my iCloud Calendar anymore. If I want for example add the holiday calendar via Mac Calendar Setting I get this error message The server responded: “403” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation.
Are you able to use the Apple Watch when running or jogging without taking the iPhone out? The iPhone is bulky and I don't like running with it.
How does my iPhone 5s get to airplane mode if I do not go into Settings and change it manually to airplane mode?
Since my macbook is a 13" model, I like to use my entire screen when watching YouTube. But a problem has started. When my Firefox isn't in full screen, and I click the full screen button of my video, Firefox goes to full screen mode (opens a new desktop and goes to full screen) and then shows the video in full screen. When my Firefox isn't in full screen, and I click the full screen button of my video, Firefox goes to full screen mode (opens a new desktop and goes to full screen) and then shows the video in full screen. When my Firefox is already full screen, the video just opens in full screen as it should, but once I close the video, Firefox also goes out of full screen. When my Firefox is already full screen, the video just opens in full screen as it should, but once I close the video, Firefox also goes out of full screen.
Can you still see old messages on an old SIM card for an iPhone 4? Mine died a few months ago, AT&T techs took out the SIM card when they gave me my new phone, but now my parents are trying to "fix" my old phone to be nosy! Yikes!
I am thinking about running dstat on Mac. But some of the locations of data are different from Linux: notice the /proc/stat: Is there a reference detailing the mapping from the standard Linux to Mac?
My visible Disk Usage minus free space is out by 123GB. Clarification: Externally booted disk repair show no errors. Permissions have been fixed. Time Machine has had local off with: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Coming from the PC world, most made-to-order manufacturers (e.g., Dell, HP, Acer, etc.) all have annoying little addons which I consider spyware/bloatware--things like toolbars with ads. When buying such PC laptops, I would always reformat their hard drives and then install just Windows (and drivers), ensuring a blank slate without any bloat.
I am unable to brew build rtorrent. Could someone tell me what I need to do to get this to work? Things I have done - Error -
I plan to use my Apple Watch Sport predominately for tracking fitness goals. I am curious if turning the watch to the inside of my wrist will affect its performance when measuring my heart rate. (I like to use kettlebells, so I will surely smash the screen if I keep the watch on the outside of my wrist.)
Almost every day, about 560mb of data is received and I'm not downloading anything. When I check in the Activity Monitor, it shows the 560mb usage, but in the list of processes, there is hardly any usage at all. If I sort by Rcvd Bytes, the most used by any given process is something like 2.7mb, and the total amount is less than 5mb (if looking at the details for the processes in the list)... I cannot find what process is using the data! Highly frustrating seeing that data is massively expensive in this country (South Africa) and I am using a wifi router with my 3G contract, and within a couple days, I've exceeded the limit. I have seen a similar post and there was a process called nsurlsessiond which was addressed. In my case, this process name does not appear at all. I've followed the advice that was given in that post otherwise [like for Spotlight - Prefs > Spotlight > Search Results & switch off Spotlight Suggestions & Bing Web Searches], but nothing has changed. How can I find out
The dock connector on my iPhone 4S appears to have some bent pins (I think those crushed copper lines in the photo are pins). The phone charges, but it thinks that it is always connected to the dock. That is an annoyance, but the phone seems to work fine otherwise. However, I am worried that the bent pins may be a hazard of some type. Is there any risk of shock or fire?
I have installed rEFInd 0.8.7 on my 2015 13" MBP onto another partition however it does not detect OS X. Here are my disk partitions: disk0s4 is where I would like to install Linux when I get rEFInd to work, while disk0s5 is where I have rEFInd installed to by using the command sudo ./install.sh --alldrivers --ownhfs /dev/disk0s5.
I have tried everything for my passphrase to be saved for my SSH keys so that when I restart, I don't have to run any "ssh-add" command. I have tried: Saving my key in ~/.ssh Saving my key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa (it is an RSA key) Making a profile for it in ~/.ssh/config Running "sudo ssh-key -k ~/.ssh/keyname" and "sudo ssh-key -K ~/.ssh/keyname" and those commands using the ~/.ssh/id_rsa directory whenever the key was in that place Probably a few other things, but all I can remember at the moment
I am trying to automate a 'title' search on Amazon (kindle category) using Fake.app. The search is conducted every week for about 100 titles. I followed the below 2 posts from Fake.App developer and I am stuck. Question 1 I have created the workflow and it loops through successfully grabbing the title from my text file.
My Mac Pro (Late 2013) uses an APPLE SSD SM0512F Media SSD; I'd like to buy an equivalent SSD to use externally for cloning, backups, etc. I noticed on the PassMark website it shows performance information in comparison with some other SSDs, however, it doesn't show what SSDs are ranked directly above or below it, so I have no idea what it's closest competitors might be. It doesn't appear Apple sells the SM0512F — what (if any) would be equivalent?
This might be answered already but I could not figure out a good way to phrase it to look for an answer so I hope you'll bear with me. I want to change the color of the text output on Terminal if it comes back from running a program. Ex: I make a script called test.py that just prints "Hello World!" and run this by entering
While trying to get Boot Camp set up on my MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina 2015 it asked me to partition my hard drive. Doing so I partitioned my 1 TB hard drive so that it dedicated 750 gb to mac and 250 gb to Boot Camp. However the Boot Camp set up was not successful and now my Mac's hard drive is only 750 GB big. With Boot Camp uninstalled it is still 750 GB. The 250 GB can not be added again on my Mac. Every time I try and add a partition to the "unallocated space" it does not work. I can't get my hard drive back to the full 1 tb. It looks something like this. .
I have a lot of NTFS hard drives back when I used a Windows PC. I'm trying to write to these drives with my Macbook Pro on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2. I'm going through this tutorial. I have to write this line in /etc/fstab
I am new to mac (coming from the windows world). I did some reading on how and where JAVA HOME is set on a mac machine. I have some assumptions listed below, would be great if someone could go through and provide some feedback on the same.
Hardware specs: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012); 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor; 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3; Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB Software specs: Mac OS-X yosemite 10.10.3; Some part of my screen blinks and looks like that laptop is hanged but actually its only screen problem. But i don't know whether it is hardware problem and software problem. I tried to close all the applications running to check whether it is caused by a software or 3rd party app. But that was not the case. I captured a video of this small error. Sometimes the screen gets a little messy. BUT EVERYTHING STARTS LIKE THIS VIDEO LINK IN THE DESCRIPTION *=URL=* Can anyone suggest what should i do?
For some reasons every time I connect to an insecure WiFi, Yosemite cannot route to the DNS servers of that WiFi. The DNS servers are correctly set, just cannot reach them. And after installing uninstalling a few softs over the years, have a bunch of network interfaces, not sure they're all relevant
My iPhone 4 will not connect to my computer or iTunes anymore after I updated to the new iTunes, and I have looked in other threads and posts and no one seems to have the same issue. I see other posts about it not connecting, and it says to go into "Device Manager" and find the iPhone under "Portable Devices" but the Portable Devices tab isn't even in my Device Manager on my Laptop (windows 7).
I can't find anything about this on Google, but it appears Safari on IOS8 no longer supports javascript: bookmarklets. Can anyone confirm this? Is there a workaround? I'm using iPhone 6 plus if for some reason this matters.
Is there any way to enable Time Machine / tmutil and perform a backup from inside the Single User Mode? I have a Late '11 Radeongate-affected MBP that won't boot beyond the gray boot screen anymore, and I'm about a week's worth of data from my latest backup.
The built-in keyboard of my Macbook Pro started acting weird. I only started to have this problem around last week. I thought upgrading to Yosemite 10.10.3 would remove the issue but it still exists. Pressing the Enter/Return key OR Right-Shift triggers the "Shift-Enter" combo. Pressing the Escape key is now increasing the brightness of my display. Pressing the F1 key decreases the brightness AND decreasing my volume. Pressing the F2 key increases the brightness AND triggers the Escape key. Pressing the F5 key decreases the keyboard light AND inputs "-" and vice versa. Pressing the F6 key increases the keyboard light AND inputs "/" and vice versa. Pressing the F7 key inputs ";". Pressing the F8 key enters a new line or triggers the Enter key (?) Pressing the F9 key inputs "\". Pressing F11 key decreases my volume and brightness.
I noticed that the new Photos.app reduces image size on export. If I drag & drop a photo from the Photos library, the size is reduced by at least 50%. How do I get rid of this behavior and recover my original photo file?
I recently noticed that the speaker of my iPhone 6 yields an acoustic noise in certain situations. After the speakers are used (playing music, click sound when locking the iPhone, etc) I can hear some noise from the speakers for about 5s. The noise is really faint. Is this normal? Does anyone hear it too?
I have an Ubuntu server which I tend to use via VNC from OS X. For this, I have saved a .vncloc file from the built-in Screen Sharing client. When I click this icon, Screen Sharing connects to Ubuntu, but shows this requester already filled in:
My iPad microphone cuts out after about one minute of dictation. I've tried using Google and Word but the same limitations apply. Does anybody have a solution?
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Since yesterday I have been unable to drag windows, select text, or use the right corner click to open the context menu using the built in trackpad. Any idea what could cause this?
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, Now that the iPhoto iCloud Library feature is available on both iOS and OS X devices, and if I understood good every time I take a picture, the picture goes to the iCloud and pushed back to all my devices, what is the purpose to keep the Upload to My Photo Stream feature? What are now the basic difference between the two services? Why someone should use one vice versa the other one? Or why someone should use only one of them? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
I have a Macbook Air mid 2011 with OS X Yosemite. For a couple of weeks, I have a process, called Securityd, that runs and uses 100% of my processor, making it hot and noisy.
I have an Apple TV with which I'd like to read videos from my mac, both from Internet (Youtube for example) and from files stored on my hard drive. There is two ways of doing it: the first one is Airplay Mirroring, but this does not work well enough, since there is a lag between the sound and the video. The second one is to use the built in option to read only the video, and not to mirror the whole screen. I managed to use both of these options with my iPhone/iPad : Airplay Mirroring is done through the control center Reading only the video is done with a little icon that appears on the bottom right of the video player, like this one :
My SMS on my iPhone is growing everyday. According to my iPhone's Usage function, I have about 1.2GB of SMS data. My phone has been running on low storage and any megabytes are precious.
How can I set my Macbook Air to always open new apps in full screen mode? Some apps already do it (Mail for example), but others are always opening as a small window, especially Safari when I close (cmd+W) all the tabs. Is there a setting, a terminal command line, or anything to fix this?
I'd like to know if is possible to make a full, bootable, and restorable image of an entire Yosemite installed system, (that is, with all installed apps and settings) without using a commercial software like Carbon Copy Cloner (which is no longer free, indeed). I found those threads: Creating a OS backup image for an easy restore on a new system and How do I make a bootable USB flash drive a Mac? but both seem to propose recipes to create a bootable OS X thumb drive along with a set of basic tools, while I require a method to perform a full image of my installation. Thanks a lot.
I managed to delete my python in usr/bin by foolishly doing sudo rm /usr/bin/python and now it seems like I need to reinstall my OS. First off is this necessary? And secondly is there an easy way to do this without having to erase everything on my disk?
For the first time, I had synchronized some iTunes U videos between my Mac and my iPhone and I was looking forward to watching them on the train. However, when I opened the "Videos" app on the phone, it just displayed the message "No Content. You can download videos from the iTunes store." There does not seem to be any other app on the phone that could play the videos. When I connect the phone to my Mac, iTunes clearly shows that the videos have been transferred to the phone (On My Device > iTunes U). How can I play the iTunes U videos on my iPhone? (iPhone 5S, iOS 8.3, iTunes 12.1.2.27)
I've synched voice memos to my computer. Now, I want to clear from iPhone to save space. How do I do that? And, will they all reappear the next time I sync my iPhone?
I have installed httpd24 via brew by running brew install httpd24 However I am not sure where to put a virualhost definition files in the file system. I ran this command /usr/local/bin/apachectl -S and there is the output And here is a tree output
Mac was water damaged. No start up chime. Charger shows green light dimmer than when plugged in to working Macs when plugged. Battery status button on side has no effect. Won't start in safe, target disk, verbose etc modes. Removed the HDD and verified that it works fine and am cloning it before wiping, reinserting and selling.
I need to change some preferences on a mac of which statup disk I can't control due to video issue (I don't see the desktop and so on ), I can use an usb disk to boot or launch it as target disk.... but can I operate on hits preferences? thanks for now
Well, this is awkward. I set about disassembling my iMac in attempt to fix a problem, and the problem is fixed, but now I'm not quite sure how to put it back together. Does anyone know where I can find a guide on how to put it back together?
I'm trying to import video from my Canon camcorder (Vixia HF R600) to iMovie '09 on my iMac (an older model but updated to OS X 10.9.5) The camera recognizes the USB input but the computer does not recognize the camera. Can I import the video to iMovie using the "Image Capture" app?
is there a way to automatically 'transfer' the music you hear on your iPod touch (4. generation) to the Mac? What I want to do:
I've tried various steps involving updating my info.plist file, but after I do that (which requires very specific set of steps to even get updated, bootcamp won't even work. Some sources say that this is because modifying the plist file breaks a signature, and have a seperate command to re-sign, but the re-signing steps are out of date for yosemite, so the command isn't right. I've found other resources that recommend using dd to put the windows 10 iso (or a .img converted using hdiutil convert onto a 32 gb usb, but when I do that, while it looks fine in osx, the drive isn't recognized as formatted in any windows machine, and doesn't work to boot. Any recommendations?
Running an Early '09 iMac with Mavericks. Earlier this month I began to see a pop up referencing a 'malware cleaner'. Below is a copy of items dated May 4th in the Launch Agents and Launch Daemons folders. Any thoughts on resolving this issue? Here are the May 4th items: Launch Agents folder com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a23d420d.plist Launch Daemons Folder com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist
Let's say that I am paranoid and I want not only to wipe and reinstall OS X, but also recovery, SMC, firmware and everything in the Mac hardware that could have been infected with malware. Is there any way to accomplish this?
Using Mail in all previous OS I ever used, I click on an email, say from MacWorld. Then I would sort by From and all the emails from MacWorld would be right in front of me on my screen. Now when I sort by From, I get all my email From in order, either A to Z, or Z to A -- but nothing to do with MacWorld. What happened? MacBook Pro 2.8, 16 GB RAM 10.2.2
I'm trying to figure out if this rsync behavior I'm noticing is specific to copying from a Mac to a Mac-formatted hard drive v. with e.g. a Synology system.
In OSX mail, I have a number of different mailbox types - iCloud, Google Apps, and Exchange. For whatever reason, the Exchange mailbox displays the folders underneath the mailbox list at the top (see picture). iCloud and Google Apps do not do this (both are IMAP). Is there a reason for this? Any way to change that behavior?
Every time I click Software Update it tells me there's no new software! I don't even know what software I'm running so I can't search for updated software. Why is it stuck on 10.6.8?
I am a U.S. AT&T customer with an unlocked iPhone 6 plus, but am currently travelling through Spain and using a pre-paid Vodafone SIM card. One major problem I've run into: After inserting the new Vodafone SIM card, my AT&T number gets deactivated from iMessage and all messages being sent to that number aren't being delivered. My questions are: 1) Will the iMessages currently being sent to my AT&T number be delivered once I put my AT&T SIM back in? 2) If not, what should I do so that I don't lose all of the messages that are being sent to my AT&T phone number?
Look into D:/Users/user/Desktop, and there's no test_file.txt in it! I can see all other files, but the new entry is not there. This happens very often, and to get things working I have to log into OS X, do nothing, and log again into Windows (which is quite annoying).
There is a website (happening.im) which does not work in my user account, but does work when I switch to the guest user. So the problem is in my user profile somehow. I've tried deleting ~/Library/Safari but that didn't do the trick. How do I completely reset safari to the state that the guest user has?
My Macbook was hit by my keys and crack the apple light on the back.  If I don't repair it, could this damage the sceen? The cover of Macbook is so thin that I really worry about this, but repair could be troublesome and expensive so I'd rather not have to fix it.
I would like to loan my iPad Air (iOS 8.3) to a friend and give him a clean device (without my apps and any personal data). After getting my iPad back, I would like to restore the whole configuration and have all my data again. What is the preferred procedure to do it? Probably here's what I should do at the beginning: Backup the device to a PC computer using iTunes Erase the device according to the guide here: *=URL=* (sign out of iCloud and erase all content).
How can I shut down my Mac via Terminal or AppleScript, but without restoring? works not, the windows will be restored.
I'm creating a Script for turning Evernote Notes into Omnifocus-Items, using Javascript for Automation. Currently, the script searches for items with a certain tag, which works great. Now, I want to unassign this tag or assign a different tag to ensure no Note gets added twice. Looking into the Evernote Javascript for Automation Function Library in the Script Editor, I found the methods assign / unassign, which should do what I want - but I'm unable to use them. This is a shortened version of my code:
I personally prefer list view without the expansion triangle, unlike Finder question: missing expansion triangle in list view I am able to get it to work by selecting an "arrange by" option, but it does not apply to all folders. How can I apply this as the default? Is there a terminal command or something for it?
I'm storing the majority of my documents in Dropbox. I store all my passwords in 1Password (with encrypted backup in Dropbox).
I was trying to make some avatars out of some of my images and needed to resize them. I did so in Preview in Yosemite 10.10.3, and had before as well in Snow Leopard. There was no 'save as' option, so I did not save my changes because I didn't want to permanently alter my image. There was no 'undo' feature or 'cancel without saving changes' option either. What gives with this? I can't go back and take that picture again and now it is a low-res grainy mess when I try to resize it to original manually.
I have two Google accounts linked with my iPhone: home and work. When adding a new contact in the Phone app, where will iOS store the new contact? I'm not given a choice of which Google account it should use.
For most applications I like the OSX feature of remembering which documents were open. But it drives me nuts in Preview. In past versions of OSX there was a simple preference that could be altered for each application: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/177469/18486
My Applications folder has 486 entries, applications that have accumulated in the 30 years I'm using Apple hardware and software. Sometimes I'm looking for "that great application I have installed a few monts ago" but I am unable to remember its name, and I can spend a long time searching for it among hundreds of other apps. Typical example: I installed Snagit during my last Parallels upgrade (it came as a bundle). It's a really great screen capture application, but how can I remember that "Snagit" is a screen capture application? As for its icon, it shows a white "S" on blue background, which isn't very helpful either.
Suppose you are viewing a webpage and need to set a reminder to do something with this page. How might you go about doing this given that 'reminders' does not appear to be in the Share list in iOS 8.1.3?
After lots of trial and error, I discovered this works fine using the default desktop scaling in OSX. However, I normally run OSX in a scaled display setting (the default scaling makes everything too big to my tastes), where it actually renders everything at 3360x2100 and then downscales that to 2880x1800. It seems this also happens when using VMware Fusion, which means the perfect 2880x1800 picture from Windows gets stretched to 3360x2100, only to get scaled down to 2880x1800 again, leaving me with edges and text being blurrier than they should be.
Up until a day ago, I was able to cut and paste commands into terminal from text edit. This is a ongoing function as I store regularly used bash commands in text files so I can cut and paste them without needing to type them.
Our OS X Server serves our company DNS, web and mail with an external IP address to the Internet. It currently does not have a local address on the LAN and thus cannot be used e.g. for software update caches for OS X and IOS devices on the network. If I were to also attach the server to the LAN by one of its other ports would I be compromising its security or the security of the LAN? I am more concerned about opening up a security hole from the WAN into the LAN than vice versa as I can control which users have access to which services on the Server. OS X Server has its adaptive firewall enabled and the router via which it connects to the WAN has only those ports open that we need for the services it serves.
I have a 13" MacBook Pro that Apple has lent me while my new 15" is being built and I need to restore it to the same condition as the day I received it from Apple. How do I do that?
I run OS X Yosemite (10.10.3). From the sysadmin account, I created a standard account. This account can't open standard directories like Documents or Pictures in the admin’s user folder. It can access however every single folder and document that does not belong to this preinstalled standard folders. Changing folder permissions in the admin account does not change anything. What am I doing wrong?
Whenever I open a file in any application I'm presented with the standard "Open" dialog box which I find to be frustratingly small (less than 50% in each dimension on my 11 inch screen). I can enlarge it to a more generous size, but the new dimensions don't seem to be made permanent, so next time I open a file the standard small-size dialog is shown. Is there a way to permanently resize this dialog box?
I have dedicated my old MacBook as a home server. It runs, among other stuff, the following services:
Is there a way to find all videos above a certain size using the new Photos app so that they can be selected for Export or put in an album? I'd like to move large videos off to an external drive, but I can't find a way to select them (or indeed, to find them at all).
It seems that only iostat were available on mac. But I am looking for more comprehensive set of stats including cpu, memory, and network. What are the options here?
I have two Macbook Pros running on Yosemite. The first one is a 17 incher from 4 years ago. I'm able to set the time that it sleeps. The second one is a 15 incher retina made this year. In its energy saver section, I don't see a way to set the sleep time. It only shows the display time. How do I make both slider controls show up on this new Macbook Pro?
I'm looking into portable battery packs and I was looking into the electrical specifications of the pack. This got be thinking what current and voltage does my 5c need to charge?
Is it possible to require both Touch ID and a password in order to unlock an iPhone?
Why does Messages.app on my Mac (Yosemite) fail to play a sound when a message is received? On my Mac, I'm hearing sound from other apps. I hear a sound when I drag the "Output volume" in System Preferences > Sound > Output. I hear the ding sound when messages simultaneously arrive on my iPhone and iPad.
I'm familiar with manually installing certain files. In this case, I am installing rEFInd Boot Manager, see http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html
My 15" non-retina Macbook Pro Mid 2012 is having some issues. The screen suddenly went out on me as I was using it. There is absolutely no picture going to the screen, so it isn't a brightness issue. I have also tried plugging into an external monitor, and no picture shows up on that either. I am sure the computer is powering up properly, as I can hear applications running in the background.
I recently purchased my first rMBP and I have noticed that Mail receives emails extremely slow. I receive the email on my iPhone 10 - 15 minutes before it appears on Mail.
When viewing a photo I clicked on the heart icon in the iPad photo app by mistake and a Favourites folder was created. Although the photo was deleted from the Favourites folder, the empty folder remains. Has anyone any idea how to remove the empty Favourites folder. Very annoying to have it there with nothing inside it and no obvious way to remove it.
I didn't have any problems with the phone before the upgrade in iOS. What could have had happened and how can I resolve this issue?
The dock connector on my iPhone 4S had some bent pins, which I scrubbed using a jewelry screwdriver until the pins broke and fell out. The phone still charges, and aside from thinking it's always connected to a dock, the phone seems to work fine. However, I am worried about a hazard of some type, for example is there any risk of shock or fire or something else? Image shows bent pins, this is before I broke them off with the screwdriver.
I deleted photos and then looked for them under Photos, File, Show Recently Deleted, but the message says "no recently deleted." Where are the deleted files?? Thanks!
I started noticing this about a month ago that when I hit CMD+L or CMD+T, there is about a second or so lag to when it actually does something. I verified it's not a memory problem, as it happens after a restart. Internet searches didn't come up with anything. I'm using OS X 10.10.3 and Safari 8.0.6.
I have a 16GB iPad Air 2. I realize the OS takes up some space (on my iPad, "Used" + "Available" only equals 11.9GB), but looking at this screenshot, even my iPad can't accurately explain what's taking up 8.2 GB. I know it's not the OS because Used + Available is already lower than 16. And I added up all the apps underneath and only came to a little under 800MB. What on earth is taking up the remaining 7.5GB?!
When the monitor on one side of the border has a resolution higher than the monitor on the other side, the mouse can only cross over to the other monitor at the part where their edges overlap, as in the configuration below.  This means that when the mouse is not in the overlapping area, for example in the upper area of the right monitor in the image, it can't cross over to the other monitor without moving to the overlapping area. Is there a way to warp the border, so that the proportional position of the mouse on the departing side is converted to the same proportion on the arriving side?
My MacBook seems to be getting kernel panics when booting up. I've decided to create a backup, reinstall OS X, and restore from the backup. But I can't create a Time Machine backup because I unable to boot into the main partition.
Before I installed rEFInd, I believe there were three partitions to my Mac, disk0, disk1, disk2. Now, when I run in the Command line This is what remains:
Update: I've done the recalibration thing a couple of times now, but still no difference in performance. What's frustrating is that I never get the low battery warning and the machine doesn't sleep; it shuts down. I've done tons of Googling around and everything I find says exactly what Buscar웃SD suggests below. The one weird thing that I found on Apple's site is this: "If your portable Mac has a built-in battery, you don’t need to calibrate the battery." Can't say I've ever heard that before.
Running Yosemite 10.10.3 on a late 2009 iMac. I've tried switching iTunes to run in 32-bit mode but to no avail. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem or solution? (This happens when I want to watch iTunes University courses)
I've been using Folder Actions to automate printing photos taken from OS X built-in Photo Booth software. The AppleScript I use is as follows: Is there anyway I can set the print job to use a preset size using AppleScript or maybe change the defaults so that AppleScript prints uses that size by default? I've noticed that they use the size at: System Preferences > Printers & Scanners > Default paper size But I require the printer to print at 75x105mm which is not in any preset.
Recently I've noticed instances of Google Chrome Helper remaining running in my activity monitor long after I've shut Chrome down completely. Are these just hung processes because Chrome Helper is buggy like that, or should I be worried? They don't show as non-responsive, just... running all by themselves without Chrome itself.
I would like to connect two external monitors to my IMac (Mid 2010 with ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB) I have one connected at the moment to the mini-dvi port, my question is: can I utilise the Firewire port to add a further monitor?
I have a mid 2010 MBP 15-inch and I recently replaced the Apple manufacturer hard drive with a 1TB Seagate hybrid hard drive and I am running Yosemite. My MBP crashes randomly when I'm playing League of Legend, working on excels or powerpoint, or doing nothing at all. It is frustrating because it happens every 2-3 hours in average. The Kernel Panic log is here. Can anyone see what's wrong? Anonymous UUID: 5C55BD68-43B4-27F0-1D9D-B2D4DB767624 Mon May 25 19:31:05 2015 * Panic Report * panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f96e3ebdb): "GPU Panic: [] 3 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff813089f000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.10.22/src/AppleMuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127 Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff811d532e40 : 0xffffff801412bda1 0xffffff811d532ec0 : 0xffffff7f96e3ebdb 0xffffff811d532fa0 : 0xffffff7f94cc2b9f 0xffffff811d533060 : 0xffffff7f94d8c
MacBook Pro5,3 (mid '09), with 1TB 7200 HD, OS 10.10.2 at first had an unresponsive display upon opening lid / waking. Only holding power down for 10sec to reboot snapped it out. Day later it started going into a constant reboot cycle, either with a 6-language message on a gray screen, or simply a Mac boot chord, followed by black apple on gray screen, and a progress bar that seems to only get to a third, before kernel panic occurs. It just reboots itself. Every 10th or so cycle, the OS actually boots up. It has booted in Safe Boot more frequently. Reinstalled OS. Same problem. Ran Geekbench - awful results on read / write, and other HD related functions. Graphics and memory - average. After frequently getting to Safe Boot, decided to zero-write and clean install. Same problem. Problem seems to be tied in with "sleep" function. No Mac repair person has been able to isolate the issue, they are all puzzled and just say "get logic board replaced". In verbose mode, it most often hangs duri
For instance, try; \begin{ite[tab] but you get nothing. How can you have tab completion for LaTeX in TextMate?
I have successfully installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro 2015 so I can boot into Linux however I cannot seem to boot into it. Here are my issues (both with Ubuntu 64x Mac CD and Kali Linux 64x USB). Boot to USB/CD Error Boot to elf file (USB and CD) (second option) error (gets stuck here) Booting from EFI boot by holding down option (both CD and USB) I get a black screen when booting If it helps here is my config file for rEFInd And here are my disks I want to install Ubuntu/Kali onto disk0s4 and rEFInd is installed on disk0s5 How do I get rEFInd to boot into and install Linux?
My iPad came with the normal Lightning -> USB Type A Male charger cable. I want to connect it to my Roland piano and the piano's manual mentions the need for a camera connection kit - so apparently I need this: *=URL=* Now these cables (charger and the above adapter) look very similar to me (both have USB Type A at one end, although one is male and the other is female). Do they have different wiring/chips?
How can I mount my ZFS partition in my Mac as an internal Drive? Currently it appears on the Desktop when I set in Finder preferences "Show on Desktop: External disks". I would like it to be labeled under 'Hard disks'. Running current MacOS and OpenZFS.
Lots of questions about "resolving host" but I can't find any that deal specifically with initial connections. When I try to connect my Macbook (mid-2012 13 inch, Yosemite 10.10.3) to an already setup network for the first time of the day - e.g. when tethering to android or arriving at work - the browser belligerently sticks to "resolving host" until I switch wifi off and back on, despite ostensibly having a full connection wifi icon. Then the connection is fine. This happens pretty consistently. Any idea why?
Browsing through my recent Yosemite backup I noticed that two of the largest files were com.apple.sidebarlists.plist (78 MB) and com.apple.recentitems.plist (10 MB). Both files are located in ~/Library/Preferences. Investigating com.apple.sidebarlists.plist yields that the following key holds a huge amount of data under the key: systemitems > VolumesList > Bookmark > data
I did not find a reference to such behaviour on google and am wondering whether this is a universal bug or related to my personal setup. Are there any system settings which could lead to this?
I have an app (gv) where I can run it from the terminal, but when I click on it, I get errors. This makes me think there are multiple instances of it or something. I tried which and got nothing... that seems odd. so then I tried locate, which gave me this warning:
I have a program that runs from the command line but not correctly from the icon in the applications menu. While I would like to figure that out, all I want right now is way to create a link in the dock where I can click that link, and run the command that lauches the program correctly.
I am thinking this answer which returns a broken PDF document in OSX 10.10.3. The file test_dummy.tex is here. where pandoc 1.13.2.1 and grep grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD.
How can I configure Apple Mail to always open calendar invites in Fantastical 2? Typically in OS X dialogs, you'd: Right click on file Select Open With... Choose the application Select Always open files of this type option However, this option isn't available in the Mail dialog. How do I set this preference?
In Brew Install Rtorrent not Working, it seems the problem is with gcc 5.0.1. I tried following the instructions there (downgrade to gcc 4.9.2): That works, but then brew install rtorrent fails even more spectacularly: I look in config.log, and the problem is here:
I recently had the Logic Board in my Retina MBP 15″ 2012 replaced under a warranty extension program and Apple paid for it. I've reinstalled OS X several times and feel things aren't running properly. Also, I also couldn't find a way to merge my Time Machine old backups with new one.
Macbook Pro, 500GB SSD, Yosemite 10.10.3 Is there a way to determine what folder(s) are giving Spotlight grief? Or some other recommendations to fix spotlight?
I have a 2TB Time Capsule and multiple external HDDs. I recently bought a 4TB external drive, now I'd like all my files, in all my HDDs to go to the 4TB drive that is connected through USB to the Time Capsule, including its internal drive! How can I make this happen? So, is there a solution to backup to a new Time Machine on the 4TB drive that includes the Time Capsule's internal drive, my computers, and two external HDDs?
I'm trying to rename a 16GB SD card (Untitled) using a MacBook Air but the Disk Utility won't let me rename/erase/reformat it. I am able to open the device and see all of its content but cannot rename it. The reason I want to rename it is so that 3rd party apps on an Android Smartphone can write to the SD card. Right now, only the native Android file manager can write to the Sd card. Inserting the micro SD card into the adapter and then inserting the adapter into the card reader of the MacBook Air puts the device on the desktop. When I click on the label name, it turns blue but I still can't change the name.
My Android phone charges via a USB 2 micro-usb connector and is capable of charging at greater than the 500mA provided by USB 2 data mode. Is it possible to configure my Mac so that its USB 3 port functions in USB-2 power delivery mode and can thus deliver power at greater than 500mA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#PD-R2.0V1.0
When using Preview my Yosemite does NOT have the thought bubble option.. Is it a problem or does Yosemite not offer the thought bubble as Lion did. I can get the speech bubble no problem.
I use the weather widget on my MacBook Air dashboard to watch many cities current weather. I have opened multiple incidences of this widget, one for each city so each city's weather is displayed individually. I can see the weather for each of these cities at a glance. The weather widget is set to turn the background of the displayed weather blue for day and purple for night. One city's background does not change color- it stays purple all day and all night. This village is actually going into 24 daylight now and the background should be blue for at least 22 hours but it stays purple, indicating night, non-stop. The other cities' widgets backgrounds accurately reflect night or day so this does not appear to be a setting on my computer. I am puzzled as to why one city's widget appears to be 'stuck' on night.
When I open my MacBook Pro after it has been closed (usually for more than 1 hr) I get a slow response. One of the following happens:
This is specifically occurring on Yosemite Macs that have been NetRestored. Initial login works fine. However, when restarting the Mac or logging out of the user, a black screen appears with only the mouse cursor there. (Please note this is on logout, not login. I'm quite familiar with the login issue.)
I just bought a 4tb hard drive and enclosure and attempted to encrypt it with truecrypt. I errored with a message saying the block size must be 4096 bytes for >2TB drive. How do i alter the drive to have that block size? Currently it says block size is 512
I have entered a weird state Firefox was open. The icon appears in the cmd+tab task menu.
Using my Mac Mini was like wading through treacle so I decided to perform a totally clean install, wipe it and start again. I made a Time Machine backup and let that run for a couple of days to make sure I had everything I needed. Now when I try to use the backup the drive partition that it is on is greyed out. All I need are the photos really, I can see the old Photos library in the backup and even copied it over into the new Photos package but they aren't recognised. Any ideas?
I am backing up my iMac locally using Time Machine, and now I am looking for a cloud backup to provide offsite redundancy. I have signed up for Amazon's unlimited storage option for their Cloud Drive, and I have been testing Arq as a local backup app. Arq works okay, but it's lacking some features, such as the ability to restrict uploads to certain hours, such as 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
On my new Mac book pro, I have aperture on yosemite. I can no longer open iPhoto. The necessary upgrade is not available on the UK App store.. How do I restore iPhoto.
after a recent drink spill on my MacBook, the keyboard is producing all sorts of random keystrokes and odd behavior such as holding spacebar, shift or arrow keys etc. Yes, I know this question has been asked before, but I can't comment or bump any old question due to the low reputation on the site so far.
It seems that the recovery partition is required for OS X to boot. Is that the case? And if so, how can I get it back, without doing a reinstall (or something like Missing Yosemite Recovery Partition). If not, how can I get the system booting again? Specs (maybe useful) MacBook Pro 15" (late 2013) FileVault enabled
I remember very clearly back when I formatted the drive, that I chose everything that St. Steve prescribed me to, GPT table, HFS+ partitions, even though other platforms can't write to HFS+. Now, surprise surprise, a year later when I have to partition the drive, Disk Utility says "This partition can't be modified", and diskutil(8) says "Volume format does not support resizing". It's not encrypted, there shouldn't be anything in the way. Unable to Resize Partitions talks in depth about resizing corestorage, which is irrelevant here.
Just wondering.. The watch can remotely control the iOS camera, and keep it's photos. I was hoping their would be a similar capability re screen images. Thanks
Today I left my MBP Retina at local authorised Apple service (it's a mid 2012 model, and it's having some gfx issues), and then I got an email telling me that I have to go back there and decrypt my hard drive, because they can't test if it qualifies for the free repair program. If I will have to do it, then what should I do before giving them my laptop back (is just disabling keychain and deleting important files ok)?
I like reading books in double-page view in iBooks. But I always can only move two pages in this view, like in RL. Is there a way to only move one page, for example to compare images on different pages and still keep the double-page view?
My TimeMachine backups need to be deleted. I should have been wise and followed this advice, deleting the backups from within TimeMachine. Can't delete old TimeMachine backup
I have a rt-n56u router with an external hard disk shared in NFS. Sometimes this shared disk shows in Finder, sometimes not, and I need to reboot router AND mac yosemite - even if I can see it being shared in my router's admin interface - to make it available in my sidebar. Sometimes, I need to wait some minutes for it to show.
I forgot my passcode on my iPad and I can't restore it. I plugged it into iTunes and did the manual restart. I logged onto iCloud and took my iPad off of Find my iPhone so I could restore it. The problem I've been having is my iPad isn't connected to the Internet so when I turn Find my iPhone off for my iPad my iPad doesn't update. Is there some way to connect my iPad to the internet if I can't get in or am I just doing this all wrong?
How to see apps from different accounts Is it possible to see apps you got from a different account? I signed off one of my accounts where I had a paid app but I deleted it! The thing is, I forgot the password, so I have another account. The problem is that now I can't get back that app without paying again... U-U I don't mind so much about paying once more, but still, it's a bit frustrating! Help?!?
I've got the latest MBPR 13" (i7 - early 2015 on Yosemite 10.10.3) and am trying to use the AmazonBasics Thunderbolt to VGA adapter (located here: *=URL=* with my external monitor. However, when I plug it in, the resolution on the monitor is apparently 800x600, or I can scale it to 1280x1024, which looks super awful and washed out and of course stretched out. But if I plug in an authentic Apple adapter, it works without issue and looks great.
I'm running OS X Yosemite on a Macbook Pro. I recently had an update for adobe flash but when the password prompt pops up to continue the installation of the update it looks like this:
I came to know that iBook does not support mobi files. So I was searched for some mobi reader but could not able to recofnize any top mobi reader. I searched for kindle, Moon readers, etc but unfortunately they are available only in android versions. So Iwould like to knpw if there are any good applications for reading mobi files.
Movies that I cannot find are taking up 200 GB on my Mac. I tried looking for these movies but I cannot find them. I believe that this is being cause by a video editing software I use called "VideoBlend". I think that it creates backups of the videos onto my mac, but I cannot find any them. Not sure what I should do. Note: I've searched countless of questions on this site and I was unable to find a solution.
I am using an iMac with Outlook 2011 installed. Until last week, there was no issue. Now, when I open Outlook, it initializes but does not open.
I have Google Maps installed in my iPhone 6, and I have enabled location history in Google location settings page, but my Google location history page doesn't have records. How can I turn it on?
We Have two Users on a 2013 MacBook Pro: 'A' and 'B'. However, when User 'B' tries to log in to the App Store, the login prompt is already completed with User 'A' info. Is it possible to have two Users log in separately to the App Store on one laptop?
I am trying to show all files and hide some. I know about the command:
I am having a problem finding voice recordings in my iPad. I already had this problem on my phone and none of the blogs nor threads on Apple's site have worked. I upgraded to iTunes 12.1.2.27
I tried downloading Tumblr yesterday but it never completed. At the moment I have an App icon stuck at 'Loading...'. I have tried restarting the iPhone (holding down both home and side buttons at the same time) and I have also tried shutting down the iPhone (holding the side button and swiping). I have also tried deleting it as usual (holding the icon down and choosing delete but it doesn't go away). Any ideas on what I can do to get rid of this icon?
This question is pretty much the same as How can I redownload an episode of podcast which I accidentaly deleted?. That old question had an answer, although a comment says the answer is no longer relevant to later versions of iTunes. I'm not sure what the protocol is for this situation, but since I have the same problem today I thought I'd re-ask the question.
I have this weird situation where I was using the reply-from-Notification-Center Messages feature and it got stuck in the write-the-message state, as in the screenshot below.  The message was sent, but ever since it got stuck and it’s unusable. How can I reset it without restarting the computer or logging out? (I’m on Mavericks.)
Some notifications on my Apple Watch (e.g. Viber) use a haptic tap when they appear on my Apple Watch. Others (e.g. Facebook) do not. What determines whether a haptic tap is used or not? Is this something I can change?
For the past month or so, I've been unable to backup my iPhone using iTunes. Every time I try, I'm told that the phone is "disconnected":
Bluetooth is unavailable since the middle of last March. I've followed all topic suggested: reset SMC, PRAM, deleted preference files (com.apple.Bluetooth.plist), reinstalled OS X from scratch and I also changed the WiFi-Bluetooth board with a brand new one. Nothing worked.
The Desired Result: In a perfect world, I would be able to set a custom shutdown screen that has text on it and is, you know, not not identical to a powered off screen. Alternatively, I could at least put large text on top of the black screen. I have not found any way to modify the shutdown screen for 10.10 or any other OS. Does anyone know any way to accomplish this?
I just miss the ability to go to first position of the shell with just 1 keyboard stroke, which I use it often at my office on CentOS ? I know I can go by Option + left key or Option + Right key to jump word to word but that doesnt help much .
On my mac, I can use software like CamTwist and SoundSiphon to create 'fake' webcam and microphone inputs. CamTwist lets me pipe custom content (such as images or video) to that webcamera input, and SoundSiphon makes it easy to have system audio interpreted as microphone input.
I have a macbook air 13' from 2013.  I just bought the same model, only newer.
I want to use the latest version of git which I installed via Homebrew, so I needed to change my PATH variable to ensure OS X uses the Homebrew version instead of the outdated version that ships with OS X and Command Line Tools. This tutorial recommends simply running: $ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH That's what I did and it worked great.
I've an iMac 10.10.3. When I open Finder and go to iMac under Devices I see my HDD, NAS, etc. But I also see "Remote Disc". I can't eject it (right click->Eject doesn't do anything) or trash it (The item "Remote Disc" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted).
I enabled full disk encryption on my new MacBook Pro. (I am new to the Mac world but an accomplished Linux/UNIX and Windows type) However, I made a mistake and skipped the step of taking note of the recovery key. Is is possible to get the recovery key at this point?
I have defined several keywords on my iPad Air 2 (iOS 8.3) in order to let iOS expand them when I type one of these keywords. However, these keywords do not expand. How can I force my iPad to expand them?
In Yosemite the App Store System Preferences pane has automatic updates for a few separate items: "Install App updates" "Install OS X updates" "Install system data files and security updates" App updates would include 3rd party software as well as Pages, Numbers, iMovie, etc.
Due to a stroke, I have had some vision impairment in that I sometimes have a hard time locating my mouse pointer on the screen. I have tried making the mouse pointer larger which helps but is still not the solution. I am new to the Mac world and would appreciate your help.
I recently discovered that when I press f13 on my mac keyboard, the screen flashes white. It look exactly like when you take a screenshot except, it's not taking a screenshot. I have looked through all my keyboard shortcuts in settings, and can't find anything that is assigned to f13. I have tried to search online and I can't find anything on f13 assigned to anything on mac. I also have a hard time believing that this would be assigned to anything on mac by default because you have to have the extended keyboard to press f13. EDIT: It also seems to occur when you press backspace in terminal when there is nothing left to delete EDIT 2: I currently don't have the setting to flash on alert, so I don't know what it is.
So what exactly is happening? Also, how is this used during the recovery process?
Is there any way to to tell Finder to default to moving rather than copying files from my main system disk to another disk? My main system disk is too small and I have a secondary 'main' disk which I use for media, larger files and the like. I know I can hold down Command to change the behaviour transfer by transfer, but sometimes I forget or hit the wrong key or Finder just decides it'll do a copy anyway. Move, rather than copy, is almost always what I want when transferring files between these two disks so that would be a better default for me.
I have heard from multiple sources that a standard QWERTY keyboard can produce 96 different characters, not counting the option key characters. Here is a picture of my keyboard:
After googling around a little bit, I landed on a reddit post in /r/linux which is here. Here's a screenshot of the pop-up using Safari:
I have a mid-2014 MBP retina with the Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB GPU running Yosemite. Current setup: 1x 27" Thunderbolt Display 1x 27" Cinema Display
I have paid some good money to buy the "Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran OS X" - The problem is that, whenever the OS changes (i.e., from Lion to Mountain Lion to Mavericks to Yosemite), the compiler needs update, and purchase of a new version. (Unless you buy a maintenance, approx. $300/yr). Also, sometimes a new version is required even when Xcode is updated! Two questions: Is there some free FORTRAN compiler or a non-free, which works after updates of Xcode or/and OS? Is there some free FORTRAN compiler or a non-free, which works after updates of Xcode or/and OS? Is there a way to make it work, even if is was destined for say Mavericks? Is there a way to make it work, even if is was destined for say Mavericks?
I am using a script found elsewhere on this site. But I can't figure out how to modify it to fit my use. As written the script activates the submenu I need but I can't figure out how to click an item on this submenu. I've tried all the variations of the line for "Rejected" I always get an error message saying "Can't get menu xxx..." The actual menu structure is: menu bar item: Photo, sub item with triangle: Set Flag, which expands to a submenu that includes "Rejected". Hope that's clear. end tell
I have a baffling problem. Browsers on my system (10.10.3 Yosemite) don't respect overrides included in my hosts file. This includes Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I have tried rebooting, clearing history, clearing Chrome's DNS cache with and OSX/Safari's with
Recently a new "glitch" has surfaced over the Internet over the last few weeks where if an iPhone user is sent: via iMessage it crashes the phone OS temporarily and force restarts the receiving phone. Why does this work?
I would like to use Boot Camp Assistant to partition my HD, reserving around 30 GB for Ubuntu. I would then have a dual OS X Yosemite and Ubuntu Linux system.
How do I delete all emails on my iPhone4 from a mailbox without selecting them one at a time? On the last iPhone OS update, something changed which caused all of my old emails to be re-downloaded to my phone. I have about 3500 emails all but the last few days' I need to delete.
I'd like to be able to run Plex media server in the background even when not logged on. This is something I could easily setup in Windows but I can't figure out if this is possible in OSX.
Why do several apps (example: Runkeeper) generate duplicate data in the Health App? Is this a bug or something I can turn off?
My 5s is driving me crazy. I can not open Apple of iCloud because it always rejects my password. I'll go to Apple or icloud via my computer and change it, and then try opening it a few times. Always works OK. BUT, then I try to open it with the phone - and it is rejected for incorrect password.
It has been more than a couple of months I have been looking for solution and I haven't found any yet. Here's my problem: startup sound works no 'internal speaker' in 'output device' in sound setting.
If I add the drive as a shared folder, then I can see it under (e.g.) \\OSXHostName\OFFICE12 but when I double click on it, I get a dialog box telling me it "is not accessible. You might not have permssion to use this network resource..." But in file sharing everyone has at least read-only access.
When I checked my storage for my Mac it says that I have over 200 GB in movies. First, I do not have that many movies. Second, my Mac can only hold 128 GB. How can I fix this?
Sorry but I don't know how to describe this problem. Let's see a simple example below.
I have removed my son's iPad from my iCloud account, and I have reset the iPad. I can't activate it because it says it's linked to my Apple ID and that Activation Lock is on. I can't turn this off, because when I log into my iCloud account, his iPad is no longer visible. What can I do to remove Activation Lock and set up my son's iPad in his name?
Is there a setting or third-party app for Yosemite which will make all new windows open in the center of my display? For instance, when I open a new Finder window, or launch an app. I've found a wonderful app called Spectacle which lets me center windows (and do all kinds of other useful things) using keyboard shortcuts, but I'd like to automate centering if possible.
I am trying to figure out what the position of the lid is. Whether it is open or closed. Is there a terminal command or a cocoa code snippet for this? I've already tried pmset -g but i can only get the sleep modes and the lidwake status.
When I receive an incoming cellular call on my iPhone 5 (iOS 8.3), it is propagated to all my other devices (including a wifi only iPad) connected to the same wifi network. I guess that's an activated by default functionality, can it be deactivated ?
Can I create any shortcut to focus on an application? For instance ⌘ CMD+1 and Safari is active and on top of other windows, ⌘ CMD+2 Pages and so on. I remember a long, long time ago, that was possible with F1, F2...
I have songs in my Music app that are marked as 'explicit'. Is there a way to copy this 'explicit'/'E' symbol so I can use it somewhere else?
How can I make the script output the encoded file in a user defined directory? I'm trying to build an in-house media file encoder based on Automator and ffmpeg. I want the source file(s) to be dropped on the app's icon and then ask the user where to output the encoded files. So far I have an Automator app where I drop files onto it and it runs this AppleScript: Currently the app outputs the encoded file at the same directory as the input file. How can I make Automator ask the user for and use a destination directory?
My iMac is being very odd. It won't boot using the internal hard drive. It chimes, starts the Yosemite progress bar and then changes and looks as if it is about to show me the login screen but then it just hangs at a grey screen. After about 30 seconds it just shuts down. My first thought was that it is just a software issue or hard drive failure so I attempted to boot up on my USB stick with Yosemite installer on it and then another one with TechTools Pro on it, they all fail at the same point as above.
I'm configuring a new MacBook Pro 15″ 2015 and wanted to know if the processor speed affects the battery life? 2.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.0GHz
I'm using OS X 10.9. I need to change some of the advanced printer settings in the presets dialog (the printer is Canon ImageRunner Advance 2030i). In this case I'd like to change the 'print style' setting under 'finishing' but I have no clue what to do to make the actual change happen. I tried clicking in combination with various keys but the setting still seems to be displayed as read-only (see screenshot). What should I do?
I've downloaded the correct IPSW file for the iPhone 4 using BitTorrent. iPhone3,1_7.0_11A465_Restore.ipsw I cannot use the Apple servers because the connection keeps dropping and the download does not resume where it left off. The iPhone can download the file itself, but again unreliable connection prevents me from doing that. I want to move the IPSW file to the iPhone using iFile and then tell the iPhone to update from the IPSW file on the iPhone.
I left my iPad mini 2nd gen in my car last night and it was fully functional, today I went to get it out and it is really hot outside 30C or 86F and sunny and inside of the car feels like sauna. iPad seems to be of and not responding if I try to switch it on. I thought it might run out of charge even though it would display charge me icon. I plug it in to charge and it is still not showing a sign that it is charging. Is it possible that it could have been boiled inside of car or has anyone had anything similar in the past?
If you are not known about this phemomenon, sending this message to someone with iOS will cause the phone to reboot once. However, this time the phone doesn't stop rebooting. After the reboot is finished, it starts with a new reboot. Basically I'm stuck. Is there anything I can do to make this loop stop? Thanks a lot in advance
I did a bug report because of this Xcode Situation ( Xcode.app gets scanned by socketfilterfw (OS X Firewall) at every launch ). I wonder about the time Apple usually needs to respond.
I need to print some FileMaker pages that I created in System 9 (MacOS 9). Is there any free OS X 10.9 software that will open those files?
When re-opening an app, all of its windows end up on the first Space, regardless of their original placement: Original layout: one app has two windows open, each in a separate Space Incorrect layout after app restart: both windows are in the first Space Is there a setting or an app that would make it possible to have apps restore their windows in the Spaces they were originally located before the app was quit?
Back in iPhoto, when using Photo Stream with my iPhone, photos would automatically be put into albums in the main page, one for each month. Eg Dec 2014 Photo Stream followed by another album called Jan 2015 Photo Stream and so on as the months progressed. Now in the new Photos app, the albums have been imported across, however as the months continued onwards, the corresponding albums aren't being created. Is there any way to get this functionality back in the new Photos app? Thanks!
I'm trying to set up Junos Pulse so I can connect to a VPN. I got a dmg with the JuniperSetupClientInstaller.mpkg from the Pulse server site, but when I run the installer, it doesn't seem to have any effect. It shows a "Successful Install" message at the end, but nothing seems to have changed. No further windows/dialogs appear, and searching Juniper or Junos doesn't turn up anything new.
Hi I'm trying to install the drivers for xone on my Mackbook Pro running 10.9.5. I don't have admin rights and it is in .pkg file form. Help?
The inspector menu opens as a vertical column by default. If I prepare a portrait poster in Keynote, I also turn my 16:9 monitor to make the long edge vertical. In this case I would prefer the inspector bar in Keynote to be horizontal, so that there is more space on the screen for my poster. Is this possible?
My iPhone 5c keeps blocking a certain caller without my knowledge. I keep having to go in and unblock the caller's number; her name and number appear in the blocked list again and again without my having asked for her to be blocked. I have never requested her number be blocked, so what gives?
I currently have a 27' iMac that uses a Samsung 16' monitor as a second display using Mini Display Port to VGA. I also have a 2011 Macbook Pro and was wondering if there was a way to set up this up as a third monitor to the iMac. The MDP is already in use, so what would be my options (if there are any) for connecting a laptop as another monitor? Also note that this monitor does not have thunderbolt, so thats out. Thanks in advance for help.
How can I disable Google Search's .js from refocusing on search box when pressing certain keys (a-Z, _, ., etc.). I'd like to keep using Type-To-Navigate Safari extension also on Google search results (and only reenter the search box when pressing, say, ESC). This NinjaKit script should disable hotkeys on StackExchange:
I have a program which generates some html documentation. At the end of the script, I use the open command to automatically view the page in the browser. However, after iterating on the code, I end up with numerous obsolete copies of index.html open in my browser.
I have been trying to partion my WD My Passport External harddrive that has already got data on it. All of the guides I see on the internet tell you to resize the current volume to do so. I don't have the tab to do this in disk utilities.
I bought two albums today on my iPhone, on my Apple ID, downloaded them to the iPhone, I then sync'd the phone this afternoon. Now the albums will not show on my iPhone and it's saying that they're associated with a different Apple ID? Which it can't be since I haven't changed it?
Using a company computer and creating files and whatnot, it always lists the author as being 'pseudonym'•. Through advanced settings in Users & Groups, I can change the the Account name (ie, the short name) to the name I want, but anywhere I've searched on the internet always states that the Home directory must also be changed to reflect the new Acct. name. Using the Advanced Settings, is there any problem with having the AccountName and Home directory not being the same? Can I have my account name 'xXx_dArkSephiroth42_xXx'• and my home directory be 'pseudonym' without any problems? • Names changed to protect identity Edit: Wanted to highlight using only the Advanced Settings
Is there an small app to always show language status? The ideal app changes the color/shape of cursor depending on current language. Or it can be a float icon on top with current language.
Can i use an external USB (like an OTG for androids) on iphone 5c along with an usb adapter(lightning to micro usb port)? Can iphones read external USB devices?
Is it possible to insert GRIDLINES (not guidelines) in PowerPoint 2011? If so, how can this be done? Edit: I'm looking for gridlines, as outlined in this post.
My wife and I just bought two Ipad mini 2's. We each have our own Apple IDs but when we try to use Imessage to send each other a message it states that the other's ID is not registered with Imessage. But I can send and receive messages with other ipads.
I have a script (mostly borrowed) which utilizes scutil to rename computers based off of values in a CSV file. It matches the serial number to a computer name, sets a variable, and then renames the ComputerName, HostName, and LocalHostName with the variable. For reference, the name will be SFO-C2900-MBP Here's the script: Two things are happening from this: 1) An error is thrown when the script attempts to rename the LocalHostName: SCPreferencesSetLocalHostName() failed: Invalid argument 2) The Terminal, after quit/reboot/etc, will do the following: Terminal showing Question Mark over folder, also missing hostname Setting these values manually through terminal using scutil --set {def} work fine and restore Terminal to its normal behavior. I have tried the following: Removing the LocalHostName lines from the script Setting the LocalHostName value to a variable set inside the script and not the CSV file
I am building a desktop designed to run Linux (Ubuntu). I want to save money by using the two Apple Thunderbolt Displays I already own. I have not had much success finding a straight forward answer to whether or not I can simply hook up the displays to a Thunderbolt expansion card on the motherboard. Anybody ever seen it work successfully?
Edit: This is the most recent code I have now... How can I get it to stop (change the value of x) when I run a separate script?
I gave a "friend" my number and he sent the effective power code and now my iMessage doesn't work anymore I click on the app for iMessage and the app crashes
There definitely seems to be a bug here. I just installed these, possibly already more than once, but they're still "Available":
I have an Iphone 4s and a Windows 7 PC. When I plug in my phone it is recognized, but when I open the pictures folder (DCIM) there are only 2 folders showing. One shows about 30 pictures, 1 video, the other shows about 70 pictures, 3videos. I have just over 1500 pictures on my actual phone, I'm looking to back them up onto the PC but why are they not all showing? I've tried unlocking the phone first. Please help! Thank you.
Have an iMac here roughly 2 years old and within the last week the admin account password has stopped working. It is the correct password, used on all of our devices and only IT staff use it. The password has not been changed. (our users use network accounts which have also stopped logging in, however that seems to be a network related issue as other computers are also experiencing this).
The Archive Box is not displayed in my Sidebar, yet I can archive mail. How do I get the Archive Folder to display, so i can retrieve my archived emails?
I can't download Apps from the Appstore to my iPod touch 5. If I want to download an App, I select "get" then "install", it asks for my password which I fill in. After that, it reads "get", but doesn't download anything.
When bushwalking I use my Garmin GPS to record tracklogs, which I can later download. I was wondering if the iPhone5 has a similar capability. This could be handy when travelling.
I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.3 and a mid-2011 iMac running the latest version of Yosemite. On Phone I have iCloud Photo Library turned on. I have "Optimize iPhone Storage checked I have upload to my Photo Stream on. I have iCloud Photo Sharing on. In Photos on the desktop I have iCloud Photo Library unchecked (I don't want all my images in the cloud and I don't want to pay for the storage) I have Photo Stream checked I have iCloud Photo Sharing checked.
How does this work? You can restore phones in DFU mode but you're faced with Activation Lock if you have enabled it. Will you still be able to locate it?
UPDATED: Added crash log. It's not clear (to me) why launchd is dying:
I was just stunned today, when I just discovered that I cannot upload my resume either in pdf/doc while applying for a job. All I have access to is Photos, which is my photos and videos repository. Is there actually a way to upload documents in safari or it is just not allowed in iPhones or iOS.
I have spent many hours trying to figure out how to fix this. I have encoded and re-encoded the PDF in many different manners. I "Optimized" the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI using JBIP and then with ZIP. I "Exported" the file out of Preview itself, with the Quartz filter. I reduced the quality of the PDF so that it was only 750 MB large. I repaired disk permissions. None of these various methods significantly decreased the beach ball time of the Preview saving process.
I do programming with two different Macs, both with an original Apple keyboard and using the German keyboard layout. There is a strange issue, occurring from time to time. If I enter the squared bracket close ("]"), some other, invisible characters are inserted as well, and e.g. the Python parser does not work on the provided code. Consider the following two lines of Python code: and the resulting binary output The string "] =" should be ASCII 0x5D 0x20 0x3D, but instead of a space (0x20), the bytes 0xC2 0xA0 are inserted.
Here's an example from the console log: I'm trying to find the cause of some frequent slowness on my iMac so I'm inspecting the console log regularly. These are one of the messages I can't get rid of and I can't seem to find an issue for.
I bought my macbook pro in HK and I live in China. As a new user, I don't understand why I can't update my apps and I see this message: "Your Apple ID is not valid for use in the Chinese Store. To create a new Apple ID, you must switch to the U.S. Store."
I have a MacBook connected to an external display + external keyboard and magic trackpad. Because the laptop is placed on the table, while multitasking between the two displays (internal and external) I often find it useful to use the built-in keyboard and trackpad from the MacBook when I want to focus on laptop's screen.
I am placing multiple video picture in pictures in my iMovie project. Is there a function with which, once I find a size I like for the first one or two, I can then apply that same universal size to every picture in picture in the project? I'm trying to avoid having to do all 40 odd clips manually and I want to be sure each is the same size, rather than just guessing.
Now, seemingly random my Mac Mail gets non responding and I've to hard quit it and reload it. It has something to do with the synchronizing and my private mail but can't seem to figure out what.
I am trying to buy an app which runs on 10.10 only, from a computer that has 10.9 installed. The App Store does not like it:
Can one use the iPhone to browse photos and videos that reside in folders on a internet connected mac? I have recently decided to not use library based photo managers - after Apple decided to give up on Aperture. Uploading to online photo sites is time consuming. And Dropbox costs $100 a year - kind of expensive just for photos. And when I have an internet connected, always on, Mac Mini, then wondering why I cannot use it to serve up my photos and videos in a manner similar to what Dropbox can do. Thanks in advance for sharing your ideas!
My backup drive (named seagate) kept getting the error- not enough space - although the size of the backup is the same as the HD. I am at 60% capacity on my HD. The error continued even though I erased my backup to restart the process (as well as deleting unnecessary files from my HD, and limiting what was being backed up)
I've synced my google (gmail) contacts to my iphone5, but i'd like to have some contacts not show on my phone. Is there a way to select either on the phone or on gmail which contacts to show on my phone?
Shared Calendars is not available in my Navigation Pane. I am trying to add colleagues calendars. I understand they should show up in a Shared Calendars Section in the Navigation Pane. But I don't have that section at all. Have I hidden that somehow? Is there a way to add it back?
I've got a 128 GB 11″ MacBook Air running Yosemite which I use for travelling and managing photos while on the move. With only 128 GB I try to manage the disk space carefully. But now I find there is only 10 GB left. About This Mac → Storage shows that photos take up 61 GB of this.
At the I/O conference yesterday, it was announced that Inbox would no longer require an invitation, and there were some feature improvements released. One of these was "swipe to delete," a feature I've been pining for for a while now. However, I can't figure out where the setting exists to enable this. I've checked *=URL=* I looked in both the Settings app and the settings option in the sidebar of Inbox itself, and no luck. Anyone managed to figure this out?
I work at a place where they re-issue iPhones to various employees. One of these iPhones has been re-issued at least 3 times. Which means that there are at least 3 Apple ID/iCloud accounts that have been associated with this iPhone. The procedure was to wipe the phone ( Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content) and then create a new Apple ID / iCloud account for the new user using the phone. However...today we got a message that said Can’t Create AppleID This device is no longer eligible for creating a free iCloud account, and I believe that is because three people had accounts associated with it before. I've tried loggging into their iCloud accounts on *=URL=* and the device is not listed there as it is preportedly supposed to be so I can unlink it.
The MPlayerX (latest version, 1.0.22.1) video controls used to be at the bottom of the window, where they were easily accessible. Some time ago (on the order of weeks or months), despite MPlayerX not having changed, the video controls have changed to go at the top somehow. There, they are partly obscured by the title bar. I know I can turn the title bar off, but I rather want the controls to go back on the bottom of the window...
I'm a first-timer on here. I too have an early 2008 MacPro 8-core 2.8ghz with 16gbRam and stock Radeon 2600 Vcard. It's fairly well configured, but I'm sure that can improve response for a reasonable purchase, which bring me to this inquiry.
I'm trying update our iOS app through itunes connect. However, I'm having an issue with the iOS distribution certificate when I try to submit to the appstore. This is the error that appears to me:
I have the latest (5/2015) Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on Yosemite. I created a chart in numbers and then copied it to Pages or Keynote. I then want to be able to change the data in Numbers and see the chart updated in Pages or Keyonte. However, I don't see an option to "refresh". Is there a way to dynamically link Numbers to Pages or Keynote?
iCloud Photo Library appears to be working great between iMac and an iPhone 5c, but has been stuck on "13 items to download" for over a week on iPhone 5s, plus no photos taken with that phone have been uploaded in some time. Any ideas?
Last week I was in another country and had no connection to internet nor to my operator. I had the Airplane mode turned on the whole time and took a lot of photos. Yesterday I came back home and connected again to Wi-Fi. All the photos I took are located in the exact same streets/city/country they've been taken.
I'm looking to write a paper on how the OS X user interface has evolved from OS X Leopard all the way through to OS X Yosemite and am seeking guidance on where to find older versions of the OS X Human Interface Guidelines documentation. The following data should aid in the search in the circumstance that navigating the WayBack Machine in the event that that is the only viable option. OS X 10.5 Leopard Release Date: October 26, 2007 OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Release Date: August 28, 2009 OS X 10.7 Lion Release Date: July 20, 2011 OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Release Date: July 25, 2012 OS X 10.9 Mavericks Release Date: October 22, 2013 OS X 10.10 Yosemite Release Date: October 16, 2014 Any help in finding these documents would be greatly appreciated. If there's not a complete link to them, perhaps several answers could point to each or one answer be maintained to point to them all.
This question may at first glance seem to be a duplicate but I am asking for an update and clarification to an unsolved problem. After extensively scanning the web, it seems that the consensus is that even if one were to force bootcamp in a macbook pro 2010 model (with optical dvd drive removed) to recognize usb, there remains the problem with EFI vs GPT booting. See the previous AskDifferent thread: Mac Mini 2010: DualBoot (BootCamp) OSX Mavericks + Windows 8.1 Has this community come up with a solution?
I want to order the reinstall disk for Macbook 2007. Please help me to order that disk to install my Macbook
Mid-2011 iMac 21.5 inch CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600S CPU @ 2.80GHz RAM: 8.00 GB Right now, I connect an external monitor to my iMac using the one thunderbolt port that I have. Is it possible to connect a second external monitor? If so, how?
All out of a sudden, the sidebar in "Finder" is gone. The weird thing is that the "Show Sidebar" entry of the View menu is disabled/grayed out, so the sidebar can't be enabled again. Do you have any ideas how to fix this issue? Btw, restarting did not change anything. Edit: Happens on OSX Yosemite/10.10.3
If my Mac's computer name (in the Sharing prefs) is "Node" normally, once in a while when using the Terminal, I can see it's magically changed itself: For some reason it thinks its own name is taken and adds "-2" to the end. I have to go into the Sharings prefs and change it back. Why would this be happening and how do I stop it?
My next step would be to try two things: to install Windows to a SATA drive using an EFI compliant system in order to get a drive that's EFI compliant that boots Windows and shove that in the Xserve to see if it'll boot it; and also to install the EFI GRUB loader onto the Windows install flash drive and see if it can coax the Windows loader into running. But before I go through all that... is this even possible? Or has Apple done something to block this from even being possible using native EFI? I'm already aware that there may be driver issues due to lack of Boot Camp support, but from what I've read, the Xserve is more or less a Mac Pro in a 1U rack case, so I'd expect manually extracting the drivers from the Boot Camp distribution that works on the Mac Pro would likely yield many of the necessary drivers which could be installed by hand.
Will I still be able to access my photos, contacts, etc by logging into my icloud if I turn off 'find my iphone'?
It used to say 8GB capacity in the General > About Settings menu. Now it only says 5.4. I've done a "restore as new" but it's still showing the same. Help?
I know the official requirement to use the Apple Watch is an iPhone 5 or newer running iOS 8.2+, but I'm interested to know if it is possible to sync it to an older iPhone, iPod, or an iPad by side loading the Apple Watch app or any hacks. According to Bluetooth SIG's site the iPhone 4s, iPad (Air, Mini, 3rd & 4th gen), and iPod touch (5th) are Bluetooth Smart Ready which means they are compatible with both standard and low energy Bluetooth protocols. Since the Apple Watch only works with Bluetooth LE and these devices also support LE it seems to be just a software limitation. I would try side loading the 'Apple Watch' app myself to a jailbroken iOS device however I am not able to find a .app/.ipa for it.
I'm trying to mimic iTerm2 feature. It has a feature to show/hide iTerm2 by a hotkey (eg. option + space).
With no good reason I had a look at my computer's storage going on the apple and About this Mac. Here is the display:
I want to downgrade from Mavericks to ML. If I do this, how can I recover my emails, calendar and contacts after the downgrade?
I've been having random crashes (freezes or kernel panics requiring hard reboots) but I can't seem to pin down the cause. Looking in Console.app on restart, the only common factor seems to be related to launchd with this message:
so i've just upgraded to OS X Yosemite, which comes with the new Photos app. and i am scared! the minute i opened the app, it prompted me to log in to the iCloud and started downloading some old photos, which i have deleted from My Photo Stream looong time ago. for example, i had some pictures from 2012 christmas party which have been in My Photo Stream over TWO YEARS ago, but now they're resting safely on an external HDD. so the question is - how did they end up showing in the Photos app, if I: a) have definitely deleted them over TWO YEARS ago from My Photo Stream b) backed them up to an iPhoto Library on an external HDD, which I DID NOT CONNECT at any time to my computer also one more thing worth noting - when i login to the *=URL=* and go to Photos, I can only see like maybe 5 recently taken pictures - no sign of the old photos, as expected, because, you know, i deleted them TWO YEARS AGO.
Is there a video app that can float on top and avoid the cursor? The problem with VLC is that I use the "Float on Top" feature while VLC takes up 1/4 of the screen. However sometimes I would like the access the menus below VLV, and therein lies the problem. I don't want to constantly move VLC just to access the menus below it. Is there a feature or app that can move the video player out of the way from the cursor and return to its' original position afterwards?
I was thinking of buying a used macbook or macbook pro and plan to replace the battery and HDD
Is there a general way extend Siri on iOS 8 to use other apps? For instance, I am not using the apple E-Mail app but "myMail". I'd like to make Siri use this app when telling her to write an e-mail? By extension, can non-apple apps for sending instant messages, listening to music be plugged into Siri?
Every time I download a file from my school site, it gets .html suffix. For example, if I download a file called file.docx from my school site through the safari, it is saved in my downloads directory as file.docx.html.
Can I use OS X to discover and scrape a web site favorite icon for later reuse? (and I'll deal with any licensing issues if needed - just looking for how to do this for personal use currently)
I have MacBook Pro late 2012. Instead DVD I made SSD and Fusion Drive by some instructions from web. As you know it's logical drive and looks like one. But now I need second logical partition for linux. How I can do that?
Do the Mini 2014 mechanical hard-drive versions have an M.2 ssd slot on their mainboard? EDIT: Let me clarify: the fusion version have a M.2 SSD on the mainboard slot and a 2.5" mechanical drive. Will I find this M.2 slot even on the mechanical-only version? I'm referring to both 1.4 and 2.6 GHz versions. Thanks.
How can I see the list of all my events on my iPhone 4s? Not just the ones for that day or by searching with an alphabet letter.
I have been trying to write an AppleScript that would open the mail app register a save as key event (Shift+Command+S) wait 1.5 seconds, do a return key event ("Enter") and then wait another 1 second and then register a down arrow key event.
My iPhone 5s speaks the words I type while texting. How do I stop iPhone 5s from speaking the words I type when texting?
Similar to Change update frequency of app store in Mountain Lion? Is there a way to change the frequency the App Store checks for updates in Yosemite?
I've just restarted my Macbook Pro with the latest OS (Yosemite 10.10.3) and noticed that menu bar is stuck to load all icons, as well as to display the clock. When I move the mouse cursor to top right corner, the cursor will become waiting circle.
when i wanted to update the mac, this thing appear, so i can't. maybe it's cuz of some apps that i've downloaded, but i couldn't know which one is! i need to update the mac. i tried to search for solutions, but there's no such a problem. please help :( i'm really suffering and bored cuz of this problem. thanks. 10.9.5 and the model is macbook pro EtreCheck version: 2.2 (132) Report generated 5/31/15, 1:34 AM Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but I haven't found any answer. I know I can animate a bulleted-list in keynote so it appears by bullet, one by one. Can I insert a full-screen slide (picture or something) in the middle of this animation? Like this. Show bullet #1 Show bullet #2 Show a full-screen slide Show bullet #3 The only solution I can think of - is to create two duplicate slides and a picture-slide in between.
I can open the directories in the terminal app and even dump the contents of the files to the console, so I don't think it's a unix permissions issue. And none of my googling has found a fix to my problem. Specifically, I get these errors when I try the various proposed solutions I've found so far: And if I highlight the file in Finder, click cmd-I to view the file info and try and modify the Sharing and Permissions, I get a error stating: The operation cant be completed because you don't have the necessary permission. Finally, DiskUtil won't reach the back-up folders since they're on a network drive. In case it's useful, calling ls -lash yields this entry: Any help is greatly appreciated! UPDATE:
With my useraccount I use a .bash_profile that contains this line: export PS1='\[\e[0;36m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\[\e[0;33m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[0;33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\$ ' With my adminaccount I use a .bash_profile that contains this line: export PS1='\[\e[0;31m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\[\e[0;33m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[0;33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\$ ' So basically useraccountname=blue, adminaccountname=red
Apple App Store is stuck in a loop, when you press "get" you get "install", and when you press "install" you get "get" again, and so on with infinity loop, trying to download a free or commercial app — how do I make it stop?
I recently download the new Google Photos app for iOS, and I noticed that my photos are only uploaded when I have the app opened and in focus. Background app refresh is on for the app.
I am trying to install gulp - which seems to require first cask: Let us install the cask:
My PowerBook G4 (without Intel) running OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) doesn't react to clicks from the touchpad or mouse ... any ideas why? and what to do? Is it a Software or Hardware issue? Don't have a OS X Tiger CD to reinstall. Did check what I could on SafeBoot, at some point it said that the HD seems functioning correctly.
After I've created an iCloud acc then sign in to App Store the status is shown that (your Apple ID was created for a different country. Go back and select that country, or choose a new Apple id. You must switch to the U.S store to create an id. Noted : my country is Cambodia.
I've OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. Since sometime dropbox.com is not accessible on my mac. Now since few days dropbox in my finder doesn't sync. I uninstalled it and now I cannot install as dropbox.com doesn't connect. I have done all the updates since updating to Yosemite. The traceout shows that the second last hop blocks the connection. Could anybody please help me?
Update: I found a workaround. See below. I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3 and a rMBP running OS X 10.10.3. Both machines have the latest version of Apple's Keynote app installed.
I just started using iCloud Photo Library. I uploaded all images using Photos for Mac. Now, I enabled the "Optimize Mac Storage" option, so the full-resolution files are not stored on my Mac. However, I'd like to keep a local backup of all photos stored in iCloud Photo Library (and therefore in Photos for Mac) on my NAS. There is an option to export images.
When Do Not Disturb is on, my Apple Watch still shows the watch face when I turn my wrist. This is a pain at night, because every time I move, I get a bright light shining from the Watch.
I shutdown my computer for some reasons with power button (cold shutdown). Unfortunately, my OS i.e.,mavericksis gone at the moment and I have no backup from the Data and settings of that Hard drive partition. I have the mavericks installation DVD, and tried to repair the disk with Disk Utility but it didn't work. getting the following message: Disk utility stopped repairing 'Macintosh HD`, Disk utility cant repair the disk, back up as many of your files.....'
I have an app that was built by vendors. They did everything including submitting the app to the App Store. So now I did slight modification to the app and want to update it in the app store. However, an error message pops up when we try to archive the app in Xcode. It first says that the team doesn't match, then prompts me to click fix it. I clicked fix it but finally it shows this message: Your account has a valid iOS distribution certificate but it is not installed locally. What does this message mean and how to fix it?
I have an iPhone 6 (European model) and will be travelling to Japan soon, where networks have different connectivity requirements. I checked the specs from Apple and couldn't conclude whether it supports W-CDMA. Is there way to check in the phone itself which bands those it support? Thanks in advance.
I have some weird fan issues with my iMac. It sometimes goes to maximum speed but only for a couple of seconds and then goes back to normal. Without doing any heavy processing. The hardware test tells me there's an error:
I have a Macbook Pro running Yosemite, but no iPad or iPhone. Photos.app transferred the entire contents of my iPhoto libraries, but I cannot see how to delete an unwanted event. Although I am using Photos.app, and iPhoto has now gone, the events are still referred to as iPhoto Events. It is my belief that the lack of "iPhoto" as an app anywhere on my system means that I am running wholly on "Photos" despite the events being referred to as iPhoto Events. Am I correct in this belief?
I want to display the exact modified date/time in Finder. How can I do this?
I am not getting notified when the Find My iPhone app is used or even if I try searching via iCloud. How can I enable them?
How to automatically close an OS X apps after not being used for a number of minutes?? I am looking for a way to auto-close apps that are not used (focused at least) for a number of minutes, a number of minutes configured for each one.
Via Settings/Safari/Saved Passwords/ it is possible to view all saved passwords by simply entering the 4 digit passcode on ones iPhone. Is it possible to still be able to use Keychain passwords and autofill, but prevent access by the 4 digit code (e.g. requiring the full Keychain/iCloud password), so that someone who knows your phone code is not able to access all of your internet passwords in plain text?
My MacBook is running on Yosemite 10.10.2. Before sometime Safari was working fine but now it is crashing while opening. Erorr Log:
My spring loaded folder settings are missing from the Finder prefs in Yosemite.  What might be the cause of this and how do I get all my options back? FYI, I do have XtraFinder 0.25.4 installed but the option didn't move to the prefs there.
In the Mac Mail app, copying an email address of someone in your address book (e.g. from the header of some message) and pasting it elsewhere (e.g. in Text Edit) will result in "first_name last_name <mail address>" being pasted rather than just mail address or at least "<mail address>".
Should the top part of MBA mid 2013 (MD711) trackpad click? I recently noticed that mine doesn't. I don't know if it's an issue just with mine.
Some apps STILL don't support fullscreen mode, such as MathMagic. I find this quite irritating, and so I downloaded Maximizer, which was built for Lion, but which I thought would work in Yosemite. However, it doesn't. MathMagic still can't enter fullscreen. I have looked all over the internet for a solution, but almost all I've seen are for OSX Lion. What are my other options? Thanks in advance!
I am trying to install Steam with Wineskin but I get a window showing "winemenubuilder.exe has encountered a serious problem" the log of this crash is here on pastebin I am using OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
It seems like every built-in application on a MacBook has a separate Apple ID log in. Is there a way to log in to your Apple account in one place on your MacBook Pro and have it sign in your iTunes, Messages, and other applications that have an Apple ID automatically?
I downloaded some apps off of iTunes and it shows up as downloaded in iTunes but doesn't show up in Launchpad or Finder. I tried opening them from iTunes or dragging them in Finder or desktop but they show up as files. How do I open and use these apps?
Marking this question as an already existing question is wrong as the other question refers to a Mid 2012 NONretina Macbook running 10.10.1 instead of 10.10.3/4 I think that daisy chaining DisplayPort screens under OS X 10.10.4 is not possible, due to software limitations defined by Apple. After Googling for some hours, spending 1.5 hours talking to the Apple Support and another hour talking to the Dell support, I don't know where else to find a solution than here. This is my problem: I just bought a new MacBook Pro Retina 2015 2.5GHz i7, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 750M running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. I have two Dell U2414H 24" screens.
After my MBP has been asleep (lid closed), when woken, it seems to reconnect to wifi for a few seconds (30 or so) and then becomes unresponsive. All indications are that everything is OK, but web browsing etc fails. By "switching wifi on and off" on the task bar, it then works fine until the next time it's woken from sleep. I have changed wifi router, and this issue has been evident for a year or so (so was on Mavericks and is now on Yosemite). It has the latest released version of Yosemite (10.10.3)
I'm trying to find information about a popular early 90s Macintosh freeware anti-virus program. I can't remember its name. As I recall it installed as an extension and the icon was a frilly black 'V' on a white background. I believe development stopped in the mid-90s in response to the threat of Word macro viruses. Thanks
When you enter a FaceTime call in OS X, as of Mavericks, it lowers the volume of everything else besides the call. There's no way to disable this "feature." People here suggested disabling audio ducking in Voiceover Utility, but that doesn't have any effect, at least not in Yosemite.
I reboot my macbook (4,1 model + 10.6.8) very infrequently since I rely on the hibernation feature a lot. I also use USB flash drives a fair bit and there is usually one plugged in to one of the USB slots. So, when I resume from hibernation two things happen.
I understand it is impossible to find the password, but is it possible to find the apple ID so I can email the guy this phone was obviously stolen off? I've lost several hundred pounds on this stupid purchase, but at the very least I can give this poor man his phone back. Dubhlainn
Somewhere back in time (and possibly in a galaxy far far away) I had added an Input Source to my OS/X mavericks. I believe I have located the file that was used as the definition. However, it is not clear from the Keyboard | Input Sources dialog how to (a) view the properties of the custom Input Source or (b) edit / update an existing Input Source So how to update/edit MAC keyboard input source definition file?
Since yesterday the System Preferences pane on Mail, Contacts & Calendars refuses to connect to Google to setup e-mail, calendars and contacts. It started after Contacts.app did not want to sync with Google Contacts and asked and refused my correct password. After that Mail.app and Calendar.app did the same. I removed the account from System Preferences and attempted to start anew. However, now it throws the following error at me:
Here is the dialog for adding an input source. Nowhere does a "choose file" file chooser dialog button appear.
Karabiner has a comprehensive set of predefined key remappings. But what about a simple remap '`' to '$' (and vice versa)
I installed ubuntu on macbook air 6,2 (Early 2014 model) using these instructions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir6-2/Trusty
Can someone describe how to encrypt a message which isn't an email using someone else's pgp public key on iPad or iPhone?
As of April 2014, Google Voice apparently broke the GrowlVoice 2.0.3 interface. Since then various fixes/patches/etc have arisen. I need a procedure to reliably (re)install a working variant on Mac OS 10.9.5--I don't (yet) want to upgrade to Yosemite. I have to reinstall every time I'm forced to reboot my laptop, and on the last reboot, all my past tricks (that I can remember at least, derived from these sources) appear to be failing, with this result: "Sign in error: The operation couldn't be completed. (com.google.HTTPStatus error 404.)" I need a "from scratch," Mac OS 10.9.5 procedure to get Growl Voice working: Remove all existing, conflicting files/artifacts. Install *=URL=* or some other canonical source of the App. Fix/patch/whatever #2. Preferably: make the above work through reboots. Since I'm having trouble on this latest (re)install, I need a full, autonomous procedure (to de-install all pertinent and potentially-conflicting files, install GrowlVoice, install patches, etc); 
I've noticed that when a family members iPhone 4S connects to the WiFi, the general internet slows to a crawl, i.e. a normal ping to bbc.co.uk would give me 25ms, but when her phone is connected, it rises to 1000+ms. I have no idea to check what app may be causing this or what service on the phone might be causing this. All ideas welcome.
I had restored my iPad Air 2 but now it says I need to activate it with the Apple ID used to set it up but I have forgotten my ID and password. The only way I can use it is to use the previous Apple ID and password. Is there any way I can change the Apple ID to a different new account?
I'm a non mac user. But I would like to buy the latest mac 12" 1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M. But I need Visual Studios 2013 the requirements are 1.6 GHz or faster processor. Can this be install in VM and work? Thank you in advance.
At the first start ever of the Photos-App, after it imported all images it could find, the program automatically searches all images for faces. Later it only does it with newly imported images.
Is there a way to set a program as default, for all file types it can open? I know there is a setting for this in windows, but how can I do this on Mac? Or at least a menu where I can toggle all files that can be opened, like you can in windows?
I'm searching for a custom method to limit access to our mac. Parental controls allow you to limit time by school nights and weekend time chunks through system preferences. However, I want more options for the limiting. For example, on Mondays I want access available from 2pm to 5pm and then again from 8pm to 10pm limited to 2 hours total login time. Tuesdays may get different time ranges and total access time.
I want to install some applications on an external SSD attached via a USB 3.0 interface. As I know from the apple site, I can move my iTunes and photo library to an external drive. (support apple link) I own the 128 GB version of the MacBook Pro series, so I would like to outsource some disk space-intensive applications on an external SSD like the libraries, too. Can I install applications on an external drive? If it is possible to install applications on an external SSD, will the OS load the data from there to the internal SSD to process or is it going to load the data directly to the RAM ?
Commonly, in the Open/Save dialog I would like to get the list of all the folders that are open in the finder (as these are the ones that I'm using at the moment). I tried to define a smart folder with the list of recent folders, but this doesn't do the trick. Is there a way to introduce this list in these dialogs ?
How can I change the color of TODAY in Calender?
Since iOS 4, my family is equiped with multiple iOS devices. I used the same iTunes account on all devices to share : Applications Photos Notes Musics Data (game progression)
My wife has a mid 2006 macbook that has been upgraded to snow leopard. I have a mid 2008 macbook pro that has been upgraded to Yosemite. I now want to give my macbook pro to my wife, and thought I could just swap in the drive from her macbook into the MBP (and then subsequently upgrade her to Yosemite). Swapping results in a kernel panic on the MBP; having done some reading, I suspect the problem is that somewhere along the way the MBP's firmware was upgraded such that it can no longer run snow leopard.
It is possible to zip a target folder with encryption by the terminal command However, the contents of myzippedfolder will be a folder called Users containing a folder called username containing a folder called Documents containing the folder myfolder and its contents. Is it possible to zip the folder myfolder only such that when myzippedfolder is unzipped it contains only myfolder and its contents rather than the parent folders?
I want to connect a Windows 8 Client to a SMB fileshare on a OS X Server 10.9. With OS X I have no problems, but I don't know what I have to do to get the Windows client connected.
I'm having a really frustrating DNS cache issue on my Macbook running Yosemite. I'm a web developer so i'm always working with new sites and setting up new servers / domains etc.. so every now and then I will try to load a domain that hasn't propagated yet and I will get the standard "ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED" error. I will then confirm the domain has propagated and try clearing my DNS cache using every single option I've found online: sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache;sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches;say flushed
I checked my iCloud account, and it seems like the backups took about 3GB. However, it is complaining that I'm left with only 171.92mb of storage.
I want to save h.264 video files on dropbox and play them on iPhone. Can we do that?
I'm having the exact same symptoms as this user. However, I don't (like that user) have FileVault on, nor are my hard drives sleeping whenever possible (as per energy saving settings).
My iPhone fails to connect to my mac via USB charger. The USB port and the cable are working. System Information shows that "unknown device (...not been configured)". I don't know why this happens?
Lately, I've been getting this unusual "clone" of the Chrome icon appearing at the left side of my Dock. It comes out randomly. Initially, I thought it's a new feature that binds the iPad session on Chrome to the one in Mac.
10.10.3 There is a process, I do not know how its started and what it starts, which uses ~350% of the CPU. Its performed by 'root'. When I quit it from the activity monitor it comes back straight away. Any ideas?
I have an Apple Thunderbolt display and really love it - only that the USB ports are only USB 2! I have read this question, but is there any new development on connecting a USB 3 drive to a thunderbolt port on the Apple Thunderbolt monitor?
I'm wondering about privacy aspects of Safari extensions, or which pieces of information active extensions can obtain about my web browsing activities. Should I expect that an extension will generally be able to collect information about everything I'm doing in Safari, or are there any restrictions on what extensions can access? The question is it possible to disable Safari extensions when using Private browsing? seems to indicate that there may be privacy issues when extensions are enabled.
I just got my Macbook here, and I got a USB with Yosemite 10.10. I opened up the Macbook, took out the old one, and put the SSD inside. My SSD fits perfectly (Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB).
I have a weird issue with my MBP, not that it causes any discomfort or troubles, just want to make sure it isn't something serious. I don't even know how to exactly describe the problem, but only can say that when I open some white image and then switch to gray app, I can clearly see shadows of previous image. I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I was trying to boot 4 linux OSes (using rEFInd): Kali, Ubuntu, Mint and Elementary on my 2015 MBP. Both Kali and Ubuntu would not boot at all and Linux Mint and Elementary would boot however some text, graphics and images would not show (tested on a PC and virtual box and it worked).
I was texting with my father (a known contact!) using iMessage on my Mac. He was using his iPhone. In one of his messages to me, a strange message and link appended itself to what he was writing and the message sent itself.
What apps on iOS can open .xpt and .por files? I think they are called binary or stata/sas files in general? How do you open them on iOS? Is that not possible?
Right when I opened Archive Utility for the first time, it asked me for a password for "activated.info". What password is it talking about and what would I put? I've never used it before so I've never set up a password.
Then it went to charging with only the apple logo. I assumed I was screwed.
I'll be connected to any given WiFi connection (indicating this is not a router or channel problem) and everything will work fine. Within a period of time – normally ranging from a few minutes to an hour – I will try to load a web page and see its loading status say 'resolving host' (Chrome v43).
I am trying to setup gmail on a clean install of Mavericks 10.9.5. The Gmail settings like enabling IMAP etc are all set. So now I am ready to add a new account in my mac, by going in System Preferences -> Internet Accounts and click to add a new Google Account. Entering the email address and password and clicking the ok button, I am getting immediately an error message in red: "A connection error occurred".
I used my personal Apple ID on a new work computer and now am having issues. Bookmarked Favorites set on the work Mac appear on my home PC and vice versa. iCloud photos available on the work Mac aren't accessible at home. Personal Messages received on my iPhone pop up on my work computer. How can I change the work Mac's Apple ID to stop this intermarrying?
How can i get the coords of this annotated rectangle in preview app or other mac app?
I'm importing photos from my camera using Photos application, but how can I optimize these photos. My camera does 5.5MB big JPEG images but I want somehow lower the resolution and also the quality does not need to be 100%. Can I somehow set the imported photo quality in Photos application or can I somewhere found the imported photos and lower the quality using some other application?
If I had an iPhone only on my iTunes account, could I use someone else's iPad to download an app to my iphone? If I used the app on their iPad, would it show that my iPhone downloaded and used the app?
I used to have to charge my iPhone 5s just once a day, over night. Now that I'm using an Apple Watch, I find that I have to charge my phone 3 or 4 times because my battery is draining.
I have searched quite a few websites and all of them tell to go into "Info" menu and under the "Permissions" group you select the document to be marked as final. The menu is available in Windows but this is not the case with Mac, I cannot find this menu. Can anyone tell how can I mark the document as final in Word 2011 for Mac? Edit: After marking it as final I should be able to see the following when I open the document:
I have reinstalled my OS and copied my user account from a Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant. However, now when Time Machine starts a back up, it says that it is copying 200 GB, which is the total size of my hard drive. It seems that it has failed to identify my current user account as the same one that it already has back ups of.
I'm using a Lenovo ix4-300d has my backup system for my archives and it work pretty well. The only downside right now (and it's not even them fault) is that some folder has disappeared from my Finder view. I still can access them via Terminal (not SSH, just cd into Volumes/share-name/archives) or via the web interface of the ix4-300d. Do someone have an idea how I can get them back on my Finder listing? I've already tried to delete .DS_Store via the web interface and I got no luck. Here is a screenshot from my 3 views…
Whenever I want to save files like .csv files that were open in a safari tab, it forces me to either name it as .csv.webarchive or .webarchive. Is there a way to disable this?
I want to make a program that will take the question I ask it, input it to WolframAlpha, take the answer, convert it to text and the say the text. How do i access the temporary file?
Some time ago I split the hard drive (500gb) in two partitions (250 each), now I have first successfully erased one partition but I still have the second one (Mac HD 2, which runs Mavericks) but I can not deactivate to erase it. Anytime I try to remove it or deactivate it, this is the message: "Deactivation failed, make sure that all the files and applications are closed"
I'd like Sublime Text 2, not TextEdit, to be the default program to open my bash_profile file when I call open ~/.bash_profile in Terminal. Normally I would just control-click on the file in Finder to set the default program, but given that bash_profile is hidden I'm not sure how to go about this.
I was asked today to fix a friend's problem with iMovie. The initial report was that iMovie won't open and play the projects. The iMovie owner also said that there was an iMovie crash while working on one of these projects recently. Indeed there are only certain projects that won't open, while most of them will play fine.
Me and my friends like having a laugh together and as part of that we turn each other computers off and spam tabs till the computer crashes. Is thee a way how to disable the power button on my MBP 2015 to prevent my friends from turning my computer by holding down the power button? If possible I would like to remap it to command+power or command+option+power.
I would like to install win 8.1 along my current OSX ML on my macbook pro, mid 2012. I was told that UEFI installs have advantages over MBR but I have also heard that might bring drivers issues because Apple did not make UEFI drivers or something like that.
Hi I'm looking for an alarm clock app that will only stop if it detects that you have moved a certain distance (using gps). Thanks
The actual advertized resolution is 2880 x 1800. Taking a fullscreen, screenshot gives me an image that is 2880 x 1800. Going to this site tells me my resolution is 1440 x 900. The built in Digital Color Meter tells me my resolution is 1440 x 900. This bit of Java code: has an output of 1440 x 900. So why is this and how do I fix it?
I renamed my home folder using these directions from Apple - *=URL=* Worked great. However, now when I try to launch the Dropbox app it asks for permission to modify a folder, which no longer exists.
Google + won't let me see my photos, they ask me to upgrade safari. My Safari update is ok I have MacPro Book OS x 10.6.8
The backup program does not recognize data I copied to a new 3T TimeCapsule disk. When I select the folder containing the data, the program tells me there are no prior backups, but there are over 875MB of data there. What do I need to do to fix this?
Is this just a bug? Is there a workaround? Seems pretty odd that iTunes can't play movies full screen if there are iOS devices in the house. Surely that's not a design choice?
Several of the apps on my Apple Watch were updated by their vendors, but for some reason the apps have been stuck in update mode for about a week now. Is there a way to resume the update? Restarting both the Apple Watch and the paired iPhone doesn't fix the problem.
My iphone6 (iOS8.3) was stolen in Vietnam during my holiday and I've activated lost mode half an hour later and erase iphone later on. The erased action was pending for about 36 hours and now the device is not showing on find my iphone at all (and I did not remove it from icloud). I don't see it in find my iphone anymore, does it mean the thief(s) restored and remove my icloud from the device?
I've had a problem today where when I plug my external HDD in, it creates a ghost folder in /Volumes with the same name, causing my hard drive to change it's path to /Volumes/HDD 1. This is messing with programs that direct to /Volumes/HDD. Is there someway to fix this? Also, my harddrive has an issue where even a small bump can cause it to give the error of it not being removed properly, so this could potentially be the cause of it. Thanks for the help.
Is it possible to initiate a FaceTime call with "+1 (###) ###-####" when I execute an AppleScript? Does FaceTime support AppleScript and how can I automate the start of a call?
When I use iMessages, is a copy of all messages retained in iCloud (on Apple's servers)? If yes, how can I delete them?
I have migrated from iPhoto to OSX Photos. All my Events are there with all their photos. Back in iPhoto I had Albums and Events with Events always the master. I could delete a photo from Albums and it would stay in Events. That was fine. What are the rules for Photos pls? I can see the same photos in both Events and Albums but when I search for a photo (that I know is in both places) it shows up only in Events. I delete a photo from Events and it stays in Albums. Any clues pls?
I installed Java in Windows 8.1 through Parallels Desktop 10 and got ugly Java shortcuts in my Launchpad. I tried to launch "Java configuration tool" right click then remove from Launchpad, but it's still here. How can I remove it?
Since changing my Mac's font from the default on Yosemite to San Francisco (the font on the Apple Watch for those who don't know) my Mac's password dialog box has always appeared like this. It still works once I type my password in, but it's slightly annoying.
How can I enter a soft return character (Shift-Enter) on iOS?
I have changed the permissions on /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/.MSIC/Incoming. Now my camera cannot take pictures. Maybe picture is taken but it cannot write it. I want to fix the permissions issue. Could somebody tell me what the permissions should be (iPhone 5s iOS 8.1)?
I'm trying to understand how Apple Keychain works. If I understand correctly, only passwords that are in the iCloud Keychain will be shared with my other devices and saved if I lose the computer. Is that correct? (I mean the passwords in Keychain program top left Keychains > iCloud)
I installed one app which adds special folder to my Favorites sidebar in Finder. I like the app, but I don't like polluting the sidebar. Unfortunately, the app doesn't allow me to turn off the behavior and even if I manually remove the folder, it appears again after some time (didn't do any special tests though whether it's after restart or when...).
So I wanted to share the Ethernet connection through my Wifi to my phone, since it is having problems connecting to my router at home. My Wifi works fine on it's own. My ethernet connection works fine on it's own.
am using an OS X Mavericks iPhoto 9.4.3 and trying to install iPhoto 9.5.1 - but when I load up iPhoto 9.4.3, it states that I should update to iPhoto 9.5.1 - I click "Go to Software Update", am booted to the Mac App Store, then it doesn't show iPhoto 9.5.1 as an available download. I went the route of Ask Different iPhoto 9.5.1 upgrade thread and deleted the com.apple.storehelper/* but that didn't help. Then I went and deleted iPhoto.app. Big mistake. Now I'm unable to download the app from the Mac App Store (it states "Newest version of iPhoto is for OS X Yosemite only - want to download the previous version?" I click yes and am told "Mac App Store error (null)" and that's it.
I am a keyboardist and using the mouse is slow and distracting. For the following dialog - which is just an example since there are others similar to it - how would one choose a non-default button using the keyboard?
I keep on having glitches with my Mac, and then after it freezes with 3 beeps.I have to press the power button for about 8 seconds before it stops. Sometime it turns on back, sometimes it doesnt. What could be the cause of this problem?? My Mac is 2012
I am connecting to a Cisco IPSec tunnel from MacOS to a hosted pfsense box that is running a number of other IPSec site-to-sites happily, and the DNS resolution is not working. I also am in full control of the configuration, and am able to make changes if needed to get this working. When the VPN interface comes up on 10.10.3, I can see in the System Preferences Window that both the Search Domains and DNS Servers have been set properly. However, when I run "scutil --dns", the resolver shown has mysteriously had a 'p' added to the domain name, e.g.,
My OS is Yosemite and I work in CC apps daily. I minimize several ways (clicking on the minimize button in the window, command + M, etc.) but I used to be able to just go down to the Photoshop app icon in my dock, simply click once and all my windows within would maximize. Please note: I'm not trying to zoom. Currently I have to go to the icon, click and hold then highlight "Show all Windows" in order for the windows to maximize again. Does anyone know if there is a system fix? I prefer NOT having to add a source app. Thanks
I am mostly windows developer and had to step into iDevelopmentWorld. Went to apple to get XCode, downloaded it, however file extension is .dmg. Windows does not recognize it as executable and throws following dialog.
I have intermittent problems using a built-in MacBook mouse (another story), and need to select the Bluetooth icon from the menu bar using only the keyboard:  It appears that the shortcut keys Ctrl-F2 (or Ctrl-Fn-F2) allows me to navigate to the menu bar (it selects the Apple menu initially), but Right doesn't allow me to navigate to the icon bar. How can I get there and select an item from that icon using only the keyboard?
Summary iTunes appears to have a formidable weakness. It does not appear to be possible to store a subset of one's collection on a Mac, just as one routinely does on an iOS device. Details We normally treat an iPod, an iPad, and an iPhone as a slave device, by that I mean that we declare a Mac a master device, store our complete iTunes library on the Mac, and sync the iOS (slave) device using some given criteria.
I have been using defaults write "path/to/username.plist" shadowhashdata '(really long hash info)' to administer a local support account on our Mac's but I have found, and it may be since updating to 10.10.1, that the file vault password is not getting updated when this is run.
I have been using iCloud for a few months now with no problems until today. My mobile flagged up that I cannot login to my iCloud email account due to:
I'm new to iOS, I've come from Android and to avoid loosing time migrating all the musics from Google Play Music to iTunes (and since Google allows you to have 50,000 songs on their servers for free that can be accessible on any device with a Google account), I decided to keep using Google Play Music on the iPhone. But if I want to set the alarm it only lets me choose ring tones from the iPhone or musics from iTunes.
I have a login item that I can't delete! It's a random Garageband audio file that I never put there myself. It opens in Quicktime every time I boot my Mac. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?
I'd like to know if it's possible to take a screen capture of the satellite view of 'Maps' on my iPhone 6. It doesn't respond using the Home and Sleep buttons.
I have an MacBook Pro Late 2011 and it freezes (So the Beachball is turning arround), not completely randomly but when I use the disks, (writing or reading data) over 1/2 Mb/s so if I copy a big file from a DMG it freezes often but randomly during the copy process, or if I download something over internet it freeze randomly during the download. I can't do anything except of moving the mouse, if i wait a few seconds all comes back and I can continue use my Mac. I first thought it was totally random but it happens more often when I copy data or download anything. I think it's Yosemite's fault but I can not certify that. Useful pasts: EtreCheck: *=URL=* Full console log: *=URL=* I already reinstalled OSX Yosemite, and after that it continued with the same issue, but before i reinstalled a fresh version, it hung up always randomly, after I reinstalled OSX on my Home made Fusion Drive it only hung up when i started copying files or other things like that I have read similar topics on intern
I'm working on merging a 11000+ image iPhoto Library with a Photos Library - with the purpose of pushing it to iCloud Photos. I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. I know that my friend has new images on the Photos Library that aren't on the iPhoto Library - so I can't just ditch the Photos Library and do a one-way import.
After upgraded to Yosemite, I've found that the mouse selection is basically broken, e.g. when I select, I follow the steps mouse down, start select end select, mouse up The problem is, when I mouse up in step2, basically what I selected, has 50% of chance is being unselected. I can't reproduce the issue every time, but given that 50% of chance, it is very annoying.. Any idea?
My iPod touch got stuck in a screen and it says to connect to iTunes, and the only backup I have is an iPhone 5S 7.0.4 backup. I don't want to break anything. Will it work?
When i remove Windows/Ubuntu folder from ~/Applications i am not seeing them in the launchpad. But whenever i launch parallels desktop - it automatically creates Windows/Ubuntu folders:
We have logs from an application that are formatted as JSON. Normally they are sent to a central logging tool like LogStash. On the terminal, we can read them using a tool like jq. But if I attach a log file to a ticket or email it with a name ending in .log OS X opens it in Console by default. I am trying to find a straightforward way to view it formatted or pretty-printed within the Console application.
With the old firefox, one could force an update by clicking 'firefox' on the menu bar and then 'About firefox' etc. However, with the new firefox 38 this menu only contains the single entry 'Quit' -- there is no 'About firefox' or anything else.
I'm new to IOS XCODE6 ,trying to create a single view app . When I try to create an outlet connection to the label by drag and drop , nothing shows up as you see in the picture below. I did search the web all over to find an answer but nothing worked. I'm working from a text book which is made for beginners,following all instructions and nothing there mentioned about this issue. Any help will be appreciated.Thanks .
Someone synced my iphone 4 with their ipad without my knowledge or permission. I have tried to find a setting or action on my iphone to "unsync" my phone from the ipad or other devices, but was unsuccessful. what can i do now?
Mac will append a ' 2' (note the space) to the end of a file/folder that is a copy of another file/folder inside the same directory... I was wondering if anybody knows how to batch remove/rename this ' 2' from a directory of folders from Terminal.
not sure if this is a SuperUser question or AskDifferent question When I start up my iMac 21.5" (Mid 2011 model) this morning, my screen looks like this:
Sometime recently some file type names have changed — not the file associations or default application, but the name of the file type itself. "Plain Text Document" has changed to "text", "Rich Text Document" to "rich text (RTF)", etc.
bought two iPads for kids and set up iCloud email accounts using my Apple ID from my iPad/iPhone. How do I let them text message friends etc without all the messages coming to my IM also? I'm not very knowledgable on tech stuff, they only have email addresses not phone numbers and all their messages are coming to my inbox also.
I recently got my computer re-imaged. Everything was working fine on Yosemite until about an hour ago when my Wi-Fi abruptly disconnected. The AirPort icon gave me the rainbow spinner, so I restarted my computer. The Wi-Fi issue disappeared upon restart, but Safari (which had been open as my default browser before the restart) now refuses to open. When I click on the app in my dock, applications folder, Launchpad, and anywhere else, it doesn't open. The icon doesn't bounce, and the app won't work even when I click on a link in an email or something. There's no crash log. Any fixes for this?
I have installed VirtualBox inside of VirtualBox. Host OS: OS X Yosemite Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Both versions of VirtualBox: 4.3.28 The guest versions in VirtualBox installed on Ubuntu 12.04 are only 32-bit. How can I make 64-bit available?
I wanna give away my old iPad to my kid, and would like to delete my Gmail account from the old iPad. Questions: 1) Will my Gmail account be totally erased when I delete my Gmail account on my iPad? 2) I have thousands and thousand of contacts in my iPad which is linked to Gmail, I'm afraid if I delete the Gmail account, all contact details will be gone forever. Thanks and looking forward to your favorable reply.
Since a few years I can't quit Mail.app instantly. The more folders I have entered during the usage, the more folder Mail.app tries to close before it quits. Each close operation takes 3-8 sec to complete, so quitting the whole program takes half a minute or so. How can I skip or make this closing procedure faster?
OS X's open and save dialogues have a very detailed way of remembering (or forgetting, depends on how you see it) the directory you're working in. I have the impression it is saved individually for each app and dialogue type. A use case: we have a file my/akward/long/path/logos/logo.ai which we want to convert to a png and then upload it to a website. Illustrator: Open Dialogue: Browse to my/akward/long/path/logos/. Illustrator: Save for web - Save Dialogue: We're somewhere else (where we last exported to), browse to my/akward/long/path/logos/ again, save the png.
My iPhone (running iOS 8) and my MacBook (running OS 10.10.3) are in the same WiFi network, and I can answer incoming calls from my MacBook. Initiating calls from the Contacts application on the MacBook also works - I click the phone symbol next to the phone number and it opens the call:
I am a user of Photos for OSX, after upgrading from iPhoto. I am trying to use Google's photo service to backup my library from my Mac Mini. I have installed the Google Desktop Uploader application from the photos.google.com site.
When using FaceTime on OS X 10.10 to initiate a call using the iPhone, is there a shortcut that allows me to mute the call from the keyboard?  Is there a keyboard shortcut (or a way to setup a shortcut) to trigger the Mute function?
I am using iCloud and Reminders and since a couple of weeks I am seeing a strange behaviour: new events are correctly added to all the devices events marked as "done" are not marked on other devices (none of them)
The 'grep' command did not display anything. (used usbmodem1422 as the argument.
I would like to have a very simple Automator action that watches my photo upload folder in Dropbox and moves every file that it receives into another folder on my desktop. Sometimes it works perfectly, other times it refuses to work even after a reboot. I have attached the folder action I am using. This is Automator at its simplest and I'm not sure why it won't work!
Many forums say, that enabling Increase Contrast option in Accessibility Preferences helps Yosemite to make the animations, like entering Mission Control to be much smoother. This is also consistent with my experience. Increase Contrast off: *=URL=* Increase Contrast on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNac3VPZDKI&index=2&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD
I have a persistent problem where my installer is not associated with pkg files. My installer is showing that is not available (See screenshots)
I code on eclipse and XCode on my Mid 2009 MBP 15 inch 2.8 ghz works very good. (very good = acceptable compile times and almost no occasional freezes. You don't get because of the slowness percentage) (It is also in very good physical condition)
It seems like in the iPhone's Watch app for email I can select one and only one mailbox to read from the Watch (Include Mail setting). I really dislike the "All Inboxes" concept, but would like to have two of my four inboxes available, along with a sub-folder or two. Is that possible with the stock Mail app? Thanks!
I have a late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro which drives a Dell P2815Q 28" 4K monitor (at 30Hz). What I would like is to have scaled UI components whilst retaining the resolution of the monitor, rather than having to either: Use the full resolution with tiny fonts and UI components Use 1920x1080 scaled HiDPI mode, which doesn't provide enough screen space (although the text is lovely and clear). The options I currently have for the external monitor are:
Since that experience I have taken to keeping a close eye on TM by occasionally comparing what makes it onto the backup vs what is ignored. Today,
Poked at the system settings, display settings, and changed screen rotation setting to 180. Immediately after rotation setting became read only, and then after 30 seconds it crashed. After reboot i cant'go to system setting any more, it just says to me that it cant open display settings and hangs. NVRAM reset (options+cmd+R+P) does not reset screen rotation setting, only everything else.
I have a weird problem. For this one contact I don't get any sound or vibration notifications when a SMS arrives. What I have tried: Change Text Tone Change Vibration Delete contact and create new with same mobile number Rebooted iPhone What could be the problem?
Why doesn't the projector find the Macbook Pro when connecting a VGA cable to the HDMI port on Macbook Pro via an adapter? It does work on a Windows machine. I know that to fix this problem one needs to connect the VGA to the Mini Display port (via an adapter of course). So is there another way around this? Or do we have to connect to the Mini Display port.
I am trying to increase the speed of the Text-To-Speech on my Mac. The GUI Preference pane maxes out at 360 words per minute. I do accessibility development and this is actually a little slow for me. I have found the preference file for voice settings: com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist and I know the key: VoiceRateDataArray However, when I read the preference I get an array of arrays. So how do I write the command line command to over-write the specific element of the array to speed up the voice in OS X. I cannot seem to find an example to deal with arrays and the defaults command.
In the iOS multitask menu, I have it set to display recent contacts. Are they displayed in the order of the time of contact or are the sorted by frequency of contact?
I have been trying to install Windows for 2 months but I don't know what to do. I start by opening Bootcamp-assistant and choose (translated, not exactly what it is in the English version) "Create an installation disk for Windows 7 or later. Then click continue, and choose my ISO which is directly created from a legit CD in Disk Utility. For USB, I choose my USB. Then is just says this (again, not exact but translated): A bootable USB could not be created
I am using the new Photos app in OSX and would like to share recent photos with the Apple TVs in my house by using Home Sharing. The photos would be used for the screen saver feature on the Apple TV. It seems as though the best way to do it is to use a Smart Album and set the Date range. However, it seems as though Smart Albums cannot be accessed using Home Sharing as they do not appear as an option in the Apple TV screen saver settings. Does anyone know if it is possible to share Smart Albums using Home Sharing?
I upgraded my OS from Mountain Lion to Yosemite yesterday and now Mission Control and Cmd + Tab aren't working anymore. Clicking mission control icon doesn't do anything, although I still have 4 spaces automatically opened upon starting the computer. Also, for instance, when I am on screen #1 and Chrome is opened on screen #2, if I press Cmd + Tab to change to Chrome, the menu bar at the top of the screen will change to Chrome but the screen will remain on screen #1. So far, I tried, but without success: Rebooting Killing dock process using "killall Dock" and "killall -kill Dock" in Terminal I made sure no other updates were available Browsed internet a few hours to try to find something, but found nothing successful F4 shortcut doesn't work neither My computer specs are the following: iMac 27 inches, late 2009, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB DDR3 Would anyone have any suggestions?
you know how you can search your locally networked devices on Bonjour in Safari on Macs, and once you select a device, Safari asks you to log in with a username and password to get to the device's settings? Well i was wondering if I can do the same thing on an iPhone or iPad. Since there is no official Bonjour on iOS, is there a third party app or something that can do this?
I press Space at any document. I get transparent preview which makes difficult to read anything about the document. I think this is not a feature of the latest OSX 10.10.3. I have reduced transparency maximally in the settings. Example
I've been having problems with my iMac freezing up. My mouse pointer moves around the screen, but nothing else responds at all. My music keeps playing through iTunes. I've tried taking out all USB connected items and then trying to see if one of them was the culprit, but no luck. I have to physically switch the machine off and back on. It's only been doing it for a few weeks, nothing has been added, no new software downloaded ( apart from any Apple updates ). I have a 2009 iMac - 27" running Yosemite. I upgraded the RAM about 6 months ago, maybe longer but the problem never started occurring until a few weeks back.
Apple collects payments for our apps in many currencies, converts all of them to our country's currency (CAD), then sends it to us in a single payment. My question: Does Apple charge a foreign currency exchange fee for this? Thanks!
I'm having a very strange problem with Mail on a new iMac which is running 10.10.3. The Apple store migrated the user's home files over from an old MacBook, which was running Snow Leopard, and everything worked fine for a few weeks. Then the problem appeared: Mail wouldn't show any windows when starting. The program was clearly running; the menu bar showed "Mail" and a dot appeared under Mail's Dock icon. Also, Mail's "window" menu had entries for "Inbox" and two message windows which were open the last time Mail was shut down. The weird thing was that choosing "Enter Full Screen" from the View menu actually worked; the Inbox window would appear full-screen, and I could then choose "Exit Full Screen" and the Inbox window would appear normally. Quitting and restarting Mail made the problem happen again, though - no window appeared.
I currently have an iPad mini 2 WiFi/Verizon. It is a 16GB model.
I can still connect to this foreign network using this new computer -- my old computer had access. I want to share the password with my wife's system. I can't figure out how to do this, either in Yosemite or iOS8.
I have a pair of Sol headphones that would always fit into my iphone until recently I realized that my iPhone didn't have any sound coming out of the internal speakers. It was my headphone jack that is causing the issues and i just cleaned it out but now its not working and the sol headphones I mention just don't fit into my iPhone. I barely get the tip in and nothing else can go through and im not trying to force it in. How do i fix this?
I recently wiped my computer without backing it up because it was overwhelmed by viruses, and I just bought a new CD, which I planned to put on my iPad 2. The only problem is that the computer is now recognized as a new computer, and wants to erase all my non-apple bought content. Is there any way to avoid this?
I am trying to get my own phone number but I can not find it. This is available in jailbroken phones and iOS 7 and lower versions. Please any help?
Is it possible to use the =today() function (or something else) to insert the current date but then not update each time the file is opened? I want to create a numbers template for my invoices. I'd like it to auto fill invoice date and date due then, when I save the document, store the values, not the function. I am creating templates on my mac then using the inumbers app on my iPad.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro (MD322LL/A) given to me by a friend. The hard drive was removed, so I put in a new one and have been trying to install OS X Yosemite. However, whenever I boot the install media, be it a flash drive, hard drive, or DVD, the installation gets about 1/3 of the way through and then goes to a blank white or grey screen. When this happens, whatever install media it was reading from, it stops accessing, as if the system had halted. If I boot in verbose mode and look at the output, these are the last lines before the screen turns blank:
I have two Macs with the Photo app and sync over iCloud. I have tagged a lot of faces in both (I know they are not synchronised so I had to do it twice). In one version the persons which are present in more photos are placed at the beginning and have a bigger "circle", on the other Mac all the "circles" have the same size and appear in random order.
I have both an iPhone 6 Plus and a Macbook Pro, and both have Airdrop. On my iPhone, the name of my mac is correct, but on my mac, the name is of one of my contacts. The contact only has a name and a number, and has no other settings or connections added. On my phone, I have marked my own contact as "me," but on my mac, it still shows the other contact. Only when I delete that contact does the Airdrop name change to the correct one. How do I permanently change my Airdrop name or fix this error?
Some annoying new feature has been added since an update I did recently. When I start to compose a new mail the compose window till appear as a modal and lock the rest of the mail app. This makes it impossible to at the same time look at other emails or use Finder to drag and drop files. Very annoying.
I've just been sent a replacement iPhone. I don't have a computer at the moment so I've gone to restore it during the set up. It shows the latest iPhone backup as 08:42 which is the one that I want to restore to but it won't allow me to restore to it as it says iOS 8.3 Required.
Is there any way to upgrade all brew casks? Something like brew cask upgrade?
I have an iMac for public use, I want to ensure the dock icon won't be changed by others (i.e. keep factory setting). Currently I know the following two commands can do this: However, when I insert this two lines of code into an Logoff script, it won't work. The script is OK and other commands in that script are functioning too. Any idea to solve this problem?
I can not get my iPad mini to turn on. I have tried to press the home and power button simultaneously but that doesn't work and when it is attached to the charger I hear the charge ding sound. What went wrong. It worked the night before and I did turn it off like I do every evening.
I have an use case where I want to move certain reminders I created using Siri from the default list to another. Programmatically, via an AppleScript script, which runs on a Mac. It's the following line that doesn't work: I've tried variations like but I always get an error that boils down that I can't set the container because it's not f the correct type list.
My 2 year old stuck a pencil tip in the port charger of my iPhone 6. I am now not able to insert the charger into the port. I tried removing the graphite with a nail file but it won't come out. What are my options at this point?
Therefore, I'm posting this question to request for an ios app that could let me add contacts easily with grouping/speed-dialing, and also trigger the IFTTT recipe. The recipe only triggers when adding contacts via the default contacts app. I require these contacts as a backup, cause Google doesn't keep deleted contacts older than 1 month of deletion.
My office proxy has always been specified with its IP address and everything worked fine. However, recently, the proxy was changed to use its Internet name, in the form
After upgrading to Python 3.4 i get this message when trying to use livestreamer: /usr/bin/livstreamer starts Usually I would type "livestreamer [twitch.tv link] best" to run it
I want to create a user tvuser that has read access to a volume on my mac (Mountain Lion.) NO one else has network read access. At this point when I click sharing, enable AFP, Everyone, and Staff have access -- the same permissions that have access locally. If I change the permissions on the sharing tab, it changes the local permissions too. How do I share something with more restrictive permissions?
I downloaded a mobi book directly to my iPad to the Kindle app, which does not sync with Amazon. I read the post "Syncing non-Amazon purchased eBooks between Kindle, iPad, and iPhone 3" (on: Syncing non-Amazon purchased eBooks between Kindle, iPad, and iPhone)
I'm planning to upgrade from a 2011 base model Mac Mini to a 2014 high end Mini (2.8Ghz i5, Iris, 16GB ram) and wanted to see if I could drive two 2560x1600 monitors through the thunderbolt ports with two mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cables. Specs from EveryMac don't specifically mention Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort, but am I right to assume that Thunderbolt is pretty much identical to DisplayPort?
I found a great answer in the forums for an incorrect block count/invalid free block count problem that Disk Utility diagnosed when logged in but couldn't see in Recovery HD mode. Turning off FileVault as instructed by user10355 allowed me to repair the HD and after logging back in and even after turning FileVault back on, Disk Utility told me I was problem-free.
Google Inbox recently added compatibility with Safari and yet still does not play nice with Fluid. I decided I might as well use Chrome. Google recently improved the way "desktop app extensions" work by giving them their own independent icons in Applications and Launchpad.
I've got a MacBook Air 2014 and I want to hook it up to a LG 29UM65 monitor. The native resolution is 2560x1080. Can the MBA 2014 (Thunderbolt 1) output at that resolution at 60hz?
In 'Settings' > 'Cellular': all the switches under 'Use cellular data for:' are grayed out. Some are ON and some are OFF but none can be changed. These are the switches that control cellular data usage for individual apps. Why are they disabled? In the same panel I have 'Cellular Data' turned ON and "Enable LTE" turned ON.
Have a bit of a people issue and one user who has admin has changed another's privileges from admin to standard. This is a university setting, but the student association not the university's network; I am the parent of the user who was (temporarily) demoted; some experience as a user but not admin using Linux and Apple systems (as well as Windows)...
I like using Control + Shift + Eject to lock my screen quickly. The Eject key does not exist on my Microsoft keyboard, and there does not seem to be easy way to do map another key to that key through System Preferences. How can I map a key on my Microsoft keyboard to the Eject key? Otherwise, how do I create a new shortcut for locking my screen?
Is there any way to access the keychain from an Iphone 5 IOS 8.2 backup? Here are the hard facts: encrypted backup where I KNOW the password device is lost
I want the default colour of my font I use to send emails using Mail 8.2 in Yosemite be blue. Is it possible? If no, are their any easy work arounds?
I do not have the start new conversation from option, I was close to fixing this issue following your direction, and then I hit this issue. Its just not there it ends with the "add another email..." option. This is so aggravating its confusing all of my messages to everybody, its caused me so much verbal pain and misconstruction. LOL...i think im laughing out loud i dont know
I have ample storage on my hard drive and 8GB RAM and have serious freezing issues, even doing things as simple as running Chrome. Seems to happen when I'm doing something new (e.g. pausing a Youtube video, opening a new tab, changing volume). Another example, in MS Word, I'll be typing, see no words appear, continue typing, then all of a sudden everything appears at once and runs well. The app becomes nonresponseive, but I can still move the window. Has anyone experienced this or have any suggestions? Much appreciated!
I am using original charger on MacBook Air. Of late my charger works if the computer turned off but not when it is on? Also when it is fully charged, it continue to charge. Why ?
Just curious if anyone has figured out a way to force VMWare Fusion to use only a subset of the displays available when going Full-screen? (Available toggle is one or all)
Does Apple Mail under iOS support the ability to get the raw as-sent text of an email? Alternatively, is there a way to forward an email as an attachment? I'd like to be able to report spam email to Spamcop.net, but I need all the headers and the raw source of the email, not just a copy of the rendered results.
How do I exit full screen in VMWare Fusion 7? The menu bar that used to appear when the cursor was oushed to the top of the screen no longer appears.
when I clicked on my photos icon today a dialogue box popped up that i don't have enough storage on this device, would i like to optimize? or something like that. I clicked optimize (even though I didn't reall know what it meant) and now when I'm in photos and I click on a photo, a little circle appears in the bottom right hand corner of the picture and dials open to look like a pacman - I'm assuming its a clock but what for?
*=URL=* Hi, my iPod Touch 5th gen dosent have the start new messages field, and its not there when I scroll down. Also, my iPhone's phone number wasn't an option when the field was there, only my emails.
NeoVim recently added support for True Color mode in terminals that support it. I've tried both Terminal 2.5.3 (343.7) and iTerm 2.1.1, and neither one can display more than 256 colors by default.
I work with Yosemite (10.10.3) and would like to upgrade bash (to version 4.x) and found this post. After brew update, I did brew install bash, but obtained:
Is there a way to automatically shutdown an iPad after a certain time interval? N.B. Not auto-sleep. Auto-shutdown.
I'm on a Mac, looking at a list of files in Finder. I can copy the filename into a Google Spreadsheet by selecting all, copying, and pasting directly into the spreadsheet.
I recently bought iPads for my kids and set them up under my iPad/iPhone account. I did set up separate email accounts but all their text messages are coming to me and they have access to my pics, contacts etc. I am not extremely tech savvy but there must be a way that they can have their own texting accounts and I can block access to my stuff? Please help!!!
The amount that you have to move the mouse downwards to get the dock to trigger is too high in my opinion. I've only found the following settings: This set the speed of the transition to 0, but does not make it easier to trigger. This sets the delay to 0 once triggered, but does not make it easier to trigger. I want it to launch the moment the mouse touches the edge of my screen. Thanks Edit: the suggested duplicate has no answers that answer this question as addressed in the text above.
I'm using iMovie and try to import a .avi file, 730.5MB. But iMovie keeps saying that "None of the selected files or folders can be imported. Change the selection and try again."
I'd like to mirror/clone separate parts of my iMac screen to smaller external displays. For me the best solution would be to draw a frame on top of the iMac display and let that special frame show up on a smaller external display.
I've run a number of customization scripts and manually made a lot of changes in my environment using the defaults utility. Is there a way I can delete all of my modifications? Essentially go back to all factory defaults?
When doing a spotlight search for my bookmarks, some of them appear in the search result but some don't. I was not able to find a pattern about which ones will show up and which ones won't. Newly added bookmarks are found but some older ones aren't. I've looked in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/Bookmarks and found two interesting things: Some old bookmarks (no more present in Safari) have a webbookmark file in this folder Some existing bookmarks in Safari don't have an existing webbokmark file there
I am having a problem with Messages. Suddenly my iPhone stopped showing messages from a single contact (messages from other contacts are receiving fine). I did tried restarting my iPhone couple of times but this process was not as sufficient as it may. So can you please tell me how to fix this problem?
I'm writing a simple AppleScript to create periodic notifications, but I don't want those notifications to accumulate in Notification Center. Is there any way to keep them from appearing there, or to expire them, or to delete them?
I have several Macs in a different country, and I would like to update their iCloud password remotely. I can login to the machines via SSH, but the firewall does not allow me to use VNC.
I know that using sudo chmod 777 /folder will set a particular permission to /folder, but it will not do the same with subfolders and subfiles inside the folder. Is there a terminal command to propagate permissions inside the folder?
But when I turn my laptop off and take it home at the end of the day, when I come back to work the next day and plug in my external monitor, the monitor's background won't be the wallpaper I set yesterday - it will become the same as the laptop background. The different wallpaper I set the day before is lost and I have to select it again.
The Apple Watch shows the temperature on the clock face. When my Apple Watch is disconnected from my iPhone, the temperature display becomes disabled, but the time is still displayed. That leads me to think the watch doesn't have a temperature sensor, but it getting it from the Internet. My question is: How does the Watch get the temperature?
When I try to enter an appointment/event into my iCal on my Macbook the event is changed to "New Event" at 9 am as soon as I press return. All of the appointment information I just entered is cleared out (appointment name and time). The only info correctly retained is the specific calendar that I have assigned the event to (my personal calendar, my daughter's, my work, etc.) If I click on the "New Event" appointment and re-enter the information it will then be saved correctly.
I need to get the call log from my iPhone. What is the path to get the call log from iOS 8.3?
As is wanted to write an image to usb stick, I accidentally used my system drive (macintosh hd) as target. Command used: Where disk1 was Macinstosh HD ... (yeah I know - facepalm :)
If I have all my pictures stored on the iCloud, why are they taking up so much room on my phone? I thought the iCloud was designed to free up storage on your actual device?
Is it possible to delete everything from my Mac and then install OS X from a bootable USB? I don't why but somehow AudioAUUC extension was modified a few months ago and my sound isn't working since then. That's why I would like remove everything and install a fresh OS X.
Every device first needs to be registered with our IT department which simply involves sending them the device MAC Address, hostname, and owner. So, my questions are:
From Mail's help documentation: Mail keeps a list of the email addresses you send messages to, and uses the list to suggest or complete addresses for you when you send email. You can delete obsolete or incorrect addresses from the list so Mail stops suggesting them, and use the list to quickly see or add people in the Contacts app. (emphasis added)
I'm using my personal laptop & iCloud account for my work as a software developer. My company would pay for a separate laptop but I choose to use my own for convenience. Also, saves me the trouble of not having to re-purchase some of the 100 or so apps and copy over settings, etc. Going forward, is it possible to add a new credit card to my iCloud account (my work spending account card) and choose this card when I buy apps strictly related to my work and my personal card for all other purchases?
I run Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.124 (64-bit) on OS X Yosemite. I want to enable Click to play option, mainly because I would like to lower the power usage of Google Chrome and Google Chrome Helper processes.
EDIT 16/06/2015 - Replaced Cellular Antenna - no fix. I own a small IT repair business and we've recently expanded into the iPhone/iPad repair sector. A customer came in with an iPhone 4s, and the customer had replaced the screen for themselves. The issue is that the iPhone now can't be used for phone calls, texts or internet access. Instead of stating their provider in the top left of the screen it simply says "Searching...". I have confirmed that it is not a SIM based error. Any ideas?
So now I'm stuck with scrambled fusion drive and don't know what to do. I want to restore Fusion Drive to original, unsliced state and than put working Bootcamp partition there. Here is screenshot from DU in debug mode (sorry it's in polish) are listings for various diskutil commands in terminal:
How can I use Applescript And Safari to extract the answer from this site: *=URL=* I'm attempting to extract the answer in copyable plaintext. That is, .txt format. I get this error: When implementing the following script:
I've run into an interesting scenario that hadn't crossed my mind before. One of our employees is preparing to leave the organization. She will be turning in her iPhone and is requesting that we remove all of the data from it. Not a problem, Settings > General > Reset > Erase all Contents & Settings will do the trick.
I've got two Macs, one of them is a few versions newer than the other. They are both currently running the latest version, but the older Mac has lots of OS and system files that the newer one hasn't
How do I know what apps are downloaded to my iPhone 4?
I keep live update turned off on most of my smart playlists because changing anything, such as ratings, for a currently playing song could cause the song to disappear from the playlist if it no longer meets the smart playlist's criteria. The song stops playing and the playlist grinds to a halt. So far, the easiest solution has been to have an Applescript run automatically in the middle of the night to quit iTunes and then launch it again, thus forcing all of my smart playlists to update. This works. It's also easy enough to right click on a smart playlist and select "Update Smart Playlist." But what I'd rather do is use an Applescript to refresh all of my smart playlists and assign it a hotkey (using BetterTouchTool). Is it possible to use Applescript to make iTunes smart playlists update?
Can someone give me an overview as to how Apple Pay works. What goes on inside it. What microchips are used and essentially how does it work?
At work I'm using Outlook 2011 and OSX 10.10. I just sent yet another incomplete email accidentally with the shortcut CMD + right enter. Is there any way to disable this shortcut? Googling around shows adding keyboard shortcuts into OSX itself but not Outlook. Thanks!
Is there a way to reopen apps that are minimized or "closed" but still running when using Cmd+Tab? For example if I close mail, then Cmd+Tab to mail, it does nothing. The alternative is to try and remember to Cmd+H to hide a window vs. closing it, but seems odd that it appears in Cmd+Tab at all if selecting that app does nothing and you have to open it from the dock anyway.
I found a white plastic/ rubber 2009 Macbook in the IT Office of my school and was given permission to try to get it to be usable again. Currently, it is able to be charged with its magsafe connector and the indicator LED in the front turns on when I hold down the power button, but the screen never turns on and the keyboard does not respond. (i.e. the Caps Lock indicator button does not turn on.) After a few seconds of this, the fans start to make a lot of noise, but the computer remains unresponsive.
On the site I'm working on we have some download links for images. We tested on an older macbook running safari 5 and that worked perfectly. However when we updated the OS, safari went to version 8 and now when you click the download link it renames every file "download-#" and changes the extension from JPEG to a TextEdit document. Chrome and Firefox on the same laptop don't do this, only happens in Safari. If you "Save Image to "Downloads" or "Save Image As..." the filename and extension remain unchanged. Is there a way to force it to keep the original filename and extension, when using the download links?
If I delete a photo from my photo stream using my phone, then it will be automatically deleted from other devices using same Apple ID or not?
I'm a Mac newbie using Apple Mail version 8.2 on Yosemite 10.10.3: I have 5 mail accounts and have noticed that mails sent from any account often get mixed up with sent mails from the same or different accounts. It is a complete mess, e.g. a sent mail can be appended to another sent mail's header from a different account, or, a sent mail can appear in the midst of a group of mails sent to an entirely different address. I have searched but not found anyone else who is reporting the same problem. Please help?
After getting some kernel panics and failing to fix it, I decided to reinstall OS X. It now boots but gets stuck on a gray screen with the Apple logo. The odd thing is I can boot into single user mode (CMD+S) but not safe mode (Shift).
I have an iPhone 6 - every time I take a photo, it's uploaded to OneDrive, which is great. But the photo lands in the Photos tab in OneDrive, which is different from how WP8.1 worked. I liked how in WP, it would drop the photos in a folder, and then I could go through and move the photos into other folders. Is there any way to configure onedrive to place the uploaded photos into a folder instead of into the Photos stream?
I kept a bunch of keyboard shortcuts via System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and over time, I deleted some shortcuts that are not necessary for me and added new ones. Some time ago, it appears that the unwanted shortcuts appeared back when the added one didn’t appear — manually deleting them in the system panel only made them return. How do I keep one set of keyboard shortcuts please?
How can I access the iOS 8 Control Center swipe-up menu while the keyboard is active?
Okay so I have a code that grabs text from somewhere and stores it in the variable "answer" but it has / symbols mixed in with the text... how do I get rid of them...This is the code
I've got some short AppleScript code designed to display notifications at a specified interval. The code works perfectly from the Script Editor, but not when exported as an Application. Instead, notifications never show up in the top left though they do appear in Notification Center. However, instead of happening every interval (say once/minute) they just trigger continuously. Here's the code: Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
Several months ago, iCloud backups from our iPhones and iPad stopped working on our home network. We get the "last backup could not be completed" message. The backups work on other networks. I thought it might be a problem with our DSL router, but I replaced it and still have the same problem. iCloud Drive works fine. Any ideas as to what is causing this?
In Safari on OS X via Safari/Preferences/Passwords/ it is possible to view all saved passwords in plain text by entering the Mac password. I want to use a different password. Is this possible?
I am using OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. In the Language & Region preferences, I clicked Advanced and set my clock format to 0-23:08. However, the clock in the menu bar and in the Date & Time preferences is displayed with the . separator instead of :. The dot seems to be the default for my language format (which is wrong, we use :). Furthermore, if I modify the contents of com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist, they are overridden as soon as I restart SystemUIServer or relogon. For example: results in How can I change the clock separator?
Help would be really appreciated on this one! My Dads iMac won't boot. When it's turned on (running Yosemite) it gets stuck in the boot process and looks like this: *=URL=* There is no mouse pointer showing etc, just that bar stuck as shown above. I waited overnight and still it gets no further. I've listened and the disk seems Ok (no weird noises) In addition to that I've done the following: * tried to hold alt to bring up boot options (seemingly ignored and apple logo / progress bar come up as shown) *tried to reset pram (screen went black and rebooted, made no difference)
Okay so here's my code... My question is, can I determine what type of data it is before grabbing the text, because if I search something like "how many tablespoons in an ounce, it just gives me a bunch of useless code and doesn't grab the right text. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
I have a MacBook Pro, always plugged, I put it to sleep during the night. Is that the best thing to do if I want to maintain a high number of remaining charges, while also keeping a healthy battery? Or should I turn it off at night instead of sleep, plug it off, or something else?
I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) 13 inch running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and I wanted to mount Windows 8 professional via Boot Camp with USB drive. I've already watched a ton of tutorials and read a whole heck of stuff, but I see only one difference in my problem so far. I have a 16 GB usb drive, a Windows ISO file and all the rest of the stuff required.
On my iMac, my Google Drive icon in menu bar always says "Not logged in", and files are not synced. I have notice that on my MacBook the version 1.22 is installed, while on the iMac the version installed is 1.21. Hence the problem.
In the App menu, I can see that it is updating. However, in the App Store updates page, it is not showing. The update is ~3GB, and I don’t have the bandwidth to spare. How can I pause/stop it?
I've seen a few posts around wifi problems with Yosemite, especially after an update from Mavericks. I've only started seeing WiFi problems about 3 days ago (update was 3-6 months ago), and my issues are happening on a number of routers. Looking on the console, I see a number of the following messages: WiFi otherwise "appears" normal (wifi symbol in the status bar shows no error, and network config says I'm still connected); however, no connectivity (not even through ping). I can at this point disconnect and reconnect to the wifi, which will work for about 1 minute before disconnecting again.
A friend and I went to a local Apple Authorized Service Provider the other day to ask if he had any advice about getting a job, and he suggested studying and getting tested for ACMT (Apple Certified Mac Technician) certification. However, since winter WWDC is coming, he suggested not doing it until winter break or something so that I can learn what OS X 10.11 is like and won't get certified on an OS that's immediately going to go out of date, even though the certification is for life. My parents think I could manage it over the summer, so I'm conflicted. Would the ACMT exam still be about Yosemite by the end of the summer, and is there anything else I should know about that could influence my decision?
I have used custom keyboard shortcuts for a long time, and as usual the new version of OSX Yosemite changes all the app translations to make them slightly different enough that none of them work. After going through all the shortcuts I discovered that the Spanish entries for next/previous item in Preview don't work. Here is a screenshot of the menu item:
I'm currently trying to do a dual boot with the Bootcamp Assistant version 5.1.4. I have a Windows 7 iso and flash drive and everything necessary. The only problem is that Bootcamp 5.1.4 requires Windows 8 or above. Are there any workarounds? Can I download an older Bootcamp assistant or just continue straight through with the current one, disregarding the regulation? Thanks for the help.
I'm looking for a way to disable an USB device whenever my MacBook wants to go to sleep. I'm aware that OS X controls power management for most devices fairly well, but in this case, which is an USB powered notebook cooler where I place the Mac on top of, the fans will not turn off unless I unplug the USB cable. Is there a way to force Mac OS X to disable a specific hardware USB device (and hopefully reconnected) on sleep using Automator or something else? Thank you in advance PS: I'm aware of another question which is similar but the answer points to Hibernation as the solution - I'm not looking for that as a solution: How do I shut off a USB fan automatically when the Mac goes to sleep?
I'm a long-term GMail user. I tend to access my GMail via the GMail website or the Inbox app on my phone, but I find it convenient to be able to access GMail via Outlook 2015 for Mac, too. I have another email account that I access via Outlook, so it would be good to have everything in one place.
I recently bought a powerbank that has two USB outlets. It's great for charging my phone and iPad. Is it possible to charge my MacBook Air from the powerbank? If it's not possible to do this "out of the box", would it be possible to build or buy something that would enable me to do this?
I have been working on a html file on my mac os 10.10 via Texedit for about a week. When I started my computer today the file appeared on my machine as an rtf, and when I opened it I saw my page as rich text with no javascript of html tags. I then tried to restore it but all the versions were rtf. I then choose to view the page a plain text and restore again and now all the versions were plain text. Again no javascript or html tags. How can I restore my file as a html file?
I have an Android phone and a MacBook, and what I am trying to figure out is a way to do bi-directional sync between the OS X Yosemite's new Photos app and my device's internal storage. So far, I am using DropSync to do a two-way sync between my device photos and storage in Dropbox, and that works fine. The next step that I thought I could do was use Automator to force sync that particular folder with Photos app, but I cannot seem to find any option in Automator that works with Photos - all I have is iPhoto. Is there any way to achieve this?
Okay, so this is the first time ever that I install a non-Mac operating system. But it went like this:
*=URL=* is a video that kinda shows what I need to do. I have two things i need. The first is software that can control the mouse on osx 10.9.2. What needs to happen is it needs to go up and click aux 1 and go down and click say ProPresenter. Then it would do the same for aux 2 and 3.
I know this works the other way around because I have my old 5 here in Germany right now and removing my U.S. sim card and putting in a pre-paid German sim card worked just fine. I'm due for an upgrade and my phone is basically on its way out. I'm considering buying a new iPhone 6 here in Germany. When I'm back in the U.S., if I put my old U.S. (verizon) sim card in, will the phone work as usual?
I've been searching for the relevant articles on the Internet and found nothing useful. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand. I would like to create a script that automatically keep pressing the "W" key, like wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, endlessly and as quick as possible when I press and hold the key, and it ends when I release the key. "defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false" doesn't work in this case. Thank you very much in advanced.
I have an Automator app executing an FFMPEG shell script. For some reason the ffmpeg job run twice. Can someone please have a look? Thanks
I'm trying to install Windows with Bootcamp using my USB drive (16GB). I've downloaded the original ISO (Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit), but when I try to create the bootable USB I always get this message after a couple of minutes:
When my computer wakes from sleep, it tries to reconnect to my VPN network before the Wifi connection is fully established. The result is that nearly every time I get this message, "You were disconnected because the PPP server is not responding. Try reconnecting." Is there a way to disable this message or prevent OS X from reconnection on sleep (automatically of course).
I want to remove a part of an AppleScript result. The part of my whole code is following I get the result: {"Macintosh HD", "MobileBackups", "home", "net", "USB-Stick"} How can I remove the part "Macintosh HD", "MobileBackups", "home", "net", so that only volumes that are not the whole time available are shown.
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, all the DATA saved into services like iCloud email, Gmail email, DropBox, iCloud Drive, etc. Do they actually take physical space storage inside each iOS or OS X device? Or they are just a mirror of their server? Example iCloud email service I do know that is a part of the 5GB but does it also take space inside the physical device? When there is no WIFI or Cellular connection at all, emails are still in the devices. Do you also recommend a nice reading article about this topic? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
Chrome seems to be causing my macbook to crash, like, constantly. I don't mean chrome is crashing but my entire computer.
So there are several audio related things I do with my phone (which is not iOS) that I do while at my computer, and it'd be grand if I could play my podcasts or take my softphone calls on it. Is it possible with Bluetooth, or any other wireless method?
I have 3 open VLC windows and whenever I see movement in one I need to pause all of them at once. Ideally I'd like a keyboard shortcut to do this. I tried AppleScript but I'm not familiar with the language and I can't see how to iterate through all processes of an application and tell each one individually.
I am running 2 OS flavors on my 2010 Macpro, 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on one startup drive and the latest Yosemite on another. The Snow Leo drive contains a folder "private" that looked like it was 25GB but once opened and listing subfolders, dropped to under 2GB. What is the purpose of this folder? It doesn't seem to exist on the Yosemite drive at all. The drive is an SSD and anything I can do to keep it smaller would be great. This is the view of the whole drive -
I have a Japanese keyboard Macbook running Yosemite. The input languages (sources) are Japanese and English. While the input language is Japanese, I want the keyboard layout to be Japanese (this is how it is by default, but I don't want to change this).
I am studying French and to practice my pronunciation and to learn the words, I want to have my mac speak the words out loud. My mac should say the word in English, and after that, he should say the French translation of it. So, it should speak in 2 voices alternately. The problem is that I don't know how to get my mac speak 2 languages alternately. I know how to get my mac do text-to-speech and how to change the voices, but I don't know how to change the voice from English to French during the speech. So in short, I want that my mac speaks the following words: first the English word (in an English voice like 'Daniel', and after that, the French translation of that word in a French voice, like 'Thomas') :
I listen to iTunes via Archt One BT speaker I pause iTunes, try to play youtube video and there is no sound while youtube stil playing "muted", I then play iTunes again and both can be heard this doesn't happen with Swinsian (alternative to iTunes) I'm on Mac OS Mavericks.
I want to watch the WWDC tomorrow however I will traveling home from college. This means that I will miss some of it and do not want to start watching it half way through. Is there a way how I can start watching the WWDC at the beginning when I start watching it tomorrow?
I do two tests - I rotate the scroll wheel on my mouse the same angle very slowly and very quickly. On Mac when I rotate the wheel very slowly it scrolls on the same webpage say 1 line. When I scroll the same angle in max speed it scrolls 1 page. Why the scroll is not consistent on the mouse and how can I fix this?
I know the purpose of "EFI", "Boot OS X", and "Recovery HD" partitions. But why are there three different "Macintosh HD" partitions? And should there be two EFI partitions?
I am using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.10.3. I am a developer and I use FTP on a regular basis. However I am new to OS X. It was working fine but suddenly FTP stops working for all FTP clients on my Mac for any server, even for ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/. I use NetBeans and use its most native Java based client. I tried with Firebug, FileZilla, Firefox, Chrome and OS X's native Finder client. I tried with Terminal as well — the response is: However I am able to connect to all the servers from my Windows platform.
There is a shortcut in Quicktime to start new audio recording that I use ^+⌥+⌘+N But once I installed Evernote it overwrote the shortcut so now it launches Evernote every time. I have deleted Evernote and now when I open Quicktime and press the shortcut, Mac os 10.10 returns this error: There is no application set to open the URL evernote://start/. My question is how can this be fixed?
I have a iPhone 4s 64GB for 3 1/2 years now. A few weeks ago, my volume bar randomly wasn't showing up when I tried pressing the + or - button on the phone itself. Also, the volume bar was "grey texted" when opening the music app and it was completely gone opening the screen where you swipe from down the screen.
I am using the Photos app to organize my pictures on my mac. I had imported them a month ago and then decided to go through the Finder and Pictures directory and actually delete pictures I didn't want. So when I go into the new Photos application the pictures are still there. Do I need to go through the app now too and delete them out of there or can I reimport from that same directory. I just didn't understand why it couldn't sync with what I had deleted out of there.
I have an Iphone 5c and Ipad air 2, wife has an Iphone 5c, we set up the family sharing, everything looks right, i even see her name listed in the store and vice versa, but for both of us it says the other person has no purchases. I cant seem to find a reason, I have tried every remedy I could find on apple's site.
I have a MacBook Pro w/ Retina (2012 I believe) which has a firmware password which I don't know. Since it is a retina I can't use the remove RAM trick. If I go to reformat and reinstall the MBP will the firmware password be removed?
This issue all stems from duplicating events from subscribed calendars to a single iCloud calendar I share with someone. When the origin calendar is well structured everything works as expected. My Applescript duplicates the event, and on subsequent runs the duplicate action even updates any changed info in the events (I assume it sees a matching UID and modifies the event instead of recreating it).
How can I deal/inspect a suspicious file on my mac short of installing and creating a full blown virtual machine instance? On windows when I want to open a suspicious file I use the sandboxing app sandboxie Is there something comparable/safe on mac?
I'm currently trying to recover my formatted external hard drive with testdisk. Testdisk takes forever to load on sudo on Mac Terminal, so I tried to approach it from a live Linux Distro, Gparted.
Should I be using Events or Albums? Say I go to the Zoo with my family, take some pictures and then import into Photos. Is that an Event or an Album? I always used Events with iPhoto.
My iPod classic has 50GB of music. I want it to have it's own library. Currently the library is located on my Desktop.
Hi I'm using Chrome in a MBP and anytime that I click anywhere on the page I`m browsing, a pop-up opens and I cannot stop it. I have already tried with configuration of Chrome but it's useless.
I have multiple user accounts from one computer, running Yosemite. Using same Spotify username, I'd like to sync songs offline and cache in the same path. To achieve this, I tried aliasing /Users/Shared/Library/Cache/com.spotify.client to each user's ~/Library/Cache/com.spotify.client. I noticed, however, even after one user finishes syncing, Spotify still attempts to download the songs. What can I do to use Spotify client's cached data from the same location, so that I don't have to duplicate files for each user? Note: /Users/Shared/Libarary/Cache/com.spotify.client's permission is 770 and all users attempting to access this folder is associated with the owner group to this folder (recursively).
I have a bit of an odd problem. I'm not too sure if it fits in here, but I thought I might as well try.
I just got a new iPhone 6plus my text messages are only saving one screen full. I have no "load earlier messages" prompt. how do I view a message from a week ago?
So, I have a Macbook Air and I use it to talk to people through iMessage, but the messages appear on my iPhone 5c as well. How can I stop the messages coming through my iPhone temporarily but they can still go through my Macbook Air... Is this possible... Macbook Air, yes - iPhone, no please thank you kindly :)
Where does Alfred store default and custom web searches that you create on your Mac?
I am writing a note on my mac. I want to share this note with other people on my mac. this means specific users on my mac should be able to read and write to this note. how can I do this?
If it is past my one-year warranty, or if I just don't have AppleCare, will I still be able to get Genius Bar support? To what extent does that support cover? I'm trying to decide whether or not I should get AppleCare, as the price is quite steep. However, I think this laptop (Air) will stick with me for quite a while.
Why I can't upgrade my Mac Pro OS X 10.7 to a more recent version? My system specs are: MacPro1,1 , Processor 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Ram 6 GB 667 GHz ECC DDR2 FB-DIMM, Graphic Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, Serial Number C074200V08S System Software: OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511)
Okay, so YESTERDAY i bought my (super very wow expensive) Macbook Pro Retina 13,3". Huge investment for me. Yesterday night i tried charging i for the first time, and it started tingling against the palms of my hands whenever i like moved it across the under-keyboard area. I've read a lot about it, and i've read that it's normal, and that i have to use a three plug charger - the problem is that in Denmark we dont use three plug chargers, so i really dont know what to do! I just can't believe that i've saved so many money for so long, and that I experience problems after less than 12 hours.. ugh. Hope you can help me.
Recently I have accidently erased my harddrive with all my old mac files on it, and I have been trying desperatley to get it back. I have tried EaseUS recovery program and it has found my files (thank heaven!) but it asks to pay to recover these files.
My daisy disk shows my disk utilisation like this. I have a 128 gb disk. Why does it show as ~72gb.
I have one plist associated with this launchd agent. There is one agent listed in launchctl list, and it calls my bash script, called rc.wakeup, whenever the mac is woken up from sleep. There is only one copy of this bash script. The code in the bash script is not repeated. Despite this, the bash script is being executed twice in its entirety. Why?
I woudld like to set a footer on my page, in order to make some annotation, like this picture.  I would like to make something like the number 3. I am using Pages from Mac OS X :)
I'm having severe performance troubles when I'm using the laptop's built in screen as opposed to an external display. Whenever I stop using the external display, many of the OSX animations become slow and choppy.
When I installed my Macbook Pro, I had a 1Tb drive. When I formatted and partitioned the drive, I assigned 800Gb for OSX and left 200Gb free. I intended the free 200Gb to hold a Windows installation at a later date.
I have an old Mac mini 1.1 updated 2.1 (2.0Ghz CPU/4 GB RAM). My problem: Flash videos use all CPU resources and my Mac gets very hot. My question is: Is it advisable to buy a Solid State Drive and put it in and use it or is it time to sell my Mac mini?
I deleted every single mail from Mail.app on iOS 8.3 (inbox, sent, trash). However, Mail still occupies 798 MB for "mails and attachments" according to the memory overview. How can I clear this memory?
Recently I bought an LG portable LED PG60g projector. What cables would i need to connect them and get started?
Lets say I have a website with Trebuchet MS. How do I change all instances of that font into something more appealing, like Lucida Grande?
I have two screens connected to my mac, and I would like to see different pages of the same PDF on each screen. Does Preview support this? If not, what alternatives do I have in OS X?
Since upgrading to Yosemite, there seems to be an extra class of hidden files that are 'more hidden'. They are visible when I run ls, but not in my Finder (even though regular hidden files are visible on my machine). For example, I can see .DS_Store in Finder, but then when I run ls in my terminal I can see extra versions: I suspect they might be some kind of revision history being saved for Time Machine, but I haven't set up Time Machine on my computer. What are they and how do I get rid of them?
I have set up an email account on iCloud on our shared macbook but when I send a message it comes up with my wife's name (primary account) and then my email address(secondary). This is for work and I need my own separate account without her name being attached to it. Does anyone know how I do this?
No user accounts are displayed in the window that pops up after I enter the 'resetpassword' command into the terminal. Is there another way to reset my admin password or fix this issue?
I have some friends that try turning my MacBook Pro off (I always do it back to them if they do :) ). My question is to make it harder for them to do that I could remove the power button key from my Mac. Would this void the warranty or not? I want to know this because I got AppleCare and do not want to waste that money
I have been a bit confused recently when installing some software updates using MacPorts. Some of the packages required compilation, and as expected the CPU usage (and fans) went up, as indicated in the CPU load graph in the attached screenshot.
Recently I have been getting a few unwanted telemarketing calls, all coming from the same source. Each number though is different at the end. For instance, if the numbers to be blocked are: 123-4567 123-7642 123-8643 It would be convenient for the future to simply block with a wildcard, such as: 123-* Is this at all possible?
While I was playing minecraft pe, I was changing the skin and when I got to the camera roll there's a somehwat black glitch that rebooted my iPad. After waiting for my iPad to open it keeps rebooting without the loading screen. It keeps showing me the Apple logo... I waited for 2 hours for it to open, but nothing happens! I dont want all my videos, and pictures to be deleted... plss helpp
I have installed 2 SSH clients on my iPad Air2 running iOS 8.3 and no matter what I do, it won't connect. The iPad just can't see the servers (I have 2). I didn't even get the username prompt. I've checked the IP used several times and that's not the problem I've connected via SSH using my MBPr and no problem there.
It should be an easy thing to do if I only could find out how to change the symbol (e.g. from ∂ to € or so) - but as a programmer with a lot of shortcuts this is the only thing that keeps doubting me, if a Mac is the right choice. It's a 10.10.3; I'm using Intellij and Emacs. Btw: the same happens for lots of other keys (€®†Ω¨⁄øπ•œ@∆ºª) - this makes the alt-key almost useless.
I have an iPhone 5 through Virgin Mobile USA. They say cannot unlock it due to "not having the technology", they say they can only unlock iPhone 5c and 5s. They did however give me the code which is useless because I don't know how to do it.
I need to use mkfs.jffs2 command on Mac OS X. On Linux, the command is installed with mtd-tools package, but I can't find it from homebrew. I tried to build from the source, but I have numerous compilation errors including some linux headers, so I didn't try further. I also found *=URL=* but the link is gone. I installed e2fsprogs with brew install e2fsprogs from How to erase and reformat SD card to ext3 on my macbook to prepare it for my raspberry pi, but it installs only mkfs.extX commands.
I don't have a delete button when I go to Settings, choose Calendars, etc. then my gmail account I want to delete on my work iPad. I see only a sign-out option. Do I have to have my work delete my personal gmail account since they are the main account holder.
I've got a weird problem. I recently got a new Philips BDM4065UC UHD monitor for my Late 2013 15" retina MBP (it's amazing), connected it using DisplayPort 1.2 (also set on the display) and when using both the built-in display and the external screen, everything works amazing, the image is butter smooth at full resolution and 60Hz.
I have been learning to use Terminal to install packages (particularly to learn Ruby development). I believe that I'm experiencing some conflicts with things that have been installed and would like to remove them. The issue is, during my trial and error, forgot everything that was installed.
It's possible to install an old version of Java by command line in Mac, it's possible? I am trying install java 1.6.0.17, but i can't find this version for Mac OS. I think it's possible to intall it by command line with terminal. But i don't know the correct way todo this.
I am using Mail with two gmail accounts and I am using labels to archive my messages. All my gmail labels show up as folders in Mail. I then use Mail to move emails from the inbox into respective folders, and if I check in the gmail web interface, I see the labels that I have applied in mail.
So my ipod classic was corrupted, and i read somewhere that you could use disk utility to erase everything off it (i read somewhere that this was nessesary). My computer now does not register it as an ipod, but rather as untitled on my home screen. I am afraid that i have deleted everything off my ipod, including the actual ipod software! when i connext the ipod to my laptop itunes opens but the ipod does not appear on the screen. What to do please help !!
I have a Mac OS X Server which also runs a DHCP and DNS server for my network. I would like to have a simple way (possibly even bash script) to temporarily prevent internet access for specific devices. For example I would like to deactivate the kid's Apple TV from streaming content from the internet, when I am working remotely. Thanks
I know that, for example, when I'm playing a video in YouTube on my iPhone then I AirPlay it to Apple TV, iPhone simply pass video link to Apple TV than iPhone works only as remote (in fact, turning iPhone's wifi off, Apple TV will keep playing video). So is there a way, even with Mac, to give to Apple TV an URL then look it there?
is it possible to select all the text in a Pages document with a simple action? If so, how? if not, is there any trick to change the font in all of the paragraphs in a document?
On some Android keyboards (for example), the main display is a full QWERTY keyboard with numbers or symbols under the letters. You can either press directly on a letter to type it, or swipe down on the letter to type the associated number/symbol. This allows you to enter numbers/symbols much faster than if you had to switch to a separate numbers/symbols pane. Is there any third-party iOS keyboard with this functionality?
My Time Machine backup disk is borked. Normally, I'd just reformat and re-run the backup, but that disk also has a folder of pictures separate from the Time Machine files that I need to recover.
I'm looking to get a hold of Apple's WWDC announced OSs in 2015 before they are released to everyone in the fall of 2015. Can I get any or all without being a paid developer?
Mac OS 10.10.x As in title. I find this very annoying and want the OS to stop trying to think what I want to do - especially in this case.
If I have Optimize iPhone Storage enabled on my iPhone and my phone storage is completely full, I understand that iOS will only store a low-res thumbnail of many of my photos on the device. (The full high-res version of the image will only exist in iCloud and on devices with Download and Keep Originals enabled.)
I currently pay for iTunes Match which gets me advertisement free streaming as well as a unified, cloud backed iTunes Library. How do those existing features work with or against the newly announced Apple Music subscription service? Is the former discontinued or credited to the new service or are they complimentary and optional to pay for either A or B or both?
At the beginning of WWDC opening Keynote Tim Cook spoke about "more than 40 event of WWDC streamed live to everybody for the first time". Can someone found something more about this? A page with schedules an link to events?
Today i got the newest available MacBook Pro flagship model. After setting up some basics, installing Photoshop, JRE, XAMPP and NetBeans, i started to use the machine a bit, doing some basic coding.
When switching between tabs in Safari Mobile -- Even within a few seconds -- Safari will automatically reload the tab. This will happen more frequently between sessions: Switching between Safari Mobile to another app and back will cause every open page ("tab") to reload. Not long ago, I found a tutorial explaining how to prevent Safari Mobile from reloading tabs while browsing that involved plugging in the iPhone, and making use of Safari Desktop's Development Web Inspector, similar to the method viewable in this tutorial: http://appletoolbox.com/2014/05/use-web-inspector-debug-mobile-safari/
Is there any way at all that I could connect a Playstation 4 to a Thunderbolt display?
I would like to prevent the text wrap in OSX Terminal, by letting text to continue under the border. I could not find it in Preferences of the terminal. How can you prevent text wrap in OSX Terminal?
Any hints on stabilizing MacVim? I have version "Custom Version 7.4 (73)" as shown in screenshot
I do not want tabs as symbols in Textmate. I would like to them be for instance 4 spaces. How can you make each 'tab' be 4 spaces?
We have an ipad air, which my partner uses to navigate whilst sailing with a programme called Navionics. The ipad version is WiFi only, which doesn't have an internal GPS, but that's not a problem because it connects to a separate GPS via Bluetooth.
I just downloaded iOS 9, and I get a message from iTunes saying that my backup is corrupted or not compatible with my iPhone. Do you guys know why I get this? I tried to restart my computer, upgrade Yosemite (I don't want to install El Capitan for now), and restart my iPhone.
I do not know why, but my password is no longer working on my MacBook Air v. 10.10.2 Yosemite. I have tried several things including restarting in Recovery Partition, going to terminal and typing "resetpassword." This does pull up the standard screen that allows me to change the password, but then the volume containing the user account never shows up, which means I can't select it to change the password. I have also tried the older method of deleting the /var/db/.applesetupdone file through terminal, but it seems this file doesn't exist for v.10.10.2. I've looked at the Installer Log, and some things I noticed are "keyboard layout identifier -16899 has been replaced with -28673" and other related messages, as well as "Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory", and "Could not read prev-lang:kbd to set keyboard". I don't know if any of these messages are related to the problem.
Due to the effective. Power bug, my iMessage app CAN open, but if I scroll down to a particular conversation (the recipient name won't load without crashing) the app suddenly closes. As well as fixing this I just want to clear my messages to save storage space. Is there a way to clear all my messages without selecting and deleting them in the app?
I want to use this Genius keyboard with my 2014 MacBook Pro 15". When connecting the keyboard, the Keyboard Setup Assistant opens, saying that keyboard could not be identified. Then, it asks to press the key on the left of right shift. When I press 'Z' key three times, it says that the keyboard still could not be identified and asks to chose the type of keyboard manually.
After installing Yosemite, Clicked on "Mail" it said, "Installing, will take a few minutes" when that finishes, it says "optimizing mailboxes" and then immediately crashes. Tried deleting accounts, and then adding them back. Tried rebooting. Still the same happens each time. Can you offer helpful suggestions?
I recorded a movie (File > New Movie Recording) using Quicktime Player and when I stopped I accidentally clicked "Don't Save" instead of "Save". Is that recorded content still on the hard drive somewhere, maybe in a temp or cache folder or something in a hidden directory?
I foolishly uninstalled GCC 4.9 after brew upgradeing to GCC 5. However I need both versions and I need to be able to switch back and forth. I thought I could just do brew switch 4.9.2 but the old version of GCC was installed to the folder Cellar/gcc49/4.9.2 instead of Cellar/gcc/4.9.2, so Homebrew doesn't know where to find the old version. How can I force Homebrew to install both versions in Cellar/gcc? That is, I have: But I'd like to have:
When I open Google Chrome, it shuts down all by itself. This is on a MacBook Pro Retina. I reinstalled Chrome, but the problem still exists. OS X version : 10.10.3
I am trying to run Laravel but I was getting a mcrypt error. I found more than one php on my mac so I decided to delete both and reinstall. However I can not seem to find instructions on how to install the php. Every thing I find already has the php installed and it is instructions on how to make them work by enabling. I need to know how to get it installed.
Several of my friends have their iPhones hooked up to the iMessage app on Mac. If you're not familiar, it lets you check your phones messages as well as send messages on your Mac via your phone. I was hoping there was a Android - Mac equivalent of this?
I have 13 inch mid 2010 macbook pro. Just installed new 1T hard drive but now am hesitating on what to do next. I have my old hard drive converted to external drive and a back up drive as well.
I have had my iPhone 5s for almost two years now, and the battery has been dying quickly. For example, even when my phone is on airplane mode, it will drop from 90% charged to 85% charged within two hours. I'm pretty sure this is due to the battery life. Is there an easy fix that will not cost me more than replacing the phone?
I just purchased a new Macbook Pro with Force Touch. I’m used to the old tap-to-click feature. Force Touch does not feel the same – it requires a much harder press even with “Click” sensitivity set to “light.” Tap-to-click, is also not working on my Magic Trackpad. How do I make Apple Force Touch feel like the old tap-to-click? How do I make tap-to-click work on a Magic Trackpad connected to a Macbook Pro 2015 with Force Touch?
I don't want to pay Apple any more to upgrade my iCloud storage, so I want to clean-up the photos that are stored with iCloud Photo Library. I cannot find any way to download and backup my photos easily so that I can delete them from my cloud storage. From Apples website:
In Yosemite I have my timezone explicitly set to GMT-5:00, and in the tool bar the clock shows the correct time. Several apps, including Mail, also show the correct time.
I have an Early 2009 Mac Pro with one DVI out, one Mini DisplayPort out, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics card. I'm wondering if my Mac will support retina graphics, and if so, are any of the LED monitors labeled as "4K" basically retina displays? (I'm not interested in Apple's monitors)
I would like to be able to swipe completely to left and get my text messages deleted similarly to email messages. I can swipe left and the "delete" option appears, but it's another click. Is this possible? Thanks
To isolate environmental interference and/or my Mac's wifi client as the problem, I took the Capsule into the office and repeated the transfer using a 360MB file on a Windows laptop. The results were even worse than above: To: 88s ≈ 31Mbps From: 136s ≈ 20Mbps
I'm using htop on my Mac. I put it side by side with Activity Monitor, but the reports are widely different.
I installed htop through brew, real pleasure of a view compared with top. The totals across both CPUs for top align with the sum of totals per-CPU in htop. E.g. right now I see about 40% per CPU in htop, or 80% of CPU, andtop` gives the right number.
I want to create an animation in Keynote for a proof of concept. So I create a custom 16:9 document with 1440 x 810 pixel size. Then I add an image with a 1440 x 6395 pixel size. When I first add the image it's downsized so that it doesn't stretch beyond the slide height, but I click the Original size to have it fill the width (and stretch beyond the height). The problem now is that even though I've clicked Original size, I'm quite sure the image isn't actually its original size, at least not in resolution. When I set the presentation in full screen this is part of what I see: When I look at the same area of the image in Finder Preview this is what I see: So you see, the image in Keynote is undoubtedly reduced in quality. Does anyone know how I avoid this?
I have 4 Sony laptops, a Seagate Central, 2 Wi-Fi printers and an iMac on my home network. The iMac running under OS X 10.10.3 can see all of the network devices using Finder. The laptops can see the iMac. BUT Windows on the iMac can only connect to the internet. Windows cannot see any of the network Laptops, the Seagate or the printers.
Is there a list of officially supported Macs for OS X El Capitan? I ask to get ready if any hardware which is supported on Yosemite is not supported by El Capitan?
I've got an iMac set up to share it's wired network connection via WiFi. My MacBook connects to this fine, and is assigned an IP address via DHCP.
I've plugged an USB NFC/RFID reader, model ACR112U-A9 provided by ACS Ltd. Although it is plugged I can't read anything and I keep getting this logs in console:
I have an Apple iPhone 4s that is brand new and not activated. Has the warranty period already started for this phone or does it only start after activation?
I guess the title says pretty much it all. I've added a folder I do most of my work in to Favorites in Finder. Sometimes however I need to back up in the folder structure to access a folder higher in the tree structure. However, when I've accessed the folder from Favorites that isn't possible. Finder handles a Favorite folder as the root of the structure. Is there a setting to this or some other quick nifty way of backing even further up in the tree from a favorite folder?
Looking for a memory upgrade for a macbook pro 13-inc, 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, The Apple specifications call for CL11 RAM. The question is if it will work fine with a CL9 memory so I can take advantage of benchmark improvements like this?
I'm looking for a bootable tool that provide SMART values from my HDD if there is such a thing. So far I'm only able to get into the recovery mode of my MacBook Pro and I need to confirm a malfunctioning HDD.
Is there any energy wasted through USB cables due to data sync feature when plugged in wall charger. The thing is, I've heard of some engineered USB cables such as "SONICable" and "Doubletime" which can allow your smartphone to charge its battery twice as fast when you plug it to your computer USB port. That's accomplished by some smart PCB that talks to both your smartphone and your computer, and tell it to eliminate the data sync feature, and focus all energy to charge the smartphone. *=URL=* So, I was wondering if it also can speed up the charging process when it's plugged into wall charger...
I'm looking for a way to keep the lid up, yet tell my Macbook Pro Late 2013 to do what it would do if the lid was actually closed. When I close the lid, the battery lasts for a long time, not so when the lid is open but I sleep the display.
In Photos app of my MacBook, I delete hundreds of photos. Then I go to Show Recently Deleted screen, click Delete All. However, my disk space is same as before as shown on Finder. How can I get the disk space back?
I just re-installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my MacBook Pro (2008 ed) using the original DVD. I then selected update software to bring it up to 10.6.8. The software downloaded and then I received the message to restart in order to install the software.
How to know that a macbook pro box has never been opened ? Is it all about the plastic stuff or there is some sort of sealing there ?
When I quit Safari via its Menu or CMD+q, it properly restores saved tabs. However, if I close it via X icon (top left) or by quitting it via right click on its icon in the desktop bar, it does not restore any tab.
How do I restore contacts from iCloud to my MacBook? My contacts groups have disappeared on my MacBook Pro but they are in my iCloud.
I been playing some games on my rMBP in clamshell mode as having 2 screens causes framerate to drop and I don't want the CPU/GPU to render a screen on laptop side that I don't use. My main concern to this approach is the heat generated, does clamshell mode trap more heat? will the heat damage the laptop screen if used for long periods of the time?
Only on my Mac Mini this is happening (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2) and it just started yesterday. Whenever I start Chrome it shows all my bookmarks and when I click one of them (doesn't matter which one) they all disappear including the bookmark bar area. If I close Chrome and restart it they appear again, but the problem repeats itself.
My iPhone 5 recently broke, so I got an iPhone 5s. I restored from a backup using iTunes, and configured any remaining settings fine.
I'm a developer and was able to download the new iOS beta yesterday. However, the new News app was missing. Does it not go public for a while?
I would like to be able to combine an external signal (available only via headphone cable) with the the audio out of my iPhone and listen to both of them using headphones. I know this is possible with an external mixer, but I'm hoping the folks here my have a better way to do this. Maybe the phone can take audio in via the lightning connector or bluetooth and merge it? Or maybe there's a tiny purpose built mixer for this two headphone-level input use case. I care only about the music player on the iPhone, or possibly streaming music like Pandora. I don't need actual phone calls or anything.
My Mac (MBP) won't get past 30% on the progress bar at startup. Then after a while it reboots itsef and the same thing happens. I tried to boot in recovery mode, safe mode, reset nvram, and still the same thing happens. I have a Yosemite Install USB and I tried to start from that (held down Option Key and chose the disk), however, the same thing happens, the progress bar gets to 30% and hangs. I can start in single user mode, and I have tried fsck and nvram reset there, among other things.
I know there is an option to disable autocorrect for all applications, but how do I disable autocorrect for only one application?
Using a 2015 15" MBP Retina, maxed out, what's the best source of information on ordering of Thunderbolt devices relative to a cinema display? 4K screen, and 3 Thunderbolt drives? With the Cinema Display on the end, after the 3 Thunderbolt drives, the sound is severely distorted. I've never run the Thunderbolt out the back of the cinema display.
I'm looking for an app that will log the exact time a video starts to millisecond precision. I know that normal .mov videos recorded on Apple's Photos app stores time of day information - but from what I understand, this video format only stores up to the second precision, not the millisecond. I'm not looking for a different video format that would store this (although that would also be of interest)- an app that stores the exact time as a separate text file would suffice. Of course, if there is a way to accomplish this without a 3rd party app, I would also be interested in this.
After the latest minor Mac OS-X upgrade to Yosemite, I discovered I suddenly have a new and permanent entry in my network-popdown menu, located under a "Device" heading named SETUP.  It's permanent in the way that as long as Wi-Fi is on, it's visible with the same signal-strength - no matter where I bring the computer (also far away from mobile devices). I can connect the Mac to the SETUP node without problems... Questions: What's that Device entry?
I recently changed my iCloud password on my iPhone but the password to log in to my Macbook Pro (running Yosemite) hasn't changed. When I click change password it says that my account is using my iCloud password. How do I get my Mac to update the password it is using?
Having searched through other Q&As on backing up damaged phones, I can't seem to find a solution for my little problem, so I'm really hoping that by asking directly someone will have an answer! I dropped my phone and the screen has smashed quite spectacularly. I can still view half of the display (notifications are still showing, etc.) but all control of the screen has been lost. Unfortunately, so has the touch unlock feature.
I downloaded the Developer Preview of OS X El Capitan and I'm trying to use the new side-by-side split view feature. However, I can't seem to figure out the right incantation to use it. How do I put two apps side-by-side in a full screen split view on El Capitan?
I was seeing an SSL error in Safari 6.1.6 (8537.78.2) on OSX 10.8.5 when visiting a website, and the debug information provided from the developer tools didn't indicate the source of the issue. The issue was reported by multiple users of OSX 10.8, and was resolved for those users by restoring TLSv1 in the server configuration (config change at bottom of question). The error message in Safari developer tools was Failed to load resource: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.
Disk Utility has similar values although they are displayed in hexadecimal. Whilst I realise that the raw values are not necessarily something to trust, it is nevertheless my understanding that increasing values for this attribute can indicate some kind of problem and can indicate a risk of data loss. Certainly this seems to be the case on Windows machines where the raw value is normally kept very low and associated with machines not being shut down properly or a driver issue.
Problem: employer uses a common account (username and password) for numerous logins within their domain, and requires frequent password changes. Keychain can't seem to figure out that e.g. any subdomain of myemployer.com should use the same login and password, let alone any IP address within the relevant address block - and in any case, there are a few hold out internal sites that use different logins. So I have a lot of keychain entries referring to the same account/password pair - plus more still referring to the same account with past generation passwords. What I want is to select all keychain items with a given username and old password, and change them all to same user name and new password, rather than playing whackamole as first my email access fails, then all the internal sites, one after another. Even arranging to see extra detail of all accounts at once would help, saving time manually selecting each one to see whether it's affected by the latest mass change.
My husband airdropped a video to me. I accepted, it showed the download timer, when finished, I looked for it, but can't find it anywhere in my phone. My husband went to try to send it to me again and it's also missing on his phone. Where did the video go?!
I've seen there are a number of different applications for OSX that lets you visualize disk space and browse the category tree as an index - JDiskReport, DaisyDisk, Disk Inventory X, etc. I would like to be able to save the disk image and directory tree that these applications generate for future reference and browsing. Does anyone know if any application of this kind allow for that? I can't find this information in these applications' online feature spec. Thanks.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 6 running iOS 8.2. My problem is that Siri does not work with the internal microphone. Siri and dictation work fine with any external mic like the kind that you'd find on the stock Apple iPhone headphones.
When I'm developing with Xcode or maybe using tools like gulp or grunt I notice that the tools try to access resources from an incorrect path. I've observed the problem in more that one program so clearly these programs are using some kind of environment path or shared configuration to attempt to discover the full path to the project folder. The path these programs try to use is both consistent and always wrong. For example: The repeated Documents folder in the above path is incorrect. What environment variable might these programs be using to divine this path?
Yesterday I installed El Capitan 10.11 (15A204h) and liked it a ton and intend to be use it exclusively from now on. I really liked the feature where you can shake the mouse to find the cursor and was very disappointed to find it didn't work when I tried with an external mouse.
I'm using a headphone at my workplace but I don't want to disturb others in case the headphone isn't working properly or I disconnect the headphone by accident. So I'm trying to find a method that can disable the internal speaker completely. Is there a way to do so in Macbook?
I have been meaning to finish my developer account and sign up for the iOS program, and since WWDC2015 just happened, I thought no better time than now. Unfortunately, when I go to enroll, I am told "Sorry, you can’t enroll at this time."
Is there a way to completely disable the animations when switching from one space to another in Yosemite? Everything I have found so far is for previous versions of OS X. I have tried all of these without success: I want to avoid installing a tool like TotalSpace if possible.
I heard that every SSD have a lifespan, so considering Flash Storage on Macbook devices is actually a SSD that is integrated with the logicboard, does it mean when my MBP flash drive reaches its lifespan, my mac will completely unusable? Unless I'm willing to spend a lot of money to buy a logic board replacement?
My iPhone 4 completely died. I got one of my fathers old iPhone 4's and had it flashed at Cleartalk. How can I retrieve all of my data that was backed up on the icloud?
I have forgotten my Restrictions passcode. Is there a way that I can change it without resetting the iPhone? I have tried updating it and have contacted Technical Support, but they suggested that I back up my files to iCloud and restore to factory settings.
I'm cleaning up my boot drive & have come across a unix executable file located @ /private/tmp/sperion about which I can't seem to find any information at all. What is "sperion"? This may be an unrelated question/problem but that private folder sperion is in is visible & I am consistently told that I do not have permission to chflags it hidden even with myself listed as having full permissions over the folder and the drive.
I added to /etc/sudoers, rebooted and logged in as Syammala Naidu and run sudo -i. Sudo tells me: user not in sudoers file, incident Reported. How can I fix this?
I just bought myself a Macbook Air and its the first time I own Mac hardware. I have registered with My apple account and the issue I am getting is that when I boot the machine I have to login twice. Once with the Apple ID credentials, and the second time with the Administrator account of the machine.
I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro 13" with 8 GB of memory. Lately my MacBook Pro uses swap memory, when it has enough free memory. Is this normal and can I do something about it? Also when I only have safari and let's say Xcode open it uses 99% of the RAM. Is this normal behavior?
I have a local web development environment setup with Brew, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Gem, Sass, and so many other packages out there that it would probably be a nightmare to set it up again with the same exact versions on a new machine. These packages are usually installed outside of the /Users directory. So my question is, does the built-in OS X transfer Mac feature support transferring these type of files, and configurations that are located outside of the /Users/ folder and in system directories such as /usr/local or /etc, etc..?
Given a side by side list of bullets, I can animate them to reveal bullet by bullet. But they will only animate one list at a time. For instance:
I tired allowing iOS to delete messages older than 30 days, but it didn't help - the bad message is recent, and I can't afford waiting a month to be able to use SMS again. I also don't have any older backups I could restore.
I have a Mac Pro 2012, and recently installed a new Gigabyte GTX 760 graphics/video card. I also have Windows 7 installed on this computer on my Bootcamp partition.
I have just bought a new macbook pro and am using the Terminal to code. I have read a lot of posts about pane splitting, but nothing answers my question (or none of the solutions have worked). I have figured out that I can open a new pane using command-d and close it using command-shift-d, however I cannot figure out how to switch between panes. Edit: I am starting in vim, and want to navigate to the regular terminal. Here is a picture of the editor before pane splitting: Here is a picture after the split, but can not figure out how to navigate to the above pane to start using the terminal: Model: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) OS: OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.3 Processor: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 Terminal: Version 2.5.3 (343.7)
I have an iphone 5 as does my daughter on the same family plan. I keep getting a charge for added data space. how can we reduce the amount of data so that I can reduce my bill. If I clear out all pictures, videos, messages and emails..will that help?
I’m trying to make a formula that does different things under different conditions in different cells. What I have is: This produces the letter ‘O’ for open in my case.
Lately I started experiencing that - 'issue' / 'bug' / 'feature' on my MacBook Air with OS X Yosemite. Whenever I open a new window (of any app) something gets focused immediately (getting that selection frame around it, usually blue). That happens in notification center as well. That's really annoying. Anyone knows how to get rid of it? Here's an example, look at the segment control:
The system runs great but when I try to reboot normally, it never boots. It simply waits several seconds and then comes up with the flashing question mark folder icon. If I hold down the option key to get the EFI password prompt and then the listing of attached drives, I can select the correct drive (there normally is only the one internal drive) and it seems to boot successfully 100% of the time.
When at college I sometimes find myself looking at website such as Stack Exchange and Mac Rumours. Is there a way how to block sites like this on Yosemite every 1.5hr with 30min break? What I mean is, is there an application to block specific websites at time such as 9:00-10:30 then again 11:00-12:30 etc?
I have looked at the hosts file before but never thought of this. The hosts file overrides the DNS addresses so it can be used to forward sites or to block them. When looking at the file, the default says this.
I'm looking for a solution to receive/place calls and SMS over the cellular network. For now, my best solution would be Skype, but i can't receive SMS with it. Is there an equivalent ? Thanks. Edit: it might be important : I'm in France, not in the US.
I need to connect two iPads to a network without internet connection. Can I just do it with a simple router? Is there a good type of router to share data without internet?
When I send e-mails through my regular Gmail address, my contact photo appears. When I send e-mails through a third-party domain associated with my e-mail inbox, my contact photo does not appear.
I tried to install Mac OS X El Capitan and it failed in ~70% progress after reboot and now I even can't start recovery mode (pressing Cmd+R just tries to continue installation process and fails again and again). Assuming I can get a backup of my user files over Target Disk Mode and then hand migrate them, what steps do I need to perform to wipe and reinstall Yosemite on my Mac?
Open the Screenshot in Preview Select “Adjust Size…” from the Tools menu Change the Width and Height to 50 percent of the original Change the Resolution to 72 pixels/inch I wish to do this on CLI with a generic command (percent, not actual width and height). GUI instructions with Preview
My partners daughter has frazzed her mac book pro due to water damage and has been told that the data can be recovered for £?????. I can remove the hard drive myself and my partner has a mac book pro so can I obtain a cable (SATA?)and hook up the removed drive to the working mac book pro?
I'm completely new to Macs and always used PCs so far. Said so, I'll try to be as much specific as I can.
I have found that there was an option to extract images from PDFs via "Save to iPhoto" option of Preview. Unfortunately, I don't see this option in Version 8.0 (859.21).
Here's an annoying iPhone 6 interaction I have on a regular basis: I plug my headphones into my iPhone. I open Podcasts and browse for what I want to hear. I use the volume buttons to set the headphone volume to a pleasant low setting. I put the headphones in my ears. I press play. The headphone volume changes to 100% volume, and Marc Maron blasts holes in my ear drums before I can turn the volume down or pull the headphones out of my ears.
It possible play web video content like a Flash or HTML5 file in external player like a QuickTime player or VLC player. Play video like it made in iphone when using safari.
Sorry if the title is confusing, I do not know how to describe it better. Perhaps an example will help you understand: When I download a 1GB file (it's an example) the appstore I notice that the download is quite fast, or I do not down 1GB, the application gets 1GB only after installation. So I was curious, the application before being installer is: Compressed source and compiled in the installation or Pre-compiled and compressed
I was wondering is it possible to Install Windows7 with a bootable DVD? On apple web site:
I'm setting up LaunchAgent .plists that start up UNIX bash scripts to automatically change the desktop and screensaver for various different users for a Mac image that will be deployed to multiple Mac types. I've got the system working fine in 10.10 and 10.9. Works like a charm every single time. However, 10.8 is being evil. (We need to run 10.7-10.10). Here's the script: I get an Applescript Error -10000 (Which I cannot find an origin for) I've also tried this variant
Apple already provide gorgeous photos for desktop background. How can i add photos to that collection? like "Desktop Pictures + My Folder"
So, I've seen this question and tried to follow it... but it happens regardless. And to top it all off, iTunes gives me a grave warning now everytime I plugin my phone "if you do not authorize this computer, 22 apps, including “AccuWeather”, and their data will be deleted from this iPhone."
I have forgotten my Apple iCloud username and password. I can't remember the email address I used to sign up for the account. I need to turn off Find My iPhone before sending my iPhone in for servicing. My screen won't turn on at all so I don't know what else to do. I am being told that if I don't turn Find My iPhone off I can't get my phone fixed. Is there any way I can recover my account information and turn off Find My iPhone in this situation?
I would like to access files from another computer on the same network in the Terminal. But I am not sure of the path to those files. How do I find it?
I've extracted some XML files from an email attachment. I would like to open them in Webstorm instead of Xcode. But when I try to use the "Open With -> Other" and pick Webstorm, I get a message about being unable to install the app. That doesn't make any sense, since xml files are just text. Screenshots:
I imported a large number of old photos into iPhoto, and I then updated to the new Photos app recently. After the update, the thumbnails on the old photos are incorrect. They are just thumbnails of different pictures.
I use textWrangler for all my text editing needs. I abhor textEdit. The problem comes when I search spotlight if I stop at text and hit enter then textEdit will launch. I want to remove textEdit from my spotlight without deleting the app itself.
I have a late 2006 iMac which I would like to upgrade to mac os x 10.7. What options are available to me, such as download or DVD, and where can I buy it from? Will the seller deliver it to my location in Amman, Jordan?
I'm the organizer and added my daughter as member. I added her directly by entering her Apple ID and password. First her picture showed up with my ID, after I manually changed my picture for my ID, it now shows for her ID as well. Any idea how to change her picture back to her own?
I've been having a very difficult time trying to get Windows 8.1 running alongside OS X Yosemite and it's starting to become a real pain. I initially attempted to burn the Windows 8.1 ISO onto several DVDs, with all attempts falling short resulting in "Burn failed due to a medium write error".
I just bought a new mac book pro. I am pretty sure I transferred my apps from my iPad to my mac book pro. How do I open the apps now in my new mac book pro? I can see all my apps in the iTunes library but when I double click on them, nothing happens. Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Background: I have an iPhone 5, iOS 8.3, carrier Verizon, and I currently can't get voicemails because my saved voicemails are filling all the available space. I've found several articles about how to delete voicemails, such as the following: *=URL=* http://www.askdavetaylor.com/ios-8-actually-delete-voicemails-iphone/
I have been using my parents Apple ID for a few years now to buy music and apps but now I am going to college and I don't think they want me to continue buying music and other stuff with their money. If I switch over to my apple ID on ITunes and my IPhone, will I lose all the music that I have on my phone.
Mail runs fine for a few hours, then hangs. I must force quit, then reopen. It runs fine for another few hours then crashes.
Apple announced metal for OS X. Apple's website clearly states some features will not be available on all macs, which seems to refer to metal support. But is there a list of already confirmed GPUs, most importantly are intel integrated GPUs supported? This would help me choosing a future dev computer with metal support this summer.
I am not happy with the capabilities of my cable service providers phone and answering system. Can my iMac take over with all the bells and whistles of a business phone system?
I'm planning to buy MacBook Pro 13" 256GB SSD but i find it too expensive. I thought that it would be better if i buy 128gb SSD and upgrade it with an HDD storage. Is that possible? If not, is Apple still selling the old MBP?
I need a new Battery for my late 2008 MacBook but Apple consider it as Vintage so stopped producing it. I searched my new battery on eBay and I've found two alternatives at, more or less, the same price: Original battery, never used but more than a year old (so it remained more than a year in his box). Compatible Battery, so produced by who knew with who what but most recent. So my question is: Is better a brand new compatible battery or an original but old one?
In Mountain Lion I could swipe up with three fingers to see all windows and then swipe down without lifting my fingers to go back to the normal screen. From Mavericks, that does not work. I have to lift my fingers and then swipe down to go back to the normal screen. This takes more time and inconvenient. Is there any way to make it work as was in the Mountain Lion?
I am using Pages '09 on Mac OSX 10.6 (SnowLeopard) and would like to stop cursor blinking. For TextEdit, this was possible by setting
I have two Macs, one with Mavericks and one with Yosemite. Ever since I’ve upgraded to Yosemite, iMessages are no longer in sync between the two. I use the Mavericks one as my primary machine and when I go to the other one, the only messages I see are the one pre-upgrade. I tried logging out and logging back in on both, but to no avail. How can I fix this problem? The email address used for the account is the same in both instances and I do not use an iOS device, so there is no phone number associated with said account.
I'm a newbie with OS X Server and specially with Profile Manager. I have already managed to make enrollment work, but I'm wondering if it is possible to change the template of the invitation email since it is pretty awful and leaves no space for branding or anything else.
I already saw a lot of questions and answers about how to copy the path of a file or folder using Automator. I personally like to use the copy option under the action menu on top of your finder because this will give you a path which can be used as a link:
Is it normal for the maximum mAH to fluctuate by 100's from time to time for a 2012 macbook pro?
I need to track not enterprise distributed apps, but all other apps installed on the device. I need the information on when each app was launched, and for how long it was opened. As I see so far, it is not possible, but maybe I am missing something...
I am using these four lines in my .bash_profile file to enable colouring on my mac terminal (Mac OS Yosemite). The outcome is a little generic (for example all the directories have the same colouring) so I wonder if there is a way to have a specific folder name painted with a different colour. For example I want all the directories named 'bin' painted in red. Any ideas? Thank you.
I have installed ubuntu alongside os x. I can start it by pressing the option key during startup and choose the correct disk. Everything works.
long long ago through updates or whatever apples AU Lab stopped working on my MacBook Pro. Every attempt to reinstall, even latest version didn't bring it back to live. Currently a new attempt is made with the 2.4 version on Yosemite 10.3. But after selecting a configuration the same as ever: No document window is opening. May be there are old settings hidden in special places? So I need to know how to TOTALLY delete any traces of the app from my computer to start a new attempt. Any infos desperately appriciated!! THX.
Every now and then (it seems to me especially after TM backups, but that is about the only reason I plug them in), I am unable to eject and external hard drive by clicking the eject button in Finder (it simply does nothing). It works when initially plugging it in, but not after the backup. I can however eject it by right-clicking and choosing Eject, no problems. This happens with two different drives I use for backup. Has anyone else experienced this issue or can suggest what the problem might be? My OS is 10.10.3
I finally managed to enter recovery/repair mode with Disk Utility (previously no disk was listed in menu), and clicked 'First Aid'. This failed after one second with something like 'invalid node'. I Googled some time and entered Terminal in recovery mode and entered this command that many people praised, but I got this:
I have a number of automator script scheduled in launchd. All the scripts work fine and execute the workflow as expected. These are simple workflows that execute some finder actions and shell scripts. However, I always get an OSStatus 10810 error code on calling them with launchd. If I create the automator workflow as an application bundle and use "open script.app" I will get the error in job error output. If I use "automator script.workflow" I don't see anything in the error output of the job, but I do see a similar error code in my server logs. What is this error in relation to a workflow?
I never want to see an emoji again. I have seen instructions for disabling them in specific apps, but I want a nuclear option. How do I get rid of them for all apps, all users, all contexts? I'm on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
I have moved to Malaysia recently. unfortunately my iphone 5s is working slow even sometimes when I press home button the screen stays black ( looks like switched off ) and I have to keep pressing home and lock button for couple minutes to get my phone back. or for example when I want to get out of an apps my phone freezed and stays like that for 10 seconds. the available storage is 3.4GB and IOS version is 8.3. Thanks guys
I'm responsible for many iOS devices that sync to Exchange using Activesync. I see a problem with iOS 8.3 where appointments randomly are missing from the local device. Is anyone aware of this issue or know how I can resolve this?
My hard drive bit the dust rather spectacularly on my 2011 15" MBP. Luckily, I have a model without torx screws, so I popped it open, put in a 240 GB SSD I had lying around, and did and Internet boot into Lion recovery.
I just see this screen below. I've tried to begin pairing multiple times and I get past the scanning screen and sometimes past the T&Cs but no further. The watch hasn't been paired before.
Im making an app for my enterprise but we dont know yet which ditribution method to use. The app is for employees, <-- This is not a problem, we can use Enterprise Membership, the problem is that the app is also going to be used by the family of the employees, so Enterprise is not an option because we wanted to upload the an into the intranet but that way the families couldnt have access to the app.
I have a new Macbook Pro (late-2013) with Yosemite. I am missing many Messages preferences, including the ability to set status. There are no options to set to away after a certain amount of time. There is nothing to click on in the lower-left of the messages window. I am just trying to follow Apple's instructions for setting status.
Is there a way to prevent employees from setting up icloud accounts? The issue we have is employees set up an icloud account then leave the business and the phone become a costly paperweight because there is no way to reset the phone due to the icloud account. If possible it would be nice to disable icloud all together to avoid lockouts and mixing of personal and work data.
I'm looking to do away with my Boot Camp partition. Now I've bought a 2 TB external drive, and I was wondering if it's possible to either install a Boot Camp partition onto the external drive, or failing that, how much of a performance drop I'll see if I install a VM via Parallels Desktop onto the external drive. It's a USB 3 external drive. My Mac is a MacBook Pro late '13, 2.4 GHz Intel i5, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM
Does anyone know this icon? I can't get rid of it.
While dismantling my 2011 MacBook Pro, I found that the bottom case place has an etching:  What does it all mean? In particular, one part of it appears to be a date in the future. Is it, and if so what happens on that day?
I would like to know how I can restore my mac Maps App with time machine back up. Maps , although the app opens ,I can only see the grid , either in map or satellite , I can even see the "Pin" drop onto the grid if I enter an address , however if I try to "report a problem", via the maps sub menu , it tells me I have no internet connection.
I want to list the application names / process ids that are accessing any microphone / sound input device. This would be great if it were a Terminal command (like lsof) but even an application would be fine, especially if it is managed through Homebrew.
I am trying to install SmartGit on Mac. I download their dmg file and double click on it and instead of giving me an option to drag the app to the Applications folder, it opens up a folder with the app and also related folders. How do I install this particular application?
If I have a large file, let's say a 1 GB ISO file, and I add a tag to it through the Finder, so that there's a blue circle next to the filename now, then Time Machine will consider that the file has changed and back it up a second time. So this one file takes up 2 GB of space on Time Machine now. Is there some way to prevent Time Machine from backing up the entire file if just a tag was added to it?
I have bad blocks on the internal Hitachi hard disk in my 2009 era MacBook PRO. I am reformatting the disk with the zero-out option to remap those blocks, but when it comes time to restore the contents of the drive I am wondering whether it's really necessary to partition the disk given that I have no need for more than 1 partition. Please advise.
I've got a 13" mid-2012 MBP running OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite. I've recently repaved it with a fresh install and now I'm getting round to Bootcamp`ing it. I've installed Windows 8.1 in EFI boot mode and discovered the well documented issue with the sound card not working. Following various online guides to install Windows in legacy boot mode, I've held option at boot and selected "Windows" on the USB thumb drive that Bootcamp Assistant created but all I get is a black screen with a white blinking cursor. I've left it for 10 minutes but still nothing (some reports say it boots to the installer after a while). I believe the disk is hybrid MBR (due to Bootcamp Assistant), here's the output from fdisk How can I get Windows to install in legacy boot mode? Note, I previously had Windows 8.1 working fine (audio and everything) and if I remember correctly I just ran Bootcamp Assistant and followed the instruction, no trouble.
When I open Console app and go to the "System diagnostic report" I can see awdd files. In the file while I can see for example: ($0éÞÊ ú©åÞ)ÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ (08@HPZða ¨ü1 ªÿÿz ¿´åÞ)($0ß ¾´åÞ) System Profile: AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x112), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0
A few OS X releases ago, there was a checkbox in the Energy Saver settings for "Automatically reduce brightness before the display goes to sleep". This doesn't appear to be there any more, and hasn't been since 10.8 afaik.
I have a 2011 13" MacBook Pro. It has had no problems up until now. Suddenly, clicking won't work! I thought that it was the touchpad that wasn't working right, but then I connected a mouse and the problem still persists! Sometimes it doesn't want to click, and other times it won't stop clicking. I have gone online and tried everything that people have recommended but nothing works!
Lately, on my MacBook Pro, visiting webpages has started to consume large amounts of RAM. Visiting websites like Stack Overflow, golang.org, golang playground, or gnu website causes my computer to perform very poorly since it runs out of RAM.
I have an online calendar in an RSS-format. Is is possible to import it into iCal and will it be kept synced automatically? An example of such a calendar is: RSS-Calendar
I use the MyPhoneExplorer (MPE) utility to send SMS/text message from my Windows host through my Android smartphone connected to the computer with a USB cable. It's a no-brainer. A friend of mine has an iPhone and a Windows laptop: I was wondering if there's an equivalent to MPE that can work with an iPhone: Runs on Windows and iPhone Windows and iPhone connected through USB cable Connecting both hosts (Windows laptop + iPhone smartphone) to wifi just for this is overkill. Thank you.
The text messages I send through iMessage on my iPod are showing up and notifying my desktop Mac. Is there a way I can stop this
I was given an iTunes gift voucher from the U.S. I'm australian and after poking around I realised I had to make a U.S. Apple ID. Once I had done this when I tried to purchase an item with this card, it says "Your purchase could not be completed" and behind that it says 'unable to connect to the Itunes store'. I'm not sure if this is a fault with me or with apple. Can anybody help?
I have the task of sending a standard email to a list of people. The hard part is that each email has a specific foto attached. My list is like this: John Snow, john@winterfell.com, johnSnow.jpg Aria Stark, aria@winterfell.com, ariaStark.jpg And my email looks like this:
I connect my iPhone 6 to my computer(Windows 8.1), but I cannot find the "internal storage" or "Lily's iPhone". Can anyone help me?
Do you know how to recover media files from iPhone 6? I lost my photos and music by some accident.
I can't find a way to delete previously imported photos from the iphone in the Photos app (Version 1.0 (209.52.0)). Note that there is a check box to delete picture right after import, but I am looking for a way to delete previously imported pictures without having to reimport them. Typically pictures are automatically imported via iCloud and so when I open the Photos app it does not make sense to reimport them. With iphoto it was possible but apparently not with the new photos app. Someone earlier posted the same question and one solution was given: OS X - How do I remove photos from my iPhone using the Photos app after import?
Uploading about 600GB of photos to iCloud Photos over a 300KB uplink takes weeks but also creates network congestion that destroys any download bandwidth. The only obvious way to control it is to navigate to the Photos Preferences window and hit the Pause or Continue button. Is there any way to do this from the command line? Any launchctl commands that might work?
When I charge my iPhone 4 on my laptop, it starts charging but then it keeps going on and off charging even though it's not touched. It charges fine with a plug charger or with any computers I use at college.
I have a mid 2015 MacBook Pro, and I want to run three external monitors - it only seems to power 2 of them. I can seem to run any combination but only two. I am powering them through 1 X thunderbolt to dvi, 1 X thunderbolt to VGA, and 1 XHDMI. Can this be done?
I have a Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.10.3. It has an open directory server configured in the server account network configuration in 'Users and groups'. Is there a way to remove that server account network entry from terminal? To be more specific, I want to log in with the local user and remove the connection with the directory service for that particular server using the terminal.
Just seems safari can be picky with what website password gets saved. Like I can save my password for stackexchange but I can't do the same for macrumors.com.
I use keyboard shortcuts on my iPhone a lot. For example, @g which results in @gmail.com, or addr for my home address. I have got multiple OS X and iOS systems. I believe shortcuts in sync via iCloud. On OS X some of my shortcuts are quite annoying because typing @g always results in @gmail.com without giving me a suggestion first (like it does on iOS) (btw, it took me quite some effort to type this sentence as it was continuously extending @g ...)
In the morning two days ago, I spilled some water on my Macbook pro. It was shut down, so I dried it with a towel but that evening it worked perfectly.
All was well for months, then suddenly Time Machine reported it hadn't backed up for 20 days because the disk was unavailable. When I cycle the power the Time Capsule is green in AirPort Utility, for a few hours and then it disappears again. I've tried a hard reset on the backup device. The AirPort is not creating a network, I'm using a Comcast router instead which the Time Capsule is wired to. TIA for your assistance.
I created this at the volume root per instructions to install MongoDB. I haven't seen this before. Is it invalid for me to create a top-level folder like this?
Spotlight does not deliver any result from mail messages (although searching inside Mail.app works) I tried to re-index the mails with the following result: What could be wrong?
I would like to add a box to my applescriptobjc application. I would like to add a box that displays the output of so I think I would do something like But how would I show "a" in a box on the User Interface?
I can access the drive on my iPhone, iPad and Android. I am having trouble figuring out how to get it to work with my Mac I am using Yosemite and I've done the latest firmware update on the drive
I upgraded my iPhone 4S to a 6. They transferred the number and everything in the Verizon store. However, they did not want the old phone on trade in. I would like to trade / sell or give away the old phone but I want to reset it first. However, it will not let me reset it because it will not connect to the WiFi at my house in order to accept the iTunes password.
The main reason because I use Google Chrome on my Mac is its keyword feature that I can use as shortcut while I'm searching for something. This is an example of my main keywords: *=URL=* This is an example of keyword feature in action: *=URL=* Is there a way to do the same on Safari?
I recently purchased a LG 34UM95. I planned to use the Thunderbolt daisy-chain feature to add another non-Thunderbolt monitor (mini DP --> HDMI) as the second link of the chain. However, it doesn't work when plugged in, and LG support informed me the daisy chain will only work with a monitor of the same model (e.g. another 34UM95).
I'm writing an AppleScript which should show the value for the output volume. With get volume settings I'm getting 4 values, but I need just the output volume value. The integer should be shown in a display dialog.
I'm looking to learn how to dictate @ to siri. If there is a general resource to look up how to find odd characters, so much the better, but in US English I'm not figuring this out by myself.
I just plugged an empty flash drive into my computer, and it thinks there are two drives - the flash drive I expected, and a small CD-ROM drive. Here is the relevant section of output from running diskutil list in Terminal: The main volume is empty, as expected. The CD-ROM 'drive' contains 3 files, none of which can be deleted (I tried remounting the volume in read-write mode, and it didn't work): Now, I can see two possible explanations for this: This is some harmless leftover junk from the original manufacturer, meant to start up some program that would attempt to be helpful on Windows (such as a disk encryption utility, etc). This is malware meant to target Windows. How can I tell which one it is, and, if possible, how can I get rid of that second 'drive' so that I have all the memory available and avoid problems when I connect this to Windows?
I'm using US Apple ID and got a gift card from Japan. I can't redeem it. How can I redeem the gift card?
This happened to me on older iOS 8.x versions, but stopped for a while and came back when I upgraded to a newer iphone (from 5s to 6, with 8.3). Seemingly randomly, certain times the keyboard just will not raise up in Messages (sometimes in other apps).
A few weeks ago my sound settings changed on their own, and I cannot seem to reset them; I change it and it doesn't save once I go out of Settings. I go into Settings > Sounds > I change Vibrate on Silent to OFF and change New Mail to NONE and go back out and they immediately revert to ON and DING.
I've had my iPad for a year now. When I tried to open Safari and my iPad froze and I came back to the home screen. This started after the new software update. Since then no apps will open, not even the App Store. I've tried restarting it and let it die (letting the battery run out) and recharging, but it didn't help. How can I open apps on my iPad?
I published an application in the App Store named HIV Clinical Guide. This application is more than 100 MB, so it is not possible to download it on a cellular network. Normally when you press the download icon in the App Store, you get a popup that you can only download the app on Wi-Fi, because Apple doesn't allow you to download an application that is more than 100 MB by 3G/4G.
When I open the Mail app on my iPhone, it has been going to my Hotmail (this was good). I just downloaded the app for Gmail, and now the Mail icon sends me to Gmail (okay). How can I access both Hotmail and Gmail from my iPhone 5?
I have had to install MS Silverlight in order to carry out online marking of examination answers on platform 'RM Assessor' The RM Assessor login page appears, with a username window and a password window. I know both of these.
I just got a new iPhone because my other one broke & I was wondering how do I get my information (pictures, contacts) transferred back to my new phone? My broken iPhone was backed up... I've done it before but i forgot the steps.
My wife and my children have iphones under her apple ID , I have an android Galaxy Note 3 ... today my wife sent a couple inappropriate texts to me and I responded ... later today one of my children told my wife that they were getting her texts .. would they have gotten mine from an Android or just the texts of other imessage users ?
I bought an iPhone 6 and I gave my old iPhone (the 5c) to my niece. Had it done at the AT&T store. The sales rep changed her # to my old phone and my old # to my new phone. I jumped on the iCloud and was able to transfer all photos, messages, etc onto my new iPhone. The first time my niece plugs in her iPhone 5c (which was my old iPhone), all of a sudden, all of her contacts replace mine on my iPhone 6 and now we both have the same contacts - hers.
I updated my iPad to iOS 8.3 and something or other failed, leading to a factory reset. I'd like to recover my files. I found a couple Windows tools that apparently can do that, but either they can't install on the only Windows computer I have available at work (no admin privileges) or they're free trials that don't actually recover the files, just show that it can but want you to pay. I have not found anything promising so far, besides using PhotoRec per this link: *=URL=* which requires the iDevice to be jailbroken, which mine cannot be since it's 8.3 plus I want to keep overwriting to a minimum. I'm running TahrPup, which is a Puppy "built from ubuntu 14.04 LTS trusty tahr packages" and can install from ubuntu's repositories/etc.
On an iPad Air 2, is there a way to upload videos that I took with the iPad's Camera app to the iCloud?
This is my first query , and also my first apple product, macbook pro retina. Should I be buying 128 or 256 as I am really tight on budget.
I have made a bootable USB disk using a DMG and restoring it to a partition. I planned on making this USB a multiple-version recovery USB for use at a repair shop, but I can't fit everything I want onto it. The biggest issue is that each installer takes up much more space than the installer seems like it should.
I use a VPN when connecting to the Internet via open Wifi. I use Apple's built-in VPN client.
Whether it is Chrome, Firefox or Safari, I always encounter this problem. I stream this video and let it loads for like 30 minutes so I can watch. Meanwhile, I navigate through my 10 other tabs. At some point I want to check how's the progress on the streaming video download. But all of a sudden, I accidentally click on the little cross that's hidden to close on the video tab and al the download is lost!
I now use Wi-Fi for my iMac and for various other devices. Can I set up the iMac to use ethernet directly w/o Wi-Fi involvement and have the Wi-Fi continue to connect for iPads, TV and smart phones? Concerned about security as I do banking and other financial stuff only on the iMac.
I just used some Rubbing Alcohol (I didn't use too much and I put the stuff on a paper towel first) to wipe and clean the keyboard and backside of said keyboard of my Macbook Air. Now I'm obessively terrified at the thought that I may have just made a costly mistake. I want to say that nothing appears to be happening yet, but I don't want to jinx it. Should I not have done it????!!!!!
I recently set up my new PC (Windows 8) and installed iTunes. I then moved the iTunes folder from my old PC to my new PC. I set the iTunes library path in Preferences to that folder. But when I launch iTunes, none of the music shows up. I also tried copying across the entire /music/iTunes directory, but it didn't work.
I've installed El Capitan Developer Preview . Installation crashed at about 75% and then i could only boot in safe mode.
My iPhone wouldn't accept my passcode, so I looked online, and it said to put the phone into recovery mode, then sync it to a computer with iTunes. It said to hit restore when iTunes gave me the option.
I have 2 computers. One is Mavericks (10.9.5) and this one is Yosemite. On Mavericks, this works flawlessly. With wine, Steam launches fine. However, there is a peculiar window showing up, and whenever I try launching a game/app, it pops the usual window with "Preparing to launch...", then it disappears and nothing happens.
I have an iPod touch 5, and it won't let me send messages to non-Apple users. I've tried to find help in a lot of websites, but my iPod is still not letting me text non-Apple users.
I found How to disable DRM in Firefox 38 I don't have those settings in my Firefox. See screenshots:
I copied some PDF files from my Windows machine to my iPad via iTunes. I accidentally deleted one PDF from my PC and I would like to copy it back from my iPad. How to do it?
I would like to chat with my groups on Facebook using a desktop app. So far I've tried: Adium, it is quite nice, but it doesn't support group conversations. Adium, it is quite nice, but it doesn't support group conversations. Native Messages app doesn't seem to support the Facebook group chat as well. Native Messages app doesn't seem to support the Facebook group chat as well. Is there any way to configure these or any other free applications so that I can chat on my group conversation?
What kind of WoL protocol does OS X use? Trying to explain. When I use OS X on my Mac Mini and it is going to sleep it wakes up automatically when receiving any packets (e.g. when I try to connect via SSH). Now I'm using Debian Jessie on my Mac mini and when I run ethtool -i eth0 I get Which means only magic packet activity supported by card. So are there any Linux drivers to wake up my Mac on receiving SSH access requests for example?
My iPhone 6 screen is awkwardly zoomed in (not on the zoom screen function) and I can't access the edges of my screen. How can I fix this? I can't access my space bar when texting or my Notification Center. Tried restarting and charging but nothing has worked. Any tips?
My new RMBP 13 crashes every time on reboot if displays are connected to the Thunderbolt port. Yesterday it also crashed during operation of a connected TV to Thunderbolt while displaying a presentation.
How can I install Cheetah (OSX 10.0) on my 2014 Macbook? Can I use virtual box? Where can I find iso files to install? BTW my macbook is running Yosemite
After nearly a week browsing all over the web, using Safari 5.1.10 Develop menu, Activity Monitor, etc…, how can I download the following video to my Mac: *=URL=* I can't find the video's URL to download on Safari activity monitor nor web inspector.
My 3 years-old has been using my old iPad1 to watch videos on YouTube and 'saved' them in the 'favorites' section of the legacy youtube apps (icon is an old TV Set, not the new white arrow on a red background icon). After some readings it appears that: 1- youtube does not support anymore this legacy youtube app since they use a new API since Apr.2015 2- when I try to get the new youTube App from the App Store, I'm being prompted to upgrade to iOS7 first 3- when I looked at upgrading an iPad1 with iOS7, most articles say that it is not possible (iOS7 hardware requirement not supported by iPad1) I'm only trying to get back the list of favorites (i.e. video links) which seems to be still there in the YouTube apps... If anyone is facing the same situation, happy to share thoughts and hopefully solutions! Many thanks in advance, David
My MacBook Pro running Yosemite has Finder in Simplified Chinese and iCal is set to show Chinese calendar dates next to the Gregorian calendar dates. I know how to make events repeat every year on a certain Gregorian calendar date but how can I make events repeat every year on a certain Chinese calendar date (for example, for major Chinese festivals)?
How to run Mac OS Tiger on modern Mac? There’s a lot ways to launch Linux and Windows, but not an old Mac OS X. I’ve googled a lot and gave up to find a working solution. I need this to run specific software for my old but mighty film scanner.
I have recently heard that a feature called rootless that is going to be on El Capitan. This means that folders such as /System cannot be modified by the root user and only signed kext (kernel extensions) can be installed on the computer.
Transferring files from old 2008 iMac to new 2015 iMac using Migration assistant and ethernet cable - work fine, albeit 3 hours, until says " About 12 minutes remaining" on the new iMac and About 16 minutes remaining on old iMac, seems to have frozen for last 2.5 hours, ideas?
If I try to restore from iTunes, it tells me I have to turn off find my iPhone. Why is this so?
my new monitor NEC EA274WMi looks sharp when connected to windows but blurred all font texts once connected to OS X. It's very annoying, I work with user interface, small texts, labels, icons.
My Python app is using scipy which apparently needs libgfortran. After a recent brew update/upgrade, my Python app fails to run due to a libgfortran dependency issue:
For instance, I like reading Quora. They regularly send me digests to my email. What I do is I click the link from the email that opens the digest in Safari tab. I usually prefer to leave those open tabs until later on (usually Sunday) when I go through many tabs at once and read through them all.
Is there a way to have Calendar.app display its week numbers using the standard ISO 8061 week definition? The standard says a week starts on Monday, and the first Thursday of the year defines the first week. So at the end of 2015, the standard week of 2015-12-28 to 2016-01-03 is Week 53. In contrast, Calendar.app in Yosemite & Mountain Lion shows Week 1. I'm wondering:
I am currently making an AppleScript and would like to know how to do the following things. Display text in the center of a display dialog How to create a new line inside the dialog
I'm currently working on an Xcode project that I have on my desktop. I'm currently using OSX version 10.9.5. If I update my mac to OSX Yosemite 10.10.3, will this delete all my projects/files with Xcode 6.1 that I have on desktop that i'm working on?
I'm using OSX 10.9.5 on my MacBook Pro now and I can't find the QuickTime app/feature anywhere. Is QuickTime only available on OSX Yosemite 10.10.3? If it is on OSX 10.9.5, where is it located? It's not one of my the apps at the bottom of screen, so where can it be?
Any ideas what the problem is? My guess is I didn't place the RAM in correctly. Also, after lifting off the back case, I did spray the inside with canned air (as recommended, I thought) to clean the system of any dust. Would this forever damage the system?
6/15/15 12:11:32.429 AM WindowServer[383]: CGXReleaseWindowList: Invalid window 46 (index 0/2) 6/15/15 12:11:32.430 AM WindowServer[383]: CGXReleaseWindowList: Invalid window 45 (index 1/2) 6/15/15 12:11:33.102 AM sandboxd[245]: ([532]) com.apple.intern(532) deny mach-lookup com.apple.CalendarAgentLauncher 6/15/15 12:11:34.715 AM parentalcontrolsd[646]: StartObservingFSEvents [849:] -- *** StartObservingFSEvents started event stream 6/15/15 12:11:36.911 AM WindowServer[383]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Xcode" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them. 6/15/15 12:11:37.806 AM WindowServer[383]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Xcode" after 1.90 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds) 6/15/15 12:11:39.257 AM WindowServer[383]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Dropbox" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them. 6/15/15 12:11:3
so I was following some instructions to get my windows bootcamp partition to resize in disk utility, because after upgrading to Yosemite I was unable to resize my partition to give one side more space (although I had free space). I followed the commands I saw on multiple different support links and they all seemed to be the same and worked for those who had problems, so I followed it through and it did indeed work. It was to find the logical volume id though the diskutil cs list then to use diskutil cs revert However, In disk utility my main disk (the one at the top) has been renamed to the name of the SSD hardware with my two partitions underneath, rather than just 'Macintosh HD' with the two partitions.
A trackpad in another room was interfering with my ability to use my laptop's native trackpad, such that I could not click on anything. I wanted to either turn off bluetooth or disconnect the offending device.
My iTunes shows me that there is about 7 GB of free space, while iOS settings shows me that there is only about 80 MB of available space. How do free space and available space differ?
Chrome keeps leaving GCH processes behind, even after stopping the main process. How can I quickly kill all GCH processes in one go?
Earlier today, my MacBook Pro 2013 went to the grey screen of death (folder flashing with the question mark) and now won't boot up. I started internet recovery all fine, but when I went to reinstall OS X, there was no disk to install it to available.
I have a problem with creating home folders on the server for network accounts. The goal is to share the same files on multiple devices. A quick overview of what I do: I go to the Server.app. I create a folder (in my case on /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Network Users). I enable the File Sharing service. I add the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Network Users as a shared folder. Once added, I edit it and make sure it is able to be used for home folders (AFP). I create a new network account and set his/her home folder location to 'Network Users'. When I try to log in on a device (in my case a MacBook Pro), it gives me the following error saying I can't login:
There is a free player for vmware on windows, is there a free version as well for mac? If not, any other free alternatives?
I have 2 Macs. I usually work on one, but would like to be able to quickly continue work on the other. That means the following:
I've got a quite old Samsung printer, model ML-1520. I can not find any drivers for it. Samsung seems to have stopped supporting OS X, and Apple only offers drivers for models not older than ML-1630. I've tried to install the drivers by Apple and setup my printer as 1630 and other models, but it doesn't print. Where can I find proper drivers?
I need to buy an iMac for my company. Both me and my company are located in Italy. I've noticed that on my personal account it doesn't let me enter my full company details (in particular the VAT number), so I guess I have to register a company account. I've noticed there is supposedly a "business site", but when I try to register a new account it brings me back to the normal site where I enter personal data, without company name, VAT n. etc. So, what am I supposed to do to buy something for my company, receiving a proper invoice?
I have just finished installing OS X Server and the mail section of the installation is all done, however I have noted that when groups receive emails the groups name is placed in [ ] within the subject of the mail. Where is the setting located to stop this or is there some form of additional code I can introduce to remove it prior to it reaching the end users inbox?
Once in a while I get this bizarre behavior on my iPhone 5's screen with iOS 8.3.1. (The button says 'Approve' - in Hebrew).
My laptop has this crackling sound on the right speakers no matter the volume. The noise is not heard with a headset. I noticed this after updating my software to the latest one.
I've been using iPhone for many years now but this is the first time I've this problem. I received a picture from a friend, who is on Android. Since then that particular picture copies by itself multiple times during the day in my camera roll.
I have recently enabled my Mac to backup photos from Photos.app to iCloud. When I go to iCloud > Manage > Photos it says that there is 25MB of data in iCloud, however when I go to ~/Pictures and I right click on Photos Library and select Get Info it says that there is 1.1GB of data. I know this is true when I put them into another folder. How do I force my Mac to upload my photos to iCloud? This is not a duplicate of iCloud Photo Library - force upload since I have less then 250 photos so I am not exceeding the maximum limit.
Specs: Macbook Pro Mid 2012 OS X 10.10.4 I'm not able to Share my screen with my friends. I want to connect with my friend's Macbook (which is not in my network, different city) for troubleshooting purposes, & so I tried Screen Sharing from Messages App:
I am writing a Pages (5.5.3) document for my Diploma thesis. I want to create a paragraph style for source code that has a colored border only on one side. Unfortunately, Pages gives me a limited number of options to choose from:
Is there an alternative to Time Capsule to do a wireless time machine backup. My mom already has a router and doesn't want to replace it but I still want to make sure she has a backup. She never has her MacBook connected so I'm looking for a wireless solution.
I would like to make a Google search with an AppleScript. The code looks like this: The problem is, how can I change the spaces to a +?
I added some PDFs from iTunes to my iPad and the ones already on it disappeared. When I tried to sync them back, I get the message they weren't transferred because they cannot be found. They are all showing up in the iTunes library now. Now all I have on the iPad are the ones I just added.
My new Macbook pro 13 inch 256 GB (Early 2015) Storage Apps more than 800 GB on 256 GB SSD
After using Boot Camp to install Windows on my Mac, is there any way to transfer files between the two partitions as each is only read only to the other. This is mainly because I have run out of space on one partition and was wondering if I was able to download files to my main Mac partition which will be used on my windows side, or is the formatting incorrect for this process.
When I click File > Share > YouTube (username) a box pops up, but the "next" button is not highlighted and is not clickable. I've also tried to upload the files from the YouYube website but when I do I get this error and a 0% upload:
I have an iMac from 2007-2009 and I want to upgrade the software to improve performance. It's running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (2.66 GHz). It displays 4 GB of memory and 451.6 available GB on the harddrive.
I bought by mistake a fake MagSafe 2 charger for my Macbook Pro 13 Retina. After using it for around a month I decided to pay more and buy the original one for the sake of my battery health. After opening the box and plugin it in, it just didn't light up, I've tried many times and nothing.
I bought my 13 inch non-retina MacBook Pro on December 2013. It's got... 4 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM 500 GB 5400-rpm hard drive
I often need to trim videos and simply want to overwrite the original file. Using QuickTime Player I need to open and trim the video save the video to a new file (unfortunately it does not show the folder the original video is in) find the new file and move it back to the original folder
Can i change the App availability date multiple times?. i.e Making it available for sale and changing it to future, again making it available etc.
Could this be some spyware of something? How I can (try) to finally delete it?
My safari's reading list is "one shot", in the sense that if I open a URL it gets deleted, so I can just read it once. But some articles are long and I read them in 3-4 times. How do I change this behavior? I'd like that reading list items could be removed just manually.
I was cleaning my MBP out the other day and found chess.app in my /applications folder. I tried deleting it and Yosemite gave me this error:
I recently enabled FileVault on both my mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro and my external USB drive containing a Carbon Copy Cloner backup. My external drive is attached directly to the MBP. I also have a powered USB hub attached to the MBP's other USB port (no drives are attached to the hub). Since enabling FileVault, I've noticed a peculiar behavior on the boot menu (holding option at startup): If I leave the hub attached during startup, the CCC drive doesn't show up in the boot menu. If I leave the hub attached during startup, the CCC drive doesn't show up in the boot menu. If I leave the hub unplugged during startup, the CCC drive shows up. If I leave the hub unplugged during startup, the CCC drive shows up. Swapping the USB ports for the drive and hub changes nothing. Swapping the USB ports for the drive and hub changes nothing. Any ideas what the cause of this might be?
I've been using Keynote (6.5.3) for nearly a month without trouble. Apparently, at some point today, I've mashed a keyboard combination that presents me with a popup dialog with "autocomplete" suggestions as evidenced below.
You don't even need a cosmic ray to get an error. The drive to pack to higher and higher densities inevitably results in vulnerabilities, such as row hammering. One study measured an average rate of four errors per year per DIMM.
My daughter's phone was stolen. We reported it stolen to the police and the carrier. We told the carrier to discontinue the service to the phone. Then we received an email informing us that our iCloud had been accessed. What info can a hacker get from her iCloud?
Say I buy a book using iBooks (OS X Yosemite on a MacBook Pro). Using iBooks, I can highlight text and add notes. What about drawing shapes? e.g. circles, squares, arrows, etc. If this is not possible with iBooks itself, is there any way to open a book bought with iBook on a different app with more editing support?
How do I clear my App Store cache? Since my latest update/upgrade to my phone the apps no longer say if they are free or what they cost. Tried to download an app on the fly one day (not realizing it was a $49.99 app!). The card I keep on my iTunes account only has $5 on so my kids don't download anything ridiculous (or in this case myself either!) So my problem is, the App Store will not let me update my current apps or download new free apps without finishing the purchase of the "accidental" app... Any advice on how to get rid of it?
I love using my 5c photo filters but when I go to download photos into iPhoto on my MacBook Pro from my iPhone, the filters disappear. All my photos end up in color. How do I maintain the filters?
I have an iPhone and an iPod and I was using the same Apple ID on both devices but I changed my password on my iPhone. If I sign in on my iPod, will my messages from my iPhone be synced to my iPod?
I have a folder(with subfolders and further subfolders) that the final folder has many different file types. These file types include images(.png/.jpeg), videos(.mov), and text files(.txt). But I would like to copy the entire folder(with the internal structure) and only include .mp3's. Does anyone have any ideas how do do this. (please do not say manually because there are 100+ folders and the folder itself is 60GB, so don't tell me to copy the whole folder) Preferably, I would like if someone was able to give me a solution where I can outright move the .mp3's(while preserving the folder structure)
Just this. I have an executable jar that I'd like to create a .app folder for. Mainly just because I'd like it to be pinnable to the dock. Is there any easy way to do this?
I'm getting back into Perl; several months ago I had to have a new hard drive installed and so had to start over again. When I try to update CPAN, I get this message: Your configuration suggests that CPAN.pm should use a working directory of /Users/lolajl/.cpan Unfortunately we could not create the lock file /Users/lolajl/.cpan/.lock due to 'Permission denied'. Looking at /Users/lolajl directory, I'm seeing this: When I try to run "sudo chown root:lolajl .cpan", I get: How do I get this corrected so that CPAN can run properly?
How can I get Spotlight to index a directory in the system's Library folder? I'm trying to get Spotlight running 10.10.3 to index some folders in the Macintosh HD/Library folder. I'm not getting any search results from these folders so it appears Spotlight is not searching/indexing them. The folder can be found at: I am getting search results for other Library folders, such as my web root folder at: Is there a way to force Spotlight to also index the Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer/htdocs folder as well?
Chrome Mac is a bit dodgy, I can not use copy/paste function from time to time, both Cmd ⌘ C and right-click menu. I must reopen it to enable copy/paste again. OS X version is 10.10.3, Chrome version is 41.0.2272.118 Firefox and Safari do not have such problem.
If I press Escape by mistake while working, it exits full screen mode. I could use Ctrl+Cmd+F if I want to exit full screen mode. How can I prevent Escape key in full screen mode?
My iPhone was stolen when it had no internet service. Is it possible to recover the photos taken that day?
I know that it’s not officially supported, but there is any manual way that I can get Bluetooth to work on a MacBook 12″ Windows Boot Camp partition?
My iPhone was stolen. I always backed up with iCloud and my computer (Windows PC) through iTunes. I have decided to completely block and erase my iPhone remotely but I want to keep the data (at least contacts) to a device I own. my iCloud account shows 5GB used and has contacts in it. Will that data be erased if I erase my iPhone?
My new mac has: 2.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM 256GB PCIe-based Flash Storage Intel Iris Pro Graphics Force Touch trackpad Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide Accessory Kit But when I scroll this (or other pdf) in safari link
Why is this happening? What can I do so that the colours display each time the terminal runs? I am also running the Peppermint terminal style, although I am having the same problem without it - could this have something to do with it?
How to stop synchronising the call history log between my two iPhones that share the same Apple ID. I know this is related to the Apple ID but I have no choice since I have to use my shared iCloud contact list by both iPhones.
I would like to do manual changes to my iOS iPhone, and I would like to know if it is possible to plug the iOS into a mac, find the mount point and /dev/disk<number> and then cd to it and do changes. What is the format of the iOS memory and mount point?
I hate programs like Flash and others that install crappy settings on /Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/LaunchAgents, stuff to launch daemons that check for updates of flash. I generally replace the files these apps put there with empty files and change permissions to 000 using chmod. This works fine but every time I have to install an update, the update installation removes the locked files with their crappy files again. Is there a way to lock these files in a way that any installation can change? thanks
I want to connect two bluetooth microphones to my iPhone 6+ to record a conversation during a walk/hike. I know the iPhone can handle up to 7 connections, but can only output sound to one device at a time (unless a splitter is used). Can there be two inputs via bluetooth?
I created a logical interface using my VPN Application and added the default route - in the routing table as my logical interface. To add the default route programmatically, I have to delete the existing default and then add the new one. Once added, the system is updating the routing table with the default entry of the physical interface in the following two scenarios: When the machine is rebooted or the VPN application is launched for the first time, the system takes exactly 65 seconds to update the routing table with the default route entry of the physical interface. When the machine is rebooted or the VPN application is launched for the first time, the system takes exactly 65 seconds to update the routing table with the default route entry of the physical interface. In other normal cases the system is immediately updating the routing table with the default route entry of the physical interface once the application has added the route entry for the logical interface. In other normal 
My wife and I are heading to Europe tomorrow and want to free up space for pictures on her phone. I use iPhoto on my mac, but we want to transfer her pictures from her iPhone 5S to our Windows 8.1 pc I built.
I would like to know how to let Xcode build apps and use playgrounds when parental control is enabled. In fact app restriction is enabled, but even if Xcode is authorised it asks for authorisation every time when trying to build an app, and using playgrounds is simply impossible because it won't stop prompting for the authorisation even if it has been given. Any ideas ? EDIT : Now starting a bounty, don't hesitate to ask for details in the comments if you need them :)
I have an VPN application that creates a logical interface in OS X programmatically. Once created, its configured with private IP and parameters and the Routing Table is updated accordingly.
I did not find it in brew by brew search cut. I wound if it exists in any other package systems. How can you install GNU Cut in OSX?
Command in GNU which I want in BSD paste. I am reading this answer here. How can you write this in BSD paste.
I have just upgraded my phone and I need to ensure everything transfers accurately. However my iPhone is not allowing me to back up. Not on iTunes or iCloud.
A few times I have accidentally executed the command sudo rm -rf /. Is there a way how to prevent me from running this command? For example can I somehow disable it using the sudoers file?
I upgraded from OS 10.7.3 to 10.10.3. Now I get "permission denied" when I run mkdir on folders that I own and have full permission.
I want to give linenumbers for search from other command. Actually awk is giving those numbers from this thread. data.txt: where output should be How can you give sed those linenumbers?
I've had my iPhone for 2 years, and this has never happened before. I turned airplane mode off and my phone screen turned white with the apple logo and had a loading bar underneath it. Once it reloaded, it informed me that everything was erased off of my phone.
I have a new MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3 and an older Mac Mini running Lion 10.7.5. Airdrop works in both directions, provided that if I am transferring from my MBP to my Mini, I click the "Search for an older Mac" button so that the MBP can see/find the Mini. After a few seconds of waiting, the older Mac Mini appears.
I have an HTML email signature with Outlook.com where I can only use inline CSS. I'm styling the telephone number to lose the iOS blue underline link but want to retain the "tap to phone" functionality This line is the troublesome part; iOS will respect the colour declaration but will completely ignore the text decoration declaration and continue to underline. Any ideas why would be appreciated.
My Macbook Pro 13 Retina only charges (charger lights up and charges) if FIRST I plug the charger to the macbook THEN I join the metal part of the charger cable (see pictures). If I do it the other way around: first join the metal part of the adapter cable and then plug it to the computer it doesn't charge. A new Adapter doesn't work because of this reason (it has the metal part soldered from factory) First I plug it to the laptop: Then I join the metal part of the cable:
I had to have my daughter's iPod motherboard replaced, and in doing so have had to re-download all the apps she had. That wasn't an issue until she tried playing one of the games, and it was like she had never played it before...when we tried connecting through her game center (it still showed she was on the level she should have been), it wouldn't work because she had an older version, and the new version requires her to connect through Facebook to save her progress...I refused to sign her up to Facebook (she's 7), so wondered if I could copy the app from my son's iPod (the version she had before the repair) and put it on her iPod? Would it copy the older version so she can continue to play (and still have access to her friends through game center)?
Transmit normally stores files at: ~/Users/esemrow/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/Transmit/300C3B29-9684-443B-9784-9316236D5795/index.php Is there a way to have it mimic the remote file structure? e.g. ~/Users/esemrow/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/Transmit/domain.com/www/site/public_html/my_folder/index.php
Erased 32GB USB flash storage with Disk Utility's "Secure Erase" feature, one pass of zeros. Disk Utility now reports that there is only 26GB of my drive available. Not sure what is going on here, but I'd like to know where my 6GB of space went.
I have purchased a 200 GB iCloud plan. I have a MacBook, an iPad Air and a iPhone 5s.
How do I connect to my Windows machine from my MacBook Air? I have tried using the Finder but it doesn't see the Windows machine.
On my MacBook OS X 10.10.3 when I used to open Mac Mail it would just display the entire message and there was more flexibility to deal with this or other messages. Now it seems to load a preview (constrained) version of the message with fewer options not the entire message as before. Looking on viewing preferences there is no obvious way to view email messages as before.
Spotlight use to be my one stop shop for typing anything that I needed information about. When it would fail, the result saying "search in web" would come up and that was a really nice fallback when that issue occurred because it generally sent me where I needed to go through Google.
If two people are sharing an Apple ID and one decides to download an app on their device will it show up downloaded on the other persons device? This may sound like a crazy question but I am pretty certain it can't happen but I was wanting to double check.
Product: MacBook Air(early 2015) with OS X Yosemite. The issue is, that I happen to have my Yosemite reinstalled, so I restarted my MacBook and at the sound of the chime(startup sound of Yosemite), I pressed ⌥ Opt+R and subsequently selected the Disk Utility. Once into that, I erased my whole Macintosh HD and then restarted the computer after which I was expecting the reinstall to be done automatically. I am a novice in the Mac world. Now once after the reinstall, I was forced into a screen with 4 options of reinstalling, Disk Utility, Time Machine and help from Apple. I tried to reinstall, but due to a slow internet connection, I wasn't able to reinstall using Internet Recovery.
I would like to display with AppleScript a dialog that shows my current title, artist and album. In addiction to that the icon of the dialog should be the album cover of the current album. Is that possible?
As it is, the default action on the "Respond" button is "Respond with Comments" and I have to click the drop down to send the response without comments. 99% of the time if I'm accepting an invite I don't need to comment. I can provide a screenshot if needed. I've looked through the Preferences for Outlook and I don't see anything related to this.
I can fix this by attaching a non-Apple Keyboard, setting its layout and unplugging it, after which the Apple Keyboard starts working perfectly (which means there is no hardware problem). But when I reboot the key stops working again.
Just bought the time capsule: *=URL=* It's working as a main router (DHCP, NAT) I have turned on "Back to my Mac" option with file sharing. I have added my apple ID via AirportUtility to a Time Capsule. I have turned on "Share disks over WAN". Now if i go to the Finder i can see my time capsule but it's being stuck with the following text - "Connecting" From my local home network i can access my time capsule without any issues.
I have a basic applescript to request a user's input, then pass the variable into a path for mounting a volume: However, when this is executed, it fails to mount the volume as it does not exist because it is trying to mount the literal path above and not using the variable. What am I doing wrong?
I have a PDF of a Ph.D. thesis in mechanical engineering, so there are lots of equations. No PDF app that I've tried on OS X (Preview.app,Adobe Reader, Skim, PDFPen) can show the equations properly; some symbols are missing (particularly integral signs). However, when I open the file in Windows (with PDF X-Change) the equations all appear right.
So I changed all my icons to custom ones and now I can't see the date in the calendar, I want to change the month and date to some shade of blue but I'm not sure if this is possible
I was in a hospital, and I forgot my apple iPhone 5 username and password and also my iCloud username and password. Can someone help me wipe the phone and get a new iCloud username and password?
my problem is when switch from os x Yosemite to windows 8.1 when windows 8.1 is boot the screen make that *=URL=* the screen is work fine when run os x Yosemite i don't know this problem because windows 8.1 or bootcamp when restart windows 8.1 sometime screen work fine and sometime it stay that
Towards the end of last year I decided to remove the CD drive on my late-2007 MacBook and replace it with a 2nd hard drive (using an aftermarket 'caddy'). Several months in, my 1 TB WD Blue (2nd) hard drive refused to open some files so I did a surface scan. This revealed the horror within! Hundreds of bad blocks, so I recovered as much data as I could and put the drive to one side. I replaced it with a different 1 TB Samsung drive. Last week the exact same problem has happened so I have removed the caddy and fitted the CD drive back in.
Notes from my iMac do not appear on my iPad or iPhone, what could be wrong?
The Bit-torrent Transmission application will not let me quit it in my Mac (latest OS X). Actually the icon says "application not responding". When I open up activity monitor it is not there. Also, when I look it up using Terminal it will not find it either. I tried to restart the computer via Terminal but it will not let me enter my password. What should I do?
I have so much junk installed on my work laptop I want to start with a fresh machine. However, I must keep the account I have as I do not have system permissions to create another account. How can I use terminal to delete everything I (including use of git, brew, port, svn, etc) ever made?
The Terminal app uses bash by default. And I don't want to change it. However I want to configure iTerm2 with zshell and oh my zsh. and I don't want bash on it. The instructions I checked online, make zshell default in both apps.
I am trying to migrate my data from one Mac to another. The transfer is from my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.5, to my MacBook Pro (Retina) running OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I followed the suggestions in this forum for the config/settings: Turn off the firewall on both the machines Turn off WiFi on both the machines IP Address of the Ethernet is reachable from both ends
My vpn service drops from time to time and It reconnects again automatically but my real ip is exposed from the time is disconnects and reconnects which usually takes a couple of minutes.
Please see the attached to images. When I change the line the line numbers changes, so that the cursor's line number is always 0, the previous and next line numbers are always 1. Is it a bug? OS: Yosemite.
I have an iPhone 4s, and at the moment, my phone is going through alot of issues. I haven't been able to charge my phone, due to the phone not responding or not reacting to the cable. My phone also will not turn on or attempt to charge. The Battery sign comes up but not the charging sign. Is it a battery problem?
I share an iCloud with my mom. If I delete iCloud on my phone, and created a individual one, Will it delete her data?
The upload process is incredibly slow from iOS. I suspect this is due to the fact that it must first download the photo/video from iCloud prior to uploading to Google Photos.
I recently hooked up 2 displays to my MacBook. Now the notifications always show up on my right screen. This means that I have to turn my head and in addition move my mouse a considerable long way to click on a notification. Is there a way to make the notifications show up on a different screen?
I have a mid-2009, Macbook Pro. Half a year ago, I spilled a bit of coffee, and suffered some damage (option keys not working, and constant shutting down/restarting if a button/mouse isn't pushed within 5-10 seconds). As the option keys aren't working, I can't do any of the usual start-up tricks (ie, SMC reset, etc).
When I type a backtick ` it's underlined and I can press space to make it this character ´. This is annoying because I never need this when I type in markdown I only need the backtick. So I wonder how I can turn this off?
I have a need to create a short slideshow style presentation (doesn't have to be a slideshow particularly if something else is more appropriate) which updates it's contents on the fly. The content is fairly straightforward; number of laps done, distance covered - integers that slowly increase over a period of time but not at predictable intervals, interspersed with some static information that doesn't change. My preference was to create a Keynote presentation, but other than stopping the presentation to update the slides, I don't know of a way in which is can be kept informed of updates.
I've just switched from Android to iPhone and there is something I'm missing: is there a way to get a shortcut in the notifications or control center to switch vibrate on and off ? I don't want to go to Settings>Sounds> but access this directly
On a Mac mini running OS X 10.10.3 with Server 4.1 I have repeatedly have a crash that leads to closing the actual user and returning to the login screen. Below some logs from the console. The folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.preference.notifications.remoteservice_2015-06-16-104014_izar.crash that they refer to, is empty. Is there any idea how to get after the problem?
I routinely scan pages to PDFs and then use Abbey FineReader to run OCR on those PDFs, creating a new PDF which contains both the original images (further compressed) as well as the recognized text in something like an invisible, searchable overlay. There's an extremely strange phenomena where if I delete some pages using Preview and save the file, the file size increases instead of decreases. E.g. a 250KB file just turned into a 650KB when I deleted one of its pages... Any idea why this happens and how to delete pages without such an increase?
I am trying to purge the stored music on my iPhone 5s after canceling my Match subscription. I've gone to "Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage > Music" to do so and I simply cannot find Music. Other Apple apps are showing such as Podcasts and iBooks. I've tried: Closing and reopening Settings Closing and reopening Music Shuffeling about "Show All Music" plus the above. Restarting the phone + above. At a loss at what to do and would rather avoid a full reset of the device if possible. Running IOS 8.3 Build 12F70 (current latest via OTA not a dev build)
I'm new to iOS and I'm trying to configure a server to use it as a MDM solution via Profile Manager. So far I have: Configured my OS X Server. Added a signed SSL certificate. Sent some invitations to end users. BUT when the user reaches the *=URL=* and tries to enroll it (does a POST to *=URL=* returns a **error 500. After checking the error_log it looks like there is some security issues (probably related to the SSL certificate): AH01630: client denied by server configuration I dont know exactly what is happening but might be related to the SSL certificate. My OpenDirectory service is configured with a self-signed certificate and the rest of services are configured to use the certificate that I bought. I have tried to change the certificate of the OpenDirectory to explore that path but I can't and I dont know if it is really related to the error 500 issue.
So I partitioned one of my external HDD's for my bootcamp windows, just so I could install some Windows files without having to resize my partition by erasing it and reinstalling. Using disk utility on the Mac side, I partitioned it to be half Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the other half ExFAT. Both drives show perfectly well on my Mac, but when I boot in windows, it only shows my read-only Mac OS Extended partition and when I open the partition display in windows, it says that there is only one partition (unknown) and it is all unallocated. Also, it already has files on the mac side so I don't really want to reformat if possible. -- Macbook Pro Late 2013 13" Intel i5 256GB
What is the case with the security questions of Apple ID? Does it care about case sensitivity? Does it care about case sensitivity?
I've just moved 262GB of photos to a new external hard drive (1 TB), freeing up my MacBook Pro, 1 year old, which was dangerously low on space. I first backed them up on an existing external hard drive (also 1 TB). But now I see that this hard drive is getting full and Time Machine has started deleting older backups. That's ok. Currently the backups go to Jan 2015. But I need to keep the backup dated 2015.06.11 because that has all the photos I just deleted from the computer: these images are now on my new HD called "Photos" (and not formatted for Time Machine) and backed up in 2015.06.11 on the original ext. hard drive. So for now I'm okay, but in order to keep 2015.06.11 will I have to replace my backup ext. HD? Or is there some way I can tell Time Machine not to delete that one backup? Thanks.
Is it possible to download Mac OS X to a PC? Some people have told me that it is possible but I've done some research and I haven't found anything that really convinces me the real Mac OS is somewhere on the internet. I don't want to download a virus or something that is not actually Mac OS (but a "knockoff").
Will the Google Photos Backup for OS X also back up the album structure from Photos.app? That is, will albums be available as collections on Google Photos after uploading?
Maybe I was spoiled by using the calendar app on PalmOS, but on iOS when you add an event to the calendar it does not display the date that event was scheduled on immediately and automatically after typing in the event. This means that if you enter an event in haste you get no warning if you have double booked something; you have to manually find that date and time to check if you have double booked. Is there any way to display the date and time of the event in the context of that day after entering an event?
I have a script that I run when I get to work to open all of the applications that I work with. But when I run it they all open in one space. I'm running OSX Yosemite 10.10.3. So I need an AppleScript that will make new spaces if needed and then open the applications in specified spaces.
I have been testing rsync and found a weird bug when copying files and folders from a partition to another: If I do this: It copies/syncronizes correctly.
Is it possible to build an IPA file with XCode on a non-Mac OS like Windows or (preferably) Linux and preferably without the use of a VM? If yes, what is required to do so?
I have an external 250 GB SSD which now, when I connect it (via USB) to the computer, causes the OS (10.10.3) to prompt me with: Enter a password to unlock the disk
I'm a long-time PC and Linux user. Recently, I was given a mac mini (Yosemite) for my job. I've still got my full-size PC keyboard (with number pad).
The best way to explain it is... You know how when you're at the dock and you put your mouse over something and it magnifies it? It doesn't do that for me, I have magnification turned on yet that feature doesn't work unless if I click on an app then it will magnify until I stop clicking it. It's happened to me in games too. I can't move the camera/mouse unless if I click first. How do I fix this? iMac, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
I would like to save the scrollback history in terminal basically forever. I don't mean bash history, I mean all the text that ever scrolled past in the terminal, not just the commands entered. I found the files where they are stored in: But I would like the data to persist beyond current sessions, after I close the terminal, the data persists indefinitely. Also, is there a tool that will let me read those data files? Thanks for any info
I have a group of ladies that are in the states (not sure if that makes a difference) that have a group text going. They see the group when they respond and they respond to the group I see what the group sends out - but as individual messages and when I reply it only goes back to the person who sent the tect I replied to - not the group anyone got any ideas?
So unbelievably I have never cleared my history in SMS/iMessages/Messages. Ostensibly, I should be able to scroll up and eventually see my first text message from my first gen iPhone. This is, unsurprisingly, taking up a considerable amount of space on my phone, but a big part of why I've never cleaned it out is that it contains a tremendous number of pictures of my daughters my wife has sent me over the years. It doesn't seem like these get saved to my photo roll and there doesn't appear to be any way to bulk export them. It may be worth noting that I use desktop messages in Yosemite and it seems work well, so there may be an approach I can use from that angle. What's the best way for me to archive all the photo attachments from almost seven years of text messages?
My IPhone won't let me create an Apple ID, it says that my Email is already in use. I made a new Hotmail account but it's still saying that it's already in use, which is impossible.
My computer froze yesterday while I was using a browser. I restarted and never got past a plain white screen. Finally was able to boot from a different drive and ran disk utility on my main boot drive and it made some repairs and then gave me the message "Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required." The status bar shows it is in process and I get the message Estimated time: 2 minutes. But nothing happens. I stopped it after 20 min. and had to force quit to shut down disk utility. Then I had to restart because the finder crashed and didn't come back. Restarted to the alternate disk again, ran disk utility on the main drive again, it found some problems and repaired them this time (last time it didn't find any) and now it's back to the "2 minute" updating boot support again... now onto 20 minute with no progress.
I'm going to buy a rMBP 13'' (i5, 256gb) exclusively for iOS\OSX development. I might run a windows VM occasionally (visual studio). I plan on keeping it for ~2-3 years. Should I go for the default 8GB ram, or is the $270 (that's how much it costs here) upgrade to 16GB ram worth it (in my situation)?
Unfortunately, the info on which service is active (the green dot from the screenshot) is not available in this info. Is there another command that I could use to get this information?
I often want to reuse a terminal command that I already used in the past. I know two ways how to do this: Use the "up" arrow to browse through old commands. Copy a bunch of commands into a script.
I have a Yosemite file server that I use to host video files I've taken on my GoPro to various friends and family who want them. Unfortunately, asking "please download them (aka drag them to your machine from the mounted server volume) instead of just double-clicking them (aka opening them in Quicktime directly from the server)" has not stopped people from streaming them and asking why it's very slow to open 720p/1080p video in their choice media players.
I'd like to adjust the animation for bouncing dock icons in OSX. (I'm running Yosemete 10.10.3) I've already found this article showing how to completely disable the bounce, but I want more control than simply ON/OFF. Is there a way to adjust the animation? Specifically, I want to change: number of bounces before it stops Right now, it just bounces forever, until you switch over to that application and deal with whatever it's nagging you about. Right now, it just bounces forever, until you switch over to that application and deal with whatever it's nagging you about. bounce height bounce frequency bounce speed Can these things be changed, and if so, how?
Probably going to sound wordy to explain but I've got an issue where my Apple ID is signed into my iPad but when I try to download an app it requests my ex girlfriends password for her Apple ID. When I'm using anything else on my iPad it requests my password and it's no problem. Does that make sense and can anyone help?
I was wondering, if I login to the app store with a different Apple ID on a device, will I be able to still use the apps on the device not downloaded or purchased from the current Apple ID? Example: My wife has an iPhone with many different apps she's downloaded. If I took her phone, logged out of her app store Apple ID, then logged in with my Apple ID, and downloaded other apps, would I be able to use the apps she already downloaded on the phone without having to log her back into the App Store?
I am trying to set up iMessage correctly, but I see no SMS / MMS options. I do not see an option to use my phone number associated with the Apple ID. Am I missing a simple step in the set up?
I have an aging 15" MacBook Pro from 2007: Model ID: MacBookPro3,1
I don't know if my google-fu is broken today or something, but I can't seem to find any information about why I would or wouldn't want to erase and format an internal boot drive and/or partition thereof as Journaled, Extended prior to doing a clean OS install. Everything I've come across only mentions using Disk Utility to format an external storage drive as Journaled, Encrypted, using Disk Utility to format a boot drive/partition as Journaled or using File Vault to encrypt an already formatted drive. What differences are there between formatting the drive and partition as Journaled, Encrypted and then, also, turning on File Vault vs. formatting the drive and partition as simply Journaled and then turning on File Vault?
I can connect my daughter's MacBook to the wireless router but not browse the internet with two different browsers (Firefox and Safari). This is a recent development as she has successfully browsed the net with this MacBook earlier. She says that she didn't change any settings.
Okay, so I go to iTunes Connect to manage the contracts I have to sign to become a developer (yeah, fun stuff, and I got to encounter a bunch of fun puzzles on the way, see my Stack Overflow profile). I go to the "Agreements, Tax, and Banking" section and click "Contact Info" and fill that out. I then click the "Done" button on my screen. The dialog for it later disappears and so does my contact info. As in, when I go to select a contact for each thing listed there, the only thing selectable is Select.
I have a Mac Mini Server with two internal SSDs. Until today, I had only ever installed an OS, Mt. Lion, on one of those drives and the other had remained largely empty, except for when I needed to temporarily store files on it.
I just bought a new 2012 MacBook Pro and Migration Assistant says it will take 52 hours and 30 minutes to transfer. Is it really going to take that long? The blue bar is almost done.
How can I have Microsoft Word actually remember my settings for spelling and auto correct? I am using the Microsoft Word 15 (Preview).
I wanted to ask if it is possible to have periodic batch notifications on iPhone? It's annoying to be distracted by every notification but I would be fine with getting a notification every hour or two with a summary of the notifications that popped up in the meantime. If I turn off the notifications I usually don't check my phone so frequently so the extra reminder is useful for me. Is there such a feature or is there an app that can do this?
My text file uses two fonts, Helvetica for usual text and the ALPHABETUM-Unicode specialized font for rare ancient characters. The system handles it nicely, as the sizes of the ALPHABETUM characters are harmonious with those of the Helvetica characters, even though they’re not of the same font. After writing dozens of pages, I belatedly realized that the presentation would be much better if I downsized all the characters. So I tried « Select All (Command A)» and « Smaller (Command -) », but the result was predictably ugly, as the system failed to handle both fonts at the same time. In the resulting text, while the Helvetica characters are downsized correctly, the ALPHABETUM characters have kept their initial size (20), and TextEdit mistakenly sees them as « Helvetica characters with size 1 », so I cannot even resize them manually.
I have 2 Macs (which I'll call A and B) and a video-projector. Mac B is connected to the video-projector. I want to show on the video-projector the screen of Mac A but the video-projector is too far to be connected to Mac A. So I was looking for a way to connect Mac A to Mac B (via Wifi or such, no cables) which gives the information to the video-projector. I want anyway that the files to show and all the commands are given to Mac A because nobody will have the access to Mac B. So the question is the following, if I use Mac B as a screen for Mac A, is Mac B going to give the information to video-projector?
So I have that new Macbook Pro 15 inch with the Nvidia GPU for 6 months or so, and recently I experienced WiFi slowdown after I let my Macbook on for hours (with putting it to sleep by closing the screen) my WiFi gets waaaay slower. It's not my internet since when I test it with another computer, everything's normal. And when I reboot my Macbook, it also get back to normal download speed.
How do I use defaults to access a specific field in a dictionary? I've tried doing this
I just bought a Mac Pro 2010 with an ATI5770 that has 2 x Mini Display Port (DP) and 1 x DVI. The current configuration is as follows: Mini DP A > passive HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD Mini DP B > passive HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD DVI > passive DVI to HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD
I am currently trying to make a hidden user on Yosemite. I have tried to follow tutorials from this site, however when I run the command sudo dscl . append /Groups/<real_name> GroupMembership <user_name> I get this error: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist: No such file or directory.
I exported a set of photos from my wife's computer to mine over a WiFi share. I opened the directory in Finder and it said that there were 0 files. I know I've seen the Finder lag before on recognizing files in the folder, but this wasn't one of those cases.
I want to make an applescript that taps the apple in the corner, taps shut down, and then taps shut down. I can't record it, since it actually involves shutting down the computer, making the script not being saved.
After experimentation with Apple Mail, Rules settings, I'm left with a rainbow-colored inbox, and I want to remove all of that coloring which is no longer specified by my Rules settings. I've tried using the "apply rules" command after selecting all messages, but all prior messages remain colored improperly. How can I do this? I can't somehow "factory reset" Apple Mail, our tech guy will not be happy if the settings of the mail server, etc is messed up. I can't somehow "factory reset" Apple Mail, our tech guy will not be happy if the settings of the mail server, etc is messed up. I can't delete my message history, the old messages must be kept. I can't delete my message history, the old messages must be kept.
I just removed my CD Optical drive from my Macbook Pro 2009 and replaced it with an SSD. I cloned my original drive using disk utility and now boot to the SSD. Everything transfered well except for Office. It now asks me to input my key again. Unfortunately I do not have the original key as I purchased the MBP from someone else. Is there a way to find the key within Office on the old hard drive?
In Outlook 15.11 2015 on Mavericks, I am constantly getting a "connection to the server failed or was dropped (Error # -3253)" for my pop accounts when I send/receive. I can send mail, but not receive it. I use GoDaddy as a hosting service. I have tried deleting the account, as well as the profile under profile manager. Has anyone else encountered this issue? If so, do you have a solution? I see on the MS forums where this is an issue, but I don't see a resolution.
My MacBook is in the shop for repair. I have my Mom's MacBook, but the hard drive has failed. I'm wondering if I can use the time machine backup of my computer via USB to basically run my hard drive on her computer. I can plug my external hard drive in and boot to it, but there are no options to simply run the computer off the external hard drive, like it was my own computer. Can I tell the computer to just use the external drive with the back up as it's own so I can access my files and programs like it was my own laptop?
Now the team abandoned iChat and uses Slack. So the browser is the place the link is clicked. How can I implement something like this in a browser? I want people to be able to click a link and have a finder window open in the correct location on the server.
This question was asked in 2012. I know that the solution is in upcoming version of OS X (fall 2015), but until then... is there any similar internal function to arrange windows in Windows-OS-like way? It is hard to believe there are not... Thanks.
I am trying to understand how some of the data structures are designed in stl. In ubuntu, I usually open the .h and .cpp files from /usr/local/include but in Darwin (kernel version 14.3.0) I am lost, google doesnt help much either, the file structure is different. So, could you please tell me where are those libraries' .h and .cpp files in mac?
Is it possible to change the opacity/alpha value of a program window such as preview or chrome? I know this was possible in linux by editing some gnome shell file. Is there anything similar in OS X
In Preview, I want to change just the width of an image by dragging the points/dots surrounding the image on the sides, with my mouse. But instead of just the width changing, the entire image gets changed, both height and width. This started happening when I upgraded to Mavericks. How can I control the dragging feature in Previews again? Being able to adjust just the width or just the height separately? Thanks.
I want to change, play or pause my music using my iPhone while it is playing on my laptop.
When I open a file in Preview, preview updates the ctime of the file. This seems to only happen once however, and as far as I can tell, nothing other than the ctime is changing. This is very frustrating because it's messing with scripts that are checking for modification to the file, even when no modification is happening.
Will Google Photos Backup avoid creating duplicates if I use the app to upload from two separate computers with overlapping photo collections in Mac Os Photos?
I have a 256GB SSD in my 5,5 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.10.1. It's mostly filled up, mostly with music. When I get close enough to "full" I usually delete the less-important stuff to free up a good 5-10GB, then slowly that free space disappears, even though I haven't downloaded anything (besides streaming Netflix, browsing the internet, etc). What's going on here?
Is it possible to display the Time Stamp of messages by default in both the Desktop Messages app, and the mobile app? This is the default view:
Today a friend called me from their new cell phone number. After the call, I added the phone number to their existing contact. Afterwards, I could not determine which of the two phone numbers listed was the current number that they had called me from. If I navigate to "Recents" and click on the call, it lists both phone numbers and gives me no indication which was used for that specific call. What is the easiest way to determine which phone number was last used with a specific contact? When someone calls me from a new phone number, what is the easiest way to overwrite their old phone number with the new one? I'm using iOS 8.3 on an iPhone 5
I've been connecting to my Mac with the iOS VNC app to monitor a process remotely, and noticed Firewall was turned off in Security & Privacy. So of course I turned it back on, and tried to connect again with VNC. The connection fails with "The computer's network could not be contacted." With "Stealth Mode" disabled, VNC still will not connect. The obvious solution here would be to approve VNC logins: The same way SSH is enabled, but clicking the "+" brings up a drop-down menu to select an application. Checked VNC's support site, but they have outdated information: *=URL=* What am I missing here?
When I try to backup my Iphone it will take more than two hours and still not be halfway completed. My phone is only 32Gb with 6GB of free space. What's the problem with my IPhone?
I have a MacBook Pro from later 2011 running on the lion operating system. I took all the precautions noted on other websites (repaired disk, deleted large applications). I had enough storage for this program to run. I started the whole process of downloading Yosemite one day and it has been 22 hours of downloading/installing... Currently the screen display is gray with the gray apple logo and underneath it the status bar looks to be about 50% complete. It has been stuck there for the last 10 hours. I have tried the command + L to see the status but it makes the noise that signals that it's an incorrect move.
I'm using rsync to backup files to an external hard drive; my boot disk is pretty full. Rsync keeps failing due to not enough disk space to build the temporary file list, and unfortunately doesn't delete the temp files. My question: where are those temporary files kept? I'd like to go and delete them manually.
I have a 2014 retina Macbook Pro running Yosemite (10.10.3). I would like to run a script whenever a certain network interface is connected. Is there a hook or trigger I can use? I have a shell script that will perform the actions I want to perform, I just need to know how to trigger it.
Is there support for AirPlay (non-mirroring) in the Playstation Vue Mobile iPad app? I can't find any mention of it on the app's page: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/playstation-vue-mobile/id957987596?mt=8
I just realized that my wifi doesn't work anymore. I couldn't remember upgrading, installing, or updating anything in the last few days, and I don't think I dropped the phone or anything like that. Is there any way to diagnose/troubleshoot this to find out what's causing the problem and fix it? I've tried powering off and restarting the phone multiple times, but the wifi still won't work.
I opened photos, and it seems to be working. Nothing seems to be missing. But the amount of free space I have on my hard drive has increased only by 10GB. Weird.. No idea whats going on. Can't tell what Photos has done. Any idea what's going on ? EDIT: The amount of free space has going back to its original amount, even though I just "deleted" 80GB+ of photos...
I've set up a VPN on my Mac mini using Server 4.1 with the "L2TP and PPTP" option set. I can connect to the VPN from my iPhone over my local network (Time Capsule) using L2TP but not PPTP. With the latter the VPN service log shows the error
I want to download a music CD into itunes. My new Mac doesn't have a disk drive, whereas my old one does. Can I sync my laptops together so that I can get the music from the CD onto the new Mac laptop? Or... is there another way I can move the files successfully into the itunes on my new Mac?
When I press the button to turn on the iPad mini it is asking to be plugged in despite the fact the battery is fully charged. Once plugged in for a few seconds I can remove the plug and the iPad mini will boot up fine. iOS 8.3
OS X Yosemite, 10.10.3, MacBook Pro mid-2012. I am building a keyboard, and have mapped onto it all F1-F24 keys using tmk's firmware. F1-F19 all respond (I'm using Karabiner's EventViewer utility to detect keypresses), but F20-F24 do not. I know the keys work physically, but OS X doesn't recognize them. Is it even possible to use F20-F24 on OS X, or are there other keys unused by OS X that will work (I want to use them as macro keys)?
iMac (late 2009) OSX 10.10.3 iPads (a 1 and a 2) iOS 8.? I am a retired IT engineer playing at being a DJ/VJ. That means I'm often in a room with lots of folks with cells and iPads. Before Yosemite, I was creating ad-hoc nets at my gigs and connecting my iPads to my iMac. It was relatively comfortable that I wouldn't have to worry about anyone screwing around with my systems, audio/video/DMX lighting.
I have photos stored in the Photos app on my iPhone. I have installed the new Photos app on my Mac, and I'm using iCloud to sync pictures between Photos on my iPhone and Photos on my Mac. On my Mac, is it possible to access the folder in which the Photos app stores my pictures?
Despite of the answer, keyboard starts working improperly. When I pressq it types x,w->4,e->l,r->y,t->1,y-6and so on. When I chose different type of keyboard (ISO/ANSI) nothing changes and the same wrong buttons mapping preserves.
I have only iTunes Connect account. (Didn't pay $100 for my own Developer Program).
I installed the server.app and got the DHCP service running, so machines in the internal network get IP addresses assigned. Unfortunately, the server app doesn't show any settings for gateway, NAT, bridging, firewall. The help function is just as helpful as the Apple features website. :( Now for the question: What do I have to configure, so machines from the internal network get internet access? Additionally: How can I setup a firewall to control outside access?
H.265 (or HEVC) is the official successor to H.264, with a significant reduction in bitrate for the same picture quality. However it's not supported widely yet, including in Quicktime, iTunes or Quick Look in the Finder (cmd+space) and I haven't seen anyone talking about support in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan). I can view files in, for example, VLC, but was wondering if there's any sort of plugin for Quick Look.
Does anyone know how to unlock an iphone 5s from its network, so any sim can be used. I know I can pay someone on the black market to do it, but was wondering if someone knew how to do it themselves and could explain what needs to be done. Thanks
I have a 13" mid-2012 MBA, which runs fine except one thing: in the past year the original battery started to deplete its charge quickly and now only holds about 50% of the original capacity. So I decided to buy a new battery and bought one on eBay from as seller with extremely positive reviews. I replaced the original one and was happy for a short while - everything seemed great.
I Googled how to do share my wifi connection from my Mac (new Macbook Pro) to my iPhone (5S) and I tried their way. System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing but then i don't have the same options they showed me. I have share your connection from: Thunderbolt bridge, wi-fi, bluetooth PAN, and bluetooth DUN. When I choose wifi, which is what I'm supposed to chose from what i've read, I only get two options in the to computers using: Thunderbolt bridge and bluetooth pan but no wifi and neither is working All the other share you connection from options allow me to do so with computers using wifi thunderbolt bridge and bluetooth pan.
How can i download flash videos from safari in OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
I have a Mac that keeps messing up its DNS (this may be a wider network issue, we have windows clients that are having problems too). Whilst I try to understand the DNS issue I'd like to set an 'icon' (app/script) for my customer to be able to click that will flushdns as this resolves the immediate issue.
So, I'm a developer with brew installed along with several other programs installed from source(openCV, boost etc.). I want to do a clean install of OSX(to get rid of some other issues as well), then restore from a time machine backup(I have important apps and files I need to restore). Is there any way I can exclude my user installed command line tools from the restore? (effectively, starting afresh there?)
I had bought a Giga LAN USB 3.0 ethernet adapter for my new 12" MacBook. I just installed the driver required but the MacBook does not recognize the adapter (showing no ethernet connected) and can't connect internet using LAN. If I use the adapter with a Windows laptop, it is ok. Is it due to software or hardware problem?
My iCloud account is already set up and contains several years worth of photos. If I log in to my iCloud account from a new iPad, I understand that only the last 60 days worth of photos will be downloaded to the iPad. But I had also understood that if I log in to my iCloud account on new Macbook, all the iCloud photo library, not just the last 60 days, will appear in iPhoto/Photo (after setting the appropriate iCloud System Preferences, and the iCloud preferences within iPhoto/Photos).
I'm trying to get enrolled to apple developer program so i can publish my apps on the app store, currently i live in Turkey so whenever i open the enrollment page to pay 100 USD the website redirects me to the Turkish version and change the currency to Turkish Lira, i don't speak Turkish and i don't want my account to be in Turkish, so my question is: will i be stuck with a Turkish developer account or i can change the language after i pay ? Thanks in advance.
I've not ever wanted to use the Mail app on my Mavericks machine, but recently I decided I'd give it a shot. However when I went to Applications in Finder, I couldn't see it. Nor was it in ~/Applications (which is completely empty anyway).
I am trying to share the internet connection from my MBP Mid 2014. It seems I can only share the internet through the Thunderbolt Bridge or Bluetooth PAN but I need it through the wifi for my Mobile device. Is there any way I can share the internet connection through wifi ? Thanks in advance.
I upgraded to 8 GB of ram today from 4 GB and my macbook is restarting randomly in about 10 minutes after booting Here's the crash log Hope someone can help Here is the report Generated By Etresoft EDIT: Safe Boot Has resolved My problem, Thanks
I have a plist in the /Library/LaunchAgent folder (this should run as "logged in user", if I understand correctly but it seems to be running as root). It launches a .sh bash script. The script, for troubleshooting, contains the following lines: OR The message box result is always: root
I would like to have a total per month in second table of the first table I would like the table to be separated and I would like the process to be automated: typing the month and year in one cell and having the spreadsheet calculate the total for that month. (it means i can keep data in a tab and just import/update it when I need without caring about which month stops where). In my data table I have 2 columns: one is a date, the other a value The formula I'm using is: Date is the date column in the first table; in A2 i have the month and year (as mentioned above)—but this only returns the first value found for the month… I tried using MONTH(Date) but it is not working; would you have any suggestions? EDIT my dates in the raw data table are formatted as follow:
At the moment I have 1 250GB partition on my mac (Macintosh HD). What I want to do is split my hard drive into 3 partitions. This is because I want to dual boot with Windows 8.1 and make a reserve drive for when El Capitan comes out so I can test it without my computer becoming buggy. The only issue is I can only split my Mac into 2 partitions. How would I do this? I also tried doing this in recovery mode and it did not work. Would I have to use a 3rd party tool like GParted? If so would it be safe and would I loose my recovery partitions if I do?
And so on. It does this at home and at work, and plugging into ethernet via thunderbolt does not exhibit these behaviors. I don't have corresponding spikes in CPU usage so I'm unsure of how to track this issue down. Please help! EDIT:
The Apple support article “About Time Machine local snapshots” says that “if less than 20% of the total storage space on your startup drive is available, Time Machine removes local snapshots, starting with the oldest, until you have more than 20% free space.” If I understand that correctly, that means the local snapshots feature stops working as soon as you fill up 80% of your drive. For a 500GB drive, Time Machine insists on keeping at least 100GB free.
An odd one here: Encrypted iTunes backup backup completed successfully backup completed successfully Key stored in the Keychain (since the first backup of this device a long while ago) Also stored in PasswordSafe and both keys match so I'd say I have the proper key. Also stored in PasswordSafe and both keys match so I'd say I have the proper key.
I am looking for a way to hibernate (i.e. RAM saved to HDD then turned off) only when closing the lid. When the lid is opened, I expect OSX to simply turn off the screen after X minutes (i.e. everything keeps running). Mostly what a Windows PC does out of the box. pmset does not seem to make possible controlling what happens when closing the lid.
This is a really weird one. Anytime I try to update any OSX items via System Update I get a bizarre permissions error. The screenshots tell the story... Here is my attempt to run the update:
Is there a way to verify that a backup of an iPhone is valid (other than wiping the device and attempting to restore it :))? I've had a recent catastrophic incident involving an iTunes encrypted backup, with the key stored on the keychain, that won't restore complaining of wrong key (Details on this question), and that's made me remember the old IT adage that: Your backup strategy is only as good as your data restoration capabilities...
I have bought many songs on my iPhone from the iTunes store, but when I tried to transfer them onto the computer into my iTunes, it won't work. It worked with some, but not all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've found so many similar questions but none that match mine exactly. I created a partion on my 2013 iMac in order to test out the Yosemite upgrade. I decided to proceed with the upgrade from current Mavericks 10.9.5 but now I'm unable to reclaim the space dedicated to the Yosemite install, 1.5TB (half of my HD). System info GRAPHIC NVIDIAGeForceGTX775M 2GB GDDR5 PROCESSOR 3.5GHz Quad‑core Intel Core i7 MEMORY 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM‑4X8GB HARD DRIVE 3TB Fusion Drive I was able to delete the partion, but the space allotted to it in disk utility is greyed out, and there is no drag to resize option for my remaining HD. Ive tried in safe mode and recovery mode. I've verified and repaired all disk permissions to no avail. 1) Has anyone successfully reclaimed entire HD after partitioning a Fusion drive
So two days ago, i dropped my (already cracked) iPhone 6 in water, and it was in there for over a minute. I ran home and in less than 5 minutes, it was in rice. After 24 hours, i tried turning it on, nothing happened. I tried charging it for about ten minutes, and nothing was happening, so i put it back in rice. And although how to fix my phone would be helpful to know, that's not my question. Ir seems pretty hopeless to recover the phone, I am a photographer and just want to know how to get the photos and videos off of there. I have iCloud turned o on it, but i am 95% positive i turned off photo sharing. Is there any way I can still recover the photos? My life will be ruined if I can't, i love my phone more than my family and don't know what to do. Any suggestions? (or just how to get the phone working again)
I installed a Windows XP on an iMac beside Mac OS X. When i start Windows XP it appears that it doesn't recognize devices like network card, sound card and video card as well as other devices. It cannot connect to the internet, so i am trying to download the device drivers from the Mac OS. Is there any way to do that, any links where can I download the drivers necessary for Windows XP to recognize all devices?
It's been a few years since I tried a case-sensitive install of OS X and I'm wondering how it is these days? I had to revert to case-insensitivity before due to Adobe CS but I think that's fixed now.
I have set my dashboard as overlapped in system preferences, and I despite I have few widgets on it (just a calculator, a calendar and a clock), it takes all my CPU and memory:  For now I've just disabled, but I find it useful and I'd like to know if there's a way to fix it.
Every single time I try to install the Oracle Java Runtime Environment... I keep being stuck with Apple's Java 6. I have no idea how Apple's Java 6 ended up on my computer in the first place. I keep putting "java -version" into the terminal and it comes out telling me I'm still running 6...
I really do not want to lose all my data, since I have no way to back up. This is my only large USB and my hard drive is too small to contain the data I had there. So, I am currently trying to use Drive Genius 3 to repair it (only MISC, but I'm fine with it if I can only repair the entire hard drive at once) WITHOUT losing my data. However, it seems I'm not able to repair it because it's set to read only (this was said in an error message given by Drive Genius). I checked the MISC partition using the "Get Info" tab, and it seems that it is set to read only. However, I'm unable to change permissions. I'm pretty sure this is due to whatever caused OSX to give me the message saying that it was unable to be repaired (Disk Utility gives the same message; it also said something like, "You are not able to write to this drive"). It only says something along the lines of, "You may only read this drive." When I get home, I will provide more clear quotes. It doesn't give me options to change the 
So, today I picked up my iPod touch 5th generation to use it as normal, and after a few minutes of use, I noticed that a there was a vary tiny white dot at the top of my screen, and about half way from the middle of the screen to the end. I thought it might be a stuck pixel, but it's not always the same tone of white. It seems just to be a bit brighter then what it should be, not entirely white. I did put a case on that has a built in screen protector, and I noticed this the next day when I took it off.
On OSX yosemite, a machine with limited disk space free. In order to backup my iphone, I've linked the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup dir to an external drive. iTunes, correctly displays the existing backups in that dir. But iTunes backup, fails with an insufficient disk space free. Is it failing to check the free space on the volume that the Backup folder is on? The boot volume certainly does not have enough free space. How can I work around this, without deleting data? osx: 10.10.3 (14D136) iTunes: 12.1.2.27 update: have tried on another machine (with sufficient space) still received the same error. Suspecting bugs, or permissions issues.
Often, with iCloud, one wishes to not engage in trial and error before finding the answers to questions. I would like to sign into my iCloud with two users, one admin, one standard ( dev user). Is this something that is often done, and won't mess up my iCloud setup on the server? EDIT: To clarify, my iCloud account, signed into two local accounts, residing on my OS X 10.10.3 MacBooks {Pro, Air}
BUT I can't for the life of me get any custom commands to work. For example, I have tried to bind "Close this" to cmd-w, and "tooth paste" to "success" (as an experiment).
I have four wired video cameras on my RV, and would to replace the monitor with my old iPad. Does anyone know the adapter(s) / software that would allow me to do this? Thank you
Under: System Preferences > Users & Groups > Advanced Options > Aliases:
Why is Chess.app "required by OS X"? I don't use it, and I can't delete it. Is it really required by the operating system?
The search on my activity monitor app is disabled/grayed out. I can't figure out how to enable it.
I am running Outlook 2011 on Yosemite/10.10.3 with all the latest updates installed. When I try to add an Exchange account to Outlook, it initially runs the sync just fine. However, for any subsequent requests, I keep getting an error saying that my username or password is incorrect. If I re-enter the password, the sync works again... till the very next sync. So, the credentials I'm entering are correct
What's going to be the most painless way to automate the creation of hundreds of symlinks? My iTunes Movies folder contains each .mp4 film in an individual folder. These folders are named for the movie they contain and most include artwork as well as the movie file in at least one alternate format.
Can I place a scrolling text box on a slide in Keynote? By default, the "Text" items do not scroll. Any added text that flows beyond the edge of the slide is hidden (truncated).
Everything was working perfectly last week when I left it and no-one (accessible by only 4 people in our IT department) has touched it. Okay, we use OS X server and Deploy Studio to manage our apple devices. Today, however, deploy Studio was not reachable. I could Netboot a Macbook to the Deploy Studio Assistant, but upon logging in the server and repository could not be reached.
I've been trying to get homebrew working nicely, but it appears everything inside /usr/local isn't writable, and everything falls over. It keeps telling me to recursively chown /usr/local, and I tried that. Operation denied, so I sudo'd it. It seemed to work, but with an eerie silence that I hear is considered polite in Unix. Unfortunately, any succeeding attempts at brew update meet with the same cacophony of errors. I reran the command with -v and it looks the operation is not permitted for anything inside. As much as the answer is probably "learn UNIX" I'm just trying to comply with some job requirements here for a tutorial on Ruby, so that's a few steps above where I'm currently at. brew doctor:
It seems like I should be able to install inkscape with something like based on what I've seen online. Unfortunately, when I try this I get What am I doing wrong?
I'm struggling with an issue with an encrypted backup (see Apple Backup encrypted format specs? I need to decrypt part of a backup (for which I have the key) that iTunes won't restore and How to verify that an iTunes backup is valid? if you want the details) and I'm trying to understand how things got so messed up.
This is my first question here and iOS is something very new for me currently. If we have an app on iTunes and same app on some third party appstore, then does it mean the app is pirated ?
I am working with Keynote for the first time to create a slideshow. I have a slideshow with just over 200 slides in it and I need the last 2 slides (one of which is a short 20 second video clip) to show for longer than the rest, which show 7.5 seconds. How do you customize single slides to stay longer before they transition without changing the entire slideshow? I am using Keynote Version 6.2 Software is OS X Version 10.9.5
Is it possible to give a custom name to a browser window on OS X? Perhaps by using a Window Manager that has this feature? If yes, which one has it?
In my iPhone settings I have both set ON. What is the difference if I turn one or the other off?i
I have iCloud Photo Library enabled on my iPhone and it is set to be optimised on my iPhone. How can I delete photos off my iPhone OR is this optimise feature going to do this for me, to free up space on my iPhone?
Is there a way to permanently remove a name from the faces in the new Photos app? Example: When you tag a face accidentally with "John" instead of "John Miller", you can delete the face associated with "John" and remove the "John" tag from all your photos, but "John" will still be suggested every time you tag a face and start with "J...".
I am investigating a website bug that seems to only occur in Safari 8.0.4 (Yosemite 10.10.2), but I am on 8.0.6 (Yosemite 10.10.3) already. Is there any way to downgrade Safari to the patchlevel I require that does not include restoring an old backup from Time Machine or reinstalling the OS?
The Mac starts up and runs probably on thunderbolt to vga adapter but the built in screen remains black. It has an AMD HD 6770m graphics card so not the one under the repair program. Any ideas what could be the problem?
We submitted our app for beta review so that we can start using "External Testers" and go beyond the 25 person limit for Internal Testers. But while we are waiting for beta review to finish (currently "In Review") we need to keep testing internally and send out new builds.
This question is very similar to what I want to accomplish, except for the fact that I also want to be able to put the display to sleep at times without triggering it to ask me for a password. I basically want to be able to do two things:
I just received the new MacBook Pro 15" (with basic configuration). When I press 'Alt.' during the booting process, I don't see the recovery partition. Also, the interface is not gray as it used to be on my previous MBPr.
How do I delete a folder or an album from Photos? Have searched internet for answer and tried using control, option and command keys.
So I am trying to set up raw device access w/ VirtualBox to use a ext4/linux disk as a guest OS within Mac OS X, but haven't succeeded yet. Following the VirtualBox docs, Chapter 9.9.1.1, *=URL=* will Mac OS X allow raw disk access for VMs? How do I set this up? Things done so far: (don't try this at home) Created a raw vmdk file: make me the owner: see if VirtualBox can see anything on the Xub_raw_disk.vmdk file: Since nothing shows up here for sectors or partitions, this must be a symptom of the problem... Problem is when I try to add the .vmdk file from the GUI or with the command below, I get an error:
I have connected an External hard disk to Mac and just issued command df -h in terminal. When I tried to eject drive it shows the error. After closing terminal, I could eject it. But is that really needed ? I didn't open any files in external disk. df -h just shows disk usage of all drives. Then how come terminal uses the drive and prevent from ejecting? The disk “Vol” couldn’t be ejected because “Terminal” is using it
I believe that I typed some keyboard combination in a fullscreen app to hide the top menu bar. Methinks it were Adobe Reader, but uncertain at this point Actually even that did not do what was intended: it just put blank space where the menu bar had been - it did not reclaim that space for anything useful. Now the menubar is gone for all apps. Any way to unhide it?
I'm going to use some GPL-covered code in my app. Firstly, I'm not sure if GPL is compatible with Apple's App Store, i.e. whether apps entirely covered by GPL can be published through App Store. Second, iOS does not allow 3rd party dynamic libraries, which means, to my understanding, you can't legally combine GPL and non-GPL code in one iOS app. So what are my options if I want to use some GNU code in my app?
Originally, my Default Account for Notes on my iPhone was set to "On My iPhone". At some point, though, the Default Account apparently switched to my Exchange account. As my notes are personal and my Exchange account is of course for work, that was an unwelcome surprise.
Is there an app for iPhone iOS8 which will scrobble Google Music onto Last.fm? I came across this question, but it only applies to Android.
Overnight, my iPhone forgets how to Bluetooth. It also forgets which audio app I was using. Let's start at 7:30AM when I get in my car, assume everything is working, and go from there. I turn on my car, Bluetooth connects automatically ("device is connected") I push the play button on the Bluetooth adapter and a podcast starts playing (with my phone in my pocket). I get in my car at lunch, everything works as above I get in my car to go home, everything works as above I get home, do whatever in the evening, go to sleep Next morning, I get in my car, turn it on Bluetooth does not connect automatically. I need to open the Bluetooth settings and manually select the device.
On OS X 10.9.5, there is /usr/bin/svn, which is version 1.7.19 (r1643991). However, the most recent version is 1.8.13. Apperently, with version 1.7.19 I cannot access certain subversion servers.
How can I change my Apple ID to a new one? iTunes was taking money out of my bank account in unauthorised transactions. In total over 13 months they took over £1,000. My bank refunded my money & stopped iTunes their end. But now my account won't work & I've 16 apps that need updating & I can't as Apple ID won't let me!
Every once in a while I'm chatting with a friend via iMessages on OSX, we're both on the same OSX version & all, and I decide to go "hey, let's share screens". I've tried this on and off with multiple computers and friends, but I can never get it to work.
I wanted to attach a photo and not embed it so I did the following: If you would like Mail to do this automatically with all attachments, try the following Terminal command: Relaunch Mail for this to take effect. How to automatically attach E-mail, not embed them
My iPhone 5 tells me my photo library has 7.1 GB but in actuality it doesn't just 50 pictures. Can someone explain why I'm getting the "storage full" prompt?
I have a strange problem with my iMac (mid. 2011 21,5) - I can't connect to the network using Ethernet because OS X tells me that it's disconnected when it's plugged in. Sometimes it can see the connection, but the Internet won't work.
My photos come across through iCloud to my iPad. I would like to keep them longer than a few months. I have plenty of storage, but the photos disappear.
Me and my wife have separate Itunes accounts and have separate users on our Mac computer. Once we upload our photos to our computer to our own accounts we delete them from our devices.
Well, Monday night i went out to hangout with some friends and my iphone 5s cellular internet was working fine, midway into the night a few hours after hanging out my cellular data internet completely shut off, I usually have LTE but now not a single icon was in place of where the LTE one originally was. Is there a way to fix this? and no i havent went over my data plan. It does work on wifi as well.
Does anyone know of a good way to have autocompletion of custom items on a mac? I know this is built into different programs, but what I would like would be independent of the program being used. For example, if I need to type my email address somewhere I would like to be able to enter the first few letters and then have it completed for me.
If I'm not mistaken, in earlier editions of OS X, the menu items pictured below could be selected to turn them on or off. Apparently, that's changed in Yosemite. Is there a way to turn on each accessibility feature from the contextual menu rather than selecting "Accessibility Preferences" to turn them on and off in System Preferences?
I did a little research, & I found numerous websites directing me to go to iPhoto on Finder, right click, & click on "Show Package Contents". When I click on it, I am directed to a folder that says "Contents". However, when I open that folder, I was promised there would be a folder called "Masters", but I found 8 folders and 4 other items- none with the name "Masters" & none of the folders had my original pictures. To be more specific, the names of the folders I have are: _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt, Frameworks, MacOS, Library, PlugIns, Resources, and XCPServices. Are my photos gone forever?
Why does a PDF attachment on an email from a PC end up as a file named winmail.dat when it arrives on my MacBook Pro?
Indeed I have a home automation system, I would like to integrate a voice control system and for that I need to be able to call shell commands like curl. I have seen many Siri tweaks but none of them allowing to assign a voice command like : turn on the light To a specific shell command
If so, where? If not, where does it downloads it for the time of installation?
I was wondering if I could change my MAC address to be the same as my old MacBook so it will stop rejecting my iPod or trying to force me to erase it? Or is it better to just generate an entirely new one? Thanks!
On my contacts app it says "me" next to my mom's contact but I'm not entirely sure what that means. Does this mean she's using my number on her phone for imessage or is it simply that I am on the same Apple ID as her?
I have enabled the root user on my Mac so I can log into it and run Finder etc. Being the lazy person that I am, just transferred everything from my home directory to /var/root. I'm not too sure of doing this, so I may move everything back. Is it technically 'OK' to be using this like a normal user? (I am the only one who can access my computer.)
Okay, I like iTunes, and it is a wonderful software. I run it on Windows, unfortunately sometimes when I do update to minor version updates, the whole windows panel of iTunes becomes unresponsive and behave oddly. So I have decided to not update for couple of months. Is it wise, or will it have any security loophole in my computer.
I recently bought a new MacBook and it doesn't have a usb port (I knew this when I bought it) I assumed there was a way to sync my iPhone to it wirelessly but I'm not sure if you can, Im just wondering if I'm going to have to buy the extension for the usb?
I’m running iOS 8.3 (12F70) on an iPhone 5S. This is an off-the-shelf device that has only ever been used with public releases; there’s never been any mucking around with developer betas or similar. But I have a bug that was giving me real headaches. If I launch Safari, and start typing into the search/URL field, the app crashes within about four characters, and dumps me back to the home screen. I’ve tried many different things to try to cure this: Kill Safari from the app switcher Reboot my iPhone (both normal and a hard reset)
I've tried following bookmarklets: javascript:document.body.style.width='50%'; or javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].width='50%';
I used AirDrop to transfer a folder of videos from my MacBook Pro to my iPad mini (first gen). I realise now that I should've just sent the videos individually, but the problem is that I now can't delete, as it takes up a lot of space on my iPad.
So I'm buying a used Mac Pro 1.1 next month. It has an original dual Intel Xenon dual-core CPUs, and I'm aiming to upgrade it to Intel Xenon X5355s and I already bought them.
I setup dual boot on my Mac (with Ubuntu) and want to get rid of it. The Disk Util GUI shows me:
First of all I was trying to avoid Cmd+Opt in any sofware I used. But it looks like, it's the "OS X way" and there always be the software containing shortcuts with this combination.
How many users can be connected to an iPhone's personal hotspot? Does the limit differ from device to device? I want to know the limit of maximum users.
The recent attempt, I deselected "Put the computer’s hard disk to sleep whenever it’s inactive" both 2 tab in energy saver (system preferences). Then let the Mac to be sleep for a hour. When I restart the Mac again, the built-in keyboard black lights turn on.However, the built-in keyboard and track pad is not responsive. The Mac tried to detect a Bluetooth keyboard. Now, the Bluetooth keyboard is failed to pair with the Mac. Magic Mouse is not able to use too.
I'm running intensive animation software and am having speed issues. At the moment I'm just working from an internal SSD. How much faster should it run if I put the project files on an external HDD? How much faster should an external SSD be than an external HDD? Is it worth investing in external SSDs in this situation?
How I can change my region when I have a low Apple ID balance? I had $50 Apple ID balance now I have 0.22. I want to change my region to download sonic runners but I can't. What are my options?
I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB for my MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2011, but am unable to install OS X to it. (Yosemite 10.10.3) When installing the SSD internally, OS X doesn't find the drive, and diskutil reports the following (tested with Internet Recovery, old install on external drive and own thumb drive installer): However, when attaching the SSD via USB (externally) the following is reported by diskutil on the same machine:
A long time ago, there was an iOS app that was quite innovative for the time. The way it worked was that two iDevices on the same Wi-Fi network that wanted to share data (for instance a picture) would launch this app and come to a virtual "table". The edge of the table would be a recipient. To send the picture, the sender would choose what to share and bring it to the table, and then swipe the picture off a particular edge of the screen, and it would slide in on the recipient's device. As far as I can recall, the UI was white. Can anyone name this app?
I have a new-ish Macbook Air with limited HD space. I take a lot of photos as a wannabe photographer. Even if I had more HD space, eventually I'd run out of space. I have and use Photostream, but I'm curious how other people manage their disk usage without losing images all together. Here's my usual process with photos: Take a crapton of photos w/ my DSLR. Import those photos into iPhoto (now Photos, of course) on my computer. Delete an embarrassingly high percentage of those photos. Edit the rest as needed. Organize them as desired. Share all of them via iCloud Photo Sharing. Share the ones I find particularly interesting or likable on Flickr.
I'm trying to backup my hard drive to the time capsule, but it gives me the following error: I don't know what to do as I've tried everything on this support page and on this one. I use dual backup so I have two disks (see picture).
I already have a Monokai theme installed in Terminal, as so:  I was wondering how I could get the rest of the Monokai (as Sublime uses) into Terminal? Like, making the prompt (Gamma@~) colored, etc. Here is my current .bash_profile file:
When connecting the same ethernet cable to a Macbook, everything on the Macbook works fine. Using a different ethernet cable to the Zyxel works with the Macbook but not with the iMac. Bypassing the Zyxel and connecting to the wall jack to the cooperatives network does not fix it.
I'm running OS X Server, with the File Sharing, Time Machine and VPN services enabled. The /Library/Server/ServerDocs directory is taking up huge amounts of space.
I just opened a Swift project on the new Xcode 7. I didn't really look on what button I clicked and closed the migration tools without migrating anything. Any idea how I could reopen it?
I previously had recurrent kernel panics (documented here), which Tetsujin kindly traced back to Soundflower. I uninstalled the software, and the problem seemed to be resolved. However I had another kernel panic today, after waking the computer from sleep. I wonder if anyone can provide some insight based on the log. Thanks for reading. Edit: Here's the console log around the relevant timestamp (21:57:18). Edit: Here are some more logs and an EtreCheck report.
My 2012-era MacBook Air is connected to a 2012-era iMac via a Thunderbolt cable. The iMac contains a Thunderbolt-Ethernet bridge which in theory should allow the MBA to (1) participate in extremely fast file transfers with the iMac and (2) access the Internet and LAN without the use of additional ethernet cabling or WiFi.
I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 16GB 1600Mhz of RAM. I want to know if it is possible before buying something incorrectly. My macbook model is MD322LL/A A1286.
I'm writing an AppleScript to toggle on/off a VPN connection for a computer. I have things more or less working, however, I have to click on the password prompt dialog in order for the script to enter my password. Here is the code block to put the password in, I added the reopen and activate commands because I thought they would bring the window to focus. Is there something simple I'm missing?
I have a mac with single user on it (who is Admin). I see tutorials which ask for the root password, is this the same as my user password or something else?
If I try to move things to external hard drives I am asked for my admin password. If I try to move things in or out of the Applications folder I am asked for my password. I am asked for my password for a lot of things I wasn't previously asked for. It's starting to get frustrating that I have to type it in ALL THE TIME. Is this normal for Yosemite?
I have been organizing years of photos and photo albums into Apple's new Photos app. I recently picked up a new SSD to just handle my photo collection. I moved all of the photos to that drive. Now the file association in my Photos library is wrong for every photo. Is there a clean way to update all?
Using iPhone 4s. In settings > general > keyboard I have a British keyboard, and no other keyboards. In settings > general > international I have region format set to UK and language set to British English.
Trying to install Windows along with OS X I ended up erasing all the data on my MacBook Air. Right now I have one empty parition, so, I tried to install from internet - pressing Control + Option + R during turning it on. My internet connection is being disconnected often, and during component download - it is being disconnected (already the 3rd time) and after the connection is back after a few mins, when I click Retry it does not work anymore: from the log list I can see, that it is stuck on row Chunk validation failed, retrying… I have not used OS X before, so question might be strange, but is it possible to download the OS X DVD/ISO or something else in similar format from my home PC, when make a bootable usb from it, so I can install on Mac?
I'm getting an error when installing cmu-sphinx. I tried adding /usr/local/Cellar/libsamplerate/0.1.8/lib/pkgconfig to pkg config path: I recently doctored my brew until only these warnings are left (can't act on for a few days while away from my backup device): I've also done a recent brew upgrade. Here is the trace:
I'm running Linux in a VM on my VMWare Fusion. I want to use qemu-kvm within the Linux VM (yes, I know it's not efficient). QEMU reports the following problem:
I have two SMTP servers configured in Mail. One for school, and one for my private email. I would like that Mail automatically picks the one for school if I'm sending an email to someone of my school. This means: any email address of someone of my university ends in @ugent.be. So if I write an email to xyz@ugent.be, I want mail to pick my UGent SMTP server. In all other cases, I want to use my gmail SMTP server configuration.
First of all, I'm quite new to mac so sorry if this question is too obvious. I'm coming straight from Arch Linux, so this is still a bit confusing for me ;-)
So I downloaded this application that I am relatively sure is able to run fine on 10.7.5 (My version of OSX), but when I try to open it, a message pops up saying that it requires at least version 10.8.5. The reason I think it should work with my OS is because an older version of the app does, and as far as I can tell, there is no real content added between that update and this one, so I don't feel they could have refactored it so much in a somewhat insignificant update that it no longer works on my OS. (And this application really doesn't let you downgrade, so done say I should do that) It doesn't open and then crash. When I try to open it, just a window with the Finder icon pops up saying that it doesn't work on the current version of my OS, and I need 10.8.5. The application doesn't even try to open. So I feel that there must be a flag somewhere in the code or something dictating minimum version required. So my question is: Is there a way to ignore this flag and open this application
Xcode 5 is the only IDE I use for everything. It's best for debugging C++ programs. The only problem is that I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2012) and only 4 GB RAM. Xcode hogs all the memory all the time. The scenario is like this: Open Xcode → do compiling/debugging At this point Xcode will be using around 100 MB–150MB (depends) Open Xcode → do compiling/debugging At this point Xcode will be using around 100 MB–150MB (depends) Leave it as idle process (don't use for 15–20 minutes) Leave it as idle process (don't use for 15–20 minutes)
I recently upgraded to iOS 8.3 from 8.2 on my iPhone 5s and for a week my memory/capacity remained unaffected. But then one day I checked my available capacity and it dipped to 2.1 GB from 10.6 GB. Then today I checked again and the capacity dipped again to 1.6 GB. When I plugged my phone into iTunes, the "other" bar memory was 19.5—it was never that high. What could be the problem? I have a Virgin mobile 5s, if that helps any.
The biggest problem with OS X that bothers me a lot is that when you are working with multiple applications and trying to switch between applications with mouse: first you have to click on the application and then start using it. As an example, let's say we have two text editors that we are typing in each of them separately. Now lets say we want to copy a piece of text from first window to the second one. Based on OS X's behavioral semantics, you have to select the first window with a mouse click and then again press the mouse click to select a piece of text. This sometimes brings down my productivity by a lot in different applications.
I just followed the instructions here to create a encrypted sparseimage for Time Machine backups. The empty sparsebundle ended up being 1.4 GB (and after enabling encryption it grow to 1.6GB). Why is an empty sparseimage so big?
I need to know what the original account was for my Clash of Clans is so I may transfer to another device. Any suggestions? I have tried multiple times trying to find through my emails with no luck. Can Game Center email a list of my CoC account?
So I've configured my mail using a profile. I have setup 3 mail accounts, but each time I launch Mail, it asks me for the passwords of all those accounts. The first time I thought: maybe that's a bug in Mail when mail accounts are configured using profiles. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case: it prompts me to enter the password for all 3 accounts, and it doesn't stop. When I enter it, it just asks me for the passwords of the other accounts, and then it asks for the first one again, etc., etc.
I earlier used OSXFuse/NTFS-3G method to access my Bootcamp Windows partition and my portable drive while using Mavericks. Recently when I upgraded to Yosemite I noticed that NTFS read/write access was not present as is, so I decided to use the opportunity to try out the trial version of Paragon NTFS 12 (latest).
My 2015 MacBook hasn't got any hotter then it normally does since I brought it. The only issue is not it is the hot weather my 2015 MBP is now making me feel hot (due to feeling the heat on my lap).
I've got to send my MBP in for the infamous GPU problem (2011-2013 models) and I would like to back up or at least gain access to my HDD to save some important-ish files. I've hooked the drive up to my PC, but only the Windows 7 partition shows in My Computer. When I go to Disk Management, the whole drive shows up as seen in this picture:
Several vendors provide their drivers with AutoOpen feature: image file contains single application SomeApp usually installs drivers or connection manager. I've discovered how it works: Mac OS X finds SomeApp.app/Contents/MacOS/AutoOpen executable and runs it. I've tried to create such application from scratch and this method works fine. This is huge security hole like autorun feature on Windows. How to disable this feature permanently?
I prefer iPhoto over the new Photos app in Yosemite. It also annoys me, because every time I connect a new device to my Mac, I have to disable "Open Photos App when connected to this device" for that device. It also uses a spot from in my Launchpad.
I'm looking for an easy way to quickly go through a bunch of files, mostly videos and images and sort them in a set of standard folders. Currently I open the videos/images in VLC see what they're about and drag/drop 'em into folders. This is incredibly tedious work, but I really should get it done already. Annoying bits are in large part due to the dragging and dropping, also because the alphabetical sort order in the Finder and VLC is different and the file names get replaced by video titles in the VLC playlist etc.
We are using the iAd framework, which I know you need the 99$ developer license in order to be served ads. But you also need the 99$ developer license in order to go live in the AppStore. My question is, how far can one go before having to pay this? I.e. can we do the Testflight for beta testing before having to pay that fee? Or by then will we have to have committed the 99? The reason I ask is because, if the app store ultimately rejects the app you have effectively flushed the cost of the license down the drain.
I have a MacBook Pro since 2014 and I haven't had any problem in these months. But today I realized that the free space info that gives Mac is wrong. I add two captures, one from the hard disk info, and the second from the 'About this Mac' window.
A friend recently shared an album with me on Photostream. The album contains videos only. I clicked on the invitation and was able to successfully view the videos within the album on my iPhone. On my Mac however, although the album did appear in the Family and Friends Photos section of iPhoto, it was empty.
I have an iMac 21.5" 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Macintosh HD - Yosemite. My Screen Saver comes up with foreign words and gobbledygook that I don't understand. Went into Finder/library/Screen Savers (this is what is in my Applications) to see what I could do but there is nothing in this folder. This looks bogus to me. Do you agree and what should I do?
When I'm travelling I only have Internet via my iPhone, which I can share to my Mac via Personal Hotspot just fine. However, I have a VoIP desk phone which only gets internet via ethernet cabling. I have tried plugging the phone directly in to my Mac, and then turning on Internet Sharing to share the connection from Wi-Fi to the ethernet ports. But the phone does not pick up any connection. Is this possible and how can it be done?
I have a tiny hard drive - 128 GB. I am not that technical. I see that other files under storage is taking up say 40 GB of space. My boyfriend got me a WD NAS hard drive and I was able to move my photos from iPhoto, and iTunes, there to free up some space. I accidentally deleted iPhoto so in order to install it. My boyfriend showed me a script that showed the size of some big directories. .3G /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app/Contents/Resources 1.3G /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app/Contents 1.3G /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app 1.3G /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9 2.0G /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents 2.0G /Applications/iMovie.app 5.3G /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport 5.3G /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents 5.3G /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app 1.1G /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources 1.3G /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents 1.3G /Applications/iPhoto.app 1.0G /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office 
Clicking the Parallels icon gives me a menu. I selected "Parallels Desktop Help". I get no response.
If I focus on a user-input box, select what's in it, press delete, and start typing, the first two characters I type will get selected and deleted. Let's say this is an input box: Input Content I put my cursor there: Input Content | I select: |Input Content I delete: | I type: a| b| c | cd | cde | When I type in an input box that I have selected in, the first two characters are selected and deleted.
My family's company is moving from an old, washed up server to a new cloud server with a different web hosting company. I need to download emails from the current web host's server for 14 email boxes to my hard drive, so they can be uploaded to the new web host's server! I have searched different add-ons for Mozilla Thunderbird, but I am unable to figure out the proper way to download individual e-mail profiles and save them on my hard drive. I have Googled, but tutorials I have followed are too convoluted or have not worked. Any guidance in this regard would be greatly appreciated!
I am getting "Mail Delivery Failed" messages for some of the emails sent. As I am replying an email, I am sure that there isn't any misspelling on the recipient's email address. A typical message below. On 22/06/2015 9:47 am, "Mail Delivery System" wrote: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
Given an AppleScript file designed to poll for an application dialog box every 30 seconds, how can I easily setup my Mac OS so that this AppleScript file starts every time I login silently in the background? Code for the script ( in case interested ) is listed below, and is designed to click "Later" on the AirMail Beta app:
Is there a log of the times we enter iCloud? Like the timestamp of when we login to our iCloud to use Find My iPhone?
My Music collection is all my own and stored on a PC which doesn't connect to the internet. this has been fine for most cases however recently i've been needing to get a hold of a word processor and learned about Pages, problem is that it appears that the only way to get documents on and off my iPad is to use iTunes. As my PC is offline so when i connect my iPad to sync stuff like movie, music and images i get the a message saying it can't transfer my apps which is understandable as i can't sign into my apple account. i could install itunes on my laptop but the documents i want to sync are on my offline PC for when i work on there (ipad work would be for when i don't have access like if i'm in the car for a 2 hour trip) and it's a pain keeping 2 sets up to date, not to mention as i saw in this video i can only sync with one itunes (to which my laptop doesn't have the space for my music and ripped movies)
I mean brew man, not man brew. It says:
I tried to install homebrew (OSX 10.9.5) using the recommended but got
I cannot connect to iCloud or iTunes on my iPad anymore. I can connect to the Internet but not iCloud or iTunes. I've tried seeing if I need to update software by going into settings-general-update software but I just get an error saying "unable to check for update. An error occurred while checking for a software update" then another saying "there was an error connecting to iCloud verification failed". Can anyone help?
I save a lot of things on desktop. Often I have lot of applications and windows open and I want to simply minimise all and then drag a newly saved file from the desktop into a folder.
When my iPhone is in Silent Mode from the side switch I only ever get vibrations when specific apps receive a notification, such as TweetBot/Facebook, however I'm not getting them from quite a few other apps such as Fallout Shelter/Spotify. I was under the impression that enabling Sounds under the Notification preferences switched on the vibration notification when the phone is silent, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I can't see it.
Edit: I have little experience with iPads in general. Are there are mail apps that I could download that would do a sync with the local emails that would then allow an export? (Clutching at straws here!)
In older version of Mac OS X, maybe up to 10.6 or something like that, you could use top with -ua which accumulated CPU-usage and listed the process with most CPU-time at the top. This combination has since disappeared and I have been unable to find a replacement. Any ideas? A nice addition would be if you could tell it to accumulate CPU-hsitory for e.g., 10 seconds, 1 minute or so, is that possible?
in .bash_profile I accidentally set the path to: and now the default path is gone. Nothing in Terminal works anymore: I can not see hidden files in Finder so I can not modify .bash_profile from Finder as well. How can I fix this situation?
This is for personal home use. I know its not best practice but I'm also not spending $30-50 a month for backup mx service. I just want something to prevent losing mail if I upgrade/replace the primary machine.
Downloading from Photo Stream gives me a small size picture (approx 200 KB) and I want to download the full size (1 to 2 MB) file. How can this be done?
I have loaded some camcorder cassette tapes into iMovie and have tried to move the video projects to a back up disk to free up space on my hard drive. The help menu says that if you choose "move project and events" it will move the projects and delete them from the hard drive. So far all I've been able to do is move the event and It doesn't free up any hard drive space. What am I doing wrong?
On OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, I use keyboard text shortcuts:  I have a large list of text shortcuts I would like to use. Is it possible to import my shortcuts into the OS X/iOS list of shortcuts? Where are my keyboard text shortcuts stored on my Mac?
I have a 2015 Retina MacBook pro. Sometimes I connect it to a 24" Dell external monitor via thunderbolt->dvi. Whenever I disconnect the monitor, many apps (chrome, most noticeably) have blurry text. This can be corrected by opening "displays" and scaling the text up and then back down, but this is quite annoying. Anyone know how to fix this?
Not such a good start so far from Apple, I am starting to wonder why i switched from PC's. Can anyone help to restore my faith?
My husband and I share an iCloud account. With Family sharing now available, we want our own iCloud accounts, but don't want to loose the photo stream we both have of our shared pictures. We also both need to back-up our phones to the same Mac. What is the best way to split this and maintain back-ups and photos? Is there a way to set-up automatic sharing of photos once our accounts are split or both import our images into the same iCloud Photo Library?
I want to download a file to my iOS device, connect it to my windows xp computer as a USB Mass Storage Device and transfer it.
Disclaimer: I don't know much AppleScript, but I am a bit of a programmer, so you can go a little technical on me. I am looking for a solution to the issue of putting Dropbox on an external HD. While they don't advise it, I think that it can be done safely with a couple measures:
I've got a new MacBook Air, no issues for last month or so. Recently I've noticed some weird behaviour in yosemite. For a start: These are my settings : Yet this is my login screen: Notice I specifically set Don't show Input menu and Don't show Restart/Reboot, yet they appear on the login screen.
Mac OS' X11.app uses certain key bindings that I'd rather send to the underlying X app in use. Specifically I'd like to pass Command+W and Command-1 (and -2, etc) to the X app in question.
about 2-3 a week our 10.9 server machine starts filling logs with 'unable to write to /private/tmp/..." errors. many per second. the permissions to go 755 apparently.
I am sure it works as when I use it in OS X, it just pairs without any flaws. So I wonder, do I need to install another bluetooth driver? Thanks for helping.
Replacing a failing HD with an SSD in an early 2011 MBP 13". Made a Time Machine backup to an external USB HD with original disk, installed the SSD, installed OS X from the install DVD that came with the machine. Success so far, when I try to run Migration Assistant to restore files it does not recognize the external drive as a source option, instead only offering 2 Time Capsule drives as potential sources. With the external drive connected, Finder sees it and sees a folder 2015-06-22, xxxx. This folder contains 3 sub folders with the backup files in them. They are just invisible to Migration Assistant with the new SSD installed, even though recognized and seen by Finder. I suspect some kind of conflict with UUID's between the old drive and the new drive, but I'm at a loss as how to diagnose and fix the problem and then restore my old files. Any pointers, ideas or a full blown solution would be greatly appreciated
I must be missing something simple here. I'm not a big Twitter user, but this seems like something that should be obvious and simple.
OS X Server bound to Active Directory, but OS X Clients who are logged in as AD users prompted for username when connecting to OS X server file shares The OS X server appears to be bound to AD with no problem. This OS X server is ALSO running Apple's Open Directory (as we have a number of Mac workstations still on OpenD. that have yet to be migrated to ActiveD.) Windows AD users can browse the OS X File Server shares no problem
My MacBook Pro mid 2010 does not boot anymore from the HDD with installed OS X 10.9.2. I came across this solution which is clearing the NVRAM, but my Mac keeps showing the Apple logo and a spinning wheel. Are there any other ways to fix this?
When I try to open it in the terminal: open Zenmap.app I get this error: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Zenmap.app. Before it asks me for my password and then I get this error.
The closest I found is Topia World Builder, but it's unclear to me if the predator/prey dynamic is based on game theory or is some generic algorithm. Seems this would be a simple game to implement, so I'm surprised there are many varieties, or anything really, in the App Store.
Earlier today, I decided to clean up my hard drive of extraneous files and other materials that might be taking up space. After doing some looking around, I found an application, OnyX, that was recommended for what I was aiming to do. After starting OnyX and it doing a check of the HD, it said I needed to reboot my computer using ⌘ + R and run Disk Utility to repair the disk. After running Repair Disk on the Mac HD, I got these errors: Incorrect number of file hard links Invalid directory item count Orphaned file inode (id = 515789120) The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired Most ominous, however, was the last error message presented:
Select referenced files in your library and choose “Consolidate” from the File menu to copy the original files into the library. I get the following error messages when I try and sync my Photos Library on my mac with iCloud and then it just says 'Updating' indefinitely.
I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 8. There are about 80,000 emails in an IMAP trash folder. How do I get rid of these emails? Perhaps my phone was set up incorrectly but I have no reason to want to keep these.
Right now, this is what my Terminal shows: I'd like for it to only show my name, so something like this:
I use mail 8.2 on OS X 10.10. Due to new corporate policy at my office, no autocompletion is allowed in e-mail clients (except maybe for address fetching from the corporate address book via exchange: it's not clear). Is it possible to disable either autocompletion entirely, or the addition of people to the autocompletion list?
Somebody suggested to install the OSX Server app from the app store and use it to deploy profiles which should somehow allow this. But I cannot find any good help guides or documentation on setting this up.
In the WWDC 2015 Keynote, Apple said that with the arrival of XCode 7 and Swift 2 it will no longer be necessary to pay the Apple Developer Program suscription to run our own iOS apps on our own connected devices. What do I need to make use of this new feature?
Yesterday I noticed this log in console: networkd[183]: -[NETClientConnection scrubParametersForEntitlements:] client com.apple.WebKi.1353 setting source application without entitlement
I brought my MacBook Pro 1 year ago, at that time it runs OS X 10.9 . At that time I connected an external 2TB HDD (HFS+ single partition, not connected all the time) to it via USB as a Time Machine backup destination. Later I turned off Time Machine and use the HDD to store some pictures. Months after that I upgraded to OS X 10.10 and now 10.11 Beta 1.
I have my computer (MBP 2015) to turn the backlight on my keyboard off after I haven't used my computer for 10 seconds. Is there a way how to disable the keyboard backlight after x amount of seconds of not typing? Even though I know the 2015 MBP has good battery life, I would still like to do this to save a little bit of power.
I am trying to find some editor/IDE for R in OSX. I am using currently TextMate but not probably the good choice. How can you type R in some good editor/IDE?
I've made a bit of a balls up... When attempting to create a bootable Ubuntu usb drive I accidentally ran dd on my main system drive :(
I need to get the email account settings from my Macbook Air on to my iPhone 5s. It was working perfectly until I got a new iPhone 5s. I backed everything up, but my email account for work is not working now, meaning I am out of the loop if I am not near my Mac.
How can I buy an app from the App Store and download it to my wife's iPad?
Starting from a few days ago, my iPad mini(1st gen) was restarting every 3-5 minutes. I tried to normally restore, then recovery mode restore, and today DFU restore mode. None of these methods worked. My warranty is already expired, so I cannot bring it into an Apple store. How do I fix this problem?
Is there a rhyming dictionary I can run on the OSX command line? I found these but don't know how to get them running on my Mac: *=URL=* *=URL=* https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhyme
I'm trying to eliminate Google software from my OS X experience. I would like to eliminate Google Earth. Are there OS X tools that can consume or work with KMZ files? Are there good online tools that can work with these files? I'm keen to visualise points of interest on maps, but while OS X Maps provides a great user experience, it does not seem to import or show externally provided data.
I have tried syncing several episodes of a TV show (from a DVD ripped via Handbrake) to my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3.2. However, when I open "Videos" and look at the TV Shows tab, I do not see them. I see other shows I have synced, but not this particular show. iTunes lists the videos as being on the device. And, in fact, if I go to Settings->Usage->Manage Storage->Videos I see that they're there! They just don't appear in the Videos app on my phone.
My iPad was in good health when it was used last. That was about 8 month ago. Now it wont come on and on connecting it to the charger, the low battery sign comes on with the 3 red stripes. That's all even after a couple of hours. Is there any hope for the battery to recover?
I am looking to automate moving large amounts of files. Basically I have one location on our network full of .zip files. They are all named like "12-3456.zip" etc. I need to move each of these .zip file to a different location on our network which contains pre existing folders already named. Need to move the .zip file to the folder with the same name. I found something similar to this here but is seems to choke on large amounts of files. Any help/advice/experience with similar problem? Thanks,
Just yesterday my iphone 5S started playing up. Some apps would hang when they were opened.
I have a Mac 10.5.8, Leopard, gray surrounding, and cannot get on skype and I cannot create a customized header with iPhoto for Twitter. I'm not a tech person but am good with apps. How do you know you have the system requirements to upgrade to 9 and will that allow me to get skype, etc. iMac Model Identifier: iMac8,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 2 GB
I downloaded my friends Castleville account on my iPad. Now I would like to start my own Castleville game. I uninstalled her game and removed all the data from Game Center. Next I went to the App Store to install the game but it has the little cloud icon with the down arrow on it. When I install it the game is still hers. Is there a way to download a game as if it's never been used before on my device so that I can play my own game from the beginning? Thanks
Occasionally, I request something with sudo, but change my mind after the password prompt has arisen. If the program was executing, I could press Control+C to exit, but this has no effect on the password prompt. If it was gksudo, then I could likewise press Cancel. So, is there anyway I could cancel sudo's password prompt besides pressing Enter multiple times, waiting for the wrong password dialogue?
I'm looking into doing some development on my Macbook Pro running Yosemite. I've used both Macports and homebrew before, but I really don't want to install anything on my machine outside of my home directory. Ideally I would be able to have everything installed under $HOME and still be able to link libraries such as SDL, install things like pygame, etc.
So. I select a wifi network. Get into safari and int wont load the main page. But I can make calls in skype and with perfect comunication with the caller. (Wifi works for skype) but when I do all the steps you told somebody to do (go to the network preferences. Then "advanced" go to the DNS. And select one of thise numbers (8.8.8.8) (they are not grey for me, they're black) then Ok and then Apply, safari would still not load and skype would kee working. What can I do?
Is there anybody who can answer me this question? I have a Macbook Pro Retina 15" quad i7 etc and I use some programs/applications wich need a lot of cpu and also the macbook heats up like hell.
I'm doing mobile development and program on a Windows development machine. However, I need to reach the Xamarin Build Host on my Mac Mini OS X Yosemite server. Is it possible to remote into this Mac from outside my network? I have a fixed IP for the network, but need to know how to assign ports to the various machines on the network.
I had an png icon file of dimension 40*40 with a size of 2 KB. I adjust its dimensions with Preview app to get 25*25. I got the icon file converted to 25*25, but now its size is 3 KB. Why? As we reduce dimension, the size must get reduce. But it is not happening?
I did not find the command in Brew of Yosemite 10.10.3. I am reading the command developed from here: I think blockdev is Linux specific command at the moment and not existing directly in OSX. How can you install Blockdev in OSX?
I installed BetterTouchTool to see if there was anything in there that looked like it would help. It had a "live view" so I could see what the trackpad was seeing and the movements (and clicking) are all being "seen" by the software. It's just that the driver won't acknowledge the click until the scroll is done. Any ideas of what I can do to tweak this behaviour? Edit - try the following: scroll down using two fingers on this page lift one finger and apply pressure with the other to do a click drag up to the top right as you're doing it to simulate a click and drag alternatively: scroll down using two fingers on this page use your thumb to click and index finger to drag up to the top right
I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop for one and a half years now and had no problems with it. A couple of days ago I noticed weird behaviour with the mouse. The same behaviour was with the trackpad as long as the mouse's dongle was connected to the Mac.
I have a phone that stores 2 images every time I take a picture. One is a high resolution photo and the other is a low resolution photo. When I connect my phone to the mac, it imports all the photos into iPhotos, Photos and into the Pictures folder. I want to keep only the high resolution photos and delete the low resolution ones.. A sample of the file name format for the 2 images is shown below. WP_20150402_16_44_11_Pro__highres.jpg WP_20150402_16_44_11_Pro.jpg
Here I get ‘Operation already in progress’. I read something in the single-user mode that the loading of services is not supported. Does this affect the fully loaded OS X too? I'm not sure if I'm still in single-user mode or not. How can I tell OS X to load all the LaunchDaemons on startup?
How does the 15" Macbook Pro 2015 perform playing 4K video to a 1440p monitor? I have a late 2011 model and it really struggles with the downsampling. I'm planning an upgrade and am wondering about video performance.
At my terminal, I can't cd to the folder containing mysql and call it. If I execute the file by using the whole path, it works Why is that?
I'm trying to backup some folders on an ubuntu server to an external G-Drive, connected through thunderbolt to my iMac, in this manner: but the same problem persists: I tried changing the SSH configuration, like this: and then restart the SSH:
Is there a way to open a certain link with Chrome app Incognito Mode using the Terminal app on my Mac? (I want to input the link in the command as well).
I used to have a L shaped MagSafe charger for my 2010 MBA. Now I have my 2015 MBP I now need to use the T shaped MagSafe2 charger. The only issue is because the angle the wire is on the connecter (and not going in the port as much) this makes it very easy for it to fall out of my computer when I move it (it gets very annoying!). Is it possible somehow to make the charger stronger without modifying it too much?
I have been plagued by performance problems in my late 2010 MacBook Air for several months now. Most of it seems centred around Safari. I regularly get very high fan speeds (loud to the point of very annoying), very warm laptop, high load average, and spinning BBOD (beach ball of death), especially on Safari. I consistently have a single window, 8-10 tabs, none of them heavy dynamic apps (Gmail and Calendar running in Chrome).
I'm coming from Ubuntu, where you can show an overview of all windows (minimised or not), or of all windows for an application (somewhat like mission-control), then middle-click the ones you don't want to close them. Is there similar such functionality on the mac?
So I'm while trying to compile PHP 5.6.10 from the source faced the following problem: The OpenSSL is installed via Brew. In PHP included like--with-openssl=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2c`
I am currently travelling in a remote area. My iPhone 5S can see my carrier with good signal strength, and I can access 3G data. My wife's iPhone 4 can't even see the network, even for voice calls. Both phones were purchased unlocked from the Apple store.
Recently my texts were accessed somehow and I'm not exactly sure how this person did it. We share the same PC at home but have separate user accounts with passwords on them. My iCloud and iTunes also is password protected. However, this person is the administrator of the PC. Are there any files that this person has access to that could be from having my iPhone automatically backed up to iCloud though a wifi connection? Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening in the future?
What's VMWare Fusion upgrade policy? I consider buying it, but a new version will probably come out in September alongside OS X 10.11. Will I get a free upgrade, or do I wait until September?
I have tried to start my back up manually because the automatic back up isn't working for some reason. The last backup was June 3, 2015. I have the icloud backup on and I have plenty of space in my icloud!
So, I'm thinking of upgrading my MBP (13' late 2011) with an internal SSD drive. I'm wondering if the increase in speed of read and write on the SSD internal drive, will increase peroformance and stability while reading data from other external HDD drives. I have a lot of data stored on external drives (iTunes, Photos, Audio sound libraries, ...) and wondering if I can expect significant improve on dealing with that external data on a daily basis. Thank you.
My iMac abruptly stopped making any sounds while I was using Garageband. I think I had a microphone and headphones plugged in at the time.
(I'm not in the mail group. Should I be?)
Is there a way to allow standard users to add a VPN connection? All computers are running 10.10.3
If I disable Location Services, will Find My iPhone continue to work? I turned off Location Services, but iOS 8.3 is allowing me to leave Find My iPad turned on. The message underneath says though:
Every time I have a message sent to me, it's sent to my family's Mac and my iPod. How do I get them to stop going to my Mac? I have already tried looking into Settings and "Send and Receive" but all I have in there is my Apple ID and email.
I need to be able to access the internet during presentations involving the Apple TV and the iPhone, using the Apple TV as the AV link from the phone. My experience has been that connecting to a wifi network disables the data connection to my carrier. In many cases the wifi network I attach the phone and the apple TV to have internet access, so it's no problem. I anticipate having to present in a situation where the wifi network won't have internet access. Is there a way I can set up the iPhone and Apple TV so I can use the phone's internet data while still connected to the Apple TV?
So I accidentally run in terminal command export PATH="/usr/bin/php/bin" which override my defaults and none of the commands aren't responding. Is it possible somehow restore it? My system is 10.9.5
I have a number of FreeBSD servers, and I'd like to put VNC server software on them, then access them from a Mac running OS X 10.9.5. I really don't want to have to access them from a virtual windows machine running on the MAC :-(
I'd like Siri to add a timestamp -- I'm not too fussy about the exact format -- of the current day and time to the end of one of my notes in the Notes app. She can find the note just fine, but takes me too literally: "Add the current date and time to my UFO Sightings note" Okay, I updated your note: UFO Sightings Jun 3 11:18 Jun 5 11:28 The current date and time In hopes of getting some guidance, I then tried "Can you add a timestamp to one of my notes?" She asked which one, and when I told her, she cheerfully replied Okay, I updated your note: UFO Sightings Jun 3 11:18 Jun 5 11:28 The current date and time A timestamp I asked about her capabilities in general, too, and got a list of example commands, but it didn't seem exhaustive at all:
Here is a picture of the sections that I am referring to in Finder. I have circled points of interest to draw your attention to my specific example of images. Less than 20 images are in actual Pictures folders or whatnot.. the rest are in my system from git repos and whatnot that contain content that I will never wish to surf through from Finder.
Is there a way to switch the profile of an already-opened Terminal window? Let's say I already have a Terminal window opened with Basic profile. Can I switch it to Grass profile? I seem to only be able to change profiles if I open a new Terminal window.
I'm setting up a postgres server and want to create a separate postgres user to run the process, as recommended in the manual. How do I do this? I installed postgres via Homebrew and have experience with Linux but not much with Macs.
My iPhone turns itself off when it has lots of battery charge left, sometimes 70% then I cant turn it on at all unless I plug it in to a charger....then the apple logo appears and it turns on as normal with lots of charge?
We have been making iOS apps and selling them directly to clients who then use their own AppStore to distribute to their internal employees after re-signing the app. However, I just noticed the following note in the Enterprise Dev Agreement.
Many years ago - when I was a Windows user - I had an application which made renaming files an amazingly simple experience. You would select the files you wish to work with, and their filenames would appear within what was essentially a huge textarea. Imagine a text editor (such as TextEdit, Sublime Text, etc.) open to a document that simply lists all filenames, with each filename on a new line.
Update 3: My watch has been pretty good all of today (June 29, 2015), but just started acting up again. Here are a few things I noted that may prove useful: The watch responded perfectly for at least 3 hours straight, during which I was able to use it to read books, search the web, and add cards to Trello lists.
I had an old macbook for a while and that thing crashed, along with some of my music. I got a cheap toshiba for a couple years, saved up for a Macbook Pro. I bought the Pro in 2013, didn't much of the missing loops, but i'm trying to remake an old beat (the vocals sucked). The horns I chopped up are not available on the new GB, and I don't have any backups or versions of the horns without other instruments. Try as I might, i can't replicate this sound using music software or even live brass. Anyone know where I can find these old GB loops that were around from maybe 2006-2011?
I am not sure why this keeps happening. Either plugged in or off it cuts off. If I leave a video playing on youtube it seems to be able to handle that, if that is left by itself. But if I say type into faceboook, youtube, stackexchange into the search bar fast it cuts off. It's as if I am over-exciting it or something and then it turns off. Here is the panic report that keeps appearing? any ideas? THANKS!
8.1 Details Your app does not comply with the Guidelines for Using Apple's Trademarks and Copyrights. Specifically, your app icon contained a likeness of an iOS device.
My backslash key stopped working after upgrading to yosemite last week. Also, whenever i restart my mac system starts typing backslash on any textbox. It doesn't stop until i hit backspace.
I recently installed Yosemite on my MacBook Air. I note that my Reading List items no longer display the icon/logo from the web pages. They were very handy for quickly locating the item I was looking for without having to read through all the text. Is there a way to restore them?
I'm new to iPhones,if a phone is stated to be network unlocked,carrier unlocked and factory unlocked will it be able to be used with any carrier? The iPhone is a iPhone 5 Thank you. Loritiana123
I've been trying to run a Windows program on OS X Yosemite, however, the program comes as an .exe installer and not directly executable binary. The problem that I'm facing is that the installer must connect to the internet to download additional files, but it cannot. During the installation process, I get the error of "failed download" and everything stops. Is there any way to solve this problem? I was trying to install Pi which is a trading platform from Zerodha. Also note that, I tried installing another application installs just fine but when I try to run it, it fails because of no internet connection.
How can I get back voice memos that I deleted from my iPhone 6?
I've installed Kali Linux under a virtual machine with VMWare Fusion, but I have a problem with the key mapping. Indeed, I have a french keyboard, and the mapping of the key is perfect but for the characters we have through ALT + SHIFT + [key].
I'd like to script the Yosemite Photos app so that every time I place images to a folder on my desktop, it automatically is imported into the Photos app and uploaded to a shared album. Is this possible?
It's really strange there is often a small white panel on my screen, which can be moved and resized, but I can find no way to close it. I don't know where it is coming from. Does anyone know what's it and how to close it? The screenshot:
This is essentially the same question as How to register an AppleScript as a potential default web browser?, but the solution there doesn't seem to work on Yosemite (LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme no longer exists). I've written an AppleScript, saved as an application, and checked "Stay Open." I've also added a CFBundleURLTypes entry to the Info.plist with http and https and identifier "Web site URL," mimicking entries in other browsers' plists. I think basically the same procedure worked when I last tried on Mavericks.
I have a huge library in the new Photos app on my Mac OS X Yosemite machine, I want to know the easiest way to export or backup all these photos and videos on an external hard disk (formatted for Mac), giving that, I want to use the photos and videos on a Window 7 machine. Note: the option File -> Export will take forever to export thousands of these items.
Title wraps up the whole thing, but to elaborate I have an applescript that deletes Safari's history folder, bookmark folder, and a few other boot cache items, but quitting Safari, running the script, then re-opening Safari I can still choose "Reopen All windows from last session" and get the very last page from the site I was just at - where is this info stored? If my gf catches me looking at porn again I could be in hospital for a month or more!
So I waste too much time on my phone. Checking Facebook and Twitter, browsing to read unproductive things, etc. I should just stop, but I'm curious if there is a technological deterrent to my habit.
I have a Time Machine HD from my old Mac. It has a different owner. I try to change admin to sokada. But I get: "Operation not permitted to all files." How can I change the ownership of a directory in a Time Machine Backup?
I have had this problem on my previous (iPhone 4, iOS 7) and current (iPhone 6+, iOS 8) phones. I have a single playlist of my favorite songs - 3534 tracks, according to the Music app. I try to listen to the entire playlist, shuffled, from beginning to end.
I deleted some photos from iPhotos and Photos libraries that I should not have. I want to restore these from my Time Machine back of a couple days ago. When I do this I keep getting the following error Any help will be much appreciated.
Just bought an Airport Extreme. Connected a LaCie 2To hddrive (usb 2). I have set up the drive without issue and can indeed see it in the Finder and browse through the files via my iMac (which connects via LAN).
I was looking around the web for a USB type C male to USB type C female extension cable, and could not find one. Does such a product exist? I have set up Apple's AV adapter for the new MacBook at my TV, but want to be able to hide it away and run one wire up to easily connect my mac to. The wire built in to the adapter is very short (a few inches). Does any such extension cable exist, that anyone here is aware of? Thanks in advance!
I have a file, myfile.txt, located in folder1. From the terminal I create a hard link to this file in another directory with the command
On OS X 10.8 I was looking at my /bin folder and found that cd was not there, but rather in the /usr/bin folder. Why is that? From the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I know that /bin should contain essential binaries, i.e. those required when no other filesystems are mounted. Is cd not essential enough? (by the way, it appears the "su" command is also in /usr/bin). Now, I know that OS X doesn't follow strictly the FHS, but is there a reason for these different location of binaries?
I need to set up an auto log in for an Intranet web site so I can get right to work with no delays. I want Automator to open safari, go to the page, input log in and password credentials and hit log in (enter) on a daily basis (9am daily) I'd like to use Automator or AppleScript if at all possible. I've heard that lastpass or 1password may have this functionality and I have both paid versions and cannot find any way to use them either.
I have forwarded a port on my router to my Mac mini OS X server which is running OS X and Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp. Can I remote into the BootCamp image using remote desktop or VNC? If so, what settings must be changed to accomplish this?
Can anyone help explain why there is 17gb worth of free space on my LVG I can't seem to do anything with this space. Is there anyway to fix this? I have already reformatted the disk then cloned the contents back with CCC. I also have FileVault enabled. Whenever I see this on others setups it is usually a few KB not 17gb!
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro 15'' Late 2012 to an external Full HD TV/Monitor via a Mini Displayport to HDMI cable. The quality is not good at all! It looks blurry, especially the font! Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
My Apple Watch Sport recently has decided to send all messages targeted at one person to a different person. No matter how I send messages to person A (i.e. respond to their texts, send through the friends interface, etc.) they are always sent to person B. I've tried to reboot the watch and my iPhone but no success.
I just installed pip and got a few warning messages. Should I be concerned? Is there a way to check that pip was installed properly? Here's what I did:
What is the best way to restore a new Mac (running Yosemite) to its "unused" state i.e. if you use a new mac to try it out, but have to return it to its owner, how can you make sure that any personal information (Apple ID, emails, web history, Pages Documents etc) on the Mac has been removed. I would like to do something similar to how you can delete all user data on an iPhone i.e. without having to format the disk and re-install the OS. To be clear, I do not want to save anything from the Mac, but purely to restore it to "factory fresh" state.
MacBook Pro Retinas dropped the line-in (microphone) jack that previous MacBook Pros had. Sometimes I want to plug in a 1/8" microphone, but there's no option to switch the input from "internal microphone" to "line in".
I'm getting the following message when tethering one of my iPads used for testing. Its telling me to "Please restore the device to a version of the OS listed below...", but it does not provide the list:
I'm trying to understand what is the difference between buying an unlocked iPhone 6 with T-Mobile SIM versus just a regular unlocked iPhone 6? They seem to be the same price: *=URL=* Apple's info page states this:
It's been a long time since Boom app released an update: March 26, according to App Store. I was successful to update, as Boom states that I am in version 1.9.4, the March 26 release. But, despite that, every time that I check for new updates, App Store says that I have a new update. And, again, it asks me to update Boom app. The same situation is happening with SofaPlay Lite, as you can see in this picture.
I'm working on replacing the digitizer on my ipad 2. In the process, I put a small cut in the bottom of the LCD (I think there is even a little liquid leaking out). I'm certain that area of the LCD will no longer function, but what effect will it have on the rest of the screen? Will most of the screen work or does that little cut ruin the whole screen? The cut is along the bottom edge of the screen.
I recently received an old iMac secondhand. I have no way to reach the original owner. I am trying to upgrade the OS software, but the prompts demand the administrator's name (which is auto-filled) and password (which I do not have). I understand why these security features are in place, but is there any way in the world for me to access Admin. privileges without the password?
I have tried several approaches. For example, I have tried to set the clipboard to only contain a string and a HTML entry, but still the extra entry is included. I have also tried to set the styled Clipboard text entry to the empty string but that also set all the plain-text entries to the empty string as well. I don't think the pbcopy command line tool is powerful enough to do this, as it set the clipboard to a new value. While I'm currently using applescript to do this, I'm open to using any tool available, preferably a scriptable one (so that I don't have to ask the users to perform a compilation).
I do not have the original disks but the computer has been upgraded to Snow Leopard. I have the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 disks but the computer will not allow the disks access to my startup disk. I need to erase all and restore the computer to its original state so I can sell it. I have talked to Apple and they say the machine is too old and they do not have the original disks available.
I'm creating several html forms. People asked me to remove the QuickType functionality introduced with iOS 8 for some of those forms fields cause sometime it's irrevelant and use screen place for nothing. It's seems QuickType only appears for <input type="text">. Even it has not been designed for that, I tried the autocomplete="off" and it doesn't work without a surprise. I don't want to globaly desactivate QuickType into the parameters or to temporary hide it with a swipe down. PS : QuickType is not yet a tag, I propose to add it
There is the terminal command unbuffer in Linux Redhat, for instance. I did not find it in homebrew. How can you install unbuffer in OSX Yosemite 10.10.3?
I run brew search stdbuf and get I run brew install coreutils but get Warning: coreutils-8.23_1 already installed. I do but see no stdbuf in my system. My PATH is
I use some apps that listen to my sleep, such as SnoreLab, to give me details on my sleep quality. These apps need to run all night, the iPhone being unlocked (but the screen is black because it faces the table). The iPhone is also charging all night. I was wondering if using this kind of apps, running all night, is harmful in any way to the iPhone.
I'm using a bluetooth earphone very often. It works really well with iphone and ipad, but it just doesn't work well with macbook pro retina 15". The range and connectivity are pretty bad.
I have OS X 10.10, Yosemite. I tried to backup and restore but it failed.
The picture I've received via Viber deleted already 40 times appears over and over again in camera roll and photo stream ! How do i delete?
I need to find test binary data for the command xxd -ps file which is some GB or at least several MBs. I am using at the moment /usr/bin/telnet but it is not big and heterogenous between different OS. Which file is big and sufficient homogenous between different operating systems?
I have iMovie HD 6.03. I want it to run on Yosemite. The application icon itself has a "circle-slash-do-not-run" icon superimposed on the iMovie icon. When I double click the icon a dialog pops up saying that it can't run. I can dig into the application package itself and run the actual compiled executable; this tells me that the application itself can run but something in the packaging is preventing iMovie from running.
I worked with LaTeX and I created a pdf document that contains some embedded videos. The videos pop up when I click on them and this functionality works just find in Adobe Reader. But when I try to do the same on Preview it doesn't work, and it gives me this sound as if there's an error or something, just that no error is shown on the screen. Can someone know how to make Preview work with embedded videos on pdf files?
I set PS1="[\u@\H \w] in bash. So it should print the host name. But I do not understand the meaning and nature of the host name.
After i connected my seagate expansion drive to my macbook air, it opened normally as far as i remember But now if i'm connecting it on windows 7, it shows that driver installation and the option for ejection, but it doesnt show it on my computer So, has the mac made any changes on it?
So I've had this Macbook Air for a while with a completely broken screen, and I wanted to give it to a friend who would work with it using a second screen. I plugged a second screen to start reformating, but of course once it rebooted, the image wouldn't go to the second screen.
Need to restore my 4s but cannot let it be upgraded to iOS 8 because iPhone 4s can't handle that new of an iOS. I'm totally locked out of the phone (disabled) because my child tried to get into the passcode too many times. :( Can I get it restored without getting new software system?
Where do I go to get more control over the firewall? Any tips for getting this config right?
My contacts were linked to an iCloud.com account and not my gmail.com account. I only created an Apple ID with my gmail account and have no idea how that iCloud.com account was created. Now my contacts got deleted and I only have the password for my gmail.com account but my contacts are not synced to that account. My contacts are synced to the iCloud.com account and I don't have the password for that account.
I am looking for an iOS app that lets you spot status updates (tweets) to both Twitter and a Facebook Page (not my personal Facebook profile, but one of the Pages that I administer). In particular the app needs to let me post as myself. The closest I have found to this is Hootsuite which lets you post to FB Pages and not just profiles but unfortunately every update I make appears with the name of the actual Facebook page rather than with my personal name. This does not work for me. Any suggestions?
When the phone is locked and I get a missed call I can just swipe it and it will call without requiring the passcode. How can I disable this function so that I need to enter the passcode?
As of Safari 8 on OS X Yosemite, URLs in the URL bar are displayed centered. This looks really nice, but I’m a web developer and I often need to change just part of an URL to test something. To do that, I need to click somewhere on the URL, reposition my cursor over the newly-left-aligned address, and then click again to place the insertion point. Is there a way to get Safari to display URLs left-aligned all the time?
I lost my phone and I tracked it, but then suddenly I lost the location. Can the person make use of it if it is not screen locked? What other actions can he take with it.
I am using my Mac as a Standard user. Running latest OSX 10.10.3 I have used the following command from terminal: But I still can't see my hidden files. I've checked my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file and the correct entry is already there:
I use my Mac as a Standard user. When I first set it up, all applications were downloaded/installed using the Admin user. Running latest OSX 10.10.3 When using my Mac as the Standard user, every time I go to run an application I get the following message:
Is there a way to change the minimum payment threshold generated by inApp purchases? Google allows to change the minimum threshold (i.e.: 3.000€) and also to postpone the payment till 1 year.
What is the difference between photo stream and icloud photos? I have both files on my laptop
I'm trying to record a demo of using an app on my iPad, with me talking over the top of it. I've hooked up my iPad Air 2 (iOS 8.3) to my Mac (10.10.3) using a lightning cable and am then using Quicktime to do a movie recording. I update the video source to iPad and then press the red button to record
There is paste tool in Linux but have not found for OSX. Its name was probably dpaste or something in Linux.
I am using iPhone 5s. I checked on various site on how to sign out of apple id in app store, but I am unable to select the apple Id since it is coming in grey color (normally it is shown in blue). I also have my restriction off in general settings. Because of this error, I am also not able to download anything from app store in my iPhone. My apple Id account is already verified and I have checked it twice on net.
I needed to change the hostname of the server I have setup after I started the Xcode service. My server is currently named as follows...
I want to save the following spoken text to an audiofile that I can play on my iPod (so .mp3 or something). So everything that my mac says during the run of this AppleScript should be saved in one audiofile. I don't want 4 different audiofiles, instead, I would like to have one (big) audiofile with all the audio. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
On my iphone 4 the wifi will sometimes be stuck on off. The button is grayed out and can't be slid back to on. This seems to happen at random. I've heard about this issue happening permanently, but on my phone, it's only occasionally. I'll open the phone up later and it will work again. Any suggestions on a fix?
I've been playing around with 'rest' mode today on the PS4 and I have found out I can only sleep and wake it using the PlayStation app on iOS. I have tried to scan the data packets sent to the PS4 so I can make my own application, However I cannot find what to send to the PS4. Because of this is there a PlayStation or similar application to install on Yosemite? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, I just thought it would be the most appropriate place to ask because I need a Mac application.If this is the wrong place I shall delete this question.
Im looking for a program that let me organize my itunes library (So that the CD's that I export instead of saving it like "Track 1",etc, be saved with all the sing info, such as artist, album, etc). How to mass-organize iTunes library? I taked a look into that question but Im looking for something more complete, It does not matter if it cotst. Thanks.
I recently installed LibreOffice Vanilla (LOV) from the Mac App Store. I want it to be the default app for opening .csv files.
Some months ago I bought a USB flash drive 16 GB, and I have used it on my Windows machine with no errors or bugs, whatsoever. Since that I need to move some files from my Mac, the flash drive does not appear to be mounting in OS X at all. When I run in diskutil list in Terminal, the flash drive does not appear, not even in Disk Utility.
Safari uses too much memory on my system (rMBP 2013). By 'too much' I mean tens of gigabytes of memory. I experience constant memory pressure which leads to Safari freezes (it's freezing constantly even now while I'm typing this, and I have a single tab opened). It doesn't stop using memory until the entire SSD is full. The are no extensions installed (they are disabled in fact). I can't tell whether the issue is caused by any particular website; sometimes it happens when I don't have any seemingly "heavy" websites open. How do I resolve this issue?
I've had issues where the Wi-Fi seems to slow to a crawl sporadically. This only happens on my home network; I've not seen it happen anywhere else. No other devices are affected while this is happening and I can fix it by restarting the machine.
I'm really frustrated by the way some applications are not HiDPI aware and resort to pixel doubling - video games, GIMP, etc. Is it possible to have one of my virtual desktops (I think apple uses a different term? "Workspaces"?) be at the native resolution (ie "scaled" to "more space") while the other remain at "best for this display"? I've done a tonne of searching and I can't find anything, but maybe it's just hurt by the fact I don't know the apple jargon. I'd be happy with something like windows has that allows me to turn off DPI scaling for specific applications. I have a 2014 Macbook Pro 15" retina with a 2880x1800 resolution. Thank you for any help :)
When you hide the Dock, OS X leaves a small gap at that edge. Is there a way to get rid of it?
OWC replaced my Mercury Accelsior E2 because it stopped being recognized on my computer. They said the old one checked out ok even though I did their tests at home before I sent it in. When trying to install the new one, the only way I could get it to show up was by using an old DVD of Snow Leopard (major reason why I like to have software on disk!). Yosemite didn't cut it. I got the Disk recognized and began to update it to Yosemite and update all my software. Then all the sudden the OSX crashed and I couldn't find my disk again. I have tried Disk Utility, Cmd R, Option,etc. with no luck. I even tried using Apple Hardware Test, but it's a Catch 22! My Mac Pro 2008 is suppose to have it on the 2nd DVD, but Yosemite says it no longer works with PCIntel or somthing and this system also doesn't have the holding down "D" key at start up control.
My iMessages on my MacBook Pro have stopped being current as of a month ago. It's now the end of June and it only shows texts from the middle of May.
I have coreutils but I am not sure if GNU grep is there. I just want to use the flag -P for Perl regex that is found in GNU grep, but not in BSD grep. My PATH is /usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:/Users/masi/.cabal/bin so I have coreutils first in the PATH. However, grep is BSD when I am using it: grep --version gives grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD. Command type -p grep returns /usr/bin/grep How can you install GNU Grep in OSX?
I have used Calibre but I would like get more freedom in exporting it elsewhere for edits. I would like to do quality assurance of my books, papers and literature. Calibre does not communicate with database systems like MySQL, PostgeSQL and Oracle, discussed here. I would like to bind Calibre to PostgreSQL to do the data verification of each document in database. I think the best way would be to export Calibre´s library. How can you export Calibre's library?
I have seen many Linux distributions tried to be used in Macbook Air, for instance. One custom made of Redhat Linux is one successful port in VirtualBox but it is not public. However, I would like to know how well other public Linux distributions work with Macbook Air in VirtualBox. I am thinking these distros Fedora Linux (Torvalds may use but dislike Gnome3) Debian Linux (used by many of my Science friends) OpenSUSE (rejected by Torvalds) ... Which Linux distributions have adequate support for Macbook Air and VirtualBox?
Safari on my iPhone is completely unusable. It opens fine but when I try to visit an address it freezes. The loading bar sticks at maybe 10%.
I am new to OS X and am thinking of purchasing an app from the app store (in this case it's SkySafari 4 Pro). If I purchase this app, or any app, will I be able to use it on, say, my iPad? If the answer depends on the app, how do I find out if this is the case? I had a look at the Macbook App Store FAQ page, which says: Mac App Store can only be used on a Mac This seems to imply that the answer is no, but even so I'm somewhat confused about the relationship between the different App stores, and how my decision to purchase an app on device X affects my rights to then download it on device Y (where X might be a macbook and Y might be an iPad or vice-versa).
I don't think this option exists, but doesn't hurt to ask. And it would be amazing if Apple could implement this option in case it doesn't exist.
I'm having a problem deleting files from a USB-Stick, which is formatted with FAT. I tried transferring files from my Mac to the USB-Stick, and if I remember correctly, removed it from the USB-port before it finished transferring the files. Therefore some files weren't transferred entirely, resulting in this:
I used by USB to add as iso file into it. Now I want to get the USB back to normal. but the erase button in Disk Utility is disabled. How can I reformat this
If I resize the width of an image in Keynote or Pages the height resizes as well. The same thing happens vice versa. How can I resize the width without affecting the height and vice versa?
Is there an option / setting that allows you to only output audio via the headphone port on your macbook / pro / air ? So that if i had my headphones on and then pulled them out of the laptop the audio wouldnt come out of the speakers until i turned off this option. Background : Im running a MBP with 10.9.5
while chrome battery usage is terrible, i like it as more funcional browser thus i use it almost all the time when macbook is connected to charger, however when i'm on battery i'd like to use only safari to have better battery life. Is it possible to configure using some tool or extension so that chrome tabs automatically get synced to safari (and vice versa)... ? I've tried xmarks, but i have to open every single tab manually.
I'm a registered Apple Developer and I don't want to renew right now because I'm not currently working on iOS apps and may not be for the next year. I understand my apps will be taken out of sale, and that's cool with me.
I cant get the watch out of power mode. It has a lightning bolt on the screen. What does this mean?
I need to export all contents in a WhatsApp chat, going back several months, including lots of audio and other media. This is for legal reasons, thus I absolutely need each and every element in the conversation. WhatsApp is running on a iPhone 5s, the phone is synchronized with iTunes on a Windows PC, and all elements in the chat have never been deleted. I tried using WhatsApp's "email chat" function, but it skipped several media, probably due to message size limits (the email was exactly 10 MB); unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an option in WhatsApp to split the log into multiple emails.
I received a replacement iphone 5 which I'm trying to restore within itunes. I'd like to restore it from my damaged, identical iphone 5; however, I don't remember the password which iTunes requires for further steps. I've tried all my usual passwords and nothing works. I'm running out of tries before it locks me out.
I've enabled "remote management" on a machine, and I'm able to connect to this machine using Chicken with the password I set in the remote management preference pane. I am unable to connect through the "Screen Sharing" app however, which I access by pressing ⌘ Cmd-K in the finder. The Screen Sharing app requests a username and a password, so it does appear that it's at least connecting at that level, but neither my account username/password nor the password I set specifically for remote management work. Since Chicken doesn't require a username I'm not sure what username I should use! Does anyone know how to connect to Remote Management through the Screen Sharing app? Edit: I should add that the RealVNC viewer also works.
i just re-installed Yosemite from Recovery HD. Performed a clean install as i erased my HD from Recovery HD before installing the software. Yosemite is being downloaded since a few hours but it would be the same with the USB Installer as Recovery HD is an Installer too.
I'm thinking of switching to iCloud Email and to buy more storage (currently 5gb) but im not sure if it's reliable to be charged for the storage on a monthly basis. Can someone tell me what happens if a payment fails for some reason, can I still receive messages for some time until I resolve the issue (even if unable to login to my mailbox) or the sender will receive a delivery error?
I'm a photographer and need to keep an updated set of portfolio images synced from my Mac to my iOS devices and available for offline viewing. I have around 300 images totalling ~150MB) Right now the directory that I want to sync looks like this on my Mac: I've found several solutions that accommodate the syncing part of this problem but for some reason none of them them allow you to mark a folder (and its hierarchy) to work off-line on the iOS device.
I've got a got water damaged iPhone and the screen no longer allows me to see anything at all. It turns on fine and I think in some parts the touch sensors work as well. I could use Siri yesterday but now I try to use Siri, it keeps saying unavailable and connect to the internet.
I'm using OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) and recently I have been unable to drag or move any items on the dock. Right clicking them gives no option for "remove from dock", and the icons cannot be rearranged. New icons cannot be added, old icons cannot be deleted.
my iMovie corrupted and the event went missing. i have found it in project files, but how to i get the project files back into an event? i need the edit versions back into an event to continue editing them in iMovie
I have just learned about the "Rootless" feature in El Capitan, and I am hearing things like "There is no root user", "Nothing can modify /System" and "The world will end because we can't get root". What is the "Rootless" feature of El Capitan at a technical level? What does it actually mean for the user experience and the developer experience? Will sudo -s still work, and, if so, how will the experience of using a shell as root change?
My late 2012 Retina MacBook Pro has been used in area's in which it was allowed to smoke. The smoke is now in the circulating system. Is there a way to clean this? The MBP is "smoking" now, producing old smoke smell around it.
What determines the label displayed in the "Kind" column of an OS X finder window and in search box labeled "Kind"? For example, I use LaTeX, and all files with the extension .tex are labeled "LaTeX" in the finder Window and I have them set to open with SublimeText. Did SublimeText set the file "Kind"?
An important limitation in my opinion is the classification of my other two keyboards as "input methods" rather than keyboard layouts. That is to say, they occupy a different folder, and use the layouts of other keyboards. But, to me as a user, this doesn't make them less useful -- rather the opposite. They also aren't reliant on dvorak being on my list of used keyboards, so I don't see why removing it should have an effect on their usage.
I'm just trying to get my app distributed. I create provisioning profiles on the developer store but when I try to install them they just become invalid to Xcode.
I am trying to set up a Google Apps account on Yosemite. I can log into the account, up until where I select which services to active. It will only activate Contacts and Messages. Mail, Calendar, and Notes will not activate with a very generic error message: An unknown error occurred.
I'm following a video tutorial, it's tedious to command+tab,spacebar when I want to pause/play a video. Is there a way for iTunes to start the video when the focused application is iTunes and pause the video when (going back to Unity game editor) iTunes is out of focus. It would be much better if I mouse hover the video iTunes plays the video, and pause the video when the mouse leaves iTunes.
There's a thread about the 2011 model, but it doesn't have an answer and that was a lot of technology ago. A lot of people have said that the macbook will handle it's own cooling process, but mine is new and will get pretty hot within half an hour of watching movies or mid-level processing. I think I'd like something if only to provide a layer of ventilation and buffer between myself and the computer. Does anyone have any experience actually getting a cooling pad for their mac? Does anyone have any experience actually getting a cooling pad for their mac? Is it really not worth it to spend twenty bucks to provide better ventilation? Is it really not worth it to spend twenty bucks to provide better ventilation? If you think it's worth it, any specific recommendations on products? If you think it's worth it, any specific recommendations on products?
I have an album with some photos (almost 8 GB, lot of movies) in my Photos App on Mac. Now I need to save them on DVD. How to do this? Is there a simple way? How to find aprioprate album in Finder?
I accidentally deleted a photo, and it does not show in the "recently deleted" folder. Is there any way I can get it back? I have iOS 8.2.
I am using the latest Macports 2.3.3 on OS X 10.10.3. I installed Gimp, Ufraw and Enblend (among others), which required py27-numpy, which gave me 2 different versions of LLVM: For some reason, I even have llvm-3.5: This means that upgrading Macports builds LLVM 3 times in various versions, which takes a ton of time and heats up the Earth and whatnot :)
How can I connect my Apple Wireless Keyboard with my MacBook Pro 13 inch? My device is running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 (2011).
I'm on 10.9 Mavericks and I am using the Dvorak keyboard layout. However every time I go to paste something using the COMMAND-V shortcut it doesn't do anything, I discovered hitting the physical V key which is K on Dvorak it works. What's going on here? The shortcut keys seem to honor QWERTY layout instead of Dvorak, I don't even have QWERTY enabled as a selection on my account, the system-wide default is Dvorak. How can I fix this? It's really annoying.
Is it possible to actually update bash to version 4.0 in OSX Yosemite? This article and this thread refer to the same question, but they install a new shell side-by-side with the old one. Is there a way to directly update the old bash shell?
I have an application that uses jplayer to listen to radio. It works in Chrome, but fails on Safari. The network request to *=URL=* responds: However this stream works *=URL=* : Safari says "cancelled" on the first stream but plays the second stream fine.
What is the maximum speed on which I can turn on and off the flash of the iPhone 5?
Will I be able to sync offline Apple Music to non-internet Apple devices e.g. iPod Nano and iPod Classic?
Since I upgraded to 200 GB iCloud storage and started to use the new Photo app I have now been able to backup any from my iPhone via iCloud to my Mac. My iPhone also stopped sharing my iPhone photos to Photo Stream. Essentially I have not had a backup of any iPhone photos the last 18 days since I upgraded to 200 GB iCloud. Over 800 pictures will not sync to my iMac via iCloud over Wi-Fi and are not backed up. On the Iphone under ICloud - I have choosen: Optimize Iphone Memory. I have the option to share Photos but I thought that I bought a complete easy backup service by upgrading. On my iPhone I have tried to disable and enable Photo for iCloud and also log out and in from iCloud, but did not sync photos.
This is a 15" 2010 model that came with OS X 10.6 and now has 10.10 installed. After turning the computer on I can hear the startup chime and the power adapter indicator light lights up. The Apple logo and a progress bar appear, but after that there's only a blank white screen. There are some pixel anomalies, what appears to be scanlines and slightly distorted colors that look like it's running in 16-bit color depth.
I'm moving from using a laptop as my sole computer (MBP, early 2011) to having two active computers (the MBP and an iMac). Instead of keeping all my data on my MBP, I'd like it all on an external drive that: I can access wirelessly in my home, or connect to directly (e.g., for fast speeds when video editing) That preferably takes advantage of my current external drive (a pair of 3 TB drives in a RAID enclosure) That I could login to from anywhere with Wifi (optional, but would be handy) Is very secure and private Is very straightforward and fast to setup and maintain Cheap (a few hundred max)
What compression application would allow you to also encrypt a file?
Is it possible put the battery from the MacBook Pro 13″ (2009-2012) to the white MacBook (2009)? Are they same or not and which gives me more battery life?
I am used to my osascript aliases. In particular, I have nx for opening new tab and closing the old one.
I'm running my old Amazon app on iPod Touch 2G. On opening the app I noticed something peculiar happened: it said "Please update your app, the app you using, will be retired on June 30, (pushed back from July 1st)" I got that many moons ago (late April/early May).
The Wi-Fi on my MacBook Air 11″ 2011 only connects within 10 feet of the router. Other Air works over 45 feet away. Happened after upgrade to Yosemite, now 10.10.3.
I'm helping someone with a memory upgrade for their 20-inch Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz iMac (early 2008), which is all the information I can get about the computer from Apple's serial number checker. When I try to select memory at memory4less.com, it shows two different models with these specs, with different motherboards: MB324LL/A and MB391LL/A. How do I tell which this computer is, without cracking it open?
I used to be able to click the name of the sender or the recipient and it brings up the contact information with the sender/recipient's email address highlighted in blue if I have multiple email addresses saved for the contact. It doesn't do this anymore. How do I enable it again?
Have a 2007 21" imac. friend installed 2, 4GB memory for me, Apple genius says that's what causing slow downs on my machine? when they tested it only had a 4GB & a 2GB cards, so someone along the way did a switch on me. Apple says my machine can only handle 4GB total. i wonder if that's true? seems like it ran quite well for a long time, & it used to corroborate that it had 8 GB memory, so something fishy has occurred. machine is running quirky & would like to have max memory. Would appreciate some knowledgeable input...
Something weird just happened. I got a warning that my disk was running out of space. I knew that it had like 15GB free before and wondered where all the free space went. I checked Activity Monitor which showed me that kernel_task wrote around 16GB of memory to disk. I kept observing and noticed that it went up at a rate of around 1GB per minute. This went on until there were 0 Bytes left on my disk. This made my macbook basically unusable. I couldn't even open Web pages and when i tried to shut it down, it froze. I did a forced reboot and the lost memory is back now. kernel_task is not writing to disk like crazy as before either. Anyway, I'd like to know what happened there. Any clues about what could've caused this?
I have been using zoomit on windows. With that tool: I can write on screen, zoom screen, draw shapes on screen while doing presentation. Also, I can run a stopwatch for break during presentation. Blacken, whiten the screen. Is there such kind of tool for Mac? I saw zoomit for mac and its absolutely rubbish which only zooms and doesn't nothing extra like window's zoomit. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
On iMac with Yosemite, my screensaver has lost the option to use photos. Where there should be an option to select a photos folder there is only a bar "Screen Saver Options" i.e. color, speed etc of the cg saver options which are still available. If I try to select a photo option e.g. "Photo Mobile" I get an endless rotating color disk. I have tried reinstalling Yosemite, deleting all screensaver-related plists in preferences and rebuilding iPhoto, with no luck. Any suggestions?
I can't download apps from the AppStore with my iPhone 5. I keep getting a pop-up message; "this app needs ios 6". How do I update my ios?
I have a Late-2011 Macbook Pro (4GB RAM) that has been running slow for several OSX cycles, and since Mavericks it's been unbearable (spinning beachballs whenever you do anything). I tried upgrading to Yosemite hoping this might improve performance; no dice. I've decided to try clean-booting Yosemite to see if this improves things.
Before I go to the issue, I did find a similar thread, but it's quite outdated and I'm not sure if it suits for me. Around two years ago when I got my Mac, I decided to install Seagate Media Sync for my GoFlex device. Now, 3 years after purchase of the drive, I'd like to get rid of it and uninstall Media Sync from my computer. I got rid of the app but theres a 2nd app inside it's application support folder which keeps launch itself even if I quit the process.
I have a Macbook Pro and when I click with the trackpad, it will occasionally act like a double click. This happens whether I physically click the trackpad or if I just do a tap to click. I have tried changing the double click speed to no avail. It might be a hardware issue, but the fact that it happens when I tap to click leads me to believe it is at least not a mechanical issue (still possible an electronics/cable issue with the trackpad). I have also reset the NVRAM and the SMC (not sure why it would be an issue with those but I'm attempting everything). I'm on Yosemite.
For about three weeks now, my MacBook Pro, late 2012, 13 inch's keyboard and trackpad have been unresponsive. Specifically, the keys, going from ~ to = and down to z (so every letter, number and symbol key, excluding caps lock) do not work alone. The function keys also do not respond. All types of commands work, as long as the command, option, or control keys are used (for example: I do a NVRAM and SMC restarts with the keys) and I can shutdown the MacBook with the power button. External peripherals, like keyboard and mouse, work and all USB ports are responsive. The cursor stays in the upper left corner when I restart the computer and cannot be moved with the built in trackpad. I have tried restoring a backup from 10.10.3 but that still did not fix the problem. Would this be a software issue? I visited many different forums and posts concerning unresponsive keyboards and trackpads, but none of the solutions I have tried have fixed this. Thank you in advance.
Is there an app to increase/change default fontsize for all applications in mac ? It is really painful for me to read default fonts or to increase fontsize in every app I open, and even worse, the fontsize in many menus(as well as Finder match results) can not be modified!
I am logging into a remote Fedora 12 machine via SSH. I have enabled X11 forwarding by passing -X parameter to ssh. I also tried trusted forwarding with -Y. Both of them fail with (gedit:3711): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display, when I try opening a file with gedit on the remote machine. What am I missing?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.3 and then migrated from my old Mavericks MacBook Pro. Now when I search for a file using command+F, Finder hangs/beachballs/becomes unresponsive after just a few letters. Here's what I tried and what happened: Removing com.apple.finder.plist or com.apple.dock.plist from /Users/username/Library/Preferences then rebooting (as suggested various places such as here) didn't fix the problem. Removing com.apple.finder.plist or com.apple.dock.plist from /Users/username/Library/Preferences then rebooting (as suggested various places such as here) didn't fix the problem.
I'm fully aware of the ways in which to disable Spotlight for a volume (.metadata_never_index etc.) but this question is more specific. Let me give you a bit of background.
I did a new OS X installation via Parallels as a Virtual Machine and configured it as Node for our Jenkins Build Server. I did this because I wanted to do an isolated installation to test adding all the needed packages and then either reinstall our Mac Mini (the "real" Jenkins Node) or clone the system and put it on the Mac Mini. And that's the point: Does anyone have experience cloning an OS X from one Mac to another?
I'm in a bit of a pickle, I've been given an errand (or.. so I thought ;) ) to run, of cleaning up 1100 iCloud Contacts for a friend, who runs a little business. He also handed me 350 additional contacts in Excel Sheets to be added to his iCloud Contacts. (3 Excel files, 3 groups in iCloud Contacts, so he can switch between them).
I would like to know if it's possible to hide photos in the new Photos.app
My Macbook was slow, and then i've want to make it faster, it is a Macbook Pro from 2011 or 2012, can't remember it. I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO.
Today while I was trying to transfer pictures from computer to my iPhone, I selected the folder I wanted to copy then a message appeared on the screen that Photos synced to iPhone from other photo libraries or folders will be removed and photos will be synced from this computer. Photos taken from iPhone will not affected. I entered the option Remove and Sync. Now the older pictures have been deleted and the new one's have been added. How can I recover the older picture?
is there any 'easy' way to sync my ForkLift so I don't have to keep updating my three computers every time I add an FTP for example.. I thought about doing a symlink via dropbox but I don't have idea of which folders contain this information. Any suggestions? Thanks, Luis.
I always get it on Monday but I would like to get it on Sunday.
After changing a CNAME record on my DNS server, I am seeing issues with the DNS on my Macbook Air running OS X 10.10. Other computers on the same network resolves to the correct, new IP. This is correct, it is an alias for a Heroku app. But when I try Chrome, Safari or even curl I get a different IP: This IP does not belong to heroku.com but Amazon AWS: I tried to purge the DNS cache but it doesn't make a difference: I have even rebooted the computer, but still same result.
I wrote an import random code, and unfortunately saved it as the module's name I was trying to call. eg. random.py I believe, but am not sure, that I created the random.py file twice and thus I deleted the random.pyc, twice, that popped up in the file holding all my python programs, after running import random in the terminal, twice. If I didn't create the random.py twice, somehow another random.pyc (besides the first one) was in the file holding my programs and I deleted it.
My setup is as follows: I have the Apple Watch on my wrist, and I have an old iPhone 4s with iOS 8.4 sitting on a docking station
I want a good image viewer for mac. When I open any random image from a folder like this:
I use an USB keyboard with my Macbook Pro - no choice here, some of the keys of internal keyboard are damaged. The Keyboard is from Genius, type LuxeMate i200. I use Czech QWERTY layout. Everything pretty much works, although I can't seem to find a way how to type backslash \ and pipe | characters. Above the right Enter, I have a mysterious key with following characters: first row: | ) ; second row: \ ň ¨ (and "circle in front of x" i can't even type) I've tried the following: key: ¨ left SHIFT + key: ` right SHIFT + key: ` left ALT + key: ¨ right ALT + key: ¨ left SHIFT + key: " right SHIFT + key: " FN + key: ¨
Like the title says - I already confirmed this to work with my 2012 macbook pro retina with 2x Dell U2515 2516x1440 and 1x ASUS VW199 1440x900 - but since Apple tech still states that it should not be possible, I wanted to hear if anyone had experiences with the 2014 model? Even if you have experiences with 2013 or 2015 - feel free to answer!
I do a lot of swapping back and forth between desktops, and I find the animation very distracting. Can I turn this animation off? How about the "zoom" animation for the Dashboard, Lauchpad, and Mission Control / Expose? I'm on a MacBook Pro with Yosemite.
I'm currently storing all my photos on Google Drive/Photos (auto-upload from Android, but also manual uploads of photos taken with various cameras). While I can sync Google Drive with my MBP and add the synced folder to the OSX Photos.app, this is not an option for my iPad Air 2, as disk space is much more limited there. Is there any way to point the photos.app to Google Drive?
How can I change the colour of the status bar on my iPhone 4s? It is blue now and I want it set to default?
I just discovered that on my MAC /usr/local/include is a symbolic link to usr/include (since about 9 months), causing problems with homebrew. I wonder whether this link is normal? harmless? Is there a way to disentangle that (make /usr/local/include an independent directory containing those files that belong there (which ones are that?) and keep the rest in /usr/include/)?
I'm trying to find the actual GPU processor load on my iMac with the M290x. The load average being reported never goes above 5, even when running Cinebench 3d benchmarks. Certainly that doesn't mean only 5% GPU utilization does it?
We have 2 iPads, 2 iPhones and 1 Apple ID. How can I add the 2nd iPhone number? Would like to have my iPad FaceTime & messages associated with my iPhone; my husband's iPad FaceTime & messages associated with his iPad.
Okay . . . I've been trying to install WWW::Mechanize through CPAN and it always chokes at this line: I doublechecked to make sure Apache 2.4.10 (installed by default through OS X Yosemite), ran the configtest and then went into the browser to make sure localhost and 127.0.0.1 were indeed being loaded.
I'm having issues where my texts are sending through my iCloud. I've read the other threads in here and tried the following: Go to Settings → Messages → Send & Receive However, under "you can be reached by iMessage at" has my phone number greyed out and two email addresses (my icloud and my apple email). Under "start new conversations from" it only shows my email addresses and not my phone number. I think this is also affecting my ability to send texts via my Apple Watch.
I would like to move my dock via keyboard shortcut between displays. When I connect my second display (which I use as my active display) and try to use the pad to 'learn' this new display is the main one it takes probably 20-30 seconds of moving my mouse up and down before the display finally jumps. I was wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut that exists or I could create that could handle this action?
I noticed that the Graphics Card memory is hardly used at all, even during Cinebench 3D testing despite the FPS being high. What programs actually use the graphics card memory?
I'm looking to give my friend my macbook pro for a month. So how do I make it so there is no possible way that he can access my stuff. When I mean no possible way, I mean no way through terminal or any means like that. Will creating a standard new account satisfy, or something more is required?
I would like to know what is the latest version of Firefox Portable for Mac. I just found versions from 2011-2013 and they seem pretty old. By the way, these softwares are not from the official developer (Mozilla).
See the bottom for an update on what the stain might have been caused by. I'm disappointed to find that there's nothing I can do (that I know of) to restore my Apple Watch Sport's white band to its formerly clean state. Somehow, it became slightly purple in one area. I'm not sure how things have added up, but I'll state the facts: My watch arrived only less than a month ago on June 1, 2015. Usually, I wash with water, toilet paper, and a microfiber cloth, and everything comes out just fine.
Before I started troubleshooting, the iPhone and MacBook were mutually invisible (I only saw iPad from both). After a while of trying things and sending files back and forth, my MacBook started to see the iPhone, but I did not manage to make it work from the other way. Still, the iPhone seems to be much "less" visible than the iPad - which I see almost instantly and always, the iPhone only seems to appear after a while. Just to make it clear: both iPhone and MBP have BT turned on both have AirDrop visibility set to Everyone I would be glad for any suggestions to fix this - what settings to check, logs, whatever.
I have noticed that my CPU usage is always near 100%. 0% of it is for Idle. About 20% average is for System tasks. The rest is going to User tasks (80%). But if I look at individual tasks don't see anywhere near the 80%+ usage reported. What is actually using this CPU? Is it actually misreporting Idle? I feel like this CPU consumption is at least partially real because my macbook is very sluggish.
Suddenly all the system windows have this weird font. I can't read nor understand what the system is asking me. How can I change it to normal fonts?
I just got an iPod Nano 7gen ("iPod nano with Multi-Touch") for my birthday. I have only one laptop and it's running Linux (Ubuntu 15.04 but may move on to Debian), is there any way I can sync music to the iPod?
Is there a way I can stop my iphone from syncing with my itunes library automatically whenever I plug it in (without choosing to cancel the sync or quit itunes)? Ideally I'd love to be able to plug in my phone without itunes opening up in the first place.
I have a set of laptops I'm using as a testbed and need a way to remotely configure their networking settings when I install new ones. I'm hoping to avoid a solution that scripts the GUI via AppleScript to simulate mouse/keyboard actions. Is it possible to change 802.1X settings in OS X from the command line?
I lost my iPod 5 a few days ago, I'm pretty sure it's sill in my house. Is there a way to turn the Wi-Fi on my iPod or thru my a Apple account?
I just bought a used iMac, and updated to 10.6.8 from 10.5.8. I created my first Apple ID, and verified it. Now I am trying to update to Yosemite, so that I can install Xcode. When I try to give my Apple ID it ends up telling me I need to give it credit card info. I do not own a credit card, for religious reasons, and I can't figure out how to update to Yosemite without it.
The calendar + icon to add an event doesn't seem to be working - it's grey in colour and when I try to tap it, it doesn't do anything.
I've seen a lot of questions like this throughout the web but they're mostly from 2 or 3 years ago, so I decided to ask to have some updated answers. I'm 16 and I want to start publishing and using the benefits that comes with the Developer Program. In the legal agreement says that I should be over 18, and I'm not so, i can't do it. I've contacted the apple developer support and they told me that I should use a account in my father's name. We reside in Brazil. With that, I had some doubts: Will the name on the App Store be mine or my father's? In the future, when I'm 18, this account can be transferred to my name? Besides that, if someone has any advice or (legal) workaround I'd appreciate it, thanks
Running Yosemite on a 2011 MBP and and iPhone 6. A contact added to my phone will appear on my mac, but not vice versa. How can I change this?
This is a very intriguing problem. Every time I'll connect my MacBook Air mid 2013 with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 to my wi-fi network at home, I can't, cause it won't be available in the list of networks available. What I do? I turn no my Android tethering hotspot, and only after I connect to this network, my home wi-fi will be shown.
I'm running OS X Yosemite on an Early 2015 MacBook Pro Retina, 512GB. According to the title: "OS X Yosemite freezes randomly, absolutely everything hangs (screen, trackpad, keyboard, sound, applications, rtc.)" this started happening when I started to keep Skype in the background, and maybe play Minecraft (don't judge.) But this happens outside of Minecraft, and only happened 2 times by the time I wrote this. Here's the log from the boot before this crash, to the boot after the crash: http://pastebin.com/wqUEArAS
I have the same version (10.22.11614) of the official YouTube app in my iPhone 6 and iPhone 5, but the UI is not same in both of my phones. My iPhone 5 has the new material design and my iPhone 6 has the old UI. Why for the same version I'm having two different UIs? iPhone 5
I had a 17MB template that I wanted to reduce. I started removing slides to identify which was causing problems, but even with just one remaining blank slide, the file is still 17MB. I've restarted Keynote and my Mac, but the file size won't change. Any help would be much appreciated!
I had 3 devices but now I have removed all. There are no photos synced, no keynotes or any documents saved.. but if you see the screenshot my iCloud drive says i am using 1.09GB ++ of data.
I'm looking for an iPhone application that by clicking a button can send a single contact information (phone number, first name,last name, company name) to a REST online API. The server address should be set in the App configuration (or hard-coded if necessary). Of course It would need to authenticate with the REST server. Thanks
I'm trying to download a previously purchased item from the app store. The item download and install seems that works fine, but immediately after the installation the program just disappears.
Similar to the gap between a maxmized window and the edge of the screen, there is a gap between the title bar of a maxmized window and the menu bar. I have a full-screen iTerm window in the background, with "use Lion-style Fullscreen windows" disabled. When content in the iterm window changes, it's visible in this gap and also the also it makes the title bar of the foreground window flash. Is it possible to remove the gap between title bar and menu bar?
I just started using Canon Camera Connect with my PowerShot. I am connect via wifi to my Iphone. The photos move well to the phone and then to the Icloud. I then did a usb transfer to my MacBook Pro and they were there. Then to clear space on my camera I deleted (having already seen them on my Laptop). When I deleted them from my camera they are now gone from everywhere. What did I do wrong?
I'm capturing video with Final Cut Pro and I'm hearing the sound of the recording. I would like to use the computer for other things while capturing. How can I disable the sound for a specific application? Please don't give solutions for paying apps.
I'm having issues with Garage Band 10, when trying to set up custom sound fonts. I installed them in /Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks Then I opened the MIDI file, doing these steps: I select my track I choose Smart Control I select DLS Music Device like this: I select DLS Music Device like this:
My MacBook Pro Mid 2012, 13" currently works with a HDD (on newest OSX). Now I connected a brand new (completely tested) SSD (Transcend SSD370S 256GB) to the HDD Strip inside the macbook. I've made a bootable USB-Stick with the newest version of Yosemite with Terminal this way: Now a started the MacBook, hold down Option Key. Booted from USB stick
Is there any difference between ctrl+c and cmd+. when stopping a terminal process?
If we make a album in iPhone's photo app by selecting some photos from 'all photos', would it multiply or duplicate the pictures in the phone? As the pics will be there in 'all pictures' section too and hence would the extra space be occupied the pix of the freshly created album?
I like using Chrome as it has a lot of the plugins I need for Web Dev. However, it kills my new iMac - having more than 6 tabs open affects the performance dramatically. Oddly enough this does not happen on my 5 year old Air that only has 2gb of ram. Why is this and what could I do to fix the iMac?
More frequent than I would like my vim crashes with the terminal prompting Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV.
When I use my Macbook Pro's internal monitor, I have the following options in the Display settings menu: *=URL=* The best thing here is the Scaled option, which means that I can use the native resolution of the screen and rescale all UI elements bigger or smaller depending on my taste and they still look very sharp.
The original .dv with 300MB seem too big, specially when they do not have a good quality. Is it good to save it to .mov or .mp4, do I loose anything?
Is it possible to transfer all my Spotify playlist to the new Apple Music? I have like 10 playlists with more than 5000 songs, I would hate to lose them.
I downloaded iOS 8.4 this morning, and activated Apple Music. I started browsing, and found an album I wanted to add to my library. When I tried to add it, I was told that I needed to enable iCloud Music Library, and was directed to the settings.
I want to use a shared album to combine photos taken on different cameras and by different people. I would like the photos to be sorted by the date/time they were shot. Instead, Apple is sorting by upload date, which is almost useless. (That would be a photo-stream and is a very different use case.)
I can't figure out how to save a channel in the new Apple Music app like I could with iTunes Radio in the old Music.app. Also I can't find my saved stations. The closest I can get to my saved stations is the recent stations list which isn't the same.
I've updated to Yosemite 10.10.4 but I can't find a way to listen Beats 1 on my Mac...
I have a MacBook Air that the lid I left open. The screen was still on when I left it. In System Preferences, I set it to turn off the display and sleep after 10 minutes. But it didn't turn off. I know that because the next morning, all the battery ran out. Why didn't it sleep like the MacBook Air is supposed to? EDIT: This is the result of the pmset- g command in Terminal.
I have two vector shapes, and I need one to morph into the other as an animation. What application is best suited for this?
When Apple provides updates for OS X and other software it typically also describes the changes introduced in that version, as displayed in the App Store application's Updates tab or in a separate Apple knowledge base article. However, when the "Command Line Tools" software (often installed by developers as part of Xcode) is updated there typically is no list of changes. This was also the case for the recent 6.4 update released on June 30th, 2015. A web search for an Apple page that would list the changes does not seem to give any hits. Is there any place, for example an Apple web page or knowledge base article, that lists the changes in Command Line Developer Tools updates? There are many useful command-line tools in this package, so it would be interesting to know what new versions become available with each "Command Line Tools" update.
The heart button isn't tappable sometimes while listening to Beats 1 radio on Apple Music. Why is that?
Under normal circumstances (not installed new programs recently; had the usual programs running) I found my MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015) with the fans running at average speed. I always have the Activity Monitor CPU load indicator in Dock, to keep an eye at CPU usage, but this time it was not some program that got stuck using 100% CPU. I downloaded iStat Menus to check temperatures, and I confirmed everything is cold: These values are steady since half an hour, and the fan keeps running at this speed.
I have been rating songs for a VERY long time, have several playlists using star ratings, etc. You used to be able to click on an album and 'flip' it in iOS and could see the ratings of your music. This seems to be completely gone, and only have the option to 'heart' the item. Is there a way to edit the star rating of a song on iOS 8.4?
Im under Yosemite OS X I got a new battery for my mac model a1398 mid 2012 retina, I charged the battery first time to 100% and drained it till it went to sleep mode to calibrate the battery, now I never let it go under 80% and plug the charger, most of time I use the charger but the thing is, I saw that my cycle count is 3 and it was 1 before, I don't understand how this happened? any idea?
Is there a free program that can make floor plans on a Mac? Specifically, I'm looking for something that's fairly easy to use. Doesn't need to have a ton of features, just shouldn't be a headache.
I have an iPod Touch 5th gen and I use a cheap £1 charger to charge it up. Recently my iPod ran out of battery so I plugged it in using the charger and the iPod was completely unresponsive. I tried everything including rebooting it, after that I took it to a local repair shop and he 'repaired' it for me but again my iPod ran out of charge and it won't come on again. What do I do? P.S : I have been using cheap chargers for a while now so it's only a recent problem, also if I bought an official Apple charger would it solve this issue?
This radio station doesn't play and is just an advertisement for another service. It doesn't play any music. It only asks you to visit their web site. How do I report it?
I run unsuccessfully brew search strings giving only Caskroom/cask/stringsfile. I want to run this commmand strings -td -3 <file.raw. How can you install GNU Strings in OSX?
I have recently added solar to my home. There is a monitoring system to monitor the panels inverter via a wireless connection to their gateway that connects via Ethernet to my Airport Extreme router. I would like to setup that Ethernet connection so it is secure from my home network but is able to send the required information that it is supposed to provide to the Solar Companies' portal. Is there a way of providing this separate access either via another router or directly via my Airport Extreme?
I need another network card for my Macbook Air because of virtual OS which cannot use same network card as Yosemite. My friend says that he has Thunderbolt network card which he can use to connect to two internet through two OSes: one default and one virtual. I would like to get the similar tools. Which are options to get second network card for Macbook air or similar Mac?
How do you sync playlists, favorites, etc between devices in the new Apple Music app?
I've have found these on System Preferences: Wifi, Advance then Proxies. Why do I need to use passiveftp mode (pasv) and Bypass proxy settings for those Hosts & Domains.: *.local, 169.254 16 I don't have any FTP or either a Domain Account.
I've been trying for about 4 days now to complete the seemingly simple activity of converting an OS X keychain text dump to a correctly formatted .csv with no progress, much less success. I posted a different question about my predicament yesterday, which has gone without comment or suggestion. I am simply trying to convert a .txt file to a formatted .csv file, without losing any of the contents of the original document in the process. What I have already tried:
When I opened Activity Monitor to see if I could work out what was happening "softwareupdated" was taking 100% CPU and Memory Pressure is in the red. I tried opening the App Store application to see if that would tell me but the application just opens but won't draw any content.
It seems that Apple have messed up sorting again in the new Apple Music app. I want to sort my music by Album Title, not by Artist and then Title. Is there a way to do this?
When I play a song in Apple Music and select "Start Station" to begin an ad-hoc radio station based on that song, is there a way to capture the results for later, i.e. to replay the station or turn it into a playlist? Or can I only return to the original song and hit Start Station again?
Put your iphone in airplane mode and then turn on wifi. Try to ask siri what one plus one is. She will fail with the error voice dialing is unavaible during airplane mode
For about six hours off and on my Mac has been pretty much unusable. "softwareupdated" seems to be the culprit. It goes nuts, maxes out a CPU and uses a huge amount of RAM (and then VM once that runs out). The "/var/log/install.log" file seems to show that it is trying to install the 10.10.4, but for approximately six hours it has just been filling the log with these two error messages over and over.
In the new Apple Music app, which came with iOS 8.4, some albums are grayed out and marked with an "E". I cannot open them.
I have a very old Apple ID (that was set up before you used email addresses) that I use for all my family's iTunes purchases. I enter that in iTunes logins on all our iPhones, Macs and the Apple TV. My wife and I each have .mac addresses that we use as Apple IDs for use with iCloud, which we separately enter on our own iPhones and Macs.
I have a locked file on my machine that I'm unable to delete. I've tried everything (that I know of) and don't have a clue why it won't delete. Here's what I tried: Everything here sudo rm file.txt chflags -R nouchg file.txt unlocked the file in "get info" None of which worked. Here is the typical result I get (admin is "me"):
I am selling my Time Capsule. I would like to back up its contents so that when I get a new one later, I can restore its contents back. There is a documented way to backup and restore to a new time capsule if you have both the old and new devices available.
OS X 10.10.4 (14E46) iTunes 12.2.0.145 I just installed iTunes 12.2 for OS X, the first version of iTunes with new Apple Music features.
I want to buy an iPhone 5S and I think it's not directly from apple but it's from a carrier. what I want to know is the difference between the official version and this version, besides the fact that carriers' phones may only use one carrier SIM... I'm asking about software "or" hardware differences
Is it normal for MagSafe to have orange light (not directly to be green light) 3-4 seconds after plugged to outlet ? I'm a bit nervous with this matter as I've just bought a new mbp after my previous mbp logicboard is broken because of a charging issue and I have the same orange light issue years before and never paid attention to that.
I own multiple Macs at home and, when I installed Yosemite (10.10) I downloaded the installer from the App Store on the main computer, then copied "/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite" to a safe location, and used the copy to upgrade the other computers skipping the long download time. Now that the upgrade to 10.10.4 is available, I noticed that there is no "Install" executable in /Applications - so I had to repeat the long download for all my three computers. How could I use a single download for all computers again?
How can I download some staff, that has add link, which don't work properly? I'm trying to redownload, testing on different albums - not help (but not every album has such problem, frequently all tracks are on there places). Not working in mac iTunes, iPhone & iPad.
After updating my iTunes to the new 12.2.0.145 I can no longer manage the apps on my iPhone 6+ from iTunes. The apps show up and there is the install/uninstall buttons beside them, but they are grayed out and unavailable. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
While I am talking on the phone, I often receive messages on Telegram or WhatsApp, or other notifications. And when I receive them they arrive in bursts, which is really annoying.
I'm running Yosemite. While booting up I get stuck at the screen with the following screen.
I have just installed the new iTunes 12.2, and activated Apple Music through the iPhone app. Despite the too many buttons on top, it all seems confusing. I just want a simple search for streamable music. There is Radio, My Music, New etc. But where can I stream an artist I like, who is not shown yet to me through those options? Is there a functionality inside iTunes or the Music app in iOS?
This may be a UK problem, Apple pay was launched in the UK today and it coincided with an update to ios8.4. But I still have Passbook.. Is there a way of turning on wallet or has it simply not been launched in the UK yet?
I am thinking initramfs -filesystem in this thread. I run unsuccessfully brew search busybox and no including package in Google clearly. Busybox is included in Linux by default but not in OSX. Different internals so not necessarily possible in OSX. How can you install busybox in OSX?
I would like do real-time monitoring, discussing one part of it here about counting quickly. No packages about it in homebrew. How can you have RAM-based filesystem in OSX?
So i have installed wine sudo port install wine and also made sure I had made the following two d-bus processess: However when i $ sudo port install winetricks i get the following error results:
I'd like to enable HFS+ compression for a directory, applying it to both the existing files in that directory and newly copied files. I expect to be able to read and write the contents of that directory normally.
I'm not plugging in the USB cable from iPhone to the MacBook. Every time I add new photos on my iPhone, they automatically import to Photos to the MacBook. If I delete them from my MacBook, they also are deleted from my iPhone. How do I undo this?
I've notice after I updated my iTunes to 12.2 on my OSX 10.10.4 computers, a very large upload bandwidth has been taken place. This is a result of Apple's new iCloud Music Library feature. I don't want to upload my musics to iCloud, and I found no options to prevent iTunes 12.2 from automatically uploading sound tracks to iCloud Music Library.
just got usb->usbC cable and was able to do a full restore of my backup from MBA13" (2011) Everything was OK, until reboot after recovery - recovered partition was not just bootable :( Before the backup I fully updated MBA13 to OS X 10.10.3 (14D136) which was the final release until yesterday I cannot find any info on this in the internet, but I have no errors, no any issues - just not bootable recovered partition
In Network settings, I cannot change Attached to to Host-only Adapter. I have to keep the bridged mode:
My previous Mac's hard drive died, but I had backups, so I am migrating all its data to a new Mac. The only problem: my previous computer had Mountain Lion and the new one has Mavericks, so the data in the Notes app seems to be stored in a different format. In my backup, I see the notes in: And I see these files: In my new computer, in Mavericks, I see the notes in the same path, but the files are:
I'm trying to disable and enable the favourite bar in mac os "Yosemite" using bash script, I used the following command in terminal but it didn't work even after I restarted Safari, so am I doing something wrong?
I'm working on an GUI scripting AppleScript that will, for the open FileMaker Pro Advanced document, go to the File menu and select the File Options dialog box, then set some checkbox/radio button and field values. The dialog box looks like this:
Shen shutting down my computer, I see a prompt with information that another user is logged in and that this user could lose data when I shutdown computer:  I am almost certain it's because I installed OS X Server and I connected to it with Xcode. I have it on my MacBook for work. How can I fix this? What causes this, and have I set something wrong? I just don't want to write my credentials everytime I want shutdown the computer but I don't want to lose any data.
Short of individually tapping on "Write a Review" for all the apps I've ever purchased, is there any place (on the web, in iTunes, or in a third-party app) I can view all the reviews that I've written for apps on the iOS App Store? If that is not possible, can I obtain a list of the apps for which I've written reviews?
I would like to use the following command line to get the current Wi-Fi channel. I would like to use exactly this command, because it's possible that I'm using more parts of the result. So I'm needing an AppleScript that returns me only the current Wi-Fi channel of the command.
Added my flash drive. And then ran this:
Two days ago I turned on my Mac to find out that it doesn't boot anymore. I tried everything, Safe Boot, NVRAM reset, repair disk from recovery mode everything; but, no luck. So, I finally decided to reinstall Yosemite.
A leap second was recently added on June 30, 2015 23:59:60 UTC. How are leap seconds implemented on OS X (specifically Yosemite)?
I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server installed on my LAN that I use as a Git server and Continuous Integration server. I would like to be able to use these services from outside my LAN but I'm not sure what to do to make it work.
I got a viruses alert when using my Mac and sadly I reacted ASAP. I gave control to a remote technican via log-me-in and I went through the steps that where asked. After I got off the phone with the supposedly technicians I decided to change my desktop passwords using my old password and to create a new one and it bargain to say my old one was incorrect so I called back they said for me to shut it down so I did and I haven't been able to log back in to my desk top computer at all. Is there anyway I could unlock and access my computer back like be for with out damaging orlosing any files?
I opened two Google Chrome windows (because I am using multiple Gmails) and when I do the Cmd ⌘ Tab ⇥ shortcut it just shows me other applications that I opened but does not show me the other Chrome windows that are already opened. How to switch to the other Google Chrome window that I opened using keyboard shortcut?
I would like to know if there's a way in which every time I add a song or album into "My Music", it is saved in the device automatically, without selecting the option "Save for Offline".
I use Yosemite 10.10.4 on my MacBook Pro (2012). I used to work with an external monitor: Apple Thunderbolt 27" monitor.
My iPad Air language is correctly set up in English UK. Whenever I write (such as right now) it wants to change the words to French. Also the keyboard Go and Search keys are in French. I am nowhere near France! Help!
I've finally upgraded from 10.8.5 to 10.10.4. But now double clicking on a JNLP file in finder no longer downloads and runs the (in the JNLP file defined) jars but takes me to the Oracle Java download page. This despite JDKs 1.7/1.8 installed in /Library/Java as well as the Apple 1.6 installed in /System/Library/Java. I'm doing a fair bit of Java development using the Oracle 1.7 and 1.8 JDK's installed in /Library/Java and pointed at by running java from the console finds the right version: So where/how can I tell finder to use the JDK's to open JNLPs? EDIT: output from this command:
I am trying to backup the Macintosh HD, to my external hard drive via disk utility. I created a blank image and tried to restored my MacintoshHD to that image, but the error pops up, "Restore Failure: error -5344" Any help on how can I proceed with the backup?
The Finder is unresponsive after booting ever since I've updated to OS X 10.10.4. It takes a couple of minutes until it is ready. What can I do about it?
I have an offline maps application (maps.me) on my iPhone 5S GSM. Can I use the location services function abroad without getting charges for roaming when Cellular data is turned off?
I'm trying to update to iTunes 12.2 via App store however the app is hanging indefinitely whilst "searching for updates". This causes MacBook Pro to become unresponsive too
I didn't know this iCloud Music Library thing was automatically turned on in iTunes on my iMac. I do like this feature but I only want to have it turned on with my Macbook and iPhone. Now I have a lot of tracks from my iMac mostly recording or audiobooks that cluster up my iCloud Music Library. I don't see an option to clear the iCloud Music Library, and manually deleting 1,201 tracks would take me two and half hours. Is there a way to remove all tracks from iCloud Music Library?
Whenever I click on the maximize/full screen icon on any window, the app window is going to a new Desktop space. But this is kind of distracting because now I am not able to switch apps by doing the Command+ tab shortcut.. so How do I have more than one window in a desktop space..
So I am running OS X El Capitan on my Macbook air. I just installed the chrome browser recently and I noticed it installed a few shortcuts onto launchpad. These shortcuts were to youtube, gmail, and google drive. When clicking on the shortcuts it opens chrome to the correct webpage. I have already gone to chrome://apps and uninstalled all of the apps but the shortcuts still do not go away. I have searched through my application folder but I cannot find the shortcuts and have tried deleting chrome. Rebooting doesn't do a thing either. I installed chrome from google's official website too.
I've been unable to update any of my Apple applications through the App Store. Other applications update just fine. I noticed this when I tried to update Xcode yesterday. Upon clicking the update button, it greys out without ever beginning the update process. This has left me unable to update my version of Xcode, OS X or iTunes. I know that I can just download the DMG files from the developer library, but that seems like an unnecessary step. Has anyone experienced anything like this in the past?
I decided to do a clean Yosemite install on my Macbook Pro 13 inch Mid-2012 . So I made a boot able USB from terminal. Then I booted from it and went into disk utility and erased my current Disk which was Macintosh HD. Then I closed disk utility and clicked install OS X. As soon as I double clicked it the continue button grayed out and nothing is happening. I can move around the cursor which means it hasn't hung. I rebooted to the boot able USB and again clicked it and again the button grayed out. I have been waiting now for about 10 to 15 minutes and nothing has happened yet. What should I do?
BSD time gives this kind of output GNU time gives then again this kind of output
I have a Mac mini (Late 2009) (hw.model: Macmini3,1, 2 GB RAM) that I've got hooked on my TV primary as a "media consumption" device... but a while ago I updated it to: Mac-mini:~ javier$ sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.8.5 BuildVersion: 12F2518
There is no space requiring stuff to backup and still is it taking 5.0GB... What does my phone want to backup that takes 5.0 GB of space? Is there a way to visualise this? I only want to backup some settings and contacts, no major stuff... How can I backup my stuff with the default 5 GB?
I was wondering whether there is a way to find the appleid of an iphone that is stuck in the activation screen, when connecting it to itunes on a computer that was connected in the past. Thanks a lot for your help.
Is it normal? I just want to always have my music to available and same with files in Finder that are located on NAS. I guess I have set right settings on both side but I am not sure. Thanks for help
I just got a new Macbook Pro, and even though I have been using Time Machine and I could use the Migration Assistant, I've accumulated so many files throughout the years that I thought it would be great to start fresh and transfer only what I think is important. Of course transferring my personal files is straightforward, as well with Notes, Calendars, Contacts, Reminders, Safari, KeyChain, etc. where iCloud makes it really easy. But then there are is the data of some applications that it's very hard: Messages (I can't seem to get it right, and I've seen this post) Stickies Photos iTunes
I have written a little Automator script that does the following tasks: Get Specified Finder Items - to get one file Rename Finder Items: Name Single Item - to rename that to .old Get Specified URLs - to pull a plugin down from a GIT repo Download URLs - to save the resulting URL to a file Get Specified Finder Items - to find the renamed .old file from step 1 Move Finder Items to Trash - to remove .old file
On my iPod 5G, I previously signed in on with fathers Apple ID. Now I have my own Apple ID and I can't change the iPod to use to mine. Now when I download apps it shows mine but when I update it it shows my Dad's Apple ID. How can I get my iPod to only use my Apple ID?
I've just started using Apple Music and searched for Metallica. And most of their albums are greyed out. After sometime searching for the answer i could see that all the Albums with the Explicit Content is greyed out.
I missed "liking" a song that was playing on Beats 1. Now I'm trying to see what songs were played previously in the Beats 1 radio station (like a playlist history). Is there a way to do so?
iTunes stopped uploading my own (i.e. not from the iTunes store) music after 5Gb out of 50GB. The rest of the tracks have the iCloud status Waiting in the get info box in the File tab. On my iPhone (iOS 8.4) the tracks appear in my Music grayed out, meaning they can not be played. Is there some way to reset the iCloud status of these tracks so they can be uploaded?
I hearted/Loved dozens of tracks on Apple Music desktop (on Mac), but when I played them on my iPhone, they were not hearted/Loved. Is it normal? I hope not, because it wouldn't make any sense! (Why would I want to love a track but only on one device and not on another?) If it is indeed normal, is there a way to force this sync? Thanks!
iTunes update (10.2.0.145) seems to have added new advanced feature "Share iTunes LIbrary XML with other applications" which if disabled no longers outputs the Music Library.xml. Our applications is highly depended on that file, which by this documentation states the file will be available. Anyone know how to set, or check if that preference is disabled? I have looked at the com.apple.iTunes.plist, but nothing there seemed to reflect that setting.
I am migrating from Spotify and I want iTunes to accommodate the way I used to add songs to a "favorites" playlist, just like the Starred Songs works on Spotify. Initially I created a Smart Playlist to self-update with all my hearted/loved tracks (let's call this Playlist 1). That didn't work because apparently the heart rating doesn't persist between devices, and most of the point of this is so I can have this self-updating playlist available offline on mobile.
I've got a Synology NAS here and a few months ago I sadly got the message, something like Time Machine backup is corrupt and therefor has to start a new backup.
I need to organize thousands of files between different locations and there is an unpleasant issue with file copying from a local computer to a NAS. The problem is that Finder copies large bunch of files in two steps. In the first step it creates all those files in the destination location for a some reason, they are all empty there. It's a lengthy process. In the second step Finder actually starts copying content. It takes even more time. It looks like a transaction. Finder copies all files or nothing. But I don't need a transaction. In my opinion, a more common way is to copy files sequentially, one by one (or in a small groups). It's faster, it allows user to cancel copying in any time and prevents him from losing progress in operation. Is there any way to prevent Finder from doing such a transactionality and make it copy files sequentially in one step?
I "upgraded" to iOS 8.4 and the Music App now has a new icon and different functions. That's awesome, except I cannot figure out how to view my music collection by album instead of by artist.
I like to hike (with dogs). Please how can I add GPS coordinates to an iPhone contact address field or otherwise like "the lodge near Au Sable Falls, NY" at 44.181430, -73.965213. There is no road within 2 miles. I can add it into the Notes field but minor pain to copy/paste each time I need the information.
I am now using the 3-month free trial of Apple Music. Yesterday, I downloaded a few albums into my iPhone. If I do not join the subscription after the free trial period, will the songs still be in my iPhone?
I have 2 iPad minis and an iPhone 6+. Sometimes I like to hear the "ding" of a message or mail, sometimes I dont. Its a pain to go to each device to change the settings. Is it possible to set a remote iOS device to DND or turn the volume/vibrate/DND on/off from another device? FYI, I do not have a Mac, just Windows or Linux.
I upgraded to 10.10.4 (from 10.10.3) yesterday … I've noticed since then that the hourly backups to my Time Capsule (4th gen, 2 TB) seem to take forever to get started ("Preparing …"). I took a look in my system.log, and there are many messages like this:
My iPad is powered off and I can't get on it because the power button doesn't work. Is there an alternative way to turn it on?
Is the name displayed on the App Store page of an app the same of the Apple ID or it can be changed on iTunes Connect? For example, if I use my father's Apple ID to publish an app (because I'm under 18), will the name of the developer be mine or his on the App Store?
I currently have a 16 GB iPhone 5, with about 1.2 GB available storage. It's still on iOS 6 (I know, right?!) and I figured it's about time to update. Under software update, it says iOS 8.4 is 1.2 GB. Does that mean the entire update will need just that much space, or will I need more than that considering I don't have iOS 7 and that it's a big jump from the iOS 6 interface to the iOS 8?
Since upgrading to iTunes 12.2, I'm seeing some ratings with black stars, and others with gray stars. Apparently, the gray star ratings are automatically generated by iTunes. I've never seen this before. To make matters worse, songs with zero ratings are showing up in my smart playlists because iTunes assigned them a gray rating.
The PgAdmin folder I mentioned shows there are apps inside (the PgAdmin app and another folder.) When you open the folder, it displays as empty.
I'm wondering is there anyway to connect to IRC server via Message default app in OS X. Could I do it over XMPP protocol?
I tried to change the my login account picture. But the options that are there are only default, recent and camera and no option for edit. I am left with no options to select picture from any files other than take a picture of myself with the camera or use the default pictures or use the recent picture used from the default.
When i try to install flash pkg with installer, the installer just jump on the dock and can't open, then i try to install in the terminal what's the problems with this, how can i fix it, and is any app can replace installer.
Since I updated to Yosemite after it was released my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5) sometimes freezes for several minutes after waking it from sleep mode. It does not happen every time my mac is woken up and I have not noticed any other performance issues. When it does freeze, it gets stuck on the login screen and I cannot type or move the mouse for a few minutes, then it will go back to normal allowing me to enter my password and it works fine from there.
I am reading on iPad and saving to reading list. I don't like Safari on OS X and don't want to open it every time. Is there a way to access the links in my Reading List without opening Safari?
I just wanted to see some of the SSD parameters on my freshly purchased MacBook Pro retina and found out that SMART support is obviously disabled by default. Is this intended and if so, why? I'm using smartmontools to read out the information… EDIT:
I am the author of this blogpost on how to install OpenAFS on MAC OS X Yosemite. After upgrading Yosemite to version 10.10.4, OpenAFS stopped working. It accepts the Kerberos token but it seems unable to connect to the remote server. Can someone help me investigating this issue? I don't know what to do. I also tried to clone the git repo and compile the latest branch (origin/openafs-stable-1_6_x) but it doesn't work. The only error I can get is: In the previous version, I would have gotten the same error immediately followed by the opposite (and positive) one:
Basically I have a problem with apps stopping when the screen is locked. I have first encountered this issue when I started using Strava. I would normally start recording on Strava, lock the screen and put the iPad into my backpack, after I finish the ride, I would unlock the screen just to find out that the app is not running. I initially though that this is Strava specific issue, but I have since tried Endomondo and it exhibits exactly the same behavior. Few details:
Anyone experiences the problem when swapping to the Radio (iTunes OSX), the Airplay function is switched off? Any fix?
I am troubleshooting my dad's computer and I am confused about what's going on, sorry if the symptoms are a little bit all over the place. I am connecting the computer with a wifi that all other computers seem to have no problem with. On his computer I have the following trouble and the following symptoms: Webbrowser: trying to open "*=URL=* claims to be an insecure connection. Dropbox also cannot connect because it is supposed to be an insecure connection
Ok so this is weird. I thought my mac's keyboard had developed a broken key, but after some testing it's only broken when interacting with some other keys. The left shift key doesn't work with a handful of other keys, see the following output with the shift key depressed: qwertyuopASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM
I have a 2015 retina macbook pro, the default scaled resolution of 1920x1080 would be too small for me. I currently have a 2560x1440 display and couldn't accept less real estate.
well I have java 8 45 and when I go into terminal and do java -version it says this But when I go to the java panel it tells me I have the latest version which is java 8 45. And I need to get this working asap because one of my minecraft server plugins needs java 8 and its not working. Can anyone help me with this problem thanks!
Before update, when i was viewing artists and I'd go inside an artist, I could see an album name followed by all songs under that album and then the next album and so on. Now, in artist view, I just see the album and I have to go further inside to see the songs of that album (unless there is just one song in the album).
I'm trying to show/hide the web inspector tool in mac os "Yosemite" using bash script, I used the following command in terminal but it didn't work even after I restarted Safari, so am I doing something wrong?
I'm trying to show/hide google search in Safari v8.0 in mac os "Yosemite" using bash script, I used the following command in terminal but it didn't work even after I restarted Safari, so am I doing something wrong?
I've tried to move all my archived emails to a new account in Mail for OS X 10.10.4, Yosemite. During the process I got this error: The process failed due to storage limitations.
iMac, 27 inch, mid 2011, 3.1 GHz Quad Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6970M BSOD error message: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)
When I first saw Connect, there was a callout noting to follow more artists or see who you already follow. I can still see that in Music on iOS, but is there a way to get to that list in iTunes 12.2 so I can see everyone I follow on there and change the list?
I have an Automator service which runs a shell script (ffmpeg command). I'm looking for a way to see the output of the terminal while ffmpeg does it's thing. Adding echo to the ffmpeg command doesn't work. I read this can be achieved using AppleScript but I wish to stay in bash if possible. Further more, presenting a progress bar of the transcoding would be just awesome. This is how my Automator action looks like:
Debug Configurations (Run->Debug Configuration->"Debugger" tab). Or/and as well in: Eclipse -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Debug -> GDB
I have been trying to erase my external Hard Drive "My Passport", however there was a problem and then the Hard Drive disappeared from the Desktop and could't be found. Only Disk Utility would see it but it would't mount it. I tried erasing it and partitioning it, however nothing helped and i'd always get this error: "System Formatter Failed".
I reset my password for iCloud recently and everything went pretty smoothly. My mac still connects to iCloud and the password to log in has also been changed. However whenever I restart my computer, all of the different iCloud services request my password again, and only accept my old password. There are about 10 pop- up boxes, here are some of them:
I have been trying to use a feature to open and edit Excel files from Dropbox app using Excel for iPad app. I open the Excel file in this app, and I see a notice that I cannot edit the file but I have to convert it first
This is really crazy issue i'm experiencing here: I downloaded the newest Photoshop CC 2015 and started working with it to crop some images for a client. After that, i've saved all the images for the web in a folder i created with the save-tool from photoshop. Now when i navigate in the finder to that path the folder does not show up, but when i make ls in iTerm it shows me that the folder is there. Strange, huh?
I keep encountering this problem at friends' and it's always the same thing. They wonder why Notes does not sync up to iCloud. I grab their iPad or iPhone and realize that their notes are written to "On My iPad" or "On My iPhone".
I'm among those unlucky few (I'm hoping there are more than one) that are stuck with truly utterly messy backups from multiple machines, in multiple folders. I've now managed to figure out that I've got one folder with 18gb and 44000+ files and one folder with 17gb and 34000+ files. They are the same folder, but one is on backup2/ and the other is in backup3/. I've used MacPaw's Gemini to remove duplicates from folder1 - and sometimes used Gemini to remove duplicates from folder2. They could be described as being totally out of sync with eachother - they are from separate times and now with mismatching files - i.e., there are duplicates there, but not really enough to use Gemini easily.
I installed OS X 10.10.4 and right at the end of the process, my iPhone (which was plugged in to the Mac via USB with a Personal Hotspot connection) vibrated as if the USB cable had been reconnected, the Hotspot connection disconnected and hasn't worked since. Connecting the iPhone via USB makes it vibrate and start charging as expected. Connecting to the Personal Hotspot via Wi-Fi works normally. The iPhone has been updated to iOS 8.4. What's this all about? I had previously gotten this working, here's how:
I've updated to iOS 8.4, and on the revamped Music app, I can't jump to artist. In previous versions, I could be playing a shuffle playlist and whenever I'm on some song and I wanted to keep playing from that album, I could simply tap the top right button and it would jump me to the currently playing song's album. Now, when I'm playing a song in a shuffle playlist, I see that button has been placed next to seek controls (previous, play/pause, next buttons), but when I tap that, it doesn't take me to the album anymore, it takes me to playlist.
I live by my photo filenames but they are gone in now that there is the new (crappy) Photos. Thankfully on one computer I did not do the update so I still have iPhoto.
In mail I often accidentally end up moving email to trash by hitting the delete key (I've remapped keys on my keyboard so delete is closer to other frequently used keys). Since mail already has a cmd + delete shortcut through the menu items, I'd like to disable this default behavior. Is there any way to not have delete move emails in Mail? Note: I want to over ride just the delete key, not the menu item shortcut cmd + delete.
How long has the Finder been able to do multi-step Undo with Cmd ⌘ Z ? It's been able to do single, fix your last mistake Undo for quite some time, but I personally discovered it was capable of 5 Undo steps only today. Is this new to 10.10.4 or did I just never spot it before?
I'm using a MacBook Pro with Retina, currently at OS X 10.10.3. I use it for both personal and work related matters, more often than not, at the same time. As such, I have 6 desktops ready to go at any given time. I have the "Auto-Arrange" option switched off, so I don't lose my mind going through the desktops.
When I create new folders, Spotlight does not see them. When does Spotlight index new folders? Or better yet, can I force Spotlight to index new folders?
I updated some games on my ipad mini, in addition to downloading several new ones. Now every time I try to play anything, nothing works. I click on a game, and it will not open. The same is true for all the videos. What do I need to do?
My children carry my wife's phone while they are out (and away from our wifi at home) and before you know it, BOOM my data plan is used up, this month in 6 days into the cycle! How can I set her iPhone 5c so that it will not allow data usage when not connected to wifi? Even if there was a way to password protect so that data could not be used unless a password is entered would help. There already is a password for the phone. But the kids know it and use data. Any help will be appreciated.
I have a Macally Wired 3 Button Optical USB Mouse ("BUMPER MOUSE") plugged into my iMac running Mavericks. When I put my iMac to sleep, the screen goes dark, but after about 10 seconds, the red LED on the bottom of the mouse flashes rapidly for about 5 seconds, then the LED turns solid for about 2 seconds, and then the iMac wakes up. An entry in the syslog confirms that the Macally mouse is issuing a "remote wakeup" signal: Jul 1 21:51:55 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: EHC2 Jul 1 21:51:55 imac kernel[0] : The USB device HubDevice (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2) Jul 1 21:51:55 imac kernel[0] : AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds Jul 1 21:51:55 imac kernel[0] : 169.011637: ar9300WowWakeUp: Skip PCIE WA programming Jul 1 21:51:55 iMac kernel[0] : The USB device Macally BUMPERMOUSE (Port 3 of Hub at 0xfa100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3) Jul 1 21:51:55 iMac kernel[0] : full wake (reaso
I do have just one corrupted photo into my Photos Library. Is there is any UNIX command line that I can use in terminal in order to scan my Photos Library Folder and find out which file is corrupted?
I routinely rate songs on my iPhone in the Music app with the 1-5 star system. I just plugged my iPhone into my computer and saw in iTunes (on the "Music" tab under "Devices") ALL OF MY SONG RATINGS ARE GONE. When I right click on a particular song and click "Get Info", the star ratings are gone from there, too. How can I see the star ratings in iTunes? OS X 10.10.4 (2013 rMBP) -- iTunes 12.2.0.145 -- iOS 8.3 (iPhone 4S)
How to open iMovie with alt from keyboard with AppleScript?
Edit: This song is also missing from iTunes on my mac, where all the other purchases have shown up due to iTunes Match. Where did it go? I haven't connected to my PC or knowingly altered the music on my phone. IIRC, the song was downloaded, I definitely listened to it a couple times. I also have made sure that songs not-available-offline will still show up by setting the option for "Show Music Available Offline" to off. I am a subscriber to iTunes Match. Under Settings->Music I have "iCloud Music Library" enabled I do not have an Apple Music subscription nor free trial.
(2011 MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.4) The App Store offered me the update to iTunes 12.2 as normal when it was released. I clicked install, it downloaded the update, and it appeared in the list of recently installed updates, apparently all as it should be. However, when I run iTunes it's still version 12.1.
My music is stored on my iMac, and I also have a PC with windows that I use for video games, I leave iTunes opened on my iMac when I'm on my PC so that I can listen to songs while gaming. Here's my iTunes Sharing preferences on my iMac The shared playlist appears on my PC, as you can see here But clicking on it only shows a spinning indicator and then gives up after about 20 seconds, not showing the library on my iMac.
I have an Apple Music subscription and iTunes 12.2 on an HTPC (Windows) which his my primary music player. I want to use my iPhone to control what I play. I've tried the Apple Remote app, which works, but it only allows me to choose music that I've added to my library. It does not allow me to look up an arbitrary song from the cloud (whatever the term for this is - it's the functionality under the "New" section of iTunes on OSX) and play it from the Remote. If I want to do that I have to do it directly on HTPC, which is not acceptable.
However the thing is, my home button is broken. Even though I still tried, knowing its broken for the past few days it gave me the expected result which is - didn't turn on.
I have sets of MacBook screenshots with essentially one changing element that I want to combine/overlay on top of one another to create ONE image (not combine into one PDF with multiple pages or stitch images together like a panorama). I've searched and only found solutions using Photoshop and Lightroom Enfuse (don't have either). Any suggestions?
I'm trying to plug my phone in to charge it tonight for the first time and when I plug it in a bell just keeps ringing continuously and won't allow me to charge it. Any ideas?
I downloaded vlc-2.2.1.dmg to my computer and it opens ok. When I try to copy the app to the Application folder I get this error message.
Why does Apple require an update to OS X 10.9 to access Beats 1? I have iTunes 12.2 installed, I can see Beats 1 in my iTunes app, I can even stream Beats 1 by manually opening its URL in iTunes. So why won't iTunes just let me listen to Beats 1 on Mountain Lion? As far as I can tell, there are zero technical reasons for why I'm having this problem. Anyone?
I am wondering where iTunes keeps all my playlists? Locally on my computer or in the iCloud? I have created the new playlist on my Mac and I can see it on iPhone (without connecting it to MAC), so it looks like it is stored in iCloud. Is it right? Do I need to do something to backup them?
This has happened to multiple applications so far, i'm not sure what causes it, but it seems to happen after force quitting (sometimes). First, you force quit it, and it does, but the dock shows that it is still open, but not responding. If you go to activity monitor, it does not show up. When you try to use the killall command by name, it tells you "No matching processes belonging to you were found". If you drag the file location into terminal, it still does not work. Deleting (using the rm command, as moving to trash does not work as finder claims the application is running) and reinstalling does not do anything, so i believe it has to do with the dock, or something else on the mac, not the application itself. OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.3 Edit: My guess as to what might've happened is the application quit, but the computer never got any indication that it did for whatever reason, so telling it to quit does nothing, but you're not allowed to open an already open application, so you c
After upgrading my Mac OSX to 10.10.4 and iTunes to 12.2, the iTunes music library XML file is not created under /users/music/iTunes folder. I tried creating the xml file manually, but it gets deleted after 5-10 seconds automatically. Any workaround to resolve this problem?
I imagine Time Machine is an incremental backup tool. So while restoring it probably: Restores to latest full backup applies incremental changes since than is this correct assumption?
My calendar app has become super slow (possibly after the OS X 10.10.4 upgrade). Every action, like clicking on a calendar item or scrolling to the next week, will result in approximately 60 seconds of OS X beachballing. The app syncs with 8 different calendar servers (webdav, google, exchange, and ical). This usually works very well.
I have two hard disks on my 2012 Mac Mini. The first disk is partitioned with Mac HD and Data HD. The second drive has OS X Public Beta and Windows partitioned.
I have just upgraded to iTunes 12.2 on OSX Yosemite. Initially iTunes refused to open at all so I rebooted. Now I see that I have no media in my library (other than items bought from iTunes directly).
I just switched to using the icloud photo library and I enjoy the possibility to view my photos on any computer via the icloud.com web interface. However, my shared albums do not appear there. Is that a limitation of icloud.com or are there any steps I have to take in order to enable shared albums on icloud.com?
There seems to be something wrong with the language switching on iOS. I have 3 keyboards/languages setup in this order: Dutch - English - Emoji. In certain applications, when I am typing a message in Dutch, and I press the globe icon, it takes me to the last used keyboard. This is ok.
My App Store updates Affinity Designer to version 1.2.1 and then it does it again and again and again... I tried to uninstall Affinity Designer but that didn't help. Zombie-Affinity Designer came back from trash and wants to be updated again. any ideas?
Anyone experiencing problems with Xcode 6.4 simulators? at first I though it was my fault and I was looking to find which part I messed up in my code, but when I go an actual device to test my project everything seemed fine. What I did is upgraded to to 6.4 yesterday evening and since then I have this problem. Tried to update 10.10 OS X but this didn't fix anything
I wanted to use iCloud on my iphone, and therefore created an apple ID, but when I'm trying to sign in to itunes it says since it's my first time using this ID I Should select a payment method, and despite I can see the "none" option in my itunes menu I can't use it. Since I don't have access to either a credit card or iTunes gift card, I was wondering if somebody could tell me if there is another way to pass the payment method. I have an iPhone 5S with iOS 8.1.3. Thanks.
I'm kind of OCD and like to know what data is behind every recommendation system. Is there a way to view all the loved (hearted) items (songs, playlists, etc.) in Apple Music? I believe at worst case scenario one could just reset them.
I have started the update to 8.4 last night, while my phone was charging and connected to the Wi-Fi. This morning it was still working on something (the black off screen with the loading bar and apple), and then it asked for my passwords, my touch id, my iTunes account etc.
Whenever I log on, I get the "Your computer crashed previously, do you want to restart the running programs?" error; regardless of whether my machine crashed or not. Whether I press OK or Cancel, it comes back the next day.
In Yosemite v10.10.3, I am trying to reinstall Skype, as it does not sign-in at all, following this link. In order to do so, I need to move some files and folders to trash as to totally uninstall Skype first. However, I cannot see these files and folders in the Finder, although they are visible in the Terminal !! I've also tried the following two commands: The result is that I see many hidden files among which I cannot find the files and folders I am looking for.
Is there a way find a history of listened to music through Apple Music. The way I'm using it right now is: Search for a given album/artist on the search bar on iTunes
I have an iPhone 4s and I'm connecting it to my HP computer with Windows 8.1 OS. I don't have iTunes on it yet. When I connect it syncs then un syncs very fast almost as if my laptop is rejecting it. The Lightning works because when I connect it to a charger socket it charges perfectly. The USB port works because I can insert flash.
In Linux, it can be done by /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.2 restart. My OSX is not a server app. I think it it can be done by ALTER USER postgres with password '1234'; postgreQSL prompt but I am not sure if it is the meant way. How can you restart the PostgreSQL server in OSX?
Beats 1 radio is not available at many countries no matter what country the Apple Music subscription account from.
I want to update some apps downloaded through the App Store in OSX (not iOS). Is there a way to allow OSX to do this without insisting for a password every time?
I have a default installation of nano under /usr/bin/, and I am trying to make nano highlight the bash scripting language code. I have been searching around, but I had no success: I got always some errors, or simply doesn't work. For example, I have tried to download the following repository from Github github.com/nanorc/nanorc.git with the following command:
Soooo, we have a couple educational VCDs from Taiwan. Upon insertion, they mount as 2 volumes, Audio CD and VIDEODISC. A quick Google said to browse to VIDEODISC/MPEGAV and play the DAT files there, which were essentially MPG files with extra (unspecified) data. But, on both discs every .DAT file has an i/o error. It's disc/OS interaction level - Finder won't copy the files, and a Disk Image creation failed (Error message: Invalid Argument), and Disk Utility kind of hangs at exit.
In the old version of the music app you could shuffle all songs when songs were selected:  This feature seems to be absent in iOS 8.4 and the new music app:
How can I display the remaining battery power as a percentage on an iPod Touch 5.
When trying to set up Apple Music on my daughters iPhone we get a message saying "Sorry, we've found a problem that prevents us signing you up for Apple Music at this time. We expect to have it fixed in a few days..."
I have recently switched from Chrome to Safari. One thing I am still missing from Safari is a bookmark indicator. As in the Chrome address bar, if the current page has already been bookmarked, the star is yellow. Are there any other extensions doing this?
I have an SSD hard drive from MacBook Pro late 2012 (A1425). Is there a possibility to somehow connect it to a normal PC through SATA, PCIe etc.?
So, I have an iPad Air 2 64 GB LTE purchased in India. I'm using a network carrier called Airtel for the data. This device is running iOS 8.4 as of posting this question. Here's my problem-
Is it possible to toggle the the preference setting under Trackpad labeled Secondary Click without logging out and in, so that I can toggle two-finger right-click for the builtin trackpad? I found the command defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.enableSecondaryClick -bool true
I have an iphone4 running the up-to-date version: 7.1.2 since the IOs software is no longer updated for an iphone4. Recently many apps simply crash: such as chrome google maps shazam IMDB
I have just bought a 7th generation iPod and I have a bluetooth headset in a motorcycle helmet. Is there any way to listen to the radio through bluetooth given that the headphones are the antenna?
Well, I've got myself in a bit of a pickle here. I have been trying to do creative (unsupported, of course :^) things with my rMBP. I had been using multiple partitions successfully with OS X 10.9.5 and Boot Camp. I was finally going to upgrade to 10.10, but the installer didn't like my extra partitions, which means it wouldn't install a recovery partition, which I did want installed. So I began the process of removing the extra partitions, and things were going fine - until I removed an extra NTFS partition, rebooted, and—nothing. Wouldn't boot to either OS X or W7. Recovery partition wasn't available either. So I made a bootable OS X 10.9 flash drive and I boot from that. Disk Utility is now telling me it thinks my HFS+ OS X partition is FAT32. Oops! Attempting "Repair Disk" from Disk Utility doesn't help.
I'm in a country where Apple Music is not available (Morocco) and I have an apple ID that I use with my all of my iDevices. Will I be able to use Apple Music using a gift card (25$ one)?
I had a ton of problems with my iPhone 5. I backed it up and took it to the Apple Store. I got a loaner while getting it fixed and put the latest iPhone backup on loaner phone. Then I got my iPhone back and went to restore from same backup, butd it's not in my options in iTunes. Where could I find this restore point as it has everything in it? Any help would be great. Thank you.
I have an issue with my Logitech MX Master when trying to connect to my Macbook Pro (Early 2015 retina base model) via Bluetooth. The mouse has a stable performance only when Wi-Fi is turned off. Once Wi-Fi is turned on, however, the mouse gets really laggy. The cursor skips/jumps randomly, and the mouse's connection becomes very spotty and sometimes flat out disconnects.
I have a strange complaint that I've been trying , and failing, to find an answer for. I'm signed up to iCloud photo and have set it up to automatically minimise photos to save storage on my phone. I'm finding however that its eating up storage on my 64gb iPhone 6+. I think I've found out why and how its doing this and would love a find a way to shrink the amount of space its taking up.
Every time I turn on my mobile WiFi hotspot on my iPhone, it works great unless I am in range of a remembered WiFi hotspot that iPhone itself can connect to -- iPhone silently opts to use any WiFi data stream instead of my cellular stream, the latter of which I always prefer. My phone's data connection is much faster than my WiFi connection, and it often takes me a while to realize why my iPhone's hotspot it so horribly slow: it is connected to the very WiFi access point I am attempting to circumvent!! Is there a way to prevent iPhone from itself connecting to WiFi when broadcasting a WiFi hotspot of its own, without "forget"-ing all relevant hotspot encryption keys?
In Mail.app (8.2 on Yosemite 10.10.3), when I click a message in the list (preview is on the right) and delete it (using keyboard or mouse), it seems quite random as to whether Mail will move the selection to the message above the one I just deleted:  or the one below:
I have the latest iOS on my iPad and iPhone with the new Music app. I speculate the Music app's cache of downloaded streaming songs is taking about 1.5 to 2.0 GB of space, which is causing both of my devices to now report "storage almost full." This will be an issue in the future when I want to add a new app to the device. How do I clear this cache?
According to the MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) Technical Specifications, the Graphics and Video Support for the 2015 Retina MBP 13-inch is: Intel Iris Graphics 6100 Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840 by 2160 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colors.
Accidentally the Apple TV had its home sharing turned off (device used was the remote app on iPhone). The original remote is lost. Have Apple Mac laptop and HP Laptops also iPad 3rd Gen, and iPhone 5s available.
Booting in internet recovery - loads until a grey screen with the Apple logo. Nothing happens after that Booting in single-user mode and repair disk with fsck - did that, didn't help Booting in safe mode - works, I verified and repaired the disk with Disk Utility but the problem persists
I am using an old 4S and the Power Button is kind of half stuck down. Are there any hints or tricks out there to un-stuck it?
I remember growing up in the 80's and my parents would be astounded that the Commodores and Apple II's of the time would be as powerful as a computer that used to take up a room. (I didn't quite get it at the time). At that time the most powerful computer was a Cray.
Is there a way to assign the WiFi on/off function to one of the function keys like F4 that I otherwise never use? I assume Applescript would be required. However I may want to use a BASH script instead.
Does the Time Machine program backup system plus data ? Will is restore the computer exactly to what is was including both system and data (ie. emails, photos, documents) ?
I am going to give the laptop to a service center. I wanted to know whether this is a easily solvable problem or will it require motherboard replacement. I am hoping that simply replacing the connector wire will work fine.
I bought a new IPad. Started to download all my previous purchased applications, however I get only the basic versions, with an option to pay and unlock the rest of features. HOWEVER, I already purchased the full packs on each application on my previous IPad and paid a lot of money. So how can I get my full pack apps back? It's outrageous if I have to pay all over again for something I already bought.
On every exists in AppleScript the result is true. For example: The result is
I'm trying to display the time zone that an image was taken in in the Photos app for Mac. I've seen screenshots of this being done but I can't seem to figure it out myself.
I'm using Apple Music on two devices: MBP and iPhone 5. Got the problem that iTunes doesn't automatically refresh the "For You" section on my MBP, unlike the iPhone. The CMD+R doesn't work as well. The only way to get fresh suggestions and playlists in "For You" is to kill and restart iTunes.
I have tried to download an update from the AppStore for Yosemite 10.10.4 and unfortunately it interrupted. Now I am in a situation where if I try the update again I get the following message: Some updates need to finish downloading before they are installed. If I confirm with Download & Restart it will tell me it is rebooting the computer but then et another message saying: Available updates have changed If I confirm that one too it will just go back to the previous message. It is some sort of infinite loop. I have tried updating through the Terminal with: softwareupdate command but the result is the same.
When I opened Mac OS X overview panel to check out how much storage I have left, I saw this strange thing. It doesn't affect the performance by any means, but it is not aesthetically pleasing. How can I get rid of it?
When wallpaper settings are set to change every hour (or whatever time period) and is set to random order, it appears to be impossible to report the get, as a string, the location of the current wallpaper. For instance, my wallpaper is currently showing an image with this path (which I found by hand): /Users/tim/Pictures/Wallpaper/4216_abstract.jpg If I run osascript -e 'tell app "finder" to get posix path of (get desktop picture as alias)' to try to get the path of the currently set wallpaper, it reports: /Library/Desktop Pictures/Bahamas Aerial.jpg
In iMessage, I'm receiving at 2 numbers (and a couple of emails), but I would like to ensure that all messages sent out are only sent from one of them. As in its name, the setting "Start new conversation from..." will only work with new conversations, not with existing ones. How would you do this without deleting the conversation? EDIT: Another important question: how can I find out what number I'm sending out from on an existing conversation?
I have a new LG 29UM55 29" Ultrawide monitor, resolution of 2560 x 1080, connected via DisplayPort to my 2012 MacBook Air 13" via a Cable Matters Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable that reportedly does have pin 20 wired correctly. I had previously tried connecting via HDMI, but as the manual for the display indicates, Macs are apparently unable to use the full native resolution when connected via HDMI.
However, my battery health is 'Check Battery' - could that be related? Despite the health status, it has done 590 cycles and this model is supposed to only be consumed at 1000. Odd; not sure why that would be / what it means.
I upgraded my safari yesterday ever since I keep getting "Safari can't verify the website certificate" I have tried checking for any other software updates to no avail, I have done Keychain First Aid and this says there is no problems, can anyone help me please?
I have a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro which I am unable to boot. The most possible reason for it is that the Logic board has short circuited. I have detailed the problem in this separate post: Macbook Pro - Faulty keyboard short circuit at video connector
Please help! and let me know what other information I need to provide you with. I have a MacBook Air 10.104 OS X Yosemite.
So I have no photos in my phone, but it still says that it takes 508 MB when I look at my usage in settings. There is literally no photos at all, even the recently deleted has been deleted, and I don't have photo stream so I don't know what's going on. My iPhone is only 8 GB, so I'm trying to manage my storage the more I can.
My Macbook recently developed a video card problem, and I got another Macbook, both running Yosemite (though perhaps different subversions). I got my old hard drive out and connected it to my new computer to try to use as a start disk (with an enclosure). However, when I try to boot from it, the new computer brings up the "No Access" symbol. Is it possible to boot from the disk? If not, can I clone it onto the new computer?
Every time I open a MS Word file in Pages, I get the little warning window that says the fonts aren't going to be perfect or whatever. OK, Pages! I get it. You might not be perfect.
I have an external hard drive which is currently used as a Time Machine backup drive for a single machine. I'd like to move the drive to my Server machine and use it for network backups for all my machines. Can I move the drive and then have the original Mac see its old backup when it connects via the Server? The Server machine is running Yosemite; the other machines are running Mavericks.
I'm trying to connect a wireless "Logitech office cordless desktop 2.4ghz" keyboard with a USB receiver to my Mac but I can't get past this step of the keyboard identification:  Also the key next to the left shift is the key with the "<>/" on it. How I can connect the keyboard to my Mac?
I've been using my Macbook as my "everything machine" with Bootcamp and Windows 8.1 and I love it except for one thing. As a programmer, I do a lot of typing, and I use the fn + left / fn + right key combinations to simulate Home and End on Windows and jump to the beginning and end of lines. However, sometimes the caret jumps to the end of the line and then goes one character further, to the next line. This may sound like a small thing, but it becomes unbelievably frustrating the more it happens because every time you use the combination, you have to double-check that your caret hasn't gone off to the next line unexpectedly.
My PC's hard drive - running w8.1- crashed. Bought a mac mini and now trying to retrieve files from crashed disk (and others). All drives have read only permissions, with no locks showing in the get info windows. Is there a way to change permission w/o losing files?
My broadband provider is terrible. It forces the use of its own DNS servers, which I have never seen take less than 2 seconds to respond, and often longer. What I would like to do is cache their responses for longer than the DNS server specifies, which I guess comes in as time to live or something like that? Is there any way I can override that setting? Many thanks! (I know I can add entries to /etc/hosts, but I don't want to do this every time I visit a new site as I visit lots of new sites often)
What is the best way to delete all images from camera roll. I am selling my phone and don't want to try deleting them one at a time, nor do I want to leave them.
Mac iBook G4 won't boot. When I hold down the Option key as it is booting, a blue screen appears. In the center of the screen is my hard drive icon with an x in the lower right hand corner. On the left and just below the icon is the refresh symbol and on the right, just below the icon is a straight arrow pointing right. What does this mean? How can I get past this screen to my desktop?
Platform: OS X: Yosemite 10.10.4; Xcode: v6.4 (6E35b); MacbookPro 15" Retina (mid-2015). Fact: As C compiler and linker (upon standard) create .o and executable file(s) Questions: Where (please provide path, or tell where I can configure by myself one) are those files stored by Xcode? Is this executable portable such that it can be run on Linux and Windows? Does Xcode gives same results (for obj and executable) as if I perform compilation manually in MacOS terminal?
My provider asks for a PPPoE authentication for internet and I don't know how to do it with Airport Extreme in order to have the wireless working. I can connect to the internet via ethernet using the provided credentials, but the wi-fi has no internet connection, probably because there's no bridge between the wi-fi and the ethernet on Airport Extreme. Any idea how I can make it work so I can have both ethernet and wi-fi working?
I run cabal install pandoc pandoc-citeproc as described in the manual. I get nothing from man pandoc. Pandoc exists in brew but I would like to know how you get pandoc by manuals too. I would like to read man pandoc_markdown. How can you install pandoc with manuals?
Output the (decimal) byte numbers and (octal) values of all differing bytes, instead of the default standard output. Also, output the EOF message if one file is shorter than the other.
Why has the exported video been shrunk, and had part of the top and bottom removed? Instead of being a tall rectangular video like the original was, the exported video is a square with a lot of black space around it.
Platform: Yosemite 10.10.4; MacbookPro 15" Retina (mid-2015). Questions regarding development on MacOS: Does Visual Studio for MacOS have all development and debugging capabilities (especially in C, C++, and C# languages), like which Visual Studio for Windows has ? General question - what are capability differences between Professional and Enterprise edition (of Visual Studio) ? Visual Studio online installation - when is this manner preferred, and what are its cons and pros?
I Just replaced Mac HD with HGST (a Western Digital co) TravelStar 500gb. I accessed DU using start+option key and start+command R key, but still cannot format. In DU I used the Erase tab, clicked the erase button, waited while it cycled, about 10 minutes, but did not format. Message was cannot erase. I followed steps in many forums. Can anyone tell me what else I need to do.
I used disk utility today on my MacBook Pro running Yosemite to create a bootable USB. I don't recall touching the hard drive of my MacBook Pro at all. After I finished the process, I went onto Google Chrome to find it was not opening any pages. I then tried to use spotlight which would. It respond. I decided it was any old issue and restarted my MacBook.
I love to use different music and always update my playlists with different music and songs. In order to better organize and maintain I use play count feature in iTunes. After a month if I listened songs very less, I used to delete to create space for new music.
I have a rMBP (Mid 2012) that is having disk issues. When verifying the disk, I get three different errors: Incorrect number of file hard links Invalid first link in hard link chain Invalid directory item count
I'm not even sure if this is possible but there is a profile picture in iTunes 12 that just has a default user icon showing and it's really bugging me. See below:
My Macbook Air 13 running Yosemite 10.10.3 inch doesn't resume from sleep always. Also, there is a 'No batteries Available' sign frequently and a cross (X) on the battery icon. Also, it doesn't startup/boot properly at times. Here is the stack trace. I have tried resetting SMC, PRAM and other troubleshooting. Kindly help.
I was cleaning up old directories on my 256GB MBPro SSD mounted on /dev/disk1. At first
Is there a method to determine if a Time Machine backup disk is already encrypted?
I've been trying to open a file:/// url e.g. Or Or However, the browser location after opening is:
I can see how to turn this behavior off in a previous question at How to set Preview to start on the last viewed page? But what file is/was storing this persistent data about the last page read of a PDF in Preview ? I have experimented with deleting many cache, plist and other files associated with the Preview app, even its bookmarks and those in ~/Library/Containers and none of them seem to stop it remembering the last page read in a PDF document. Can someone please name the specific file where this information is stored?
When I drag views around in the storyboard, the trackpad vibrates every time the view snaps to something else. As a result, it vibrates all the time. Is this a normal behavior or is my trackpad broken? (How do I turn it off?)
I often need to give instructions on using OS X hotkeys in documentation. I write it in markdown, usually on GitHub pages and sometimes on StackExchange. The keys are formatted with <kbd>key</kbd> = key.
Music videos are autoplayed if they are part of an album. Which is kind of annoying because iTunes puts itself into fullscreen mode when they are played. Is it possible to disable auto play of music videos?
How can I do this? I set a ton of reminders using Siri, and this would be a great way for me to get a birds eye view (and maybe a leg up) on all the stuff I have to do. Thanks in advance!
While looking at the activity monitor it occurred to me that I've a Mac Cleanse Helper process visible in the Energy tab. I might have installed this program in past but I got rid of it. How can I completely remove all the related files from the system?
I've had a song, which I wanted to be added to a playlist on my iPhone while listening to a self defined radio station. The song before that song could be added to my playlist (clicking ... > add to playlist > choose playlist). I rechecked it and it's added to my playlist without any error. The iPhone stated that the song is successfully added to my list.
it is unusually hot today (37 Celsius, about 100 Fahrenheit) and my MBA mid 13 fan is going crazy. The CPU temp is at 47.5 when almost idle but my fan blows with 5703 RPM (pretty much the maximum). This data is taken from iStats and the fan symbol is literally blinking red.
On Yosemite 10.10 Onyx returns the following error: Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error The disk needs to be repaired. I tried repairing the disk in recovery mode but the disk utility returns a message that everything is fine, however, the after running Onyx the second time the error persists. On a related matter, the option to repair permissions is not available in the Disk Utility.
Apparently Chrome will never support iCloud keychain and will use the default keychain because Apple only allows access to the former if the app is distributed through the App Store (see *=URL=* So I was wondering whether there's an app or script that automatically syncs between different local keychains (thereby working around the limitation imposed by Apple.)
Last year I imported a video into iMove, edited it, cut pieces, etc and I have the result as a mov, but I want to also keep the original video file. I can still see it inside iMovie, but how do I get ahold of that file as a single simple file system file?
I would like to modify some things on the OS including the 'Hey Siri' phrase, I've tried a global grep but no luck yet. If someone has an idea, he is welcome
I have a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6. I wanted to test how mavericks works on my computer so I downloaded the OS and then I installed on a external USB HDD. Everything work as expected. I can now boot from the USB device with mavericks and I still see my internal HDD (containing Snow Leopard) with all the data untouched.
Since it's related to the GUI I expect it has to do with a graphics issue, possibly a bad KEXT for graphics, or maybe a problem with Quartz. But I am unsure how to troubleshoot this.
I have a plist file named com.jwhite.forecast_tmux.plist. That file looks like:
Recently bought a new Macbook Pro to replace an older Air. Everything is working great except for the Amazon Music app. It downloads and installs just fine, but when I try to launch it using Spotlight, double-clicking in Finder or right-click + "Open" in Finder...nothing happens. The system log reports that:
I am using Applescript on Yosemite 10.10.4 to create contacts in the contacts app. I have two iCloud accounts configured on my Mac. One personal (The "main" iCloud account) and one business.
I am desperately looking for a Pdf viewer which can show the pdf without any margins, that would help me a lot in viewing two pdfs simultaneously. Thanks.
This behavior occurs in applications such as Safari, Preview, QuickTime, VLC and Heroes of the Storm. It's also impossible to play videos.
how can I use applescript to type in a specified area on the screen? I've tried the 'keystroke' command, but it doesn't seem to work. also, how can I use applescript to display an image? thanks a lot if you answer. here's the code I have so far:
I accidentally deleted my efi partition, which I now know is bad news bears. I found a guide here to restore it without losing data, but even though I'm booting from usb and have unmounted all partitions, I'm still getting the error gpt remove: unable to open device "disk0": resource busy.
I can see that my photos/videos are backed up to iCloud, however, when I log into icloud.com to view them from my PC, the images do not populate. The app has been installed onto my computer.
I own a 2011 MBP, which came with GarageBand installed. I am not complaining, but suddenly I don't get updates for it anymore. The AppStore lists GarageBand as having an update, but when I click the update button it tells me that there are no updates for this Apple ID.
MacBook Pro (Late 2011), OS X 10.10.4. Increasingly Mail.app (Ver. 8.2) and Chrome (Version 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit)) do not allow me to type the rest of my input.
I would like to copy a folder to the user library using the OS X Terminal. The command line I use is cp -r. The problem is that the command runs, but it doesn't copy the folder and it returns no error. Exist a special command for copying folders to user library? Thanks a lot.
I suppose I could "Use Separate Password" again and use my actual iCloud password, then back to using iCloud to sign in. At least then both pws will (maybe) be the same. But if there is a "righter" way of doing this I'd rather do that.
Under Excel, there's something like = Sumproduct((A1:A100),--(A1:A100<>"")) from Excel formula -> how to change SUMPRODUCT formula to skip null cells But it did not work for Numbers. Wondering if there's a good way to achieve it using Numbers
How long is the exposure (not the range) duration on an iPhone 6 camera? I am running iOS 8.
I have a gigabit internet which goes into my airport extreme. Everything is working fine now except the fact that the Gigabit Ethernet port has a limit of 200mb/s when tested. If I plug the main internet cable into my computer and test the download goes to 900+mb/s but when I plug it into Airport extreme and connect to it's (gigabit) ethernet I hit that 200mb/s limit no matter what.
I have an Airport Extreme and wish to set up Dynamic DNS (DDNS) so that I can remotely access my home WiFi security cameras when I'm traveling. I'm seeing certain things that say the built-in dynamic DNS client in the Airport, which I need to use since my Mac will be traveling with me, uses obscure protocols that aren't supported by many accounts. Is there a free dynamic DNS provider I can use (or the one from Foscam) that will work with the Airport?
I'd like to compare two text files on a paper. Which app should I use to print a diff of two files?
I am unable to eject a disk from Apple DVD player. It shows "Error ~47" when I click on Eject button. Changed some DVD Player settings, such as cleared "Start playing disk" so that no files would be open when I connect the DVD player, but that did't help. Searched Apple website; it has posts by other users about "Error ~47" in various settings, and comments about that being a file error, but no indication on how to fix that. My system: MacBook Pro, Yosemite 10.10.3. Please advise how to remove the DVD from the DVD player.
Just bought a new MacBook Pro 12.1, early 2015 (Yosemite 10.10.4). I'm observing memory usage from kernel_task varying between 0.8-2.0 GB. Is it normal? Couldn't find a question referring to normal values. Thanks
Ipod ran out of battery. I charged it on a speaker dock, and it opened with no memory, restored to default settings (no idea why)
I seemingly see the words package and bundle used interchangeably in Apple documentation referring to a special folder in the file system that the user sees as document (iWork Pages document) or application (Pages.app). I know one can view the contents of a package or bundle by right clicking on one of these special files and clicking Show Package Contents. Which suggests to me that both are are a type of package. So is a bundle a special type of package?
My Retina MacBook Pro is currently on 4% battery power, but when I plug it in, the battery icon up the top shows the plug icon instead of the lightning bolt icon inside it to say it's charging and stays on the same 4%. How can I fix this so that my laptop charges fully? Screenshot:
Now, I want to do the same on my Mac. I have created a .sh file like this:
For some reason iTunes will download a movie faster over wifi than with ethernet on my home network. When I do a speed test the ethernet connection appears to be a few mbps faster though... Why would it download slower on ethernet? (I turn wifi off when using ethernet via the thunderbolt adapter)
I would like to remove the whole content of a folder, apart from one file. The problem is can't copy the file to another folder and then back to the first folder, because then the application doesn't accepts the file, so the one file must stay in the folder. Exists there a command like I described?
Manual Code which makes a sequence from 1 to 10, removes empty lines to have a megastring and then splits at 060 into two files unsuccessfully giving split: invalid option -- 'p'. Command seq -w 1 1 10 | awk -F'060' '{print "field1: "$1 "\nfield2: 060"$2}' in comment gives field1: 01 field2: 060 field1: 02 field2: 060 field1: 03 field2: 060 field1: 04 field2: 060 field1: 05 field2: 060 field1: 06 field2: 060 field1: 07 field2: 060 field1: 08 field2: 060 field1: 09 field2: 060 field1: 10 field2: 060
I am considering this answer with GNU time which I installed by brew. data.txt Code in BSD time Code in GNU time and with quotes
I have a 2008 MacBook Air (MB003LL/A / MacBookAir1,1 / A1237 / 2142), and I am trying to reformat it with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, using the retail install DVD image snowleopard_10a432_userdvd.dmg restored to a USB flash drive with Disk Utility. I do not have an external DVD drive to use.
As far as i know, there are only two ways to get altitude, by GPS or by barometer. GPS is not usable in indoor room, And iPhone5 doesn't have a barometer. But iPhone 5 can give a relative accurate altitude without barometer. How could it be possible?
I branched Exportify to output in an iTunes friendly format, and have used it to move my Spotify playlists over to iTunes. It mostly works, except the import process seems incapable of adding songs from Apple Music which are not already in my Library. After running an import, I get a message saying "Some of the songs in the file “exportify.txt” were not imported because they could not be found.", which suggests it's only looking in my Library for songs to add. It's possible to do this manually, so I don't see why letting the import process do it would be a problem... Does anyone with experience with the iTunes importer know how to work around this (or has an alternative way to migrate playlists from Spotify)?
I am trying to connect my MBP with my DELL monitor. I have purchased an HDMI to VGA adapter(converter). when I connect them, my MBP flashes on and off intermittently and my external monitor says nothing is connected. I have checked and rechecked all the connections but am having no luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Using the rm 'filename' command, i have noticed that the file isn't actually deposited into the trash. I realise that this isn't completely removing the file from the computer, however im perplexed as to why it would not appear in the trash? In short: Why doesn't the 'rm' command deposit file in trash.
First off, I have no idea what Apple calls their OS. I only use their iOS devices and I tried to avoid their computer OS as best as possible, however, I'm getting started in developing iOS apps. I need to either run the Apple OS in a VM or set up dual-booting. I have a few questions though that hopefully can get answered. Where can I purchase a license for Apple? Where can I purchase a license for Apple?
From within iTunes (or Music on iOS), is it possible to make a collection of full albums that is separate from my main library? So, essentially, a playlist of albums.
I know 12Kb isn't a lot but I'm chasing a principle here. My WiFi is on and being actively used - so why is my phone still using its cellular data connection? What else is it doing favours a significantly slower connection?
I purchased a Intel MacBook Pro from a colleague with installed OS 10.8.5. I do not own the OS disks therefore do not have the disks to re-install QuickTime. QT 10.2 is on this "new" 2008 MacBookPro. The question relates to the need to install QT 7 which has the dialog box to register the key code to unlock the Pro features (QT 10.2 lacks the ability to enter the Pro key hence the need to install QT 7 then upgrade). How might I install QT7 and still retain the QT 10.2 version on the MacBook Pro, as I don't have the option of reinstalling 10.2 if written over. (I don't want to risk "losing" QT 10.2 on OS 10.8.5 because it will block the ability to use Final Cut Pro 7 or X). Please advise. Thank you.
I'm using Pages 5.5.3 on OS X 10.10.4. I can't figure out how to change the size of the Body style for the entire document. If I try to increase the size of the Body text it only changes the size of the text where my cursor was last - the rest of the document is unaffected. Thank you in advance.
Computer: Late 2011 MacBook Pro 13" Factory 500 GB serial ATA (5400 RPM) HDD Problem: A few days ago my computer started running extremely slow — could barely perform the most basic functions like typing. What I've done: I ran an Apple hardware test (both the long and short one), but eventually it always froze (and allegedly continued running for hours) at a certain time — but did not say what exactly it was testing. I also tried to repair the disk and permissions in Disk Utility via recovery mode, but it found no disk issues (fixed numerous permissions issues though). None of the above helped to resolve. Therefore, I tried to copy some of the important folders I was working with (because Time Machine stopped working a few weeks ago) and it wouldn´t let me copy some video files, returning errors. After reading StackExchange, I ran this SMART Utility and it turns out I have just over 100 bad blocks in my HDD, with 40 000 files corrupted. Easy question: I am assuming this means that my H
I had a user account of my ex boyfriend installed on my Mac. I want to completely delete it but it has been over a week now that it has been saying "deleting account.." under the user name. When I want to restart my mac it won't let me. It just says:
Platform: OS X: Yosemite 10.10.4; MacbookPro 15" Retina (mid-2015). Fact: There is aging for battery in any case - using or not. But while using - there is difference of how to use. My questions - in order to minimize battery degradation: How often should I totally discharge battery ? Is degradation rate is a matter of full cycles or it doesn't matter to what highest and lowest level I charge or discharge laptop ?
I have one of the new Macbooks on the way and have also bought the Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter with HDMI to go with it. If I want to get VGA with this adaptor, rather than buying the same adaptor but with VGA, I want to use an HDMI to VGA adaptor such as this one.
In May of 2015 my iPad Mini died because it got wet. I purchased a new iPad Mini 3 and reinstalled the apps I wanted on it ( and mourned the loss of my old Mini). Now that it's July and my new mini has its own backup I've discovered that I still have the backup to the old Mini (I know, I was pretty dumb that I didn't realize this sooner.)
Its been over a year since I installed Macports for Ruby. I want to uninstall but I can't remember if I was using for anything crucial. Can I get a nice list of ports that was directly installed?
I'm using Mac 10.9.5. When I run a terminal with multiple tabs (using bash shell), I've noticed that when my computer restarts, the terminal will open up with the same number of tabs that were open in the previous session, but the commands I was running in the previous session (accessible via the "history" shell command) are no longer present in each tab. Is there a way to preserve each session's history in the appropriate tab between computer restarts?
How do I disable the notifications? Time Machine is not in the Notifications preferences, and I don't want to stop using it entirely.
Then, index it in spotlight, using its volume name. I think I've got this part covered: mdutil /Volumes/name -i on, apparently The bolded parts are the parts I'm having trouble with. Particular problems I'm having:
How do I e-mail multiple Photos from MAC desktop with Yosemite? What is keyboard shortcut to select multiple images and e-mail them?
I'm trying to create a spolight index of a directory on a shared drive (a corporate Windows active directory drive) using mdutil following the simple guide here. Here's an example of my syntax: The error message I get confuses me: Error: invalid operation. No index. I know there's no index, I'm running this command in order to create one.
I'd like to delete the vast majority of the images/videos on my phone. There this previous question about deleting all images on the phone which is what I've done in the past. However I would really like to preserve some of my favorites. Are there any easy ways of doing this on iOS8?
For years, I've been reading ebooks on my antique iPhone 4, using Calibre to painlessly send ebooks to it. I have an iPad Air, and it just dawned on me (I guess I'm slow) that I oughtta be doing my reading on my iPad Air. Stanza's out of the question, obviously, but I like the effortless way Calibre maintains my vast library. I also like the ease with which Stanza works (though not the frequent crashes on the phone, obviously).
What is the easiest way to create a dump of an IMAP mailbox on a local drive using Mac OS X? I would prefer a tool that can mirror an IMAP mailbox's structure to something that creates a massive archive file because the former would be faster and slimmer to do an incremental backup for. But any solution is welcome.
I just dropped my iPhone in the toilet bowl but took it out after about 3 seconds. It's now totally off and wont turn back on!
How do I delete all music from an iPhone 5? It got loaded from my computer without me checking the box. I tried to follow the directions from one search result with no success.
OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) introduces the ability to swipe left on conversations in Mail.app in order to send them to trash:  However, judging from the available settings, it does not seem to be possible to make the swipe action "Archive" instead of "Trash", as it works on iOS. Is there any way to change the action from "Trash" to "Archive"?
In Preferences > Profiles > Keys I've mapped cmd+1 through cmd+9 but cmd+1 alone does not respond. Does anyone else have this issue? This is for the latest iterm2, v2.1.1 and several earlier versions as well; it has never worked for me.
I have read many post about updating an iPad 1 (iOS 5.1.1) to iOS 8 but all I need at the moment is to update my iPad 1 to at least iOS 6. Is there any way I can update it to iOS 6? No jail breaking or anything, just a normal way of updating.
I recently updated my iphone to ios 8.4 How do I shuffle my offline music the way I used to before the update ?
I am currently looking to purchase a used iphone4s solely for testing apps. I was wondering if there are any service requirements like "you must have a service plan or the device will not operate". I just want to sideload apps for debugging.
On iOS 8.4 on iPhone 5s, I noticed that if I set Cellular > App Store > Off, kill Setting app, then activate Airplane Mode, deactivate Airplane Mode, launch Settings, Cellular > App Store is now On (Green). Toggling Airplane mode flipped the setting. This is true for a number of Apple apps. Why does this happen and what can be done so that my preferences are retained when toggling Airplane mode?
Two different people have come my door today looking for their lost iPhone. Both seem to show the exact same location, the middle of my backyard. Both said they lost an iphone 5, one on tmobile, the other on sprint. Besides being annoying, it got me thinking - What could cause this?
Is using the two together going to damage my phone in any way?
When I save “read only” spread sheets that I receive as attachments, excel doesn’t save them as their original name. The pop-up window shows the title of the document as “Untitled”. We work with project specific excel files that are constantly being updated. This problem is especially frustrating when we have a specific name that may be long due to the complexity of the project. is there something I can do to solve this?
I don't get it how to use multiple conditions in the following case... What this should do is compare the cells in column A (name) for duplicates and also check if column G (meaning) is blank. But it tells me syntax error. Where and how do I use the AND?
I've tried all the hints I could find, e.g. at *=URL=* like <key>allow-root</key> <true/> <!--instead of false> <key>authenticate-user</key> <false/> <!--instead of true> <key>class</key> <string>allow</string> <!--instead of user> Also I've made certain the [username] is in _developer group. dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "[username]" -G "_developer" => user is a member of the group
I have a team of a few Mac users in an organisation of about a thousand PC users, all of whom share an Active Directory shared drive which the Mac users connect to with smb. There's one folder with a few thousand files in many subfolders that the Mac users need to be able to search. I've tried to index it directly and to mount the folder as a volume then index it, but in both cases the standard way seems to not work with folders.
We have just one Mac user in the office. Everyone else is on HP Pro. Our Olivetti MF2400 is set to print in mono which is fine for HP users as we can choose colour from the file drop down however, there does not seem to be such an option on the mac book air. Any advice? Thanks G
I have photos in my iPhone that were added using iTunes sync with a Photos library. I do not see a way to delete them (no trash can icon) and when I tap "Edit" while viewing them I get the following message: I understand that I can make a copy and edit that, but then the original will still appear on my phone and there is no way to delete it. How can I edit these photos so that only the edited version appears on my phone?
I'm using an iPhone with iOS 8.4, and a Mac with Yosemite using the Photos app and syncing with iTunes. iCloud Photo Library is turned off on both the Mac and the iPhone.
I downloaded a whole bunch of apps for iPhone, and then deleted them. But they are still associated with my account, and when I go back to the download page, I don't see the [GET] button, but the iCloud logo... I want to get rid of that, and it seem that Apple has change the way it could be done before.
I have a bunch of iphone apps inside Itunes, one of them automatically tries to install itself whenever I remove it from the phone. (Its button in the App itunes list shows "Installing") If try to delete it from itunes using this method, the delete button just doesn't do anything. How to remove an app from Itunes 12.2.x ?
I keep sending iMessages from my mac before I have finished typing them by accidentally hitting the return key. Is there a way to change the behaviour to send on Cmd-Enter instead?
I would like to list all files in folder without one. I created this command ls /Users/MartinBengsch/Library/Safari | grep ! "Extensions". The problem is that the Terminal doesn't understand the not (!). How to change that it works? Thanks!
I just purchased a bunch of new songs through the iTunes store on my computer and one by one I saw them being iClouded onto my iPhone. I was very happy about this until I noticed that none of the songs that i bought marked "Explicit" were showing up. Is there a way to fix this because I like these songs and honestly it's like one word so I don't see the big deal. Can someone please tell me if it is possible to get these explicit songs onto music on my phone?
since yesterday afternoon my Mail.app keeps crashing when I am clicking on my gmail mailbox. I instantly see the beachball and looking into Activity Monitor it tells me that Mail.app uses 100% CPU while (Not Responding).
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, what are the pros and cons of creating 2 (two) partition and saving OS X + Applications on one partition and Users Folders Data on the second partition, vice versa doing the traditional way and use the standard single partition? What are the benefits? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
So i guess my actual question is Can it be fixed? Do i need to reinstall Yosemite or can it be resolved with a simple Patch without going through AppStore? Specs:
I have the following issue in Safari 8.0.7 on OS X 10.10.4 when playing videos in YouTube: The video continues beyond the end of the track. The image and sound stop at the end of the video, but the timer continues to count upwards. Here's a screenshot:
I understand that time machine sometimes makes troubles when recovering thing it took from one computer to another computer that’s why the following question arises: I have two Macs with the same Apple ID but different contents. Now I want to use the time machine from Mac A, erase everything from Mac B and initiate Mac B anew with the time machine from Mac A so as to have two identical computers. Is that a problem?
When I turn on the Apple hotspot feature, is it an isolated network, or can I see other devices on it? Can I use it to connect a third device to a Chromecast? As in tablet -> iPhone with hotspot (and cellular data off) -> Chromecast? I want to use a Chromecast while on holiday!
I had a iPhone 4S which was setup with a Gmail ID and later I returned it to my employer, since it was given by them. I have a new personal iPhone configured with same email id.
What's the best way to rebuild the icudt51l.dat file in /usr/share/icu/? ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries I think, that seem integral to OS X as built-in apps as well as apps using vital system services refuse to work properly or crash after this file got accidentally deleted. I'm attempting to retrieve it, but as this is on a system drive getting it back might not be possible.
I'd like to start fresh and clear out all previously synchronized data in my iCloud. Wi-Fi, Passwords, Safari Bookmarks, etc. I haven't found a way to delete these specific items, and I'm having trouble keeping my iPhone and Mac in sync with respect to Wi-Fi networks. Is there a command to run or file(s) I can delete to basically "start fresh" with my iCloud Sync data while keeping my current Apple ID?
I am using Keynote'09 and have to change a lot of text to specific styles. Since I can't define text styles I have to work around this missing function. Here is a simple example with a style I would have named Important if I could. But I can't. To use this style on another location I use the Copy Style (⌥⌘C) and Paste Style (⌥⌘V) of the Format menu. Here is a starting document where word1 is using the style Important:
I was trying to remove some folders (python) via sudo rm in Terminal and got this message: I already tried to verify/repair disk permissions (only shows 1 error, apple's remote agent), but that didn't help. OS X 10.10.4
I am trying to find the command to connect to a wireless access point that is WPA2, and requires both a username and password. The command networksetup -setairportnetwork <iface> <ssid> <pwd> only works if I don't need a user name.
I have two Macs: an iMac (20-inch Early 2008) with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. Both computers back up to a 2TB Time Capsule. I need to copy all of my photos from the iMac to the MacBook Pro. I tried this by copying the iPhoto library file located in the Pictures Folder on the iMac to the Pictures Folder on the MacBook Pro. It doesn't copy over entirely: photos and thumbnails are missing among other things.
I need to set a daily backup of a specific external hard drive in iMac to a FTP server. In Windows I use a batch file but with OS X I'm a little lost.
Hey guys just today my macbook pro's (late 2013) left click is not working. I am on yosemite and everything was fine till yesterday night. I tried to connect a usb mouse again then i am not able to do left click, rest can be done. Any ideas ? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
I created two ZIP files of the same directory. One with the GUI, the other with: The Alpha directory is 33.640 MB with 164 items. The ZIP file created by the GUI is 2,100 bytes larger than the ZIP file created on the command line. Why is the ZIP file created with the GUI larger?
Since scripting is not that powerful in case of Preview.app, I am trying to find the solution with Automator. Here's the problem:
I'm interested in maintaining differential backup of a file (~2GB). I have Time Machine set up to cover the whole system but in case of this particular file, I would like to have a convenient backup solution that would enable me to: Browse changes in the file Ideally, the differential backup would take place automatically when the new file with the same name is moved to the folder
I recently purchased a Macbook Pro and I'd like to run Windows 8.1. I purchased Windows 8.1 online and got a downloadable version. I now tried to run the bootcamp assistant and was asked to insert a CD which I obviously do not have. Is it possible to install it based on my exe-file I got from Microsoft?
Even more than how to compress this file, what I really want to know is why is this happening? What is it about my computer or documents or preview that's making this so stupid?? THANK YOU.
I recently purchased a new iphone 6. I went to the cloud and reloaded my apps from my old iphone 4 however all of my progress has been lost. Can somebody please explain how I can recover that information. I have backed up my 4 to the cloud and then backed up the 6 but still no luck. I am not very computer savvy so any support would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Brink39
I can send my friends SMS texts through Yahoo Messenger but one recently changed to an iPhone and her replies won't come through. Why does it work with Androids but not iPhones?
Can you have a look at the number of visitors - or maybe of the openings of an app at AppStore - with the help of some source? By "source" I mean something like AppAnnie, app figures, etc. Is it possible to track these numbers free of charge, by any chance? UPD: What I mean is I would like to know these figures for somebody else's app without bothering to ask the developer.
The Apple menu "Recent Items" entry is handy, but at times I would like to be able to access it via command line, e.g. to change to a directory I was just working in with a GUI app. Is there a way to get access to at least the last open file or folder from Desktop to terminal? Failing that, is there a way to access a smart folder from the command line (for example, if I have one that consists of files modified in the past 2 days).
First, thanks in advance for any help. I got the new iPhone 6 plus four months ago from AT&T. The phone has been working great the whole time until i sat on it when getting into my car last Friday evening and my phone bent and went dead. I made appointment in the Apple store to set up repair service and they told me they could not retrieve any photos or data that was not backed up to the cloud. I took a family trip to Hawaii to see my son in the military the day after the last back up due to the cloud being full. I cannot lose these photos. I am willing to send in the hard drive somewhere to retrieve this data but cant find where to do this or get the phone repaired enough to power on to retrieve the data. Any thoughts on how to best get this accomplished?
I downloaded iOS 8.4 on my iPad and now I can't open Message nor can i open them in the setting menu. In addition, I can't scroll through the settings menu once it's opened. I have rebooted and reset network settings. Any suggestions?
So for whatever reason, I am having a difficult time SAVING the Windows Support Software. I tried restarting the process, but it didn't seem to go anywhere. My bootcamp appears to be stuck on this step, and I am not sure why. Any suggestions?
I'm about to repair a broken screen for iPhone 5S at a non-official repair shop (as official repairs don't provide screen replacement in my region, only replace the whole phone for a fee). How can I check that the replacement part is a genuine one made by Apple (no matter new or extracted from a used phone) rather than a third-party replica?
I use an iPhone 4 to record videos with the Camera App. Suddenly, the 5 most recent videos got muted sound for no reason at all. The rest of the Camera Roll still has audio. Just those 5 videos got their sound deleted.
I know this has been asked many times, but none of the solutions seems to apply to iTunes 12.1. When I plug my iPhone 6 into my Mac, iTunes (12.1) automatically launches. I've already tried: In iTunes - Preferences - Devices, check "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPad from syncing automatically" In iTunes, select my iPhone, then Summary - Options, "Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected" is disabled and grayed out Image Capture, setting "Connecting this iPhone ..." set to "No application"
I jailbroke my iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1.4. If I update to iOS 8.4, will it crash, break the jailbreak, or hurt my iPhone?
I am looking to combine the system sound with an external mic plugged into the microphone jack and send the combined audio output to HDMI. Is this doable on my Macbook pro. I have tried different things with sound flower and creating aggregate devices and such without luck. I am able to create a recording in Quicktime which has the sounds sources mixed perfectly. But, I want to be able to send this output live through HDMI. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Also, it should make the text pleasurable to read (like Readability, Pocket, Instapaper, etc.).
I want applescript to input into microsoft excel "No, (tab, tab again), Yes". I can't seem to make this work. I would preferably like it to start whenever I press a hotkey or something, but having to swipe over and activate the script should be ok. Thanks, Nick
I'm trying to create a Linux installation drive. I have an empty hard drive (MS-DOS format), and I already dragged the .iso file to the sidebar in the Disk Utility app. However when I press it the "Burn" option is still greyed out. Also, when I double click the .iso file it says "no mountable file systems". Does anyone know the solution to this?
On the MBA of a friend (10.10.3) when I double click on PDF or JPG files to open them with Preview, the app opens but the file does not display 90% of the time. If I press Space the document displays fine in quicklook. Looked on the Console => no message on it Fixed permissions => no change. I'd love to not re-install the system to fix the issue, is there anything I could try to open the document normally?
I am unable to get email to connect to my IMAP server using an iPhone 6+ with iOS 8.3. The telco (Telstra Australia) loves telling me that they do not block ports. Either the telco is blocking ports or the phone is blocking ports. Can a hotspot connected computer route port 993 requests through the phone without blocking within the phone? I have no trouble routing port 80, 443 requests through the phone as a modem, and also direct from Safari, however any other ports through Safari on the phone, or a hotspot connected computer fail to connect. Is there a firewall on the iPhone that needs to be configured to allow additional ports through, and if so, how would it be configured. If the phone is connected via wifi it has no issue connecting to any of the ports it needs to, it is only an issue when connecting over 3G/4G networks.
today in the morning when my phone woke me up i couldn't turn off the alarm clock (you just have to swipe to the left and everything is fine). It didn't respond to any touch gesture till i disconnected the phone from the power supply. After that everything went well! What was that? Could it be that the phone got too much power??
I have my many precious messages on my iPhone. How can I back up to computer freely without using iTunes?
I have an Iphone 5s that appears to randomly ignore calls from certain numbers. Other numbers appear to be able to connect, but most just ring out as if I just left the phone untouched. If they leave a voicemail it pings immediately. This is on O2 in the UK (I called their tech support and they say that it is a problem with the phone).
I was trying to make an NTFS hard drive writable on my macbook. I tried the way mentioned in this link: https://www.maketecheasier.com/write-ntfs-partition-os-x-yosemite/
I have a 2010 iMac and I installed Mac OS 10.10 public beta last summer, but I haven't received any updates since. My exact version right now is OS X 10.10 (14A379b). Does anyone know what should i do to get the latest system updates?
Is there a native Thunderbolt to DisplayPort or DVI cable? I understand that Thunderbolt is downwards-compatible to Mini DisplayPort, however I'm looking for an adapter cable using the Thunderbolt port in a native fashion; Background: I want to run two displays off a Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock 2, however it doesn't allow the Thunderbolt port to run in Display Port mode and using the HDMI port at the same time.. So I'm looking into some kind of adapter from (native) Thunderbolt to a non-Thunderbolt display without using the Mini DisplayPort compatibility mode..
Recently, Apple changed it to red. The psychologist tell us red indicates anger, defiance and hostility, and its a bad color. Its why USAir changed their color scheme from the shades of red to shades of grey. I did not like red, but I did not feel compelled to move. I got updates this week (July, 2015), and Apple changed the icon again:
My MacBook Pro (2014 model) trackpad and keyboard suddenly became unresponsive few days ago and I took it to the apple repair shop. Today they informed me it's a top case problem. I am curious, why would a top case cause problem in the trackpad and keyboard. Also, I have been taking great care of the MacBook, why is there a problem in the top case ? Is it because it is a defected unit and can I get a replacement?
When I'm working in full screen, typing away, it's extremely disruptive to have an application steal focus. It suddenly takes keyboard focus away from where I'm typing, and immediately accepts that input into another window (which can be maddening if it actually takes that input and does something I don't intend with it.) It switches me to a completely different workspace, hiding what I was working on entirely.
I have a display connected to the HDMI port of my laptop. When I start up the computer with the display plugged in, the built-in display does not turn on, and the external display becomes the primary. I can fix the issue by removing and reconnecting the HDMI cable, but I am curious as to why this behavior is the default. OS 10.10.4 MacBook Pro Retina 15" mid 2015 (model 11,5)
I am trying to upgrade to 10.10(.4) - currently I am at 10.9.5. I had previously done some "creative" :) partitioning of my rMBP SSD - everything was working fine, running Boot Camp as well. However, the 10.10 installer didn't like my partitioning scheme (I did want to have a Recovery partition included), so I reduced the system back down to just the OS X (HFS+) partition and the Boot Camp (NTFS) partition. However, in that re-partitioning, the "Recovery HD" partition become unhidden (everything still functions as it should). Now when I attempt the upgrade, the installer is still giving me grief about the state of the HD with the message: Some features of OS X 10.10 are not supported for the disk "Mac HD"
Is there procedure or tool that can be used to find the directory in which an application stores its temporary files? My cloud backup service reports how many files remain to be backed up. This number increases by an order of magnitude whenever I open a particular application, and decreases when I close the application. Methinks these are temp files. To prevent my backup from wasting its time indexing and uploading them, I want to exclude that application's temporary file directory. I just need to figure out where it is. Rather than rooting around in the file system like an animal, I'd prefer to use a thoughtful tool or procedure to watch where the system (or the application) is putting these temp files.
Killed my old MacBook in November last year, and was able to access everything I needed for the new MacBook Pro using Time Machine, apart from emails. This Time Machine drive now has backups for the new MacBook Pro, so when I open Time Machine from within Mail it only shows me the emails from the MacBook Pro, and not the old MacBook. Any suggestions as to how I can find the old emails?
After upgrading to 10.10.4 from 10.10.2, my Macbook Pro (late 2013) boots up to a blank screen with the mouse cursor displayed briefly every 10 seconds. Booting to safe mode and resetting the SMC or PRAM have not worked. Booting into recovery mode and examining /var/log/system.log, sandbox permissions appear to prevent several services from starting, including sandboxd itself. The services are restarted every 10 seconds.
I have a retina MBP that according to my mum was working last time she put it under charge (with 15% left). However, as of now, I get no reaction at all after pressing the boot key. The screen stays off and I hear no noise. The computer has been under charge for several hours, but the charge indicator is not turning to green.
The problem is that the WiFi on my MacBook is so slow it is almost unusable, it can be compared to an EDGE connectivity. My iPad and Nexus 4 both work good and have no problems with WiFi and signal is strong even though I'm two rooms from my router. Anyone has an idea of what the problem could be?
Where is the repeat button on a song for iOS 8.4 music app? Help!
I want to install the Trello App on my iPhone. On the phone I have iOS 7. When I try to install the App, it tells me it needs at least version 8 of iOS.
Hey I have a free app in iTunesconnect that's being downloaded about 100 times a week. Mostly no user responses, no support requests or anything so I thought (I know this is selfish) I can make some free money by making the app worth $.99 so maybe some "accidental" buyers are too lazy to refund it.
Shortly (seconds) after booting, the OS (10.6.8) becomes unresponsive. Not a single process can be created, but the window manager is responsive - I can switch focus between existing windows and some already loaded programs - e.g. Terminal, Finder, etc but I cannot run any new processes - opening a browser, or even executing "ls" from command prompt yields no results. There are no obvious CPU hogs - I managed to quickly run "top -u" with no high CPU util at the point it gets stuck (at one point the top utility stops refreshing, I suspect it spawns a new process for each refresh). Any clues appreciated.
Here is the rest of the code in the script. Most of this was imported from an earlier working version of this app written in AppleScript Studio (I believe). I expect you will find other errors in here as well, but my primary concerns is why nothing seems to move along when I click OK.
I received an email in my inbox on my ipad from somebody I know and it said what's app message press play. When I pressed play it went to a yahoo page and was like a yahoo mail login and I put my email password in. Shortly afterwards I received over 100 emails daemon mailer unable to deliver. I deleted them and changed my yahoo email password but I am now concerned that there may be a virus on my ipad. What should I do?
I can launch the Compass app on my iPhone 4 and it can tell if the surface I'm placing it on is perfectly horizontal, or it's bending to any direction. Given iPhone 6's sticking-out camera, can it still measure such things?
Is there a way to transfer my various preferences configured on Machine A to a new Machine B? For example, I would like to transfer many of the preferences configured within System Preferences and native applications, such as Finder.
The therefore sign "∴" (*=URL=* is something I may need to use a lot. How can I get a keyboard shortcut for it?
I cracked my iPhone 4 and now it's messed up. The phone turns completely on where i can see my lock screen picture, but if trying to sliding over to unlocked it..it won't slide. The only place I can get it to slide over from it the very top, but I'm unable to type the password because nothing works beyond the top part. Is this fixable? I just want my messages and photos back.
I am running Lion on iMac and iPhoto is up to date. my new camera is a sony a6000. The photos show up in the import window, even with an image of the camera, but when I ask iPhoto to import them it comes up with a message saying Unreadable Files - file is in unrecognised format. The photos are RAW but I've never had a problem importing RAW files before. This is what the file is displaying as in the unreadable files window. /Users/SueHewett/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Import/Masters/Roll 1/_DSC2044.ARW
I have a MacBook pro 15 inch mid-2010 i5 2,4 Ghz, which I already have upgraded to 8GB of RAM. I recently tried to upgrade my MacBook's RAM to 16GB on Yosemite and it gets a kernel panic, I know others Macbook Pros can do it. But now I have 16GB on my desk and I don't know if i should have a little of faith, wait until "el capitan" get released and the computer could support the 16GB or better to loose any hope and sell them.
Some specific behaviors I'm observing in Microsoft Word 2011 on my Mac: Shift + F moves the cursor into the Find box on the toolbar, instead of typing a "F" character. Shift + 9 opens help instead of typing a "(".
By"delete"I mean remove, not disable. I still want to keep that function for other sites. Just an annoying site keep bothering me when I search google in safari.
I'm trying to open a playlist I saw on twitter (*=URL=* when I follow the link, iTunes opens on the "New" tab, and that's it. I noticed that the country code is explicitly coded into the url (us), and I'm in a different country (Hong Kong), but I'm having a hard time believing that it would just silently fail because of that. Anyone know what the deal is?
On our on-call duty phone we receive SMSs from our server monitoring system. The notification tune is quite long and the phone is intentionally loud. Is it possible to interrupt the tune once it starts playing on iOS 8? On a previous version of iOS (I can't recall which version this was) it was possible by pushing the On/Off button on the top-right or the Volume Down button on the left.
I gave my MacBook to a service center that claims they are authorized apple service centre in Bangladesh (we don't have official apple inc in Bangladesh). They said they will reinstall Mac os Yosemite in my mid2012 MacBook which should solve my problem in the MacBook. After i received my MacBook back from the service center, i am noticing some lag and some tids and bits here and there which makes me feel like it's an altered version of Mac OS like those pirated BlackWndows installations. How do i confirm if they have given me untampered/unaltered mac os Yosemite or original Yosemite.
After some time the notification slidedown and quick controls slideup(?) suddenly stop working. IOS8, iPhone 6. After reboot they work again and then again don't (after maybe several days). When the phone is locked, both panes work correctly. What could it be and how to fix it?
I have my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.4) connected via WiFi. iPhone 5s 8.4 is connected via bluetooth to the MBP. But I can't navigate on the Internet from my phone. Here's the setup:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a software and hardware perspective, what's the difference between the OS X version and build numbers? Example: Version 10.10.3 (14D136)
As a result, I can't move the mouse or write with the keyboard anymore. Animations, slideshows or videos still continue in the background, but even after I close the display and open it again, only the cursor for the password input blinks, but I can't enter anything. Hard-reset is the only way to recover the MacBook.
I would like to expand my "journal" partition to include the free space that lies (logically) before it on the drive. How can I do this without losing the data in "journal".
I have a small problem with my ssd of my macbook. I have been deleting some files to make some space. If I go to 'apple' -> About this Mac -> Storage, I see I have 117 gb of video files on my macbook.
My iPad Air 1 (8.4) displays wrong amounts of free space. It displays 2-3 Gb less than my Mac does when connecting the iPad to it. If my iPad states it has 0 bytes left. My MacBook then sometimes can install Apps on it, but sometimes it also can't.
In Safari 8.0.7 (Yosemite 10.10.4) when I hit "⇧ ⌘ B" my Favorites Bar appears and I can see my bookmarks as well as all folders but one thing I'm really missing are favicon right before bookmarks.  As you can see, Safari is able to display them under "Edit Bookmarks" (⌥ ⌘ B). Is there a way to display them in the place I highlighted green dots on the screen above?
While you are talking on the iphone, if you plug in your headphones (with NO mic), does the iphone internal mic become inactive and you can't talk into it until you take out the headphones? Or does the mic remain active?
Can i use my normal (on the website created) Spotify Premium Account on the iPhone or do I have to purchase Premium on iTunes/the Appstore ?
I recently installed the latest MAMP version on my iMac running Yosemite 10.10.4. MAMP runs fine, used it all day and left it running overnight. Upon waking up the iMac, I have noticed the system is hanging: Websites not opening in Chrome Stopping servers in MAMP doesn't respond Force quit Chrome and tried to restart but doesn't work Opened Safari but it won't open any URL Beach ball appears when hovering over the Wifi icon Restarted Mac but system gets stuck on a black screen with a white, spinning icon as if something is in progress Only way to reuse iMac is through holding the power button and powering back on
I have lots of links in safari reading list on my iPhone and I want to sync it all with safari on my mac but without using iCloud. How can i do that?
I can stream / airplay fine from my macbook or iPhone to my Apple TV, however whenever my Apple TV is on standby (the light is off) I have to manually switch it on with the remote control first, and then choose to airplay to the device. I was always under the assumption that trying to stream to it would wake the Apple TV up from standby. Is there a setting I have missed? It didn't used to do this in previous years to my knowledge. How can I stream to my Apple TV without having to manually turn it on with the silver remote first?
I've been in trouble for some days with the Exchange services on our Apple ecosystem. Right now, I want to change the color of the shared exchange calendars. Changing the color of the local calendar works, same for iCloud ones, and same for my own calendar. See screenshot below. System is in french as you can see…
I have a problem with some non-native mac software (Perforce Diff and Kdiff3). When I use the Open File Dialog, I can see the hidden files, but I can not select them or interact with them at all. In contrast, when using the native Mac TextEdit, when I use the Open File Dialog, I can see and open the hidden files.
How do I fix this? It was fine up until a couple of days ago and everything was working. Should I bring it into an Apple store?
When I use Microsoft Remote Desktop from my MBP I would like to map certain Command key combos to their ALT equivalents In this example Cmd-F12 should be delivered as Alt-F12 to the windows machine. When I create that mapping in Better Touch Tool the app on the Windows app only recognizes the key as just F12
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and I'm trying to configure a vHost. I configured it and it gave me a 403 Forbidden, and I'm having trouble giving _www permission to read/write in ~/Document/workspace/dev httpd.conf, I thought this might be causing trouble with me accessing public host, not vHost, but I'm not sure. I also made sure to uncomment the include on this: And I defined these vHosts in httpd-vhosts.conf And here is my /etc/hosts file:
In on Yosemite using Safari. How can I "inspect element" I've looked through all the preferences and don't see any way to turn on developer tools so I can do inspect element (if that is even possible with them).
I'm making a script which should run when I open Safari. I want it to open when the user logs in and run in the background, then have part of the script to run when Safari opens. Is this possible in bash script?
I'm about to buy a 15" Macbook Pro with 512 GB SSD. Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade the SSD after I have bought it?
Is it possible, using iTunes, to put a backup of a currently active iPhone onto an older iPhone that has no service? Basically I want to keep all the text conversations on a separate older device. It's a backup of an iPhone 6 and I want that backup placed on an iPhone 4S. Thanks!
Now, subsequent attempts have not shown Macintosh HD as a choice for restoration destination. It is also not a choice when trying to choose a start up disk. However it does show up in Disk Utility. Boot attempts without holding Apple+R take me to the same OSX Utilities Page. It seems that I lost my Macintosh HD.... What should I do?
Don't know whats going on ... I am listening to music and all of a sudden it gets paused. The impression is that i got a call without actually getting it. I suspect one application, but have no proof its the one. Is there an activity log i can take a look to see what happens when it happens?
Is there a way to connect my MacBook Pro to two external monitors (either VGA or HDMI; no Thunderbolt) in such a way that the Mac screen serves as a third monitor? What hardware do I need?
From the command line, I would like to compress some database dumps using the LZMA algorithm. And, OSX adds XZ support (written in October of last year), claims
I've built an iOS 8 app and I'm not 100% sure if I'm allowed to use a photo of an iPhone 5s running my app as a timeline picture on Facebook and Twitter (support pages)? The device will only be visible from the front, hence leaving the Apple logo hidden.
Let's say I have the following in iTunes A 100GB library iCloud Music enabled Less than 10,000 tracks And: a 16GB iPhone iCloud Music enabled Since iCloud Music is now enabled, I can no longer select which songs are synced to the phone:
I just want to know if someone has tested if an external monitor works at 2560x1440 with an iMac 21.5" Late 2009 connected via Mini Displayport - Displayport cable. I can't find anything certain on the web. Thanks
I am wondering what (if any) way there is to get a concise list of all defaults currently configured on a system? This post suggests that they are configured by application, which I get, and it has some good suggestions about how to get a list, for instance:
I created a bootable multi-OS USB installer. I completely erased the 2nd SSD and installed Yosemite on it from my bootable USB. I used FileVault 2 to encrypt the drive.
I'd like to be able to select some text in Notes and hit a key or something to make that selected text go "default". No bolds, italics, fonts, or big/small sizes. Is there any such feature?
I have a 2010 MacBook unibody (the white one, not the Pro) and I have been having all sorts of trouble with it. While I have most of the other problems figured out, there is one that keep persisting and I've tried everything I can think of (or find) to fix it: the MacBook will not charge reliably.
When I set up my new macbook pro, I chose to use my apple store username / password. However, the password is a pretty long one, and it's annoying to have to type it in every time I need to change a program, run something as root, etc. How can I set a simpler "local" password to use without resetting my apple ID?
I had a iPhone that was in my ex boyfriend's name he took it from me before I could erase any of my contents out of it. I asked him to do it and he won't. Now he is calling people I had saved on the phone. Can I do a master reset on the phone without having the phone so he will stop harassing people that is stored in the phone? I have tried to contact the Verizon store but they said nothing can be done.
I have a Macbook that was given to me by my friend while I save up money for a replacement keyboard on another laptop that run's linux. My question is where can I find a working URL for downloading either the GPG Suite or gpgtools for Apple's Leopard 10.5.8 OS X. The processor is Intel based and if you have another recommendation other than GnuPG projects be my guest, I really just need a PGP compliant program that can encrypt and decrypt files with PKI support.
Purchased a 13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display. It came with 4GB of RAM and 128GB HD. Got it yesterday, and now I discover that you cannot upgrade the RAM to 8 or 16GB. I need to run Adobe Creative Cloud programs from time to time. Will these programs run too slow? Should I send it back?
How can I remove the built-in music app from my iPad, or at least remove the icon. My daughter uses the iPad and I don't want her to have access to some of the music and radio stations.
When I click "new station from song" in iTunes 12.2 the currently playing song stops playing and as far as I can tell nothing else happens. Does a station get created somewhere? I can't find any radio stations except for the official Apple ones in the tab "Radio". I am subscribed to Apple Music and signed into my iTunes account.
I'm trying to setup by MBP for use with a normal keyboard and mouse. I've worked out that I need to change the Input Source to British-PC to get the correct key-map.
Whenever I am playing any movies in QuickTime, the "Actual Size" option is greyed out. Even the shortcut does not work. In Mavericks, it was working.
Apologies in advance if this has been answered. What is the exact procedure to reset Net-SNMP to "factory defaults" on, say, OSX 10.10 - or any other OSX flavor?
The error page is standard Rails error page, and the web server uses Phusion Passenger on Apache. I guess it's probably running on Ruby on Rails? Very unexpected from Apple.
I'm trying to follow tutorial over at: *=URL=* to create bootable usb for El Capitan Public Beta, however after completion I get this error in console: I tried running hdiutil verify /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan\ Public\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia And it returned:
I have the following applescript working under Lion, but it returns this Error: -10000. Mail got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. error under Yosemite. Any help would be appreciated.
I upgraded my ram about three months ago and then it had random restarts, then I checked disk utility to that my main hardisk wasn't good and couldn't be repaired. But then I did a safe boot and again everything was normal. Then after 3 days again random restarts, safe booted and everything was fine then finally after 3 days it randomly restarted and didn't boot. Mean while o had installed el Capitan beta 1 on another partion. Then I installed Yosemite on a SD card from my friends Mac book and booted from it on my Mac. Everything seemed fine. I backed up data and reinstalled osx on it. Till today everything was fine of reinstallation of osx when suddenly I restarted. I tried to do a safe boot and restart but after safe boot when I clicked restart while restarting it would show a prohibitory sign then the apple logo then again the prohbitory sign and again apple logo and again prohibitory sign and apple logo with loading bar but it won't boot into my main hard disk bit into the El Capit
I did not put these here, I don't know where they came from. WHOIS by IP seems to indicate they are from Amsterdam? (149.154.175.50 copy-pastable for anyone who wants to check)
Apple's documentation on Lost Mode doesn't say a whole lot about what the finder of the Mac will be able to (or unable to) do with it. Especially if FileVault is enabled.
I added my comment to a ticket with Affinity here, but it seems to be moderated for now as I posted the first time. I also am not missing Helvetica or Helvetica Neue as some said could cause the issue at the Affinity Photo Forum. And I removed the old beta plist as suggested in other Apple threads related to my issue: from /Users/me/Library/Preferences
Maybe I'm missing something here, but my playlist created on my iPhone is not showing up on my iPad. Both are up to date, even running on the same network. You would think this would be stored on the cloud, not locally.
In the past I’ve been able to run Windows 8.1 on a Mac Book Pro Retina Mid 2012 installed on an external hard drive using WinToUsb. I had OSX Mavericks installed on the internal drive. After turning on the machine I could simply press „Alt“ to see all bootable drives currently connected. I could then select the Windows drive to boot into it. I could even boot into it on another Mac Book Pro Retina Mid 2012 running first Mountain Lion and then Yosemite using the same procedure.
I cannot open the Parental Controls preference pane in OS X Yosemite. It just gives me: "Preferences Error. Could not load preference pane." Here are the console logs I got:
Is there any documentation or first hand experiences as to what constitutes significant changes to an app when submitting a new TestFlight build that has already passed beta review? Apple asks: "Have you made any significant changes to this build since your previous submission?" We added some in app purchases which turn on/off some features but those features already existed in previous submission so maybe this change isn't "significant".
I'm running 10.8. Everything is updated. Tried all the usual memory recovery stuff and resets. Disabled time machine. When I look at at the HD folders in terminal, with show all sizes all the files only total about 110GB (including hidden files)
I've tried everything I can think of. Resetting the router, changing the channel number and band. The internet connection is fine, and then just hangs for a minute or 2, then returns to normal.
If I add another iCloud account to my iPhone, will I be able to access my kindle books on that iCloud account?
After updating my iTunes library to iCloud, the play count of some has been messed up. I was thinking of fixing the missing data by using an Apple Script loop. The loop should scan the playcount of the current iTunes Library file and replace that of an old iTunes Library file. If I just replace the old file, iCloud Music Library will be disabled. How do I write such a loop using Apple Script?
I'm sitting here creating an Apple ID through the Mail app on OS X Yosemite, wondering why it's been taking an inordinate amount of time to finish. Is it normal to take this long for it to finalize account creation, or should I just go and close the app and start again? I'm tempted to just close it and retry, but I'm not sure if doing so will mess anything up.
P.S. The title should've been "... video container files..." but I preferred to use the more conventional "format" instead of the confusing "container" term.
Is "Free on iTunes" gone again? I'm unable to find the "Free on iTunes" link from the iOS app. I have seen no announcements nor news that "Free on iTunes" was going to be removed. How do I locate this link (if it's still available)?
If I sync my icloud to another apple device, such as an iPad - Will the messages that are already on my iPhone appear on the iPad or will it only be newly received or outgoing messages that appear? Also if it is the case that my messages on my iPhone already will appear, will texts that I have deleted from the iPhone appear on the iPad once synced. Hope that makes some sense!
that is, /usr/local/bin is at the top. This is not what I was expecting, and what I know should be the default.
I used to be able to Right-click or Command-click the name of the file in the title bar and see the path, whether the file was locked or not. Now when I open an attachment from Outlook (yes, I know it's in the Outlook temp folder - I just shouldn't have to manually navigate there), I can't actually open that folder from the Preview window.
When you go to a contact, you can see if that contact has FaceTime. How does the system determine this capability? The usual way that other systems like WhatsApp do it is by uploading/synchronizing your entire address book to the operator's cloud servers, or at least phone numbers / mail addresses (some promise not to save it, but still upload for checking, like TextSecure by Twitter). Does iOS send your contacts to Apple, especially when you enable FaceTime? I know it does if you enable iCloud sync, or Siri "for better recognition", as they say, but maybe just using iOS by itself without iCloud already means it will be shared with Apple services.
I have to use the router provided by my ISP to connect to the internet, but I also want to use my AirPort Extreme. DHCP is set to on in the ISP's router. When I connect the router to the AirPort, and set the AirPort to DHCP and NAT, it seems to work fine, but it also says Double NAT.
I asked the following question on the TeX forum and was told to ask on an Apple forum instead: I often use Mac OS's Quick Look (pressing the spacebar while a file is highlighted in Finder) to preview documents. Before updating to MacTex 2015, this worked fine on my .tex documents, displaying the plain text. After the update it just shows a blank icon. How can I fix this? Further information: this seems to have only stopped working on one login, but still works correctly on others.
I have a short sequence loop in Motion 5. The file loops for 3 seconds, but my video is 30 seconds in length. I want to repeat the short sequence file 10 times, so it fits the 30 seconds.
I´m running osx yosemite with homebrew, apache, php5.6.9 and have installed php 5.3. I need php 5.3 to run a certain api which known to have complications with ph5.6.9. But how can I disable php 5.6.9 to use the 5.3?
I have a file (4alJRTP_.gif.part) in my downloads folder that won't seem to delete.  Every time I drag it to the trash, nothing shows up in the trash and the file icon remains in the downloads folder. I also tried opening the file and a pop-up window shows up saying "'file_name.gif.part' can't be found".
It says "verification required before you make a purchase you must tap continue to verify your payment" but the apps are free i've tried taking off the card too but that wont work
I have this Applescript code that sends a message to a given contact. However, I get this runtime error: The important part of the code:
After updating to iTunes 12.2, I am not able to play explicit content music (from my library). I get the following warning.
Only since yesterday, I am unable to find an access point on my macbook pro (MBP) running Mavericks 10.9.5. Interestingly, all my other devices (Nexus 5, Ipad, Macbook Air) can see it and connect to it. All devices are in line of sight to the router. The router is broadcasting the SSID. Also the MBP connects to my other access points just fine. I have tried the following:
I have a 64GB iPhone 5S with iOS 8.4, but I'm only able to access 28 GB of space. iTunes reports a capacity of 55.92GB, but in the usage graph at the bottom of the summary page, I see: 13.61 GB Free 1.58 GB Other 1.09 GB Documents & Data 5.13 GB Apps 248.3 MB Photos 6.34 GB Audio The Setting->Usage->Storage app says: Used: 42.9 GB Available 13.0 GB I've tried rebooting and updating the OS from 8.3 to 8.4.
I've seen the following screenshot showing the time zone in the info display in the new photos app. I can see how to see the time zone if I use the adjust time and date, but it doesn't display in the info display box.
I'm creating a little script to allow quick changes to the network settings of my Mac. I have got it all working, but I wanted to be able to see what the settings are before I change them in the first dialog pop up. The command that gets this information is "networksetup -getinfo device" The result is like this: How can I get the IP address, Subnet mask and Router as 3 variables in my script so I can output them to the user over the following prompts?
I've asked several questions on Ask Different about an Intel SSD that I'd bought and tried to use in a DIY Fusion Drive in my early 2011 13" MBP. The Fusion Drive worked for a few weeks and then quit on me. The HDD works fine, but whenever I try and install OS X on the SSD, it hangs right around the part of the installation where the logs say it's extracting all the packages. The first extraction took around 15 minutes, but the next one hadn't moved after an hour. I'm resurrecting this topic because today I decided to play with it at the IT company where I'm interning this summer, and my boss and I ran a few experiments that made things a whole lot more interesting... Things that work perfectly: Installing Linux Mint on it on a PC Installing Windows 10 on it Installing Mavericks on it when it's plugged into my sister's computer (mid-2012 13" MBP) Things that don't work: Installing Mavericks, Yosemite, and the El Cap Public Beta when the SSD is plugged into my computer (they all hung) A
OS X 10.9.5. I have a /home directory in my filesystem. I want to remove it and create a symlink named /home pointing to /Users to make symlinks from GNU/Linux usable. But I cannot remove /home directory (rmdir: home: Resource busy) nor create any file under /home (Operation not supported). Any solution?
On OS X 10.9, I'm running a script (e.g., ~/bin/run.sh) via my user crontab (added using crontab -e). This script, under some specific conditions (not related to this question), will run the following command to launch a menubar application: When I run this command (either ~/bin/run.sh or the launchctl statement above directly) from the command line normally, the menubar item launches fine. When this command is run via crontab (again, directly or via ~/bin/run.sh), I receive the message nothing found to load in the cron output (in my mail). Question: why does this fail when run via cron but not when run on the command line? I have tried executing it via cron in the simplest way possible: This doesn't work (I get nothing found to load). I have tried emulating the cron environment: Capturing the cron environment by having this execute in cron: env > ~/cronenv Capturing the cron environment by having this execute in cron: Then opening a shell with this environment: env - `cat ~/cronenv` /
I am using Mainstage 3 with my Korg M3. I would like to create patches in Mainstage that select a bank (I-A to I-G and U-A to U-G) on the M3. In Mainstage, you can send a bank select command by entering a MSB and LSB in decimal format. However, I only found the MIDI implementation chart for the M3, and I do not have the knowledge to translate that into the decimals for Mainstage.
On my iPhone 4 A1332 I had a pop-up this morning from daily-offers-online.com which I could not remove. I had no access to Safari until I clicked on the pop-up's OK button (which I did by accident).
I realise this question is somewhat of an intersection of OS X and Google but I'll start here. My partner discovered that most of her pictures (up to 2013) that are on her Mac were mysteriously available on Google Photos; we're puzzled as to how all these pictures ended up on Google Photos when we did not explicitly upload them.
Is the 30% calculated after the developer states its intended price? i.e. Spotify says that it wants to earn $9.99 with each purchase. Apple says fine, I'll charge $12.99, have $3 (which is 30% of $9.99) for myself and you can have the remaining $9.9. (I don't believe this is the case.)
I would like to know why some songs in Apple Music can't get played in an album or in a list and can be played individually. I will show how I see some albums:
I have a big itunes Music collection with high quality original rips from CD on an external harddisk. It used to be on the comnputer. I have the problem now, that since this displacement from the Mac to the external harddisk (indicated, of course, in the preferences of Itunes), Itunes still has my perfect order of the collection but instead of showing me the original AAC Audio-File on the harddrive he replaces them with the respective Icloud song, giving me shitty quality of my own music. What went wrong here and how can I fix this in a smart way?
My mac will no longer power up via the keyboard. I have taken the back off and have it before me with the fans at the bottom and the batteries at the top. How can I jump-start the Mac ? I have tried to find the Power Pads but to no avail. I have also read about shorting pins #5 and #29 of the keyboard cable but unsure where this is and which pins exactly to short. My question is how to start the Mac using either method above or another.
I can't open the App Store, and I can't open software update. I've tried all the troubleshooting advice I can find online, but none of it solved my problem, so I figured an OS update was overdue. I'm hoping that will fix it.
I was just wondering if there is a way to reset app windows like Mail or Finder to there default size and position. Is this possible and so yes, how? Thanks in advance.
Every time I boot my macbook, there is always a black screen before the Apple Logo pops up. The blackscreen stays for around 15-20 seconds. How can I resolve that problem?
On a Macbook Air laptop, on 10.10.3, I'm trying to upgrade to 10.10.4. The first time, the system downloaded the file. After the download, I had a message saying (I'm translating form french): "download of some updates did not finish; they can't be installed". Since then, the system update shows with the "update" button, but the system does not redownload the file, I see a notification saying the system will reboot, but actually it will display the above error message. How can I force the upgrade?
I'm trying to install Google Calendar app on my IPad Air 2. Couldn't find it in App Store on my IPad. So I found it on a web page *=URL=* then I sent this link to my IPad and App Store installed it on IPad but... It was installed like for IPhone, everything was big and huge so i had to remove it.
I have a Macbook with several user accounts. Most of the accounts have administrator privileges. The computer's hard disk is encrypted using FileVault. Is there a way to additionally encrypt each users' home directory so as to prevent other admin users from accessing the others' directories? I'm (always) running the newest OS X (10.10.4 at the time of writing).
Yesterday (6 months later!) I received a contact in my phone about the iPod. I am confident that many things (including torture) were tried on the device to unlock it, and I was contacted only because they failed. I will pick up the iPod during this weekend, so I want to be ready to try it out on the spot. Question #1: What would I need to unlock it? As per this,
Yesterday my Macbook Air (original), model: a1237 flashed an error message asking the user to shutdown due to low battery. Since it was not me, but my brother who was operating the macbook at that time, that I am not able to exactly put here what the error message was. But, as I was told later, it prompted him to shutdown.
When I try to convert my local Photos.app library to iCloud, the amount of photos in the library decreases from 686 to 681. I have tried to convert my local library multiple times but the problem keeps happening. I have found one of those 5 photos, but the file doesn't seem to be damaged. The library was created in OS X 10.10.3 and I am currently running 10.10.4. Is this a bug in the app? What can I do to prevent these photos from getting deleted while enabling iCloud Photos?
I lost an iPod 5, with iOS 7.1.1. It had Find My Iphone enabled. WiFi and GPS were off. Within a couple of hours of losing it, I went to iCloud, and set Lost Mode for the iPod. I also set a custom message for it to display my phone contact number. And I also set Notify me when found.
Unfortunately, I had to suddenly replace a lost MacBook. It has about 200GB of documents (almost anything that matters) in iCloud Drive. Open new MacBook Full Time Machine restore via Migration Assistant iCloud Drive is empty (and apart from app-specific directories, has been empty for about a day with no activity from brctl log --wait --shorten or iCloudStatus (Presumably if I just leave my Mac powered on and connected to WiFi for several months or years, all 200GB will download to it and become available.)
I have added some songs on Apple Music for my sister. But even now after I have removed then they still appear on the for you tab. How can I clear my history in apple music. Reset it. I know I can choose different genres but after that some of my sister music still appear on the four you tab. Especially on the iPhone where I can scroll down to it.
Steam has games in its Application Support, which is located on drive_c in the wrapper as a Windows executable, and pointing to that did not work. I tried putting the map editor App on the same wrapper as Steam, but the JRE 8 installer keeps failing and displaying a window with "Oops. no new executables found. Maybe the installer failed". How do I install JRE on the wrapper, or how could I make the game files compatible with the editor?
How can I set the location on my macbook from a GPS set when out of range of any WIFI signal (e.g. at sea)?
The alias's objective is to launch a pdf in my chrome browser. The pdf is entitled "Intro to Java.pdf"; the browser is "Google Chrome" alias x='open -a "Google Chrome" /Users/ahanagrawal/Documents/"Intro to Java.pdf"'
I wanted to find out if there was a wired alternative to Apple's Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad that also supports the gestures built into OS-X Yosemite, at the very least the ones supported by a Magic Mouse. I realize that one alternative is just stick with the wireless Magic Mouse and go with a Mobee Magic Charger for Apple Magic Mouse, but the reviews on the Apple Store have been mixed and I was wondering if anyone is using a wired device that gives them the ability to use OS-X gestures? Update
I have a Mac notebook, running Microsoft 365 for Mac which does not include Microsoft Publisher. Our office uses pc's and Microsoft Publisher to create our brochures, flyers, and bulletins. We each need to be able to read and edit the files.
My 5K retina iMac has one audio port. On my MacBook pro that only had one port, it was possible, in System Preferences, to state whether to use it as an input or an output.
Someone sent me an email with an image attached. I want to review the image and forward it to someone else. How do I do that?
When adding a New Event to Calendar on the iPhone6, I get an error message "Cannot Save Event - That event does not belong to that event store." How are events suppose to be added to the calendar?
I cannot get a keyboard when adding a contact on my new iPhone 6. What to I need to do?
I have a 10 MB connection, which runs really good but sometimes it get slower then 56kb dialup connection, i had my provider call up and asked, what is wrong but they say too much traffic is being consumed in your house by devices on the chart of connected devices. So i had my password of wifi changed and just connected my laptop, and it was running really like a 10 MB connection, but again i am facing same issue. I want to monitor my network traffic and see what's the devices on router taking so much of my bandwidth and if possible website address too. I have a mac, i was wondering if there is any software that can really help me out?
A friend has a Windows 8 laptop and needs to copy a text file from the laptop over USB to her iPhone running iOS 7. On the Windows side, I upgraded iTunes to the latest and greatest. When plugging the phone into the laptop, a window pops up prompting the user to sync their picture files, to which we agreed. So it looks like everything works hardware- and software-wise. Incidently, the two Apple-related items in Device Manager are displayed correctly (ie. no exclamation point). However, even after following this article, I can't figure out how to copy a text file from Windows to the iPhone: The apps installed on the iPhone aren't listed in iTunes. Is there an Apple-newbie article that explains how to do this? Thank you. Edit: Should I forget about iTunes and go for iExplorer instead?
I have a problem with my device and it would be great if anyone can help me with this problem. In Telegram Messenger app; when I close the App, either by closing it or by coming out from the app my "ONLINE" is on just temporarily. If I check my status from another device in front of my name is still written ONLINE. Is there a way to change this On-line reporting to be more accurate. Regards.
The "Trash" of a 16-GB usb2 flash drive had 3.4-GB of data. I emptied it as such: $ cd /Volumes/FooDrive/.Trashes/501 $ rm -rf *
A long time ago I started using Mac Mail instead of my web-based Yahoo email. Then I deleted all my emails from my web-based Yahoo account and kept them on Mac Mail. Now that I've stopped using Mac Mail and I'm back to using web-based Yahoo, I want to know if there's any way I can restore/forward these offline emails stored on my Mac Mail back into Yahoo. There are a lot of emails, so forwarding one by one is not an option. Someone help?
My Mac mini failed recently, and after taking it to the Apple store, they said it was the logic board that failed, and it would be $350ish to replace, which was not worth it to me, so I took it back. I want to recover the data off of the hard drive. I have the drive removed from the computer, and plugged into my laptop running Ubuntu 15.04/Windows 7 (dual boot) via USB3. I have two partitions on the hard drive: My Macintosh HD Partition, and An encrypted partition with some sensitive documents How can I mount this encrypted partition on my laptop (using Ubuntu or Windows, idc), and get the data off of it (I know the password that it was encrypted with)?
Really frustrated with iTunes -- How the heck do I add the music in my iTunes library to my iPhone? I'm a power user and I've been using iTunes and iPods since the beginning. I'm going on a road trip tomorrow morning and I want to sync my iPhone 6 with my iTunes library -- just put all 15 GB of music on my iPhone so I can listen to it in the car. Last week I installed iTunes 12.2 and I signed up for Apple Music.
After performing a clean install of Yosemite (erasing the entire disk using disk utility during installation), the original name of the disk (APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 Media) turned out to be "Macintosh HD" eventually. In addition, there are only two actions left, first aid and partition.
I want to customize the right click/"open with" menu for some file extensions like jpg, in order to see just the 4 apps i want to use with this file type. Google suggests me to edit the info.plist file of the apps (Applications/**/Contents/) by changing the CFBundleTypeExtensions section. This does not seem to work anymore in Yosemite. Does anyone know this?
As the title states, is there any danger in leaving my iMac G5 (Later 2005 model) turned off and disconnected from a power outlet for long periods of time? I will be traveling for roughly 1 month and, during a normal week, I only intend to use it a couple of times a week. Otherwise, it will sit in my room under a full dust cover, disconnected from a power outlet.
Had 8.4, tried 9 public beta 1, I still find out that only music and podcast restriction keeps resetting itself to "clean" with no reason. I tried to disable restrictions with "explicit" on and yet it keeps resetting with time.
I have brew installed but I don't have the GNU flavor of sed - can I get it through brew?
I just noticed this. Previously, when I typed cd Doc<tab> I would get cd Documents. Now I get cd Doc. If I hit tab again it just appends more tabs. I only have one Doc* directory:
Continual opening of files from history. I clear history, but they appear on startup the next time. If I use option (alt) button on 'Word' dropdown, I get Quit and keep files rather than Quit and close files?
The application information panel on retina MacBooks features a checkbox "Open in Low Resolution" with you are supposed to use when you experience e.g. visual problems (according to Apple).
I have prepared bootcamp with windows 8.1 iso. After the very first start of Win 8.1 i see a very small page with the language/country settings, but i cannot choose anything or go further because keyboard trackpad dooesn't work. What do I wrong ? (OS 10.10.4) Same procedure on Macbook pro 13" shows big language setting page and keyboard works well. Any suggestions?
I have a launch agent that I created several years ago to set a random signature both in a .signature and in Mail.app. It does nothing complicated and has hummed along through several OS X versions. However, I see that recently every time it runs there is an error logged into the console: The script is not at all complicated, and it runs out of my home folder (#HOME/bin/randsig), but I suspect I am running into a sandboxing issue. The error doesn't prevent the script from running, but since it runs every 12 seconds, the errors do make looking for other things in console more of a problem. I did see this discussion, but in my case it doesn't help me.
I have used several pdf viewers including Adobe's but they don't have full screen support with green button(pdf on another screen). Even if I do full screen then I can't view two pages in split mode on one screen. Viewing one page in full screen mode is very less information. Is there any visually and functionally better pdf viewer?
My keyboard number pad has been messed up ever since I installed OS X 10.10.4. The numbers type as follows: when I press "1" increase volume key goes up as well. When I press "2" the ' key comes up as well. "3" some wired key. "4" ] comes up. "5" [ comes up. And "6" the equals sign comes up.
I have at least a few iOS apps that tend to crash a lot from the most simple and easy to reproduce functions of the app. I'm curious if any devs have had experience with this, and have found that their apps are eventually removed due to this. I mean, Apple gets tons of crash reports all the time, and surely they'd notice their mistake fairly quickly, and pull the app from the store, right? The question is: Will Apple eventually remove an app that has been crashing on a large number of user's devices, even if it passed review?
I just started using the new Apple Photos app, after upgrading to yosemite. It's downloading all my photos i have from iCloud I have from my iPhone thus far. Will it continue downloading if i closed the Photos app on the mac?
Now and then I manage to leave for office without my iPhone. As I depend on some two factor authentication apps and other stuff on the phone this basically means that I have to go back and get it.
I accidentally edited the info.plist file of Safari and now Safari does not start up giving the error "quit unexpectedly". How can i restore this file?
So I'm trying to boot a yosemite installation from an 8GB USB with the dmg file I downloaded from the app store, but once I hit "option" during my mac's startup and choose the correct usb, I get the following error "Cannot Install Yosemite on the Mac. Yosemite already has been installed" This is of course false as I have OS X 10.7 and I'm trying to upgrade to 10.10 Any help or ideas? Update: Per a suggest I've inputed the following code into my terminal: Here was the Result: Hopefully this give more insight into my issue. Thanks
I recently dropped my iPhone in water and it was working fine right after that, but the next morning I was prompted with an ‘activation required’ screen. I’m afraid ‘activating’ will wipe out everything on my iPhone, so I’m trying to back everything up before doing that. However, both iTunes and a third party tool called iMazing won't let me back anything up before activating. I know that none of the data has been affected by the water because (a) it shows up in iMazing and (b) the lock screen still has my old wallpaper, language settings etc.
Using OSX Yosemite and VirtualBox v4.3.28 I'm trying to install guest additions. In all online sources it says go to Devices -> Install Guest Additions but in this version I guess there is no Devices menu. In all the screenshots on the help it shows Devices next to Window and that is just not present on my VB (See screenshot). I've checked in other menus and VB preferences but I don't see anything related to guest additions or devices anywhere.
Can projects compiled in older versions of Xcode run properly (or at all) on newer version of iOS? For example, can a project compiled in Xcode 4.2 run on platforms with iOS 8. Is this possible?
My (12-inch retina) MacBook periodically joins a wrong wifi network, ignoring the preferred networks list in network preferences. (I'm using the latest version of Yosemite)
I've been listening to the Apple Music thing that came out in iOS 8.4 and I've been clicking the little heart button on the songs I've liked assuming I'd be able to find these songs again. Is there anyway to get a list/playlist of the songs I've clicked the heart button for?
My 82 year old father would like to create his memoirs by talking into his computer and having software convert the speech into text into a document like MS Word. Originally I was thinking that I would purchase software for his PC so that he talk into his PC's microphone and the software would take care of converting it into speech. In thinking through this further I realized that maybe using an iPhone or iPad he could do something similar. He currently has a PC desktop, a ChromeBook as his laptop and a flip phone as his cell phone. Would it make more sense for him to use either an iPhone or IPad to do this speech to text conversion and what additional software (if any) would be necessary?
I have a cron-like launchd script (StartCalendarInterval) that does a backup of some website data once per day: In rare cases it might go wrong when the Internet is not available. The backup.sh script then sets a proper error code that is larger than 0.
Does anyone know to import OS X folders into Photos.app albums? Every time I drag a folder in photos.app, it doesn't automatically generate an album for that folder. Is there a way to force this functionality?
[Specs of the iMac, the iMac already have 8GB(Should be enough to handle Yosemite)] [1]*=URL=* Yesterday i bought this iMac, it's took around 45mins to boot up and it's unusable due to the slow response. Each click takes around 15mins to response. So i done a clean installation of yosemite and updated to the latest version. And it's now become normal(boot up around 3mins) except the temperature is high at around 110C. I open up the iMac and clean the dust inside(All three fan) but it's still running at around 100C.
I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to download one's entire iTunes or App Store purchase history as a CSV file? I know that from within iTunes I can go to Account / View Account / Purchase History, but this has numerous problems. It does not let me download the results, but only shows them in iTunes. It does not show all purchases, but instead shows results one screenful at a time. And it does not even show purchases as individal line items, but shows them grouped into collections you need to click into. It's almost like they're trying to make it hard to see how you spend on the App Store or iTunes Store.... I have not been assiduously saving all the email receipts regarding my purchases, so I cannot access this information by doing bulk processing of those old emails. So is there any other way to get access to this information except for the inadequate iTunes interface?
I have an application I use on an external monitor with an external USB device. Is there a way to close the lid and continue using the app on the external monitor? I turned off the sleep upon close function, but the external monitor still turns off. OSX 10.9.5
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 13.3" which had OS X 10.10. I erased the entire SSD with Disk Manager and tried to reinstall OS X. Unfortunately, my internet connection isn't good so it would take more than two days to download the installation files, so I downloaded the OS X .dmg on another computer and I made an USB bootable device with OS X 10.10 using PowerISO on Windows 7. Now when I try to install it using the C or CMD+R key, it doesn't show up. I only have the option to use Internet Recovery and I can't use it because it doesn't load. After a while it says "apple.com/support -2002F".
/var/cache is missing, ~/Library/Caches seems to be for full-fledged applications rather than command line tools, tools I've seen in the wild do horrible things (like use the user's home directory). Where is the correct - or at least predictable and reliable - location?
Also recently I tried history -a and haven't noticed anything change. What does this command do? Man history doesn't help.
I am pretty used right know to reading things on dark backgrounds and I feel that my eyes get less tired than with regular white backgrounds, especially while programming or basically any activity that involves hours looking at the screen. My question is, on iPad and iPhone, how does Night Mode really work? I mean, does it iluminate the black pixels on the screen, or does the OS keep them off so that your eyes receive the less amount of light possible? It could seem to be a little silly, but for me is very important as I use this device for reading a considerable amount of time.
I have two apple ID's. I created a new one for my new company and bought enrollment for it. The old account has three apps that are no longer available on the store, since the enrollment ran out of time on the first account.
This doesn't happen with the other folders (sent mail ecc): whenever I delete an item from one of these folders, the change is synced to the server. They are also configured in the same way in Mail.app:
I've got a 3 TB Time Capsule that stores a range of files and Time Machine backups. I’d like to be able to backup the whole Time Capsule offsite, ideally using a "cloud" backup provider.
When a Mac Preview user sees a link in the PDF and tries to click it nothing happens, although the mouse cursor changes indicating that the link is clickable. Users using other applications than Mac Preview such as Acrobat have no problems. Does Apple Preview disable clickable links in PDF in general or is it PDF dependent?
Could anyone please tell me, now that I have added a WatchKit target to my application, if it is possible to just run the main target on devices which don't support the watch (i.e. the original part of the app which worked on iPads and iPhoneOS < 8?). Xcode keeps telling me I can no longer run the main app target (not the watchkit target) on my iPad because: Ineligible Devices : My iPad (Apple Watch not supported)
I have a 2006 imac which was installed with lion and now I've got it to a point where the OS became corrupt. I've put a maverick install on a bootable USB but when I boot from the USB doesn't give me the option to "Install OSX" it only gives me the option to "Reinstall OSX Lion" which doesn't work because that is no longer availaibile from the app store. I've tried to format the harddrive and that doesn't change anything. My question is, how do I get the option to install a new OS fresh instead of only being given the option to reinstall Lion which does not work.
I have set up Mac OS X 10.9 in a Virtual Machine and I'm struggling to get any internet connection. In my network settings (Mac), it says I'm connected but nothing works. Safari doesn't load any page, AppStore doesn't load anything (all greyed out). In VirtualBox, the only settings that showed any connection at all within the VM was Bridged Adapter with an Adapter Type of Intel PRO/1000 MT Server. What can I do to get a connection going within the VM?
I'm using Microsoft mouse software with either a trackball or the Explorer 3 mouse. Sometimes, when I middle-click, instead of the new tab opening on button-up, it happens on button-down and button-up. Sometimes it happens twice on button-up. This means if I middle-click a link in chrome, I might get from 1-3 tabs opened. I can't figure out how to eliminate this behavior.
I just bought a new iMac with Keynote version 6.5.3. The company I do business with has Keynote 6.2.2. i am told they are incompatible. The company will not upgrade. Can I downgrade? If so, how?
I have gone through and used some great code form the these forms for Adding content from mail to Excel using Applescript. I am nearly there but have one more question. I have the following layout of an email
How do I delete songs of my iPod using iTunes?
With the complete redesign featuring the new streaming mixin (which I don't use), it seems that when listening to music from my library (stored on my device) I can only shuffle songs within a single album for an artist. This is not a dupe of this question, in that I'm not asking how to shuffle all songs in the library.
i'm looking for an app able to MOVE (not copy) selected pictures from iphone to a nas share or a windows share. Ios is updated to latest version Requirements: Works on wifi (no usb cable) Use lan ip address or lan hostname (not important) No itunes No copy and manually delete No jailbreak Is there an app can do this ? Thanks in advance
Every time I open an app and it restores the windows that it has open, they generally restore to whichever space is currently active, rather than to the space the windows were originally on before I quit the app. For example, if I have several terminal windows open on different spaces, quit Terminal.app and relaunch it, then the terminal windows all reopen, but do so on the current space. TextEdit, Xcode, iTunes, Messages, all of the apps I use have this problem. The only one that reopens its windows to the correct space is Finder.
I always wondered how my Mac could connect to the internet when the recovery partition is booted and my main system partition is locked (filevault2). Some googling revealed today (e.g. here, here, and also on askdifferent) that the WiFi password is apparently stored in NVRAM and that needs to be reset to remove the password. As a security conscious person this is unacceptable to me. When using Full Disk Encryption (i. e. Filevault2) I expect the system to be safe, also against my network.
How do I clear out "Recent Rooms" in Outlook 2011 for Mac when I am creating a Meeting or an Appointment? Deleting from the UI will not clear for the next time I try to schedule a meeting.
I have enabled the iCloud Photo Library on my iPad and MacBook. While I was traveling, I uploaded some photos directly into my library at icloud.com using a web browser. The photos I uploaded then appeared on my iPad, but not my MacBook. I have tried the following things with no success: Closing and opening Photos Restarting the MacBook Turning iCloud Photo Library on and off in Preferences Leaving the computer on overnight to allow the sync to sort itself out. What else could I try?
I installed Yosemite 10.4 on my 500 GB MBP hard drive. I only have 40 Gb left. Though i have : Pictures 88 GB Music 60 GB Movies 5 GB Documents 4 GB Dropbox 6 GB Desktop 0 GB Downloads 1 GB for a total of 164 GB out of 500 GB. I have 40 GB left so this sum up 204 GB. What is taking the rest of my space 500-204=296 GB? Can't imagine that Yosemite+Recovery HD takes 296 GB inlcuding Library and System folders. Please is there any explanation? Thanks!
When I try to open iTunes Producer, I get an error stating, "We are unable to retrieve your password from the security keychain." I recently deleted the folder in my keychain library while trying to fix another keychain problem that I was having. The previous problem was that a large number of programs (calendar, chrome, etc.) had problems with the keychain. I fixed that problem by resetting my iCloud and computer keychains.
My MacBook Pro (early 2009) doesn't detect when the power supply is connected and doesn't charge. It behaves as if the power supply was not connected to the MBP. It has 56% battery left and runs fine otherwise. I also noticed that the date was set back to before 2008.
I've Googled, and the only three ways of changing the displayed name in AirDrop that I've found are: changing the computer name in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Computer Name, changing the "Me" card's name in Contacts, or modifying a Plist file with the command defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES.
I need to highlight duplicates in column A, but only if column B is equal to 10. 67890 10 67891 10 67891 20 67891 30 67892 10 67892 20 67894 10 67895 10 67891 In this example, what I want it to do is, as soon as I input the value on column A the cell automatically changes colour. I have tried using sumproduct and countifs on conditional formatting, but it does not highlight the values. Thank you in advance.
I have a contact us page. It has the usual information: Write, Call, Fax, Email, Web. I am checking my pages with iOS Simulator. The Reader mode of Safari on iPhone/iPad seems to distort or delete content on the page. Desktop Safari Reader mode does not seem to have these problems.
Does anybody make a (preferably BT/wireless) Mighty Mouse knockoff? It's my favourite mouse design by a long margin, but Apple doesn't make them any more and the old ones all have bad scroll balls by now :-/
I am looking for a program that works on Mac OS X 10.10 and can open and display an LMDB file (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database). Ideally, gratis, can also edit the file, and supports large files, like HDFView for HDF4 and HDF5 files.
How can I toggle the "Show date and time in menu bar" option via AppleScript. I'm using OSX 10.10.4. I am looking for a working example in AppleScript.
I get the following reason to refuse my app: Specifically, upon review of application we have application/device icon leverages the Apple Watch menu., and they attached my app icon. Strange.
There are quite a few files/direcotries under /. But Finder only shows 'System', 'Library', 'Users' and 'Applications'.
OS: Yosemite 10.10.4 So, I have a kids educational DVD I want to rip to have on my phone for commute time. No problem in a DVD player.
I know that Siri has "code words" which are not directly transcribed but which insert punctuation. I find it essential to be able to restart or to go back and clear out words which were dictated improperly.
I am trying to install old software on my either one of my Macs (Powerbook G4 and iMac 21.5 from 2011). This software contains old fonts in a very rare format, which I would like to be able to watch / install / convert (eventually). I have tried opening the font files in OS X with almost every font program available (FontBook, FontDoctor, FontForge, FontLab, Fontographer, TransType4...) and have come to believe that they can only be viewed on an older system for which they were designed. I opened another discussion about how one might open these rare / old file formats on today's machines but it doesn't seem to be possible. So, the software I am trying to install is on three different CD-ROMS hat are designed for Mac OS 6/7/8. I have two partitions on the Powerbook, one with OS X 10.3 that can run Classic (Mac OS 9.2), and one with OS X 10.5.3 (most recent possible system for this machine), this way I can go back and forth systems. When I try to launch the installer CD in the Classic e
I'm tailing var/log/sys.log and I keep getting this message: every 25 seconds or so. Sometimes it'll include a string of numbers such as: And as I was writing this it changed (for the first time since I caught it about 9 hours ago today, although after the tail logfile turned over and I restarted it) its process ID number to [21174] After some intensive googling I found out that this URL roughly matches that which occurs in the SniperSpy spyware program.
I have a MacMini (late 2012) running the latest Yosemite version 10.10.4 and I get ocasional random restarts. Sometimes they occur right after I login from one of these restarts, other times it is stable for quite a while (can be hours or days) and then restarts again. I have unplugged all external peripherals (Firewire HDD and Thunderbolt HDD) but I am still using dual-monitors: one direct HDMI and the other using mini display to HDMI adaptor.
I got a notification to update the itunes v12.2.1.Initially had lots of download going on so the download was slow.Later after completing the windows downloads the itunes update is simpply stuck at one place it doesn't resume the download. When I start another download it starts downloading very fast but when I see the same for itunes the update doesn't resume it is stuck at 51.70MB A few while later as it was still stuck on that 51.70 I clicked the Stop but now even the cancelling is stuck. Although I can simply open the task manager and closed it but why exactly did the software update didn't resume when it had the free bandwidth for updating
Our Exchange server was rebuilt following a hardware failure and this has resulted in the mailbox ID changing. Mail.app doesn't like this, and crashes as soon as it tries to check for new messages:
I have been trying to update my iphone 4 from ios 7 to ios 7.1.2 for months but it has never worked. I go into software update in settings, I see that I can update my phone to 1.7.2 so I press download and install. Then comes terms and conditions so I press "I agree". Straight away it starts downloading but it is pretty slow. It keeps on downloading until it is halfway done with the process bar. Right beneath the bar were it stood estimated time remaining it says now "preparing update..." When that happens the update suddenly is super slow. It nearly doesn't go forward. After few minutes of waiting, the update stops and I recieve a message saying "Software update failed. An error occured downloading IOS 7.1.2." I have tried rebooting my phone but that didn't work. It's like something is preventing me from updating my phone but i don't know what it is Can please someone tell me what I am doing wrong
I'm having an issue installing Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro, here is what I have: MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.66 15" Mid-2010. Mac OS X install DVD that is not for the above model I don't have the one it came with.
I would need to control an iPad's sleep/wake at specific time intervals. I know using Apple configurator helps disabling all hardware buttons and touch events too... But my motive is to make the iPad wake by 7am and sleep by 10pm.
I reset my iPhone 4 because it was terribly slow after 3 years of continuous usage. Now it's much faster again, but many of my contacts are lost, although I used to sync them using iCloud and I had them both on my phone and on my Mac. I tried to restore them using TimeMachine, but it seems there are no backups for contacts left from early enough. Now I wonder whether my contacts still are on an old iPhone backup (which I should have in iTunes from before resetting my iPhone) and so I could get them back.
Something weird is happening with iMessage on my Mac. I can send and receive messages fine but when I close iMessage and reopen it, all my messages disappear. Also, if the app is closed and I get a message, I get a notification but when I open the app it's not there. The conversations are all there but they are empty. What I've tried so far: Signed out of my account, closed iMessage and restarted the computer. Deleted all plists related to iMessage in ~/Library/Preferences Delete ~/Library/IdentityServices What else should I try?
Platform: Yosemite 10.10.4; MacbookPro 15" Retina (mid-2015). I can't succeed to open properly certain video streaming sites, like in following link example: *=URL=* I even don't know what to Google, since only "Missing Plug-In" appearing error message (in frame where video was supposed to be played) doesn't point what exact element is missing. Trying the same action in Chrome (on same MBP) gives also "This plugin is not supported" error message. Sites which demand Flash player plug in which didn't play in the past - I installed Flash and they work fine - means that probably what's missing is not Flash, but I am not sure. Please advise how to manage the issue.
I'm going to be on an aircraft for a long time, but the aircraft offers an ethernet cable, which I can connect to my Macbook through a USB to ethernet cable, however, I would like to get internet access on my iPhone 5S. Is there any way to do this? Like through a lightning cable? Is there a cydia tweak for this? (I'm jailbroken)
I have Calendar set to my time zone. However, reminder popups still give the time in GMT. How can this be adjusted?
Apple never keeps even a dot on its hardware if it doesn't have a function. But why does the iPhone 6 have this Gap/Thick line on its edge? Any clue?
Right now when I try to save a document the location options are simply: Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc. and then "Recent Locations". I want to be able to browse through my documents for the correct folder to save to but I cannot figure out how to enable these feature. I just updated OS X and it disabled the "browse" feature.
Before iOS 8.4 I had an Alphabet scroller to find artists quickly. How to make it appear again?
Is it possible for me to keep iCloud Music Library turned on so I can actually use Apple Music (save tracks and playlists to the My Music playlist) while also maintaining the ability to sync any music I acquire the old-fashioned way (downloads, CDs, etc) and add to my iTunes library? It's so damn annoying to have to turn on and off iCloud Music Library just to be able to sync music to my phone while using Apple Music.
My and my daughters phones are synced together. We're sharing the same storage. My phone continually tells me that I don't have enough storage space. How do I remove my daughters contents off my phone and quit receiving her stuff from her phone?
My husband and I both have iTunes accounts. Can I sign onto his account to download some of his music.
My MacBook has been acting wierd for a while now. Every week or so it completly freezes, meaning I can't interact with the system anymore at all: No mouse movement and no apparent response to key strokes. It doesn't just go away either: last time I left it sitting for about 5 minutes, no luck. In the end I have to hold the power button to reboot it.
I recently installed Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite) onto an external USB drive. It has been working fine for the past few days. When I need to switch OS installs, I shut down the computer and then pull out the drive. However I think I just pulled out the drive a little too early, while it was still being written to, and now the drive is not being recognized at all by the computer. I get the following message.
I wrote a small tool as a cmd tool. Where should it be placed? Which paths are automatically scanned for searching an app? I want to avoid absolute path, because I have to track it on every system.
I've experienced the fairly common slow open and save dialog box issue that seemed to come about with Mavericks and stick right through Yosemite. The following solution has worked temporarily for me: 1) In Terminal: rm ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/CloudKitMetadata*;killall cloudd 2) In Activity Monitor: Force Quit cloudd
When syncing playlists over from iTunes on my Windows Media Center, I have checked the "Only Sync Checked Songs" and it all worked perfectly prior to iOS 8.4. Also, prior to iOS 8.4, I was able to hide songs that were available in the cloud but not yet downloaded on the device.
I just updated the Mac Mini that I use as a file server to the 10.10.4 and the Server App to 4.1.3. After I updated I can't connect anymore to the AFP share that I see in the Finder sidebar on the client, a MacBook Pro.
I'm having trouble connecting 2 iPhones 6 and one iPhone 5 to a TP-Link TD-W8901N wireless router. When I click on the Join button on the iPhone it tries to join (upper side of pic) and then it stops (down). It's like a circle and repeats over and over.... I am able to join via Wifi with my laptop. I can connect to another router with my iPhone..... I did restart router several times. Router settings: Channel: 1, 6, 11, auto (have been tried) Wireless Mode: 802.11 b+g+n Channel bandwidth: 20/40 MHz Authentication Type: WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK Encryption: TKIP/AES Transmit Power: High Beacon Interval (ms): 100 RTS/CTS Threshold: 2347 Fragmentation Threshold (bytes): 2346 DTIM (ms):1
I'm creating a folder action to display a notification when a new file is downloaded and would like the notification to display the filename. I can't figure out how to extract the filename of the downloaded file and pass it on to the variable.
I can't seem to find the details on Apple's website, but I have seen both model numbers MC414LL/A and MC414Z/A for sale at various web shops. The english wikipedia only lists the LL/A variant and the german wikipedia has only the Z/A model. Is it perhaps just the difference between US and European models?
I need to gather all of my open applications running on Windows 7 to one screen via remote desktop connection using my Macbook. How can this be achieved? As it is, one program (Notepad ++) is stuck on the second monitor, which I cannot see on my Macbook screen. My questions is very similar to this form superuser: https://superuser.com/questions/216277/windows7-how-to-gather-windows-from-secondary-monitor
My wife lets our baby daughter play with my iPad, and something she did has caused the magnifier/zoom window (one of the accessibility features) to end up tall and narrow instead of the usual size and shape. How do I resize it so that it is more useful again?
I have to carry two phones - one Samsung Galaxy 6 and one iPhone 6. Unfortunately, something in the Galaxy sets off the Apple Pay on the iPhone when they're in the same pocket, and it constantly shows the credit card. Normally I wouldn't care, but this accelerates battery drain as the screen is on far more often. Is there some software way to address this in either device?
On OS X I run iTunes (12.2.1.16) I keep going from iOS 9 beta 3 back to iOS 8.4 due to finding glitches. Because of this I have to keep waiting for ~20mins for iOS 9pb1 to download. Is there a way to download the IPSW so I can doit within iTunes to skip the waiting time?
Sometimes I give live demos from my Macbook, whereby I plug in an HDMI cable and show my screen on a projector. During such demos, I sometimes might need to look up a login password which I keep stored in an encrypted file. What's a better way besides unplugging the monitor to privately copy this password into the pasteboard without flashing my entire password file on the big screen?
I also know that the notebook server I have running on my digitalocean droplet (running Ubuntu 12.04, set up with pretty much everything on defaults, and installed via anaconda package) is properly configured at least to work on full-size computers. It runs fine on my macbook (2013-edition 13in RMBP, specced out, running 10.9.5). Yet when I tried and access the notebook server from ipad, it will start up the server, and it will create a new notebook, however, the notebook hangs in "connecting to kernel" status and will not execute code in cells (trying to execute code just gives no response).
Before the upgrade to IOS 8.4, when I was listening to music, it would have the track number at the top of the screen (i.e. "1 of 14") but with 8.4 I can't seem to find a way to put that back on, if it's even possible. Any help/suggestions?
Is there any way to 'tether' my camera via its HDMI out to a MacBook pro? The goal is to record live, uncompressed, video direct from a camera. Thus skipping the camera's file system and recording directly onto the Mac's hard drive via Premier Pro or similar software.
Before the update to 8.4, when I was listening to a song, there was a button in the upper right where it would bring up the whole album that track was on so you could listen to other songs on that album (for example, if I was listening to all songs on shuffle and I heard a song and wanted to see or listen to other songs on that album). After the update, I can't find that option. Help/suggestions?
After cracking my iPhone, I contacted apple support, started a service request, and filled out the ""Send in for Service" option. However, I am now trying to cancel (which apparently is done by simply not sending the package), but I need to know if there are any costs from a cancelled request. iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 13" (Late 2013) with 16 GB RAM/512 GB SSD running Mac OS X 10.10.3. There are 20 GB free space on the SSD according to the Finder.
I am looking for a piece of software that can mount a DMG file on Windows or encryption software that can mount the encrypted volume as a virtual drive on Windows or mac Most of the software I have found so far does not mount but as a virtual drive but have an interface to add or remove files and folders from the DMG.
Is there a way to automatically open Preview whenever I plug my iPhone in my Mac to import the photos? Also want to do this when connecting my Nikon SD card. I just hate this new Photos app, I prefer to use Preview to import.
On my iMac this works perfectly. I have application open, I open a file extension handled by that application and it will open in the already open application. Just got a new Macbook Pro and each time I open a file it will open the same application again. Examples:
I have multiple account sources for my Contacts (family iCloud, personal iCloud, Exchange, etc.) When I create a new contact, how do I specify what account I want it saved to? Right now, Contacts just saves it to the default account. I'm on the latest Yosemite.
I think many of us have been disappointed with the effective demise of fseventer. What is a good dtrace shell based alternative to fseventer that will display all full paths of files being accessed for a defined application?
I saw another question that demonstrated how to disable the Captive Network Assistant, but as I do take my computer to hotels that use these portals, I'm reluctant to jump straight to that. Instead, is there something on my Airport that is generating/blocking these all of a sudden and it shouldn't be? I tried a factory reset of the Airport and I'm still seeing this issue. How can I configure my network so I stop getting these annoying popups?
I am working on setting up a psql server and would therefore like postgres to run whenever the computer is on, regardless of whether I'm logged it. (The machine is running OS X Yosemite.) I set up a launch daemon to do this, but it doesn't work. syslog gives the following error messages: After that, the last message repeats indefinitely.
Playing around on facebook recently, I typed some old norse runes, and noticed that the kerning is positively atrocious. Not too surprising, since this is very much an edge case. Nonetheless, I would really want to have this fixed, and was wondering what it might take to actually succeed. I'm sure I could get the actual kerning table crowdsourced, but how would I go about getting Apple to incorporate it into the standard fonts? Here's an example of my name: ᛉᛅᚱᚴᚢᛋ, as you can see, there is way too much space between the ᛉ (m) and the ᛅ (a).
I used to see Safari (8, currently) warn about filled-in forms before navigating off a page. I just lost a large writing twice due to accidental swipe on the trackpad/clicking, and had no warning, and when navigating back, the form was cleared (I also have seen before when Safari would retain the form information you'd typed when navigating back–why is this inconsistent?). I want to shoot myself in the face.
The following bug is something that started occurring today... Whenever I try to connect to any WIFI network (routers, mobile hotspots), I can see my iPod tries to connect, but instantly loses connection. When I try to do this manually, it connects but immediately shows a screen with address *=URL=* the title of the screen is "Log In" and the screen contains: The only thing I can do is press Cancel in the right top corner... My ipod runs on iOS version 6.0.1.
I read that on previous versions of OS X it was possible via hwprefs but I didn't figure out how to use it on 10.10.* (looks like it was removed). I need to disable HyperThreading for Wineskin.
I'm trying to add litmus with ssl enabled, but the "download - configure - make" path fails, missing files . So tried Homebrew Install Litmus and it works fine - but... it doesn't build with ssl, which I need it to do. Thanks
Anyone else just (15th July 2015) started seeing Apple's captive portal probe popup in 10.9.5? It may be a sneaky silent push (this isn't affecting 10.10.x) due to Flash security issues? We've worked around this by pushing out (we use Munki) this to our devices and asking the user to reboot.
What would be the 'best' way to connect the 2015 Retina MacBook Pro to a Dell U2715H monitor? If I wanted to use the monitors USB 3.0 ports and also output sound to a Dell soundbar, how many cables would I need? I was previously considering getting a Thunderbolt Display, but the reasons against are: Bigger and heavier than the Dell Ugly wide bezels Twice as expensive as the Dell Uses more power than the Dell
Is there a way to start 'Backup now' without going to System Preferences, enabling Time Machine Menu bar and clicking it if I have the icon hidden? Clicking on the drive doesn't let me backup:
When starting my app it prefills local cache from server side. It takes me 25-30 sec. Apple refused my app because they claim after the first minute content is still not loaded. Do you know do they test app during low network conditions on purpose? Apps should be responsive even in offline mode?
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, is there any way to create different emails and have them delivery automatically at a specific date and time? As provider I do use iCloud.com and Gmail.com and I have OS X 10.10 Mail App.
My MacBook Pro has been running fine for the past year. Two days ago when I tried to clean my MacBook Pro with a dry cloth, I heard a half chime sound while I was cleaning the keyboard. Since then my MacBook is not turning on during specific time.
On iOS I have the option to tell Apple Music that I don't like this recommendation. In iTunes this functionality doesn't seem to be present. Is this indeed not possible within iTunes or am I missing something?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 2.5 GHz Core i7 with OS X 10.9.5 from March 2014. I teach in an Adobe classroom every week, and have never had the following problem until last night after I downloaded the new Adobe Plug-in.
I just got a selfie stick, and it connects to my iPhone via the headphone socket. Clicking a button on the stick causes a picture to be taken.
I have noticed that pre-installed as well as apps installed from the App Store located in /Applications show permissions like this: drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 102 Jan 1 2014 Mail.app whereas apps installed by drag-and-drop into the same folder look like this: drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johndoe admin 102 Jan 1 15:55 Steam.app
First of, i'm an applescript noob;-) What I'm asking for is simple but nearly impossible for me to execute. See the script below.
I know that using Erase all Contents and Settings destroys the encryption key, securely wiping your data, but does simply doing the restore through iTunes then setting it up as a "New iPhone" do the same thing?
I'm trying to set up Apple Mail to send through my web host's SMTP server (not Gmail, or any common email provider), and as soon as I save the SMTP settings, Mail forgets the password, meaning that authentication always fails. I type the password in the dialog below, click OK, and then reopen the "Edit SMTP Servers" dialog, and the password is gone.
I would expect to have the same as the iPhone 6 - 1GB since it also has an A8. How much does it have?
Just a few days ago ( I have actually been using another computer for a while ) I started up my 2006 macbook pro and and after a few minutes I got the white diagonal lines, although I could still see the desktop pic with the top menu and dock but hitting keys did nothing. Well after a few more startups in the last few days, that desktop disappeared with just the white lines across a grey screen, then the next start up the apple logo had diagonal lines and then black lines and just now I fired it up again and I got the black lines and then right to the grey screen. I've seen this issue posted about before and I cannot remember what it means and I hope it is fixable.
How do you delete an album name from the side panel in the photo albums section of the iMac?
After connecting VPN I often have to flush DNS to get my private hosts to be found. I would do this sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache; sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches Now, after upgrading to Yosemite 10.10.4, I get sudo: discoveryutil: command not found
So a few days ago I just bought a new MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015 and at first it was all good. 2-3 days ago I noticed strange problem - Wi-Fi keeps going down like every 10-30 seconds or so and it's not router's problem, because on my other PCs the Wi-Fi is working perfectly fine. For example right now I was downloading 35MB file (500KB/s download speed) and the speed went to 0KB/s like 5 times or so, so I had to turn off Wi-Fi on MBP and turn it on again. Then the speed went to 0 and I had to do the same. Same problem occurs when I'm browsing - out of nowhere Safari stops loading pages and I need to wait for like 30 seconds until the wi-fi starts working again or I need to turn off and on wi-fi on MBP. What I tried: Turning off wi-fi and deleting these files: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist com.apple.network.identification.plist com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
On Windows to quickly search something, I just press F3 and then you can type what you are searching for as "keywords", how do you do this on Mac? I am busy with HTML and I want to quickly search something.
How do I uninstall Apple Mail app on a Macbook Pro and then reinstall it?
In OS X Mavericks, when you press ⌘ + Tab, the App switcher shows up. I use this all the time. However, I also use 3 displays, and the App Switcher seems to be less than intuitive.
I've read some questions and posts regarding Yosemite downgrade from Time Machine back-up (like this and this) but I was wondering if the same thing would work for a bootable backup made with Disk Utility. Will this process work? Boot the Mac from Recovery HD Enter Disk Utility From the restore tab, choose the internal hard drive as destination and the bootable drive as source. Restore
Strange problem - I recently purchased a MacBook Pro, recently updated to the latest OSX and I have an issue in Safari where when I install an extension (doesn't matter what extension) Safari will keep loading its "first time installed" dialog, every time I start safari rather than once, when the extension is installed. It is driving me crazy - I have tried it with another user on the same mac - I can't reproduce the problem. I have tried it with multiple extensions installed, and a single one, every extension I have installed (1Password, Amazon, Ad-block) recreate this problem. I have uninstalled extensions, deleted preferences, etc... Any ideas anyone? I have had a look at this question (which is the opposite of what is happening to me): Installed Safari Extensions disappear after restarting Safari I tried deleting extension-related keychains, and changing permissions on the Safari Extensions List but to no avail...
I've been looking around and haven't found an idiot proof guide to partitioning my mac to run windows 8. Unfortunately, that's what I need as I have not knowledge of any of the required software/firmware or OS's in general. I'm running OS X 10.10.3 with bootcamp v 5.1.4 and I also have virtualbox 4.3.28 I have ownership of a copy of windows 8.1 student from the microsoft store but the only thing I've been able to download there is an .exe file.
We have a web design agency and we're wanting to test development on an ipad air 2, we have a couple of ipads that we often test our builds on but of course new devices are being regularly being brought to the market that feature newer technology, higher resolution screens etc. and it becomes counterintuitive to possess an endless array of older and new devices for testing on. So, my question is, what are the currently available services, paid or otherwise, for Apple device emulation?
On my MacBook Pro running 10.10.4, just now, I wanted to upload an image to a website that I was browsing in Safari, so I clicked an upload field and got the usual dropdown Finder dialog. I choose "Photos" in the left sidebar to browse my Photos Library.
I accidentally deleted my bluetooth speakers from my macbooks devices list. Now it will not show up again. How can I get it to show up again so I can reconnect it?
(My use case is using my RAID storage on a Linux workstation to store Time Machine backups and other data) I have investigated options for iSCSI, they are GlobalSAN and XtendSAN. Both are prohibitively expensive, at A$119.51 and A$261.85 respectively, at time of writing. Since there are no free or reasonably priced iSCSI initiators for OS X (there is an FOSS iSCSI initiator for OS X, but it is not currently developed enough for real use), I am seeking a viable alternative.
Can plugging public earphones in our iPhone 5's audio jack pose any security risk? Can our data (pictures, videos) be accessed? How often one can try a unknown earphone into iPhone 5c's audio jack in term of security and privacy risk?
I used to have a this bluetooth (BT) headset paired and working. Because it had some audio stuttering issues, as a troubleshooting measure I decided to un-pair (remove from list of BT devices in Mac OS) and pair again.
I have Apple Music 3 month free trial and I added an album to my iCloud Music Library. But one sound is "disabled" and I cannot listen or download it. What's wrong?
I noticed an indication 'CLEAN' on iTunes today. What does it mean? Screenshot:
I have a SD card that I put into my MacBook Pro. It then showed up in finder. I wanted to access it and I accidentally dragged the mounted card and now it's gone from Finder.
Safari has a built in feature called reading list, for a few years I used it as an alternative to bookmarks for articles. When I was looking at storage usage I saw that safari has 200mb+ for offline reading list, therefore the pages must have been chaeched. However, when I turn my phone into airplane mode and try to access any of the pages from reading list it prompts me an error 'The operation couldn;t be completed. Operation not permitted' I tried to search the web for troubleshooting the reading list and the only suggestion I found was to make sure that enable downloading for reading list using cellular is on and it was on. I am not sure what I can do in order to fix it.
I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.4. My problem is that the emails keep getting set back to 1970 and are blank. This happens every single day and I have to wait hours for it too fully sync again. I have tried reloading the phone, removing and re-adding the email, soft reset, hard reset. This issue has been happening to me for the last few months and I've run out of ideas.
We want to position a Thunderbolt Display (2015 model) 30 meters away from a Mac Pro (2015 model). Questions regarding this setup:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software stand point prospective, I read on a book that: "Further, the server-based dictation in OS X also sends other user information, like your address book contacts, to provide more accurate transcription." What does it mean? How can Dictation improve by sending the address book contacts? Thank you so much and have a great day.
It is possible that this problem is related to issues I have been having with Time Machine, which started roughly around the same time: backupd also segfaults unexpectedly - not instantly upon startup, but in the process of mounting my NAS backup volume. Here's an excerpt from a backupd crash report:
I really have been trying to find a way to save my favorite podcast episodes from different channels into one playlist. With the new Love button in iTunes, I made a Smart Playlist using this feature. But no luck iTunes wasn't updating the Smart Playlist with any podcasts that I marked as Loved. Any ideas? Maybe this functionality isn't possible with iTunes? If so, that's a shame... Thanks
Some more info: we're running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2, and the exec is also using Outlook 2010 on Windows 7. He also has an Apple Watch.
I use a MacBook Air, but would like to put an iMac at my office for a performance boost. I don't want to switch between operating systems, so I'd like to target the Air's SSD (via Thunderbolt 2) when working from the iMac. Here are the devices: 2015 13" MacBook Air i7, 2.2GHZ, 8GB RAM, 512 SSD (Thunderbolt 2) Retina iMac i7, 4GHZ Quad, 32GB RAM, (Thunderbolt 2) My dream is that I'd be using the iMac's RAM & processor, and that Thunderbolt 2 would be fast enough that I wouldn't lose any SSD performance.
What's up? Is this Youtube's DRM, or is there something else going on?
Is there a way to have keynote play full screen on one display and just let me have access to my desktop on a second display? It always shows the presenter notes. I want to just be able to access my desktop while the presentation is running.
When I press "play" on the keyboard, iTunes starts up and launches the very first song of the very first album. I like Amy Winehouse, but everyday might be too much.
I like the new sidebar in Yosemite Photos. But after upgrading to Photos from iPhoto on my iMac, I have literally dozens of "Events" that need to be moved into "Albums."
I was installing nodejs for Symphony when I hit an "Operation not permitted" error. Anyone know why this happened? MacBook-Pro-de-XXX:~ XXX$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node Password: ln: /usr/bin/node: Operation not permitted
I have an IMAC that I purchased in Japan in late 2009 annam currently using in the US. My issue is with Calendar, there are appointments showing up that are in Japanese and that I cannot cancel or delete, any suggestions.
I deleted "chmod" by mistake using "sudo rm chmod". What is the way to recover the chmod command? Is it 'a no way to do it' operation? I'm using Mac OS X Yosemite.
I have a situation where my OS X Server app seems to not be completely dropping DHCP leases and I think it is causing some of my hardware MAC's to conflict as per the assignments I have set. I use DHCP to assign machines IP's based on their MAC's and there is one set of network devices that allows me to inject data over our radio stations STL path. (Moseley LANLINK HS, yes I already contacted their tech support...awaiting response, but this does not seem be a specific issue with the devices functionality) I need this to connect on our network to access the remote site network devices for federally mandated logging and site control purposes. I am able to connect my laptop directly to the device and it works just as it normally should! I feel there is some weirdness in OS X Server with the DHCP service not properly assigning address and I really want to clear all leases before I move forward with an uninstall and reinstall everything in Server.app, including all of it's settings files an
I am ready to pull my hair out. My boyfriend and I both have iPhone 5's and live in Canada. When he is here, there is no problem. But when he travels (which is very often) to the States, he is not getting my messages and I am not getting his - at least inconsistently. HE gets texts from everyone else but me it seems because they are not using iphones. It shows that my messages were sent from me (no errors), but they don't get to him, and viseversa - he is also sending some to me when he is away, that I am not getting. What in the world is happening?
I'm trying to update Java on my Mac OSX Yosemite. In the Java Control Panel, it states:
After properly creating a valid certificate for code signing, when running the command: I always get a: Anyways, When I open the Keychain Access I see that certificate created in the System folder (with a + circle over it). Also, when I run: The result is: What does this mean?
I am using an iphone 6, first time with an iphone, not really fond of it unfortunately bought it for the slow-mo video but having a heck of a time getting my music transferred! I don't want to live stream it, I want the music saved on my iphone. Trying to transfer from a Linux system computer (that was a whole lot of fun) finally figured that out using the dropbox app, but how to get the music from dropbox to an app that I can make playlists and NOT stream as I don't have unlimited data or wifi available ( I know stone age right?)! There has got to be an answer. Don't want to pay for all the music I had on my android device before switching to (cough.. a phone known for music abilities)... help appreciated! (as user friendly as possible I am tec illiterate, sorry.)
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, I opened some encrypted files such as Keychains, FileVault, etc. I do understand that these are encrypted files and they are impossible to decrypt. I do noticed that some symbols, I guess used to encrypt and mask the real data, are always the same (for the most part). Example: ^@^@^@-^@^@^@1^@^@^@5^@^@^@9^@^@^@=�^@^@^A^@^@^@^@sdmn^@^@^@^@^@^@^ My question is, are these symbols below have a specific meanings? ^ Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
Is there a limit to the number of files which can be excluded in TimeMachine? I have 5000+ photos on an external drive along with their associated sidecar files. The photos are large and never change (I back them up separately) but I need to backup the sidecar files. The photos and sidecar files need to be located in the same directory
I am trying to transfer things from a Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro Retina. I start up Migration assistant on both and proceed with the initial steps, selecting the source laptop from the target Macbook Pro, then after around 10 seconds on the Macbook Pro I get a screen saying "Migration unexpectedly quit. Please try again."
dnctl - There is almost no documentation available for this online, but it seems like it may be able to do the job if configured properly. It has been mentioned before in this Stack Overflow question, but the answer doesn't provide any examples on how to use/configure dnctl to limit bandwidth.
When considering the contents of the /shared directory - and specifically the files whose names begin with driversLicense: 16:12:48/shared $ll driversLicense.* Then in Finder I type in first few letters - specifically driversLicense: here is the screenshot of the result (I have done this a half dozen times to ensure it were repeatable):
Not really sure what its expecting here, I assume its around click button though. This used to work on 10.10.3, but seems to have stopped on 10.10.4? Script
On Windows, in the Advanced TCP/IP Properties of the TCP/IPv4 properties of the NIC there is a tickbox called "Register this connection's addresses in DNS". Does Mac OS X have an equivalent setting? I need to disable it, as we have a Mac OS X 10.10 Server with 3 NICs that is autoregistering in the office DNS server (which is a Windows 2012 server btw) and it is registering the same hostname on all 3 NICs, which is not what we want.
I typically leave messages as unread if I need to remember to read them later. Also I like to keep my inbox clean, so I delete mail I don't care about saving.
Recently I've been using the Workflow app to create home screen shortcuts that launch third party apps via their respective URL-schemes. This avoids the annoying initial time it takes LCP to load up its home grid on my iPhone 5. However, I've been unable to move one particular third party URL-scheme onto my home screen because it involves an unfortunately necessary lc-callback, and thus needs to be launched from within LCP in order to work. (Lc-callbacks are LCP's special workaround for when an app doesn't support URL chaining via x-callback-url. One has to manually return to LCP from the third party app, but once done the workflow may continue on.)
Has anyone using OS X abandoned folders completely and moved exclusively to using tags? If so, has this been successful (a better way to manage files)? What are the pros and cons? What advice would you give to someone when making the transition from folders to tags?
Have recently upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite 10.10.4, and found that Mail's swoosh sound when sending mail is no longer evident. Anyone know how to get it back?
I have been using a previous generation mac mini server as a Windows 7 machine for the past two years without any issues. It was set up with boot camp and Windows 7 professional loaded on the internal SSD. I would like to add to the amount of disk available by using a OWC Mercury elite pro Dual Thunderbolt disk that internally stripes two 3 TB drives making a 6 TB partition. The machine boots fine with just a Mac monitor plugged in the thunderbolt. What I insert the disk into the thunderbolt chain and attempt to boot the machine the boot sequence finds the Windows 7 partition on the SSD and then the screen goes black with only a single blinking underscore in the upper left corner. The Machine and drive functions fine when plugged in using USB3. I have critical reasons for wanting to use thunderbolt instead of USB3.
I have a 250GB macbook air. I do a lot of photography, so my SSD gets filled up with photos really quickly. I've been using a 2TB external hard drive to archive the older photos that I no longer need to store in my SSD, moving the folders with the photos manually to the external hard drive, and then deleting them in my SSD. I was wondering if there is a way to do this automatically? The process should backup all the sub-folders in my Pictures folder to the hard drive, but without deleting the sub-folders that I have already deleted in my SSD.
I have set Safari on board my iPad Mini (first edition) to always run in incognito mode. Every time I start it and go to YouTube or any other video service, I can clearly see, that volume is set to half. I don't know how many times I turned it down to 0, it always is "reset" once I re-start Safari.
I have a problem with my Calendar on my Mac OSX 10.9.5. I normally double click on any date and create a new event. I give it an appropriate name and the correct time and after 2 to 5 seconds some of my settings are reset to the default value. So the time is set again to all day event, or the title is set to "New Event" or other things are just lost.
I have bought Macbook with Lion, which I have upgraded to Yosemite. Now I want to reinstall Yosemite from stratch. Which Mac OS version will be installed if I'll follow this instructions (Command (⌘) and R keys). Will it install Lion (which was installed on my Mac Air when I have bought it) or will be downloaded last version - Yosemite? How can I install Yosemite from stratch?
Do you know if it's yet possible to submit some Swift 2 apps to Apple or will I need to wait for the official release of XCode 7 ?
Starting from yesterday I've a weird problem with Google Chrome on my iMac 5k with Yosemite (updated).  As you can see, the text is shifted down some pixel and the lower part is not visible. Chrome is updated to the latest stable 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit), I have already tried to restart Chrome and the iMac itself.
I have an Apple Watch and a second iPhone. Now I need to unpair the Apple Watch from the first iPhone, and pair it with another iPhone. I want to keep all of my data though. How would I go about that? How would I continue?
I used to connect my MBPr HDMI port to my office ASUS MX299 display every morning for like a year, and everything was just fine. Recently I have updated to 10.10.4, with external display detached. That I connected it again and have been working as usually for the rest of the day. Next day I went to business trip. This morning I got back to office and routinely connected external display to hdmi port. It didn't work. It's definitely not the cable, or display problem, because the same display works over the same cable with mdp-hdmi adaptor just fine. What I tried so far:
My WiFi loading animation is messed up.  The frame where the second-longest bar is filled doesn't match with the other frames! This is mildly infuriating — have I done something to mess this up or is Yosemite just like this?
Ever since Apple introduced the Internet Accounts way of setting up email on Apple Mail a few years ago I have been unable to setup my Google Apps account, I've tried looking for similar issues but just can't find a solution anywhere. The first thing I do is select Google from the list in System Preferences > Internet Accounts. Then enter my username and password into the google login form. Then enter my 2-step Verification code and accept the permissions request.
I accidentally created my Apple ID with the email address ending ".con" not ".com". I've changed it on My Apple ID and can now log in on iCloud and the computer fine, but can't log in to the App Store on my iPhone as it still has my email as .con there and there's no option to change it, only to enter a password. I tried: Logging out of iCloud and back in. The main suggestion I've found online is to change my Apple ID back to .con, log in to the App Store and then log out again, but I can't as My Apple ID won't accept .con as a valid email (a bit bizarrely given it let me set up the account with that in the first place without flagging an error...).
I want to make a 2-element microphone array using my iPhone. I'm looking for an audio recording app (like Voice Memos) that can record through both microphones of the iPhone. Does anybody know an application for this purpose?
My home directory was not where it was supposed to be. I was able to fix the directory location. Then needed to fix the permission of home directory with
Apologies for the vague title - I couldn't really think of any other way to sum up my problem. I've been trying all day to work my own way around this issue but I've ultimately hit a brick wall so could do with some help. It's rather complicated so I'll explain from the beginning but try to give only the important details.
My whole family has the same Apple ID to prevent confusion. It has worked in the past, however whenever we add a new device we struggle with this problem. And as if that wasn't frustrating enough, messages that my dad sends to my mom show up on my Macbook as me sending the messages to my mom. I also receive my mom's phone calls on my MacBook and my iPhone 6. I have already checked the settings on all said devices and none of them have iCloud message sharing enabled. Additionally, all the devices can be contacted by only one number/email and none of them share anything except the Apple ID. Help would be much appreciated! Thank you!
One way to get the window back to normal is to refresh, but I have to do that for every tab that is cropped (and not all windows/tabs are cropped). If I show and hide the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox all windows are fixed.
One users account is broken. No apple apps work. Can I delete and create a new user and not lose Registered Apps like Adobe. The problems with the account seem to never end. Fix one another pops up. Made another user to see if it was just the one. All apps work on second user.
I am trying to switch from using my desktop to my macbook pro as my primary machine. I have 2 monitors (each 1600x1200 resolution) I'd like to use as external monitors for my macbook pro (from 2013). Both monitors support VGA and DVI input (along with s-video and composite, although I've never used those before). Looking at the laptop, it has 1 hdmi port, and 2 thunderbolt ports.
I have 2 Gmail accounts. When I tried adding one of them to the Mail app, something really annoying happened. The other Gmail account keeps receiving forwarded emails from this account. All emails in this added account were being forwarded there and I did not know how to stop that. I checked the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings in both Gmails but there's no forwarding configured. I disabled POP, too. I tried disconnecting the two Gmail accounts in Google's setting, but problem still not solved. I don't understand, by now this account should know nothing about the other, but when I add it to the Mail app, the crazy forwarding started again.
Preview use to support adding an outline to text. Using a black outline with white fill for lettering was really nice for making words visible on dynamic backgrounds. Has this feature been removed in Version 8? Or is there another way to do this?
I've just moved from an older US MacBook Pro running Mavericks, and I've been able to write the Norwegian 'æøå' characters by using alt-', alt-o and alt-a. On my new US MBP running Yosemite, all of these work, except for alt-a, which just writes '¯' instead of 'å'. I know of the option to hold down keys to get a list of alternative characters, but the alt-variation is much faster to work with, and I'd really like to get it to work. I've installed the latest OS X update.
How do I disable the guest user? Is there a reason why it gets created? It won't mess up any of my files or data on my computer right? Is find my Mac suppose to randomly create it?
Is there a difference between the command line tools that come with xcode and the ones installed with xcode-select? If I install xcode and then run xcode-select --install will the ones installed with xcode be overwritten?
Not sure, if this question will be closed, but the situation is quite annoying. Every time, I open some .pdf or .jpg file, a dialog appears,and it seems to be stuck there for a long time. After I click on close button, and open the file again, it opens without the dialog.
If our app has passed beta review, meaning we can distribute via TestFlight to 1000 external users, do we still need to setup test user accounts for in app purchases? Seems like that would be a huge burden, not only for developers (I guess people could share test user account logins, but that could screw up the testing !!!), but also for testers (testers have to logout of the app store on their phone, then log back in with test user account).
I recently set up my modem/router through xfinity, and after activation I unplugged the Ethernet cord to try to connect my laptop to wifi. My phone is connected and working well but my laptop won't go online even though it's showing that it's connected to my network. I spent over an hour on the phone with Comcast troubleshooting, and we determined it has something to do with my computer. The computer was connecting to other networks just fine before I plugged in the Ethernet cable (it was the first time it ever had one plugged in) but now won't work on any wifi network including ones it had previously worked on. Help!!!
With the kind of writing I do, 99 out of 100 spelling "errors" aren't errors at all. Spell correction is simply incredibly unhelpful for me. I hate the distracting red dotted underline that appears in my native Mac apps. What system settings can disable this?
My girlfriend has a 13-inch Mid 2013 MacBook Air, OS X 10.9.5. Yesterday, the keyboard and the trackpad stopped working. I connected a USB keyboard which works. I believe it's a software problem because: The Power key still works (all the time) I can boot up in verbose mode (press Command + V while booting) I can do an SMC reset (Shift + Control + Option + Power Up) I can do a PRAM reset (Option + Command + P + R + Power Up) All these things seem to work with the built-in keyboard, but as soon as the login window appears, the keyboard does not work anymore (except the power button).
Sumarizing: I would like to acquire some control of the extension (the characters after the last dot .) in the name of the files. Methods easy to perform for unexperienced users are preferred.
My iPhone 5 was used when I got it about a year and a half ago, but it appeared to be in perfect condition. However, today I was trying to take the screen off and at that point I noticed it only has one screw on the bottom, and the other screw-hole (the right-side one) is empty. The left side of the screen pops out just fine, but the right side is somehow stuck in there, as you can see in the picture below. If I try to force it out, it starts pulling the "inner shell" thing out with it. The right-side screw-hole is absolutely empty.
I am looking to buy a Mac Pro here in the next month but I'd like to use a Samsung 4k monitor. It has 2, HDMI ports and 1 Displayport. I understand the Mac Pro has thunderbolt2 ports, which, correct me if I'm wrong are the same type of port. Can I take advantage of the 4k capabilities of the samsung using a display port to thundebolt2 connection? thx
I'm using Final Cut Pro and my friend and I are disagreeing on whether 2GB of video memory with the Dual AMD Firepro is enough or should I go with 3GB? If I go 2GB is the video memory upgradable? I haven't bought the Mac Pro yet.
I'm new to OSX and all I want it an application shortcut in Dock that opens the terminal and types the first command and waits for me to provide the password. Here is the script I want to run: And here is the AppleScript I created using Automator:
I usually enjoy the notification center and need persistent notifications to bother me so I actually get stuff done. However, I would like these notifications to be suppressed (not dismissed, but simply hidden or appearing below) while I am in fullscreen mode (either in a web browser or a full screen app). How can I accomplish this? Example of desired results: Regular window mode: notifications on and stay on screen until dismissed An app enters full screen mode or I watch a movie on YouTube and turn on full screen: notifications temporarily become invisible I switch back to a normal workspace or exit out of the YouTube movie: notifications appear as normal and stay on screen until dismissed
I was wanting to reveal the EFI password on my Mac using this in the Terminal: but instead of outputting hex data, it gives me this:
Trying to help a friend avoid the high fees at the Apple Store. He has a 2010 Macbook Pro, and a few days ago he had it off the power connection, and it lost battery power. It shut down, and when he hooked the cable back up, it would show the apple logo, and have a progress bar beneath. Then the screen would go white and it would reboot and do it again.
I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro with both the Intel Iris Pro integrated graphics and the NVidia Geforce 750M dedicated GPU. I run two 4k displays, one at 60Hz through a thunderbolt bolt and one at 30Hz through HDMI. I have one open thunderbolt port, and would like to add a 3rd external display. I know that it is possible to run three external displays from this model (see here, here), but I also know that it is not possible to run three 4k displays (see here). My question:
iMac 7,1 running OSX 10.10.3 Dell Inspiron 740, running Windows 7 Home Premium My aging mother has a Windows PC and a Mac, which she prefers using. Sometimes my dad is using the Mac, so she's stuck using the Windows PC (it's specifically for her) until he's done. Her favorite part of the Mac is using the Mail app, which I've tried time and again to find an equivalent, but nothing's got everything. I've now had the thought to just set up PuTTY on her computer to open an Xsession via SSH, on a user specific to her, and have the Mail app open automatically. How do I set this up?
This window pops up every few minutes (macbook pro circa 2006 running OS 10.6)  I no longer have this internet service, so how do I get it to go away? Hitting cancel or ok just makes it pop back up in a few minutes. Doesn't matter if the airport is turned on or off - it still comes up.
After using Image Capture to copy all my photos and movies from my iPhone to my Mac, and deleting from the iPhone, I find I have one stubborn remaining file listed in Image Capture. It has a usual name, IMG_0155.MOV, but the size shows as 0.
I'm trying to replace my iPhone 5 battery, but first I have to take my screen off. My screen appears to be glued shut on the right side, but from what I can see of the inside of it, it looks very different than the tutorials. So I'm starting to think I'm not taking off the whole screen. In the picture below, should I continue to pry #1 out, or should I pop #2 out along with #1?
I actually liked getting email notifications when Find My iPhone was used and all of the sudden they stopped. I can't find any options to turn them back on. Anyone know why they stopped or how to get them back?
Since my MacBook doesn't have enough disk space for all my photos, I took an external USB HDD and created a second photo library. That was back then with Aperture. Now I have moved to the new Photos app and the iCloud photo library.
I recently change my Apple ID and password. However, now I an unable to use System Preference; each time I click on System Preference I am asked to input password for the old Apple ID which doesn't exist any longer. How can I disassociate my MacBook Pro from this old Apple ID which doesn't exist?
OS X Spotlight search information was removed. What does this mean for my Keynote presentation made in iWork '09?
I am very new to applescript as well as programming. I am trying to find a way for applescript to access my facebook unread notifications and whatsapp web unread chats and read it out to me.
I recently created a bootable USB from a .img file, here's what the USB looks like:  And this is what it looks like in Disk Utility:
I recently bought a iPhone 5 on eBay. Now I'm suspicious if the screen is the original one or a replacement. Is there a way I can clarify my concernings? The screen has problems to recognize my touches and sometimes doesn't work at all. Here are a few pics of the "suspicious-looking" Screen
I've replaced my macbook pro battery with a non-official one and since the battery lasts a few hours less that the original one did at first (6h < 9h) when my battery starts running out at 1% there's not enough battery power to perform the hibernate to disk, so I always end up with a forced shutdown. Is there anyway to tell the mac to force the hibernation at a 5% of battery or something like that? I've tried pmset but that only work if you have an attached UPS.
Got my new MB pro mid-2014 yesterday. Began migrating over wi-fi only to learn that it will take 14 hours that I don't have. After 45 minutes I halted on both computers using command Q. My question, how do I safely wipe the new computer clean so that I can start again by transferring from time machine?
Before attempting to migrate data from my Time Machine, I looked in to see if my Adobe applications and others were there to transfer. The folder is empty. Is this normal? Thanks.
My Apple wired mouse will either just scroll up but not down, or the opposite. What can I do to solve the issue?
In El Capitan there is a setting that allows you to make the click of force touch trackpads (2015 MB. 2015 MBP) silent. I have tried this out in El Capitan public beta and liked it, however since I use my Yosemite drive as my main partition (because it's not buggy) is it possible to enable this feature on OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 such as a defaults write terminal command?
I have a 13' MacBook (2007, hw.model: 2,1) running OS X Lion (10.7). I wish to dual-boot Linux Mint 17.1 alongside OS X. I created a Partition for Linux, and have also installed rEFIt (0.14). I have created a LiveUSB as well as the Live DVD for installing Linux Mint. When I use the LiveUSB and select Linux option in rEFIt, I get the following error:
I just purchases a 13" retina macbook pro, and am loving it. However, I now have my old 15" macbook pro lying around, and was wondering if it is possible to use it as a second display for my new machine. I haven't found anything online, and considering how old my 15" MB Pro is, I have a hunch it might not be possible...
If two people use the same Apple ID for logging into "iTunes & App Store" on iOS, then they can share app purchases, including the purchase of in-app subscriptions like HBO Now (or Netflix). If two people use separate Apple IDs for logging into "iTunes & App Store", but link the Apple IDs via iCloud Family Sharing, then they can still share app purchases. However, they cannot share in-app purchases.
I’ve set up a a simple Automator script that saves Apple Mail (OS X Yosemite) attachments to a folder. It’s working great with images. However when I select a email which includes a *.zip file. the script aborts with OSStatus error - 10000.
Specs: MBP 15-in late 2011 running Yosemite 10.10.3 Background
Is there a way to install an app, which is not available on the App Store, without doing a jailbreak?
I used to see the progress bar (for time left) when I loaded an audiobook, but now it doesn't show up. Where did it go?
So there goes four hours of my life that I will never get back. I'm trying to do something seemingly simple... I want to open a file select dialog box and specify the default location. I actually got this to work using the following... This works and does exactly what I want (the file dialog opens up in the Dropbox folder). However when I try to use a string variable it doesn't work... Now the dialog box opens in the root directory of the hard drive :-( It seems that the default location is being ignored however if the path is not correct Applescript does raise a error.
I just upgraded to Yosemite for OS X and now whenever I use Spotlight Search there's this giant message in the middle of my screen (beneath the search bar) that starts off "In addition to searching your Mac, Spotlight now shows suggestions from the Internet, iTunes, the App Store, etc etc etc etc." How can I get rid of this? I have used it many times but it continues to show this information as if it were the first time I had used it since installing Yosemite.
When I search for photos in finder I can see just Photo Booth's photos:  But I have a lof of pictures in Photos app, why can't I see them? Update The option "use as system photo library" (in Italian: "usa come libreria foto di sistema") is disabled.
I would like to know if there is a software for Mac similar to JingLing for Windows. I am looking for a free desktop software to generate automatic visits to my websites. If you know something online it would be OK also.
I've had this problem for years, all the way back to Lion at least. I consistently have various emails coming into Apple Mail, that get moved to the junk folder. These emails are not marked as Junk, i.e. Mail does not think they are junk mail, does not highlight them in brown, etc. They cannot be marked as "Not Junk" because Mail already thinks they aren't junk, despite moving them to the junk folder. I can mark them as junk if I want and they highlight in brown as they should, but of course they're not junk so... don't want to do that. I have to manually move them to my inbox every time.
Just now, I upgraded to IOS level 8.4. Not sure if I'm missing something, but I can't seem to figure out how you shuffle songs. I don't see an icon that says shuffle?
How to disable growl on iterm2 with mac os 10.8.x ? I don't want notifications everytime a tmux session becomes idle...
My wife has A TON of photos and I don't want all of them getting pushed to iCloud if I have iCloud Photo Library turned on. If I have a local System Library for current photos and an archive library for older photos will the Photos app try to push the archived photos up to iCloud when the archive library is opened?
If I use a portable hotspot or share Wi-Fi through another mobile device, is there a way to set that Wi-Fi connection as a data connection so that it won't try to upload stuff it only does on Wi-Fi like photos and updating apps and so on? I ask because my other device with Android has this option and it has been life saving a couple of times.
When I send a text message, my name does not show up to the recipient; only my number. Is there some way to change the settings to have my name show up instead of the number?
so ideally I would like to type and turn the text into voice that speaks to the person on the other end of skype, on my iphone, is there something like that? Doesn't have to be skype if there is another app that can phone and do this type-to-voice function simultaneously.
Would it be harmful to my rMBP if I installed Windows 10 when it is released? I was talking to someone about it, and because Apple uses non-standard hardware voltages could cause damage using the drivers for Windows 8.1
However, when I try to merge the partition of windows through disk utility, all buttons are inactive, and I cannot press either '-' or 'option' button, like follows:  Then, I try to reinstall a new Mac osX from the internet by pressing and holding the [command]+[alt]+[R] when starting the computer, and it doesn't work either. I am informed that the system cannot be installed in either the BOOTCAMP partition or Untitled partition since they are not GUID partition table format.
I want to keep my Notes only on my iPhone 6 and not have them appear in my mail account but I have been unable to disable notes without deleting them from my iPhone. I tried to find the On My iPhone option in Notes settings to set the default account but it is not there, nor is it available in Mail, Contacts, and Calendar settings. Please advise.
I use VoIP programs, and I use Caps Lock for Push-To-Talk (PTT) on those. The problem I experience is that when I push Caps Lock, I toggle the Push-To-Talk, which means that if I release Caps Lock, PTT is still on, and I have to push the button again to stop PTT. While on Windows this works fine, I have to hold down Caps Lock to talk. Any idea how I can make it so that I need to hold down Caps Lock on OSX as well?
In OSX Yosemite I used to have a bottom row of third party preference applets that contained Java, Flash, Air Display etc in System Preferences. This is no longer showing. How do I turn it back on? (I've spent ages googling but not found an answer). thanks!
Whenever I run sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app, it is deleted, but after some time it's automatically restored. How can I get rid of iTunes forever without any chance of it coming back?
What I want to do is pretty simple: I have a PDF I'm reading on my mac and later on I want to pick up reading where I left off on an iPad or iPhone, then continue again on the mac. Nearest I can get so far is to have the file in dropbox folder that all devices can see, but that means I need to either remember, or make note of, the page where I stopped reading. Apparently bookmarks get stored in the PDF itself, so that might be part of the solution, except that the bookmarks I'm storing in 'Preview' on OS X don't show up in any IOS app that I've found so far, and vice versa for the IOS apps I've found ('Documents 5' and 'PDF Reader' (not acrobat))
Looking to see what the terminal gets when you press keystrokes such as alt+a or whatever. I remember there was a really simple way to do this with a one line command and without installing any extra software, but I can't seem to find it again. Any one know?
I have got a MacBook Pro with Retina display Mid-2014 model. I cannot open the lid of the device without putting one hand at the bottom and other on the lid, which was not the case few months ago. I purchased this machine last year in the month of October and only a week ago it was the Apple service center for the same issue. Folks there cleaned it and said to me that they can't loose it up any further. My question is, Is this normal?
Let's say you want to upgrade your OS X server from Yosemite 10.10.1 to 10.10.2. Should you turn off OS X Server services prior to the upgrade? Should you also turn off when upgrading from Server.app 4.0 to 4.1? I can't seem to find any Apple documentation that suggests to do it but then again, Apple documentation seems limited in a lot of regards.
I have a shell script which runs a Python Program. I created the shell script so that the users of my program may simply double click it to run my program.
I've been reading up on interesting Terminal commands (I've used it forever, but there's always more to learn) when I ran across this. I ran sudo fs_usage and got a whole lot of this:
I understand that you can change a LaunchAgent's working directory with a WorkingDirectory key, but is there any way to set the Working Directory to a user's home directory reliably and portably within the plist? Can I do something like: and have it work?
I just updated my mac to the new Photos and I imported some images from my iPhone 6. My question is rather simple. Why I can't delete the imported images in my iPhone from Photos??? I was able to do that in the old iPhotos. Running on version: 1.0.1 (215.65.0)
I am trying to uninstall/delete chrome & chrome canary, but for some reason, when I restart the computer both programs still there. I am manually deleting this files and folders I am trying to figure out where is the problem and what can I do to solve it. Thank you
Time Machine restoring is getting on my nerves. Last time my Mac refused to boot it took me a few days to restore the image from my backup server to my Mac. Bear in mind that all related hardware is capable of saturating the gigabit Ethernet link (as discovered when I am transferring files over WebDAV which is an ultra low overhead protocol,) and my Mac have just 480GB of retrofitted SSD.
I have a 1.25TB partition that I use for Time Machine backups. When I am in the system preferences for Time Machine on my Mac, it states there's 525GB of 1.25TB available. But when I browse to the partition, there's only two sparse disk image bundles present (one for my wife's laptop and one for mine), and the total size between the two of them is only 83GB. So why does Time Machine think there's already almost 750GB of disk space already being used? Does the Time Machine partition reserve space for future use and adjust the report of available disk space accordingly? edit Here's the (relevant) output from df:
Im trying to have my desktop background be an image stored on my dropbox account. My dropbox folder is linked in my home directory. When i set the background to this photo and then change the photo the background doesn't follow. I know the file has changed by opening in Finder. If I reboot the machine the image changes so it must be cached somewhere?
I have several "compilation" albums, or albums with more than one artist, in my music library. On the iTunes app in my computer, I can set "Group Compilations" option off to ungroup the compilations in my library; in other words, it makes those songs show up under the specific artist instead of under "Various Artists."
When joining an OS X client to OD, it seems you use the server of the master OD. However, if the master is down for reboot or maintenance, how does the client know to contact the OD slave? Would it be advised to create a DNS entry, lets say od.example.com, list both server IP's in the A record?
I live in Iran and I want to buy a CDMA iPhone 4S.I know that I won't be able to use CDMA network and I have no problem with that.Basically I want to have an iPhone but use it as an iPod because I can only afford the money of a CDMA iPhone.GSM models are much more expensive and I have two other cell phone so I have no problem with not having a network in my iPhone. Now, I have few questions:
I tried to downgrade my iPod touch 4th gen iOS 6.1.6 to iOS 5.1.1. I went on Redsn0w clicking extras/even more/restore/ipsw. Then I selected iOS 5.1.1 firmware. I stopped the process halfway. Now my iPod's screen is black and when I plug it into iTunes the device is not recognised. The problem is that my home button is broken so I cannot press the power and home button to make the screen light up with the apple logo. What can I do now to fix this issue?
I know that iOS devices will automatically download the latest version of iOS when it's available. A message then appears, asking if the user wants to install the update later or now. I have 2 questions regarding this: One, if I click "later," will I receive the message again, and how frequently would I receive this message? And two, if I restart my iOS device, would the new version of iOS be automatically installed when it turns back on?
I switched from self signed to signing my own certificates using a CA I created on the server. OS X Server has a list of the certificates outlined in blue now for its hostname, Code Signing Certificate, and OD Intermediate CA. I have the CA I created copied to my client. How can I resolve this SSL issue?
I set up a fresh install of OS X 10.7.5 on a mid 2007's MacMini2,1 and installed my personal stuff like some components via Homebrew. After a few restarts it stopped booting automatically into my OS. The startup Manager always appears now where I can select the boot device. When I press the option-key during boot, everything is like normal. It seems like the option-key-function is inverted?!
So my iPhone 6 broke completely still turns on but the screen is totally cracked cant see anything and I have a lot of stuff saved on it I tried saving them to my laptop but my phone is locked how can I unlock it to get get my stuff off I basically only need an alternative way to unlock it. I have a windows laptop
How can I set a reminder to send me a notification at the same time the first ou a specific alarm goes of? What I am trying to do is, I have to take a medicine everyday in the morning, but I wake up at a different time everyday. So I wanted to have a notification "Take the Med" when I wake up. Any ideas on how to achieve this?
I got these two lines that I want to run from a script file (on Yosemite 10.10.3). It works when running from terminal
OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 I used environment.plist When I go to terminal and type set I get this then when I try to launch a program that needs to have CX_LICENSE set up it fails. If I in the open new terminal and run CX_LICENSE=LS and then start the same program from the command line using open -n application.name it runs correctly. If I do echo -$CX_LICENSE- in the first terminal I get -LS If I do echo -$CX_LICENSE- in the second terminal I get -LS-
Using XCode after vim is a bit hard with all the mouse click and drags. Is there a way to see the warning without clicking on it? Something like RubyMine does for you.
Pages has an File > Export To > ePub... option that I'm using to manually convert a Word document (which Pages can open directly) to ePub format. I'm basically looking for the equivalent of: For completeness, I want to use Pages instead of Calibre because it does something 'smarter' with one aspect of arabic text that I need: it tags all arabic blocks with dir="rtl".
My car, a Japanese Honda Fit, has a radio with a plug marked iPod on the cover but I have no idea what type of cable/plug I must use to connect it with my iPod. Can anyone tell based on the picture? the right port
How can I stop receiving emails on an old Apple ID which I have amended in my account and is no longer showing there?
I have nothing to hide, I don't need to fake my position, but I would like to know how often my boyfriend checks where I am. Is it possible to be notified when he checks on me? In the country where I live, Fmf live is not available. Thank you!
I'm referring to the 2015 Macbook Pro, 15-inch, with the AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory. Can this drive two Ultra HD monitors (3840 x 2160) at 60FPS each? If so, would you be able to simultaneously use the built-in display? To be clear, I'm referring to SST (single-stream transport) monitors, not MST (multi-stream transport).
So I have a good looking style that I'm pleased with except for one point; I'm using a page decoration that is on the left for the first page of a section, and on the right for the next page. The problem is that if I have more than two pages, then all additional pages use the right-side version of the layout, i.e- a Layout in iBooks Author is a first page, then all subsequent pages.
Our client's employees all have iPhone 6s. They don't share phones, and have never used each others, but strangely, as one user tries to download an app at the App store, it then asks for a completely different persons' iCloud password. The only thing these phones share is a WiFi network, and mail accounts on an Exchange server.
I support a few macs for our staff and one of the macs in question starting having an issue where when the job would reach the printer instead of the job printing out, a bunch of jumbled code would print out instead. This has happened on multiple printers even after removing all current printers and resetting the printing system on the OS and adding the printers again fresh. I haven't been able to find anything about an issue like this on the net yet and was hoping for a solution short of wiping and re-imaging the HDD.
OS X Mavericks introduced file tagging to Finder and the filesystem. Are these tags case-senstive? For example, could I have an Apple and apple tag?
I recently found my old mechanical keyboard and I want to use it on my Macbook Pro. It still uses an old PS2 connector so I went out and bought a PS2 to USB adapter.
My buttons are broken and my phone is locked how do I turn it off and turn it back on again?
This is similar to another question, New Mac Pro: Setup/Migration Assistant never finishes, and one piece of advice from that is that I should just boot into target mode and manually copy files over. I may well end up doing that, although obviously I don't want to miss anything.
I use save my PDFs to my Evernote account. I would like to automate this process at the end of the day. Can I use Automator to call the existing service "Add to Evernote" at the end of the day?
This used to work, but at some point it stopped. I have labels defined in Gmail. In Mail.app they show up as folders on the left side, like:
I ran into issue where my iTunes on Windows wont sync any data to iPhone 6 after I set up Family Sharing. Any ideas how to fix this?
Up until Lion you could disable simultaneous logins on workstations by using the following setting in Workgroup Manager:  Unfortunately now Workgroup Manager doesn't work with OS X 10.10 (it did briefly, but not anymore). I've looked through Profile Manager but can't find any equivalent setting. What options are there?
My Xcode is crashing hard whenever I click on any project within the workspace in the Project Navigator sidebar. I have attached a screenshot of the error I'm getting. Some notes:
Suddenly my Boot Camp partition vanished: not visible in Finder, not visible on startup. In Disk Utility I can see the volume, but it's broken (verification log): …and cannot be repaired: Before there was another message, something about Terminal's diskutil list command: and another one:
Mac Word 14.5.3. Page numbering. I inserted page numbers when first starting this document. I then inserted several section breaks (next page) in my document so I could change page orientation. On these pages the numbering has been lost. However, it's continued numbering several page breaks down but with a random number. How do I get the page numbering to continue smoothly all the way through the document, Section breaks and all?
I just got a LaCie 1TB external hard drive and I have a MacBook Air with OS X 10.8. I often exchange movie and music files with friends that have PCs. If I were to partition my drive to have 250 GB formatted to FAT32, and 750 GB formatted to HFS+ to be able to exchange files with friends, can I also move files back and forth from the formatted FAT32 portion of my hard drive to the HFS+ portion of my hard drive? And if I can do that, would the file exchange from the differently formatted partitions have to be done on a PC, or could I do it on my Mac? have to be done on a PC, or could I do it on my Mac? Also, is the HFS+ system compatible with the old school Mac books? I am not tech savvy, so I apologize for the verbose, non technical wording.
I also have the password in my OS X keychain and I'm not prompted for a password if I go through Finder to connect to the Linux machine. Is there a sensible way to access to use this from a shell script? I can provide more info about the Netatalk setup if that helps but it seems like the issue is on the client side.
The steps here were simple, but unexpected: download a file in finder, rename the file using Keyboard: Press Enter to start rename Start typing a new name (but not pressing Enter again) Press Enter to start rename Start typing a new name (but not pressing Enter again) Try to open the file by pressing Command-O Now this dialog appears and won't go away (it only reacts on moving with the mouse, but clicking on it fails, just as pressing Spacebar, Enter or Esc). Both Finder and Spotlight now refuse to open any other file. I tried: Help (: Note the file is not damaged, just renamed.
Click "run" to test. After 3 seconds, your keyboard should remain in a state with num lock and scroll lock enabled, and all the keys should be lit up. Yay! Continue to assign keyboard shortcut to do this. Click "File" > "Save", "Save service as" : "Devastator LED Lighter" Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > General > "Devastator LED Lighter"
I like to keep my iTunes library ('My Music') clean and only add albums I really like. However, I also like to have playlists with songs I just like a bit. I do not want these songs to show up in 'My Music'.
So, recently I have being using the Character and Keyboard Viewer a fair bit and set up simple Alfred keywords that toggle the launch/quitting of these apps so as not to have to leave the keyboard. This works splendidly for Keyboard Viewer running the applescript: But the same for "CharacterPalatte" (Character Viewer) which launches OK according to Activity Monitor does not show show the window!
I don't want to use Passbook to pay for anything. However, I bought a concert ticket online with a credit card, and I was given the option of downloading the ticket to Passbook. I can see the ticket in Passbook, but I have to pull it up with my finger in order to display the barcode-ey thing that will allow me to get into the show--because the white "Pay with Touch ID using Apple Pay" message fills up the first 2/5 of the screen on my phone. Is there any way to get rid of the message box without adding a credit/debit card? I can use the ticket, I guess, but the message box is annoying. (In case it matters: iPhone 6, iOS 8.4)
I had a problem with Lync because of which I went to Keychain Access > Preferences > Reset My Default Keychain. After that all of my passwords were reset and I had to enter them again. When I was trying to enter the password for my EXCHANGE accounts, it didn't work and I deleted these accounts (hoping i can recreate them).
I have a Macbook Pro 13" late 2011 and ever since I've replaced DVD-reader for an SSD my notebook started freezing sometimes. It happens suddenly, for no reason whatsoever and I can only move mouse cursor during the freeze. I've put my old HDD into a tray in place of the DVD-reader and I used to think that the tray was working badly. A couple hours back I placed the DVD-reader back and it turns out that no, the HDD wasn't the reason. I've checked SMART status of my SSD, though – it should not cause any problems as well. Oh, and I've checked the console – there are no error messages during the freeze (well, except for a 'log write error' from one small program, but I doubt this is the reason). What else should I check?
I want to set up an ipad so that it just sits there looping through an album of photos. It should never shut off. It should never stop, unless someone hits the 'home' button. A certain amount of googling leads me to be very pessimistic about this. Can anyone offer a recipe?
I have a WordPress plugin which was originally 26kb zipped (79kb uncompressed). I installed it, then made some live changes, then downloaded it and found that the plugin folder is showing 4.2MB in Finder! Expanding all the folders in one Finder window, I can confirm that there is maybe 50KB in there unzipped.
I want to trust unidentified developers' applications. I've gone to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and tried to enable "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere", but OS X claims it will reset my "Anywhere" selection after 30 days of inactivity. Actually, I don't want OS X to make it unusually difficult for me to use my software, ever. Is it possible to make this selection permanent?
When I want to send an image from my iPhone 4s, the workflow is easy. I go to Pictures, I pick the target image and then I click on the "share" icon in bottom left corner. Then of course I can add additional message and my e-mail with attachment is ready to be send.
I set bot the MBP and iPhone Airdrop to "everyone". MBP sees the phone and can send all sorts of files. The phone receives them fine, it prompts then I say yes. The other way it does not work. The iPhone does not see the MBP. However, if I try hard enough, (including hard resets) it ends up working. Now iPhone 5s - iPad mini 2nd generation work like a charm, both ways, and so does iPad mini 2nd generation - MBP. My questions are
**UPDATE: Log shows a normal boot up to login screen. Was confused because I was comparing it to a log of a firevault protected computer BOOT LOGS SHOWN BELOW:
How can I get the following to work in Pages? I get an error message saying the file can't be opened but if I change the path to a .pages file it works fine.
My wife and I share the same Mac desktop. We have 2 separate Mac user accounts and iCloud accounts. But once you sign in with one Apple Music account, it locks the computer. Any workaround?
I would like to know because I am going to get the highest version that will run on this specific Mac...
My macbook pro is MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), 8G ram, and run OS 10.10.4. I have upgraded storage from 500GB HDD to Crucial M550 SSD. I removed dvd drive and use optical bay to keep 500GB HDD as the second storage. I have reinstalled my OSX after upgraded After upgraded, my macbook pro temperature alway hot (>70 C degree) when I open a lot of applications and a lot of chrome tab. Sometime My macbook pro auto reset with grey screen
I think its a problem probably because of this CleanMyMac 3 app that says i have got only 100mb from my 8gb and when I click on "Free Up" I get more than 3gb free RAM only to fill it again after a while. The only thing feels slow on my system is when I enable the Transparency effects the minimizing and dragging the apps windows seems utterly slow (lagging).
I want to change the Region via Terminal. How can I do this ? Ideally it would use a command (/usr/bin or sbin) or modify a plist (plistbuddy). I'd love to avoid using osascript (AppleScript)
When I try to save document in Pages.app on iOS with the same name but a different case I get: I would expect that this would work if iOS is case-sensitive.
I prefer greyscale over inverting color when working in low light plus in general as its less strain on the eyes. But its too many clicks to toggle the settings. I am aware that to invert display color the shortcut is Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+8. And open Accessibility options with Cmd+Alt+F5, but there is no grayscale in the options. Right now, I open Accessibility via spotlight, then choose display & toggle the check box. I am wondering of there is any shortcut key for that? If not, is it possible to make a keyboard shortcut.
I would like to avail myself of the target display mode. I have a brand new MacBook Pro Retnia, and I'd like to use it as a display for my Mac Pro (also brand new). I followed the instructions on this page, and nothing happened when I pressed command F2. Then I started scouring the forums. I found several threads with the same problem, and I tried all the suggestions. I checked my preferences to see if the keyboard assignments were messed up. I tried restarting both computers in various orders. I tried using internal and external keyboards on both computers. I tried adding the fn key to the key command. I spent a couple hours on this, but sadly, nothing worked.
I have multiple users on my MacBook (OS X 10.9.5). One of them has parential restrictions, but is allowed to use Firefox. Now, despite that, she is unable to run Firefox: whenever she tries, an error box pops up with the message
After some more experimentation I discover the following. As usual with QuakeIII, the CD has to be in the drive. So mounting it seems to fix that. Next, I had done an install in the ~/Desktop/Quake3ISO directory, but a few years back had also done a wine install - which would not run. But just now I copied all the files in the ~/Desktop/Quake3ISO/Quake3/baseq3 folder to the wine install folder in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Quake\ III\ Arena/baseq3 folder, and now I can run Quake directly from that wine folder. and it runs fine. I can also so the same in the ~/Desktop/Quake3ISO/Quake3 folder ... and it runs fine.
I often do the same job: select each track in selected set of tracks, open Properties of track and set the number of the track. I am just wondring may be there is a script or plugin for iTunes to re-enumerate tracks. For example, I have tracks: I want to select tracks 5,8 and 12 and enumerate them like this: Is there a way to automate this task?
My iPhone 4S keeps getting stuck on the boot logo. It has never been jailbroken. When I try to restore it in the latest version of iTunes I keep getting this:
I installed a2ps on Mac OS X 10.10.4 via brew. My ~/.a2psrc contains Options: --medium=Letter -P pdf. But when I do a2ps foo.txt no PDF file is generated (this used to work on Ubuntu/Debian Linux). When I do a2ps -o foo.pdf foo.txt I get a PDF, but it cannot be opened (maybe it is corrupted?). However, on a2ps -o foo.pdf foo.txt I get a PS which I can then convert to PDF (and open). How can I make a2ps foo.txt to produce a valid PDF on Mac OS X? Note that I'm looking specifically for the command line a2ps, no GUI or other programs (obviously it's easy to generate a PDF from a text file with other tools)
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, if for any reasons I can not retrieve my Mac File Vault Password and luckily I have a Time Machine Backup (normal backup, not encrypted), after I erase my HDD and reinstall the OS X and restore from Time Machine Backup, does the entire data comes back to my MAC without any issue? Such as: ask me again for my File Vault password? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
May be I mismatched a forum, but I hope, you can help me. I don't like social networks and facebook especially. But I need to use it. I've installed official application and I'm received annoying notifications like these, from picture Can I unsubscribe from these or change a setting or do I need to find some way to delete these one by one? Thanks!
Okay, weird and sort of unnecessary question, but I'd love some help if you're able. In Mountain Lion, you could swipe up with three fingers into Mission Control and then swipe back down to exit without lifting your fingers. Now in Yosemite (and I think Mavericks) you have to lift your fingers before you can do the exit gesture. Is there any way to fix this? I'd imagine there's some terminal code I can run to change this setting. Basically, I want to be able to enter into Mission Control, see what's open, and then leave again all in one continuous gesture like you could in Mountain Lion.
Safari is my default browser, and I like it that way. But I want to open Google URLs (Google Docs, YouTube, etc.) in Chrome by default, e.g., when I click on a link in Mail. Is there a system-level way to set the default browser for a sub-set of domains?
For some reason, on my iMac, [alt]+3 will enter the # symbol as it's supposed to in some applications (e.g. Xcode), while in others (e.g. Safari, Terminal...) it just makes a little error 'beep'.
When I execute man ls > temp.txt the output text file is corrupted. By corrupted I mean that first and last letters in some words are overly repeated. Several first lines in temp.txt:
I have 200g of content on my 500g External Hard Drive but according to "get info" 471g of space is being used up, what am I not seeing? (To arrive at 200g I manually added all folder sizes using 'get info') Could it be hidden trash?
I have a 2008 MacBook which is getting slow, I need to do an erase and reinstall. I have the choice to install Yosemite (online) or Snow Leopard (from a DVD). But would Yosemite be too much for my old hardware? In which case could I easily get more RAM put in? If go back to Snow Leopard, will that soon be completely outdated?
Any idea how would you go about drawing a 3x3 matrix in iBooks Author? My Latex formula which works on other platforms is $$\left[\begin{array}{ c c c }1 & 1 & 1 \2 & -1 & 1 \ 1 & 2 & -1\end{array} \right]$$ iBooks simply says "invalid equation". Cheers Nick
I had a long talk with a guy from apple costumer help because of the notorious recent problems with Itunes/Apple Music. By the way he told me that if I have a big collection of music on my mac containing amongst other thing ripped music in a better quality then the usual 256 of Apple this would now, as part of Apple Music be stored in the cloud in its original (better!) quality. So when I have a second Mac with the same Apple ID I wouldn't need to copy anything from Itunes to this second Mac. To simply start a new Itunes folder on the second Mac would synchronize EVERYTHING. So after the necessary time my itunes on the second Mac would look exactly like the Itunes on my first. Is that really so? I couldn't find anything about that on Apple's description of Apple Music (and by the way, I don't have Itunes Match, but that's probably besides the point).
I have accidentally moved (instead of copying) lots of photos and videos from my iPhone to a folder Windows 7. It slipped my mind that there were a few slow-mo videos which will not play without iPhone/iMovie.
I want to save battery and not be logged in CDRs when my iPad is idle (besides, I have two phones that are online constantly so I am already notified when I receive mail or other updates), hence I want to automatically disable cellular radio when the iPad is locked/screen is turned off. Any solutions for this? I am prepared to jailbreak it if necessary.
I have the same problem as this person – I am running a C script and somehow when I pass the EOF signal with Ctrl+D, ^D gets printed to the console. My question is therefore: is it possible to disable outputting ^D and ^C and the like whenever you press Ctrl+D/Ctrl+C? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Is it possible to temporarily keep your iPhone from draining the macbook battery? When I'm out and about I sometimes want to connect my [nearly empty] macbook to my [not so empty] iphone so I can tether without using WiFi (saving battery), but then my poor macbook starts charging my iPhone and is drained even faster.
We have a site to site VPN connection setup in the office to two development networks dev stage
So mail.app has this wonderful message:// URL scheme, which works great—until the message is moved. Then links created sometimes work—and sometimes don't. I can't figure out the difference. So my question is twofold: Is there a way to access messages through a URL even when they've moved? If not, how do I move a message and then get its message ID? My current script is
Today half the web looks ugly. That's because half the web uses Open Sans 400, and on my macbook pro in all browsers it has suddenly started rendering as "Extrabold". Even on the Google Webfonts site the 400 weight version is rendering in the browser as extrabold. Baffled. I have already tried "Restore Standard Fonts" in Font Book. Screenshot:
It dropped like two or three feet. The noise is like a rattling of a beanbag, but I don't know the source.
I've got a Bluetooth speaker (a JawBone Mini) and I paired it to my Mac. I can set it as output device from System Preferences -> Sound -> Output but I would like to use it as an AirPlay speaker, as I do on my iPhone. Is there a way to do that? (In iOS, this speaker works great with AirPlay)
I have an iMac (late 2009 model) running Yosemite. Recently, I have set up automatic shutdown in the Energy Saver settings under System Preferences. However, if my computer goes into sleep mode before the automatic shutdown - which I have scheduled to happen after twenty minutes of inactivity - my computer will not shutdown automatically at the scheduled time. The question: is there a way to make my iMac shutdown at the scheduled time even when it is in sleep mode, or is there no way to circumvent this and I'm better off with manual shutdowns or disabling sleep mode?
I have a water-damaged iPhone 6. I took it to a non-Apple repair shop after the plunge (the Apple Store was too far away for urgent service), but it still does not work. It powers on, but the screen is always black or only backlit. Overall, the phone is in very good condition cosmetically.
even Console is disappointingly sparse on information and just shows the following two lines when trying to tick the checkbox 7/21/2015 8:18:54.748 PM System Preferences[5620]: about to perform command 7/21/2015 8:18:54.764 PM System Preferences[5620]: status= 4 even Console is disappointingly sparse on information and just shows the following two lines when trying to tick the checkbox
Often, when I'm typing in a super long command(usually ruby on rails console code), I decide that I need to do something else first and therefore, have to delete the command which I just typed(but not executed) on the terminal. Is there a shortcut to do this? command+delete and option+delete do not work. The down arrow works sporadically. If it helps, I'm on The El Capitan Developer Preview 3 but I've noticed this behaviour on Yosemite as well.
I have just bought the Beamer app in order to stream videos from my MacBook to my Apple TV, it works great and I am very happy. Previously I was using the AirPlay feature provided by Apple but it often seemed to reduce the video quality and lag. My question is, how the Beamer app works, considering that the Apple TV is quite closed environment, which does not allow third party apps for now? Additionally, if the app relies on the same technology as the AirPlay why the video quality seems better?
I've got a 27 inch iMac made in 2011 that displays 5 pink vertical bars on the screen. It won't boot properly. I ran the Apple Hardware Test and it came up clean. Machine Specs: Apple Subfamily: Mid-2011 Apple Model No: A1312 (EMC 2429) Model ID: iMac12,2
When starting my MacBook Pro I get 4 Accounts to choose from and need to choose one of them. One of the 4 Accounts is named Guest - will keep this. The other two are not wanted. One has Admin below it. The other has Standard below it. The one I use is Peter with Admin below it. How to remove the two unwanted Accounts?
Is there a way to have Mac Mail compress images to PNG rather than JPEG by default? I've noticed that a high resolution JPEG source image looks better when compressed to a low resolution PNG than a low resolution JPEG. Screenshots can be saved as PNGs with this: I'm looking for something analogous to this.
I was listening to music on the way home today, and all of a sudden it wouldn't play the next track. On closer inspection it was skipping through every track, regardless of whether I had pressed play or not. The majority (I would say about 90-95%) of my music is streamed from iTunes Match, but the very few downloaded songs on my phone were also doing the same thing. I tried to download a few more of the songs, but it wouldn't allow me to. It looks like it tries to connect to do so, but cancels itself. So far I have tried the following without success: Closed and re-opened the app; Restarted the phone; Hard reset the phone; Signed in and out of iTunes Match on the phone; Connected the phone to my Mac and tried to run a sync or two with iTunes; Erased all settings; Restored from an iTunes Backup;
I installed program called "MIT/GNU Scheme" to /Applications. I can run it via Spotlight, but it says it's from unidentified developer. So I should find it in the folder and right click open, but it's not in the folder. Terminal autocomplete cannot find it either. If I install it again, it says it is there and asks whether to replace the old file. Read somewhere it might be 32bit version on my 64bit system, but I specifically installed 64bit version. I am running OS X 10.10.4
I just ran the command below to update PHP on my system (twice, forgot I ran it before). Output However when I run php --version I get How can I get my system to use 5.5 ?
There are two sets of applications where I'm running into this issue: iWork, where I only have the new stuff installed because Software Update harasses you to install the new stuff if it detects you only have the old stuff Office 2016, which I've discovered fixes everything I liked about Office 2011
I filmed a video on my iPhone 5, the synced my phone with my computer, and the video was put into my photo library. I want to share this video on Facebook, but whenever I click on share >> Facebook, Photos says 'exporting files to be shared' and after about 25 minutes or so (the video is 2.6gb, its a 22 minute video) Photos finishes 'exporting' and then doesn't do anything. I don't get an alert telling me anything at all.
My wife dropped her phone on Sunday... I don't want to replace the screen if it's the logic board and nothing can be done to recover her data. A beautiful picture:
how can you tell when viewing webpages, which ones are taking down your device info like MAC address, when you use an iphone or ipad? Or how to prevent that information being taken?
I deleted the YouTube app about 3 or 4 months ago and I decided to download it again. I went to the App Store and I looked for it and when I saw it the iCloud icon was not there, so I clicked on the app in the App Store. The iCloud icon is dull and when I click on it nothing happens!!! I tried uploading YouTube from Safari onto the home screen but still it just takes me to the website not the app. I have a YouTube account and everything and I still get emails from YouTube but I can't download the app!!
When I turn my ipod on I get the red circle with an X in it that tells me to contact apple support. I accessed the diagnostics and when I try to run either of the hard drive test the display says (can't open device) ERROR! Diag halt. I'm pretty sure my hard drive is toast and I know how to replace the hard drive but,how do I download software? when I connect it to Itunes on my computer will the software download while it synchronizes? or do I have to download software from apple?
I have a question. I have a late 2006 17" White iMac, and it is having issues. I don't know if it has a bad hard drive (again..), or if it has a bad logic board, and I have no idea how to check it. I have taken this thing in many, many times for this same issue, but Apple just tells me it is a bad hard drive and just replaces it. Yet this issue continues to happen, and happen, and happen. I've been through 3 hard drives within the last three years or so.
I am seeing this weird arrow icon next to Apple icon in OSX Mavericks. No idea what it is. The z-index is higher than the mouse pointer. (If I hover mouse pointer there, it goes behind the arrow).
But I can't figure out for the life of me how to save the PATH so that it doesn't reset on reopening. I don't need to add paths. I just want to make this the new value of that variable. Please, how can I make this change permanent?
I have installed Metatrader for Mac by downloading Metatrader_4_for_Mac.dmg. It is the most popular trading platform on Windows, and the Mac version looks exactly like Windows.
iPhone 5c with the latest iOS and Google Drive app. I see that I can set individual photos to be available offline. This functionality is not available for folders though. Is there a third party app that allows this?
I am using a Canon Vivia HF R500 to take videos and downloading them to my iPad Air 2 via a USB to Lightening connection. This has been working flawlessly for me for months. I open Photos, connect the camera, and an import icon shows up. I select the videos I want, and click import. Then the videos show up in Albums > Videos.
Am I able to change my app name shown in App Store without uploading new binary and going though the whole submission process?
I am running MacBook Air 13" I need wireless keyboard, which I am going to use daily. Once in a while, I need to check some CDs or DVDs - mostly I take backup of photos shoot with camera and phone on CDs, so also planning to buy portable DVD and CD writer, which can work with MacBook Air. Apple has both hardware available Apple Wireless Keyboard - link Apple USB SuperDrive - link
One week ago my MBPro has been stolen, and unfortunately no "Where's My Mac" like's helped. My idea for securing my next MacBook is to create Password-free/guest-like account in case of another bad luck.
How can I display contents of trash using terminal?
I just got my first osx device (a late 2012 mac mini), the last owner said he did a fresh install of yosemite. Is there a way to check that he didn't install any mallware/spyware?
Is there any app or tool for checking app review status of App Store. I develop iOS apps for different clients and different iTunes accounts, so every time I have to login every iTunes account for checking the app review status. It would be a great help if there was any app or tool where I can see all apps' status at a time.
My changes to the preferences in iTerm2 are always reset after a reboot. They will survive a logout, but after a reboot everything is back to the previous state. I checked ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and my user is file owner and also has write access. Does anybody know how to fix this?
When I try to export a file with the same name (in InDesign CS6) I get a popup asking if I want to replace the file.  How can I move focus between the Cancel and Replace buttons using only the keyboard?
I've been using my App Store through my Apple Id for a while and everything has been normal, now all of a sudden when i want to update an app or to download a free app -after putting my password- a pop-up message appears entitled: Verification Required, asking me to verify my payment info. In my phone's account settings, the payment information is set on NONE since ever, still there's a red message up saying: You must verify your payment info before you make purchases. The thing is, I don't have any payment info, that is why i only use free apps. what to do?
I have a problem where my cellular data usage setting turns itself on frequently. When I am in range of WiFi my iPhone uses only WiFi but when I am out of range it turns on my cellular data even if it's off this makes is use up my balance in my sim card. I have even closed all my apps using cellular data in settings > cellular > use cellular data for... but that did not help. When I am out of WiFi signal range, and even with my cellular data setting turned to off, it turns on automatically.
Suddenly, when I attempted to create a new terminal window, it fails. It does nothing for about a minute then shows only this:
I would like to change the format of a screenshot from .png to .tiff. Is this possible? Moreover, is it possible to write a script or some equivalent that can automate screenshots on any apple mobile device i.e. iPhone and/or iPad?
How would you calculate the time it took to run a command? Specifically, I want to know the time it takes to return a value in a Shell command. I wrote this up, would it work? (Psuedocode)
Sorry if this is a basic question: Is it possible to find out when a Mac was simply “powered on” (like just pressing the power button) and brought up to the login screen that shows the User Accounts, but NOT logging into any accounts ? So basically just starting up and then shutting down again without actually going further. Or would that mean that it’s too early so no logs/records/timestamps are created yet at that point ? (I found some discussion here about logs but it doesn’t talk about just powering on: *=URL=* Thanks !
I enabled the TRIM for my SSD on my MacbookPro using Chameleon SSD, and now the Mac doesn't boot any longer. I have tried to follow guides to reverse the TRIM but none of them actually work because my disk appears to be not mounted and does not appear in /Volumes/
Given that the m4a format is merely a container, and can contain music encoded with a lossy (AAC) or lossless (ALAC) codec, is there a simple way to determine which codec was used for a given file?
Im using an Early 2008 Macbook Pro and I am having a problem completing my BootCamp installation due to the fact that when I am prompted to eject the windows disc, I have no clue how to. I've tried plenty times pressing the eject disc button but no luck, and I'm guessing it's because the laptop is trying to run as a Microsoft product and won't respond to the Macintosh buttons. Please help, I really want to install some other disc but they're only for Windows and I'm tired of dealing with Windows computers. Thank you for your time. : )
The above version of iOS doesn't support app-specific passwords when I add my GMail account. It redirects me to GMail's login and asks for my Google account password. However, Apple Mail will not accept my Google account password and requires an app-specific password when 2-step verification is turned on. I can generate such a password easily, and it works in Apple Mail. But when I sync between my computer and phone, the result is a conflict where I can receive mail on one device but not the other, because the computer is expecting that the account has only ONE password associated with it. The weird thing is that it has been working until only relatively recently--like last week, it just broke for reasons I can't figure out.
I'm looking for a quick/easy way to organize my apps in Launchpad view. I know of the drag & drop method, but I would like to be able to sort by date, name, etc. Is there a way to do that?
How do you get rid of the search box within the imessage app at the top? I enabled it by doing the following:
I'm looking for basic customer relationship management (CRM) software that syncs with iCloud Contacts. I'm not looking for software that imports contacts into its own proprietary database. I'm seeking software that, like BusyContacts and Contacts.app, works with iCloud Contacts. It reads and writes to the .vcf or Vcard files themselves, so its changes are viewable in contact management software.
Foreword Setting env vars on Yosemite seems to be really a pain, but I've managed doing it thanks to this clever way: *=URL=* . Question Now, I wanted to set a variable for my iCloud Drive path, since I use it very often.. but it contains some special characters and even with the \ I was not able to add it to my applescript, Source code The applescript I'm using: The error thrown by the Applescript editor is this: Expected “"” but found unknown token. Does anybody have an hint on how to solve this?
I have a new Mac and I use Safari. I was wondering if there is a way to adjust Safari/Pages/whatever when I open a pdf document as a new tab such that when I hyperlink within the documents contents I can go back by some command to the previous stage of the document.
When I import photos from a shared library, either from my own Family album or one shared with other iOS users, they are imported as expected. I cannot reimport them again.
My iPhone 4 was submerged in water weeks ago. It will turn on, but the slide to turn on/enter password is not working so I can not access anything on the phone. I want to recover pictures and videos before I throw the phone away. I thought they were backed up to my iCloud, but they are not. When I plug the phone into my computer to download them, says there are no pictures or videos on my phone. Any suggestions on how to recover these?
Update 20 May, 2017: with Photos v2.0 (3150.4.120), on macOS 10.12.5, the "Faces" feature has been renamed "People". However, it is still not possible to sync people across macs AND iOS devices.
Is there any other means of scrolling using a mouse besides the wheel or dragging the scroll bars on the right side of the window. Using the wheel is not good for me ergonomically and it is a hassle to move the pointer to the narrow scroll bar and drag that up and down. In Firefox you clicking the middle button goes into a special mode that enables scrolling by moving the mouse up and down. But as far as I know Chrome and other applications don't have that feature.
In linux, one of the great things you could do (for developers, in particular) was to mount a folder and locally bind it to another folder on the system. This had the advantage over symlinks due do the fact tools like Git didn't detect it as being a different type of node, and you didn't need to remove the original contents. When you were done, you could simple unmount and you were left with the original filesystem contents. However, mount -bind or mount.local don't seem to exist on Mac (as of OS X 10.10.2, Yosemite). How do you go about this?
Is it possible to hack facetime and text messages from a iphone you do not own. We have the same apple id log in for both facetime and itunes. There are records of facetime calls, text messages and emails on one of our iphone which we did not make. How is this possible and what can be done to stop it?
Unlike this previous question, it's not related to iTunes Match (haven't ever had it on). [][3] Why is there such a discrepancy?
I have an iMac running at 1920x1080 resolution with a second monitor connected that is running 1920x1200 resolution. Whenever I enable "Mirror Displays", OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E46) will always set the resolution of both the second monitor and iMac screen to 1920x1200. It always sets the "Optimize for" drop down menu (under display preferences) to the external monitor.
I installed Windows through VirtualBox, linked to a physical partition on my hard drive. It all fully installed and boots in VirtualBox, but it doesn't show up on the boot drive selection.
My brand new laptop populated the Photos app with my photos. Problem is I don't know where these files are. Unlike with iTunes, right-clicking and selecting Get Info doesn't show where the original file is.
I have a simple question: how do I use the llvm-profdata binary provided by XCode's Command Line Tools in the terminal? I have installed the Command Line Tools and could see the binary in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/, like this: I know I could make it work by adding the path to /etc/paths, but I'm not sure what other side effect will occur if I do that. For reference, here's my current /etc/paths: I also have homebrew installed, if that matters.
There used to be a way where if you opened an app in Full Screen and then quit, it would reopen in full screen. However in Yosemite, I don't know how to do this for full screen apps. Is there a way to do this in Yosemite?
I shutdown my MBP when it had 1% battery after that when I turn it on, I get this screen, anyone knows what to do? I know my password. When I choose forgot password it wants to restart to a recovery mode. I'm panicked to lose my data.
I was trying to change my MAC address. I saw an answer that suggested I disassociate my device with this:
Before a device was to be jailbreaked, all the tutorials recommended connecting said device to iTunes and then clicking option + Restore > Choose ipsw. Recent tutorials don't include these steps any more. Rather they just mention restoring through iTunes and not over wifi. Is the option + Restore > Choose ipsw Necessary Still For Jailbreaking?
I own an iMac from the late 2013 series, it is the core i7 with 32GB RAM. I eventually established that using Bootcamp would allow for a better experience when working in Windows land (I am both an iOS developer and a C# developer).
I have configured No application in the center of notifications. no weather, no stock, no calendar, no calculator. How to return back to the standard application?
I have installed El Capitan on my Mac, and whenever the mac boots, this screen appears.  Note that this window appears many times while using the mac. Also, I have installed the latest java version (8.51) installed from the java.com page. How do I fix this.
If I give Instagram access to my iPhone 6 camera roll, does that mean my followers and people on Instagram, have access to it too? Can everyone see my camera roll photos on my phone?
On my MacBook with retina when I open Java GUI applications with Oracle Java Se 7 (JEdit, Eclipse) I encountered the same display issue (font antialiasing an overal GUI with very bad resolution). In order to fix this I'd applied an workaround according to the following Fixing Steps
How can a I get the total uptime since boot (excluding the sleep time)? I can use the uptime command which shows how long since the last boot, but this does not differentiate between active use and sleep or hibernation.
I wonder, which database apple uses for artist pictures in the music app on iOS 8.4 and how missing pictures for certain artists can be added? Pretty sure it's something internal, but then again, that would make things even more complicated to add missing artist pictures.
This is a picture of my iPhone 4 that I just took with an infrared-capable camera. As you can see, there is a light on top, around the middle. You can only see it with with an infrared-enabled camera, and it usually blinks whenever the screen is lit up and turns off when the screen gets turned off.
Chrome has introduced a new feature requiring a weird 2-finger tap gesture on a particular button. It's an awkward gesture and difficult to time it right.
I want to uninstall Apple Music from iTunes. I don't really care of this so expensive new 'revolution' and it's taking too much place... :/
I have an 8GB iPhone 4s and it always says I have no space. However when I go into Settings > General > Usage It says that I have 1.3GB of free space. I only have 5 photos and 3 Apps downloaded on my iPhone. Why does it constantly say I have no space when it should?
I am using iOS 8 and a Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. I cannot find the key combination to send a message in Messages. For example, Mail has Command + Shift + D, Facebook has Command + Return. Anyone know the shortcut for messages?
I am 100% sure than I haven't enabled the "Photos" option in my iCloud since I got the phone and created the account.   However my iCloud is almost full!?
I'm using the new Photos app on OS X Yosemite. I've imported multiple photos and videos from my iPhone 5 and they are now in my Photos library.
I swapped out my broken unibody display assembly with another and now the new screen is just white (backlight is working) but nothing else. External monitor is working just great though, so I am forced to use it this way. Any ideas about why it's just backlight working? I put the old assembly back in and it's totally black, but the external monitor still works just fine.
has anyone an idea for an AppleScript that checks the number of windows of all applications and kills programs with window count 0? Thanks a lot!
My phone says I have 494gb available (I just spent $9.99 for cloud space!) but I'm not able to take any photos!! What do I do?
My MBR crashes quite often. Normally I've multiple terminal windows and usually they're restored after crash. However from some to time they're not restored, so for that reason I was doing the backup every hour (in cron, not Time Machine) to backup the whole ~/Library/Saved Application State including com.apple.Terminal.savedState. However when I've replaced back my savedState folder (1. removing the old one, 2. using different type of terminal) and run Terminal - it simply doesn't work as expected (as it seems it doesn't load the state files).
So I ran to buy a hard drive dock. I took off the disk from my laptop and plugged it into my brand new dock on my iMac. The disk mounts properly but it is empty. I opened the disk utility and I can see the disk. When displaying all partitions in the Debug menu, I can see this:
We have a shared samba file server with paths like It is common for people to "connect to server" directly to smb://server/folder1/folder2
I received a message this morning saying an unknown device downloaded an app which costs $19.99. defending crowns or something like that, and the message says that if it wasn't me, I should click a link, I did, and now it's asking me to verify my credit card information and once that is done, I will receive a full refund. Sound suspicious to me, and I didn't think I had a credit card linked to my iTunes account as I always purchase gift cards instead. How can I check if my account has a credit card linked to it?
I have a huge .zip which extracted takes up to 100 GB, and storing that amount of data on my MBP's SSD is not an option. Is there a way to extract a zip file directly to an external hard drive, without filling up the MBP's SSD? I tried copying the .zip to the external drive I have and extracting it from there, but it gets unzipped in the Downloads folder. Does anybody know how to achieve this? Thank you for your time.
I have two libraries from the Photos app (version 1.3 on OS X 10.11.2). Is it possible to merge them or to move pictures from one library into another?
My calendar does not accept events for September 2016 or beyond but will for May 2016. Is there a limited time frame or horizon ?
I am trying to remove all traces of Ureka. I followed the instructions in the link to do this, but when I test if it is gone with $ur_setup I see that the terminal does know what it should be looking for, because it says:
Background: I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) with a SATA III 6Gb SSD installed in place of the optical drive. Sources say this configuration should work, but I've been having problems (read/write failures, spinning beachball, etc) of exactly the sort you would expect if a SATA II bus was trying to operate at SATA III speeds. I'm beginning to suspect that my laptop may have the issue reported for early 2011 MacBooks that made them unstable with 6Gb SATA III. The best solution would be a SATA 2.0 drive, but the drive I have is already in hand. Is there any way (preferably through software) to set the SATA Negotiated Link Speed to 3Gb instead of 6Gb? Edit: The SSD in question is a Seagate/Samsung 850 EVO (MZ-75E250B/AM), if the solution is drive-specific.
I own old versions of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion in particular. The old versions are listed in the "Purchases" list within App Store app on my Mac. But when I hit the "Download" button a message appears refusing to start the download because my MacBook Pro is too new and does not support that OS. Other Questions are similar to this but not quite the same. Others say to use the App Store to download, but no mention of the App Store refusal that I encounter.
Given that all the files "missing" contain some extended character (like á, é, í, ó or ú in Spanish). I've been bitten by the different way to encode the names in the past (see Linus Torvalds and the OS X Filesystem for context), so I suspect the issue might be due to the encoding of the file names in the SDCARD. When "browsing" the SDCARD I can see the authors/paths properly and all the files are available, so I think it's an issue of the way the paths are read from the .m3u file and (not) resolved to the proper files.
I have an external hard drive with a 2.9TB ExFAT partition that I keep my photos and other media on. (ExFAT so that I can also see and edit my media on Windows computers.) I just bought a second hard drive that I will set up the same way so that I can back up my media. Normally, I use SuperDuper! but that only works with Mac formats. Is there any Mac or command line software that can check for exact duplication? Due to the size of the drive (2.9TB with 1.8TB used), I don't want to do the duplication manually.
I have my Macbook set to require a password one hour after sleep or inactivity, but it still asks for my password even after a moment of sleep. Am I misunderstanding this setting or is there another setting I am overlooking?
I've seen plenty of articles about how its kinda easy to mod the "About this mac" section, however, I was wondering if I where to buy a mac from a stranger, what is a quick way to check the real specs and date of release without having to reset to factory settings. It must be something quick so I can check it before paying for it without taking too much time.
I was trying to install Git on my mac using Brew, one of the posts says here to rename after installing. But I am getting the following error. mv: rename /usr/bin/git to /usr/bin/git-apple: Operation not permitted
In order to free up space on my macbook air's internal SSD, I moved my photo library off to an external disk (actually a Transcend JetDrive installed into the SD Card reader port). I have the photo library on the extrnal disk set as the System Photo Library in Photos Preferences, and want to re-enable iCloud Photo Library (which I turned off while I moved the library to its new location). When I try to check the box for iCloud Photo Library, I get the error message "Your full-resolution photos and videos stored in iCloud may not fit on this Mac" and the only options are to cancel or Optimize Storage.
In all current versions of 10.10 (up to and including 10.10.4), there is a rather nasty security hole which allows any process to create files owned by root anywhere on the file system. One example involves the creation of a "new" sudoers file allowing for elevated permissions by any account. Details about the bug can be found at this link There is a kernel extension which purportedly eliminates this vulnerability, but, I'm wondering if there is any other method of defense which even a locally escalated root user cannot circumvent.
My old email along with my Apple ID were registered as aol accounts. When I switched to gmail I had to create a new Apple ID under the new gmail account. Is there anyway to transfer the purchases and information from my old Apple ID to my new one?
What is the name of this font shown in Visual Studio 2015 for OS X?
Someone gave me a MacBook Pro 13″ A1278 2010 model. They took the hard drive and the screen was totally trashed. I managed to order a new screen from China this other day, however I connect it to a desktop monitor using the mini DP to DVI converter. Followed a guide that told me to use the CMD + R for recovery and it started downloading something recovery from the Internet, followed the guide, partitioning the drive and voilà all set I thought. As I chose the startup disk and reboot, however at the reboot it kept showing me the "Mac OS X Utility" page over and over again. Using another option were to keep the shift key inserted while booting it up I was able to setup account and finish the installation. So I rebooted again and there was the utility page again. What might cause the behavior? I don't have the AirPort connected, it's online through ethernet. Are there are any logs I can check? Here is what dmesg says if it can help in any way?
As it says in the topic. My machine spontaneously rebooted this morning and all the logs have to show is: Shutdown Cause: -62 Only searches only lead to incomplete or deprecated (pre-OSX) lists of error codes. Hopefully there are people with more inside info...
Someone hacked into my Apple ID, and I was just wondering if the operators could tell me the location for the login or at least let me know if the hacker was receiving any of my texts messages. If not I was just going to leave it alone with just changing my password.
At present, I have a very simple bash script which calls osascript -e a bunch of times; it looks like this (newlines added for readability): The idea behind this is to let me call something like ~/term.sh pwd Hi to open a new terminal tab with the title "Hi" and call pwd inside it.
I have a backup drive that I have setup to not automount (via editing /etc/fstab) I use Superduper to mount the drive, backup overnight and then unmount on exit This morning I opened my laptop to go to work and found the drive in this greyed out 'half-ejected' state:
Macbook pro early 2011, after 10.10.4 upgrade does not boot then gives the standard "you have a problem" message, then panic message again etc. I've attached an image below: , After ⌘Command-R reinstallation of OS the first time it works, but the same cycle after rebooting.
I can't manage to get the in-line spell check or autocorrect to work in any apps. In particular this is frustrating with my e-mail, as this is the biggest part of my job and I frequently need to switch languages.
How do I display text in addition to icons in toolbar buttons? For example, I find some of the icons in the Preview app to be quite unintuitive.
Inexplicably I wasn't able to enter my 4 digit password on my iPhone anymore. I tried so many times that my iPhone was deactivated. I powered off my iPhone and restarted it, but no chance. Afterwards I asked to delete my iPhone from iCloud.com, but first I requested to erase the phone. What happens to my iPhone if I've erase my iPhone via iCloud ("Find my Phone") and afterwards I also delete my iPhone from my iCloud account?. Does the request to delete my iPhone still apply?
I need a batch conversion tool to change PSD to JPG image files. I have not seen a simple Automator action for this.
I want to create a .command-script on Mac, to execute a series of commands on a remote server using SSH. My script looks something like this:
I'm looking to correct lens distortion from my iPhone 6 when I take certain wide angle photos. Take this picture of Pittsburgh taken on the Monongahela river just upstream of the point:
Is there an app or any other way on an iPhone 5 to block a given caller at specified times? Specifically, work keeps calling at all times of the day, every day. Is there a way to send their calls (and not everyone else's) to voicemail on evenings and weekends, but ring normally during working hours?
Just updated iTunes to version 12 and all of my music was pushed to the cloud even though I didn't select for it to do so. Now I have no music on my MacBook Pro and have to have an internet connection in order to listen to my music. Not happy with this. Is there a way to reverse this feature without having to redownload and create all new playlists? Very frustrated with Apple right now.
When installing the Caffe port from Macports, it also tries to install libgcc-devel, which takes hours to build. Curiously, I could not figure out which dependency needs this. I ran and out came this (summary: there is no libgcc-develin there): Running lists libgcc several times, but not libgcc-devel. So how come this port installs libgcc-devel although it does not depend on it?
I was looking for Parallels in DreamSpark earlier on today and thought I would install 'Windows Virtual PC' since I found it. The only issue is I have installed it on Yosemite (2015 MBP) and Finder says 'You cannot use this application since PowerPC apps are no longer supported'.
I was trying to change my password from System Preferences on my MacBook Pro. I followed the procedure by filling in the old password along with the new one. However, I am informed that the old password is incorrect! I tried several times but it didn't succeed. The old password is not working so the newer one is not being set.
I copied the pictures from my USB to the 100APPLE folder where my pictures are. I copied them succesfully, but I cannot see the pictures on my iphone. Why is this and how can I fix it?
How do I configure FF or Chrome to close a tab when I middle click on it? (I'm in the midst of migrating to OSX from linux)
It seems like on my network, all my iPad devices run at half the speed of the other devices. So I tested it. I've got an airport extreme (1TB) 802.11n, and four devices plus a macbook and they are all connecting to the 5GHZ address, and tied to a 100MB Comcast Cable connection. I reset the network in settings on all the devices (to start from a common baseline) and ran Ookla speed tests on them one at a time. The results verified my impression:
I have a mid-2009 macbook pro, and the original 10.6.8 installer DVD that it came with. I booted up in recovery mode, and erased the HD (whether or not that was a good idea). My intention was to get rid of old private files, and then update the OS to something current (hopefully 10.10.4), (so the machine could be used in a public setting), using an internet connection while in recovery mode. But I found that the install OS option, while in recovery mode, fails with, "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk". I am thinking, "Of course it cannot start up from that disk, because there is nothing on it yet! And how can there be something on it if you will not let me install something!" Argh. So then I thought maybe I should have 10.6.8 already running (again) on the laptop before I try to update that OS. But then I get the same result, "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk", when I try to install even 10.6.8 from the original installer disk. Can anyone better at this level of macs shed 
My phone was running iOS 9 beta 3 last night when my last backup happened. Today Apple gave me a new phone but when I got home I realized that my version of iOS is iOS 9 beta 4 and my backup will not restaure... Argh. How can I get iOS 9 beta 3 on this new phone?
Since a couple of days I have problems with the CPU usage of my Safari installation. It runs on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (MacBook Pro 13" from 2011).
I'm currently running on a Mac Mini (2014 Model) and recently although rare I have been experiencing some strange graphical glitches, it seems to replace parts of my UI and whenever I open an application with a green and red gradient. I'm not sure if this is driver related or memory perhaps? - Regardless any help or info as to what is causing this would help! Edit: The resolution is 1440p (Thunderbolt -> DisplayPort Adapter) and is running on OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks)
Pressed for time?: one simple question at bottom (thanks) Safari in 10.10.4 has just become non-functional, immediately after I made a simple preferences change to what new windows displayed (I don’t recall exactly what that was, but I was trying to get new windows to display empty and without the sidebar being open). I restarted twice, and used Disk Utility to do a Permissions Repair and Verify Disk (indicated OK), then restarted again. I have zero extensions installed; in fact, I had turned off Safari Extensions completely. Safari opens, but with no window; the spinning beach ball spins indefinitely, and I have no access to any of the top menu. As Safari’s been acting sporadically odd anyhow since I upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.8 to 10.10.4, I just installed Safari 9.0 (beta) per suggestion elsewhere here in late 2014; no change, even after a restart. No apparent problems except sporadic sluggishness with any other programs I use regularly (Mail, BusyContacts, BusyCal, Pages, TextEdit,
On my Macbook Air, I recorded a video using iMovie 10.0.9. Then I clicked Share > File.
I recently deleted some sketch files that I would like to try to get back if I can. I trashed them over a month ago, I used stellar phoenix to attempt to recover them, and it found the files. It did ask file size when creating a .sketch header, unlike the pre-configured headers (which have an exact file size set). The files are around 5.0 mb, so thats what I set for the max file size. When the files appear after recovery, the finder shows they're all (but one file) 5.0 mb. I try to open one, but then I receive "The document "filename.SKETCH" could not be opened." message. Am I approaching this all wrong, or are they just gone? Thanks everyone
I have just got an iPhone and would like to change the voice message that people hear when I don't answer their calls. Is there a way how I can setup the voice message to an audio file I have? I would like to do this because I have one of the funny ones you here time to time. Also is there a maximum time limit for this?
I'm not after time tracking for the purpose of invoicing. I'm not even interested in which apps I use. I just want to know how much time I spend each day at my computer. One big pitfall I see is that many apps will suspend tracking when the user is watching a longer video or reading a long article. Are there any apps that work around this successfully, maybe by using the FaceTime camera as an additional source of data?
I tried a multitude of combinations turning off/on the four options in Mission Control (auto rearrange spaces; switch to a space with open windows; group windows by application; displays have separate Spaces). All four of these do not clear my problem.
Yesterday I switched from a PC to a MBP. I've been using Apple Music since it came out. I synced my phone and today I noticed many songs are duplicated, or extra songs I have deleted before are back on my phone, but all of those songs are grayed out and unplayable. The only option I get when I tap on it is to add it to a playlist or delete the song.
I have a 2015 Cadillac Escalade with the AT&T Wi-Fi 4G LTE system built in. If I buy a data package streaming video only last about 20 minutes. I have unlimited data on my iPhone 5s and want to know if I can connect to the Wi-Fi router inside the truck and AirPlay to the Apple TV I have hooked up to the entertainment system and use the data package on my phone or even my hotspot on my other iPhone to stream from my cellular connection but display to my Apple TV.
If I understand iOS's location-aware reminders correctly, they work by constantly checking your location until they see that you're in the specified range. Wouldn't this be really detrimental to the iPhone, both to its battery life, for always needing to find your location, and to cell data usage, for always needing to get your GPS location and compare it to Maps?
After I sync my iPhone 5c with my MacBook, assuming all my music had been purchased from iTunes, my iPhone should now have no music and additional storage , correct ?
How much extra security do I get by downloading and running code only in a guest account. My normal user data is safe. Shared data is write able somewhat, but I can do a search for writable areas and cut these down
I have a primary gmail account: me@gmail My employer set up email that forwards to gmail as a different identity: me@mtk.org Me@gmail downloads to my Mail inbox on Mac. I can reply to messages sent to thus account from my Mac.
I have two commands that I need to run through the Terminal. They are cd /Users/[my name]/Desktop and curl 'www.google.com'>google.txt. When running these directly in Terminal they work just fine. However, when running this in AppleScript: It produced the error:
EDIT:Let me try again. Sorry guys I'm fairly adept at understanding things in regards to these machines, but I'm by no means a pro. Just looking for some advice.
With the old music app I was able to select an artist and listen to every music by album. Now it orders the musics alphabetically and unless I want to hear the same music N times I have to use shuffle. Is is possible to just select an artist and play every album with making a playlist?
Pre P.S. From what I read online, sharing your UUID is not really a security issue, but if I just basically shared my social security number, please do tell.
My Mac is a MacBook Pro Late 2011 model with the 15 inch screen. It began all with me, connecting my Nexus 5 to the Macbook. I imported some videos with iTunes (yes, iTunes popped up automatically and I though I just give it a try). In the import process, the mac suddenly hung up and gave me a gray screen! I then restarted the mac and since then, I have these strange LCD problems on the boot up and crashes as well in normal operation. I never had any problems with my mac so far, so it must have something to do with me connecting my nexus to my mac!. The Problem
I'm trying to install QUCS(Quite Universal Circuit Simulator) to my Macbook. Following link, *=URL=* , I used Homebrew and follow the instructions in the section, Build instructions for MacOS, I got an error msg saying: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found Error: Failed to download resource "adms" Download failed: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mot-adms/adms-source/2.3/adms-2.3.4.tar.gz?r=&ts=1437800272
Now, for every new application, even those free ones,I have to confirm for pay money. And then App Store asks to enter my credit card information. If I disagree and hit "Cancel", installation process is interrupted and I can't install any application, even free one.
I am on OS X 10.10.3 on a macbook Pro. I am using the macbook's keyboard. I have enabled the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys".
On iOS 8.4 why when I want to play my playlists do I have to constantly "add next" to play all the songs in that playlist? And where is the "repeat playlist" option that was there before?
EDIT: When we login we get a popup that accountsd wants to use Keychain Access so we used the Keychain First Aid to check what was wrong. Using the Keychain First Aid we detected that the com.apple.security.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ was modified a few hours after the device was stolen. It was something about the user 501 (seems to be main account UID) being changed to user 0 (Isn't 0 root?).
Some context first: I have late 2012 iMac 27" with 1TB fusion drive. Some time ago, for whatever reason, the SSD drive became visible in Disk Utility. I happily used the drive for Yosemite and bootcamp. After some time, for whatever reason, booting became sluggish, so I've reset PRAM. Booting sped up, but SSD went into hiding again, leaving me with no OS. I'd like to go back to the setup with the visible SSD, but I don't know how. Here are diskutil and gpt outputs: I think disk0 is the SSD, but why does it have 0B size? Here are captures from Disk Utility - the SSD (I guess) is seen as ROM MODE MEDIA, whatever that is:
When I search for files in my home folder that have a filename equal to ".bash_history", I don't get any results, even though that file is there. How can I search for dotfiles in Finder? (I know how to find them in the terminal, however, some programs such as Integrated Development Environments have an open dialog that forces you to go through the Finder to locate the file you want to open).
I'm thinking of purchasing either a MacBook (2015, 1,1 GHz) or a MacBook Pro (2015, 13-inch Retina, 2,7 GHz). I'd like to know how they would compare performance-wise (say, speed on recalculating a huge spreadsheet file) with my current iMac (27-inch, Late 2009, 3.06 GHz).
I subscribe to the Apple Music service. When I connect my phone to my iMac and open iTunes on the mac and go to the Phone and select Music settings I get "iCloud Music Library is On" iPhone can access your iCloud Music Library. Songs can be downloaded and played via WiFi or cellular network.
I am currently using a early 2006 macbook running on os x 10.5 and I am facing the flashing folder when turning it on. I have tried holding command & c and etc but nothing happens when I hold option after hearing the chime the arrow come up and i don't see no folder but it stays like this. I do not own any disks to put into my macbook because it was given to me. i do not want to take it to the shop because it will cost more than the laptop it self will cost. Is there any type of way to resolve this issue?
From yesterday, every time I type two characters "p" and "i" in serial, it will turn into "ssh pi@10.210.100.45", like this:  And I have checked my system settings System Preferences → Keyboard → Text, it's empty, also unchecked the Correct spelling automatically.
A Macbook Air was stolen from us last month and we immediately activated "Find my Mac" and a few minutes later we requested it to be wiped (through iCloud). Today, 1 month later, we received an email saying that the Mac had been wiped (but no location). My question is: now what?
I have way too many applications and sadly sometimes I forget if I have an application for a particular purpose. So I thought I would like to organize /Applications into folders. For example "Audio, Video, Development, Design, etc."
I had this iPhone for one year but this is the first time I noticed this issue. These are my specs: iPhone 5S 32GB - iOS 8.4 - ME435CS/A. This is a photo made w/out flash:
I can't change the Dock's size. I tried deleting the file com.apple.dock.plist from the Preferences folder but it didn't resolve the problem.
I have an old Iphone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 and I lost the carrier sim which it is locked,and the wi-fi connection don't works at all, how can I activate it to use this like an Ipod? (sorry for my bad english)
Anyone know if there's away to heart/love/favorite a song in the new iTunes via applescript? Basically I want the ability to heart a song from Apple Music without switching back to iTunes.
The battery on my mac book pro (late 2008) running OS X Yosemite needs to be replaced. The battery only holds half capacity. What are your tips for finding a good battery. What battery do you recommend?
Let us suppose I want to use a shared Apple ID for logging into iTunes & App Store, in order to share music and app purchases with a friend. But let us also suppose that, despite this, my friend and I have very different tastes in music, so I don't want to share Apple Music playlists and "like" assertions with my friend. In other words, I don't want Apple Music to think I like the music my friend likes, and vice versa. Is there a way that my friend and I can share an Apple ID for logging into iTunes & App Store, but use different Apple IDs for Apple Music? I suspect the answer is no, but I just wanted to ask.
I'm used to switch between my desktop spaces using ctrl + arrows. But ctrl + ← doesn't work while ctrl + → works fine. Here is my settings:
I want to upgrade my OS X to Yosemite from Lion and also upgrade my HDD to a SSD but im worried about loosing my programs since I don't have the installers or serial keys. Specifically Adobe cs5 master collection and iWork.
This is very odd and I just noticed this for the first time, but it seems, apple is not allowing ratings from customers for its own Postcast.app. The entire section "Ratings and reviews" is absent for the podcast app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/podcasts/id525463029
These are the Folders and Disk space being occupied by the Data held on by Apple iTunes as laid out below: I have written down some current thoughts & steps/ direction as well for each. There are lots of duplicates in the Backups & VoiceMemos (determined via a Duplicate File Finder). Please help / guide me in organizing and doing a comprehensive clean out of things in these folders. Items in Italics represent key questions on how to go about a certain part of this process? Here is the Folder Tree, Space they occupy and Observations & Thoughts. C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer ..\Logs\CrashReporter – 300 M C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync ..\Backups – 24.5 GB Clean iPhone 4 Backup
My early 2011 MBP has been giving me the "Replace Soon" battery warning, and an app I have says that the battery can hold 57% of its original capacity. I bought a new one on Amazon, but now I've decided to wait as long as possible until doing the surgery, in order to squeeze as much life as possible out of the current battery before beginning the new one's life cycle.
Safari 8.0.7 became non-functional immediately after I attempted to make a simple preference change regarding what newly opened windows displayed. I tried everything up to and including, just now: • the more extensive hardware test available on one of the original install discs of my MacBook Pro (results: ‘No trouble found.’) • complete reinstall of OSX 10.10.4 Everything appears fine after the system re-install, except no change to Safari 8.0.7; it continues to hang on startup (repeatedly, after the system re-install); no access to top menu, no other option than to force quit. I had zero extensions running on Safari 8.0.7 prior to the problem; in fact had extensions turned off then and prior to the system reinstall. (Among other efforts prior to the system reinstall I just completed, I had installed Safari 9.0 [beta], as a result of a suggestion posted here in late 2014; that also had no effect.) response to first answer and first comment below: Buscar웃SD: Thanks for your help. I can’
I can't save segment of song as AAC in order to use as ringtone. Stuck at that stage. I am using iTunes 12.1.0.05. There seem to be solutions for earlier iTunes versions. I've edited song to be 30 seconds.
So today I went to buy something on the itunes store, but it said that I had to change my password since the account is pretty old. I did that, then tried to log in again, but it said my password was wrong. I kept entering it in and eventually my account got disabled. To disable it I have to enter security questions that I never set, and enter in my birthday, which apple constantly says is wrong. I click on the email option, but no email comes in to the recovery email that I set up. Please help!
Using Finder's Connect to Server... option with nfs://vers=4;nuc.local/mnt/tb I'm unable to mount my nfs server. However from the command line it works just fine.
so far I used nettop and/or the activity monitor to observe the traffic used by each app but I noticed just now, that there is a huge difference between the sum of the per app traffic and the traffic which actually came through the network interface. In this example the sum of the received traffic by app seems to be less than 5MB though the opened network interface monitor (right part of the screenshot) tells me, that actually 27.3MB came in. And this is the correct number as my mobile phone gives me the same figure for today's traffic. So why is the sum of the traffic per app so much lower? Regards Simon
I need to delete a folder otherwise my mac won't boot. How can I do this in recovery mode or whatever it's called using Terminal commands?
Basically, even small games like Rogue Legacy, Battle World: Kronos, Magicka, Crusader Kings, etc. These are not graphic intensive games, yet the laptop reaches temperatures over 90 C. However, this doesn't happen with Hearthstone. So, out of curiosity, why does this happen? Will it happen with a current-gen iMac?
I've noticed the following behavior, but cannot find a reason or a bug report on why this may be happening. Maybe this is normal on OSX? The situation:
I am thinking of buying a 2 TB WD My Passport Ultra External Hard drive and I'll be using it with both OS X and Windows. I am planning to use this drive for my Time Machine data backup after creating additional partitions in the external HD. I will also be storing a large number of files of Music, Videos, VMs(>4GB) and software setups.
I'm looking for a looping timer (e.g., 30 seconds - beep - 30 seconds - beep - ...) that can be stopped/resumed by pressing a remote control button on the EarPods. I'd like to use this app during weightlifting, where lifting time is variable and resting time should be uniform 30 seconds. After each beep, I would stop the timer using the remote control button, do weightlifting, then start the timer using the remote control button, and rest until the next beep.
I have installed PHP 5.4.40 on my Mac OS Mountain Lion, but need >=5.5.9 (for laravel/lumen-framework v5.1.0 installation), so i run installation with package installer, which is finished successful, but i still have: PHP 5.4.40, I have no idea how to uninstall old version (i have no installed: yum, apt-get and brew), i don`t remember how i install previous version. So, please, tell me - how i can uninstall old PHP version from my Mac, without installing additional software (cause it prefer to uninstall it, in the same case as it was installed).
Often when you have ssh'ed into a server, you could like a second terminal to continue right off there, without having to ssh again. I know that iTerm2 can do it, but it feels buggy on multi screens.
Yesterday, my 2013 MacBook Air powered down unexpectedly, and since then I have not been able to restart it. It appears to be cycling through restart and shutdown every 5 seconds. I can feel that the case is heating up and the fans turn on but then they shut off and the cycle restarts. The screen remains blank, and there are no start up bells.
Here is my question. My macbook pro has been acting crazy for a while, shutting down unexpectedly daily. Every once in a while it will work for a day or two but eventually will start shutting down again.
Here is something I've been trying to get to work on an off for a very long time. I have a ton of music and I like to cycle through things I haven't heard in a long time. I also like to listen to albums beginning to end primarily. Here is my latest setup iTunes 12.2 on Windows 7 Iphone 5S, IOS 8.4
I have blanks in each row. Can I hide them? I want to be able to select a row and gather it together by getting rid of the empty cells.
Using iTunes 12 on Mac. I search for an artist in Apple Music. I get results, including the artist page, albums, songs. I want to explore this artist, so I want to listen to a stream of his or her songs. I can only seem to play one song at a time, each with a new play click, or tediously create a playlist by adding each individual song to My Music, then creating a playlist. Is there no way to stream search results in toto?
I have an issue with my iMac 2008 (8.1) (vertical lines). And I don't know where is the problem GPU/LCD. Someone said I must buy mini DVI to test if the the screen is defective using a external screen? How do I test if my LCD screen or GPU is defective.
I am new to iCloud, and trying to figure out how to save my iPhone photos to my MacBookPro (Yosemite OS) for archiving purposes. Right now, I am manually copying the photos from my "photo stream" events in iPhoto and pasting them into regular albums on iPhoto. Is this enough to properly archive my photos onto my hard drive? When I looked on the Apple website there were more complicated instructions for archiving, I'm hoping my low-tech solution is sufficient so my photos won't be deleted when the photos are deleted off of my iCloud photo stream.
I purchased a magic mouse battery charger set today. It had a battery charger and 6 batteries. Now I put 2 batteries into the magic mouse and 4 batteries are in the box. My question is how to maximise the life of these batteries??
I have a Iomega SuperSlim USB 2.0 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drive that I used without any issue on my Macbook Air. Now all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore. The DVD spins, a "Audio CD" item pops up on the Finder sidebar and vanishes a few seconds after. Over and over again. iTunes manages to get the track info after some attempts, so the DVD is readable.
I have an email address managed Google Apps (it uses the imap.googlemail.com and smtp.googlemail.com servers, but the part after the @ is not gmail but the domain of my university). I use exactly the same settings in Thunderbird and Postbox (see here), but couldn't manage to make it work with Outlook 2011 nor 2016. I get this error:
I have two Mac one is mac book and other Is Mac book Pro and i am looking for a way so i can use macbook as a extended Monitor for MAc BOok Pro. is there a way to do it . thanks in advance
I have recently upgraded to the El Capitan Beta, which has caused a conflict with the Windows 8.1 Bootcamp installation on my MBP (see my previous question: Is it possible to Bootcamp Windows 8.1 using USB on Late 2011 MBP?). At startup, the option to boot from Windows is no longer available, and the partition has become invisible on Disk Utility. I am running 10.11 build 15A225f
The Photo app has so many features, I can't figure-out this basic task: take photos with iPhone. save photos to /tmp
I have deleted everything in the trash, many other files, and 52 GB of photos. The only photos I have in my library now are 4.53 GB worth. When I click go to About This Mac it says I have 46 GB which is impossible. My computer is supposed to have a 121 GB Flash Storage with a 4 GB memory.
Can anyone help explain why there is 17 GB worth of free space on my LVG I can't seem to do anything with this space. Is there anyway to fix this? I have already reformatted the disk then cloned the contents back with CCC. I also have FileVault enabled. Whenever I see this on others setups it is usually a few KB not 17 GB
When browsing through Apple Music, there are curated Apple Music Playlists. Now, I can add each song of the Apple Music Playlist to "My Music" by right clicking and selecting "Add to my Music". That's very inconvenient, when I want to add all songs of that playlist to "My Music".
I use the latest Yosemite version on MacBook Air, I am trying to install Windows 7... I start bootcamp, I select the first two checkboxes [X] create windows 7 install disk [X] download support software [ ] remove windows 7 or later version The windows partition already exists from previous similar attempts.
We need to hook up a macbook pro to record our sermons through GarageBand to an Allen Heath QU-16. The macbook pro only has one headphone jack.
If I had a FireWire 400 DVD drive connected (via a FireWire 400-800 cable) to a FireWire 800 hard drive that was then connected via a Thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter to a Thunderbolt hard drive, that was then connected to a Mac, would I be able to use all the drives? And would I get Thunderbolt speeds on the Thunderbolt drive and FireWire 800 speeds on the FireWire drive? Also all the drives are powered externally.
I just got the iPhone 6 and I started using Apple Pay. I added my Bank of America debit card and an American Express credit card. Now whenever I use my Amex one, I get a notification as soon as I use it, and my last transaction is showing with the amount and the location, and I could also open a list to show the most recent transactions. My debit card doesn't do that at all. No notifications, no dollar amount, just says "Dallas, TX --" and doesn't put the dollar amount. I went into settings and into my BofA card and there's not even a "Card Notifications" slider so I can turn it on. Is there any way to bypass or fix this?
This is what I've got so far: So basically I want to start an rsync if the network share is already mounted but if it's not then I would like to mount that network share and start an rsync.
I have a number of apps that I run daily in the background (e.g. midipipe for using a midi controller to control my computer, and a pomadoro productivity app). I would like these apps to appear in my top menubar, where many other apps live that are hidden from the command+tab app switcher (screen shot included). Is there a way to place an app up here and hide it from the app switcher? I'm aware of the info.plist hack to hide apps from the app switcher, but I'm looking for a different kind of solution
How do I delete unwanted albums in the Mac Photos app?
Is there anyway to hide the title bar aside from fullscreen mode?
On linux, I use exim4 to send mail to a public email address. I don't have to authenticate or anything. It pretends its noreply@example.com and sends it to someone@example.com. Is it possible to do the same on OS X?
As far as I can see Apple TV does not support Apple Music (see Apple Music)  Did I miss something?
I've just received a router with my new internet. This router is wireless and therefor has no ports except power. How can I connect my time capsule to this router now that I can no longer connect it directly through cable? I've tried to choose extend existing network but it just keeps blinking orange...
I have a brand new Macbook Pro Retina, MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E46). Every now and then the whole display jerks briefly down and then back up again in place. I haven't found any reference to this online. Any idea why this might be happening?
I've had my Apple Watch for about a week and I use Siri constantly. For the first few days it worked like a dream: I'd raise my wrist, talk, and Siri would do what I asked. For the past few days, however, it sits there still listening after I finish talking. It'll remain in this state for upwards of 30 seconds - long enough that I have to tap the screen to stop it going to sleep and losing what I'd said - before finally deciding I have stopped speaking, and successfully doing what I'd asked. It's not background noise that's causing this: I'm using it in the same environment that I'd used it in before, and it works perfectly on my phone.
Interested in *=URL=* This makes possible to authenticate from an App to join a Wifi Captive portal. My question is: assuming the Wifi is detected in Wifi Settings, do I need first to set the Wifi in Wifi settings, - then go to the App to authenticate - ? Or can I only directly authenticate into the App, and nevergo to Settings ? Thanks
But they didn't help, so I am writing this post. I have Yosemite 10.10.4 installed. Also, recently I have installed Little Snitch, now I have uninstalled it, maybe it's because of it?
My mac randomly plays my iTunes music while I'm watching a movie or just using my laptop. I can't stop it because iTunes is never actually open. I've tried opening iTunes and playing music but they both seem just to play over the top of each other. The only way to stop the music is to restart the laptop
Back story : After I installed Windows with Bootcamp, I wanted to make another partition where I'll install Linux, but couldn't do that from Disk Utility because I found on the internet that Yosemite can't partition Logical Volumes (or something like that). So I had to use the command line. The problem : I resized a volume disk0s2 from 400G to 350G to make room for Linux with this command :
I must attend to edit screenshots for an application, available on iPhone and iPad in 14 different languages. Each screenshot contains a text explaining the screen in all 14 languages. As each iPhone requires a different image size on iTunes Connect, so I have to edit: 14 x 5 x 5 screenshots different resolutions. This makes a total of 350 screenshots for iTunes Connect, just for one app.
I have a US iTunes account and a friend - also from the US but currently in the UK - wants to send me an iTunes gift card. My question is: can he buy this card valid for the US Store with his US credit card but from his UK location. Is this possible? And will it be sent to me digitally as I am also not in the US right now.
My whole system is in my preferred language, except Xcode. There's no use Googling "Xcode change language" or even "xcode change language -iphone -IDL -parse -Python -app -localization -internationalization -swift -objective-c", it only turns up developer questions. How do I change the UI language for Xcode?
In the last 24 hours, I've had my keyboard and trackpad completely stop responding. Both times it was while YouTube was playing, so I think the machine wasn't completely frozen, just the trackpad and keyboard not responding.
I recently plugged in my external hard drive, and opened up Time Machine. I noticed that Time Machine had started backing up automatically, and so I cancelled the backup. But then I noticed that the most recent backup disappeared. Is there any way I can get this backup back?
I thought this would be easy, but preliminary investigations suggest not—both of my current users seem to think they own the directories. As my “admin” user, I do a ls on the JBOD and get the following: As my “fileshare” user, I do the same: Looking in the Finder “Get Info” details, each user believes that the various directories belong to them and that “everyone” else has “No Access”. When looking in the Sharing Preferences, each user believes they are sharing the directories:
I bought a brand new iPad mini 3 64GB from a auction site, I knew it was imported from the US, that's fine, I'm now unsure as to what SIM card I can use in it, it won't accept an O2 SIM card. Can I use it in the UK on cellular, if so what network SIM card might I have to get.
I have this very simple script... and it works fine, but every time the dialog is displayed the following errors are logged, 27/07/15 8:32:48 PM AppleScript Editor[43002] -[NSCarbonWindowFrame aspectRatio]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x116411470 27/07/15 8:32:48 PM AppleScript Editor[43002] HIToolbox: ignoring exception '-[NSCarbonWindowFrame aspectRatio]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x116411470' that raised inside Carbon event dispatch ( .... trace .... )
The obvious way to "solve" this is to go to the Settings > Display and select "Scaled" and choose a lower resolution. Everything would be larger, of course, but at the expense of sacrificing the resolution. I basically want to keep the resolution at 1920x1080 but just change the scaling factor for UI controls.
Edit: After further inspection it appears to have occurred exactly over the bridge that holds the hard drive in place. (the long black piece with the two screws in it).
Update #1: I uninstalled gfxcardstatus. Now the only times it shuts down instantly are when I initially log in (tried on user with Filevault and one without), and when I log out from one user and log into another. I've unplugged while logged in, I've put it to sleep and come back, I've logged out and back in (as same user), and it stays on. It always shuts down if I log in from a fresh reboot. I've seen issues where the MBP shuts down after login, and where the MBA shuts down without power, but this is just a little different.
I have experienced 5 kernel panics over the last few months. Using a mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.4.
I took my SSD, plugged it into another Mac, and booted the system (OS X 10.10.4) there. When I opened the Network Preferences, I was surprised to find, that all VPN services had disappeared. I am guessing they are somehow bound to the Mac address of the network device. When I took the disk back to the original Mac the VPN connections did not come back...
Running OS X 10.10.2 and has for a long time had a grey screen at start-up which occasionally freezes but most of the time just starts up after a while. Is this normal? At last upgrade the process froze after several hours and the above situation has been since then
I just got my iPhone 6 and everything works fine. It's just that whenever I recieve a text message, the notification on the lockscreen pops up and says who it's from and then "to you" right below it.
I have an Apple Thunderbolt Display 27 inch, Part MC914LL/A and I'd like to know if there is a way I could connect it to my Lenovo T420s ThinkPad.
I have an iPhone 5 and need to buy an app which is quite expensive. The first question: if I want to use this app on my iPad (which has the same Apple ID), would I have to buy it again or not? The second question: I am thinking about buying an iPhone 6 after 2-3 months and then selling my iPhone 5, would I have to buy this app again or not?
I have a school issued MacBook Air with several apps installed. While they were downloaded from the App Store using my personal Apple ID, I need an administrator password, which I don't have, in order to delete them. Is there a way to do this without adding another account?
I changed the Fn key on my Macbook Pro to actually work in the reverse way (so, just hitting the F1 key actually sends the "Function 1" signal, rather than the brightness decrease signal when the Fn key is not pressed, and the brightness decrease signal if the Fn key is pressed). I did this because, as a developer, it's much more useful to me to be able to utilize the function keys than the other (what I consider auxiliary) functions.
I'm working on a project that requires me to record a large number of 20-second audio clips (the file format is unimportant, as far as I'm aware). I would like to be able to do this without pressing a button to stop each recording—that is, I'm hoping there's a way that I can use a timer to stop recording automatically each time 20 seconds is up. Can I manage this in QuickTime? If not, I'm open to any suggestions the community may have. Thanks in advance.
Can I send a text to a friend's iPad if I use their email address as their Apple ID? I have an Amazon Fire smartphone. Will the message get to them from my phone?
I have an old white infrared Apple remote for a 2008 Macbook. I lost my apple TV remote and can't get passed the setup screen. I can see that the Macbook remote is noticed by the Apple TV because the light blinks when I use it, but it doesn't control anything. Is there a way to pair it? At least temporarily so I can use the Remote app?
In Pages 5, some templates have blocks of background color, like in the For Rent Flyer where it has gray blocks of color at the top and the bottom. I can delete the text in front, but I can't figure out what the color blocks are. Can someone please tell me what these are, and how I can create/modify them in my own documents?
I would like to know because I am planning on purchasing a power book g4.
I have installed the update to my iPhone after backing it up however I have an old version of iTunes and it will not let me update it on my Windows Vista laptop (tells me I need Windows 7). If I set up as new iPhone will I lose everything I've backed up? How can I get the new iTunes on my laptop?
I need to get QuickTime Player to store its temporary files on another disk. I found an answer here, which I tried, but QuickTime Player quits with an error when I try to make a Screen Recording. I used:
The "w" key on my MacBook Pro broke due to water damage. Currently I am copy and pasting the letter whenever I need that, but I would prefer to be able to press a keyboard shortcut to type it. The shortcut needs to be available no matter the app; I would prefer the shortcut to be control + option (just those two keys) but if that's not possible then I'll settle for something else. I tried setting a shortcut through the settings app, but I couldn't figure out how to 1) bind a single letter and 2) have the shortcut available globally. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.3
My /private/etc/hosts file is being reset after every reboot. I can make my changes, save the file, and it will work. Right up until I reboot my Mac. Has anyone found a work around for this or a way to prevent it from happening? I'm running OSX Yosemite 10.10.4.
Does deleting iCloud backups delete the associated data immediately or does Apple retain the data for a period of time?
Can I search for a song in my music library that is between x and y start and end times, respectively?
I recently plugged my iPhone to my Mac. Ever since I did that, every time that I text on my iPhone it shows an icon pop up on the Mac screen, however I am not set up through messaging on my Mac. I am wondering if there is a way to stop the computer from showing that I am typing and showing who I am texting. It does not show conversation or any details, just who I am texting. It is pretty annoying.
I have installed VLC app in my iPad Mini and have been enjoying movies. But the srt files I have transferred to my iPad cannot be removed even after I have deleted the movies from my iPad.
Is it even possible? I understand it's possible for a window, when you press space after Cmd-Shift-4. I want shadow on my selected area screenshot, so it doesn't blend with the rest of the page/email/text/etc?
Is there any single user mode or safe mode on a Mac? I'm using 10.10 (Yosemite). I want my Mac not to load some plists in the LaunchDaemons directory and some kext files.
I have a two-column table in a document in Pages 5. The table starts mid-way down a page with content above it. When I add rows to the table, if there isn't enough room to fit the entire table on the same page, the entire table jumps to the next page, leaving a big empty gap in the document. How do I get Pages to instead start the table at the original page, and span the table onto the next page instead?
I recently upgraded from Lion to Yosemite. Now using Mail 8.2 the welcome screen shows up with every launch of the program. Dis- and reenabling the IMAP account like proposed here did not fix it. What can I do?
Modify /etc/hosts and add some IPv6 addresses and the corresponding domain names. But I can't find them in Google.
Is there an option in Apple Mail 8 to have mails displayed in plain text format? I cannot find a setting for it and the classic way to disable it does not seem to work anymore.
When I try to delete an event in iMovie it tells me, 'the library must contain at least one event.' I have made so many events just to try to delete this one and yet the same message appears.
I have a similar question as this one, except I have specific hardware that I want to connect. I have a MacBook Pro 15" Retina Mid-2014 and a Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express dock. Now I want two Dell U2515H monitors and connect them to the Belkin Dock. Is this possible and what cables do I need? If it is not possible, I need to fallback to connect just one U2515H to the dock and one to the MacBook, would that be possible?
That must the weirdest title you've read in a long time. I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012, I installed Windows 7 with Bootcamp and all was working fine. Last night I installed Kali Linux with a bootable USB, and during the installation I checked something like "master boot record" or something like that, not too sure. Now when I'm greeted with the boot menu in mac thanks to rEFInd and select Windows, this message comes on : No bootable device -- Insert boot disk and press any key
I get alerts from mail that a password to one of the mail accounts is not valid. This may well be - however, I'm not using that account any longer. In the account list - this account is NOT present - so I couldn't remove it.
I'm currently working on a MacBook late 2008 with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. I use Mac Mail for my email.
Is there a way of remotely changing multiple iPad's locks/homescreens to the same custom image all at once over the air (not via USB)? I currently compile profiles with Apple Configurator, but changing wallpaper is apparently not possible with MDM. Isn't there a app or something that can do this?
telnet says "connected", but "tcpdump -n host clienthost" at the server side can't see any traffic. I expect to see at least a SYN packet from the client. When I telnet the same server to port 25 I can see immediately the regular SYN traffic coming on the server's tcpdump.
We have a Yosemite iMac that won't boot, it reboots in the middle of the loading bar with the Apple logo. Said iMac uses a Logitech bluetooth keyboard, and even if I press Shift or Cmd + R it won't boot in safe mode/recovery, which leads me to think the keyboard connect after the OS has booted.
How to extract frequent location data from an iOS backup? I'd like to use it to generate GPX (location+time) output and use it to tag my photos. Does anyone tried to adress this issue?
While normal hotspot interaction functions perfectly between an iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4) and my MBPr '14 with Yosemite 10.10.4, the Instant Hotspot feature does not. This feature used to work, but after some time this feature stopped working. I found the source of the issue, but can't determine how to resolve it. My Yosemite logs reveal some errors. com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[749]: [-[CastlePlugin appleIDNeedsFixing]] accountsd[270]: Deleting com.apple.gs.appleid.auth service token AppleIDAuthAgent[286] SERVER AppleIDAuth: Forgetting account "<my-apple-id>@?????.???" SDHotspotBrowser::appendHashToData:withType: No apple ID hash SDHotspotBrowser::restartAdvertisingTetheringRequest Did not start advertising request Steps I've tried that have not worked: Signing out and back in to AppleID on both devices Clean restore of iOS to iPhone Ensuring wifi and bluetooth enabled on both devices, neither with an active wifi connection All the above steps with full LTE coverage and 12 inch
I joined the beta program and installed iOS 9. I then unenrolled and did a restore to iOS 8.4 via iTunes. The problem is that my phone keeps prompting me to install the iOS 9 beta again. How do I get it to ignore updates relating to the beta program and leave me on iOS mainstream?
So, as the title says, I have an iMac 21.5-inch Mid 2010 model and I installed Windows 8.1 with Boot Camp. After attempting to uninstall Ubuntu and Windows in Disk Utility (in OS X and Recovery) it would always give me an error, "Partition failed with the error: The requested size change for the target disk or a related disk is too small. Please try a different disk or partition, or make a larger change." What I have tried: I have tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM with Command + Option/Alt + P+R, nothing.
I need to install Cairo for the use of a 32-bit application on Mavericks. After first uninstalling libpng, I have succeeded in forcing a complete recompile of Cairo and all its dependents (libpng, fontconfig, pixman, glib) using
In the Photos.app I am using Markup Toolbar in conjunction with screenshot editor. How can I fill an area I selected using Instant Alpha with a specific color?
Yesterday I tried to use Apple TV, it connected but I realised that I don't have Airplay so I disconnected the Apple TV. I then transfered some files using a USB and after that I have no sound on Mac. I get a stop sign when trying to change volume. There is no output device listed. I have restarted many times, tried using the headphone port and USB headphones. USB headphones work, but the headphone port for regular headphones wont work at all. I can get sound through USB headphones or if I pair Mac with Apple TV, we get sound on our tv but no picture. I just want sound back on my Mac. Please can anyone offer any advice or solution?
Is there a flag within com.apple.loginwindow or somewhere else where I can force the network dropdown list above username and password to appear (even without WiFi being on or an ethernet device being plugged in)?  I've tried a lot of com.apple.loginwindow plist modifications, and dseditgroup changes including: dseditgroup -o delete -T group com.apple.access_loginwindow, dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -a netaccounts -t group com.apple.access_loginwindow 2>/dev/null, /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -a localaccounts -t group com.apple.access_loginwindow /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -a com.apple.loginwindow.netaccounts -t group com.apple.access_loginwindow sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool NO sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo DSStatus and many others, without any impact on forcing the network device dropdown list to appear.
I'm experiencing a rather odd problem, and I can't figure out what's going on. I have a tgz file, scip-3.2.0.tgz, that is throwing an error when I attempt to unpack it. The error is only occurring on OS X (I'm on 10.10.4). I can extract the file without error on a Linux box running CentOS 6.6. The error occurs when both using the command line tar command and when using the archive utility. I emailed the SCIP mailing list, and I have the same SHA-1 hash as another user (e085a4a3591eddf945dcb365d97d2512c267e374), so there wasn't a download error. They aren't sure what's going on. Here's the error I get when I try to unpack using the archive utility:
However, the problem is practically not reproducible. It often happens when people do everyday things like web browsing. Also it occurs randomly. Sometimes several times a day and sometimes once a month. Therefore it is hard to convince Apple of this bug.
I am a little concerned that installing Windows 10 might break something that can't be fixed, and I'll have to wipe everything and figure out how to go back to Windows 8, which would be a pain. Does anyone know if Windows 10 is successfully able to use the Windows 7 bootcamp drivers? …or should I be the one to test it out and see if it works okay? :D
I am using an iPad (4th gen) with iOS 8.4. I would like to have it support spell checking. By spell checking I mean that misspelled words should be underlined in red (or otherwise distinctlively marked) when they appear in editable text fields. My General>>Keyboard settings are shown here The reason is that when I type I make plentitudenous spelling mistakes.
I've been using the Sleep Cycle accelerometer-based alarm clock app for a while now: But since very recently the app seems to be using up all of my battery overnight, which it didn't do before, and shuts down the phone. It also started to make my iPhone very hot to the touch in the morning. Besides that, when the app is activated and I lock the screen (which I do obviously for security reasons) the app blocks all text message sounds, which is also bad. So I was curious if there's any other app (paid or free) that could replace my current app without the drawbacks listed (excessive power, excessive heat, suppressing messages)
My internet account with Comcast is 75 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up. To verify my internet speeds, I used SpeedOf.Me in Safari on my 2011 iMac and 2014 Macbook Pro which gave me 75-80 Mbps down and 10-15 Mbps up on both computers. To make sure I was getting similar speeds on my mobile devices, I installed the Ookla Speedtest app on my iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 which gave me 32-35 Mbps down and 12-15 Mbps up. Both iPhones are running the latest version of iOS 8.4. My internet equipment and settings are as follows: Motorola Surfboard SB6121 cable modem Docsys 3.0 latest firmware IPv6 only Airport Express wifi router 802.11n at 5GHz WPA2 Personal latest firmware
I have an exFAT-formatted 3TB USB drive connected to an iMac running 10.10.3. The system lost power and when it came back up, the drive wouldn't mount. I tried Repair Disk in Disk Utility, and it didn't complete successfully -- I didn't note the error message but it was essentially "recover any files you can from backups and reformat".
If I turn on iCloud Photo library, it tells me "Photos and videos synced from iTunes will be removed." From where? Which photos and videos? I just want to delete photos from my phone because of storage issues. I'm fine with turning off photo stream, but someone said I should first "link iCloud Photo library." Which takes me to the first problem. Can someone clarify? I don't want to permanently lose anything! Thank you!
I was taking a walk yesterday, and I was listening to music in my personal library. No Apple Music subscription. After awhile, my music stopped. I checked, and it said something about needing internet to access music and turning on cellular music in settings or something like that. It happened again today at the mall. I'm confused... I thought that my personal library was on my device. Is it? By the way, I am using an iPod touch 6th generation and running (gulp) iOS 9 public beta. My best guess is it's the beta. Maybe they don't want all my music on my device in case I have to reset it. But wouldn't it be backed up to iTunes?
How do I restore my Safari browser. I accidentally deleted it. Now I have to use Google or Bing. Whoops!
I have an issue occurring with my iTunes library an iTunes Match that I'm having trouble diagnosing. I have several albums with tracks that refuse to upload to my iCloud Music Library. You can see some of the tracks in this screen shot, they have the dashed outline cloud next to them:
What are some options I can deploy to require users to use multi factor authentication when logging onto their Macs. In the same fashion you use your password and Google Authenticator code to log into Gmail, GitHub, Slack, etc., is there something for logging into your Mac.
When I installed OSX Mavericks, I left free space after my system partition in case I wanted to install a second OS there. This has proved unnecessary — I've never modified the partition table — and I'd like to integrate that space into my system partition.
I would like to backup the /home directory on a macbook pro running osx 10.8.5 using time machine, unfortunately this is directory is ignored by default. According to this post: On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? the file:
Inspired by this question: Bulge in MacBook Pro near Hard drive Could the heat generated from a MacBook Pro (over a period of several hours running at around 100% CPU usage) warp an area of the Unibody shell? Specifically- would this be a possibility if it was a Mid 2010 Unibody Case?
have a very stubborn Mac, it is a slightly older model but can run Yosemite. I have been trying all day to reformat the main drive in it, I have using the regular disk utility and terminal. I have tried for un-mounting and reformatting but nothing is working. I have narrowed it down to the recovery volume on the drive that refuses to unmount. Is there a way to run in recovery mode without using the hard drive? Because as of right now I have no way of reformatting the drive. As, ironically is seems that the recovery partition is blocking me from doing it. Any suggestions on how to get this sucker to comply? I want to: Reformat the main drive completely It seems every partition but the recovery is complying
OS X Yosemite: I took thousands of pictures on a trip recently, some from my iPhone, and some from my DSLR camera. Now, the iPhone automatically gets its time and date from the local cell towers, but the DSLR stayed set with the time and date of its original configuration.
I have an new computer, and installed iTunes. When I plugged in my iPhone, it asked if I wanted to restore my phone, or start as a new phone. I said restore, but it restored my wife's phone data, and wiped out my email on 3 accounts. How do I go back
I use Pages 5.5.x The problem is that I have occasionally deleted "Lettered" list & bullets style. Now I want to restore the default list of "list & bullets" styles for the document. Is it possible?
I gave an iPhone 3G to a friend who lives in Dubai. At the time, it was carrier locked to at&t. I have since submitted a request here in the U.S. to unlock it, and the request was approved by at&t. For some reason, he's having trouble getting it to unlock, and I think I know why. Am I correct in assuming that he needs to have access to an at&t tower in order for the phone to talk to it and grab the updated carrier settings, which would then unlock the device?
I sent a lot of files and directories from an external hard drive into the trash by mistake. All those files and directories had the same grandfather directory but not the same father directory. I can put back each item individually but can't put back when I select several items that are not sister files/directory. Note that no path has been changed since I deleted all those files and directories. Anyway, I am thinking about using Bash. Is there a putback command in bash?
My son's iPhone 5s was locked and erased by someone he shared a cloud with during a work project. This phone was never on this man's account. I have a receipt as proof of ownership. I also have the email originally placing the Apple ID and cloud info. I bought the phone new from AT&T and had have it on my account for the past year. The person we assume did this denies locking the device maliciously or accidentally. Apple refuses to unlock the phone and won't even tell who or what Apple ID locked the phone.
Does anybody know how to disable OSX from throttling/underclocking the CPU on a Macbook when the battery gets low on power? I think the feature is called SpeedStep. The problem is that my battery is damaged and no longer works so I have to run my Macbook off of the power adaptor and I would like the system to run up to speed, instead of at 0.8 GHz, so I can use it until I get a new battery. I have a Macbook Pro 13" Late 2013 i5 2.6 GHz with Retina(11,1). It's running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 with Darwin kernel version 14.1.0.
So I wanted to create a new partition to test the new El Capitan operating system. But I'm unable to create a new partition, the '+' sign is greyed out. This is what I have currently configured for my drive: Now I've googled this problem and found similar cases but they all mentioned that it's because the 'Revertible' setting was configured 'No'. Now in my case this is configured 'Yes (no decryption required)' as shown below:
I want to have my photo library to sync all the pictures on the HDD, which I can easily reference them by deselecting "copy items to the photo library" and import them. but I want that if I delete the photo in the photos.app, then it would delete the referenced file too. Is that possible?
I have a "Classic Buckle" style leather band for my Apple Watch. After having it for about two months now, the band has really begun to stink due to moisture and sweat!
I "lost" my iPhone at work, could not find it anywhere. I reported it lost, and got another through the insurance. A month later, I found it hiding in a file in one my desk drawers. The phone is just less than a year old, in near new condition, and it seems a waste to discard it. What has to be done to be able to sell it to someone who needs a working phone?
I'm currently running the OS X El Capitan public beta, but I've had this issue since Mavericks or Yosemite. I'm unable to permanently remove unprotected wifi networks from the preferred networks list in System Preferences. I've followed all of the suggestions I've found online which include: resetting iCloud Keychain deleting com.apple.airport.preferences.plist locating and deleting wifi passwords in Keychain Access
I spilt coffee on an apple external wired keyboard. Taking the advice of other threads on this matter I washed it thoroughly and dried it, twice. However 2 of the keys are still non functional. Does this mean it is permanently busted? Or can I still fix it somehow? Or can it economically be fixed by an apple support shop or similar??
I'd like to setup my dev environment on my girlfriend's iMac, but she's not cool with me wasting 3GB of space, which is what Xcode takes up. She also doesn't want to/can't upgrade past 10.8 because then Photoshop won't work, or some nonsense.
I just recently installed Yosemite in Virtualbox. Here's the installation video I followed: *=URL=* My OS is Windows and I'm trying to run Mac using Virtualbox.
Unable to expand "zip" into "downloads" (Error - 63 file name too long.) on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5.
Is there a way to uninstall font on iOS? I played with fonts on my iPhone and installed some with help of apps. But now I need to remove them for developing purposes.
I have my iPhone plugged into my computer via USB, I have QuickTime Player open and am previewing my iPhone screen as well as the iPhone's audio, but how would I go about recording my audio from my microphone which is connected to my computer, all in QuickTime? I have tried Audacity, but that didn't work due to lag with QuickTime and that caused the audio to be horrendously out of sync.
My Macbook Pro 13" (2011) had a Seagate 1TB hybrid drive installed as a secondary drive some 4 months ago. Yesterday the volume somehow became corrupt and unable to mount. I managed to format it using Disk Utility seemingly without any errors yesterday evening. However, this morning after recovering a few GB's of data from a backup it seems to have become corrupt and again unable to mount.
When printing a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to "Scale to Fit / Print Entire Image", and the default scale is some arbitrary number. To get 100% scale requires clicking "Scale" and typing "100".
I've tried to replace the display on my MacBook Pro (ME294ll/a) Late 2013 but the image is not displayed correctly. It looks like this:
Since a few days ago, about every 20 seconds a popup window appears saying that ApplicationManager quit unexpectedly: I can't think what I could've done to cause this, but what is ApplicationManager and how can I fix this? Here are the details:
Trying to install a settings update on my iPad but it won't accept my password. I have tried resetting password but it still won't accept it I'm afraid I'm a bit of a dinosaur
In System Preferences | Keyboard | Input Sources, you can add any languages you like by tapping + button. The list contains Simplified and Traditional language, but it doesn't have Cantonese. I wonder why it does not contain Cantonese, even though it has some too minor languages like Telugu, Oriya, or even Ainu. Is it still possible to type in Cantonese in OS X, with possibly pinyin?
I'm trying to use subversion, SVN, through the terminal on my Mac OS X 10.10, Yosemite. I installed Xcode and the Developer tools, and I installed svn via homebrew. whenever I try to run svn, I receive this error: I've done everything I can possibly think of, including attempting to install apache, php55, and some other things that I've found suggested elsewhere on the internet, and either they've installed correctly but I'm still left with the issue, or I get to the point where I am ready to use the 'make' command, but the make process fails, due to some sort of error with the makefile: I'm pretty new to the whole linux/unix thing, and actually have only owned a mac for about 3 months now, so I'm at a loss.
I've just made a fresh Yosemite install and noticed two strange security defaults Firewall is disabled User is created as an admin account It is hard for me to imagine how a disabled firewall is a sane default, but I wonder if having my main user being an admin is OK. Is the current privilege scaling built into OSX good enough so we no longer need a separate admin account? Any good Apple reason for which the firewall should be disabled?
The reason being, apple does not give you access to high speed peer-to-peer. They indirectly do it through multipeer, and GK requires an internet connection so there's no real point in using it for p2p. Multipeer is slow, even for small text strings, huge (.33 seconds) lag. So basically, no bars, data turned on, wifi hotspot work to form a local area network? Thanks
The issue is this: I'm using a PC keyboard with my (closed) MBP at work, and am using Karabiner (TAFKA KeyRemap4MacBook) to map the Mac keys to their appropriate places on it. So far so good.
I am having a very frustrating problem with zero values in a conditional calculation. I have a running balance column (E) with the custom number format of #,##0.00 ; [Red]-#,##0.00 ; ; when I use the simple calculation in the cells ie. E4 is =E3+D4, and the result is zero, the zeros are suppressed. The problem came when I changed it to a conditional calculation to avoid any cell results in future rows. The new formula being =if(A1>today(),,E3+D4), where A1 is every week day of the year. The cells containing zero results prior to any values in D cells are working (not displaying zeros), but once the running balance column E was not equal to zero and then calculated back to zero, that cell and the cells after carrying a zero balance are displayed as 0.00
You can cmd-drag an item to the Finder toolbar to have it there permanently, but is there a way you do this in the Terminal? The closest I've found is this old thread: *=URL=* Which suggests something like this: .. or perhaps ...
When using Numbers and I want to underline a cell, the default format is outlining the whole cell. I want the default format in Numbers to be only an underline not a box. Any way to do this?
I am having a bit of a strange problem. I have a PC with shared folders on 2 separate external drives. I can successfully access the share on one of the drives but I cannot access a share on the second drive. I have tried creating new folders and sharing them and I still get the same results. The message I get when I try to access the problem share is: The operation can't be completed because the original item for 'folder name' can't be found. I can successfully access both shares from another Windows 7 box. Anyone have any useful ideas?
I, like others I've been seeing on Apple official support forums, am having issues to start a new Radio Station with Apple Music on my iTunes. This feature works with almost no artist that I tried in my library. The issue only occurs on iTunes. All artists/albums I try to create a new Station from with my iPhone 6 work just fine.
My MacBook Pro took a small tumble off of my recliner last night and scuffed the right side from the brick of the fireplace. I just took my case off last week because the case was looking pretty bad and of course, as soon as I take it off it falls for the first time. My Macbook has been kept PERFECT and this little scuff really REALLY bothers me. I know its silly, but I'm a perfectionist and can't get over it! Any experience with repairs on this? I'm not expecting it to be fixed for free, but wondering about a price range etc...
For the last few years I've been using Dropbox to sync my dotfiles. For zsh, oh-my-zsh, emacs settings etc.
After a nice holiday I've often taken around 200 photos and 80% was made by myself, 10% was incoming WhatsApp pictures and 10% was some other pictures that ended up on my iPhone. I don't even want the WhatsApp pictures automatically backed up by Carousel on my iPhone 6, but unfortunately there is no way to disable that. Is there an easy way from my MacBook to filter out the pictures I made myself from the other pictures?
I am currently running a small business with Sales people and installers. I have issued each one of them an iPad to take with them on consultations. I am currently looking around for a program that would allow all of the iPad users to access product info documents that are stored on our office computer. But here is the kicker… I want the files to automatically upload to the devices when they return to the office, but I don't want the installers to receive files related to sales, and I don't want the sales people to receive files related to the installers.
Any experiences with upgrading a Windows 8.1 bootcamp install to a Windows 10 install? Is it safe? Will it somehow mess with the efi/bootcamp settings so boot up problems might ensue?
I've got an iPhone 4 and the lock (power) button and the home button doesn't work. My phone won't turn on and I've tried plugging it in to a power source but it still hasn't done anything. Can anyone help me?
I purchased 20 GB extra of storage for my iPad and iPhone on iCloud. But my devices say they are still full. How do I get the storage to show up so I can download an update, apps etc.?
I'm upgrading from a MBP 2009 to MBP 2012. I installed a SSD drive on the 2009 unit. A few days ago, I got the black screen of death due to the logic board failing. I back up every 30 days using Time Machine, but was on day 27 or so, which means I need to capture many work days of files; etc. How do I swap out the 750GB HDD in the 2012 for the SDD in my 2009 with my 2009 not booting up? Thanks, Scott
I am trying to figure out when logs (example: system.log) first start being created. Does it only happen after a full login (going to the Desktop), or would basic power-on/shutdowns at the login screen (but not logging in at all) be fully recorded?
I am trying to download a piece of equipment which requires at least a 1.8 Ghz processor. My MacBook Air has only 1.7 Ghz. Is it possible to upgrade it?
I'm not sure whether to ask this here or on another Stack Exchange site. See this screen capture:
I need to know the ip address of my printer from OSX to be able to configure it in my daughters Windows laptop. I tried the solution suggested in How do you get a printer's IP in lion? but I only get: dnssd://AL-CX11-08F61E._printer._tcp.local./auto, and I cannot ping AL-CX11-08F61E._printer._tcp.local. because it does not resolve. Still, I can print. How do I get the actual IP address? Edit: why doesn't it resolve from the commandline, but still OSX can print?
(My machine is a stock mid-2014 MB Pro Retina 13") I noticed a definitive drop in how long my battery lasts when I switched to the largest resolution available (to have more space to work with) instead of going with the Default setting.
I am trying to manually delete the cookies for Safari on Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.3. I have done this with Chrome and FireFox before (you simply locate their cookie files and delete them). But I seem to fail when trying to do it with Safari. My understanding is that Safari's cookie files are in There are at least four files there:
How can I limit the recipients to just contacts from the Exchange directory? When I start typing in the "to" field, not only are my options people in my exchange directory, but also people in my GMail contacts list! I only want people from my exchange directory to show up in To, CC and BCC.
Does anyone know if it is possible in iMessage on Mac OSX to set the return key to go to the next line instead of sending the message?
I have set up an AirPort Express Base Station (June 2012 model, the current one). For setup, I used a Yosemite MacBook Pro over Ethernet. The AirPort Express has an Ethernet running from the WAN port to a CLEAR modem (a WiMAX service) in "Bridged" mode. Both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks work well, devices connect with password and surf the web.
I'm on Yosemite 10.10.4, using Safari 8.0.7. When I press ⌘ + Shift + 7 Safari doesn't show all tabs, as it's supposed to be, but presents me with the crosshair you get when you would otherwise press ⌘ + Shift + 4.
Lets assume that I have apps that I have on offer on the Apple App Store. Again, lets assume that I no longer want to support an app and that I am removing the app from the app store. If my app no longer works or functions correctly after dropping support, is there a way I can suggest deleting the app or are their penalties for having apps that behave this way?
I have an iMac (iMac 8,1) and I am trying to install Windows on it. I used bootcamp to create all required parts and got to the part where it rebooted. I got the "No bootable USB devices" so I shut it off and started it holding option and the selected the USB drive that I created with BootCamp called "EFI Boot", thing is, is the mac just freezes and I have to shut it off, no matter the media I put windows on it always hangs at this part. Any suggestions?
How can I view the raw XML of an RSS feed in Safari (or Reeder)? had an answer about 'XV XML Viewer', but the answer itself has been updated pointing out that it no longer works in Safari 5.1. There is also an older .webplugin that could have been used, but then I read that the .webplugin mechanism itself is deprecated and no longer used in modern versions.
I have just recently acquired a Mac Pro 3.1 and have been a strictly Windows/Linux guy my whole life. But I'm really liking Mac and starting to get used to it. I imagine that I'll be on this stackexchange a bit more in the near future, and so I had one basic question to get started.
I recently disabled FileVault in order to grow my system partition. This ended up being rather more complicated than expected, but it worked out in the end. Now that I have resized the system partition, I want to re-encrypt my drive, but I'm getting this error when I attempt to engage FileVault:
I cannot change the individual colors in my charts. Under "Chart Colors" there is only this list of 12 predefined color swatches called "fill sets". Most of them are ugly. Not being able to change individual colors means no ability to add the company's brand colors to documents and that sort of thing. How can I change the colors of my chart?
I'd like to detect an incoming Facetime call and run certain scripts as a result. I'd like to achieve something similar to when iTunes pauses when there is an incoming call, but I would run my own scripts. Any ideas how I can achieve that?
I've a late 2008 MBP. It's worked fine up until Monday when the wifi stopped working. It now says "Wi-Fi: No Hardware installed". I've tried looking for it in the system prefs and it's gone.
I want to upload two apps just with color and name difference on Apple Store. Is it possible, as I have heard that Apple blocks similar apps?
Occasionally, I use Spotlight to quickly compute some expression because I'm too lazy to do it in my head, on paper, or fire up some program. Sometimes I would like to view the result again, but when hitting ⌘-Space again, it has disappeared. I'm not sure if this happens only when you search for something else in the meantime or also after some period of time. The question is, can I somehow cycle back through my previous searches? System info: OSX 10.10.4
I was a PhoneClean and PhoneExpander user but, after iOS 8.3 update, they (and similar apps) stopped working due to some modifications in iOS. Now I start having too much cache on my phone but I don't want to remove and reinstall apps to clean their cache, is there a faster way to do that? (apps updated to support iOS 8.3 or iOS apps or other ways...) I don't want to jailbreak.
I know where to find the executable file path to an app in Windows. For instance, Adobe Reader: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
The font is too small on the reading pane of Outlook 2016. Is there a hack to enlarge the reading pane font? I've had Macs for years but then Helvetica Neue font is too small for me.
We reinstalled operating system at apple genius bar due to 3-4 previous crashes. Updated and timemachine restored files but it has started crashing again. Is it a firefox problem? Has the problem been reinstalled by timemachine backup? please advise, best twelvemouths
I have an issue when I'm connected to public Wi-Fi networks with my Terminal, When I run it, I see the following: 'Inbal-TOSH' is a name of a computer in the network I guess. but I don't understand why am I seeing it.
How can I open application URLs in Terminal or Alfred? My Problem: I use Airmail2 as default mail client as well as OmniFocus 2 to organize my work. Airmail2 allows to copy application URLs via EDIT→Copy Message Link, which yields a link like airmail://message?mail=myAccount&messageid=etPan.55ba060a....
I switch back and forth, frequently, between 'closed clam' with a large monitor and 'just the laptop monitor' with a Retina MBP. Whenever I switch, all my windows appear in unhelpful locations sticking off the edges of the visible screen. This happens in both directions. I currently run Yosemite. Is there a way to make them recenter?
iTunes doesn't keep title of voice memo which make them quite useless. They look like DATE######.m4a. I'm working with these memos, any solution would fit, even jailbreak I really need to find a way. iTunes 12.2.1.16, Windows 7, iPhone 3Gs, iOS 6
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, does the Cloud push the "keyboard shortcuts phrases" between the iOS and OS X devices? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.
I'm planning on running a couple of scripts in single-user mode to speed up (and simplify for less savvy users than myself) the configuring of a few aspects of some Macs that I set up for other people. I've read the few threads I could find about this, and my question is simply is there anything I should be particularly aware of when it comes to running scripts from single-user mode? I'm aware that I can't invoke any commands/apps that would require a GUI to load, and that the /sbin/fsck and /sbin/mount commands would still be required before a script can be run at all. Two more specific questions: If I set the script as executable before depositing it on the disk image that will be booted in single-user mode, will it remain executable? And lastly, when it comes to removing user accounts I've seen on some threads e.g this one the need to invoke this command: However, as I simply want to rm various files - is there any need to do this, the process seems to work just fine without it?
I need to build a string containing the filenames of the 15 most recent files (by modification date) within a directory. Delimited only by a space: file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg
Just updated to iTunes 12.2 and noticed that there is a blank column I would like to delete: Is this possible to do? Thanks for the help.
I do "barn hunt" --- a fun dog sport. What isn't fun about it is creating courses. I need something really, really, really, really simple... think playing with LEGOS simple. I need something that I can set the scale for a 37' x 24' space and add hay bale dimensions and stack them. We have multiple levels of hay bales to stack- up to 4 in some places.
When I dropped my iPhone on the sink it didn't crack but it did break inside. I can't use my iPhone. I can turn it on but it isn't fully functional. There are lines and white blocks on the screen. I am wondering, if I have a warranty, can I get it repaired for free?
I am working with iCloud, iPhone and Macbook Pro on Yosemite. I receive ICS calendar invites via mail from a user using Outlook. When I click on the ICS file in the mail, it opens and I can add it to my calendar without a problem. It also syncs nicely on all my devices.
I frequently have the problem where my laptop's screen is too dim prior to login and I can barely tell where my account or the mouse is. Is there a way to set the brightness to maximum on boot before any user has logged in by using the equivalent of an init script?
I can connect/disconnect using the Tunnelblick app. How do I connect via the command line?
I converted some mkv files into AppleTV3 files with Handbrake so I could import them into iTunes to watch on my AppleTV 3. I can't seem to import these files into iTunes 12.2.1.16 on Mac OS X 10.1.2.16 I've tried dragging the files and using File> "Open File" No error messages appear.
I am looking for a way to see new emails that I received show up in the notification centre. Right now I am following the advice gleamed from this page but when new emails come in all that happens is that I get a notification on my desktop in the upper right corner. However, when I open the notification centre it says "no new notifications". This isn't terribly useful because I want to see all my new emails at a quick glance in the notification centre. If I am away from my desk I am not going to be able to see all the emails that I missed. Edit: I am using Safari on OSX 10.9.5
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.4 Never had an issue untile three days ago.
Since a couple of days internet connected applications (such as facebook) have stopped working on my wife's iPad mini which has iOS 7.1.2. Further symptoms: internet works in Safari internet doesn't work in Facebook (though it works with the messenger component), the app store, Dropbox trying to install updates fails (seems to time out, doesn't even start downloading) tried to sign out from the Apple account (Settings -> iTunes & App store) and sign back in, however it won't let me sign in (tried multiple times and confirmed that the account details are correct by signing in on a PC) tried rebooting multiple times to no avail
I have a MacBook Pro from early 2011 which was shipped to me with a DVD that I could use to reformat the machine, which I do not have with me at the moment. I have upgraded to OS X Yosemite though, and have reformatted the newer Retina MacBooks which used an Internet connection to download the OS. Since I do not have the disc handy, will I be able to do this later reformatting on my older MacBook Pro?
Some time ago, I used BootCamp to set up a partition for Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (13" late 2014 if it matters) so I could dual-boot. I have since removed the partition using BootCamp, but still can't reclaim the disk space. The new Disk Utility doesn't show the partition (I'm using the 10.11 Public Beta, but have also checked in the Recovery partition which is still using the old Yosemite Disk Utility). However, the diskutil Terminal command shows this: It seems the resize has screwed up somewhere, and made the Recover HD over 100GB. Is there any way of (safely) resizing this back down to something sensible, so I can reclaim the space?
Whenever I try to download an app it will buffer forever and on my home screen the app will only say waiting. Why is this and what is the solution?
I recently had to move server drives from an OSX 10.6 server to a new Mac mini running Yosemite (10.10.4) and Yosemite server (4.1.3) - meaning I physically unplugged them from the old server and plugged them into the new server. I am in the process of uniformly reassigning owner:group and ACLs.
Every time I attempt to log on to the apple developer forums it tells me I need to create a new user account (even though I already have one), and when I try to sign up it gives me an error: Anyone else have this issue and/or know how to fix it? Thanks!
I need to validate XML. I know that Xcode has some support for XML, such as highlighting and collapsing. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how to run actual validation of XML from within Xcode. There are other XML tools that can do this that are available on Mac, as mentioned in this broader posted question, but I was just curious about Xcode specifically.
My question is might be related to this old question: Keystrokes getting eaten randomly When I type on my keyboard some keys just won't appear. Different from the other issue (link above) the characters will get typed later (lagging) Say I wanted to type: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" it first appears as: "Th quick ron fox jups ovr th lazy dog" then the letters get typed: "Th quick ron fox jups ovr th lazy dogebmee" When the errors occur I might add a "backspace" and the result might look something like this: "Th quick ron fox ps ovh lazy dobmee"
How can I add a user input variable to a text file? This is what I have right now: I want to somehow put 'cheat1' inside the text file and not come out as cheat1, but as the text the user gave any help?
I'm looking for copying the patterns that I find. For example for this, I would like to copy all the "bcbc":
I have an app up for review that includes IAPs. The App has had the status of In Review for three days now. When I went to the IAP page in iTunesConnect, I noticed that all my IAPs had been changed to Developer Action Needed. When I clicked on each of the IAPs, the english language was highlighted and they were marked as rejected.
I have an iPhone 5c, when I send iMessages my contact receives them as coming from my email address. I went to Settings to change this but my phone number is greyed out and my email address is in black. It will not let me change it to my phone number. I can't find the "Start new conversations from" section.
When you are not actively using Safari or Chrome, but if they are in the background still with open tabs of websites that were visited while in the foreground, do they keep refreshing and sending my IP address etc. to the websites? (iOS)
I recently bought an external tracker to track various activity and I wonder, whether I should disable tracking on my iPhone? E.g. let's say my tracker reports that I made 1000 steps and my iPhone reports that I made 850 steps within same period (carried both devices together). What will be the result score?
I was on ATT for years and could text iPhone and Android users with the iMessage app on my Macs and the Messages app on my iPad. I switched to T-Mobile (and ported over the same phone number) and now I can no longer use iMessage or Messages to text Android users except on my iPhone itself. How can I send and receieve text messages with Android users once again? iPhone 6 running iOS 8.4 on T-Mobile Pre Paid with a ported phone number from ATT
For some reason, whenever I try to enable Java in the browser by clicking on the checkbox "Enable Java content in browser" in the Security tab of the Java control panel, it asks for my password and then promptly unselects my selection. Does anyone know what is happening?
As the title states has anyone successfully updated their bootcamp install of windows from 7 to 10 with the windows update tool? Is it useable? Do the drivers work? Does it mess up the bootloader?
I replaced the HDD with a hybrid HDD/SSD about a week ago, following iFixit's guide for doing so. However, when putting it back together, I stripped one of the connectors on the fan.
I have a Macbook Pro Unibody Mid 2012 and used the battery for only 118 cycles. Since a few weeks ago whenever I'm on battery and it reaches <25% my Macbook shuts down immediately (no warning, no saving, so all my work is gone if I let it happen)
I have a couple of Macs and I would like to create some kind of script that I can use to: Easily setup a new Mac after a reinstall Update settings to consistent values (so if I decide to change some preferences on Mac A, I can run the script on Mac B to get it to match) I'd be happy if I could use this script to customize: System Preferences Finder Preferences
In some text views on OS X, e.g. in the application QQ, the character →(U+2192) is displayed differently after a Chinese character or Latin character:
Back in June 2013 I bought an 21" iMac with a standard 1TB HDD. By now OWC offers upgrades for these machines in the form of an SSD expansion board, which can be used to form a fusion drive with the HDD.
I'm an iOS developer and I've been selling very few apps on the App Store. I would like to ask some questions about withdrawn money from iTunes Connect. I already know Minimum payment: $150 (USD) Apple will fund every month My question If I earn over $150 in my account, for example: $500, how much money will I receive?
Background For academic purposes I have to use an university proxy from my home in order to access some contents online available only with this method (PUBMED, a medical research database). I have configured Firefox to connect through this proxy as explained in my faculty website. The problem However when accessing PUBMED I notice the proxy is working properly regarding the contents, meaning I can access contents usually unavailable without the proxy, but at the same time there are errors in how the page is formatted. Everything happens to be in column in the left side of the screen. I tried to disable all addons I had, but did not work.
I have 2015 early macbook pro 13", but I can't seem to find the 2560x1600 resolution. The highest resolution I can set it on is 1680x1050. Default for display is only 1280x800. What's the problem here? I'm using the newest Yosemite OS. Here's the screenshot:
I use Siri to set reminders a lot, like a dozen times a day. This morning Siri is saying, "I can't update reminders. Sorry about that."
I would like to be able to selectively edit specific auto-fill form values in Safari - rather than just delete the entire form data for that site. I know I can do the latter from Prefs > AutoFill > other forms > Edit… but I'd rather be able to remove only the the oddities my errant typing appears to have generated, rather than the actually useful auto-fills I already have in there.
In Windows I have the boot camp icon in my system tray with an option for Control Panel, but this only shows me keyboard options - which seems weird, are there supposed to be more options there?  Also, clicking on boot camp from Windows Control Panel does nothing:
What could be wrong with my MacBook Air laptop displaying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again. The same message still appears even when I reboot.
When I receive a message I don't want the sender or a preview of the content be shown on my lock screen. Some apps (like iMessage and Mail) allow you to set this in iOS' Settings -> Notifications. Other apps (like Viber) allow you to set this internally from their settings. But there are apps (like Skype), for which I don't see a way to set this. Is it possible to set this globally for all apps?
My iPad's screen has been buggy ever since I dropped it 2 months ago. It was bearable back then but now it moves the icons by itself and types on its own. The iPad does not respond to touch on all four corners and whenever I leave it it types on its own and moves the screen. I have not tried fixing it as I wouldn't want to risk it and break it completely, although I am willing to repair if needed.
I want to listen to music while I am running but don't want to bring my phone with me. Can I just pair the bluetooth earbuds that I use now with my phone and take my watch running?
And my second question is about removing process. Which equipments I'll need? If it is not obligatory I don't want to buy as a kit. Could anybody name these equipments I need?
I created a new iPhone album, later I moved some photos from Camera Roll to the new Album. The problem is that when I delete the moved photos from the Camera Roll, I can't find them in the new Album. Why!? I just want to have these photos in the new Album without being in the Camera Roll, too.
Some times I have apps opened with more than one windows, like Chrome. How can I see in the Dock one icon per each windows (even they are of the same app) that I have open? Would be nice know how to switch using command+tab or something like that between all the windows opened.
How can I get this path to the mount point to be consistent? I'd prefer to have it be /Volumes/xyz.
Is it possible to see when I put my mac to sleep on a specific date?
Just a quick question here. I'm trying to format the output of the command: so that it puts each domain on a new line, so I can use that parsed output in a different command. I've tried:
The closest that I can get is in the 'Zoom' section of the 'Accessibility' pref pane. This allows you to zoom the entire screen which is not the behaviour that I'm looking for. You used to be able to perform the zoom action using the mouse (see this video at 1:26 - *=URL=* )
I just realized that the job com.apple.mrt crashes every 10 seconds on my Mac. What exactly is the aim of com.apple.mrt? Apparently it should be a "Malware Removal Tool". Can I remove it from launchd (overrides.plist) ? Here is my Console system.log : Config : MacBook Pro (13" - mi-2012) 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 OS X Le Capitan 10.11 (Beta 4 - build: 15A244d)
I can't hear sound in my iPhone. I can't listen to music or any sound on my device. I'm frustrated trying to solve this.
Menumeters no longer works on El Capitan (see here), what are some alternatives? I just want to see my network and CPU stats.
As OSX no longer allows ifconfig en0 promisc and sees that as a bad value and does not set the device flag, what other options are there? I'd like to be able to boot and have both my Airport/WiFi as well as any ethernet/thunderbolt/usb ethernet devices come up in promiscuous mode automatically before login...at boot. I see that upon running tshark/wireshark/tcpdump etc within the system puts the devices in promiscuous mode as seen from an ifconfig promisc flag under whatever device I'm capturing.
I would really like to search based off the header List-Id but I haven't found a way to do this yet. When I type List-Id: <blah@group.company.com> into search, I get no results
The following is the code I have, however, it doesn't let me choose the extension I want to save it as. How can I save the file as a ".plist" ?
I have a Chrome window and this Chrome window covers the whole screen (not in the full screen mode, though). I also have 5 Finder windows under this Chrome window. So I can't see any Finder windows. Now I need a Finder window, so I use Mission Control. Everything works well, but when I close this Finder window, other all Finder windows show up on top of the screen, I don't need them, I only need one window. How can I prevent this?
I'm running 10.10.4, and can't seem to be able to change the generic folder icon. I've tried going into /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ replacing the icon there but it made no change. Then I tried the app Liteicon and it just made the generic folder icon disappear. Does anyone know how to change it?
I had to have my 2011 MacBook Pro wiped out and re-installed because of malware. I noticed that my previous package--iMovie, GarageBand, and iPhoto--is not longer installed. I checked online forums and Q&A, and I was able to find iMovie under my purchases in the Apple account. However, GarageBand and iPhoto are not there/ available. I don't understand why one would be associated with my account, and the rest would not. That's odd. I'd like to see what possibility is there to have GarageBand, and iPhoto reinstalled.
I went to Curry's today which is a electronics retailer and bought a Mac mini. I wanted to buy a HP DVD Drive to boot from (for system repairs, Linux, Windows, GParted) I asked the store assistant if the drive was bootable and they said only the SuperDrive can be used for booting Is this true? The HP drive in question is called "HP F6V97AA External Slimline USB DVD Writer - Black"
Having troubles with a botched system upgrade on OS X 10.10.3, I tried to restore my MacBook Pro, 15" Early 2011 version, using an encrypted Time Machine backup made on an external USB drive. The backup is in working order; I can boot from it just fine. However, when I try to restore from a previous backup version through the system restore feature, I am asked for my Time Machine backup volume, and when I click the external drive, and enter the password, there's a dialog saying the password is wrong. But it isn't.
I have a 2011 iMac 27" running Yosemite. Is there a way to restart the monitor and/or GPU without rebooting the computer or logging off? Is there some sort of keyboard shortcut or keystroke?
My MacBook Pro froze earlier whilst using it, so I did a hard reboot. Ever since it won't boot up. It gets to the Apple logo with the white progress bar but the progress bar won't move past 20%, I've tried leaving it for 30 minutes but nothing happens. I am able to boot into Safe Mode and single user mode without any issues.
I added an new Gmail account to my Mac OS X Mail app in the Dock and it says it's there except I don't get email from that particular account. I opened up the setting for the email and this image is what shows up. When I check the Mail or Notes check box it immediately changes back to blank. How can I fix it?
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a software and hardware standpoint, in reference to the iMac 27" graphic processor brand, what are the difference between: The NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M with 1GB and the AMD Radeon R9 M290 with 2GB, in terms of speed, performance and responsiveness? And why does the iMac 27" Retina model have the AMD GPU and not the NVIDIA GPU?
In the old iPhoto, I could go to a screen to see a queue of faces that hadn't been tagged, with tag suggestions. In the new Photos App, whilst I can tag photos, I can't find the bit where I get the tag suggestions, where you can see the queue of untagged faces. My question is: How do I see the queue of untagged faces in the new Mac Photos App?
I have searched and the closest I came to an answer was this, Do I have to enroll an Apple Developer Program when working for a client?. My problem is similar to his EXCEPT, I can generate certificates, provisioning profiles e.t.c even though I DO NOT have a paid account (but the team which I am part of does). However I CANNOT log in to itunes connect to create an app, when I log in to itunes using my credentials, I see the following screen, Must I have a paid developer program account in order to see this screen instead?
Ever since I updated my MacBook to OS X 10.10.4 a lot of my current uploaded photos from 2015 (iPhoto) can not be found? Am I able to get these back?
I lost the plug (duckhead) of my MagSafe 2 adapter, I know some people sell them on eBay, though I do not know if they are genuine/safe to use. Is it possible to buy them at Apple authorized repair sites?
How do I open a new browser window? Right now I have Safari. I apparently need to get another browser for some complicated reason just to post a moving gif. As you can probably tell, I'm not great with computers and especially my iPhone 6 which at the moment is the only thing I have in use. It still baffles me though that this little problem should be so hard to solve, I've already asked two people and read a lot of instructions on the Internet that seem so vague. I just can't seem to wrap my head around how it's done and I would love to know how. Can someone give me a "dumbed down" set of instructions for this?
I have submitted an app to the appstore which contains an In-App Purchase for removing ads. However when running on iPad ads are not served due to being in compatibility mode (the app is targeted for iPhone devices only). So my app got rejected saying "Apps that do not perform as advertised by the developer will be rejected" (Regarding the "Remove Ads" iap)
My iPhone shut down, and asked me to restore and update, which I think means that it's going to delete all my data, which I'm nervous I won't be able to get back. After that, I haven't been able restore it.
I'm thinking to get an external monitor for my MacBook Pro Retina display (late 2013 model). What I would like to have is to get a 4K monitor or QHD monitor (Dell U2515H or P2715Q).
after a reboot my mini mac seems to have lost pairing with both wireless keyboard and mouse. How do I go forward from here?
I am a marketer by profession and am currently learning to program in AngularJS. I also like to make music using various programs. For marketing I need Evernote, Skitch, and TextExpander running in the background. For development I use a pomodoro timer, Transmit and a few others. During music production I want everything off to save memory / battery life. Then there are times I'm traveling and have to turn everything off while traveling. Without having to create separate user accounts, is there a way to quickly turn on / turn off all the required apps for each use case?
I have the profile installed and have done many restarts on my iPhone and my Watch. Both devices have the public beta profile iPhone running iOS 9 beta 4 (after upgrading from public beta 1) Watch running 1.0.1 atm
I am looking to implement a rule like the following iptables rule on my Mac, to redirect traffic from my development workstation (hosting a development copy of a Ruby on Rails project) to another host on my LAN that is running the PostgreSQL database server. Without having to change the database.yml config file on my local copy of the code:
At some point this year I noticed that my camera was not working. (Skype, Google, Facetime) I tried this *=URL=* But under devices for Camera it says no devices found. Mac OS 10.10.4
I have an external hard-disk with a single Mac OS Extended partition. This disk stopped working a couple of days ago. I tried to repair the external hard drive with disk utility but no luck. The error message is the following:
I heard that Apple is going to make the Developer Program for building and distributing iOS apps free? Is that true? Is it a good idea to pay $99 now or should I just wait?
Recently my phone died and I plugged it in, and like usual it turned itself on. But I noticed that once the phone was turned on it wasn't charging. I tried a new charger, but all the chargers I have create the same outcome. I think this may be due to my phone and not the charger, does anyone know why it doesn't want to charge while on?
I downloaded "gimp 2.8.10 for Snow Leopard & Lion & Mountain Lion" from gimp.lisanet as indicated by gimp.org and installed it on an intel mac 64 bits under 10.6.8. The installation seems to have worked BUT: File > New opens a window "Create a New Image" but, after picking a template from the given choices, when I click OK nothing more happens.
I got a new iMac after my old one died. As my old one was dying I made several Time Machine backups to a 1T G-Drive external. Unfortunately, I must have done it incorrectly because the backups have used up so much of the space on the external that there's not enough room to back up my new iMac to the external. The Time Machine backup for the old iMac could not have been more than 350 GB, so, I am a bit perplexed. Last night I attempted to remove some of the older multiple backups of the same files from the old machine by dragging them to the trash. It seemed to work until I got to the next most recent backup and when the files finally copied over to the trash the window said there were more than 1,500,000 files! After waiting for hours for the trash to empty, I finally gave up when their were something like 1,200,000 files remaining. Am I going to be able to delete these files from this backup and free up space on my external drive so I can backup my new computer, or do I just need to 
I have my dock auto-hiding and when I hover my pointer in the area where the dock would have been it pops up again. I want it to show when I hit the bottom of the screen with my pointer, not just the area where it would have been. The problem I have is that if I've got a window with the bottom end in that area and try to click or selecting something the dock shows up instead.
My 2011 MacBook Air has 8GB of RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB My Windows 8.1 partition (64 bit) doesn't recognize more than 128MB of video memory, causing graphics oriented programs to crash. Is there some sort of driver update or anything I can do to fix this? Windows is always kept updated.
My Macbook Pro (late 2013) running OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite, doesn't respond to Hot Corners any more. Also, if one application is set to full screen, the Finder keeps stuck / doesn't follow if I change (CMD-Tab) the focus to a different application in a different Desktop (Space). I already tried loggin out and in the user account restarting the Finder, OS X repairing rights while starting up from another partition changing hot corners settings, mission control settings deleting the ./Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist resetting the RMC, PRAM I can get back to the main screen / first Desktop with CMD-1 but going back to the full screen application only works with a 4-finger horizontal swipe. I noticed Hot Corners work fine with a test accounts, so it must be something with this account.
I recorded a video upside down on my iPad Air 2. How do I flip it. I twisted it with my fingers, but it won't stay.
Three of my current apps on my iPhone 6 require updates (What's App, Instagram and Skype). When I attempt to update them, an email address that I do not recognize comes up as linked to those particular Apps and asks for a password. All of my other Apps are linked to my correct email/ iTunes account email. How did this happen & how can I rectify it? Also, does this mean someone else has access to what I'm posting on these 3 Apps? Thanks,
I'm attempting to create a 'Sharing Only' account in an OS X app. I've tried code based on examples like these: Can user accounts be managed via the command line? What steps are needed to create a new user from the command line on mountain lion? without success. From System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Advanced Options for 'Sharing Only' account: Home directory: /dev/null Since /dev/null discards streams directed to it, substitution in place of '/Users/NewUser' into above code doesn't work.
I have an inDesign file that I'm exporting as a fixed ePub. When I import it into iBooks Author using the blank template, the text is gigantic. For instance one text box is set to 389 pt. The text is so large it exceeds the mask around it. The font selection doesn't seem to matter.
I can plug in an iOS device and tell Xcode to run my app on that device or stop it. I can have the app paused at any time and use the debugger to debug the running app. How is this all possible? There must be some kind of a background process on iOS that acts as a liaison between Xcode and the debugger and iOS.
In the root directory of my Mac (10.10.4) I see a file named just ~ (tilde): file just reports it as "data". For reference, here are the first 256 bytes as seen through xxd:
Recently I upgraded my Mac to OS X Yosemite and after that all of my Pages files which were saved in iCloud in my MacBook are lost and I can't find them in in my MacBook or in icloud.com online. Is there any way to find them? Or is there any folder in my computer or online which saved iCloud files before syncing?
I have been a heavy-user of the build in Notes Application on OS X for a couple of months now. I am running Yosemite 10.10.4. But suddenly the App crashed on every startup. This is the error message I get:
Ever since I upgraded from my old MacBook Air 2012 to a brand new MacBook Pro I feel really disappointed with how my computer works. It used to occasionally freeze, overall work more slowly (!), and the thing that is making me frustrated most of all: Sleep Wake Failure. I tried to copy the log from console here but the text is too long.
I recently left my ex, he still has access to my iMessages on the Mac we shared. How can I remotely disable his access to my messages?
Here are the configuration settings for the Terminal app in Yosemite.  It shows that I can set font size to the distinct values given in Terminal. How can I set it to some other in-between value like in my case, I want to set it to "15"?
I have 2 monitors connected to my Mac. Each monitor has multiple spaces setup, for example - monitor 1 has Desktop 1, 2 & 3 and monitor 2 has Desktop 4 & 5. ctrl+← and ctrl+→ only move between spaces on the currently focused monitor. However, I can't find how to switch monitor focus using the keyboard. If focus is on monitor 1, I need to point and click my mouse on monitor 2 and only then can I switch spaces on monitor 2. Even if I switch to an application open on monitor 2 using ctrl+tab, the monitor focus and space switching still occurs on monitor 1. Using Yosemite.
My Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule (.sparsebundle) has reached the size of the disk it was stored and started cleaning up older backups after each backup session. I have switched the disk to the larger one, but the backup no longer grows: after each backup session Time Machine cleans up old backups and total .sparsebundle size remains constant. How to nudge Time Machine to notice that the backup disk is larger and it can keep more backups? sparsebundle has not yet reached its maximum size (from hdiutil info): (1.7TB / 5.5TB / 16TB)
All our phones are using data during the night when we are asleep. I thought that apps were only supposed to update on WIFI. But my phone is always on airplane mode at night unless I forget, so last night I put in on airplane mode, took a screenshot as evidence, and sure enough, a tiny bit of data was used at 6:00am this morning before I got up. How is that possible?
I'm working on Desktop3. When I open an app from Dock(or cmd+tab) which is currently opened in Desktop1, Desktop1 and Desktop2 changes positions. I don't want this to happen I want to go to Desktop1 without changing the order.
How do I pass a password to hdiutil attach? I have an encrypted sparsebundle (test.sparsebundle) and it's password is "test", with no quotes. I'd like to automate opening that file. I have tried and But it returns hdiutil: attach failed - Authentication error
I accidentally wrote over main hard drive with an img file using dd. This thread is the similar but my case is that I accidentally wrote my main hard drive.
How do I stop my sons phone calls from showing up on my phone?
I've been getting this error for the past couple of months and I wonder if it's a major issue, and how do I fix it? When I open terminal on my Mac I get this bash error: Anybody know what's going on?
I have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It has a button labelled play/pause. When I have no keyboard drivers installed, the way the button behaves is by toggling playing and pausing in whatever most recent application that supports the behaviour. For example, if my browser is the currently focussed app, but the previously focussed app is iTunes, then the button will play and pause the sound in iTunes. If the previous app was Spotify, the button will trigger in Spotify. The same goes for VLC.
I'm not exactly sure if I am using the right terminology, but when using the OSX color picker, you have the ability to store colors in your own personal archive. (see picture)
I have a 2014 15" retina MBP that I've hooked up to my old 2009 27" iMac using it iMac as a monitor via Target Display Mode while the MBP is in clamshell mode. My problem is that the iMac turns really hot very fast. A lot hotter than it turned when I was using the iMac as my primary machine. The iMac is running a fresh install of OS X Mavericks so there shouldn't be an issue with a lot of background apps running. Any ideas on why this could be?
I guess this one (Crucial BX100 500GB) is compatible but I need features of it to search for the proper one. Could you guys help me?
What is the current best practice for setting up a development environment on OS X? I recently got a new Mac with OS X 10.10, Yosemite.
In Find My iPhone, once setting the parameters to enable Lost Mode, the screen displays the status as Lost Mode Pending. Pending? Why is it pending? Outside of the Lost Mode feature, I don't otherwise have a lock on my phone.
On older versions of iTunes Radio, I could type in free-form text for a genre for iTunes Radio (eg "Mongol"). Now, clicking on "Radio" just gives me a list of genres that Apple has chosen ("Alternative", "Classical Alternative", etc.). How can I search for a Radio Station of a genre I specify?
I don't know why but my new USB Flash Drive seems not to have a partition table, and I'm unable to restore it with any standard tool. This is what I can see of it if I use the diskutil list command. How can I fix it? UPDATED trying to apply the partition in the Partition tab it will appear this message
I am using a suite of applications to manage files, somewhat like a distributed digital assets manager. I tag my files using Finder tags with several apps--Finder, HoudaSpot, Default Folder X, Leap--as is convenient at the time. However, some programs, notably Pixa, use OpenMeta tags to build its internal library. Therefore, if I use Pixa to browse folders where I organize images, I can't use my tagging scheme unless I painstakingly reproduce it using Pixa's tagging interface.
I love my iPhone 6 :) But I'm fully bilingual in Spanish and in English, and about 50% of my emails are in each language. Here's the problem. While my iPhone is in English, every time I write an email in Spanish, every single word it automatically changes to the closest English word! Argh! And as if this wasn't bad enough, unless I click on the "quoted" option, it just keeps doing it grrrr. This makes writing in the other language very, very tedious - to the point where I can't. I'm wondering if there's a way to configure iOS or the dictionary or an app or something so that the spelling suggestions can use the dictionaries from both languages together, or something else that achieves that effect?
I'm trying to upload my entire photo library to iCloud before my computer completely breaks down. There have been internet connection issues (among other problems) and I'm trying to back up my photos to the cloud before I restore the computer to its factory settings. I already backed everything up with time machine, but I would like to back it up to the cloud as well because I've had issues with time machine as well.
Using Mac OSX 10.7.5. The contextual menu text is barely even visible. I have restored GUI files from a MacBook with a non-tampered with version of OSX (Modified files: SArtFile.bin, ArtFile.bin, and ArtFile200.bin) but I haven't gotten any luck. It's becoming increasingly harder for me to work with this happening. I would like help on fixing the problem (w/o wiping the system, preferably.)
My quick application switching, using Command-Tab, isn't starting at the most recently opened/focused application. Instead it does the opposite. It goes to the application I opened least recently. How do I fix this?
I currently have a Hornettek Enterprise Quad bay USB3 JBOD hooked up to a Mac Pro running Mavericks. It has two 3TB disks which are mirrored (RAID 1 using Disk Utility) and contain a mixture of personal data and media shared by the Mac Pro to an AppleTV. I’m fast approaching 3TB of data and need to consider expanding, most likely with another two 3TB drives to the JBOD.
I'm in OS X, and I bought my mac from one of my friends. He bought this April,2015.
My iPhone 5 cannot make any backups anymore. My last backup is from June 2015. I have checked if: I have enough space in iCloud (about 3 GB). I have enough space in iCloud (about 3 GB). The size of the backup (approximately 790 MB). The size of the backup (approximately 790 MB). Removed many photos from my iPhone. Removed many photos from my iPhone. Followed these steps: Turn off iCloud drive, reboot, and turn on safety backup again (no success). Turn off iCloud drive, reboot, and turn on safety backup again (no success). Turn off iCloud, reboot, and turn on iCloud again (no success). Turn off iCloud, reboot, and turn on iCloud again (no success).
Hello I am wondering if there is a way to uninstall all "programs" installed by homebrew? I was using it and installed programs that corresponded to programming or using C/C++ and used the terminal to compile it but will not be using it in a few months.
I want to be able to open Chrome on my Mac, and have 2 instances open, each with different tabs. Is this possible on OS X? I know on Windows I could do this with Desktop shortcuts.
I'm looking for an option or way to log into my Mac using just 4 digits (just like Windows 8/10) instead of using my very long iCloud password.
A friend of mine asked me to inspect her computer a while ago as she suspected that she may have some virus trouble. In part of my initial check of her computer (MacBook Pro OS X, probably Mavericks) I found 3 applications in the Applications folder, which according to her: "spontaneously appeared". These applications included Microsoft Silverlight, MacKeeper and some other arbitrary media player, and after a small amount of research, I found that they may in fact be malicious software (adware, spyware or malware) so I promptly uninstalled them: Problem solved. My question is: Can Applications just "Appear" in the Applications folder without User interaction/authentication? She insists that she did not install them or give any authentication surrounding them that she remembers, which is extremely unusual as I would not expect programs to have that degree of access without user interaction. Does anyone have any ideas?
Perhaps similar to Command+C (copy) with the left command key does not work, but (left) ⌘+c DOES work for me. They keyboard is an Apple US (with the 10-key), wired. I am using a razer mamba mouse (i only say this because it shows up in the Select Keyboard dropdown that i can set the modifier keys for in the Sys Prefs->Keyboard->Modifier Keys... menu) I've already tried resetting the default keyboard shortcuts. Update: I also cannot type a capital W using the left shift
The bigger picture is that I am trying to dynamically block/unblock IPs using fail2ban 0.8.14. I have been following an old guide for OS 10.5 with doesn’t include PF. I think I’ve configured everything correctly, but OS X’s PF is causing me some issues. Talaninc has the IP 192.168.1.68 and is the “local” Celebgul has the IP 192.168.1.50 and is the “remote” From what I understand, I should be able to issue the following command: This will add the IP address 192.168.1.68 to the table fail2ban, and will block incoming traffic from Talantinc, thus the following should fail: But as you can see, it succeeds.
I've installed Windows 7 SP1 via Boot Camp before and kept the content of the SD card that I created during the process. I want to know how I can copy that content to another SD card and install off of it again. Probably I have to do some things manually like making the flash storage bootable and/or creating a FAT32 partition from Disk Utility. (And no, I can't download Boot Camp due to my very limited internet connection) My rig: OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
I did not set Airplane Mode on my Apple Watch. I did silence my iPhone, but when I activated sound again, Airplane Mode is on my Apple Watch. I cannot get it off. It is not activated on either my iPhone or Watch app.
All of us, these days downloaded ton of apps including myself. I bought a lot of iOS Applications in the last a couple years. Some of them are free, and some of them are not. I want to see the list of my purchased history - so I can re-download them back.
This runs every 60 seconds using Chron that copies any *.mov file from one folder to 2 other folders and then removes the file. If the file takes longer than 60 seconds to write the script executes and copies anything in the folder and corrupts it. (Or if the script just happens to execute when a file is being written.) How can I make a conditional statement to make the script wait until the file write is complete?
For example, if I plug a USB 3.0 device and find that the I/O performance is rather slow, how do I check whether it's because the device is actually doing USB 2.0 (even though I'm using a USB 3.0 cable, connected to a USB 3.0 port on my MacBook Pro).
Doing some research I find that it means the computer can't find the boot drive, so I reboot into Internet recovery mode, and try to select the boot drive... Nothing's there. I then go to Disk Utility to try and see if I can repair the drive. All I find is the base system, to which I don't have write permissions, and as such am not allowed to repair or format.
I like being able to text off my MacBook. Sometimes the responses don't go to my phone so I miss messages and only get them when I open my Mac. Does anyone know how I can receive messages on my iPhone and my Mac?
I'm having a very strange issue. I inherited an Acer monitor from a friend that is full HD, 1080p. Good monitor overall. When connecting ONLY an HDMI cable from my Mac to the monitor, I get no signal. But if I connect both an HDMI and a VGA (via Thunderbolt adapter) to the Acer, I'm then able to toggle between inputs, and the HDMI input works fine. Problem is, now I have a useless Thunderbolt cable taking up one of my inputs. Any ideas? MacBook Pro 15" Retina 2013 Yosemite 10.10.4 NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB Acer S240hl monitor
This thread is related to the thread To recover Calibre library from backup? which is discussed also with Calibre's active community as How to recover Calibre from Backup? where theducs says:
General note before getting into the Apple Watch: No watch, not even a diver's watch, is "waterproof" in the sense that it can be taken to any depth of the ocean, no matter how abysmal, and remain intact, keeping out the water however there are certain standard degrees of water resistance. No watch is marketed as waterproof as far as I know; watches are marketed as water-resistant at the lowest level, and water resistant to XYZ depth for higher levels. What is the overall outlook regarding swimming and the Apple Watch?
Under the Energy Monitor, it always shows high Average Energy Impact (1000+) for Safari. Is this normal? I have attached the screenshots. Although I formatted the entire disk and reinstalled the OS, the problem has not been fixed. What is the reason for this issue, and is it possible to fix it?
For the past ever, I've been on my parents' Apple ID, making purchases on their credit cards and sharing any iTunes gift cards I redeemed with the family. However, I recently created my own Apple ID, complete with my own payment method. I'm tempted to upload every single gift card I have to my account. Is this doable, and are there any limitations to doing it?
Earpods are fully functional in OS X so hardware is compatible. Is there a way to make Bootcamp drivers recognise Earpods?
Whenever my MacBook Air starts up from shutdown (or on restart), once the Finder has started, it prompts me for my iCloud password, like this:  As you can see there is no title or anything to identify the app or process requesting the password. However, through the use of a clever Python script (unfortunately I can't remember where I got it from) I was able to determine the process requesting the password: UserNotificationCenter (/System/Library/CoreServices/UserNotificationCenter.app)
I am trying to reproduce the About this Mac - Storage window in the terminal.  Is there any easy way to do this ? For the moment, the following commands are working (quite fast): For the Applications, I use the metadata as du is way slower:
I'm using the latest version of Photos on both of my iMacs, my iPhone, and two iPads. I'm also using iCloud for storage and syncing. So far - everything seems to work - when I take a photo on my iPhone, it shows up on all my Macs and devices.
Looking for a way to automatically collect iOS screenshots and add them to the Screeenshots album, but with high accuracy (trying to avoid false positives). It's fairly simple to track down the various device resolutions, and that the camera was iPhone/iPad/iPod, etc. However, that doesn't really narrow it down, as those also include photos taken from the device, as well as wallpapers. Maybe in a future Photos.app update, these will update automatically. Just wondering if anyone can guess at the metadata criteria Apple uses, or if they simply place that image in the Screenshots folder by default.
I've installed Windows 10 Release Candidate on a brand new SSD drive. My Windows Bootcamp partition boots and runs correctly, but tends to crash ocassionaly. I believe this is due to bootcamp drivers that haven't been updated for Windows 10.
I'm trying to use OpenVPN to have a constant VPN connection on my 10.10.4 install. Currently I've setup OpenVPN via homebrew and as stated put an openvpn.conf in /etc/openvpn as the default profile to be loaded on boot. I've also created a plist file for launchd. This loads and runs fine at boot and is below. However once my machine goes into sleep more and I wake it, I can not longer connect to the internet. Any ping google.com returns an icmq timeout. Any ideas what's going wrong? OpenVPN Plist
How do I know which Beta Version of OS X I'm running? When I check About this Mac it shows me that the name of the OS version is OS X El Capitan, the version if 10.11 and a beta, and it shows me the build number, but how would I find out which specific beta release this is? IE, how would I find out if build 15A235d as in the picture below corresponds with OS X El Capitan Developer Beta 4, 5, or 6?
One of my planned uses of the Apple Watch was to use the Haptic technology to make a discreet tap on the hour and 20 minute marks, to gauge appointment times. But I was dumbfounded to see that Apple has not built any kind of a chime into the Apple Watch! Does anyone know of an App or strategy that can do that without setting up hundreds of reminder or calendar notifications?
I've noticed that when I send a text with a link to or from my iPhone, the recieving phone does not display the link, but displays all other text. I'm not sure if this is affected by iMessage. In any case, is there a way for me to fix this problem? I have the iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4
Early 2010 MacBook Pro, with Yosemite is unable to lookup any Wi-Fi network all of a sudden. Tried reseting SMC and NVRAM
In my Pages document, the footer has 3 columns. All three have the same width. Now I want to add text in each footer column but for that I have to change the width of the columns. How do I adjust the width of the columns in the footer?
I enrolled to Apple's beta program as I want to test some software under El Capitan. Therefore, I would like to instal El Capitan in Virtual Box.
Microsoft is allowing users to download and install (but not activate) Windows 10 Pro 64 bit without using a Product key. I tried doing a clean install of Windows 10 on my mid 2007, 20 inch iMac. During installation, I was not asked if I wanted to disable Windows Update. Windows ended up downloading drivers before I could install the Boot Camp software. Some of the drivers installed but most failed.
Often when editing a historical bash command in vi mode (after pressing ↑), and then moving backwards in the text using b. When I begin editing the text after pressing i or a, the extra text I insert pushes the following characters to the right. However, the line length appears fixed, and as characters move right, the line is truncated to the original length of the historical item I am trying to edit. However, despite these characters being invisible, they are still "there" in the sense that they are executed along with the rest of the command. Has anyone else ever seen this behaviour or know of a fix?
I have two YT channels under the same g-mail ID and I can't for some reason choose between which channel I want to see open on the app. Everytime I sign in, I'm automatically directed to the channel which is not the default channel and I never use.
I accidentially deleted every single file in my home folder of my Mac using rm -rf * in iTerms. I intended just to clear one folder, but clearly did not know what I was doing. Yes feel free to laugh, it's terrifying as well! How can I recover my deleted files?
While I fully expect to upgrade to an SSD any day now, I'd love to be able to diagnose this issue and understand what's going on. The fact that it affects multiple stages of the boot process tells me it's probably not just one specific item, and really feels like a massive fragmentation issue. As I understand it though, OSX should not be susceptible to fragmentation? Alternatively I suppose it could be a massive page file? Given I'm running 16Gb though, I'd like to think I'm not thrashing very much. UPDATE: Thanks to @CML's comment about Disk integrity, I ran a Verify Disk, and got the following: UPDATE 2: Ran Repair Disk, this alters the boot up phase times to: 2-3 minutes (down from 10-15 minutes) 1-2 minutes (no change) 10 minutes (no change) So a marked improvement, but it still seems as though something is pretty messy somewhere.
I have a late 2014 (current model) Mac Pro and I use a Seiki 50 inch 4k TV to for that computer (the seiki does 30hz at 4k and should do 120 at 1080p). I use the HDMI port on the Mac Pro to directly connect to HDMI on the TV. I have seen others with this model on the internet where their settings menu has the option of refresh rate (mine picture below), I do not have this option or others they had like brightness.
I accidently moved my iMac with the SD card inserted and the card got bent, it cannot be read anymore. Not sure if it can be recovered. I was wondering if somehow the files are stored on the HD. I did not import the (RAW) files.
I want to start Gardian Hunter from the start, but I can't delete my data. Is it possible to delete it? Please help me. I'm using an iPhone 5.
Does anyone know how to create a iTunes Playlist that shows only songs in My Library which are part of a complete album in My Library. Essentially I want to see all my complete albums. You can in Spotify but with Apple Music every song you add to a playlist it assumes you want it added to My Library.
my question is can you share music from you iTunes library if you put it on there from a CD. We have a lot of CD's at home and on my parents computer and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a new Mac Mini, an old MacBook (which supports AirDrop but has on old Bluetooth module) and an iPhone. When I need to AirDrop between my macs, in Mac Mini's AirDrop panel appear a button "Don't see who you're looking for?" which allow to work even with Macs with old Bluetooth module and Macs see each other.
I'm in search of a PDF reader capable of stripping the white background of a pdf page and applying a theme in place of it. For example, I use Ibouquiniste on my iOS devices: it has the capability of putting a very paperlike theme in place of the eye-annoying white background. Is there anything similar for Mac?
I need the file that says "Install OS X Yosemite." My mac can't download it because it is unsupported. Is there any way I can get the file. Thanks
The icon for the Messages app looks grayish or blue. My app icons are different from the standard colors. The settings menu is black with white letters.
For example Instagram's pictures are quite low resolution. I normally join a few pictures together with montage (installed with brew, from ImageMagick project).
I recently closed my google account and now I would like to remove the corresponding account in iCal which was linked to my google account. When I go to "Internet Accounts" and then click on the account I want removed on the left and click the - I get the error Internet accounts preferences can't connect to gmail account And I can't verify my account because the google account has been closed. Is there a way to force the removal?
I have opened all of my PDF's in Preview (Mac). I then drag-n-droped the PDFs to make a master list of PDF's. Question How do I export all of the pages into 1 PDF? What I tried File -> Export as PDF (This just made a PDF of 1 page) Selecting all PDF thumbnails, File -> Export as PDF (Same as above) Selecting all PDF thumbnails, File -> Export Selected PDF Documents (This exports each page as an individual PDF document)
Update: After playing around I realized that I can send messages to some of my contacts. These contacts are people who don't have this red highlight on their names and if they do have their name highlighted in red then I cannot send messages to them.
I've got a 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7 and a Synology Diskstation ds215j. I've successfully set up a user for Time Machine on the NAS and have successfully performed backups.
Which made me wonder: Does the iMac only work as an external display in TDM if the device changes its own output video to 1280*720? Does anyone know a bit more about this function of the 27" iMacs 2010 (and any iMac after 2011 if I remember) who can explain how exactly TDM works or is supposed to work?
I got a new charger at Walmart and it does not charge the phone. Is it because it is cheap?
I've got a Cisco IPSEC VPN connection in my network settings on a Yosemite machine. It works fine, aside from prompting for a password on every single connection. The saved password is ignored entirely.
I'm a new Mac user and I have a financial site which says I must allow cookies...and I'm okay with that, I just don't know how to do that. I've looked in my settings and preferences but it appears I have to allow cookies for everyone or no one at all. Would someone be able to help me? I'd rather not add additional programs if I can avoid it... OS X must be able to do this, right?
My script is: My Output is: rm -f does not remove the lock folder for some reason...
I don't know why my camera is not working, I am sure it is a software problem, it just shows a black page. All features are working but it doesn't show an image. It is not working on other apps, like Instagram, as well. The front camera is not working. I have tried to "Reset All Aetting" option but it is not working neither. I upload a photo which is the screenshot when I run camera How can I solve this problem?
Upgrading to Yosemite so I can install the newest version of xCode. Shortly after starting I get this error:
When I am copying files on a Macintosh, I notice that the folder says that its Modified/Created timestamp is 24 January 1984 08:00. Why is this particular timestamp is used? Is it something to do with when Mac OS X was first released?
Photos Version 1.0.1 (215.65.0) I can't seem to see anywhere inside Photos to filter items by file type. No detail/list view like in Finder for me to sort and select. Search with, for example *.JPG in the search box of Photos does not return anything. It does not seem to understand wildcards
I have been using this to get a page count of PDFs in shell scripts in OS X: pdftk "$i" dump_data | grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $2}' | tr -dc '[0-9]' (where $i is the PDF filename) However, there are times when that does not seem to work, so I would like to find another way to do it.
I recently bought a 2009 macbook that I thought would have a 2.4GHz processor (along with 4GB of RAM) but instead has a 2.26GHz processor with 2GB of RAM. (I expected it to be 2011.) I got it fairly cheap so I'm not entirely surprised, and the seller takes the blame for sending the wrong one out, but doesn't have any replacements and I really can't afford to buy another one even after a refund (shipping prices, ugh.)
I thought my Hotmail account that I use my for my Apple ID was deleted but it was not. In the mean time I created a new Apple ID using the wrong e-mail. I never verified the new e-mail but its popping up on my iPhone everytime I try to update certain apps, even when I go to my SoundCloud I can't seem to find the fake e-mail. However it pops up when I try to update certain apps, what can I do to resolve this issue?
As far as my MacBook is concerned, I have 3 Wi-Fi Networks in my house, with different names (it is actually one network, with 2 repeaters). I move around the house and frequently use the 2 repeaters in particular. Quite often I lose connection to one of the repeaters, and my laptop will reconnect, but possibly to the farther repeater with a weaker signal, depending on the order of preference set in advanced network preferences. Because this signal may be quite weak, I may lose Internet connection using this Wi-Fi repeater, but my laptop will not try to connect to the repeater with the stronger signal. The only way to get round this is to continually change my network preferences whenever I move around the house, which is very annoying. Is there any way I can get my laptop to have no preference between the two repeaters, and to connect to which ever has the stronger signal?
I'm trying to create a column chart in Numbers where each column is also stacked. For example, consider the following data.
Since approximately 2009, my mother, brother, and I have all shared the same Apple ID and therefore, iCloud. Each of us have our separate devices, computers, and different music, apps, contacts, and other data on them. It's been really messy and generally a pain to try and make our stuff separate when we share the same cloud and everything. Now my brother and I want to get our own separate accounts, but we don't want to have to repurchase over 500 songs and 170+ apps, move around thousands of pictures, reenter our contacts, etc, etc...
Using the traceroute command in OS X 10.9.x, multiple '*' characters are printed as output. Can anyone explain exactly what these are and what they mean? Command output example:
I have upgraded my Macbook from Mavericks to Yosemite but after that double VPN is not working. I need to connect to local VPN first and from there to another VPN in order to connect to my company servers and I can connect to either of them differently but not from one to another. This used to work in Mavericks without any issues. Anyone know what has changed or how can I make it work as it was in Mavericks. Thanks
Where exactly is the Google Chrome sync passphrase? I need it to enable sync between various devices. I've looked through keychain and haven't seen anything that exactly matches.
Spotlight says it is indexing: There is a .Spotlight-V100 folder:
I am trying to play "Trailblazer", an old Atari game, on my 2011 iMac. I installed an emulator called "Stella". I have ROMs for this game in .bin, .stx, .tap, .cas, .atr, .cpgz, .st formats, but only the .bin can be recognized by Stella? Is that normal?
I have coworkers that are using many features that are in office 2013, 2016 for Windows, and I want to get office 2016 for Mac. I don't have office 365, I just want the local version. How can I get it?
I have at least one app (Foxit Reader) that shows in the bottom list and not in the top one, which is unexpected. I do not know if there are other apps in the iPhone that do not show in the top list. Any idea of the cause, and how to solve it?
My question is, does anyone know of a way to simplify opening and closing all the files related to long term projects? Obviously no one turns on their computer to write a novel from A to Z. And no one does "just one thing" on a computer as well. Maybe there is an app that exists that launches a very precise work environment for you? "Spaces" is good, but what I'm talking about would be a way to save every little setting within a space, and be able to close or reopen or name them (and Spaces has been replaced by Mission Control anyways). The only way I think someone could do this is by creating aliases of the files related to one task, then select all aliases and reopen them each time (might not work for browser tabs?) Let me know I would love an answer to this, as I often work on several long term projects in the same year and need to take breaks, or turn off and on my computer often.
Does iOS provide any kind of cursor movement commands. For example:
So I had an old Apple account I used before but my brother logged out of it and I could not remember the password and I made a new account. In the old account I could see reviews and ratings of games, and since I made a new account I can't see the ratings and the reviews! All I see are games with empty stars and no reviews.
I go to my safari and it says I have viruses from adult websites, I'm guilty of that yes. But it then shows its checking my android in one tab and another says my iPhone has a virus. Is this true? Or is it a s scam!?
I am trying to force to quit Safari but that doesn't work. What is happening?
I recently bought a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). When I shake it vertically, some slow sounds come from it and it sounds like something wobbles in it. Is this normal?
The spotlight search UI on my mac seems to have broken. It doesn't have a rounded corners. Nothing seems to solve it.
If I put an event in Calendar, on my Mac, in does not sync to my iPhone. However it does sync if I put an event into the iPhone when it will then pick up the previous unsynced events.
I would like to change all dates on a file [all four reported by stat command]. I cannot find a way to change the "inode last changed" date. I've tried: but this single date remains unchanged.
I've got a new MacBook from the company I work for. I have some nice stickers I want to put on the lid. However I am worried about removing them. Is there skin/layer apply before so I can remove them all easily if I have to return it?
Recently I bought Macbook Pro Retina Early 2015, and after approximately one month my wifi shows No Wifi/Wireless device found
What is the difference between issuing command shutdown -h now in terminal and doing Shutdown from apple menu? Using command it's instantly power down the system. But via menu it takes around 30-40 seconds. Also is it safe to use command shutdown -h now all the time?
Turning on iOS restrictions (Settings - General - Restrictions) and the web filter inside (probably "Websites - Restrict adult content" or something similar in English), I tried whitelisting wikipedia.org but the whitelist doesn't seem to work. For instance, the page "*=URL=* is still blocked.
I was entering a new appointment on my Iphone6 and was interrupted by a phone call. After the call I went back to check my calendar and all of my existing appointments had disappeared. They first appeared then disappeared. What happened and how do I recover my appointments?
What carriers can utilize my network unlocked AT&T iPhone 5? I just unlocked it by submitting the request to AT&T and restoring it. Thanks!
I found this example of a conditional lsof loop and want to adapt it to my situation. My example would be more like this:
My MacBook keyboard is not functioning properly . If I type a it shows aq1 and also for a and q . For s sw2 and so on . I have tried running it in safe mode but it didn't help .the problem is only with alphabets and numerals all other keys are working properly . Strangely p, z, x , c,v,b, n and m are also working
I am trying to install El Capitan Public beta version (available here) in Parallels Desktop version 10.2.2. I followed this tutorial to create the bootable dmg and mounted it in a new VM that I created. When I start the VM it says...
This is a strange one & only seems to affect text entry [questions, answers & comments] on SE sites. I've not really noticed it anywhere else, but this is where I do most of my web-site typing.
I have a Podcast. I herd that if I change the Title of it I might loose my subscribers. Is there a way to change my Podcast Title without loosing my subscribers in iTunes?
I have been trying to run my server.command file forever. I have tried changing access privileges with chmod x+u pressing enter then dragging the file into Terminal and pressing enter, but when I do, it says: -bash: /Users/Alec/Desktop/Tekkit_Server_v1.2.9g/start.command: Permission denied
Everytime I boot my Windows 7 x64 PC, iTunes loads. I have iTunes 12.2.1.16. No iPad or iPhone is connected. I removed all iTunes entries from MSConfig startup, boot, and services. I also ran CCleaner just in case. I also use the Autorun Windows program to check on what's booting and running. Only Bonjour Services and the Apple Mobile Device USB driver are still active. It's not in the task scheduler either. Where the hell is it?
I just received my first MacBook Pro as a birthday gift, and I am one of those people that tends to "baby" their electronics. I also tend to play World of Warcraft (WOW) quite a bit, but the problem is that is drains the battery very quickly. I have a 13 inch Retina Display.
Why is my screen popping out of my iPhone 5? And how can I fix it?
I'm having a problem with my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) where by when I lock my machine and then return several hours later (at least six hours) it will not respond to me pressing the keyboard. I have to press the power button and then it boots up requiring a password. Once this password has been entered it takes a few minutes to slowly start all of my processes again (I hear skype logging in behind the blue screen) eventually my bluetooth mouse and keyboard are connected. Finally I can then enter my password to actually gain access to my machine. This is a problem I've had with OSX since Mavericks was released. Below is a screenshot of the settings I have tried to change (everything possible) to stop this stupid behaviour and it still persists!
I linked my son's iPad mini to my Apple ID. The problem is that we both play the same games and I can no longer access mine as his ID is logged into Game Center. How do I create a separate Apple ID for him on his account without affecting my iPad and accounts and get a separate Game Center account for him?
I am playing about with 'John the ripper' to see how easily my password can be cracked. The only issue i I cannot seem to fin the hashed password. Things I've tried. Reading hash from /etc/passwd - Result: No user found
For a while, I've been running two Dropbox accounts, a personal and a work account, and it's been great. The method that I'm using is with an Automator workflow that fires up on boot. All that's in there, is the standard method found on the web for this...
I'm going to purchase a new MBP (May 2015) Retina 15". I will be using it mainly for software development and programming, Ruby, Rails, Angular JS, Git, and HTML/CSS3.
I activated sticky keys to make sure that the option button wasn't stuck or something. It was fine.
I am using Android phone on Verizon now. Last weekend, I got a present from friend "ARCCOS Golf" system which only works together with iPhone 4S or later. I contacted ARCCOS support center and got the confirmation of "Unlocked iPhone 4S" can be used for Wi-Fi only (without contract) mode which I bought from Amazon.com and tried to start the iPhone 4S. It was stuck on "Insert SIM" but I do not have SIM Card nor I do not know how to insert it etc. Please help me!!! Thanks, S H Keum
I am concerned about the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE exploit in the sudoers file. https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/08/dyld_print_to_file-exploit-found-in-the-wild/
I know this looks like a very simple and even dumb question, as it would be very easy to check the bands in the website, but it looks that there is something wrong in the specs: Under Ultrafast LTE, Apple says that the A1522 model doesn't work in New Zealand:
I am holding Command ⌘R at Startup, but can't access Utilities, it goes directly to Wi-Fi, choose network.
I've read the screen is too small on iOS 8 so you can barely see the email you compose. is it the same with 8.4 as well?
I get "Are you sure you want to reset your keychain? This will delete all your saved passwords, keys, and certificates. You cannot undo this operation" and click "Reset"
My iPhone won't send texts and I can't recive any texts unless I'm on Wi-Fi. My iPhone says I have LTE but nothing that requires internet will load. I have cellular data for all my apps turned on. I've tried rebooting my iPhone, and turning the cellular data off and on. My family members who are hooked up with the same data package can use their data just fine. Any advice on how to fix this?
I tried to move some folders from my Desktop to my hard drive by dragging them. It would not let me copy them on the hard drive for an unknown reason (red not permitted sign appearing when hovering the external hard drive icon). Then I decided to move all those folders to Macintosh HD by hovering the icon, it looks like everything went great until I started to look into the folders and discover that they were all empty, all folders within folders are still there but every single file vanished! What should I do ?
I've noticed that pkg installers and obviously apps installed from the App Store) put apps in the /Applications file, yet Steam usually puts them in ~/Applications. Both work, and both are writable by the user, but are there circumstances under which one should be done over the other? I am the only user of this computer, and shared folders aside, I've disabled guest access. (this is coming from a Linux user, so having a root folder be writable seems wrong, unless my permissions are wrong from the start)
While OS X supports a vast library of characters in its set of keyboards, Mongolian is missing. I would like to know if Mac OS (Yosemite) has a keyboard with a character set sufficient to type all Mongolian characters. If possible, I would prefer a keyboard that most resembles traditional Mongolian keyboards. Installing keyboard apps or extensions would be a last resort.
There is an option to forward calls to specific number, but it forwards every call made to my number. I'd like set conditional forwarding, e.g. redirect call only when I am busy or not answering. I was not able found any solution and have only found some "special" numbers (*61 etc.) Is it possible (without jailbreak)?
I'm using MacBook pro 15 with Yosemite 10.10.3. I can't get CMD + Tilde to work. In keyboard shortcuts it appears to be on. What's the problem here?
But even on Linux, the Wi-Fi works unsatisfactory dropping from time to time, and performs poorer than other devices at longer distances from the router. However I can still bear with it because with certain routers it works quite fine.
Spotlight gives dark dictionary results with some words when dark mode is on:  I've had this problem since day one of Yosemite. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)
By hovering over a date or time in Mail, you can add a calendar event. However, by default, all of the events I add in this way do not give me any kind of notification before they occur. The only way I have found to change this setting is to click details, and then manually add an alert. Is there any way to add an alert by default, to all events created in this way?
Does anybody know how to move some folder to library playlist in iTunes? I can move some folder to another folder using the following script: The initial state is: After executing the script state will be:
I am in Iraq and I need to purchase the Apple developer program? How do I do this, because I'm not able to purchase online?
I have a Mac mini server and I want to install Windows 7 on it. How can I do this?
Since getting my mb-pro 3 years ago, I've only used it as a desktop. A few times, the battery has kicked-in for a few hours while the power was out. Someday, I might want to task it as a laptop. For the sake of the battery :
After PDF was annotated, saved and PDF closed I want to reopen PDF but I can not anymore edit it, can not select annotations, arrows. Any workaround?
I replaced my iPhone 6 with an identical phone, restored the most recent backup from iCloud. I now cannot backup to the cloud without adding more storage. Why?
The force touch trackpad seems great but I would like to reduce it's sensitivity. It seems the UI allow selection of 3 modes: Click: Light - Medium - Firm which both set sensitivity and the haptic feedback level.
Nothing will kill this process! Tried via activity monitor (can't force quit or drag to trash). Tried by killall -u (nothing happens, still showing up as a process) and kill -9 (says 'arguments must be process or job IDs'). The process is cfprefsd, which I need to kill in order to restore default settings on SPSS (my stats software), as the toolbar is missing and IBM solutions states that I need to kill this process before deleting the saved preferences. Really hope to get some help soon, thanks
Short Story: I was attempting to create a symlinked folder from my external to my desktop, and the folder I wanted (ALL of my working folders and files) are gone. Long Story: My job wanted me to use Box Sync for my files. I installed Box Sync, and told it to use my work external HDD as the sync. It created a folder on there called "Box Sync".
I have iPhone 3GS jailbroken running some version of iOS4. With the latest iTunes version 12.2.1 (and the previous one I had installed), the device is not recognized as plugged in. Windows sees the device just fine. I've tried restarting the device. I've tried restarting the computer. I've updated to latest iTunes.
This question was asked in 2012 at SuperUser. The Perian project is now gone. I found on MacUpdate a QuickTime plugin for WebM. But this site looks like malware. Howto integrate WebM in Mac OS X (play, preview in finder,..) and iOS?
I tried to force quit Google Chrome when it started to hang while the other applications (Safari) was working fine. However, it didn't shut cut as usual and just leaves me hanging. I tried to search this site and came across some solutions where someone recommended using the sudo command in the Terminal.
My camera's SD Card can't fit into my MacBook Air's SD Card Slot. I can only push the SD Card into the slot halfway, but then ONE CORNER can't go in any further. The left corner of the card can still be pushed in, but the right corner is somehow blocked inside the slot. I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work, since SD Cards don't go in diagnally. Does my SD Card not meet Apple's size requirements?
I have booted into the recovery partition, and used Disk Utility to run First Aid on both the volume and partition, but it didn't pick up any invalid volume count/block sizes. Everything looked good. I booted up Disk Inventory X hoping that it might find something I didn't, but it turns up the same values:
I bought a few days ago the new MacBook PRO 13" 2015 and I am comfortable with it enough (except some minor lag while using Chrome or with Screen Reduction, but I'm waiting the new OS). PROLOGUE: Mac had just the system installed (OS YOSEMITE), I initially configured the account, the filevault I left everything as it was and then something happened: the next day I changed the password to my account with another PC (I had left the check which allows me to log into the computer with the Apple ID) and asked me to log in twice and the second time I did not take the new password in any way. So, I looked everywhere, but nothing, I reset using the procedure by pressing Command-R at startup. The Macbook downloaded the software and installed it in about an hour. Great!
When I type a double quotes on Parallels 10 with Windows 10 I see the following character. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this?
I had to return a dead iPhone to my phone carrier, so I needed to 1) erase the phone, and 2) remove it from the Find My iPhone app on my iCloud account. The phone is still in my possession for a day or two, but I cannot get it to charge and the battery has no juice. Since the phone won't turn on, I needed to perform those two steps on iCloud.com rather than on my phone.
I have a 4th gen iPad that I haven't used for so long that I forgot the PIN. I want to restore it to factory defaults as I plan to use it again. Everything I'm finding on this topic suggests that I need to use iTunes on a computer to accomplish this. Is this actually the case? Can't I use some combination of powering off/powering on and physical buttons to accomplish the same thing?
I bought my iPhone 6 Plus in Georgia. I am using the phone in Georgia. FaceTime is not available on my iPhone. Please tell me how to get it to work.
I was wondering if there are any implications to upgrading my iMac web development machine (which is highly configured MAMP (Apache, MySQl), customized hosts file, custom Network Card settings, etc... from OS X 10.7 to OS X 10.8? Will I loose everything 9apps/files/MAMP config, etc...
I'm new to macports. I want to install a certain port called gimp-gap, but first I have to install 'xz'. But what does this port actually do?
had availed of the logic board replacement scheme for 2011 MacBook Pro's with faulty (AMD) graphics cards. The laptop came back from servicing with a new (refurbished as I understand) logic board. But while running a benchmarking test (Unigine Valley) the on screen graphics are extremely pixelated.
It is very annoying to "Trust this computer" every time I connect my iPad to Mac. Is there a way to "trust" my Mac by my iPad automatically?
Periodically the CPU on my iMac Mid-2015 running OS X 10.10.4, gets used almost exclusively by: launchd: ~70% fseventsd: 12% UserEventAgent: ~40% opendirectoryd: 20% notifyd: 12%
When there is a Personal Hotspot network available, it displays a chain link icon instead of the usual lock icon in the list of available networks on iOS and OS X.  My question is, how does OS X distinguish these networks? Is it specified in 802.11 how hotspots broadcast their SSID's differently?
I have a 2010ish MacBook Pro that was working fine this morning. I installed a new version of the Dropbox client and rebooted. It now won't boot up. No video, no chime. It does, however, hit the SuperDrive.
I've used etc/hosts to block a lot of sites without issue, however I'm trying to add in filterbypass.me to the list but it won't work. I've tried adding: filterbypass.me as well as all the http/https/www varieties before it but it just won't work. Can someone figure out how to block this site?
...The tiniest swipe left or right changes the month. It makes using my calendar sooooo frustrating. Can I disable it? I would like to disable side-swiping in general. It mostly causes me frustration. Is there a way?
I own a 11 month old MacBook Pro 13" with Apple Care. From the last 2 months, I've noticed a bright line on my screen which is about 0.5 cm in size. Should I be worried? Will Apple be able to repair it?
My iPhone 5s will not sync anymore. iTunes reads it once it's plugged in and comes back with an error message saying "You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.".
I have a Macbook Pro with 120 GB storage. As i have limited space i was wondering where the offline songs on Apple music are stored? How much space do they take?
I use a several text editors, but every time I save with TextWrangler it changes the file's icon in Finder to a TextWrangler icon with the following extended attributes; com.apple.FinderInfo com.apple.TextEncoding
I have a large photo library and I do not want to buy extra space from Apple so that I can use the iCloud photo library. Instead, I want to use the photo stream to synchronize every photo taken from my iPad and iPhone to my Mac (because here I have the space). And occasionally, I want to send some photos to my iPad/iPhone from my Mac. So my problems with the photo stream are:
I'm using German and English keyboard on my iPhone and want to insert emojis easily. The problem is when you have 2 languages and emoji, it only jumps to the next keyboard. This is very annoying. Is there a possibility to have a language button (German/English/…) and a emoji button?
I'm running Mac OS X Yosemite. There are multiple administrator accounts in my Mac. I don't want an administrator to snoop into another administrator's account. Is there any way I can prevent an administrator from resetting the password of another administrator account?
I'm a bit "stuck" on what the issue might be. I have the feeling it's one of those "Obscure Mac Quirks" that are very hard to explain. EDIT: As per the comments below from @user3439894 and others, I've looked into the extended attributes of the files to see if that yields any hint. The output of ls -l@for the files gives us: Again, I see that one of the bad files (Source) is apparently missing the com.apple.TextEncoding attribute -- but the other "not working" file does have the attribute... Just in case the values are different for the good and bad files, let's check: So that doesn't seem to be the trick either...
So, my wife created a Reminders list on her phone and added me. When I accepted the share and went into it, it wasn't loading the list items, so I deleted the list and she removed the share and readded me. But now I can't get the list. If I log into iCloud it says that I've already accepted the share. Any thoughts?
It looks like Chrome on iOS8 has the ability to 'user accept' untrusted SSL Certs but Safari simply blocks them with an error. The scenario here is that the phone (and iPad) are viewing an internal corporate staging environment, piggy-backing off a mac plugged into the internal network. The actual mac can view the site without an error.
I am in a family with other people, but I am not the family organiser. I know that whenever I make a purchase from iTunes or the AppStore, the family organiser gets sent the invoice, but are they also notified about free downloads I make, such as apps?
I am using below stunnel configuration in my mac machine. accept=127.0.0.1:119 connect=target server information I am able to start stunnel service and its getting bound also with my destination server.
I have the old (now discontinued) 30" cinema display, but I don't use it that much anymore so I'm thinking of converting it to a TV if possible. Yes I could get a TV tuner but I'm not sure about the cables, how would it connect with TV tuners? I already have Mini-DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI cable, is there any TV tuner available that supports it?
I just bought a new BenQ GL2450 monitor to connect to my macbook pro 13" late 2011. I try to connect it with a DVI cable and via a USB docking that goes into my laptop, but the screen says no signal and my laptop does not recognise any monitor. The USB docking works perfectly fine with my keyboard, mouse and even my M-Audio Fastrack Ultra 8R USB interface. So could it be that the signal simply won't go through a USB cable and that I need to find an adapter and plug it directly into my mini displayport or something? Because it would be way much more simple to just connect one USB cable and have everything connected already. Thank you!
Is there a way to enable the guest account and location services with profile manager via built in setting or custom ad on?
I've used photo editing apps before that show a before/after split view, so you can see the original image and the edited image either side by side or overlaid. Like this:
I don't know why my camera is not working, I am sure it is a software problem, it just shows a black page. All features are working but it doesn't show anything. It is not working on other apps, like Instagram, as well. The front camera is not working. I have tried the "Reset All Settings" option but there is no change and camera is not working yet. I upload a photo that is a screenshot when I run camera. How can I solve this problem?
I found another question on this site, with a similar problem, but doesn't seem to be answered. I'd like to be able to type an iMessage and hit "send" when using an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and iPad Air without touching the screen. I've tried changing my hardware keyboard to International...without luck. I've used many combinations of shift or control or command or option and return/enter without luck. Looking for an answer, not a have-you-tried...scenario.
Since about July my iPhone6 on ios 8.4 does not send the correct dtmf tones to my work voicemail. I've tried the following suggestions I found on the web, none of which have worked: Turn off LTE for voice Turn off LTE entirely Don't use speaker phone List item Turn off Wi-Fi Reset All settings
For some reason when my son sends my mother a text message it shows up with my name. Texts from me show up in a different thread, but when I click on the "contact" from his it takes it to my contact. I do not use Apple any more (my son does), but he does use the Apple ID I set up when I had my old iPod. The only thing I can think is that is what's causing the problem, but I can't figure out how to resolve it. Any suggestions?
I was using a Saffire Pro 40 card on a macbook via FireWire. I now need to use it on a mac mini and it only has Thunderbolt ports and no Firewire. I've got a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter and power the sound card with a power supply, but it simply doesn't get listed in System Information. The manufacture mentions it should work:
I just upgraded my system software and all my graphic design photo images now say I can't open them and I should click get info on the finder, which I do and they still won't open. These are photoshop files that I have worked on in the past. OS X Yosemite, iMac
I'd like to sort my email on whether I've replied to it or not. Apple Mail puts a little replied to icon to the left of whatever emails I've replied to so I know this filter exists. Thoughts on whether this is possible?
We have a third generation AppleTV that has just started giving us trouble (after moving - although the unit was properly packed and transported, so I do not expect damage from this). Randomly when using various apps, the device will show what I would reference as static. The entire screen does this. The audio usually continues fine. Sometimes it gets so bad, that the TV will act like the input was dropped as well.
For how I use my laptop, it would be extremely helpful to be able to use Spaces/Desktops in OS X to break up different projects. One project may have a couple of websites/URLs, a pdf and a spreadsheet. It would be very useful to be able to put these in a space, eg have a browser window with tabs for each site that's related the project, the local files, and anything else that's related (maybe an email, document, etc.), close the Space and then open it later as needed.
if I use an app, would I be giving info like my IP address and device identification like the MAC address to the app developer/owner?
I wanted to upgrade my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with a clean Mac OS X Snow Leopard install. I bought 2x8GB RAM and a Samsung SSD (500GB) and replaced the RAM and SSD. I put the orginal DVD in the drive and I held the option key (also tried C key), but now I only see a grey Apple Logo, no loading image whatsoever. What should I do, and should I even wait if the loader isn't shown? Edit 1
Using rEFInd to boot into Legacy OS. That causes the message.
I'm clicking "Browse other backup disks..." in the Time Machine menu, then selecting a Time Machine disk. This puts me into the Time Machine interface, but I just see my home folder. Not my home folder from my old computer, but my current home folder. How can I browse my old backups to retrieve files?
Of course, the recommended method of backing up an OSX machine is to use Time Machine. But let's say that, for whatever reason, I'm deadset on doing it myself.
I'm capturing some old Mini DV tapes using Quicktime. The Firewire isn't outputting audio so I'm using the headphone jack in the camera to get my audio. I plugged a standard stereo headphone into the camera and my Mic Line In. I chose my video and audio device in Quicktime. I'm getting audio in, but when I play it back I get buzzing in the right channel. I assume this is because the camera records in mono as apposed to stereo and the computer is trying to record a right channel that isn't there. I don't have a single channel headphone cord so I need a way to only record the left channel. Can I do this in quicktime?
I need to run an application behind the lock screen, e.g., just as Time Machine or Sophos antivirus (and others) can run when the screen is locked. Specifically, I would like to schedule an application to launch when the computer is asleep and unattended (but not powered off). The plan is to schedule wake via Energy Saver or pmset, and use iCal/Automator to schedule the app launch. The problem I'm encountering is the lock screen (ie System Pref > Security > Require Password). When the lock screen is enabled the application will not launch unattended - a user must enter the password. By way of debugging I have confirmed that disabling lock screen allows the app to launch, but this is not a solution due to the security issues.
I have had a working VPN connection to a Cisco VPN on OS X with no trouble for a while now. Last night, I upgraded my Mac running OS X Yosemite (10.10.4) to OS X server. Since then, I can no longer connect to the VPN (other devices can still connect).
I am unable to update any of my apps on my iPad Air and can not add a new app. When I try to update I get a spinning circle. There has been no error notice. Any idea what the problem is?
When an app is selected as all desktops while switching from one desktop to another even though another app is in front of this app, it automaticly brings the app front then puts it to behind again. To prevent this I always have to hide the app before changing desktops. Is there a general setting which will prevent this?
Installed Office for Mac 2016 last night, but after I've setup Outlook with my Exchange account, it did not work! Which previously in Office for Mac 2011 version, it works just fine, any ideas why?
I have been looking into purchasing a 15" MacBook Pro. The problem is that I'm not too fond of Retina display and need to dual-boot Windows and be able to see the resolution without any blur caused by bilinear interpolation. The only solution is through nearest-neighbor scaling from 2880x1800 to 1440x900. Is this possible with Intel Iris, the graphics device listed on Apple's specifications for the MacBook Pro?
I love to run different OSs in my 13" Retina MacBookPro. If I can install Windows/Linux/OSX on the Apple TimeCapsule and can Boot them over network wirelessly It will be awesome. If its possible please let me know how to do that. I will go and get one TimeCapsule. If *=URL=* is the solution, Please elaborate it.
I got a little problem: I configured OS X server to provide VPN to OD-users. The VPN-settings are being pushed through profile manager. Now comes the strange thing:
Can I put my folders outside the user folder (e.g. on the root of Mac HD), such as personal folder or work folder, where I have many files? The reason I want to do it is that OS X may have performance issues where one folder has too many files (reference), and as a recent Windows switcher, this is more like the partition/disk letter approach to file organizing. I'm the only user of my macbook so there's no privacy issues. When I first copied the files to the root, the os asks for admin password. Will I have issues with permissions if I do that? And in general, what's the potential cons with this and what's special about the home folder?
I'm a developer and through the years with my MacBook Pro early 2011 I installed and configured a lot of stuff to help me in my job. I would like to buy a new MacBook pro but don't want to spend days/weeks installing everything again. Since the Mac migration assistant won't copy everything, is there a way to duplicate the partition from my old mac to a new MacBook Pro (which can't be opened) ? edit: by "can't be opened" I mean I can't take the hard drive and clone my current one with a third computer. To my knownledge the migration assistant won't copy kernel modules for instance.
I have checked similar questions but didn't find an answer that worked. I have a macbook pro late 2013 with OS X 10.9.5. I have the OS X on the Macintosh HD drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), windows on bootcamp and another 13 or so GB as "free space" (at the bottom) On disk utility I don't even have the option to drag and change my Macintosh HD drive, and I can't seem to add the free 13GB to my main Macintosh HD doesn't matter what I do.
Two days ago I began noticing permission problems with my web projects, I had to keep resetting permission so apache could read or write. What a pain! After hours of confusion I finally realized that any file created by a process I own receives the permission of 700 and my umask was set to 077.
In the case of double rank vs single rank there shouldn't be anything I can do. However if the higher speed is the issue then I'd consider trying to flash the SPD of the RAM Modules, if in fact there is no way of forcing the mac to use a lower speed. Therefore, do you know if there is a way to force the MAC to use the faster 1333 MHz Ram with only 1066 Mhz clock speed apart from flashing the ram? Thanks for the help in advance. PS: The 3GB when I mix the modules are shown in the OS without problem and are supposedly uses by the System. Also, I don't think it actually matters, but I am using bootcamp with Windows 7 x64.
Computer has Mavericks 10.9.5. Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all do not connect to websites though the network is clearly connected. ***** EDIT: Browsing works in safe mode ***** I've read many articles and tried the following solutions: 1) Set DNS servers to Google DNS and open DNS.
When i run memtest86 or memtest86+ on my MacBook Pro 8,3 2011 17" 2,5GHz the machine reboots after a few seconds. I tried 3 different pairs of ram modules. problem persists. I never had any issues running memtest86(+) software on various Macs.
There is one item left in my OS X (Yosemite 10.10.4) system text substitutions list which can't be deleted. If you press the "-" button in System Preferences → Keyboard → Text nothing happens.
Just got a new Macbook, my first Mac in 5 years, and I'm having trouble getting it to save my Wifi network information. If I remember correctly, I was able to connect to the network at the office with no trouble, but when I try to connect to my home network, I get the error in the title: A keychain could not be found to store "<network name>".
In my iCloud settings on the iPhone 6, I've selected Safari and deselected Keychain. Which of the following Safari data gets synced via iCloud? Browsing history Bookmarks Open tabs Autofill data Passwords Credit cards Safari settings Am I correct in understanding that 1-4 are controlled by the "Safari" option in iCloud, 5 and 6 are controlled by the "iCloud Keychain" option, and 7 is not supported at all?
I'm having problems with iPad tethered USB internet share (personal hotspot). OS X 10.11. (15A226f) and iOS 9b (13A4325c) Tethering via USB to iPads internet has worked before, but as far as I remember it stopped working after updating OS X to 10.11., so most likely the problem is NOT iOS 9, but the OS X 10.11 I'v already tried rebooting both devices, reconnecting everything etc., but nothing seems to work.
I have an iPhone 6 and bought AppleCare for it. The Lightning cable that came with it is starting to split (see the picture). It still charges fine, to the best of my knowledge, but is it eligible for a free replacement under AppleCare?
I just want to know, I just want to do it safely. My phone always said it's almost full storage but I did delete all my text messages, pictures, apps, etc. I tried everything but it always said the same thing. So I don't know if I erase the content and setting will help me erase some parts in my iPhone 4s. I'm trying to make sure.
Been beating my head against a brick wall trying to connect to my Windows 10 Pro workstation using Microsoft's RDP client for Mac. The symptoms I'm seeing (black screen or frozen screen) are very similar to the issues I had using mstsc.exe on a Win 7 machine. The Windows solution to the bug so far is to turn off Persistent Bitmap Caching in the Experience settings. Even this doesn't work for everyone. Sadly, I can't find any exposed settings to turn off that feature in the Mac client. It's not exposed in the App or menus. No mention of it in the plist file located at: /Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.mac/ Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist No mention of it in the plist file located at: Any ideas?
How do I hide the Notification Center menubar icon? Is it possible to do what was done here, for the Spotlight icon? How do I hide the Spotlight icon on Yosemite, but keep the Spotlight functionality?
Okay, so I have a problem. My iPhone 6 died (it runs a non-jailbroken version of iOS, I used it as a test device for development applications, but I didn't do anything crazy with the firmware of the phone). I plugged the phone in and got an Apple logo, and then it died again. It's on a loop.
On an iOS 8 device, I installed Google Hangouts and upon first launch, it pre-populated an account that was previously associated with a different, and long ago deleted, Google app. Since I had just Reset Advertising Identifier, I assumed it must be the Vendor ID (there was another Google app installed on the device). So, I deleted both (all) Google apps on the device, which should reset the Vendor ID.
My iPhone 5 charges fine in NYC - albeit with weakening battery life. I went to Maine a couple weeks ago and it would not charge. Used the same charging hardware as in NYC which also worked fine for other people at our house in Maine. Went back to NYC - my phone which wouldn't charge for days in Maine now charged immediately. Now I'm back in Maine and have the exact same problem - won't charge. Anyone know why? The only thing I can think of is the signal at our island in Maine is very weak - would that matter? How can I charge this phone? Note: my phone is dead but when I plug it in the icon on the phone goes from battery + charger to just battery - so it recognizes that it is plugged in but it never charges or starts.
What services should sync when I log into iCloud & use the same Apple ID on both my work phone & personal iPhone? Currently I am seeing calls appear on both phones. iMessages do not appear on both phones. iCloud photos do appear on both. Notes do not appear on both. Seems that it's advertised as syncing all but doesn't actually work.
On Yosemite how can I turn off notifications on Yosemite while presenting or showing the screen to someone? I know I can set the do not disturb for a time period but I was wondering if there is just an on off switch without having to set a time.
I have a large number of songs I want to download from win7 to my iphone6, What is the easiest way? I don't have iTunes on this computer.
This really isn't my area of expertise but I thought Wear_Leveling_Count was typically reported as either a percentage (indicating the life remaining according to the endurance specifications of the manufacturer), or as a raw P/E cycle count. In either case, the value I'm getting seems extremely high.
Has anyone had any luck finding a BootCamp driver to work for the new 2015 MacBook Pro Retina with AMD m370x? I've installed Windows 8.1, but the AMD driver installation tool says that there is no suitable hardware available, even though it clearly shows up display properties. Maybe there is a Beta driver somewhere? Why would there be terrible performance out of the gate for this video card, when it should be an upgrade from previous gen?
I hope you can explain this to me. I have a 1 TB hard drive on my iMac. I bought a 2TB external drive for time machine. It says that it makes backups hourly, daily, and monthly...and then deletes old backups when the disc is full. Well, I had to wipe my external hard drive and start over tonight because I just kept getting the message that time machine couldn't back up my computer because it was full. Is my 2TB external drive too small? It's double the size of my computer hard drive... Thanks for your help.
I updated the iPad and the music app updated to different layout. Can I return to previous update? It is for my mother and she can't see. She could play music and now with the upgrade she can't use it. Just need to know if it is possible to go back to previous upgrade or even a few upgrades previous.
Normally, syncing an iPhone to iTunes should clear on-device diagnostic and usage data. However, I'm currently running the latest iOS 9 Public Beta, and diagnostic and usage data is not being cleared (my on-device logs now date back to 07/31/2015). Now it takes a horribly long time just to sync my iPhone because most of the syncing time is wasted on "copying diagnostic information", which is really annoying. All of the on-device logs takes one the following two forms: I've also tried to clear crash reports from Xcode, to no avail. Is there any way to force a flush without resetting the phone?
I was installing Apache Ant earlier and once I did, I also ran: Within that text file I wrote: saved, exited, then ran: Now my Terminal looks like this:
On iTunes the artist and album name is shown but after syncing, it says Unknown Artist and Unknown Album on my iPhone. I can see the album art, the lyrics, and the song title.
Ever since the last iTunes update (12.2.1.6), there's a new way of displaying playlists, where the songs are twice the size vertically, and I can't find any column headers to sort the playlist by. I want to sort the playlist by Year. It might be really simple but I don't know how to do it.
My iPhone's display broke. The phone itself is intact, yet the screen stays black. iTunes on my recognizes the phone, I have synced with this Mac before. Yet when I want to make a backup of the phone, it denies, because the phone is locked with an passcode. But since the screen doesnt work, I cant unlock it. I know the unlock combination. Can I still make a backup from my phone without having to replace the display?
We're looking at iMacs for my girlfriend, and I was wondering: would the entry-level model be sufficient? When looking at Windows desktops, I tend to suggest a model a few levels above an entry-level desktop. This usually means the PC can be used longer and it will feel like a fast desktop for a while longer.
this is the premise: Recently I removed from my mbp 15 (2012) the internal Superdrive and replaced it with a caddy + 1 Tb hard disk. I already replaced the original HD with an SSD. Since I'm a programmer and I work intensively with my mac, I thought installing the caddy+HD was a good idea: this allows me to have intense write/read session over the HD rather than the ssd. Furthermore I moved all the general purpose files on the HD (music, documents and so on) by just copying it.
Today, I went for a 7 kilometer run on a course with an established distance. I set the MapMyRun app on my iPhone and the Activity App on my watch to record the run. MapMyRun recorded the distance accurately, but the Activity App was off on the distance by 500 meters. Why is the Apple Watch's Activity App's distance incorrect by 500 meters on a 7 kilometer run? Specs: iPhone 6, iOS 8.4 (12H143) Apple Watch, Watch OS 1.0.1 (12S632)
I just bought 20GB iCloud storage. But still, I couldn't back up my phone. Why?
I have created an USB drive with bootcamp on my MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2014) including windows driver. Can I use this USB drive to install Windows on my MacBook (late 2008)?
I have deleted the iPhoto app, because I no longer use it. However, the photos (all 2000 of them) are still accessible when I try to insert media on Pages or Evernote or Keynote. I want to permanently delete all the photos from iPhoto. How can I do this? I'm running OS X 10.9.2 on my MacBook.
When I have my MacBook Pro 10.10 connected to the AC Power my external display connected through HDMI works fine. As soon I disconnect the MacBook from the AC Power and start running on battery, my external display turns off, even the MacBook is not sleeping. How to avoid external display go off after I unplug my MacBook from the AC Power? I unplug the power connector and external display goes off immediately if I have the lid closed. I unplug the power connector and external display goes off immediately if I have the lid closed. The laptop is still awake, I can test that because it responded to the ping. The laptop is still awake, I can test that because it responded to the ping. I plug in the power connector and the external display turns on immediately, but the screen is locked, so I have to type my password. I plug in the power connector and the external display turns on immediately, but the screen is locked, so I have to type my password.
The title covers most of my question. I am relatively new to the Mac world, and came across Boot Camp, which can dual-boot Windows, which seems pretty cool. I have read through many Boot Camp guides, and know that a USB drive must be used (my new Mac does not have a CD/DVD drive). I do not have any USB drives at the moment that I want to format, and I would like to know if there is a way to do it without a USB drive. I know that it may be harder or impossible to do it without a USB drive, and I can back up my USB, but I would like to be able to install Windows without a USB drive. Alternate question: if I do format my flash drive (64 gb), will I be able to store other files on it, or will it only work with my Windows OS?
How can I create a new, empty photo library in Photos, separated from my current library.
I created a mirrored RAID (RAID 1) using 2 Western Digital 2TB external hard drives before, using Disk Utility on a Mac. For this, it should be software RAID. And then I got a WD Thunderbolt Duo 6TB, with two 3TB drives in it.
My iMac is running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I still have iMovie 7.1.4. How do I update it? And which version of iMovie is it compatible with OS X 10.6.8?
I am working in IMovie 7.1.4. When I try to export the movie I get this error message... "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Error code = -50)"
I would like a Applescript to pause while a specific process/script/app is not responding (temporarily or permanently) to system events, and to start-up again when the other process is back. In theory this could be done with a repeat loop provided there is a way to monitor the status of the process. Is there any code that can do this? via Terminal commands? via Applescript? Another possibility: can Applescript determine when the cursor has switched to the beach ball? Other ideas? Quite simply in applescript terms, this is what I'd like:
Finally realized that my ISP was carriage natting me, and my router's ip is really on the ISPs network and not externally facing. =(
I'm attempting to manually re-pair my watch with my phone. After reading this help article, I am suppose to tap the info icon (described as an "i"), but I cannot find it on my watch home screen. Where does this button live?
This annoyance occurs every time I paste something into an email I am editing in OS X Mail. Here is what happens every time: I am composing my email in the default format.
I no longer know where my old computer which was synced with my 1st gen is. my ipod 1st gen is now disabled for 45 years and I cannot sync it with me new laptop since it is disabled WHAT DO I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!
My wife's iPhone was stolen, and because our iCloud is connected via Family Sharing, I immediately put it on stolen mode and then erase mode to remove all the data once it came online. I checked several hours later, and it showed that the iPhone had been erased, and currently, the iPhone is still under her iCloud. My questions are:
I'm no stranger to OSX and a while back I upgraded to Yosemite at rollout. I'm a web developer an I'm encountering a strange behaviour with file permissions ever since upgrading. For example, I'm using the command line to pull in files through Git or Composer. Previously, when I did this, I was automatically the owner of these new folders and files and had read/write access. However, when I perform the same operations, I'm no longer the owner and have to go about chown and chmoding various folders in order to get going.
whenever the notification banner that appears on the top right of my screen appears, it's covered by a smudge. I can't find any other other answers online that deals with this problem and it's starting to really annoy me.
For about a week now, my Macbook (Air early 2014) has been crashing whenever I have been using it to watch videos online (Youtube etc.) I took a look at the event logs and found a number of kernel panic entries which I believe are pointing to the integrated graphics card/drivers. Could someone confirm this, and possibly give a solution for the problem?
anybody know any way of creating/putting an icon/button in google chrome's toolbar that will open its built-in Developer Tools? i know there are keyboard shortcut options, menu bar options, secondary-clicking within webpage option, & the 3lined icon at the far right of chrome's toolbar. but i'm wanting a simple button, single click, to open it. i've also scoured google chrome extensions & have come up empty. thanks.
I've notice that after I execute commands, a left bracket character will appear before the previous line. It seems to be partially dependent on what's in $PS1. I've tried unsetting $PROMPT_COMMAND and $PS1 but that did not make a difference. Here is an example of this happening in Terminal.app:
Recently both Numbers and Excel failed me in my charting needs. I got the job done in Numbers, but only with brute force by creating 28 charts in what should have been two.
I am not able to get my MacBook Air to resolve any hosts. I've tried reinstalling Yosemite from recovery, unloading and reloading the mDNSResponder to no avail. An nslookup of www.google.com using 8.8.8.8 resolves correctly. I've tried different WiFi networks and disabling and re-enabling the WiFi. I don't know what else to try. I did an ifconfig and it did not show any name severs
When I search in Finder there are no results. There are no results as I am typing, nor after pressing return. There is no loading spinner which usually appears at the bottom of the window. The loading cursor will sometimes appear, while hovering over the Finder window, after attempting a search. Spotlight searches work with no problems. On another account, both Finder searches and Spotlight searches work fine. My troubleshooting: I rebuilt Spotlight's index for the entire Mac, relaunched Finder, restarted, but there was no change. I rebuilt Spotlight's index for the entire Mac, relaunched Finder, restarted, but there was no change. I trashed Finder's plist (com.apple.finder.plist) and relauched Finder to no effect. I trashed Finder's plist (com.apple.finder.plist) and relauched Finder to no effect. I reset Spotlight with the "sudo" method in Terminal mentioned here, relaunched Finder but it didn't have any effect. I reset Spotlight with the "sudo" method in Terminal mentioned here, rel
I am using OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 at my office. Last week, I was still able to right click files or folders and choose services from the bottom of contextual menu. However, after I started my Mac this morning and reopen the Finder, I am not able to see the services submenu after right click. I can only choose the services without using the columns view and click Finder > Services from the top left. I typed this command in the Terminial but it did not solve it:
I'm a programmer and system administrator with more than 15 years of experience on Windows and Linux. I recently switched to OS X, using a MacBook Pro. Can anybody point me to the OS X documentation where I can find everything about OS X, from the files system and utilities, up to philosophy and architecture?
I've been using Oh-My-ZSH for a few weeks now and it's been a great experience. Just today, though, terminal started acting strangely. When I try to run an interactive terminal editor like vim, vi, emacs, or nano, the process is suspended: Of course, I can open it back up with fg, but this is incredibly annoying.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro with a 500GB SDD. It has been backed up on a regular basis to two different external disks - one is a 4TB Thunderbolt HDD, the other a 4TB WD Black drive connected via a USB 3.0 Thermaltek dock.
In my university, the only way to access Internet is to connect to a VPN server. I've configured the VPN on my Mac and it's working fine, but I need to manually connect to the VPN every time I connect to the University network. How can I configure my Mac so it automatically uses the VPN whenever I'm working inside the University network?
I recently noticed that somehow sharing had screensharing enabled in privacy setting... I saw that it was accessible from my network and via VNC.
I'm using a Mac at my new job and I often want to have a clear view of my desktop quickly. So far I've bound the Exposé - Desktop function to my mouse and it works okay, but the moment I want to just bring one app back from the dock, they all come back and it's frustrating.
There are many questions online asking how to make the commands rsync and cp go about copying a file while keeping the "date created" attribute the same as the original instead of the time of copy. I understand this is Mac's added information and is separate from the file's metadata "date created" attribute. Anyways, as I played around with rsync -a, it did everything I wanted except, as everyone online notes, it changed the "date created" to the time of copy instead of original make. With rsync and cp it changes due to "a change to the inode". Command-c command-v, however, keeps the "date created" time the same.
My PC doesn't have a mic or webcam, and it's been that way because I've survived with my iPad, whenever I needed to Skype with friends. However, I do need the microphone on my PC, but before going off to buy a microphone, I wanted to know if it was possible to use my iPad as my PC's microphone. I have an iPad Air 2, and my PC has Windows 8.1.
I clicked unwillingly on "Don't show this message" and now it does not appear. How can I revoke it to be shown as previously?
I have a DVB-T dongle which has following information: After googling these information I found out the chip model used in this device: Afatech AF9015. I could not find a driver (even a generic one) for it, would you know how to find it?
I've installed Windows 10 Pro in my iMac using Boot Camp but when the computer is on for 3-5 minutes, it crashes and shows BSOD with the error 'SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)'. I've searched online; everyone saying this is caused by the built-in Intel HD graphics card driver but my iMac has dedicated graphic card AMD Radeon HD 6500 and the driver is updated to current version. I followed these steps to fix the issue but still no luck. Disabled the Intel HD driver from device manager under display adapters Renamed the igdkmd64.sys from C:/Windows/system32 directory (once I completely deleted) Uninstalled Intel HD graphics software from Programs and Features. …but each time when I restart the PC, a new igdkmd64.sys file exists in the system32 directory. The problem is Windows Update always tries to install that corrupted Intel HD driver in the system32 directory. I couldn't continue to do any work on Windows, because I don't know when it's going to crash. This issue w
My Macbook is beginning to run out of space to "Keep originals" of the photos I have in the Photo Library, and I don't want the only copy of the photos to be in the cloud. How can I create a hard copy of the library, probably on an external hard drive, after unchecking "Keep originals" on the Mac? I'm OK with running some backup procedure manually.
Mac OS X has built-in features for viewing recently opened applications, or recently opened files in applications. I open lots of files in Preview and keep some of them open for a long time, usually the ones I am most likely to open again. So I would prefer to be able to quickly view all of my recently closed (typically unmodified) files. Is this possible either system wide, or specifically in Preview?
As you probably knows AirPrint doesn't have an option for grayscale or B&W printing. My printer doesn't have a setting to print in grayscale. Is there any iOS app that converts a PDF to a grayscale PDF?
I have a Apple Thunderbolt Display 27 which I want to use on a Windows machine with only an HDMI port. So I basically need to cable which will have female Thunderbolt port in one side and male HDMI port in other side of the cable.
I want to take a screenshot of a window on a mac. I'm currently using shift + cmd + 4 then space then mouse click. The process is very awkward, you got to do it in that order or you'll have to repeat it again.. I'm wanting a simple keyboard shortcut to do what shift + cmd + 3. I want to use as simple a shortcut for taking a screenshot of a window. Is it possible?
The reason I want to do this is that I have two Mac accounts for different purposes, one for fun and one for work. However, there are some types of data (e.g., contacts) that I want to share. Moreover, I have a single iPhone used for both work and personal, and I want both sets of data on the phone.
I'm looking to test VirtualBox 5.0 release or 5.0.x latest development stable build and get this error:  The Please try reinstalling VirtualBox. advice doesn't help. I am guessing this is what happens when software designed to write files to the new protected system area on El Capitan (SIP/System Integrity Protection) is run, but I don't see any Apple Documentation explaining how to interact with apps or disable that new feature. VirtualBox - both production 5.0 and stable test build 5.0.x/5.0.x revision 101955 crash as follows:
Unfortunately, I am unable to log in to my Mac Mini OS X (10.8.5). I am trying to recover the password with Recovery Mode by pressing CMD + R. I executed the resetpassword command, but the window that appears doesn't list my volume and I can't select my user account. recovery mode
In Outlook 2011 for Mac, I was able to use an AppleScript to move currently-selected messages from the main Outlook window. The script started like this: This worked regardless of whether there was a Reminder pop-up window currently on the screen or not.
I just saw how we can disable in mac USB devices by the following link *=URL=* But i don't know how to re-enable this?
Is it possible to lock the screen in OS Yosemite using code? And then put in a scheduler to run every two minutes? If so what script language are we talking, task scheduler program etc
So, this mac had some graphics card drivers that were potentially corrupt. After moving them out of the drivers folder, I'm able to boot in normally. However recovery boot isn't working, I can't get it to update via the App Store, I can't open Finder, nor can I do a myriad of other things. I need to re-install the OS, but can't seem to find any way of doing it... my only thought is that I could re-install it via single-user mode which is the only thing that seems to be working perfectly fine. How do I re-install my OS from single-user mode?
I am trying to add a Windows printer through the advanced option:  but, as you can see, the Type and Device lists are both inactivated. What is happening here?
I recently upgraded my Windows 8.1 Pro on bootcamp to Windows 10 successfully. However when I booted back into Mac, the bootcamp partition had disappeared in the finder window. When I checked disk utility, the partition that was once named Bootcamp, is now named disk0s4! There is also an error saying:
When I put my headphones in, the music plays, but not through the headphones. I've tried several different pairs of headphones that all work with a different phone. I can't watch or listen to anything with headphones in. It still plays, but it plays through the speakers.
Like most, I'm having trouble with my media keys being hijacked, so I can't press Play/Pause/Rewind/Fast Forward and have it work with iTunes. In the past, the culprit has been Google Chrome Music, but this time that's not it. I don't have that extension, or any other media extension installed. I don't use Spotify or Pandora or have any media applications other than iTunes. The fn setting in System Preferences is also not the solution because I don't have it checked.
After some annoying wifi problems with iOS 8.3, I tried out iOS 9 public beta 2 (now public beta 3) on my iPhone 5 (Edit: in the UK). When I receive a text message (iMessage/SMS), the lock screen/home screen notifications usually come up with the sender's phone number, not their name. This happens for most senders, even though their names and numbers are in my contacts. When I open the Messages app, all messages are correctly categorised according to the contact's name, so my problem is only with the notifications. For some reason, notifications work correctly for one contact, but no others. Questions: Is this a known bug? Is this a known bug? How can I work around it? How can I work around it?
All of my playlists have disappeared from my iPhone, and when I attempt to sync it with iTunes, nothing happens. I have tried it with the previous and current versions of iTunes. My device is running iOS 8.4.
I have installed Windows 10 on my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro. I already had a separate partition which was a leftover from Ubuntu in it, so I didn't partitioned it using Bootcamp and directly formatted it in NTFS. I then used Bootcamp assistant which automatically detected the NTFS partition. I made a bootable usb and installed Windows 10 using it. It does have latest drivers too. Everything is working in it after installing Bootcamp drivers except the sound. I just get a red cross on the Volume icon in system tray and when I click on it, Windows starts to troubleshoot and the result always points that the hardware change might not have detected and it's been fixed now.
I got a warning that I have a malware error 800 something and I need to contact a certain phone #. I know this is bogus but the warning pops up every time I log into safari and will not let me type anything in the search bar or anywhere else for that matter how can I get rid of this
I have an applescript which extracts the name, associated process and and other information about a target window. As of now, the script selects the target window via a "choose from list" dialog that contains all open windows from all processes. It would be much better if I could select the target window by highlighting it in the Finder. For example, this can be done for files and folders: Question: Is there an equivalent method to do select windows from the Finder (using Applescript or Automator)?
When starting up a Mac for the first time, it runs a 'wizard' that asks various questions (what language, what iTunes account etc.) As far as I can tell, this only runs the first time the Mac is run .... Is it possible to run the wizard again?
I have a MacBook Pro mc700 (early 2011), and I've bought a pair of 4Gb Crucial RAM sticks. The problem is that I'm not sure whether these RAM sticks are original or not, and I'm really worried about not being compatible with my MacBook Pro. Can anybody please help me to find out whether is it original or not?
I have a wireless bluetooth keyboard and a Macbook Pro with OS X Yosemite 10.10.4. Whenever I press the power button, it requests to pair with the macbook, popping up the window with the code for me to enter. However, I'm unable to enter the code with the keyboard. Pressing the power button again just fires off more pairing requests. Holding the power button to turn off the keyboard and turning it back on again doesn't seem to fix this issue. What can I do to get my keyboard to pair successfully?
Is it possible to change the color (specifically, darken) the cmd+tab application switcher on yosemite? It's hard to see, especially against a white background:
Now I want to make the SSD my primary drive, and use the HDD for storage only. the problem is that I can't clone all the HDD to the SSD because the former has 750GB and the latter is 250.
My iPhone photos and videos are too high resolution so that I can't send them via email or facebook messenger. I rarely need high-definition photo and video, and I'd like to set the default resolution much lower than it is out of the box.
I tried to download an app, I tapped Get then install and a loading circle came up then I said Get again. I tried to sign out and into the App Store but it wouldn't let me sign back in. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Since I updated to Yosemite, the .mov previews in Finder no longer show up for videos with an older codec. (When I double click the video, it starts a conversion process.) Is there any way I can see previews of my videos without needing to convert them all? Even if there's a software I can download to see the previews, that is fine. It's too much work to convert all of the videos to see what they are.
I've just bought an iMac, reinstalled Yosemite, put in my details but, coming back after a short pause, found it had gone to sleep and wouldn't accept my password to wake up. I'm sure I put in the right one. I've seen advice that re-booting to Recovery might offer a way of recapturing my password, or changing it to a new one, and tried it again and again. But whether I restart holding down Command+R, or holding down the Option key and then choosing to boot from Recovery, I just can't find any options to click that would lead me to either my password or any way to put in a new one. I'd be grateful for help.
I am running Outlook 2016 on Yosemite. I noticed that the Spotlight indexed Outlook files, such as mail and events, are not showing in the Spotlight preview. Please see screenshot. Anyone seen this as well, or know how to possibly fix this? Thanks in advance...
I already know individual answers to this but stick with me :) So, the latest AirPort Extreme (802.11ac) says it can do simultaneous dual-band, which is fine when you're using both frequencies together. But if you separate the two by SSID, giving you a dedicated 5Ghz and dedicated 2.4Ghz band, does it still transmit on both of those simultaneously to separate devices? To give you an idea of what I'm trying to do, I want to hook up AirPort Express units around my house to provide AirPlay to assorted speakers in the Kitchen, Dining Room, etc and was thinking, in theory I can have them all operate on say, the 2.4Ghz band while the rest of the house is on 5Ghz, and it should alleviate some network congestion when streaming to multiple units at one time. In my mind, it's like Sonos but a bit cheaper since I have most of the hardware already. This may be completely pointless, so I'm just curious if there's anyone familiar with this or if it's even necessary. I've had multiple people tell me 
I like having my IDE on left screen and browser on the right one. Whenever I want to refresh page in the browser, I need to move hand from keyboard to mouse. In my previous setup on Fedora I was able to setup a keyboard shortcuts ctrl+1 and ctrl+2 to focus on the topmost window of appropriate monitor. I feel like this is a very basic task, but I didn't find any solutions. I even read this question: Keyboard shorcut to switch focus between multiple displays on OS X 10.9.5 + (mavericks, el capitan, sierra)
I've looked through the list of all keyboard shortcuts in Settings app -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts but I can't find the one for "Hide all (other) windows". The default is CMD-OPT-H but it conflicts with another application. I'm also looking for a way to change it's shortcut, as an alternative. But in the meantime, does anyone know how/where to change this default shortcut?
I installed freetds and unixodbc via Homebrew, more or less following the directions found in this sql server and odbc on Mac link. I diverged from those directions when it came to the location for the driver and setup, instead using in the file /usr/local/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.2_1/etc/odbcinst.ini since this is where I found my ODBC dynamic libraries. (I also made those changes because Macs do not use *.so files, that's a *nix nomenclature, which I admit made me nervous in following those directions, but they did seem to match advice at other sites, such as this one for installing RODBC on Mac and these great instructions for *nix.) I have tried to run it, made changes, done a trace via dtruss, specifically doing this command: No matter how I adjust things - without actively breaking them further - I keep getting the following error:
I've tried multiple e-mail accounts and can't get my computer to talk to the e-mail server. I've loaded and re-loaded the SMTP and IMAP settings. Everything seems in order, but it just doesn't want to work. "Could not connect to this SMTP server" is the message. I tried it with Yahoo free mail and Gmail. Nothing works. I'm running OSX 10.9.5 and Mail version 7.3.
My brother decided to install uTorrent on my iMac. In doing so, he accepted the installation of MySearchDial, a browser hijacker. I now have no idea how to remove it. Adding a new tab in Chrome will link to the MySearchDial search engine. I'm not sure how else it's affecting the computer, but it seems slower. The only instructions for removal I've found are for Windows.
I have a Modbook Pro with both Win 7 and OS X installed during build; no media provided. I got fed up with all the irritations of the modbook and bought a regular Macbook Pro with a larger drive and OS X only.
OS X recognize my USB as Windows Installation Media. (I tested it with Boot Camp Assistant app)
I have a debit card and I've used it to buy items on the App Store. Now it's not accepting the debit card anymore and demands a new card to buy/update apps.
I was trying to download a game from the App Store on my iPhone 5c (iOS 8.4) and I put in my password to download it but I got a pop-up message on my screen saying this: "Could not sign in x-apple-md-action_message". What does this mean?
I was wondering if there is a way to increase the number of seconds before Photo Booth takes a picture (currently 3 seconds) or if alternatively there is an app I can use with my iSight camera that will allow me to take delayed pictures (preferably many at a time). Any help is greatly appreciated!
I've tried the apps and I've tried to apply pressure this hasn't worked at all, so I phoned Apple they tried helping over the phone. That didn't work. They said my warranty covers it but I want to know what it is? They said it sounds like a dead or stuck pixel. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
My iPad's touch screen was broken about 1 year ago. I've dropped bottle on the screen and now the touch screen not working. I've sent it to service but the service hadn't repaired it, but the iPad is still working without touch.
I have iPhone 5c running latest iOS 8 update. I know how to restrict certain apps from accessing internet when using cellular data. I want to know if its possible to do same when Wi-Fi is turned on. Question: Is there any way to restrict certain apps from using Wi-Fi on iOS 8?
The same happens if i try to open the file using my ios app. The file read in the application has extra characters at the end. Any idea how to fix this behavior?
In all that follows, the ^ indicates the position of the cursor. I'm using bash on Terminal on OS X Yosemite and I'd like to use vi-style line editing: By default it starts in vi Insert mode, so I can immediately type Now let's say I use the left arrow key ← or H to move left: Now I can no longer move to the right of the o in hello using either → or L: If I am to append something, I have to hit Esc then ShiftA.
I recently cleared my history from Google Chrome because of stupid MacKeeper ads, whenever I try to click on any site the new window bars open which was MacKeeper or another ad. I was sick of it and cleared my history and unfortunately when I reopen my Chrome all my bookmarks have gone. I am so disappointed. I searched everywhere and tried everything but still I am getting these ads and no bookmarks have come back. They said "Here's where the Chrome bookmarks and the backup are located: Macintosh HD/Users/your user name/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks"
I wanted to clean my external disk that I use to back up my mac, but I didn't do it right... I deleted the folder 'Mac's Name' with my back ups, but the weird thing is that there is no extra free space on my external disk. So I learned that you have to delete your back-up within the Time Machine Interface. But I can't recover this folder from the trash can because of this message: "The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified."
In another thread I have explained the issues I have with a clean install of OS X on a SSD. Now the situation is: Yosemite installed on SSD. Boots from SSD attached via USB . Does not boot from SSD when installed internally. I get a beachball and the Mac will not start. What might the problem be?
My iPhone 6 has been water damaged causing me not to see my screen, I can't unlock my phone because of this. Is there a way I can transfer my photos to my Mac without unlocking the phone?
I do not seem to have Safari on my iPhone 4. I also do not seem to have iTunes installed, or any access to iTunes. I have tried resetting my home-screen layout, but Safari and itunes still are not there.
I am connected with my iPhone 6 / iOS 9.0 to an IPv6 network created following this article. When I take a look at the console of my device, I see Why do I see Received address 169.254.199.45 when I'm actually trying to connect to an IPv6 network? How can I disable this behaviour and only receive an IPv6 address?
Ever since I went to a Starbucks and paid with the Passbook app, I keep getting (what I assume is) a location aware notification to use my Starbucks passbook app. The trouble is that I keep getting this notification (for this particular store) whether I am actually near it or not! It's getting a bit annoying as I keep thinking I have a notification when I actually haven't. I will clear it, and after 10 minutes or so, it's back again! I am wondering if this is could also having a negative impact on battery life (I haven't noticed this though).
I have this report: What is a kernel panic?
I am thinking to renew Apple Developer Program with a different Apple ID. Reason: There is a big mess in my iTunesConnect dashboard. I have started a lot of app, but not yet approved, and I do not want to continue them, or just created to claim for the app name. So it is hard to delete them. And CloudKit Dashboard is also messy. There is plenty of container I have to scroll a lot to find the appropriate one. I thought I remove all my apps from App Store, and I will resubmit with my new developer program from new account. Do you know any drawback?
My early 2011 13" MBP has been telling me to "Replace Soon" the battery, and today it's finally getting its wish. I know the hardware procedure, courtesy of iFixit, but is there anything else I should know about it? Specifically, I'm wondering: Will everything still be on the computer after I boot up again (I know my files will still be there, I'm just wondering about stuff like saved application states), and is there a specific charging procedure I should follow to "properly" break in the battery?
I'm about to travel to UK, and i'm wondering if I can buy a refurbished Macbook, straight from the Apple Store, not from the website. I'm not a UK resident, and I would like to get a TAX refund, and it seems like the VAT TAX refund rules mention that the online sales are not eligible. Is this possible?
I want to create a very simple app like this: evince is a pdf viewer I compiled in OS X.
On the command line, du seems to return twice the numeric value returned by du -h. Apparently, du -h resembles the actual file size, so what's the plain du value representing?
I just recently started out with MacOS, but there one some strange completion behaviour with the bash shell (compared to OpenSuse Linux with tcsh where I come from) that is bugging me: For example, when I am in $HOME and write Pu on the command line, followed by tabbing for completion, I expected that one of the options shown would be my Public/ directory. However, as long as there are executable files, the completion never shows directories that share the same prefix. Only after entering Publ, the tab completion gives me Public/ as there are no more executables with that prefix. So my question would be, is there an option to have the completion directly show executables and directories with the given prefix?
Starting today all iPhones on our corporate network are unable to connect to any of the 4 WiFi access points. I had no issues as of yesterday.
I'm getting a replacement Macbook Pro today. I just made a complete backup with Carbon Copy Cloner, and I also have a full Time Machine backup.
I have several Macs on my home network, running different OS's. Let's call them "computer1", "computer2", computer3", etc. All of them show up in the Finder lists as "Shared", as they should. But all the machines (even "computer2") show another item in the Finder list called "doug_(computer2.local)". (I'm "doug".) Whazzat?
How do I tell other users/contacts that my iMessage is turned off? I frequently turn my son's data plan off mid-month because he eats up most of our shared data.
For the past few days OS X is showing me updates for iMovie and it started downloading it. I changed my mind about iMovie and so deleted the application. But still it is trying to update iMovie and started downloading it again. How do I let AppStore know I don't need the update and don't show me future updates for iMove?
Is it normal that refunded in-app purchases (on the Mac) can still be re-downloaded without charge?
When I use the messages.app, messages I type are automagically corrected/replaced. How can I enable this feature across many more apps like Chrome for example?
My 17-inch, Mid 2010 MacBook Pro's screen now displays a limited number of colors, kind of "fuzzy". See this photo
This screen just fits for the IOS 8.3 SYSTEM,the original version,but not fit the newest IOS 9.0 system. Please make sure your Iphone keep the IOS 8.3 system before installation.
I'm using iTunes 12.2.1.16 and today I realized that there is something called 'album rating'. This messes up my ordering according to the track rating. Suddenly there are songs appearing with hollow stars that I never rated.
I know this question looks like a joke, but I've been using Macbooks for a few years and I've never found the right way of dropping files from Desktop to other windows. Imagine this scenario: I'm on Yosemite, talking on Slack, having some files on Desktop I want to share with on my Slack channel, how do I drag these files from desktop to Slack window? Normally I have to: go trough all the windows that are below the Slack window & minimize them (pain in the a...), this step is not actually a step but usually like 30 steps as I have that many apps working in the background, resize Slack window to half the screen so I can see the Desktop, drop the files from desktop on Slack. While on Windows 7/8 it looks like: click on right bottom corner, click on Slack window, resize Slack window, drag & drop. I tried to use the same flow on OSX, so I have "Show Desktop" set as a hot corner, I move to that corner, I can see the desktop but this feature is useless compared to the same functionality in W
So I've looked around and couldn't really find an answer to this. I have an iPhone (jailbroke) and I notice in several settings there is a string usually in the .plist files that say something similar to "TimeIntervalSince1970". Now I know that all timers such as these need a base date and time to start with. But my real question is why 1970?
My lock button is broken and i have been using assist to lock my iPhone , but early today i pull my iPhone out of my pocket it I couldn't turn it on. I tried plugging it into the wall charger, nothing. I Tried plugging it up to my Mac , NOTHING and I'm not on a plan so I cant't get a new iPhone . So what do I do, I'm desperate for answers on how to fix this .
How do you unshare or remove a person from your iCloud photo album?
I'm running OSX 10.8.5 with python 2.7.10. When I run the following pip install pyodbc I get the following error message. Error Message: Command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/vy/13xnp2r52ls80mzhmcns__bm0000gp/T/pip-build-OUZxeg/pyodbc/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/vy/13xnp2r52ls80mzhmcns__bm0000gp/T/pip-BhOEZo-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/vy/13xnp2r52ls80mzhmcns__bm0000gp/T/pip-build-OUZxeg/pyodbc Xcode 5.1 is installed and pip list shows: I'm pretty new to OS X so any help is welcome.
I recently upgraded my OS to Yosemite 10.10.4 After done my volume icon is greyed out and no sound is found. This is not the bug where it is set on HDMI since when i open output there is no internal speakers nor does it find a pair of head phones. It will still detect bluetooth and HDMI sound. Any takers on a good answer?
My mac keeps randomly crashing. I could be just browsing the internet with no other programs running and it would just crash. It literally just crashed while in the middle of this... Second time today. Crash reports in order. Tue Aug 11 15:13:43 2015 * Panic Report * Crash #2 Tue Aug 11 17:20:12 2015 * Panic Report * Please help me try to fix this!
I have a huge problem. I am not able to install Windows 10 on my late 2008 MacBook Pro with bootcamp. I have replaced the optical drive as it was not working with a 1 TB HDD and i have a SSD drive as well. I have tinkered with the plist file for boot camp assistent, see content below: I can create the usb disk from bootcamp assistent as well as partitioning the drive.
Okay, so every time I install Yosemite on my iMac, it gives me the same response. I delete the copy, and reinstall it, but it still gives me the same error...
I have an applescript running beautifully in Script Editor as well as from an osascript command at the Terminal. The script talks to the Reminders.app in order to pass iCloud reminder entries to a few parsing scripts on my mac. But when I try to launchd it, a few errors pop up in the system log: The SIMBL Performance error I believe to be harmless -- this is a known issue. I am assuming likewise for the FITS error.
I am doing research on privacy, and I need to know if Apple has the ability to pull hardware/software information from a device that has used an Apple ID to log into it and make purchases off the App Store. Specifically, I need to know if by using your Apple ID to sign in to an apple device and make purchases, that Apple will take your Apple ID and associate it with that new device's serial number. In other words, can Apple automatically or manually retrieve the serial number from a device simply by a user signing in with his/her Apple ID? If the answer is YES, then this would mean that by signing into a device with your Apple ID would result in you providing Apple with your serial number with or without your consent OR knowledge.
My home network is 192.168.1.0. I am sharing my wifi connection through my MBP Mid 2010 ethernet port. So my MBP is also on 192.168.2.0 as well as the device that is plugged on the this internet port. How to make the connected device visible on my home network and make the home network visible to this device? In my shallow knowledge I got to route the traffic from one network to the other and vice versa, but how?? I am running Maverick BTW.
I'm trying to install a new hard drive in my TC after the original one died, but to no avail. I bought a 1.0TB 3.5 WesternDigital SATA disk and formatted it for OS X using a SATA-USB connector. It worked and the disk is usable. BUT as soon as I plug it back in TC and power it up, TC displays its amber non-flashing light and its wifi stops working. However if I remove the HD, the wifi gets back on its feet... May some TC genius come to the rescue of my troubled soul.
I noticed recently as well that the keyboard might be unresponsive for a short time but I thought it might be because of CPU use or whatever but I start to think it's link. Although it doesn't last long at all.
There are many reports that the previous versions of the iOS Messages app did not properly free up space when conversations were deleted and every subsequent restore from backup carries this "dead space" over. And, since they are deleted, there is no way to regain that space because there are no UI elements for those conversations. For example, my Messages is using up nearly 2 GB of data, but when I examine my conversations and their attachments, they don't add up to anywhere near 2 GB. How can I regain this dead space? ... given these constraints:
I've tried answers given on this site. Mail>Preferences>Account>Edit Server List etc. Tried re-entering the information (which is unchanged and correct.) Default ports are 25, 465, and 587. Changing to 465 made no difference.
I have an external drive connected to my computer, as well as a home server. I'm trying to search for a file that is on the server, but when I do a finder search, it only looks into the internal drive. I've tried it with my external drive, and same thing happens -- it does not look there.
(e.g. compiling various code from source, they often check for java among many other tests, to decide whether to build-in certain features at compile-time)
I wanted to know why while clicking on an written item (quit, hide, option...) the item in question blink twice very fast and then do the action we wanted? Thanks
I have a small protection case around my iPhone 6 and my headphones can't be plugged perfectly. Anybody knows a very thin case to protect my iPhone without having this issue?
I would like to install OS X Yosemite in VMware Fusion 7.0. If I select the DMG file my university is providing, VMware is unable to boot from the DMG file. The image is a compressed DMG. Is there a way to make VMware Fusion boot from a compressed DMG?
It's already making me crazy - as a newbie with Mac. I have problem with backup/sync of my pictures. I would like to backup pictures from Photo library (Photo app) to external HDD but more like sync. All the new pictures in my Mac should be copied to external HDD. Pictures that are already on external HDD should NOT be copied there twice (not classic backup of whole library). Pictures I erased from Mac should NOT be erased from external HDD (not classic sync). If import of new pictures would be automatic when external HDD is connected it would be great (not manually copying new pictures).
Every time I start a Genymotion (v2.5.2) device my CPU starts heating real fast and the fan speed goes from good to crazy really quick too. Here's an output from iStats:
I'm trying to recover some pages that I had open when my macbook (OSX 10.8.5) crashed. Unfortunately I was using Opera (V30) in private browsing mode. I've tried looking at my DNS cache - but not exactly sure how to read it. (I can't see the URLs in the text) I've also looked at my router logs but can only find info like this: Just to let you know - I'm not trying to snoop on anyone, really just want to recover the pages I had open!
How do I set the homepage of my Safari 8.0.7 or, even better, customize it?
If I search for a song and select it from the search results, it starts to play as expected. But for some reason, if I open an album, I can't select a track to play, I can only shuffle the album and skip tracks until I get the one I wanted. The tracks are greyed out.
As it says above. When I run mysqld using the preference pane for MySql, one of the arguments it is providing is --port=3307. Does anyone know how I might go about changing this? Operating System is OSX 10.10.4 MySQL version is 5.6.26
We are using Macs in an educational environment and because of serving more students, than we have workstations available, we bought a couple of MBPs to compensate it. This implies a bunch of issues one of the minor ones is the following issue.
I have a Logitech K480 Bluetooth keyboard. I want to map the caps lock key to ctrl. What should I do?
So I opened iPhoto to upload some photos. Then mid-download it stopped working. Now I can't shut down my computer or quit the iPhoto app!! Can anyone help me?
Our Mac has kernel panicked about 5 times today. Below is the crash log if someone could help us out, cheers in advance. It restarts and then we work on it and then say around an hour later it kernel panics again !
I shut down my laptop today on my way out of the house, which had a drive connected via USB. I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the drive was successfully unmounted/ejected during the shutdown process before I unplugged it?
so I got a Macbook Pro a few months ago to use for coding and as a DAW. Really the only thing I miss about Windows 8.1 is the ability to drag a window to the upper left or upper right corner and have it automatically resized to take up the half the screen. Is there an option in Yosemite like this, or a tool I can download? Found it to be a real time saver as opposed to fiddling with height and width.
So I need to add an admin account to multiple macs remotely. All of these macs already have an admin account (so we want to add an additional admin account) and they are bound to AD (worth mentioning just in case that makes a difference).
Is there any simple way to get a list of all of the installed apps on my iPhone or iPad, that I can save to a text file? I'm guessing it needs to be done from iTunes or an external app that manages iDevices. Any tips?
I am trying to connect a couple of devices via Ethernet to a Mac Mini acting as a server. The OS X Server app is running, DHCP is enabled, and this was working fine, but it doesn't seem to be working at all today.
My computer is the Macbook(not an air or pro), so it has no drives and only one port. I do not have any external drives.
I am designing lectures in Powerpoint (the latest released version this year) for a class I'm teaching soon, and created filenames based on the date that I will give them:  But if I open 9/22.pptx (or any one of the other files) in Powerpoint, it does not preserve the filename:
I've got a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), once in a longer period of time my MagSafe 2 adapter simply fries. Just a minute ago I fried the third MagSafe 2 adapter in three years time. It occurs with a click-sound like something small and fragile broke, right after that the charging LED turns off and it's dead.
On Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10.4) I'm not able use the shortcut Command-Shift-B, while Command-Shift-<another-letter> works as expected. I've double checked this in the Keyboard Viewer: pressing Shift, Command and B simultaneously won't show the B button as pressed. That is, this is what I see when pressing the 3 buttons:
Using App shortcuts in System Preferences -> Keywords allows me to create a shortcut but it does not work when I try it in Preview. I tried the following keybindings (which do not conflict with preview's bindings): ⌥⌘M, ^⌥⌘M, ⌥⌘K, ^⌥⌘K
When I paste text from another application into Evernote it always uses some random strange font from the source. How do I change Evernote so that it keeps the font the same as the font in the note I am pasting the text. It seems fairly logical to me but I cannot fathom why it does anything else!
I have tried adding the Gmail account and then setting Gmail as the default account. That didn't work. I have also tried clicking on Yahoo in the settings and then going to the outgoing server setting and entering in smtp.gmail.com. That didn't work either. I also tried deleting my Yahoo account and re-adding it, in case the order that the accounts were added had anything to do with it. Any advice on how I can continue to use Yahoo to organize my emails, but have them send AUTOMATICALLY from my Gmail address?
My iPhone 5s takes perfectly clear photos when I access and use the stock Camera app to take a photo. However, if I try to use the camera in an app, e.g. to use the camera in my banking app to deposit a check, the photo is too blurry to use. I have found this is the case with all apps that use camera other then the Camera app.
I'm running a web server on Yosemite but have run into a bit of an issue. I can access web server via localhost, 127.0.0.1 and locally on other computer server.local.
identifier - iMac5,1 I've had this issue going on for a bit and I've gotten used to it, but I'm really wondering what it is. So, the hard drive fan in my iMac makes this constant high pitched noise and it corresponds with the speed of the fan. If the fan speed gets higher, the noise gets higher pitched and is faster, and vice versa. (Please comment with whatever else you need me to include about the problem, not too sure what to include.)
I bought used macbook pro 2012. The hdd was already changed to 120GB SSD (SPCC Solid State Disk, S9FM01.8). It was working fine on Yosemite until I wiped the disk and did an internet recovery. Recovery went well but extremely slow. After installation the mac is working but it takes about 2 minutes between mouse clicks. I did enable trim using using "trim enabler". I also made sure it is and SSD problem by putting back HDD. It works fine with an HDD.
Wondering if this could be a virus. Note,the "expired session" message referring to iCloud being logged out does not make since. First off, I am logged in to iCloud Music is not even an affected app as iTunes controls Music. Ugh!
I obtained an app from the App Store that I can't find now or was it simply taken down, but I still have the app on my iPod. I'd like to install it on my other iPod. I don't know that if I backup my iPod (iCloud backup) it'll still be there. Can I install the app from my backup to my other iPod and still be sure to keep it on my original device?
My father has lost his iPhone 6 which was not signed in using an iCloud account. Is there any possibility it can be found?
My iPhone 4S is suddenly locked and it asks for Apple ID and Password. When I added them, it says my Apple ID can't activate my phone.
How can I get my photos and videos that were backed up from my iPhone 5 onto my iPhone 6?
My terminal is aborting when it encounters CTRL-Z: Sometimes I don't see the [Process completed] message - the terminal just closes. Also, it doesn't seem to matter what command is running. The same behavior happens with vim. I also get the same behavior with iTerm2. This behavior started happening out of the blue. Any idea what is going wrong? --Update-- I just tried entering the sleep command again, this time I forgot the time parameter: The terminal has interpreted this exit value as meaning that the process has finished.
In order to format text documents in a more readable way it would be nice to format selected texts by an apple script executed via the context menu services in the following way: select "text" with cursor select context menu/services Spacing (to be created) selected text is going to be formated to "T E X T" Does anybody has the knowhow to program such a script?
I have a new Windows PC and copying the settings and iTunes folders from the old machine did not work. I want to have the downloaded podcast episodes and the subscriptions that I have on my iPod Classic on the new PC. Can I somehow sync them from the iPod to iTunes?
A'About this Mac' will not open anymore. How can I fix it. I have only had this computer a month and it was working before.
I'm trying to get FileMaker Pro 9 to work on Os X 10.10 (unsupported). Having installed a fresh copy of FileMaker on a new Mac I get an error stating that 'some required files are damaged or not installed'. However, when I updated another Mac from 10.7 to 10.10 with Filemaker already installed, it continues to work without problems.
I want to type in macron (e.g. ā) in my OS X, but after I searched for how to type in it, I got that I first must use U.S. Extended Keyboard as suggested in this article. However, once I switch to U.S. Extended Keyboard, I cannot type in å any more with ⇧+a and a, because on U.S. Extended Keyboard, it provides you with the aforementioned macron letter. So is it possible to type in macron with normal English keyboard on OS X?
While using my iCloud account to receive emails, i've structured it to filter the content down to an organized fashion according to my liking. So lets say I have : All those are set up normally, and when using a native app like Apples Mail, this all populates properly. Now I've gone and created numerous folders with rules in iCloud.com so all my devices sync to these folders instead of me having to manually do it for every device/mac. For example I have: The rules i have set from iCloud.com for those folders are pretty straight forward, i.e., "Move messages from example-person@gmail.com to Family folder" etc etc
I've never had this issue when purchasing music from the iTunes Store, but Apple Music is weird. For some songs, after adding the explicit version to my library and downloading for offline play, it still only plays the clean version. However, the 'E' badge still shows up next to the song name, and explicit songs are enabled in Restrictions.
I often shoot a photo with my phone and then want to see it on my Macbook Pro. Sometimes the iPhone is actually supplying the Net connection for the MBP, so I cannot use AirDrop! What's the easiest way to get a single photo from my phone to my Mac without sending a message to someone?
Im using the grep command In a simple script, the problem however Is that the string which the grep command Is searching for includes a square bracket character: [. After some research, i have found that the square bracket [ character is in fact used as a function for optimising the grep commands output through a process called "pipelining" (Although don't quote me on It as Im not sure). My Question: How do I search for a string with a '[' character in it without invoking a pipelining function within grep? Elaboration:
I'm having trouble with my MacBook Pro. Specifically, it always crashes when I try to open the Terminal app. I get the following report:
Whenever I connect my Mac FireWire-to-HDMI to a large-screen TV, the resolution on my MacBook Air 11″ becomes larger and more content fits on the screen. In other words, everything scales down and it looks great. I'd like this resolution to be forced at all times. This option is only available when the MacBook Air is output to a larger HDMI screen. Here is what the settings panel looks like with the desired resolution:
I only keep a small set of music on my phone of my otherwise large iTunes purchase history, and consequently if I picked a random album or song out of my music app there is a high likelihood that it has to be downloaded. In the past there have been settings that I could configure to only show downloaded music, but with the latest update I can't find anything that works. Any help? Here is the closest thing I could find:
I am using OS X 10.10.4 and when I run reaver -i mon0 -b XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -vv I get the following error [-] Failed to retrieve a MAC address for interface 'mon0'!
I have to read a lot of PDF files and am wondering whether there is an app out there that allows me to alternate between reading on Windows PC and on Macbook Air. I am thinking about an app that syncs all the notes and markups between devices and opens with the last page I read. Could anyone please help?
I have a large .mkv file that I am looking to share with a friend. My Dropbox limit is 2GB so I am looking for a simple way to split the file in to chunks of say 1gb, send them individually and the have him recompile it on his end.
The 6TB drives have changed their mounting hole configuration. Has any vendor introduced a bracket for the 2008-2010 Macpro (I know these are different from each other, I own both) to handle this? On sites such as OWC, I see warnings, but no solution offered. For what it's worth this article discusses - 6TB HDDs Causing Problems for System Vendors - But Not the Way You Think
How do I retrieve my Game Center username and password from my iPhone to my Android, so I can restore the progress of my Clash of Clans app?
A company I used to work for installed tracking malware on my iPad 2. It monitors my emails, Facebook, changes my passwords, etc. I did a complete reset at an Apple Store, it is still there. The Apple tech support told me I would have to go back to the company to have it removed? My wife works there, and it will create problems for her. Any suggestions?
I have some movies on my ipad which I downloaded using vlc from my local PC. I would like to play them with cinexplayer (or any other player anyone can recommend) as vlc isn't as good as I was hoping on an ipad. Is this possible?
Outlook currently puts a banner at the top of my emails asking me for permission to download images. How do I make it download this automatically and not ask me?
My goal is to include in a zip file what amounts to a shortcut, instead of telling my customer(s) to open up Terminal and run a shell script. My deployable essentially looks like this: Script in run.sh:
so I have a MacBook Air 2013 running OS X El Capitan connected to an external monitor. I figured out how to play audio on both my macbook's and external monitor's speakers simultaneously. The bass and drum quality is much better on the external monitor than it is on the macbook. Is there any way I can have the external monitor play mainly the bass and drum lines where the macbook plays the rest?
This problem began when I upgraded to Yosemite. I have two monitors connected to my Mac Pro. Primary monitor uses default wallpaper, and secondary monitor uses a different wallpaper (solid gray). Every time I reboot the system, the secondary monitor reverts to the default wallpaper, and Mission Control shows an additional "desktop" on the primary monitor, with a solid gray wallpaper. After rebooting many times, the list of desktops on the primary monitor grows quite long if I don't delete them manually. I have read a tip to fix this behavior by disabling this feature in Sys Prefs, but I don't want to do that.
I'm writing something to a friend that requires extensive knowlege of our past iMessage convos; and, since I haven't a 2.3 GB memory myself, and it would take hours to scroll all the way up, I'd like to be able to view the whole thing as a text file or any equivalent such that I can scroll to the start easily. Most solutions for this I've seen on the web involve using a Mac, and I don't have one. My iMessages are on a 4th-generation iPad. I have a PC running Windows 10 and two running Xubuntu. Can anyone help me out? I'm kind of desperate.
Can anyone help me find an iphone podcast app that has features that allow efficient browsing through podcasts with large back catalogs? Specifically I would like to be able to go through the list of all episodes of a podcast and choose which ones to download and IMPORTANTLY to remove the episodes I don't want to listen to so I don't have to read through the same 500 episode descriptions every single time I choose episodes. I used to use Instacast which had this feature but has recently gone out of business and stopped functioning.
so I'm trying to create an extra admin account on all Macs on the network. There are quite a few so I'm trying to do it through Apple Remote Desktop.
I have tried using two different bluetooth headsets with my iphone 6 and when using the headset and hitting the "call" button on the iphone, the volume will sometimes go to maximum level. Basically I push the "call" button on the bluetooth headset and sometimes the "beep" noise that brings up Siri is extremely loud. To remedy the issue, I have to turn down the volume on the bluetooth headset, but when I do this it shows the volume as minimum on the iphone. For some reason this actually does bring down the volume, but is only temporary. Randomly it will get set back to maximum. Is there any way to fix this?
I have Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit installed on my iMac (20-inch mid 2007). I have downloaded from Microsoft a free copy of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. Microsoft did not ask me to do so. I decided since Window 10 is free, I would like to try it. I do not have a Product Key. During installation, I want to format my Windows partition and do a clean install of Windows 10. When finished, I what Windows 10 to be activated. Update 1: In response to bmike answer, I will add the following.
Fullscreen video played from youtube, also happens in VLC The white areas of the video glitches Doesn't show up in a screenshot Goes away when you replay the video System specifications- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), OS X Yosemite.
"About this Mac" doesn't appear to be showing the correct information for backups. In fact, it doesn't have a category for backups, even though they are enabled. What I see is this:
My husband and I both have the iPhone 4s, he has had his for over 2 years, and I recently activated one I received from a friend. I did a complete reset of the phone before I installed my SIM card. We do not share an Apple ID, and neither of us use the cloud. All of the iCloud setting are in the off position on my newly activated phone. His phone wasn't even in the house when I activated my iPhone. We even use separate computers for our own individual phones and separate iTunes accounts. Can anyone explain why this happened? What happens if I start deleting contacts on my newly activated iPhone that somehow came from his phone, will they also be deleted from his phone? How can I keep the phones from syncing in the future? We don't need each others contacts to continuously sync on our phones. Please advise, thank you.
I have macvim working as expected on my older mac. On a newly minted Mac however, the normal key sequences to select, copy, and paste text: are not being recognized.
I've drafted a contract in Pages and exported it to Word for a back and forth redline exchange (track changes). I cannot use pdf as my colleague states that he does not have editing capabilities in Adobe format. When I view the exported document on my display it looks perfectly formatted; however, in the smaller "view" window, it looks as if some of the text is overlaid upon other text. I cannot tell what portions are doing this or where,because when I open the exported Word doc it looks fine and the view window is too small to see clearly and it is not zoomable. I sent to a colleague to ask if it looked as I suspected based on the view, and alas, it does. If anyone knows how I can fix this (w/out using pdf or redrafting) or knows what is causing it, it would be much appreciated. I am using a font shared by both (Pages/Word)programs and this occurs whether I export to .doc or .docx.
a. Attempt to install earlier version (iOS 8.0). (Error 3197) Failure.
My touch screen capability on my 5c wasn't working, so I had to get a new phone. Before I close out my old phone, I have to back it up (hasn't been backed-up in a LONG time).... Is there any way to back-up my phone since the touch screen capability isn't working? (I'm on icloud, but it seems that wasn't backing up as it should have.) Thanks for your hep oh smart ones!
I've just moved to the States and a family member kindly passed on an old AT&T iPhone 5. The trouble is that it's stuck in a reset loop. When I go into recovery mode and try to restore the phone, iTunes tells me that it can't restore the phone, and gives error 2001.
The restore process can take some time. What happens if someone sends me a message during this time that my phone is unusable? Will I be able to see the message at the end of the whole process?
I've been trying out the new Apple Music service and saw some odd behaviors, so decided I should update my iTunes to 12.2.2 (I think I was on 12.0 or 12.1 previously). Since the update, there is no longer any way that I can see, to add a track (one that I added to the library manually, for example) to the iCloud library.
Thank you for your time. I'm open to any clarification.
Is there a way to add a password prompt when opening email app on a mac? To stop others from opening the email program on a shared computer. Basically i dont want anyone to open the email program without a password.
I'm trying to install several programming packages, but it turns out that I can't because I don't have Xcode or Command Line Developer Tools installed. Some (e.g. git) were easy to install anyway. But for others (e.g. compass) I'm not finding any solution. Being OS X an unix based OS, it should be straightforward to install packages.
I managed to lose all my songs in my iTunes Library and cannot recover them, meaning that my iTunes Library is completely empty. I still have the songs on my iPhone however. I know I will have to upload songs into iTunes eventually. For the time being, I would simply like to add a few new songs to my empty iTunes and then upload them to my iPhone, but without doing anything that will cause me to erase the songs that are already on the iPhone. Is there a way to ADD songs without erasing the songs on my iPhone? I just cannot figure out how to sync without erasing existing playlists and songs on the iPhone.
Running Windows 8.1 on my 2013 Macbook Pro that runs OS X 10.10.5. Want to update the version of BootCamp (and related drivers) that it is running - I don't think it has updated since I partioned and installed Windows 3-6 months ago and I know there have been updates. I was notified within Windows via Windows Update of new BootCamp and tried the update via Windows update but it failed I was notified within Windows via Windows Update of new BootCamp and tried the update via Windows update but it failed Running Apple Software Update within Windows doesn't give me anything BootCamp related to download & install - this Apple Support Article says that it will be available via this channel but it's not? Running Apple Software Update within Windows doesn't give me anything BootCamp related to download & install - this Apple Support Article says that it will be available via this channel but it's not? The options from within Yosemite + BootCamp all seem to entail a re-partition and reinstall o
I want to use set clipboard="unnamedplus" in my vim, which requires X11 feature. But I searched a bit on google. Which only mentions that Apple has removed X11 from their recently releases of OSX. But there is no tutorial about how to install it on OSX. Especially no info about how to enable X11 feature in a vim on OSX. How to do that?
I have an iPhone 6 and it annoys me that I have to click every time on HD when playing a video before it plays in HD. Does anyone know a way of making sure that all video's played in the FB iPhone app always play in HD? PS: This feature already works on Facebook in the browser, but I can't find it for the iPhone app..
I am wondering if there is any way I can get my iPhone messages to come in through my messages on my Mac computer? My iPhone is not working at the moment and has to get the battery replaced so it won't turn on.
Where can I check remaining credits of my iTunes account on my TV? I use Apple TV.
That said, Chrome is a bloated pig and hogs my RAM and battery. On a brand new Macbook Pro, with Chrome running, I'll get around 4 hours of battery life. With it closed, I can get much closer to 8 hours.
I'm searching for self-hosted webinar software. The software must be ready to organize webinar services and be fully independent, without any dependencies on Google Hangouts or other servers. It does not matter if it is free or paid. Thanks.
I recently reinstalled OS X, when it asked me to erase the disk I just left it Untitled, since there's no instruction to rename it to whatever on this Apple support page, after restoring with Time Machine the disk name became Untitled, same with the partitioned name, which I easily rename to Macintosh HD. Here are screenshots of the Untitled HD
My machine is a 15" Late 2013 MBP Retina. My OS is Yosemite 10.10.4.
Running OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and keep running into connection timeouts. Initially suspecting the home router or infrastructure issue, however all the other laptops in the house don't get any timeouts - so this must be something related to my own machine. I have no idea what that may be and how to diagnose and find the root cause. Perhaps it is a hardware issue with the Wi-Fi adapter? All the computers are using DHCP. Will appreciate any suggestions. Info: Pinging the gateway results in timeouts of sometimes minutes. Pinging from another Mac at the same time shows no timeouts.
I used to have an iPad and had great time using GarageBand. The feature that made my time fun is mostly "Scale" i.e. when I choose a particular scale, for instance "D#maj Pentatonic Blues", the instrument suddenly turns into a "virtual" instrument which does not allow you to play a note that is outside of the scale.
I have a Logitech G430 USB headset and, every time I plug it in, the Thru checkbox at the Input tab is enabled, which means I hear myself through the speakers:  Is there any way I can configure my Mac so that checkbox is always disabled by default?
I need Ubuntu 14.04 for a class I'm doing, but I didn't want to install it side-by-side. Does VirtualBox run smoothly on the MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)?
I suspect this is a general issue with the Mac as opposed to anything specific to the app I'm struggling with now, which happens to be PyCharm from jetBrains. The reason I suspect this is a general problem is that I've struggled with it before with other apps, namely emacs itself and perhaps some other apps that have emacs keybinding emulation, but not sufficiently often (once a year or so) that I can remember the solution. What I do remember is that the solution was really obscure and perhaps not something we had to do to the app directly, but to the environment or context.
As this is my first time dealing with HW of my Macbook Pro Early 2011 and need lot of money for service, I am quite nervous with this. I want to upgrade my Macbook Pro RAM to 8GB. What I can find from Apple website is the current spec: I want to buy this RAM which is written for Mac Apple:
In preparing various documents, I often convert images from one format to another via Preview. Since my last upgrade of Preview, however, it seems that when saving as a raster format (e.g., PNG), there is no longer an alpha channel option and the transparency is discarded on export.
I'm comparatively new to Mac OS. I was a Chrome user before. In Incognito mode, it preserves the session, i.e., if you have logged in to Google and you open YouTube in the same window (but in a new tab), it automatically signs me in for that particular Gmail user in YouTube, whereas in Safari private window mode, I have to login everytime I open something new in a new tab. I was wondering if I could make it just like Chrome by changing a few settings.
Ive been using my Time Machine for almost 3 years without any problems. It's a 3 TB LaCie. This week it has decided to stop backing up my work. I tried repairing the disk and unmounting and remounting the disk a number of times but it's not working. After remounting the disk, it runs for about 10 minutes and then stops. Each time I then try to manually run a backup it immediately gives me an error message. The initial message I get is "Time Machine couldn't back up to 'LaCie'". When I click on the details it tells me that an error occurred whilst creating the 'backup folder'. It has suggested that I verify and repair the disk, but I have done this to no avail. I'm currently still running Mavericks on my Mac. Is there a solution to this?
As usual I wake up going to my computer playing some games. My mouse - a MADCATZ R.A.T 9 - is starting to be jerky and not working as I'd expect. Here is an example ---> youtube video. How do I salvage my morning pleasure?
I lost my iphone 5s today at the movie theater, and I'm pretty sure someone stole it... There's a passcode lock on my phone, and I have tried to enable lost mode on Find My Iphone, but the device is offline and the request is still pending. I have no hope that I will get my phone back, but will the phone go into lost mode if the phone is reset and someone connects to wifi? Or will my phone be automatically removed from my icloud account due to lost mode not enabled? Thanks!
I am using Apple Music and all my purchased songs & the playlists are synced to the cloud. However, I don't want every single playlist from showing up on my iPhone when I turn on the iCloud music. Is there any way to choose which playlists shows up and which do not?
Last night my computer said that it needed an update, so I ran it. This AM the spotlight icon is gone! How do I get it back? Thank you!
I need octave-java installed. I tried using macports, but evidently I'm missing something here. I am running Yosemite.
My iPhone states that my photo library is 8GB. However, I can only access about 100 photos from the phone or my Windows PC file explorer. I want to clear up space on the phone by moving photos to PC. Thank you!
I have a Macbook Pro I recently purchased (13" 2015). I am now looking into desktop solutions, and think my needs make a Mac Mini my best option. I haven't used Thunderbolt before, and am wondering if I can use Thunderbolt to connect my Macbook Pro to my Mac Mini, thus making my laptop files accessible from the Mini on my external display. If that is the case, in addition to purchasing a Mac Mini, will the only other piece of equipment I need to make this connection be a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable?
I have my machine set up not to write .DS_store files, the reason being because I was suspect they may have been causing access issues on shared drives (folder is considered "in use" even when it isn't), but when I go into a folder, I can still change the view options, which appear to be saved–even with no .DS_file being created–until I unmount the drive. I'm almost certain now that the issue I'm having is not with the .DS_files, but with whatever process is saving and storing the view options locally. This process or whatever it is, is keeping the folder "open", preventing everyone else from editing the folder name or moving it, which is a big deal when you're creating a lot of assets, new folders and moving stuff around while doing housekeeping.
When I download a Facebook app on my smartphone (e.g. iPhone), what data does Facebook then access? Names? Telephone numbers?
I have two different streams of fractional values I want to visualize using Numbers for Mac. They both have one value per line and both look would look something like this (with different values obviously):
I would like to create a smart list with the 25 most played song in the last 7 days. Not the 25 most played of all times, only in the last 7 days! Can anyone help?
I purchased the router in 2012, and am experiencing slower speeds than expected from my Airport Extreme. Brand new 16x4 channel DOCsis3 modem on Time Warner's approved list. 200 Mbps plan, and getting 225 down when connected from iMac directly to modem.
When asked to type my password to run a sudo command, the USB keyboard goes unresponsive and I cannot type in the password or anything else. I can hit return three times to bounce out on three failed password attempts however so it gets the return key input but no other keys until I bounce out then all works again. Any suggestions?
This "Messages" application on my Macbook Pro, OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 I would like to uninstall the "Messages" application entirely. How can I do this?
I have a new mac and am unable to recall how to enable the following key mappings: Up-Right -> Page Up Down-Right -> Page Dn Up -Left -> Home Down-Left -> End
I got a MacBook Pro 13'' early 2013 with OS X 10.10.5 installed and SONY MDR-1A headphones with a headset cable. When using "headphone" cable everything works as expected. When I use "headset" plugin (the one with 4 grooves on a jack and a mic on a cord) the volume slightly reduces after 1 or 2 seconds.
This happens sometimes and all i can do to fix it is reboot. Any idea why this happens?
I used to be able to click on the + next to save. After I upgraded to Yosemite, the + now became a - and I can't add exact match anymore. Any idea? Thanks
Is there a one (or a simple) step process to either email myself, or cut/copy, an entire (like year long) iMessage conversation without having to buy an app/software or to go through and keep marking post groupings through "more" so I can send to my email? I read about finding a hidden library folder in the question pertaining to the bulk download of pictures in iMessage. This did not really help.
I have a few email addresses in the dropdown list of Senders (i.e., my own email addresses that I send mail From) which are obsolete. One of them includes the string "4Q2delist@mac.com" which I never had as part of any email address.
I oft have to use a Windows keyboard with my Macbook. I have two different profiles in Karabiner, but I don't want to have to keep switching between them. How can I have different profiles apply to different keyboards in Karabiner or using some other key remapping system? Note: If this is technically difficult, perhaps because applications might not be able to distinguish which keyboard sent a particular keystroke, a solution that worked based on detecting if an external monitor is plugged in (using an AppleScript that interacted with Karabiner, maybe) would also be acceptable.
I previously had installed Ubuntu on this since she wanted to try it, and it was run as a dual boot system for about a year. Now, the disk space needs to be brought back into Mac, since the HDD was almost full. To top it off, Grub/rEFInd seem to have gotten lost at some point along the way during an upgrade, so Ubuntu is functionally gone anyway. I did some research, took it into safemode, which did boot, backed up, and then booted into recovery (command + r), opened up disk utility, formatted, and clicked the - button on the three Linux partitions (boot, swap, and file system, I believe).
Today I've been looking for deleted by mistake folder. Time machine should help me, right? But when I entered time machine (after multiple errors saying "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk."), I saw my backups in light red, which means it's now available and nobody knows why (thanks Yosemite):
Okay, here's the story: I lost my beloved iPod touch at school one day and never found it again. I desperately want those photos back, but I can't recall ever having backed up any photos or anything on it. I know the login information for the iCloud that I had set up for it and I was wondering if there's absolutely any way that I could retrieve those photos. If not, I guess I'll live with it, but those were really important and I gotta know if there's some way to get em back.
On my Macbook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) is a process, called PTPCamera, using a lot of CPU-Time . I already have killed this process but it spawned immediately again. 85% of CPU usage eats my Battery so I would be happy if anyone could help 😊
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro and although it seems to be working fine, over time it has seemed to become more sluggish and less snappy / responsive. So is there any good ways ways that I can 'speed up' my Mac? - this includes stuff like: maximising youtube videos 'lag', the RAM being used up very quickly, Photoshop operations taking a long time to load and Preview struggling to open very large (10000s x 10000s px in size) photos. My Specs - Macbook Pro 13" (Retina, Late 2012): CPU: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 RAM: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB OS: OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 SSD HD: 245/249.77 GB Used Typical RAM Available with Safari + Chrome Open (with lots of tabs): 2.5 GB
I have a Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 connected to my Macbook Air which loses the connection to the headset every 5-15 minutes. The headset is now several months old and I haven't had any problems until a few weeks back. Around the same time I restored my computer with first installing Yosemite and then a week later installing the El Capitan public beta (currently on Public Beta 3, 15A243d).
I have a MacBook Pro and a PC. I'm using both, but I'd love to be able to connect my MacBook Pro to my PC's keyboard, mouse and monitor. Normally I have to go under the desk, take all the cables out then connect them to my Mac, and it's a pain to do. I'm wondering if it's possible to make it easier somehow?
I just recently bought a new macbook pro, and I've found that my iMessages directly send to my mac whilst I'm using it, which is very helpful. However when I shut down my mac, the replies to my messages are still sent to the mac, and not my iPhone. They do not end up showing on my iPhone at all.
I'm using Macbook (Yosemite) as my main computer right now, I'm downloading a lot of movies and whatnot from the internet on my Mac and I want to move them to my pendrive so I will be able to watch them on my Windows PC / TV. The problem is I don't know how to move files from OS X so they will be recognized by other systems. I've been testing exFAT but it's not supported by most (all?) TVs. I've been looking for stuff like FREENTFS, but this doesn't work (even breaks) Yosemite.
OSX just won't let me clean the trash can. I delete the "Previous System" folder (did it before a year ago and it worked just fine):
So I moved to college and decided it was time for me to make my own apple ID. Up to that point I shared an account with my mother. Since updating my phone all of her contacts are on my phone. I created a new apple Id to keep all of our content separated. I now have a mac and want to use the cloud to get data from my phone but do not want to share everything with my mom. Everything on my phone that requires apple ID has only my account not hers. Help?
I have purchased extra storage on iCloud w/the idea that these things will always be there. What am I missing. Also, aside from apps, photos and documents - are there some less obvious things I can delete that will free up space that would not be evident to the less than professionally savvy user?
Can anyone tell me how to get my iPod touch to shuffle my full music library with iTunes 12.1.0.50?
I'd be interested in using the data that I acquire with an AppleScript in another Framework, or even to write it to disk (the former is preferable). For example, I have an AppleScript where I ask QuickTime Player to open a file and play it, then I poll the file's playhead location in a loop. Is there any way that I can ship/pipe that data off elsewhere?
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) and I've tried just about everything I can think of to fix this. The problem is that I can't hear anything out of my headphone jack. I can set it to input instead of output and I can input audio just fine, but it refuses to output (yes, I'm using the proper "Use audio port for:" settings.) I can get normal output from the mac speakers.
I'm trying to make some changes to my gmail account on my iPad. All recommendations ask me to go into Settings, select mt gmail account, then select "Advanced" which I don't have as an option... What am I missing?
This issue happens to me in both my rMBP 13 and my Mac Pro. As I understand it, Little Snitch is not applying the rules when the network filter is off:
During some discussion on IRC about my recent problems hosting a Time Machine volume on my Linux PC (using netatalk) -- which worked well for a long time but recently developed issues where my Mac kept telling me I needed to start the whole backup over* -- one user stated that doing so is inherently unreliable because Apple's AppleTalk implementation (and maybe Time Machine-specific bits) has certain kinds of error correction built in that netatalk doesn't have. He was quite opinionated about this and strongly encouraged me to use an actual Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to my Mac.
I've just installed the latest version of Chromium. But, neither Java nor Flash Player work.
Creating new, renaming, and/or deleting folders with Finder made it lag and had to load ~1 min before it did the process. This is very disturbing and distracting, even opening a Word document takes ages. Activity Monitor Screenshot (Only Finder and Activity Monitor running):
I want to set a custom gesture for the four finger swipe left/right, but I noticed that four finger swipe was switching between spaces. I went in to system preferences->Trackpad and changed "Swipe between full screen apps" to be three fingers instead of four. Even though I have set three finger swipe be the "change spaces" gesture, four-finger swipe hasn't been disabled and it is ALSO switching spaces. The reason why this is annoying is because I am setting a custom gesture with BetterTouchTool, the space switching is happening at the same time as the gesture I want.
my ex gave me his old iPhone and set up the cloud thing for me. He has changed the password so I can't download apps or anything. Also he got me a good deal with Talktalk. The contract is his but I'm paying for it they my bank. Problem is Talktalk will only talk to him and any correspondence goes to him. How can I get out of this situation and control my own stuff?
The internal disk is now Master Boot Record partitioned. I do not know if it was GUID before or not: At least it worked for three years before. I have a backup, but since this is 1TB I do not want to load it via a USB 2.0 port.
Bug. What could be the cause/s of the repeated popup? after installing yosemite. Emphasis here on different theories about what actually causes the repeated interruptions of the popup.
Yet the deleted mail is neither on the server, nor do I have a folder for deleted messages or so. I have an inactive rule which would delete messages marked as junk, but as I said, it is inactive. I might however have clicked Apply Rules on the inbox when everything was still there (I do not know whether inactive rules are applied in that case).
I have just started to use the command+(Shift)+tab shortcut for switching between apps. The issue with this is a few applications that I have open, I hardly use or have them open in the background (I still want them open). Is it posible to remove some of the applications from the command+tab menu whilst still having them open and accessible via the Dock?
I want to display at a specific line, e.g. line 4, from a text file in Terminal (I need this for character counts, using wc). I'm sure this is a simple problem but read -e 1 filename doesn't do it. What can be used to accomplish this task?
For some reason a directory I had (Vundle.vim) got randomly copied to another directory (got copied from ~/.vim to ~/dotfiles/.vim with strange permissions and what looks like no contents. Anyways, when I ran I got and when I ran this is what I got Can anybody tell me what this output means or where I can find that information (some sort of documentation)?
Just out of curiosity and for my knowledge, from a software and hardware standpoint prospective, I read: When you use your device (iPhone) to access data, a Wi-Fi connection uses less power than a cellular network Do you know why?
Next day I went to the store and bought a 64Gb USB stick. When I started the system copy process, the Internet was having issues it I received a notice that the process would take around 738hrs!!!!
I have been using the Time Machine backup utility wirelessly. I'd now like switch to wired. How do I do that? What problems should I expect?
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I'm gonna keep this short and simple. I have a ~/.vim folder and ~/dotfiles/.vim folder (the ~/dotfiles/.vim was copied to ~/.vim). Yesterday I noticed that I had several files with weird permissions in the ~/dotfiles/.vim folder, that was originally in the ~/.vim folder. These are two of them from ls -l: From this and this
The phone is fine. I returned to South Africa, and the local SIMs have no issues.
I've got: a hengedock, a late 2013 retina MBP, a USB3 hub, and a USB3 backup disk, and a bluetooth trackpad. Sometimes, it all works great. Sometimes, the pad goes on strike. At worst, it even disconnects. The situation got a little better when I maximized the distance from the mbp to the hub and disk, but it's still unpredictable. What could cause the fluctuations?
I´m trying to receive an app transfer on my iTunes Connect account, but I can´t be able to do that, because the form to accept the transfer is throwing me this error: The phone number must be in a valid format. Preface the phone number with ‘+’ followed by the country code (for example, +44 844 209 0611) I try to capture the phone number in so many ways, but is impossible to continue.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to remotely get into my family's iMac from my MacBook Pro as needed while I'm away. An internet search taught me that Back to my Mac was the thing, but that only works when the computers are on the same Apple ID, and I've got a different Apple ID from my parents (I know their login information, for what it's worth). Short of creating a new account on my parents' Apple ID, is there a way to use Back to my Mac to get from my computer to my parents'?
I am trying to install the 10.10.5 update. It seems impossible. Every time I click "update" in the AppStore and confirm the reboot, a dialog pops up: The available updates have changed. When I click "Show details", nothing happens and the update gets added to the installed updates.
I'm interested in using Apple Maps for an iOS app, and have a couple of questions about it. Is there any cost associated with using Apple Maps? Is it free, or does it depend on the type of use? Does Apple Maps have the ability to run predefined queries based on device location? (nearby attractions, for example).
I have an album that I discovered and downloaded with the help of the new Apple Music service. I deleted one of the tracks in order to see how Apple Music would allow me to complete an album that was missing one or more tracks. However, I cannot get Apple Music to show me that complete album again, including the song I have deleted. I can only see the album as it exists locally, and of course is missing the deleted song. How can I get Apple Music to once again show me the full and complete album, so that I can download the missing song?
I have jailbroken my ipad mini months ago. 2 weeks ago i decided to erase all data. I didnt turn off anything i just went to general and deleted all data. I waited for my ipad to restart but it didnt. Its been days now, but still i cant open my ipad. Only an apple logo appears with a bar below that doesnt seem to have any progress. I did everything, charged my device, waited until its battery is dead then charge it again but same apple logo appears. What do I do? :(
Running this command sudo find / -iname *.app, among the entries returned was: Why is this and how can I fix it?
When deleting files, installing new applications, running AppleScript code, etc, I am prompted to enter my administrator password:  How can I set it so that everything I do is authorized to where it doesn't require a password? Note: I'm running OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 (14F27).
I just bought Mad Max: Fury Road from iTunes and wanted to set my desktop picture as one of the stills from the iTunes Extras's gallery. How can I do that?
I noticed some time ago that when switching from one space (workspace/desktop) to another this animation is slowed if a terminal app is running on one of them. Funny thing I found out by experiment, the greater the terminal app window is the slower gets the switch. Anyone can share this experience, or at best have a solution?
Right so we have set up a mail server for our company that does not use imap nor pop at the moment, it is based on smtp port 25 and I can't figure out how to link it with my mail client as it always asks for imap or pop :/
After rebooting, the system does not start any more at all. Not into Recovery (Cmd-R), not into Internet Recovery (Cmd-Alt-R), not after resetting PRAM (Cmd-Alt-P-R) or SMC (Shift-Ctrl-Alt+Power) and surely not when not pressing any boot up keys. I can see the backlight of the screen power up, but that's it. I also now have the bootup chime back, which I turned off before, so I know at least the SMC reset worked.
(btw how do I run the console app from the command line? sudo dmesg? doesn't seem to print out the same things at all).
I'm about to buy a MBP edition 2015 (15''). There are two models: model having only Intel Iris Pro (without dedicated graphic card) model having Radeon graphic card
My son is under 13 and shares my Apple ID I would like to stop my texts from appearing on his iPad does anyone know how to do that?
Making an AppleScript but for some reason it isn't working. Any ideas why not?
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware perspective, is the Time Machine capable of backing up my personal Documents and Files located in my Windows Bootcamp Partition and eventually also my Document and Files located in my Virtualized Operating Systems (using Parallels for example) that I create on my Mac side?
I did the stupidity of upgrading the newest version of AM 880 KIXI radio, a retro radio station in Seattle. The version I had was the previous one, the 2.8 and I held off upgrading for a long time, but in a moment of insanity, decided to do it and deleted the app and downloaded again on the AppStore, thus downloading the 3.6 version, the next one after the 2.8- i tried uploading directly, but I kept being redirectioned to the app itself, that's why I deleted before downloading again. The thing is my internet connection isn't that good, but the app always worked fine, but now with this version it keeps buffering at lot and it doesn't even show the music that's playing anymore, even when my connection is speedy. Is there any way to undo this? I have an iPhone 4 that hasn't been backed up to a computer, so I don't have the previous version saved as a .ipa file. I have iOS 7.0.4. Seriously, what do I do? I know I sound desperate, but I listen to this station very single day, specially duri
I know that this is a very dangerous command, but what does it actually do. In other words, to what extend does it delete the hard drive. Does it delete only the user data? Or does it delete root OS files as well. If someone were to activate this command, would it break the OS? Running as sudo on Yosemite
I have 200G of iCloud storage and about 120G of it is about 12,000 photos. They are all in my account.
Does anyone know how apps are published on the same day as new iOS release? Because Xcode doesn't launch until then (except for the beta version). And you cannot publish apps using the beta version. And getting the app reviewed takes at least 7 days.
I want to delete photos from my Mac to free up space. I've never gone to iCloud before to check on my back ups and just assumed they occurred. However when i go to iCloud it shows nothing but find phone. Is there a way to see photos? The only question i see that actually addresses this is negatively voted on, and the only answer did not address the Question but was geared toward organizing library and space on cloud. I just want to know my stuff is there. How? if I cannot see it??
I keep getting a window saying ApplicationManager quit unexpectedly. Every 10-20 seconds. As of 15 minutes ago. How can I fix this?
I do not see the location information of the pictures I have taken in 2014 when I am in "Years" view.  I am sure pictures have GPS information on them. If I go in to 2014 year, I can see that pictures have location information.
I had been running jailbroken ios7 on my iPad for a long time. Last month I decided to update to 8.4 Downloading the update from itunes failed a few times so I grabbed the file from apple servers myself
My Macbook was stolen. And I think the thief knows my Macbook's login (admin) password (not Apple ID). (I know, very stupid of me)
I have been to the Office365 website and looked in the software section but I cannot find it. Any assistance would be appreciated.
I got my LCD screen changed a month ago when it broke, but now my phone is flickering when I unlock it. It goes back to normal after a few seconds. How do I fix this?
I am in the process of evaluating different anti-virus on Mac OS X (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite…). Upon running a full scan to test Sophos on a Mountain Lion Mac I witnessed a total slow down of this scan without any error, hint or explanation. Hence I searched the standard system log file to see what this hidden problem might be coming from. I have a lot of repeated sequences of error messages coming from decmpfs which are time related:
My iPad 2 is running iOS 6.1.3, but now I want to update to iOS 7. In Settings → General → Software Update, I can only can update to iOS 8.4. iOS 8 destroys your iPad. How can I update my iPad to iOS 7 now, in 2015?
I am trying to enable VNC (Screen Sharing) on my Mac running OS X Yosemite I have been able to run this command sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist (source) to turn VNC on. The only issue running this command is, it sets a password automatically, in which I do not know what it is, I have to fix it by logging in physically to the computer. Is there a way how I can enable VNC via SSH and setting the password as the users password?
I do not need Finder because I use Ranger in CLI and I manually quit it (I added the quit option) each time I boot (mainly not to have it in the way when I use to switch applications with cmd + tab). If it's not possible, an alternative would be to quit it from the terminal and I would do a script that is launched on boot. But after "killall Finder", Finder relaunch automatically.
When I try to put the jack in, it jumps back up and only sits when I push it really hard. I've tried with my other headphone but it's the same. On top of that the buttons (on the headphone) doesn't work. How can I fix my iPad headphone port?
This is Nexus Revamped. Basically, it creates particles on the screen when users touch it. I want to make an animated wallpaper: a kaleidoscope that spins when the user swipes on the screen.
I have an iPhone 4s. Currently, iOS 8.1 is installed, but it isn't jailbroken. When my device is connected to iTunes, it says I can update to iOS 8.4.1.
I've already lost my etc/postfix/main.cf file in Yosemite. Could someone help me to revert or give me the link to download it?
Two days ago, somehow, my Mac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 got infected by malware and it deleted almost all my files from my home directory. I have no idea how it happened (it wasn't because clicked on some ad, I wasn't even browsing the web when it happened and I also run Adblock on my Safari, Chrome, and Firefox browsers). Suddenly at 10 PM, an xterm window showed up with tons of lines running by with filenames and "permission denied" messages. I panicked and shut down the computer.
I am new to OSX - but I have a behaviour that is not normal I suppose: When I quit browsers (doesn't matter if Chrome/Firefox/Safari) via the red [X] = hide -> all tabs are lost although I turned windows saving on in browser options. If I use Cmd+Q this does not happen. I already tried the OSX option "Close windows when closing" - but this had no effect...
In order to create a GSX (Apple Global Service Exchange) account, I created a custom email address (@hartmanmail.tk) and the same error is occurring. The email domain provided is not permitted for this request.
I'm installing Windows via Bootcamp but during the partitioning, my MacBook Pro crashed and now after the reboot I'm seeing that I only have 15GB of free space left. I had 33GB before partitioning.
So what is going on, and why is only giving error with dock? Here @dj_bazzie_wazzie says: Error -10000…most of the time it is not a target error but an incomplete command or wrong usage of brackets.
With the newest OS X Update (10.10.5), Apple is introducing OpenSSL 0.9.8. I browsed through the official OpenSSL page, and there I could get Version 1.0.2.
In my library I have a directory with several inteligent and fixed playlist, which I want to sync my device. The problem is that the size of the directory is too big for my device, but since I can't create a playlist of a playlist to limit the size of the directory, or limit the size of the directory itself, I'm trying to find a way to convince iTunes to fill the device with tracks of the playlist until the device is full, without throwing me several warnings. Is there a way?
My Macbook Pro has started shutting down rather than sleeping when I close it and it just decides to shut down in the middle of an operation and restart. When I ran Repair Disk Permissions on Disk Utility this is the result. Any ideas?
My Macbook has 4GB RAM. Lately it often starts swapping, which is obviously not so great.
I have Office 2016 installed - Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Word. I want to remove Outlook 2016 and leave the rest. I want to leave no trace behind, a complete remove of Outlook as if I installed only the other 3.
The path provided elsewhere in this forum—~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates—doesn't exist on my MacBook Pro, running Yosemite 10.10.5 and Office 2011. I can't even find anything on my machine called "Library," except for one containing fonts in the MS Office application folder.
I bought an iPhone 6 64GB in Space Gray from 5th avenue NY 14 days ago. I can see a grayish area at the top right corner, near to the charge display. It's hard notice in full brightness, but noticeable in low brightness which annoys me a lot. I know it will be tough to make apple genius understand but still can't live with it. I want to replace my phone. Will this one be covered by warranty policy? I have a slight hairlike scratch on the display.
I want to set up a Mac running a recent version of OS X but I don't want it to be connected to the internet because of security reasons. Is it possible to copy and activate apps bought and installed from the App Store on an other computer to the one with no internet connection? I know that the App Store validates the license to install such apps and it actually needs an internet connection to do so. But maybe there is a kind of license key file that can also be coppied over to the air gapped box.
When I use PuTTY on Windows, if I SSH to some server and launch a script there, closing the PuTTY window stops the script. (so I typically use screen to avoid that)
I've just updated my MBP 13'' mid 2010 to OS X 10.10.5 (14F27). I remember that the last update was iTunes 12.2.2.25. After this update, Mac rebooted and installed all the features.
I recently switched service providers and received a new router. My phone and old Windows computer connect fine, but my MacBook freezes (rainbow wheel starts going around forever after about 2 mins of being connected). MacBook connects to Wi-Fi fine at a friend's house. Another answer describes something similar being solved by switching off IPv6. However, System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced > Wi-Fi > TCP/IP > IPv6 is set to Automatically and all other options are greyed out. I tried to switch it off via directly entering command into Terminal, but it stayed set to Automatically.
I purchased my MacBook Pro in October 2014. It's running OS X 10.10.4 "Yosemite". Can I update iMovie to the latest version at no charge?
I have been having trouble with the use of my iPod Touch. When I go to turn it off, the voice command screen comes up.
How do I identify and add(sum) only specific cells in a row - they are not continuous cells. Ex. I1, O1, U1 total sum and show in BG1
As of this morning, Xcode 6.4 stopped launching on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite. I tried to launch with but got
I live and work in the UK and in Germany. My first Apple ID is registered and linked to App Sore UK. I can't shop in the German App Store with that, but the App I need is not available in the UK store. I have set up a second Apple ID with a German email address, but how can I add this to my iPad so that I can shop in the German App Store?
I'm seeing this issue all too frequently with some albums on my Apple TV. When I try to search for an album, the tracks are not grouped within one album. Instead, the Apple TV creates duplicate list items (different tracks though) resulting in not being able to play the album all at once.
The MacBook in question works well. The hard disk gets high marks from Disk Utility app checks. Both a Time Machine and a full clone of the disk will be in place, each on their own external hard disk.
I have an iPhone 4s running on iOS 8.1.3. I've owned it for about 2-3 years now and have taken good care of it physically and hardware wise. But recently my phone had died. I plugged it in to the charger no problem right? I come back about 20 minutes later to see nothing had changed... I tried adjusting the cord, trying to power down the device, rebooting, safe mode, and just letting it sit without the cord and retrying to charge it. Nothing worked; the phone just kept blinking the red battery logo even of 1 entire day of charging. What is there to do?
I have a pdf file that has irregular page numbering (Roman numerals, then regular page numbers, then odd numbering scheme, etc..) created with Adobe Acrobat. Does anybody know of an iOS app that supports odd page numbering? When opening the PDF file in preview and Adobe Reader, the page numbers appear as they should, but when copied to an iOS device, the page numbers don't appear properly in iBooks or Adobe Reader for iOS, they just start at 1, 2, etc...
If I have a full terminal history then the cursor will line up at the very bottom of the window. I generally prefer working more toward the middle of the page. Especially since I usually keep the terminal in the bottom right quadrant, it feels like I'm falling off the page to type in the terminal. I'd like to be able to scroll down past the last line or add a bottom margin for new commands Here's a normal terminal window:
I am hoping to view some of a /usr/local folder from a mac, using target disk mode. However, it is hidden and I cannot see it in finder to copy. How can I view and then copy a file (for example, /usr/local/test.txt) from a mac that is in target disk mode to another mac?
If somebody has logged into my iCloud account can they see what I download?
i need to buy new ipod 5th gen. I keep seeing that many of them are iCloud locked. Can this lock be removed and how do I do it?
I'm having trouble resizing my hard drive partition. Before, I was running OS X Lion in the free space above Macintosh HD 2. Now that I deleted the Lion partition, I am unable to resize Macintosh HD 2 to the full capacity of my hard drive.
I can't find the Edit Button to toggle the Edit Toolbar in the Preview Application Here's a screencap of a file that's open in editor:
I'm command line capable if you can direct me to the config files in etc or whatever that deal with the displays. I would love to learn how to deal with display issues in general with linux environments... A partial fix has included the use of a tool available in this repo: *=URL=* A kludge little script owned by admin:root And another kludge plist named com.example.plist @ /Library/LaunchDaemons/ Addition, (one has to): $sudo launchctl load -w example.plist
Here's what I'm doing: open a Finder window with source directory (500+ files). open another Finder window with target directory. select all files in source directory using ⌘ - a grab selected files and hover target window press ⌘ so files are moved instead of copied release mouse button
I have configured Safari (8.0.7, Yosemite 10.10.4) to prompt me to allow Flash on a site by site basis. Most websites I block and some I set to "allow always" However, every couple of days, all the blocked/allowed sites are lost and I am prompted again (note that I have not reset any part of Safari during these times). How can I fix this please?
I'm trying to run simple script in AppleScript Editor on OS X 10.9.5, but using JavaScript, e.g.: However my dropdown only shows AppleScript.
I use BetterTouchTool in order to be able to maximise windows to half the screen by dragging them agains the edge of the screen. When I do this with Preview windows and then attempt to search in the document, the user interface gets messed up, so I have no Done button to get rid of the search results. See below gif for illustration. There should be a Done button at the upper right.
I have two PDF files: First PDF file has a content page Second PDF is the relative data (30 pages)
Looking at ActivityMonitor, I saw a strange process with a URL for a name: I went to that site, and yes it looks familiar I might have been there, once, a long time ago. Definitely not at the time that this process showed up, and even if I did - why would visiting a website trigger its own custom process?
I know I can easily do this via the Finder's toolbar but I'm currently writing a huge shell script that'll set my future Mac up exactly as I want. So is there any command to do it like the one to set viewing style ?
I'm using the following simple script: Which works by printing titles of every window (the same with position). Is there any similar way of printing process id (to which it belongs) of each window, using AppleScript?
I have MacBook Pro (2.3GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD - late 2013?) and Time Machine backups data via network to our internal OS X Server. But when Time Machine is running backups, my computer is completely frozen. Webpages are not loaded, Apple Mail doesn't load/show messages at all, etc. But my colleague doesn't have such problems with his MacBook with the same HW configuration. What could be wrong?
I updated my (native) bootcamp instance to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, but now the apple bluetooth keyboard doesn't seem to work anymore. The bluetooth screen says 'driver error' on the device. I've tried: Ran Apple Software Update and updated boot camp Uninstalling the device Unpairing + pairing again Can someone provide guidance to get this to work?
Is it possible for an old photo from gmail (like 6 years old) to be put into the photo stream after an update? A very old picture appeared in my photo stream and I don't know how it got there.
I've been having trouble with my iPod Touch. I mostly use it for listening to podcasts, however not only will some of the files not play, some aren't even accessible. Where files should be, there is simply an icon with a silver musical note on a white background.
I am currently running OS X El Capitan, Public Beta 3 and trying to download images within the Safari Web Inspector. What I did: Opened a website in Safari. Opened the Web Inspector. Selected one of images from the Images folder. Right-clicked and selected "Download Image". Unfortunately, nothing happened.
I am trying to download Aptoide through Safari to get the latest version of Minecraft, but it keeps sending a message that Safari cannot download this file. How do I do this?
Several months ago, I created a simple game using Unity 4.5 on an iMac running OS X Mavericks, and decided to try testing it on my iPhone 5s running iOS 7. I tested the game using the Unity Remote 4 app, and then closed out.
I took a photo of my bus timetable, and I want to have that image as an "application" on my iPhone's home screen. Is there an app that, when clicked, goes directly to this one image? Is there another way?
I just downloaded a virtual box VM which I will be sharing with my wife. Both my wife and I have accounts on our mac. I copied the downloaded VM into /Users/Shared/MyNewVM Then I went into System Preferences -> Sharing and I added /Users/Shared/MyNewVM and gave "everyone" the "read/write" permissions. Now, when I go to Finder and go into /Users/Shared/MyNewVM/VM.vbox and double click it, it gives me the following error:
Reading related posts it seems I have a blend of other's issues. But the final blow was plugging in a nextbook tablet to download some pdf files, and THEN I booted the old Mac Pro 2008 with Yosemite 10.10.3 or 4, can't recall exactly now since I can't check it. I 'assume' having the tablet plugged in on boot confused the boot up sequence?
I have an iMac with the following specs:  I have 2 20'' hp monitors that are always connected to my Mac. They are connected with 2 DisplayLink USB to VGA adapters. I keep the monitors positioned as follows:
I'm thinking of getting the MacBook 12" but I'm really scared I won't be able to get used to the keyboard. I'm in The Netherlands, it's not possible to return the product. How long does it take to get used to the keyboard for people here and is there a really big difference once you're typing on it?
I was trying to solve a stupid nagging problem (doesn't matter what at this point!) on my iMac (mid 2011), and one of the things that kept popping up is resetting PRAM. I have done this many times (over the years) and it is always a frustrating task (and getting harder as my coordination gets worse.) as I have hand/finger difficulties. One hand (the right) is cramped and mostly useless while the other is somewhat shaky. This combined with trouble with eye/hand coordination makes hitting the command + option + p + r at just the right time and all the way through the boot process very difficult for me. I would love to be able to set a keyboard shortcut to do that but don't think it is possible. If I could use one hand (the LEFT) to do that it would be great. I have looked in System Preferences under Keyboard and Accessibility as well as Googled but an easier solution has not revealed itself. Maybe there is none.
I've had a few smart mailboxes in Apple Mail which have worked fine so far, but I've noticed some odd behaviour lately (which may or may not have been there before). Mailbox rules: Date received - is today Account - [my work mail account] Any recipient - contains [my work e-mail address]
I know I can assign an application to 'All Desktops', 'This Desktop', or 'None' by right clicking it in the Dock. I'd like to be able to toggle the current application between 'All Desktops' and 'None' using a keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to achieve this, preferably without GUI scripting?
Trying to turn on my kids' iPad which has been off for a few months. Tried several of my 'usual' passcodes, but iPad became 'disabled' before I could try them all. Now it's "iPad is disabled, connect to iTunes" Connecting to iTunes via hold-home-and-plug-in-USB pops up iTunes with "Restore" or "Update". Do NOT want to lose all data, there are probably photos on there that are not backed up. Is there ANYTHING I can do? I'm not even sure which version of iOS is on there, but it's 8.something... If I could just get a few more attempts to enter PIN, I would figure it out eventually.
From reading some comments, it looks like OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" Beta 3 breaks some aspects of Java that work in Beta 2. Is there a way to skip Beta 3, but still be notified when Beta 4 comes out, i.e. not opt out of the beta program?
So, is there a way to launch finder without an active graphical session open (that is, someone logged in the machine)? Or is there a way to perform the same, without using applescript and Finder?
I have an Xcode project which I just deleted so I could rewrite it. (I used rm and rmdir) Here's the problem: Though ls says that the folder is clean, Finder says it's still, there, and, what's more has the same files it had before I cleaned it. Output of ls -GFal when run in that directory:
My iPad is 'disabled' and I need to know which version of iOS 8 it's running. It's in the "iPad is disabled, connect to iTunes" state. If I connect it to iTunes, it says "to allow access, please respond on ipad", but the ipad just says "connect to itunes."
I have 60 GB of photos on an external hard disk. I also have a MacBook Air with an empty iPhoto app. The MacBook has 15 gigs left of HD space. Can I import these photos directly into the iCloud Photo Library?
Used to be I plug in my iPhone and there was a drive under This PC for the iPhone and I use Windows photo synchronization to copy the photos from the phone to the PC. However, now when I plug in the phone, it's not showing the phone at all! iTunes pops up and I can back up the phone in iTunes, but I don't see the phone in Windows Explorer in order to copy the photos! It worked just last month.
On my iPhone, I've setup text shortcuts that allow me to quickly enter email addresses. For example, typing x@g for example might resolve to xyz@gmail.com. These shortcuts have been synced to my Mac, along with all my other devices, but it seems that having an @ symbol as part of the shortcut, means they don't work in OS X (running Yosemite right now). I have done the same for domains, so google might resolve to *=URL=* and that works. I could always create an OS X friendly shortcut, but what I'd really like to know is if it's possible to get the @ symbol to work in OS X as a shortcut?
I installed Apache recently and tried to set it up to use launchctl to start it. At first it was giving me an option error code and than all of a sudden it said that the file was missing can anyone help me create a new file for the launch daemon. i am running 10.10.5 and apache version 2.4.16
I need to merge two 264 videos: one of the two is a normal rgb video, and the other is a greyscale video that I would use as luma matte to make a final prores clip with alpha. Is it possible doing it in terminal using ffmpeg?
I have two partitions, one is HFS+ and the other is exFAT. I'm used to opening the /etc/fstab file, and inserting this line: Note: The "hfs" stands for HFS+.
Does online gaming use up my data allowances? I am constantly running low on data, and I'm wondering if gaming is the contributor.
I'm trying to copy a .img disk image to a microSD. However, when I try to move the contents of the image I downloaded to the microSD, I get this:
I recently bought a MacBook and now I am trying to understand how to use the native email client. I use only an iCloud and a Gmail account to handle email, and most of my important emails are in Gmail.
I recently purchased a new iPad Air 2. My old iPad had the most recent iOS installed, and had been backed up. On some games, my data transferred, but on others, I lost all of my progress.
I have a close friend who's going through a tough time right now, and I want her to be able to wake me up if she needs me. I need to be able to receive push notifications from Messages and Facebook Messenger, but I'd like to be able to mute everything else. Is there a way to do this? I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 9 Public Beta 3, and if it'll help somehow, I also have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro running El Capitan Public Beta 5.
I am having issues with Adobe Creative Cloud. This started about 3 months ago. I get a timed out message whenever I attempt to connect to CC. I have uninstalled CC and every attempt I have made at a new install gives me the same answer: That the server has timed out and I need to check my internet connection or my firewall. Error code 207. I have a hardwired internet connection and have checked my firewall settings (from what I can tell, I have added exclusion for adobe.com and creativecloud.com).
My MBP's HDD is half OSX and the other half is Bootcamp. While booted into OSX I decided to let Software Update install Yosemite. I left the room. Upon returning a while later I found the following error message: "a mismatch between the MBR and GPT partition maps is not supported". I found an excellent post in this forum by @klanomath that dealt with a MBP stuck in an endless upgrade attempt loop like I'm experiencing, but that situation required reinstalling OSX; I'm hoping this "mismatch" can be repaired so the installation can continue.
I have written a simple bash script that I want to use as a time clock for employees (work-studies) in my computer lab. The script works great. 1. Each work-study has two icons (two separate bash scripts) on their desktop, one to clock in and another to clock out. They both write to the same .txt file. 2. When they click the clock-in icon, the script writes CLOCK IN and the current date and time to a plain text file in a shared Dropbox folder (shared between me and the work-study computer). 3. The script pauses for five seconds so the .txt file can update on Dropbox. 4. The browser opens with the work-study's updated time clock log. This is done via a Dropbox share link.
When writing, I often need to use tildes like ó (but still need my keyboard to be in English), so I just hold the key down and press 4:  Usually it works fine. But several times have I ended up with this:
Is there a way to extend a window over one display in OS X Yosemite, i.e. to make it larger than one display?
I updated my iTunes on my computer, and one of the things I noticed was that the "iCloud Download" column had now appeared on top of my music library. Now, I don't use iCloud for my music, so I right-clicked the bar and turned it off.
I have an existing 1T USB drive (disk5 in the screenshot). I formatted another 1T USB drive (disk4) and starts to rsync files from disk5 to disk4. Near the end (the current state in the screenshot) I still have 100+G of files that I'm unable to copy to disk4.
I have lots of files with identical name, say "hello.jpg". They are located in many folders, say I want to change their name to How can I accomplish this?
I have this standalone report in html. CSS styles are all embedded within the html itself.
How can I open a Pages file prepared with Yosemite in OS X 10.8.5?
I have an external screen at work, which my MacBook used to recognize without issue. When I came today and plugged it in, it didn't recognize it anymore. It is connected via a Displayport-to-DVI adapter, to a HP ZR2440w display.
How can I tell if an email from Apple is genuine. Have had 2 asking me to verify my identity
I have written a piece of software in Java that I would like to sell, however it is currently unsigned. When I first wrote the software it didn't matter too much, but I think OS X has upgraded since then and has gotten more strict as have web browsers and I'm now getting lots of warnings to say the file "is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous" and OS X will not allow the app to run without changing security settings.
I want to chop the top 13 and the last 6 lines from a file There are several answers on unix/linux but they aren't working for me as the sed options used aren't available on osx, tac isn't available, etc. Si I am posting here for a q&a that is specific to osx Right now I am using but am looking for a shorter '1 step at the end' way.
I have a 15" MacbookPro with a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. I check the temperature when using Windows but I think it doesn't report the right temperature. I shut down Windows with a temperature between the 70° and 80° degrees, then I immediately power on the laptop but this time I use OS X, when I log in it reports temperatures closes to 100° degrees.
I can only get the notebook to recognise 2 of these displays. I can get the third display to work, only if I disconnect an existing one.
I have altered my iTunes playlist on my PC because I had to get a new computer due to some hacker putting a crypto lock on my hard drive. I never used the iCloud to back up my playlist and thought that I was backing up my playlist properly on an external hard drive. Turns out that I never backed up my playlist properly. I lost everything! So, I painstakingly loaded all of my CDs into my playlist on my PC. I also went through the trouble of eliminating duplicate songs, which I had never done before. I still have my previous playlist on my iPhone and iPod. Since I am so ignorant when it comes to this stuff, I didn't know if I could have backed up either my iPhone or iPod to the PC playlist instead of importing all of my CDs again to the PC playlist. So, I went through the agony of importing the CDs. I actually have no knowledge on how iTunes playlists work. Now that I went through the trouble of importing all of my CDs again and eliminated the duplicate songs. if I plug my iPhone into th
So basically I have a tethered reboot iOS 6.1.4 on my iPhone 4. Recently the Home button broke and now I'm unable to put it into DFU Mode to turn it on. Is there a way I can put it in DFU Mode, or maybe get iTunes to install the latest iOS on it? I just need it to turn on again so I can listen to music.
it hangs in a constant state of 'starting.' I have looked around quite a bit and can't seem to come up with a solution. Any ideas or leads would be greatly appreciated.
I have problem with "Your computer restarted because of a problem" loop. Sometimes my Mac doesn't crash all day, but sometimes it crashes 5-10 times at day. Thank you for every advice. Kernel panic log:
I was experiencing issues trying to update Windows 7 to SP1, and according to Windows Support I should do a 'clean boot' to Windows. My issue is that I'm running Windows on my 2009 MacBook, through Boot Camp. While following the steps they provided me, How to perform a clean boot in Windows, I noticed that when disabling services I'll be disabling drivers that I think are necessary for Windows to function on my Mac.
I had an iPhone and I used iMessage on it. I didn't mind getting some of the messages to my laptop. But recently I switched back to a very old phone I had that is not a smart phone. Now I am receiving some texts to my laptop and not to my phone at all! This is frustrating because I don't want to have to check my laptop and my phone for messages. I would like to change this so that I only receive messages to my phone, not my laptop, because I don't even have an iPhone anymore.
I can't open a VPP account. *=URL=* No matter what details I put in, I get the same message:
I would like a specific URL scheme, magnet:, to run a command in Terminal. For example: Would execute:
I'm maintaining a series of iPads used in kiosk context for a client. Occasionally the iPads become 'locked' and require a hard reset and restore from my Mac which was used for the original deploy. My question is, can I somehow allow the unlocking and restore on a 2nd desktop (the client's) Mac? Isn't the iPad 'tied' to just one Mac, the one used for the original deploy? Or am I mistaken?
I have a user with a MacBook Pro (late 2013) running OS X 10.10.5 "Yosemite" that can't acquire a DHCP address from our corporate Wi-Fi. It's a WPA2 Enterprise network with Meraki on the back end. From the Meraki tools I can see him authenticate successfully but just won't accept an IP.
I got this SSD out of an Apple laptop that's broken from liquid damage. What is this connection called and how do I mount this storage device to retrieve data from it? It looks like PCIe. Does Apple sell a part to mount this via USB adapter or something?
After having updated iTunes, my entire music library disappeared. What can I do to restore it?
I have a dual monitor setup on the Mac. I want to work on a tool, in full screen, on display 1 and simultaneously check few things, on Final Cut Pro, on display 2. When I maximize the tool in display 1, I can't see the FCP in display 2. Is there any third party tool to solve this, or is it an OS X limitation.
I just got a new 2TB hard drive and I wanted to set up Time Machine. I did and now it is backing up stuff. On this page (*=URL=* I read that "When you set up Time Machine, your Mac wants to use an entire external drive exclusively for backups." Is this true, what does it mean exactly? Also is it possible to view folders in a regular manner after they are backed up on the hard drive without using Time Machine?
So after some hours, working on my second laptop I decide to do something crazy. Install Ubuntu through a live usb memory stick. I create one, plug it in the mac and make the whole installation. That was completely stupid of me. I had problems with the graphic card and things were not displayed correctly. I remove the Ubuntu using gParted and now I am in the point where I start the mac and I get a blinking folder with a questiomark in the middle.
The common suggested fix is that the internal SATA cable is faulty. However, I am not experiencing any problems with booting from my current HD, so I think that is not the problem. The new HD also seems in good working condition since it boots from USB just fine. My suspicion is that the backwards compatibility from SATA 3 to SATA 2 is not working as it should, but I'm not sure how to force it to work.
Is there an app (or a way in settings, that despite searching I cannot seem to figure out) that can change the keypad on an iOS device to allow for both forward and backward delete (or delete/backspace depending on your outlook on semantics), like the OS X offers? This is the one big drawback for me with Apple vs. other mobile devices. Editing is much more difficult without this feature. If not, is there a away to do this if I jailbreak my device(s)?
Is it possible to open a website, for example, *=URL=* with url *=URL=* without changing hosts file?
Is it possible to quickly revert an autocorrect with a single keystroke or combination? As described in Shortcut to revert autocorrect change , the "correct" way to do it is: backspace wait down-arrow enter space This is far too slow, and I often reflexively hit Command-Z instead, which has other unintended effects. Are there other options, ideally without the use of backspace, arrows, or waiting? Any advice welcome, Thank you!
Heres a killer. My Mac Pro g5 was running Leopard, fully updated, quite fine. But, since Im an idiot tinkerer who loves linux as mich as Mac, I decided to stupidly install YDL. Now, it ran flawlessly for a few months, until I packed the machine away while I moved house. Now, YDL boots quite fine... but MacOS refuse to move anywhere past the Apple Logo. I get no spinning Wheel, just the bitten apple on a grey screen and the machine sitsthere... So far, I reseated ram, reset NVRAM, reset PRAM, theres no password on OF, I even used the button thing on the motherboard to reset. Nothing. The drive is fine and readable... YDL And Leopard are installed on the same drive, differentpartitions. No keypress combination works since Yaboot is installed- I can only use alt to select a boot device ()this displays the YDL and Leopard disks, but when I choose the Leopard disk, I get the grey screen.
My Hard drive and backup image drive died at the same time. My Music was all stored on a third HD (Thank goodness) but I lost the itunes Database. I've re-installed with iTunes 12.2.1.16 With Windows 7. My issue at this point is that the files have the correct ID3 tags (Album, Artist, song title, but the file title might be: 03 song.mp3 Dragging the mp3 into itunes shows the file as '03 song' with no artist or album.
My iPhone 5C has no battery and won't turn on, I've been told to put it into DFU mode to reset it, however I can't do that because I need to hold down my Home button which is broken! Anyone know what I can do? 😨
I did option-3 on finder -> which puts the files into cascading directories mode. Then I have selected a few files with the intention to delete them (see the screenshot). But there is no option to 'delete' - either from popup or from menu items (see second screenshot).
I made a new iCloud address, but when I checked my iMessage, it had messages from my old iCloud. Do I have to manually delete these messages? Also, would my content in my iMessage app then be connected to my new iCloud address? Since I have synced the new one to my current phone
I was wondering if it's possible to add a custom service for OS X that is able to create a new event in my (default) calendar when I select some text and right click on it in a webpage, document, email etc. I saw that automator has calendar support but i don't know how to set it up properly. Any suggestion? Thanks!
My Macbook battery (I guess batteries is the more correct term in this new Macbook) isn't getting battery life as estimated by specs, and it is already lessened in only about 2 months. Today, I ran a hardware diagnostics with no errors reported.
Is it possible to edit the date of birth provided while creating the Apple Id
I made a bunch of songs in Garageband a few years ago, on my old MacBookPro (ended up with Mountain Lion, I believe). When I open them on my new computer (a MacBookAir running Yosemite) some of the instruments (it's usually the drum kits) are not available. It gives me this pop up:
I currently have a Mid-2010 iMac (Intel i3 3.06 GHz) running OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" and a really old 17-inch Mid-2005 iMac G5 (PowerPC G5 2GHz) running OS X 10.4.11 "Tiger". I would like to know if there is any free (if it is software only; cables and stuff are fine) way to convert the old iMac G5 into an external monitor for the newer Intel iMac with the multiple display support introduced in Mavericks (not just mirroring). Any advice?
In the calendar app, you can select Hebrew, Chinese and Islamic alternate calendars, anyone out there can guide me on how I could create a new alternate calendar?
I have a simple problem for you today. I have been using Boot Camp with my Mac Mini for about two years and now, after upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, the Boot Camp partition doesn't seem to appear in the Finder anymore. I can still boot Windows up by holding the alt/option key at the startup but OS X acts as if the partition didn't exist. Here are the symptoms: The partition has disappeared from the Finder. Boot Camp tray icon has the 'Restart into Windows' option grayed out.
EDIT: For anyone coming across this question, the best solution I've found is a cloud backup company called Backblaze — it's in the cloud, so no longer have to worry about hardware failures and we now just have a large network drive for shared resources (which actually is also then backed up via Backblaze)!. In our office we have ~8+ or so iMacs. Currently we're backing up to individual hard-drives via TimeMachine. We're looking at creating a more stable backup solution, one that is kept away from the iMacs in the networking room, so all backups are centralised. I was thinking of using something like a Drobo with plenty of HDD space, that all of the iMacs back up to. However, ideally, I don't want people to be able to see the backups of other machines. Is it possible to have a centralised backup HDD that is write only, in conjunction with Apple Time Machine? Or any other solution that may be relevant, ideally from someone else who already has an office of Apple machines and backing the
I decided to reinstall MacOS X from scratch. I have rebooted my mac with Cmd+R, then used Disk Utility to create a .dmg disk image on a USB drive.
I have a Mac Yosemite version 10.10.4. Recently I've been experiencing problems with Firefox and Chrome, which both crash often. The real problem is that in the past few weeks I experienced some kernel panics. I'm copy pasting the report from the last one: What's the procedure to understand what's going on and eventually fix it?
I am looking to automate Copy, Paste, Tab and Left in Microsoft Excel and either Safari or Firefox using Applescript. I have limited experience in coding, and have recently complied a code, but unfortunately it doesn't work as planned... What I want to happen; In Browser Copy In Excel Paste, Left, Copy In Browser Tab, Paste, Tab x8 Repeat
After I opened the dmg file there's an app called Install Xcode which asks me to agree. After entering administrator's password, it starts installing but then it stops and says it encountered an error and to consult /var/log/install.log.
Is there a way to disable these alerts that appear when battery drops down to 20% and later on to 10%? (iPhone 4s iOS 8.4.1).
I'm trying to get my Mac to index a folder on a networked Windows drive. Specifically there is a folder named "FILE SERVER" on that drive that I'm logged in to as owner. It shows up in a Finder window but it is not being indexed. I tried mdutil /Volumes/FILE SERVER -i on but I get the following errors: Error: invalid path '/Volumes/FILE' Error: invalid path 'SERVER' What am I doing wrong?
Why does it do that? Is this the expected behaviour? Should I somehow tell MAMP that I have intention to run Apache as another user too? How can I do that?
In linux the command install has these options (among others): (from the man page) On the mac manage there is this option: I am attempting to install a library using a makefile and am getting this error on the mac:
Do I have to enter my real and true information when making Apple ID account? My country is not offered, it is not on the list of countries when I have making an Apple ID account. So, I can not enter my real and correct street and my true city in which I live. Can I enter false information? Is it allowed or punishable?
Just got my new iPhone issued to me at work. When I put in my Hotmail.com address it automatically attached all those contacts to my phone. Since that time I have gone into the Hotmail.com contacts and cleaned it all up by deleting many unused and old contacts. How do I get the phone to now update the new contact list??
I'm starting to feel that none of the Apple Watch designers actually broke a sweat while working out with the watch, nor did they try to exercise in the rain. I started the Workout app on Outdoor Run, then at about a mile into my run I pulled back my rain-soaked sleeve to find that my workout was stopped about half a mile back, I assume because the water was mistaken for touch input. With my Garmin Forerunner I could lock the touch bezel but continue to use the side buttons to start, stop, and reset the timer. Am I missing a similar feature on the Apple Watch?
I restarted from Windows (under Boot Camp) via Restart in OS X..., which I've done many times before. This time, my MacBook restarted and stayed black for a while. I eventually held the power button to reboot it.
I am running El Capitan Beta, but this question would also apply to Yosemite. I want another account's (account B) "Photos" app to link to my primary account's (account A) Photos library without moving my library to an outside drive without permissions. I can't point the Library from the Photos App in account B to to the Library in account A. I have added Account B with full permission read and write with extended ACL permissions to account A's /User/AccountA/Pictures folder and Photos Library. Verified with ls -le.
I purchased a book but I don't want to download it on my Mac right now. I want to download it to my iOS device later. I paused the download. How do I delete it from my download queue without downloading the entire book? I'm using OS X 10.10 " Yosemite" but hopefully someone knows of a generic solution for most OS X installs.
I am primarily a Java developer and love using OS X and Mac as my primary development environment. However recently I have been having temperature and heat concerns. I have a piece of code that parses at 4.5 GB XML file, and when this method is running the CPU temperature immediately goes over 90 degrees, and after a few minutes its over 110. At that point I stop the process because I’m worried about damaging my machine.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Mid-2012 MacBook Air running OS X 10.10.5 "Yosemite". When creating the partition, Boot Camp stops after a short while displaying that the partition can not be created. I have found the following earlier post: BootCamp, can't partition SSD but my disk does not show a core storage volume and I am hoping that I do not need to reinstall the OS. Here is the output from Terminal running diskutil list:
I want to transfer an app from iTunes Connect. App was previously approved for Apple and was on sale. Now my developer license has expired. And now I can not find Transfer App and even Delete App button. Is there a way to transfer an app in this case?
I've been downloading mp3s from a podcast's archives on their website (the archived episodes aren't available on iTunes). After adding these files to iTunes, I'm unable to do the logical thing, which is to change the media kind to Podcasts so it will show up under Podcasts and not Music. When I click Get Info > Options, Music is the only option in the dropdown.
I have a mobile website which at high level provides these functionalities: Sign-in Sign-up Few forms where user can fill his additional details Providing some capabilities to user based on information provided by him Now I want to integrate OCR capabilities such as: ID card scan Debit card scan Void check scan So that some of the forms can be automatically filled by information extracted from these. I am planning to make a native app in iOS consuming most of the forms, flow from my mobile website by rendering respective weburls on webview, and integrating vendor SDKs to provide OCR capabilities. Will Apple accept my iOS app in App Store if I have 80% of flow, UI rendered on UIWebView and remaining 20% being integration and use of native vendor SDKs for OCR capabilities?
The is not working on one of my Yosemite based macbooks. The other one - also with Yosemite - works fine.
I have a failing SSD in my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro (5,4) that I'd like to install OS X on. It's only temporary because I'll be ordering a new SSD in a couple of weeks. The OS X installer rightly alerts me that the drive is failing so I should replace it - but I'm wondering if there's any way to get around this alert and install it anyway?
The issue: I have an issue with an MacBook Air that I need to install Windows 7 on. The problem is that this MacBook model does not support Windows 7 in Boot Camp. So I thought that I should instead install Windows without Boot Camp on the Mac hard drive. The problem is that when I boot the Windows 7 installation disk by pressing "Alt" at start up and choosing "EFI Boot" the loading screen freezes at "Windows is loading files..." just before it should start up. Also, the second before it freezes some tiny colorful lines appear in the upper right corner of the screen. The DVD that I am installing from is working good on other PCs and on an older MacBook Air. I need to run Windows 7 on this one and visualization nor an another Windows version is not an option in this case.
I am wondering which types of human error or accidental breakage the Apple Manufacturer one year warranty covers. I have a Macbook Pro which is in full working order, The problem is the reciept for this is in somebody else's name. I have been told by the store manager in one Apple Store that in order for me to get a new receipt, the only way he could think of is if my Macbook Pro had a "fault" which resulted in me being issued with a new Macbook Pro (and a new receipt). What the manager was saying is if I could create the conditions for a problem to occur on the Macbook Pro, he could then issue me a new one with a new receipt. I told him it sounds idiotic for me to do such a thing to a brand new machine, but at the same time it's the only option I have in this politically correct world. I need the receipt in my name for third party insurance reasons - I cannot insure the Macbook pro with a receipt in somebody else's name.
I've recently updated to CrashPlan 4.3.0 on my mac running OS X 10.10.3. I've followed the headless guide on the CrashPlan support site and contacted their support line, whom are usually good but this time refused to help me because headless CrashPlan an unsupported config.
I have been using the Safari shortcuts where you press CMD + (number) to access the links stored in your bookmarks bar (for example CMD + 1 = google CMD + 2 = Google Image search, CMD + 7 = Stack; etc), and since I updated to Yosemite yesterday, CMD + ... doesn't do anything anymore, and I have to grab the mouse while I'm working, aim the little arrow at the tiny little bookmark on top and click, and place my hand back on the keyboard to type my search (or other), and I find this to not only be counter-intuitive but also a waste of time and productivity. If anyone knows a way to revert this so I can summon my bookmarks like a keyboard maestro again, I'm all ears!
There is a stubborn folder in my trash bin that apparently cannot be deleted because "something is using it". I know how to force empty the trash bin, but rather than doing it, I'd like to know exactly who is using this file. Is there a way to determine what application/process is supposedly using a file/folder? Mac OSX Yosemite.
I'm trying to do a screen recording, but I'm having issues with quickTime player. Every time I press the record button and then click on my screen to record, it starts recording for a second and then results in the message: QuickTime Player quit unexpectedly.
Qn similar to How can I add custom error bars to a graph in Numbers. I'm not able to modify and/or customize error bars even after clicking on the graphical error bars for each series as mentioned in the other post. Yes, the positive, negative boxes do free up for entry and allow for range selection of standard deviation that I've calculated for my data, but once I select the range and click on the green check mark or press enter, the selection disappears and the positive, negative values go back to the default value [10]. Any way to fix this? Any known workaround?
I've been trying to download iMovie for a long time, and I have never had enough space. I have an 8 GB iPhone 5C. I have a project in particular I want to get done, so I deleted all my other apps (other than pre-installed ones, of course) in order to try and download iMovie. According to iTunes, after this, I have 2.04 GB available. I figured this would be enough to download iMovie and get this project over with before deleting it and redownloading all my apps again. And, yet, again I got the dreaded error code declaring that iMovie could not be downloaded at this time and that I didn't have enough storage. I don't know what to do. I know that apps are always more than the number that appears on the App Store page, but even ~2 GB should be enough to download iMovie, right? How can I download iMovie?
I just upgraded to Yosemite, I find that I cannot minimise the Character Viewer into the dock as I used to... is this normal? It saved me a lot of trouble to have it pop-up every time I started the computer. Or maybe there's a way to have it a login item? Maybe this is related but I find this complex...
I'm right now on Beta 2 of Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" (15A204h) The Mac App Store wants me to update to Beta 3 I know that the latest Beta is Beta 7 (15A263e)
I used to have the Digital Color Meter (system app) in my dock, but since updating to Yosemite it doesn't appear in the dock anymore ("?" sign) Did they just move it and Dock cannot find it?
searched and searched, and thought you guys might have the answer. I either can't find this feature or Apple hasn't included it in iTunes. It seems so clear to me that it should be part of iTunes somewhere that I'm convinced it's somewhere.
I was trying to install OS X on my Mac that had OS X removed. I wrongly erased Macintosh HD and it changed to "Untitled". After that I restarted my Mac and it just shows an image of "?" in a folder. I'm only able to use Internet Recovery (after holding option on startup nothing would display but wifi connection). I waited for it to finish and a menu like command+r after option.
Spotlight would mark matches when searching in system preferences are no longer appearing. I have "System Preferences" enabled in Spotlight prefs. I have searched for a solution to this, no luck. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Screencapture showing the issue
Folders open in new windows, instead of the same window. This behavior is actually documented. We can revert to the regular behavior with various key combinations, depending on how we're opening the folders, for example by using Ctrl+Cmd+O instead of just Cmd+O. This is not a great solution, though -- I don't want to have to use more complicated keyboard shortcuts just to get Finder to behave normally.
While screwing around and breaking things I came across these stupid commands (if executed in order it causes what I got): cd / && cat vmlinuz cd /boot/ && cat init* It causes special characters that aren't recognized by the system like ��� however, for some reason it causes weird effects like causing iTerm2 to send a bell (a notification to the system) like the screen shot:
Is there a trick to making it pair without entering the requested PIN number? Having no luck Googling this one. There are one or two articles on accomplishing the same in Linux, but nothing for Mac. The controller is not anything special, but it’s small enough to fit in my kids’ hands when they play Nintendo games, something that none of the other controllers can do even if they do pair correctly.
I'm trying to get the old volume feedback noise on my MacBook. I have a copy of the sound file but the system is refusing to let me replace it, even as root. I found this article that also explained it step by step for terminal but even terminal is giving me problems.
I almost always want mail to send a "Actual Size" image. However sometimes having mail automatically resize an image to "small/medium/large" is handy. However, after doing so Mail remembers the last selected option and sets any future image attachments at that smaller size - which at times, I forget to switch back "to Actual Size". I would like mail to ALWAYS default to "Actual Size" for attached images. — I doubt there is a known workaround but if so, I'd love to know it.
I've been cleaning out my room lately, and in the process I've dug out several cables, both MagSafe and Lightning, in various states of disrepair. I want to plug them into my devices to see if they still work, but I need to know: Is there any risk of seriously damaging them if a cable turns out to be bad?
last time a new update for El Capitan was available, my MacBook always got stuck in the middle of downloading the new update through the AppStore. So I tried to google my problem and found a discussion on Apple's website: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/13504
I guess the title spells it out. A bit of background into - I have an iCloud password associated with an old email. It also has a secondary email set up so I still get email when I reset the iCloud password etc. I had problems with my iPhone not backing up. I thought it strange as it shares the same iCloud account as my iPad. So I reset the password on my iPad but when I try to login I get told the password is incorrect. I've switched off the iPad and rebooted same things happens. I try my iPhone and I have no problems logging in. It's driving me made. Any suggestion, anyone?
There is a related question for Safari but I am interested in a solution for Mail. The ⌘View menu. I am using OS X 10.10.5, and I would really like to see the real full link I would follow, especially with potential phishing mails.
The softwareupdate process is self-explanatory, but why is it using so much memory? I imagine it’s only hitting Apple’s servers to check for software updates. Does it really need .5 GB for that? And what about the kernel_task process? Why does that need .5 GB of memory as well?
I use an external monitor with my Macbook Pro, often to run Windows VMs with a task bar at the bottom. While trying to use the task bar, I often accidentally summon the dock to the second monitor. How do I stop the dock from moving?
When I download a sound file and double-click to play it, iTunes opens it (which is fine) but also copies it to the iTunes library. I don't want to copy the file; I just want iTunes to play it.
Using activity monitor, I've noticed that launchd with pid 1 is using a lot of disk writes: after about 8 hours of light use, it's done ~2GB bytes written. Is it normal behavior? If not, how shall I troubleshoot this issue? I'm on the latest version if Yosemite, MacBook Pro 13" retina. Thanks!
How do I remove an added language form the "Preferred Language Order" in Settings > General > Language & Region > Preferred Language Order? iPhone 6 Plus iOS 8.4.1
I am trying to bridge two interfaces on OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" but somehow this does not seem to work for virtual interfaces:  The network on Virtualbox goes over "Host Only Network"
Details about Intel's upcoming Skylake processors indicates that they support DisplayPort 1.2 and Thunderbolt 3, but not DisplayPort 1.3 or DisplayPort 1.2a. Does Thunderbolt 3 support an external 5k display? Specifically, is this bandwidth enough to support 5k resolution at 60 hz? Update, 16 Jan 2016: According to this MacRumors article "Apple may wait until at least Cannon Lake chipset (which promise SST 5K support) in the second half of 2017, before releasing a 5K Thunderbolt Display"
On OS X Yosemite I found that all operations interupt once I switch of the monitor for a while. Most notabaly copy processes of large files, simply pause. Every time OS X puts the Display to sleep (or if I switch it of manually as well!), VirtualBox virtual machines also will be put to sleep. How can I prevent this?
I have set my desktop wallpaper to change every minute, as I thought my laptop has enough juice to handle it. Whenever the wallpaper is changing, the computer slows down, although the cpu load does not increase more than ~5%. So if I'm typing something, and the wallpaper is changing at that same moment, the letters appear on the screen a second late. This is really annoying, as I'm typing a lot.
Is it possible to import a few selected items from one iTunes library to another, including their iTunes-specific metadata — ratings, play counts, etc? My specific circumstances: yesterday, I was tidying up a bunch of my music’s info (correcting some dates, artist listings, etc, since especially for classical music, the ones provided by CDDB are rather inconsistent). Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted a few collections that I didn’t mean to, and didn’t notice until I’d already emptied the trash. Fortunately, I have a backup of my whole library from a couple of weeks ago. So I’d like to restore the deleted albums from the backup, but not the whole library, since I don’t want to lose the work I did yesterday.
I managed to damage my MacBook Pro Retina's screen. The rightmost 62 pixels are dead. Can I force the display on my Mac to identify itself as smaller as it actually is, so all programs using the display will simply not use the dead parts? Other option: Is there a way to auto-resize all windows to not use that damaged part of the screen?
Question: Is Bootcamp v3.3 the maximum version allowed for my software / hardware, or, is there a way other than Apple Software Updater that I should use to update my version of bootcamp? Again, Apple Software Updater is not releasing the latest version to me (despite the fact that it did provide me Bootcamp updates in the past up until v3.3)
I honestly don't know what happened, but it appears that I lost a number of key contacts out of my address book. I didn't delete them manually, but regardless of what the cause was - they are gone. Is it possible to restore contacts back, say from a few days ago? Additionally, and this might be symptomatic of a bigger issues, some of my contacts appear in duplicate. Please help
I have installed the latest beta of OS X, El Capitan 10.11. The mail app said it needed to index mail. when it finished that process the mail app crashed. Now it refuses to open. Mail has been rendered unusable with this upgrade, for me.
Is it possible to upgrade the 121 GB Flash Storage in my MacBook Pro 13" Retina? If so, can Apple do it for me or would I have to go to somewhere else to get it upgraded?
I'm working on an AppleScript to mount our Active Directory Home Shares and I've come up with the following part that looks at the logged in users "SMBHome:" and it gives me the users home share but the slashes are in the wrong direction "\" and need to change them to "/". So far the AppleScript is: When run this gives me an output of I'd love to have the next step replace the back slashes with forward slashes and remove: With a final outcome of: Is this possible? Thank you!
I have an old Mac, currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard" that I must upgrade to OS X 10.10 "Yosemite". It has 8 GB RAM. The "About this Mac" gives me the following information: Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 Processor: 3.6 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 The "more info" gives me (among others): Model name: iMac Model identifier iMac 11,3 I first did the "Software Updates" which was ready in a few minutes.
I've hit a bit of a wall with my backups. I have three backups, each is different, some contain newer files than other backups. I want to merge these three folders into one, but when a conflict arises, keep the newest version.
I have a late 2012 Mac mini, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, running OS X Yosemite version 10.10.5 (14F27). Recently, just after the delta update to 10.10.5, two of my apps, uTorrent and All2MP3 have started crashing with the following error: How can I fix this?
I inherited some months ago a Mac mini server running OS X 10.8.5 Initially, I configured it with the new network settings, DNS name, etc and all was working fine in regard to file sharing, accessing Server app, etc. I recently ran software update where Server.app was updated to Server 2.2.5. Now I am having some problems with this Server app. I know that the com.apple.servermgrd certificate needs to be updated as I see it had expired before a few months before this recent update, and I'll use the method in HT3930 during down time this weekend.
I'm thinking about purchasing an Apple Watch. I'm interested in the activity measurements. Currently, I'm using my iPhone to count steps etc. When I connect an Apple Watch to my iPhone and the Apple Watch collects step data, is this step data automatically saved to the Health app on my iPhone (or is it only available in the Activity app, like on the Watch)?
I seem to be unable to complete the setup of sharing a folder via SMB. I have turned on file sharing and have checked 'Share files and folders using SMB' but I cannot choose a user account under the section called Windows File Sharing:
I removed Bootcamp earlier via the BootCamp Assistant, and it flashed some error up that I just ignored. Now, when I've gone back to reinstall Bootcamp, I've noticed that while the disk reads as being 500GB in total, there is around 80GB unaccounted for in the GUID table..? Here is an output from terminal: Any ideas how to get back the missing disk space? EDIT: Might be worth pointing out, I am running the latest public beta of OSX 10.11
I was building packages in MacPorts on a Mac Mini when the power went out. Now anything I try to do in MacPorts (install, clean, selfupdate) results in the following error: How can I fix this?
While setting my new iPhone up I put in the incorrect e-mail by missing one letter. Now I can't get in to do anything! It won't let me reset as the email is wrong and it doesn't recognize my password.
A few days ago, I bought a used iPhone 3GS. I need to restore it, because I bought it broken and when I disassembled it and cleaned it up, some how it worked again, so the seller didn't have the opportunity to restore it. Sometimes (I can't remember which models and/or iOS version) after I restore an iPhone, when I'm setting it up again, it requires a SIM card inside, it doesn't have to be active, but it has too be there. The problem is that I can't get the SIM card slot in this iPhone to read the card I have. I don't think that it's the card, as it worked in an old 1st Gen iPhone I have, but it won't ever change from "No SIM" to even "Searching..." in the status bar when the card is inserted in the 3GS. So, my question is: If I restore this iPhone 3GS, will it require a SIM card in order to set it up again?
Does the web address have to be in green, or is it secure if it's in black?
I want to disable page scroll animation in iBooks on my Mac when reading epub files. Because it slows down my reading speed and makes my eyes dizzy. I cannot endure the animation.
I own a MacBook Pro, Mid 2014, and its 256 SSD started facing problems almost 8 months after I bought it. I've been looking to replace it.
Have the white prohibitory sign when trying to boot up MBP Retin 13" late 2012 running Yosemite. Have tried resetting PRAM (cmd + alt + p + r) and disk utility has been to no avail so far. Have tried repairing disk permissions, but get message saying that one of them has been modified and cannot be changed. Really need help, any help would be much appreciated
Today I found my Mac shut down. It won't boot again anymore. When I try to turn it on, it just shows the Apple logo, a loading bar and after 1/3 progress it just shuts down again.
I have a 4k display, but my laptop seems unable to performantly use it (videos jitter, etc) is there a way to treat the display as 1080p display and let the display upscale it? Of course, Preferences lets me change the "resolution", but it's not actually changing the resolution, and more just changing the size of the UI. It's actually sort of the opposite of this question: MacBook Pro Retina and 4k monitor (Samsung U28D590D) now showing "scaling options" in display
My MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008) lacks a FireWire or Thunderbolt port. So I must attach an external disk (Voyager) running over USB 2 to do a full backup (cloning disk with SuperDuper app). Not fast, hours and hours. Any tips or techniques for helping this disk cloning go faster?
I shoot a lot of photos and videos so my iPhone fills up often. The way I deal with it now is a time-wasting chore. I connect my phone to my computer. Dropbox automatically sucks my photos & videos to my computer. Then I use a mass-delete app to remove the photos from my phone. I know I can use Dropbox on my phone, but it takes too long for the photos to upload.
I am trying to add Gradle to my PATH. I have used the command but when I type
I started cleaning up my Mac and I've noticed that the Photos App's Library was using roughly 72,5GB (info I see in ~/Photos). Long story short, I had around 8.000 items in there from the last 2,5 years; and, in there, there were duplicates, failed photos and videos, junk received via messages, etc.
I have updated from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to OS X 10.10 Yosemite 6 months ago and since then my Mac freezes with no reason (I need to switch off the computer). Yesterday after installing a Yosemite update and restaring the Mac I got this message
I should change MAC-address of a built-in Bluetooth adapter. Is there any way to do it in Yosemite (10.10.4)?
I want to increase the size of the virtual hard disk in my Windows 10 VM using Parallel Desktop, but in configuration I see Reclaimable 0.0 KB. How can I solve this?
I need to upload our sounds to iTunes using rss feed.Created rss feed,i don't know how can work this with iTunes. Thanks in advance.
I've an issue with filling out an interactive PDF in Adobe Acrobat, so I was suggested to do the following steps in order to fix/activate the authenticate process: Click on Edit in the Toolbar Click on Preferences at the foot of the menu. In the Categories on the left hand side click on Internet and then Internet Settings. Internet Properties opens and in the tabs at the top click Advanced.
A bit of background before I start. I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto my Macbook Pro and so far I've stumbled into a bit of a roadblock. I've also already installed Windows 10 with Bootcamp, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
Every time after my Mac (MBP late 2013 with OS X 10.10.5) starts Screen Saver mode and then after some time turns off the screen (even if no program is running) the fan speed rises dramatically. Is it normal, or does anyone know how to fix this?
When using the say command I can give it an option -o (file name) for it to record to a file. However, that suppresses the audio output. Is there a way to make it do both in one command?
How do I connect my iPad Air to the internet with an ethernet cable without creating an access point or a wireless signal/hotspot of any kind? My first attempt was a duplicate of this fella But, there's a couple problems with that setup: Two of the core components he said are "Needed" link to non-existent websites (Lightning to USB Camera Adapter & USB Ethernet Adapter) Every other USB 2.0 ethernet dongle I purchase has a driver that needs to be installed, which isn't easy with the iPad Even in his setup iPad says it cannot connect to the device I'm using these: Insignia USB 2.0 Powered Hub Insignia USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter ASUS Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router iPad Air (with the latest software updates) Lightning to USB Camera Adapter
I have Finder preferences set to "Open folders in tabs instead of windows", but when I open a finder window I do not see any tabs, only folders and when I double click on a folder it opens in a new window. Finder used to just open the folder in the same window revealing the contents of the folder thereby allowing you to navigate to the file that you would like to open in the same window and then once you found the file of interest and double clicked that file, it opened. I would like to get back to that version of Finder. Any suggestions? Edit: If I open Finder using Go to folder and choose the Macintosh HD then the finder window opens with tabs and I can then navigate to the file of interest. On the other hand, if I Go to Home, the finder window opens without tabs and now any combination of double clicks opens a new finder window.
I am a Mac user so I can't use Citavi. My institute has its own citation style but they only provide a Citavi citation file. I don't know a way to import a Citavi citation file into Endnote, Zotero or Mendeley so I don't have to use Windows.... Do you have a tip for me?
As a workaround, I downloaded the make-3.3.1.tar.gz file with Firefox and copied it to /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ and it worked. So I downloaded the .tar.gz files for each dependency. They all worked until downloading a .zip file proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip which looks like a data file used by the dependency proj.
I am working from an iMac running Yosemite and using this keyboard. The number pad works in the terminal, but when I open vim or less it does not.
Suddenly, some of the keys (Q to O) isn't working. I don't have any idea what wrong I have done. Only Q, W, E, R, T, Y, U, I, O aren't working. All others keys working fine. Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?
Is there a way to find out the exact date of installation of an application that was added to my phone?
I have an iPhone 5 and I just received notice that my data usage for free is almost up. I presently have 1GB. I am total unaware of what data usage is and should I change to a plan with 2GB. Do I have to do something to make sure I use Wi-Fi in all places that I am.
Only then, a folder of 15,000 photos (the one I tried dragging the video to) got deleted. At the time I noticed that the Google Photos Uploader app (which is connected to the folder) had it's contents deleted, so the app didn't work. And then I discovered the same thing happened to Adobe Lightroom. So. Everything's gone.
With managed (parental control) accounts and "Allow apps downloaded from Mac App Store and identified developers" enabled, users are still able to download and run other applications. I want to prevent this.
I always have hidden files set to 'visible' in Finder, because I'm a developer and I work with a lot of dotfiles. But even with this setting, Finder won't let me rename a file beginning with a dot. It also won't let me modify these files by pasting over them etc; it gives an error like "The item “.gitignore” can’t be replaced because it’s invisible." Well, it's not invisible, I can see it, and I want to replace it, and it's mine.
I am running OS X 10.10 on a Mac Pro and I am connecting a 2TB My Book VelociRaptor Duo to it via Thunderbolt. If I leave the drive formatted in RAID everything works just fine. I need it formatted in JBOD, but whenever I do so, the drive mounts for about 3 seconds and automatically ejects itself. After it ejects I can see it in Disk Utility, where I can right click and mount it again, but it still only stays mounted for about 3 seconds. Can anyone help? I can't even use this drive because of this.
I have an iPhone 5, iOS 8.4.1. How can I repeat a Playlist? I've found how to repeat a song, but I want to repeat a playlist.
I just upgraded to a new Mac and a newer OS X release than I previously was running and have encountered some different behaviour in Safari 8 that I can't turn off around offering to save passwords. In Safari 7 you could disable auto-fill for passwords which would stop Safari ever prompting you per How to completely disable password saving in Safari which is what I had done in the past. However with Safari 8 the preferences pane looks slightly different and frustratingly enough the relevant option is greyed out and there is no obvious way to disable it:
I'm looking for an app like OpenSignal but for mapping Wi-Fi signals around my apartment. I have also tried using NetSpot on my Mac but I would really like a mobile app to take advantage of GPS location and automatic data collection rather than fumbling around with a manual process. Does anyone know of an app that can do this?
Is it possible to run the native 5k resolution on my retina iMac when using the official Windows 10 bootcamp? Right now, it seems to be capped at 4k. I have the 4.0 GHz i7 with the m295x GPU.
As a Mac hardware lover, I bought an old 64 GB iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 on it. Data wiped. Nice hardware, but ended up stock with no new application not being iOS 6, iOS 7 or more in requirement. Thought I would have to jaillbreak it to have new apps. Is there any other way?
I'm having a problem with Yosemite. It started when I attempted to move items to recycle bin, and was asked for my password. I entered it, and the items were moved to the bin. When I tried secure empty trash, it worked for a minute then froze. So I halted the trash. I then tried to move the folders back to the desktop to see if I could get the trash down to only a few files that weren't in folders (these files hadn't asked for my password to move to recycle). That didn't work, because when I restored the folders to desktop, the computer copied them instead of just restoring them: one copy of each folder remained in the trash, another copy now on desktop. When I moved those folders back to trash from desktop, they were then in duplicate. Now I have over 150 GB in the trash and it won't empty. Help!
So, this may be a unique issue and goes to show my ineptitude with Apple products. But, I have a hard drive that I share with my Windows PC that I use for storing all my pictures, music, and movies. The problem is that on OSX I'm not able to make any changes to the drive. I can't rename, add to it, or delete anything. I checked the Get Info on it, and for security it says I can only Read.
Not sure if there is something running that is causing it. Here is my activity monitor.
I'm trying to use Dictation on OS X 10.10.5 to enter text into MacVim (or into Terminal). It works for the most part but, for whatever reason, those programs won't let Dictation add a space after each phrase. If I say the phrase "type a sentence" and then pause and say "for me", Dictation will enter "type a sentenceFor me", instead of "type a sentence for me". Any way to fix this?
I picked up an older G5 with a PowerPC for software testing. Its not booting, and I am experiencing the issues described at 3 Beep on Powermac G5 on the Apple Forums. Unfortunately, the links provided for support articles were broken by Apple's webmaster. For example, this was cited at least 5 times, and it appears to be the canonical reference for this issue on the G5: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302527
I'm learning how to use Quartz Composer (Version 4.6 (151.1)) running on Yosemite (10.10.5 (14F27)). I can successfully create a Quartz Composer document and save it to any folder. However, after editing the document subsequent attempts to save it yield an error "The document “Untitled.qtz” could not be saved." How can I get Quartz Composer to save the updates I make to the document?
In the Contacts app in OS X Yosemite it is currently impossible to import custom field labels when importing from a CSV file. I use a 3rd party app to manage my contacts and I would like to import the custom labels that I use for postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for my contacts. If I create a field that merges the custom label with field data, and a separator character in between, would it be possible to use an AppleScript to extract the custom label, remove the separator character, and rename the field with the custom label? For example, I currently have a custom label for a phone field: Field Custom Label: Dad Mobile Field Value: 123 456 7890 Merged Field: Dad Mobile;123 456 7890
On my iPhone 5s, I am often at a location at the edge of the limits of my Wi-Fi signal, where my 4G signal will actually be stronger than the Wi-Fi signal. However, my iPhone will remain connected to the Wi-Fi at this point, and will only disconnect when there is no Wi-Fi signal at all.
I have had two Mac Mini workstations (10.10.x) in a small office give me weird behavior. The server is a 10.10.4-based Mac Mini. All networking is done over ethernet.
I decided to try out the El Capitan Public Beta for fun by putting it on my external drive and booting off of it. However, one of the first things I've noticed is that the drag gesture in System Preferences->Trackpad is not to be found. Is this normal? I don't know what Beta version I'm running (a web search of the build number turns nothing up about the Beta version), I do know it was the current version about a month ago, anyway the build number is 15A215h. Having to press and drag the old fashioned way seems awful, especially after using the three finger drag.
I jailbroke my iPhone 5 a while ago and everything was going fine a couple weeks ago. I couldnt update or download apps from the appstore and couldn't delete or install tweaks from cydia. So i decided to remove my jailbreak. First i tried to restore with itunes, but my phone could't connect or froze (i tried on a pc and laptop). So i tried doing it from the phone itself, but now its stuck on the screen that you also see when you update your IOS (the apple logo with the white downloadbar below it). I already tried holding the power and home button, but when i turn it on again it goes to the same screen. I'm hoping for a way to troubleshoot or fix this other than being patient while the charge on the battery depletes forcing a shut down/reboot cycle.
I have two different problems with contacts on my iPhone: Some of them are duplicated The new contacts are not available to see, like they doesn't exist, but if I dail the number in the contact shows up. Does anyone know whats going on here and have a solution for this? Thanks!
Is it possible to have the audio files from an iTunes U course play continuously; i.e., one after the other, without any user interaction, like a music playlist? At the moment, I can only play one at a time, but I would like to just have it playing, so I can listen in the car via BlueTooth (where I can't mess around with track selection).
I can't install any apps on my iPad because it keeps saying that the app requires iOS 6.0 and I have a 1st-Generation iPad which can only update as far as iOS 5.1.1.
It seems as though extensions in Safari can't access cookies. In firefox there is a great add-on that immediately deletes cookies from a site after you close its tab. This is really helpful for viewing sites that require cookies, but that you don't want following you all over the internet.
I have my work exchange account added to my iphone. The problem is when I add a contact in my iPhone, the contact is automatically stored in the exchange account group. This I do not want. Is there a way that I can turn this bug/feature off?
First time I have tried to burn a CD since I was upgraded to 12.2. All will burn to CD except for three songs, two of which I just purchased. They show up on the playlist, but are darkened, not highlighted to copy to CD. I tried going back to the earlier iTunes version, but then it would not open my library at all, saying it had been created on a later version. Any help to be had? It would certainly be appreciated.
I would like to know how long my MacBook Pro was on today - total uptime for the day. I just bought it, and I thought the battery was bad but it went on for longer than I thought. Of course, I wasn't standing next to it with a stopwatch... It would be a great feature for me to track time spent on devices anyways, to see which ones I spend the most time on. Maybe in System Report, or using a tool in Utilities? A script? EDIT: I am asking this to do this on different computers, some built before 2011.
I have an iPad mini (original model) running iOS 8.4 Recently I have noticed many apps seem to be too large for the screen; usually the top or bottom is partly off screen. When I press the button, the home screen displays normally for a few seconds, then seems to "grow" e.g. the iPad in the top left now shows "Pad" wth the "i" off the screen. This may have been since a software upgrade, but I can't be sure.
I bought a Macbook Pro 13' Mid 2012 with the sound damaged just for work (I develop IOS apps) but now I miss the sound in my Mac and I want to fix it. The sound icon in the superior bar does not appear and when I go to sound settings. I found this message: "No output devices found". Sound works correctly with bluetooth headsets.
I bought my computer in 2014 last fall and this summer I brought it in to get a factory reset (to take out everything I had done). When I brought it home I realized that iMovie was deleted and I searched it up to see that it would now cost money... I wanted to know if there was any way to recover iMovie or get it for free.
I'm running out of space in iCloud, so I decided to turn off all the backups and delete them. What happens if I click "delete backup" at the bottom of the manage store page? Do I still have my photos in the camera roll?
I purchased a Mid 2013 MacBook Air with OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 and I am unable to locate the hardrive icon in Finder.
I have very recently switched to mac, so i am a bit lost here... I am running a test web app (Spring Boot app) on my mac now and I need to connect to it over WiFi form another device. Now, when the app was running on win I could connect on (the IP address of the new mac is 192.168.0.102) but if I go to *=URL=* I get only "This page is not available".... Thanks for your help!
I posted this question on stackexchange and was told in no uncertain terms that my system was broken because pgrep did not exist in /usr/bin This has me worried, my system is stable and I am sure I did not 'accidentally' delete pgrep from the /usr/bin directory. I checked one of my other (newer systems) and indeed pgrep is available. Is pgrep shipped by Apple in 10.7.5?
What about USB C to Thunderbolt via Apple supplied adapter with USB C, HDMI and USB. Then you could go from HDMI to Thunderbolt? Could this work?
My MBP Retina 13″ late 2012 is showing the stop sign and I know that I need to reinstall my OS. I have not got my hard drive backed up with Time Machine. Is there a way in which I can backup my hard drive to an external drive using Disk Utility and then restore it back once I have reinstalled the OS (I have to restore as for some reason I don't have enough space or something)?
I'd like to create a smart playlist in iTunes based on a specific folder (I manage my media library manually). Is that somehow still possible in ITunes 12 (even if it involves scripting)?
When I delete photos from my iPhone on My Photo Stream, will the same photos also be deleted on other devices connected to the same Apple ID automatically?
I cannot seem to find a way to play music by genre after the iOS upgrade (**cough) to 8.4. I've tried to workaround this with playlists (which I would have to do every change in my music library). But ok. I held my anger and accepted this. Tried to create playlist. Add songs > Genre, and saw no Add all button. Really?? Do I have to do a thousand taps to create my playlists? Subquestion: Is there an alternative app capable of playing songs by genre?
I have a 2013 16Gb iPhone 5S, It worked properly until an annoying screen/touchscreen issue appeared yesterday . Here is the issue : The screen suddenly gets slightly darker and some shadows appear under black texts and shapes. The touchscreen stops working but works back when I lock and unlock my iPhone. The slightly darker screen and the blacks shadows issues continue after locking-then-unlocking and then suddenly go away. So the issue is a sudden screen issue (it gets darker and so shadows appear under black shapes and texts) along with a temporary touchscreen problem that goes away after locking then unlocking the device .
I want to upgrade Windows 7 on my macbook boot camp partition to Windows 10. However, my macbook is early 2008 and can only run Lion (which I believe is due to graphic requirements). I have read David Anderson's reply with regard to upgrading the later 2008 macbook but Apple's support site re boot camp does not include my model macbook as being compatible with Windows 10.
On a MacBook Pro with the Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU, the amount of allocated video memory is 384 MB, as can be seen on this Apple support page (scroll down to HD Graphics 3000) This GPU, however, is known to allocate base memory based on available RAM. In particular, for 8 GB RAM, it is expected to allocate 512 MB. It seems Apple has chosen to override this, and allocate only 384 MB instead.
Has anyone found a way to turn on Do Not Disturb mode for every device from one. Often times when I'm trying to work and people won't shut up I turn on DND mode on my MBP but then my iPhone will start dinging away. So I turn on DND mode there too. Then iPad starts up etc. This is an almost endless process. There's an additional 2 other Macs tied into my iCloud account. I've been tempted to just turn it off completely but it's about as handy as it is annoying. Also find that when I need to turn DND mode off I forget on 1 device or more causing some annoyance if I actually need the notifications. Ideally I'd like to be able to activate DND mode globally from my MBP. I'm curious if anyone else has seen a possible solution to this.
Regrettably I'm using a WD EX2 on my bridged home network (current and 4th gen Airport Extremes), and the finder doesn't refresh my AFP volumes. The NAS is attached on the 4th gen APE.
Today I connected an external monitor whose native resolution is 1440x900. However, my Mac (Retina 13) doesn't allow me to set this resolution. I already tried pressing the Option Key the same time I click on "scaled" inside Display preferences, and, even though many other new resolutions are displayed, mine is not. Is it impossible to set 1440x900 to the external monitor?
I've just upgraded my phone and am giving my son my old one how do I remove my Apple ID from the old phone and will it affect my new phone
I'm having trouble accessing about 50GB of space on my computer after a failed partitioning attempt. Before you ask, I don't know what went wrong, I just know that now, I can only turn the free space into an additional partition. I really just want to be able to resize or edit the partition map, but Disk Utility has other plans in mind. Suggestions? I'm sure I'm not the first person to see something like this.
iMessages won't send, and immediately show 'Not Delivered'. Sending as an SMS sometimes works.
How to change layout in OS X like Shift=English, Ctrl=Russian? Like in Punto Switcher in Windows or Xneur in Linux?
I have an applescript that utilizes a named pipe and pipes data over to it. I have my script passing said data in a while loop, which is working, but I find that I am unable to stop the script manually without quitting the Script Editor program. I do not need to force quit. Here is the relevant snippet of my script (d is a QT movie reference that is active and playing; aname is a valid POSIX path that specifies the location of the named pipe):
I moved to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 but the display at 2800x1800 looks too small in Windows 10. In Windows 8.1 the display was fine at 2800x1800. Also, before installing bootcamp drivers in Windows 10 the display was good(a little big and visible not too big, no back on top and bottom it was complete full screen clear display). How would I fix that? Laptop: MacBook pro retina 15-inch.
I have an old email/id apple iCloud account on an iPad mini that I can't delete because the email is totally defunct and I cannot remember the password. I have a newer iCloud account that I use for everything and have no problem with it, except that I cannot use it on my iPad mini because it keeps asking me for the old account's password. I have read through the boards and am stuck!
I'm trying to determine what Apple's Firewall considers essential services. Apple's Firewall has the following settings available:
I want to work with a list of all email addresses that appear in my address book. I thought I could simply set such a list with AppleScript, and use the elements, maybe after casting the references to strings, as this answer suggests. However, the code below runs into a casting error, with or without explicit casting (e.g. as string):
I don't want the iCloud Download column in iTunes; it really does nothing for me. Whenever I turn it off, it is there next time I open iTunes. This is so frustrating - is there any way to turn it off for good?
I tried removing the execute bit, but that did not work. After reboot, Launchd still managed to start sshd. Other thoughts include a filesystem extended attribute to deny access to it. How do I safely and permanently disable the existing OpenSSH daemon?
I have an NTFS volume that I am copying into a new HFS+ volume. I'm using the following command to copy everything including all hidden directories and attributes:
I am running Keynote 6.5.3 on OS X 10.10.5. Is there a way to play a slideshow in Keynote in non-fullscreen mode? Edit: I have edited my question slightly, since the suggestion to convert my Keynote files to Quicktime does not answer the question I had intended. Edit2: I would prefer to not have to deal with the complexity of multiple file formats and apps for the simple task of reading through a large set of Keynote files, some of which I need on the screen at the same time due to diagrams etc.
My father-in-law purchased a $400 lifetime support contract with a company (Cyber PC Experts). Recently his computer has been acting up—running very slowly—so he requested support. The service tech took control of his computer remotely (from India) and pretty much fixed the issue. A few days later, he gets an email from them saying that they need to check his computer again because it was hacked. They did a few things to his computer while he was watching to show that it was “hacked.” Then proceeded to try to sell him a ~$1000 software/config to clear current “hacks” and to thwart future hacks. I wasn’t involved until I heard this and went over to his computer and took over the phone conversation with the tech that was remotely using his machine.
I'm working under OS X 10.8.5, fully patched. I have IPv6 disabled under Network Settings:
I have my music collect on my NAS and would like to copy it to my laptop. When I try to copy the music folder and paste it to a new location on my laptop I get messages that OS X can't paste the folder to the new location because a folder with the same name already exists. For example, let's say I have the following two folders: /Music/311/horrible album /Music/311/Horrible Album
I recently bought a macbook pro retina 2012 and later tried some fps game, e.g. Team Fortress 2. I plugged an usb mouse and noticed my it's movement is kinda weird or like unresponsive or something. It seems like my mouse movement has some kind of inertia, smoothing, acceleration or something, but it doesn't feel comfortable when gaming. Sometimes even a touchpad seems easier to play with. What am I experiencing and how can I make it like in windows?
On Windows, the NVIDIA control panel provides some features that I use a lot when watching movies; you can adjust the gamma and other settings, such as dynamic contrast and color enhancement. I've been using these for a while as they make a big difference with Dark Movies. These settings, I assume are somehow magically "better" than directly adjusting settings in a video player software. The settings only affect video playback and not the Desktop colors or other applications. (This is not a critical feature for me to have but I'm just mentioning it so people know what I'm talking about) What would be the equivalent to this on a mac?
I run 10.11 public beta in a VM with VMware Fusion 7.1.2 with my rMBP 2015. I have the problem that main part in Finder or the maps in Maps.app are blank. Sidebars and menus are all rendering fine. Is this a known issue? Can I do something about this?
I know I should have been more vigilant and backed up my drive before transferring, but have never had a problem before. However, this time, all of my precious photos from before my son's birth until now, 8 months later, are completely gone. Is there any way to recover them? The only information that the "Photos Library" is reflecting are a handful of random photos from 2008-2013.
Suppose I have a full screen app. I am on a Desktop space. I click on the full screen app's Dock icon, but nothing happens. I would expect the system to switch to that full screen app.
I have an exclamation mark showing over my messages icon on my iPhone and it wont let me access messages. Any idea how to resolve?
I own a Macbook pro (15'4) with Yosemite. I used to use it without an external display. The brightness was very powerful :)
Is the uconv utility (a tool from ICU that provides Unicode normalization) available for Mac OS X? I did not find it in homebrew and searching the web for solutions did not turn out anything useful for me.
When I try to start my MBP early 2011 with Mavericks OS installed I get a blinking folder icon. SMC reset, PRAM reset did not resolve the issue. The MBP does not boot into the safe mode too. When I attempt to perform internet recovery, the hard drive does not show up in the list of hard drives. It looks like my hard drive has crashed. Is there some way that I could recover my data?
How do I turn off the background functions at startup (in my case, Creative Cloud, Evernote, Dropbox, et cetera) that cause my OSX hard drive to run hot, so that they don't cause this problem in the first place? So far, I've been forced to let them load and then turn them off one by one afterward.
I am currently surrounded by a long list of WiFi connections and every time I boot up my MacBook Pro, it switches away from what should be the default for the public WiFi connection. How can I force my Mac OSX to recognize the domestic connection it should be using? Is there also any way to block the listing of other WiFi connections, especially because there are so many?
I am looking for a way to copy a folder, with all the invisible and system files it contains in its "first level", but only some of the other visible, "normal" folders it contains? This is related to a "Time Machine" data transfer, from an old disk to a new one. But I think it is a question interesting in its own.
I have read this question regarding App Store updates for older iPads, and I'm in a similar situation to MrDaniel regarding my hardware / software. This is a different question though: how to find apps, via App Store or otherwise, which will have a version which is compatible? In the App Store you can filter by iPhone or iPad, but not by iOS version.
I want Python 3 (and I do not want to mess with OS X provided python). According to: https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html
What kind of algorithm do they use to see how much space is left? I thought that maybe the amount of space it began with is programmed in and then the size of files created is then subtracted from the total amount. P.S: This is a Mac question or a programming question?
Sometimes it is necessary to use my mac to install apps being developed on to other people's iOS devices, meaning that it frequently has new iOS devices plugged in. Whenever I plug in a new device 2 things happen that I would like to avoid:
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.10 and a Windows 7 Boot Camp install. I just bought a 64 GB flash drive that I would like to put a bootable copy of Windows on, to reestablish the hard drive as OS X only, and figured it would be easiest to just clone the BOOTCAMP partition that I already have. I formatted the USB to GUID/NTFS and used dd to clone it:
I'm working on OS X 10.8.5, fully patched. I have an updated OpenSSH server installed in /usr/local/sbin listening on port 1522. Connection attempts result in ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. sudo grep 'sshd' /var/log/* 2>/dev/null at the server is returning almost nothing, so I'm trying to gather more information at the server on the cause.
I have imported quite a few TV Shows into iTunes and I have noticed that iTunes renames the files in the style Episode number Episode name.m4v (e.g. 01 - My First Day.m4v).
Can't find a likely looking existing question so here goes: I just updated to Yosemite and successfully (?? well -- it seems to work ) migrated my iPhoto library to Photos. Now however, I would like to move the iPhoto library to another external drive. It is already on an external but I got a new one that I want dedicated to photos only).
I have had this LaCie backup (500 GB) for years since my friend suggested few years ago. I have been pluging it in my mac every few months and just let it do its thing. Luckily, I never have to retrieve any info from it.
Here's the error message I get: "An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk." When I try to follow that instruction, I'm informed that Disk Utility is unable to unmount the backup drive. This happens whether I have Time Machine turned on or off, and following ejecting and reconnecting the drive. Selecting Time Machine from System Preferences doesn't make any difference.
I'm running iOS 8.4.1. When I go into to the app settings and tap to enable the iCloud Music Library, I get the Replace or Merge. After this the option reverts back to off automatically. I tried lots of times, rebooting the phone, switching airplane mode on/off, but still the same...
thanks for the help so far, but I am hoping there is a solution for this! (I would use a 3rd party app too, if Apple just blew this one completely)
In The Outliers, Bill Joy is quoted as saying "If you put your Mac in that funny mode where you can see the code, I see things that I can remember typing 25 years ago."
I just started developing for iOS devices on 10.9 Mavericks with xCode 5.1. When I try to build and deploy my application I get build successful but when the iOS simulator runs it immediately crashes. I post the whole stack trace: *=URL=* Any recommendation on fixing this is welcomed.
I have a bunch of books in iBooks in the ePub format from different sources. Some are iTunes, some Humble, LeanPub etc. I have notes and markings in there as well.
I am on a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch, late 2013, with OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks. First of all, to clarify the question, my goal is to create a new, working Time Machine (TM) disk, that has as much as possible of the old backup data available.
I have successfully been able to install Linux Mint on my Mac. The only issue is I cannot select the boot partition holding option. To fix it I booted into linux and ran sudo efibootmgr -o 1,80. This forced my Mac to boot into Linux. This now forces me into Linux but I have to old down option to boot back onto OS X.
My first question is: Is my HDD slowly dying? What could the problem be?
Whether it is a Movie, Home Movie or TV Show, the thumbnails appear successfully, which means a connection to the Plex server running on my Mac is established. However, when I try to play any video, the spinner appears and keeps on spinning but a video never plays. This seems to be a common issue but so far I have been unable to find a solution. Samsung TV UN60F8000 Plex for Samsung 2.003 Mac OS X 10.10.4
The current Mac OS has a concept of family sharing. When you create a family, a calendar "Family" is created in iCloud. It's fine on my computer. Somehow, on my other family member's calendar, the name is a little like "FamilyMurgatroyd" (different name). I think I know how this happened, but I haven't been able to reset it. Local changes in the other member's Calendar app or iCloud page are overwritten with the next refresh.
I'm aware of the spontaneous reboot glitch as it happened many times before I found Apple's specifics on how to stop it, but starting earlier today, when I try to open System Preferences my MacBook Pro as per this fantastic tip I received this morning - which runs OSX - immediately crashes and restarts. Is there something I'm doing that's overloading my computer? That's precisely what I was trying to subvert. EDIT: Specifically the com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice consistently crashes if I try to open Network Preferences.
My tech put Yosemite on 39 iMac computers in my elementary computer lab last week. I have 800 students who come through it every week, and I need to delete the last 4 year's users (approx 100/machine). It takes forever to delete each user individually. Also, can I override the individual user settings for each student? Students occasionally use other machines and have to go through the set up process every time they get on a different machine. That will be irritating!
I'm using join.me for online presentations. If I have a video I'd like to share, I can't send the sound to join.me. I was thinking perhaps some Soundflower set up might enable this function. Any ideas about that, or other ways to send audio to a VOIP-type connection online?
I am new to the concept of signing apps developed for the Mac. I'm curious about the use of non-Apple-issued certificates. I see software on my Mac HD that uses certificates from VeriSign and GlobalSign. I know that reputable CAs like these are in Apple's trusted CA list, but I don't see a way for me to tell Xcode to use a certificate that I would purchase from a 3rd party CA. Would I just use "codesign" in the Terminal?
There are a few mentions of this problem online, including Can't Enable Filevault because Recovery Partition Missing from 2011, suggesting reinstalling Lion. *=URL=* suggested reinstalling the operating system, but also suggested that that might result in system instability in the future, and therefore suggested using Carbon Copy Cloner 4. *=URL=* provides instructions about creating a new recovery partition, but doesn't specifically mention the problem with FileVault, or whether following that process would allow FileVault to start.
I don't use any of these services. Currently there is a dialog box permanently on the screen prompting for a password. If I press cancel, it's replaced instantly by another dialog box, prompting for a password for one of these services, apparently randomly chosen.
Simply put, how do I open the Firefox directly from Mac OS X Terminal in private mode?
I recently took a photo with my iPhone 4 and soon after e-mailed it to someone. When I downloaded my photos to my computer I noticed that the "time created" information showed a time that was after I had e-mailed the photo. How is that possible?
When I go to full screen on a Word for Mac document, the dots (red, yellow, green) disappear, and I can't get them back. Therefore, I am not able to close a document. Can someone tell me how to reduce the page size on a Word for Mac document so I can see the dots? I've poked around for hours and found nothing online or in the help section. Thank you
I need to downgrade to OS Mavericks 10.9.5 from a new pre-installed Yosemite 10.10.1 iMac late 2013, can you help me out? Is it possible considering Yosemite was pre-installed?!
I received my brother-in-law's old Mac as a gift. When we tried to switch from his email to mine, the app won't accept my password or connect online. Does anyone know to fix this? The Mac still has his name and email address as the default even though I've changed to my Apple ID and everything.
I don't know why my Mail is processing Millions of mails ..but obviously I don't have that many mails.. I wonder what is happening to my mail client as it is roaring my CPU quite seriously.
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." Click "Repair your computer". If you do not have this disct, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. File: \windows\system32\drivers\AppleSSD.sys Status: 0xc0000428 Info: Windows cannot verify the digital signature of this file.
I am using iPhone 6 native app as my email client. I recently did the latest update and I have noticed that I've been receiving my email notifications a bit late or delayed. The notifications are sometimes taking about 20 minutes!
Is there a way to block a specific email thread from notifications in Yosemite without turning notifications off for email? I am using mail.app.
I'm looking to see if anyone has been successful in running the ASUS PB279Q at 4k 60Hz via mini DisplayPort on a MacBook Pro 2015 15". Running via HDMI works at 4k with 30Hz only, likewise setting DisplayPort to 1.1 does the same. As soon as you set the monitor to DisplayPort 1.2 I get a no signal on the monitor with the MacBook Pro screen flashing like it can't make up its mind.
The screen has broken on my iPhone 4S and the On/Off button does not work. I had an idea that it might fix if I restart it (tell me if I'm wrong) but I can't. Is there a way that I can restart or even better update it from iTunes on the MacBook? I do know how to back it up.
My MacBook is not booting up due to some short circuit problem. Apple Store has promised that they can repair but there would be data loss.
I have an AppleScript that automatically opens SelfControl.app to help avoid distractions when I want to be working. The script is very similar to automate an Internet content filter, and it is automatically launched by iCal at a set time. The problem is that when the script runs, the window opens on the screen, and if I'm in the middle of typing something, then my typing interferes with the dialog box for entering the password, and the script fails.
I waited for about 8 hours to finish my 2.6 GB download to update from Xcode 6.2 to 6.4. After waiting it says it is installed. Opening Xcode it prompted me to install additional files and I accepted it. Once the installation was finished, it still says that my version is 6.2. After restarting my Mac Mini it still says that my Xcode version is 6.2. I checked App store, and Xcode still wants to update to 6.4. Whereas my "Updates installed in the Last 30 Days" tab it indicates that I was done downloading the 6.4 version. How can I update my Xcode 6.2 to 6.4?
Need to know what is the exact netstat command to find out if a port is connected with any network or it's open through OS X Terminal. I want info on a particular port, such as port number 80, so the netstat command should include the port number.
I am currently running OS X Version 10.9.5 (Mavericks). In the past I installed OS X server and had to sign some certificates so that users could authenticate with the VPN function (which is what I mostly used the server for), and later I removed OS X server from the OS.
Hi I would like to organize my recent call list by number instead of the default sorting by date. Or I would like to see the list of previous calls & messages with a phone number. Currently I am just going back in history to see if I received a call from someone in the past couple days. It will be great if order by phone number/contact option is available I am using Iphone 5, iOS 8.4.0
I'm aware that there is no OSX driver provided by TP-LINK for the TL-WN722N, but if I'm referring to this question, some people had success with other devices in the same situation. Is there any way to use this adapter in Yosemite ? Any workaround or hack ? [EDIT : OSX updated to "El Capitan" : still no driver...]
Is it possible to have an icon in the dock which is a link to some specific site and opens it in Chrome when clicked? I'd like to put Trello in the Dock so that to quickly access it when needed.
I have a modem/router that came with my ISP and I have two Airport Express. I have the Airports so I can extend my signal further. My current setup is: Modem -> ethernet -> Airport Express 1 -> wireless -> Airport Express 2. On the Airport Express 1 - I can either create a new wireless network for AE2 to connect to, or I can join the modems connection. What advantages / disadvantages do I have to creating a new wireless network on AE1 vs. joining the existing one from the modem?
I'd like to find a way to use OS X native notifications instead of the Chrome notifications. I have read something about using a Growl extension and then redirect Growl to OS X Notifications Center using Hiss app, but I never used Growl and for what I've read seems like it was used only on old versions of OS X. Is there any way?
The bootcamp said that my disk cannot be partitioned or restored as single partition. I am using macbook pro 15" but idk the version but the graphic card said gt320m 256 MB and 350 GB HDD i5 do i have to remove the data before do bootcamp or is there anything i can do beside remove the data?
When I update iOS over the air, the process seems to include all apps being automatically updated. However, I have one single app from the App Store (Overdrive) that I would like to keep stable and not updated. After the update, I would like to still have the same version of this app, with the same data, as before the update. Is there a way to do this?
Is it against any Apple developer rules to put a URL in a game somewhere, which links to a page on Amazon? and/or a link to a bloggers website?
I have a 2009 iMac running OS X 10.6.8. I would like to filter certain IP/MAC addresses from accessing my WiFi via "Internet Sharing". I have already set a password, but I would still like to filter specific IP/MAC addresses. Is this possible on my iMac with 10.6.8 ?
The delete key works - delete text to the right. But the backspace key (I'm using an external keyboard btw) moves left but doesn't delete (I am in insert mode) However it does work OK (moves the remaining text left AND removes one chr) at the command line itself when I use command line vi (set -o vi) and insert mode. I normally use tmux and iterm2 however I experimented with the basic terminal app and the problem persists (I am still using tmux though in case that is the issue)
I have setup WebViewScreensaver to show a dashboard, and the password is required afterwards. This works well, except that when the display turns off after a few minutes, I turn it back on and cancel the password prompt, the display turns off immediately. I would like to have the screensaver come back for a few minutes instead. Is there a way to do this?
I heard about a service called JailbreakMe. It's an online jailbreak right through the safari browser on the iDevice, but it is not supports on iPad 1 or 3.I have ipad 1 ios 5.1.1 and ipad 3 ios 8.4.1. How can I jailbreak one of these devices online or at least install Cydia?
I want to backup my iPhone to iTunes but I still want all the information to remain on my phone. Will my information be deleted if I backup it up?
I've the following entry in log: 24/08/2015 18:00:32.197 com.apple.mtmd[55]: attempting to thin because of low free space on Macintosh HD (/) by removing 2015-08-24 16:57:54 +0100, estimate 0 bytes to recover, 1 snapshot can be thinned But I've over 25GB free: In top: And vm_stat: I believe this state of a low free space breaks few apps (like Chrome) which behaves weird.
I use OnyX to clear out caches and delete superfluous files to try to make my Mac run faster. I usually just run "Automation" with the default boxes checked.
There are three email accounts on my phone. A standard account(gmail) and two additional accounts.
EDIT: Thanks to @user3439894 I went through and made a script to change all the plist keys to what I want them to be. The only issue is, it does not work. :-( Here is what I have so far:
I am running Mac 10.6.2 and I want to update to 10.6.8. I have downloaded the update dmg already but want to install in safe boot and not normal. I am aware that many kexts are not loaded except from the core ones but will this stop the installer from installing?
When I use searchbox (the same text area used for the URLs) and Google Page is loaded, after clicking on a result, if I try to undo to the previous Google Page, the undo button appears disabled. How can I save the Google Page in the history in order to call back the page clicking on undo button?
I'm trying to open iTunes links from the web in Windows 10. Whenever I click on a "View in iTunes" link in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, I get sent to a page saying I should download and install iTunes. I already did that and I'm on a fresh install of Windows. I've restarted after a repair install of iTunes without any difference. If I do the same in Internet Explorer, the links work and iTunes opens fine. Are others experiencing this at all?
I had a MacBook Pro, Mid-2010, which I regularly made weekly Time Machine backups of. The computer accidently got destroyed. When it died it was running OS X 10.10.4.
I blocked the com.apple.geod process with my software firewall but after 2 days of non-stop 1 second attempts I just pkill'ed it. I want to know what services are using this so I can disable them from running com.apple.geod if possible.
I can find the repeat button in the Music App for IOS8.4.1, when clicked or highlighted the song does not repeat. The shuffle button does work. How do I make this button work? Is there a work-around that will allow me to repeat a song or a group of songs? TIA.
I lost an important sqlite file during the upgrade to iOS 9 beta. Luckily the file is backed up on iCloud. When restoring from the iCloud backup, iOS downloads the data file along with the app, but then deletes the app and file immediately during the process (most likely due to the app is not a finished app available on the App Store; it is under development). So my question is, is there a way to restore that beta app's data file? Or, is there a way to prevent the restore process from deleting apps that it thinks should not exist?
I have a song on my computer that primarily consists of vocals. In GarageBand, I want to listen to each part separately so that I can create a piano version of the song. I put "isolate" in quotes because I am aware that it's difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the different tracks from a song file.
Thus, I thought its a problem with logic board. I youtubed and found something worthwhile.
I am trying to export my contacts from iCloud to Gmail but it is not functioning. I keep on pressing export option but nothing is coming out. Is there any other way to sync my contacts to Gmail or to any other phone?
How do you get music that you have already purchased into the new apple music they just updated? In the old one you had an option in settings to show all music but now that option is gone and i can't download music i have already bought onto my iphone? Anybody help? How do you do it?
I've got a lot of Apple applications on my Macbook which I never use (Photos Facetime, iBooks, iMovie, iTunes, etc.). They just clutter up my application folder and I want to get rid of them. This doesn't seem to be as easy as I think it should be though. When I right-click an application in the applications folder and select "move to trash" it says the applications are needed for the correct working of OSX, which I highly doubt. In my terminal I went to the Applications folder (/Users/kramer65/Applications), but a simple ls only shows me Chromium Apps.localized.
When I speak on my Apple watch - the text to speech is quite fast. (To me this seems like the harder Computer Science problem, and my understanding is that it is going over the wire - back to Apple - converted, and then sent back as text). Then the subsequent action "Tell John Smith I'm on the bus" - launching an SMS with this content, seems quite slow. This seems like the wrong way around - since I would have thought that the speech-to-text and running it over the wire was much harder to engineer. My question is: Why is my Apple Watch Siri voice-to-text fast, but taking subsequent action is slow?
Currently iTunes' Recently Added section only extends back around three months (I think) and I'd like it go back further than that, like 1 or 2 years, say. Does anyone know how to change this?
I use Google Chrome, and utilise the "New Tab page". This claims to show "Thumbnails of the websites that you visit frequently" (although it does not explain how this is determined) and has options "to remove a most visited site", but does not seem to have any option to add sites. I have recently returned from a long trip, and the list contained lots of sites I no longer need, which I deleted, but many of my sites have fallen off.
I have my old iPhone that I would like to give to someone. I've deleted my iCloud, then restored the phone and now when im setting up its asking for my iCloud log in again. Has anyone encountered this issue and why does it happen?
According to Apple, I can only have 2 partitions on my 3 TB Fusion Drive. I do not understand why. Techtool Pro made an eDrive, their emergency boot drive, and Apple made their Recovery HD. It seems to me that I have 4 partitions on my Fusion Drive, something which Apple says cannot happen. Source: ... Can I add a partition to the hard disk with Fusion Drive?
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended Journaled volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
I have heard that a specific type of SSD is required if you want to use an SSD in an iMac 21.5" (mid 2011). Which type of SSD would this be?
I am trying to automate some changes in m4a metadata and would prefer doing it through AppleScript other than popular solutions like mutagen. How can I address m4a files metadata? I need not only setting metadata to specific values, I need to read these values first.
I am brand new to Mac. I very recently migrated all of my files from my Windows PC.
I am working on a mac running OSX 10.10.5 and I am using Apple mail. When I am reading an email I want to prevent the email from being marked as read instantly. I would rather mark it myself, or have it wait like 2 minutes before it marks it as read.
Should Mac menu items be title case? "New from Clipboard" vs "New From Clipboard"?
How can I transfer photos from Mac(including iPhoto) into Android phone? When I connect my android phone to Mac via USB, iPhoto can recognize it, but I can only find the import new photo button, then where is the export photo to android phone button?
My computer recognizes my iPhone 5 but not my iPhone 4 and yet both are recognized by iTunes. I've tried all the received suggestions: restarting the computer and iPhone 4, changing the USB cable, changing ports- but to no avail.
I have a few folders for uni projects in the documents section on my Mac. One of the folder containing most of my work, powerpoints, word documents and JPEG's has disappeared randomly. The other folders are there it is just this one.
After I updated to iOS 8.4, My iPad has been charging Very slowly. Times:
I am trying to use remote desktop to send a script to all Macs on my network that creates an additional admin account and hides it. I am trying to do this using Apple Remote Desktop. However most of these macs have remote management disabled.
I sent a .zip file to a friend with an iMac but he can't open it. It was created using PKZip on a Windows 7 PC, and it's Password protected. He's pretty technically inept so is there anything he needs to do to be able to access this file please?
I know it's relatively vague problem description, but I would like to hear some theories on what this could be. And if it happens again, how to actually pin point to the process that is causing it.
I just purchased an iPhone 6, with iOS 8. I am trying to get several things to work. This is my first iPhone, I am not familiar with how to use it.
I'm using MacBook Pro. My Apple mouse that I only got last year when I right click on the mouse, nothing happens. I'm supposed to get a delete message so I can "move to trash" or "remove reference" my files. Since my right click on mouse isn't working. How do I get the delete followed by "move to trash" or "remove reference" to appear by clicking what on keyboard?
How do I delete apache from OS X Yosemite? I want to start with a new unaltered configuration so I will also need to know how to install the latest version. Following other posts to delete/reinstall apache I already tried the "apt-get" and "get" commands but they couldn't been found.
Firefox documentation specifies that when you click a link to download a file and select 'open', that it downloads it to a temp folder. While this is true on a Windows system, it is not in Yosemite. It automatically downloads to my Downloads folder, just the same as if I told it to download without opening. the firefox documentation that says 'open with' saves to a tmp location is found at the following link: *=URL=* the idea is that when the dialog box pops up for a clicked link: If I choose 'open with' and the selected application opens the file, it is saved to a temp location, whereas selecting 'save file' then automatically goes to downloads... or however else I choose to set it in the preferences of firefox. the firefox documentations say that 'open with' goes to temp folder, but that is apparently only true on a windows operating system, not osx. If it's a big hackjob to fix this, i'll forget it, but if there's some 'about:config' line I can mod or something, that would be great.
I'm unable to install Windows 8.1 using Bootcamp on my 2015 MacBook Air. The installer says setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volumes doesn't contain the required free space.
I can't use my iPhone any longer after my son wrongly entered my passcode to unlock my phone and I am finding it difficult to activate it after his action. How can I get it working again?
If it's possible, I'd love an option that works on both Mac and Windows and is standard to spreadsheet programs e.g. not just MS Excel but others too. But I'm guessing this is probably impossible, so just knowing the Mac exquivalent of =char(9) would be enough. Bonus points for a link to a reference to the complete character table Excel for Mac uses so I can just look up any question like this in future.
I have Mac OS X 10.10.3. On startup of the OS you can select between different users on the machine. To select a user you have to do a full click, but instead I want to use tap to click. Can this be changed in the settings somehow?
As the title says, I'm looking at apps I've moved to the second screen, and wondering if I can remove these. These are the iOS apps that came with a fresh install, so no simple delete option. It would help free up some memory, as I'd never use these.
Download a Free App published only to India AppStore while my primary iTunes account is US Appstore? I have years (maybe a decade) with my iTunes account on US Appstore. I do not wish to switch permanently as I have Apps bought from it. I just need a few 'Free' India AppStore apps now and then for when I visit. Is there some temporary way to switch or buy them?
I can easily understand why Yosemite Calendar's "last open" behavior might be very desirable for some people, but for me it's very dangerous. I know that I can jump to today using the button in the upper right corner--if I remember--and there's the problem. I'm so used to Snow Leopard Calendar's behavior, that when I open Calendar, I just assume that I'm looking at the current month/week/day. I don't know when I will miss an appointment because of this "feature", but I know it will happen.
Took a while to figure out why the screen stays black during boot, but I eventually found that the boot menu and apple logo are by default going to an external monitor. I have tried to fix this by resetting the default display in system preferences, SMC and PRAM resets, but to no avail. I'm at a loss as to what is causing this to happen, and can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!
Can a single Apple ID/ iTunes account switch between multiple country AppStores to buy free Apps unique to each country? If I use my single Apple ID/ iTunes account but move & have moved across countries where certain Apps are only on those country AppStores, can I switch between them and buy Free Apps, yet maintain them on my iTunes and iOS devices? Additional Information: I am wondering if this workaround worked for someone / still works? It was done on Mac OSX, but I am wondering if it can be done in Windows.
After upgrading to a second monitor I have run into some unexpected cmd+tab behavior that is really impacting my workflow: With one monitor, when using cmd+tab to switch between applications, OS X gives the focus to the last active window of the application one switches to. With multiple monitors, OS X prefers windows that are on the same monitor as the previous application. To give an example: Consider having Xcode on monitor 1 and Terminal (window A) on monitor 2 and (window B) on monitor 2; focus is on Terminal window B you cmd+tab to Xcode you cmd+tab back to Terminal, but now window A has the focus and not window B This behavior is potentially hazardous as one starts to enter commands into Terminal before realizing that the focus is on the wrong window. My question is: Is there a way to make cmd+tab always return to the last active window of an application no matter on which screen the focus at the moment?
I'm trying to delete a photo but it won't bring up any trash icons I've read about when right clicked. I tried dragging it to trash on the Dock and there are now multiple copies of the photo in the trash but it is still in my photos.
I have an 1st gen iPad, stuck on iOS 5.1.1. Is there a list of apps that will work on iOS 5.1.1, or a way to filter the app store to show only apps that will work on my iPad? (the iPad looks and works fine, seems a shame to relegate it to paper-weight status.)
I am a developer working on an in house application. I have gotten several complaints about getting the Spinning pinwheel in the iOS application I maintain. Can anyone tell me if this is actually something that can happen on iOS (not OS X. I know this is common on the desktop OS when an application becomes unresponsive to input.) I have done a great deal of searching on Google and am coming up empty handed. I'm beginning to wonder about the accuracy of this bug report.
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.10.5 and a Thunderbolt Display. I access the internet using "Display Thunderbolt", my ethernet cable is plugged into the display and the display Thunderbolt cable is plugged into the MacBook Pro. Everything works fine.
Can I pair an iPhone 4S to Apple TV (no longer activated with Verizon) or can I connect the iPhone directly to Apple TV to get an HDMI output?
I simply want to email a photo from Photos. When I click on the share button, I do not get a message box to address an email
Windows 7 crashed during bootcamp install. Now the option boot-up does not work. When I turn the imac on it ignores all option commands and goes to no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key.
I'm copying some text from a web page into a TextEdit document. I want to be able to keep the color, but not the font or font size. Is that possible?
I'm trying to clamp down SSH access to a OS X 10.5 machine. Its a PowerMac used for testing software under the PowerPC.
When I move a window from a larger display to a smaller display, sometimes it's so large that the bottom right hand corner is outside the display, meaning that I can't easily resize it. What can I do about this situation?
Currently Safari opens magnet links in Bittorrent. I'm moving to Deluge and I want to change the association.
When I go to play songs on my i phone, the same song just repeats and repeats. How can I stop this and get it play a whole playlist or album?
Despite selecting the High option when exporting JPEG images from Photo, I am finding the file size at destination is around 3MB - 60% smaller than when I exported the same images from iPhoto with the High option. Image size is unaffected. If Photo is compressing JPEG images more during export than iPhoto, I fear the image quality is also being reduced. Is this correct?
I just downloaded OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. When I try to open my IPhotos I get a message telling me the version on my computer is not compatible with OS X Yosemite and to download a new version from the App Store. When I search in the App Store I'm told there is no version available for Canada. Does that mean my photos are all lost? Not really good with computers so would appreciate exact instructions if anyone can help Linda
I'm working on an OS X 10.5 PowerMac machine. I want to add a permanent Allow rule for an updated OpenSSH server located at /usr/local/sbin/sshd. I have a firewall rule for it in the Firewall App, but it appears its not persistent. Each time I reboot the machine appears to forget the rule.
Also the starting value of 409642 wasn't close to an HFSJ and I quit the find command after a few minutes. Searching from the start of the disk HFSJ was found with offset 0000209736666 Also I recalculated the middle of the disk as sector 366283263 and from there I found the next instance of HFSJ at offset 1500936938486
I am using the iOS 9 beta and I am trying to change the date format to dayofweek-dayofmonth-month-year. For example today would be: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 In Settings I have looked under ‘Language & Region’, and at the bottom of the page there is something that shows ‘Region Format Example’, but I cannot find a way to set a custom date format without changing my region (which still doesn't allow custom, but it will change it). Under ‘Date and Time’ there isn't anything either.
Problem: The recovery disk assistant has fixed image and text. There is a Lion photo image, not Yosemite and it said successfully made Lion recovery disk. So I am wondering whether I got Lion recovery or Yosemite recovery...
I can't seem to partition my disk with Disk Utility or with the Terminal command (see screenshots). Something also happened to my other partition running Mavericks, where it just turned into an "empty name" partition, but still runs fine. Any help would be much appreciated .
It used to be on a PC, when hooked up to a 1024 x 768 display, I can actually set the resolution to 1600 x 1200, and the display driver will pan to different part of the 1600 x 1200 section depending on where my mouse moves to. Can a Mac do that too? That is, if a Macbook Air only has a resolution of 1440 x 900, can I install some driver to have a resolution of 4k or 5k, and just have the 1440 x 900 showing the section of the 4k or the 5k screen, depending on where the mouse is? I am looking for this function mainly to sometimes capture some screenshots when reading digital magazine using Zinio the web app, and want to capture the screenshot in 4k or 5k resolution even when the Mac is not hooked up to such display.
I'd like to have camera access by applications be logged in system logs, so that I can later search for camera access in the console app. Any idea if there is some debug feature in OS X to enable logging ?
How can I revert back to snow leopard? My machine won't start up. Macbook pro 17"
I decided to give ForkLift 2 a try, since it is currently on sale in MAS. I've been using XtraFinder to enable normal (Cmd+X) file cut operation in Finder.
When I plug my Apple headset into my computer, it makes some very weird sounds. I've tried with two different headsets; both iPhone 4 headset and iPhone 5 headset. It only makes the sounds when I'm playing some sounds on the computer, so I don't think it's a loose connection or something.
When trying to connect to Wi-Fi it connects without a problem and it is showing that Wi-Fi has full signal strength. However when trying to access any website it shows that it is trying to load it and just hangs at that point. What is causing this? What can be done to resolve this? The router in question is a Aruba Networks Router with WPA2 enterprise.
Is it possible to get a remote link to a file via finder? I want to be able to share my screenshots really quickly which are now saved to an iCloud folder. Thanks, D.
I have my iPhone 5 set on "Vibrate on Ring" and the volume is not on mute, but when someone calls, it only vibrates. I've included it in Notifications Center, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Do Not Disturb has also been turned off. When selecting a ringtone it will not play, it only vibrates. How do I fix this?
Okay, so I turn on my laptop, sign in to my regular user account and proceed to open/run a Java-based, HTTP-proxying application called burp via Terminal.app. It executes normally but refuses to bind with ports 80:http & 443:https. I assume the error is privilege related so I.. ..successfuly log in as the root user and.. ..returns the following error: However, I don't observe this error when signed in as a regular user; nor do I observe this error when signed in as root via OS X's graphical user interface.
What if my iPad didn't turn on after battery drain? I did all the steps but it still didn't work. Is it already damaged or can I recover it on an Apple Store?
Any ideas, how to recover / restore the videos in the iMovie project? Where do I need to put the videos?
I want to buy Sony Earphones for use with my MacBook Pro Mid-2014 edition. The earphones have no built in mic. Can my MacBook play audio through my earphones and use the inbuilt mac microphone at the same time e.g. during skype calls or will I have to unplug the earphones for 2 way communication? I am using OS X 10.10
I recently started getting this message "Safari cannot open page because iPhone is not connected to Internet" whenever I leave a Wi-Fi zone. How do I fix this?
If I have: 2 Screens Setting "Displays have separate spaces" ON A Terminal window in each screen (Terminal is just an example, this happens with all apps) Being focused on the Terminal window of my secondary screen I do Cmd+Tab to switch to another app and then back to Terminal, the focus goes to the primary screen rather than the one was focused before switching, this happens no matter which app I use, always the same. Anyone knows what's the solution for this?
Does using your mobile data while having Wi-Fi off when not connected burn data faster than using mobile data while having Wi-Fi on when not connected to Wi-Fi?
I've tried a few workarounds, but none of them have helped. I tried double quoting like ""$file"", but the issue persisted. I also tried the back ticks (that are discouraged in this case), but the issue persisted.
I have these old .mov files in my computer. When I try to open them, quicktime message pops up and says I need QuickTime version 7 top open them. (I currently have the latest version 10.something). Funny enough, the popup gives the option to install version 7, and then fails because version 7 is not available for download. Why do I need version 7? Any way to convert these files to newer version?
I have a monitored OS X laptop that I would like to put GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) on. Of course I can't because I don't have Admin rights, but I was hoping there is a way to install it in user space through a virtual environment or chroot, or some other wizardry, or by exacting the package files. Obviously I only need console access to the app.
I have recently recovered my Mac with a Time Machine Backup from the beginning of August. Today I ran an existing Meteor JS project and saw that the MongoDB documents were pretty outdated (latest document was from May 25th!).
I am new on Apple world. I have a MacBook Pro mid 2014. I have an issue and don't know how to solve it.
I have a Mac mini (Mac mini 2) set up in New York which I can connect to just fine via the Share Screen... button on Finder. However, when I try to connect to my other Mac mini in Miami (Mac mini 3), it says Connecting to Mac mini 3... then shows the screen for Mac mini 2. What's going on? I am able to successfully SSH into both.
I'm trying to create a new partition for installing linux, but OSX won't let me. I saw this question: Unable to Resize Partitions, but my HD is not a CoreStorage Volume, so it didn't really help. checking for corestorage in the terminal: Edit: extra info - http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Fj9KvcRx
I'm trying to debug using Xcode and how can I use Step Into (F7 key) with an external keyboard (not available FN key)? If I click F7 iTunes restart current song... Any clue?
I have an iPad 2 that recently stopped being able to connect to Wi-Fi Network. I tried with different routers (one of which is AirPort Extreme), different security settings (including no password), tried resetting to factory both router and iPad, tried resetting network settings and even tried upgrading to iOS 9 all with no luck. Did anyone ever run across this problem?
I did something stupid apparently and lost my Downloads folder both from Dock and then when I opened Finder to drag it down to the Dock it somehow got deleted in the desktop. Now although I can see the folder exists (e.g. by searching in Spotlight) I do not know how to restore it in the Dock and in Finder as well. Any help please?
Am having an 13" macbook pro from 2011, recently during dj-ing my software just stop working. After the restart I've only got the question mark sign .I've try to fix it via internet recovery but my hard drive could not be found in disk utility at all. I've tested my hard drive on another mac book pro same as mine and it's working perfect. So does that mean is the hard drive cable, or could be even something else, and if it's so what are my options Thanks!
I have been provided with a "form" to fill out in MS Word format. I have MS Office 2016 installed on my mac, and supposedly I am supposed to be able to click "Enable Content" to be able to fill out the form. However, there is no "message bar" on MS Word 2016 for Mac where this button is displayed on the Windows version. Is there a way to do this on a mac?
From the command line I'd like to open a new Terminal window that is already SSH'ing to a host. From the command line, I can open a new Terminal window very easily: or (The second one starts the Terminal already "cd"'ed to /path/name.) However I want the Terminal to open and immediately run "ssh foo" instead.
I deleted my local iTunes Library since I assumed I could listen to the music anyway using Apple Music. After deleting my music files by emptying home/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music I have three types of tracks, based on the column iCloud download: Files with this icon : I can play them without problem. Files with this icon : These won't play, which is expected, I have already accepted that these tracks will have to be added manually.
I've read through Apple's policies of whether or not to include a privacy policy URL for my app and i'm still unsure. If you're currently NOT signed into GameCenter App or in Game Center in Settings App and you open my game app there will be a Game Center sign in pop up. If the user signs in, since they can sign in using my App, do I need a privacy policy URL for this?
I wanted to check if it's possible to use emoji in a password for my Account on OS Yosemite. It worked but I didn't realize that the login screen has only native keyboards, so I can't type emoji there.
Once I booted with 64bit and Chrome was working! However my Internet (dial-up) does not work in 64bit (32 only).
I have an Apple monitor with mini DisplayPort and a Dell laptop E6540 that I want to connect. The Dell provides output for HDMI and VGA, its docking station also provides DVI. Although I have found adapters for miniDP to DVI or VGA (e.g., to connect a Mac to a projector) I have not been able to find the inverse adapter (DVI, VGA or HDMI to miniDP). Does someone know where I can find such adapters?
Basically, I used the native Safari.app web browser to download a third party application and I want to run / open it from the comfort of my bash shell / Terminal.app CLI; despite the following error message:
If someone has a nervous habit, such as twirling their hair, drumming on the desk, etc, throughout the day, using the hand that the Apple Watch is worn on, can this throw off activity readings (and sitting/standing reminders, etc)? One would assume that the watch double-checks things like this by measuring heart rate, etc, to be sure, but I'm wondering about the technical implementation.
She is running Yosemite 10.10.2 on her mid-2011 MacBook Air and iOS 8.2 (12D508) on her iPhone 5. Both of her devices are running out of storage if that makes a difference. (There is never enough storage space for pictures of kittens.) She gets a ping of 30ms for google.com in the living room where our access point is located.
I have a problem with Safari losing my web site login state after a computer restart. For example, if I am logged in to Facebook or StackExchange the before a restart, then after the restart I will be prompted to log in to the site again. Simply restarting Safari doesn't cause the problem nor does logging out and logging back in - It only occurs on an OS X restart. The other interesting thing is that if I log in and start Safari immediately after the machine restart then my web sessions are still active but after about 30 seconds I will be logged out of the site. For example, if Safari automatically restores the tab with Facebook I will see my Facebook feed and then after about 30 seconds a pop up comes up asking me to log in to Facebook.
I keep getting a Kernel Panic on my Late 2012 iMac. My log is at *=URL=* if you need it. Please help. Thanks! Log imported:
No valid signing identities (i.e. certificate and private key pair) matching the team ID “(null)” were found. Xcode can attempt to fix this issue.
I have an AppleScript or set of Applescripts that I am trying to run as a LaunchDaemon. I have no problem running the LaunchDaemon with my user. The problem comes in where I have the need to read a file that is only readable by root, this is by design for security reasons as the file contains sensitive information. I have installed the necessary precompiled AppleScript files, the .scpt files, in: I have put my plists under: Edit: Here is the plist for my Daemon: Now, when I try to load the plists using launchctl and sudo I get errors in the systemlog.log:
I have a new 2TB Western Digital external hard drive (My Passport Ultra) that I want to use for backups. I have it formatted as Mac OS Extended, with 1 Apple Partition Map partition.
I've had my Macbook Pro for about a year now. It is a late 2013 Retina model running Yosemite. Until a few days ago, its Wi-Fi worked fine. However, after the 10.10.5 update, its Wi-Fi has become very slow and drops packets unless I'm a foot away from my wifi router. When I'm in my usual location of the next room, ping times go up to hundreds of milliseconds.
iii) Which approach is safe for Time Machine backups? I do not want to use the "encrypt backups" option in the time machine because I want to know what is going on.
I have a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 flash drive with 32 GB storage on it, and would like to view its contents on my iPhone. I have seen flash drives that are made particularly for iOS devices and have their own companion apps for viewing the files, but I already have this flash drive, and would like to be able to use it or any other flash drive for that matter on my phone. So far, I have looked into using adapters that I can use to plug the flash drive into my phone using the lightning cable, but have only found micro USB adapters. Another issues is that I am unsure of how I would view the files even if I could connect the flash drive to my iPhone; would I need a special file browser like this, or is there an app I an use? In general, then: Is there any way to load any run-of-the-mill flash drive onto an iPhone and view its contents, whether through an app or a file browser (installed on the device)?
The Mac App Store features "Popular Apps". The list even comprises apps with a rating of 2 or less.. which seems weird. 'Better' apps are not listed.. do we have any clue how this list is compiled and what's a "popular app" in terms of the Mac App Store?
If I've downloaded my photos onto iPhoto and turn off 'sync from iPhoto' on iTunes, will I loose any photos on iPhoto?
Today my laptop has started to lock the HD. When booted it either stays black with the fans going nuts or it loads up a dialog to reset pw. In this window I can choose startup disk from the top left menu. The dialog that opens allows me to unlock the HD but the system needs to reboot to use my HD as startup disk. And then it starts all over again...
Monolingual (2.5gb) : deletes unused languages in applications. I only kept Chinese and English. It can also delete classes for older architectures but that was only a few mb, languages is the main focus of that app. Many people say it destroys your applications but I've been using it for 5 months straight now and never experienced any problems
I am saving emails in the archive option on my macbook air. What is the quantity limit??
One day i charged my iphone till 90%to92% then in didn't use my phone and went to sleep after 10 hours I checked my phone and the battery is showing only 20% charge is left. In the meantime i didn't used my phone so is there a battery issue or some thing else???
An iPad mini from a friend was ran over by a car and it is completely non nonfunctional. I tried to connect it to charger to see if it was draining current but it is completely dead. There are some pictures on the iPad that I would have liked to recover. Is there a way to get back the files in such situation? I'm thinking more of a hardware way, maybe by disconnecting the flash memory and using it in another device. I Googled it but every article I found involved a partly functional iPad that could be connected to USB. The iPad was never synced to iTune nor connected to iCloud.
I have changed all the passwords to all the emails, facebook, and Apple ID. No idea what else could I do? I feel really stupid for giving up the password to them.
The Macbook Pro laptop, running OS X, has a AMD GPU which includes graphics memory of 256 MB. Is it possible for the machine to run an application that requires 512 MB video memory by sharing some of the system RAM?
Every other free font I install, Font Book complains about a "minor issue" with its "name table structure". What is a name table? What sorts of problems should I expect these "minor issues" to cause?
Does the AppStore not provide download / installation status?  I clicked on get app, and all I see is "installing". No status, no feedback, nothing. Is this normal? I know Xcode is a big download, so I know it will take a while, but feedback would be nice.
I have two Time Capsules and I want to use both simultaneously. One as a router and the other as a HDD only. How can I do that?
I am submitting an app to the App Store and need to include album art in my screenshots in order to show off my app. The app pulls album art and music from SoundCloud's library so there is really no other way to demo my app without including album art. Here is an example of my screen shots.
So I am currently running: OS X 10.10.5 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4.1.04011
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 (latest available for my phone apparently). I have about 500 contacts on my iPhone, however only 203 of them appear on iCloud.com. I cannot get the rest to sync with iCloud and you can imagine that manually re-adding about 300 contacts, one by one, sounds rather terrifying. I tried all the tips I could find, i.e. turning off and on the "Contacts" in the iCloud settings on my phone, logging off iCloud on all devices, restarting my phone and Mac, etc. Nothing changed.
Recently I am developing video-related programs in Windows platform under a MacBook Pro 15″ Retina (mid 2014). The programs usually have functions to turn on the iSight camera to capture images. However, I found that even if the program has been closed, the camera was still on, which could be seen from 2 aspects: If I re-run the program, the camera cannot be turned on again. The green light beside the camera is always on. This phenomenon doesn't exist if I run the same code under OS X. So how can I manually or automatically turn off the iSight Camera in Windows for a MacBook?
I brought my uncles old iPhone 4S and I've reset it, but now it's asking for his Apple ID and password and he can't remember it and he has lost his passcode. How can I activate the phone without the passcode?
In iTunes 12.2.2.25 running on Windows 7, I see my hidden music purchases on the account page. But when I press 'unhide' button nothing happens. How can I unhide it? Can I back to old iTunes versions?
I'm about to download a 1TB collection of files. It'll take about 7 days. I want to make sure that my computer doesn't shut down or restart while the download is happening.
Using Omni Disk Sweeper, I have listed the very heavy files in my computer in order to, if possible, delete them and free up some space. Of course, I am not going to risk tampering with my system folder, but there are some pretty big files about which I would like to know whether or not it is safe to delete them. Let me know if you know what these files are, and whether it's safe or not to delete them: Private -> var -> vm -> sleepimage (6Gb) and swapfile0 (1Gb) Private -> var -> folders (1Gb) Private -> var -> db (1.4Gb) Library -> Printers (1.6Gb): (I believe I can re-download the needed drivers if I ever purchase a printer from the System Preferences?) Library -> Application Support -> iDVD (140mb) and iPhoto (591mb), not so large but I am not a user of these apps Users -> Shared -> Adobe - 200Mb (is this even accessible by the main user's system?) Users -> Shared -> Library -> Application Support (is this in use?) Users -> Fabrice -> Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Media -> Mobile Applic
I used to be able with previous versions of Quicktime Player to move 1 frame ahead or backwards with the arrow keys of my computer, although it seems now with Yosemite the jump is bigger (I tried with a .MTS file today). Is this something that can be changed in the settings or because of the file type? Thanks
While running Mavericks, I added Control-P and Control-N as shortcuts for Preview.app. Sort of Emacs-like page turning. It worked fine.
I want to clean up my desktop, as all the image files are still there. The issue is that I've always found it bit confusing as far as where the source image files are stored for the iPhoto and Photos app.
Whenever I have a hard drive plugged in the computer (mid-2011 iMac) that I want to eject, I get the message "unable to eject the volume, an application is using it, would you like to force eject?" I believe this is new, it didn't do it before when I wasn't under Yosemite.
Can I move my MobileSync folder to another HD on my iMac to free up space on my startup HD?
In Preview, is there a way to change/edit the names of links in the Table of Contents of a pdf?
I have seen a type of browser which Apple spits out, for example, when connecting to hotel WiFi's. They seem to be a pop-up window without any specific application.
For my application purpose, I want to get the user information from Active Directory. Especially I want to get current user SID and user account domain SID. Can anyone tell me some way to get this user information?
I have a lot of files on an external drive to my new MBP and there's too many of them for the internal 500GB SSD (and no second drive bay to make a fusion drive or have a second drive in latest MBP which is completely crap BTW Apple). So I need to have my usual Finder shortcuts to directories deep within the data tree. Problem is if my ext drive is ever switched off or disconnected why my MBP is on the shortcuts get removed by Finder and don't come back when drive is reconnected. My usual method of making these shortcuts is just to drag a directory from the Finder file list into the Finder window sidebar. I'm not sure what this actually prompts behind the curtain of OS X as it's opaque (to me at least) as to whether aliases are stored somewhere or symlinks or so other class of object to track the location. I'm wondering if I can create shortcuts to symlink files on my internal SSD that link to directories on my ext HDD as a work around to this very frustrating obstacle.
How can i open a new blank document in Pages app on Mac OSX Yosemite in Spotlight (and therefore in Alfred)? Now, when i open Pages it first presents me with New document dialog and then Select Template dialog. Of course i click my way through all the prompts but it would be much more convenient to bring up Spotlight (or better yet Alfred) and just type something like Pages /n and go straight to typing.
I have few macs (office, home, macbook) and decided to use external disk as system boot volume (thunderbolt) for convenience purposes (web development, macports, etc, very hard to maintain same versions/databases across different computers). It works well, BUT.. each time I login on different computer - Macos ask me to re-authentificate iMessage/iTime, then when I try to use any software bought from Appstore, it asks for password, very annoying. I thought about changing serials to make it same across different computers, but not sure its good practice, maybe it could be done by changing UUID or so on. Anybody have experience with situation like that?
In Yosemite, opening folders in a new window by default is extremely difficult. You can press CMD as you click (not optimal) or right-click/option-click the folder to open in a new window (not optimal). The solution that seems to work best for me is to hide the toolbar whenever I open / create a new folder, because folders inside windows that do not have a toolbar will always open in a new window. But the toolbar always reappears whenever I create a new folder. So, ideally, I would love to have it ALWAYS hidden by default, and on rare occasions when I need it (to look at external drives, or drag an item into the application folder for example), I would shortcut-make it appear, ta-daam.
I've had this problem before too but I couldn't find a concrete resolution. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.2 with the latest version being 10.10.5. Since I've had some wireless connectivity issues with the present version, I thought it would be wise enough to install the latest version and see if the issue has been totally dealt with. But every time I resume the download (since the whole package is some 2.36 GB), the Appstore resets it to around 50 MB and all that was downloaded goes to waste. Now I want some advice on how to stop this annoyance.
In the way to reduce the power usage of my iPhone 5 (iOS 8), I'm simulating the power saving mode of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 by turning on the "Greyscale mode" but does it really reduce the power usage and why ?
I have multiple Macs and I want to update all those macs using a dmg file. From where I can get the dmg file.And how to update if the minor version difference is more than one. i.e. from 10.10.1 to 10.10.5?
I am trying to reformat a Samsung 512GB Pro with bootable USB, and I have manage to get through the prep for the USB. But after the "Option/ALT startup" i click on the USB to begin with and when the "Install OS X" page i get the "Unable to unmount volumet for repair" message. Info about the MBP: 2012 model Used Yosemite when in function Intel Core i5 4 GB RAM 2,5 GHz Info about the SSD: 1-2 years old Applied with, 1 patriot, OS Extended (journaled), GUID. Wiped clean, 448,5 MB remains. Failed attempts: Repairing the disk in Disk Utility, same error.
So I suspect the hard drive is not working so well any more. Can I now use one of those Samsung T1 SSD USB drive, or a Seagate 2TB external USB drive, or a WD Thunderbolt My Book, and boot up the iMac using this drive from now on?
I am aware that you can change the lock/login screen background by navigating to /Library/Caches and changing a file. I checked and the file is as it should be - the blurred version of my desktop background.
I'd like to know, what exactly codesign does (does it simply encrypt the profile with your private key?) so I could find another way of signing those profiles on a non-osx machine.
I've installed a Huawei-based "surf stick" (a USB stick with a mobile/wireless modem inside) as a backup internet connection in case my main connection goes down. I've configured it as a PPP connection in the Network control panel. All works fine apart from the fact that after a few minutes of idle time on this secondary network interface, the PPP connection gets closed by the system with the message that the connection was idle. I like to disable this automatic "disconnection when idle". Apple's support site has this to say about accomplishing it: Click PPP, and then make sure the “Disconnect if idle for __ minutes” checkbox is not selected, or if it is selected, increase the number of minutes that the computer can remain idle before disconnecting. Well, this is how it looks on my system:
I have an iPad and my son plays his games on it. We are getting him his own iPad. How can I transfer his games over to his iPad with out giving him the same Apple ID as mine?
I found a Program called Microsoft remote desktop connection on my mac but did not install it myself. Could somebody have been using it to spy on my computer use without my knowledge? Would I be able to tell if my computer was being remotely accessed through that program while i was using my computer?
I am trying to launch a Java program that needs JRE 8. I tried installing it onto my wrapper with the installer, but it showed a message in the style of "Oops, no new executables found, maybe the installer failed?". The solution on my other computer was to download the compact version in tar.gz, put the jar into the jre1.8.0_60\bin directory, cd to it with the Command Line Shell and then run java -jar program.jar. I tried the same on my computer, but this error showed up:
I’d want to know if it is possible (by extensions, hack, context menu...) to have the mac native share menu in firefox?  Thanks More about share menu extension: *=URL=* https://developer.apple.com/app-extensions/
When I log in to Mac OS X (10.10.5) I sometimes find that most of my menu extras are missing (clock, wi-fi, sound, bluetooth, etc.). If I logout and login, they almost always come back, but this takes too much time. I suspect the problem is caused by menumeters but I find this menulet too useful to uninstall it. How can I reset my menu extras (aka menulets) without logging out?
At the advice of another SE member (I'm cross posting here). I've been using SSH and public key crypto for a few months. I've run into a new problem with my install of the newest public beta of OS X, and can't find an answer online. When I run SSH-Keygen -lf in the OS X terminal, the fingerprint I get is: I'm used to something like
Currently I start and stop mysql with the following command It is quite a long command to remember. How can I set it up so that I can start and stop it with a single command. Something like.
I would like to add a background image to an Excel sheet covering the whole page and print it. A background in Excel is only shown on screen and not printed. Using a large image as header in Excel works but leaves a lot of white space. I tried generating a 'background' PDF and using pdftk to merge them, which worked well a couple of years ago but I am no longer able to find a working version of pdftk (see for example *=URL=* Is there another way to achieve the same result? Edit A screenshot of what I was able to achieve with a PDF background:
I've just bought a QNAP NAS for my Mac Pro (late 2013) running Yosemite, to replace some older direct-attached storage I'd been using previously. I'm very happy with it so far, but one thing I didn't realise is that network-attached volumes aren't indexed by Spotlight. The NAS will be used to store thousands of PDFs documents, and I need to be able to find specific text within those documents easily. The network share (via AFP) is mounted as Data, so I've tried: Then ... which seems to be to suggest that the QNAP simply won't support this.
I was working on a project in FCPX shot with my iPhone 5c and I was about to export it when I noticed a strange export setting. At the bottom of the export window (Where it lists the framerate, resolution, compression, etc.) it said 24p. Upon further investigation I found that the footage I shot was in fact 24p (I used the FCPX inspector under the info tab). Isn't the iPhone supposed to shoot 30p only? I also opened the original video files in Quicktime and used the inspector in there and found some more weird anomalies. It said the footage was 25.5fps. What's going on?
According to the PyCharm Keymap for Mac, Control + Up Arrow and Control + Down Arrow are used to navigate between the previous and next methods. OSX of course uses these key combos for (Control + Arrow Keys) for navigating between applications. Is there no solution beside remapping these keys in either OSX or in PyCharm?
I've been learning python and tried to install pep8, restviewer and other command line apps but when i try to run them, it shows a command not found error. I've tried it in zsh and other shells, but no avail. I've even tried it as a root user. I've reset my PATH and executed the bash shell's again but it still couldn't recognise my errors. I've also reinstalled Xcode to make sure my command line tools were present. How to i fix this?
In my previous iMac which was 8 years old, I had it set up to be able to automatically connect to my usual @outlook.com account whenever I clicked on the mail icon to forward a webpage to someone. The way it was set-up, it would only be able to do this function and would not receive all my incoming @outlook.com emails. I have followed your instructions and the new Mac is now the same. But now I want to know if I could delete all the mail that was downloaded into Mail before I disabled the incoming feature.
I got a new phone today, have enabled Apple Music and iCloud library, but every time it goes to "load library" it just stops and goes to a screen that says I have no music. This happens whether I toggle iCloud music on and off several times, merge or replace. I'm on wifi trying to do this btw.
Since I've moved to iPhone 4 from a 3Gs, my battery drops down extremely fast. If i use it for 20 minutes at the beginning of the day it goes from 100% to 60% and by 3PM with normal use it's at 20%. What are the best settings to have as little battery drain while the screen is sleeping while keeping the internet and cellular connections active?
After installing bootcamp on my MacBook, I installed Windows 7. Everything seems to work on the Windows side except for the internet. I have tried with an ethernet cable as well as wireless connection. The wireless connection works fine on the OS X side. Any ideas?
I wanted to go to the Apple Store and pick up a Thunderbolt cable, as they seem to be the only store in the area that has a mini display port (style) in the Thunderbolt cable. My monitor requires mini display port to broadcast at 60Hz at 4k resolution. Will the Thunderbolt cable work in lieu of a mini display port to mini display port cable?
my whole computer freezes it seems like, if I have streaming music playing it continues, however my mouse and keyboard stop working. This includes the trackpad and laptop keyboard not just my peripheral mouse and keyboard. OSX v10.10, 13 inch MaBookPro Retina 16GB Memory 3Ghz i7 processor. Any help appreciated, thanks for your time!
That's it. On my MacBook Pro the dashboard is stuck. I can't click the arrow in the bottom right corner, clicking more widgets doesn't do anything, clicking the safari icon on web clip opens safari but doesn't show it. Pressing he pause button does the same thing with iTunes. I can do command tab and see that, right now, google chrome, Safari, and iTunes are open right now (as well as finder, duh) but I can't actually switch to those. The force quit keyboard shortcut doesn't seem to do anything. Closing the cover and opening up a bit after doesn't do anything. I want a solution that doesn't require restarting the computer so that I don't have to wait for so long in the future. What can I do? I can't tell anything about software, I think it's Yosemite or Mavericks but I am not sure.
If I buy MacBook from Pakistan, will it work in Canada?
I installed Google Photos Backups on OSX (Mavericks). It created a /Users/rob/Pictures/GPBackup folder that is 10 gig in size, and it looks like it has copies of all my photos and movies. I don't want it to use all this space, but didn't see any configuration settings for this. What is the purpose of this folder? If I just delete it, will Google Photos Backup continue to work?
I have a Macbook Air. I love it, but the hard drive is too small to fit my entire photo library. At this point the hard-drive is full and I need to find a way to move the files to a back-up location. I know I could just buy an external hard drive and move the files manually, but I would rather find a way where I could automate the process of backing up and moving older photos (or better yet, photos not recently viewed) to an external hard-drive and a remote backup location. I know of a few services that will automatically back up the photos (if I remember to leave the app running) but they don't remove the files, and I have no way of knowing which files have successfully been backed up and/or could be restored if I wanted to. So I don't feel like I have enough confidence in my backups to feel like I can delete the files to clear up space. So I'm wondering if you know of a way to automate this process.
I have a problem everytime I play a game on my Mac, and try to use keyboard's alphabet characters, a white input bar appear on the bottom of the screen (and the character go there instead of to the game). What is it and how can I turn it off? Thank you very much It like this
Usually my iPhone 4s and MapMyRide work well together, but occasionally I get weird records where the location recorded 'jumps' from where I really was to another location maybe 5-10 kilometers away - the track between true and false locations being recorded as a straight line. Is this a MapMyRide problem, an iPhone software or hardware problem, and how to fix?
Could not download and install iOS 7.1 Simulator. Authorization is required to install the packages. Facing this issue on Xcode 7 Beta 6 version too. Can't seem to understand why?
I have a niggling process that sometimes runs persistently, somewhat randomly, and sometimes cannot be cancelled. In the screenshot, there are three processes of the same running simultaneously. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before. I'm not able to locate the process in the command line. I have Git installed for local web development, so it obviously relates to that, but I'm wondering what it's searching for, and why it hangs, and what I can do to make the process work and quit, instead of sometimes running perpetually.
I am trying to install RGtk2. I have installed GTK+ and XQuartz with Homebrew: But when I try installing it I get the error Have I missed installing some necessary package?
For any given track in my iTunes library, I can easily ask for the physical location of the file like this, But I want to do the reverse. If I know the physical location of the file, I'd like to get to the track in the Library, if it has been added. I tried it like this but it fails... Any ideas how I can search the location property without resorting to some nasty loop? EDIT: Well, the good news is that my old macbook can loop through 2100 tracks in about 5 secs, so it is not so bad... :)
I am running OS X Yosemite, and Parallels 10. I have a guest VM running OS X Yosemite. I would like to migrate the guest VM to a physical machine. Is this possible? The reason is that the guest vm is just too slow, and I would be better off running on a physical machine. I have a number of developer tools installed and configured perfectly on the VM that would take a long time to download them on the physical machine. Thats why I just want to "migrate" to a physical machine.
After running out of space multiple times, I started researching and putting a strategy to permanently fix this issue. In the end I found that Application Support is an important directory for most of apps, but I've a directory called Google with 2.2 GB size. Most probably this is for Chrome only. What does this directory include and what will happen if I delete it? Including information about directories and their sizes:
I'm experiencing a very odd graphical glitch with the code editor, initially I thought it was my machine's graphics going to pot but after further investigation it is definitely tied to Xcode and/or my project file. This glitch appears to follow my project around, I have tried deleting derived data and userdata from the project folder, I've also made sure all of my fonts are the same (this was suggested in another thread for a similar sounding issue). Very often while editing code the below graphical error occurs, it is very frustrating. Has anyone else encountered this? I've moved the project across multiple Macs and the problem persists, I would be really grateful for any insight on how to prevent this as I'm nearing the end of a very long project and this has pretty much put a halt to progress.
When I am in Safari, typing an email or another form that has typing the resulting speed of text entry is mind numbingly slow! I don't know what terms to search to identify the problem. Why would it only be in an email?
I live in Japan, with Apple ID details based in Japan. My iTunes account is based in the UK for financial reasons. I was given an iTunes Gift Card in Japan, and want to upgrade my UK storage (in Pounds). Can I use this card that is in Yen to buy extra storage in the UK?
I tried to install Adobe After Effects 7.0 on my Mac with OS X Yosemite but got an error Installation failed - an error occurred. (no details) What can I do to fix this error? (I'm new to Mac/OS X)
I have two iPads and I've backed up and transferred everything onto the second iPad. So now they are identical in loaded apps and data. But I want to use them for different purposes, pleasure and business. How can I delete things on only one iPad without them being deleted from the other as well.
This may seem like a odd question since most people would want to know how to start a program on boot. I was wondering if there is a way to have OSX launch an application when the restart button is pressed from the apple menu.
Basically, when I am using the computer to browse the Internet or work on docs etc it is quiet and responds normally. When I stop using it for a while, but leave it on (or in sleep mode) it enters very intense activity. Or at the very least the fan starts running like crazy.
I scavenged a hard drive for my currently lifeless 2009 Macbook Pro 13. The scavenged drive (from a 2010 white Macbook) had been working because it was taken to an electronics store to have its data transferred to a new computer.
I've found that often when you are experiencing trouble with a peripheral, deleting the plist file can often fix the problem. My USB mouse has been sticking/freezing for a second at a time lately. I've looked throughout ~/Library/Preferences/, but saw no filenames that make me confident enough to delete any of them. UPDATE I was able to delete the com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist file that was showing in the Terminal but not in the Finder. Unfortunately, the mouse sticking/freezing persists. UPDATE
I'm trying to install Xode 7 beta 6 version on Yosemite. I used the command 'Xcode-select --install' in terminal. It says 'xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates.' But i'm using latest version of OS X. What should i do? Please help me...
How can i make hostname (i.e. the unix commandline tool hostname, invoked in terminal) return a hostname including the domain information? At the moment, hostname, hostname -f and hostname -s return the same name, all without the domain information, but host <hostname> returns the full hostname:
A long time ago, around 2004 I think, I tried to install ubuntu on it. This was a failure, but I can't remember why. The practical effect of this is that the old OS will not boot when powered on.
I have recently moved from France to the USA. In the long run, that means I will shut down my French bank account who is becoming useless. But I cannot go on iTunes and change the "bank account" settings or change my address there.
We have an Internet/office web proxy for http and https, pretty common proxy. Every so often we have to reset our password. On a Windows machine, the password change is automatic and is propagated through out all the software that uses the Internet including any services running. With OS X Yosemite or the common software included it seems that the password change against the proxy never takes so that account typically gets locked out by requests through software running on the Mac making an Internet request. For example: Proxy Password requires change I manually enter the username and updated password within the Network Proxy system settings Open Chrome Account locked out...because Chrome is not using the updated password or some other process has made Internet requests and locked out the account.
So when I get this new machine...there is already a user on it called "mac"...for my convenience they said. There is also another user already there named "admin"
As far as I know, the root-user is deactivated by default in OS X. And I remember trying the command "su" some time (a few weeks) ago and it stated something like "su: sorry" which it should state. I googled how to activate the root user and followed the steps, just to know it if it would be necessary, but DID NOT activate or change anything in the settings at that point. Just for fun, I tried a few minutes ago and it DID let me login as root, i. e.: Does anyone have an idea why that change occured?
I have a RAID disk where I keep my virtual machines. Recently I created and deleted a few and noticed that the space taken up was not being reclaimed. I tried deleting the .Trashes directory via Terminal but nothing changed.
I've a Mac Mini Late 2012 model that I've recently replaced the HDD to Samsung SSD 850 EVO. Everything works fine(except damaged IR Sensor) and my Mac startup speed is fast. I've been searching around Google about the Firmware particularly for 850 EVO but there's no firmware to download from the firmware download page , and seems like there are problems regarding the firmware download for 850 EVO PRO model.
Actually, all of these operations take a lot longer than I expect: Turn Passcode On Turn Passcode Off Change Passcode
Can someone help me figure out this crash report please? I have a ton of crashes from "app_name":"nebulad". Here is the report:
I have iTunes 12.2 on a mac book pro with Yosemite, I use Photos app now instead of iPhotos after importing all of its events into iPhoto, plus I recently added around a few thousand pics and videos to the Photos app, the All Photos option in Photos app shows 4372 photos, whereas in iTunes when I select "copy photos from Photos" and "All photos and albums" options under the "Photos" tab it shows 3858 photos as the total number to be synced, where the hell those 500 photos have gone ? I searched for a solution but couldn't find any, I also checked out this question: Why is iTunes only syncing some of the pictures (seemingly randomly) in each Aperture Event to my iPad? but couldn't also help me .. any help would be highly appreciated ...
The password is a dozen characters, mixed case alpha numeric (no symbols or punctuation). I'm absolutely positive it's being typed correctly. Why is the correct password on iPad being denied?
I accidentally deleted my facebook app on my iPhone5. When i tried to download it again it says " Unable to download Facebook at this time."
I have two MacBooks (an old one mid 2009 with a 150 GB drive (128 GB used) and a newer from 2011 with a 300 GB drive (30 GB used)) and a 1 TB Hard Disk. What is the easiest way to move the content of the 2009 MacBook to the 2011 model and the content of the 2011 model to the 2009 model (so that basically the content of the the two MacBooks is swapped afterwards)?
I have a Macbook pro late 2011. It has always been connected to the same wifi and never had any problems. I updated to Yosemite and now my wifi goes off all the time. Most of the time when I the in the password for the wifi it simply says invalid password. It is the correct password.
I have got Windows 8 and I have tried several times to log into iCloud account, but nothing is working. The only way I am able to access my photos is if I go online to the iCloud website and log on. There has got to be something that I am doing wrong.
I am using an Apple iCloud account that was created for me by a friend. I have a suspicion that my friend is now accessing my photos and videos through this account.
But recently my Mac will wake after approximately 1 hour of sleep and go into another sleep mode. I believe it is standby, because the SIL will turn off, but when I open the lid it takes only slightly longer than after the regular sleep state. In hibernate / autopoweroff it would take a while to load the RAM content back from the disk (which is not the case here). This does not happen when a USB disk is connected. Here comes my pmset -g: So my questions are:
Active Directory Domain accounts unable to access the web server hosted on the Yosemite server. Local users can authenticate. I cannot find a setting to enable the Web services. I feel there is a setting to enable the website to recognize the AD users or AD user groups or Local groups with AD users. The Yosemite is joined to the AD domain and the domain users/groups are visible.
I am having difficulties accessing the iTunes store. It attempts to connect for a while, then it times out I think because it remains blank. I suspect that the issue is with connection to the iTunes store, because although I have internet access, when I go to iTunes Help in the program it tells me that it cannot connect to the internet.
I use a MacBook Air 256 GB HD on Yosemite 10.10. I recently noticed large date range of emails gone missing. Rebuilding the mailbox did not solve the problem so I decided to restore my entire Mac from the Time machine. 5 days of frustration and here I am.
I want to use the newer time capsule as my wifi. I need the second time capsule because I don't have enough wired ports. How can I connect the two of them? I don't need the wifi on the second one. Which one do I plug into the cable modem and how do I physically connect the second one as in do I plug it into the first one that has the wan cable plugged into it? How do I configure them both? Thank you.
I have an iPhone 5s and when my mom texts it doesn't make a noise. It does when everyone else does.
Lately my iPhone 4s has been glitching a lot. The latest thing to not work is email. I try to load it and it says "Cannot Get Mail. The mail server 'imap.gmail.com' is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in mail settings". The thing is - is that I have entered the correct email address. What do I do? Also - it lets me send emails, just not receive them
In OS X Yosemite Calendar, I can quickly add an event by pressing Cmd-N and typing "lunch tomorrow 1-3pm at McDonalds". But how can I set a location? In this example, the event title will be "lunch at McDonalds" and the location will by blank. For example, these attempts at providing parsing hints do not work: (The desired outcome is an event with title 'Movie', time Friday at 7pm, location '1 Infinite Loop'.) Is there some syntax or hint for the app to parse the quick event text to populate the location field?
I see in this post (Any way to auto download or sync all Google+ photos to my Mac?) that there's a good solution to bi-directionally syncing photos between my laptop and my Google Photos account (which would also sync photos uploaded from my phone, which occurs automatically). B/c this storage can potentially become a bit large, I'd like to store my Google Photos on a 256GB SDHC card that is always plugged in to my computer. The problem is, it appears I need the Google Photos folder to reside within my Google Drive folder, which is not on this external storage. Is there a good way to point my local Google Photos folder to external storage without messing up my other Google Drive folders?
I've added a camera so that I can zoom and pan the camera over the path as it appears. However, as I attempt to move the camera over the route, the path itself shifts above the map surface, making the path inaccurate with relation to the underlying map. Of course, this is because the angle of the camera is changing, which makes the path appear to shift on top of the map.
I'm reading that you can use iTunes revert an iOS device to 'original factory settings', but this is hard to believe. Will it actually allow you to return to the earliest version of the OS that was installed on the device, or will it just give you a fresh install of the latest OS that was installed on the device?
I am using Camino on OSX 10.4.11, this combination still works well. I am able to use yahoo mail and youtube. I get constant requests to update Flash player. There does not appear to be an appropriate iteration at the download site. This primarily affects my ability to use the BBC site. Are there any alternatives without upgrading at this time since the MacBookPro I am using performs well. I am very fond of the esthetics of this OS and have had only rare problems in 8 years of near constant use. Can you make helpful suggestions?
I have a IPhone 4 model number A1349 an it won't update past a 7.1.2 it says my software is up to date but I know the latest software is at the least a 8.4. Why is that?
Cannot play a voice memo I recorded earlier this week. It appears to be there but when I hit the arrow to play, nothing happens. When I sync my phone up to my pc only 2 of the voice memos show up yet my phone tells me there are 4. I can play 3 of the 4 but no this one. Please advise.
I'm on OS X 10.10.4, MacBook Pro retina and it alerts me that my 10.10.5 update is ready to install. However, I'm on a very slow internet up to now and according to my router log I did not download more than 100MB data. And sure enough, the /Library/updates/ folder contains OSXUpd10.10.5Patch.pkg and FirmwareUpdate.pkg, which when opened with an unarchiver(betterzip and 7 zip) told me the files are corrupted. Can I just delete the files for a re-download or shall I do something else? Thanks!
If I plug an iPhone that's running an old version of iOS into a computer with iTunes, will iOS on the iPhone automatically update when the phone is plugged in?
When giving a speech, I want to record my voice and let people in the room hear clearly through a speaker. I have a macbook air, a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth speaker. Thanks.
Main symptom: When I reboot I get multiple prompts asking for the "local items" keychain password. Details: The password required is my old iCloud password, not my current user account password nor my current iCloud password The keychain access program lists "local items" as a keychain until I log in to one with my old password -- after which it changes to "iCloud" The option to reset the password for both local items (before entering the PW) and iCloud keychain (after) are both greyed out.
I'd like to know which audio encoding format(s), as part of a video container file, will stream with all of the following devices/apps: Apple TV 3 Roku 3 LG 2012 Smart TV MediaLink (Plex front end) Plex (for OS X, iOS & Roku) iTunes (for OS X & iOS) Thanks
Is there a way I can "link" tables in Numbers so that when rows are added to the "master" table that the identical rows and containing data are added in a linked table? I know I can "link" cells using Sheet1::Table 1::A1 but this doesn't work for new rows added to Sheet1::Table 1.
I am using an iPhone 5s 16 GB. iOS is updated to 8.4. I have no photos in my gallery. But the system always shows that 200 MB are used in Photo. What's the reason for this mismatch?
Below is my list of active processes as produced by the launchctl list command in terminal. I'm not messing with those processes, but I am studying them to learn more about how OS X works. The question that I have for you is why com.apple.screensharing.agent, com.apple.screensharing.messagessent, etc., are loaded when I have screen sharing disabled in settings.
I have a new Macbook with only the USB-C port. Is it possible to run the newest Thunderbolt display through it? It has a Thunderbolt/Displayport output cable
I would like to recover/restore only *.GIF files from my most recent backup. They were accidentally deleted from everywhere in My Computer instead of just the intended folder. I currently have only 6 GB of free space (they took up about 1 GB, and only ~4000 files).
Issue - father in-law has alzheimers (early but impacting) Wants files from Apple laptop and can't remember password(s) Shop who set it up for him wants $$$s to unlock and reset and I said what a lot of BS, but they didn't supply an OS disk with the machine so can I (or he if there is something he can do) get an OS disk to reset the admin password? PS. This is a first time foray for me into the world of Apples - he wants the "family tree" files..... Any ideas - inbetween times we are scouring bits of paper with notes and old passwords etc..... D.
Is there a docbook viewer for OS X? I don’t mean an editor, just something to view the output. I know that there is no standard format, but something that looks like formatted output rather than XML would be ideal. There’s nothing on the App Store, and I’ve done rounds of the search engines. I would prefer a solution without Java. (I’m going to ask the same about an asciidoc viewer in another question).
I'm concerned about it and I really want to use it. I haven't used it and I need some tips so someone please tell me if it needs wifi.
I have made over 3000 pictures during my last trip, mostly with the iPhone. I then shared them as a photo album in iCloud with my family, but neither of us can figure out how to enable geolocation data. It obviously would be quite handy to know which picture is taken where, and display the map like photos can for unshared pictures. How is that done?
Is it possible using a passport external hard drive and tome machine to transfer applications from my old macbook to my new macbook? Please advise a safe way to do this if it is possible?
I used to use iPhoto but then Apple scrapped it and introduced Photos app. Earlier to backup my library I would copy the iphoto library to external hard disk, but after this new introduction I have iPhoto migrated library (More than 50GB) and also a Photos library (around 70GB). Can anyone let me know which library/libraries to copy on my external disk?
How do I create text like "See 'paragraph' on page n"? Where paragraph could be a heading or a figure etc. Obviously, I mean where page n is determined by Pages, as with other word processing programs.
I keep getting notifications when a new user in my contacts joins telegram. Is there a way to disable this?
Is there an AsciiDoc viewer for Mac OS X? Preferably one that views the document live, much like MacDown for markdown documents. There’s nothing on the App Store, and I’ve done rounds of the search engines. I would prefer a solution without Java if that's possible.
I have problems with Yosemite network connections to ubuntu server. Connection working for a while and freez after one minute or little more. This is big 3 TB server for work, with lot of files like photos and indesign files. I'm off spootlight and icon Worst is the SMB2 protocol not working better at all I have files locking problem, vanishing files and many others :(
I'm looking for an app to organize my video files (movies, series, etc.) much like iTunes does with music. I'd like it to have series support (separating seasons and ordering episodes) and to have an option for adding posters/covers to every movie/series. Is there something like that? I'd rather if it was a free app, but I'm not limited to that.
I bought an SSD to upgrade my MacBookPro (late 2011) and have cloned the HDD with CloneZilla. I have dual boot with OS X Yosemite and Windows 7 Pro.
I have had my machine for more than a year now, and I'm looking at Memory Pressure in the Activity Monitor. What is this memory pressure and How do I "relieve" this memory pressure from my system? I've done reboots, and it shows clear for a while, but eventually builds back up.
This is imported from Superuser, I felt like I would have an easier time getting an answer here than in Superuser - it is copy pasted, as below. So, I have some strange issues in Disk Utility and diskutil. It's not a problem (hopefully), but I just want to make sure that I'm not on the path to disk corruption or failure. This is how my disk utility reads my hard disk: (as they are listed) Disk Description : APPLE SSD SD0256F Media Total Capacity : 251 GB (251,000,193,024 Bytes) Connection Bus : PCI Write Status : Read/Write Type and Location : Solid State Disk, Internal
I want to convince someone that this image belongs to the 42mm Apple Watch.  However I couldn't distinguish between them yet.
About a year ago, I have developed an iOS app on a Mac machine and synced it to the app store. That machine has lost, so I got a new one connected to my Apple developer id. I have recovered my work and changed a few things in the code. But when I try to resync the app, I get the attached warning.
Currently, I store all my photos in iCloud Photo Library. However, I'd like to have another copy of them in Dropbox. Ideally, I'd want my iPad to upload all new images that I add to my iCloud Photo Library on my Mac or iPhone automatically to Dropbox. I have iCloud Photo Library configured to store only thumbnails on the iPad. Does the automatic Camera Upload work when I do not download the full-res images to my iPad?
I responded to a group iMessage, but it showed up as being a response from my wife. She also has an iPhone, but our phone numbers, email addresses and Apple IDs are all different. How in the world did this happen? And how do I stop it?
On the Zabbix website it says Mac OS X agent is supported, however, I do not see a download link available. Does anyone know how to install the agent on OS X? Here is a link to the list of supported platforms: *=URL=* And here's the link to the downloads: *=URL=* There's no OS X option to download for pre-compiled agents.
I was just attempting to set up a local web project, and came across a peculiar behavior. If I try to change an existing filetype from anything to .scss, Finder ends up rejecting the new filetype and appending the old one to it. Renaming styles.css > styles.scss becomes styles.scss.css Renaming blank.txt > blank.scss becomes blank.scss.txt If I use terminal or a text editor to rename and save the file as styles.scss, finder just leaves off the extension and shows it as styles.
With bash as my shell, a simple way to demonstrate my question is this: The ln will fail with ln: f: Operation not permitted I am on 10.10.5 with a Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) file system.
My wife spilled a little water on her Mac Air -- MD760ll/A which we got in August 2013 (just outside of any AppleCare warranty). At first it was completely dead, but I removed the back and battery and sopped up the water and used a desiccant in a sealed box to dry it out even further. Now it turns on, but the keyboard and trackpad don't work, however I can use the Mac with a USB keyboard/mouse.
I'm using ios 8.4 When I'm talking on a phone, I hear a message notification, I immediately take the phone away from my ear to read the message but it never shows. So I only get the message sound but dont see the message itself (until i end the call). How do i fix it? Coz i remember in the previous update i had no problem with it and i could see the messages while talking on the phone. sorry for my bad english and i hope someone knows a way to resolve this. thanks
The "Walking + Running Distance" on my iPhone 6 is wildly off. I've walked <2 miles today (0.5 mile commute, 0.8 miles for lunch, and whatever around the office), yet my iPhone is reporting 10.3 miles. It's been way off like this for a while.
I recently discovered that I can open application from Terminal like this: Is there any command that would just show the application folder instead of opening it? Such that I could do this: I need that some-command to print the folder of VMware Fusion application. UPDATE: I don't know where the application is installed, otherwise I could just hardcode it in the script
I am using OSX 10.10.5 with activity monitor 10.10.0. Mac newbie.
My Mac Book Pro Retina Display reboot itself 5 times in less than 30 mins. When I boot it back up, I saw a dialog box
I have chosen a password that has one upper case, lower case and 3 numbers, but I still keep getting a message that it's not complex enough. Why?
I am trying to decide between MacBook Pro 15" with and without Discrete Graphics Card. My work involves running 2-3 Virtual Machines using Virtualbox at a given time with Chrome, Microsoft Outlook & Skype running on OSX. I am not in gaming at all.
I have an imac late 2013 with a fusion drive. I've created a windows 10 partition and I'd like to delete it. I tried with bootcamp and disk utility but as you've probably heard before, it came up with that error "the full size of the fusion drive is not available for partitioning".
If I'm planning to install Windows 8 using Bootcamp, will it modify the contents of the USB I use without my permission? I just plan to download the ISO and place it in a folder inside the USB/EHD. I'm debating whether I should use my External Hard Drive which has some important data, or if I should go out and buy a USB stick for this.
I can create a home screen button with a tel:// uri using Apple Configurator, but this requires installing a profile on the phone and is not that straight forward. What I would like to do is create a home screen button with and icon that is my picture and that when tapped invokes a tel URI instead of an HTTP URI without mucking about with custom profiles and the Apple Configurator. It would be best, of course, if this was something I could walk someone (an older someone) through over the phone or with a Clarify document.
I am the developer of an app that uses voice recordings. I need to have an idea of what the recordings will sound like on an iPad. I have an iPad, but I'd like to change some settings on my Mac speakers so that every sound sounds like it's coming out of an iPad speaker.
When trying to troubleshoot kernel panics and I look at a log, I see these: I would like to know if there is any possible way of reading these, or interpreting anything from them. And also what their names are.
I use Continuity Activation Tool to enable Continuity on my early-2011 13" MBP with an upgraded AirPort card. However, El Capitan's Rootless feature has forced me to use a modded version of CAT that can disable Rootless, which worked almost perfectly in the early betas. However, later betas implemented a different method of disabling Rootless that can only be done from the Recovery HD Terminal. I've counted, and going back and forth between Recovery HD and my startup disk to use CAT requires a total of at least 5 reboots, which isn't fun on a 4-year-old HDD.
After speaking with Apple's tech support, and having them perform a data capture on my machine, I sit stuck with an iPad that won't boot up. I've attempted all trouble shooting listed here. I've updated all iTunes, attempted restore on a Windows 7 machine, two Mac machines, with one iPad power chord, two iPhone power chords, and multiple ports. Every iteration has resulted in the same 4013 error.
I am using TextEdit to edit some tcl files. periodically, or even frequently, but not always, when I go to save the file, I get a spinning beach ball. I tried launching text-edit via the command-line, but i was not imparted with any additional error information.
Is it possible to disable the 'Today View' inside the notification center but keep the notifications view or vice versa? I find the 2 views to be very awkward and mostly only need the notification one.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to cmd+1 == first tab, cmd+2 == 2nd tab, so on and so forth. How can I do this? Thanks!
if I click on "Pictures" tab, and I check "sync pictures", the itunes popup says something like "this ipad is already synchronized with another itunes database on "[MY OLD PC]". do you want to wipe out and sync the ipad with this itunes?"
Why I have a Windows keyboard for a Mac mini, I have no idea. But I know that my key that would open the Start menu on windows is Control... yeah. Anyways help me with this pleez.
By using digits in file names like 1.0.0.1 (with an arbitrary file type like .pdf, .txt or .jpg), the file name will be truncated and displays like this 1.0 (the .0.1 part will be truncated) I already set grid view in the view options, but it doesn't help. I'm using OS X Yosemite. Please suggest how I may see the full name?
My iPhone 4s has recently deleted all my alarms and now I can't create any new ones. Open Clock
The iMac does only have a mini displayport output. And it does it not have target mode, but if I upgrade my iMac's OS to X Yosemite, will target mode come with it? If so, Will I at that point be able to use thunderbolt-connection or something to get my iMac to work as a second monitor for my macbook pro?
My left shift and left alt seem to be stuck together, as in when I press one the system acts as both were pressed (the keyboard viewer shows both pressed as well). It only happens with the built-in keyboard on my Macbook (Mid 2012 edition, with OS X 10.10.5).
I have just installed Kali Linux in a separate partition of an iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse and with rEFInd. When I turn on the Mac it boots into Kali Linux automatically and doesn't recognize the wireless keyboard or mouse. Pressing alt during the boot doesn't show me the menu to select the disk. Please anyone can help me? The kali Linux system selection appears first so I think that it goes straight to Linux or that the keyboard is not recognized and I cannot change the boot disk.
I tried this and my hard disk looks something like this: I cant see the option to boot into windows at startup. I guess I can have only 4 partition so that this works efficiently. Can I just delete disk0s3 or will I have to start from installing windows?
I've been trying for quite some time now to figure out how I'm supposed to type the escape sequence '^\', Control+Blackslash on a Mac. I have a Swedish keyboard with the Swedish Pro layout, and I have backslash on Shift+Alt+7, but pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+7 just gives me a 7, not the escape sequence I would expect. The closest thing I found while googling is: How do I send C-/ (that is, control-slash) to the terminal? But it doesn't give away how to do the Control+Backslash, any ideas?
EDIT: If I check nslookup myUrl.local I got an Non-authoritative answer with the correct IP address. But I can't send a ping to this url or access it via browser before I added it to /etc/hosts.
I have a Mac Pro Model A1186. I am installing a Radeon 4870 Video Card. Where do I connect the 2 external power jumpers in the MAC Pro?I
I'd like to work on a draft pdf file on both a Mac and an iPad and see the edits syncing invisibly in the background. I create a new directory and save the following latex in ~/latex/lipsum-novel.tex then typeset it Now I have the pdf file ~/latex/lipsum-novel.pdf I drag that pdf file from Finder to the iBooks window, and from this answer, we know that iBooks buries the pdf file in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books I'm guessing that I can now delete ~/latex/lipsum-novel.pdf
What is the cause of this behavior? Unfortunately, since I only have a video capture and the issue does not reproduce, I don't know if the file changed back to its normal txt form. But it does not seem to change for as long as the video run. Sorry for the ambiguity, I'm working on getting a more accurate reproduction.
When I power on my MBP with an external monitor connected, the external monitor is the only active display. I have to unplug and replug the external monitor in order to enable the laptop's display. How do I ensure both are enabled automatically after power on? MBP system info:
My friend and own Iphone 6 and share the same apple id . when he makes a call it gets listed in my list of calls. How can i change this?
I'm getting about 50 messages like the following on the console every second. Could someone points me on what's happened and how can I avoid it?
I've just installed a new SSD in my mid 2010 27" iMac. I put it in place of the disk drive (ODD) so now there is no optical disc drive in my computer. After I did the installation I noticed that the fan speed shot up to ~3000 rpm and stayed there. So I downloaded SSD Fan Control and I'm currently using it to keep my ODD fan speed at ~1000 rpm. The system is running fine (from what I can see) and the noise it down to a minimum.
I just got the iPhone 6 and I had the iPod 5. Would I be able to use the same ID for both so every thing is transferred on to there?
I have been playing music on my iPhone for years, updating it with new songs I purchase regularly from iTunes. Recently, my list of songs looks different and I can only play one song at a time, and if I don't stop to change songs, the song just repeats over and over, even when I hit shuffle. Very frustrating while I'm trying to run with continuous music. I've noticed the red icon has recently turned white. Not sure if this is relevant. How do I get back to my original format? Thank you!
I upgraded my wife's iPhone to a newer model but she can't remember her Yahoo mail password which is stored in Keychain on her old phone. She uses the standard iOS Mail app which successfully fetches mail from Yahoo on the old phone.
I am in single-user mode, running fsck -fy. It attempts to rebuild the catalog file and exits with a status of -34, complaining of a disk full error.
I'm planning to change to MacBook from my PC and I was thinking on buying first an older model as I can't afford a new one currently. I would use this laptop for Xcode development as well so I'd be curious about the opinions and experiences you have regarding the MacBook Air 2012-mid and 2013-mid models with entry level CPUs and 4GB of RAM. So my question is: Would it be enough for Xcode development? How fast it performs? Any experience? Thanks in advance!
I'm taking a course in java and I'm using my iPad to take notes (using the notability app). I wanted to know if there's any way to copy code I'd be writing on my Mac (IntelliJ IDE) to my iPad. It needs to be transferable quickly and easily so I can incorporate the code in my notes as a textbox in notability. The catch is, it also has to retain the text color so I can read it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We have local users running on stock MacBooks, but it's time to move up and start managing things. Active Directory accounts are created for all users, and OSX Server is pushing the AD config profiles down to our hosts. Our local users have rather complex development tools and environments installed locally to their account, so it would be preferred to preserve them. Simply copying files over from the old account to the new mobile account does not work (as expected).
I got an Java application that does run under Java 1.8 without problems when I start its JAR directly. However on my Mac the JAR is wrapped within an app that demands me to install Java 1.6 -- which I really do not want to do! So I'm searching the point within the app package where I could configure that my App shall use the installed Java 1.8 Changing property InfoDictionary version within Contents/Info.plist to 8.0 will not help.
Here is an image of what I am talking about I have two 'download in progress' icons in my Safari window that won't go away. They two 'download in progress' icons are not clickable either. There is no progress bar under my 'Downloads' Folder in my icon doc as you can see here: How do I make the two 'download in progress' go away? I have: Restarted my computer Restarted Safari Screened my downloads folder to find any 'in progress downloads' or unknown files... All files in my downloads folder are mine and none are 'in-progress'
I have just upgraded to OS X Yosemite. In Apple Mail I normally send email to groups. In my old version of Mail I would press the "Show Addresses" icon in the toolbar and select an email group, however I do not have this icon on the new version. I've tried to customise the Toolbar, but "Show Addresses" is no longer an option. What is the best way to resolve this?
My wife has a MASSIVE iPhoto library -- thousands of snapshots of her cat and food and flowers, vacation photos, and so on, all taken at the highest resolution on her digital camera (up to 12 Megapixels). The library is taking up tonnes of space and it's bogging down iPhoto and her old iMac. She only ever uses these photos for Facebook and things like that -- maybe some of them might get printed as 5"x7" prints for a photo album or something. So I'm thinking it would be nice to reduce all of the images down to a max size of 1920 pixels (height or width, depending on landscape or portrait orientation). Is there an easy way to reduce the size of all photos in the iPhoto library? I was thinking of doing a massive export of all photos to a folder on an external drive with those max dimensions, but my concern is that I would lose all the iPhoto album organization. Any thoughts?
The display of my macbook is glitching as you can see in image below. However this is happening only if I'm trying to do some on graphics heavy tasks, just like opening big Rhinoceros project. The second occasion is when I wake up computer (from Sleep mode) and it was NOT pluged in. This glitching stops after a while, but it is at least disconcerting. Does anyone have any advice?
I made iTerm the default handler for a number of protocols that it doesn't know how to handle. How can I unset these protocols? And how can I set them to be handled by Chrome? So far I have tried removing the value from these protocols in this file: open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
So I am trying to push a certificate from a location (server) onto a remote mac computer so that then I can run a script that installs the certificates onto keychain and installs the application. Do you guys have any idea on how to get the certificate onto the other machine? I have OS X Server set up and Apple Remote Desktop as well if that helps.
Beginning in July of 2015, I've been unable to send mail using the Mailgun SMTP server using Mac Mail. To add a Mailgun account, I go to Mail > Preferences and under Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
my external harddrive permissions have suddenly changed. I am getting mount errors in Disk Utility when I try to verify the disk. When I Get Info for the drive in question, it states that I have "NO ACCESS", along with SYSTEM, ADMIN, and EVERYONE. There is an EVERYONE at the top that has "custom access." If I try to edit or add permisions for myself, it won't let me.
I've got a bash alias set up in my terminal, alias quicklook='qlmanage -p ', in order to easily quicklook files from the terminal, but the output bugs me. Testing Quick Look preview with files: /Users/Amory/Desktop/todo.txt 2015-09-01 14:36:40.257 qlmanage[36196:507] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x3e2f, name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname' See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes. 2015-09-01 14:36:40.258 qlmanage[36196:507] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x9137, name = 'com.apple.CFPasteboardClient' See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes. 2015-09-01 14:36:40.269 qlmanage[36196:507] Failed to allocate communication port for com.apple.CFPasteboardClient; this is likely due to sandbox restrictions
If i create some type of workflow on Automator, can I see the script in plain text? For example, maybe get the script and push it out through Apple Remote Desktop to a remote computer?
How much data can an attacker get off the device? Presumably with access to the hardware he can pull off everything, but I understand it is encrypted? In particular I am concerned about cached emails in the GMail app, and the Apple Keychain, which retains some credit card information and many passwords for internet sites.
I'm using Outlook 2016 on my mac connecting to office 365. I can add shared calendars fine, and most calendars work absolutely without an issue for calendars that have permissions set to User = Default, Role = Reviewer.
I can't believe no one has ever asked this, but I can't seem to find it: How long should you hold down key combinations, such as Command + S, while your Mac is booting? I can get this iMac to boot into safe mode (sometimes), but not Single User, Verbose, or Diagnostic modes, which seems strange to me, thus I assume I'm not doing something correctly.
I love my new MBP Retina but I would like to change the amount the Force Touch vibrates. I know there are the settings called Light, Medium and Firm to change not only the amount it vibrates but also the intensity of the force required to actuate. I am wondering if there is any way to turn the vibration of the Taptic Engine up even further to receive a more tactile click. Is this possible? Can I use BetterTouchTool to achieve this result? I tried to mess around with it a little bit but I don't think it works.
How could I transfer photos from a Mac to an iPhone? I don't want to use iCloud Photo Library or Photo Stream. I think there is some way to do it using iTunes.
I have files .mdown which I'd like to have icon previews for in the Finder, like normal .txt files would. Is that possible?
I have a late 2013 13" rMBP and a 4k monitor (3840x2160) that's running at 60Hz over mini display port. Right now it uses a scaled 1920x1080 resolution so everything is displayed at 2x HDPI (retina mode), which seems to be default. Everything is a bit big for my liking, however, and on the flip side 3840x2160 is far too small, so I was hoping to go for around 2560x1440 for a happy medium. As System Preferences seemingly doesn't permit this, I downloaded SwitchResX, created a custom resolution ("scaled" mode and 2560x1440 resolution) and selected "save", rebooted, but it still won't show up in System Preferences.
I have submitted my app on August 20th for apple review. But my app was rejected by apple on 29th of august due to metadata rejection .On 30th of august again I have submitted my app for review.. So My question is when will apple reviews app usually, if submitted after rejection. Any help is appreciated thank you
I am looking for a nice volume mixer for OS-X Yosemite+ for per-application audio control, I would also like per application sound output control. I don't mind buying if it's a nice product with long term support.
I connected from iPad to MacBook Pro (mid 2012) by USB. I turned on iPad personal hotspot and Internet Sharing works.
I recently asked a question if its possible to implement Parental control in IOS And ended up, it can be feasible using Device enrolment program in IOS. The device enrolment profile will be installed on the device and then you can control that device.
I have Google Chrome browser installed on My MacBook Air 13". I found few files from Google products in /Library and ~/Library. Found com.google.keystone.daemon.plist under /Library/LaunchDaemons/ Found com.google.Chrome.plist and com.google.Keystone.Agent.plist under ~/Library/Preferences/ Don't know why they are there and for what purpose it is used.
I have resubmitted my app for review after Apple rejection due to metadata rejection. I have updated the details in "Notes". Now my app status is "Waiting for Review". I want to change the demo account details. Can I update the "Demo Account" details when the app status is "Waiting for Review"? "
I have WD-My book world of 1TB and I struggled for some time to set it up correctly to use it as a disk for usage of time machine on Mac OS X Yosemite. My question is the following-what is the best way to delete old backups as I don't want to eat up all the HDD with the backups. I'm more than enough with a 1 month old backups. I read on Apple's website about the deletion on files on disk but as this is a NAS disk it's a bit different than a regular USB external HDD and it shows me only a lookalike of the "img file" (when I go to get info, it says "Sparse Disk Image Bundle") see screenshot:
I have a Mac. I plugged in a USB stick and I realized that I couldn't find the USB in my Desktop folder through the command-line. Turns out USB is mounted to ~/Volumes.
This Macbook Pro (15" circa 2012) is giving me trouble. After a slight water spill incident, I removed and replaced the hard drive, optical drive and battery (warning sticker ignored). After another day drying I turned it on. However, the battery is not recognised, everything's happening slower and the mouse is really jumpy. I've also noticed the CPU load from the Activity Monitor remains steady at 80%-90% for the System (kernel_task). I'd like to reset the SMC to see what happens, but it doesn't seem to be resetting. The PRAM/NVRAM reset is working, just not the SMC reset (I'm using shift-control-option + power). Is there another way to do the SMC reset? Maybe open it up and poke around some more?
My Mac suddendly restarted and now the external hard disk I normally use for Time Machine backups is not working anymore. When I plug it in, it doesn't appear on finder and while it appears in the Disk Utility, I can't perform any action on it. From the command line I tried with the command diskutil list, but I just see the default Mac hard disk. What can I do?
Disk utility and fsck [terminal] both agree that there is problem with my HD. I am curious if someone can help me figure out how I can deal with the problem. Terminal - Normal Mode When I use Disk Utility or fsck [Terminal] in Recovery Mode, it appears as though there is no problem. Terminal - Recovery Mode I suspect this is due to a disk assignment problem since the Volume ID/Names are not the same. Here is the info re: Core Storage
I'm using iWork (specifically Pages 5.5.3) and I can't find the templates I created for this anywhere on the HD. Library > Application Support > iWork > Pages > Templates > My Templates
I would like to record a demo video of an iOS app with QuickTime on Yosemite. (I found this tutorial) Is it possible to enable a tap indicator, like a small circle, for touch events so users can easily spot where the author tapped?
I am backing up Photos Library.photoslibrary using rsync. In general my backup philosophy is to keep things only if they cannot be automatically regenerated. Can anyone recommend items inside this package which do NOT need to be backed up (thumbnails, etc.).
I want to send a photo from my iPhone (iOS 8) to my Mac (Yosemite) via AirDrop. Though my iPhone appears on my Mac, Mac does not appear on iPhone. How can I fix this? On both devices, I've selected "Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone".
So. I installed Acrobet. I generally like it for dealing with large PDF files. However, since I've installed it, is insists on opening every time I download a PDF from Chrome. I'm sure this is a silly-ass setting somewhere, but I've not found it. Help? Update
I have a problem with Notifications widget. I can't receive an update for the widget. (I enable only 1 Stock widget now). There is crash: *=URL=* Crash happened when I opened Notification area. There are traces:
When I create a new desktop it has all the same crud on it that my original desktop has on it. How do I create a new desktop that's empty, and use that as a new work area... like a new desktop? The source of my confusion is that they're named "DESKTOPS", and given unique numbers, yet they completely fail to follow the ideas of their own metaphor:
I would deduce that this rules out the possibility that there is an issue with the SATA interface (and from what I understand, SATA III is backwards compatible, with either the motherboard or HDD running the older version anyway). Yet, something goes wrong when the system attempts to read the new drive as an internal drive (but is fine when reading as an external drive). With all this in mind, the most plausible explanation I could think of is that the new drive doesn't work because it's not an Apple drive (perhaps missing some specific firmware or something), but this contradicts what I read on the internet, and also doesn't quite explain why the new disk can boot externally.
I receive emails with ICS files. When I double click on them, the event is created successfully in my calendar but many times it chooses things like "family room" as the calendar.
I find that I frequently close the wrong window or app by accident, because I think that (for example) the Browser window I am looking at has the focus, when in fact another app, such as iTerm really has focus. (It doesn't help that I am able to scroll windows that don't have focus.) When I look at the visual appearance of windows, the difference between the one that has focus and the ones that don't is very slight: the focused window has a slightly different shade of gray in the title bar, and the three round buttons at the upper-left are red, yellow, and green instead of gray.
I can open my PDFs from iBooks, but Adobe Reader cannot find them on the iPhone. How can I open them in Adobe Reader, which I prefer?
I use my iPhone 6plus as a high speed video recorder of my son's golf swing. Is there a way to record two at the same time? I would like to capture the swing from behind and directly across (we both have iPhone's). Thanks
I am developing OS X version of multi-platform application. In Windows I can start several instances of application by just opening exe file several times. I noticed that in OS X when I open my app it appears on panel, and when I start it for the second time - nothing happens.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my iMac. I've gotten to the part where Windows setup asks for the bootcamp drivers, before Windows is installed ("Collecting information"). I've tried having the bootcamp drivers on both a usb 2.0 and a usb 3.0 external hard drive, and I still get the following error:
I'm very new to the world of Apple so pardon my ignorance & general lack of knowledge. I only have Terminal access to a Mac which is being used for test purposes. I'm trying to share a folder that I created so I can access it from a Windows machine. I logged in as "root" and created a folder with the following command: I tried sharing with the following command: Since the IP Address of the Mac is 172.16.26.193, I tried to access this machine from Windows Explorer with the following username:
I have been looking up for the last two days and found a few applescripts that claimed to change the subject lines. But none of them seem to be able to change/set the subject line. What do you guys think the mistake is here? I get the following error
Is it possible to receive a reminder for a meeting that is early the next morning (ideally "early" would be user defined option). Do any any 3rd party iOS apps support this? I've had times where an early meeting was scheduled weeks ahead of time, but by the time that morning came, I'd forgotten about it and not adjusted my wake up time.
I have several virtual machines shortcutted on my dock. By default these are all named "VirtualBoxVM" and have the same icon, it's difficult for me to tell them apart. I'd like to give them all at least a different name, hopefully also a different icon. My question is, can you customize dock icons and labels?
On Yosemite 10.10.5, I have an Apples Script application that runs and completes as desired under 2 of 3 conditions. The application is set to launch, by launchd plist 3 times per day at 7:05am, 3:05pm and 9:05pm. Completes - when run from Script Editor Completes - when running under launchd at 7:05am Applescript timeout warning - when running under launchd after ~7:21am and when the monitor is black
What can I download/install onto a USB drive, have it boot off that USB drive and then copy the files I need to another USB flash drive? The error message I get when booting is "Missing Operating system". I cannot reinstall OSX currently (no media for it). The Mac in question is an iMac so I cannot easily take out the hard drive.
I own a MacBook Pro 7,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and need to upgrade my operating system in order to allow my kids access Netflix as it says I need to update my browser. Apple software update says I have latest available software. Can I download Lion or Mavericks from anywhere? As I don't really want to risk going to Yosemite in case it renders my MacBook Pro useless.
I try to label two cell/mobile numbers on one contact but the second will not accept the "Mobile" label and shows "Home". Hence there is no message bubble to send message from second mobile number. How can I fix this?
A friend recently lost her iPhone (running iOS 7.1.2). Thankfully, someone found it before the screen turned itself off and go through her list of contacts,, and she got her phone back; Otherwise, the person wouldn't have been able to get into the phone because of the pin number that locks the phone.
I've been searching high and low for some service that will do this. Looking for something that can be installed on multiple machines, that has a nice dashboard that can tell me at the very least whether gatekeeper is enabled on each of the machines. Bonus to be able to manage it remotely.
I installed openvpn with brew. The installation went fine, no errors or missing dependencies. But now when I try to run it: I based myself on this tutorial: https://my.hostvpn.com/knowledgebase/29/OpenVPN-on-Mac-OS-X-via-Homebrew-CLI.html
I don't have administrator access for my MacBook Air and I need the username and password to be able to administer my laptop.
I've been searching the last couple of days for a way to clean up the save as dialogue box. More importantly the favorites portion. There are a bunch of dmg files that are no longer mounted and should not be there. They do not show up in finder only when I try to save a file.
When I selected "print layout" in Word, it used to work as intended and display documents as they would print out. Now, when I select "print layout" in any newly created Word document -- or in one document that I have been working on for a while -- the document appears as in this image: https://www.evernote.com/l/AAMf7shnKeRKBIha8C7MQez56Uc5Jpj1_PE
I have the new Macbook 12 inch with 500GB, which half of the storage goes to the Windows 10 system. I wonder would 500GB Hard drive be enough for Time Machine for backup?
I ran the repair database option in iPhoto before importing, and it didn't find any photos in the iPhoto folder that weren't in the database. So a bad iPhoto library shouldn't be the issue.
I have a MacBook Pro that got liquid spilled on it. I cleaned it up and everything works except the fact that it no longer has a serial number. When I go to look at System Information, it says "Serial Number: Unavailable." I've tried re-flashing the serial using Apple's Blank Board Serializer tool, which didn't work. I think that the place where the serial is physically stored on the board is somehow broken.
I'm hitting the hide button, but it's still showing up in my camera roll. I want to delete some photos from my camera roll, but keep them in my album.
I created a 15 second video on my Mac and want to post it to Instagram. I've tried converting it to Quicktime with iTunes and adding it to the iPhone that way, but I can't see the video in the Photos on the iPhone.
Okay so I know this subject has been touched on but.. my specific question is this. I recently bought an SSD and made it my boot drive, I bought a caddy for my super drive spot and put my old HDD in its place. I then backed up and erased the HDD. I want to move my home folder on to the HDD but im worried about performance. I primarily use Logic Pro X and Ableton. and I have some VERY big logic and ableton projects. Should I move the rest of my home folder to HDD and keep my logic files on SSD or should I just move my entire home folder to HDD?
It's a matter of principle for me as I'm struggling with it for a long time. I had this issue back on Mavericks and now on Yosemite 10.10.5. What I'm trying to do is to set Sublime text 3 as a default text editor for all plain text files (my target were files with . and without extension, e.g .bashrc). Here is an extract of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist after I used this Replace Text Edit as the default text editor advice:
I am unable to turn off mobile data for some apps. Facebook, Cotap, Youtube and some others. Yet some of the apps I can turn mobile data off for e.g App Store. I recently upgraded to 8.4.1 on my iPhone 4s. Any one have any ideas?
Assume that you've set a Keynote (v 6.5.3) slide to automatically advance after 2 minutes:  This works fine - until you realise during your presentation that you've finished early and are ready to move onto the next slide. How can you override the delay timer, and force the slide to move on? Keynote ignores any key-press or slide remote, and doggedly waits the 2 minutes before advancing. (In PowerPoint you can set an auto-advance-after-delay, but override it during a presentation using the keyboard or a slide remote - this is the behaviour I'm trying to emulate)
Is there any property that forces an application to start in full screen if it supports it? I noticed in ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.mycompany.myapp.savedState/windows.plist there's a key that saves the window state on some applications.
Is it possible to use a mouse connected to OSX computer at iOS device. Assume I have a Mac Mini and iPad on same WiFi network. I have a USB mouse connected to Mac Mini. Is there an option to use this USB mouse on iPad remotely (via WiFi) ?
I have multiple email accounts in Mail (Gmail, Exchange) and multiple calendars are set in Calendar. I got email alerts from Calendar that are sent with my Exchange email (Google Calendar alerts too). I cannot find any option to send all of my alerts with Gmail mail account. Is it possible to set from address in calendar email alerts?
Searching up the ~/Library/ directory, I found what appears to be the culprit causing me this problem. There is a file that's being generated by some sync services from Apple located at ~/Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices/Local/TFSM/com.apple.Calendars/data.syncdb. I'm not sure what process is updating this, but I'm using iTunes to sync local calendars to my iPhone and I suspect it probably has something to do with this. So perhaps the bug is not in Calendar/Reminders but really in iTunes or the SyncServices.
These conditions have been used as a loophole by frameworks such as Meteor, Cordova/Phonegap & even the likes of Cocos2djs. While Meteor & Cordova are based on the iOS webview, they are downloaded and run via webkit, but Cocos2djs is based on spidermonkey and has the ability to update game content and scripts via Cocos2djs' "Asset Manager" i.e not webkit (webview).
What I'm trying to do is move the beginning of the partition on an external HD drive. I have an external HD drive with two HFS+ partitions on it. I want to grow the first one at expense of the second one. I resized the second one using Disk Utility to a new size, but now I need to move it to the end of the disk so that I can grow the first one, but Disk Utility seems to permit moving only the end of the partition I think GParted can do what I want, but I really prefer to do it with built-in tools.
What format should the cell be? This can not be added and only gives a exclamation mark - "the formula contains a syntax error. OS X and numbers v3.5.3
How do I unsync my iphone messages so that those do not go to my ipad. I have unclicked the email address associated with my ipad on my iphone. Is there something else I need to do so other people in the house do not see my text messages on the ipad?
When Photo app opened, it did show up a "iPhoto events" tab, but most of my latest photos were missing. Tried the following: 1. I checked the Apple support communities and found that this was a common problem. 2. I connected my Time Machine backup and copied the iPhoto.app. When i try to install it, it says " In order to open iphoto.app, you need to update to the latest version" and says that the version of iPhoto is incompatible with OS X Yosemite. Can somebody help please?
I have heard of people getting email reminders from iCal, but I can't figure out how to do it. So the obvious question is: How do I have iCal email me reminders?
Some Homebrew formulas have names that do not correspond with any of the installed commands (e.g., coreutils, speech-tools), other formulas provide an command that matches up with the name, but also provide others alongside it (e.g., lua). Is there a simple way to determine what commands are associated with a given formula? Ideally as a brew <arg> command before installing, but even a shell script I could use post-install would help.
I have a rather large Pages document that has many sections. I need to break each of those sections out into their own Pages documents. I am using Pages 5.5.3.
I just purchased a wireless Magic Mouse for my Mac. There is no scrolling bar at the right of screen. How can I activate this?
I would ideally like a bookmarklet since then I could use it on iOS as well. I tried this Safari extension but I would like an option in the toolbar to open Apple Maps when I'm already on a Google Maps page instead of directly opening Apple Maps form a Google maps link.
I have tried opening it from the dock, launchpad and applications folder but it still will not open and then the mac freezes. Anyone have any suggestions?
I would like to install Windows 10 and use Bootcamp 6 to do so on a 2012 iMac. According to Apple's documentation, this should have appeared and been installed by software update. When I check my Bootcamp version though, it is 5.1.4. I have updated everything on the actual computer (10.10.5, etc). They used to provide access to the direct PKG files to install, but I don't see one for bootcamp 6.
I hope you can help me. I had modest tech abilities until 6 months ago, when I had a stroke. I don't know now what these abbreviations mean. I have read the answers but they don't seem to apply.
I use mac at home, but at work I have to use Win7 PC. It makes me crazy to switch between mac/win keybard everyday, so I want to buy mac usb keyboard, but, will CMD buttons work as CTRL in windows 'out of the box'? I can use some mapping software, but it would be much better just to plug it in and use.
The Disk Utility App shows: So maybe you already guess my question: where are my missing 30gb of ssd space gone? When I run Disk Utility, I only can make the Macintosh HD partition smaller. There is no possibility to erase disk0s5 partition, since: "MediaKit reports no such partition".
I like to use safari for light browsing (and to prolong battery life).Sometimes I switch to chrome , when I need to(syncing stuff to android,etc). I would like to know if my passwords(maybe even bookmarks) are getting synced or not. I am using yosemite 10.10.4 . If its not being synced out of the box, is there any software that does the syncing ?
I used to be able do to 1 + 2, but since the most recent update to the Music app, I can only do 1. Is there any way to do both?
When expanding the Downloads folder from the dock, in grid view, tooltips shown for long file name are leaving graphical artifacts after they disappear. There is a link below with a screen recording showing the issue. If you have any hint on how to fix this, please leave a comment. Screen recording
I am using AppleScript with Google Chrome to automate a tedious process on a website. In certain conditions, the website has an alert popup to notify the user of an issue. This prevents the rest of the automator script from completing. I need to detect this popup, log it to a file (I already have this figured out), and click the ok button to continue on. The code that I currently have looks like this:
I just purchased and ran iTunes Match on my collection. Approximately 80% came back as Matched, 10% as Uploaded, and an additional 10% came back as Apple Music. All my files were previously ripped or purchased MP3s. I completely understand and expected the Matched and Uploaded results, but have no idea why the others are coming back as Apple Music. I am subscribed to Apple Music, but only have iCloud sync enabled on my PC running iTunes 12.2.2.25 (which appears to be the latest version). Any idea 1) why these are showing up as Apple Music, and 2) how to I get them to switch to Matched as I believe they should be? Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
This is what the top of my Safari page looks like right now:  I think I have around 90 tabs open. That's how I work, I multitask. What made Safari stand out as a browser used to be the fact that no matter how many tabs you had open, you could still know what a page's title was. I believe page titles are super-duper important, and that getting rid of them for users with many tabs open was a mistake they made with Yosemite/new Safari. Is there a way for me to get the page's titles back?
When taking a screenshot to the clipboard using Cmd + Ctrl + Shift + 4 you can add a portion of the screen to the clipboard. However, when pasting into Paintbrush with Cmd + V, it crops randomly and can't be moved down.
I'm at a loss as to what to try next! Any suggestions appreciated. I'm wondering if my network stack is somehow corrupted?
Is it possible to prevent all HTTP (or any other unencrypted protocol) on my mac while connected to an insecure network (any network without a password)? In Chrome, I'm able to use the extension HTTPS Anywhere and click "Block all HTTP requests", however other programs that might be running in the background could potentially be sending HTTP requests without my knowledge.
About two months ago, I purchased a MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch (model MF840LL). Recently, I have noticed a quiet rattling noise when doing something performance-intensive (some webpages in Firefox, for example). What is causing this, and what should I do about this (if anything)? I also have a Speck seethru case on the computer - could the case be rattling against the computer?
I have a Mac mini (Mid 2011) (Macmini5,2) with OS X 10.10.5 and Server.app installed. I would like to share internet from this machine's Ethernet port to my WiFi, so that other devices in my room can connect wirelessly to the wired connection coming into its Ethernet. I have configured Internet Sharing on this machine to use WPA2 Personal. When I was messing around with Server.app, I also configured one Network (192.168.1.0/24) for the DHCP service in Server.app (for the WiFi device), but the service is disabled.
Okay so I broke my iPhone and it is black, and I tried syncing it but it goes to saying I have to put in my iphone password but I cant because the screen is black. How do I access my messages and send them, also get all my contacts back???
I searched the web and apparently this process has something to do with the iCloud Drive! I don't have more than 10 MB for all the data and documents on iCloud Drive; but this process uses more than 300 MBs everytime it starts. It usually starts within a restart of the computer. I also checked the setting of iCloud drive on my iPhone and disabled all data backups and stuff for applications (even whatsapp and others which are not even on my mac). I have no idea what's causing this bandwidth hug. All photos cloud stuff has been turned off too. I don't use safari either; using chrome.
In Numbers, I would like to create a column with automatically generated cells to create a timetable with each hour and each half hour. I create a new document, type in "7:30 AM" and then in the cell below I type in "8:00 AM" then I drag downwards from the first cell, but it doesn't work, it replaces "8:00 AM" by "8:30 AM" but I only want 30 mns increments...
I'm wondering, how do I back up Notes.app content on OSX so that I can safely either trash it all and restart, or do future upgrades? (The reason I'm doing this is because OSX and iOS no longer sync Notes properly..)
In a recent answer I needed to include a a possessive apostrophe in a path name within Time Machine for a command line operation. I have it saved in a text file, but what the heck is it? I don't see it on my keyboard. "/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/david914’s MacBook Air/2015-08-30-221221/Macintosh HD/Users/david914/" I first tried to look at it with python, but no luck. These I know: but the apostrophe in question is: --> ’ <-- and all I can get is: Then I used Excel: and got:
Looking for a tool what allow me: draw shapes with bezier lines the inspector shows the length of the line
This is a strange one, but I am looking for software that will narrate french words and phrases I select on the screen. Preferably one with good pronunciation/quality voice.
I use the iTunes library primarily from another application. Are there any methods, preferably automated, to add music to the iTunes Library — i e the .itl file, not only the .xml — without actually using the iTunes GUI for this? For instance command line alternatives or even third party solutions with privileges in the OS.
I'm trying to install Bundler on my Mac which is running OS X El Capitan Public Beta 6 (15A278b). I try sudo gem install bundler but I get the following error back ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno:EPERM) Operation not permitted - /usr/bin/bundle
A new unstable resource-draining Adobe process that has recently appeared on my Mac is proving more difficult to hunt down and kill than the numerous other processes that Adobe creates. Generally following instructions here and elsewhere to disable the launching of these processes has worked, but I can't seem to figure out how to disable the latest: AdobeIPCBroker. I've found instructions for Windows, but none for OS X. How do I get rid of and permanently disable AdobeIPCBroker on OS X?
However, when writing with my custom Yiddish keyboard (which was most probably created using Ukelele), I get this:  As you can see, the period is on the right, while it should be on the left (at the end of the sentence). This is just an obvious example, but when mixing Yiddish and English in the same sentence the result is even worse.
I downloaded Teach Tracks to learn songs and I like to add them to playlists. How do I add these to my Apple Music cloud library so that I can then add them to playlists in iTunes?
It's probably a minor thing but since I'm new to Apple I can't really figure this one out. I have an external monitor plugged into my 15' MBP Retina via Thunderbolt - VGA adapter and when I turn on the computer only the external monitor turns on. The notebook display stays black. I have to unplug the external monitor, turn on the computer and then plug it in for them both to work at the same time. Do you guys have any ideas how to set it up permanently?
For some reason another persons Apple ID pops up when I try to do updates on my iPhone 6. Don't have a clue how to fix this or stop it. The name does not resemble my name at all. Anyone know what to do?
So what options do I have here? The HDD is not operational at all, I do have a Windows desktop if I can do something here though.
I've looked up many ways on how to deal with the U2 songs on my phone, but they will not go away what ever I try. The most common solution for this problem is to "Show all" music, go to the Music, click the iCloud download button to download it and then turn off "Show all" button again. Generally, this would work but in my situation, it says I haven't purchased the song and I can't download the song again. The song still plays when I click on it, but I can't swipe left to delete and I can't hide it. And yes, I am signed into iTunes. And no, it is not under my purchased section. Is there any other way to rid of this song?
I have two partitions on my mac book pro. One partition is running os Yosemite and other one is running bootcamp windows 8.1. Yosemite is 75GB and Bootcamp has 673GB. I shrinked the windows partition by and made 142 GB available, but that space is not available to the mac side and neither can I see it from Disk Utility. What is the proper way to increase my macintosh HD without loosing any data? I am not able to resize any partitions from the mac side.
I would like to remap the capslock key to behave as such: When Off : letters are lowercase numbers are not active (symbols characters are active) other symbols (not on the numbers row) behave normally (as if shift was up) letters are lowercase numbers are not active (symbols characters are active) other symbols (not on the numbers row) behave normally (as if shift was up) When ON: letters are uppercase numbers are active other symbols (not on the numbers row) are inverted (as if shift was down) letters are uppercase numbers are active other symbols (not on the numbers row) are inverted (as if shift was down) It is the behavior from the "French - Numerical" layout, but I need this on a U.S. keyboard.
On all my roommates computers my website that I recently changed where the DNS points to actually points to the right location, and when you load it all is well. However for myself, when I load the website in Safari or Chrome or what have you, it always presents an error from the old host (which was the whole reason I moved to a new host), which I assume is because of some cached DNS issue where it's still looking for the wrong location. I tried: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; to no avail, it still loads the old site. Any suggestions on how to get it to load the correct webpage?
Recently, I've noticed a strange behavior on my iMac (Yosemite 10.10.4, Late 2009). Everything freezes completely - it's totally unresponsive. HOWEVER, I can continue to control the mouse pointer perfectly.
I have an iPad Mini running iOS 6.0.1. I want to install iOS 7 instead of 8. Is ther a way to do it? The iTunes update shows update to iOS 8.4.
Script 2 runs as the user beeing logged in and lies in ~/LaunchAgents. It presents a GUI to the user and sends the information to script 1 via a socket connection.
Nope, still nothing. Lets try something else:
I have been using iCloud Photo Library on my Mac for several months but I'm wanting to quit using it now. If I go in and try to turn it off, I get a message that all my photos will be deleted from my Mac but the full resolution originals will still be available in iCloud for 30 days. I have already downloaded my photos from iCloud into a download folder on my Mac so that I can import them into Photos.
Black text on white background hurts the eyes while perusing logs in Console.app. There used to be some hacks like this to change the colors of the display in Console.app. But those hacks apparently no longer work in current versions such as Yosemite. Any current ways to change Console colors in Mountain Lion or Yosemite?
I want to by a used MacBook Pro i5 Mid 2010 edition, but there is no system DVD. The previous owner's stuff is on the hard drive, and I want to wipe it clean with a new OS. Can I boot into existing Mac OS and download an ISO of the latest Mac OS X or do I have to buy a install disk from Apple?
I have Time Machine backup of computer A, a Macbook Pro mid-2010. I want to restore/re-create some folders backed up in that backup on a different computer, a Macbook Pro Retina mid-2014. How to properly do this?
I usually don't buy content from Apple. I bought some iBooks, only to later find out that these can't be opened on other platforms.
I am using a model A1278 Mac and I need to reinstall the OS on it, or reset it. I am attempting to open the recovery mode by using the Cmd + R method but that did not work, I then attempted to use the Option method. That too did not work. I am out of options and very, very inexperienced in the Mac OS, thus any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Unsure on the OS X version I am using. Thanks
I've a just bought a iPad from eBay. The iPad came today and I found it to be locked to somebody else's iCloud account. Is there any way I can sort this situation out or not? Thanks in advance.
Recently I have gotten more and more "Breaking News" features from the NY Times which appear on my desktop. (1) How did I initiate this feature? (2) How do I turn this off?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills since nobody else seems to be having this issue. I really can't get the keyboard shortcut for Paste and Match Style to work in OSX Notes. I copy some rich formatted text, I have the caret at the point I'd like to enter the text, and I press and hold: Option+Shift+Command+V
I'm getting a strange behavior for my Time Capsule (the "tower" model) since I upgraded my home LAN. The problem is that I can no longer browse the content of my Time Capsule using AFP or SMB because the Finder keeps loading. I don't get asked for the password because it's saved in the keychain. I also tried to manually mount Time Capsule using Terminal and mount or mount_afp but nothing changed.
As shown in the image, is it possible to see the full name of the app ? For instance, Adobe Reader is shown as 'Adobe Rea...' .
I am trying to connect to a Linux host using ssh and get the following error I would like to override this, but can't seem to find any combination of options to do this. I probably set StrictHostKeyChecking years ago, but don't remember how. I consulted man ssh which informs me the system-wide configuration file is /etc/ssh/ssh_config and default for the per-user configuration file is ~/.ssh/config neither exists.
I have recently switched back to Mac after Linux Mint and there is one thing I find very cumbersome: In fullscreen mode the menu bar at the top goes into auto-hide mode, so it animatedly rolls down when I pull the mouse up to the top. My issue is that, this happens pretty slow. There is a 0.5s delay and then the animation starts to roll the menu bar down. I know it doesn't sound a lot but in practice it gets annoying when I multitask and trying get tasks done fast. Is there a way to remove the delay and trigger the animation instantaneously? Also, is there way to make the animation faster, or perhaps disable it? Yosemite 10.10.04
I have a MacBook with Japanese keyboard (physical), I use Google Japanese Input as my main input system. It lists three keyboard layouts Alphanumeric, Hiragana, Katakana in the settings ¥¥Keyboard -> Input Sources.
So basically my macbook pro (mid 2010) was acting funny (shutting off when left corner was tapped/bumped, high fan when no activity, etc.), nothing helped so I reset the SMC (I think that's what it's called, I'm a little sleep deprived here) and the PRAM. Now my volume control overlay and brightness overlay are displaying incorrectly. Initially, they were displaying half off the screen, centered on the lower half, so I force-reset Finder, hoping that this would help. Now both the overlays are centered.. on the bottom half of the screen, instead of being centered in the actual middle of the screen.
I got macbook pro late 2013 and normally Pages and iMovies they are free for mac after 2013 but when I got to app store I can't get them for free. Any help here or how to get them free ?
I'm Alex and I'm attempting to install Windows 10 on my iMac 27" (2012) with 3TB+128GB Fusion Drive, but during install procedure I get the same error "Your Disk Could Not Be Partitioned" without any further explanation. The first time I tried to install Win, I got stuck on Apple Support Software download, so I canceled and I downloaded the software on a pen drive myself. So I uncleared "Download Apple Support Software" and I only cleared the option about installing Windows. The first time the partitioning started, but it got stuck. So I closed BootCamp and I repaired the disk. Since that time, BootCamp never worked anymore. I tried any possible kind of repair and recovery, including: Internet recovery /sbin/fsck -fy from Single User Mode Repair using Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, which all said Your Disk appears to be OK! I have also noticed a lag with Safari Smart Bar (I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I'm totally sure that it shouldn't happen, because I have 16 G
Brand new to Mac OS, coming from Linux. Almost everything I do is out of my home dir ("~/", or on Mac, "/Users/myuser/"). But when I open up the Finder app, I can't figure out how to view my home dir:
Why was the option to alter the CPU voltage not available under Bootcamp? Is this feature not supported by my CPU (i7 2.6 GHz Ivy Bridge 3720QM)? If my CPU is capable of changing its voltage, is there a way to reduce CPU voltage in OS X?
I installed OpenZFSonOSX even though it is not compatible with OS X 10.10. The zfs commands are not working and make the Mac to restart immediately.
my macbook pro( 13 inch mid 2009) running yosemite 10.10.5 is not delivering sound to the headphone speakers .I am using my iPhones headphones .it is able to receive mic input though. does it mean it has a hardware issue
I use QuickTime quite a lot for playing mp4 videos with embeed .str subtitles. The only really annoying issue is that the cursor shows up back randomly when a subtitle appears on screen. Some facts about what I'm experiencing:
i have two users on macbook pro (yosemite). one of them has access to the defaults binary in /usr/bin the other user gets command not found. looking up in /usr/bin --> no defaults. both accounts are administrators... I have a laggy mouse (impossible to work) and i want to turn mouse acceleration off. THX
I am making MAC app in which I want to list of files / folders related to any installed app in the mac. For example; I want to get list of all the files and folders of Skype app installed in my MAC programmatically. How can I do this? Can I get list of files or folder related to installed mac programatically?
I am trying to install ccid-1.4.20 (command line) in an El Capitan enabled MacBook Air, but I am facing some issues. Instructions says that after uncompressing the file, in the generated folder I should do: ./MacOSX/configure make sudo make install However at the end of the process, I get the following error: So I figured that libusb was missing.
This seems crazy, but I just checked in a build script that switched from rm -rf to rm --recursive --force, since it would be more readable. And a collaborator who uses a Mac is reporting this breaks. When I ask him to run rm --help, he gets
I have an iPhone 4S it is restarting 20x a day since iOS 8.4.1 was installed. I have the Apple Music service turned on. I am going to turn it off because it keeps causing problems with playing iTunes, but I wonder if anyone else has experienced these restarts, and if so, what configuration options cause it or make it go away.
As you can see the delete button is unavailable. I have a Time Machine backup but that only gave me the option to restore to my 447GB disk (the drive is obviously a 500GB).
I have a 3 days old Macbook Pro 2015 with OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) on it. Today (for the first time) a new update appeared in my Mac App Store, an update to an app (Sketch - that is not free) that I never purchased on my Apple ID account.
I cloned a disk containing an HFS+ volume to a larger disk using the command line dd utility. Now I want to grow the HFS+ volume to fill the new disk. There's an EFI partition before the HFS+ volume in the partition table but nothing after it.
I have a spreadsheet maintained in Numbers where I record my practices at the range, which lists type of weapon (pistol, rifle, shotgun), as well as the numbers of shots fired. I am readily able to calculate the total, but want a more granular overview.
I'm planning to get a 128 GB Transcend JetDrive SD card to supplement the storage on my MacBook Air that's 128 GB. I just wanted to know once I get it can I copy the applications installed to the SD card? Also what all other data should be transferred? Major chunks of my data are iPhoto library (8 GB) and iTunes music (26 GB).
To beef up performance and to make the connection to the NAS was kept I recently created a NFS share between my Mac Mini and my NAS. To do so I've set-up an automount to establish the connection.
I have two Synology Diskstations in my list of Connected Servers. Disk station-5 and Diskstation-8 (see image). Now I want to change the user name for these connected servers and I want these connected servers to connect when I boot my laptop or desktop. I simply cannot get it done. Every time the servers are not connected and when I try to connect the old user name appears. Anyone ?
iMac (approx 7-8 yrs old) Screen froze while in use. Shut down for 10 mins. Restarted, graphics came on distorted. Apple logo in the middle of screen with small broken lines and specks all over the screen. It tried to load but froze up again. Had to push power button a few times and hold it down to shut off.
I accidentally clicked the delete button when my mouse had clicked on 5 September 2015 under the history page. Is it stored somewhere temporarily or something before it is deleted?
(Cross-posted in Linux StackExchange) So I'm trying to dual boot OS X and Manjaro. Using the graphical installer of Manjaro, you're given the option (well, it's an obligation) to create a partition that mounts to /boot/efi. Manjaro installs without any problem and when the Mac reboots it goes straight up into Manjaro.
I tried to install several unsupported versions of OS X on my Mac Pro 1,1 but no matter which method I use, after choosing the usb device in the boot manager the mac would just boot into os x lion as normally. I even tried sudo bless and using another usb port but it still won't work. Can anybody help me with? tober
My Excel is not force quitting, I can't find it in the Activity Monitor or the PID for it... Is there another way I could kill it?
I wanted to free up some space on my iPad, so I looked at Usage, and it said Mail was taking up the most bytes, so I went to my All Mail and deleted all the adds (which was a lot). Then I went to trash and deleted everything in there. Then, I check Usage again. It had said at first mail was taking up 19.4 MB, then AFTER I deleted a ton of things, it went UP. Now, it says it's taking up 33.4!! It did the exact opposite. I deleted a bunch of stuff, and the amount of storage the app was using went up... what's happening?? Thanks!
My Iphone storage is almost full, so I am trying to copy and remove images from my iphone to pc with itunes. For some reason I am not able to do that and the reverse is happening. Images from my laptop is copied to my iphone. How should I fix that?
I am trying to install windows 7 using bootcamp on my Macbook Pro running Yosemite. Everything goes well except when it is done with partitioning the hard drive. When it boots to windows a black screen appears with the message "No bootable device insert disk and press any key." When I press a key nothing happens. I tried restarting it and holding down the option key but only the Macintosh HD appears. EDIT:
I have a problem with the old PageSpinner 5.2.1 that has not been updated for a long time and it can no longer remember the last opened folder in Open dialogs and always default to the same ~/Documents folder. Is there a way to change the default folder for a specific application and/or for all applications Open... dialog?
I have PS4 that I use it also for Netflix but I'm only wondering if Apple TV provides extra features to Netflix experience.
Everytime I open my terminal I get a little notification error: I don't really know how to get rid of this, I think it might have something to do with XQuartz or X11. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this?
I have been trying to install Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp, and have had several problems that have resulted in failures (those are perhaps a different post). I'm using Yosemite. Currently when I run disk utility I have two partitions, one of which I can't reclaim. Booting into recovery mode, and listing my disk makes me think things are pretty messed up, as it returns:
I've been having this problem a lot and it's becoming extremely irritating. So, I force quit an app (mostly Chrome, Steam and uTorrent) that isn't responding and open it again (this is also the situation when I force quit an app that is bouncing and won't open), it bounces for a long time again, so I force quit again, it keeps bouncing for a while and then 'quits'.
I am trying to start my OS X 10.10 in 32 bit, but with no success: First I tried it by keeping 3 + 2 pressed during start up Then I tried by the following command: sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture i386 In both cases all I get RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 by running uname -a Is it possible at all to force 32 bit on OS X 10.10? This is my processor: i7-2675QM I have hardware drivers that only support 32 bit for AWUS036H Is there another way to use that hardware with 10.10?
I can use ⌥ + S to type the greek letter ß (beta) in any application, which is very useful. However, what about poor α (alpha)? Is there a shortcut for it?
I want to buy a new MacBook Pro. However, it simply MUST be able to have a different operating system to Yosemite installed, as I need it to work with some hardware which is no longer supported with Yosemite. Would it be possible to downgrade a new Macbook? Thanks
I read here that: Apple began iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus mass production in mid August.
I rented the documentary movie Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine a few hours ago, and was able to watch it on iTunes on the Mac. When I tried to watch it on iPad, I do not see a Rental tab in the Videos app. According to this page: *=URL=* this should be the way to do it:
I just installed Windows 10 successfully via BootCamp. Now I am neither able to boot into OSX, nor is its partition shown anywhere.
After quitting and re-opening iTunes (iTunes 12, German language) the playlist does not proceed where I left off before I quit. However, the last added (German: Zuletzt hinzugefügt) queue or, if not displayed, the very first artist is played (songs sorted by artist). Googling lead to some older posts from the year 2010 and showed some "solutions" using Apple-Script Bookmark features, but there should have been some further development in iTunes the last five years...
How do I configure Automator to ask for a text input (example: enter website url) and pass the answer to an AppleScript that executes this command: So, this would be executed in the terminal:
I already on the imessage and facetime in setting. But, why suddenly it turn off by itself? So, what should I do? Is there something wrong with my iphone?
In iTunes 12 I am able to sort the songs using different filters and sort options. In my basic configuration my songs are sorted by artists and in the artists view, they are sorted by year (selection in upper right corner: artist, year).
So, favouring the command xxd -b filename over hexdump -C filename to get the actual 1s and 0s of a binary file, i get this output from a file: Now the binary itself is not a problem, it looks to be hexadecimal which is fairly simple to decode, however, can anyone identify what these non binary columns signify? I assume that the columns 2 to 7 are the actual binary of the file, which leaves columns 1 and 8 which are definitely not binary, but have no stated purpose either as in no column headings. So can anyone tell me what the columns on the other side of the binary are for and what they are telling me? Thanks in advance.
I bought a new 15" retina MBP earlier this year, with the discrete GPU M370X that was released this year. However, "About this Mac" claims that it's a Mid 2014 model. Is it just a glitch or does anyone else have the same info? It's nothing to worry about, right?
I tried to set up a ssh key for easily logging into the server which is hosting my website : ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024. The keys (public and private) have been saved in /var/root/.ssh which I dont like because I have to sudo -s prior to rsync for accessing the private key.
I just upgraded to Yosemite and opened my "Mail" programme, and at first everything worked fine but when i closed it and wanted to open it again at a later time the app tells me its open (by showing me the nr. of unread emails and via a small dot beneath the app sign) but it wont show me the inbox.. can someone tell me what happened and/or how i can fix this? thanks.
I was half asleep when I changed the password into a 4-digit code, until my son tried all passwords ever used and found it disabled after several tries. I can't use itunes to connect to the phone as it asks me to respond using my phone that is now blocked! I went to icloud -- find my phone -- and chose erase iphone, but the device is offline. It does not connect to our wifi and cellular data.
There is a sound constantly playing on my MacBook Pro laptop. When I connect to the internet, this sound which seems to be a bouncing ball with a spring is always playing in the background. I can be listening to a song, a lecture, or nothing. I have turned the sound off on any games I play because I thought the sound was coming from a game. I have closed out every open window. I have checked my settings. I have turned the computer off and when I turn it on, the sound is still there. I don't know how to stop the sound. Thank you for any suggestions you might have to help me get rid of this sound.
On Windows I was using a program that could turn non-resizeable windows into resizeable windows. It's called ResizeEnable. I would like to know if someone knows about such a software on Mac? This would be to use for example with System Preferences, in the Keyboard - Services - Shortcuts section to see all the items without scrolling... Or with any window not having the green button enabled.
Maybe this is a general question for magnetic / wireless charging. I'd like to let my apple watch charger stick to a metal lamp on my nightstand when not in use. Is this safe or will the charger be activated in some capacity? Could be a dumb question, but I searched for this and couldn't find anything.
I would like to assign a keyboard shortcut to an Automator created service. This must be working only for the application the service was created for. It should override the default application keyboard shortcut (if any). Example: Using my text editor, if I press F5, I want it to launch a reload Chrome tab service as explained on Stack Overflow Mac: reloading document in Chrome or Firefox?, but without activating the normal function associated to this key in the software.
I would like to store my Photos library onto an external USB Flash drive. I have found other articles explaining that it was possible to store a Photos library onto an external USB SSD or HDD and would like to do the same on a USB Flash Drive. The reason for the above is that a USB Flash drive (i) holds enough space,(ii) is MUCH smaller and (iii) can always be plugged in. In the case that this is possible I have some specific questions and would very much appreciate if someone could shed some light on this. Is it possible to use a USB Flash drive to store a Photos library and access this library when I use the Photos app? Does performance greatly suffer or is acceptable when using the Photos app (browsing or editing pictures) with the above configuration?
I have just created a service for my text editor. I would like to be able to add a services item in the text editor contextual menu when right clicking. Can this be done?
I'm having a problem with the application icon for Jetbrains' RubyMine 7.0 not showing up in the dock.  This used to work just fine before I cloned/renamed the user accounts on my Mac, running Yosemite.
Apps have solicited my input, so after spending time to make a review, it seems my reviews are not posted. Do reviews submitted for Apps have to be approved by either the developer or Apple?
My phone was snatched. Its Activation Lock was turned off and it was not signed in on iCloud. However, I still see my phone as listed among the devices in iCloud.
This problem is relatively new. I am running Yosemite with all updates completed. Each day for the past week I get an (!) in a triangle near one or more of my mail accounts (gmail usually or any that follow in sequentially), and my computer won't connect to the server. When I hit the connection doctor, it shows two accounts for Gmail (I'm assuming, or else I have not clue what "Google" is for), even though I only have one. One says Google and one says Gmail.I don't have Chrome. See below: Its the Google one that gets hung up, but that impacts my ability to connect to Gmail despite saying login succeeded, and can also impact the ability of mail to move on to opening my Hotmail and iCloud accounts as well.
I have an iPhone, iPad and a Macbook. All are interconnected for iMessage and I can use my Macbook for SMS texting as well via forwarding. Lately, my SMS texts, only, are not going through and I get a red exclamation point and an undeliverable message. This tends to occur when I send a longer message. One liners go through not problem. The line on top that shows the progression of the message being sent will move rapidly toward the end, then just hangs. It will do this for a minute until it says undeliverable. If I hit retry, sometimes it will go through, others not. If I send the message to myself on email it goes through fine, but not to another person's non-iPhone.
Sometimes it takes ages for it to start again. When I watched a video, closed it while the video was still running (or music on iTunes) and I open the Computer after a while again, it takes ages till I can type in my password in the prompt. Instead, the video/music starts, it fetches emails, updates my calender etc. Sometimes the screen turns even black again that I have to press the power button. Then I can type in my password. So in short, it starts up everything else (sometimes it takes up to two minutes) before I can type my password.
So I have this program I use to watch movies on my Apple TV that runs from my Mac in Terminal and goes to the TV. Well whenever you wanna start the server up you have to run a set of commands in Terminal.
I have a few different computers that that use the same iTunes media folder on a network drive. The media folder contains the iTunes library file and thus all my computers share the same iTunes library.
Have recently noticed my ios6 running iPhone hasn't done an iCloud backup since November. Could there be a new icloud api that would prevent ios6 devices from backing up properly? It appears to fail even when started manually. With no particular error message of course. Did anyone have a similar problem? Maybe someone can tell me the icloud log location? I've only found a preference plist with BackStateInfo - error, code 1, domain MBEroorDomain, localizedDescription "Service crashed". The backup fails on a different network as well.
Does anyone has experience with upgrading a mac mini mid 2011 to 16 GB RAM? I know the official doc says the max is 8 GB RAM, but there are articles on the internet which claim it is possible. The official doc: *=URL=* Article which claims it is possible: *=URL=* Thanks
The sent items folder is about 8 GB and I need to clear it out to free up space. Is there any way to do it without selecting each individual message?
Following on from my previous question, I also record which entry records a competition. These are currently recorded as checkboxes. Counting them all is easy enough; I simply use the following function: However, I also want to count the competitions that are specific to a type of firearm. What I've got so far is: That, unfortunately, returns a Syntax error, and I can't understand why.
I have a Bose USB 2.1 system. When I plug it into my MBPr directly, I have the option to output sound to "Bose USB Audio" and it works beautifully. I just got a new monitor, (a Dell U2415,) and if I plug the speakers into the USB ports on the monitor, it doesn't show up as an output option. I'm trying to set up a home workstation that I can plug in and out of easily – I would love for both the speakers and monitor to work with just the mini displayport plug instead of having to plug/unplug both the mini displayport and a USB every time. Why don't the speakers work when plugged into the monitor USB, and is there a way to fix this?
How can I recover a FAT partition originally created under OS X and used mainly from Bootcamp Windows which now looks as follows: OS X diskutility shows it in grey, as unmounted partition disk0s4 (despite a user-friendly name I given); attempt to mount it doesn't change anything. Capacity is shown correctly, but no Available/Used/Number of files is shown Windows 7: Computer > Manage > Disk Management shows the partition in the list (as RAW, Healthy, Primary), but again no capacity/used/free space is shown
If I plugged my old iPhone 4 into a computer, all the files would automatically come up. But when I plug my new iPhone 6 into a computer, nothing happens. Did they change something in the iPhone 6, and I have to perform additional steps to view the files?
I want to block Facetime calls from a specific person, but not phone calls or texts. How can I do that?
I am using Google Calendar and I would like to sync it with my iPhone. Usually, the best way to do this is via setting up a CalDAV account which I've been successfully doing for a while.
Hi i bought an iphone 6 plus from ebay recently and in the listing seller says it is a new phone that came from a iphone replacement and it has 12 months warranty since the day of purchase. I then asked him how he was going to tranfer the warranty to my name and he replied:
The title sums it up. Once opened it simply doesn't show any emails and then eventually seems to crash but is open in the background still not showing anything.
Is it possible to create a VPN server on an iPhone so that I can connect to it with Linux box and bring the Linux box onto the iPhone’s LAN? I’ve been looking all day and everything available for iOS seems to be a client. Jail breaking isn’t an issue.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2014). For whatever reason I noticed that one application (Netbeans) is a lot faster (the interface) when it runs in a non-retina screen (noticed this when I connected a second non-retina display).
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and an OEM license of windows 7. I plan to install Windows 7 with these instructions provided by Kevin in this thread: Install Windows 7 On MacBook (x) 2015 This will hopefully let me boot camp into Windows 7 with some limited functionality.
The Preview app hangs whenever I try to edit a PDF/adding text in fields. I try to repair the permissions/reboot but it doesn't change the behavior. Here's the console messages:
I am on a wired network that does not allow access to external websites like stackoverflow etc. but my wireless connection allows that. My mac is connected to both wifi and wired network. Is there a way that I can set chrome or firefox that it will use wifi connection and rest of my applications will use the wired network.
I realize this is a lot. I'm using up 6.6GB of RAM. The CPU is 8.6% System, 4.45% User and the rest is idle. (At least while I'm on here typing stuff. It obviously changes once I compile something etc.)
On OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27), when I want to see the preview of an image (JPG or PNG, but I suppose it will be the same with other formats) the wait spinner appears and the Finder becomes freezed, I have to relaunch it via "Force Quit Applications". I already tried these things: Delete all the plist related with Finder and Quicklook I've found inside ~/Library/Preferences. On terminal qlmanage -r and qlmanage -r cache, but in both cases I had to ^C to abort because after half an hour nothing happened. Hard disk permissions repair. A general clean using CleanMyMac 3. I don't know what more could I do besides reinstalling :( Do you know what could be the problem? Thank you so much. UPDATE
I use AirPort Express to create a WiFi network. Provider gives me static IP and uses binding to MAC-address (AirPort Express has two MACs -- for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, I guess, -- and I gave provider one of them, unfortunately, don't remember which one). Firstly, router says there's a double NAT problem, but I "ignored" it and everything goes well. But the real problem is when no device is using the internet, router just falls to some kind of sleeping mode: MacBook and iMac can see the network, but cannot connect to internet (there is an exclamation mark on the wifi icon), iOS-devices don't see the network at all, and AirPort Utility doesn't see router too. DHCP lease time is 1 day, but few minutes are enough to "brake" the router. Only rebooting can get router back from this sleeping mode. I've tried to change "DCHP and NAT" to "DHCP" only, but the problem is still here, so I have to reboot it several times a day. How can I fix it?
After c. 5 years, I 'upgraded' from a 3g touch to a 5g model. I soon noticed that the list of podcasts shown on the iPod was getting longer and longer. There were at least 3 copies of each podcast source in the list. I'm on iOS 8.4.1 and I just deleted all the podcasts from the iPod and then also from my iTunes and resubscribed to the podcasts I regularly hear. It's only been a few days but the iPod now shows 2 copies of each subscribed podcast.
I forgot my macbook pro charger at a friends place and I won't have it for a week. I saw that there are 3rd party chargers being sold for half the price of official chargers. Can 3rd party chargers damage my macbook pro? After I get my normal charger back in a week I will be mostly using that one and keep the new one as an extra, so I won't be using it fulltime.
I work offsite and for a large company and need my OS updated. The tech support has been outsourced and it's impossible to get anything done if you work offsite. Whenever I try and update OS through the app store it is blocked.
Pls advise what needs to be done to run the crontab on mac 10.8.5. Here is my problem. I had a crontab running smoothly on my mac 10.6.8. Now, after upgrading to 10.8.5, the crontab does not run anymore. I followed the suggestion in the net and created the /private/etc/crontab file. Do I have to enter the crontab script into this file? Or do I have to enter the crontab into the file in the default 10.8 folder /usr/lib/cron/tab/ ? Or do I have to do both? May be something else. Thank you. The crontab job I want to run is the following: 27,57 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 * * * osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to activate" -e "tell application \"System Events\" to display alert \"Do your Stuff\"" > /dev/null 2>&1
I try to disable the cellular data for my apps in my iphone 4 running ios 7.1.2, then i did it, but when i push the back button from cellular setting page and reopen it, the apps cellular data was turning back on, please help if there are any solutution for this
My iPhone 4 can't download any apps. There's a warning message that says "couldn't download the app at this time" and "done" and "retry". What can I do?
I have a function in my .bash_profile that should allow me to add startup items. The only issue is this echo's a string instead of running the Apple Script. This is my function When I run addtologin /Users/iProgram/Applications Spotify hidden it outputs login item ${2}.
Mac Preview always opens in single page or double page view when going to full-screen mode while I prefer continuous scroll. I know I could press CMD+1 every time but is there a way to set this scroll option by default on PDF file open?
I have an cross-platform app that runs Lua scripts, and I am interested in publishing it on the iOS App Store. I know that Apple does not allow apps to download and run code from the internet on iOS, but what about a simple Lua configuration file, like this: Or if assignments count as code, what about a simple JSON-like table, like: Would either of these violate the guidelines?
I have an HD satellite box which I previously connected to my old PC. I am interested in using my new iMac 27" 5K as a monitor for its output.
I am running MacOS X Mavericks, where I manually created a MAMP stack by installing mysql5-server, php5, etc., under MacPorts. I was recently forced to upgrade this configuration to mysql56-server and php56 (due to installing the Cherry Framework of WordPress). I did so by following the instructions provided in the following link. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP
I have been able to disable the shake cursor to enlarge setting by going to Settings > Accessibility > Display > Shake mouse pointer to locate and disabling the option. The only issue is when I try and use the trackpad on Better Touch Tool Remote (iOS), the cursor is large all the time I am using the BTTR Trackpad!
Every time I try to listen to Beats1 in iTunes on Mac, I have to log out and log back in, otherwise it doesn’t start. It has absolutely no problem starting if I’m freshly logged in, but if I quit iTunes and then I try to listen again, it doesn’t start unless I do the log out/log in dance. How can I overcome this situation? I should mention that I’m not an Apple Music subscriber, nor do I want to become one. I’m on the latest version of Mavericks, if that matters.
In Xcode 6.x, the Edit -> Paste and Edit -> Paste and Preserve Formatting menu items are self-evident. What does Edit -> Special Paste do? On my system it's disabled most of the times.
I have ripped 800 or so CDs onto my macbook via iTune. Mac OS 10.6.8. iTune 11.4
yesterday, i plugged my macbook pro to charge, and my magsafe charger got a little burn where it connects to the magsafe charger (wall->magsafe). Now my macbook pro won't charge, no light, no nothing, but it still works perfectly. I tested it with a multimeter and indeed, no voltage and no current comming out the magsafe charger, burnt. Maybe that's from power fluctuations, don't know for sure. The magsafe port has no marks of burning or something. I tried to charge it with 2 different magsafe chargers, still nothing. Could something on the IO logic board be burnt or maybe some safety cautions kicked in?
I have just installed Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. When it came up, after lots of time and annoying spinning colored disk, I got the message "Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled enhancements which use the graphics hardware. Check the manufacturer's website for the latest software." I bought my computer January 2, 2011. After reading here about display problems, I don't know where I fit in. Since I am using Photoshop for a class, I don't think I want enhancements disabled. Can anyone tell me which way to turn? Is my 2011 MacBook Pro, running Yosemite 10.10.5, now considered "old"?
My college network is secured with Cyberoam network. And Cyberoam requires a certificate it provides to be installed to access SSL secured websites. However, even after installing the certificate only Safari seems to be using the certificate and can open secure websites like Facebook. However other apps like Chrome, Facebook and Messenger won't work. I wonder why Chrome says Invalid Certificate Authority (see the screenshot below). The same certificate works well in PC. I'm on iOS 8.1.4.
EDIT: I just discovered that an Apple Music Family Plan actually requires OSX Yosemite and iOS8, which is a non-starter since we will not be upgrading past Mavericks (Yosemite caused me massive problems and I had to remove it and downgrade immediately) and my partner despises iOS later than iOS 6 and won't use it. So I guess this means I'm stuck with only an individual plan regardless.
I've already enabled remote erase if it comes online, changed passwords for critical systems and banned the device from multiple services. And while I'm 99% sure I set it up to erase, I'd really like the peace of mind that the last 1% offers. Much appreciated for any responses.
I have a small encrypted disk image on my Mac (Yosemite), containing account numbers, tax reports and such. I created it using Disk Utility, from folder, which I subsequently safely deleted. I am also doing encrypted TM backups and turned File Vault on - to keep the rest of the files safe. Could this possibly weaken the encryption of the said disk image on the backup disk or the when the computer is turned off? (1) Using the login/TM/File Vault password for the disk image (2) Using a different password.
Hi would like to add a "Are you sure?" prompt when deleting an item (file, folder) from the finder (like the one when emptying the trash...). Can this be enabled?
So I have Dell U2515H connected to my Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2014 (integrated graphics) and when I try to run it in 16:9 1280x720 HiDPI (I'm using switchresx) resolution it has no effect. However, when I choose any other 16:10 HiDPI resolution like 1280x800 it works just fine but obviously it cuts the screen. Does anyone know what could be the problem? It is very weird that 16:10 resolutions are OK but 16:9 just don't work, given that native monitor aspect ratio is 16:9.
When starting a ssh session to a remote Mac, I get a message like this: The authenticity of host '201.33.2.107 (201.33.2.107)' can't be established.RSA key fingerprint is 5b:dc:2a:b4:cd:bf:e8:e3:8c:cd:c3:37:cf:8b:0c:ab.Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
I have Find My iPhone turned on and I know what Apple ID it uses. But lets say I forgot the password to my Apple ID and lost my phone? Will I still be able to find my iphone or activation lock it if I reset my Apple ID password on the Apple website? Or will I have to relog with that Apple ID on the device?!
On Windows there is a great extension for the preview panel. It shows the content of the selected file as if it was opened in a code editor. This is integrated into the preview panel (no popup window), without the need to to press a key combination and closing the preview afterward. This allows to browse the content very fast (pressing the up/down keys).
I now develop my iOS app which I initially wanted to develop on all the device sizes (4, 4.7, and 5.5-inch iPhone and also iPad), but later found that it is insanely painstaking, boring, and tough work to develop on all the sizes using Auto Layout and Size Classes, so I now consider developing only on 4.7-inch iPhone 6. However, while I can target the iPhone families only (selecting iPhone, not Universal, when starting a project), can I develop only on 4.7-inch iPhone?
I'm getting an odd error that google seems to only have a handful of (unhelpful) results for. When I use homebrew to try and install some dev libraries or tools, it's coming up: Any ideas on how to fix this or what I'm doing wrong?
On a iPhone 4s my text messages show my email address not my phone number . How do I change it everything I have read is telling me how to do from a newer phone
If i deleted a text from my phone and then backed it up to iCloud, is that text now deleted from iCloud?
The calendar new event page which you say should have a "Done" only has cancel or add buttons. Press either and what you have written disappears. No way to save calendar event that I can see
This isn't a question about which part of my computer to upgrade. It's a question about what I should buy in my eventual new computer.
I have an iPod 5. If I block an iPhone user (not sure if the type matters) will they still be able to see the conversations && messages we had before I blocked them?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013). It has 8GB Ram and Intel Iris 1536 MB . I want to buy a good external monitor, but I can't find a straight answer as to what this model supports with either Thunderbolt or HDMI. What is the maximum supported resolution of this model for an external monitor at 60hz ?
My girlfriend's Macbook (white unibody 2010) is having some problems booting. It can be erratic, but it generally seems to follow this pattern: Turn it on, 1 long deep beep, and then nothing (light stays on), turn it off Turn it on, nothing (light stays on), turn it off Turn it on, boots up as per normal. Apparently the 1 long beep signifies a RAM issue, but when it finally boots up all of the RAM is present, and there is absolutely no problem at all with the Macbook - it will run for an entire day without a single crash or problem. I've also tried this from the official Apple forum with no joy:
Preview is great for working with documents, but it isn't very good at handling large textbook navigation and reading. Performance is surprisingly bad, especially compared to viewing the exact same ebook in iBooks on my iPad. It can't seem to figure out when I want to turn the page and when I want to pan around the current page, even when it's zoomed out completely. Zooming is slow and choppy, and can even crash the app on occasion (this is on a brand new MacBook Pro).
I'm writing a quick Homebrew formula for my own private purposes (it's unlikely to be shared). I'd like to install it , but would prefer not to maintain my own local fork of Homebrew, but instead outside /usr/local/Library/Formula (it happens to be within an existing private git repository I have, but I think that's incidental to the question). I've tried: brew install ./my-formula.rb brew install file:///Users/myusername/mygitrepository/my-formula.rb.
I have an iPhone 6 with FaceTime purchased from Saudi Arabia. I don't have a cellular SIM in my phone, only a data SIM card.
Every keyboard sequence listed on this page. No matter what I do, I can not get it to do anything but show the above error message. All the above keyboard commands with an external keyboard just in case this made a difference. No matter what I do, I can not get it to do anything but show the above error message. All the above keyboard commands with an external keyboard just in case this made a difference. I've tried clearing the PRAM and the SMC but nothing ever changes. Booting Windows 10 off of a DVD with my USB SuperDrive.
I have an old iMac G5 with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and a Canon PIXMA MG5350 printer. It prints without a problem on the old G5. I think the printer is connected via bluetooth. And now I also have an iMac G6 with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
I've bought my iPhone 6 Plus back in September 2014 and it's Touch ID sensor has been developing "oily-like" rainbow colors lately. I've tried cleaning it with water, screen cleaners etc. but it's not going away. Here is a picture of it:
I have the latest version of OS Yosemite (10.10.5) on a very powerful MBP (i7, 2.4, 16GB RAM). When I right-click on a file in Finder and choose "Open with", "Other", the dialog window is very unresponsive: it takes time (minutes) to populate the /Applications folder. Scrolling the content of the /Applications folder is incredibly slow, the content takes seconds to move when I scroll the mouse wheel and I spend not less than a minute trying to reach the correct application I want to use. When I finally reach the correct application and click on it, it takes 1-2 seconds to highlight the item I selected and another couple of seconds to enable the "OK" button. This happens every time I select "Open with - Other" and not only the first time.
I recently reset my iPhone and I'm trying to synchronize my photo gallery to the iphone. Everything works fine when I try to import the photo from iphone but, it seems only the photo taken until last week are copied from Photo to iPhone. So, my iPhoto has 3500 photos but on the iphone, after the synchronization, I can see only 3000 (more or less) photo.
Sometimes I want to make a screenshot and found that if I do that on a 4k screen, then the screenshot is quite clear (and is in a high resolution). So I can do this when my Macbook Pro is connected to a 4k display. But let's say if I am on a trip, how do I make the Macbook Pro show or think it is showing in 4k? I think this is possible even when we don't install any driver or software, because we can plug in a 4k display and choose "mirror the 2 displays" and the Macbook Pro native screen will pretend that it is a 4k screen, and any screen capture there will be in 4k resolution. So the question is, if I temporarily don't have a 4k display, say on a business trip, how do I tell the Mac to show the native screen in 4k or even 5k?
My old macbook lost its ctrl key, so I had to remap the caps lock key to ctrl. I have a scenario where I need the caps lock on for a while - is there a way to trigger a caps lock without using the caps lock key?
When I start my MBP with Yosemite it runs a bit slow, then I see login screen only with the 'Others...' user and two inputs fields: login and password. When I try to enter my user login/password it doesn't fit, so I can't login. But when I run single user mode first, type mount -uw /, then type exit to continue loading, the login screen works fine, shows me my users and is letting me in. It seems to me, that the problem is affiliated with an unmounted filesystem, but how could I check it and fix it?
I have been receiving kernel panics a few times in the past few months, but each time I have noticed it is when I am connected to the internet through Bluetooth PAN to my iPhone. Most recently, the panic happened while opening pages through handoff on my iPhone.
I cannot find anything in the preferences to do this, but I would like to be able to lengthen the list that Preview offers in the "Open Recent" menu. Right now it displays the 9 most recent files. I would like it to show at least 20 or so. Is there some secret way to hack this from the command line, or is there a setting somewhere that I just haven't been able to find?
Very often when I'm talking on the phone, the screen turns on and my chin and ear presses all the buttons. Often this starts facetime, turn off the sound, and is just very annoying. Is there any way to make the screen always be off when I'm talking? I'm using a regular iPhone 6.
I have several macs, at home and office (Macbook Pro and Air). I have several Canon multipurpose printers as well. The problem is when you attempt to connect the Mac to the Canon printer via USB, it isn't recognized. In the mac printer dialog it says "Contact the printer manufacturer for drivers". So you go to the Canon website and try to find drivers for the OSX Yosemite / El Cap and they say "Apple includes these drivers". How can I get my printer / scanner working with my mac? Printers are Canon MX310 and Canon MG6620
Recently my automatic timezone update stopped working. (ie it used to work but now it doesn't) Troubling thing is my mac detects the correct location (e.g. Golden, CO), but doesn't use this to update the timezone, despite "Set my timezone automatically..." being checked. See screenshot. Anyone know how to fix this?
I work for a company renting office space from a downtown skyscraper. In order to deter casual theft from building employees and cleaning staff my company prefers we secure our laptops to our desks using Kensington locks. With the last MacBook Pro (the 13" one with the slot-loading optical drive) this was no problem, as it had the slot for the lock.
Scenario: I have a work provided Macbook on Yosemite that I've used for 2 years. All company files are stored in cloud drives, and all company programs are similarly cloud based.
Highlight drop down menu is greyed out on OS X 10.10.5 in my preview.app. I understand that's where the Alpha tool is? Suggestions please for gaining access to that menu command?
I'm trying to connect to an Airplay device in my class from an iPhone 4 (MD197LL/A) running iOS 7.1.2 (11D257), and when I select the device I would like to mirror to, it only displays the animation of the button being clicked, and displays the blue checkmark as if I had sucessfully connected. However, the screen doesn't mirror the device, nor does it prompt for me to enter the passcode or display the it on the screen. Not only this, but it also doesn't show the one bar drop-down mirror switch when I select the device. I am on the same network as my iPad 3 (MD329LL/A) running iOS 8.4 (12H143), which does prompt me to enter a passkey and displays it on the sceeen. Note: It does this for every single device on the network, not exclusively the one I'm trying to connect to.
I've got a ton of purchased and non-purchased music on my iphone. Same with movies. I've also got a pretty big collection of audio books. I'd like to dump a copy onto my android tablet. Is there any way to pull all the media off my iphone and strip freeplay so i can copy it into my android?
It is clear from other posts that AirDrop "uses" Bluetooth Low Energy to "find" other AirDrop enabled devices. How does it do this? Specifically, how does an apple device differentiate between just another bluetooth device and one with airdrop enabled? It could 1) try to pair with every transmitting device, 2) use the bluetooth friendly name, 3) additional data in the radio without pairing? The BluetoothDeviceInfo structure that comes back from creating a radio on the Microsoft stack doesn't include any identifying info besides the Friendly Name: *=URL=* The other possibility is that it tries to pair with all broadcasting bluetooth devices - but that could be slow. Thanks for any help and/or insight!
I bought and iphone 6 in December 2014. Recently it's stopped working. I put it on charge every night before bed, well last night I put it on charge and woke up and my iPhone will not turn on. I have pressed the lock and home button for atleast 30+ seconds and nothing is happening. I've tried leaving it on charge Abit more, and still nothing. It's just a black screen. I've only had my phone for nearly 8 months and I was wondering would Apple fix or replace it? I have a 12 month warranty. I am very curious and I would like some further advice.
I need an extra modifier key which acts kinda like Capslock by using AppleScript - or maybe you've got another proposition? I would bind it to some key combination in BetterTouchTool.
Basically, I have a spreadsheet of file names. I want to select a file name and search 4 folders simultaneously for it. I'd prefer for all the results to be listed in 1 Finder or 1 Spotlight window, but that's not necessary. I feel like it should be something I can do with an Automator service that receives selected text but I haven't been able to figure it out.
I'm just now getting used to Photos. When someone emails me a video, I can't just drag it into my photos library like I could with iPhoto. How do I add it to my existing library?
I bought "Castle of Illusion" on my iPhone, and I am signed into my iCloud with my Apple ID and such on my laptop, and downloaded the app in the Mac App store. I pressed "Install" and it said "Installing". Did I just BUY the app AGAIN? Is it linked with my iPhone apps?
I'm having problem with sending mail via SMTP where the error is username and password does not match, even though they are most certainly correct as the IMAP works. My host wants me to try to uncheck "Automatically detect and maintain account settings" that I access through Mail > Preferences > Accounts, but that checkbox is greyed out and cannot be changed. How can I enable this checkbox? This is in Yosemite, my email host is Zoho. Thanks!
If you open an iPhone you will notice that the digitizer panel is connected to the motherboard by means of several ribbon cables. However the home button shows tho dedicated contact terminals.
Let me set the scene: Macbook with metal case plugged into the wall with 3 pronged plug iPhone is plugged into an iPad charger with 2 prongs When I touch both my iPhone and the case of my macbook I perceive a mild 'electric shock' which continues as long as I am touching both devices. I assume that there is an air gap in the iPad charger so there should be no current flowing between the iPhone and the macbook. I can't make any sense of what's going on and if someone could school me as to what's happening I'd be very grateful.
I have an external hard drive with a case. It is an older computer’s hard drive. To use certain software, I have to boot from that hard drive but since I am running the computer from an external hard drive with a usb cable, it runs pretty slow.
With the iPhotos app on my Mac Mini I was able to access a specially created disk image for all my photos. I have upgraded to Yosemite and now iPhotos reports it is no longer valid and I must use Photos. The issue is that Photos refuses to import. How can I access the content of my disk image from Photos? If I choose to "Show Package Contents" on the image I can browse through the "Masters" folder so I see everything is fine. As well, "Verify Disk" reports everything is fine. I did try to follow the instructions here How to migrate from iPhoto to Photos but it just reports that the library could not be opened. Mac newbie here so any directions are helpful.
I have a MacBook Pro with a separate user account for work-related stuff. Suppose I am required by contract to use reasonable means to destroy all copies of data that I had access to while performing the contract.
My phone was charging on our family laptop and my phone said "Restoring in process" I didn't press anything but I also didn't think anything of it. Well when it was done restoring everything changed and then I realized it was my dad's phone due to the contacts and pictures. Although, my phone still has my number connected to it instead of my dad's. How do I transform it back into my phone without losing contacts on both phones?
I tried switching desktops, but the animation was frozen and rendered the system unusable for about a minute or so... I realized I currently have 179 desktops open somehow in mission control which is probably slowing it down... Is there an easy way to close them all at once with having to individually click x on all of them?
I'm working with a 2013 iMac running with the newest Yosemite. There was something wrong on my system which required that I erase the internal HD and do a clean install. Fine. But when I use Migration Assistant to bring back the data it doesn't allow me to select, say, iTunes apart from all of my other "documents". That's a problem for two reasons: 1) It will take more than 24 hours to reinstall 2) It might add on whatever file corrupted my previous system. I just got off the line with Apple Support and they had nothing apart from their manual, and my question was off manual. What I would like to do is enter the existing copy of the TM backup so that I can selectively restore the files I know are not corrupt, like iTunes.
I would like to search first my notes (.tex). How can you set priority to tex -files in Spotlight search?
When I connect my Macbook Pro to a 3840x2160 external monitor, the external monitor keeps going black and readjusting every 1-2 seconds. Some times it stops briefly, but the screen is just filled with green and pursple-ish colors, with the text "Use 3840x2160@60Hz for best result". I managed to take some pictures at the short breaks between constant readjusting and the text "No input source".
I'm using an iPad mini 2 with iOS 8. My language has always been set to Mexican Spanish and the iPad falls back to English by default, which is my native language. However, recently I installed a Japanese keyboard so I can enter specific words from anime to my friends easier, but I don't actually speak a word of it. Now my iPad is in Spanish with Japanese as the fallback so some buttons and apps are in Japanese even though I never changed any display language settings and just installed a keyboard. Going into my language preferences I get this. When I tap on either of them, they highlight but nothing happens. If I go "Agregar idioma"(add language) and select English, the iPad asks me "Are you sure you want your iPad to display in English?" Which I don't. So how do I change or remove the second language? EDIT: I added English as a language and this added English to the bottom of the list so now I have the exact same issue with random words being in Japanese and no way to remove Japanese
How may I encrypt my home folder without using Apple FileVault? Is it possible to create an image of the user folder with DiskImage and mount that as home folder? How to make this.
I am trying to setup my system to be able to send emails from command line. This link explains the steps, and I am able to send emails.
I'm a developer and work from home. At home I use an Apple MacBook Pro. At work I have a Mac mini with OS X 10.10.5 and FileVault enabled. This machine is on and booted to the login screen. Other people at work shouldn't have access to my user folder on the Mac Mini. I need to access the Mac mini from remote via Apple Screen Sharing though FileVault is enabled. How can I get this to work.
My Macbook was running fine today, but then powered off while I was away from it. After this, I can't get it to stay on. It turns on and then stays on for 2-3 minutes, before powering down again. It's a MacBook 13-inch Mid 2010 model, running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It's managed to reach my desktop before powering off, so doesn't seem to be a problem with booting. I've tried taking the battery out and running it from the power cable, but this also didn't do anything. I've also tried starting in single user and safe mode, neither or which helps.
Iam a verified developer and have downloaded the latest iOS 9 Beta 5 from *=URL=* But my other colleague has same version 9.0 (13A4325c) but he has the iTunes Store app but mine doesn't have a word of mention about the iTunes Store app.
I accidentally deleted a note from 'Notes' in my iPad4 which contained information I couldn't afford to lose. Is there any way that I can retrieve this note please?
I'm working on a Mac with parental control and it's supposed to be a kiosk Mac. I'm wondering if there is a similar Applescript that can tell Safari to restart after given for example 45 minutes? Is there any chance that while restart it also clearing surfing history and cookies during the restart process? Another question had something similar though it's about shutting down Safari at given time.
I commonly write mails in different languages and would like to have the spell checker function with that. Previously I have been using Thunderbird on both my macs and linux machines, but recently I have decided to give up on Thunderbird and try Mail.app instead (since Thunderbird isn't actively developed and apparently lagging behind).
In some situations I would open my macbook in a public place or library, and I still have something open that produces sound, such as music or a chat program giving notifications. I would like to have my sound be muted by default when I open the lid. Anyway to achieve this?
Lets say I was just taking a walk or was in a train or a bus. I had to unlock my iPhone with passcode there and use the restriction passcode. Somehow a person saw me entering the passcode and I realised that I was watched and that was after a long time.
I want to edit file attachment like pdf and txt file in oneNote directly and save all the changes, but all the file attached in the oneNote when opened is automatically locked, I uncheck the lock option but the change not save into the file How can I solve this irritating issue
This seemed pretty easy, but I have not found a good way to do it. In Terminal, cal will give this output: September 2015 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 That is, it will show the calendar for the current month. I would like to have it display like so: September 2015 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 This seems like it would be fairly easy to do, but so far I can’t crack it.
I recently had to wipe clean my harddrive. I had a Bento DB installed and so I had to reinstall it. I have the original license key, however, since FileMaker no longer supports Bento it isn't working. Any ideas on how I might be able to open my database?
I found an email in my sent mailbox which had gone to a completely different and unrelated address from the one I'd entered by tapping the reply button on the original email I was answering I hadn't gone anywhere near my address book so the change of the intended address is absolutely inexplicable. Is there a bug that does that? I'm using the Apple Mail application on a new Macbook Pro with Yosemite.
I used the thoughtbot laptop script to setup a new Macbook Air (OSX 10.10.5), but when I navigate within a Rails project that contains a .ruby-version file, running commands such as rails s returns an errors of: Your Ruby version is 2.0.0, but your Gemfile specified 2.2.3. Running rbenv local within the same directory gives the correct version of 2.2.3. I'm running the commands in zsh with the following .zshrc: I just want to be able to run the Rails app locally and will use something other than rbenv for Ruby version management if need be.
I was using Firefox when my MacBook Pro crashed. I was not initially concerned, as it does this about once a month. However, it no longer starts. It had 80% battery when it crashed, and plugging it in does not help. Before I take it to the shop or take it apart, I hope someone here can offer a solution. It is a 2013 MacBook Pro running the latest version of Yosemite.
I have a new problem with my iPhone 5c, I can't make any calls from it, but when I use my SIM on other phone it has no problem, and when I put another SIM it can't receive calls either, so obviously the problem is the phone itself. What can I do? Thanks
My brother's Mac Pro somehow has all of its utilities missing. Its guts have been taken out. I don't know how this happened, but I'm trying to fix that by creating a Lion DVD or bootable USB. I extracted the installesd.dmg from the app and went through the procedure to create a bootable USB, but the USB didn't show up at all on my own Mac and only showed up as EFI boot on my brother's. After that I tried burning the image onto a DVD and that showed up fine on my mac when I pressed the option key on start up. Tried on my brother's, but I got EFI boot again.
The Linux kernel generally tends to cache its ARP tables here: /proc/net/arp. Darwin & Mac OS X, however, do not seem to follow the same convention. So where can I find the Darwin & Mac OS X equivalent of: /proc/net/arp?
After my phone reboots a popup appears "Waiting for Activation This may take some time." How can I disable this? I'm using a deactivated SIM card. I would like the card to remain deactivated. This is on an iPhone 5S and iPhone6.
I've been very late at updating my phones / OSes. Now there's a new app called "health" that I have no idea how to use. I usually understand Apple products and apps very quickly, but I am at loss of ideas on how one adds data to the graphs in the Health app. Can the iPhone itself track your steps / physical activity? Or do I need other hardware such as watches and things like that?
When I paired my Apple Watch with my iPhone it asked for me to login to my Apple ID.  Later while configuring Messages on the watch it asks for my password again.
How do Live Photos work technically? For example: what is the file extension for the captured photos? Is it a sidecar file? How many additional photos are captured before and after the main photo? I would like some authoritative technical documentation as a reference.
The date on my iphone is a day ahead and creating the wrong dates for emails and tests and such. Anyway that I can reset it or rewind it?
I'm trying to write a script to automatically generate an excel sheet. To keep the coloring of cells/rows consistent, I want to get the html color code from Excel to use in my script.
How to merge two JPEG files back into a single JPEG (Both sides of a receipt in single image) without using any third party software like Gimp etc... constraints/situation in my case I had only 2 images to merge, not more both images were A5 size and I wanted to merge into A4
Target display mode appears to require a <4K ThunderBolt or DisplayPort connection. Apple TVs exclusively use HDMI output, but Apple sells ThunderBolt to HDMI adapters. I was wondering if it would possible to use one of those to display Apple TV content on an iMac. However, these adapters always seem intended for use with ThunderBolt input and HDMI output.
I have batch of files named A-01.pdf, A-02.pdf, B-01.pdf, B-02.pdf.... Then I have folder structure 01, 02, 03,.... How can I move all the files with 01 in there name to folder 01, all with 02 to folder 02 and so on? There are a lot of scripts on the net but none of them seams to fit my case.
I want to find a way to test my wifi connection between my macbook pro (yosemite) and my router because I have some evidence (lag in games) that the wireless connection has problems. I am using the default router that my isp gave me and a belkin repeater in my room to enhance the signal (although I have the impression that my macbook pro connects to the router and not to the repeater). Is there a terminal utility I can use for this purpose? The wifi logs of my macbook pro are very cryptic so I cannot use them to identify problems (or I don't have the specific knowledge required for reading them). Any ideas? Thank you.
I've installed bash_completion from macports. Completion works fine for git, for instance, where I installed +bash_completion variant.
I upgraded from current Yosemite to the El Capitan GM Candidate this morning. For work, I have an Exchange account with a bunch of folders in Apple Mail. Upon starting Mail after the upgrade, my folders were no longer present; Mail synced a few thousand messages, but it does not show the folders that are on the server.
I'm looking for a solution here, since my computer's hard drive is pretty well full. I want to be able to store my music library in iCloud (or some other cloud if it's more suitable). However, if I do this, will it still allow me to store some of that music content (select playlists or albums) on my iPhone, so that I can listen to them without streaming through the iCloud? Thanks for any answers you can give!
Say I am doing a long download. How can I keep the Mac stays sufficiently awake but with minimum power usage? I would also like minimum power when: I am using it as a surveilance camera. I want it to be available for requests from the Wi-Fi network. Picasa/Google photo backup OS X Yosemite Also how do I avoid that some passerby put it to sleep (to sleepy)
I want to have a "shortcut" on the home screen that launches the music app and starts playing a specific playlist. Can this be done?
is there anyone who have already tried El Capitan GM on 2013 MBPr (Intel Iris, integrated video)? I'm experiencing freezes and UI smoothness issues with my MBPr 13 late 2013 on Yosemite, so now I'm really doubt about installing the El Capitan, which possibly will bring even more performance issues.
After updating to Yosemite I have no screen saver default showings at all. How can I add photos? When I click screen saver options the only thing that shows up to choose is thickness color and speed. How can I change this to add my photos?
How can I find out the size of a video file on my iPhone 6 camera roll without connecting it to a computer.
I am trying to clear the 3+ GB of space occupied by other and documents and data on my iPhone 5S, running the new iOS 9.1 (13B5110e) Usually I would do this by restoring the phone through iTunes and then restoring from a backup...but when I try that I get this message:
Just installed Mathias' dotfiles but I didn't like some features of it. Especially executing ./.osx command. For example it's changing dock icons' sizes, removing TimeMachine icons (i'm using it frequently), changing locale settings etc. How can I revert all settings to default ones, remove all dotfiles settings. After this I'll for the dotfiles project and make my own dotfiles based on Mathias' project.
I recorded a video and cannot find it on my iPhone 6. I know it's there because when I go to settings / general / about, I see that I have one video on my phone, but it does not show in photos. What's going on here?
Why does my iPhone 5c save deleted emails and messages and displays them when spotlight search is turn on. There doesn't seem to be any way to delete them other than to reset and use backup to restore.
Even Terminal is asking if I really want to quit. I want all to be as if I were touching my keyboard every few minutes so not even the login screen shows and Excel never quits.
When I select "Reply All" using Apple Mail my email address automatically gets added back in the original field it appeared in the original message; i.e. if I was CC'd on an email, my address will appear in the CC field when selecting "Reply All".
I restored my system completely from a Time Machine backup only to find out that for quite a time about 5 Gigs of data are missing in the backup of my Thunderbird profile. I can follow the weeks back where it started, but it doesn't help as those files would be weeks old and not contain the ones from, say, yesterday.
I can share my iPad's internet connection using Bluetooth to my Macbook Pro and my Android phone but my iPad and iPhone does not even seem to see each other when I try to pair them. I am abroad at the moment and have put a local SIM in my iPad and want to share the connection. Is this even possible? I can go iPad <-- BT --> some other device <-- WiFi --> iPhone but it feels stupid and is a waste of battery for no use at all!
I found a way to open Terminal.app very usefully as: If it were executed from a terminal window then everything is fine - at least for every case that I test. Howeer I run this command from a Node.js server because only that I can trigger a script in a terminal window. But here is the trouble: when it's executed, the Terminal window is behind my Chrome Browser.
I keep my mac os x updated but this seems to have corrupted Xcode. When I try to run the terminal command: $ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode I get the following error...any clues?
I've this annoying application popping up on startup (called ZipCloud) which seems to be installed without my knowledge (along with other app) and I wanted to get rid of it.  I understand I can uninstall it by dragging the app into Trash. However before doing that, I wanted to understand where the app added it-self to the startup scripts.
I´m wondering whether there is a possibility to install local .dmg files previously downloaded. I figured out that homebrewmay use archive file (gzip, bz2, tar, etc.) when putting them into the right path aka /Library/Caches/Homebrewand rerun brew install. However, dont know how to install .dmgfiles.
A friend gave me an iPhone 4, which I'm trying to use. I was directed to this website: *=URL=* which tells me to sync the phone using iTunes. But (a) the File > Devices menus that this site directs me to use lead to a dead end in the form of a totally greyed-out menu; and (b) I keep getting an error message saying that the device timed out. I'm running Yosemite on a MacBook Pro. Any help gratefully received.
When I change Location (via System Preferences -> Network or  -> Location), I would like to be able to run a bash script (specifically, an ssh call to start a SOCKS proxy session). Is that possible, and how can I do it?
I've got iTunes (always latest version so currently 12.2) installed on both, my Mac at home and my work PC running Windows 7. Having both iTunes apps synched to the same account was always a great to keep track of what episodes of the many podcasts I'm subscribed to I've already listened to. However, since a couple of versions it's completely broken. Despite the "Sync playback information" and "Sync podcast subscriptions" being checked on both machines the information about played podcasts will not sync anymore.
Whenever I wake my Mac up, it shows my workspace exactly how I left it. If I closed the lid while browsing my library on iTunes, for example, it will show that screen upon waking up, after I input my password.
I'm trying to add my debt master card to my billing details and it says 'payment declined'. I had a chat with the Apple support and they asked me to check with the bank. I did that and the bank said the card was fine. I've been using the same card for all the other payments online and its been working properly. I've tried doing this from my iPhone 6 and my MacBook Air (Yosemite) Does anyone know how to fix it as the people at Apple support don't know what's wrong?
I am currently using OneNote for OS X to take notes at college. I currently need to do maths when using OneNote. Whenever I type a - then a space OneNote automatically turns that into a list, when I disable the list it then removes the '-' which I made. This means I am unable to do what I want. Here are some examples on what I mean. I want to do However OneNote turns it into a list like this
The Macintosh HD volume is visible in Disk Utility, verify/repair report no errors. Weirdly, the erase tab isn't visible for that drive, it seems almost like it's locked. This is a rMBP with an SSD so I'm ruling out a hardware fault for now. diskutil list shows: The others are in the photo below
I'm looking for a way to prevent my Library and Playlists from interfering with each other, or at least maybe they could play well together. Currently, I've erased everything from my Library in an attempt to solve this problem. I've got about 20 Apple Music Playlists. Currently, I've made all these playlists available for offline use. I keep attempting different solutions to this problem: If I choose to either + or ‘Make available offline’ any particular song from a playlist that is available offline, it goes into my Library.
Will El Capitan allow me to daisy chain two Dell 2713H monitors from my 2015 13" MBP? Both monitors support DisplayPort 1.2. Currently if I attempt this my monitors become a new desktop, but they are mirrored. Unable to get the 2nd monitor detected by OS X. Previous research on this topic shows that my MBP technically supports the technology by OS X does not. Anyone know if El Capitan will enable this?
What are the weights of the San Fransisco font? More specifically: standard (not compact)
I have inserted a .png image into my pages document. Is it possible for this image to refresh itself if the original file changes?
In order to search files, I want to input Chinese. But when I point to the input field. It shows English keyboard and I cannot change the language input. Why? Thank you very much.
I'm getting a strange message each time I boot. For a quick second before the Apple Logo appears I see the text:
After working in Windows for a couple of days, then booting back to OSX - I cannot mount my BOOTCAMP partition in Mac OS X any more. Disk utility shows BOOTCAMP as "greyed out". Trying to mount throws an error "The disk BOOTCAMP could not be mounted. Try running First Aid". I cannot run First Aid because it is also greyed out.
iPhone 6 with ios8. After months of normal operation, suddenly now I cannot delete either a single text or an entire conversation. When I try, the message or conversation appears to be gone, but the app then freezes and I cannot access any other text conversation. Eventually I get a blank text screen as though there are no conversations at all. After a power off/power on, all conversations are back, including those which I deleted. I have scoured the web for a solution and tried the various suggested remedies. Nothing works. Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a solution?
How do I directly open X11 on my mac? How can I add the X11 icon to the applications folder?
I'm using Yosemite and I've added my Google account to my Internet Accounts and when I receive emails to that account the name is displayed as Holidays in New Zealand. This is somehow funny and wrong. Just when I disable the Calendar item under my Internet Accounts > Google my email is displayed right on Mail. All my details under Mail (Full Name, etc) are right. How can I still have my Calendar linked and my name displayed under my Mail app?
I would like to stop installing beta versions on my iPhone. Without rolling back to an old version (as described by Apple) but something similar to *=URL=* In this particular case I would like to wait for iOS 9 and do not try the 9.1 beta.
After updating to 8.4 two weeks ago, both cameras stopped working. The camera app shows a black screen and once you press any of the buttons the rest of them stop doing anything. The shutter button 'clicks' but does nothing, then the settings randomly disappear. No other modes work, though I can scroll through them. I can not change to the front camera. Other apps that use the camera will open, but I only get grey screens. (Some crash right away.) I've restarted, updated to 8.4.1, but nothing. Any ideas?
This is a different question from this. Is anybody able to develop a Terminal command that will change the behaviour of swipe settings in Mail? By default swipe right is 'Mark as Unread/Read' while swipe left is 'Trash'.
I just wrote following .plist file, which I put into /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, unluckily loading/running doesn't seem to work, and I have no idea what's wrong: I used the installer referenced here: *=URL=* Upon calling the following error shows up in my /var/log/system.log:
Is there any way to convert Apple Music M4P files to MP3? iTunes doesn't allow to burn discs with Apple Music files, is there any other method?
I followed *=URL=* to create a bootable UBUNTU DVD with my MacBook Pro9.1 (OS X Yosemite 10.10.5). I ended all the steps but I cannot boot such dvd on my MacBookPro9.1. BUT..the same dvd works in other computer (MacBookPro8.1 OS x Lion 10.7.5). Is not a problem of the Computer?
Chrome prevents my Macbook from sleeping. See screenshot:
I'd like to know in a (applescript|bash|python|whatever) script, running on my Yosemite OS X, the sum of unread messages in all accounts of the Apple Mail application - in other words, the same number that appears in Mail's icon badge with the default Apple Mail Preference settings. Is this scriptable via AppleScript or other means?
I use quicktime a lot to record screen sessions from my iphone.. I use this to share how my app behaves to my developers.. however right now i'm doing usability tests.. and what i would like to do is have someone sit in front of my mac, connect the iphone to my mac by usb.. and have quicktime record whatever they're doing on the iphone.. but i also want quicktime to record both the sound that's outputted from the iphone as well as their own voice when they speak (ie using the mac build in microphone).. how can i do that? the problem is that by selecting the audio source from quicktime.. you can either select the iphone output OR the built in microphone.. it does not offer both
I turned off all iCloud drive stuff and it seems something else is using it. I don't have photo sharing and photo syncing on between my Mac and iPhone. And I've turned off whatever I can. But still nsurlsessiond downloads over 400 MBs every time it runs; which sometimes is triggered with a restart of the system. I did a sample process on it; but I have no idea what it means.
I have a problem when adding music to a slideshow in photos. When I add a piece of music and check the 'fit to music' the timing is never right and I'm left with about a minute of silence at the end of the slideshow. Alternatively if I try and vary the time of the slideshow manually, it won't let me and resets itself to default time. Both of these issues mean that I cannot get a piece of music to fit in time with a slideshow, which is proving highly frustrating. I'm using a new MacBook OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27)
Can anyone identify this menulet please? I can't drag it off the menu like others and I can't see it in any of the locations that a google search has suggested like /System/Library/PreferencePanes/. It doesn't appear for other users on this machine. Thanks
I have a new MBP running Yosemite. I like to keep my pictures and videos on an external hard drive in a file system so I can navigate to them (e.g. using Finder, Terminal, or a Linux VM). Photos only imports into a photo library which is an opaque object storing your photos. How do I import my photos from my iPhone into a specified directory? Thanks you
Is Apple Screen Sharing just an implementation of VNC/RDP or similar protocols? If so, then which?
Looking for a way to AppleScript the native (?) OSX Color Picker displayed in Evernote so that I can set a specific color and exit.
I have used Time Machine for years to backup my main HDD, but I would like to back up an external drive at the same time. Normally you would remove an external drive from the Exclude list in Time Machine Options to have it backed up, I have done so but Time Machine still ignores this drive. How do I get Time Machine to include this external drive in its backup?
Ok, so, I just got my Mac back after 5 months in the repair shop. I went to install winblows 7 via Boot Camp Assistant, but was having issues. I went into diskpart, and not remembering how to use it, accidently formatted the OS X drive. Not knowing what I had just done, I went and cleaned it. It wasn't until a few formats and conversions later that I realized I had obliterated every last one of my files and critical system stuff, including my recovery drive, because I had selected the wrong volume to change.
I had to presentations in the earlier version of keynote that were linked with a hyperlinked object. That option isn't found in 6.5. I need the presentations separate as one of them is customized with many pictures for each show, while the other remains the same. Combining them creates a file that is too large and thus problematic.
In Safari Preferences, Google is my Default Search Engine; New Windows and New Tabs are set to Homepage. However, recently whenever I Google something, I click on my choice and I end up on Yahoo Search. Sometimes I get search.epolife.com.
I have a problem uninstalling virtually installed operating systems on VMware Fusion. I didn't upgrade VMware Fusion before upgrading OS X to Yosemite. The error message that I get, when trying to launch VMware, is the following: I have VMware Fusion 6.0.1 version and Yosemite 10.10.4 version. What should I do?
I have a MacBook Pro that will be securely wiped and reverted back to factory state, but I want to save just one personal user account and restore it after the wipe. I don't think I want to use Time Machine to do the backup unless it can selectively back up a single account. Is there a way to copy just that user account folder and have my settings, etc., preserved? How would I restore it afterward?
I'm installing an SSD in an early 2008 iMac (8,1) which has a thermal sensor taped to the current hard drive. After reading nearly twenty threads on the subject I'm having difficulty determining what is the best thing to do with the thermal sensor. These are the suggestions I've seen: Short it out. Disconnect it and use software to control fan speed. Attach it somewhere else inside the unit where there is a bit of heat to prevent the machine from going into protection mode I'm most attracted to the last option but have yet to see any definitive answer about where exactly it should be positioned in that case. I would like to know if anyone has a definitive answer about the correct way deal with the thermal sensor when installing an SSD which generates little to no heat.
I've got a warning saying that I'm running out of my memory and had to "kill some process" today. I've been using this Mac for over 3 years and this is the first time I was warned this way.
The one wrinkle in setting up my question is that it's possible this started when I installed the 10.11 RC (I had previously been on release Yosemite). I'm not quite sure, unfortunately, as in the heat of getting work done, I ignored the new shortcut behaviour when it first cropped up (so don't quite remember when that was).
I have a 2 day old Macbook Pro, quad core i7, Yosemite. I closed the lid this morning with the power supply plugged in and iTunes, iTerm, and Safari idling. I opened the lid tonight and the screen and back of the computer were warm and it wouldn't wake from whatever 'power saving' state it was in. I had to hold down the power button for about 15 seconds before it restored. Any idea what this could be? I am very anxious about this behavior given Macbook Pro's reputation and price tag and the age of this computer. Thanks.
i am wondering how exactly you would get a simple integer result instead of all the miscellaneous information such as the packet size, transmission number and target. To elaborate: I would prefer the output to look like: 117.85 A single integer response, similar to how the syntax: ping -c 1 google.com returns a single result, however i would prefer the method to omit the detailed ping report and only displays a single number. Thanks in advance.
Am I just not finding "the one", or is there some reason that normalization is not common among these rippers? What software (free or not) should I be using for CD ripping which meets the following requirements: Normalizes volume levels Names files based on database lookup (such as freedb) Supports MP3 compression (LAME for example) Accurate rips with moderate error-checking
I've been trying out iOS 9 Public Betas on my iPad and I'm pretty happy with it, but yesterday I got a prompt to update to v9.1 beta... Which is probably a bit too tender for my tastes :-) Anyhow I was wondering what'd be the process to move from the public beta to the final version when available?
When clicking on feed: links (e.g. feed://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/), newer versions of Safari (guess it's since version 8) keep asking me, whether I want to add the feed to my Safari sidebar. On older Safari versions in contrast, my Feed app was opened to handle the feed subscription (which currently still happens, when clicking "Cancel" in the shown dialog). Is there a setting to disable the Safari-integrated feed handling and directly hand the link to my external RSS reader?
I am facing a very annoying problem from last few days. Whenever I try to install an app from my Mac to my iPad it says: This computer is no longer authorised for purchased items
Here's a demonstration of what I'm talking about. First of all, I notice high memory usage by kernel_task (note Preview is open, just visible at the bottom of Activity Monitor, using 333 MiB of ram):
After reading the articles in the the latest Apple event (September/15) I remember reading something about Apple introducing the ability to restore backed up media/contacts to an Android device. I am not sure if this is an IOS 9 feature or an ICloud feature. Since I read this I cannot find the original article or any other reference to this functionality. Perhaps someone read or saw something about this and could provide me with a link or more details.
I have an alarm that goes off every day at 8. Sometimes I wake up earlier on my own accord, go out early and I don't need the alarm any more -- at 8, I'm already in the metro and I don't want it to sound (especially since my alarm of choice is a siren). Is there a way to preemptively snooze it? Right now, I disable the alarm, but this is sub-optimal: I need to remember to reenable it after 8. This happens often enough that I have a second daily alarm at 11, reminding me to restore the morning one.
I fiddled with partitions on my MacBook Pro with OS X Yosemite, but now I'd like to reinstall the OS to restore original setup. Recovery HD is there, but if I press CMD + R at boot, Internet Recovery is run instead of normal Recovery from Recovery HD. I know that I can reinstall OS also from the Internet, but it would take forever and I need to restore my Macbook within two days (downloading OS X Yosemite from App Store requires other 3 days and counting right now).
I would like to go for a fresh install, but I've got GB's of Mail archives, iCloud Photos, etc. Therefore I always end up doing just the upgrade on top of the existing OS.
This is extremely annoying problem. Few months ago I've forwarded few panoramas to a friend and it crashed her phone. Today I tried to copy & paste few select pictures and instead whole pack times 8 was about to get sent. Even more frustratingly, drag & drop of selected photos from iMessage copies just one item. Copy and paste is trying to copy 25x items and crashes top of the line MBP. Screenshots below
I have been seeing on web that latest update for Xcode -Xcode 7 beta release has arrived. I currently have xcode 6.4 and i cannot see any update on Appstore. Where can i get it?
I am running OS X 10.9.5. I have been using a shared hard drive on a home network for over two years. Recently, one of the folders started giving me the following error when I try to connect to it: The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “foldername” can’t be found.
I am trying to implement my own dotfiles. I am using zsh as my default shell. When I try to launch Atom from terminal I get this error FSPathMakeRef(/Users/agusgambina/Applications/Atom.app) failed with error -43. To start the application I am executing in the terminal I am not sure what I have changed that broke this, but everything else that is similar seems to be working. Thank you
This is in the preceding El Capitan Beta (15A278b). I found lots of references with google to hanging app stores but none of the fixes apply to me.
The app in question is iCare by Chen Yuhua. I have tried uninstalling the proper way through launchpad and also manually by removing all files and system files that are returned by Searching "iCare" and "Yuhua".
My wife has a 13" Macbook Pro from around 2008. It's 250GB HD is full so I purchased a 500 GB drive, partitioned with GUID, erased with Journaled and cloned with CCC. I took out the old disk and put in the new and could not boot: just a folder with ? icon. Put old drive back and new drive on USB, held alt key and drive was there. Could boot from new drive when hooked up via USB.
Does anyone know if there's a terminal of some sort that could communicate with BLE serial devices? The closest thing I know is blueutil, but I believe it's only designed for Bluetooth 2.x. Thanks
My iPhone 4S is stuck on the "Connect to iTunes" screen after trying to install the iOS 8 update.Why is my iPhone screen stuck on the 'connect to iTunes' screen
I tried to install the OS X 10.11 GM to my 2012 Macbook Air, and it crashed during the install. I tried to go into recovery mode to reinstall OS X, but once I put in my Wifi password and press the install button it crashes and reboots.
I have really strange WiFi issues on my early 2015 MBP. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and for some strange reason wifi/internet stops working for up to a minute and then starts working again. In the meantime I am not disconnected. I say wifi/internet because I'm not sure where the root cause is. All my other equipment still works when my MBP decides to stop working. Even my old 2009 MBP still works fine when my MBP drops out. Since I haven no clue where to start looking to fix this problem, I was hoping to find some guidance here.
I have lost or forgotten the root password. is there a way to recover it or reset it?
I bought star wars the old republic a while back, i could always see it in the purchased tab, i went on my pc then into itunes to hide some apps that i didnt want in my account and accidentally clicked star wars, now i cant get it back and it costs me! I cant find out how to put it back in the purchased tab in the appstore. I also tried to delete it and get it back but that doesnt work either.
Will a text that is stored in iCloud get deleted from iCloud when you delete it from your iPhone?
I guess I confused you, so let me explain. I am a computer technician, dealing mostly with Windows computer and know a little about iPad and iOS in general. A customer called me because a Facebook application didn't work as expected. When browsing to her Facebook account within Safari, everything was OK, so I realized I should update the Facebook app. There was indeed a new version. The problem is that when she bought the iPad some other guy was too lazy to create a new Apple ID and used his own to install stuff. Every time I attempt to download a new app or update an existing one from Apple Store, I am asked to put the password for this guy's Apple ID and there is no option to use a different Apple ID. In the Settings, Apple Store and iTunes, the only Apple ID present is that of the owner! If I tap on it and select Sign Out, I can then go to Apple Store, select "Purchased Apps" and then I am asked to login to see them. At this point I am allowed to use another Apple ID. This does noth
I'm looking for some of the sounds that come default on OS X, like the preferences lock/unlock:  I basically just want to copy the sound files onto my desktop.
I use Git - every time I pulled it asked me for a password. typing them in every time is slowing me down. pw : 12khdE32 Now, I'm thinking if I can map a string with the the keyboard on a Mac, command + \, then I won't have to type my long pw any more. Goal 12khdE32 --> command + \ I've tried look into system preferences + download the app call Karabiner.
I am graphing a two-column data set that looks like this: But when I try to set the Value Labels in either a Line Chart or a Scatter Plot to "Date & Time" or "Duration" I find that they are greyed out.
Building an application from source (yikes), I get this on cmake: I have already homebrew install gtk+3 and a bunch of other things that came to mind (and were listed as dependencies), so I have no idea what this is and where I can get it, or if it is, indeed, missing. Any help would be appreciated. Config and Steps Taken brew doctor is clean: Your system is ready to brew. homebrew is upgraded and updated I am running OS X 10.10.5 Brew's got:
A friend has an iPhone 4 or 5 running iOS 7, and has configured her phone to always hide her number when making calls, as a safety measure. As a result, I can't tell it's her calling, since all her calls says "Private number". Is it possible to configure an iPhone to hide its number for all out calls except for such and such person in the phone's list of contacts?
I accidentally deleted a number of photos on one of my iPhones (S5) which is running iOS 8.4.1. Unfortunately, it looks like the Photos app on that phone is missing the "Recently Deleted Photos" album. This phone has no Photo Stream or Photo Sharing switched on, and has not been backed up. How can I get the Recently Deleted Photos album to show up?
This is an iPhone 5s. I tried the same experiment on another iPhone and it worked fine. It looks like it is something particular about this number, Apple will just not remove it off the iMessage server. The only thing that's different is that it is a prepaid, no-data SIM, but I do not see what that would make a difference. (It is hard to replicate it though, as it is a very rare configuration) Is there anything else I can try?
I would like to use a DSLR camera with the Periscope app on my iPhone. How can I get my iphone to accept an external video source and then have the Periscope app to use that video source as video input in the Periscope app?
Here's what I'd like the Applescript to do: upon receiving an email (I'm using Apple Mail) from a specific address, I'd like, firstly, that email to be deleted (not just moved to trash), and secondly, to send an email to myself with the simple message: "You got mail." Upon receiving that message, I would then go and read the deleted message using my account's web access (retrieved messages there are only deleted a month later).
Every key I type in the login screen is repeated, so I can't type my correct password! (unfortunately my password is not comprised of pairs of characters)
I currently have verizon and I'm looking to upgrade my phone. If I buy the phone from this page *=URL=* and choose the "SIM-Free" option (below), will that work for me? or do I have to click the verizon button and put my account info in? Also, I currently have an android phone, that requires a verizon sim card. Can I just put my old simcard into the new iPhone when it arrives? Thanks in advance.
I run a particular abandoned open source project (StreamBaby) on my home media server, a Mac Mini. It's awesome but has one unfortunate issue which occasionally causes the app to generate an absolutely massive error log - like on the order of many tens of gigabytes. Sometimes by the time I notice it, it's well over 100GB. All I have to do is delete it and restart the service and all is fine, but obviously problems can arise if the drive runs out of space due to this.
I took the internet's advice and left it sealed in a plastic bag of uncooked rice. I powered it on today and all is apparently well apart from some interesting display artifacts (those are not reflections - this is how the display looks from just about any angle):
I did this command in terminal and got this results. Is anything suspicious here that why nsurlsessiond is hugging the bandwidth? (I have turned off iCloud Drive and Stuff)
Under OS X, there seem to be two different types of directory. One is an ordinary directory, as in Unix. The other is an "executable directory", on which you can double-click to start up an app. Are there standard names for these two different types of directory? Using Unix tools (perhaps downloaded from MacPorts), how would one distinguish between these?
When I connect my iPhone first of all the phone connects then disconnects quickly after a while it seems to connect for a longer time and I have asked this question and was given that it might be power problems( iPhone is different from other USB connections) and told to download iTunes. The problem is after the phone connects to the computer iTunes starts then when I order to sync with my iPhone the phone disconnects then connects quickly, it does this whenever I order a sync with iTunes, and is really irritating. When I order it to sync with iTools it works but does this for a short time after a while it un syncs then syncs quickly. I tried it with a laptop of my friend and it seems to work, so the connecter iPhone and iTunes software seems to work perfectly the problem must come from the laptop, what seems to be the problem?
I want to clean install a new version of OS X, so I was thinking to create a separate partition, transfer all applications and settings from my old system and then remove the old partition and make a new one the only one. But when I created a separate partition for El Capitan, I realized it is not possible to resize it or remove the original one. Here is a message I get from Disk Utility: "You can only merge this partition with the one before it. To do it, click -" When I click "-", all data will be erased and free space merged into the first partition.
Is it harmful for a mac in any way to never put it to sleep, or to turn it off? I have a macbook air and an iMac that I set to never sleep in the settings. Only the displays go to sleep. I turn them off once a month. I am afraid that they could be damaged over time if I keep doing it. Could it happen?
I'd like to remotely access a Mac mini from my iPad app. The simplest method appears to be via SSH but I've read this requires jailbreaking the iPad and I don't want that. Is there an 'Apple approved' method to so this?
I am trying to install monkeysphere on an OS X machine with Homebrew: monkeysphere needs the Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum perl module and Homebrew is telling me to use the command cpan -i Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum in order to install that module. After I type: And install the dependency, I re-type the brew command:
I would like to export all my contacts from my iPhone 5s to my Mac (OS X Yosemite) without connecting them physcically (e.g. USB). I have enabled the iCloud and SOME of my contact have been imported onto my laptop but by far not all. How can I make sure, all my contacts are exported to my Mac? Gosh, macs used to be so straight forward - now they are all about giving apple your data. hugely annoying. Thanks for your help!
I am all against piracy and I know that PopCorn Time as a service is illegal but what I am curious about is that they have managed to come out with an app for iOS that lets you install even on non jailbroken devices. How does that work out? Popcorn Time For iOS Released, No Jailbreak Required
I generally experienced that loading times on OS X are slower than on Windows (dual boot) though the game overall performance is as good as on one or another. I find that weird since my generell impression is that IO is more efficient on OS X.
On previous versions of OS X, desktop thumbnails were showing by default in the Mission control. In El Capitan, however, they are collapsed by default and only the names are showing (i.e., Desktop1, Desktop2, etc.). I have to place the mouse pointer onto them to expand it and see the thumbnails. Is there any way I can get the previous behaviour back?
When I open a PDF file that was viewed days ago, Preview will open the first page. However, when I close it and open it again right now, it will open the right (last viewed) page. The option Start on the last viewed page was checked.
I've added automount entries to my wife's Macbook (OSX - unsure about the exact version as she's overseas) for some shares on our FreeNAS server at home. Sometimes when she travels for work it can't find the shares so Finder gets stuck with the spinning beach ball and is unusable. This doesn't always happen but when it does, it is persistent. For her current issue I have commented out the automount entries with chrome remote desktop however this is not always an option due to intermittent internet.
I have reinstalled my Mac OS (10.9) and had to specify again my external hard drive for backups in Time Machine preferences. Now i can enter Time Machine and see my previous backups. However, Time Machine preferences show In particular, the estimated size for a new backup indicates that it will have to make a complete backup, without taking into account that most files in my home directory have not changed since the previous backup (before the Mac OS reinstallation). Can i configure Time Machine to recognize the previous backups and to only backup modified files in my home directory?
On my iPhone 5s, I have Voice Memos previously recorded. They were synced to iTunes on my Mac. The recordings still show on the iPhone as they normally would (date recorded and length/time) however, they no longer play on the iPhone and the cursor does not move on the sequencer bar after pushing the plat button. They do play in iTunes both on my Mac and on the iTunes program that is on my iPhone.
My ZSH (tried both brew and included version) is slow. Even on calling simple ls command, it takes about 500ms to complete. And I noticed that on the title bar, it says sh and env couple of times before any command completes. I am using oh-my-zsh but zsh is slow even after I turn it off. I don't know what data to provide so I'll post anything as required
Is there a way to delete photos from my iPhone without deleting photos from iCloud photos?
I am using an Asus external monitor with 1600 x 900 native resolution connected to my Macbook Air (Yosemite) using a mini display port to VGA adapter. When I try to set the display resolution in System Preferences > Displays, I click "options" and "Scaled" to see a list of additional resolutions ranging from 800 x 600 through 1920 x 1080. For some reason 1600 x 900, the native resolution of the external display is not listed. 1920 x 1080 is the closest match to the native resolution, but it looks awful. How can I set the resolution to 1600 x 900?
I've got a Macbook Pro 2008 15" 4,1 with OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and the latest Firmware and both fans run the whole time at fullspeed. My research brings up, that it's probably the temperature Sensor, because every Software I use to get Information about the temperature it says 0 degrees. For Example iStats says 0 degrees and 0 fans found. The keyboard backlight doesn't work either. (altough it's enabled in preferences). All in all this sounds like a problem where SMC reset would help. Unfortunatelly I have no Battery (it blew up), so I did the reset without the battery part (cant tell if it makes a difference)
While charging my MagSafe blinks orange, then turns off for a second, turns green, and then goes orange, then turns off, and then green, and then orange again. While going off, my MacBook Pro doesn't charge, as if unplugged. It's not an issue with the power socket. I can't tell if the problem is the MagSafe, the battery, or its components. Any advice?
My question would be how to update to OS X El Capitan (the release-version on September 30th) in a "safe" way. Of course I'll make a backup of my whole machine, but I'm particularly concerned, as I've some homebrew-packages and ruby-gems installed as well as the zsh-shell (all in their standard directories, mostly somewhere in /usr/...). And I don't want that things get messed up. Does anyone have experience with an update messing things up, or will it be no problem?
I am moderately happy with the current (iOS 8) Notes app in my Iphone, and specially with the fact that I can sync it locally to my PC using iTunes, without using iCloud. The only thing I'm really missing is the ability to organize notes by folders.
I just recently purchased an iPhone 4 on Amazon that doesn't have a SIM card. I was planning to use it as an iPod, because my parents wouldn't and couldn't buy me a phone with a plan. So I was just wondering if I could activate it on the spot when I get it in the mail.
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro that has now 1 terabyte of storage, but want to connect a external hard drive via the fastest connection possible. It didn't come with USB 3.0 but 2x USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt port. Can I get a male Thunderbolt to female USB 3.0 adapter?
My daughter is constantly eating up data and uses Messages. I want that she does not get any iMessages until she is connected via Wi-Fi. Is there a option to turn off Messages when on the Cellular Network?
Is there a way to search text within Safari by doing a Spotlight search on an iPhone? There currently is no such way to run a find/search within Safari (boo), so I need a work around.
Is there a way I can download my entire iCloud Photo Libary to my windows PC then clear the iCloud Photo Libary to free up space on my iCloud account? I have spent the past hour researching this and I'm still no further on...
I'm running a CUDA program on my Late 2013 model MBP running OS X 10.10.5, the GPU is NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB. Unexpectedly and in a non-reproducible fashion it is giving kernel panics. The kernel panics are like the following. The program that is running is a software I've developed.
I like having many full screens open (in the same ‘space’), but it bothers me that I have to press CMD+right twice to get from 1 to 3; it should be possible to jump directly to 3 with a shortcut like ctrl+3. Or is it?
OS X Mavericks seems to only allow for font sizes up to 16 point, which at a high resolution on a 27" iMac when I've been sitting across the room watching a movie, is not nearly large enough. How can I increase past 16 point? I've tried TinkerTool to no avail, and editing com.apple.plist also to no avail. Is there any way to overcome this seemingly arbitrary limit?
Is there a way to add more than one number to iMessage?
I have an iPhone I'm trying to restore and the restore keeps failing. Specifically, I'm asked to enter the password for family members. I must decline that for secret reasons. Also, family sharing doesn't make me enter my family member's password, so why does that happen when restoring a backup? In order to pick this apart, I'd like to inspect the apps on my iPhone 6 with iOS 9.1 so I can determine which ones are not purchased from my Apple ID.
I have a mid-2015 15" Macbook Pro. The iGPU is part of Intel's Iris Pro brand, which as I understand allows a VM to access the GPU directly with a native driver through GVT-d.
Is there a way to use Chromecast same way as Apple TV - Apple AirPlay Mirroring? I'd like to do display mirroring from OS X via Chromecast.
On my laptop, using my iCloud account, I have created a Contact Group for my iPhone. I'm trying to make it easy to send text announcements to the Football Team. How do I share or export that Contact Group with another iPhone user?
I know to drag the icon. But I don't know where the Desktop is to be found to drag! It's probably a simple thing...but I don't know where it is! Duh!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) In recent days the mouse pointer will be inoperable after waking from sleep. If I cmd tab I can find the pointer, but it will not respond to trackpad movement or clicks. It does not recover if I close applications, open the force quit window or resleep. Only a reboot will bring it back.
I have an iPhone 5s (iOS 7.1) and a MBP (Retina, late 2013) (Yosemite). I used to exchange files over Airdrop in both directions. Now sending files only works from the MBP to the iPhone. Sending from the iPhone automatically says declined by the MBP. (I don't even get the download prompt.)
Say I have 2 finder windows open, A and B. I begin focussed on A, then ⌘ + ~ to focus on B, finally ⌘ + ~ once more, and it still leaves B in front, but B is now slightly grayed out (same style as finder window A when it's behind other finder windows).
I am having endless issues while trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), i.e. MacBook Pro 10,1.
I'm running a macbook pro on English language, with a danish keyboard (Microsoft Ergonomic 400) - for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get the dollar sign out of it. I'm used to press AltGr+4 to get it. Now it just gives me the £ sign.
I have a few pictures where the photo app has detected no faces at all. Is there a way to force the app to rescan those picture for faces?
When printing a colour document using Preview, some of the text is blurry. There are no problems printing the same document from Adobe Acrobat. Below is a scan of the Preview printout. There is no such blurriness to the Adobe Acrobat printout.
I would like to create a .pkg file using the Casper composer but i don't know which files of the .dmg to include . I appreciate your help .
Can a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014) 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB support external display over displayport input displaying a 3440 x 1440 resolution at 60Hz ? P.S: Planning to purchase a WQHD monitor and run it above mentioned mac book air.
I want to add my data to Health app from my Apple Watch sport. When I enter Health app I see, sorry for the Italian image: it means: Change the settings related to health data of this device in the app Apple Watch but I can't find where I have to setup them.
I used to have an encrypted dmg image mounted at user login, but I didn't want it to be mounted anymore, thus I removed it from my user's "Login Items", but in spite of that the OS continued asking me the password to mount such dmg image in every single boot. I have even tried changing its name, but this didn't work either. It keeps showing that annoying dialog for entering the password to mount such disk image that I don't want to mount. Any ideas on how to avoid this once and for all? TIA
I use OSX 10.10.5 need to compile some c++ code with an old version of gcc, namely 4.3.4. I don't think XCode provide that kind of tools. I suppose there is a way to do that by hand. How can I do that ?
I'm looking for an external Monitor for my MBP15 mid2012 (GeForce GT 650M, 1 GB). I'm looking for high resolution 2560 x 1440 minimum / high framerate (60 Hz minimum) - and it should also work under Bootcamp Win7.
I used to be able to just quicklook files and copy the text directly from there, removing the need to launch applications to open it which is just awesome, however, it doesn't seem to work since El Capitan. I have tried running the terminal command (defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE) that enables it but it didn't work. What options exist to customize quick look or replace the default plug in with one that allows text selection?
Editing DefaultFonts.plist doesn't seem working anymore on the pre-release build 15A279b of El Capitan: It still shows that the file is readonly. I guess it's because the new System Integrity Protection feature. Is there another way to change the default font in Notes app?
I use Cursorcerer to hide my pointer, and find that I cannot turn it off completely unless I set the delay to 0 sec; otherwise it pops up when I change app &c. On the other hand, if I need it, I also need it to change the setting in the præference pane. Can the delay be changed from terminal?
I've trawled the web for info on iCloud Photo Library's "Optimize Phone Storage" option on iOS, but can't figure out the exact logic applied. From Apple: iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever I assume the device will cache high-res photos up to a point, but what is this point in terms of MB remaining on the device?
This question is a sequel of Preview hangs when I try to change a PDF but unfortunately it's getting bigger and bigger. Each time I open a PDF I get the spinning wait cursor instead of the normal cursor... Here's the list of all the actions I tried: Repair permissions Repair disk Removed preferences Delete the Preview.app bundle and put a working one from a friend of mine Followed this question's answers : Preview hangs when opening any image or pdf. I'm kind of lost and I can't afford a clean install now, as I'm in a middle of a big project and it would take me way too much time. Here's the spindump report (I've got like dozens of them): What can I do now to fix this boring issue?
Some of you may know about some weird issue with some MacBook Pros (MBP) not working properly with a router (SuperHub) supplied by Virgin (a UK ISP). In all my attempts to resolve this, I finally got a little mini-like router/AP. Turned the SuperHub into a modem and used this mini-like device as a router. Then I was able to narrow down something I can't get my head past. The puzzle:
I'm wondering if there's a DAC in the dock because the first sound loudness level is noticeable higher than the first level from iPhone 6+ when the iPhone is mount on the dock. I suppose if there's a DAC that it has a lower resolution, i.e. less steps between silent and max loudness making each step wider on the dock.
I tried modifying a preference pane plist (with defaults write), but the change doesn’t take effect. Is there a way to make that happen?
I found a question and working answer here How to create an Automator service to convert images from one file type into another file type using the right-click contextual menu? but it is saving the output file to desktop only. I can understand that this can be saved to relative path(like if source file is in directory /Desktop/Resources/myImage the output file in path /Desktop/Resources/myImage/Converted) with some actions in automator like set value for viable etc. But I am not familiar with that. How to use the set value for variable and get value for variable.
How are *.dmg packages installed via the command line? I noticed that they can be mounted with: What's next?
I ran brew doctor and it complains unexpected dylibs '/usr/local/lib/libecomlodr.dylib'. Is it deletable? In general, how does one determine if an 'unexpected dylibs' 'brew doctor' deports is deletable?
I'd like to find some file with mdfind and move it to another directory. So I tried like below but it makes an error caused by the space in the path. So I tried to escape the space with printf %q, but it escapes everything.
I have followed along with the other questions related to this and have not been able to re-install Windows 7 on my MacBookPro11,3 with Yosemite 10.10.5. I tried the suggestions given in "Windows on BootCamp cannot start upon a fresh installation," but had no luck.
I've inserted a dvd into slot...doesn't show up in Finder,(DVD is checked in Finder Preferences), and won't eject! Tried to plastic card trick- no luck. Disk spinning in there but won't come out. I have tried holding the right click button upon restart, eject button and holding PC upside down. Disk still spinning but not ejecting!
I'm setting up my iTunes Connect account and chose an app title etc. Since I haven't released/published the app to iOS yet, can someone else set up an iTunes Connect app with the same app title and publish it? Or, once you add the app to your iTunes Connect account, do you reserve that title of the app until submission?
In the mac mail app, it is possible to select the from-email in the dropdown menu. The available from-email adresses correspond to the added acounts. Adding accounts on a mac: To add an account, you need the email-address and the password. Adding accounts to a private gmail: Here no password is required - You just have to reply to a confirmation email.
Because of my impairment, I usually use the Zoom feature built into OS X, and I'm giving a presentation in which I'd like to show a video of how I use the web. To do so, I'd like to make a screen recording that shows the screen as seen with zoom enabled. Is there a way to do this, preferably with QuickTime or ScreenFlow?
Even though I have Exchange ActiveSync set up in my iPhone 6 settings, when I create a new appointment it defaults to iPhone calendar instead. How do I set the ActiveSync calendar as the default?
I have lots of apps and data on my Mac so I just want to know if I install El Capitan, do I need to backup all data and apps or will my Mac retain the data and apps after updating it from app store? Copying all my data to external hard drive requires a lot of time so it will save my time.
I have two computers running different types of OS X. One is an iMac with Mavericks (10.9.5) and the other is a Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (10.6.x).
I plugged my raspberry pi to my OSX 10.10 and I want to give the pi some static IP. When I run networksetup -setmanual "Built-in Ethernet" 192.168.1.40 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 I get :
I'm partly new to Automator and since there is no application for Mac to control my Pioneer AVR I use some commands in the Terminal. But I'd like to automate some of my commands with the terminal. I have to say that I don't know much about the Terminal and Networking. But I know that it's not so easy in Automator or in Xcode (with swift) like in the Terminal. In the Terminal I use this code: Response: Response: In Automator in the Shell-Script I typed
giving font-not-found error. Disabling the line \setmathfont{Latin Modern Math} gives the bad arrow which I do not want to have:
My iPad shows the Apple logo, and then it turns off. I tried reinstalling iOS with iTunes (update) and it returned error 27? Any ideas of what to do?
Today I tried to rename a few hidden files with the following command in terminal (might be a hint for the solution): Now I wanted to start vlc and all I got was the messagebox to ignore, report or relaunch. Most application are not startable, except the few that are loaded (with the dot mark in the dock under the icon). Non-startable applications: Startable applications: In addition, the attempt to run Mail from XTerm resulted in LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Mail.app with error -10810. My system is a MacBook running Yosemite 10.10.5. My guess is that I for some reason renamed system files and I am afraid that after reboot the system won't start.
I'm looking for a way send keystrokes from a wired keyboard through bluetooth, preferably with an OS X application. I want to be able to type things on my iPad using this keyboard so I can quickly switch back and forth between it and my computer. Is there an OS X app that can do this? Note that I'm running OS X 10.10.3 on a 2010 iMac.
i have purchased this Iphone from uae and now I am in India inserted an Indian sim card changed my regions to India still cant find Facetime on my phone
I am not able to upload the latest software update as it requires 3.8Gb (iSO 8.4.1). I have deleted all mail in my in, out, sent and deleted items folders and it is still showing that mail is 1.9GB!? How can I clear this to do the upgrade?
Is there a way with AppleScript to extract a contact link in the body of an email and send an auto response with apple mail? (I'm running Yosemite) I would like to auto respond to leads I receive from vendors and the customer contact information is in the body of the email.
I have read this article but I would also like to know what are your thoughts and opinions on that point. I have my MBP with 16 GB RAM and SSD drive. I would like to put my Mac into sleep rather than power off.
I have a 3rd generation Apple TV that I'm trying to watch some YouTube tutorials on but the streaming quality is really low. How do I select a higher definition? I can't seem to find an option or setting for it. The clip I'm watching right now actually started at around 720p~1080p for the first ten seconds or so before reverting back to a blurry mess. It's obviously auto adjusting to the available bandwidth, just like it does in an ordinary browser, on an ordinary computer. I don't mind if I have to wait for videos to load. I don't mind if it's not a Full HD cinematic experience. I just need it to be watchable. Surely there's something I have overlooked.
By mistake my external drive has become the start up volume. How can I revert this?
I use vim commands in my terminal.. But by default, the mode when I open up terminal is the "insert mode". Is it possible to enter in "command mode" when I open a terminal session?
Setting the internet connection sharing is straighforward from the OSX preferences. So I set the sharing via the ethernet cable so that when I ifconfig, I see some new entry bridge100 that is has 192.168.2.1 IP . Then I connected my pi via the ethernet. Now, I try to find the IP that is assigned to the PI but when I ping the subnet 192.168.2.*, I get nothing else but 192.168.2.1. However, I notice that the ethernet cable is using en5 interface but with no IP. Do I need to set a static IP to en5 ?
Now, I have to turn my celullar data off in order to get my precise location and turn it on later. However, it makes playing some games involving both location services and celullar data impossible.
Is there any way to have OS X's Automator.app repeatedly take screen shots of a book in Adobe Digital Editions? So me doing the task involves: Cmd + Shift + 4 space bar mouse click page down repeat… Can this be automated?
am trying to reformat a brand new USB key ( EMTEC Click2.0 16GB Flash Drive) which is FAT32 formatted ( default) as I need to store oversized files ( > 4GB) to OS X Extended Journaled The key is correctly mounted : But it's always failing w the message: I tried to do it via the console : Here are the USB key info :
I ofter use the Lookup Multi-Touch gesture while browsing the Internet using the three finger tap on my Trackpad. How to do the same using Magic Mouse?
Is there a way to reduce the time spent in EFI? It seems more than 15 seconds that the Mac (Macbook air 2011) stays with the screen grey before beginning to boot (or resume from hibernate) to Windows. Booting into MacOS is faster and getting to the grey apple symbol is very fast. This video shows it: *=URL=* I need to add that I currently run Windows 10, but did boot camp assistant with Win7 because no native support of boot camp for my hardware and no Win8 product key. Within Win10 it shows me: BIOS Mode Legacy and SMBIOS Version 2.4 (please give me a hint if you think this subject is better placed on a Windows part of Stackexchange.)
My iPad Mini's home screen is really dark and I think it's because of something I have done. I have removed emoji keyboard as I thought that was causing it but the darkness still remains.
If I buy the $1900 MacBook Pro, would it be possible to buy the AMD graphics card separately, and install it myself? I can't afford the $2499 MacBook Pro but really need a new MacBook Pro.
I have an iPhone 5. I made a backup copy last week with my iTunes. I discovered that I had erased some notes so I wanted to restore the backup from iTunes. When I plugged the phone to the PC, iTunes asked me to update the iOS software in order to proceed with the restore process. I did the update but also a new backup over the old one was made.
I changed my Apple ID password, after that I can't download apps, even free apps. It says need verification of payment info. Now what to do...?
Is there any way to close "Untitled" Preview documents without getting the confirmation dialog box (where it asks "Do you want to save the changes made to the document ....?")? I don't want to just quit, or force quit, the Preview program, because I often have some other documents open that I want to combine and/or save with different names LATER.
If I copy a table from Numbers to the pasteboard and then create a new document in Preview, it usually works fine, but if cells contain partially transparent background or border colors (especially within gradients), the alpha value is either not kept or it’s more opaque than anticipated. Maybe this is a limitation of or issue with the PDF format that Preview defaults to, or of the underlying framework. Anyhow, I already reported a bug to Apple. Meanwhile, is there a way to export a table to PNG while keeping alpha information intact using just system or free third-party tools?
How do I get Dragon Dictate to move to the end of the line after correcting something on the Mac?
My school provides ethernet, which my Macbook can easily connect to. I want to share it with my iPhone, but it indicates that 802.1X protection has forbidden me to do so. Is there a way to surpass the protection? Operating system: OS X 10.10 with iOS 8.4 Thank you!
There's a file in my /users/myName that has appeared out of nowhere. It's named ":" in Terminal, "/" in Finder. It may be deleted (either drag and drop to trash or rm in Terminal) but will reappear the next time Terminal is closed--if already closed, one must open and then quit the terminal before it will appear. The file contains no data (0 kb).
I'm pretty new to iPhone. I was using Android for years and there was the problem that everbody could see if I've installed a app or not. How is this with the iPhone? Can anyone (for example friends on gamecenter) see what apps/games I've installed?
Hi, I would like to write an automator workflow which allows me to install node packages. I tried with $ npm insall but doesn't work any idea how I could solve this?
Often I come to my mac sitting on my desk in the morning and need to simply unplug it and put it in a bag. While maybe not strictly necessary to properly eject the attached USB drive, it sure would be nice if there were a way to do so without first logging in.
I am setting up a file server in Yosemite and am trying to remove vulnerabilities so my organization's IT dept will approve. I acquired a trusted SSL certificate and installed it with all of the intermediates to complete the chain of trust.
I'm planning on doing a new clean install of iOS 9 on my iPhone because I really like to have a clean slate when changing iPhones and upgrading iOS. However, the fact that Health, Activity, and Apple Watch data isn't synced to the cloud has made this difficult this year.
I tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on my MacBook Air. Long story short, due to installation issues, I wiped my MacBook Air drive.
I've submitted an app to iTunes Connect via Xcode and I got an email from iTunes Connect which informs me about "Waiting For Review" situation at 4th of September. After waiting in the queue, on 9th of September, I got another email which notifies me that my app's status changed to In Review. Unfortunately, six calendar days later, my app's status is still "In Review". Therefore, I submitted a contact us form of iTunes Connect. They've sent a reply to me that my app is in still review, they'll inform me... etc. Up to now, I don't have any requests from Apple, emails about my app. Is it normal or not and what do I need to do?(My app contains Non-Consumable in-App purchase)
I am looking for a way to close the currently focused window using a keyboard shortcut. Effectively I want to do the same thing as the red "X" button in the top left corner, only using a keyboard. On windows/linux this is done by alt+f4 I know about: ⌘ Cmd+w - in any tabbed application such as google chrome it will close the current tab instead of current window ⌘ Cmd+q - will close the entire app instead of just the current window
I have a 120 GB SSD on my Mac and it is almost 90% full. I have another 500 GB external hard drive and I want to install some big applications to that hard drive so it does not occupy space of SSD. I tried to move apps directly from Application to the external drive but I think some files remain on the SSD.
On Windows you can configure "Secure Login" so that you have to press Control + Alt + Delect to show the login screen like so:  Does this feature exist on OS X or is there a third-party application that can achive this?
I recently purchased a 21:9 LG monitor (model 29UM57) and I'm having difficulty getting my 2013 MBA to output to 2560x1080, which is the monitor's resolution. My max resolution is 1080p. I purchased this MDP-HDMI adapter, Cable Matters® Gold Plated Mini DisplayPort (Thunderbolt™ Port Compatible) to HDMI Male to Female Adapter - 4K Resolution Ready, hoping that it would help my situation, but my max resolution has not changed.
I accidentally deleted the Yosemite's Photos App from my Applications folder but I can't seem to find a separate download link anywhere. It can't possibly be that I have to re-install Yosemite just to get the app, can it?
My Mac is connected to the internet via Wi-Fi. Can I use this connection for my iPad? I guess creating a local network is not possible, since I already use the wifi of the mac. So, is it possible by connecting the iPad with the USB cable?
I lost my iPhone 6+ and and turned on the lost mode. However, my password is very easy to figure out. Since the location services automatically turns on, will it stay on (unless he/she turns it off) even if he/she unlocks it?
I'm going to see a family friend who's been having trouble with her decade old Windows machine. I have an old iMac laying around and I thought I would set her up with it. The only thing is, she lives in such a rural place that the only Internet connection available is dial-up.
I split my macpro disk into 2 partitions. I wish to continue to use partition 1 as a 10.6.8 (Mountain Lion) system. I wish restore everything (O/S, data, etc.) from a Time Machine backup, from a MacBook Pro laptop running Mavericks to my second partition on the MacPro. So I want to end up with a machine that can run either Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
I have to develop an app for a specific version of iOS (I am just a freelancer, doing what I am told). How I install iOS 8.2, or below (8.1, 7.x are fine too) on an iPhone 4S?
I have set Spotlight preferences to show System Preferences first, and not show Webpages:  and yet these seem to be ignored:
Apple lists the LTE band support of its iPhone models on this page: iPhone LTE Support. It lists more information about the iPhone 6s models on this page, specifically in the Cellular and Wireless section: iPhone 6s - Tech Specs Here is a comparison of the iPhone 6s/6s Plus models' cellular specs as of the time of writing this question, noting certification differences in the four major US carriers: LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30) TD-LTE (Bands 38, 39, 40, 41) TD-SCDMA 1900 (F), 2000 (A)
I've tried all of the standard suggestions: reset SMC, reset PRAM, use recovery mode to repair disk and permissions. Nothing fixes this nor changes this white-screen-with-mouse-cursor behavior.
Im considering programming a script to scan a system log in search for an entry indicative of a port scan, in doing so, potentially giving me a heads-up if anyone is taking interest in me. I already have a program like this which alerts me through the notification centre on the event of an SSH Authentication failure, however im unsure specifically which system log i would be looking at and what exactly the entry for a detected port scan would look like.
I have an iPhone 5 on iOS 8.4.1. I recently jailbroke it and then restored it back using iTunes. Since then, iCloud Backup is not completing even after me doing it manually over and over again.
I get stuck and have to wait until the request times out when I enter a bad VPN request. I would like to cancel the request and enter a different VPN address. I tried control break like on Windows but it doesn't work.
How to move videos from iPhone? I took long video and filled my memory. Now I wish to move it from iPhone.
I want to connect my MacBook Pro to my iPad mini's Wi-fi. I don't see any hotspot settings. I have searched on the web but all I see is to go to cellular option in setting which is not available in my iPad (cause there is no SIM). Can this be achieved through Bluetooth sharing, a personal hotspot, USB tethering or any other means?
When my iMac enters the lock screen, my default language for the buttons is German; but the language of the day of week displayed in the upper right corner is English. Is there a way to change this?
To disconnect my bluetooth headset is easy and just turn off my bluetooth. But I need to switch 3 pages in 4 steps to pair my bluetooth headset. Unlock my iPhone Click Setting Icon Click Bluetooth Option Click My Headset device shown in the list.
Regarding in-App (or other) purchases, is there any info available about the customer for a given transaction? So far I've only found reports without any info on the customer. It's important because how can we handle any customer requests in email without knowing if he/she has bought anything at all from us?
I'm having a little trouble finding any decent information on the minimum requirements in terms of hardware for the latest Xcode. I'm soon going to be starting iOS development, but I want to see whether I ought to get a new Mac or not. I currently have: MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010) 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM Running OS X Yosemite
How to display lyrics on iOS device via Apple Music?
A while ago, using OS X Mavericks, I installed an OS X utility named Proxinator, which was supposed to allow me to lock and unlock my Mac by proximity sensing my iPhone using bluetooth and a companion iPhone app. It didn't work well, but I left it installed.
I have a strange issue with my iOS simulator. It does not fit my Simulator Windows size. This is not a real problem, but the thing is that I cannot make screenshots anymore, when I save a screenshot, it saves the entire simulator window, not only the iOS screen. How can I fix this problem? The strange thing is that was working a few hours ago, even if the iOS screen was smaller, when I saved a screenshot, it saved at full resolution.
When backing up Whatsapp History to iCloud, Whatsapp required nearly the same amount of free space as the total backup. i.e If Whatsapp need to back up 1.8 GB of data to iCloud it will need 1.8GB of free space on the iPhone.
My customer asked me the following question: "Imagine the situation you have an app that costs 0.99$. Is there any way to make this app free in certain area, such as chosen cities in a country? Obviously we would make a deal with city council that they allow this app to be free within the city" The straightforward answers is "no, this is totally impossible", but after all I decided to ask the community here.
This is what I have now:  And this is what I would like to make:
This is what I have now:  I would like to avoid breaking orange cell across pages. Is there a way to do this?
I've downloaded and installed Wondershare AllMyTube for Mac for a quick look to see if it was any good. Then I decided that I didn't want it and uninstalled it.
Wired reported today that the new iOS9 software will only be 1.3BG in size. A great deal smaller than the 4.6GB of iOS8.
I'm in a bit of a predicament. I have the iOS 9.1 beta installed, and I'd like to downgrade to iOS 9 stable (released today, 9/16).
After updgrading to El Capitan GM, I noticed that usb passthrough no longer works in VirtualBox, and this seems to be occuring for everyone. I have found several threads on VirtualBox forums addressing this, but they are all for earlier beta releases of El Capitan. It seems like a change in IOKit is causing the problem. Version info: VirtualBox 5.0.4 Host OS: OS X 10.11 15A282a Guest OS: Kali Linux (uname -r: 4.0.0-kali1-amd64) So, I am wondering whether anyone here are having the same issue, and can offer some insight, or elaborate on how they may have fixed the issue. Link to thread on VirtualBox forums concerning this issue: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69179
This Calendar is storing 15 years of events organized within 9 "calendars". Since some of this information is highly sensitive, professionnal or private, I don't synchronize them on any form of public store calendar (iCloud, Google Calendar…). On the other hand I have many Time Machine backups and full backups.
When I receive a new notification concerning a new message on Facebook, clicking the notification will take me to Facebook site. Is there a way to make these notification go to messenger.com instead? It loads faster, and I generally prefer it to using Facebook's site.
I recently installed the 10.10.5 update on my Macbook Pro, and now upon login with my home account, the dock won't launch (literally, there is no Dock process; killall Dock returns No matching processes belonging to you were found. Another command I've tried is sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock, and this returns 2015-09-16 10:26:35.219 Dock[1854:178195] __33-[WVSpaces _initializeFullscreen]_block_invoke: fullscreen message error: Connection invalid). In addition, several standard user interface elements, such as command-tab, spaces, and trackpad gestures, no longer work. When I login as a guest user, though, everything works just fine. I'm confused how to get these UI elements working again. Edit: I've checked the system console, and it appears as if the dock is constantly trying to launch, but failing.
I don't use iTunes, but I can't prevent it from automatically opening every time a CD is inserted. I have already changed the system preferences for when a CD/DVD is inserted to "ignore" or to "open other program"-- but it seems that iTunes 12 overrides these system preferences. I've also looked at the preferences within iTunes, but there is no option to "ignore" when CD is inserted (though I am almost certain there used to be!) Any suggestions?
This line used to work sudo -b "/Applications/Textedit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit" /etc/hosts But on Yosemite, it does not work anymore.
I have a 10.6.8, all of a sudden takes 5 min to start up. I can't get into the utilities, as I hold cmd and R with no effect. No time machine on this computer. There are 700 Mb free on the hard disk. I changed the keyboard with a wired one as it wouldn't see the wireless anymore. The mouse pointer stalls then jumps to the edge of the screen.Different mouse doing the same. Once started, all apps running smooth. Appreciate your help.
I just added two contacts to the contacts app on my iPhone (iOS 9.1) and after each I had a dialog asking me to enter my Facebook password, presumably so it could cross-reference this with my Facebook account. I didn't enter my password and instead went looking for a setting that links the Contacts and Facebook apps together but could not find anything. Is there such a setting? If so, where? If not, is Contacts sending data to Facebook?
I'm looking to research what to do to back up my Apple Watch settings and such before I upgrade from iOS 8 to iOS 9 on my iPhone. Is there an Apple support article or other information on how to make sure everything is successfully saved. I'm especially keen to not lose my health app data, but the watch app settings and screen layout also are of interest to keep.
I am running iOS 9.1 beta and it seems pretty good and more stable than past iOS 9 iterations. Will my iPhone 5S prompt me to upgrade to the public release of iOS 9 today?
To be abundantly clear, I'm looking for a web inspector (like Chrome's) that I can use on an iOS device like an iPad to debug web pages without a computer. I'm aware that you can connect your phone to your laptop and do remote debugging, but that's not what I'm asking about.
"Software update failed. An error occurred downloading iOS 9" - weird message after clicking 'Download and install'. Restarting devices didn't help. What's the problem?
When I swipe left from the first page of my home screen, iOS 9 brings me to the spotlight screen. There I can see Siri suggestions and news. Is there a way to configure which news are showed in this page? Note: I do not have the news app, I suppose because it is not yet available in all the countries.
At work I have 3 devices to experiment with today: An iPhone 5, an iPhone 6, and an iPad mini. The iPhone 5 had iOS 8.4.1 installed on it. Early this afternoon (US Eastern time zone) iOS 9 showed up on the iPhone 5 as an update.
I upgraded ios to 9.1 beta from 9.0 last beta a week ago. However i can't downgrade it to 9.0 stable as i don't have a backup. How will i be able to update to 9.1 stable from 9.1 beta when 9.1 stable released ? Thanks
I have just updated to iOS9 but can't find the Apple News app. All web sites imply that the News app is part of the released version of iOS9. Interestingly, the U.K. Apple site whats new with iOS9 implies its 'coming soon' Is this a UK only issue?
I think the HD is full? When I power up it chimes and I get the logo screen and whirling ball then after a 20 seconds it shuts down to a black screen and powers off. I tried to start in Safe Start Mode but no go.
I did a clean install of Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 from installers from my campus bookstore. I customized the install to include only Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. I have not had the previews, and I just updated to 15.14.0 (150911). I am running a brand new Macbook Pro 9,2 with Yosemite 10.10.5. Although I did a clean install, I did not uninstall MS Office 2011 apps. I have no issues running them concurrently.
When I got my new iPhone six, I made a new Apple ID, not realizing that I wouldn't be able to get my music from my previous Apple ID. I redeemed a $15 iTunes card on my new Apple ID, and I am now unsure whether or not using it and downloading music onto my phone will erase the data from the other Apple ID. What should I do?
How can I quickly migrate my notes from Evernote to the new version of iOS’s Notes shipping with iOS 9? Most notes are just text or simple images with text.
After using Apple iPhone keyboard for close to 4 years, I'm quite proficient with typing on the keyboard, almost touch typing, while relying on autocorrect. The new lowercase keyboard totally throws me off. How can I get my iPhone with iOS9 to go back to default keyboard where all characters are capitalized?
Can Apple Pay, on an iPhone, be used without an internet connection (no cellular data and no WIFI)? Can Apple Pay, on an Apple Watch, be used without a connection to the phone?
I recently purchased a used iPhone 6, originally on the Verizon network. I'm an app developer, and as such, only need to be able to use this phone over wifi. However, when I boot up the phone I reach a "SIM Required" screen. Is there a way to bypass this restriction or do I need to buy a cheap prepaid plan to overcome it?
I have selected the option to set the time zone base on my current location. It correctly detects my location (London), but it still keeps the time as New York time. See screenshot image. This is OSX 10.9.5 Macbook Pro
Looks like this is the right place to ask. Basically I'm gonna to build an app which, while suspended periodically uploads photos to server (just like Google Photos uploads new photos to their backend while the app is in background). I'm thinking of using Background Fetch to get notified of a moment to check if sync is required and to upload any photos if so. The question is will apple reject the app? My concern here is that according to the specs Background Fetch is intended to fetch small amount of data from the network while I'm gonna to use it like in the opposite direction - to upload relatively big amount of data. Probably someone had similar experience.
After the update to iOS9 which allowed notes to be in rich text, only the notes "on my iPhone" were converted to this new format. The notes associated with my gmail weren't. Before the upgrade, I could lump all notes together in one list so I didn't even need to worry where they were being stored. But now it looks like half the lists I use frequently are on my iPhone, and half are associated with my gmail. Is there a way in iOS9 I can put them all back in one list (e.g. see all)? Or even just convert all the plaintext gmail notes over to the new style?
Itunes put some photos from my laptop onto my phone and now i cannot delete them please help! How do I delete them?
I am trying to port forward port 25565 for a game server. I have tried to go into the port mapping settings, and creating one for 25565 on TCP and UDP and also reserving the ip on DHCP Reservations. The port still is not open as shown by *=URL=* and other port checking websites. What am I doing wrong?
I reinstalled Karabiner to see if there was a setting I could fix. I used Karabiner's EventViewer, which shows what keyboard code is being used, etc. When I press "3", literally nothing get's logged or trigged. When I press "option" + "3", it shows the logs and triggers. When I open the Mac Virtual keyboard onscreen, press the button "3" - nothing happens! I've tried restoring Karabiner to default settings, tried uninstalling it again - no luck.
I have Accidently deleted a note in the Note app and I really need it back! Tried a couple programs, like Phone Rescue, but my laptop virus protection said it was corrupt. Appreciate any ideas!
Cellular connection kicks in when the WiFi is weak, that's a nice feature in iOS 9: WiFi Assist. I have on question, when WiFi Assist is ON. Does it cause me cellular data in the following scenario: WiFi Assist is ON Settings > App and iTunes Stores > Use Mobile Data is OFF Now, WiFi is good I am downloading a huge app ... so far so good suddenly WiFi goes weak .. Does AppStore continues to download and consumes my cellular data, or just stops?
I updated Xcode but it doesn't appear to have actually updated. This is seen in my update history after reboot:
I've recently made iTune backups (not iCloud) of my iDevices and iTunes copied the apps to the local drive. I tried doing the same thing on my wife's iPhone but the apps arent' getting copied. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. But I'm only pressing backup on iTunes.
With Maverick, hardware is encrypted by default, do we still need to secure empty trash? Can files still be retrieved after deletion since the entire hardware has been encrypted?
iOS 9 is just released today, like very 16GB iPhone user it is time to find / delete things to make space for Installation. I backed up everything to iCloud first, and cleared 1.8GB of free space in order for Whatsapp to backup itself. After Whatsapp successfully backed up, I had 1.8GB of space left. I checked moments later and I only have 800MB left, and then slowly rises back to ~1.2GB after an hour. I waited a few hours more, ( iOS 9 refuses to download as you may have already know), the free space never went back to 1.8GB, it stayed at 1.2GB
After upgrading my iPhone 6 to iOS 9, and iTunes to 12.3, I cannot use the Personal Hotspot via USB anymore. It worked fine until the updates.
I was asked if I could unlock an iPhone today, the answer was, of course, a resounding no. Intrigued, I dug a little deeper to see what would be required and if it were possible.
I want to still be able to use iMessages on my MacBook but I want to stop my messages from displaying on my screen (for privacy reasons). It seems you have to completely sign out from all of your iMessage accounts and turn off iMessage to make this happen, but is there a way to keep iMessages functional and just change the display options?
HiI am using Numbers on OS X It show me column names with letters But I want to show it with numbers, like Rows. Thank You.
So far I had iCloud Storage 20GB. But since Apple changed their storage, I should have 50GB, but there is still 20. Why?
There have been several questions how to connect a (new) MacBook to an (old) iMac so the latter will work as a second, bigger display for the former, but all were assuming a hardware connection, i.e. a DVI, Displayport or Thunderbolt cable. Apple even has a support page for Target Display Mode, which is only available in a limited number of recent, but not too recent iMacs. I’m looking for a software solution, because though (Mini) Display Port is available on both my devices, they only support video output:
I was cleaning my desktop and I put a lot of unnecessary files into my Trash. In one particular folder I was asked to provide administrator's password, so I did. Everything went to Trash very smoothly. Below prompt appeared when I decided to empty Trash.
How can I edit the Hostname of my MacBook Pro via the CLI? Currently running Mac OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10.5).
I'm trying to install bbcp (which is a fast scp alternative) on MAC, I tried with brew: It looks like the bbcp binaries are not available for OS X! Any idea how to port them?
In System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Accessibility: Dropbox.app is there and it is checked. Why does Dropbox need access to the OS's accessibility features? Is it safe to uncheck it, will it keep working fine?
I am looking for a real hibernation feature. Feature-wise I would like to be able to do both of the following: take a 15 minute break from work and take up when I left off without waiting longer than a few seconds - like an ordinary "standby" or "sleep"
I'm currently trying to "clean" the Citrio browser of the extensions that are visible (maybe more that are hidden, but I'll investgate later). These extensions cannot be deleted by simply clicking on the trashcan icon that is normally beside the extension. So I opted to delete the extension's files manually. I've gone as far as going into the Preference file and deleting any code related to the extension's ID. I restart Citrio, and I get remnants of FILE_NOT_FOUND extensions across the Citrio browser. In the picture below there is no trash can icon, and with no image or data files to go on, all that's left is to remove the last empty shell of the extension's entry in the chrome://extensions
I am trying to prevent the system to always ask for the password when it wakes up from sleep. I have a MacbookPro with Yosemite 10.10.5. User has admin rights and password different than the iCloud one. FileVault is off. The System Preferences > Security and Privacy > "Require password [5 seconds] after sleep or screen saver begins" is disabled and there's no way to enable it. If I execute defaults read com.apple.screensaver i get: If I execute defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPasswordDelay -int 3600 the defaults don't change...
I have an iPhone that I own outright from Australia (Model A1586). I have recently relocated to the US and have a US Visa card that is compatible with Apple Pay. However, I do not have any Wallet or Pay options on my iPhone at all. Is there any way I can add this to my phone?
I've just upgraded to iOS 9, and the new Spotlight search isn't finding contacts for me - it sometimes finds contacts, but not the one I'm searching for. I've turned off every app in Spotlight search, except Contacts, so as not to muddy the waters.
If I right click on a file, I can open the file by clicking Services and then New MacVim Buffer Here:  However, this is a bit cumbersome. How can I move the New MacVim Buffer Here menu action to be at the same level as the Service menu action?
I recently bought a Mac mini with the latest version Yosemite op system. I installed Parallels and then installed Windows 7 pro using the Windows install disc. I now want to remove Windows 7 all together and just have the Mac op sys but every time I go on Google or Youtube all I see is them talking about Bootcamp. Unless I am mistaken, I do not have bootcamp on my computer. It should be noted that I am new to Macs so I am treading lightly.
I have an iPhone 5 and just updated to iOS 9 (all german). What I really do not like is the content of the newsfeed that is presented to me on the search screen. How can I change what content is presented to me (no more news from spiegel.de or focus.de please!) or if that is not possible, how can I completely disable news on that search screen but keep all the rest of the proactive search features on that search screen? It appears in the US locale, the solution is to disable the news app from contributing to spotlight search but this app (and the switch for it) does not exist in iOS 9 that detects a german locale.
When accessing the Sound panel of the system settings, it has disabled the Sound off/mute button in the bottom, and on the Output tab it says (in Norwegian): The selected device has no output controls. And the volume control (on keyboard) doesn't do a thing, neither for the 'global' volume or when playing stuff in iTunes.
I am looking for a way to display a PDF file version metadata without having to open the file AcrobatPro. Example: PDF Version 1.4 : I can easily do this on PC: right click on file, properties, select PDF tab, and it is displayed along with what application and pdf library produced it. On Mac, none of this shows in "Get Info" (command + I) nor using terminal and the mdls command. Any ideals on some commands and I could write a droplet script?
How can I turn off news headlines from Spotlight Search in iOS 9?
I track user login times on a couple of shared computers running OSX 10.10.5 using the last command in terminal. It seems after updating from 10.9 the wtmp file gets frequently deleted and only show a few days of history. Is there a command that can stop this from happening? Or an alternative way to track user logins times for the previous month?
I tried quicktime and monosnap to make a video tutorials, but both produce a mono audio. What should I do to make it stereo? nb: I'm using Steinberg CI2+ soundcard + ISK mic.
The "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) for Xcode 7.0" is not working correctly. It installs and shows in the "Updates Installed" section, however it is still listed in the "Updates Available" section. Oddly, it's being shown in the "Updates Installed" sections multiple times -- once for each time I tried to install it.
What video players allow me to see 100% 1:1 4k video on my rMBP? Obviously, since the MacBook doesn't have enough pixels to display the whole 4k video, this is going to involve zooming/cropping a 2880x1800 portion of the frame during playback. That's okay: I just want to be able to view a 100% crop from the centre of the frame to verify image clarity and sharpness.
Apple says that “News seamlessly delivers the articles you want to read in a beautiful and uncluttered format, while respecting your privacy, because Apple doesn’t share your personal data,”. What user data is shared with publishers. It is the same data that iAd shares?
I'm trying to upgrade to iOS 9 from iOS 7 on a 5C but the upgrade process is frozen at "Slide to upgrade". Reboot just restarts one view or two before "slide to upgrade" screen. My iCloud backup is out of date due to storage issues (it wouldn't fit in the free allotment) and I can't create one ("device has not been configured") using iTunes so I can't do a restore without losing my data.
I recently received an iPhone as a gift. It had not been used in a while, and as such, had been left un-updated on iOS 6.0.1. I am a jailbreak enthusiast, and since there may not be an iOS 8.4.1 - iOS 9 jailbreak, would it be possible to update to iOS 8.3 with its IPSW file (despite it not currently being signed)?
I wish to get a 802.11ac wifi router that will get the most out of my iPhone 6. I have looked but can't find any specifications that say which would be the best match. Routers all seem to have an AC rating AC1750, AC3200 for example which I understand is total Mb speed for both 2.4G and 5Ghz. Where in the iPhone 6 specifications does it say what the speed is so I can find an equally capable AC router?
My iPad is lost. I was using the notes app. I've changed my Apple ID password to stop someone logging in. I want to keep my notes and access them by logging into the iCloud website on my laptop.
I need to paste sequential rectangular selections from a PNG opened in Preview into a designated Google Doc. I suspect AppleScript is the best candidate for this, but I'm open to using a more familiar language like Python or JS. Here's some rough pseudocode for what I want to do. The goal is speed up the many copy/paste operations that I'm now doing by Cmd-C, click destination window, Cmd-V, Enter, Enter, click Preview (so I can make the next selection).
I have updated my iPod to iOS 9 and want to make my own apps for it, however, I do not want to pay for a developer account because of how much it costs. I read that in Xcode 7 that you can develop apps for iOS without a developer account, this does not seem the case for me, instead when I try and build my test application (a blank single view application) I get an error saying 'no code signing identities found' and requires me to 'join a program'.
Is there a way to transport the Data of an iPhone / iPad Backup and the saved apps to an external hard drive? I'm using iTunes 12.3 on a MacBookProRetina with Yosemite
I'm unable to turn off my iphone 4s. I've attempted several times by holding the top right button down then slide the shut off prompt off but moments later it pops back on. Currently the phone doesn't hold a charged and gets hot. This activity has been happening for a few weeks.
I recently got myself a product key and I really wanna bootcamp my mac but I can't find how with only the product key... Please don't tell me I lost €70 on that..?
I want to create symbolic link for /Users to /home. So i tried to execute ln -s \Users \home. which gave me error ln: /home/Users: Operation not supported. Any way to do this? Thanks
How do I create a complete iPhone backup without iTunes and which I can later restore?
I am trying to make my own iOS applications by using Xcode 7 and iOS 9.0. I have successfully been able to install the app on my own iPod by following Xcode 7 develop for iOS without developer account however when I run the application I get this error:
I've been curious about this for awhile. I've seen this happen for multiple versions of the iPhone with multiple apps, but to be specific, today with the iPhone 5s, iOS 9.0 and the Galileo map app, I was in a foreign country walking around, and had put my phone on airplane mode to avoid extra data charges. I had expected to use the Galileo app like a digital copy of an ordinary map, which is to say I did not expect it to know my current location. And yet, every time I moved 5m or so, my location was updated in real time. How is this possible? Was the phone getting signals from nearby WiFi, or cell towers, or what?
The title pretty much sums it up. I just updated to the new OS X Server (5.0.3) today and when I try to go to localhost, 127.0.0.1, I am getting connection refused. When I load into OS X Server program, and go to the tab on the left Websites, it says Server website on port 80
I just unboxed a brand new iMac and after selecting language, keyboard, iCloud stuff it's now been on the "Setting Up Your Mac" screen for an hour and a half. It's connected to my home wifi network which is online and reasonably fast. I have an iCloud account but don't do anything with it. Is it downloading some huge update?
I have a Smart Playlist that selects a set of music and podcasts for me to listen to throughout the day. However, iTunes decides it's a good idea to check the "Skip when shuffling" checkbox for all podcasts the moment it downloads them:
In previous versions of Message.app bundled with Mac OS X, we could change the font and color of the message balloons. In Yosemite I no longer can find such options.
I don't use my iPhone with a mobile data plan and I don't care if the polling frequency for background apps gets lowered a bit. Is there an easier/faster way to activate the Low Power Mode than using Settings -> Battery -> Low Power Mode?
I have about 40,000 tracks in my iTunes library. As I understand it, in order to add Apple Music tracks to custom playlists, I have to enable the iCloud Music Library, which I can't do with more than 25,000 tracks in my library.
A couple years ago I was using the business center of an Embassy Suites hotel. They had Apple computers with a dual login screen where I could choose to login to Windows or OSX. This was not a dual boot setup. It was choose at login. I have not been able to find a system that does this.
So I setup family sharing with myself as the organizer. I invited several family members and they're using their own Apple ID on the iTunes section of the iDevice's settings.
I have an Arduino-based device (www.picobrew.com) and needs firmware updating. The company wrote a little app to do it for Windows users, but us OS X users are out in the cold. Fortunately, we were able to use the Arduino app and some terminal commands to get around not having their app. Some people, however, are a little afraid to tinker in Terminal. I found this post, which seems like a good start, but I have two variables, the file name of the firmware file and the name of the Arduino serial port that I'm not quite sure how to get into the script without hardcoding. Here is the script: I can find the name of the serial port with this command: But how can I populate the first script with the result of this one? Additionally, is there a way to prompt for a file location?
I've tried using Disk Utility, but after entering the current password, I get a small dialog reading Unable to change password for “$image.” (Inappropriate ioctl for device). I've also tried hdiutil chpass $image, which doesn't give me any errors, but results in both the old password and the new password working (I can hdiutil attach the image using either).
Anyone know how I can get git working again? I tried nuking and reinstalling Xcode and the Command Line tools but to no avail. git from MacPorts and /usr/bin/git are both giving the same error message.
Do the content blockers that can be installed with iOS 9 work in Chrome for iOS?
If I turn off my camera roll iCloud backup and it deletes all my photos from iCloud, when I turn it back on will my photos be restored to iCloud?
I'm trying to export a private key from System.keychain in Keychain Access. I've tried running Keychain Access as a root. No matter what, I always get the following error.
One time I disconnected the Apple Watch charger and the magnetic attachment landed right next to an external hard drive. Since the charger uses magnetic field to charge the Apple Watch, will placing it a few inches or right next to an external hard drive on the desk cause possible data loss to the hard drive? Or what if it is a wallet with credit cards in it. There are some possible scenarios: a few inches next to it right next to it while charging, especially if it is 8 or 10 hours when just within the few seconds disconnected from the Apple Watch when not attached to the Apple Watch
I tried to look for the full path of the TextEdit app in the terminal using the command which and whereis but the terminal doesn't respond. it just skips to the next line like there was no command:
is it possible to have a different apple id for device and a different one for iTunes Store in the same device? If so, how can I have just ONE applie ID? Where do I find in settings the apple ID for iTunes store?
So someone stole my mac and I just got a new used one and am setting it up and I can't figure out how to get it back to the way I used to have it. The way it was before, I was a user with no password-- I didn't have to login when the mac started. But whenever I wanted to make significant changes, like installations or settings adjustments, I would have to give credentials.
I am curious how does iterm2 work? I mean it would be a gargantuan task to re-implement all the unix commands and I guess it somehow uses the built-in terminal under the covers to run the actual commands but how?
Does any body know any solutions to solve the problem of Outlook for iOS crashes after adding second email account on it when the iPhone 6 was upgraded to iOS9?
Apple highlights that an iPhone — and presumably other iOS devices — will use light and proximity sensors to determine whether it's laying face-down, and stop the screen from turning on even when notifications come in. It does not seem to work on my iPhone 6. Do I have to enable low power mode for this to work?
First off, I'm using a manufacturer (Apple) refurbished AirPort Time Capsule, the newest model, which was delivered by UPS a few hours ago to my new house. I bought it directly from Apple.
At the latest unveiling by Apple and mentioned in this post, they announced a new feature on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus: you can have 'Hey Siri' enabled always rather than just when plugged into a power source. After downloading iOS 9 to my iPhone 6, I optimistically checked to see whether this feature was present in the settings, but to no avail - 'Hey Siri' is still restricted to when the device is plugged into a power source. Yet, surely this is a software-related matter rather than anything to do with the hardware. Why is the ability to have 'Hey Siri' enabled when not plugged into a power source restricted to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus? Has Apple made any explanation of this, or is there some other evidence which accounts for this?
On Mavericks the Mac App Store started to hang right after start (when accesing menu, to be exact). How to reset it? I.e. remove some configuration files that drive the store into improper state?
I ran a port scan on my Mac (OS X 10.9.4 if its relevant) and i realised all these random protocols with next to no explanation on the internet. 2 of the most unusual protocols include ndl-aas and dec_dlm, And i recall that keeping track of these open ports on your computer is generally a good idea to maintain your computers security. So my question What are the purposes of the protocols ndl-aas and dec_dlm? And how do I block access to these ports?
I love Notes and how iCloud helps me work on the go (with my iPhone) as well as on my computer seamlessly. But every so often, I wish I could back them all up locally in a few steps, ideally as files and with as little tampering with the system as possible. Is this doable?
I have tried to copy again Windows 10 on the USB stick. It doesn't change anything. I have also tried to avoid entering my license key by using the "next" button of the window, but the error occurs just after. I have tried to install Windows 8.1, it doesn't change anything.
I have begun to see notifications from TechCrunch when they publish articles. My notifications center is full of the settings for extremely useful applications (Calendar, Evernote, Maps, Skype, Dropbox), and then… a website I sometimes read. I can easily set their notifications to "None" but I want:
my macsbooks screen turned white yesterday, the keys were making sounds when pressed. I have plugged my mac in to my tv and the screen comes up on my tv, but the laptop screen is still blank. please help
I am switching from the default music player on my iPhone to using Spotify to play music. The recent updates have meant that I can't use the music player in the same as I used to and I much prefer Spotify in general.I still want to use iTunes on my Mac to organise playlists.
I wonder where I can choose/ change the news sources that spotlight uses in the new iOS 9...! I live in Switzerland and don't have the News App... i've never visited most of the sites before
Before someone closes this as a duplicate, my question is NOT the same as this Ask Different post. I've tried everything that the link above described, trying to install the final version of iOS 9 on my iPad that is currently running the iOS 9 Public Beta. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, as I've deleted the Beta profile in Settings, restarted my iPad again and again, but yet my only option is to install the iOS 9.1 Public Beta, which I don't want to do. What can do to resolve this?
Is there a way to include a long í in the american keybord for an iPad or a shortcut for it? I also have searched for a "0", but it will only work when transfering back to american keyboard and then back again.
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, and I'm selling it to someone. Want to erase and reformat the drive but I don't have the Snow Leopard Install DVD. Is there any way to do this?
When song 5 is done playing, it automatically skips over to song 16. The songs in between play just fine when started manually but are not part of the queue when playing the album. Why? What do these grey song titles mean? I do have iTunes Match, but these songs are all downloaded to my computer.
Contacts are saved but since the update, when I get a text no name appears only the telephone number? But I open the text, the name appears at the top, just when initial text notification comes through
I am trying to set up a Macbook running Yosemite 10.10.5 and a PC running Windows XP in order to share some folders on my home network. Briefly summarizing, I have defined a constant IP they will use to connect themselves to the network. Then, the shared folders have been set up: on Mac OS, using the Preferences > Sharing board and on Windows through the Properties > Sharing > Advanced Sharing menu. All works fine when I request a connection from the Macbook to the PC: I use Finder > Connect to a Server, filling the blank line with smb://IP_OF_THE_PC and then inserting the username and the password of the account that is sharing these data. On the contrary, doing the inverse procedure, I mean requesting a connection from the PC to the Macbook - launching the command \\IP_OF_THE_MAC from the Start menu, the configuration seems to not work. Sincerely, I am a bit surprised because the same configuration was fine when I was running Mavericks 10.9 and so I suppose that all this is due to so
I've updated an iPad Air 2 to iOS 9 and can get the the Slide Over view to come out by swiping from right to left on the right hand side of the screen, but there does not seem to be a divider on the left side of the app that slides out that would allow me to stretch the app to take up 50% of the screen instead of 33% like I've seen in other iOS 9 multitasking videos. I tried a mixture of the built in Apple apps (Notes, iBooks, Safari, Calendar, News) but none of them seem to have the ability to be stretched to take up 50% of the screen. I double checked in the settings that the General > Multitasking > Allow Multiple Apps is set to on as well as Persistent Video Overlay (which does seem to be working as I can play video over the top of other apps). Is there other settings I'm missing?
Having to tab back and forth between what I'm working on and iTunes only to heart a song by clicking the tiny heart in the play area is annoying. If there isn't a short cut what would you suggest to make one?
Initial searches on the Apple discussion sites show both the 69845 error coming up, and the posix line too, but so far no joy in either understanding or fixing these two errors.
Let's say we have a Mac configured with three user accounts: When Alice logs into her account, she connects a USB drive that contains files she needs to work with. Bob logs in at the same time and realizes he can access her USB drive through Finder. He has full permission to view and edit her files. How can Alice mount her USB drive in a way that only she has access to it? Environment Mac OS X 10.10.5 USB drive (FAT32) Thanks
I think the problem is that the system does not recognize the fileformat .tex`. The first thing is to get the system recognize it.
I know how to re-map my modifier keys, so my caps lock can act as a ctrl key, for example. I'm wondering if there's a way to re-map they dash/underscore key (next to +/=). Instead of it producing a dash or hyphen, I'd like it to produce an em dash. And pressing shift+opt+dash (the current shortcut for an em dash) key would produce a normal dash. Based on Karl's answer, I tried using BetterTouchTool (as Global shortcuts and also TextEdit specifically), but remapped keypresses just seem to be ignored.
I have an iPhone 4s which has the new iOS 9 downloaded on to it. The only problem is, is that the left most page, the one with predictive Siri, is not present. Is there some setting that is off, or is that feature just not available for the 4s?
I apparently had too many (3600) photos on my SD card to upload them via Image Capture so I used iPhoto. Upload went well but iPhoto erased my SD card. I want to use to those photos outside of iPhoto but when I exported them to a Pictures folder it removed all the location data and dates DESPITE my instruction, on its inquiry, not to do that but to carry the ancillary data with the copied files.
Im trying to install windows 10 with bootcamp. But what i`m trying it wil not work. I hope some one can help me. When i create a bootable USB via bootcamp this all works wel. than i delete the Bootcamp partition manually and create a new one (same size) and select the format option Free Space When i restart the MBP with the option button hold i see the EFI USB drive. When i start the installation process the, it is asking a few questions about the language and key, . also it is asking on which drive windows should be installed. I select the free space part and format it. Only then the next button lits-up. The install continues. When finalizing the installation im receiving an error Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration I have no clue why this is happening.
I want to share my internet connection(ethernet) to my iPhone, but the network is protected by 802.1x so that I cannot do so. I have already know that I can share the internet connection with my phone using a VPN, but unfortunately the ISP blocks all VPN connections. Is there another way to achieve my target? OS X 10.10 with iOS 8.4 Thank you!
Running into an odd issue when my system starts up: I have not been able to track the point of failure down yet. I assume that it is some application that is attempting to start at system startup, but I have not yet been able to isolate the application or daemon. The actual problem report seems to be quite unhelpful in this case: I thought that perhaps it was an issue with Homebrew's python installation, but after removing and re-adding it, this does not appear to be the case. Any thoughts?
Recently with the new music app introduced by iOS 8.4, I get strange bugs Bug 1 While songs are played in shuffle/random mode . When playing songs from all tracks in shuffle mode, just after listening to songs from a playlist whatever the mode (shuffle or normal mode), the third track played is the last track listenned from the playlist. How to reproduce Bug 1 Play songs from a playlist Go to 'Songs' and play all songs in shuffle mode. listen or skip the first track listen or skip the second track The third track should be the last track played from step 1. Bug 2 When playing songs from an intelligent playlist (playlist with rules ⚙) with a rule that removes the last song played (see below to reproduce the bug), if I pause play, put the iPod into sleep mode, then recover play, songs that are removed from the playlist are played. How to reproduce Bug 2 Create a playlist with all songs never played in the last month. Sync the playlist with your iOS device Play couple of song from this pl
I would like to disable the accent characters options you get when you hold down keys. I have always used holding keys to repeat letters but all of the sudden it shows special characters and won't let me repeat any keys, even if they do not have special characters. I have been using Yosemite on my early 2011 MBP for a while now and this has never occurred before. Did I do some strange keyboard combination? And is there a way to turn it off, to get proper key repeats back? I have searched for this everywhere in the settings and online, but apparently it is not a known thing. Thank you very much in advance!
I do software development and would like to run two Dell U2414H's in portrait mode as a single screen. Is this possible with a MBA 2013? Like this:
My daughter used my phone for a day and now her email address is on my phone and mine has vanished. How do I get mine back?
I'm assuming there is some sort of technical limitation. Why is it that all the usb-c hubs are passthrough single usb ports instead of a USB Type-C multiple port hub?
Apple tech at store installed Yosemite upgrade on my dual-boot MBP. After I got home I discovered that when holding down Option key during bootup my Bootcamp Windows partition is no longer displayed as an option.
I have an iPhone, iPad and Macbook and have the messages set up for all and it works great and everything goes to all devices, except for messages from and to one contact. Messages to him and from him only show up on the iPhone and Macbook but don't show up on my iPad. Did I do something weird or what can it be? Thanks, Thomas
I have two displays connected to my MacBook Pro Retina 2015, running 10.10. It is connected to power, so it will not sleep once I close the lid.
I've downloaded an application but when I want to open this application it shows an error message saying that it will damage my computer. I tried to download the application from multiple sources but it continues to give me the same message. When I try to open the application with my right mouse button it still gives me the same message.
I have two of the Apple 27" thunderbolt displays, and a Dell M3800 laptop running Windows 7. The laptop has a thunderbolt port, and can run one of the Apple displays just fine. When I daisy chain another Apple display, the display on the far end of the chain works, but the one on the near end of the chain goes dark. Is there any way to connect two of these displays to this computer? Note: The ports on both displays, and the PC are thunderbolt, not displayport.
I have a lot of old assets (html and image files) I need to optimise for mobile devices. The existing assets were created for desktop and did not have mobile device in mind. I am planning to make the following changes:
It seems to me that I shouldn't need the boot cds when buying a used macbook pro if it is upgraded to Yosemite, is this correct?
I have an ipad 2 with iOS 7. I got a notification about iOS 9 ready to install. I don't want to install iOS 9.
I am currently running 8.1.2 on an iphone 6 plus. I have recently noticed that the internet became practically unusuable so i decided to reset my network settings. I tried signing back in to the same wifi I used on my other devices and it gave me the "incorrect password" error. So at first i thought of trying to forget and reconnect to the network on my iphone 5s(also running 8.1.2) to make sure i wasn't typing the weong password, but it worked. Next i tried to go into the router settings and copy the password onto my 6 plus but still could not connect. I've never gotten this problem before.
UPDATE: When the keyboard is not responding, I can make the caps lock light on the keyboard illuminate by pressing the caps lock button with the mouse in the OS X keyboard viewer. Doing so does not restore the keyboard to a responsive state though. I still have to repeatedly tap keys before the keyboard starts responding. UPDATE: The problem remains under OS X 10.11.6.
I have a smart playlist made up of the following rules:  But it won't sync with my iCloud Music Library (formerly known as iTunes Match), giving the error:
I just updated to iOS 9, and I noticed that the built-in dictionaries, I previously used, aren't working. I had used American English, British English, and Apple Dictionary. Now, when I try to define any word, I get a "No definition found" error. The dictionaries I previously used show a blue circle (while all the others show the cloud download icon).
I work at a store, which sells Apple computers. I’m trying to find a way to close all open programs after a few minutes. It’s because of our Shop Demo Account for customers. After opening all windows, it’s quite messy and I want to get a clean user experience.
I have a binary that I want wrapped up as an Application, so I thought this was a good use case for AppleScript. I want to automate how Script Editor lets you export an AppleScript as a .app bundle. This is what I have so far, I'm confused about how to read the libraries dictionary for the script editor.
GCC was apparently removed from the current Xcode, here. I would like to find a standard way to install Haskell to OSX. Not a custom way. Brew's packages haskell-stack homebrew/emacs/haskell-mode Caskroom/cask/haskell-platform Cabal may be one solution. How can you install Haskell in OSX?
I have played something following *=URL=* ,like: After reboot, one of the PV record is missing: I believe the missing one is disk0s4, but How can I re-create a Core Storage record to let disk0s4 become a Physical Volume (PV) with UUID=E4E1EDD1-E102-49C4-89A2-604BF05A7025 ?
I often have a good 150 to 200 tabs open in Safari at all times because this is where I like to keep all my current work. Obviously, all open tabs are never displayed at the same time when there are so many... I am wondering if a list of all currently open tabs is available in Safari.
Obviously, this font is there, somewhere in the system, since it's used almost everywhere! And Apple computers are sold with lots of fonts pre-installed in their System Folder, so it seems like a mistake to me, that this one in particular would be unavailable. So, how could I "unlock" it, or make it usable in other applications?
Everytime I try to make call with Skype or Google Hangouts from my MacBook Air, the embedded internal microphone volume is too low. I am sure it is working, because when I shout loudly enough, the people on the other side of call can hear me, but only really quietly. I have Macbook Air 13'' late 2010, right now running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, but I had this problem since the very beginning.
In the printer menu I can change the orientation, but that only rotates the paper not the image on the paper. How can I rotate the image itself?
I have just updated Yosemite on my MacBook Air and the outgoing mails cannot be sent - the SMTP-connection fails. It worked OK a few seconds before the upgrade was started. I wanted the Outgoing mails to work again. I did the following in Mail Version 8.2 (2104) Opened ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist Found the block of data that contains the offending mail account Found the line within this block that says UserAllowsInsecureAuthentication Changed the line below this from <false/> to <true/> Quit TextEdit Launched Mail
I've bought a used MacBook Air (Mid 2013) running Yosemite and I'd like to restore every setting to defaults, as in, start over with a fresh clean OS. What are the things I have to run to make sure the system is good conditions before performing a reinstall? Should I reset NVRAM and SMC to set stuff like volume and mouse speed to default, or a OS reinstall via recovery will take care of that? Thanks!
I have a Mac mini late 2012 with 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) RAM. I bought another 8 GB RAM module and installed it in the Mac. Should I leave the 8 GB module alone or should I install one of the two 2 GB modules in the vacant RAM slot? Will there be any issue if there are different RAM modules in the slots (8 GB + 2 GB)?
I need to restore a 200 GB user directory from a Time Machine backup. However it fails periodical with an error about the source file. Different file each time. If I attempt to run tmutil a second time: Is there a particular syntax, a flag, to resume an interrupted restore? Hardware: Mac Pro 3.2 GHz quad core with 24 GB ram,
Do you know anything about changes in iOS 9 regarding the handling of certificates (untrusted or otherwise)? Or do you have other clues that might help me solve this problem? Information about the server: The IMAP server runs on a Debian machine over which I have full control The IMAP server is Courier IMAP The IMAP server accepts connections on the standard IMAP port 143 The IMAP server requires STARTTLS to enforce that all traffic is encrypted via TLS The IMAP server uses a wildcard certificate The IMAP server provides the whole certificate chain to the client The root CA is CAcert.org (link to root and intermediate CA certificates) Because CAcert.org is not, by default, in the trusted CA store of iOS 9, I have manually installed the root and intermediate CA certificates on the iPhone 6+ Courier version = 0.73.1 (/usr/bin/imapd --version) OpenSSL version = 1.0.2d (/usr/bin/openssl version) What have I tried?
i have this button (battery capacity indicator) in my macbook pro 2011 series that shows battery capacity, but when i press it nothing happens. can i know if it is plugged in or not via a terminal command?
i'm currently using the Homebrew package manager and my question is: is possibile to write a bash's script in order to execute brew update and eventually brew upgrade whenever opening a shell for the first time? I'm using iTerm at the moment.
Suppose you have two family members using the same computer, each with their own user account (Jack and Jill). Jill opens a page in her Safari browser (in her user account) for say: "Pregnancy test". Then she logs out of her user account.
A month ago i had two user accounts on my MacBook (pro), both was setup to get text messages from my iPhone. Now I have removed one of the user accounts, but in settings on my iPhone I can still chose the old mac user for text forwarding. My question is: Can i remove the old device from the list below?
My MacBook Pro is a late 2013 edition model, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Every 15 minutes (the intervals are very regular) it loses connection to my router; pings to the router do not go through, but the WiFi icon does not turn grey. After a minute or so the connection reappears.
I like certain apps to have their own dedicated spaces, and I'm wondering how I can make it so those apps are automatically arranged in a specific order in Mission Control upon being opened. For example, here's an arrangement I have on my laptop screen:
After update to iOS 9, for many of the apps in my iPhone 6, the "cellular data" selection is locked in "Settings/Cellular/Use Cellular Data For" or in the corresponding "Settings/[App Name]" entry. The toggle can be flipped but the new value is not stored when exiting Settings. If the value reverts to off, the app can't access the cellular data network. The apps with the value reverting to on, can. Cellular Data and Data Roaming are on. All apps have the most recent updates.
Why are some apps installed via iTunes Store while others via App Store? is there any significance in that? Many thanks.
My imessage button was turned off for a week and I am concerned that I missed a lot of important messages. How can I get those messages to come through now?
I have an iPhone 5s and I only like to use silent and vibrate. I never use the sound. Is there a way that I can assign the switch on the side of the phone to be either silent or on vibrate? I don't mind using the volume buttons on the side either, like i did when i had android, but i noticed that apple doesn't easily let you use move between vibrate and silent without going into the settings menu. Thanks in advance.
If I sync my iPhone contacts, notes, calendar etc with iTunes and then restore my phone using iCloud, then sync again, will my iTunes contacts be overwritten by the restored version? Will my iPhone contacts have the iCloud version of my contacts, the iTunes version or some merge?
While importing a PostgreSQL database in OS X 10.10, I got a error like "invalid locale name: en_US.utf8". I went to /usr/share/locale and copied the folder en_US.UTF-8 as en_US.utf8. Ok, problem solved.
In iOS8's Settings page, I used to be able to go to "General" then "Usage" and it would tell me how much free space is available on the device, and how much space each app uses. Where is this now in iOS9?
On Mac OSX, the third-party command line tool I have needs to run as super user unfortunately. I'm building a front-end GUI for it. My Qt/C++ application is using QProcess to shell out to Bash and run this command via echo "{PASS}" sudo -l "{USER}" -S {COMMAND}. I'm successful with that -- just as long as I have the Apple ID user/pass.
A few days ago, I was chatting via Messages and because the phone I was tethering off of went dead, and I reconnected after connecting to the wireless network of the hotel I was in, which is...dubious at best. Now Messages isn't working. It loads, I can receive messages via notifications and the unread messages number increments, but any attempt to interact with the application directly gets caught in a beachball, and Messages shows as Not Responding in Activity Monitor, and is taking up 100% of a core. Weirdly, it's persisted past a simple OS reinstall, which is surprising. Any idea what's going on here, or how to fix it?
In iOS9's Notification Center, I have hundreds and hundreds of emails listed all the way back to 3 days ago. I tried to find a limitation in the "Notifications" Settings page, Ideally to restrict the emails to either the last 2 days or to the last 15 or 20 emails received, but couldn't find a solution for this there...
I am now unable to connect to a network to be able to use our internet provider or any other provider. It just keeps "looking" for a network however network options never appear. Despite manually asking to join a network we are still denied access to join despite entering in the correct network data and passcode. The phone is however capable of getting wi-fi but just exhausts all of our data on our plan. Any help to resolve this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I have several subscriptions to newspapers that were in the Newsstand app. But in iOS9 update, Newsstand is gone... and with it, all the magazines I had paid for, or was in the process of reading, etc. Of course, they are nowhere to be found in the "News" app, neither in the "saved" tab not in the "search" results... Where did they go, and what happened to my paid issues and my subscriptions? This is making me freak out, since I was currently reading many paid magazines on the iPad, and I am currently updating the iPad as well...
On my iPhone 5, I tried purchasing the app called Crystal - block Ads. The transactions is complete but seems like the app is not supported on my device so it's refusing to install. How do I ask for reimbursement for this payment since the app is not supported and also the app doesn't show in my paid app list?
I'm running Windows 10, and I recently updated my iTunes to the most recent version. Ever since then, my iPhone doesn't appear in iTunes. However, it still appears in my computer under "Apple iPhone" (rather than the actual name that I named it). Also, everytime I plug it in, it continually asks me to allow the computer to access my photos and videos.
After upgrading to iOS 9, I can't transfer purchases from my iPhone to iTunes. It happens to just start the process, then it finishes without transferring anything. However, I can still transfer purchases from my iPad with iOS 8.4 like before. iPhone 5c, iOS 9 iTunes 12.3 MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display Mid 2014, OS X El Capitan
I have updated to Xcode 7 from App Store. And now when ever I run an application or directly start the simulator from Xcode, i got an error Error Returned in reply: Connection Interrupted.
I was installing an update on my MacBook Pro mid 2012 when it crashed. Kernel Panic. I brought it to an authorized service center for repair. The following day, I got a call that the center is refusing to repair my laptop because when they opened it, apparently there was no Apple logo on the hard drive. Hence the question.
Diskutil found some problems on my drive that need to be fixed in recovery mode. However the it department installed a password in the firmware. Is there anyway to start diskutil without the firmwarepassword? It only needs to fix some issue is in the partition table. I tried to launch in single user modus. But apparently this only works if you don't install a firmware password.
Everytime I boot my iMac up while my iPhone is attached it attempts to import photos, giving me a message as soon as I login about how it "can not import photos because the device is locked". This has started up in the last 3-4 days, presumably because of an OS X update (I'm on version 10.10.5). I don't want it to try importing them on boot (and it's annoying getting this message on each boot), and I've already disabled various settings to stop it importing automatically when I connect my iPhone. How can I prevent it from trying to import photos each time I boot my Mac up?
So my sister & her boyfriend are all into this hacking and spying and invading people's privacy and doing malicious things to the with what they gather. They have been doing it to me and trying to break up my long term relationship and have hacked into 2 of my mini iPads, an iPhone 4, quite a few windows phones as well as approx 5 androids and ruined all of them. I have a brand new mini iPad and android phone but don't want them in them messing them up too. How do I keep them from hacking or viewing my iPad when I unbox it?
With the new San Francisco font in iOS 9 (honestly, I had never paid attention to this in previous versions), I notice that, for some characters, the glyph that actually gets put on the screen after pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard is different from the glyph on the keyboard itself. This happens, for example, with the apostrophe, as you can see from this screenshot.
I have a Macbook Pro 2014 13-inch 128 GB and I want to install Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 Community via Boot Camp. I am Mac user and use my Mac for iOS development. Now I have to learn Windows app development, so I need Windows 8.1 + Visual Studio 2013 Community. I have no plan to spend my money for new Windows PC/Laptop. I am not familiar using Boot Camp features so it's my first leap.
I don't know whether I should update my iMac to El Capitan or not. I'm planning to use it daily as my primary computer for the next 5 to 7 years (yes, seriously) and too afraid to update to the next OS because I think it will not be as fast as it is now. I value speed and efficiency much more than the cool new features. My question is: will updating my iMac to the new OS every year decrease its performance over time or not?
I have a data plan for all of my smartphones, computers, and tablets, so I have to be very careful staying within my allotted usage. When I discovered that my iPad downloaded a 3 GB software update (not apps, the iOS update), I am not happy. I do not know how to turn off the automatic downloading of iOS updates. All of the answers I get on the Apple Support Communities tell me that iOS updates are not installed, only downloaded. It is the automatic downloading of iOS updates that is the problem, because my data gets unintentionally used. How do I turn off the automatic downloading of iOS updates?
I have a UI element called accessibillityTitle with value Layers and I want to position this element in the top right corner, but I don't know how to acces it via Applescript. I have found the element using Accessibility Inspector and here is what the rest looks like. How can I use set position to {1280, 0} to this element?
I work for a marketing company and we use iPhones. Lots of contacts have more than a phone number saved in their business card as mobile, main, home, private ecc. In iOS 9, in the recent calls log, can not see anymore the phone number coloured in blue as to show which number called (mobile, main, home, private, etc); a big issue if the contact has more than 2 numbers saved in his BC. Missed calls show in red, but also don't specifically identify which phone number. Would like to know if its just me or is something common that happen to you guys as well.
I have an external hard drive formatted with 3 HFS+ partitions. To cut a long story short I had it connected to a Windows PC and accidentally started formatting the drive to NTFS. As soon as I realised what was happening I disconnected the drive, but the partition table is corrupted. I used TestDisk to gather info about the partitions, and tried to use pDisk to rebuild the partition table, but when I try to do that, I get the message that the partition table is not writable, the device is busy. Anyone know how I can rewrite the partition table? Update: The TestDisk results are like this (for settings on Apple Partition Map - I don't know if this is the correct settings, but it's the only one which gives 3 distinct partitions): Does that look OK?
My goal is to backup my data by Time Machine, perform a clean install of Yosemite, partition the disk and restore some of the data. Right now my setup is only one partition. After a new setup I want to have two partitions. Does Time Machine deal with that smoothly though the new partitions have new UUIDs then?
I need to connect to the internet via a SSH proxy for development purposes (I need to test something local on a VPS). How do I configure OS X to only use the proxy in Safari/Chrome, instead of applying it globally?
Ever since I installed Yosemite on my iMac, it's become unresponsive for about 5–10 seconds when I do any of a variety of common actions. The following usually trigger a delay: a few seconds of no response at all, followed by a spinning beachball for 5 seconds, and then the action happens: Scrolling a web page Moving the mouse cursor over a button on a web page Typing text into a field on a web page Switching from one app to another
Recent iPhone update also updated Podcasts app. Which is now missing lots of features and it is broken. I found Apple Podcasts app in itunes but there is no Review tab or button. I like to write a review for apple but don't know how. How do i do that?
The only reason to move on would be to delete my current backup and start a completely new one, which I don't really want to do as it is my only full backup on the harddrive. What advice do you have from here?
NOT Answered. Having looked in /var/log/install.log during two new update requests, I see this on both instances.
Yesterday I noticed that my 85W MagSafe adapter had stopped working. I usually leave it plugged in constantly to my MacBook Pro (but not constantly on at the switch). The LED on the plug that connects to the MacBook Pro no longer lights up (I don't get any colour light whatsoever). Apple are sending a replacement adapter out in the post but that will take 3 days so I was wondering if there are any secrets that could get it back working in the meantime? So far I've tried leaving it unplugged and then using another plug as per a post I read online about some sort of 'automatic protection' but that didn't work either.
I can click on both my Magic Trackpad and my Magic Mouse but I can tap on neither, if my understanding is correct. On my Magic Mouse all I can do is click. Same with Magic Trackpad.
I bought a Macbook Pro in 2005 which got destroyed. I used a glockenspiel loop on garageband and would like to use it again now I"m starting out with Logic x. This is all the info I have. Can anybody help?
I downloaded IOS9 with the phone and went through the the location service and other yes/no screens. I got to the screen that said lets get started and after that I just got the Apple logo and a progress bar, then the main screen for half a second then the progress bar again. I did a hard reset and now it is stuck on the logo/progress bar screen. Well that's not quite true; if you wait for several minutes the progress bar disappears and then comes back. It always only gets to one third by the way. I tried connecting to iTunes to download the build again but it tells me I have to respond on my iPhone. Which I can't because it's locked up. Does anyone have any ideas please? I'm getting a bit desperate.
When I download music it automatically goes very quickly to iTunes before I can change the name of the download to just the song's name. How can I change the name so that it then changes in iTunes as well as the actual file without having to do it twice?
Is there any way to toggle Caps Lock LED by a shell command or a script or a prgram on OSX 10.10? All the solutions i goggled do not work on Yosemite. I have mapped pressing Caps Lock to toggle keyboard layouts so i wanted to use the LED as an indicator of the present keyboard layout.
I have an iPad Air 2 that is currently running iOS 8.2. When I search for iOS 9 it says that my iPad is up-to-date using 8.2. I plugged the iPad into my computer and looked through iTunes, same issue, says it is up-to-date. I've done a complete reset deleting all settings and media and it still says that it is up-to-date. Has anyone ever seen this issue or know a way around it?
It first comes up with "Hello", then "Bonjour", then "Hola", then hello written in Chinese, and all the other languages one by one appear... Some sort of voice over thing starts happening, it starts talking in different languages.
I'm making an encrypted Time Machine backup for the first time. I had assumed it would encrypt the data as it was writing it, but now I see that (after leaving it alone for several hours) the Preferences pane for Time Machine shows a progress bar with the word "Encrypting…". Does that mean it writes the backup in cleartext and then encrypts it all in a separate phase? I'm using 10.9.5.
My friend has an iPad. I have never used an iPad, but am trying to help her set things up better -- so it's clearly a case of the blind leading the blind. In my own email (a gmail account, which I read in thunderbird), if I open a message with images, the images are not shown as images -- there's a placeholder where each image would be. I would like to set things up that way on my friend's iPad.
Unfortunately, I installed some of the apps mentioned on this list, and confirmed that the versions I have are still compromised by XcodeGhost: *=URL=* Of course, I have immediately removed them. But what I am concerned about is whether they have managed to hide the virus anywhere else in the system? The article doesn't explicitly address this, but did the virus manage to break out of iOS sandboxing?
My friend has an iPad. I have never used an iPad, but am trying to help her set things up better -- so it's definitely a case of the blind leading the blind.
Sometimes I walk downstairs, wash some fruits, eat it, and walk upstairs, and for sure it is more than 1 minute -- it is more like 3 to 5 minutes. But Apple Watch still did not register me standing up for 1 minute out of the hour. How do I make it happen, or set the 12 hours out of a day lower? (Update: yesterday I stood for 5 minutes and it didn't register the standing up, and only after 10 minutes, then it registered).
I've got one annoying problem with my launchpad icon. Today i was downloading xcode and i stopped it over the time, because it was already installed in the finder.
I've looked into aliases, functions... but I have not come up with anything satisfying. Let me give you a couple of scenarios: 95% of times that I cd into a folder, I follow up with a ls command. 90% of times that I mkdir, I cdmyself into it. You get the idea. What would be the "cleanest" way to bind those commands together (or other functionality)?
I am trying to help my friend remove messages she no longer needs from her yahoo mail using her iPad. I have successfully figured out how to search for all messages from a particular sender. I have also found the "Edit" button!
I'm trying to insert a non-breaking hyphen into a web app in Google Chrome. The key sequence is ⌘⇧-. Whenever I type this key sequence into a program (tested Notes, Textedit, and Chrome itself), it is interpreted as ⌘-, which is mapped to either reduce text size or zoom out. How can I enter non-breaking hyphens without using the character viewer and why does this peculiar behaviour occur?
While I'm using my Mac (OS X Yosemite), the following pop-up displays directly after boot and every few hours after that  The only way to dismiss this is to click "Manage" and then quit System Preferences; this gets to be pretty annoying, so is there any way to stop this dialog from displaying? (other than upgrading my storage)
I have a linux computer and I can access to it trough the terminal with the command: ssh account_name@123.117.140.61 Now I am trying to access to the folders in that computer trough finder using the connect to server option. I receive the following error There was a problem connecting to the server. How can I solve?
I have an Excel sheet with 2 columns of data (Feeder, Serial Number).  I have 2 separate sets of folders on my Mac labeled the same (Feeder, Serial Number). Within the Serial Number folders, there's tons o' files. I need to move the Serial number folders into the Feeder folders based on the corresponding order on the Excel sheet. There are hundreds of feeders and thousands of serial numbers; many serial number folders will go into the same feeder folder.
I am running Yosemite 10.10.5 and I have a shell script which I want to use to toggle whether my wifi connections run through tor or not. This uses the networksetup a couple of times and so asks for my password each time I run or cancel it. Is there a way to make a shell script run without requiring my password each time? Thanks!
Since the release of iOS 9, I can't view my ad revenue. Every time I try to pull up iAd Workbench, I get this message:
There's nothing newer than iOS 8.2 shown on here although newer OSes have been released. How do I view crash reports of iOS 8.3-iOS 9?
I am a new BBEdit user, with a long experience as TextWrangler user. In TextWrangler, I am used at running python scripts with the command "Run in Terminal", and in TextWrangler the default behaviour is to save the file before sending it to the terminal. I noticed that in BBEdit, v11.1.2, if I give the "Run in Terminal" command for an unsaved file, the "autosave" option is not there, so I end up sending the "temporary file" for execution, which is in a temporary folder, and things "go wrong" (the script is in the wrong directory, and I need to access relative folders paths). I looked in the preferences, but I didn't find yet where to set as default to save before running the file. I have also searched with google, but to no avail. Is it a "hidden" preference, to be given in the command line?
I have iPhone 5 and Verizon service. I used to have Google Voice number but I haven't used it for 3 years and its no longer active. Couple of months ago I noticed a tone every time I dial a number to call out on my cell phone. My calls would then drop after couple of minutes in conversation with the person I was calling which is beyond annoying. Went to Verizon store, they changed my sim card, which did absolutely nothing. Yesterday finally after a tone, I got an automatic message that the "Google Voice is ready to connect my call".
My friend has an iPad. I have never used an iPad, but am trying to help her set things up better -- so it's clearly a case of the blind leading the blind.
I have an SSD and an HDD in my Macbook Pro (Yosemite) and I recently cloned the HDD to the (new) SSD. The SSD is now unhealthy, for reasons unknown and Disk Utility recommends repair from the Recovery Partition. Unfortunately there is no RP on the SSD, but it happens that the old HDD still has one, as I have not formatted it yet.
I have no idea what I've done with git would affect Alcatraz. Once I click Package Manager in Xcode I get this error:
Does "Expired" certificate gets removed from the Apple's Developer Portal automatically? I had a certificate for Development and Distribution on Apple's Developer Portal, but it expired, and now I can not see it on Developer Portal. Does it get removed itself or somebody removed it (No one from my team mates deleted it) or did Xcode removed it, as we can now automatically handle Provisioning Profiles from Xcode? Can we get a history of our Certificates on Developer Portal?
I have a 1st generation ipad. I want to put selected music on it - not sync my entire collection.
I want to be able to launch the Yosemite Installer app from the Applications folder and install the upgrade with commands. When I look inside the InstallESD.img there are many PKG files, I am unsure how to script al this.
I have my keychain set to lock when sleeping. So when I unlock my computer after not using it for some time, I get a bunch of password prompts like «* wants to use your * keychain» for Mail, CalendarAgent and others, 3-5 in total. As I understand it is expected when I set the keychain to lock when sleeping or when not used for some time.
Does anyone know how to improve xcodes memory performance. With iOS9 the mem usage jumps to ~4gb i have a macbook pro i5 2.3 8gb But this damn thing is eating everything! At times it takes 2-3 min to switch between swift files or move to another location in the same file.
Is there a way to tell Apple's content indexer to ignore a folder and its children by creating a file (similar to robots.txt) in the root of the folder to be ignored? I don't want the folder to be listed in the privacy pane of system preferences since that's the first place someone who knows would go to look for "private" files. Benefits of NOT using the system-preference panel: More transportable - an ignore setting in an external drive that moves between computers would be easier to maintain More private - listing a file to be ignored in a preference panel is hardly private Is there a way to use a (slightly-more-stealthy .spotlight) settings file? ** edit ** Yes, I realize that this isn't a perfect solution, but it's good enough for my purposes.
I'm currently writing an Alfred workflow in which I want to retrieve the icon file path linked to an application. Is there any way to do so natively using Apple Script ? Doing that I managed to get a list of file names but now I don't really know how to filter the .icns file.
I have an iPad 4 model #1459(wifi/cellular) tied into AT&T/T-Mobile my carrier is Verizon. Is there anyway to change my ipad to Verizon? I dropped in a Verizon sim card but got an error message "Sim is not Valid". It states insert SIM card from a supported carrier or request that this iPad be unlocked by your carrier and to contact Apple for more info.
In my bookmarks bar in Chrome I have a folder with bookmarks. If I click the folder I see the links in this folder. I don't want to open all links in this folder, but a few. On Windows I can simply ctrl+click any link in this folder and it will open that page in a new tab without closing the current folder so I can quickly click the next link. In Chrome on OSX once I click Cmd+link the page is opened in a new tab, but then it closes the Chrome foldermenu...is there a way to prevent that menu from closing?
I have someone's PGP Public Key (.asc) and would like to import that into Keychain Access.app so that I can email them with my existing PKI certificates which I already use with Mail.app. How can I do this?
Everywhere seems to tell you how to open the previous safari session but what about those before that? I sent my macbook for repair & i only can open my last prev session which probably was opened up by the repair guy but he did not restore the sessions prior to the repair... Any idea how to restore the sessions before that?
Simply opening and closing the Python sub-shell screws up my shell (or possibly the terminal?). It seems to remove the shell's ability to print any text I enter, including newlines after I enter a command. The problem occurs for python3.4, python2.7, and python2.6, but not for python2.5.
I am running OSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). When I launch terminal, or a new window/tab within terminal, I don't get my prompt. The last login information gets displayed fine, and my cursor is set (unblinking) below it. Also, the window title bar flashes between "bash" and "uname" for the "active process name" part, dunno what that's about as I've never seen it before. Also, the part that normally lists the current directory name just says "Terminal". I can ctrl+C to get to a prompt, but obviously that's not the expected behavior and it's getting pretty annoying.
I have set up a two-monitor display, with my laptop on the left and my main screen on the right. I like having the Dock on the left side, but it's on the left of the left monitor, and as such it's too far to the left.
Anyone know of a command line replacement for tmutil, either script or binary? Failures of tmutil: Does not log. No meaningful diagnostics. Cannot resume interrupted restore. Cannot overwrite existing destination. Does not recover gracefully from errors. Does not handle the restoration from case sensitive TM volume to case insensitive destination.
Every time I try to open my mailbox it comes up with the option only for me to quit or quit and rebuild mailboxes. Ive tried both options and neither will change anything.
Today I've cleared my recent calls list about 6 times, and it keeps coming back. What gives?
When creating a partition with GUID Partition Map Scheme in Disk Utility, I'm getting "Partition failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device". Same message when I try to erase the whole volume. Same for formatting for Mac OS Extended Encrypted. Trying to write to the disk from /dev/random prior to formatting doesn't change anything. Filling with zeroes: ...and later: Running diskutil: After all this, Windows sees the disk as an empty HFS volume, but when I try to re-format it with Windows Explorer, it reports: "Windows was unable to complete the format". Using diskpart under Windows, "format" action remained stuck at 0% for 2 hours (which for a 500GB looks should be definitely "frozen"): Trying to format with Computer Management > Disk Management: The format did not complete successfully. Running multiple diskutil eraseDisk, per Tetsujin:
I'm trying to backup my iPhone before upgrading to iOS9. Right now it's running iOS 8.4. After pressing 'Back Up Now' button in iTunes I'm getting this error message: 'iTunes could not back up the iPhone ... because an error occured'
I'm looking to find the cause why I'm getting the spinning beachball on my MBPro all the time since this afternoon. I can work for like 30 seconds and get a spinning beachball for like 30 seconds. During that time OSX freezes. I can move the mouse cursor but click nothing. When I write something on the keyboard it is processed after the freeze. Here's what else changed: booting takes like 10 minutes (compared to 20 seconds normally) Stop sign when power up the Mac can't launch in safe mode no start sound
I run iTunes all day while I work, and have built in the muscle memory of pressing F8 to pause and play music. Occasionally I work with Keynote as well. When music is playing and I press F8 to pause it while Keynote is the frontmost application, Keynote starts playing the presentation.
I am wondering how to make a window that can’t usually be opened in full-screen (i.e. TextEdit or Dictionary) able to be opened in full-screen by using the full-screen button. Is this possible?
I am getting this error when trying to execute an unsigned application that was downloaded via the native web-browser; Safari.app. There used to be a solution to a similar question on AskDifferent that utilised the CLI to strip certain attributes from the file in question, allowing it to run. It was a good solution but it has since been deleted and now I've forgotten what it was.
I installed the GoToMeeting.app because a client used it. I no longer need it, but I can't seem to remove it. Its burrowed in worse than most malware found on a PC. I tried a simple drag and drop from the Applications folder to the Trash, but that did not work. I then dropped into the command line: Then: Finally, reboot and then: So I get another set of them. Something is running in privileged mode, and it seems to be hiding itself: The hit above is the terminal session searching for the process. How do I completely remove this application?
My MacBook just died and I brought it into the store to get it fixed. Luckily I have a recent backup (from last week) that I made with SuperDuper so I can actually plug it into my wife's Mac and boot it up -- the drive is a bootable clone -- and continue my work. Since I made the backup of course there were changes that I made to files, most of which were uploaded to Dropbox. When I boot up the external HD, what will Dropbox do? Will it automatically update the files to the most recent version?
If I remove my apple ID account on my Iphone 4s, does it delete the data on iCloud on that device only? I already have an Iphone 5s which is using the same apple ID. And planning to sell my Iphone 4s. Please help me. Thanks!
Another helpful observation: Turns out VIPs work fine on my two rarely-used email accounts (Verizon and iCloud) that aren't Gmail. I knew OS X didn't like Gmail, but I've never seen this before.
status bar goes about 1/3 of the way and then it dissappers along with the logo and I get just the white screen. When I boot into Safe Mode I have no audio and sometime the screen flickers. I looks like it flickering rolling up the screen. It's weird.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) Yosemite 10.10.5 Hi, I have researched this problem without any luck. My problem is that my bluetooth becomes unavailable, and when this happens the keyboard and trackpad becomes unresponsive. 80% of the time for the last 3 days this problem is current, but sometimes everything works fine without me doing anything in particular. The power button is the only one working.
I've been given a replacement Macbook Pro while waiting for my new one to arrive, and the machine has a French Keyboard layout (I work for a French institution, and the technical service did not have any replacement machine with a US keyboard). I would like to switch to the US layout I am very used to, especially to get easy access to curly brackets and tilde signs I sue to program. I changed the keyboard settings and almost all keys do what they should, apart for the top left "tilde" key (the key below the ESC key), that is mapped to an unexpected sign in all US layouts I tried (US, US international, US-PC).
Since I turned iCloud Photo Library on on my iPad, I have all my pictures from Photos on Macbook. These not downloaded yet (little thumbnails) are loaded fully onto my iPad when I try to preview them. But the question is how can I do this from the other side. What to do to have it on iCloud but on on my device. Once I need it I download my movie again, and it is working on my device again. Is it possible? I cannot find this.
I have a fresh OS X Yosemite, and when I went to the store to install Xcode 7 and hit the Install App button, it turned green and a loading icon appeared but after waiting a long time nothing happened. I successfully installed three apps from the store but I can not install Xcode. Please help!
Apple's Automatic Software Updates require a reboot from time to time which is scheduled when the computer is not in use. In my case these reboots almost always fail because some non-Apple program fails to quit, mostly because the application is asking if it is allowed to quit.
I've got a problem with my folders within the mail app. As you can see, I've got three accounts: an exchange server my iCloud server an own imap server The problem with the IMAP server is, that all of the subfolders are shown under the INBOX and I can't move them to the server-root, because, as you can see down further I have no possibility to move them to the root. I'm not quite sure wether this is the correct community for this question.. but, would love to hear some tips :)
Sometimes it is said that huge tab lists are counter-productive and may actually decrease focus. Still it is often unavoidable when researching a wide subject. I really miss TreeStyleTabs from Firefox then.
Where is iptables in MacOS X? I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27) and it seems to be missing. If it's not actually native to OS X, what's the best way to install it for this operating system? If for some reason it's just not compatible, please suggest the relevant alternative, instead.
We have 3 x iPad, 2 x iPhone and 1 x AppleTV that connect to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi networks. Mostly to the Archer D7 but also, less frequently, to the Airport Extreme.
When I change an app's setting to use mobile data (or not), the changes aren't saved when I exit settings. It's infuriating as, for example, I can't use WeChat at all unless I'm on wifi.
When I export a file from iMovie, it usually takes a long time but uses a lot of CPU, and my computer gets very hot(around 180-190ºF), even with my fan controller maxing it out. Would I be able to slow this down so that it wouldn't put as much load on my computer? Or really for any app where it might be doing some intensive thing in the background. I get a little nervous having it working so hard for such a long period of time. I was hoping there would be some terminal command or other local way to do this, Thanks. A1342 MacBook, Late 2009, 10.10.5, 4GB RAM
Can I submit the same app from multiple developer accounts with just different app icon and some color difference inside the app?
The new OS X Photos App allows to hide photos. Hidden photos will only appear in the Hidden album (or in any album which you explicitly added them to).
I've just installed MAMP 3.4 on Yosemite but the Apache version inside is still 2.2. Is there a way to upgrade to Apache 2.4? Moreover I have installed through brew openssl 1.0.2 but MAMP Apache still starts with version OpenSSL/0.9.8zg. Why? I need this updates in order to meet new ATS iOS 9 requirements.
I have the problem that QuickLook does not allow me to preview .txt files, despite being plain text. For instance here
I just updated my iPhone to iOS 9 and noticed my "Today View" only lists my next calendar event vs all my calendar events for the day. Is there a way to change this so it shows all calendar events for the day?
How can we know on iOS and OS X what an Application really does? On OS X you always can do the following: right click on an .app and "show package". Contents -> MacOS and double click the executable Unix file. Terminal opens and somehow tells you what the app does.
I have already changed the location of my screenshots folder so it doesn't cause clutter on the desktop. What I am wondering is if there is a way I could break it down in to two locations so that when I do a full-screen screenshot it goes to one location and if I screenshot only a fragment of the screen it saves in another location.
On two phones that I have tested the month view in the Calendar app in iOS 9 is unresponsive or ignore taps. It seems like most of the time double tapping a day will open that day but sometimes (rarely) only single tapping a day will open that day. Is anyone else seeing this. Is there a workaround I can try before restoring my device?
Trying to setup fine-grained password policies, but Mobile Accounts on OS X seem to be hitting the default domain policy versus the fine-grained policy applied to the users. Does the OS X AD plug-in support the fine-grained policies?
Is it possible to make a program execute when the mouse is moved or any key is pressed?
I've got quite a list of installed application. The result is there are many applications bloating the 'open with' menu. Is there a way to exclude applications from the 'open with' menu? If it's possible to exclude applications from both certain file types and from all file types, that would be great.
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but I'm curious if it is still possible on the Apple TV to view your iPhoto/Photos library from a computer on your LAN like you could before without using iCloud? Previously, you could go to the 'Computers' icon on the Apple TV and view a shared iTunes library on another computer on your home LAN (as described here). Though it didn't connect directly to iPhoto/Photos, it was able to see your home collection via iTunes. I use this feature quite a bit when showing home pictures and videos to folks on my HDTV. After seeing some of the reviews of the new 4th gen Apple TV in late 2015, I saw that you could still connect to your local iTunes library, but the option for viewing your photo library was no longer visible; I don't know if this was because of the reviewer not having a library switched on or if the feature has been removed.
I have a GoFlex Home external drive that has worked well for a long time. Every once in a while I have to change settings, but can always fix it. This latest problem has been going on for weeks. I keep getting the message that my Time Machine backup failed and that it needs to create a new backup. I click OK and that fails. I finally looked into the problem today and found advice on another site that I should change my passwords. I did that and it appeared that the new backup would start. Then I got this message: "Time Machine could not delete the backup disk image." I can access the GoFlex drive preferences online and wipe all existing backups, but that doesn't fix the problem.
With watchOS 2 it looks like Activation Lock is enabled by default. How do I turn off Activation Lock on Apple Watch? I want to know for when the time comes to sell my watch or have it serviced.
My contact name does not show up when I send a message, but my email address does. My contacts can't tell who messaging is from. How do I fix this?
Whether the OpenType font is downloaded as a PS font or as a bitmap, I'm guessing this would take a lot more memory on the printer side than just sending PostScript code. Should I worry about running out of printer memory (or at very least my document taking a long time to print) just as in the pre-OS X days? Is it still worthwhile to seek out a printer with a built-in hard drive to store downloaded fonts, if I'm going to be doing a lot of printing with fonts that aren't part of the native printer-resident set?
I am currently trying to connect my NAS on OSX 10.9.5 using the command line. This will work fine if I first connect my NAS using Finder: I select it in the "Shared" section of Finder's sidebar, click "Connect" and it will connect using the credentials from the keychain and list all available shares.
I recently tried to download a huge app (1.7 gigabytes) on an iPhone running iOS 9. The download failed several times for whatsoever reason. However, the incomplete downloads filled over 5 gigabytes of disk space. How can I clear this space again? Restarting, doing an iTunes backup - nothing solved my problem so far. Thank you!
I am trying to open some files with unknown extension and it always ask me to choose an application from local or AppStore. The problem is, I sometimes need to generate some text file with extensions like ".backups",".config" or even some random text like ".abc123". It means on my Mac, in most time files with unknown extensions can be read by a text editor (personally I prefer Sublime Text). Is it possible that all files with unknown extension can be automatically opened with a default application like Sublime Text?
I have an app in the appstore that used to be paid and with no ads. I want to upload an update, make the app 'free', add ad's, that could be removed by purchasing "No ads 'in-app purchase'". Problem: I don't want users that have paid for the app before to update the app and see ads. I want to grant "No ads 'in-app purchase'" for users who is updating the app.
I'm hoping to slim down the size of my 50gb iMovie library. I noticed that a huge chunk of space (like 20gb) is taken up by the contents of a "Render Files" folder in one of my Event folders.
I was just typing a long string of text into an input field in Chrome. I saw my screen flash briefly and the shape of a dialog box appear, but before I could stop typing I had already hit some key that closed the box (I'm guessing space, but possibly a letter or even enter). How can I find out what the dialog box said and what action I took to close it? I'm using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
I want to help a friend get setup with iCloud Photo Library. They have an iOS device without a lot of free space and they have a PC and an old Mac that can't run Photos.app. In addition to using iCloud Photo Library they want to back up their original photos from their iPhone to their PC or old Mac. I don't think this would be an issue except they don't have enough space to store all of their originals on their iOS device so they must use the 'Optimize iPhone Storage' setting. My fear is that they will only be backing up thumbnails when they go to backup their photos to their desktop. Is there anyway around this?
I recently had to transplanted my HDD into another Macbook Pro (after my own broke). I could boot without any problems in the new machine, but for some most (all?) applications wanted me to reenter my passwords (e.g. for all mail accounts, etc.). The passwords were still in the keychain. I could open the Keychain app, unlock the password entries and copy them again into the applications to continue. A couple of days later, I had to repeat the procedure and transplant the HDD again into another Macbook Pro. Again, I had to reenter all the passwords despite them being stored already in the keychain. So the question is: Why do I have to reenter passwords that are already stored in the Keychain app after migrating to a new hardware?
I bought a 2012 Macbook Pro and wanted a fresh install, So I booted while holding Command + R and did a fresh install after clearing the HDD via the setup. After the install I gave my credentials. Now I've been stuck for 80 minutes at a screen saying "Configuring your Mac". It has a HDD so I understand it's not as fast as an SSD. This is my first time on OS X setup. Is considered normal and should I just continue to wait?
I started updating my Twitter app, but then I lost the internet connection and when I went home I couldn't get it to resume the installation. It stops just past the half way mark with the lines on the icon. It has been like this for months. How can I unstick the stuck application install?
I'm trying to install Office 2016 and it appears as though Installer will not run/install the .pkg file. When you double click on the package itself it instantly exits, leaving behind these errors: CoreServicesUIAgent[323]: Error -60005 creating authorization and com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000011.Installer[859]) Service exited due to signal: Broken pipe: 13
Before, Apple would send an email when my Apple ID was used to login to Find my i iPhone on another device. Did Apple take away the email notification when your Apple ID is used to login to Find my iPhone?
Share your experiences on exploring iOS 9 with us.. Whether you found hidden or little-known feature of iOS 9 or can explain how a big feature makes a difference, we're looking for objective reports of how the new OS affects your workflow. Also provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too (hold Home and Lock for a screenshot on your iOS device).
During WWDC we can see Xcode screencast code presentations where they highlight portions of Xcode and type text faster. I've research a number of popular tools used for typing screencasts like: PlayItAgainSam and PlayerPiano also I've read this question Tools for presentations with Xcode that recommend the defunct tool Omnidazzle Does anyone know a tool for making presentations based on Xcode?
I'd like to repurpose a very old Mac Mini 2,1 (1.83 GHz Intel C2D, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) into a browsing / movie watching machine. Would I be better off with Snow Leopard or Lion on such an old Mac? I'm worried that Lion is not an OS at its best iteration, since performance was improved a lot with Mountain Lion, which can't be installed on this Mini due to 32-bit EFI. Also: should I bother throwing in an SSD?
After a recent update to iTunes and iOS I can only play the music in my phone when I'm connected to the internet. When I choose the option for show offline music it only shows 4 songs that I have added recently after the update. How do I get all my music library to play offline again? P.S this happened after the Apple Music update.
I lost icon for the Health.app (the one with the Heart icon) on my iPhone. How do I get it back?
I recently bought a DVR and set of security cameras. The DVR has a VGA port and an HDMI port. I connected my MBP to the DVR VGA port using a Mini Display port adapter. However, I do not see the DVR display on my MBP. I'm assuming that I cannot use my MBP to view the DVR. Is that right? Or do I have to buy a monitor separately to view the DVR? Thank you
What do I need to do, once I have switched SIM cards on my iPhone, to get my contacts to appear?
I know this is often caused by enabling the root user, but checking the Directory Utility app — as instructed in other threads on this topic — has shown me that this user isn't at all enabled. Only software I can think of that can be responsible for this is NoMachine which I use for remote access. But I just want to rule out malware at this point and figure how the hell can I get rid of this "user" (when I click on the its avatar I'm prompted to enter both a username and a password)
So after five years I finally got a new Mac.. As I was surfing the web my safari page froze up with a pop up saying to contact custermer support my computer has been compromised.. With out thinking I called the number and let the person take control of my computer, after realizing that this is a scam I closed out, hung up and deleted the support help program. My question is, is there a way to tell if the lady had a chance to Instal any kind of bug on my computer ? Like the kind that looks threw my camera or copies my key strokes? I looked threw my terminal for lsof files but I'm not sure what I'm looking for or If there was anything suspicious.. Any suggestions ?
I seem to be unable to eject a USB thumb drive from my Mac running Yosemite. When I click on the eject button in finder next to the drive icon, Finder will just hang. It refuses to open any more files; I can't even restart Finder. The only solution I've come up with is to restart my entire computer to get Finder back to being responsive. How can I eject this USB thumb drive without hanging Finder up like this?
My 3g dongle (micromax mmx352g) is working fine in the Mavericks in my MBP but in My MAC Mini which i upgrade to el capitan GM is not working .it's not even detecting the dongle. Is there any generic script or software that detects the 3g hardware and connect it internet via apn .
I just updated my iPhone 5S to iOS 9. Things work well, but one setting I remember seeing in iOS 8.4 and earlier was the ability to enable/disable showing music purchases in iTunes seems to be gone.
Time Machine is taking way too long to back up just 1.5 GB, some times it takes a lot to prepare the back up, and some times it takes a while to back up the information, any pointers on this issue? (I'm running Yosemite).
Ever since Windows 10 Tech Preview was released I've been running it with very few problems on my Late 2011 A1278 MacBook Pro. Now since Windows 10 Final was released Apple is not openly providing Windows 10 drivers for MacBooks older than 2012.
I have a script I use to format any inserted SD card, copy data from specific folders to it, then eject. Each format/copy is triggered manually, as part of a batch process involving maybe a hundred or so cards, so I'm not concerned about hitting the Start button at the wrong time, or on the wrong card. What I am trying to find is how to make absolutely sure that I'm writing to the correct disk This is my 'important' line do shell script "diskutil eraseDisk \"MS-DOS FAT16\" " & diskName & " MBRFormat disk6"
I've installed MAMP and I copied both in and in the binaries of a working version of apache2.4.16 In fact if I run then I get The thing is that when I run MAMP and see the phpinfo page I still see
iOS9 enabled add-blocking APIs - and there has been a slew of app-blocking applications released. This all appear to target Safari. My understanding was that Chrome (on iOS) used the same engine as Safari when rendering pages. My question is: If Chrome uses the same engine as Safari on iOS - will the adblockers work there too? Assumptions on iOS, Chrome is using iOS WebKit not the Chrome WebKit.
How can I map screen sleep (Ctrl+Shift+Eject) to F19? Other services I can find under keyboard shortcuts in settings but not this one.
Is there a way to make Facebook for iPhone (and other iPhone apps like Google & Yelp) always open links in Safari (or YouTube, etc.) instead of in an internal web view?
In a directory named World, I've been asked to move a folder within it--South_America--to another folder also within World--North_America. 1. I can't figure out if I should be in South_America or one level up. 2. Wherever it is that I should be, I don't know what code to write. Thanks (I hope)!
I have a Mid-2013 MacBook Air that has been acting up lately. I initially started seeing issues with ridiculous jitter(100s of ms) half a year ago, but since I do not game a lot, I ignored them. However, for the past few months, I've started seeing more and more degraded WiFi performance on my Air. For instance, if I run speedtests within seconds of each other(after the first one has completed) on my Mac and on my phone, I get ~3x higher ping, 4x slower download, and about the same or better upload speeds(which I think is a limitation with my phone). I have tried doing an SMC reset, deleting the following files: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist com.apple.network.identification.plist com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist
Can I pair my keyboard to the watch? If so, how?
After the update on iOS 9, iPad 3 with Cellular Model A1430 itself is restarting after 5 minutes. I made hard reset but it didn't help me. I didn't drop my iPad. How can I fix it?
For programming it is very convenient to have a built-in terminal inside a text editor. Therefore my favorite text editor on KDE-Linux is kate which has great ability of a built-in terminal below the text which is synchronized with the text path. Navigating through the open files and do terminal commands with them is then extremely easy.
In iOS 8.4 and below, I could tell Siri, "play all songs, shuffled" or "shuffle all songs" no matter where in the OS I was. But now when I try that, Siri tells me that I must be in the Music app, playing a song for that command to work. And even when I am in the Music app, it only shuffles the songs in the current album or playlist. Does anyone know how to tell Siri to "play all songs (shuffled)" in iOS 9?
Why isn't my Apple ID password being requested before installing an app from Apple Store ? It always has before now.
I uploaded about 300 CDs to iTunes on my iMac. My computer was lost in a fire. I am trying to find my music from my new iPhone but can only find music purchases from iTunes. Did I lose them? If not,how do I retrieve them?
I have an iPad Mini running iOS 9 that has music, photos, apps, etc on it, and I dropped it an shattered the screen. It still will connect to the computer. I have an appointment to get it "repaired" at the Genius Bar, but they really replace it with a fresh piece of hardware.
Is there something about TM volumes that makes Verify Disk take longer, or should I be concerned about the hardware? What could be the reason for drive activity if TM wasn't backing up?
This only happens with OSX updates, all general apps work fine. I click install to update to the latest version, I get a couple prompts confirming I want to download and allow my computer to restart. Then nothing actually downloads, it gets listed as recently installed but also shows in my updates available section too. After checking the logs, I found this is more than likely a permissions error.
After a recent and unsettling experience of having my iPhone stolen a few weeks ago, I have tried to harden the security settings on my new device. The old device has still not responded to a remote wipe request via Find My iPhone, so I presume that will never happen. On the new device, I have turned on the "Erase data" setting in the Touch ID & Passcode settings: "Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts".
Set up a new iCloud account for someone and I am not seeing the option to set up an @icloud.com address and use the free email service. Does anyone know if this is still possible and how to go about doing this?
When I get a call through FaceTime, it switches away from a full screen app/video I'm using. I don't want to turn it off, because getting calls on the computer is useful, but I don't want it to automatically switch what I'm doing.
My wife and I both have iPhone-5s'. They seem to have no problems using the wifi for anything at home, like Airplay, Pandora, and web surfing, etc. We can do seemingly everything. However, for some unknown reason, the iPhones won't do updates. I see the badges showing how many, and the store seems to connect, but updates don't download and install. It doesn't work to forget the network and rejoin, I need to actually go through the process of Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings and then rejoin in order for the updates to download. Then everything downloads and installs. It seems to need this at random time intervals of about every 2-4 weeks. I would really like to eliminate the need for resetting the network settings. (It forgets all networks and passwords, which makes it a pain if I go anywhere else with the iPhone). I have seen this problem with and without White Listing MAC addresses on the Airport Extreme Base Station(s) wifi access.
All, is there a way in iPhoto to find all the photos that look like a given photo? I suppose I could use Face, but it's actually not for a face, so that's a bit strange. For example, I'd like to tag my pet's photos with the pet's name. I also would like to find all the photos I took of plated food, etc.
I wiped (all partitions) a MacMini without knowing it was running bootcamp. This caused it to go to a Windows screen that said "no bootable device" when I used cmd R during boot to select a DVD or USB drive to boot from. I got rid of that error with an NVRAM reset but... Now, if I insert a Yosemite install DVD and use cmd during startup to select the DV, I hear the DVD spinning and the Mac sits at a white screen. I created a Yosemite USB installer, it does the same thing as the DVD. I also created a Lion Recovery USB, it does the same thing, white screen. What else can I do to install OSX or to install a recovery partition to install OSX? Thanks!
I upgraded to OS X 10.11 El Capitan Gold Master last week, and ever since I've been having weird time issues. All of Apple's apps think the time is the correct Pacific Time zone that I'm in, but third-party web apps and other tools don't think the time is correct. Among them are Slack, Intercom, and a few other team communication tools I use.
If I buy the T-Mobile iPhone 6s from Apple for the full price (no contract), will it be carrier unlocked?
I have a basic spreadsheet chart, which also includes a single labeled cell (set as a slider) that is used as a constant multiplier. (In this case, it is used to vary the number of workdays.) I would like to use that value in the title of the chart: I.e. "Salaries normalized to {NormDays} schooldays"
I entered low power mode on my iDevice and the battery level indicator turned yellow. Now I've plugged it in and it's up past 23% and the battery is still yellow. Does that mean I'm in Low Power Mode still? How do I get out of Low Power Mode? Update: It's at 55% and it's still yellow.
I mistakenly selected an outdoor walk instead of an outdoor run in the Workout app for Apple Watch. I realised after my run and wondered if there was a way to edit the type of workout on the iPhone? Looking back at my workout history, it looks a little ridiculous.
Is it possible to activate an iPhone with an inactive SIM? (T-Mobile sells SIM cards for $0.99; could I get one of those and use it to activate an iPhone?)
iOS 8 added a great feature in Safari: if one visited a webpage, and then tapped the search bar on top (to get to the bookmarks page), then swiped down, the user would see the option to "Request Desktop Version" of the webpage. However, when I try to find "Request Desktop Version" in Safari on my iPhone 5S running iOS 9.0, nothing appears. I swipe down and the page just "bounes" back up. There's nothing there where "Request Desktop Version" should be.
Is there a way to set the default image alignment for any pasted image? Eg. I want to always paste my images inline. How would I accomplish this?
When my friend logs into his user account and tries to open the Mail App, he just gets the spinning ball and it won't open. Safari and other apps will open, but they take forever. When his wife or kids log in under their accounts, the machine is as fast as ever. I had him repair permissions and verify the disc. Both processes went fine, but did not help. It's a 5 year old iMac with 4 gig of Ram running the latest version of Yosemite. Any ideas?
I recently upgraded my iCloud storage plan to 50GB to accommodate my ~20GB photo library on my iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.0.1. I then turned on iCloud photo Library and waited for the upload to begin. It seems to only be uploading anything when the screen is lit and the photos up is open. I am judging this by the indicator of the number of photos remaining not changing and no network activity when the photos app isn't open.
I'm looking for a simple command that will list ALL currently active and/or otherwise bound TCP & UDP sockets, corresponding port numbers and their respective states (i.e. ESTABLISHED, LISTEN, WAIT, etc.) Sort of like a reverse nmap scan is what I'm going for here.
I took a slow-mo video from my iPhone 6 Plus. When I uploaded it to Google Drive the video was without slow-mo. Why is this so? Is this a bug? I have faced this issue also when uploading the slow-mo video on Hike and WhatsApp.
I have a very similar problem to one that was answered here, but I don't know how to apply the answer to my mac. MacBook Pro 15", Late 2013, 2.3GHz/16GB/512GB, Yosemite 10.10.3
I've recently bought an usb3 flash drive where I've put a live kali linux distribution. When I try to boot my early 2015 mac book pro (with Yosemite) from this usb3 drive I have two options: windows or efi. If I select the efi option everything freeze and I need to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. If I select windows option instead everything works well. With an usb2 flash drive, instead, the efi option can load the live kali linux distribution.
The audio files which get downloaded in WhatsApp where does it go? Can I see it visually on my iPhone? Every time I have to scroll down to play back the audio sent by the user. Can anybody help me on this?
I need to add an address with more than 2 lines. Can I do it?
Usually there is a model number with AXXXX. What does MD545FD/A mean? At Identify your iPad model you can see there are avery of them with AXXX.
The iPhone 4S is unable to recognise the TP-LINK Router whereas the iPhone 6 has no problem. Router model: TP-LINK 5ghz_61207b What should I do?
I want to test beta app with different devices, but when I open app from mail in TestFlight and try to start it refuse and shows "The invite has already been used". Any workaround?
Is it possible to extract plain text wordlists from the system dictionaries in Yosemite?
I have many tabs open in Chrome, and when I reboot it starts opening all the previous tabs, and when they contain YouTube videos they all start playing. How can I find which tabs are running YouTube, so that I can pause them? In the process list, there is no trace of YouTube, since it is running inside the browser, and only the tabs related processes are visible. After reboot, it can happen that I have a YouTube process running and no corresponding tab from which to view it (I can just hear the audio).
The command line utility screencapture can capture the desktop and a specific window with the commands screencapture Desktop.png and screencapture -l$(osascript -e 'tell app "Safari" to id of window 1') test.png I need to capture the desktop excluding a specific window. How can I do that with screencapture? What is -a option for screenshare utility?
The trouble is that both displays randomly dim to black then fade back up to normal. The intensity, pattern, and frequency of these events are all random.
It is known that Apple sometimes drops support for new features such as Continuity on older OS X releases or older Mac models, sometimes those new features not necessarily hardware dependent. I've used a few terminal commands to enable hidden features on my Mac in the past, so I'd like to know if is there a Mac Terminal command or another safe workaround to enable Continuity feature on non supported Mac models? I own a Mac Mini mid 2011, 8GB, Intel 2,3GHz running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
I have two libraries in Photos on my Mac. When I browse to upload images to a photo-sharing website, or email, I can't locate the library that the newer pictures are in. It only shows one of the libraries. How do I get it to browse in both libraries? I don't see a way to choose more than one library.
I have an IPhone 4S and today i dropped it by accident. It didn't fall from a very big hight, about 20cm off the ground. There was no visible damage, except for the fact that it had run out of battery (I had expected that as I was only on 4%) When I got home, i charged it and it didn't turn on for about half an hour. I searched it up and it said that my phone battery had gone completely dead so it wasn't too much of a deal. Now, my phone is stuck on 1% and it has been connected to the charger cable for over an hour. It is going very hot, almost burning my fingers, and switches off every 5 or so minutes, needing to cool down. Also, as I took out snapchat, my camera turned weird colours, making everything blue and yellow. What is going on with my phone? It has a large crack at the top of the screen, and you can see parts of the phone. Most of the screen is shattered. Do I need to get a new phone? Please help!! update my phone has been on charge for about 3 hours now. It is currently on 2
How do you set local network user expiration using server.app? This action would block the user to log in after a given date.
I got lots of fonts installed and active. Sometimes I feel like a large amount of fonts is slowing down my applications, especially when they offer font choices (e.g. Photoshop, Pages, …). The drop down is appearing with delay or a beachball of death is popping up for some seconds.
I just upgraded my iPhone (model MG5D2LL/A) to iOS 9.0.1 yesterday, and I did one backup restore to resolve an issue with the Podcast app (still not resolved). I lost most of my Health app data. I lost all of my manually entered weight data (several years worth) and my Medical ID. For some reason the dashboard is still showing the last 7 days of steps, walking, climbing data. Is there any way to recover that data?
I can't seem to fully expand the project and targets list in Xcode 7. I can toggle the 'Hide/Show Projects and Targets' but when when it is supposed to show projects and targets it just shows a sliver. Also I can't drag this pane open any further. I'm asking here instead of SO since this question isn't about programming. Xcode: 7.0 OS X: 10.10.5
This is not the user or admin login password. Running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. To set or change the Master Password first click on the gear (1) and a new dialog box will open (2)
I'm trying to clean up some space on my iPhone, for this I need to sync it with a new Mac. The Mac doesn't have the files on the device, so sync will erase everything on the device. So I want to backup first, and then sync. But the backup complains there's not enough space (where? Mac has 55GB free). Errrrr. Pretty stuck here! This is the message I get from iTunes (12.3.0.44) when trying to manually backup my iPhone 4S (iOS 8.1.2) to my Mac (Mac Book Pro Yosemite 10.10.5). This is what happened until now: Last sync was on another computer (old Windows laptop), this is the first time trying to backup/sync on this Mac iPhone is full (I want to backup the data and then to cleanup) Mac has 55GB free space
I get messages on my iPad from my wife's iPhone but not mine. On messages, her number is listed as an ID but I can't change it to mine. How do I change it?
When I'm listening to music (iTunes) during the day, I'd like to have sound all around me. So I've created a multi-output device out of my main audio interface (Propellerhead Balance) and my portable Bluetooth speaker (MagicBox II). Unfortunately there is a significant sync issue between the two. I'm not surprised that the audio signal would be delayed slightly with Bluetooth, but then I had hoped that the hardware interface would match the delay to compensate. This is clearly not the case. I have tried enabling drift compensation but it made no difference at all. Is there a way to make this setup work with both output devices in sync?
When you create a location based reminder in Reminders.app, you are given two options to trigger the alert: 'Leaving' and 'Arriving'. I don't know if this is uncommon, but I have never needed the 'Leaving' option. When I use a location based reminders is often related to things I need to do, people to talk, or things to pick up at that location. A reminder when I leave is not exactly useful for those kinds of tasks. Anyway, the problem is that I'm sick of having to manually change the selection to 'Arriving' for every reminder. Do you know if there is a way to somehow change the default to be always 'Arriving'? I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5.
I've set up a multi-output device between my Bluetooth speaker and another output device (doesn't actually matter what device). As long as the Bluetooth device (MagicBox II) is one of the chosen devices, I get a nasty buzzing in the low end, primarily following the kick drum. It sounds a bit like this question, but may not be exactly the same... I'm not sure. And there is no answer on that question at this time.
In iOS9, when Low Power Mode is activated, and you are charging your iPhone, when charge percentage gets to 80%, the iPhone disables Low Power Mode automatically. Is there any way to avoid this automatic change and let Low Power Mode remain activated?
My problem is that Spotlight shows no results from internet sources (Wikipedia, iTunes Store, etc.). I've reindexed my drive twice, cleared all the caches, and reset the NVRAM. Still not working. I have everything in Spotlight preferences checked.
I have a single file, a database for Photos, that I regularly backup to an external, however instead of resaving the entire file is there a program that will only differentially resave the difference? I'm on a Mac Pro 2011, running Yosemite 10.10.5.
I have installed a app with a different ID/Store, but is not longer in my system. However, the Appstore still insist in update it, yet is not in purchased list. The error in spanish say: La actualización no está disponible con este ID de Apple Esta actualización no está disponible para este ID de Apple; puede que la comprase un usuario distinto o que se haya reembolsado o cancelado el artículo. Is say the update is not available with this ID (and I have tried both: I don't have use any other in my system, ever). The appstore bother me with the updating of it all the time, still can't be neither reinstalled or ignored... What I can do?
I have come to the beginning of a new year on my developer license with Apple. At this time I am able to remove old devices from the account:
My old 2008 Macbook's iSight microphone is acting up but only under OSX. In bootcamp running Windows XP, it's fine! The problem is a high pitched sound, very reminiscent of old radios with the pitch going up and down. It happens regardless of the app I use Rebooting OSX did not make a difference. Adjusting the mic volume does not help. Turning ambient noise reduction off does not help. CPU is idle and fans at 3200rpms, same as Windows XP I've not changed any audio settings or loaded any audio software It's happening while using headphones so it's not a feedback loop Windows XP does NOT have this high pitched noise, just the normal background noise and it is usable. Any ideas? PS: Not that I think it's relevant but I'm running Snow Leopard.
I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2013). I'm trying to mirror the display on a LG M2035A. The monitor accepts VGA input. The monitor comes with a VGA cable. So, I purchased a HDMI to VGA converter, to connect to the monitor. However, my Macbook doesn't seem to detect the external display. I think my VGA and HDMI cable function properly, because when I connect the monitor using this to my laptop running Windows, it functions perfectly. Is there a workaround, or something I'm missing?
I've since disabled Bluetooth power and "Wake for network access" but I want to be sure that this is fixed and doesn't wake us up again in the middle of the night. I guess for now I can power the machine off completely or put it in a different room until this is fixed. Or what is meant by "/User" as the wake reason as I also wasn't using my computer at 5:30AM. Any help interpreting the diagnostics or further troubleshooting advice would be much appreciated, thanks.
After restart - my usb 2.0 and usb 3.0 was working fine! Pendrvive was copying files very fast. But unfortunetally magic mouse won't connect, so i restarted Mac Pro.
I have roughly 50 different podcasts that, at one time or another, I have subscribed to. Only about half of those are currently subscribed to. When I look at my list of episodes in iTunes, the whole list always appears in alphabetical order. I do not want to delete my old unsubscribed podcasts from my library, but it would be really nice if there were some way to either hide (and later show) the unsubscribed podcasts, or sort the list so that subscribed podcasts appear at the top. Are either of these possible?
How can I change the header date in Pages to just the year? The only choices are different versions on the month, date and year, all together.
I have decided to turn my two page document in Pages to just one page. I cannot seem to delete the second page. It is the flyer template.
Through a series of unfortunate events I managed to run: on my 10.10.5 machine. This has left it in an awkward state. I can no longer sudo commands as sudo is no longer owned by root on the machine. I tried booting in to single user mode and chown'ing /usr back to root:wheel but /usr is a read-only file system in single user mode. Apart from a total reinstall of OS X on the machine, is there anything else I can do to get the permissions on /usr back to root:wheel?
Just ordered a MacBook Pro. Having never had one or used one I am unsure if my mouse will work. Can I use my Logitech G5 with a MacBook Pro?
My late 2012 macbook pro - 2.6 i7, 750gb HD, 16gb ram OSX 10.9.5 has been running very slow of late. Ive been trying to trouble shoot the issue for a while now, but together with the time spent trouble shooting and the time spent while the machine is running slow ( can take up to 20 - 30 mins to awake and be usable from sleep).
I have two devices (Iphone 6plus and Ipad air) with IOS 9 and one macbook pro (Yosemite). I also have two iCloud accounts. I want to backup all my data in just one iCloud and setup everything to backup in the main one where I have an storage plan. However, I continue receiving messages from the "unwanted" iCloud account, telling me that my store (basic 5GB) is over, meaning that something is still being backup in this account. What can I do to solve this? thanks for your support
I have a process called x-apple-ql-id://* (* being a bunch of letters, numbers and "-"). Is this a legitimate process? I am wondering because it looks very fishy.
I am looking for a free task management application that has the following: - Reminders for tasks that can be snoozed (like native reminders app) - Grouping tasks/Adding subtasks - UI showing tasks per day/week - Prioritize task I tried Wunderlist and Todoist. Wunderlist has a very nice interface but can not snooze tasks. Todoist also is missing time setting per task. Anydo seems not working properly. Sometimes I get a popup others not. What can you recommend?
Lots of games are available for Mac: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=&sort_by=_ASC&os=mac&page=1
Can't explain it, my official wired Mac Keyboard that came with my iMac (20-inch, Early 2009) currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27) has a backspace key that suddenly stopped working. I've tried the ol' NVRAM/PRAM and SMC reset but that hasn't solved it. I've also tried unplugging the USB port and trying a different USB port, still nothing. As far as I can see, its only the backspace key thats been affected. Any clues?
My iPhone 4s keeps getting really really hot in the top right corner when i start charging it. Its mainly along the top, near the turn off button, all down the right side, and near the camera on the back. This causes my phone to charge really slowly and causes it to turn off multiple times due to overheating. Is this dangerous?
Whenever I need to install an app using the package installer, there will be a prompt asking for admin user's name and password. How do I temporarily turn this feature off, so that any package can be installed automatically?
Just a few days ago I got an iPad Air 2 via Verizon. On the account, there is a phone number associated with the line for the tablet. Is that number functional? I guess what I mean is, can you answer phone calls or make calls with the number associated with the tablet? I've tried calling the number from a different number and nothing happens, but I'm not sure if it's just me. If it is supposed to be a functional number then is there a way for me to add that number to an already existing Apple ID that is associated with my iPhone phone number?
In iOS on the iPhone I only see a way to select one photo at once in order to then rotate it in the Photos app. Is there a method or perhaps a third-party app that could perform this?
I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on a Mac Mini system with two monitors. When I maximize an application on monitor 'A', monitor 'B' then goes black while that application maximizes to fill 'A'.
My IPad Air 2 (model number: MGKM2LL/A, Apple iPad Air 2 ‑ Wi‑Fi ‑ 64 GB ‑ 9.7" ‑ Silver) will not go into split view mode half of the screen, it will only go to the smaller bar 1/3 of the screen. I used the split view mode once but now the slide bar doesn't show up, I can't make the smaller bar get more than 1/3 of the screen, and I can't use two apps simultaneously. This problem occurred when my iPad was on iOS 9 and I updated it again to iOS 9.0.1 and the problem is still happening.
I want to create a line graph whose reference data is across multiple worksheets. For example: I have 5 different worksheets (named W1 to W5) In each of the worksheet, a specific cell (Ex: B2) in a specific table (Ex: Tab_Summary) is of interest to me. I want to plot a line graph to show trends of (Tab_Summary:B2) across each of the worksheets W1 to W5.
Is there an app to assign actions (such as shortcut keys) to mouse button chords? For example, button 1 + button 4 = Cmd+C, button 4 alone = Cmd+V, etc. I have tried a few utilities, but none of them support assigning a custom action to two buttons pressed at the same time.
iTunes cut them off and move onto the next song, usually after a minute.Some tracks plays fine until end some have this problem. The songs all play fine in any other media player. I'm on Yosemite and the latest version of iTunes. I have a friend that has the same problem. He has more than 10k song, i have more than 9k. Is there anyway I can fix this? Anyone having the same problem? Thanks
My iPhone 4S (currently running iOS 7) seems to delete music by itself, if storage is getting low. The music has not been purchased in the iTunes store and it was manually copied to my phone. Is there a solution to stop this, respectively which settings on my phone/iTunes are necessary (without changing iOS-version)? Thank's for the help.
having bought my first macbook I am not very experienced in debugging the libraries and a bit at a loss. Upon execution of my python script the following error report shows up: Process: Python [356] Path: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python Identifier: Python Version: 2.7.10 (2.7.10) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: bash [262] Responsible: Terminal [225] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2015-09-25 12:53:24.544 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F27) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: 2262FF9F-1D12-77B0-74D3-208AC3A26542 Time Awake Since Boot: 27 seconds Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Application Specific Information: abort() called Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8b956286 pthread_kill + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b9c49b3 abort + 129 2 org.python
If I'm right about this ... iTunes Match uploads files you already have and gives you back DRM free versions in a better quality? and ... Apple Music lets you download any file in iTunes library, but with DRM?
I'm a student who rely on taking note on iPad. It's so convenient. My current stylus doesn't have bluetooth feature so I have to search for app that has hand resting feature. However, I also want to drawing and these apps don't have that. Some drawing apps suggest me which styluses I should use, but I want to use another one.
I was using the Utility face on my Apple watch and love the ability to tap the bottom and see my meetings.  The time-lapse faces are compelling, but I'm really missing the calendar complication.
I want to shoot all my photos as Live Photos but only if I can quickly review and delete the video part of the Live Photo to save space. Is this possible?
I enjoy using the Apple News application on my iPad and iPhone, does anyone know about any plans on bringing it to the web or OSX?
I'm running macports on a late 2013 MBP. I'm having problems with macport being unable to download the package files. I tried installing 'git +svn' and not only did the entire dependency resolution take a bit more than one hour, once it got done and moved into the fetching phase it couldn't find any files to download. I checked in safari and the files are there sure enough but the port installer can't seem to find them. I've tried at home as well and my mac mini there has no problems finding the packages and installing them but the MBP can't. And the mac mini is much much faster at dependency resolution as well.
So I plugged in my hard drive, and deleted a file on it, a .nfo file. I forgot I had a file in the trash and so when I ejected the disk, my mac prompted me an alert like "disk is in use" with a force eject button. I force ejected without thinking, because I really didn't think any of my files were in use (I checked the usual places like whether a video file was playing somewhere etc.) When I try to plug it back, I realise it doesn't read or appear on finder. I've restarted my computer and still nothing. Other hard drives work so its definitely an isolated problem. Any ideas?
In IOS8 it was possible to scrub through videos without first pressing the play button. In IOS9 it seems that the only way to access the scrubbing tool is to first start playing the video and then the scrubbing tool becomes available. Anyone with a workaround for getting to scrubbing quicker?
Is there a way to set up the iPhone so that when I'm away from home it requires a lock code, but when I'm at home I don't need a passcode?
Is there a good plugin that automatically saves downloaded files via Safari in different folders depending on the file type? Or maybe a plugin that let's you put a few destinations in the context menu? So that you could choose "Save in Pictures" "Save in Music" etc. right in the right click menu.
hello Iread so many things. it seems no one faced my situation. my mac book air battery is loaded at 99 % but if I disconnect the charger mac book closes
It is a question related to this other one, but I can't comment. I've updated to use bash 4 from brew installation. But I don't know if changing all the header scripts from: To Isn't a portable solution. Moreover, some scripts check if the shell is a /bin/bash shell (docker-toolbox in example) Before writing, I was recommended to read this: *=URL=* But the path solution is neither portable nor can apply on docker case (no direct source). So I still doubt: is really a bad idea to softlink the bash? Obviously, targeting independent-version.
I've got an HP monitor (specs here) that is supposed to display natively in 1080p. I've used it for years in this setup no problem. Last night I upgraded my Mini to a newer model, and when it was starting up I realized that I didn't have the HP monitor plugged in, just the secondary monitor, so I connected it via the HDMI port, as I always have.
Resting SMC and/or PRAM doesn't help. The charger, the white square doesn't get hot. Any ideas? Battery info: Battery Information:
I try to repair a disk because my Mac still is on grey screen during start. I created a USB Yosemite bootable and I can use Terminal. I tried with: But I get the following error: Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error I don't want to format because I have a lot of documents and photos. Here are the outputs of diskutil list and gpt -r show /dev/disk0: UPDATE I tried also this link but when I do fsck -fy I Get Exited With Signal 8
I'm using Seil to remap the Caps Lock button. Following by instruction I've deactivated Caps Lock by setting it to ‘No Action’ in System Preferences → Keyboard → Modifier Keys.
Today I found my iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2) is unable to connect specifically to any Google service (Search, Google.com or YouTube) when on Wi-Fi. Any other website will load. I get the message "Safari cannot open the page because it could not create a secure connection to the server". All other browsers show a similar error - Google Chrome says: ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED. All my other devices on the Wi-Fi network work with Google ... my Win8 PC, my Android Tablet and Smart TV. I have tried resetting network settings but with no luck. Anyone else had this problem?
I am not receiving any calendar invites after I did the iOS upgrade. In addition, when I add a calendar invite into my phone and add invitees, no one is receiving it Can someone help please? Thanks
So I did a screen recording with QuickTime using OSX 10.9.5. I was recording a video with sound. However, when I played it over from QuickTime, the sound was gone. How do I make it that QuickTime also records the sound?
On iPad, the ebay app keeps popping up a screen asking me to update. No updates have shown available in the app store for a long time. Is this a way to get around Apple's vetting process and give me undocumented "features" that Apple won't allow? Apparently, not, but why/how does IOS not show that an update is available?
I know you can get to the system logs from the Console and/or from the command line. That said, I don't know how to read them very well. How can I tell which events are related to a crash and which ones are not?
I know I can hide inactive applications with ⌥⌘H but I want to hide only the unfocused windows of the active applications. Is there a way to do this with perhaps a keyboard shortcut?
I am trying to move many thousands of files to a Synology NAS. Thanks to excellent posts here and superuser, I have been using rsync a lot. But in this case, I'm getting a very high failure rate due to years of permissions problems across the board.
My iPhone 6S came today. I dutifully backed up my iPhone 5 to iTunes, as you can see here in the list of backups:
I have Safari open with 111 tabs open. I clicked on a URL that a friend sent me on Skype. Safari opened the link in a random tab that wasn't selected, and was neither the first or the last one on the left or right. The URL that I clicked replaced this tab's content, it was not a new tab. How was this random tab selected out of the 111 tabs, to be the recipient of the URL I clicked?
When I enter or edit an event in Calendar I was getting a problem where when you selected a first alert (say 1 day before) then selected a second alert (say 2 hours before) they would sometimes switch order. You could then select them again and they would be stay in the correct order.nNow when you choose a second alert time it becomes the time for both alerts and there is no way to correct them. I tried with the default alerts set to None and to 1 Day doesn't make any difference.
I read online that there is an application called USB Prober -- a part of Xcode -- which may possibly recognize the eGo Drive and get it to mount. However, I do not see it anywhere in my Xcode 7.0 installation, and I haven't found a link to download it from either.
All my research indicates that the answer is "yes" but I'd like some external confirmation from a source I trust (either Apple.com or this site) as I have a bunch of non-retina images and would really prefer not to create retina graphics.
I want to connect my MBP 2015 to my external monitor *=URL=* through HDMI port. I found out that by using AMD Radeon, my MBP's battery is draining fast and the fan is noisy. So, I try to use gfxCardStatus to use Intel Iris Only.
I am trying to use Siri to launch an app. So I say "Open Hipchat", however Siri interprets it as "Open Hip Chat". Which she then doesn't find it because the app is named "HipChat" and not "Hip Chat". Any way to help Siri understand that "Hipchat" is one word and not two?
I added a little bit of shell scripting to my prompt for fun. It alternates the colors of prompt items randomly. I did it purely because a gray screen gets boring after awhile. The following is my prompt in .bash-profile:
I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 9, but now "0:00" appears sometimes in the text message window. Am I doing something to cause that to appear?
Apple seems to make (at least) two different Thunderbolt ethernet adapters. One is the "MD463LL/A". Another is the "MD463ZM/A".
I have about a thousand jpegs in a directory that have filenames such as 1300-Kazoo-Pkg.jpg 1314-Learn-to-Play-Piano-withKid.jpg 1314-Learn-to-Play-Piano.jpg I want to shorten them to the numbers before the first hyphen.
Since turning on iTunes Cloud and Apple Music, I have noticed creeping corruption in my iTunes library. There are songs which exist, but only as items which are NOT available offline, and NOT available ONLINE. They are gray, and when I click on the cloud download icon they do not download from iCloud.
A friend of mine is traveling to China and he was asking if iCloud Photo Library is reliable enough in China so he can take pictures past the 16GB limit on his iPhone? I know Google is delayed or blocked in China, so Google Photos is out. What about iCloud?
Siri used to be great for voice dictation on my iPhone. All worked well. One day, though, she started misunderstanding one specific sentence, namely "à la ligne" (new paragraph, in French). since then, she transcribes by writing "/" instead of actually starting a new paragraph. I tried resetting her database (turning here on and off in setting, as well as "voice dictation"), but nothing works. I'm using the latest iOS 9.01 on a non-jailbroken iPhone 6. Any idea what's wrong, and how to fix this? Thanks!
I would like to make Cmd+e do what Cmd+h does. I can do this in keyboard config, but I have to do it for every single program, as the title in the menu is "hide safari" for safari, and fx. "hide photoshop" for Photoshop. Therefore I seek a solution, so that Cmd+e and Cmd+h does the same thing in every single program.
I want to install CLISP to run some lisp programs. I am used to install it via But I'm getting this error message:
When I dictate text to my phone, sometimes to avoid having to type it, some of it is underlined with blue dots. It looks real pretty, but the purpose of this is lost on me: if these words are treated differently from other words, or if the underlining means something, I have no idea what it could possibly be.
My iPhone 6 won't let me download iOS 9.0.1. I tried downloading it once and it said error occurred, failed to update as it said preparing update.
I use 3 different language keyboards (japanese, english, chinese), all with their own special input method editors (IMEs). I have a fast switch between Japanese and English by just hitting either left or right CMD key respectively, which I set up using Karabiner. But, to get to my chinese keyboard I have to still flip through my other keyboards to find.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite. On the start up my MacBook Pro is showing a circle with a line inside which is prohibitory sign. It goes no further. Tried but the Disk Utility. Stuck with my OS X Utilities for couple of days. I tried the Disk Utility. Finding the way out.
In Safari on iOS 8 on my iPad, I went to a page on the site www.castorama.fr. The page wanted to locate me. So Safari asked me, and I refused (too quickly). Now, I want to accept. 1) How can I accept to be located? I have a few more questions about location in Safari.
I'm using Ukele to create a new keyboard for my language. I can't find information regarding how to distribute it so that users can easily install and use it.
I have a SSD formated in Mac OS Extended, and I want to format it to NTFS because I will use it on Windows. To do it, I installed Paragon. I rebooted my MacBook. I checked if the driver was actived, and it was. So I went to Disk Utilty, but I have no choice to format to NTFS. Only Mac OS Extended is proposed.
This is just a curiosity of mine. I screen recorded ~5hrs of video using Quicktime, split up into roughly 10-20 minute segments. The folder which I saved them to is 4.73 GB big. However when I string those videos together using iMovie, add about 5 titles, and attempt to export a file at best quality, it estimates 332 GB! The next step down is a lot better, but still nearly 10x bigger at 45.4 GB. Even low quality is still more than 3x bigger than the original files Where is all this extra data coming from? EDIT: Even weirder, my screen recordings have no audio data, and I haven't added any in, so why is it still big when exporting audio only?
I'm running OS X 10.5.5 Yosemite. What's the shortcut to switch between Chrome Developer Tools (Cmd + Alt + J) and the main Chrome browser window, when both are full screen? Cmd + ` doesn't work. The Developer tools seems to register as another instance of Chrome running, so Application switching doesn't work either. Thanks!
I have a maxed out MacBook Pro (end of 2013, 1TB SSD, Quad Core Haswell) and collect a lot of ripped mp3 files from viny, move them around in a folder structure. The problem is that Finder is incredibly slow and laggy, dragging files from one folder to another seems almost broken. I also noticed the same stuttering when scrolling through my apps folder.
How to remove duplicate titles from itunes playlist ? When adding directories with mp3s to itunes that contains playlist files, it's listing twice (or more) the songs in the album view.
There are some websites where you can turn on your webcam to chat with other people. On some of these sites it is possible to select which cam you want to use if you have more then just one connected. But on some other sites you can't select which cam you will use. If you visit those sites with an iMac you always get the built-in iSight cam turned on. There seems to be no way on these sites to select any other webcam that is connected via USB. I already tried the script named "isight disabler" found here: *=URL=* but this script turns off ALL cams, not just only the iSight cam. Is there a way to selectively turn off only the built-in iSight cam, without turning off any other cams?
I have several machines backing up via Time Machine to a 1TB Time Capsule. Lately one of my Macs said he had to delete an old backup in order to create the new backup. I was surprised about this since I formatted the whole Time Capsule not too long ago.
Every time I install Java updates, I get the following error after the download completes: Update Error!
I am trying to use an AudioUnit plugin that requires a USB security authentication key. The first time I installed the Audio Unit I didn't have the key. When I received my key and authorized the software (Antares Auto Tune with the iLok USB key) the plugin did not show up. I attempted to remove the cache files to force Garageband 10 to find the plugin but none of it worked. The strange thing though is I can open Garageband 6 and the plugin shows up and if I create a new account on my computer the plugin shows up but this is suboptimal.
I have two videos where the action appears on the left side of the frame. Using iMovie version 10.0.9, I use the side-by-side overlay. The bottom (right) video is overlapped by the top video so the action is not seen. How can I shift the bottom video to the right so that the action appears on the right side of the side-by-side? Can I edit the right side video 1st so the action has been shifted to the right side of the frame?
In iOS 9.0.1, I can no longer use the control center play/pause button to force play Youtube in the background while open in Safari. I can see the name of the video, but if i click "play" the button flashes white, but doesn't change to "pause" and the video doesn't play. Why is this happening and is there any way to fix it?
After clean installing Yosemite and rebooting my MacBook Pro, audio seems to be deactivated, although the sound is active and I can use it. But I can't change the volume. The icon in the menu bar is grayed out:
I get great sound output to an external speaker with my Macbook Pro, however, when I output to headphones the sound diminishes greatly. I have reset PRAM and the sound volume output improves, but only for a short time. Settings all appear to be set properly. I'm thinking there's a hardware problem. This is why: I have a monitor that I connect to my Macbook with an HDMI cable. The monitor has a headphone jack. If I plug my headphones into the monitor's headphone jack the sound output is great. Any thoughts? Thank you.
I have a set of URLs bookmarked in chrome and I do many times a day: Open Chrome Open bookmarks Search a specific bookmark among my folders Click on bookmark Is there a way to do these actions automatically? I see that if I press Command+Space the "Spotlight search" searches in my Mail but I can't see how can I create something like what I need. Do I need to install some other application?
I'm phasing out a couple email accounts on one domain (call it "olddomain.com"), and replacing them with news ones on a different domain (call it "newdomain.com"). To make the transition easier, I'm using rules to take email sent to the old accounts and redirect it to the new accounts.
I find that I have to touch more firmly than I would like to activate 3D Touch. Is there a way to make 3D Touch react to a firmer or softer touch?
Since this person has used my email as their login, I was able to reset the password since it was listed as the primary email. Unfortunately this person has set their own security questions and rescue email, and there doesn't seem to be a way to reset them using the primary email account. This account seems otherwise empty, there are no devices, no data. How do I stop this person from using my email address as their Apple ID?
I put the DVD in. I restart the iMac, and I've tried holding down C, then D, then Alt keys on the keyboard, but it will not boot from the DVD -- it just takes me to the login screen. With the keys pressed, during start up the pale grey Apple logo does seem to flicker to something else, might have a question mark on it. I also tried using Disk Utility to format the drive, but it doesn't seem to want to let me do that.
I have a perplexing problem with the EFI partition on my boot SSD. The GPT partition type is "Microsoft Basic Data". On all other drives in my system, including my Carbon Copy Cloner clone of my boot drive, the partition type is "EFI" (see below): My system boots just fine, but it appears to be loading the bootloader (Clover in this case) from the /Users drive (disk1) instead of from the boot SSD (disk0), and I think the incorrect GPT partition type is to blame. I tried to update the partition type using the "asr adjust" command as outlined at *=URL=* but it doesn't work and gives me a very unhelpful error message: I have found information about other possible ways to set the GPT partition type through Google searches, but all the other methods seem risky, with warnings about erasing the partition in question, etc. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
When I try to do a calculation that needs to allocate and use 128 GB of memory (it is a command line program written in C), the kernel kills my process with extreme prejudice. This console log entry is an example of one instance: 9/25/15 7:08:40.000 PM kernel[0]: low swap: killing pid 6202 (huffgrp)
My Photos app (on OS X) has very many (well over a hundred) albums sitting inside an iPhoto Events folder. Most of the albums have are named by a day, e.g. '16 May 2014'. In order to delete an album I need to right click, select delete album and then say YES, when I'm asked when I'm sure. To clean up all these old (and unwanted) albums is taking ages.
My father asked me to sort out some things on his MacBook. He's recently left his company where he used his laptop on the company servers/IT system whilst he was there. At some point in the past he got some tech support from the company IT department and they might have set up some software on his laptop. Whilst in the App Store application I tried to install some updates but it failed to connect with a message something like "could not contact the app store server at apple.<company-domain>.com". I thought this was strange that the App Store thought the update server was one at the company domain so I had a look around the Mac settings. In settings I found a "profiles" section and inside there were some items which appeared to be some sort of trusted root certificate issued by <company name> and something that said it enabled remote management of the laptop by . It also may have had a configuration profile with something like "Mobile Device Management", although I can't recall exactly.
While trying to clear up space on my iPhone, I deleted all email accounts, as Mail was using well over 700Mb. I was expecting this to also clean up the excessive space being used by Mail, but it hasn't touched it - Mail is still using over 700Mb. I've powered off and back on again several times, and tried re-adding and removing the account multiple times, but Mail still uses loads of space. Anyone have any ideas how to clean this up?
I can't control which file or folder to target. I can only name a target an event name, and then that event only shows in the iMovie libraries menu on the left. Cant find the even in Finder to copy it to hard drive.
Some apps like Whatsapp, Twitter and Instagram end up storing a lot of Documents and Data, way more than their actual size. Is there a way to remove them, just the Documents and Data?
I have an iPhone 6, and my email contacts are in my phone contacts. I am not using gmail so none of the suggestions that I have seen address this problem. Would be gracious for some help with this?
I backed up my iPhone 5s, and when I try to restore my new iPhone 6s from that same backup, the apps won’t transfer over. How do I fix this?
There used to be icons at the top showing who you recently texted or called when you double clicked the home button. But with iOS 9 update, it's no longer there. Is it gone forever or is now a setting that needs to be fixed?
How do I get rid of a symbol that keeps appearing in my message box. It is on a grey base with 0:00 so when you type your message you can't see what you typing
After updating my iPad to iOS 9, it crashed and I lost ALL apps that hadn't been backed up. So how do I access my Game Center if I've forgotten my Game Center nickname?
I am running iOS version 9.0.1. This problem has been happening since iOS 9 came out. If I double click the home button, then swipe up on my open apps, it used to close them out for good. When I would restart, there were no open apps. However, now when I force quit every app and restart, they are all open again. Even if I close out of everything and maybe have Twitter open and a game, when I restart, I have a ton of apps open when I only had two before restarting. Does anyone know what is going on?
Sometimes, certain apps don't show up in the main menu of the Apple Watch app, in the section where all downloadable apps currently installed on iPhone are displayed. They also disappear from my Apple Watch at those moments. I do have them installed on my iPhone, so I'm not sure what the issue is. I have an iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.0.1, and an Apple Watch running watchOS 1.0.1.
I have a bootable OS X drive that I like to keep up to date, but with the replacement of "Install OS X El Capitan Public Beta" with "Install OS X El Capitan GM Candidate" in the App Store, I'm not sure where I can get the latest beta of 10.11.1. Does the app named GM Candidate now contain 10.11.1, or does 10.11.1 just not exist in fully-downloadable form?
I created a new shared album on one computer. I can see that album on my iOS devices, but not on my other computer (all of them are on the same iCloud account). Quitting and restarting Apple Photos doesn't help. How do I get Apple Photos to see the updates?
I am thinking about buying an iPad Pro or MacBook Air (Skylake), as a first time buyer of Apple hardware. I was wondering if I can use iTunes credit balance to help subsidise/buy this hardware in Apple Online store?
I'm new to OSX, so I'm probably doing something which is obviously wrong. I have a Samsung Note and USB cable which when plugged into my Linux laptop work without any issues. I have a late-2012 Mac Mini running Yosemite.
I have been using the Notes app to take notes on my iPhone 5s for years now but recently I'd like to make those notes accessible on my iMac and Nexus 7 Tablet. To sync them to the cloud I added Notes syncing on my phone and moved all my local notes over the iCloud account. Everything appears to work and if I login to my iCloud account through the web browser the notes appear online. But the notes will not sync to the Notes app on either my iMac or Nexus 7 (running the Notepad app).
So as mentioned in this canonical question and answer thread on iOS 9 features, “Low Power Mode” is a good thing. This is what iOS 9’s blurb on “Low Power Mode” explains it does when activated:
I'm new to Mac, when I use terminal, I found some commands like git log behaviours different from Linux. On Linux, they will print result on screen and exit, leave all result on screen and I can see it when I input another command. Screen after running command like this:
What is it when you are in "private" from the home screen? What does private browsing do for me and what are the pros and cons in using it?
When I use Skype on speaker on my iPhone 6s Plus with iOS 9.0.1, the sound from the speaker is horrible. I uploaded a sample to SoundCloud. I tested this on my iPad 4, and on the same OS, no such problem exists.
How do I check the effective file permissions (including ACLs)/accessibility for/of a given file and a given user (including service/system accounts) without checking the whole path manually? Example: Suppose a user joe, and the file /long/path/to/file.txt. Even if file.txt was chmoded to 777, joe still has to be able to access /long/, and then /long/path/ and then /long/path/to/ before. If joe doesn't have at least read access to all folders in the path, he can't access (read/write/execute) the file. So the effective permissions for him (as "world/all" user) are 0 and he can't access the file. Alternatively: how do I get a list of the permissions (including ACLs) of all users (including service/system accounts) for a given file? An app or a bash script are also welcome. A similar question with a slightly different focus has already been asked at Unix & Linux: How to check if a user can access a given file?
I've messed up my system yesterday. On my iMac I have installed OS X and Windows 10 using Boot Camp Assistant. The Windows MBR is damaged and I can't start it anymore. I get a black screen with the error message: No operation system found
I need to share files between Windows and Mac, so I chose exFAT as the file system for my external hard drive. But soon I found a serious problem, when I put too many files (like 5M) in the hard drive, OS X can't mount it. Then I have to delete them in the Windows machine, after that it works well in Mac. Does anybody know how to solve the issue?
I'd ask this on Homebrew's own community, but it doesn't seem like there is one. I'm trying to install wine with Homebrew, but it doesn't look like anything's in the right place. That is, "which wine" returns nothing, and "brew link wine" returns "Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/wine".
I've got a server running OS X 10.10.4 and it's giving me some trouble. I have several applications sitting behind a reverse proxy, and for a while, everything worked great. I've got port forwarding turned on in my router, and a domain pointed at my IP so that I can access this server and the applications from outside, all over port 80. The problem is that suddenly these applications are unresponsive and I get connection timeouts when I try to hit anything, either directly or over http.
I want to show previews of my mail. There was a tip to drag on the thick vertical line but i don't see where that is located. I have already unclicked the classic layout view in preferences and can see my mail topics but there is no viewing preview to the right, where i would like it to be.
I am not sure why and quite saddened by this but I can no longer type a capital 'C' on my keyboard for my Mac mini running OS X Yosemite. I have run through all of the shortcuts in System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts, but Shift+C is not listed there, anywhere... What is causing this, and how to fix it?
When you swipe down on the homescreen, iOS 9 now displays a row of app suggestions below the Search field. Is it possible to hide this row?
I would like to know if I can alphabetically sort albums in Photos.app. The iPhoto method for doing this did not work.
I researched a little and found out that I can restore with an IPSW file and I was stoked. However, it seems that Apple only “signs” down to ios 8.4.1, an UN-jailbreak able version of iOS.
(Please tell me which site to post this on if this is the wrong one.) My internet safety software is failing spectacularly with Chrome at the moment, and I have to uninstall it. So I thought I'd try Safari, since that is supposedly compatible with the safety software.
I'm using the Connect to Server tool to mount a remote drive. I'm able to access this via Terminal at /Volumes/REMOTE. If I unmount and remount the same connection however, my existing terminal windows can't reconnect --- I have to open new terminal windows. Is there any way around this behavior? e.g. If I have an emacs session open with a remote file, and the connection is lost and reconnected (un-mounted, and re-mounted), the session still works fine.
I have a single Gmail account that receives mails via forwards from 2 other addresses. The Gmail web UI allows me to reply with the address it was received on. Is it possible to set up Apple's Mail.app to automatically use the recipient as the sender address in replies (without having multiple distinct Gmail accounts)? I've set up aliases on the specific account, but Mail doesn't seem to automatically choose the correct one.
I’m trying to make a script that can select/display/open a file randomly from a folder and its subfolders. The following script: Gives following error:
Can anyone please tell me why or what I need to do? If I go to "Today" on calendars all is well. It's just when I have the months all on screen and tap a date that it won't open.
What is a non-destructive way to prevent an app from opening? Command line code is OK (as long as it isn't "rm (appname)) Applescript is OK The app may want to be used in the future, so corrupting it is not allowed Answers like "Just don't use (app)" should get you shot into the sun, but, alas, our space budget just isn't what it used to be Not a start-up issue.
With the new update how do I keep my 2 iphones separate one is for work and the other is a personal phone? I don't want to receive work messages and calls on my personal phone and vice versa. And I don't want to create another Apple ID.
(Note: I think this is new in Yosemite, as I never had this problem before updating, but it's possible I just never noticed.) In Accessibility preferences (formerly Mouse/Trackpad), it is possible to set how much time delay can occur between the two components of a double-click. It seems OS X also allows a certain amount of cursor movement in this interval (~15 pixels, I think), and I would like to decrease the allowance to about 2 pixels.
I have this happening on a Yosemite machine with a backup residing on another Yosemite machine.  Other backups further forward in time work fine. My desire is to delete this backup, but I can't because as long as it says "Waiting" there's no "Delete backup" option.
I was using Floola to transfer songs to my 3rd generation iPod Nano and it suddenly stopped working. Now I installed iTunes and I can't seem to be able to delete any of the old songs and I cannot delete them manually. Even my iPod can't see them anymore and classifies them as “other”. How can I wipe the hard drive and start again fresh?
I have a new iPhone 6S and need to upgrade it to the public beta for 9.1 in order to restore my back up from my old iPhone I have installed the profile on the device as per their instructions then restarted but every time I go to settings > general > software update I get this error: An error occurred while checking for a software update, cancel or try again Is their another way to install the beta?
For whatever reason my new iPhone 6s doesn't always play system sounds, such as the Siri chime (there's also no Taptic feedback), the "magnetic click" when I lock my iPhone (which sometimes does work), and others. Even though some other sounds do play, such as the charging chime.
I want to see my detailed stats about my previous run. I tried searching for a manual - *=URL=* - but I don't seem to find such option. On this occasion I was running with Apple Watch only (no iPhone, no GPS) but if I have the outline I manually set the starting point. But first things first - how do I access data from my previous workout?
I've been able to access the animated GIF, similarly to this thread, but I want to remove frames from the GIF. Is this possible with Preview, or do I need to use a different software?
Will iOS 9 automatically install on an iPhone? Or will it give an option to install now or later? And if I choose later, then will it install aautomatically later, or just not suggest it again?
I have viewed the similar question on AskDifferent and it hasn't been helpful. I have about 2000 iPhone notes, synced to my iCloud account, so I can access them on my iPhone or my laptop. I want to send them all to text files, put them on an external drive, and review them later. The current iTunes doesn't seem to allow any manual syncing notes option - it was said that it used to be possible to sync the notes to Mail and then download as text files from there. Thank you very much.
I am in the process of downloading iOS9 for my iPhone5S on iTunes. This is taking 90 minutes. I also have an iPad and my wife has an iPhone4 and an iPad (she syncs these to her MacBook). Is there any way of using the single download to update the 4 devices.
Most of the time, when I search something using the Safari search bar, it gives me results from Google. Sometimes however, it uses the default search engine of my ISP. How can I fix this and what are the reasons it is happening?
I've bought a used MacBook Air and according to the serial I've noticed that the previous owner has linked an AppleCare plan to it, up to 2017. Does the warranty follow the device or the user? Better put, as the new owner, can I take advantage of the warranty or is there a need of some sort of transfer?
I have a video output to a projector, and due to the way our room is setup, I need to do some keystone correction. Any idea how I can go about this? I essentially just want to be able to skew my display (as I'm mirroring).
Now that iOS 9 lets you add attachments to email from iCloud Drive, I thought I'd give it a spin. I put some test files in a folder on iCloud Drive on my Mac, and then went to my phone and tried to add an attachment. I only see a couple folders from two apps, and my own folder I added isn't shown. Am I doing something wrong?
In Windows, 2 things happen seamlessly. The window becomes active AND the control gets activated.
Srry for my bad english. Hi, i need to ask for help. Iff someone hacked my gmail, but i reset pass(log out all devices) after 2 hours(and add sms verification), but i didnt notice that is IMAP-turned on. Can someone still recieve emails from my gmail to his Icloud? or after reset pass(log out all devices+ add second verification) he coulnt recieved it ? Thank a lot for help.
So, while trying to fix a corrupt open directory I came across a fix that said to enter this command... From the formatting I thought these were two separate commands but in fact they were one. As you can imagine after I typed in the "first command" my Mac Mini server shut down and restarted but the loading bar won't get past half way when it tries to boot.
Use AirDrop between iOS device and Mac: the iOS device has to be running iOS 8 and has to have a Lightning connector. the Mac needs to be running OS X Yosemite and needs to be a 2012 or newer iMac, 2012 or newer MacBook Air, 2012 or newer MacBook Pro, 2012 or newer Mac Mini or Late 2013 Mac Pro. (Source: 9to5Mac) So technically it should be compatible, and I also met the necessary other requirements: Once you have met compatible hardware and software requirements, the devices do have to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on, even though it works without internet access. I even put them on the same WiFi network, with working Internet access.
I know i can get the time stamp of the latest Time Machine backup with the command tmutil latestbackup | grep -E -o "[0-9\-]+$" but this only works when my backup disk is plugged in. If not, i get the error message Unable to locate machine directory for host. Is there any other way to figure out (through scripting) when the last backup was made? I'm running OS X Mavericks and the use case would be to eventually run this as remote monitoring for Macs, say, using collectd.
I am a longtime mac user, and the world of Microsoft Exchange is totally foreign to me. At my school I have an account on an exchange server where I have a few years' worth of email threads... As my last semester is coming to an end, I am trying to archive my email history over my academic career there. I need to somehow get copies of my inboxes and outboxes to my mac. Is there a script I can run to forward them all to myself or something? what is the best way to go about getting my mail history over to my mac?
I've just started using Delphi to create OSX programs. I'd like to be able to take a screenshot of just the currently active window on the Mac and save it to the clipboard. On Windows you press [Alt] + [PrtScn]. What is the equivilent on a Mac?
After I downloaded myself a IPSW-File for the iPhone 4S and tried to [Shift]+Update my phone in iTunes I received the error code 3194. After a quick web search I booted the iPhone into recovery mode and tried it again. After that I tried adapting my hosts file in Windows as showed on apples support page. This also didn't work. I also tried downloading the I P S W-File from different providers and also tried to use a third party tool called "The Firmware Umbrella". Then I found out, that recovery mode is not enough and I have to go in DFU mode. Since the black screen is an indicator of the DFU mode I was sure that it will work this time, since the DFU mode seems to be some kind of ultimate firmware override mode, but after hours of effort I'm still stuck with iOS 9 and nothing has worked out to bring me back to iOS 7.1.2.
I cannot set VLC as default. I know about right-click → 'Get Info' but there is no drop-down to change the default so it's not possible to change it. I'm not sure why this is but I know from searching around that I'm not alone.
I returned to my MacBook after a few days of not using it, and there was a message that the system had run out of application memory (weird...). So, I followed the recommendation and Force Quit a bunch of applications. In order to just "start fresh", I decided to kill all applications and simply restart the whole machine.
Is there a way to replace this context menu item to search with Bing instead of Google? I looked under Keyboard shortcuts > Services but can't find how to change/add this option.
I installed an app which is compatible with OSX 10.10, on 10.8 app shows warning about incorrect parameter: -psn_0_176171
I want to open a newsgroup url (eg. "news:comp.lang.python") in a browser, but my OS/X Yosemite (10.10.5) system insists on opening an old mailing application that is located inside one of my (external) backup disk. I would like to change what it opens; ie. replace it with some mail software that is able to handle newsgroups. It seems to be related to OS/X and not the browser because the behaviour is the same across the 3 browsers I tried it on (Safari, Firefox, Chrome). Where does OS/X control the association done at the browser level?
How come when I deleted all my music off of my phone, there is still music on it that just isn't downloaded? And how can I delete that music?
Finder has the option to share via email, message or airdrop is you right-click/(control-click) on a file as one can see in the image below, I don't need this feature and I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that if you accidentally pass over the said option, I get the beach ball for a random interval of time ranging from 5-60 seconds. A similar event also happens when I click on Safari's Share menu.
In Automator, there is a way to quickly convert an Action into its equivalent Applescript in Automator, I think by dragging it in some tricky way. I saw this some time ago but have now forgotten. I've tried searching and can't find it.
I have an app that's close to release. And of course, we didn't get in before iOS 9 came out.
I have a lot of books in my iBooks Library. They are not purchased from iBooks Store so it is impossible to do it automatically via iCloud. What should I do? Some backup? How? Maybe should I copy one file and then move it from one computer to another. Is there any way?
I still like my mid 2009 13" Macbook Pro. It's solid and running quite well. However, since Yosemite things are getting really laggy and slow, so I guess that my hardware is getting a bit old. Although I swapped the old HDD to a 3rd party SSD and upgraded to 8 GB of RAM, I still see lots of lag and slowness especially when my 27" Cinema Display is hooked up via mini display port. Is there anything else I can do, in terms of hardware upgrade, to increase performance or is this just the end of the road for my baby?
For some people, the fact that you get music when you plug in headphones is great - but for me it's not. Not at all. I use my iPhone to listen to audiobooks using the Overdrive app. Before iOS9, if I interrupted my book to take a call, clicking the headphone button took me right back to my book. Now it takes me to music. I also can no longer pause playback with the buttons on my headphones - I have to go back to the app on my phone to pause. (the headphones are not broken - it works on my iPad that is still iOS8)
As my free trial of Apple Music is due to end very soon, and I do not intend to pay for continued service, is there anything I should be doing before the trial ends to avoid any problems?
all I want is for photos from my wife's iPhone and my iPhone to background upload to the same place? My preference is to stay within Apple's ecosystem, but I will happily consider anything reliable. My impression is that Google Photos, Carousel/Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. are flakey with automatic background uploading, but I would love to be corrected on that impression.
Is there a way to hide the application window and the dock icon of one specific active app in OS X? Kinda like a background service that can be turned on or off.
I'd like to buy a new model iPhone 6s 16 GB ("Rose Gold" color) and use it in China. when purchasing it in Apple Store, what options should I choose so the phone will bear no service contract which is useless for me? when purchasing it in Apple Store, what options should I choose so the phone will bear no service contract which is useless for me?
I'd like to ask you if it's possible to distribute my iOS app only to certain users/client. If yes, how?
How can I trigger "do not disturb" at regular intervals, say during lectures on MWF from 10am to 11am? In Yosemite (and Mavericks) one clicks on the notifications icon, then swipes down to reveal the "do not disturb" switch. I'm wondering if it's possible to automate turning the switch to on/off at regular intervals.
After upgrading to one of the beta El Capitan builds, I can no longer use the "start screensaver" hotcorner. Other hotcorners still work, so it's not an issue with an application grabbing mouse input and blocking hotcorners from being detected (for example, I can configure the display to turn off and that works fine) and the screensaver itself works, too.
Does anyone know of an iPhone/iPod app, or jailbreak, that is a music downloader manager AND a tag editor that lets you add album art? I've been searching everywhere for an app that downloads music and lets me change/add album artwork (within the download manager app), but I've had absolutely no luck.
If I remove the SIM from an iPhone, then will I be able to view the SMS Messages that I sent and received while the SIM card was in the phone after I take the SIM card out?
I just switched from an android phone to an iPhone. In android I was able to (continue to) play WhatsApp audio messages after locking the screen or even when switching between apps. This doesn't seem to be possible in iOS, am I wrong?
I want to update my iMac OS X Mavericks Version 10.9.5 to OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Do I need to backup my files ? or not ?. I'm afraid to update it because I don't want to erase my important files. I'm thinking that if I update my iMac all my files or my apps will be erase or reset .
How can I extract my forgotten iCloud Password from iTunes backup? I've tried to use iTunes backup extractor and the I locate accounts.db file Then I use sqlite browser to explore it,I found only the iCloud mail(which is I have already) and other mails.. is there any ideas please
I took my computer into the genius bar the other day and they cleaned out a bunch of dust, and haven't been able to reproduce this problem, which is pretty weird. It seems to be a problem that is activated by certain thermal conditions. Haven't seen anything weird in kernel logs, don't get kernel panics more than usual, nope, I've got a 750M.
I took a screen recording from my iPhone 5 and I want to convert its size from 640x1136 to 750x1134. For extra pixels I need black fill color. Is it possible in iMovie in OS X?
I just updated to iOS9 and all hell broke loose on iMessage-every now and then, messages that I receive would pop up on the screen for a second and then disappear! I have tried restarting iMessage multiple times but the issue seems to persist. And this has been occurring only since the update. What must I do to rectify this situation?
Sometimes I see a ksfetch process on my Mac. After a little googling I found out that it is Google software updater. However, there is no detailed answer i.e. what is ksfetch process used for? Is it really required? Can I get rid of it? Sometimes it uses my internet bandwidth so it frustrates me hence the query. Thanks.
I have an old iPad mini and updated it to iOS 9. However, the features don't work, such as Siri suggestions and drawing in notes app. Could somebody explain a remedy or what is up with Apple? Thanks.
I didn't set restriction code on my phone, when i update on iOS 9 it shows pass code and i don't know about it.
I'm using the following simple script: Which works by printing titles of every window. The above script prints missing value How can I get the window id of every window? Is it possible to get the window id and window title at a time?
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) and an LG 25UM64-S Ultrawide monitor. For 2+ years I had the Ultrawide connected by mini-displayport and got the full/native resolution of 2560x1080.
I have an iPod shuffle 2 gb, and as directed, I installed iTunes on my Windows 7 desktop, as I don't have an apple phone. But, the problem is that whenever I open the iTunes and try to load songs in it, I have to wait a long time and then it says, an error occurred as the file could not be found. I am using the iTunes version of 11.1.2.32. Is something wrong with the USB cable that I'm using? Or itunes don't work well in windows? Is there any alternatives to insert songs in my ipod?
Following occurs when using Apple Music / itunes: I'm in itunes, listening to some music from an Apple Music Playlist. I am also connected to a wifi network, the same network that my iPhone is on. When I like a track I want to add it to one of my own playlists so I click on the three dots, select 'add to playlist', select the correct playlist and all is well.
I'm having difficulty (=it doesn't work) to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. This is the situation: I use a 2011 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.10.05 and VMware fusion 8.0.0 (I have it set to run W10 x64) Currently W7 is installed all up to date When I use the normal upgrade procedure (clicking the icon in the right bottom corner) it tells me my SVGA is not good enough and I don't have enough memory (I've got 4GB allocated to VMware). Yes it had to be SVGA.
I tried to download the Yosemite install app and make a bootable usb with Diskmaker X but it failed and told me the install file became corrupted. This caused an endless Finder crash loop that I could only fix by deleting the Install file from the bash prompt in single user mode. Now the app store shows "an error has occurred" and I can't download the app at all:
I have an iPhone 5. I have apps that are updating but never finish. I tried restarting. I tried some examples on this website. I waited days for it to refresh. Nothing seems to work. The "Updates All" is greyed out. You can't select it. Recently upgraded to iOS9 9.0.1(13A404).
In my linux machines, I use the command line utility e2cp to copy files from and to ext2 disk images. Unfortunately, OS X does not provide any ext2fs utility out of the box. Is there a version of e2cp that is compatible to OS X, or a similar alternative? Notice that I don't need to mount or do anything advanced, I just have to copy files.
Having just upgraded to iOS 9, I've noticed that Reminders is no longer able to take a copied list like this: bananas oranges cereal My wife emails me our grocery list in this format every week and now I can't use Reminders to check off items as I find them in the store. How can I ask her to format the list and/or paste it so that each item will be separated as unique items to be checked off one-by-one?
I have a problem whereby Mac A cannot ping the local network. It can ping the router, 192.168.1.1 but none of the machines on that network. Mac B works properly. I am running yosemite 10.10 on both macs. I've tried deleting the network settings and starting again (on Mac A)
This is a more precise reframing of questions No secure ad-hoc network with Yosemite? (my use case) and How to create a password protected ad-hoc network on Yosemite (not applicable here).
We have been able to download from the app store, but yesterday Apple transiently removed Aperture from our Previous Purchase list. (It's now back.) Aperture 3.4.5 updater is the last version available for downloaded from Apple [1]. No-one I know trusts Apple to keep Aperture available.
I have a MacBook Pro 8,1 (13", 2011 unibody) running Yosemite (no upgrades). Tried to partition my SSD hard drive and it threw an error when it was almost through saying it can't find the partition.
I many times forget time and stay long hours in the office. Is there any kind of app that would automatically set a reminder when computer starts + X hours passed? Now I try to set a reminder (native app) but many times I forget, and it is a bit tedious. I was wondering if there is somekind of automated way to get some kind of reminder that the day is done? Has anyone had a similar issue and solved it with some other approach?
My computer is connected to a (non-Airport) wifi network and is working properly. However, someone else in my building uses an Airport. Every few hours, Airport Utility opens, and shows me this other network, as if I wanted to configure it. Is there some way I can either forget this Airport device, or disable Airport Utility from automatically opening? OS X 10.10.5, Retina Macbook Pro 13".
These photos completely wiped our family's Photo stream (and replaced our vacation photos with nonsense). Also, the storage was filled and my son couldn't even make a phone call before we deleted the 1,200 photos.
I just picked up a Logitech MX Revolution mouse and am trying to map some actions for moving between spaces. There's a button on the mouse just above the thumb. I want to press that thumb button + tilt scrollwheel right to move to the right space, and the reverse to move to the left space.
Trying to help a friend with an inherited iPad. The non-techie original owner created a Gmail account and a linked Apple ID special for the new iPad. While I can log into the Apple ID using the Gmail address/Apple password he sent on, I cannot log into the Gmail account (password unknown, no recovery address). The Apple ID was never properly verified on the special Gmail account, and the iPad seemingly won't activate until the account gets verified. If I update the Apple ID to use a different email address, will it still be possible to activate the iPad?
I recently updated to iOS9 on my iPad4, and ever since then the pictures on Instagram have been blurry (It looked fine previously). Is this an Instagram bug, old Hardware, or something else? Let me know if this is the wrong site to ask on.
So I have 3 photos in the Screenshots folder in the Photos app of iOS 9. They aren't screenshots, but they may be being classified that way since I imported them from the internet. How do I change their classification so that they're not in that folder?
I have a *.app If I open it, from the dock, or from Finder, it opens. I want to open ANOTHER second running instance. If I open it, from the dock or from the Finder the second time, now it simply focuses it.
The size of the video window in iTunes is very small. When I move the mouse over it the mouse cursor disappears. There are no buttons on the window and no context menu appears when right clicking.
The Spaces feature in OS X is great. It would be even greater if I could save a Space and recall it later, like the "Projects" feature that's available in many IDEs.
I was walking in the woods the other day and while wading in a nearby river I found an iPhone submerged in the water (and partially in the mud). No way to know how long it has been there, but I would assume at the very least several weeks (possibly months). Naturally I assume it is dead beyond recovery. But are there any components that might be salvageable?
My phone is stuck with the image of charger and cord, up arrow and iTunes icon - I can't turn iPhone on or off it seems. Will it restart on its own? I tried holding the power button down for the ten seconds and then just the home key but that doesn't work either.
I downloaded the latest Raspbian image from the raspberrypi.org website on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5 The SHA-1 checksum agrees with that listed on the website. When I try to extract using unzip I get the following error
I want to try watching a movie while using other apps. Do you know which movie apps will let me do that? The only one I know of us Instapaper, which does PiP for YouTube and Vimeo videos.
Specifically I need something with arrsync's "unidirectional merge" function, which basically just adds new files or overwrites old files with newer versions to my backup hard drives. This allows me to remove projects from my computer I don't need immediately in order to save space, but still keeps them in backup. In other words, the function does not simply create a snapshot, but an ever-growing collection of all my past projects.
I have Macbook Pro 13.3 inches Retina display model. The max resolution am able to use is 1440X900. And default is even less. Why Macbook pro retina doesn't work in the native resolution? Is there any specific reason for the same?
Dropbox, PushBullet, Thunderbird and a dozen other apps create notifications. Is it possible to log these in a Unix-like way? I dislike the tiny messages popping up for a few seconds and then disappearing without a trace. Basically, I want to be able to grep a file which contains a line for each notification.
I am successfully synchronizing my iPhone contacts with my GMail account. When adding a new contact in my GMail account, the new contact takes a few hours to sync to the device. This is cumbersome, because often I add a contact on GMail and wish to call that contact from my iPhone. Is there a way to force an iPhone contact sync update with my GMail account, so that new contacts will be immediately updated on the iPhone?
I have a jailbroken iPad 4th gen with 15,000 pictures in Recently Deleted folder that iPad is unable to either recover or delete. Probably too many files for those functions to work. I've installed NoRecentlyDelete tweak but it's a bit late. So my question is, where is the folder(s) that holds those pictures so I can manually delete or recover them. Note that I have access to raw file system on my iPad both via PC and iFile on iPad. Cheers.
Is there any way in the new Photos app to search for all images taken from a particular device? I want to export all my iPhone images out of Photos app. Currently my library has images imported from various other devices also.
I have an iCloud account with the free 5GB storage, which I want to use for backups. I have a strange situation where my iCloud is showing as having only 2.2GB space available:
In the Safari 9 for OS X El Capitan there is a new feature whereby you can pin a tab. As a result you will see a colored icon with the first letter of the website.
In PC, when I press Pg Up/Pg Down in Chrome, the scroll bar moves instantly. But in Chrome for OSX, it moves with an animation and hence very slowly. Is there a way to turn the animation off and make it move instantly?
I'm using a 6 digit PIN on both my iPad and my iPhone. Both are running iOS 9.0.1. My iPhone takes the six-digit PIN and opens to the home screen. My iPad takes the six-digit PIN and then waits for me to touch OK before I can go to the home screen. I have the iPhone 6S and the 3rd Gen. iPad So,why does my iPad require me to tap 'OK' for a 6 digit PIN, but my iPhone does not?
I have upgraded to photo, but kept my old iPhoto images. There are plenty of them and now space is an issue so I want to delete some. I have successfully moved them to the external hard drive and have deleted them but now cannot find the trash to empty. The trash for the computer is empty but those images did not show up in that trash so I am assuming that iPhoto still has its own trash somewhere...I just don't know where.
I need to install an application to number of Macs. Is there any way i can do it over the network or any other advise on this. Thanks
I use a Full HD 24" external display besides my 15" MacBook Pro Retina, on which I use the option for most screen estate regarding the Retina display. In the display arrangement screen, the MacBook Pro is therefore a bigger rectangle than the external display. Is there a way to size these rectangles regarding their "real world size" instead of resolution? I'm annoyed by my cursor teleporting vertically whenever I move from one display to another.
I am wondering if there is a Terminal command which will specifically list the 5th file in a directory. I was initially using the ls | head -5 command to complete this, however it listed all other files as well as the fifth, an action which is undesirable for the purpose i have in mind for the proposed command. Thanks in advance.
My spring 2011 Macbook Pro with 5400 rpm drive takes 5 minutes from pressing the on button to boot. I have about 400 GB of RAW and NEF (Nikon camera) files and only Photoshop and Lightroom installed. It seems to constantly be writing to the HD, and there is a lag time when typing or using drop-down menus. Can anyone offer any suggestions on what might be causing this? I have verified the disk and it found no problems.
I'm having the strangest issue since updating to OS X El Capitan. My "Open File" dialogs show the sidebar but all my main (and useful) locations are missing. Take a look at this screenshot. This screenshot shows Keychain Access but this happens in Safari when I'm trying to attach a file to Gmail for example, or uploading an image to Facebook. What I would like is for the sidebar to show my home directories, such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc. Help?
I've seen instructions for configuring fail2ban on BSD using pf but I'm not sure how these can be adapted to configure the fail2ban rules that ship with homebrew to configure Yosemite's firewall for safety. What changes do I need to make, and to which files, to enable fail2ban safely on my OSX server?
I just updated my iPad and now when I hit the enter button it sends messages. I was used to using it to scroll down. How do I change it back?
When the Mac OS menu bar fills up with too many icons on the upper right side, and begins to encroach on the space of the menu text, will the OS begin to make the menu bar taller and wrap the icons? Or will the icons simply overflow / overlay the menu text? This question assumes that Bartender is not installed.
I have a number of extensions installed that have shrunk my address bar down to a very undesirable size for input and reviewing URLs. Is there a way to extend the address bar such that extension buttons will function more like Chrome or Firefox in Safari? *NOTE: I am not looking to entirely remove the extension buttons, but rather to hide them into an unfoldable / expandable menu similar to how Chrome and Firefox do it when you horizontally resize the address bar (eg, it hides the right-most icons down into a drop-down accessible menu).
On both the home screen and lock screen, I use portrait-oriented wallpaper images that feature full-length pictures of people. When the unit is rotated to landscape orientation, the iPad centers the image - cutting off the heads of the people in the images.
Why am I not able to record screen of my iPhone. Others can do it. iPhone has iOS 8, Mac has Yosemite. Here I can see Christoper's iPad on one of my computer, but not on my other Mac.
I made a second user account (test, admin privs) and set the permissions of my second hard drive so that this account could read & write. The only thing I changed was the first line and then applying the setting to all enclosed folders.
I add to my /etc/hosts file this : Save the file. Flush everything with : Reboot my computer 30 times. Then I run: And I get : Clear my cache completely since the beginning of time in any browser, go to : youtube.com, and I get youtube.com, not my localhost. I'm using OS X 10.10.5, Yosemite.
On my Mac Yosemite 10.10.5, I can tap 3 fingers to lookup for a word. That lookup could select text from virtually anywhere. I would like to copy that text to clipboard instead of doing lookup. How could I do that?
I just set up homebrew on my new macbook and used the brew and brew cask commands to install some applications. I can now open the applications from the launchpad but not from the terminal.
It is just as weird as it sounds. I'm using the default mail app on my iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4.1. Ever since I have it, my mail has been showing up one week late. To be specific, I only get my mail at certain days of the week. At monday, there's no mail. At Tuesday, there's no mail. At wednesday, there's mail from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Even if I fetch my mail manually, there still is nothing. Is there a solution to this? I've tried removing my Gmail account from my iPhone and putting it back, but it didn't work. I also couldn't find a flaw in the settings.
I'm currently on the public beta of El Capitan, how do I upgrade to the final version of the new OS?
When I pull down the Notification Center, the "Today" view seems to exclude all-day events. For example, I have 2 events for today: "Lunch", scheduled at noon "Ask A Stupid Question Day", an all-day event My iOS9 Today view says Wednesday, September 30th The first thing on your calendar today is "Lunch", in 46 minutes. If I delete "Lunch" from my calendar, the Today view simply says Wednesday, September 30th
Use a keypress but checking for aquamacs as the active window. On finding aquamacs, get a list of the processes in the current space and move to the next one. (checking for aquamacs seems wise as the default behaviour is likely faster than this lookup) Searching for these behaviours is difficult, and the applescripts documentation is byzantine to a newbie, so I don't see how to achieve either of them.
I've been running the Beta for El Capitan for a while now, but since the OS got officially released today, I feel it's okay to ask a question. FYI: I'm running the GM.
I'm helping a visually impaired friend learn how to use her Mac. She's using the built-in screen magnifier, which is working great. She likes to access websites (mainly TV streaming services) via links on her desktop, which I'm able to create by hand. However the standard method for creating these (dragging a URL from the location bar in Safari to the desktop) isn't ideal for a visually impaired user.
I have an account at Hotmail/Outlook.com and I have lots of mails there since 2006 (dozens of GB). I am using IMAP and I don't want Mail.app to download them all, also because I have really slow connection (and I dont care about my emails from 2006.) Is there a way to make Mail.app download only mails more recent than, for example, 10 or 30 days ago?
latest update not only disallows cellular settings to stay set but also disabled the App store. (iPhone 4S) I can't even begin to figure out how to fix this.cannot set "do not disturb" to manual, like it was before the upgrade either.
I'm aware of the differences in layout, character placement etc however I have always wondered why the modifier keys on the US layout use the full word such as command instead of cmd. Similarly the same can be seen for function and control.
I see difference in positions of applications in search result of iTunes (on PC and web) and App Store (on devices). What is the key difference on it and why does it differ?
In OS X El Capitain when I'm trying type for example ~ (tilda), I'm getting ˜ instead of proper ~, it also highlighted by yellow while typing:  How do I disable this default behavior?
I have a(n embarrassingly) large number of windows and tabs open in Safari on Mavericks right now, which I'd like to save, and I'd also like to do an OS upgrade sometime this week. I have "restore windows" turned on, and Safari re-opened them for me a couple of weeks ago when my Mac crashed and rebooted.
I am running my boot drive off a SSD. I'm paying attention to try to keep it from filling up, and sorting folders by size, I notice the library/application support folder has logs generated by specific apps. For example, one program that creates an updated backup of my data drive shows a size of 4GB. Is there any general rule for what can be deleted safely?
Reboot again, Mac still restarts in OS X like I want it to. Did this a few times to be sure. Reboot again, hold down OPTION, I can still see Windows as an option but I don't know where it's coming from
According to the usage and about settings on my iPhone, I have 2.2 GB of space left. However, when plugged into iTunes, iTunes tells me the phone has 4.62. GB free. Is there a reason for this, and which one is the correct amount? (16GB White iPhone 6, iOS 8.4)
The question should be clear from the title. If System Integrity Protection, aka Rootless, is part of Darwin, then I might be interested in inspecting how it is implemented. I would be grateful if someone could point me to the relevant files or packages. I think it definitely should be in xnu, by the way, because it has to be in the kernel, but I'm also interested in how other packages interact with it, e.g., file_cmds. I guess this question can only be answered on Darwin 15.0.0's source code is released on *=URL=* (it's not yet available as of right now).
After updating to latest developer release for OS X El Capitan, I can't login in Mac App Store or OS X iCloud settings. If I try incorrect password, a message is shown that the password is not correct. When I try my real password, the loading icon just spins forever.
I haven't even attempted to set it up and admittedly don't know much about Apple Pay, but I assume that, as a merchant, when you first set it up you link it to a bank account, so that when people swipe their phones to pay, it will direct the funds to your merchant account. Is it possible to link more than one merchant account? For example, have it set up in a way that it automatically pays 5% to merchant account #1 and then the rest to merchant account #2?
I am trying to make a symbolic link inside the /System folder and even if I run the command as su I get the following error message. How can I get this working?
I downloaded, and then started installing OS X El Capitan on my MacBook Pro. But I think it just stacked i think. So I turn off mac, and then turn on again. Every time when I try to login on my account I have a crash as following:
Since upgrading today to El Capitan, my fan has been going non-stop. Under "Apps that Use Significant Energy", Finder.app is the culprit. Does anyone have a solution for this issue?
I just upgraded to El Cap, and now recovery HD will not boot. It goes part of the way, but gets stuck here:
For several years I have been wondering why Apple ships new OS X releases with old version of Bash. I came across the question Update bash to version 4.0 on OSX where there is a mention of problem with the fact that new bash is released under GPLv3. Is it true? If so, what problem has Apple with this license? There isn't any other GPLv3'd software in OSX?
Whenever I send my daughter a text, her replies back to me never appear by sound or notification that she has responded. The only way that I ever notice a reply is if I physically check my old messages, where I will find two of the same reply, the first one noted as coming from her phone, and the second, exact same reply noted as coming from my own phone number. We had tried deleting and resetting contact info but nothing seems to work. I don't seem to have a problem receiving texts from anyone else but her phone. She has an iphone 5s, I have an iphone 5c. Any advice?
The new update seems pretty legit, so I am considering updating my macbook. I have Parallels installed on my computer, and I don't want it to be removed or damaged during the installation of El Capitan.
I was trying to install El Capitan. I went to erase Macintosh HD in recovery> disk utility as I wanted to do a clean install. It then deleted the Macintosh partition then gave me an error code saying it couldn't delete the disk image or something like that.
I have a pretty good idea what direction this question is gonna go, but I'll ask it anyway. Is there any way or workaround to quickly un-hide all hidden applications? By which I mean, applications that have been tucked away with CMD+H and are normally restored with CMD+Tab when you want to access them.
I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard with my Macbook Retina, on Yosemite. This ergonomic keyboard has a split Spacebar key, like so:
Now, in comparison, when I attempt the to do the same between two Macs, the DNS resolution works. In fact, it resolves over both IPv4 and IPv6.
I tried to make changes to the DefaultFonts.plist file, but it appears that the new System Integrity Protection has locked that down. Notes, of course, doesn’t have a preferences setting. I really don’t like the font that’s showing up, and I don’t want to have to individually change all of my notes.
Both the DIMMs are fine since if I try one of the new ones with one of the old ones my laptop boots up fine and shows the correct total of 10GB RAM. But using both the news ones together seems to be causing the problem.
A relative just bought a biofeedback accessory for an iphone 5/6 and was wondering if they could use it on one of my old iphones. She'd rather use an iphone without any data on it so people could use it without supervision, but the most recent one I have is a 4 (maybe a 4s, not sure).
After upgrading to OS X 10.11 I have two weather widgets (one, maybe, is inactive). So, is it possible to delete the blank one? If yes, where or how I can do this?
Is there a way to tun sketch on? Because I can't see any icon to start drawing:
I just finished upgrading from 10.10 to 10.11 and so far its allot more smooth and responsive. I was just wondering if theres any particular games or apps which utilise the new Metal gfx technology which I can checkout now. Anything that really showcases the new technology :) I play Guildwars 2 a little, will non Metal games benefit? And/or is there a way to know if my Macbook is using Metal or not. Thanks
I'd like to safely move videos and some photos to another "Archive" library. (Then deleting them in the original library to keep it smaller)
I'm trying to upgrade a MacBook from mid-2009 (it's the A1342, MacBook 6,1) with a new hard disk. The original one was a 250GB and the new one I'm trying to install has 500GB and it's a Toshiba. I've already created an Apple partition map in the new disk and formatted it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), but the Mac always shows me the folder icon blinking with the question mark.
I've upgraded from El Capitan GM to Release today. After the installer app has moved the install files, the mac tried to reboot but the screen stayed black. I shut it off using the power button and restarted it getting kernel panics every time: I tried booting in safe mode without any luck.
I accidentally broke the GUID, I suppose, when I was trying to solve the incorrect EFI partition problem. What I have now is:
I am going to purchase an Apple iPhone 6s 16GB from Dubai. And I'll use it in Sri Lanka. The carrier I'm going to use is 'Dialog' in Sri Lanka. They has 4G LTE(band 3-1800MHz). There are variations in iPhone models. And also I've heard that there are locked and unlocked iPhones. This is really confusing for me. These are my questions: What variation should I buy(which works in Sri Lanka)? Unlocked or Locked one?
Since I installed El Capitan, I have been completely unable to open Mail.app. I've removed all my email accounts, I've removed all the file in the MailData folder (even the Accounts.plist) file. Nothing works. As soon as I open the app, it shuts down and I get an error message of
The title says it all, whenever I plug a memory card on my computer or a cable to a device with photos, the Photos app launches. I don't like using this app, not because I don't think it's a good app or whatever, but because I usually like making sure that I transfer all the files to the destination folders, not just the picture files (so also folder structure, preview files, .THM etc). How can I disable the auto-launching of the Photos app?
Can anyone tell me why this does not work? Thanks
Is it possible - without any command line or programming being involved - to remove all folders within a folder, and just leave the files? For example, if I processed this photo folder:
Can I delete /Library/SystemMigration after my upgrade to 10.11. I think, there is nothing, that I want to save.
Can someone please describe the changes made to Terminal.app in El Capitan? I've just noticed that mouse events started working in Tmux, which is awesome! I had the following set in my tmux.conf:
I'm running El Capitan with two displays. I am trying split screen and it works fine for all applications on the primary screen (when enabling that each screen has their own spaces), but for some applications it doesn't work on my secondary display. For instance, when trying to add iTunes and Mail to the same split screen, the cursor turns into a white circle with an 'X' in the middle, and they won't join up in the same screen. Is this expected behaviour?
How do I change the spinning pinwheel in 10.11 El Capitan into any GIF image that I want?
I am quite happy with the Terminal changes in El Capitan (see e.g. this question).
A spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar appeared after upgrading to Bartender 2 (see the screenshot below). It was not there before. How can I remove it?
I can't make playlists with any music I bought after activating apple music. I've been trying to make a playlist to burn the new Lamb of Gad album without success so I can listen to it in my car. I bought the album on iTunes. I've been trying for two days now.
In 10.11 is there a way to change the delay for showing the menu bar when auto-hide is enabled? I know for the dock you could use terminal and defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
In order to download El Capitan, I clicked the "download" button in the highlighted banner of the Appstore. The "busy" wheel began to spin in the upper left, and I thought to give it some time.
It seems that to replace text (Prefs/Keyboard Shortcuts/Text), one has to type a space after the keyword, and this inserts a space after the replacement text. Is there a way around this?
I am using latest version of OS X, whenever I want to download an .xls file from email attachment, it opens, by default, with Numbers and the file is not downloaded on my machine. How can I change this default behaviour?
The problem is in the title, but let me add few details here. I am running on OS X 10.10.5 (14F27). Using default Terminal.app. Content of /etc/profile Content of /etc/bashrc Content of ~/.profile Content of ~/.bashrc Content of ~/.bash_profile So here is output of invoking sh.
I am interested in buying the new Mac Mini as I cannot afford a Mac book or Air. The laptop I have is Dell Inspiron 3537. So I wanted to know is it possible to connect Mac Mini with my Dell laptop. Any help will be appreciated.
I've tried to do it both ways: 1. I edited ~/.bash_profile like so:
My shell can't find ping. However, man ping works and displays the manual page for ping.
I have been using this keyboard for the last 2 and a half years. Eventually I noticed that Left Ctrl key stopped working at all. Means, when I push it down in some combination, like Ctrl-T, only T is recognized. Right Ctrl Key works just fine as well as other keys.
From the calendar month view, I can't select a date, and jump to the day view. Running iOS 9.0.2 on iPhone 6
I have just installed El Capitan on my MacBook Pro 13 mid 2012 I can't get split view to work either via the mission control method or the green button one. Does anybody know this is supposed to work?
When I check and uncheck this System Preference "Automatically adjust brightness", my display gets slightly washed out instead of brighter or darker. It seems to be adjusting the gamma and the grays instead of the backlight brightness. What's going on here and is it possible to restore the behavior of Yosemite and earlier with this option?
El Capitan has brought back a problem that I had with Yosemite at first - it disappeared after a later OS update. I have a headless MacMini on my home network, with a daisy chain of firewire disks attached to it. I use them for backing up photographs and movies (~3TB worth), and the MacMini runs CCC to keep all disks synced. The two disks I use most often have aliases in my dock so I can access them easily. After the 10.11 upgrade they keep mounting spontaneously on my desktop.
When trying to update to El Capitan (from Yosemite), I get the following error, and cannot proceed with the installation. This partition map modification would make a Windows partition unbootable
After I upgraded to OS X EL Capitan, I need to turn iCloud Photo Library once again on my Macbook Pro, but once I tap on iCloud Photo library checkbox the Photos a[[ wants to upload my images once again. But every image now exist in my iCloud Photo Library. I do not want to upload this once again.
What I tried so far: AppleCare stress test - no issues found setting DNS servers manually SMC & NVRAM reset delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ UPDATE
Just upgraded to El Capitan OS X 10.11 and my default email account is no longer ending with mac.com but is now me.com. When I try to change this it won't let me save it within the mail.app program. Any suggestions?
According to Apple's Documentation, for certain operations, the user must be physically present. However, I am trying to administer a Xcode Server build box via Screen Sharing, and I can't add or remove keychain items because of this restriction. This server is inside of our corporate firewall. Is there a way to remove this restriction for this server? In the Console, SecurityAgent gives this message when I try to Allow access to a keychain item: Ignoring user action since the dialog has received events from an untrusted source
I just synced my library from iCloud, and I realised that there is no faces.What I did wrong? How to sync faces between devices? I really need them in iCloud also. NOTE I know that I can create another albums with specific faces, but it is not expected.
Contrary to what Apple (or a Google search) seems to think, I don't want a more minimal status bar—I want one that stays in place, is the same height and width at all times, and doesn't distract me by flashing in and out. Much like I've had through all of Safari's existence up until now.
my iPhone 5c is opening/ closing apps and typing randomly and uncontrollably without me touching the screen or even holding the phone, I am now also locked out of my phone because it has typed the wrong passcode in by itself and is disabled for 1 hour. what can I do to fix this and what could be the problem?
After I have updated to El Capitan I am having problems in running a Scala project with IntelliJ. When I run it I obtain the following error: Error:Cannot run program "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/bin/java" (in directory "/Users/donbeo/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea14/compile-server"): error=2, No such file or directory I think I have to specify where Java is or something like that. It was working before. How can I solve it?
I recently installed OS X El Capitan and figured out I could hide the menu bar. But it would be nice if i could accelerate the animation. For hiding the dock menu I use these defaults. I wondered whether I can do this for the menu bar?
I'd like to try uninstalling and re-installing the app, but it's not clear how to do that from the phone itself. I've tried to do so from iTunes on my PC, but it warns me that "This app will not be deleted from any iOS device that synchronizes with your iTunes library."
So...my Mac had a spinning beach ball of death (SBBOD), and has been having these about once a day for the past two weeks. :-(
Apple has introduced System Integrity Protection, also known as "rootless", with OS X 10.11, El Capitan. I understand this is a step for general protection against malware but as a developer I need write access to some of the files it locks away. How do I disable this protection?
So I'm looking to get the new El Capitan update. Problem is, my internet connection is slow and I'll probably have to download it over 2 days. If I pause the download, shut off my Mac, and start it back up again, will the download resume, or will it have to start from scratch again?
Whenever I attempt to start a VPN Connection with Junos Pulse (Version 5.0.11) on El Capitan it freezes midway through connecting and my login keychain becomes inaccessible to any other apps. The only way I've found to restore my keychain and restart Pulse is to restart. Killing Junos Pulse and the PulseTray processes in Activity Monitor seems to have no effect.
I started to download the El Capitan upgrade, but then I shut down my computer. The day after I wanted to continue the download but in App Store it shows "Waiting..." and doesn't do anything. Also when I go to the updates section, it shows the button "Download" but it's inactive. Maybe someone can help me? I tried to find the download file in some directory to delete it and start over but I couldn't find it.
However, when I open up the library using "Show package contents" I can actually see what appears to be all the data associated with the projects in resources/projects. I've tried copying one of those directories into the target Photos library, but as soon as Photos is started, the copied directory is removed. It seems that if only I could set the right metadata somewhere, this should work.
As part of our standard deployment, we tend to deploy multiple OSs on Macs, from 10.7 to 10.11. However, with the new SIP (System Integrity Protection), the -bless command no longer works properly. I need the Macs to boot to each OS during the initial configuration to properly name the OS for Active Directory binding and then do the actual binding.
I use Apple Mail using two e-mail accounts (both IMAP but I don't think it really matters). Before El Capitan when composing an e-mail, one could choose the account the e-mail should be send from using a drop-down in the compose-window. However with the El Capitan update this dropdown is gone and there seems no way to select the account the e-mail should be send from after composing the e-mail.
So, after updating to El Capitan Handoff and AirDrop stopped working. After digging around, I found out that during AirDrop this error is logged twice in console:
I'm trying to modify my router's NAT Table / Port-forwarding rules using the terminal on my Mac. My current setup looks something like this
I'm going to give Mac Mail another try. But I can't stand the stamp icon. I'd like to replace it with the iOS icon.
I'm in a very frustrating situation of having my MacBook Pro 15' Retina (A1398) stuck in a boot loop. Well, not exactly boot loop: when I connect my MagSafe charger, it goes in a constant cycle of starting up fans and turning off, with a period as long as 1 second (or even less). I tried resetting SMC and NVRAM so far, but had no result apart from having my charger's led turn green from amber (temporary; only when I hold Shift-Control-Option combination). What could be the possible issues? I'll be getting it to a diagnostics facility (non-Apple) in a few days, it would help clarifying whether I could be lied to or not (considering the fact it's unofficial).
I'd like for Chrome's default sans-serif font for websites to be San Francisco. However it's not showing up in the font list. Any ideas for how to change this setting?
My Mac Mail has been working using an external drive for the library and all messages since 2013. However I upgraded to 10.11 today and need to find a way to reference everything on the external drive again. Any thoughts on how to update the Symlinks for 10.11? I don't have enough drive space on the HD to move or import the folders back plus it would be extremely time consuming...
I would like to be able to read a 60 page pdf on 2 ipads that will display facing pages. (one page per ipad) Pages should turn like a book as if both ipads are the facing pages of a book.
In Yosemite I could move the mouse to the top of the screen and the menu bar would show but under El Capitan it remains hidden. Is this a bug or is there a new way to display the menu bar while in full screen mode in 10.11?
I am new to apple and I want to use iMessage. When I am connected to the internet, I thought SMS would automatically send as iMessage. The one I'm texting also uses iPhone 5 and we're both connected to internet. I still have to know what their e-mail to text them in iMessage.
Anyone have solution for my issue? My iphone 5, ios 9.0.2 stuck on lock screen.
I upgraded my rMBP 15" (mid 2015) to El Capitan and suddenly my Ducky mechanical keyboard stopped working. The keyboard doesn't light up and upon viewing System Information, it shows Current required power = 0. Anyone experiencing this issue too?
I have recently acquired a Macbook Pro (OS X Yosemite 10.10.4). I find the Numbers application satisfactory to work with, but I save the file as an .xlsx file after I am done. I need to make changes to the file repeatedly and save it repeatedly as the file is used as input by a program that can only read excel files.
I have a macbook, iPad and two iPhones (one is mine, second - my wife's). All of them are connected to the same iCloud/apple account. Now, after last updates (starting from iOS 9), once my wife open some page at Chrome/Safari on her iPhone, I receive notifications at my macbook (some app icon at the left side of Dock menu). Moreover, after installing 9.0.3 on iPhone, once I open some page at Chrome/Safari on my macbook, she receives the notification at her iPhone..
I have a MacBook Pro with retina display model A1502. I updated it to MacOS X El Capitan. The Wi-Fi connection is still not working. It works for sleep mode. I followed this answer Wifi Keeps Dropping Macbook Pro 13in Retina Early 2015 but it is not working for me.
I have an OS X application, which has shortcut I know that it means Ctrl + Alt/Option + ???
I know it's not a standard function of iTunes, but I'd really like a way to have iTunes Visualizer respond to Pandora radio playing on my computer. Is there a way to make the visualizer recognize Pandora either directly or by picking up the sound through the built-in microphone?
After upgrading to El Capitan, I wanted to try the natural language search feature in Spotlight, but for me Spotlight behaves exactly like in Yosemite, it doesn't exhibit any of the new features. For example, no results are coming back for searches like "Weather in Cupertino" or "Documents I've worked on last week". Do I need to enable the new functionality somehow?
If I use Thunderbird with only the Retina screen of my MBP it's fine. However, if I connect my MBP to an external display with normal resolution, then Thunderbird won't scale properly according to Retina resolution if I move the app back onto the Retina screen, resulting in the fonts being extremely small. I'm not sure if this is an ubiquitous occurrence only happening in my case. If no, there might have already been a solution to it?
I like to have Mail's Activity window open in the background, but since upgrading to El Capitan it floats on top of all other Mail windows. I have another Mac that's still on Yosemite and it doesn't exhibit this behaviour.
OS X 10.11 on an early 2015 MBP I am trying to search for a document called Starfleet, but after entering the letters "ST", Spotlight crashes. Relevant logs:
I've got a gmail account and I use the browser to read, write and manage my gmail account. I wrongly opened Apple mail and it started synchronizing with gmail. I would like to maintain google calendar synchronized with Apple Reminders, but I would like to free the space on HD used by Apple mail. Is it possible?
I upgraded to El Capitan and I keep getting repeated crash errors for the following: It also says the below text for all of the applications.
I'm trying to turn off SIP on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) but when I run OS X in Recovery Mode no csrutil is available—there is no such command in /usr/bin as well. So I tried to run it from /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/bin where I have installed OS X. Good news is that csrutil is there. Bad news is it's crashing: *=URL=* Any ideas how to fix it?
How do you paste an image from your clipboard in to websites/forms which support pasting, in Safari? For example, in Chrome, I can take a screenshot using shift+ctrl+cmd+4 and then use cmd+v to paste that image in to a Facebook chat. This is very convenient. However, I don't seem to be able to do the same in Safari. Manually right clicking, and selecting paste doesn't seem to work either.
How do I change the keyboard shortcut for highlighting text in Preview (OS X Yosemite)? By default it is Ctrl+Command+H, but I'd prefer a different combination (maybe Ctrl+E) as that’s easier to use. However, the following method does not work. How do I resolve this?
I have iOS 9.0.2 on an iPhone 5s and my wife has an iPhone 6 with the same iOS version. We have the same Apple ID and we have issue after upgrading the two call logs are the same now. If she has a call I will find it in my log.
Using Apple Remote Desktop, how do I initiate Safari, to began with a preferred web site? Example, I have 50 Mac(s) on my network, and I want each users automatically began on a specific default web site as their Safari Home Page. Thank you so much and have a beautiful day. Fabio
I just upgraded my Mac to 10.11 and noticed the aliased font in Mission Control. I tried to include a screenshot of it, hope the issue is clear.
I have a bunch of photos that I need on a single slide, and I'd like them all to be shown as circles. Can I do that out-of-the-box with Keynote?
I have a Mac Pro 1.1 with OS X 10.10 Yosemite and Piker Alpha bootloader. I’m trying to download OS X 10.11 El Capitan from the Mac App Store and get the following error message: Your Purchase Could Not Be Completed. This version of OS X 10.11 can't be installed on this computer.
I just installed a fresh copy of El Capitan on my MacBook Pro Retina (2013 model), and iWorks are no longer free in the App Store, as has been the case in Yosemite. See the screenshot:
It is now possible to install Windows directly with an ISO since OSX El Capitan release : *=URL=* We no longer need to have a USB stick or a superdrive. However, in my case (Macbook Pro early 2011 without superdrive), I can't see this proposition, I only have the old way.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? I am stumped. Here is the crash report (with the binary images removed): Or view the complete .crash file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3skvousxryckemk/Maps_2015-10-02-072149_Charles-Air-8.crash?dl=0
Is there a way to acquire a copy of the El Capitan upgrade without downloading it first via the App Store, for example via a USB Drive? I know you can make a USB Drive after downloading El Capitan, but I am trying to skip the download itself.
I got a problem in Transmit, after upgrading my Mac to El Capitan (v 10.11). When I tray to "Mount to Disk", I get the following Error:
My Keynote presentation setup used to work like this: My Macbook and the the projector are set to mirror one another. When I press Play in Keynote, Keynote used to split the presentation with the presenter view on my Macbook and the audience view on the projector.
I'm experiencing issue with my Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Activity Monitor and/or Force Quit Applications shows Microsoft Outlook is Not Responding. I found following knowledge base article: Outlook for Mac 2011 on OS X 10.11 hangs during account sync operation Microsoft's workaround: To work around this issue, run Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or an earlier version. Is there anything else I can do? FIX: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update
Under “Manage Storage” when viewing iCloud settings through the device, it lists the iPod I’m using as matching the backup I made before I set up my iPod as a new iPod. The backup that it says is associated with this iPod is the very one I want to preserve when I make a backup of my iPod:
My MacBook keeps saying that my password is wrong. I haven't changed it in a year. I have tried to reboot it, but I have no idea how to do it. I have my laptop in recovery mode.
Suddenly my keyboard is behaving weirdly. Here's some examples of what happening: Left command not working at all Left option + L moves the cursor down one line Left control + L moves cursor down one line Left X working sporadically Left X working sporadically Option + T does what Option + Control + T should do Control + T does what Option + Control + T should do So the problem seems to be concentrated around the bottom left area of the keyboard.
How do I send imessages to non-iphone users on my macbook os x, if I don't have an iphone? I have macosx so i can send imessages without an iphone currently and this works fine. But i also want to send messages to my family members, who don't have iphones.
I am trying to decide whether I should run Linux natively or through a VM on MacBook 7,2? How much performance difference would I observe? Is it worth installing Linux natively or is running it through a VM sufficient?
I have the following problem: I had two partitions, one was ~190 GB, and another ~60GB. Then I wanted to delete the second partition and resize the first one. The deletion went well (I suppose), but I could not resize the first partition, Disk Utility always failed. So I disabled Core Storage, as I found on the internet it could help. After this the unallocated space disappeared and now I cannot do anything. Disk Utility says the drive is 251 GB, but the only partition fully covers it and is 190 GB. I attach the screens below:
When someone called me, I tapped on the "Remind me later" button, I called back without the phone telling me, but I noticed that the geofence icon won't shut off even after resets. Why is this happening and how can I prevent it from draining my battery? According to the Location Settings the service that is using geofence is the location based alerts.
This is accompanied by a peculiar error in Mission Control where I can't click on windows to enter them until I drag them a little bit. Here's a video of that phenomenon.
I'm running into an issue where keychain password verification box does not verify password - does not shake for incorrect password and nothing happens when I press "allow". I'm using iCloud keychain. What could make the Keychain Access wants to... dialog box to not verify the password?
I have been experiencing an intermittent screen flickering/glitching. The problem occurs where I use, or leave the laptop on for several hours, until I let the laptop rest (i.e. shut it down and leave it off) for several days, then promptly starts again with a couple of hours of use.
I have a problem with my recovery partition. Before update to the el-capitan I had both osx and windows on the same ssd disc created with Boot Camp. The problem is that something went wrong during the upgrade to el-capitan, and I decided to remove the windows partition through Boot Camp. My disc has 250 GB, but for my system is available only 180GB, and I'm not able to find how I can extend the size of my partition. Below I'm attaching the screen from Disc Utility.
I know my personal devices (iPhone / iPad) wont install updates automatically but it is downloading them automatically even with the settings turned off. What can I do to prevent automatic downloads of these updates so I can conserve my data usage?
Here's my situation: I currently have a Macbook running OS X El Capitan. Prior to my upgrade to El Capitan, while running Yosemite, I had two partitions of my hard drive: one for my base Yosemite install and one that I was using to test El Capitan (the Beta version). After I upgraded to the GA version of El Capitan earlier this week, I deleted the old partition of the Beta version. That was fine. Now, however, I have an unused ~120 GB of space formerly allocated to that partition. So, I attempt to use the new Disk Utility to resize my partition to get that space back.
So I've imported an audiobook into my iTunes library. It consists of 4 CDs with about 11 tracks each. I've given them the proper author info and album info. I also gave each CD the proper number before import, and then iTunes did the rest by importing the tracks as Track 01, Track 02, etc... And giving them track number data in the info. There's 44 tracks total between the 4 CDs. They started importing to iCloud, and everything goes fine until just one track (Track 03, disc 4) decides it doesn't want to upload. It has the duplicate icon. When I click it, it says "This song is already in your iCloud Music Library." The problem is that there really isn't a duplicate. That file hasn't uploaded to iCloud, as I can see every track but that one from my iPod Touch with iCloud music. I think it may be thinking it's a duplicate with one of the other Track 03's in the album, even though the Get Info data differs in CD number.
Yes, I know Apple says this will no longer work. But it continues to work just fine on iOS 9 devices. Both iPad and iPhone iOS 9 devices continue to sync via my IMAP account. I enter or modify a note on iPad and I see the change on iPhone immediately, and vice versa. And my web mail client see the Notes folder with the updates. All sub-folders are visible in iPhone and iPad and in the web mail client...but not on Mac OS X.
Whenever I send someone a text, I'm told that it shows that "myname@icloud.com" is sending the text and not my phone number. And when someone responds to "myname@icloud.com", I receive the message on my computer and Wi-Fi only iPad, but not my iPhone. Is there any way to only send and receive messages from a phone number? I've done what it says on the forum to go to settings, messages, send and receive then it just says me emails and my number is just spinning it doesn't give me any other options.
When I add a new partition it gets stuck on 'Preparing to partition disk'. The new partition is in some empty space in the middle of the disk. As a result of the partition not being there, Windows won't boot because its looking for it.
I have a group message where my friends and I enjoy sharing animated GIFs. Sometimes, when one of these stays on screen for a long time, it will eat my CPU and cause my fan to spin up/make noise.
I have been attempting to install Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium after upgrading to Mac OS X El Capitan. The installation seems to go along flawlessly until it attempts to install "AdobeHelp". Running ps -aux shows the the following command remains executing: I tried killing the process, (As suggested for the same issue on Windows) however this had no effect. I tried manually running the command, (With sudo) which output the following on first attempt and then ceased execution: And then this on the second attempt and remained executing indefinitely:
I've been using CoRD heavily over the last few years, in my day-to-day job where I need to connect to Microsoft RDP servers. CoRD is perfect for my needs, mainly as it presents a single "unified" view: rather than having lots of windows open, there's just one window for all connected servers, and I click between which one I want to view.
After I started with the Apple Music 3-month trial, sometimes I search for a song on my iPhone, and I could actually hear the whole song. So I thought Apple Music probably lets me hear the whole song for most or all of its songs, but there are other cases when I search for a song on my Macbook using iTunes, I could only hear the 30 second clip or 1.5 minute clip like before.
Is there a means to disable the gutter in TextMate 2 on OS X? This was apparently possible in previous versions of TextMate.
I have a dual monitor setup with a MacBook Pro (Retina) 13" and 24" external Dell monitor (via DVI). I am using the MBP as the bottom monitor of the setup, and want to be able to use it primarily for full screen app tasks. This means I find it more convenient to put the dock on the top screen, displaying all the time. However, OS X only displays it on the very bottom screen. I assume my goal ends up breaking Apple's mental model for how the dock (the dock attaching to a corner of the screen) works, which is why I haven't found a way to do this yet.
Yesterday I downloaded El Capitan partly via the Appstore. I didn't have the time to finish the installation, so I cancelled the download. Today I want to resume, but the download buttons don't work, and in the update tab I see "waiting..." and a pause button that is greyed out. I restarted and tried again, but nothing changed. Is there a way to reset this installation or to resume it?
I received a Facebook message on my phone B, but cleared the notification. I deleted the Facebook message on phone B. Will phone A still receive the notification even though I cleared everything quickly?
Is there another way to invoke the "Check Spelling While Typing" command? It doesn't seem to be one of TextEdit's scriptable commands.
I just got a new SSHD, but when I tried to put it in my early 2011 13" MBP and format it from a bootable drive, Disk Utility kept giving me the error message: could not mount disk0s2 with name (null) after erase How can I fix this?
I am having trouble getting x360ce to work with Wine and cooperate with my Steam game, specifically Rivals of Aether. I purchased a Mayflash GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U & PC USB to be able to use my original GameCube controller on my Macbook Pro 13" retina display laptop. I have used Parallels and managed to get Steam and x360ce to work in that, but I feel that having the the entire VM running to play this one game is unnecessary, and also feel that using Wine would be a simpler and lighter way to play the game. I have searched Google and Reddit for answers, but they have mostly been answers for Windows, Linux or Abuntu users. So far I have referenced these for information: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* For the first one, I can't get past step 7 because I am not entirely sure of how to run the x360ce.exe...
Launching a simple ls -a from Terminal in my home directory I found out that there are a couple of hidden folders I was not aware of: .cups and .jssc. I don't really know what those things are and I don't like them to be in my home folder. Anyone knows what are these related to (and maybe what program usually create them) and whether it is safe to remove them? I'm using Mac OS 10.8.5 if it can be useful.
I want to find out the (average) weight of a MagSafe 85W adapter, but I could not find anything really useful on the internet. I bought an adapter that weighs about 210 grams, whereas my old one (broken) weighs a little more, 230 grams. I'm a little worried that the new one I bought is not genuine, since I bought it from an ebay seller who stated that it's a bulk product straight from the factory and had thousands of good reviews.
I've found dtrace to be an invaluable tool for debugging and troubleshooting all sorts of issues, not to mention the two dozen dtrace toolkit scripts shipped by Apple as part of El Capitan. On El Cap though, running dtrace usually results in an endless spew of errors making dtrace all but useless.
I upgraded to OS X El Capitan and tried to install a new app (MPLAB X from Microchip) but I got an error because it couldn't copy a library to /usr/lib even when it asked for root password. I tried to manually copying the library using sudo cp libSEGGERAccessLink.dylib /usr/lib but it says cp: /usr/lib/libSEGGERAccessLink.dylib: Operation not permitted.
After a few days of using El Capitan I decided to do a clean install today. As always I backed up ~/Library/Mail and put it back after the clean install. When I opened Mail after that, there were no accounts, no local mailboxes, no mail! Since the I tried to restore every file that could be associated with Mail I could find from a TimeMachine backup: Nothing has changed from that. My Mails and Mailboxes are located in: My Accounts are stored in the only file left in V2:
In Yosemite, I could use CMD + ~ to switch between windows of an application, but it switched only between windows on the same desktop/space. When I use the same keyboard shortcut in El Capitan, it switches to windows of the same application that are opened in other desktops. Is there a way to restrict its behavior to within the same desktop (the way it worked in Yosemite)? Thanks! UPDATE:
I want to install metasploit, and I know that xcode is needed. Now the problem is, that even though xcode is on my computer and I downloaded it from the app store, this occurs:
How do I display the WiFi symbol when connected to WiFi? iOS 8 used to show the WiFi symbol in place of LTE when connected to WiFi. Now, after the iOS 9 update, it always display LTE, even though I'm connected to WiFi. It shows I'm connected to my router in settings, and I also pinged my local router with a ping app. iPhone 5, iOS 9.0.1.
I am considering running a virtualized OS X running system within my PC on VMware Player. I want to do this so that I can run Xcode. Can I do this?
I am testing my first Chromebook and its Caret editor. I would like to have the feature called "editing many lines at once" by holding CMD and clicking appropriate lines, like in sublime but much faster, here thread about it. How can you have Sublime-like editing of many lines at once in TextMate?
On one of my computers, iCloud Drive is not working after upgrading to El Capitan. The iCloud Drive folder is missing all my files in finder. Normally, these files are stored in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ for me locally. However, even this folder is empty. My iCloud Drive shows up fine on another one of my computers. I thought a fix may be to disable and reenable iCloud Drive in System Preferences, but when I do that I get the following message...
I'm using the Google Maps app v4.11 that includes a Notification Center widget for Nearby Transit. The problem is that it always says that there are no transit stations nearby. I'm in the middle of San Francisco, so this seems wrong.
I did a full backup before installing El Capitan, so a restore is available if nothing else. After the install, I was able to login, but found that the login group for my non-admin account had been changed from staff (20) to wheel (0).
The logic is, I assume that macOS 10.10.5 is more stable that macOS 10.10 when it was first released, so I would like to put a 10.10.5 upgrade on my plate of options if/when I have the time and patience to deal with. I would like to avoid macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) for a while if possible. Is my only option at this point to download a macOS 10.10.5 installer from some non-Apple website somewhere or does Apple have any accommodations to allow end-users to download macOS 10.10.5 from them in some way?
When contacts/address book was imported from a previous phone most of the entries came in with the last name in the first name field, and first name in the last name field. Is there a quick key method to swap those two fields without having to retype both of them or cut/paste one and type the other?
I can't change my app store country on ios 9. I used to easily do it now it won't let me. Any suggestions?
I try to listen to my iTunes Radio. And I'm currently on the latest iOS. And it says it's not supported. What's going on?
I can navigate a script to control specific "Menu" items... but I can not find information on directing a script to find and click a specific button on a drop down sheet such as the one shown Here is some more information. Using Automator and Script Editor I made two scripts, saved them as Applications and set them each with a command key. The result was that I could quickly open and close Safari and have the browser reset each time... works like a charm until Apple modifies Safari enough where the scripts need to be adjusted for the new path to the same function.
I got myself a new 6s and I noticed that all of my keyboard shortcuts (now called Text Replacement) are gone! Sux. Anyone else have this issue and have you found a way to restore them?
After update to OS X 10.11 I started having these bugs: Finder sidebar text flashing Video Finder sidebar text flashing Video Very high CPU load: Very high CPU load:
I am facing the following issue after upgrading to El Capitan. It says:
If I just pressed SHIFT_L (i.e. left shift button), I want it to type ( & if I am using SHIFT_L for a combination to work it like normal SHIFT_L. Eg: How can I achieve this?
I have iOS 9.0.1 and today i want to update to 9.0.2 but my iPhone 6 thinks it's up to date. I was using all of the betas without any problem since iOS 9 beta 1 then i updated to GM version. I really don't wanna hard reset or iTunes update to my phone. Any idea?
I haven't been able to find a definite answer to this question. I've upgraded my iOS devices to v9.0 and in both of them iOS "Documents and Data" is nowhere to be found. I got the prompt to upgrade to iCloud Drive, which I didn't do (*). When I installed iOS 8, I also didn't update and things worked as they did before.
I used CyberDuck to connect to my remote server. Some days ago CyberDuck starts says ("FTP Connection Open") then ("Read timed out. The connection attempt timed out. The server may be down, or your network may not be properly configured."). So I have thought was a CyberDuck or Server Error, so I tried using "Connection to server..." (Finder - CMD+K) and the result is the same: cannot connect to server, when i try the windows shake as the password was wrong but I changed yesterday the server FTP account in order to be certain that the password is right. Therefore I've thought was a server error, but this problem appears with Aruba, Netsons and Altervista, so I doubt that the problem is generated from server. Any idea to fix?
Currently I'm using a macbook pro as my development machine. My workflow basically consists of logging in to an ec2 instance via ssh and there working on the shell using emacs.
Suppose we have a log file like marks.log and the content looks something like this: I want to add a new column that contains average for each person (row), and a new row that contains average for each course (column). I'm new to bash can i can't figure the syntax for loops and awk etc.
I have 7000+ contacts synched to my Apple iCloud account. I can see them with the contact app when I search for some of them via spotlight, as shown in the next image:
Brand new Mac user here. Switching over from Windows, where I relied heavily upon Notepad++.
Hey guys I'm using mid 2013 MacBook Pro. I know how to install Windows from bootcamp and I already did last year. Until now I haven't faced a problem like this: after creating an USB install disc I make a partition and Mac reboots when it reboots it stuck at white screen after I turn off the Mac with power button I start with option key it gives me 4 selection:
When I underline a word with Pages 5.5.3 on OS X. For the fonts I use, the underline goes very close to the text, much closer than it is common with Microsoft Word. Just as "tracking" controls how close the next line of text follows the previous, I want to adjust the "tracking" space to lower the underline. Is there any way to control this and give more space between the text and the underline?
I've been following the instructions here for installing John the Ripper on my Macbook Pro (El Capitan). I've skipped the Iterm and Cuda sections (I have a Redeon GPU). All is well until I run Which gives me the error: How can I get it to compile?
I thought the new Apple font was called San Francisco, but I cannot find it in the font list of the Keynote.app for my Mac. Is it called another way or it is not available for Keynote? I am currently using OS X El Capitan.
I just discovered that two downward-facing triangles appear whenever I'm working with a text object in keynote; those serve to define the initial and final tabs. But I noticed that clicking on the ruler between these triangles creates additional shapes (left and right-facing triangles, a rhombus/diamond, and a circle). I've tried moving them around, but I haven't seen any change in the text. Maybe I don't know how to insert proper tabs while I'm typing. Any ideas?
In excel, as shown here, it is possible to find and sum only cells with have a specific value next to them.  Is there a way to do a similar thing in numbers? Specifically, I have a very long table like this:
Actually I want to make a RAM drive related to this script on my Mac. Here is what I did: Disabled SIP in recovery mode using command "csrutil" Created a plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and entered launchctl -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/vn.magik.ramdisk.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "*=URL=* <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>vn.magik.ramdisk</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/Users/khacpm/ramdisk.sh</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>StandardOutPath</key> <string>/Users/khacpm/ramdisk.log</string> <key>StandardErrorPath</key> <string>/Users/khacpm/ramdisk.err</string> </dict> </plist> Created a plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and entered launchctl -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/vn.magik.ramdisk.plist Created .sh file and put it in ~/ramdisk.sh code: function fstartup() { //put folder into ramdisk } function fshutdown() { //detach ramdisk } function framdisk() 
I've got several computers that I manage. Last week just before the release of El Capitan I upgraded one of them to Yosemite; I now want to upgrade the rest to Yosemite (the reason I'm not going straight to El Capitan is that a core piece of daily software I use doesn't work with it yet). The other machines I want to upgrade are all currently running 10.8.x (not sure what version but it's the latest). Is it possible to still download a copy of Yosemite to install?
I want to assign "Go to previous word" command to cmd← and "Go to beginning of the line" command to alt←. In short, I want to switch the actions of cmd← and alt←. Similarly for cmd→ and alt→ as well. How can I accomplish this?
When I attempt to boot Windows I get the error 0xc000000e. This happened after I made a partition in Windows and then deleted it in Mac OS.
In earlier Versions of Apple Mail if there are multiple mails of the same content, i.e. in Inbox and in Sent, Mail would show "1 duplicate" in the upper right. This seems to be gone in El Capitan Mail 9. Now there are multiple Mails with exact same content (Cmd-Shift-D) but sent to different addresses next to each other in the Sent folder. How can I set Mail back to show them as duplicates?
How can I listen to music from the Music app or others (Spotify, etc…) while browsing with Safari? I know that I can put Music in background but it stops whenever I start watching video on Safari. Can I turn off any audio from Safari? Is there any alternative browser that has this feature?
I've old backup from my MacBook (2008-2010) iPhoto library on external HD, i wish to browse + select photos and merge them with my current iMac Photos app in El Capitan 10.11
I recently purchased an iPhone 6S, and the motion tracking worked for a few days, but then in the past four days it has recorded no steps or flights climbed. This morning, the phone started recording data again, but only briefly (maybe 2 hours); it currently is not collecting any motion data. I've been using Apple's Health app and the FitBit app. I tried turning motion tracking off and then back on, restarted the phone, no luck. I'm on iOS 9.0.2. Any ideas?
I am trying to make a driver work on my OSX 10.11. A guide that I am following requires the execution of the following command: followed by: There are some warning, however, on the internet about setting kext-dev-mode to 1.
I need to use my iPad mini as a computer for a while. I am planning to use an Apple TV to AirPlay mirror my iPad's display to an existing HD monitor through HDMI, but I need a good input method. I am A LOT more productive and faster using a mouse, and I only really need a web browser.
I have used Karabiner to change a key combination but the problem is, it doesn't work exactly as I want. For example, using Karabiner, I have mapped alt← to cmd← and vice versa. But what Karabiner does is, it "tricks" the OS to make it think that I have pressed alt←, whenever I press cmd←.
A few days ago all the native apps on my OSX 10.10.4 MacBook Pro stopped connecting to the internet. This seemed to happen out of the blue, and I am not sure what caused this issue. Strangely, Google Chrome seems to work just fine, when even Terminal cannot connect. Here's a summary of what I've tried so far: On the Terminal ping google.com: ping: cannot resolve google.com: Unknown host ping 8.8.8.8: 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss curl google.com: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'google.com' curl 8.8.8.8: curl: (7) Failed to connect to 8.8.8.8 port 80: Operation timed ssh {servername} : ssh: Could not resolve hostname {servername}: nodename nor servname provided, or not known nslookup google.com: This works correctly, but the response is lengthy so I won't post it. dig google.com: This works correctly, but the response is lengthy so I won't post it.
From OS X 10.8 to 10.10, I used to modify the PressAndHold keyboard plists to add the new Romanian and Slavic accents and some symbols, so I'm an hyperglot. From 10.11, they can no longer be modified.
I have just purchased my first Mac and am having problems with Numbers. I want to select the next cell in a given direction that is non-empty (or jump to the end of a contiguous chunk of cells that are non-empty). In Excel (on Windows, anyway), you can do this with Ctrl + An Arrow Key. For example, in this little spreadsheet:
I just used taig to jailbreak an 8.3 pad. All went well for a while and I was investigating and enjoying the freedom. An app then crashed and now I have a black screen with what appears to be no way of restarting. I should mention that my home button is not functional. I could wait for the battery to run out but I'd rather not :) I've tried the hold power for x seconds, tried it with the home but that doesn't do anything, there doesn't seem to be an option within iTunes and I'd rather not restore. Is there an option for sending a reset signal without restore / home button? thanks for any help.
I am using logitech wireless keyboard K270 and Mouse M185 with my MACbook Air(currently OSX 10.10.5) for more than a year now. All of a sudden today after some time, my keyboard and mouse stopped working. I checked the batteries all seems to be OK. I connected the unifying receiver again after restart with Logitech Unifying software and got this message.
Is there a way to completely disable Spaces in El Capitan without turning off Mission Control, Dashboard, etc.? If not, is there a way to disable drag to space? I'm using Cinch and I find it quite annoying to be offered space switching when dragging the window to the top of the screen just to maximize it.
About a week ago, I added the following to the end of my .bash_profile script so set up tab completion for man pages: However, when I updated to El Capitan this morning, it stopped working. I've successfully run the regex portion of the script in my terminal itself, so I'm confident that they are still correct. Can anyone explain why this is happening, and/or how to fix it? Thanks!
Wife has been using iPhoto/Photos and iMovie for storing family photos and videos for roughly 5 years. Have about a 300 GB iMovie library and 100 GB iPhoto library.
I can't seem to adjust my calendar view to see 5 days under the week view with my iPad Mini running iOS 9. How do I change the setup? I don't see an option in settings.
Installed Kindle Previewer v2.94 but it doesn't open, just crashes without even an error message. tried to solve using this blog's instructions but it didn't worked out.
I have extremely high CPU time for Finder use after updating to El Capitan version 10.11.0 I've tried: Rebooting the Mac Resetting SMC Resetting NVRAM The machine is borderline unusable with 100% CPU usage taken by Finder. What can rein this in or diagnose the issue?
Green tags gets added to 30 files without a problem:  Now I am looking for the "remove green tag" option for these files, but the Finder asks me if I want to "add tag green" to these files:
I just upgraded to El Capitan, and when I tried updating brew I got the following error: Before I proceed with the chown recommendation, given that El Capitan just came out, is that the right way to proceed here? Why is this step necessary, and what are any potential undesirable consequences of running this command?
The following is an image representing the source of a clipboard cut and paste operation. Actually the image shows up better in MsWord: here it is blurry
I can use Slide Over, but not Split View. Can I modify any plist files or do something in order to be able to use it on my iPad mini 2?
With Apple Remote Desktop, how can I generate a Battery Status Hrs Left or Battery Percentage Left on my Mac Laptop(s)? I did find something that tells me the "Battery Charge Remaining (mAh)", but it give me a number that I do not understand, example: 646. Can I have the percentage left instead or hours will be fine too? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day. Fabio
I have a 2006 era Mac Pro I've been using as a file server. It's running Lion Server, the latest version, and all software is up to date. There's very little installed on it beyond the OS.
I've noticed square brackets in the "gutters" of a Terminal window when editing files in emacs. The brackets are on either side of the screen and go away if I force a window update by either resizing it or a ctrl-l. I'd like to figure out how to turn the feature off. Here I've just made some edits to the lines starting with 'a.x' and 'or'.
Given a PDF available online, how in the world do I save it locally on the iPad? Why is this so counter-intuitive, if not downright impossible, when the iPad is a very nice e-reader?
OSX Yosemite 10.10.5. I'm using Preview.app to annotate PDFs. Now I want to extract all of the annotations from the documents, so I open Automator.app and connect the "Get Specified Finder Items" and "Extract PDF Annotations" together. I ran it, and I get all of the metadata of annotations, but not any of the content.
Every minute or so, the following ends up in syslog: With lots of repeats of the last line. It's some sort of mdworker / spotlight issue, but what?
I have on my hands a corrupted disk drive with a legacy FileVault image (.sparsebundle directory) and want to attempt to recover it. However, publicly available information I could find on this format is... rather sparse. Is there any more or less comprehensive spec available officially or reverse-engineered?
When I return to my Mac Mini in the morning, the case is warm to the touch, even though at that point it's been sleeping for hours with the display off. According to *=URL=* and *=URL=* the Mini should use under 1.5W in sleep, yet this one uses 15W.
Since iOS 9, every time I get in my car and start it, I receive a notification that I can expect an x minutes drive to my home. How does the phone know that I'm driving my car?
I upgraded through App Store, and after the upgrade, the boot select screen no longer shows my Windows partition, nor the recovery disk. Running diskutil list yields the following: Disk Utility first aid passed with no error.
I have updated the latest iOS software onto my iPhone. When trying to connect to my iTunes library on my laptop, I get an error message (the iPhone cannot be used because it requires a newer version of iTunes). Both my phone and iTunes on my laptop state that I have the latest version... help!
I want to change a file in /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/ but even after disabling csrutil in recovery mode still I get this flags with -ls -lO <filename>: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel restricted,compressed 6365 23 Aug 03:55 Keyboard-de.plist UPDATE: I just figured out, that I can change the ownership now, so I should be able to cp and rm the file I want to change. Still when I am opening the file with textedit I can't do anything, but I think this should be possible too.
I love XtraFinder, but it seems to prevent all windows from restoring when Finder restarts (e.g., after typing killall Finder in the terminal). I'm on Yosemite (10.10.5), and Finder restores all windows and tabs when I reboot or relaunch it without XtraFinder. However, when it boots with XtraFinder, no windows open at all (although Finder has started), and when I click on the Finder icon, it opens one window from the previous session (always the same), but not the other ones. This happens whether or not the save open tabs when quitting Finder option in XtraFinder is enabled. How to have the original session restore behavior with XtraFinder enabled?
How do I update the internal PHP on OS X 10.7.1? I've loaded a current version but since I don't have a simple plan how to update it, I won't do it. I guess it's just easy replacing of files in etc/apache2/. Would anyone please write me a quick manual?
When I tried to save a document I noticed a recent section and folders listed I don't want people to see.  How I can either get OS X to never add these to Recent Places, or if that's not possible then turn off Recent Places period?
If I open a large .JPG file in Preview I will see a big blank green screen...  I tried to delete the user's cache, some files from the preferences, but nothing helped me...
I have an iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, with iTunes 12.3. I want to transfer my music to an external hard drive, but here is the difference:
Prior to El Capitan, it was possible to force emptying of the Trash when stubborn or "in use" items prevented it with "Secure Empty Trash". This option has however been removed in El Capitan. How do I force the Trash to empty on El Capitan?
However, in Preferences > Tabs I see an option named "Use ⌘-1 thru ⌘-9 to switch tabs". When I uncheck that, I get the old behavior of loading my top 9 favorite bookmarks instead of jumping to a tab. Because of this, I hold out hope there is an undocumented shortcut key for jumping to Top Sites.
I know it should be straight forward but unfortunately, it isn't. I did disable the guest user in the System Preferences by unchecking the checkbox for Allow guests to login in to this computer, but it still shows up on the login screen. I have heard that disabling 'Find My Mac' would fix it for OS X Lion, but I want to keep it. Is there a way to do this?
I lost my precious iPod Touch 4g. It seems I can't live without an iPod anymore and must replace it. But. The 4g worked with my obsolete Windows Vista. If I buy the state-of-art iPod Touch 6g, will it be compatible with Vista? Otherwise, will I have to go for a 5g? And no, I can't upgrade Vista.
I run my own CalDAV/CardDAV-server to synchronize all my calendar events and contacts across my devices. Everything was working fine until I upgraded to El Capitan a few days ago.
I have an iPhone 4S that downloaded iOS 9 the other day. Now I lost a ton of storage. I went to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage, selected Delete Update, and selected Delete Update again to confirm - but the file was relatively small. Where did the rest of my space go?
I've been wanting to update my mac for a long time but for some reason it won't let me whenever I try. I'm not an expert when it comes to computers so maybe I'm doing something wrong but if anyone could help it'd be greatly appreciated! I'm using a Macbook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)
I've deleted my recovery disk; or you can say more accurately, I've completely erased, by mistake, my SSD. Now, my only option is to recover via Internet, but the globe on Internet recovery keeps on spinning and stuck at estimated time at 2:53. The Internet is working fine, all other websites and download working fine, but the globe is stuck.
After uploading a large number of photos through the web upload of iCloud Photos my iOS does not show thumbnails of those new pictures but a grid of icons with small clouds in it. It has been like this since two days now. It seems the only way to get the thumbnails downloaded is to look at every picture on my iOS device.
After I read on multiple websites that the new 2nd-Generation Touch ID sensor in the iPhone 6S is a lot faster, I was wondering if the new iPad mini 4 features the same sensor. Basically, I'm not interested if it is a new sensor (as I am not sure whether the improvement is due to new hard- or software), but rather if it reacts as fast in the iPad mini 4 as in the iPhone 6S.
Anyone know how I can do this now? It seems like the app store process for installing Xcode 7 is majorly majorly screwed up, at least for my particular machine.
I record radio programs during the night and then run an applescript to rename the files. I have the script working unless there is no file named that I am attempting to call and rename. Here is my code that is working:
Like in the title, I've used ShadowKiller (very old but worked until 10.11) but it doesn't work in 10.11 and 10.12 as well (tried disabling SIP). I've tried using the command line trick, toggle-osx-shadows from github and couple of others, it seems that something changed in 10.11 Does anybody have a solution?
First time poster in this part of Stack Exchange - apologies I have posted in the wrong section. In short I have an iMac running 10.8. Most of the time I quite happily get about my business but about every 3-4 years I do something stupid. Today was one of those days.
Sometimes I update a contact on Mac and I need it immediately on my iPhone. Until iOS 8.x, to force contacts to update, was necessary to go in contacts, go back to groups then scroll tu update...easy! Now, iOS9, scroll to update in groups disappeared and I can't find an alternative way to force contacts update! The easiest way I find to do that is to create an imaginary contact then remove it and this way works but it doesn't sound a lot as official! Has someone has find alternative methods?
this may be a repetitive question, but I was unable to find an exact solution anywhere. I would really like to be able to hide all of the open applications on my mac without minimizing. I have this workflow in mind: Hide apps which I want to keep updated, minimize apps I am actually using but need to hide temporarily.
I am trying to make a bootable USB with the dd command since Boot Camp does not work. If I execute this command:
I can't get my iMac working and I don't have a backup. If I choose to reinstall Mavericks or Lion (it shipped with Lion, I upgraded to Mavericks) will that wipe over the core HD? I got core HD 350 GB and another internal HD of 2 TB. If I choose the install destination to be the 350 core HD, will that wipe out data on it?
When I send a text to my brother's iPhone from my iPhone it goes as a text. When I receive a message from him it is an iMessage and my responses go to him as an iMessage. His is the only iPhone to which I cannot send an iMessage. How do I reslove this. His number is listed as an iPhone in my contacts.
I just recently purchases a Sennheiser G4ME Zero to replace my Steel Series Siberia V3. The Siberia's microphone worked just fine along with the audio. When I plugged my G4ME Zero in the audio output worked great. When I tested out the microphone, my Macbook didn't receive any input. I plugged in my old Siberia to see if it was a hardware problem with the Mac but it showed up as a working external mic.
I currently have a problem with my macbook 15' mid-2012 (No retina) with Yosemite. When I watch videos (e.g. Youtube) via Firefox, sometime for a microsecond the video becomes blue then comes back to the original color. This problem happens randomly; therefore I have no idea if it's come from Firefox, Youtube or my macbook. I tried with safari and this problem didn't happen, but I can be sure.
I decided to download iOS 9.0.2 for my iPhone 5. When the download finished it was stuck on a screen I have never seen before. Here's a picture:
Almost immediately after the installation reboot, and seconds after the apple logo appears the following error shows up; This is a 2010 iMac running the latest Yosemite with all updates installed. Any guesses for the cause? Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac11,3 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 12 GB Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
I recently tried updating my Macbook Pro Retina to OSX El Capitan, however believing this to be a simple routine update, I did not backup my computer. Of course, the update was unsuccessful, somehow damaging my OSX partition and rendering it unbootable. I tried booting into my Recovery partition and then reinstalling OSX from there, but this did nothing. I also tried using First Aid on my partition (from disk utility) only to be met with the error: Invalid extent entry and incorrect number of file hard links
I'm creating my first iOS game and I use Xcode 6.1 now. I want to update to OSX EL Captain because it has Quicktime where I can make a video of me playing from the Device instead of simulator. Would updating to EL Capitain, force Xcode to make me upgrade to Xcode 7?
In the new El Capitan version of OS X, in safari 9, in fullscreen if you move your cursor to the left, it shows the sidebar. Is there a way to disable it ?
The thing is, there is a bunch of photos I've taken that are referred at the wrong location. For example: there is a picture of my dad that was taken at my home in Barueri, Brazil and the Photo app says that it was taken at Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia Lots of other photos are located in places like Africa and Western Asia, places that I've never been before. Is there a way to correct it?
I've just bought myself an iPhone 5, I've set up iCloud on it and synced it with my iPad. However, all of the iMessage conversations I had on my iPad are not showing up on my iPhone's iMessages. How can I load and continue to have my old iMessage conversations from my iPad to my iphone?
I re-installed Mac OS and erased the recovery partition so Bootcamp would have a punt at installing Windows. Still not managed to re-install Windows, and when I boot with -Alt- held down it still shows Windows as a disk. Why is it still there?
before, when I left my macbook pro alone for 15 minutes in clamshell mode the external display would go to sleep instead of putting on a screen saver. Now all of a sudden it goes into screen saver and I have to manually put the display to sleep (using hotkeys). does anyone have any idea why this could be ? If it helps i'm running 10.10.5... and my power savings setting hasn't changed.
Is this screen not available on the iPod Touch for some reason? Or is this a consequence of my device only having a 32-bit CPU? (I know that some features such as the new ad blockers are not available for 32-bit devices.) Does this screen appear on an iPod Touch 6th generation (which has a 64-bit CPU)?
I'm trying to figure out if its possible to include custom results in the Spotlight search. Our organization has an external page for looking up certain data and I want to be able to include these results in the spotlight search results. Is this possible? Otherwise, is this something that a 3rd party tool could be configured for?
How do i recover/reset/remove restictions passcode on iOS 8.4 ? I have already tried : SBParentalControlsFailedAttempts X SBParentalControlsPIN 1234.
Had to do a reset to factory settings of my iPhone today. I backed it up before doing this. I now want to restore to the backup done earlier today...but when I click on "restore backup" today's backup isn't one of the options. The latest one I'm given the option on is Sept 15, 2015. Help!
When trying to run VLC, El Capitan reports this message: I tried downloading a fresh copy of VLC, but this didn't fix the issue. How can I run VLC on El Capitan?
So I have been using different headphones here and there, but also running a synthesizer program out of my headphone jack into the mixer for live audio performance. Everything always works fine, except for yesterday, it started that no headphones/speakers will work anymore for anything coming out of the 1/8" headphone jack. Yes, I have them plugged in all the way, yes i have tried different headphones/speakers etc... Yes I have gone into settings/audio and selected the proper output and made sure that nothing is muted, all sound is balanced and that it is turned up. The headphones just put out the most faint level of audio that isn't easily detected unless you really press the headphones onto your ears. All this while the regular Macbook speakers work if you unplug the headphones.
Several times in the past few months, a web link has popped up a box alleging that malware has been detected and I should click OK to let them fix it. I'm not stupid enough to even click anywhere near it, but whoever created this thing has figured out how to lock Safari completely. Can't use back button or change tabs or access any menus. Force-Quit is the only option.
I have iOS 6.1.6 on my iPod touch gen 4 and I want to upgrade it to iOS 8 at the least, can anyone help me? I've checked it but it says it's up to date.
I started downloading El Capitan and left my computer for a while, but it had gone into the sleep mode and the download was paused. But when I tried to resume it would not start even after restarting my computer.
After upgrading to El Capitan from Yosemite, my main administration account was removed. After recovering it by forcing the first time setup to run again, I am now unable to change system settings. For example, if I open up "Users and Groups" and click the lock to make changes, it prompts for my password. I enter my password (that has admin privileges) and it accepts it, but the lock status doesn't change. I've also upgraded XCode to v7, and it prompts for my password to accept the license agreement. If I enter it incorrectly, I get the shaky box, but if I enter it correctly, it accepts it, but the license agreement box doesn't go away. I've attempted to resolve this by turning off SIP and by using the "resetpassword" utility on both the Root Admin and my user's account and neither option has worked.
Imagine you have Time Machine running with Yosemite. You open TextEdit, create a new text document in which you actually write stuff. You can turn off your computer, restart it, the document will still be there. But you never saved it once, never. It's just a draft that gets saved as a draft (where?) - when you log out. Then if you close the window, and lose this document, I assume there's a copy of it somewhere since every time you turned your computer off and on again, the document was there! But... where would you now look for it in Time Machine?
I have a Mac with OS X 10.10.5 on a HD which had 4 partitions. Using Disk Utility I deleted one of the 4, intending to slightly grow the 3rd (containing the OS), leaving space for a new partition to install El Capitan. This has been my practice up to now when a new version comes out. I booted to another HD and deleted the partition, but it then proceeded to resize the 3rd partition YoodenVranx to use all the free space. There seems to be no way to change the Partition Layout, or resize the partition. I rebooted and used diskutil to list the current state.
What exactly is a duplicate file? When I wanted to edit the hosts file (/private/etc/hosts), it says: You don't own the file "hosts" and don’t have permission to write to it.
I recently upgraded to El Capitan. Whenever I open an pdf file of more than 1 pages, Preview opens the sidebar. Is there a way to permanently disable it?
I'm using a MBP with a German keyboard. However, as you probably know, it is an annoying layout. Therefore, I use the normal US layout instead. This, however, was not enough. The upper left key (right below the ESC) originally maps to § and ±. Therefore, using karabiner I remapped it and checked Swap tilde with section. This now works as I want on the internal keyboard.
* What I do in this situation is that I "Get" this temporary free apps, and after about 1% of downloading I pause them in order to resume downloading later. * Notice that all below questions are related to each other like a chain and It's not sensible to ask in three separate question. My Questions:
I have 15' early 2011 Macbook Pro with Mavericks installed. Everything works fine, except SD card reader. Even it's not listed in USB hardware list.
I have the first Apple iPhone 4.0, it does not have the "i" with the circle around it that I can tap and access a means to block a "contact" number in my phone. I've tried every option I know of....is there ANY way I can block a caller or do I have to buy a new phone just to block a call?
I run 10.10.4 on an Macbook Pro 9,2. When my bluetooth headphones are on and I try to connect with them, nothing happens. I then need to turn off the headphones and turn them on again, at which point they automatically connect (provided the two devices have been paired). When i Disconnect the device and then try to reconnect, nothing happens. Why is this so? Why is there a Connect option for each paired device if it does not work? Can the problem be at the headphone's end?
I'm trying to get LaTeX working on Anki. I am the only admin on my system but when I try and run the terminal command "tlmgr update --self && tlmgr install dvipng" I get an error saying I need to run the program as an admin. I am the admin! How do I run this program?
I was just wondering if there's any hardware I could purchase which would allow me to basically use my iMac as a television, for analogue signals mainly as I can already watch digital content on it without issue. It'd be mainly for watching VHS, over SCART, so the hardware solution would ideally allow synchronised audio, as well as full screen display. A small amount of latency wouldn't be an issue really. Thanks in advance.
Is there some plist I can edit to decrease the number of files that Finder's Get Info function will open separate info windows for? The number of Get Info windows that will open simultaneously is THIRTY-FIVE. The windows slowly appear one at a time, and once they finally finish appearing I have to close them all one at a time. Pure madness, and whoever chose the default value for this feature should go outside and think about what they've done.
I have Macbook Pro retina (late 2014) with OS X 10.11. There some wireless networks - like my university wifi network - that when I select them, and connect, the wifi adaptor would turn off. If I try to turn it off again it won't work. The only solution I've found is to remove the saved network from Preferred Networks - under; System preferences > Wi-Fi > advanced > Wi-Fi tab > Preferred Networks - and turn the adaptor on.
I keep seeing this in my logs: What is it? Is it related to the firmware 0day hack from July? I'm on 10.11, 2012 mbp.
I left some unallocated space on my external HD (around 200 GB) and now I would like to create a partition on it using gpt in terminal since the Disk Utility tool on El Capitan is not even showing the free space, though it did show on Yosemite, but nothing would happen after clicking apply. Does it look ok? Which line indicates the free space? Thank you!
I want to update my mac mini OS from Maverics to EI Capitan. When i click on Get button at that time it will give a error message. For better understanding i attached screen shot of the error message.
When i type my email and password and then click to login button, After a few seconds without having to happen return to first state . what to do?
I recently did a clean install of El Capitan & added Tampermonkey to my Safari. I added a few scripts in the morning and went to sleep. I woke up at night and got back to my Safari only to learn that all the scripts in Tampermonkey had disappeared into the ether. When I re-added a script, this is what Tampermonkey told me: Tampermonkey detected inconsistencies that indicate that your browser wiped the extension database! Is there a way to prevent this from happening again?
I've deleted a main Homebrew file and now I can't un-install Homebrew. I want to un-install it and then do a fresh install. This is what I'm getting in the Terminal...
I recently did a clean install of El Captian & added Tampermonkey into my safari. Youtube had evolved a lot since its inception and, personally, I found the homepage had become quite shitty so I used the snippet of code in my Tampermonkey script below to redirect the homepage to the subscription page
I received a spam email that pretends that I have to validate my Apple ID account information. Our automated system was recently unable to validate your details and therefor we require you to complete a short validation process. Please proceed to the link below in order to avoid any interruption to your Apple services. Where can I report this to Apple?
I upgraded my MacBook Air early 2014 to El Capitan from Yosemite. I'm encountering random lags , especially while app switching.
My dad has a Mac Pro (2009 era) and runs 3 monitors hooked up with DisplayPort. They are not high-res and only about 24". Nothing that a Mac Pro should have any issues with. Everything worked well until he upgraded to El Capitan last week. Almost immediately, it crashed to the login screen. I spent a while troubleshooting the problem and all of the crash reports point to graphics problems (which seems apparent). Right now, he is down to one monitor to mostly rule out the crashes. I found that disabling "each display on it's own space" helped, but if he is working with one display and a notification comes in on the other one, it will consistently crash.
I like notifications. I also like having many browser tabs open. When my browser is fully zoomed on my main screen, notifications can cover the rightmost tab. When I'm in a busy chat or other notification-heavy situation, they cover it constantly, and I have to move the window to get access to click the tab.
Yesterday, I've run into a weird problem on my early 2015 MacBook Air. I was copying over some files from a Windows 7 VM (Fusion 8.0.1) when all of a sudden my host OS' interface ran all sluggish and laggy. Things like switching between Desktops / full screen apps stuttered and opening apps took way longer than normal. Every sane computer user would probably reboot as step #1 - and that's what I did 3 times - to no avail. Stutter continued. Welp.
It is even stranger with the Fn+delete. Pressing the Fn key shows up on the soft keyboard, and changes the picture on the delete key from left delete to right delete. Now pressing the delete key, removes the highlighting from both the Fn key and the delete key, so it appears as if no key is being pressed. In fact if I repeatedly press the delete key, while holding the Fn key down, it thinks that I am repeated pressing the Fn key!
Today I installed El Capitan on my Macbook Pro and noticed some weird graphical effects when I was editing my numbers document:  I know that this is entirely software-related, otherwise the screen shot tool couldn't have captured it, and it turns on and off randomly, with mouse-overs and hovers. Does anyone know a possible cause and fix of this? My Macbook: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB OSX El Capitan Version 10.11 My Display: Built-in Display 15.4-inch (2880 x 1800) Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
I was using TotalTerminal to get visor like terminal on a shortcut. But TotalTerminal is abandoned so I have switched to the iTerm2. My problem is that when I use a shortcut to trigger iTerms visor behavior and profile it also gets activated like a normal app and gets into Cmd+Tab list of apps and I do not want that. Is there a way to prevent such behavior for visor profile of iTerm2?
I want to install a Ruby Gem to my computer, but since I don't have an administrator account I can't use sudo. How do I install a Gem without sudo, and what (if any) privileges do I loose? This is in reference to this question I asked on Stack Overflow. I installed RVM, but I got these two errors: And
Is it possible to create a playlist on a iPhone with iOS 9 of all the favorite songs (by marking favorite with the heart icon)
I can connect to my server in my terminal with ftpcommand. Then, I connect to my site with open xxx but I don't know how to send file from my computer (local) to this server, with put. Can someone explain it to me ?
I've upgraded my MacBook Pro to El Capitan recently, and one of the first unpleasant changes, other than XtraFinder & TotalTerminal no longer being compatible, is that the system deems it appropriate to make /private/var/folders to consume up to and beyond 30–40 GB of space, causing my Mac to slow down tremendously. I understand that the files within this folder are all cache files. My only question is why this is happening, and what makes this happen? Is there any way to make it only cache apps that are actually open, or do I have to refresh my NVRAM/PRAM? It's exceedingly annoying to have my computer act like its trying to buffer 20 gigabytes all at once.
I noticed that I could not install and use rEFInd after upgrading to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. This restricts me to OS X so I cannot boot my Linux partition. I get the following error: error "Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc"
I upgraded my Macbook Pro this morning to Version 10.11, and all my personal mail folders disappeared with up to 24 months of archived and must needed emails. They still show up on my iPhone 6...and I'm getting iCloud flow between the two. How do I get them to reappear on my Mac? Help?
If I send my mum a text message it goes through to her phone number, but today I sent her an iMessage and it went through to her boyfriend do phone instead. Why is this?
The installer for 'El Capitan' stops and says "File system verify or repair failed. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again."
Since upgrading to el capitan a couple of days ago, activity window in mail does not work. I do receive emails, but can no longer see or check mail through the activity window when i want, have to wait for 'whenever'; clicking 'get mail' does not work on my demand. I am on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) thanks!
I use a lot my camera and sometimes I need to do a lot of meetings. I don't like to let people around see that I'm in a video call.
Most of the contacts in my Contacts.app are duplicated, but not all. I tried Apple's solution, to no avail. Contacts that are not duplicated and that have data in Company field, have a column character (;) at the end of what is written in that field. Adding the column character to an existing duplicated contact does not change anything (whether I add it in one of them or both). Deleting by hand one of both duplicate contacts erases also the other but only after having quit and come back to the program. Reimporting the vCard of the hand-deleted contact only recreates it once (even after quitting and coming back to the program). In iCloud.com, there are no duplicates, neither in my iPhone, nor in my iPad.
Rebooting the Mac after the above had no effect. ipconfig, unplump/plumb the interface had no effect.
After upgrading to El Capitan (No complains apart of this one) XLD does not work anymore. When I try to rip a CD, XLD crashes and I get the following trace back: The crash occurs when it reads the gaps before ripping.
Love that Safari 9 has pinned tabs, it was the last piece that enabled me to switch from Chrome. However, I often close all tabs except the pinned tabs. However, unless I make one of the pinned tabs active and then close the other tabs it closes the whole window, pinned tabs and all.
The ONLY reason I upgraded to EL Captain because the new QuickTime Player allows me to make a video of my app while I play on my device. However, I've upgraded to EL Captain 10.11 but the QuickTime Player is still version 10.4
El Capitan’s new split view is an interesting feature. At last, OS X users have a feature at their disposal that has long been available on various Linuxes or on Windows. However, I have not yet found any way to enter it with the keyboard alone, without any mouse or trackpad interaction.
I have had this issue for several months, the AppleTV is up-to-date, I've even done a factory reset, but the same problem is happening, and it appears to be most common on Netflix. After playing for a few minutes, the app crashes and the system restarts. After digging through the menu to get back to whatever was being watched, it usually plays after the point of failure, but sometimes crashes again at a later point. I think I've ruled out: Out of date software (keeping it up to date, auto updates enabled) App data that is causing a failure (factory reset should fix that) Hardware failure (since it's most common with Netflix) Last week I turned on the feature to send usage data to Apple so that if a crash report was being generated in the background, it would go to Apple Developers.
Is there any way to disable pinned tabs showing up in every Safari window? I typically have several Spaces going and the pinned tabs are only relevant to those spaces or even just to the specific Safari window.
My iPad is stuck at connect to iTunes when uploading to IOS 9. It says restore and then it gets to the point where it say verifying with Apple then gives unknown error 9. I have tried all the steps Apple suggest when this error happens including DFU mode and no luck please help.
Is there a default username/password for brand new OS X installs that have yet to go through the initial setup process? I have several headless macs already racked, but no display set up for them, because we intend to run them through ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) and ssh. Before the initial setup (where the .AppleSetupDone file gets created for the first time), is there a default username and password for either remote desktop or ssh?
Problem: When the phone rings (regardless of whether I pick up or not, and regardless of whether it's a VoLTE or CDMA call), I lose Internet access over the cellular network (regardless of whether it's 2G, 3G or 4G LTE). I don't have a landline Internet at home, so "use WiFi" is not a solution to the problem. Specs: Verizon iPhone 6S Plus 128 GB (CDMA) Unlimited LTE cellular data plan with hotspot feature enabled on the account, allowing legal USB, WiFi and Bluetooth tethering as supported by the iPhone's "Personal Hotspot" built-in feature, which is activated by Verizon when they detect that I have Hotspot enabled on my account.
How can the average user easily validate the integrity of their Mac's firmware? Before you downvote this question or lecture me on how I am paranoid and no one should ever need to do that, please read below.
Whenever I try to turn on my iPhone 4S, it comes out with the Apple logo for a few seconds and then turn off. Turning it on while holding the + button makes the iTunes screen appear. (The provided link is just an example - not my phone)
Above you can see the values I'd like to sum, because they were all jobs completed within this week. I can't get anything closer than this:
I wish to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to anything higher. Disk Utilities repair says the disk needs to be repaired. So, I need to boot onto something other than the boot drive to run disk utilities.
When using facetime tethered to your iphone in Yosemite (not sure if its different in El Capitan, i havnt upgraded yet) is there a way to be able to key in a number in order to navigate phone options the sort of "press 1 for opening times, press 2 for sales.." sort of thing ?
PS: I know there is a Cookies.binarycookies file in the user's library. I'd still like the answer to my question for future reference at least!
On Windows/Linux, backward/forward mouse buttons are supported natively, so those buttons of M470/M525 work out of the box without any special driver or program. OS X, on the other hand, does not support them natively. It seems Logitech Control Center has extra modules to receive the backward/forward button inputs from hardware and send back/forward messages to programs.
I logged into my iMessage account on a friend's Mac but now I can't figure out how to sign out. How can I secure my messages from appearing on that computer?
How do you list your day's appointments on your iPad "Today's View" The article for the link below was great iPhone but not so much for iPad. How do I show all calendar events in "Today view" in iOS 9? Thanks, Al
I just replaced my old HD from a late-2009 iMac with a new Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB. It was installed by an official Apple repair store but I am worried because it seems slower than my new macboook pro (also with SSD) I tested with Blackmagic Disk Test and it: Writes 253 MB/s Reads 268 Mb/s Official specs say it should: Write 520 MB/s Read 500 Mb/s And it seems from reviews they get numbers close to official ones. I checked my SATA Chipset in the iMac and it says: "Link Speed: 3 Gigabit". Does this mean that 3000 Mb/s (Megabits) are 375 MB/s (Megabytes) and it cannot transfer faster (even though the SSD is faster)?
During installation of El Capitan I skipped the iCloud Keychain configuration because it wouldn't validate the code sent to my phone. What was this process for and how do I restart it now that the instillation is complete?
The following is an applescript that I use to change audio output devices: It worked on Yosemite, but when I updated to El Capitan it is giving me the following error: I'm pretty unfamiliar with applescript, so any ideas why this might be happening will be much appreciated.
I'm a developer and use Motorola Device Manager, and Android File Transfer to work with my Moto X devices. Prior to the upgrade to El Capitan, I was able to use the USB port, run "adb" and all other developer level commands.
I'm using user profile switching in Chrome, which works perfectly fine. Except for when I'm clicking links, that are depending on one of the profiles being logged in. By default Chrome just opens the link in this profile, which was used last. How can I force Chrome to use specific profile?
Is there a way to add applications/processes to the Power Nap function on a Mac? In other words, instead of just the default Time Machine, Mail, etc. you can make it run other applications too. I am running a Mac Mini with OS X Yosemite. Thanks
This habit was inherited from windows 7. I normally choose all the files and then right click and get the folder size. But when I do this in Macos, mac open all the file info. Then how can I close those windows at once? Thank you very much.
I have the MacBook Air, and on the charger, there is a LED that is red-orange when charging, and green when charged. Is there any way to change the color of that? To, for instance, make it red when battery power is from 0-25, dark orange when the battery is 25-50, etc.?
I have recently done a clean reinstall of OS X to fix my corrupted drive and everything is fine running Mavericks. However, I have been trying to upgrade to Yosemite, first by downloading from App Store and then installing from there, and then by creating a bootable usb, only to be met both times with the error,
Outlook 2016 has removed support for AppleScript. I used to use a script to move my mail to the Archive folder on Ctrl-A. How do I restore that functionality?
I'm kind of a novice here, and I think I got in over my head. I was trying to do a clean install of El Capitan on my 5K iMac. It has a 1TB Fusion drive.
Since I upgraded to El Capitan, Spotlight has refused to look up for definitions in my custom dictionary (built by me). Instead, it sticks itself with Apple's default English-English dictionary. Note that the custom dictionary: is already at the top of the dictionary list; still works just fine with Dictionary.app and Quick Lookup (three-finger touch). Does anyone know why and have a solution or workaround to this problem? Thanks a lot in advance.
I'm cleaning old 3rd-party stuff out of my /System/* subdirectories on 10.11. And I noticed in /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/ the following file: alfUIplugin.plugin. The file size is zero bytes! And the date modified is in 2012, three years ago; surely it's not part of El Capitan. Right? I can safely delete this...right?
I have a iPhone 5S and it's reporting a capacity of 11.8GB. I would have thought that 16GB would mean 16GB?
If I turn on Do not disturb mode from control center, will it automatically turn off in the morning?
With Android 5.0 wifi hotspot no longer disables on inactivity. So I often stuck with a problem: I work at park with my macbook connected to android phone wifi, after some time a close macbook and go home, I open macbook - and it reconnects to phone wifi as "last used", not to my home network. Each time i forgot to disable hotspot on my phone I get huge bills for mobile internet :(. Is it any way to force macbook to connect "best" wifi after sleep, not the "last used one"? "Don't remember networks" and "don't save passwords" doesn't help - it still connects to last wifi network used. Where is no way I know to make android wifi turn off after inactivity, such option was removed in Android 5.0 I'm using Macbook 12" with latest OSX 10.11
I am using iPhone 6+ with iOS 9 version. Have installed 'Inbox' (by G-mail, not the old G-mail app). Is there any way to save all of the pictures from an email, no matter how long it take to download? Thanks a lot for your time to answer. John
It's nearing a year since I've been actively using the health app and I'm worried that all my logged runs and weight changes will be lost. Does anyone know if is data is saved somewhere (eventually, maybe, so I can visualize changes over e.g. five years, on the iPhone 15s). If not, is there an alternative system where I can import my weight data to manage it over a longer course?
I finally upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (I didn't trust my older iMac (iMac11,3) to run the newest OS X) but now I can't install an important security update, the Security Update 2015-006 1.0. I'm totally at a loss. I even booted up into the recovery mode, repaired all disk/permissions (didn't see anything serious anyway) and then re-installed Mountain Lion all over again. I'm still getting an error when I try to install it though. It downloads just fine, and gets to the end of the install process after rebooting, but just gives an "unexpected error." How can I fix this?
I have upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan. This version is stable enough but when I let my macbook pro 15" (2013) sleeping at night and reopening at the morning, keyboard and trackpad do not work anymore... This issue never happened before and I tried to reset PRAM and SMC but nothing works. I also tried to troubleshoot it by looking at logs and I spot these 2 lines: So I found that the IOUSBHIDDriver module was not load by the kernel, so I searched how to load it manually. I did: Keyboard and trackpad still not working... I check once again that the module is still loaded and it's not.
In El Capitan Spotlight, you can search for weather forecast. Is it possible to change from Fahrenheit to Degrees?
in El Capitan there is a nice folder called QuarantineRoot (the Ars review on this matter) that contains stuff that was in /usr in Yosemite but had to be moved (because /usris now protected by SIP). Can I safely delete it? I sorted the symlinks to texbin that are there, reinstalled Prey etc... is there any risk of a snafu later on?
I have an iMac 27 inch ( Late 2013 ) system.It has 8 GB RAM. Today i upgraded to El Captain from Yosemite. El Captain installed successfully. Now it is showing 4 GB Memory. I dont know what happen to remaining 4 GB Memory.
After numerous difficulties I have managed to get a Windows 7 machine to connect to OSX Server's VPN. I am looking to automate the setup process for Win 7 clients, which would include: add one registry key change couple security policy settings configure a VPN connection (import a VPN profile??) First 2 items above are per OS X Server: How to connect to VPN service from Windows article. Is there a way to automate the setup so it is a single operation that can be performed by the user as opposed to me having to walk through all the steps on every machine?
I'm trying to achieve this: Make my password protected SSH key expire or timeout after a while In Yosemite, this worked fantastic, in El Capitan, using sudo, the files in /System/Libary/LaunchAgents is completely locked :( I cannot chmod, write, or chown the files. Using Finder -> Get info, the locked checkbox is disabled for the folder and the files in it (changing owner using finder doesn't work too).
In Unix, any user with sudo access can act as any other user using sudo su. This invalidates any imagined privacy of local files for all other users of the same Mac. Is there any (preferably OS-level) way to work around this and give users of a multi-user Mac privacy from a potentially snooping administrator?
Tr Trouble in permission How fix it? permission in group wheel = read only full permission = only system group
I upgraded my Yosemite to El Capitan few days ago. Also recently Paragon sent me an e-mail with an offer of free upgrade from version 12 to 14. Since I bought ver. 12, I decided to install version 14. As an existing customer I was given a new serial number and I did the activation - everything went good.
Recently, I installed Windows onto a bootcamp partition on my MBP by using an .iso image file of Windows that I downloaded directly from one of Microsoft's official websites (maybe it was www.microsoftstore.com or windows.microsoft.com) and yes, I used a license key legally purchased from the Microsoft store. I'm trying to find the link to download the .iso file directly again but I can't seem to find it after much searching. Does anyone know where to download the straight-up .iso image of Windows? (Legally of course!)
I make a .pkg-installer for a product that extends the Apache server in OS X. From the postinstall script in the .pkg I'm currently able to configure the default setup of Yosemite and El Capitan, by adding a product.conf file in the /etc/apache2/other folder. To load the new configuration I simply do the following from the postinstall script:
I have an iPhone 6 (model A1586) and I installed the iOS 9.0.2 update this morning, and now my TouchID is refusing to work in any fashion: I cannot unlock my phone with any finger, which I've been able to do reliably previously a. It scans my finger and the screen shows a passcode being inserted, but the phone then just shakes and rejects the unlock I cannot unlock my phone with any finger, which I've been able to do reliably previously
I upgraded Yosemite 10.10.5 to El-Capitan over the last 2 days, and also disabled SIP. .. and because I do a lot of building of my own things like postfix and dovecot, I didn't notice until today that I no longer have a root user, and where 'root' should appear, it's ownership is now 'dovenull' - a user name related to dovecot. I wonder what happened to 'root' ?
I'd like to know the total screen-on time since I plugged off my MacBook from the charger, but apparently there are no easily found stats for it. Do I need an external app? I'm using MacBook Air 2015 with El Capitan.
Is there some way to compress messages for iMessage? My friend and I talk a lot and at the moment between all of the attachments and messages my iMessages is taking 2.5G of space on my phone. What can I do to compress this data or back it up or something? Thanks.
I'm getting started with iOS development and I need a test device to test my apps. I thought of buying an ipod but then I thought buying an icloud locked iphone 5s might be more convenient (affordable) as it will basically do the same thing as the ipod.
Just thinking:  I have been reading a "lot" of users who's system just did not starts once it has been turned off or after a restar command. Some things in common: Virtual machines, Boot camp, multiple partitions, I exactly do not know what could it be. But, behaviour is something about addressing the startup sequence.
I am thinking about attaching an external HD to my Airpot (ac), which I will use to back up my computer using SuperDuper on a nightly basis. However, I am concerned about security. I know that I can set a password to access the disk. But is the disk available via the internet? I'm concerned that someone outside my network might be able to access the disk.
I'm trying to get Anki to work with Latex. Currently, when I open a flashcard with latex on it I get: Generated file: /var/folders/41/v5plvhx12wg0qlrj9h_l0g680000gn/T/anki_temp/tmp.tex Have you installed latex and dvipng?
The answers to this question imply that the reminders do not recur... but that's for versions prior to iOS 9. Much like with newer versions of OSX, iOS 9 will remind you every other day or so to update giving only the options to "update now", "remind me later", "view details". The third option is the only way to avoid "scheduling" a reminder later and it's my go-to option in OSX to shut the reminders off for a bit... but I don't want to stop in the middle of what I'm doing to switch over to the Settings app and then go right back to the app I was actually using.
I have OS X El Capitan and OS X server 5.0.4 installed. Both web and Xcode are enabled. Set web default location contains an index.html When I open a browser and point to my domain like *=URL=* it directs to https://mydomain/xcode/.
So after switching to my new iPhone 6s, I have been sending messages through iMessage. I haven't had any major issues. What has occurred though is that the messages send with the blue bubble (informing me that they are sending as iMessages) and the recipient receives the message and is able to respond without any issue. But the actual messages never displays the words "delivered" under them. While this isn't a major issue as they are sending without any problem, I am wondering why the words "delivered" do not show up.
I just run into a strange issue. My iPhone 6 Plus 64GB (updated today to 9.1 beta 3) started eating my wifi downstream (not upstream) after I plugged it to my macbook for charging. I tried disabling any feature (I was aware of) that could download stuff in the background. Every app is updated on my device. There is also no indicator at the statusbar. Every app is terminated. When I unplug the device from charging and reenable the wifi connection the download process starts again. Rebooting the device while unplugged does help but if I start charging the device it happens again.
I am using a Google account on latest iOS, and the Calendar app appears to be adding it's own alerts to all-day events: Click to enlarge images Yes, I checked the "default alerts" in Settings: Click to enlarge images And even confirmed Google Calendar doesn't have the alerts:
I'm looking for an app to read my rss feeds from my favourite websites but with a filtering feature by keywords. For example every article from a website that contains the word "pluto". On my mac I use RSS Bot to do so, but now that I have an iPad I don't know how can I do that again. Any help?
I created a USB drive with 'El Capitan' on it, as described here, which uses mostly these directions, "option 2: Use Disk Utility." I now have a USB key with "Mac OS Extended" format and 7.8G of stuff on it.
Today I encountered this strange problem: I tried to switch to my Airplay speakers (connected through an Airport Express) by using alt+click on the sound icon in the menu-bar. Music was playing through the Internal Speakers
Does anyone know how to apply a strikethrough to text in the new Notes app? It seems the option has been removed entirely from all font menus, contextual menus and even the font palette!
I have a Mac Pro, early 2008. I installed Windows 10 using bootcamp.
When I go to my monthly calendar I can no longer go to a date?! I have to manually scroll through. Any ideas on why or how to fix?
After installing MacOS X El Capitan I'm unable to use my computer with three external monitors, after I plug third one independent of port ordering computer freezes, everything was working for quite a long time on Yosemite, how can I fix this problem?
When I'm doing a search into my mailbox, Mail is not looking into the archives folder, and that is pretty annoying. I checked "Look into every folder" into the preferences, but it doesn't change anything. If I want to look into the Archives folder, I have to click on it, and then I can type my search criteria. Isn't it possible to search into this folder as well when I'm on my main folder?
I've followed the instructions of the both the accepted answer to this question as well as the other suggestions, How do I install GCC via Homebrew?. But all I get is the following message when I run the brew install gcc command: And if I try to run the brew install gcc command with sudo:
I think I almost have this solved, but I don't get quite what I would like. For most websites, I happily use my default browser (Chrome). However, there is one particular website that just won't work correctly in Chrome. It works fine in Safari or Firefox, and I have been copying the URL; opening Safari; and then pasting into the location bar. I thought it would be nice to have a right-click (context menu) option to open a URL in a different browser.
My OS X El Capitan mail app crashes immediately when I click on it. Why is this happening? I am using Windows 10 to send this email
After upgrading to El Capitan Photos app crashes after 75% of conversion process. Neither rebuilding the library launching Photos with Alt-Command had success. The rebuild process stops at 5% saying the Library was not recognized. Same creating a new library from scratch and copying inside it the Masters and Resources folders. At the moment i cannot view my 150 Gigs of photos. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7252715?start=0&tstart=0
When I'm writing an email with Mail, the email is going to be saved automatically each "X" minutes. The thing is, it is saved in my Archives folder every times it gets automatically saved ; that means I get the email saved 4-5 times maybe more.
After the El Capitan update, I am unable to run pip install. The error I get is that the "operation is not permitted" when pip tries to create new folders while installing.
Deleted by accident -> QTKIT.framework folder. Finder crashes on start-up as do most applications.
The first time, I did not record what I had open. The next time, however, I was ready, and this is the exact list of what I had open: Two YouTube video pages (using the processes Safari Networking with a max of about 44% CPU, typically stabilized at 8-10% and *=URL=* which got to around 51% CPU max, typically around 10-12%)
My MacBook Pro is of 256 GB. Although I haven't used much of it's space, I'm kind of facing an issue. When I click the Apple menu on top left corner and go to About This Mac > Storage, it mentions 213 GB free of 256 GB but slightly below there is a bar, which is about half filled (approximately 160 GB acquired). The most amazing part is 160 GB is being acquired by applications, and I haven't downloaded application more than 6 or 7.
Has anybody come across somebody using iPhone hardware (intact/as is, or hacked, taken apart, disassembled. either way) to use the iPhone screen as a display monitor?
Please see this image:  I don't know what's going on with that icon, but it has been persistent for the past week. It became like that when I forced the shutdown on my Mac because it hanged up. I've just upgraded to El Capitan when it happened. I've tried the following: Reboot Relaunch Finder Quit Finder and Dock on Activity Terminal killall Dock Nothing worked so far. Update: As per user24601's suggestion, I've tried the following:
I have an iOS game coming up and I made a trailer today. I recorded gameplay footage from my iPhone 6 device onto QuickTime and then edited the footage in iMovie. When I started editing, the footage in iMovie is about 1 inch in height. Then I thought maybe that's just the way it is it iMovie. When I uploaded the footage on Facebook, the video is also about 1 inch in size. How do I make it bigger? The iPhone 6 footage that I recorded on QuickTime takes up half the size of the MacBook Pro screen. Why does that footage become 1 inch long on iMovie and then it exports that 1 inch long footage to Facebook. I tried changing various sizes when I exported from iMovie and it video stayed 1 inch in height.
When I open iTunes on OS X 10.11 it also opens Photos! It doesn't close it when I exit. I hardly ever use Photos, so how can I stop this annoying behaviour.
After a few days to a week of normal use of my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015 with Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB) and the BenQ GW2765HT LED monitor via display port, I found that my mac was no longer being detected by my monitor and vice versa. I had no idea what to think except that the wire I had was faulty, so I exchanged it for one of the same brand. And then, bam, another week or so into use of the new wire the same thing happened. This time I decided to exchange it for another brand of Mini Displayport to Displayport cable. The same thing again! Clearly I was not taking the right approach to this problem.
If I reboot my machine and don't do anything it always starts up windows, which I find really annoying because I almost never load bootcamp and it requires me to babysit the reboot. I'd like to set the default to be OSX again, any ideas?
I just upgraded to El Capitan, and was wondering how do I make the scrollbar scroll more lines and always scroll that many lines with each tick of the mouse wheel? Right now, the scrollbar goes up/down depending on how fast you move the scroll wheel on the mouse.
I get this error when I run brew update: How to fix this issue?
I used QuickTime to record my iPhone 6 device video. Format of iPhone 6 QuickTime video on desktop H.264, 750x1334. Size= 406x722. Then I import this QuickTime video into iMovie. When I export the video from iMovie back to desktop the format is now H.264, 1920x1080 and size= 1280x720.
In iOS 8.4.1, if a caller who has 6 numbers, calls you and you see a missed call. Then, clicking the "i" symbol next to the missed call showed you all the 6 numbers of the caller and the number from which he called, was indicated with blue. This helped in knowing exactly what number he called me from and I could call back on the same number.
I have a jetdrive that i'm using permanently in my macbook air SD card slot. I'm wanting to make it so that the drive does not show up in my desktop or sidebar, but is accessible through a folder. I have the folder set up there for it, but can't seem to make the drive disappear from my desktop. I don't want to use the finder method of hiding ALL drives, it is only this drive with the specific name / file system UUID.
Since upgrading to OS X El Capitan, I've noticed a change in the Terminal: Executed lines show an opening bracket on the left, and a closing bracket on the right, as shown in this screenshot:  Similar questions have been asked here: *=URL=* *=URL=* Changes to Terminal in El Capitan Why is there a left bracket before my bash prompt? New Terminal behavior after upgrading to OS X 10.11 Some of the questions are referring to these brackets as marks, and the Terminal's Edit menu has a couple of entries related to marks, for example: Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt and Send Return Edit > Clear to Previous Mark Edit > Navigate > Jump to Previous Mark
Will there be any damage to a MacBook Pro if I keep it in sleeping regime all the time? The reason I don't switch it off is I had problems with the start button. It stopped working within a year and under guarantee they changed hardware but no one said to me how to exploit it properly or gave recommendations. (It turned out start button is linked to hardware and it's very weak and should not be pressed frequently but instead Macbook must be in sleeping mode to avoid pressing start button often).
Bit of an offbeat question, I know: but are the apple logos on the back of Mac laptops all the same size? Has the size varied over time, or does it vary over the models that are currently available? I don't have easy access to an Apple Store so I can't go in and measure the logos by hand. I'm trying to get some stickers made for an event, and as people seem to stick stickers on top laptops (and often over the Apple logo) I thought it would be a good idea to make the stickers slightly larger than the logo!
Everytime I start terminal, it says dhcp instead of my account name. Why is this and how do I exit out of it?
Whenever I sync any song to my iPhone, some of the songs / albums display the wrong album art despite having the correct album-art in iTunes. I have had this issue since iOS 8 and all of my devices are up to date on the software side. Check out the examples below:
I used several aliases on my gmail account that was configured in mail.app. After upgrading to El Capitan, those aliases just vanished.
Does anybody know if I can connect my MacBook Pro via a cable to the box on the wall that is connected to a digital antenna. I'm renting a property and don't want to buy a TV I just want to watch free view via laptop. I do have a broadband connection....would that be easier.
just installed XAMPP and have tried setting up a local server but the address won't resolve. It will lead to a "Connection Was Reset" error. I tried looking in the logs but none were present so I'm instantly suspcious of something not being set up right.. but I can't seem to track it down.. here's my vhosts file (/etc/apache2/extra): and my host file (/etc): Apache (when restarted) starts without any issues so not really sure what's wrong? Thanks
I have been using Xcode 7 as my default python editor for some time now. The usual method to run python from Xcode is given here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5276967/python-in-xcode-7/8636301#8636301.
I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OSX 10.11 El Capitan but sadly the mapping software for my Mad Catz Mouse (M.M.O.7) does not start anymore. Crash Report The result is that I have a lot of hovering problem (hover event does not fire anymore) and shortcuts macros do not work at all. Does anyone have a workaround ? I contacted the Mad Catz team via Facebook and Twitter 2 days ago and I still have no answer.
I'm transitioning to using Photos.app on both iOS and OS X - with the intention to use iCloud Photo Library... Before making this change I had to move a bunch of photos off an iPhone to free up space. I did so using Image Capture on the Mac - and I've ended up with .JPGs paired with .AAEs (the latter, as I understand it, containing the image edits). (So, I moved the photos off the iPhone to a folder on a Mac, duplicated on external disk, did a back up, then deleted the images on the iPhone) I've read this Q&A with tells of a method to use a python script to apply of the filters to the corresponding images.
(how can I generate an image of that error box?).
I spent too much time on this, so I'm asking you guys if you can figure it out. I can connect to my VPN, but my IP won't change (I can access the internet) and since P2P isn't working I guess the traffic isn't going through the VPN, which is problematical. IP : 129.104.219.226 Gateway : 255.255.252.0 Router : 129.104.219.253 and a specific DNS and proxy from my school network VPN (VPNFacile with Viscosity on OS X) when connected: Client IP : 10.61.0.86 Client IP : 10.61.0.86 Server IP : 129.104.247.2 Server IP : 129.104.247.2 My VPN is well-configured (I mean, DNS+proxy) since I copied the configurations (.ovpn files) of some friends of mine who have the same VPN, and tweaked them in every way possible. I have tried: Adding push "redirect-gateway def1", redirect-gateway def1, route-delay 20 to my configuration files Adding push "redirect-gateway def1", redirect-gateway def1, route-delay 20 to my configuration files Flushing dns and routes Flushing dns and routes Updating OSX Updating O
I can't find a single piece of information about my issue. Is it possible to disable the 'feature' that the spaces bar reveals the content only if I hover with the mouse on it? It drives me nuts and I want the spaces bar to act like with the Yosemite update.
I have a recent iPod touch (just over 1 year old). I have an audio file from a voice recorder I'd like to load to it. The audio is 2-1/2 hours, a voice recording, but when copied to iTunes, it shows as a song. And when the iPod is attached, via cable to the computer, there's no option to just choose individual songs. The file is too long to load to cloud. Similarly produced files were only 1-1/2 hours max, and went thru cloud just fine. Any suggestion how to move the file to iPod?
I want to use the "CPU history" to monitor how some program uses the CPU, but the update frequency of "very often (1 sec)" is not fast enough for me. The changes I want to observe happen in less than a second (I am thinking of 0,1 second).
Does turning airplane on and off constantly on my iPhone 6s ruin my hardware or ruin the iPhone in any way?
An application that I use, Pomodoro Time Pro, captures ⌘+F2 globally (so I can't use it with any other app). It doesn't use it for any purpose nor is there a way to unset the shortcut. Their support have acknowledged this as a bug but even after four months and multiple contacts, they are "still fixing it as soon as possible." I'm using Mac OS X 10.11 and was wondering if there is a way to disable ⌘+F2 for this app somehow.
Can you tell me how to place a photo into a Simplenote? I am using an iPhone 6s or a MacBook with OS X El Capitan.
If I just replace a TV with Macbook Pro, does it work? I haven't tested it yet. Please give me some suggestions. Thanks.
When I send a message using siri on apple watch, the text of the message is shown and the only option available is "Don't send". The message is sent if no action is taken - how long until the message is sent?
following the El Cap upgrade my local DokuWiki installation responded with a 404. wasn't working either, but through some changes to the Apache conf I got at least this back. But
After the upgrade, El Capitan duplicated my Gmail account, which is now both as POP and IMAP (that is because I set up my Google Internet account in Yosemite, but I never set up the IMAP account in Mail. El Capitan did it without asking...). Because POP is a terrible protocol, some of the emails that were received or sent in the POP version of the account have not made it to the GMail server, and thus are just local to my computer. What I want is to move all the emails in the POP 'Inbox' to the IMAP 'Inbox' move all the emails in the POP 'Sent' to the IMAP 'Sent'
TL;DR - How do I set a custom screen resolution for a VirtualBox Mac guest? I'm in a situation where I need to keep Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8) alive in a VirtualBox setup to run some legacy software. The host machine is a 2013 MacBook Retina 13" running El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11) Honestly, things are running pretty well... better than expected! The one irritation is that I can't set the resolution to something reasonable.
I am 15 year old developer who is currently learning iOS development. I've noticed that you must be at least 18 years old to publish an app. Should I decide to do just that, would it be possible to join the apple developer program even though I am underaged? I wish to use the apps I may submit as a talking point on CVs and applications for higher education.
In my iMessages that I send to other iMessage users the "delivered" text is not showing up after I press send, but the people who I sent it to say they received it and are able to respond. Also my iMessage is claiming that I have cellular data turned off, but I don't.
I am one of the many who have extremely blurry fonts on external displays connected to my 2014 MacBook Pro. The solution for me has always been to follow this guide which runs a ruby script and puts the result in an overrides folder.
I have an old Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick (800e) that I would like to use to record and watch TV using an over-the-air antenna. I know that some people love EyeTV, but it's a bit expensive and not very configurable as far as I can tell. The ideal software would have some or all of the below features: Inexpensive (price of software and price of program guide (EPG) subscription) Configurable recordings ("record every new episode of this show") Automated commercial removal from recordings Automated and configurable export of recordings (location, video format, file name based on program data) Live TV or recordings streamed to other devices (Roku, iOS, web browser) I'm in the US and am looking to watch OTA HD TV stations (ATSC). Does this unicorn exist?
I took part in the public beta of El Capitan but now that the official version has been released I can't get it to update. If I go to Updates in the App Store I get "No Updates Available" and if I try installing from the OS's page, I get the option to download the installer instead. I'm guessing that A) there are differences between the last public beta and the release so there should be an update, and B) since I can't find any other mention of this issue, something is messed up on my machine preventing it from seeing the update. Should I bite the bullet and download and run the installer or is there something I can change to get my machine to update?
While trying to move a git repository, I ran rm -rf desktop and wiped every file I had there. Normally this would not be that big of a deal since I use GitHub, but I had several hundred screenshots / PDFs that I would like to recover.
For some recipients when I send an iMessage (blue blox) I get a "Delivered" message below it. However, with other users the "Delivered" box never appears. I know one option is that their phone may be off, but I know this is not the case because I get a response. Why does the "Delivered" status appear on some iMessages, but not on others when I know the message has been received? Thank you for your help.
This question is about Mac El Capitan SplitView I am a fan of using splitscreen views as in i3 for linux. Or when I am on Windows I use snapping With the new feature is there a way to use it without touching the mouse?
I've noticed that there's a subtle difference in the way fonts are rendered in the Terminal app in El Capitan (vs Yosemite). It seems like it used to be the case that the AppleFontSmoothing property in the plist could be adjusted which would affect how heavy or light the font would be rendered. This no longer seems to be the case. Is there another way to do this? I'd like to use my fonts but have them rendered more heavily. Related question: Is there a way to make the terminal's font less blurry?
When I go to display settings on my rMBP 13", it says that the "best for retina" resolution is 1280x800. But when I go to display settings on a 13" MacBook Air it says that the native resolution is 1440x900. Why would Apple put different display panels on two computers that are the same screen size?
I've recently deleted contact details of a friend. Will this stop them from sending me an iMessage on my Mac? My iMessage is set up with my email address, not a phone number.
I have my iPhone 5S set up so I may receive text messages sent to my email account, my phone number AND my son's phone number. The problem is, when I get a message (say, one that was sent to my son's number) I can't tell if it was sent to ME or HIM. How can I see this info?
It happens with unusual frequency that a notification will pop up covering the top right area of my window, right when I need to get a something in that top right area. I'd rather not have to wait the 5 seconds for the notification to go away. Is there a way to dismiss the notification right away? I had read here that a right swipe on the magic mouse would do the trick, but that doesn't seem to be the case, at least for me.
He told me to open a new user on the Macbook (as guest user deletes upon shutdown), then open up the mail accounts the same way through the Mail app, and that should fix it. I've now done that, and still...same problem except now, it's not showing two types of webmail for each account, just IMAP. But it currently won't sent the mail I just drafted and i just got the server timed out message. Since they are webmail accounts, I could just access them online, but I want the organizational features of having them in one place, merging calendars, etc.
I am part of a company where a lot of people use iPhones/iPads. I don't personally and never have, so I'm at a loss here and am hoping someone here can tell me.
What can cause this? The URL bar is behaving weirdly and cannot be edited
A friend of mine in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) asked me if I knew of a way to remove "nearby bars" from his iPhone. This appears when you swipe left and the built in Maps feature displays this.
I made my account around 2006, and have changed my email address a couple of times. Now I can't download past purchases or even listen to the songs I purchased without my iPad prompting me to enter my old address and password for those songs.
So I recently updated my OS X to El Capitan and after it had been installed, I booted Parallels Desktop 9 to find that it would no longer connect to the internet. On boot up, it says: Failed to open the Parallels networking module. and then suggests:
I tried to install MuPDF on OS X 10.11 using Homebrew: But when I try to use it from the command line (it doesn't show up on Launchpad) I get the following error:
I have files in Finder sorted by Last Opened. Most files seem to be sorted by when they were opened, but not all of them, and some being years behind. Why? For example... If I open an image with Preview, it is considered opened. If I open a text file with a text editor, it is considered opened. If I use Quick View on any file, it is not considered opened If I play an mp3 in iTunes it is not considered opened. If I edit an mp3's id3 tag in iTunes it is still not considered opened.
I would like to remove the new 'events' and 'contacts' banners that appear across the top of my incoming mail. I never use them, and they are distracting. Does anyone know how to turn them off?
This has created some performance issues (specially with the newly installed SSD), and I would like to apply the upgrades. But the firmware installer refuses to run on El Capitan, saying it is incompatible with this version of the OS.
which turns off mouse acceleration but the problem is that it also resets the tracking speed to very low. If I try to increase the tracking speed in System Preferences, it turns acceleration back on.
My Apple iPad went dead over night and in the morning I plugged it in. It shows a little battery icon with three red bars so I plugged it in and I thought it would charge for about 4 hours I came back to see how it was. The same thing was on the screen and when I unplugged it from the charger, it flashed that the battery is low and I need to plug it in. So I plugged it back in and ever since it still has that bar with the three bars and will not charge or do anything. I've already held down the home and the other button for 15 seconds, and still it has not started to work and I do not know what to do!
I have this issue on my iPhone, iPad, and the iTunes app on my computer, which leads me to believe that it's not just some bug in the app. This happens for all the podcasts I have. The weird thing is that it actually knows which episodes are played, and indicates this with a little gray circle next to each unplayed episode, but for some reason the "unplayed" menu only shows one episode.
In Numbers 3.0 is there a means to have a dark or heavier line every (5) lines for both the columns across and rows down?
I want to use Reminders.app but I also want a little more structure through nested lists. How do I created nested lists with Reminders.app on iOS or OS X?
I have a Time Capsule that normally acts as a Wireless bridge to my DSL router. (All DHCP and NAT takes place on the router, not the Time Capsule.)
I have a Macbook Pro Retina, running OS X 10.10.5, and a BenQ GW Series GW2765HT monitor, which does not allow audio adjustment via my computer. I've tried Soundflower, but find that it is buggy and crashes. Is there any other way to control volume from my computer?
OS: Yosemite Basically I am looking for something similar to Mac os x ipfw forward from ip:port to ip:port but since there is no ipfw on Yosemite is there a way to do this trick using pfctl or something like that?
The new MacBooks are the best  But their processors are pretty anemic. Not a big deal when I'm out and about, but not great for serious work. Get an iMac with decent specs, use its processor, RAM, etc., and boot from my Macbook's SSD. It looks like Target Disk Mode could accomplish this, but several things are unclear: Would that even boot, or just allow me to browse the Macbook's SSD?
How do I delete default route of "link#8" gateway on OS X El Capitan? It's a route automaticaly added after connecting to IPSec VPN. This doesn't work:
I've been working on macs for a couple of years now, and recently switched jobs (Software dev). Before when I was typing something like "e would not automatically merge into ë. This is really annoying in terminal And I don't know how to disable this as of now (I googled but not sure what I should be looking for). One of the most annoying things I encountered was when I need to go to my home dir in terminal (using tilde) when tying by default it will complete to ˜/ whilst I would like to see it act like before: ~/ which requires me to type an extra space. I never need the auto completion for accents since I'll use the menu which opens when you hold the key instead. Does anyone know what could cause and get rid of this behaviour. My keyboard settings are US-Internation (which is normal in the Netherlands) and my MacBook is fully updated to El-Capitan.
I need to evaluate if the OS X Server.app has been installed and if it has been started or not. This I need to do from within a shell script. I could check for existing folder names, but I would expect it cannot truly make sure that the Server.app is installed and up and running so that I can run the serveradmin command. Anyone with a suggestion? This is a follow-up question to my previous question: Configure the OS X Server from .pkg postinstall script
We've upgraded some MacBooks to El Capitan, all the workstations here are connected to a NAS through AFP. All upgraded workstations now show a small amount of folders with strange names like; SBAK7C~3 GE3HHX~F DWBENE~Y
I really love the 'auto hide menubar' option in El Capitan, but sometimes I like it (private) sometimes I don't (work). Is there a way to show/hide it programmatically by changed it's value in a plist file? If so, in which plist file is that setting found? Any help is appreciated. Update
I've got the following setup: A 2010 MBA and a 2013 rMBP, both running El Capitan (same issues on Yosemite though), connected to an AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Generation), which is connected via an ethernet cable to a Cisco router/modem. Airport is running in bridge mode.
I'm looking for a way to clone my hard disk and have that clone be stored online. If my house burns down I could then download the disk file and mount it, so I could pick up from where I left off. Currently I have set up Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable incremental image (sparsebundle) and store it on disk mounted over wifi (the disk is connected to a Time Capsule). How do I incrementally upload my sparsebundle located on network disk to Dropbox or any other off-site service? What I have tried The Dropbox app was a no-go, because it doesn't support network disks. CrashPlan simply didn't work at all (app wouldn't start).
On an iOS application's App Store reviews tab, there is a Facebook like button. Anybody know what it does when a user clicks on it? Does it show on the user's Facebook feed or does it like a Facebook page for the app?
For some very strange reason, I cannot seem to fit the text on line 2 inside the empty space of the 1st line. I tried deleting the words and re-writing them, which didn't work. I tried changing font sizes back and forth, still didn't work. I couldn't find this bug being referenced anywhere... In the animation below / screen cap, I am only using delete and text keys of the computer.
It seems that it is asking me to run a sudo command from an unprivileged user account. I don't quite know what to do with that. Should this be placed in a seperate question?
I have a Creative Labs webcam (VF0700) that was working fine on Yosemite, but since the upgrade to OS X 10.11, it has stopped working. It is recognised under the System Report in 'About this mac' and if I shut the mac down, plug it into the USB port before rebooting, it works fine ... until I unplug it and then it doesn't work again. I have asked Creative support, and they say 'it's not supported' but the fact that it works with a reboot gives me some hope that there may be a workaround and I don't want to have to buy a new webcam for the odd few times that the iSight camera is not suitable. Is there a command I can use to force the USB port to restart (as if I rebooted the Mac) or some other method I can use to get the webcam working without needing to do a complete reboot each time?
I need to keep using an older version of Chrome to access an old work VPN which requires Java applets and for some reason crashes after several minutes when launched from Safari. The latest versions of Chrome has Java applets disabled, so I need to download an old version of Chrome and disable the autoupdate. I know you can disable the updater interval, but can I disable it by blocking certain domains in /etc/hosts by pointing them to 127.0.0.1 or using Little Snitch to block connections?
Is there any way to receive a iOS notification when you are charging your iPhone and the battery charge level gets to 100%? Or any third party app? Thanks.
Okay so here's my problem. I want to change the icons of the Dashboard, Launcher, Quicktime, Notes, Mail etc. But when I paste my icon to the top left mini icon in the preview window (on the Get Info page) it won't let me. Then I tried to change the permission settings to be able to edit the icon or change anything in the application folder but it tells me that i do not have the permission even tho I'm the sole user of the Mac. I'm on El Capitan so I don't know if it's because of the new upgrade.
I have several shortcuts to network folders in my dock. Since I'm running El Capitan, the Dock crashes and will not restart properly after killing it when those network connections are not available (the server is either off, or I'm on another netowork).
Normally on a PC, if you have caps lock enabled, holding shift will result in lower case characters appearing. On OSX, this behavior doesn't occur - that is, holding shift while caps lock is engaged doesn't produce lower case. The behavior is specific to OSX, since it doesn't happen in a Boot Camp installed copy of Windows. Is there a way to change this behavior to be more traditional?
I am trying to run Windows 10 on my Macbook Air. I originally wanted to upgrade my SSD so that I would have enough space for a windows partition. Unfortunately, I can't do that with my model (I have a mid 2013 Macbook Air) so I'm trying to run Windows from a USB instead. I Downloaded the windows .iso, installed it on the flash drive using WinToUSB on a Windows computer and all appeared to be fine. I inserted the USB, restarted my computer, and chose to boot "Windows". Then a screen came up informing me that No bootable device was found and saying something about BIOS. I am at a total loss of what to do to make this work...
I've got restrictions set on my son's iPod touch running iOS 9.0.2 but I want to allow him to send/receive texts only, no images nor videos, via iMessage. Is this possible?
I have spotted my wifi connection is being chocked to a much slower, yet steady, speed on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) running OSX 10.11. If I login to a guest account it matches the wifi speed I experience on my iPhone 6s (145mbps up / 14mbps down).
Connecting device over WiFi through WiFi-router and using that connection in another machine with USB tethering by not using mobile data.This is possible in android devices. Just to make it more clear, I don't want to use my mobile data but I have a working internet connectivity by WiFi router, So I wish to use the internet connection in my laptop through my iPhone 6 plus which is connected to internet via WiFi (NOT BY MOBILE DATA),
Can I programmatically add a symbolic link to the Finder sidebar. Manually dragging is not an option.
Yesterday, I decided to restore my iphone to factory default setting . So I format my iphone through setting menu (but the battery was low) . Then i kept my phone on charge but nothing happen. I also bought a new charger and cable but my iphone won't charge. I have been trying to reset it (holding power and home button) and I have tried putting it in safe mode but no luck .
Recently, my iPad Mini has stopped responding to the sleep/wake magnets in my cover. Is there any fix for this other than taking it in for a hardware fix?
I have replaced original hard drive to samsung SSD and upgraded memory too. I have now installed El Capitan and want to run Apple Hardware Test. I have already tried 'D' , Option + 'D' both didn't do anything. I have checked under "/System/Library/CoreServices" and no ".diagnostics" folder. I tried to copy this folder to CoreServices and not able to do that since error message says no permission.
Photo App won't open after I downloaded OS X El Capitan V.10.11. Response: "Photos must quit because the photo library has become unavailable or its data is corrupt."
I'm Australian. I live in Spain. I use my iPad running iOS 9 in English (Australian) because that's my mother tongue. But I haven't lived there for 12 years and I care nothing about Australian sports results and celebrity gossip.
Prior to this, one could easily download Xcode Beta from Apple Developer portal with only their Apple ID. There was no need for Apple Developer membership. (I downloaded Xcode 7 Beta 1 without any problems.) But now that Xcode 7 Beta 3 is released, after I click the download button and sign in using my Apple ID, this page.
I just had Yosemite loaded onto my laptop and there is no Photo app (nor iPhoto). I do have ImageCapture, but I would like to work with my albums in either Photo or iPhoto. Can't find it at the AppStore to download... How can I get one of them? Thanks.
How can I remove CleanMyMac 3 from appearing within the Notifications centre - the app has already been uninstalled and I cannot locate any files for it. I am running OS X El Capitan
While running ./getcov -s from Jenkin to MAC-OS and I am getting following errors: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -600 for the file /Users/imacsbuild/Documents/XXX/XcodeCoverage-master/lcov/index.html. Has anyone come across such errors?
I would like to set my desktop background to a webcam picture that updates several times an hour, for instance to this view of Tegernsee. I am looking for a way to automatically get that picture every couple of minutes from the internet and update the desktop background. How can I do that (I would prefer a bash or applescript solution)?
Using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) on my Mac Mini (Late 2012) and I have pretty much never experienced random crashes or failures so server I need to hard reboot the system. Maybe one or two oddball kernel panic over the years, but nothing too bad. Here are my systems specs: Model: Mac Mini (Late 2012) CPU: 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB RAM: 16GB (1600 MHz DDR3) Storage: 500GB SATA hard disk drive; about 40GB used.
i can see my Fusion Drive disks (ssd+hdd) in Terminal: But i lost it in the boot and cant boot MAC OS. (please see album with photos on *=URL=* ) I cant repair my system, when i click "check disk" on Fusion Drive it is nothing to do. And if i want to re-install Yosemite, system did not see my Fusion Drive disks, only bootcamp (i have a windows too). Any solution please?
I have my preferences set so the screen locks 1 minute after sleep or after the screensaver goes up. This used to work until I upgraded to El Cap. Now no matter how long after the screensaver has gone up I never get asked my password, the lock screen just does not happen. Any idea why?
I have an 27" IMAC (mid-2011) upgraded all the way from Snow Leopard-Lion-Mountain Lion-Mavericks-Yosemite-El Capitan. I am curious abot the new System Font (San Francisco) however I cant find it in any font lists? Not in FontBook either? So where is it? Thx!
My 1TB LaCie Rugged THB decided it was a good idea to stop working all of a sudden. If I open it in disk util I sometimes see an actual name of a partition, but most likely it's not the real name. In Terminal I tried: And then to unmount this: gave this: Forced unmount of disk1 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted Than for each disk: Always: disk1sn was already unmounted
so I have this apple script here that I used to insert the folder name into the front of all the files in the folder. The script is able to run through every single folder and target all the files and proved to be very useful Source: *=URL=* However, now I have removed a part of the folder names and would like a subtractive effect to be applied to the files, so the script will take the files, look at the parent folder's name, and remove the shared characters. Unfortunately I know very little about apple scripts so I'm hoping this is an easy adjustment that someone here can make. Thanks for any help you can give!
It happens regardless of what network I'm connected to. Every hour or so, the internet connection will just load forever. Nothing else changes as far as I can tell, the wifi menu still says "connected" and "internet reachable" but webpages will not load. Reconnecting to the network / turning wifi off and on will always fix it. Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro Retina.
I deal with a lot of external servers where the firewall must be configured to allow SSH access. I frequently need to know my external IP address, and it changes often. Does anyone know of an application that will determine my external IP address and display it in the menu bar? preferably with a copy to clipboard option? I'd write one myself but Objective-C is not my thing.
I have a text substitution setup within the System Preferences. This works most places within OS X as far as I can tell, but it does not work in Slack. (Their native app for OS X version 1.1.4 - 2814) Does anyone know why?
The web inspector in Safari 9 seems to have added this new "blinking" thing which I find somewhat annoying although it can be useful. How can you turn it off and on? Here is what I mean.
I'm using a 2-port KVM switch between my Mac Mini and a Ubuntu desktop computer. I have no problems with the Ubuntu machine waking up when I switch to the inputs. However, when I switch over to the Mac Mini, the monitor stays dark. This problem only started after upgrading the Mac Mini to OSX 10.11 El Capitan.
Just upgraded to El Capitan on my Mac mini. Mail has a problem though I have multiple mail accounts set-up The outgoing SMTP smtp server for all accounts is NONE If I assign one from the drop list it tries to apply that selection to ALL accounts The "Edit SMTP server list" option in the drop down box is now missing I've deleted all the accounts (closed mail, restarted, re-opened mail) and added back 2 of them but all these issues still exist. Can't see anyone that has my issue although a lot seem to have the outgoing mail server issues. My Macbook Pro (older) upgrade did not have these problems (although a small issue with one account easily fixed) the "edit SMTP server List" options appears as it always did and different outgoing servers can be assigned to different mail accounts.
I would like to know if there any script that i can use to switch automatically between finder and photoshop? I can't install Palua App from my AppStore on El-capitan.
How do I upgrade to Mountain Lion, and then to El Capitan? I just installed Snow Leopard (10.6.3). I have tried to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but that requires that I have 10.6.8 or higher, which I don't.
However, I have an external DVD drive. So when I tried going through the Bootcamp Assistant, it recognized the disc on this drive, and everything seemed to be going fine. It got the partition set up, and restarted the computer as it should. However, when it came time to reboot, I got a black screen with "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE -- INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY". Am I right in assuming that this is because the OS doesn't know to scan my external DVD drive upon booting up? After I manually rebooted, erased the failed Windows partition, and rejoined the empty space to my Mac partition, I tried this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmHxkahbK-g
​Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, the other day I was having a discussion with some iPhone users. The topic was the Hard Reset that you can apply by press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo. As you already know, most of the time, this method fix so many iOS issues. Now, some of them say that it is safe to do, as many time you want the hard reset, some other say that even if it is safe to do it, it is always recommend to have an iCloud or iTunes backup before do the hard reset due to kernel panic, lost of pictures during the rebuild of the library, etc. What is the real answer on that?
I just figured out how to export settings from terminal which creates a .terminal file. And I realize that the ExecutionString parameter has changed to the CommandString parameter.
I recently upgraded my fairly new MacBook Pro to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). I started the Notes app, hoping to see my notes, but they weren't there. I clicked on iCloud in the Settings app and typed my Apple ID and password, and a dialog box showed saying "You can’t sign in at this time. Try signing in again.". I am sure I am typing the right Apple ID and password because I can log in from my phone, and I can log in from the iCloud website. I tried deleting my ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts directory as described here and that didn't seem to do anything. I tried the procedure described here and that didn't work either.
Which one shows the correct value and how can I make room for ghost application allocated space?
I have two iTunes installation on PC. First one is on Windows 7 which is my main iTunes for music podcast etc. Second iTunes is installed in a VMware powered Windows 7
I have a three-partition hard drive on my MacBook pro mid 2009: 1) Snow leopard (10.6.8) on Macintosh HD with 175GB free 2) DATA on a FAT32 partition 3) Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition with 85GB free I have installed windows from within the OS X, following the Bootcamp instruction, then I have created the third partition and did some "recovery" on windows side to have all three partitions working properly.
In what directory on OS X are the sound files located for the alert tones in Messages and in FaceTime? I'm not talking about the alert sounds in System Preferences; I mean the ones that are also on iOS—like Aurora, Bamboo, Chord, etc.—in the list in this screenshot:
I've installed cntlm on osx using the homebrew formula. Then I've copied the .plist file and started the daemon:
I've just found out that some Python code I've got working on Linux also needs to work on OSX. For reliability reasons, on Linux I've been using a cludgy but effective approach to reading and writing characteristics on Bluetooth Low Energy devices. I've been simply spawning a subprocess that calls the gatttool command with the appropriate arguments and capturing the output. (None of the libraries that I tried would work reliably).
I am trying to set up an LDAP account for the Contacts application in the 10.11 (El Capitan) OS X version. I need it, for example, to be able to autocomplete addresses via the Mail application.
I'm in the process of cleaning up my Mac files and want to uninstall some applications. Some applications come with an uninstaller, others I can simply drag and drop to the trash. I'm aware that when you trash some applications, files are left behind via the library folder.
My iPhone 6S Plus seems to default to showing the landscape home screen if I unlock it while it's sat on a flat surface, i.e. a desk or table. The phone is definitely in portrait mode when I place it down and lock it, but when I come back seconds / minutes later to unlock, it's reverted to landscape.
On the control center screen on my Apple Watch I accidentally turned on AirPlay. When I tap on it it gives me an option to cancel or select "Apple Watch...". I've tried both and neither option toggles AirPlay off. How do I turn off AirPlay?
I have this weird problem, I often use cmd+tab to switch between opened applications. After upgrading my OS to El Capitan it started to behave weird. Sometimes it doesn't switch to last focused window but it switches to last application visible on that bar which is displayed after pressing this shortcut. It really freaks me out. To explain this problem better I've recorded a video cmd+tab, when this bug occurs I stop for a while and point my cursor on the application item on that bar. I have to mention than all this time I'm using cmd+tab only, without shift pressed.
I restart my MacBook Air OSX 10.8.5 every few days as a routine habit. Twice in the last few months it has come back with the globe (earth) image displayed for 20-30 seconds (I believe it was flashing), then continues on to start normally. See sequence of images.
I am running El Capitan. I added login credentials into Keychain as follows: Name/Where (the full web url) Account (the login username) Password (the login password) I then launched the web page and was thinking that what keychain would do is auto fill the login credentials. Nothing happened. Am I mis-understanding what keychain is and does? Is there a way on the macbook to auto populate the username and password on a website? Thank you...and be kind please -- I am a long time PC user and just got my first macbook the other day so I am trying to learn and make my way around the new machine.
I am new to the MacBook and I am running El Capitan. I'm migrating my machine usage from a PC to a MacBook. I am long time user of PuTTY and SuperPuTTY on a PC. I want to create and save login credentials to my web servers in MacBook Terminal just like I've done in SuperPuTTY on the PC. Is it possible to save web server login credentials in Mac Terminal? Here is My Overall Objective: I would like to know if there is an easy way in Mac Terminal to store the following command line login credentials and then use some sort of a shortcode to connect to my web server through Terminal:
My boss upgraded his MacBook to OS X El Capitan, and after doing so, Apple Mail started downloading again all mail messages from the server. As he has around 130K mails stored on the server, this makes the computer crash.
I have Outlook 2016 and I'm trying to pickup my gmail using IMAP. I can receive emails, but it does not send when doing a test send on setting up the email. Error code: 0x800cce05
Since installing El Capitan on 2009 iMac, in Apple Mail, a selected message contents does not scroll in the bottom window when the mouse scroll wheel is used, or when the down arrow key is pressed. Restarting Mail, rebooting does not change the issue. Using latest version of USB Overdrive extension, but disabling this does not fix the problem.
If iOS 9 automatically downloads (I know it doesn't automatically install, but it does automatically download) on an iPhone with iOS 8, and I delete the update file from the Settings app, will iOS 9 redownload automatically?
As we know, Apple introduced it's new "rootless" feature in El Capitan that greatly restricts what the root user is capable of doing. Unfortunately this feature breaks CPAN for Perl users. One can install new CPAN modules but you cannot install a new version of CPAN — because that goes into /usr/bin/. I know I can disable SIP but I'd prefer to work with it for a while. Anyone know a solution to the CPAN problem?
I am trying to set up iCloud on my work laptop (profile managed in an active directory domain from what I can tell). It seems to be mostly going fine, but all of the icons stay grayed out:
sudo -s apropos . > thedirectory thedatabase: Permission denied
I hope I do not have to disable the hidden file visibility in order to disable .DS_Store from appearing on the desktop. .DS_Store constantly gets in the way in the desktop but not in any other folder.
I have my own iPhone and iPad and my boys iPods on an iCloud account. I've since added my boys iPhones on the same account so that I can monitor and control their apps and purchases.
Today I noticed that an app needed to update. Updates is set to be done automatically, but did not update as it normally would. When I entered the updates list it just started blinking between the Update- and Open-button, and mostly as Open. After reading the question "Can't update apps in iOS App Store; can only Open" I force quitted the App Store app hoping that could do the trick, hoping the app would appear again with the update. When the App Store restarts the update is gone and has still not appeared in the list after an hour.
I need to access some .omf files, which were originally created in an old version of AVID DV. As far as I know, this software only ran on Tiger PPC Macs. The PowerMac PPC G5 I originally used is on it's very last legs & will not reliably start up. An AVID rep told me that these old files would not be accessible with a current version of AVID and I have discovered that these files cannot be accessed with Final Cut Pro. What is my best option for getting this software running so I can access these OMF files in an AVID DV timeline? What I have to work with: a white Intel Santa Rosa Macbook [3,1 - Build 9L31a] running Leopard the original MacBook Leopard install discs a variety of non-bootable disk image clones of a PPC G5 Tiger drive w/ AVID DV installed the dongle required for AVID DV to run the original G5 PPC Tiger install discs the original AVID DV install discs a Mountain Lion / Yosemite dual-boot Mac Mini a 2TB blank external USB drive a 1TB external Firewire drive that I can erase 
After I upgraded my mac to 10.11, access to my download directory on my Synology NAS is denied. Finder said "The origin element of Download can't find". My other Mac on Yosemite, and my Windows 10 PC, can access this directory.
I have data on 16 drives that I want to consolidate to one drive. The 16 drives are external with a firewire connection. Currently I have the one drive connected as an external drive on firewire. I can mount the target drive internally in my MacPro as an option. The total amount of data on the 16 drives is about 3TB. Four of the drives are 400GB the rest are smaller. Appreciate any help. I am in the process of copying one of the 400GB using Finder and it is estimating 15 hours and after 3 hours of copying, it looks like a fairly accurate estimate. Thanks for any help.
For years, I've successfully used Siri to create notes that were then synced with Gmail, as described here: *=URL=* A few weeks ago, this stopped working when the note is created using Siri. This is how I get things out of my head into my GTD workflow, so it's a real problem! Here's what I know: If I create a new note by hand (go to Notes app, type in new note) it syncs immediately. If I create a new note using Siri (for example, "Hey Siri, note, this is a test") the new note appears in the Notes app but not in Gmail.
If I ask Siri "Show me John Smith's contact information", I see John Smith's contact information. If I ask Siri "Where is John Smith?" Siri will show me where John Smith is in the Find my Friends App. If I ask Siri "Email John Smith", Siri replies "Which email address for John Smith" and shows me all of his email addresses. If I say "Call John Smith", Siri calls John Smith.
When trying to install software from App Store on OS X 10.11, I get the error message "The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed." I have tested several different pieces of software, and get the same issue on all of them. I have found a few suggested solutions, however they are from 2011, and refers to the /var/folders, which El Capitan does not have (I can't remember when it disappeared, but I think it was some time ago). In the system logs, I see the following each time I get the error: 09/10/15 19:28:04,476 storedownloadd[642]: *** Assertion failure in -[CheckPreflightOperation verifyDistributionAtURL:allowsDevSign:allowsUnsigned:osVersionToBeInstalled:error:distributionController:], /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Commerce/Commerce-453/CommerceKit/CheckPreflightOperation.m:291 When I browse to /Library/Caches, I do not see com.apple.xbs. As my first attempt to resolve this issue, I renamed /Caches to /Caches_old (paranoid, I gues
The thing is, every time I plug the hard drive in it starts taking up storage space. I use a Macbook Pro and don't have a lot of storage space on the macbook itself, hence the external drive and why this is really annoying. To be clear, it is my MacBooks storage space that gets filled up when I plug it in, since this happens every time I can't use the drive on my Macbook anymore either, because every time I can only use it a few minutes before I get warned that "My macbook is almost out of storage space, please remove some files". When I unplug the drive I can literally see the free storage space increasing. So some process is taking up storage space whilst it is working on the drive.
I was using my Mac over the weekend when I decided to change the song on iTunes from the Today Extension in the sidebar. I swiped to bring the sidebar into view and
Today, just minutes ago I decided to learn more about SIRI to use it more. So I asked Siri the question "Where can I learn more about use and operate Siri? Siri's answer was enable "Location Services".
Okay, so I've been searching far and wide to figure out how to do the following: I need to edit my boss' iCloud contacts. Usually I log into her iCloud but she does not want me to do that anymore because I can see her e-mail, etc. Is there a way that I can access her iCloud contacts using my own e-mail address? I am open to suggestions about third party apps as well.
My boot camp assistant has been downloading "windows support software" for a long time. There is no speed indicator, or total download size. I have tracked the network activity in activity monitor and it has so far downloaded 2.5GB and counting.
I tried ShadowKiller and ShadowSweeper, they do not work anymore on El Capitan. I tried to disable System Integrity Protection, but it does not work. toggle-osx-shadows also does not work: https://github.com/puffnfresh/toggle-osx-shadows/issues/17
For some reason, OS X refuses to remember what I use to open the file. It also refuses to remember it, even though I check Always Open With:
I wasn't sure if I should put this on the Apple or Linux stack exchange but here's my problem. So my old Macbook died a while back and I realized that it might have had some important information. My main PC now is a Lubuntu Desktop. So what I did was I bought a SATA with an HDD power connecter to USB cord and I plugged the SATA side into the HDD and the USB into my PC. I was able to get into the HDD's files, but when I was getting into the documents file it said that I could not access it due to permissions. So I changed the permissions and when I clicked apply it said "Error setting permissions: Read-only file system". Can someone tell me how to save the information on the HDD while being able to access it?
My phone was knocked out of my hand and fell screen side on the ground. I have an off-brand case and my screen will not show anything except for a flash when I press the home button. My phone is currently not connected to an iCloud account and My lock button is broken, how to get my contacts off of my phone?
The first monitor is connected to my laptop via mini-dp to display port in of the first monitor. The second monitor is connected from display port out on the first monitor into the mini-dp in port.
I recently installed OS X 10.11 on my Mac. I tried to read a SD card with an Ext4 partition which wasn't even shown in Disk Utility, although diskutil did show it as a Linux partition. I can't seem to mount the partition (the mount command seems to have changed, but I haven't explored this fully).
This is a 2015 rMBP and after I updated to El Capitan (have not installed any betas) my PPTP VPN connection just hangs on "Connecting". If I then click "Disconnect" it hangs similarly until I kill pppd. Anyone have this problem and found a solution? Edit: system.log after clicking "Connect":
Been experiencing endless issues with file sharing on Yosemite server and latest Server App (5.0.x). When a user connected to the server in the finder sidebar, it connects with SMB and they experience issues. Like read only, etc.. So, AFP is the answer... Command + K (Connect to server) and enter the server IP prefixed with afp:// works fine. However, in attempted to make it easier for the user, I would like them to use the sidebar in finder. If I turn OFF SMB for a particular share in file sharing in the server app, the share is no longer visable. Has anyone experienced the same issue? I assume the SMB only wants to work with bonjour? Can I make the default bonjour browsing use AFP? Thanks
For some reason Finder always restores all my previously open tabs even after I've restarted the system. This is unnecessary for me and in just several days my Finder is really clustered up and I had to close the tabs one by one. There must be a setting to disable such behavior?
I have been trying to install BitTorrent and µTorrent on my Macbook, and it's been 3 days I am unable to install it and error is "Could not initialize a installer". I have searched multiple forums and applied whatever they were suggesting. Following is the screenshot attached I have been receiving.
My Mac doesn't remember my password anytime I try to login to my computer. I always use my recovery key to open the Mac each time I want to use it. I have tried reseting my password but it ends up forgetting my password again. Please what can I do?
I have a valid ATOM feed here: *=URL=*  Though when I added it to Apple's native feed reader, which oddly goes by the name "Shared Links", it doesn't show up despite prompting me to Add current site and being listed in the subscriptions. What am I missing?
I'm using Siri with American accent in iOS 9.0.2. But it doesn't have voice feedback, even though in navigation mode in Maps. Once I switch to British accent, Siri speaks. Is that a bug for Siri in recent iOS update?
For the iPhone S series, should the S next to the number be a capital letter or not? (iPhone 6s or iPhone 6S.)
Just a quick question, is NTFS supported on El Capitan? I just plugged in my external hard drive and I am able to copy stuff from it, but not write to it. I guess only read mode is supported?
El Capitan introduced a new split screen mode. Is there a way to enter it via CLI? I’m guessing that if there is a way to do this, it’ll be via AppleScript (to get active window, and whatnot), but the language isn’t really important, as long as it can be done via CLI.
The default shell for root (at least on Yosemite) is /bin/sh. Would there be any problem to changing it to bash (or better yet zsh)? As far as a I know bash at least is backward compatible. I need a more robust shell to run things like iTerm's shell integration.
Not the cache in ~/library/caches/. I have found it before, with names similar to "FFYWRMQ7RK4CBV2GWNXVTF7IS9DZ9STNWKZHMPPWRI". The folder does not only include images, but also html code. There are no extensions to the files and Finder treats them as "Documents".
Is there a way (built in or 3rd party) to sync SMS messages (not iMessages) between 2 iPhones? The scenario is that I have an old iPhone and a new iPhone that is already configured. Because of this I don't want to use the method of restoring a backup of the old iPhone onto the new iPhone. I'm primarily looking for a way to get the messages from the old phone onto the new phone, rather than keep them in sync. One possible limitation is that the old iPhone is an iPhone 4 so is only running 7.1.2
Until very recently my iPhone 6 would show me all my work meetings from my Exchange account and work like normal. After I updated to El Capitan and iOS9, my calendar wiped out all my Exchange events. I've tried to add my Exchange calendar back by either turning the calendar sync off and then back on in the Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars sections, as well as removing the Exchange account altogether, but it still does not show my Exchange events. What I see is still this, my calendar with all my events wiped clean.
While adding a new app on itunes connect I'm getting Try again. If the problem persists, contact us
Hey is there a tool that blurs my screen output in real time? It'd be perfect if it only blurred my external display but everything's fine. I am on El Capitan now
I want to play an instrumental track that a friend uploaded to YouTube and simultaneously sing into the Mac's mic. And I want to record the mix of these two sounds using Audacity.
Is there a command line equivalent to pressing ctrl-space to toggle the keyboard layout? (I need this because I want to use Karabiner to tap shift to toggle.)
I have an issue with my Logitech Mouse software always crashing when it switches between different power modes, this crashes their software on Mac OS X (Yosemite). The app is used to control the pointer speed and shortcut keys on the mouse, which renders the mouse useless, I need to restart it every time I switch power states to get it working again. Is there a command I can use in terminal that can kill the logitech process and start it again? If I do a Logitech Gaming Software.app on ps -ax I can find the process, how can I pipe this to kill the associated PID and then restart the app? Running ps -ax | grep 'Logitech Gaming Software.app will return the following:
Currently, I'm trying to delete one of my partitions but for some reason it's giving me this issue:  Does anyone know how I could go about clearing this?
I'm receiving time to time the notifications as shown on this screenshot.  The notifications are on the top right of my screen. I can't understand the origin of these notifications thus I don't know to disable them. What are they and how to disable them?
I just got a previously used iphone from my work. However, the previous owner is still logged into their icloud account. Whenever I try to logout of their account it requires their icloud password to log out of their find my iphone. Even when I try to wipe the entire phone it requires the password, what should I do?
I have collected about 50GB of music on my PC across a few folders with plenty of duplicates. I just installed iTunes and synced an iPhone and its associated iTunes/Apple ID account, which created a library and copied a few hundred songs into it. Is there a way to import all music from designated folders on the PC into iTunes, including de-duping?
I'm trying out Google Keep for iOS 9 on an iPhone 5. I've given the app permission to produce banners, sounds and alerts in the Notification Center. Timed reminders from Google Keep do show as banners, but no sound or vibration is produced. For me, alerts without sound or vibration are easy to miss. The silence switch is OFF for this phone (sound is on). Has anyone found a combination of settings, or some strategy to cause sound and/or vibration with banners raised by Google Keep for iOS?
How can I change the default location for all user home directories in Mac OS X 10.10.5? I have found plenty of articles about moving a single folder at a time, but no instructions on how to change the default on all new users that are created.
Just tried to access my photos after upgrading to El Capitan - no luck there. Looks like Photos won't load any photos - it starts with an empty window, when trying by clicking library I have the same effect...
Pages for as long as I've used it had 3 column headers and footers. One day I was messing around, and I managed to remove the columns, and make it a single column. Now I can't figure out how to set it back. I'd like to put the section title in the lower left, and the page on the lower right. I'm using Pages on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I've tried inserting a table into the header, Pages 5.5.3 doesn't let you do that.
In Yosemite and earlier versions I used to be able to click on a webm file and the quicktime logo showed very quickly then the video started playing. I think this is some sort of old plugin (like Flash Player), not extension (like Adblock), is there any way to get it back on El Capitan or does it not work anymore?
I recently clean formatted, erased everything on the hard drive of, my MacBook Pro 2014 and installed OS X El Capitan. I also installed Sophos Aniti-Virus, but Sophos is detecting Android Apperhand virus in my clean installed Mac.
I have a USB NIC (Bear Extender) that does not work under Yosemite or El Cap. I have a VM running Mavericks that can use the NIC. How can I share the internet out of the VM so that my macbook pro can use it?
The power button on my macbook air 2015 is not functional and I don't have the correct screwdriver to open the back up and take out the battery. Is it possible to turn the laptop on without having to open the back up?
I am follow a tutorial guide from this link *=URL=* to try to produce -sha256 hash from an input file but when i type openssl dgst -sha256 -in filename.txt the command will return unknown option '-in'. Can anyone please point out what have i gone wrong ? OS Version: 10.11 OpenSSL Version: 1.0.2.d
My MacBook late 2008, running Yosemite and it suddenly stopped playing audio through the internal speakers. I've checked "Sound" under System preferences, and headphones show up as the selected device for sound output. I tried connecting and disconnecting some headphones, and the mac did change the output to internal speakers, but only for a second. I then tried restarting the mac to see if it was something with software but it stayed the same. I also tried lightly cleaning the headphone port with a q-tip but that did not work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Since enabling iCloud sync for the Notes.app in a preview beta of El Capitan, the app started to crash every time I open it. I've tried removing the plist file, the com.apple.Notes folder from ~/Library/Caches, and even the container, but the result is the same. Has anyone else run into this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix it? Update: the app crashed even when iCloud sync is disabled.
I have a Macbook that was also used by a previous employee of my job. I made the mistake of not reformatting the entire thing when I installed it. Now I have a new Mac app store ID, but the apps previously installed under his ID keep asking for his app store password - my assumption is this is to update themselves. How can I identify and uninstall any apps previously installed under a different Mac App store ID other than my current one?
Is there a mac terminal command to change all .html files to .txt including the files in sub folders too?
my Windows computer wont read them off ipad becuase they are saved in icloud, if i disable icloud will photos still be on device that took them (the ipad)? or any suggestions on how to download photos from icloud faster.
I can not run Xcode 7.0.1 on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, 20+GB of free space, OSX 10.10.5). I downloaded the DMG file from Apple, and can run it on my Mac mini (Late 2012, 16GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 200+GB of free space, OSX 10.10.5), but can not run it on my MacBook. The DMG file seems intact and I can browse the contents of Xcode.app; it is seamlessly copied to /Applications folder. There is no error code or whatsoever, except the phrase "The application "Xcode" can't be opened." Xcode 6.0.1 runs perfectly on my MacBook. Any thoughts? UPDATE I tail ed /var/system/system.log as patrix suggested and here's an interesting line: WTH?
I have an Apple Xserve Intel Xserve3,1 with dual quad core cpu and 48gb ram. Today the system fans started going into hyperdrive (i.e. very fast and very high pitched) and was unresponsive to keyboard input and had no display. So I stripped the system down, blew out the dust from the system, including the channel vents beside the drive slots and cleaned it out properly. However, upon restart the same issue occurred with the fans and the machine did not boot, although a huge amount of air is now expelled from the system whilst it is running. Tried various things to get a fix: This is sequence A::: Removed power from the machine. Removed power from the machine. Held down the start button for five seconds+ Held down the start button for five seconds+
I'm new to iTunes and trying to make sense of it's difficult UI. Let's say I have Bob Dylan Essential's, and I want to play it starting from 2nd song of disc 2. I double click this song in my library but, instead of playing all songs starting from this one, iTunes shuffles the entire album into the Play Next section. I've takes a screenshot with the result:
After upgrading to 10.11, everytime when I run iTunes get this: Enter login and password, fix for 20 minutes. How can this be fixed? What I did: reset NVRAM.
I am trying to use a standard rsync via ssh between a local MacBook Pro and a remote Linux based machine (WD MyCloud). There is no problem initializing it, but after syncing for a while I always get the following error message: Sometimes it manages to sync several gig of data, sometimes less than that, but I have yet failed to finish the sync. I am using a standard rsync setup: Any ideas?
I have a bunch of albums in Apple Photos. How can I export them as folders so that I have a structure like the one below? What I've tried so far: Export photos with albums as names: this just creates one big folder with all the photos in it Create folders for each albums and drag and drop photos in them: the metadata is gone (date etc.)
Sometimes, when one is installing a programme, a dialogue box will appear asking for an administrator password to allow the installer to ‘make changes’. That seems fine, but wouldn’t it be easy for an installer to fake this and send the password back to the author (and the IP etc.)? Is there a way to make sure this diologue box is indeed from the OS? (And see what exactly is being allowed?)
This afternoon, the touch screen of my phone became unresponsive. I tried to restart the phone but it would not. So I went on and deleted find my iphone profile because it stopped the phone from restarting. As soon that was done, my phone restarted itself. Then I saw the following message on my phone:
Since I passed to El Capitan, good'ol Create Booklet 1.2 (*=URL=* won't work anymore (it used to be free, but is now paid for). All the available booklet creation programs cost something and I simply can't afford them.
I read the answer to this question and tried to change my Mac's en0 MAC address. When I use ifconfing, it reports the newly set MAC address, but in Network Settings, it still reports the old one. Using ifconfig: In Wi-Fi dropdown:
My iPad mini is overloaded with pictures. I would like to delete them without having to restore the device and lose years of my iBook annotations. Is there a way to get these photos off my iPad mini without having to restore the device? I wish Apple would make it easier to simply delete photos from an iPad mini, but until that day I hope you can provide some options for us.
So I have this problem with OS X, when I restart my system and it has the USB drive connected (I forgot to unplug it because I know what OS X causes), it corrupts the drive (i.e., on next restart it can't read/mount the USB drive), now my solutions is go to a friend computer with windows and use "repair tool"... but this time seems like it won't work again... so how apple pays for >500Gb of information? (well just kidding I know they will not), so my questions are
I've reinstalled different systems (Mavericks, El Capitan). None of them boots properly.
I use the ctrl button to emulate the right-click in OS X on my MacBook with an integrated trackpad. When I connect to a windows computer with Remote Desktop I do not get to use the ctrl button in the same way. Is there a way to configure this to get right click from the trackpad?
Hi I wrote a python script to get the size of the file of which I have URL I copied from browser or anywhere; I wanted to create a global keyboard shortcut so I tried to create using Automator > Service > Run a shell Script and selected \usr\bin\python and pasted the below script to execute:
Recently my MacBook Pro early 2011 has a video card change (the video card issues, by the extended repair program). But now the PC has a very very odd problem: some parts of the GUI are yellow (almost always the white parts). But, if I put a window over the "yellow part" of other window then the shade is white, not yellow...
I run El Capitan + Server on a mac mini that is plugged on a TV via HDMI and to which I access via Screen Sharing. Recently (since the El Capitan upgrade?), when the remote computer goes to sleep or quits Screen Sharing, the main screen also shuts off (which is of course undesired). Anyone has an idea where that may come from and/or how to correct it? EDIT
I no longer use a cellular connection on my iPad. I am quite content with WiFi. For this or some other reason, I am getting
Creating a kiosk application for the Mac and am testing performance and CPU usage. The activity monitor shows a total of roughly 90 to 150% CPU usage for the always up, kiosk processes. My first confusion is how CPU usage can be over 100% but I understand it is related to the number of cores.
I used an external program to mark the ID3 "BPM" metadata of 8,000 music files. How can I get iTunes to reload metadata from those files? Right now if I just begin playing a file it will recognize the new metadata, but there must be some way to force iTunes to do this in bulk.
I only use iCloud Drive for files I need to access on my Mac and my iPad. I have a few Keynote presentations that open fine on my iPad and iPhone, but when I try ot open them on my Mac, I get an error saying that the file could not be opened. The error is the same for MindNode files as well.
I would like to have the Downloads folder of my Mac shared between two Macs using Dropbox. The idea is to have the same archives in both Download folders. How can I accomplish this?
Been through a bit of the suggested answers, nothing has been suggested that I haven't tried (unsuccesfully, as of yet), so I turn to the group for answers. I have a 2.5" HD from an MacBook 2011-vintage. It was that computer's boot drive, and in fact will mount, and boot, a 1,1 Mac Tower that I've got it in. It's running 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). The drive has physical damage (bad sectors), and performs poorly to not at all during finder operations (eg, copy). I've tried to recover the data on the drive (iPhoto/iTunes stuff, text docs, things that aren't backed up) using Data Rescue 3, to no avail so far - it sees the drive, but just hangs and becomes non-responsive. Prosoft's suggestion is to clone the drive and recover from the clone. Sounds good, but...
Another possibility is to write a program to traverse the tree keeping track of the inodes. For each unique inode of a regular file, copy that file to the new disk using an inode unique path. For each repeat inode, don't go down into the tree. Also, in to a separate file, record the paths to get to an inode. The big ICK there is all the extended attributes and ACLs that Apple / HFS has. I don't know how to get the complete set of these things. Is there more than just ACLs and extended attributes? Perhaps such a critter already exists.
Apple Mail app crashes for me nonstop after I updated to El Capitan. Every time just a one or two right after opening. I started to have this problem right after I installed El Capitan to clean HD and migrated within Migration assistant my old account and settings (everything except of applications).
How can this be? The account id and password are surely the same. Still iCloud somehow keeps two different content sets for these... This is getting beyond me...
I know similar questions have been asked, but I couldn't find an answer to mine. Is there any way to control Twitter permissions to third-party access from an iPhone / iPad?
I'm running the command sudo chmod 000 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPlayUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPlayUIAgent Because airplay mirroring is messing with one of my programs, but it tells me Operation is Not Permitted. I'm the owner of this mac and should definitely be permitted, some help please? Thanks in advanced.
Is there a default Mac OSX key combination that'll make all of my open windows/instances for a given application the same dimension (height/width)? Is there a way to do this with Automator (not experienced with it enough to know if it's doable)? Or, an AppleScript script that I could initiate using a "hot-key" combination? Scenario: I have multiple instances of the notes app open and would like to resize them to some arbitrary size, preferably stacked staggered on top of each-other. From:
I've written an AppleScript that turns our CenturyLink modem's wireless radio on or off. It works when I run it manually with osascript, but now I'm trying to get it set up on a schedule with Launchd. I keep getting the following error in the Console log:
How can I keep the column width in the list view option of finder? Every time I reopen a folder I have to readjust the width of the columns so I can tell what files are in the folder. It is most annoying. Option drag doesn't work.
So today, I tried dual-booting my late 2013 rMBP on El Capitan with Windows 10. I got to the step within Bootcamp where it was partitioning my SSD, and I went ahead and played a game of Super Smash. After the round was over, I found that my Macbook had restarted because of an issue. I don't know what the issue was, and I don't know why the computer restarted, but I think it messed with my drive sizes. When I open Disk Utility, I see that the computer recognizes that I have a 250 GB SSD, but the Macintosh HD area seems to be "partitioned" for 204 GB. I have included pictures for clarification. This is what the mac says about my SSD. Here is what the Macintosh HD looks like. If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't the Macintosh HD size be the same as my SSD? How can I fix this, as I'm unable to find any tutorials to help me. I have tried to partition the SSD to try to be able to merge them, but I get an error saying: "The provided Core Storage logical volume has an incorrect size. You should run 
In my college mac app store is blocked so can someone please provide me a link to direct download el capitan from web?
So I'm usually a chrome user, but ever since buying a macbook pro, I switched to safari because chrome drained my battery like mad and it generated too much heat. The transition wasn't bad, I actually like Safari....but the problem is that it freezes every time I visit reddit, Facebook, instagram, twitch, etc.
How do I troubleshoot IKEv2 VPN issues on El Capitan? I've followed these instructions to create an IKEv2 VPN (and certificate) on a Ubuntu server that I want to connect to, which all seems pretty reasonable.
I have noticed a folder on / called "Previous System". After checking that it did not have anything I need, I moved it to the trash. However, when emptying the trash, I get a "file in use" error. When I attempt to use rm in the Terminal to perform the delete, this happens:
When using an Apple keyboard in Windows using Bootcamp drivers, how can I change the behaviour of F1-12 so that they are normally just F1-12 and the special functionality (play, pause, brightness control etc.) is available using fn+F1-12?
I just updated my iPhone to iOS 9.0.2, then I want to define some words. When I clicked the 'define' button, there's nothing appear. But, before I updated to iOS 9.0.2, I still can use the define button. So what should I do to allow it to define the words I want?
I'm upgrading the HDD in a MacBook7,1 (the white 13" unibody one) to a SSD. I read somewhere that it's important to be able to update SSD firmware, but that some SSD makers don't offer update software that runs on Mac OS.
When I have finished editing a book project in the Photos app, I would like to disable further editing. Is there a way to set a read-only flag on books and other projects in the Photos app?
I'm currently using a shared Mac with other users. All user accounts are Administrators. I noticed that with sudo my files are accessible from other user, and I'm wondering if also my iCloud Data (Notes, app data ecc. ) are accessible and readable in the same way. Did someone has any clue? Thank you
I have reformatted my MBPr/MBP (have both) multiple times and now, they are also appearing multiple times on my iPhone (Setting => iMessage => Text Forwarding). Any ideas on how to remove duplicate/unused ones? Thank you
I have setup a Fluid App for Asana, and I have whitelisted the various URLs required for logging in. However, I am unable to attach things using Google Drive because it requires viewing a pop-up. I have checked the URL for this pop-up and whitelisted it, but it is still not displayed in Fluid. Do you know how to make it so that I can attach things from Google Drive using Fluid?
After I installed el Capitan, Little Snitch started complaining about gamed trying to phone home. Research in the net revealed various suggestions, including logging out from the Game Centre using launchctl unload sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed Disabled -bool true adding <key>Disabled</key><true/> to gamed's plist rename the gamed image etc.
When an iPhone is connected to a Wifi network, there is an option to set a manual http proxy and port. When user has created an personal WIFI hotspot ( sharing the cellular connection) there is no user setting where I can setup a manual http proxy/port for the WIFI hotspots connection, or ( at least for my cellular data network ) for setting the http proxy/port of the cellular connection. I want http from devices connected to the hotspot to be routed to an http proxy/port. Is there a way , perhaps by installing a profile, that I can achieve this?
I would like to disable Shift+Command+Q keyboard shortcut for Log Out. I am using Karabiner at the moment, but I only managed to disable it completely using the following xml: but I would like to have the keyboard combination available in emacs (in ESS for debugging). Is there some way that I can effectively unmap the keyboard combination?
I don't know why but my computer is generally slow. Some examples are: Applications take 10 seconds - 3 minutes to launch, depending on which application. Applications take 10 seconds - 3 minutes to launch, depending on which application.
In split view on El Capitan Safari zooms-out some websites, making them unreadable (and making split view unusable). Is there any hidden setting to disable this? I tried to use setting in 'Advanced' preferences that is called 'Never use fonts smaller than X' - it does not seem to make any difference. Also there is nothing in TinkerTool about that. As an example, this is how Chrome and Safari behave in the same situations:
I have several Macs bound to a Windows domain with AD. The users login to the Macs with their Windows credentials and so far it has worked fine. Last week we changed the password policy so that password lifetime is now reduced. Since then two users (out of 100-something) have problems logging in to the Macs. One user keeps getting keychain-messages about Keychain not being able to access this and that (have updated the keychain-login). The other user can't log in at all. She keeps getting refused as if she had typed a bad password or username. She uses the same credentials on the PCs as she is using on the Macs, but the Macs just won't let her in. Does anyone have any ideas to solve this problem?
I just updated to El Capitan. The installation seems to have gone through with no problems, and the operating system works well. However, under the App Store tab "purchases", El Capitan is shown as "An error occurred" in red, and the clickable icon offer the option "Download". Should I download it again and re-install?
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem? It's kind annoying, and I can't figure out how to fix it.
My Macbook and my iPhone are updated to the OS X 10.11 Capitan and iOS 9.0.1, but when I try to use my iPhone as a running device with Xcode, it tells me I can't use it because of the version of them. I can't upgrade xCode (6.1). On the App Store, it tells me I'm on the latest version.
I have an ipad air and recently i was trying to edit a quick 10 min movie of some 1080p 60fps video in iMovie. I only have a 32 gig ipad air so i wasn't able to upload all the video on to the ipad. i had to purchased icloud storage upgrade for a month so i could download the video i needed to work with in imovie. This wasnt a great solution as i would download the video i wanted to edit then delete the video so i can download more. I was wondering if there was a way to hold the videos on an external drive, laptop or any other method so that i can work on my ipad and then export to that drive or laptop? Any better solution would be much appreciated.
Here is my story: Oct 2: I have Yosemite Installed and configured Time Capsule taking regular backups. Oct 3: I update Yosemite to El Capitan El Capitan installation halts at 14% for 2hrs I force-restart my machine several times but the update never goes through I format my primary OSX partition and want to setup my mac again. I start recovery process from boot try to find my time machine but it shows my ONLY FULL Backup is 18th Sep (which is not what I want) I use the same, restore using that 18th Sep backup. When the restore process completes, my MAC is somehow updated to El Capitan with my data from 18th Sep backup Now I configure my Time Machine again, it shows my last backup of 4th Oct but its light-red bar (slowly blinking from very light to light red bar) I can't seem to access that 2nd Oct backup Can anyone share if they have felt same, attaching screenshots for reference.
I'm trying to use dictation in Spanish (Yosemite v10.10.5) but it's not writing any text. I have downloaded the Spanish Enhanced Dictation bundle, deleted and re-downloaded it, deleted it by hand from /System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages and purged the file cache using sudo purge with no luck. Right now it looks like this:
Most of the https connections returns that. Most of them is signed by Symantec. But not all. I tried to google the problem, but with no luck, seems like I only the one who experiencing this problem. I checked apple's certificate with *=URL=* and all seem to be correct. Some of the blocked sites can't be reached by Chrome due to HSTS: (*=URL=* This happens when I open iTunes: After clicking "continue" there are appears more such windows, most of them on apple.com domain just with different subdomains. Please, help.
I have a Macbook Pro 13" and it's a mid 2012 model. It's hooked up to my TV through the HDMI cord as well as the mini display adapter and the display is great, but there's no sound at all. My computer recognizes the HDMI cord and that option is selected. It's also selected via the opt button then clicking the sound, as well as through the MIDI application. I have also tried two different HDMI cords with no luck. I've been looking around and absolutely nothing fixes my problem. I'm really confused as to how my computer could recognize all this being connected and still produce no sound. Can anybody help me figure this out?
My wife and I send each other calendar invitations from time to time. She is on an Exchange account, while I am not. I have a variety of email accounts, including iCloud, Gmail, and non-iCloud, non-Gmail accounts.
I currently have an application called App Icon, which allows me to theme my iOS device without being jailbroken, by having web bookmarks on my homepage that open the other application that I want. The problem is I have a theme for the Spotify application (or any for this matter), now when I open that shortcut, I always get a prompt asking me if I want to open that URL in Spotify.
I am writing a script to setup a mac development environment, however I am running into an issue on some peoples macs where cask does not install. Is there a way I can verify if cask has been installed in bash? Ideally I am looking for something like:
Since Resorcerer (2.4.1) won't work at all in 10.7 and later, I tried it in a virtual machine running Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 in VMWare Fusion 6.0.6. But when I select a resource and click the Hex button, nothing happens. No error message, nothing in the Console log. I tried nuking the Resorcerer preference file and increasing the RAM assigned to the VM. Is there any way to get it to work?
iTunes version 12.3.0.44 running on Windows 7 X64 with a 1920x1200 monitor. When a device is connected there is a window where you can manage what music gets synced to the device. This scrollable top-level window contains 4 scrollable sub-windows labeled Playlists, Artists, Genres and Albums. The two lower sub-windows (Genres and Albums) are both too tall to fit entirely within the top-level window, even when iTunes is maximized. Thus scrolling in the Albums window is a tedious combination of scrolling the sub-window and then having to scroll the main window to see things at the top or bottom of the Albums list. Here is a screenshot (reduced to 1/2 size) with the outer window scrolled so that the top of the "Albums" sub-window is at the top of the main window.
Calendar.app on both iOS and OS X provides functionality to add week numbers. However, I'd like the week numbers to match a custom pattern (numbered by semester rather than by year). Is there a way I can do that?
I'd like to add a faster processor to my MacBook Air 2014 or my MacBook 5,1 unibody. Is this possible at all?
Since downloading IOS 9.0.2 my iPhone and iPad no longer connect to iTunes in my iMac (OS X version 10.6.8). I get a message saying I need to update my ITunes, however I currently have version 11.4.8 and when I search for an update, it says there is no update. Please can someone help?
I have a problem setting up VPN connection between my MacBook Pro with OSX 10.11 and my VPS with OpenVPN. The server is working correctly because I am using in on my iPhone with iOS 9.0.2, android 4.2 box and iMac with OSX 10.10. On OSX 10.11 I am getting this error using Tunnelblick: 2015-10-12 21:13:27 *Tunnelblick: OS X 10.11.0; Tunnelblick 3.6beta10 (build 4400); prior version 3.5.4 (build 4270.4395) 2015-10-12 21:13:28 *Tunnelblick: Attempting connection with macbook-pro; Set nameserver = 1; monitoring connection 2015-10-12 21:13:28 *Tunnelblick: openvpnstart start macbook-pro.tblk 1337 1 0 3 0 16688 -ptADGNWradsgnw 2.3.7 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in /Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Shared/macbook-pro.tblk/Contents/Resources/config.ovpn:1: macbook-pro (2.3.7) Use --help for more information. 2015-10-12 21:13:28 *Tunnelblick: openvpnstart starting OpenVPN The config.ovpn that is causing the problem looks like this: Of course certificates are
How/where does one configure a temporary exception to use webkit2png with ATS?
When I did it in May, it worked. This time I realized that the output from terminal for all the commands is the same as in May, so I tried the same script again, but it returns an error and does nothing. It says: error "fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory fdisk: /dev/disk1: Operation not permitted" number 1
This is my situation: MacBook and iPhone both using Photos.app and both using iCloud Photo Library Neither device has enough local storage to keep the originals, so they're both set to the Optimize Storage option I'd like an automated backup solution for the photo collection in iCloud Photo Library... I've read How do I backup photos *from* iCloud Photo Library - along with other Q&As and pages, so I'm aware I could do things like: Change the location of the library on the Mac, to an external drive, and switch the setting to *Download Originals... Use iCloud.com to download photos, on any machine with a big hard disk or the current Mac, to an external drive...
I have been unable to determine if the new 12" MacBook (the one with the USB-C port), when hooked up to an external monitor, will only mirror its retina display, or if it has the ability to use the external display for separate content.
I do online tutorials one at a time and in a Safari bookmark called Current I always update the address to my current tutorial. I want some terminal command which I can call to start Safari and open Current. Starting Safari is simply an execution of open -a safari in the terminal. How can I start Safari AND open the bookmark?
How do I turn off the notification on the lower left corner? I tried to turn off notifications in Settings for the app, but it didn't work. iOS 9.0.2.
I have just installed El Capitan and I immediately experimented some problems because of the new SIP mechanism. Some tools I need as well as some tweaks did not work anymore. So, I decided to turn it off using the Apple "official" procedure (boot to Recovery, csrutil disable, reboot).
How can I have the checkboxes appear by default in the playlists? When I go to a playlist no checkboxes appear, so I can't see if the playlist will burn to a cd or not. I am on a mac, OS 10.9.5 and the i-tunes is 12.2.1
As it stands, my Apple TV is hooked up directly via HDMI to my television. I have 2 amazing speakers that I use bluetooth to connect to and play from when I'm NOT using AirPlay. When I switch to AirPlay, the sound comes from my TV speakers which sound terrible, instead of my higher-quality bluetooth speakers. Can I cast my MacBook's video stream via to the TV via AirPlay, while routing the audio through Bluetooth instead of my TV Speakers?
Can I use the caps lock indicator light for another purpose; like indicating that the current keyboard layout is Greek?
How can I edit a screen shot to use shading and lighting as call-outs? For example, this:
I removed the hard drive from my laptop (MBP 9.1, mid 2012) and started recovery mode. Once I entered recovery mode, the laptop was connected to my router (secured with WPA2), even though I had not given it credentials. I pulled out the RAM (in case the creds were in volatile memory), put the RAM back in, and lo and behold, it was still able to authenticate to the router. Is OS X storing keys from my keychain in NAND flash (where it stores the UEFI)? If so, I thought that the CPU couldn't write to the NAND flash (ROM -- read-only). The hard drive was disconnected the entire time. If this is happening, how do I securely erase the NAND?
There's this neat script to autocomplete git branches. It works fine with git checkout <tab>.
On a new Mac Mini with Yosemite, I cannot figure out how to add desktops to Spaces. As far as I can see, the preferences are the same on this new Mac Mini as on my MacBook Pro, but on the MBP, when I go to Mission Control, I see the desktop bar with an add button that appears when I move the mouse pointer to the top right of the screen. On this Mac Mini, when I go into Mission Control, the windows open on my one desktop shrink and show on the screen, and the dock shows at the bottom, but no desktop bar at the top.
How do I read negative reviews for a podcast in the iTunes store? It looks like they are censoring reviews. I myself wrote a negative review but I don't see it showing up.
I recently just finished graduate school and so my university has told me that I am to have the mail account disabled. They further suggested that I download all mail so that I don't lose any precious email threads I had. So today I downloaded all my mail onto my applemail client and exported the mailbox so that I had a copy. However, to my chagrin, I realized that most of the attachments inside the mailbox were not fully downloaded. It seems that the only way an attachment in an email would download completely is if I clicked on it. However, with 20 thousand emails, this isnt really a suitable option. Does anyone know of any way to have all my attachments downloaded so that I have an exact copy of my mailbox sitting somewhere? thanks!
I installed this version of mysql with the script here, but I don't know how to remove it. It isn't in the applications folder. It's here:
Is it possible for Find my iPhone to notify you when one of your devices is close to you?
I have a WD 1TB USB External Hard Drive that was accidentally formatted. I had formatted the disk and started writing an ISO to the disk (less than 5 seconds), when I realized it was to the wrong one. The disk had 2 partitions, one is FAT32, the other is HFS+ Encrypted. The FAT32 partition can be lost, however the HFS+ Encrypted partition has data that I need recovered. Also, I know the password to the HFS+ Encrypted partition that was lost.
When I upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan, I got a warning about Apple’s Screen Sharing.app being not supported. Sure enough, an alias to the app was moved to a folder named "Incompatible Software". When I run the app, it never connects to the server.
I'm trying to install the Mono MDK, and downloaded the .pkg for 4.2.1 (about 200 MB), when I double click on the package, it opens a "verifying xxxxxMDKxxxxx.pkg" window, which does nothing for over an hour while the Installer icon bounces on the dock. Is there a way to bypass the verification or force it to verify? Or, alternatively is there a way to install the Mono MDK using the command line? I'm running a early 2011 Macbook Pro on OSX 10.11
When I search Spotlight for an app (see screenshot) it displays the app icon with a white strike through or unavailable icon. In this case the app in question is VLC. When I initially installed VLC, El Capitan could verify the identity of the developer but I was able to run the app anyway. Finder displayed the app icon correctly but fearing some corruption in the download/install process, I uninstalled the app using Terminal and downloaded it again and this time OS X verified the developer identity and all was good. So I'm assuming it has something to do with the issue from the initial install and Spotlight has cached an error with the first install.
I am using a iPhone 16GB on iOS 9.0.2. I have always been using the default Mail app for emails. Since, iOS 8, the push used to work perfectly. On iOS 9, the push is delayed by quite a while. Sometimes, I don't even receive the notification on the notification menu, and it's just the notification sound that I hear.
Someone suggested I add a "boot" flag to the Windows partition, so I did so (from within Ubuntu). The Windows partition then showed up in the Startup Manager, but selecting Windows there or in the rEFInd menu still resulted in a black screen, this time with a message saying "Missing operating system." (I have since removed the "boot" flag.)
Somehow my spotlight is not working correct. After each reboot it will show only dictionary items. Then when I do sudo mdutil -E / it will find many items. However applications shown are only which are owned by myself, applications owned by root will not show. So basically I have two questions, Why is spotlight not working properly at startup and must be reindexed always. Should I take ownerships of all applications to myself? Thanks
I am looking for a simple console text editor for OS X to run in a terminal. I have used “Joe” for many years, and it’s very good, but I am looking for one that is simpler. In particular I would prefer one that uses copy & paste like modern text editors, and allows you to select text with the shift-arrow keys.
I have an imac at home and it has all of my photos on it. As it stands I also have these photos sitting on my iphone as well. My iphone has limited storage so I wanted to know if there was a way to do the following: Have all my photos physically stored on my imac Have all these photos backed up to icloud Have all my imac photos viewable in my photos app on my iphone - but without these photos taking up physical storage space on my iphone (as it's only 16gb).
Does anyone have any experience with Apple Wallet (formerly Passbook) - I'm interested to know if it's possible to add hyperlinks on the reverse of the wallet? It looks like you can simply add web addresses and apple auto applies a link tag to this but ideally I want to have the link address hidden behind the link title so it doesn't look messy?
Is there an option in system settings that will undo the auto-corrected word by just pressing delete key? When we type fast we don't check for auto-correct pop up but we check for spelling mistake. If we find the word misspelled we are inclined to press delete key rather escape.
Let's say I have an imac with all of my videos on, which has been synced with itunes. If my computer has gone onto standby, but I am in the other room with an appleTV and want to watch something from itunes on there, will the appleTV be able to wake up my imac automatically and play the content? I haven't bought an appleTV yet but I am trying to have to avoid going into my office and turning on the imac everytime I want to watch some content on my appleTV. I understand I can enable wake-on-lan on my imac but does the appleTV have the capability to do the same, wake it up and then stream it's content.
The HDD of my MacBook Pro (2012) dies and I bought a new one. The problem is that I don't have another Mac to download the OS from Apple Store... Someone know from where can I download the OS El Capitan, Mavericks or Yosemite to install it and then download 'El Capitan' and from Apple Store and make a clean installation?
I'm having issues with setting the default umask on our Macs for users. I run the following the commands to set the default perms to 775: But if I then run: touch file.txt the perms on file.txt show up as: If I change the umask to 000, which should set perms to 777, I see the following: All the Macs in question are running 10.10.5
I have recently moved from Snow Leopard to El Capitan, and there is something I'm missing currently and hope it is a gesture I don't know. In Snow Leopard, when looking at all your desktop (Exposés and Spaces) it was possible to get what is actually Mission control, but on all the thumbnails of the other desktops.
I'm new to Keynote and am disappointed by the lack of shortcuts for basic actions like "insert text". Any idea of how to attribute a single key such as the letter "T" to insert text action? If for any reason a single letter without cmd/opt/whatever modifier key is not recommended, I'm happy with other possibilities..
First, my basic question: If I have an iPhone and it is using a local calendar ("On This Phone", I think), and my backup is to iCloud, does that backup include the local calendar? Edit: to be clear, the backup I'm referring to is: iCloud.com > Settings > (Advanced section) > Restore Calendars and Reminders Second, and the reason for my question: I've performed a series of steps that's left me in a mess with migrating a local calendar to an iCloud calendar whilst also (around the same time) sharing iCloud calendars between two users... The sequence has been something close to this (unfortunately I didn't note them down 100% as I was going): iPhone A and iPhone B, separate Apple IDs, both backing up to iCloud iPhone A uses iCloud calendars, only iPhone B uses a local calendar, but also has an iCloud calendar containing some events that were invites from iPhone A
After experiencing hardware problems on a MacMini, I need to reinstall CS6 on the internal SSD. I used Utilities/Adobe/CS6 installer to uninstall CS6 programs. These remain on the SSD but are now inoperable. Is it advisable to manually remove and trash these old CS6 program files on SSD (freeing up disc space) before reinstalling from original CS6 DVD?
My MacBook Pro makes 3 successive tones, a 5 second pause (repeating). According to Apple, this indicates RAM does not pass a data integrity check. So how can I fix it?
I want to remove Mail from Spotlight as I don't use it on my Mac. However, the only way to do this is to uncheck "Mail & Messages" from being indexed on Spotlight in Preferences, here:
I have an iPhone 5C, and my grandpa pays my bill. If I buy at new iPhone 5s and put my SIM card from the 5c in, would I still have data and service? From just switching the SIM?
I noticed recently (could be caused by upgrade to 10.10.4) that Spotlight is changing order of the search results dynamically as you type and OS X installed apps have no more the highest priority (I am almost sure this was the case before). For example searching for the Caffeine app: Open Spotlight Type "caf" The top hit starts off with the app I'm looking for (yay!)
I am the go-to support for whole lot of iOS devices in my family and have previously used Apple Configurator to apply new settings (such as VPN, email accounts, certificates) to new and existing devices. I find this very cumbersome as it requires me to physically connect to each device and add/replace a profile. Therefore I want to replace my current solution and of course I thought of OSX Server (Server.app) first. Unfortunately the only "stationary computer" I could run an MDM solution on is a FreeNAS system – only mobile Macs here. So the first question is, whether or not it is advisable to run Server's Profile Manager from a MacBook that is not always used from inside the same network, which has basically been answered as "not advisable" by this SX answer.
Yesterday, I found a script that makes my Mac (MacBook Pro running El Capitan) automatically check for a volume on a server and remount it if the connection drops. I adapted it slightly to this, so my media server would remount when it drops (which is frequently): I saved the script as a Script Editor app using the "Stay open after run handler" option, so it runs in the background.
I have a Macbook Pro 2014 with a Boot Camp partition for Windows 10. I decided to create a partition for data. I created and re-sized the partition in Disk Utility (OS X) but formatted it using a Windows tool, then all the boot options disappeared except for Windows. The OSX partitions still show up as drives but it no longer shows as a boot option. Using a ubuntu live disk I was able to get this information: How do I get my computer to boot OS X again?
I'm working on a friend's iPhone and every time I turn VPN off, it turns right back on. Have you ever seen this before? Any suggestions for what I could do to keep it turned off?
I am able to successfully send out an email with an attachment to a single email address using the code below: However, I can't figure out how to change this code to send the email to both recipient1@domain.com and recipient2@domain.com. Does anyone know how I would go about doing so? I'm very new to AppleScript, so I'd greatly appreciate the help!
Is there a command in Single User Mode to recover/reinstall the start-up wheel (with root its user access). I removed wheel as a group from any file/folder it had permissions for or access to. I didn't just change the permission, I actually clicked the (-).
I just purchased a brand new iPad Mini 4, and did a full restore from my old iPad Mini 1. After doing this, I noticed that it kept asking me for the iCloud login details for my old Apple ID account. So, I went into iCloud to sign out of the account and sign in with my new one, however since Find my iPad is enabled, it won't sign out of iCloud until that's turned off. The problem is that the email address associated with it: doesn't exist, as I erased it about 6 months ago, and; is (obviously) no longer a valid Apple ID account
I have Wacom Graphire 3 a.k.a CT-630. This model is old Wacom tablet. So, it has no driver for 10.11.
I have a mac the never sees other air drop devices (although they see each other) and no devices can see it. The machine is MBP Retina. Continuity is working on it: you can switch to the app that you are using on an iphone and vise-versa.
I recently purchased an SSD drive for my 2009 27" iMac to replace the DVD Drive. Everything installed fine, performance is good etc. However when the device (SSD) is put to "sleep", OS X sees it as ejected, and will not see it again until I pull the power from the iMac. Shutting down does not seem to help -- nor does restarting. Things I've tried: Reset the NVRAM -- after this it did show up without pulling the power, but then it disappeared again after going to slee[ resetting the SMC Pulling the drive, and completely reseating it in case something wasn't quite installed right
I always thought you couldn't charge an iPhone from a closed macbook without opening it first, and then closing it after plugging the iPhone in. However today my phone was completely dead and I was on a train unable to take my laptop out and open it even a little bit. the phone charged while it was dead, and when it turned on it was on 2%, however it didn't stay charging, instead 5 minutes later it died again, and starting charging while dead again.
I think it is because of the apple 9.0.2 update. When I try to dowload a app it makes a loading sign, but then it says get. Then I click it and it loads and then says get. I have read answers and tried them, but they do not work! What should I do? I do not want to restart my device!
What is an error? I cannot log in to itunes store at all. What is wrong?
I can't update WhatsApp, Snapchat and many other apps in my system, that is 9.0.1. I tried to change date and time, turn off my iPhone and sign out.
I just installed rEFInd (to dualboot ubuntu) and all is working well so far, with a small exception: In the boot interface the normal OSX (Yosemite) is not there, it´s just showing the Recovery HD. That does not seem to be right. Any idea how to fix this? (FileVault is not activated)
I made my Xcode project into a .zip file. Can I send it via email as an attachment? Would it work that the person I send the project to, can unzip my file and see my entire Xcode project?
I was playing around with OSX find and GNU find from findutils (v 4.4.2) package for learning purposes. GNU find has a -delete option, which is self-explanatory. What isn't, however, is that "Use of -delete automatically turns on the -depth option", which means it will recursively remove the current working directory content without a warning. The problem is I accidentally executed such a command on my system, instead of remote shell session. I tried to research the internals behind -delete but all I could come up with was official GNU findutils docs.
I having a big question with some icons i change. I managed to move into rootless by restarting and CMD + R to boot into Recovery, then utilities and terminal. On terminal i wrote csrutil disable
I recently created a windows 7 partition on my mid-2009 mac-book pro. It then corrupted, so I was forced to delete the partition and attempt to reinstall windows 7, but in the process I also deleted my OS X partition. Now after spending hours and countless DVD+Rs on creating OS X and Linux boot discs (all of which fail to open anything but BIOS), I am still left with a shell of a computer with no OS. How can I reinstall OS X/Ubuntu.
I am an app developer and I am trying to help a customer move a file from their iPhone in Document sharing. They take the following steps: But receive the following error:
I want to avoid importing photos that were previously imported and subsequently deleted from my Photos library. My workflow:
I'm having problems using and SMB share in my local network as a time machine destination. I followed the tutorials widely available on the internet but in the end when I open the Time Machine app I get the error message: Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk I followed these steps: Created the sparse bundle Copied the sparse bundle to the smb share Double clicked in the sparse bundle to mount it Enabled ownership on the mounted sparse bundle Used tmutil to set the Time Machine destination as the mounted sparse bundle Opened Time Machine app. I find this strange because I can perfectly access the sparse bundle via Finder or the terminal, and have write access:
On an early 2015 MacBook Air running 10.10.5, Finder will not show SD cards, despite the disk showing up in Disk Utility. In Finder preferences, I have set external disks to be shown on the Desktop and in the sidebar. So far, I've tested multiple SD cards (FAT and exFAT, just in case) both in the card slot and in an external SD-to-USB card reader; I've verified all of the cards and card readers on another computer, so I don't believe it's a hardware issue. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Ever since I upgraded to El Capitan, my MBP does this annoying "helpful" turning on of my sound when I watch a video (Facebook or YouTube, at the very least) or have an incoming call/IM. Each time I manually tap the sound-off button on my keyboard, but it doesn't "take" and recognize that when I turn off my volume manually, I really, truly do want it to stay off. Any way to make my machine recognize that mute means mute-until-I-explicitly-unmute?
Is there a way to query the system to tell if the caps lock is on or is off from the command line in terminal.app?
is there a way to see only the percentage, I dont really care about the small battery image and I dont need it. Is there a way to remove it?
Is there a way on MacOS notebooks to prevent applications accessing the internet? Like block all and except Chrome? As I have a limited data volume on a mobile data stick. This should be just the case while on that stick, not while I am in a Wifi. It should not throttle bandwidth.
This is really bugging me at the moment. I'm trying to find a way to SSH into my iPhone via USB without no Wi-Fi for my journey to college since it's an hour bus ride and in that time I'll code and reverse-engineer iOS Apps and what not. For the record, my iPhone is only jailbroken for those reasons.
In a classroom environment after a month without issues all of the sudden everyone is getting locked out of their folders, including my local admin user. What works is logging into each user, elevated, I may run terminal command: This is from Linc Davis Repairing permissions when owner is "Fetching..." So how to use Apple Remote Desktop to fix this via UNIX script?
After Apple System Status showed an iTunes outage today, my iCloud Music Library in Apple Music stopped working on my Mac. I saw the following dialog repeatedly:
i am attempting to maintain a closer eye on my Apple-Mac's outgoing and incoming connections; in collaboration with other processes such as tcpdump and netstat, i have been using the command: lsof -i, which allegedly displays all processes using the internet. The output of this command is fairly simple, however does return some confusing results, including multiple instances of the process com.apple which has little to no explanation online. Whilst listing Spotify and its various related processes such as SpotifyWE, the command declines to list other applications which i happen to know are using the network, such as Safari and Mail. To simplify things, my questions are: What is the purpose of the process com.apple? Why are there multiple listings of the same process? Why are some processes/applications which are definitely using the internet omitted from the command (lsof -i)`s result.
I have an instance of OS X El Capitan running on VMWare Workstation 10. I need to make changes to /System and therefor have to disable System Integrity Protection. How do I access recovery mode on this VM so I can disable SIP?
Suppose I give an app permission to access my camera (and/or microphone) to take a picture. After I take the picture, can the app access my camera without prompting me?
I've tried four different SSDs over the last few months, on two separate Macs, and have been unsuccessful in getting OS X installed on any of them. The first was an OCW, the second and third were ADATA, and I'm now trying a Kingston HyperX Fury. I also tried two different SATA cables. I'm now trying to format the SSD externally using a USB to SATA adapter so that I can still use my computer with a working internal HD while I try to solve this problem.
Is there a way of accessing my husband's iCloud to possibly retrieve deleted messages. I know ICloud ID and good idea of password. Question is if I log in from a different device will he be alerted??
I got a notification to update the software on my iPhone 4S (A1387), so I updated it. After updating completed, it asked to sign in with your Apple ID. I tried to sign in with my Apple ID, then it asked me to agree to some terms and conditions.
"Wi-Fi" process takes a lot of CPU almost all the time. Why is it happening, and how to fix it?
Since upgrading to El Capitan from Yosemite, Time Machine works manually, but automated backups and disk icons are no longer working as they should. I have a brand-new system that came with Yosemite, and Time Machine was working fine. After a recent upgrade to El Capitan, I have the following issues:
This started happening about 2-3 weeks ago. I'm on Mac OS X Yosemite - 10.10.5 I have a git repository for a pretty big project ( there are three developers on the project), and every now and then folders and files that I had permission to write to get their permissions changed so I can't write to them anymore. It is not always the same files. I edit files using Brackets editor. For example right now I have a path in the project resources/javascripts/external/resource_loader.js every folder along that path has my profile with read/write permissions but when I get to the individual file it no longer has me there. When I look at a file at the same level that I have not touched in a while it still has me as a user with read/write. The file I can't edit has system - Read and Write staff - Read only everyone - Read only the file I can edit has me - Read and Write staff - Read only everyone - Read only. it's just an annoyance to have to go reset the permissions in the middle of writing somet
On Mac it doesn't do that. Now I have discovered to drag the Drive in Users > Login Items, so that it auto connect during Login, but the initial access of the drive is still slow, as if it is loging in again.
By accident I imported some contacts to my contacts app in my iPhone. I do not need them there. So, If I need to avoid to import them again by accident I would like to remove them from my sim. How can I do this?
I don't notice any difference in app sizes in iOS 9 so I was wondering if app slicing doesn't kick in until next time I update apps or reinstall them? I realize not all apps will support it, but I have so many that it should have shown a difference anyway.
I am not able to delete user account on El capitan . The Minus (remove option ) is inactive here . I tried doing this by logging in to admin account . Please help!!!!
Every time when opening an new Terminal window, the View -> Allow mouse reporting is always checked. And everytime i must press CMD-R to disable it.
We wish to transfer VPP codes to a new instance of Apple Configurator v1.7.2 (560) on the same Mac computer, just a different user account. However even after unsupervising the iPads under the old OS X account, the codes are not available for the new one. We hope to use a separate user account for each Apple ID assigned to our iPad carts so that we avoid having to delete and redownload apps for each Apple ID so as to avoid multiple iPad login prompts.
I've got this issue with OSX El Capitan. My existing monitor show black border in resolution 1920 x 1080. The black border is shown only on left side of monitor. This never happen previously in Yosemite. What I've tried but didn't work: set resolution in safe mode unplug and plug again my mini to VGA cable Restart play with my monitor setting (reset setting) Here is the screenshot:
I've accumulated 1000+ contacts over the years and multiple iPhone upgrades. Is there any way to remove contacts quickly either on the phone or from my Mac while syncing?
some time ago I ran into problem, sometimes when i try to shut down mac it won't shut down loading wheel is just spinning and I have to shut down with the button. I tried SMC and PRAM reset, the problem keeps occurring. I am guessing it's some kind of problem with the apps, because it happens EVERY time if i press ,,reopen apps'' at the shutdown pop-up (when it happens only sometimes without that box checked). How can I solve this problem?
Do a one finger downward stroke to bring up the search menu. Type an app name "twitter". I expect to see the installed application "twitter" because this is the behavior that occurred in iOS 8. Instead, I see podcasts, mail, messages, notes, websites and bing searches. I have to manually click through my 100+ installed apps to open them or ask siri to do it. This behavior began immediately after upgrading to iOS 9.0. How do I enable search for installed apps in ios 9?
I am trying to do a rather simple thing: in the context menu I want to have an action (e.g. with Automator) that gets and copies the file's NSURL to clipboard.
A coworker is having problems generating the search for a Chinese help system in the Apple Help Indexer 4.3. The HTML pages are encoded as GB2312. When she creates the index, she gets many “NSXMLParserErrorDomain” errors and an error that the action cannot be finished. She’s indexing the help on Mavericks 10.9.5. Has anyone ever run across this problem?
Ever since I upgraded to 9.0, a recording bar sporadically shows up in my text input window: It overlays on text that I try to type. I know I'm doing it, but I don't know how I'm doing it; nor do I know how remove it. I cannot select it, changing keyboard layout via "123" or ":)" doesn't changing anything. The only way I know how to remove is by turning the phone off and back on. How do I remove this bar?
I am trying to turn off find my iPhone on my iCloud so I can restore a backup. Every time I try to do this, I get a message saying
Yesterday I updated my Mac to El Capitan. I have a serious issue, as every app is crashing, when I am trying to browse files. Examples: Photoshop crashed when I try to save a file, or place a file (crashes when I try to browse) (tried on chrome and safari) - when trying to upload files on Facebook conversation, the app crashes as I try to browse/pick a file. What do I do now?
I can connect to icloud via two emails: xxxxxx@gmail.com - primary, and xxxxxx@icloud.com - secondary. Is it important which email was used to invite me to event? On the device I can be logged via both of them to EXACTLY THE SAME ACCOUNT. Currently on the device I am logged in via xxxxxx@icloud.com. Shouldn't I get invitation in calendar app even an invitation was adressed to xxxxxx@gmail.com?
I'm trying to install an app on a Mac. When I try do it I get this message:
If I have WiFi Assist turned on can I tell when/if it's being used?
Under the 'Choose Storage' section on Apple's iMac configuration page there is a blue link titled 'How much storage is right for you? (Choose Storage) '. In that dialog it says: For the best performance, iMac systems with 32GB of memory should be configured with a 2TB or larger Fusion Drive or all flash storage. http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac?product=MK472LL/A&step=config#
All setting are correct. Tried following some other site's suggestions but nothing has resolved the problem, so now what should I do? Keys worked before the install. MacBook Pro (Retina, early 2105) 2.7 GHz 8 GB
I have the new 2015 MacBook. I am trying to find a HUB (or Docking Station) can can allow me to hook up two 4K Displays while supplying power to the MacBook. I don't care if it uses HDMI or mini Display but my searches on the Internet tend to show mini Display is the way to go for 4K display.
As the title says, I'm looking for a way to run an Automator workflow (or a shell script) when I launch a specific application. When I shut down the application, I want to run another workflow/shell script. How do I achieve this? Any help is much appreciated!
I've recently decided to buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro. Although this costs me a lot, first-time experiencing this machine could be very interesting for me. Its weight is the other reason that attracts me. However, I'm a little bit afraid of buying this machine.
I've noticed since updating to iOS 9 that if I pause music playback in the middle of a song, then return to the music app after a period of time, the song begins playing again from the beginning. Not where I left off. This can get annoying if you are listening to a longer file, like a mix or (I would imagine) an audiobook. Is there a way for me to change the setting so that my position within the song will be remembered?
After updating to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and updating to Xcode 7.0.1 I ran into some issues with the simulator. At first the simulator would launch but I couldn't register/log in to the app because the ATS Key was needed. That was added, but now there is a different issue.
Hello I tried to install Windows 10 on my Mid 2012 13' MacBook pro with a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB installed. In Boot Camp it won't partition my SSD. I also tried it in disk utility but it doesn't even let me press the "partition" button.
I happened to look at my system.log today and I discovered that it is full of what appears to be full HTML pages, put there by webfilterproxyd. Here is an example of what I mean:
AutoUpdate loaded the Office Service Pack 14.5.7. When I open MS Word, my macros are no longer there. I tried restoring my Normal.dotm file from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/
The solution to this problem in previous versions of OS X was a checkbox in the trackpad preferences that said "ignore accidental trackpad input." That option is no longer there in Yosemite. Is it still possible to enable it, and if so how?
I have a macbook pro running Yosemite 10.10.5. When I click on the apple and select "About this Mac", I'm allegedly supposed to see a button "More info", but it's not there. Is it just me? How else can I access detailed system information?
I've MAMP running httpd server as _www and I'd like to assign the temporary directory as part of the shell script (bash). I've tried to use $TMPDIR as per these posts: How do I find the 'temp' directory in Linux? Where is the Temp folder in OS X? however it points to /var/folders/vp/tlt7xf791gl1_v56m0xdmrph0000gn/T/ and this folder has not necessary permissions, so Apache server can't create any files in there. Based on this: My www user which I care about: I can't use /tmp, because it's linked to my /private/tmp (which name states it's private). Therefore how do I determine my correct temporary directory on OS X, so I and my httpd server can use it?
I just purchased a used iMac yesterday. Today, the app store updated "Apple Remote Desktop Client". I can not find an app called that in my app folder. Could it be hidden? Could this be used to 'spy' or grab info from my Mac?
I am aware that messages on OS X are usually logged in the ASL database which then (based on asl.conf) are also written into files like /var/log/system.log Based on this comment I tried (and failed) to figure out why messages from sshd are available in /var/log/system.log but are not accessible with e.g. /usr/bin/syslog -k Facility | grep 'sshd' Any ideas?
This just started happening recently. When I plug my headphones in, I get full high fidelity volume for a fraction of a second and then it becomes significantly muted. I've checked "Sound" in Preferences to ensure that I've not reduced my system volume. Any other ideas on what might be causing this? UPDATE: Tried restarting (multiple times) Tried resetting NVRAM to no avail System Specs: MBP 15" Mid-2014 on Yosemite
I upgraded from Snow Leopard to El Captain. Before upgrade I had a bootcamp partition, and a third FAT32 partition. this caused some complications in the upgrade process and I had to delete the El Captain recovery partition (as well as my FAT32 partition). Now I have two partitions: El Captain in my macintosh partition, and windows in my bootcamp partition, and everything is working fine.
My dad got the message in the subject line in Safari today, with a list of certificates and "cancel" and "continue" buttons. He chose "continue". I gather from a discussion at Apple's site that it's possible to undo this choice by using Keychain Access to find and remove any unwanted items.
Okay, so this just happened: I installed tree via homebrew, and whenever I invoke it, it ignores command line arguments. When I execute the binary directly, it doesn't. How is this possible?
I have an old Mac Air 1,1 that has Office for Mac 2011 installed on it. I paid for the software and it installed the version on my machine. I don't have access to my live.microsoft.com account anymore and there's no way for me to get MicroSoft people/support to give me the keys again.
There are a few apps that I found online that I'm trying to download, but my phone isn't letting me. When I click the link and it brings me to the app store, I click the "get" button, and then the "install" button, but instead of recognizing that, it just reloads and I have to click it again. I've tried it many times with many different apps, but it just keeps reloading until I give up. It didn't even give me an error message. I know I have plenty of storage, so that isn't the problem. Thank you for any insight.
Is it possible to copy iMovie 9 from my OS X Yosemite MacBook and install it in a new MacBook I am yet to buy and will have OS X El Capitan and iMovie 10? iMovie 10 has very limited export options compared to iMovie 9. So I would like to copy iMovie 9 from my old computer to my new computer. If this is not possible, is there any other way to install iMovie 9 on El Capitan that already has iMovie 10 installed?
I have a smart mailbox set up to include all mail that includes my first name, last name, or one of a few other keywords. In combination with a filter for unread messages, this is a great way to find any messages I may have missed in a mailing list thread or otherwise. To achieve this, I use the "Entire message" filter type. Up until Mavericks this searched the entire message body but not the smtp headers (which always include my name because it is part of my email address).
My volume is turned up, it's not on mute, alarms and other things that make noise work, it's not set to "do not disturb" or anything like that. If I happen to have the iPad open when a Facetime call arrives I can see it, but it's silent and not ringing. Facetime works fine except if somebody calls me it won't ring.
I have MBP 17 inch early 2011. New logic board with El Capitan. I have a time capsule that is recognized, and begins calculating how much is going to migrate. It gets about 2/3 to 3/4 done (my estimate) and it quits. I get a message that I can try later. I am connecting with Ethernet directly to the time machine.
Could someone help to find best free / paid Mac OS or iOS (or both) app for reading rss feed in real time? I want the recent posts to appear at the top of screen with time, date and source. Also it should be minimalistic and functional design, ability to search and filter with key words. Any suggestions?
I want to know if using Mac OS Extended Journaled is the right choice for a MacBook Pro that would only be connected with the external hard drive at night. It does not make sense to me to have it journaling every action of a Mac that is not always connected.
Over VNC, everything looks great except Google Chrome, which is completely messed up (image below). Chrome is fine if I'm using the machine directly instead.
I already solved this with sed, but there must be a better way to handle spaces. I have run into this with some my scripts as well. returns
I frequently use the locate command to find files on my machine, but it doesn't index the Dropbox folder. I can't find any way to configure the folder selection. Is there a way to include dropbox in the locate database (locatedb)? (locate is not enabled by default on mac; you have to run sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb to set it up the first time)
I'm using a Logitech Performance Mouse MX. Since upgrading to OS X 10.11 some apps responded sluggishly to mouse scrolling while others are fine. For instance Safari responds like it used to but other apps like Xcode are very sluggish to scroll. It feels like the top speed for scrolling has been capped for these apps when using the mouse. Any idea what changed in OS X 10.11 that would cause this behavior?
Ok I need to install Apple Configurator because a colleague of mine is developing some kind of app and as far as I understood he needs it to put the app on his phone to test it. I am running Yosemite on a late 2013 MBP and don't plan on updating to "El Capitan".
I have two MacBook Pro mid 2013, same hardware inside. In the first one I had the following sequence of OSs. Mountain Lion (factory) > Mavericks > Yosemite > El Capitan > El Capitan (Clean Install) And whenever I start the Mac I have this flow Apple Logo > User login (my user + guest user) > Loading (progress bar) > OS loaded In the second MacBook I had Mountain Lion (factory) > El Capitan And this flow at start Apple Logo > Loading (progress bar) > User login (my user + guest user) > OS "lazy" loaded ("lazy" = Status bar is loaded a few seconds after the screen with dock is presented)
I've been having a re-occurring problem reading data from self-burnt data Blu-ray discs. I'll try to copy the contents of a disc to an external HD and nearly every time, at some point during the copy, I'll get a -36 Error code from the Finder (data can't be read or written).
This only happens with the iPad, not with the iPhone. I've had this iPad for a while; I don't recall having had the issue the whole time, but I also don't recall exactly when it started or if I did something to cause it. I have tried doing a complete reset and reinstall of the iPad, but the problem came back as soon as I'd done my first sync. Is there any way I can make iTunes stop resetting my book sync preferences?
I have a MacBook Pro 17" Mid 2010 which normally supports 1067 MHz RAM. I needed more memory and installed 2 x 4 GB RAM 1333 MHz modules which - as expected - also work with 1067 MHz.
I've recently installed El Capitan. The other day I restarted my computer for the first time for a while, and now it doesn't boot. I restarted in verbose mode and can see that there's a kernel panic relating to com.eltima.SyncMate.kext. It seemed like that was probably an incompatible extension, so I took a copy of the kext and then deleted EltimaAsync.kext from /System/Library/Extensions.
Yesterday I upgraded my Mac from Mountain Lion to El Capitan. Trying to get apache2 working I get the following error message: AH00526: Syntax error on line 20 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf: Invalid command 'LockFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration. What might be the remedy?
I've noticed something strange with printing PDFs via Preview on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I've been printing PDF slides at 6 slides a page and they have always turned out like Figure 1.
I don't know how this happened but my Mac was locked; now when I go to iCloud -> Find my Mac I found my Mac with locked status. The problem that I don't know the pin code to unlock it. Is there any way to unlock it remotely from the iCloud account or using trick to remove the lock. So each time I start my Mac, it tell me to wait 60min before trying again, one count down reach zero I get : incorrect code, please try again Instead of getting the input pin screen
my car audio system does not support MP3 album artworks embedded in PNG format.. unfortunately iTunes switched to this format a while ago. I'd need to find a way to remove (or convert to JPG) all artwork data in PNG from a big set of files and directories. Is there any tool that can do that in batch? I've seen some CLI tools like EyeD3 or id3v2 but seems they require some compilation steps or Python install... too complicated for me... I'm using some of Dougscripts plugins for copying files to the SD card, but there's no tool working on PNG album artwork.
Did anyone succeed in removing all print from an Apple keyboard? I would like to do this in a clean way, not involving stickers or paint that changes the feel of the keys. Might it perhaps be possible somehow to rub it off, using a chemical or a tool? (I want to do this primarily because it would be aesthetically pleasing; any solution less than perfect would therefore be inferior to doing nothing.)
My spouse and I share a Thunderbolt Display but we each have our own MBP, I work from home in the daytime and she uses it in the evening for online night classes in school. This works great because all of the peripherals are attached to the display. Keyboard, printer, external drive, etc - just plug in a single cable and good to go. The exception to this is the Magic Trackpad. We eventually broke down and got two because of the hassle of unpairing and repairing it since it doesn't support being paired to multiple computers. With the Trackpad 2, it has a lightning connection and according to the product page, "Magic Trackpad 2 pairs automatically with your Mac, so you can get to work right away." If I have a Trackpad 2 and leave it connected to the Thunderbolt display all of the time, will it "just work", no pairing funny business, and essentially act like a USB trackpad?
I have opened an ssh tunnel with lucas-MacBook-Pro:~ donbeo$ ssh -D 8080 -f -C -q -N donbeo@149.157.140.64 How can I close it now?
After an upgrade to El Capitan(*) audio played through the Thunderbolt display gets distorted after a while. This is regardless of the audio source played (Spotify, iTunes, soundcloud web). Switching the output to internal speakers and back to Thunderbolt display solves the problem for a couple of minutes before the cracking, hissing noises start again (with the actual music audible in the background). (* It was basically a fresh installation, as the upgrade initially failed)
I want to be able to somewhat securely disable sound input via software. Setting the sound input volume level to 0 obviously isn't a great solution and I don't care to plug in a USB device or mic plug. I can't find any way to system-wide disable the microphone, so I was thinking there must be a software driver that can be registered as a Sound Input Device that doesn't actually do anything.
I'm trying to create a device profile with certificate settings for an iPhone. I have read the docs on profiles for Apple Configurator 2 but still can't figure out how to create a new / default profile. All the non-Apple documentation seems to be for the old version of Apple Configurator. All I seem to be able to do in the UI is open a profile file, but I don't have any existing profile files. Is there some folder that contains default profiles, or some way to make a profile from scratch?
I want to copy files from OS X (El Capitan) to my Nexus phone (which uses Android 6) and vice versa. And I just mean copying locally, i.e. over USB cable, I want to avoid overcomplicating things with upload and download through intermediary servers.
I just upgraded to El Capitan. I don't know if that caused the problem, but my Contacts folder on the dock is empty. I am sure the addresses and groups still exist since, if I create an email and type a group name into, say, BCC, they all appear. How can I restore the Contacts "book?"
I've been running OS X 10.11 without issues since it was released — until today, when suggestd began repeatedly crashing (from every few minutes, up to every 30 seconds). What is suggestd and how do I disable it (since it's only function appears to be to crash)?
I am working in an office that is dominated by PCs, but we are moving select designers to a Mac platform (testing). The biggest issue I have come across is sharing file paths to shared drives, and the formatting differences. Please tell me there is a simple answer.
I'm very new to writing applescript, but have been painfully working through it. I have successfully written scripts to download specific csv attachments from an email inbox, then create an SQL insert statement from them. I'm now trying add a statement to move the original file to an archive folder so the SQL insert script does not act on those files the next time it runs. The variable"DEP_name" is the name of the file captured earlier in the script:
I recently had a baffling several days troubleshooting some odd network problems, which was eventually narrowed down to my MacBook's Wifi adapter and then finally fixed by performing a disk repair to resolve a few problems with the filesystem (which Apple support said can manifest as random OS behavioral issues :/). To prevent this from happening again, is there an easy way to run disk verification on, say, a monthly schedule? Ideally, it would run in the background and only notify me if errors are found.
Connected to container <name>. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.
The OS X 10.11 Mac image was created initially on a Mid-2011 21.5" iMac. I have since recreated from scratch (erased drive, installed 10.11 from App Store Installer) on a Mid-2015 MacBook Pro to eliminate the possibility of some incompatibility. However, the result was identical.
I did a grep search for Macintosh HD within the Aperture library database (Aperture Library.aplibrary) using grep -nr "Macintosh HD" . to see if the problem was fixable by replacing Macintosh HD with Hard Drive in a couple of places. It searched for a few seconds before turning up two or three matches. A few seconds more, and it went into a frenzy, basically spitting out the path to every single image in my library.
I have an old 3rd generation iPod Nano I use for the gym. I don't have an iPhone and the only reason I use iTunes is to add/delete podcasts to my iPod. I don't listen to any music or watch movies or television shows from iTunes and really don't use.
I plugged an iPhone into my Ubuntu desktop and browsed the available files. In the Recordings directory I could see my voice memos, including a .waveform file, which I understand contains the visual plot of the audio. What application can open this file?
Simple question: Is there any markdown editor for iOS which supports inline Latex commands (and preview)?
Logical Volume Family above this has all encryption related fields set to No/None. However I cannot find a way how to have this volume revertible.
I noticed that for the past few days my MacBook Pro has been running the fan non-stop. I dont know if this is a problem, should I be worried? Is this something that I can solve on my own? Should I bring it into the Apple store?
In El Capitan is it possible to have coloured files in finder like 10.8 and be able to click the green button on a window to get it to fit to screen (rather than fullscreen) like you could in 10.9 ?
I want to know if I have already setup a repeating location (geofence) notification in the Find my Friends app before I create a dupe of an old one. Is there a way to see a list of location notifications in the Find my Friends app?
Is it possible to use OpenConnect or some other VPN alternative on El Capitan? Has anyone done is successfully? The only software I've been able to find saying it is possible is *=URL=* which costs €50 :-o
Pages '09 and Pages 5.5.3 are different products, and the last one would have been more appropriately named Pages Light or Little Pages. Every time I open a Pages file (with Pages 5.3.3) I get warnings about incompatibilities and unsupported functions and I am threaten to save my work with these missing pieces (ex.: bookmarks) without any chance to check the real difference on a large document. For me this is a file corruption. Hence I would like to uninstall cleanly Pages 5.5.3 to avoid any internal misbehaviour and file corruption.
I have a lot of watch faces, I change them a few times a day. But as I keep adding new ones, they are added very far to the rightmost of the list of existing watch faces. Is there a way to rearrange my watch faces, so that I can put my most frequently used faces close together?
How can I reset wallpaper on the 2nd monitor without having connection to that 2nd monitor?
I have a 21.5" Mid-2010 iMac i3 in which I am trying to install Windows 8 on. When I went into bootcamp, I received the ever so common error of: When I went to the newly designed disk utility, it told me I had one partition. Of course, I knew this couldn't be true, so i went into terminal and typed diskutil list and got: OLD COMMAND OUTPUT, SEE EDIT 2 BELOW
I lent my mom my backup iPhone running iOS 9 after she lost her Android. She created an iCloud account in order to turn on Find My iPhone so she wouldn't lose it. Never linked the account to an email and proceeded to forget the password and lock herself out of the account. She doesn't really remember what she wrote as her birth date but thinks (thinks!!!) she might have given the correct answers to the security questions. Which is irrelevant unless I can come up with whatever birth date she gave the server. Right now I have normal access to the phone including connecting to iTunes with my own account, just unable to do anything or disconnect from her account within iCloud. I have an old backup from the same phone in iTunes created with my own Apple ID when I upgraded from iOS 8 to iOS 9. If I used this backup to restore, will I finally be able to connect to iCloud using my own account? I have a feeling it won't work but I had to ask. PS: She was sent a 6 digit code to input in a truste
So I'd like to enable 2-Factor Authentication in OSX Yosemite. In Ubuntu I was able to do it using the google authenticator pam module (pam_google_authenticator.so). I was able to build the module without an issue, and I placed it in /usr/lib/pam and modified /etc/pam.d/authorization and /etc/pam.d/screensaver with the line
I'm trying to take a movie that I need to analyze for an essay and split it into 18 movie files, one for each chapter (as defined by pre-existing chapter markers), for ease of watching one scene at a time and then stopping to write about it. How do I accomplish this?
So basically when I highlight a selection of text, say 10 characters, and hit backspace, it will delete the text. However, it will then highlight another 10 characters right after. So if I highlight and delete 10 characters, and start typing, it will actually delete the next 10 characters for some strange reason. Anyone know why this happens on Mac OS?
This is the only thread that came up: Why is iTunes duplicating my Voice Memos? It's out of date and does not provide a solution, hack or workaround if one exists Neither does it say that this is a current bug that cannot be solved I'd like a solution, hack or workaround if someone has figured some way out to "Prevent" this long term.
I downloaded OS Font Tools, release 4 beta 1 (osxfonttools.dmg) and try to install in Macbook Pro El Capitan, but installation failed:   anyone knows the reason?
Is there an official version history for iOS? The best similar thing I have found is on Wikipedia: iOS Version History
"Fresh" install of snow leopard 10.6 needs safe mode to boot. It's a 2006 24" iMac and I can't upgrade the software to lion since it's not availiable on app store (I don't really want to shell out any money on it if I can help it) and the other OS's are too new to run on it. I've fully updated the computer but I have to hold shift to start it up otherwise it just loads to a white screen.
I have a MacBook Pro which has a SSD and a hard drive. Here SSD hosts the operating system and HDD stores some files (pic., doc., etc). 1 week ago I reset my system and installed OS X El Capitan. After this whenever I try to delete a file from my storage drive I have this warning "This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action.". Is there anyway any files from storage to go to trash instead of permanently delete?
"TouchID requires your Password after 48 hours" Update July 2016 Since posting this question, the message has changed to Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID & now has a documented answer at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/245796/85275
While trying to install OS X El Capitan there was a brief power cut mid installation then the Mac tried to restart it first brought up the apple logo then brought up the prohibitory symbol. I can't get safe mode and I have done a hard restart all with the same thing can you help?
I have a late 2012 iMac running El Capitan which has become quite sluggish. I’ve tried a few software solutions, but I think it’s something wrong with the disk. (A lot of stuff is fine; anything that touches the disk starts crawling.) I tried to run the Apple Hardware Test using Apple’s instructions.
I have a late 2012 iMac which is behaving sluggishly. I rebooted, and when I try to log in, it hangs for a long time (it’s hard to make out, but it’s rainbow pinwheeling), and then I get a weird whitewash on the screen.
I do not know how to fix this issue, did something like kext update in sngle user mode..I am searching for the one fsck command which I can do on the harddisk to fix everything...is there any?
Since El Capitan (10.11) I have problems with draining battery. So I searched through forums and didn't find right answer, but they gave command which show logs. So this is the log.
when I try to save or open file in e.g. Pages app the "Favourites" side bar does not show up, as shown on the image:
I have opened a number of ports, and am familiar enough with pfctl, but even though I have opened various ports, then show up as "filtered" - which means of course that they are not open. How can I Open them, or is it a function of having a suitable app using them? For example In a scan this shows up as ... 53 dns Filtered How can I open this port?
There must be somewhere a "Jogger mode" option. When enabling the "Jogger mode", shaking the iPhone won't result in shuffling the playlist. (It is pretty practical during jogging, since you won't keep on shuffling your playlist during running.)
Can someone suggest a clever way to identify all dmg that are encrypted? My only idea is rather complicated. use mdfind '(kMDItemFSName=*.dmg)' and then test the response from hdiutil imageinfo and log the result of those that ask for a password. Thanks to the answer and comments, the following command runs all the dmg through hdiutil, but I can't figure out how to identify the ones that give an error. Any ideas?
After upgrading to IOS 9.0.2, I just realised the iCloud notes on my Macbook didn't syn with my iPad and iPhone. Despite removing my iCloud Notes from my Macbook, rebooting my Mac and signing into my Apple ID again, the error still persists.
In the latest version of Apple's Server app version 5.0.4 running on El Capitan (10.11.2), SSL websites use TLS version 1.0. But, as one Ivan Ristic says, « The bottom line is that TLS 1.0 is insecure and we must migrate away from it ». How to achieve that with Server 5?
I'm working on a sticker which I'll attach to a 15 inch MacBook Pro. I know that the size is:
passwd: Password change failed because password is too short. Password change failed because password is too short. (Yes, it says it twice.)
I have one HD named Macintosh HD. I can’t tell when it happened, but since a few days my HD shows up on my desktop. I tried to disable it in the Finder settings, but it already is. If I enable it I get a second icon for the same HD. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Hi i am trying to install OS X El Capitan on iMac 2008 model Core 2 Duo processor, and 4GB Ram. The way i followed is i created a USB bootable stick and insert to mac machine and restarted the Machine then i pressed C key in keyboard and i waited more than 30 seconds then it is not showing any usb Bootable option and later it booted directly. Even i can`t able to Boot CD Drive also. can any one help me out here please.
How can we view images stored in iTunes Album Artwork Cache? What format are they? Is there anyway to see which Music Albums Artwork has been cached?
I've started using Sublime Text 2 on OS X and its great apart from one small thing. I've enabled Tab to go through all controls:
I recently brought a iPhone 5 from a seller and did the iOS9 update. Everything appeared fine at first, but now the phone won't make phone calls. It keeps saying: "This handset has been blocked on this network." What does that mean and how do I fix it? I can send and receive SMS messages as normal.
My syslog shows the following: Is this a concern? If so, is there a cure?
"save history when conversations are closed" That is a preferences option in Message app on El Capitan. I do NOT have this box checked, yet every time I log into Messages EVERY conversation from at least the last week, if not longer, populates the app. How do I get this to stop happening and start fresh each new login session? And is it possible to have the Messages app synced with the iOS Messages for when I delete a conversation - having it deleted on both? Thanks!
I've a MacBook Pro (mid 2009), and it has low performance. If I can should I upgrade the memory` and/or a new hard drive or SSD? I don't want to buy another one if my Mac is in perfect condition. My budget for a upgrade is between 300€ and 400€, depending on components suggested.
I have created a Bash script that simply does ls -l. In Mavericks and older versions of OSX I simply made a symlink to the script and put it in the /usr/bin folder (ln -s ll.sh /usr/bin/ll) and I could then execute the script using ll from any folder.
I thought buying Apple Care would extend warranty by one year. But I wasn't knowing that there is an upper limit too! And so unknowingly I purchased 2 Apple care plans while purchasing my iPhone.
Restating my question: Using command line, is there a way to print/lookup iOS apps by at least title, that are associated/available in Profile Manager Goal/Context: I am looking for a way to automate publishing iOS apps that are available in Profile Manger. I am asking for a command line based solution because if I could script this process, then getting the results published is do able. Ideal scenario: I would be awesome if there was a way (via command line) to get at all properties of the profile manager iOS Apps Database, name of App, Licenses available etc... but ultimately I am just looking for a way to get the names of apps.
Cannot reinstall Endpoint. Keep getting error: "Endpoint Security VPN build 860010008 is already installed on this computer". How do I uninstall completely to do reinstall?
Short story: Ted owns a company. His company put all employees and owner and owner’s family on a single iCloud account. This brought on several problems including iMessages delivered to wrong devices, among many other issues, but that’s the way it stayed for years. Ted sold company recently and company has allowed him to keep iCloud account. Since then Ted used AppleID website to change the common iCloud email address to a personal account. All other devices are still pointed at old iCloud account.
I want all my photos from icloud to appear on all my devices. I've turned on icloud onto all my devices but they are all out of sync. This is quite strange, is this expected behaviour? I've read I might need to enable photo stream but not only is it not clear what photo stream is but it also seems to have limitations, for example, it is limited in how many it can sync.
I have searched all over, and can't seem to find if it is possible to access "My Photo Stream" photos via finder. It seems that this used to be possible with the previous incarnation of Photo Streams, but I can't find anything dealing with the new version.
I don't have enough storage space to update my iPad mini from iOS 7 to iOS 9. As advised I have linked to MacBook Pro through Bluetooth but cannot see what the next step should be. I have little IT knowledge so answers need to be idiot proof.
I would like to know if there is a way to switch tabs in Safari with the shortcut used in Chrome (⌘ + ⌥ + Arrow). Right now with OS X El Capitan, you can switch between tabs but just up to the 9th one with ⌘ + number. I find it way much easier to switch tabs with the arrows compared to the numbers plus you can get to all the tabs instead of the nine first ones.
I am working with Google Drive (Google Document) and I have the next shortcut predefined to switch between windows in the same app: ⌘ + Shift + < The thing is that if I use that shortcut while I am working in a Google Document it doesn't work because it is assigned to another function in Google Drive. Is there a way I can solve this conflict?
I'm considering upgrading system to El Capitan, but I have a lot of apps that could not work on new system. I have to check it by installing new system. I wonder if that apps would not work properly could I revert system to Yosemite by using TimeMachine backup, after upgrading system to El Capitan? Or it'll revert only files but on new system version? How does it work?
I used to insert ; character by pressing button below ESC on Windows, (which does < on MacBook) and $ by holding alt + the button next to L key on Windows. I've downloaded Keyboard Maestro and it worked pretty well on Yosemite, but on El Capitan, it somehow, probably, does catch its own keystrokes, randomly. I've got two Macros: ⌥; - should write $ < (below esc) - should write ;
Whenever I try to boot Arch, Mint or Debian Linux from a USB stick using GRUB 2 on my Mac with compatibility mode, it freezes on this error (given in the question title). I've tried every available, up to date, method on the web. Any help is appreciated.
My Apple iPhone 5 doesn't charge attached to a laptop. It works fine attached to a wall charger. Plugging in the USB cable into laptop doesn't generate an audible feedback. I am running Windows 8.1 Professional. How do I solve my problem?
I just wonder if there are any ways to check the date and time when the Mac OS X was installed. I guess the system must store the information of this type somewhere, but I don't know how to mine it.
I am using OS X El Capitan. For some reason, I can no longer unlock the preferences in System Preferences panes although I still appear as an admin. When I enter my password for authentication it simply goes back to the locked mode again. How can I fix this?
Today I looked at my Apple Watch and I noticed that the airplane mode was turned on. I had not activated it.
Tried to disable Notifications Center and remove it from the menu bar, unfortunately didn't copy the whole command: Now I'm presented with a completely black screen when I login, and
I'd like to let my bash shell scripts to display gui notifications with two buttons that the user can click and then execute some commands depending on the button pressed. What options exist?
We just released a new version of our app and I wanted to see how many users have updated to the new version. In the past it was fairly straightforward to see the number of app updates for your users. You could set a filter to see updates and then download a csv etc. I have been digging around in the latest version of itunes connect and I just can't find a way to see the number of updates. I was reading through the documentation here and a few of the categories specifically say they don't include updates but nothing about what does include updates.Does anyone know how to get this report out of itunes connect app analytics?
I followed the instructions mentioned in one of the threads on this community to expand the Macintosh HD volume to its full volume. I rebooted with cmdR to Recovery Mode, opened Terminal, entered diskutil cs list and it said: "No Core storage logical volume found". What does that mean and how to get through?
I had a few old backup drives from my Windows computer that I wanted to go through. They are 5-6 years old. And they are internal drives so I got a USB adapter kit from the brand Deltaco. So far I haven't been able to get one of the drives to show up in Finder. So my question is, if these drives haven't been broken by the years what is the best way to see if I can extract some info from them? Is there any special extraction software I need or is it of no use if the drive can't be found in Finder? Any other tips? Appreciate all the help I can get in this matter!
I'm regularly hosting gaming events for medium-sized groups of 50-100 people. So far, players typically used personal hotspots to connect to the Internet. However, I would like to fix this with an AirPort Extreme setup. Before I purchase the equipment, I would like to answer some questions. The target setup consists of two AirPort Extremes wired together to create a giant WiFi.
Ever since upgrading my laptop (2014 MBP 15") to El Capitan, the Today view of the Notification Center has been acting oddly. When I slide it open, everything seems to reset itself; weather goes away and then comes back, all my reminders are gone and then show up after a few seconds, etc. Same goes for pretty much everything but the Calendar section. It's minor but pretty annoying, especially since it never happened before upgrading. I haven't been able to solve the problem or find a solution online; anyone have an idea of what to do? Thanks!
Is there a way to access and view/modify APN settings on IOS 9.0.2 Previously, I had iOS 8.4 installed on my iPhone and I was able to access and modify the APN settings by going to: Settings > General > Cellular > Cellular Data I currently have no way to modify or even view the APN settings after upgrading to 9.0.2 and the cellular data menu is gone, but I did switch to AT&T recently as well so I'm not sure if the APN settings were removed in 9.0.2, if using an AT&T SIM hides the cellular data/APN menu, or if that menu/option is hidden somewhere else altogether.
I have an iPhone 5s. It currently has iOS 8.4.1 on it. I want to restore it as a new phone, but retain iOS 8.4.1.
I was trying to install windows 10 on my Retina Mid 2015 MBP using bootcamp, and ran into a few problems during the installation. Without going into too much of detail, this is what i have right now, and I am unable to merge all my partitions back to single volume and restarted again with Boot Camp Assistant installing windows. The Disk Util in El Captian doesn't allow me to merge those partitions and I am not very familiar with DiskUtil command to do it. here is what i have right now
I was using formail in a utility script, but it disappeared when I upgraded to OS X El Capitan (10.11)? Apparently, it and procmail are gone.
I'm looking to replace one of the internal fans in my iMac (mid-2011, 21.5" version) - is there anywhere these can be sourced?. I can't seem to find it online, and only see the part mentioned in passing in some of the iFixit disassembly instructions. The reason for the replacement is that the fan is noisy, and I wasn't able to remedy it after clearing out the dust with plenty of compressed air. This is the fan I'm looking to replace:
I have an iPad 2 with iOS 9. I wanted to uninstall / remove an app, so I long press the app icon. The icon started to wiggle, but the problem is the iPad no longer respond to any input. Tap, swipe, pressing the home button, pressing the power button, they don't change anything on the iPad. The iPad stayed on the same screen with the wiggling icons. After some time, the screen went black showing the apple logo, and then the lock screen showed and I can access the iPad. Is there a workaround for deleting an app?
When I went to a website in Safari, it opened up another website with popups claiming my iPad has a virus. I deleted some of my apps to try and get rid of the virus, but the popup keeps showing up every time I open Safari. Can someone help me?
I'm pretty fluent in the basics of web based languages i.e., HTML(5), CSS(3), php, MySQL, Javascript; although now I'm diving deeper and starting to tackle scripting (Mostly Python and Ruby) & compiler code (Objective-C, Cocoa, Swift, Metal). What do you some of you recommend for someone who is embarking upon the higher tiers of programming, such as the ones I mentioned above (IMHO; no offense to web dev gurus ;-) ); should I use the basic text editor & up (BBEdit, TextWrangler, ATOM, Sublime Text) and create my own file hierarchy by hand, or should I learn with the assistance of an IDE like Xcode, Dreamweaver, Eclipse (I know it's java based, and rather not use on OS X just from hearing word of mouth), or is there any others that I don't even have any prior knowledge/experience with? If you prefer not to utilize IDE's what is your favorite syntax highlighting enabled text/file editor?
How Come my old iMac Powermac 6.1 isn't recognized by my iPhone 4s ? and how do I connect my mobile hotspot from my T-Mobile iPhone 4s to my old iMac Power Mac 6.1? I try to just plug it in with the USB cable but the iMac seems to not recognize it at all .
I currently have a Macbook Pro and Time Capsule 3TB (ac-wifi). The easiest solution for me would be to use the TC for both media storage AND backups via Time Machine. Would this be possible? I am thinking that the system could be "confused" loading down photos from TC to Macbook, and at the same time making backups with those same files from Macbook to TC. I also read that OS X Photos and similar don't work well with external drives. Can someone please bring light to this subject for me? Thanks!
When using an external keyboard, is there a new key combination to change the input language? It used to be ⌘-cmd+space, but since iOS 9 that combination has been assigned to Spotlight Search, same as OS X. My external keyboard has a key that also invokes Spotlight Search starting with iOS 9, since I suppose it's a simple macro for ⌘-cmd+space.
I recently updated to Garageband 10.0.3 from 6.0.5 on my Macbook Pro. I used to be able to record a live drum set, and then adjust any issues with note timing by using a drop down menu. The options on the menu were "1/4", "1/8", "1/16", and "1/32". This would adjust the track so it would snap to the beat and be in time. This was incredibly useful, and I cannot find it anymore. Is using Flex Time editing and manually fixing each tiny mistake the only option in 10.0.3, or am I not seeing the menu?
I never used thumbnails when opening PDFs, but El Capitan decided I have to see them.  And there is no option to disable permanently. If I reopen a document where I disabled them, most of the times they just show up again. Is there anything I can do?
I have a certain location on my screen that I would like to take a screenshot of rather frequently for a project. Is there a way to set a key binding that would allow one to press a certain combination of keys that will grab that region and output it to a PNG?
I have a 2014 Macbook Air. I dropped it and now it occasionally makes a grinding sound from the left rear of the machine: it sounds like something physically grinding against something else. Oddly, if I squeeze the case when it is making the grinding sound, the sound stops. There's no apparent correlation between when the sound starts and what activities I'm performing. Looking at a teardown of the 2014 MBA, it looks like the fan might be located there, but I can't tell if anything else is in that area. How would I go about diagnosing the cause of the sound?
I accidentally deleted my ~/.bash_profile, and want to know which apps will go down. What most common apps (development apps) use this file?
I just update my MacBook with the last OS, El Capitan. I follow all the suggestions (link-1 and link-2) in order to make TexMaker work in a proper way, but when I relaunch the application all the changes in the paths are back as the origin so I always have to specify /Library/Tex/texbin instead of /usr/texbin. How I can make this changes permanent? There is a different setting in the terminal or system settings where I should specify the right path?
Often, I like to save files (screenshots, text files, etc) temporarily to the Desktop. This was no problem with previous versions of OS X, but since updating to Yosemite, I have to relaunch the Finder to reveal the saved files. My system is: Macbook Pro 13″ 3.1GHz 1TB 16GB RAM running Yosemite 10.10.5.
I just delated an alias folder and I saw that the size in the bin was around 1.3 Mbit is this normal? Shouldn't be around few Kbyte?
I have an Apple laptop, iPhone 7 and older iPad. I synced their photos via iCloud but I don't like photo stream because if you delete a photo on one device you delete from all. And I've already lost things I didn't want to that way. so I want to just turn off iCloud for photos and sync manually. If I turn off photo stream, could I lose photos? I've also synced my devices manually, not just via photo stream. Does that make a difference?
With Mavericks I would unlock an encrypted disk using "Disk Utility", but in El Capitan the "Unlock" button isn't there.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on El Capitan using Boot Camp, I could create the partition, but I need to remove this partition. When I try to enter in Boot Camp again, it shows next error: You can not divide the boot disk partitions or restore a single partition. To install Windows, the boot disk must be formatted as a single volume Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or be partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant. If I access on terminal with diskutil: I need to remove the partition "Apple_HFS", so I want to link "Apple_HFS" with "Apple_CoreStorage". More information: I need to reach removing this partition of 32 GB.
I want an applescript to grab the BPM & Star Rating of a selected group of MP3's and paste the info into the comments section. I found this code that will copy the star rating one track at a time but I do not know applescript well enough to modify it to do a group of selected tracks and also grab the BPM.
After having a problem with the HDMI cable on Samsung Syncmaster 1600x900, I changed it to a DisplayPort to VGA adapter, but now it is not detecting the monitor correctly. The available resolutions for it is now 1280x1024 & 800x600. I have shifted already to custom resolution of 1280x768 by selecting a custom resolution after pressing option and then selecting scaled displays. But I want it to have its original resolution. It feels like it has supposed my monitor to be secondary display.
I have the prerelease version of Apple's "The Swift Programming Language" book. No matter what I try, Apple won't let me update it to the release version. Has anybody else encountered this problem, and better yet, solved it?
I have a Macbook Air and an iMac - both using Apple Mail connected to an exchange server. I have now noticed that flagged emails are different and seem to be out of sync between them. I have tried applying a flag to a new email and it does seem to apply to both. I do however file emails away in folders. Any help would be appreciated.
I have got a second hand iPhone (5s) of my friend and it has been restored before and now has hello on the screen. i get his Apple ID and password for that. My friend his self has iPhone 6 with the same Apple id and password and it is turn on and on line. So I connected the iPhone (5s) to iTunes for restoring again iPhone. Then iTunes asked me for applied and password. After entering applied and password, iTunes told me this applied has been disabled and you have to reset password so I reset the password and ask my friend to check his email for verify and he did that and applied unlocked.
I tried simply reading the disk on my older Windows machine, but I received the error: "The disk is not formatted". I tried using several file recovery programs, but they mostly indicated that the disk was probably corrupt.
I have a folder with a few thousand PDF files, most of which have Skim annotations (e.g., highlights and notes). If I had fewer files, I'd just go through each one, export the PDF with embedded notes, and be on my merry way, having the ability to read my annotations with Adobe Reader on a PC (this is the goal).
I don’t know if the upgrade to El Capitan is relevant or not, but lately I’ve noticed I can’t connect to the Internet via public WiFi hotspots with my MacBook Pro. I can connect to WiFi networks themselves and say, my home WiFi network that requires a WPA password. But now when I connect to public WiFi hotspots I no longer get the modal window that usually asks me to log in using my account with that provider.
I got this iPod touch 4th gen today. It worked initially but in between it showed a few weird screens and turned off and it would start again immediately. I thought if I would update this from iOS 5 to iOS 6 that would solve the problem. So I plugged it into my computer (Windows 7) and tried to update it from iOS 5 to iOS 6. Everything went well but at the end it returned error 1600 due to which the update was unsuccessful. Since then, the iPod has not started, nor is it charging. It just gets heated up when I plug it into the charger. It doesn't show any sign of charging. If I hold the sleep/wake button and home button together even for 60s it won't respond. It only gets recognized by iTunes that too with the same message "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes". I try to restore iPod and it shows error 1600 and I again get into the same cycle. Any help will be appreciated. I have wasted the past 5 hours over this.
I own a 17inch MacBook Pro late 2011. While working on Photoshop I experienced a screen distortion with vertical strips and then it got stuck. I was forced to restart but I couldn't pass by this screen.
I have started experiencing random crashes from my 2010 Macbook Pro 15" It has not symptoms before it crashes, and it doesn't happen on a timely basis but it does happen once every few days, sometimes it will happen multiple times within the hour. Here is the crash report from the latest incident: Is there some loose hardware or something? EDIT: It has happened again and here is the corresponding crash report: http://pastebin.com/hmDHuUu6
The storage on my start up disk is being consumed by some kind of core files labeled as cores:1234 (numerical digits change). I downloaded OmniSweeper, which helped me locate these files and aware that each one is the size of >300mb. How do I disable this?
OS: OS X 10.7.5 Hardware: Logitech G400s I'm having a problem with my mouse clicking. I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue but a software one. The mouse is not registering the first click after just a few (about 5) seconds of inactivity (not clicking). If I click continuously or every 4 seconds every single click will register.
Should I try to clean the fan ducts at the top and bottom of my five year old iMac? I have seen people say vacuuming or blowing air may mess up the innards.
I have external hdd that I've connected to my wifi router Keenetic extra. I've enabled CIFS and FTP in router USB settings page. I can see this HDD folders in terminal using ls without a problem, but I have error trying to connect to it via finder.
I know, with adding a star by album is one solution for changing the picture, but for me that star is annoying. I had change the modification date and creation date by mp3 files, but it didn't help. So, how can I change to my choosen picture?
Without manually selecting them all, is there a way to delete all items that appear in the VIP mailbox? I've seen this question, but there's no Mark All or Trash All button in the VIP mailbox.
Recently I noticed that on my iMac, running El Capitan, the Open Recent menu has stopped getting updated, both in the Apple menus, and for apps, and both for the Open Recent menu item, and the list that pops up from the Dock. I checked in System Preferences | General | Recent Items, and it is saying None. I have tried a number of times to reset it to 20, but it shows up as None when I get back in to System Preferences. I hope someone can help me sort this problem out.
Happens periodically with chrome, not sure about other browsers. If I have a window with multiple tabs and drag one of them either to create a new window or place it in another, usually to my other monitor, the original window gets moved as well, typically about half of the distance. This just started happening out of now where, the only thing that has changed on my computer recently was I reinstalled chrome after having flash issues with video.
Got a new MBP Retina Display May 2015 15'' model. It is upgraded to OS X El Capitan.
I'm currently using Pages '09 on OS X 10.10.5. I have a document in portrait orientation that I occasionally print (8.5" x 11"), and fold into four equal vertical sections, like a spreadsheet with one column and four rows. Here's an image matching what I do with the printout.
I'm thinking to upgrade memory on my iMac 27 3.2 GHz core i5 [late 2013]. It has currently built-in 8GB [4GB x 2] RAM. My questions are:
My mid-2012 Macbook Pro's body is damaged beyond repair but the internal parts are still functional. Is it possible that I could assemble the parts into a 2011 body of the same size and have a functional laptop?
I recently brought new iPhone. I'm not sure why the popular near me feature in app store is blank out..I have enable the location service for it and from the screen shot attached you can also see location icon on top of status bar. What could cause this?
I installed NANO 2.4 but my OS X is still using 2.0. I beleive its something to do with the symbolic link that wasn't created. I first tapped the homebrew/dupes so i could brew install nano If I do a I get but the brew installed in the directory below and I have it confirmed as 2.4 by running the program directlt from here I think a symbolic link wasn't created becasue nano is already included with mac os x, is it safe to override it ? I got the following warning on the brew install from
I just updated to iOS 9.0.2 direct from iOS 8.4 and this morning (a Sunday) I noticed the alarm icon in my status bar. I have two repeating weekday alarms, and I thought the previous behaviour was to show the icon if you had a pending alarm on the same day, but now it seems to be present if there are any upcoming alarms active, even if they're days away.
Few days ago, I had a problem. Suddenly, QWERTYUIO stopped working. All other keys are working fine. Then I started using a cheap usb keyboard. Today, I Pressed Q+W-> 'Q+E'->§ Q+R->] Q+T->[ Q+Y -> = Q+U-> nothing Q+I->Left arrow Q+O->UP ARROW.
I'm currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro. I have tap to click enabled and have enabled dragging without drag lock. Currently I am able to double-tap to start dragging, and then the drag stops when I raise my finger. I want to be able to also end the drag by clicking, so the full sequence would look like tap-tap-drag-click instead of tap-tap-drag-release. I can do this on my 2011 Macbook Air, also running Yosemite. It feels really unnatural to me to have the drag continue after clicking down, and I keep intending to end the drag this way habitually. Do I need to break my habit or is this possible?
When I type security dump-trust-settings I get the following two errors: Is there a way to delete these certificates so that they don't cause an error (they seem to cause an error with Sublime Text Package Control)? They are not shown in the Keychain Access.
I'm thinking to buy IPhone 6s [mabybe Plus] from Apple's website. They are offering SIM-FREE version of those. What I want to ask is ... does SIM-FREE mean UNLOCKED and ready to use iphone anywhere in world?
So I wanted to hide the Finder icon on my Dock. According to this answer - How can I remove the Finder icon from my Dock? I am suppose to edit DockMenus.plist file. When I tried I had no permission to do that. I tried to use chmod (also with sudo) on that file with no effect, same message from terminal - Unable to change file mode on DockMenus.plist: Operation not permitted. I ran ls -lOe on that file and I learned that apparently there is new permission flag called restricted.
I have uninstalled Dropbox from my Applications on OS X but it is still showing as .dropbox in my home directory. Why is that please?
I am using El Capitan on a 15" MacBook Pro mid 2015. I downloaded a Windows 10 iso file from the Microsoft website.
It seems that my text/iMessages from old iPhone is not synching with my new iPhone. Is there anything special that needs to be done for the messages to synch? Everything else is synched.
Is it possible to copy the link of the current played video/stream in iOS in the Safari or another 3rd party Browser? Have a look at the screenshot below in the bottom left corner. In OS X I'm able to do it with a right click on the video/stream and then Copy Video Address.
I've so far been using Disk Utility to partition my Mac's drive and install Linux, but is there an easier way to do it, using something similar to Boot Camp, or a third-party software application that will split your drives easily (and is not malware)?
I have a 76GB encrypted sparse bundle on the rMBP SSD drive. Mounting it by double clicking it in Finder was pretty much immediate in Yosemite.
I'm helping out a friend who thinks they may have malware on their machine. I don't know what kind or to what extent, so I don't want to boot into the system. My question is: Is there a good boot time anti-malware like Avira Rescue Kit (which won't seem to boot on a Mac)? Or, should I boot into the recovery partition, and run Malwarebytes? Thanks
I always favor MPlayerX as my video player, it works perfectly. However since a few days, when playing fullscreen, it seems to no longer interpolate the video content, resulting in a 'pixelated' output. If I compare it with QuickTime or VLC for example, using the same video file, with MPlayerX I can see pixel blocks in the output, the typical jagged edges from image stretching, whereas it looks smooth in other players.
Are there any apps for OS X that can edit photos metadata (such as keywords, etc.) without all the bells and whistles of full stack photo management apps (such as Lightroom, iPhoto, etc.) with the option of embedding it in the file rather than keeping it in a separate place? Some more info: I want to retain my own folder structure with photos and don’t prefer programs organizing them in their own way and their own place. I want to hard code all the metadata in the photos themselves so they are easily portable. I want to be able to edit metadata in a batch when necessary No command line tools, GUI apps only (thanks, @IconDaemon)
I just installed windows 7 on my early macbook pro retina 15. Everything is working fine. I've also updated all my drivers, including graphic. I have an extern monitor with a displayport. It looks like the window does not even recognize my monitor. Is there an extra step I need to do to enable a displayport monitor in bootcamp?
I generated a self-signed root S/MIME certificate using Certificate Assistant. I made sure the resulting certificate was in my Keychain, and trusted it explicitly. In attempts to send encrypted mail to that account the encryption icon is never activated and the certificate does not show up on the TLS certificate list for the account (Mail Preferences). I've also tried creating a Certificate Authority and using that to generate a leaf S/MIME certificate, with the same results. I found detailed instructions for setting up server and client certificates at developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2326/_index.html but, following those instructions, trying to adapt for S/MIME, produced the same result. Signing mail from that account works fine. Is there any way to do this?
Until recently, when I scrolled in my terminal, it scrolled through the history. However, recently that behavior changed and now it scrolls through the command history. Where is the setting to change it back?
After updating to El Capitan, my friend found her Calendar.app runs extremely slowly. Clicking the button to move to the next week's display results in spinning beach ball (the new one). Beach ball spins for something like half a minute. Makes the app practically unusable for someone booking appointments while the customer waits.
Suppose I want to work on my Mac mini here, reach a certain point in my work, then put it in hibernate mode and unplug the power. From what I understand the hibernate mode will save the status of the Mac into the disk, and will unpower all devices. So, from what I understand, I can now unplug the Mac mini and no damage will occur.
You can crop photos in the Photo app, like "square", "3:2" etc. but are those in inches? Or just ratio? How do I crop a photo in x-inch by y-inch on iPad?
Every time I make a backup with Time Machine, the size of the data backed up is always 2Gb+. I don't understand where all these data are coming from. Is there a way to inspect the content of the single backup?
Is it possible to turn on the light that indicates that the camera (on a MacBook) is on without turning on the camera? (Then it could be used as an indicator for something else.)
So I recently had an issue with my phone, went to Apple, and got a replacement phone. I restored my phone from a backup that was created that day, however when I went to restore my backup I had created, something happened. At the time, I didn't think it was anything wrong other than a few apps being out of place and a few missing passwords, however now I'm having an issue with the entire Mail app.
I have photos on My Pass0port for Mac and attempted without success to download other photos using my Acer which uses Windows 10
I used a crummy AT&T (*coughAT&Tsymbollookslikedeathstarcough*) router to build a private LAN. It has no service/DSL connections, there for it detects no internet access (naturally) and will give me this pop-up on a Mac:
I use this excellent airplay speaker and iOS device for streaming music from Spotify. Unfortunately, the connection to Airplay reverts (timeout?) to the iPhone 6 Plus speaker after a short time. I would like it to connect by default to the Z2 and stay connected. Any ideas?
(MacBook Air, mid 2013, new install on wiped drive of OS X 10.11 El Capitan) According to "Internet Accounts" preferences, I have five active email accounts: iCloud, gmail, yahoo, americtech.net, and Comcast. I thought I had set up Mail.app, but found only two accounts were listed: iCloud and Comcast. When I attempt to add an account (any of the remaining three), I am asked for username and password, then informed that the account is already active. Mail.app has not crashed, just won't accept any other accounts. I have all five running on an iMac (Yosemite) and an iPad. No apparent way of manually setting up the accounts; I'm thinking of visiting the Genius bar!
Other Questions and Answers address how to check the progress of Spotlight rebuilding its index, previous to El Capitan: Click the Spotlight menu. The menu/panel that appears reports a progress bar if re-indexing is in progress.
Fan constantly turns on after installing El Capitan and opening a few applications. Any fixes for this or should I roll back the OS.
In Thunderbird I can press the "A" key and archive the highlighted email to a folder named after the current year. In Outlook I've seen various ways to move to a folder via a keyboard shortcut and then select the folder to move to (a two step process); I could not find a way to move an email to a particular folder with a single keyboard shortcut. Is there a way a to move an email to a designated folder with a single keyboard shortcut in Outlook 2016 for Mac? Note: I had previously asked this question at personal productivity but my question was deemed "too specific".
I've got 10GB of RAM in my 13" early 2011 MBP running the latest OS X 10.11.1 public beta, and I've been trying to decide if I can tolerate the 8GB model when I get a new computer. The answer to that question seems to think I can, but it'd be nice to have some empirical evidence to support that person's opinion. To that end, I want to be able to monitor when, in my daily use, my computer would explode if it only had 8GB. Is there a way to configure my computer to alert me when its RAM usage exceeds 8GB?
I purchased a book in iBooks Store and download it to my local library. Then I hide my purchased book in iCloud. Here is my question: Will the downloaded purchased book still get updated if there is a new version of the book?
I have an Airport Extreme on one floor and another one on the second floor as an extender. For some reason my device keeps connecting to the first floor Extreme - I know this because I can see it in the Airport Utility. How can I change this?
Is there a utility that saves current selection (from terminal, web browser, ...) to a text/html file in a specific location? I want to use it as a quick note taking tool so I do not have to "create new file, paste, save file" each time I want to take some note.
So the question is really simple. I am using Photos app on my mac, without the knickknacks like Photo Stream, iCloud etc. The exact location of photos is the default one: /users/xxx/Pictures/Photos Library/Masters.
Scenario: I am trying to find a picture (which is named DSC_2345.jpg) inside the Photos Library in Finder. When I type "234" (without quotes) directly in the finder search field, all the photos whose names contain "234" are displayed in finder; however, when I type "2345" (without quotes) no photos. When I Type DSC_2345 I see the photo. So my question is:
My iPhone 4s was stolen but im not sure if the Find My iPhone was switched on. The phone number is still the same and active. Is it possible to check the status?
El Capitan issue: Drag-and-Drop to open an image with the Preview.app in the Finder Toolbar is not working ... dragging an image over the preview.app icon in my finder windows toolbar it results in an forbiden icon an nothing happens ...  Any idea how to fix this?
I want a sort of audio server which sits in background (running on OS X, not iOS) and whenever an email arrives at a specific address, it reads it aloud. Ideally there would be also an option to filter by a "password" so that spam doesn't get read aloud. I have a home automation system that can send notification emails when stuff happens, and since I already have computers throughout the house, I'd like to have them announce the events rather than buying dedicated audio output client hardware. I'm hoping I can cobble something together with existing software and system tools to enable my Macs to act like audio endpoints (addressed via email). Any ideas?
I tried to install the mongodb driver for PHP on El Capitan. While running sudo pecl install mongo, I get the error message: I tried mongo driver install with PHP 5.5.26 also.
Ive got facetime on my laptop working with my phone which allows me to make and receive calls (these are phone calls as opposed to facetime audio calls). Ive also got messages on my laptop but with the messages it seems to only let me send and receive imessages is there a way i can set it up to also allow me to make and receive incoming SMS messages ? On the apple support website i can see that that it seems to be possible, but when i got to messages on my machine i only get the option to iMessage. My laptop is an MBP running 10.10.5, My phone is a iphone5s running iOS8.x (latest 8 version) This is my current messages setup : And this is the setup on my phone :
I'm new to Mac OS X and I'm trying to install Xcode on OS X Yosemite. First I tried using the AppStore, but when I click in "Install App" the App Store hangs (the little wheel in the top bar keeps spinning)
Yesterday, I managed to lose a couple of hours of work, because I had forgotten to save my file. Now I wanted to enable the auto save option for Power Point and Word, which I thought would also be available in Office 2016, but I can't find it. Also, googling only brought up guides for Word 2011, which don't work with Office 2016. Could some one of you please point me to the correct option? Thanks a lot!
In order to diagnose slow terminal interaction (which turned out to be an unrelated problem), I ran sudo opensnoop and saw output like this: dtrace errors I assume this has to do with SIP in El Capitan. Is it something to worry about? How can I dig deeper to understand what the probe IDs correspond to and what processes are causing the errors? What is the action #?
As a new user of OS X I am getting to know how it is to work with it every day and I started noticing things that went unnoticed previously. One such question is, when I download a file from the Internet, for example the Skype app, I will download a .dmg file on my HDD. I can open it and use the app, however, when I close it and restart the computer, the app won't get installed to my apps as I am used to from Windows. Rather, I have to open up the .dmg every time. I am sure there is a way to achieve what I want since I've worked with macs in the past and they had these apps in the applications window, so could anyone explain to me what am I doing differently and why is it this way? I am aware of the fact that after I open the .dmg file, a virtual hard-drive copy gets created and that's why I see the HDD icon on my desktop, but that's about it.
Someone could provide information about the position inside the pc of the configuration files for the application TeXMaker. I can't find any file in the home directory. More precisely, I'm looking for the .ini file in order to make permanent changes in the path.
Upon loading my terminal (since trying to install composer globally) I'm being spammed with countless amounts of -bash: 1: command not found before I even type any commands. I'm not quite sure what to do, but this is all that happens, I load up terminal and get; for an unlimited amount of times until I close the terminal. Can anyone help me fix the issue, or reset my terminal, or anything? Update: Trying to run rm -i ~/.profile ~/zsh* ~/.bash* like advised in the comments I got the below: I still get the command not found error.
If I'm using gloves, often times it's difficult for my iPhone to detect a touch, even with gloves that have metallic thread for such a purpose. Since iPhones with force touch detect the touch via capacitance and pressure, Does an iPhone with force touch respond better to touch while wearing gloves than without?
When my iPhone opens the personal hotspot, I cannot find other users via Airdrop. What is the theory behind it?
I’m using OS X Yosemite. I’m trying to run an sh script upon login, but I’m having problems. I created the following file in my /Library/LaunchAgents directory … The contents of the file are as follows:
I know the Airdrop uses WiFi direct to send the packet, but what is the radio frequency of it? 2.4Ghz? 5Ghz? or both?
I have recently done a clean install of El Capitan, having backed up files on Time Machine. However, there is something wrong with the time machine backup: when I enter time machine it won't list the old backup, only the one that I did after the clean install. (I think there's a problem with the drive I'm using.) However, the files are all there, so I can copy them to my hard drive using the cp command in the terminal. However, if I try cp -r /Volumes/TimeMachine/.../Documents/* Documents all the files appear with today's time stamp, which is not very helpful. If on the other hand I enter cp -pr /Volumes/TimeMachine/.../Documents/* Documents I get the correct time stamps, but I also get the level of protection that Time Machine has - which is to say I can't edit anything I copied! Does anyone know whether there's a way to preserve time stamps, but not this extreme level of protection? Thanks
“weka-3-7-13-oracle-jvm” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. I got the above massage when i tried to download weka, kindly advice?
after upgrade to El Capitan, I don't get Instant Hotspot and Handoff to work (I am particularly interested in the possibility to make phone calls using my iPhone 5 from my Mac). It was working on Yosemite. Now I saw on Apple Support that info about the compatibility: Handoff and Instant Hotspot Handoff and Instant Hotspot are supported by the following Mac models, and require OS X Yosemite: Now I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) and it does not seem to be mentioned here. My Question: can I use Handoff and Instant Hotspot with my MacBook Pro Retina? Becauese I can't seem to be able to set it up (enabled in System Preferences -> General -> Allow Handoff is enabled) in FaceTime.
I opened it and it worked. So I created a VM for Ubuntu. When I had finished creating I clicked Start and was instantly given an error code 1:
I'm using Yosemite. I have two external displays with several spaces (I like the idea one app per space). Sometimes I want to move focus to another display without using a mouse. I have few solutions but they are not ideal. cmd+F4 Move focus to next or another window in System Preferences - it moves focus but mouse still stays on previous display so moving spaces does not work properly (ctrl+←or→ moves spaces on previous display) cmd+F4 Move focus to next or another window in System Preferences - it moves focus but mouse still stays on previous display so moving spaces does not work properly (ctrl+←or→ moves spaces on previous display)
I recently switched from using BaKoMa Tex to Texpad for working with .tex files. After switching the "Open with" default application for all .tex files (which is working fine), I've noticed that the "secondary" file icon is still stuck on the BaKoMa Tex "T" icon and isn't updating. I can manually copy and paste the Texpad icon for each file to solve this problem; however, that is clearly not optimal. I tried to use the command from a previous stack exchange question: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
UPDATE: I tried Diskpart on windows. It worked, shows my hard drive and the usb drive however the usb (disk1) has the status "no media" and a size of "0B"
I tried to update Xcode to 7.0.1 today and it told me that I needed to get OS X 10.10.4 or greater (I had 10.10.3). I agreed to that update, but it didn't update OS X and has now marked XCode as being at 7.0.1 in the App Store. However if I go into XCode it still shows 6.4 and lacks the new features like iOS 9 in the simulator.
Ever since OS X El Capitan, BootChamp, the utility that let you directly restart into Windows from the menu bar (without needing to hold the option key) no longer works. The developer's explanation can be found here. How can I quickly boot into Windows, ideally from the menu bar?
When I try to listen to music on iOS 9.0.1 sometimes an error code comes up. The error is: The operation could not be completed An unknown error occurred (-42585)
I have a fresh Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) install, with every update available installed, on a iMac (2011). Safari (9.0) is acting up. Firefox is working just as it should.
How do we switch between options in confirm dialog boxes on El Capitan. Older OSXs was switching by using spacebar. Not working anymore.
I have the issue that my windows are not really full height in OS X. I'm new to OS X so I don't know if this is new. Here is an example image:
I've done some tests, and this appears to be a Yosemite client issue more than anything. I run Mountain Lion on my own laptop and did some tests, in 10.8 and 10.10, on wifi and wired ethernet, and in both local and network profiles since our artists sign into network accounts. Some limited results for 300 .exr files totaling 133MB: 10.8 / Wifi / Local profile: 300 items copy in 53 sec 10.8 / Wired / Local profile: 300 items copy in 47 sec 10.10 / Wired / Local profile: 300 items copy in 223 sec 10.10 / Wired / Network profile: 300 items copy in 263 sec
I keep accidentally typing Command + D in Google Chrome, because I'm used to that taking me to the Address Bar on Windows systems. This results in a bookmark being created. My question is: How do I use the keyboard to reverse this action, to remove the bookmark that was created?
I need to find out if there are OSX/iOS caching servers on a bunch of different networks - and put in a caching server where needed. But since the caching service on a Mac server is pretty black box, there isn't much information available on how it works.
I am trying to get rid of approximately 3GB of imessage attachments, by deleting the attachments from the backup file, and then restoring from that backup. My phone is an iphone 5, running iOS 7.1.2. And I do not want to upgrade to iOS 9. Will I be ok restoring it? Or is there an alternative message to free up some space? Thanks
I just used homebrew to install my postgres, and I am unable to start it after attempting to start it with the suggested command from postgres/brew.  Can someone please advise?
How can I convert a WMV (Windows Media Video) movie file to QuickTime MOV on OSX El Capitan? If possible I would prefer to use an installed program rather than an online program.
I'm getting the following after about half an hour of Preparing Backup: Setting security information: Operation not permitted Error processing extended attributes: Input/output error Error moving - -- disk image from /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/com.apple.backupd.WpUkVn/iMac.tmp.sparsebundle to /Volumes/TimeMachine/iMac.sparsebun... Failed to create disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/iMac.sparsebundle, status: 512 Backup failed with error 20: 20 Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine statfs call failed, error: 2 No such file or directory
Until now, I used to be a public beta tester on OS X, so I opted in for beta versions and the current OS X version is 10.11.1 Beta (15B38b) (as for now, it's the latest public beta version). Since I do not want to receive any updates regarding public beta versions through App Store, I opted out through the settings of the Mac. So, I want to ask whether I have to perform a fresh install of the final release of El Capitan or I am going to get any new update (regarding the final release) through Mac App Store when it is released?
After upgrading to El Capitan how do I enable DNS resolution on an offline, internal computer network? Before upgrading to El Capitan I could connect to my internal network, set my DNS and search domain, and I was good to have DNS resolution happen. There was no gateway on the network or DHCP server, just a switch.
I have an application called LICEcap. It's a pretty handy app that allows you to take a GIF video of your screen.
I used to get an option to generate promo codes however since the new redesign which Apple did for the iTunes Connect, I haven't been able to find that option. Where is it hidden?
I'm a heavy user of OS X's / iOS's ‘text substitutions’ or text replacements. I probably have hundreds of these.
I would like to: take a snapshot of my OS X system install an application and take a new snapshot. Comparing both snapshots (file hash) would show me what settings(plist files) and files were created/edited during the installation.
Sorry for the poor pictures. also please ignore the separate NTFS partition. I am still trying to install Windows while I am waiting for answers, so it was intentionally added and does not affect my problem. EDIT:
Recently (the last three day) my late 2013 iMac has been suffering from kernel panics. After reboot, console shows a 'Previous shutdown cause: -62'. Can someone please tell me what this means. The only thing I have changed is I added a new backup drive (2TB external). It seem to only happen after about ½ hour after wake (from sleep). It only does it when doing multiple processes, like running photoshop, iTunes open in background, youtube vids playing etc. So, any ideas. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, BR
If you are a Mac user, and you happen to have looked at local folders using the terminal, you might have noticed, that a file foo.txt is there BUT also ._foo.txt. That is considered a "ghost file", something that Spotlight uses for indexing, as far as I know - just like .DS_Store. I work across platforms - Windows, Mac, Ubuntu - and I want to get rid of these ghost files, since they pollute the explorer window on the other platforms quite a lot. In order to delete these ghost files, I'd use: ...but of course, as soon as I re-visit the folder, a flood of these ghost files pop up once again... So, how can I prevent these ghost files to be uploaded?
Hi is there anyway to play RTSP on OSX El Capitan ? the link in windows play fine in Windows Media Player & Real Player. on OSX , I tried VLC , Quicktime , MplayerX and I can't get it to work I tried playing with settings in VLC to make it work but it didn't please help it's really anonying to have to go to windows everytime just to play the the RTSP link
There are tons of questions about changing a Mac hostname, and while I went through most of them, I could never find this nuanced answer: Why do routers always seems to receive the first hostname that was ever set to a machine? Let me show you with these screenshots how this Mac is supposedly correctly setup according to various answers on this site:
The original video is 16500 frames long, 24 frames per second. I'm only animating half of those frames. I used "FireAlpaca" to draw each and every one of the still images that would be used in this video.
I've got a problem with some of my apps on my iPhone 4 including Facebook. When I open them they show their start screen and then they shrink to 1/4 of the size and are centered on the screen. I tried everything (or almost), safe mode with volume up when restart, reset all configurations, restore with phone and iTunes (and other things I can't remember), I don't know more what to do.
I plug my phone into my mac as I would with an iPhone, and indeed Photos says that it can find the device, however it doesn't show any photo thumbnails or give you any options to import the photos. Any suggestions?
I use my iPad with lightning power cable, to execute live theater lights show through an ArtNet server to DMX dimmers signals in Wi-Fi. I need to connect two USB devices to it, one keyboard and one USB buttons tables like the Novation to launch a single light scene from keyboard or button USB table, but at the same time I need to continuously charge the iPad because it will work for 10 hours always connected to lights dimmers. How I can connect two USB devices to the iPad and charge it the same time?
I get basically the same error as described in the thread Can't backup iPhone 5s (iOS 8.4) using iTunes 12.3 (because an error occured) or iCloud backup using an iPhone 5 and iOS 9.0.2. It can neither - backup to iCloud automatically when connected to WiFi and electricity while locked - backup to iCloud manually - backup to iTunes automatically - backup to iTunes manually
I have Windows 10 Professional installed on my Macbook Air. I am using bootcamp version 6.0 I have serious issue with my audio device: Scenario 1:
I'm playing Borderlands 1 GOTY (Game of the year edition) from the App Store. Tried playing it only with the Iris Pro, instead of the Radeon R9 370X, and the performance is stunning.
I am a new Macbook user, which is exciting but alas confusing as well. I am trying to add favorites in the side bar under Finder. I read that one can just drag and drop from Applications as in this thread - How can I add new folders to the Favorites in the Finder sidebar?. However, when I have done it, it does not stick and the icon just goes back into the Applications list as if I have not done anything. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or why this isn't working? Thanks!
The Notes app occasionally shows on my lock screen. I understand that apps can show on this screen based on my location (ex: my AT&T app shows when I'm near an AT&T store) but I don't know why Notes would do this -- so far, once in my office and a couple of times in my bedroom at home. Any ideas? It began happening after my upgrade to 9.0.2 though not sure if this specific version is to blame. Update: I've now had this happen multiple times in airplane mode so I suspect this behavior may have nothing to do with my location.
I'm developing a desktop app for OS X with behaviour that depends on the date. I want to test the behaviour without waiting for a specific date.
I am facing severe stability issues after doing a clean install of OS X 10.11, El Capitan, on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2010). It restarts spontaneously for no apparent reason. Sometimes it subsequently reports a kernel panic, while other times not. Also it seems to affect the battery, such that the maximum charge varies before and after a crash, e.g. just now it was 105% before and 63% after. Before the clean install a brand new original battery and a new SSD (Crucial CT250MX200SSD1) was installed. I did try an SMC reset, but with no effect.
I am using a LaCie external hard disk in my MacBookPro for 3 years. After having updated to OS X El Capitan, I am no longer able to write on the HDD and I have read-only privileges. Info shows that the HDD is formatted in NTFS but, before upgrading, I was able to both read and write on the hard disk without any problem and without any external app. Any suggestions to solve this issue?
I have iCloud Photo Library turned on for all my devices (iPhone, iPad, IPod). My question: Is there any way to have iCloud turned on but have photos save to just one device with out having them saved to all devices? If I try to delete the picture or video it deletes from all 3 devices, is there a way to have iCloud Photo Library turned on but still be able to just have pictures on one device? Thanks for any help!
If I sent 2 text messages to 2 different people within a few minutes of each other and returned to one of those conversations and saw the dot bubbles like I was getting a response, and then received an actual response to the other message (the one I wasn't looking at), would that mean that the dot bubbles were for the other conversation and not the one I was looking at when I saw them?
I still have an old OS installed on the other disk, which is not formatted yet. I thought that it might be by some miracle conflicting with the new installation, but Finder does this even after unmounting the old HDD. I have absolutely no idea what to do with this, and it gets very annoying.
OS X Yosemite v. 10.10.5... When migrating from iPhoto to Photos my trainer deleted Photos library rather than iPhotos library. What needs to be done to correct?
Sometimes when I tell Siri "Remind me about this" or "Remind me about this when I leave/arrive/get home/work/car" she replies: OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about.
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Normally when in the non-classic view in Mail there is list on the left for my mailbox, a list in the middle for my inbox, and a list on the right for the messages contained in a conversation. I don't see the last list on the right. Is there a way to get that pane back, perhaps through an option in the menu? I'm running the last versions of everything (10.11).
I have 2 Macs, and am downloading El Capitan from the app store. I want to see if I can install it on an older MacBook Pro that has a broken Command-R feature that prevents me from installing the OS. (It says contact apple support) Since that costs $, I'd rather see if I can simply boot and reinstall the OS in a clean way. How do I locate and burn the downloaded El Capitan in a way that will make it bootable on the other mac?
I want to buy a new MacBook Pro and I'm wondering if there's a non-retina MacBook Pro 2015. I'm asking this because on the compare Mac models page (*=URL=* there's a Non-Retina MacBook Pro, is it 2015 or all 2015 are always retina?
I'm using Tag and Hazel and I'd like to recursively go through files on our server, obtain their file paths and filenames and parse the whole thing into tags to apply to the file. Is there a shell script that can do this? I can use Leap by Ironic Software to remove the trash tags system wide, but this gives me a real start into an automatic tagging system for all my files. Basically I'm going to take a filename like /Volumes/media/Clientele/Stock/Purchased Sets/Vintage Bundle/vintage-bundle-7/offset/30_CIRCULAR_VECTOR_TEXTURES/C03.eps Truncate the /Volumes/media/Clientele/Stock/ off the top, and the file extension .eps from the end, then cut the rest into separate tags: Purchased Sets Vintage Bundle vintage bundle 7 offset 30 CIRCULAR VECTOR TEXTURES C03 ...remove leading and trailing spaces, change to lowercase, then reapply those tags back to the file with tag. Additionally, removing tags from the system that are just numbers would be helpful also. Update: I need to do this specifica
I just returned from an international flight that did not feature wifi access. While my iPhone was in airplane mode, I replied to a number of email messages attached to my exchange account and sent them while offline. Once landed and connected back to my cellular network, I realized that there was no trace of the sent messages or replies; neither in Drafts, Outbox nor the Sent Items folder.
Is this possible? I have an international phone plan that charges way too much money for international texts. I'd like to still be able to use iMessage instead of other texting apps, (but realize it will only be able to be with folks who have an iPhone and iMessage activated.)
When I tried to shut off my MacBookPro, the Apple Insignia, on the outside case, is still illuminated, and the screen is black, but I have the outline of the mouse pointer. It will not turn back on. None of the keyboard keys do anything. It seems to be locked up. Has anybody experienced this issue, and have a solution to fix?
Situation: I've migrated from using iPhoto to Photos.app on the Mac. I am using iCloud Photo Library I have both a MacBook and an iPhone connected to the iCloud Photo Library Both devices have the Optimise [Device] Storage setting enabled I've read this page from Apple, so I know that although Finder shows both the iPhoto and Photos libraries as 'using' a similar amount of storage, they're actually sharing the same, underlying image files. I'm also aware that after migrating from iPhoto to Photos, I can continue to use iPhoto, but any changes there will not be reflected in Photos... My question originates from the point at which I turned on Optimise Mac Storage on the Mac... The MacBook in question is low on storage, so, as I continue to add photos (for example, I've imported some from an external drive), the overall space available on the Mac's HD is being kept in check by the optimise setting.
What went wrong? I created a new partition with Boot Camp Assistant (OS X 2,25TB | WIN 850GB), but during the partition process, the iMac suddenly restarted. When it got back on the Fusion Drive's (3,12TB) only partition (Macintosh HD) was only 1,46TB. For the record; This is the first action I did after getting the iMac back from service where the hard drive was swopped with a brand new one.
I have an old MacBook Pro, with DVI-out video, analog audio (earphone and speaker ports), and of course USB. I'm using it to manage my iTunes library, but the only way to play iTunes content on my home entertainment system is via Wi-Fi to an Apple TV box.
How do I upgrade my iPad 3 from iOS 5.1 to 7.x (now when the latest version is >8)?
I am using a 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with Yosemite and an iPhone 4s with iOS 9. I want to record game tutorials. I've tried to use the QuickTime Player to screen record but the little arrow on the right side of the record button doesn't show my iPhone video, only the microphone. Is there any good, free way to do it?
I am currently using El Capitan. Every time I uninstalled iBooks so I could manage my books with iTunes, I found I simply couldn't sign in to iTunes any more. That means I click the 'sign in' button but no sign-in window pops up. I can't purchase or re-download any of my music or books. And reinstalling iBooks fixes it all. Is there a way I can manage my books with iTunes and can still sign into my account?
So I've been wanting to jailbreak for about a good 3 years now (Yes, I am a failure) and have found it near impossible to jailbreak ios 6.1.6 . Now, I have an iPod4 with ios 5.1.1 (but it is my sisters) and I will be able to create the shsh blobs.
I'm getting the following error when trying to launch my application after upgrading Mac OSX:  The more info says to go here and download this file.
I just upgraded from Mavericks to El Capitan today, and there are many new background processes asking to connect to the internet, (as reported by Little Snitch). I allowed most of them, as they were connecting to Apple servers, but I still wonder what data is being sent. I also allowed Google Software Update to connect, assuming Google Earth might need an update which, as far as I know, is the only Google app I have.
No password is acceptable here. I cannot change the Apple ID back to since I cannot verify the email and the change doesn't take effect until verification has been completed. I have tried changing back to the old ID get a Account is Locked message on the iPad when I try to use it - probably because of the unverified address. Catch-22. This appears to be the same unresolved issue from last year. As well as this one.
I'm running OS X El Capitan, and have 3 Gmail accounts signed into it. For some reason, the Erase Junk Mail menu option is greyed out. How can I use this option?
Since the iOS 9.0.x update, I can't set two different alerts on calendar entries. Whatever I put in for the first or second alert overwrites both time periods. Is there a fix or workaround for this?
When I try to drag Photos.app or certain other bundled system apps to the trash in El Capitan, I get the error “Photos.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X. The solution in Yosemite would be simply to use
I recently upgraded to El Capitan and RECentral, the streaming application I use to play my Wii U on my iMac, no longer starts up reliably. Sometimes it just beachballs for 10 minutes until an image is displayed. Is there a fix for this?
My Apple remote's battery died. I can get to the start screen of Apple TV by unplugging the device, but I can't seem to get further than that without the remote. That means I can't activate the Apple TV Remote app for my iPhone - I can't navigate to the activation screen. This previous answer suggests I may be able to control Apple TV with the 1Keyboard app, but that app costs $10 and I have no reason to believe it can do what I need it to do. Any help?
I'm learning how to code in Python using TextWrangler as my text editor (using OS X), and I've been unable to open any files. Here's how I want to open the files:
I have OmniFocus set up to capture reminders created in Reminders.app on my iPhone 6 running iOS 9. Starting with iOS 9, the following text is added to the task's notes field: "Original task available in the 'Captured by OmniFocus' list in Reminders." This text is unnecessary. In fact, it's annoying, because it adds cruft to OmniFocus. How can I stop OmniFocus from adding this note?
Years ago, I used an external USB hard drive with my PC (most likely Windows XP at the time). I've been trying to recover some files off of the old drive, but I no longer have a Windows machine and the drive is not being read by my Mac. The drive powers on, but nothing happens. No icon on my desktop, no sign of the drive in Disk Utility, no sign in Finder.
Maximum number of apps icons & pages in folders & total pages on iPhone from iOS 7 thru till 9.0.2? Maximum number of: Total Pages on Springboard outside folders Total App icons allowed in iOS folders Pages of icons inside each folder App icons per page of iOS folders Total App icons allowed in iOS folders Pages of icons inside each folder App icons per page of iOS folders For each iOS version from 7 till now on 9.0.2 Please share. PS: Only other such post I found is this for an iPad which does not cover the specific quantities & detailed numbers I am asking, nor is it asking for iPhone, nor the change/ shift of these numbers thru iOS versions.
I'm trying reduce my drive space requirement. I discovered /Library/Updates is taking up a lot of space. After a quick Google, I found /Library/Updates is used to store system updates file which have not been applied. So is it safe to clean up /Library/Updates?
I would like to give names to different spaces; currently a new space get the default name Desktop n where n is a number. How can I give it a meaningful name?
I used to sync my IPhone to my Macbook air using ITunes. All my Apps and other stuff like music and podcast were fully backed up there.
I have installed 10.11 from a USB drive, it has run as expected and I am now at the "Create account" screen (input name+username). I will now turn the computer over to the person who will do the remaining steps. Can I remove the USB drive at this point without problems?
I have a 2008 Macbook running Lion. I started up Boot Camp and it gave an error saying the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. I looked at Disk Utility and there was a partition named Lion which was taking up all 250 GB of space and I cannot resize it. Also the OS X installation has no recovery drives or images, so the normal methods wont work. Is there any way I could install Windows 10 on this machine without having to resort to VM or a clean reinstall?
I'd like to install a Linux distribution alongside OS X on my 2014 5k iMac with a 3TB Fusion Drive (128GB SSD + 3TB HDD). Most guides about dual-booting Linux I've found focus on regular partitioning, that is, no Core Storage, and I couldn't find one that helped. I want to keep OS X in case I have to use software that isn't available on Linux, like XCode or PhotoShop. My goal is to use Linux as my main system, and I want the root (/) partition to live on the SSD to speed up boot, and the home partition to be on the HDD. Here's the potential solution I found (haven't tried yet): Split the Fusion Drive Download and install OS X El Capitan on the SSD from the recovery partition Boot into El Capitan diskutil cs revert <UUID> on the Logical Volume which should be marked as Revertible in diskutil cs list Resize the HFS+ OS X partition to around 60 GB Install a Linux distro (Ubuntu, at first) on the free space Create another partition on the HDD for /home If it's possible, assign both partiti
I am logging on iTunes Connect after a long time and i see that they have changed the layout and stuff for the website. So my question is; where can I view the reviews and ratings, that people have posted for my app on iTunes Connect ?
I want external drives mounted with specified permissions. I know that fmask, dmask and umask in fstab do this trick. I added this line to /etc/fstab:
Using the new version 2, I can't seem to do what I need to do. Our devices are DEP enrolled, so I need to be able to automatically prepare the devices to enroll them in DEP and enroll into MDM. I've done this using a blueprint, ok so far. At this point they are supervised and not able to have the MDM profiles removed. Now I need to apply an image on top. This image has certain backgrounds, apps in different folders, volume all the way up and other custom settings for accessibility.
I'd like to adjust the automatic appearance of the menu bar on my MacOS 10.10.4 so that it doesn't repeatedly show itself when it isn't wanted and I'm just aiming for an in application tab and accidentally hitting the top of the screen. It seems this is set to a fraction of second, meaning I have to be really precise to hit a tab or pull the pointer away to let the menu slide back in so I can access the option. Adjusting the time delay would be best, though I'd also be happy with disabling this poorly implemented feature and showing the menu on a key-click
After a clean install (wiped HD before USB install) of 10.11 (El Capitan), I noticed the following error in /var/log/system.log: It seems to be constantly repeating. Any ideas on how to find the issue or source process? Thanks
I have a headless Quad-Core Mac mini living in the storage cupboard and in the last week or so which possibly coincides with updating to El Capitan has began having the problem, 600% usage from boot. I've read all the posts out there about how to fix this: Eventually yields Macmini6,2 so I then: Which provides the following: Macmini3_1.plist Macmini4_1.plist Macmini5_1.plist Macmini5_2.plist Macmini5_3.plist Meaning my model's property list file is not present and as such I can't proceed with what has been for most a highly successful fix by moving/deleting or create an in-place backup followed by a reboot.
I previously upgraded to Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)'s Windows (former W7) Partition. Sadly I'm unable to install the BootCamp 6 update - it fails during the installation. Following error message pops up:
I'm texting another iphone and think she has her imessage turned off and most of the time hasn't got wifi or data. I have imessage turned on as well as wifi/data. Some of my texts that go through to her, are just green. However, others are green but with 'imessage' text above and then 'sent as text message' below. Why is this? Does this only happen when the recipient has wifi but also has their imessage turned off? Thanks
Problem with calendar alerts since I updated to IOS 9.0.1- When I enter or edit an event in Calendar I was getting a problem where when you selected a first alert (say 1 day before) then selected a second alert (say 2 hours before) they would sometimes switch order. You could then select them again and they would be stay in the correct order. Now when you choose a second alert time it becomes the time for both alerts and there is no way to correct them. I tried with the default alerts set to None and to 1 Day doesn't make any difference.
I've found a random certificate in my keychain after upgrading to El Capitan‎ on both my Macs. It's called "ENTIDAD PUBLICA EMPRESARIAL RED.ES". It's showing a warning that it was signed by an unknown authority. Does anyone know what this is used for?
I currently have two Mac Mini servers with several Mac clients and everything works well (DNS, Open Directory, Contacts/Calendar/Messaging, File Sharing, Time Machine, etc). I'm open to introducing Windows 7/10 and Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS) into the environment as BYOD option. Mail is handled by two linux mail servers (IMAP only).
I have an iMac running OS X El Capitan. I tried to use the disk utility in normal boot to restore two partitions into one but it would exit with an error (exit code 8) and delete the second partition. I then tried to restore the partition in the recovery mode. It seemed to have gone fine but it has got stuck at the last step for ~20 hours now (please see attached image).
I'm getting many of these two similar errors on my console. 10/21/15 11:06:29.737 AM sandboxd[140]: ([368]) SpotlightNetHelp(368) deny file-read-data / 10/21/15 11:07:11.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: SpotlightNetHelp(368) deny(1) file-read-data / I've check the extended attributes of / to see if it's quarantined, but there are none:
I was using the "Alien Blue" reddit app on my iPhone when suddenly the app closed out and my phone turned off. After turning the phone back on I was greeted with a flickering backlight in both lock screen and home screen. After a few soft resets, the screen flicker has gone away, but now I can not open any app. They all force quit/crash immediately. Has anyone else encountered something similar? The phone is in a LifeProof case and has never been washed, dropped, or damaged in anyway. Details: Capacity: 16 GB Available: 5.9 GB Version: iOS 8.3(12F70)
I'm having a serious problem in Safari 9. I am unable to set back the Back Button and the Address Bar. It's not showing anymore.
I have a folder, containing many other folders. Some of the folders contained therein (at arbitrary depths) have a specific extension, let's say, .ext: I want to use Terminal to remove that extension from all folders in any subfolder so that it looks like this: I've played around with find and xargs, but I couldn't get it to work.
When listening to audio like music, podcasts, or an audio book on an iPhone 6s running iOS 9 the audio pauses when I open the camera app to take a photo. This doesn't happen on other devices. Is there a way to stop it from pausing?
I uploaded photos from my Canon SLR camera to my iPhoto library last night at 7pm and it is the next day (3pm) and my photos have yet to show up in my Photo Stream album. I have taken pictures with my iPhone since last night and those have uploaded just fine to my photo stream album but NO photos from non-Apple devices. It is very frustrating because it has worked just fine before but now it is not.
I have just been hired at a new company that does not seem to have much of a Mac presence... yet. They aren't blocking Mac's specifically(as far as I can tell and others have told me). On my company supplied PC I can get Outlook 2010 to work inside and outside the network(without VPN), so Outlook anywhere must be running.
I have a couple of Macs that are required to be held back from upgrade. The requirements are due to (1) use of earlier iPhone/iPad devices, (2) operational requirements, like a particular piece of non-Apple software needs a particular version of OS X, (3) personal preference, like I don't like the color scheme and "cartoon-ish" look of the themes on later OS X versions.
I have checked preferences in Mail, and changed between the classic & other layouts to no avail. HELP.
My niece and her grandma both have iPads1. I have a (Windows) computer with Skype installed. If I'm talking to the niece on Skype and her grandma calls her on Facetime, the niece's iPad immediately puts the Skype call on hold, without so much as a by-your-leave. Is there some way to teach Facetime not to be so rude?
i just bought a used iPhone 5c from someone and it has a restrictions passcode on it from the owner before me and I would like to take it off but dont know the passcode is there anyway I could take It off .?
I am running iOS 9.1 (13B143) on an iPhone 6s Plus and OS X 10.11.1 (15B42) on a MacBook Pro. Both devices have Airdrop settings of "Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone" How can this be debugged?
Does anyone know how to hide certain file types from finder and spotlight search? I get all these files that I need on my computer but I will never use. I would like to hide them to make my searches more efficient.
Can the date format used by Profile Manager be changed? In the host OSX System Preferences control panel, the region is set to Australia and gives the example date of 5/01/2015 for the 5th of January. However the Profile Manager web interface uses US date format such as 01/05/2015. Is there a way to set Profile Manager to use a more appropriate date format?
A mac computer (OSX Mavericks) is connected to a TP-Link router via WiFi, as well as a number of other devices. The TP-Link cable router (no ADSL modem), is not connected to a WAN. The mac computer has access to the internet via USB 3G modem. I would like, if possible, to offer my mac's internet connection to the LAN and have the mac act as the gateway of the LAN. In short, replace Internet access of the router through WAN with mac's access to internet through USB 3G modem. USB3G -- Mac -- Router -- Device1, Device2, etc
A couple of weeks ago Chrome started producing unusably garbled graphics for me, under OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. It's perhaps easier to show than to tell. For instance, Gmail looks like this:
Since I upgraded to mail in El Capitan I get the following error when I move or delete a message when I'm offline: "An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox" It used to work fine in Yosemite I'm connected to an Exchange 2007 account. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I get and send a lot of iMessages every day, but I find it inconvenient to use my iPhone (with its small screen). I was wondering if there was any way to have iMessages be sent as email threads to an email address so that I could easily view them from a computer? Also, is there a way to do the opposite: to reply to that email thread, which would send a message in iMessage? I've heard complaints about this (messages sending via email) as a negative thing, but I would like to use it to my advantage.
I would like to have unix script run when the login screen appears when booting. It should run immediately and not when user enters username and password and logs in. Is there any way to accomplish this?
I want to know if connecting a macbook pro to an external hard drive for use with time machine when I am not using it, at night, will work. If I then disconnect it in the morning (regardless of the progress of the time machine OR journaling) will it cause any problems? Thanks
While I was restoring my iPhone from iCloud backup, I got a message: Restore Incomplete - Some items could not be downloaded from the Store. If they are on your computer, you can restore them by syncing with iTunes.
Basically, what I'm trying to do is use one computer with AU Lab to process some audio (real-time, of course) and use that as an audio source for another computer. Is it possible to use a thunderbolt-attached Mac as an audio output source or an audio input source, either with or without a third-party application?
Just replaced dead battery on MacBook Pro Late 2011, and it is seen by OS (el Captain) and charging OK.  Though, processor speed is still being cut and ticks only at 0.8 ghz and Apple Hardware test shows 4xxx error with the battery.
I've set the system to not show the bluetooth icon in the menu bar. When the magic mouse's battery is low, the mac displays a warning and the bluetooth icon shows up in the menu bar. After replacing the battery, the icon does not go away. I know how to get rid of that manually: cmd drag or via system preferences, but is there a way to automate this task?
I'm using an early 2015 MacBook Pro and just updated it to El Capitan. Right now I want to install Windows 10 on my MBPr using Boot Camp. But the problem is, if I don't connect to the internet, Boot Camp Assistant will fail to install saying that it can't download additional software. I already downloaded the Boot Camp Support Software before so I don't want to waste a time to redownload it again. Is there any solution for Boot Camp 6 to keep installing Windows without internet connection?
In Safari, there is the Add Bookmarks for These N Tabs… function. Unfortunately, you cannot create a Keyboard shortcut for that because those need to match the name of the menu item.
I'm worried if this might be a security issue after I've updated from Yosemite → El Capitan (10.11.1), and I'm not aware if it was present before the update. I've found out about this after being unable to install Parallels Deskop 10. The message from parallels was:
I upgraded my iPad mini this morning to iOS 9.1. I have the first gen iPad mini. Since iOS 9 I have been experiencing app crashes and my iPad getting stuck a lot, but since upgrading to iOS 9.1 my problems have upgraded to my iPad just going black while I'm doing something on it. When I press the home screen button it comes back on for a second before going back again. As if it's constantly locking itself. Tried turning off and on again, didn't work. What steps should I do to determine if the hardware just broke or if I can fix it with software?
Airplane mode is fine sometimes - but sometimes I want a quick way to turn off my cell circuits (calls / sms / cell data) - without turning off WiFi & Bluetooth. And no, I don't want to turn on Flight mode then re-enable Cell & Bluetooth (this is specifically not a duplicate of that question). I may be playing music on a Bluetooth device, and connected to Wifi - turning those off and on can be extremely disruptive.
Does Apple supply a list of valid preferences, in terms of key-value pairs found in plist files, for built-in OS X apps? For example, the Preview app has a user setting for anti-aliasing. One can turn this off from the command line with This can also be done from the PDF tab of the Preview preferences pane, and if I do the command I am able to see all of Preview's stored defaults, and might be able to deduce without foreknowledge that PVPDFAntiAliasOption would be the key-value pair to alter to get the desired behaviour.
I have an iPhone 4s and want to send a mass text. How do I send a mass text to 30 people without sending to everyone else in my Contacts?
I would like to do the following with karabiner, i am trying for the past hour, and couldn't get it to work. I want
I bought an iPhone 6s recently and my brother did so too, we just come pared them and it appears that my iPhone 6s doesn't have a default News app (the one that can't be deleted) but my brother does. Why is that?
I am comfortable parsing PATH if needed and searching for executables myself, if I can find a way to ignore the OS X git installer. I am comfortable with a heuristic if it gets this right almost all the time; I don't need to handle edge cases (like someone creating an executable or script called git that is not git-compatible). What's the best (most robust, secondarily most convenient) way to determine whether a non-OS X git installer git is installed on a system without executing /usr/bin/git (and triggering the installer dialog)?
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" 2015 and I'm searching for an external monitor to use with it. Until now I tried two external monitors: DELL UltraSharp U2515H (25") and Dell P2415Q-C (24").
My father bought an iPhone within months of passing away. I need to get his contacts off before handing it down to another family member. His paid email account that was associated with his iCloud and iTunes account has been shut down, so I can't download the app that would help me backup his contacts easily.
I have installed GPG Suite and found out also during this time that my OS X has some app that stores all my passwords under my screenlock password - total news to me. Can I get rid of Apple app if I now have GPG? Really need help with this Apple app.. Thank you.
Ever since Yosemite, Bluetooth connectivity on my very modern MBP w/Retina has been absolute garbage. My workspace includes the Apple wireless keyboard + Magic Trackpad, and I usually am also using Bluetooth headphones (specifically these August EP650's which have been fantastic when paired with other devices/Macs).
I have a Macbook Pro early 2015 El Capitan and it can't connect to wifi unless it's very close to the router. Two rooms away it starts to give me run wifi diagnostic even though the bars of the wifi signal on my macbook are full, also my iPhone connects fine with full bars in there.
Typing ifconfig on the command line gives me listings for several devices. I've seen at least the following ones: lo0 gif0 stf0 en0 en1 en2 en3 p2p0 awdl0 bridge0
I recently got a Macbook Pro for work, and am pretty new to the platform. One of the annoying things I noticed, is that after I configured all of my Gmail accounts, I started automatically getting these "alert" e-mails for calendar appointments. I don't want Mail or Calendar to send me alert e-mails, because I already get them directly from Google. My question is: How can I disable these alert e-mails from occurring?
I would like to have my text messages still make a noise, but I do not want phone calls other than my contacts ringing. I don't think Do Not Disturb will do this, but is there a way that someone else has discovered?
I took a video with my iPhone 5s. I would like to print one frame of this video as a still picture. I tried taking a screen shot of it, but ended up with the menu on the top and bottom of the picture. Is there an easier way of keeping one frame of a video as a still picture?
It seems like this started happening relatively recently, but I am not sure what changed - when I am playing any kind of video (YouTube, Safari, etc.) over Airplay to my Apple TV, the default screen lock will activate and the video stops playing.
An iphone 4s at iOS 9.0.2 is asking to upgrade to iOS 9.1 The problem is that we know it's activation locked and we don't have control of that Apple ID.
I have 2 iphones and today I had an experiment; from Find my Iphone App I have turned on lost mode in one of my phones and then I've erased it. Now I see
Is there a way to do the time machine backup in a folder of the destination volume and not in its root? I have a network attached storage that provides a shared volume. I would like to backup my Mac in a folder that other people cannot access. I know that an option to avoid other people to see my data would be to encrypt the backup, but this is not what I'm looking for.
I have been using a TRENDnet TU-S9 USB to serial adapter for a couple years. When I upgraded OSX from 10.10 Yosemite to 10.11 El Capitan, it stopped working. I've tried reinstalling the driver, but that did not fix it. I ran ioreg -p IOUSB and could still see the device, which is a good sign. Unfortunately /dev does not contain tty.usbserial when my adapter is connected. How do I get OSX to create /dev/tty.usbserial when I connect my adapter?
How do I (automatically) backup my Time Capsule? I'm worried that I will lose important data like photo's and video's when the harddrive of my Time Capsule crashes.
I have created directory in my dropbox. And i noticed that every time i have no windows of finder created and tap on finder icon in dock it creates new window with this new folder opened. But my default folder set to another directory. Also, if i press cmd+n or cmd+t it opens my default folder. What can i do to fix this bug?
After upgrading to El Capitan I get an initial login screen with my name and round icon, which wants my iCloud password. After that I get the username and password screen, where I enter my local username and password.
I restarted my Mac, running El Capitan, and got a pop up asking whether I wanted to allow "coupond" to accept incoming network connections. I said no. I rebooted and got the message again. I have no idea what I could have downloaded. In my Library/LaunchAgents folder, not the ~/Library folder, there is an entry for com.coupons.coupond.plist .
Here's the scenario: In my office, my MacBook Pro (Early 2011, running 10.10) is plugged into an external display over DisplayPort. I disconnect the laptop, close it (putting it to sleep), and take it with me. When I arrive to my destination I find that opening the laptop wakes it up to a black screen– however it is awake: Backlight is visibly on Volume controls work (I can hear it, no visuals)
The pictures on my Instagram (not my account) are all blurry, and the videos won't work. Not all pictures and videos do it though, just some.
I've installed gcc-5 via brew install gcc5, and I've tried linking gcc (which is clang by default) to gcc-5, but whenever I try running gcc, it's using clang. I've also checked that /usr/local/bin is first in my PATH variable. Here's how it all looks in my terminal: Also, in ~/.bash_profile, I've put export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" in the last line of the file, and it appears 1st in $PATH, I've played around a bit and discovered that it's somehow read in reverse, as if every export appends to the front, is that normal behaviour? EDIT: I would prefer to avoid using alias for things like these.
So apparently I cannot modify my Macbook's backlight using the keyboard shortcut:  I'm pretty sure it will work again if I restart it. But I wonder what may cause this: is it perhaps an issue with my hardware, or just some OS glitch caused by something insignificant?
I use Dashlane to store passwords, and I like it, but there's one problem I've had with it. I use Activity Monitor to see what's going on, and something strange has been happening with Dashlane lately.
iPad and iPhone think they're in a different country. All ads and searches default to Hong Kong.
My cat obliterated my power cord yesterday. Being a student, spending around 100 euros on a new charger was not an option. So I found a 10-years-experience-in repairing-electronics-company and they replaced my power cord today for around 25 euros.
I have a problem trying to connect to a VPN using "Juniper Network Connect". It happened after I upgraded from Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) to Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).
Running OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) Well, something happened to my system (I can honestly say it wasn't me but), I was unable to use the USB keyboard number pad while using commands such as 'less', 'more' (and perhaps 'vim' and 'nano') in the OS X Terminal. It would type output ESCOq for 1, ESCOr for 2, ESCOs for 3, ..., ESCOp for 0. When exiting the programs, the USB keyboard number pad would work just fine in the terminal.
Is there a way to print or reactivate text messages that have been archived? I can view the archived messages just fine in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages directory.
How to apply such a script for the Mac App Store so that it will appear in Notification Center Settings? I don't have a clue on how to change the script above to work with the App Store :( I want to avoid system updates and I would like to get rid of the numbered badge on the icon in the Dock. Thank you in advance!
I have an iPhone 5. The only issue it's had is that the battery life wasn't so great as it once was... until now. Earlier the battery went flat and it switched to this screen
I dropped my iPhone 6 and the screen is a goner. I ordered a replacement but it requires that I mail my broken phone to them after. The thing is is that my phone still works, I can hear my phone receive texts and notifications, but the touch screen is not responsive. Another big thing is that I am unable to connect to iTunes on it as well. Every time I connect it, it continuously connects and disconnects. Is there a way to reset my phone to its factory settings without a working screen and without iTunes? I really do not want to send in my phone with all my personal information and apps on it.
About a week ago, I got a new MacBook Pro. I work a decent bit in video editing, among other things, so I had the processor upgraded to the highest available model. The box arrives, I open it, and my word the computer is incredible. Battery life often surpasses 8 hours when running a host of programs simultaneously, everything happens instantaneously, El Capitan is spectacular, the force touch trackpad is incredibly click-like. Basically, the computer is everything I ever expected.
I finally upgraded to El Capitan and now iTunes is a jumbled mess. I took a long time organizing my music library and I had iTunes to only show media stored on my Macbook.
Steps & Insights: iPhone 5 GSM - iOS 7.1.1- 64 GB Backup using iTunes 12.3.0.4 on Windows 8.1 Pro Shift + Restore the Apple Firmware iOS 9.0.2 .ipsw file into iPhone via DFU mode Setup as New - iPhone iOS 9.0.2 After bit of play, iOS 9.0.2 felt stable, so I tried to Restore from my iOS 7.1.1 Backup Left to do what it wants: iTunes took 10+ maybe 15 hours to finish Restore + auto App Sync after restore During the iPhone Restore from Backup: iTunes auto created multiple backups for some reason - Which Backup to use for restore now?
I understand that the font is only available for developers, but i'm not one at the moment, but when trying to use facebook sketch template for ios9 i get a prompt saying this  My question is if there is a way a round this without messing with the system default fonts as this repo does *=URL=* or is it the only way? system: macbook running osx el-capitan
I am unable to use the AirDrop feature between my iPhone6s (iOS 9) and my 2014 MBP running OSX 10.11.1 (Mavericks). The jPhone won't show up in the MBP's AirDrop window (accessed from Finder>Go>AirDrop) and vice versa.
I am using an external 4k display (from LG a 27 inch display: LG_27MU67-B) on displayport on my MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch (late 2013). 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz works out of the box. Cool!
I'm not sure why but quite recently Finder likes to show me the Preview panel on new Finder windows. I've tried every method I could find:
I'm creating installer for my application using pkgbuild and using certificate to sign it. Is there any command which would verify that created .pkg file is really signed (I mean - OS X will install it without saying that it comes from unidentified developer)? I would like to use this command as testing step in automated workflow.
i had erase all data from my macbook and know i need to create a usb bootable to reinstall the yosemite or another version. I can't access to app store to download the OS. How i can download it and create a usb bootable on Windows?
I've just purchased a WD Elements external hard drive and plan to use it across Linux, OS X and Windows devices (read and write on every OS). Is there any file format by which I could format my HDD so that I could read and write across all these OSs?
I'm experiencing this weird bug on OS X El capitan. There is a white bar over most of my menu items in the top right of my screen. The items are still there and are interactable.
I use the Apple Wireless Keyboard - French The shortcut Fn+Left arrow (resp. Fn+Right arrow) goes to the beginning (resp. end) of the buffer. The shortcuts cmd+Left arrow or cmd+Right arrow do not seem to have any effect. Does anyone know how to set a shortcut to go to the beginning / end of current line?
I replaced battery on my MBA mid 2011 (A1369). Here is the report by coconut(the same appears in system report):
I have the same problem as in this post here that R started in ESS / Emacs can not set the locales: This is because the locales set in the .bashrc etc are not read anymore by processes started via Spotlight / Finder. I have already set the locales in emacs but this does not solve the problem. Now the following solution has been proposed here to set the environment through launchd. Now I am asking myself: This solution will set the locales for all processes started via launchd - is there a downside to using this approach?
If I select an Arabic font like Kufi (كوفي) and enter text into GIMP 2.8.14 on OS X 10.11, this is the result:  As you can see, the letters are incorrectly disjointed.
I have two Macbooks (A and B). A backs-up to Time Capsule (TC), while B does not. I used to mount TC and move files there, which I don't want to keep on A or B.
I edit tex files with Emacs under Mac OS X 10.10.1, compile tex pdf and view it with Preview. The problem is that each time the code is modified and re-compiled, the viewer systematically goes to the first page of the pdf. Ideally, I want to stay in the same page as before, where is probably the modification.
I did a hard drive wipe and clean reinstall for OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I now get some permission errors about my home directory. Here's an example, after running the program psql, which is the PostgreSQL command line interface.
Let's say that I have two apps running beside each other is splitview , How to change the focus from one to the other , e.g. if I am using two editors, If I am writing to editor 1, after the shortcut I will be writing in editor 2. I know how to do it by the mouse but how to do it using only keyboard shortcuts? Thanks in advance
I have a mild form of OCD so by ears I mean this:  I know that I can hide the dock, but then I do not see the opened programs. What solutions are available to extend the opaque dock background to the edges of the screen so that visually it is a wider bar matching the screen width?
My left shift key is stuck down (wiring-wise, not just mechanically stuck) - fine, I changed my password to be all caps and once I'm logged in I use Karabiner and Seil to disable the key, and because my left pinky muscle memory still thinks there's a shift key over there, I've got a plastic lever that depresses my left control key when I go for the shift key and have that remapped to shift.  Yesterday I had to upgrade from OS X 10.9 to install Xcode without a developer account. But I wasn't paying attention - now there's an even new operating system, OS X 10.11, which I accidentally installed instead!
So I have been using an app called Self Control to block certain sites globally on my machine so I'm not distracted when I work. The method this program uses is edit your /etc/hosts file and redirect your blacklist of sites (facebook.com, youtube.com, etc) to 0.0.0.0. This is cool, but I was thinking that I could make a Keyboard Maestro macro for this instead.
I really dislike using "photos" app it is simply an un needed app for me because I have minimal HD space and do not need a back-up and do not want a cloud back-up either. I would love it if I could prevent the app from loading altogether.
I would like to remove the Notification Center icon like I could in Yosemite. I'd like to not see it in the menu bar (to the right of the spotlight icon).
If I run an iPhone only app on an iPad or iPad mini the app simulates running on a 3.5" screen. If I run the same app iPhone only on an iPad Pro what will iPhone device/screen size will it simulate?
Right now, the latest version of iOS is 9.1. Mine is 8.1.2. Can I use the restore option in iTunes to install version 9.0.2 or do I have to update to 9.1 and then downgrade to 9.0.2?
If I 'kill -9' the 'mount_nfs' command, terminal starts responding again until the title of the terminal is changed when the prompt updates. Which is frequently.
I'd like for the mac os terminal app to scroll through my command history the same way that it work in linux, if possible. Currently, if I push the up arrow in the terminal, it will scroll through each and every one of my recent commands even if the last 50 were the same exact command. On most linux systems I've used, this behavior will scroll backwards through command history, but most importanlty it will skip duplicate commands. Is this behavior possible in Mac OS X terminal app, or do I need to use a different terminal app? Thanks.
It is only a little more than a year old! On the bottom right of the screen, there are 2 small bumps of shadows, it has been heating up VERY quickly, and is leaking a very weird, clear, oil-like substance. I have shutting it off but it didn't work! Also in the middle right of the screen there is a patch of very white splotches!
The past few days I 've been encountering this problem. When I search for updates through the Mac App Store, there comes a pop - up window. Either this : or this:
I'm using OS 10.11.1. I turned on Screen Sharing: and disabled "VNC viewers may control screen with password":
I'm using the latest version of iOS on iphone 5s (till the date of this post) and I want to stop apps like whatsapp and so from refreshing in the background but without stopping notifications of these apps so that I can get notifications ONLY when running these apps. When I go to the app settings in SETTINGS and disable ( Background App Refresh ) I still get notifications when someone msg me . Does that means the apps still working in the background ?
I want my terminal to have the prompt lines (I don't know what to call them) come from the bottom of the terminal window, and be fixed to the right of the screen, not the left. Is there any way to basically invert the place that my terminal text comes from?
How to know the location of plist that defaults read reads. For example, defaults read com.google.Keystone.Agent returns the information. Is there a way to know from what file the information is read?
After updating 10.11.1, some key bindings no longer work, such as shift-option-5 and shift-option-4. How can I find what is conflicting? MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 2015
I was able to check the Console and it says the cause for shutdown is 0. I'm pretty sure the Apple store ran the hardware test and memtest while it was there. I have repeatedly reset the SMC, which the Apple store employee informed me is basically what I'm doing every time I have to unplug it and plug it back in. The only thing I haven't done yet is a PRAM reset.
I am unable to text to anyone other then other iOS users... I want to enable "allow SMS messaging when iMessage is unavailable" but it is not an option - how do I set this up?
I use a Dell 2715Q 4k screen with a USB3 hub. With 10.11.0, I was able to mount my USB drives for time machine. After the update to 10.11.1, the Macbook does not see the USB drives. I can connect the drives directly to the Mac. However, this worked 100% before the 10.11.1 upgrade. MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 2015
I have an iPhone 5s whose iOS was updated to the 9.1 version yesterday night. Then, from today morning up to now something strange happened: the cellular signal seems to be completely off. The carrier text is replaced with 'Searching...' and (therefore) no calls can be made or 3G/4G access is available.
I am a music supervisor and I receive lots of emails with links to download new music. I'd like to sort these into their own folder automatically. Is there anyway to sort emails that have links to certain websites like box.com or dropbox? I would sort them by the person that sends them but then I'd miss the personal emails that they send me as well. Any suggestions of how this could be done?
I am not sure if this is the case, but when you do iCloud Backup of your phone, it will backup Whatsapp. ( I am unsure if this include the Photos and Video ) Then Whatsapp itself has backup option to backup itself in iCloud Drive Backup.
Is there anyway limiting the amount of space iCloud Photo Library uses? It seems to use as much space as is available on my iPhone l I really like having the HQ pics on my Mac and I like how it's done automatically but I don't need all the photos on my phone. I have set it to optimise space usage but I notice it just uses all available space. Can I limit this?
I updated my iPod to iOS 9 ( i think, its the current one right now 10/24/15) and my pass code was 5-6-8-9(4 digits) and now after updating it and recovering it through iTunes to prepare to sell it to someone it now has a 6 digit password. What do I do, how do I unlock it now because I really need it to sell it for the money.
I have multiple spaces. Let's assume I am working in the second space and have the browser open I scroll down to the doc bar to open the terminal
When installing the update for El capitan it got stuck at installing in app store. It has said "Installing - less then a minute" in several hours. Can I somehow restart or redo the install/update?
Is there any chance the people I sent e-mails to also saw my name as "Sugar Daddy" in the sender field? At least one of them uses iOS himself. Please tell me this is not possible... I realize this is unlikely, but I just want to make sure. Btw, I'm honestly not trolling, this seriously happened to me.
Is there any way to stay logged when pressing open in new tabs in safari private mode ? For example if I'm logged to Facebook in tab A an I use Open in new tabs then I will have to sign into Facebook again.
Please note I am talking about the overall battery life span (e.g. the time the battery has before it needs to be replaced) and not increasing the day-to-day hours of the battery.
My MacBook Pro 11,2 (Retina 2014) shuts down suddenly from time to time. When I run macbook again, I inspect the log file I see the following message: Previous shutdown cause: -128
Can I get an altered keyboard layout in ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts to be reloaded without rebooting?
(Well, I've googled it but couldn't find anything useful. All the sources I've found were obsolete. iOS and Facebook are continuously changing over time.)
Somehow, OS X changed my main user account to sharing-only. This means that all data in the user folder is still existent on the disk, I can't login to that user. Is there a way to revert a sharing-only user to a normal account.
I just installed the 10.11.1 update for Mac OS X 'El Capitan' on my late 2011 MacBook Pro. The App Store icon is still visible in my dock, I am able to click it, but the App Store does not launch. Is there a way to reinstall the App Store or to fix this in any way? Update: I have tried restoring "App Store.app" through Time Machine, but the system refuses to remove or replace this file.
Should I be worried when buying an iPhone 6S in the U.S., if I want to use it in Denmark, Europe? I will be buying it SIM-free.
Storage section of about my computer showing about 2.86GB as backups. I never backed up anything. What is this backup? How can i delete them?
I have a Macbook Air running Yosemite 10.10.4, and I am trying to either to restart or shutdown this Mac. But it will say the app VLC Player is running, but if I right click the VLC icon at the dock and choose Force Quit, nothing happens. (the neon light under the icon is not lighted up by the way, so doesn't look like the app is running). If I press Command Option ESC, and choose Force Quit for VLC, nothing happens, and restarting the Macbook still says I need to Force Quit the app VLC. In Activity Monitor I don't see a VLC app running either. If I open up the Terminal app and use ps aux | grep -i vlc then nothing show up except for this grep command line.
I'm using OS X El Capitan (10.11) on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) and I'm trying to use System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing feature and something isn't working... I made sure that Share your connection from... is set to Wi-Fi as that's my source of internet, and To computers using... is set to Thunderbolt Ethernet as that's where my Raspberry Pi is plugged in via crossover ethernet cable. I'm not seeing any IP address assigned via Network Utility on Thunderbolt Ethernet (not 100% sure if it should, but I'd assume it should). Any help?
I am trying to create a photo book in the new photos app, but it keeps hanging 'downloading photos from iCloud'. I see under preferences, it is downloading '1 item from iCloud', which appears to be stuck (I have left it for days). How can I see what photo is currently being downloaded so I can remove it form the project?
I had installed CleanMyMac before, and have already uninstalled it. However, I got the notification saying "It's time to clean your mac". How is this possible and how can I avoid this?
I recently updated to El Capitan, and told Time Machine to backup. It got stuck on Preparing Backup for hours, so I stopped it, deleted the InProgress file, rebooted and tried again. After ~30 mins, Time Machine was still preparing. I looked into activity monitor and backupd had only read ~140Mb, in 30mins... Looking into iStatMenus, I find that backupd tends to have a read speed between nothing, and 120Kb/s (If I'm lucky. It sometimes peaks up to to 500kb/s, and very rarely 1Mb/s). Spotlight is not indexing (As I heard sometimes Spotlight gets in the way of backupd), and the hard drive has gone to sleep in the time that I wrote this, rarely waking up for my Mac to briefly read something from it. Here's what comes up in the console when searching for backupd: I'd rather not have to reformat my hard drive, in case I ever want to downgrade back to Yosemite, however I am willing to if it solves the issue. Also, it seems like whenever I reboot my Mac, the hard drive loses its Time Machine 
I want to reset my iMac (late 2014, 1 TB Fusion Drive) to factory settings. As I want to set it back to Yosemite, I am using Internet Recovery (Command-Option-R) as I have installed El Capitan in the meantime. I was able to erase the HDD just fine in Recovery Mode Disk Utility, but now I am stuck. The OS X install dialog shows no available drive: In Disk Utility, the HDD and its partition settings look like this (all fields and buttons are grayed out, can't input anything)
I recently got a MacBook with the USB-C charger. It comes with a 29-watt power brick, and I was wondering if I should use this to charge my iPhone. I've heard that the iPad power brick (I think 10 watts) charges the phone faster. I don't expect to be able to charge the phone proportionally faster, but would the MacBook brick damage the phone? I would rather only have to carry around one charging brick around campus. Also, I have a USB to USB-C converter.
I recently turned FileVault off because I really saw no need for it on my home computer (Mac Intel i5 16GB RAM w/Maverick). However, I noticed when I tried running Mac Booster 3 (a cleanup/performance app), it took forever (9+ hrs) to run and I'm wondering if it's because the files are still encrypted? Does turning FileVault off leave the files encrypted or not?
My phone broke and I can not afford to purchase a replacement but I need to access my information backed up on my icloud, How do I download my backed up iphone files from icloud directly from my windows based pc
When I download a PDF from Safari and it opens automatically (which I want), I then want to be able to drag the document title thumbnail to a folder and MOVE it to that folder. Instead, it creates an alias to that file. I know if I hit Option and move it it will COPY it to the folder I drag it to. I want the default behavior to be that when I drag the thumbnail without holding anything down, it will MOVE to where I'm dragging it. Can you direct me to some tweak or terminal command that can make this happen?? Thank you! OSX: El Capitan
I've got MBPro Mid 2014 with the latest OS X update - 10.11.1. I have noticed that sometimes Safari freezes for 3-5 seconds when I open new tab or click on address bar. I am sure that I didn't have this issues few days ago. In system logs I've found these entries which appear just after freeze occurs: I've tried to clear Safari caches, delete cookies etc but to no avail. Did anyone stumble across this problem?
I am facing below error on my MacBook which runs on El Capitan, when I try to connect to VPN it says Posture Assessment failed: unable to locate hostscan library.
There seem to be multiple standards for image files representing the contents of a DVD. For example, iDVD creates .img files if told to burn a file rather than a DVD directly. However, Linux install disks (for example) that are too big to fit on one CD (over 740 Mb or so) usually come in the form of .iso files meant to be converted to a physical DVD using dd, Toast, Disk Utility, or a comparable program. Disk Utility can also mount an .iso image on the desktop so that it looks like a drive, much as with .dmg files. So, several related questions: What exactly differentiates a DVD-size .iso from a DVD .img? Is there a simple conversion path from .img to .iso? Is .img an Apple-specific file format? If .img is Apple-specific, should I be worried about archiving DVD images that I want to keep permanently as .imgs (i.e., is it possible that future software won't be able to read them)?
I transferred my photos to the stream and they were all there, I went back recently and noticed a section was deleted, is there any way possible for me to recover those photos?
I was browsing around on good ol' Sarari when all of a sudden, when I tapped on a website that I had successfully visited before, I was redirected to a site simply called Addware Detected !! On screen a notification popped up telling me that Addware/spyware may be on my iPad (2). It give a list of effects that it may have and tells me to contact IOS Tech support and list a number. There is a "ok" button at the bottom of the pop up but when ever I tap it it just comes back up and I cannot change tabs or open the history or anything. I had to download the Google app just to post this. Now what I want to know is is this real? And should I contact the number?
I have El Captain installed. I want use external color scheme and for that I am following this video but I don't find Color Presets option in terminal. My El Captain's terminal looks very different from Yosemite's.
after the logo is displayed it will shut off again. Interesting leading up to this problem my phone was having some display problems, it would not show the background on the lock screen then it would freeze after the password was typed in. I did drop it on a wood floor earlier... But nothing too hard. Interested in any fixes that don't involve going to a store or repair shop. Thanks Update I pressed the home and lock buttons until the apple logo cycled twice then the connect to itunes logo appeared, last time this happened I pressed both the buttons again until the lock screen appeared. This time I connected to itunes, it said the iphone will be updated but may need to be restored. It is now updating
I want to open videos and pictures from Terminal. Is there any way to do this?
Just a few weeks ago on OS X Yosemite, it worked fine. Now, after performing a clean install of OS X El Capitan it no longer works. I’m very inclined to believe something in El Capitan is the culprit since it doesn’t work on two different computers but I can get it to work right now by doing it in a Yosemite VM guest inside an El Capitan host. Using Homebrew, I install tor and torsocks:
I want to know if there is any keyboard shortcut to switch between splits screen in all new El Capitan.
The city at the top cannot be deleted & I cannot move another city to the top. Only the locations beneath the top one can be moved or deleted. So how do I delete the wrong location at the top. My location services are on.
Every time I connect to a VPN I need to extract my IP adress from ifconfig and manually update it in an rc-file accordingly. I would like to automate this process. I.e. once connected to the VPN and the IP for the tun0 device got assigned, I would like to write said IP to the environment variable $VPN_IP. Question: How can I automatically detect that the system is connected to a vpn, that tun0 has an IP address, and update the environment variable accordingly?
Where is the "NTFS for Mac.prefPane" located if there is one? Or another way to create a shortcut for NTFS for Mac?
I have a problem that I cannot select Option tab in Partition tab as shown in above screenshot. I wanted to convert my external hard disk to GUID partition table. Thank you in advance for your help.
After the 10.11.1 update, I can not get access to some of encrypted data stored in my keychains with Keychain Access.app. Most notably, I can not see or copy passwords stored. Normally, to do so, you'd have to: unlock a keychain with keychain password; unlock an item itself with keychain password.
I have just fitted a new screen to my iPhone 5s, and i need to restore it to factory settings. One problem though, it's disabled for over 23,000,000 minutes and the home button doesn't work. Does anyone know how I can restore it?
The folder PhotoStreamsData contains the same photos as the DCIM folder, only with a slightly lower resolution. Why create (almost exact) duplicates? Is it only to save some space on iCloud? Can I safely delete it to free up some space? Would deletion make any difference to the iCloud sync? (iOS 9.0.2, iPhone 5c)
As what this screenshot shows, every time I click the box to enable iCloud music library and then click "OK" to save the settings, the box will always remain unselected. As a result, I cannot use Apple Music.
Does find my Mac have to be turned on under the system preferences in the computer or can I somehow link the serial number to my icloud and still be able to use it? Asking because I believe my macbook pro was stolen and I didn't have find my Mac turned on in the physical computer.
I can't delete iCloud account from the phone because it prompts you to enter an id that is associated with a wrong default hotmail Apple ID account. Can't retrieve old hotmail Apple Id account because it doesn't exist anymore rightly so.
My iPad 2 froze up and went into recover mode, I gave t to a friend to fix and it has come bk restored but I can't get on it because there is a passcode on it. I've tried all the obvious ones I would have used but it will not let me in to set it up. Please help me! Is there a factory '4 digit' passcode it would reset to or would it be my friends passcode?
I have large amounts of design asset files I have created and purchased (images, PSDs, icons, fonts, etc...) These are really starting to take up a lot of space. I would like to zip the files into an archive, but still have the ability to browse the files as I'm doing design work. Are there an Mac zip utilities that would allow me to browse a zip file "in place" where I could see what the file content's look like without manually unzipping the file every time as this would be impractical?
When I try to add a Shortcut like this System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->App Shortcuts->+->Some title->
I have contacts appearing in my iPhone that I didn't put there and don't know. How is this happening?
My iPhone5 keeps advertising itself as a Personal Hotspot even though I set that to off. My WiFi only iPad keeps connecting to the iPhone HotSpot every time my WiFi router fails. This is driving up my data usage. How do I make the iPad forget the Personal Hotspot? I have already factory defaulted the Network Settings but it appears anyway. I have also changed the Personal Hotspot password on the iPhone and it connects anyway.
When I browse into an iCloud Drive folder (specifically Preview.app's folder) via Finder on OS X 10.11.1, I see both the files I knowingly placed there and the ones I opened with the related app, Preview in this example, which got automatically aliased in there. To me, it's just clutter, useless. I'm thinking perhaps a workaround script or toll running periodically as a cron jobs could wipe out the aliases in the specified locations?
After upgrading to El Capitan, I experienced a strange issue with my .inputrc file: All set ... that had a trailing comment (e.g. set colored-stats on # color for completion options) stopped working. Only once I removed the comments, the settings were working again. Strange enough, this is not the case for key mappings (e.g. "\e\e[D": backward-word # option-left), which still work with a trailing comment. Could someone explain to me why this is happening now, or if something else changed to cause this behavior?
I just ordered a new 27" Late 2015 iMac. I'll be moving my data from a 27" mid-2010 iMac. What's the recommended medium for the migration? I know how to use Migration Assistant, but the old iMac has Firewire (no Thunderbolt) and the new iMac has Thunderbolt (no FireWire).
I am trying to set the permissions on the Boot.plist file (Located in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration) and it won't let me. I have clicked the lock and entered my password in Finder, and when I try to edit the permissions it says that I don't have the necessary permissions. When I try to do it with sudo chmod, it says that I can't change the file permissions. (I can use sudo just fine) I've also tried using sudo vi and it won't let me save it. I have tried using first aid too. I am running El Capitan on a Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch early 2013.
I tried to boot from DVD by holding C which wasn't working. On startup manager, I found my primary startup disk that failed to boot, but it can't find the disk. Please help and guide me to backup my files and install clean os x offline or online.
How do I transfer my iPhone photos/videos to my NAS? I can connect to my NAS using afp-protocol. My current solution is to mount the NAS on my MacBook using cmd-k in Finder, then by using Image Capture I can move them from the phone to the mounted NAS. Is it possible to transfer directly from iPhone to NAS using afp, or do I need to go indirectly through my MacBook? I use iPhone 5S with iOS 9 and I do have a MacBook Pro with Yosemite.
I'm trying to figure out how to use iCloud to get my videos and photos onto my PC. Here's my iCloud configuration:
How to remove Shared folder with bsozasss files? I somehow got this from my second PC and have no idea how and what this is? How can I remove this and disable this kind of sharing? I am on El Capitan. Here is the screenshoot:
I've never seen this strange thing before. I am working on a new TextEdit file (not yet saved anywhere, but saved automatically on iCloud I assume). The document is not plain text, therefore I believe it is RTF by default. I used the shortcut for italic on a selection of text, and heard a "duh" sound that signifies a mistake / impossible operation. Indeed, in the Font menu, the Italic option is greyed out - all other options aren't. Has anyone ever seen this and knows what may cause this strange bug?
I changed my Apple ID for the 3rd time because my password keeps getting changed. How can I access my iTunes music from the first two Apple IDs?
I read that Airdrop between iOS is since the MBP mid-2012. Although I have that Macbook I can't see my iPhone and viceversa. What can be the problem or the info that I'm misunderstanding? PS: I have El Capitan but didn't make a clean installation. Thanks in advance.
In OS X El Capitan, Safari Reader View file for modifying the CSS is no longer found in Safari application and in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Resources/. Where is it located? Is it locked by System Integration too? If there is no way to modify, I think in downgrading to OS X Yosemite.
When i try to download the google chrome app on my iphone or ipad, it redirects me to a page that says it will download the app...but jus keeps redirecting and wont load. How do i get it to load?
I've tried to update my computer software to the latest version but I keep getting this message "The Software Update Server (wd-od1.internal.waikatodiocesan.school.nz) is not responding." Can someone please help.
I have the iPhone 6, running iOS 9.1, I had lots of videos (many were multiple minutes long) that took up too much space, I started with (according to my settings app) about 400 megabytes free, after posting the videos to youtube and deleting the videos from my phone, it says I still have about 400 megabytes free. Whats the deal? I've synced my phone to my computer and the iTunes program says I have 1.6 gigs free. Is my phone just displaying incorrectly?
In My usage -> Storage -> Photos it says that 7.4 GB are used and that I have over 2000 pictures. But I only have 150 photos on my phone. iTunes will not sync because I have no room. What can I do?
On the iPhone "Cellular" settings screen, you can choose which apps are allowed to use cellular data and which can only communicate over wi-fi. In iOS 9, Apple introduced Wi-Fi Assist which automatically switches to cellular data when a wi-fi connection is present, but not functioning well. Can anyone confirm that the iPhone will respect the cellular data use settings when in wi-fi assist mode? Example scenario: In the settings, I specify that Tinder isn't allowed to use cellular data. I am browsing Tinder on wi-fi The wi-fi connection becomes unreliable and Wi-Fi Assist kicks in
I have an iPhone 5s and it isn't playing videos sent to me on WhatsApp, the sender is a Samsung user so maybe that's why? I can only hear the sound but the image is blank. Is there a way to fix this or a video player than can play the videos?
I previously had an iCloud Photo Share album and then the pictures would stop appearing on my stream when the other member added new ones. We then removed me from the Stream to re-add. When we tried, I do not receive the invite. We tried my phone number and Apple ID. When I send the same person an invite to a "test" stream, they get the invitation right away.
I notice from the channels that the Express is on the very overused near me Channel 11, while the main Time Capsule is on Channel 1 (both for 2.5Ghz, which is the one I'd expect it to mostly use). Is there a way to change that? I go into Airport Utility, and I can change the channel the Time Capsule is using (under Wireless Options), but that setting isn't there for the Airport Express. My understanding of how a Wi-Fi Extender should work is that it should not use the same channel; so I don't see why Apple would force this to automatic. Is it so (forced) or is there a way to work around this? (Also, the 5Ghz channel is identical for both devices, which again I'd think is bad.) I have both Mac and Windows computers available, if that's relevant.
I have a huge problem with my iMac. When I boot it, I hear the "start sound", I see the Apple icon and a charging circle. After 2-3 minutes the Mac reboots, black screen then the start sound and then the Apple icon again.
Has anyone else noticed the following with Android Studio 1.4 running on OS X El Capitan? I can't remember the exact point when I lost the ability to build an Android app from the IDE due to the fact that the extensive set of custom pre build steps that I have failed to run. Those custom steps run a Python-script, and the main problem is that gradle doesn't seem to find the Python-binary due to the fact that the PATH environment variable is the extremely sparse list of /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin. Here are some random points related to finding this issue: This problem does not affect building from the terminal. This problem is specific to OS X, none of my Linux boxes suffer from this, nor my colleague's Windows machine suffer from this. This is specifically about having PATH set properly. What I've tried this far: Editing /etc/paths: nope, no help.
I've found that Keynote after upgrading to 6.6 could not open some of my previously created presentations anymore. How do I revert to a previous version?
Storage is always a problem for me on my iPad Mini 2 but recently I freed up about 700 MB and then went to download an app. App store made me agree to the new T&C and then when I clicked Get again said I didn't have enough space. Fine. Except now the reported space was 0 MB. I rebooted the iPad with no change. No new items in Manage Storage. Where did my 700 MB go?
I don't have terminal or RAT ! I just can't download them. Cydia wont allow me to do it!
I have removed everything from my macbook pro. Now, how can choose USB as a startup disk? I tried using option "SHIFT" keys also cmd+R. Nothing is working. How can I solve it? I am using Mid 2012 Macbook Pro and that usb is Ubuntu installer. [Btw, I am not interested to install Ubuntu in mac.]
Thanks to the help I got here, my iOS 9 contacts are synced with my GMail account pretty well - the sync works, but is not immediate. I would like to sync my contacts to iCloud as well, in order to be able to call a contact from FaceTime on my Macbook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.1. I have enabled contact sync under iCloud on my device:
I would like to sign my OS X installer using company certificate. I have .cer and .p12 files. I wonder if there is some way to do that without creating keychain. E.g. in 'productsign' tool flag --cert looks promising, but I can't find too much info about how to use it.
I have an old text file from an old Mac, and I'm pretty sure I'm using the wrong character set. Opening quotes show up as Ò, closing quote as Ó, and apostrophes show up as Õ. I'm not sure where to look to find which encoding the original file used.
I can't change my background image in Finder! I keep dragging the image over, but it just doesn't seem to work, and I don't really know why. It's just a regular JPEG, but the same thing happens with a PNG. What can I do to fix it? You can see a GIF that shows what happens here.
I have noticed on several Macs like Mac Mini's and a MacBook Pro running OSX versions all the way up to El Capitan that left mouse or trackpad first time clicks sometimes don't register when clicking on the "x" to close the window or also on tabs. I noticed that clicking anywhere inside the active window first will wake up the "x" or tabs. This looks like it may be a bug that was never reported. Does anyone else have this issue and is there a setting I can set? Thanks. * Update * I'm now using El Capitan for quite a while and Apple has not fixed this issue yet.
In Safari, there is a text field, in which, contains name of an image with extension .png, and I have to remove that extension. Write a script, in which, simulate Delete(⌫) key 4 times, if preceding characters are .png, thereby removing the extension.
Well, I am using a jailbroken iPod touch 6g and the iTunes isn't recognizing it! I have tried ever single alternative i could find on internet but had no luck! The weird part is that whenever i connect the iPod touch to my PC it gets considered as a removable disc but when i turn off the ipod.......just for a split second, my iTunes recognizes my iPod and the again after i turn it on, it gets recognized as an removable disc!
Tranferring photos from the iPhone to another device, like a NAS or a computer, in some cases fail, either because of a network error or a file-system error on the different devices involved in the data-transfer. Because of this it would be benifitial to do a verification that the files on the iPhone and the destination device are equal. How can it be done?
How can I make something that looks like this? -------- Text --------- where the horizontal rules extend to the margin on either side?
My Macbook pro (early 2011, upgraded to 10.11) started behaving strangely lately. It started randomly crashing multiple times of the day, and the only information I've been able to find is the following message in the logs. Oct 26 10:07:01 localhost kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: -128 Any idea what might have caused it? I've looked up the cause code, but it didn't provide me any additionl information and I couldn't find anything online.
I do a lot of programming and just starting to do a bit of web development. At the moment I am going to be making a few files and folders, because of this, is there a way to open a application in vim (in terminal not visual vim) when double/right clicking the file in finder? Thanks
However all the data that is being transferred is very specific to the application. So the user can't simply use my app to surf the net and watch netflix. It's all restricted to the data from my application.
Initially my Fusion drive (1TB data disk + 240 GB SSD) consisted of a single partition where it was installed El Capitan, then I split the fusion drive into two partitions, the second partition I installed again El capitan ... All was well ... For a problem to the system keychain I wanted to move all the data in the second partition, I reset the first partition using disk utility that I returned an error not completing the process ... Now the second partition running 100% where startup El Capitan and the first partition does not exist, no longer visible! I tried to correct the error with disk utility but when I run SOS to repair the fusion drive, nothing happens ... will not start any operation by disk utilities .. terminal with diskutil cs list:
When AirPlaying something on an iPhone 6s the AirPlay stream pauses or dies when the iPhone 6s's screen goes dark or sleeps. AirPlay should prevent the streaming device from sleeping. How do I fix this?
I was given an iPad owned by a previous employee. How do I reset the iPad to like new conditions. I do not have the password to the Apple ID.
In my finder window some items are grayed out. Why is that?
I'm trying to record both what's happening on screen and the audio being played by the applications. To my surprise, QuickTime did not record the sound. I believe it worked before in previous OS X releases, but that is not something that I use often so I have not bothered to try earlier.
When I move any Finder or application window on the screen, they won't pass the upper desktop border. When I move them to the left, to the right, or to the desktop bottom, they are pushed outside of the visible area.
I try to backup my files of a corrupt system. I can start into the single user mode and want so store my home folder to my backup system. To mount my usb drive I need to mount the root disk as writeable. Therefor I used the command The command will be executed withoud any response, after that I tried to create a folder But this returns
I would like to know how to update from 10.10.0 to 10.10.5 just by using single user mode. Is this possible and if so how would you go about doing so. Linked to my other question I was interested if updating in single user mode would make it faster and more secure. Hope the question makes sense
My Mac has specs for Fallout 4, but it won't run with wine like the others. I don't want Windows directly installed on my Mac because it corrupted my hard drive last time, instead I want to install it on a USB 3.0/Thunderbolt drive, where I can hold down a key while booting up my Mac with it plugged in to boot Windows 10. Or something like that. What I have is a Mac with Yosemite and a Windows 10 disk, I need to get an external drive capable of this $30-$50 preferably and suggestions are appreciated.
My system running OS X 10.11 is constantly getting hammered by failed ssh login attempts by bots. I'm using a secure password and the root account isn't accessible via ssh, but even so it's still a drain on CPU time and it makes me nervous.
After upgrading from iOS 9.0.x to 9.1 the Messages app no longer works. When I open the app all I see is a blank screen.
I have a Lacie rikiki (500GB) harddrive that runs on Time Machine, and have been backing up for a couple of years. It now says it is full, and that it will delete old backups in order to make space to backup my current computer data. Does this mean that I am possibly losing important files (from two years ago) that I will therefore never again have access to? How does Time Machine decide what to delete?
I'm connecting my external Hard Drive on my Mac. It's a NTFS drive. It used to show up normally on Finder's sidebar and Desktop as well, but it doesn't anymore.
I try to update apps, and it asks for a password. I enter the password, and then it asks for a password again. How do I get it to accept my password?
I having tremendous amount of trouble connecting my Wiimote with the dolphin emulator on Mac. I am using the latest version of dolphin. I have both the Wiimote and the Wiimote plus. The Mac bluetooth easily detects both Wiimotes and connects with no issues. While Dolphin detects the Wiimote to some extent (it shows up in the controllers dropdown in settings), it does not connect. The lights on the Wiimote stay flashing, it never actually connects completely. Any ideas why this is? Is anyone else having such issues? I appreciate any suggestions.
Of so many fonts installed in /Library/Fonts/ how does OSX - El Capitan determine which font is to be used system wide?
Why does my iMessage display, "other + (the number) Example:
I am running MATLAB code on two different computers, both with the same username. I would like to distinguish between the two Macs by having the code identify that one system is a desktop, and the other a laptop. Is there a Terminal command that will print the type of computer I am using (so I can implement the relevant function?)
I bought a used iPhone 5 not knowing it was locked. What do I do,I've tried to restore it by holding the power an home button but it's still locked.
I have a iPhone 6 plus and a laptop with wifi. I just need to stream audio and video files from Windows Laptop at anytime with my own wifi hotspot. My workarounds: Have tried VLC Streamer but it streams only video and also only in my office wifi. Please suggest a best and free method to make it done.
So, I'm trying to get a make up cam for danTDM photos (lol) so I'm trying to get it and it's free and I haven't gotten a app in a long time and then it came up! GIVE US CREDIT CARD. And so I tryed it again and BOOM it asks again! So now I look at all these things saying what to do and yet again, I can't do it... It says press the "none" credit card... WITCH I DONT HAVE! WHAT DO I DO HELP!
I can connect to my iPhone hotspot through Wi-Fi on my MacBook Air, but when I then click "Disconnect from my iPhone" in the Wi-Fi menu, nothing happens. The only method I could use disconnect is to disable Personal Hotspot on the iPhone itself.
I have tried to carry out a Software Update on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8. My first problem is that I am unable to find the Mac App Store on this computer (whether by using the search function or looking in the Applications folder.) Even when I go to the Apple website and attempt to get redirected from there to the Mac App Store to find the Software Update, nothing happens. Furthermore, the computer does not detect any Software Updates when clicking on the top-left Apple menu and selecting Software Update.
A few days after it was released, I installed the first beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan on my MacBook Air (Early 2015 model). The El Capitan beta has been running more or less stable and I only had some minor issues that were resolved in later beta releases.
There is a very strange behaviour with Mac Os that i give access to web cam to multiple application like Skype and Face time .where as windows does not allow this ,any answers ??
I am converting some .tar.gz to SquashFS (using squashfs from homebrew) using xz compression because I want to be able to mount the archives and read the content without extrating and also because the compression is about 10% better in my case. Now I only found one implementation of SquashFS for OSXFuse here. I am wondering what sort of driver or shim or software would be needed to let macOS work in any way (and hopefully read+write) with SquashFS?
I don't think I've 70gb worth of photos in there and when i try to open the migrated library it says already migrated to photos app. All tools like whatsize shows them like different files and even when I copy both in my external hard drive it takes a combined storage of 70Gb. My mac does not have that much data but still only 5 Gb is left.
I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 9 – Siri has become speechless all of a sudden. It appears to have went dumb; there is no voice feedback whatsoever.
I am on Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and using Mail Version 8.2 (2104). This morning I opened the mail app and for some strange reason all of my accounts are not listed over there anymore.
I tried several combinations, but I have not found any way so far to mute audio (playing in any application, system wide) using a normal PC-Keyboard (Cherry G80) connected to my Mac Book Pro (2011). On the built-in keyboard of the MacBook Pro this is simply done by pressing F10 (or Fn-F10, depending on the Pref settings).
i am transcoding a bunch of videos with handbrake CLI. Therfore i use this presets:
I was testing some email servers and added several email accounts to my Mac. I deleted these accounts afterwards. Now I have only three base accounts in System Preferences > Internet Accounts: Facebook, Twitter and iCloud.
I am aware of how to make a bootable USB from the downloaded Install.app of El Capitan. Apple have now released an update to El Capitan: OS X 10.11.1. Is it possible to apply this minor update to the same bootable drive so I do not have to install the update after clean installing El Capitan from the drive? If I need to do a clean install of several Macs, I'd rather not manually install the 10.11.1 update each time as well. I obtained the update DMG file from Apple: *=URL=* When you open the DMG file, it mounts the volume which simply contains a PKG file to install the minor update.
The build machine used in my project is not based on OS X El Capitan – it is running Yosemite. So far I've never had problems with the generated installer file (.pkg), but on El Capitan, I receive the error "this package is incompatible with this version of OS X..."
I would like to run OS X El Capitan on an older, black MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model with 2GB of RAM). However, after looking at the El Capitan specifications, it appears that OS X 10.11 requires at least a "Late 2008 Aluminium" unibody MacBook. My first question is: Does anyone here have OS X 10.11 running on a MacBook 4,1? Probably a more realistic second question is: What is the latest version of OS X that I can get running on a MacBook 4,1 Early 2008 model?
I'm aware that if you want to type a character from extended Latin alphabet in OS X (like in the word über), you just press the basic symbol key for a while and then a popup occurs with the list of extended symbols.  But, I would like to type this letter in uppercase. I press the symbol key (for Example U + Shift), then see the character popup. Then I press the number of the required symbol, although I am given an @ sign instead of the uppercase Ü.
I am trying to renew my developer account. I have added my credit card information and submitted to Apple Online. But apple says: We have received your purchase request for Enrollment ID; however, your credit card number is not supported by our automated order system. You can either submit a new order online using a different credit card or complete the enclosed purchase form and fax it to us.
I've noticed today that my MBP 15" late 2014 maximum battery capacity is fluctuating somewhat. These two screenshots were taken just seconds apart http://imgur.com/a/jqyZs
In shell scripts used for unit testing with dynamic libraries in a directory other than the typical @rpath, I have previously been able to set DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH to set the directory containing the libraries. Under 10.11.1, bash seems to ignore attempts to set this environment variable: and DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH is not present in printenv's output.
I'm having a problem with the fonts on Mac OS X 10.10. I don't remember if I had this problem when I used 10.9, but I have it for more than a month now on 10.10.
I have a mid 2014 MacBook Pro 13" (MacBookPro11,1) with 128 GB SSD. I have a lot of applications that I use that won't work on a external hard drive, so I always have issues with space. But going from 5 GB to 0 in a minute after restart? I had a look at the memory, and I'm only using 3 GB of 8 GB. This started immediately after last update to OS X Yosemite. 10.10.5. I get alerts that disk space limit reached. After restarting the Mac it happens again.
I would like not to show attachments previews in the app "Mail" in OS X El Capitan, but just show icons. Following the guides, I have tried this command in the Terminal: but is seems that, for El Capitan, this doesn't work properly, since in the Inbox folder, attachments aren't shown as icons. Any suggestions?
I hope someone can help as this is driving me crazy... At the weekend I got a new Macbook Pro Retina (Early 2015 model). Before connecting it to an external monitor, I upgraded to El Capitan and the device on its own is functioning perfectly.
It seems like every time I press a button or scroll on the touchpad I can hear little beeping noises coming from the hard drive area. How can I know what this noise is and whether it's a problem?
I've been provided directions with how to connect to a VPN on a remote server, but it's just one of those simple "Connect to network, VPN, etc." wizards from Microsoft Windows that establishes a VPN over the WAN Miniport interface. I can connect just fine on Windows.
I am adding more RAM memory to my 2011 21-inch iMac. It currently has two 2 GB memory cards. Can I leave those two cards in place and simply add two new 4 GB memory cards, or do I need to remove the existing cards? Is it OK to mix 2 GB and 4 GB memory cards, provided I stay under Apple's 16 GB limit?
I got a hard drive installed about a year or so ago and now the hard drive seems to be failing. Making intermittent beeping noises. I got the hard drive installed at the genius bar. Is there an automatic warranty that comes with these hard drives or did I have to pay an extra amount to get the warranty. This hard drive was installed fairly recently so It shouldn't be failing like this.
Am trying to find a simple audio converter to convert various m4a, wma, mp3, and flac files to standard mp3 128KB VBR (for an ancient mp3 player with limited storage). I'm probably only going to use this once and this is the one thing it needs to do however if it comes with additional features that'd be great too.
For the past couple of weeks, a process identified as usernoted appeared to "take over" my machine after a few hours of use, eating over 99% of available CPU. Force quitting the process doesn't help; only a system restart puts usernoted to sleep for a while. What is this process and how do I get it under control? I am running OS X 10.10.5 (build 14F1021).
Surprise, surprise the graphics card on my mid-2010 MBP failed or was corrupted. Seems there is a definite trend with these MB's and their graphics cards failing. Anywho, Found out it was out-of-warranty and took it to the geniuses who quoted me at 310$ to have the motherboard et cetera repaired. I opted out and read that I could simply use GfxCardStatus, v2.3 on Integrated graphics only. Since using it, I haven't had any intermittent shutdowns or the others issues associated with such. However, this seems to good to by true. What is the caveat to using this software? will it eventually ruin my computer or cause any adverse side-effects? Thank you
I was given an iPad Air (model A1474) which seems to had a tough life. The screen and LCD matrix are broken and I would like to know if it is still alive before replacing these broken parts.
I cannot login with my Google account on El Capitan (OS X 10.11.1). It accepts my mail, password and 2FA verification code too (Google Authenticator). After pressing the last Enter, the login window turns grey and nothing happens (no feedback, no spinning wheel etc.) I've left it for an hour without doing anything else, but still the same.
I'm a new user of Siri since I recently upgraded to iPhone 6s. What I can't figure out though is if I somehow can take a photo using only Siri? Obviously I tried and failed and my google skills doesn't find any information on the subject.
I'd like to remove rEFInd, since my laptop doesn't wake up from suspension (provided that the laptop is only powered by battery) anymore eversince I installed it (in neither of the operating systems: Mac OS and Ubuntu). Assuming one has installed rEFInd on the main hard drive, then according to rEFInd's page it should be enough to remove (important: also empty the trash) the following folder: *=URL=* Indeed my blessed folder is that one:
Is there any app or "trick" to use Terminal to mirror commands to different ssh hosts (clusters, usually)? I do not want to use another terminal application.
I would like to change sound output device (like option-clicking the speaker icon in the menubar) via script, but NOT through UI scripting, e.g., launching the System Pref panel. UPDATE: Using @Mateusz solution below, here is an Applescript that, when launched, will give you a popup to select the desired audio output device: (Note: you need to put the audiodevice file in /Applications)
I would actually very much like an option similar to fseventer, but it appears that not only will it support recent OS releases, but that it is altogether no longer available. What can I do for 10.10 and later to reproduce the tool's function of listing near-live file system change events?
I connect my phone to a Bluetooth speaker to play music. When engage Siri or try to use dictation, the phone wants to use the microphone on the Bluetooth device, which is either too crappy or too far away for it to understand what I am saying. So, I would like a way to restrict the iPhone to using its own microphone even when connected to a Bluetooth speaker. I am open to doing this via a setting, buying an app, or jailbreaking or whatever. Is there a way to do this?
Basically as it says in the title, whenever I use my computer the screen flickers and it's unusable. This isn't just when I log into one account, this is on startup, login, while using the computer, and in the windows partition. Here is a video. I have tried a PRAM reset and a normal reboot but both are not working.
Recently, I find this icon "Google Search" appears in my launchpad, I searched online and located this app in this "Chrome Apps" folder, deleted it. However, it appeared again the second day. This is really annoying. How can I delete it PERMANENTLY? I don't even know how it happened, I've been using Chrome for a really long time, but this happened only a couple of days ago, didn't install any google related apps recently.
After years of working smoothly, through many OS updates, including 10.11.0, my Apple Mail client now only succeeds in connecting to servers intermittently since updating to 10.11.1. I'd estimate that on a typical day, it manages to work about 10% of the time it is running. Mostly I just quit and leave the app closed to avoid the annoyance of constant warning dialogs interrupting me while I'm working. (Connection Doctor never shows any errors or difficulties.)
In a momentary lapse of sanity, I opened up an attachment (a .pdf) from an unknown email address (the domain doesn't seem to be a website) in the gmail app on my iPhone 5. Realizing that there was a reasonable probability that there was a Trojan, I quickly closed the file. I now have the following related questions: Is there any chance I just put a virus on my iPhone? If so, what should I do to scan my phone and verify? In the future, is there a recommended way to scan such attachments as a precaution before opening them? Looking at a number of questions on this website, I have learned that for my (non-jailbroken) phone, it is fairly unlikely that I got a virus, but I'd appreciate knowing that for sure.
After installing the latest software update, my calendar on my iPhone 5s has lost it's "sensitivity". I cannot just touch a date to see my scheduled events. I must the date over and over, with much for "force" than before. There is also a similar type of problem with my iPad since the last update. It take MUCH more force to close an app with the "finger pinch".
I would like to enhance the global copy/paste behaviour with an additional action. In particular, I often use Growl to display custom notifications. From the command line, I can use the growlnotify executable to display something like this:
Like it says above, my battery died. And when I charged it again it din't work. I logged in, and while it's charging it just restarts again, and again, and again. I tried reinstalling the OS, but my macbook wont connect to any internet. And because it's a MacBook Air, it doesn't have a adapter (I'm not sure how to call it), for the internet.
I've recently started a project that's going to entail using GarageBand. I'd heard it was free, and I searched it in Spotlight. Just to clarify, I am currently running El Capitan. Lo and behold, it did not appear in Spotlight, despite having a reference to the GarageBand app in the App Store. I clicked the App Store link, and it took me to the GarageBand app page where I observed, my confusion growing by the minute, that its price was actually $4.99. I googled it and arrived at an apple site saying that GarageBand is free to all users that have used 10.10. I bought my iMac with OS X Mountain Lion and since then have updated to El Capitan. While I haven't downloaded GarageBand ever I'm pretty sure, I should still have access, no? Every other iApp is there: iPhoto, iMovie, Keynote, Pages and Numbers, so why not GarageBand? I've still got the installation apps for Mavericks and Yosemite, and I had a friend recommend I partition my drive and install Mavericks and bring GarageBand over, but
I can find nowhere to set Preview to default to Thumbnail View with all PDFs. I use them every day. I have ticked Thumbnails in the View menu but it does nothing. Does anyone know how to set the default?
Upgrading to El Capitan broke my dropdown terminal TotalTerminal. Is there an alternative dropdown terminal to replace it that is compatible with El Capitan?
I accidentally deleted a folder I need in my bookmarks in Safari. I back up my phone using iCloud. How do I get this folder back on my phone now?
I have a satnav device which the TomTom Home software does not recognise since it was updated. The TomTom help instructed me to download a folder and copy it to the root directory of my Mac. Using Cmd-G shows me the root directory but does not allow me to copy the folder into it.
I really liked the new iOS 9.1 update until I discovered that the music app was changed. I went in and I had just downloaded new songs and I wanted to create a new playlist. I was so excited to listen to them but my bubble was then burst. I couldn't figure out how to make a new playlist! And then I couldn't find all my other songs!? And I share the music app with my brother and he deleted all my old playlist so now I have about 4 songs. How do I add a playlist? And how do stop sharing the app with my brother?
A friend of me just deleted everything by running sudo rm -rf / on his Mac mini. Yeah I know... (Another friend of us just create a cloud virtual box and invite us to play, that poor friend asked how to play with it, I said "sudo rm -rf /" for joking but oh dear I never knew he ran it on his own Mac, now things became serious)
I have a Linux background and I have just been given a new machine at work which puts me in previously uncharted territory i.e. a Mac running OSX. Since I have very little or no experience with OSX, I need some help in solving this problem that I face. My problem is about each user having their own separate sessions that can be accessed remotely, but not the session on the physically attached screen.
Safari 9.0.1 launches and restores previously open windows. The app has the rude default behavior of automatically restarting any open videos. With many open windows and tabs, how can I find the window playing the video?
I'm trying the new Notes.app version 4 with El Capitan. I "upgraded" my existing data to be compatible wit the newly revamped version of this app.
Dell P2416D (Vendor 10AC, Product A0C3) is 2560x1440, but my Mac OS X (on Macbook Pro Mid 2010 connected via Thunderbolt with Mini Display Port cable) doesn't have corresponding file in /System/Library/Displays/Overrides and when I used the SwitchResX Control application taking values from *=URL=* after reboot this settings were stated as "invalid":  P.S.: the *=URL=* didn't reveal the desired resolution.
The Notes 4 app bundled with El Capitan is revamped. It now includes a checklist feature. This feature becomes available after you agree to "upgrade" (convert) your existing data. Is there some way to re-order the items in a checklist?
I'm trying to export a Developer certificate from Keychain Access. I've followed all the instructions and got to the point where I need to enter the "login" keychain password. However, when I enter this password and press Allow, nothing happens.
It always comes back as Mighty Mouse. First generation devices do work without a hitch. When both mice/trackpads are connected, preference pane shows gestures for Magic Mouse or Trackpad but only 1st gen devices work.
Is it safe to delete some bulky fonts stored on OS X, such as the ones shown below? What's the worst that can happen? Would things simply disappear or if a font can't be found will it just be replaced by another, possibly lower quality one? EDIT: Talking about library/fonts here, not the System Fonts
I would like to know the recommended capacity in a power bank to charge my iPhone 4S on the go. I've seen power banks with over 4000 mAh of capacity. Wouldn't that damage my iPhone, since I read that the iPhone 4S has a battery of 1430 mAh and the charger is 1000 mAh. Wouldn't the recommended capacity be around those values?
I ran into this problem today while writing code. Whenever I open a source file in Xcode, make changes and save them, the file will be copied to the "autosave information" folder and the references in the source tree view (command + 1) are changed to the new location. Right now I cannot edit files "in place" but have to edit them and copy them back from "autosave information".
I have added Gmail Offline to Chrome on OS X Mavericks. Where on my Mac are the offline files (such as attachments) and the app itself stored? Google nor StartPage are very helpful in finding any real answers.
Is there an convenient way for me to toggle VPN on or off in iOS 9.1 without navigating through the Settings screen each time? Previously (on Android), I used an app to automate this based on my location and it was pretty reliable. Searching through the App Store, I am unable to find any advanced automation apps. I have discovered FlipControlCenter which would place a convenient toggle button in the swipe up menu, however I'm currently running iOS 9.1 and would like to avoid jailbreaking if possible. I am aware that some paid VPN services do have apps which can be launched and used to toggle VPN on or off, however I am running my own personal VPN service.
So a few nights, ago our iMac (OSX 10.10.5) started to run slowly, so I figured that all 4 family members have active logins – so one by one, I logged everyone out then rebooted the machine. When it started to reboot, the iMac entered the safe mode loading process and never completely rebooted; it just hangs there around 50%. I managed to get the iMac to boot up to at least the login screen, but all four users are gone and only the Guest option exists.
This is an inverse of the 'which computers have I authorized' iTunes is fussing and refused to put some 30 apps back on my phone (mac had a hard disk crash. Restored from backup, but not clear that all the permissions are right.) I reentered all 3 authorizations, and got 'Already authorized' for two of them. This reduced the unloadable app count to 20. Anyway, my wife and I between us have at least 3 apple IDs, one of which we have changed from the older 'arbitrary character string including spaces' to the 'use a valid email address' format. The apps in question when I open iTunes go to apps, right click an app, and type 'get info' show the old format for the third id: "firstname lastname" Not the user@gmail.com. On her computer the id shows up as "firstname lastname (user@gmail.com)" I have authorized user@gmail.com and got the 'already authorized' message.
I have some issues with my file system on my MacBook; I am running OS X El Capitan with an SSD. For instance, if I make a screenshot, save the file on my desktop, and then immediately try to open the file, I cannot do so because I lack permissions to open the file. However, when looking at the permissions of the file, I can assure that I am the owner of the file and that I have R, W, and X access. The strange thing is, when I try to open the file again after a couple of minutes, it suddenly works, even though file permissions are still the same as before.
Can I restore an iOS app version after Apple reviewed and confirmed my version after I accidentally rejected it? it was set to manual release (not auto nor scheduled) Built is still showing but it is marked as "Developer Rejected"
Wired claims that there is a difference because 3D Touch can detect levels of pressure, but in my experience Force Touch can as well. For example, pressing the fast forward button in QuickTime with more or less force will switch between 2x, 4x, 8x etc. speed. Is there any capability difference between the two haptic/Taptic features?
I am using Mac OS X, with vim and I am getting a bit used to it. A teacher at the university told us he will ask us to demonstrate him our knowledge on Vi and specified that it is Vi and not Vim. I read a lot of posts on different website and this forum about the differences between the two, but they do not seem really big especially looking on how to use it. In order to practice for my exam on Vi should I move to Vi instead of Vim?
Is there a way to disable the remote content loading only for messages marked as junk? I am aware that I can disable for all messages via Preferences, however I always want to show remote content on non-junk messages.
Maybe is a silly question but I'm a newbie in OS X and I didn't found the answer anywhere. The thing is that when I execute some command that executes other scripts/commands/whatever I don't see on the terminal exactly what the commands did, just the title on the terminal window changes. E.g. when I run make to compile a c++ program there are different executables involved (clang, xcodebuild ...) I know that those commands are being executed because I see their names changing in the title, but I don't know how was the original call (in other words, the arguments given) or the output (if any). Any ideas?
Unable to place folder or file to left border of desktop. See video bellow: *=URL=* I have last version of OS X El Capitan. How to fix this bug?
I accidentally deleted one of my Gmail accounts from my iPad. It is still on my iPhone and my computer, but I can't add it to my list of email accounts because it still exists as my account.
I've used Jacob Rus' cocoa text system bindings for many years to give me more emacs like bindings in cocoa text fields (apple doc here. Since El Capitan I find that option-f which does moveWordForward: only works once and doesn't repeat if I hold down the keys. option-b (moveWordBackward:) does repeat as it always has and so does option-rightarrow (which I assume also does moveWordForward:).
The iTunes Artwork screensaver is, IMO, an abomination. I like using a random screensaver but I do not want to see that one, ever. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, seems to have decided that screensavers are mission critical and can never be removed, even by root. Is there a way around this, or has Apple decided for me, again, how I should use my computer?
Since my password is stored in a password manager, this also involved opening up the password manager vault to get to just the Skype password and sign in. How do I get Skype for Mac to remember my password?
I have Windows 10 running on a partition on my iMac. What I'd like to do is shrink the Mac HDD and add that space to make the Windows 10 partition larger. Here's the layout of my drives now.
In the Stock app, when I click on a ticker and select "1W" to specify one week's worth of stock data on the graph, it pulls the data and displays the graph. If I go back many hours later, the graph shows the cached version of the graph.
Behold, the fate of all (poorly handled) MagSafe power cables: Why doesn't this shock me? I've read that MagSafe cables are low voltage, but I don't even get a tingle. Is there any danger of shock, arcing, and/or fire from a MagSafe cable in this condition? If so, is a strip of electrical tape over the exposed wire a sufficient 'fix'? Bonus question: what is the source of the green and yellow discoloration?
While trying to modify a property list I was rather surprised to receive the following error sh-3.2# cp com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup cp: com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup: Operation not permitted and the Console has the following log entry: 10/28/15 1:12:55.886 PM sandboxd[118]: ([13463]) cp(13463) System Policy: deny file-write-create /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup
Just installed fresh copy of El Capitan and as usual started to install stuff... And suddenly faced strange problem. I'm using Sublime Text. It provides bin called subl, which allow to use it from console. So I added link to it like: But when I try tuo use it from console i get:
After iPhone Restore from Backup & Sync causes iTunes Error Message: I posted this weird copying behavior here: Issues & Errors with Restore from ios7 Backup to ios9 on iPhone 5? The screenshot of error message below is from this thread from Apple forums.
I couldn't open any java .jar application file after installing OS X El Capitan. The only message after opening always is: Java-Jar-File "ABC.jar" couldn't be opened.
The goal is to create a few extra HFS+ partitions after running the Bootcamp utility while not breaking Bootcamp's boot-ability. I am Running OS X El Capitain, and I only have a single disk drive to work with in a MacBook Pro. The goal is to have a partition layout something like the following CurrentMacOS Windows Bootcamp ExtraHFS1 ExtraHFS2 ...
Is it possible to bring back simple window maximize button as it was before and when holding option to use split view?
Note: You can use an example with the names disk0s3 and the name of partition "Install". Also I am using OS X Mavericks.
I'll start this question with example of the problem I'd like to solve. I like to tag my apps by category: productivity, development, media, etc. I like to tag my movies by genre: action, drama, porn, comedy, etc. I like to tag my personal documents by some other criteria: bills, medical, auto-related, etc.
The other day my 128gb flash stick refused to be recognised when I plugged it in, giving me a 'failed to initialize' error with options to format it or eject. This was particularly frustrating because I always eject it carefully.
An iTunes error (documented in this AskDifferent thread) has left my library folders full of duplicate files, but with different extensions. Over time, when I have found an album that iTunes can't find I have deleted the local files and downloaded from iCloud. This has left me with the downloaded m4a files but also the original 'lost' mp3's - the files were never actually missing, but the links in the iTunes database were corrupted somehow. I could delete the entire local library and then download from iTunes Match/iCloud but it's a very large library and this could take many days on my internet connection. Trying to convert the 'known' mp3's to m4a's and deleting any left over 'lost' mp3's would take far too long.
On 2014 iMac, OS X El Capitan 10.11... In App store, I select [Update] for OS X El Capitan Update 10.11.1 The option to restart is displayed. I select it. Then the message "Available updates have changed." is displayed. I click [Show Details] option. Returns to App Store Repeat...
One of my team members approached me today asking about an issue they're having with their Mac Mail Client and Gmail. I am a Linux user and do not have much experience with Mac, but thought I would reach out to this community on their behalf. User aggregating 3 email addresses into Mac Mail (Gmail Personal, Gmail Professional, Hotmail) All email providers set up properly as IMAP (POP on phone) User experiences duplicates in both Sent folder User's Drafts folders has incomplete information (some emails are missing) Mail Server information appears to be correct Thoughts
I can't see my hard drive on my desktop but I can see it on the left of my disc utility window , I can't click the verify button or the repair ... Is there a way to repair it before I format it ? Thx for ur help .
I am trying to install rEFInd a separate partition but have run into an error. I'm doing this because I want to install Ubuntu on my other partition (separate from my Mac and and rEFInd partition). Here's my diskutil list:
Clicking on the Wifi icon in the menu bar while pressing and holding the option key presents the user with a different and detailed view. The option-key is a nice feature. It works on a lot of the menu bar icons as well (sound and bluetooth).
I've been searching around on the internet for a while trying to answer this question, but I can't get a clear answer for it. Background info: I'm running El Capitan with a Windows 10 partition on my MBP that I created through Boot Camp. When I ran the boot camp assistant, I made sure the "Download latest support software from apple" box was checked. After that my computer rebooted and I installed Windows onto the newly created partition from a USB drive. I then booted into Windows, where an Installer for the Boot Camp Windows Software popped up. I installed it.
My Mac Mini running the El Capitan (10.11.1) connects to my Synology DS 1515+ via AFP as follows; afp://c9_nas.local. Finder recognizes the NAS as a fellow Mac when performing a get info. (the multiple instances of the same Mac is annoying as well):
I recently upgraded from Outlook 2011 to Outlook 2016. I'm quite irritated that with the Reading Pane on the right (how I had it setup with 2011) that each message in the Item List takes up 3 lines. If you hide the Reading Pane, or place it on the bottom, then each message only takes up one line. I want the Reading Pane on the right, and the messages to only take up one line, but I cannot seem to find the right settings to achieve this. Can anyone suggest how to make this work?
Don't mark this as a duplicate. Question has been asked several times in several places but it was years ago.
I have recently switched to Mac after using Linux Mint and still getting used to its UX paradigms. Is it possible to: Go on full screen with a window by clicking on the blue dot.
Ok so I was thinking, Can you run Android on a iOS device? I did some research and Android could run on ARM (Most apps would not work) but how come no one has tried to run it. Whats holding them back?
In my finder sidebar, the first item is "All my files", followed by "iCloud Drive" and all my custom folders. In "File Open" dialogue boxes, all the items are showing except "All my files". This has been missing since I upgraded to 'El Capitan'. This previous question answers what happens to the entire list of Favourites, but doesn't answer what has happened to the "All my files" item: "File Open" dialog is missing sidebar items
I am trying to log into my mac (OS X Yosemite) but it keeps showing me this:  I can't even go to recovery mode because when I hold option after rebooting, the only thing that comes up is "Macintosh HD" (My partition name). So I installed El Capitan on a USB (from another computer) and used the recovery thing in there and it doesn't even show the Macintosh HD in there even though it's there when I hold the option key.
I no longer have access to the mail server to which my email client was connected. I am considering upgrading from iOS 8 to iOS 9.0 using an IPSW (not thorough the normal update which will take me to iOS 9.1). My concern is regarding the already downloaded and cached mail from the Exchange server which is currently accessible. Will it still be accessible after the restore? (i.e. does the application and data backup also store the emails already downloaded or does it rely on downloading them again from the server?)
I have an iPhone 5c and before I hard resetted it I turned off Find My iPhone. I'm at the setup screen I don't have a SIM card for it yet. The phone asks me for my language, country, WiFi, then tells me to insert a SIM. Is it going to tell me I need the previous AppleID and password after I get the SIM card and insert it?
For example tonight I heard it working while I was sleeping (Mac is 1,5m from my pillow!) and this morning, looking at the console, it keep doing
After updating to El Capitan 10.11.1 the login screen shows my default user and the Guest account. The Guest user is disabled though.
I'm on Yosemite 10.10.1 I was trying to install the Tor browser, but instead I mistakenly installed some general Tor proxy or something, which didn't come in the form of a normal application. Basically I first installed MacPorts and then I sudo port install tor which didn't give me the Tor browser, but some other Tor thing (I think it's something that allows you to use Tor proxy with any application, but I don't need that.)
I use Spotlight to currency conversions several times a day. E.g. I type into Spotlight 100 EUR to GBP or 500 USD to CZK However I have just noticed that the exchange rate is stuck to that of 2-3 weeks ago For example, spotlight returns: 1 GBP = 1.34 EUR ---> should be ---> 1 GBP = 1.39 EUR 1 USD = 0.66 GBP ---> this is correct 1 EUR = 136.45 YEN ---> should be ---> 1 EUR = 132.19 YEN
I'm currently downloading the update for iMovie (2 GB) and Xcode (3.5 GB). Other similiar producs are maybe several 100 MBs, but for the full software, not just an update. What makes those updates so extremely large? Do they typically replace existing files or do they actually consume additional 2 or 3 GB on my harddisk?
After I left for a while, the Mac locked screen. When I got back and logged in again, the Proxifier's connections area shows this info:
I have been given an XPS file which seems to be readily opened only on Windows based machines. I was under the impression that I could use Acrobat Pro to convert the file to PDF, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Is there: A way to use Acrobat Pro to do this conversion? A recommended FOSS mechanism? A good recommendation for an XPS viewer? Thanks!
I'd like Finder to display a particular icon for files based purely on its filename, not its extension. For instance, for a web project I have a Makefile sitting amidst PHP files, which all display the Atom logo:
On most (all?) Linux terminals (eg gnome terminal, tilda, guake etc,..) and the virtual consoles you can browse up through the terminal's scrollback buffer using the keys (ie without the mouse). Is this possible in OSX's terminal? eg: In Gnome Terminal you enter ls oops - 50 lines of output on a 48 line terminal Ctrl-Shift-UpArrow scrolls back to see the first few lines of input (and eventually your command invocation On VC's switch UpArrow for PageUp - is there anything equivalent on OSX? I'm using OS 10.10.5
I have a mid 2015 Retina MBP 15" and regularly use multi screens and hard wired ethernet. So I've bought a third party HandAcc USB ethernet adapter with Realtek 0x8153 chipset (the device also includes a 3 x USB port hub).
Often I find that I want to open the previous or last folder that I worked with in finder. Say I'm saving something to a folder from my camera, I then go to gmail and click attach, it would be great if there was a "previous" or "last folder" button that takes me to where the photos are. Am I missing something, is there a hidden OSX feature that does this?
I wanted to free some space on my Iphone 4S and I deleted the fonts folder from system. When I want to restore .ipsw with the iTunes gave me the error 3194 with internet, and 3004 without internet connection. I edited the host filed and nothing worked. I try to use TinyUmbrella but this doesn't work and said something about Java error like "please define exe4j_java_home 32-bit jdk or jre download". What can I do now?
My question is: the mere existence of the hosts.equiv file isn't evidence that my machine is compromised, right? When I open the file with Text Edit, there's nothing listed in it.
Like any normal person, I've hooked up my Gmail account to the default Mail app on iPhone 6. But for some reason it's not sending or receiving anything when I'm on data (Verizon 4G LTE), while working perfectly on wifi. I've tried my Outlook account also which works pretty much fine except for problems with sending on occasion.
On one Mac in my household I develop applications with various tools like Jekyll or Meteor. They usually have their own default ports for their development web servers; Jekyll uses 4000, Meteor 3000, and so.
I'm looking for specs on Time Machine (TM) encryption. Does TM encrypt before transmitting over network? (i.e. 128-bit AES)
What I'd like to do is get my MBP back to an "out of the box state": fresh install, recovery partition. However, I believe my partition is for OS as it was on October 2013. What I'd like is a fresh install of newest version and recovery partition being an installer for newest version. At time of writing, El Capitan. What steps would I go about to have a fresh El Capitan install and an El Capitan recovery partition.
iTunes is still very confusing to me, and today I tried to upload a book on an iPad. After adding one pdf file to the iBooks library on OS X, I tried to sync the iPad. Unfortunately, iTunes insist on erasing everything before synchronising the content, because it's not using the same iTunes library. Apparently, iTunes refuse to simply upload a file to the iPad.
I bought an audio book on my iTunes account, using my iPad. Now I can't transfer it to my macbook. From my macbook, it does not appear in my purchases. Is there anyway to transfer it?
I have my iPhone setup to open Photos app when I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Pro. I also have Dropbox automatically importing my photos when connected too.
I don't use iCloud, and I don't want to use iCloud. I see several other questions regarding contacts and settings, but Erase and Sync seems scary for me because I don't want to sync all of my photos, well, anywhere.
I was wondering if there is a way to get a terminal window to open up in another screen on startup. I know you can set terminal to open on start up, but I specifically want it to open in another screen. I have Mac OS X 10.11.1
Is there any way to work around the inability to customize launchagent plists in El Capitan without completely disabling system integrity protection? Specifically, I was sad to find that my ssh-agent timeout had been removed, and horrified that I couldn't put it back. I see other q&a on how to reboot in recovery mode and disable SIP, but that seems a bit drastic... is there some other workaround? I don't have great knowledge around launchctl as a whole; is there a way to set a -t option some other way than editing /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist?
I have various background services running on my Mac which use quite a lot of bandwidth: Google Drive, a couple of OneDrive sync programs, iCloud sync, Dropbox, and Backblaze for a general backup of my harddrive. This is fine when I'm on a regular wifi connection, but when i tether my Mac to my iPhone I have limited data -- only 4GB per month. I'd like to be able to limit the services which can use my internet connection when that internet connection is provided by my iPhone.
I'm currently running OS X 10.11.1 and find this weird thing in Notification center. So what it stand's for and how to remove if it's not necessary?
How do I make Siri send text messages to a preferred address? I & someone else both have iPhones, and the other person often uses Siri to send text messages to me. I generally send text messages to them using my iPhone. Sometimes, however, I will use my Apple ID to send the message using the Messages app on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5), as it is often more convenient to type or send images from a personal computer than on a phone.
Normally there is a "favorites" tab on the left side where I can easily navigate from folder to folder...where did it go? Not sure if this is just me being stupid and accidentally disabling it, or if it disappeared on me when I updated to El Capitan.
When somebody else uses my laptop, he can of course see all the windows I have currently open. I'm looking for a mode, which allows me to completely hide some windows but without closing them. This could be useful if you have your private email and Facebook always opened in a browser window, but you don't want that coworkers could accidentally or intentionally open them when they do something at your laptop.
I'm trying to copy an exec file from my downloads folder to /usr/bin/ using sudo ditto -v sweep /usr/bin/sweep, but the command always fails in Terminal. I even tried to manually drag and drop it but the folder only has permissions for the system account. Is there a way I can change my command to allow permissions to this folder so that I can copy the file?. I'm using OS X 10.11.1
I know that I can restart the Dock using a killall Dock on the command line. I can also restart the Finder by Alt-right-clicking the Finder icon. Is there a similar way to restart the Dock without using the command line?
I seem to be having this weird issue where my MacBook won't boot up after installing the OS X 10.11, El Capitan, update. It goes to the login screen and once I login the bar freezes and I can't go further. I have tried doing an over the top reinstall and that seems to have done nothing. I have repaired permission (first aid) in disk utility and that seems to have done nothing.
Since upgrading to El Capitan my spaces previews sometimes are text only, and sometimes are full image previews. It seems to be related to whether or not I initiate Mission Control on a space that is fullscreened or not. Is there a way to force spaces to always use a preview picture? Desired:
I hit the Option button as directed before opening Bluetooth Preferences to delete old devices but only the one I'm currently using comes up, not the three other old ones listed under the Bluetooth menu. How can I access and delete these?
All new icons are now piling on top of one another on top of my Hardrive icon. How do I fix this? I did not see a similar question when I googled it.
I want to see which apps on my iPhone are using the most mobile data. I know I can do this in Settings > Mobile Data, but the list I get there is cluttered and in alphabetical order. I want a list of apps that I can re-order, so the apps using the most data are at the top of the list. Is there an app that does this? My Data Manager doesn't seem to (although it is great for other things).
Windows and Linux simply create 3 devices, one keyboard device, one mouse device and one gamepad device. However OSX creates just one device which contains all the functionality at once, which most programmes fail to recognize as a Gamepad. So far the only App that could show me that position data of the Analog axes and of the gamepad buttons is indeed transmitted is the HID explorer app by apple (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/HID_Explorer/HID_Explorer.zip)
On Yosemite I used totalspaces to modify this behaviour as well as having a grid layout... I understand that totalspaces no longer works without doing some system modifications. The animation I wish to eliminate/speed up is the default space switching animation, which for me is invoked by either swiping left/right with three fingers or ctrl+ left/right. Is it possible to kill or speed this up? Edit: One year later, we're on Sierra now.... please send help Edit: Two years later, I still check this thread and any solution still appreciated!
If I switch tabs, I sometimes lose the "undo" action and it is replaced by "undo close tab". The reverse, where "undo close tab" can't be accessed anymore because I've typed something on a form before realizing I wanted the other tab back, is also annoying. I'm basically asking if there's a way to separate these functions - they're fundamentally two (or more, counting each page's input forms, of even each separate input box) separate "objects" that should have separate undo queues.
I use an old 1st Generation iPod nano to play music in my car. I hook it up via the dock connector. I noticed that when it's hooked up to my car stereo via the dock connector, I'm locked out of the user interface: the screen doesn't show anything about the song being played, I can't pause or fast-forward or play from the iPod's buttons, and I can't navigate to select another album and start playing it.
How do I search Apple Mail (10.11) for a message containing text and from certain people or other criteria. If I enter a search term I can see messages as search results, but I can't see any other way to add additional criteria, like "from contains", "date after", "has attachment", etc. I can start typing an email address or name in the search box and get the "From" criteria, but it's limited, I can't do this after I enter a search term, nor can I select other criteria like from "contains" certain text.
I got my iPhone stolen and I'm guessing he tried to do a factory reset, but I know jailbreak does something differently with that but it's stuck in a bootloop and I've tried just about everything I can do with iTunes and putting the phone in different modes. Power + home for 10 sec then just home = Apple update logo then crashes and goes back to boot loop. Power and + volume = nothing The computer can't recognize the device, it did once but I don't know what I did but it stopped and went back to unknown.
The ability to playback Live Photos in Photos.app is a nuisance at best. So far I've only been able to play them by hovering over them with my mouse, either over the 'Live' tag in the bottom left hand side of a full view photo, or hovering over the photo in the gallery view (which plays without sound). Is there a keyboard shortcut that can be used to start the preview in one or both views?
I occasionally see the standard OS dialog stating something like "Application-so-and-so wants to make changes to your system. Enter Administrator credentials to authorize." How would I find out exactly what resources the application wants to gain elevated write access to? Related to that, which process opens that dialog?
I've looked everywhere for an answer to my question but I can't seem to find one: I'm trying to watch a tv show on my iPhone 5s that I bought on my account via the computer. However, the only way it lets me watch them by downloading the episodes, and I want to just stream them on my iPhone because downloads use too much data. How do I fix this problem? Is it possible to stream tv shows on your iPhone?
Let's say I have a script: When I run it, it says that hi is undefined.
I have been using this hard drive for a while now and recently I haven't been able to transfer files from the hard drive. I have stored close to 500 GB of data and now that I am trying to move some of them onto my laptop the transfer is getting stuck. This is happening for all of the data I am trying to transfer from this hard disk. Is there any way for me to get around this problem?
Following these instructions (see also Apple's developer documentation and BoltClock's answer to Test iOS app on device without apple developer program or jailbreak), I was able to compile an iOS app (in this case provenance, a video game console emulator app which doesn't meet Apple's guidelines and will never be allowed in Apple's App Store) in Xcode 7, sign it with my personal iCloud account, sideload it onto my iPhone (by plugging it into my Mac by USB, and selecting my iPhone in xcode menu -> Product -> Destination), and allow my phone to execute it by "trusting" apps with this signature in Settings -> General -> Profile, which installs the certificate associated to my icloud account onto the device. I would like to replicate these steps with an over the air download. Can I get Xcode to produce an executable that I can share with my brother, who has an iPhone, but does not have access to a Mac with Xcode?
I have a 2015 13" Retina MacBook Pro that comes with 2 Thunderbolt ports and an HDMI port. I have 2 monitors which have same resolution (1920x1080) and same size, and they also only have DVI and VGA ports (no HDMI ports on both monitors).
Is it possible to use AppleScript to change the font in the Notes App? I am not very familiar with AppleScript, so I may have missed something, but my attempts to change the font have failed. The Dictionary makes no mention of anything useful, but then it also omits the body property of note, so I I’m not sure. This is on 10.11.1 El Capitan and I don’t like the default font that Notes currently uses. Thanks
iPad Pro resolution size is 2732‑by‑2048. iPad air 2 resolution is 2048‑by‑1536. So if an iOS game was built specifically for all iPad's from Apple, and the app is currently out, does it mean on the new resolution iPad Pro the game app will look like it doesn't fit on the screen?
I live in India and love to use Apple products. Besides disabled Apple-TV features like Siri (available only in 8 out of 80 launch countries), many streaming services are not available outside the US. Some devices are not so useful outside their intended ecosystems, is Apple TV one of them?
Is this an El Capitan bug? I've noticed in more than one app, when I go to File --> Open, the app opens the file in a new window instead of in the existing window. For example, in TextEdit, if you open a new document, and then from that blank document open a saved document, TextEdit opens the saved document in a new window and leaves the original document open as a blank document. This happens in other apps too. I never saw this happen prior to El Capitan so I'm wondering if it's a bug or intentional for some unknown reason.
I recently bought an iPhone 6s and given 1 year warranty by Apple. Does the warranty covers other items as well? i.e. the power adapter and the earphone?
I have a Macbook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011. In the last few months the transparent shield protecting the screen has separated at the bottom letting dust in. It's still attached at the top. How can I safely clean the screen under the shield? Once I've cleaned it, how can I keep the shield from separating?
I don't have access to the Internet where I live and I must go to the public library to use it. Unfortunately, there is a 100 MB download limit and I must pause the download and reconnect each time. If I'm a few seconds too late, the El Capitan download automatically goes into the install program and I have to start the download all over again. I once got to 3 GB and lost it all. Is there any way I can recover the downloaded file when I connect to the Internet each time? I know it is there somewhere but the download process assumes that it has finished somehow and begins the install.
This is a replacement unit, replacing one that I dropped. I have been in the process of transferring my apps to the new iPad. I had finished yesterday and it was working just fine and then it seemed like it just stopped working. When I try to turn it on, I just get a black screen. I can access Siri and Siri answers verbally. I know my user name and my password, which is coded number and fingerprint access, however I can't bring up a screen to enter it. Do you have any suggestions? It is fully charged and I can turn the power on. Unfortunately the only reason I know it's on is that I can contact Siri but the screen is still black.
Safari on my Mac has a strange habit: It saves data: URLs in the history. That’s pretty annoying because they are long and definitely influence the performance of Safari, especially when typing into the Smart Search Field.
Will deleting the photos from my phone mean that the ones in my Favourites Album will be deleted too?
I have a client/server software that uses IP to communicate. It happens that both client and server is located at the same MacBook, and when I travel I disconnect it from the IP network, making it loose the static IP-address obtained by the network card from the IP network. This sets a stop for the IP connection between the client and server.
I was wondering if there are any recommendations on which HDD (Brand, Model) is best to be used in a MacBook Pro early 2011 13" (running El Capitan). I'm planning on exchanging my optical drive for an internal HDD to use in combination with my Crucial M4 SSD 256GB that I'm using atm. Here's the case that will hold the HDD.
Since I upgraded my OS X to El Capitan (10.11) the output of iTerm2 is completely messed up. See this example screenshot (iTerm2 on the left, Terminal.app on the right): I'm using iTerm 2.1.4 which should be the latest version. . The problem is independent from tmux, I just started it to show it's broken output.
I have a Time Machine backup volume that is not mountable anymore. I tried to repair it with: It showed the following error: How can I repair it and retrieve the data from the last backup?
I tried updating apps and it directed to enter password for a different Apple ID which is not mine. Please what should I do.
I've been trying to get an external USB WiFi adapter to work with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), instead of the internal one that came with my iMac, but I can't find anything in system preferences whatsoever that lets me configure it, I looked in network settings but couldn't find any option to select the adapter I want to use, it just lets me pick 'WiFi' which is always the internal one. The adapter I'm trying to configure is an Alfa AWUS036NH, any help will be greatly appreciated!
I updated my phone from OS 8.4 to 9.2. I don't like how my phone lags now and the battery lasts way less then it used. Can you guys please help if there is a way I can go back to OS 8.4?
I upgraded to Xcode 7, and in Finder project icon become white icons, why? Pressing i.e. ClangFormat.xcodeproj will open Xcode, but still it is annoying. Earlier it was a blue like icon.
Just got a new MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), but there are several problems with bluetooth. Most of them occur when waking from sleep:
Is there a possibility to recover rewritten backup copy of an iPhone from iTunes? The thing is, I accidentally rewrote the former backup with current and now need to get the previous one. Please help, this is really important.
My question is how can I access csrutil command to disable SIP? Am I missing something?
My MacBook Pro 13" mid 2012 worked perfectly, but last days it has many lags (screen freeze with or without artifacts/shaders). After force shutdown it beeps 3 times and after approximately 10 minutes it loads OS, but fan works very noisy and fast. Where can be the problem?
I need to capture a screenshot in order to send a bug to a developer. How do I take a screenshot in tvOS on the new Apple TV?
In TimeMachine settings I can choose only device where to store backups. But I don't want to see backups in the root directory of my external hdd. I have directories like: - Backups - Movies - Music - Photos And I want to force TimeMachine store backups in /Backups directory, not in the root of hdd.
I purchased an iPad mini 2 not too long ago with the intention of using it as an eReader for the various PDFs that I own. After uploading content to my iPad I tried to sort the content into different collections to help sort PDFs into different categories. It turns out that moving PDFs into a collection does not remove the PDF from the original collection. This is making it difficult to sort as not only do you have to search though ones you have already sorted, you have to remember which you've already sorted. Is there a way to "hide" or remove PDFs from this main collection once they belong to another collection? If not, is there another decent eReader app available for the iPad, or should I simply return it and find another eReader entirely? **(Side note) It would be incredibly helpful if I could simply retain the folder structure that they are currently in, as they are already sorted and categorized on my computer.
My husband's iphone, my daughter's iphone and my iphone/ipad all have separate apple ID's - so we have 3 apple ID's in our household. I have itunes on my laptop and pack up my ipad and iphone regularly - they both have the same apple ID and my itunes account "knows" one is an iphone and one is an iPad. How do I set up my husband's and daughter's iphones to back up? Can I add them to my existing itunes account? do I need to download separate itunes programs on to my laptop? how do I keep them all straight on my laptop? and when they are backed up, where do their photos and videos go?
We noticed this week that our Macbook wifi connection was slow. On inspection, we discovered that the wifi wasn't auto-connecting to our network, but rather one named ATT5g---.
I bought a second hand MacBook, that had not had a fresh install of OS X. The original owner's username and password are in the system. I do not know the administrator password. I can use the Mac normally by signing in/out without asking for authentication. However when I tried to install some programs, the system asked for authentication, so I decided to reinstall the system.
I'd like to make "m" the hotkey for marking emails unread, since that's the same key as every other email or RSS application uses, and command+shift+u is unwieldy. The only place I can find to set this is the global hotkeys and it won't let me use unmodified keys (presumably because that would break things). Is it possible to do this?
According to html5test.com, Safari now supports HTML5. I am specifically interested in the HTML5 tag parameter required.
For more than 48 hours, my computer has not been able to download apps - purchase or download updates. I see no error messages, but in the background there are no downloads at all? My account seems OK as I can download on my iPad & iPhone with iOS 9.0.2 Why is iTunes 12.3.0.4 on Windows 8.1/PC not allowing me to buy & download free apps or update/ download existing purchases from cloud?
It is very important as I use it for medication reminders. I would like to use one of the sounds (.aif) that I already have stored on my computer. Changing default sounds in Calendar would be helpful to know as well.
I've noticed on many used MacPro listings that people have upgraded a MacPro4,1 (a.k.a. 2009) to a MacPro5,1 (a.k.a. 2010) simply by updating the firmware. From this, it appears that these machines are now able to accept 6-core Xeons as well as utilize 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM.
I am familiar with the Command+ option to zoom in on text within messages received in Mac Mail. However, this command does not seem to work when composing a message. Is there another zoom functionality so that I could avoid making the text larger while I am typing only to resize the text before I send the email?
Sometimes my mac mini doesn't go into standby after the inactivity time specified in system settings. This happened with Yosemite, and continues to happen with El Capitan.
When the phone is switched on and I open the Phone app I can navigate to "Recents", "Contacts" and other tabs there. But after about few hours using the iPhone, when I press the Phone app, it goes to that, but I cannot navigate to any tab or do anything. Everything is frozen there.
I am having this very strange problem with Adobe programs. I reinstalled OSX on my macbook and I tried to install adobe programs however I keep getting the error in the screen shot. I have researching and nothing seems to fix it Would anyone be able to help?
I wanted to delete my Linux partition, but I don't know why my OS X partition was also deleted. So, I then reformatted the partition and installed a new OS X (Yosemite) on that partition.
I have a laptop and a desktop both running 10.11.1; on the laptop I found a way to set up Spaces so that CTRL-1 would take me immediately to screen 1 and similarly for all the other screens. I rely on that convenience. But on my desktop I am still stuck with this stupid Mission Control 2-step procedure. I KNOW it's possible, but I have been unable to reproduce this convenience on the desktop. Can anyone remind me how it's done?
I got an Apple TV of 2nd generation, and I also got a DLNA server, what I'd like to do is being able to stream my server's contents on the Apple TV, I know there's a service called FlexConnect, but do I need to jailbreak my Apple TV and/or how do I set all this up? Note: I'd like not to jailbreak my Apple TV
I'm having some weird issues with getting my bluetooth mouse to work on a Bootcamp Windows 10 installation. I've verified that bluetooth per se is working by connecting other bluetooth devices (my phone) to the computer. However, my bluetooth mouse (ironically a Windows Bluetooth Design Mouse) won't show up in the bluetooth device scans. It is the same mouse I normally use in OS X on the same computer.
Can you pause app downloads on the new Apple TV? I can't find any way to do that except deleting the entire download.
Is there a way to deactivate ALL transitions, fade and motions effects throughout the iOS? When I tap on the Safari app, say, I want to open Safari immediately, not sit through a split-second of fade motions before opening Safari. When rapidly switching between apps this is very aggravating.
With the Overcast podcast app (from Marco Arment), is there a way to play episodes within a single podcast from oldest to newest? The default iOS podcast app does this, but I prefer the other features of Overcast. I just don't see any way to do this.
When I attempt to update any app on my iPhone 6, the little process circle that appears after you click "update," just continues to swirl, remaining in that state as long as I let it. I have to quit the app store app or reboot my phone to get it back to the update button (even if I try pressing the swirly circle, it does not change). I've tried a hard reset, tried deleting any recently added apps. Some apps I'm unable to delete, because they appear to be in a transitional state (partially greyed out, like they're downloading or updating) and, I cannot see any third party apps when I go into settings, manage storage - it loads all the native apps, then appears to be in the process of loading the rest, but never continues. It shows i have 2.5gb available memory, so I should be able to at least update some apps, unless that figure is not correctly representing everything on my phone. I'm running iOS 9.0 and am extremely apprehensive about updating, because my phone was bricked for two day
Of course, I have the easy workaround that I can connect with this computer by setting a different subdomain or even using the naked domain. So I can connect to SSH. I am asking this because I am really curious as to why this happens.
I upgraded to El Capitan. In the Finder sidebar at the bottom, there used to be a link to the Photos app. It's gone now. Does anyone know how to get it back?
I was downloading a camera user manual on the Mac and Sophos threat manager indicated Generic PUA. I tried to automatically clean it up but the message came back that it required manual cleanup. What are the steps required to clean up the following location: /Volumes/Installer/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/AppYM
I purchased an additional 2 8GB ram sticks for my iMac. My intent was to upgrade the original 8GB (from Apple) to a total of 24GB.
Recently I made the stupid mistake of erasing MacBook Pro (2012) HDD without immediately installing OS X. And now it can't even boot or get to recovery utilities.
I use an external HD with Time Machine to back up data. Should I disconnect external HD before installing/upgrading to El Capitan?
I have a Late 2006 iMac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 with 4GB of RAM, however OS X is software limited to only addressing 3GB of the 4GB installed. I know in Windows when running a 32bit Windows OS with more than 3GB of RAM there were programs that could turn that unused RAM into a RAM disk. Is there any known way to do this in OS X? A 1GB RAM disk would be very useful as the old hard drive in this Mac only averages 40MBps. Here's a quote from RamDisk Plus 12 for Windows 32bit
I just finished updating my OS X to El Capitan, and when I went to open AU Lab, it said the Soundflower input and output could not be found. I checked system preferences and both Soundflower 2ch and 64ch are no longer listed in the Sound tab. I uninstalled and reinstalled both Soundflower and AU Lab twice but this hasn't fixed the problem. If I try to open AU Lab and run my equalizer preset anyway I get a high pitched screeching noise that doesn't go away.
I've seen so many questions asked about it, and I found a proper solution today while working. See below. I searched around, and everyone's answer has been either 'copy all of your notes manually' or use a '3rd party solution'. This requires neither.
I'm trying to restore all my content. On boot I press & hold Cmd ⌘ R . This takes me to the Internet Recovery option, yet I want to restore from my Time Machine backup. What could be the problem?
I'm running OS X El Capitan. I want to run rsync in daemon mode but I'm unable to do it. Here is the error from /var/log/system./log: Any advice?
I want to reset my (oldish) MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) by wiping the hard drive and re-installing OS X. Is there a way to save information on all the applications I have currently installed so as to make the re-establishing easier?
I accidentally deleted the App Store.app, I've tried to reinstall the OS X but it takes too long. So I canceled it.
I wanted to erase the 3 TB Fusion HD on my iMac in order to install a clean system and start from scratch. The erase went fine except right at the end when it said something about core storage... (which I failed to capture, sorry)... and now the machine behaves as though the drive only sort of half exists. There is no 'sub-disk' when I look with Disk Utility - i.e., there is no indented drive listed below "Macintosh HD" The "Erase" tab is absent in Disk Utility All partition options are greyed out in Disk Utility I can boot in Recovery Mode, but I can't reinstall OS X because there is no drive available - it asks me to select a disk, but no disks are listed diskutil sees the drive fine (screenshots below) In case it's not clear from the images, distil cs list shows:
My iPhone 5s just got stolen and I did all the proper procedures (activated lost my iPhone on icloud.com and cancelled my data with my carrier). Am I, by any chance, in risk of erasing my phone remotely and losing my last iCloud backup?
I use my external display in tower mode. I've been using third party software ( like Moom ) to split my screen horizontally when needed. Now that El Capitan supports split screen in full screen mode, is there a way to split screen natively with two apps in horizontal split, in full screen mode.
Since day one through every os update I have used my MacBook hooked up to my tv as a source for playing movies. Out of the blue one day I hooked in the same thunderbolt to hdmi adapter that I had been using for 2 years or more and got nothing. Normally when I plug in the cable the MacBook screen would go black then both displays would come on. Now when I plug in the cable the MacBook flashes black for a split second really doesn't seem to go all the way off.
I've enabled handoff on Macs (mine is 2011 era) that don't officially support it, but with El Capitan changes, Apple has really tried to put the handcuffs on more tightly so users can't muck with any system files Specifically, El Capitan enabled System Integrity Protection, which is causing a lot of grief by it's defense in depth addition to restricting many system filesystem locations. Also, you may have noticed that the 0xED app no longer works in El Capitan - you for some reason can't search and edit anymore. Grrrrr.... Is it possible to get handoff (continuity) working for a 2011 Mac that's running El Capitan?
I use the cmdbackspace shortcut but in some applications fnbackspace seems to work as well. So which one it the delete hotkey in OS X El Capitan?
I have made an iTunes backup of the messages, phones, etc. to my MacBook Pro. Using 3rd party software, I am able to see all of my messages that are on my iPhone via the backup on my Mac.
Ever since I've begun using Apple Music I feel as if I'm either only able to listen to my own music (mp3s synced to my iPhone) by having iCloud Music Library disabled, or listen to Apple Music by leaving it enabled (and not being able to access my own music). For example, if I sync all my music from iTunes to my phone and then go into Airplane Mode, the majority of it disappears.
I'm trying to stop Word 2011 from compressing my pictures. In Windows, I can apparently do this by going to File > Options. However, there is no File > Options for Mac in Word 2011. Does anyone know how I can get Word to stop compressing my pictures?
My Mac started off by giving me the spinning ball of death for an unreasonable amount of time so I caused a force shut down (I know, unwise) and tried to restart it. Came up with the file error. I know what it means so I tried to run disk utility to find the boot disk but their I wasn't even there. I have tried researching it for a while and tried to start it again, and this time it started up normally. So I frantically started removing valuable files, but before I could finish the it froze again. So I restarted it and was faced with the same problem. I ran disk utility, and the boot file was there! So I tried to run a disk repair and it crashed again while in the process. I am completely stumped, ideas?
I only see an option that allows me to select d8-30-62-42-10-25. Why is that? How can I connect to my other bluetooth devices?
In the past versions of Mac OS X, I used to be able to change the function keys behavior. But now that option is no longer. Does anyone know how to do it now? (Yosemite 10.10.5) Using a Razer Anansi keyboard.
I have the following strange situation on my (freshly installed El Capitan, otherwise empty) Mac. I noticed that /usr/bin/python defaults to python 2.7 (still), and the new SIP security system "protects" me from replacing it with a symlink to point to python3 (which I installed in /usr/local/bin). I noticed that /usr/local/bin shows up first on the path: So I thought great, I'll just add a symlink in /usr/local/bin called python and point it to python3. And this is reflected by which But when I actually use it, it goes back to the native python2.7
Someone shared their contacts with me and I don't know how to delete them. I've opened the contacts app but I don't see them. I only see them when I'm writing a new text message and they show up in the auto complete field. Groups says All iCloud Group name
While trying Apple Music this summer, I must have switched on the iCloud Music Library functions. I finished using Apple Music, and I would like to get rid of that iCloud Music Library. I'd like to return to... having my music on my Mac syncing selected playlists, albums and artists to my iOS devices NOT having my music on iCloud at all I am on OS X 10.11.1 and iTunes 12.3.1 on the Mac and iOS 9.2 on my iPhone and iPad. How can I accomplish this? Update: of course, I have googled this, resulting either in partial (iOS only), outdated (iTunes 12.x seems to have had a switch in Preferences that 12.3. doesn't have) or immensely unattractive (restore iTunes Library from TimeMachine - I would have to go back to June, it is November now...) solutions. On my iPhone, I was able to have it show only music that is stored locally on my iPhone.
How do I separate my daughter's Apple ID and iCloud account from my own and still be able to keep a payment plan that covers 2 phones? I read that this is possible but can't seem to set up the new account name or passwords on either phone. What steps do I need to take?
I'm 99% certain that I used to be able to type a few letters and match the URL of an indexed bookmark file or web history and have those be valid results in Launchbar. If I type a few letters and then the period (for web address) then I get some matching results but I much prefer having matching websites appear along with files, services, contacts, etc. What config am I missing?
Is it possible to magnify the entire dock when putting the cursor over it, instead of just magnifying where the cursor is? When putting the cursor over the dock, the whole dock would become the magnified size. If so, how?
I have a nice set of Apple earpods, but I have a problem with them falling out of my ears. All earbuds have some tendency to fall out, but the Apple ones, while comfortable and nice sounding, are particularly slippery. I can't use the in-ear variety because they give me painful ear infections.
I'm trimming my iTunes library, so I have multiple songs selected/highlighted which I want to review. Is there a way to play a song without accidentally deselecting the other highlighted ones? Also, is there any way to stop iTunes automatically jumping to whatever track just started playing?
Whenever I run codesign from the command line (or a pre-existing script tries to run it) – e.g. by running codesign -s "Local Developer" foo the following dialog appears.
Why in El Capitan this app says 3 1 2? Before El Capitan it said 1 2 3. When this script is double clicked, it needs to say 1 2 3.
I am trying to create new Apple ID, but when I enter the details it shows me an error saying my email is valid and ok but it's not available even though I didn't use this email before for any Apple ID. According to documentation I checked, "not available" means it would be used or associated with any other Apple ID but when I try to sign in and use the option that I forgot the password it shows me that there is no record for this ID. What do these errors mean?
I updated to El Capitan yesterday (on MacBook Air 2014). I then decided to install Kali Linux 2.0, and boy it's been one problem after another, so far nothing has gone the way it's supposed to. Without going too much into details, some of which include (problems downloading rEFInd, burning the iso image onto the thumb drive and etc.). I think I managed to do that. So now I try to reboot my Mac, after the rEFInd boot screen shows up I plug-in the usb and I get only one volume (the legacy OS one) and the guide for installing Linux says try installing rEFInd and try again, but I already have rEFInd (you need to have 3 volumes as it shows here).
I have photos on my network drive. I want to stream them to a SmartTV; something like: On my iPhone Open network share Find folder with pics Stream to DLNA/SmartTV
Question is simple, i subscribe to a 200GB icloud drive. My desktop has 60GB available for storage (on SSD)
I am using Apple Music. Most of the time, if I choose the song, it wont play. Progress bar is fully filled, but not music. Sometimes, it is also jagged (1 min play, 1 min not). What to do with that? I am using Windows 7 SP1 x64.
Is it possible to connect a Thunderbolt 3 equipped Mac (I know there isn't one at present) with the 2011 Apple Thunderbolt Display? I'm just curious. Maybe there's an adapter which works?
Out of habit I play games, but it's something that I'd like to change without deleting all of the games I have. So I was wondering if it's possible to prevent steam from starting in the same way there are apps that block you from accessing the internet.
I want to remove the connected Wi-Fi password on my Mac so that it always ask me for my Wi-Fi password, but I am unable to do so. How can I do this?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 using Bootcamp. My computer is a iMac with Yosemite.
In Mail 9.0 (OS X El Capitan) I have set a rule that marks a message with a flag if it satisfies some conditions. When I receive a message which satisfies that condition, it is correctly marked with the flag, but when I read the message, the flag disappears and the message is automatically unmarked. How can this be explained? I would like to always keep the flag, also after reading the message.
Apple states that iCloud is the perfect platform for building presentations with the web-based keynote and for sharing and collaborating on documents. I cannot figure out how to share a Keynote presentation so that two people can edit the document without having to email it back and forth. Is there a way to do this? I would also like to edit the document at the same time with someone else, as I can with Google.
I'm trying to use my terminal to play around with some code (particle.io), I've never used it much before but it's acting in strange way that's making it near impossible to use, there's three things I've noticed: Firstly, if I go back to a previous command (by pressing up) it's changed slightly. For example here it's removed a '"' from the 147.
I was looking through my file system and noticed that the date of mysql-v5.jar is formatted incorrectly. What is going on?
When I try to download epub files on my iPhone from the internet it used to go directly to iBooks, now it just goes to a blank page. How can I make them open in iBooks again?
I want to know how I can send a SMS message (not an iMessage) from my Mac. I don't have great Wi-Fi right now, so I need to send a text message in order for it to go through. I know to send one on an iPhone, one needs to hold down the message bubble, but I don't know how to send one on OS X.
I'm experiencing issues running backup on an external encrypted USB 3.0 HDD. The backup starts and stop proceeding random. I'd tried to wait many hours without any progress.
Sometimes (usually after having been working in Logic for an extended period of time) the musical typing keyboard stops working and instead of playing sounds, the keys trigger the functions that they do when the musical typing keyboard is not open (the sounds play if I press the on-screen keyboard with the mouse, the problem occurs when pressing the keys on my physical keyboard). If I restart Logic the problem goes away.
I want to upload photos I take in iPhone to iCloud Photo Library automatically. I set iCloud Photo Library to on in iPhone's Photos & Camera Settings. However, although all photos I capture using a simultaneous hold on Home button and Power button are uploaded automatically to the iCloud Photo Library, photos I take manually using Camera app are NOT uploaded. Also, the videos I take using the same Camera app are uploaded automatically.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to shut down OSX 10.10.1?
I'm using a ~3 year old Apple Magic Mouse (1st generation, removable AA batteries, part number: MB829LL/A), and it has started to give me brief disconnection warnings, but always automatically reconnects in .5 to 3 seconds or so. Here's a syslog snippet on gist.github.com. Clues so far: Started after upgrading to Yosemite / El Capitan (I only ran Yosemite for a week or so before upgrading to El Capitan) Only happens in cafes or on campus, i.e., where there are other devices around.
I know how I can have to apps open side by side in split view, but I have a slightly different case. I have two terminal windows open side-by-side, is there anyway I can quickly switch between them. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do this?
I need to open zip files embedded in a word doc on Mac OS X. However that functionality is not available upon clicking or through any of the menu options on Word for Mac. So I tried to copy paste the embeddings in a different file and saved that file as something.zip instead of something.docx. This when opened with Archive utility led me to the folder structure and ultimately the folder "embeddings" that contained the actual embedding as someOleObject.bin
This seems like it should be the most basic of functions. I have some shared photos in Photos. They were taken by someone else and shared with me on iCloud. I can see them all on my Mac. But I cannot download them. Why not?
My brother gave me his iPhone and I downloaded a bunch of non-free apps he purchased. Now I want to create a new account for me and sign in with it. What will happen to non-free applications I have downloaded?
So I'm about ready to upgrade my mac (which is on the other side of the United States) to El Capitan. I'll only have access to the computer via Chrome Remote Desktop and SSH while this happens. Has anyone tried this before, and is there anything I should be worried about happening or any need to have physical access to the computer? I will have some physical access, but it will be either a couple of days away or will be very unskilled labor. The reason I'm doing this at all is that I actually do a significant amount of work on this computer remotely, but I'm away from it long-term (I do development on it over SSH from my chromebook).
The dock and menu bar auto hide only on desktops other than DT 1. The preference button has no effect. OSX 10.11.1
I've been made aware that my iMessages have been going to an iPad that I lent to someone a while back. I do not want this particular person to have access to my messages for several reasons. They are refusing to return it to me so that I can fix this issue.
UPDATE: This is how I got the photos out. I have some precious photos (family children) and sounds (baby voices) stored on my old Samsung AT&T SGH-a687 phone, not the SD card, that is experiencing a white screen of death after about a week of graphics pixelation and stripes problems due to a bad gpu.
I recently forgot my login password, and had to change it through utilities and terminal. The problem is, after changing the password, the keychain access keeps asking for the "Local items" keychain password. I don't remember the stupid password. I tried everything. I tried to Reset My Default Keychain, didn't work. I tried keychain first aid, didn't work. I tried keychain first aid repair, did't work.
I'd like to automatically track my hours at work, but I don't want an app that turns on GPS all the time because it will use too much battery power. An app that could detect when I am in my office WiFi zone would be great. Preferably it would also let me add breaks, such as when eating lunch.
Project Builder was the precursor to Xcode. I want to find some sample code that was included with it. This SO has links to all the old Xcode's so I imagine that it is possible Apple could still be hosting links to Project Builder. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10335747/how-to-download-xcode-4-5-6-7-and-get-the-dmg-file
I understand that when a Mac is Power Napping it will periodically check for new emails via Mail. Will Mail rules still apply to any new emails that are received when the Mac is in Power Nap mode?
=COUNTIF(B1:B7; "US") counts anything with US us Us uS anywhere in the cell B1:B7 How to count ONLY exact matches to "US" accounting for case? (only that string, only capitalized)
I used to drag files easily from one location to another in Finder on my old MacBook Pro with an older operating system. (using thumb and one finger on trackpad). Now I have to work really hard at it, and usually it opens the window i'm attempting to select, instead of letting me select and move it. After trying 4 or 5 times (and wearing out my arm muscles), I can get it. I'm sure there's a simpler way. I tried to find preferences for this kind of thing, but under apple preferences, mouse, there is nothing (since I use a trackpad and not a mouse), and under trackpad it doesn't give choices for setting taps for dragging, or anything else related. Any ideas?
I have MacID on my Mac (El Capitan 10.11.2 Public Beta) and my iPhone, and I'm trying to make a shortcut to MacID's "Send clipboard text" command. Since MacID is a menu bar app, though, the computer never sees it as the app in focus when thinking about app-specific commands.
Today TimeMachine crashed: it isn't making backups... when I try to start a newbackup, I get this error: Time Machine could not complete the backup "Drive Name". Could not complete the backup. There was an error creating the backup folder. I had this problem before and the "solution" was formatting the drive but this time I have a lot of backups and I want to know if there is any other way without having to format my drive.
I have multiple hard drives that I need to erase before selling and some before going in the trash due to bad sectors. I'm not fond of software level data erasing (Disk Utility, DBAN, DD, etc) as it does not erase everything (bad sectors, reserved areas, etc) and is extremely slow thanks to USB 2.0, thus I prefer to use ATA commands to make the drive erase itself. I know how to do this in Linux, however I haven't found a way to do so on a Mac and I'd rather not waste time rebooting to a Live USB of Ubuntu for such a simple task. Does anyone know how to do this in OS X Lion? I'm not some secret spy, I just like to be safe. So please, no suggestions to "just use Disk Utility".
I have a MacBook Pro 15" Early 2008, 2x 2GB RAM. Since upgrading to El Capitan including update 10.11.1 the built-in keyboard and multitouch trackpad freeze intermittently for about 4 seconds randomly at least once every 60 seconds. Booting from an external drive with Yosemite or Mountain Lion doesn't exhibit this issue so the hardware is fine. Using a bluetooth Magic Trackpad in El Capitan also works fine. I've reset PRAM and SMC. If I don't type or touch the built-in trackpad, interacting using only the Magic Trackpad then there are no stalls and no Console error messages but when using the built-ins at random intervals at least once every 60 seconds the keyboard pauses and loses all keystrokes entered during the interval, and the pointer freezes then eventually snaps to a new location. So, the system is unusable with El Capitan.
So I have an external hard drive, my passport, that used to be a Time Machine, but now I use for basic file storage. Whenever I try to add a folder, or manage files, it asks for an administrator password. I looked in the system preferences, and it said nothing about it there. Help.
So I'm trying to update from Xcode 7.0.1 to Xcode 7.1 from the App Store. Xcode 7.1 is one of the my available updates. I use the latest EL Capitan 10.11.1. I click the UPDATE button for Xcode 7.1 it says "waiting" and PAUSE then a second later it goes back to UPDATE and nothing installs nothing updates, it's not telling me that I have something else open, which I don't. Is something wrong with App store now? Is there an alternative way to update my Mac apps?
Something is constantly eating my hard disk space. This pattern happens very often: I free some space by deleting stuff (5-8 GB) In about half an hour I have 0 (zero) free space I have not downloaded anything.
Before OS X El Capitan, when viewing the Trash folder and pressing the "Alt" key you have been able to Secure Empty Trash... however this feature has been removed from OS X El Capitan! Does anyone know how to reactivate this option via Terminal? Is this possible?
I recently was given an old MacBook (Late 2007) running 10.4 from a family member. I'm using it basically as a backup for my studio computer. It's going to contain only the apps included in 10.7 and 1 additional NI audio product. My question is, my other mac and all I've ever worked on (and it's a few) have been able to use the space bar to preview a highlighted audio file in Finder. Is there a way to cut this off/on? I really like this feature and it saves me probably 30-60 minutes a day because I go through thousands of audio files a day.
Good day all. I'm very, very inexperienced with VPNs and networking protocols in general. This may be terrible: Attempting to setup OpenVPN in Yosemite Lion while bridging my ethernet connection to a tap interface so that clients will be on the same subnet and can receive bonjour broadcasts.
I'm using a MacBook 13" (early 2007) running 10.4.11 and it was recently given to me so I have no idea what it's been thru. The battery indicater is showing the X & the system profiler is stating no battery available. My question is after doing a SMC reset with no change is this definetly a battery connector or motherboard issue or is there any chance a new battery may be a fix?
Some time ago our company laptops started to overheat. At first it was nothing serious but after a while almost all our macbooks started to act more like ovens than computers. The issue seems to lie in Active directory we use for both our PCs and MACs. Logs are getting about 4000 messages per second. Every time its the same thing.
I have an 512 GB SSD on my MacBook Retina with one of the volumes disks0s6 formatted with exFat to use it on both Mac and Windows. diskutil info disk0s6:
I have a client who wants to add Apple Watch functionality to its app. However, my client wants to take paid from its customers using In App Purchase to activate this content. This will lead to an "empty" app on the apple watch with informative text to the user to purchase the Apple Watch IAP package to enable its functionality.
What does this 4 graphs mean and how are they related to my 2 cores? I have a MacBook Pro (13 inch medio 2012?
One disk of my 2-disk-RAID1-stack has failed and I'm about to replace it. Is the volume usable—i.e. can I read & write just as I normally could—while Disk Utility is rebuilding the RAID?
I've installed pidof via homebrew And think about two cases: The results are:
I have two computers connected to an ethernet/wifi dlink router: Laptop: Connected via Wi-Fi Desktop: Connected via ethernet My understanding is that the desktop computer will never see any packets exchanged via Wi-Fi between the laptop and the router which means, I suppose, that the desktop computer cannot sniff any FTP passwords that I use to connect using the laptop (without SSL) Is it possible to set up the router to send copies of Wi-Fi packets to the ethernet interface?
I don't know how to update Nvidia graphic card drivers on MacBook Pro Retina. I have been a Windows user and a gamer for a long time where we expect frequent driver updates. My expectations revolve around whether Nvidia releases graphic driver updates for Mac and how to check for pending updates. Where can I see the versions of drivers on OS X?
I found this problem showing up on El Capitan Photos.  Does anybody know how to find the .peg file?
I need pointing to a good ressource to make this supposedly DOS-booting drive for the firmware update. ALternatively, is there a better way to achieve this?
While browsing and using the web, DNS stops working. Open web-chats like Google Hangouts keep working, but opening new websites, Skype, and others are stuck to "Resolving host name".
When I reload a page on Safari 9.0, El Capitain, with the developer tools open and the "Console" tab active, it will automatically switch to the "Resources" tab. How do I stop this deliberately stupid behavior?
Background: I'm essentially re-creating Back To My Mac. I have a VPN set-up on my VPS, handing out addresses in the 10.x.y.0/24 range, with BIND running and accessible at 10.x.y.1.
I have a iPad and a iPhone. My iPhone don't have enough storage so I want to disable downloading photo from Photo Stream. However, I do want iPhone to upload the photos to Photo stream and access & download it on my iPad. Is their anyway I can do this? Thanks!
I'm thinking of "cutting the cord" and getting an Apple TV, and then buying an iTunes "season pass" for each of the TV shows I'm watching. Does Apple TV provide a good way to list/find the episodes that I haven't watched yet, without having to wade through all the series, seasons, and episodes that I've already watched? As time goes on, it seems like there would be a build-up of watched shows that would make it harder and harder to find the unwatched ones.
For latest release of Numbers for iPad, it seems that it doesn't remember the active cell when I close the spreadsheet. I have spreadsheets with many (several hundred) rows and in previous releases, when I close and then re-open the sheet, it would remember what cell I had been in and display at that point again. Now, every time I close and re-open the sheet, it displays a cell somewhere near the top of the sheet and I then have to swipe loads of times to get back to the bottom where I want to add a new row. Has anyone else noticed this behavior and do you have a solution? Many thanks
I have two display profiles in my 13-inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro. The default one and a display with warm colors that I use in darker environments.
Trying to find the GeneratedUID in OS X still works (see example below): But entering the following into the command line, replacing <GeneratedUID> with the GeneratedUID found above:
All of a sudden, my Macbook Air is no longer letting me highlight or click on things. The keyboard itself is working great, and my computer hasn't slowed down. Any suggestions?
Migration from time machine back up. OS of old and new El Capitan) What will happen with all my photos in iPhoto of the back up? Will they be transferred with migration, or should I first install iphoto on the new macbook?
UPDATE, here is how I got the photos out. I'm looking for a software, preferably free, that can extract old flip phone data to a MacBook Pro. I have some photos and sound recording saved on my Samsung AT&T SGH-a687 phone with a broken gpu (so I can't see anything). These are not saved on the SD card. The manual of the phone doesn't seem to have an option to transfer photos and sounds out. So I would like to have a software that can extract all those phone data for me via USB onto my computer.
Hope this is the right place to ask the following question: I want to install Octave on my Macbook Air, which means I need a package manager. I had Homebrew installed previously, but I got the impression the manager took a huge bite out of my (rather limited) HDD space, possibly as well (or even: mainly) due to the necessary libraries. Any advice on which OS X package manager I should get if HDD space is the main concern, and any advice how to use it to limit space impact?
I accidentally restored my new iPhone 6+ (iOS 9), which didn't have iCloud enabled, from an old backup (iOS 8), with iCloud. My important photos seem to be gone now. Is there any way to recover photos from a restored iPhone?
I recently stopped the synchronisation of photo's with iTunes on my iPhone. My iPhone removed all photo's it was still showing thanks to this synchronisation, but it still claims some storage is used due to synchronisation of photo's with iTunes.
I would like to keep my headset plugged into my iPhone 5S but have the ringer audible from the phone when I don't have the earbuds in my ears. is this possible? I don't like to have to hurry up and plug in my headset when a call comes in and I sometimes miss calls when it is plugged in and I don't have the earbuds in my ears.
I have recently upgraded to Yosemite, and eventually to El Capitan. Together with the update I decided to change my mail client from Thunderbird (which I also use on my linux machine) to Apple Mail.
I recently deleted the setup assistant app from my El Capitan install. Now, whenever OS X updates, it logs me in to a black screen and hangs there. Killing the machine with the power button and booting up again makes the login process work as expected.
I noticed that my OS X very frequently runs extremely slow and everything lags. I opened up Activity Monitor and I saw that something called AppSC is using up to 95% of the memory. It makes my computer run very hot. I immediately Force Quit the program when I notice it but it keeps happening. Does anyone know what AppSC is?
I've downloaded the OS X El Capitan Installer, but when I try to put it into action, the machine refuses access to my MacIntosh HD because it says Time Machine is using the drive for backups. How do I get Time Machine out of the way so I can upgrade the OS?
I just started seeing this screen appear on my phone. It's an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.1 - factory unlocked - never jailbroken - never done anything even remotely unusual with it. It's obviously a hack of sorts. I didn't press "accept" or "decline" just took a screenshot. There is no "app" visible on the home screen, and nothing running in the background (that I can see).
I downloaded a plugin for gimp, but when I execute this, I get: Reason: Incompatible library version: gmic_gimp requires version 4201.0.0 or later, but libgio-2.0.0.dylib provides version 4001.0.0 But does anyone know what libgio stands for? I know it is a library file, but I don't know how to upgrade my library version
I use my Macbook Pro with an external keyboard when coding, so I can use function keys as normal function keys for use with and IDE when coding. This means in order to adjust brightness and volume I need to hold down the "fn" key. So I'm hitting this fairly frequently. If you hit it twice though, (or sometimes it seems to be if you hold it down, maybe) this dialog shows up:
I'm getting the following nondescript error whenever I try to use Boot Camp assistant under 10.11.1 to setup a Windows 10 install.  This happens while (or possibly right after) the process is downloading the Windows support software. I've tried the process about 10 times now with the same result every time. Anyone have any idea what could be going wrong or how I get a more descriptive error out of the Boot Camp process?
I get this keychain promt after every reboot. Can I just set the password somehow, so I don't have to enter it again?
I updated my MacBook Air to El Capitain (OS X 10.11) I would rather not have my messages appearing on my Mac when others are using it. I have tried System Preferences but I cannot find the Accounts tab in my settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can I damage my iPhone 5c if I charge it when the battery is fully charged? I use the charger from Apple.
I need to know why there are two phones showing up on my iPhone If you go to General , storage & iCloud it lists two phones, mine and another below ? I have only one and to my knowledge I'm not linked to anyone else's. thank you
Netflix won't install on my new Apple TV 4. Other apps install fine. My iTunes account is working. Netflix goes from "Install" to spinner and back to "Install" again. Other apps go to "Open" after spinner. Ideas? Location is Sweden. Netflix is readily available here and I had no trouble on my Apple TV 3. Network is 100 Mbit and working fine. No errors are reported.
I had GIMP installed via sudo port install gimp. This created the GIMP.app in /Applications/MacPorts/. I accidentally deleted it manually (or with AppCleaner, not sure), so every time Macports scans installed binaries, it warns
The Problem I got a new iPhone 6 a while ago, and after restoring from an iCloud backup over wifi, all of the photos/videos in my Photos app show up grey.
Can an iPhone6 automatically dial 911? I was in a horrible traffic accident where I lost consciousness. I obtained cell phone records and was surprised to find two 911 calls originating from my iPhone about the time of the accident. I do not believe anyone else made the two calls (first call was 1 minute, second call was 3 minutes) and I feel certain that I did not.
Recently my macbook stop displaying the ´ when I hit Option + e. I can't even press the ´ in the keyboard viewer. The others accents are working without any problems.
I'm on Safari 9.0.1. I type searches into the address bar, which directs me to Google's search results page. I click on a result, which takes me to a non-Google page. If I decide it's not what I wanted, I two-finger swipe to go back to the search page. At this point, Safari sometimes (but not always) has forgotten the search page in my history and takes me directly to the default "top sites" page that opens when a new tab opens. Holding the left or right arrows in the tool bar shows the dropdown with the non-Google site I went to and "top sites", but the search results page is now gone. I have to type the query into the search bar again. Any ideas?
I'm constantly switching between the two, and it's driving me crazy being so disorganized. I use Wunderlist as a to-do list. I'll create a list, titled with the date, and list the things I need to do that day. So every date requires the creation of a list; sometimes I'll have 10-20 lists when I need to plan further ahead, and it gets tricky when I have something coming up weeks or months ahead of time. The issue is, it's hard looking ahead to see what's been planned, what appointments I have, etc. (I know searching is possible, but that's not the same as having an overview of the next few days or weeks).
After upgrading to El Capitan, directories on a SMB network volume are displayed unreliably. The volume has 567 "numbered" directories but when browsing the volume, some of the directories are suddenly gone (e.g. we need the folder named 328-60 and see folders from 316-00 to 377-20 are not "there"). Even if they reappear later, a double-click on the folder name kicks me back onto root level. Any ideas on what is causing this or how we could analyze the issue would be highly appreciated. PS: If it matters, volume is mounted via "Connect to server" and "smb://IP-address".
Ever since I've installed iOS 9 on my iPad it has been quite slow. The network seems slower, for example Netflix often times out. Chrome often shuts down, presumably because it is using too much memory. None of this was happening on iOS 8, same device.
I bought an iPod off of ebay, and went to activate it. However, it was linked to another person's Apple ID and I have no contact with them. The ebay seller does not have the Apple ID either. Is there anyway around activating this iPod without contact with the original owner whose Apple ID this iPod is linked to?
I didn't charge my iPod Shuffle for a long time. One day I plugged it to my computer and tried to charge it. The charging light doesn't blink, and it looks like the iPod is already dead.
I work for a primarily Microsoft based IT support company, anyway today a Mac user asked me to setup RDP which I wouldn't normally have any issues with but I got onto the Mac and installed the latest RDP client from the app store (this was updated a couple days ago). Anyway when I try to launch it from launchpad I get a crash every time, I tried reinstalling but it still does the exact same. I am not experienced with Mac's at all so I am finding it hard to troubleshoot this, can anyone shed some light on this or point me in the right direction?
When composing an email using Mail Mac (OS X El Capitan), if I write something .cc, an hyperlink is automatically created. Since I do not want this, I manually remove the link. Anyway, when the email is sent, in the inbox folder the link appears again. Is there a way to prevent Mail to automatically add the link after I remove it?
I have a monitor with speakers attached to my rMBP via DisplayPort (via a Thunderbolt dock), and I cannot control the volume with the volume keys. Is there any way to "fix" this? Pressing the volume keys shows the "no control" icon:
I try to write keywords to PNG images using ExifTool but OS X's Spotlight cannot see these keywords at all. The developer of ExifTool does not know about Spotlight, so he cannot help:
I have a couple things I'm trying to do that I can't find a solution for. The end goal is to be able to run DVD Studio Pro 4 on my Mac which has El Capitan installed. The software is pretty old but I need it for a client so I'm trying to figure out a way to get Snow Leopard installed on a partition that I set up on my drive. The only real reason I need Snow Leopard (10.6) is because it's the last version of OS X that runs 'Rosetta' which is required to run PowerPC application (which DVD Studio Pro is).
iPhone stuck at Apple logo, so I decided to restore it using iTunes app. After successfully restoring it (extracting software, verifying iPhone SW/FW etc.), it rebooted. As I've seen on many forums, as next step it should display the slide to setup screen. But it displays only the progress bar (again!). This time it stuck at ~ 5-10% every time I try.
I've read a bunch of articles on Apple crash reporting tool. When users allow sharing their Usage & Diagnostics data with developers, user related logs and crash info will be sent to an Apple server and afterwards they will be available for the app developer via iTunes Connect or in Xcode Crashes Organizer window when setup correctly.
Since a few days there is a DeviceInfo folder in my home folder. In it, there is a text file. What is this and where does it come from? I can delete the folder, but it will reappear after a few days!
This may be more of a question on what Ask Different community thinks of me than a technical question on iOS 9 updates. Thanks to Alex Malcoci here, now I know how to stop the reminder about iOS update installation from popping up every day on my iPhone 6s with iOS 9.0.2. Also thanks to bmike on the same post, now I know that Apple doesn't provide users an option to turn off automatic download of iOS updates on devices with iOS upper than 9.x.x. I also learned from another post on Ask Different that I can, despite bmike's advice above, turn off automatic download of updates via mobile data.
I have a problem with mail application. Using it from OS X when I send mail including an attachment like image, pdf or any oder document and if my recipient reads the mail on windows devices, they do not see the text of my mail and a signature, but instead the whole text and signature of the email all are processed as an attachment. LIKE THIS...
Has anyone noticed this strange behavior of OS X El Capitan regarding forward delete? The usual keyboard shortcut for this on keyboards that have no distinct forward delete button is fn + delete, which works on my MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2015 as it should.
I'm using a Mac for about 3 years now and updating OS X has never been an issue because it's free, but since I installed Parallels Desktop v9 and Windows 7 I'm reading issues about their compatibility on OS X 10.11 El Capitan where they are both not supported. So upon coming to this issue I would rather ask an expert to tell me how to do it right and which should I upgrade first without damaging any of my files? Please kindly assist me step-by-step on how to do it properly.
This sounds really stupid - but I bought my Mac (supposedly brand new) from a retailer friend in 2014, and I just found apps that are created in 2013 while going through Finder. Does Date Created for apps & files in OS X can be not the exact date that it was installed on the Mac?
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro into which I had installed an OWC data doubler SSD (removing the optical drive). I originally placed the SSD in the original HDD bay and moved the HDD to the data doubler bracket in the optical bay. I would like to switch these around (HDD back to its original bay). I'm assuming I should be able to switch the two drives around with no negative repercussions to normal operation - i.e. this should not require a reformat/reinstallation of the boot drive (which is the SSD). Would that be correct?
The double "Fn" button is starting Apple voice-dictation but it never comes up with a single word when i close the operation with "Fn" key. If I open the System Prefs for Audio Input I can see my voice is getting level so I don't understand why it won't parse anything I say. Any ideas?
In my Photos library, there are some mysterious "items" that are not Photos/Videos. What are they? My hunch is that they may be corrupted/unsupported video files, but I couldn't find a way to locate them and/or remove them :(
Well this is a very awkward situation. I can't understand why my files are missing after reproducing the following steps. 1 - Copy files from Desktop folder and paste into external pen drive. 2 - Paste files into another computer (Windows). 3 - Delete files from pen drive. Noticed folders are created on Windows, but empty. However, when going back to OS X, the original Desktop folder holds all sub-folders but with no files too. There is only a lot of .DS_Store files remaining there. Is there anyway to recover these files? Could it possibly be a pen drive virus?
I noticed sometime after updating to Yosemite that Eclipse now launches very slowly. It takes 30 seconds to a minute to get to the startup splash screen, and after that it spends a minute or two initializing itself before the IDE comes up.
I know how to turn off the unread count badge for the mail icon using the Notifications preference pane from system preferences but I would like to know if it is possible to have it turned off for example from 8 in the morning until 17 and otherwise on? I don't want to be disturbed by email during the day but I want to be reminded at the end of the day or at the beginning.
I am still on Mavericks and want to upgrade OS X, but since I use a lot of audio apps, plugins etc that would break - I am looking for a way to clone my entire Macbook Pro 1TB SSD as it is right now including OS X to an external 1TB drive. I then want to do a fresh install on the Macobook, but still be able to boot into the Maverick clone from the TB HHD to finish older projects, so I don't have to port everything. What's the best and especially savest way of doing this?
I found that after I updated my OS X to EI Capitan a few weeks ago, the fonts used in my terminal and PhpStorm 9 are made a bit thiner (I didn't change any settings in terminal and PhpStorm 9), I really like these thin fonts. Is this because of some font rendering settings in OS X? Because I didn't change any font settings in terminal and PhpStorm. But after updated my PhpStorm to version 10 today, the font in PhpStorm went back to the bolder one (Menlo). Anybody knows how I can get back the thiner font in my PhpStorm?
I was reading about Bill Gates' famous "640KB" quote, when I came upon *=URL=* a nice article about the quote and its historical context. However, the article also contained this curious paragraph:
Previous to El Capitan one could use pfctl and /etc/pf.conf to "trap" the ip addresses of sites attempting to break into a server using brute force attacks producing 100's of attempts per second. The rules one created would put the offending ip addresses into an "attackers" table and then reject any connection attempts from that ip address. With El Capitan, all port connections appear to be handled first by launchd and now the pfctl method has no effect.
My SSD's available disk space of my MacMini Late 2012 is shrinking within seconds. CleanMyMac says 'Others''s size is increasing. I have no idea what is happening and am wondering why there is so few free space on my Mac. I am not downloading anything (as far as I know). Here is my activity monitor's 'Disk' tab: ...and the 'Memory' tab: Any idea why this is happening and what I can do? Thanks in advance!
I have a couple of files on my desktop: myName Time Capsule.baseconfig default.baseconfig Both go back to August 12, 2011. What is a "baseconfig" file? Can I delete them without messing up Time Capsule?
My iPhone 5S with 9.1 is displaying 09:41 when it's actually 18:29 local time. It doesn't seems to be a time channel problem 9:12 is a weird difference (I'm currently in GMT+1).
Any tip for troubleshooting? I've already tried closing and reopening my notebook.
The problem was that I could import contacts from my Mac to iPhone 6 but I couldn't do the opposite. I have backed up to iCloud and tried to do it that way but it still hasn't worked.
My ex and I are going through a custody battle. I have had my email hacked and broken into many times and I receive forwarded emails of my ex talking to someone about these happenings. Recently I found out in one of the emails that she is accessing my iPhone and blocking and unblocking her phone number in my contacts, then sending messages remotely from my iPhone to herself while she is blocked so I will not see the responses. WHAT CAN I DO??? I have changed my passwords, iCloud accounts, everything I can think of to prevent this but it continues. Is this even possible? If so how is it done? I want her to get in trouble in court as she is trying to keep my 9month old son away from me. Please help.
I am trying to install Debian from USB to a Powerbook G4 with a broken screen. If I boot to the Mac, the external monitor works without problems. But in boot select mode (holding down 'alt' at startup) and Open Firmware (cmd + alt + O + F) the external monitor does not come on. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
In the Month view, the El Capitan calendar now includes the first week of the next month. So the blocks for each day are smaller, and not all events can be shown. Instead it says "3 more" or whatever. But there is no way to see the additional events. Clicking on the day opens a Create New Event default that can't be closed or deleted. I need to see all my events/appointments when I open the calendar in the Month view. It also doesn't help that national holidays are listed twice.
On iPhone is it possible to make the right audio channel play through my left headhpone, and vice versa? If it can't be done directly through the iPhone Settings, can it be done with a third-party app? If no such app exists, would it technically be possible to create one?
Apple now allows you to run OS X inside a Virtual Machine as long as the host is running Apple hardware. Because we need to test our web site on various versions of Safari, we picked up a Mac Mini running Yosemite for testing purposes. The idea is to run Mavericks (currently our largest user base) and possible Mountain Lion in a VM on demand, similar to what we do on our Windows.
I have a iPhone 5 almost 2 years old (out of warranty), and suddenly the screen has been showing blurred duplicates/shadows. Have done a factory-reset in vain. The screen is OK on startup, but a few minutes later the blurring starts. Any ideas or has anyone faced a similar problem ? Is it a hardware issue and the screen has to be replaced > Thanks for any pointers Art
Is there any way to track the call history to someone who keeps on canceling your calls? I like to see how many times they've been called already. I'm using a iPhone 5.
If I brew --config, I see which is what my my OS X Java Control Panel reported until I recently updated. Now the control panel reports the new version Java 8 Update 65 but brew --config continues to report the old one.
I would like to get some pictures and audio out of an AT&T SGH-a687 phone onto my Mac computer. I first tried connecting it to a New PC Studio on a PC, but there was a problem after transfer 2 photos, so I tried again. But the PC could no longer detect the phone, even though the "connected to computer" icon appears on the phone. I tried a different cable, different USB ports. No use.
So I just made the jump from iOS 7 to 9 (I know, big jump) and I'm already thrown off by the switched multitasking view. I don't mind the overlapping idea, but the big difference is that the apps extend to the left now instead of to the right. Is there any way at all (without jailbreaking) to change the multitasking view in iOS 9 so that the open apps extend to the right instead of to the left? Thanks!
Is there a way to limit the output format of a soundcard on OSX, apart from Audio MIDI Setup? I have noticed that OSX has a bad habit of resampling audio while it is not needed at all (say the output from Spotify or Tidal). I would like to systematically prevent such a thing from happenning, while still having a choice on the output format. The solution can use shell or Apple script, so that I can run it with a shortcut.
After migrating an iPhoto Library to a Photos App Library, they see actually share space by using hardlinks. So even the Finder says each folder use some amount of space, they are actually sharing it. That only applies if they are in the same volume. For example, both in the internal disk or both in the same partition of the same external drive.
How can I disable or modify the screen capture feature of the Apple Watch? Although it may one day be a useful feature for me to take a screen capture of my watch, the hardware realities of the Apple Watch make this an extremely annoying implementation. It is all too easy to unknowingly and accidentally depress both the side button and digital crown at the same time.
Adding new mp3s to my iTunes library, either by dragging and dropping or via file dialogs, can take up to 3 minutes per song, especially when accessing a network drive or NAS (the same files would copy in seconds). I am on Mac OS X Yosemite right, but I've also seen long times on Windows. My library is about 80,000 songs.
I was in the middle of writing an email and pasting a photo into the email when everything disappeared and all I have is a white screen. No choice of mailbox etc displaying. Have tried shutting down the iPad and restarting three times. Still no mail.
When I click on the Font menu in keynote, I see many fonts that are not in my document:  How do I remove the fonts that I'm not using?
I have a cell in a row that is either a directly entered number, or a SUM() of some other cells. Is there any function I can use in a different cell to know if the value in the former cell was directly entered or the result of a formula?
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 w an nVidia 8800 GT running El Capitan. When I reboot, the monitor shows the apple logo with the progress bar. It then goes blank and the monitor reports an out of range error. If I plug another monitor or the same monitor in to the second DVI port without the other monitor being on, the monitor in question displays the login screen without issue.
I get this error every time I insert an sd card from my DSLR. It opened my sons external library, and when unplugged, I guess it is trying to connect to it. I know I could create a new library; but I don't want to use photos at all; but I get the message “Photos” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X. when trying to delete the app. WTF?
When in Terminal, I use Cmd-, to open the settings. I can then press up and down to scroll through profiles. But then pressing enter doesn't open a new window with that profile but instead edits the profile name.
The Bonjour Service was causing error messages in my event log (Windows 7 laptop). I have deleted it and the Bonjour Print Service.
Preview has become rather annoying. I found a post to Hide Sidebar https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/213395/19086
I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 on an early 2015 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (MacBookPro12,1) with Boot Camp Assistant 6.0.0 (519). I have downloaded Win10_EnglishInternational_x64.iso from Microsoft. When I select this ISO and click Install in Boot Camp Assistent I am presented with the message below and I'm not able to continue. Need 64-bit Windows 8 or later ISO file.
I'm a Windows engineer, setting up a Active Directory PKI, but know very little about Macs. I'm aware of how to install root certificates into the system keychain using: sudo security add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k \Library\Keychains\System.keychain rootca.crt However, I'm not too clear on how to install a subordinate CA's certificate (that was issued by the root CA). Do I simply use the exact same command, or would i use add-certificates instead? What is the difference between the resultypes: trustRoot, trustAsRoot, unspecified?
*=URL=* -> Error like "Could not open page, because the iPad is not connected to the internet." (192.168.1.11 is macsrv)
Is there a way to login and access your OneDrive account with the OneDrive application from the Mac Store with your school/company account? At the moment, my credentials are not recognized.
What would be the best "standard" way to create a launchd script to run python notebook? I would like the service to start at login and an easy to start-stop-restart the server from a terminal.
I'm using "natural scrolling" by default. Sometimes when scrolling I suddenly realize that OSX has unexpectedly changed the scrolling behavior of my trackpad. If I check the system preferences I see that the scrolling behavior is still "natural scrolling" - but actually it isn't. Even writing defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist com.apple.swipescrolldirection on the Terminal returns a 1.
I need this just to be able to test how the machine responds to the first time a device is plugged in - without needing an unlimited supply of 'new' devices. I connected a 'foreign' iPad [my partner's, not synced to this machine but to her own] to test Photos app's response. It auto-launched. Now I want to try again, let it 'see' the device for the first time - so I'm trying to discover what keeps the record of which devices were connected & if I can clean it of just one device without damaging my regular devices' behaviour.
I use Ukelele to make a custom keyboard layout. In most (non-Apple) programs this works fine (iTerm, Sublime Text, Adium). In Mail and Calendar it is currently not working, although I believe it worked in the past. Selecting the input source doesn't do anything and leaves the previous one ticked. Both 10.9 and 10.11 seem to have this issue. I've tried deleting the cache:
I have an Apple keyboard (Norwegian) with numeric keypad and I can't get the Xcode shortcut for comment selection (cmd + /) to work. I have to change to Input source = US every time I want to comment out a block. When I change from US to Norwegian input source the Xcode -> Editor -> Structure -> comment selection shortcut disappears.
Is there a way to tell OS X I want my music player to play over Airplay but Chrome to play on my computer's speakers at the same time? I have a hunch it's possible because some apps let me switch (I can choose to have my VoIP calls output to the computer's speakers while all the rest of the audio plays through Airplay) but is there a way to control this globally whether the app has an option for it or not? Hijack Pro seems to be doing it but it costs 50$ and seems to be overkill for what I want to do.
I have a .txt file with URL's on a separate line. I would like to download these webpages as a page source (a .html file) so I can open them offline in my webbrowser.
Is there a way to get into your iphone 6 when the touchpad is not working and I have set a passcode so, doing anything with the phone (like a reset) needs logging in first.
Apparently 2013 13" MacBook Air has Intel HD Graphics 5000. Is it possible to run a monitor at 2560x1440 at 144hz?
I am running OS X.10, Xcode 7 and SourceTree 2. When I select a conflicted file and Launch an external merge tool, there is a window that appears very briefly... and then nothing happens. I tried (see this help page) sudo ln -s /Developer/usr/bin/opendiff /usr/bin/opendiff but it did not work (I got the message ln: /usr/bin/opendiff: File exists). What should I do? Here is a picture of the window that briefly appears.
When I try accessing the App Store when I'm not connected to a wireless network, it shows 'Cannot connect to App Store'; I've already re-applied the settings for mobile data, but that didn't help. The weird thing is that it seems to be downloading update info (this morning I downloaded all the updates via wifi, and right now it shows me two new ones although I haven't been connected to wifi for a few hours). Any ideas on how to fix this? [iPhone 5s, iOS 9.2 beta]
I am reading the pdf (from Apple) named App Distribution Guide. In page 155 it is written that every team member can create a "Developement certificate", that the team admins can create a "Distribution certificate" (which is used to be able to update the app in iTunes Connect) but only the team agent can create "Developer ID certificate". What actually is this?
Several times a day, my laptop plays this unknown sound. There's no visual cue that goes along with it and I have no idea what it means.
I'm interested in finding out how many hours a Thunderbolt Display has been powered on for in its lifetime. How can I find out this information?
I live in a town that is right on a Time Zone border (it actually cuts right through the town). The entire town itself is on Central Time, but depending on which cell tower you hit, my iPhone will either display Eastern Time or Central Time, and it's not exactly obvious which one it is unless you're paying close attention.
I would like to import my photos off my camera without using the OS X Photos app and locate my photos direct in the Finder so I can store them in folders, edit them in Photoshop etc. (i.e. do whatever I like with my files without getting involved with the Photos app) This app automatically recognises my camera and offers to import but I can't work out how to import them to a folder or seperate hardrive where I can sort through the files.
I transferred my photos from the iphone to my mac. questions: 1. How do I copy, transfer or delete more than 1 at the same time?to a new carpet, album or usb? 2. Once in my mac computer i need to open a file, carpet or album to save them in order or by topic. How do I do this.
Is it possible to merge 2 different Contacts archives? I'm using OS X 10.11
is there a way to change the highlighter colors back before capitan update? better yet, choose your own colors
I am starting to hate OS X. I've tried many PDF applications to read and annotate PDF documents. Skim was good until OS X El Captain. It became useless for annotation (by annotation, I mean drawing lines in the document. I use this way in PDF documents where words are not recognised). Preview has just stopped working 10 minutes ago and I lose a lot of annotations. Is there any sophisticated app that works well on my mac?
My recently purchased 27" Thunderbolt display is overheating. Is there an internal fan that should be coming on?
Boot Camp Assistant seems to only detect the internal drive, so I don't know how to properly partition the drive and install windows 10 on it. I've tried partitioning with Disk Utility as well, but when running Boot Camp again, it only allows me to partition the internal drive. Maybe there is a way to install Windows on the internal drive, and then transfer it over to a 256 GB partition on the external drive? I'm very new to/unfamiliar with this kind of stuff, so I'm sorry if this is a poor question. Thanks for your help
When I make a video call through FaceTime on my iPad the person I talk to has blurred lines through the video. I've tested it myself by calling from my iPhone and I see these blurred lines as well. However when I make a Skype call the video is crystal clear? It's an iPad 4 if that makes any difference. Please help me
I was wondering if someone could help me make an AppleScript that copies the app the script is into another location. So, this is what I tried... (Please don't say anything since I am new at Applescript)
I have disabled system integrity protection on El Cap following this Ask Different question but it keeps coming back every time I reboot which is annoying. Is there an extra step I need to perform to stop SIP switching itself back on after reboot?
Open Mission Control Use any of these methods to open Mission Control: .... In OS X El Capitan, drag a window to the top of the screen. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204100
I have a imac at home and also a MacBook Air. Via rsync, I sync a chunk of my music to the Air so that I can listen to it on the train (where I have no signal) and in the office (where there is no public wifi) Recently, I noticed that nearly all of my music appears to have been uploaded into the cloud - all the tracks have a little cloud icon by then (see image below) - when I click play, it seems to download and then play - fine if I have WiFi, but not really useful given what I described above. Can I turn this setting off so that the music is there on my laptop all the time, and if I can, will I have to re-rsync all my music onto the Air as I assume its all now been moved into the cloud?
From the terminal window I frequent run this command to strip formatting from copied text. How can I wrap this up in something so I can have a menu button to click that will do the same thing?
I am trying to save a picture onto my camera roll, but when I message or email the picture to myself and try to save (click on the box with an arrow) the only options I get are to copy, print, or save to Dropbox. I want this picture for my wallpaper, but will need to get it off of camera roll to do that. How do I save the photo to my camera roll?
I'd like to have different apps handle .jpg files based on a naming convention I'll use for the .jpg files. Specifically most will go to Xee, but ones containing thumb should instead cause VLC to be called with the same path and file name, but with .mp4 (or .mkv, etc.) extension.
I have (had) Maverics running under VMWare Workstation 12. Sadly I decided to upgrade to El Capitan. Now my system always boots into recovery (located at "/Volumes/OS X Base System"). I tried reinstalling Mac OS there but it keeps booting into this
I used QuickTime's screen recorder to record a 23 minute video of a section of my Macbook screen and it uploaded my video to 360p as the highest selectable quality on YouTube. How can I change the quality it uses?
Apparently my Google-fu is off today or nobody used this feature other than me. Apple mail had a feature that would highlight messages from the same sender with the same or similar subject lines which made it very easy to round up emails from my network monitoring system. After upgrading to El Capitan this feature has gone away. I am wondering if anyone knows of a fix to get it back or was it an error in previous versions that just got fixed. My mail settings are the same as they have been. I have included a screen shot below.
I have a song in iTunes that is the unclean version with bad language in it and I'd like to be able to get the clean version without bad language in it. Does anyone know how to do this?
I am experiencing problems when I download archives from Safari to the Finder. What happens is that one archive keeps downloading and it never ends. Then when I try to enter to the Downloads folder in Finder it gets frozen. In order to have it working, I need to restart my Mac. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
I am not able to open print setup. When I Open Print Queue, i get the following screen I am not even able to given double sided printout. Please help me out
You may have encountered a situation in which Mac changes the order of desktops based on some events like alerts on a program or a web page in browser. How could I disable this logical change? Note: I'm using El Capitan, but I had this problem from Mavericks.
I have forgotten my Apple Mac password. I have searched for multiple key codes to change the password but i haven't figured out how they work on a non-apple keyboard. I use a logitech (K120) keyboard.
I'm trying to upgrade my Mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro to El Capitan. Currently sitting on Yosemite (although both Yosemite and Mavericks are in my Purchased Apps, with Download next to them).
I'm connecting to a local proxy to access internet on my iPhone/iOS 9 but Twitter app seems not using the global proxy i've set for my wifi... Other apps like Chrome & Safari are working just fine!
I'm deciding whether or not to upgrade to SSD's in my Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz i7, or if its finally starting to come to that time where I need to just fork out and buy a new MacBook. I'm not sure whether upgrading to SSD will solve my problems for long, as my laptop is taking around 20 - 30 minutes from a cold start to just open applications... I have tried everything, even a complete wipe of the HHD and a fresh install of the OS. Thoughts?
I'm a developer that uses Apache Ant as part of my build environment, but every time I upgrade my Mac to a new version of the OS (such as Yosemite to El Capitan) it breaks the ant install it there a way I can prevent this.
I have a macmini that I am trying to use as a file server. I have setup a shared directory and have enabled sharing (SMB, AFP and enabled Windows Sharing). I can now connect to this drive on my LAN, but the transfer speeds are really slow, between 2.5 and 3.5 MB/sec. Is there anyway or any settings that can be used to improve file transfer speeds? Updated Information Both computers are connected via WiFi using a TP-Link AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Router The Mac-Mini server has a transmission rate of 145 Mbps or ~17.3 MiB/s The Windows 7 client has a speed of 144 Mbps or ~17.2 MiB/s
Is it possible to use SteelSeries keyboards with MacBook Pro? I'm thinking about SteelSeries Apex line.
I have a well working Windows 7 VM image running in VMWare Fusion. To improve performance I would like to boot directly into Windows, ie create a Bootcamp partition for the Windows OS to run in. Now I run into the seemingly simple question: How can I convert the working Windows installation to become a Bootcamp partition?
Right clicking on a file -> Open With -> TextEdit. Instead of opening the original file, TextEdit creates a copy of it and opens that one.
There are tons of posts about that (like How to set default finder window size?), but none are able to change the default size everywhere, including shared network folders from a Windows PC. So when I open a network folder through Finder / Connect to Server with a smb:// address, the opened Finder size is always very small (around 770x440 px), regardless of the "remembered" size I did with the Cmd+Resize+Relaunch trick I see everywhere. I am on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), but it never worked in past OS X versions either.
I'm making a custom template in Pages 5.5.3 app on OS X 10.10. I've created a new text-style for my bulletpoints, but pages does always select the 'main text' for the bullet points.. Is it possible to link my new style to the list styles?
I saw the iPhone emoji and I want to get a high quality image of it to turn into the space grey color, but I can't find an image on the Internet. Does anyone know where the image file for the emoji is stored? I am using OS X Yosemite. Thanks.
I have a Macbook 4,1 running Mac OS X 10.7, and I need to install the MESA program, that only works on 64bit machines. Running uname tells me that my mac is working in 32bit mode, and a quick search online told me that it should be able to run as 64bit, which is what I need.
When unzipping a .zip file by double-clicking on the .zip file via the Finder, I notice that plaintext files have their execute bit on. Unzipping an equivalent .tar.gz file does not exhibit this behavior. Why?
I have an account that's unresponsive. When I login with this non-admin user, everything hangs. Even Dock won't show up. Just the spinning beach ball. Back-story:
Will apple reject my iOS app if it has unused UIViewControllers? I have many UIViewControllers in the Storyboard. However there are few of them I am leaving for next releases as they need more testing. Their functionality is implemented though. Can I submit the app with these conditions? The unused UIViewControllers are isolated from the used ones, So there are no segues between unused UIVC and a used one.
I have a HDD from MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) model: OS: Yosemite; The content in the HDD is important to me. I want to know If I can buy a MacBook Pro of the same model, Mid 2012, and simply hook the HDD in and get it running as it was in the original Mac. I don't want to use the Disk Utility or a cloning tool to copy the content.
Having an issue where multiple drives (External HD's via USB and an SD card inserted directly) will no longer mount when plugged in. If I open Disk Utility I can see the drive listed but the volume it contains is greyed out since it is not mounted. I can then click on the volume and mount it with Disk Utility. It then shows up in Finder, etc. and is completely usable. I have no idea why I suddenly have to do this, disks and the SD card slot always mounted just fine before.
I have a question about duplicate photo libraries that seems the opposite of a previously asked question. In my case, after converting iPhoto library to Photos library, the computer at one point asked if I wanted to convert Photos library to iPhoto library. So I said yes and now have two libraries. In this case I think each one is taking up 130 GB of space rather than each library pointing to the same photos, and I would like to remove one of them. Is it safe to remove the iPhoto library? Would this also delete the photos used by the Photos library?
It opens a terminal at the user directory, just like clicking on the terminal icon does. I'm popping up a menu in Finder, on the folder, and the folder is outlined to indicate it is the subject of the menu, but the terminal doesn't open on that folder.
I want to animate a block to be wider, but not higher. from this: to this: The scale animation seems to work only with locked ratio and can't figure out how to do it.
I have an early 2008 MBP, where I installed El Capitan. However I would like to split my HD and install Win10 as well. Since there is no direct support, it is quite difficult. I find this question "How do I get Windows 10 installed on my macbook pro (late 2008)" here with a logical answer which was "How to install Windows without using the BootCamp Assistant." My issue is when I want to bless my HD in Terminal, I get the following error message "Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc" and thus the rest of the instructions do not work. Any suggestions, recommendations, idea how to solve it? I already made a brand new OSX install, but the error is still the same. Any help is appreciated.
I've updated from Yosemite to 10.11.1 on my mid 2014 macbook pro a few days ago. I've got a WLAN in my apartment (for other gadgets), but since the signal is a bit weak at my desk, I have connected the macbook to the router using a LAN cable and a thunderbolt-ethernet adapter and switched WLAN off on the macbook. All was well on Yosemite, but El Capitan insists on switching on WLAN during most boots. Is there any way to prevent this without removing admin rights from my user and without removing the WLAN network from the list of known networks?
I want to forward a specific calendar event from the iOS Calendar App to an email address or iMessage address or text message using my iPhone. I don't want to use the cloud or sync anything. I am using iOS 8.4 but would also be interested in how to do this in iOS 9.
I'm trying to batch process converting a folder of .xls files to .csv using Applescript for MS Excel V15.15. I'm using a sample I found online to model it : This is the script that fails consistently, though it seems to most closely resembles the model: I have also tried: EDIT:This latter script, though it completes does not result in a true csv file, as when I open it with BBEdit it is showing code, not the file contents.
I would like to re-order my 15 accounts with folders that appear in the sidebar in Thunderbird. You can drop and drop folders, but you can't re-arrange accounts. Does anybody know how to do that? Thank you.
Just over six days ago, I sent a friend on Facebook a couple messages. On the conversation view of Facebook Messenger for iPhone, I can see that they've received my messages because next to each message, there's a solid-blue circle with a white checkmark inside. For several days after I sent the messages, I could see (under their name at the top) their active/online status, e.g., "Active 1d ago," but now, I just see, "Messenger."
I've just installed windows 10 x64 on my mac, a partition that I made with Disk Utility. I was going to use BootCamp however the way BootCamp formatted the partition in El Capitan didn't allow Windows to be installed (I believe it was because of not formatting it correctly). So now I've got it all installed however the drivers aren't (headphones and Wifi don't work; plus I'm not sure it's using my graphics card either). How do I go about installing the drivers I need for this version of Windows?
Looks like VMWare Tools do not allow changing resolution in El Capitan. Input data as follows: VMWare Workstation 12 Latest VMWare Tools 8.0.2 (here) Mac OS El Capitan, build 15B42
When I open some book it is show me an alert message "This book can't be opened" and then all books disappear.
So I've experienced the failure of the 1-9 keys on my wireless keyboard, and was curious how to find the custom passkey option so I can pair it with my MacBook Pro.
We have a remote Mac Mini acting as a build server that we use Screen Sharing to connect to and remotely manage. Well I recently upgraded this box to El Capitan and now Screen Sharing won't connect to it at all.
But with Bootcamp 6 it just asks me for an ISO and then proceeds to repartition my disk, I can't create a bootable Windows disk. I also tried using RUFUS to create a bootable Windows USB disk but it is not detected neither. Any solution or alternative?
I want to get a new MacBook Pro, and am confused by the storage options. The Apple website offers 2 different options for storage: Preinstalled internal flash storage (256, 512, or 1 TB) Thunderbolt enabled external storage
I have a very frustrating problem and I need your guys help to fix it. I bought an imac 5k that I upgraded it's CPU, HDD, RAM. This is my second one i have upgraded and the second one that keeps restarting randomly, sometimes once a few days, other times once a week or less. I have put in an I7, EVO SSD and Apple Ram. I have tried testing it with less and more ram and it still restarts our of the blue. The only connection between the two imac upgrades is the Thermalpad Arctic( 1,5mm which has a 6 W/mk thermal conductivity, its the best I could find ) I have used to cool the GPU. I am running multiple flash related software/streamers that are very heavy on the CPU and GPU, and some photoshoping. It always does restart when in use, but that's because when I am on it/ rather say, my wife is on it, she uses it for work but i don't think it restarts during normal use.
This issue does not appear to affect external mice, only the touchpad. Plugging and unplugging an external mouse does not fix the touchpad.
Some videos I take are square and 640 x 480, while others are 1920 x 1080, data rate changes with size as well, so quality is much better on the larger size - seems to be random - how do i set the size so all vids record the same? preferably the larger size.
When I connect my iPhone to a MacBook Pro it does no longer show up in the sidebar of the Mac Photos app. This e.g. prevents me from importing photos from the iPhone.
I cannot find my password. Tried to reset from terminal by typing reset password I see the prompt, but it does not allow me to fill in any blanks
I'm having a bit of trouble with my external hdd and terminal. I've been able to access files on it via terminal in the past, but since I upgraded to El Capitan I can't seem to find anything on my external hdd. I can navigate through it and use stuff from it fine using Finder.
This script works okay for me and most of my customers, but for a few customers it times out with error -1712; I've no idea why. I've tried increasing timeout, but it makes no difference. The file /tmp/itunes_model.txt doesn't get created so it doesn't seem to be doing anything. How can I debug/fix this? Added a try-catch around the error as requested and reran; the first time it was run it actually worked which is interesting, but the second time it failed again gleaning no more useful information.
Is there a way to enable the bell terminal and other sound notification from the terminal, while my "play user interface sound effect" setting is off ? I don't like to have any sound notification (I prefer the flashing screen), but I'm using weechat and I wish I could enable some sound notification in it.
I am getting error "there was a problem communicating with the secure web proxy server (HTTPS)". i have to use the proxy server setup to test my web application which is under development. It is kind of a gateway to the web servers. I agree that there is certificate error while accessing proxy over https. there is no alternate to the proxy server setup.
For some reason the build that I uploaded to iTunes Connect shows the following message: There was an error importing this build.
I have done my research, and have found no solutions to my phone overheating. I've had the phone since July 2014, and I really started to notice that the phone over heated a lot in January 2015, and the battery life getting shorter and shorter.
I made a presentation with a simple transition effects and tried to export that presentation to HTML format. But when I tried to open it on my MacBook, I found, that it doesnt work in Chrome, but works fine in Opera, Firefox and Safari. It show me the preloader and the black screen then in Chrome. And then I tried to open it on Windows and found, that it works ONLY in Firefox... Chrome, Opera and IE8 dont want to play it...:( And show me the black screen only.
I am using outlook.com for my own email "mydomain.info" but I can not add an account in Apple Mail. I have searched in Ask Different for similar questions. I got this: Personal domain email using Outlook.com on Apple Mail
Apple-Mail uses DES-EDE3-CBC and SHA1 for new S/MIME-messages. Nowadays, both algorithms are considered as VERY WEAK and probably crackable by security agencies ore even large botnets. Is it somehow possible to force Apple Mail to use something more secure like AES-CBC and SHA2?
Recently I upgraded my Mac mini to OS X El Capitan. After the upgrade completed, I can't select a startup disk in System Preferences -> Startup Disk.
I happen to have some unused/obsolete python libraries in System directory, especially in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python, the issue is that I can't delete any file in the library anymore. I guess it's happening after upgrading to 10.11. I tried sudo rm -rf, but I just can't delete any file in it.
After upgrading to El Captian, OpenVPN displays the following error when attempting a connection: "JSONDialog: Error running jsondialog". I'm using OpenVPN version 2.0.9.201. How do I get OpenVPN to work without disabling SIP?
I'm looking for a file recovery utility for OS X, like Recuva for Windows. (Assuming Time Machine wasn't configured) Is there anything similar?
Does anyone have experience pairing and using an official Sony PlayStation 3 or 4 controller with the 4th gen Apple TV?
Why is my POP account not working after I upgraded to El Capitan? I sometimes can get mail and then it stops working so the problem is intermittent.
The sensitivity is listed at 109 DB, so I guess 75% volume is about 82 DB, which is pretty safe.
Whenever I type my email into Safari, (Safari only) whether it's in a text field or filling out a form it misspells it and it's incredibly annoying. The weird thing is that it isn't even my whole email, its just part of it, that it wrongly autocorrects. I can't find anywhere where I've ever typed it in wrong. Any suggestions? When I type: "MyName@gmail.com" it autocorrects to "MyNam@gmail" before I can even type the ".com"
I have a broken Mac OS 10.6.8 here. Startup is normal, login works, but most programs can't be started Repair of OS with install disks fails Backup via Time Machine is working System Settings cannot be accessed
I'm running an iPhone 6S Plus on iOS 9.0.1 and am having problem syncing all of my photos with iCloud - it's been stuck for almost a week now and won't upload any more photos, even though I have around 3GB of free space. http://i.imgur.com/Vp23h6l.jpg
I'm mostly a windows/android user, but I have a new device that works best with airprinting, so please bear with me. I'm looking to do some 'auto-airprinting'. Basically, what I ultimately what to do is watch a specific folder on a device (whether it be a ipad, or mac) and all new documents in the folder I want to airprint them. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I have files named "clip-2016-03-01 10;01;14.mp4" and would like to make filename to creation date of file. Found this thread read creation date from file name and change - batch done But I'm not that used to using terminal.
After restoring my entire system from a Time Machine backup, there are two notifications stuck in notification centre. The "X" to remove them is missing and they return even after disabling and reenabling notifications for the two apps which they are from (Reminders and Calendar). Here's a screenshot:
For one of the artists on my iTunes music library, I've purchased music from iTunes Store. With iTunes 12, there's now a Biography panel and Similar Artists panel on the right that I can't get rid of - so far I've disabled "Show Apple Music" in the General preferences, and I've also disabled "Apple Music Connect" in the Parental preferences. Unfortunately it's still showing. Is there any way to not have that panel show?
I want to find a list of file (no directories) excluding those under .git I am trying out some suggested find syntax to achieve as suggested in this SO question: *=URL=* Here are what I attempted
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro, but Windows won't let me format the Bootcamp created disk. I've seen people make unallocated space on their drive to install Windows on. Unfortunately, El Capitan won't let me make unallocated space. Any tips? Thanks.
Attempted to do a fresh install of Ubuntu by following the procedure found here: Clean install Ubuntu on a dual boot with Windows I assumed that the fact that it was for Vista instead of OS X was inconsequential. My base OS is Yosemite. Now when rEFInd starts up, I still see the option for OS X and Ubuntu but no option for installing Ubuntu.
My MacBook Pro internal keyboard frequently stops working after an external USB keyboard has been plugged into it. I have to do a hard reboot to recover (which I unfortunately need to do every time I transition from work to home). Anybody have any suggestions on how to get around this? Currently OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 is installed.
There are 2 VMs running on VMWare on a remote server. For instance: devops-01 and devops-02. Both of them have SSH access enabled. To access to the first one I do: ssh dev@devops-01. For the other one: ssh dev@192.168.80.y (y sometimes changes).
My iPhone 5 is having a strange problem that affects phone calls only. (And yes, I've tried rebooting.)
So.. this issue has been killing me for a while. I imagine others are having this too, so I am going to post quite a bit of info here.
Anyone else upgrade to El Capitan only to have all their folders disappear? Looks like all my files are still there but they are all under "All my files", years worth of archiving gone! Any help would be much appreciated :)
I have built a web app that I want to distribute to Mac users (using Safari on OS X). What's the best way to do that? Google, for example, has Chrome Hosted Apps and Chrome Packaged Apps (for web apps, not mobile) that can be distributed through the Google Play.
The system gives me an error, for which I presume because the .deb file isn't found? How do I tell terminal to download it, if I must? And from where? Here is the complete input/output: ​
I have iPhone and I have developed an app in xcode 7 I want to it to install and run into iphone but how to do that ? Like android load .apk file on phone and from phone just double click and you done. Some what like procedure is there in iphone ?
I'm replacing the hard drive in my 2009 macbook (13" unibody). How do I go about installing OSX and can I go straight to Yosemite or do I have to install Mavericks and then upgrade? It's my first attempt at replacing a hard drive so I've no idea what to expect. Thanks all!
In my Photos.app (Mac), photos were taken from 2013, all of which are supposed to be synced to iCloud since OS X upgraded to EL Capitan. It's not possible to sync all to my iPhone because the total photo library size is bigger than 5G. Is there a selective sync tool to determine only this year's photos or some could be synced rather than all of them?
I type Cmd-F and call up a search window; my search parameters are 'Name contains "xyz"'. Currently the search is limited to the current folder (~/library/preferences) and gives two results. Thinking to widen the search to see what extra files/folders might contain the term 'xyz' in their name I click the button to change the search from 'Preferences' to 'This Mac'. Now the search gives zero results.
I am using a Macbook Pro 15 (Late 2014), running El Captain. Sometimes, the wifi appears connected, although there is no actual connection, the pages just fail to load, looks like it is trying to resolve indefinitely. To correct, I need to turn Wifi Off and back on, and it immediately corrects the problem and the connection appears strong for a few minutes, until the issue reoccurs.. The issue happens 1-2 times per hour. Any suggestions on what is causing this or what I need to do?
Sometimes after I've sent bug reports to Apple, they ask for a sysdiagnose dump, which contains a bunch of files with information about my system. While it's very useful for Apple to get this information to reproduce the problem and debug their code, I noticed that at least some semi-personal information is stored in these files. Stuff like recently opened files, various file paths and other things that expose the system owner to some extent, and are irrelevant for the debugging purpose. I'd like to help Apple improve their products without revealing unnecessary details about my system, at least file paths to personal files, cache data of viewed documents, etc. But what to do? My current best approach is to grep the file tree for file paths and replace them with wildcards, but this is cumbersome at best, and there may be a lot more to it that I don't know about. Is Apple likely to improve their sysdiagnose to be more considerate for privacy if asked?
After applying the Yosemite 10.10.5 update and Security Update 2015-004 (1.0), my installation of Outlook 2011 prompts me for a password every time I check for mail. I have tried repairing Keychain Access a few times (on Verify, it says there is never a problem) and deleting/recreating the keychain login entries for Outlook, but I continue to be prompted to reenter my credentials:
It happened few hours ago - I tried to switch the MacBook Pro mid 2012 on from sleep. It doesnt switch on for some reason. I then shut the lid and suddenly the apple icon behind the screen lights up and I open the lid. But what I see is a screen of vertical stripes only in various colors, mainly different shades of gray. How do I fix this and why did this happen?
So I have a very odd issue. At random I get black sections in program windows, on dock icons, and on my desktop. What makes it odd is I can actually take a screenshot of it plus you can even see it through other visual elements such as the menu bar and dock and moving the mouse or a window over the area does not "erase" it. I've completely zero filled the hard drive and then reinstalled OS X Lion 10.7.5 11G63 however it didn't fix it. Yet booting into Linux Lubuntu 14.04.1 64bit has no visual issues at all.
I was away on business and on returning found my Macbook Pro at home locked out. Turns out someone hacked my Apple ID which I was able to recover but I don't know the PIN. It shows message in a weird language with email address of rumbergeraleda@yahoo.com I have my iCloud access restored now and also have my Macbook with me so how the heck do I unlock my Macbook Pro? I do have my Macbook backed up on Time Machine as well but I don't know if locking messes up my Time Machine backup too.
Is there any way to have OSX log in automatically in a certain account when starting up, without asking for the password, while preventing remote (or even local network) connections without password? I have a computer that I use both as a home server and a media center, so it has to be accessible from outside world in a secure manner (SSH + Screen Sharing), but at the same time I don't want to key in the passwords every time my media center boots up, or more importantly each time it wakes up from sleep.
I don't know yet what is causing this issue. I have a bootcamp installed Windows 8.1 and I was having no issue even after updating to El Capitan and now I got a BSOD on Windows twice (when I tried to access a SD card and when I tried to open some file directly from the Mac OS X partition). So until then, the BSOD was restricted to Windows and now I`m getting some crashing also on Mac OS X.
The first problem is that I cannot connect into my session which already opened. The remote connection opens a new session even if a session is opened on the Mac and I have no access to the program which I have let opened on the already open (on the Mac) session.
Over a year ago I bought a second hand MacBook Pro on ebay. Unfortunately the original owner did not reinstall the operating system and in fact it came together with Photoshop and Microsoft Office.
I am not happy with iTunes 12.3 (it constantly asks for my Apple ID) and I would like to re-install iTunes 12.2. Where can I find the 12.2 version? Will replacing 12.3 by 12.2 lose my music files and other personal data like rankings, subscribed podcasts, playlists, etc?
The hard drive in my 2008 24" iMac failed, I have a current time machine back up but I have lost my installation disks. I do have installation disks for my 2010 27" iMac, but I suppose these would not work. Any idea what I need to get my 24" iMac working?
I recently tried to switch to launched on my Mac Mini (10.7.5) from cron on a PC. I searched and think I have things set up right, but it seems that the scheduled script starts significantly after the requested time. Details at *=URL=* Thanks for guidance or experiments to try.
Is there a way to get the spacing in Pages and Word (version 2016) to exactly match up? I have a single-spaced document in 12 pt Times New Roman, and it fits exactly two pages in Word. When I open the .docx file in Pages, the spacing is also set to Single, but the text runs over two pages.
This makes OS X updates impossible. I had to update from 10.11.0 to 10.11.2 via a complete install of OS X from the recovery console.
I have two Superdrives. Since the upgrade to 10.11 (it might just coincide) they don't accept disks any more. I tried rebooting, sending eject commands to both drives etc. They appear as "Unsupported" in drutil but look fine in "About This Mac" Storage.
For a scientific project I need to install these operating systems on my Mac Pro. The catch is... It has to run on a native hardware, no level 1 or 2 virtualization is allowed. Here is the list of OSs I need to be able to boot to (some may be even added later): Can somebody tell me if it's possible with some existing bootloader for Mac or not?
Can I delete photos from my iPhone without losing the iCloud copies? I am short of memory on my phone and want to free up space.
How can I auto start mysqld I tried following *=URL=* but it didn't help It seems like I have a ownership/permission problem, possibly related to from having installed mysql on this machine for a different user account. I uninstalled and reinstalled but still get I can start mysqld manually however, ie.. and then in another window Also fyi Do I perhaps need to chown whoami for additional files? I tried adding to my .bashrc based on having but I still got the same errors.
Is there a way to allow your desktop to zoom outward with Mission Control, as it did with Lion through Mavericks? I have Yosemite pre-installed. I'd install Mountain Lion if I could.
I have a folder that contains many files, including some .zip, .tar, .tgz, 7z, and gz files. How can I test all archive files in this folder to verify if they are corrupted or not?
I just got an iPhone 6s and I'm having trouble downloading apps. It keeps asking me to set up three security questions and when I do it says that it's downloading but then it asks me to set up security questions again, and if I say cancel then it stops downloading the app. I just keep going in circles which is quiet annoying. What can I do about this?
Im having problems updating iOS 9.0.1 I've deleted most apps so memory is fine, yet the phone appears to be frozen. I can't restart or reset it. I've updated only 1 other bit - can't remember how I did it.
Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F1021) on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) the font size on my VMware Fusion is minuscule and I cannot figure out how to increase the font size. Sure would like to fix this without asking my 2 sons to solve another problem! It sure would impress them if I could fix this myself!
I just bought a new iPhone 6 four days ago and hardly used except to browse first page, never paid attention to the battery until really dead. Can an iPhone 6s Plus battery be recharged? Ive been trying recharging both from the plug and laptop and still no sign of power on.
Is there any way to change the default behavior of Finder to stop doing this? Perhaps with a "defaults write" terminal command. Thanks!
Ever since I downloaded El Capitan I have lost the ability to Drag & Drop photos into Pages documents I am creating. Also in Pages, Certificate templates, for example, are not able to be edited. I can open the template but can not do anything with it, cannot edit any changes. Also cannot edit my own created files. I also don't like how in Photos my photo labels are not visible underneath the photo like they used to be. I don't know what other unpleasantness might still be in store for me so I want to revert back to Mavericks. How do I do this?
Here's a simple AppleScript for creating and sending messages. If executed in debug mode, the visibility of the outgoing messages behaves as expected, i.e., they're composed and sent invisibly and are never seen at all.
Just two days ago, the machine had a Windows 8 partition on it, but it was full of malware slowing it down and hurting it. I backed up all important files and formatted the drive, so to install Windows 10 from a WININSTALL USB drive, I created on a different computer. I've tried as many things as I could think of, or find online, even going as far as to do a full wipe of the entire Hard Drive.
I'd like to get all 366 possible icons that Calendar would have displayed in the Dock. How can you automate the creation of each of these, either in Bash or Automator?
Ever since the SMC reset, when my battery meter in the menu bar gets to ~9%, the system completely shuts off without warning. No hibernation, nothing - complete power off. Can anyone tell me how to get the system to properly recognize that the battery is almost dead, so it enters deep-sleep as it used to?
I have a question regarding deletion of partitions on a Mac. Due to some performance issues, I decided to start fresh and created a new partition (NewOSX) on the hard drive, to which I have transferred all the data that I need from my old, original partition (MacintoshHD) along with installing an operating system, downloading apps, etc. I would now like to go ahead and delete the old partition and merge the disk space into my new setup. I know this isn’t as simple as deleting the newer partition would be, as the minus sign in the disk utility partition menu is greyed out. Here is the info of the two partitions that I am referring to:
The issues started occurring after upgrade to 10.11 but not sure if related or not. I have 2 gmail accounts defined on my Mail app. Most of the time (around 70% or so) all is healthy.
I have one iOS application existing project and i have opened it in Xcode-7 but i want know which template is used in that?
Before Safari 9, I was able to install any extension on Safari without any problems, but after Apple updated its Developer Program, it seems that I can't install extensions not already signed by Apple and in Safari Extension Gallery. I had two untrusted extensions installed and working, but had to remove those and I can't install them again. I'm still having hope, because when I double click the extension file, Safari shows me a dialog like this:
I am using a MacOS X server (to which I only have command-line access) to convert text to speech which is saved to sound files (using PyObjC). I would like to install some of the optional OS X voices (for example com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.tom.premium) but I need to be able to do this through the command-line rather than via the System Preferences. Does anyone know a way to do this?
In Numbers, is there a way to get the row instead of the value when using a MAX or MIN Function? For example, let's take this sheet: What I am trying to do is to show the most expensive food by comparing all price values, getting the row number of the MAX value and then print the respective food on that line.
The title is a bit confusing so I will explain below: The El Capitan downloaded from the Apple Mac Store is big enough to do a fresh installation as well as an upgrade to your current OS version. The size of this however is very large.
What was Apple's intent behind creating the ~/Music/ folder if it isn't synchronised with Apple's very own music app? Is it a design flaw or does it serve a different specific purpose?
Can I make modal windows appear frontmost? I want to see alerts and modals from applications in the background.
I've successfully marked a picture with preview. The only part left is to make that mark transparent so it doesn't block the whole picture. How do I do that? Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish:
There is: *=URL=* It’s easy to download photos and videos from your digital camera to your iPad or iPad mini After you insert the SD card into the reader, your iPad automatically opens the Photos app, which lets you choose which photos and videos to import, then organises them into albums. Description mentions only iPad (not iPhone) Description mentions copying from SD card into the device
I can physically connect two Macs with a simple USB cable, easily. How can I make actual use of this link?
I'm using iOS 9.1 and I want to assign one ringtone for all known contacts and a different one for non-contacts. I also have another ringtone for a few specific contacts, but in general I want to know if the person who's calling is on my contact list. How can this be achieved without any jailbreaks or the like ?
I know their is a flood of these questions but I have a late 2013 macbook pro with yosemite 10.10.5 installed on it. My problem is it won't read some of my SD cards, i've run disk util with the pny sd card inserted and I get this Whats strange is when I insert another sd card (a samsung card) It comes up OK I've tested the PNY cards in my iPad with an sd card reader and the photos come up OK, and all the photos appear on my camera as well so the SD card themselves seem to be OK
However, I'd actually like to use the feature. My desired setup would be: ISP's Router
Specifically, I'll add a new file to an Xcode project, and things seem to work fine for the most part. Occasionally, Xcode gets in a mood where it is constantly saying that a specific file has been modified outside of the environment by another application - even when nothing else is running. When rebooting, or waking up, the new file tends to be either corrupt, unreadable (with a "input/output error" message in terminal) or completely missing.
my phone recently broke, and the screen when I touch it doesn't do anything. But other than that it works, I receive messages and what not and it shows up on the screen, and the buttons work too. I'm very concerned that I wont be able to save my photos. I tried syncing it to iTunes but it wont work unless I unlock it, which is not possible. And I'm positive I made an icloud that shares family stuff but I don't know to view it.
I don't know what this "Shared" is in the Finder's Sidebar. Can these other machines access any of my information? Should I turn this off?
My iPhone keeps popping up with creepy reminders such as: 'shes there' 'check the bedroom' 'i know what school you go to'
I purchased my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) just a few months ago for one specific purpose. I use it at my church to run the projector. It's connected through VGA, so I've been using a MiniDisplay to VGA adaptor (Apple Online Store). It worked great until last week. All the sudden it wouldn't recognize the Projector display. Sometimes I can get it to work for 30 seconds or so, then it may flicker in and out some and go away or sometimes it just drops the signal right off the bat. During troubleshooting I tried hooking into a couple flat screens via VGA and got the same thing. I've confirmed that everything else from the projector to the adaptor work correctly.
Is it possible to add an HTML Snippet to Numbers on OS X? I would like to add some html code and have Numbers treat it as such, for example to use iframes embed websites into my document. Would this be possible somehow?
Apple spellchecker is very useful, but does not work very well for technical text as it is missing all brand names and 50% words, doing more damage than good.  Is there a way to do "Learn spelling" action as a keyboard shortcut, so that I don't need to go through painful learn spelling right menu click every time. This starts to hurt after it is miscorrecting 100th word. EDIT: Tried to add shortcut, but doesn't seem to work:
Skype automatically logs me in by getting the password from my login keychain. This means I haven't typed the password in a long time, and I have forgotten it. When I select Skype (or anything else) in Keychain Access and click the show password box, the check mark appears and then immediately goes away without revealing the password.
When I write a letter my workflow is like this. I type sentence. Some words end up underlined red. I right click on the underlined words and select the correct spelling.
I'm in the market for speakers for the Apple TV 4th Generation. I'd like to be able to control the volume level of the speakers via the Siri Remote. If this works via IR or Bluetooth, either option is fine. (I'm kind of annoyed the the AppleTV does not use it's own volume control like on the iPhone when it does not have a valid audio device that it can find.) Please, only reply if you know for sure that the speakers do work with the Siri remote once you've paired the speakers with the AppleTV.
So I'm using the latest El Capitan, and I find myself using my 'external' monitor both portrait and landscape mode simultaneously. It's been quite bugging to go into system prefs. and changing the screen orientation every time I rotate my screen. Is there a way to simply rotate the orientation without having the hassle to go through all those steps?
To see the result of I used both the Mac's Calculator app (with El Capitan or Mavericks), vs on the iPhone with iOS 9.1. On the Mac, when I press 2000, ×, 19, %, it gives me 380, but when I press the division button ÷, then it gives 760000 right away, and finishing with pressing 12, = gives 63333.33333333.
The Dictionary App has a very cool experience on MacOSX. But I have to install dictionaries to use. Is it possible to bind it to Google Translate? Thanks!
First time working with Numbers and I hid a column by mistake. How do I show/unhide a column in this application?
I meticulously followed this tutorial, and this worked for me in 2014. I have a 4GB usb stick plugged into the computer. It should be enough for windows 7, a partition which no longer boots and I am hoping to run startup repair on it from the install USB so I don't have to start over clean. tutorial: *=URL=* This is the screen I get after following this tutorial where the Info.plist file of bootcamp is modified to let the USB creation happen (same screen as before):
I try to get previous shutdown cause and when it happened but i don't know correct syntax. I need to get date and time in start of the row and shutdown cause number in end of the row which can be negative number too.
Yesterday, I upgraded my MacBook Air from Yosemite to El Capitan. I am getting strange output at end of terminal session after upgrade.
I use the stopwatch app to collect data sometimes, and often I'll have ~100 datapoints. (as an example, my light creaks periodically after I turn it off after leaving it on for a long time, so I timed that once to find out how the period of the creaking changes over time). After recently getting an iPhone 6s with iOS 9, I tried using the Numbers app to graph some results. However, typing in the ~100 results is a bit tedious, and I was wondering if there was a way to transfer the data from the stopwatch to Numbers.
After enabling FileVault on El Capitan the partition is encrypted in a first pass. After this phase is complete a second optimizing phase is starting which takes considerably longer than the first encryption phase. The optimizing step was not present on the first appearance of FileVault 2 (OS X Lion). The encryption phase took the same amount of time back then. So what is this optimizing all about ?
I would like to know whether it is possible to remove the Itunes Store and Mac App Store results from the word look-up functionality in El Capitan 10.11.1, illustrated below:  and App Store:
The latest version of Visual Studio Code will not run ("can't be opened" is the unhelpful error) when I copy it to the applications folder. It runs fine after unzipping to the Downloads folder, but just wont from the applications folder. I don't think it's the security setting as that's already set to allow apps from anywhere. OS X El Capitan on a Mid-2014 Macbook Pro
My problem is not this or this. Error message: "There was an error saving ical data. Calendar App encountered a critical error while saving to the database, and recent changes may be lost. More information may be available in the console." It is very similar to this question. However my console log has such entries:
I'm using Lync 2011 and I wish to set rule to auto send all my correspondences to "conversation History" folder in outlook for achieving. Currently, all my correspondences are located locally under the following dir on XML format: /Users//Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync History I've tried to follow the following link: Lync for Mac 2011 - Managed Preferences According to this guide, I should have a plist file for all Lync configuration named /Library/Preferences/MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.plist , where i need to have a flag that tells Lync to auto-archive conversation in outlook. However, i don't have this file, and it hasn't been created as part of the installation.
I've just removed Path Finder, a Finder replacement, from my system. I first followed the removal instructions from their website here, before dragging Path Finder from Applications to the Trash. But now in regular Finder, when I right click > Show Info on any file I receive the error: The “Show Info” service could not be used because the application could not be found. Try reinstalling the application. How can I restore Finder's original Show Info behavior?
iTunes used to just open on the screen like other apps, but now it always opens in a new virtual screen taking up the whole screen. This is incredibly annoying how can I get back to the older behaviour ?
I am running iTunes 12.2.2.25 on OS X El Capitan. App Store is showing me update to iTunes (12.3.1) but its not getting updated. Multiple times I have click "Update" button (link) near shown update but nothing happens. Please help.
Also: would people advise de-authorising the machine in iTunes and iBooks before doing the clean install (assuming that I am most likely going to reformat the hard drive as part of the process)? I can't remember whether a reformat causes the iTunes and iBook stores to treat the Mac as a new machine.
In the previous versions of Notes.app there was a possibility to sort the notes, either by creation dates or by 'last updated' dates. I can't do that with El Cap, that's a bit annoying, I want my very old notes to stay at the bottom of the list even if I update them.
As of yesterday, I can't send a photo from Photos app on my Mac via email (through the 'share' feature). I've been sharing this way all week and now, nothing. No message, it just doesn't do anything. Help?
How to change string "Nov 9 03:21:11" to yymmdd mmhhss in AppleScript?
Are there any longer shutdown causes error codes lists than this? https://georgegarside.com/blog/osx/shutdown-causes/
I need to vim the file found at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist but the permissions will not allow it. Even when I run sudo vim /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist and enter my password, VIM throws me a warning and says that I'm editing a readonly file. Any ideas how to do this? I'm running OS X 10.11 El Capitain.
I am running Yosemite version 10.10.5. I have a second partition running Windows 10. My main partition, running OS X, is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I try to follow the instructions in the error message, but the Option button is not available. I do not know how to proceed, and would appreciate some help.
How do I create sub-directories for my files, pictures and mp3 files? New to iOS and this does not seem like a user friendly OS. There is zero interaction with Windows or Android.
I'm considering using FreeNAS to provide Time Machine network shares for Time Machine backups of 5-10 Macbooks. One thing I like about this approach is that users simply have to join the network (e.g. open my Macbook), and the Time Machine backup will commence. This is advantageous as there is no drive that the user must remember to plug in. The disadvantage is that users will surely simply close their laptops and leave the network, effectively "unplugging" the Time Machine network share.
I have an external which I'm using with Time Machine, and I'd like to 'migrate' it and start using just CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner). Is there a good way to essentially mv the contents of LatestTM to the root of the drive, and then have CCC take over from there? I'm concerned about permissions and symlinks being handled correctly. (It's over 1TB of data so I'd love to avoid re-copying everything.)
Working on an iPhone app I noticed a very light, yet quite noticeable pink-ish rectangular area that's inset from the screen's edges uniformly by about 4 millimeters (0.16 inches) in all views with a white (light?) background. After spending a lot of time trying to figure out which of my app's view layers might cause this, I discovered that other apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger etc. show the same phenomenon on any white background. Not surprising then, a screenshot captured just shows a plain white background.
I also want to enable scrolling by keeping pressed the middle button of the mouse (3rd button). Can I do this? Thanks a lot buddies.
When I open MacVim (installed with homebrew) in the GUI, the Explorer works as expected. But if I open "vim" in a terminal, I've got that message:
I can us a VPN app like tunnelbear to appear to be in other countries, but is there a way to do this in a bash script or applescript? I want to be able to run automated tests on my iOS apps (in the simulator) and change the apparent country.
I've got an iPhone that is not locked down via the cloud, just PIN. Unfortunately, the PIN has been lost. I did the home button down, plug into the computer thing to get it to attach. I then tried to do the wipe from the computer, but it said the software had to be updated first. After allowing the update process to go along for awhile the phone rebooted. It's now at a "swipe to update" screen. If I swipe, it asks for the PIN (which I don't have). I'm unable to power it off now (it doesn't respond to the power button). Attaching it to the computer just gives the backup (PIN required) screen, no wipe option available.
I really need to downgrade from iOS 9 to iOS 8 on my iPad Mini. Is it possible at all?
I'm using OS X El Capitan and I'm trying to prevent a game from accessing the internet including blocking it from checking for updates for the launcher or the game itself. I've gone into Security -> Firewall -> unlocked settings -> Firewall Options -> Found the game in the list and changed it from "Allow incoming connections" to "Block incoming connections" and it still goes out and finds updates and tries to get me to accept them and update the launcher and program.
On my iPhone 6 running IOS 9.1 (release 13B143), I cannot find any results when searching in either the Contacts app or in the Contacts tab in the Phone app. I have hundreds of contacts, but no matter what letter I type in the search field, I get no results. Example:
Several people in our organization are seeing a pronounced pause after entering their password on the login screen after the screen saver / lock has kicked on. It happens regardless of whether the system is coming back from sleep or not. It usually goes: type in password press enter 25% chance of it showing the desktop right away, 75% chance of having to wait about 10 seconds before seeing the desktop
I'm working on an Automator app that receives folders. So far it looks like this: Set Value of Variable (var1) Ask For Text (default answer set to "00000 Sample Job Name") Set Value of Variable (var2) execute bash script Right now one issue that is bothering me is that when I run the app, the dialog that appears for "Ask for text" does not offer "00000 Sample Job Name" as the default, but rather the file path that was passed to the app and assigned to var1. Why the heck would that be? Automator 2.5, Mac OS X 10.10.5
I use the OpenVPN app to encrypt my network connections on my iPhone as well as a VPN service, but every time my phone reboots I have to remember to re-enable my VPN. Is there a way to have this occur automatically?
When I visit a particular URL, Safari automatically downloads ogg files that are referenced in the page source. An example URL where this happens is *=URL=* Here are all of the references to .ogg files in the current page source:
I'm currently using the below script to send out an email with a specified subject, attachment, and body message: I have been executing the script in the Mac Terminal using: osascript /Users/dwm8/Desktop/email.scpt "Test" "dwm8:test.pdf" "Test Message Here"
Do I have to format an SSD from OS X in order to re-use it on an Windows desktop? Or Is there no limitations to where to format the drive?
I'm looking for a simple application that password-protects selected applications. Can anyone help please? Just bought an Apple device after several years using Android.
I have an iPhone 5C on iOS 9.1. I previously had all of my stuff in the Google world - GMail (using Google Apps), calendar, and contacts. I recently killed the GMail application on the phone, and removed the account from Mail/Contacts/Calendars on the phone.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance! :)
I am plugging a USB Ethernet adapter (not Apple-brand) into my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013). No go.
I just made a new app that I'm selling, and I'm using a mp4 video on the home page of the sales site. It looks pretty fuzzy on retina displays: http://mapleapp.info
What is the way to download the SMS messages from my iPhone to a Windows machine? Is there some apple cloud service that I can access for SMS messages?
X11 that I am using (XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4)) with Yosemite has very high acceleration with the mouse (external or trackpad). Is there a way to lower the acceleration or remove it all together?
I'm trying to install Homebrew. Running OS X 10.11.1. When installing, I got an error message. I now can't retrieve the output I got, but there were several "fatal" errors. When trying to reinstall Homebrew, I get the following:
I like the idea of being able to select a bunch of text and have it saved as an audio file and/or simply read back to me using OS X's default say functionality. It's almost like I can create my own instant personal audiobooks anytime I like. The problem is; the default voices, and more specifically, the robotic speech patterns, can get become quite unbearable to listen to. Is there a solution or an alternative available to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance.
I am trying to find how many GPUs has my macbook pro and if I have some of them, what are their characteristics. I though I can find it from About this mac -> System Report -> Hardware, but was not able to find anything.
During make, the shared libs and executables are compiled in their final form: the executables are compiled with a dependency to the shared libs in their final destination (i.e., they depend on libraries in /usr/local/lib although they are not there yet, they are still in the build tree). Then make install is, roughly, just using cp to install libs and executables from the build tree to the final place.
I would like to check some websites by using IPv6 only: not only connecting with an IPv6 address but also checking that every other following connection (e.g., for embedded content with iframes) is performed with IPv6. Is there a browser where I can disable IPv4? Or a proxy I can install?
I'm an Apple Music subscriber but I clicked an iTunes link from a website and now all albums have prices. My Apple Music subscription is active, I can stream all my Apple Music playlists and my phone works as expected, but iTunes is acting as though I am not subscribed. In preferences Apple Music is selected:
There are two partitions on my drive, one for time machine, one for storing files which are exFat format. I would like to get one minimal thing to support NTFS, I would like to create a filesystem and skip writing to it. How might this be possible without enabling full NTFS support?
I have a mid 2014 macbook pro, with just 128gb of storage. So as you can imagine, space is at a premium. When i've left it on for a day or so I notice my remaining space goes down. Is this some sort of caching or system restore or something that's eating up all my usable remaining space? I have about 5gb free, but the end of the day it's normally full. Is this normal? Or is something leaking
I am trying to write a workflow that will use Shell to apply SHA256 to cells in an Excel spreadsheet. The Workflow (which may be a bit of a hack) is working, but only when I click through it using "Step" - if I try to Run it or Loop it, the output is not the SHA256 hash but the original input.
I just updated from Yosemite to El Capitan. I have two backups, one being done with Time Machine and one with Carbon Copy Cloner. Both sparsebundles are stored on a NAS (Synology DS213). After the update everything still works as before. I can do backups and verifying them shows them as being there and functional.
This question has already been asked here. The accepted answer says it is not possible. Other answers provide a way to do it on linux but I have not check if it worked. I am most interested in knowing if there is a way to do it for mac (although you can post answers for linux as well).
When I close the lid of my macbook then it does not boot on opening the lid again. The battery is 100% charged, It boots only when I connect the charger and takes 3-4 minutes charge before it starts booting. I used a compatible charger for a couple of months which caused this issue perhaps.
I'd like to create my own shortcut combinations, and it looks to me that the fn key is actually only used for a few shortcuts on OS X. For example, fn-delete is forward delete. In applications like Photoshop it's not used.
When I connect my iPhone 6+ to my Mac, iTunes greeted me with a "Set up your iPhone" screen, which offered me the choice of "restoring from backup", and "setting up as a new iPhone" . Please help! I especially do not want to loose my app data. I also use iMazing and it does not have the same problem. I really went the Mac route initially hoping for better compatibility with iTunes but Apple really seems to complicate the use of iTunes totaly unnecessarily. I there a really definitive technical guide for iTunes.
OS X El Capitan. I have seen this thread, and it explains a bit (different reporting units), but there is an additional substantial discrepancy in the free HDD space of an external HD reported: Get Info : 11.22GB df -h : 1.3Gi About This Mac - Storage : 1.42 GB
Safari forces a redirect to the https version of a site I previously visited via https. However, the https site no longer works and there is no way to prevent Safari form trying to load it.
I have a MacBook Pro running on El Capitan (but the issue was already present before the upgrade, so it's not related). I have the Mac since a bit less than a year. It is still running perfectly but since a couple of weeks, the internet is really weird. It's constantly completely blocked and just not working. The wifi works well: on my iPhone it is never down, but every 30min or so, it just blocks while I am browsing (but the issue is there on all the apps used, from Xcode to my FTP client, and so on), and it doesn't work anymore. When I just turn the wifi off and on again, it works well for some time, and then the issue comes back again. I tried changing the DNS (by using this software that indicates the fastest DNS to use) and I thought it worked at first, but the issues are back again. I have tried deleting the wifi from my keychain and adding it again the problem is persisting. Obviously I have restarted the modem a couple of times too, no difference. Any advice?
This year my country decided we no longer needed summer saving time, and since the date when time was supposed to change to summer time, my iPhone has had the wrong time. I have an iPhone 4. I believe newer phones don't have this problem.
Is it safe to run two installers simultaneously? Or is it safer to run one by one(maybe installers changes to write on same file)?
Then, only one explanation is possible. My machine has been shut down between sleep and wake. And I misunderstood its new boot as wake up
I am planning on buying bluetooth headphones that I would use alternatively with my iPad, iPhone and MacBook Pro. I saw the bose headphones allow to have 2 devices connected at the same time and that it is easy to switch from one to the other but it's only with two. Which Bluetooth Headphones are able to switch easily between 3 different devices?
I just upgraded my original iPad to iOS 9.1 and it now cannot connect to the App Store. No other error is given. If I go to the App Store I get a blank page. If I try to Update an app, the screen spins for a long time and eventually gives a pop up message reading "Unable to Connect to the App Store". The connectivity of the iPad is fine and I can use other networked applications such as Safari with no problem. It is only the App Store that is not working. How can I diagnose the cause of this problem?
I am familiar with using the Display Calibration Assistant. I have used it on other external monitors before. Connected to my living room TV via AirPlay using Apple TV. The colors are all off. When I open the displays menu, I am able to open the calibration assistant for the built in display, but not my external Apple TV display. I can see other profiles for other external monitors, but I cannot select them.
My find my iphone was being used, not by myself. It could be my ex. Is there a way to see where that person used the find my iphone to figure out where i am? Maybe narrow it down to a certain State that someone had logged into, to use the find my iphone locator
I use maid to run a few maintenance scripts regularly, via launchd. The time I chose for those tasks to run makes it very likely that I won’t suddenly decide to turn off my computer around then, but one can never be absolutely certain.
Although the problem is quite common, after googling for several hours I didn't find an appropriate solution for my particular case. I got a 2011 MacBook pro with the latest OS (El Capitan) and it has the following problems.
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate area to post my question. But I am wondering how can I mount a MacBook Pro mid 2007 HDD on Debian Linux. My MacBook bombed out on me and now I need to attempt to recover some data on the hard drive. What hardware do I need to hook it up through USB and should read privileges be enough to copy from drive to else where?
What else can I try to get the apps on that iPad ? I use iTunes 12.3.1.23 x64 on Windows and iOS 5.1.1, perhaps this is a combination on which the "cheat" does no longer work.
Literally out of nowhere my laptop screen went crazy. I was using it while sitting at my dining room table and stopped for probably 10 mins to look at something on my phone. When I looked back, it was like this. MacBook Air 13" Bought new 3 months ago (August 2015) Running OS X 10.10.2 (haven't upgraded to El Capitan because of negative reviews). Has not been dropped, no water damage.
I have a folder containing several alias for pdf's that each have > 200 mb. Each pdf is in a different location on my drive. I need to compress all of those files. What is the fastest way to do it? There is always the slow way of going to each of the alias, right clicking it, copying the original to a predefined folder, repeat this procedure for every alias and finally compress the folder with all the original pdfs
I accidentally run the command "git clean -df", so I lost many directories and files, I want to recover them, I don't have backup in time machine. I tried some software to recover, but they don't work.
After searching here, I'm still confused about how the Photos App library works. I'd like to copy (or simply move) all of my photos (10k+) from the Photos app to an external drive, so that I can then use Lightroom to manage them. I need to do this to free up space (approx. 26gb) on my hard drive.
I have followed the steps for the installation from www.instalrails.com . After installing Xcode they say to check the Preferences -> Location and have ensure you have the command line tools - Xcode 5.0.2 ( 5A3005 ) *=URL=* But in my command line tools Xcode 7.1.1 (7B1005) appears and I cannot modify it. I left it as it is and then tried to write this simple command in Terminal and it does not work : It says command not found. Can you please give some directions.
Boot in Recovery Mode, format drive as 1 partition (Mac OS journaled and using the Guid Partition Map), and then install OS X. This works successfully until trying to boot from the SSD. Boot in recovery mode and try and restore from time machine backup. This fails as it cannot create a recovery partition on the drive. I've installed Mountain Lion successfully on an external USB drive, and have it up and running, from there, I downloaded the El Capitan installer and installed onto the SSD, which worked fine, but as soon as it came time to boot from the SSD, no dice. I've created a USB installer from the El Capitan installer (using createinstallmedia), then used that USB drive to install to the SSD, and it all works to the point of trying to boot from the SSD, and then, no dice. Throughout this process, Disk Utility in OS X and OS X recovery can successfully see and partition the SSD, and Verify Disk has never returned any errors, so as far as I can see, it doesn't seem to be hardware is
I have made an app using XCode and I'm planning on uploading to Apple iOS store. Only question is: How do you do it?!
The font changed in El Capitan and, consequently, in some of my programs, the font is off of the screen or cut off. How do I change the font back to the previous font, before El Capitan? Examples: Eclipse Project Properties Dialog Eclipse Find Dialog Firefox Context Menu
I'm a developer. Some of the libraries we're using will not work under anything other than Windows 7. I'd love to update them - hell, I'd rather just use OS X all the time - but that isn't going to happen.
Many people had such issue: *=URL=* I notice when upgraded to 10.11.1, I cannot login any iCloud nor iMessage/faceTime account on my old and sole admin account. I tried to delete ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/accounts, no luck I tried to erase NVRAM, no luck I tried safe mode, no luck I tried to reset key chain, no luck I managed to rerun setup assitant and create a new admin account, now I can login to my iCloud. iCloud always says You can't sign in at this time, try signing in again iMessage will pop a window ask me again to enter password after I entered it when entering the account name and password, and then says Verification Failed, An unknown error occurred. Version: 10.11.1
Hey there check this out, Open Automator, create a New Service, save it as "Something With Spaces" and it won't appear on your Services menu. Save it as "SomethingWithoutSpaces" and it will work.
Got a new mac (yay!). Signed in to iTunes. Music library is .. empty. How can I get my library to appear in my Itunes please?
So i recently downloaded BetterTouchTool but deleted it afterwards. During the time i had it i binded the keys (Space - w) to my mouse button 4 and some other stuff to other keys. After deleting BetterTouchTool all my other bindings have disappeared except for my mouse button 4. It is still stuck on Space W.
I spilled water on my 2014 Macbook Air. I had a keyboard cover on, so I don't believe much got into the workings from the top. However, it appears that a decent amount of water got in through the bottom, from what I can tell. I didn't realize how much was in it, so I turned it on a couple times before it dried out, but now it won't turn on at all.
There are some photos on my iPhone 6 plus that I want to get rid of but I can't. When I click the photo the trash-can disappears. When I click edit a note pops up saying these photos are not editable. How can I delete them?
Is there any difference on power charger between iPhone 6 vs 6s? I'm worried that there is a difference and that I'll have issues when I use the iPhone 6 charger for iPhone 6s It looks similar but can I get it confirmed?
I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use with my iPhone and Macbook (OS X Yosemite). On my iPhone, a little battery meter pops up next to the Bluetooth logo each time I'm connect the headphones. I have found no such option on my Macbook (OS X ) and am wondering if anyone else has experienced the same issue.
I am trying to reinstall OSX on a MacBook Pro Mid-2009 but it hangs on startup. I have used several disks but now when running in verbose mode see that it hangs at "AppleUSBHostPort::interruptOccurred: overcurrent detected" and loops here. Image of messages during startup:
I succeeded importing a root CA to the keychain with But it's marked as Use System Defaults, like
My iPhone rings so does my iPad when I gets call which is normal thing. But recently my iPad got started ringing without any display number or any change in display, it was just sound(I was watching on Youtube on iPad but ipad display did not go away, it was just sound). But same time there was no call on iPhone. How can this possible? What could be wrong. Thanks
I'm in the process of reinstalling everything after a clean install (Mavericks) on an iMac. Mail seems to be working okay but none of my signatures are showing up in preferences. I have copied back the folder ~/Library/Mail from backup, which in turn contains V2/MailData/Signatures. In addition to a couple of sig-related preference files, that folder holds a whole load of cryptically-named files, each of which is stored twice -- once with a .mailsignature suffix and once with a .webarchive suffix.
I wanted to know what was the free available space in my internal HD (I actually have a SSD). In Finder, if I trust the Show Info information (right click or cmd+I on Macintosh HD icon in the Finder sidebar) I get a certain available space. Otherwise, if I just press the spacebar (quick insight), I get a different value, it seems that it's not updated. Finally, also Disk Utility reports a different value.
I want texts and iMesssages from my iPhone to stop appearing on my home Mac. They currently get copied between the 2 devices, I have tried deleting iCloud but this does not stop the messages.
I'm developer and I'm providing my application with pkg installer. Before El Capitan, my installer was putting binaries to /usr/bin. With El Capitan I had to change it because of SIP, so now binaries go to /usr/local/bin. According to some reports /usr/local/bin is accessible only for sudoers, "regular" user can't access it. What should be the right location to install my application, so every user could access it?
Last July I went on a holiday to Dubai and have bought my very first iPhone from there, the Gold iPhone 6 plus. Recently I decided to start using Facetime but for some reason I cannot find the app. I am using my iPhone in Malta, in the middle of the Mediterranean with a Vodafone carrier. Can anyone please show or explain how can I have FaceTime on my phone? I tried finding various videos on YouTube but could not find the right one.
I recently got a OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock and am hooking my monitors into it. I have Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from the monitor to the dock, one thunderbolt cable going from dock to Macbook Pro, and one Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from a second monitor to the MBP.
I have a blog so I'm all the time uploading photos online. And if I want to upload a photo that I edited and try to open it from Photo Library, it won't let me. It only pulls up the Pictures folder, which doesn't have any of my edits.
I installed iOS 9 (then 9.1). After that when i edit a calendar event on my iPhone (6 plus or 5s) it appears as a Invite in outlook (2013) on my PC. Got Office 365 that i manage myself. Really wierd. I got full rights read/write (set to owner) so it doesn't seem to be a owner issue... Any ideas why this happens? I tried with an old iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2) and that does not change the event.
Mac Pro 2010 quad core, Mac OS X 10.6.8. I have a USB 3.0 PCI card plugged in. When I tried to plug in a second external drive, I got this message:
Right now I have Chrome set up in Desktop 1, Terminal in Desktop 2, and Spotify in Desktop 3. If I command+tab to Spotify, it changes the order of the desktops, so now Desktop 3 is Desktop 2 and Desktop 2 is Desktop 3. This is frustrating because I expected them to stay put. What I would like to have happen when I command+tab to Spotify is have it go to Desktop 3 and not reorder the Desktops.
My question is: How do I change the default fallback font for Thai (or any non-latin language for that matter) so that the terminal app shows the Thai font of my choice while keeping the English font. Forgive the long extra details, but I’m really stuck here on Mac OS 10.11.1 and my terminal font is set to Menlo at a font size that is comfortable to me. Menlo does not have any Thai characters, which I double-checked in Fontbook > View > Repertoire and also via the Menu bar > Show Emoji and Symbols. (But interestingly has Lao.) However, when I type Thai characters in the terminal, miraculously Thai appears. Apparently, there is a system wide default fallback font. However, one Thai character does not display properly. (Sara Am, สระ อำ) I can change the terminal font to CS Prajad and the Thai looks very good including the problem character. However the English font is hideously ugly and is useless as a programming font. I disabled SIP (System Integrity Protection) in order to modify the 
I notice that things are being corrected even when I turn spell-check off. This happened on both of my computers, and particularly stupid spelling corrections are taking place, only since upgrading to El Capitan.
I'm trying to do the following setup: Internet modem/router -> (wifi) -> Macbook -> (ethernet) -> Airport express ->(wifi) -> various devices. Is it possible to share internet from a MB to an airport express through ethernet? My MB is a MacbookPro retina from Mid 2012
I am trying to check the battery level of my wireless headphones from the command line. I came across a few discussions, and it seems all I need to do is enter the following: ioreg -c 'deviceName' |grep -i batterypercent
I use four cable connections to my MacbookPro: Power, thunderbolt to external monitor, thunderbolt to ethernet cable, and USB. In a typical day, I need to disconnect and reconnect these many times as I take my laptop to meetings. Is there any kind of "cable concentrator" that would let me plug everything into some kind of gizmo and then connect that via a single thunderbolt or USB cable to the Macbook? Note - I have a USB-C Mac and not a MagSafe Mac.
just wondering if in Safari 9.0.1 is possible force a file to download. With images is easy, right clock and "Save Image as..." but for files like svg, and other non visualizable files is hard to find a solution. In the past a download window was always available, but now apparently not]1
I work for a webhost as a front level tech and often we need to install a SSL for a customer. I'm on a Mac now but am familiar with Linux as well.
Overnight, TextWrangler crashed with a message "TextWrangler" is damaged and can't be opened. I deleted "TextWrangler" and download it again from the App Store. I couldn't update from the Mac App Store, because the latest version of TextWrangler requires 10.8.5 or later, so Snow Leopard and Lion users are out of luck. Since the crash happened at midnight, I wagered a guess that it was date/time related. Sure enough, changing the system date back to November 11 magically "repaired" the "damaged" app and allowed it to start; while coming back to the present (November 12) made the app refuse to start, with the same message as before.
I installed Windows on my Mac through bootcamp but I accidentally deleted Macintosh HD in the process. I tried to use the internet recovery but it stopped and says apple.com/support -2104F"
My computer just ran out of batteries, so I plugged it in and started it up. Spotify began to open, but I did not want it to be open so I used right click-force quit. The application stayed open, but did not open any windows and said it was Not Responding. I attempted to force quit it again multiple ways, and to uninstall the application but nothing has worked. Where is a Spotify uninstall document or tool so I can remove it?
Context: I've erased my hard drive and had OS El Capitan reinstalled via a bootable drive from a Genius Bar many times leading up to me asking this question. After going through the process of erasing + reinstalling + setting up preferences/calendars + changing passwords etc, the day after there have always been little things that were noticeable enough to arouse suspicion regarding a RAT/trojan on my Macbook (minor changes to iCal entries I definitely didn't make etc).
There is a system process on my iMac running El Capitan called "symptomsd" that has been consistently bouncing back and forth between about 20% to 60% of the CPU resource on my iMac. It is running from /usr/libexec/symptomsd. There is a private framework it loads called /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Symptoms.framework that itself contains other frameworks called: ManagedEvent.framework SymptomAnalytics.framework SymptomEvaluator.framework SymptomPresentationFeed.framework SymptomPresentationLite.framework SymptomReporter.framework
I recently picked up the new Magic Mouse 2. Since then, the 'Swipe Between Pages' has started working on it's own. With the old mouse, I turned it off, as I was constantly flipping through web pages accidentally.
When I double tap (Not press) the icons or what ever your screen is on gets pulled down half way Before: After the double tap: Why does it do this?
The new line is selected, so once I start typing, Pages deletes the entire line and the new format style is cleared. This is really irritating because every time I change the font style now, I have to deselect the new line manually by clicking away from it, using the arrow keys, or something like that so it won't overwrite the new line. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
The Fandango app recently released an update featuring Apple Pay support. I just bought movie tickets using Apple Pay, but when I got my e-receipt, the "Payment Summary" section said: Payment Summary MasterCard ***********_ _ _ _ (Apple Pay): [total cost] My Total Order [total cost]
Where is the cutoff for overcharge protection in the iPhone 6? Is it in the charger or in the actual unit? I purchased a wireless charger adapter and pad for my phone and want to know if it is safe to leave overnight. once the electricity reaches the adapter it has no where to go.. if it were connected it would go back into the wire right? So is this wireless charging safe?
My SuperDrive, USB connected to a 2012 Mac Mini with latest El Capitan OS X, has been working just fine until I tried to rip a purchased CD from a small singer songwriter. It hung up on the last cut and iTunes could not proceed to finish ripping the CD and eject the CD.
Greetings: I've been reading the helpful comments regarding what browser is compatible with a dated OS. My Safari browser is 5.0.6. I'm going to paste my query here. I posted it on another Mac forum whose members get a little testy toward those who are not tech savvy:
I played Clash of Clans one year ago and I have many game center accounts. My problem is that I forgot which game center account has my game progress. How do I know which registered account is linked with Clash of Clans?
MyApp.app is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash.
Without having changed anything, I now get this message when I try to open the app "Breeze" - Other apps fail similarly on other Macs:  I tried to get rid of this message by re-installing it from the App Store, but nothing changes. Rebooting and changing gatekeeper security preferences also doesn't help by choosing "allow Apps downloaded from anywhere". What the heck is going on?
I'm trying to perform some testing on old platforms. In this case, its Fedora 1 (circa 2002 or 2003). The VM software (VMware and VirtualBox) can't handle distros that old, so the guests don't have a network card.
Apple Configurator 2 is scriptable with Automator, Apple-Script and Shell. Nowhere it is though possible to invoke the blueprints I have defined in Configurator. I can rebuild the contents of those blueprints within Automator, Apple-Script and Shell, but I cannot reuse, what I already built in Configurator. Or am I wrong? Where are those blueprints?
The possible culprit: I think it's a problem related to certificates. I've stumbled across this KB from Apple (*=URL=* and followed it religiously (basically I've set 'Always Trust' on all certificates related to our Wifi network) but still does not work.
I have 48 iPads here and if I apply a blueprint to all of them at once, the network to the MDM server is jammed. If I apply the blueprint one by one to each iPad, every thing goes smoothly. Is there a way to tell Configurator to apply a blueprint one by one?
I don't use my Mac so I'm going to sell it. I want to give the customer a clean Mac, so I have completely wiped the HD and reinstalled Mac OS X. I've been reading about people getting locked out of their second-hand Mac and it being still linked to the previous owner's account. I wanted to know if this is the case because I want them to be happy with it and be able to use it when they get it. I logged out of iTunes and iCloud and turned off Find My Mac, then I did the full wipe and reinstall. Now I'm up to selecting the language and stuff. Is this enough? I want it to be new and without an account but watching a video when they went back onto the Mac they had to log into their account again. Should I complete the setup and see or will I be fine leaving it? Thanks.
I have a MacBookPro retina (id MacBookPro10,1 mid 2012) with El Capitan installed and want to create a Windows partition through BootCamp. I already did that some time ago without that much trouble, but had to wipe out the entire harddrive and install both systems from scratch. This time I did: By "hacking" BootCamp made it install Windows 7 boot into a USB I have. Downloaded and copied over BootCamp drivers for windows into this bootable stick. Disabled FileVault, that prevented external devices (even recovery HD) from being seen on boot. Turned off System Integrity Protection (had to do that already to make step 1 happen) with csrutil disable in recovery.
I'm seeing a similar issue to MBP 2013 becoming unresponsive to keyboard and mouse, but this is with no external USB devices at all. Periodically/intermittently, my keyboard and trackpad will stop responding, and I am forced to hold the power button down to shutdown and restart the laptop.
The iMac will not shutdown as normal, the spinning loader is visible and it stays in that state if I don't interrupt it using the power button. I want to be able to shutdown as normal, at present I'm having to use the power button on the back to interrupt.
I just ordered a 2010 MacPro, 12 core, and although the 12*3.33 GHz cores should give me more than 3x the performance of my quad 2.8 GHz, I understand it probably won't. I am wondering what the weak link will be and how to improve it. The first thing I'm considering is a PCI card with 2 SSD RAID 0 to run the OS. On my old Pro, I saw amazing boot times from a shift to SSD. The Mac will have 32GB of RAM, I'm assuming that's enough.
I try to sign an app-bundle that includes the Java Runtime Environment 8 (JRE). From command line I run this command: I get this output: The result is that the App-bundle doesn't get signed as expected. How do I fix this?
I'm using El Capitan, and this happens in Yosemite as well. Once a while I hear the notification sound, same as the sound when a new email arrive in Mail.app. But nowhere can I find where it comes from. There is no new email, or any red badge shows up in the icons in the dock or launch pad. And there is no new notification in the notification centre, and no alert appeared in the upper right corner of the screen. It appears nothing happened, except for the notification sound. How can I find what app generates it?
Does anyone know where I can set the delay/time how long does the fade out effect in Xcode 7.1.1 on OS X 10.11.1 need to hide the displayed tooltip? When I search for the term defaults find tooltip, I only get WebKitShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText and WebKit2ShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText from com.apple.iTunes and com.apple.appstore. With defaults find delay I get more results, but nothing about I looking for.
The shortcut for indenting a block of code is usually ⌘], which I cannot do on a Swedish keyboard. Does anyone know any workarounds? I'm not looking for a solution for any specific editor but a way of triggering this shortcut.
I have been searching and trying to correct my mid 2011 MacBook Air screen when you startup by holding the option key. My Bootcamp no longer shows but the created USB Windows 10 install stick does even though it is not connected.
I cannot pair my new Magic keyboard with my iPad. It shows up in the Bluetooth devices list as "Bluetooth Keyboard", but when I click to connect it I get the message: Connection Unsuccessful Make sure "Bluetooth Keyboard" is turned on and in range. How can I pair the devices?
I forgot my pin to my phone so I hooked it to my computer to do an update/restore. When the update/restore was done, my phone is now icloud locked and I'm getting this screen:
I am learning about Mac more and more every day but I got stuck on this problem - trying to install Windows 7 or newer on El Captain. I've been trying to put the .iso file on the USB but BootCamp would not recognise it. Now I have a clean DVD but I have no option in BootCamp to choose the installer disc as in this post.
my question is, if there is MacBook power cable with mounting holes. I think better picture than thousand words, I mean this power cable end:
Recently started noticing a weird location on my husbands iPhone at odd hours--saying he was in a location across town when he was literally sitting in front of me--it is same location every time. would switching to private or incognito browsing cause that to happen?
The window manager divvy is a big part of my workflow. When restarting my macbook yesterday it failed to open entirely. It doesn't give any feedback as to why it's not opening. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling it(via the appstore) to no avail. Was wondering if there was some sort of way to diagnose and fix a stubborn application. I'm on el capitan v10.11.1.
I like to name my tabs when I'm using Terminal so I can keep track of what's inside of them. I do this using the inspector.
Im using a program called Daisy Disk to see what is taking up space in my Mac and I find that the /cores directory is taking up 77gb. Is that a problem? Can I get rid of it to regain the space?
I've been experiencing a very weird clipboard behaviour on my mac. This is my OS
When it comes to the underside of things I know a lot more about Windows than Mac/OS X, so I'm not sure if OS X is even like this in this aspect but what I'm wanting to know is I used to very thoroughly disable system services in Windows for things I didn't need like network file sharing and quick user switching, just to name a couple, to make the computer run lighter. It worked great on aging systems and I was wondering if there was an equivalent of such a thing for OS X that I could pick through and at my risk disable just to help my old Late 2006 iMac?
I was recommended to seek for assistance here from the Networking/Stack Exchange site towards OS X queries, do hope someone has the answers. Have El Capitan on a testing iMac and deploying 802.11r/k with FT-dot1x from a Cisco WLC showed no issues with wireless connectivity. Though one client showed up with a MacBook with wireless issues. Turns out the OS X version on the Mac is 10.7 "Lion"...that is apparently old and obviously doesn't support 802.11r/k. Found a good page within Mac support for iOS (Wi-Fi network roaming with 802.11k, 802.11r, and 802.11v on iOS) but not a support matrix for OS X. Is there any available support matrix/table/information for listing which versions of OS X hardware and operating system versions towards 802.11r/k support?
What commands can be used with the osascript -e argument? I know of the command osascript -e "set Volume x" where x is 0-7. Is there anything else I can use instead of set or Volume? Or some documentation you could link me to?
I have Google Photos installed on my iPhone 6S and would like it to stop automatically syncing my photos. I like to view my pictures but don't want everything backed up.
Photos on my iPad are backed up on iCloud, but as my iCloud storage is full I want to back up my iCloud photos to an external hard drive. How do I do this on my Windows desktop PC? I do not have a Mac.
My security camera sends jpgs that are missing the filename extension ".jpg" Is there any way to view these images on my iPhone?
I thought that was pretty weird, so I clicked on the Mac partition and back to the BC partition, and it changed but still seemed weird (see memory capacity, available, and used).  I'm completely at a loss as to what happened and how I can fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an extremely long document in text edit that I want to delete roughly half of. Is there a better way to do this than selecting by clicking and scrolling?
We have an iOS app with the following requirement. The app must be accessible only to those participating in a research study
I used to use Visipics and completely loved it, it's simple yet powerful. However it's only for Windows which I have abandoned. Are there any OS X (Lion) programs that do the same? I'm sure there are, am just wondering if there are any that stand out. After taking all the files from multiple computers and putting them on one hard drive to be organized and regrouped I'm sure there are a lot I will find of varying quality. I would prefer free software, since Visipics is free and worked fine, however if there's something outstanding that costs money I'll consider it.
I want to mirror a video-streaming app from my phone to my MacBook Pro (an app that unfortunately is not available for laptops, just iPhone and iPad). Airplay won't work for this. Need the USB port free on my computer to be able to use a projector in tandem with the phone/MacBook. I don't mind paying a few bucks for an additional app, but I need something clean and reliable that is relatively easy to set up for a relative computer illiterate like myself.
I'm being forced to use my Macbook more and more with my metered 4G connection. I really need to keep data usage limited. Windows has an metered connection mode which really helps with this.
On a Windows or Mac computer, I'd edit the hosts file: How would I do this on an iOS device (not jailbroken). Can I do this with a provisioning profile?
I don't know when I've started having this, but with my MacBook Air 2015 13", the volume icon only shows "Headphones" as an output device option. The icon is not greyed out, nor is there any red light coming from the headphone jack. The startup chime works fine as well. Resetting NVRAM - didn't work Resetting SCM - didn't work Re-plugging in the headphones (multiple times) - didn't work Twirling the headphone plug (multiple times) - didn't work Blowing in the headphone jack (multiple times) - didn't work
My old iPod touch finally gave up the ghost after about 10 years. I would like to join Instagram and several other sites...but, living on social security, I can't afford a smart phone - it's not the phone it's the monthly service charge. So, my idea was to buy a used iPhone and use it wherever there is Wi-Fi for internet access.
In my list of bookmarks, i have several empty folders labeled favorites. How do i get rid of these? The edit button doesnt allow it to be deleted.
Before the issue became my headache, one of our relatives created a partition on my MBP to keep their files. Yesterday they deleted their partition and there might be important files that was delete and we don't know what it is.
I have the CloudKeyChainProxy process eating my cpu and I can't use keychain any more nor sync with iCloud, I have a backup in time machine, would suggest an action ?
I recently upgraded to El Capitan, and now I am finding I can't install certain software. For example, I needed to view WebEx. WebEx had me download a dmg, but when I clicked it to install, it opened briefly then failed silently.
This began when I upgraded to El Capitan. Sometimes when I search using the title bar of Safari for a google search, I have to hit the return key twice. A single return will sometimes load search results, but not always. Deleted com.apple.Safari.plist from my Library folder as part of troubleshooting, but it's still occurring.
I essentially have an updated version of this question: How do I prepare a new device in Configurator without updating the device iOS? I have an iOS 9.0.2 device. I want to Prepare and Supervise it with Configurator 2, but do not want to update the device to iOS 9.1. With the old Configurator, this was possible (see answer to linked question). Does anyone know if there is a similar way to do this with the new Configurator 2?
I dropped my phone into a pool a while ago, and didn't realize until about 30 minutes after. When I try to hook it up to the computer, it doesn't recognize the device, the iPhone wont turn on, it is ruined. But I was wondering if there's a way to get files off of it even with the computer not recognizing the device. Any suggestions?
I'm trying to edit a script in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail. When I attempt to save from Script Editor I get The document "Reply.scpt" could not be saved. (Error -1,752). It doesn't seem to be a permissions issue because I can edit and save the file in BBEdit (it's a plain text file). I'm running Script Editor 2.8.1 under OS X 10.11.1 on a late 2015 iMac.
I've got an odd thing going on with my contacts. In contacts I can only see about 6 names (I had loads) and all my SMS's are now showing numbers in the history when they used to be names, however if I send an SMS and start typing in a name, the number comes up (even though they are not showing in my contacts). Any idea how to restore my contacts as they are in there, or in the ether somewhere?
I have installed Wine via MacPorts on OS X El Capitan so I have a standard wine setup. I am having the following issue:
I run three backups on three different drives and I can't excess any of them after installation of El Capitan. What to do? Gert G.
In Disk Utility I see two disk images (Flash Updates)  But I cannot find where the image file could be. On the console with diskutil I see And with diskutil info Is there a way to know where these images are on my disk?
This text box appears when I'm using a different input source than English, and quick search in any file list. So when I press A it should point to the file start with a, but instead it display a text box with preedit text. The box is really annoying and sometime it doesn't disappear, doesn't accept any key press, and I can't even close it.
I face a problem with Iphone 6. In the middle of work (particularly listening to podcasts), Siri wrongly thinks she is being called, pauses the main work, and starts asking for order. Edit: "Hey Siri" is not allowed in my settings. Is it a hardware or software problem? Is this a common problem? A suggestion for a good way to solve it?
I've been looking for a program ,or a widget, that could search for lyrics, download them and add them to iTunes (or display the lyrics while I'm playing a song). All those I could find were outdated and didn't work correctly. There are other program that can search for the lyrics but do not add them to iTunes, others that display lyrics already in iTunes but not both. iTunes version : 12.3.0.44 OS X version : Yosemite (10.10.5)
I used to use an app called Afloat that let me pin windows on top of all other windows on the Desktop. However, Afloat stopped being maintained at some point and it doesn't work with more recent versions of OS X. I then used an app called Compulsion, which installed as a SIMBL plugin but then that stopped working with OS X El Capitan.
I recently change my hard disk for ssd on my Macbook 7.1. My old hard disk doesn't work, I don't have access to anything. How Can I install now OS X El Capitan? At the moment I don't have access to any OSX, so how can i resolve this situation?
Once upon a time, I installed DisplayLink but have since uninstalled it. I have another program on my computer that keeps crashing and upon looking at the logs, it seems to be an issue with the DisplayLinkManager.
"The original date and time of your first photo is shown below. Adjust it to the correct time, and all 1 photos will be time-shifted accordingly."
I am switching to a new Mac and want to bring my TextMate 2 settings with me from my old Mac. I don't see an obvious way to do this, and searching hasn't brought anything up. Do I really need to re-set everything up again from scratch?
I had always noticed this on my Mac and was curious as to why it is there. What does it mean?
I'm trying to highlight a cell based on another cell's data Example: So I need to conditional column A so that if it shows 100% Green, 0% with a 1 or greater in B Red, and if it's 0% with a 0 in B white. Any Ideas?
I don't have .bash_profile or .bashrc files and I am definitely using the bash shell. I am using Mac OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan. How do I permanently modify my $PATH to cut down the default values Apple ships?
On my macbook, I successfully set up iCloud and can view all my contacts and such in the Contacts app. On my iPhone6, I went into settings -> Text Messaging Forwarding and turned on the indicator for my macbook pro. Then my iPhone6 asks me for a code "shown on your Mac". But no code is showing up on my mac? What now?
I have got Logic Pro X on my Mac, however when I open it I am welcomed by this screen: I got the same thing with GarageBand My Question Is it possible to download this from the internet anywhere maybe from the apple website
I am upgrading my 2011 iMac with an SSD. I have sized this ssd to store everything but the data in my User folder, and will be following the setup (not installation) instructions found here. My question is this: Does moving everything but the content of my user folder ensure that my Parallels based installation of Windows 7 runs from the SSD? Will all programs installed on the Windows side be run from the SSD? If not, how do I go about achieving this?
Last year, I had to update 100 iPad to iOS 8. I did them one at a time and it took forever. We use AirWatch as our MDM. Is there a better way to update them all?
According to the Mac man page for ps it says for the -u flag: However, it seems to display different information rather than just being attached to usernames. E.g. here's the headers for ax: and here are the headers for aux:
Like everyone, I've search everywhere in the web about getting my brother's HDD converted to case-sensitive journaled. I have a back up HDD that I can transfer to, I have no idea why iPartition is not working with the xnfers. I'm not sure if the HDD is broken. He has all of his information from the HDD like family videos. He does not want to lose it. Hope someone can help with the recovery.
I never forget my Iphone at home and oh course the day I did I need it like emergency status. My boyfriend and I share a car and I have to get out to ventura for my job and need to tell my boss if I can go or not within the next 30min. So I need to get my boyfriends cell number but I don't have it memorized. Is there anyway I can view my contacts thru my email or messanger?
I'm having difficulty using an X.509 certificate to do client authentication from Safari (9.0.1, as on OS X 10.10.5). The symptom is that I go to a *=URL=* site which does client certificate checking, but Safari appears to simply hang as if it were waiting from a response from the server. In the error console it reports Failed to load resource: cancelled (and on one of the servers I've tried this with, which I have control over, the relevant logs report that the browser appeared to abruptly close the connection – there's no other indication there of a protocol botch).
Say you have 5 desktops open in Mission Control in El Capitan. If you select a file to drag it to an app or another folder which lies in a different desktop, Mission Control always takes you to desktop 1 (far left).
"Test12345.doc" is from an unidentified developer. Are you sure you want to open it? Openining "Test12345.doc" will always allow it to run on this Mac.
So I'm not sure what is causing the issue, but I suspect it has something to do with my external monitor. If anybody has an idea, I would greatly appreciate it. Please feel free to ask me to provide any additional information about my machine and/or details of the issue! MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
How does one stop Apple from having any sort of control over your mac? For example, they can erase it, track its location etc and even the push notification service lets them know when you're using your mac and connected to the internet. What's a way of blocking all requests to all Apple servers?
When I try to open the new one, contacts.app start and I see the correct contact. When I try the old one, the app starts but no contact is shown.
I know I can "cycle through languages" and "toggle between last used two languages" with key combinations. These options are not so convenient when you have three or more input languages installed.
How do I save all of my iBooks pdfs, located on my iPad2, to an external hard drive?
When I try to update my iOS 6.1.6 it says it's up to date and it's been like that for five months. However, every App that I want requires a minimum of iOS 7.0. I have an iPhone 3G.
My ipod 5 got stolen and I was wondering if, when I get a new device (iPhone 5s) will I be able to keep my progress on the games on my ipod that I have through game centre. I'm hoping that when I get the new device, I'll log into gamecentre then install the apps and games I had on my ipod and have them up to speed with where they were on the ipod, mainly because I had progressed very far in the game 'clash of clans'. Is this possible?
Since upgrading to El Capitan 10.11.1, the "Recent Items" menu item from the Apple menu disappears. Even during a work session, sometimes "Recent Items" is there when I need it, sometimes it disappears altogether.
Ok I searched like the whole internet for this topic but couldnt find ANYTHING at all and thought maybe this is the right place to ask such a question. I was recently visiting apples iphone site and man they have a LOT of images in high resolution there. But when scanning the site to see how much MB I actually load I was stunned! All these images made up only 1. 4MB which is incredible. For example look at this picture here from the Apple Website: http://images.apple.com/v/iphone/home/r/home/images/iphone_workshops_6s_xlarge.jpg
I have a MacBook Pro as my work laptop. When I go home, I close the lid and take the laptop with me. Very often, the next time I open my laptop I find that the OS restarted "because of a problem". This reboot may happen several hours after the lid is closed, as the sound from my laptop back indicates.
When you close a note in the OS X 10.9 Notes app it leaves no trace, there's no warning and no revert. It's just appears to be gone. Very unMac like to me. It's in user interface design 101 that if there's a risk of data loss, the application should inform the user of this is what will happen.
I updated my Xcode to 7.1.1 (it said so in the Mac App Store). When I click on "Open", Xcode 7.0.1 showed up instead of Xcode 7.1.1. Do I need OSX El Capitan to run Xcode 7.1.1 ? In the past, I had Xcode 7.1 Beta 2 installed, I wonder if that caused some files to be corrupted. Seems like someone else had a similar problem here: Updated XCode to 7.0.1 via the app store but it still shows itself at 6.4 in the app and missing the new features The answer there recommended deleting all copies of Xcode and reinstall from scratch. I'll download OS X El Capitan to see if it fixes it before I decide to nuke Xcode to oblivion on my computer and redownload it all again
I'm trying to automount a NFS fielsystem on an iMac (El Capitan 10.11.1). The FS is exported from a Mac Mini (El Capitan 10.11.1 + OSX Server 5.0.15). On the server : File sharing is active Config : On the iMac The directory /mnt/www exists and is empty (root:wheel) Config : Now a df shows this : But no access is possible : system.log shows the same error : Note : mounting the FS manually works (and allows read and write to root) I've tried several options on the client (ip vs hostname, soft vs hard, removing almost all of them, with or without the : after the server name, etc) and the server (specifying -network) but nothing works. I see nothing in the server's system.log. What am I missing ?
I have a MBP 17" (late 2011) and would like to use the new Magic input devices (Keyboard, Mouse 2, and Trackpad 2) with it which seem to rely on Bluetooth 4. How can I connect them to my MBP?
I noticed my Mac ticking like a clock and turned it off - it obviously hadn't switched off properly. When I reboot I get a flashing question mark, so I tried booting with ctrl+R. Computer does not find Startup Disk. In Mac OS X Utilities -> Disk Utility when I select my HDD no First aid is available but if I select restore and my HDD as the source with Mac OS X Base System as my destination - will I lose files by erasing the Base System / what will happen?
A new function in Xcode 7 is that I can test my apps on iOS devices without a paid developer account. It works fine on my iPad air, but when I tries with my iPhone 5s I always get some kind error message. I have tried with multiple Apple-ID's, and i have restored my iPhone (from a backup) I have tried with one of my friends iPad, and it worked fine. I hope some of you can help me. Update The message xcode gives when trying to install an app on iPhone.
Accidentally ripped off the Facetime HD camera cable of the logic board. Now whenever I boot into OS X kernel_task hogs all the cpu (500%). I could be wrong here, but my hunch is that because no facetime camera is connected, a process is going crazy trying to detect the Facetime camera.
I have updated my iPhone 5c to iOS 9.1 When I try to connect it to my iTunes Library I get a message that the iPhone can't be used as it requires a newer version of iTunes. iPhone and iTunes are both up to date. I'm using Windows Vista.
My girl bought a Macbook Air 13", newest generation a couple of weeks ago. It has been working flawlessly until now.
The days of gaming are long a distant memory. I haven't touched games since 12 years of age. These days, my notebook is used for computational and mathematical modelling. That said, I do enjoy an occasional gaming session during the holidays. Here's the spec of my notebook: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB Can it run SC Legacy of the Void?
If I run this in terminal it works fine But if I run it in Automator (using Run Shell Script) I get this result and it doesn't work:
I have a hard disk which is in NTFS. I want to make it writable without formatting. I have gone through some solution for it but its working in previous version not in el captian. I tried this link but when doing this step its says its not permitted.
How is it possible to load (with terminal attached window) sh program at OSx startup ? I see a lot of article on launchctl but it's obviously not possible to open a terminal windows attached to the process. Specifically I am looking to run a specific script which is in the sh file (call for a python program. I have to see the echo / print of the program, so to have a terminal attached to the execution).
I have a very limited data amount (only 1 Gb of 3G / 4G) per month So natrually I took all the steps in order to limit my data drainage: Disable Wi-Fi assist
When i try to connect in Finder to SMB share with hostname URL (like smb://hostname.synology.me linked to my IP) i can't access, but if i put my local IP, i can access. How i can connect with hostname?
Each time I'm going to select a face picture for my contact in the MacBook Pro (Mid. 2010 OS X 10.11) and I select the option Faces the window display the following message:
I have edited /private/etc/paths to allow access for Homebrew: I want to restore this file to the system Defaults. What are the default lines and default order?
After I restored my computer to a clean reinstall of El Capitan, I have experienced incredibly slow download speeds in Apple applications only (Safari and the App Store). I tested downloading a file in safari, and I got around 256 kilobytes per second, but when downloading the exact same file with the exact same internet connection, I got much greater download speeds of around 5 to 6 megabytes per second. The same thing is happening in the App Store, with download speeds averaging around 256 kilobytes per second. I have tried changing the DNS to both Open DNS and Google Public DNS, and none of them seem to fix the problem.
I am currently using OS X with a Standard user that has no admin privileges in the OS GUI. Note: My Standard user does however have sudo permissions in /etc/private/sudoers. This enables password protection when doing critical tasks in Terminal, while retaining flexibility.
After having read this blog (More GPS Cycling Tests: Things are Pretty Bad and There’s Little Hope) about the inaccuracies in apps like Strava and Runtastic, I'm curious which similar apps produces reasonably accurate elevation gain/profile. Here, Runmeter seems a good option. But which others have you found? I would consider an app reasonably accurate if it produced results close to a Sigma bike computer with altimeter.
My computer is a PowerPC running Pages 08. I am now living in Spain and would like to know how to change the language. I would like to have Pages 08 in English, but I would like it to spell check in Spanish.
On my iPhone 5, I now have accrued 59 apps that need to update. I click on update and they all turn over to swirling circles and that's as far as it gets. Plus, I've just found out I can't install previously installed apps nor any new apps. I have tons of free space, no restrictions are set. Yes, I've restarted the phone. What else should I try?
I have an external disk partitioned in three Now, the whole drive started to work bad: on the partitions that work, Windows and Data, to open a folder in Finder takes time, like ten secons to "list" what's inside. But TimeMachine doesn't work at all. It cannot be mounted by the system, so I can't access it. Apart from that, once mounted (a weird thing is that I have to mount the partitions manually, before it automounted and the three partitions used to appear in the Desktop) I can't unmount them, nor eject the hard drive.
I tried using terminal with sudo or su, while I do rm -rf to Photos.app, Chess.app, Mail.app, DVD Player.app, iBooks.app, but it said Operation not permitted. How can I delete these apps? (OS X version is 10.11.1)
My MacBook Pro was stolen yesterday and I received an email that it was being erased. FMM now shows it was locked. It went online twice and I was able to see the approximative address. I wasn’t able to do anything because the only option on FMM was the sound—all others are greyed out. Does this mean that my Mac is locked and it rendered useless to the thieves? Is there a way they can unlock it without going to the Apple store to reset it? I alerted the police but so far they have not done anything about it.
I've been having a little issue with my wireless connection on my Macbook Pro and I can't seem to figure out what the issue is. Here's the difference in overall connection quality from my phone and my laptop. Phone: *=URL=* Macbook: http://i.imgur.com/q4adpX9.png
I jailbroke my phone and one day I accidentally dropped it in some water. The iPhone around an hour or two later while charging decided to not charge any more saying that this cable is not supported by Apple (but it was), and didn't charge. I tried different cables and power sources, none of which worked.
In Mail.app on El Capitan, the Mailbox menu offers the menu item Use this mailbox as. A submenu offers the items Drafts Mailbox, Sent Mailbox, Junk Mailbox, Trash Mailbox, and Archive Mailbox.
I have enrolled in iOS development program last friday. I already entered my order number and it has already charged my credit card, but I am getting this error:
Mail.app has an "Activity" floating window. That window has a list of tasks being performed. One typical task is "Downloading Messages". How can I tell which account this task relates to? I have an iCloud account, a Google account, a POBox.com account, and more.
Since installing El Capitan, I am not able to run Adobe Photoshop or Dreamweaver (old versions). I get the message "You need to install the legacy Java SE runtime"
I have just purchased a new Asustor 7004T network attached storage device, which I had hoped to use as an archive for the massive quantity of files I have spread across multiple computers and external hard drives. The problem is, I have many of these files meticulously organized by "date created", and recently learned, to my utter disbelief, that my device (and apparently NASes in general) does not preserve the creation date of any file transferred to it. For example, if I take three files dated 9/24/2008, 7/31/2011, and 1/6/2014, and simultaneously migrate them over to the NAS on 11/15/2015, they all end up with the timestamp of 11/15/2015. This is nothing short of a disaster for me, and I am flabbergasted (and frankly outraged) that a top-of-the-line, $1,000+ device expressly made for storing and backing up files was designed without a data storage capability possessed by any $5 2GB flash drive.
I tried resetting the default things, such as PRAM etc. I even brought my MacBook back to the store and there wasn't any hardware issues.
I'm trying to get clarity on this, I believe I know this answer but would like validation that I am correct. I am building app and which will be free on the App Store, but users will have to login to a privately paid for system to access it.
I have the "Display & Brightness" feature of iOS disabled, and yet the device still dims to a brightness level that is unreadable after about 10secs of inactivity.. How do I turn this off?
I used the external hard disk with Time Machine for the first time. After that when I tried to eject the disk, I got a message saying that it can't be ejected because it is being used by some processes. I downloaded an app called "What's keeping me?" which tells what processes are using some disk or file. I got these results:
I wrote a little service script to open an iTerm terminal window on an arbitrary folder on Finder. I want it to check if iTerm is running, and if it is to open the terminal session in a new tab instead of on an existing one. The script goes like this: Problem is that when I run the script as a service, it will always behave as if iTerm was already running (displaying the "running" notification), even if iTerm is closed and very clearly NOT running. But if I paste the same script to the Script Editor (setting cdPath to a literal, like set cdPath to "cd /etc") and execute it directly it will work correctly, either opening a new iTerm instance or reusing an existing one and creating a new tab, and display the corresponding notifications.
I have the Kindle reader app for iPad and was just wondering the following: What does a download link look like for an .azk/.azw file? Where do the files get stored on the iPad once they are downloaded?
I need to to connect to a VPN for internet access. While I'm connected to that VPN I need to connect to another VPN for accessing local data on that network. When I'm try to connect, the first VPN disconnects and the internet access is gone. Is there any way to connect to more than one VPN at a time on Mac OS X?
I've upgraded to El Capitain and since then I can't login to the App Store. The App Store prompts me for my login details and once I try to sign in, it just shows a spinner for ever. I have to eventually force quit. The login details are correct (I've check on the web App Store and they work) I've tried deleting the cache for the App Store (no luck) No VPN / Anti-Virus / Firewall running I've check some other suggestions such as checking the serial number, and the number is in place.
Hey I'm having an issue where if I open PDFs then sometimes the last few pages are just totally blank. Then sometimes it doesn't display any of the pages at all, and sometimes it works fine. I can't seem to find any reason this might be happening, I've tried a few different PDFs and it just seems random. Eventually the PDF does sometimes display properly, but only after a few minute. It happens intermittently on both Preview and Skim, but doesn't happen on the spacebar finder preview, which always displays it fine.
Near the bottom of each divider between columns in Finder there are two little horizontal bars that when clicked and dragged resizes the column to the left. This is great, but since the last column doesn't have a divider to the right of it, how can it be resized?
I got an HDD on my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro 13 inch. I decided to upgrade to SSD and I want a clean install of El Capitan. After the SSD ugprade and OS installation I connect my old HDD as an external storage thru USB. After copying the files from the old HDD, I want to eject the HDD but it won't allow and the system shows a message that something is using the HDD and give me an option to force eject. So I force eject the HDD. After a while, I need to connect again the HDD to copy some files, but this time around the HDD is not anymore detected. I'm sure the external closure is fine because it can detect other HDD when I try to replace it. When execute the diskutil list, I got the results below. But HDD is not listed on the Disk Utility window. I read that the HDD maybe corrupted (External hard disk not showing up on finder and can't be verified in Disk Utility). Is there still a way to fix the HDD?
I recently asked about bottlenecks in the Mac architecture (The Mac Pro 12 core 2010 model) to try to create a set up that optimizes performance. It was my intention to take 2 SSDs and RAID them on a PCI card to get a faster OS drive speed. I read an article at the Apple discussion board Considering RAID 0 or RAID 1? and was a bit alarmed to read this warning: Apple will not allow OS X to be installed on a RAID set, so forget about going there to speed up your machine, get a SSD instead.
I want to execute a script when iTunes plays a new song. I have looked at Automator as well as the iTunes Library in Script Editor, but don't see anything that will allow me to do this. Any ideas?
I play a game, for example Kerbal Space Program, and sometimes (pretty often) buttons are pressed on their own. No mods. It can be spacebar (stage separation) or "m" for Map. And it could be a problem in the game, but it's not because some similar stuff going on in Terraria, suddenly your character starts to go in one direction. It's like some button is stuck, but actually it's not, keyboard is ok. What is it can be? MBPr 2014 El Captain 10.11.1
How can I display a folder in a different Finder window knowing its path ?
Preview always freezes (beachball) whenever I try to modify and save a .pdf. I've tried resetting the preferences for Preview (as per Preview hangs when opening any image or pdf) and have also tried resetting the PRAM and SMC. Initially I noticed the problem when I was trying to add bookmarks and save the file, but I tested doing other modifications (highlighting, adding text, etc) and get the same result.
Just recently started getting into OS X/iOS development and noticed several files have a "d" at the end. I.e launchd, accountsd, cloudd, assistantd, etc.. Not all have it just some. Just a quirky question I was pondering and figured if anyone knew the answer it would be you guys.
I changed some of my file shareing options on my Mac mini (El Capitan) server and now it does not start. It does shows desktop but i have no control no menu bar (not even hidden) no dock, no spotlight ability... basically dead. The option that I did was to remove the Home directory form the file sharing list. I suspect that it i got it to remove all access to home folder for all users! Any idea on how to fix this.
I've tried replacing the SSD with another working SSD, but same thing. So it can't be the drive.
I have a mac mini, with two ssd, both internal. They worked fine for over a year.
I downloaded VLC to enable me to open an AVI file. It didn't work. So, I have two questions.
I have three computers in my home. My old computer is a lenovo w530 running windows 10 and my new computers are a 13'' and 15'' inch macbook pro 2015. All computers are connected to the same wifi router. if I connect my windows machine and my 13'' macbook pro to www.speedtest.net it report a internet connection speed of Download: 57.65 Mbps Upload: 57.96 Mbps when I do the same thing on my 15'' macbook i see connection speed of Download: 3.2 Mbps Upload: 0.59 Mbps Why is 15'' mac so slow for wifi as compared to my 3 year old windows and 13'' inch macbook pro? Edit:: Here are the details requested below
I want to see if somebody has tried to log in on my computer, which is running Yosemite. I am primarily interested in tracking ssh log in attempts, as well as tracking people physically typing passwords on my keyboard to try to log in. Closely related List failed login attempts on Mavericks
I just finished an install of my debian (7.8) on parallels virtual machine and I'd love to be able to share the linux folders with the osx platform. Any ideas on how that might be done ? Problem with google is that most people talk about windows or doing it the other way around (which is easy).
When I try to trash VLC it says it can't be deleted. Does anyone know how to do this. Also I can no longer see any of my other things on finder.
Yeah, I'm having a lot of WiFi reliability issues and am seeing this log message, which I can't google either com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice[1552]: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0. The WiFi works in the location where I see this but often is extremely unreliable (connection drops suddenly), while in the same place, my Android phone connects fine.
I tend to send things to print, even when not connected to my printer (via usb). This allows it to print the minute I connect the printer, which is nice when I am on my laptop. It used to work, even if I didn't connect my printer for a day or two, but now it doesn't. The print jobs seem to die after 3 hours. Any help?
What command line should I use? I currently found Create new partition in unallocated space with diskutil but it's a bit complicated because it's not my specific usecase (and doesn't say how to delete a partition first)
I just installed gnuplot and I am trying to set the default terminal view. On the wikipedia page for gnuplot, there is an image with a graph:
After roughly 1 hour of being switched on, my iPad progressively loses it's gradient of touch-sensitivity. For example - if I'm using Garageband, the drums gradually lose their velocity sensitivity.
I am confused about Apple's 10-device-per-Apple-ID limit. I am an Apple fanatic who owns tons of Apple devices, past and present, and uses nearly all of them on different occasions for different purposes. For example I have: my iPhone 6S, my iPhone 6 (used for app development and testing), an iPhone 5S (also for testing on smaller screens), an iPad mini, an iPad pro, a new 2015 MacBook, a MacBook Air (a dedicated work machine), an older 2011 MacBook Air (used specifically for app development also), a Mac mini (being used as an HTPC), an iMac, an older Mac Pro (using it as a server), and a 2007 MacBook (for testing things on older OS'es i.e. Lion). I'm also sharing my Apple ID with a close family member who has two devices - an iPhone and an iPad. This totals 14 devices, 7 of each type, all of which are actively used. Even if you forget about the family member I'm sharing with, we're still at 12 devices.
Is there a plist or hidden config to set my graphics/energy preference to "Always use low power/ integrated graphics"? Seems like energy saver preferences only allow choosing between: Smart auto graphics switching Always use high-powered graphics
I formatted a Mac and installed the latest OSX. This Mac was using Time Machine with an external hard drive. Now, I am unable to access folders on that disc that were created before the formatting. In Finder they appear with a red stop icon and trying to open these folders give me an access denied error. Trying to chmod or chown them gives me an error as well (with sudo obviously). Here is what ls says about one of those folders: I've also tried: sudo chflags -R nouchg Dropbox/, it did not give any errors but did not fix anything. Also:
Is there a way to know the current (or average power consumption) on OS X (a Mac Mini without battery). Preferred would be a command line tool but anything is OK.
I have the following situation - There is a school which distribute number of iPads to students, which deploy in-house app for student. Basically the app will display the PDFs, Images and Videos form remote server.
Following enabling-multicast-on-your-macos-unix, I am trying to enable multicast on my machine. Firstly, I checked if my network interface supports multicast by running below command: Output I got is: Then, I added the multicast address, using command: Then, I checked if multicast IP is visible in my route table, using command: And yes, there is an entry in my Routing table: Then I run the below command on my mac: Gives me below result: Then, dropping the IP from Routes Table as follows: and added an entry with interface to en1: then there is an entry in my Routing table as below: Running sudo tcpdump -ni en1 host 228.0.0.4 gives me: And running ping -t 1 -c 2 228.0.0.4 command, gives me below result: Can anyone help me in enabling the Multicast. Thanks!
Since I upgraded to El Captain, I'm having trouble with Homebrew, specifically when exhausting the resources by spawning dozens of process from time to time. I get this error: And with the output of ps -ax | grep ruby, I get: Does anyone know a fix for this problem?
I'm living in Japan (if that's relevant) and often to go net- manga-cafés (or Starbucks) for my internet fix (too expensive to get it at home, ATM). After connecting to a Wi-Fi network, however, I'm left with about fifty-percent of web pages loading, but usually the page fails to load completely (can't reach server error). Sometimes I get a 'spike' of access where everything seems to work for 5 minutes or so, then goes back to iffy/nothing. Back in the USA with the same MBP + OS, I didn't have any issues downloading / loading pages so I'm not sure if it's my computer or OS or not.
As you can see above, some of my pinned tabs show official icons (circled in yellow), while others are pinned with the first letters of the respective website titles (circled in red). My personal website is www.saphryn.com, pinned on the far left. What should I tweak so that my logo shows in the pin? Notes that might help: My site is developed on the Wix platform. As shown in the screenshot below, my logo/icon shows up in the suggestive search within the Safari omnibar. Safari shows the first letter of the any website name if there is no logo that corresponds with the site when pinning it. If the sight is bookmarked (as opposed to pinned), Safari will prioritize the first letter of the bookmark title over the actual website name.
Source: To "uninstall" MAMP, you only have to delete the MAMP directory and everything returns to the original state I uninstalled MAMP using the Uninstaller from Applications/MAMP PRO. I checked all checkboxes to restore everything. Surprisingly after that, typing mysql -p or php -v still works:
I was using the method described in this post to invoke "launchctl setenv" to set environment variables globally. I have just upgraded to OS X 10.11 "El Capitan," and now I see that the launchctl command works fine, but appears to have no effect on the actual environment. For example, here is the output from some debug code I stuck into a "make" file running under Eclipse:
I am moving to a new job in a Windows environment. Currently I have my Mac running to a Schiit Modi via USB and then from the DAC into a receiver. At my new job, I will have to output sound from either an iPhone 6s or an iPad Mini Retina (1st generation). Between these two devices, does one have a better onboard DAC?
TimeMachine backs up all my mac and also if I have external hard drives will back them up too. My goal is to add some general exclusion list that basically stops it from backup my mac and ONLY want it to backup my external hard drive. I thought if I add the hard drive labeled "Macintosh" to exclusion list then it won't backup my mac, but it did! So basically I have two external hard drives ( A 2TB Lacie and a 2TB Apple AirPort Time Capsule) and I want time machine to only backup my Lacie one to the AirPortTime capsule one but don't want to to backup the rest of my laptop because I won't have enough space for that.
OSX 10.10.3, also reproducible on 10.8, doesn't seem to happen on 10.11 Go to System preferences > Audio > Input Set input volume to 0 (this is important) Run this script in Terminal sudo osascript -e "set volume input volume 100" Run this script in Terminal This script should set mic to max volume and un-mute it accordingly, but for Mac OS < 10.11, the microphone stays muted, despite of the fact that the input volume bar is now set to maximum. This script should set mic to max volume and un-mute it accordingly, but for Mac OS < 10.11, the microphone stays muted, despite of the fact that the input volume bar is now set to maximum. The following AppleScript works: But unfortunately it cannot be executed without a permission from user to Accessibility (that requires relatively difficult actions from user).
Active Directory, userhome-location on the OS X Server or on a synology file server (AFP or SMB) or on the windows server: same issue as with "pure OD": Keychain does not get synced. Additionally, many other files do not get saved correctly or with incorrect permissions. Active Directory, userhome-location on the OS X Server or on a synology file server (AFP or SMB) or on the windows server:
I need to know when some Macbook did run first time. Is it possible?
When I switched from Windows to OS X Mavericks, it took me a few months to learn that the fastest way to open or save documents in an application was to search for the folder they should be in. Under El Capitan, it seems to be increasingly difficult to find an application that allows me to find a folder name in the Open/Save dialog boxes. Almost every application only allows me to find the names of files, and systematically excludes folders. (One exception is Save As in Office 2016, which allows me to search folder names.) How can I fix this? Am I crazy for thinking this used to work?
I'm currently running OS X 10.9.5 on my MacBook Pro along with VMware Fusion 5.0.5. I want to upgrade to OS X EL Capitan. Will version 5.0.5 of VMware Fusion be compatible?
i got macbook white A1342 (i think?) with broken screen. and classified ad one man selling macbook's pro display. i got a question it possible buy display from macbook pro and connect to macbook white? Display of macbook pro is around 2009-2011 year's
After upgrading to the newest El Capitan from 10.10. to 10.11.1 - I guess - the normally invisible EFI partition appears on the desktop as a regular volume on different machines, if I choose to show the volumes in the finder preferences. When I start "First Aid" with Disk utility the EFI partition get ejected, but on the next start they will appear again. I can boot in Recovery Mode and El Capitan seems to work fine (as fine as it can). But how can I get OS X not to autoload the EFI partition and hide it again?
In the network tab in activity monitor there is a read out of data usage showing sent and received in GB. What this dosnt tell you is over what time period this is, is it from a day, a week and month ? This is from OSX Yosemite.
I run my mac mail in split view with other programs on a side monitor. Sometimes it would be nice to pop out reply windows and individual emails from full screen / split view so I can bring them to my main monitor. Is there anyway to do this without undocking the mail program all together?
I didn't have any space left on iCloud so I went to check what's going on there. I saw that my iPhone was taking up a lot of storage. My storage for pictures was still 7gb even after I deleted all of my pictures. I'm not even sharing any pictures and I also deleted all of my recently deleted pictures. All of them. Why is it still showing me under "usage" that I have 7gbs? I'm not able to backup my phone because I apparently I don't have any space when really I don't have 7gbs of pictures.
Is there a way to force the iPad to lock after X minutes but also allow my kids to use multiple apps? I know about guided access which works great at locking them to one app (e.g., for homework) but sometimes I want to give them flexible time to use whatever app or game they want.
I feel constrained when I need to enter start and end time for a task because I know it can take another amount of time than entered. Can I somehow just make a list of tasks for a day, one after another? I saw all-day tasks, but I don't think these are what I need. As an alternative, what tasks list could you recommend please?
For some reason my mac mini refuses to start the screensaver or go to sleep unless I put the mouse into a hot corner. Energy saver is set to 3 mins as is system sleep. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. i have included a PMSET -G result but don't really understand it. Many thanks. (Mac Mini, 2.5Ghz intel, 4GB RAM, 10.7.5)
My Mac Mini, running El Capitan, and my iPhone 6 Plus are both on the same WiFi network, however when I select the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings, it does not send a code to my Mac Mini. If Messages is not running on my Mac Mini, then selecting the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings on my iPhone will start the program, but no code. I have signed out and back in to iCloud on both devices, and I have rebooted both devices. Nothing seems to work. In fact, everything was working as it should until around the time I updated to El Capitan. How can I troubleshoot SMS handoff from a cell phone to OS X?
I've just switched to Firefox from Safari in iOS just after its release. How can I ignore the invalid SSL Certificates error and bypass it in the newly released iOS version of Firefox? I can't find any button to bypass it and big blue Try again just refreshs.
I purchased an iPhone 6SPlus two weeks ago. When I created my work email account, which is Exchange 2003 (yeah, a dinosaur), I have no problems getting and sending mail and have no problems adding events to my calendar. My problem is that when I click on an event in my calendar, it doesn't open it up. It goes right to the lock screen. I had the iPhone 5C and it did not do this. How can I fix tapping an event to reveal the details?
The Milanese Loop band for Apple Watch has the tendency to show some dirt after a few months of regular use. How do you remove this grime?
I have multiple user accounts under mail and more often than I'd like I send an email from the wrong account. I know it is possible to put a default account, but I would like a way to make me sure I am checking the account I am using before I can send the email, like leaving it "blank". Is there an app around doing something similar to that?
I once used a sequence of button presses to force an iPhone to downgrade to its original iOS version, and its factory settings. IIRC is involved holding down the power button for 10 seconds and something else. Is that still possible? what is the correct sequence of button presses?
My current definition lets me input "<" when I tap SHIFT_L: But I want to change it so I have to press SHIFT_L twice. I've tried this, but it doesn't work:
On my Macbook Air (El Capitan) - Why is it that when I select Open With>Other... Enable all applications check the checkbox Always open with
On a consistent basis, I try to close any open apps to save battery life. I close the apps by double clicking the home screen button & then swipe the apps upward on the touchscreen to close. However, this is my concern. Sometimes, when I check to see if any apps are open, to my surprise, a message can be open or a pic that I did not open.
I understand the move past Snow Leopard meant losing Rosetta, and compatibility with any PPC apps. Since there are some apps that can't be replaced (for example, old years of TurboTax that I might need to reference) I have a drive to boot Snow Leopard, and one for Yosemite. I was considering the jump to El Capitan, when I saw the question Is VMware Fusion 5.0.5 compatible with OS X El Capitan? which got me wondering the question - Before installing a next generation OS, is there any way to find, in advance, which apps I have that would be orphaned by the move?
renice Sublime to -20. Did not help. Seems no effect at all.
I have three calendars under "my calendars" in my Google account and I'd like to make it sync with my iPhone. This is a Google Apps for Work account so that I can have Microsoft Exchange enabled. The problem is, when I login to my account on iPhone as an Exchange account, I only see my default calendar and there's no option to choose other calendars.
My iPhone has been stolen yesterday. I have put it in lost mode from icloud at same day. It is showing "Lost mode is pending" because it is switched off. But my iphone is configured with touch ID so user is not able to conntect to internet then what are the possibilities to track via icloud. And any other options to track it ?
I have seen this question and there generally very little information on this topic. In the question linked above the they talk about the activity app. I use nike+ running. Last time I went for a run I ran for some time with my phone in my pocket, then I ran without it and the watch would not pick up the distance or any other info during the run. I started the run from my watch so I thought it should not be problem. Has anyone figure this one out yet?
I have a Little Snitch (a third-party firewall application) on my Macbook running OS 10.11.1. I noticed that because of my settings to deny most incoming connections from the LAN, the launchd process automatically denied an attempted incoming connection from an internal IP address (192.168.0.2) on UDP port 137 (NBNS).
I am new to Mac, and I have my rough time (missing keys, wrong shortcuts and etc). But I don't give up. I am a JS developer with more than 10 years of Windows and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) experience and I need another Chrome profile accessible on a demand. The easiest way for me is another icon in Dock (and on the desktop). It is very easy in Windows - one just have to make shortcut and enter command line for chrome which looks like this: google-chrome --profile-directory=Default For OS X I found command line is open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=Default How to make a shortcut in Dock and on Desktop using it?
Ran an Apple Hardware Test. Result: 4HDD/11/40000000: SATA(0,0). Then repaired Disk and Permissions. Result: Volume appears to be okay. But during use, sometimes it freezes randomly and my MBP restarts with the message "Your computer restarted because of a problem." Then "You shut down your computer because of a problem." I also got the no entry sign a few times in the past 2-3 days. But like I said, the disk repairs have no problem. So is the disk corrupt or not or is it the cable? Log: As I just updated this^ and checked the website, the computer froze with the spinning wheel and restarted.
I've got an issue where after moving a file from the desktop a shared location (mac mini) the file doesn't appear. After duplicating the file, both the copy and the original file appear so it's not a permissions issue. Is there anything that could be causing it to ghost like that? Both Mac and the mac mini are Mavericks 10.9.5
I have tried restoring the watch from a backup and setting up the watch as new. Neither has worked.
I have 3 credit cards, AMEX VISA and Master, all of them are assuringly valid in Japan, but when I tried to switch country back to Japan, it always said "the card you entered is invalid." whichever I used. I don't have any unpaid bills or else, just changed the country to update some apps not displayed in Japan's app store. Anyone can give me an explanation or how can I get out of this? Thanks in advance.
On Windows I use a simple Autohotkey script that allows me to easily bind to and switch beetween opened windows. For example, I'm about to be using a browser, two consoles and a text editor in the next hour. So I open the browser and press Ctrl+Win+1 to bind it to the 1 key. Similarly, I map consoles to 2 and 3 keys, and the editor to 4 key.
I have just set up my own OS X machine to access my work mail (using Exchange). To my understanding there are several restrictions requested by Exchange that clients needs to obey. For instance, when using an iPhone the user configured lock time is overridden with what Exchange requires. It may also be that using too many attempts to unlock the phone may cause it to erase itself (at least that is what Exchange asks for).
already known that the hard link is just another name for linked file. But what upset me is that when select both the original file and the hard link file the size finder shows is doubled. So is it just a illusion or a real case?
I want to modify the icon of my mounted disk image, the same way as FUSE for OS X. My desktop screenshot, where my disk image is the left one (name is censored):
I am currently using a trackball and I am not satisfied with the scroll wheel. I wonder if there is a key combination to enable "free roaming, scrolling" mode, which locks the mouse and scrolls the screen according to the mouse motion, just like two-finger scrolling in trackpads. So that I will map the extra key on the trackball with that combination and scroll around with the ball while pressing that button.
Is there a way I can bind a single key on my keyboard to toggle "Do not Disturb"? It would be more convenient that opening up the notification center and moving that awkward slider. I do think that you can bind a key to a script, so a command line option for "Do not Disturb" would work as well, so if there is a command-line tool to enable/disable "Do not Disturb" then I will take that as an answer (since I am muy familiar with bash and applescript).
I wanted to connect to an FTP Server using Finder's Go > Connect to Server option. So I try to do so like this:
I went into system preferences and completely unchecked the swipe between pages button for my magic mouse, but it still does it. Why won't this feature turn off? If you're going to tell me my question is a duplicate, please tell me where I can find the answer to this duplicated question because I still have no answer!!! thank you
OK, I think this used to be an option in an older version of OSX, but I can't find in in the latest version. How do I bind a certain key (like F16 for instance) to run a Terminal command? I'd rather not install any additional services.
I have some Finder windows that I just cannot close. They are completely unresponsive, and have the rainbow wheel whenever I select any of them.
Next year, I'm getting myself a new phone, and it'll either be a Nexus or an iPhone. I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I'm fed up with how slow security updates occur and how often Samsung installs random crapware on my phone that I didn't ask for. In addition, the S4 is at the end of its lifecycle and might not get a full version of Android 6.0.
I've drained my battery looking for the answer to my question even more... please help! The charger works some days. I had found a combination of keys that help turn the light on once, but I can't find it anymore. I've reset the SMC or whatever already and still nothing is happening. I hate this damn charger.
My media keys had stopped working in iTunes on my Macbook Pro. They were working fine in VLC. I tried checking for the usual suspects: iTunes preferences Google Chrome Play music extension Neither of them was the case for me.
For my own purposes, I created service named "Launch Terminal" which, naturally, launches terminal. I've edited it few times, then renamed, moved to iCloud, then again edited and finally copied to a local machine. Now here's a problem:
This is obviously completely messed up. So, how can I fix this or reset $PATH? I'm running on El Capitan.
Recently, my Dropbox.app stopped launching correctly. If I double-click on the app or try to launch via spotlight, the app just silently dies within a second. I see it show up in Activity Monitor, but no messages are printed if I watch Console. There's no warning or error dialog. If I use Terminal to issue something like: then it runs correctly.
I have a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro that was used by a "less than responsible" user. As such, it seems to have become infected with malware that rewrites all SSL certificates. These certificates cannot be validated by OS X which is what alerted me to the fact that there is a problem.
I saw the message "Downloading Messages Paused (On Battery)" in Mail.app in El Capitan. What does this mean? The MacBook was plugged in to the wall, not running on battery. What would cause downloading to stop/pause?
After a few weeks of using El Capitan seemingly random messages started appearing blank. Viewing the messages in the Google web interface showed that they were not blank. Restarting the app usually fixes it.
There is an app called "Calum Von Moger Fitness" and I bought it and stupidly deleted and then when I tried to find it again I couldn't! Strangely I cannot find it in my app purchase history. I am not happy because I paid for this app and it just disappeared!
I'm currently looking for a way to grant an application rights to a certificate in my /Library/Keychains/System.keychain through the shell. I can currently do this through the Keychain Access App by clicking on the System Keychain, selecting the Keys category, double-clicking the "Imported Private Key" item, and then finally clicking on Access Control tab. From here I can grant an application rights to access the private key. Can I automate this via terminal command as I would like to use this in a bash script?
I maintain a local web development environment on my Mac via Homebrew, set up in roughly the way described here: https://echo.co/blog/os-x-1010-yosemite-local-development-environment-apache-php-and-mysql-homebrew
I work in an office with a bunch of old iMacs sitting around. I thought I'd get clever and strap a few together to make a couple extra workstations. The goal has been to pair a 27" mid 2010 with a 21.5" mid 2010, using the 27" as the primary machine since it has much better specs. Both machines have mini DisplayPort, rather than thunderbolt, and are connected with mini DisplayPort cables.
I'm looking at the apticket system and capturing TSS data. I want to know all the steps in restoring and verifying the IPSW, and exactly what data is sent to the signing server. From what I understand, the steps are as follows. Is this correct, what format does an apticket take, is any other information used, and how is the 'nonce' generated?
Using OS X 10.11.1 I'm hoping to run a setup where my SSH keys are adding using ssh-add -c and when the ssh agent is requested to use a particular key I receive a dialog asking for permissions (i.e. ssh-askpass).
Some of the apps on my MacBook Air (OS El Capitan) specifically my Grand Theft Auto are not opening because a prompt appears "Verifying (Name Of The App)". I've tried countless times to fix this but nothing has worked. Any suggestions on how might I fix this?
My iphone has been stolen, I have configured touch id already. After stolen i have put it in lost mode so now what are the possibilities that thief can connect my iphone to internet as he/she can not know passcode ? So if thief can not connect to internet then how can i get location from find my iphone App ?
I am trying to set up Java on Xcode and it needs to access /usr/bin/java at some point. But I cannot get hold of this folder and I get this message: The folder “java” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents. Even when I try to reach the permission through Get Info the system does not open the folder because of the same restriction.
I'm trying to construct myself a primitive network scanner, and I understand that there are multiple network classes and it has become necessary for my program to determine exactly what class of network the workstation is currently connected to. I have trialled a few options which i consider to be needlessly complicated, such as truncating various commands such as ifconfig, however these methods are arduous and messy. Is there a single Terminal command which can return simple output such as 10.0.0.0, thereby identifying the network class?
I want to view Xcode (can go fullscreen) and the iOS simulator (can't go fullscreen) on one screen. I want Xcode to be fullscreen and the Simulator next to it. Is there a way to either:
My computer was dead for 3 months and when I bought a new battery, I tried to plug my iPhone 6 and nothing pops up. It doesn't connect at all not even to charge like it would before. I updated my laptop and iTunes, I verified the Apple mobile device support, I restarted the Apple mobile device, I checked the unspecified and nothing, I went to the device manager and there's nothing about Apple on there, I need to upload all my stuff to my computer but I don't know what to do anymore.
I was trying to use the iOS7 simulator in El Capitan in Xcode 6.4, deleted it, reinstalled it etc. Part of that was dragging iOS 7.1.simruntime from /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes to Trash. Now I want to empty the Trash and it does not work. Open Trash, click "Empty": "The operation can’t be completed because the item “iOS 7.1.simruntime” is in use" Open Trash, click "Empty": "The operation can’t be completed because the item “iOS 7.1.simruntime” is in use" Terminal: Terminal: Terminal: "sudo" "lsof" (output manually wrapped) I already restarted several times, tried to change permissions etc. What other steps can I take to get rid of the files?
Is there any information available about; which devices and which versions of iOS do support iAP2? (iPod Accessory Protocol 2 - 7th Chapter)
Is there anyway I can make my new Macbook (12 inch) that comes with only USB-C work its display on my iMac? I used to do it with the my previous macbook air, but the new one does not have a thunderbolt port. I also have the USB-C - HDMI adapter but apparently it is of no use in this scenario.
I have a home network with the following components and network capabilities. AirPort Express (A1264): 802.11a/b/g/Draft N = ? Mac Mini 2011: 802.11n = 54-600 Mbit/s MacBook Air 2014: 802.11ac = < 1 Gbit/s When copying files between the Mini and the Air (using rsync over ssh) I get maximum transfer speeds of about 1 MByte/s, which is a major disappointment. Actually, I get better download speeds from the Internet (2.5 MByte/s, limited by my type of broadband subscription) than between the two Macs. I assume the Express is the major bottleneck, however my questions around this are as follows: What could possibly explain the ridiculously slow transfer speed of 1 MByte/s?
OS X El Capitan apparently has this new security feature known as System Integrity Protection, which limits root access to an array of files including: /system, /bin, /sbin, /usr, /etc, /tmp and /var. I have a program I developed which accesses the file system.log located in the /var/log/ directory. My Question is: Will my program (running in the sandbox) be able to access the file /var/log/system.log with the 'System Integrity Protection' system running? Thanks in Advance.
I've never see this before.  Here's the facts: It appears to be grayed out in the finder I can not open it by clicking I can move the folder The permissions are set to 777 (overkill i know) I can rename the folder with the mv command I can view the contents of the folder with ls When I ls (list) the contents of the parent dir I can see it without -a (show hidden files) The date is set to from before I was born. I believe this folder to have been a copy of another
I'm unsure whether this was possible in OS X Yosemite, however OS X Mavericks has a security flaw in which : Should a individual have physical access to a computer, he need only launch in Single User Mode, mount the hard drive and remove the file ".AppleSetupDone" in the Directory "/var/db/". In doing so, tricking the computer into thinking it is its first ever launch and allowing the individual to setup a new Admin account. OS X El Capitan apparently has this new security feature known as System Integrity Protection, which limits root access to an array of Directories including: /system, /bin, /sbin, /usr, /etc, /tmp and /var. My Question is: Will System Integrity Protection protect the executable .AppleSetupDone from deletion, and the subsequent exploit?
I recently installed Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro Late 2011, OS X El Capitan. I'd like to add my Exchange account to Outlook. My domain is @ofsl.ie.
I accidently drained my mac book pro retina battery and now it will not charge. The power source is adequate and there does not appear to be any debris concerning the magnetic connector. I have left my computer plugged in for days on end. Have I ruined the battery?
I got my iPhone 6s and transfered content from my old iPhone 5 by following Apple Support HT201269, and backup my iPhone 5 with iTunes. After I restored the backup to my iPhone 6s, it's seemed that 6s was reinstalling all my 3rd party Apps and restored its user data with Internet. There are several questions that confused me:
I created an encrypted RAID 0 disk following Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume? on a WD My Passport Pro
There are two backups shown in the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup in my laptop. I want to restore the older backup from it using iTunes. How can I select one of the backups and ask iTunes to restore the selected backup to iPhone?
I have exchange email on my iPhone 6 Plus and a iPad. My emails are still coming in but when I delete a email on my computer or move a email into a subfolder in my inbox it does not take effect on my iPhone and iPad.
I use the conversation view so I can keep track of threads, but it's confusing not seeing my own replies in the list. Is there a way to get it to show my replies by default?
I attempted to open my Podcast app and it looked as if it was working, ie. screen went dark and then back to app icon, w/out opening the app. This repeats at every attempt. The same day, hour & event I noticed my FaceTime & iCloud icons in Settings "gray" and inaccessible. Hard to believe it's coincidence. Please someone tell me I just switched something the wrong way and didn't notice. I hadn't been in settings or any such. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
I keep getting the following error message when I try to open any of my PowerPoint files on my Mac Pro.  Any suggestions?
For a while now, I have noticed that my iPhone 6 will randomly delete contacts of the people that I know, and other weird contacts of people that I have never heard of suddenly appear at the same time. I am fairly sure that it is not due to sync with Facebook or Twitter as I have never heard of these people in my life. It has been rather frustrating and confusing to have to re-save those people's contacts several times. Does anyone have any idea why this happens?
MacBook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.4 can't share the events with my iPhone. I get error: The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVUpdateShareesQueuableOperation. I have tried all steps mentioned at this Apple discussion and Why does iCal often say "The server responded: 403 to operation CalDAVSetPropertyQueueableOperation." In the second link from StackExchange, it is suggested to move:
I've disabled iCloud photo storage and am trying to get my 296 photos onto my PC before they're deleted after 30 days. Do I have to install iCloud and set it up on my PC to get my photos or is there a way I can do it without having to do that?
I have an iPad Mini Retina running iOS 8.1.2. I also have a MagicBox II bluetooth speaker. I want to use the speaker via bluetooth with my phone, but I also sometimes use it via its AUX jack with a non-BT capable device.
Here's the problem: my colleague has a MacBook Pro Retina with El Capitan installed and he's been having issues with regular freezes lately. Everything has worked fine under Mavericks for well over a year, then it was upgraded to El Capitan, worked mostly fine for some time and then started to hang up regularly. Freezes happen on/during either of the following: the boot screen the login screen (most often) within seconds after logging in Freezes do not happen in either single user or safe mode.
Trying to download Pokerstars.es, but I always get German App Store and in Spain Pokerstars.eu can not be played.
In split view, when I exit full screen with one window (by clicking on the top left green button), the other windows remains in full screen and is hidden. What is the way to exit full screen for both windows at the same time?
Let me start by saying I'm not traditionally a Mac user. I'm still trying to transition from Gentoo, where compiling everything from source was the default state, and the system wasn't actively trying to prevent me from doing "dangerous" things.
Only a long-power-button-press would turn off the screen LCD. Repeated long-power-button shutdowns and then power-on attempts resulted in this same LCD-light-on state, but no other activity.
I'm trying to sync folders from my computer to Google Drive using the OSX app, but the folders aren't in the "Google Drive" folder. I made a symlink in the "Google Drive" folder to the folder that needs to be synced, and the symlink works correctly, but for some reason the app is choosing to completely ignore the symlink folder. For example, everything else that's in the "Google Drive" folder has the check-mark next to it meaning its synced, but any folder thats a symlink seems completely invisible to the Drive OSX app. After I thought this solution would work, I found this, which says to do the same thing, but for some reason it's not working: *=URL=* Yes, the symlink works like normal, and I'm comfortable with terminal, and I've made symlinks plenty of times in the past (For purposes other than Google Drive) and have never had a problem. Also, I'm not stuck on the symlink solution... any solution will work.
My Macbook Pro, OSX El Capitan 10.11.1, disconnects from my Windows PC's shared iTunes library whenever it (my Macbook) sleeps. To reconnect it I have to restart music sharing from the Windows machine. This is a pain, and I'd like to stay connected all the time. I've turned on music sharing with iTunes on my Windows PC by following these steps: opening preferences (Edit > Preferences) Going to the sharing section Checking the box "Share my library on my local network" Checking the box "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts"
Why do disk images open in a finder window without the sidebar?  Is there any way to have disk images open in a normal finder window? I find this really inconvenient when I just want to drag something to / from the disk image to something in the sidebar.
When I zip or download a zipped file, Archive Utility doesn't display it's default zip icon anymore. Also when viewing Info and the large Previewer icon. It now displays this version of a program I seem to have installed (don't know which).
I have received this message in the screen: "Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new Mac." I indeed updated OS in another Mac, which would be an explanation for this message, according to previously solved questions on this matter.
As you can see here, my iCloud storage doesn't add up. This also shows the same on my iPhone. As you can see, Backups still takes up 3.86 GB of space, even though I deleted it (because i had no space left to backup, deleting the current backup usually allows me to do a new full backup). What can I do to restore my iCloud space?
I am trying to install software update in macbook, but when it says downloaded completed and you need to restart your machine, I press Restart button but my machine does not restart, it just gets freezes; when I try to restart it from Apple menu it restarts but when I try to restart when software updater asks to restart it, it does not restart and blank screen appears without dock and topbar; just wallpaper appears. I am new to Mac OS. So please help me to solve this problem and install updates successfully. Thanks. [ SYSTEM SPECS Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.31f1 Serial Number (system): W883401J0P2 Hardware UUID: 7206FFBC-00AD-5CA2-A5B7-0466AC96016B Sudden Motion Sensor: State: Enabled ] [ ABOUT SOFTWARE System Version: Mac OS X Server 10.6 (10A433) Server Co
I can run the well-respected perl script exiftool from the command line in Terminal and achieve the desired result, but when I incorporate it in Automator as a Service I get a generic error message and the perl script is not executed. When I look in the system.log I find: "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)" i.e., Code object is not signed.
How can I cause Mavericks to generate the sleepimage without actually putting the computer to sleep? How can I manually cause Mavericks to replace current contents of the memory with the sleepimage?
Lately Apple Software Update has been popping up with a recommended upgrade to iCloud 5.0. (I am currently on 4.1.1.53, on Windows 10 with the Fall Update). Each time I attempt to upgrade, the upgrade fails. I tried uninstalling the application using the uninstall utility, but that failed as well. Finally, I tried to "Repair" the program, but that did not work either.
I have something running that is syncing two directories. I want to turn it off but cannot figure out what it is. El Capitan, if that matters. Can someone provide a command or tool that will reliably show the pid (and ideally the command) for every file read and write operation? I assume this is possible with something dtrace-based but have not been able to figure it out.
I cannot update my updates in the apps store for apple the user id is locked (untitled projects@gmail.com) I understand why the id field is locked under this user id How can I resolve this issue I have a 15 in Mac Book Pro using OS X 10.10.5 thank you, Jonathan
I am trying to find/locate iMessages from a certain day back at the beginning of October. Is this possible? Scrolling back on the history on my iMac in Messages goes back to 10/19/15 but no further. On iPhone it is more recent than that.
Dozens of tutorials followed and nothing works. msmtp doesn't work ("TLS certificate verification failed: unable to get local issuer certificate" (cert installed) postfix doesn't work (no way to specify from address) aws ses doesn't work (unverified email (that's verified)) mutt and mailx tried every combination with the above. Comcast and Gmail services tried with the above...
I have Dual Core 2 Duo processor and need to upgrade with a newer processor. My Mac will not play videos so need to know how easily can upgrade the processor.
iPhone 4s, my iPhone 99% of the time won't charge arms the battery is power-draining. Started happening at random, going from good - absolute hell while i was at work. One time out of the many times I've recently tried, it charged about 10% after hours and hours on the charger. tried 3 separate chargers (3 separate brands), tried draining 100% and charging back up etc. could the battery be shot? I can switch the battery out in a simple minute, but I don't want to go out of my way and buy a new battery at my shop if it won't work
I tried to make a partition for Windows on my Mac by using Apple's Disk Utility, because bootcamp already showed me that it didn't work for some reason. But now I'm stuck with a 70 gb hard disk, and I'm not capable of accessing the other part of the hard disk (I'm using a MacBook Air with 120 GB SSD). I kind of expected Disk Utility to let me change the name and everything for this new partition I made (intended for Windows), but for some reason, the only thing that happens is that I can't access the rest of my hard disk anymore and there are no more partitions available. I hope I've made clear what the problem is, I'm not a native speaker (as you might have noticed) so it's a little hard to write a question about a subject like this. Here is the output of diskutil list:
I have installed cocoa versions of both Emacs and MacVim using homebrew. After the installation, the actual applications are installed in /usr/local/opt/emacs/Emacs.app and /usr/local/opt/macvim/MacVim.app They are then symlinked to /Applications They now appear in my Applications folder, but if I want to start them using Spotlight, they do not turn up in the search results when I start typing (like other applications do) Is there anything I can do to remedy this?
According to *=URL=* two of the pins in Apple's 30 pin connector are dedicated to line in. I have spent days looking for a cable with line in capabilities (because I want to record stereo line in, the headphone jack is mono and is not line level) but they are nowhere to be found. I can only find *=URL=* and similar that are way to bulky and unnecessary expensive for my purpose.
I have an early 2015 retina mac book pro and El Capitan installed. My external monitors are Dells. The energy saving preferences already prevent the mac from sleeping when the display is off.
So my dad left behind his old phone so my son can use it as a music player. It's currently running 5.1.1.
Is it possible to enter these characters? (For Spanish text) I could not find them, and I'm sure I'm using the Spanish QWERTY keyboard in SwiftKey (with the ñ)
I use the Outlook email app but because Apple doesn't allow changing associated apps for things like mailto links, whenever I click on "Send feedback" in an app or an email address on a website, I'm presented with "Please configure an email account". Is there any way to configure the Mail app for send only? I don't want to have two copies of my inbox. (This is for a GMail account) CLARIFICATION - This is on an iPhone not a Mac
I am using the BetterTouchTool Version 1.47, and configured that a right click should be simulated using a tap with two fingers using the magic mouse (see picture). The problem is that WebStorm 11.0.3 does not register the event, hence I am not able to right click in WebStorm using the magic mouse. I am running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. Has anyone experienced the same thing, or have a solution to the issue?
I have an aluminum unibody (2008). I recently upgraded RAM & downloaded all software to get my baby up to date. THEN the wifi card died. I tried to fix that myself but thanks to Apple's almost spot-welded screws, I had to change directions. I got the usb adapter's drivers installed & when I inserted the adapter, I got nothing. NOTHING. Can someone please help this old lady? I just paid $35 to the local computer guy to remove a stripped screw. I'm trying really hard to not have to see him ever again. All I want is to use my MacBook again & throw this PC back in the corner.
I have a macbook that is running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion); for various compatibility-related reasons I would like to upgrade the system, but not to El Capitan. Yosemite (OS X 10.10) would be dandy. The App Store, of course, only offers an upgrade to El Capitan, currently the newest OS X version. I know that it is possible to restore a computer to the OS it had prior to an upgrade, but is it possible to upgrade to a (never-seen before) OS version that is not the latest available? Edit: This question is related (but only if Yosemite had been downloaded via the App Store in the past).
I'm running Windows 7 in VirtualBox with Linux as a host. I'd like to sync my iPhone with iTunes installed in the VM. I've set up USB filters in VirtualBox, and Windows sees my iPhone upon connecting, however its icon doesn't show up in iTunes. It did show up once after a few trials, I don't know if it was random or if I did something, but I can't get it to appear again. This is what Windows displays when I connect my iPhone:
I would like to connect a third display to my Mac Mini Late 2012. Since I'm already using the HDMI and Thunderbolt I'll have to use something else. I read in a couple of forums that you can connect another monitor using some kind of external graphics card and a USB slot. Now, I thought about using the FireWire slot. I found an Apple adapter the other way around but is there an adapter with Thunderbolt input that I can plug into the FireWire? OR:
We work inside an open space in computing, and we need to display 3 critical webpage (fullscreen mode) on 2 televisions (= 2 apple tv). I was wondering if the apple TV's:
I have an issue in a folder were some files, that was recently put there by an installer, does not show in Finder. Files are not hidden (ls -Ol), they show in Terminal, and has the same file permissions as other files in the same folder. The only difference between the files are that they were recently put there by a .pkg installer.
Each day, in my company, I need to manually login via a web portal: Do a google request -> leads to nowhere Do the same request from HTTPS to HTTP Be redirected to the login portal Click login, an AUTH popup shows itself Enter credentials. Access to the web
I'm presenting a talk on troubleshooting OS X and iOS for a Mac user group next month, and I was surprised to hear that several members thought a "hard reset" or force restart of an iPhone or iPad is a useful troubleshooting procedure. They suggested that it does some sort of clearing of caches or resetting of [insert hand waving here] which is different from simply shutting the device off and turning it back on. I've searched pretty deeply across Apple's support site, the Apple discussion forums, the popular Apple news websites, and sites offering Apple tech tips and I haven't found any corroboration.
Can you increase the font size for web pages on an iPad using the default safari browser?
Alright, so I did something stupid today, and I really need some help right now… So kinda like the situation in this post I think I messed up the Fusion Drive on my 1TB iMac (with BootCamp), I messed up my 1TB Fusion Drive while installing Windows 10 in BootCamp. I don’t want Windows no more, just want my Fusion Drive to be back to its original state.
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software or Hardware stand point prospective, Using Terminal, I discovered once in a while, files that are named for example com.apple.finder or com.apple.dock etc.
This is in El Capitan, but problem likely exists in earlier versions. It's a very simple question:- How can I create an automount onto a folder/directory with a space in the name?
I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my barcode scanner under OSX (El Capitan). It's a generic barcode scanner, Proster branding, with a Megawin USB-UART chip inside so it acts as a USB Keyboard.
Workflow I'm trying to achieve: Export SVG file from Adobe Illustrator to Desktop Drag SVG file from Desktop onto Automator Droplet Automator runs script (basic summary below) Script executes and leaves me with on ICO My script is: Summary of script: Take SVG (from drag & drop) and export multiple PNGs at specified sizes Take multiple PNGs and merge into one ICO Send original SVG and PNGs to Trash Errors / Problems:
I am unable to submit the video preview of my app. Length is ok and the upload is accepted followed by the message "Your file could not be loaded. Try again"
I'm having a problem with Base64 strings in URLs in El Capitan. I'm sending notifications from a web platform to its users. Those emails are plain text and contain links to messages. I have tried the following links *=URL=* http://localhost?e=VGhpcyBpcyBhIGJvcmluZyBleGFtcGxlIHRlc3Qu
How can a simple demonstration video like this be made using a Mac? In particular, I need: To edit and cut some of the raw materials, as some of it may not be very interesting to the audience. To edit and cut some of the raw materials, as some of it may not be very interesting to the audience. Add some words in the video. Add some words in the video. Could anyone can give me some help?
This is odd. No recent system updates. Before when I would hold down an arrow key, my cursor would immediately start moving left/right/up/down but now when I hold it down there is almost a 2 second lag before it begins to move. To clarify, the cursor DOES move one space on keypress but it takes another 2 seconds before rapidly moving in the direction I am pressing.
I have created two partitions: System 850GB Data 150GB what I actually want is: System 200GB Data 800GB
Copied all my local notes to Apple's iCloud notes. It's been a few days and they haven't indexed yet. I found if I edit a notes file then it gets indexed. I don't want to edit all my notes apps as they maintain the date of last usage. How can I force an index of all the Apple notes?
I mean the system terminal, without the need for window manager and emulators... On linux that was achievable via ALT+Fx, but it's not like that for OS X.
I recently updated to El Capitan and now when I enter my Time Machine click on past backups, it just sits there stuck 'waiting' and no files are visible in the backup. Any ideas what to do to be able to access them?
My computer won't allow me to access to the preview function. This has automatically opened documents in the past. I gat a fault 1712.
A file created in Apple's Pages won't open after it's been created: >the required index.xml file is missing. This has become a more frequent problem as seemingly more of my Pages files won't open. However some other Pages files do open. Why will this software create a file then later refuse to open it? I have a 2009 iMac, OS Yosemite 10.10.5.
Is it possible to download fonts from applications into FontBook? I go to the application and select "Show Contents" and find the .otf font files. I then try to download the font to FontBook and get a frightening warning message.
I've had my MacBook Air for about six months. Now all the browsers are extremely sluggish — sometimes taking minutes to load a web page that would have used to take under one second to load back when everything was new.
When transferring a song from a CD to my iTunes library (or downloading an .mp3), I've noticed that Explicit and Clean labels are not present (as seen below).  I've already added all the information to every song, and now, all that I'm missing are the Explicit labels. Is there any, preferably programmatic, way to add these labels to songs I've imported to my library without downloading/using a third party program? I've converted my imported files to AAC versions (.m4a format), which I imagine is more versatile for this purpose.
I just reformatted as journaled format and it says 660 MB is used already. Formatting? Formatted ExFat at drive level it says in Finder the patron is using 1 MB of storage.
I want to debug my podcast feed but don't have an iPhone. I run iOS simulator on my Mac but the iPhone 6s that it runs does not have Apple's standard Podcast app installed. The iOs version is 9.1. How can I install it?
After I upgraded to OS X 10.11 (currently running 10.11.1), messages are no longer properly displayed in Mail.app: All message information is crammed into a space with minimum width, despite the fact that the actual column width is much larger. Resizing the column temporarily restores a correct display but the problem comes back as soon as I switch to another mailbox.
I am trying to find a way to get spell checking to play a sound when an error is detected. I don’t mean when an error is “corrected”, but just when one is detected.
At the moment I use an app called "Dimmer than dim", it works fine, it lets me darken the monitor screen. But if I want to use an app full screen, Dimmer's effect disappears. Google search, shows that there are many apps like Dimmer, but which one would work in full screen? The F1 and F2 keys don't work for my external monitor. My monitor doesn't have brightness controls.
I'm using OS X El Capitan on iMac 21.5". As an experienced user, I follow activity monitor sometimes for security of my device. For 2-3 days,"ss_conn_service" is running on my device. I cannot determine what the process do. I suspect from a Galaxy Tab which I plugged to my device 2-3 days ago. Did you encountered with this process ? Sample of the process obtained from Activity Monitor:
2015 15" Macbook Pro, AMD Radeon graphics. When the battery runs out and the macbook is reconnected to power, I press the power button and the screen turns on. It shows a corrupt, purple and green checkerboard pattern across the screen and does not respond to input. I have to hold the power button down to turn it off and then press again to turn it back on, which starts a fresh boot and obviously does not save the previous state (though previously opened windows get reopened as designed). I also experience some occasional graphics flickering and screen shaking/tearing, both on battery and while connected to power, which could be related. Are these known issues with the newer AMD Radeon-based Macbook Pros or is my graphics board dying?
I have Windows 10 installed on my MacBook Pro (the latest 15" version with discrete GPU). I also have IPv6 connectivity on my home WiFi network, which is managed by a DHCPv6 server.
How i can get path of all files, folders which has Finder comment and also the comment. Like this: /path/here/file.txt TAB finder comment is here /path4/here2/folder TAB finder comment is here I could first use this to find all items with comment: And then find the comments: But is there a way to get all in single command?
So because the mail app from Apple is far from perfect and never showed me the date and time of calendar invites from MS Exchange environments (after the Yosemite update) I was adviced to re-add the exchange account in Preferences -> Internet Accounts. After doing that, the calendar app just won't show the exchange account anymore. It's right there in the settings, but not in the panel:
here are my system details: OS X El Capitan - gold iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
My teacher doesn't believe that I did my homework, just because I did like 95% of it. So he thinks that I did it this morning and I want to prove to him that I did in fact do it last night @ 6 pm.
On my mac OSX Yosemite. when I do a brew update
Is it possible to set OSX to allow tiny finder windows? The minimum window size on 10.9.5 is 452 x 294. On a 30" monitor, 452 x 294 is still much larger than I need; wasting screen real estate. On some unix systems the window manager allows the windows to be quite small.
iPhone 5C on iOS 9.1 I've created new albums and uploaded photos from a desktop on the icloud.com "iCloud Photos" page. How would I view these photos from my iPhone?
I have the following: - MacBook Pro (Late 2008) - MacBookPro5,1 - Boot ROM: MBP51.007E.B06. - OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 I upgraded RAM from 2GB to 8GB 1067MHz DDR3. The system recognizes the 8GB memory since System Information reports: Bank 0/DIMM0 4 GB Bank 0/DIMM1 4 GB
I want to hide messages until I can act on them. Outlook for iOS has an option of removing messages from inbox and moving them back at a specified time. Basically if a new message comes in, I need to triage it. If it requires an immediate response I will do so, otherwise I want to "defer" it, but I dont want it to get lost.
The goal is to have two (or more) versions of Safari accessible on my mac at the same time. I know this is possible because I have done it with iMovie 9. I now can run iMovie 9 and the latest version of iMovie at the same time. I need the older version of Safari for web development.
I already have xcode installed on OSX Yosemite. I have also run it and accepted terms and conditions. I can also do gcc --version and I see Now if I do The error I get is
Every time I search for how to create and install OS X on a MacBook from Windows I get a lot of Hackintosh videos, videos saying to use a Mac to create the installer, or even how to install in VirtualBox which are not what I want to do. I have a late 2010 MacBook that has no operating system on it. I know I can install and run Yosemite on it, but I don't have a spare Mac to create a USB installer.
Why does brew not link gcc properly? What am I missing? I event tried brew unlink gcc49 && brew link gcc49 What am I missing?
I have problem with the removing of NTFS-3G. These instructions say: If you have followed those instructions then you've installed three packages.
Essentially, I often forget to turn the sound down/off when leaving my OSX machine for the day. Since my computer is in my living room, I inevitably get a notification of some kind while watching TV, and have to laboriously get up and turn the sound off. (Note that I basically never shut it down, I always just use a sleep corner.) Is there a setting for disabling audio output entirely when the computer is asleep?
On my mac, OS X Yosemite, if I have terminal open and multiple desktops the terminal window appears on all desktops. How do I disable this feature and have the terminal stick to the desktop it was launched on or dragged to?
I was going to compile a php extension using phpize, but it reported some files not found. I googled and found some solutions, In OS X 10.9, we can make a symbol link from /XCODE_PATH/OS_X_SDK/usr/include to /usr/include
So lately, my Macbook Pro 15" late 2014 has some bugs in the Mail app. It takes hours to receive a mail from anyone. Whereas my phone receives the mail in seconds after it being sent, the Mac takes hours to do so. The recent mail does not show up at all! The only e-mails I can see are from 5 or 6 hours ago. I don't believe the network is an issue since the phone and my laptop are on the same Wi-fi.
Whenever I have an SSD (crucial mx100 or samsung 850) as my internal hard drive, my macbook has problems with sleep/wake. If I unplug my macbook and let it sleep, the hard drive does not wake up. It will work for about a second then it'll freeze for a few seconds and quickly flash a white screen and reboot. This also happens when I close the laptop while it's plugged in and I try to reopen it. Sometimes it will happen randomly after a few hours of using the computer (and possibly letting it sleep in-between). Some solutions I tried: Reseting SMC Installing OS X via USB and installing it as internal hard drive Reinstalling OS X Repairing the drive in Disk Utility Solutions that worked at first (for a few days), but eventually failed:
I created a book in iphotos. Then i exported it as a pdf file to desktop. I deleted it from iPhotos. I now want to add more pages to the book. Can I take it back to iPhotos and complete the book and how?
I would like to flag/star email when swiping left. Is it possible with gmail account in iOS mail app?
Bizarre problem here with my new Magic Trackpad with Force Touch. The trackpad pairs via Bluetooth no problem, and shows up as actively connected in the Bluetooth connection window, as you can see in the screencap below:
I recently noticed that the Menlo font is rendered differently in OS X El Capitan, depending on the application being used. After tinkering a bit with AppleFontSmoothing, I noticed that the crucial difference was by how Terminal rendered white/bright text on black/dark background compared to other applications like Emacs, Xcode and TextEdit. While the other applications render fonts "heavier" in this configuration compared to black text on white background, I couldn't see any difference in Terminal. The effect is - in my opinion - a leaner and more readable text. Please see attached screenshot for comparison. Example: Terminal on the left, Emacs on the right side
I find the bold font on the desktop takes up more room than necessary and doesn't make the text any easier for me to read. Is there a way I can remove this bold formatting independently from the rest of the system font? OS X 10.11.1 Many thanks for your help
After I upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan with NTFS-3G and MacFUSE installed, both programs stopped working. So I wanted to remove them and install Fuse for OS X instead. I still have the NTFS-3G and MacFUSE settings page in System Settings available, but I cannot uninstall them because the button is not clickable. After some little research, I found the NTFS-3G folder under: I tried running the script uninstall-package.sh manually, but it did not work due to the changed folder location. Now I wanted to ask if anyone has an idea how to get rid of them, including the System Setting entries.
Does anyone know of a way that I can put photos on my iPhone using image capture?
On MacOS 10.11 I am constantly going to the Emoji & Symbol viewer to bring in arrows and other kinds of symbols:  Problems with this interface include:
I have this bash script that works perfectly on terminal I am trying to create a service for finder that accept movie files and process them using this script. The service is setup to pass input to stdin. When I select movies on finder and run that service, nothing happens. Like I said, the script works perfectly from terminal.
I'm using the same apple account. All my songs are getting downloaded twice. What should I do to copy the music from Desktop to iPhone without redownloading? iPhone 5S - iOS 9.1 Windows 10 - 64 bit Why should I have to download a song on each device when I'm signed in on the same Apple account?
I have Virtual machine images  that I wanted to back up on a USB Drive so I bought a PNY64GB Drive
I have an issue with my terminal since the installation of El Capitan. Every time i'm opening my terminal, this message appears and prevent me to using my terminal correctly : What i've tried : delete com.apple.terminal.plist from the ~/Library/Preferences Restore disk permission via Onyx and Clean My Mac 3 (Since OSX disk repair is not available anymore) So far no luck, also i have to mention that for a short time i've disabled SIP (but re-enabled since). Anyone have this similar issue ? Thanks for the help ! Edit : My ~/.profile My ~/.bash_profile
When trying to install Windows 10 from scratch on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro, I was unable to remove the old BOOTCAMP partition through the Boot Camp Assistant. I erased the partition with Disk Utility, but was unable to join it with my main partition. Now when I run Boot Camp Assistant, I get the following message: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." Running diskutil core storage list returns: No CoreStorage logical volume groups found Additionally, FileVault is turned off.
I have installed the play framework using typesafe-activator. However, this does not appear on in PATH. Therefore, I can not use Play from the command line: If I try to install play using brew I get: However, I can not install it with typesafe-activator either: So how can I install Play such that it's visible from the command line?
How can the max. width (fixed width≈425) of Safari's download-popover-window be made wider? Is there a way to get at Safari's "download pop over window" in any way so its max-size is larger than 425 px and longer file names are no longer abbreviated? Maybe via AppleScriptObjC? [[ Answers: So far (w/o use of AS-objC) just three "workarounds" have come around... Original Workaround #1 ... a mixture of (do) shellScript (cat/sed), AS, Html and Automator Workaround # 1 ... uses only Automator modules but also contains the above shell script Workaround # 2 ... with direct AS access on Safari's plist file, a dialog & a "button" in Safari
After install itunes, it starts whenever the window start, How can I block? I tried , msconfig -> start program -> disable itunes help Installed ccleaner disable apple on startup disable some apple service on msconfig I checked every option on itunes setting but never works , itunes run and pop up always..
I'm tunneling through ssh, so I would prefer screen sharing to only listen on local host for additional security. Is there a configure file I can edit to specify that ?
I cannot find in my memory a situation when I was installing anything from Google except from Google Chrome (that is my main browser). Recently I saw on my Mac an app titled Google Search.app.
I connected MacBook Air 2015 to my 1920x1080 AOC 22' monitor using mini display to VGA converter. It does not still show me the 1920x1080 option. Tt shows a maximum of 1280x768 only. Can someone help?
I have a 4.6GB file on my hard drive. Today when I tried to copy it to another machine through network, I got the following error message from Finder halfway through the copy:
I've bought in 2010 the app "GoodReader" for iPhone and I would like to restore it to my iPad. However I cannot see it in my list of purchased apps in iTunes (although many others do show up). Any idea why is so, and how to make it appear in my list?
Cannot create a directory and can neither go into directory. $/Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Movies is an Windows NTFS file system mounted on my OS X Mavericks so in the Movies folder if I try to create folder named 1940 it gives Input/output error but if I create outside Movies folder it gets created without any error. if I type ls 194 and hit tab it gets autocompleted as if it is there, but if I then hit enter after autocompletion it again gives I/O error. $:/Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Movies$ ll 1940 ls: 1940: Input/output error any idea how can i fix this ?
I would like to install command line tools without installing Xcode as it is more than 4GB and I don't want to waste that much space since all I need are the command line tools. I have used xcode-select --install command but I still get an error message Does anybody have an idea?
My plan is to use Rogue Amoeba's Line In app and redirect the sound from my turntable/Bluetooth combo to my Airport Express' but while waiting for my transmitter to arrive I have googled and it looks like a Mac can't act as a Bluetooth A2DP server. However, I also have a small portable Bluetooth speaker and that can act as a speaker phone and in Line In I can select this speaker both as output destination and input source, which seems to indicate that my Mac actually can receive sound from a Bluetooth source.
My documents do not contain that font anywhere. But the iPad still complains about this. How can I remove completely these font from document? Is there a way to do this? Maybe there are special invisible chars with that font?
When I try to "Save as PDF" a single-page, 8.5" x 14" Microsoft Word 2016 document, it's cutting off the edge. Does anyone know how to resolve this? It almost seems as if 8.5" x 11" (standard letter size) is hard-coded into the PDF driver for Microsoft Office 2016.
I've managed to get 100Mbit between the two boxes now, but it had to be forced. However, I still can't get GbE like I used to. One thing though: Mavericks doesn't offer GbE flow-control but El Capitan does - could this be an issue?
Macbook Pro 13" 2015 with OS X Yosemite on board. I've been trying to install OS X El Capitan, but always get the following message: "This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." By the way this is not a date time issue, date is correct on my computer.
I would like to find out if I can set a new firmware password via Find My Mac? I already have my MacBook added but the firmware lock is active and I have no idea what it is, I've tried all combinations but they haven't worked. If I choose to lock it using Find My Mac, will I be asked to create a new key or does that activate and expect me to enter the one it believes is already there?
I use an iPhone and a Mac. I set up text forwarding on my phone so that I can text from iMessage on the Mac, but I noticed that my phone and computer are not always in sync. For example, I'll get a text to my computer, but it won't show up on my phone. Also people who receive my messages say that sometimes they come from my email (the @gmail.com below) instead of my phone #. I posted screenshots below of my settings from my phone and computer. Ideally, I would like all texts to be send from my phone # and my computer and phone to be in sync. Thanks in advance for your help!
I do a lot of scrolling in Safari. I often end up hitting space bar to jump across just the right sized blocks. I just looked into it now and I wonder, is it the exact same action as page down? Anyhow. I have a sort of vision problem and the aggressive animation in the scrolling action is quite overwhelming. Is there any workaround for disabling it so hitting space bar or pg up/down would still scroll that perfect amount of the page, but bypass that whole visual effect?
iOS8 has brought the randomization of the WiFi MAC-address. My question is if the Bluetooth MAC-address is also randomized in the same manner on iDevices?
I updated to OSX El Capitan a few weeks ago, and ever since I did so, my computer is having some issues with my Seagate USB 3.0 hard drive. In terminal, when I use the disk utility, the drive shows up, but it generally will not mount. I say generally, because occasionally the drive will mount, but it is unusable (Time Machine and disk utility give me issues). I have tried reformatting the drive with no luck - the disk utility says that it cannot unmount the drive.
Accidentally updated to 9 version from 7. It lags a lot so I want to downgrade it at least to 8 version. Is it possible? Via standart restore feature i get “This device isn’t eligible for the requested build”
My MacBook has 125 GB storage space (other 125 GB is for Windows). It still has more than 44 GB available but it gets stuck every two hours. I have tried all the methods I can find and have deleted what I can delete. But it still doesn't work! Now I can't write my final paper in Word! When it starts up it still has 44 GB available Less than 2 hours later it would be like that And then all the application paused and I have to re-start.
I have an iPhone 5 on silent in my room (somewhere). iCloud's Find My iPhone feature obviously will show me that the phone is in my building.
I want to boot to rEFind and then to Ubuntu from any Mac; preferably without destroying my Ubuntu install. I would like to split the FAT32 partition into two partitions: FAT32 space (500GB minus a few megabytes) bootable partition for rEFind (the aforementioned megabytes)
i go to the doctor appointment on Nov 20 he tells me I have a challenge with my blood sugar he explains what to do then he wants me back Nov 30 Soooo I want to go to my calendar entry on Nov 20 then I want to put notes re prognosis then I want to change date to Nov 30 and make new appointment BUT still keeping record calendar entry for Nov 20 CAN I DO THIS?
Options gives me (slack) or (chrome)
When I enabled filevault on Yosemite 10.10.5, it went through the whole process of encrypting, and then it changed to "Optimizing." It progressed to 86% and seems to be stuck there.
I believe I used to have the ability to rearrange the search categories shown in Spotlight, but I can't drag to rearrange within System Preferences > Spotlight anymore (El Capitan). Is there some other way to do this?
I have an Apple IPhone 3G and Version 4.2.8 (8E401), and a generic selfie stick. The selfie stick has a wire that plugs into the headphone jack on the phone, and when pressing the shutter release on the stick increases the volume? It does not release the shutter to snap a photo. Can you help with this issue? Thanks.
Reading conflicting information on this one. iOS 9.1, iTunes 12.3.1. When I sync, any apps I have purchased recently do not show up in iTunes. Some things I've read say it's a bug, some say it's by design. If the latter, is there another way that I can manage apps in a similar way (i.e. see the whole list, sort by name/size/date added, etc., view sizes, date added, select which ones I do/don't currently want installed on the device, etc.)?
I have a MacPro with an LaCie external raid drive. About 80% of the time when my Mac goes into sleep mode the drive to just disappear; DiskUtility cannot see it nor can I see it in any utilities. I am running Mac OSX El Capitan.
If I do ls -G, I do get the colors. From what I understood from the man pages, if I go into ~/.bash_profile and add export CLICOLOR=1 I would then get colors by doing just ls, as "This option is equivalent to defining CLICOLOR in the environment."
The dictionary for Messages states that the application has a "chat" element which has the property "updated". My goal is to get this property, and here is my code: When I run this, I get the error:
I'm having trouble with my iPhone 4S. It rarely turns on and whenever it does, it shows a gray light in the middle of a black screen with some kind of halo around the light. Also, whenever I hook it up to a charger, it makes the charging sound over and over and over, every 7 or 8 seconds. I was wondering if anyone has/had the same or similar problem? If so, any suggestions, other than repair? Thanks in advance.
Will my MacBook's battery be damaged if I do not use for next couple of months? I bought a new Macbook Pro (March 2015) a month back. So far I have not started using it yet. It's charged and box packed as I do not currently have time to set it up for my development work. Update: It's charged 90%+ but not being used.
I would like to remove a user account under El Capitan by following this recipe: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups. Click the lock icon to unlock it, then enter an administrator name and password. Select the user you want to delete, then click Remove below the list of users. ...
You know in the keyboard we have 2 CMD buttons, one on the left side of the SPACE and on on the right side. My question is, can I make OSX treat the one on the right side as a completely different button? So I can assign different actions to shortcuts such as CMD(left) + K and CMD(right) + K. Thank you.
I am a left handed Mac user and I find that some features are not left hand friendly. In particular Notifications is quite bothersome. Most of the time my cursor is over near the left hand edge of the screen; that is the part of the workspace I tend to operate from and when an email notification comes up I have to move my cursor nearly across the full diagonal of the screen to get to the banner before it disappears. I quite often don’t get it. If there was a way to make the Notifications appear on the left hand side of the screen that would be great. Does anyone know of a way to do that?
I have a macbook white late 2009, recently upgraded to 8 GB RAM and running on yosemite 10.10.5. I updated Keynote and Pages to the newer versions. Mac app store says I was able to update to Keynote 6.6.1 and Pages 5.6.1. I restarted my laptop after the update. However, Keynote and Pages still insist that a newer version of the app is available. In effect, the new versions were not installed , but mac app store insists that they were installed. How can I solve this? thanks
So option + '\' key types « but I can't figure out how to type the closing ». Can anyone point me in the right direction? Also what is the name of this symbol.
I'm unable to connect my MBPr 15'' mid 2015 to Samsung S22E450 display using Thunderbolt to DVI adapter. Using this machine no kernel panic occurs. This is the console log: Monitor keeps cycling its display modes (VGA, DVI) and Mac is unable to show the external monitor connected.
I am having an issue with Safari. I want to be able to save web pages as PDFs and keep the hyperlinks in the PDF file, however Safari doesn't do this for some reason. It works on all my colleagues computers, who are all running on the same version of Safari (5.1).
My son recently updated his iPod and i gave him access to my Apple ID so he can download games via wifi and access shared music - problem is my iMessages are syncing...what can i do to stop that from happening?
How am I able to record the output on my Mac meanwhile I am listening it with earplug? i.e. listen something in browser in youtube and I want to record it as well?
After one week of try and error I need your help! I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 via Boot Camp on my iMac.
At the moment I'm using two displays for my MacBook. The larger screen is the one I primarily use because of its available space. The smaller one (MacBook) is used to glance on if I ever need to check something. In the case that I watch a class on the secondary while working on the primary and something important comes up, I would like to switch the applications displayed on both screens with one keystroke (so if I have TextEdit and Safari open on the big screen, and YouTube on the small, I want to move TextEdit/Safari to the small and YouTube to the big screen with a single keystroke). Hopefully someone has an idea to accomplish this.
Disk Utility does not help. Show usb-stick but cannot mount. Error: 'Mount failed. The disk "" could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting.' 'Verify Disk' says everything is ok 'Repair Disk' also works fine
Is there a way to trigger some apple script based on applications/events? What I want to do is to increase brightness when I am running videos etc. fullscreen, and reduce it when I exit the fullscreen view of the player. I can use key code 113 and key code 107 in loop to adjust brightness I guess, but how to automate it based on application's fullscreen status?
I formated my external drive on mavericks, and then on Lion, sometimes I had to wait some time to unlock the volume. Other times I had to do a disk repair and only after that OSx accepts my password to unlock the volume. This issue is described here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cant-unlock-encrypted-external-drive.1668423/page-2
My iPhone 6 is running iOS 9.1 (13B143), not jailbroken. Installed one app, f.lux, which is sideloaded, everything else is from the App Store. Occasionally, about once per day, while charging or after unlocking the screen, the phone will present the "Enter your passcode" screen. Just to be clear: I have never set a passcode, yes I know the "skip" step during upgrades, I do not have roommates or other people touching my phone, I do not use Touch ID or Apple Pay, and I have never set a passcode.
Can I charge my MacBook (the new one, with the USB-C) with an iPad charger? I forgot my MacBook charger and may not be able to get it in a week. Thanks!
I plug in a flash drive to my USB port. How can I access it through bash?
So I input the URL for my school's proxy server in the automatic proxy server box in network settings (under advanced and then proxies). I want to now clear this box (yes, I realize I can uptick the box to turn off the proxy server). However, if I delete the URL, click OK, then press Apply, when I go back into the proxy server settings the url is still there. Does anyone know how to clear the field so it stays cleared (I also realize I can replace it with 0000000 or something nonsensical, but I prefer to have it cleared).
Calendar on OS X, which has always had trouble with disappearing events, is now waiting several minutes to perform its disapparation magic, so I an enter an appointment, wait a while to confirm that it stuck (a habit I've learned is essential over the years), be sure it’s safely recorded, and even then; poof! — it’s gone (or turned into a generic “New Event”). I simply can’t rely on Calendar for anything any more! Is there a way to configure Calendar so that appointments that I enter don't disappear or revert in this way?
I noticed the same behaviour on Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite, on 3 different Macs. Hence I diagnose this isn't an accidental corruption of a font sets and this isn't an accidental bug within one version of MacOS X. The problem might be within the way these characters are displayed within many versions of MacOS X.
How often does "Data Received" and "Data Sent" reset in the activity monitor pane shown below:  Nothing I can think of (daily, since last restart, all time, etc.) seems correct given the numbers I'm getting, so I'm baffled as to what it could actually be. I know that I've downloaded more than 24 GB since I've owned the computer, but less than 24GB today.
Originally, I posted my question on Stack Overflow.Compile R package It seems that when installing the R library(Boom) I always get that error relating to compile error: fatal error: 'future' file not found include 1 error generated
I desire to disable the "Device Enrollment" notification window for OS X machines that are enrolled in DEP (Apple's Device Enrollment Program). The machines are running 10.11, though the process should be the same for 10.10. (While we are currently managing iOS devices, we are not managing OS X devices through the enrollment program, and I do not want the pop-up to confuse or distract students.)
I have this app with a greyed out icon which I'm trying to delete.  I tap and hold, and it asks me if I want to delete it and its data. I confirm and nothing happens. I try to open it and nothing happens. I go to Settings>General>Usage and it's not in the list. I reboot the device and it's still here. Is there another way to force deletion of this (ghost) app?
I've tried shutting off my iPhone 6 AFTER plugging it in to charge, and it will turn back on. How can I make sure it stays off while charging so that it charges more quickly?
Has anyone been able to use diskutil to manipulate the Core Storage LVM into increasing the size of the read/write buffer of the SSD? Currently the Fusion Drive keeps 4 GB free for new reads/writes. Is it possible to change this buffer/cache to say 10 GB or 20 GB?
Is there any way to teach Preview how to export/save (and not just import/open) additional formats? If so, how?
The short version: Is there a way to find the original operating system that shipped with my mac from within the operating system itself? The long version:
When I use Firefox, I can tab through buttons and other links on web pages and then use the space bar or enter key to "click" the link or button. Is that same feature available in Safari? I think it's something in the preferences in Firefox that lets you do this, but I don't see that option in Safari's prefs.
I've found various ways to check if a particular directory is mounted under NFS (here, for example), but none of them seem to work on OS X. How can I check if a particular directory is an NFS directory in the shell on a Mac?
I'm trying to do a git pull on my Mac from a local repo. It is hanging. My question is, why is it hanging and how can I stop it? That is, I'm in a repo where the "remotes" are on the local filesystem:
When I code test ruby script, it keeps output "(B[m" before my other output, even thought I just have single line puts statement. Just as follow:
I have iPhone 4s with firmware IOS 6.1.3, i like upgrade to IOS 7. Actually signed firmware for iPhone 4s is IOS 9.1. Is Possible?
Every time I open Mail, it has the same message selected. I scroll up three or four screens to the new messages, then close. Next launch, it's on that same old message again. It used to select the newest message on open.
I have only browsed the internet, and added a few files around 2GB. When I look in / (with hidden files) and take all the sizes together it just becomes about 730, but I have a 960GB hard drive with only 80GB free. Why is this and how can I find out?
Command and drag will not move it. I've tried looking into library and user accounts but can't find the source. The MacShiny web site only tells how to uninstall the app itself, and says nothing about how to get rid of the icon.
I was having trouble with my El Capitan Macbook Pro running slow, especially when using syncing contacts. To troubleshoot, I erased my drive and reinstalled El Capitan. Once I entered my Apple ID and set up Internet Accounts, the problem returned, even though I hadn't deviated from the base install in other ways. Note: By the time I got to writing this, I'd installed Airmail 2, but this error existed before I did so.
I'd like to allow users on my local network to access the RabbitMQ server that's running on my Mac. I tried adding pass in proto tcp from any to any port 5672 to /etc/pf.conf, applying the rule and rebooting but the port is still closed.
I'd like to know the key pattern for the functional keys (F1, F2, F3....) I recently purchased a separate media controller for my MacBookPro, it has the ability to map it's buttons to certain key patterns. I'd like to define two of the buttons on it to be Previous Song (F7) and Next Song (F9). But the controller isn't recognizing the key patterns.
I will be using my computer as a music device during a party, so it will be open and others will have access to it. I do not want people to snoop into my personal email. Is there a way to password protect just my email?
Macbook Pro OSX 10.10.5, Late 2013 model. Firewall entirely off (Stealth mode is certainly off). Three Macbook Pro’s wirelessly connected to the same wireless network (WPA/WPA2 Personal) under the same netmask with one and only wireless router (192.168.0.1).
I put my MacBook Pro to sleep at night and the next morning when I try to boot it .. I get a question mark icon on a blinking folder... I long press the power to shut it down.
My MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2010, El Capitan) periodically turns off. And this is happening completely randomly - sometimes it works fine for more than a day, and sometimes turns itself off 10 times in an hour, sometimes just turns off when you turn on the laptop. TG Pro App after each shutdown displays the message "Forced - Battery current outside limit". The number of charge cycles: 859. Maybe I should change the battery? UPD I changed the battery but the problem remained.
I know this may have been asked several times, however I cannot find a valid method that will work for me. On El Capitan - I want to add a option to the right click menu (not the services section) that allows me to open a file or directory directly in terminal from the right click option. Would somebody be able to provide a working method?
I have encountered a strange behavior twice already, with two separate EarPods headsets. After about a year of using the headset, the cable near the jack gets slightly worn out and it causes really irritating behavior - when bent, it pauses/plays song while listening to music. It also hangs up a call just by bending.
I am using a MacBook Pro Late 2014 with Mac OS X 10.11.1 and an i-Tec USB-Dock. I also use the USB-Dock for audio output via external speakers. Sometimes, I was not able to recognize any pattern here, the sound output of the external speakers stops working. I am not able to reproduce the problem yet. Any hints on how to debug such a problem? I'm quite inexperienced in Mac OS X debugging, but I have a strong Linux background, so command line stuff won't be a problem for me. Thanks in advance Christian
Is it possible to do either of the following: Remove Air Watch from an iOS device without deleting WiFi/Exchange profiles Backup the profile and restore it after removing Air Watch?
I was reading a pdf document in full screen mode with preview (MBP mid-2009 with El Capitan) and I've noticed something wired : the document is prettier right when I'm scrolling pages.   Is this a bug that I need to get fixed or a feature I can understand/control so that the rendering is sharp always?
I have a lot of eBooks on my Mac. But whereas I can find any PDF on my Mac by searching their content, this doesn't work with Spotlight when applied to .epub files. (The only clumsy way of doing this is putting all the eBooks onto google drive. But the results are frustrating. the eBooks are treated somehow like "Package Contents" and only the pertaining page of the book, not the book are found.) Anyhow, is there a (simple) way to find eBooks by content?
I have just installed latest Xquartz and FSL imaging software. I noticed that there is a new symbolic link in /usr (i.e. /usr/X11R6) to /opt/X11. My understanding was that only Apple software could be certified/signed to modify /usr under the new SIP in El Capitan. I am certainly unable to modify /usr directly with sudo so SIP is turned on.
Let's say I have 500 images that can be categorized in 5 albums: cars, houses, vacations, family. So I went to my camera roll, selected about 100 images related to "cars" and added them to folder "cars". Now I go back to the camera roll and I notice another picture of a car, but I'm not sure if I selected that one and copied it to the album. Is there a way to know what pictures in camera roll were added to an album? I have iPhone 5C, iOS 8.4.1.
The keyboard shortcuts Option-Left/Right Arrow is made for moving the cursor by words, as Apple described here: *=URL=* , but doesn't work on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010, OS X 10.11). They fail to work everywhere I can try, including but not limited to Notes, TextEdit, Mail, Google.com search field and iMessage text field. Meanwhile on my friend's MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013, OS X 10.11), they work damn well! Anyone can help? Note: An Apple Wireless Keyboard is paired to my Mac, but it doesn't help. System has been restarted several times, doesn't help. Including Option-Delete and Option-Shift-Up Arrow, all the Option related shortcuts in the "Document shortcuts" session of *=URL=* doesn't work. The Option key is fine, I have tested it by shortcuts like Command-Optiono-H which works.
I've got an iPhone 6 (upgraded from an iPhone 5s two weeks ago) and the battery life is irritating me. I use Spotify a lot (probably 5 hours+ a day whilst I'm at college, easily) but I think it might be draining my battery excessively. I've attached the battery usage screenshots, why on earth is it using so much battery? It lasts exactly as long as my year old 5s did with the same usage (7am-6pm). I restored my new iPhone 6 from a backup of the 5s, if that makes a difference. All of my music is offline and I don't do much else on the phone. Also, background app refresh is switched off entirely, why would the app be doing "background activity"?
I'm trying to set up Automator with a folder action to convert any Powerpoint or Word documents I drag into it to PDFs. I found this question: How do I script Powerpoint to save a directory of PPTX files as PDFs?, but I don't have any Automator actions for Powerpoint or Word. Here's what I see in Automator. When I search in actions for "convert", here's what I get. Mac OS 10.10.5 Powerpoint version 15.15 Word version 15.15
I'm pretty sure there's a way to force enable Google Safe Search by editing a hosts file on my kids' Mac. Can someone tell me how? I'm guessing I need to sudo nano /etc/hosts According to How to: Enforcing Google SafeSearch I should use: 216.239.38.120 www.google.com #forcesafesearch Is that enough?
I find myself often having to search for a PDF I just created to open it in Preview. This waste of time is begging for automation, though can't figure out how to do this in Keyboard Maestro, for example. Any ideas on how to automate this so that a keyboard trigger will open it?
From a BASH script I want to get user input and change system settings, in a loop. I first tried cocoaDialog but that has a fatal flaw: the dialogs are always on top of other windows.
I know that Apple has made SMB the default network protocol for a few releases now. However is there any benefits of using AFP? Is there anything I can do on a AFP volume that I can't do on a SMB volume?
I'm trying to write code snippets inline with prose text, much like the back ticks (``) in markdown in Pages (version 5.6.1). I have a "code" paragraph style, and a "body" paragraph style. Is there a way to intermix the two on the same line/paragraph?
I have a usb keyboard that has a numberpad. When I use the number pad in most situations, it works as expected (IE when I click the bottom 3 buttons, I get 123 in this web form). However, when using vim (in a terminal window), in edit mode, if I type 123, I get:
What are the names of the variables (in terms of Applescript variables or otherwise) that track the currently focused application, the layout of applications in spaces, the currently focused space, and whether two applications share a space in a split view rather than 2 applications appearing in a desktop? How does one (given a variable identifying an application) assign focus to a particular window of that application if that window resides in a split screen view? To make the reason for asking this question concrete: the goal is to write an Applescript (or other kind of script) that assigns a keyboard shortcut that rapidly allows swapping focus between two applications that share a split screen view? The simplest algorithm I can think of for accomplishing this (since it appears to not be a built in setting) is to get list of current spaces (including desktops, full screen applications, and split screen applications) get currently focused space if currently focused space is assigned to
I would like to stream some movies with downloaded subtitles from my hard drive to my IPad mini. What are some ways I can achieve that solution? I use Ubuntu 15.10 or Windows and my IPad is updated with the last iOS.
Numbers was installed with a different Apple ID to mine (my bosses), so it won't let me update it (when it prompts for credentials, you can't overwrite the user name). I therefore need to reinstall it using my Apple ID.
I am trying to add a shortcut to the menu bar actions in the Terminal app, (specifically to create a new window with my own theme.) Here is a screenshot:
So, I'm fully aware on how to type characters with various accents (å, à, ø, á, ä and â) but one thing I don't understand is how to type those accents when typing in Esperanto. The circumflex, for instance, will only work with vowels (â, ê, î, ô, û) but Esperanto uses a different set of special characters. These would be ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ (which can be described as c, g, h, j and s circumflex and u breve) and apart from copying them from other pages on the web or popping open the Emoji and Symbols panel, I am at a loss on how to type these in Dvorak and since I have near exclusively typed in the Dvorak for the last two years, I'm not really too enthused to switch back and forth to Qwerty just to type one character every so often. It, like popping open the "Emoji and Symbols" panel, is simply unrealistic and really breaks my flow. So, any suggestions on a work around that is actually much simpler? Just in case you may need to know, I'm running OS X 10.11.1 on a late 2013 15" Retina Ma
I just changed my storage plan for 50 GB for $0.99 per month. When i went on settings>General>Storage and icloud usage, where it said storage above it i didnt have more storage. But the second box, where it said icloud abov it had upgraded to 50 GB. But i dont have any more storage for me to be able to get more apps etc.
I have build a robot with a head actually made of an ipod ( with IOS6). I would like to take control of the camera remotely so i can control the robot from afar.
Does anyone know of a way to have mail notifications turned off when I'm in my mail client (more specifically, when the Message Viewer Window has focus)? It's rather superfluous to receive a notifications in the top right when I can see the mail coming in in Mail's main window.
I accidentally bumped my MacBook Pro and now I have several lines on left and bottom sides of the screen. The effected area is usable but hampers experience. I would like to somehow restrict the output to the working area of the screen. I remember CRT monitors used to have features to easily, stretch/skew and position output. How can I do this in OS X 10.10, Yosemite? Either a built-in feature or a third party application would be welcome.
I logged into the iTunes store via Settings on a new iPhone 5s, and it automatically went to the "confirm your payment information" page. I confirmed my method of payment (none), and it came back with an error, letting me know that:
I am struggling to find a detailed guide on how to troubleshoot wifi once Kali Linux 2.0 has been installed. I dual booted on my MacBook Air (El Capitan) Kali Linux 2.0, and as I have been warned, and seemingly could not avoid, I can't find the wifi interface. After reading Debian manual, and a bunch of others, and trying them out, I seem to run into problems that are not listed. Primarily I've narrowed down to this site for the most concise help: https://wiki.debian.org/wl#Broadcom_BCM4311.2C_BCM4312.2C_BCM4313.2C_BCM4321.2C_BCM4322.2C_BCM43224.2C_BCM43225.2C_BCM43227.2C_BCM43228.2C_BCM43142.2C_BCM4331.2C_BCM4352.2C_BCM4360_devices_.28wl.29
Some apps, like Terminal and Textmate, offer transparent windows. With a good wallpaper, this can look really great. But apps in full screen mode have a black background, not your wallpaper. Is there a hidden feature or setting to set the background of fullscreen apps to a wallpaper?
I installed OS X El Capitan and, along with it, Oracle's Java 8 SDK. I've already verified that, using java -version, java is correctly installed. I need to add some user classes to the file path, but, when I use echo $CLASSPATH, I cannot see the actual path being used by OS X. How can I know where should I install my user classes?
I recently have found that when I put my email address in a safari form or other Application, it changes my name from one word to two. e.g. fredsmith@.... auto inserts to fred smith@... Is there any way I can change this?
I have an ARC mouse (surface edition) which i'd like to pair with my macbook air. I'm running el capitan (os X 10.11.1).
Is there an option to enable a 1 time flash plugin on Mac? Possibly with portable firefox or something like that? I don't want to install Flash on my Mac, but I do find some legacy sites where this is required.
For a couple of years now I have had intermittent problems with my external monitor (Dell 22in connected with Thunderbolt->DVI cable). Often a snowstorm appears on the external display, or the external display goes into sleep mode (turns off and the power button goes orange). Sometimes it recovers from sleep mode, restoring to either the snowstorm or correct display. When this happens I generally have to unplug and reinsert the thunderbolt plug. I've noticed it happens more frequently if I am watching a twitch.tv stream or running QuakeWorld client, so I'm guessing this is connected with the graphics chip overheating. Sure enough, if I prop up the MacBook to allow air to circulate underneath, the frequency of these interruptions goes down. I replaced the monitor and tried a different cable, but the problem persists.
I am running os x version el capitan and have installed gcc5 via homebrew. However, compiling simple programs such as: leads to following error: This is the case for any other standard c library, such as time.h. I've been reading around concerning where gcc looks to link against library, and according to *=URL=* I can get the list in the following manner: Which results in following paths: Doing it for the os x gcc compiler, I get the following:
I want to run a Crontab on OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan). I'm running the command: to enter the crontab with nano as the editor. Then I create my cronjob that looks like this: If I go to /home/ there is nothing: Why doesn't the cronjob run if the screensavers is on and screen is locked?
The difference between alerts and banners is that alerts require user input to disappear, whereas banners go away on their own. Is there a way to close all notification alerts at once?
I'm disappointed to see that *=URL=* are discontinuing support for Boom1 and charging users to upgrade to Boom2. In fact their smallprint suggests they intend to charge for Boom3. As a software developer, it would be against my conscience to charge multiple times for a simple utility that the operating system should have supplied.
My Dell LCD monitor has a "speaker power" socket in the back. This suggests it has its own internal speakers behind the LCD panel.
I'm trying to write an applescript to get me to a specific section of the system preferences - Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services and hopefully to a specific service as well. I've gotten a part of the way with this:
It is disappointing to me that in order to use my monitor's USB ports, I have to send 2 Data cables from my MacBook to my monitor: Thunderbolt->DVI and USB->USB. In order to use my monitor's inbuilt speakers, I require at least one more cable (speaker power), which requires an awkward transformer. It seems like bad design, the monitor should power its own speakers, and USB should automatically extends through the data cable.
I've bought a new 21:9 IPS screen with a native resolution of 3440x1440px. The display has only two inputs: 1x DisplayPort which is connected to a workstation and 1x HDMI port which should go to my Mac Mini (Late 2012).
I'm getting a IPv6 Relay Error. Strange thing, with other hardware it works just fine.
our network has 3 primary public IPs (datacenter, user set a, user set b). I would like to set up the Caching server, and am just trying to understand the breakdown of the DNS entry.
Does anyone know how to uninstall freetds from OS X? I have installed it from source by following instructions: gem install tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-include=/usr/local/include --with-freetds-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/include --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/lib My question is, what are the steps to uninstall this software?
My initial problem: I am using git with SSH for authentication. Each time I push/pull, I get The authenticity of the host […] can’t be established, and after confirming to trust the host, I can connect successfully, but the confirmation is not recorded: Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/Users/peterlefanulumsdaine/.ssh/known_hosts).
I bought an iPad, the user had removed the iCloud in front of me. But he did not remove the MDM profile from the iPad. She did the full reset on the iPad, however the MDM profile is still there how can I remove that or should I return the device?
on Windows we can extract files from an .exe file pretty easily but I couldn't find any terminal command to do similar things. I imagine this is because some .exe are compressed in such way OS X cannot interpret. Did anyone find a way to do it? I can of course do it easily through a VM or on a Windows OS, but I like to know if there is an quick method that I am just not aware of. Okay, I think I need to note this is not for compressed zip files that has an extension of exe.
The title says it all, I think. I am installing Yosemite onto a MacPro, and doing it from a Yosemite Beta installer I moved to a thumb drive. It looked like it went well, and it updated itself about 8 times, version 2-6, and then an "OS X Update Combined Version 10.10.5". Does that final update mean I have the full regular install, or is it still a Beta?
I am brand new here and I have an additional clarification or need additional help for an issue from this thread - Applescript: "can't get tab group 1 of window" (El Capitan) In my preference pane, in addition to Headphones and Digital out, I also have 2 apple monitors and would like the option of selecting one of them as out put (namely the first one in the list).
I am using a Macbook air. 64GB. My user directory has used 20.47GB Disk Utility shows 'Other' is 41.33GB and I only have 2.9GB free. What tools or command line commands can I use to find out what is taking up large amounts of this. I can use finder with all files and sort by size but that is already about my directory and the space taken seems outside of my directory.
What do you recommend? Is the 13" performance OK to last roughly 2 years of heavy Photoshop use or do I need to get the bigger and thus less-portable 15"? Is the 3,1GHz dual core 13" as good as the 2,8GHz quad core 15", or at least a lot better than the one I have now?
Partly installed El Capitan on my Mac Book Air and was unable to finish the installation due to time. Now when I go to log into my computer the home screen with my personal icon is white, and when I put in my password the screen fills with code.(black bars with white writing) Then an Apple Page comes up saying my computed wont start because of an error. That it needs to be restarted. Every time I restart it or shut it down the same thing happens. How can I fix it please?
I'm running on OSX Yosemite and notice that although there is 7 GB of memory unused, there is still 130 MB of memory used for swap. Are any apps actually using swap space, which I assume resides on my harddisk? Is this a situation to be concerned with, or is this normal? I can't figure this out despite reading up on the memory statistics in Mac.
Is it possible to simultaneously run two instances of El Capitan on a single Apple laptop? Assume that I'm willing to purchase the best MacBook available as of November 2015, with the largest capacity SSD drive and maxed out memory. There are a few pre-existing questions on this topic but most of them discuss situations where the user is trying to (a) run a parallel Windows installation or (b) have an alternate OS installation that's selectable on a separate volume at boot-time, but isn't running concurrently with the first OS installation. Ideally, in the configuration I'm describing, the two OS installations will: run simultaneously, see each other on the "network," presumably via some sort of local loop or other internal mechanism, share a common ethernet adapter, keyboard, mouse, video output, sound card, etc. allow for some kind of shortcut key to easily "flip" back and forth between the two running installations,
I've been trying to create a bootable Ubuntu flash drive following instructions from multiple sites. I need to convert the .iso file to an .img using hdiutil. For starters, the syntax of the command is very unclear. The ubuntu site and the -help option of hdiutil say hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso but the man hdiutil says hdiutil convert ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img. I have tried both ways and neither has worked. I don't get any sort of error message, and I know my paths are correct (when I try with an incorrect path it says so). The only thing printed in the terminal is Does anyone have any suggestions?
Reset my computer and iterm2,tmux now complaining about my .tmux.conf having i.e. /Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:24: unknown option: mode-mouse [0/0] /Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:25: unknown option: mouse-select-pane /Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:26: unknown option: mouse-resize-pane /Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:27: unknown option: mouse-select-window so I have to comment them out,... but then my mouse doesn't work in tmux which is a pain. How to enable mouse in iterms2 w/tmux ? This works on my other osx macbook air ok. tmux is version 2.1
I have my MacBook Pro hooked up to a big monitor. I know that I can do something where the monitors are mirrored, or the monitors are virtually "side by side."
I accidently told my MacBook Pro to forget a Bluetooth device. I have no idea how to bring it back. How do I bring it back?
I have an Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro. Sometimes I forget my charger and end up using my girlfriend's charger, which is for a 2011 MacBook Air, with a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter. When I do so, the Battery status menu reads "Battery Is Not Charging", but the charge level in Activity Monitor appears to stay constant, so I can keep using my computer. Does this harm my battery in any way?
I'm using El Capitan (not Server) and every now and then me or other users can't access a shared (afp) folder or every mounted drive gets very slow. If I enter the system preferences and navigate to sharing everything is extremely slow. After deactivating and reactivating file sharing in the sharing options everything works again (or restarting the OS) First Question: With OSX Server you can edit the AFP Settings from the Admin Console, but I'm not using OSX Server so I found /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist where I can change different AFP Settings - does anybody know which setting could solve the problem I mentioned before?
If I place my cursor before 'been' and hit enter, my entire line backs up to where it should be. I'm having to do this for every line. Question
My normal development enviornment has always been in Windows, but I finally scrounged up the money for a nice Mac Book Pro. I've managed to get everything I need set up Git, My Working Copy Repo, Web App is building without issue but I have a very indepth Apache config that has a lot of vhosts and rewrites in it that allow me to access the inner pages of my web app on a dev enviornment which I didn't write myself (I find apache configs daunting). If my version of apache on OSX matches the version on my Windows PC, can I just copy the config folder over and restart apache for it to work? Thanks in advance
I am learning TCP/IP protocol with a Mac, and need echo service (refer to [RFC 862], or Wiki) to test network. But it seems to OS X doesn't implement it or disable it.
Does anyone know how to go around fixing: Fatal: module wl not found I get this when I insert into terminal: modprobe wl on Kali linux 2.0 that I dual booted to my Macbook air El capitan.
My iPad Air says it is charging but it isn't and if I take the charger out and put it back in, it won't charge at all. What's happening?
I recently installed Xcode 7.1.1 After installation there seems to be problem with it. git is missing Kaunteys-MacBook-Pro:~ Kaunteya$ git 2015-11-26 13:44:03.369 xcodebuild[2118:134190] ### Failed to load Addressbook class CNContactNameFormatter sh: line 1: 2120 Segmentation fault: 11 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -sdk macosx -find git 2> /dev/null git: error: unable to find utility "git", not a developer tool or in PATH when i tried brew install git
I have a School email (Microsoft Exchange) which is limited to 350MB of storage. Therefore every month or two I need to move all my emails to the Mac drive instead of the Exchange server. One thing I noticed is that the Exchange automatically sends a reminder that my storage is nearly full, and I think this reminder could be used to trigger an event that moves all of my Exchange email to a backup folder on my Mac. Reminder > Select ALL Exchange email (not All Mail) > Move to Exchange Backup (Local folder) Is there any chance this could be done? (Bonus: when the emails are moved, is it possible that all the emails on the Exchange server are permanently deleted?)
I'm having weird issues with my internal Fusion Drive. Symptoms: It gave itself a new cryptical name, and I can't change it back
Specifically in Safari 9.0: when I save an image via right clicking and selecting Save image as... I can specify the downloads folder and the kMDItemWhereFrom data is saved just fine, as revealed both by selecting the file in Finder and using cmdI and also via Terminal using mdls.
Hi guys I have been searching the forum and haven´t seen a solution to my problem therefore i will start by explaining what happened. Last night all of a sudden my mac froze, the mouse would move but i couldnt work minimise or close any programme. Neither could i turn it off or restart it. Therefore I decided to press and hold the power button. There after my macbook won't turn on all I see is the grey screen with the apple logo with a little fan like thing spinning at the bottom. I tried entering in recovery mode and verify the Hard drive on disc utility i get the following message: Invalid content in journal Invalid record count The volume could not be verified completely. Error: The disk needs to be repaired. Click repair Disk.
On my HD, I have a bunch of files that I've generated via Python scripts (or otherwise). When I run "open foo.png" from terminal (or via finder), I get a popup that says The file “foo.png” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
The new emojis don't appear as a valid character. They appear as a rectangle in Messages on my Mac. On the iPhone I can see the emoji fine.
On my MB Air 2,1 (mid 2009) the wifi is broken. Connecting with the internet is possible via an Apple USB-Ethernet-adapter.
I want to set the text in a text field to a variable, in this case called variable1. Here's the part of my script.
I am trying to force the update of my dyld shared cache using the command But after a while I see a bunch of errors like this, related to spindump: update_dyld_shared_cache[719] : Unable to unlink //var/db/spindump/OLDDSC-E2D77243-3FD9-32E5-AE64-3506904D5579: 1 Operation not permitted How do I fix this? I am on El Capitan.
EDIT: found solution, will post answer below. Turns out that even the screenshots I've posted appear fine in other devices. I've received a mac mini from a friend with El Capitan already installed, it's hooked up to a samsung non-retina 1080p LCD monitor.
I've had a hard time tracking down a way to search for documents of a specific type between two dates in Spotlight. Maybe it's not possible? I'd like to be able to type something like this in Spotlight: kind:pages modified:>151120&<=151126
I am trying to create a zip file with a symbolic link. I have a subfolder in my mainfolder with some.bundle. I create symbolic link for this some.bundle which is placed in another subfolder of mainfolder. I then zip it using Terminal.
Is there any app really simple to compress videos on Mac? Something like JPEGmini for videos (do not resize, just reduce file size). I just know Handbrake, but it is not the most simple solution.
Say I have the value 2.3638383 in a cell in Numbers for iOS (iPhone). Can I format the numbers so only 2 decimal places are shown (rounded to nearest decimal)? So 2.3638383 would be displayed as 2.36?
After upgrading to El Capitan, I've started noticing annoying connections from the AirPlayXPCHelper to 192.168.1.0/24 subnet (my home network isn't in 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, it's in 172.16.0.0/12 subnet). Questions are: Why AirPlayXPCHelper goes out to this network on port 5000 and 7000? Is there a way to limit it's desire to go there? Thank you.
I had a problem with a Window XP VM and restored from Time Machine. Much to my dismay the backup is from 8 months ago. I looked at the contents of the Time Machine and I have about 15 copies of the old HDS file. I don't have the VM excluded back TM backups, but I did not have SmartGuard turned on. Anyone know why I would have so many old copies of the hard disk image? UPDATE: when I say I "looked at the context of the Time Machine", I mean that I opened a terminal, cd'd to the disk containing the TM file hierarchy (cmd below executed from the Backups.backupdb/machine_folder), cand executed a command like: This returned a list like: These lines are pulled from multiple folders like 2015-11-10-133112 (i.e., the timestamp of the backup).
I've downloaded OS X El Capitan from the AppStore. If I go AppStore --> Store --> Purchased it says "Downloaded" but I can't seem to prompt the install. I've tried restarting the Download but nothing happens.
I have an encrypted drive on my mac - it's a dmg file under my home directory. I mount it when I need to work on the files inside (obviously). In reality, this is "almost all the time". IE after I log in, I mount the drive, and there it stays. The problem that I'm having is when for some reason I reboot my mac (and, possibly other times that I have not diagnosed yet) this drive appears to not get unmounted cleanly, and leaves a ghost folder in /Volumes. That becomes a problem because when I mount it the next time, a folder with a different name is created in /Volumes, and then any paths I had that were pointing to the original no longer work (email client's email folder, for example). How can I avoid this?
I already have my images uploaded to iCloud using Photos.app on my Mac and iOS devices. If I share some of that photos with my Family album, they will be re-uploaded (consuming more storage on my iCloud account) or they will be shared with some kind of "link" to my original photo? Also, if the photo is re-uploaded, does that results in some kind of compression or quality loss?
I have copied my application to external my hard drive but when I run it it copies the application to the application folder on the mac and then runs.
After anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes the images will often desynchronize, so I see different images. Behavior is the same whether sharing from a photo Library (photos.app, iPhoto, Aperture) or a folder of images. Given the unpredictable behavior I assume this is a bug, but I'm told it's unfixed in El Capitan.
Only solution is to MANUALLY quit "Contacts" from the dock and then reactivate it but that solution is not satisfactory because it requires a manual intervention. Any ideas as to a) why the error happens and b) how can I cater for the error by quiting "Contacts" from applescript ? Any ideas will be appreciated .... In response to bmike's comment; Running OS X 10.10.5 and here is the relevant section of the applescript set todaysdate to (current date) as text *tell application "System Events" end tell
On the Mac, is there a way to track internet usage app-wise. Ideally I would want an app the ability to track monthly usage etc.
I know the late 2013 Mac Pro can support the Dell 5K monitor, using two DisplayPort cables from the Mac to the monitor. Can the Mac Pro support two 5K monitors simultaneously (using four cables total)?
I recently updated to OS X 10.11, El Capitan. After the update one iPhoto (Version 9.6.1, Released Mar 20, 2015) update from the App Store is not getting installed. It shows: Update unavailable with this appleID This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled. If this particular update is not available, How to remove the 1 Update available message from AppStore and the red badge from AppStore dock icon.
As I logged into my admin account to set some things up on my Macbook (I surf using a standard account), I noticed via my third-party firewall application, Little Snitch, that mDNSResponder had accepted an incoming connection from the name given to the very same Macbook on the LAN - [name]'s-Macbook-Pro.local. I was wondering: (1) What does this actually mean?
I want to install Linux on my mid 2014 Macbook Pro for educational purposes. However, I don't want this to be permanent. I've tried to partition the hard drive and install both OSs but I have not been successful and I would like to avoid using a virtual machine.
There are 10 trillion reviews/news-stories about the force/3D touch sensors in the iPhone 6S. But has anyone tested how accurate/responsive it is in terms of exact pressure/force measurements? I have trouble finding such info in the torrent of sources covering this at a churnalism level. I see there's an app that can weight stuff *=URL=* so maybe the answer is in its source code... and/or in the associated blog:
I'm looking for some solution for creating a video recording limited to a single window, which continues to work even if that window gets partially or fully covered by other windows. All of the screencasting/recording solutions I found seem to, at most, allow limiting the recording by a sub-region of the screen, and can't record covered/hidden windows.
i am using a Logitech UltraThin T630 mouse with a macbook pro (2015, os 10.11.1) and i am having a strange scroll behaviour. I mean its working but its different to the mouse working on windows. Let try to describe it:
In Mail for iOS 8+, when you write a new message, the app will automatically select your "From" address based on the history of your conversations with this contact. I would really like to use the same feature in Mail for Mac OS X. Does anybody knows a plugin or a script for that? I could not find anything alike the internet (maybe because the function is somewhat difficult to formulate...). To be more schematic:
Basically, what I want to achieve is the second example here: As an example, we can make the space bar work as an additional ctrl key when held (similar to Space2ctrl) with the following sequence of commands. — *=URL=* Or here:
There is no icon for iBooks or options to include iBooks on my iCloud whatsoever.
I'm on OS X 1011.1 and am looking at MacPorts. Should it be installed as root:wheel, or should it be installed as me?
Laptop: Late 2013, i7, 500G SSD, 16G of ram El Capitan 10.11.1
Is there any way I could disable two finger swipes for horizontal scrolling on the Mac. I want to configure it for moving between tabs (using a 3rd party app called BetterTouchTool)
Just curious if anyone has tried maxing out the ram on a late 2009 Macbook (white, not pro) to 16GB running El Capitan or Yosemite? Everymac's page states that the max is 8GB. Why not 16GB?
I've just installed OS X Server. What are services?
I have external monitor in work and I want to mirror MacBook's screen on it while I have the internal display turned off. But I found this as impossible task. I know I could close the display and attach a keyboard but I want to use MacBook's keyboard (and let the computer breathe through it).
Hypothetical situation: Connected on different internet connections. If there are active conversations on my Macbook, and I get a text from one of the conversations not listed there, will it always push it to the macbook? Or if I read or delete it immediately, will it not show on the Macbook? Or are there ways to block certain numbers from going to the macbook?
Yesterday I bought Powerbeats2 wireless in-ear headphones at Best Buy. I am wondering if they use Bluetooth LE or older Bluetooth technology, such as Bluetooth 2.1.
I've done a clean install of El Capitan. I do have a raw file back up of my home folder, containing the messages archive. This was created when I was in Yosemite.
Normally when I click on my iCloud drive, I see this: However, now, when I click on iCloud drive, I am presented with a new folder called com~apple~CloudDocs. All the Pages, Numbers and Keynotes sub folders have disappeared (and the documents within them).
So I have this weird problem. I can connect to the App Store via iTunes on my Macbook. However, if I try to connect via the iPhone appstore using the same email and password I get: "Verification Failed Your Apple ID or password is incorrect" error message "
I booted my MacBook Pro a few days ago and some of the icons on my dock were not visible. I noticed that there were icons missing in Safari, Finder and Mail. I attach a screen-shot to make my issue more clear.
When I setup an IKEv2 VPN, which I use from Windows without issues, on OSX 10.11.1 it refuses to connect. I looked at /var/log/system.log and it seems like it's saying one of the IKEv2 components is missing. Has anyone gotten a certificate authenticated IKEv2 connection working in OSX? The VPN server is StrongSwan.
I would like to have one virtual desktop where I have the "show desktop" hot corner, and second one where this is disabled, so that I do not always have to change the settings. Can I customise virtual desktops with individual hot corners, or is there only one global setting for all virtual desktops?
I reinstalled a deleted app (Angry Birds) from iCloud but the progress stored in Game Center was not updated. How do I get it back? I don't want to start over.
I have tried multiple working pairs of headphones (tested on other devices) and the iPhone doesn't play any sound through headphones.
Is there a tool built-in or third party that allows me to turn start up or shut down applications based on setting that I choose for a give time? For example, I usually run Dropbox, Google Drive, and a backup manager on start up. However, if I go to a coffee shop to work, I would like to preserve battery and bandwidth, so I would turn off non-essential Dropbox and Google drive. So instead of manually turn off and on applications, is there a tool that allows me to do that just by selecting a "profile"?
I really want to use Firefox as my main browser but can't find a way to make it the default browser on iOS: this make it's adoption much more complicated. Is it totally impossible? Edit - Example of use case: while clicking a link in the Twitter app, I would like it to open directly in Firefox. I won't jailbreak.
OSX has built into text substitution that is configured in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. This works great in certain apps, such as Evernote and Textedit, but seems to be disabled in other apps/content areas. Is it possible to enable it in other apps, such as Google Chrome? I would like to use text substitution to drop in signatures when composing emails at gmail.com while using Google Chrome.
This icon appeared on my Mac Pro with El Capitan.  It cannot be clicked, nor I can see a name.
I have 2 external hard drives supplied by the same vendor. They both have the same name. Using them with the mac is problematic when they have the same name. Time Machine, for example, tries to back up to the external drive with this name. I would like to simply change the name of one of these external hard drives. Multiple forums have suggested 2 solutions: 1: In Finder, just change the name of the drive like you would any folder 2: Use Disk Utility
I am trying to install Windows 10 on a partition with this Virtualbox method, where I create a vmdk link to the partition and use it as the drive, run the installer and then reboot. This worked fine on a device running Mavericks, but on one with El Capitan does not work, and prints out a VERR_ACCESS_DENIED
iPhoto won't open on my computer, insisting I need to update before using it, but when I click "check for updates" it informs me that there are no updates in the Australian store!! Very frustrating, I don't use it a lot, but annoying that I can't use it until I update with a non-existent update!
I had this problem earlier but then knew how to fix it, it was when I sent songs to my iphone the cover art got messed up with art from songs I already have on my phone. I fixed this by uploading the covers on iTunes again but making them album covers then sending it to the iPhone but now I have the same problem but it wont let me fix it with the album art. It gets mixed with art from songs I already have on my phone. The art is correct on iTunes on my computer, but it's messed up on my phone, this has only happened with 3 of my songs and an album with 7 songs. I want to prevent it from doing it again. I have an iPhone 5s by the way, if that's needed.
I have iMac A, MacBook Pro B, and MacBook Pro C. I want to copy a file from A to B and C using AirDrop. The problem is that I have multiple instances of the B and C machines showing up in AirDrop. I suspect it is due to multiple users being logged in on B and C. iMac A is also listing itself (under a different user?) as a destination. The problem is that AirDrop lists only the computer name, not the user account name under its icons. How can I find out which users I will be sending the file(s) to?
I have iMac (ElCapitan) for few days and I try to install all needs for my work (templating for WordPress). I try to install grunt, but I got WARN messages in terminal and I am absolutely out of what they mean:
As usual I wanted to prepare bootable USB with OSX. Some time ago I've made a copy of my Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan to external drive. I wanted simply to drag & drop El Capitan to prepare USB drive. After dragging El Capitan app file to desktop I get
Just bought a refurbished Mac Mini, with new SSD and fresh instal of Yosemite. After setup, using my existing IOS Apple account details I updated to El Capitan, added Little Snitch and Firefox. All seemed well, until I started to get notifications that updates were available for software I didn't recognise. Being new to Mac I thought this might be OS based and clicked to upgrade, only to be informed that such upgrades were not authorised for this user. I also saw two unknown e-mail addresses. How do I fix this? Also, if as I suspect, ID's are still associated with the machine, why did the updates (to apps not installed) only show up now? HELP!
I remember iTunes has a shortcut "Cmd + Opt + delete" to delele files from disk, it works in any playlist in iTunes. But now it's no longer available. Thank you for your help.
Is there some step I'm missing? I'm fairly new to this. How can I clear the double NAT error without loosing my internet connection entirely? Can I ignore the double NAT error and continue to set up Back to My Mac? Note that I am trying to access files on the TC remotely.
I've a 15" MacBook Pro (mid-2015) OS X 10.11.1, and I noticed that my MacBook loses 20% power while in sleep mode for 12 hours. This is a small part of my log file when my MacBook was in "sleep" mode: As you can see, some parts repeat themselves (eg Airport). When I first noticed the problem, and I issued the following command: It gave this as a result:
I'm trying to create a shortcut to start system preferences and open the sound settings in the "in" tab. So far I have started system preferences and opend up the audio settings, maybe not in the most elegant way possible but for having started with applescript today I'm quite proud. Anyways, currently this is my "code": Bare in mind that my system is in Swedish so the "Systeminställningar" means "System Preferences" and "Ljud" means "Audio" and "Ljud in" means "Audio in" Thanks in advance. Update: Actually just a few minutes after I wrote this I figured out a way to do (new code): But I still would love some constructive criticism for how to do this better since I'm fairly certain that this is far from effective.
I come from the Android world and I have a new iPhone. I am trying to find how to replicate a feature that I am used to, about the browser search autocomplete.
I am new user of Macbook and I love it, but I need ClickLock feature (Like on Windows Mouse Settings) because I have cerebral palsy and I can't drag normally. The idea of ClickLock feature: Long click (~30ms) to enable dragging and click to turn of. Any ideas how to do it? The best, Lukasz
I have iTunes running on my El Capitan Mac Mini. I have the iTunes Media folder linked to a NAS using NFS. This has worked for me quite well in the past. However after upgrading the storage on my Mac and reconnecting it to iTunes things have stopped working as well. For some reason iTunes will organize the files in the way it would before. It will no longer put movies in a separate subfolder (which I like actually), for TV Shows it will no longer create season subfolders and most annoyingly it will put all the music in the iTunes Media root folder. What's even stranger is that when I use a local iTunes Media folder everything seems to working as it should. But when I point iTunes back to my remote folder it resumes with the weirdness. Is there any way I can check and restore the iTunes media organization behavior?
Update: iTunes/Apple Radio is now a paid service only — making it's removal from clogging up our screens more relevant. On an iPhone, it's possible to disable Apple Music from cluttering your Music.app if you're not looking to use Apple's subscription service. Same goes for iTunes on the Mac.
How do I ask Siri about event length in calendar? She tells me that I have event and it starts at 10am but asking 'how long does it take' or 'how long is it' confuses Siri.
Since changing the e-mail address of the Apple id I have had problems constantly, because the old inlog name keeps popping up. But I thought I had solved hat problem.
I have a launchd plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents designed to run a script located at ~/writout.sh every day at 10:30AM: The script is: However, nothing gets written at the desired time.
How much of a performance hit is there when encrypting the contents on a Macbook Air? I'm at the point in its setup where it asks me if I want to encrypt. If I say "no", can I encrypt it later?
I have an iMac 27 inch with a 22 inch monitor to the left and a 23 inch monitor to the right. I want the dock to be in the middle and want all monitors to be arranged from left to right. I keep my dock on the left hand side of my monitor. So when I position my monitors left to right it moves to the most left monitor. Is there a way I can force the dock to stay on the middle monitor and not move to the left monitor? Software version 10.11.1
I know my question is a bit vague. Read on.
I manually downloaded quite some software on my Mac, and now I want to use brew to manage all my packages. But I don't seem to be able to find the manually installed software, maybe I missed some steps? How can I let brew manage them?
I read a few answers/articles. But that only made the confusion worse. Common answers were: No, don't put screen , because: There is very little gap between Keyboard & Display and adding a screen guard in middle would put pressure on display Adhesive on screen guard could damage the coating on Retina display (anti-reflective coating?) Yes, put a screen guard: It'll prevent dust scratches (dust on keyboard causing a scratch. It'll prevent dust scratches (dust on keyboard causing a scratch. It'll prevent grease/acid on keyboard sticking to display thus preventing damage to reflective coating. It'll prevent grease/acid on keyboard sticking to display thus preventing damage to reflective coating. Please share your opinions.
I have a MacBook Air running El Capitan 10.11.1. Since the upgrade, the Reminders App runs randomly. I have already deleted all reminders (even removed the scheduled ones) but the behaviour continues. The app comes up without any notification, but just in case I also disabled all notifications. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour? Thanks
I have an old G-Tech Mini portable hard drive (FW800, bus-powered) that I don't need any more, so as an experiment I took the actual hard drive out and replaced it with a 512GB Crucial M4 SSD. I would like to use it as an external boot drive over FireWire 800 to speed up an old 2007 iMac.
I recently acquired a second-hand (new, for me) MacBook Pro Retina Mid-2012 model. Also, in the near past, I upgraded it to El Capitan, and it is currently on OS X 10.11.1 (15B42). Last week, it worked flawlessly, and ran for several hours on its battery— until its battery suddenly stalled out charging at 59%, and it started immediately losing power when the the cord is disconnected. In summary: The battery suddenly stopped charging, and was stuck at 59%, which has since decreased to 56%. If I disconnect the charger, it shuts down immediately.
Is there a quick way or shortcut to duplicate a tab in Safari?
This problem is really annoying and I need to fix it because it is driving me nuts! If I change the file permissions, it will make it work until the next time I edit the file(s) on my windows machine.
haven't touched any settings, or downloaded any new software. I just started up my computer and the headphones jack that power my external speakers aren't working?! I get no sound at all. Yet, when I unplug it from the jack, the sound from the computer comes on (3 sec) later. I've been reading the different posts and trying to follow the steps that are given, but it's not working.
Screen wave happened in Chrome as well. I uninstalled and downloaded Chrome again but it didn't help. The top tabs are shuddering and the pixels in the right scroll bar and any website page are rolling up a bit similarly to how my desktop screen acted upon powering up. But I'm okay using Safari.
I've been wondering about this for a while. Why does =$0 appears next to elements in the web inspector in Safari? I am using Safari 9.0.1 Here is a picture of what I'm talking about (larger):
Actually, i just want to delete one file in the Application folder,but when i moved it to Trash, CleanMyMac notices me to use it to delete it clearly. However after i clicked yes, it deletes all items in the Application folder,including Office,i works and Adobe etc.
I would like to delete either camera roll or photo stream, but, am afraid of losing pics altogether. Camera roll being original and stream copies if I understand correctly. Therefore would seem deleting stream would be the route. But would that also take my originals? I cannot delete or rename albums. What is the solution. Have iOS 9.1
I have all my notes now stored on my iCloud but I also wish to copy and store them on my device. Can I do this?
I needed more space on my Windows partition... So I used Disk Utility to free up some space from the OS X partition, and upon restarting to Windows in order to add the free space to windows, I discovered that windows no longer boots! OS X still boots, but how can I fix my Windows partition without reinstalling Windows and losing all my data?
This is not related to the broken Messages app. After I formatted my drive, installed clean El Capitan and received a code on my iPhone I can send iMessages from my Mac. Messages are received by my contacts and I can also see them on my phone.
I may have found a serious bug in EC... As a college student I frequently need to copy and paste short passages out of PDF documents into other documents (e.g. for quoting). Previously, on Yosemite, I simply used Preview to do this. Preview is awesome because its AI algorithms almost always properly determine where paragraph breaks are. Just about every other PDF viewer I've used simply puts hard returns at every visual line break in the PDF.
I work on an old Mac Pro and Mavericks 10.9 seems the best system for me. However Apple is not updating Digital Camera RAW support for Mavericks and so does not support my new digital camera, a Nikon1 J5 that is supported in El Capitan. A lot of programs that make catalogues are based on Apples native Digital Camera RAW support. So I am looking for a solution to get native support for my new camera on Mavericks. I have the idea that native support is handled by two files in the OS X system: I tried to replace these files in Mavericks with those of El Capitan. But my mission was not successful. Any help much appreciated!
I got a purple warning border of some sort on my OS X Photos app. It was described in this Apple Support community thread and got a solution. The problem was caused by NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints being set. This is a screenshot from my own computer:
After the restart there is no popup saying it restarted after a problem or something like this. Sometimes it shuts down after a few minutes, sometimes it runs smoothly for some hours.
However: when the progress bar was 2/3s full and there was 45 minutes remaining on the download, the screen went black and a split second after it did when I pressed a button to light the screen up again, the download had apparently gone from 45 mins to 0 mins remaining. That stage where it's about to restart and go to the black screen with the Apple logo "installing: ## minutes remaining..." page.
My MacBook Pro mid-2015 charger mysteriously* stopped working today. I have AppleCare but I live in Ireland and there are no Apple Stores here. Can I go into an Apple authorised reseller and get a new charger for free because I have AppleCare? If not, what's the process?
Is it possible to reset the entire data present in your Apple ID. From all the download apps to all the iCloud data and Game Center data too. If yes, how?
I’m looking for some advice regarding a specific problem with a MacBook Pro mid-2009 running the latest version of El Capitan. The basics follow, but I have shared details of the troubleshooting steps here (link to a thread at Apple Support Community). 1) MBP suddenly refused to boot from its Internal HD (an SSD I installed two months ago: worked fine until the incident). 2) The disk is fine and can boot in external configuration.
After force ejecting in EI capitan , My disk showing in disk utility unix command but not showing in disk utility window and i have done as mentioned by setting PRAM but still it is not showing it neither in finder not in DU. pls help
I was trying to mount a Linux filesystem on a Mac and accidentally mounted it to my ~/Documents folder using a utility ext4fuse. Below command is the issued command:
Recently I upgraded to El Capitan just to see a couple of software updates available in the App Store a few days after the installation took place. So I wonder is the El Capitan installer up-to-date with the latest security updates? Or for that matter any application released by Apple. My concern that one’s sensitive information might be compromised with vulnerabilities like fake updates or things like the program FinFisher, or in places with public internet connections.
I have an external hard drive that I've used with my Mac for years, with no issues. Today I tried to plug it into my work PC to get some files off it (Windows 8), and it wasn't recognized. I tried to look up how to reformat it, but realized it was going to delete my files. So, I decided to forget that idea and plugged it back into my Mac. Now, it won't run, and Disk Utility says that the Partition Type is Microsoft Reserved. It won't let me repair or verify in the Disk Utility because it says "ERROR: Partition map check failed because no slices were found."
The mail app in OS X 10.11.1 seems to have a bug which I would really like to fix because it is annoying. Sometimes when the main interface windows is minimized in the dock, it will maximize itself for no apparent reason. I think it might do this when it checks for mail or something because when it maximizes, the "offline" symbol appears next to various mail accounts. Why is this happening? How can I fix it?
When I compile a open source program called gate with "make" I have this error message: error <atomic> is not implemented I must add that I know this program and I compiled it several times previously with no problem My setup looks like: I run on yosemite 10.10.5, xcode 7.1.1 and I tried several compilations with clang and gcc
I have installed the full version of Paragon's HFS+. I am fully able to read/write files from the partition that boots OS X, but not an external SSD with the same format.
Before telling me, I know I could use an alias, but it just annoys me. I would like to have my own name on the @icloud.com mail address generated with my ID. I would simply make a fresh Apple ID, but I just managed to buy tons of apps that I'd miss. I'm open for any kind of solution. Would also transfer my purchases to the new Apple ID, but I found out that's also not possible. Merging two Apple ID's would be also nice though not possible. I'd even hack my own account if I knew and it was possible (if someone knew how, I'd give the right to).
I have recently updated my iPad mini 2 to iOS 9.1 and every time I turn it off, or do a hard restart, it prompts me to put in my Apple ID password. After I type it in, it refuses to verify. Thanks in advance,
I am using the Airport utility /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport. With the little program I am able to scan my network for WIFI senders. I do however, want to scan only for specific channels (let's say 6 and 11) to speed up the process. This is possible and seems to be common practise on Linux. The command (linking to the program mentioned above) I use at the moment which takes 5-10 seconds:
I recently purchased a used Apple Watch. The previous owner had already unsynced the apple watch from their phone and removed it from their iCloud account. However when I try to sync it to my phone it said that this Apple Watch was still liked to their Apple ID. What can the both of us do?
I have MAC Power PC running OS 10.4.11 with Eudora 6.2. How can I convert the above to a later MAC OS to run 2011 Outlook email? Happy to pay for a service, as I am not very technical.
I am unable to wipe my hard drive and install new OS X as the resource is busy. I would imagine this is because I have Recovery open on this disk and that's why it is busy. I've tried: My disk parts look like this: I am also unable to install from appstore as this Macbook 2010 Unibody does not have an operating system on it. I am stuck in Recovery HD and wonder what my options to get running again are.
How can I tell the version of OS X (and the build) that runs on Recovery HD while I'm running in that mode? The Apple menu has no "About" menu that shows that information when you're running normally.
There's a process running on my machine which Activity Monitor reports is using 142% of CPU, 22 hours of CPU time and has thousands of idle interrupts. It's running under my user, and doesn't appear to be using very much memory.
Hey I live at 2 different locations, both of which offer an external display at different places on the table. Whereas everything is perfect with the display that is located above the laptop screen (Dock stays on the laptop screen) the other display forces the Dock onto it (off the laptop screen) as it is located left from my MacBook and I think that is the reason why the Dock moves there. Unticking "Displays have separate spaces" deactivates other stuff like split-view and placing the monitor that is physically on the left to my MacBook above my MacBook in the arrangement window is simply too confusing for me to handle. Putting the dock to the right is out of question as my "Touchpad mobility" is quite restricted which makes every move to the right side of the screen extremely uncomfortable. Any ideas?
After I delete and/or add files to a folder, the icon view is screwed up (see screenshot). How do I reorganize it?
Does the Pencil by FiftyThree work with the new drawing features in Apple’s Notes app in iOS 9? Apple Notes app is not listed on their list of compatible apps.
This strange connection issue has been very stubborn. In short, after every reboot I can access the entire internet for a short period of time. After a time (say 30 minutes) all but major websites like Google, Facebook, etc timeout in both of my browsers (Safari and Firefox) But strangely I am able to ping websites that timeout while loading in the browsers.
I have a wifi without internet which my iphone connects for a media player only. Meanwhile I would like to use my 3g connection for e-mail traffic etc. I have seen the answers to select the static ip solution ; (I have an iphone 6) and yes it works if I connect to wifi at first , then change settings at the wifi connection to static ip and other things etc , but I have to do it everytime I connect to this network,
I'm trying to fix my brother's phone. The screen is completely unresponsive. I tried swiping around to try getting the passcode wrong to see if it would vibrate to no avail. The phone's lock button is broken, so I can't restart it that way, and it was never used with a computer, so when I tried to plug it in and fix it that way, iTunes asks me to confirm that I want to allow this device access by clicking something on the phone (which obviously I cannot do). I read somewhere that the LCD connector may be loose. Could this be the problem? Is there any way to fix this? Thank you!
There are many posts about TM behavior, but I haven't seen anything about this scenario. Yet there's a ton of people who use large external drives for data. Everyone has to wipe their backup and start anew when they migrate? (PS I'm fully aware that the backup media is too small and if my 4TB data disk reaches closer to capacity I'll have to get a large backup drive.)
While trying to set up MAMP/PHPStorm, I CHOWNed the OWNER of my Sites folder to _www from myUser. Since this did not resolve the problem I was experiencing, I attempted to CHOWN myUser /Users/myUser/Documents/Sites... which worked, except Get Info shows both as owners, and ls -l reports _www as the (primary?) owner. I could not modify the folder contents, even though myUser is one of the owners. When I ls -leO@ as suggested in this answer, I see the following: I sudo chown :staff Sites thinking this will give myUser more clout, and then sudo chown myUser: Sites which works in removing _www, but I'm left with:
I have a Macbook Pro with El Capitan installed, but it originally had Mavericks on it. If I use the cmd-R on reboot method to restore the disk, will it restore to El Capitan or Mavericks, or some other version? If the latter, is it possible to upgrade this restore disk to use the latest operating system so that when I restore it will use El Capitan?
I have an El Capitan, can I create a bootable USB of Windows 7? I also have a Windows 7 ISO. I need to use a USB since I will be reformatting a netbook without DVD/CD-ROM drive.
My wife and I have different iCloud accounts. We would like to have the photos from all our iPhones (I have 2) to be combined in a single location. Is there any way to do this? I had thought we could use the Google or Dropbox uploaders, but it seems that they don't run in the background.
I have DuckDuckGo installed as my default search engine in Safari on both my iPhone 6 and iPad mini 2 (both iOS 9.1). I also have it installed on my PC, but on my PC I'm able to customise the settings whereas on my Apple devices the customisations don't save and apply.
while installing homebank software I am getting error Error: You must `brew link intltool xz' before homebank can be installed
Is there any way using the command-line to mount an un-encrypted iPhone Backup...? I know there are various Apps to do this, but I am trying to write a shell script to automate various things.
I moved from iPhoto to Photos, and now I can't see the albums arranged by name in the sidebar. All that organizing is gone! Is there a view where I can still see my list of albums?
I’m using a brand new Retina MacBook Pro, 15-inch, Mid 2015 running OSX 10.11.1 with 16GB RAM. I received a low memory warning, asking me to close unused applications. When I checked Activity Monitor, I saw the the eapolclient process had used 30GB of RAM.
Is there anyway to know what nsurlsession is downloading? My iCloud Drive is only 30GB. Most of the Apple Music and Photos are already on my Mac. I don't even generate 1GB of Photos or video per month.
I hope this is an appropriate question for here... Yesterday, I received "Automatic" for my birthday (the gadget that connects a phone to a car). I got it all set up, then added the Automatic channel in IFTTT and started browsing recipes. I discovered an automatic to iOS Reminders recipe I liked, so I added the iOS Reminders channel as well. The next time I opened my Reminders app, perhaps an hour later, all my reminder lists and contained reminders were gone!
i use a chrome extension that plays a 'bing' when changes are made to a website that it's monitoring. this is the only sound that OS X will produce. is there any way to get output of a sound to trigger an automator script? i plan on then setting something up that could send me an email (or notification) to my iphone.
I have installed Ubuntu on my Mac. But then after a few times, neither can I boot to Ubuntu nor can I find where it actually is. Total a mystery. Now I actually try to erase this part in my computer. But I don't know where to start. Even in Disk Utility I do not see the space it takes. Here is a screenshot:
I am about to replace the old battery on MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 (A1278) with a battery Model No: A1322 and I wonder if there are any special instructions on how the battery should be used for the first time? Should it be fully charged for the first time? How many times should I do that? What are the general recommendations for keeping the battery life as long as possible?
At the office we have a Mac mini that will be used to run a Teamcity agent. It is a requirement from our security department that we enable FileVault on this machine.
Whenever I use anything Git related on my MacBook (brand-new Macbook Pro with El Capitan), it takes almost a full minute for each command. I did a simple and got back this:
I'm having a problem getting file sharing to work between my MBPr and Mac Mini, here's a history of what I've tried: I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) running El Cap 10.11.1 (15B42) and recently acquired a Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) from my Aunty that was running an ancient version of OSX (and Server) that I upgraded to El Cap 10.11.1 (15B42). (probably irrelevant: The server came with an administrator account for my Aunty in her name that I haven't gotten rid of) After upgrading I created a new account for myself (Derwent) from the administrator account with (Admin access, local authentication) and signed in with my Apple ID, then enabled SMB and AFP File Sharing for all accounts, ensuring my account, Derwent had access to a folder called Movies.
I bought my first Mac Mini today. I'm using touch screen LCD PL2735M (*=URL=* When I click on screen, mouse is moved to that place, but no click is issued. Is there any touch settings? (sensitivity, calibration). Thank you.
Both my friend and I have iPhone 6 and we iMessage often. I just sent him three photos but it seems he has switched iMessage off for some reason as the text I sent has delivered as green instead of blue and I didn't get 'delivered' or 'read.' I just want to know if I'll now have to pay for sending those photos as I always do whenever I send photos to non iPhone users?
Read this link but still trying to figure out how much RAM these different models have. Does anyone know?
I am trying to setup route table on my OS X machine so regular internet traffic doesn't go through VPN but only specific destinations will be targeted via VPN. When I connect to VPN it creates new 'default' route for interface 'jnc0' destination which redirects all the traffic to VPN. Is it possible to set priority so all traffic goes via default 192.168.0.1 en1 instead of default 10.1.1.1 jnc0 ? I have script for Ubuntu which creates routing table but I am not sure how to adjust it for OS X. Here is the script: When I try to execute: I get sudo: ip: command not found. Also when I try to execute: it doesn't work either with error sudo: rule: command not found. Here is the code: I would appreciate any help and guidance.
I evaluate this echo of any password as a serious risk. This echo partially exposes a secret. Is there any simple configuration method to suppress everywhere this mechanism of transient display of any password? For information, I reported this security problem at Apple:
I want to kill process that runs at some port. In ubuntu I used fuser -k 8000/tcp. What is the Mac OS way? I found out this way:
I recently invested in a gorgeous 4k screen which I drive with a 13" rMPB. For the size of the panel and my personal preferences on font size, icons, menu items etc. a "scaled" resolution of 3008x1692 looks best. Unfortunately there's a performance penalty because that's not the "native" resolution of the screen or the "default" HiDPI version of the same. OS X tells you me as much when I select the resolution -- "Using a scaled resolution may affect performance".
I am using yosemite and take advantage of workspaces. Occasionally, my workspace locations get transposed. E.g. workspace 2->3 and workspace 3->2. I use ctr-N where N is the workspace that I want to go to. What is the hot key or command that causes this to happen? It happens to me every once in a while and I can never seem to figure out what I have done to cause this to happen.
coming from Android i was surprised that iPhone alarm isn't smart enough to know that low volume will render alarm useless. is there a way to ensure that the alarm will sound even if the phone has turned down volume and/or is on mute switch? on android this was done via separate volume control in the alarm and "sound alarm even if phone is muted" setting.
I bought a new iMac 21.5" 4k screen for my web design work. I noticed that the way Safari renders colours is completely different from the way Chrome and Firefox does. Colours in Safari appear dull and washed out, while in Chrome and Firefox colours appear more saturated.
I don't know how to send IBM a message to let them know to please fix this problem at the Apple App Store, but I have left a message at the ratings section of the App. I have downloaded the free app at the Apple Store before on my iPad and it worked fine, but I lost all my data...long story... And now I want to get the app back, but I have tried four times to down load it and every time the app just displays a spinning wheel after the opening :'(
I would like to have "Hey Siri" on my iPhone 6S when plugged in, but not all the time. Is there a setting for that, or was that feature lost with iOS 9 and 6S?
If I go into finder this is what I see on that partition:  Those are hidden files obviously and I can't delete them. I then go to the hard drive itself and click 'Partition' but when I do that and select the partition I want to remove, the minus button isn't an option:
My husband passed away a few months ago and I need to delete his Apple ID. I am using his iPad as a family member but anytime I try to download an app it asks for HIS apple ID password.
I got a Macbook Pro I think the year 2010. How can I make it faster because,it starting to get slow. Are there Free or Inexpensive Apps or tricks to make it fast? Thanks!
I want to reinstall OS X Yosemite in my MacBook Pro 2015 without erasing the disk. What will I need to reinstall after the process is done? What files are not removed from my hard drive? What files ARE removed from disk?
I need to recover deleted files from my MacBook Retina. The files were deleted by an app update and didn't make it into the Trash.
iPad iOS 9. I use AT&T. iPad Air 2 I spend a lot of time in Mexico where the phone number format is completely different from the one in the States, and in Contacts. Also, Contacts will not let me add extension numbers. Contacts' format is so frequently different from what I need that I really want to change the format preference to let me enter the phone number the way I want it to look. I've spent a reasonable amount of time over the years since I first bought the original iPad 2 trying to find a way to solve this problem. I finally just put the numbers the way I want them in Contacts/Notes. Is there a way to set up Contacts phone numbers the way I want them, even if I want them to be different every time?
I guess I deleted files on my external NTFS storage. I think I can see those files in hidden folder $RECYCLE.BIN on this drive. is it possible that the MAC NTFS writing stuff I set up before - so I can write on NTFS drives - handle trash as Windows isntead of .Trash folder as mac normaly do? if it is, is there any way how to restore those files?
Summary I want to restore any of the OS and data files my Mac OS X computers to any previous state I "save" (aka "backup"), so I can revert back to a known-working software state when a change causes a problem (like a problematic OS or application-software upgrade). I want to do this without Internet-bandwidth limitations (hence the Drobo is preferred, over a cloud-only-based backup). Implementation Challenges
My Mac Mini 1,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 is missing libc++. Is there a version for OS X 10.6.8? Is there a way to install it again through Homebrew?
My Time Machine in Finder shows the correct icon, however, on my Desktop, it shows the Yellow icon that is used for normal external hard drives. It only changes on the desktop to the time machine icon when I either eject the hard drive or in terminal use, killall Finder. But ejecting it is kinda useless as I can't use it then, and if I then reconnect it, it shows the yellow icon again. I'm running the latest version of OS X El Capitan. Anybody else have this issue or know how to fix this?
My MacBook is running Mavericks (10.9.5). I dug out my old "Call Of Duty United Offensive" video game and thought I'd give it a whirl. Turns out it's PowerPC based and Mavericks does not have Rosetta and will not run it.
When recording a video with the photobooth app how can the video be reversed or mirrored? Cause when I show items in the video all the writing in the labels are reversed
I'm left handed and want to have a mouse icon that pointed to top right corner instead of to left. In Windows I've made my own mouse theme to achieve that. Then how about Mac?
I'm going to replace my Superdrive with a SSD. While the bottom casing is detached, should I gently blow an air canister over the exposed motherboard? Any area I should particularly target? Is there any other cleaning / maintenance I should do while it is opened?
I don't need this extension anymore because Safari 9 has this feature built-in, but I can't find it anywhere to disable or remove it. It's not listed in my Preferences -> Extensions. I looked through my ~/Library/Safari/Extensions but it's not listed there either. How do I remove this extension so that I don't get this annoying popup every time I launch Safari?
So, I have been looking up online about how to put a custom picture on the lock screen that is not blurred. All of the tutorials online have said to change the "com.apple.desktop.admin.png" file in the /Library/Caches/ directory. This only changes the picture on the LOGIN screen when you boot up the Mac. Is there any way to put a picture on the lock screen that is not blurred. I am running El Capitan. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks for your help in advance. :)
Using the latest iTunes under Windows 10, I have created a Smart Playlist as follows, requiring that ALL conditions be met: I have selected only the "Live Updating" check-box. The resulting playlist includes some/most of the podcasts I expect, but not all of them.
this annoying things constantly happen now and then, especially when I enlarge the width of the column, it scroll up automatically. any help to solve this? my system is EI Captain, installed Xtrafinder before but uninstalled it when upgrade to 10.11
My QuickTime doesnt want to play a .mov file. I tried to convert .mov to .mp4 format using cloud convert but it gave error message:
I am developing a simple standalone app for the Apple Watch. I really don't need any functionality on the phone. Am I required to provide an iPhone app? The watchkit documentation is something like:
I was changing the password and recovery key to my Apple ID tonight. Every other time I've done this, I receive a notification email for both password and recovery key changes and then another notification email is sent to my secondary email about the recovery key. However, after I did this and logged back into both email accounts (I had changed passwords for these email accounts about five minutes earlier before making the Apple ID changes), there was only one email notifying me about the password change in my primary email's inbox, and no email about the recovery key change in my secondary email's inbox.
I have an external storage with 2TB that was working nicely. But since last week, when I unplugged the USB before eject it, the disk is not readable anymore. When I insert USB, I can actually see this message box:
I's trying to write an AppleScript to disconnect and connect again to specific server: But it is connecting only. I'm trying to do both: to disconnect and then to connect again.
I was hoping someone could help me determine if the original RAM from my mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro could be put into my mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro? here are the specs of the original RAM 2x 2GB RAM 4GB PC3-12800 SODIMM DDR3 SDRAM 204-pin PC3-10600 1.5V 1333 MT/s DDR3 SDRAM 204-pin PC3-10600 1.5V 1333 MT/s
Will soon upload my App for review on AppStore. However I am not using any App Services so I could use a Wildcard App ID. But for future releases/patches I know I want to add Game Center Service so I would need an Explicit App ID for that.
I recently got an iPhone 6s. At home I do not have Windows or Mac computers, only Ubuntu.
I have trouble to open links from Tweetbot in Safari on the Mac. it just waits loading with the t.co domain. On iOS I don't have this problems!
When using File Vault on El Capitan, is there any way to disable the Auto Login, so when you start up it loads straight away without needing a password. If not, then is possible to set it so when you enter a password it goes straight to the desktop and skips the loading bar. (i.e. so it preloads before the password is entered) I understand why a password is needed, but it is overkill for my situation. I'm guessing the answer is probably "no", but I thought there might be a terminal command or some other trick.
I updated my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Then I found that the built-in iSight camera wouldn't work in any application I tried. What can I do to resolve this?
I am going to install Windows 10 on an external SSD disk, so I will need the Boot Camp drivers. How can I install the drivers manually?
This phone doesn't use a sim card, never has, and a card won't work in this type of phone. (I even tested this once with provider and it made nothing work instead of just no 3G.)
I have a large number of emails on my MacBook Air. I want to shift all my old mails into an external hard drive and delete the same from my MacBook to save space (47 GB). Then I would like to continue with my existing accounts to keep receiving fresh or current emails. How do I then access or search the old mails from the external hard drive and if necessary reply or download content from them? Is there a way?
I am trying to upgrade an early MacPro 1.1 from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion but the process I am using involves accessing the Install OS X Mountain Lion app which was formerly downloadable from the App Store. I don't have the app on my hard drive. Instead, I have a bootable Mountain Lion install DVD. My question is: can I use this DVD to make an app (which I can put on my hard drive) which is identical to the Install App from the App Store? In other words, it's the opposite of the process which most people want to do! (Because my MacPro 1.1 is unsupported for Mountain Lion, I am unable to use this DVD to install Mountain Lion)
I have iOS devices since the 3GS but this happened to me for the first time tonight.. I have the 16GB model. It's quite enough for me. I had 2.2GB free. This afternoon I performed 3 updates and 2 hours after that my storage started declining and went to 0 bytes. Since then it stack 0 bytes for no reason. Any opinions?
I have the above iPad Mini. I need to take it to Apple for an out of warranty screen replacement. If they give me a replacement what will I get as Apple no longer makes the 32GB 1st generation iPad Mini.
I just purchased a cellular iPad mini but I cant seem to find out if charging an iPad mini while using the device affects battery life, and does charging overnight affect battery life?
I'm trying setting up a server for mostly Macs, using OS X Server. My main questions are: Is it possible to use 3rd party storage for a file sharing service? Is it possible to use 3rd party storage for a file sharing service?
I would like to find some CHM reader which you can use to read CHM files which are located in Dropbox or Google Drive. I could not open books of those cloud services in CHMate premium, although there is a piece of advice about Dropbox how to do it: Offile storage > Open in but no CHMate button found. How can you read documents of cloud services in iPad?
check the activity monitor: I do not see any process with high CPU load; typically the Finder or Web browser (Safari or Chrome) with a maximum of a few % of CPU usage. During the beach-ball freeze every minute or so, I am unable to focus on the Activity Monitor window to get updates, so it may be that a process appears and disappears during that time.
I want to convert a bunch of PDF images to PNG images. How do I tell Automator to resize the final images to a specified size (in pixels) like 100x100? Automator is also adding a number to the end of each file which increments each time I run the workflow. Get Specified Finder Items Render PDF Pages as Images Copy Finder Items
On OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), with the Cisco Built-in VPN client, I would like to configure the route table in order to have the following thing : subnet traffic 192.168.101.0/24 goes through the VPN everything else (196.168.1.0/24 my local network, and all the internet) goes through en0, and not through the VPN
I'm trying to install driver for my D-Link DW-182 rev. C1 which uses RTL-8812AU Realtek chipset and supports Mac OS X via this ftp link. ( ver. 2.3.1 )
I have a Mac which I connect to using Screen Sharing to log in and start a video playing. Since upgrading to El Capitan, when I quit the screen sharing client, the screen on the remote machine turns off. How do I stop this from happening, while still having the screen turn off normally after a few minutes of inactivity?
The CardDAV server I'm trying to connect to uses a self-signed certificate. Unfortunately I cannot do anything about it.
Time Machine makes it easy to recover older versions of your personal users files; How do you restore an older version of a system file (such as /etc/hosts) using Time Machine?
Can I unlock a GSM iPhone 4 so that I can use a CDMA SIM card and make calls using the CDMA card?
How to create a Case Sensitive file system on a Mac? Here is a simple test: I'm on Mac version 10.11.1 and even with a "Case Sensitive" filesystem on a DMG image, I get:
I use my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro for nearly everything under the sun - I often monitor which GPU is active using gfxCardStatus. I've noticed some idiosyncrasies in how OS X decides when to switch graphics processors: MOST apps that require X11 will trigger auto-switching, but not all It seems every app that requires java will trigger the auto-switching, though I've not tested this with non-GUI apps. Some apps (like Mathematica or XCode) which COULD require a high-performance GPU will force movement to the discrete card straight away, even if only fired up for a trivial task (dynamic switching in-app would be cool, off topic) Many legacy apps (silverlight) which have no business asking for my discrete card will force it regarless Finally, some apps (GIMP, in particular) which could definitely benefit from a discrete GPU actually don't ask for it at all.
The matching algorithm Apple uses is very aggressive and will many times mismatch music from my library no matter how well tagged it is. This is a nuisance for many and the information on how to remedy this is poor. How can you force music in your iTunes library from not getting matched in the cloud?
I updated to the newest Xcode version 7.1.1 in the hope, that the performance will be better. But no, performance is much worse again.
I use El Capitan on MBP 2014 Retina. I have tried almost everything already:
As I say in the title, I need to create a bootable USB drive with OSX El Capitan using Windows 10. I can't start my Mac using OSX anymore and I want to perform a clean install. If I use Recovery my OS will be restored via internet, and it would be Mountain Lion. Is there a way to avoid this?
Is it possible to search something using Firefox in Spotlight search? When I choose the option "search in the internet" it always open Safari. My question is then, is it possible somehow to set Firefox as the "default" browser in iOS? I am using iOS 9.1 in an iPad mini.
I read lots of manuals, I tried reset different settings, clear user's cache. I even tried reinstall OSX (without formatting the drive). It's not helping.
Is it possible to get Apple Music on Apple TV 3? I can stream to it from my iMac, but it would be nice to be able to launch Apple Music from TV directly...
I have 128G SSD internal storage. And wanted to install Bootcamp on external drive (USB storage).
I have updated to El Capitan as soon as it came. I faced a lot of issues with SIP enabled, but recently a new issue popped up. Every once in a while the apps installed without using App Store are getting damaged or incomplete.
This is really annoying when I'm playing league of legends and i randomly can't use skills or click anywhere because shift is toggled on. By the time i notice it's usually too late. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas what is causing it. I was thinking it was maybe because certain mac commands are still available during the game (league of legends).
I want to completely remove the driver of a TP-Link wireless network adaptor. I can't find any tips from TP-Link's official site. Is there a right way to safely and gracefully remove?
Typing in the terminal diskutil list gives me this... I try to change disk0s3 to type "Apple_Boot", by using... But I keep getting the error...
I installed the driver of TP-Link's wireless network adaptor, and it ships with a wireless network utility which shows an icon on the menubar. It is invalid to click or drag this icon, and I even can't find any switches to turn it off. It looks like this:
I will have to transfer my user account and some other stuff to a new mac and I am currently considering what would be the most efficient way of doing that. The list of things I would like and wouldn't like to transfer is below: Current user documents Emails Photos / Music Address book, preferences settings Precisely defined list of applications plus corresponding application preference folders
I've a problem with my Mac Mini. Sometimes, from some time, it displays some glitches, or "graphical problems", for instance the screenshot below shows some bands in a part of the screen with black or "rainbowed" flashing pixel and sometimes, when Mac wake up from sleep, all screen has a green tint. Everything solves sleeping and waking up the Mac.
Urgent! I have an existing Windows 10 installation via Bootcamp which has been on my Mac for months without issue. However for ages I have been wanting to read my Mac partition from Windows which it doesn't allow me to do, so I looked online which suggested making a third partition for both OS's to read from.
Is it possible to use modifier keys alone as shortcuts in OS X El Capitan? Coming from Windows background I would like a single press on Command button (without touching Space or anything) to show Spotlight search and Ctrl + Shift to switch keyboard language. UPDATE: Let me clarify, a single press on Command button is press/release so the key would not be interpreted as a start of a longer shortcut sequence.
I don't want to sync full google contact list but i do want to search some google contact info time to time How to search google contact phone number without iphone contact sync?
Basically, I bought a used Mac Mini and I had to reinstall it. Trying to do so following a tutorial and it told me to boot into the recovery, remove the partition and then use the Reinstall Mac OS X option. I did that, entered the details for the Apple ID I created to do this and it just shows me this: (http://i.imgur.com/5jrNiId.jpg)
After upgrading to El Capitan, Preview opens the sidebar. How can I permanently disable it without having coding skills? I saw other answers to this annoying problem, but I don't have the capacity to do it and don't want to mess up my computer trying it. Is there an alternative?
When setting up a VM in Parallels 11 (and previous versions) one can enable "SmartGuard" and then further "Optimize for Time Machine" What's not clear is exactly what's happening "under the covers" when Time Machine executes it's regularly scheduled backup, while the VM is running.
I'm having this weird issue when commenting on a Facebook post on Safari. It mostly happens when I try to add a space after adding punctuation like comma ,. What happens is that the cursor is thrown back to the starting point of comment and erases almost all the text I have entered before the punctuation. This only happens when trying from Safari while it works normally on browsers like Chrome, Firefox etc.
Files that are stored on mounted disk images show up in the Recent Files lists in my applications. If I unmount the disk image, and then choose a recent file, the disk image gets mounted automatically. Is there any way to turn off this behaviour (i.e., choosing the recent file should produce a File Not Found message)?
I just discovered a pretty shady-looking app on my kids' iPad (just says "Free Video" under the icon?). I don't think they should be able to install apps, given the way I have permissions set up, but I could be wrong if the app is free. I'll worry about that later. I just want to know more about it.
I've used Automator to create a service that creates all selected images into a contact sheet. For some reason, the service doesn't want to use all the images; I have a selection of 42 images but only 33 get used. This problem persists even when I try to make separate contact sheets of the same 42 images. Does anyone have a solution?
My launchpad has become very cluttered overtime. I'm wondering if there is a function to reset launchpad like the iOS reset home screen layout feature. Let me know in the comments if you don't understand what I'm asking.
When switching between applications with the keyboard (i.e. ⌘-tab) a modal display is shown with graphical representations of each application.
I got an error while trying to install Windows 10 on my Mid 2014 Macbook Pro via Bootcamp Assistant. The error occurred whilst partitioning the disk: Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partioning the disk. I'd set the partitions to be equal sizes, 250GB each. I followed a fix that involves restarting into single user mode and running /sbin/fsck -fy but that didn't do anything to help. I'm now left with a mac partition that's 250GB and free space that's 250GB, but cannot extend the main partition into the free space: If I click partition and remove the freespace and extend the Macintosh HD volume I get this error: The provided Core Storage logical volume has an incorrect size.
I've been tarring cds in /tmp and then putting them in cloud storage. Isn't that a classic use case for /tmp? As users, are we supposed to stop using /tmp? I don't want my group ownership messed with and tmp is now wired to unexpectedly change the group.
I find that when I click "update all" in my iPhone 4S the downloads seem to start and then when they are completed, it stays stuck once the apps are fully downloaded. I update through wifi, so it's not due to data restrictions.
I think this should be an easy one, but it's got me stumped. When I use the following, it finds the file. But when I use this, it doesn't find it.
Sometimes when unplugging my iPhone 6s from the charger, the screen stays black without waking up. I have checked and determined that did charge the battery so I know it had a good connection. If I get a phone call (while plugged in or after unplugging) sometimes I can hear the ring tone but the screen is still black and I cannot see to swipe the answer button. I have to hit the home button to make the screen come alive. This happens intermittently and only while plugged in or just after. Anyone else have this experience?
I have no idea where to go from here. I am not a programmer and have no idea what needs to be done for an app to register itself as able to receive http/https links. I have used CUTC as my default browser in the past so that I could process URLs using shell scripts before handing them to another browser. If there is another app out there which is capable of receiving http/https links clicked on from other apps (mail, Tweetbot, etc), I would be equally happy to try that.
Long story short, I short circuited my second most expensive asset through a usb-male-audio-male. I'm devastated. I'm not rich. I was still giddy about saving a dozen dollars during black friday sales.
I cannot get the update badge notification to go away on the App Store (the notification bubble at the top right corner of an app). There are no updates that need downloading but the badge still shows that there is one. I've powered down the phone and still shows up....what next?
Mac version is OS X EI Capitan What I want is just the same like google image Search by image service but the search region is a specific folder of my Mac disk.
My iPhone cracked its screen and presently i cannot get past the locked access screen. Got a new phone but the old phone continues to show me my new text messages. I cannot get into old phone to change any settings. Anything else I can do?
When I rejoined domain after already joined domain successfully with dsconfigad, it's failed with dsconfigad: Node name wasn't found. (2000)
Just a couple of hours ago, while I was taking a GNU course, I decided to create a partition on my SSD to have ubuntu installed, meanwhile the disk utility was doing that, suddenly it just crashed and restarted itself, leaving 5GB free from any partition, I used diskutil list and this is the info it provided me: There is no additional partition on the disk utility and I was wondering if it is possible to recover this space. My Mac is a MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2015) 128 GB SSD
Recently I started facing issues with the web surfing and some features in the Mac OS X. For the most of the web surfing I use Google Chrome, and a few websites like Facebook lag a bit on my computer. I can see keystrokes appearing on the display a little late and what not.
I have a situation where I need 2 or 3 different pasteboards so that I can issue a command-c/v for the traditional copy/paste and then be able to use option-command-c/v for a secondary pasteboard copy and paste and then a third one as well if possible. The usecase is such that I need to rapidly be able to copy and paste different patterns in a dynamic manner. I own PTHPasteboard Pro which seems to work again nicely in 10.11, but I have not been able to find a way to copy into additional pasteboards that you can create with it... only paste out from it. Any ideas on how to either use this app or another option to implement additional pasteboards?
I have been confused about using "sync" in iTunes. Let us say I have A laptop, and An iphone. When I connect the iPhone with the laptop, iTunes pops up inviting me to sync
Is there a way to turn Wi-Fi on/off using Spotlight, or do I always have to use the mouse and click on the Wi-Fi icon in the taskbar? Spotlight is pretty powerful, and I would love to have an easy way of enabling/disabling the Wi-Fi connection. Is there a built-in way of doing this, or do I need to create a script for this, and then call the script from Spotlight?
I used to have multiple ipads. Heavily used icloud with all of them and through out time sold them out after some use. Recently had to list the serial numbers of the apple devices I had over years and was wondring. Since I no longer own the devices, nor the boxes/receipts for them is there a way I can look up their serial numbers?
I am wondering, can I have a set of Apple Keyboard + Magic Mouse (both via Bluetooth) at home and one at work and use them automatically on the same Mac? Or is there a restriction in the number of keyboards/mice a Mac can register? I won't use them in the same time, but I would like to move from home to work and vice-versa without pairing/unpairing any of them each time.
I need to be able to retrieve some deleted text messages from my Daughters phone which were deleted approx. 1 week ago. I have had limited success by using an online service called TeenSafe which has pulled some of the messages back, but these appear to be mostly my daughters side of the conversation with only sporadic responses from the other party. What I would like to know is how TeenSafe is managing to retrieve some of these deleted messages, and if it can retrieve some, is there a way that I can use a similar method to get the rest of them back? Assistance is greatly appreciated.
I can't set up my Google Accounts on my MacBook Pro. When adding my work (one step) or private (two-step) Google account in the internet accounts panel in system preferences, it doesn't go past this screen. When I select the apps to sync, I can click Done and then Done get's greyed out. I see the grey spinning wheel very shortly. For the calendar, I tried this but without succes: Can't enable Gmail calendar syncing
2- The Dock works quite fine with hard disks that have been partitioned and used from the Dock itself, both when connected to the Mac Pro or the NAS. I can transfer data like that, by doing two copies (which actually doesn't save time because there are 2 transferts instead of one).
I've got a macbook on which the keyboard has suddenly failed. The trackpad works, the power button first, but pressing any other key on the keyboard has NO effect.
I want use faces which determined in Photos app and I named them. Specially I have contacts with the same names. I want link these and prefer do it automatically. Is there any way do this? EDIT : I saw links which @Tetsujin introduce me. But I can't solve my problem. In addition I use Persian names which can made differences.
In my notification center in os x, I have disabled the weather widget. But still, under 'today' there is weather information. The weather widget itself still shows as disabled though! How to completely remove weather info from the notification center?
I need to run Visual Studio on my MacBook Pro and I need Windows to do that. The easiest and well known way to install Windows on a Mac is by running the Boot Camp app on the Mac and let it do what's necessary. The problem is that I don't want to partition the Internal SSD so the remaining option is to install Boot Camp Windows 10 on an External Drive and boot it every time I need it by plugging in my external USB 3.0 HDD. Is this achievable?
I'm trying to share my Sequel Pro favourites between my iMac and my Macbook Air. The method I'm using is this: On the iMac, ove Favorites.plist from ~/Application Support/Sequel Pro/Data to ~/Dropbox/Apps/Sequel_Pro; On the iMac, make a symbolic link to the Favorites.plist file (in Dropbox) and move that link into the ~/Application Support/Sequel Pro/Data folder; On the Macbook, make a symbolic link to the Favorites.plist file (in Dropbox) and move that link into the ~/Application Support/Sequel Pro/Data folder In both steps 2 and 3 I need to rename the symbolic link file from Favorites.plist symlink to Favorites.plist in order to Sequel Pro to pick up on it.
I'm trying to understand the whole $PATH problem but I've got no luck so far. Suppose that I've just compiled an executable with make and I need to launch it with the shell without using the full path. Well the problem is that I don't fully understand all these "add to path" things. My idea is that if the terminal reads on specific folders, why don't we just put all the application files to this folder? Why don't we add the whole Applications folder to the list of folder that the terminal goes to open an application?
I have no photos on my iPhone 5 running iOS 9.1 since all my photos sit in iCloud. Yet the phone shows 1.9 gb space occupied by Photos. No photos or videos are in any folders either. The "Recently Deleted" folder is also empty. I have also erased everything from the phone (Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content And Settings), yet the phone memory continues to reflect 1.9gb of photo space. I also changed the Date & Time setting on phone and shifted it back by 2 years but that did not change the status either. What should I do?
I installed ocserv on my VPS, and has been tested on my iPhone that it works. When I turned to OS X, the client could not connect to the server though. It said "No valid certificates available for authentication."
I want to stream all audio output from my iMac to iPad. By the way, I know, there are only app which named Airfoil for that functionality. But I'm searching inexpensive alternatives. So do you know any alternative application or method for this topic?
The three MacBook Pros are in the Mobile Macs group, the two mac Minis are in the Desktop Macs group. Company Macs has the other two groups as its members.
On Yosemite it's possible to define text shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text But they don't work when I'm on Microsoft Remote Desktop app, is there a way to make them work on it?
I'm not too familiar with Time Machine. I cannot recall if Time Machine creates full version-controlled images, or just changes what's different since last time. I'm interested in the latter, I don't need rollback iterations or anything, just a clone of the present. I ask because the backup drive I just got is not that large, I don't want any space wasted.
I have one folder of old videos backing up via an uploader app (odrive), but it's 200 GB so it will take a few days. While that's happening I need to upload a small (50MB) video which I need to send to a client for review (in a different folder) – NOW! – via another app (CloudApp). So now the big backup is holding up my need-it-now upload. Is there any way to have the 2nd app take over priority and/or "throttle" the first app until it's done uploading?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro and it was running OS 10.7. I use Time Machine regularly. Just had the harddrive replaced with an SSD and OS 10.11. If I restore from Time Machine instead of Migration Assistant will the restore revert to the old 10.7 OS?
Long story short, accidentally I ran and now my mac won't boot anymore (after entering user password for hdd decryption loading bar is slowly filled and after it gets full, nothing happens). I have access to the hdd via the OS X restore utilities (Cmd+R) on startup and managed to mount my hdd using terminal. What should I do to fix this? Should I sudo chown -R root /var/ now? I also tried fixing the disk using Disk Utilities First aid, but that didnt work.
Is there a way to create a rule in Apple Mail that will copy every sent message to another folder? I want to have every sent message to be copied to the G-Mail IMAP folder so that all my sent mail is on the server. It won't do it automatically because of the way I have my return address set up in the G-Mail Account . I can copy them individually, but I'd like it to happen automatically.
If I receive a photo via text message and I delete the text message conversation before saving the photo to my Camera Roll will the photo be saved in my iCloud Photo Library?
I need to include a horizontal line beneath the text of the header in each page of my document. I was able to add a line using the Shape tool, but I cannot get it to repeat when enough text is added to create additional pages.
This Apple Script works great to mount the logged in Active Directory users network homedrive as a mounted network drive but we currently have it running as an App at login via "Login Items". Instead I'd like to write this as a shell script so I can push it via Profile Manager as a login script since we are now succesfully running a few tasks off of a login script from PM. Here is the AppleScript: Thank you for your help!
We've got a new MacBook Air which has a new to us problem. It's unable to web browse to many common websites which normally auto-escalate from HTTP to HTTPS. Example, one can normally go to trello.com or pinterest.com just by that name in the browser and it'll auto bounce up to HTTPS. With this new machine it fails to connect. However, if you manually do https in the URL bar, it will connect.
I understand that the way to disable rootless is through the Recovery Partition. However, I have a remote, headless Mac with an attached bootable clone drive that I access via Screen Sharing. Can I either: a) Boot into the recovery partition using the command line? or b) Boot into the clone and change the rootless status of the HD from there?
I'm generating a list of files and folder that meet certain criteria with use of a command: The command will generate some results: I would like to be able to automatically delete all of those files. I'm looking at a similar discussion on Unix and Linux and was wondering whether the command would work:
I am trying to run two thunderbolt displays with my macbook pro and it will only run one at a time. I have tried the displays with an older 17 inch model and it runs all three (including the internal screen) fine. OS X 10.11.1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
I would like to make use of the command that looks for a specific phrase in a file: provided here and delete all of the found files. How can I generate the relevant terminal command?
Using OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan, sometimes I'm confronted with a 'nonresponsive window': a program that keeps stalling for like 10-30 seconds. In most cases this happens to be Adobe Photoshop, but I've encountered it with other programs as well (e.g. Firefox or Chrome). Note that the program isn't completely frozen or cashed, it's just doing some heavy calculations or whatever, and the window doesn't respond (I can't click or drag it) but eventually it comes back to life and continues working normally. I can reproduce it, for example by having a very large image open in Photoshop and then going File > Save for Web.
Bought an iphone 6. Set my old phone iphone 5 back to factory settings and gave to a young friend. She keeps saying icloud is stopping her from using it. Took it back and did another factory reset via iTunes. She went into mobile shop with it but she now says I need to give her my apple or icloud password or, go to 'find my phone' select 'all devices' to open list of devices linked to my account on the old phone. Not mobile savvy, too old to learn new tricks.
When using Mail.app to access a gmail account, will images get pulled from the google image proxy servers or from the original servers? From https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en
I am new to Mac, and I have my rough time (missing keys, wrong shortcuts and etc). But I don't give up. I am a JS developer and computer user with almost 20 years of Windows and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) experience. I am also bilingual, my second language is english. In Chrome for Windows or Linux one can add as many dictionaries as pleased. Then it is very comfortable to switch between them by clicking right mouse button in the textarea (take a look at the picture). How to make it in osx?
Emails that only contain a hyperlink show up in my iPhone email inbox saying "This message has no content" (yet another terse and inaccurate error message, thanks Apple) Every single person who knows anything about computers could tell you that this is 100% certainly a spam/malware/phishing/botnet hyperlink. I don't want them in my inbox. Even if someone I knew sent me just a hyperlink I would never trust it. Do any of the email services offer a way to filter out hyperlink only messages, the ones they don't catch in their spam filtering? Is there a way in iPhone Email to filter these out or send them to a spam folder?
I'm finding that in OS X there's a delay between right clicking and actually seeing the context menu (or whatever I'm trying to get at). I've never noticed a delay like this in other operating systems. I wonder if it's a 'feature' (or otherwise) of OS X.
For some reason, in the 'About this mac' under storage, my mac running el capitan (macbook pro 13" early 2015) doesnt correctly display how much storage i've used. Does anyone have a fix for this?
Mail.app Version 8.2 (2104), OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. I have a message in my inbox which I would like to print, but Mail associates it with a conversation in another mailbox and the print preview shows the entire conversation. How do I print just the message in my inbox?
I just took my computer into the Mac store and had it upgraded to El Capitan. I had iPhoto on my old version, I believe it was Lion. Before I took my computer in, I backed my computer up to a Seagate external drive.
I use Time Machine to backup my iMac to a MacBook Pro which is running OS X server. Both are running 10.11.1; the Server version is 5.0.15. Time Machine had been running fine using a 4TB USB drive on the server. Yesterday I added a 6TB drive and switched the iMac to use it (again, over the network). Now Time Machine fails after about 90 seconds and reports "The backup disk needs 743.84 GB for the backup but only 509.94 GB are available..." The Time Machine System Preference panel then shows "510 GB of 510 GB available," which is strange because before the failure it correctly indicated "6 TB of 6 TB available."
please help me understand what happens if you have nested groups in Profile Manager and you apply conflicting Settings. Which Setting will be Carried oft? E.g.: I have the following groups:
Alternatively, I know that it is possible to use the HDMI adapter and capture that signal with a capture card but as far as I'm aware this only means the screen resolution. I read some other reports though that depending on the app, the outputted resolution actually changes but couldn't find a source to confirm this.
On my laptop screen I think the menu bar doesn't provide enough info to warrant the space it takes up. When I dock my laptop with a massive external monitor, I'd rather it showed.
I encounter this problem a lot, and I've also had it on Windows. It doesn't matter if it's over a network, or locally on a hard drive, but file transfers never stop when I click the stop button. They always take 20-30+ seconds to stop. I have encountered this issue across multiple Macs, and even on my old Windows PCs I used to use. Is there something inherent about file transfers that cause this massive delay?
I know how to change the color of ls output, but I would like to change the color of all terminal output. To make clear what I mean, below is a picture of my terminal. My text color is orange. However, I would want the -bash: p: command not found, test, and the output of df to be a different color, so that it is easier to see the difference between what I type. Is this possible?
I am looking for some help on correcting this error: error "System Events got an error: Can’t get menu item \"Clear History...\" of menu \"Safari\" of menu bar 1 of process \"Safari\"." number -1728 from menu item "Clear History..." of menu "Safari" of menu bar 1 of process "Safari" My code is:
I can't find the default keybinding to mute the sound in OS X El Capitan. I just want the whole OS to be muted.
I am using Apple Configurator 2 to program some iPads. I am able to create a profile but editing that profile once it is made has completely eluded me. Am I missing something here> How do I edit a profile once it's been setup?
When I'm trying to enter in recovery system through pressing cmd+R I'm getting OS X Internet Recovery instead of Utilites window. How to avoid it?
I pay Apple for 200 GB of storage with iCloud Drive. What are the steps to share a 60 GB file with someone?
If I erase all content and settings will I lose my contacts?
I would imagine using a Disk Utility partition, but I didn't see the option in Disk Utility to split a larger partition into several. How can it be done on a Mac? I am doing this because I would like to Mail Drop the file.
I would like to complete the initial setup of a Mac Mini (2015) without having to use an external monitor (or a mouse or keyboard). I do have a MacBook Pro available in case this would help (and from which I would like to remotely setup the MacMini), but I thought that I would be able to just follow the procedure discussed by Apple here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202542
I wrote an AppleScript that scans my entire iTunes library and tags those files with their Genre (so I can easily access them in Finder by just clicking the right tag). The next step on my list would be to "modify" the Finder behavior. What I exactly mean is that I want to be able to double click a tag in the Finder window and then all music files that are tagged should be added to a playlist and that playlist should be started.
I don't understand why when I go to /Users/Me, I find an alias of "me", and then another inside, and then again. Can this alter the performances? Can I trash them? And moreover, what are they doing here?
I use an iPhone 6s plus with 128 Gb memory. When I am on the road, I don't want to use mobile data to download photos or videos that are in the cloud, but I still want to view them. Is there a way to download all or a selection of my iCloud-content on my iPhone?
I installed Lantern a while back and I cannot find option to turn it off from startup and it is not in my Login Items list in my Users & Groups. I like to know how to disable lantern from startup. OS X 11.11.1
On a work iMac 27" Intel i5 that wouldn't boot when I got it. Did a restore to Yosemite. Tried to install El-Capitan, which didn't go well at first (I would download it and then get a message telling me it was corrupt when I tried to install). This morning, I re-downloaded and the install kicked off (progress!). However, it stalled and now shows the grey apple and a progress bar (about 95% completed). It's been like that for hours.
I'm not sure if this is related to a caching thing or a preference file or what. Also, I've removed the "?" from my dock but my system doesn't remember it when I shut down and restart, so I have to do it each time.
I'm trying to export the keychains in Terminal. This is the code I used
Missing as in, if I do find it and try to do something with it, iTunes will say "The file is not there; want to look for it?" I suspect there are two of them, because every time I sync iPad, I get two pop-ups of "one item failed to sync, ask iTunes for the reason" But there are never any pop-ups on iTunes.
I have dozens of filter rules in my Apple Mail (under Mavericks). (the SyncedRules.plist file is 110460 bytes long) 99% of my rules move spam mail to the trash. My criteria are somewhat loose, and sometimes it happens that legitimate messages end up being moved to the trash.
New terminal in El Capitan keeps showing this annoying overlay with tmux commands describing my current tmux session. How do I turn it off?
To free up disk space, I'm asking if it's possible and safe to remove some apps from my Mac OS X Yosemite download that I never use. If "yes", how do I do this safely and, hopefully, quickly.
I have a mid 2010 13" MBP that I am wanting to last me a couple more years. It was suggested I get a SSD to replace my hard drive, so I bought it but need to know some stuff before switching to it.
A couple times now when my Macbook Pro running Yosemite was left unplugged overnight (with the screen open) I have come back to it like this (That's the drained battery symbol that indicates you need to plug in your Mac) The graphics continue to be garbled like that when it starts up after some charging. The problem is resolved when the computer restarts.
So I did something dumb and now I'm locked out of my Mavericks partition on my MacBook. The dumb thing I did, specifically, was trying to change the user folder using the Directory Utility app, which should have worked but it didn't for some reason, and now I can't log in. Still have a Yosemite partition on the same computer though.
My problem is that I have this strange wifi connection name as shown in the attached image below among my wifi connections. Each time the name is different which is always a randomly generated haphazard mixture of letters and numbers. Is it possible that my system be infected with some malware. I have reinstalled the OS, El Captain, to get rid of this particular issue but at times I can still see the connection there. Do I need to worry about this?
I am trying to share an app. AirDrop successfully completed this task. However, when e-mail is used, the error regarding an unknown developer prevents the app from running. Why is AirDrop successful and e-mail not? Is there something I can do to share the app and retain the developer information?
I have 2 email addresses. The App store uses email address 2 and I can't remember the password for that. Anyway I'd rather it used email address 1. I have checked through Settings>iCloud, Settings>iTunes & App Store and both are logged into email address 1. Settings>Messages was logged into email address 2 but I've signed out of that. Even so I still can't get the App Store to let me login with email address 1.
If I do end up having to take this to the Apple Store maybe someone can lend me some insight on the problem so I don't look too stupid when talking to them. I've tried restoring from both iCloud and iTunes and the phone is not jailbroke running iOS 9.1. I know this log might be useless but I don't know how to make symlinks for iOS.
So a friend of mine found a lost iPhone 6. It has activation lock, and I see no information on the previous owner. I see the IMEI on the back, is it possible to get any information from Apple or whatever about who the user is? if I could get my hands on the email address, at least, I could contact him/her. Any help?
I noticed that the mDNSResponder process on my machine accepted an incoming connection from the name given to my machine in relation to sharing capabilities (xxx's-MacBook-Pro.local) on port 53. Despite reading about the Wikipedia article on Bonjour, I still don't really understand what it specifically does. In this case, was mDNSResponder trying to see what sharing capabilities were enabled on my machine?
However, I've noticed when I periodically check to ensure that they're still unchecked, another option will be highlighted. I just checked then, and Printer Sharing was the option that was highlighted. So it looked like this:
Since 10.11, the order of items in the Downloads folder in the Dock has changed to alphabetic. Is it possible to change it to show by date? Thanks
Setup iphone 5c for my mom 2 years ago and just performed her latest software update using her Apple ID and it worked fine. I went to Settings > iCloud and it shows a different iCloud ID email address that has never existed. I tried entering her Apple ID password and now it is stuck "Verifying" asking for her password to this non-existent email address.
I uploaded all my photos on my photo album to my Mac. My Mac is OS X 10.9.5, I've searched under images, folders, photos, and I cannot find the entire album yet when I type image onto the spotlight bar, I can see some of the pictures I uploaded but not all. I've tried searching iphoto but "iphoto" does not show up. I know my pictures aren't deleted because I can see previews of some of my photos. Thank You
I am working on a script that puts in strings of text into a document, and I was wondering how you would have apple script input the keystroke "Option-Return"
If I enter whoami in Terminal.app my id is shown as Abhi.Sri Now if I do chown -R Abhi.Sri /usr/local it says the user Abhi.Sri is invalid.
I use spotlight a lot but after upgrading to el capitan most of the time its showing empty window. Its very annoying. How can i solve this problem?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2011. I've installed a SSD on the main bay, removed the optical drive and installed a caddy with the a regular HDD on it. The OS was installed on the SSD. This setup works fine!
I am trying to add the iMac I bought in 2011 to "My Support Profile". So I copied the serial number from the "About this Mac" window, but when I entered it, I got this message:
I am using an iPhone with iOS 9 and the language is set to 'English'. Also Safari's language is set to English. Is there a way to change the language just of Safari? Thanks for helping.
After updating to el capitan I've noticed one annoying problem. When I select something using 3-fingers gesture I should wait about a second until cmd + c copy operation actually copies something to the buffer. If I press cmd + c right after I complete selection and release fingers of a trackpad nothing goes to the buffer. Is it a bug or it's a tweakable behaviour?
I am using whatsapp web version and the iPhone needs to be connected at all times for it to work. However, when the iPhone goes to sleep (screen goes off) the wifi connected is automatically turned off to save battery and the whatsapp on my browser disconnects. Is there a way to force iPhone to keep wifi connection up when locked and/or asleep?
I've upgraded my MacBook to El Capitan and my iTunes 12.3 doesn't recognize my iPad 1 with iOS 5 nor my iPhone 4s with iOS 9.1 any more. I thought it was because my iPad 1 is too old and can't upgrade beyond iOS 5.1 but my iPhone 4 has the newer iOS 9.1. So, any advice?
How can I change the way in which filenames are escaped (formatted) when dragged from applications and dropped into Terminal? For example, paths may be escaped with \, just spaces (), or other options. Path Finder, for example, has the following options under Copy Path: UNIX HFS Windows Terminal URL Name Specifically, I'm looking for the setting(s) that can be applied via the shell, such as:
So I think it's known that OS X 10.10.5 breaks calendar server because of incompatibilities between the version of Python on 10.10.5 and a specific part of the Calendar Server. It does work in 10.10.3 and 10.10.4. I have determined that by replacing the version of Python.framework in /System/Library/Frameworks that comes with 10.10.5 with a version from another machine (my laptop) that is running 10.10.3, the Calendar Server magically works again! However I am somewhat hesitant about allowing the entire 10.10.5 system to use the Python.framework from 10.10.3. Is there a way to force only the Calendar Server process to use the 10.10.3 Python.framework, while the rest of the system can use the new one that came with 10.10.5?
I loved the Apple A1016 bluetooth keyboard. It's a shame Apple don't make this any more. In particular the key caps were made out of a slightly soft matte-finished material that felt very nice to type on. Can anyone tell me what this material is?
In Xcode 7.1 and 7.1.1 there is no slot for app icon for iPad Pro. I have no idea how to put in an app icon for iPad Pro.
I am currently adopting oDrive for all my cloud storage needs. The only restriction that oDrive has it that it creates a folder called 'ODRIVE' on your computer. Everything that you want to sync has to go in that folder. I have now symlinked my Creative Cloud folder (for adobe CC) but I would REALLY like to symlink my Movies, Music, Documents, etc. That way oDrive manages my backup process, I continue using my usual workflow of saving photos to Photos and music to Music.
I have an external drive with a bunch of backups and I want to make a restore from that disk. I've always been able to restore by starting the computer while pressing the option key and selecting the disk, where it would take me to an options panel where I could start the recovery process.
I want to delete all of my messages off my Macbook and iPhone but I'd like to back them up before I do so. How do I go about doing this?
Is Apple the only company that makes an iPhone dock with an audio out jack (3.5mm) that gets the audio straight from the Lightning port... as opposed to a separate audio plug? See example below:
I've been checking through so many questions here, a lot of forum posts, and I can't get a clear answer to what it is I think I want to do. I bought the fusion drive because well...SSD...I added a bootcamp installation of Windows 10 - which created a partition on the HDD (as far as I can tell based on what I've read so far) - I followed standard Bootcamp procedure.
Emacs uses a lot of C-. and similar keyboard sequences.
Really... That's about all I need to do. I don't need a fancy graphical interface. I just want to telnet/FTP into the server and occasionally patch it to receive the latest security updates.
A while ago, I used to have some kind of App or service that would automatically unmount a dmg file whenever I put the dmg file into the trash. This was really convenient, but I've since reinstalled OS X, and I've completely forgotten the name of the app that provides this useful feature. I still have backups of my old system, but I have no idea where to look. So, does anyone know of an app that provides this feature?
I have two Macs, one is running Snow Leopard and can't be updated any further. The other is running El Capitan. I use FileVault on the latter and I also want to backup the latter to a 1TB external hard drive using Time Machine.
Garageband has a cool Guitar Amp simulator, but as far as I can tell, you have to either: Connect a physical electric guitar to your Mac or iOS. On iOS you can use another app to be the source (Inter-App Audio). Is there a way to have Garageband's own electric guitar sound be the input source to the Guitar Amp, so that no external instruments or apps are needed?
I'm running OS X 10.11 El Capitan and Screen Sharing has become more and more tedious. I have a MacBook Air, my usual laptop, and a Mac mini to which I want to connect with Screen Sharing (on my MacBook Air).
Ever since I started using iCloud photo library I am getting duplicates in photo on iMac OS X El Capitan. Also, all photos that went into the iCloud photo library uploaded on iPhone too.
So (my mom) is trying to edit photos in OS X El Capitan's Photos app and can't seem to do so, all the options are just greyed out. This is true of all the photos in the app. I looked around online and found a couple of people who had the same issue but no-one ever seemed to have solved it.
Short Version: The device in question is connected according to itself and the Bluetooth Preferences, but does not show up as an output option in Sound Preferences. Long Version:
On El Capitan my Safari seems to have trouble remembering my settings for keychain: when the following pops up it stays there if I click "Allow" or "Always Allow". It goes away when I click "Deny" with the obvious consequence that the key is not used and my identification fails.
Every time I connect on iTunes Connect (OS X 10.10, Chrome) I have to fill in my password, which is very tiring. Chrome autofills all my passwords, why doesn't it work there? Even with the 'remember me' check
I want to enter multiple tasks at once. A simple import from a text file might work. I tried copy-paste multiple lines but then they were treated all as one task. Is there a way to enter multiple tasks in one step?
Every message in Mail.app corresponds to a file in the filesystem (typically located somewhere here /Users/[username]/Library/Mail/V3/[account name]). Is there an easy way to locate the corresponding file? Searching for contents (phrases) of the message does not seem to work. I want to add "Finder tags" to certain messages.
I'm not able to properly set icons, I've tried with *.icns and *.pngs. I'm on a El Capitan, MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) Does this seem familiar to anyone?
I recently bought a QNAP NAS (TS-251) and everything is working fine. I'm now on the iTunes part of my setup and here is my tricky situation. I have a personal library I'm backuping that I would like for other users to use it. But… in iTunes Library.xml, files locations are absolute from the path of my external hard drive, something like that: and this line is actually kinda problematic: As planning for others to pick the iTunes Library.xml directly from the NAS, the file Location path needs to be from the NAS and not from my personal external hard drive.
I try to send content from iPhone to my Macbook Air via AirDrop. Everything seems to be correct. On both devices the bluetooth and same wifi is turned on. On both it is allowed from Everyone. But my mac is still invisible for my iPhone. Why? Definitely sth is wrong with my macbook, because I can share between iOS devices, but cannot connect from and to my Macbook.
I installed Wireshark Version 2.0.0 on OSX 10.11 with XQuartz 2.7.8 But it doesn't display any pane, I don't know what happened... Any suggestions?
Apparently, Adobe doesn't have a single mechanism in place for people using a laptop and additional monitors with their products. As an Adobe CC user who primarily works from a laptop that connects to a larger monitor at home or school, ALL Adobe CC products open with a pop-up window that is outside of the monitor bounds. So you can't move, or adjust, anything. It effectively locks the product.
I have Windows (Boot Camp) installed. So I ran out of storage and thought about partitioning my Mac's part of drive. I partitioned my Mac's drive and set Windows to boot by default. Once I lost electricity and my iMac shut down. After this accident I can't see Mac in list of devices to boot. (After pressing alt when Mac is turning on) But all files are ok. I see them when I use Windows. Well, Boot Camp Control Panel indicates my Mac-George as Windows:
I was working the other day on my Macbook and this icon popped up. My phone was not with me. Does that mean whoever had my phone just went through my messages? Is it safe to accuse them?
I have a 15 inch mid 2015 MacBook Pro Retina with El Captian on it. I recently installed VMware Fusion Pro in that and created a new VM and installed Windows 10 64Bit. The problem I'm having is that the resolution is very bad when I use to this Win 10 in my VM. The texts are blurry.
I've tried Transmit, Forklift; they cost a lot, and I'm not that willing to spend money on this. OS X Fusion says it is installed, but the application seems to be installed nowhere. And obviously Finder is read-only. Ultimately, the goal is to be able to store Unity projects on a server and access the files and write to them within Unity because the projects take up a lot of space.
When I'm working with the DevTools open, if I refresh the page, DevTools automatically switches to the DOM Inspector tab instead of staying on the console. Here's an animated GIF image to demonstrate the behaviour: *=URL=* How do I make sure DevTools always stays on the Console even after refresh? There was an answer proposed here: *=URL=* but it's not a 100% solution (as commented by the author on that answer).
I am trying to install OSX El Capitan in a Mac Mini but I get the error: OS X could not be installed on your computer! A disk with a mount point is required Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. I had formated the disk trying to fix the error and I getting this:
I have this configuration: a NAS and a local hard drive on my Mac I want to backup incrementally, like Time Machine does. When I do this rsync command:
Whenever I click on a full address in a text box in Safari, it is auto-recognized and pops up a map, like in the following screenshot:  Is there any way to disable this? This does not happen in Chrome. It seems like it's most text fields: google.be, yahoo.com, apple.com, even the text field in the w3schools example. My system info is as follows: OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 (The laptop originally shipped with Yosemite) Safari 9.0.1
Every couple of days I get this message that "iCloud Storage is Full" in a window on my MacBook, it is very annoying, as I know my storage is full and that I need to upgrade it. The window only gives me two options, "Manage" and "Upgrade", either of which opens up System Preferences, which wouldn't be such an issue if my internet connection was faster, but it takes System Preferences way too long to retrieve info about my iCloud Drive and I can't close System Preferences until it does. One cannot hide the window by clicking into another app.
When I try to stop it using the command-line, here's what happens: also tried this ... also tried killing the spotlight processes ... Is there any way that I can safely eject my external hard drive without destroying the file system again?
I just bought a 32 GB iPhone 4 on eBay to replace my broken iPhone 4. How do I change my Verizon service from one to the other?
I really have no idea what to make of this, but on one of the machines I've upgraded to El Capitan, all of the gatekeeper dialogs display without localized strings:  This displays after launching Chromium from the dock just after having replaced it with a new version by copying an app bundle from a DMG to the Applications folder. This is clearly not expected behavior, but I'm not sure what I could do to fix it besides reinstalling El Cap (which I'm not too keen on doing if I can avoid it). Has anyone else seen anything like this, and/or have any ideas for troubleshooting?
As it currently stands, the OSX text substitution feature seems to require an application to actively support it to be available - which many do not. Is there a way to make the text substitution available everywhere? If I'm not wrong this should be possible, I am thinking of a program that achieves this by doing something like hooking into the keyboard input on system level and performs the substitution by sending additional keystrokes after detecting that a shortcut has been entered. (E.g. after entering (c) it sends three delete keycodes followed by the substitution.) However I didn't find anything like this through my Google searches. I'd also be content with a solution that requires me to select the text-to-replace and hit a keyboard shortcut to perform the action. Does a program like this exist, or is there any other way?
If I use Final Cut Pro to try and import video off of my iPhone 6s, about 1 out of every 2 or 3 times it will become Not Responsive and within a few minutes use all available system RAM and I'm forced to Force Quit the app. I have the first gen Retina 5K iMac so in general it's a powerful machine but it dies on the iPhone processing. Looking in the Console around the time of the hang I do notice a large amount of errors like this :
In my Mac's date and time prefs I have "Set time zone automatically using current location" checked. But when I travel to a different time zone, the zone doesn't automatically change-- unless I open Date & Time preferences. I don't have to do anything once I open it, just opening it is enough to make the time zone update. It automatically finds the correct time zone but only once I open the prefs. The Mac can determine the correct time zone, so that's fine, but isn't it supposed to actually change it automatically if I have that setting turned on? OS X 10.11.1, MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
I have a mbp mid 2012 running on yosemite. Since this morning, my display is behaving weirdly. It seems to have bluish-greenish tint and I've tried deleting color profile, recalibrating it, rebooting into safe mode. But nothing works. I've also tried switching graphics card (between intel & nvidia) using gfxcardstatus but no change with my display's behavior. Here is a sample screenshot of my mbp display Any ideas what is wrong with it ?
I am trying to create an environment variable for a path that is long, has a space, and syntax. I tried the following: And added it to my .profile. I also tried:
We have an OS X server in a small office and want to have a cache server. When first user download something from Internet (NOT just from apple products) the second it should be downloaded from the server cache not from Internet.
I've upgraded from 3rd gen Apple TVs to the latest 4th gen model, and I've noticed that almost all apps now play episodes back-to-back until they are manually stopped—"Computers" does this, "Netflix," "Disney Junior" and others all seem to follow this model. Is there a way to disable this—globally would be best, or at least for the aforementioned three apps? Our young children were used to watching one episode of a show, then being done with TV when the episode ended. Now it automatically starts up a second episode and they understandably want to keep watching.
I just restarted my mac "OSX El Capitan v10.11.1" and I'm seeing a weird User in my login screen called "puppet":  I have not created this User and I don't know how to log on it. The most concerning part is that I'm not able to delete it because I can't find it in the System Preferences > Users & Groups:
I'm using Mail.app in Mac OS X 10.11 (Yosemite). I would like for messages I compose to appear in the new, lovely, San Francisco font. I cannot seem to make that happen because neither "System Font" or "San Francisco" are available in the OS X Font chooser. Is there a way to make this font available for message composition?
Is it possible for an ISP to identify what iOS app I use based on network traffic?
I recently rebuilt my system and everything works except I can't scroll my (iterm2) terminal window back to look at commands and output that have scrolled off the screen. Without tmux I can scroll but with tmux I can't When using vim this isn't an issue as I can scroll back within vim. For basic terminal (which I don't normally use) the behavior is a little different in that the current line scrolls back to show previous commands, but just that line, not the whole window. My terminal settings include:
Then I have to check and double check that I haven't missed any files/folders. So, I open two windows, one with the source folder, the other with the destination folder. And I compare folders (Music, Docs, etc.) from each. I look to see if the number of files/folders match and that the amount of bytes used is the same.
At home I connect my MacBook Pro, running OS X El Capitan, to the Internet using Ethernet, and share the connection with my phone via Wi-Fi. At work I connect the MacBook Pro to the company network using Ethernet, and Internet Sharing is not allowed. Is there a way to automatically turn Internet Sharing on and off depending on which network I am on? A solution which detects the Ethernet network, somehow, the presence or absence of specific Wi-Fi network, or indeed the actual geographic location would do the job.
so an App of mine has been rejected 3 times. Each being the same reason: Guideline 2.2: Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected More specifically the App Reviewer(s) cannot log into the Application Server, which is needed to proceed.
I just imported music from some CD's I had, and iTunes put each track into a single album. How do I put all the tracks into 1 album?
I am trying to reinstall an app I purchased some time ago. It is not installing. In the console I get the following message:
I have three admin accounts on one machine running El Capitan. The machine is a few days old. Whenever I try to run a sudo command, I'm asked for my password and told
I'm playing a game called fishing planet and I need to use f11 to change the pitch but it's the volume so I can't use it
Some songs in apple music can't be played. It is very weird cause in the start I could listen to these songs, and then suddenly they became unable to play. They just turned grey and it isn't possible to play them. It is very frustrating and I know that it hasn't something to do with my internet connection. It is like this at both my macbook and my iPhone. Have anyone else experienced this? And does anyone know if there is a way of fixing it?
Machine is MBP E-2011 500GB hybrid hard drive. Operating system is OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite. I've encountered system issues that are difficult to resolve and have decided to reformat and reinstall OS X. I have prepared a bootable USB drive to install El Capitan 10.11.1 using DiskMaker X 5 When I use COMMAND+R at startup the Disk Utility shows "Disk2" "OS X Base System" underneath a divider below the title for my installed hard drive.
I'm tunneling over ssh with this command (under El Captain) and enable foxyproxy on the browser. Everything seems to work just fine on the browser. However, on the terminal I keep getting messages of the form channel X: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
I'm trying to get off of MAMP and run local versions of an AMP stack on my Mac, but when I try to start apache and run localhost from a browser, it's not coming up with anything. In running apachectl configtest, I see the following errors, but I don't know how to fix.
There seems to be a general iphone issue with mail.app not pushing correctly atm. I've tried every trick I could find online, but to no avail. What I've done so far:
After a some googling works i found this which now confuses me a lot .Because am not using bitcoins or any other accepted virtual currency . Am using a virtual currency built for my app alone . Which can be used to buy paid books . Apple announced at the Conference that it has updated its its App Store Review guidelines, adding a new rule will allow apps in the App Store to use virtual currencies, as long as they are legal. My question is :
I'm an iCloud Photo Library user. How can I specifically ensure that a specific video/photo is downloaded locally on my iOS device? Basically I'm looking for the equivalent of a "Download" button available on a photo or video so that it will be available locally on the iPhone. Basically, there are some apps that don't really handle deal with iCloud based media well, so I want to ensure that the media is available locally so I can accomplish my task in the 3rd party app (Magisto).
From My Media I have dropped several photos and videos into the timeline to create a video. Everything going well until the videos I have do not show the images but rather a green screen. I hear the audio portion of those videos but I see no image. Help? parker
Moving over to a mac from windows and one feature I really enjoyed was being able to map my scroll up and scroll down keys and (+) and (-) respectively. Then, while in a web browser or picture preview I could hold ctrl and scroll up and down to zoom in and out.
I use nvm to manage my node versions. Now i have to type nvm use stable to let nvm set my path variable like this Now i want to start xcode from the same terminal with open -a Xcode but the project build is failing cause of this error message
I'm new to Numbers and now creating my first chart. I tried to find what I was looking for on google but couldn't find anything. What I would like to do is change the numbers in the Y axis to show has custom letters or words instead of numbers while still keeping their values, if that makes sense. For example: Would that be possible? Thank you for any help.
Every time when I take a picture or video with flash, it turns out very, very bright on my iPhone 6s. Especially at night the glare is so bad you really can’t see anything.
I download the Box Sync .dmg, see the mounted installer, click on the installer, enter my password, and NOTHING happens. I have tried this myriad different ways. I have restarted the laptop several times, to no avail. I am the only user and have admin rights. How do I fix this?
I bought my Iphone 6 plus yesterday, and i was wondering is it genuine because keyboard letters when typing messages and emails are all uppercase no matter caps lock. Is it good, sorry for stupid question, but I`m new to Apple products. Thanks
On my iPhone 6 Plus, the home screen rotates on tilt, but on my iPhone 6s it doesn't rotate, is it ok? My iPhone 6 Plus is running iOS 8.1 and my iPhone 6s is running iOS 9.
Is it okay to leave the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 (late 2015) plugged in via the Lightning cable? Is the battery-charging smart about not over-charging/over-heating? Is the battery-charging smart about not over-charging/over-heating?
Similar to this, but the behavior I'm seeing is even stranger. I'm encountering some very frustrating behavior on El Capitan using multiple monitors with separate spaces for each monitor. When I cmd-tab between one program and another that has lots of windows scattered across the spaces (e.g. Chrome), sometimes OSX doesn't select a window of chrome that's visible on one of my two monitors - it goes and changes spaces for no apparent reason. It does change to a space with a Chrome window open, but it doesn't even select that window. I don't know precisely how to reproduce this, so I was wondering if anyone else had observed this behavior, and whether anyone knows how to fix it. I know that disabling "Enable separate spaces for each monitor", as suggested in the linked question above, will eliminate this problem, but having separate spaces for my monitors is a big part of my workflow.
My daughter has a late 2014 MacBook Air, but lives 900 miles away. I'd like to run a disk utility verify / repair, but I'm not sure I could talk her through it. And since that's a lower level operation, we can't do it via screen share. Is there any way for me to initiate / monitor a disk utility operation remotely?
I'm trying to get Sling TV set up on an older iMac. It has 10.6 (the minimum required OS), 2.5 GB RAM (~2.5 times the required memory), and a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
I've got a number of places in files for a project with the following format: func whatever() ->Bool {. However, it looks like the standard Swift guide is to use func nevermind() -> String (note the space between the -> and the start of the return type).
I looked in the System Preferences, but didn't find anything. I don't want the computer to go to sleep when the battery declines, but instead warn me, so I can plug it and avoid it dying.
I'm just wondering is there a way to enter a new line in iTerm 2 without executing the line being typed? I am looking to make use of some relatively long commands to automate some things, but not being able to format things is proving to make long commands hard to read. Is there any way to enter line breaks or soft returns so that when enter is pressed the whole command will still execute?
I stop the process when "downloading windows support software" in BootCamp, and I don't know where the downloaded files are. How to delete the uncompleted downloading files?
I was trying to upgrade to OS X El Capitan when my screensaver kicked in or something and froze the download. But now the App Store shows it "download" as apposed to "downloading" when I try and download it. And nothing happens vs before when the screen turned into an iPad screen. Not sure if there is a file to delete of what?
Why were my notes deleted when I permanently deleted my emails from gmail account. Can I get my notes recovered? My notes on Apple phone were lynced to Mac I am told.? Can you help
I want to present some 3D models to my clients via email. I don't know what apps they have installed and I can't have then install any apps, most of them have a strict app policy. What 3D formats does Preview for iOS support?
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Until 2 December by home security camera sent email alerts to my iCloud mail accounts from another home email account which I also use on my Mac. Since then emails have been returned undelivered, apparently blocked by Apple. Test messages from my Mac to my iCloud account are similarly returned, though traffic is still being received in the iCloud account from other sources. The CCTV alerts are not being sent to the junk folder. How can I find out what is going on? Below is the returned mail message I typically receive, Proofpoint tells me that the sovision SMTP mail server address, 109.228.41.85, is not blacklisted.
I'm trying to do this tutorial, but I can't mount the img file: It says mount: You must specify a filesystem type with -t. How can I mount an image in OSX?
I attach my MBP (OS X 10.10.4) via VGA to my tv and the aspect ratio is correct when setting an 1360x786 resolution, which is a 1.77 aspect ratio. But when trying to increase the resolution to 1690x944, also 1.77 aspect ratio, the image is distorted. Now I wonder how that can be the case given the ratio between height and width is identical.
The machine gets extremely hot, at most CPU temperature 101 degrees according to my temperature utility. The iMac (and previous Minis) never got anywhere near as hot. Indicated CPU usage in Activity Monitor seems to increase proportionately with CPU temperature (and how long the machine has been on), but this is somewhat unsure.
I have three machines: A Mac Pro, a Macbook Pro and a Macbook Air. I created the library on my MBP and all photos are stored on the file server on my network which all machines can access. Copying the library to my MBA and MP, I can see the thumbnails as you'd expect but it refuses to load any files whatsoever, despite the volume being mounted at the same path. Has anyone had any success in getting this to work? I had a look at the database and each file has a hex encoded string stored against it which is storing system disks UUID amongst other machine specific things regardless of the fact that it's on the network share.
Spotlight does not calculate the correct result of (31^x) % 35 where x >= 11?. It shows for x=12 while the correct result is 1. How can this be? It works for all smaller powers of 31 modulo 35.
Edit 1: Actually, this is reproduced each time I reboot the Mac. But if I then logout/login, it starts working. This is not acceptable! Edit 2: Spindump from when open is in the "hung" condition:
I could connect to my paid VPN when I was at home and not on proxy. Also I tried to use software like ProxyCap and Proxifier but they didn't work.
I need to know how to write a command or script to kill the CCLibrary and CCXProcess processes. They are part of Adobe's Creative Cloud, and since their previous update they keep respawning and running my CPU at 100%. Until a fix comes out, I'd like a quick way to kill it, without having to go through Activity Monitor. When I try I get "No matching processes were found". I can use ps -ef to find the PID number (eg 9548) I can grep it, e.g. which returns two activities, the CCLibrary and the grep itself. Then I can "kill" based on the PID number But how can I write a script to find that PID as a variable, then kill it?
I currently use Backblaze for online backup. I am thinking of switching to just storing all my documents on my iCloud drive.
There is this issue on OSX that often when you put a font file into the trash, it can't be emptied as the system thinks the font is still in use:  However, I've uninstalled it using Font Book, I've quit any application that might still be holding on to the font, including the Finder, but it's still reported as being in use. The only thing that helps is completely logging out and back in again, but that's not right. There has to be a better way. Has anyone figured this out? (I know this isn't exactly a serious problem but it's nagging me.)
I need to SFTP connect to a AWS server behind a NAT server in a private subnet. Login to both the NAT server and the private subnet server is done using private SSH keys. In windows, there is WinSCP which lets you create a SSH tunnel through the NAT server and then connect to the private subnet server.
I was just trying to put some new music on my iPhone 4 (just temp phone until Christmas), I have had it for around 5 months, after losing my old iPhone 4s 6 months ago. I thought the backup was for music so I tried backing it up, clicked the wrong one and it backed up my OLDER iPhone 3GS from almost 2 years ago. So now everything I have had for the last 5 months is gone, since I have never plugged this one into iTunes before or backed it up is there any way of getting it back?
On my apple watch I receive a imessage, I twist my wrist to show the message but for it always shows me the old messages and then the new imessage? How can I stop this so it either just shows me the new message or the actual up to date thread?
Have an issue with Macbook Air 13 (Mid 2013). Both trackpad and keyboard work fine on the boot screen, also in Windows 10 bootcamp installation, but in Mac OS X neither works (not even Caps Lock LED). External keyboards and mouses work fine.
For some applications (eg terminal) when I double-click the title bar, it expands to fill the screen (height and width). For some (eg chrome) it expands down to fill the height, but doesn't change width. For still others, (eg emacs) it cycles between height, full screen, and original size.
My iphone 6 has 7 apps that need to update. I hit update all, but nothing is happening, it's like they are frozen. The update all is grayed out now. I tried turning off my phone and turning it back on, but no luck. The apps are unusable right now. Any suggestions?
As the title says, If I enable the dark status bar and then put my mac to sleep, when I wake it up, the menu bar reverts to the 'normal' color. Does anyone have any explanation for this behavior? I am on El Capitain
El Capitan was a disaster for Office Mac 2011, specifically Outlook. The recent Microsoft update resolved the problem with Outlook crashing, but it didn't fix the problem I had where email sent to me was disappearing into the ether.
I'm using VirtualBox, and found a list of Ubuntu images here. But as of today it doesn't include an image for 14.04, which I need to install GitLab on, (or build from source). What URLs would you suggest to ease the search for a client image of Ubuntu 14.04?
I have always used bash for work, and never had problems with it. Now, it does not save any command in history again. If I open a window terminal, try some commands, it acts like everything has worked fine and show me history using the arrow keys. But If I close the window (and that it is the time that it supposed to be save on the .bash_history file) and open another one, there are no signs of the last commands.
I have a 2008 MacBook with Snow Leopard on it. I don't want to upgrade to newer OS versions. Snow Leopard keeps prompting me to upgrade to El Capitan. Is there any way to get it to stop this permanently?
I want a service like rescueTime for iOS. I'm pretty sure apps can't look at other app usage directly, but I think a vpn could track most of my usage, as I mostly do stuff that requires an internet connection. Are there any vpn's that have iOS apps that could summarize my usage?
I'm searching an AppleScript to automatically start my University VPN if I'm connected to the University network. I already found some solutions for older OS X Versions, but they're not working anymore on El Capitan. Edit: An existing solution does not work on El Capitan, I'm getting this error:
Is there an apple script command for the "Look Up" action/service? If not, what would be a decent way to mimic it? If you don't know what I'm talking about it's the popover when you three-finger click some thing, or select some text and select Look Up "some text" in the contextual menu.
So, the situation: non-retina macbook pro mavericks OS X or newer have to wait 15+ seconds for macbook to sleep already tried setting hibernatemode=0 (no sleepimage) see the following text after typing pmset -g log in the terminal: TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15
My daughter's music appears in my iTunes on my Iphone only...not any other devices. If I remove these from my phone will she still be able to access the music on her device?
When I open more than one document in BBEdit, a Currently Open Documents pane is shown. I can change the selection in the pane (and change the document shown in the editor pane) with the mouse pointer. Can I change the selection in the pane with a keyboard shortcut?
I am trying to download Xcode and it says "installing" but has not done anything different for an hour(just sitting there). How do I know it is still installing?
I have lots of apps on my iPad and I want to copy them to my PC, usually I'd just click transfer purchased in iTunes but now it's not working. I want to backup and restore my iPad because I've been having some issues. iFunBox isn't working either
My little boy watches stuff on our iPad all the time, the smart monkey figured out how to change the volume and the brightness by pulling up the Control Center and adjusting them via the slider. My problem is that he sets them to the maximum no matter how many times I tell him not to do that. Is there a way to lock them on a certain level? or disable the Control Center? Edit: Sadly redeagle's solution never worked, I have no idea what is "Volume Limit" in the restrictions used for but my kid can still control the volume using the control centre and/or the side switch
My wife and I have two separate iTunes accounts and two separate laptops. Now that we are married, when it came to the time we both needed to replace our own laptops we decided just to buy one. I would be grateful for any advice on what the best way would be to deal with our separate iTunes accounts. Can we merge them, or both have our own iTunes accounts installed on the same machine. Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm running into an identical problem with Mail on two separate systems, both starting immediately after upgrading from a long-working Yosemite to the new El Capitan and persisting through the latest 10.11.2 version. The systems have at least 16GB of memory and well over 200GB of free disk space, no other apps are running, nor does Mail have any extensions installed. The problem manifests with Apple's Mail, even while unattended, at some point spontaneously popping up with this error in a dialog box: There is a problem with your mailboxes.
I have 2 macbook pro A and B. I want to transfer A to B to make them identical. I have done something similar before by creating a disk image and then retoring a new hd from the same disk image. However, I tired the following and it seems I am missing something: plug-in external HD with a newly created disk image from computer A into computer B Launch disk utility on computer B Click restore on the 1 and only partition Select the source to be the image on the external hd (.dmg file) select the destination to be the partition. Then I get a promted to scan the disk image but it fails with error unable to scan Resource Busy.
I have been an iTunes Match for several years, since shortly after they introduced the service. Recently I noticed that entire albums were missing off my phone, or weirder still, that some albums would have two or three tracks present and the rest missing.
After updating my MacBook Pro to 10.11.2, I am having huge issues with iCloud. Thus far, I am noticing that: I can no longer use Messages.
I am having a problem with the battery in my Mom's old iPhone 4. She recently had to replace her phone because it was showing this screen: That isn't her phone, but that is what it was showing. When we unplugged it, the phone completely died so we left it to charge for a while. It then showed the connect to iTunes screen: (Also not her phone)
I've been trying to share an iCloud calendar with an Android user but can't seem to find any way to share a read/write version of it. This AskDifferent gives a great explanation how to share a read-only version, but I need to share a read-write version.
On El Capitan's login screen the status menu (top right near time) shows an icon of two overlapping squares, one square is to the top left and looks behind the other. It doesn't show once I login. What does this icon represe
When I sleep, I don't want to hear any notifications from my phone, unless I get a phone call. In case it's an emergency from a family member, etc. Is there a way to set it to silent on every app but phone calls easily?
When I try to download anything in chrome, nothing happens (eg. saving an image with right click). When I try to download an extension, chrome says This item is already being downloaded and added into Chrome. I looked "under the hood" and the Download folder is correctly set. Downloads work in safari. This problem also persists in Chromium. I have tried several solutions to my problem, but I simply cannot download anything. I tried deleting my chrome profile, pasting a past solution into terminal, as well as completely deleting all chrome applications I could find and reinstalling. I thought this could be a cache problem and deleted the cache (sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches) as well as my Google Library folder (rm -rf ~/Library/Google). However, none of these attempts have affected my situation
I installed gcc via homebrew with no errors. But when I try to run gcc, clang is used instead. Edit:
I was forced to do a fresh install of El Cap. Now when I click on an app to open it, it will not bounce, not even once to acknowledge that the app is opening. How do I solve that?
I'm following the instructions in Creating a bootable Clonezilla dual partition USB device but using my Mac laptop running El-Capitan. I managed to create an MBR partition table and two partitions on the external USB drive using OSX' fdisk utility but I failed to find a way to format the existing partitions to ExFAT. All the references I found so far point to diskutil eraseDisk or suggest using Windows or Linux for that, but I don't have access to bare-iron servers with these OS's and failed to access the unformatted USB drive from VirtualBox virtual machines on my laptop. So, the question is - "Is there a way to execute the equivalent of mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1 on OS X?"
I am trying to find a way to organize picture metadata in my iPhone. By default, it adds location and time data, so that the photos are easily searchable on the phone.
Something happened when installing El Capitan and now I have only one partition in my hard drive with only 30 gigs of space when it's supposed to be 128. I can't seem to erase anything. Any advice?
The internet Sharing utility that is supplied in System Preferences is easy to use, but provides very few configuration options. I'd like my OS X client devices to see my Bonjour shares, and for that I believe they need to be on the same subnet. Internet Sharing creates its own subnet, however, and I'm forced to use clunky workarounds to access my Bonjour-shared material.
I synced with iPhone and was asked whether I wanted to upgrade my iPhone 5. After that I could not open my phone. When pressing the started button I get a picture of what looks like a charger with an arrow pointing to iTunes. I tried to reboot, but to no avail.
So this is almost a copy from my previous question: Change output color of terminal (in Mac) to be different from typed text color for which I got a great answer here: *=URL=* However, the only problem is that when I use ssh, all the text in the ssh session is now lightblue (see screenshot). How can I get the ssh session to use the same color scheme as my local session, and also have different output color for type commands and output?
I have a shared computer that is primarily for my use, but occasionally when I'm out of the office others would like to use it. These others require Administrator access to be able to install software etc. but I'm concerned (just as much out of mistake as anything else) about the security of my personal stuff on the machine. I'm looking for a means to encrypt my home directory that can only be unlocked by my password. Obviously FV2 doesn't cut it, as the full drive is decrypted as soon as the other user logs in.
I would like to deactivate the Wifi 801.11N on a Macbook Air 2013. I have some problems of stability and connection losses when connecting to a professional network. It appears these issues are related to intel Wireless card and Wifi N. I would probably have better stability and performance if I connect by using the older Wifi G capability. How can I deactivate Wifi N in order to use Wifi G on mac?
I develop on a Mac and want to use Time Machine to move between different versions of OSX so that I can use different versions of Xcode to support older iOS versions. The idea being that, in a few years, I'll have a suite of backups for different versions of OSX and I can choose to go back or forward as development needs require. (For instance right now I'm creating a backup of Yosemite before upgrading to El Capitan, and then I'll take an El Capitan backup)
I have a 50GB OneDrive account which is basically full. I'd like to store/access stuff directly on/from my OneDrive by mounting as a network share, rather than syncing with my Mac, and therefore using up 50GB of Mac HDD space. This is possible on Windows, and I can confirm this works on my OneDrive account.
Before when I entered localhost into the browser there was my localhost from MAMP, basically directory for my web repositories. Recently I installed OS X Server, and now when I enter localhost into the browser there is:
iTunes doesn't play my tv shows or movies anymore. The timeline moves forward but the screen remains black and there is no audio! I already tried to deauthorise and reauthorise my macbook but nothing seems to work...
I'm on a mac in Terminal. opens Sublmine Text 2, just like I want it to. I now want to alias this to my .bashrc file, which I have an use for other things like prompt configuration.
I would like to share my whole iTunes library with a friend. He also has an ipod so I take it he also has iTunes on his pc ( with his own apple account and Id ). My library is just under 7 gig and I was thinking of using a usb memory stick. Will he be able to add all my music to his existing library, and vice versa?
I'm trying to include a KEXT in an installer package (via PackageMaker 3.0.6(201) ) but I cannot get past following error: Could not rename "Payload"
My MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running El Capitan (10.11.1) intermittently displays screen artifacts. I thought the issue might be with my screen connector, but the artifacts are captured when I take a screenshot. The artifacts are never the same and are always located in different parts of the screen. Any ideas?
I am trying to install the upgrades to Xcode, Xcode version 7.2. Unfortunately, the App Store shows that this installation has been "Installing --- less than a minute" for over four hours.
I think the title is self-descriptive, but I'll describe it more precisely here: What I mean by "Download Speed of an app" is when you click in the download button of an application, at the Purchases tab we'll see the app downloading, like this:  Where can I see the download speed of OS X El Capitan, in the case of this image?
I have a MIDI keyboard controller and I want to be able to mirror what I am playing on an onscreen keyboard, so that students in a music class can see it. Suggestions?
My husband has a older iPod nano. He has music on it that he put in himself from cd's which were misplaced in a move. He also has music from iTunes. In addition, since I have an android phone, I have been buying music through Amazon music. I'd love to get him a new iPod touch for Christmas to make it easier for him to add and remove music but I'm worried that his non iTunes music won't transfer over and the Amazon music won't be able to be used. Can anyone tell me if that will be an issue? And if so, is there something specific I can do to make it all work? Any help would be appreciated.
I'm trying to generate an if statement that outputs either 0 if under 74 or under 3 between 75 - 89 and 5 if over 90. I have been trying the above however I'm getting both 3 and 5 displayed. Could someone help me find the fix?
I'm using a Mac Book Pro. In the app store, I click Update and it downloads for half an hour and then it starts installing and halfway through everything just stops on it's work. I've waiting an hour already and it still says installing 3 minutes. It said that an hour ago. I'm trying to update 2 apps and one of them says installing 3 minutes, the other one just tells me to click "update" again because it paused itself. What's going on why am I having this update/install issue in App Store?
I have MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) It comes with a 500 GB hard but today when I checked it it's only showing 250 GB. Please tell me why is that?
I'm kinda new to the Mac OS, in fact I got this current Mac this week so I'm pretty noob with it. I need to run a VM with windows 11 and 10 for testing purposes. So I downloaded and the virtual machines from MS in this link VM Dev After doing all the proper steps to install it, anytime I run one of the machines it get a blue screen on booting, and the VM restart itself. Here is the error
I have an email account registered on my Macbook and on two more devices. Is it possible to block / not download all emails from a specific sender just on my device but not touch the server email account settings, so the sender can still send to the two other devices?
I have been using my MBP (13" mid-2009 running OSX 10.9.5) in clamshell mode with an external monitor connected via minidisplay port, Apple wireless keyboard, and magic mouse for a couple of months. Starting a few weeks ago the mouse would not recognize left clicks anymore and remain stuck on a random spot on the screen with a left click when I close the MBP and try to work in clamshell mode. It still tracks, so that when I move the mouse it highlights from where it got stuck. Also right clicks still work; but obviously they are no use without being able to left click. Also, the keyboard works without any issues.
I have an Apple iPhone 4s running the last version of iOS that can be jailbroken(the one just before 9.1 I think). Each time I swipe to unlock, it hangs for a second while displaying the pin entry keypad and then reboots. It reboots to safe mode and then back to normal mode.
Got two computers with the same OS X version, with the same account name and Apple ID, I will call these two equipments A and B. When a notification pops-out from Calendar app in A the same goes for B, when closed the notification in A, B still shows the notification. The same is true if closed first in B then A keeps showing the notification. This means that while using A and closing these notifications if you go back to B the same notifications need to be closed again. Is there a way to make OS X aware that some notifications in B were already viewed and closed in A (sync)?
I've just been asked by the wife why her iPhone 5s (iOS 9.1) is not connecting to the wifi. I've just checked the router and it shows that her phone is connected and given an IP address, however it still shows 3G. Things I've tried. Turn her phone into airplane mode and not. Reboot the router. Repeat step 1. Restart the phone.
I was working in the terminal and I accidently deleted a directory by "rm -rf" Is there any utility which can recover files deleted via unix commands?
I was looking for a song today in my music library that I used to listen to all the time because I noticed it would never come on when I shuffled my music. It wasn't in my music library and I used to be able to go to my settings and there was a setting to show music you've purchased from the iTunes Store but wasn't on your device and I could easily go into my music library and press the little cloud button with an arrow and BAM the music would be on my phone again. Is there a way to still do that without subscribing to Apple Music?.
I have set up a plist file and loaded/started it with launchd. Whenever it is time for the script to run, I receive the following error in my console:
I'm using OS X 10.11, How can I navigate through items on menu bar using keyboard, like press Alt + letter with underscored in Windows?
The other day I was using Boot Camp Assistant to partition my 2015 MBP to dual-boot Windows 10. I came back to discover my Mac was had just crashed and rebooting. I knew this could have gone very badly. Nothing major seems to be broken, however I had to use my old password to login (I changed it only days beforehand, and I haven't needed to use it since). I was using the 64-bit ISO file (stored on my computer) from the Windows website. I have a few concerns:
Title pretty much says it all. Also if anyone knows how to drag and drop something into a browser using any language or command(s), please share. To be clear i'm talking about something like this: Press command+f Type in "the" (Insert magic hotkey, or bit of code, here, that does anything at with the word currently highlighted by command+f) This could be used to click a link, for instance, or highlight the first word in a sentence (if you could use the command to do 2 clicks in quick succession) (at which point you could use shift+arrow keys to highlight the rest of the sentence, or the other commands to highlight by more than one character at a time, like shift+command+arrow keys) As far as i know no such shortcut exists, but i don't see why, (so maybe one does exist and i'm just not aware of it).
I am a prolific Garageband user, therefore I have lots of my own songs in my iTunes collection, which obviously will not be available via Apple's music library... I am currently paying for iTunes Match and Apple Music. If I were to quit using Match, would I still get my own songs via upload to the cloud or whatever, or would I only be able to access Apple's music? I'd die if I couldn't stream my garageband projects to all my devices.
I've got a 1TB external drive which used to have two partitions: One formatted in NTFS to share files between Mac and Windows, and one for Time Machine Backups. I haven't used it in quite some time. In the mean time, I've upgraded to the latest OS version. When I just plugged it in, Finder only mounts the NTFS partition. Disk utility doesn't seem to find the Mac partition, either: Disk Drill can find the unallocated disk space, but I can't seem to partition it:
I have gone through this link.But everything seems to be changed. Everything redirects to Apple Development Program.So is it mandatory to enroll in that development program to create a safari development certificate to create extensions? And if so where can I get that certificate from?
If I try then, within a few seconds, the .DS_Store files get re-created by Finder before can take effect. I can do
Is it possible to install my old MacBook Pro HDD into the latest 2015 model? My understanding is that the 2015 model uses PCIe Flash Storage. Perhaps there is a slot for an HDD... Alternatively, can I run the machine off my old HDD externally?
After I update to OS X 10.11.2, El-Capitan, from 10.11, my Aten USB to Serial UC 232A no longer works properly. When I send hexadecimal data, for example client send : 02 01 10 30 30 30 03 CB, the server will receive 02 01 10 FF 82 8A 03 CB 00. Server always receive different data even when I send same data twice. Somebody can help me? Thanks. Note : I use MacBook Pro - Mid 2014 I use CoolTerm to send data and the Adaptor is Aten USB to Serial UC 232A.
Is there any setting or application that would let me drag a window without having to go to the window title bar? Maybe some application may let me drag a window by holding FN (or other combination) and then dragging the window from any point. Thanks!
My app is for a smart device and uses Bluetooth Low Energy. I would like to enable my app only for iPhone 4S and higher. Is that possible ?
I'm trying to download or to get .dmg of iOS 8.4 or later and all I can get from Apple dev center is ipws file. Is there any way to convert/extract/whatever this .ipws to a valid dmg image (that can be eventually mounted ?) or is there any link from where I can get a valid .dmg image of ios8.4 or later? Thank you in advance
Ok so I updated my iTunes on my (Mac Book Pro) and tried to install the new iOS on my iPad... got error 9. (((Switched cables, tried the other usb connecter... same error.))) Searched the net... everything kept saying usb issues or firewall(I don't have one). Thought maybe an issue with that computer.
TechTools 8, all test pass. Memory, video, temperature, fans etc. Apple Care 2nd level tried to no avail. System performed flawlessly until El Capitan install
When searching in iTerm2, some kind of of fancy live highlighting thing seems to kick in even before you hit enter. When the scrollback buffer has more than a few thousand lines in it, this search mode seems to become unusably slow. It maxes out a CPU at 100% and doesn't actually find anything while it's "thinking", making it impossible to search long scroll buffers. And it never finishes thinking (at least not quickly enough for me to have seen it ever finish). Even just typing the characters into the search box becomes slow, one character appearing per second.
I just had a new ihone. I did my restore function and the only app that did not get back my data is killshot bravo. does anyone know why. I lost everything I had, guns money and gold in that game :((
So after brew doctorI`ll get the following without any recommendation: Is there a way to settle that conflict?
For whatever reason, Google Hangouts has taken over as my dialer whenever I click on a phone number on the web (either Chrome or Safari). I want to restore this to open in FaceTime, but no longer have that option. In the FaceTime settings, FaceTime is still listed as the default dialer.
I accidentally went into my phone and deleted my phone from Find My iPhone, I was surprised to see that all my photos and contacts and app were deleted, I want to restore my old data back, how can I do that?
The path changes. Furthermore, if I change the script line to I get the following in the bash_errors.txt file So I know the script is executing, but JAVA_HOME doesn't change when executed from script.
So recently I updated to OS El Capitan 10.11.2 and it has interfered with my Safari experience (I think). I am somehow not able to see any pages in my Google Drive (Docs, Slides, Sheets), but I can use every other site perfectly fine. I have tried force quitting, clearing history, but it hasn't fixed the problem. I don't know if clearing the caches will fix it though.
Often in the winter (low humidity), getting up from and sitting down onto the seat at my desk, or taking off a jacket, and such will build up a static electric charge on my body. Sometimes I don't remember to touch a metal object before touching my MacBook Pro, causing me to zap my laptop. Is this likely to cause damage? Should I be very careful to discharge before touching my laptop?
I have an iPad with iOS 9 that is used by technological illiterate people of my family. These persons use basically facetime, messages and safari. They manage that relatively well but if for some reason something happens that prevent them from doing that, they panic and start tapping in a lot of things, swiping here and there, tap tap tap and 7.32 seconds later they have managed to logout from messages and facetime, disable wifi, put the ipad on airplane mode, add members of the family to the facetime blacklist and all sort of things. I have to spend hours reverting the device back to a useful state and they get pissed because they have to wait for me to use the device again. Is there a way to prevent them from doing these changes but let them use facetime, safari and messages fully on the ipad?
This is a possible dupe of Can I get Mission Control to show minimized windows?, but I wanted to get an update on this issue since its now 2015. What I really want is to have Mission Control for non-minimized apps (just like the current Mission Control), but then an optional Mission Control which shows all current windows, even the minimized ones.
Is it possible to install SwiftKey on iPhone simulator ? If yes, how may I ? There are few scenarios I want to test for Swift keyboard but I am out of device.
holding home and sleep/wake button until symbol shows up then holding down those buttons until the reset screen comes up. It seems to work but then still asks for the 4 digit passcode to get into the phone.
There is no cell reception inside the building where I work so if someone calls and leaves a voice mail I don't find out until I'm driving away from work. Is there any way to get an email notification (or just a notification) when someone leaves a voice mail? I don't need the audio, just something that says I received a call. I'm with Verizon on an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.
As the title suggests, my apple watch is working perfectly in termos of fitness tracking, the problem is in saving the data, the activity app on the Apple watch shows the activity rings full but the activity app on the iPhone has absolutely no data, also, the week summary, probably because there is no data stored, says I didn't move the whole week. Already tried unpair and repair, didn't work.
I'm making a timesheet. I have =sum (A2-A1) but I have more than one task a day and not all times are used. The cells without time in them result in an error with the formula. Which, in turn, choses the day totals to show an error also.
Today I've turned him on. At first battery wasn't recharging for some reason, but SMC reset fixed the problem.
I've seen that single-color desktop background with the familiar serif font showing the computer's name since the 1990s. I very much doubt that all of the server admins I've come across in that time have painstakingly created actual image files with the same font treatment.
Just turned on Apple Music on my Mac (not that Apple has relaxed the 25,000 song limit). After doing so I notice my iPhone getting hot and where I once had ~60 GB of free space, now I'm getting warnings that I'm running out of available space. Looking at iTunes on the phone I see "Downloading 8,322 songs". Also getting a bunch of 'unable to purchase' warnings every time I unlock the phone for songs purchased long ago.
I have tried adding a printer, hoping to see the scanner as a choice. It isn't. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but still see nothing about a scanner option.
I am confused by the time zone settings in the Apple calendars, especially by the wording. I book a date here in Melbourne (UTC+10 ignoring DST) for an event in the Netherlands (UTC+2). I want to enter the event as 06:00 here, but really mean 06:00 in the Netherlands local time. The calendar is in iCloud. This happens all the time when booking flights — the times are always in local time, which is, of course, appropriate.
I have gmail as the main mail account on my iPhone. Each time I set the account up, it works for a while — a few days to a month — but the becomes unable to fetch/send mail, giving the message
I am using MBP running yosemite(10.10.1) retina 15inch mid 2014, it is not showing correct time. It just started time from the time i closed the lid. even why do auto synch with time server or apple time server. it doesn't.
Basically, I have this short script to "clean up" the desktop. This is the code:
I am hoping to make an automator application that prompts the user for input (i.e. youtube url), and downloads it using youtube-dl (already installed via Homebrew). After this, I am trying to use the command youtube-dl URL_HERE -e which fetches the title of the video. I am hoping to make a notification that says "successfully downloaded TITLE_VIDEO" after it downloads successfully (if it downloads succesfully). I am using the "Run Applescript" command of automator. This is all I've gotten so far: I'm new to applescript, so only basic functions/ones that can be explained easily. What I'm thinking is to do the terminal command youtube-dl URL_HERE -e which will return the title of the video (TITLE), and set that to a variable and then pass that variable to display notification
If I brought in an Apple product under warranty, and they determined that a part of it was broken, but I didn't bring it in until after the warranty expired, will they still replace the part for free?
I am currently using iOS 9.2. I've had my iPhone 6 for a year now and have never experienced such a crash. I am a novice coder and am aware of 32 bit time restraints.
I have a first generation 15" Retina MBP. Recently there have been times when it runs out of power even though I'm plugged in. I have tracked it down to charging being intermittent if anything but a MagSafe 2 power supply is being used. It always seems to register and charge if the power supply has a MagSafe 2 connector regardless of if it is the smaller 45W charger meant for MacBook Air or the larger 85W charger meant for MBP. If I use a Cinema Display with a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter the light on the cable does not always turn on meaning it drains until all battery power is lost. With 85W power bricks from older MBPs (both the original plastic and second generation metal L-shaped variants) and the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter it seems to connect and charge less reliably as witnessed by no light or a very, very weak light.
I have new iPhone 6s with lots of holiday photos. After synching to itunes, with only intention to sync the contacts, iTunes prompt me 2 question: Set as new iphone and recover old back up. I chose the latter, and lost all my new photos.
I have a strange problem with SharePoint and Safari. With 10.9 I was able to click on a file in a SharePoint site and it was opened in the corresponding Office application. After the upgrade to 10.10 the feature disappeared. With 10.11.0 it began to work again With 10.11.1 it stopped (and it is still not working with 10.11.2) The SharePoint plugin seems installed:
I use the Logitech K750 on my MBP at work and also bought the keyboard for myself to work at home with the same laptop (German PC layout!). The problem is that one of the keyboards will always have the ^ and < keys swapped: sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist to reset the mapping Plug in the K750 at work, select mapping: everything works fine Come home, plug in K750, select mapping: ^ and < keys are swapped. sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist to reset the mapping Plug in K750 again, select mapping: everything is fine Come to work, plug in K750, select mapping: ^ and < keys are swapped. Start from 1.
From what I understand about Apple HomeKit, other apps should be capable of accessing HomeKit data that is stored on the same device (as e.g. from the weather sensor), if I permit them to do so.
Transmit Power Control (TPC) is a mechanism used by Wi-Fi emitters to lower signal power in order to reduce interference with other wireless networks (and, in mobile devices, save battery). Is this algorithm implemented in any model of iPad?
Is it possible to change the Support URL for an App at any given time, even during App Review or after it has been approved without having to upload a new version or binary? I saw this link, iTunes Connect App Properties, it says Editable: Unlocked for Support Url, not sure what that means though. But I would assume it means I can change the Support URL at any given time.
I am looking for a stable way to keep any window 'always on top' on OSX. Afloat, an app that does that requires SIMBL/easySIMBL, which it seems is not very stable.
Quick question, if you are still in iOS8 in your iPhone and it shows software upgrade in the settings, which version will it upgrade to 9.0 or to the latest 9.2?
I'm having problems installing our developed app (distributed via ad-hoc) to iOS9. The ipa installs and works fine on iPhone 4 and on iPad 2 (iOS 9.1) but nothing seems to work for iPhone 6 with iOS 9.1. I've tried to install it with iTunes - install stops at ~60-75% and app icons turns grey, then tapping it just says waiting under the icon and nothing else. Tried to download ipa file from website via safari - safari says it can't download this kind of file.
Have now used pkgbuild/productbuild to create a product archive, consisting of three packages (application, uninstaller, KEXT), that according to installer installs fine, no errors. The KEXT is correctly placed in /Library/Extensions and postinstall script loads it nicely.
I'm styling my Terminal and what I need is to change the color of the path, if you still don't understand what I mean, here's a pic:  There you can see the shaded area (Jonathans-MacBook-Pro:~ feniixx$), That is what I want of other color than dark yellow, is it possible?
I, like an idiot, decided to export PATH=/usr/local/sbin/. After some googling I was informed that one should use a .bash_profile file in the root directory of your user which you can use to append paths to the initial $PATH . However the .bash_profile file did not exist prior to me creating one so I'm unsure how to prompt my Mac to actually use this file as part of it's PATH configuration. Every site I've visited simply tells you to make edits to said file but does not explain how to get the OS to use it. How do I get my Mac to read from .bash_profile to add custom paths?
I've put off upgrading to El-Capitan because doing so will kill off iPhoto; I've been using it since it came out more than 10 years ago. I'd like to migrate to the new Photos app but am not sure how it will work. Here's my scenario: About 15 iPhoto libraries Some organised by albums, others by events What I'd like to achieve: Consolidate multiple iPhoto libraries into a single Photos library file/bundle Not lose the organisation I've put together (albums/events), preferably preserving the order (albums/events sorted by date, not by name) Deletion of my old iPhoto libraries after the above consolidation All photo metadata copied across (timestamps, geolocation, exif, etc) How do I go about achieving this? (Assume infinite hard drive space, unused aperture installation, 600 GB photos)
I synced all of the music in my iTunes Library to my iPhone (like it was an iPod). I've been listening to the music in my Jeep for weeks by plugging into the USB port and choosing songs and playlists from the in-car radio's touchscreen. (So I know the music is on the iPhone.)
I recently bought a Macbook Pro 13" Early-2015 from a guy who used it only once and then reinstalled it for selling (already upgraded to the latest El-Capitan). After I set up my Apple ID I couldn't download the iLife & iWork apps for free, they all cost money.. I have them all free on my iPhone though.
I have maintained backups of 'All My Files' on an external secure shell card and have overwritten the originals several times. Now there are multiple copies of several files wherein they are labeled 'example_1', 'example_2', 'example_3' and so on. Is there any way to differentiate between these copies and the originals so that I can delete the extras and free the space they're taking up without damaging my computer's functionality? I'm fairly certain some of the copied files are possibly data files and other necessary items. Here is a screenshot of what I am describing:
I have some iphone videos that my atty has told me I need to put on or in something that can be handed to a judge for a civil matter. I originally was just gonna email them or put them on a flash drive but he said that isn't sufficient for court.
I've just upgraded my Mac to OS X El Capitan and typed: weather in Sao Paulo, BR I got nothing.
I decided to remove os X and install windows 10 without boot camp in my macbook air 2014. So I formatted the whole disk and used MBR partition table and installed windows 10 on the disk. Everything works fine except the startup.
This happens on Wifi and Cellular with iOS 9.1 on an iPhone 6. Clicking the update button results in the App Store somewhat ignoring the action where it seems to try updating for about 0.1 seconds (there's no way it can detect a real network failure that quickly), and then reverts back to the button as though nothing were pressed. Repeatedly pressing the update button eventually results in the update going through, where it finishes without any issue (once it finally makes a real attempt to download it) No other apps show any signs of having network issues and all other devices work fine on the WiFi network.
Coming from a windows machine here. Is there any way that when you click on an app in the dock that is running, it would show the open instances? For example if I have multiple chrome browsers open.
While using OS X El Capitan 10.11.x, is it safe to disable System Integrity Protection? There are all these additional apps that modify folders and the dock that I want to install but you have to disable rootless first. Good idea or bad idea?
Time Machine needed to do a deep event scan when backing up to my USB hard drive: What does this imply happened? What caused it to need to do a deep event scan? Whatever it is, I'd like to avoid doing it in future...
I can use the passwords in the keychain when opening a program, but if I try to display the password in the keychain entry I get asked for the root password. When entering the root password the beachball is displayed and never disappears. The program does not completely hang because I can abort the operation with esc. Still while the beachball is present I can't do anything else. Other passwords which are stored in the cloud (e.g. wifi pw) can be accessed. The file rights are: -rw-r--r--@ 1 username staff 442368 8 Dez 18:53 username.keychain I recently updated my Mac to El Capitan and repaired the file permissions with Disk Utility.
My phone has told me that my data/storage is hitting the limit. My question is what exactly makes up this data/storage? Is it the notes I keep on it? Saved texts?
On an iPhone, is there a way to temporarily disconnect from my home Wi-Fi without having to “Forget This Network”? Why I need this: My home Wi-Fi sometimes has a very slow Internet connection. Meanwhile, my 4G always has a strong Internet connection. In those cases, I would like to: disconnect my phone from my home Wi-Fi, activate the phone's wireless hotspot, use this hotspot to connect my PC to the Internet, via the 4G connection. disconnect my phone from my home Wi-Fi, activate the phone's wireless hotspot, use this hotspot to connect my PC to the Internet, via the 4G connection.
I'm having the issue that a lot of people have with their MacBooks. It's a MBP 2011 15" and it's suffering from the dedicated graphics failure. I get the lines down the screen, screen shifting, and completely shutting down as most people report.
My macbook pro isn't working well after I installed windows 8.1 using bootcamp. It displays the blue screen, and get an error. Now there is only Windows option in startup, and it says that your PC need to repair. I can't open either Windows, or Mac, and the big thing is there's no mac option on startup.
I have a webpage cached in Safari in iOS. The website isn't available anymore. Is there an option to export the website somehow? I don't have AirPrint ...
I recently moved my iTunes music library onto a new computer set-up by copying the "iTunes Media" folder onto an external HD and then onto my local disk. When I opened iTunes for the first time, it loaded the cover art for all of my iTunes-purchased content but it displayed the cloud icons for all my music, indicating that it was available to stream but not available offline, and it did not display the music I've imported from CD's at all.
For some reason my OSX El Capitain Macbook Pro has started to not accept my password until I hold down the power button and restart it. Then it accepts the password just fine.
At work we have a file server to share files and in the past I have been able to open the folder path in finder by highlighting the path a coworker provides and then pressing cmd+option+ctrl+o. At some point, this shortcut stopped working and it seems like it happened right around the time I updated to El Capitan. Does anyone know if this shortcut has changed or how I can re-enable it if it somehow got disabled? Example path: /Volumes/clients/someclient/project/
I am new in c++ on Mac os x and I need to know how to get some details: How to get the default compiler c++/c? How to change the default compiler? How to set the compiler in a CMakelists.txt file when using CMake?
OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan I want to create some alias, so I go to ~/ folder and there is no .bash_profile or .bashrc.
After upgrading my iPhone to iOS 9.2 today, the songs in the Apple Music library don't show up as saved offline. Playlists show as offline.
I'm wondering if anyone can fix my problem? I'm trying to upload a project to the App Store. I'm using Xcode 7.1. I'm getting the following error related to code-signing freetype. Any Ideas on how to fix this?
I saw a previous question similar to mine but no answer. I participated in the beta version of El Capitan I think last year. When the public release version came out I installed it and didn't discover that I was still using the Beta version until a month ago. I can't seem to find a way to do so. Apple tech support wants to charge me ridiculous $'s to help me with no guarantees. Can anyone send me to a site or tech paper or direct help to help get rid of the beta? I am unable to update from the app store. I am using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012). Thanks
I need to number my paragraphs but still be able to have un-numbered line breaks inside the paragraph; putting in a soft return (command-return) should work but doesn't; when I re-number the paragraphs through the List Bullets/Numbers menu, it always numbers the line breaks as well as the paragraph breaks. Has anyone found a work around for this?
I'm using Mac 10.10 (Yosemite) with Bootcamp. On my Windows 8.1, I enabled BitLocker and restart.
E.g. I plug a USB drive in that has 32 GB. Finder shows me 42 GB.
Whenever I use a full screen app, it first blacks out my other monitors and then whenever I click on another monitor it closes the full screen app and goes to windowed mode. I would like it to just go fullscreen without my other monitors going black and I would like to be able to click on things on my other monitor without it closing the full screen. I am running the latest version of El Capitan. Thanks in advance :)
Even i check the box "use 1000 separate (,)" but nothing is shown in the number. Please Help
After the restore from backup of my iPhone 4S I realised that photos in my Whatsapp chats are not present. Moreover, instead of each photos preview there are a question mark as in the photo reported here below:
I know in Systems Preferences I can delete the Google account which will stop the notifications. However, I'd like to keep this account and simply stop being notified to enter my password. I deactivated this account on Google so I no longer have my password. I want to keep this account on my Mac because it has email I still want to see.
TL;DR: I want to have a simple password to unlock my computer with physical access and a complex password to connect over ssh. This, using the same account.
I want to share my internet connection and VPN connection but Tunnelblick/OpenVPN doesn’t play nice with internet connection sharing in OS X. There was a suggestion on a workaround on how to route all traffic over VPN as per this post: Using (and sharing) a VPN connection on your Mac The script is: I am not a UNIX expert – so I am just wondering if anyone can help me with the alternative for the above deprecated commands please?
I have set up a samba share on my local network using a raspberry pi. I can mount the share from my Linux machine and ios devices (using Fileshare), but can't from my new macbook pro running el capitan. I use cmd+k in finder and type in the user credentials, but get an error message (in danish) saying something along the lines of 'there was a problem connecting to the server'. I have tried changing smb:// to cifs://. I get the dialogbox with the user credentials, but it now shakes, as if my password is wrong. It even gets more weird - I am able to use ssh from the terminal with no problems...
I am trying to delete about 1000 photos taken on a game camera and transferred to Photos. . Is their a quick way to do this or do I have to do it one at a time in Photos ?
I've just bought a used 2012-era MacBook Air (model MacBookAir5,2). I'm considering upgrading the SSD using a Transcend Jetdrive or an OWC Aura.
I was quite happy when I found out that Finder had native support, but it didn't take long until I realized it was read-only access. What is the best free option for automatic ftp sync with finder? I am using El Capitan. I'm not interested in very much functionality, just the ability to edit files.
I have an ipod touch and ios 9.1. When I started to use an iCloud, all my photos have uploaded to my iCloud account. So when I'm offline I cannot see particular photo clearly, i have to find somewhere wifi for internet connection to download this particular photo from my iCloud account. Is there any setting where i can set all my photos to be fully loaded from iCloud account whenever I want to see any of them. Thanks
Are there ways besides iCloud or using a computer with iTunes to back up data on your iPhone or iPad? One way seems to be a USB flash drive with a lightning connector... But is that just for photos and not other data like internet bookmarks, notes, etc.?
I've connected my external monitor (Dell 2240L 21.5") to my Macbook Air running OS X Yosemite through a mini-display port to VGA convertor. The problem is that the external monitor does not renders display on full screen. Rather, it is cropped from both right and left edges (around 1 inch from both sides is unused) What I've tried:
When I paste an image, it is pasted as floating. (even thou I had the cursor set to the text position). I then have to manually change text wrap to inline with text every single time. (similar to This post)
Today I was checking running processes and found a process running as root from this location, I am on osx maverics. I wanted to know what kind of process might be that's running from /var folder that too as root user.
Toggling "Do Not Disturb" blocks banners/alerts for Notifications, but I still hear the little blip and see the app jump up and down when I, for example, get a message. Is there any way to mute the Notification sounds without muting the entire computer? This is happening to me on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
I've recently install an OSX Virtual Machine on my computer to record my iPad mini 1 display using QuickTime. However, it seems that the output resolution's limit is my iPad's display size, which is slightly more than 720p (non-retina).
When I work in documents with long lines, it gets very annoying because I have to very precisely drag my mouse in order not to accidentally touch that sidebar which drags me back to the beginning. (I'm talking about scrolling/marking horizontally).
I have several python (server) apps running on my Macbook. One of them regularly crashes on my system, resulting in a desktop notification popup with the message: Python quit unexpectedly. Checking the crash logs on my system in /Users/jottr/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports I find several reports pertaining to Python. These crash logs are too unspecific to establish which exact process keeps crashing. How can I debug which exact python process/app crashes the interpreter?
Trying to set up my bash_profile but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. And...
I'm a Windows user who has to use a Mac for my job. My biggest frustration with the Mac is that I can't switch between multiple instances of multiple program easily. I have to keep a little bit of every window visible at all times so I can click on it to switch to that window.
My MacBook Air (2015) randomly shuts down (like, the power just cuts off) in Boot Camp. This doesn't happen if I have the charger plugged in.
If I buy a new iMac to replace an old iMac do I need a new or different HD for Time Machine?
i am quite new to the OSX system and having some issues with ElCaptain. Basically a fullscreen application (Android Studio in my case) loses the focus and i have to kill it via the task manager in order to get it up and working again.
This question is following a previous problem with freetype that I fixed. Is it possibly still a problem with freetype? any suggestions?
However, while the upload is still going on, I have no idea how to successfully migrate my Photos library onto my internal HD so the optimize Mac storage will do anything. There is enough room on the external drive where the library currently reside, so I doubt it will try and cut anything down. Since as far as I know you can't set a target size, any ideas on how I can get it to compress my 100GB library into something closer to 40-50GB so that I can attempt to fit it on my internal drive?
I have a MacBook pro 13-inch, mid 2010. I recently installed 8GB of RAM. I understand that the NVIDIA that is installed (NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB) uses shared graphics memory. Does this means that the memory that is shared with the graphics card increases the total amount of VRAM? Could I run a program with a VRAM requirement of 512MB or maybe even 1GB?
I use an application called Anki for learning foreign languages and professional terminology. This app creates a default folder in /Users/user/Documents/Anki, which I did not want.
I have an iPhone5S and find the "Slide to Answer" difficult to use. It rarely works first time, and can take some time before I can answer calls. It also requires 2 hands.
I have been switched to iPhone (iPhone 6s with iOS 9.2) from Android a few days ago. Previously in my Android "Email" software, I could mark that email Read/Unread from the full view. But in my iPhone "Mail" software, if I am in a full view of email I cannot find any option to mark it as "Unread". I need to go back to the list to do that. Can anyone suggest, am I missing something here? (Pls be clear that I know how to do it from the "Inbox" list, so please don't put any answer / link suggesting that).
I am having issues with WiFi connection since I started using Magic Mouse. I'm using a 15" MacBook Retina mid 2012 with El Capitan. The connection is much slower on the MacBook than any other devices when I run speed tests. Ping is around 300ms instead of 10ms which I am getting on other devices. Also speed is lower on the MacBook. Sometimes things are so bad that I cannot establish a connection to remote hosts and things go in timeout (e.g. http, Skype, and other protocols and ports).
I found that live photo is not backup on dropbox or google photo can live photo (on 6s feature);only backup on icloud?
I have a Boot Camp partition on my MBP. When initially setting up the Boot Camp installation I set this partition to be quite large but now I wish to utilise more of that space in the Macintosh HD volume. I've booted into Windows and used Disk Management to shrink that volume, so there's now just over 200GB of unallocated space on the drive. I now wish to 'incorporate' this unallocated space into the Macintosh HD volume, but Disk Utility (the GUI version) doesn't allow it. I've also tried Terminal > diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 0
all of the sudden my folder icons disappeared on OS X Yosemite. It looks like this: These are all folders, they are not missing their icon in finder tho, only in the primary view.
I'm running a Macbook Pro retina 13 inches early 2015 with 16 Go of RAM and a 3,1 GHz intel core i7 on OS X El Captain 10.11.1 I keep having some problems with airportd that crashes really often. Sometimes, when I click on the wifi icon on the menu bar, I have the rainbow crash cursor showing up and the menu is not popping up. Then, my mac starts heating up a lot and slowing down and I can hear a loud fan noise. When I check on the activity monitor, the airportd process is taking a huge amount a RAM and 100 % of the processor (sometimes more !). Actually, blued is also taking almost 50 % of the processor... I have to kill it manually with the activity monitor for it to get back to normal. But the problem is that happens every 20 minutes in average. I don't know what to do, this is really annoying, I beg for your help ! I keep having this in my system.log : I have that after I kill airportd after a crash:
many times I do brew install and I keep getting error unable to link, and brew doesnt give what it is not able to link to, it does tell what it is able to, time back I manually did it but now I forgot, however I want to fix this issue of linking error from brew once and for all, does anyone have any clue whats the cause and how to fix it forever ?
So I have tried doing kind:ai, and also tried doing it via the kind selector (see image below). I know how to do this using the linux "find" command already, but I really want to find a way to do this using the native finder interface.
I know that there are many threads about resetting/retrieving an admin password, but bear with me please and I'll explain why they don't work for me. I recently moved in to a property only to find that the previous tenant had left behind a mid 2007 iMac - great, right!? No. The iMac works... as a CPU. The screen has been smashed up and has only a faint light emitting from the lower left corner so I have had to resort to buying a Mini DVI to VGA (which works perfectly as I'm currently on it on a guest account). This is where it gets a bit more complicated though. I wish to reset the iMac, but cannot without using the UIs accessed through reboot - when I access these (CMD+R, CMD+S, etc.) the external display isn't recognised so I go completely blind as to what is happening. I have read a few threads that say resetting an iMac is complicated, so I have thought about just creating myself a new administrator account, deleting the old one and all of the files with it - but without the old ad
I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro 13″ running Boot Camp Windows 8.1. On default settings, the fan seems to idle at 0 according to "Macs Fan Control", and then slowly climb when it reaches 70℃ or so. Gaming makes it go around 102-103℃ max, and hover between that and ~90℃. Lubbo's Fan Control seems better at gradually increasing and decreasing fan speed, but it as well as Macs Fan Control seem to stick the fan on always on with a minimum of 1299 rpm, once I enable them to override the stock fan management. In deciding how to modify my system I wonder if OS X always keeps them running and if that is bad for the machine long term compared to windows drivers behavior?
From a .plist loaded to Launchd I run a bash script which displays a notification using terminal-notifier. The notification is displayed fine, but when clicked the message "terminal-notifier.app is not open anymore" pops up. I tried to set a system app to open with -sender 'com.apple.Terminal' but the error message will still show up.
I've recently had my MacBook Pro 15" model late 2011 repaired, it was a graphics card problem, they changed it and now it's working. The problem that I've encountered now is that it is overheating a lot, compared to how it used to be. I used to have temperatures of about 30-40 °C 2000 rpm (ambient temperature of 20-30 °C) using integrated graphics and a workload of CPU of about 5% max (internet browsing, and stuff like that).
User A all of a sudden can hear his own voice echoing in his speakers and garbled a lot to the point where it's almost impossible to have two way conversation. User A can hear voice from User B just fine in both cases.
My iMac's hard disk has been slow from the start. But recently it is becoming unbearable. Disk read and write speeds are consistently below 50 MB per second, without any applications producing any CPU load.
Is there a way to edit the keyboard shortcuts in Nano? I would like to change Move to next word from Right (Ctrl + Space) and Left (Alt + Space), to Alt + ← or →.
I've been speaking into my Mac for the last couple of years. I'm starting a fresh OSX. If I understand correctly, the speech recognition improves over time. Is it possible to migrate my old profile, so it doesn't have to learn from scratch?
I could see about 10 degrees celsius less when idle in OS X, compared to Windows 8.1, that's ~49 °C compared to ~38 °C. I've seen that, according to Macs fan control, the fan is shut down in idle, but after googling, some people say macbook should always keep fan running at around 1200 rpm. Should I leave it as is or would it be safer to use a custom fan management to keep it running at 1200 rpm? Specs: MacBook Pro Retina 13" 2015
I am working on a table to tabulate mileage costs for my small business. I have 3 destinations I go to on a regular basis. I would like the address to automatically populate in the C cell if the expression is met in the B cell.
I've tried many different ways. I've gone to Text Message Forwarding and disconnected them. Nothing. I've tried going to Send & Receive and unchecked my phone number from my iPad and my iPad email from my phone. Nothing. I've gone so far as to switch off everything from the iCloud of my tablet. And still no solution. There's also this small tab that appears on my phone whenever I have Imessage opened on my iPad. And I want to get rid of it.
At random times, my mouse cursor jumps to the top of the screen in the middle of the status bar for no reason at all. This used to happen on my previous install of El Capitan but stopped when I did a clean reinstall. Now the exact problem is happening again.
The iTunes desktop application has a feature where you can listen to a 90-second sample, or preview, of a song before purchasing it. However I can't find this feature on my iPhone. I'm looking in the "Music" app on iOS 9.2. Is there a different place that I should be looking? Is the feature hiding behind some sort of touch gesture that I just don't know about?
The New Image modal dialog in the Disk Utility application (on OS X 10.10.5) opens up with the Cancel button off the bottom of my MacBook Air 11's built-in display. The green resize button, option resize, and option Window : Zoom don't bring it back on-screen. How can I get the Cancel where I can see it to close the modal dialog, and/or do something else if another readable button appears to so allow?
I know that if I open Terminal and I type inwho, it shows who is logged in and at what time, etc. However, I am not going to be at Terminal all day and keep typing who. So, I would like a notification that appears when someone logs into my computer, or in this case, when someone ssh's into my computer. Is there some way to do this in Applescript? Thanks for your help!
I do not want to go to Apple to upgrade the SSD on my macbook pro 12,1. Is there a third-party SSD that would work with my Macbook Pro? I currently have the 128GB model, and it is running out of space. I am looking to purchase either a 256GB or 512GB SSD that will run at comparable speeds to the current SSD. I know Apple has tried to stop users from upgrading to third party SSDs, I am more than comfortable upgrading these things by myself, but I just don't know if there is any compatibility. Thanks.
I can't see any longer any Photos library inside iTunes->Phone->photos. Nor my full photos collection neither any newly created test library can be chosen in the option "Copy photos from" I don't know if this issue is related to latest upgrade to macos 10.11.2 or to some old files cleaning I perform recently. Anyone know what is missing?
I haven't used my MacBook Pro (Mid 2011 version with non-removable battery) for over 6 months, as I was out of country. Now it only works on power connected and battery won't change. Symptoms I observed: The Battery Status is: Replace Now. MagSafe gives green light. Battery indicator: All LEDs flash 5 times. Coconut battery software shows 0 mAh though the MagSafe is connected. Coconut battery software also shows load cycles as 564, which is not max and I feel there is still life in it. The Battery state is: Discharging I ran a AHT diagnostic and it shows 4xxx/1/40000000 Battery Issue I did disconnect and connect of Battery as some youtube video's suggested, it didn't work either. Is the Battery really dead or any logic board issues might be there?
I initially boot-camped a disk into a windows partition, and wanted to delete it. Initially I thought formatting it to free space would work, but it didn't. I tried again and accidentally formatted it to the type Mac OS Extended. Problem is, that's the name of my main HD as well. I can't even re-name/repair/verify it
After windows 10 finished installing, hardly anything works in windows. No advanced trackpad facilities etc. and most critically, no wifi to download the required drivers!
I've got two macs on my home network, both are enabled for Remote Login. From mac1 I open terminal and enter "ssh mac2.local". I am prompted for the password but the when I try the password I use everyday on mac2 I'm told that's the wrong password.
I recently purchased an iPhone 6, and I used to use an iPhone 4. I have several apps on my old phone that I'd like to bring onto my new phone. I've backed up these apps into my iTunes, and I'd like to install them from my iTunes onto the new iPhone.
I'm trying to figure out where the default mount options are set for user-mounted filesystems (e.g., disk images, USB thumbdrives, etc.). I'm working with OS X 10.11 ("El Capitan"). The options I specify for known disk partitions in /etc/fstab are respected when they're mounted automatically at boot time — or even manually via Disk Utility — but I can't seem to set the default mount options for any "unknown" filesystem that gets automounted in /Volumes. I've tried changing AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS in /etc/autofs.conf and adding options with -o to the ProgramArguments array of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.automountd.plist (which required disabling SIP), but neither change seems to have any effect. It would seem that some other set of defaults is being used... but where are those defaults defined?
I just noticed this. What does Terminal.app store in iCloud?
iOS dictation is a great feature, which mostly works both for Siri and for apps supporting an onscreen keyboard. However: is there a voice command I can use to backspace or delete the last word? I found a good guide here, but there is no delete command: http://www.siriuserguide.com/siri-dictation-guide/
Someone gives me old macbook with broken screen model white 7.1. i get this mac as my computer i use it for study programming.
I want to prevent users from typing anything on the keyboard, but still show the screen (so usual locking will not help). Unplugging the keyboard is not the answer I'm looking for, what other options do I have?
Using bash, I want to check if Command Line Tools are installed. Currently they are and when I will type xcode-select --install I get:
I'm just asking again. It has been asked before, but most answers are quite old, so let's give it another try.
My Calendar icon seems to have changed to something that looks like a Captcha prompt. What goes? Can I make it something recognisable by a human being?
I copied my whole HDD from MBPOld to MBPNew, but saw the "Local Objects" Keychain is empty. I then saw there is a folder in ~/Library/Keychains named like the UUID of the Mac. (which can be retrieved with system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Hardware UUID' | awk '{print $3}'). I restarted the Mac in recovery mode (by holding down Cmd + R) and opened up Terminal to rename the folder from OldMBP-UUID to NewMBP-UUID but still the local objects keychain is empty. Is there any way to get this done?
Using the system settings, I tried to re-map the keyboard shortcut for previous and next page from Cmd-Pageup/Dn to Shift-Pageup/Dn. However, the system settings dialog for shortcuts does not seem to recognize the PageUp key or the combination of Shift-PageUp/Dn. Can I fix this? Running on El Capitan, if that matters.
I'm running Word for Mac 2011 and the Copy menu is greyed out. Command-C works. This is on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. My mother-in-law has the same problem and she's on 10.9 Mavericks (I think).
My old iPhone got replaced by Apple as it was faulty. Now I did my iCloud restore on my new iPhone 6, but when I open WhatsApp or Viber and even the any of app doesn't remember my number or information of any sort, e.g on WhatsApp it is asking me for my number and I sort of can't provide it, as I am outside the country for a few months and don't have my SIM card with me, which was registered to that. I am totally blocked out. Should i making a appointment with apple or is it something wrong with my backup, as in past i was able to recover my icloud data and app stored information without re-entering it again, Is there a way to solve this?
I'm using my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) in an office environment connected to an external screen (Fujitsu P27T-6 IPS) using the Thunderbolt port. The lid is closed, so it should be in clamshell mode. I turn the monitor off when I leave the office, and I turn it back on when I'm back.
All the request to particular domain can be routed to another domain using the fiddler in windows for example, Is it possible in Mac OSX using any way? The browser send the request to *=URL=* then the fiddler intercept the request and changed the request to *=URL=* see the screenshot
Recently I've been noticing that while using all of my primary apps (GMail, Chrome, a couple games, Waze, etc.) the ability for the app to capture my touch interactions goes away. In other words, I'll be using the app and I'll touch the screen and nothing will happen. I'll tap, drag, pinch... nothing.
I do update a website for my company, and for that I currently have the following workflow: Make a local mirror of the external website Update files in the local mirror that is going to be updated on the external site Verify that the files that are going to be uploaded to the external site is correct Upload files using SFTP
I would like to stream music from my Apple devices to my kitchen. I've got an old amplifier and passive speakers. I know that I can simply connect my airport express to the LAN or WiFi and to the ampli as line input, but I would like the ampli to turn on only when there is a line input signal, and then automatically turn off after an idle time, in a way similar to many Subwoofers. In this way only the AirPort Express will be always powered. Is there a device or a simple way to do this job?
Is it possible to do this at all? I've tried the following command: which results in: I can't seem to find how to add an argument to ln in order to 'allow' directories.
I no longer have iLife.app in my application's folder. The latest version of iLife I have is iLife 11 from Snow Leopard: OS X 10.8.6, which resides on my MacPro 1,1.
I do a lot of work with S/MIME and am very familiar with the standard and the software. Since upgrading to 10.11 (El Captain), S/MIME-signed and encrypted messages have not been appearing as such in my Apple Mail App on my laptop. The same messages do show signed and/or encrypted on my iPhone.
In this case, Siri Suggestions implies that I have just started the book. I've actually been reading it for weeks and am on page 685/1985. Clicking the Siri Suggestion for the book brings me to the correct page. This is on iOS 9.1 (13B143).
I would like to do a screenshot/grab of a specific size, is there a way to set this on Yosemite, or is anyone aware of a software tool/app to do this? I currently have to draw the shape, but often start at the wrong place so have to go through the motions two or three times, when if I had a fixed size i could position it over the area to screenshot to make sure it is correct. Unlike the related question, The exact position on the screen may differ as I'll be taking a screenshot of my own web site but the browser window might differ in its location. I am open to all possibilities whether programmatically, workflow, app or website. On Windows there is a tool called MWSnap that allows settings a default fixed area. thanks
How do I permanently disable the Podcast app auto playing the next unplayed podcast episode when the current one finishes? It even plays episodes of other podcasts, not just the podcast I was listening to.
My only thought is that maybe Boot Camp contains these drivers. Is there any way to get them without having to install a complete Windows system using Boot Camp, and then digging around in the filesystem & hardware profile? I found *=URL=* which offers a download, saying it is valid for "...64 bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1". I'm going to give that a go, but is there anything better? EDIT: Unpacking that download I find ./BootCamp5/BootCamp/Drivers/Intel/IntelxHCISetup.exe which fails with "this computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software"
I have a custom built browser, lets say its similar to a firefox port such as Ice Weasel. I am wondering where I register this so that it will appear in the System Preferences > General > Default Browser menu. I can view the current defaults on the command line from:
I'm a novice (obviously!), and my Seagate will not back up my computer because it says there is nothing to back-u since my Macintosh HD is in my "Exclude these items from backups" under "Options". I'm having a little anxiety if I take it off the list -- that I will lose all that is on it. Call me crazy. I just need some confirmation since I do not put it on this list so I assume it should be there.
I'm trying to renew my Apple Push Notification Service certificate per the 30 day notification email I received. The email instructed me to visit *=URL=* to renew the certificate, but this page has not successfully loaded at any point I have tried. I'm not receiving a first byte from the server when attempting to load the URL.
I opened Terminal on my MacBook Pro and the prompt reads: Is there something wrong? Do I need to be worried about this? Why -2?
I work on a lot of tabs in terminal at a given time. Sometimes, I get tabs mixed up and accidently run commands on tabs I am not supposed to. To simplify this, I wish to write some script, that on each new tab creation, comes with a random background color (not the text background, the window background), so that I can easily identify the tabs I was working with. Any suggestions ?
I would like to be able to type with the "full width" characters, such as ａｂｃｄｅｆｇｈｉｊｋｌｍｎｏｐｑｒｓｔｕｖｗｘｙｚ and ＡＢＣＤＥＦＧＨＩＪＫＬＭＮＯＰＱＲＳＴＵＶＷＸＹＺ or ０１２３４５６７８９ or even ！＃＄＆＊＋－＜＝＞？＠［＼］＾＿｛｜｝～｟｠￠￡￢￣￤￥￦ without having to resort to "hunting and pecking" via the Symbols and Emoji dialog..
It is difficult work with the Terminal if you can't type the tilde. Does anybody know how to do this using a Spanish keyboard?
I have damaged my screen and to get a new iPhone on my insurance I have to deactivate my iCloud account. Can I still receive calls on my iPhone without the I cloud?
I'm seeing massive RAM usage from Mail I removed all mail accounts as I assumed it was something in an inbox taking up space, but even then, with no accounts other than iCloud (which contains zero messages and is never used) it's still ramping up to over 12G of ram usage
As the screenshot above shows, tonight, while trying to make a backup of the files on my Mac OS X, Version 10.7.5, Processor 2.4GHz Intel core i5, Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 laptop computer, I got this strange message: The item "Documents.zip" can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format
A couple of days ago I noticed that Photos on El Capitan shows already imported photos as new photos, when I select an iOS device. The iOS devices are synced with the Photos library and contain the albums local. This happens only for a few photos, not all of them.
I need a custom keyboard shortcut for back slash \. I have created ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and put this in it: It is supposed to trigger back slash when pressing ⌘ + ö (Yes, I have an "ö" character on my keyboard). When trying to source the file, I get this error:
I would like to change the dictionary my iPhone uses for defining words (not for spell-checking) to a learner's one (e.g. Cambridge). Apple provides several dictionaries for various languages, but not an English Learner's one. Any idea how I may make a non-Apple dictionary the default?
I have downloaded the OSX 10.11.2 El Capitan app from App Store, and I found it downloaded it from local China server even though my apple ID wasn't for China store, and I am living in China, the download IP of storedownloadd indicated : hpcc-download.cnc.ccgslb.com.cn 183.131.116.32 222.246.232.146 115.231.22.17 115.231.22.75 61.153.56.138 183.134.20.67 183.134.20.74
I'd like to take a mobile website and add it to the home screen of iOS, but when I touch it, it would open in its own app, NOT in the Safari app. Is there a service that would let me do this or a way I could manually do it myself, sort of like Fluid App?
Has Apple been replacing their Wallpaper images during updates of iOS 7, 8, and 9? My iPhone 5s has an image of a blue-green aurora borealis that I assume was Apple-provided. I don't recall installing from outside. But now I do not see that image listed in Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper > Apple Wallpaper in iOS 9.2.
How can I automatically ZIP files with same file names (different extensions) into one ZIP? For example I have four files king.jpg king.txt queen.jpg queen.txt which would led to king.zip (containing king.jpg and king.txt) queen.zip (containing queen.jpg and queen.txt)
I want to remove the annoying "move to dropbox" entry in the menu when I right click a file in Finder. I can turn off Finder extension all together but I do like the green check marks. I just don't want the clutter up the menu screen. Is there a way to do this?
When booting up my computer, or even just awakening it from a long sleep, it takes a while for me to be able to enter my password. The box is there, but I can't move my mouse or type into the box. My screen is frozen. It usually lasts for about a minute, but sometimes longer. Any ideas on how to analyze/fix this?
I am tasked with writing a setup guide for my university's network. Directing my users to the Wifi pulldown menu on a Mac, do I ask them to click the "AirPort" button or the "AirMac" button? Please note that in Japan, it is called AirMac, but in the States, it is called AirPort. Which naming is more common in the world?
If two or more devices are connected by the same Apple ID and you buy an in app purchase, does that in app purchase come for free on the other devices with the same Apple ID?
My Macbook Pro 13" after upgrading to El Capitan 10.11.2 wakes from sleep every minute. This effectively drains battery overnight. Tried to reset SMC, turned off wifi but nothing helps. Does anybody else having similar problem?
A colleague of mine bought a brand new MacBook Pro Retina. She wants to use it in lectures in connection with a projector. I can't tell what brand the projector is of since it is a very big lecture hall. But it is definetly a good and expensive one. So I don't think the following problem occurs on that end of the connection:
My mac recently had a software problem and I need to restore a time machine backup to get the mac working again. I do not want to restore any dropbox files to their earlier state, especially since I share many folders with work colleagues. When I restore my mac to the state it was in a week ago, I need to be sure that the Dropbox folders saved locally do not revert to their older versions, sync, and resave the whole folders as older versions.
I want to disable the "space+shift" thing in Sublime Text, it creates something that looks exactly like a space unless marked, and it messes upp all my scripts because I always accidentally type it. I was not able to find anything like "space+shift" or "shift+space" inside the sublime-keymap.
In the past year I've been using dsa keys to access several remote machines. On one of these machine, dsa keys have been deprecated so I simply switched to rsa. In doing so it seems that my key is not stored anymore in the keychain, so everytime I restart my computer I get asked for the passphrase. To add the key I tried this: But also this:
I'm on a MacBookPro8,1, Late 2011 and I'm running latest version of El Capitan with SIP disabled (if that matters at all) @DavidAnderson I've been following the tutorial steps from @DavidAnderson posted here Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices but I can't get the damn thing to work and as a new user here I'm not allowed to post in that thread :( The only difference I have compared to the tutorial above is that my Disk Number is 2 instead of 1 in tutorial step 9. After inputting the code from tutorial step 12 which is: I get an error:
I'm using Siri on an iPad Pro and I've set the default search engine in Settings > Safari to Bing but when I search for something with Siri it defaults to Baidu. I know that the default search engine works for Safari because when I type in the search bar it searches with Bing.
My charger has been fine until recently although I noticed it getting warmer. Last night it wouldn't charge at all and this morning it was so hot I could just about touch it with bare hands. I couldnt get the iPad to start up and eventually noticed a message "only use Apple charging devices as others may cause harm" it was then that I began to use my MacBook Pro USB.
My friend has a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) -- she wants to install a magnetic 2.5" HDD. Can I install any such drive or do they have to be apple compatible hardware.
When watching a MKV file from the web in VLC, the title bar (see "#1" in image below) seems to be pulled from metadata, not the filename. If you open the “Get Info” panel in VLC, you can change the title (“#2”) and then click “Save Metadata” (“#3”), but when the file is re-opened, the old information is shown.
When I go to settings on my iPad it shows an app called null what is this? What do I do about it? Is it bad or nothing to worry about?
I recently received a replacement iPhone 5 from my insurance provider, sealed in Apple refurbished packaging (and they maintain that the device came directly from Apple). After doing a factory reset, I receive the following prompt containing what I presume is the previous owners email address: Enter the Apple ID password for *************@gmail.com (inluding the App Store, iTunes Store and iBooks Store).
I am using native PHP and native Apache. PHP version is 5.5. userdir module in Apache is enabled, and I have my PHP codes under ~/Sites. Localhost URL is localhost/~username. I have installed XDebug and I am configured it with Vdebug plugin. In phpinfo() it says the extension is enabled.
I'm running El Capitan (10.11.2) and have had all sorts of problems with my USB-Serial cable after upgrading to El Capitan. I have the latest drivers for my TrendNet TU-S9 USB-Serial Cable dated 11-10-2015. I've also tried getting the PL2303 drivers (dated 10-22-2015) from Prolific. I unplugged the cable, uninstalled the old drivers per the instructions, rebooted, installed the latest drivers, rebooted, and plugged in the cable.
My user account is a standard account on my Mac. What must I enter into Terminal using sudo, to make myself the administrator?
For the holidays I will be in a small town with no cell service. However my job requires that I respond to SMS messages day or night. Is there a way to forward SMS messages to my email address so I will be able to check them (even though my phone hasn't received them yet as it is out of service and shut off)? Because this wasn't hard enough already, I'm working on an iphone 4. Thanks in advance for your advice!
It feels like the "hit zone" for the resize handle on windows in Yosemite is about 4 pixels wide. Meaning when I want to resize something I end up hunting around for it for 3 or 4 seconds every time. Is there a way to change this activation zone? I'd rather not have to install a tool to fix it.
I am setting up my parents with an Apple iPad. I was wondering if I can configure it so that they share a single iCloud account for email, calendar, contacts, photo stream, FaceTime calls, etc. Is there a better way than a shared iCloud account if I want them both to be able to use it and there is only 1 device? I do not think the IOS on an iPad natively supports multiple user accounts like Mac OS X.
I'm actually asking about my wife's MacBook Pro which I don't use very often. It's slowed down quite a bit recently and apparently before the update to El Capitan. Programs have started to take a long time to launch but once they have launched actually run fine. After booting up it will take about 45 seconds for Safari to even be usable. Spotlight also lags a lot and can't even keep up with typing, although it responds to 'escape' quickly.
How do I protect apps inside the Chrome App Launcher on a MacBook from being deleted by different users of the laptop?
I have downloaded OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 which is 283 MB, and I have free space of 168 GB and I am getting an error as shown:
Let's say I have an Applescript that does THISCODE. And I have another Applescript that does THATCODE. I always run them in sequence, but never at regular intervals. In other words, whichever one I ran last time, I'll always run the other the next time.
Is it possible to make it so a user can use the sudo command in terminal, but not have access to sites other then those allowed through parental controls, without a third party system?
I have been using Apple Music from day 1, but I'm disappointed and want to move back to Spotify. Is there any way at all to easily replicate or move my entire library from Apple Music to Spotify? All solutions I encountered by searching the internet only work the other way around.
I never use Siri, but when I look what has been draining my battery it says it's Siri!
In System Preferences, when I try to change "Recent Items" count from "none" to any other value it is not saved. I can change it, but when I close System Preferences and open it again I still see "none" in "Recent Items". What can be the problem? Is there a way to change it manually? I am using OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".
AddressBookSourceSync continually prevents idle sleep. I don't use address book syncing and in previous versions I used just to delete the app. However this is now prevented by System Integrity Protection.
I'm running iOS 9.2 on an iPad Air 2. I was connected to a wifi hotspot that is generated by my Android phone (a Nexus 5), which is something I do regularly without any issues. On my phone I track my daily data usage using the MyDataManager app, and until a certain point today I had used about 80 MB. But shortly after I saw this 80 MB number I got a notification that I had exceeded my daily data quota, having used about 1.5 GB! The data usage had suddenly shot up, and the app indicated that the data was consumed almost exclusively by wifi tethering. I didn't think to shut off my data and soon after (maybe 15 min later?) the usage had shot up to about 2.5 GB before the Android system itself shut off data since I had exceeded my monthly quota. What could have caused iOS to suddenly download all this data? I signed up for Apple Music yesterday on my iPad, could that have something to do with it?
Someone posted this question before giving the following location as the directory I am downloading the latest version right now and it is NOT in this directory. I've tried a system wide search for the .ipsw extention and checked to make sure it wasn't hidden, nothing has worked. Does anyone know where the files are actually being stored? All software and OS are up to date as of 12-15-15..
So CTRL+left/right switches the desktop for the display where my mouse pointer is, is there a way to do that for another display without having to move the pointer over?
An email address I frequently type into web forms is srs@.... Yesterday auto-correct started changing the srs to sis as soon as I typed @. While keeping the rest of auto-correct working I would really like it to leave srs alone.
Moved up to El Capitan 10.11.2. Now my print jobs all cancel after 3 hrs (10800 sec). Can't find CUPS files in Library. How/where can I change the setting of MaxJobTime?
I have a 2013 iMac with a broken logic board and display. It's too expensive to repair, but I'd like to salvage the fusion drive. If I put the drive in an external case will it work?
Thanks for any help. This is driving me a little crazy. This is on an El Capitan Macbook Pro.
My problem is about my MacBookPro 11.3 (2,6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB DDR3 a 1600 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB). Since I updated to ElCapitan (actually 10.11.1 (15B42)), when I shutdown the Mac, it's stuck to the loading image. Then I usually force the shutdown by pressing the Power keyboard button. The next time I start up the Mac, I see the message: Your Mac has been restarted due to a problem. I tried having a Apple Diagnostic check (pressing D while startup), but all is fine.
I'd like to keep a professional journal of my thoughts. I have my eye on the app Day One. One reason for this is that it's based on Multimarkdown, which often means it includes support for equations in LaTeX. However, I don't know if this particular Markdown feature is supported in the Day One app. If anyone has the app, you could test this for me by typing something like and seeing if it comes out as a nice-looking equation.
Does anyone know how to connect/pair with Bluetooth LE sensors/devices? Is a 3rd party app mandatory for the task? I can't pick up any advertising devices from Bluetooth Preferences. The app Lightblue can see them, but are there other ways? Thanks
This is a very weird behavior. Lately, whenever I am trying to find a process on console with ps aux | grep foo, it is returning a grep: command not found. Ok, that could be something that I changed and did wrong, but the problem is that, after a few tries, it suddenly knows what grep is: Any ideas why is this happening? As suggested, this is what I get when a enter type grep after both, the one failing and the one working:
I wonder if Apple Review team allows such thing. Imagine you have a imageView inside your app, and you set it as a static banner, without any clicking option etc. Do you think Apple will allow sth like this? To give you a better notion of what I mean:
I have created a folder inside HD>Users>Username (the folder where default things like Pictures, Movies, Sites, Documents etc. are) and I'd like to change the background image. The only thing is, the option is greyed-out in View Options. Some info - 2009 MacBook Pro, Yosemite 10.10.4 [Seemingly] every other folder (including all default folders) (I haven't tested EVERY folder, obviously) can be changed.
In China, the so-called GFW often contaminates DNS results like Here 159.106.121.75 is a fake IP. We have to use the TCP mode for DNS query: Now we get the real IP 207.241.224.2.
I have a Canon Pixma MP510 which is supposed to work 100% with SANE, according to the website. However I do get a ETIMEDOUT error when using it from the command line.
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 9.1 and a Macbook Pro running Yosemite. Both devices are set up to sync photos to and from iCloud.
I'm trying to get an iMovie onto my iPad in an editable format and I'm told you need to paste the project file into iCloud drive. I can't seem to do this. Any other ideas on how to get the project into my iPad?
I usually plug my MBP 15" late 2011 (El Capitan 10.11.2) with an external monitor, and I only use that. Also I need to use the trackpad.
I've got ethernet and wifi in the network devices. I use internet through wifi and file sharing over ethernet (we got an access point with DHCP and an ethernet switch with static IP - the access point and the switch are using two different subclasses) And yes, I got the LAN on the top of the devices priority.
I want the contact number to appear on the dialling screen when initiating call that if contact has more than one number I want to know which number I had dialled.
I uninstalled Homebrew, manually removed the /usr/local contents. I want to know what the suggested commands do.
So I put a DVD in and it wouldn't come out. I wanted to try the "hold left mouse during start up" method of getting it out and now it won't boot and I can still not get the DVD out. It is my GF's old iMac and I think the reason she never puts in DVD's is this. Is there any way to: a) Get the DVD out and b) reboot the iMac If I can fix a) it might be that b) is fixed at the same time.
I have a bunch of formatted spreadsheets scattered all across my computer. There are literally thousands of them. I want to get them all into a centralized folder and have mostly done that, i.e. most of these documents are located inside of a single folder (recursively anyway, there are some within subfolders of that single folder), there are a few stragglers however, maybe 5% of them. Currently in my Finder/Spotlight search results, I have to sift through thousands of files located in the correct location to find them. (note: I wasn't able to find a way to sort the documents by their locations/parent-folders...that would be a potential solution here, but I'd have to change the title of the question)
I use a wifi hotspot where, after I connect, I have to fill in my username and password in a loginscreen. My username stays the same, but the password changes quite often.
Since version 4.8 of pwSafe was updated on the 8th (Mac OSx El Capitan), whenever I try to use one of my existing safes stored in iCloud, I get the following error: I can easily open any of the safes stored in iCloud on my iPhone or Windows (yes, completely different apps/OS's, but mentioned as its obviously not the safes themselves). So far I've tried uninstalling (both with and without app cleaner's assistance) and reinstalling, but with no success. Anybody else had this problem and know of a solution, other than to wait for App77 to update their application?
I have a Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) 13" unibody and having issues with a battery that is not charging. Here are the specifics: Battery is not charging Magsafe light not illuminating at all Macbook is being powered off of the charger Current battery charge level remains relatively unchanged as long as the computer is being powered by the charger Macbook will not power up/respond with charger connected and battery removed I have 2 chargers, both exhibit the same behavior I just replaced the battery with a new OEM battery, no change Macbook sees the battery Condition = Normal Health Information: Cycle Count: 1 Condition: Normal Battery Installed: Yes Amperage (mA): 0 Voltage (mV): 11898 Here is what I have done so far...
Ultimately, my question is thus: is there a way to accept the policy without using the mouse and clicking on "Accept"? If not, this seems like an accessibility oversight on Apple's part, as I would imagine this is also a potential problem for users with special accessibility needs. It would also mean that you can no longer log into your mac with just a keyboard.
Greetings to the apple community. I'm a newbie to mac and the terminal and I have no previous exposure to Linux. I have only casually used computers. However I've been wanting to step up my game and understand a few basics. I've installed this package *=URL=* which is basically to write entries on the terminal. I've done so, and I've been following the tutorial. However, I'm facing difficulty to edit my entries. The documentation says that I need to change the ~/.jrnl_config file. However, when I try to access it I get permission denied. Harguns-MacBook-Pro-3:~ hargun3045$ ~/.jrnl_config -bash: /Users/hargun3045/.jrnl_config: Permission denied I have a very vague idea of user read/write permissions and about Root access, however I'm not very clear how I can go to the particular file and change settings. Can a experienced user guide me? Thanks!
I'm running Apple Music on my mac and iPhone. I have an album in My Music, so the plays should be syncing, but the play count is not being effected by music played on my phone. Is there any trip to let the play count sync between devices? I know that the "love" are device specific, but I thought that play count should sync because it worked before Apple Music. Thanks
I can search and find anything on Spotlight, so I think my index works. However, when I try to open an application, even terminal, I just get a spinning beach ball until Spotlight disappears. Why am I having this problem?
I am using OS X 10.10.5 with Filevault2 enabled. Since recently the pre-boot login screen has a white font, as opposed to the black one I had before. Since I use a non-retina Macbook (MBP mid 2012), the login screen is grey, thus making the whole thing rather difficult to read.
The native caffeinate utility is not working to prevent my macbook from sleeping when I close the display. Instead, the system sleeps and various network services ( VPN, screenshares, VOIP calls, messaging clients, file transfers ) to fail while I walk from my desk to my meeting in < 5 minutes. Walking around with the laptop lid half open makes it difficult to safely carry with my coffee, and is distinctly uncool. The native caffeinate utility is designed to handle this as a user-friendly replacement for pmset, but appears to be designed not to work when disconnected from AC power. Docs via man caffeinate
I was finally happy to be retiring my Early 2011 Macbook Pro, and upgrading to one of the newer force touch rMBP. But when the package arrived today, I noticed that it has a dent under the chassis.
I'm able to change volume when not on speaker, however it does not work if I'm on speaker mode. (see image below). Bluetooth is turned off for what it's worth so it should not be trying to redirect to some other device.
I use iTunes a lot on the go but I have my music at home on an external harddisk. Every time I try to play a song in iTunes I receive a message that the original song cannot be found. The laptop I use on the go is the same as the one I used to index my iTunes library. Only after clicking cancel in the dialog box the song is streamed.
I have an app in the appstore which has 30k downloads so far. It averages 500 downloads daily. However, I don't see much reviews or ratings at all. Only 4 reviews overall from all the countries (all 5 stars). That's it. Is this normal? (app url: https://itunes.apple.com/mk/app/tube-max/id1045359493?mt=8)
I'm running a Python script with the MacPorts version of Python (2.7), i.e, I've run: However, when I run my script, it can't find a dylib in /opt/local/lib: The dylib in question resides here:
I have an external hdd that doesn't mount anymore. I think I screw up with all the research I done and things I try. I have vital info on this hdd and I'm really afraid to lose it. I tried this: Rebuild partition table on external HDD - not writable but run into a problem:
I went through the tedious download process via App Store. The row in the App Store Updates tab said Xcode was installed. But no sign of it in Applications folder.
I do not back up my devices to iCloud – so it can't be that they are lingering there. I also haven't taken any other images except those videos.
How can I open those apps in fullscreen by default? iTunes have memory and open in fullscreen mode, but the others don't. How can I keep Terminal in foreground while the other apps are being open? How can I keep Terminal in foreground while the other apps are being open?
Is there a way to effectively diff snapshots of virtual machines in Parallels so as to see what files changed and or file content changes?
I'm going to be repurposing my laptop as a media center in the near future and I was planning on using a non-admin account for day-to-day usage. I was thinking of enabling parental controls so I can lockdown what applications are allowed to run but parental controls can be a PITA so I would like to know how it works under-the-hood. Is it using seatbelt to implement some form of MAC or does it just make it difficult to launch applications through the UI?
I have an Iphone 5s, the screen randomly went black and shut off, it wont turn back on, I cant hard boot it because my home button is broken and it wont turn on through charge. Any suggestions?
In mail.app, is there a way to prevent or warn when sending email to specific addresses? My use case; I would like to blacklist company wide distribution addresses so that if I hit "reply all" one of these types of actions could occur: The specified addresses will be silently removed I will be prevented from sending the email until it is manually removed
Is there a way I can add a file (and what type would it be) to the symbols or special characters for use as a custom emoji? If so, would there be a way to set a key to it?
On my machine running OS X El Capitan, there is no "Keychain First Aid" option in the Keychain Access app. All documentation, including Mac OS Help in El Capitan, says to go to the Keychain Access menu and select Keychain First Aid. But my Keychain Access menu looks like this:
I am considering getting a new Time Capsule (2TB) as a basic/pseudo NAS, in addition to a target for Time Machine for two macs. My macs each have a 500 GB ssd. Neither are currently even half full, but at some point down the road, I assume they'll each have 400 GB. I think I've read that Time Machine should have storage for at least 1.5x the amount of data being backed up, so 400 x 1.5 = 600, x2 macs = 1.2 TB needed.
Does Tweetbot (or any other app) bought for OSX is something completely different than Tweetbot for iOS? Thanks for your help.
I had been trying to install samsung 850 evo ssd on my 2012 Macbook pro. I tried using CCC, installed a fresh copy of el captain using bootable usb; but for each of these, i was able to boot from ssd when connected through USB but when i install it in the HD bay it won't boot. I read a lot of articles regarding this and there are people facing issues like mine but again there are people who have successfully installed the samsung 850 evo ssd in macbook pro 2012 (without retina). I have already wasted a lot of time on this, any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have VLC media player installed in my MBP (EL Capitan). Recently when I play a video file in the VLC media player it shows up in all the desktops. I mean I have multiple desktops in the display and the vlc plays the movie in all the desktops excepts for the ones where I have an application in fullscreen. Can anyone tell me how I can revert to original settings so that I can only view the VLC window in one desktop?
I have a working home sharing environment (i.e., when I am physically in my home network it's working fine). My Modem has the possibility to easily set up a VPN network (L2TP). It works flawlessly and I can connect with both my OS X and iOS devices. I get an internal IP address and I can access local resources.
I installed Windows 10 using Bootcamp on my iMac. Bootcamp installed a bunch of drivers including one that allows proper 5K rendering on Windows.
Is it possible to run Migration Assistant between two Macs with different versions of the OS X (Yosemite and El Capitan)? In my case, I'm looking to transfer some user accounts and apps from old Mac running Yosemite to a new one running El Capitan.
I agree with the OP of the question How can I open a .pkg file manually? that it is not so nice to grant administrative privileges to software that you do not trust "completely". The following citation from /wiki/superuser gives further support for this. Given that a superuser account has substantially more privileges than ordinary user accounts and can therefore make unrestricted, potentially adverse system-wide changes, the Principle of least privilege recommends that applications use an ordinary account to perform its work so as to improve system security and stability.
I have recently updated the OS in an old Mac Pro to El Capitan. Since then I have severe display problems. I must add that I access the system via screen sharing. The fonts are horribly blurred in menu bar drop-down menus, making them unreadable, and also in some packages the whole menu is diplaid in black. The first problem was sorted using the darkened menus and dock. But not the second problem.
I'm a simple man. I want to take the CD my son got in kindergarten. Rip it into mp3/aac using my iTunes 11.3 El Capitan based Mac. Plug in my Son's 5th gen iOS 9,2 based iPod Touch. Put the ripped music into his on device's Media Library. Plug the device back into the stereo in his room. Play the good vibes and see him go crazy the toy drums once more. Alas, Apple broke that:
I have a MacBook and it has been giving me a weird issue since today morning. I have a WiFi at home and when I booted up my laptop it showed connected to my Wi-Fi network even when the router was switched off.
I have this annoying problem since long. I use to type quite fast, and it happens to me that after inserting a special character using the "alt" key I probably do not wait enough to press the space bar. I don't see the difference then, but then when the command is interpreted in the terminal, or the script I just wrote is executed, lots of errors come up because there are hidden strange characters (gremlins). Is there any way I can avoid this?
I want location services to only be on when certain apps like maps are being used. I understand that maps stays in the background now since ios 8, and thus location services will stay on. Is there a workaround for this? For example disabling background services for certain apps
I got a new iPhone in the US, but am using it abroad (Israel) and with my old Apple ID. In the App Store I see the Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote with a price tag on them (not free) when they should be free. What is the problem here?
I have just used iTunes to import a CD on my desktop Windows 7 PC. I'd actually like the CD on my Macbook Pro's (El Capitan) iTunes library; I've been using iTunes' Music Sharing to access it in the past. How can I "wirelessly import" this CD from my PC's iTunes onto my Macbook's? The two iTunes libraries use different iTunes accounts.
iTunes always asks me to log into my iCloud account. I do not want to use iCloud. This message to log in drives me crazy, it pops up every five minutes. How can I stop/avoid this, while still using iTunes?
Is such a thing possible? I have this code which can do the above: However, it's not so clean—that is, you can see that the files' duplicates are named <file name> 2.<file extension>, and then a second later gets named to <file name> [date].<file extension>, which is pretty jarring to see.
I want to use a DNS server on my machine to resolve lookups for all names ending in .dev. I've created /etc/resolver/dev to do this, and checked that it works for A records: So far, so gravy. However, what I really need to do is use the local DNS server to resolve SRV queries. When I point Ruby directly at the local DNS server, it can resolve the queries OK: However, when I use the OS X defaults, the name is not resolved:
I have an issue where only QWERTYUIO keys are working sporadically or just not working. I have to press them a lot of times to start working and they work for a while and stop again. I have tried reseting PRAM and SMC but with no luck. When I use the Keyboard viewer they keys are not even being registered when I press them. Kind Regards
Sometimes I inadvertently exit from a Terminal session (usually because I think I'm connected to a remote system, when I'm not), so I get to this point:  How I can I restart the session at this point ? I don't want to close the window or tab because I have a bunch of tabs all set up for my normal workflow, so I just want to get the session in the current tab going again (i.e. get back to a bash prompt). The only solution I've found so far is to quit Terminal completely and open it again, but that is far from ideal as it obviously interrupts anything else I'm doing in other Terminal windows/tabs.
I have a hard disk and I would like to install an SSD on my MacBook. However I don't have any USB driver for installing El Capitan OS.
I had not booted windows for a week, and I installed OS X 10.11.2 update. And when I started Windows again, I could use only Windows and OS X partitions.
PROBLEM I have the passcode, but the iPad screen is not asking for it, I can't unlock the screen and I just can restart the iPad, entering in this way in a vicious circle… sigh! QUESTION is: Is there some way to unlock the iPad to insert passcode and allow update via iTunes?.
Before I made multiple cloud accounts available to backup my Mac, running OS X El Capitan, I saved every file in All My Files onto a 16 GB external SD card. I noticed that every few days everything on the SD card would seem to disappear. Is there any explanation that could be had for this?
When trying to clean up their hard disk, some users discover ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.bird is pretty big, sometimes in the order of many gigabytes. What is it?
I have heard that HealthKit can be used to gather health-related data using the iPhone’s sensors in real-time, and I know that there are several third-party wearable biometric sensors that can interface with iOS and are supposed to be compatible with HealthKit (but it’s not clear to me whether that means they’re compatible with HealthKit itself or just the Health app). What I want to know is: does the HealthKit API provide a (relatively simple) way to access data from these external sensors in real-time as they're coming in? Or is it really only designed to do that for sensors that are already in the iOS device itself?
When i press alt on my MacBook during startup, it only shows a disk that i used to have Windows installed (which is now empty). I erased that disk when i was last logged in on OS X. Then i tried to delete this partition and make the disk again as it was when i bought it 128GB.
I am trying to build FFMpeg with libvpx so that I can encode a WebM video. How can I re-build FFMpeg with libvpx using Homebrew? I tried encoding a video with FFMPEG and libvpx installed separately I get the error Encoder (codec vp8) not found for output stream #0:0
I connected a device to my USB port, but it's unclear how much current it is drawing. Is there a way from the command line, or otherwise, to determine how much current that device is drawing?
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro running Yosemite from an off the net upgrade from Snow Leopard and the graphics went crazy while trying to watch a TV program on my Slingbox app. I forced a shut down by holding the power button down and now it will not boot up to the hard drive. upon trying to start it up, the initial startup tone is sounded, the apple pops up on the screen and the progress bar begins to load. Upon reaching about half way on the progress bar it stops loading and eventually goes to a black screen with an arrow cursor. I tried reloading the OS with the original Snow Leopard OS disc but got a pop up stating that the OS was not compatible. I then went to utilities and ran a disc permissions test, a disc permissions repair , and then a disc test but the it said the disc appeared to be OK. It still will not boot and is still only loading about half of the loading start up bar. Anybody have any ideas? I think the hard drive may be toast but I really would love to load some of the pi
I recently installed the OpenOffice 4 on my Mac and I use it also on Linux (CentOS 6.5 / Gnome2). On Linux, after the installation, I got a specific shortcut (launcher) for every Office application (Spreadsheet, Text Document, Presentation, and so on) but on MacOSX I have only one launcher and I have to select the type of application afterwards. Is there any way to install all shortcuts individually in the Launchpad and in the Dock as well like it is in the Office menu of Gnome under Linux?
Since purchasing this new MacBook, I have had the problem of my Wi-Fi intermittently not working. I will have a strong signal, be in the middle of working, and suddenly the page will not load, or I get the spinning beachball. I thought (and hoped) that when the new OS X (El Capitan) came out, the problem would be solved. It hasn't been.
I have a Canon HF R600, and when I open iMovie 10, I can see my camera listed, but there are no videos displayed. When I look on the camera, though, there are a bunch of files. Why aren't the files popping up?
When I click on Safari I get message telling me: "Safari is being updated... Safari can not be opened while it is being updated"
Whenever I check my resting heart rate using the Watch's heart rate glance, it does one of two things: 1) I see one low number (which sometimes seems accurate, e.g., ~70).
I originally upgraded from OS X Mavericks to El Capitan, and when I edit PDF files, my default highlighter is the bright yellow color (bottom example of the image). However, recently, after I changed highlighter color to red, and then back to yellow, the new highlighted yellow color (top example of the same image) is no longer the same as bottom one. And no matter what I do, the new yellow highlighter is no longer bright..just this dull tangerine like color :(
Every once in a while (maybe once every one or two weeks), my internet connection stops working, though the Wi-Fi icon in my menu bar still shows full strength. I used to reflexively disable and enable Wi-Fi, which would reliably fix the problem.
I want to set the dock size to 40 pixels. Is there anyway to do it in Yosemite?
I have OS X Mavericks on my Mac and 3 browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome). When I try to open any site I see only "connecting..", but when I try https sites it works fine! Ping and traceroute shows normal information. Internet works over Wi-Fi. (My iPad works fine and opens any address).
I am running iTunes 12.1.2 under Windows XP on virtualbox on host Ubuntu 15.10, and my iPad 3 is on ios 9.2. I have a really weird issue.
I am having a problem in my Windows laptop, so I need to make a Windows 10 bootable to repair/restore it. I am using a Mac for making the bootable for the PC. I downloaded the windows 10 .iso file and started bootcamp to make the bootable. The process seems to get hanged at "Downloading Windows support software" step. I tried keeping it overnight, no change in the progress bar. Just stuck there at 50/60%.
I have Parental Controls for one of the users on my Mac. It only allows web access to a list of websites and blocks all others. Recently, however, it has been switched to "Try to limit access to adult websites". When I switch this back to "Allow access to only these websites" and then close the preference pane, when I go back to it, the changes I've made are not saved. No changes that I make to the Parental Controls profile are saved upon simply exiting the pane and going back to it.
I often use the 'remove attachments' button in Mac Mail when replying to a message. However I've noticed that when composing a reply in full-screen mode, this button disappears.
Apparently there's a process names oscsp that takes a lot of bandwidth. I'm not sure what it's for; but I came across an article that showed how to turn it off in Keychain Access Preferences.
I moved about 100GB folders of pictures from one external hard to another one. In the beginning of the process the finder breaks down and didn't respond. None of the relaunch solutions worked! So I restart my mac but now, the moved part exist on destination hard drive but the other part doesn't exist on origin hard drive! The destination hard shows folder in gray color but expect one the others have zero byte capacity. Is there any way I can access the lost part?
I found a similar question for iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4s here. So what about the 's' character meaning in 5s and 6s series of iPhone?
I had to move to another mail provider therefore I changed my Apple ID. Unfortunately a while ago I've linked my admin account on my MacBook Air with my Apple ID. Now my account is still stuck with the old email address and I can't login as admin to make changes, delete apps or change system prefs.
VIP in company who uses several people's mail boxes purchased Mac Air. Outlook 2011 by default insists on locally storing everything.
When connecting to a URL via HTTPS and the SSL certificate doesn't match (such as at a paid Wi-Fi hotspot), Safari shows a dialog asking whether the certificate should be accepted. If you accept the certificate, OS X adds an SSL exception and will never ask about that certificate again.
I have a Genius USB "partial" keyboard - a numpad like this one. It types digits and +-/*, but doesn't switch to cursor mode with NumLock off, and Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys were the reason I purchased it. How do I make Home/End/other cursor keys work?
Is there any way that I can move an iCloud keychain item, in particular an internet account, to a normal keychain? Moving items between keychains usually works with drag and drop, but I cannot drag an item from iCloud keychain to another keychain. I can start dragging, but the items then disappears from my cursor. I am also happy with a command line solution. I am using OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan).
I have a folder in ~/Downloads/Media with lot of media files backed up in time machine. Since I moved the files back and forth it has taken so much space in my external drive. Can anyone tell me a way to remove the location from Time Machine completely? I want to remove the location permanently.
My iphone 4s was orignally with orange, latterly with virgin. I'd like to unlock to give it to my granddaughter to use wth o2. I no longer have the original sim. Is this possible ? I do have a virgin pay-as-you-go sim available if that would help.
I have a small executable that generates random test data for me. I would like to be able to hit some hot key and have that output sent to the current cursor position - whatever has focus at the time (Emacs, a web page form, iTerm etc). Any ideas how I might be able to do this?
I have OS X 10.11, Quick Time Player 10.4. My question is simple, how do you disable F7, F8 and F9 function keys in QT Player?
I'm trying to backup 2tb drive I have connected to my mac to another drive using this enclosure via firewire 800: *=URL=* The problem is that from time to time the copying dialog is freezing and not doing enything. During that time I can see my hard drive also I can se all the folder in root folder but when I open them, they are all empty. As soon as finder resume from that freezing stage I can access anything on that drive. Some time the freezing las longer and I've got an error that a certain file was unable to be copied but when I searched for it and trying to copy it manually it worked. Du
I would like to receive any type of notifications (e.g.: WhatsApp message notifications) without vibration. I switched the vibration off under Settings → Sounds → Vibrate on silent, but now the phone calls do not vibrate anymore, and I therefore miss them while carrying in the jeans pocket for example. Is there any way I can keep the vibration off while receiving notifications and keep it on while receiving calls with my device being in the silent mode? iOS 9.2
I have set up Microsoft Office Mail on my iPhone 6. The only problem that I cannot get my head round is that it all works fine but I received an email this morning, and when I clicked on it to read it, the screen just went back to the home page. All other emails I have received are fine and can open and be read no problem, but for this one email every time I try to open it the screen continues to go to the home screen.
I'm a teenager who is into gaming. I've had a PS4 since last Christmas and pretty much haven't stopped playing it ever since. However, I've recently started to play on my Mac (and by recently I mean today) again, but everything I try to install requires an "Administrator Name and Password" which I understand and I used to remember. Seeing as I haven't used my Mac since last year it must be understandable how I've forgotten it. Every time I type my account name (located at the top right of my screen) and my login password it isn't correct.
I can see a shared library and all of its contents but the contents do not load. When I try to watch a movie the loading/spinner icon stays for a very long while, until the screen saver appears. If the movie begins to load it will be 1/2 buffered the next morning.
How do I see a list of all running processes/tasks on macOS/OS X?
I have spun up a VM of OS X since my main user is not an admin and I need to do things that require admin access. My end goal is to install the Xcode command line tools into a VirtualBox VM I created with OS X 10.11. Is there a way to do this? I tried to run xcode-select --install, but I got this error:
When I double-click text in an Xcode string to select an entire word, any text connected to it with a dot (.) will also get selected. I would like to make that not happen so that dots and other characters behave as word break character, like dashes (-). Is there a way to change this either in general for OS X 10.11 or just specifically for Xcode 7.2? I notice this happens in Xcode and in TextEdit so I'm guessing it would be an OS X setting, but then it doesn't happen when double-clicking on Xcode variables (only within strings) so I'm not sure.
I have many different groups set up in my icloud and need to compare each group to one another and remove duplicated across groups. I know I can remove duplicates within each group, but how can I get it to match all my groups and only keep one copy of the duplicates in my "All Contacts" group? Thanks!
Our Customer has an Enterprise Distribution certificate. We are signing their Apps and distribute them to their devices via Airwatch MDM.
I'm trying to install openssl-devel on OS X El Capitan, and I can't seem to find the package on Brew nor the source anywhere online. The application I'm installing (UnrealIRCd) requires both openssl and openssl-devel to install. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.
I'm having a bizarre issue with my early 2011 Macbook 15'. I grabbed it today without battery power só the first thing I diz was to plug the MagSafe adapter. Afterwards I pressed the power button. It chimed as usual but then I noticed it rebooted by itself after a few seconds then shutdown for good again.
Had my iMac 2009 21.5" hard drive replaced a few days ago, from a 500GB to a 1TB. This was done by an authorized Apple repair dealer. I have been trying to run backups through Time Capsule but it seems to be getting hung up at one stage or another. Why is my Time Capsule backup getting stuck on "preparing backup" or "cleaning old backups?" The new hard drive has caused a huge positive difference in performance, which is suffering as the Time Capsule and backups get "hung."
I updated a 2009 MacBook to OS X 10.9.5. It was running a version of 10.9, but I don't recall which one. After the update, commands like ls went missing. I tried a Repair Permissions via Disk Utility, but it was no help. I'm guessing it was a botched update.
In my console a message is occurring every 10 seconds. I think it's trying to launch a deinstalled application (NetDrive2):
Air running Yosemite, played a video and turned on AirPlay mirroring to my Apple TV 4 running tvOS 9.1. The sound keeps coming from my Air, not the TV. I checked the Sound.prefPane and confirmed that the Apple TV is selected under Output. I've tried restarting the video as well as disconnecting and re-connecting AirPlay Mirroring, but the sound always comes out of the Air.
I've just purchased the 4th gen AppleTV. One thing I've noticed is that switching user accounts could be a lot easier. For example, if my wife would like to listen to music associated with her AppleID, it appears she would need to go to Settings > Accounts > iCloud > then select her ID from here, etc etc. While not a deal breaker, it's unfortunate there isn't a better way. In any case... rather than switch back and forth between accounts all day, I'm wondering if it would make more sense to create a "shared" account and add that to our "family", so that the AppleTV could sit on the shared account instead. My question related to that... are there any pros / cons that you are aware of in doing so?
My friend has sent me a rough recording to overdub, sent as an m4a over email. What app(s) can I use to do this without syncing the song to my music library? GarageBand doesn't seem to let me import a song as a track, even from the library. I wonder if I can somehow use inter app audio to achieve this, but don't know what to search for in the App Store. Anyone know if this is possible?
What is this? copying and pasting this text into a text editor revealed perfect english. Why are they shown this way in Safari 9.0.2 on OS X 10.11.2
I have recently my Macbook Late 2009 with a SSD crucial 500Mo (Data doubler). I made a Fusion Drive with no problems, then I re-installed el Capitan again with no issue (except I tried to re-install all my dat from my latest Time machine backup and it failed). So the computer is working well, it boots up and shuts down at light speed as I expected :-) Now my issue is that I am trying to recover my latest backup from Time Machine but I cannot get the HD Recovery at machine boot up. I tried various keys combinations (CMD+R, R, Opt+R, CMD+OPT+R), nothing works. Just to make sure I re-installed El Capitan just something went wrong. Same result. then I started suspecting Fusion Drive. Diskutil shows:
I've found fn+Escape or F5 shows a list of auto complete of inputting word. How can I change the keyboard shortcut assignment? I use this function a lot. So, F5 or Fn+Escape seems not a good choice...
Are there any Encoder on OSX that takes advantage of Intel QuickSync? Its Hardware Accelerated H.264 Encoder built into Intel CPU.
When I open up a command line on my Mac the welcome message is usually This now reads...
Now that "AppleDisplayScaleFactor" isn't available on newest versions of Mac OS X, is there any way we can scale applications? I'm wondering because I have some non retina applications that if I could open them at 50% size it would not only make the app pixel perfect but I would gain a lot of screen estate. I don't want to turn up my screen resolution though, most apps would be just to small to use and read.
I have an iMac running El Capitan, an Intel NUC with Windows 10 and a Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC (for now, but I've also tried OSMC and Raspbmc). I have a simple WiFi network with no Windows domain or anything.
I have some files "Projector" generated from an old Flash CS3. Is there any way I can see that in a new iPad? How? I would like to see the project full screen when I am offline.
I have installed El Captain on my MacBook Pro and I want to make a bootable Yosemite Drive. Could anyone help me with that?
i'm on a late 2012 iMac (15C50) and created a Windows 10 Bootcamp installation which worked fine. I transferred it to a external USB SSD with Winclone 5 which basically worked. I can still select it as a boot target in system settings and it starts to boot. While booting i get a blue screen with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Error.
Is there a possibility to sync the messages between two iPhones? Currently, I'm switching from one phone to another, but one device has got a new SMS.
I have a share that has the permissions: User "K" -> read/write Group "Home" -> read only. However, when a user other than K, member of group Home connects to this share she can still create files on it.
I can't sign into iCloud because the account is set up under my OLD email address and I don't remember the password. How can I change the iCloud account to new email address so that it is useable? I am using an iPhone 5s with iOS 9.2.
I have installed Homebrew using the code it returns this inside the Terminal window and then I tried all of the following Each yields back the line
I recently ran out of space on my MacBook Pro because I have a lot of pictures saved to it, so I went out and bought an external hard drive (2 TB). I moved every single photo on my MacBook hard drive to the external hard drive and deleted all the photo copies remaining on my macbook drive. Currently there are 0 photos on my MacBook drive, yet I keep receiving a message saying my disk is critically low on space. When I check what is taking up that space, its all photos, about 49.83 GB to be exact.
I have an iPhone 5c with 8GB of storage, out of which approximately 3GB is taken by the operating system. I've always had issues with running out of space, notwithstanding the very few things I keep stored on it, but since some days I'm having the whole memory completely taken and I'm unable to take any picture.
Anyone any ideas on this? Also, bkAgentService takes up a LOT of CPU for some time when I open iBooks. Presumably it doesn't like the number of docs I have, though Apple says the size of the library is limited only by available storage?
I upgraded to OS 10.11 which gave me a new version of iPhoto. However, an older version of iPhoto v9.6.1 is stuck in the App Store and I get periodic alerts that it is available for upgrade. When I try to accept the upgrade to hopefully clear it out, I'm told "Update unavailable with this Apple ID". How do I get rid of this outdated "update"?
Through the disk utility, I can see I have over 10 GB of "Audio" files. When I search on Finder for music files (kind "Music") no more than 10 MB comes.
The reason I don't want to mount the share is that it won't always be present. Therefore, I only want to require the network location when I open a specific program. Is this possible in OS X or do I need to mount the share first?
I have 3 apple devices (one phone and 2 Ipads). If I turn off icloud library on my phone can I delete photos on my phone without deleting them on the other two devices?
I was interested in buying a Mac mini for work (I love Linux but it requires too much maintenance). However, it turns out that it has no battery at all (different to a MacBook Pro/Air etc).
Is there a way to set the 'Title' field in Contacts, but to not display it? i.e., in Mail I want to see "John Doe", but have the contact card display "Captain John Doe". Can I do this?
I'm travelling and will probably get a new iPad (actually an iPad Pro - woo hoo) while I'm away. Is there a way to backup my current iPad, take the backup with me, and then when I'm near a laptop or family computer restore my current iPad backup to the new iPad? And for those of you that are going to suggest iCloud backup, my iPad chokes everytime I try to do an iCloud backup and never completes. Any ideas? Thanx in advance for your help!
When I press the F5/F6 button, the HUD shows a decreasing/increasing bar related to the keyboard's brightness (image).  So far so good… The problem is: the keyboard stays completely dark, no light is emitted from the keyboard, even though the bar is moving when I press the keys F5 and F6.
I want to disable videos in Safari, as I have to pay for each byte downloaded. Some videos I may want to watch, but I want to decide whether I use my precious bandwidth, rather than have it automatically play. Is there any way to accomplish this?
Every once in a while I'm unable to open the NoMachine client. If I double click, I just get the error: The application “NoMachine.app” is not open anymore. And nothing in the console. If I try clicking on one of my usual connections using the top, menu-bar icon --- nothing happens.
The title says it all. After a recent update of Windows was pushed through, reporting itself as version 1511, the screen will freeze for a moment, followed by a chirp Windows reports that the drive had stopped responding and reset itself.
iPhoto 9.6 Can find the location where the photos were taken? I have several photos of this person. The photos are originals.
I'm pretty sure that iCloud will sync Wi-Fi information from your iPhone to your Mac, but I've connected to a network with a "secure" password and typing it on my phone is a pain. Can I use the fact that I've connected to the network on my Mac to have the iPhone connect without wasting time entering the password on the phone? In case it helps, it's an iPhone 6 with iOS9 and a 2009 MacBook Pro with El Capitan.
There is a well known app for Windows named Connectify, used to share a Wi-Fi connection between a computer that only has Wi-Fi with other devices which requests that connection from the computer. This would be useful for example to connect a Chromecast to a hotel's Wi-Fi that has one of those captive password situations through your laptop which has an interface to let you enter the password. What's the best alternative for this app on OS X El Capitan? Please provide the whole procedure. This is not possible with OS X built-in Internet Sharing.
I have never upgraded iOS before and this is first time I would be doing. My current iOS version is 8.0.4(I guess) and want to upgrade to latest 8.x version(if possible) otherwise the default 9.x version as it's showing.
I have a slo-mo video imported from iPhone to my photos app. Now I need to transfer this from photos of my mac to other mac's photo.
I just bought a P2415Q Monitor and connected it to my 2015 Macbook Pro with the DisplayPort to thunderbolt cable that was included with the monitor. It seemed ok at first, but after the first time the computer went into sleep mode I noticed the monitor wouldn't wake up. The message on the monitor was:
I have a MacBook Pro 15 inch 2015 model. Until yesterday it worked fine. But now it shows a black screen. But when I connect to external display through HDMI it works fine.
I have a 2 GB SD card that I can't reformat. It seems pretty corrupted. If I go into Disk Utility, I get these various error messages for each option: Repair Disk: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Repair Disk: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Erase (with Format "MS-DOS (FAT)"): Volume Erase failed with the error: Couldn’t modify partition map. Erase (with Format "MS-DOS (FAT)"): Volume Erase failed with the error: Couldn’t modify partition map. Set number of partitions to 1 and Apply: Partition failed with the error: Couldn’t open device. Set number of partitions to 1 and Apply: Partition failed with the error: Couldn’t open device.
I have downloaded VLC for Mac, and I installed it. Now every time I open a video that is supposed to be opened by VLC, it starts verifying again, like it is the first time and it will install it. I also don't see a shortcut in the Applications folder. What is the way around this?
The first thing I bought was an iPhone. I have a lot of books there in iBooks. Now I would like to sync this library across my other devices: Mac and iPad. I know that the base for devices is Macbook and syncing via iTunes. But when I connect my iPhone to Macbook, and then try to set Sync Books I got a warning:
I tried to open an app I hadn't opened for a while, after which I got a window prompting me to login with my Apple ID. Here follows a translation of the (dutch) text:
I have a MacBook Pro that I use with a pre-Retina iMac in Target Display Mode, using Thunderbolt. I'm thinking of also getting a Mac Mini, and I want to run it in TDM on my iMac. Can I connect both the MBP and the Mac Mini with Thunderbolt cables to my iMac, and thus use ⌘ + F2 to rotate between all three desktops, so that I can switch to display any of these at any time: The MBP The Mac Mini The iMac native display
I'm trying to get my old 15-inch MacBook Pro (Mac-F42D86C8) from late 2008, back to life. I installed El Capitan operating system upgrade and since then, everytime I boot I reach a kernel panic and the laptop reboots again and again.
I had a project wide find/replace search all set up yesterday in my Xcode project. Today when I get back to Xcode (without restarting or touching it in any way) the search text has changed. The weirdest thing is that the search text is now the same as a text search I made today in Google Chrome(!). I know for a fact that I haven't searched for "shipping costs" in my Xcode project.
I want to install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro(15'' mid 2012 version). It seems like only Windows 8 can be installed. I was using Windows7 on this mac before. I have erased it and want to install it again but this happens. Can someone please help me? Thank You
Any advice on Hypervisor.framework, or suggestions on getting this working? While the answer “give up, it doesn’t work” might be the correct answer, it would be good to see some documentation backing this up.
Anyone know how to turn this off? I don't want my mac to run any processes I don't specifically ask for. I never use the app store except to update the OS, so I want to disable this (assuming it isn't part of a massive dependency) until the very minute I care to update. I don't need notifications at all. I know what's on my machine and I know when to update them. I just hate being harassed every time this machine wakes up and no, I don't want to always be signed in to anything.
I am trying to install an application through command line in OS X. This is what I am trying:
Apple doesn't say in their order or specs page, but I am wondering if there is any info on the iMac 27 Retina model, if the 250GB, 500GB, or 1TB SSD hard drive differ in speed? Such as the speed of the 500GB is faster than the 250GB model, or if the 1TB is done by RAID 0 (striping) and so the speed can be up to double the speed of 500GB?
After upgrading my Macbook Pro to El Capitan, my keyboard stops working from time to time, but within a particular App. The strange thing is the even though I can't type, I can still save and execute App shortcuts. Then the only way to make it work again is to close the App and open it again. This has happened me with Xcode, Textedit and TexShop. I was wondering if someone is facing the same issue and if there's a solution to this problem as I can't seem to find one on the internet.
Every time I ask Siri to "shuffle all songs by artist Phish" it shuffles all songs by "Real Big Fish" from my collection instead. Siri seems unable to understand that "fish" and "phish" are phonetically-equivalent. Putting aside my suspicions that Siri is secretly judging my tastes in music, how can I get Siri to play the correct artist in this specific case?
I have my iPhone 4s linked on to one icloud and would like to change the email address on my iCloud to a new email. I can even make a new Icloud with the new email, however I want to keep the money on the account.
Our iPad is asking for a 4 digit code that it never asked for before. We updated several apps at one time. The iPad said it couldn't update them with 47% battery power, so we plugged it in and ran the updates again. Now it asks for a 4 digit pin which it never asked for before. We didn't "accidentally" set a pin, and no one else has had access to the iPad. We have tried several 4 digit codes that we "might" have set, none that work. What do we do now?
My Google Photos service on osx is hung. There's no obvious process to kill and try to restart. I'm on OSX 10.11.2
Well basically my iPhone 6 is showing imprinted images in the background, like from previous applications and such. Basically screen ghosting. Here are some images:
When my battery of my laptop is empty, my computer falls out. It first tries to dump memory to the SSD in order to reload from there the next time. However, sometimes this fails and it has to do a clean start. When it does that, OS X somehow remembers what applications were open when the battery was "empty" and reopens every single application. Which is not what I want.
I changed my Finder icon to give it a mustache by replacing the Finder icon .png file in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/ with the .png I made (same name). I cleared the icon cache (/private/var/folders/xl/2m4k1hnj70bbc2dz94sbl029pc_hk8/C/), and it worked, but some alerts still use the regular icon (some of the alerts use the mustache Finder I put in). Any idea on how to change this so all alerts use the mustache Finder? Thanks in advance!
I want to ask if I delete a pic from iCloud online, does it get deleted from the iPhone too?
My legal-sized document prints with the bottom 4 inches cut off. If I send the document to myself as an attachment by e-mail, it prints fine. I'm using a brand-new iMac El Capitan and Word 2016. The Apple rep at the store where I bought it says he doesn't know why it does that. How can I fix this so it will print legal-sized documents without having to e-mail them to myself first?
When you use Google Chrome on OS X and download some stuff while web-surfing, a tab shows up on the bottom on which the downloaded contents and its progress status will be displayed. However, I don't like to bother to closing the tab after the download is successfully done by moving the cursor and tapping on the x icon.
Recently, my MacBook Pro has had the following issues: If the battery dies, I need to do an SMC reset for it to even start up. When it does, the fan is running at high speed and there is either no battery symbol, or one with an x on it. If the power cord is unplugged, the laptop dies within a few seconds. If the MacBook Pro is shut down properly before the battery dies, the SMC reset is not necessary to start it back up. I have tried the following: Swapping the battery PRAM rest (in addition the the SMC reset) I ran the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) and it came out with no issues.
I don't see anything obvious in Console.app and nothing from Terminal. I usually try to include a "WHYT" section to my stackexchange posts, but I can hardly figure out where to start here -- I'm stumped.
I have recently purchased both a Dell 4K display (P2715Q) and a new Macbook (Retina, 12", 2015). According to Apple's website, the MacBook should be capable of driving the display at full resolution at 30 Hz, when connected over HDMI (via Apple's own USB-C to HDMI adapter), *=URL=* While the display is detected correctly and I can select up to the full 3840 x 2160 (though it defaults to 1920 x 1080) pixel settings, the Dell display continually flickers, going blank for a fraction of second every few seconds. This behavior persists regardless of the choice of scaling.
Note: There seems to have been quite a few threads on grayed out tracks on iTunes but none of them seem to be relevant with my question/issue. Context: I have just subscribed to Apple Music about 2 weeks ago for the first time. Still on trial period.
Something's causing my Mac to bottleneck on startup and on wake. I'm curious if I can isolate this by leaving a monitor program running so I can see what's eating up the CPU. How can I check CPU usage like Task Manager on Windows allows?
I open my Music App from iPhone and suddenly I don't see any songs. Neither I see any storage size for songs that used be around 2.5 GB. I restarted my phone with no luck. I have not sync my phone with other any PC iTunes. In fact, I have just charge my phone as usual. I am using iOS 9.2 iPhone 6s Plus 128 GB. What is causing this issue?
In Apple's software, are there any hidden tributes or memorials to Steve Jobs? Someone told me you can find his glasses in an app but I can't find them.
I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5. Having Full Screen at the right end of the each window. How can i disable it?
My Macbook Pro is using all my bandwidth and making my entire network unstable. I thought this could be the iCloud Photo Library, so I paused for a day, didn't change anything, turned off iPhoto process, no change. I disabled iCloud Drive, same issue. Regarding Activity Monitor, this is most likely because of nsurlsessiond, Regarding my router :
I tried to properly eject a flash drive by moving it into Trash. It went up in that little puff of smoke. Now when I try to reuse the drive by plugging it back into the computer, it does not show up in my Finder. What gives? (I am running Yosemite.)
Is there a way to convert MTS video format to OGV? And how could you set desired size of output file or file resolution?
I have one of the new Apple Magic Keyboards. Magically, none of the function keys on the top of the keyboard, nor the fn key on the lower-left of the keyboard are responding when it's paired with my MacBook Pro (2012), running El Capitan. It works when paired with a different MacBook Pro, though.
I am trying to view through the photos, but the process is painfully slow. How do you increase the speed of transition or remove the transition altogether so that when you press arrow keys or do three finger swipe the change is instantaneous.
Alternatively, I wonder if one could develop a kind of "banded" report template in Numbers. Does anyone have any experience with something like that?
I'm new to this but I had my phone jailbroken years ago and they told me I had to stay under Apple's radar so I never tried to get it updated. Now I can barely use any of my apps, for instance I can't FaceTime at all any more. Can someone provide step by step instructions on how to update my phone?
I have concerns about malware or something significantly affecting the performance of my iMac. As you can see from the screen shot below I have updated to OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5, but I did this after I started to have problems in the hope that any new security updates would help.
iTunes has been popping up several times per day asking me to accept or decline their TOS. I have declined for the past 5-ish years (2.5 years on this laptop in particular) because it is not a piece of software that I want or need.
Previously, was the way to go. This does not work in 10.11.2, I'm fairly sure it was working in 10.10.x, but cannot be certain. The likely-looking plist does not welcome manual editing: There's surely a better way?
Been having issues with Time Machine and backup so I ran disk utility on all my drives: iMac drive, iomega external HD and Time Capsule. When I run on Time Capsule I am getting a failure and this message:
I'm using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. I have connected my Canon PowerShot A3400 IS Camera via USB to my Mac and automatically a window launched that imported my photos. The Photos application (version 1.0.1 (215.65.0)) launched and I can see my photos within it. My question is, where on the file system are these photos? I want to import these into a Google photo album but don’t see any option in the Photos application to save them somewhere and I can’t seem to find them in the Finder app.
I'd like to remap the shift key (⇧) + space (␣) to underscore (_) I'd prefer to not have to install any third party tools if possible. Similar question for windows
I'm using the built in Screen Sharing tool in El Capitan to control an iMac from a Macbook Pro in full screen mode. Everything works beautifully except that many special keys and gestures are intercepted by the local Mac and not sent to the shared Mac. Specifically: Ctrl-Arrow (Desktops and Mission Control) F3 (Mission Control) F4 (LaunchPad) Three finger swipe (Switch between Desktops, Mission Control, Exposé) Two finger swipe from left side (Notification Center) Pinch with four fingers (Launchpad)
my home button on my ipod touch 5th Gen has been broken for while so I have been using assistive touch. Earlier on my notification centre got stuck half way down the lock screen, making my ipod completely unusable.
Currently I have a process that downloads image URL from a website. Then I filter out URLs I don't need and am left with a list of good image URLs. I want to reformat these URLs by adding [IMG] before and [/IMG] tags after so these images are ready to post on sites that require these tags. So far, I'm not finding a good way to accomplish this. Any ideas or suggestions?
My MacBook pro 15" 2010 temperature gets over 150 c. Is this normal? I have attached an image for sensors temperature. I recently faced automatic restarts, is this related to temperature?
Just bought an iPad Air, but when I connect it to the macbook air it doesn't show up on iTunes. I did press trust this computer, but the Ipad only charges. Could be because I am running developer beta versions all the time on my Mac. iTunes (12.3.2), El Capitan 10.11.3 Beta (15D9c)
Apple's Photo.app has no problem playing the audio from some videos (for example, videos recorded by an iPhone). But it does not play the audio from videos created by an Olympus SZ-31MR digital camera. These videos do play within Photos, but they are silent. When played in Quicktime Player (and VLC), the audio plays correctly. According to Quicktime Player, videos from this camera are encoded as "H.264, 1920 × 1080, Millions; 16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo, 32.000 kHz"
I recently downloaded Xcode directly from apple.com (I didn't use the App Store). Now I try to open it, but it just says "Checking Xcode", it loads until the progress bar reaches 100% and then it does nothing. What can I do?
It seems this feature has been scrapped for el capitan. I'm a designer so I want all images to appear at the top of the search results. Anyone worked out a hack for this?
I have an old iPad 2 and an iPhone 4s. It's about time for me to upgrade from iOS 7, so I started with the iPad. I saw that the Music app has changed, and the Radio section doesn't show my stations like it used to, it just has them in a big "Recents" list. I currently use Siri on my iPhone 4s to play from my stations. Would I still have this ability with iOS 9? Note: This was originally asked prior to Apple ending iTunes Radio for non-subscribers.
Please let me know if it is not possible to have Xcode run from an external hard drive. If I can, any help as far to getting Xcode to run would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Get Info Window from the external hard drive I'm using:
I would like a MacBook Pro, but they are so dang expensive!!! I already have a pretty nice Samsung Series 3 64-bit, and I have considered Hackintosh. Hackintosh however, does not include that slick outer shell, Force Touch Trackpad, and gorgeous Retina display. My possible solution: A pc with a mac barebone and hackintosh!!!!
I would like to view the hashes on my Mac, in either single user mode, or the terminal in recovery mode. I tried to follow the steps described in OS X 10.9: where are password hashes stored. But I do not see my users plist file in the /var/db... folder, but I see root, nobody, daemon, and other .plist files. How can I find these files in recovery/single user mode? Note: The OS I would be using is either OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan; both would be great to know.
There is no display on my iPhone 4s, but whenever I hook it up to my charger, it will play the charging sound every 7 seconds. Maybe something is loose in the phone? I am thinking there is something up with the LCD screen thing, I can see in the sim card slot a pink-ish thing, and some bent metal of some sort. Please help. Don't know what to do.
Essentially, I'm transferring a Virtual Machine to a hard drive partition, in this case a fresh Windows installation. I failed to install Windows 8.1 the first time because I ended up running the wrong bootcamp drivers, which resulted in blacking the screens out (Graphics drivers probably failed). I decided to remove the partition my merging it back with my original El Capitan partition. In the guide, it mentions:
Following the setup instructions for Tunnelblick I want to open the renamed .tblk file After opening it nothing happens and no prompt in the tunnelblick app I suspect this is because I am not opening it as administrator and it is a file downloaded from the internet. How can I fix this?
I've noticed when I receive messages in the Messages app in El Capitan, it plays the "Chime" sound from iOS 9. I recall that in the previous version of OSX, or perhaps the one before it, the incoming Messages notification sound was simply a different pitched variant of the "send" message sound. How can I restore it to the original Messages sound from the older versions of OSX?
Could the Terminal command softwareupdate be used to download (but not install) any MacAppStore updates, say with a scheduled Calendar running an Automator/AppleScript script?
So I have an encrypted disk image that I use to store sensitive files. However, I often forget to eject it when I'm done, which obviously negates the whole point of encryption. What I'd like is some tool, setting, etc. (perhaps a cron job?) that monitors when a specific disk image is mounted, waits a specific duration of time, and then displays a message notifying the user of imminent ejection. If the user does not opt to reset the timer, or doesn't respond, the image is ejected. Alternatively, it could also eject when the screen saver activates. Do any tools like that exist?
iTerm2 has a very nasty habit of making an assumption of what I want to copy and paste from the terminal. Instead of just allowing me to copy exactly what I highlight, it will expand to what it considers more useful. As an example maybe I have the following command
Does Yosemite run on late-2015-iMac-21.5"? It comes with El Capitan. I would like to install Yosemite instead.
I've got numerous OSes installed on my Macintosh laptop for certain reasons. So I'd like to be as lightweight in my OS X as possible. What are the consequences of sudo rm -rf'ing the following application that are allegedly unmodifiable/deletable because it’s required by OS X? I am not a photographer so I don't really need For communication I use emails mainly and I much prefer mutt so I'd like to get rid of I use vim mainly (and atom & Xcode occasionally) so I'd also like to get rid of I also don't see myself ever using These are what I use OS X mainly for iOS development (sometimes) Web development: mainly to test browser compatibility Updating the firmware So would I break anything important if I delete all the applications mentioned above?
I'm always using full-screen apps, and I like to have the Terminal app "sticky" as a last application on the carousel. Whenever a new app is opened in full-screen, it take this last place and I have to rearrange the app using Expose. Any suggestion?
I have an iPad running iOs 7.x I want to install an app which requires iOs 8.0 or newer. But for compatibility reasons I can't install iOs 9.x yet, as it may break some existing app. Is there a way to install iOS 8 from iOS 7 ?
I have a 2013 Retina MBP and a fairly new 85 W Magsafe 2 charger. But when I connect this charger to my Macbook and check in Battery Health, it claims that it is receiving only 49 W.
In a minified jQuery file I'm using, this snippet at the end: //# sourceMappingURL=jquery.min.map is causing an annoying 404 error to appear in the Developer Console on every refresh. I don't have the .min.map file and don't intend to get it.
My first attempt to run el capitan 10.11.0 on one of my macintoshes is with a mac mini using a dual monitor setup. There is one HDMI monitor Samsung Syncmaster and one DVI monitor Medion MD20429 connected via the display port with an adapter.
I use Lync in Mac OS El Capitan. I installed Lync 14.2.1. When I send some text to somebody, he gets this text as clipped. tail of chars are clipped. it is impossible to read "y" or "g". because they don't have tails. I tried to various font and font size but no change. how can I fix this ?
In Recovery Mode, I was trying to access my password hashes, except bash 3.2 returned command not found for xxd. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm trying to automate my text selection to get highlighted in preview and to get copied to clipboard in web browser. Two different things , but selecting text & assigning gesture is common. The way I select text in browser is by "three fingers drag right & down simultaneously".
I am making a script that puts on a defaults write thing to true. How can I check before it's it's true or false?
I have: Main: working copy of Mac OS X the capitan, in a 1TB hard drive, External: I have another external 1TB HD with the time machine copy,
I have a Macbook Air(6,2) with 120 GB SSD. When I checked About This Mac --> Storage, I see inconsistent information.
I have a (Mid 2009) Macbook Pro. I want to upgrade my MacOS X version from 10.6.8 to 10.11 but I have some issues.
I have enabled showing hidden files in Finder and I can see them when viewing containing folder. However, when I search for such files they do not show in the search results. Specifically I was searching for .bash_profile, which I have created and edited before and I know exists in the file system, but it is not appearing in the results in Finder. I enabled including System Files in Finder but that did not help. What other changes do I need to do in my system to enable finding these files?
I'm running some time capsule automatic backups and I've recently totally changed my home network with a PFsense firewall and of course my mac stopped recognizing my time capsule. My mac is connected by WIFI to the PFSense router on the interface WLAN with the IP : 192.168.4.12, using DHCP. My mac is connected by WIFI to the PFSense router on the interface WLAN with the IP : 192.168.4.12, using DHCP. My Time Capsule is connected by Ethernet to the PFSense router on the interface LAN with the IP : 192.168.3.14, using another DHCP server. My Time Capsule is connected by Ethernet to the PFSense router on the interface LAN with the IP : 192.168.3.14, using another DHCP server.
I looked in iStat Menus and noticed that a process named lsd was consuming 99% of my CPU (Out of 400% for 4 cores). I searched around for a bit, but couldn't find out what this was, and why it's using so much processing power. It's not Little Snitch Daemon, as I never installed that. Someone else said that it could be Launch Services Daemon, but I thought that process was launchd. It's Launch Services Daemon. Upon looking in the console, I notice these messages when searching for lsd: As for this message: I did try making a dir called /private/var/db/lsd as root. Also, my CPU usage seems to be very intermittent (which it never did before).
I have my Photos library in an external usb3 disk. Usually, photolibr prevents the disk from ejecting, even if Photos is closed:
I only use Google for my contacts, which works well. However, when I add a contact from, say, the Messages app, the contact gets added to my Mac but not to Google. Then I have to use Cobook to move them... etc. Is there a way to avoid using contacts "On My Mac" and only use Google contacts? My iCloud has Contacts unchecked, which doesn't help.
In Safari, I want cmd-click to open the new tab behind my present tab, not also make the new tab active. I thought it was supposed to work the way I want by default. E.g.
I use same Apple ID on different Macs (used by different people), only to use Find My Mac. So I disabled Message, Facetime etc. – App Store updates are still a bit problematic since I don't want to share the account password.
I just got an iPhone 6, upgrading from the 5. My main computer is a Mac Pro Running Snow Leo, and iTunes 11.4. I backed up the iPhone 5 and when I went to sync to the 6, I got a warning that it wants a higher level of iTunes. I went to the other Pro running Yosemite and iTunes 12 is there, so I backed up the 5 to that computer. The apps don't show up to add back to 6, nor does the 5 backup show to copy it over.
Previously I was running Yosemite. I upgraded to El Capitan and started having problems with an app I used regularly. The backup I have is OS X Lion. If I restore this backup, I'll lose a ton of files. Is it possible to simply install Yosemite over El Capitan without restoring files from backup?
I have latest Macbook Air and I want try to use VGA monitor. I don't have MiniDisplayPort to VGA reduction, but this: I know that DVI-VGA worked fine on with my old PC, so I don't understand, why doesn't work the HDMI-DVI?
Issuing ls /dev | grep usbmodem lists two files each (tty. and cu.) for two devices, one named usbmodem and the other one named usbmodem5/usbmodem11/etc, with the number changing upon restarting the system.
I have a small business and was wondering if it's possible to use Passbook for gift cards? For example, someone buys a $50 gift certificate on our website and that gets delivered automatically to the other user.
I recently purchased a used MacBook Pro 15" Retina (2012). Before I bought it, its screen was replaced entirely and so was its upper case. I am currently using Windows 10 on the laptop.
I am spinning up a VM to do some ruby development. At this point I am trying to install OS X 10.11 to it. I have looked into several ways, but they are not working because I have a bad network connection. How is this done? Here is one link that I looked at: OS X on OS X
I want to change my cellphone number but I am not sure if that will erase the entire contents of my iPhone. Will it?
I have a 64GB iPhone 6 and a MacBook Air with a 256GB disk, about 20GB of which is empty. There are about 24GB of photos and videos on the iPhone, all of which have been imported into the Photos app on my MacBook. Thus I have a backup of the phone photos on the MacBook. But when I try to sync my iPhone to the MacBook through iTunes, it tries to copy all the photos into the backup and fails because there is not sufficient free space on the MacBook disk. Since I already have a copy of all the photos in the Photos app., there is in fact no point in iTunes creating a second copy during the backup. But everything else on the iPhone should be backed up.
I need to forward all my traffic trough a HTTP/HTTPS proxy in order to connect to a VPN. I can only connect to that VPN using a HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Is there something free that I can use to achieve this in OS X?
I saw Possible reasons (other than Open Firmware Password Protection) for not being able to boot into single user mode?, but it didn't help any, since I'm using the laptop's keyboard. Yes, my Mac can boot into other modes, like Recovery and Apple's Boot Manager, but it fails to boot into Single User. Also, the command key works, so can anyone help with this? Edit: I do not have FileVault enabled.
Environment MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011) OS X 10.10.5 Samsung TV UN32J5205AFXZA Both devices working on a 1,000 Mbps home network Problem I am trying to stream video from the Mac to the TV but have not been successful yet. Attempts
I have a running OSX (El Capitan) system which I don’t want to harm. I am considering buying the OSX Server app. Apart from the cost, are their any disadvantages to doing this? I’m thinking of impacting on performance, or interfering with using the machine normally. Thanks
This led me to How to stop automatic changing of iTerm titles? and the rather obscure list of control sequences on the Mac.
I want to find if there is any iphoto extension can share photos on google photos. Therefore I check *=URL=* it says Use the Mac App Store to find and install third-party extensions for Photos.
I have been trying to copy some large media files to my external hard drive which is formatted to NTFS. It looks like we cannot write to NTFS volumes in OS X. I have tried the solutions provided in this question, but they all seem very old. Are there any new apps to mount NTFS volumes to read and write mode in EL Capitan?
My IT dept will not let me use my Mac (personal computers in general) due to the inability to wipe my drive if I am let go/leave. So I'm looking for option to offer them. I see iCloud has that ability, but obviously the computer is using my iCloud and such so this does not seem like an obvious solution. Is there any standard way or software that can give them this control?
I've been the happy owner of an iPod nano 5th gen, 8Gb for a few years. Over the years, I've added and deleted many songs, lyrics, album art, etcetera, and I recently assumed that something was corrupted in the drive: when I would add new album artwork to a song, it would either not work or add the album art of one song to a lot of other totally unrelated songs. This thread is excellent to start troubleshooting, but didn't really help on a iPod nano (diagnostics mode is limited on this model). Permissions Repair (or actually "First Aid" as it is now called) didn't find anything.
The problem is three finger drag has completely stopped working. None of trackpad settings in system preferences or options under accessibility are helping.
When we create 'new folder' in finder it will automatically named 'untitled folder'. Is it possible to change that default folder name to current date name, for example "20151223"?
I forgot to bring my "Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt" cable to connect my MacBook Pro to my iMac screen. I do not wish to spend again all that money to go buy one now. The only thing I have here is a "HDMI to HDMI" cable and there is a possibility for me to go buy an "HDMI to Mini DisplayPort" which are cheap. I would like to know if connecting the HDMI from my MacBook and using the adapter to connect to the Thunderbolt of my iMac will work.
Is there any software for OS X that can automatically arrange a workspace according to a preset? By some sort of shortcut, I would like to launch applications and then place them in a certain way (position, size). It would be great if different arrangements are possible for multiple displays, if they are plugged in. Budget: Anything from free to $15 USD (preferably free).
does anyone know if there is currently any virtualisation software that supports creating a Windows 10 virtual machine with support to DirectX 11? From what I have found online, bootcamp supports this, but this wouldn't be a solution for me (it will need you to exit OS X and restart to use windows). The most popular tools VMWare Fusion (v8) and Parallels (v11) only support up to DirectX 10 Is there any other alternative around that does support DirectX 11 now? Update: As of November 2016, Parallels v12 still doesn't support DirectX 11 (only 10.1).
I have a separate Windows10 partition courtesy of Boot Camp Assistant. I would like the option of cranking it up inside my OS X session using VirtualBox, as there are times I would like to use some Windows apps without doing a reboot. I have found a few guides: Using Windows 7 installed in a Bootcamp partition from Mac OS X simultaneously (June '11) Using bootcamp partition in virtualbox (old; Win7 & Lion, but 2015?comments) Discussion: MacOS Bootcamp Partition as a VBox Guest (old; 2012/win7) ..but everything is rather out of date, referring to Windows 7. I wonder whether maybe now the process is simpler?
As you know, backtick ( ` ) is needed to mark down the code blocks when writing any answer / comment in stackoverflow or any other stackexchange sites. But I am struggling to find out the key to write backtick when using my iPhone.
My scrollbars will not hide. I've set Show scroll bars (in General) to When scrolling, but it has no effect, and when I re-open System Preferences, the option has changed back to Always. Is this a known issue? I'm running OS X El Capitan (10.11.0) on an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I've tried rebooting, but the issue persists. Ideas?
Please help me clear the list of 6 recent connections offered by the Screen Sharing app. View the list via a right-click on this app when docked. This is on OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan). I've tried shift-click, control-click, option-click etc. on the items but never get a pop-up menu.
I can't get Z shell's history working at all. cat .zshrc : Whatever the terminal emulator, number of terminal restarts et cætera — nothing works. How can I get it working, please ?
Firstly, I have the latest OS X installed (10.11.2) and when I log in to the Mac with my administration account everything regarding the trackpad gestures works smoothly. What impresses me is that when I create a guest user account, then I cannot resize any window with the 3 finger swipe gesture (yes, I have checked the settings). However, if I press hard the trackpad and swipe, then it works. Does anyone have a similar problem? I have already tried SMC/PRAM reset and deleting/disabling the account but the problem persists.
I want to change the default save location for Excel files (Office Mac 2016), but cannot find anywhere to do it (unlike Word).
I have several shared Dropbox folders. I would like to change the folder icon for each, to be a picture of the people with whom that folder is shared.
In the beginning I though that my trackpad was completely broken so I went to System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures and I disabled the gesture there. But unfortunately the problem still persists...
I've got several iPads which I manage with Configurator. Since the 9.2 update when I plug in an iPad and refresh it, as soon as Configurator finishes refreshing the device, it starts over. The process is basically: Check iOS Wipe device and reinstall Install apps Go to 1 and repeat.
Some applications start off with small memory footprints, but slowly grow to take up way too much RAM. Is there a way I can automatically detect when an app reaches a certain threshold, and then kill and relaunch the app?
There are many, Free or Paid iOS Apps to download Youtube Video. Most of them worked the same, where you paste the URL into the built in browsers, press and hold the play button to download.
I sometimes have numerous small images open (in separate windows) and I need all images displayed at the same time. With each image centered in its window, there's a lot of wasted screen space. If I can't reduce the minimum width of the window, is it at least possible to place the image along the left or right side of the window, allowing me to overlap the windows more effectively? I've also tried viewing images in a web browser, but have the same problem.
On an Excel graph, if I mouse-over a data point on the graph, the application shows me in a small pop-up window the exact X and Y data values of the point that I am mousing-over. Is there a way to do this with Numbers.app, either as a mouse-over, or some other way, so I can see the exact data values of a given point on the graph, without having to go back and look at the table that was used to generate the graph?
My father's MacBook Air (Early 2015) has some strange Wi-Fi issues that he says he's been experiencing ever since he got it. I finally took the time to look at it and there is indeed something strange going on. The Wi-Fi seems to work pretty well, except that it intermittently seems to become slow for a few seconds. This makes streaming video and general browsing really annoying.
I have a VM up and running great with Ubuntu installed onto it. I want to stick it on an external herd drive. How can I do that without breaking it? Do I just drag the files, or is there something special I need to do? I am using VirtualBox.
Xcode is opening with a window with the height 778px. If I decrease is height and restart it, it correctly saves and restores the new height, but if I increase it to occupy the full screen, it resets to 778px again. I tried deleting com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist but it opens up with the same incorrect height.
It seems like there is no simple solution to providing my beta iOS app to people outside of physical contact. The ways that I have found to do this WITHOUT using the App Store (which Apple explicitly says is not for Beta testing) are: Use Developer Enterprise Program; Expensive and Excessive Use Developer Enterprise Program; Expensive and Excessive Use TestFlight; Only up to a measly 25 "Internal" Testers allowed before extreme Guidelines put in place for more people (Why not just put it on App Store at this point...?) Use TestFlight; Only up to a measly 25 "Internal" Testers allowed before extreme Guidelines put in place for more people (Why not just put it on App Store at this point...?) Give them my whole Xcode project and have the user build it in their own Xcode environment; Impossible to ask of non-tech-savvy people + I do not want to give my project to people outside my company Give them my whole Xcode project and have the user build it in their own Xcode environment; Impossible
I am planning for hundreds of iPad devices that should enroll into MDM using a DEP certificate setting but the network in use inspects SSL/TLS traffic using man in the middle technique in order to decide if outgoing traffic is allowed or not. Will this inspection prevent enrollment?
It is my understanding that OS X comes with some sort of tkinter already installed. I believe I deleted this while trying to restore matplotlib (see my current problem posted to SO). If I upgrade from 10.10 to 10.11, will that effect the state of the pre-installed tkinter?
I accidentally bumped the drive while repartitioning it and it unmounted. After that when I tried to repartition with Disk Utility I got Partition Failed with the error: Could not open device
As I told in another question I now have 2 MacPros, One Snow Leo/iTunes 11.4 and Yosemite / iTunes 12.3. As told in the other question, this was in response to my iPhone6 purchase. It won't talk to iTunes 11 and iTunes 12 won't run on Snow Leo. Now, iTunes on Snow Leo is giving this message -
I have an active VPN connection (L2TP) and try to access a server with IP 192.168.1.29 in the remote network. If my local network uses the same subnetwork (192.168.1.0/24), connections to that subnet are not routed through the VPN, so the connection to the remote server fails. If my local network uses a different subnetwork (e.g., 192.168.2.0/24) the connection succeeds. Is there a way to access my server in the first case?
I have a Late-2013 model 15 inch rMBP, with El Capitan. I downloaded a Windows 7 64bit ISO from Microsoft. Opened up Bootcamp Assistant, created a bootable Flash drive, and downloaded the Windows Bootcamp Support Files from Apple. I extracted the zip, and copied the files over to the Bootcamp USB drive. Back in Bootcamp Assistant, chose "install windows" option, created my partition (100gb), it seemed to be zipping along then it restarted my laptop and booted into the windows installer.
On OS X 10.11 - I have opened up my user's .plist file, and have looked inside of the file. I did this with the following command: The file said SALTED-SHA512 in it, so I assumed it was a SHA512 hash.
I've seen various reports of iPhone 6 Plus get 2.1A charging from Macbook Pro. *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* However, I'm unable to replicated that on my own Macbook Pro Retina 15" 2015. It stays at 1A as below Currently on Yosemite and plugged in. Anyone having the same issue (or has been able to get the Macbook to power out 2.1A?)
It is ipad 3 with a1416 model It is currently factory reset but it keeps saying this ipad is bound to an apple id It freakingly shows only first letter of the email which doesn't help at all
I am trying to connect an Apple TV remote to my iPhone so I can test my application with the remote. But I can not find anything that shows how to connnect the devices together. Does the remote only connect to the Apple TV?
I reset my phone. then when it finally turned back on after restoring itself, it asked for my Apple ID and the password. I forget both of them . it will not let me into the phone without imputing that information, which I don't have. is there a way to get into my phone so I can use it again without knowing it ?
I have this SD card that I am trying to use to backup photos on a Windows computer. After using the SD card on the Windows computer, and copying the photos back on a safe drive, I cannot erase the SD card:
I have been having this issue for quite some time now: After I restore my iPhone to factory settings and signed in my iCloud account, the call logs would come back mysteriously, even ones dating back a few months that I have deliberately deleted. This is really scary if you think about it. There does not seem to be anyone else asking this particular question. How may I solve this problem?
I recently spent hours organizing my folders and files with Mac Photo on one of my Macs. Now, a few days later, all my changes are gone and everything is back to the way it was before the big cleanup, and the way it is on my other Mac. Any idea why this happened and how I can prevent it from happening again?
My brother's phone got stolen. I tried locating it with "Find My iPhone" but the app doesn't show up so I guess it's not installed on his device. I don't think we ever connected his device to iTunes. Is there a way to download the app to his device or use my iPhone to find his, or any other way to find it? The phone company says the thief is still using the internet on the device and today he accidentally called me when I was sleeping so I couldn't answer. When we call it, he doesn't pick up. So I just really need to find it! :/
I looked up the instructions for Dvorak on *=URL=* but they do not seem to apply to my case, as they only list a way to select the Dvorak layout, and not a way to install and select the Programmer Dvorak layout. I also followed the variations of the instructions related to Mac OSX Mavericks at the following link, to no avail: *=URL=* After installing the layout driver package and following the instructions for "Adding Programmer Dvorak to the list of available layouts", even after a restart of the OS, and clearing of the layout cache by sudo rm -f /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.le* no Programmer Dvorak layout appeared. I installed Mr. Kaufmann's package successfully, but it did not seem to change any of the listed keyboards. Neither a search for "Dvorak" nor a search for "Programmer" gave me any good results for the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout. I can put screenshots, here, too, but I do not want to make this question too specific to my particular setup, as this is
About a couple of weeks ago, the Guest user account was automatically enabled on my Mac running OS X El Capitan (by itself, without me enabling it). Now, whenever I start my Mac, I am greeted with a login screen showing two accounts: 1) Mine. 2) Guest user.
My MacBook Pro 2014 keeps flickering when I plug in a HDMI to VGA converter to it. I am using HDMI to plug in the HDMI to VGA converter (which is plugged in to my monitor). The screen is just black and then the Mac starts flashing. The external monitor does not have any affect. I tried out the wiring and monitor on another windows computer and it worked smoothly.
I created an "emergency" image of my dying HD using the procedure explained in Recover a dead hard drive using dd. Now when I try to mount the dmg file I get the message: "The following disk image couldn't be opened... no mountable files" How can I mount the image and explore the directories and files?
I removed my HDD from the main bay to install Windows 10 (through BootCamp) on my SSD (in the optical drive bay) and then I put back my HDD. After that, I can't boot Windows anymore. Is there a way to fix it other than putting my SSD in the main drive bay? Thanks folks!
Is it possible to prevent the iCloud out of space pop-ups from appearing on my iPhone? It pops up every other time I use my phone. I have basically the default+$5 20GB iCloud plan, but don't plan to upgrade. I don't think it's a good usage of iCloud to backup all 128gb of my iPhone... (I'm actually about 90% capacity - obsessive video/photos)
This isn't exactly a technical hardware question, but policy and strategy regarding the iPhone Forever Plan. Recently, I had my iPhone Forever Plan phone stolen, and I'm not sure what to do. AppleCare+ does not cover or help against theft. AT&T insurance does not cover iPhone Forever Plan phones My credit card does not cover phones that are paid over a payment plan spanning more than 90 days. My renter's insurance also does not cover subscription payment items. I actually have a few suspects, but the police does not seem to care enough to get warrants to search, claiming stolen phones are very low on their priority. Is my only solution to pay back the iPhone at a loss, and start a new plan? Is there anything else I can do?
It shows up for normal, external hard disk drives. Is there a way I can force it to encrypt? The installed OS X is El Capitan.
My iPhone 5 (factory unlocked) of three years (almost) started shutting off by itself since yesterday. It is completely unusable. Most of the time now, as soon as I boot it up again and unlock it, it shuts off. Other times, it stays on for a while before I run any app (stock, third-party, settings) and it shuts off. On rare occasions if I keep it in airplane mode, it stays on. Until, it shuts down later. I suspected something related to network connectivity was triggering something that was causing the phone to turn itself off. I tested by removing the SIM card altogether, but I couldn't find any particular pattern.
I would like to have an encrypted USB stick that I can use with Windows and OS X. I could format it as FAT32 and then have a encrypted image files (more than one due to the file size limitation of 4GB) that I could mount on both, and have the software to do it on the stick itself. Any suggestion on the best format?
I'm trying to update my iMac to OS X 10.10.5, but there seems to be an error when updating. When I press the update button a message appears to download and restart. When I press it the update starts to install. After some time it get blocked or a message 'show details' is shown, but even after pressing it nothing happens. The update still remains in the App Store. How can I complete the update?
I've connected a Pi directly to my iMac via Ethernet cable. The Pi has an address 169.254.121.172 and the iMac has an address 169.254.10.117. I can connect to the Pi via SSH and can ssh back to the Mac ok. Internet sharing has been turned on (sharing Wi-Fi to Ethernet). I just can't resolve any addresses on the Internet. I have added the iMac's IP as a gateway and when I traceroute to 8.8.8.8 I can see it hitting the iMac but the packets get no further. There is a bridge0 which has an IP 169.254.10.117 and it does resolve when pinged from the Pi. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5. Ideas anyone?
I noticed that if I leave QuickTime open in fullscreen and then my screen is locked, I have no way to unlock it: Screen is completely black but for the mouse cursor. I can move the mouse across the screen and the attached external monitor. Both the external keyboard and the laptop one have no other effect than to make the system beep by each keystroke. Is there a better way than to force power off the machine to unlock it?
One of my family members texts me at night when they are having nightmares. I want to know when they text me at 4 am instead of sleeping through it. Is there a way to make text notifications keep going off until read?
I remember long time back I came across some terminal command (something like: defaults write...) to enable ntfs write support on OS X. When I am searching for the command now I can see only either of the below options: Using 3rd party software like Fuse Using /etc/fstab
I have a Mac Book Retrina Pro. My mouse seems to drift to the right of screen all by itself. It doesn't matter if I am using the track pad, a bluetooth mouse or a USB external mouse (or no mouse at all). It makes it very hard to scroll using the scroll bar arrows, because the mouse drifts while clicking. How can I fix this?
I need to save multiple photos from my Dropbox to my camera roll. From what I can see you can only do one at a time. Is there a way to this by folder? I have 60+ images and and doing one at a time will be tedious and time consuming... thanks!
I am having iPad mini 4 . As everyone knows that it comes without earphone. Can I use my Samsung S5 earphone for the iPad? Please suggest me either I have to purchage only Apple earphone only? Thanks
This problem happens when I use Parallels (Windows) and Beyond Compare. When I move the mouse using the touchpad, it will automatically insert C in any place that can input characters. My OS X is 10.10.5.
Sometimes (especially when playing games) I absolutely don't want to get incoming phone calls, but I need to use cellular data traffic, thus I can't simply put the phone in airplane mode. Is it possible to disable phone traffic while still allowing data traffic? IOS 10.1.1 on iPhone 6s.
I don't really use Apple stuff so I'm a little clueless. My cousin and my uncle currently use the same apple ID. This is problematic because their contacts are synced up, which they don't want.
For some strange reason, and since a very long time, every time I open word, the keyboard is automatically changed to Japanese Hiragana. Obviously, being Italian, I do not at all want such an auto change. Is there any way to reverse this? Is this a Word problem or something related to the OS, or perhaps something to do with both? Update
Can I use my Xbox 360 controller with the 2015 (4th Gen) Apple TV?
I am currently moving some files to my iCloud drive with the total File Size of 42GB. At the moment I can only see the percentage completed by looking at the progress bar in the Finder. Since this is taking a long time (not surprising), is it possible to view the estimated time remaining? Edit:
So I just got a replacement iPhone, and activated it. I tried sending a text message and it wouldn't go through. I went to my messaging settings and clicked send and receive, and it had my phone number and email under "you can be reached by message at." However, next to my phone number, it had the loading wheel and there was no option to "Start new conversations from." I reset my phone and when I try to click "use your apple id for iMessage and sign in, it says that I can't connect to the server. Is there a way to troubleshoot this or alternate steps?
I just signed up for the Apple Music service. I have a fairly large iTunes library. It did its thing overnight on wifi (or so I thought) and uploaded my library to the cloud from my mac. Fine. But today as soon as I left the house my iPhone immediately chewed through 1.5Gigs of data before my carrier luckily shut it down (I have a 1 gig plan). The usage is all from the 'Media Services' item in system services, but I don't know what that actually is (cellular->System Services->Media Services) All of the following settings are off and were already off before the data use, what else do I need to do to stop this? Settings->Music->Use Cellular Data (off) Settings->iCloud->iCloud Drive->Use Cellular Data (off) Settings->iTunes & App Stores->Use Cellular Data (off) Could this have anything todo with iCloud Music Library setting, which I think was turned on for me as part of Apple Music?
I have a problem with slow login times in Yosemite. Logging in is speedy after booting, but after a while (a few days usually) it slows down and can take 20-30 seconds. The time to load a new Terminal window / tab also increases. If I reboot, the problem is fixed...for a while. I tried the answers in this question and nothing seemed to work. I ran the profiling suggested here and this part of the output looks suspicious:
Does "Single User Mode" still work, post v10.10.x ? I tried the following instructions, without success:
I wondered how I can substitute the + for _? This is what I currently have Kinds regards and Merry Christmas :)
I have an app which is installed in OS X. It needs a certain software patch currently to make it run successfully in the latest OS, and we are sending the patch as a standalone separate app, which when installed, does the necessary things (mainly updating a Config file within the <MyApp>.app folder in /Applications). After this, double clicking the app icon in Finder launches it fine. But when we try to launch it by clicking the icon in the Launchpad, it doesn't open. (this is the problem which we are solving, it won't open even from Finder by double clicking without the patch). So I tried to refresh the Launchpad by these things:
I recently bought a new headphones, which have two jacks; One for microphone and one for headphones. My Macbook Air only has one "hole", which is for the entire headset. I bought a reduction. The problem is, neither my Mac nor other computers recognize the external microphone I have wired up through the reduction, not even if I plug the microphone jack itself to the headset hole. (Headphones play sound even if its wired thru the reduction, so the reduction itself is not broken anyway.) I've tried it on several computers and systems, but I'm writing this here because I have a Mac after all. Hope you can tell me some info on that problem, thanks.
Starting recently, every time I try to restart my laptop (MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012) everything exits fine, the menu bar disappears, but then finder won't quit. If I open the dock and right-click it, it says 'application not responding'. Clicking 'relaunch' doesn't seem to do anything. The only thing that seems to work is holding down the power-button to force a shutdown, or doing Cmd+cntl+Power to force a restart*. I tried booting in safe mode, and trying to restart there -- but I have the same problem. Has anyone had this problem before? OSX El Capitan 10.11.1 *This forces restart doesn't allow updates to be installed.
So since nobody on Apple.SE, Unix.SE or other sites was able to help me with my little WWAN problem, I've taken a look at the configd source and I was wondering... suppose I'd want to give patching the code a shot, what dev tools would I need and is there something about OS X keeping me from replacing the vanilla configd binary with a patched one (on a new installation on an external drive so as not to render my OS X productive system unusable)?
I'm working on a friend's 2011 MBP. It's got the oh-so-common issue of the discrete graphics chip being busted, so GUI is hit and miss (most of the time it misses). The current installation has been corrupted, and I can't get the GUI installer to run (or maybe I'm not waiting long enough - USB lights tell me that the drive is sleeping, so it's done reading from the USB). I've got the Mavericks (OS X 10.11.2) install USB, and I need to know how to install OS X in text-only mode, similar to what you could do with Linux installers back in the day (some still support it). Can I install OS X in text-only mode?
I have an app that was previously downloaded on a different device but on the new device, I don't want that data, I just want to start from scratch. How can I prevent an app from retrieving that backed up iCloud data?
I want a power adapter for a MacBook Air that matches Australian outlets (without a separate adapter). It seems reasonable that if I buy such a thing from *=URL=* it will have the right outlet format.
I've found a number of questions about the "floating" behavior of the Mail Activity window in El Capitan. I have a different question: In all previous versions of Mail.app, processes in the Activity window could be cancelled by clicking on the "Stop" button. In El Capitan, the Stop button no longer seems to exist. So the Activity window tells me if something is stuck, but doesn't give me any way to cancel a process. Is there any way to get that functionality back?
I bit the bullet and upgraded to iOS 9.1, and the phone now moves like it's an iPhone 3GS. I can see iOS 8.x is no longer signed, but fortunately I have SHSH of iOS 8.2 saved.
While holding the watch in the air, the heart rate glance provides a heart rate that jumps around. How is this possible? The sensor on the back is pressed up against nothing.
There is an icon without app name in the Notifications screen of my iPhone (iOS 9.2). Any idea what app may be causing that?
I have just purchased a new Macbook pro and I began to set up iTunes and download my 1000+ songs that I have purchased on iTunes. Upon going through the 'purchased' button on the iTunes store, only 580 songs have been downloaded and iTunes is now telling me there are no more songs to download, though clearly there are still 500+ more songs that I own but cannot find anywhere. Why is this and where can I find the rest of the songs? Thank you
I want to ask you how can I get back together my Fusion Drive (merge HDD and SSD together). I was installing Windows 10 and during installation it crashed and I was not able to boot in Windows neither OS X. I also lost recovery partition, so I am going to install it with internet recovery or with my installed OS X on my external HDD. Thanks for any advice
I am looking for a way to deny the access to the Preferences settings of Safari in OS X. Similar (hidden) options are already available for the Finder, where you can hide the preferences menu with the following command: I am asking, because I want to prevent any changes within the Extensions section in Safari by family members.
My Bash history is remembered when I connect to my Mac via SSH, use iTerm2 or launch bash in the built-in Terminal app (every command I typed in bash is saved) but is not when I just use the built-in Terminal app. I already tried resetting the profiles in Terminal. I also checked ownership and permissions of .bash_history. Later I also tried to delete this file. This answer didn't help either. My default shell definitely is bash.
There is a network problem on my iPhone 5s. Every time it is searching for signals. I have tried to restart the phone, reset network settings, reset all settings, turn on/off Airplane Mode and even restored the iPhone with factory settings but nothing helped.
Can someone tell me how can I sync my photos which are in a iPhoto Library on my Mac to my DiskStation. I don't want sync the Library file, I want to sync each picture to the DiskStation. On a Windows system there is small tool which do this sync process for the pictures in the background. I am quite new to OS X and I could not figure out how this should work on a Mac.
So according to this Apple support article, Siri doesn't make that bell sound after holding the Home button to launch it on iPhones with iOS 9 or later. Instead, it vibrates.
Apps like DataMan, Carrot Weather or Runtastic Pro are stuck on the loading screen and eventually crash if I wait long enough. I'm using watchOS 2.1 with 16 apps installed and have it paired to an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.2. I've already tried unpairing the watch and then pairing it again, reinstalling the apps on both watch and iPhone as well as soft resetting both devices. I have found these steps describing to fix the issue of not loading for native apps: Step 1: Perform an encrypted backup with the paired iPhone, using iTunes. Step 1: Perform an encrypted backup with the paired iPhone, using iTunes. Step 2: Erase all content and settings on your iPhone. Step 2: Erase all content and settings on your iPhone. Step 3: On the Apple Watch, go to the Settings app and select Erase All Contents and Settings. Step 3: On the Apple Watch, go to the Settings app and select Erase All Contents and Settings. Step 4: Now restore your factory default iPhone from the iTunes backup. Step 4: Now restore
The machine: late 2011 15in MacBook Pro i7 Sandybridge 2.2 GHz 8 GB/8 GB (1333MHz,DDR3) = 16 GB RAM Intel HD graphics 3000 512MB The background: I have had this Mac for awhile now. I have dropped it twice now and both pretty hard times (dropped open). After this I started to notice kernel panics initially when I would open up a folder full of pictures. This continued and El Capitan was released so I figured I should just wipe it clean and start fresh, thinking the problem might be software related.
I have a Microsoft Kinect that I want to use with Open Kinect on my mid-2012 13 inch Macbook Pro. I have the correct power supply/usb cable which needs to be connected to a USB 3 port on the computer. While the computer supports USB 3, when I connect the USB cable it shows up in System Information under the USB 2.0 bus and is not recognized by the libfreenect2 driver. How do I force the computer to recognize it as a USB 3 device?
This leads me to believe the problem is with my OS upgrade rather than my hardware. I upgraded to 10.11.2 with the hopes that it may fix the issue, but it was to no avail.
I just upgraded to OS X 10.11.2 (El Cap), and overall it seems to be working OK. One strange thing: there's a "pkd" process which is taking ~150% CPU, all the time, even though I'm not doing anything. (At first I thought it might have something to do with Spotlight reindexing or something, but 12 hours later it's still going.)
Can the drivename be "Seagate Backup Plus Drive" in the Terminal command ... label= drivename none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse or will the spaces create errors in Terminal?
So I started up Disk Utility and erased my BOOTCAMP partition and set the format to OS X Extended (Journaled). This is how my partitions look like now:
How do I know where the other is and how to remove it? I watched the entire disk, all the files occupy about 50 gigabytes, which could occupy the remaining space on the disk? Please tell me how to fix it? Time machine is off
I have a MBP late 2011 running El Capitan, recently my battery died (x over the icon and "no battery available" in the dropdown.) I've noticed since then that CPU intensive tasks are very slow, and I read that without a battery macs will throttle the CPU to half capacity. So now I'm looking for one of two solutions: 1) Either somehow disable the throttling, or 2) Trick the computer into thinking it has a battery.
I just mass-added and edited about 500 contacts from my archives, and I would like to set the address type for some of them from other to home. I'd like to search by address type for all contacts with an address type of other. Ideas so far: AppleScript, Smart Group These could work, I just don't know how to do it at the moment :) Thank you in advance.
I've already done open the billing information , but the thing is "none" doesn't exists , there only "visa , master and Amex"
I have internet access but I noticed that in System Preferences/Network, although the W-Fi status is "On" this statement is below: "Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address XXX.XXX.X.XX and will not be able to connect to the Internet." There is a yellow dot preceding the "Wi-Fi / Self-Assigned IP" icon on the far left of the System Preferences/ Network window. The Network Diagnostics shows all the items under Network Status as green. My modem does not have a router. It is behind a Verizon (ISP) router that I do not physically own or have access to. I can only access the settings at: "my home.modem manufacturer's name.com". Is this still a problem that needs correcting? Thank you. UPDATE: My ISP says: "Okay that's the issue as it is a 6100 modem it does not have a feature or wireless option you need to get one wireless router from ups store...I will send you a free modem which is an advanced one.." MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MacBookPro11,3; Airport Time Caps
I created a partition on my Fusion Drive when I first purchased my iMac running Yosemite, and I would like to now resize that drive ("Data" in the screenshot below), but Disk Utility doesn't allow it (the "Partition" button is disabled).  diskutil list diskutil cs list
I am noticing an interface on my system called ipsec0 but I can't figure out what is creating it. I have no VPN software installed or VPN connections configured on the system. Back to my Mac service is disabled as well. Below is the output from ifconfig The MTU of 50000 is very strange as well.
how do I add another caller ID (ie existing email address) to the list of addresses I can send imessages from? It shows multiple email addresses to receive imessages, but only one to send from.
There is a visible dot on the iPhone 5s between the rear camera and the LED flash. What is it for? I imagine it is a sensor of some kind. I'm concerned because my new iPhone 5s case covers it.
I like to playback a lot of different videos for a theatrical play without having to pause or having a dead time in between the videos. Do I need a specific software? Can I do it with Quick Time player? Or VLC?
I've already looked at this question: Where is my crontab file?
I made a presentation in Keynote, looped it so as to share locally. Now I want to send it to friends, but I cant figure out how to stop the looping to get the share button back?
I have the above laptop and thinking of getting a new, larger monitor to go with it. I have already reviewed other threads here and elsewhere, but there are a few things I am not clear about... The Macbook has a mini displayport, so I will need an adapter. If I wish images AND sound to be available, which adapter will work (best)? M-DP to HDMI or DVI? I couldn't find a definitive answer... Also, if I want to use the laptop in clamshell mode, how am I supposed to connect a new keyboard (I have a bluetooth one in the house) and a mouse to it?
So I have my new Dell P2715Q connected to a Thunderbolt port on my MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid-2015 using the supplied DisplayPort cable, in SST mode. When I plugged it in the first time, it worked perfectly at 4K@60. But: when the MacBook goes to sleep, the display does not wake when the laptop does. Once woken, the MacBook is aware there is a second monitor attached (I can move the mouse off the edge of the MacBook monitor), but the Dell shows black.
There is an app for Android called "Opera Max" which compresses all Internet data systemwide no matter which app you are using. It can give amazing data savings.
I have an iPad with iOS 9.2 and a physical keyboard. I use the autocorrect feature when I write using the iPad directly but I deactivate it for the physical keyboard. So far, I have to activate or deactivate this option everytime that I use the physical keyboard. Is there any way to automatize this and make the iPad activate or deactivate the autocorrect feature depending on the keyboard used?
I used to use this software which used to pick recently modified files from a configurable set of directories and back it up (into another synced folder inside Dropbox). The purpose is to recover files which were not backed up into Time Machine.
The question is in the title of the post. :) The Apple website says: 3.5 mm headphone jack Support for Apple iPhone headset with remote and microphone Support for audio line out (digital/analog) Does this mean that the port is also a line in for the microphone?
I have forgotten my apple rescue email address, how can I find it. Because I have forgotten my security answers I have clicked the email link, but do not recognise the address the resetting is being sent to. Thanks
Can I decrypt the external hard drive FileVault directly on a Windows PC ? I found some programs like Passware Kit Forensic which claims they can do it ! Is there any other program?
How do I remove only News from Siri Suggestions? I like the quick access to frequently used apps and contacts there. I don't like being informed of the latest murder spree, political news, or military calamity every time I'm just trying to get to the Mail app or find my wife's contact. Is there a way to fix this terrible feature?
When I use my iPod Nano (7th generation) with SwageU Bluetooth headphones, the connection keeps dropping with a double beep. Both devices are charged. I haven't had a problem using these headphones with an iPad. Which should I blame, the iPod or the headphones?
I have an iPad mini with iOS 9.2 and a physical keyboard. The keyboard allows me to use several shortcuts when using some apps (for instance I can use Cmd+T to open a new tab in Safari or close it with Cmd+W). I was wondering if there is any shorcut to send an email from the default app using a keyboard.
But here's the interesting bit. If I disconnect the device from the Mac - all is quiet. Not just quiet, but SILENT, except for the audio I'm actually playing on the device. It's pure heaven to listen to... absolutely pristine. But connect the Mac again and... back into the bowels of audio hell.
When I compress a large directory in OS X, like 5-6 GB the resulting archive cannot be browsed in Windows / Total Commander. It hangs the app and stays at 100% cpu usage, like its trying to extract it or something. Does anybody know whats causing this? Smaller zips that have like 2-3 GB can be browsed instantly.
A friend of mine just got a new iMac from Best Buy. Installation phase went fine (I'm pretty sure OS came installed). She got to the "Setting up your Mac" phase and it's been stuck for about 3 hours right now. Never took this long before in dealing with Macs, ever.
I want to delete Pixel Gun 3D status but it is apparently saved to iCloud. I have tried deleting the app and reinstalling but it kept the game's data. How can completely delete and reinstall the app as new with no previous data?
In Android all audio and video players you choose the directories you want the app to show media from. In iOS all audio and video players show ONLY media from its own data (if it's a downloader app) or show only what is in the Music app that come with iOS. Does someone know an iOS app to play media and that let you choose from any directory on the iPhone (like other apps downloaded videos for example)
I have installed Ubuntu separately from OS X. rEFInd is already installed. Now I need to install Windows 10. I've created a separate partition for this in OS X. If I try to install Windows from USB, will rEFind recognize this? If not, how should I install Windows properly?
e.g. First Name = John Last Name = Doe Spouse = Rebbecca Doe Full Name (Display Name) = John & Rebbecca Doe
I have a MacBook Pro 15 Mid 2014 with OS X El Capitan. When I accidentally disconnect the external USB disk (without clicking eject), I can't reconnect the disk. If I remove and plug the disk back in it doesn't appear in the Disk Utility. The solution is to reboot the system. Is there some command to reconnect the disk without rebooting the system?
I've read all the advise posted to connecting JBL Flip speaker to Mac Pro. I'm not sure if this covers the new JBL Flip 3. Holding down the power button does not provide an alternating blue red light. The power button light stays white and Mac Pro does not detect the Flip 3. Any suggestions?
I am trying to start MongoDB from the terminal. When I navigate to the folder and hit 'ls', all the applications show up but when I type in the name of the application( 'mongod'), it says it is not found! What is going on?
I have looked and looked and I can't find a solution. I need to get to the profiles and device management section on my ipad 3 but it is not under general. I tried searching for it in settings and it shows up as an option. I tap on it and it just opens General, where there is no option for profiles and device management. Please help, I already tried restarting the device. How can I find it?
Playing video within QuickTime or "Finder preview" crashes my OS X (10.9, Maverick). I simply want to disable this feature, even if it means disabling all filetype preview (picture, video, mail, pdf...) Is there a way to disable preview in the finder (right pane) and quicklook (space bar) ?
Okay, so this doesn't really make sense. Why would Mac OS X include the BSD pf firewall but not include support for the queueing software necessary to make that firewall work? Isn't that kind of counter-productive? There must be some way to turn support for ALTQ on, but I have no idea what it is. I'm not even entirely sure what ALTQ is. Is it a loadable kernel module that I have to load using the kextload command? Or is the problem that it's already there but the kernel is just incompatible with it. I am utterly confused.
I bought an Early 2015 MacBook Pro Retina model with the 128GB SSD and have been wondering what to do if I need more disk space.. then I found out that it's currently not quite possible to just stick any connector-wise compatible drive in place of current drive as an means of upgrading the storage. OWC, Transcend etc sell nothing, Apple does not sell anything (at least not without installation at an ASP), however it seems eBay has some Far-East sellers that have some kind of adapters which allow for 3rd party SSDs to be attached, but they seem to have various limitations as some will not make the new drive bootable, some will boot, but do not support passwords etc leading to believe they just emulate some bit of the original drive but not all.
I love downloading movies from the internet, and download files with sizes usually around 600 MB - 1 GB. I have a MacBook Pro with a Retina display, which comes with an SSD. Will downloading and saving it to directly to my SSD reduce my Mac's SSD lifetime significantly? Should I buy an another external HDD for this hobby?
So I tried deleting an app a few days ago and it requires admin name and password. I tried every single combination that i can think of and it wouldnt work. I then realize that I have a standard user instead of an admin. I tried the create a new admin user way but the permission is denied. I got no idea how to proceed onwards. Help needed please. Its a osx yosemite 10.10.5
I'm using my brother's new MacBook and it's not letting me log out of the guest account. The only options I see are Restart and Shut Down. How can I log out of the guest account?
Since about a month, my MBPr sometimes starts up it’s fans and is getting really hot. The activity monitor tells me, that this is because of the UserEventAgent, which runs with 100% CPU usage.
My headphones on my Macbook Air just stopped working! Like they are "stuck on mute". I take them out, no red light on the jack, and they work perfectly. But once I plug my Headphones in, the volume just stopped! I have tried messing around in preferences, nothing! I can't seem to find any solution for my problem. People have the jack red light problem, but I can't get my volume to work! In fact, just now while I'm writing this my volume isn't working! I can't seem to find anything to help me with this. Nor have I found anybody with the kind of problem I have. I would greatly appreciate your help anybody. But this has happened before, and simply restarting my computer worked. This time, nope. Zilch, Zero, No help at all.
I'm working on a simple formula in Pages where I have a table with 4 cells per row. Product Name, Purchase Price, Quantity and Total. I've created a simple formula that multiples Purchase Price with Quantity and displays the result in the Total row.
I am trying to add some keyboard shortcuts to VMware Fusion 8 but the dialog is kinda wonky:  Here the two dropdowns doesn't drop down, so any key I don't have on my MacBook is impossible to configure. For instance, I was trying to configure Cmd+Right to be the Windows End key, since I'm programming in Visual Studio I want quick keyboard navigation, however, since the dropdown doesn't drop down, it is impossible for me to pick the End key. So, the configuration file that contains this keyboard profile, does anyone know where on my system this is stored so perhaps I can hack it directly in there?
I want to get a notification to buy something at store I only rarely go by. "Reminders" doesn't seem to know the store name but I can find the address on Google Maps no problem. But I can't seem to enter that address in the El Capitan "Reminders" app. Does anybody know how to do that?
I was wondering if there's a way to take advantage of the gestures of my new Magic Trackpad 2 while using Google Chrome on OS X El Capitan. The force touch is completely useless there, and Chrome is the app I use most of the time when I'm at my desk :( Thanks.
I have a Macbook Pro with retina, Yosemite and 500GB hard drive. I tried to install Windows using Bootcamp and accidentally deleted a partition, now my Mac cannot boot anymore. This is the output from sudo gpt -r show disk0
I'm having a problem with the internal SSD on one of my Macs running 10.10. It was working fine when I was browsing the web one day and then suddenly froze with the spinning beachball; I couldn't force quit (it was truly hung) so I forced a restart and now the computer won't boot at all. I've tried the following with no success: Booting into the recovery partition and repairing the disk with Disk Utility. Booting on an external USB 10.10 installer and repairing the disk with Disk Utility. Booting in target disk mode and repairing the disk with Disk Utility. Booting in target disk mode and trying everything I can think of with diskutil in Terminal.
I recently bought the new MacBook 12" and since it uses a USB-C port and not the traditional MagSafe one, I wanted to know if there is some way for me to know whether it is charging or not while it is switched off. I know that when we connect the charging cable we get a sound and the battery percentage shows up on the screen but I wanted to know if there is a way to know that in-between the charging without booting up.
The brightness of display of my MacBook Air is fluctuating. It is getting black and bright continuously. I don't know what to do or how to resolve the issue.
There are many clipboard managers for Mac, but I'm looking for one that immediately makes my clippings (text, at least) available on iOS. Is there such an app?
I can match all other devices to my physical devices. But I don't know what the last one is. It doesn't even have a name, only a hardware address.
In preview (and apparently also in other Apple apps like Keynote, although I cannot reproduce), I get the unexpected behavior of getting a list of words when pressing the escape key in an empty search dialog.  If I type something in the search box, select it and then press the ESC key, the search dialog is closed (as desired). With text in a newly created text box, behavior is similar only that I get these suggestions also when pressing ESC on a selected text. I don't know why I'm getting these things and my attempts to turn this behavior off have been in vain so far. (like "system preferences - keyboard - text - automatic correction -> off" didn't seem to have something to do with it)
I've just read that since ElCap's release it is possible on some Macs to install Windows without DVD nor USB drive, just by providing ISO file. My MBP8,1 is quite old, though, and it is old enough to not support the USB option. I've edited the Info.plist to unlock USB, but I would really like to use BootCamp without any drive at all (I don't have any right now and I want to install Windows). Is there any way to make it possible?
I want to permanently change my keyboard layout. Every time I restart my computer, I have to add Spanish ISO layout and delete the US one. My Macbook has a spanish keyboard but I use OSx in english.
Prior to iOS 9.2, large videos would be resized when sending as an e-mail attachment. After 9.2 introduced Mail Drop however, this resizing functionality seems to be disabled even if I opt not to use Mail Drop. The recipients I'm sending the video to have very limited bandwidth (3G cellular) and I do not wish to send them the full sized video - even if they could figure out how to open files from Mail Drop (which they can't) Is there a way to completely disable Mail Drop on iOS like there is in OS X to get this resizing behavior back?
I've been trying to view which devices are connected to my USB ports through terminal in El Capitan, in particular a USB mouse. I've read online that I can ls /dev/tty.* to view all connected devices. But each time I try this before and after connecting a device, the output does not change. I've also tried ls /dev and do not see a change in the output.
Im using the WD My Passport for Mac, and I recently formatted my entire computer. If I use this same harddrive to back up on time machine(with the old backups), will it mess anything up as it might recognize it as a different computer?
Is there an app that I can use to highlight blocks of text in a PDF and then export the highlights - pretty much the same thing as iBooks does with EPUB?
I had a problem with my Macbook that couldn't read the internal SSD and boot OS X, but I solve it: MacBook does not mount, does not boot, does not read drive . I used resizeStack method to get the full size of the disk on OS X. The problem I have now is when I press ALT key on startup it shows two bootable disks. Macintosh HD and Windows. Windows was a partitioned disk I had for windows and is empty (maybe).
I've noticed that if I wiggle my finger in an upwards and downwards direction on the home button on my iPhone 6S running iOS 9 half of the screen slides down; as shown here:  I can't find any documentation of what this is or any use for it (tapping the space just closes it, dragging it down pulls down the control centre). It's accessible from any app. Would love to know what it is!
I have some photos in the DCIM folder on a MicroSD card that normally lives in an Android phone. When I mount the card on my Macbook Pro using a USB card reader, Photos.app automatically launches. But the app doesn't seem to "see" that there are pictures inside the folder. I can access the pictures through the Finder (see screenshot), and of course I can manually import the pictures by dragging them from the Finder window into Photos, but I am wondering if there is some way I can point Photos.app to the directory where the photos are stored so that it can find them and import them on its own.
My iMac is generally fast, but when I search the help system, I never get any response. The help system works fine if I simply navigate it, but search never returns anything. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
When I use Siri to create appointments on my Apple Watch, it gets dropped in my iCloud calendar. Is there a way to have this go to a different calendar? On iOS, you can find this in settings, but the watch doesn't seem to honor the setting.
I have a mixture of local music that I added myself to iTunes, along with albums added through Apple Music. Fortunately, iTunes recognizes this and allows me to “Remove Download” for the songs I added manually to iTunes. So all my songs effectively behave like Apple Music “songs.” I'm wondering if there's a way to batch-remove all downloads from iTunes to free of some disk space, since I can stream non-downloaded songs anyway.
Currently the default application for mp3 files on my Macbook Pro (10.6.8) is iTunes. I want to change it to QuickTime. So I right click on an mp3 file, select Other, check the Always open with box, scroll down to QuickTime select it, then click Open. The mp3 file plays with QuickTime. Bueno.
So at this point I'm stuck. If anyone has any other suggestions for how I can delete the Fusion drive and restore from my Time Machine backup, I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
Is there a way to fix this? The Boot Camp 6 drivers (needed for Windows 10, apparently) don't appear to be anywhere online - I could only find version 5 on Apple's website, which I believe is only designed for Windows 8 (the setup program doesn't work on my MacBook when running Windows 10, anyway). Any help is much appreciated, I'm rather noobish with all this stuff! Cheers, Dan
Currently I have an issue of changing input source on my iMac, OSX 10.11 The option in the Keyboard setting is: Select the previous input source control+Space. There is no other option available. What I want is Command+Space. (This hotkey was bind to Spotlight search. But I have already disabled it.
For those that don't know yet, Bootcamp no longer requires (supports) USB drive to install Windows. I'm trying to install Windows 10 but getting a "No image are available" notice on Windows setup window after entering the license key.
I just transferred iMovie '08 from an older Mac to a fully updated newer one. Unfortunately, I am not the one that purchased it, so it isn't in my App purchases. Now I have a problem - or two.
I would like to convert a OS X Dashboard widget to a desktop app, namely the Stocks widget. I understand I could move the widget to the desktop using terminal to enable developer mode for Dashboard but I'm only interested in the functionality of an app such as Amnesty Singles, however I do not wish to use third-party applications to achieve this and wondering if it is possible to use Terminal to create the stand alone application with the widget? I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 but most Terminal commands since Snow Leopard should work.
I am going to be playing around with the Kinect v2 and I know I'm going to want to try 3D scanning areas that are not just my room. I intend to scan the outdoors mainly. So this brings me to requiring a powerful laptop. I really don't want to buy a Windows laptop, I want a Mac laptop. I could use an open source API for Kinect, that works on Mac but it seems to be quite slow and obviously won't be as robust as Microsoft's official SDK. Am I correct in thinking that it's possible to install Windows on a Mac, and run Windows natively (without running in a VM) on the hardware (with the help of Boot Camp perhaps)?
I'm trying to instal OS X on a 2013 Macbook Air. I erased the OS X partition, the computer is booting to my windows 7 bootcamp partition by default. All boot key combinations(C, Option, CMD+Option+R, etc.) are not working, probably due to water damage. I can no longer get into recovery mode, but the files to boot into it are there.
I want to write an AppleScript that creates projects in OmniFocus where their defer date and due date is set to any weeks' start and end day. The result should look like this:
I bought my laptop ( MacBook Pro mid 2012 or 2011) I have 10.11.2 OS X elcaptain. This entire thing started few days ago. I was watching a movie late at night on my laptop and I think I probably slept and forgot to close my laptop. I woke up closed it. Few hours later, I opened it to access the internet I get the option of wifi: no hardware installed. I've never seen something like this before. So, I restarted. It didn't work. Today, my friend told me to shut it down then press command and r when I open it and restoring my laptop that might make it work. Now, I did this and the computer asks for Internet recovery, but it can't connect in the first place. I shut it down. I opened again and there's a question mark in a folder flashing. Then I shut it down pressed command and r and it gives me option to choose a network and the option is x literally. I can't ask for Apple support's help as I am out of the country for vacation and I can only wait until I'm back by the 8th of January, and I
I have sync issues with Photos app on Mac. I am not sure when it started or what caused to it but for a long time (approximately more than 2 months) Photos app doesn't download new images from iCloud. My IPhone and IPad can sync photos without any problem but mac could not achieve.
I've got a MacBook Pro (Early 2015, OS 10.11.2) and I've also got a Dell 2209WAf monitor, which I'm using with a VGA cable and this adaptor. The monitor's optimum resolution is 1680x1050 @ 60Hz and RDM shows this as an option. However, when I try to use that resolution, my screen looks like this which is clearly not right (it looks impossibly pixellated and really hurts my eyes, you can barely see anything on the screen). On the monitor, it says it's displaying 800x600 when my Mac says it's displaying 1680x1050.
I am unable to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable osx. I added the following line to my .bash_profile and sourced it afterwards; yet when I printenv or attempt to echo it, I see nothing in Terminal.
MBP Mid 2012 on OSX 10.10.5 Since a couple of months I recogniz a weird sound on my computer. It appears whenever I do something "forbidden", i.e. using a key in a programm which has no functionality.
I've installed Homebrew, FUSE for OS X and NTFS-3G. It helped to see external partitions (FAT32 and NTFS) when SIP is disabled (OS X El Capitan). But when SIP is enabled, I can't see NTFS and FAT32 external partitions in Finder and Disk Utility. When I run command diskutil list in a Terminal, it shows all partitions, including NTFS and FAT32. What should I do now to read/write with SIP enabled? Output from diskutil list: After command 'diskutil info /Volumes/NF' Result was 'Could not find disk: /Volumes/NF'
I often find free download resources for font faces. I usually download the file and then double click ,expand, install with Font Book. It has never been clear to me if Font Book copies the font files to a system folder or if I need to keep the original file. I have encountered some fonts that became corrupt at a later date and I wasn't sure if that was because the original file couldn't be found. Can anyone verify that it is safe to trash the downloaded file after installation?
I have an 8GB iPhone. I've had not enough storage for a while so I went through my photos and deleted 100. I also deleted old notes that I don't need. I also deleted an app of 81.5 MB. I tried downloading an app of 22.1 MB but it's telling me I don't have enough storage. Is this a bug or do I just not have enough storage?
Appzapper doesn't work Appcleaner doesn't work The typical Terminal Command i use doesn't work Is the only way to doe this by disable SIP (System Integrity Protection)?
My daughter has a 5s that was submerged in salt water and then attempted to power-up prior to the phone fully drying out. The phone shows no signs of life even when plugged into a power source and no computer recognizes the device. My question is whether data (specifically information in the Notes file) can be retrieved and, if so, by whom? These data are not backed-up anywhere; they only exist on the phone. Thanks in advance for any guidance.
There's lots of information out there about how to kill an application that's not responding. But what if I just have some dialog box that isn't clearly associated with any running application? In particular, there's nothing in the dock that corresponds to the dialog box in question, and even when I attempt to shift focus to the dialog box, the menu bar at the top of the screen remains the menu bar of whatever application was running before. Here's the dialog box that was freezing on me: I tried using Activity Monitor but there wasn't anything obvious to kill.
I just got a new Lacie NAS with their NAS OS 4. After making an initial Time Machine backup to this device I wanted to mount the resulting (encrypted) disk image but when doing so I just received an error message "Resource temporarily unavailable". Googling this error message returned a lot of Voodoo fixes. However, after playing around a bit, restarting a few times etc I realised that I had something called Time Machine service enabled for this share. Turning this service off immediately made the disk image available as expected.
I tried to connect my rMBP mid-2014 to a TV through an HDMI cable. I first plugged the cable to the TV. when plugging the other end of the cable to the HDMI port on the macbook, I heard some crackling noise (as if it did not fit well). Then, I saw that the TV was listed on displays but I never managed to get the secondary desktop displayed on the TV. Then, I unplugged the cable and saw that some pins in the end of the cable that I plugged to the macbook were crooked. Might I have possibly damaged my computer? note: diagnostics did not find any issues.
Safari 9.0.2 under yosemite and el capitan: looking for where the cached flash video files are stored. It seems they change location every time there is an OS or Safari update. And are they accessible via Web Inspector when I have the page loaded/video running?
I forgot my password for my icloud account. When I try to recover it form iforgot.apple.com it gives me 2 options:
I am having trouble with a specific financial services provider; every time I try to visit myvisaaccount.com to check my card balance etc, I get the dreaded Chrome red strikethrough https and x-ed out padlock, with dire warnings about an insecure connection. If I try Safari or Firefox I get different visuals but the same message: invalid security certificate. However, tech support for VISA does not see this problem from their own home or office computers.
I have an older Mac Mini with Snow Leopard installed on it. When I was upgrading to Mavericks, the installation was stuck and the MacMini didn't start any more. I didn't know about Recovery etc. So I've formatted the whole hard disk in order to reinstall Mavericks following this tutorial. I've downloaded it from the AppStore with my other Mac to do all the stuff explained in this tutorial. So I've restored the InstallMaverick.dmg, which is contained in the InstallMavericks.app, on a usb stick with disk utility and tried to boot it on my screwed Mac Mini. But with the StartUp-Manager that I've started with the alt-Key there were no disks visible. I only see the WiFi-Selection, but nothing more! Does someone know what to do to get Mavericks or Snow Leopard reinstalled on a Mac Mini like mine, that has no recovery partition any more? Thanks in advance! Edit: I don't have the Snow Leopard DVD any more. Just borrowed my former boss of a company I've worked before and never get back. I've do
I'd like to see the results of so I can decide what it will do before it does it. Is there anything equivalent to a --dry-run option, that I'm somehow missing? Or any other way of achieving the same results?
Ok, the details: Mid-2009 Macbook Pro, previously running Lion on native HDD just fine. Installed TRION 100 OCZ SSD, booted with external USB El Capitan installer. Used the installer to format and partition SSD. Fixed the date issue in Terminal before install and connected to the internet.
I know that I can bundle a .jar into a .app using Automator and AppleScripts. However, can this .app be submitted to the App Store? And if it can be submitted to the App Store, will Apple accept an application of this type? Are there any examples of apps on the App Store that are .jar converted to a .app?
So I have a Macbook Pro running OS 10.11 with 1 additional Dell display. For Christmas I received another Dell display, but I'm having issues with this mac thinking the new display is a "Built-in" display. When I bring up the Display Preference, it shows my old Dell display as a DELL E2414H, but the new Dell display is showing up as Built-in display. Both displays are exactly the same, with the only difference being how they are connected. The older display is connected via the display port adaptor which is connecting via VGA, while the new display is connected to a USB 2.0 adapter also connected via VGA. Since the new display is being recognized as a built-in display, the resolution is all fuzzy and the task bar is outside of the screen. When I look at the resolution settings and view the scaled options, everything is set to 1920x1080 ( as it should be).
is it from the data and values possible, to exchange the PS4 and Time Capsule's Hard Drive? So built in the PS4 the Time Capsule hard drive and in the Time Capsule the PS4 Hard Drive. Could anyone say me if it so possible and works fine?
I have an iPhone 4s 16 GB. I realized my photos took up a lot of space so I put most of them on my USB drive. I only kept 94 of them on my phone. But they still take up 463 MB of data. I looked at each photo on my laptop and they all took up between 100 and 600 KB each. There's ONE photo that takes up 3 MB but that's it. The rest are only a few hundred KB. I tried using that Phonecleaner thing and it did nothing. Also restarting my phone. Plus I have nothing saved to icloud or any shared photos or anything synced from my computer (I've never even signed into iCloud. EVER.). Just my normal album. 94 photos. Is there a reason why it's taking up so much storage space with so little photos?
I have a php page I want to test on a server. Is there a server that runs through Terminal.app that supports PHP? I read this tutorial, but either I did it wrong or it didn't work. How can I start up a server?
Lately when someone sends me a picture via iMessage, I see a box that says "Tap to Download" instead of an image. Most of the time when I try tapping the box, it says "Downloading" but it is stuck at 0 bytes out of about 2 MB. Other times it will actually download after I tap it and show me the image.
I have removed Dashlane using the documented procedure, yet launchd is still trying to load com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent. I have tried issuing sudo launchctl remove com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent with no success (the command succeeds, and launchctl list does not show the service, but upon reboot, a list again contains the service name). I've also looked in /private/var/db/launchd.db and not found any entries for this service.
I use Logic Pro X, and it's very particular of the naming of the directories it uses. I'm SymLinking the Gigabytes of extra content it's downloaded from external drives. HOWEVER I wanted to ask something about the naming of the directories.
Somehow I got into zoom mode on the iphone - I think something like two presses of the Home Button - though not precisely since two presses would show the running apps. I got into zoom while fat fingering the "show running apps". It was difficult to get out of zoom as well. So then it would be useful to completely disable whatever button shortcuts get us into that mode. The following link has instructions on how to disable zoom http://www.technipages.com/iphone-enable-disable-zoom.
I got the iPhone 6s this afternoon and tried to restore the backup from iPhone 6 which is on iCloud. 6s could not restore the backup because 6 was running iOS 9.0.2 and 6s was not. I set it up as a new phone (both have the same name) and upgraded to iOS 9.0.2. Is there a way to use the old phone's backup?
I have a Workflow that runs an AppleScript which attaches spam emails as file attachments and sends them to ASSP for processing. It's been working fine, but apparently something has changed in El Capitan's Mail or one of the subsequent updates which has caused it to stop working. I just noticed that the sent mail messages do not have any attached files anymore.
Greetings Mac Friends, Assume a playlist named X exist in iTunes. Assume I manually sync playlist X to my iPhone. Then, I frequently observe iTunes now has playlist X and playlist X 1 and sometimes even playlist X 2. Sometimes Playlist X is identical to playlist X 1, sometimes playlist X 1 is a subset of playlist X. There is a relevant threads on discussions.apple, namely: *=URL=* My questions:
My 9-year-old started an update on her new iPad mini 2. In the middle of the update she turned it off.
When I copy text from the terminal, I can paste it into the terminal with no problem. I can also paste it into Firefox or TextEdit. When I try to paste it into my Apple Mail, I get:
My wife's iPhone 5s screen cracked and for the holidays I had a friend of mine install a new screen on her phone. The only problem is, there's some weird issues going on. First, the outer edges of her screen are lighter than the center, and second, on dark screens you can see burned in images of her keyboard. She already shut it off for a while and did a soft reset and that didn't fix it.
I am using Xcode 7 on a MacBook Air without mouse. Just the trackpad for navigation. I don't know how to create an outlet to a label using trackpad.
My mom has a mac connected via ethernet modem and it outputs a wifi signal by means of the wifi sharing feature in os x. For the last week (within close proximity to updating to os x 10.11.2), the internet on her mac as well as any devices connected to the network seems to be unreliable. Devices seem to be constantly be battling for the connection. Every few minutes the connection is either working on her mac or the devices connected to the wifi network. Here is what I have tried thus far: PRAM reset (holding command+option+p+r on restart) Restarting the computer and restarting internet sharing Changing various settings for internet sharing Reinstalling the operating system. I have now tried swapping out Macs (since we have multiple macs in our house).
I'm using the following audio interfaces: Internal audio Thunderbolt Display audio RME Fireface UC (USB audio interface) Alesis ControlHub (USB audio interface) Orion32 (USB audio interface, used occasionally at a friend's studio)
Starting recently, my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.2 loses its Internet connection every five minutes or so. My router, a Technicolor TC8717T (don't ask, it's the free one from my ISP) provides two wifi networks: TC8717T88 (2.4 GHz) TC8717T88-5G (5 GHz)
Earlier today I was on my iPhone and it randomly froze so I turned it off. When I went to unlock it it wouldn't move. I couldn't unlock it or tap anything. So now I can only stay on the lock screen. I read on the Apple website that I should "force restart" it by pressing my home button and power button at the same time. The problem is my home button is stuck and doesn't work. What should I do?
Energy impact of Safari is extremely high on my Macbook Air Mid 2013 El Captian 10.11.2. It lead to high usage of CPU (Temperature ~65.0°C) and the CPU fan is running in full speed (6500.0 RPM) constantly. I have tried so far: Clear all Safari cached Restart laptop Remove/disable all extensions
Is there a way I can use the default filters (mainly Chrome) provided in Camera app for Video recording? If somebody can point me to any 3rd party app that mimics chrome filter for video, it would be real great. EDIT: I should be more clearer, I want filters while recording the videos, not for post processing.
Can Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13" (MC374LL/A) with GeForce 320M graphics card drive both internal display and 2560x1440 external display at the same time? Apple website states that it can handle 30" Cinema Display which has beforementioned resolution, and EveryMac.com lists maximum resolution for external display as 2560x1600, so in theory it should work fine, but I'd like to know beforehand if there are any gotchas, and whether there may be any performance problems.
After following this comment I added all my startup/alias commands to ~/.bashrc file and in ~/.bash_profile I added source ~/.bashrc But still my aliases are not working. I have to manually source ~/.bash_profile overtime (with source ~/.bash_profile). My .bashrc file: and my .bash_profile file In my user directory I only have following files: My iterm2 profile: UPDATE: For me this solution actually worked
I’m looking at getting a Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch, but want to know if I can create macros for the Force Touch actions? I’m not taking about the the built in basic Apple support, but full on macros and scripting. I can’t find this listed on the Apple site other than “as developers add support”. Has anyone done this with say BetterTouchTool, AppleScript or even Automator yet? Thanks!
I have installed MAMP on my MacBook, and I use localhost to manage my website repositories. Previously once I installed OS X Server I was not able to manage my websites because there was OS X Server. Is it possible to configure OS X Server under the different name than localhost (example: osxhost)?
How do I do the following using the terminal on mac os x?: Change permissions of wheel to Read Only in /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
In the WiFi list, I see full signal for my WiFi. Since I'm quite far away from the access point and the WiFi works poorly, I double checked the signal strength with WiFi Diagnostics. This tool tells me - no surprise - that I have a weak signal.
I am using a third party financial app on my iPhone 6, and for some technical reason my iPhone is unable to provide the app the exact location. It always shows that I am not in the UK, because in order to run the App the location must be United Kingdom. I reset my router and tried with a different Wi-Fi but it's still not working.
I created an "emergency" image of my entire HD using the procedure explained in Recover a dead hard drive using dd. I spent a lot of time fine tuning my .bashrc and .profile files, but I cannot find them in the image. Do you know where it should be located? I already looked in a folder with my user name and in a directory called "Mac". UPDATE:
I'm trying to get Korg's DS DAC 100m working on my son's Mac Book. Our first try was to just plug it in, but the Mac did not recognise it as a sound device. Then we downloaded the driver software from *=URL=* and ran the driver installer. Now when we plug in the DAC to his Mac the Mac hangs for a few seconds and then reboots. I know how to uninstall drivers on a PC, and I know how to uninstall apps on a Mac, but I cannot see how to uninstall a failing sound driver from a Mac. How do I do that?
I am selling my old iPad 4, in which I stored some private data. I have done erasing my iPad data and settings, is it true that all my data is really gone and completely unrecoverable? If not, what else should I do to make sure my data is unseen by the buyer?
I was playing the video game Star Wars: Empire at war on my newly acquired Mac. I'm not having any trouble starting up the game or anything—it's just the game crashes every time after a while I start playing the game. And after it crashed I tried clicking on the autosave and the when I do that, the game crashes again. So what do I? I've had to restart three times now, all approximately 3 hours I invested in. This is the report I've been getting.
I can not log in my Mac and I want to eject CD/DVD.
Is there an app or something to disable Wi-Fi on iOS but automatically re-enable it after a specified time?
I'm trying to figure out how to get a chrome desktop app (Kiosk) to launch at startup. I've gone to System Preferences > Accounts > Login items and added Kiosk (User > Applications > Chrome Apps > Kiosk) but it won't launch. Any idea how to get these to launch properly at startup on OS X? I do have an Automator application running at startup which executes a few node.js commands from a bash script, so maybe I could do it that way, but I'm not sure how. If I go to the application icon and get info, I can see it says: Default afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban.app under name and extension, and its location is /Users/mikeheavers/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized but if I attempt to run: from Terminal it says that the file doesn't exist I was able to get this to work on a PC by looking at the Kiosk shortcut icon and copying the flags in the target field, then running a scheduled task that launched Chrome with those flags, but I can't find those flags on a Mac.
I'm not able to use my SD card on my MacBook Pro after I upgraded the OS to El Capitan. I tried to reset PRAM without success. Consider that if I put the SD card on another Mac it works perfectly. Any suggestions?
I want to edit Finder Info.plist file that is located here: But when I try to edit the file by vi the file is readonly. When I try to chmod or chown the file nothing happens. When I try to change file permission from Finder I get the error: "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission." The Locked checkbox in Get Info is disabled. I also tried: But after all that, file is still readonly. What is preventing root from editing this file on OS X El Capitan 10.11.2?
I have 2 users on iMac 5k and need each user to login at a different screen resolution (Default for one, Looks like 2048 x 1152 for the other). Is this possible / can a script be set to run on login to set the resolution?
I am interested in getting the Apple Watch, the only problem is I have small wrists so I am not sure if the Apple Watch will fit my wrist even if I choose the 38mm (small) one. What is the smallest sized wrist the 38mm Apple Watch can fit? (I presume the 38mm is the largest wrist the watch fits?)
Let's say I buy a game from the app store from this computer. Then I copy the game files to a external drive and go to a friend and copy them on his computer. Will my friend's computer play the game?
I have an iMac running El Capitan, and an external disk formatted NTFS that will not mount on the mac. It will mount perfectly in Windows and Ubuntu. I'm not trying to write to it, right now I just want to read. Here's my output of "diskutil mount disk3s1": Output of info: Any ideas would be appreciated.
I currently have OS X El Capitan installed on my iMac I have backed up the whole HD to my 3TB NAS using "Timemachine". I have formatted a USB flash with the El CApitan installer on it ready to install a fresh copy of the OS. The questions I have are: Can I pull the applications as .app files and just drop them back into the /applications folder Will this the way also allow me to get Microsoft Office 2011 back on after Ive reinstalled the OS or will i need my licence (when i find it?)
I use Mail on my iPad mini iOS 9.2 with 3 different email addresses coming in, one of which is Gmail set up as IMAP to download onto my iPad and my iPhone 6. I have iCloud set to backup everything including Mail. Today, for whatever reason, all my emails from my Gmail account just disappeared as I opened Mail, and they are gone from my Gmail webmail online too. Gmail says they can't help. I am hoping that I might be able to recover them using my iCloud backup, but don't know how to do it. Please can anyone help? Thank you.
I had my iPad on airplane mode while traveling across country. I went to turn it on and got a extremely low battery icon. Plugged it in to wall all day and then found it to be warm and damp inside the back cover and still with the extremely low battery. Now getting no response to wake up or reset. Do you think my battery has gone bad?
There's an iMac whose FaceTime HD camera isn't displaying video images in applications like FaceTime, Photo Booth, or QuickTime video recorder. OS X El Cap shows that the camera is attached and registered properly in the About This Mac - System Report.
I'm trying to set up the Ecler Evo 5 to read the Akai MPC 5000 via MIDI, and Pro Tools 12 to read the Ecler Evo 5 via FireWire. If anyone has a similar set up and knows the way to make these synchronize, help please.
I'm using Apple Numbers v 3.6.1 on OS X 10.11 to automatically fill all the info I need to generate a receipt each month. It should print: But I can only get the localized name of month (Italian) instead of the English one. How can I ask Numbers to give me the English name of the month?
Every time I erase my MicroSD card, I need to change the format from ExFAT to MS-DOS (FAT). Is there a way to change the default to the latter, or better yet, to default to the current format of the drive I'm erasing?
My iPhone has several different email accounts on it - one synchronized with an Exchange Server, one using POP on a Yahoo address, and one connected to a Gmail address. When I receive an email that contains a calendar invitation (i.e. with an ICS attachment), only an email sent to the Exchange Server account causes the invitation to show in the Calendar Inbox, where you can accept or decline the invite. That also causes a notification on the iPhone.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro running El Capitan with the new taptic force touch trackpad thing. Which, I must add, is fantastic!
My iPhone 4 is at iOS 7. I try to update it but it says the phone is up to date. How do I change that? I want the newest iOS version.
I've just bought the brand new 13" Retina Macbook pro. I'd like to hook it up to my USB DAC (An Audio Engine D1) When I plug in the USB to the Macbook it doesn't pick up anything. I've restarted the laptop to no effect. Nothing is being displayed in the Output section of Sound in System Preferences. The DAC is supposed to be plug and play and has been working fine on my Windows machine for years. How can I set up external audio on a Macbook Pro?
I've been unable to find any preferences list file with the locations for the 'Favorites' list shown in the Finder sidebar. No luck from likely candidates com.apple.finder and com.apple.sidebarlists. Is there one, such that I can edit this list with defaults? Failing that, is there a way of managing this list via AppleScript?
Situation: My most important external Hard drive is crashing my computers. It had my time machine backups and random files stored. I've tried it on my iMac and Macbook Pro. It may be worth noting I installed Parallels recently.
The solution works perfectly. It's a shame to disable iTunes completely but getting some relief from iTunes randomly starting up and interfering with my workflow far outweighs any benefit that iTunes provides so I just leave it disabled and use other options for audio/video playback.
My com.apple.finder.plist file is missing. I've looked in Library/Preferences and it isn't there, I already have hidden files and folders made visible, etc. Whenever I restart my computer (by going up to Apple>Restart, or by Restarting by an application installation, which is how I came across this problem) every application closes and files on the desktop disappear, however, the finder stops responding and I HAVE to end up force quitting my computer which screws up the installation of the program I've been trying to install (SideSync by Samsung, if that's relevant.)
Apple Hardware Test 3.3.1 -3A152 comes with my MacBook Pro 17", 2008 on the included OSX 10.6.3 DVD/CD. When I use it on my not-booting Mac, AHT locks up and never finishes tests and therefore there is no result list.
I am trying to login to iTunes App Store or the Mac App store on my Mac but it gives me the error every time "There was an error connecting to Apple ID server". Till now I have : Removed all the antivirus Disabled firewall Reset HOSTS file Tried all suggestions in If you can’t connect to the iTunes Store - Apple Support I am on El Capitan 10.11.2 on a 2012 Mac Mini.
I have started using MS Outlook for mail and calendar management because of its tight integration and ease of handling mail. I have a Gmail account an iCloud account and a POP account with an Australian ISP. I sometimes have to open the old Mail.app to find an older piece of mail and when I do this tons of duplicate emails start rolling into the program. It’s a waste of time going through and deleting them as I have already dealt with them in Outlook. Should I archive all the old mail in Mail.app and then not use that app again or is there a better approach to this?
hi i buy iphone 5s in uk but my mobile not Activate. That error is saying no sim card installed. now I'm in India i don't have sim card how to activate my Iphone. That Iphone not asking Apple ID.
Last night I charged up my iPhone 5c and this morning I woke up and it was on 1 percent. After this, I checked that the iPhone's charger was plugged in properly and it looked fine.
I tried to create a smart playlist with "Loved" criteria = true, but this smart playlist will only include the loved songs from my library. Is there a way to include also the loved songs from Apple Music that are not in my library? Is there a way to include also the loved songs from Apple Music that are not in my library? Is there any other way to collect all the loved songs from all my devices into one playlist/album/whatever? Is there any other way to collect all the loved songs from all my devices into one playlist/album/whatever?
What are the risks when using a shared Wi-Fi in a group home? I am not the administrator. My device is an iPhone 6s Plus. The OS is iOS 9.2.
I just reinstalled OS X (10.11) and am now unable to get Drive working. When I start the application, a menu icon () appears, which seems to be the word 'Button' clipped short to fit, but I can only see the first three and a half letters, so it may be something else.
I have a fairly new MBP with a 256 GB SSD. I am running out of disk space now. Most of it is being used by Pictures and Music and I have done all the cleaning I could. What's the best way to upgrade the space on the MBP? Go to Apple Store and ask them to upgrade to 512 GB? I was wondering if I could hook up a 1 TB NAS to the network and mount it and try to move some folders to that drive?
I'm backing up to a drive attached to an OS X Server via the Time Machine backup service. Recently I changed my password on OS X Server I had been authenticating with for the backup.
I have a script that I call from Terminal to boot into my Windows partition: After updating to El Capitan (10.11.1) I can’t use it anymore. The error message says something about being unable to set a disk property, so I’m guessing this is related to the security features that were added in this update.
I am trying to synchronise two different folders using rsync. I have copied all the data worth 4Tb from a network share to an external hdd using rsync -v -r /source /destination. Now I need to run regular backup to sync both the locations. Can anyone suggest rsync command which I can use to synchronise both the folders.
When I use the "Hey Siri" feature to enable an alarm it usually works. But recently I've encountered a problem. The conversation with Siri would go like this:
My 1st gen Mac Pro with a custom graphics card (ATI Radeon) does not show any boot prompt. Actually it doesn't show anything until Aqua comes up. I need boot prompts and pre-GUI screens for multiple OSs. Also when I hit alt during startup screen stays black. Verbose Boot is on. Is there any way to put that thing in always-on mode?
EU law forces websites to notify visitors about the use of cookies. Clicking on these messages is quite a nuisance. I've found a plugin on *=URL=* but this is only available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera.
I purchased a new Mac Mini and have attempted to hook it up to my ASUS VS278Q-P LCD Monitor. I was using this monitor in Windows and it looked fine but on the mac mini, it's having a problem where the font display is really blurry. It seems this is a bit of a common problem and others have fixed it by changing the font smoothing. This, of course, didn't work for me: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 (..and 1 - 4 as well) I've also tried three different cables with no change: Mini DisplayPort <> DisplayPort HDMI <> HDMI Mini DisplayPort + VGA converter <> VGA
My iPhone has 4,000 photos on it. iCloud is only backing up some of those even though i have plenty of space. I would like to put all of those photos on my computer so that I can print and use them for scrapbooking and physical albums. How can I get all my photos into iCloud?
After upgrading to El Capitan, then working on installing Rails, my iTerm2 shell now opens with x >, instead of just >. Can someone please explain why this is happening, and help me figure out how to return it to it's normal home?
Having to fill a government document I was suggested to install the last version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on my Mac (10.10.4). I downloaded version 2015.009.20069 from Adobe server.
I am trying to use my 2009 iMac 27" as a second display for my 2013 MBPr 15" (both running El Capitan). I have connected the two with a thunderbolt cable and everything is working fine except one thing – once the iMac starts acting as a display for the MacBook, it switches to full brightness. When I open up display preferences, the brightness slider that is usually there is gone.
I'm afraid I have made a mess with the version (0.9.8zg) of OpenSSL which was installed on my Mac. While I was trying to update it, now I have some error and for some reasons applications like Apache or Google Drive do not work anymore and they don't even start. I would like to know which would be the best way to restore openssl to a working version without re-installing the whole operating system.
I've done a clean install of OS X El Capitan recently, and everything worked fine. But as I came home, I couldn't connect to Wi-Fi. It states that it has a self-assigned IP address and will not connect to the Internet.
Today I was trying to update openssl in my MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.2. I don't know where I made a mistake but it seems I have accidentally disabled man. In fact, if I launch man <something> or man man or simply man it says --> -bash: man: command not found. Is there a way to restore it? Some commands: which man --> nothing file /usr/bin/man --> man is a directory
After upgrading to 10.11.2 my laptop stopped connecting automatically to my WiFi network. When I manually select the network it connects, but then it pops up a dialog saying "Keychain System cannot be found to store {SSID}".
I'm working on a friend's MacbookPro5,1 15" from late 2008, which was overheating, so I knew from past experience, the thermal paste needed to be removed, and reappplied. This was all achieved succcessfully. The laptop powers on, boots up, and is running well.
My iPhone 6s was stolen a few days ago, however because I was running out of data I switched off my mobile data before that happened. When I got home I tried to track my phone and lock it using Find My Phone, but it said my device was offline, I tried to activate Lost mode but it said it was pending and would be activated when it is connected to the internet.
I don't want to install iCloud on every work or borrowed PC I happen to use, but would like to be able to read my mail and contacts related to that Apple ID. Isn't there a way to simply use a browser to read my email and see the contacts, like Gmail or Outlook?
I just tried to open Spotify's app through the OSX LaunchPad, and when I clicked on the icon, it is stuck on my screen. I've attached some screenshots to show you. I don't know how to get it down. No matter what I do to the screen, the icon is always stuck "on top" of it.
I don't understand ...  Apple emails my iCloud 5GB is nearly full. From the above screen, it's 833.7MB + 450.2MB, why only 118 MB is left? How can I check how/where the space is consumed?
Every time I type 0 (zero), the volume icon pops up. Is there a way to fix this? I am using OS X 10.11.1.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes: I would like to keep the cell value (E8), if the adjacent cell (D8) is false (checkbox is not checked), else insert zero or null. I just keep getting an error, because of self-reference (E8). ("HVIS" translates to "IF")
I previously had my Apple ID set up with the email address old@a.com, and I enabled iCloud and Find my iPad on my iPad with this Apple ID. Then, at some point later, I changed the email address on my Apple ID to new@b.com -- it's the same Apple ID account, I just changed the email address on it. Now I'd like to disable iCloud and Find my iPad on my iPad, but it won't let me.
I believe I may have messed something up on my Mac but not sure how to fix it. I am able to get these drives to work by first getting them connected as readonly and then running the following command: But this seems to be unnecessary as they are NOT NTFS format. My Mac details are:
I have freshly installed a new copy of El Capitan. I accidently deleted .bash_history, so I just did a touch .bash_history again, hoping this would solve the problem of my bash history not being remembered when closing and re-opening the terminal.
My host machine is Windows 7. I installed Snow Leopard on VirtualBox but i am having problem installing the guest additions. The guest additions iso is mounted in /Volumes/VBOXADDITIONS_4. But if I run the install command sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditons.run I get Unable to determaine library path. Is installing guest additions for Mac OS X on VirtualBox even possible?
I want to ask you why in the usage section of iPhone 6s on iOS 9.2 it says I have 2.6 GB in Mail. However, I have deleted all inbox, sent, trash, etc. There is nothing in Mail. How do I get the storage in the usage section to empty this Mail?
I've installed a new HDD in my iMac, so i reinstalled OS X. I used migration assistant to set back only the settings. I also wanted to set back some other folders, but since my new HDD was smaller than the original one I wanted to dive in this later on.
I locked my MacBook using Find My iPhone and now when attempting to start using it again, I cannot type my PIN into the unlock section. Nothing happens. I can't even click on sleep, restart, shut down or the internet options.
Is there a simple way to do this (configuration file/s)? Or am I going to have to resort to writing a kext driver to set the BSDName (similar to the SampleUSBAudioOverrideDriver setting display names)?
Knowing I can't get rid of the purchase history at all, I've removed payment details and changed the email address from one@whatever.com to a fake one. Then started using a new one, two@whatever.com. I have purchased several apps. I was wondering, if I add the first email address now (one@whatever.com) as a secondary e-mail address to this two@whatever.com Apple Store account, so I could log into Apple Store with that aswell, would the account show purchases I've initially made on the previous Apple Store account - one@whatever.com?
Mine is showing "App Store", when clicked, it brings me to App Store, but what is the reason of it showing up in Control center?
I have many devices from which I want to get logs using a syslog server hosted on my iMac. To get in touch with logs and analyse them, I am looking for a good syslog viewer for mac which have the following functionalities : color log by level stats & graphs send mail and alert
I just got myself the Transcend Jet Drive to upgrade my MBP 13" retina with another 128 GB. Read a lot of reviews on that, still can't seem to understand how it actually works. I am not a tech geek and pretty average when it comes to that. Connected it and it appears just fine and any regular files are copied, but when I come to copy my Music folder and my iPhoto library it crashes in the middle and says there is an error.
I'm trying to help someone who uses Office 365 at work with a Mac. Right now, she has to use the official Outlook app on all of her devices (MacBook, iOS, Apple Watch, etc.), but she'd like to be able to use the native Apple apps instead. This seems to work fine for everything except for shared calendars.
I'm using TeamViewer on a Windows computer to control an iMac. The keyboard on my side is this, but I set it so that it works like this one (when I push \ I obtain `, when I push Shift\ I get ~, and so on).
We recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to El Capitan to use the Safari AirPlay feature for embedded HTML5 Videos. On videos (e.g. YouTube) we see that AirPlay symbol but it is grey and clicking on it shows something like "looking for devices".
When using Xcode Instruments Time Profiler on my MacBook, I'm able to pinch to zoom in on the CPU measurements in the Swim-lane. However I cannot figure out how to do the equivalent on my iMac with no trackpad.
I just set up an Arch Linux virtual machine on my MacBook Pro (El Capitan). My goal is, when inside the Arch VM, to use the left command key for anything VM related and the right command key for OS X commands.
If you jailbreak in iOS, you install stuff using .deb files. Being a Linux user I know Debian-based distros use that file type. I know that iOS is not Debian- or Linux-based, but it is UNIX-based. Why does iOS use .deb files when you jailbreak?
I have a partition that I no longer use. I've tried erasing with the disk utility GUI, but when I try to remove (with the '-' minus button on the partition view) this feature is disabled. I've also tried reducing the size of the unused partition and applying changes, but they don't save. This is the out put of diskutil list from the console:
I'm looking for an easy way to create a video/audio/text diary. The problem so far is that almost no app uploads the video to a cloud service like Evernote (would be my preferred option) and delete the video locally. This is in terms of capturing apps. On the diary side. Almost all diary apps want to have all of their content locally as well as in the cloud. This means unnecessary wasted space.
I synced photos and videos from my PC to my iPhone 5c using iTunes. I need space on the phone so I tried deleting them. I can select them just fine but the trashcan icon is dull. Normally it is lit up and I can delete photos or videos, but now i can't. I've tried going on iTunes, clicking the phone, selecting the photo icon, unchecking the sync box, and it says that they are deleted but they are still on the phone taking up 6.7 GB of data. I still can't delete them. I can select but I can't delete, even on the PC. What do i do?
So when I turn on the Do Not Disturb mode on a mac it would be active also on my iPhone?
I ran into iTunes error message 54 when I was attempting to backup my phone. I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.1 that I'm trying to update to iOS 7.1.2. I am currently on Windows 10 operating system with the latest iTunes. I need step by step instructions please.
I have a 2015 MBP running OS 10.11, and an iPhone 6s with iOS 9. Can I push notifications from the Notification Center on the MBP to the iPhone? If so, how?
How, from a Terminal, do I make a plain text file and a folder?
I have a macbook pro retina 13 inch and I am trying to use a Dell monitor as an external display. I have an HDMI cable from the laptop to an HDMI to VGA convertor to the monitor. After some playing around, I finally got the macbook to recognize the external monitor. But, the external monitor still shows nothing. The mac screen changed to a weird square shape that I guess is supposed to be the Dell screen? I'm guessing there is some kind of display setting I need to toggle, but I can't find it. Also, the mouse can go way off the screen on the right side, but nothing appears on the monitor still. It is in "Power save mode". Any help is much appreciated!
I had my iPhone stolen a few days ago so naturally I tried to do a remote erase. However, the device has been offline since it got stolen so the erase is still being requested. I'm thinking of changing the password for my Apple ID but I'm worried that if I change my password, the stolen iPhone will become disassociated with my Apple ID (since the password doesn't match now). Will this happen? Or will the iPhone still receive the erase request once it comes online despite the password stored on the phone being an old password? Thanks
I have a MBP with Yosemite (10.10.5 I think). I was trying to install Windows 7 from a USB and cancelled it when it got stuck looking for a driver - I don't have any disk drive and that seemed to confuse it; there didn't seem to be an option to go back or cancel so I think I just powered down by holding down the power button. Now when I try to startup it seems to be stuck in Windows mode looking for a bootable device. Is there a key combination that will make it reset back to starting in Mac OS?
I added my account to my uncles so now we're doing family sharing, I recently got an Apple iTunes card for 15$ and can't use it because when I try to purchase something it goes to his credit card info to verify the purchase through him but I have credit so what's going. I'm getting fed up
I am using OSX El Capitan 10.11.2 I have an external Western Digital of 1TB When I ejected I did not do with the properly way and now I am not able to mount I can see the disk here
After entering my password to update apps on the MacAppStore, I get the spinning cog and have to Force-quit the AppStore app. This also happens with Xcode. I've tried logging into a new user account, but that also will not let me log in. I'm able to log into all accounts on another computer. I'm on OSX 10.11.x
I'm having trouble understanding exactly how $PATH works? I am on a Mac.. If I install Python with Homebrew, it will install Python into the /opt/local/bin directory. Now assuming Homebrew didn't make any changes to my bash profile, if I run a generic Python script, that will run using the system included Python located in Library I think. My understanding is that if I go into my bash profile and add this line: then it will add these directories to the front of the list.
I use an Airport Time Capsule and have a wireless router. Which one should I use for Wi-fi and how do I know which one I am using now? Thank you. MacBook Pro 11,3 with Retina display; OS X Mavericks (10.9.5); Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac; Actiontec GT784WNV Router
If I type open $(pwd) or open /anypath/ I will get the path opened in Finder. How I can achieve similar results but with the path opening in Double Commander instead?
For some reason I am suddenly unable to type upper case I's on my Apple keyboard. All the other keys work fine and the lower case I works fine too. if I engage capslock I can type capital I's but as soon as I press shift along with I nothing happens. Specs: Mac OS X 10.7.5, Mac mini, MB110B/B Keyboard.
I have an iPad with a broken digitizer. This, of course, renders the iPad useless. Although I would still be able to use it for typing, etc, if only my Bluetooth keyboard was paired to it. But how to achieve that when the touch screen can't recieve input? So I got an idea.
I'm using the music receiver bluetooth TP-Link HA100 and when doing streaming from Spotify or iTunes the audio has clicks in and out and skips like a scratched CD. Simply unusable. I'm on MacBookPro late-2011 El Capitan 10.11.2 This is a known issue, I already tried these unofficial solutions: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* but they don't work. Note 1: the audio lags/skips seems to increase everytime I do something on Mac (that is, open an app, scrolling a page in Chrome, ...). Note 2: no one of the above issues on iPhone and iPad Note 3: while streaming from iPhone/iPad if I just enable bluetooth (not stream) on MBP the audio begins to lag!
Will 2nd generation mod MB533C support newer ios ? I have a much older ipod touch and would like to use imessage. Is this model capable of doing so?
Can anyone help me to understand the logic behind placing my /sites folder like this /Users/username/sites/website1 How do I find the Users folder? I am using OS X El Capitan Thank you
I haven't been subscribed to Apple Music for one month. Today I have subscribed back. I used iTunes on Mac to do that.
I have create an application APP-py3.app stored in /Applications. The APP-py3.app contains the following files [F] and directories [D]: Contents [D]: Info.plist [F] MacOS [D]: script [F with rights -rwxr-xr-x ] script [F with rights -rwxr-xr-x ] Resources [D]: icon.icns [F] icon.icns [F] Contents of the files: Info.plist: script:
I entered my birthday into my contact information on my phone very soon after I bought it, which was about a year ago. But last night (December 31st) after midnight, my phone changed my birthday to January 1st, 1989. I've tried to change it in my contact information, but it just resets it again.
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina 15 inch end 2013) with OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. I have Bootcamp on it to run Windows 7, always using it without any problem. I wanted more space on the Bootcamp partition so I decided to resize the Macintosh HD partition to make some more space (+10 GB) for the Bootcamp partition. When I made the Macintosh HD partition 10 GB bigger I've tried to reboot into Windows with Bootcamp but unfortunately the error 'No bootable device, press any key' appears. I can still see Windows bootcamp in the startup disk of system preferences, but just can't boot into Windows anymore. Here are some messages I've got by Terminal; And some more
I have an external Firewire volume with some filesystem problems. One problem is that Disk Warrior can't fix these errors because there is not enough space left on this volume (in fact, it is completely full - 0 bytes empty, which I suspect is the reason for the FS-problems). Another problem is that this disk gets mounted readonly by the OS, hence I can't delete any files on it to make it possible for Disk Warrior (or fsck) to fix the file system. I have tried the commands in this question but they only generate an error message: I also tried mount_hfs with different options, but something like this How do I force mount this volume in readwrite mode so I can try to delete some of the files on it? And you don't have to tell me to backup and erase the volume. Update: I just found the hfs.util command and run it like this
I am trying to enable my the hotspot from my iPhone 6. I am in the beta program (if that matters). I am on Verizon. Whenever I press, "Set Up Personal Hotspot" it brings up this message, "To enable Personal Hotspot on this account, visit https://mobile.vzw.com/hybridClient/mvm/hotspot"
Sometimes, mostly in summer, Safari will start to suspiciously jump from one website to another. For example, on Google, when I click on a link of Wikipedia, it jumps to a weird "tune up my Mac" site. Then after about a minute, it switched back. Is it a virus or a settings problem?
I have a bunch of family members with iPads. I'd like to share picture streams with them. But I don't want to buy any Apple products, thus no icloud access for me. I have pro accounts for dropbox and 2 other services like that, Amazon CloudDrive, etc. But nothing seems to be providing anything other than a download link, that ipad users simply cannot import into their pic library.
After I deleted an application from my iPhone, is there a way to find how many times that application was deleted and reinstalled on my account?
I share a Macbook Pro with another user (we are both Admins). The other user has a Microsoft Office 2016 account, and I do not.
Why does the "Hey Siri" command on the iPhone 6S also works for other persons? I thought it is recognizing only my voice, but today I found out that is not true! Is there something I can do against this?
Pasting images into a pages document is very cumbersome, requiring each individual image to be re-set and location to be adjusted manually to 'Move with Text/ & /Inline with Text' - can image-pasting be made to default to that setting ? Thanks muchly for anyone knowing of a (likely?) simple-yet-hidden solution ? peter
I've been trying to run a Time Machine backup for the last couple of days (OSX 10.7.5 and Porsche LaCie 2TB); however, it has been constantly failing. Console is producing the following crash messages
I have about 16,000 songs in my iTunes library, but what shows on my iPhones and iPads in "My Music" is much less; not even all of my artists appear in the Library/My Music window. I have the very latest updates on all devices, including iTunes. Truly vexing....
From the MBP I am getting two different unreachable responses. Run from the same computer (the MBP) and in the same Terminal session/screen: Both are replying with the expected Request timeout for icmp_seq and in many packets you sometimes also see ping: sendto: Host is down.
I bough one of these (xcarlink) to be able to listen to spotify and podcasts in my car. After installing it I have some static when listening to pod casts and other things with non-continuous sound. (difficult to hear while music is playing, although I am sure its there) Messing about with the phone with nothing playing I noticed that the static stops completely when on the home screen, showing icons. When I click a folder there is static that matches the transition of the folder opening and stops as soon as the folder transition stops. same deal when closing a folder when any app is opened there is masses of continuous static.
Since installing El Capitan on my mid-2013 27" iMac with 16 GB of memory I often get a "not enough memory" message particularly when using Word, but also some crashes when trying to print from Word or Adobe. I was not having any of these issues before installing El Capitan. Any suggestions. Thank you
I have an ipad2 and windows XP service pack 3. When put USB to Windows XP it recognizes IPad2 and I can hit "Trust this computer' on Ipad2. However, the windows XP computer then says "new hardware found" insert installation disk if have one.
I have two laptops on my network: a Mid-2015 Macbook Pro Retina running 10.10.5 and an Early 2014 Macbook Air running 10.9.5. When I ping one from the other over the same wifi network, I get very erratic ping times (here, from 12ms to more than half a second): There's no real difference between which MacBook does the pinging. However, I get much more reasonable results if I ping a Windows desktop that's connected to the network via wired Ethernet from one of the wifi-connected Macs: What's going on here between the Macs and how can I fix it?
I was using my Macbook Pro and I was letting it discharge to about 30%; then I plugged it back in to charge. It charged for a while (orange light) but after a few minutes, it changed to green. My laptop wasn't fully charged yet and my battery actually started to drain even on a green light. At first I thought my charger was defective so I borrowed a charger but it still showed a green light. Using my charger on another MBP showed expected behaviors (orange for charging).
I configured my Google account on El Capitan (OS X 10.11.2) using Internet Accounts and it worked fine for a while. However, after a restart the system asked again for the password and 2-factor authentication code, which I provided, but then I get stuck in the following window after entering my password and code:
I would like to set the command key ⌘ as the shortcut to open Launchpad, is that possible? I've tried in the System Preferences, but it won't let me.
I type the above and the fan on my 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15 sounds like a jet engine taking off. After about 10 minutes of the fan blowing hot air out of the side of my Macbook Pro, I stop the update for fear of my expensive notebook burning up. How could a simple software update cause such a reaction? This doesn't happen all the time, just if I haven't updated Macports in a while.
Whenever I su, PS1 changes to \s-\v\$. Why is that? Tried setting it, but it still changes when I su again, or exit the terminal. What to do?
Entries on my Favorites Bar seem to grow progressively farther apart. Originally, entries were each next to each other, now there is enough space to for one or two character glyphs separating them.
I am interested in using Xcode, but don't currently own a Mac and my dad owns many, but lives far away. What is the best way of remotely accessing his newest Mac running OSX 10.11 so that I can use it at the same time as him, and without an unreasonable amount of lag?
I recently bought an iPhone 6s and wanted to bring my data from my old iPhone 4 to it but I have the following problem. My iPhone 4 has a cracked screen and the sensor is a little messed up. If I try hard enough I can do almost anything (more than 10 times! and by rotating the screen if it can be rotated such as when I use the keyboard.) I didn't have an iCloud account and used to backup with iTunes but after the screen was cracked I tried a couple of things and long story short I have no backups. I tried creating an iCloud account and my contacts got transferred to my new iPhone but I can't find a way to transfer my notes as well.
I'd like to know what functionality I gain or lose by enabling / deactivating each of the services under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services.
I have Windows 7 on a virtual machine on my 2015 MBP. I want to try it on boot camp and upgrade to Windows 10, but Bootcamp won't allow anything below Windows 8. So it's not possible to 'upgrade'? Do I need to buy a new licence for Windows 10?
I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro late 2011. System Information gives me the following firmware versions: EFI Boot Rom Version: MBP81.0047.B2C SMC Version (system): 1.69f3 Apple provides the following web site for downloading firmware upgrades: *=URL=* On this website the following downloads are available for my system: EFI Boot ROM version: MBP81.0047.2AB (2015-001) SMC version: 1.69f3 (SMC 1.5) The SMC version is the same as the one installed on my system, so no need to update anything.
Apologies for the vague title. Please tell me if I've done something wrong with this post so I can rectify it.
I have a MacAir running El Capitan with all updates. I use a USB stick to move movies from Mac to Samsung Smart TV. The TV writes a hidden file " .device_info_*** " (long abstract filename). This file keeps details of movie folders in it... but does not update. So when I delete a movie... the folder stays hidden on the stick in this file and shows again when connected to the TV. I have created a work around by showing hidden files and deleting this file... the old folder info disappears when viewing on the TV and the TV writes a new file when USB is reinserted. But the whole process starts all over again.
I've got a 1 TB SeaGate FreeAgent Drive with following partitions: 700 GB ExFAT (labelled as FREEAGENT1) 300 GB HFS+ (labelled as FREEAGENT2) While moving data from 1 to 2, it got accidentally unplugged, and now, when I connect it again, FREEAGENT1 is mounted correctly, but FREEAGENT2 doesn't.
I need to install OS X Yosemite onto my laptop, but can't find it in App Store.
When I add a source without a date to my Microsoft Word document in Microsoft Word 2015 (15.17.1) on OS X 10.11.2 and insert a citation, the inserted field states (Author, kein Datum) in German (kein Datum translates to no date). But I'm writing this document in English language and want the inserted field to actually state no date in English. In the bottom line, Word states that the document language is English (UK) and my system language (System Preferences > Language & Region) is also English. How can I change the language of the inserted field containing the citation?
I've bought a Macbook Air mid 2013 trough a secondhand website. After test it all I told the man that I'm interested. So I payed.
My phone was/is jailbroken, and now I tried to update it from 8.4 to 9.0.2 to try and remove the jailbreak without restoring my phone. Then iTunes said there was an error. It did not say any code. Now my phone is stuck on this screen no matter what I try.
Is there a possibility like in jDownloader, where password protected files are automatically extracted by trying all passwords one by one which are provided by the user? Something like this:
Here is a nice idea, Syphon virtual screen. Doesn't work on El Capitan!
I run some iMacro scripts through Firefox every so often on my MacBook Pro and I like to turn my display off while they're running. I've been accomplishing this for the past year with the following setup: System Preferences > Energy Saver > Computer Sleep & Display Sleep are both set to Never Unchecked Put the hard disks to sleep when possible. Set a Hot Corner to Put Display to sleep
We just installed the airport and when we turn on some of our Macbooks, they get the same IP as another device so we have to restart the Airport to get new IPs for the computers and for it to work on all of them again. Restarting the airport once a day becomes annoying. Any way to get around this?
It's been well covered how to create a keyboard shortcut for the Tags... menu option in Finder. What I want is a way to tag selected files or folders with a single keyboard shortcut. The same shortcut should untag them.
All of this seems to me to point to hard drive failure. Another fact supporting this conclusion is that I have been able to backup to a USB external disk. On the other hand, 1) I have restarted the Time Capsule (which is supposed to fsck the hard drive) without any errors detected, and 2) another computer of mine is backing up wirelessly to this Time Capsule without problems so far (although, truth be told, I do get "checking for runtime corruption on /dev/disks..." messages in the backup log). So my questions are:
Want to use my ipad for light movie editing computer. The 32 gigs is not cutting it. Is their a way to connect a hardrive to the ipad to use in imovie? I have in the past used icloud to store the bulk of the videos to edit on the ipad. This worked but i had to pay a few dollars a month, download the video files i wanted to splice and i could not work off line.
I've got a PDF that has something else (actually, another PDF) as an attachment. Like most Mac users I use Preview by default to view PDFs, and Preview gives no indication that I can find that there is an attachment, nor can I figure out how to access the attachment now that I know it's there. I was pretty confused until I tried Adobe Reader which immediately makes it clear that there is an attachment. Am I missing something here or is Preview essentially ignoring attachments?
Since about two weeks ago, my MacBook Pro started freezing randomly. If iTunes is open, for example, the music keeps playing, but both the keyboard and the trackpad are not responding and it only recovers with a hard restart. I also noticed that it happens (not always, but sometimes) when I move it. It’s an early 15" 2011 MacBook Pro with the latest version of Mavericks; original RAM and HDD. How can I diagnose this issue?
I'm trying to update bash to version 4.x. I did brew upgrade, then brew update, then brew install bash. I ran sudo bash -c "echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /etc/shells" and sudo bash -c "echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /private/etc/shells". I've tried symlinking /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.32/bin/bash to /usr/local/bin/bash. I've closed Terminal.app. I've even logged out of Mac completely. Nothing I do has updated $BASH_VERSION to the right thing. bash --version does say the right thing, but I think I read somewhere that that is less reliable then echo $BASH_VERSION (maybe). Here's a summary of what I'm seeing:
A couple of months ago, my Mac Book Pro wouldn't start up - it would make it halfway through and then power down. I took it to the repair store, and they said the hard drive was broken, and they needed to replace it. (Interestingly, they were able to transfer everything in my Applications/ folder to the new hard drive, and that was actually 85% of my content.)
So, after having tried all that made sense without any response from the laptop, I held the power button until it went out. Restarting however, resulted in exactly the same situation. Power button. Rinse, repeat. I then went back to the OSX partition, which thankfully hadn't suffered from all this in any way, but I still have not been able to solve the problem, nor find a solution online (I'm probably wording my problem the wrong way, but I don't know how else to phrase it) so now here I am, mildly desperate.
I'm using the Numbers app to make a database or catalogue of stuff. For example, a list of all wines I'll try this year. And for each column, I'll have the name of the wine, a rating, the kind of wine, and a few other items.
I've been searching for hours but couldn't find an answer yet hence my question here. I frequently use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) and I have setup a DDNS for every computer. The only problem I have with ARD is that the IP-address remains the same from the last session, so I have to manually select the computer in the list, and select "Get Info" in the context menu. There, I have to click on "Edit", delete the IP-address and click on "Done". That updates the computer to the current IP-adress because of the DDNS.
I set up family sharing, my family members are able to locate the apps in their iphones and download them, but if they are not FREE apps, and I already paid for them, they are being asked to subscribe and pay again? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
When I switch HDMI inputs on my TV from Tivo or Blu-ray to a sleeping Apple TV (4th generation, with apps), I get nasty crackling electronic interference noise on the sound system plus weird LSD-acid-trip video display of the usual list of app icons (all the colors are wrong, reversed). I press Home or Menu buttons a couple times and after a long moment all is well and working.
After installing El Capitan on my Macbook Pro, I can no longer play DVD's (on my LG Blu-ray player). I called up LG and they assure me this is a problem with my Mac, and that they are compatible with El Capitan. I called up Apple and they said LG Blu-ray was not compatible. I called LG again, and they told me it definitely is, and had me return the player. They sent me a new one, and of course it had the same issue. The issue is that it just freezes, spins in a never ending progress wheel.
I have a folder (original_svg_files) with more than ten thousand .svg files in different sizes and I need to resize each one of them. The name should be the same with the original .svg file and the longest side should be 150px and I also need to keep the aspect ratio (constrain the proportions).
So I was previewing some photos using Preview app and I notice that Preview (at least on 10.10.5 Yosemite) automatically fixes rotation issues on the thumbnail on the left. e.g. photo is upside-down when viewing it but the thumbnail shows it the right-side up. On preview, I still have to go through each photo and manually rotate them to make the changes permanent.
I believe the issue began when I attempted to install through Homebrew -- I had had it installed the "normal" way in the past and it worked fine. Uninstalled the app. Went to reinstall it a few months later, this time through Cask, and then the issue started. EDIT 2: Here are the contents of my PATH. My user account (the one that needs fixing): A "fresh" user account:
I have a MacBook Pro from 2011 that has one faulty USB port. The USB port can power up devices such as iPods or iPhones just fine, but fails at communicating data between the Macbook Pro and devices that are plugged in the port. I tried plugging in a mouse, iPods, iPhones and hard drives without success. I am wondering if there is a way for me to troubleshoot and eventually repair this - either software based, hardware based, or by observing the device.
I love adding apps to my wishlist on the iPhone or iPad.  I would only find it normal that the same thing can be done with the Mac OS X version of the AppStore. Obviously, this feature should be located under the little arrow of the price tag, right under the app's icon:
I installed a 512GB SSD in my Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get a partition over 256GB. I tried a couple of time to erase it in recovery mode but it does not work. I just want one big partition. Does anyone know what is happening?
When I open a story/article in the Pinterest app, this screen appears:  However, in about one or two seconds, it actually displays the article for me, without any command of mine. What's going on?
After a harrowing couple of days, I found this site and am hoping someone can help. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro which has recently started having problems booting. During a game session (SIMMS), it suddenly shutdown and refused to reboot, and since then I've been unable to use it at all. The MBP has a new install of El Capitan on it but it's been working fine for the last couple of weeks since the install.
I'm watching a video file, and I'd like to record small snippets of audio from the video file. Previously I have played the audio on my MacBook speakers and used the built-in microphone to record the sound. Is there a way to route the Mac's audio output to the audio input (microphone) digitally, so I don't have to actually record the audio from the speakers, with the loss of quality this incurs? Is there also a way to listen to the audio at the same time it's "recording"? Ideally, the solution would be easy and light-weight and not involve heavy use of audio software, because I want to be able to do it "on the fly" as much as possible.
I know that on certain models of MacBook you can only install Windows from the SuperDrive—is there a way to circumvent this limitation? My computer is a MacBook Pro 13" from 2010, it doesn't have a disc drive and I want it to boot from a USB with Windows.
I bought a new IPhone 3GS and can't download Messenger, Facebook, hike etc. Why? How to download?
I'm having the following problems: after latest El Capitan update, my Macbook Pro (mid 2010) crashes (turns off) during boot. I'm unable to boot in safe mode, the only way is recovery mode. I've ran disk utility with ok results. I've done PRAM reset with no effect.
I'm selling my current MacBook (2011 MBP). Since purchase I have had FileVault enabled (Mac OS X Snow Leopard), thus making me think that I can merely clear the data and not worry about having to use methods of secure wiping the disk. I haven't researched more into the FileVault system, could someone enlighten me about the best method of deletion of data?
I am using exKey and KeyShorcut Pro tweaks for customization of my iOS keyboard, on a jailbroken iPhone. I wanted to duplicate my Facebook app and used duplicatorstore.com to duplicate Facebook as it supports iOS 9.0.2. I installed 'Facebook 2' from this site.
I'm trying to execute the maintenance script in OnyX and I keep on getting the same errors at each pass: Permissions in the X11 folder are constantly being repaid (i.e. OnyX is showing that it repaired the same permissions at each pass). OnyX is not able to repair permissions in the usr/share/zoneinfo/ folder How can I make sure that the all permissions are fixed once for all?
I received MacBook Air for Christmas. I am a university student, and use Word for essay writing. It seems that this MacBook has 'Pages'. I post my essays online through a specific way, as they calculate if my work is acceptable etc. I don't know if my lecturers will be able to open the essay documents, especially if I've typed it from this laptop.
I am trying to move a Time Machine backup from a Firewire disk (called disk1) directly connected to a computer to a network share, that is, from a folder in/on /Disk1/Backup.backupdb to a sparsebundle/disk image (called dmg1) stored in the network share. Following some suggestions in a Time Machine FAQ I begun a new TM backup to let Time Machine create the needed disk image. As soon as the image was created I cancelled the backup.
I got a mac air with only 256 GB storage. Some apps must be using the storage and after deleting and moving everything I can (down to relocate mail and dropbox to external disk using symbolic links and their own folder), the storage is still kept on dropping. It lost quite quickly down to 0.01G per 15 minutes. Looking using du df or visual is hard to spot so far.
This problem random happened.I don't touch any settings it happened when I first installed El Capitan.
Is there any way to install Windows 10 on unsupported Mac (iMac mid 2011) without resort to various tricks with virtual machines?
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro 13 inch. When I play games such as "League of Legends" or "Dota 2", it turns off the Wi-Fi for 30 seconds and then turns it back on. This only happens to me when I play these games. What is happening?
Why am I having to pay again to listen to songs I already paid for at the ITunes store? I'm getting a msg saying something about paying again to download over cellular.
I have gotten into the habit of using rsync to do my own backups of an encrypted volume containing my personal info onto an external hard drive. I did not use Time Machine, because I do not own the whole hard drive, I just have a volume of 100 GB on the host hard drive. I created the volume using Disk Utility. When rsync copies that volume, it copies a succession of 8.4 MB opaque "bands" to the HDD (these "bands" are how a Volume is actually stored on disk - you can see by right-clicking to see the contents of the package on a .dmg).
Automator services embedded as a context menu are a great way to quickly scale down JPEGs in the finder. Right click the file, choose your scaling script, done in seconds. The problem is it obliterates the files' date stamps, overwriting them with the date of the scaling operation. Is there a way to use Automator to preserve date stamps during scaling? If not in Automator is there a better way of doing this?
I once mis-typed my email address into the message part of an e-mail. Now, whenever I type my correct email into the message part, it automatically corrects to the wrong version. Is there anyway to edit the auto complete list to correct this?
I write a simple front-end web page. Fully self-contained in the usual CSS3/JS/HTML5 format. It works in XCode simulation. I e-mail it as an attachment to a (long suffering) relative with an iPhone5 (OS9.2). He cannot get it to run, or even open properly. Same story when we try the transfer via DropBox. Some files I've sent appear to open but stall at the first touchevent: Mail intercepts the touchevent and concludes we are DONE.
This must be something obvious but its eluding me. When I type new characters into a slide's text it beeps. I can delete characters. I can add new lines. But regular characters beep. Slides are imported from a web site so probably made with an older version of Windows PPT Able to add characters without a problem in the outline view. Thanks!
I jailbreak my phone and therefore can't always update to the newest iOS version as soon as it is released. How do I permanently remove all notifications about iOS updates?
I connected my iMac to my TV via HDMI cable. The desktop background shows up on the TV, but no other content. Oddly, a couple of the items in system preferences show up, but nothing else. How can I see what's on my computer on my TV screen?
When taking pictures using the front facing camera and a timer of an iPhone it automatically does burst mode. When viewing the photos in the Photos app, it somehow knows to group the burst photos together. If I connect the iPhone to a Windows machine, they are not grouped in any obvious way.
I currently have Do Not Disturb on my iPhone (iOS 9) scheduled to run while I am at college. The only issue is that I am not at college every day.
I've been trying to sync Photos from my iPhone 5S to my rMBP. I connect with an Apple-branded 3 foot Lightning cable, and I'm able to sync to iTunes with the cable, but Photos for whatever reason is not acknowledging that my iPhone is plugged in.
According to this page: *=URL=* and this: To see any devices running iOS 7 or OS X Mavericks or earlier, you need to be signed in to iCloud on the device and you need Find My iPhone turned on.
Had a new MacBook at Christmas linked to iCloud password. Forgot iCloud password so Apple reset it for me. I can login to MacBook using new iCloud password now but Keychain won't allow me to open Local Items keychain says password is incorrect I guess it wants old password that I forgot. Please help?
I would like to move/copy a large size of files from on hard drive to another. Do I need to verify the moved files to be on the safe side or is that over-kill? If not, what software should I use? On Windows there is a software called Teracopy for this.
I foolishly enabled iCloud hoping that I could sync photos between my apple devices. However, I do not want the same photos on all my devices and I do not want ANY at all stored long term in my cloud. I had hoped I could delete the ones that were not wanted from individual devices. Can I do this, and if so, how? I can't find any way of manually deleting them from the cloud without them disappearing from my phone, or from my phone without them disappearing from the cloud. If this isn't possible, is there any way to delete my iCloud without deleting all my photos?
I really like the (new-ish) Finder contextual menu option to move selected files into a new folder. I was wondering if the opposite exists too, where a folder is "unwrapped", where the contents are moved back to the parent folder. Ex: Select 4 files in Photos folder; Use "Create folder with 4 Items"; new folder created. Right-click the new folder; "Unwrap Folder"; 4 files returned to Photos folder, empty folder deleted.
So at some point I noticed that it was blinking a lot, and all that I was running was ssh and Atom, plus some local daemons like MySQL and PHP-FPM. So I went to see what iStat Menu had to say, and it reported: ... Where is that coming from? I did a google search to see if it was possible to observe iCloud activity on my Mac, but it didn't turn up anything useful.
I purchased a game on my iPhone and can download it to my iPad. But it says that I still need to purchase it to not to play in the "free mode". I have already paid on my iPhone. The iPad and the iPhone, both are associated with the same account.
We used to use Mobile Iron to configure our users' Exchange email on their iPhones. Recently it was decided to stop using Mobile Iron. I'm not sure how the rest of our IT dept managed the transition, made about a month ago. Currently, an iPhone user's Exchange email server setting is incorrect, probably set to work with Mobile Iron. Is the Exchange email server editable in the iPhone Mail app? I can't seem to edit it.
We just bought my husband a new Mac. Currently, we each have parental restrictions requiring a password on our accounts when it comes to "mature" ratings on our iPhones and iPads (older generations) This holds us accountable for each other and prevents inappropriate "adult" material from being viewed:downloaded on our machines and causing issues in our marriage. However, with the new MacBook Air that we purchased, he is the administrator because it is his computer. We noticed you can't set up parental controls as the administrator. Is this correct?
I thought I had enabled full volume encryption on my OS X 10.9.5 MBP. Then I created a new user and when rebooting, this new user is able to log in without knowing the password for the disk. The start up screen is presented with the new user to the left and the normal "Unlock disk" (or something like that) icon to the right – if I want to log in with my normal admin account, I first have to unlock the disk and then my user becomes visible. What gives?
Strange issue on OS X Safari - visit Skiplex UK and you will receive an alert 'Safari can't verify the identity of the website "www.skiplex.co.uk".'.
I need to capture the whole content of a window (without the scrollbars) to an image file using CMD - Shift - 4, Space, Click Window. The content could vary so that it becomes larger than the screen. The window uses scrollbars for users to be able to see all content, but for screen capturing scrollbars will hide the content. To capture the whole content of window I would need to maximize the window so that the scrollbars disappears. An example could be a web browser like Safari were the content depends on the web page. Are there any OS X functionality or App that makes it easy to do this?
So my phone's been in the wars. The screen died on me this morning, it struggles to charge unless I find the sweet-spot, fiddle with the wire and keep it in that exact position. I haven't backed up the contacts on icloud or itunes (foolishly assuming it did that automatically). I've been to EE and they don't save the contacts on the nano sim either...
I'm trying to open a Private Browser window in Safari using Terminal. I could open Safari using open command and this way, open /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari but I couldn't open a Private Browser window. Please suggest how to open a Private Browser window from the command line.
I had Mavericks on my MacBook Air previously. After installing "El Capitan", my printer isn't recognized anymore (it was before the upgrade). I added my printer to the "list of printers" again, but it still wouldn't print. Need help with an easy to understand solution.
[EDIT] I'm afraid this language feature is gone in Pages 5.*
I have set up shared folders on my Mac OS X Yosemite , users can connect to the folders using FTP. Is there a way to monitor which users are connected to the FTP server? Thank you
So far I've been able to create an iOS Team Provisioning profile with Xcode, but it looks like it is only possible to create it using a Wildcard App Id. Since I need to enable Push Notifications it must be an explicit app Id. I know it is very easy to create using the member center, but my question is: How do I create it using only XCode?
I've already looked in 2 places. I looked in my user folder: /Users/MYUSERNAME/Library/Screen Savers - which was empty. (where MYUSERNAME is my user name) I also looked in /Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections and found images, but not the actual Screensaver configuration file itself (a .saver file, I believe): 1-National Geographic 2-Aerial 3-Cosmos 4-Nature Patterns But this folder only has the photos and not the Screensaver files themselves (.saver I think).
I have set the Apple Mail "Archive" folder to something custom in the past with the help of this question. However, the folder that I was previously using is "stuck" as the Archive folder, and my efforts to set them to a new year (I use Archive/{year}) make no difference.
This is just silly:  If I try accepting (no, I wouldn't go through with it), it just says that the update is unavailable. So why does it ask me to downgrade, and how do I get rid of this?
Today, I have my modem connected to my TC acting as a fast router. That works well I think.
When I su admin, I get What is the correct/best way to give the user admin access to all directories? (Or is this somehow not good?)
How can I delete photos from my iPhone and still retain them on my desktop (OS X El Capitan)? I am not sure if it is possible to delete from my iPhone once the photos are on my desktop.
I am configuring a dashboard on a TV display to show latest sales stats, etc. and am running this off our existing build 'server', a Mac mini. The Mac mini is connected to a standard monitor and a TV using AppleTV. What I'm after is a way to keep the Mac mini running in the background, with the standard monitor, USB keyboard and mouse disabled but to keep the main TV on showing a chrome browser with our dashboard app in it. I'm pretty sure I'm asking for something impossible but I wondered if anyone had any suggestions?
I have an iPhone 6, an iPad version 9.2 and an iMac 14,2 and have no problems getting emails on all devices, but am unable to send emails from the iPhone. I do not have a contract for email services on either the iPhone or iPad, but use just Wi- Fi to connect to the internet. Anyone know why I can not send emails from my iPhone, while i can from the iPad?
I have a USB Drive (formatted as a Read-only CD). On attempting to copy certain files on the drive to my Mac (OS X 10.10.5) I receive the error:
I just installed Windows 10 on my MacBook (Early 2015, OSX El Capitan 10.11.2), and after everything set up I tried to plug in my External Hard Drive. I made sure this HD would and does work in Windows 10 by plugging it into another laptop I have running only Windows 10, and it worked fine there. When I plug it into my MacBook with Windows 10 running, it: Shows the notification asking what I want to do with the HD, I close it. Doesn't show a Windows Explorer popup appears with the contents of the HD.
When I start a backup (or when it is automatically started) I get some estimation about volume (394,2 MB of 2,58 GB) and backup time (e.g., "5 Minutes"). But even after hours this estimation does not change and the progress bar does not proceed.
When I click on "Show password:" and enter password then click "Allow" button, then my cursor just keep loading and password does not show.  Keychain looks like it's frozen, only "Deny" button works which will close the window. Same problem with old and new saved passwords.
iOS 7.1.2 → 9.3.1 I think I added a subscription to a calendar through:
Since I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 (11A465), the battery began to drain really quickly, though the Bluetooth, GPS and the LTE are closed most of the time. It makes me wonder whether there are operating system versions that are more economical with the battery usage.
In prior versions of Mail.app, one could add a comma-separated list of email addresses to the iCloud account configuration, which would enable the user to select a particular "from" address when composing an email. Is this impossible now, via any means, in El Capitan? It seems we cannot amend the automatic configuration of the iCloud account configuration in Mail.app. Furthermore, adding a custom IMAP account with iCloud configuration details fails to authenticate. Some notes: This question is not about adding @icloud aliases.
I am not familiar with taxes. I've just enrolled developer program and am about to start sell the app through App Store. My country is Poland, I am individual person, I do not have company. I need to fill Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner, and I stacked on first part of this form: Part I: Identification of Beneficial Owner. The question is: Do I really need one of those TAX IDS: SSN, ITIN, EIN? The screenshot below simply describes my problem:
I just updated to iTunes 12, and I when I open it, nothing happens. The icon on the Dock doesn't even bounce. When I start it in the Terminal, nothing happens either, no messages. When I open it with sudo, the application does show up in the dock with a dot, but no messages or UI.
Problem I am currently updating a computer at work to El Capitan. After downloading, I started the installation almost 48 hours ago and it hasn't finished yet. I know (by experience and through reading various threads) that El Capitan is pretty slow to be upgraded but 48 feels dangerously too slow. Machine Note that the machine has 500GB of storage and has been used in the past mostly for storing things and for running various processes coded in C, C++ and R. How it looks like
For instance, in Tiger, the blue/grey "OK" or "Cancel" buttons in a window had a rounder radius. In Mavericks, they're more rectangular. Are the button images stored in a resources folder somewhere in the Library? Is there a safe way to change them?
I just got a pair of the Apple In-Ear HeadPhones for Christmas, and have been really impressed by their sound quality thus far. However, today while using the HeadPhones I noticed that they have started this weird crackling sound with high notes. It only seems to affect notes higher on the treble clef, but the bass sounds fine (better than my old EarPods in fact). I took them out and cleaned the tips, and I kinda wiped off the mesh caps, but it didn't seem to help. I am hesitant to use the spare mesh caps, because they're so new, and I don't think they should need replacing yet. I can't dish out however much money the spare mesh caps cost every two weeks! Has anyone else had this problem, and have they found a solution? They're too expensive and new to be busted already. Right?
Is it possible for peers connected to an iPhone personal hotspot to connect to each other, or is the device firewalling them somehow? I'm tethering a Raspberry Pi over USB to my iPhone 6s running iOS 9.2 and attempting to connect to the Pi over my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11, which is also tethered to the iPhone via the Personal Hotspot (I'm not entirely sure if it's using WiFi or Bluetooth).
I was initially attempting to do this in Java using the UserDefinedFileAttributeView class but it turns out that is only available on Windows computers (This is being run on OSX) So I switched gears with the hope that retrieving the information via a script would be the simpler route but it seems to not be as straight forward as I expected. How would one go about retrieving an Application file's version number (file attribute) using Bash?
I want to put a webcam in a far corner of my office and use it for Skype. Do you know of a bluetooth or other wireless camera that will show up on a Mac like a regular camera?
I tried to reset my MacBook Pro to the factory settings so I booted with CMD+R and erased the disk then I proceed to reinstall OS X El Capitan, but I was at my friend's house and the Internet was super slow, so I canceled and turned off the machine to do it at home. Now at home, I booted with CMD+R but instead of going to the OS X El Capitan installer like last time it contacted Apple through the Internet and presented me the OS X Mavericks installer. What to do?
Odd problem here. I just turned on my hotspot and after a few minutes the blue ribbon is claiming that there are 2 connections. I am not at home, and my phone isn't hooked up to my computer.
I have an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.2. I've recently frequently found that incoming calls frequently ring briefly and then the ring tone ends and I get an "Call using iphone failed" error on the screen. I do not have this problem with outgoing calls. I've searched for this error and found a number of threads, but not with any clear suggestions or solutions.
My SOS Can anyone help me with viewing/restoring earlier Calendars to my TB?! Pleeeeaassseee. Also, if someone can tell me how to decipher the event_start numbers, then maybe I can look at various local.sqlite files and see which ones have the correct dates/times in them and at least determine which file I need to work with.
So I have been having serious problems with lag(connection ping spikes) on my computer. I am using Mac Pro (Mid 2010), and I used the “sudo ping -i .2 192.168.0.1” command in terminal to monitor my ping. My ping stays constant at 1ms-3ms, but always rises to 100ms-200ms every 6 to 15 seconds. And these “spikes” happens literally every 6 to 15 seconds, but it doesn’t go crazy until 1000 ping or even over. The lag hits me a lot since I am playing Counter-Strike Global Offence on Mac, which the ping spike can be clearly felt.
I'm trying to use Skype for screen sharing with simultaneous audio from my microphone and the Mac system (for example a video or a game). Using Soundflower, and in the Audio Midi Setup an Aggregate Device for input and a Multi-Output Device for output I've been able to get either Mac system audio or microphone (voice), but not both. In some settings, both seem to be input, but only the system audio is output, or just a very quick bit of voice can be heard before cutting out. I'm stumped... Here are the Skype audio settings: And here are the Mac settings: First, Audio Midi Setup
please how can I repair these scratches on my Macbook pro they made me so sad.
I am trying to install Netbeans IDE (PHP bundle) on OS X El Capitan. I am getting following error
I use my iPhone to take photos and video, then import them onto my Macbook using the new Photos app. Now I'm trying to find the original videos so I can put them on an external hard drive for a friend to edit. I notice that within the Photos app, if I control-click on my videos, there is no "Reveal in Finder" option. If I do "Get Info" and look at the filename, it says IMG_6517.MOV. But when I do a Spotlight search, that file does not come up. Where does the new Photos app store the originals for photos and videos I've imported?
I have the following devices with me: iPhone 6 (iOS 9.2),iPhone 6 Plus (iOS 9.2),iPhone 6s (iOS 9.2), iPhone 5c (iOS 9.0.2), iPod Touch (iOS 8.3), iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4.1), and MacBook Pro(OS X El Capitan 10.11.1). I have turned on Bluetooth in all devices(including MacBook Pro) in parallel, none of them are showing the other devices except iPod Touch (iOS 8.3) is showing MacBook Pro and MacBook Pro is showing all other devices.
I want to speed read on I pad. I have Kindle app and iBooks installed. In order to do that I need to split the screen by two vertical lines so as per image.
Update 2: The solution worked, disk utility also doesn't generate an error anymore:
Is there any way of preventing Google Chrome from stealing the focus when it is opening? When I open an application, I often do the following: Click on the application icon in the dock. ⌥ Option-⇥ Tab away from the application while it has not yet finished opening. Continue working in another application while the first application is opening. Eventually ⌥ Option-⇥ Tab back to the first application after it has completed its opening process and is ready for use.
As a non-subscriber to Apple Music, I can listen live to Beats 1 but sadly the show I want to listen to (Zane Lowe) is on at times I am never free (5pm/am) I understand you can see a playlist of past shows but am unclear if even paying subscribers can listen to previous shows on-demand... something which has become pretty standard in the UK through services such as iPlayer. Is there a free/paid way to listen to Beats 1 radio shows on demand and if so, what are the details?
Display of problem here: *=URL=* (10 seconds long) I'm a developer and have all sorts of programs installed, including SourceTree and GitHub's desktop app. Unfortunately, in the last few days, since upgrading to El Capitan this continues to happen to me. When I'm working, or just using the computer at all, a credentials question pops up front and centre, asking me if I want to allow git-credential-sourcetree access to github.com in my keychain, full message
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro which sometimes goes too fast. I frequently program for Mathematica, and on my old 2007 MacBook Pro I usually got a feeling for inefficient code when it runs sluggishly (that's when I decide "gee, I wrote some garbage code. Maybe I should spend a couple hours fine-tuning it"). However, on my new Mac, everything just runs zippy fast. Is there a switch on the Mac that lets me slow down the CPU to, say, 1 GHz?
Sub question: Can this be done without a great deal of manual nonsense? I have over 100GB of Photos / Videos in my library after a couple years of imports from my iPhone. While I know that most of these have been backed up to Dropbox automagically, I really want to make sure that I have a true backup and then reclaim this space on my machine. Apart from the fact that these things are apparently stored in more than one 'library' since the migration of iPhotos to Photos, and there's nothing that I have found that sounds a clear 'happy path' to accomplishing this goal short of manually exporting through what seems to be a rather laborious process. Perhaps I am seeing / making this more complicated than it needs to be, so if someone can recommend the best way to do this without having to spend hours and hours manually exporting things.
There are two computers at my company that are Macs. We just both upgraded to El Capitan OS, and had to change our mail accounts from POP to IMAP to work with the Parallels that we run. Ever since we did that, both of our mail accounts have been in sync with one another. Whenever he reads an email on his computer from our General Mailbox, it shows up on my computer as "Read" already. It's getting very frustrating, because we feel as though things are starting to slip through the cracks. Is there a way to reverse this?
Hi can anyone give me a simple step by step procedure for me to be able to use the same dock for two separate users. I basically have me as two companies and have set up two users to keep everything separate. But I would like to be able to add icons for word, photoshop, and illustrator in both user accounts.
I would like my Chrome Dock Tile to show the (dynamic) favicon of a tab. There are several scenarios I could imagine, any of which would be incredibly useful to me: The Chrome Dock Tile icon is completely replaced by the favicon. The Chrome Dock Tile shows the favicon in, for instance, the lower right hand corner of the main icon, similar to the download indicator. The favicon is that of the front-most Chrome tab. The favicon is that of a specific, pinned tab. A solution that was live would be ideal, but an AppleScript I could set to run every 5 minutes or something would also be ok.
I'm using this application (Solar.app) from Logitech to monitor the solar cells and batteries from their own solar keyboard (K750) One process is much too verbose and logs approx. 400 bytes in /var/log/system.log at each keystroke. I'm looking for various solutions to prevent the process from flooding system.log. I have been able to find a rule to match those messages, but: 1/
To say that it isn't being detected seems incorrect. But, see screenshots below:
I frequently copy/cut and paste between one document and another. The text is always in "Times New Roman" but when I paste the pasted text is in "Calibri (Body)", despite the fact that the "Paste Options" button shows "Keep Source Formatting". If I try "Paste and Match Formatting" then (strangely enough) it keeps the correct font, but it loses other formatting such as indention. I have tried disabling "Use smart cut and paste" from Word -> Preferences -> Edit -> Cut and Paste Options but this had no effect.
From time to time my company requires me to change my password. We are mostly a PC based organization and everything revolves around Windows logon.
I have run sudo chown -R Ankur / by mistake and now some apps are not opening and there icons are also not visible. How can I fix this? Here are some snapshots:
Where is Settings > General > Profile in iOS 9? I was part of a testing-team for an iOS app and using testflight. Back then, under iOS 6, I had to install a profile on my iPhone. Now, years later, I am again helping out to test with testflight, and I am having problems with certificates. I just wanted to check which profiles are installed on my iPhone, however, the Settings > General > Profile menu is not here any more under iOS 9. How can I see the profiles that are installed?
I have a Macbook Pro with a 250 GB SSD hard drive (Macbook retina Mid 2012 i7) and a Macbook air with 120 GB SSD hard drive (Mid 2012 Intel Core i5). I would like to move the swap the hard drives if the hardware is compatible. Is this possible? Is it just a matter of opening the machines and swapping the hard drives?
System: iMac (21.5 inch, Mid 2010) OS: Yosemite 10.10.5 I used Boot Camp Assistant to create a bootable USB for a Windows install (I have a Windows 7 ISO image through school) and a partition, but when I try to boot into the partition and I get an error - cannot find any bootable device. It does not recognize the USB as bootable. I tried with USB 2.0 as well as 3.0 with no change. When I hold down the option key while rebooting, it shows the USB as "EFI Boot" but clicking on it leads to the same error message. Any idea why this happens/how I can fix it?
When I open Google Chrome app, my webcam seemingly starts recording, i.e. green light next to iSight lightens. What is happening?
Pages always uses "Urna Semper" as the name in my templates. Can I set this somewhere to use my own name and address? It's a bit annoying to change all the time.
I have a MacBook with a 120 GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240 GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120 GB). So here is what I have tried so far:
Whenever I connect a new monitor, projector, or TV to an Apple laptop, the new display by default mirrors the existing desktop. If a number of applications are open, you may get documents that were only visible in background coming to foreground for everyone to see. And usually these displays have a different aspect ratio to the laptop screen, which results in any open applications being resized. When moving between locations often this becomes a real pain. Is there a way to extend the desktop by default, rather than mirror the display, when a new display is connected?
I have some problems with the screen of my laptop MacBook Pro 13inch from late 2011. I never had problems with my screen before but suddenly the screen began to flicker. I have encountered that it starts flickering more when my laptop is running more intensive programs whereby it is warmer than usually. When I play with the adjustments of the screen, or tap the screen the flickering comes and goes.
I ran brew install pygame, it installed it together with all the dependencies. Python v2.7.10 / OS X version 10.11.2 Whenever I import pygame in a script it says this How do I fix this?
I have an early 2015 13" MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.2 and I'm considering enabling FileVault 2. I realize that the disk is always encrypted, even when the machine is in use and only parts of it are decrypted, but the decryption keys are stored in RAM (I believe) when the machine is on. When I close the lid and the machine goes to some sort of sleep state, is it possible for an attacker with physical access to the device to obtain the decryption key granted that they don't know my user login password? User login password is set to be required immediately after waking from sleep. I got the idea that in newer versions of OS X FileVault keys are encrypted with user login keys, but I couldn't get any confirmation on this. I want to avoid enabling destroyfvkeyonstandby if possible as fast and reliable wake-from-sleep is important to me.
Is there any way to get all of the metadata associated with a file in Terminal? By "metadata" I mean things metadata and properties that are not stored in nor derived from the file's contents (i.e., checksum, UTD, image resolution, etc.), but rather reside in the filesystem's data about the file (i.e., last time changed, inode, permissions, extended attributes, etc.).
I can successfully add Time Machine exclusions using tmutil addexclusion and I can verify exclusions successfully with tmutil isexcluded but if I then open up Time Machine's Preferences and click "Options..." none of the exclusions added via tmutil are listed. Use of the -p option when using tmutil addexclusion seems to make no difference. Restarting the OS makes no difference. Re-indexing Spotlight makes no difference. I've tested this on both Mac OS 10.9 and 10.11. Is this expected behaviour?
I plugged a USB cable (connected to an Arduino Nano clone) into my MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.11.2) and it crashed with an on screen message. It restarted and reloaded all my apps (eventually). It seemed to be working normally, so I tried the Arduino again, with similar results.
My company took the Exchange ActiveSync server offline; they want me to use their email client instead of iOS mail (or the Outlook app), in the mistaken belief that this is "more secure." I thought that when they took this offline, I would also lose connection through OS X Mac Mail (set up in system preferences), because I thought they would use the same protocols. But my phone apps went down this evening and Mac mail is still working.
I have a 5th Gen (A1470) Time Capsule on our network. The WAN ethernet port is wired to a router. The TC has a static IP, Wifi is disabled (on the TC) and router mode is off (bridged).
Where are USB serial drivers installed on the Mac? How can I check which drivers are installed, and how do I remove a driver?
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to El Capitan (MacBook Pro, Late 2011, 16GB RAM) and the Notes app is gone! All the notes for 3 years and the App. I've spent hours on the phone with Apple techs, but it is still not resolved. Does anyone here have an answer?
I have downloaded the latest Xcode 7.2 from the App Store.  But when I open Xcode, it still show the version as 6.4.
Is there any way to change the order that multiple accounts are shown in the left (folders) pane of Outlook 2016 Mac's main window? Or do I have to delete the topmost account and add it again to move it lower in the list? Here's more info about why I want to do this:
After trying to install Windows 10 via Boot Camp, my Mac automatically rebooted (supposedly to the newly created Windows partition). However, it just booted back my OS X 10.11.2.
I have a huge library of books in iBooks which are categorised by "collections". I'm migrating from an old MacBook with OS X 10.9, Mavericks, to new MacBook with OS X 10.11, El Capitan. I've found all the books on the old computer within /library/containers/com.apple.BKAgentService.
Whenever I try to reply (or reply all) to any email through the mail app, an empty new message window opens that I can type in but all the buttons (send, attach etc.) are greyed out and I cannot close the window without restarting the mail app. Has made the app complete unusable except for reading emails. Any ideas how to fix this?
Can anybody tell me if this module: Transcend 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L Unbuffered Non-ECC CL11 204-pin SO-DIMM would work on my MBP? My memory specifications currently: 10 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (1x8GB) + (1x2GB)
I am getting these errors when trying to login with my mother's email. Can it be a bug in Apple?
I am running a Wifi network with a fritzbox 7360 and all my apple devices (apple tv old and new, MacbookPro, mac mini, iPhone, iPad) can connect just fine. Recently I bought apple time capsule 3TB which won't join my local wifi for unknown reasons. I ran several resets, checked configuration and read all I could found on the internet. Connectivity and placement seems fine as well (I checked with other devices).
I am trying to install libsodium using In the install step, I get this error: Do I need a different verison of some package?
I have googled this and there have been already lots of people facing this same issue; but after trying the various suggested methods nothing changes and I just wanted to give it one last shot and see if anyone can take a look at my specifics and help me fix it. I receive emails flawlessly on the mail app, but cannot send them without receiving this message: Cannot send message using the server stmp.atlas.cz:mariya@atlas.cz
Is there any way for the iPhone to produce a ringtone sound even if it is set to silent mode with "vibrate on silent" Sounds setting, particularly while also in Do Not Disturb mode? Here is a more thorough description of my problem/use case:
Something similar has been reported before, but that was resolved after quitting all applications and restarting the computer. My bar stays after restarting, also it might look like a scrollbar, but there is nothing to scroll to begin with as I have placed the Dock on the left side of my screen for the purpose of this screenshot:
I am running Transfer on LAN to kind of emulate AirDrop. However, I am unsure as to how to access my PC running Transfer on LAN from my iPhone 6. Here are three things I tried, none of which worked:
I have a Macbook Air running OS X 10.11/El Capitan and two days ago these notification just started appearing:  Perhaps I hit some special keys accidentally, but I want it to go away and it won't. Furthermore, I have NO facebook option in my Notifications:
I have a Macbook Pro 11,1 running OS X El Captian. Recently, whenever in an application such as Firefox my menu bar and dock disappear. This is really annoying, as in system preferences both my dock & menu bar are set to not autohide. If I click the desktop, suddenly the dock and menu bar pop back up. Any suggestions?
The Basic Question: I'd like to send notifications from my Mac desktop to my phone. I'm familiar with Growl and Prowl, but neither of those projects has been updated in years (understandably at this stage) and all the threads I'm finding (this one for example) are from several years ago as well. Has there been any developments in this area, or is this still really the only way to go to get desktop notifications to iOS?
My configuration looks like this: MacBook with EL Capitan AirPort Express 802.11n (2nd Generation) speakers connected to AirPort's audio port using mini-jack
These names have one thing in common. They all have a 6 digit number before the extension, and always will.
I'm trying to encrypt my Time Machine backup volume, but diskutil refuses, and leaves the disk unreadable (but repairable using Linux). How can I proceed? It's a Western Digital Elements 107C 3TB USB3 disk. It has a single HFS+ partition and has been working fine.
I got this XPS file from my teacher and I couldn't open it using my Mac. It should be a lecture presentation. Does anybody know how to open it? thanks you
And, more generally, how can I change accessibility settings via the command line? Worth pointing out that I'm pretty comfortable with bash already- coming from a systems administration / *nix background- but I just don't know which files to edit or tools to use.
I just switched from Windows to Mac and having a hard time figuring out this. In Windows, when I click on the application icon in task bar, it shows me all the open windows and then I can open any of the window. Is there a way to do same in Mac? Basically I want to see all the open windows when I click/hover on the open application icon in the doc. Currently I'm doing following but not liking it - * Use CMD +' to switch between open windows * Set hotspot corner to show all windows. But given I'm so used to click the icon to show the window, I want to do same in Mac too. Any advice appreciated Thanks
Can someone help with a solution to list key bindings being used by an OS X application, as well as global bindings being used by all applications. Ideally, there would be a way to specify bindings for a single key combination, such as: Ctl-P or Opt-Cmd-Z as well as getting a comprehensive text dump of current bindings for all keys.
Given a folder full of 'm4a' files, I can merge them all into one big m4a file using ffmpeg like so: However, what I would like to do is have OUTPUT.m4a contain chapters for each one of the original input files (each chapter just needs a number, not a name). I have tried googling for this, but everything I have found seems to be about merging video files and MKVs, not m4a files. Ideally, I would like to be able to do this via the command line, as I have 60+ folders, and would like to be able to script this rather than loading it into an app of some sort. Any help would be appreciated.
Last weekend my iMac started to act in a very strange way. While I was working, my Mac was very slow and the mouse and keyboard didn't respond very well.
I am looking for a way to automatically login to my computer when waking from sleep/startup when I am at my home/connected to my home wifi; but when for example I am at school or not connected to my home wifi require a password. I am running El Capitan 10.11 Beta (15A278b) on a MacBook Pro (Retina 15 inch mid-2015)
I want to use the number that's in the body of the message, NOT the senders's number. IOS clearly recognises this as a phone number as it highlights it and gives me the option to dial it, but nothing else. Best I've come up with so far is to dial it, hang up quickly then add the contact from the recent calls list. Is there a graceful solution I'm missing, this sort of thing used to be so easy on an old dumb phone.
What I'm looking to achieve is to write (and read) data files on BD-R discs for storage / backup / archive purposes, just like one can do with CD and DVD discs. For clarity, I am not interested in copyrighted / encrypted / DRM'd BD-ROM HD video material / films, just plain data accessible through Finder. Obviously, I would have to provide myself with a Mac compatible Blu-ray writer / burner first.
I'm the owner. Apple activation says it synced with "k****@gmail.com" but my gmail starts at k and says it cannot be used to unlock. I checked icloud and ipad2 isnt sync and only has my other device. I have the receipt but it doesn't have the serial number in it. There is no apple store in my city. I bought the ipad from authorised seller, can they activate it?
I have an 11" Air so I usually run all of my open applications in fullscreen mode. I have a launchd job for my user that runs a script every hour and every login to set the desktop background according to time of day. The problem is that, despite running in the background, unless I am logging in or idling on the Desktop "space", it will not get set. Weirdly, it also changes to dark mode at night (or light mode during daytime) and that part of the script works just fine. So, if I go to my fullscreen'd Terminal.app and run the following lines, they do not work to change the desktop background: or or even Does anyone know how to get this to work?
My terminal is not recognizing the majority of commands. It won't recognize ls, ruby, python, brew, and a few others. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Under Settings -> Cellular Data there is a nice break out of how much data each app has used. I expected this to allow me to identify which specific apps were using the most cellular data so I avoid overage fees. My carrier tells me how much data I have used, but only gives a general category of where my data is going, which is useless for this purpose.
My Macbook was smashed and subsequently ruined. I was able to save the hard drive and am wondering if it is possible to retrieve the photos that were on it. I don't care about anything else that is on it.
I want to make a clean OS X Mavericks install on a MacBook Pro 2008 (A1278). I don't have the installation disc anymore. Because the OS is already wiped out, I can only try (a) Recovery, (b) internet recovery or (c) bootable USB stick. (a) and (b) throw an error message ("This is not a supported method of installing the operating system; please run install OS X Mavericks app....").
I have an address in a cell which is hyperlinked. I've also searched other posts on the topic and the selecting text and "right-clicking" does not bring up a menu with how to remove the link. I'd really appreciate some help if anyone's worked out how to do this.
I just bought the new Magic Keyboard. On my Mac mini with Mac OS X El Capitan the function keys worked perfectly, but on my iMac still with Mavericks the function keys are not working... F12 for instance (sound up) brings me to the Dashboard and so on.
I am using a password that has been generated by the organization where I work, and that specific password terminates with the ^ character. This password cannot be changed so I must keep it for the rest of my life.
I would like to know if an app made for iPad only will work on the iPad Pro? Also, will the app be properly scaled? Is it possible for an app made for iPad pro to work on an regular iPad? If yes will it be properly scaled?
I've saved a file with the name filename\.svg and it didn't appear in finder. When I check terminal, there was a file named .svg in the folder I saved my file. I changed its name to test.svg but it still doesn't appear in Finder. Here is a screenshot from terminal:
A friend of mine is sending many emails every day and I would like to be notified about his emails only once per week. Is there a way to avoid to receive emails in the inbox until the week later? and disable notifications for those emails only? What I want: - I want still receive his email but read all of them let's say on Mondays only - I don't want to get notifications every time I receive an email from him - I don't want his email in the inbox until Monday
Since Ex is a standard Unix editor (standardized by POSIX), I expect to be shipped with OS X, however it's linked into vim instead as shown below: My goal is to test some syntax within Ex it-self (not using extended vim-like ex syntax) in order to check if my command is POSIX-compliant.
I seem to be having a weird issue on OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) - When I have my wifi connection set to DHCP, everything works fine. But, when I switch to manual IP (even with the exact same IP config that I get from DHCP), routing to internet sites fails. I can ping local computers, but, pinging other sites results in "No route to host". I would appreciate any ideas on how to fix this. Thanks Edit: The routes that I have after setting a manual ip are
I wanted to make a shortcut at my root, entry Terminal directory Goal an Alias for /someLongPath/someProject/ at ~/someProject Problem
The unicode entry tool in OS X 10.11 (the one displayed in your menu bar if you tick the appropriate box in the first tab of the keyboard settings) allows me to copy information about a symbol. There is an entry to this effect in the context menu of the symbol. However, I can't find an option to just display that information, so I always have to copy the text to some other application if I want to just read it. Am I missing something?
Is it possible to delete installed dictionaries (some or all of them) in iOS 9.2? There are dictionaries that I need not, but they take place, and some are even duplicated. As you can see from a screenshot, there is not cross button to delete them.
How can I get the routing tables in command line? On a normal unix machine I can use On my macbook, this does not work What be the equivilent command?
I think my swap memory is hitting its fullest and would like to know how to increase it. I very often hit my 8GB RAM limits and my memory pressure (as seen in Active Monitor) goes red quite often. When that happens "Memory Used" and "Swap Used" are both almost 8GB, so I guess I would like the swap to be 16GB. It's so easy to find this info for ubuntu but with OS X I only find links for "how to disable swap" which is not what I want at all.
I want to setup a wifi connection on an iPhone 6S. I have the SSID name and WPA password. But the wifi access point is out of range. It is not my phone. I want to set up the wifi name and password so that when the access point is within range in the future, it autoconnects. When I try to add the connection it complains that it cannot connect, so it is wrong, so it won't save it.
I'm trying the first project/example (an "Empty Window app) from Neuburg's "iOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift". In Xcode 7.2, on Mac OS 10.11.2, I Project -> Run. The simulator opens, and I see a progress bar, but after a little bit, I get an error stating something like "couldn't attach to process due to system integrity protection". Searching, I see disabling as an out, but I'd like to stay as legal/normal as possible. What might I try to avoid the error? Thanks.
I'd like to know the shortcut I must use to do a multiple selection of some text (not adjacent words) in a unique cell. The reason is because I need to highlight some text of the same cell, and I currently have to do it selecting the text individually. So it would be very helpful to find the shortcut to multiple select, as Ctrl + click usually works. I used it time ago, but I don't remember how I did. Please, could you help me Thanks & regards Susana
(I am using a 11" MacBook Air, Early 2015, provided by my school) There is software hard-installed on my computer that automatically enables a proxy (under "System Preferences..." -> "Network" -> "Advanced" -> "Proxies") about every 5 minutes which inadvertently breaks a lot of services like the app store, simply uploading images to imgur, using lightshot at all, a lot of games I play from launching, etc. etc. I am able to use these services for just a few minutes right after I disable the proxy but pretty soon the hard-installed software enables the proxy itself again. I was wondering if there is literally any way around this. Maybe my own program that keeps the proxy disabled, counterproductive to the proxy enabler. If I am being confusing, let me explain what I go through: I go to do something (play a game, download an app, etc.) It is not working. I click on the apple logo, then choose: "System Preferences..." -> "Network" -> "Advanced" -> "Proxies" I notice "Automatic Proxy Config
On installing the new OS a problem with logging on after the machine has been asleep started immediately. Occasionally my keyboard input is ignored and, after a brief pause, junk was loaded into the login input field. When I extend the time-out before the machine goes to sleep I get the same occasional reaction when I go back in without needing to login, but this time it's with typing into URLs in the browser. When the happens I always have to reboot!
I am using El Capitan 10.11.2. I go to sharing and select 'Display Ethernet' in the Share your connection from menu. The display ethernet port is the port with the ethernet cable leading to the internet. I check 'Wi-Fi' from the To computers using: list and turn on Internet Sharing. From another device, I do see the Wi-Fi network created by my Mac show up and I can try to connect to it, but the connection never succeeds. I think some preference file somewhere has become corrupt because I can do this same thing using another machine without any trouble and I wanted to avoid wiping the problematic machine and starting from scratch if I can avoid it. The only clue I have are messages in the console log: 1/7/16 3:56:11.733 PM bootpd[695]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:6f:1d:15:8c:80 (ericss-iPhone)
After I export my GarageBand song and convert it to an mp3 and play it in iTunes, the background static noise is much louder than in Garageband. OS X El Captain 10.11.2 . Garageband 10.1.0 I want it to sound the same as it does in GarageBand. How can I convert tracks into an mp3 while reducing static noise in the file when played on iTunes?
My elderly neighbor needed help with iPad. So as I was helping her with it, I gave her access to my wireless network to ensure it was working properly. Now, she "accidentally" prints to my printer often because she does not choose her own printer. I know I could "forget device" from ipad but I am not physically with her right now. Is there anyway that I can remove her ipad access, by removing it from my Mac? Where do I find the list of those devices that have access to my wireless network? Thanks!
I have an android phone connected using PTP over USB. (A Fairphone FP1) OSX used to launch Photo's every single time I plugged in the phone to charge, which was very annoying, so I unticked the box that said "Open Photos for this device"
I have a Drobo that has a ton of my personal information on it. I've recently had some issues with it and it had to rebuild its entire structure I believe. It took about 2 days before it finally stopped blinking.
Second, the biggest hassle i had was figuring out the data model used in this database. For me, the DB Browser GUI made fishing around across the tables worth the effort. The primary integrating table is ZABCDRECORD (Why did Apple have to add ZABCD to all table names?!) The name of the other tables' attributes which allow them to be joined varies, eg: LEFT JOIN ZABCDPOSTALADDRESS ON ZABCDPOSTALADDRESS.ZOWNER = ZABCDRECORD.Z_PK LEFT JOIN ZABCDEMAILADDRESS ON ZABCDEMAILADDRESS.ZOWNER = ZABCDRECORD.Z_PK LEFT JOIN ZABCDNOTE ON ZABCDNOTE.ZCONTACT = ZABCDRECORD.Z_PK The name of the other tables' attributes which allow them to be joined varies, eg:
So I'm starting a new job, and seriously considering equipment purchases. I'd like to be able to have a Mac with NVIDIA GPU capable of developing CUDA-based code on it - it certainly wouldn't be running the code for performance, but it would be nice to be able to test the code to make sure it's even working. But as I currently see it, there's no way to do that - the 15" Retina MBP has gone to an ATI-based graphics card, as has the 27" iMac and the Mac Pro, while everyone else is rocking integrated and/or Iris graphics cards. Is there something about the line I'm missing?
I have a 500GB disk on MacOS encrypted with FileVault 2. I have successfully resized the disk to 250GB. Now I want to create another partition to install another MacOS on the 250GB free-space of the disk. But DiskUtility failed on me, it just can't create the new partition I wanted and showed me no error at all. How could I safely create the new partition I need? This the result printed out from the command $ sudo gpt -r show disk0
I've been trying to install Windows 7 on Yosemite (10.10.5) on a Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013). My machine doesn't have any CD/DVD drive so I've downloaded Windows and the Mac support files (downloaded during Bootcamp) on a USB drive. I've gotten the drive partitioned and started installing Windows, but didn't get very far before getting the error in the title.
For some reason there's something clogging up my Startup Disk space. I can't find it even using Disk Inventory X.
I didn't add or do anything to computer except reboot. When the login screen appeared with my user account I clicked it as usual and the password box briefly appears and then disappears stopping me from logging in. How can I fix this? I do have a guest account with limited capabilities.
Given one spreadsheet in Numbers as the following. Column A is datetime, and column B is the value. For each date (ex, 2015-12-01), there is just one cell with non-empty value on 05AM. Ex, there are 24 cells for 2015-12-01 and only cell 2015-12-01 05AM has non-empty value. My question is, how can we copy (or spread) the value in 2015-12-01 05AM to all other (23) cells belonging to the same date automatically (through formula)?
Does safari has an extension like this Chrome extension called Context Menu Search? It enables user to search highlighted text from the context menu. It should be something like this:
I am trying to pull a latency value from a ping with the following command: ping -c 1 206.190.36.45 | awk -F" |=" '/time/{print $10"ms YH"}' But I want to remove the digits after the . So instead of 282.117ms US I would like to see 282ms US What needs to be added to the command to do so?
I am trying to install VirtualBox 4.3.6-91406 on OS X El Capitan because I want to run an old version of Minix. It is advised to run my version of Minix on VirtualBox 4.3.6 as it may not be compatible with the newest VirtualBox 5.0.12-104815 and anything between. This is what I get when I try to install VirtualBox 4.3.6-91406:
I'm constantly (about every half second) getting this error on my MacBook Pro's console flooding my system log... I've tried to kill all processes in hopes to find the offender, but no luck so far.
Due to some iCloud struggles, I had recently occasion to sign into and out of iCloud on OS X a few times recently. Interestingly, when I have 2FA enabled on my iCloud account, OS X asked for the screen lock passcode to my iPhone when signing in to iCloud, and would not sign in without it (no . After the initial sign in succeeds, it prompts for the iCloud password again, and this time asks for the 2FA code.
How do I find my screenshot directory? I already know how to change the screenshot directory, because I did it a long time ago, but now I don't know what it is, because I've done it on several different computers.
I have an apple music subscription and then decided to make some cool playlists. But now, my library is FULL of albums that I never play outside of my playlists, an ugly ugly nightmare. I guess my question is: How can I have songs in playlist but not in the library? I don't want to see them outside of the playlist!
After one of the latest Safari update (9.0.1 I believe) I can't use fullscreen option on Youtube properly. When I open youtube page and press F the player goes fullscreen, but the video area itself doesn't (and actually became smaller), so the rest of display is black and unused. If I press "space" (stop the video) or scroll using mouse the video area stretches to the full screen, but this is very inconvenient to press "space" twice each time I full screen.
I use an app called LiveDrive to backup my Mac running OS X 10.9.5. It provides incremental Cloud backup.
When I close my Retina Macbook Pro's lid and put it to sleep, I have noticed that it periodically must "wake" and check the internet or connect to Wi-Fi when I expect it to be sleeping. This has been consistent for me even with my previous MacBook Pro, too.
When I connect my iPhone 6 to my PC in order to transfer my music, I am told that the I need the newest edition of iTunes. When I try to download the newest edition of iTunes, I am told that the update is for Windows7 or higher. (I have Windows XP.) Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows XP. How else can I get my music from my PC to my iPhone 6?
Sometimes, while using Xcode 7.2, when I scrolls up-down or when I select a code block or shrink the if/else block, my screen is seen as following image.  Due to this problem, sometimes, I cannot edit code in-between the already written code. I had to restart Xcode every-time. In code line column, you can see in the image that line numbers are overlapped. Please help me, I am facing this issue after I have upgraded my Xcode to 7.2
I googled and saw only how to increment the editor font size (code size). But how do I enlarge the UI font size?
A Mail window was in the Dock, and I clicked on it to restore it to my current Desktop. Instead of opening where I can see it, it went to some other Desktop, presumably the one it was in when it was minimized.
I have Bluetooth headphones & loudspeakers. I want to stream sound from iTunes to Bluetooth headphones and a YouTube video to the loudspeakers. I know that OS X allows to stream one source to both devices, but I want to stream each stream to different devices. I know that in Windows it's possible via Realtek utility, but how about OS X?
I don't have any Apple products, so sorry if this is an stupid question - I'm an assistant and have been tasked with solving this for my boss. When you open the photos app, you have two options at the bottom: "Photos" and "Albums." Is it possible to delete pictures from the "Photos" tab, but keep them in the "Albums" tab? Or even a way to hide the "Photos" view from being an option? Thanks for the help!
I want to make an Automator workflow to run a shell command. For example, I want to receive text input from the user and treat that input as a shell command instead of text. I have tried passing argument as stdin but still not able to make it work. Here is a simple example of what I am trying to do:
I've got a clean install of Yosemite on a brand new hard drive. All good, up and running (got to boot to it manually). As the title says, I can't get the system to boot from this hard drive. Error The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk Tried it via bless command in terminal
So I have set ctrl+T to open the folder I have selected in Terminal. But usually it doesn't work and nothing happens entering the shortcut.
My boss wants us to use the iCloud calendar app. However, I use a computer with Ubuntu and an Android phone. Because I do not have an Apple device, the calendar app is unavailable to me on icloud.com; only pages, numbers and keynote are available. Would downloading iCloud for Windows via Wine give me iCal, or is there another solution? Many thanks in advance!
One of the must utterly infuriating problems I have on recent iOS versions is the fact that swiping down from the top of the screen while the phone is locked will bring down the notification center and clear all of my lock screen notifications. This happens all. the. time. I usually keep my phone in my pocket, and if I get a message or feel it vibrate, I will reach into my pocket and with my thumb and forefinger pull it out. Perhaps 50% of the time when I do this, my thumb ends up pulling the notification center down when I pull my phone out.
How do I retrieve my iPhone calendar? The icon disappeared off my screen. I thought this was a permanent icon? Help!
Need to create 2 scripts in automator. Select text in any application (textedit, pages etc.) and change all letters from lower case to upper. Same, as above, but from upper case, to lower.
I've installed VirtualBox 5.0.10 on my Mac and now I'm trying to run Bio-Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) in a VM. The resolution of the Linux desktop when I go to settings > monitor is set to 640 x 480 with no other options. How can I improve this? I'm using a MacBook Air 4GB Memory 1.3 GHz.
I'm working through iOS push notification setup and tried to export the private key as a Personal Information Exchange (.p12) cert and when I'm prompted for the "login" password it won't take it. I've tried changing the password and I'm able to do that successfully but not when I try to create the p12 file. The OS X version is 10.11.2, and Keychain version 9.0 (55171.20.2) Any thoughts?
I would like to use a URL in Launch Pad Pro to open the "Home" context in OmniFocus whenever I get home. I know to get to a perspective you use: omnifocus:///perspective/PerspectiveName But I've tried this for contexts, and it isn't working. omnifocus:///context/Home
As the TV only has HDMI 2.0 ports, I am considering to buy a thunderbolt to HDMI 2.0 adapter. but I want to know that whether this combination will give me the 60Hz refresh rate at 4k resolution.
I'm having a trouble with my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012). I have upgraded it (5 months ago) to use a Kingston SSD instead of a SATA, and everything was perfect. Very fast and smooth...until yesterday. I was working and then when it was time to go home, i just pull down the monitor and the macbook went to sleep. When i came home and open my MacBook, it was just a disaster, EVERY SINGLE action, even click on any button, causes to freeze and the apple colorful ball (loading) appears.
I'm trying to rehabilitate my G5 tower OSX 10.5.8 two HD in the bays. The problem: Both the boot disk (1TB) and the second disk (300GB) have a lot of space on them. The 1TB has 800GB free, the other has nothing on it (290+GB free). Yet when I drag a file "foo" from the 1TB to the empty drive, it fails with: The item "foo" cannot be copied because there is not enough free space Copying from the 1TB to the same 1TB drive (in another place) works fine! I've run Disk Utility on both and repaired all the permissions, but I still get this error.
I went to upload some photos and videos onto my macbook air and was told there was not enough free space, so removed some things onto an external hard drive and emptied my trash. I now have over 30 gb free but I still get the warning saying my hard drive is nearly full. How can I fix this?
I've got a late 2013 iMac running OS X El Capitan and am trying to get a second screen for work. Its a Samsung LED Syncmaster SA350 Series (Plug & Play). When I plug it in, nothing but a black screen displays, even though its on and my Mac detects it (I can even drag windows over there etc). I'm connecting DVI-->HDMI.
Apparently, I installed Windows 7 via bootcamp and created a new partition in Windows (which probably affected the partition table). After restart, I can't see Macintosh HD in startup disk (it only shows Windows, which bluescreens when booted) So I ran cmd+R to boot to Internet Recovery Mode, select Disk Utility and tried to repair the disk, but it said 'Unrecognized file system' (I forgot to take a screenshot) but it looks like this:
I've got an iPhone 6 running the latest iOS 9.2.1 public beta, although the following behavior has been happening to me for a few iOS updates now. I'm wondering if it's a beta bug that should be reported or if it's the intended iOS behavior. When I'm using headphones, everything works the way it should, regardless of the ringer switch setting.
I purchased this MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard which I upgrade to El Capitan. Then changed the previous Account name to to my name, but still have the previous owner name under: System Preference > Users & Groups > UserName > Advance Options, Home directory
I don't like the new dock, I don't like the new folders, I don't like flat or may be I am bored of looking at same stuff. But really I still miss OSX Lion/Mavericks 3D dock and a more lively user interface.
I'm using Office 2011 on a MacbookPro. How do I change the font color for each slide in my powerpoint presentation? I inherited a presentation that has been edited by multiple people, each using different fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc.
In the Terminal window, I started the web server with sudo apachect1 start, supplied the password and then got: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist: service already loaded Then, in the Safari Smart Search field I entered: *=URL=* Then I got:
I am looking for tool, script etc to hard link (or something equivalent) files with the purpose of saving space. (Going through files, finding duplicates and hard-linking them in). Will also then pure analysis - to find "duplicates", and see which ones are actually the same physical files.
I am trying to find a way to either delete Photos.app (or any other built-in for that matter) or stop it from ever launching (until I decide otherwise). By the way, I have disabled the auto-launch when I connect a device. But I don't want Photos.app to suggest that I should convert my Aperture library by just clicking on one button. If other people are using my Mac this could happen and did before. Then I have to go in and manually edit my precious library again and I am afraid of destroying the hundreds of hours of work that I already put into it.
Below is a screenshot for Macintosh HD drive storage.  It shows that I have 82.47 GB storage for "Other". How to delete and free up this space? I checked ~/Downloads and ~/Desktop, both are less than 2 GB. I also emptied out ~/Library/Cache and ~/Library/Cache folders. I am running OS X 10.11.2.
After updating iTunes to 12.3 something strange happened: When adding a new title or folder to my playlists it is added in the playlist view at the left as last item ! When adding a title to the playlists and selecting a place, iTunes shows me as drop down an "alphabetic" list , why is this? How can I synchronize the two views to alphabetic?
I just switched from Linux to OS X and I am still getting used to it. I know I'll need to use Homebrew, as I rely on many CLI tools. Also, I just read about Cask, what make me wonder about one thing. How does software (not from the App Store) get updates? Windows-like, i.e. a message notifying about a new version so I can download it, or somehow integrated with the system, so that I don't need to download a new .dmg every time I want to update an app? If it's "Windows-like", is it better to use Cask for things like Firefox, VirtualBox, VLC, LibreOffice...?
When I create a new radio station in Apple Music by selecting an existing song and then choosing "Create Station" from the right-click menu, it creates the station and gives it the name of the song I selected with the word "Radio" appended. How do I rename the station?
What I really like about my Magic Mouse is that I can swipe between apps using two finger swipes. But it only works for apps that are in full screen. That is okay, but I miss the menu bar when those apps are in full screen. I use full screen a lot, but purely because I want the swiping. I even miss the dock sometimes. Can I have swiping and the menu bar at the same time? Note that I have OS X 10.10.1.
I have little snitch installed on my mac. Recently I am getting an alert about an outgoing connection to gcs-eu-00001.content-storage-upload.googleapis.com. The IP address seems to belong to google. Is it safe for me to let it connect or should I deny it? By the way, I am using Firefox browser?
We have a router/modem 2wire (with DHCP disabled) which we are just using as a modem now, wired to our Airport (with DHCP enabled). We have 5 other devices connected. One of the Macbooks is choosing an address in the 169.254.x.x range. The Airport is set to connect using DHCP and router mode: Off (bridge mode). The Network utility says: Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address 169.254.104.148 and will not be able to connect to the Internet. In the AirPort utility it says the IP address and LAN IP address of the airport is 169.254.213.128.
I have a conversation that likely has tens of thousands of messages sent over the past year. I want to find texts 6 months ago in August. How can I go about getting back to August and scrolling through those messages? I have the conversation on both on my iPhone and my Messages on my Macbook.
Just recently the Mac Mini I use for development/as a server had crashed. The most information I could get from it was that one of the drives in the mirrored RAID pair had crashed. Is there any way that I can solve this problem by removing a drive from one side of the pair?
I tend to delete my conversations from Messages to keep it neat, but some messages I don't actually want to be gone forever. How can I have my messages save somewhere in a folder automatically even after I delete them from the Messages app?
I have only the USB cable so can I charge it with my laptop or computer or any other way?
The title pretty much says it all. I ordered a MagSafe 2 power adapter before realizing my MacBook Pro uses the Original MagSafe. After looking at both connectors, it appears the MagSafe 2 connector would fit the MagSafe power port if it were filed down on the edges a bit. However, I'm concerned the power delivery would not match what the computer can handle, and I don't really want to go through returning and buying a new power adapter. Likewise, I wouldn't want to destroy both the adapter and the computer at one go. Does anyone know the specs – whether these two are "electrically compatible?"
I am having a problem with iCloud Drive. I managed to see progress thankfully with brctl log --wait --shorten (taken from here). It seems like there is an error running every second or even more often. The bird process in the Activity Monitor, which is responsible for the iCloud Drive syncing, is taking up 150 and more percent of the CPU all the time and doesn't stop. What I tried: installed iCloudStatus, which shows which files are being synced... but the file doesn't show up killed the bird and the cloudd process... will just fire up again deleted ~/Library/Application Support/CloudDocs all my files were deleted and newly downloaded but I got the same error
I have a grey folder on my Mac in the iCloud Drive Directory which I can't access. If I go to the iCloud Drive Website I see the folder and can easily navigate in it. Does anyone know a solution on how to enable this folder on my machine as well?
I recently transferred a video of around 1GB on my iPhone after synching it from iTunes. It's in my camera roll but I don't see Delete option available. However, I have 1 min video (other one) in my camera roll and I see delete option for that one. I want to delete this 1 GB video to free up some space. Anyone knows how to delete it?
I have loved the power of the Do Something When preference pane in the past, to trigger things when certain USB drives were plugged in. But it no longer seems available. Certainly *=URL=* is defunct. Does it still exist for Yosemite, or is there an alternative out there?
When I open iTunes I don't see anything that says "file" so I can't select "transfer" in order to transfer files from my devices (iPhone or iPad) to my iTunes library, which should be done before I can update the devices. When I open iTunes the play, rewind, and fast forward arrows are on top. under that I see the music, movies, and tv icons, followed by my device icon and a battery life indicator. No "File" So, why doesn't my iTunes menu bar have "file" for me to click on? It's not anywhere on the iTunes page that I can see. I've been trying to update my devices for quite a while but I always wind up with the same dilema
So I recently had this issue and had the hardest time figuring it out when, in fact, it was quite an easy solution. I got a brand new iPhone due to the last one breaking. It is an iPhone 6s. I kept the plastic on it because I was waiting for my screen protector to come. Throughout the next few week's usage I had noticed that I can't hear people when on a phone call. I tried a ton to fix it and finally decided to book a genius bar reservation and had them explain that while the plastic seems thin, and while the plastic seemingly does not block sound, it in fact does block sound.
Can anyone suggest any other ways to fix the issue? It spans multiple browsers and both sites have valid certificates (I work for one of the companies that I'm having issues with), so it's on my end. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. OS 10.8.4 / Chrome: Version - Version 47.0.2526.106 (64-bit) / Safari Version 6.0.5 Output of terminal command openssl s_client -host store.tokyodawn.net -port 443:
In iTunes (12.3 on Windows), clicking Edit > Preferences... > Device tab shows an empty list of backups even though there should be a bunch of them.
How can I disable the iMessage pop up when I turn on my Mac? It keeps asking me to sign in with my Apple ID. I don't want to set it up because I don't want to use iMessage. But the box keeps opening every time I turn on my Mac and it is getting frustrating as I have to go through 3 pages before I can turn it off.
I cannot open Terminal at all because of this error message. (Probably the rudest error message I have ever seen on a computer.) This mac was originally a school computer and the permission to use Terminal was not given to me in the first place, so I have no clue about the method the "IT guys" used to keep me from using it, and therefore I do not know how to recover from it either. I have an admin account, though the account I usually use is standard, (I tried logging into other existent admin accounts presumably set up by the IT guys, but even in those accounts it was impossible to run Terminal), and I have already tried running permissions repair but it had no effect on the issue.
When scrolling a page up or down using fn ↑ and fn ↓ in a text editor, the editor jumps immediately to the next page. This is confusing when reading structured documents such as source code (programming). Is there a way to get OS X to smoothly scroll down one page, as if I would have used the trackpad?
How to identify mac book pro product manufacturing year? And not the product release date. example is mac book pro series launched in 2012 but what is its product manufactured date?
I'm running ffmpeg v2.8.1 from Homebrew, and trying to convert Audible files but there's some trick I"m missing. This command produces this error output.
I bought my 13″ MacBook Air a couple months ago. I usually check the compatibility with Can You Run It before purchasing the game on Steam. In this case, I'm buying Ark: Survival Evolved. Unfortunately, that site doesn't support Mac. Is there any other website where I can check game compatibility for Mac computers? My system's specification: Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB Memory: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 With these can I play any of these games on my system?
Wondering if anyone has any last ditch efforts I can try here to salvage my macbook! I recently attempted to install fedora to dual boot on my Late 2011 Macbook Pro, the install crashed, the emergency kernal crashed, got the 3 bleep black screen of death (indicating RAM does not pass data integrity check?). Now whenever I try and boot it gets to the Apple loading screen, bar goes about half way (very slowly) then grey screen and eventual power off.
My iPhoto Library is on an external hard drive. I want to copy it to another hard drive as a back up. It looks like Time Machine only backups the internal hard drive and selected externals. I don't want to back up my internal. I only want to backup my external. What do i do? What programs will do this? If Time Machine does do this, please explain how. I don't see that option.
I'm using Mac mini, and bought this new bluetooth keyboard. It's not Apple production, but has Apple layout. The other keys all work except "Esc" in the left up corner. Obviously it won't be handy if this important key didn't work. How to fix it, please?
I am the admin on a shared MacOS X: Big_server running Yosemite. This technical detail isn't a key one: I have the same question with many versions of MacOS X from Mountain Lion to El Capitan.
I like to know when my family goes on my Macbook for numerous reasons. Is there a way to record when or if people go on my Macbook when I leave it laying around?
I would like to take a picture of this Apple Pay popup, while TouchID is active. However this seems impossible to do, since the TouchID sensor is also the home button, which prevents a screenshot from being taken. Is there any alternative to taking a screen shot?
I discovered this new annoying bug in El Capitan 10.11.2 running on a MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013. Sometimes when I click on the VPN icon in the menu bar, I get "VPN is not configured" despite the fact that I configured three. It is all resolved by going into System Preferences → Network, then unchecking and rechecking the "Show VPN Status in menu bar" checkbox. Even though I can manually sort the issue each time, I would like a more robust and permanent solution.
I have been making an iMovie on OS X El Capitan for the past few days. Unfortunately, I have not saved even once, I just left it open and it would always be there when I clicked on the icon. Now, I deleted many pictures from the movie, and I saw the spinning wheel of death. I thought it would go away soon as it always does, but twenty minutes later it was still spinning. I can't click on anything in the app.
My bootcamp doesn't have the 'selected tasks' Please help! I really need windows on my mac. Thank you :)
Could it be that I am accessing my MacBook's iTunes music collection from an iPad? Does such sharing (under a LAN) constitute "signing in to iCloud Music"? If (hopefully) that's not the case, how do I stop the nagging message?
My 13-year-old had an Apple ID before family sharing was available. In the span of a few days he had downloaded a bunch of messaging apps on his iPhone that we, the parents, do not approve of. We deleted them and instituted family sharing (to require approval of app downloads), but it still allows him to download these deleted apps because he had downloaded them before.
I'm going to be getting a refurbished machine and rather than keep my current OS (10.6.8), I need to upgrade to at least 10.8, in order to be able to communicate with devices that use iOS 9 (since you need a newer version of iTunes). My current install is Case-Sensitive and Journalled, and it works well for me. The issue is, I will also need a newer version of Adobe Acrobat (9 or higher), and everything I've read says it requires a Case-Insensitive file system. So here's my question: if Acrobat is so popular and often used, does this mean that installations of OS X are by default Case-Insensitive, or does everyone have to reformat and reinstall OX S after the purchase Acrobat?
Here is the loop (it's the first one) that hangs on a random loop iteration. There's very little code above it, which is simple and has not changed in months.
I've downloaded an IPSW file from osxdaily.com (iPad2,2_6.0.1_10A523_Restore.ipsw) but neither iTunes nor redsn0w will let me install it. ITunes comes back with "This device isn‘t eligible for the requested build" and redsn0w says "That IPSW isn't supported by this version of redsn0w." I do not have the SHSH blobs from iOS 4.
Recently, I noted that Firefox started to behave differently when I double-click on its title-bar / tab-bar. It maximizes the windows as if I clicked on the semaphore + button, instead of opening a new tab like it used to do before. Anyone knows how to get the old behavior back?
So I have been trying to add image to my iMovie. The problem is I want to add the image at for example 2:00 min. But whenever I drag the image to the project, it always goes in the beginning of the movie. Is there a way I can just drag and drop it to whatever time I want to add it to. This seems to be pretty intuitive but not able to do this.
I updated my iMac's OS to Yosemite 10.10.5 and found that the Apple USB keyboard is no longer working. I tried different USB ports to no result. I tried using the keyboard on another computer and it works fine. I tried an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and it works fine. Would anyone know what I could do to get it working again?
I need to block a particular website on my Mac (OSX 10.11.1, El Capitan). I have already made the changes to /etc/hosts but the website is still not blocked when testing from Chrome. I think this has to do with it being an HTTPS connection. Procedure: Using sudo nano /etc/hosts, I have modified the /etc/hosts file to add the following lines: 0.0.0.0 goodreads.com 0.0.0.0 176.32.103.85
I am not sure if this is the right forum for this, but here goes. I have a 2011 Thunderbolt iMac which I love dearly for it's beautiful display. Long story short, I know that there is no way that I can use it as a monitor for my gaming PC, but I was wondering if it would be possible for my iMac to control my gaming PC via the Remote Desktop Application or would there be too much lag? (both machines are on the same network so this would be done locally) I cannot try this yet because I am still in the process of getting my PC back, but I am seeing this as the only viable solution at the moment other than just purchasing a monitor for it.
My mom was nice enough to give me her boss's old Mac OS X desktop. The issue is I have no information about login names or password. I can turn it on and off and that is all. How can I login and get my account set up?
In my .emacs file, I try to install el-get with this code: and get this in Messages: How can I solve this?
The Safari icon indicates a question mark. And, it wont let me go to internet etc. How do I find the Safari app and activate it?
Does anyone know of any iPhone (6) camera apps that lets you flip from the front camera to back camera whilst recording a video please? The standard camera does not, and I can't seem to find any apps that do! I don't mind paying for the app
I cannot find it in: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes/Contents/Resources There are only LockedIcon.icns and UnlockedIcon.icns in this folder who looks like the icon in the dialogue box,the size of the icon in the dialogue box is 128x128px, but LockedIcon.icns and UnlockedIcon.icns is 32x32px. lockedIcon.icns
Any ideas? All the usual PRAM resets, deleting Network Connection plist files, etc. doesn't seem to matter. Seems like an honest firmware / OS X bug to me.
After installing Windows 10 on MacBook Air, can I expect it run like a normal Windows laptop? Will all the software run normally ?
When I tap in the artist in the Music app, I see the list of their albums. Is there a way to make this list sorted by year (release date)? I'm on iOS 9
Just the other day, I had an iMac issue resolved by a AskDifferent member, but part of the solution pushed me to go from 10.8.4 to 10.8.5. I am locked to 10.8, due to applications I use that are dependent on it, but I felt it was a good idea to finally take it to the last update of 10.8, which is 10.8.5. I did it through the 10.8.5 combo installer versus the app store updater. I also installed the latest security updates. Now, I'm trying to install the Supplemental update for 10.8.5 and I'm getting an error message. Here it is:
The output below confirms to me that "emp1" the current user own the symlink "npm", thus I should be able to rwx all day if I want to. Why am I getting Permission denied when trying to remove it? Thanks
My Little Snitch Network Monitor tells me my machine is ping'ing 0.0.0.192 every second. What's going on? EDIT: A Wireshark capture tells me this ping has Source 0.0.76.188 Destination 0.0.0.192
I noticed that Command-X (cut and paste) is greyed out on finder in El Capitan. Is there any way to get it back?
I have a MacBook Air (MacBookAir3,2) with 2 GB ram and still running Snow Leopard (10.6.8). The App Store offers me to upgrade to El Capitan, so I guess the MacBook Air is still supported. But I wonder if you can really enjoy El Capitan with only 2 GB ram? The reason why I think about upgrading at all (beside security issues) is a new iPhone that won't sync with an old iTunes.
On my MacBook Air (running 10.11.2), all my Prolific PL2303 USB-RS232 Adapters (USB VID_067B&PID_2303) ceased working out of the blue, literally over night. I have no idea what caused this. The adapter shows up when running ioreg -p IOUSB as
If I go to System Preferences > Network > Advanced it is shown that I have 2 different IPv6 addresses (both with a 64-bit prefix). Why is so?
Last night I was using my late 2012 MBP (higher res screen, dual intel/amd graphics), and the screen suddenly went black. I left it go for a minute - no change. I open and closed the lid - it suspended just fine, but opening the lid back up gave me nothing. So, I killed the power.
I want to clarify that I already followed the instruction with I think I messed up the Fusion Drive on my 1TB iMac (with BootCamp) but I think I have mayor problems. I followed the instructions to 'Rebuild Fusion Drive' (recommended if you have a Time Machine backup) but when I tried to delete the LVG with diskutil cs delete LVGUUID, it showed an error that the disk couldn't be unmounted. After exiting Terminal and opening Disk Utility it seemed to work because it showed me the message that I need to fix the disk. I ignored the message and continued partitioning the drive, but when I tried to partition the HDD volume I got an error:
It used to be stored in a resource fork, but I've tried listing the resource forks for files on my computer, and they don't seem to have resource forks. Where is the metadata stored now? Like where is it in the filesystem? How can I access it so I can perform a backup and restore of just the metadata or part of the metadata?
In mid-2014, Wife bought a new MacBook directly from apple.com . Said laptop has been acting in some weird ways, like freezing and rebooting itself for no reason, or taking in the order of a full minute or two to start reacting when she opened it in the morning. She attributed it the OS the laptop came with (Maverick) being an inferior version. Now the laptop stopped working altogether ---as in, it won't boot, and it won't allow a fresh reinstall of the OS (either Maverick or other). We are putting our money on a hard drive failure. When she called Apple Support to have it taken care of, the conversation went like this:
At work I'm overseeing several users who use MacBooks to connect to our enterprise environment. One of our vendors has an old server which users access via ssh. I've created an Automator workflow to launch terminal, set it up the way they like (legacy color scheme and font) and get them to the ssh prompt from the server. I get some unexpected behavior in that when the Automator workflow runs, it opens two Terminal windows, then window I want (ssh client) and then another regular Terminal login. If the ssh window is closed, Terminal remains open, and the next time the workflow is run, the window isn't visible until the user manually switches to Terminal.
Took me forever how to finally figure out how to export photos/videos from the new Photos app to an external hard drive - which I must do to free up space as I have over 100 gig of footage I've shot of my 100 year old grandma - with more to shoot. It says my Macintosh Hard Drive is in 'read' only mode so it won't let me export. Can you tell me how to change that so it can allow me to export and I can move these asap?
One thing that's great about Gmail is that it uses the entire userbase to identify spam - if enough users mark something as spam, it's likely spam and gets marked for everyone as such. Are free spam filter systems available for OS X and/or Linux that work similarly, so that I can use them with regular single-user IMAP mail accounts? I realize that there are plenty of bayesan based filters, but those need training and do not work so well in my experience.
Using Apple Software Update gets an installer error when trying to update Boot Camp from 5.1 to 6.0 on a MacBook Pro retina laptop running Windows 10. Also tried downloading the Boot Camp drivers directly from Boot Camp Assistant and get the same errors (see screenshot). The first error is an installer error; if I click Close the program, then I see and empty error message. Any idea how to resolve this?
We want to hand an iPhone 5 on to our granddaughter, but want to make sure that her enquiring mind won't find anything in the phone that she shouldn't. Credit card, bank account details etc. if we erase all settings will that clean the phone but leave the sim unaffected?
I'm using windows 10 on my MBP, and my trackpad (Bluetooth) won't work, unless I disable the bluetooth, then it works... So, how can I have both trackpad and bluetooth?
Since BetterTouchTool is becoming paid, I was looking for an alternative solutions to map my navigation buttons (prev. page, next page) on my mouse (Logitech MX518) that I enjoy using for browsing websites. Right now these two button perform the same action like pressing the scroll wheel. I already tried Logitech's own software but that seems to be a rather overkill solution and apart from using too much resources, it is also too obtrusive while booting up. So I was wondering if there is an easy solution with AppleScript that I could write to just do this trick of mapping a button on my mouse to possibly a swipe gesture (like on trackpads)?
I have not managed to find a way to disable the warning No Sim Card Installed while using iPad Air without sim-card. I disabled using Mobile data in all parts of settings. I have done this now in three generation of iPads unsuccessfully. The notice window looks like this
Whenever I use the self-timer modes (either 3s, or 10s), my iPhone takes a burst of photos no matter what. Is there a way too disable this
I guess I updated a new tweak and so now when I turn my phone of then back on it stays stuck on Apple logo. So I did the whole power button home, then when it comes on I hold the up button so when Cydia goes on safe mode I have to turn phone off to get my tweaks back the problem is that when I do that it gets stuck again on the apple logo. Please help...
So many times, I'll call someone (iPhone to iPhone) and the iPhone will ring once, but goes to voice mail immediately about halfway through the ring. What are the possibilities? I'm assuming the phone is dead could be one, but I know that's not the case. Maybe they could also be on the phone?
To clear things up I have setup folder actions on my mac for whenever a USB device is plugged into my mac it will run a shell script. When I list all files in the Directory /Volumes i get What I want to do is list all folders and files located in WED or any USB that pops up, so therefore excluding the directories Leaving me with What i have for the script so far is: I have tried multiple different ways but it still ends up listing every single file in the /Volumes directory.
I have an iMac(Early 2009) running Leopard (10.5.8). Now I want to upgrade my OS to El Capitan (10.11). The situation is this one: ✔ my iMac version is listed under the upgradable devices ✘ MacOSX 10.6.8 is required to be installed (due to Mac App Store introduction) on the iMac buy the DVD of Snow Leopard (10.6) from online Apple Store and install it on 10.5.8; update the OS until 10.6.8; use the App Store to download and install El Capitan.
When my computer reaches 4% battery, Virtualbox shuts off. How can I disable this or change when it happens?
I am running Mac OS 10.11.2 and have Toshiba (1TB) and WD (1 and 2 TB) external drives that mount but are read only. I tried the terminal script LABEL=DRIVE_NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse which according to the disk utility is writeable, but I do not see the icon on the desktop or the finder. If I go to the Finder All my Files, I see the contents of the disk, but I cannot write to it through any program. Thoughts, suggestions? Thanks. All of the Finder Preferences are set correctly and the drives are fine since they work flawlessly on my other Apple Air running OS 10.7.9. John
So I have an iPad 3 running iOS 9.2 and a PC running Windows 10. I use an app called INFUSE on my iPad to play videos and movies. Now when I was running iOS 8.4, I did something (I can't remember exactly what) on my PC, and created an ad hoc network or something like that, which allowed me to access my disk drive from infuse and play videos. After that I have upgraded iOS on my iPad (clean install). Now I can't remember how to do it again. I can create an ad hoc network but my iPad won't join it. Can someone please tell me how to replicate the process?
No clue why it's getting those errors. When I add an echo to the last command
P.S. I have a simple USB mouse, I am not using Apple trackpad or any such fancy thing.
I saw some strange entries in my Login Items, so I decided to do some digging in the associated com.apple.loginitems.plist file, and found something called MacUpdaterSwift. Google only gave me three search results, and none of them made sense. What is this?
My kid forgot her passcode. We realize that to get it she will lose all data I've followed direction on other site but it always tells me to it will send an email and to follow instructions. Duh I can't open the iPad to read the email. Have tried setting up a secondary iCloud account on my iPad after the fact but that won't work either it seems she didn't fill in personal info for that option. Help!
I have a 34 inch iMac 5k (late 2015), configured with the top specs:  I'm currently running a 34 inch 3440x1440 monitor linked via thunderbolt. I recently ordered a second one. I've googled around and while there are many threads about supporting a single 34 inch monitor, I couldn't see any about supporting 2 at once. I'd like to know if it's technically feasible to do so.
Does Apple have a policy regarding how long they will continue to release and support security fixes for each iOS release? I observe that many people complain about performance issues with iOS upgrades on their relatively "old" Apple devices. Therefore, before buying, I would like to foresee how long my device will be provided with security updates by Apple for its default iOS version. I specifically wonder the date of end of security support for iOS 6 (its latest sub-version, probably 6.1.3).
Say I have two windows of the same application open. One is running full screen in a separate Space, while the other is on the Desktop Space with other application windows. Take for example the following spaces: Desktop: Safari + Mail Window 1 Full Screen: Mail Window 2
This is my first question here. I am going to buy a new iPhone 6s and got confused. In my country we do not have any Apple authorised seller. So I have to buy from any mobile shop. I searched Google but not found exactly what I look for. Here is my simple question: How can I see factory information of my iPhone?
After logging in the following message appears: Do you want the application “Microsoft Word.app” to accept incoming network connections? How do I allow Word to accept incoming network connections in El Capitan?
I want to reassign Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ F to a custom command, but Finder reserves it to open 'All My Files'. I have looked around Preferences-Keyboard-Shortcuts, but the Finder shortcuts do not seem to be listed, so I cannot remove them. Is there any way to remove the Finder shortcuts so I can assign them to what I want? Many thanks, Will.
I need to renew my Apple's Developer Program Membership. But my D-U-N-S number (which was required to enrol in the program the first time) has expired.
When installing a program on a Mac does the installer consider processor speed and number of cores in order to tailor the programs performance, and if so will upgrading processor architecture from single to dual CPUs require reinstalling the program for improved performance. I'm having trouble with the alignment or synchronization of sound and the visual feedback from the GUI in Apple's Logic Pro 10.2, when running more than 8 processing threads, which, now that I've installed two six core 3.46 GHz Intel Xeon 5690, is a meager count considering the 24 possible threads possible with hyperthreading.
Is it possible to automatically convert a file to another format every time it is saved? Some context: I have a Numbers file which needs to be converted to csv for processing by various shell scripts. At the moment I have to manually "Export to CSV" each time I edit the file, which I don't always remember.
Is there any way to install uBlock Origin on Safari? I'm currently using macOS 10.11.2 with Safari 9.0.2 on a 2012 MacBook Pro.
I have installed a wrong version of Anaconda from python 2.7 on OS X 10.11.1 and to remove it, I deleted its files from the Finder. Now Launchpad is confused and the Anaconda folder is still there, grayed and cannot be deleted using the mouse controls.
Hi, I have been trying to prepare two ipad2's via Configurator 1.7 on a mac with Yosemite and am constantly getting the error "unable to conform activation", further details show that "could not allocate a resource" code: -402653181 and domain: com.apple.mdk.amderror I manage over 100 ipads via configurator and have not had this problem before. I have Ipad Air 1 which I have also prepared with no problems though I am yet to try an Ipad Air to see if this occurs.
I would like to get the result of this search and display the result in a notification or safari popup. " set result to do shell script "curl *=URL=* & cc without altering line endings" only have as a result the same value of the main query The result won't display as a notification so for now, its only set as clipboard Also the result is really raw can I clean that somehow ? Thanks.
On my desktop I have some folders, they all have custom icons. I'm now trying to add alias' to my desktop with custom icons, how can this be done? I've tried Custom icons on a alias folder Creating symbolic links to all the folders inside the folder (like below) ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Personal ~/Desktop/Google\ Drive Creating symbolic links to all the folders inside the folder (like below) ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Personal ~/Desktop/Google\ Drive The second option has the bottleneck of not being dynamic; if I add a folder/file to ~/Google\ Drive, I'll need to create a new symbolic link and visa versa, if I delete a folder I'll need to delete the folder which represents the symbolic. I could run a script that does this but this to me seems like i'm over complicating the problem. Something like
Right after I upgraded my iMac to OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.2, my screenshots no longer saves to the desktop. Using "control + shift + 4", my captured shot just disappears, don't know where it goes.
Under the 'Find my iPhone' app, one of our phones listed now has a 2 beside it: iPhone (2) Listed like the above. What does that mean?
Now i'm having yosemite in my mac and I've been trying to update my mac from yesterday.My wifi has some problem so it might be the problem to download ei capitan it disconnect each and every time when i resumed it.Finally it starts from beginning. So I'm planning to download it through offline. Please anyone shed some light on this question
This is the situation: I have a web server on my LAN that serves up beta versions of my documentation for my free software.
When I try to use camera on my macbook in photo booth / skype there's no image coming from it. Camera's LED blinks (with approx 1 second interval). How do I fix that or confirm that's a hardware related problem? Anything else I should try aside PMU and SMC reset?
I am using a local adapter to use my Indian MacBook charger in the US. I am wondering is it safe to use so.
There are 3 files used to save Messages on Mac. chat.db chat.db-shm chat.db-wal What are each of them for?
My colleague has two MacBook Pro 13 (Retina) laptops and has setup Windows 10 through bootcamp on both. The bootcamp wizard has been installed on both but there is a problem with the Thunderbolt drivers on one of them. When an external display is connected via Thunderbolt, it does not display anything until the machine is rebooted. There is a USB device in device manager that has an issue "set address failed" which we suspect is related to the problem.
Hello I have been searching for ways to update my apps & download without having to use a credit card which I don't have and I don't have the "none or Paypal" option in the payment section and I don't know what else to do. Is there any way without having those options that I can update my apps or even download any??
The default behavior of Finder will show file Size in bytes, KB, MB, GB depending on the file size. Is there a way to have Finder display the file Size in a fixed unit such as MB or KB? (This makes it easier to tell approximate file size at a quick glance simply by how many digits wide the file size is).
Background: We have a lab of Macintosh computers, all running 10.10.3 currently, that are for classroom instruction. Students typically use their own login/password via Active Directory to log in to these machines, however guest(anonymous) access is also available. Traditionally we have never previously allowed students to open/use Terminal.app as the room was used primarily for art, but recently the machines are being used for science and instructors have requested CLI access. Students are not admins and would not be able to use sudo.
I have these two programs "Fan Control" and "Shades" which I got from the Macupdate website. With other downloads it seems they can simply be dragged nd dropped from the applications folder into the trash and all their history is gone with them. However, Fan Control and Shades seem to be stored somewhere differently and I cannot seem to find a way to delete them. They are seen in the system perferences and no where else now. I deleted them from the download folder and the all files folder but the icon and its function are still there. Please help Thank you
If I move my cursor around really fast, half a second after I start moving it the cursor becomes huge. Why does it do that? Can I disable it somewhere in settings?
The title of my terminal window is: Terminal -- bash -- 130x39 This is how I see them listed in Terminal->Window and it is very hard to know which one is which. When I use multiple terminals, the most important information is the local directory in each of them. Is there any way to have that local directory appear in the titles, so I could see easily which terminal is from where?
I want to fix my trackpad for my mid-2010 MBP. It's partially tipping upwards on the left-hand side. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it a relatively easy job? will I need to buy a new trackpad? or is there a way to fix the current one? Thanks
This is really frustrating. I get the alerts on my watch but not on my phone. This is especially frustrating when I'm driving. When I get an alert, its easier to view it on my mounted phone versus reading my arm. Is there a way to get notifications at both places?
I constantly have my MBP connected to its charger. I was curious though, can this affect the battery? If the battery is always at 100% and power is constantly being fed into it, does this damage the battery? Because right now my trackpad is bulging same with the lower body of the MBP and it's because of the battery expanding. So I was curious if the constant charge may have deformed the battery. Thank you
I have noticed that every time I do Mac OSX update the Command line developer tools is getting lost. I had to install it again after each OSX update. Is there a way to prevent this? Or Is there a way to automatically install it during OSX update?
If I select text using a pattern in TextEdit how do I transform that selected text? I can't get anything in the Transform menu to work when text is selected like this. I am using a pattern to find and highlight text.
I have 7-8 External Hard Disk Drives. I would like to be able to know the content of each of the drives (files and folders) without having to connect them to my system (cumbersome). Is there and program that can create a browsable snapshot of the directory listing?
Does anybody know how to include the keys pressed during the recording in the movie in Screenium 3? I'd like to record a tutorial for an app on OS X and include the key combinations pressed when recording the tutorial automatically. Contacted their supported several times but they're ignoring my support requests.
My Macbook Pro has been freezing a lot lately during normal computer operation. I get the spinning beach ball and i can't click on anything (although the mouse moves just fine).
I have an old-ish iMac where the sound has stopped working:  which I'm not really too fussed about - it doesn't get used for a whole lot of stuff. The only really annoying part is that it seems like every time the OS wants to play a bell, it sees that there's no sound available so it flashes the entire screen white.
It seems I can't edit the plist file from LaunchAgents — even if I sudo, I'm prevented from any deletion/alteration. Do I have to necessarily disable SIP to do this?
So I was following this tutorial *=URL=* and opened the folder of the SD Card. The Screen went black and I rebooted. Now I get a Prohibited Sign on boot up. In the Recovery mode (cmd + options + r) I see that my Macintosh HD is unmounted and repairing sais that something is wrong with the Disk. I can't reinstall because the installer isn't finding any Disks. What should I do ?
Recently I encountered some weird folders in the names of my files (including extension) which prevents some files being called. e.g. a file named index.html has been moved to a folder named index.html How can I remove this malware? Note: I'm using Bitdefender 3.5 already updated, but it doesn't solve the problem. File info:
It appears that brew does not have a Julia formula. This is quite surprising to me, am I missing something?
I've added text annotations to a pdf with Tools > Annotate > Text. I'd like to search the text for a specific word, like 'Todo'. Unfortunately, doing a cmd+F to search for this text doesn't work. Is there a way to make text annotations searchable (by this I don't mean highlights and notes, which I know can be searched)? I'm using the latest version of Preview (Version 8.1 (877.7)) on OS X El Capitan.
I have an iPhone 6 which took a dump in a river. Since then, it will not turn on and does not register when connected to a computer, i.e. it is dead for all intents and purposes. Does anyone know of a company that offers to read the data directly from the iPhone's flash storage or if this is even feasible (considering that damage is likely with the logic board since exchanging first the battery, then the Lightning connector and plugging into external power did not allow booting the device)?
I've noticed that my new MacBook Pro 13" 2015 (MF839) is getting hot while playing browser games or watching models at sketchfab.com. Both CPU and GPU temperatures rise to 100-105 degrees (Celsius) while playing agar.io or petridish.pw (for example) in Safari/Google Chrome. I've already reset SMC controller and cooler is working fine: about 3000 RPM, but I still believe that temperatures are very high for browser games.
I have been using Panic Transmit to upload files from a specific folder to an S3 bucket for quite a while (couple of years). I have run into an issue where the Automator actions associated with Panic won't load (I think this is an apple Quarantine problem). When I open automator and try to use the upload action, for example, I see the following:
I have a strange problem in El Capitan. I have a second internal drive which is divided into two partitions: one Fat32 and one HFS+ Journaled.
I want to have a Mac Mini automatically boot when power is applied, as I cannot conveniently reach its power button, because it resides inside an art installation, where the power will be shut down during the night. I thought it might be possible to use the "Start up automatically after a power failure" in the energy system settings for this, along with the -u parameter to the shutdown command, in order to safely bring the machine in a state where I don't have to fear data loss. According to the shutdown man page, the -u parameter seems to be what I need:
is it possible to create (and put in the dock) a custom terminal window? What I mean with "custom":
When saving photos on an iPad from Facebook, where do the photos get saved?
I have a closed caption video embedded from YouTube on my website that will show the captions when viewing in Safari on a desktop computer. When I view the web page in Safari on iPhone 6, the captions do not show. I have clicked the little icon in the bottom right of bottom grey bar for "Subtitles and CC" and have it set to "English". I have set my iPhone settings > General > Accessibility > Media > Subtitles & Captioning to on and default type. Clicking the video and viewing it with the YouTUBE app on my iPhone will show the captions but I would also like them to show when viewing from the webpage directly. Not sure if this is an iPhone issue, Safari issue, YouTube issue or if it requires a simple edit to the iframe/embed code on my webpage. I do have "&cc_load_policy=1" as part of my src tag. iOS/Safari and iOS/Chrome also do NOT show closed captions for video-js videos on webpage either. Anyone out there run into this?
When you select the "Get Info" option, the mac will bring up a pop-up with the various attributes of the object selected. In the "Sharing & Permissions" section, you can set the access level.
I am running OS X Yosemite and Mail v8.2. Every time I add a new folder, Mail puts them to the bottom folder structure. This is very confusing and I have to go through all folders all the time to find my stuff. I would like the mailboxes to stay in alphabetical order. How can I do that? This was just working fine in previous version.
I was doing some routine cleanup of my HDD, when I noticed some huge log files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail. Where do I toggle those log files off and on?
I would like to restore factory settings on my iPhone 5. When I try to do this via iTunes, the computer tells me that I have to change the iCloud settings on my phone: deactivate "Find my iPhone".
In particular interested in whether it can be seen in Adobe Reader. Really would like to avoid installing Adobe as it requires frequent updates and seems like a resource hog. I think this is essentially the reverse of this question: Different ways of displaying documents between Adobe Reader and Preview
I'm trying to make a simple web server on my machine accessible to a peer on the same network, but with not much success. I am having an issue where my firewall continually turns back on, or won't turn off (I can't be sure which).
How I can save the Skype chat history from my ipad? It does not matter in what format, for example as a text file.
I'm not sure what's wrong here. I would like my fusion drive to work again since the current speed of my computer is quite slower than it was before. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Many thanks!
I just bought a 2014 MacBook Pro with a 512GB SSD. I updated to El Capitan today and when it booted up for the first time, it asked me if I wanted to enable FileVault. I chose not to because I wasn't sure if I should enable it before I install Windows via BootCamp (and possibly a Linux disto too).
I use the incredibly useful feature on OS X to announce time on the hour for my time management by checking the option in Date & Time preferences.  However, the time announcements keep going on during the night unless I shutdown my iMac (which I don't want to). Is there a way to silence it during night time or to make it not announce time when the screen is locked? I know there was a related question for OS X Lion but posting this to see if there is a better/different solution for El Capitan.
I followed the instructions (that I could understand) to install BasicTeX from Cask and this was the output I got: I see this:
I just connected my Mac mini (Late 2012) to my TV using HDMI. Now, all works good, except that I cannot set system volume on the HDMI link. That is, if I switch from built-in speaker to HDMI audio, system volume is locked and I cannot adjust it. Under Windows (Boot Camp), by contrast, I can adjust system volume, so it's not hardware-related issue. Is there any workaround?
I tried to quit bootcamp, open recovery mode then verify & repair disk and both run smoothly without any problem. But when I run bootcamp, the process always stuck at this same point
I can't upgrade Yosemite at the Mac App Store. Everything else works but the last upgrade ( iTunes 12.3.2, Safari 9.0.2, etc.) It seems it is starting, but stops downloading.
I want to post an image on a website, but it requires the image's url, which I don't know how to. By the way, I'm on an iPad... could anyone help?
Is there a way to get notified about upcoming iOS final releases, maybe a week or a few days before the actual release happens? For major releases, there seems to be a GM seed before the actual release happens, but for minor releases (like the upcoming iOS 9.3), there are just a bunch of beta builds. I'd like to skip testing my app with all of the beta builds and just focus on the most recent one, a few days before the release actually happens.
I have gone through many articles (please list one article you are following so we might suggest a better or at least follow along) and found the same solution but no result?? I have done -> and added: and saved it. Then to verify: it results in: But when I check in network utility port scan it doesn't shows that port is opened. Also tried with turning off firewall. I'm running OS X 10.11.2 and don't know how to forward my local host to a public IP using 80 port without doing anything but I want it to be forwarded to port 100 instead.
I really love the Spotify app. When I like some songs on Spotify, I'm using "Save to Your Music" to add songs to my Spotify library. But this requires switching applications and using the mouse, so I want to create a shortcut key to do this? Is there any way to create something similar to this idea which does "Save to Your Music"?
I have a budget table with cost per week, fortnight, month, quarter and year. Some expenses are charged quarterly and others monthly or weekly, but I want to know what the value of a cell is for the week, month etc. using a more efficient, preferably inbuilt function to return the week in the formula. For example, car registration is done quarterly but I break it down to week, fortnight, month and year using manual formulas. Cost per week is =SUM(quarter * 4 / 52.14) ... Of course this year (2016) is a leap-year so I had to go through and update all my formulas from 52.14 weeks in a year to 52.28.
This is only happening on this particular machine (El Capitan). On other Macs with the same system I see, as expected:
This is just a curiosity: what's the reason I ended up having two different icons for two external hard drives? In my case in the Finder I have:
My parents both have GMAIL accounts. We were wondering if there was a way to forward email so when my dad's account receives email from a certain sender it would be forwarded to my mom's account. Perhaps using Automator or applescript running on OS X 10.10 to solve this?
I have a Mac mini server (Server.app 5.0.15 on El Capitan 10.11.2), and that connects to a file share on another Mac mini, also with El Capitan 10.11.2. Spotlight indexes for the file shares are not available on the client, so I can't do efficient searches on the file shares. What should be done to enable file share indexes, and where: on the server El Capitan? on Server.app? on the client?
I've been having an issue where my computer will randomly shut down and give me the panic report saying that your computer restarted because of a problem. I took it to the apple store they ran a diagnostic, and all they did was wipe my OS. It is still having the same problem so I recently just erased my whole system in reinstalled my OS X 2 more times, and I still seem to be having the issue. I have reset the smc and nvram multiple times. I've ran the disk utility first aid multiple times. Can some interpret this for me who knows how to read panic reports to see what is causing this issue. Crash Log 1 Crash Log 2 Crash Log 3 (I edited this out - it was the same as crash 2 - you can see the system uptime in nanoseconds for a quick check before pasting in the third :-) The hardware is a retina 2012 MacBook Pro and has all software updates and EFI updates applied.
In TextMate, I have recently my open file that is become weird:  No way to come back to a normal window. Does anyone know how to do?
I really hate the new OS X 10.10, Yosemite, icons and I just can't like the user interface. Is there a way to bring back the Maverick ones by patching some files.
I've made an Automator service for extracting PDF text and saving it in the current directory, and it works reasonably well. It takes one or several PDF files, extracts the text, and saves it as separate .rtfs placed in the same directory as where the original PDFs was found. Fine, excellent, except for one small rub: what is invariably also saved alongside the other .rtfs is an empty one (zero bytes), with the name of the current directory.
Is there any way to specify that a certain password should not be synced to iCloud? Use case:
I have an Android phone with a lot of notes in Google Keep. Is there an easy way to sync all my notes to my Mac so I can add, delete, and modify notes on both devices? (I've seen some paid apps, but I'd prefer to try something free if there's a way.) Thanks in advance.
In my setup, we have an OS X server, where the machine is bound to our Active Directory domain. I am able to log onto the machine using AD users/credentials locally, with no problems. However, when I configure and enable the 'Time Machine' service, I cannot seem to authenticate to the machine from my Mac. I was wondering if there was something extra needed for the server to query AD, without having to configure local users. Thanks!
Even though this computer is already authorized for iTunes:  Following the directions on the warning message as seen in the screenshot: I did authenticate this computer
I have a solar panel that emits 5 volts, and I would like to try to charge my iPhone with it. Should I connect the I/O wires directly behind the lightning plug, or is the big transformer block important? I guess the block is used to change the voltage to 5 volts so that the iPhone can handle it, but I'd like to be sure.
How do I change other iOS devices that ring and receive messages when near my iPhone receiving calls?
Is there a way to display the calculation history, like what is done in real calculators with a register tape?
What do I need to do so that my computer, hooked to Chicken, can see the Time Capsule? Swap the order of the boxes? Make Time Capsule run in some other mode? I'm open to pretty much any rearrangement, but I do need to keep both Monkey and Chicken as separate networks/routers, and obviously simpler is better.
I had installed Corel Painter 2016 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with its .pkg installer. I removed installed files from /Applications/ by dragging them to the Trash.
"Speak" is wrong. My iPhone international/languages settings are only: English and Japanese.
Is there a way to stream TV from my iPad to my Panasonic TV? I am a relatively new iPad user with little expertise.
Using Finder, how can I view /System/Library? In fact, I'd really like to do the equivalence of a recursive grep for file names from the root directory using Finder. How can I move around the entire file system with Finder?
My question is, is replacing the battery likely to fix this problem? Or is this indicative of a more serious problem? Things I have tried: Shutdown. Resetting the SMC. Different power adapters.
For example, how do you search for all folders that contain ".mp3" files (on OS X)?
I have an unused 45W MacBook Air MagSafe 2 PSU, and an 85W MagSafe 1 PSU that my dog chewed the connector off. I'm wondering if splicing the MagSafe 2 connector onto the 85W PSU would allow a MacBook Pro to draw the full capacity from the 85W PSU, or would it limit itself to the nominal capacity identified by the MagSafe connector's ID chip (i.e. that of the 45W PSU)?
I have iPhone 5 and iOS 9.2 installed right now in my phone but still i am not getting Apple News app in my phone. Can any one let me know how can I get that application on my iPhone 5 (India).
I am iPhone app developer. i have develop application in my hackintosh PC but now i plan to buy a Macbook for app development. I have two option one is Macbook air and second is Macbook pro both are coming in 13 inch screen. Please help me to choose which is the best Macbook for application development ?
My primary goal to purchase new Macbook is to develop iPhone, iPad and Mac applications. I want to know in which Macbook xcode will run very smoothly ? I have two selection option Macbook air and Macbook pro Please help me to choose any one
I'm wondering if I need to migrate to Linux to have a functioning OS.. Anyway, my problem is present from Mavericks till El Capitan and is about rebooting twice every time I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep (open lid or hit a key). Can you help me understanding the problem? This is the report:
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.5 and I have downloaded the wrong Safari browser, for OS X 10.10. It says "You can't use this version of the application "Safari" with this version of OS X". How to downgrade the incorrect version for OS X 10.10 and replace with the newest Safari for OS X 10.8.5?
At work, I usually use my left USB port to charge my iPhone, while the right port connects to a hub on my monitor, providing Ethernet, external keyboard and sometimes another iOS device. I also have the monitor itself connected via one of the Thunderbolt ports. The computer is connected to the mains.
I'm interested in buying an external hard drive. I'd like to know whether if it's possible (and simple if so) to have two separate Time Machine Backups from two different MacBooks at the same time?
I want to know if I can manage (copy MEDIA (music or video) from it and paste MEDIA to it) the File Sharing folder of iOS apps using iOS devices (iPhone, iPad ...) without plugging the device to a computer. AND WITHOUT JAILBREAK
My UP3 is set up to be the primary data source for updating the Steps tracker in the Health app. During the day, when I check the Health app, the steps recorded match the steps registered in the UP app.
For years, connecting to external monitors on my MBP 9,2 (10.10.4) worked just fine (except the occasional crash). Until yesterday, where I had three crashes in quick succession. Now when the display (miniDP-to-VGA) is connected, the computer won't boot. I unlock my boot volume, but the black bar only fills to about one third before stopping. When I disconnect the adapter, it boots but once I connect the display, the laptop screen goes black and audio also dies after a few moments. The computer is still running and can only be shut down by long-pressing the power button.
My 2013 iMac was recalled by the factory for some issue with the drive. The drive was changed and I started afresh - I thought. It turns out that I was running some schedule on Time Machine which updated every time there was a change in file parameters. Which means always. One adviser suggests that this old script has been transported onto the new drive, but now I can't get to it to stop it. I do not run Time Machine and make all my back-ups by another program. Does anyone have any idea if anything can be done to fix it?
Very similar problem as this question, only the display itself is working on the thunderbolt monitor (I only have one, unlike the linked question which had two) with a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). No camera, no audio, no power to USB ports on the display. If I disconnect the thunderbolt display from the MBP, then power does go to the USB ports. OS X 10.10.5 (14F1509) (more details below which probably don't amount to much)
As per What are the downsides to using Time Machine? the first item reads Time machine requires an Apple specific HFS+ filesystem to store backups. Which is a Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) disk. But then, OS X of course wants Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Just like most everyone else I get: This volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup. After hours of googling, I've not read that there is absolutely no workaround.
MacBook Pro early 2011 model with El Capitan (10.11.1 - edit - just noticed there's an update. Not sure if relevant but I'm running it now). I can boot fine into OS X and log in. But I'm trying to boot into Recovery Mode (Apple Key + R on boot) but it always gives me the Prohibited symbol. I can boot into Internet Recovery (Apple Key + Options + R) just fine. I can open Disk Utility while logged in with my user, so I ran the First Aid on the disk with no problems found.
I run two external monitors + my MBP display in OSX Yosemite. My middle external monitor is also connected to my PC.
I need to install Xcode 4.6.2 on Mountain Lion 10.8.5. I got the dimg file from developer.apple.com, and ran it to install. This appeared to work, but when I click the icon in Finder, I get a dialog to install "Device Support." When I click Install, I get a message "An unknown error occurred. See the install log for more details." There is no way to make progress and no relevant message in the log. Please note, I have admin privileges while I do all this.
Question: Is it safe to take a backup of just the newer Photos.app library, or may it have some crazy dependencies into the older iPhotos library? Background: On my 479 GB HDD, 348 GB is used by "iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary" and 356 GB is used by "Photos Library.photoslibrary".
I love the swipe gesture but I recently switched from a Magic Mouse to a gaming mouse which is non multitouch. For the back command, Safari only offers a straight keyboard-only shortcut or the multitouch swipe gesture.
I have an Macbook pro 13 mid 2014. I want to connect an UHD monitor(3840x2160) and run it at 60Hz. My thunderbolt's specs says that it can perform at 20 Gb/s.
I have a late 2012 model iMac that I'm preparing to sell. I want to reset it to factory defaults, so Internet Recovery sounds perfect. However, Cmd + Option + R during boot does not work. For that matter, Cmd + R doesn't either. How can I enter Internet Recovery?
Can I use Time Machine and Time Capsule 2 to backup not only my MacBook Pro files, apps, etc. but also the files stored on my iCloud Drive for sharing with my other MacBook Pro and others?
I have a couple of MacBooks. Both have SSD drives. Using a Trifield EMF meter with radio/microwave capability, if I hold the meter near the laptop (where I understand the wifi antenna is located), I receive blips ranging from 4-30 milligauss. A bit less on the radio/electric setting. Sometimes they are repetitious quick blips, other times they are more erratic. If I hold the meter near the back of the laptop where the antenna connector is, I get readings that base around 80 milligauss to off of the scale (over 100 milligauss).
How can I simply store a file from gmail on iPad to a specific folder on iPad. Is this possible ? I am able to do this on every other system (Android, Windows), but I am not able to do on this iPad. Background:
About a week ago iCloud's Back to My Mac service silently stopped working and will no longer start. I discovered an error icon in System Preference's iCloud panel reporting the error: Back to My Mac isn't working because it couldn't start properly.
At one point, with iCloud, Mail tried and failed to create a separate folder for messages, with a report that the folder already existed on the server. However: neither Mail, nor the web interface to iCloud, showed that folder. That discrepancy makes me wonder whether the intermittent separation is a side effect of problems with IMAP subscriptions …
I live in Canada but travel to the States and when I do I put in my American SIM card which of course has a different phone number. Sometimes when in the States I get locked out of my account and it sends a verification code to my Canadian number, but I don't really want to put the SIM card back in the phone just to get the code. Is there any way I can have the verification code go to both numbers simultaneously.
Searched the web for quite some time and still can't find a solution. Is it even possible at all to restrict ssh user to a single directory in 10.11? I have set up an user account via System Preferences Users & Groups. Under Advanced Options I specified a home directory. This is the highest level directory he can go. Followed some instruction to modify ssh/sshd_config to include: but it doesn't work.
I'm working in a huge text-box in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac. When I insert a figure I can't find settings for the layout in order to fit the figure in between the text of the textbox. Therefore if I add a new line/word/sentence in the text I have to replace all the figures and the content. Is there a possibility to merge and fit the picture in the text?
I have a standard 256GB SSD right now. I would like to upgrade that to a 512GB or higher. When I was looking around I found this SAMSUNG 950 PRO 512 GB SSD that has a huge performance in write and read speed.
I am attempting to install Firefox on my Mac, which currently does not have a browser. From a bash terminal I have ftp installed and am currently connected to the internet. However, I have been unsuccessful in connecting to their FTP server. How do I go about installing Firefox for my Mac via the command line?
How can i restore my jailbroken iPod 4th gen iOS 6.1.6. When i restore from iTunes it shows an error" iPod could not be restore an unknown error(3096) occurred". What can i do for restoring my iPod .
For previous versions of TEX Live Utility open TEX Live Utility→Preferences and click on the Choose. . . button as in Figure (4). That opens a file chooser. Type Shift-Cmd-G, enter /Library/TeX into the dialog box as shown in Figure (5) and then press Return. Finally DoubleClick on texbin. I get
I just walked on my treadmill for 20 minutes. I don't see anything in the exercise ring. How is the exercise time counted?
How can I remove Photo Library from iCloud without deleting the photos stored on the iPhone, so that photos will be included in an iCloud backup of the phone?
My father has an iPod Nano (4th generation I think, though it may be 5th) and runs iTunes on his aging Windows laptop. He would like to switch to a Chromebook, which would obviously prevent him from running iTunes locally. Are there alternative (cloud-based) ways of syncing music to an older Nano device, or is a PC with iTunes required to store music and sync this device?
When I call up spotlight by pressing command-space, and then start typing something Spotlight often seems to miss the first letter I type. It doesn't happen every time, only about 1 in 5 times I use it.
I am trying to connect to a web server (nginx) on OS X El Capitan - on local wifi from an iOS device. I know from earlier that this is not easy. Tried this without success. Have you come across anything that works?
My girlfriend has recently acquired her sisters old iPhone 5s running latest iOS version as of writing. Her mother has an IPhone 5s as well, under similar conditions. Both devices are linked to distinct iCloud and Apple IDs.
I used my old Mac which showed me English when I browsed through Mac App Store. However, after I purchased my new Mac and ported all the data using Time Machine, the Mac App Store suddenly shows me Japanese for some reasons.
I'm subscribed to a podcast using the default iOS Podcasts app. Whenever I open it and see a new episode I click both Save Episode and Download Episode. It does download the file but then it still shows the cloud icon in front of it. And if I go to airplane mode, that episode gets grayed out, which essentially means it wasn't downloaded. I've tried this with several episodes during last month, and the app always behaves in the same way. So I enabled Sync Podcasts and Automatically include *all* episodes of *all podcasts* in the iTunes sync settings on my PC and all those missing episodes magically appeared in iTunes on my computes showing as Unplayed - turns out it did save them, it's just it doesn't list them in the iOS app. I also tried doing this the other way around - downloaded an episode through iTunes on my PC and sync'd the library with the phone, but that episode it downloaded still does not show up on the phone.
Occasionally, when unlocking my iPhone or iPad, I get the following message: Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID
I can't find a list of Apple TV products anywhere. I want to use Dish Anywhere specifically on the Apple TV. I'd also like to know if I can just mirror my screen from my iPhone 6 Plus to the Apple TV.
My old MacBook Pro died so I did a restore from a Time Machine backup to an iMac. I did the restore to a new user so the info already in the iMac would not be lost. Everything went smoothly and I have a clone from my MB Pro in the iMac.
I have a file that I keep linking to. It's up to 45 links now. Does anyone know how I can find out what the maximum number of hard links is in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)?
I've got an old 2008 Macbook which is not eligible for upgrade to anything supported at the moment. So, I am looking to buy a new MacBook Pro. My question is, Is it better to copy/move my HDD to the new machine and then do an upgrade or start with the clean install of OSX already on the machine and slowly reinstall all the apps I need, as needed? Thanks.
seeing if anyone as done this. Has any used a 45w charger (like the one that comes with the Air) to charge their Macbook Pro? I left my Pro charger at a friends house and will not be able to get it before I leave town for a work trip, where I'll need the Pro. I'm thinking that I can shut down the laptop and use the Air charger to charge it over night.
I need to confine remotely logged in users to stay in 1 directory only, so I would thought I should attack this problem via SFTP or SSH, so I asked in Restrict sftp user to a single directory in El Capitan.
When I found the package installer, it warned me that it was an expired certificate and designed for 10.8.5 and that it would damage the machine if I ran it on 10.11.2. I decided to try this anyway and the install failed almost instantly (Never even rebooted). I also cleared my App Store cache to attempt to remove the previous version of the update done on the App Store to redownload it. No effect. I've gone though the various steps in *=URL=* but I've seen no change. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to virtualize my physical Boot Camp partition, so I can do small Windows tasks from Mac without restarting. I followed mostly this tutorial but also read others. But now when I try to launch the VM it prompts this: VD: error VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED opening image file
I am regularly getting an error message from a program that purports to be an OS X Install program. I have no idea how this is starting, or where it is from, but it appears after reboots too, and I don't like it. I'm running the El Capitan 10.11 Beta (15A278b), so there is a possibility it's connected to that. After trying to update some other apps from the MAS, I get an error message which indicates it's a Yosemite Beta Installer. Anyone know where this can come from, and how I can stop it?
The Mail app on my Mac stopped displaying message body once the message is opened. I can still see the message body in the message preview in each mailbox, but when I click (or double click) on a specific message, the message body is blank in the new window.
I've tried numerous examples online, but all don't seem to work. The image is received via Automator and each file is dispensed incrementally and ran through the following Applescript: It should insert every image into the same Pages document, but instead I'm getting 'Can't make image {image (alias: "certain path") with document id: "certain id"} into type properties of image'. Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong? Automator workflow
Not sure if this is possible. But I was wondering if there is a shortcut for physically moving a tab on my Terminal. Say I have these tabs on my terminal:
Yesterday, my computer developed two worrying problems that occurred simultaneously: My computer began to crash at random times (solved, maybe) My Wi-Fi turns off frequently and cannot be turned back on (unsolved) Some useful information that may be of assistance: Network is inaccessible The Wi-Fi symbol is unfilled (it's really off, not just disconnected) ifconfig reports that en0 (the Wi-Fi interface) is up, but status is inactive The Network tag under System Report... still shows the correct card type and firmware version (AirPort Extreme and Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0, respectively), but the status is Off. AirPort Utility is fully updated All VPNs (of which there are one) are disabled (by me), and all other network types turned off (by me)
I found the following in my wifi.log file after l connected to wifi: Unexpected payload found for message 9, dataLen 0 What does it mean?
Boot Camp caused ~200 GB of my 750 GB HD to disappear and I cannot re(un)-partition it through Disk Utility and when I try to reformat the storage through the terminal using: with the appropriate name and size this is what it tells me
I am currently developing an app for a client for which I plan to integrate a PayPal API to accept donations from users. The app is otherwise free. Since the organization is not yet registered legally as a non-profit organization, I would like to know if this is allowed according to Apple standards.
Obviously installing gcc from source will require a compiler to build it; is it possible to install gcc without Xcode?
Trying to install my nasm version as 2.11.08 but when i hit the "sudo make install" im getting error like this how can i resolve this problem im running Elcapitan on my mac. current nasm version: NASM version 0.98.40 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 11) compiled on Aug 17 2015
I have a Mac Mini Early 2009. I'm on El Capitan. According to apple's compatibility table, here Windows XP is supported in Boot camp , provided you use your original OSX DVDs to locate the drivers.
I have a 13" MacBook Air with Yosemite 10.10.2 installed:  As soon as I connect it to my WiFi, I get a very high ping (1600 ms) on both my machines: Windows 7 PC and my MacBook. As a result browsing becomes very difficult. I ping 8.8.8.8!
I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 Since the recently discovered SSH client exploit mentioned here I wanted to take action to secure myself. In the process I noticed I'm using Apple's ssh and not the brew version I have installed. So I wanted to change that. One of the things I need to do is edit the file below to point to /usr/local/bin/ssh-agent instead of the system default /usr/bin/ssh-agent. However, even as sudo, I cannot edit this file. It only opens as readonly. How can I open this file in read/write mode?
We have a 9-year-old iMac, and it's still running fine except that it started to slow down. So we decided to upgrade the RAM to 3 GB. Following the instructions on Apple's support site for replacing RAM, we opened the ejector clips, removed the old RAM, put in the new RAM, pushed it in with thumbs, not the clips, till it clicked in to place (though possible I pushed one slightly too hard/far? It looks about the same as the other one in terms of how deep it is though, and they are too hard to remove without the clips which are already open), and tried to close the ejector clips after them to lock it in place. However, the ejector clips don't want to go in. I know they had a little resistance when originally opening them, but I'm concerned that if I try too hard to close it again that they will break or damage something. Is this a possibility?
I am using OS X to write USB drives. I have a disk image and am using dd to the raw device to create the drive image. The problem I'm having is that OS X is automatically mounting the drives as soon as they are imaged. I'd like to prevent this behavior. Is there any way to do so?
Is there a way to show time remaining until next calendar event? Preferably in the menu menu bar if possible? Maybe some other way to get something similar?
I have a Macbook Air. Running El Capitan with British keyboard layout. I have enabled Chines Simplified Pinyin input. I am trying to type the tone marks. For example, pressing opt+a followed by u is supposed to produce ū. This doesn't work however. Any advice?
?I have the early 2015 MacBook with USB-C charger. I want to have one brick for that AND my iPhone. I also bought a USB-A to USB-C cable, but I can't find a USB-A brick with enough power to charge my laptop. Is there a brick (or preferably portable battery) that will allow this
I was messing around this morning and found that if I quickly double touch (NOT double-click) the fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 6S+ (iOS 9.2), the current app (or the home screen) slides down to the bottom half-screen, showing a blurred home screen background on the top half. It doesn't matter if I use a finger that the sensor recognizes. It goes back to normal after about 8 seconds or if you double-touch again, but I can't figure out what this mode is for?? Is this a bug or some hidden feature I haven't heard about yet?
Very similar to this question, but as encouraged to do my @bmike I wanted to re-ask this question as it was not a duplicate of Create AirPort network from the command line. I am looking for a programmatic way to connect to a wifi network. It can be saved (remembered) or unknown, preferably in Apple Script or via Automator. I have done this on a Windows PC through the following command: (creating it, as the only available wifi network, would attempt to connect to it)
The Japanese input method has changed on my Mac. The traditional way on OSX and Windows is: type hiragana for the word; press space bar; use arrow keys to select (kanji + okurigana); press enter. Somehow, (95% sure this because of El Capitan) my input method has become: start typing hiragana;
I just got an Iphone 4s. And I randomly one day got kicked off my wifi at home. I've done everything the internet says to to. I've restarted my phone and the network settings. I've changed the date and time. But my wifi just wont connect to my wifi at home, which is weird because my wifi works literally anywhere else but at home. Somebody please tell me something to fix this problem! Nothing I've searched up has worked and I don't know what to do!!!
My current path is /Users/UserName/Downloads/Downloaded_Path. In Downloaded_Path Folder i have multiple folders like F1, F2 etc and each folder contain rar part-files from rar to r99. What I want to do is to list all files which are either rar or r* extension type and copy them from those respective folder to a new folder.
I am new to mac so apologies if i am asking a stupid question. I just installed Intellij idea on Mac OS El Capitan and it is acting weird. This issue is only in Intellij so i am assuming that perhaps i have messed up with some key mapping ??
I have a MBA mid-2012 running the latest OS. I'm trying to BootCamp a Windows 7 x64 .iso I retrieved from an old hard drive. I copied it on my MBA and every time I try to get BootCamp running, it will mount the .iso, resulting in a beautiful :"Your bootable USB device could not be created." error. I tried unmounting the .iso but BootCamp keeps bringing it back up each time. Also, I tried PRAM/SMC reset, different USB/.iso, pretty much all I could think of. Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
On our iPhones (a lot of test devices) we switch often between a plain network connection and a connection with a proxy. The normal flow require Go to setting Select wifi preference enable proxy type the proxy address Is there any way to "save" the proxy setting and enable/disable with a single button?
I have an iPad 3 and use Infuse and VLC to play videos on my iPad. Now I am having a weird issue. I am trying to play a TV series that a friend gave to me. The files are mkv. The resolution is 1280x718, which is surprising, as file size is only 90 MB for a 25 min video. Now when I play these videos on my iPad, the video sort of freezes every second. They play fine on my PC. I tried using both infuse and vlc but same issue. I think the files must be compressed in some way, as I have seen that 25 min of a 1280x720 video can be upto 400 MB in size, I have played such videos on my iPad, and they play fine.
I disabled spotlight suggestions like recommended on the web (e.g. here). My settings now look like this: System Preferences: Safari Preferences However, I still get website suggestions for spotlight searches: How to fix this?
I started using iCloud Photos recently and love it. I have photos syncing on my iPhone(16gb), my MacBook Pro(240gb), and in the cloud of course.
My ISP blocked a TCP port, let's say $ip1:$port1 So I setup $ip2:$port2 on my own VPS to get around it. How can I forward all traffic to $ip1:$port1 on OS X Yosemite as client to $ip2:$port2 using pfctl? I tried: Then tried curl the $ip1:port1
I have a problem with my internal MacBook Pro microphone. When there is a very loud sound (like sneezing), my microphone shuts down. And I am forced to restart my computer in order for it to work again. I searched in the parameters and when the microphone is shut down, OS X doesn’t detect any sound. Before the loud sound : (with ambient noise) After the loud sound : (with ambient noise)
I have played around with the “shells open with” setting and it seems that the correct escaping happens when the shell is /bin/bash (GNU bash 3.2.57(1)-release) or /bin/zsh (zsh 5.0.8) but not when the shell is my manually-installed /usr/local/bin/zsh (zsh 5.2). I’m on OS X 10.11.2.
I have about 1 TB of movies in iMovie '11 (version 9.x) format, and I need to migrate this library to iMovie 10.x now. This process is described here: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202853
Can you turn off all notifications (text, email, phone, etc) but a selective few senders at night? I am on call after hours and the work computer sends out a text message. That is all I want to hear.
I'm using nice Lingo IRC client, but it a bit outdated. Links in About seem to be broken and I can't find this app in App Store. Does anybody know for sure is Lingo IRC abandoned? Maybe there is a way to contact with maintainer?
Sometimes when I unlock my iPhone 6s 64Gb with iOS 9.2 the time display at the top of the screen flashes or the whole display at the top of the screen (signal strength time and battery) takes a second to appear. This seems to happen only after not using the phone for more than 30 seconds. Ex. I put the phone on standby, unlock it one minute later. It also seems to happen more often when I use the fingerprint scanner to unlock it, not as much when I enter my passcode, and when I unlock the phone quickly like unlocking from standby with a fingerprint rather than waking the phone up first and then unlocking it. Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know how to fix it, or is it just a minor bug that will be fixed in 9.3? -Thanks
How to print onto virtual letter paper which exists as PDF? New to the Mac OS X world and with MACs. From the windows world I have a virtual letter paper with my e.g. logo, headers, footers existing as a PDF file.
I used this solution, Write to NTFS-formated drives on Yosemite, but after system restart have strange bug with names for NTFS drives - every next reboot I see new number right after volume's name. E.g. at first it was DISTRIB, after next reboot - DISTRIB 1, next time DISTRIB 2 and... Any ideas?
I have problem with iCloud backup on my iPhone. After several calls to the Russian department of Apple support they suggest me to change my AppleID password temporarily to an test password proposed by the support specialist to see what's going on with my account. Also they say that they get access to all my data stored on phone: messages, photo, apps data etc, and I should agree with this terms. Of course they say usually engineers don't read/watch users data, but I think it's weird to grant access to all my data.
Is there a way to set time restrictions per day on certain websites like YouTube on my own admin account? (preferably free) I tried the application SelfControl , but there aren't many options, and I have to set it every time I want to block websites. If nothing, what other tips are there to limit myself from distracting websites?
It's not the normal display calibrator and it looks like to be used with hardware calibrators. I can adjust gamma and color toning/temperature. The App is located here (OS X 10.11): /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AmbientDisplay.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Calibration Assistant.app
I would be very grateful if you could help me clarify - I used to use a software program for recording vinyl mixes on my old Macbook called - Audacity. Recently I've replaced this old Mac with a new Macbook Pro which does not have a phono jack, "line in” port, only a USB port and the same software does not pick up the sound any more, from my vinyl mixes.
I want to back up a copy of Windows onto a new partition of external hard drive currently formatted in exFAT. I don't know how to use Windows, so I want to use my Mac (mid-2009 MacBook Pro, running Mavericks, which it shouldn't be—it was built for Snow Leopard) to repartition the disk.
I am aware there are many posts about this problem, but many are just workarounds for Finder. However I use console more often then Finder because of programming. I am also aware of something like this (after getting coreutils): alias ll='gls -la -h --group-directories-first' But thats just another 'plugin' or external utility, which does the job well but doesn't answer my question.
I am trying to use a 3.7 Volt 1 Amp (so it's 3.7 Watts) Lithium Polymer battery to charge or at least trigger the charging symbol on an iPhone 5. I have charged the battery fully using the Lithium Polymer Battery charger. I plan on connecting the black and red wires on the battery with the black and red wires inside a lightning cable. Then, I will plug this lightning cable into the phone. I do not care how fast or how long it takes to charge the phone. I would just like to know if it will at least trigger the charging battery symbol on the iPhone. From what I heard, 2.5 Watts to 5 Watts with 1 Amp is enough to charge an iPhone 5, but I cannot find anywhere whether the iPhone detects this charging. I know my USB port in my older 2006 PC which only gives off 2.5 Volts can trigger it, so I believe a newer battery can easily do it. All help is appreciated.
The behavior I see happening is that when I type something partially and hit TAB, if there are multiple files/commands that match what I had typed in, only the first one is displayed. Further TAB hits result in other matches being shown. Instead, I want the auto-completion to fill till the first ambiguous character and then if I hit TAB again, display all possible choices (as in say Ubuntu terminal). This is what I have in my .inputrc: The show-all-if-ambiguous seems to be what I am looking for, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I actually want the behavior that this member doesn't: Skip first terminal beep and to display ambiguous filename expansions I like hearing the first BEEP (or stop) and then typing in some more characters to fix the ambiguity.
my situation is kind of weird. I've totally crashed my system yesterday after installing bootcamp/windows 8.1 (bad partition format). Fortunately, I have a full backup Time Machine on a Drobo 5D (firewired). Since Drobo 5D need specific drivers to read data, I could not reinstalling the OS from Time Machine Backup.
To make matters worse, my disk utility partition page is now pretty messed up, saying it has a giant unlabeled 250 GB of "free space" in addition to 471 MB untitled, 106 GB Macintosh HD (was there before), 18 GB Free Space (also there before, what I was eventually going to combine to linux), 103 GB BOOTCAMP (there before), and 21.65 "diskos4" (also there before, where linux is). There has to be something incredibly wrong going on, because my computer only has a 256 GB storage...
Darktable mysteriously stopped working on me yesterday. I tried restarting my iMac, deleting and re-installing darkable and finally after going through some forums I tried running through the terminal: open -a darktable That returned LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/photo programs/darktable.app with error -10810 I tried chmod +x /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable I also tried chmod +x '/Applications/photo programs/darktable.app/' I have tried with several versions of Darktable and am beginning to think it has nothing to do with Darktable and something to do with MacOS... Any ideas?
I thought that perhaps I could manually drill down to the package contents folder which contains the file and specifically select that one. However, the folder selection dialog doesn't allow drilling into the Photos Library package contents. (The library file is greyed out.)
I have a Dell E207WFP connected to an Early 2015 11" MacBook Air on Yosemite (10.10.5) (then upgraded to El Capitan 10.11.2) via a VGA cable. The monitor is documented to support 1680x1050@60Hz, but the Mac's Displays preference pane only offers 1280x1024 and 800x600. If I option-click on Scaled, it expands to offer 1920x1080, 1400x1050, 1344x1008, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1280x768, 1280x720, 1024x768, and 800x600, but these still don't include the monitor's actual native resolution. A 15" Retina Early 2013 MacBook Pro running El Capitan (10.11.2) detects the monitor and its native resolution correctly over the same VGA cable. I tried forcing the monitor to RGB mode using the instructions at *=URL=* which folks on that post said helped Dell U2713H, U2713HM, and U2711 monitors, but it didn't improve the situation for my monitor. The System Information | Displays pane claims the monitor is a "13.9-inch (800 x 600)", which is, of course, incorrect. How can I convince the MacBook Air to use th
I'm looking for an alternative method to visually hide an app, specifically, Skype. Skype has really lousy configurations for how it works with Notification Center. Specifically, if the Skype window is hidden (⌘H), or minimized (⌘M), it will not deliver notifications to Notification Center. Only the red badge.
I recently completed my first cocoa app and want to publish it (not via Mac App Store), I am using system font in my app and not bundling any font with my app itself. Do I need to get permission to use the default system font in my app?
I thought you could go back to see entire history of texting from/between each person, any person. A couple of times I have seen back farther but usually not (am only looking to research one person at the moment). How do I get to the origin of that contact/trail and see them all with that particular person?
I have been trying to look for a keyboard shortcut that would let me toggle the Zoom style from the accessibility menu. I don't think there is one. Can somebody here point me in the direction of how to build one? I can code, but I'm unsure of where to start.
I am unable to burn a cd with the newiTunes 12.1 because there is no drop down "burn to disc" selection in Files. How can I burn a cd from my playlist?
I've learned to like 2x video playback on my computer, but the official YouTube iOS app doesn't suggest that option. What ways are there to watch youtube videos at custom speeds on iPad / iPhone?
My external hard disk was partitioned to 3 partitions and one of which (300 GB) was set up with Time Machine. The initial back up started and was 3 hours through (around 65% of 211 GB complete). I lost track of time and my MacBook turned off on zero battery power.
We want to move 30GB of data located on a 128GB ssd to another 120gb ssd. This is not possible as disk utility says that /dev/disk2s2 doesn't have enough space. The data we want to copy is os x itself, and some programs used in the store.
A network I connect to requires configuring proxy settings to reach the Internet. When I configure those settings within the Automatic location, it applies to every network I connect to. Is there a way to apply those settings only to this specific network so when I connect to it those proxy settings work and when I connect to another network they do not?
I wonder how is it exactly with the calculation of the battery percentage: from 100% down the software calculates which resources were used and for how long and thus it approximates the current battery state. But where is it stored - as logs, or as app data? I mean what happens with this information after hard reset or DFU mode - in DFU mode iOS is not loaded, but this software still runs? How does it know what is the percentage after switching it on again? Is charging in DFU mode still causing the software to calculate the approximate percentage?
I’ve used DaisyDisk to analyse my file usage on my MacBook Pro (mid–2012), but the numbers aren’t adding up. Of 500GB, it shows ~425GB used, but the breakdown only adds up to 280GB. The diagram itself shows a big gap, so what’s going on? What else can I use to track down this drive usage? I’ve attached a screen grab of my DaisyDisk analysis.
I had a problem with XCode - during debug session on device randomly see freeze and in Activity Monitor I see that XCode uses a lots of memory (over the physical RAM installed in MBP). I'm sending this CrashReport to Apple every time but without feedback till now :) Crash report below (part):
So am I wrong in thinking I should be able to use a Thunderbolt cable as a mini display port cable? (A coworker suggested there might even be a firmware update needed, but I can't corroborate that via Google.) What am I missing?
We have a web application that uses SSO to authenticate users. On Windows everything works well. Now the question is how to make it work on OSX and IPAD? Is this possible in principle. I don't have much experience with OSX. Any help would be useful.
I ordered a glass screen protector for my iPad and have just received it. In instructions, it says I have to clean the screen with the given alcohol wipe. Is it safe to use an alcohol wipe on iPad screen? I read somewhere it damages the screen...
I need to move large files (5-5Gb) from a Mac to a Linux machine. Network transfers are too slow, so I wanted to use USB drives. However filesystems seem to be a bit of a nightmare: HFS+ is hard to read on Linux, NTFS and Ext4 are hard to write on Mac. Any advice on what's the best way to do that?
I need quick access to the Danish letters æ, ø, å while using the US keyboard-layout in OS X (I it slow to change keyboard layout all the time, my MBA has a Danish keyboard). I want to use right-alt (option) as the compose key, so I can get "ø" by typing r-alt-/-o and similar. I have consulted an earlier question but it is not clear if this gives me access to the Danish letters and I don't have a Linux installation to get configuration files from.
I use Dictionary.app for learning languages quite often. I'd like to take notes in some entries in Dictionary.app so that I could see them when I revisit the same entry in the future, but is there a way to insert text in some entries in the dictionary file? I'm going to automate the process with AppleScript. What I'd like to do is take notes like "This is important" or copy and paste example sentences from the Web into the related entries.
How can I turn off automatic personal hotspot activation when connecting an iPhone to a computer (Windows in this case)? I had it plugged in when downloading an iOS update and it downloaded the update over cellular data instead of home Wi-Fi. I understand I can turn it off manually each time by going into settings, but how can I have it not turn on automatically so that I can only turn it on manually as desired to prevent accidental usage?
I have been using the Mac OS keychain since it was created with Mac OS 8.6 and I collected almost 4000 items. My default keychain has a different name than "login" and than my user name, and I moved it around over the years between a dozen or so Macs. It's a nice system.
I recently got a new MBP. My older MBP (early 2011, 13") has some stuff on it I would like to transfer.
I kinda have two questions but they're both battery related so I just made one post. 1) Does it harm the battery if I cary my MacBook around with me and the weather is really cold? This has been a very harsh winter with temperatures going even below -15C. Sometimes when I take it out of my bag and then its pouch, it's so cold I can barely hold it in my hands.
I try to download files to a AFP drive but always have "Warning: Failed to create the file /Volumes/home/Downloads: Is a directory " But the last command work fine tell application "Finder" to open ("/Volumes/home/Downloads" as POSIX file) in the same kind of script, I'm also to download torrent to my Synology Download Station if anyone have a clue.
Using a Python utility called py2app, I've built a distributable .app. from a Python-based project. It launches fine (when double-clicked) on my own machine, yet when tried elsewhere (other users on other Macs), the user gets warned that the application is from an unknown developer, and he/she has to jump through the hoop of holding Ctrl then right-clicking, or the less secure 'allow from anywhere' option on System Preferences. Excuse my ignorance, but what step(s) need to be taken such that this is not required?
This is basically a duplicate of this question, which was answered for prior versions, but whose answer is no longer applicable in El Capitan. My question includes programmatically: if there's a programmatic / Cocoa way to access the Photo Stream contents stored (somewhere?) on your computer, then perhaps we can build a filesystem-in-userspace or similar to access them?
Attempting to purchase iTunes for iPhone 6 from Apple Store. Download response indicates iPhone not enabled for iTunes. What does this mean?
When I receive an SMS message, I can create a new contact from the number. Works great, very useful. Lots of business folks must do the same.
Can you help me figure out why my MBP never wants to wake up in the morning? It's a Mid-2015 15in i7. I've looked around for similar posts but most are for older Macs and the solutions presented either don't apply or haven't worked.
I have been looking all over the place for a simple answer, I want to make keynote presentations using photos from my company facebook page, I feel like it is impossible there is not a simple import from web option somewhere but I cannot find it and looking on google they want me to download my facebook albums which is not an option with thousands of pictures, someone please help.
Am I correct to assume that, in order to ensure a query in the terminal such as: always returns the actual creation date of said file (provided it exists), I should always force Spotlight to import this information first via: ? I am interested strictly in obtaining, from the Terminal, that specific piece of data. This seems to be the conclusion based on another SOV post, especially since the Spotlight indexing may ignore some folders.
I got a phone from a guy, his business bought him a new phone and no longer needed the phone, which i now have. His old plan was with sprint, and i use verizon. I would think his account has been deleted or something. The phone is not on his plan anymore.
I have a standard user who runs a piece of software that allows them to repair storage devices (flash disk/SD cards/on board storage for specific cameras/etc) which needs administrator privileges to run properly in OSX 10.11 Is there a way to permanently grant admin accesses to a single app so it can run properly without needing an admin password every time? Will add more details about the software, but still waiting a reply from user.
Is there a way to keep my iPhone 5 secure when passing it around to show photos? Yes, even in 2016 some people still behave like they did in High School: you pass over your phone so they can see a couple of pics and they sift thru your other pics or worse, they start snooping thru other apps. Perhaps there is a photo app into which I could place selected pics - AND that doesn't allow access outside of the one app. Any suggestions appreciated!
When I want to insert a floating number in Apple Numbers 3.6.1 in OS X 10.10.5 while my primary preferred language in Language & Region is Persian(فارسی), the number is interpreted as a string value.  In these screenshots the right cell has the formula of B2 ÷ 2 while B2 is the left cell. I typed ۱.۲۳ (that is 1.23 in Persian) in B2 with Persian keyboard layout and an error is occurred.
My logic board decided to leave without saying good-bye, MBP Mid 2012. This only serves as a delayed backup. I did however run Time Machine to backup my stuff, unfortunately it was 180 days ago... sure learnt my lesson now.
I have about over 100 keyboard shortcuts for my mac, and I want to transfer all those shortcuts to my second computer. Is there a way to do this easily?
For example, we know messages are saved in ~/Library/Messages/chat.db however where are calls saved? Is there a folder or file?
I have the following display arrangement: The reason there is a gap between the top 2 displays is so that my mouse cursor lines up correctly (or as close as possible) when going from the top<->bottom displays. Unfortunately, with this gap, this does not allow me to move the cursor between the top 2 displays. If I move the displays so they are touching, then it works fine, but my mouse cursor is then off when moving vertically. Is there a way to keep the displays spaced, but allow the cursor to cross between?
For some reason, my file window when I am opening a file/folder or uploading something the sidebar is missing a lot of items which makes navigating to my destination a pain. What am I missing? My normal finder window is fine and isn't missing any items. I tried to go into the library>preferences>and deleting any com.apple.finder.plist like in another thread but I didn't find any files like that in my library. I searched my entire mac for them and didn't find any. I'm using El Capitan.
I'm using Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard with an iPad. This works great, except I'm not able to turn off the onscreen keyboard. I understand that there is an eject button on the Apple Bluetooth keyboard that allows turning on and off the onscreen keyboard. Is there a key combination that I can use to do the same on the Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard?
Addendum: am I taking crazy pills, or was this not the usual behavior before? Is it due to a setting I can change (so I can require the login screen after a reboot regardless of the reason)? I guess I find it unsettling that a user account is "auto-logged" into following a reboot, even if that user initiated the system update that triggered that reboot.
My OSX El Capitan terminal prompt is "~$". As I am logged in as a user. How can I get it to show the machine~user$ instead? Thanks
So a number of months ago I was messing around in Terminal trying to get my Mac to send an email from the command line. Unfortunately, I don't remember everything I did but I know I was messing around with postfix and creating a sasl password file, etc. I never got it to work and gave up.
Top: Two original 2 GB RAM. Bottom: Two Crucial 8 GB RAM. Result: Can boot into system perfectly fine, crashes when perform heavy duty tasks or run Rember RAM testing.
Ever since the apple music update I've been unable to add or remove music from my ipod touch 5 via itunes on my computer. Everywhere I've looked says you go to the ipod icon, go into summary and click "manually manage music and videos" but mine only shows the option to "manually manage videos". I would like to be able to delete all of the music off of my ipod and start fresh because it somehow duplicated my entire playlist and is taking up double the amount of space it should. Currently the only way I've found to do that is to individually go through and delete each of the 2000 songs twice, and that's a huge waste of time, so any help would be appreciated!
I just formatted my Mac and upgrade it to El Capitan, When I open Terminal I see that I am always logged in as root:  How can I get my usual user name every time I open a new Terminal window, I have tried su -l username and it worked, however when I close the window and open another the root user comes back.
My iPad only has 16 GB of space, and I have iCloud Photo Library switch on but set to "Optimise iPad Storage". However, my iPad is now showing "0 bytes" available, and my Photo Library is taking up 2.1 GB.
I wrote an Android application and in that, I used the following command to mix audio and video via ffmpeg(video.mp4 doesn't have audio): An Android devices there is no problem and videos are playing with audio, but on iOS, videos just play without any sound. What could be the problem?
I have noticed something that really annoys me. Say I have some applications running and then I select a particular one using Dock. This application appears on the screen but does not receive focus (windows is displayed as inactive). So, when I type something input is not going to the foremost window.
I've been working with KompoZer to author some web pages. When I use the "Browse Page" function it opens the web page with this file-URL: file:///.file/id=6571367.190169036. This works fine.
On Android, you can see and uncheck a certificate via Security/Trusted credentials. How do you do the same on iOS devices?
I try to FTP a file with a one liner in a shell from a mac to a folder on my server. Doing the same in the FTP-Shell is not a problem for me, but doing this in one line is not possible to me. I even do not succeed with the following simple connecttest, which I guess is standard on every other system: How to transfer a file in one commandline with following info? ftp <username>:<password>@<server> "cd <path>;put <file>" ?
In my list of Wi-Fi Preferred Networks I'm able to remove them 1 by 1, but that takes forever. Is there any way to select all the Network Names I want to remove and delete them at the same time?
I want to move my Photo Library through my Synology NAS, I know I'm gonna lose the iCloud Syncing (which is very annoying...) but anyway. Every time I trying to move the Photo Library (quite heavy, 125.85 GB I have this error "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)." I've tried with SMB, AFP, and I'm not trying with a basic terminal command which probably gonna failed too. All this is connected through an Asus RT-68U, which is suppose to be fast, but ... you know.. I only have 11 devices connected on the network at this time, most are in idle.
Just got a new MacBook Pro 15 Retina (mid 15). I have an Acer 4k-monitor which I'm looking to connect to the MacBook but I can't figure out how. The Apple website and FAQ's weren't helpful.
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 5s to a 6s. Most days my phone battery lasts the entire seven hour work day easily (my 6s typically lasts about two days).
I have Yosemite and Windows 10 installed on my Macbook Pro 2015. On Windows 10 I can hibernate. Then press the power button and hold down ALT key to boot from OS X. However, I can't do the same thing the other way around. I have to shut down Yosemite or restart, in order for the ALT key to work for booting options. I tried the pmset hibernationmode 25 thingy with 1 second of standbydelay - when I press the sleep button and after that the power button, holding down ALT key doesn't give OS boot option menu. Is there a way to achieve with OS X what Windows does?
0 down vote I haven't been able to find what I need. For me. A project is a client. Their entire html / css / js website. I need to maintain various search / replace values at a project level. Select a Project. And a list of project specific search / replace (that I created) entries appear.
When right-clicking a word in Pages and Sublime Text, the user is offered to either "Learn" or "Ignore" the word. What is the difference between learning and ignoring? To me it would seem the same, that the word is simply "accepted" by the spell-checker and not highlighted as incorrect (red) anymore.
Certain OSX apps seem to have a tendency to stick around in the Dock, even though there's no user-facing setting to prevent this behavior. Is there a defaults command that prevents apps from enabling "Keep in Dock?"
I have some websites which have been given permission to use Notification Center, but Safari ignores its own notifications preferences. When you give a site permission, some will create a new set of preferences, and this appears in the list just like any other app. But many do not, and they still can deliver notifications. But here Safari ignores its own preferences for notifications. Instead, it just shows Banners, that disappear shortly and leave no trace. Is this a bug?
You can upgrade software with sudo softwareupdate --install --all. Is it possible to upgrade the OS itself from the command line?
Lately, my Mac OS X Yosemite has been having this weird issue where my startup disk keeps getting consumed by an unknown source. Every time I restart my computer, the disk space would come back (let's say 3 GBs), only to be mysteriously eaten again until I have little to 0 disk space again (<200 MB). What I've tried: Using DiskSpaceX to check out what's eating my disk space and deleting the unnecessary files/folder Using DiskSpaceX to check out what's eating my disk space and deleting the unnecessary files/folder
I'm purchasing a used 2013 Macbook Air on craigslist and the seller told me he formatted it already and created a dummy account so I can go through settings, etc.. and browse around to ensure all is working. I want to be sure that I do not get locked out of the Macbook Air. If he formatted and logged out of iCloud, what is the best way to check that I will come out of this purchase safely? Should I log myself into iCloud and turn on 'Find My Mac'?
Is there any way I can change the startup bong on my Early 2011 MBP 8,2 to something custom? Like, The Final Countdown?
My customer has provided me these inputs to connect to their network: Server IP Server IP pkcs (.p12) file pkcs (.p12) file And a Certificate And a Certificate On Windows, I installed the .p12 file into the Local store, imported the CERT into the Cisco VPN client, added a new entry with server IP and pointed the certificate to the imported cert (file).
My contacts app seems to be working fine. But when I go into Phone -> Recents, it shows the full phone numbers of all recent calls instead of labeling by contact. Even worse, if I tap the i information icon to the right of any of the calls, the phone app simply closes. How can I fix this?
For instance I downloaded Java and it's listed as a device. After i ran the installation, i clicked on the little eject-like looking button beside its name under Devices and the downloaded installation file disappeared from the Desktop. Where did it go?
How can you disable the Frequently Visited section in the Safari 9 Favorites tab? I do not like how these auto-generate and need to be manually removed.
I'm buying a used MacBook Air tomorrow off craigslist. How do I know if the Mac has a firmware password set? If I do Ctrl + R will it automatically query me to enter the password if it's on?
Is there any combination of modifier keys that could be considered 'safe' for setting global shortcuts with a third-party app? For example, I do window snapping with cmdoptJ|L, but cmdoptI would conflict with Chrome's dev tools shortcut. I'd like a set of modifiers I can use for virtually any global shortcut I want without conflict.
For work I use my personal laptop and I am required to run Slack to keep in contact with coworkers however it occurs to me that this could potentially be used as an invasive surveillance tool unless it is forced to run in a sandbox. For instance what if it were allowed to scan my file system, including any attached USB thumb drives, and what if it were allowed to take screenshots? What if there is a built-in keylogger? I need to make sure that this software is not being used for improper purposes. We all know how power can be abused, and how even a little bit of power over people can tempt a weak person to do bad things. IIRC I downloaded it using the Mac App Store. Questions: Does anyone know how I can determine what the default sandbox setting of this app is? If the app is bypassing the sandboxing mechanism how do I nevertheless enforce sandboxing? Has anyone here managed to detect open files (using lsof on the command line) that Slack was accessing, that might indicate suspicious ac
For example, when I run It shows homebrew/science/octave Caskroom/cask/octave
I haven't been able to open Microsoft Word through Terminal. I tried: But I get this in return: How can I open Microsoft Word (I see it in Applications so I know it's installed)?
My El Capitan shows node installed in /usr/local/bin/node, but $which npm reports nothing. I have Angular installed and which to play around with the MEAN stack which requires express and mangoDB. My current path is: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
I have an Apple TV 4th gen, and whenever I try watching YouTube it says, "An error occurred loading this content. Try again later."
I'm trying to create a simple contact sheet of all the photos in a directory using Montage: However, I keep getting a error reading the font file: I've tried several fonts, including Arial, and putting the font name in quotes, but get the same error. Leaving the -font option blank returns:
After I install MultiGo via Wineskin on my MacBook OS X 10.10.5, the background color of toolbar icons is pink, instead of transparent.  I have tried a few screen options but didn't help. Any suggestions?
I'm attempting to create a service using Automator from the Photos > New PDF Contact Sheet action. However, the Paper size option only allows me to select US Letter and A4.
I have deleted all Bookmarks and Cleared History in my iPad. However, when I'm in the address bar of Safari and type www.p, a Bookmark/History shows up that I cannot delete. Can you help?
I have been using the StarTech USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet dongle which was working until I upgraded to the latest OSX Beta 10.11.4. Now it has stopped working--not even showing any indicator lights when plugged in.
I have a bunch of iMovie projects on my iPhone and they take up quite a bit of space. I'd like to move them to my Windows PC. In iTunes I tried going to Device/Apps/Sharing/iMovie, but it seems you can only add things to iMovie - you can't retrieve them from iOS. Is there a way to do this?
My iCloud backup is currently off. So I go into Settings/iCloud/Backup and switch the iCloud backup slider to on.
Is there an easy way to display a PNG image (with transparency) as its own “window”, without any OSX window features (title bar, buttons, shadows)? Ideally, it could also disappear when the mouse is clicked anywhere, or when Esc is pressed…
Details had it at restaurant lunch, may have had it at my only stop on way home (ice cream counter), after being home 30 minutes looked in car & didn't see it. Called it, straight to voicemail. It was on when I had it one hour earlier but not sure on battery left. Find my Pphone said offline, but I do turn that on & off as needed & can't remember if it was on or off. Sent lost phone message with phone number to call, set up email to me if it's connected, still within 90 minutes of last having it for sure. More than 4 full days later, nothing. The question:
Yesterday I needed to copy an iPhoto library through the CLI. I forgot a slash and accidentally copied the contents of the library package instead of the whole package.
This seems to not work. When I arrive at home the Macbook shows 95% battery remaining, indicating that it was running in the bag until it went to sleep due to inactivity.
So I can't reset the phone with this. Is there any other way? Edit: This is the message I see on the screen on the iPhone: iPhone is deactivated - connect to iTunes When I try connect the phone with USB in the computer I get the following error:
I use my MBP in clamshell mode most of the time, via a Thunderbolt dock. But from time to time, it's good to let it run from battery power. However if I unplug the power adapter, I cannot enter clamshell mode unless I open the lid. Is there any way to enable clamshell mode WITHOUT using power adapter?
I have VLC player installed on Apple TV. I can see my Windows 7 x64 machine (with SMB suffix after its name) when I'm browsing local network in VLC Player. But when I'm trying to open it I can see only "Empty Folder" despite I have shared folders on this machine which are visible for other computers. Meanwhile, I can browse files and folders on Linux machine with Samba installed without any problems. I suppose I should change some settings on Windows machine but have no idea what exactly. Now I have
I'm all very new to mySQL. I've installed it from the Oracle website, and I think I managed to run the server with the command:
I have this weird sound when I open up MacBook or when I run it: *=URL=* What is the problem and how to solve it?
I plugged my iPhone into my Mac and it started importing photos from iPhone. It's been two days and I need to shut down my Mac. How do I stop importing the photos?
I would like to solve the issue from this question, namely, after disconnecting a Cinema display from a clamshell MacBook I would like to let the MacBook go to sleep without opening and closing the lid. I have never used AppleScript before. Is it possible to write an AppleScript which puts the computer to sleep, say 30 seconds after disconnect of an external display, but only if the lid is closed.
I have a clean installation of El Capitan with VMware Fusion Pro 8 and Windows 10 Pro. I use Fusion in full screen, and the windows keyboard command Control + Command+ D is used to create a new desktop, however when pressing this command, the mouse curser changes to the Mac OS cursor, and nothing happens. It seems Mac OS is digesting the command and not allowing the virtual machine to receive it. Interestingly: The VM receives other commands, like Control + Command+ Left All commands 'disableable' through preferences in both keyboard and accessibility are disabled, with the exception of Command + Option + Left, and Command + Option + Right to change full screen applications. The only reference I have found to it, is a Document Shortcut, which I would expect to be consumed via the application in focus. How can this renegade command be rectified?
I have received an SMS with an unlock PIN for an app. I now want to copy & paste that code into the app.
I've built a script that sits in the users login items that runs each time a user logs in but I want to prevent the terminal window or terminal application from popping up. I don't mind the app icon showing up in the dock but I have some users who tend to want to close the terminal window which cancels what the script is doing.
I have my iMac and I have to install Yosemite because I got iMac with older version when I got it. Then I did too many updates but I had my iTunes account and I had my credit card option set to "None" so that's where I started. My iMac froze!!! I can't boot anywhere! I haven't plugged any USB devices at any side I can find. So I used my second but it's non-mac computer. "Yes I have PC and iMac" but I gonna online and searched how I can boot to verbose mode "Learned when I got it". And then I hold "Command" key wich is "Windows" key on pc keyboard and I press "V" as well to boot to that mode but then I noticed this error came up.
Following this article I've adjusted my open file limits: The trouble with this is that when I try to open Adobe applications I get this error: Unable to set maximum number of files to be opened.
Whenever some content is DRM-protected, screenshots of such content are masked. Even using Terminal does not avoid such problems. Which processes in ps ax are used by DRM that is implemented by iTunes? EDIT: I posted this question originally on Unix & Linux with a bounty: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254325/what-processes-are-used-by-drm?noredirect=1#comment443851_254325
I am new to mac and running a website through apache server. The code for my application is being accessed by the _www user, so I set the ownership to _www user but then when I try to edit a file from netbeans I have to give the ownership back to my user. I dont want to use the my application or netbeans from the root user but is there a way I can give permission to both myuser and _www user to a directory? Thanks!
Possible use cases. Someone emails you a music demo. You find a song you want to download online. You want to download an MP3 from Soundcloud.
I installed XQuartz in OS X El Captain using the following command: After completion, brew list does not show XQuartz. Am I doing something wrong here?
I want to connect an external display to my MBPro running 10.11.2 for hosting karaoke. I want to invert my Mac display without inverting the external display. I had planned to avoid video mirroring and drag the video window to the external display, but I'm told that won't do the trick.
Today, I was trying to fix the file permissions and ownership on an external hard drive and while I was trying to add myself as a user/owner the through the get Info window, the system presented me with an unknown to me user with the name: _avqmd. Of course there is no indication for such user in the system preferences -> users. But I was also able to spot a avqmd.plist file inside: /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users Does anyone know what is this and from where it comes from?
I used this thread to make my own "Search with Chrome" Service. But when i right click some highlighted text in Preview.app it lists both "Search with Google" and "Search with Chrome."
I have a problem specifically with Photoshop Elements 12 Organiser and the ability to write to the internal drive on an iMac 5k with El Capitan. I have full read write access to the files on the disk but when I try to write the metadata to the photos I get the error "An error occurred while reading files or writing files to disc. The disc may be full or there may be a problem with the source media". I also have other issues accessing and erasing from SD cards.
I have an AppleScript to open move a Safari webpage into Reader view and then to Save As a PDF. I would like it to Save As the PDF with default filename, but always in the same specific location. I'm not sure how to do this. Currently the AppleScript runs as:
When I am coding my Rails app I am switching back to Safari quite often to refresh my local version of the site to see if my changes are correct. It would be awesome to just hit one of the function keys and that would bring my Safari window to the foreground and manually refresh the page. I can't seem to find an obvious example of this or anything along these lines fro the typical Google searches etc. Any idea if this can be done and if so how (at least the Automator part)?
I tried following a few tutorials, but I get this: How can I fix this? I added in a info.plist (I just copied and pasted another app's file, and changed around a few things.) Also, I used chmod +x myApp to make the script executable.
I have used Quicktime player on Macbook Air to record a Google Hangout video. I have noticed that it doesn't record the voice but only video. I am wondering if there are any settings that I am missing to make sure the audio also works with QuickTime.
I teach a class that uses R as part of the lab and one of my students uses an iPad for her primary computer. Is there anyway to install R on an iPad? I found some old blog posts that say it isn't possible but I have not been able to find any information less than about 5 years old.
When I run Disk Utility on my 2012 MBP (SSD, running El Capitan) I sometimes get the error: Other times, I get no errors.
While playing html5 I am unable to reliably change the Output Device: changing the Output Device while the html5 is playing never works. pausing the html5 playback, and changing the Output Device setting never works. waiting until the html5 finishes, then changing the Output Device sometimes works. Once I start playing an html5 file, the only sure fire way to change the OutputDevice is: pause the html5 player; launch iTunes or QuickTime and start playing something; change the Output Device; stop playing video / music on iTunes or QuickTime; un-pause the html5 player. the sound for the html5 player is now coming out of the correct Output Device setting. So, what is the quickest way to change the Output Device while an html5 video is playing? [using OSX v10.11 with Chrome v47.0]
Is it possible to do conditional highlighting of booleans in Apple Numbers? I want to highlight TRUE values one way, and FALSE values another, but booleans don't seem to be supported - only numbers, text, dates, durations and blank:
Turning to here after many futile attempts to resolve. I have an OSX server (10.10.5) which has been hosting a Netrestore image over HTTP without issue for some time now. We replaced our firewall in our network with one from another vendor, which has the exact same network configuration (sans VLANs, though that is a moot point. Read below) and yet since the swap, the Macbooks in our organization cannot see the hosted images. Here is what I am facing: Systems on same VLAN as the servers (normally not, but doesn't work either way.) Firewall not enabled on OSX server All required ports (both UDP and TCP) are reachable on the server Images are NOT limited to model, and existing machines with known working configurations against the images cannot see them either Netinstall service has been restarted, images have not changed, services show online Tried delivering images both over HTTP and NFS Server is pingable by all machines TCP dump for bootpd does not show anything hitting the server Ser
My iPhone 6s plus got stolen from me last Monday evening and I have only started to track it down using Find My iPhone the following night. From then onwards, it only showed that my phone is offline and that Lost Mode is pending. Does it mean that the thief has already deactivated my Find My iPhone by resetting the handset? (I believe Find My iPhone is a default application in the newer version like iPhone 6s does it mean the application together with my iCloud account will be retained even after resetting? Is there any chances of getting my phone back?
Why are my music tracks when burned to CD from iTunes thru the Playlist feature shorter than the originals? I have tried on multiple albums all with the same result. A song might be 4:58 in iTunes and when I burn a CD, the song is now 2:58. There does not appear to be any logic on the difference, just that the entire song does not copy. This does not happen with all songs, just random ones. Typical 5-8 minutes of music is deleted from several tracks. It is not an issue of capacity on the CD. I am well under the limit there.
So my YouTube application for my Apple TV is not working. When I go to play a video, it shows "An error has occurred loading this content. Try again later." This first started happening yesterday out of the blue, and I double-checked to see if any of my other applications had the same problem but YouTube's the only one. I've unplugged and plugged back in the cords on the back of the box, and I've restarted Apple TV and still no luck. If anyone has any suggestions, please reply!
I need to disable all notifications: iCal, Skype, and especially application updates. Everything. I can find info on how to do this in Yosemite, but not Lion. Would anyone know how to go about this?
I'm trying to get actual NTP drift on Macs connected to a local NTP server. When reading /var/db/ntp.drift file I get -37.521 which according to PPM to milliseconds conversion gives -3241ms of drift. When reading /var/db/ntp.drift file I get -37.521 which according to PPM to milliseconds conversion gives -3241ms of drift. When using ntpq -c lpeer I get something like this: When using ntpq -c lpeer I get something like this: which gives me offset of 38.322ms Finally, sntp 172.1.1.5 outpus this: which says having about 19ms of drift. I'm confused which one the approaches gives accurate NTP drift?
I suspect because my LaunchAgents on MacBook has been interrupted this is what I get when I run… When try to install other stuff using brew it will simply state missing directory. This is what I get when try to perform other stuff. How do I fix this?
In order for such a software to run "successfully" on an OS X machine, would the user first have to run it and give the sudo password? Is such a threat conceivable on OS X without the user doing this?
I need an app that tracks automatically every time I use Final Cut X or another app and gives me the total usage time. Any ideas?
I'm trying to export my Skype chat history with this: *=URL=* After I'm in the downloads directory in Terminal, typing in (with my skype username substituted in) results in
Is there any way to make all screens connected to Mac function as one, so full screen apps (like iTunes Visualizer) can extend over all monitors? Thanks!
I've had my Mac for over 3 years and I've been good about checking the battery's condition, which was always Normal, but all of a sudden the dreaded Service Battery suddenly showed up. This was not unexpected, I use my MacBook like a desktop. My Mac is never really moved and is always fully charged (I do take out the cable when it reaches 100% but I put it back in at about 10%). My cycle count is 781 which is only about 3/4 of the battery's life, and I use it hours every day.
I would like to have a user account in my MacOS X El Capitan system which is limited to login through SSH. I do not want that user to be able to use the system through any other means, especially not on the local desktop. I would like that user not to be listed as possible options when logging into the desktop.
I'd like to set up a few rules in Mail.app but not have them appear in the list of rules in Mail's preferences. Is there any way to do this?
I am looking for a way to sync passwords between Apple Keychain and LastPass or 1Password1. Apple Keychans works quite well only if you are on Safari. The others work well if you are not on Safari Mobile, so I am looking for a solution that is more flexible, which makes me think that some kind of sync would be needed.
I've got these two icons in my menu bar, which appear to be an application called Disk Drill (see red rectangle):  Basically, I want to uninstall Disk Drill and have these two icons removed from my menu bar. I've searched my Mac in Finder and cannot find Disk Drill my list of applications and cannot find any files related to Disk Drill, and therefore I cannot launch Disk Drill. How can I uninstall Disk Drill from my Mac?
On my ElCapitan, I have vim installed but my git commit is giving errors: $ git commit subl -n -w: subl: command not found error: There was a problem with the editor 'subl -n -w'. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
I made a little, easy AppleScript and used Automator to launch it on click: What about back-compatibility? Can I run it on every previous Mac OS X? Will it work?
I've got the typical problem that OSX can't shutdown/restart normally. I'm on El Capitan but it happened in the past with Mavericks etc. Don't know why they can't fix this... Anyway, now I want to install El Capitan update 10.11.3, the final step is it wants to restart the system. I click the 'restart' button but the restart fails. I can hard boot by holding down the power button... but then the update doesn't finish its install - it still says I need to restart if I go into App Store. Restart or shutdown from the Apple menu don't work. I tried a shutdown -r now from Terminal... this successfully restarts but the update still 'needs restart' when I go back in after booting. MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) El Capitan 10.11.2
I had Spotify installed and was annoyed by the "SpotifyWebHelper" process. So after some research I came up with the information, that it is managed by a background daemon. To disable that, I had to remove a daemon file in some folder outside the .app bundle.
Whenever I press "Get" to download an app in iTunes (either on iOS or Windows OS), apps are installed in my iPad and never to my iPhone. However, after "Get" becomes "Downloaded" and I go to App Store on my iPhone, I see a down-arrow in a middle of a cloud. When I press it, then the app is installed in the phone. How to fix this ?
I'm finding myself in an awkward situation. I need to install PHP and Nginx for development but I do not want to mess up my Mac with multiple installations. I have found that PHP and PHP-fpm are already installed. I would like to uninstall but I have no clue on how to do it as I don't know through what means it has been installed (Brew or Ports). I have searched the php binary and it is in /usr/bin/
When I try to move, rename, or delete a file named ␀in Finder, I get this error message: The operation can't be completed, because an unexpected error occured (error code -50). With mv, rm or find -delete in Terminal Can I move or delete this file in Mac OS X or do I have to use another operating system? I even tried creating a file with this name in /tmp and it has not gone away since 8 reboots.
I am running El Capitan 10.11.3 with bash version 3.x so I decided to update bash via: Brew places the new bash under /usr/local/Cellar/bash:
Since a really long time, I've been unable to connect to GameCenter on my iPad mini 1. I've recently updated from iOS 8.4 to iOS 9.2.1, but the issue is still there. However, it now gives me this alert everytime I try to login:
Best thing about the iPhone is that it fits into my pocket which makes it easy to take everywhere. But from time to time, it would be convenient to view content on a bigger, tablet sized screen. E.g., reading a kindle book on the train or scrolling through sports scores during breakfast. Is there something like a "dumb tablet" that would allow me to use the iphone on a bigger screen?
I'm tying to make a bootable Debian USB drive. All I need to do is restore the USB drive from the Debian dmg. I get this error. The debian.org documentation is not helpful with this specific issue. Here's what I keep running into.
I have upgraded to El Capitan, but I was having this problem for a while, where the desktop background doesn’t display. The folders have white letters, and the background is white, and this makes everything difficult to read. The background image doesn't change immediately, I have to log out, and log back in. I can see it has changed, on the login screen, and after I have logged in. But at some point, the screen turns white, and thus the problem. I have turned off all the start up applications, and the problem remains. I have looked for view options in Finder, but I cannot figure out why the desktop remains white.
I don't know if I'm overthinking this too much but I can't seem to understand how to use a ssh public key to create an ssh connection trough my mac. I'll list my steps bellow: First created the SSH keys in my server in cpanel -> SSH keys and created a key pair with name id_rsatest First created the SSH keys in my server in cpanel -> SSH keys and created a key pair with name id_rsatest Then I downloaded to my mac both public and private key files, so now in my downloads folder I have the files: id_rsatest and id_rsatest.pub Then I downloaded to my mac both public and private key files, so now in my downloads folder I have the files: id_rsatest and id_rsatest.pub Then I moved the id_rsatest.pub file to Users/myuser/.ssh/ and opened Terminal.app -> Shell -> New Remote Connection and entered the information below: and receive this error: ssh: connect to host example.com port 22: Operation timed out [Process completed] Then I moved the id_rsatest.pub file to Users/myuser/.ssh/ and opened Te
Is there a way to import tasks from OmniFocus into 2Do?
If I open a terminal window, and then shrink it as far left as possible, and then enlarge it again, it displays some odd text, including some of the letters in my hostname:  Any way to fix this? Note: I'm guessing this is a bug, since when I go fullscreen, and then go back to a window, it goes back to normal and won't happen again. Update: Some other weird stuff happens when I resize the window from using commands within the window.
I noticed in top that AppleCameraAssistant is one of the most CPU-intensive processes currently running (well, technically it's sleeping, so it has 0.0% CPU, but it's still near the top of the list and the fact that it's on the list at all is raising my hackles). It's also taking up 960KB of memory, which just feels wasteful. Specifically:
Sometimes when typing a search term in the search bar in Preview or Spotlight the text entry locks up for a few seconds. I assume this happens because it is beginning to search on the letters I've already typed to return a fast result. The problem is if I mistype my search, which happens often, I now have to wait for it to catch up on the incorrect search just so I can correct my text. Is there a way, even involving Terminal hacking, to turn off the automatic searching as you type functionality in Preview, and maybe across the whole OS so that when I hit enter it sends the search and not before?
Given that I have 'mission control/displays have separate spaces' unchecked: is there a way to swap spaces between displays (and assign a shortcut to it)? For example: if I have 'Desktop 4' on the left monitor and 'Desktop 2' on the right monitor, I'd like to end up with 'Desktop 2' on left and 'Desktop 4' on the right.
My Windows Phone got stolen and I decided to get an iPhone 4s as a replacement. I bought the Threema-App for WP 8.1. Is there any possibility to get Threema for iOS 9.2.1 without having to buy it again?
Of course I can just use one common SMTP server, however it seems as though I shouldn't need to. While I'm not sure if it's relevant, the server uses client authentication (by specifying a unique TLS certificate for each user); fortunately it isn't using this for passwordless logins, otherwise a common SMTP server wouldn't work, but perhaps it's related to why Mail is failing to handle this properly?
I'm working with someone who's been doing simulations on various computers and FTPing the results to a website using a script and the basic mac ftp command basically something like (this is not exact just what i remember from when i last looked at it) and so on...
I have an older version of software that I once manually installed through installation package (version 0.6.6 -- I write it down here for later discussion purpose, but the version number is not relevant to this question). Now I found brew is better why to manage the update/upgrade etc. So, I use brew to install the software by doing brew install terraform (version 0.6.9 -- again, I write it down here for later discussion purpose, but the version number is not relevant to this question), which is all good so far. However, when I do terraform version to query the current effective version, I found it's still the old version. My question is how I can make the brew installed software take over.
When my Dad died last year we put his iphone away in a drawer for safe keeping, because his music was very important to him and obviously we didn't want to lose it. The phone is getting hard to hold a charge now and I'm wondering if there is a way to put his music into my iPhone? I bought a 64gig iPhone to have enough room to fit it all on but now I've realised it isn't as easy as I first thought. Is there a way to do this or do I just have to hope the battery never completely fails on his phone?
I want to know how I can protect my MacBook Pro.
In Terminal, if I hit tab twice, Terminal asks if I want to list all 1580 possibilities. What is this, and what is this used for?
I use a program to deal with the contents in sd card on startup. But the problem is that the program always starts before I can see the sd card in the finder. As a result, the program can't find the contents and can't run correctly. I think whether I can delay the startup time of a specified program in login items preference.
I recently got a used 17'' MacBook and installed the latest Garageband, 10.1.0, onto it. But when I tried to load some of my old files, it said it could not find many of the instruments that are needed to play them.
I've had problems with Yosemite since I've installed it but I'm also wondering if it is even worth it to revert since I've done everything on Yosemite?
My family has several iPhones listed under the "Find my iPhone" section of the iCloud web site. Unfortunately, they all have the same name "'s iPhone". Two of the phones are older models and have been given to other family members. One of them I have been able to change the name directly on the device. The other I cannot change the name directly on the device because the device currently won't power up. One day I hope to fix this, so I don't want to remove the device from the account. But at the same time, it's annoying having two devices with the same name. The other device is correctly named, so I don't want to change its name, I want to change the name of the (currently) inoperative device. How can I do this directly from the iCloud web site?
I'm attempting to write my first LaunchDaemon: I think it's pretty simple and meets all the requirements, but it won't run. The file is at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.noah.supertest.plist
I would like to increase the VRAM in my Mac mini Late 2012. I read on a couple of websites that upgrading the RAM will increase the VRAM. However, I upgraded from 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB which did not affect the VRAM, which is still at 1536 MB. Is there a way to increase the VRAM?
I have a MBP 13 (OSX El Capitan 10.11.2) with two external monitors. After a while when I do nothing my MBP switch to the sleep mode. The problem is that sometime it don't wake up again when I move the mouse or touch on the keyboard. I only get a black screen. Anyone else have this type of issue? What can I do? Thanks in advance guys!
I have an old Mac Mini G4. I'm trying to do a fresh OS install on it. According to my searches, the last OS version that will run on it is 10.5.8. I have several install disks lying around, which came with various Macs I've bought over the years.
I have a strange problem: Finder crashes ("not responding") after performing one of these: pressing space on a file that can be previewed with QuickLook, e.g. a sound file or an image simply selecting a file that can be previewed with QuickLook when the finder displays the instant QuickLook pane
I am writing an Applescript that aims to automate the install (add to root keychain) and 'Always Trust' setting by simply launching the Applescript. I'm stuck with how to get the admin user authenticated with the authentication popup? Here is my code so far: However, I get this error
My mid 2010 15" MacBook Pro crashes about 3-5 times a day. Symptoms: if I start an iMovie trailer and scroll the options (always) if I start an iMovie trailer and scroll the options (always) using Chrome (sometimes) using Chrome (sometimes) if I perform too much activity right after wake up from sleep (sometimes) if I perform too much activity right after wake up from sleep (sometimes) if I preview files from finder (sometimes). if I preview files from finder (sometimes). just about anywhere (sometimes) just about anywhere (sometimes) What I tested: happens on different OS (Leopard, Yosemite, Win7 via Bootcamp) happens on different OS (Leopard, Yosemite, Win7 via Bootcamp) ran memtest, removed memory cards and repeated crash ran memtest, removed memory cards and repeated crash happens on different hard-drive (old HDD, new SSD, and after clean install) happens on different hard-drive (old HDD, new SSD, and after clean install) happened more frequently on Leopard happened more frequently
I use an external LaCie hard disk as my Time Machine backup drive for MBP. But since I have upgraded to El Capitan, every time I opened the laptop, I'm getting greeted by at least two notifications: External Disk is not ejected properly I tried to exclude the backup disk from Spotlight, but it is not working. I've never faced this issue in any of previous OSX releases.
I have MacBook Pro (late 2013) and I'm considering getting Dell U2515H QHD monitor. The MBP has two Thunderbolt ports. The monitor supports DisplayPort and DisplayPort 1.2. Which adapter I need to get in order to use the Dell U2515H with my MBP?
I recovered an SSD from an old, upgraded 2008 Macbook Pro with a broken keyboard in order to recover the data from it. Initially I was planning to put it in my other Mac Pro and simply copy the data as if it was another drive, but then another idea came to my mind. What if I could boot that SSD from my Mac Pro? I don't know if it's possible to set the SSD as a boot drive and start a MBP installation on another machine.
I've had a problem with my Mac Pro since I first bought it. I have a setup with six 1920x1080 screens (3 screens wide, 2 screens high). I've processed some nice (large) photos, so I could set them on these screens and still make it look like one big photo. I've calculated and cut out the bezels from the photos and it looked very nice. The problem though: my Mac can't seem to remember which one goes where. An example:
I've installed extra dictionaries in Dictionary.app. It's over 9Gb. I'd like to group them by language as is shown in the image below. I've tried to rename their labels in the app, tried editing the Bundle name in Info.plist, but it's not working (dictionaries have same name but not group). Does someone have a solution? .
When I click on an attachment in Mail.app, the file opens in the mail downloads in my library. I can Ctrl-click on the attachment to save it to my Downloads folder. How can I save the file to the Downloads folder in one click? I'm using 10.8.
So yesterday I dropped my iPhone into the toilet, it was literally submerged for less than 15 seconds and after taking it out I left it in my airing cupboard overnight to dry. Today the phone seems to be completely functional other than a very dark screen (changing brightness won't help). Was wondering what the best course of action would be and if this is fixable.
I'm planning to show a presentation of my websites to friends on Firefox, but I do not want them to exit full screen and terminate the Firefox application, but only to click the elements on the screen, similar to the browsing of computers in a store? How is this possible?
I'm using iOS 9.2 and I once accidentally tapped “don't allow” or something similar when WhatsApp was opening a link for Citymapper. It used to launch the Citymapper app, but now it goes to the less useful web interface. I've looked through all the settings but I can't find any record of this preference to reset the permission. Metadata on page:
Back in 2012/2013 I've imported a stack of home video tapes from my DV camera into iMovie. I also converted a lot of files created by earlier versions of iMovie, some of them dating back as far as 2003 or thereabouts.
So I am blinded by anger at this point. I cannot believe this isn't possible in some way. In short: Iphone 4 has a bad battery, photos filling storage, out of date Ios so no wifi, 3g data available is much less than the amount needed to move. This ideally would be solved without leaving the house because it shouldn't be this hard in the first place and also blizzard. Here are the specifics, along with some rough ideas:
I got a MacBook Pro (13-inch late 2013 retina) So I installed Windows 7 using bootcamp and all was fine. I then needed to create a 32MB FAT16 partition, when Windows prompted me to convert to a dynamic disk, I mistakenly hit enter. When I rebooted PC, the Mac option was gone and if I tried booting into Windows it would BSOD and restart.
Went to play tunes while working out the other day. I tapped on the Music app to open my playlists and all that appears is an image of a girl with headphones on. No playlists...no songs...no way to proceed to any of my music. Anybody else missing their music via Bluetooth?
I tried to make a partition and then tried to undo it. Now, I don't know how to get the missing disk space back.
I am trying to display my MacBook Air screen on a TV screen, using a Wireless Display Adaptor. The TV is not an Apple TV. Although the Display dialogue under System Preferences show the option to "Show mirroring options" there are no devices detected alongside "AirPlay Display". I have tried the function "Detect Displays", but this makes no difference - the Mac is not able to detect devices.
I received a call today, and the Handoff box popped up on my screen as usual. I took the call on my phone and the box disappeared.
I am writing an AppleScript that will be run from a USB drive, but the dive name may change often so I need to figure out how to get the directory path of the parent folder that contains the script. This gets me the entire directory with directory to the file, I need the directory of its parent folder: I came across this (which is what I need), but I need an AppleScript path, not a POSIX path! When the script is run it should detect the directory path to the script, the first example of code does this, but it then needs to go up one folder to the parent folder which contains the script (the second example does this) but I need it converted from the POSIX path to Applescript path that uses ":" instead of "/".
I'm trying to figure out the best way to export a large amount of images on my iOS app. There are too many to bundle up and email, and so I am looking at having them exported to iCloud. But if I do that, can the user easily access them for importing into desktop software or similar? Or are they secure and only able to be restored to my app on recovery?
I have a Seagate GoFlex 2TB external HDD that stopped working one month ago. The head of this external disk seeks continuously and produces sounds even when it is not connected to the USB port.
I'm trying to set up the command keys on my 2014 macbook pro (10.10.1 Yosemite) with my new wireless microsoft sculpt keyboard:  I went into my system prefs and started trying to make it so I could map the ctrl button to macs command button with no luck (note I set it back to default after):
I recently got a Macbook and easily set up my user account (admin), plus a standard and guest account. One day, I opened the computer and the screen was frozen. After waiting a few mins, I forcefully shut it down by holding the power button. When I turned it on, my account was gone, only the standard and guest accounts were left.
I want to upgrade my iPhone 5 running iOS 7 to iOS 8. I dont want the current iOS 9 update in my device. Is there any way to update my phone to iOS 8 without iOS 9?
I'm member of the iOS developer program. During this month it will expire. I have about $200 on account. Is it possible to pay from this money without cashing out for the developer program?
Is -av --progress --delete enough? Am I committing a crime or risking some data? What options would you use. Please, back your answer with some arguments, I would appreciate it. I'm looking for a way to automate rsync which seems quite powerful and free to use.
I'm using the French language for Automator (trying to translate the called Actions) : 1. Get elements/items in Finder (I fill in the folder I want to backup) 2. Create an archive (I fill in the target and the name I want for the archive) – screenshot
I have used Preview to create a number of annotations for a PDF file. The annotations are a mix of boxes, ovals, text, arrows, etc…
I can not partition nor use a removable USB disk without file system. I obtained the following informations: After following this guide, I am now able to see the disk in Disk Utility, but it is uninitialized, and when I try to format it, I get the error Couldn't open device EDIT: I tried the following: Disk Utility > Erase Terminal > diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS NAME disk2 Terminal > diskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS NAME disk2 Terminal > diskutil partitionDisk disk2 1 MBR MS-DOS NAME 7.8GB They ALL lead to the same error: Error: -69877: Couldn't open device EDIT 2: This is the partition table: EDIT 3: If I type fdisk /dev/disk2 , this is shown:
As it turned out, only a fraction of my library was available in iTunes, some of the oldest files in my collection plus my purchases. (Also, when I made my first iPhone backup on this laptop, that large portion of the library disappeared from Music as well.)
I just came across a curious display error and was wondering what may cause it. In Safari the following webpage Cross-Country Skating: shows a strange behaviour.
I am making a shell script that works great on its own, but does not work correctly when packaged with Platypus. It does not want to execute sudo, and a few other system commands. Are there any work arounds to this?
When I flag a message in Mail.app (9.3 running on El Cap 10.11.6) on an Office365 account it also gets flagged in Outlook (15.25, also on El Cap). However when I un-flag it in Mail.app this information does not propagate to Outlook. In the Outlook web app it does get un-flagged. Is there any way to get this working so the message also gets un-flagged in Outlook?
I try to install Xcode through App store. As I found, it can take a long time (hours) while it is fully installed. Is it possible to display progressbar, how much time (estimately) is remaining to finish installation? Or at least a progress bar, that shows, how much percent of size was downloaded / installed?
Recently my Mail app is giving me the 2 unread badge, but there are no mail messages in the inbox:  I do not remember when this started. I am on 9.3 beta but it started on 9.2 before I upgraded (using OTA). Also, the hotmail I use does not sync trashing so my hotmail inbox includes all emails that I have deleted from my inbox.
My last Mac worked with Anki to display LaTeX formatted equations but I am still, but I haven't been able to transfer it over. My steps thus far: I obviously downloaded and installed Anki and BasicTeX (don't want the size of MacTeX). I obviously downloaded and installed Anki and BasicTeX (don't want the size of MacTeX). I use an equation in my cards with proper formatting and get the error others have reported on: I use an equation in my cards with proper formatting and get the error others have reported on:
I am trying to install Rserve but it returns an error. I can not understand where is the problem. This is my R version : How can I solve?
I have few accounts on my gmail account that I can "Send As". Using iOS mail app how can I add those accounts?
Executing a Finder search for folders seems limited to searching for folder names beginning with the search term. I can't search for folder names only using a characters in the middle or end. I'm having to resort to using the find command from Terminal. Any way around this? Below is a sample folder and multiple search attempts:
Using a Mac, with the downloads folder placed on the Dock, the downloaded files were displayed in a linear curved stack (when clicked) with the last downloaded files on the bottom and earlier downloads atop of it. This was convenient for managing recent downloads. Now, for some mysterious reason, clicking the downloads icon on my Dock yields a n by m display of icons within which I can't identify the latest downloads. How to get it back to the way it was before?
I tried to use a basic formula to reference the data from the category sheets which i had to copy in to each cell. but it doesn't automatically add or remove lines when i alter them in one of the categories, i then have to alter the stock sheet and count sheet individually to account for the change in rows. P.S i have no reference to doing it in excel because i have never used spreadsheets for more than basic maths functions. Many Thanks Mike
Under System Preferences > Sharing, there is an option to share your connection from wherever "to computers using: iPhone USB":  At first glance, this looks to me like:
My internal keyboard has a different layout than my external (USB) keyboard. Is it somehow possible for Mac OS X 10.11.2 to recognize from which keyboard the input comes and to chose the layout accordingly? As far as I know I can only set one layout globally for both devices.
Is there a way to open an opened file in Finder? E.g. I have an open txt file, working with it and want to quickly open it in Finder. Maybe shortcut or any automator script.
The normal way to add a face in Photos is to open the phone, open the info window, and the click the + button that should appear in that window's faces section. However, on some photos, the button just doesn't appear. This seems to be the case on burst photos. For these, when Photos automatically recognizes the face, all works well, but when they miss one and you have to add it manually, the button doesn't appear so there doesn't seem to be a way to do it. Is there a workaround for these cases when the button doesn't appear?
I've got a late-2015 Retina iMac with Fusion drive. From what I understand, but want to confirm, is that there is no real benefit for Boot Camp as the partition is completely on the HDD side, so the speed in Boot Camp is considerably slower than if it had SSD access. How can I confirm this or even see the two 'sides' of my Fusion Drive?
My Contacts.app crashed on launch. In the crash report I found, among others, the following excerpt:
Months after withdrawing from the beta program, following the guides for exiting, and then installing the production release of OS X 10.11 and installing 10.11 back when it was new, then restoring from a Time Machine backup prior to installing the beta release, everything was fine except app store still offers me beta releases. How can I stop this? Right now I am on OS X 10.11.2 the app store is offering me 10.11.4 beta though 10.11.3 is the current OS X version.
I want to archive old emails ( say, older then 7 days ) from my inbox automatically with an applescript scheduled via cron. To be honest, I am open to other Apple-friendly languages such as Swift or Coco , though the learning curve might be prohibitive for me. Ideas, Examples, and links relevant to the topic are welcome.
I did update to 10.11.3 on the 20th, and it's quite possible that I haven't changed my volume since then and simply did not notice that the 10.11.3 update included these changes (hopefully, this is the case), rather than it having just muted / changed today. I can't seem to find a detailed change log for this release though, to confirm that.
So it seems my library folders are owned by my user, and staff is the user group. When I run commands in sudo, I get warnings from programs like pip that root doesn't own the folder/file. To avoid these errors, I was thinking of filing root as part of the staff user group, then I wouldn't have any issues.
I recently installed a fresh (erased my HD) install of OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 During my first log in I skipped sign in to my apple id Now when I open my Mac App Store and try to Sign In, it gets stuck after I press Sign In button I am using proxy authentication from my university
After El Capitan update (from Yosemite) icons of m4v files (quicktime player icons) are missing. Instead of it they are blank. Blank icon:
How do I make an apple account without a credit card. I've tried everything!!! I do not have a credit card to make an account but i need to make one to download apps.
I am very new to Mac and Apple world, please excuse me for my ignorance if any. I do see Macbook pro or Air doesn't come with Hard Disk drive..!! It comes with flash storage with just storage like 128GB etc (which is very low I feel). Can anyone let me know why no Hard Disk on Macbook pro? Is it possible to install third party hard disk to it? http://www.apple.com/in/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
I have a user that I want to monitor as he has a specific app which downloads a lot of updates. However the user will not pay for apps and its difficult to procure it over official channels.
I bought a SIM FREE( Unlocked) iPhone 6s from the Apple Store in Glendale the other day. The reason I used more money to get the SIM free one is because I'm here in L.A for a little vacation, but I live in another country. What I wanted was to use my new phone to take photos, use wifi, but it turns out I can't if I don't insert a valid SIM card. I tried everything: cutting the SIM card I had in my old phone (from another country), connecting the phone to iTunes, searching if other people ever had the same problem, but nothing!
We have been locked out of our iMac running on El Capitan. Basically all known user accounts have disappeared. Only "other" remains which seems to the "system administrator" or "root" and when trying to login with this one, it hangs (endless turning white circle). Have been on forums and tried many of the First Aid (and second aid) tips and tricks, including fsck (where I found out initially "MacHD had been modified", and eventually got to "MacHD seems to be working fine"). Someone suggested the problem may be in Launch Services area and to access the Mac through FireWire and Target Disk Mode, but I don't have the possibility for such connection, plus without step-by-step I am not tech savvy enough to dare the programming challenge it seemed to require.
In other words, if I press "x", it registers as me pressing "a" and "b" sequentially. I run Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5. A Karabiner solution eludes me, thus I am researching more.
I have a software company and my developers each have their own preferences for an OS (Mac, Linux based or Windows). For windows I know you can use remote desktop and stuff. I know it is possible in Mac as well. But is it viable to let the employees that prefer Mac work from 1 thin server on a powerfull Mac Pro? If yes: How many should I expect to be able to work simultaneously? Does TightVNC as client give good results or is it tedious (slow / bad graphics)? I like to dream that everyone can use all the computers available on every workplace, because they work remote and don't have to use a specific computer each time to access their programs and files. Yes I can create network shares, but sometime someone who doesn't prefere to work on Mac still has to develop on one because of XCode for example and we could buy Macs for these situations it's not ideal just for that instance.
I am trying to install Homebrew on OSX El Capitan. All latest OSX and Xcode updates have been installed. I am using this command in terminal: And I get this response: Elsewhere I read that you can run this command to fix: But this gave me: Can anybody help?
Is there any software that gets this job done? Maybe even something from Apple? Most stuff I find wants you to backup to iCloud or doesn't really go with the user deleting the files off his internal drive. Thanks in advance.
I need to enable VT-x on my MacBook Pro but I don't know if it's already enabled or not. is there a command for checking the status, enabling or disabling VT-x? Those are the device specifications: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) OS: OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 CPU: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 RAM: 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Short question: in some cases, you cannot highlight some text in a PDF using Preview, because it seems some "structures" is overlapping the text, so if you highlight a line or a few words, all the adjacent structures are all highlighted (it can be some structures that contain normal text or headings). How can this be solved? This may need some apps to make those bigger structures' boundary smaller probably. Can it be solved by using Preview alone, or by Adobe Acrobat Reader that is free, or by Acrobat Standard or Pro that costs any where from $130 to $299?
In Time Machine one can back up to several drives at the same time. It is also possible to control which folders are backed up and which are not. However, it seems to me that the same folders have to be backed up to all drives. Is it possible to exclude a folder from being backed up to one drive, while including it in the backup to another drive? I use OS X 10.10.1.
When I remove the provisioning profiles from my iPhone using XCode 7.2, they always reappear whenever I reconnect my device. This is where I'm viewing and deleting it: (the image is merely representative)
I established the bluetooth connection between the devices. However, the speed download/upload still stays low (< 1 MB/s) between the devices while it should be much higher with Bluetooth 4.0 in both devices: Macbook Air Mid-2013 (adapter) and Samsung Galaxy S4. BTsync should use local network to share data between the devices in the sharing. I contacted the BTsync support about the issue
Since I have been using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (Beta 15D13b), most of my login items are not remembered. With the exception of Dropbox and WD Quick, all other applications I put into Login Items (e.g. Chrome, Mail) are removed from the list again after a reboot.
I have an ISO image of VMware Fusion 5 that I would like to install from on my iMac. How can I do it? I know I can install from a .dmg file and I now I can install from an ISO image when I already have a virtual machine installed, but can I install the real Applications from an ISO image?
The message "this cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iPhone" pops up whenever I use a 3rd party USB cable for it. It's really annoying, because then I'd have to unplug it, then plug it in again for it to start charging (the pop up message prevents phone from getting charged).
My iPhone 5S (iOS 9.2) is having the following problem: it can receive text messages and iMessages as normal, but when I view them my phone vibrates constantly until I stop viewing them, and moreover it doesn't consider the message to have been read. So far, my only attempt at fixing this is turning it off and back on, but this hasn't helped.
Safari used to have a dropdown on the right-hand side of the tab bar listing tabs. In Safari 9, that's gone, and instead all tabs are present in the tab bar, with many being almost or completely obscured. It seems to keep a few visible and then the ones on both sides are compressed or "behind" others. (From a UI point of view, this is very frustrating and makes clicking to select a tab very difficult.) Is there an extension that provides either: A drop-down menu listing all tabs, so that clicking it will show that tab
I do have one Tera of Texts (mostly PDF) which is really really much (something like 100'000 documents). They are on an external USB3 and, of course, spotlight-indexed. When I look by text search (not name search) for files with a particular content it takes quiet a lot of time, first accelerating the disk, then running it with a lot of noise and obviously spinning the disk like crazy. I wonder if another disk might make a difference and want to ask you about Thunderbolt or even Thunderbolt-on-SSD. How can I benchmark my Mac so I can make an informed purchase decision on buying a faster drive?
This used to work fine all the time, now it will work for a while and then stop until the next reboot. I have looked at System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts and there's nothing defined for Option-Enter.
I have a bunch of photo streams that I share with my wife. I am already using iCloud photos but we would like to backup certain streams regularly to some external media, like SD-cards or hard disks. Importing all pictures in my photos app and then copying them to the external media is a bit tedious, especially when I am trying to find out which new pictures were added since my last backup. Are there any tricks, tools or apps that can help me with this task?
I have a pdf, and I would like to select some pages from that pdf and build another pdf. Is it possible? If yes, how? I am on a El Captain.
The built in Dictation on the iOS keyboard works like a charm. But how in the world can I use it to transcribe an existing recording (in Voice Memos)? If that's not possible, what combination of apps (or even web apps) could perform transcription of audio recordings in Some recording app (I don't mind using a different recording app if it somehow lets me transcribe)?
I am testing html embedded videos in OS X Safari browser and have come across the following issue. Here is a video link from the page: http://realestate.xitech.com.au/barryplant/17491
I coded this little AppleScript using Automator: This perfectly works but has a side effect: when I close the window, there's always the Terminal window to close, so there are two windows, the one that executes the script and the Terminal. Is there any way to have just one window running?
I have XQuartz running and I can open xterm if I have started XQuartz just for the first time after rebooting the machine. However, as time passes, I cannot create new xterms. So much so that if I quit current XQuartz and restart just XQuartz, I cannot get any xterm. It is annoying that I have to reboot the machine just to be able to use xterm.
I'm trying to get a Hauppauge Nova-T USB dongle working under OS X El Capitan. I found an unofficial driver installer and a program to watch television using this dongle, but the program is not detecting it.
My MacBook Pro 15" battery has a black X in the battery icon and the indicator lights on the side do not light up when button is pressed. What could be the problem? It runs fine when plugged in
My Windows system is a folder in the Startup Disk PrefPane, but shows an hard drive icon on my desktop. How do I turn it into a hard drive icon in the start up disk? I've tried everything but haven't been able to change it.
Is there an Mac tool I can use to sync saved searches/smart folders to a external hardrive? Note: I've tried time machine but I can't include the saved searches. With time machine I can only exclude folders I don't want.
I have set up a point of sale station using a 3G iPad. I have a LAN printer that connects to a WiFI router that doesn't have an Internet connection. I want to use the 3G to connect to the Internet while being connected to the router's WiFi network for printing. It seems on the iPad the WiFi connection prioritises over the 3G dropping my Internet connection. Is there a way I can make this work for me?
I'm debugging JavaScript on my iPhone and I can't get Safari to stop caching the JavaScript files. I have "Disable Caches" enabled under the develop menu, and have cleared the cache numerous times but as you can see in this screenshot some script files are still cached:
The closest solution to a continuous key press that I know is just repeating a key press a certain number of times: But that's now what I'm trying to do. I need to simulate a continuos press, which means that it's like if the user keeps holding down the 'c' button for a certain amount of time. Is it possible to do that in AppleScript? Edit I'm trying this way:
Is it safe to store data on HDD which I selected to use as a backup device in time machine? Or should I add another partition for that?
I often download images, take screenhots, and save files that I am only going to use for a little until it can be discarded. I want to create a folder which deletes the contents inside it every few days ad midnight to conserve space on my mac. My original idea was to create a cron job to empty the folder at a specific time, but a problem exists. My computer is a MacBook, and will not be powered on during the times that I want the files to disappear, this means I need these files to delete when I power the device back on (or wake from sleep) given the time has expired. Any solution?
Hello — I'm experiencing kernel panics every single time my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro (2.3 GHz, Intel i7) wakes from sleep. Running El Capitan 10.11.3. I look at the reports, but they are entirely greek to me.
You can see in the attached screenshot that I have used the SUM function to add the values in column E. There are several "1" values (you can see one in cell E126) but the SUM always comes out at "0". Why is this? To create this spreadsheet, I duplicated a Numbers spreadsheet in which I used "x" to denote a positive value (presence of different types of bees), then I used Find and Replace to change each "x" to "1" in this spreadsheet so I could use Numbers to compute a sum for each column. Would this find-and-replace maneuver make the values unable to be counted by the SUM function? How can I get Numbers to return a correct SUM for each column?
I've already used Boot Camp to install Windows on my computer. A while back I had to erase my hard drive and reinstall Mavericks. Once I did that my Windows portion still exist as a volume, but when I got to my Start Up Disk settings it's a folder and not a disk. I have a lot of my music I created with sound effects and sound kits in FL Studios on that side I don't want to lose. Do I have to erase and reinstall Windows using Boot Camp or can I fix that issue by creating another bootable disk for my Windows?
I just bought the 2560 x 1440 px @ 25 inch (117.5 dpi) Dell U2515H monitor and must say that I'm pretty pleased with the design and quality of the display. Excellent bang for the buck, very thin, frameless bezel, clean backside.
I want to make a time lapse from a folder of images, but there are too many and the time lapse progresses to slowly. How do I select, for example, every 10th item, and either copy or move the items into a separate folder?
My only Mac is so old that it only runs a maximum of OS X 10.7 which does not support iCloud Photo Library. I want to upload a few thousand photos from my hard drive to iCloud Photo Library one time and that's all. Is there a way to do this with my old Mac?
I'm having issues getting redirection to work in Terminal. I'm in a C++ class where we have to create an application, then find that application in the Terminal and place a text file in the same folder. That text file then has to be used as the input to the Terminal application we created in C++. So, after building my application and placing it and a .txt file in a folder, I open the Terminal, navigate to that directory, then use: or more specifically in my case:
I can't update my iMovie - it always says "These apps cannot be accepted by your Apple ID" anyone knows why?
I started a rather long dd command that I would like to stop. ps shows: The dd process is shown in parenthesis without the argument.
I installed Windows 10 with Boot Camp Assistant in El Captain. I successfully completed all Boot Camp installation steps. After finishing the installation and rebooting the Windows boot option doesn't appear.
I want to change the icon of a single, specific file, eg. not all the docs file, only one .doc file (and this change should even persist). Is this possible? How?
The problem: I'm connected to eduroam on an iMac, but only via ethernet. After restart/sleep/lock it automatically switches my 802.1x profile to the Wifi instead of the Wired. I have to manually switch it over every time.
With following versions installed: OS X 10.11.4 Beta (15E27e) Server.app 5.0.19(15s5065c) Apache/2.4.16 (Unix) OpenSSL/0.9.8zg I get: AH00526: Syntax error on line 581 of /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf: server.app "SSLProtocol: Illegal protocol 'TLSv1.2'"
I've been trying to find out how to reset the icon cache on my MacBook, and two methods seem to always be suggested. However, the two approaches differ slightly in the third line.
I use a .command file to start a basic shell script in the form: To make it work I changed its permissions and made it executable.
Obviously this isn't something I can test and confirm myself, and I'm unable to find any confirmation either way elsewhere. My question is simple: After making an emergency call on an iOS device, is the call logged within the phone history? (I realise emergency calls are nearly always fully logged elsewhere, but I'm only interested at the device level)
PowerPoint 2016 for Mac finally includes the new-style equation editor (which was already available in Word for Mac and PowerPoint for Windows). An equation can be inserted using a ribbon button (Insert → Insert Equation).
Up until recently I have had no issue with the Dock. I always leave it showing and don't have auto-hide enabled. Now whenever I switch program from Chrome to Skype or Terminal to System Preferences the Dock hides, even though I have never changed the setting to turn it on.
Would it be possible For example would it be possible for me to code a very simple repeat code but say If I just typed STOP that it would end the program here is my beginning code for the repeat. and so for example if STOP is entered set x to 2 or something? Thank you
I'm using OSX El Capitan (v10.11.2). The compression task was begun about 24 hours ago and had reached the About 5 seconds estimation after a couple hours. But it does not complete for whatever reason. What are the possible reasons for this issue?
When I set break points in Visual Studio, I can inspect variables to see what they are set too: int's, string's, array's, etc.. Is there an option similar in XCode to help with debugging?
I have been using an App (Visual Studio Code) on Mac OS X for several months now. Somehow I've gotten the app into an unusable state on Mac OS X. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. However, that did not work. It looks like my user settings and preferences persisted though. Which means that there are some files or settings somewhere on Mac OS X.
Does sending a large email message to multiple recipients use more data than sending the same email to only one recipient?
I recently did a not-so-intelligent thing: I was installing Win 7 64bit on a new PC and I took my old Mac-formatted 4TB external HDD and mounted it internally on the PC. What I did not realize was that Win 7 cannot recognize HDD's with more than 3TB capacity. While I was installing Win 7, it destroyed the original GPT partition map of the 4TB drive and replaced it with a MBR. Now I am left with an unrecognizable disk, both by Windows and by my MacBook Pro with Mavericks on. Here is some of the info that I got from Terminal:
Is it possible to run an applescript ONLY if a specific input is inserted If I put in my attempts at the code i might be clearer at what Im getting at All the in-between stuff is just testing and making sure everything is working properly
My issue is that a MacBook Pro (mid-2012) started to have problems booting up today so I'm trying to debug the boot process by running it in verbose mode. The problem is I can barely read what it says on the screen, as you can see in the attached picture. It was actually worse just moments before I took the photo because there was just the bright background with the no-entry sign and white letters which made for a completely unreadable combination. Then the black characters started to appear and it's slightly better so at least I can see it's running fsck. The Macbook runs Yosemite and its HDD is encrypted with FileVault. My questions are:
I have a MacBook Air (mid-2012, MacBookAir5,2). I'm really far from terminology of this subject, I have no idea what is flash memory and don't know if all MacBook SSDs must have a flash memory supported SSD drive. I see that there are some suitable SSD upgrades for my MBA on OWC. But I want to buy an SSD from a local technology market. So exactly which specs should I look for to understand which SSDs suitable with my MacBook Air. How can I be sure, if I buy SSD it will work with my MBA?
Here's an MP3 I have. My iPhone plays it back with no problems. VLC on OS X plays it back with no problems. iTunes plays it with annoying bleeps and bloops, some kind of errors or artifacts that are very noticeable at the beginning of the track. Other OS X playback methods, like QuickTime Player or Quick Look, have tiny skips/gaps in the playback, in the same places where iTunes has the error bleeps.
If in OSX text input field pressing Option+[ will render “, Option+' will render æ andOption+; will render …. Can I remap these to render å, ä and ö instead?
Is there a hidden preference or something I can get at through defaults write? I'm running El Capitan 10.11.2 Beta (15C31f)
I'm trying to remove an old device from the Sound Preferences pane. The app is trashed along with whatever preference files I could find. But it remains after reboot.
On my external mechanical keyboard the Super/Windows/CMD key is between Ctrl and Alt, but on the Mac keyboard it's between Alt and Space. Can I swap CMD and Alt only on the external keyboard?
I have 3 old Apple ID's that I used to purchase music. After upgrading to a new phone there are many songs I can't play because they are from the old ID's. Apple doesn't recognize them any more. How can I retrieve my music and authorize my latest phone to download the songs?
Today I was trying to set up Windows on my MacBook Pro (15", Late 2011) over BootCamp. I used the modified Info.plist-trick to create a bootable Windows 8 USB-drive and create a Bootcamp partition. After this was done, I tried to install Windows, but I ran into the problem of Windows not accepting the pre-made partition, so I deleted it and rebooted once again into the Windows installer to install it. Everything went fine, but in the last bit of the installation process, it aborted - telling me that it couldn't change my boot configuration.
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro and a 2013 Mac Mini, both running El Capitan with all latest updates. The Mac Mini is "headless" as I use it as a media server. I connect to the Mini from the MBP using the screen share facility from within Finder in Mac OSX.
I am just switching from Safari to Chrome in my MacBookPro and first thing I did was to import bookmarks from Safari. Now I would also like to import passwords from websites, logins etc. In Chrome > Settings > Sign In > Advanced Sync Settings, I have already checked every available sync option, however just google account passwords have been imported, not Safari's.
I have an unknown network file on my iMac, it appears in the sidebar of Finder, under 'Shared'. It is called hp3464a93ca02a. What is this and can I delete it if it is unnecessary? It has been present for over a year, maybe two and I can attribute no ill effects to it; seems benign, perhaps even helpful. Just wondering...
I have many songs on my iPhone that were purchased on this same device. I would like to sync music from my computer onto my iPhone and I would like to know if this action could delete the purchased content from my phone. Does anyone know something about that?
I can add a reminder with both "Remind me on a day" and "Remind me at a location" turned on. When I turn both on, how does the remind work? Is it: only at the specified time if I arrive/leave the location at the specific time or if I arrive/leave the location something else?
I've identified a strange "state" my Terminal program seems to get into. It doesn't happen on all tabs -- right now, one tap can Page Up/Down properly, and another one can't. When I open a new one, it works normally.
I know you can apt-get JDK on Ubuntu. Is there anything similar on OS X? It looks like Oracle requires you accept a license agreement on *=URL=* before you can download the image, so maybe not?
How does a person obtain a copy of Yosemite when they live in a remote location and 1,000 miles by air or boat to an Apple store? I only have Hughesnet for internet with a 350 megabyte daily restriction and can't download. Help!!!
I want to buy a iPhone from Mercari. It's in great condition but it says "no iCloud Active". Does anyone know what this refers to?
I found that if I use Preview to open a PDF file, and use its tools to add text, or shape elements such as arrows, ellipse, rectangle, then I can use Preview to edit them. But if the items are not Preview's, then I can't edit them. In this case, I have also tried using Adobe's Acrobat Standard or Pro trial version to edit a file, and when I see a person wearing a tie, with a shadow, I can move the tie to the left and move the shadow to the right (not always, for example, if the person with the tie is a pure image, then I can't).
Generally, there is no option to set a "due" date and time for a reminder, just a "remind me" date and time. However, often when I have a reminder and I change the "remind me" time a "due" time appears as so:
I have the Macbook Air 11' late 2010 with Core 2 Duo and 2 GB RAM. I decided to install XCode 7, but it requires Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan. So, should I upgrade OSX on my 5-yearold macbook air? I worry about work speed.
Is there like a default url scheme, like openapp://Facebook, that would open the Facebook app (or whatever) if you click that URL from Safari on an iOS device? Or is there some other way to accomplish this? And does the app have to be specially coded to handle this? My company has an app but we don't have the budget right now to update it to handle any special URL schemes, but I'd really like a way to open it directly from a button on the web site.
In the latest Mac OS X Terminal version I noticed that if I type exit and the press Enter, I get the following: As far as I can remember, previous versions of the terminal, simply closed the window when you entered exit.
Is there a tool or method to purge all unnecessary Xcode temporary data? Xcode seems to be creating files each time you build an app or run it with the simulator. I'm not sure what I can delete safely.
Suddenly Safari is having weird problems: The search bar is no more searching: I can type URLs but the suggestions are not appearing and queries are not sent to Google (or any other search engine I choose in the preferences) The search bar is no more searching: I can type URLs but the suggestions are not appearing and queries are not sent to Google (or any other search engine I choose in the preferences)
[Iphone 6s is what I am using] I have already tried everything on this threat and nothing worked. Its the same problem, I open safari and whenever I try to click on the search bar on the top of the screen, the app crashes and send me back to the homepage. I am using google search engine and I have suggested search turned on and I have tried the following: Clearing history changing browsers Checking for battery saving mode tried without suggested search restarted my iphone None worked.....
I'm trying to use TeamViewer but have a problem when trying to access the network with IPv6 via GSM. Can I somehow turn off IPv6 and use only IPv4? I am using an iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 8.3.
Suppose I've got a text formatted like this: I would like the Notes app to keep the indentation level as I enter a new line: How ever it jumps to the beginning of the next line:
How can I output the number of pages in a PDF in the Terminal? I looked into the lp family of commands, with no luck however.
All of a sudden, Safari on my Mac has started misbehaving. I can't select the text in the address bar, and so I can't go to any new websites. When it redraws, it goes all weird:
I'm having a problem with my Mac Air with OSX X Yosemite. It loses the wifi connection every about 10 minutes. Interestingly, connection summary shows Internet as recheable:
I have many small files (about 500). They are in right order. I would like to merge them. Linux commands are also welcome because I can compile them in my OS X. The command cat *.ts > masi.ts does not work well. The result stops at some points. I am investigating why this occurs. Some parts of the videos are not in order. Names of parts of videos where each file has a prefix HRmasi453-27012016.mp4.ts
Please help! The search / address bar in Safari normally autocompletes my typing. So for example, I can type em and it will autocomplete for me. It has randomly stopped functioning and is now forcing me to type a complete web address before it will take me to a site. Secondly, I can normally type a word and press return and it will fire up google (my preferred search engine) with a list of suggestions but it has just stopped. I don't remember changing anything - any suggestions its incredibly frustrating! thanks in advance
I'm using OS X 10.10.3, I have installed zsh. And every time when I want to run a specific test I configured in package.json to execute npm run tdd followed by the test file. In linux systems if I press tab after this command: npm run tdd ~/ will show me the folders or will attempt to autocomplete the instruction, however this doesn't happen in zsh on OS X, it just makes the noise like there are no recommendations for this. How can this be fixed?
I checked system preferences (screenshot attached). They are not listed there.
I just got my MacBook Pro mid 2012 laptop and stupid me did something to it, now I have a flashing folder with a question mark. The previous owner said she accidentally deleted the software when she was transferring her things to the other laptop.
I don't know what resources are used by adding desktops, but I am certain it is a bigger deal than adding new browser tabs. I've used 8 desktops (across 2 monitors) for awhile. Adding a few more might really improve workflow. Type of apps I'd like to always have open: Chrome / Finder / Terminal / Xcode / NetBeans / Excel / Word / Skype / MySql / iTunes
Does someone have a script to merge or delete Outlook 2011 duplicate calendar entries?
I would like to update to iOS 9.2.1 on my iPhone 4, which is currently running iOS 7.1.2. Is this possible?
The day before yesterday, my iPhone just restart, erased and reinstalled iOS by itself. Just one day later, my Mac did the same! Is that a settings problem or maybe a virus?
I am in the process of setting up a MacPro whose sole purpose is to run VMs on each of the six possible screens each with it's own keyboard and mouse. So what I have is six DVI monitors with six dual-link display-port to DVI/USB adapters and an Anker 10 port USB hub/charger to power them all. The VMs are to be each assigned their own keyboard through virtualbox USB filters.
In the "My Podcasts" tab, almost every podcast of mine is appearing twice at the left column like this:  However, in the Episode List display mode, everything is just fine:
Is there any way to change the installed version of AppleScript? After mistakenly identifying my version of AppleScript as 1.0 by using a 15 year old script (turns out that just checks the version of the script you are currently running, which is implicitly 1.0) and trying to figure out how to upgrade, I was wondering how/if it's possible to change the installed version of AppleScript?
is it possible when I'm in Safari and have link (URL) to trigger a bach script with an right mouse option? The bach script should be run with this format: bash scriptname.sh -parameter -parameter URL Thanks!
I have a MacBook and I'd like it to boot automatically upon plugging it into a power source. Is there a way to do this?
I want to have 2 windows next to each other using a shortcut. How do I do that?
My MacBook Pro stopped working. I was using it without a problem, then all of a sudden the screen went Blue.
The SSD in my Macbook Pro died suddenly. I bought a blank one, installed it as the internal drive, and booted into recovery mode by holding Command + R.
For normal text, three-finger tap on a word is Safari works as "Look Up". From a recent version of Safari, the same three-finger tap on a hyperlink works as "Quick Look".
I'm trying to access a Mac remotely (I do have physical access to this Mac) through SSH from a Linux client computer. My goal is to access this Mac from outside the network. Port forwarding is set up on the router. From my client computer I'm able to ssh user@ip for the public IP and I am able to get into the Mac, so port forwarding is working.
I have dozens of folders that I need to compress into individual zip files. If I select all of these folders in the Finder and do "Compress [X] Items," I get one zip file containing all of the folders, whereas what I want is one zip file per folder.
Plugging my EarPods into my Macbook pro will not allow me to use the button to control volume, nor will the microphone work. The speakers work fine though. Are there specific hardware requirements for the EarPods, when being used on something other than an iOS device? They work as expected on newer Macbook Pros from the last few years.
I can find no similar complaint for either, and have tried a couple of versions. In other words, I'm fairly sure it's something weird with my system.
In Photos app, while playing a movie, if you select the gear in player controller appear a menu list.  Selecting "Export frame to Pictures" (or something like that) Photos should save the frame... but I can't understand where! It's not in pictures folder and not in Photo's moments so...where is it saved?
I dropped my iPad 2 and the LCD broke so I can't see what's happening. Is there a way I can see my iPad screen on my computer so I can make a backup of the files in specific apps. I know that you can mirror iOS 8 or higher devices using the lightning adapter but since this is the iPad 2, it's still using the 30 pin connector.
I cannot connect to the Internet on My Mid 2013 MBA, running 10.11.3 either through Wi-Fi connected to my router, or tethered to my iPhone via USB or Bluetooth . Rebooting the machine has not solved anything. I cannot ping any external IP, I can ping other devices on the network.
I have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro with El Capitan, I'm not able to use AirPlay because I simply don't have the hardware for it. However, I'm trying to work through the thought experiment of how I might be able to connect my computer to an Apple TV. Is there some external hardware that I could hook up my computer to the Apple TV (Gen 3) through Airplay (the same way that I could use an external wifi usb)?
I have Dashlane installed, which makes it so that all passwords in my browser get typed automatically. It's actually really useful, except for a single flaw: it leaks so much memory. Seriously. After a couple days of running it, it'll have taken over nearly 3 GB of memory and slow down the whole computer. I'm trying to make a program where it checks Dashlane's memory usage every once in a while and force quits it once it reaches, say, 1 GB. How can I automatically check if the memory usage of a program goes above a certain number?
My Google accounts on my Mac sync constantly. accountsdand soagent go crazy and Messages works hard or freezes, etc. Can’t I tell my contacts to just sync like once an hour or something? The fetch selection in contacts > preferences seems to not be respected.
When I select Windows to start in my start up disk and restart my computer it doesn't work. It's no bootable disk please insert bootable disk press any key to continue. I was told that I might have rebuild my BCD files on the volume. My question is do I need the installation disk to do that? I don't have the disk anymore. I have music on that side that needs to be finished and save. Please help!!
If I access my company's intranet using the https URL on Safari, the multiple login request doesn't happen (One time login only). But, the multiple login request happens when I use the http URL.
I would like to remap the Option+L/R shortcut on my Mac keyboard to Control+R/L. I don't want to use the modifier keys dialog because I only want to change these particular shortcuts. Any help would be appreciated. Bill
Randomly my safari just started doing this: I tried recreating the com.apple.Safari.plist file but nothing changed. Whats up with this?
Right now double-clicking the invite adds it to an iCloud calendar that I don't use, so I have to manually change calendars when I accept an invite.
My problem is that I don't have any Windows install on my MacBook yet but for some reason the Windows Startup Disk keeps showing up when I hold down option key for startup. As far as I know, I have tried everything to remove it but it's not working, I tried look in Startup Disk under System Preferences but the only thing I see is the Mac OS, I even tried installing Windows then removed it but the bugged Windows is still there I really don't know what else to do.
iMessage boxes are blue, but I noticed at certain times when I text other iPhone owners the messages are green and show as text messages therefore unable to show the read stamp. I understand that this can happen when there's not I messaging available for whatever reason that I'm not too sure about but does this also happen when someone blocks a person?
I have a server running Server.app (3.2.2) on Mac OS X 10.9.5. It hosts File Sharing, Mail, VPN, Websites, DHCP, DNS, and Open Directory etc. It also hosts phpBB3 bulletin boards.
The keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro stopped working suddenly. They went completely unresponsive. The power button did work, though, so I managed to reboot using it. Upon the FIRST reboot, the keyboard/trackpad problem persisted. This is where I started to panic. I forced shutdown again, disassembled the laptop, and used compressed air to clean the interior. Upon reassembly and SECOND reboot, the keyboard and trackpad were working again.
I had 4GB of RAM in my MacBook PRO late 2011 and the graphic memory shown from about menu was 384MB of Intel graphic, now I've upgraded to 16GB and the graphic memory shown is 512MB. Is it possible to upgrade the Intel graphic memory in some way to 1GB? Why does the PC show more memory now?
I tried switching Gimp to Single-Window, and that helped once in lisanet.de's version. But after I re-opened Gimp, all I see is this now (even if I toggle it on and off):
Here's my issue. Last week I realized that my OSX (10.11.13) Terminal no longer saves the command I execute in the history file(s). To be more clear: I type the command test On the same terminal window, I press arrow up: it's ok, test is there If I close the terminal, reopen it and press arrow up: test is no longer there (so it jumps to a command I executed weeks ago). Here's what printenv returns : Any help?
On the internet sharing panel, there is an option to share the connection from Thunderbolt Ethernet to iPhone USB.  It would be really cool to provide internet access to the iPhone via the USB cable, but unfortunately it doesn't seem that it works. Does anyone know what's the purpose of that option though? Thanks!
Prevent & disable iPhone iOS 9.2 from auto downloading updates? iPhone 5 iOS 9.2 - Today morning found it had auto downloaded 9.2.1 update - Around 200-400 MB. I have a data cap with ISP so I dont want this happening on Apple's control. How can I prevent & disable this? I found these older articles but does not seem to have worked/ stopped the download. *=URL=* https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7250272?tstart=0
I'm in the middle of reviewing different monitor options to finally buy one for myself. Please do not consider this post as a product placement. I'm not going to promote any particular brand(s), nonetheless I will paste a link to a particular one I found.
Using OS X 10.11.3 (15D21), with macports, apache 2.4/php 7.0.2 with OS X Server installed (for TimeCapsule sharing) I can't seem to prevent the inbuild apache from starting on reboot. if i use: then reboot and use the command the server app websites is turned off, and if I uninstall the server app, the problem resolves - it is just I want the server app to use TimeCapsule backups.
I have a few standard MagSafe 2 chargers left and want to use it with my new MacBook 12. Are there any adapters I can use to convert these Magsafe chargers into USB-C chargers that work with the MacBook 12" or 2016 Macbook Pro?
Is there a way to run command line tools as a separate app, so I can easily switch between them with apple+tab etc? I want this for things like a mail and irc client where I don't want to hunt down the terminal window to access them. Something like *=URL=* but for the terminal.
I do not want the titlebar to disappear. Is there a solution to have it always visible? Here is the opposite wish: Is there a way to hide the title bar of applications?
I would like to download an extensive list of macports packages through an accelerator and install them offline. Using the following command, the list of packages required was obtained,
After purchasing a new iMac computer, I naturally opened up iTunes and began to download my purchased music onto the machine. The process went smoothly enough, but I noticed that a few songs from an album that I had bought a few weeks ago weren't downloading correctly. The song would download, then iTunes would say "There was an error downloading the song", then I would have to redownload it from Purchased, which worked. But some of the songs, even though they downloaded fine after the second try, just simply won't play when I click on them. What I mean is that they show up in my Music Library, but they won't play when I double-click them, instead, the song will briefly show up in the Now Playing bar, then disappear as iTunes skips to the next song. Any advice? This might just be an isolated incident.
Are there any stable and free CAD programs for OS X 10.11, El Capitan? I just need to review one CAD file. I find many CAD programs for OS X 10.10, Yosemite, but not for El Capitan.
I want to connect from a Windows machine to a MacBook Pro remotely. What I tried is TeamViewer and VNC, but at both I'm not able to change the resolution for the remote connection. Only the resolution of the integrated screen seems to be supported (1280 x 800).
I have built and successfully run an application on OSX 10.11. Then I decided to create a bundle for the app and launched it successfully. Then I moved the bundle to the Applications folder and it did not start anymore displaying the popup: 'You can’t open the application “CodeBlocks” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported'
I am planning to buy a Mac Mini and would like to know the minimum requirements to run Xcode 7. I didn't find clear information on this topic.
Few versions of OSX ago, the project name was shown under the XCode window, when app expose was used... now just the open file name is shown, which totally useless I cannot navigate to my open project and it's irritating as hell How to show Xcode project name under the expose opened window
For no apparent reason my Mac mini keyboard has just changed its placement of symbols: For example, whenever I type Shift+2, expecting the @ symbol to appear, I get a " character instead. Language has always been set to British. Nothing to my knowledge has been changed. I am using OSX Yosemite version 10.10.5. How do I get my keyboard back to how it was please?
The app's Icon wont change for me I tried copying in contents as "applet.icns" I tried Copy + Paste in get info nothing will work I found a article on the internet about this problem they say that you need to do -ls -la in Terminal but that wont work for me Any help appreciated Thank you
I've been tearing my hair out the last couple days trying to get Windows installed. I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch mid 2014. Yosemite version 10.10.1. Win 7 64 bit iso (sha1 - 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58).
I have a file that I uploaded from pages app on my iPhone IOS 9.2.1 and synced with iCloud , but on my mac I see this file with dotted cloud icon and not the latest changes to this file.  How can I make it sync ?
In previous releases of OS X, there was a command called ipfw, that permitted throttling of network bandwidth, which is useful for running some kinds of tests on software. It appears that as of Yosemite that command is gone. So what is the replacement and how can a user to throttle bandwidth?
I'm trying to learn TCP sockets for my project. I will be using them to transfer files between computers.
Say I'm working on a project and I am using Chrome and I have multiple profiles and/or windows open simultaneously. For example: Personal Chrome Profile with Google Mail and Calendar open. Work Chrome Profile with Google Mail and Calendar open. A separate window using the work profile that has live updating results from changes I am making in Adobe Brackets. A separate window using the personal profile that is used for searching Google, Bing, etc.
I am doing a project in which my Arduino needs to connect to a simple web page and retrieve the content of a text file. I want to use curl to see the response I would get if I sent the following HTTP request once connected to example.com (the website in my actual project is a different one) so that I can devise a parse for the contents of commandPage.txt: How can I use curl to send the request and see the full response?
I'd like the shiny aluminum remote so much that I'd like to use it for everything. Is it possible to use it as a remote for a PC controlling e.g. PowerPoint or a music player, like I can do with a PC remote? Additional software needed?
I noticed the issue when I first went to run in OS X Terminal (10.11.2) but this was returned I'm not sure what is going on with defaults, but I also have a similar issue with brew:
I'm working on an application for part of a school project that simulates an operating system and which I launch using the Terminal. By nature it will consume all possible resources to loop over and over. Is there a command or flag I can enter in Terminal to limit the amount of CPU it can utilize while it is running? I tried using the following command:
When I send email through Outlook on the Macbook, my font size is different when received in Outlook on PCs. For example, I send a message in font size 14, but when someone opens the message on a PC they see the message in font size 8.
I have a very basic question: if I enable GPS in my iPhone when in an airplane cruising at an altitude between 30000-40000 feet (roughly 9-12 km), will the GPS actually give valid data? I read a couple of articles (linked below) but I'm still confused whether GPS will work or not. *=URL=* *=URL=* Thanks
I'll explain everything in a clearer way. I have a WD My Passport Studio external hd, since a while it's impossible to read it and here's the symptoms: When I mount it and try to open the main folder, it is empty, but I can see the content with ls from terminal. Every action takes a lot of time (like trying to fix it in Disk Utility) and always fails. I can't unmount it, it just doesn't and I have to reboot.
I am dealing with physical problems from the keyboard/mouse, so discovering Apple dictation has been amazing. However, I work a lot in Google Docs and Gmail... and Google Chrome (or any web browser) does not let me use all of the commands that Apple's dictation provides. It's missing essential selection, navigation and editing commands that are available when using an Apple app like TextEdit. Those commands are essential for moving the cursor around and making fixes without the keyboard. The only solution that's been working for me has been to type in TextEdit, and then to copy and paste into the browser. But this is not a real solution. It would be nice to stick with the native (and free) Apple dictation software on the mac, so does anyone have an idea to get these dictation commands to work in a web browser for use with gmail and google docs? Edit: I found that Safari lets you use Apple's dictation with gmail, but still not with Google Docs.
The shortcut fn-F7 toggles the tab key behavior anywhere in Mac OS X, including on the login window (called "Full Keyboard Access" in System Preferences, this determines if tab cycles through text boxes only, or all controls). However, toggling it on the login window is just temporary, and it will reset to the default (tab between all controls) the next time the login window is used. Toggling it when logged in will be persistent for the user but not affect the login window.
I know it obviously does man, to show the request manual page. However, I wonder what it pipes the output to, because it shows the entire thing at once, but it starts from the beginning. I would love to be able to use that with any command in Terminal, the problem is that less doesn't show everything at once, and cat scrolls all the way down. I tried looking around in Preferences, but I was not able to find anything.
On my iPhone 6 I use Find My iPhone pretty often to find my iPhone 5s. iPhone 6 used to be on the same iCloud account as iPhone 5s, but I switched it to its own account. Since then, I now I have to enter my password for the iCloud account of iPhone 5s, every time I want to find iPhone 5s. (Find My iPhone automatically logs out after a few minutes of inactivity.) It's rather cumbersome to enter my password each time. Is there any way for Device A to stay signed in to Device B's iCloud account, in the Find My iPhone app?
A very important (30+ hrs. of work) Text Edit rtf. Document suddenly disappeared from desktop after opening it!
(2) If a user has no VPN, is the user then relying on the vulnerable version of OpenSSL in the OS alone for that layer of security? Or are later versions of OpenSSL somehow 'bundled' within specific applications--the browser, Skype, iTunes, etc.--just as it is 'bundled' with a VPN client?
I have a two disk system, Disk1 which contains OSX and Disk2 for misc files. I deleted the .Trash folder on Disk1, which I assumed would only affect files on Disk1, but must have had an effect on Disk2. There was about 500GB of data 'deleted' (This data was never trashed in the first place). The free space on Disk2 has not changed. I am running data rescue now, but I figure this might be a special case. Is there any way to get the data back without forensic utilities? Later: Forensic utils didn't help.
One day i got some malware on my mac. Finally removed it successfully, but this was somehow created when i first got the malware. All the forums i've found just say hit the "-" aka remove but it is grey'd out and i cannot do that.
How can someone check their balance without an iOS/OS X device and without installing iTunes? For example if you lost or disposed of an old Apple device or simply left it at home... There must be a way to find out if you have any credit left
I own a Macbook Air 2014 model, and have duel-booted OS X and Bootcamped Windows 10. Now I want to be able to install a Linux distribution (most likely my own custom one, but lets use Ubuntu as an example). From all the examples I found on the web, they were either, "Dual-boot with rEFIt" or, "Pure EFI-boot, with an uninstallation of OS X and re-installation afterwards". What I want, is something that looks like *this: *picture grabbed from second link With my Linux and Mac OS X partitions neatly tucked in there. The second link does what I want, except OS X is uninstalled, which I don't have the time or external hard-drive reliable enough to not corrupt everything on copy over due to the age and damage.
on El Cap (I noticed this since upgrade to 10.11.3) Preview keeps accessing closed PDF files, which means I cannot empty the trash. In fact the problem exists even if Preview is not running. I open a file, close Preview and the file, trash it, try to empty the trash and I get 'the file is in use'. Just now:
Is there any way to make the phone ring when the headset is left on? My husband will take the earpiece out of his ear but leave it active. When a call comes in it rings in the earpiece and not through the phone. He hates the lag time it takes for the earpiece to connect if turned off but it also hurts to leave it in his ear. If the phone would just always ring, it wouldn't matter where the earpiece was.
I'm new to the whole Mac world, and the first thing I did when I got my MacBook Air 2015 was I installed Ubuntu, but have regretted it now and want to remove it and get my space back into the Mac partition. I have tried to do it with Disk Utility in OS X, but it just fails and it's not giving any real error code. So I don't know how I can do it? This is how my partitions looks:
I inherited a slide deck full of builds and animations which I don't use. The only way I found to remove animations from a slide is: Click on the "animations" tab Click on the "Animation Properties" (or whatever its called) button Select all the animations listed Click the delete button
I'd like some help understanding why I have to restart my Mac every morning when I get to work in order for the bluetooth to start working again. It is a work provided machine, running Yosemite and it has a couple things which I cannot remove as well, like Symantec this and that. Once I reboot though, I am good all day long and never have a problem with bluetooth. It is only when I come in to work in the morning, and it is EVERY morning, without fail.
Is there a way to sync/save OSX's own settings, preferences, etc to iCloud? I use OSX El Capitan.
I am looking for a pdf reader which refreshes when the pdf is updated, while staying (roughly) at the same page it was before the refresh. Adobe and Foxit don't refresh. Preview does refresh, but gets you back to the first page after every refresh.
What happens when you kill kernel_task on OS X? Is that even possible? I know that the system reboots because of kernel panic when you kill launchd, but I can't find any resources online and am afraid of trying to kill kernel_task.
I have a Macbook Pro connected with a secondary screen. I would like both screens to have a dock, a desktop (see the desktop items on both screens) and menu bars. In other words, almost as if I had two Macbooks next to eachother. Right now, I do have the menu bar on both, but I can't find any option to display desktop items on both, as well as the dock. Is this possible? OSX El Capitan 10.11.1.
I have an old MacBook and im trying to connect it to a new TV, I have a mini DVI port but can't find adapters for it. Is mini DVI and DVI the same thing? I'm looking for some kind of adapter to HDMI port. Thanks!
This might be weird to ask, since in all these years I've never used a Mac as a "remote scheduler", but this is what I need now. Can you recommend a batch job scheduler?
I am trying to do a build of Cyanogenmod, that outputs the error: However, the /Developer/SDKs directory does not even exist. I know that most of the libraries have been moved to Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/, but I don't know where to look. What is this MacOSX.sdk file? Where can I find it?
I changed my Apple ID password and want to login to iCloud with my Mac. Entered password, and now it shows me loading and I can't do anything: neither restart the computer nor cancel the request.
We have a bunch of iPod Touch devices deployed in an Enterprise environment, they are pinging NTP server and it looks like it is for accurate time keeping. Is there anyway I can turn off the devices pinging the NTP server? We are hearing from the network guys that pinging is slowing the network down. The real problem we are trying to solve is the WIFI Drop, for some reason these devices are dropping 5 to 8 times a day and the network guys are saying that this is due to the iPod Touch devices pinging the NTP server. Is that traffic so high to cause WIFI drops?
Is there any way to disable notification only with specific application(s) for a certain time (not permanently)? Something like Do Not Disturb, but for specific application(s). Or maybe even by notification banners? Usually I need this for disable notifications for skype or other messenger apps for hour, so that I won't forget to turn notifications back on.
On my iMac running OS X 10.11.3 I'd like to encrypt as much as possible of the built-in disk -- like that I don't need to worry about replacing/sending in a broken disk. From a casual few web searches it appears not to be possible to encrypt absolutely everything, so right now my strategy is to partition in the disk to have a large, encrypted data partition.
I'm trying to run mod_perl on El capitan. Following *=URL=* an *=URL=* Following *=URL=* an *=URL=* The correct repository is different for El capitan, so use svn co *=URL=* 2.perl Makefile.PL MP_CCOPTS=-std=gnu89 ; make ; sudo make install I could get /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so The correct repository is different for El capitan, so use svn co *=URL=* 2.perl Makefile.PL MP_CCOPTS=-std=gnu89 ; make ; sudo make install I could get /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so In /etc/apache2/other directory, I added cgi.conf with the following content. In /etc/apache2/other directory, I added cgi.conf with the following content. I copied simple perl cgi script in the /Library/WebServer/Documents/cgi/ directory, but instead of execution the perl script, the perl code is shown. What might be wrong? After adding these lines in the conf file: I have errors instead:
I have been reading that it is now possible to access Find My Friends from iCloud.com, and I have a friend who is able to do so from their iCloud.com account: It shows up in the iCloud menu under the URL "icloud.com/#fmf". But when I log in this URL silently chops off the "fmf" part, the "Find My Friends" app doesn't show up from the menu, and when I try to use an invite from my friend, it tells me to install the app on my iPad.
My app has just passed the review process and now its status is "Pending Developer Release" My problem is that in the promo code section, the button to generate codes is grayed out, I can't click on it even if I enter a number to generate.
My iOS calendar is synced with a caldav server. If I set up my Facebook account in the iOS settings to also see Facebook events, can Facebook also read my other calendar events?
Is there any shortcut to mute one specific tab in Safari? Or to mute all except the current tab? Using only the MacBook keyboard.
I tried multiple times to find easy PDF editor for Mac. I am looking for an application which can simply allow me to change some words in the PDF (Preview cannot do it).
I am using Safari (6.1.6) for all my web use but certain sites I use often are telling me my browser is out of date. I gather Safari cannot be upgraded to a more modern status. Having read the often less than complimentary reviews of 'El Capitan' which I assume would be the next logical step, I wonder if I can keep my OS X version but use another more up to date browser.
Is there a way to turn screen sleeping on and off temporarily through AppleScript? I'm making a script at the moment that will run for a few minutes when I'm away, so I don't want it to sleep, but don't want to manually do it every time.
I have a 2010 white Macbook and the middle row of the keyboard has gone funny. The keys all work fine still but they no longer correspond to the correct key. Pressing a for example prints q, h prints y, ; prints p. Caps lock, ', \ and Return all work fine on the middle row however.
The 'Custom Label' in Contacts is now gone missing on my iPhone 5c, how do I restore this label to my contacts?
I have an unlocked iPhone 5s model 1533 GSM which supports LTE bands 3, 7, and 19 (800, 1800, 2600 MHz) as per this page: *=URL=* These are the bands used in Spain (*=URL=* However, the Apple page suggests that even though the 1533 model is compatible with these bands, it is not compatible with Spanish carriers and instead you need model 1457. Note also that model 1457 is not listed as compatible with Canadian carriers even though it is compatible with the LTE bands used here (700 and 1700 MHz). Does this mean that although the Spanish LTE frequencies are supported, the phone will not work on LTE in Spain because the carriers aren't supported on model 1533? Or does it mean that although not officially supported, the 1533 model will work with Spanish carriers if I purchase the appropriate sim in Spain?
Do iPhones and iPads with cellular network support NITZ or do they only rely on NTP?
I tried installing the Logitech keyboard layout using this guide. It appears in the Language Menu, so I added it as a possible layout, but it is grayed out in the Input menu so I can't switch to it.
Usually, I have my dock on the left of my macbook screen. When I plug in to my big display I would like my left hand monitor to have a dock on the left of the screen and my right hand monitor to have a dock on the right. Otherwise I often have to move my mouse all the way to the opposite side of the opposite monitor just to open up my dock. Is this possible? I am running El Capitan if that is relevant.
I'm having an issue where users accessing my website using an iPhone with iOS 9.0.2 and Safari are experiencing an error on one particular page when submitting a form: "Safari cannot open page. The error was: "The operation couldn't be completed. Protocol error".
Starting yesterday I'm dealing with low internet speed on my Mac; my download rate is 40 KB/S at the max. while my default download rate is 100 KB/S. I shut down my mac and tried another two PCs; the speed is my default and browsing is normal and I didn't encounter any slowness in my connection. So, I figured that the problem is on my Mac whether there's an application running update in the background or the App store updating (but the app store contains no update). I need your help to find a way to track my internet usage so I may be able to terminate the problem.
The text insertion cursor is very hard to see over black background. Are there any tweaks to make it easier to see?
I'm wanting to type some Pinyin characters (e.g. adding a bar above an a with Alt A + A) and am following this guide http://pinpinchinese.com/blog/how-to-type-pinyin-tone-marks-mac-os-x-yosemite/
I purchased an album on iTunes back in 2013. When Apple Music came out, I added the deluxe version of the album on my phone to have the extra songs, but then some songs were duplicated and would play twice in a row. I tried to remove the songs from Apple Music by swiping left and pressing delete, but instead of removing the Apple Music songs, I deleted the songs I had purchased. (Rookie mistake, I know, but this was back when the Music app had just been redesigned, and it was confusing.) Since then, I have gone into the Purchased section of my music to redownload, and the songs are just not there. Short of just buying those songs again, is there anything else I can do? Thanks!
Accidentally closed MacBook Pro while installing El Capitan. Now only bootable disks are my bootcamp, Recovery, and OS X installer. Macintosh HD shows up in Disk Utility and I've tried repairing it, no errors. On the properties it shows that it isn't bootable, that's it.
A big black rectangle is slowly overtaking the screen on my macbook. It is all frozen can't do anything. Any suggestions?
When I run cd / && ls I see some directories in which I know the purpose of, and then others I don't. Here are the directories I do not know the functions of: /etc /opt /private
I previously asked this question about what I might lose if I were to switch from iTunes Match to Apple Music. The basic consensus was that for my needs, I really wouldn't lose anything. I also found this question/answer which says as I understand it, that any songs I import to my library should be available on "all devices". Unfortunately now that I've lived with Apple Music for a while, I've come to a rather unpleasant conclusion. I believe I have now completely lost the ability to add new items to my iTunes library and play them from my phone.
I was thinking about getting a Dell 4k or perhaps a 2560x1440 display, but then I realized that not all non-Apple displays are recognized as 2 pixels per point even though the ppi is high enough. Is there a list of non-Apple displays currently accepted by OS/X as 2 pixels per point?
My kids use Steam to play games on the Mac. Each kid gets half an hour through parental controls time limit feature. However, it just locks their account and leaves the apps running. Steam can only have one instance running at a time on a single computer, so the second kid can't play on Steam after the first kid has got logged out, without me giving the first kids account some extra time, and then closing steam.
A friend of mine bought a new iPhone yesterday and wants to give her old one as a hand-me-down. The retail guy transferred her contacts but not her notes.
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Everything seems to be working fine, except Safari keeps freezing and stops responding. Sometimes, when Safari freezes, it causes the whole computer to crash and I have to restart it.
Every single time I open a picture to view in preview or preview itself it opens every document in a individual page. Which must be forced quit to close?
How to I make Preview use freehand mode by default while I'm drawing? It seems to want to smooth everything everytime.
In the dialog of "About this Mac", started from below the Apple menu item, the Storage 'tab' says there are 42.43 GB of Movies. Ok, how do I find all those files that the system categorizes as movies? In other words - how did OSX find them? I can't find them anywhere. Is there a Terminal ls -al | grep [something] that I can fire off from the root folder to help me find them?
I'm developing a new tvOS app that has in-app purchases. I can't get the in-app purchases to show up in the simulator. What is the proper procedure when introducing in-app purchases to apps that are not yet in the App Store? Should I go ahead and upload a build but NOT release it? Will this get the in-app purchases showing in dev so I can continue building the in-app purchase workflow? Or is there another way to get the in-app purchases approved? They are currently in the "Ready to submit" state.
She also tried it using a Mac with iTunes. She backed it up, and all the photos from the iPad did get copies on the Mac, except the folder she created.
My understanding is that it is possible to use the iPhone for payments on 'the underground' in London as a replacement for the Oyster card. Also that the NFC chip is used in this. The potential exists to use this system in other Smart Card transport systems in Singapore and Sydney. My question is: Does Apple have to provide authorization for the iPhone NFC to be used as a transport Smart Card?
I've found that OS X supports .img files which might be resized after it was created. Interesting thing is I can not resize more than 1 time :) is it real limitation or I'm doing something wrong ?
Is there a way to type special unicode characters, or more specifically foreign currency sumbols, on an iPhone or iPad? I mean symbols like ¥ (Yen), ฿ (Bitcoin or Thai Baht), ₩ (Korean Won) etc.
When logging in on my MBP (from stand by) it crashes in the middle of typing the password, and goes back to the user selection screen. When click on my user icon, and then typing in the password again, it works. However all apps are reset, of course. i.e the browser tabs are gone, and some programs lose the unsaved work etc.
I've noticed that typying -- in text edit results in those signs being converted to en dash: –. This is highly undesirable behaviour. For example correct formatting for the SRT files is (related problem): time --> time
When I connect my iPad to my Windows 10 computer, it shows the device "iPad" with the "Internal Storage" as a folder. This storage contains three folders with a couple of pictures and videos I took with my iPad, but it doesn't show all of the pictures and videos - some are missing. How can I view/access all the pictures and videos on my iPad?
Spotlight search bar is no longer centered, how do I put it back?
My students and I are using gcc to compile programs which ask a series of questions then display a result. Right now if we are running a program called "main" for example, we have to open a terminal window then type: ./Programs/main We would like to be able to distribute these to other students who don't know how to use the terminal, so that they can just double-click on a file.
I have one device on my network that does not use any form of rDNS or Bonjour, and I have to access it primarily through ssl. So I'd like to to stop moving around in the IP listing so I know where it is (instead of, as I did yesterday, assuming it was broken). Is there a way, through the AirPort Utility, to give a particular device, as identified by MAC, a specific non-changing IP address?
Is it fundamentally impossible to have a passive (NOT the expensive USB-powered active ones) thunderbolt/mini-displayport to dual-link-DVI or HDMI adapter that can support 2560x1440 external monitor?
After using a Harmony 520 remote with the new AppleTV 4 Podcast app, all the podcasts now playback in slow motion. Rebooting the AppleTV does not solve the problem. It appears that the Universal Remote somehow triggered a non-advertised slow playback feature. No amount of finger mashing on the Harmony Remote or the AppleTV remote manages to reset this. Anybody else stumble into this bug and find a solution back to normal speed other than resetting the entire AppleTV to factory defaults?
Im currently evaluating using Apple Remote Desktop for multi laptop and desktop management. Can it also be used for iOS device management ?
I manage 6 devices: (2x MBPs, 2x Mac Minis, 2x MB), devices are a mix of 10.8 and 10.10. Adding or updating software on each computer has become tedious and I've been recommended to use Apple Remote Desktop. Ideally I'd like to be able to use Apple Remote Desktop to manage the devices at our office which are on the same network, but also be able to connect to laptops when they are out of the office in case I need to share the screen etc.
I wonder how to add CC and BCC fields in Gmail app. I use iOS 9. Here is what I see:
I subscribe to about 200 feeds, lots of Imgur feeds with pictures and videos. Is this behavior normal? How do I clean this up?
I have a Linux box sharing HDDs via NFS, which I prefer for its simplicity and speed. My local network is on a directory server (El Capital Server OpenDirectory).
I have a headless MacMini attached to my Time Capsule that has a series of firewire disks attached (I use it to store photographs, and it runs CCC to backup one disk to another with lots of redundancy). As disks have failed over the years, some of them have had to be renamed, and they show up with their new names on the MacMini if I screenshare to it. But my MacBook Air still shows them when I connect to the MacMini for filesharing with their old names. Restarting, cleaning system cache, trashing logs, and trashing Finder plist have not corrected this. If I bring in a new computer that has never before connected to the MacMini it will show the old names too, so I assume this means the problem is on the MacMini, not on the machine accessing it. Recently, I added an iMac to the network to keep connected to my film scanners. I'm having the same problem with it's hard drive name. I changed it from its original name to iMac HD, but the original name still shows up for sharing the disk on ot
For security concerns, I wonder how it would be possible for an OS X upgrade (e.g. from Mavericks to El Capitan), to reboot my Mac multiple times without asking me for my FileVault 2 password?
I've been sharing my Apple ID (I'll call it A) details with my wife for many years, in order to share app purchases. We'd now like to switch to Family Sharing. My Apple ID A would be the "family organizer".
I have System Preferences|Keyboard enabled for smart quotes. Unfortunately, this tends to turn Hawai‘i into Hawai’i even when I use Option–]. Any suggestion how to get one word the way I want? (Not interested in global disable of smart quotes.)
I have turned it on and off, hit the music app and it's still frozen. What other options do I have to fix this issue?
COmcast was setting up an ethernet cable and there was no option to choose ethernet. I have for years been using the stick from clear but wanted to go to cable for faster. I currently am using a Wi-Fi router because that's all that I can get to work. But where is the ethernet?
I was cleaning up my Mac (on El Capitan 10.11.2), and I tried to delete some obscure old Word file. When I clicked on "empty trash", it gave me the message that the file was being used. I didn't know what was using it, and didn't want to cause problems, so I used lsof | grep /Users/myusername/.Trash and found that the QuickLook process had it open 12 times! Should I delete the file? Why on earth does Quick Look have it open at all? PS: I quick-looked the file again and ran lsof | grep -c /Users/myusername/.Trash, which told me that it was then open 18 times, in case that helps.
Today I upgraded from an iPhone 5s to an iPhone 6s via the Verizon store. The clerk told me everything would be transferred between phones automatically. After getting home I discovered my photos on the Camera Roll were missing. The Camera Roll folder and all album folders are there. They contain blank photos. When I click on a photo it displays a blank frame, but the correct photo date.
When hovering the mouse pointer at the bottom of a PDF file being displayed within the Safari browser window, you get a set of 4 icons for Zoom Out, Zoom In, Open in… and Save To Downloads:  I would like to be able to access the "Open in…" function via a keyboard shortcut, but can't seem to find the related item in any Safari menu. Is this possible to do?
It does not on Windows, but on OS X, it wakes up the computer from sleep. If Android Studio is not running it does not wake up. Connect an Android device (I used a Nexus 7 2013). Run Android Studio Click the Apple icon in the status bar, and then click "Sleep".
I wonder how to change the reply-to field in Gmail app when sending an email. I use iOS 9. I just want to change at the reply-to for one email, not all emails I send. Here is what I see:
When I run tcpdump, I do so after having connected to an access point. Is there a way to run tcpdump without having connected already?
I'm looking for a standalone iOS app, that can display APN's on my iPhone screen, by sending a request to their API. Some of these seem to have existed in the past: Notifo, Howl and Prowl. None of these seem to be active however. Perhaps they might have been pulled down because of violations on Apple's ToS ?
I want to disable System Integrity Protection, So i am trying to run this command csrutil disable On recovery mode, But i am not able to boot in Recovery mode, It keep showing user login screen, I tried to Hold this Command+R combination as well as Command+E+R till The Apple logo shows, But no luck. This the output of diskutil list command
I have the following terminal command that I want to automate using applescript. I also would like to have a command to cd directories to the folder where I want to apply the command first. After cd to the folder that holds the .pdf files. This code looks at the first letter of the file name and based on that sorts the files into the alphabet folder corresponding to the first letter of the file.
So what service exactly is asking for my ID? How can I find out?
In previous versions of OS X, I used the UDF format extensively. I recently had to upgrade to El Capitan, and now none of my UDF drives are readable (Finder prompts me to intialize the disk).
I used to have my up and down arrow keys in the Microsoft keyboard programmed to "send backward" or "bring forward" when using InDesign on my Mac. Somehow I set it back to default settings (so they now move things up and down). How can I reprogram them? I checked the Apple menu>system preferences>keyboard and didn't see those keys listed. I also tried apple menu>system preferences>microsoft keyboard. I assume it can be done here but I can't figure out how. Can someone please explain to me in detail? BTW I'm not great with computers or computer lingo so be very detailed and speak in layman's terms. Thanks!
Since a few days I have an Apple Watch and I really like it. I just wanted to know if I could use my watch in airplane mode all day, and at the end of the day I connect it to my iPhone to let all my health data sync. Is this possible?
When OS X (10.11 in my case) pops up a dialog saying the system has run out of application memory, what does this really mean? I've looked at this question, but my question is a bit more specific and not answered there. It obviously doesn't simply mean the system is out of swap space, as I have over 500GB free, and I've seen this message when Activity Monitor reports 30GB or so used (I have 16GB of physical RAM). I guess it has something to do with wired memory (pages that cannot be swapped out); normally, applications can't directly consume wired memory, but Parallels Desktop can and does, and it's when I'm using Parallels that I see the message.
I am aware of the authenticated restart when using FileVault 2 on OS X. Running the fdesetup authrestart command does however restart the system immediately.
If Finder tried to escalate [automatically?!?] to root to perform a deletion operation, the nfs server would convert root to nobody, which therefore falls under the 'other' part of the permissions, and therefore requires additional permissions. Disabling root-squash allows the root access through, so that works. However, this is all localized to the Finder.
I have a Qwerty keyboard on my MacBook Pro late-2015, set to the standard US layout, that I sometime use to write French accentuated characters. However, since the last OS X update, some accent shortcuts are not working anymore. More specifically, Option6 (+ some vowel), which used to produce circumflex accents now writes §, and Optionc, used for c cedilla, is now used for capitalising the last written word. I can still write these characters using the press and hold method, but it's pretty inefficient. How can I re-enable these accent shortcuts?
What does it mean when an app is greyed out like this? It is not compatibility with OS X version because this grey thing just happened suddenly and I used to run this app a short time ago and I haven't updated OS X.
Whenever I am trying to open an app, most of them won't open with the error as below.  I am really helpless here. Is there is any issue with my machine? I have a Ubuntu background and recently started using OS X. Mac version :
Is it possible to compose my launchd.plist file so that an embedded expression is evaluated and not treated as a literal value? And, if so, how? I have a ~/Library/LaunchAgents/setenv.JAVA_HOME.plist file which contains a /bin/launchctl call as follows: Problem is, the $(/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8) expression is not evaluated and instead the JAVA_HOME environment variable is assigned the literal value $(/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8). I asked this question in Stack Overflow last week but have had so few views I'm guessing that that's not the place for it.
How can I get the total number of files in multiple zip files at the same time? I have around 1000 zipfiles in one folder and would like to know the total amount of files inside them all combined. How can I do this? I've tried But that only gives me the number from that archive, I've also tried and gets Any suggestions?
I have problems to read an encypted hard disk. Unfortunatly I do not remember if I did encryted with Time machine or Disk Utitlity. I think I did it with the first one (Time Machine) as I used the disk as a buck up.
My contacts on my iMac, OS 10.11.3 and iPad and iPhone are presently messed up beyond repair. There are hundred of duplicated contacts and a number of duplicate groups. I'd like to go back in my TIME MACHINE and restore all of my contacts for both my Mac and iCloud. I can see 2 weeks back everything was good. I do not know what to do from there. RESTORE?
I have some Apple earplugs with a broken microphone, therefore I cannot talk. I would like to switch back to the built-in microphone. However, there is no option to do so in the Sound System Preferences, and only this is shown:
I have a mid-2009 Mac Pro with dual video cards. About a year ago I started noticing an odd video artifact on one of my monitors. I'd be scrolling something vertically and part of it would freeze, then catch up with the rest. I'm now seeing it happen horizontally as well, while watching a video. In each case it seems to be isolated to one area of the screen, though I'm not sure of that.
I regularly operate a Mac Mini (10.9.2) from my 13" MacBook (10.6.8) and edit audio and video using Audacity and iMovie. I just got a new(er) 13" MacBook Pro (10.11.3) and am trying to do the same tasks. The issue is that while Screen Sharing from my MBP (10.11.3) my keystroke-mouse controls (ie: "⌘-wheel up" to zoom in) in Audacity don't work, while on my 13" (10.6.8) they work as if I'm sitting at the Mini itself.
but /Volumes/CDROM/notes does exist. I can do and get exactly the output I expected. In fact, I was able to do this: and get the listing I expected. So far, I've encountered two discs where this happens.
I have activated file sharing for my public folder. I have network connectivity within my private local LAN and Internet Access. My router does not support IPv6. When someone tries to connect from another mac with my shared folder, the login procedure is incredibly slow. I have tried to use the domain name and the ip-address without success.
I'm on OS X 10.11.3 I can't connect to mail servers running only TLS version 1.2 or 1.1 with Apple Mail. IMAP as well as SMTP connections are always established using TLS 1.0 Could that be correct? If so, why doesn't Apple Mail support TLS 1.2 yet?
I downloaded an app on my phone and transferred it to my MacBook Pro and I got a file of the app. Whenever I click on it, it says the app already exists in my iTunes library and do I want to replace it. How do I open the app so I can use it?
For pictures I can see the share option to send it through snapchat, but I can't seem to find it for videos. I want to be able to record a video using the phones default camera app and then send it to a friend on Snapchat. Since the video is likely to be longer than 10 seconds if it would send multiple videos of 10 seconds each that would be ideal. How can I do this?
We are having trouble locating iTunes music folder. Prior to updating with OS X EI Capitan, we could easily find the music folder in the Finder sidebar, but now we don't know how to get it back with all our music, media, etc.
Using The Swift Programming Language 2.2 from iBooks, i can't seem to copy the text (many lines of code from inside the book) to then test. Does anybody know why this is happening? In the past I have been able to copy the text from the book however now it is not letting me (it's greyed out). For example
Whenever I take my laptop away from my desk (to type on the couch), OSX goes crazy letting me know that my Apple keyboard is connected, now disconnected, now connected, now disconnected... The message appears in an obtrusive grey box right in the middle of the screen. I never want to see that box again. Simply disabling bluetooth is not an option.
just a few hours ago I got 2 dell E2015HV monitors, they are VGA monitors with a native resolution of 1600x900 pixel and since the macbook pro retina does not have any VGA ports I'm using two VGA to thunderbolt converters to connect the two displays to the computer to make them an extended display, but for some reason none of the displays want to run on their native resolution, and when I option + click on the scaled display setting from display preferences I see a list of custom resolutions but not one of them are the monitor's native resolution of 1600x900 pixel, as a matter of fact none of the resolutions listed in the list box even begin with the number 1600. So, the question now is that is there anything I can do to make them run on their native resolution? Thanks!
My internet broadband package at home is limited to a volume of 40GB. Ever since I bought my iphone 6s, 40GB finishes within half the month. I have disable all auto downloads, auto update, iCloud backup over wifi; but yet my iPhone wastes about 3,5 gigabytes per day for nothong. I can't understand why. Longer I keep the phone connected to my home wifi connection the more my wifi internet volume drops. It doesn't happen over cellular data anyway, only when my phone is connected to home wifi. Please help me to solve this problem.
Just curious if every time I press that X, it means I'll never hear a song. Some songs just aren't right for a station, but it doesn't mean I hate the song. Curious if it bans that song forever from all my stations or just one.
How can I share the same Photos library between multiple user accounts on the same machine I currently have my photos library on an external drive. "Ignore ownership on this volume" is set. The first user that logs into the machine and opens photos obtains a permanent lock on the database. There's a process named photolibraryd that sits and keeps a lock on the top level Photos.photoslibrary directory. According to the system log this lock is what is preventing other users from opening the library.
Like the title says, i'm looking for a program (preferably free!) that has similar features to Billings Pro. I'm a part-time web developer and it was unnecessary to have to pay for Billings Pro just to have a program to create 2-3 invoices per month. What i'm looking for is a program that will let me: Create Invoices Create recurring Invoices Create Clients Does anyone know a (free) program can do the above things?
I have a docking station that works that plays music by connecting an (old) iPhone 3. Since I don't want do throw away a working music station, I was wondering if there exist a cable that would allow me to connect instead my new iPhone 5 to it.
I had Garage Band in Snowleopard which had option to create podcast. I upgraded OSX and get new Garage Band which does not have such option. What should I do now?
Just in case someone runs into the same problem and is banging his had on the wall as there seems no solution ... OS X 10.11.3 still contains a bug where it sometimes is not possible to add a folder to the favorite side bar root. It always tries to add to another folder, but does not let you drop the folder directly to the root element.
I'm trying to add a configuration profile to my Apple TV via Apple Configurator 2, as documented, however when I add the profile I get this error: An unexpected error has occurred with “Apple TV”.
2) If so how is the staff group on one machine determined to be logically the same as a group named staff on another machine? I.e. security wise, how is this secure?
I'm using find . -name '*~' to find files that end with ~ but it only shows files that are not in the subdirectories. When I use find . -name "#*" it shows all files including the ones that are in the subdirectories.
After installing Windows 8 MacBook Air is not booting. I want to revert back to OS X. I need help on how to do that.
I have tested this Notes export script (*=URL=* It seems to work, but the issue is that I want to specify a specific Notes folder to export, rather than every single one. The issue is the main loop clause:
I want to remove some photos from iPhone but keep them in Photos & iCloud. I want to keep my photoson my Mac Air, & desktop. When I try to delete them off my phone it tells me it will be delated from Photostream & iCloud.
I have root permission but still I am not able to change the folder permission But at the same time I am able to do System details: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.11.2 BuildVersion: 15C50 Could anybody help in identifying the issue?
I got an external camera attachment for iPhone and it has an external power input. My understanding is that the camera is a part of an MFi (made for iPhone) - a certified accessory. According to the manufacturer, it is supposed to charge phone when the camera receives external power: I plug in the camera, the charging symbol appears The camera pops up a dialog asking to interact with a default program Charging symbol disappears and does not come back I can confirm that the phone does not receive power - it discharges when the camera is attached. I called the manufacturer and the camera is not defective - it has something to do with new iOS- I tried 9.0 and 9.2
I'm a novice user FYI. My messages used to be synced so that the conversation kept going on iMac iPhone and iPad mini. Then perhaps after a trip to Alaska it stopped doing that. I'm not 100% sure if that's when it stopped. I've noticed that my iBooks content syncs between phone and iPad but not iMessages. This is very inconvenient. All three, actually I have 2 iMacs so 4 devices are with same Apple ID. THANKS!
From this link, How can I speed up SD card writing speed (using /dev/disk*) on a MacBook Pro?, it implies the SD card might be alright... just because the software is using the buffered version of the disk... Now, I mostly use the Finder to copy files, and it takes over 10hours to copy 40GB of files (around 7000 images of various sizes) to the SD card... and it seems to die without completing the copying. The copying was left alone overnight. Now what to do? Macbookair4,2 128 apple SSD (SD interface is spec'ed at 48MB/src max) 10.11.3 Class10 SD card 64GB (80MB/sec transfer rate) formatted as HFS+ journaled Found out the copying the same files (a portion of it) to USB thumb drive (16GB) is much much faster than copying to SD card (64GB) on the Macbookair4,2.
I listen to podcasts on iTunes (on OS X 10.11.3 BTW). There, I said it. I want to make a list of podcast channels I like so I can find them easily and quickly, but I want to stream them, not download them. Apparently if I subscribe to a channel iTunes will try to download stuff -- I do not want this to happen. If I am not online I will not listen to podcasts.
I am experiencing the following issue in Finder on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. After working for sometime heavily on it, usually about 10-15 minutes, navigating in directories, moving/copying renaming files, it starts becoming slower and slower, and the spinning wheel starts appearing, making the whole process of working with it too slow.
I have just replaced my iPad as the old one was irreparably damaged, I had a lot of PDFs on iBooks is there any way to get them back, I think they were saved under my email address. Can anyone help please.
I'm trying to download Mavericks from App Store but it's hogging my internet connection. Is there anyway to set the App Store to download at a lower speed or take fewer connections or whatever to be able at least to open web sites while downloading?
I am trying to update MAMP MySQL from this link, but when i double click the file as mentioned in the blog. I get message saying, The file “Install_MySQL_5.6.25.command” could not be executed because you do not have appropriate access privileges.
I have a Panasonic Workio 190 Printer. It doesn't seem like there is a Mac driver (I'm on Mavericks). The only thing there is, is a Adobe PostScript Driver:
I've been out of the country for a while and trying to get caught up with everything. I didn't see it anywhere thought I'd ask here before I went to the dev forums. When I left the simulator didn't support hot keys or any way to test a 3D Touch short press and long press. Is this now supported or do you still need a capable device?
Is it possible to go to normal updates or do I need to keep using the updates also how do I update when it wasn't done on my Apple ID
My space bar won't work so I want to use the m button as space bar. Is there a way to do that? Maybe with the Automator using an apples riptide or something?
I want to automatically start my MongoDB Server at startup. The command for it is How do I configure this in Mac OSX El Capitan? Note - I have installed MongoDB using Homebrew
I added some menus via Onyx and now I don't know how to get rid of them again. Holding option and clicking on the menus doesn't provide an option to close them and I cannot delete the "iChat.menu" in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/iChat.menu because I get an error message telling me that it can't be deleted because it's needed by OSX.
Tried printing other apps. All works fine. Tried removing com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Canon_MX922.plist No impact. Tried removing com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Canon_MX922.plist No impact. Repaired permissions - no impact Repaired permissions - no impact
In short, I basically want to run a few pieces of Windows specific software (ironically emulators) on a Mac. Instead of natively running Windows (e.g. via. Bootcamp) I was intending to go the CrossOver route as I know that all the pieces of software run via. it cleanly. *=URL=* In short I had a thought though, am I opening myself up to risks by emulating a Windows environment effectively (without doing the Bootcamp thing) on my clean Mac?
How do I create a .tgz from Finder using Archive Utility? That is, I'd like to right-click on a directory and tar and zip it. Yes I know how to work with tar from the shell: But sometimes it would be more convenient to create .tgz's from the Finder. I've Googled, but my Google-fu is failing.
So I'm having the issue; How can I play music on iOS 7 while recording? I've seen this post but "JamCam" isn't something I'm interested in.
I got Raspbian on a SD card, and then accidentally wiped it. Now I have 2 visible partition. How do I get rid of the partition on a Mac.
I'm having trouble with the Mac App Store. It shows me error messages with question marks instead of normal letters as in the following pic. Can anyone help me?
iMac 2009 HDD failed so I installed a new SSD. I have a TM backup on an external drive, but now I can't figure out how to get the system up and running. I tried cmdR to bring up the recovery mode but I get alternating Apple logo and round circle with a diagonal line through it.
Need to force close suspicious tab without accepting a download from a dialogue box that currently has the whole browser stuck.It wants me to click "OK" to unfreeze things. The screen shot (for those who can't see images) just shows the open, blank tab - from a site called theboxfile.com, in the middle there is a dialogue window where the only option is "OK" but clicking that accepts a download of what is claimed to be a new Flash Player (um, sure it is)
I am using Apples's Mail application for a while. I know that to search for mails from a particular user, I need to use
I have a Macbook Air 15". A few days ago, it started running extremely slowly, with the fan at max RPM. I opened Activity Monitor and discovered that I had kernel_task running at about 400% CPU, despite the fact that my computer felt ice cold. Turns out, one of my sensors (the GPU sensor, to be precise) is apparently acting up and reading a good 10 degrees celsius higher than any of the others.
I've got a Linux VMware virtual machine (guest) configured with a NAT adapter on a 192.168.56.0 subnet. Its IP address is 192.168.56.128 and my Mac (host) got 192.168.56.1. Guest's default gateway is automatically set to 192.168.56.2 and is able to ping google from the guest. Host's Wi-Fi IP is 192.168.0.2, I've configured my Wi-Fi router with following routing table to forward packets of 192.168.56.0 to 192.168.0.2 (my Mac)
Lately, every time I open an app, the very first window of it appears as a black box with tiny white/transparent corners and it’s becoming very annoying. Why is it happening and how can I fix it? Here is a screenshot of what Outlook 2013 looks like:
The problem is still there... I launched Safari to install Chrome and memory usage is already 2.8GB, now with all the Google Chrome Helper it's even higher.
I have an 2011 27" iMac, it has two Thunderbolt ports. I also have an Asus Z87 Deluxe Quad motherboard which has two Thunderbolt ports. I recently got a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable from Apple. I've seen another article on here who was able to connect the exact same motherboard to an Apple Thunderbolt Display (not the actual mac computer but the external display version) and it worked, so I know the thunderbolt port can act as a video output.
I'm using Apple computers for a really long time now. One thing I never understood how to use "stop evaluating rules" in Mail.app. As far as I understand it, this action stops all subsequent rules, which is good. However, I often find myself that I do want to do the opposite where subsequent rules will run, depending on the rules before. As it is right now, you have to build one "master" rule that handles all the tasks, instead of building a couple smaller ones that handle smaller tasks.
I have a 2 TB Fusion Drive in a 5K iMac (Late 2015). Two days ago, I started the bootcamp assistant to create a partition for Windows 10. It got stuck (let it run 30 minutes), however, which forced me to reboot the machine. After booting, I lost 164 GB from my Fusion Drive.
I want to be able to search in Spotlight for a shell script (or something that calls a shell script) and that such shell script opens a Terminal window so the output is shown live (and I can interrupt with ctrl + C). Right now, I have a backup.sh
I'm running OSX 10.11.3 and I keep finding files named /xEy4O all over my file system. I've opened them in a text editor and they are completely empty. So they appear to be a marker file of some sort. If I list directory contents in the console the name is actually :xEy4O. I can run find / -name ':xEy4O' the files only seem to be located in directories I've opened at some point but I don't know which application is putting them there.
I would like to be able to create new users in Mac OS X 10.11 remotely after ssh'ing into the machine. On Mountain Lion, these steps were listed. Running
My iPhone used to show me my frequently used Emojis, which was super helpful. I guess after one of the updates though, my phone started showing me my recently used Emojis instead. It can be helpful but I would like to see my frequent ones instead, so is there a way to switch that? Or am I stuck with recently used?
Every articles/answers I found are dated around or prior 2012. So I'd like to know: is there any tested way to create a new @me.com mail account right now?
I have a 3 TB Western Digital red disk in a USB hard drive dock. The drive is GPT, and I have two volumes on it (one volume is "Microsoft Reserved", other volume is NTFS).
Can I somehow know if the other caller is taking a photo (screenshot) while we are on FaceTime? I need to know if they are secretly taking photos of me.
I have a macbook pro and I want to encrypt the whole system with filevault. My question is now, how secure are my data for removing hard disk from device and mount it in an external case?
When I select text in iTerm2, the text it copies cuts off at after a certain (seemingly arbitrary) point. I did a few tests and its usually between 800 and 1500 bytes of input. Why is this, and how can I change the settings in iTerm2 to allow me to copy all the text I highlight? Note: I don't have this problem in the default "terminal" application, just in iterm.
Is it possible to see some detailed statistics about data usage on an iPhone (iOS 8)? In the System Preferences I can only see that I have consumed 8 GB data and 23 h of calling, but I can't see when these numbers was reset last time, average usage per month and similar details that would be useful now when I consider changing plan.
I'm looking for an application or command line tool that can batch edit file metadata. I have some audio files recorded using a recorder that was off by 1 hour, and I want to modify the creation date to the correct time.
I am trying to download a web image to temporary folder by curl in a Apple Script. According to the above code, the curl downloads it as correct but the targetFile is currently as: But after download, I need the downloaded image path as a correct file path like:
I want selected cells to show the formula instead of the result of the formula, for example cells C4 and D4 here.  If the cell is formatted as text before I enter the formula, then the formula remains text. However, selecting text format after the formula has been computed has no effect.
Working from home today and I just pulled my macbook pro out to realize that I left the "duckhead" part of my magsafe 2 power supply (85W) sitting on my desk when I left the office last night. I happen to have an old power supply from (I think) a PowerBook G4 (65W adapter) that has a similar design with a detachable "duckhead" piece. But I can see that the two power supplies are definitely not identical.
This seems to work as a temporary folder in Apple Script but is also recommended to use.
I’m using Mac Yosemite. I am not able to copy text from a PDF document and paste it to other applications. I have tried with both the Google Chrome PDF plugin and Acrobat Reader (v. Acrobat Reader 2015.010.20056). In Reader, when I highlight text, right-clicking yields only the “Lookup Selected Word” in the menu and the Edit menu has the “Copy” option disabled, even though there is highlighted text. Any advice on how I can cut and paste from PDF docs on my Mac? Thanks, - Dave
Today (currently) I am downloading Xcode 7.2.1. You can see storedownloadd appears to be pegging an entire core, and about 30% of this work is handled by the kernel.
My uncle recently imported files from his SD card and there were serious errors. I have no idea WHY that's occurred, but the videos I took are once in a lifetime. I shot on .MOV format, but the card also contained some other Nikon camera format.
The default /etc/hosts file looks like this: If I want to insert a custom item, should I insert it after the first line? Or should I add it after the last line? I've seen both, but can anyone explain what the difference is?
How do I check if a G5 PPC mac has 2 CPUs or not? When booting it up under Linux (Debian 8) only one CPU seems to be detected: And the kernel should support SMP: Does an SMP G5 Macs has 2 heat sinks installed - or is it one big one? Is there perhaps a OpenFirmware command that lists the CPU details?
I choose the PowerA mini Pro controller because of analog buttons and joystics. I need the analog control. I choose PS3 because it is widely supported and has sufficient userbase. Systems scientific computation etc Matlab - none for gaming, openemu.org
At my office, most users are PC based. However, a few teams have Macs. The standard email tool is Outlook, and the Mac users have Outlook for Mac. When someone sends me an email that has images pasted inline with the text, all of the images are stripped out, replaced with an icon of a question mark, and added as attachments.
I've got the following cron job that runs at 6 am every morning: The script, written in perl, fetches the latest files from a website. Within the perl script, the path gets changed with: However, all the files downloaded aren't getting saved to /path/to/directory they get saved in /Users/username. What can I do to get the script to save it in the directory I want?
My local build of Emacs is in /usr/local/bin. I just built and installed it: When I run Emacs, I get the one from /usr/bin:
I used to be able to re-download apps that were in my purchased folder without my Apple ID password but when I got my new I phone 6 it started asking me for a password. I have researched this but only found ways to turn the password off for free apps. Any help is appreciated. Note: I don't want to jailbreak my device because it broke my last one.
I've had problems with image retention on my late-2012 27" iMac for a few months now and Apple's "avoiding image retention" support page is useless for me. On MacBooks, one can use this Terminal one-liner to check one's display manufacturer. Is there a similar command for iMacs? I realize that I'll have to return my iMac sooner or later because this is unacceptable, but I'd still like to know what panel I have before I do it.
My iPhone, iPad, and Mac each has the same, excellent voice to text input. But I have never discovered if there are any voice editing commands, such as: delete last word, or replace 3rd from last word, etc.
I have a USB disk and when I try to mount get the following error mount: /dev/disk3s1: unknown special file or file system. diskutil shows /etc/fstab contains the following line:- LABEL="Seagate Backup Plus Drive" none ufsd_NTFS rw,noauto I must have put this in to stop auto mount, as I normally just use the HFS partition, but I want to be able to exchange files with a Windows user. There is a Paragon NTFS for Mac driver, but I guess it is no longer working since I "upgraded" to El Capitan. Can anyone advise the best way to mount.
I have been looking into UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy, a very old network protocol) as a way of communicating with some Linux boxes that don't always have an internet connection. While doing so on my Macbook (with El Capitan), I found entries in my /usr/share/uucp/sys file for uucpsys1.apple.com and uucpsys2.apple.com. (You can also see these by running uuchk | less.)
Sometime my iPhone shows half of a black screen, which comes from the top and happens after touching the home button. Does anyone has an idea what this is and how to reproduce it ?
We want to assign credentials to network based accounts according to the following Apple kbase: How to allow administration of OS X from network-based accounts Can anyone advice what's wrong and how to improve it? OS X 10.10
Surprised I could not find this asked. Is there a way to get Auto-Lock "Never" option back in IOS 9.2.1
I'd like to grep and open a file in just one terminal command. Suppose I'm in this directory: and I want to open 3.txt I thought I could do ls | grep 3 | open
Is there any way to view iOS device logs on the Terminal?
'All my files' shows 'today' as three days ago - even though I've done all kinds of work since then. Any fixes?
Mac does some pretty fancy background stuff to try and keep enough disk space for whatever it needs. In my case, 512 gb ssd, it needs to have at least 20gb free to run smoothly, so I usually have 40. If it goes less than 1gb for whatever reason (and boy, it isn't that hard to happen), all apps get suddenly paused without a warning and even if I immediately free up space, all apps get into a weird paused state for ever. This is the second time it happened (because I keep on constant manual monitoring with CMD + F3) and first time I gave up on finding a simple and good resolution (the first time it ended up rebooting after some update after some days, and I even forgot I hadn't gave up on improving this question, among so many others)
I had to blow my old iTunes installation. I have all my music and a up to date backup, but I still want to sync my device to change some content. iTunes warns me that "the content of the iPhone will be deleted". What is "content" here? Does it include contacts, messages, apps? Or is just music, books and pictures?
Im having some real problems with WhatsApp. I have restored my iPhone from an iCloud backup and now wanted to get my WhatsApp history back, so I choose to restore from iCloud within WhatsApp, it loaded pretty slow actually but never finished.. it went to 96%, or 99% but then back to 95% and was behaving really weird. I have also tried to delete WhatsApp, restart iPhone and reinstall it, but it still continues at 95% and doesn't finish :/ does anyone know how to reset it and start downloading the backup from beginning? I really need the data of the backup...
Looking at Apple's Mail: Show detailed message headers, it sounds like I shouldn't be seeing Resent-from headers, because I have the View->Show message headers preference set to "Default." The support page sounds like I should need to use Custom to ever see Resent-from. How can I turn off the Resent-from header? I also tried setting the preference to Custom... without adding any headers at all, and nothing changed. My Mac is running OS X 10.10.5, Yosemite.
I'm currently trying to create a build of our app for TestFlight but for some reason Apple is not adding the beta-reports-active to the .mobileprovision file anymore (I checked the source of the file, it's just not there). Application Loader keeps complaining that I don't have any Beta Entitlements (the appName.entitlements does contain this key) and when I regenerate the provisioning files at developer.apple.com I just get the same certificate without the beta-reports-active in it.
So, is this a bug? An intended feature? Is there some other way to actually star-rate a single Apple Music streamed song?
I tried searching for drivers for latest OS X, but I couldn't find even the product listed on ZTE website. ISP support team doesn't know anything about OS X. So no support at that end as well.
unable to install homebrew I am using this command. getting this error. i have already installed updated command line tool
How do I upgrade my Mac OS X from 10.8.5 to 10.10.5? I obviously can't use a 10.9 or a 10.10 Combo Updater.
Generally when I connect a iPhone to my computer, iTunes detects it and there is a option for File Sharing in iTunes which can be used to share files from the system to iPhone apps.  I am using an app called "Don't Touch This - Secret Data Vault". How can I enable the file sharing option for this app? I followed this article but it is no use: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6029916/how-to-enable-file-sharing-for-my-app
In Numbers, how can I convert a number to negative. E.g. Becomes In Excel, you can use tools like Paste Special, but these don't exist in Numbers.
What's wrong: I hit CMD+SPACE to open up spotlight, typically type in the name of the application I want to start, hit enter and either the wrong app or no app at all will start, because the app name is missing the first character. "Learn to type" I hear you say but wait: as I enter the first character in the search bar, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the line and my second character input overrides the first one. So entering for example "ever", in order to start Evernote, will result in "ver". "php" to start PHPStorm will result in "hp" and start my damn HP printer app and so on.
I recently got a USB Microphone and no matter what I do, the microphone is way too loud. I lowered the input level in system preferences to be as low as possible without being off and it's way too loud.
Is there anyway that I can connect my iPad2 device which has micro usb(lightning) port to a TV using AV cable? Is there a way? I bought (imported from US to India) a cable from Amazon which I thought I can use to connect the device to TV using that cable but seems it can be used only with newer devices whith 30-pin ports. Is my money just a waste? Is there a way I connect to TV using any other convertor or any other cable to connect direccly is availale in the market? Note: The lighting to 30-pin converter wont work as it clearly says it can't output video.
Upgraded to El Capital 10.11.3 yesterday, at the last prompt where it asks to login using iCloud I supplied my user/pass and then it sent code to my iPhone which I typed correctly but after that it just froze there and continue button never enabled So at this point I had to do hard reset to get access back after that since my first login
I got a couple-of-years-old MacBook Pro with OSX Lion, and I attempted to format it. I erased the installed drive using Disk Utilities and then chose to reinstall OSX.
I have some plist files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. I have been happily using launchctl load -w and launchctl unload -w to turn these on and off for years. However, I notice that now load and unload are relegated to the "legacy" section of the man page. Let's call one of them com.example.service.plist. However, when I try to interact with these plists via launchctl enable "gui/$(id -u)/com.example.service" and launchctl disable "gui/$(id -u)/com.example.service", other launchd commands seem to report success - for example, launchctl print "gui/$(id -u)" totally shows me disabled flags that correspond to the state that I've set - the services don't actually start and stop or listen and unlisten on their ports.
I have an app which sends specific packets to a server every time I press a particular button on the app, the problem is that I need to press it every 30 seconds during a few hours and it's annoying. Is there any way to script it so that the packets are automatically sent every 30 seconds to the server?
Currently using OSX version 10.11.3. Prior to downloading El Capitan I had all the options that I'd see on the Finder side bar when I wanted to save a document. see screen shot: and I could drill into sub folders which allowed me to be very specific to where I saved documents. I now have a very limited number of options and I cant drill into sub folders see screen shot:.
My mac laptop freezes after I login with correct password. All I see is my wallpaper. after that the rainbow thing starts spinning.
I believe reg existed on 10.8 and lower as documented here - *=URL=* However, in OS X 10.9 I only find man page but not the command. My requirement is to passively monitor the processor registers (dump them). It looks like 'reg' does that. Is there an equivalent utility that I download somewhere for MAC OS X >= 10.9.
The Optical Drive was replaced by a SSD, so I needed to change the Boot Camp Assistant to accept ISO images]1. Now, the Boot Camp Assistant creates the Windows USB flash drive installer.
I've been looking for a while but I cannot find out if I can limit it so that I only receive the first notification and no others until I've read the message. There is a notification setting that will prevent the same text message from generating a follow up notification after a period of time (default is 2 minutes I believe).
Does your device get logged or added to relevant Apple ID's account device list when you logout from the App Store using, for example, your iPad device, and login back again with another ID? Example case: your friend uses your iPad and logs in to the App Store using his ID. Will your iPad's serial no., backups, data or any other sensitive information be stored on your friend's Apple ID?
I've got the Early-2015 13" MacBook Pro (2.7 GHz i5) and whilst I was building Smart Previews for all my 1600+ photos in Lightroom 5 I noticed that the fan had come on (unusually) and that the laptop was starting to get rather hot. When I had a look at Activity Monitor, I saw that Lightroom was using around 300% CPU. Fair enough, I'm sure it's an intensive process. However, I also saw the usage for Lightroom jump higher than 400% on several occasions (usually up to around 410%). I understand how my CPU is Hyper-Threaded so that it has 4 cores/400% CPU available, but how could it possibly use more than that (bearing in mind several other processes were running as well)? Cheers, Dan
I restarted my MacBook and I had some important tabs open in Incognito mode. Will they still be open when I reboot?
I would like to import photos from an iPhone 5c. When I connect the iPhone to the PC with a USB cable the PC says the iPhone is locked. I don't know how to unlock it and even if I did, I can't: half of the screen looks like a matrix and the Home button is gone. I've been using Siri to send texts and make calls but can only do that when the phone is charging. How can I unlock the iPhone or iCloud?
For about 10 years my colleagues and I have used iChat, then Messages to exchange images for work (we use AIM). A year or so (maybe longer) we could no longer transfer images back and forth. The recipient never got an alert that a file is trying to be sent to them, but on my end Messages claims it has been sent. However, looking in Console I see errors when trying to send the image: This is a very frustrating problem that a number of us have, and we have all done research to try to fix the issue.
I have a mid 2010 13in MacBook Pro (7,1) with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor running OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan). I had 4GB of RAM (2x2GB) and I read somewhere that despite Apple's stated max of 8GB RAM (2x4GB) it will actually support 16GB (2x8GB) of RAM. So I bought Crucial RAM 16GB.
My bash prompt is missing as shown on the image. I'm not even sure how to open the .bash_profile since dot files are hidden in the finder. I restarted the machine to no avail.
I have a iPhone 6 Plus and was wondering if I can use a song that I purchased in iTunes as a ringtone for my iPhone?
For example, In any text editor: Command+right arrow will put your cursor to the Right of the line Command+left arrow will move your cursor to the Left of the line Is there an equivalent keybord shortcut for this in Excel for Mac?
What??? My guess is DiskImageMounter is mounting but is ridiculously slow? Note: installd is eating up my CPU usage, is this in anyway related to DiskImageMounter Note 2: If I go to "Browse Other Backup Disks" it finds the sparsebundle but none of the backups show.
My girlfriend and I both have iDevices. We each have our own Apple ID. Every once in a while one of us misplaces a device... you know the drill, "Honey, could you call my phone for me?" And then it turns out it's on vibrate so we can't hear it, or it's my iPad we're looking for, and we have to go to a computer and log in with that person's account, to trigger the "Find my phone" sound.
I can't find Preferences in utorrent or bittorrent on my new MacBook Pro. How do I find Preferences on a Mac?
Running the iOS 9.2.1 on an iPhone 6S and an iPad 4 Mini, I notice that the iPhone keyboard in landscape mode now includes left & right arrow keys (how long, I wonder?). This does not appear to be the case in the iPad, even though you would expect that they would fit more easily there. Is there a way I can get these arrow keys for the landscape orientation or for the iPad? (I don’t mean on specialised keyboards in some apps, but on the standard keyboard). Thanks
I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 I have an external drive with 2 partitions. 1 partition is for Time Machine while the other is for storing my data (Volume name is Data).
However, I no longer witness any delay between steps 1 and 2. It appears that OS X is able to resume almost as soon as FileVault is unlocked, which suggests to me that power may not have been removed from RAM as promised by hibernatemode 25.
I'm planning to use 2x Dell U2515H monitors with my 15" mid-2015 Macbook Pro 2.2Ghz (model number A1398) with Intel Iris Pro Graphics. According to Apple, it can drive: Dual display and video mirroring: simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840x2160 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colours. Additionally, the HDMI video output van: Support for 4096x2160 resolution at 24Hz Will I be able to drive two of these bad boys at native resolution of 2560x1440?
I am frustrated by this issue that just appeared recently. No matter what I do, any modification (rearranging, deletion) to the bookmarks are soon reverted. the bookmarks are now totally out of sync with my iOS devices. OS X version 10.11.3 (15D21) Safari Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4) Pls see my youtube vid for demo of the issue: https://youtu.be/ktxo1VVEwBI
as you know from Xcode 7 and onwards it's possible to compile an app for your device. Yesterday I tried to compile Kodi on Xcode 7. It says it's possible to compile with Xcode 7 without any developer account in the readme too..
I am trying to create a daily budget tracker with separate tables for each month, which I have created. I now want a front/first table to show: the balance as at today's date the amount spent today (if any) and maybe the balance tomorrow (not too bothered about this one if too difficult). I would like to say 'if 'January 2016::A1 = TODAY(), January 2016::E1 or if January 2016::A2 = TODAY(), January 2016::E2 and so on looking at each date value across all tables in columns A and when it finds today's date to enter the value in the corresponding E column. Hopefully this is possible? Many thanks
I've got a 2012 Retina MBP running 10.11.3. In the past I've used a Linksys USB3GIGv1 ethernet adapter to connect to a wired network, however for the past week or so it hasn't worked.
In Mail for Mac I can create a contact directly from an email message. In Outlook 2016 for Mac how can I do that as well? Seems like email has made more advances that Outlook has.
You guys have never heard of this before. Most of you at least. I own 2 iPhones bought in a legitimate Chinese Apple store. Whenever I use it, they would make a tri-tone dying robot low battery sound at 20% and 10%. This will sound even if you're on silent. So to turn it off (you can't) you'd have to change your ringer volume. There are no apps causing this since I wiped my phone and it still happens. I would like to make a conclusion that only Chinese iPhones have this stupid tone. Why did they put that on these phones and not American ones?
So, I opened up single-user mode to show my friend how easy it was for a Mac to be directly hijacked if someone was able to steal the physical lap top (as opposed to hijacking remotely using SSH), and I couldn't exactly remember which shutdown now option to use (fortunately, I was prompted by the command line), so I defaulted to -h. Should I be worried if I use -h instead of -r? Is there any difference between these commands?
I have an iPhone and iPad that have permission to connect to WiFi W (Work). I have a MiFi device (M), and I want my MacBook Pro to connect to M and not W. How can I do this? It seems that when Apple remembers a WiFi password (e.g., for W), it does it for all your Apple devices, including laptops.
I'm traveling to India next week and am considering buying Apple's World Travel Adapter Kit so I can use my Macbook pro in India. However, India is not listed in its list of supported countries. I came across a suggestion on the Internet that said the United Kingdom adapter would work just fine in India, but I'm not certain about that.
I'm writing a bash script, which will create new network location and configure it. The question is - how to add proxy settings to specific network location using terminal or bash script?
I'd like to share internet from ethernet (10.0.100.2) to Wi-Fi. But when I do so and then I connect a device via Wi-Fi I get a whole different network: 192.168.2.0. Is there a way to use the same 10.0.100.0 network? I need it because I have internal DNS and need to debug stuff over the LAN.
I have searched for this but I can't find anything in search results answering this query. When I click on mailto link given in a mail inside Airmail,it opens Mail.app window instead of opening it inside Airmail. On setting gmail account on Mail.app, starts downloading 2GB sized inbox.
Now I have this iPad that's synced with my home iTunes. I need to add just one pdf onto it. So I installed iTunes here, but it won't sync iTunes to iPad. It wants to sync iPad to iTunes instead. Which is pointless, as the local library is empty. Both are logged on same iTunes account. How do I make iTunes sync to iPad, so things can be added to the library and then synced back to iDevice?
I see a Database.db file with size zero bytes on my Macintosh HD Is this a system file? i am not sure if this is something i can remove or the purpose of this file Regards
I need one of the root CA certificates, as a filename, to pass to a command-line program. I could download it from DigiCert (and convert it to the required format, .crt) manually, but I figure it's easier to just use the CA that OS X must already have. It's a common certificate, and all my Linux servers already have it, for example. In the "Keychain Access" app, the correct certificate does exist, but I can't find anything that says where it lives. Do these CAs exist in the filesystem, or only in an opaque proprietary format for OS X APIs?
I have a 200 MBs Internet plan connected to my Airport Extreme. Using two different iPads I get 200 MBs in one and in the other 5 feet away 1.2 MBs. The same happened with two MacBooks. Do you know why this can happen?
I'm following the instruction, on hardentheworld.org to harden my OS X 10.11. When I send the following command: I obtain: My question is why this error happens and how to solve it?
I'm trying to copy a prepared Dock plist to another already existing user account. It seems simple enough:
Using the Application Burn, I saved some music-CD's as image-file to the desktop as .iso, along with the right .isoinfo. Now I want to burn those images to empty CD's, but I get the following error when opening the image file: hdiutil: imageinfo failed - image not recognized This error is not directly related to Burn, because it gives this error when I try to open the image with DiskImageMounter (default on Mac) or when I do hdiutil imageinfo image.iso in the Terminal.
A week or so ago I installed Windows 10 on my 2015 MacBook Pro Retina with Boot Camp. At the start my Magic Mouse 1 and my keyboard were already paired. Today my mouse wouldn't click for some reason so I unpaired the mouse, now the mouse won't pair. In the Windows 10 Control Panel I don't see any drivers that aren't installed. I already tried restarting my laptop and turning the mouse off and back on.
There must be a way to delete Whatsapp media (photos AND videos) but keep the chats. The only thing I found is backing up the chats to iCloud and then reinstalling whatsapp but that also backs up my 600mb of photos.
Currently I have a 128GB SD for data in my macbook, but is encrypted using utility. If I format my mac, the stored key will be gone.
I need to make an iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2) ask for the password only after boot, so I can use it and close the screen when it's already on without the need of writing my passcode.
I have received an old MacBook from my Dad and he had wiped it clean, but I don't think he's done it correctly. I am having issues with unmounting and re-installing Lion OS X back on, which it came with.
As shown in the screenshot I have selected a rectangular region. I want to clear that section. None of the menu/toolbar items are apt for this task. Is there a workaround?
Our hard drive died and we had to get a new one - I have my old hard drive in one of those NexStar things (bear with me as I am not that good at computers!). I am looking for my photos from the Photo App and I can't seem to find them anywhere on the old hard drive to import onto our new hard drive. Any ideas?
I'm on Yosemite at the moment I want to upgrade but I fear it will break my applications. I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) 15''. The last time I updated my Logic Pro 8 broke and I was forced to pay $200 for Logic Pro X (it is my theory that Apple did that on purpose) but either way, what is your suggestion on the Operating System nonsense?
I own a Mac Pro 4,1 (single socket) with a Nehalem Quad-Core CPU. I'd like to upgrade it with a six-core Westmere processor.
Every time I quit and start Safari, my history becomes empty. I start to have this problem in the past month on OS X 10.11.2 (15C50). Even if I disable extensions, the problem persists.
I want to install the ssmtp (*=URL=* on my Mac (El Capitan). I have homebrew installed but ssmtp isn't one of the packages available.
I have a Mid-2009 MacBookPro, I would like to upgrade the AirPort Card so that I can access continuity and instant hotspot features, but other than that what will Bluetooth 4.0 allow me and will the AirPort Card also improve my Wi-Fi range/speed on my laptop?
I run Wireless Diagnostics during the freeze and look at its "Performance" graphs and detect nothing out of the ordinary. The situation is self-correcting, it seems, if I wait long enough. Or, I can restart the computer. Toggling wifi off and on doesn't correct the freeze. Quitting the browser and restarting it doesn't correct the freeze. I've researched this problem on the Internet, but I haven't found any suggested solution that corrects the freeze. These freezes exhibited themselves with OS X Yosemite as well (10.10.5), prior to upgrading OS X to El Capitan. I have noted a correlation of these freezes with the failure of an application to Quit properly (as noted by its appearance in the Force Quit list (Command + Option + Escape) after Quit has been used). I attach an output from Wireless Diagnostics Info during one of these freezes.
I can't get to my music on my iPad because whenever I launch the app I get a splash screen for Apple Music with no apparent buttons or links to get past it. Does anyone know how to get out of this? (Restarting the iPad doesn't seem to help.)
I got a new iPhone for Christmas and made my own Apple ID/iCloud so I could use it between my devices (I also have a Mac & an iPad) without sharing with my family. Today I realized that many of my parents' email & phone contacts have synced to my phone & iPad. When I try to deselect their groups on the contacts app, all of my contacts are removed. I have been using iCloud to backup pictures, etc., and it is all my own - no one else uses my Apple ID. I want get rid of the extra contacts without individually deleting them.
Can we have whatever music we are playing whether from spotify, logic, itunes, instead of coming out of the main output, be a part of what goes in to the input on e.g. logic or skype. This would allow people to listen to music together without going through speakers and mics, and to record to logic without having to upload a song file, e.g. the main output would be one track and the mic would be another, for a little two track action. But on the skype side, you could turn the music vs. mic volume up or down to hear more of one vs the other. It seems like this should be possible, but execution is way out of my league. Anybody think it's doable?
I use 3 input methods.  The order of input methods on here is what I want, in this order: English, Chinese(Wubi), Japanese(Hiragana) but when comes to the input menu of status bar:
I have a wireless USB keyboard/mouse combo (Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000) which is working perfectly on a 2013 MacBook Air running Yosemite, the keyboard & mouse work perfectly - but only when the USB receiver is plugged into the right-hand USB port.  When it's plugged into the left-hand USB port it doesn't respond to the mouse or keyboard at all. The left-hand USB port works for other devices such as a USB hard disk.
I'm new to AppleScript and wanted to export my citations using AppleScript. I found the following but am not sure the structure to change the following to my path folders, can you please provide an example and is this executed in the Script editor?: Thanks
I recently switched from a 2014 mid MacBook Pro Retina with 2.7 GHz and 8 GB of RAM to a 3.1 GHz and 16 GB of RAM. I noticed something very strange which is that 1) when I am dong very basic tasks such as downloading something for the new MacBook Pro, it occupies 6 GB of memory used and 2) the CPU usage seems to be high compared to my MacBook Pro with 2.7 GHz when doing the same thing (i.e.: downloading same sized files and size).
I have tried the following but cannot seem to get this to work: I'm wanting to perform this command in applescript. I run this in applescript and I get an error regarding "" marks but am not sure how to correct it. I'm a complete newbie to applescript. willing to learn just a little lost. Thanks
I think that I want to ask How do I reload an OS X bash user-environment But damnit Jim ; I'm a software engineer not a sysadmin I want Jenkins started as a Daemon on El Capitan I want to use "UserWhoHasARealAccount" on OS X For this I should be using a launch-daemon AFAIK all /Library/LaunchDaemons/ are started as root While they can substitute-user with User to become not-root they still retain root's environment. process won't have the full PATH (et al) that I setup which can work around this but ... which can work around this but ... sub processes don't get the PATH I setup for the user so which whatever-i-want doesn't help when Node.JS tries to run a subprocess and compile my blog ... unless I for Node.JS to invoke subprocesses via absolute paths on my computer so which whatever-i-want doesn't help when Node.JS tries to run a subprocess and compile my blog ... unless I for Node.JS to invoke subprocesses via absolute paths on my computer the root environment seems to prevent ssh fr
I'm planning on purchasing 3 HDMI monitors to use as a workstation for my MBP. For the sake of ease and convenience, instead of using the native HDMI + 2 mini DP to HDMI adapters, is there any way to pull 3 HDMI connectors out of a single thunderbolt port? I know that thunderbolt has the ability to daisy chain thunderbolt monitors together but I want to just break out 3 separate HDMI signals from the single port if thats possible, so that way I could just plug in power, the thunderbolt cable and that's it.
I'm trying to make an app that will open different apps, and give you a list, but I keep getting error messages. Is it possible to do this?
I had an iPhone 3GS that was stolen (I don't remember the iOS version). Is there a way I can get my contacts that were on the phone?
Edit, why I don't think this is a dupe: I don't think that is a duplicate because there the answer to that general question is that it is no longer possible. But this specific case does appear to be possible in light of recent developments. Plus one answer mentions many devices but not the iPad 2. Finally, that same answer has SHSH as a pre-requisite, my question excludes that.
Some settings on your machine may cause stability issues with Composer. If you encounter issues, try to change the following:
Is there a way to be alerted when a given process named "Bash" starts? And get the script name which is responsible for running it? Thanks
This isn't launching FaceTime when I want it to! I want it to launch an app, and you get to choose what app it launches, so if I press Google Chrome, then it launches Google Chrome, but it doesn't launch FaceTime.
I'm quite new to mac but have managed to figure out a lot of the shortcuts but this one baffles me. In intelliJ / Android Studios, occassionally, I need to hide some of the panes so that I have more space to see my code. The shortcut to hide the project pane on the left side of the screen when I hover over it has the following shortcut displayed:
I'm currently trying to decode some video files with ffmpeg on my computer but am not able to make ffmpeg copy the tags from the source file to the destination file. I read through the man page but there seems to be no way to extract the file tags from the source file or am I missing something?
I am currently doing a theatre production and running Qlab for sound and lighting cues. I have setup a new user account for people other than me to access Qlab, which is fine. The problem I have is the folder with the music needs to be accessed by Qlab to work correctly. I do not want anybody to be able to copy those files to an external device when I'm not around. Double edged sword, I know!!! I found a tutorial for disabling usb mass storage access in previous ios versions, but it seems more difficult in 10.11. Does anybody know if this is even possible anymore? The guy i'm suspicious of is a bit of a mac nerd so I need to be proactive!
We got an unused, semi-broken iPod Touch lying around. I would like to make it a DLNA renderer, so i can stream music TO the iPod, which is connected to the Audio-Amp. People often get the terminology for DLNA wrong, a DLNA Client is NOT what i am looking for. It is quite difficult to search for an App on iOS that actually receives DLNA streams: At least i couldnt find one.
I'm trying to use Automator to create a simple service (open selected file in MacVim). Originally I (incorrectly) specified that the service accepts selected text as input. I have changed it later to accept selected files or folders but it is stuck in Service preferences under Text and not under Files and Folders, and also does not appear in Finder. Is there some way to refresh/reload the category of a service?
After maintenance, my Macbook Pro Retina can't find any bluetooth device (Magic Mouse / Keyboard / Soundbar / Phone) I read many instructions, reseted SMC and NVRAM, but nothing changes
I have noticed, that sometimes, my MacBook Pro mid-2012 has strange blackouts like if the battery ran out. This happens even when my battery is near full. The symptoms are that the screen goes black suddenly, and that persists for about 15 seconds, before I hear audio (if there is audio running before blackout), and then it goes back to normal. Before this started happening, I had similar blackouts because I accidentally put my mouse on a screen-saver hot corner, but now it happens even if I see my mouse in the middle of the screen. When this blackout happens, the network disconnects for the time of the blackout too.
Can't hear ringtones. Volume is up with buttons on left. Silent button shows red line. Does this mean it's on or off? Thanks, padres
I have an iPhone 4s. I've locked it and forgotten the passcode. I don't have an iTunes backup to restore from. When I go through the power+home button loop attached to iTunes and then ask it to "restore" it fails saying "This device isn’t eligible for the requested build". Any idea how a I reset the phone. I don't actually want to do an iOs update, but iTunes doesn't seem to give me any other option.
My iPad kept on running out of storage space, so I finally connected it to the computer and investigated. This is the usage as shown in iTunes, where the "Other" section is 7.33 GB:
Is it possible to build a DIY Fusion drive using 3 drives - 2 HD's and 1 SSD? Will the Fusion machinery optimise on three levels i.e. SSD, then fast HD, then slow HD?
OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 - USB mouse (steelseries Sensei) When trying to move the cursor, the movement is limited only to vertical direction. What could be the possible problem?
If I enable Dark Dock mode some icons become invisible: Normal Mode -
I have disabled the "Guest" option on my Macbook Pro, however it still shows the "Guest" bubble next to my account on the login screen.
The iOS App Store is a great place, normally, but recently I discovered that I'm not able to download apps due to some error. The error is that whenever I want to download an app, I click GET, then it goes to the loading circle for a few seconds, then the button goes back to GET and my app doesn't download. Any solutions? I'm using an iPad Air 2 running the latest version of iOS.
I'm trying to free up some space on my MacBook and I found this in the Applications folder.  Can I delete it? I'm a iOS developer and I don't want issues. Currently I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3.
I've got an early 2011 MacBook Pro (8,1) and I am trying to install the newest EFI firmware upgrade, however it only supports 10.8.5 and 10.9.5. Unfortunately I have no clue as to what the best course of action would be to get this installed. I really need this firmware upgrade, to get access to Apple's Internet Recovery system. Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
When one uses the terminal inspector, one can change many properties of the terminal, such as background color, text color, and selection color. How can I detect what these properties have been set to from the command line? Is there some cache or file within "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources" that holds this information? Thank you.
Short version: As I have written in the title, I want to see the "open application indicator" only below the applications that are open in the active desktop. Is this possible? Long version:
I'm running vagrant and successfully port forwarding from there. My issue is that some ports are not running. I know vagrant is working because I can successfully forward port 80, but cannot forward 5432.
I need help re-setting up iMessages. I think I entered the wrong ID because now I can't get in. It keeps telling me the Id or password is wrong, but I can't enter a new ID, just a new password. How to re-set it up Please?? Thank you so much
MacBook Pro won't boot. Getting various grey screens. When try to do straight boot, get flashing folder.
I am using iPad and the bookmarks bar takes up too much space on screen. I want to remove but cannot figure out how.
For every new session in OS X terminal, I have to make my proxy settings again. I do this by entering the command Is there a way to make these proxy settings once for all?
Why does this command have this output? Specifically, why is "/usr/local/bin/python" listed twice? The "/usr/local/bin" directory only occurs once in my PATH. I've only noticed this happening for homebrew installed software thus far.
I have a directory structure of about 12GB on a network drive that I'd like to copy to my iCloud storage. I don't want to copy the 12GB from the network drive to my local iCloud drive folder just so it can be copied from there to iCloud.
I am wondering if iPad 3 or any iPad version supports wireless charging? Can I use samsung's w'less charger for it?
I've a 16 GB pen drive and I want to partition it like this: two MBR partitions: FAT - 1GB default (HFS Plus journaled) - remaining. How to do this in El Capitan?
I have set up a system-wide socks proxy in Preferences -> Network. How can I tell if some app follows or bypasses the system proxy setting. I need this because I have a program ported from Windows that seems bypassing the system proxy and I wish to check that.
My iMac (mid 2011) looks to have one Thunderbolt connection. Does this mean I can only add one additional screen?
I recently upgraded my system to OS X 10.11 El Capitan and ever since, my AppleScript which enables GUI scripting cannot be run. Part of the reason is obvious, the Universal Access pane in System Preferences has changed, i.e. there is no longer a checkbox to enable it. I would like to know how do I enable it in this newer system?
Happy cold season, everybody! Or at least, it'll be happy if you guys can tell me that my computer will survive it. I've got an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro and an annoying cold. My nose decided that the best time to start running would be as I was leaning over my keyboard, and that's how I ended up with a drop of snot on the left Control key and the area of the chassis in front of it. I wiped it up pretty quickly, of course, but not before a moment of utter fear for the fate of my computer. So, how bad should I expect the damage to be?
Edit: I installed Windows 8.1 64 bit from a USB flash drive created with the BootCamp Assistant, which also downloaded the support software. I also tried installing Windows 8, but this resulted in it blackscreening after ~20s and restarting in the setup (where you are asked to enter your username and such).
I assume there is something wrong with the battery in my iPhone 4, because it will not stay on unless it's plugged into the charger. I have about 1,000 pictures on my phone, and when my phone is plugged in, I can look at them, and still use my phone somewhat normally but my phone will not connect to Wi-Fi. Is there any way I can keep my phones pictures if I have to get a new phone, without doing an iCloud backup?
The current gen Airport Extreme (802.11ac, you know... the tall white one) is capable of having a network accessible hard drive connected directly to it. Now that the new Apple TV can run apps, can I use the Airport's connected hard drive as a media server and have the new Apple TV access its content directly? Maybe by running the Plex app (or similar)?
This is my first OS X experience so I'm not sure what to do other than ask you guys. I can get PyCharm to install, or so it seems, but when I try to run it all that happens is: the icon shows up on the dock a window pops up and asks me if I want to run it, I confirm
Since a few days my IMac started showing weird behaviour. In Activity Monitor it shows that my CPU is 100% used. Literally 0% idle, but there are no Applications using anywhere near this much resources. The highest percentage would be from Activity Monitor itself, but this just uses 2.5% at max. The amount of CPU used is shared over 'User' and 'System' they both use around 50% CPU at the same time. Also, the amount of threads running is around 300 to 375, but the sum of all running applications their threads doesn't go over 100.
I speculate that the audio signal at the Optical Audio Out of the 3rd generation Apple TV is always the same audio signal within the HDMI output. I further speculate that that's the reason behind eliminating the Optical Audio Out connector in the 4th generation Apple TV. Hence one does not need to worry about losing Optical-Out when replacing an ATV3 with an ATV4 provided that either:
I recently purchased an old Mac Pro, from eBay to use it as an advanced CPU performance computer as opposed to my 2012 MacBook Air that can't endure much. So far it is working, I have gotten a wireless dongle to connect, and I thought all was good until I went to my App Store to upgrade to El Capitan. When I click "Get" on it's page. I get this error:
The location for these options is a mystery. Related questions show "General | Touch ID and Passcode" . But my phone only has
I have a few songs that don't have artwork, and would like to manually add the cover art. I'm trying to use iTunes (Get Info > Artwork > Add Artwork). However, the 'Add Artwork' button is grayed out and cannot be clicked. Is there a way to fix this?
Very often an exFAT external disk stops appearing in OS X. It doesn't appear in Disk Utility, Finder, diskutil list or About this Mac/System Report/USB.
I created a live Kali USB for my Chromebook which single boots ubuntu mate. I was wondering, if I made a live kali(or other linux distribution) for booting on a Mac, so using .img instead of .iso would the .img still work on my Chromebook? In simpler terms will a live USB for OSX still work on a Chromebook or windows.
I need to set path /usr/local/gnupg-2.1/bin to the command line. I tried to enter "export PATH=/usr/local/gnupg-2.1/bin:$PATH" in the command line, but it works until the terminal session ends. I tried to create .bash_profile, but I don't know how to create hidden file, where to put it, and what it should contain?
I can't set CMD + Shift as a keybind for switching between input languages of the keyboard. I had to settle down with Ctrl + Space. Why does it allow me to set only some specific key binds? Is there a way to go around this and set specifically L cmd + L shift ?
As apparent, the steps count appear out of sync in Health and Activity app when viewed at the same time. Both are first party apps. What is the reason for discrepancy?
I'm opening an iPhone after it has been reset to factory settings, and I'm asked to choose a language, and then to choose a country or region. What are the implication of choosing a particular country? Will it lock me out of something? Can I change this setting later? Will it affect what apps I can download from the Apple app store?
I need to launch an app but OSX recognise it as a malware. While launching this app, OSX says "app will damage this computer. You should eject this disk image. It contain OSX.GenieoDropper.A". Normally, to bypass this alert, the method was to right-click the icon and select open when pushing alt, but neither this seems working, so how can I bypass this alert?
here Apple has two slightly different adapters called magsafe L 45W: the first one is recommended for my model, but then on the store they only sell the 2nd one: will this be fully compatible with my laptop? where (besides amazon) will it be possible to buy just the cord that goes from charger to laptop?
Since I upgraded to El Capitan the Mail.app was upgraded also (to version 9.2) and the ability to re-order accounts was disappeared. Now I cannot move accounts in the preferences. Who knows is there any configuration plist to resolve this issue manually?
So I'm using an iCloud account registered with a Hotmail address and I wish to use it as mail account for my Hotmail account on the Mail app? I know that I can solve it creating two different account, one just for my Hotmail mailbox and one for iCloud, but I'm have some little OCD complexes so... I tried to change the IMAP and SMTP settings but nothing happened (still inactive) or is there some hidden settings which we can't change for the sake of security or whatsoever? The same seems to happen with a Google Account (which is registered with the very same mail address).
Every time I open Notes.app on El Capitan, I get a popup asking me to verify a certificate. The certificate is about one of the websites I manage, but I don't get why it asks about it when I open such app... I've tried marking the certificate as secure in the management panel but it still asks me about it each time. How can I stop it?
I installed glui using homebrew However, when I try to use the header in C++ with <glui.h>, <GL/glui.h> or <GLUI/glui.h> it gives a ... not found error. How should I install glui so that it can be found by c++?
I need someone to put this together in the most fool-proof way possible. I recently reinstalled the OS on my Macbook Air 2014 (Yosemite) as I had a ton of useless files as it was acting super duper slow so now that I want to install Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (which my entire life depends on as I'm a design student) it gives me an error: Installation on case-sensitive volumes is not supported. Please choose a different volume for installation.
Let's say I plan not to use my rMBP for a few days (5-7), is there anything special I should do in order to keep the battery in good condition?
I have a broken Powerbook G4 lying around and I'm wondering if I can re-use the screen, that is still fine. Maybe it's impossible, but is there a way to use it with composite video input? Thanks
Using some old audio software that has buggy dialogs and I can't seem to be able to properly select my sound card. It just would stop responding when I click it. I found the software has a configuration file and would accept a value like this: coreaudio://60 (Soundflower (64ch)) It seems like the device id and some string value with the name of the device. I would like to be able to list all available core audio devices on my MBP, so I can configure the application using this configuration file.
The past couple of weeks, several apps have forgotten stored credentials a number of times: Google and iCloud account configured on the Macbook (have had to verify my Google account using 2-step verification for the 2nd time in 30 days)
I have an iPhone 6s, a Macbook and a new iPad. Right now events I create on one do not show on the others. How do I connect the calendar on all three?
I have the latest versions for both El Capitan and VLC, however, ever since I've upgraded to El Capitan, VLC keeps freezing during playback. Generally to solve this: I have to pause, exit fullscreen, play and wait for it to start playing again. Every time it plays again, there is a grey overlap that comes over the video (which eventually goes away).
I gave my everyday OS X user account admin rights whilst trying to get a code project working. I now no longer need admin rights. However, when I log in using either my everyday account or my admin account, the “Allow user to administer this computer” checkbox for my everyday account is both selected and disabled, so that I can’t remove the admin rights from my account. (I did click on the padlock icon and unlock it using my everyday account password first.)
I had a hard drive die in my Macbook Pro (from ~2012) and I replaced it. I booted into recovery mode and tried to install an OS on the new SSD, but it keeps hanging at "installing additional components" and eventually (after several hours) failing. I used command + l to see the logs, and it keeps counting up the chunks it receives, only to eventually say "Failed to verify InstallESD.dmg: hdiutil verify failed", at which point it restarts the download process.
I cannot open Yahoo or Google or other websites with Firefox or Safari on my Mac. I cannot open Apple either. I made sure the proxies were not checked, I emptied history and cache and cookies, I reset Safari, I restarted each time I did these things. But I cannot get my mail on Yahoo or Google. I could open CNN or NFL or Fox only! IS there anything else I can do? This is on an older Mac 10.5.8.
I've been trying to do some OCR with Microsoft OneNote and am experimenting with what font seems to work the best. While some seem to be relatively good, I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OCR and has found a font to be nearly error proof? I found that Fixedsys causes errors at times, but not sure if something traditional like Courier or Helvetica would do better?
I have a file called tmp.0.sDQWBe located on my MacBook/Macintosh HD /private/var/folders/k1/(a ton of random text)/T/tmp.0.sDQWBe. The file is 13.2GB and I have no idea what it is.
My son would like to pass off his iPod to his brother since he has a phone now. I switched to my other son's Apple ID from his iPad but how do I get rid of the stuff on the iPod while keeping it on the iPhone? And also keep the stuff on the iPad while putting it on the iPod? Thank you!
I was having some issues with chrome, where it would crash all the time for no reason. Then, recently, it crashed, but in my dock it says it's still running. I deleted it from my applications but it is still in my dock, and when I try to force quit it, nothing happens. I can't drag it out of my dock or do anything to move it.
I'm experiencing very weird issue as far I remember from Yosemite up to latest El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21) and Safari Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4) Actually it's started to become more annoying with time. Sometimes Safari goes up to 100% cpu usage, sometimes even more, but it's directly on safari process, all child processes stay at normal cpu usage including networking thread. I have started to debugging issue as far I can with closed source. I have tried to delete all cache,cookies,bookmarks and all possible data stored in relation to Safari.app including browsing and other databases. It didn't help much. I have created new test account on my macbook pro, then tried to reproduce issue with plain-set osx with safari, but after hours of usage couldn't reproduce the issue. Then I have imported Bookmarks.plist from my current account into cleanly set account, after less then 15 minutes, safari went up to 100% cpu usage again. I have also tried to use iCloud to automatically migrate safari dat
UPDATE: I figured out in part what is happening, but not why or how to change this behavior. When at the computer itself, Finder only activates the screen you are on when you click on the desktop(Finder) or a window on that screen. All other Finder screens are inactive. When connected via VNC or ARD/ScreenSharing only the first screen becomes active even if that screen was not the active one when you first connected. If another screen was active at the time you connect it becomes inactive and the first becomes active the first click that occurs. It is like the first screen has occupied all screen spaces.
When I open a text file with TextEdit, Dragon Dictate scan the file:  It often ends up being unresponsive if the file is large. How to configure Dragon Dictate so that it does not scan files upon opening?
I tried the obvious: Unplugging and plugging the charger to my computer, unplugging and replugging it into the outlet, both at the same time, flipping the charger upside down, restarting my computer, and tried every different outlet in my house. I have a few extra charger extenders, (where you take out the two prongs and replace it with a longer cable) so I tried changing those out, and changing back to a two prong, all with no luck.
Is there any way to examine the journal of an HFS filesystem? Command line methods?
I want to customize my app icons, but there's a lot of them, and I don't want to be tedious and go through the whole Get Info process over and over again. Is there any way to write a program, preferably in Terminal using the command line, that will change the icon of an app?
Here's some system info Almost every time I open my lid after my laptop having been sleeping for at least a couple of hours, the screen is dead and nothing wakes it up. My only option is to press the power button and perform a hard restart (which is probably not good). Now I have tried almost every suggested solution including resetting VRAM, PRAM and even performing a full format on my mac. I literally deleted everything on my SSD including reinstalling my OS and the problem still persists. This is the error reporting page that comes up after I perform the hard restart, hope this helps. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
I have some .bash_profile settings that restore my last working directory every time I log in to my shell. However, I also use a program that opens a terminal window in the current directory open in Finder, and it does this by sending an event to Terminal using SBApplication.
It looks like something's seriously wrong... My Air should have 4 cores. However, I saw that the number of cores has sunk to 2 when I was going to make a new virtual machine...
Very frustrating issue started yesterday with Mail suddenly deciding that it's not going to send my SMTP password to my outgoing mail server. Nothing else has changed, it just suddenly isn't working. I operate the mail server myself, so I know that nothing has changed on the server end either, and that the settings are all exactly right; I have in fact been sending messages just fine for the past few months.
There's a process called sdmd running which reads gigabyte after gigabyte from disk and is slowing my computer to a crawl. What is that, and how can I get rid of it?
Used to be able to print like a charm. It's a network printer. Now all I get is: When checking the system log all it says is: There shouldn't be anything kerberos related with this printer. Anyone know of a fix or workaround?
I'm using speedtest.net to make the measurement. When I'm plugged into the switch using a Thunderbolt-to-Gigabit-Ethernet adapter I get 100/100 mbit consistently (what I pay for), but over Wi-Fi I get 10-20 mbit, whether I'm close to the AirPort Extreme or further away. I should mention the slow speeds are the same for both my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2; no more than 10-20 mbit or so. Here's the MacBook Wi-Fi system information:
I am positive there is some official Apple documentation and link for a list of different keys one can press during the login window (not the startup) that will do some different action. In particular I am looking for the one that would cancel the reopening of applications, even if at shutdown one said to reopened them. I saw this online the other day, but can't seem to find it again.
I've installed many programs with homebrew, but only one is shown in Launchpad. How can I show also others in that menu? I have to open them from CLI, but someone has difficult name to remember and I want add them in Dock.
I connected my DELL U2711 via Displayport to Mini Displayport to my MacBook Pro Retina (OSX 10.11.2) It recognized the monitor as a TV and does not show anything. I tried also using an adapter to DVI. There it shows an image but not the maximum resolution. What can I do so it is recognized correctly. I found several posts in the apple forum about people having the same problem non of these solutions worked for me. The Monitor used to work when I organized my desk I unplugged it and since then it is not working anymore. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5381092?tstart=0
Just a simple question: I’m looking to develop an Apple TV application for the fourth generation Apple TV, and just wondered if any one knew if I can deploy and test home-made apps to a consumer Apple TV model? Or do I need to purchase a special development kit of some sort for this?
It doesn't ring through to my ipod touch, and attempting to call out says it is disabled on my iphone. When I go back to the settings for which devices to allow, and message forwarding, its all enabled and set to forward.
I have read all the answers I can find about setting up dnsmasq as a local DNS server for development. But I can't make it work for my case. Most out there want 127.0.0.1 to be resolved for names in the .dev domain.
Under OS X, the /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem contains many certificates in this format: In Ubuntu, in /etc/ssl/certs, each certificate is in its own file; with the files named like Visa_eCommerce_Root.pem, Swisscom_Root_CA_1.pem etc. I was wondering if on OS X there is a way I can get similar names for each certificate contained in the cert.pem file?
Specifically as an example, I have a pdf document with 1000 pages and I'm in the page number 400 .. I want have a shortcut to move to the page number 1 and the page number 1000 ... Is there any keyboard shortcut In MacOS to move to the begin and the end of a document no matter which third party app is running such as a pdf Reader, word document or any other software?
I have an URL as: *=URL=* Is it possible to download that app in my PC and then unzip or see what's inside? I haven't Apple Computer nor iPad nor iPhone.
Is it possible via the Terminal in OS X to show a history of recently connected USB devices. For example I want to know the specified ID of the MP3 Sony Walkman which I plugged into my MacBook Pro two weeks ago. Is that possible?
I priced it on Amazon, and I came across Microsoft Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac | Mac Key Card. However, the listing does not discuss the terms or explain the Mac Key Card.
I have recently updated to iOS 9.2.1, and now my Google Calendar isn't syncing anymore. If I add event on my desktop (Google Calendar App inside my browser), events are added and synced to my iPhone, but if I add event inside my Calendar app on iPhone, events are never synced to my Google Calendar, they only exists on my iPhone. I have tried to restart phone, and reset network settings, but without luck. EDIT: I have also noticed red exclamation sign on iCloud calendars, maybe is this issue? I
I'd be very surprised if this doesn't trouble anyone else. Sometimes I want to paste a copied file in a Finder window, but there is just no "empty" space for me to right-click on and hit 'Paste item', as right-clicking anywhere on this window will open the right-click context menu for a file/folder. Usually, I just resize the window till I can find some empty space below all the files/folders for me to right-click on, but sometimes (as in my screenshot below) there are way too many files/folders for to resize the finder window up to that point.
I never backed up my iPhone 6 to iTunes or iCloud and now my phone is broke and I can't pass the main screen or passcode screen. Touch is not working. I already have a another iPhone 6, but is there a way to backup my broken phone? I went to recovery mode on my old iPhone 6 and I see two options 'Update' or 'Restore'. Which option will take backup of my phone?
About half the time i plug in my iPhone 6 to my MBP2015 15" to sync and they get stuck in a loop: the phone will beep to indicate the start of a sync, and the screen flashes, then 1 second later it beeps again. It keeps beeping until unplugged. Fully rebooting both devices at the same time seems to work, but its a pain... Rebooting either is not effective: they both need to be booted if the loop has happened.
With OSX 10.9.5, and using the latest Homebrew OpenSSH, which at time of writing is OpenSSH_7.1p2/OpenSSL 1.0.2f, I must set the following in /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config: (Or comment the line out entirely I suppose)
When I run gcc --version I get Do I have gcc or Clang based compiler? And how to upgrade it?
The standalone app from *=URL=* made by this script conflicts with the Chrome browser: although the app uses a name „Music“ from info.plist in a dock, it continues to identify itself as Google Chrome in Activity Monitor and when opened in a Full Screen so the two instances of the Google Chrome runs with the same name and id, and the Chrome Dock icon focuses the app instead of launching the Chrome. The same app is identified as Music in dock while as Google Chrome in Full Screen and Activity Monitor:
I replaced my internal drive in my macbook pro 2010 with a new SSD. I started the machine, then pressed alt/option to access Recovery Mode in order to use Disk Utility. So, I opened Disk Utility and tried to erase and partition the new SSD. This is the error I am getting: "Disk Erase failed with error: File system formatter failed". All the video that I have watched seemed to follow the same steps that I did. What am I doing wrong?
I have several gigabyte of images/photos in my Pictures folder on my Mac. I also have the Photos Library and iPhotos Library bundles. I believe all my images/photos would have been imported into the these two libraries. Does that mean that I can delete all my images/photos from the Pictures folder?
When I turn on my music app, a picture of a girl wearing a headphone is showing and I cannot go to my music library. How can I resolve it?
I'm trying to extract my old iPhone's backups. I'm using the iPhone Backup Extractor, and it tells me the status of my backup is "complete and encrypted". I don't recall ever encrypting my backup so I'm wondering how is this even possible? Does the iTunes encrypt your backup without your command? Is there a way to unencrypt the backup?
I am trying to get a visual of the DNS cache (IMHO this should be extremely easy but somehow I cannot get it in El Capitan). I have tried things like: dscacheutil -cachedump which some reason returns (why?): Unable to get details from the cache node Also trying sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder indeed printed a lot arguably useful information in /var/log/system.log but it does not seem to work as expected. More specifically, I searched in the log and made sure there is no entry for www.my-website.com. Then I accessed www.my-website.com through my web browser, re-executed sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder, searched again for www.my-website.com in the log and once again nothing popped up (the actual search was simply "my-website" to make sure nothing was ignored). An entry didn't appear even when I used the dig command. Any help why I do not see the change in the mDNSResponder output or where I can access the "real" DNS cache?
TL;DR: How do I get rid of duplicate PDF files between the com.apple.BKAgentService iBooks folder and their original location? My SSD is running out of space, so I'm doing some cleanup. A point that has come to my attention is a lot of duplication of PDF files added to my iBooks library (which I'm forced to use for viewing these files in my iPhone and iPad -- if Apple didn't force iBooks down my throat, I would steer as clear as possible from this abomination.) As I recall, at some point in time, iBooks wouldn't copy your PDFs to the com.apple.BKAgentService folder -- I believe it was used for your purchased iBooks from Apple, or for PDFs/ePubs you downloaded in iOS Safari and then clicked on "Open in iBooks".
Might be a little confusing to explain but I'll try my best to give a detailed response. Basically it's a Macbook Air (2014 model) running Yosamite 10.10.2. I noticed this issue a while back and couldn't find an answer to it on Google. Whenever I run anything that's a little CPU extensive like a game, a heavy website, or anything which activates the fan in the Macbook, it just crashes/restarts after freezing. You can hear the fan just turning on and speeding up, but before it gets to full speed the Macbook just freezes and then crashes and reboots to the Apple logo.
I have found the Audiobook files in the iTunes Media folder but when I drag them back into iTunes it's still categorised as Voice Memos. I even tried manually moving it into the Audiobook folder in iTunes Media but it doesn't show up under Audiobooks in iTunes.
I have very limited knowledge of bash, and I haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to follow the steps in this blog post: Using Mendeley and Dropbox to sync your pdf library across computers However, when I run the terminal commands I get the following error: Everything I've read online seems to suggest that this command is correct.
which would give me a mapping of Hardware Port to Device. From that I would grep the device for Hardware Port: Ethernet and then use ifaddr struct to get my IP.
Is this my only option? To revert back to windows 7 and then reinstall windows 10? Is there anyone who knows or can upload the windows 10 support drivers?
I've noticed that the scanner option has disappeared from the System Preferences (Printers & Scanners) control for the Epson AL CX21NF. I've tried installing the drivers from here and also using the System update from Apple (specific to Epson printers via the App Store). I have added the printer (using the IP address and LPD Line Daemon option) and can print to the device, but have no option to scan documents. Has something changed in El Capitan or is this printer now just too old to be supported?
Is this possible? When going into the "Keys" category in iCloud Keychain, the + button seems to be disabled.
How secure are files, that I saved on an internal Macbook hard disc using OSX 10.11? I cannot check whether the hard drive is encrypted using FileVault as the machine crashed. I am thinking whether I need to invest 40$ to get it savely formatted by some professionals or just sell it. If you are not the account owner and don't know the account password, will you be able to read files from my account if you put the hard drive in a new machine?
I am looking for some advice about getting a macbook pro or mac mini. Basically, the case with me is that I currently have a mid 2014 macbook pro that is a base model. I use the macbook pro at home and on the go, so it was inevitable that the ram and hard drive space was not enough for me. I am considering upgrading to the macbook pro model 13" with processor and ram maxed out along with 512 GB of disk space. However, I recently noticed that most of my heavy duty work (i.e.: running matlab/data analysis/VM at the same time, which are typically done at home and with my current set up at home, I have 2 27" monitors connected to the macbook pro). So, I recently thought about the mac mini and how it might be a better decision while using my macbook pro on the go. I just turned out to be a laptop guy so I never really thought about getting desktops but I really enjoy the portability of laptops but mac mini to be honest is also not to immobile also.
I bought a new Mac a few days ago. I did a clean install, so I can start blank. Now I want to restore some files back from Time Machine to the new Mac. Is there a way to get the Time Machine interface so I can travel through my old backups using TM on my new Mac?
I am wondering, after the OS was updated, a user created the same user account with same name and same full name. So there is no old folder with same name. However, the ID number is 501. Is there still any chance of getting the old files? Disk space taken is only 13 GB. It is related to How do i get back my old user account after upgrading to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2?
I want to have spell checking ON for Greek (or any other language you have) and OFF for English. At the System Preferences (Keyboard -> Text) I have enabled Greek (where it says "Ελληνικά (iSquare)" in the images) as the ONLY enabled language (I have disabled all the others from the pop-up menu (Set Up...) and I have choose it at the same menu.
My friend just played around with the admin account settings of her MacBook Pro and now the account is damaged She cannot access the desktop; after entering the password just the desktop background appears and she cannot do anything. Below is exactly how she damaged it.
I use iCloud as backup storage for my iPad, iPhone and PC. But if something were to happen to iCloud I would lose ALL my data. Is there any way of backing up iCloud data (especially backups) and if so where and how?
I can open the padlock in Security & Privacy fine, but the settings are still impossible to edit. I am an administrator user so I should be able to edit these settings.
After updating cdock 2 to the latest version on my Mac running El Capitan, all the icons moved up from center and now look like on the image below. How can I fix this?
I am experiencing new regular kernel panics on a Mid-2012 13” MacBook Pro. I’m not using any new 3rd party software and the hardware setup hasn’t changed. I tried uninstalling iShowU Audio Capture from Shinywhitebox.com. I had another panic, only this time, there was no log, so I reinstalled it.
I'm trying to create a shared partition that I can use from both Windows and OS X. I made a new partition, but if I make it FAT or ExFAT Windows does not start. I get Error code: 0xc000000e. I assume this is because it tries to boot from the empty partition instead of the bootcamp partition. If I make the partition use Apple's filesystem, I can boot to Windows again but then the partition becomes read-only.
Recently, I want to capture the ingress package in iOS, after I installed p12 using Safari. It shows can't establish secure link. However after I add NSAppTransportSecurity/NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = True to ingress.app/info.plist. Ingress tries send package again and again. However the server only returns null package. In the other hands. I tried to add the p12 to OSX and pip doesn't work fine, says cert error. I think some app only trust the default TrustStore. Finally I found an old way to add cert to default Trust Store from [question]: *=URL=* @Max Ried's method, however it's too old, and the TrustStore.sqite has been changed into the certsTable.data and I found no way to decode it, and Russian pdf might help [pdf]: *=URL=* So is there any up-to-date method to install CA?
I can't get Pandora to play music on my Apple TV (4th Gen). It just sits there at 0:00.
I'd like to know whether a 4,1/5,1 Mac Pro with dual processor board can actually work with just one CPU installed.
I will separate my Downloads Folder on a permanently installed SD Card in my MacBook Pro. Is this possible?
I have my iphone 4s set up to backup on the cloud and i have paid for extra storage place on the cloud i plug my phone up at night and have it connected to the wifi to backup when i sleep but it doesnt work i then get notification that my phone has not backed up in 12 weeks...what should i check i am paying for extra space and yet nothing is getting backed up. Even when i am connected to my wifi and do a backup now it doesnt back up apparently...
I have a Numbers spreadsheet with lots of data (currently at 275 rows, 14 columns each). I need to submit this data to a web form, one row per form submission, each column going into a text box on the webpage. I foresee a day spent copy-pasting and am dreading it. Is there some way to automate this process?
I have a MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011) with OS X El Capitan. I just installed the trial version of Parallels Desktop 11.1.2 for Mac Business Edition, Parallels tools, and Windows 7 x32 bit in english.
My desktop is in the living room where anyone visiting can access it. I'd like to make it secure from those in my home since I have a roommate.
I recently checked my battery cycles count: 942, this is very close to the limit 1000 as indicated by Apple *=URL=* If it becomes 1000 do I have to replace it by myself? I checked *=URL=* and I find that the process is a bit complicated. I live in france and the official Apple replacement service would cost me 229€.
Using OSX server profiles to configure our fleet of Active Directory connected Macbooks. When our laptops are not connected to the internal network (or via VPN), their AD group membership is lost. Sudo is locally configured to allow an AD admin group access to sudo, however when AD is unavailable, users can no longer sudo. Best solution would be to allow group membership to be cached locally, but since I believe this to be impossible (read: undocumented), I'm searching for a plist that would allow me to add the local user (using %shortname) to the sudoers file.
I guess Apple got a bit too literal with the "Spotlight" feature. I feel far too sceptical about upgrading to El Captain just because of my most favourite feature, the Spotlight smacks right at you in the middle of the screen. Is there any way at all to bring spotlight to where it was back in the good old 10.9 Mavericks?
This is a known issue, but I do not understand why the screenshot taken on my retina-MBP always has doubled size as compared to area chosen for screenshot: If I choose 100x100 (as OS shows - of what? pixels? - on "get info" they do not provide, only shows "dimensions") area I get 200x200 which upon scaling becomes more blurry than original picture. My questions: Do all retina users always get these doubled screenshots? How can I take a screenshot of the same size as the area I choose? I found a lot of "resizing" solutions, but is there a way to take a screenshot with "original size" without resizing the resultant screenshot?
I tried to restore my apps to my new iPhone but 2 of the apps failed to be restored. Then I checked the app store and found out that they are no longer available, maybe Apple took them down. Does that mean I can no longer restore them back into my phone if they are no longer available in the app store? I did fully backed up my phone to the iTunes before.
I've tried multiple machines, multiple iTunes versions, multiple cables, and ports. My phone was originally rebooting randomly. Thinking it was an electrical short problem, I put in a new battery. That didn't help, but made it worse. I tried the old batteries again. No luck. Eventually the phone would just hang at apple logo. Restoring it gets it stuck in "Waiting for iPhone" with an apple logo with an empty gray bar under it. Likewise, DFU mode restore gets it stuck in "Waiting for iPhone" with an apple logo with an empty gray bar under it.
Retina-MBP I create new files in Pixelmator and Adobe Illustrator. Both files are of 100x100 pixels size. The resolution in Pixelmator is set 300, the resolution of export raster in Illustrator set to 300 as well. I use a retina Mac. When I press "Actual Size" I expect that both programs will show the same size of the "artboard"/picture.
I have a Macbook with a removed monitor so now I use an external monitor. My notebook doesn't always correctly detect the resolution (or, I think, the display). When it doesn't detect correctly, I need to reboot and wait for some time or else reset the NVRAM. I created a small video so that you can see how it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzROZpK998w
I am using my iPhone as a modem, transfrerring a lot of data(4G) over long periods of time (awesome provider plan with lots of internet), connecting it to my laptop with the usb cable. I searched the web but i could not find a straight answer to the following question:
I am trying to download the Xcode 7.2.1 Version, but it just keeps saying installing on my computer, and nothing is happening. What do I do?
I want to prepare an SD card for use in an old camera using CHDK. The card needs to be FAT16 formatted. This doesn’t work from Terminal anymore, maybe already for years. Disk Utility provides ''FAT'', but this is FAT32. I have no other (Windows) computer. What do I do?
An example: My friend running the app right next to me is able to play the same songs without a problem from his phone, yet on my Mac app it just skips over them. I've been having this problem for lots of tracks for a long time. Has anyone else had this problem? Any solution?
I'm trying to make Ext4 disk readable on mac OSX 10.10.5. I've already installed OSXFuse, I read on this site that I also needed to install fuse-ext2. I downloaded fuse-ext2-master.zip and unzipped it. It seems to contain source code files but no installation program. How am I supposed to use these files?
I tried to clean install OS X El Capitan on my Mac, but it won't boot from the USB drive. Here are the steps I took to create the bootable USB drive: (I have a mid 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display) Downloaded the latest OS X El Capitan (10.11.3) from the Mac App Store. Created a bootable USB drive using createinstallmedia (as explained here) and it went well. Erased Macintosh HD.
I recently changed my Gmail account's password. The account in Mail.app is offline as expected ("Login Failed"), but there seems no way to input the new password:
Using Macbook Pro with Yosemite 10.11.3. For more than a year I have used a WD My Passport external hard drive (1 TB) for Time Machine. Beginning two weeks ago when I plug in to get a Time Machine backup, the computer does not see the Passport. I know the connection is good, because the light on the Passport comes on. What gives?
I have a friend's birthday who lives in the Netherlands (I live in the UK). Is there any way I can buy a gift card from the netherlands that will send to them? Googling seems to throw up a lot of sites - not many of which seem trustworthy. Many thanks!
For all of my apps, the command+shift+s shortcut is not doing its expected "save as" function. I am assuming there is a conflict somewhere, but when I go to preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts, there are no conflicts that I can find. This is driving me nuts... any thoughts? I'm on El Cap 10.11.3 / MBP 15 (2015 model)
I'm trying to open Preference Pane from command. However, when I invoke open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Dock.prefPane as in How do you access network preferences from the Terminal?, I get Finder that contains the preference pane opened instead.
I would like to automate my Mac installation flow for services. The following is my script:
Referring to iMessages, not SMS. Pasting text ~20,800 characters long gives an error that the message is too long on my Mac. What's the limit?
I'm using an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil... the Apple Pencil annoyingly doesn't have an eraser on the back end like the Pencil by 53. I've also not been able to locate a button that allows me to use the Apple Pencil as an eraser within the Adobe app. Any thoughts? Of course there's an undo button, but that's not what I want.
In column A, I have timestamp values. In a second column, I'd like to have a formula that would return words or strings like "early morning" or "Late afternoon", so that I may count and chart these responses. What formula am I looking for in Apple's Numbers?
Can anyone help me reverse tethering from linux to iphone 5.
The current (iOS 9.2.1) Music iOS app doesn't seem to show the current played song's composer name. I need an app that show that information, and which work playing Apple music songs. Is there any?
I am pretty new to Macs and these days I've been experiencing the whole frustration that comes when switching from Windows to Mac.. All my favourite shortcuts are so different or non-existent an so on.. I can live with that, there is a learning curve and I will get used to it (even though I used Karabiner to remap some shortcuts, there are plenty to learn :) )
I've tried but after that I cannot find any clang++* executable under /usr/local. Thus my question: How to get clang++ via Homebrew?
If I send someone a message through iMessage from my Macbook and they are to receive it on their iPad/iPhone, what will happen if that person has changed their mobile phone number since I added them as a contact? Will they still get the message? I initially contacted this person with an email address.
I was thinking of moving my documents folder to iCloud then just creating a symlink to them on my computer (is this a bad idea in the first place, is there a more elegant solution?) However I would like to know if I would not have access to my documents if I have no internet connection?
I am using iMovie for recording audio during a Lecture (I nees to see video during recording) with a M-Audio M-Track interface (two XLR microphone). The thing is that I can only record first microhone, because I can-t select the interface BUS on iMovie (or I didn't see it). I also tested record with a XENYX UFX1204 (12 inputs), but I can only record from first input to. Can anybody please help me? Grateful MacBook, iOS 9.2.1
I am trying to reset SMC, but I am not sure whether could I manage or not. I pressed shift + option + control (left side) and power button at the same time but the indicator light didn't change and computer opened without pressing power button at second time. Therefore, if I couldn't succeed, how can I do that ? Macbook air 2015 early , OS X El Capitan
So the problem is that I have an iPhone5 from my cousin, and yesterday I got a messages in WhatsApp from friends but I couldn't open WhatsApp. It said that I need to update WhatsApp. I went to the App Store and it required the password of iTunes Store but old email and password from my cousin, and I don't know the password.
I need someone to help me I got this iphone5 a months ago from my cousin and I already have my own appleID and also my iCloud, and I could download the apps and everything but now when I got a notice to update whatsapp it requires the old password :/ is the only solution to delete whatsapp or is there anything else I could do? P.S my cousin doesn't know the password Thank you
I have a document, I wants to use the find and replace to convert any period (.) into a new line. I can't seems to of that, in Microsoft word you can input ^ CTRL+p into the replace field. But how do you do it on apps like Pages or TextEdit?
I'm looking for sync plugins for current Outlook for Mac to make it talk to CardDAV and CalDAV servers. So far I only found plugins for Windows. Any hints?
The site appreviewtimes.com croudsources reports from iOS developers to figure out the current average iOS/Mac apps review time:  Does apple reveal any information about the current review queue size?
For an event, I have created a playlist of music based mostly on Apple Music tracks (and some that I had purchased pre-Apple Music). I need to deliver non-DRM versions of all these tracks to a DJ for the event. Is there a way to simply purchase all of the songs in a playlist from the iTunes Store?
I formatted my MacBook main drive some months ago and, in order to not lose data, I created a .dmg image of the hard drive before the formatting procedure and saved it to an external device. Then, some days ago, I started a kind of data restoring, coping most of the backup files back to the main drive.
I have a mac mini server with 2 Hard Drives, one for the system and active files (Server HD) and one serving as an archive (Archive HD). Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up both disks and not just the Server HD?
I'm not sure if this is a bug or just me missing something out, but when I try to manually add faces in my Photos app (go to photo, 'Get info', 'Add face'), a circle appears where I can name/tag the face. When I go to drag it, however, it will not let me.
I am replacing the upper case of my MBA 2011 13", I found something on eBay but am unsure on the compatibility, my serial number is, C02GRGLVDJWT. Link to the part: 13" Apple MacBook Air A1466 Palmrest Upper Top Case 069-8219-A. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.4.1. I have many Notes that are formatted using bold, italics, carriage returns, etc.
I would like to create an iCloud reminder using my Apple Watch while running. Siri is not working and speech recognition is not working either since I'm offline. Is there an app that allows me to type a reminder?
It's as if there is garbage collection that isn't taking place and the storage space doesn't get freed-up. Think about how hard drive space may get freed-up after sectors are freed-up when you defrag a Windows hard-drive. Battery Doctor helps free up cache space, etc., but does not affect the Mail app. My Mail app now takes up 3.0 GB of space!
Both these functions stopped around the same time. El Capitan, but I think these worked after the upgrade and now don't. Both functions work in other apps. Just not in Finder. Repaired permissions on MacHD, checked and unchecked the command for spotlight in System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts>Spotlight. Using command+space in Finder gives the error chime.
Using OS X 10.11.3, Mac Pro 5,1, 32GB RAM, Radeon HD 7950 (Sapphire) graphics card w/ 3GB VRAM. I have a multiple monitor setup with displays not having separate Spaces. Usually, when using a shortcut key to change spaces, I see a nice animation where one space slides to the left, and the new space slides in from the right.
Currently, I use Jing on my Mac OSX with my team to make a short 5 minute screen recording (with optional voice record). Unfortunately, it doesn't save it in a format that can be viewed on iPads or iPhones because it is recorded in Flash. Is there a free screen recorder out there which does the same thing but stores it in webm format?
Is the Mac "connected" to an account? (Actually I use it with no problem, but ...)
I have a MacBook Pro mid 12 with a 500 GB HDD. For performance purposes I want to upgrade to a SSD. My HDD is nearly full I have used 440 GB with a lot of important business files that I cannot afford to loose. How can I migrate so that I keep everything from my old hard drive to my new SSD. I cannot loose software or files.
I've recently moved my git repo to an always plugged in SD card, formatted to OS X Extended I've noticed with both SourceTree and WebStorm don't pick up on file changes anymore. Gets really annoying when you reset files from the command line, make some changes and then when you go to save that file WebStorm complains that the file has changed. Edit:
I want to unpack every .spa file in SomeDirectory to their each seperate folders, with the same name. I would use something like - tar -xvf, but with what attributes?
I connect to Cisco Equipment via console cable and am currently trying to use ITerm2. The problem is I cannot get the Control-A (Move to beginning of line) command to work. I've tried to add in the hex code ^a with 0x01 with no luck.. Funny thing is.. Control-A works as expected if I am in ITerm2 and: Am browsing my local drive / directories Connected to Cisco equipment via telnet or SSH
Does anyone has a similar problem? Any idea to save definitively a sidebar for all applications?
When I download an .ino file in OS X, my files are automatically converted to .ino.txt and opened by TextEdit app, even though, I have installed Arduino IDE. How can I close this feature?
How do I export photos from my iPhone 6 to my Western Digital external hard drive using my Mac? I need to clear up space on my phone already and can't believe how frustrating it is trying to figure this out.
I have an mp3 audiobook on my Mac, and I wanted to listen to it on my iPhone . I plugged my iPhone in, and synced "Audiobooks" and selected the audiobook in the list, via iTunes on my Mac.
Spotlight decided to index my external hard drive that I use for backups without asking my permission. This made it impossible for me to safely eject the external hard drive without potentially corrupting the file system.
I got a brand new mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15", OSX 10.11.3. Display never turns off even it is configured to turn off after 10 mins in power adapter AND in battery mode. Screen saver (aerial) stays active forever. I tried disconnecting all USB peripherals connected - it did not help. Any ideas?
I was running iTunes 11 under Snow Leopard and syncing to an old iPad, the very first one. Now, the latest iPad (pro) needs iTunes 11, which needed higher than Snow Leo, so I'm running it under Yosemite. All apps seem to have moved ok, but the iBooks were all left behind. Is there a simple way to import the folder of iBooks to iTunes 12 to load to the iPad?
I am considering upgrading my Macbook Pro with 2GB of memory from 10.6.8 to 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Are there any other considerations for upgrading? Is this generally a good idea?
In my mac mini, It’s containt 500 GB HDD. It is a four partition and size described below. Please review below attached image. 1. Macintosh HD - 150 GB Main Drive 2. D-Drive - 125 GB 3. E-Drive - 125 GB 4. F-Drive - 98.6 GB.
I am currently in the process of trying to secure a visa for overseas work. I recently developed an iOS app and need to provide proof or ownership or that I developed it. Is there a way to go about this? Can Apple provide a certificate or something? Any advice on this would be really appreciated. Thanks!
I have MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.3 and VMware 6x installed on it with Windows 7. I noticed that my MacBook Pro can be seen as network disk from Windows 7. I can see the personal folder as shared folder and all files in it.
The text-to-speech service has a speaking rate option that goes from slow to fast. But the fast option is not fast enough (its 300 words per minute).
A few PDF files are showing with the incorrect filesize and I was wondering if there is any way to fix this. E.g. opening a PDF file's properties is showing that the file is 394 KB, if I attach the file to an email or upload it by FTP somewhere else I get the file's real size which is 289 KB
I still have a very vague understadning of how iCloud Library and the new 'Photos' app operate. How do I distinguish between photos on my device and what is stored in cloud. How do I delete something only on my device and still preserve it in cloud?
I run Windows 10 on my boot camp partition. Yesterday I created a new partition on my disk to store my shared documents between two operating systems by resizing the OS X partition. Today I noticed that Windows doesn't load.
Sometimes my Mac Mini, plugged to an LG IPS screen, display some Glitches. For example, times ago, in my Launchpad appears these glitches:
I'm dealing with pretty tricky problem. I want to have external disk completely separated from OS X running on internal SSD. On external SSD should be three partitions: Windows 10 - is possible to use Bootcamp (because of drivers) - bootable
Flickr Uploadr on OS X scans the folders I selected, but it doesn't count the videos in that folder. If the folder doesn't contain any photos, it simply says: No photos How do I get Uploadr to upload videos to Flickr?
I have a late 2013 retina macbook pro that came up with OS X mavericks. I have tried to restore my macintosh hard drive from timemachine backup, I followed these steps: rebooted mac holding cmd+R, this shows up os x utilities, then I've chosen "restore from timemachine backup", selected the TM volume and then the date from which I wish to restore the entire mac from, after this I selected the Macintosh HD as destination and clicked on restore, a warning message appears to tell me that this would erase the whole Macintosh HD, I clicked continue. The recovery loads and "erasing destination disk" is displayed, after 20 seconds I get this message: "an error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk". I clicked on restart but the mac didn't load (only the apple shows up). I held the power button and then restarted the mac holding cmd+R, internet recovery started and when it finished downloading, I had the os x utilities menu. I clicked on disk utilities and found out t
I have a network with Macs and Windows PCs connecting to a server with the SMB protocol (CIFS with Macs). The users share files on this server. Some of the Macs have Microsoft Office 2016. If one of those users edits and saves a file on the server or creates a new file the rights will be -rw-r--r-- impeding others of ever reading the file. This occurs only with MS Office 2016, all files saved with a prior version of the package (i.e. MS Office 2011) have no problems. Any ideas on how to change the rights MS Office gives to one of its own files on the server? (The server is Linux Samba version Squeeze.)
I was wondering if there is a way to check how much space is used for each app that's installed on your mac. When you click on the Apple logo left on top, then "About this mac" you can see at the tab "Storage" the total amount of pictures, programs, other, movies and music. But it would be nice if I can check per app how much space the take on my mac. Is this possible?
I edited the fstab file in order to enable writing on ntfs drives and added all three of my external ntfs drives to it. Two of them work fine.
I'm having terrible issues with my Mac since I tried to restore the entire system from a Time Machine backup, which ended up showing a "an error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk" message. I restarted and held cmd+R and Internet Recovery started downloading (instead of booting to the recovery partition). After the download, the menu of OS X utilities appeared and I selected Disk Utility and then I erased the Macintosh HD.
Let me first give a quick background. I got the 2015 MBP 15" with Retina display second hand like a week ago. As every normal person who just switched from Windows to Mac I was doing this and that and testing the battery life. No external software was used for the battery tests, only normal usage. I also got few battery tools which show more detailed information about the current state.
With smcFanControl I can raise the fan speed. Is it dangerous to stop the fans for even 5 seconds if I'll be running absolutely nothing (besides the base OS)? Is there a command-line hack to force this to happen?
I'm making the feature for VPN settings profile that forces VPN connection to stop establishing when server is down. For this I use 'URLStringProbe" key and a proxy of the server status located on *=URL=* The URL responds with '500 OK' when my server doesn't work. Otherwise the response is '200 OK'. Thus, VPN must work only when server is up. The problem I've encountered is that a probe get request to URL is not sent everytime a device makes a connection request. However, it must be so given that I use 'EvaluateConnection' key set for any domain ('*' in domains array). I know probe requests don't work as supposed since I monitor all requests a testing iOS device sends. Requests turn out to be sent only when the profile is installed on device and also each time I manually turn off/turn on 'Connect on demand' option (Settings - VPN - my_VPN). Moreover, I tried changing all domains condition to just one by altering 'Domains' key content:
Reproducible steps: Open a Finder window (either via an 'open/upload file' in another application or directly) select a folder with one click hit 'Enter' to change the name Use 'Command+Delete' to remove the entire line of text The folder will be removed completely Is there a way to prevent the removal of the file/folder from happening when trying to rename a file/folder? I am OK with removing/preventing the shortcut to delete files altogether anywhere in the OS. I'm running Yosemite, but also exists in El Capitan and likely before as well.
I set cron to run script every day using env EDITOR=nano crontab -e where I wrote something like this @daily path/to/sript.script. Now I want to use anacron to be sure that script is going to be run when I log in if I was logged off at the time when it was scheduled. But I am not sure where to specify that.
Well, there are few days I'm trying to find the answer to this question. I'm not a super expert with informatics so I really don't know how to do this. For example I get What exactly I do to symlink flex?
I've tried FAT32 but old PCs won't read it. I could try NTFS but then Macs would treat it as read-only. I'm pretty sure I've seen USB sticks that work on Macs and PCs but I don't have any to hand so can't check the format. Surprisingly, this doesn't seem to have been asked before, although questions about formatting things on PCs have been.
I have a work Macbook Pro and do not want to use iMessages.app at all to sync to my phone. When I open up the Messages application on my iPhone, Continuity tries to handoff the application to the OSX machine on the same wifi. However, I want to completely disable iMessages.app syncing to this computer. I have disabled: (On iPhone)->Settings->Phone-'Calls on other Devices' [Off] (On MBP)->iMessages.app-> No Accounts setup Is there a way to disable this iMessages Continuity integration?
I just changed the password of my Apple ID. When I started using my Mac, several minutes later, the system preferences asked me to enter my password to continue using iCloud. after entering my new password, it hanged. Restarting the mac did not even work, I had to hard shut down the machine. After the machine is rebooted, it asks me once again to enter the password of Apple ID... Could anyone help? Edit1: So it is always stuck as follows:
On my Mac, I need to use some Windows-only apps in a Windows 10 Parallels 11 VM. One thing I find annoying is remembering to click in the upper-right to close Windows windows but clicking in the upper-left to close Mac windows.
For the last week or so I have been periodically getting this dialog popping up, shown below. It would seem from googling around that this is related to Google Drive.
How to address an active window of an active app by AppleScript when two instances of the same app are running? The script below addresses the other app. Probably because the name and id of the app is the same and it picks just the first one from the list by name. I use that script to maximize the current window but it does not work for the two instances of the same app:
Whenever I buy a Bluray, I convert it to an mp4 using a combination of makemkv and ffmpeg. This allows me to store my films on a single large hard drive without using up shelf space I don't have. I then discard the original disc, to stay legal. However, because ffmpeg has a very poor aac encoder, I usually convert the audio to ALAC first, and then use Apple's built-in afconvert utility to convert said ALAC to aac audio. I then mux the video and audio into a single mp4 with ffmpeg. This method works great for stereo sound, but whenever I use afconvert on a 5.1 audio track, it gives me the following warning message:
I recently installed a Jamf software in order to recieve the latest MS Office, and during the installation the dock was reset to the default preferences. After installation I went to customize my dock by removing and adding apps to the dock, setting the magnification zoom, and auto hide. This is when I noticed Hot corners didn't work too. This is where the problem starts – I tried to set the hot corner settings, but the moment I press the back button or exit out of settings, it doesn't save the settings. I have tried PRAM and SMC resets, removing Jamf files, resetting home folder and ALCs, repairing disk permissions in recovery mode, trying hot corners in safe mode (which it still doesn't work) and killing the Dock and SystemUIServer in terminal with no avail. After trying all of these, turning on the macbook back to normal, the hot corners still doesn't work, and also the dock has resetted back to it's default settings again.
I have removed Python 2.7 from my machine, using instructions provided here: How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4? (Using the top voted/accepted answer's instructions) However, when I run my scripts using TextWrangler and look at some of the errors generated, it is still indicating that the error originated from Python 2.7 directory, which I have already deleted, and can't see it using ls. Any idea how to force TextWrangler to run Python 3 instead? I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on MacBook Pro mid 2012.
Reading the developer docu about Code Signing, it says in section Digital Signatures and Signed Code: To create a digital signature, the signing software computes a special type of checksum called a hash (or digest) based on a piece of data or code and encrypts that hash with the signer’s private key. This encrypted hash is called a signature.
I'm setting up an iMac to use as a server that will be doing some automated file copying/moving via the Hazel app, in conjunction with some shell scripts. It's a system for dropping off files, which then get processed, copied to a couple archive disk arrays and then moved to a NAS. It's very important that if anything goes wrong, or looks suspicious, I (and whoever else) can be alerted ASAP.
I have an issue with my Logitech MX Master mouse continuously fail to reconnect when I get back to my desk. I have to press the connect button on the bottom of the mouse and pair it. This is getting annoying as I have to do this on a daily basis. Is there any way to make the mouse pair once and not have to worry about it again? Thanks!
Took my iPad & iPhone to Apple Store for numerous problems. They backed both up to the cloud, showed me everything was there; including my notes which are my entire business. I make organic soaps & more, hundreds of recipes, ideas, notes, research, etc. I saw them on their Mac on the iCloud before allowing them to do a system restore. Now my notes cannot be found & they will not return my calls. My business will be greatly impacted without these. I'm heartbroken. The person who assisted me at the store had made a comment saying if this didn't work I could take it somewhere they could extract the notes from the iPad for a couple hundred bucks. Please any help would be most appreciated. I'm recovering from surgery & on disability & cannot afford a couple hundred bucks right now. Thank you very much. Lee
I know the A1387 model is sold elsewhere, and the A1431 in China, and they are both 4s, but I would like to know any technical differences between the two, i.e. what makes the China model different than the other ones?
I want to configure a global hotkey like F5, and when I press F5 it should send [Command]+[Option]+[Control]+[Up Arrow] to the Skype app. Anyone knows an app that I can do this, or script.
I followed the steps to make the CM Storm Devastator keyboard backlights turn on (using this tutorial). That is working. But, when I assigned a key to toggle the backlight, the backlight does not turn on. The key I have it assigned to is command+F14. I am on Yosemite.
I have an older Mac that can't be upgraded beyond OS X 10.7.5. As a heavy user of the Dictionary app I'm unhappy with the now messed-up display of Wikipedia content and defunct hyperlinks, the cause of which I assume to be changes made on the side of Wikipedia.
I have Maps, Photos and iBooks icons returning to my dock after a reboot even though I removed them several times already. Is there some way to remove them? They seem to be set as defaults, can I change these defaults somehow?
I have my photos saved in my 'Photos' application on my Macbook Air. I also have them saved on my iCloud (i can see them what i log on icloud.com). Now, if i delete photos from my 'Photos' application, then will they be deleted off my iCloud? I only have a small amount of storage on my MacBook Air and so far they're taking up too much space.
I would like to download Apple developer videos *=URL=* they release each year to watch them at double speed or to watch them offline. I am a registered developer with full access. Just right clicking and hitting download doesn't work. How can I do that?
I replaced my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) keyboard. The U.S keyboard layout is mapped incorrectly now. It seems to be a problem with the keyboard identifier ID (maybe its Bundle ID). It looks like to be Japanese now but I need to change it back to english (I can't achieve this by changing input source and keyboard layout).
After attaching the ethernet cable to my Mac I need to enter username and password to access the Internet:  The problem is that I would like to perform a system recovery using cmd+R at startup. There I need Internet, but I don't get any dialog which suggests me to enter my credentials.
Good day, I have Macbook Pro 2012 with el Capitan 10.11.3. The problem - no sound from my mac.
Library/Privileged Helper Tools is empty. Library/PrivilegedHelperTools has 3 items belonging to known installed applications within it.
can I downgrade my iPhone 4s iOS 9.2.1 to 9.0.2? I try using ipsw but it isn't signed at this moment. Can I create custom ipsw 9.0.2? Its possible to downgrade my iPhone? Thanks.
I have an iPhone 4S that I charge via a USB cable (plugged into my laptop). I also have a Samsung USB charger with the following specifications: 5.0 V and 1.0 A. Is it safe to plug my Apple USB cable into the Samsung charger and charge my iPhone like this? Should I be worried that it might blow up? If I use a charger with more/less Amperes, does it matter?
Of course, the keymappings for the 2 MSFT Bluetooth keyboards are far apart from the unique / weird MacBook keyboard layout. They sure don't have fn, control, option, command, ... and the command key is used for Japanese input.
I've attempted to connect my 2014 MacBook Pro 15" Retina laptop to two, 27" Dell Ultra HD 4k screens via OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock, however, I was only able to tether one Dell screen instead of two; I've tried several combinations, which include the following: MacBook > Thunderbolt > [OWC](HDMI to Dell_1 + Thunderbolt to Dell_2) MacBook > HDMI > [OWC](Thunderbolt to Dell_1 + Thunderbolt to Dell_2) MacBook > Thunderbolt > [OWC](Thunderbolt to Dell_1)+(HDMI from Dell_1 to Dell_2)
I'm using Camtasia 2 for the Mac on El Capitan (10.11.3). I need to use two microphones so the audio will record to separate audio tracks. Camtasia 2 has one input audio source that does recognize the digital audio interface, a MOTU 828 MK3.(Only for one channel, but that's OK). This is normally used to record from a USB microphone.
I need to re-install OS X Lion and I'm at a stage where when I turn my laptop on, it needs an internet connection to proceed. I have a good strong Wi-Fi signal, but I need to sign in. I usually do this by opening Safari, which prompts me with the sign-in page. I can't open Safari though because I'm in the re-install screen. Any ideas on how to get around this? Also, what's the proper terminology used here?
I have an iPhone 5s with the latest version of iOS. The wireless (and bluetooth) card has stopped working (tested at the Genius Bar) just a couple weeks out of warranty. Apple wants $250+ to replace the phone.
I have a Nintendo DS to connect to the internet, but my router does not support WEP. I used to be able to create a WEP internet share on my MacBook 2010, but after the upgrade to 10.11.4, I cannot. Is there any solution?
What is the formula on the OS X version of Excel 2016 to add a number in a column with a markup percentage in another column.
It seems that Time Machine does not backup system.log in /private/var/log. Mac OS X 10.9.5/Six core Intel Xeon Can I force that file to be backed up?
I have a macbook pro mid 2012 and recently I upgraded it by changing the RAM to 16GB and HDD to 500GB SSD. It was fine for a while but now it lags a lot whenever I play any games or even when I am normally using it. I did Memory and Hard drive test and both of them were fine. I even replaced my RAM because I read it somewhere that I should replace my RAM when these things happen, but still the problem occurs. While upgrading my Hard drive I cloned my old hard drive and then transferred that to the SSD, I don't know if that's what causing the problem.
El Capitan - 10.10.3 Randomly kicked to login screen. I'll just be working and suddenly be logged out. This'll sometimes happen while sleeping too, and I'll open the computer and I'll be at the login screen, not the unlock screen. This is a proper logout, having to relaunch all open applications, not the switch user screen. I looked around in the Console and found a loginwindow crash log. Here's an excerpt of said log: A little before the time of the crash the Console starts showing a lot of messages of "being detached from windowserver", as well as being notified of the windowserver "event port death": later excerpts: and: and finally what I assume is the process of restoring everything after login:
It appears every 10 minutes or so, and it's driving me nuts! Nothing appears in my notifications slider (the black translucent drawer from the right screen). Macbook Pro, 10.11.3 El Cap For googlability: the text is: AUTH_NOTIF_TITLE AUTH_NOTIF_MESSAGE Options: Close CONTINUE
Hi I have a problem my friend downloaded games on my iPad with his ID and now with my ID want to make an in-app purchase in that game that he downloaded. It doesn't work and this friend doesn't remember his account. I'm really advanced on this game and DO NOT WHANT TO DELETE AND REINSTALL and potentially loose my progress. So I'd like help thank you
By setting the time on 64-bit iDevices to January 1, 1970 (Unix Epoch time 0) and rebooting it, the iDevice becomes bricked because of an integer underflow. My question is about which operation actually causes the crash:
Apple hardware requirements state that AirPlay is not supported on my 2010 Macbook pro. However, I can use AirPlay to stream music/movies from iTunes to my Apple TV (4th gen), as well as YouTube videos on Safari.
For the last 2 days when on LTE, my Google Maps will load the data, but once it comes up, it's immediately deleted. It's only Google Maps I have trouble with, as my Gmail comes up without problem
I'm not sure what happened but I used to be able to backup to a drive shared with a networked Mac Mini using OSX server. Now all of a sudden it says there is not enough space.
Apple's new Photos.app starts on every system startup although there is no configuration settings for system startup. Here is my checklist: Users & Groups > Login Items (There is no config for Photos) Right click photos in Dock > Options > Launch on system startup (There is no config for Photos) Here is my another what I did Disabling and re-enabling iCloud Photos Repairing Photos library from this tutorial If Dropbox affect Photos for starting at system launch, I disable Dropbox's photos settings. How can I prevent Photos.app on system startup without deleting it?
Month ago two things happened to my Macbook pro mid 2012 with El Captain, it fell down and I spilled around 50 ml of water on the keyboard and touchpad and immidiately wiped it out. I don't remeber how much time passed after this accidents till the moment when my mac started to work extremly slow(1 to 3 days maybe). Almost any click provokes pinwheel. I ran extended Apple hardware test and it didn`t find any problem. Does it mean that water spill did'nt damage my mac? What should I do in this situation? I would like to go to service ceneter but I have extremly limited budget right now.
I keep my router (an Apple Time Capsule 2011) in my living room, but I frequently use my MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid-2014 in my kitchen, which is separated from the living room by a wall. In the kitchen, I get roughly 50 % of the download speed that I get in the living room near the router.
When I boot my Macbook Pro and log in, the progress bars starts scrolling. After a few seconds the screen goes completely black and then shows the progress bar again but all the rest around the progress bar is black.
There's a process running in Safari (9.0.3) which is killing performance on my MBA. It's called dingit.tv and it's using between 1-2 GB RAM. As far as I know I've never been to this site. If I kill the process it just reappears immediately.
I tried playing some HEVC videos on my iPad 3 running iOS 9.2.1, but was unable to do so using any player(I tried Infuse,VLC and some others), only audio plays and video is like stuck. I was wondering if there was any way I could play such videos on my iPad without reencoding them to h.264.
It seems that in Terminal: fn+shift+← is Home fn+shift+→ is End in Vim: fn+← is Home fn+→ is End in Sublime Text: cmd+← is Home cmd+→ is End And Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E seems to work in Terminal and Sublime Text (but it changes the cursor to the beginning/end of the entire line, not just the wrapped line), but not in Vim.
I have a sparse image on my external USB connected hard drive, and my space on the HD is running low. When I try mounting the sparse image on the external drive, I get a message saying that my startup disk is almost full. I would like it not to take up space if that is possible. I have already tried to hdiutil attach it with the mount point being in my external drive's mount, but that just made the sparse image's mount invisible, and still taking up space.
I have my iPhone paired with my car's Bluetooth. I typically have my iPhone displaying Waze or Apple Maps in navigation mode. When I answer a call, the Phone app takes over the entire screen and I no longer see the map. Is there anyway to keep the navigation on screen while I'm answering a phone call?
It says no such file or directory.where did I go wrong?
In some cases Safari decides to fill the stored login/password for you, other times just the login. I thought once that it depends on whether there are multiple login/password pairs stored for a given website or just one, but after some experiments it appears not to be the case.
I have a Mac mini. I am using a Lenovo ThinkVision Pro2840m, connected via DP, as my monitor. I am using the Magic Keyboard. Can anyone please tell me the procedure to make the display brightness controls work with this monitor right from my keyboard? The screen brightness shortcuts, and the volume buttons are not working. I'm running OS X El Capitan.
I'd like to transfer selected photos from my PC to an iPad Air 2 running iOS 9.2. This thread shows how to transfer from iPad to PC (Use Windows Explorer and treat iPad as a camera), and this thread suggests using Dropbox.
There are several video players for OS X, VLC and MplayerX are most popular. But VLC allow to open only 1 window, and MplayerX has adware. Is there a codec pack or any way to install codecs into the system, to open most popular video formats like avi, mkv etc. with native Quick time player?
I am setting up Emac Version 24.4 (9.0) for Macaulay 2. This results to the following error: pressing F11 should present the input of the buffer above, instead it prints "-- end of buffer *M2-demo-buffer*". I don't know: How can I get the emacs to present the code in the above buffer as in the picture? Related the last question, in other words with different buffer, how can I get the code highlighted with mouse to be presented to Macaulay 2 buffer in Emacs with F11?
I switch between my left and right hand for my mouse a lot, and every time I do, I have to go to System Preferences > Mouse > and switch the Primary mouse button. Is there any way I can create a keyboard shortcut to toggle this setting? I'm willing to figure out AppleScript if that would help me
I have the iPhone 6s and I do not like the default Facebook Messenger and GroupMe vibrate pattern, whereas I like the default one provided by Apple. Is there a way to change the vibration for non-native iOS apps on the new iPhones / iOS 9?
Can I use the MacBook Air as a monitor when making a video with my Iphone. I wish to use my camera app on my Iphone 5s to record how to videos and need to be able to see on a monitor at the same time. Is this possible
I had free GarageBand on my old phone, didn't use it for a bit, went back to it and now it's the full version... I never paid for anything, and I don't believe in a "free lunch"...
I want an iPod for my car because it looks cool, but I can't/don't want to use iTunes/alternatives to manage it. Was there any (old) iPod ever, which I can use without iTunes?
I currently have bbedit setup with my custom shortcuts and I would like to export these setting to my office mac. Is there a way for me to export these settings ?
My MacBook (purchased in 2007) with Windows XP installed through VMware software. I have some important software that works only in XP. My MacBook broke down and I purchased latest MacBook Pro (2015).
Is there a way to manually update the time zone definitions (“tz” database formerly known as the “Olson database“)? For example, the Java platform provides the TZUpdater tool to install, and even build, a fresh copy of the tz data. Is there some such tool or workaround for Mac OS X?
I do not understand. I have just performed a clean install of OS X El Capitan, from a USB pendrive, after repartitioning and formatting my drive. Yet, for a reason i do not understand at all, my applications seem to have been restored. Yet, as it seems, none of them are functioning properly.
My goal is to switch spaces from within an apple script. My shortcut to switch to the 4th space is ctrl+4, but when I tried this in an apple script nothing happens: What am I doing wrong?
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 and my hard drive is failing, I was wondering once I replace the hard drive, is reinstalling the OS X as easy as turning it on and booting into Internet Recovery, formatting the drive, and just reinstalling OS X?
ServerAuditor is a free iPad app that allows ssh to a server. I am trying to copy my public key to a server to allow password less login. On a pc this is easy- Generate the rsa key open terminal and Enter the password and I'm good. This app however has the following script where $1 is .ssh and $2 is authorized keys and $3 is the public key I think I know what the bash script is doing but why does it change the permissions?
When I am assessing the readability of scanned documents, I would like a transparent grid overlaid on top of my screen that shows perfectly parallel lines, as opposed to crudely "eyeballing" it. The lines of the grid should float on top of all other applications, and the holes of the grid should be transparent. I do not need anything fancy, something like this (except rectangular, to fit my rMBP screen):
I recently attempted to open the App Store application iFlicks and received the following error message.  Unfortunately, this application has been removed from the App Store so I am unable to download it again. I have gone back through my Time Machine restoring different versions from different years but they all provide the same message.
I use the English and Korean input sources on my Macbook. For some reason or other, the English one has a U.S. flag as its icon, but the Korean one has a completely different icon — the letter "⬜" instead of the Korean flag. This really bugs me. I've tried using the program Ukelele to make my own input source with the Korean flag as its icon, but apparently Ukelele doesn't support the Korean input method.
I have family with iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) but I personally use Android. I do however have a Mac Mini for development - is there any app or web site from where I can approve App purchases (Ask to buy)? The idea is that I won't need to confiscate an iOS device and log into App Store using my "organiser" account just to approve.
I don't know how to explain this, but since I've updated my OS X to 10.11.3, keyboard seems to lag. It's extremely subtle, but I am a programmer and an author, and I can feel the difference while coding or typing, and even it's something in the milliseconds-range, it's noticeable and disturbing. I've tried restarting etc, not using many programs at once, but no avail. It's noticeable everywhere, even as I'm typing this question here. I haven't installed anything extra.
Twice in the last week the entire contents of a folder have disappeared when I start up my computer. The folder contains over 100 GB of files, including all my work files. It's the first folder in the root directory of my hard disc. I'm running 10.9.5 on a 27" iMac. I have been able to restore all the files using Time Machine, but it's time-consuming so it would be much better to solve the fault that's causing this in the first place
I want to buy Mac Pro. I've found used 1 year Mac Pro with Xeon 3.5 6-core with 2xD500 which is cheaper around 1700 euro then new one. However knowing there's new Mac Pro coming (hopefully) this year I wonder if I should wait. The question is about potential new Xeon and new GPU and how much better in terms of performance it is comparing to old Xeon. Lately all the changes in CPU/GPU are to make them less power hungry rather than having more power so the changes aren't that big. What sort of power difference can one expect comparing new Xeon to the old one?
Is there any way to set up third party youtube app as default on iOS 5.1.1 (iPad1,1) i.e. ProTube? I've heard about TubeSelector, but it's only available for higher iOS versions. (By "Default" I mean ability to open youtube URLs from mail or from sites.)
I have a MacBook 12" that I connect to my Dell 4K screen with a Google USB-C to DisplayPort cable (this one) It works perfect. But now I am not able to charge the MacBook while connected because the cable takes the only USB-C port available.
I have two Synology Diskstations. One of them (diskstation-8) is always connected to my mac pro. For some reason the other one (diskstation-5) is not and I need always to click on it when I want the disk station connected. I have recently transfered to El Capitan. I would like to have my disk station-5 connected at login and stay connected (like my diskstation-8 ... but I don't remember how I fixed that)
I want to run a couple of .sh scripts when the user first login after user creation to set the correct settings. I know there is a folder (/Library/StartupItems) that let you place script for running on every startup, but is there something like that for first time logon?
I've got a Mac mini (Mid 2011). It currently has 4 GB of RAM which I want to upgrade to 16 GB. I know that officially with these versions, only 8 GB is supported, but I've read from OWC Announces Industry’s First 16 GB RAM Upgrade For Latest Apple Mac Mini Models that you can actually upgrade to 16 GB.
Product Information: My MBP is encountering multiple panic's daily. I have explored Panic Report, but I am chasing shadows, looking for errors in incorrect components. Could someone please have a quick look and see if there is anything that looks odd?
Basically I was following the steps given in the following site: How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X I did not get a screenshot of the terminal, but when going through step 8, it was successful. But I believe I pulled the drive out without ejecting. It showed "THE DISK YOU INSERTED WAS NOT READABLE BY THIS COMPUTER" thereafter and it keeps showing the same message every time I connect it now. It gives options " Initialize or Ignore or Eject". What should i do?
I have two Linux servers and one Mac client, and I would like to do SSH port forwarding via local port address on the Mac. In Terminal 1 on the Mac, and from Terminal 2 on the same Mac
Assuming I am working on 3 screens, having 3 spaces on each screen. How can I switch to the "left" space on each screen at the same time?
Here's the thing, I have iPhone, iPad and Mac. On each device there is a bunch of photo copies. Is it possible to find and delete photos from my iOS devices that are on my Mac?
I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro that was once my main computer; however, when the graphics card failed and I couldn't find a replacement that the Mac would take I had to replace the computer. I still have the Mac and am considering re-purposing it as a file server. If I install new HDDs (I salvaged the old HDDs for the replacement computer), would the Mac run even without a video card? Thanks! CLARIFICATION: Since I would be using new HDDs, OS X would not yet be installed on those HDDs.
After downloading an attachment in skype, which is saved to my ~/Downloads folder, the attachment won't show up in de Downloads-folder until I click the 'eye' or 'magnifying glass' icons overlaying the download in the skype-message window. Even when listing the files in the Downloads-folder in terminal, the skype downloads won't show up. Where are the files downloaded in a skype message stored, until I click one of the two 'Reveal in finder'-icons (resolved in update 1) Question: Is there a setting/possibility, to automatically make the attachements show up in the Downloads-folder without having to click on them aftet the download is completed? UPDATE 1: The files seem to be located in /Users/<user>/Library/Caches/com.skype.skype/fsCachedData
I tried with "add profile" instead of prepare. In this case I am able to install a profile with the minimal Wi-Fi profile. As soon as I enable WPA2 Enterprise it fails.
At that point, I rebooted, and held command-R down to boot into the recovery partition, but I reached the same blank screen. I tried booting the computer from a bootable backup drive, holding down the option key, selecting the external disk, but I reached the same blank screen.
I am resetting my iPhone 6 (Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings) and it is taking a very long time. I have tried holding the middle button and on & off button but it just results in going back to the white screen with the black apple and the loading bar. The loading bar is loading a milimeter across and has not moved for over an hour! What should I do?
I was half asleep when I put a restriction passcode on for my child to play on it. I went to restore it so I have to turn off "find my phone " but I can't because of the restrictions. How can I solve this?
I was installing a software on the MacBook Pro of my girlfriend when I have found that in " > About this Mac > Storage", it says that she have 134 GB of space used by "Applications"... I have then looked at what she installed, and I see that the only apps she installed are Caffeine, Kindle, VLC, Google Chrome and Skype (along with the default applications of OS X). I've downloaded Disk Inventory X to see what's happening, and it says that the Applications are taking up about 9GB. The question then is... Where are all these gigabytes gone?
Macbook Pro has made my life very miserable, in a struggle to make something out of it, I'm trying to atleast stop receiving mails from my gmail account with out disabling it. My gmail account is being spammed heavily even after setting so many filters. So i'm auto forwarding the important ones to my iCloud mail. I am not disabling it as I want to reply to the mails from it that are being forwarded to my iCloud email. As my Gmail is being heavily spammed I want to stop syncing it with out disabling it. Or how can I add my gmail as alias in iCloud mail?
I have an A1418, Late 2012 version and I'm having trouble locking down an answer to how many external monitors it can support. Right now I have the iMac and two external monitors via the two Thunderbolts. The monitors are non-Apple, non-Thunderbolt.
My left side (around 15% towards the edge) of iPad 2 has become unresponsive to touch, after I replaced with the wifi antenna. I checked the digitizer connector cable and it fits ok in the connector on the motherboard inside the iPad. I can pull it out and back in again, and it is the same result, so I don't know whether I should buy a new digitizer, or perhaps something in the motherboard is broken. How can I check this, anyone?
Notice the black line at the bottom of the graph. When I add another graph after it (its inline), the line moves to the bottom of the next graph so that there is only ever 1 line.
I have my first iMac and cannot get the migration from my PC to work. I have been told that it is difficult if I have already started using my computer. Can I just start from scratch from when I took the computer out of the box? Can I delete anything I've done and use the migration manager. My emails and my husband's music has transferred? I am not real computer literate so please keep that in mind when answering.
I have a company MacBook Pro. I am sudoer and I can do anything that requires admin privileges when I'm connected to the company network. But I can't when I'm home. How is that possible?
The icons on my desktop (El Capitan) keep rearranging after every restart. In the same order as well, when I try to rearrange my icons it will let me do so but after a restart the icons revert to the arrangement. Any ideas on why and how to fix it?
I've owned and used Mac's since System 7, and, in all this time, I'm very comfortable having my Mac's configured as I want them to operate. Certain things I've never used, and in addition to them taking up space, I don't even want them to open. One app in particular, Mail. Don't like it, never will. On those few occasions where I've to 'email someone, this application will open, which means I gotta close it, and, send out the email the way I do. Is it possible to remove Mail, as well as any of the default applications which come with OS X, or, if this isn't possible, is there a way to prevent Mail from even opening as an option?
I have a MacBook Pro Late 2008 with two hard drives in it. (I replaced the CD drive with my original drive and I added SSD 60 GB on which I installed the OS X Yosemite. This happened some years ago.) Now I wish to upgrade my SSD to a larger size and also do a CLEAN installation of El Capitan on it. I can find information on how to do clean install no problem. However, before I go ahead my concerns/questions are: 1) If I simply install El Capitan onto the new SSD, will the new OS recognise my other drive without problems and additional steps? 2) Back-up; should I clone both drives to an external drive and also create a Time Machine backup - would this be sufficient to then migrate all the necessary files back?
I recently bought a Macbook Pro from a friend. I am not sure what's the exact model. This friend installed Windows XP on the mac (I don't know how exactly) and that's it. Nothing else is on the HDD. I tried to boot into recovery mode - doesn't work. I tried to boot into internet recovery - nothing happens. I tried Safe boot by pressing Shift Key - nothing happens.
My situation is quite simple and I searched the Internet without any solution to my problem. So I decided to give a try here! I have removed all email accounts (Gmail and Outlook) from my iPhone 5S accounts.
I read through all of the system-wide keyboard shortcuts in "System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts" and I could not find nor unbind the Control+Shift+Space macro for use by SkipTune's pause/play keybinding. I know how to bind it in SkipTunes, but it just shows me this:
We recently upgraded iOS to 9.2.1. Both our iPads now show the sent messages twice in the Sent Folder although only one message has been sent. How do I solve this annoying problem?
I have a device with a web-based control panel, and accidentally set it to redirect all http pages to https, even though some don't work over https. Although I've since corrected this, Safari seems to have memorised the redirect and is refusing to forget it, instead constantly attempting to redirect me to the invalid https address. I've already closed Safari, cleared ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/ and ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist but it still seems to be remembering the redirect when I re-open it.
I'm currently writing a workout logging application in for iOS. My application requires a user to create an account to start logging. All that's required is: username, password, gender, bodyweight. Username/password is used for the initial database row entry, and for unique queries from database. And then gender and bodyweight is used to calculate a Wilks Coefficient (takes into account gender and bodyweight to compare strength among individuals). And that's it. I wrote a privacy policy for this. Was about to submit for review and find out. But looking through the App Review guidelines, it was a tad unclear on the requirements.
I have been using Cisco Meraki for my MDM and it has been working great. I just bought a bunch of new iPads and am setting up DEP for the first time. I have done all the steps required: Added the order to my Apple DEP account, pushed them to my Cisco Meraki MDM and assigned settings.
I went digging in the Airport Extreme Router to see if there might be some setting causing an issue. I found this setting that blocks incoming IPv6 connections.
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the 1970 iOS bug. How/why does it happen? Is it due to the UNIX epoch at 00:00:00 1/1/1970, so anything negative causes a crash which Apple never accounted for since that date is way before the iPhone was even considered?
Currently whenever I open up BBEdit the Sidebar is open by default. The Sidebar is where it shows a list of files that were already open in BBEdit. I could shut it down by going to: View > Hide Sidebar
MacBook Air - Early 2014, OS 10.11.3 Hello, found this in my CoreTelephonyTraceScratch logs and found it concerning, based on some limited google results. I do not have an iOS device that I connect to this machine. I am not a programmer, can anyone set my mind at ease? Thanks.
I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with El Captain MacBook Pro mid 2012 following this guide: How to Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu I want to partition a 128 MB space called Ubuntu Boot Loader along side my main partition but, when using Disk Utility, this task seems impossible. It will create another untitled partition (half the size of my drive (128 GB)) and then when I hit accept it will only create that Untitled 128 GB partition (but name it Ubuntu Boot Loader) and it will fail on creating my 128 MB partition. I have no idea how to simply make a small partition, is there an easier way to do it on Mac without dealing with all the BS introduced by Disk Utility? Can provide pics of whats happening if needed.
I have an external hard-disk that doesn't have a USB port. It works with my MacBook. Now, I'd like to connect it to a PC machine, so I'd need to know how to convert the cable to USB. I'm not sure the name of my Apple cable (but it's definitely not a USB cable) and I don't have any idea whether the conversion to USB is even possible.
Background I am having keychain issues since upgrading to El Capitan, Described below. Also working with Apple support since 2 weeks and i have no hope for a solution OS X El Capitan keychain login cannot be found to store Issue I close the lid on my computer and then when i open it it loses the connectivity to WiFi and i have to connect it every time After connecting i get a message as below Meaning that it can't save the password or something and then i am back to square one where after coming out of standby i'll have to reconnect again
My son has an account on our 2013 Mac mini running El Capitan, guarded by Parental Controls. Every few days or so, he has a login failure that causes his login to hang on exactly the second attempt.
I'm trying to transfer data from a 4S backup via iTunes to a new iPhone 6S, but being told that I need a newer version of iTunes despite having just downloaded iTunes in my MacBook Pro 10.6.8.
I'm trying to edit a 3rd party script written in AppleScript (OAS...I think) to dim the volume after showing changes. I've tried changing the opacity & switching to a transparent image using a repeat loop & current date without success. This should work I'm just struggling with implementation.
My trackpad is broken, which causes the left-click button to get stuck. This results in a lot of unwanted clicking. Tap-to-click works fine and causes no issues. Is there a way to disable the trackpad hardware, but not disable tap-to-click? Thanks!
I've got an odd one here with Safari on an OS X 10.11.3 workstation. When the user downloads a file, they receive the following message every time they attempt to show the file via Safari's download menu:
My battery discharges when the ipad Air 2 I own is plugged into the wall for charging and I am using the unit during the course of the day for business. Thus, I am supposed to be charging from the cable, but instead it is discharging as I use my ipad Air 2, as if it is not plugged in for a charge. Is this normal? Or is there a setting which is incorrect? Thanx for the assistance.
I'm buying a used iPad 2 through Craigslist. He has lost his iCloud account info for that iPad 2. If he does a factory reset on the iPad 2 and I bought it after reset, would it be possible during set up. Can I use my own iCloud info to go forward and pass through, on the set up of the iPad 2 once I bought it from that person?
Lost my iPhone and it wasn't connected to Find My iPhone, how can I find it?
What can I send to iCloud and how do I do that? My iPhone is full and my iCloud has barely been used. Can you help me please?
What I really want to know is: Why did my computer shut itself down with no warning? Was this from overheating? Is there a way to prevent this from happening again (or does it even matter)?
I had windows 8.1 installed with bootcamp and it was running fine but I ran out of space on the partition I originally created. I had read online that I could free up space from OSX by creating a new partition on the HD and re-claiming it on the windows side. I partitioned about 60 gb from my HD with disk utility and now I can't even boot to Windows. This is what my disk utility shows. You can see that bootcamp shows up here and says it is mounted. It also shows up when selecting the startup disk. However, I believe it showed as a drive previously instead of a folder. When I try to boot Windows from this menu my MacBook restarts and goes to a screen saying there is no bootable drive. After trying many things I thought I would just erase the bootcamp partition and start over but when I start the bootcamp assistant it says "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows." Any ideas of 
When trying to run the bluegriffon web designer application(ver 1.7.2), on a Macbook Air running Yosemite 10.10.05, text and some menus appear distorted and almost unreadable. We've tried restoring the system fonts to default using font book and changing the display resolution and nothing seems to work. This application runs fine on a 2014 Macbook Pro 15inch running the exact same OS. Puzzled as to what is causing this.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete these books from my library, considering I can't find them in the application. Any ideas?
I've got an Apple Watch, and because haptic feedback is physically disturbing me, I've turned it off. However, I'm getting all notifications on the watch but my phone is not vibrating on a notification, but I do want it to vibrate. How do I get my phone notifications back?
I've noticed that processes that runs under root privilege doesn't show any UI on the screen. I'd like to get "unexpected termination" window for some background processes I've made, and cannot so do as long as they're running under root. is there any way to enable UI for root account based processes?
Little did I know, my sister had encountered an issue that Apple bricks her iPhone, after she repaired her iPhone 6 by a non-Apple technician. Later, I hear reports that iOS 9.2 restore fails if it detects that a repair has been carried out by a non-Apple technician. I also know that this is a touch ID related problem.I have to advise her to ask Apple support team for help. How can I solve this?
I have a Mac Pro 1 1, which runs Mac OS X 10.6.8. Recently I installed a game which requires a higher version of Mac OS X. Is there a (free) way to emulate a higher version safely? I have already tried changing systemversion.plist, and using the 'touch' command.
I changed to El Capitan and I cannot find anymore the virtual keyboard about testing keyboard's keys visually. It is normally in the right hand corner under the keyboard switcher icon. I need the tool to review specific characters of OS X Keyboards, since I am typing many of them. How can you have the virtual keyboard in OS X El Capitan?
So I just used Bootcamp to install the Windows 10 technical preview and all was working well until I couldn't find the Wi-fi settings. I have trawled through everything and it seems to be a problem with my drivers. (I could not find BC support software from Apple for Windows 10). I have no idea why I can't connect to the internet on windows and no idea on how to fix it. If you look up the issue on the internet there always seems to be something that they have that I don't (Such as a WINSTALL Drive. Help would be much appreciated.
and it wouldn't do anything else until I threw it in the trash and re-downloaded it from the app store. Then I noticed Clocks wasn't running (it, too, worked yesterday). It gave the same error code 173 and was fixed by re-downloading.
If this is off-topic let me know and I will delete. I want to buy a new Macbook Pro, but I don't know if it better to wait to a new version or to buy now the last version. When Apple should announce the new Macbook Pro?
in Preview, I opened up a PDF containing an image. I need to combine it with a portion of another such PDF. When opened, it was locked, so I duplicated it. However, the insert sub-options remain grayed out, so I can't add a page. Is there a way?
How do I disable, delete, or hide Game Center on El Capitan? I have already tried Terminal deletion, but to no avail.
This should be easy, but I cannot solve it by myself. How can I insert accented letters in passwords? When I go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Change Password... and in the password field for instance I hold the letter u, it won't show the list of possible accented letters, it just repeats the u.
As you probably know, Error 53 is Apple intentionally bricking your iDevice due to a 3rd-party repairing it, or specifically changing the TouchID sensor. If I merely change the screen (LCD, digitizer, and glass) and detach the TouchID sensor from the old screen and reattach the same sensor to the new screen, could this potentially cause Error 53?
Can you please advise what is the best application for email encryption using iPhones and iPads?
I find it extremely unreliable! I have 3 Apple devices at home: a Mid-2014 15inch MBP, a Early-2015 13inch MBP and an iPad Air2.
I have an iPhone 6 Plus - Bought the Plus size because I could really do with a better battery. The battery used to be excellent earlier - lasting upto 2 days on one full charge The phone is barely 3 months old, but all of a sudden since last week, the battery drains real fast and the device is hot most of the time - I reset the device, turned of the Location service and the background apps and all such general things. Here is a screenshot of a fully charged phone at 4 PM discharged to 50% at 8 PM with barely any use meanwhile.
I am running my main website (e.g. main.com) on a MacMini Server with OS X 10.10 and Server App Version 4. In addition, I serve a Django powered web app on a Raspberry Pi using Gunicorn and nginx. Now, I like to make the web app available from a subdomain (e.g. webapp.main.com) or alternatively from a different path like main.com/webapp.
I don't want to move to El Capitain yet but now some sites are complaining about my safari version (8). I search the internet and found references that Safari 9 was release for Yosemite and Mavericks: *=URL=* http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/30/apple-releases-safari-9-for-yosemite-users/
After reading recommendations online, I bought an LG IPS monitor to go with my MacBook Pro Retina. But things, specially type, look blurry on it. Is there a monitor out there that can deliver the same sharpness as my retina display? Could I have the wrong setting?
I have read also the thread here "How to wipe huge .MobileBackups folder?" but it does not mention really this case. Is my 400 GB still missing from .MobileBackups folder or do I need to look elsewhere? PROBLEM SOLVED by advise from Klaus From the Apple support link
I am trying to install OS X El Capitan on an early 2008 Mac Pro. I wiped the hard drive on the Mac and followed this tutorial to create a USB boot drive with El Capitan using a Macbook Air running El Capitan. I then place the USB into the Mac Pro and hold the option key during boot. The option to install El Captian from the USB stick appears and the window with a loading bar and the Apple logo appears. The loading bar loads 2/3 of the way and then the following screen appears.
I can't seem to find a way to start a new text thread on my Iphone, does anyone know how to do that without deleting the entire contact, and then re-entering it?
Google had Notebook service, but it was discontinued long time ago and existing notes were imported into Google Docs. But I cannot find the notes I see in Notes in Google Docs.
So I play this game on my iPod, Love Live: School Idol Festival. Within this game you can buy currency called love gems. I want to buy 50 of them, but need to add $10 more credit to my account to do it. I don't want to spend around $30 from the credit/debit/not a gift card. I already have $20 worth of credit on my account. It's just the $10 more I need. Is it possible to put $10 of credit into my account from a credit/debit/not a gift card? I've looked but the cheapest App Store card I can find is $25. I don't need $25. And I don't want to spend $15 unnecessarily. Or if I buy the gems can I charge the remaining to said credit/debit/not a gift card? It's hooked up to a PayPal account, could I add $10 through that? Please help me for I am deep in idol hell and am on a time limit as to when I can figure this out for what I want to spend the gems on if/when I buy them.
I am having difficult time to customize the buttons on my RAT 3 mouse. I want my side buttons to go forward and backward. Anyone know how to do that? Also scrolling wheel is inverted and I don't know how to change that?
This question is an exact duplicate of How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote except that I am asking for the current generation of Keynote (version 6.6.1, rather than Keynote '09). I want the slide to initially appear with all bullet groups translucent (dimmed by opacity set to low number). On each click fully reveal each bullet group by becoming opaque (opacity set to 100%). As seen in this animated gif:
I can set the order and width of columns in the folder that's currently front in the screen as default view of that particular folder, but how can I set it as the default view of all the folders? I'd like the columns to always sit in the Name, Date Added, Date Modified, Size, Kind, Date Last Opened, Date Created order, and the width of column for anything other than names to be narrow which ever the folder I'm looking at. OS X Mountain Lion
I have a podcast that works in iTunes, but when I submit it to the iTunes store via podcastsconnect.apple.com, I receive "Validation failed" together with "Can't read your feed". It works when I open it directly in iTunes, and it appears to be a valid feed. Is there anything else I could try?
I am running 10.6.8 on my Mac Pro 1,1 and I want to reset it. I don't have the install disk anymore, so do I need to buy it again? Or can I copy the files from my system, and put them on a disk and boot from that? (I would prefer not to reinstall the OS, I just want to delete files, as it is getting pretty full, is there a way to only do that without completely reinstalling the OS?)
As shown in the screenshot the "Adjust Size" is disabled for the given pdf. So how do we reduce the size of a pdf in preview (or even skim?)
Recently Skype has been opening itself or placing itself into focus, regardless of what app is running or on focus. This happens every half an hour to hourly.
Like when I go to one of these pages iTunes automatically opens up. It's really annoying. How can I disable this?
I tried to install Monkeysphere via Homebrew but it complains of an unmet dependency. So I attempted to run the aforementioned command and towards the end it errors out.
I just setup a bunch of iPads to get a profile from our Cisco Meraki MDM server and I am getting an error as follows in the Event log: name: Profile name, error: The profile "Profile Name" is invalid, status: Error Have any one seen this error before?
I lost data from the Adobe Creative Cloud bug last week. I have been searching to see if anyone has posted any suggestions other than by a backup source. Can you use any kind of data recovery software on the hard drive that was affected by this bug?
Can I open an application on a retina display tricking it that it's actually using a low resolution display, but not doubling the pixels? Yes, I want tiny text.
I was running OmniDiskSweeper today, and I came across something called "Private" using 3.9GB. It is listed directly under the root directory along with Users, Library, System, and Applications, so I am assuming it is something included with OS X itself. I'm just curious about what this actually is, because I don't remember seeing this before. Here are some screenshots:
I know RescueTime exists for Android but I do not see anything like it for iOS. I'm guessing such an app may not be possible on iOS because of the permissions and how apps have been sandboxed from one another. However, I'm hoping that I'm wrong. Has anyone found an app which at the end of the day a user could look and see a list which shows the total active time spent in different applications for that day? I'm looking for something like the following:
Is there anything that can help me launch an app or command-line tool without internet or network access even when I'm connected to the internet? (so that I can use other apps with Internet, and block access for some apps) Like a firewall? Or something that intercepts the syscalls, something like maybe?
I want to move my keys from login keychain to system keychain from terminal. Is that possible? I checked the security manual but I can not see the option there to do so.
My iPad is constantly popping out storage almost full message. When I link my iPad to iTunes on my PC I could see in my summary the bar for Others is the biggest culprit.
A client of mine claims he cannot see the social icons (on the left side of the screen) when viewing the website on Macbook Pro with Safari. Those icons are perfectly visible on all devices I've tested it with.
Sometimes I use the Accessibility -- Zoom gesture to zoom in on one part of my screen by holding down the CTRL key. But if I do a Screen Capture (using Command (⌘) + Shift + 3), the point-of-view of the image produced is the standard full screen, not the zoomed-in area that I was actually looking at when I pressed the keys. Command (⌘) + Shift + 4 does not work either. Is there a way to way to capture my zoomed-in screen? (2013 rMBP) -- (OS X 10.11.3)
I have a lot of data on my external drive. The file system is the exFAT. I believe it is not possible to encrypt that filesystem with FileVault. Do you know how (tool maybe) to encrypt exFAT on an external drive without changing filesystem?
My iPod Nano 6G stops playing music when the display turns off either by time, or by pressing the "Sleep/Wake"-button. This effect is fully reproducible but only appears with certain headphones, namely: Sennheiser CX 1.00 JBL Synchros S100i With several other headphones, the iPod keeps playing music when the display turns off. Any advice how to get those headphones working with the iPod?
It appears that when disconnecting from a network while a TM backup is in progress results in the "Time Machine has completed a verification of your backups" message once the connection to the backup server has been reestablished. This has recently occurred five times in a row as my computer has had to move around between my home and school quite a fair bit in the past few days and will likely continue doing that for the rest of the year. I would let it complete the backup overnight, go to school in the morning and be greeted by the dialog when I return home to the network that the backup is on, let it run overnight again, and the cycle repeats.
I'm trying to update my version of Keynote to 6.6.1 (it's now 6.2.2) so I can open presentations created in newer versions, but every time I click the "update" button on the App Store, all I get is the spinning wheel thing in the top left corner, which says "checking for updates" by it. Nothing downloads, nothing happens. Any suggestions? I've just updated to El Capitan 10.11.3
As a customer, I contact businesses through contact forms on their websites, and often I forget the exact wording of the message and when I sent it. (Often, I need to re-send messages when I don't receive a reply and an email address isn't listed on the site.)
I am using Time Machine to backup an external HDD (A) (2 TB) linked to my computer to an external 6 TB HDD drive. I now had to shift the data from HDD (A) to a new 3 TB one (B). Is there a way to continue the backup of the data so that Time Machine doesn't think it has to start the backup of (B) from scratch? Does TM automatically detect that the data on the new hard drive (B) are the same as the ones previously backed up on the old hard drive (A)?
I have used the above command to try and find my printer's address using the web. Now I would like to revert this setting using terminal. Can anyone help me with this?
I am logged in as "myuser" which is also the administrator of the computer. I have a file on which I have the following rights:
Spotlight in El Capitan is supposed to be more inclusive and "smart" by helping the user find what s/he needs. However, since upgrading to El Capitan, I've found that the only way to get Spotlight to display Safari bookmarks whose name includes the string "Class roster" in its results is to put the string in quotes
The iCloud Drive title in my Mac's Finder window, shows a cloud symbol on the left side, and a circle on the right side with a segment not completed. I am having problems uploading Pages documents on my Mac to iCloud that can be read on my iPads. I can use Pages on the iPads, and the documents show on all my devices, but when I write them on my Mac, they don't always show on the iPads. I have made sure I am signed in to iCloud from each device. Any thoughts?
I have plenty of experience with dual boot, but never anything like this. State of the art iMac Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015, running El Capitan 10.11.3, dual booting to very recent Windows 10. (Don't want to boot it to determine exact release.) So far no crashes on Apple side. On Windows side, twice now: screen goes black, pause, buzzing sound, then many rounds of Windows saying it will fix itself, then crashes again. In these many times it says it will fix itself there has been no buzzing. Today it ran Windows for 20 minutes or so, and then I again got the buzzing. For now, I'm just going to leave it in Apple and see if that crashes, which would suggest hardware.
I want to use TextWrangler as an R-editor. To make usage more handy I found a script online by Jean Thiolouse which I edited slightly: I let the script detect the current line number line_index and move the cursor to the start of the following line, but can I adjust the script such that if the line number is the last line in the file it would add an empty line instead of key code 124 using {command down} and key code 124?
I need to install pygame on my MacBook for a class, I was able to get it installed fine on my Windows machine, but the OSX installation process has been much rougher. The error I'm getting when try and clone the mercurial repository: Also all of the other steps in the installation worked fine and Mercurial is properly installed.
I was recently trying to download Xcode 7 for my MacBook Pro, and I noticed that when I downloaded it as a .dmg file in my browser it said the file size had a size of 4.8 GB, but when I downloaded it from the app store it said it was 4.41 GB large. Why is this?
Unsurprisingly, the Lightning cable that came with my iPhone 5s ~18 months ago is really worn - to the point where all of the rubber cable has had to come off because it had been left around for a while and had gone all sticky (sooooo gross). The outer metal sheathing is still entirely intact. The resulting cable looks like so.
I had a few apps that were hung on update a while back. I thought I had caught all of them and re-downloaded them. One in particular sends reminders at specific times of day. For the last few days I have noticed notifications coming up as com.habitlistapp.habitlist. The app was no longer there when I went to look for it, however when I looked under settings there are three ghost apps. That is, apps with wirefram icons that all say allow null to access instead of the name. So in the case of habit list, I went to the app store and sure enough it registered as an app I could download again... Once I did that my three ghost apps became two. This leads me to believe the app was caught in some in-between state where it was still running but was partially removed from the ui. I got lucky with the weird notification name and was able to figure out which app it was. What about the other two? Anyone know of a way to figure out what they might be?
I got a folder with a large amount of files with different suffixes in several sub folders. My automator workflow works as follows: Ask for Finder Items Get Folder Contents (sub folder option checked) Filter Finder Items (for a specific file-suffix) Copy Finder Items
Is there a way to do tan-1 using numbers on El Capitan to return an angle? I have two lengths 1.5 and 2.2 for example. I can do it on a scientific calculator but not on numbers.
I have Mac OS 10.11.3 and adaptor is Micro Innovations branded (Prolific chip). I downloaded and installed/re-installed driver from Prolific site and no difference... Any idea?
I'm trying to run "csrutil disable" from recovery mode on El Capitan and I'm getting the error "bash command command not found" when I do. I've tried setting my path as it says here to no luck Mac terminal -bash command not found?
I am trying to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I'm using a .cdr file on a USB drive to do the install I'm prompted to restart the machine to continue the install, but nothing happens after the restart. Any suggestions?
I've been having this issue for a while now, very inconsistently. When I type strands of text, sometimes the letters appears in the wrong order (I remember it mostly happening when I type text in Safari). One example:
When I copy the text of an email from Mail into a plain-text document, it loses the vertical lines marking replied text. Is there any way to replace those vertical lines with ">" (greater-than signs)?
I heard that you can start the iPod Nano using the volume keys in lieu of the stuck power key. Is this true? Any other way around the stuck power button?
How can I make my own emoji-like color icon and assign it to the private area of unicode? I recently learned that there's a tool for this purpose for Windows that's called Private Character Editor but what about for Mac? I don't even know what kind of file type the image should be and if this can be done without any special app. OS X Mountain Lion
There is a 0.5s delay and then the animation starts to roll the menu bar down. I know it doesn't sound a lot but in practice it gets annoying when I multitask and trying get tasks done fast.
I recently tried using BitTorrent Sync (for about two weeks now). The problem is that it works only 30% of the time , and is other wise very laggy. In addition to this I have tried Share IT, Pushbullet , Instashare.
I've recently updated my Mac Mini to El Capitan and I am having problem with some of my apps: text is not displaying inside them. I am facing this issue with at least this apps: GitHub for Mac: Finder (folder names at the left panel and tags are empty) and Mail app I thought that it can be the font issue, so I tried to go to the Fonts app and remove all duplicates, remove all fonts with errors and then reboot - no luck, still the same.
Quicktime can be used to record screen casts, which captures a video of the events in the screen - with or without the audio from the microphone. Many screencasts also capture the webcam in the lower-right part of the screen. How can quicktime include the video from the webcam in its screencasts?
How do I have to label i such that the do command is repeated for all values of i. E.g. But somehow this does not work, where is my mistake?
I have installed PHP and x-debug from homebrew in El Capitan: php -d xdebug.remote_enable=on -v PHP 5.6.18 (cli) (built: Feb 6 2016 06:53:53) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.3.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2015, by Derick Rethans with blackfire v1.9.1, *=URL=* by Blackfireio Inc But, sometimes, I get this error while I'm debugin inside code Notice: Undefined property: Wanup\ChannelBundle\Command\CreateConstantsOTACommand::$definition when execute, in this case, the method definition() of CreateConstantsOTACommand. The Undefined property is always random but always the method name that is executed when crash. With xdebug disabled the execution is done well. Googling I read about Thread safe and thread unsafe issues, but I think that homebrew packages will be compiled in the same way. Content of EDITED Test with an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with the same result, the problem is not with PHP and Mac OSX. Test with PHPS
There is this strange thing happening to my MacBook Pro, whenever I try to unplug the headphones (Apple Earpods) with some the apps running in the background including Xcode, Postman, AirMail, Chrome, Terminal, iTunes, and Messages, all of them crash, and today I was thrown out of my workspace and asked to log in again. When I looked in the log I found this:
I changed jobs recently and I hate having the auto-complete to bring me addresses that I don't really need and I want to remove the entire domain from my history and books marks? Like removing *.acme.com/* from history and optionally bookmarks.
I#m running OS X El Capitan and want to symlink /Users to /home sudo ln -sf /Users /home fails with ln: home/Users: Operation not supported Why does this fail?
I have a bootable SD Card with Windows 10 installed, and it works fine in the most of macbook pro I have tested, but there is one in which when I press alt / option key, the SD Card doesn't appears and I can not find the reason. Why it works fine in one but not work in another one?. All the computers where I have tested are MBP retina display late 2013
Any idea why the following script would only return 1, when I clearly have more than one Desktop open? I have even tried it with JAX JavaScript and also get 1. Note: For reference I am using El Capitan (MBP Mid 2012)
For some reason El Capitan doesn't boot. I've tried reinstalling from Recovery and nothing happened. The disk checked is ok.
I have videos taken with Photo on my iPhone How do I delete them on OS X I followed this question Deleting photos
By right clicking its icon, I can make terminal.app "Open at Login". But I want to maximize the terminal window when it's opened. So it will be very cool when I login: Imagine an OS X without GUI! (at least it seems so.) Any advice?
Tim Cook's open letter about the FBI's attempts to access a locked iPhone 5c have me wondering a fairly simple question that I haven't found an answer for: Assumptions: I have an encrypted iPhone It is set to wipe after 10 failed passcode attempts It is currently locked I only use Apple-approved methods Question: Can I update iOS on the device without unlocking it and without losing/wiping the data? Update:
Take another system I use (for example CentOS). I use the following code to make it become server. It has two big advantages. doesn't sleep saves power Can I do something similar in OS X?
If anyone has a copy of 10.9, could you search system files for "fullscreen" or "tif" and post the location of "fullscreen-hover.tiff.."
I set up my child's phone with my Apple ID. Now all of the text messages come over with my name instead of her name. Can I change this on the iphone without setting up an apple id for her?
I like to do some casual gaming on my mac, however it's frustrating to deal with mouse acceleration. Now I've found various ways to reduce the acceleration, but this affects the sensitivity.. Is there a way to turn off acceleration but also increase sensitivity? I've tried using: Smooth mouse, Steelseries Engine, Various terminal commands
I've got a problem in that some app icons on my Apple Watch seem to be missing their artwork. This only happens to a few apps at a time, seemingly randomly and I haven't noticed a specific trigger. The apps otherwise work normally and the icons are present if I look at the list of apple watch apps on my iPhone. If I uninstall and reinstall the app, that usually fixes it temporarily at least but I was wondering if there was a quicker/easier way to fix it or prevent it from happening in the first place.
I run the keychain command-line app that allows me to fast-sleep my Mac or quickly lock a keychain. However, it seems to think that I have many crlcache keychains:
In a previous version of outlook for Mac, there was a little bubble showing the unread count by day when viewing the messages arranged by conversation. However, in Outlook for Mac 15.18, this unread count by day UI element no longer exists. Is there some way to get that count to appear again?
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 by default can't display some emoji, for example the "Cloud with rain" emoji: . How can I view such problematic emoji? Do I need to install a custom font?
I've never been able to get this to work so must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to read this PDF(The link is at the bottom of the page) and be able to add notes on my iPad say, but then be able to read it on my iPhone and see the notes/add more notes to it. Problems I often have are having to make a copy of it on each device as it can't be saved or it's in my iBooks on one device but not another (eg - I have a Pro Git book in my phone, but it's never made it to my iPad). I've tried a coupe of different apps and read links also, so I must be missing something fundamental.
I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a Windows machine from my mac. When I start the app it goes in full screen (I don't see any of the Mac controls). I was used to switching back from the app to the Mac desktop by using CMD-Tab but for some reason this stopped working. When I press CMD-Tab I'm getting a task bar of the Mac applications that are running but when I try press on an icon nothing happens - I am still stuck with the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. How can I get back to from that app to the Mac controls?
In my Mac Mail I have all my emails saved to my Mac, as opposed to on my mail server using iMap. All the emails are organised with a large number of folders and sub folders, again all of which are saved straight to my Mac. I wish to save all of the individual emails in a folder on an external hard drive as I am moving to a new Mac and want to have access to these emails, but not import them to Mac Mail on my new Mac.
firstly, apologies if this has been asked before, however I have read tons of online guides and had no luck solving this issue. I bought a Playstation 3 controller with the intention of using it to play games on my Mac and my bootcamped Windows machines (I do not own a Playstation 3 console). Eager to start playing my games from a whole new perspective, I searched the web for instructions on how to connect the gamepad to the Mac computer via USB and Bluetooth. As I said, I've read a dozen different guides and watched a few videos explaining how this could be achieved. They always list the same set of instructions: Plug in via USB, controller should show up on list of Bluetooth devices. Press PS button and remove the USB cable; lights on controller should blink faster and Mac should ask for a passcode. Enter passcode, add device to favourites, done.
I am trying to install Python v.3.x in parallel with the already installed Python v.2.7.10. I'm following the procedure explained in this tutorial which I found on YouTube. Despite it seems not an hard procedure, in my case, when I launch the brew doctor command, it returns:
I have been following directions to create a bootable USB drive from here: *=URL=* Here is the relevant screenshot:
I just got macbook pro 13inch retina and the default resolution is 1280px width, and maximum is 1600px. If I connect this laptop to an external monitor via HDMI which has 1920px resolution, will the resolution really be 1920, since laptop's max is 1600?
I'm running OS X Server on a Mac Mini. I'm powering the server via an APC 1400 (one of the older, beige ones). It has a serial connector, so I assume it could possibly interface with the Mac Mini via a serial to USB adapter.
For some reason, whenever I start iTerm or press CMD+N, it starts small in the top left corner, but instantly minimizes to my dock Is there a config that could be causing this?
I deleted a photos and videos, also in recently deleted album. I don’t have the back up. Then after deleted my photos and videos, I reset my iphone. Its all gone.. Is there any way to recover it?
So I've read all the posts on here and looked in every recommended folder for my start up programs and can't find a single one, I'm definitely the administrator on my laptop so I don't know what to do besides go to Apple. I have a macbook pro mid 2010 with Yosemite. Thanks in advance for any input.
I have a Mid 2012 11" MacBook Air that won't charge or boot. I've tested the charger with multiple other MacBook Airs, and the charger works fine. I have researched this and have done everything from attempting a PRAM reset, a SMC reset, to even sitting on the charger to heat it up. Nothing works, but I don't know if you can reset the PRAM or SMC when there is no power. One thing I have noticed is that if I plug the charger in to a working MacBook, let the light turn orange, and then unplug the MagSafe and plug it into the broken MacBook, the light will turn orange. It doesn't charge it, however, and will only do that if I plug it in within seconds of unplugging the MagSafe from the working MacBook. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Is this possible? I know some users use this function to recover forgotten passwords, however revealing a password in plaintext feels like extremely bad practice.
I want to sell an AirPort express that I no longer use. Is any user data stored on the unit and if so how do I remove it?
I have a late 2013 Mac Pro (running Yosemite) and have had some problems with a frozen finder recently. When I select a tif/pdf/jpg file it freezes up on me and I have to force quit it. It freezes before it is able to splay the thumbnail of the file I have selected. It sometimes also freezes safari when I click on links or download something, although its a much more frequent problem for my finder.
I can't seem to get my MacBook Pro to share the WiFi connection over Ethernet. Here is my configuration as it appears in System Preferences:
Through a series of events the passcode entries on an Apple Watch has been exhausted and the watch is locked with this message: Wrong Passcode Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, go to Passcode, then tap Re-enable Passcode Entry to try again. But when I go to Passcode on the Apple Watch app it just spins probably because the watch is in Airplane Mode. When I try to reset the watch through the Apple Watch app I get this error message: Could Not Connect to Apple Watch Make sure your Apple Watch is nearby, powered on, and not in Airplane Mode.
My college Wi-Fi Network doesn't support OS X reinstalls through Recovery HD. If I were to ask the people in charge of our Network to manually enable access to Apple's Servers so that I could do reinstalls over Wi-Fi, what would I need to tell them to allow?
I know this may stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the way disk images are intended to work, but even when full permissions are granted on a .dmg file, I am unable to add or remove files on the mounted disk image. Is there any way (natively or via a 3rd-party tool) to do this? I know that when a disk image is mounted, a checksum verification is done, so I'm guessing that because modifying the image at all would destroy the checksum, this is inherently not allowed, but I'm wondering if there's a utility that could re-image the disk with a subset of its contents, perhaps recalculating the checksum in the process. NOTE: Copying all the contents over, deleting, and then re-imaging is not a plausible option, due to the size of the image and the fact that it already fills most of the available space of the external drive on which it resides.
I am fairly new to OS X, I am trying to disable the screensaver of a user that I recently created with the following commands on the terminal of an account that I'm currently logged in as: However this doesn't seem to be working. I've noticed that when you create a new user, there is no screensaver plist that exists until the user actually logins. I am not too familiar with plists and Apple in general, any help would be greatly appreciated!
My friend is not present and thus I do not have his Apple ID password to download it under his account. It wouldn't be a reasonable request to me to ask my friend to provide his Apple ID password to me. (Assume that before giving me his machine, my friend set his local system password to something generic so I would be able to know it, but has obvious good reasons to not do this with his Apple ID password.) Another scenario:
When I get information on various items such as System Preferences or a specific utility such as Script Editor, I can see that there is a group user called "wheel" that I can not eliminate. This user group user has both Read and Write permissions to these applications and when I try to eliminate them (when logged in as an one of the users as Administrator), I get a message that indicates that I do not have sufficient permissions to do so. I have found this group user on both my desktop and my laptop. Any ideas.
is there a way to add universal shortcuts for input / text fields in OS X and/or chrome itself such as Control + U to delete everything to the left of a line, Control + W to delete the left word etc. or cursor positioning like Control + a to move to beginning of a line?
How can i disable completely the calendar notifications from appearing in the lock screen on iphone 6 version 9.2? I've already unchecked "show in lock screen" w/in notification settings but they still show up when screen is locked.
The DNS lookup fails after some time of being connected. I can get it back working if i reconnect to my wifi. However it seems to happen more frequently. I enabled debugging in the mDNS responder to see what happens when the error occurs. After disconnecting wifi and enabling it again is works again: Have anyone tried anything similar and found a solution? Edit: sometimes it just starts working again, without reconnecting to wifi. Hardware: Macbook pro 2015, with dedicated gfx.
It has to be plugged in to start. The green LED on the magsafe plug doesn't light up any more. As it starts, I can pull out the magsafe plug, and it continues to start. As it starts, I can pull out the magsafe plug, and it continues to start.
I noticed that the apps I developed and tested on my device, doesn't appear in the Settings. Actually a lot of apps are missing there. Why is that? This image depicts what I mean.
How do I disable double-vibration when I dock my iPhone (6 Plus)? I am running latest version of iOS, sometimes even the beta one and using Cydia is not an option.
UPDATE: I tried creating different dummy websites and it seems the Server.app does create the corresponding files and folders in the correct directory. However, nothing is shown in the GUI and the mentioned website is not served.
My employer insists on using a VPN when people access email via Exchange. Is there any way to prevent Mail from checking for mail if the VPN is down?
I recently moved from a well-configured Ubuntu to Mac. I used Emacs for many years but I am too lazy to re-install it (and re-configure it). One of the useful features in Emacs shell is that you can simply move the cursor around the output text using the arrow keys, select and edit - as if it was a standard text editor.
I am considering using an alias for locate, as I find really inconvenient to have to run updatedb so often on mac. Do you have any ideas or workarounds for this?
I recently bought an iPhone iOS 9.2.1. I am worried, if someone stole it, reset it and uses different AppleID, can I find it?
When printing a jpeg, preview now defaults to 100% scale, which is not what I want. I am having to manually select scale to fit and fill entire paper. How can I make it always default to the latter (as it used to in previous versions of OSX)?
I bought an used Macbook Pro Mid 2012 and it has performance issues. Basically it hangs from time to time even when its not under heavy load. I started to inspect the possible causes and I found out the SSD unsafe shutdown count is 18 183 what is a really huge number, my co-workers laptop has like 8-20.
As I understand it, FileVault makes you login before you computer boots to the OS in order to unlock the drive. This means someone getting ahold of your laptop when it is off cannot get at the data.
I want to install a C/C++ compiler for Matlab R2015b. I am running OSX El Capitan 10.11.3. I installed the newest version of Xcode (Xcode Version 7.3 beta 3).
The first try was to change the mouse (a magic mouse) with another one (logitech). The problem persisted.
Is there some sort of clever hack of achieving that, because I did not find anything. I have a 27" Mac and everything is still kind of huge.
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 that will only boot into safe mode, trying anything besides single user results in a crash or hangs with a white screen, can't even boot from an El Capitan USB, current OS is 10.6.8. There is also a pink tinge to the screen and in safe mode there are red vertical lines an inch thick every inch (inch tinted red inch normal.) I have verbose here before a white screen hang.
I'm new to vi. Actually I'm using it just to modify small text files. I've a serious and unusual, I think, problem with the numeric keypad, as follow: I write vi IN and press enter. This make me access to the file named IN. Then I use arrow keys (or hjkl) to move the cursor through the file. Then I press i to activate the insert mode and write. Here comes the problem: numeric keypad doesn't work properly, since I get pqrstuvwxyl when I press 0123456789+ (,.-*/= still work).
I'm trying to use iMac 21''(mid-2010, Mavericks) as a display for newly purchased Mac Mini (late 2014) and I'm unable to activate TargetDisplay Mode. The devices are connected using MiniDisplay Cable and pressing Command-F2 or Command-Fn-F2 does nothing (tried in when logged off as well), the screen doesn't even blink.
I bring my iPhone to the apple store and they noticed that there's a hardware problem. After 3 days I receive an update from Apple Store and they said that it is already for replacement. I deleted my private files before I give to them. I just want to ask if they will still recover my files? Like contacts, pictures, videos and memo?
I am looking for space! I would like to search for all large folders and files. I found this answer but so far my searches failed to show some of the large files, including a .pkg file that was in my home directory (the 'house' icon). I just use "normal" finder, and then with the controls - where I am trying to find a way to say size > 100MB or something to that effect. But I don't even see size.
I did try to fix the problem by putting in a digital audio connector, but that didn’t help. I did find suggestions recommending things like poking a toothpick in the hole and trying to ‘unlatch’ some mechanism which (I assume) senses the presence of the plug.
Macbook with OS X 10.11.3. No iCloud account, regularly updated via softwareupdate -i -r && brew update && brew cask update. Rather restrictive firewall(ing) via LittleSnitch and pf. Case-sensitive partition.
I need to install .cer certificate on iPhone to enable certain SSL connections to websites. I have searched and found that this was possible using iPhone Configuration Utility, but that has been discontinued now. Also tried using Apple Configurator 2, but I can not figure out how to install a .cer using it. I am using iPhone 6S having iOS 9.2.1
When pressed Command-S, the iOS simulator always saves screenshots on Desktop. How can I tell it to save it somewhere else?
In the old GarageBand there was an option to "anchor" the curve to the region so that the region could be copied and pasted and keep the same sound. How do I do this in GarageBand 10?
When trying to open new folder on Desktop from Finder-menu Terminal opens instead. Also I cannot move documents and folders onto Desktop- get a "forbidden" sign (= white circle with slash through it). When accessing the computer as other user Finder works fine. Was running Mac OS 10.7.5 and it did not help to upgrade to El Capitan which I downloaded a few days ago. After repairing permissions the report stated Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. Disk Utility says the disk is OK.
In the previous versions of garageband, when I double-clicked on a region and the editing window on the bottom popped up, I could use the ruler button to choose how tight the quantize grid was. How to I change that grid now?
13 Inch MBP Mid 2009 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo 4 GB RAM GeForce 9400M 256 MB 250GB HDD
Is there a way to see the settings of my iPhone without actually looking at the phone? For example on a computer logged into the AppleID or iCloud? I need to make sure the "Find my iPhone" info is turned on on my daughter's iPhone.
Usually, when I connect to a server (cmd "⌘" + K), I can see the list of my favorite servers :  But after upgrading to El Capitan (Mac OS 10.11.X) and after freshly booting my MacBook, this list sometimes disappears and I can't add a new server to it ("+" button doesn't works) :
On bootup, I get the normal Apple start sound, but the screen only displays multi-colored lines. Here is a picture. I pulled the plastic bezel off, and tried removing the screen panel, and reseating the screen cable. I also removed and reseated the memory, and tried resetting NVRAM, all with no change. I don't need to worry about losing any data on this system, I will format it and clean install OSX when I fix the screen. What should I try next to figure out what is causing the screen issue? Thanks in advance!
I've just installed a new SSD replacing an HDD in my old (late 2008) iMac. When I switched it on all I got on screen was a question mark. On the advice of my son I tried cmdR during switch on with no result.
I just hit reset network settings on my iPhone (9.2.1) because I was unable to make phone calls. I then noticed that my OSX (10.11.3) lost its internet connection. I immediately checked the keychain (where all wifi passwords are stored) and noticed that all passwords are missing.
I recently bought and installed a new game through steam 'besiege' if you were wondering, and it ran really hot on my computer. On other games such as CS:GO for example you can cap the FPS in game making my computer not run as hot so less background noise.
Why can I not stop sharing iCloud, as opposed to deleting it, which I believe will affect other device? For example, my apps r showing up on his phone, but his stuff is not coming to mine. If I delete my iCloud, am I also deleting his? All under same account.
When I attempted to view the drive statistics, it resulted in S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported.
I am having trouble accessing my Gmail account via Mail on my iPad. It keeps saying my username or password is incorrect when it's not. I have that rotten two-step authentication turned off and this is still happening. How do I fix this?
Just a quick question to people who use airport extreme's / express's to extend the coverage of their wireless. I've seen this referred to as wireless roaming..
When I try to turn on my phone by holding the lock button, it doesn't turn on. It just stays dead. But when I connect the Lightning cable, all it does is show the battery symbol, then go to the Apple logo, and repeats. What should I do?
On the Mac, I can't seem to use grep and have the filename highlighted (or in) a certain color, and have the matching string in a different color. Is there an easy way?
This evening the left mouse button on the track pad on my MacBook Pro stopped working. Rebooted. No change.
I was hoping to configure a keystroke command using BetterTouchTool to open a terminal window and run an ssh session. I do this a lot to connect to a RaspberryPi on my network. The execute terminal command seems to execute the command without opening a window, and all the help I can turn up on Google is people asking how to run commands without opening a window. So what would be the best method for me to open a terminal window and execute ssh pi@10.0.0.x in that window?
I have three folders setup as shared folders in the Sharing [System] Preferences on my AFP [not SMB] file server. My file server is running OS X [not OS X Server] 10.11 El Capitan. When I connect to the file server via AFP and authenticate as an admin user, I am able to mount these three folders, as well as my home directory and the file server's primary [boot] and Time Machine drives. I would prefer that the file server not share the primary [boot] and Time machine drives with AFP clients, even if the user is an admin.
How can I use my pc microphone for iPhone? I want to input the sound from computer to iPhone. Does anyone know anyway that can be possible? Something more efficient than just putting the phone near the pic speaker.
every time I restart my Mac (OS X El Capitan 10.11.3), the language input is set to "ABC Extended" instead of English or German. This causes me trouble when I want to type my password. Is there a way to set this back to English or German?
I used my Apple ID to sign in only to FaceTime on my friend's iPad device. Later I went to Settings → FaceTime and clicked Sign out. Does that mean that this iPad an my apple ID are now completely disconnected? Or is there a chance that my friend can get my FaceTime calls or even my iMessages etc.?
I've been trying to shrink my Photos Library with no luck. I have some duplicate photos, inherited from the iPhoto days, as the result of syncing my iPhone photos via iCloud and making a local copy of those same photos "just in case" on an iPhoto album. Now, I'm facing the task of deleting one of those duplicates using PhotoSweeper X, which is pretty handy, but I can't see where those duplicates come from. For instance:
I'm trying to upload a file through terminal (didnt managed to do it trough transmit.app) I'm connected to SSH to my server. I want to sent a file from my Local desktop to my server. That the command I'm trying : I always have this error though " No such file or directory " not a expert of SSH, but if I'm connected to my server to SSH, how would terminal access my local file anyway (/Users/username/Desktop/ad-blocker.sh) Kind regards.
A few days ago, my new Apple TV stopped showing me my purchased TV shows. When I select the TV Shows app on the home screen, and click on the “Purchased” tab, I get a spinner that never goes away.
When I type ' then A , it types Á, instead of simply 'A . How to disable this feature. It's a pain while programming, as we need to type things like 'example string' a lot.
My Apple Watch has recently updated to watchOS 2.1. Since this update, I've found it is far easier to achieve the 30mins exercise goal in the Activity app. Anyone else noticed? Is this an intentional change by Apple?
But I switched anyway, and I bought a 4th-generation iPod shuffle as a replacement for the Music app on my iPhone as well as a cool little fashion accessory in my favorite color. I never listen to any music from my iTunes library on my Windows Phone; the only music-related thing I do with it is watch music videos on the Internet — I don't store any music videos on iTunes anyway.
I recently backed up all my iPhone 6s photos to my media server (running Linux). All of the Live Photo files are in a ".mov" format. They play fine as videos, but I'd like to extract the high quality photo from each file. I tried inspecting the file with ffprobe but that didn't give me much to go on Is it possible for me to extract the photo on Windows or Linux?
The date-time has been configured to be automatic and yet, the time on my laptop is 5 minutes ahead of what it should be. OS: El Capitan 10.11.3 Model: Macbook Pro Retina 13" (2015 Edition) How do I fix this?
I've made this sh script to convert a bunch of swf files in a directory to pngs. for img in *.swf; do swfrender "$img" -o "$img.png"; done; This gives Error: No JPEG library compiled inrfxswf: I've tried variants of this script, and they give the same error. I am running El Capitan, and I have libjpeg and flashtools installed via brew.
I want to reformat an external disk, but in Disk Utility "Partition" is grayed out and when I click Erase it says it cannot unmount the drive. I think Finder is not allowing the disk to be unmounted because I put a large directory from the external disk in Trash, told Finder to empty the trash, then cancelled. Now there is no option to "put back".
I bought a Mac this week. I uploaded several hundred pictures into Photos. I then drag and dropped them into folders under Documents (for organizational purposes). Unfortunately, the RAW files were automatically converted from RAW to JPG when I did this. How do I move the pictures from Photos to Documents without this automatic conversion taking place? Thank you.
So, I had this app called World Chef, it's a game and I wanted to start over. I deleted the app and then re-installed it. It didn't remove the data from the game so I deleted the app from Game Center too but the data was still there! I tried signing off from my account but that didn't work either. Is there anyway I can COMPLETELY remove the data from my device so I can start a new game? I also need the help with Game Center because the game is always in my Game Center and I think it is the cause of the problem.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Md 2012) running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. I purchased 1x DisplayPort to VGA and 1x DisplayPort to DVI. I plugged these two into the 2x DisplayPorts on the MacBook Retina. When I view the screens, however, one of them shows up fine but the other is at a low resolution (800x600).
Could someone please tell me how to insert a terminal command into an "application" so when the app is clicked/opened the command is launched?
My work is mostly text and some screen drawing, but no extensive graphics. Recreationally, some video's. So, some questions.
I have an iPad mini (1st gen) I want to give it to a family member, so I operated a full system backup and reset. I have all the photos from the iPad inside of my library on OSX (in the Photos app). I now want to put all these photos back into the iPad, so I did this (selected "Copy photos from photos" and checked "all the photos" with "include video") and synced:
I don't have a credit card I'm completely broke and I'm not jail token I'm just trying to get a free Chinese app from America ( Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Chinese Version).
What about if the macbook is connected to a display that run on battery power? Will the macbook charge the display (e.g. tablet), the tablet charge the macbook, or be power-neutral?
I use a Macbook Air, iPhone, and iPad. Why aren't my open tabs in Safari on my iPhone not showing up on Safari on the Macbook?
It says here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(file_system)#Apple
I recently moved a few playground files from my documents folder to iCloud Drive. Then I noticed they all the files have been duplicated and non can be opened. I moved them back to the original location to the documents folder and still they don't open. Any suggestions on how I can bring back the codes I've written?
I'm not very computer literate, so I need some help with my computer and thought the application will help me to remove the duplicates and other unwanted things from the hard drive. However, I saw many negative reviews on the Net. I'm very frustrated. Thank you!
My 2012 13 inch MacBook Pro has become real slow, even when just a few programs like Itunes, Safari or Spotify are opened. I've been cleaning up my HDD, but I don't feel like it's speeding up. So I'm thinking to upgrade my 4GB RAM. The last days I did some research on how RAM is used by a mac, but I still don't know how you can conclude if your RAM is too low. According to the activity monitor the memory pressure is always in green, even if Safari is not responding for a while, and it takes a couple of minutes to load a webpage. My mean memory usage is 3GB of my physical 4GB. Then I did some tests in terminal (while running iTunes, Safari, Terminal and Activity Monitor) : I entered the vm_stat and the top command. You can see that my virtual memory VM is extremely high (500G), but my search on the internet learned me that it isn't a useful number to take a conclusion out of it. Is it correct that the more significant numbers are pageins, pageouts, swapins, swapouts? What can these numb
Since I re-activated my Gmail account with 2-step verification on a fresh install of OS X 10.11.3 "El Capitan", I've tried to use a fresh app-specific password for this account on my Mac. Yet, OS X keeps asking for a password and the app-specific isn't accepted but my main pw is, after I've entered the vericiation code sent out via SMS. The problem is I have to do this every day which is a nuisance. I can't tell if this is OS X or Google, but there seems to me it must be google as it's the responses from their servers that are not what I expect. Anyone else have seen or can think of a solution?
I've seen that on Microsoft PowerPoint, you can see the file as .ppt, which is a standard powerpoint file, and .pps, which will open straight into the presentation. Is there n equivalent of this in Keynote, be it a file extension or just a setting?
We have an iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. Ever since upgrading, any text field in Safari is painfully slow, generally taking 2 to 4 seconds before responding, and then doing so in fits and jerks. This does not appear to happen anywhere else that I have seen.
This page didn't help. Other keyboard shortcuts I found out: Alt = cmd Shift + 7 = _ Shift + - = ?
Yesterday I was cleaning my keyboard (with tissue paper and cleaning gel), and I did a keyboard test afterwards, and I found out my "S" and "F10" keys are broken. I've tried putting it upside down and leaving it overnight, the first few times I plugged it in, the "S" key was pressed and the accent selection list pops up, but those keys still do not work. I've also tried blowdrying it, taking off the keycaps to inspect for damage, and the keys are still broken. Does my keyboard have any chance of getting fixed without going to an Apple Store? Any ideas on how to fix this would be helpful, thanks.
Using MacPorts 2.3.4 on OS X El Capitan, I get an error when issuing the following command: I get the message, Error: Port aircrack not found. I've updated the list of ports using, port upgrade outdated.
One of our Mac Pros at work is having issues shutting down. On shut down, the screen will turn black and a small gray loading wheel will come up in the center of the screen. It will stay like this no matter how long you let it sit until you physically press and hold the power button. We've already let it sit like this over the weekend so I know it's not just a waiting game.
I'm used to Outlook on Windows where if a meeting reminder jumps in I can close the reminders window (clicking the x) and the reminders window will jump in again in a few min (great). Far easier than finding the little snooze arrow.
My apple iCloud is locked for security reasons, when I try to unlock it using my recovery gmail account, I don't see the link sent to me. I mailed to the iTunes Store customer suport team more than thrice where they gave me steps to follow but still I couldnt unlock my account. I can't update my apps or backup them. Even if I create a new Apple ID, the old one is stuck to the apple store, popping and asking for password.
I'm running OS 10.9 (Mavericks) and looking to change the title bar color using system files. A grey gradient is currently used for most open windows.
I am attempting to use launchd to have SelfControl be active from 8am to 8pm. My first attempt was to just use launchd and have a little bash script which starts self control (for 12 hours) at 8am, but this isn't really flexible enough because if my laptop is off at 8am then obviously nothing happens. Any advice on a better way to approach this problem or modify my current approach? Here is the .plist And here is the bash script The length of time to block the blacklist in SelfControl for can be set by doing I think that's all the relevant information
I know that Spotlight Suggestions and Natural Language Search are only available in a few countries. How does OS X decides if I am in these countries or not? I switched to US locale and region in System Preferences and I use US VPN, so I have US IP Address. But Spotlight features are still disabled. Is there any way to convince OS X to use these new features?
os x el capitan, new mac book air with fresh os x installation. In dictionary app preferences, no foreign language dictionaries appear in the the list of available dictionaries. However, in /Library/Dictionaries there are many available dictionaries. How can I access these dictionaries?
I'm starting to use GarageBand for making music, and I have several songs of my own; but I find xtremly funny mixing loops, so, I have another ones that are only loops mixes. I know that they are royalty free if you mix the loops, I've read a lot, and I didn't find the answer to my question in the web. (February 2016) I want to sell the songs, but I don't know if I can put my ©Copyright stamp in the only loop ones. Can somebody help me understand the licensing terms?
I have an external hard drive that I backup with Time Machine. I'm trying to determine the best way (or if it's even possible) to encrypt it so that Time Machine can still back it up and it can be mounted and read by my Ubuntu server. I'm not hoping for write access but that'd be even better.
Recently left a job and am deleting the Exchange account from my MacBook Air associated with the company. I no longer have access to the account (password has been changed, naturally) but I would really like to keep my calendar entries, mainly because I wasn't religious about where I placed appointments and I'd like to be able to look back and see what I did when at some point.
Currently I can do this only on a per connection basis using this script: But recently I am getting network from different sources and I would like to have a script with toggles availability for all active connections (either all on or all off). Any idea on how I could pull this off?
I am trying to use Flammarion and its instructions state that I should ensure that chrome is on my path. The Chrome app appears to be at /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app. How do I actually add this to my path.
I have duplicate videos in my Photos library, but the videos have been resized so they are not detected by normal duplicate file finding software. Does anyone know if any software for OSX that will find duplicate videos that have been resized?
I've been a windows user for a long time, and I hate the ⌘ shortcuts for stuff. Since I only use my Mac for work stuff, I figured I'd just redefine the App Shortcuts from the keyboard menu so I could use control+C, control+V, etc.
Whenever I try to add a clock to the World Clock widget in the Today area of Notification Center, it never gets added. Sometimes I can’t even search for the city I want to add. However, whenever I am able to search for a city, it finds it, and when I press enter or click on the name, it behaves as it should be, but the clock never gets displayed.
I attempted to update my iPad 3 (NOT jailbroken... yet) running iOS 7 to iOS 9 a few months ago, but ran into a major issue: whenever I tapped on "Continue" on the "Update Completed" screen, my iPad would simply restart itself and show the update screen, which often would be unresponsive to swiping. I know many others have had this issue when updating from iOS 7 to 9, and some found a fix, but before I'm prepared to wipe my iPad and depart with my data, I'd like to try to salvage as much of it as I can. Unfortunately, I was foolish and forgot to back up my iPad before I updated because I figured the update would go flawlessly, since it had been so smooth on my iPhone.
On Macbook's with retina display you are able to select between 4 different scale modes as showed in the picture below  It takes some clicks to get into the Display settings and choosing a new scale. I guess I am not the only one changing the scale frequently so I am confident that an easier solution to this exists. Question: Are there any keyboard shortcuts that toggles the different scale modes without the need of third party software?
Sometimes, a network account is logged in, and the user doesn't/forgets to log out. When someone else uses this computer, the lock screen shows. The only options that I know of from here are: Click cancel, which does not switch the user Force shutdown the Mac by holding down the power button Find their password, login, and logout If I had an administrator, I could (probably) add another dummy local user account, and it would show a user account switcher, but I don't have admin access. How can I switch the network account without admin access other than the above methods?
I went to download the OS X El Capitan on my MacBook Air. Yesterday I've downloaded 2GB with 256kbps download speed. After downloading it all day, time to let the MacBook Air rest. This morning I went to open my MacBook Air, to the Apps Store, clicked the Free Upgrade. That time I was thinking: "Why is it not the resume button? Uh oh, something's not right." Typed in my password, download started, but from 0% Help? D:
As stated in the question, how do I disable horizontal scrolling on Preview when the page obviously fits and there is over horizontal overflow? I am scrolling with my touchpad, and with two-finger scroll I inevitably move a little sideways while scrolling. This little jerk to the left/right is rather annoying to me and I would like to know if there are any ways to prevent the horizontal scrolling.
I'm currently doing a lot of chemistry writing in Google Docs. Google Docs is great for it because Cmd+. formats as superscript and Cmd+, formats as subscript... both of which supersaturate chemical writings (fear not, that's my only pun). Superscript works great, but Safari has an overriding Cmd+, which brings up Preferences-General and highlights Homepage, so subscript doesn't work. I haven't yet found a way to disable Safari's particular shortcuts, so I'm hoping someone here does.
I am running OS X EL Capitan (10.11.3) on my MBP and I have been trying to use BootCamp. Whenever I try to open the Boot Camp Assistant it says you need at least 50 GB free space. I have deleted many files (emptied the Trash) but the free space remains the same (43 GB). I have read many solutions, re-indexed Spotlight search couple of times, and restarted the machine several times. But the free space is still the same. Can anyone please help me?
I have also tried to find out if another (smaller) iPad such as iPad mini or an iPhone can be used as a keyboard/trackpad to control the iPad Pro but I can not seem to find any answer online. Is this possible? or can a Apple TV2 remote be used to control an iPad Pro?
Is there a way to connect a network server (CIFS) without asking for password and would automatically connect every time computer boots up? The situation is, the computer need to first connect its VPN (Cisco AnyConnect) and then connect the drive. But the thing is, most of the time it doesn't connect the drive and displays an error that the server is unavailable (which I think it displays because of the network connection) but, when I ping the IP address of the network drive while simultaneously connect the shared drive it connects! What do I need to do?
I can't empty Trash folder. Some of files there are "in use". And it happens all the time. The operation can’t be completed because the item “blabla.xlsx” is in use.
From the answer to this question I have tried scutil --nc start 'us.justfreevpn.com' to connect a PPPT VPN, but all I get is the following popup:  Frustratingly, if I manually start the connection from the menubar, I can then stop it using scutil --nc stop 'us.justfreevpn.com' scutil --nc list gives the following: And scutil --nc show 'us.justfreevpn.com' this: The log just shows the following: And last exit code is 0: What am I doing wrong? OS X 10.11.3
I am looking for an SFTP or rsync (?) tool (or script?) that watches a certain folder or certain files and uploads them to a remote server securely on change. The background:
So here's the thing. My iMessage on the MBP is simply not working, when I use my MBP the way I want to. What way is that? Since it has no Ethernet connector, I bought a USB 3 to Ethernet box, that does its job nicely. iMessage does work with it. I have no WiFi in my office, so to keep costly traffic away from my iPhone I setup the MVP to share its internet connection via WiFi. From this moment on, iMessage will no longer work. And I know why, but I don't know how to fix it. Reason for the why is that iMessage (as opposed to every single other application on my MBP) explicitly takes en0 as the networking device to send and receive data. But en0 is the local WiFi, my Ethernet device is en3. The local WiFi is just a bridge for my iPhone, not "the internet". But iMessage is to dumb to get that. It is smart enough to know not to use en0 when WiFi is turned off or not connected though, and then will use en3 readily. So the question is: How can I convince iMessage to always use en3?
I purchased an iPhone 4s on eBay. The phone is as if permanently locked in 'Searching... ' mode (the top left hand corner of the display). The phone is not connecting to the Internet, or the WiFi, and neither does it seem to connect to phone services through the SIM card inserted. And while the phone is in this state, it is heating up on the right-hand side, with display facing upwards, and gets drained of battery in about 40 minutes, even when it is in standby mode. I have replaced the battery, and then the antenna, but to no avail.
I have a pretty simple issue. The SSD of my mi-2014 Macbook pro (retina - MacBookPro11,1) seems to be too short (256GB). So I'm considering buying a 1Tb SSD for my Macbook, but I read, here and there, that not all SSD are compatible (because of its format, "blade" SSD or something). So, do you know which 1Tb SSD I could upgrade my Macbook Pro with ?
I have just gotten a MacBook Pro retina Early 2015, which I want to connect with non-retina external display. I'm using a VGA to display port adapter to connect it and it does work. However the resolution is not correct. It's all blurry. I have tried to option click the scale button in display settings and tried them all. Non of them seem to fit the screen. When using HDMI instead it works like a charm. Am I doing anything wrong?
I want to record the build-in sound of my Mac computer without using speakers. I want to record directly the sound of my computer. Tutorials shows me that I must do it in System Preferences, but in system preferences, I cant select the sound of my computer in entry. I can only select a microphone. Any Ideas ? I have only 1 option: use speakers How to use build-in sound to record sound from my mac ? Also in audacity I have not "Soundflower" option ...
How can I find the duration (in hours/minutes) of a playlist in Apple Music?
On a Mac OS X Server, I realized today that the 1TB disk has all of the sudden two partitions, both of them around 500GB large: When I look in /Volumes/Untitled, I see the following data: And that is it.
I have a strange problem with my iPhone 5 running iOS 9.2.1. When I first join my home Wi-Fi network, it is running nice and fast. I use the Speed Test app and measure 60 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up, which is about my top speed with Charter.
I'm trying to shrink my Yosemite partition and create a new one. Trouble is that the Disk Utility gets stuck "Preparing to partition disk" (same thing when run in recovery), and diskutil in a recovery terminal freezes the moment I enter the diskutil command. I've read the diskutil manual, done Google searches, and tried the various solutions (such as verify disk). What should I do? If you need more info, let me. (I have a Boot Camp partition with Windows 10).
I am trying to generate an app specific password, as I can not get Thunderbird on Ubuntu, to connect to the icloud server. I found a few posts on the web that infer, you now have to generate an app specific password, using the manage your apple id site. the instructions at the apple site say to log into your account and click on the edit button in the security section, and then to click on "generate password". When I do this, no option appears to "generate password" Steps outlined by Apple:
I have an old Late 2007 MacBook, it has been working until few days ago. Suddenly the backlighting of the display stopped working. Basically I turn on the computer and the screen is almost dark. If I point a lamp in front of the display, I can see the interface behind, however even at maximum brightness it's still dark. I've contacted Apple support but they told me that there are no replacements of a machine that old.
This is a bit of an odd one for me, I'm hoping someone here might have some advice. We have a couple mac users in the office, and a few of them have been reporting this box has been appearing sporadically. Any advice? This is on a MBP 11,5, I've checked most of the accessibility settings, mouse settings, tried a different mouse, the issue still persists. EDIT: Still no luck, I haven't had a lot of time to troubleshoot but after messing with pretty much every accessibility setting I'm fairly convinced its not that, going to try a new monitor in a desperate attempt. EDIT 2: I haven't been able to find a solution to this issue, any help at all is greatly appreciated!
Will an Apple Airport Express be able to do what I need? I work on a laptop running Win7Pro, and my internet feed comes to a Netgear DM111P cabled modem, which I connect to the laptop using an ethernet cable. The modem sits in my office at home, and I'm fine with this set-up when I'm working in that room. But I want to be able to connect wirelessly to the internet sometimes from other rooms in the house (max distance say 10 metres through 2 doors), using a wifi access point device (WAPD) that I leave in the office. So the idea is that I leave one end of the ethernet cable plugged into the modem, and I move the other end between the laptop (when I'm in the office) and the WAPD (when I want to use internet elsewhere). The procedure needs to be quick and simple. I don't want to have to configure software all the time. I just want to be able (when leaving the office) to power up the WAPD, take the ethernet cable out of the laptop and plug it into the WAPD, then leave the room with the lapt
Anyone else experienced a degradation from the "Optimizing Performance"? Is it really an irreversible downsampling/compression of the signals? Is there a way to block or at least revert this to get back the original signals when it happens?
I changed my admin (login) password on my Macbook Air and subsequently forgot it. The disk is encrypted using FileVault 2. And the resetpassword command in the terminal did not show any disks available to reset the password. Futhermore, the fdesetup command is not found when did a simple 'man fdesetup' command in the terminal. I remember all but the last 3 or 4 characters of the password. A brute force solution might not take too long. But I prefer not to go down this route if this can be solved another way. I also strongly prefer to solve this without going to the Genius Bar. Anyone know how to gain re-entry?
There are occasions where I set an event to occur everyday for a week and I don't want an alert connected to it. I select "none" for alerts and after I have set the appointment, it automatically defaults to a 30 minute notification. I can go in a couple of days later and again set it to none and it will later default to 30 minute alert notice. How can I stop this?
I have iMessage turned off on my phone to save data. I have recently realised I am not receiving messages off friends who have iMessage switched on on their phone. Is there anything I can do apart from turning my iMessage back on to receive these.
since upgrading to El Capitan, every time my machine tries to make a backup to my Time Capsule, it prompts me with the aforementioned message. after researching and finding not much, I decided to blow away my long history of backups and create a new one as suggested. the backup succeeded but the second time it tried to do a backup it failed again. so now I have to create a brand new backup (of the whole disk) every time I want to make a backup? this worked fine on Yosemite! help?
I know it's a somewhat inexact comparison (with the 1's AA batteries and the 2's Lightning charger). But if anyone has used both, is there a noticeable difference?
When the emoji pack was updated I could send the super sad emoji face  But now every time I try to send it, the emoji that shows up is ☹
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) that I use with Dell 2711 (at home) and 2713 (at work) external displays. Usually, but not always, when I bring my Mac from work to home, and vice versa, my terminals narrow down by a couple of characters. Apple's own terminal changes to 77x24 geometry, and iTerm2 changes to 78x24 (both from 80x24). I don't open the lid in between connecting to the external displays, and the windows are not rearranged to fit the internal display.
I have owned a MacBook Pro for a year, however at work I use a Windows laptop. Since I really like the functionality to maximize a windows by just pushing it to the top of the screen, I would like to have that on my Macbook too. I am using Spectacle to assign shortcuts like "windows" to maximize a window, which works well and I recommend it. However, is there any application to maximize a window like the way you can do it on a Windows laptop/pc, just by pushing the window to the top of the screen? Note: I mean maximize window, not fullscreen.
As the above image shows, the only option I have is to remove my bootcamp partition, which is not what I want. I've tried to manually write the ISO to the USB stick by using the terminal according to this question (multiple times), but it never shows on the boot menu. I've also tried using Rufus, and that shows as a bootable drive, but then I just get a black screen after I select it as the boot device.
How can I make Ctrl + Arrow to have the same effect as ⌥ + Arrow, i.e. move to the previous/next word?
I'd like to know how to add photos to an iOS device without iTunes nor any "iPhone explorer" programs. I have the image files, and I have the iPhone "mounted" on a Linux machine, which means I have access to some directories like DCIM and PhotoData.
I have recently moved country and want to change my billing info over as a result. Before I left I took out a subscription to iTunes Match, and did not bring my laptop with me as it was wiped and sold so my music is not physically stored on any machine. Is there any way I can change over the country on my account without losing all the music I have in the cloud storage as it is asking me to cancel my subscription before this can be done?
My MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, 13in) fails to shutdown/restart sometimes. When I initiate shutdown/restart process from the Apple menu, sometimes it gets stuck at a black screen with a mouse pointer that can be moved. And I have to do ctrl + command ( + option ) + Power. I tried verbose boot right after that when this happened: MBP boots, goes into verbose mode Echoes "journal replay" something
Is there an advantage to delete apps from Launchpad (Hold one app like in iOS) vs from finder?  And why some apps cannot be deleted from Launchpad?
I have tried accessing Disk Utility from the account and the full hard drive is grayed out (I have prevented it from mounting via the fstab file). However the erase function is available (the button is there, and I can click it) and I don't want to actually start erasing my system inadvertently.
I have a Mac pro with 4 disks, one is for the system (D1) "Open With" takes long time sometimes, and sometimes it shows me apps on other disks (old, backup, other test apps), how I can make OS X to show me only apps on D1 and not on the rest (D2, D3, D4) when using "Open With"? I do not want to exclude the non-system disks from Spotlight (for searching documents and "apps") I just want to exclude them from "Open With"! I did see solutions like or something like this , but none suite my need!
I truly don't know where to find this when I look it up under the search for settings it brings me to the general settings then leaves me there. I've tried to restart my iPhone but nothing seems to work and I've looked up numerous ways to try and fix it but I can seem to do it.
I have an Asus RT-AC86U router. I gave the router a standard configuration with a 2.4Ghz band called "MySSID" and a 5Ghz band called "MySSID_5G." Same key (i.e., password) on both.
I've stopped an update of OS X in the middle (fair enough I am crazy!). Now all I have when I boot the system is the normal beep sound of POST for hardware check. I've found a link that's been mentioned Apple has released a flash version of firmware update but for mid-2015 macbook 15 inches.
On my iPad, I frequently need to switch between two wifi networks due to different access rights on those networks. It's quite cumbersome having to navigate to the Settings App, find the network settings page, and switch networks there. I'm looking for an app that helps me speed up the network switching, by either: offering a list of available networks, ideally as a notification center widget, and allows me to select a network there; or offers a quick link to opening the relevant page in the Settings App.
I understand that what I want is really strange. We have something like shared build server (mac mini, yosemite), which is located in public place in office; basically everybody have physical access to it. We have special user account created for our project needs, and all necessary tools / passwords etc are configured under this user account. We have a rather big group of people, who should have physical access to this user account from time to time. As a (predicted) result we have simple "password" which is known to everybody, even to people outside of this group. Is there any way / third-party tool to use phone applications like Google Authenticator, which will allow access to this specific user account to a predefined group of people, without relying on just password? In general I'm looking for any solution which might solve my problem - login to account with "public password" to specific people only.
I recently changed the password for my gmail account. I was able to register the account on my iPhone but when I do the same on my iPad it tells me that the user id and password are incorrect. I changed the password again but the problem persisted. When I access gmail via Safari or Chrome there is no problem.
I just setup a striped RAID 0 on my 2012 MacBook Pro with two SSDs. One drive is 256 GB and the other is 500 GB, but my RAID disk is only 510 GB. Disk2 is my RAID disk, with disk0 and disk1 being slices. Does anyone know what's going on and how to fix this?
The OS X server & clients are on 10.9.5. I've got a client who's had some issues, various corruptions, etc.. I had to re-create the entire user, and in doing so, have some permissions issues.
So at work there is a "shared" server that people can run things on that take a long time. I make quite a bit of use of this machine to the point where I made my own login to separate my user files. The account I am using is an administrator. The other account that everyone else uses is also an administrator.
At work we have a multitouch monitor which apparently is a USB Human Interface Device (HID). It identifies itself as vendor 0x4623 product 0x011a, apparently produced by Beijing Honghe Technology Group but branded Newline. It works out of the box on Linux (apparently using a generic HID multitouch driver), but not on OS X. system_profiler describes it like this:
I just restarted my MacBook Pro and I am now getting a blue and white rectangle near the top right corner of my screen. Does anyone know what this is or what is causing it? MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch, Late 2013, Version 10.11.3.
We have more than 70 subnets and lots of switches. I want to install Mac OS X to client computers. By the way the computer may have an operating system installed or not. I want to put an Apple Server in one place and all clients install Mac OS X from there. In the local network everything is fine but in a different subnet net install does not work. I searched some techniques but I think they are not for us. For example my Mac OS server's IP is 10.10.4.40 and the destination computer's IP is 10.10.12.23
I regularly ssh into a Linux cluster from an OS X (El Capitan) Terminal, sometimes with multiple Terminal tabs. I use bash and vim. I'd like to do the following: while ssh'd, set the Terminal tab title to the current working directory using PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\e]1;"`basename $PWD`"\a"' while using vim, set the Terminal tab title to "vim — FILENAME" Here are my problems:
few months I'm struggling with strange behaviour two of my Apps. TotalFinder and Dropbox. Issue is combined with Dropbox menu available on right-mouse-click. When I start computer with Dropbox and TotalFinder menu is appear for some time. After I don't know what is gone. I'v asked Dropbox Support about that and TotalFinder Support as well. No solution till now. Maybe someone from you had similar issue or know how to solve it. TotalFinder 1.7.10 and 1.7.12 Dropbox 3.14.7 Below part of Console Log from computer starts till I noticed issue again. I hope is someone who can help. link to console log
I try to install SQLDeveloper.app that I downloaded from Oracle, but every time it gives me that error LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/peyo/Downloads/SQLDeveloper.app. I have Java version 8 for Eclipse. How can i fix this error?
I've complete edited this question as new information has come in, so if the comments seem off-topic, it's my fault. Spotlight freezes every time I start a query with the letter 'a' and then pause for a second or two. I can kill the process and it will resume working, but this is repeatable and extremely frustrating.
As one of the El Cap features, Apple touts: Find your cursor
I have this in my ~/.bash_profile and for some reason, whenever i restart the terminal it changes the color. I want to keep the background of my terminal in RGB 484848 ... but it changes to white and then silver and then bluish after each restart I don't know what did i do.
My iPhone 6 was stolen. Used find my iPhone app and put it into lost mode on my iPad. Got a text from Find my iPhone app stating it was located. But now I don't see it in the find my iPhone app anymore? Did it get wiped, gone for good?
Is there any way (application?) to display some sort of notification that there are unread items in Notification Center? It could be just a badge on the icon, or the icon highlight, just anything that could omit opening the notification center for this.
Since OS X has its own task scheduler, launchd, it appears that crontab is a relic. Hence I'm wondering: Will a cron job (crontab) wake OS X up from sleep? In case it matters, I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5.
I'm not talking about the end where the buttons are, but rather the other side. This device gets lost several times a day by children who hold on to it and misplace it on a regular basis. What I want to do is attach a hub cap to it like gas stations do with bathroom keys.
I'm about to dive into iOs programming, which is a whole new area for me. One of my friend said he's gonna sell his mac mini mid 2011 device, which is a little hardware upgraded.
I'm curious about (and was unable to find documentation for) any size limits for FileVault in OSX (10.9.5 Server). I'm concerned about any sort of corruption/instability that could occur after encrypting a 70-100tb logical disk. I've run into this as an issue with volumes larger than 70tb with TimeMachine and had to switch to a different product for my backups.
Want to use a Kinect model 1414 on a Mac. I know I need a power adapter, but will it just plug directly into USB or do I need some other adapter there as well? Thanks.
I recently downloaded frost wire to my macbook air laptop. The application shows up on the desktop but I don't want it there. My question is how so I put the application in launchpad?
I have a note 4 now but gave my daughter my IPhone 4 and it still has my icloud email and my number in it, my supervisor has an iPhone 6 so when she texts me or email me it goes to my iPhone 4 which my daughter has, how do I stop this so I can get the messages to my note 4
When I click Terminal in Launchpad, it says "The application Terminal is not open anymore." But it shows up in the Force Quit window and it has the open-app indicator on the dock. I can't quit the app, restart or shut the computer down. I think this could be the root of the problem:
I have a USB drive I would like to encrypt. It's formatted in FAT (for use with Mac & Win) and I can't seem to find a way to encrypt it as: FileVault doesn't encrypt FAT. TrueCrypt can be installed after modifying the installer but doesn't run under 10.11 for me (library file missing) and there seems to be no solution, since TrueCrypt is no longer supported. Is there any solution to encrypt the stick without resorting to using a different computer?
fails if I run it through Terminal (bash), though it works if I run it through iTerm (zsh). I don't know why, as it can only work in iTerm via the declaration in .bash_profile, which I thought should also make it work in Terminal. On the other hand, in my Automator workflow, I do have /bin/zsh selected in "Run Shell Script", so I still face the issue of the command working in iTerm (where cliclick is being made available via .bash_profile), but not in Automator.
My son has a child account under my iTunes and when I approve a purchase for him it gets charged to my credit card, even though I have an iTunes balance credit from gift cards. Is there a way to circumvent this, because he added his Christmas iTunes gift card under my iTunes, but we can't seem to use it for his purchases.
I want to use the iPhone's Personal Hotspot feature as my primary connection to the internet. I'm a little nervous about placing my iPhone at risk to hacking.
I assume my computer is doing something in the background as when I unplug the drive it stops being active, and becomes active again when I plug it back in. I have tried using Disk Utility to see what is up but if the drive is plugged in then DU never loads completely, if its open then I plug in the drive nothing shows up. Is there any way to see what is going on with the drive, if OS X is fixing it in the background, or what is going on?
Can anyone give me an idea what exactly does this mean a message in my console: Also this: This happened when computer was asleep and Wi-Fi was disabled.
I'm running Yosemite (and have been for a while) and suddenly new Dropbox files are not showing in Finder. They are syncing properly, and I can see this in the Dropbox recently updated menu in the top bar, and also on Terminal if I cd to a folder and ls -l. So they're there, they're just not showing up in Finder.
Is it possible to have Keychain ask for the admin password before autofilling other passwords or credit card information? I am already using keychain quite a bit. But I'm also realizing that other people use my computer occasionally and in that case, I would like my passwords to be off limits. For many of us it's not just passwords, but also credit card information that are stored in Keychain.
Is there a way, possibly via a third party app, a shell script, or apple script, to send an email automatically when a user has logged in to OS X? Thanks
I though this would be so obvious that the answer should be simple. I have a photo taken somewhere. I select it in the Photos app, and select the Share icon. I would simply like the option to view the location of this photo in the Apple Map. I have installed ViewEXIF, which does the job, but does too much, and takes an extra step to get to the Maps App. Is there an extension which would do this job simply? Thanks
In case of performance for multithreaded applications, development (Java) and virtualization (Parallels 11), what's better - upgrading to 10.9 Mavericks or El Captain? (or Yosemite) ? Now I'm on 10.8.5, MacBook Pro 15", i7-2.0x4, on SSD with 16GB RAM
I just restarted my mac. The internet here is spotty. I saw the popup below. I really could not care less if I can connect to iCloud at the moment of a particular startup or not. I just don't want popups. Is there any way I can get rid of it, permanently? Hopefully not by disabling iCloud; I'm sure there was a reason I enabled it; likely to get rid of some other popup somewhere.
When I'm developing I almost always have an external Bluetooth keyboard connected to my Mac Book Pro, and prefer the function lock to be active so the F1-F12 keys work without having to press the fn key. But when using the internal keyboard, I tend to be doing more casual things and brightness/volume etc are more commonly used. Can I enable/disable the function lock depending on which keyboard I am using?
I have an iMac (running OS X 10.11.3) with a dual disk setup. A ssd for the OS (with Filevault turned on) and a HDD for storage that is formatted OS X Extended and Encrypted. The intention is to symlink some user directories onto the storage HD.
One day something happened and the Preview window on the right hand side of the window started appearing in all my Finder windows. How can I make it go away permanently? If I close it, it only closes for that one particular folder.
I recently did a software update on El Capitan, from 10.11.1 to 10.11.3, and now Spotlight will no longer allow look-up of foreign language words. For example, I was able to look up "chaise" and have it show the French definition of the word. Now, it will only show the English definition or the Dutch (the latter I assume because my keyboard is set to Belgian input?). Oddly, though, if I write "chace", the Portuguese "chaçar" will show up, even though I have deselected the Portuguese Dictionary. Likewise, I will sometimes get Japanese/Korean/Chinese results. The only way I can get the French definition of "chaise" to show up, is if I change the keyboard input to ABC-AZERTY. I work in Italian, German, French, English, and Dutch, and it was a very useful feature to be able to look up words at a fast stroke in all of these languages, without having to go through the Dictionary app and change the look-up language manually.
I have a sparsebundle which I made for some documents, and Finder reports its size at 16mb. The capacity I created it with is 41mb, at least that is its reported capacity.
First time post here, so I do hope this goes in the right place. I'm having a problem installing and running a Windows application on OSX. I've Googled quite a lot and tried various apps, but now I'm using Wine on OSX 10.9.5 To keep this question simple, Wine appears to have worked and the Windows install shield ran without (I think) any problem.
Homebrew package manager for OS X suggests I run brew cleanup every 24 hours. What is the best way to automate this under OS X so that it happens every 24 hours?
So, my app store says it has 8 updates, but every time I go into my App Store nothing loads, not even the main menu. It's frustrating, does it have something to do with space or what? I need help, Ive tried going to different Wi-Fi hotspots but nothing is helping. Please help.
Reading over Apple's documents on how to wipe a machine, it's all about internet installs. Now it's been so long since I did anything with this machine, I don't recall the process... was 10.7.5 an internet-based install? What options do I have to wipe an old white MacBook?
I'm working behind a proxy. When I installed homebrew I've modified the official command: by adding a -x option to tell curl about the proxy:
So, it started right after Christmas when someone in our family got a brand new MacBook Air. She started having problems connecting to the internet right away, and then the rest of the macbooks (about 4 or so) had trouble connecting too. Up in the top bar at the top of the screen, the wifi icon shows that it is connected to the internet. But the wifi will turn off and on, and we figured out it had to do with the macs connecting to an ipv6 network. Every time it connects to an ipv6 network, it can't display any webpages. But anytime it connects to an ipv4 network, you can access anything that requires internet. Does anybody know about this?
I do a lot of webinars and sometimes ipads viewing the webinar have sound problems. I'm looking for a really easy way for them to test their speakers and mic. (Speakers are relatively easy to test, and often very commonly used, so it's more obvious (to them) if they aren't working.) But would be good to test both at the same time. Thanks!
I own this model: *=URL=* And I have an adapter thunderbolt to HDMI that works wonderfully with video, but no audio. Does someone has any advice on a product or the info about the capabilites of my mac to send audio AND video through thunderbolt port?
I have backed up my iPhone to iTunes (via wifi) to my Mac. How do I go back and view contacts, etc. on my mac?
I'm trying to get the special keys on my Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working under OS X El Capitan. Officially, Microsoft only offers limited support for this keyboard on Mac.
I'm trying to get all object properties and I use But I don't understand where to find output? Is there a special Automator function for logging?
Street addresses in Messages, Calendar, etc appear as links to click. But when I tap on these links, they open in Apple maps. I prefer to use google maps (or citymapper, where available). How can I configure my iPhone so that it's opening addresses in the maps application of my preference?
Does anyone know how to open Preview.app with the window maximised by default, in order to automatically fit the screen? Right now, the Preview window opens almost half screen and I think it is quire annoying to enlarge it manually. Thanks.
I'm just curious about something. So I have my iPad with a touch ID and I thought I set it up not to ask me for my Apple ID password in the settings:
I have a MacBook Pro, connected to my private Wi-Fi (Apple Time Capsule) network. I have another Wi-Fi guest network (Devolo). Opening who's on my Wi-Fi shows details of machines connected to my guest network, opening Devolo cockpit allows me to see and configure the Devolo Wi-Fi network, even when I'm connected to the other private network?
Is there any way that I can create haptic feedback with the integrated force touch trackpad on my rMBP using a terminal command (preferably without AppleScript, but if that's the only way, then sure.)?
I have tried to use the following method to install Windows 10 on my early 2008 Mac. Running OS X 10.7.5. Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB. How do I get Windows 10 installed on my macbook pro (late 2008)
I'm new to apple scripts and was wondering if there is a way the program the computer to press spacebar or left-click at defined times upon running of the script. For instance I will be able to same I want the system to press space bar then 2 after press it again and 1.4 seconds later press it again and so on.
I just got my ipad mini 4 for christmas. It has been working perfectly fine until this morning the battery was completely dead so I wen't to charge it and realized that it wasn't coming on. When I press the power button, the apple sign appears then the screen returns to being black. What is the issue? Is my battery gone?
I tried the old right click and select play on the drop down menu trick. Which didn't work. Now I'm fresh out of ideas. I'm using Vista Home and iTunes 12.0.1.26.
EDIT: Upon a second trip to the Genius Bar, I got a work authorization to have the laptop sent to an offsite facility for further inspection. This time around the guy I talked to suspects it's a logic board issue.
My MacBook Pro connects to my mobile phone when it is in sleep mode. If my hotspot is enabled it begins using data and I'd rather not have to remove the paraphrase for the hotspot every time I make it sleep. How can this behavior be disabled or prevented?
My mac is Macbook Pro (mid2014), OSX 10.11.3 (15D21). It disconnects literally every one minutes when I am watching stream on douyutv.com (Chinese version of Twitch). My other devices(smartphone, pad, pc) works all right. I did an experience that watch stream on all my devices, only mac disconnected. Is it a bug or just something wrong with my configuration?
I have inherited a Mid/Late 2007 MacBook Pro from a colleague (A1226) but it doesn't work. It won't start up at all. No boot, not even the SuperDrive sound. I've tried resetting the SMC but it didn't do anything. When I connect the charger, the green light comes on, but that's the only sign of anything I see. It's also missing the battery. He doesn't remember what happened to this particular computer but the battery is broken open. Looked like some serious damage to it.
I have erased my HD and tried to install OS Yosemite on MacBook Pro mid 2009. But keep getting this message "This item is temporarily unavailable." I've tried many proposed solutions but none seem to work. Any one experienced a similar problem?
I have DHCP and DNS services configured and enabled. If I turn ICS on in the sharing control panel it ignores the DHCP service from the server, yet allows me to connect to the internet from my clients. This also breaks the local DNS unless I start changing IPs and such. If I turn it off, I get control over the DHCP server, but nothing connects to the internet.
Themes are here. I do the following and notice that noting change in my presentation How can you install Beamer themes in OS X?
Is there a way to send an SMS via Applescript/Automator in either of these scenarios: When a low printer ink alert occurs ("Cyan is at or below 10%)
Is it possible to replace control characters like newline and tab in Pages version 5.6.1? I'm aware of How to use find and replace to replace a character with new line and the possibility of inserting literal characters in TextEdit by using option-return or option-tab but both those don't apply to current Pages version.
I'm on Mac OS X El Cap. And I'm using PS CS 6 Extended. If I switch to Photoshop, and do my work, then try to switch to say Chrome via cmd+tab, Photoshop stays on top. My questions:
Is there a way to know at a glance how many windows are open for an app? In the dock, using El Capitan, a black dot appears under running app icons, but if windows are on top of each other (i.e. Chrome main window, and Chrome Gmail composing new mail popup), there seem to be no way of knowing it without doing an Exposé of the app.
Problems arose today when I connected the 5th bluetooth device to my MacBook Pro. 1 new Apple keyboard 1 new Apple trackpad 1 old Apple keyboard 1 old Apple mouse (most recently connected) 1 Beats Wireless
On Windows, you can drag and drop the file using right mouse button, and choose Copy or Move. Moving a file is a very basic computing need.
I think the command above doesn't work because grep does not accept input. Anyway, to solve the problem I think I just need to add xargs as follows
I am interested in listening to older Prairie Home Companion shows on my MacBook Air 13 (mid-2012). An example is *=URL=* Those older shows say "Requires free RealAudio player." The RealAudio player download for Mac doesn't work on my MBA13. I've searched the web for advice. There is some that seems relevant, but I haven't found any that is concise and complete that would apply to my setup. My MBA13 is running El Capitan 10.11.3.
Which just shows an empty Backup folder and some inaccessible virtual machines from the time of Snow Leopard. How can I get rid of Parallels, its partition, and everything previously associated with it (hopefully, short of a complete wipe of the machine, but I'll do that if necessary)?
The Wifi disconnects every few minutes and only comes back online if Wifi is toggled off and on from the laptop. This only happens with this router. And the MB Pro is the only device in the home that has this issue.
On my internal hard disk "Other" (as shown in "About this Mac") is using 167.99 GB of 251 GB. I already used Daisy Disk and removed 30 GB (it was 200 GB before). How can I further reduce it?
I'm trying to make an Automator Service to insert the current date. I have one that works but it is only available in the Services menu when text is selected. I need it to be available when there is no text selected. Here is the Automator Services script:
I developed a bunch of specialized Quicklook plugins and would like to share them through the App store. Is there a way of packaging them and distributing them through the App Store?
In Windows I can happily fire up MS Paint and draw freehand circles with the brush tool on top of my screenshots. In OS X if I open up a screenshot with Preview and use the pen-looking thing and draw a freehand circle, it's automatically converted into a soulless oval. I also can't draw squiggly arrows or poorly scrawled text. Short of launching Photoshop (or whatever non-default app), is there a baked-in way to draw freehand circles in OS X?
I was wondering if it's possible to colour a recognised command in real time while typing and/or when switching to previous commands using the arrows. For example, if I start typing gre, it should not color anything, but once I finish typing my command completely, i.e. grep, it should color grep with a certain color.
My Mac Minis (which support Gigabit Ethernet) are physically connected through Gigabit Ethernet to my current generation Apple Airport Extreme (which has Gigabit Ethernet switch ports). If I add a Apple Airport Express (which is a 10/100 Mbps device does not support Gigabit) will it negatively affect network transfer speeds between the Mac Minis? Because it's on a switched network it shouldn't right? Will I experience flow control issues?
My Mac Pro 4.1 (circa 2009) has a MacPro Raid Card and the software shows two storage volumes - one 1TB SAS disk and one 2 TB SAS RAID volume. The removal of the Parallels volume leaves me with the following showing in Disk Utility: APPLE RAID Card Media: 1 TB SAS Internal Physical Drive ____Macintosh HD 999.14 GB SAS Internal Physical Volume OS X Extended APPLE RAID Card Media: 1.96 TB SAS Internal Physical Drive ____Untitled 1.96 TB SAS Internal Physical Volume OS X Extended
As the title of the question states, I would like to forward my iCloud email to my Gmail address. Specifically, I have an iCloud email that I made with my Apple ID as well as a Gmail address I made back in 2012 or something. Most of my emails go to my Gmail address, but I would still like to use my iCloud address for a few specific things. I know the easy answer is "go into your mail app and set up a filter to forward everything to your Gmail address," but the only Apple device I have is an iPhone and (as far as I can tell) you can't make filters from there. Given this information, how can I forward all my iCloud email to my Gmail address?
Back in the days of the Macintosh IIfx, when Dylan was going to be the Next Big Lanugage, I saw a video of a research program on voice recognition at Apple. The research claimed that the key to doing voice recognition was using a statistical match called a correlogram - which has a corresponding audio diagram. This diagram looks similar to the 'speech wave' we see when speaking to Siri.
I am planning to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (on a Macbook Pro that was updated to Yosemite) after being told that I have some corruption in my hard drive. The computer (only 3 years old) has slowed down significantly in the last few months, especially when opening directories containing large amounts of files and when loading large documents in Photoshop and other applications. I had doubled my RAM (as a bandaid solution) and that seemed to make a difference for a while, but I now I need to do something about it.
A combination of two problems: (1) Either my Mac or my iPhone has a Wi-Fi problem; and (2) the cell provider's DNS servers have issues. Because of the second problem, I explicitly specify other servers for the iPhone Wi-Fi. But due to the first, I use the USB connection.
I have an iMac and a 2009 Mac Pro 4.1. Both run OS X 10.11.3. I recently used Migration Assistant to move data, applications, and settings from the iMac to the Mac Pro.
When I try to access a keychain password using the keychain access GUI, I always get a dialog box for inputting the current keychain (login) password.  However, when I try the same thing from the command line using commands like the following there is no such dialog for password input and the password is just given without any form of validation. Is there any way to change this?
So I have a macbook air and it is stuck on the version 10.8 and I have checked app store for updates and I clicked on the apple logo and clicked software updates. It says I have none available when clearly there are newer versions out there. This prevents me from downloading some things because they require my version to be 10.10 or higher. Please help.
my wifes macbook pro started acting very strange this evening, and i can't seem to figure out what is wrong with it at all. here is a list of various issues that all seemingly started tonight: ReportCrash using between 90 - 150% cpu syslogd using over 150% cpu (although not at the same time as ReportCrash) various programs not opening, including: mail, photos, preview, chrome, app store very intermittent internet connection (via wi-fi) safari stating the certificate for google.com is not trusted system crash, followed by kernal panic error message after restart system crash during restart spotlight search not showing applications in results, despite the option being ticked in preferences various processes (not responding), including: steam helper, adobe creative cloud (when trying to upgrade to el capitan) : el capitan upgrade asking for password to install, accepting password but not progressing, asking for password again, ad infinitum "All My Files" folder showing no files. etc, etc,
I'm currently on Mac OSX 10.11.3 running Parallels Desktop 10.3.0. I've been using a Windows 7 VM loaded with Visual Studio & many other .NET Framework app development programs & utilities that all require a myriad of keyboard shortcuts in order to get the job done. So, I configured Parallels Desktop to send ALL keypresses to the VM when it has the focus so that these "myriad" Windows shortcuts won't conflict with the Mac OSX ones (which are myriad x 4 since I'm a keyboard/productivity geek).
I am using a 13" MacBook Pro (mid 2012) and I have upgraded to OS X 10.11 El Capitan a while ago. Last night before going to bed I switched off the computer. Since this working the built-in Ethernet that was working fine does not seem to work anymore. I have deleted the network interfaces and rebooted the system, but still it does not show up in the network preferences. Is there a fix? What should I do?
How to test, and, ideally, fix this issue? How can I isolate the reason for the audio lag with the Charge 2+?
At home I've got a nice big display that unfortunately does not have the same resolution as my retina macbook does. I'd like to use a pixel-font on the low-res screen and a nice smooth one on the retina screen. To do this I've set up a script that listens to an event when the display is connected. I've set up two profiles in Terminal.app, one for the low-res screen and one for the retina screen. Is there a way to make a profile the "default" profile (eg using applescript) without restarting Terminal.app (otherwise defaults com.apple.terminal ... would have done it) The following script works by changing the current default profile (so it's not entirely what I need, but might work if I find the names of all the settings I want to change): I'd have to write a script to revert the changes
I copied some video file to a folder in iCloud and when I opened the iCloud Drive app on my iPhone and selected a file, it started downloading. But if I went back and selected the file again, the download started from scratch. So if I have 100 movies, I have to select a file, wait for it to download and select the next one, and so forth. I searched for an option to download offline all the files but couldn't find one.
When I open a pdf file from finder, how can I make Preview jump to the front with the file I want? Currently what is happening is that I open the file, but Preview remains behind the Finder windows. I am sure that this problem is new in my computer, since otherwise I would have noticed earlier (this is really annoying). Thanks in advance.
I'm using Windows 10 (32 bit) with Boot Camp on an early 2009 iMac. I recently got an X2 from Ovann (*=URL=* and looks like this (*=URL=* I've tried this on OS X and on Windows and checked the recording devices; it seems that whenever I talk or test the microphone it doesn't get any input.
This morning, when launching an application I purchased from the App store some time ago, I was greeted with a sign-in box telling me that Apple needed to verify the application. I signed in using my iTunes password (which I've since double checked, and I know I entered accurately), and was greeted with the following message in reply:
Spotify frequently updates, and I keep losing my custom icon. How can I automate changing the icon?
I'm trying the following but not having any success in seeing anything cleared: rm -R /Users//Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/.default/Cache Thanks!
On mobile Safari there are 4 settings for cookies: Always block Allow from current website only Allow from websites I visit Always allow #1 makes sense but I am unable to distinguish the 3 remaining options. Other browsers have settings to allow all cookies (could be #3 or #4 above) or only from the current website (eg on example.com don't allow cookies from thirdparty.com; could be #2 or #3 above).
I downloaded Recolor app. Hen I got a bill and did not know there was a charge for this app. I deleted the app and on the receipt I received I reported the problem that I didn't know there was a charge. I thought that this would stop me from getting charged. But I am still getting charges Can you help me?
I have a PC and a 2011 Mac mini on one wireless network, which does not have Internet access. The Mac mini is also connected to another network which has Internet access.
I have a Keynote file with a lot of animations on the slides. I wish to record myself giving a presentation while playing the slides in full screen as a movie. Is there a way to export Keynote animations to a video format so that I can combine my audio recording with these animations in iMovie?
Now, when opening the System Preferences under Network I only see the Status: Not Connected message` for the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter. I am using a MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2013) and an AirPort Time Capsule (in the more recent 802.11ac tower version). I have tried various solutions that one can find online, but none of those worked.
Is there any anti-virus that is free for Mac OSX that is like AVG or Avast for PCs? Is there a malwarebytes version for Mac OSX?
Why, when I move (using mouse) one folder into another, instead of moving, copying process starts? How to fix it? OS X El Capitan Folders are located on an external drive, GUID partition scheme, connected via USB.
My mom has an iPhone 4 (or 4S) and she has taken so many photos that there are 0 Bytes space left. I can't install apps to delete files on the phone directly. I can't move files via USB. I can't delete files via USB. Windows 7 shows the "Deleting ..." window but nothing happens (not even on a single photo). So how can I delete all those photos (backups done) or even better the whole phone including iOS?
I bought an In-App Purchase yesterday. While buying the app crashed, so I tried to restore the purchase (money was already taken from my account). But if I'm entering my correct Apple-ID password (works when logging in into iTunes), it says:
Safari 7.1.x is not included in any standard release of OS X or iOS/iOS emulator, and as far as I know it is also not included in any standalone package that one could simply download and install on some old virtual device. But I noticed that Browserstack has a VM running Mavericks with a version of Safari 7.1.8. Would it be possible to recreate such a virtual machine locally, and how?
If we submit the App Preview in the MOV format, will it be compressed on the Apple side to a shorter format (e.g. MPEG4) or will it be streamed to the user as MOV? In another word, do we have to convert the recorded MOV to MPEG4? As we all know MOV are very big and not good for streaming.
How do I customize the news sources in Spotlight suggestions? I don't want to disable as others have answered. I want to remove certain suggestions that require subscriptions to read the articles. It is not totally location based. I get results from LA Times and I'm somewhere Louisiana.
I want to export my iTunes library to an external hard disc such that it RETAINS structure of all artist folders, album folders and music files within. I would also like to separately export playlists from the library such that they retain all artist folders, album folders and music files.
I have macbook pro 15" (late 2011). Its showing a distorted green logo and loading bar on starting. Its taking around 10 min then showing just white screen. I tried resetting pram, but its still the same. What might be the issue ? How to fix ?
I have six accounts. I've been to the iPhone push tab and have set the two I want to push to push and the rest to manual but they all push. I've rebooted the phone, tried to toggle off and on, and still have all or nothing. I've tried closing out the email application on the iPhone and no joy.
I'm trying to copy and paste a number (tracking number) from a UPS notification into a cell on Numbers. I want the number to appear with the link hidden but it keeps pasting the entire URL in the cell. Excel did this for me and I am new to numbers.
P.S. I searched those songs on Apple Music to add from there. Some don't have the option of "Add to My Music" while some would create a duplicate file in the iTunes Media>Apple Music folder if that option exists and I click it (these songs do show up on Library).
I want to bind Ctrl+Tab to \033[27;5;9~ and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to \033[27;6;9~. Unless I am missing something, the default Mac OS X terminal emulator will not let you bind these key sequences to custom escape sequences like it does with the "F" keys (F1, F2, etc.) and most other keys. Is there another terminal emulator I can use on Mac OS X that does support rebinding those keys?
Is there any way to bypass this dialog box or get my passwords in raw form? The model is Macbook Pro, and the OS version is Yosemite 10.11.3 Thanks in advance,
I tried to run following program on my Mac terminal. But it doesn't print anything and takes forever. I tried some online platform to execute and got error message """Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 6, in mysock.connect(('www.py4inf.com', 80)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) socket.error: [Errno 110] Connection timed out""" I put print statement after True: and before line "data = " and it prints statement there and then takes forever. My Python environment is And in different computer, it works. Can anybody identify an issue?
My iPad Air works fine until I charge it. Then it won't turn on no matter which methods I use. I've tried them all. After two or three days of non use you can turn it on and no problems until next time I charge it. Two different Apple repair store have run diagnostics when it's working. Can't find anything wrong.
iPhone 5s, iOS 9 I currently leave my phone almost exclusively on silent mode using the switch on the side so that it vibrates on notifications. But I want it to ring when one particular person calls me. Is this possible?
In my iTunes (12.3.2) I want to have ringtones and books show up under library. But only Music & Purchased shows up under library. I went to iTunes preferences/general and did not get the option to have those two ringtones and books show up.
I have an iPhone iOS 9 it has been place under supervision via Apple Configurator. I cannot seem to transfer supervisor powers to SimpleMDM. How would I go about doing that?
For executing file in linux terminal we run something like this: ./sflm -start Now, if i want this procedure is done by executing a script file what should i do ? I want to for example run this command : ./script.pl and then it run automatically my main command (./sflm -start). Thanks in advance
My minimal working example of the issue is watching twitch.tv with the flash-player (ie flash enabled in safari). This is enough to kill the WiFi within a minute.
I am particularly interested in copying several chunks of text and then paste all of them together into another app
Apple introduced Pages, Numbers, and Keynote as a Mac native platform for documents such as letters, spreadsheets, and presentations. These applications come pre-loaded with OS X, as they did with my computer, however, after re-installing OS X after having unrelated issues with my computer, I found that these iWork applications were simply no longer there. So, I transferred the suite from a colleague's computer to my own, however, said applications soon became obsolete, as I couldn't update them without my colleague's password. So, I deleted the applications once more, as they were rendered useless.
I have $25 in my account and can see the balance. I am trying to buy something that is $24.95. When I try to buy it, it tells me I have insufficient funds and wants me to change my billing information to a credit card. I have clicked on None and it won't apply my $25 and keeps wanting me to add a credit card which I don't want to do. How do I purchase using my balance that is already in my account???
1 week back my 1TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive which I used for Time Machine backup fell on ground. I freaked out and immediately connected it back to Mac. and to my horror the drive didn’t showed up neither desktop nor on Disk utility. I checked it again and found that the light was still on. There were no sounds which indicate physical damage I mean clicking, buzzing, tickling or damaged component sound. I looked on the web to scan this hard drive with some software and found this link *=URL=* but again the drive isn’t getting recognized by the software. Thisa drive is no longer in warranty. Could someone let me know how should I open the hard drive safely? What tools I might require? Will changing the enclosure bring back this drive? I still believe the hard drive might be OK since there is no signs of physical damaged and its light is still on. Please help ….
I'm trying to install my own .ipa (i'm developing an app) from iTunes (windows) into my iPhone 6 (iOS 9.2.1). It usually working with no trouble at all, until suddenly the iTunes said my app is installed, but i can't find it on my iPhone. and when i try to remove it via iTunes, it just turn into "will remove" stage. I don't know what seems to cause it.
I have a script monta.sh to mount an external volume: Then I have a com.jo.monta.plist to launch the script after system boot placed in /Library/LaunchDaemons: I've tested the script from the command line and it works, however if I log in after boot the volume is not mounted.
My Macbook has suddenly stopped generating preview icon of all file types. So all files are now replaced by their respective generic file type icons (see picture attached). Moreover, when I quicklook any file, the preview appears corrupted. I have not updated any software recently, nor have I modified any file systems. Any help would be much appreciated!
My Ethernet connection is not working on my computer (mid 2015). I already rebooted, deleting the files "NetworkInterfaces.plist" and "preferences.plist" into the folder "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration". I opened a terminal window, giving this command and then I rebooted again. But nothing seems to work. Any idea?
I have something they weird with a few app (e.g mail, message...) E.g in Message, when I have my cursor on the top of a conversation and I scroll to the left to delete the conversation, the UI stop responding (but the process is still working fine) I removed com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist but didn't help Screenrecording *=URL=* Screenrecording TinyPic
Sometimes if an app needs keychain access MagicPrefs blocks clicks in the allow/disallow dialog, here it is:   I can click only "Deny" from there. And now if I force close MagicPrefs and try again it's all ok and I don't get any new errors in Console. My question is how to make it not to block keychain?
I have some executable files in OS X which I want to access from terminal from any area. For example in Linux, we can copy executables or binaries to /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. So similar to that where can I copy executables in OS X? I have downloaded Firefox and copied it to /Applications. Now I want to execute Firefox from any area without going in to the /Applications.
I am trying to experiment with the custom VPN support added in iOS 9.0, in particular the class NETunnelProviderManager. I have gotten the "routing by destination IP" mode working somewhat, and now moving on to try the "Per-App VPN mode". I am using Apple's SimpleTunnel test program found here. I am trying the steps specified here in the Apple documentation to create the MDM profile, but when I try to add the profile to my device it fails with the following errors: For now I am making the assumption the root error is indicated by the first line, in other words the issue where it cannot find VPN plugin bundle "com.example.apple-samplecode.SimpleTunnel.abc.PacketTunnel.xyz".
tl;dr: I'd like to avoid OS X thinking the [Command] key is being held down when I [Alt][Tab] away from a Windows TightVNC session, or at least get the [Command] key to auto-release after a period of time. I'm using TightVNC on a Windows 8 x64 box to access a Mac OS X El Capitan box through standard built-in OS X Screen Sharing. The combination works great for my purposes, with one exception: when TightVNC has focus and I hit [Alt][Tab] on the Windows box to switch focus to another application, the OS X understandably sees the [Alt] key go down, but never come back up. Because the Windows [Alt] key maps to the OS X [Command] key, the OS X box is left thinking I never released the [Command] key. Therefore, when I return to the TightVNC session a minute, hour, or month later and begin typing, the results are often surprising and sometimes bad, because OS X still thinks the [Command] key is depressed.
I installed Ubuntu on my Mac however when I boot up it doesn't give me an option to boot to anything like it used to, now it just boots straight to Ubuntu. I am wondering how I can boot to my OS X
I installed Windows 10 using the official ISO and one of the serials I have with MSDN. When I reboot my Macbook Air 2013 it gets stuck on a black screen for around a minute and then start loading Windows. I only have a windows partition at the moment.
I have a MacBook Air A1237. I can hear the "dong" from startup, but in OS I couldn't hear anything.
Are there universal "go to the top" / "go to the bottom" keyboard shortcuts that will work for all apps when using Mac keyboards that lack Home/End buttons (e.g. MacBook Pro)? The Mac Keyboards Shortcuts page on the Apple support site says: Fn–Left Arrow Home: Scroll to the beginning of a document. Fn–Right Arrow End: Scroll to the end of a document. Command–Up Arrow Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document. Command–Down Arrow Move the insertion point to the end of the document.
First of all I don`t use iMessage. I log out of iMessage on my iDevices.
I have the advanced passcode enabled on my iPhone (i.e. a full passphrase as opposed to a simple numeric unlock code.) When I wake up my iPhone and enter the passcode, quite often it freezes. I have to hit the sleep button and wake it up again and try again. Often it takes 2 or 3 attempts.
I have some strange behaviour in my MBP 15" (Early 2013) with fresh El Capitan installation. Sometimes it freezes for about 20 seconds then shuts down with no message. This began after changing screen with stagnate problem. How to identify this problem and how can I solve it?
I have iTunes 12.3.2.35 installed on my Windows 10 Pro PC. I open the preferences dialogue box and switch to the "Advanced" tab. I uncheck "Enable full keyboard navigation" and click on OK. I open the preferences dialogue box again and the "Enable full keyboard navigation" checkbox is still checked. Does anyone have a work around for this? Thanks.
On my new mac machine, I could not do autocomplete for Git when I hit Tab. So I thought to modify the terminal and found certain things on this link.
So I have a bash script like this: When I run this from command line, it echoes the last line, so no errors or something and makes changes to the file. I then try to create an Applescript with these contents:
So I got one of those SD card flush mounts, but it occasionally self ejects. I'm trying to solve that via kextunload given on this page Entering: Returns:
So I wonder if I can use 2 external monitors on my Late 2009 21,5 iMac? I currently use 1 external monitor and it works great but I now want to sell it and use 2 external monitors but there is only one thunderbolt display output.
Ever since Yosemite came out, I have not been able to look at my screen for more than 10 minutes without it causing me a headache. I was hoping that this would be resolved with El Capitan, but that wasn't the case either.
I've found that this issue is head-phone specific, perhaps brand-specific or in all likelihood, bluetooth implementation specific. Of the few others I've since tried I found that Bose wireless headphones to not have this issue. However, other problems with distortion sometimes occurred instead!
Today I noticed the QuickLook feature stopped displaying .jpg, .png, and .pdf file previews. Desktop icons for these types don't show thumbnails. Pressing SPACE with the file selected in Finder just shows the iconic type of file it is. And I've tried the CNET recommended fixes: qlmanage -r qlmanage -r cache checking in /Macintosh HD/System/Library/QuickLook/, /Macintosh HD/Library/QuickLook/, and ~/Library/QuickLook/ removing the files called com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper.plist, com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist, and com.apple.QuickLookDaemon.plist Other QuickLook file types work well. At first, it looked like the control was taken over by Lytro: Reinstalling the new Lytro desktop, things changed. More disturbing was this... Dropbox seems to be taking control:
This behaviour is hard to reproduce and doesn't happen everytime. But I have been able to catch it happening with a screengrab. I am playing an album in iTunes and have iTunes set to album view, then switch from iTunes to Safari (or another app, but Safari is used in this example) using cmd then Tab:
When I open Apple Mail, I see the normal mailboxes and stuff, but nothing shows up in my inbox. Not unread messages or read messages. I have to click into another mailbox and click back to get it to show up. It is a relatively minor thing, but very annoying. Any help is much obliged. I did rebuild the mailbox, and it didn't fix the problem. Running El Capitan on a 2015 Macbook pro, I use a gmail account.
I have hundreds of sound effects - clips just a few seconds long each - that are all m4a files. I need to convert them to mp3 files. What's the best way of doing this? I see Automator can automate some conversions, but m4a to mp3 isn't one of them.
My HDD is encrypted. Accessing Terminal from Recovery Mode -> Utilities. The location /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/ doesn't contain <user>.plist. There is an user account for sure and I can see it on regular boot. Any ideas what is wrong and alternatively where can I find password hashes for user accounts.
I have lots filters that move junk mails to trash. But Mail app is downloading all mails from trash every time and wasting my bandwidth. How can I configure it to skip trash folder?
Why do I have all these duplicate public (& one duplicate private) Apple ID keys? & Can I remove the extras so I just have one public & one private key? There is no identifying information differentiating any of them from one another when you open them up & none of them have any apps/services assigned to them.
I been trying to listen to the music in my MacBook Air early-2015 however when I close it the music stops. How can I fix this?
In previous versions of Disk Utility there were checkboxes whether to store the password in the keychain or not while creating an encrypted dmg image. Now there are less options. Does the new version of Disk Utility safe the password in the keychain by default when an encrypted dmg volumes is created?
Trying to find out how to save email attachments like a pdf to a folder and can't figure out what I'm missing using the following. Any ideas?
Sometimes the ambient background noise in my environment is enough to keep Siri engaged after I've just asked Siri for something. Siri can hear my voice clearly atop the background noise, as evidenced by her transcription of what she's heard so far -- the problem is, Siri keeps on listening until there is quiet. Examples of the type of background noise I am referring to include TV shows, boisterous guests, music, lawnmower, construction, etc. Similar to this question regarding telling Siri about newlines, is there a way to issue some kind of military-style <<\over>> or <<\end transmission>> or unix-style <<\EOF>>to let her know that there is nothing else to hear, and to process my input as-is?
I hate open/save dialogs. They suck. Specifically, I want the same functionality as...
I'm frequently having huge issues selecting text in iOS Safari (and other apps using WebKit). See this video for an example, where I'm visiting Ars Technica and try to select the name of a commenter (mr/ms "Twilight Sparkle"): Video (24 MB, 1 minute): *=URL=* I used a full minute to select the name, and even then, the text selection guides indicate that something is SNAFU. This frequently occurs on sites where OS X Safari allows flawless text selection, so to me this looks like a bug, or at least a very poorly implemented feature. Non ideal solutions: Select too much text, paste it into Notes and then select a subset of the text. Zooming – doesn't solve the issue consistently Reader mode – isn't always available Jailbreaking – feels like overreacting Other tips for how to improve this situation?
My MacBook has been brutally shutting down by itself while in sleep. It always happens a few hours after shutting down the lid, right when switching to the StandBy sleep mode, right at the following line in the logs: kernel[0]: ARPT: 65547.227633: IOPMPowerSource Information: onSleep, SleepType: Standby, 'ExternalConnected': No, 'TimeRemaining': 7367 (other SleepTypes are fine).
So dialog Install additional required components is reappear several times. I didn't notice regular period of time when this question appear but it's keep reappear when I want to launch Xcode. Several times I did install this components but I'm starting to thinik that this isn't normal. I do have 4 plugins : SCXcodeEditorInset VVDocumenter-Xcode XcodeBoost Xcode_beginning_of_line
I modified the default org.postfix.master.plist of postfix to run as a daemon, so it can send me e-mail whenever a local user receives a mail. Default: Modified:
When I connect to my office network via OpenVPN, my /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten and changes my hostname as well. I guess it is assigning a hostname randomly picked by the DHCP/DNS. Since it is editing my resolv.conf file I am unable to access my local network. How to overcome this?
On Windows and Linux, when I'm typing in Hebrew and pressing the shift key, the input language automatically changes to upper case English (just while the shift is pressed, when I let it go it changes back to Hebrew). Is this possible on OS X also?
I would like to record a camera video on my iPad, but I do not want to use the internal microphone. I have a USB audio interface connected with the Camera Connection Kit, and the interface works flawlessly in audio apps. I can record multichannel audio no problem. iOS sets the audio interface as default audio device, so it's usually plug in & record, easy. But the iOS camera app doesn't seem to work with the audio interface - it records silence when the audio interface is connected. I want to record the video from the camera, and audio from the audio interface inputs.
I use a spare smartphone with no SIM card as a navigation tool in my car. This works fine with offline maps, but I can't use things like Waze. I also have an iPhone which I carry around with me, which does have a SIM card. I wanted to know if there was a way to have the iPhone automatically start its Personal Hotspot tethering when it sees the other phone is in range via Bluetooth.
I understand that Apple's iPhone Lightning Dock has a headphone socket that I can use: Connect the dock to powered speakers or a stereo using a 3.5mm cable (sold separately) to play music and podcasts from your iPhone
I have deleted an information in a note I need to recover. The note is purely local (not synched in the cloud or on any other device). I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan V10.11.3 and the Apple app "Notes" Version 4.2 (549.10.1). I do have several Time Machine backups available. I did find several solutions on the internet but they seems to apply to older version of the Notes app. If I open the Time Machine backup and go to: The subfolder "Notes" has an old databases "NotesV6.storedata" but not modified since my upgrade to El Capitan so it's an old version. Note that this database could contain the info I'm looking for so a solution to my immediate issue may be to find a way to read it...
A year before this (around April 2015), my display had died, but it revived itself overnight somehow. I used it on my external LG TV, and after it revived itself, it used "HD-709 A as the default color profile, and even if I changed it back to "Color LCD", the HD-709 A would stay on the login screen.
In the past, I had used only an external hard drive for my backups. It worked great, and it backed up to folders, in a way that I could go to individual files in the backup. I decided that since I was on a laptop, I should be backing up wirelessly (so I don't have to keep it plugged in). After my first painfully long backup to my old Time Capsule, I realized the file was not a folder but a .sparsebundle file. What is this? How do I change it back?
Mail merge is greyed out, in MS Word so I'm guessing that it needs to talk directly to Outlook instead of Apple's mail app. I read somewhere that Outlook as to be set as the default in Mail.app, but I can't find how to do that. Is this possible to get Word's Mail Merge working on OS X?
I bought a Mac (13", early 2011) almost 5 years ago. When I first got it, it was running under OS X 10.7 and it was pretty fast. I've being upgrading it ever since and it's now running under Mac OS X 10.11. I guess it didn't totally survive the upgrades because, today, there's a lot of bugs, freezes, lags, "spinning beach ball" appearing,... for example, when I write something on a normal program/editor, the cursor freezes for a few seconds, then catches up to what I'm writting.
I have a mid-2011 Mac Air running OS 10.11.3 and I repeatedly have to run a DNS flush to resolve issues connecting to the internet. This seems to be a recent problem and I don't know what has caused it. Is there a better long term solution than just having to occasionally run a DNS flush? [edited to correct a typo in OS version number]
I just bought a new 6S iPhone. How do I transfer all my old 6 iPhone to my new phone. I have loaded icloud onto my computer and think I backed up my old phones data. Now.... how do transfer from icloud on my computer to my new 6Siphone?
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13 from 2015 that is crashing very often lately. Please, help me on some directions to do. This is the crash log:
I just got a new keyboard. How can I remap the FN key on only this external keyboard to option? So far I've played around with karabiner but haven't had success.
When installing and configuring an app via MDM for managed iOS devices, can a user install a second copy of the app for personal use (with different data and settings)? If not, what will happen if the user has the app already installed? Will existing data be lost, will the existing data come under MDM control (and subsequently be deleted with the app on MDM profile uninstall), or will the install just fail?
I have two machines side by side and cannot get the new one to mimic the app expose behavior. 10.10.3 Yosemite - 3 finger down will show all windows in the current app 10.11.3 El Capitan - 3 finger down does nothing
I have an HDMI to VGA connector and a Samsung LED screen. The screen is fine, the VGA cable is fine, the connector is fine (tried with different laptops running Ubuntu and Windows). The Problem: I'm plugging the HDMI-VGA connector in my Macbook Pro 2015 but the display doesn't show on the external screen.
I have a bunch of files and I would like to remove all characters preceding the second underscore in the file names. An example is shown below. How do I do this using bash commands? [From] [To]
I have a lot of external hard disk drives, mainly formatted in NTFS since I have both Windows and Mac. I know iDefrag, but it only works with HFS hard drives and I was wondering if there are any utilities to defrag NTFS drives.
There are iOS devices in my household which do not have iCloud calendar syncing enabled. However, I would like to have a shared calendar that is contained within my household and not replicated on the cloud (iCloud, Google or other).
After an upgrade from 10.10 to 10.11, my rails environment was broken. I've removed the broken open-source projects/files and now I'm trying to install HomeBrew. But I receive this message:
– this gives some good info. But, nothing about real-time speed.
I'm running into a weird issue over the last couple days where I can't see any content on the iOS "App Store" when viewed on the device. Blank screen is visible. It seems that I can still update apps, and the updates screen has updates available. How can I fix the "blank screen" problem with the Apple iOS App store? THere's no spinner visible and the app can just sit there with no content refreshing. See screenshot:
I recently bought a new power adapter off Amazon, and it worked with my mid-2014 MBP at work and my colleague's mid-2014 MBP, but not my mid-2012 MBP Retina 15" (which, frustratingly, it was bought as a replacement for). The green light comes on, but doesn't switch to orange to indicate charging, nor does the machine detect it.
In Homebrew, to clean up outdated packages, we do brew cleanup, and currently I have about 9.5GB worth of old packages, pending for removal. However, I really do not like to remove old python versions. Are there ways to clean up old homebrew packages except python? It would be a dream to have command like brew cleanup -k python python3 (-k for formula to keep). Thanks Here is a list of packages from brew cleanup -n
I just upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X El Capitan and I wanted to update my Windows 7 to Windows 10. But, before that, I need to make a backup of my Windows partition. As I've done it before, I have a Windows (NTFS) partition on a backup HDD. The thing is, I want to make a new backup with Carbon Copy Cloner, but it tell's me it can't be done because there are two volumes with same UUID. OK, then, I fight with my Windows backup partition to have it a different UUID from the one I got for my "local" Windows partition... and I'm loosing the fight ! I have this when using diskutil info /dev/disk0s2 : ... and I have this using diskutil info /dev/disk1s4 : As you can see, the "Disk / Partition UUID" is different, but not the "Volume UUID". Does anybody have a solution to change the "Volume UUID"?
Ever since my transition to 10.10.5 Yosemite, quick look keeps corrupting the preview images every now and then. Sometimes is persists until reboot, other times it goes away after a while. The image files themselves are fine and open and display in any application. Any ideas? Example:
I know about How do I make windows save their position on screen after re-attaching a display? However, that and all other related questions appear to be very old, and I'm hoping that there's a new way to do this.
I am developing iOS apps with Swift, and don't want to buy an Apple device to test them, and have just got an iPod 4gen which supports iOS up to 6.1. I just wanna know if there is absolutely no possible way for me to install iOS 8 or 9? or even 7? I am willing to take all risks, I don't care if it get's super slow or even bricks my device while trying.
I want to play Game Boy Advance games on my iPhone, but I can't install a working Game Boy Advance emulator on my iPhone. I have iOS 9.2.1 installed on my phone. I searched for tutorials online, but the app can't be installed. Is there any way to play Game Boy Advance games on an iPhone?
I have a four videos of the same event (a band playing) all taken from different angles. I'd like to make a concert video of the footage. Nothing special, just cut from angle to angle throughout the song -- use the guitar player close up on the guitar solo -- that sort of thing. Is there a way in iMovie to layout each video in a separate "layer" (sort of like in Photoshop), and then (after I sync them to the audio), movie the "camera" from one layer to another? If iMovie can't do that, is there other software that can? Thanks!
I've just finished setting up a mail address for my father. He has a custom domain name, and the he's able to receive/send email with this custom address via Gmail. On his iPhone and iPad, he's using the default mail client, and it's linked to his Gmail account. Since he receives emails from 2-3 different accounts already, it's confusing to know which mail was sent to which address. In Gmail, you have the option to label the incoming messages, so you can quickly scan your emails and see exactly which were received from which address. Is this option or any alternative available on the iPhone default mail client? The labels are working if he uses the Gmail app, but he would rather keep using the default mail client. Thank you for the help!
So I bought Samsung 850 EVO, 250GB, and plugged it into my Macbook (Mid-2010, Macbook 7.1). I installed it without mounting screws, because I don't have screwdriver to unscrew the ones from the old HDD (Toshiba, 256GB). I have on a USB thumb drive (16GB) installation of El Capitan, made using DiskMaker 5. Surprisingly, when I restarted the laptop and immediately hold the Option key, nothing happens except the blue screen and a cursor on it. There is no recovery screen or anything (that was actually supposed to happen). I then replaced the SSD with my old HDD and everything works fine as before. Anyone knows what might be the problem? I will go and buy the adequate screwdriver, but I don't know which one though. WHen I try manual installation through terminal I get this message at the end of the process: Couldn't mount dmg /Volumes/Install OS X El Capitan/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code 112)Mount of outer dmg failed.
I have an early-2009 Mac Pro at work that had 10.10.3 on it. I attempted to update it (using the cached update on the local OS X update server) to 10.10.4 but, after boot, it got stuck on the grey screen with the progress bar at 50%. Rebooting in verbose mode shows "Missing bluetooth controller transport".
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2014) running El Capitan. Whenever I close the lid it doesn't sleep! The Apple light dims and the screen turns off, but my battery drains at a normal rate. Sleep is also grayed out in the top-left  menu. Please help!
Can I use SSD Samsung 850 EVO , 250gb in Macbook Mid-2010 (Macbook 7.1) without mounting screws? I got a brand new SSD but without mounting screws. There are mounting screws on my HDD currently, but I can't pull them out of it, because I don't have a screwdriver.
I just created three albums at iCloud.com that I'd like to give other people read access to. The information here describes only how to create a new shared album, but the albums I want to share have already been created. The people I'll be sharing with don't have Apple devices.
I recently had to reload Yosemite on my Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2014) and after booting it up this morning and allowing a application to run, my password box looks like this. Any help would be appreciated.
I just wondering whether its possible to remove the left, right and top margin (or just all margin) temporarily in iTerm2 windows. My goal was to make the vim-airline looks better in iTerm2 by removing those margin. Here's the screenshot of the margin I want to remove..
I am trying to find a solution/plugin to remind me about adding attachments to an email on MacMail (using OS X El Capitan). I tried the "just double check your email, you idiot" option to no avail. There is a depreciated plugin and wanted to know if any alternatives have been developed, or if there's a new sneaky setting that might do this for me. I also found this post but given that's 3+ years old I would like more up to date feedback, in the hope that Apple has opened a new door. Anyone know of a simple solution to this?
I turned on my Mac one day and found that Alt + 3 no longer types a hash (#) symbol, but types a pound (£) instead. I’ve checked the keyboard input source in System Preferences and it’s set to U.S. (which is to be expected). I’ve also found I can type a hash symbol with Shift + 3, but this is undesirable as I’m a website developer, use hashes frequently, and it’s in my muscle memory to hit Alt + 3 for a hash. What would affect this?
I've already set up in system preferences, checkbox Use all F1, F2,... as standard function (checked on). But still after Cmd ⌘ F on Chrome, pressing F3 won't do anything... I expected Find Next would go.... only way is pressing Cmd ⌘ G any chance?
I used to record iOS devices through QuickTime, however now it's only recording audio (not sure is this linked to OS X 10.11 or iOS 9). How can I fix this (without third party sofrware)?
I've installed some apps on external hard drive, as I don't have enough space on my macbook's drive. Sadly macbook behaves really weirdly few times a day. Basically it freezes completely (although youtube video is still playing if it happens) and I cannot do anything - mouse, keyboard, touchpad are not working and I only can turn it of by pressing power button for a longer time. I think it happens only when something runs from that external drive. My macbook info:
I have iPhone 6s 64GB. I got 64GB because 16GB just wasn't cutting it. I didn't want to worry about memory being full. However last night out of nowhere, I got the message saying my storage is almost full.
I know this or similar problems have been discussed, but (to be honest) I can't see the trees for the wood. I tried to create a partition on my fusion drive (1TB Hd + 240 MB SSD). No partition was created but afterwards the capacity of my (1.2 TB) drive had been reduced to 617 GB. With 414 GB in use, approximately 400 GB of disk space is missing.
How can I make it so Terminal will remember the currently open windows on Quit, and reopen those windows, with all the existing text intact? I have two machines: Both on El Cap Both on El Cap Both with identical Terminal preferences, including: Profiles > Window > Restore text when reopening windows [checked] Profiles > Shell > When the shell exits [Don't close the window] Both with identical Terminal preferences, including: Profiles > Window > Restore text when reopening windows [checked] Profiles > Shell > When the shell exits [Don't close the window] Both with identical .bash_profiles (just for LSCOLORS) Both with identical .bash_profiles (just for LSCOLORS) On the first machine, Terminal reopens windows exactly as I left them before Quit.
Is there any way to change the key mapping of the apple keyboard? As programmer I find annoying there's a comma instead a dot in numeric keypad. I would remap this key to have dot ...
I heard somewhere that the maximum HDD size that my Mid 2010 Mac Pro can handle is 4TB. Is this correct? If not, how big can I go?
Does anyone know any Mac alternative that has the exact features that Paint.NET has when it comes to creating pixel art, and free? With Paint.NET I'm able to select whatever pixels in the grid to drag them, or change their colors all at once, or delete them, or to give the mirror/reflect (horizontally/vertically) effect.
I have a bit of a problem with Final Cut Pro. Specifically, my library file is now 22GB, which, on a 120GB SSD (I'm running a MacBook Air with OS X El Capitan) is way too big. I've been careful to select "leave files in place" whenever I import media into Final Cut Pro, yet the library file is still growing and growing. Am I doing anything wrong or do I just have to offload my Final Cut Pro library to a bigger drive?
I am aware of the "Get Info" process of changing icons, but when I change the icon of Emacs, nothing happens I installed Emacs with this command: When I run csrutil status I get disabled. I am able to change the icons of folders but not apps
I am using a Macbook Pro (Retina, Mid-2014) running El Capitan. Is there a way to set a shortcut that opens a specific app (in my case Activity Monitor)?
Hardware: Mac Pro 4.1 (circa 2009) Mac Pro 4.1 (circa 2009) AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072 MB graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072 MB graphics card I have just connected dual 27" Cinema Displays. Both work, lots of display space ;-) Two problems (perhaps related): F1 & F2 keys only adjust brightness on the primary display.
From last 2-3 weeks I started noticing that my iPhone is consuming more battery than usual, around two to three times more. When I looked at battery consumption details I found out that Safari is consuming too much battery. And this is happening consistently from last 2-3 weeks when I don't even use safari very much. As an example take a look at image attached, for 12 minutes of screen time it consumed 73% of battery. Why? iOS version: 9.2.1 Phone: iPhone 6 Safari: latest available version
I want to control my media player (iTunes, Spotify, etc) using terminal. My goal was simply to trigger press on play/pause button using script. Is that possible?
For the life of me, I can't figure this out. When using a browser (doesnt matter which), if I select text, then paste in Vim or Neovim, I see characters added to the beginning and end of my selection. For example, I select "answer" from this page, then paste it over in Terminal I get:
My MagSafe connector gets really hot to the point that it burns my skin when I touch it. Everything else is fine, my macbook charges fine and does not heat up that much. Is this normal?
I tried stopping OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to a memory card. The method by Metaxis to the question here "How to stop OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to memory cards and USB sticks?" works fine and I have used it many times, but this time I wasn't paying attention and have addressed the wrong folder. The question how to stop in the original post This is what I did including the responses and replacing my first name with first name and full name with myfullname:
I want to be able to say something like, "Start Dictation," to turn on OS X's Dictation feature, instead of having to double-click the fn key. In System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Dictation, there is an option to "Enable the dictation keyword phrase." Here is a screenshot of this menu:
First of all, I have no idea how Kerberos ended up in my Mac. I have tried to reset its password but I don't even know what is the ID to use. So, please how do I reset Kerberos password when I have no clue about which server it is connecting to? I am running El Capitan 10.11.3 on MacBook Pro.
I'm using a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid-2014) running OS X El Capitan and I'm curious if I can run a script when I close my computer (without installing anything). Note: I don't want to install anything.
I made a file by accident with a filename of (NUL).xml, except instead of (NUL), it's literally '\0'. None of the methods I've tried have worked to actually delete it. Is there a way I can delete the file by an alternative reference?
I had an iPhone 5c, backed up to the computer. Then I also backed up my new iPhone 6s Plus.
On Mac OSX 10.11.3 (likely previous), the built-in Cisco IPsec VPN client will refuse to reconnect to the VPN server after a network failure (cable unplugged, wifi lost etc.) After about 30 seconds of 'Connecting...' in the menu bar, an error pops up about 'Failure to negotiate'. Deleting the service and creating a new one does not fix the issue, but a reboot does.
I'm using a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid-2014) running El Capitan. I'm trying to create a script that checks if my computer is open or not, and I'm using this: ioreg -r -k AppleClamshellState | grep '"AppleClamshellState"' | cut -f2 -d"=""
I want to be able to spam the jump button without having to hit the space bar multiple times, and I have a line of code but I'm not too sure what it is doing. I'm new to coding so it is kind of confusing, I want to be able to be in game, hold space bar, make it spam space, when I let go, it stops. (Without having to tab out)
I have this chunk of code: What I want it to do (at least for the first step) is to wait 10 seconds, and then sleep my computer if my lid is closed by the end of those 10 seconds. Is my script right, or am I missing something?
I just noticed a file called installer.failurerequests in my root directory: It's a plist of some sort and its contents read as:
I began kernel programming on mac. Because I want to run my kernel extensions without code signing I had to do the following: It works as it should be, but the problem is that I can't find my kernel.log file. I opened Console app and even there under FILES there is no kernel.log, I have listed all the other files except that one. Any suggestions where can I find my kernel.log file? I need it for debug purposes.
We have two Photo libraries (one for my wife and one for me, different user accounts on one Mac, El Capitan). Now I would like to move most photos and videos from her Photos library into my Photos library. How can I do this easily?
I am using Photos.app under El Capitan and would like to move most of my images out of the photo library, i.e. convert them from managed to referenced. Under Aperture, I have the Relocate command to do exactly this - but I don't find anything like that under Photos. My question: How can I convert managed images (in the photo library) to referenced images (outside the photo library and not synched to icloud)?
I have an iPhone 4S and I would like to connect it via Bluetooth with an iPhone 5 but it won't connect. How can I connect them?
I am trying to print a file (a pdf), without intervention. Not Automator specific, I can deal with applescript or terminal or whatever. The specifics of what I want are: Print to specific Printer Print to specific Page Size (Non-Standard) Auto-Rotated (Optional)
I am gonna to have a telephone with my customer to present our first milestone of one app we are building for customer (I am a PO). I have to call him by telephone and I want to share my iphone screen via Mac in realtime. I googled and there is AirPlay with Apply TV. But I don't have Apple TV.
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. If I put my index finger at the bottom of the trackpad and my middle finger closer to the center of the trackpad and try to scroll a page -- it doesn't work -- the mouse pointer just moves. If my index finger is closer to the center of the trackpad -- scrolling works ok. Could this be related to a gesture setting for swiping with two fingers from the bottom side? How can make it work so I can swipe with fingers even at the bottom edge of the trackpad?
am asking this because I really need to explain it to my client. My client wants to distribute apps only to his employees for business purposes, like in-house application. He wants the feature like TestFlight which is acting like App Store where we can update the app and install the app every time the developer update the app. He doesn't want to submit his app to App Store. In order to make his employees to use easily, he also said, his employees can install the app easily and show the update easily like Testflight without expire date or limited testers. I found hockey app , but it requires testers to be Hockeyapp members. Any Help?
I have iTunes Connect account, I want to export the analytics from iTunes Connect and then generate a report in my own system. I read many article but haven't been able to find any api to connect to iTunes Connect remotely. Any help in this regards will be greatly appreciated.
Is this a private browsing setting which can be changed perhaps? The information I've found about how private browsing affects the way Safari treats cookies has been inconsistent. Any information or ideas that anyone has would be much appreciated.
I have developed a cocoa application with a finderSync extension through which a newly created directory is monitored. Sometimes it works fine but sometimes when I activate the Drive and Dropbox extension (from settings > preferences > extensions ), my application stops monitoring the directory for which it is intended. I have searched for the solution but haven't found anything.
I'm following this guide to install OpenMPI on my Mac. I think everything is going well, but now I'm at the step where I have to make all. When I try, I get the error Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo., so I can't go further.
We have a developer account and a published app on the ios app store. We are now launching another ios app. Since both the apps are entirely different in functionalities, should we use the same developer account or is it beneficial to create another developer account? Thanks
So i have a late 2009 21,5 iMac and whatever i do it's sooo hot! Like right now just typing this or watching youtube it gets up to 50 degrees celsius... It does not get any hotter than that and i'm not running any specific programs that are big. I have SMC Fan control but just asking should it be that hot? I know the aluminum case works like a heatsink but really 50 celsius hot???
Since yesterday, I'm getting a storage full alert message (not iCloud) on my iPhone 6s plus, iOS 9.2.1. Overall, my apps installed would take at most 10GB.
I often run into the situation where the OS will suspend some of my apps because of low memory. If I am lucky, a window will appear that allows me to select which apps I want to quit and which apps I want to resume, which works reliably and is fine. However, often that window does not appear. This is usually the case when my machine (mid-2015 MBP 15", 16GB RAM, OS X 10.11.2) has just woken from sleep. In that case, the only symptom is that I have a bunch of unresponsive apps that show as (Not responding) in Activity Monitor.
I recently updated from 10.6 to 10.7 and now Finder won't search my network attached sever. It worked fine up until the update. I have tried re-indexing the Spotlight Search, but that doesn't work and I don't even use Spotlight.
My 2015 Macbook pro 13" is acting weird, after restoring from a Time Machine backup my mac is running slow and I have a lot of bugs: The reaction time of the system is very slow, sometimes when I open a new tab or when I write in this textfield, I just see the spinning beach ball for a couple of seconds. The mail app can't connect to my three gmails, but my iCloud mail is running fine, Every time I activate Find my Mac it just deactivates after a second. Hope some of you can solve at least one of the questions Update: Many apps (Safari Photos Notes and other) is openning at the same screen every time, (safari at the same 5 specific tabs, Photos at the same pic, and notes at the same sub folder) I restored March 1. and the slow reaction time started earlier today.
I recently purchased a plan for an old iPhone 5, which includes unlimited call and text, but no data. I was thinking: would there be a way to browse the Internet through text messages? I know there used to be something like this in existence for Android, called the Cosmos web browser, but I am looking for an iPhone solution.
I noticed when getting all windows that there are extra window items returned than there are. For example for Safari, it returns 9 windows but there are only 3 windows open; all the others are randomly created as far as I can tell. Below is screenshot of properties of on of these windows. The code I used was very straightforward:
Is there a way to update the emacs terminal editor that comes with OS X? I could remove the binaries and install Emacs using a dmg package, but the idea was to upgrade to a newer version with some command.
One Fix is: If i change the DNS settings from my ISP DNS to point to Google or OpenDNS or another popular DNS server the issue disappears. (but i can't use this solution for my usecase since i can't ask all my users to change their DNS settings). The Android device is also in the same network and points to my ISP DNS, but for some reason with android the issue does not exist.
You can set up a lock Message under System Preferences => Security & Privacy => General => Set Lock Message. This Message is stored in NVRAM. Under 10.9 Mavericks it was not only shown on Login/Fast User switch window but also on the FileVault2 Login Screen after a cold boot which makes a whole lot of sense. On 10.11 El Capitan this feature is gone. The Message is only shown on the normal Login/Fast User switch window after the machine has already been unlocked. Is there a way to revert 10.9 behaviour?
I'm trying to use this script: to make my computer go to sleep when I close the lid (it doesn't normally [not sure why]) and it gives me this error in system.log: Mar 2 20:42:51 My Mac loginwindow[107]: ERROR | SleepSystem | IOPMSleepSystem returned error: -536870174 Any idea what this means?
I have a 2 yr old Mac Book Pro with retina screen i7 processor, 16GB ram. Since upgrading to Yosemite my Mail app works fine except for when I attach JPEGS to the Mail - then many recipients only receive a tiny version of the JPEG. Been to the local Apple store several times with no success. Apple store say I need to do complete CLEAN REINSTALL of the OS - does anyone know if I can just reinstall the Mail app by itself / or a scan to detect damaged files.
I am using OS X El Capitan on Macbook 7.1 (Mid-2010). My thumbdrive is detected inside El Capitan and I can make it bootable and put El Capitan installation on it by using terminal command:
I live in Laughlin, Nevada (right on the border of Nevada and Arizona). Some casino apps require you to be in Nevada to access them, but the problem is that sometimes my phone picks up on Arizona cell phone towers (even when I'm on the Nevada side of the border). Is it possible to force my iPhone to ONLY use Nevada towers? Thanks in advance!
I think the title is pretty selfdescribing, but ok :) I go to App Store, I click on download button on OS X El Capitan (it is listed under Utilities), and nothing happens and the El Capitan is not downloaded, nor does it change the status to "Downloading". I don't think it is downloading. I also tried to log in as root to the mac and now the App Store won't work - it keeps spinning the spinner sign and nothing happens, I can't even type the letters "El Capitan" in the search box. Anyone has any other link, URL for downloading of El Capitan, other than the one on App Store? Losing my faith in Apple slowly...... I am on Macbook 7.1 (Mid-2010).
Whenever I try any sudo command whatsoever in terminal, I get the following error message: I have tried logging into single user mode and typing in the following commands: After typing in the chown ownership line, I get an error message saying “illegal username”. Other things I have tried: Reinstalling the OS X (El Capitan) Disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP). Calling Apple Care who say that sudo commands have been disabled in El Capitan.
I'd like to know if I can switch between multiple Twitter accounts using Safari? (Like on iOS.)
I exported a large number of photos by mistake from the photos application to my desktop. How do I delete these photos?
It would just be sweet to be able to search the text/iMessages history for keywords. The feature isn't working at all.
Usually, when in the Go menu in Finder, there are icons for each item, for example However, when I hold the option key and Library shows up, it has a generic folder icon instead of a court-like icon:
I was looking into getting a Macbook Pro 15 inch with Retina Display. I've never owned a Mac so I did some researching while looking at what to get. I saw a lot of articles saying to wait for the 2016 Macbook Pro to be released, since the 2015 version hasn't had many updates over the years. The only notable difference between the previous years has mostly been the CPU.
I would like to keep all my files (i.e. pages/numbers/keynote) automatically synced between my iMac and MacBook Pro. Is this possible? I don't want to have to save something in the cloud each time, then download it from the cloud on the other machine to work on and then save back in the cloud again. I just want to be able to open up either machine and have all identical files there automatically. Is this a pipe dream?
I have a network topology I'm trying to set up with some TP-LINK switches with 802.1Q VLAN support. A technical detail is that I have two of these switches with an aggregate of two gigabit links set up as a trunk for 802.1Q to bind the two together.
My iPhone 5 keeps displaying "sign into icloud" by entering my password. I do not know my password or the email address I have for this. I want to clear this from my phone as its there constantly and is stopping me using my phone properly as it interupts an stops me writing texts as it pops up. I have never signed into iCloud and don't want to. How do I get rid of this message?
I'd like to create a service that puts any text I select in TextEdit or web page text editors into quotation marks. I understand Automator is the tool to use, but how do I create this action using AppleScript or another scripting language in OS X (Lion)?
I haven't been using safari for long and this appears to be only in the newer version from what I can see online. When using the inspector I cannot add chained rules (IDK the technical term for them...something like this...
In fact, if I try to check 'Scroll direction: natural' it will uncheck itself. The exact same thing happens if I try to check 'Scroll direction: natural' in the 'Trackpad' window of System Preferences. And if I do $ defaults read -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection the value won't have changed. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.
I've a MacBook Pro. I upgraded it's RAMs to 16 GB of 1600MHz(two 8 GB modules). Even though Apple suggests a maximum of 8GB, everymac.com's tests yield that it supports 16GB. And it did. After the upgrade my Mac booted as normal and everything was usual until I got a freeze and the following situation in my screen.
I am using a MacBook Pro Retina with US international keyboard layout, latest OS. Is there a way to change ˜ to produce ~ without pressing the space after it? And is there a way to configure ' to work the same way? Like I don't need accents so If I type 'a I want to get 'a and not á without the extra space key press.
I'm using 2 screens and I keep hitting the bottom of the second screen and the dock jumps to that screen. The problem is it doesn't jump back if you do the same on the original screen.
I am trying to update a mac mini from OS 10 10 5 up to ElCap App store tells me the app has Downloaded but nothing happens I have looked at a few posts on this forum so have looked in the Apps folder but there is no El Cap installer there. Any ideas how I can force another download, or find the installer on my machine(assuming it has actually downloaded) Any ideas
I have lately been experiencing this problem on my Mac book pro 13" mid 2010 where it usually hangs and doesn't resume normal working. I try to restart the computer but it gets stuck at the progress bar. I have tried everything from safe mode boot, PRAM reset, disk utility first aid in recovery and time machine restoration but the problem persists until I reinstall OSX (it worked the last time at least). Now it has hit again. Need suggestions on how to deal with it. I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan and it gets stuck at approximately the 90% mark.
I would like to clean up my backups since there are a lot of files which I don't need to access anymore (e.g. videos, podcasts and installation packages). The problem I am facing is however that I don't know which snapshots contain these large files and in which directories I used to store them. Is there perhaps a way to list the largest files in the Time Machine backup, similar to Grand Perspective or Disk Inventory X?
I'm using an iPhone 6S, iOS 9.2.1 9.3.1. At (seemingly) random times, the animations of the icons falling into the home screen, apps moving up when multitasking, and various other animations stop playing. Everything just appears instantly.
Note that this problem is unique to Mathematica. For example for JetBrains apps, I get:
Is it possible to search for text in the Notes app on an iPad Pro? The closest I have gotten is the search field to the left of the Home screen, but that does not find the fifth occurrence of that text. Is another app better for searching text?
Whenever I use pmset sleepnow in Terminal (even with sudo) I get this error: Unable to sleep system: error 0xe00002e2. I have no idea what's going on. Please help!
I figured out how to do a while ago, but simply can't remember- how do I block computer applications such as twitter, facebook, and messages in self control?
I would like play music of my iphone by another speaker that has bluetooth or by tv is there any way or some app can help me for playing? Play video of my iphone by tv that has wifi or bluetooth , is possible by some app?
Just changed from Samsung Galaxy 5 to iPhone. Galaxy's feature I liked was click on a photo, then more info, and if the photo was geotagged, it would open a map showing location.
I cant find if ACMT (Apple Certified Mac Technician) cover also iOS devices, I work in big company full of iPhones and we send to repair at least 10 iPhones every month so it will be better to repair them at the company. What certification I need to be able to repair phone without loose warranty?
Mar 4 12:09:32 ix com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.teamviewer.desktop): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
How do I share my purchased movies on Apple TV? I have purchased movies on my computer and would like to share with my grandchildren on Apple TV. How do I do it?
Does anyone know how to make the great-looking magnifying glass, shown in Apple's image, shown below? I really like the shadow! I'd love to know what software Apple uses for this.
I have a pair of 27" Cinema Displays attached to a Mac Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. The displays have speakers. I'd like to play iTunes (or whatever else) through both sets of speakers at the same time and ideally, set the balance on the left hand display all the way to the left and the balance on the right display all the way to the right to give me a larger stereo sound stage. System Preferences >> Sound only let's me select one Display Audio at a time. Does anyway inherently or by third party exist to accomplish this?
My "T" key came out of it's spot on my late 13 inch 2013 retina macbook pro., the key and the mechanism attached to it. No apple stores in the country so I'm on my own. I tried putting it back in it's place but it keeps coming out.
I am trying to create a Terminal command. I have created this so far: It creates two commands: sendtext [email] [message] (Sends a text message to email) sendtext-remove (Removes the two lines from the .bash_profile)
Ok I got this Iphone4 and it s already got a apple ID and it wont let me sign in for my apple ID so im waiting to see what happened.
Is it possible to automate tagging of new files dropped into a specific folder?
Rumor has it that Apple is switching from AFP to SMB for their file sharing. However, SMB has always had a problem with permissions (i.e. everything is executable or everything is not executable). How have they gotten around this? And how can I do the same with a Linux SMB server?
I have Mac Pro which is running 10.8.5 After I turn on the Mac, I can see the regular apple logo, but after it's disappear, I see white screen (whiter than before) and a loading wheel for a few seconds, and it's disappear for 3-4 seconds and come back again. And It's continue like that forever. I suspect that start to happen after tried to attach my second monitor to my graphics card at the mini display port.
I found commands about how to create a user that is hidden, sudo dscl . create /Users/USERNAME IsHidden 1 but how can I hide an existing user?
I want to run an rsync command each day or more often to back up a raspbery pi on my network to a drive attached to my mac. I see launchd, but I'm very confused about how to get it to work, and I would also like to be able to see that the script has been run, like how with time machine you can see when the last backup occurred, so I can check on it. This is the command I want to run: rsync -avz -e ssh pi@10.0.0.4:/ /Volumes/PiBackup/Rsync
After making a change to whether something should appear in the menubar, like so (for example): I see no change. Nothing shows up, despite the fact that experimentation shows the preferences were correctly updated, in the same way they would be by a manual change in a preference pane or window. Lots of sites suggest
Im new to Iphone. Love it except that I have forgotten the previous saved wifi password for my iphone 4s. I needed to delete some apps to make room for more and my friend did a reset. Now I have no password to re-download what I need. She also did this to my daughters Alcatel Fierce One Touch phone. So I'm effectively screwed. Im really not phone savvy and have no idea how to find the password I've had saved for a year. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I am currently working with msfvenom on OS X. But I wanted to know, the terminal commands to open a specific port say for example 4444. Can someone please help me out with this?
When i restart the computer and loading with the apple logo, wait for few second, and the apple icon become [x] My Mac is OSX EL Capitan (v10.11.3) I used Disk Utility "First Aid" and found that incomplete or inconsistent CoreStorage Physical Volume in terminal typing $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 121.0 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 1.6 TB disk1s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3 in terminal typing $ diskutil cs list CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) | +-- Logical Volume Group 932901B0-86C0-489B-B492-D3CB3F6BE923 ========================================================= Name: Macintosh HD Status: Offline Size: 1717036040192 B (1.7 TB) F
I'm pretty good on the command line, so messing around in system files won't be a problem for me. I just don't have a clue where to start. If it's important; I'm on OSX 10.11.2. All tips are welcome!
So when I checked my computer this morning I had Terminal open saying: Last login: Sat Mar 5 00:02:43 on ttys000 I checked uptime and it's been up 27 days, 2 users as usual. Now I know for a fact that at that precise time I had left my laptop in someone's room for a couple of hours and when I looked through history, I found these commands were most recent (pretty sure it was not me as i recall the previous set): When I repeated the commands I got as far as producing Attachments chat.db chat.db-shm chat.db-wal
In my Login Items on Mac OS 10.11.3 I see an item called "Documents". The Kind is specified as "unknown" and there is a yellow warning sign at the end of the line.
I am trying to get rid of all backups of XCode.app in my Time Machine backup. When I enter Time Machine and select "Delete all Backups of XCode" in the context menu, it shows some deletion progress in the Finder and DesktopServiceHelper is busy for a moment until it displays the following error message:
One month ago i lost my iPhone 5. Got a new one, 6S, and i'm trying to recover my old media. According to iCloud, there is a 1.5 GB Incomplete backup from the phone which is now gone. Is there anything I can do to salvage any of the data from this Incomplete 1.5 GB backup?Thanks in advance!
I have just setup "back to my mac" and the connection works fine. My only "complaint" so far is that I haven't found a convenient way to switch from one desktop to another on the remote computer (or to any other full-screen app). Clicking on the icon in the dock works. But I was wondering if I missed some other way.
I want to transfer my family's analog video tape collection to digital form on my Mac (mid-2014 MacBook Pro). Unlike the asker in Best way to import analog video (VHS) to Mac, my goal is not to identify an inexpensive solution but rather to preserve video and audio quality. I would prefer to do it myself because besides being naturally hands-on I can't risk these being lost/damaged/not-returned if sent out. Details of my particular situation follow, but please feel free to provide answers, background, and further considerations useful to future readers with similar but possibly varying needs. Our working Sony Hi8 XR CCD-TRV65 Video Camera Recorder (VCR) which has s-video and composite (not component) outputs through which I can still play... Our working Sony Hi8 XR CCD-TRV65 Video Camera Recorder (VCR)
The problem Every once in while the keyboard and trackpad completely stop working and I have no way to affect the software. The mouse pointer is left frozen exactly where it was when the problem occurred and nothing on the keyboard works. The only solution I currently have is to push and hold the power key triggering a forced shut-down - implying keyboard funcitonality, but I'm wondering if this bypass is actually separate from the keyboard processing for the reason I am using it. I really don't know what this is as it's impossible to diagnose with no interaction tools! My system MacBook Pro Retina, 13 inch, Late 2013 Processor 2.4 intel core i5 8gb 1600mhz ddr3 OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 Usage typical developer machine: ITerm; Sublime; browsers; FileZilla; Slack; MAMP; Sketch frequently have 30 or 40 Chrome tabs open ten or so applications in total running at any given time rarely restart formally, just sleep, I kind of assumed Macs are good at handling this There are no obvious signs of ov
Is it possible to run different Node versions in OS X El Capitan with Homebrew?
I tried to modify/delete alias, but it seems that it is only for the current session by doing this or rename it
I am trying to disable/enable textexpander using a single shortcut key. Text expander's preferences require using option, command and control together with a predefined shortcut key. Is there a way to bypass this using apple script and simply enable/or disable textexpander using a single shortcut key? Thanks.
On *=URL=* I accidentally created an infinite loop in Python 3. I tried to close the tab, but Firefox already stopped responding. It wouldn't respond even after a while, so I force quitted FF. Then, I tried to reopen it, and it bounced for a while. It wouldn't reopen, so I force quitted and reopened again. Now, it is just sitting on my Dock with the little black "open" dot below it. Clicking on the icon does nothing.
As I was using an app on my iPhone, I accidentally hit the home button. I quickly reopened the app. But instead of it resuming where I left off, the app had to load all over again. (This was Clash of Clans and I was in a raid!) Is there a way to keep an app open in the background? Such a feature would also allow me to quickly check something and then return to the app that I was on.
I accidentally deleted a conversation on my iPhone but the conversation is still there on my Mac. Is there anyway to sync the two so it reappears on my iPhone?
I made encrypted disk image on my MacBook. Now I want to open it on my PC (Windows 10). How can I open (mount) an encrypted dmg image file in Windows 10?
I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro and I just got it back from the repair shop (mainboard was swapped). I immediately installed OS X El Capitan (before it was Yosemite) and found that when I closed the lid, the Mac would not go to sleep anymore. Even testing in other user's accounts and after restarting, resetting NVRAM and SMC and even booting from a different hard disk (with OS X Lion installed), it won't go to sleep and also the little LED on the right will not light up, neither while booting nor when I close the lid. Running pmset -g assertions in Terminal gave this output:
The drive worked normally for a long time but then failed to be recognized recently. On investigating with Disk Utility, it shows as having a partition type of FDisk_partition_scheme. I'm sure it was originally the typical default of GUID Partition Map formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled). I can't think of any specific use or event that may have caused the change. Here is the information I've collected from the drive. diskutil list /dev/disk6 diskutil info /dev/disk6 fdisk /dev/disk6 gpt recover /dev/disk6 gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk6 gdisk /dev/disk6
Pressing space on a selected file in Finder evokes a preview window. Can I enlarge the size of this window by default to get a larger preview e.g. of images?
I am looking for a JSON viewer for OS X that can: open decently large files (e.g. > 10 MB), unlike the JSON Editor Eclipse Plugin (take over 1 minute to generate the treeview for a 500 KB JSON file) and Json Tools Eclipse Plugin (no outline generated if file is more than a few MBs but otherwise great and fast) has a decently responsive UI, unlike JSON Viewer for Windows can collapse/expand a given level (treeview / outline) works off-line Ideally: tabs gratis can edit JSON data displays the filename somewhere, unlike JSON Viewer for Windows provide some statistics on the JSON content
I can't find any way to download all my purchased songs at once. I have a list of 100+ albums, so clicking on Downlod for each album is not viable.
I can't run Eclipse on Macbook on Yosemite: "Version 1.6.0_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product." and I have Java 1.8. When I open settings I can see that version of Java is 1.8
I'm a computer programmer and use Xcode so I am constantly scrolling up and down. Often times I would like to move the page down but not as much as the "Page Down" keyboard key moves it. I would like to move it half the distance as it usual moves. I feel like I have experimented with every combination of "Page Down" with shift, option, control, command, and fn. Also, I used all those controls with the down arrow keys with no success.
If I download and install Windows 7 onto my MacBook Pro, will it permanently operate as Windows, or will I be able to switch between it and OS X? I am downloading Windows 7 strictly to operate Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
I've looked high and low but can't find a keyboard shortcut to select an app from Mission Control. I want to press F3, then "some keyboard key(s) and not have to click on the trackpad" to select the app I want.
I am trying to compact a TimeMachine sparsebundle (to reclaim space) using and the error message that I receive is: When I look in the System Log, I see the following message: I am running on a MacBook Air (13-inch, early 2014) on Mavericks and the sparsebundle is located on an Iomega StorCenter ix2-dl NAS with 2TB running RAID 1.
I use Lightroom and keep my library on an external hard drive. After I quit Lightroom I use SuperDuper! to back up that external hard drive to an identical external hard drive.
I think the only thing I like about Windows is the fact that you can easily enter Unicode characters using the Alt key plus the numeric keypad. I hate using the Show Emoji & Symbols for this sort of thing as it’s very tedious and I can’t find a way of entering a code I already know.
So I have an HDMI signal and an HDMI to USB adapter. I need to record this HDMI signal to a video file. Zero budget. Will plugging this into my Mac work as a video input? If not, how else do I do this?
The question is: is it normal for the camera to heat up the Mac? Or should I look elsewhere for a cause? Thanks
I've downloaded free apps in the past without requiring verification. But now it makes me verify. Why? Can I turn this off?
I Have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009). Now the battery status is "Service Battery". I'm thinking of getting a new Laptop. My question is can I use my laptop even battery is dead by plugged in? Or Should I change my Battery?
I would like to know, if their is a way to transfer videos from Coursera-App on the ipad to the mac (without re-download them from the internet)? I tried to connect the ipad through iTunes, to see if i can get the content of the app, but it seemed that I cannot get to the media inside the apps.
Also, the latter dictionary (Disconnect) is never reached, and the tunnel stays up for some time. How can I do the "opposite" of the above and tear down the tunnel for some domain names? The DomainAction of NeverConnect does not do this.
I am trying to transfer data from a Windows Vista computer to a brand new MacBook Pro. I installed and started the Migration Assistant on the Windows Computer, Start Migration Assistant on the Mac*, and did succeed in making a connection between the two. Then the windows computer displays the message
Every time I start my Mac, there's no output device listed in system preferences > audio. In order to fix this, I have to reset SMC several times. I also tried to reset NVRAM. However, if I turn off the Mac and start it again the next day, the same problem appears again. This problem first occurred, after I installed soundflower. But I uninstalled it already. I'm using Mac Mini late 2012 with common Logitech loudspeakers.
It seems to me there is some lock on device disk2. I just need to figure out how to release it.
I changed the setting of my iTunes Media folder, temporarily, and now wish to switch it back again. I have many, many music files stored in the following location:
My MacBook just restarted automatically. After the restart I got this error report:
Here is a log created in my Console. These errors are highly frequent, about one every 5-10 minutes when Safari is running.
If anyone could shed a little light on this, I'd be extremely grateful. I have a 2006 mac pro 1.1 (intel cpu) that consistently stops responding after 4-5 minutes.
I'm trying to recover data from my partner's phone and iCloud after her phone backup refused to load back onto her phone (one of many options we're pursuing...) One of the main sources of data is WhatsApp, which alleges it has been backing up chat history to iCloud Drive.
In the manage storage section on my phone, if I delete the backup of another phone from my iCloud, will I lose the pictures currently on my phone that were taken from this other phone?
I bought an album via iTunes on my Mac. On my iPhone, the album is not stored locally (I need a wireless connection in order to play it). However the album got downloaded onto my iPad automatically.
I have a family member with a 3rd Gen iPad (a1416) currently running iOS 6. They need to install an app that requires iOS 7. When looking at the system upgrade page in settings, it shows iOS 9 which I believe isn't compatible and also would probably run pretty slow anyway.
How can I use a fullscreen app (specifically a Keynote presentation) while displaying another app (specifically a movie) simultaneously?
Is there any App that permits scanning barcodes? An app that also supports UPS and Fedex would be useful.
Now that iOS 9 uses app-thinning, apps downloaded on an iOS device are not transferred to iTunes during a sync. They are also not transferred when you click "Transfer Purchases", so there seems to be no way to have copies of your apps you download on your iOS device in iTunes other than by downloading them all manually in iTunes.
As seen in the screenshot the iphone 5c is discovered via bluetooth; but the pairing is not successful due to missing services.  The Iphone says
Then I restarted my Mac, but neither Ubuntu nor OS X could boot normally. Basically, I got a blank screen. I restarted again, holding the alt key, and then I was able to choose to boot OS X.
I watch Netflix when I exercise at the gym. My iPhone6 is using T-Mobile and it provides unlimited data and up to free 7GB personal hotspot per month. I use my iPad Pro to see Netflix movie on a bigger screen. However, it is limited to 7GB. Is there a way or a app to run Netflix app on iPhone and see the screen on iPad?
Are they the same thing? I was reading the "homebrew-php" github page, and it mentions about xcode and its command line tools. My understanding about homebrew is it is a package manager like npm, why does it have anything to do with xcode, which I think doesn't have much to do with PHP.
Actually I have been programming in PHP for a while, but my experiences about PHP is through VPS or some local environment like XAMPP. I was trying to install xDebug/homebrew when I come across this
I'm really kind of clueless as to what is going on here, but it is really becoming frustrating. I haven't ever came across this issue on any other Macs, and it seems to be unique to me for some reason. So what happens is my computer will be connected to the internet and wifi just fine, and then sometimes my mac seems to have just randomly dropped connection to the internet. The wifi bars are all full, and the other computers in the house seem to be working fine during that period. However, for me I have to restart my computer to actually get the internet on the computer to begin working again, and it is ok once or twice but this occurs once or twice every day which is beginning to get frustrating.
Me and my friend have developed an iOS app and we want to release it on App Store. Apple offers an Individual or Enterprise developer account which costs 199$. The problem is that we are not a legit company of any kind and we don't want to have any documents or registration. We jut want it to appear in App Store under our team name. An individual account is also not an option as we want us both to be mentioned as developers or none of us (just a team name). Is there a way to do it?
Safari 9.0.3 on OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 I launch Safari > Login to Gmail,ebay or any other site > Login Successful Open New Tab and if i go to gmail or ebay or the site that i had open in the first tab, it wants me to login again, so login session seems limited to just the original tab I close Safari launch same website again and it wants me to login again Above issue is not happening in FireFox or Chrome, in those browser, my gmail session stays persistent b/w browser and even OS restarts
sorry about the facetious title... I am writing a script to backup my time machine backups in the event that my external HDD fails, and my HDD partition with the backups looks like this...
The Terminal keeps telling me I have mail from scripts that are hitting errors, and then when I scroll through the messages to read them, it tells me afterwards saved x messages in mbox. Where is my mbox, I cannot find it?
OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 I use Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.26 and many times open multiple sessions The only way to switch these sessions i see is by clicking using mouse and i can't find any keyboard shortcuts to switch between multiple session Is there any way to switch between sessions? Regards
I attach pen-drive to my Macbook-air. It is detecting and I can also copy from my pen-drive to my Hard disk. But I cannot copy data from Hard disk to pen-drive. I tried with different pen-drives, but got the same result.
I deleted .aae files by mistake and all of my related photos are gone. How do I recover these missing photos? iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1
I've bought new macbook after hdd crashing of previous one. Is there a way to restore data without repairing old drive? I know that backups of iOS devices are storing at iCloud. What about mac os? I need to restore files only. I dont remember was backupping setted up on previous machine. If setting it is necessary - how to do it?
I try to clean my mid-2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display by wiping the screen with a damp cloth and then immediately drying. However, there seems to be left some residue/streak marks, which look very oily. Sometimes these disappear after a few minutes, but they are still very unsightly, and a bit worrying (is there something wrong with my screen?) I'm wondering if there are other cleaning techniques which avoid this issue, or whether this is completely normal behaviour. Thank you!
Right now, when I need to check a word in the dictionary, I open Notes, type in something, select the word and hit "Define..." I'd like to directly type in a word and check something, similar to how I can just type stuff into Spotlight & look up definitions in OS X. How do I do this?
In Linux, I have bash script, which uses conky (for display image above windows in needed position of monitor) and xdotool (for check if needed window in focus, and if it is, then launch conky). So, can I do it in OS X? What should I use instead conky and xdotool? Maybe instead bash script Automator can do this job somehow? P.S Sorry for my bad english.
Lastly, would this change provide a further line of defence against ransomware? If a ransomware runs as a normal user X and does not gain root, it could encrypt all files to which X has write access, but it could not encrypt time machine backups, because only root has access to them. Is this line or reasoning correct? Running OSX El Capitan, 10.11.3.
What does it mean if there is no version model?  Is it normal? I expect the money year after the words "MacBook Air" similar to this.
As in the attached screenshot image, my 4th level heading is inexplicably a block of solid black. This only appeared after sending the Word doc file as an Outlook attachment (!) also on the same Mac running El Capitan. The formatting appears thus only for 4th level numbering - unfortunately I need the numbering to be linked to the heading style and so far the only way I found to get the numbers back is to change numbering / list style for that heading. This was not added into the style as background/fill/highlight/etc. It is clearly in the style as the screenshot shows, not in the doc content. Anyone know where this glitch originates and how to revert?
The problem started after I restored from timemachine, but in a couple of days I saw that my gmail didn't work in Mail.app (my iCloud mail works fine) then I tried log out and log in again (with my google account in system pref.) but after I have selected the services I want to use and press "OK" it will just hang at this screen:
I wonder if the temperatures on my non-retina Macbook Pro 13 Mid-2012 normal. I browse using Firefox. I tried using Safari but no noticable difference. CPU load is low. OS X version 10.8.5.
I rely on Dropbox for syncing work files between two computes that are powered on 24/7. For some reason, Dropbox terminates (crashes or quits) after long periods of time, with no explanation. I just find later that the application is no longer running.
Is it possible to copy both data applications manually, downgrade the OS from El Capitan to Yosemite and then copy the apps and data back? Its almost 6 weeks since I upgraded, so don't want to downgrade to an old backup and the new backups are with El Capitan so will not help.
I have a Mac Mini that I'm using as a media server. I just put together an external RAID enclosure and I'd like to format it as HFS+, primarily so I can use it for Time Machine backups. 75% of everything I do is with OS X or iOS, but I do have a Windows machine, and the majority of my friends and family use Windows. I'm not real clear on how network sharing protocols work. I know in order to share a volume with Windows (without installing some additional softare on windows) I have to set it up as an SMB share rather than AFP.
I want to be able to retitle my terminal windows. I've found many examples on the web, but no matter what I do, the string is always prefixed by my username. I want to remove that; how do I do so? I'm using Yosemite. Screenshot:
Also worth noting, the same issue is on iOS (I borrowed my friend's iPhone 6 plus). However, on my android I used the outlook app and logged in to my icloud, and there the body text was indeed there! I'm guessing it's possible the html of the email isn't parsed correctly by some Apple software... All searches for the issue yielded solutions to a specific user experiencing this issue, but my issue is about the email message itself on an Apple email client.
I start up my early 2011 MacBook Pro, and it gives me the login screen, I enter my password, and then booting starts as normal, but about halfway through the progress bar, it stops booting entirely and comes up with this symbol.  I'm really not sure what to do. In recovery mode I'm unable to access the partition that holds the Mac OS (it's grayed out) and when I try to mount the Mac OS partition through terminal, it instead tells me that it's a FileVault or Fusion Drive - it's neither, to the best of my knowledge - and that it must be unlocked prior to mounting. So, U found the logical volume and unlocked it using diskutil corestorage command that actually unlocked volumes, and then it ended up as /dev/disk16, and I was still unable to mount /dev/disk0s2, or disk16. Trying to remove the empty Windows partition through DiskUtility results in failure because it's locked. Any and all help is greatly appreciated, as I desperately need this computer for study, and losing files on it is a no
I try to mount a SMB share in Finder but I have two problems. The time for mount is about 25s. Folder listings; very slow when there are many elements inside.
I have an old iPad 2. The battery goes dead when it is unused for only one day. Should I change the battery and if yes, how should I do it?
XRG system monitor is awesome! But I can't figure out how to minimize it. I'm sure I'm missing something simple. Any ideas? iMax El Capitan 10.11.3 XRG 2.0.0
Yo, got the following issue: Google Chrome is running on OS X El Capitan. After I set "Automatic Updates for all Users" to true at the "About" page in Google Chrome and entered my credentials (this process obviously needs root rights) this error message appears now on the "About" page:
When I use the "Look up word" right-click menu option on a StackExchange comment in OS X, the system selects other text and looks that up instead: Step 1: select a word in a StackExchange comment to look up
What is EFI partition? is it part of Apple product or is it created when I tried to install windows? Should I get rid of it or not?
I have one Mac set up with file sharing on the desktop, and I am trying to connect to it from my other Mac from the Terminal. I made a folder mount in /Volumes/, then I used the following command. (obviously I changed the user/pass/ip to the correct information)
I found two MacBook 60 Watts car chargers, one says on the backside “INPUT: 12V-24VDC 5.6A MAX”, the other “Input: DC 11-15V Max 10A”. So, the latter has an efficiency of 50%? *=URL=* http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qLRTluyUL.SL1500.jpg
I have this application called Cura Type A, but Spotlight cannot find it, even when I show all results in Finder... Anyone know why?
After updating my iPad 3 to the latest version of iOS (9.2.1 I think, this was in February 2016) one of my apps needed to be updated. It partially installed then got stuck with the status graphic about 50%. After a day or two I tried to delete it and despite me acknowledging the warning "this will also delete the app's data" nothing happened.
If anyone has ideas on how to recover the OS currently installed without the various recovery start-up options, or downgrade slightly to the installation disc version they would be greatly appreciated! Alternately, if you have an idea for getting 10.9 or 10.10 using a USB-installation that would be nice too, as ultimately that's where I need my system to end up. Thanks
I have 2 terabytes worth of TM backups on my external hard drive and I need all versions of a specific folder (more specifically, all the files from that folder). Is it possible to extract all backups of a folder from my backup without going through all the days with backups and extracting them manually?
For no apparent reason, my OS X 10.9.5 Finder has gone haywire. Whenever I create a new Finder window, the main panel, where the files/folders are usually shown, just shows whatever is beneath it, as if there's nothing there. If you drag any other window over the Finder window, that panel will take on the pixels from the other window -- basically the panel is not drawing itself at all.
Not sure if these kinds of questions are allowed here, but I would like to know how Apple machines the little Apple logo cutout on the bottom of the front iMac panel /housing. It looks like it could be alien technology. I'm a machinist and wonder how the black material inside the logo cutout is housed in the aluminum and whether that machining is EDM or laser cut.
so I'm wondering if there's a free alternative to DVDFab. I mainly want to make unencrypted backups (to ISO file) of my DVDs. and in some instances, I want to shrink the DVDs from DVD9 to DVD5 size. Thanks :)
I've made an alias to a folder on my external hard drive and added it to Finder's sidebar. Whenever I eject the external hard drive the newly added item to the sidebar disappears and doesn't reappear when the hard drive is plugged back in. I want it to disappear when the external hard drive isn't connected and REAPPEAR when the external hard drive IS connected. How can this be done? Thanks!
Around 5gb is what my other space is taking up on my iPhone 6. I see this in iTunes when I hook my phone up to the computer. So I can't install more apps and I want to. How can I mend this, how can I delete this other space. I am sure I am not actively using 5gb of space. Most of the photos I uplpoad to facebook, and I doubt my saved games take up so much space. Which program can I use or something like that?
Details: MacBook Pro 2011, El Capitan. Issue: As mentioned above in the subject. Picture Given below. Resolutions tried so far: PRAM Reset - Heard the Chime of reboot but still hangs the same way Verbose Mode - Stops at AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1 Recovery Mode - The screen in the picture below appears but after sometime, a complete blank grey screen (without Apple logo) came up, the disk seems to be spinning but then nothing. Pretty much tried all these options: MacBook Hangs on Boot at seemingly different stages each time
I am using current stable dnscrypt-proxy 1.6.1 version from Homebrew on El Capitan and Yosemite. On either machine I have the same problem. When run dnscrypt-proxy fails with image not found error: I have libsodium installed with the following command In /usr/local/Cellar/libsodium/1.0.8/lib/ I have the following files: The problem was also discussed here with no resolution in current version. It seems /usr/local/lib/libsodium.13.dylib is either hardcoded in dnscrypt-proxy or the libraries should be somehow linked. Any idea if there is something wrong on the configuration side?
after spending one Saturday searching the internet, i came a cross another guy who hustled like me. here is a link to his post: Remotely distribute an iOS app compiled in Xcode 7 without App Store, developer program sub, or jailbreak? i am an app developer by hobby and i am not a professional programmer i also have Apple dev ID and everything.
In El Capitan how can I get an applescript to make itself open at login? Such as adding it to the login items automatically? I want to be able to send people the applescript and the first time they open it, it automatically sets itself to open at login in future. If applescript is too limiting I don't mind using a cocoa applescript in Xcode, although I would like to avoid it.
Email address no longer exists, and Apple ID has its new primary email address. How do I change the iPhones existing iCloud settings as it keeps asking for password for the old email, I am putting in a password on the phone for an email address I know does not exist anymore, and it just shakes because of incorrect info. User email address was a .com.au and is now a .net.au Apple ID online could be changed fine and now uses the .net.au as primary address the .com.au was removed from there. But the iPhone has this old email address stuck in its iCloud account setting. How do I remove this account? Any help appreciated as it surely cannot be this inflexible.
i have two SSDs and one HDD in my computer. One SSD runs OS X and one SSD runs Windows. On the HDD i have my iTunes Library and Music Files. I want to use the same library on both OSs. I used this guide to get write permissions on the NTFS HDD over Mac OS: NTFS support on El Capitan I now have the problem that Mac OS searches music in the path: While it is (within Mac OS) in the path: Which options do i have to solve this problem? I already read about OS X Fuse but im confused if this is the tool that can help me.
I want to test something locally. For that, I'd like to be able to drop outgoing packets sent to a specific host/port. I tried messing around with pf rules using Murus (the non-free version), but have been unsuccessful.
As follow up question for this post: How do I install global certificates on a Rootless El Capitan for mono?
In the contact list there is no entry for my own contact details. All there is is my mobile number at the top of the list. But I have a home landline number, desk phone at work and some email addresses, how do I view/use these?
I'm setting up a localhost and everything looks like it should work but whenever I go to site.local it loads the default Apache localhost page (It works!). Here's a copy of my hosts file: and my vhost: Things I've done to make sure it isn't a user error: uncommented the line in the httpd.conf file to include my vhost file used apachectl configtest to test my file (came back saying syntax OK) Things to note: I use port 8080 and 3307 for Apache and MYSQL If I go to site.local:8080 it loads but doesn't render the elements as it should (instead loads the elements of the html in a list format) this is off a FRESH install of MAMP OS: OS X Yosemite version 10.10.5 MAMP Version: 3.5 I just don't see what's going wrong... any ideas? UPDATE
When I take a screenshot with my Mac, the screenshots are not appearing on my desktop. Could the screenshot destination location have been changed on Mac? Is this a common problem?
I was out trying to find a good system monitor application and decided to give a shot to Monity, which has gotten several good reviews from respectable journals. What bothers me is that the application that comes from the App Store is only a portion of the software. The software asks for download of a so-called Helper App for free, in order to get additional panel (which would be what I am after essentially). There is little to no documentation why this helper app is required and the fact the fact that a portion of the software doesn't go through Apple's control doesn't give me any good vibes.
This post (which is upvoted 26 times as of this writing) suggests using Karabiner to set separate scroll settings for a USB mouse and the laptop trackpad. Karabiner seems to be a nice application, and I understand the suggested solution (don't remap trackpad settings, then reverse scroll settings on all pointing devices except previously excluded ones) but it doesn't work in my case because the USB mouse IS an Apple pointing device (it's an apple USB mouse).
I'm listening to an audio book in the Music app on the iPhone. When I switch to listen to something else, say Apple Music, then I lose my place in my audio book. How can I bookmark my place?
When I search for a particular message in Mail.app, using the search field, even when I have the message in sight, Mail cannot find it. But, frustratingly, when I use Spotlight, it is able to find the message.
Downloading files on Mac via .dmg is super easy, but anything else e.g. tar.gz files or zip files is completely baffling to me. Where do I unzip the files to make sure the applications will work and be added to my $PATH and $CLASSPATH? What is the correct process and best practice to follow for all of these formats? A great example is me downloading this: http://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/
Is there a more efficient way to use package installers behind a firewall than adjusting the proxy settings for each installer? As of now, I'm using Ruby Gems, Bower, and NPM and it's a pain to reset everything individually when my password changes or there's an update to our settings. I'm looking for a more centralized solution.
I have skim version 1.4.16, and I can't find a way to save a pdf with skim notes as a pdf with annotations that preview 8.0 can read. I can export as a "pdf bundle", but preview 8.0 doesn't want to open such a file. I expect there are many other pdf readers, both in osX land and other OS's, that won't understand the bundle. Have I missed something?
I noticed that a few tracks from an album appear gray.  The tracks are downloaded, I can play them if I double click them explicitly, but they don't play as part of the album. If I click the album's "play" button, they're skipped (1 gets played, then 3, then 4, etc.) Why is this happening and how can I prevent it? I saw a similar question, Grayed-out tracks in iTunes library, but that's not what I'm experiencing — for me, the songs do get downloaded and everything appears to be OK, they just get skipped when playing the album.
I would like to know if it is possible to get text-editor-like functionality for selecting text in iTerm2. For example, in Sublime Text 3, I can do the following: ⇧ ⌥ → = Select word to the right of the cursor. ⇧ ⌘ → = Select entire line to the right of the cursor.
The button "Use your apple ID ..... " doesn't work on her phone on iMessages settings, but she entered her phone number properly to be used for iMessages. I tried turning on and off the iMessages. Still doesn't work and she is sending me SMS regular instead of iMessage iPhone to iPhone. I even managed to send her iMessage from Macbook to her iPhone 4 using Message app for Macbook, but not from iPhone 5 (I have iPhone 5). But Apple, (please) this is the BASIC BASIC function of a telephone, why can't you fix this......I love Apple and all but things like this make me freaking jump out of my skin....the simplest basic stuff :)
This has been going on for a week or 2. Restarting seems to help because WindowServer is blowing up. But the problem keeps coming back. Specs: Macbook Air mid-2012, 8GB RAM, 2ghz i7 Yosemite 10.10.5 Chrome 49 Some symptoms that recently popped up:
I have an old iPhone application which was created using Xcode 4.3.2. I want to get it running on Xcode. However, I am using OS X 10.9.5. So I get the error "This installation of Xcode 4.3.2 requires Mac OS X Lion". So I searched online and found an article about running Xcode 4.3.2 on VirtualBox. Now when I try to install Xcode 4.3.2 on Lion on VirtualBox, I get the error message "You have Mac OS X 10.7. The application requires Mac OS X 10.7.3 or later. How can I upgrade to 10.7.3 to get Xcode working?
Any email I get pops up a notification in the upper-right corner of my screen, as per the native notification settings in the Apple Mail app. Every now and then I will get a quick notification indicating a new email, but then the email notification (and email) will quickly disappear. It's almost as if it was "recalled" by the email server and removed from my machine. I haven't been able to find any consistency in the type of email that is received - I usually only get a glimpse of who sent it (always a company, never a personal one, at least not that I've noticed) and it's not like the ones that disappear are always from the same place or anything.
Booting from an external drive didn't give results much different from Recovery—the drive can't be mounted, even read-only. Here's the output from fsck_cs: And here's what the Console reports as the system tries to mount the drive when fsck_cs finishes—these are nearly identical to the boot error messages:
Is there a command in Terminal that allows you to show the Hard Disk as an icon on your Desktop? I know the manual process of doing it, which is, Finder > Preferences... > General and check "Hard disks" under "Show these items on the desktop:", but I want to be able to apply this configuration through the command line. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
I know that there are a lot of people that ask for help when their iMacs won't boot, but in all sites they tell you to use keyboard commands to reset NVRAM or something like that. This case is different, after an installing an update for El Capitan and restarting, my iMAC wont boot at all. Only the background led screen comes up. None of the keyboard commands work. It seems that it doesnt recognize the keyboard.
On the side of the iPhone packaging, Apple defines 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes (rather than 1,073,741,824 bytes), so you end up missing 9,438,953,472 bytes (~9GB) calculating it this way for 128GB of space (128,000,000,000 bytes is ~119GB). My iPhone says that it has 113GB of capacity, but it should be 119GB, so where did the other 6GB disappear to?
The old utility ipfw was discouraged in recent versions of Mac OS X and is now gone from El Capitan. What is the modern way to do port forwarding in El Capitan? I simply want port 80 to forward to port 8080.
I have screensharing enabled on my Mac. I make use of the feature often to remotely control my Mac from public computers. However, while looking through the console today, I noticed this message appearing about once every ten seconds:
I have an early-2015 MBP running 10.11.2 and have been having wifi problems on certain networks ever since buying it. At home, my internet connection will drop every 10-15 minutes - according to the Network menu, I'm still connected to my router, but I get a timeout anytime I try to visit a page. This is not a problem that happens with any of my other devices. I've tried resetting my router and restarting my laptop, to no avail. My router is a Cisco DPC3825. Any ideas? here's the exact error I get in Chrome: This webpage is not available DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET I should add - despite the error - this is not a DNS problem, I've tried various DNS server combinations and none have helped.
I'm not tied to using incremental search: it's just how I do this in Emacs. (Is there some way to use ⌥^B in non-source-code text?) I'm open to any solution that allows me to quickly move from one arbitrary place in the text to another, selecting everything in between, without switching to the mouse.
Is there a way I can resize the current app window with a combinations of keys? One of the things I really hate is when chrome resize to small window and then double click doesnt work for full window.
I am using an iPad 3 (WiFi) on iOS 9.2.1 and since two days I have been having an issue. I don't have an unlimited WiFi connection, I use my mobile phone hotspot for iPad. Now whenever I connect my iPad to hotspot, it starts using very high data, i.e, 2-3 MB every second without any app running. I also tried turning of Background App Refresh, Automatic Downloads are turned off, I tried a soft reset but to no avail. Any idea what's causing this?? P.S: By data, I don't mean mobile data on iPad(My iPad is WiFi only), I mean that it's using the data from my hotspot connection.
I manually installed the MySQL without homebrew However, I still installed another mysql server by homebrew. How could I remove the manual installed mysql server, thanks
Lately Mac app store has stopped showing any updates. It always says 'No updates available'. Please see a screenshot here.
Years ago I changed my cdrom in my Macbook for a second hard drive, and have been using a SSD as a first drive ever since. This HD is shown in Finder, and, clicking on it with two fingers, there's an option to encrypt it. Since this has never been an endorsed upgrade from Apple (changing the cdrom for a HD) I've never used this encrypt option, but now I'm traveling too much because of work and I'm planning to do it if somehow I lose the macbook or it gets stolen.
I have a Finder window open to a directory that contains files. They have an associated application to them.
How do I tell if a particular formula will be installed as binary of from source? Is there a brew command for this?
This is a difficult one. I'm going to update around 30 iPads (iOS 8 to 9.2.1) on location with a bad internet connection. Because of the speed and wifi signal I want to download the iOS update only once and install it on all iPads. The problem is, when I connect the devices to my macbook it wants to configure as new or want to use my own last backup. Does anyone know how to update all iPads without downloading the same iOS update X times? Thanks a lot!
I haven't been able to back up my iPhone due to connection issues. I have a new phone which I have been using. If I back up the old phone and then restore to the new phone will the new data on the new phone be lost?
On my OS X Yosemite, when running man man I was excepting to see a list of MANUAL SECTIONS and their number, but I don't. As a Windows user until lately, I'm not familiar with the meaning of the different section numbers that are printed in parenthesis next to the command name. So how do I list them?
i have a strange problem. I formated an usb-Stick (64GB) on my iMac (Mac Journaled Filesystem). Not encrypted, no password. It works fine on several devices (e.g. Popcorn Multimediabox), Windows-Computer (uuugh) and even on the iMac. But if i plugges it to my Macbook Pro, the USB-Stick is not recognized there. Other Sticks works fine but this stupid single stick not.
I'm using Siri a lot in my car to send text messages. The problem is I don't know how to convert characters into the text. Think like questionmarks (?), dots (.) and enters. Example:
Can iBooks be saved to iCloud then deleted on my iPad but still be available on iCloud? The reason for asking this is that my iPad is running out of space, so I want to store my iBooks elsewhere.
Here is my question asked on StackExchange 2 days ago. *=URL=* Someone suggested me to ask here. Could anyone give me a hand to solve this? ============
I came across the following screenshot of someone's Terminal and I'd like to know how that person managed to display the full path on top. I also like the color scheme. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Ive got several gmail accounts and google apps for business (depreciated free version) accounts. One of the my google apps for business accounts is 25gb. I want to add it to mail on my MBP (osx - 10.10.5).
I have filmed myself doing a painting, it is a lot of film (20 hours). I was planning to massively cut it and speed it up to make a sort of time lapse.
I'm using osascript to display dialog box from bash script, but it's blocking the script, until i press the 'ok' button. I wonder if there's a way to make this display window asynchronous. This means that the script will continue running and the osascript will run on the background.
I have a large number of Mac files that I need to remove illegal characters that Windows will not like and to shorten the file names while preserving the extension. I have found a Bash script that someone else wrote in Automator that does a great job of stripping the illegal characters.
I was going to upload an app to iTunes Store, everything was going perfect, app validation test is also successfully completed, but when I tried to submit my app it gives an error. Here a screenshot of the error:
I accidentally formatted an external 1TB HD to FAT file system using Disk Utility in Mac OS. The disk used to be HFS+ encrypted. Encryption was done when I created the OS X Extended partition, not using File Vault.
When I pull up finder, files are sorted according to date:  But when I'm in Safari, and need to choose a file to upload, there's a bunch of files at the bottom of the picker that says "no date". This seems like a bug. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
I'm using El Capitan and I want to change emoji shortcut which is ctrl+cmd+space. I want to change it to two buttons? Is it possible?
The area marked in the image cannot be used for desktop icons.
How can I update changes to the Login window (Mac OS X 10.11.3). When I change settings in the Preferences and then restart computer, there is absolutely no difference. Is there a XML file with these settings or cache?
I use kdiff3 Version 0.9.98 (64 bit) on El Capitan. When comparing files: using ↑ or ↓ keys scrolls files by one line (one press or auto-repeat scrolls one line) using ← or → scrolls files horizontally one pixel at a time
Coming from Windows I am missing some features like changing current window with a combination of keys. I mean, I know that you can switch app with cmd + tab but sometimes you want to go to another browser window or something like that. I know you can use gestures in order to display all current app windows but I would like to do it with a key or something like that. Thanks
Other constraints: I do not want to move windows to separate workspaces (or whatever that's called) just so I can work with them. I prefer not to use the mouse, but willing to do so if that'll solve my problem (it won't in the above case).
Last night my MacBook Pro crashed. This morning I tried turning the computer on, and it had a few issues.. Computer doesn't get past initial boot up loading. Fan activates loudly while starting up. Screen is generally slightly tinted green, with light green horizontal stripes going across the display every couple pixels. Initial loading screen has a green progress bar. Screen occasionally has a black stripe with rainbow pixels dotted across the top of the screen. Rendered pixels are generally shifted up or down a single pixel every few inches across the screen. After hanging with a white screen for ~4 minutes, it switches to a blue screen with vertical red stripes. A couple minutes later the computer reboots and the process restarts. So I try using single-user mode, because obviously I'm not getting anywhere with this boot-up loop. I follow this process: It proceeds to hang here until I ^C out of fsck. I try rebuilding the catalog...
I have been following this answer to install Windows in Boot Camp. Seemed to work absolutely fine until the command e:\setup in step 9. When this command is run "The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present." is returned. setup.exe is available in the directory though. I'm unsure on how to proceed from here, as it has been some years since I last fiddled under the hood of a windows product. Any help is highly appreciated.
Cómo puedo controlar el sonido insertado durante la presentación. No puedo ver el icono y no lo puedo controlar. Tampoco me permite aumentar el tamaño del icono. El Keynote 6 6.1 no me lo permite. Gracias,
I have created this launchctl .plist for opening an application at a specific time every day – or the next time the computer wakes from sleep. The above is supposed to wake app Caffeine at 7:40 AM Every day. However, can I also include a clause to make the application terminate at 00:00 AM Every day if the computer is awake?
Is there a way to tell Activity Monitor to show me the process arguments the same way ps does for example? So instead of this (Activity Monitor):
I have a slight masochistic streak and would like to try learning the Dvorak keyboard layout. I'd like to add the keyboard layout to my iPhone. Unfortunately it does NOT appear as an option. Is it possible to have a Dvorak keyboard layout on the iPhone?
How to get into the split screen mode in Maxthon? I have tried pressing F10. Also I google it but can't find another way to split it? Maxthon's version 4.1.3.5000
I was recently was trying to use a library that needed a 32-bit version of java. I tried to get my version of java to use the 32-bit version by using the flag -d32. However, I received the error:
Is there a way to type lambda λ on a mac without switching the entire keyboard binding to Greek, as described here: How do you type Theta on a Mac?
In iOS, there are tweaks (available through Cydia) that enables force touch features (such as menus) on older iPhones by touching and holding an item to emulate force touch. Are there any available on OS X ? If that matters, I own a late-2013 MacBook Pro
I followed the strategy of Klanomath (see link) in order to recover my lost OSX (el Capitan) partition (MBR overwritten by bootcamp Windows). In this procedure you have to find the right boundaries of your partition. But when I got my boundaries and created my partition, disk0s2 did not want to mount. This means the boundaries are not good. This is my situation at the moment: The borders I found: 1st HFSJ: 249128179712/512 = block 486578476 2nd HFSJ: 253857728000/512 = block 495815875 Do you have any suggestions?
Sudently I can't connect to the wify at home anymore from my mac (all other devices are ok). When trying to connect I get the dialog: And on the logs from /private/var/log/wifi.log:
Is there a quick one-liner to combine multiple pdfs into one? I know it can be done using Preview.app
I have a Mac Server running 10.10. The sole purpose of it at the moment is to take time machine backups from multiple devices.
I'm a php developer, usually with the laravel framework. I want to get rid of Xcode because I'm tired of dedicating 9 gigabytes of storage to an application that I don't use at all. I seem to remember that when setting up git, homebrew, or ssh, that one of these applications has dependencies which are contained inside of Xcode.
I have a macbook air running El Capitan. I wrote a few cronjob that appear to be running even when the computer is asleep. Is this correct, or is my computer not really in a sleep state?
My iMac (2014) running OS X 10.11.3 goes to sleep every now and then several times a day while I am using it. I do not lose any work, but it is very annoying. I do not have any hot-corners for sleep, or Energy Saver settings that cause the behavior. After monitoring my machine using Terminal: When the event happens, I checked out the logs: Console.app > System Log Queries > All Messages 3/8/16 5:52:48.206 PM CommCenter[299]: Telling CSI to go low power. Why is CommCenter telling CSI to go to low power while I am actively using my iMac?
Even though I have explicitly added the external drive to the DO NOT INDEX list.  This is so incredibly frustrating. When Steve Jobs was alive, Apple used to actually CARE about the user experience. Does anyone know how to safely neuter Spotlight so that it will stop corrupting my backup drive?
Before this is immediately down-voted, I would just like to say this is a slightly different question. My iPad has restrictions put on it and I really would love to get the password. The reason I did not wipe the iPad is because someone else put the restrictions and I would not want them finding out I disabled the password. I saw a post on the apple forum saying to navigate to adoptions.plist but could not find the correct password. This is the Forum (Response by Tikara_NZ). I saw a line 3552 which did not end up the correct password. Thinking that maybe I can delete the password, I deleted the adoptions.plist from my computer and restored my iPad. There was no change. It still had the password and everything is running perfectly. Is there a specific way I can decode it from the backup? A certain line of code I should search for on my computer? Thanks, Jack
A user (who may or may not be my mother) has an old MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.11 that is falling apart. It overheats. The cells in battery expanded beyond the confines the battery casing. She really wants to make this computer work, because she loves using AppleWorks or ClarisWorks and some other old PowerPC applications. She also as an iMac running OS X 10.7.5. My two-part question is this: Can a VirtualBox VM with an OS X guest run PPC applications if the guest OS supports it?
So, interesting problem, whenever I plug my iPhone 6 Plus into charge, I get massive disruption across my whole network, wired and wireless. Once it starts, the only solution is to either disable the phone's WiFi or reboot the device. The image below shows a PingPlotter graph of the problem in action.
I’m trying to create a bootable OS X Installer (Including Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan) on an external disk with AppleScript. But now I have some trouble. Here is the code: My working direction is: Choose which version you would like to create. Choose which version you would like to create. Activate Terminal and ask Terminal to execute the code (It works well within Terminal): sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction Activate Terminal and ask Terminal to execute the code (It works well within Terminal):
I'm wondering where the installer for Dell printer drivers puts its files. I didn't find any in "All My Files", also the contents of my Application/Dell folder stayed unchanged. Is there a way to monitor the installation process more closely so as to able to follow which files are created/destroyed and where ?
I have a customer with a Macbook Air running Windows with Parallels Desktop. When he clicks on a hyperlink in a Windows application he wants OS X Safari to respond. Is this possible somehow? To make things even more complicated some of the pages he wants to open are not online but local files inside the Windows enviroment.
I'm fairly new to the Mac world. I really love the multiple desktop feature.
I want to reinstall my system so I would have fresh Mac OS X. Is there a way how can I export/backup all content of my Keychain Access (all certificates and other things) and then after reinstall to import it back? Thanks
I've just installed XQuartz on my Macbook Pro Retina 13" which runs El Capitan, because a development tool I'm using required me to do so. I know that XQuartz is (kind of) like the new X11, supported by Apple through an open source community, but I'm confused as to what the relationship is between XQuartz and El Capitan.
Is there a way to have Limechat "stickily" joined into a network+room(s)? My laptop sleeps, and it takes the connection with it. I need to go through the motions of "Connect" to the network and then "Join" a room 12 times an hour. I'd like to "Join and forget..." where connection stability does not dictate access to the room.
I'm working with multiple OS X versions frequently and I'd like to have an image which contains a particular OS version's system partition and its recovery partition. Is this possible? (the disk where these partitions are, contains several other partitions which I don't want, so full-disk image is not an option) I'm guessing this cannot be done as a single-step process, so I've already created an appropriately-sized sparsebundle image with GPT layout: hdiutil create -size 35g -layout GPTSPUD -type SPARSEBUNDLE /path/to/new_image.dmg
As a typical Windows user I am used to some of the features there. The Shift and Cmd keys on my MBP are just killing me. Everytime I press them for a combination and then want to use them again for another combination/capital letter I have to let them go and press again.
I'm a Terminal newb, and trying to wrap my head around manual "Little Snitch" functionality without using Little Snitch. From the research I've been doing, I've landed on the fact that I need to utilize pf.conf, however I have no idea how to format my request for Terminal.
Why does my calendar no longer hold two different time alert? What I put in my second alert will change my first alert to match what I put for my second alert.
How can execute veracrypt on the command line in OS X? According to the Veracrypt documentation there should be a command veracrypt but it was not found. Any advice ?
I recently installed apache ant on my macbook. I think the installation didn't go well. Whenever I go to my terminal now the home folder is static-30 How to get rid of this?
After resizing my HFS partition (to solve a case sensitive/insensitive problem) I found out my BOOTCAMP partition was no longer accessible. As I navigate the web, I found out this is a common issue and there are several pages describing possible solutions. Most of them begin by asking the user to analyse the output from the following commands: sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0 sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 diskutil list My question is, how can fdisk and gpt show different partition configurations? Also do you think my BOOTCAMP partition is recoverable? My laptop is an early 2011 Macbook Pro (quad i7) running El Capitan and Windows 10 64bit in bootcamp (upgraded from windows 7). The procedure that led to this state was: Resize Macintosh HFS+ partition to half its size Created a new HFS+ non case sensitive partition between the original and bootcamp. Mirrored the original partition to the new one. Formatted the original partition case insensitive. Mirrored the new partition to the original one. Deleted
I just discovered a strange file in my home folder. It is titled: - The entire contents are the word: ok on the first line & a blank second line. There is no extension. It was created this past Monday at 4:55pm & last modified/opened at 4:56.
I have a netatalk based Time Machine server set up at home. Right now, it is accessible only from my local home network. It only allows me to do backup, when I am at home. Sometimes, I'd like to access the Time Machine drive from outside home. I can connect to the server via ssh and forward the necessary port (548) via ssh tunnel. This way I know, that the connection is secure. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work properly.
Every time Time Machine does a backup of my Yosemite working disk (140 GB), it adds about 20 GB to the size of the contents of my backup disk, and it fills up very quickly. This happens even during the night when both I and my computer are sleeping. I don't think it should work this way!
I had Google Maps installed on my iPhone. Out of the blue it showed that it was "installing". I deleted the app, but it still shows that it is being installed and the cloud symbol appears next to the app when I attempt to reinstall in App Store.
I recently had to reboot my computer, and when it finished booting my account was gone (it was not showing in the log in screen)! I got onto the admin account and found that although the user was not deleted, there are a lot of red minus signs:
Is it possible to have more than one VPN active at a time on iOS?
I can't update a particular app (CSR Racing) -- when I go to the "Updates" part of the app store or to the app itself and tap "update", it will go to the progress bar thing (circle with square in middle) for a split second, then go back to showing "update". Now it's just sitting there with the progress bar not doing anything. Help meh! I already restarted the iPhone and tried to reset the App Store (as proposed by @csstudent in one of the answers), it still won't let me update it.
I'd like to have dtrace script that for every new process, print it's commandline + it's parent process name. here's my script : However, while running the script, it seems that for some probes there are uninitialized/corrupted variables.
I couldn’t do any of the standard suggestions (reset PRAM or SMC). The shortcuts just don’t work, so that the machine turns on as if I wasn’t pressing any key.
I would like to check the value of autopoweroff and autopoweroffdelay settings for the "Battery Power" profile while running "AC Power" profile (precisely regardless of what profile is currently active). The pmset -g command returns only values for the current profile and -b option (apply the settings to battery) works only for setting the options not reading them (cannot be used with -g). Is there any other way/command that would allow checking the values?
So, the other day I opened up my MBP 2011 (on El Cap) and found it's battery to be drained. Plugged it in and booted it up and got a flashing folder with a question mark thrown in my face. It stood there for a while, mocking me. I thought the worst. But then it suddenly started to come to life, and it actually booted, by it self. Hooray! Figured I should backup and get a new disk, but ultimately I didn't. And today it just came to a halt and I had to shut it down with the power button. Now it of course does not boot at all.
My MBP's Wifi connection is very slow. How can I know if I am connected to the best available channel and can I choose the one channel instead another? I do not have access to this "public" router. This is what Wifi Diagnostic tool looks like:
Assuming I have an external monitor plugged into my laptop and a projector - I now have three monitors. I want to be able to see what is on the projector from the second monitor and leave the primary monitor for controlling the presentation. My question is: Can I mirror my second and third monitors but not the first for a presentation?
I see no shortcut key in Android Studio for "Find Word at Caret" (see 5th row below).  However when I searched IntelliJ IDEA documents I have found this.
I use this command to mount an encrypted volume: On first use I'm prompted for a password. I then close it either by clicking 'eject' in finder or the matching hdiutil unmount command.
so I was working late last week and accidentally granted my user the ownership of all the files on my mac, with this command I think: I have been fixing it to make apache, sudoers, and more programs and configurations but there are a lot of things I haven't been able to fix (mysql, brew, etc.)
Booting from 10.11 USB installation key and running diskutil cs list shows an LVG with a uuid and a offline status. There are three physical volumes listed, the first two are the good devices with a status of "checking", and the third is a UUID and "(No properties)". Attempting to repair gives "Incomplete or inconsistent CoreStorage Physical Volume set". Attempting to run diskutil cs removedisk <dead-disk-uuid> gives "Not a valid CoreStorage Physical Volume UUID (-69777)". The question:
I have an external USB drive that I use for Time Machine backups. I've noticed that when I right-click on an item the Open With menu lists not only apps in my Applications folder, but also apps in the Applications folder on the Time Machine backup. Rebuilding the Launch Service Database will help clear out the list, but then it just grows back. I attempted to exclude the external drive from Spotlight indexing, but the external drive doesn't appear in the list of drives to exclude. Below is a screenshot of my Open With folder.
Using the keyboard, how can I confirm the rename prompt from Finder?  If I press return/enter the “Keep .doc” option is selected. Using the keyboard arrows ←, ↑, → and ↓ doesn't seems to help. Neither the tab key.
After many years of having kernel panics with black screen shut downs I finally bought 32 GB of brand new 800mHz memory and all seems fine now. I would now like to upgrade OS X. What is the latest OS X I can install? I presently have 10.6.8? MacPro3,1 A1186, 32 GB 800mHz, 2.8GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275, 30″ Apple Cinema Display
I am using Safari 9.0.3 on OS X 10.11.9 and have only recently noticed Safari displaying the wrong favicon for some websites. In one instance, Safari uses the Facebook icon for Messenger despite the Messenger icon being used in the head section of the page source. I tried deleting the WebpageIcons.db file from Safari's Library folder, and I have cleared Safari history and website data across all my devices. The Facebook icon still loads. Any ideas?
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp on my Mac Pro Early 2009 Edition which should be possible according to this page: https://support.apple.com/en-ap/HT201457
I have an iphone 4 and although I get a notification for a missed call but i cant see the number of the person calling all it shows is missed call from "unknown" i cant find anything on the internet regarding a fix or a setting? please help, if a person calls me and they're not in my contact list i can never call back cause i don't know who called? this is extremely frustrating!
When setting up a new IMAP account in Apple Mail 9.2, it gives me no option to specify the incoming and outgoing ports, not SSL options. See screenshot below.
My nephew is gonna be on the radio tonight. I'd like to record the stream either from iTunes or from my web browser. What are my options to accomplish that?
Is there a way to see what Mail.app is doing when it scans messages for rule firing? I have a rules that download bank statements when I get an email from my bank. Since I have multiple accounts, I rely on the account number in the email message. I have a number of rules, each having a filter that says Message content contains The statement for your account ending in XXXXX is available online for viewing
I have a macbook and I connect to my linux accounts with screen sharing. I would like to connect to two different linux accounts from the same client (my macbook) at the same time, using two different instances of screen sharing. Is this possible? How?
I am trying to add shortcut for Microsoft Outlook categories. I have found this solution for Office 2011 but it doesn't work with Office 2016 on El Capitan. Does anyone know how to assign this shortcut?
I have an IMAP email account with several depths of IMAP folders, say about 4 levels deep, but Mail only shows the first level. Can I get it to show the further subfolders? Thanks.
I am installing OS X El Capitan on a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. Previously running an OS X 10.8.5. Incidentally my installation is taking now two days. I have tried holding down the power button but still no difference. It resumes where it stopped I feel frustrated and I want to return to my previous operation system. What can I do? Does it mean my machine has crashed? have I lost or can I recover my work? Making matters worse I can't tell what percentage of installation achieved? Apart from the bar that has moved from 0% up to around 75% and it's stagnant at that level. I am confused on what to do. Any assistance?
To change the MAC address I use the common It shows the changed MAC address when I run
I'm using a MacBook Pro Retina 15" with only 256 GB SSD storage, however, for my new job I need to be able to run Windows on it. I'll need to install Visual Studio and some other tools on the Windows system, so I need quite a bit of storage, maybe around 100 GB should be enough. There are very small USB flash drives with capacity of up to 256 GB, would it be a good idea to run the VM on that? I want to avoid using a big external hard drive, since they are not really convenient, just too big. Also, I don't have enough storage on the local SSD drive.
My simple task is to create within the workdir up to max separate dirs copy within it some files from the template dir (so every new dir is replicas and the difference only within it names defined from i)
We're running tests that require multiple desktops on a Mac Mini. We're successfully using an ssh TCP tunnel to localhost, 5900 to 6900, to make Screen Sharing let us log into other users on this same machine with vnc://user:password@localhost:6900 and some Applescript to press the resulting dialogue buttons. I can detect successful login via ssh running a program under Java 1.7 with export AWT_TOOLKIT=CToolkit that tries to open an AWT window as the secondary user, which fails if the desktop isn't started. This is fairly reliable, although I'd happily hear of more reliable methods! Where things are going wrong: We're having problems logging those robot users out, to leave the machine fresh for other tests that object to all the memory wasted by stray processes the users leave running. I'm currently using but sometimes System Events apparently isn't running and refuses to start: I've recently added -e 'if it is not running then launch' -e 'delay 5' immediately before the -e 'log out' b
How can I free up space? How can I delete files (pictures, apps) and have the system acknowledge the change? This is seriously frustrating that I can't manage the space usage on the device.
I saw on some website if forgot restriction pass code erase the phone so I do it then my phone show only white screen and black apple for along time till now what should I do
Within Contacts I have an entry with my name, the previous company I worked with, job tile etc and details of the company website of the company I worked for before that. I have tried to change this information and telling the system to ignore certain hone numbers included in e-mails. The system is adamant that I have got it wrong and reverts back to the previous information. I have tried deleting the contact (possibly a v-card) and re-entering but no luck. How do I get the computer to stop being so helpful? PS iPhone also has this problem - same contact but with different details.
I have a .pkpass file which contains the boarding card for my next flight. Can I add it to iOS Wallet or is it not possible to add a .pkpass file? In case it is possible, how can I do it? I am using iOS 9.2.1 in an iPhone 4S
I first started using El Capitan when the public beta was released. I continued to enjoy the snapping operating system until one day my laptop's SATA cable decided to give up on me. I got the cable replaced and then ended up having to reformat everything and restart over. That's when I made the decision of moving from the public beta to the official release, because I had been facing minor bluetooth connectivity issues. Ever since then, my computer has been horrible slow, freezing every 4 - 5 minutes for 20 - 30 second durations. I believe this is also called "beach-balling". Anyhow, I started to notice that every time my computer freezes, there is a "Spotlight: XPC Connection Invalidated" error in my console. Every single time. That can't be any coincidence. I've also managed to do some google searches and many people seem to face this problem. However, no one has been able to fix the problem.
Does an iOS virtual machine for Windows exist? If it doesn't are there any reason why it couldn't?
I installed the Logitech driver for my G500 mouse. This driver overrides the standard acceleration curve and leaves it just linear. I want the original one back. But just uninstalling the driver (using the included tool) didn't help.
Let me explain problem in quick bullets: What I want: I would like to use ultra wide external display with 3440x1440@50hz resolution with my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012). I would like to use my Thunderbolt port on mac, and my HDMI 1.4 input on my display. I can successfully connect my display using: - HDMI -> HDMI with 3440x1440@50hz - TB -> DP (via TB -> DP adapter) with 3440x1440@50hz I can partially successfully (with limited resolution) connect my display using: - TB -> HDMI (via TB -> HDMI adpater) with 1920x1080@60hz (max)
Does anyone know of a way to get an ISO onto a bootable USB flash drive? I also cannot connect to a network until the image (all 7 discs) are installed and the image boots up.
I have searched around and the closes thing I could find to my issue is this: *=URL=* I am running OSX and I am using iTerm2.
How can I send text to a Terminal or iTerm window? I'm presenting a demo of some multi-user software and would like to create several windows, programatically sending (different) text to each one, something like I'm currently using Terminal and iTerm, but can use any other program.
How can we get it back the Hand Tool (use to be a glove icon) for moving enlarged images in Preview (OS X El Capitan 10.11.3)? This was most helpful tool Apple had for working with graphics!
When I m using iTerm 2 (with zsh), and a command is running at the prompt, every minute or so ^@ (NULL character) got displayed on the terminal. Below is an example, using socat, but other commands yield the same outcome: 2016/03/11 09:59:36 socat[1514] D data loop: sock1->eof=0, sock2->eof=0, closing=0, wasaction=1, total_to={0.000000} 2016/03/11 09:59:36 socat[1514] D select(8, &0xa0, &0x0, &0x0, NULL/0.000000) ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ In this example, ^@ is written at the end of the last line every minute or so. If I run the same command with the built in mac os Terminal app / bash, the output is clean. Any idea where these nulls characters comes from and how to get rid of it?
I have a somewhat humorous but annoying problem. I'll on the phone using the standard wired earbuds, then my wife starts the car in our garage downstairs. Since the phone is paired to the car, the audio automatically switches, interrupting my call and playing it to my startled wife in the car. The interruption to the conversation and the ensuing confusion make this about as aggravating as a dropped call.
I have a new iPhone 5s. i have backed up all my old text messages from my Android phone in an xml file. i would like to import the xml file which contains all my old text messages to my new iPhone 5s. if this cannot be possible then please let me know a work around to this matter. thanks.
I've started using Apple Music and I've turned on iCloud music library which I think is a cool feature. However, The moment I've turned it on, my iPhone's library started to look like this:
I want to create .icns for an app i made, i know how to make icons in png and .ico but i don't know much about it. Which size should i create my icons before to convert them? I don't want my icons to look sharpen or blurred. I tried just converting them but i don't know if it's just a matter of converting png or ico... Any advice appreciated!
If you disconnect a removable drive without ejecting it first, the next time you connect it, Windows or Mac run an fsck check on the disk to ensure data integrity. Windows will ask if you want to check for errors, OS X does it invisibly.
I have all Apple products in my household, and am very security conscious. But the recent articles about ransomware infecting all sorts of computers got me thinking. Even if I was foolish enough to find a Mac ransomware program, download it, disable Sophos, disable SIP, and give said ransomware program my admin credentials, could it infect my iCloud Drive? I have regular hourly backups to my Time Machine so I am not worried about my data stored locally, but iCloud Drive items are stored on Apple's Servers as well as on my computer. So if ransomware encrypted all of my content in my iCloud Drive folder on my computer, would it update the files on the server, making recovery not possible? For clarification, my questions are these: Does the iCloud Drive folder get backed up to my Time Machine? Does Apple make regular accessible backups of their user's content? Would the encrypted data be uploaded to iCloud replacing the old files on the server?
Join.me exports screen recordings in WebM format. I can play WebM files using VLC but I can't edit them. Searching for a solution brings up hundreds of spamware 'video converters'. Is there a simple way to edit WebM video files on MacOS?
How to start an original Google Android image in Parallels Desktop? If I just try to create a new virtual machine from the img from Factory Images for Nexus Devices (e. g. for Pixel C), it tells me: „Unable to detect operating system“:
My Macbook 7.1 (Macbook white mid-2010) with 10gb ram and 250gb SSD Samsung 850 EVO overheats with very few apps open. It overheats for no particular reason. It cools down for no particular reason too. It goes from 89 to 65 in seconds regardless of applications usage that I do. Why is this happening?
I got a MacBook Pro that has a problem booting, or even seeing the hard drive. I have used the recovery console to install OS X onto a USB drive and have booted into that and can't actually see the internal disk at all.
How do I disable both the "relaunch apps after reboot" feature as well as the "reopen windows at relaunch" feature? When I reboot (be it after a hard reset or reboot command) I want to be presented with a blank desktop and not everything I had open before. Also, when I open an application, I don't want the dozen things I was working on previously to open all at once.
I have a weird issue with my bash shell in OS X El Capitan. I was messing around with my .bashrc file today, and now when I open my terminal I see nothing out of the ordinary (no messages, just the basic bash prompt), but I cannot enter any commands. I can type, but once I press enter I just hear the bell ring and nothing happens. Some of the things I have already tried: Deleting .bashrc (and restarting Terminal) Deleting .bash_profile (and restarting Terminal)
Normally a selected item in Xcode's Project Navigator is indicated by a blue bar behind the item. However, sometimes for no apparent reason this changes to white text with a kind of very light blue drop shadow and no background color change. Does anyone know why this occurs or how to prevent it? To fix it I always just have to restart Xcode.
Is there a way to make .docx (Word) files open in Pages by default? How do I do it?
Will it hurt my battery to use a 12w charger instead of a 10w that came with my iPad Air 2. iPhone charger says 12w can I use this on my iPad air2
How do I make a keyboard shortcut for the return key? For example, if I pressed ~ it would press return for me. I'd like to do this without applescript. Is this possible, or will I have to buy a functioning external keyboard because my return key doesn't work!
I wonder if there is a way to send an email to myself with Command Line or AppleScript service automatically when my Mac reboots? Thanks for your suggestions.
I've heard that downloaded podcasts that are visited would be automatically deleted after some time. But I'm not sure about when or which condition does this occur.
I'm using Mail.app on my Macbook (OS X El Capitan), but the folders (IMAP) are displaying from Z to A (descending) instead of from A to Z (ascending). Is this a setting? How can I turn this around? In the webmail or Google Gmail app on iPhone it's displayed properly.
I keep getting these broadcast messages being printed to every terminal window, and it's driving me nuts. Does anybody have a clue as to how to turn them off?
On my Yosemite OSX machine I often get an ICloud prompt after awaking from sleep or after a reboot like this  what program is causing this? Is it a valid Apple one or one trying to get my password? I have not knowingly set an app-specific password. and in normal use ie not just after awake I got the box again but a more interesting log From that list of contacts it does look message related but still what proof is that this is from Apple and note my Message does not work even if I provide a password(see other question)
In Windows I used to have a program (or actually a background service) in which I could define shortcuts or abbreviations, which would automatically expand to full sentences or phrases wherever I type them. For example, when I type: (in any program or context) It would automatically be replaced with:
How exactly does iPhone's Compass app work? Is there some kind of chip sensitive to Earth's magnetic field or does it deduce the device's orientation from GPS and other location data? Or a combination of both?
If I'm on my Desktop and I have a file called 'test.txt' on there, and I want to copy that file to say '~/Library/Folder 1/Folder 2/' how do I do that? Also, if there's already a file there called 'test.txt' I'd like to replace that file. I've tried running but that didn't do the trick.
I have to forward every internet page to my local address i.e. 127.0.0.1 using OS X. I tried following command but it has no effect:
I found 9666/tcp to listen on 127.0.0.1 on OS X. I use version 15.3.0 What's that? Any more details? With Google I found no info about this port and Jdownloader.
So a week ago I was told on this website that if I wanted to make my Mac (MacBook Pro early 2011, 13") really faster, I should replace my HDD with an SSD. And I'm about to buy this Samsung SSD. But one question went threw my mind.
On OS X Mavericks, I am trying to create an account using single user mode, using the following script. However, when I run this script, I get 6 copies of the same error: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist: No such file or directory
So, my iPhone 6 Plus battery has been draining very badly. Whereas I used to get over a day on a single 100% charge, I barely make it half a day now. Even the charging in takes whole night even on a 10W iPad charger.
I'm in a pretty sticky situation right now... The USB keyboard that I've always used broke. I do have the wireless keyboard that came with my iMac. However, my iMac is dual-booted. When I turn it on, the cursor for the operating system to boot is over Linux by default. Therefore, because I don't have a keyboard connected, I can't select to boot OS X. If I was able to boot OS X, I would be able to connect the wireless keyboard. Is there any way I can boot OS X without a keyboard? Thanks.
I am running OS X 10.11 - El Capitan. I am trying to tune my TCP setting for better network / Internet performance. Most of the settings I have been able to modify permanently through /etc/sysctl.conf configuration file.
I have a free app with one in app purchase option, and I'd like to offer that IAP for free to some helpful users. In iTunes Connect it appears I can generate promo codes but those codes appear to be for the app itself (which, again, is free so I don't get it.)
My Mac is connected to two Apple Thunderbolt Displays. The first monitor works without flaw. The second however will randomly turn off its screen 3 to 4 times a day. A quick but annoying fix is to un-plug and re-plugin the Thunderbolt connector. I have them daisy chained from my Mac Pro to the first display, then from the first to the second display. Devices such as Thunderbolt hard drives and my keyboard still work through the second display even when the screen is off. When I swap the displays, the one on the end of the chain will always turn off. Running OS X 10.11.3, Mac Pro (Late 2013), Thunderbolt Display Model Number: MC914
I've been trying to hide the toolbar from a Fluid app application using applescript, but it doesn't seems to be working at all. I've also tried on Safari (fluid apps are built on top of safari web engine). I'm able to "click" on every menu item, but not on that one. The script seems to be finding the menu item there, as I tried to run another piece of code inside that conditional in specific. So this is what i've been doing: I'm not quite experienced on AppleScript by the way, so if I'm doing something wrong, please, correct me =] Thanks in advance.
Is there a way to unlock and lock screen from command line, via ssh? I know /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend command, but it doesn't seem to work via ssh. The perfect solution would be a command, that I could type logged via ssh and it would unlock the screen or lock it back again, so I don't need to tell anybody my password, if he wants to use it. Is there any builtin tool, that would provide such functionality?
I want to know the exact version of an older iPad. After looking up the serial number, it states iPad2,2. I know it is a second generation iPad, but what does the number after the comma identify? Does this mean this is iPad2 second generation, where iPad2,1 would be iPad2 first generation? I thought the generation was the first number, so iPad1 is 1st generation, iPad2 is 2nd, and so on. How do I properly identify iPad2,2 and other iPads?
I am not COMPLAINING... I'm just lost...
I am trying to find out the most recent security patch that has been installed on a system (e.g. 2015-006). In this case, it is the latest Yosemite (10.10.5). Neither the version nor the build number are helpful here, as security patches do not seem to update them.
Many of the applications that I use, such as Spotify, don't require a window to be open to function. I want these applications to be available at startup, but if I chose the corresponding options, the window also opens, and I end up with a clutter of windows on my desktop which I end up manually closing. Is there a hack or a simply option to just open the Application without creating a new window?
I'm using 'screen sharing' to control my remote personal macbook from the iMac @ work. However, the shortcut for switching languages is not working (command + space), and i need to do it the hard way by going through 'system preferences -> keyboard' perhaps there's a way to set a button to do this task, or any other simpler way ?
I two monitors plus my macbook display and I find it sometimes annoying to find where the window switcher shows up. It would make sense to show it everywhere when I hit Cmd+Tab. Please give me advise how to set my mac to behave that way.
Having a Mac I wanted to know can't I just make my own .dmg file using AutoDMG? Instead of finding some random file on the Internet and hoping its not infected? Is there any other software that would allow me to make a Yosemite image. Not a boot drive. By making my image file I can use it on my VMware software right?
Daily I create a clone of my system disk using Carbon Copy Cloner and this is working nicely. However, having a clone connected to your Mac may present a problem in starting apps automatically, for instance at startup. In some cases OSX will start the app from the clone rather than from the system disk. One of the examples is 1Password, which has a little component, called 1Password Mini, which is starting automatically for each user. The app is not listed in the login items. 1Password Mini is often (or always ?) started from the clone and other components of 1Password, interacting with 1Password Mini (such as the update process) will notice this and issue a message. I wonder if there is a way to force apps to be launched from the Applications folder on the System Disk and ignore the one on the clone. Taking the clone offline is not an option for me.
I have a big music library that I assembled through years of purchasing music from iTunes and CDs. I would like to give Apple Music a try but what happens to the music that I own? Particularly worried about the music that I bought from iTunes as I paid a lot for that.
I need to put some music files on somebody's iPhone. How can I do that without erasing the content of his iPhone ?
When I am engaged in an active iMessage conversation on mac, the incoming messages alerts show on iPhone which is sitting besides me and it is annoying. How can I avoid that?
I have 2 problems. First, I cannot find the trash icon anywhere (nor the "recent" flag. Second, I cannot find the setting for adding titles to photographs in a slideshow. It all worked in iPhoto but not any more
I came across a suggestion that a third party driver is needed to diagnose external drives on a Mac OS X (I do not know if this is generally true). The SAT SMART driver (available at *=URL=* extends the standard driver behaviour by providing access to drive SMART data. I was successful in changing the SMART status of my HDD to "Verified." But this does not appear to have helped much as the errors reported above still appear.
I'm having issues with my BootCamp installation of Win 7 Ultimate and want to troubleshoot it using a USB Win 7 boot disk. I created the USB disk in yet another Windows system in Parallels Desktop, using an ISO of my Windows 7 DVD and the USB/DVD Download tool available from Microsoft. When I reboot the computer, the drive shows up in rEFInd, but if I try to boot from it it just loads my problematic Windows installation (with Boot Camp as the C: drive). Any ideas what I should try next?
I'm following the procedure on Oracle's website to install Java 8, update 73. When I get to step 5 in the procedure and click "Next," the installer window quietly shuts down without and without an error message and Java never installs. I have tried disabling SIP to no avail.
I got a development Apple TV from last fall (the second version) and was curious if it can be upgraded to current tvOS (9.2?). I plugged it in and didn't see the App Store on it.
I used to have Spotify but now it says it is damaged or incomplete, and now I can't open it again. How do I fix that?
My iPhone 5c won't let me add any events to my locally stored calendar that are more than 1 year in the future. When I add them, they stay for 30 seconds or so and then disappear. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
Many times a day, Mail.app indicates it is unable to connect to my Gmail account. I have tried quitting and restarting Mail, but it still shows disconnected. If I toggle Wifi off then on, Mail is able to reconnect. A few hours may go by and the problem occurs again. Running OS X 10.11.3. I have tried rebuilding the mailboxes using Onyx. Here are the Console logs for Mail:
Using disk utility, I was erasing and re-formatting to FAT. During that process, the usb cable was removed. Now, the hard drive will not format. When recognizing the hard drive, a window shows up stating "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" with the options to "initialize; ignore; eject." "Initialize" does not seem to do anything. Disk Utility shows the physical drive, but no sub folder (volume?) When attempting to erase and create a new partition, I get an error. The disk was already empty, so I'm not worried about retrieving files, but is the drive itself physically damaged?
If i use iTunes backup from my old device will it just backup my data and settings? I'm worried it will downgrade my ios. And I want the latest update..
I have a SharpVision XV-DW100U projector, and I am trying to connect it to my Macbook Air running OS X Yosemite. I connect it to the projector and it displays right for a few seconds, then turns green. It displays fine on other monitors, so I think it may be a projector problem. I confirmed this later by pressing the button labeled RGB/Comp and it turns red. When it's green, it has the letters RGB along with the resolution and projector speed.
I have a MacBook (13-inch Early 2008) and need to stick with it for some more time, but Apple doesn't give support anymore to it, so I'd like to install an operating system to keep it alive and kicking with low memory usage. What is your suggestion for a lightweight and compatible operational system for my old MacBook?
I've searched online; I have found lots of information around HOW to assign/remove tags, but very little around how people USE them. (that in itself might be the sign that not many people actually use them? :)
I have a new iMac El Capitan (and I'm a new Mac user) attached to the Canon Pixma MX926 printer (about 4 years old) with a USB cable. I can print from the Apple help menu, but can't print any Word documents. I'm sure I'm doing something very simple wrong, but can't figure out what. Can anyone help?
Still did not work. So I referred to this HowToGeek article about this topic and it said that you must move the original folder to the Google Drive folder and make a symbolic like to the original parent folder.
I was recently going through my (2nd Gen) iPod Touch's storage settings in the most recent version of iTunes and noticed that there is a small gray/black bar next to the "Other" storage section. I highly doubt that this is simply a drop shadow as other depictions of this graph do not feature such a bar. What does this small bar represent?
How can I test my LAN speed when I do not have two computers? I have a Mac, an iPhone, and Apple TV.
To check the sha1 of a file I would use openssl sha1 <file> I'm not sure what to use to check the sha256 hash of the file however, what would you recommend?
I started my Photos app on the Mac by pressing the Option key and then clicking on the Photos app icon, so that I can choose an external hard drive to store photos. However, the Photos app is showing "No Photos" in the Import tab, when there are about 70GB of photos. The "Photos" tab, however, show a lot of photos, but they cannot be imported into my Mac.
I have a Apple TV 3rd generation and I know that I can navigate to Settings etc to turn it off. While this works, it's kind of cumbersome. Are there easier ways to turn an Apple TV off?
I cannot connect my MacBook Air to an external monitor. But I am able to connect it to a projector, without any difficulty. My computer detects the external monitor but cannot connect to it. The screen is just black
It won't let me update past iOS 7.1.2 it keeps saying current software is up to date and I know that there is another update but how do I do it exactly?
Suddenly I can't get QuickTime Player to work anymore because it crashes right after opening it. I do not know if this is the right error message from the log: Does anyone know how to fix the problem or how to reinstall the application even if it's a system app?
I am using NETunnelProviderManager in "routing by destination IP" and am able to get IP traffic from various apps on the device. The challenge I am having is that I need to determine which application each packet has come from so I can filter and block traffic as needed, so I can prevent a rogue app being created to access an internal location. It is not feasible for me to use NETunnelProviderManager's "per-app" mode since I am not using MDM. It seems that if I had access to the system's TCB table (or access to the TCB table for each process) I could do this, but it looks like iOS does not publish this information and I haven't found any private APIs either to get this information on a non-jailbroken device. Any ideas?
I'd like to document the wear and tear of everyday items. For that, the photos taken must be taken from similar distances and angles. Is there an app that helps achieving the right angles and distance, for example by overlaying the live camera image (before shooting) with a semitransparent older image or by using markers on the object? Or is there another way to do this with the regular camera app?
I need a way to hook up my android phone to my Mac and generate preview of the files when they reside on the device. The Android File Transfer program lacks view by icon. That is, I cannot see thumbnails of the photos on my phone that I want to drag and drop to the Desktop for example. Same with iTunes. Is there a better program out there?
I recently replaced the hard drives on my Mid 2010 Mac Pro, and thus had to reinstall OS X Yosemite. (I went with Yosemite instead of El Capitan because, as the computer is destined to become a file server, I wanted native RAID support.) I started the OS X installation around 5:30 PM last night; at 10:30 PM the computer was stuck on the "Setting up..." screen. I know that OS X installs aren't supposed to take five hours. Is the fact that I have the OS X install flash drive still inserted in the Mac Pro causing this? Or is it something else?
On an external HD, when I delete a file, OS X prompts me that the file will be deleted without putting it into the trash folder. What is the reasons for that? How can I move it in trash folder before permanently delete it?
My teenager went fly fishing this weekend... The iPhone has been destroyed, but photos remain on the Apple watch. Is there a way to upload them directly from the watch to the cloud before I reset and pair with his new phone? Note that there was not a prior backup on iCloud and his watch/phone was not connected to Photo Stram.
Is it possible to erase and reformat an iPhone to be act as a USB? I've seen many apps that can store data and then you can access it, but is it possible to actually reformat the entire iPhone to behave as a USB?
I upgraded to El Capitan a few days ago. Before I used to use ⌘+⬆︎ to go up exactly one line in the terminal (and usually pressed the combination continuously to go exactly were I wanted), but this doesn't work in El Capitan. What is the new shortuct ? This is not covered AFAIK in this other question which is more about marks.
I am trying to enable autocomplete for git on my mac (currently running El Capitan) but I am having troubles with Homebrew. So far, I have installed bash-completion and added the lines in my bash_profile, as seen in this post The problem comes when doing brew install git (although there must be another git installed in my machine sin I have used it). After reinstalling brew, I get that git is installed but it's not link: I try using the command brew link git and I get this:
I have a new Macbook Pro and I want it to last and keep a healthy battery. How do I best ensure this? If I am using it, do I let it discharge, or leave it plugged in? If I am using it, do I let it discharge, or leave it plugged in? If I am discharging it / allowing it to be unplugged, should I plug it in again when it reaches a certain %? If I am discharging it / allowing it to be unplugged, should I plug it in again when it reaches a certain %? Is there a particular battery level I should wait for before shutting down / recharging? Is there a particular battery level I should wait for before shutting down / recharging? When is it okay to close the lid vs. shutting down completely? When is it okay to close the lid vs. shutting down completely? If it matters, I use my Macbook Pro daily, and I take it to work with me so I can do some coding when I have downtime at work.
Or said another way, can I see availability of invitees (and resources would be even better) when creating a new event in Fantastical. I don't see it in the interface anywhere and it is critical for me in scheduling meetings with coworkers. Mac OS 10.10.5, Fantastical 2.1.5.
Why is it that I highlight a blob of text and set it to align to the right of the screen, other previously written text that is not highlighted also snaps to the right?
2) "View as Columns" works as well IF I disable "Show icons" in "View Options". When I check the "Show icons" box it stops working, when I uncheck the box the Finder window starts working again immediately. Update 2:
On linux I can do something like: but of course the alsa and x11 driver should be different on OS X. How would this work to do command-line video screen-capture?
I live in the U.S., so my region is in the U.S. I want to make the iPad use the following formats: Fahrenheit for temperature Kilometers for distance USD for currency YYYY-MM-DD date format HH:mm 24-hour time format. How do I set up iOS to respect these preferences of mine?
We use JAMF's Casper Suite to deploy our Macs, and would like to be able to push out the OS X Developer Beta to some machines to do some testing before the public release. I have downloaded the Beta from the Developer site however it gives me a 'OS X El Capitan Developer Beta Access Utility' when I need a DMG. After running the file, it takes me to the updates page of the App Store and allows me to download the update. Is it possible to get the full disk image from somewhere?
I have an iPad mini, and I have this app called Music D/L. So, a few months ago, I decided to download a song and when I went into the app, it had a black screen for a split second, and it just crashed.
More & more apps try setting their language automatically, based upon the language of your iPad, then the list of chosen languages. Unfortunately, as do a lot of people, my preferred iOS/OSX system language is English, but certain apps (notably the new TomTom Go Mobile) need Dutch to be much of use (at least in Flanders, Belgium).
Contacts added on my iPhone are not syncing to iCloud and being added on my Mac. I have read that the solution for this is going to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, and Calendars and then in the Contacts section, making sure that the default account is set to iCloud. But there is no iCloud option for me. There is only "Gmail" and "On My iPhone". How do I get the iCloud option to show up so I can get my contacts on all devices? I am running iPhone 5 w/ iOS 9.2.1 and a mid 2010 13" MBP w/ El Capitan 10.11.2 Here is an image of my defaults:
I recently downloaded and used Stamp to import my Spotify playlists into Apple Music. The app instructs me to favorite an iTunes track and press "OK", in order to give the app access to an iTunes cookie. During this process, a notification popped up saying osascript wanted my password, which I then gave it. Soon afterward, my calendar was unable to verify the certificate of one of its accounts, making me wonder if my Mac had been compromised. Can I verify whether this app has compromised my Mac?
I'd like to use my wired-ethernet desktop mac as a wifi bridge so that everything that connects to it over wi-fi can see and be seen by everything else on the LAN. There's clearly no way to do this in the GUI, but I was wondering if there is some way to do it in Terminal. I'm looking for a solution for El Capitan, but if you have a solution for some other version, that would be acceptable, too.
On the 4th generation of Apple TV, is there a way to watch the presentations delivered at the annual Apple World Wide Developer Conference? The videos can be viewed on a Mac and on iOS devices. But for some geeks like me, lounging on the couch while watching WWDC vids on the big screen would be considered fun.
Before when I enabled the option to open a new Terminal window from a certain folder, my context menu looked like this:  Now it looks like this:
My cron jobs sometimes sends mail to /var/mail/USERNAME. I normally read it by log on the Mac computer and run mail command to read and delete these mails. But how to deliver/forward such mails to my Gmail automatically? I would like to read such mails from different Mac computers in one Gmail account.
Is there a way to autosync a PDF file from a URL to my iPad? Specifically, there is a PDF file in the public domain at a known URL. But the author modifies it every few days, and I want somehow that the file be mirrored locally on my iPad.
Helloo, I'm using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 I'm trying to change Sidebar on Finder. I have got difference results with defaults read and defaults export. Example: 1. defaults read command defaults read com.apple.sidebarlists > ~/Desktop/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist Result: 2. defaults export command defaults export com.apple.sidebarlists > ~/Desktop/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist Result: and I have got zero KB file My question: What is difference defaults read and defaults export? What is the best choice to edit my sidebar?
Til last week I was using abcd@gmail.com as my iTunes account. Now I have changed my account to abcd@yahoo.com .
I'm trying to boot the recovery partition on my Mid 2010 iMac 27 to do a Time Machine recovery. OSX is installed correctly already and I can boot that quickly. However, when I try to boot the recovery partition I get the grey screen with apple logo and a progress bar. This one is so slow I have the feeling there is no progress at all, while my machine sounds like it is doing a lot of stuff. What can this be? Is this normal? Or is there also another way to recover my mac without recovery partition?
How to configure Apple Mail.app to show name from mail headers "From: " field and not from Contacts.app???
Having just unwrapped my new Mac and set up Apple ID, I tried to download the updates waiting for me. I get a message saying "This Apple ID has not been used yet in the App Store. Please review your account information". When I try to do this, it will not allow me to proceed without credit card details, just to download free updates (!). OK, fine i will probably buy the odd App or two, but it will not accept my card details because I have a UK bank card with a Spanish billing address. I am from the UK but have lived in Spain for some years and never had problems using this card. I am stuck in this endless loop I cannot escape from and unable to update my new computer. i am beginning to wish i had bought that PC after all - can anybody help me?!
I use the latest Server (5.0.15) to self-host websites on a Mac Mini running El Capitan (10.11.3). I'm not satisfied with the web services (mainly because of this) and I'd like to setup a Linux (LAMP) virtual machine instead, forwarding ports 80 and 443 to VirtualBox 5.
Recently I installed LogMeIn app, and installation was done properly. There was no icon of app was made. I am searching but I am not getting the file or app related information in the system file. I am not sure whether it is Hidden or not. Or it got uninstalled automatically. Now, What I want is, how can I search my entire Macbook which looks into all files either hidden or not hidden, and tells me whether there is any file related to that app or not with complete surety.
It's possible to move files to trash via Finder with ⌘⌫. But if i have an opened file (e.g. pdf or txt), is there any way to directly move it to trash without first closing it and finding it in Finder? Any shortcut?
I'm getting different information from the web vs. Gravis. I'd like to know if the HDD of a late 2015 iMac 27" model can still be replaced. According to Gravis it's soldered. My idea was to get a cheap HDD based model and replace the HDD with a fast/large SSD, like I did in my 2012 model.
I have created custom emoji's and need to set them us as keyboard in my iPhone. What should I save the files as and how do I export them to a keyboard and upload it to my phone?
I'm 16 and I've learned to develop iOS apps recently. I've finished my first app yesterday and I want to upload it to the App Store.
By mistake I deleted ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices from my Mac so all my Xcode simulators were deleted. Now none of my Xcode projects run. When I try to, an alert shows that no simulator is selected in select device.
I'm running into a weird issue where the UP arrow no longer restores commands previously entered on a remote server during SSH session: How can I make Terminal recall commands entered on a remote server when pressing the Up arrow? This is the behavior that I've observed previously, currently running OSX 10.11.2
I have the following setup. I have a Macbook Pro with an external monitor plugged into it via HDMI. I then have another external monitor plugged into the Macbook Pro via a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter. Finally I have a thunderbolt cable running from my Macbook Pro to an iMac. I am using this iMac in "Target Display Mode". I also have an ethernet cable plugged into the iMac and the iMac is sharing it's Internet Connection with the Macbook Pro through the thunderbolt bridge. This all works great, except for one very weird thing. There are certain websites that I cannot access. In chrome I get a "ERR TIMED OUT" error when I try to visit certain websites. So far I have only noticed this on two websites: console.aws.amazon.com key.com (key.com itself is accessible but there is a bill pay iframe that doesn't load and it gives the same error) Any suggestions on what could be causing this?
I'm looking for an AppleScript (or anything, really) that will do the following: If a Terminal window is open in the current space, bring it to the front. If not, open a new one in the current space. I don't want it to switch to another space if a Terminal window happens to be open there. Using iTerm2 instead of Terminal is fine, if that makes things easier :).
I have a table in Numbers, and I'm trying to get the value of the first cell that contains the character …. In order to do so, I wanted to use MATCH(), but had no luck after I realized it could only traverse 2 dimensions. Instead, I've set up a table on another sheet that looks like so:
In iTunes v.12.3.2.35, can I tell if an aiff song is in stereo or mono? I tried "Get Info" but I cannot find a tab regarding this. Thank you for any suggestions.
In my usage list(settings>general>storage & iCloud usage>manage storage), there is an app that registers as (null) with no icon, a version number that doesn't match anything I've previously downloaded, and it's taking up storage space. I first noticed it about a week or two ago. And no, I can't download recent apps to find the one that it is, because I downloaded multiple apps recently, and didn't notice the (null) app until my storage was critically low and I was looking to delete something. I am running iOS 9.2.1 on an iPhone 5C.
I want to install the command line spreadsheet sc. I would prefer to do with homebrew. I need both psc and sc commands. Is there a homebrew package? If not other methods would be good.
Okay so I want an applescript app that plays a song. The song isn't already on the computer and it's contained inside contents/resources of the app's package contents. This is my current code
I never used Itunes with my Iphone, I have around 15 songs so I don't really care if I have to delete them. The problem is that I have around 200 voice memos and I want them on a USB. Thanks!
I started my update from a clean output for brew doctor and then brew update macvim does not work: Any idea how to interpret the errors and how to fix it? Information about clang: bash-4.3$ which clang /usr/bin/clang bash-4.3$ clang clang: error: no input files bash-4.3$ clang --version Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.3.0 Thread model: posix bash-4.3$ Information about clang: Mac OS X version: 10.11.3 Mac OS X version: 10.11.3
My Mac won't connect to the internet unless I click on the wifi symbol and then select the network I want to join. It remembers the network, because I never have to put a password in, but I'm fairly sure it used to automatically connect?
I used a free trial of Parallels Desktop 11 on my 2009 MacBook and the trial expired before I deleted my files from Windows. I'm going to restore the computer to factory settings before selling it using "clover leaf + R". But if the buyer installs Parallels Desktop will they get "my" Parallels Desktop (with all my files) because it's a virtual drive unaffected by system restore? If so, how can I erase my files from Parallels Desktop as well?
This feature was previously under ALT when X symbols appeared to windows corners. Now, I see that it has been removed in El Capitan. My settings in Mission control
I'm new to OSX and tried to create a user from the terminal which I no longer need and which I named incorrectly. I see I can delete the user in System Preferences > Users & Groups but do I need to delete them from the terminal instead as this is where I created them? If I delete them from the terminal what commands should I use? Below are the commands I used to create the user:
I see many photos in Photos application. However, I cannot add them to my mails without knowing their exact location. I am using El Capitan. Of course, I can take a screenshot of originals always but I see this as a way of duplicating things, losing accuracy and causing trash. I would like to get the location for the internet browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, ... You cannot drag and drop directly from Photos to the SE's picture uploader neither. How can you add a photo in Photos application to a web email window?
I'd like to give a presentation to other people who happen to be in the same room. I'll be running various programs and would like my screen to be visible as I work. Instead of a projector, I am wondering if I can use screen sharing. It's not clear to me if there is a way I can start such that I can be absolutely sure there is no chance of others having any control over my computer, cursor, command-line, etc. I only want to broadcast my screen to other computers' screens instead of using a big monitor or projector.
Objective: Somehow I want to fix the issue and should be able to login to the El-Capitan without reformating as so many valuable files are there Somehow I want to fix the issue and should be able to login to the El-Capitan without reformating as so many valuable files are there Find what has caused this problem so that I can avoid this problem in future Find what has caused this problem so that I can avoid this problem in future Overview: I have two drives on my mac desktop one is Macintosh HD and the other one is El-Capitan and El-Capitan is my start up disk. It was working nicely for long time, then all of a sudden one day El-capitan started showing trouble logging into the account. some applications disappeared from applications like chrome I couldn't open any apps it always showing the color wheel then all of a sudden whenever i try to boot up in the el-capitan system started crashing now I am unable to log in to the el-capitan drive. But I am able to login to Macintosh HD which ru
I am wondering what these '+' mean. Is it possible that libwep is trying to inject itself in com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent? libwep is shipped with Websense AP-Endpoint. Full crash+panic: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ee339cc665cdc8583bea
Is there a script for making folders open in a new window by default in OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan?
In Apple's Numbers, I have a table which calculates GAP between two values in two rows (red), I would like even to calculate gap between calculated values in the same cell (blue), is it possible?
Is there a way to see an artist's albums by year in Apple Music? I've searched around and I can't even see a page where all an artist's albums are listed, let alone a chronological listing.
I have two partition one for Yosemite OS as Macintosh HD and another for El Capitan OS as El Capitan Now El-capitan part is not booting up and I have to take a data backup of El-Capitan from Yosemite so that I can reformat the El-Capitan partition and later restore from the back up. I couldn't find any tools that does this. Any pointers to achieve this is highly appreciated !
Photos.app has been working fine for me since its release, but more recently, photos taken on my iPhone and added to my Photo Stream were not appearing. An empty rectangle would show up for each new photo, and the rectangle would be sized appropriately (portrait/landscape/pano), and they appear grouped by location, but there isn't actually any image content. No thumbnail, and clicking on the image opens up a blank screen. The settings dialog says its trying to download, but the progress bar never moves.
Is it safe to charge my macbook after the green light shows? Would it not overcharge the battery, or reduce its lifespan?
I have OS X Yosemite v. 10.10.5. After an update about 6 weeks ago Pages started refusing to respond, then shutting down unexpectedly. Today Pages will not open at all. I get the error message that Pages has shut down, do I want to reopen or report but reopen doesn't work. Any suggestions??
My iPhone at some point stopped accepting "doesn't" and "Doesn't" as correct spellings. It accepts other contractions. Why is this and how can I fix it? Is there something wrong with the spell checker?
I've only recently just started using Safari, mainly to separate my personal accounts from my work accounts. As such, I've logged into Gmail in safari for one of my email accounts. I spent a while setting up bookmarks, configuring toolbars, etc. I've just updated my MacBook Pro to 10.11.3, and suddenly Safari is showing all of my Chrome bookmarks, mixed in with the Safari ones I set up earlier. I'm not logged into iCloud, I can't find anything in preferences to suggest syncing the bookmarks, and a quick google even leads me to suggest that it's not trivial to do so! Any ideas?
The directory ~/Library/Containers has a size 39GB on my system. This is huge. I guess that the directory contains some files created by running various apps. So the more applications I use, the more is being stored within the directory. It thus seems to be a cache-like directory. Can I safely just delete it?
where you can see that the system does not recognise the image. I try to mount the image 2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.img in DiskImageMounter.app application but I get
I do brew search date unsuccessfully. I have coreutils in my system. I could not find GNU date anywhere. How can you have GNU date in OS X?
when I dragged a folder to ⌘I (info) it displayed
Every time I try to download an update (iOS 9.2.1 in this case) on my iPhone 6 that I bought 4 months ago, it says I can't because my phone is still restoring from an iCloud backup. Why is it still restoring? The little wheel at the top is constantly going around.
So I'm asking my self have I messed up with my php/apache conf ? Shall I try a clean-install of my system and would it be efficient ? I don't know ! I'm kinda lost and really need some help even for comprehension (is there a reason I can't get rid of old php version ?) Anything would be helpful So here is more information for answering the questions : Output of brew tap As of what I've tried with home brew : So here is step by step the idea : Lets add this information : And finally, my bash profile :
File saving to a folder. I keep getting an pop up that says I do not have permission to save files to a location
I'm trying to find out if my MacBook Pro USB ports are USB3. It seems to have two USB2 ports and one USB3 port:
Hardware: Macbook Pro retina mid 2014 15" Software: MacOS + bootcamp installed win7 x64 with latest updates
I have a newer (2009 I believe) iMac, running Yosemite. It powers on, the Apple logo and progress bar appear, as well as the mouse cursor, but then nothing happens, the screen just stays on and illuminated. Any ideas as to what's up?
The recent remote code execution bug in git looks pretty serious. The way I read this is that if I'm running a git client prior to 2.7.1, I'm susceptible to remote code execution if I use git to interact with a malicious (or compromised) repo. It seems like a manual upgrade of the git client is in order, but rootless prevents things like brew from working. (I'm currently on the latest stable Xcode 7.2.1)
How can I get rid of it? And why does it show up there? (Can it be a sign of some malware and stuff?) Update: After killing that process manually, I don't see anything bad happening.
I just update to tmux 2.1(OS X10.11.3 Terminal.app), and my .tmux.conf（accroding to *=URL=* but the problem is after I start tmux, the mouse pointer becomes a plus: +， and I cannot copy/paste anymore. And right click on Terminal does not work, no popups How to solve this?
I want to stop the onscreen volume display from popping up when I change the volume. The icon is too big and blocks the center of my screen, and stays there for a second or two. I know I'm changing the volume - I'm pressing the buttons! Is there a way to disable this icon?
Edit: Some final followup here. Once I ran sudo launchctl list | grep mysql it showed my mysqld running ...looking at the system.log for mysql entries showed it was failing to start which led to creating an error log plist entry mentioned in the answer below. changing permissions on the mysql folder recursively fixed the issue. This command will show you the name of your mysql user on the system: dscacheutil -q user | grep mysql
In older versions there was an option to reset safari But in 9.0.3 I am not seeing this option
Using Apple Numbers a lot on my iPad iOS 9.2.1 Due to the limited availability, I haven't seen anyone sporting an Apple Pencil with an iPad Pro. Stores in my area have the iPad Pro but no Pencil.
I just bought a Macbook Pro and I'm new to OSX. I can't uninstall applications like Node, Atom, etc. They are not shown in my Application folder nor in the Launcher. How can i delete them?'
Since I updated my Macbook to El Capitan, I can't stay constantly connected to my 802.11n WiFi. When I deasactivate it, or if i'm on Windows 10 using BootCamp, everything works fine, it's only on Mac OS X that it doesn't. I already tried everything (reinstalling OS X using CMD + R, reset SMC or PRAM, get the last updates, reseting WiFi settings) and I don't know what to do now, I'm not really willing to do a clean install since I'm not even sure that it will works ? I really don't know what to do...
I make it easy: I have two MacBooks, all the data in MacBook A have to migrate to MacBook B and vice versa (so all the data in MacBook B have to migrate in macbook A as well). I want to do it with Migration Assistant. I already read that MI copies the files without deleting them. Do I run any risk or I can go smooth?
I am not a Mac owner and am only helping a friend. He bought a new external HD and he wanted to backup all of his pictures (he uses iPhoto). So, I drag and dropped the Pictures folder onto the HD (formatted as HFS+). I'm assuming this also includes his iPhoto Library. I plan on option click open iPhotos and going into preferences to point to the external HD.
I have a TimeCapsule with a 8TB drive in it. I have an iMac, a MacBook and a ubuntu server, that has the latest version of netatalk/avahi for AFP sharing. I want to store my Photos and Movies folders on the ubuntu server because it has a huge RAID in it, and I can then use photos across my macbook etc.
My apologies for such a basic question, but I have searched for many hours to no avail. I have a very simple spreadsheet with two columns of data. In the third column, I write a formula such that cell C1 contains =$A1+$B1. This works fine; the summation takes place as expected. But, when I drag down the cell's formula into the cells below, the formula copies as expected, but the calculation does not update. In MS Excel, I know how to fix this (there is an option to change the calculation behavior in Excel). Could someone kindly show me how to handle this basic issue in OSX Numbers? Thanks much.
I am new to Mac and now also new to the Windows 10 environment so on a huge learning curve. I have managed to set up Office via VMware Fusion virtual machine on my Mac.
I dumbly upgraded my Mac OS X to "El Capitan" and I F&%#ed myself. I can't reinstall rEFInd because of SIP. I can't disable SIP because my recovery partition doesn't have csrutil. I can't delete my Ubuntu partitions with Disk Utility for some reason? (It says the one nearest MAC is too small?) What can I do. All solutions seam really time consuming and not simple.
I am running Mac OS X 10.11.3 with 4 Spaces on an iMac 27 inch. Switching Spaces works fine but it seems to unintentionally switch from Desktop 2 to Desktop 1. For example (reproducible, also with Magic Mouse): I start at Space 4. Pressing Command–Left Arrow, it switches to Desktop 3. Pressing Command–Left Arrow, it switches to Desktop 2, and a fraction of a second after that it switches to Desktop 1 (without any key press). It also occasionally switches to Desktop 1 when I am just doing work in Desktop 2 without switch between Spaces.
I am trying to remap specific Ctrl+<Key> combinations to Command+<Key> in Terminal.app using Karabiner. The following private.xml is used:
Is there a way to set a reminder or an event so when that event's time comes the iphone will say something like "your eventA is ready, keep in mind the traffic". Where that phrase is something i can control?
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while, so I'm guessing this can only be solved with a console command. What I want to do is disable 'Text Replacement' everywhere on my Mac. The trick is, I have a library of text replacements that I use on my iPhone (like ill > I'll), and apparently it's synced to my iCloud account. As a result, if I make changes in one place it affects all of my devices everywhere - making the easy solution of "delete all of the text substitutions from your substitution library" is unavailable. The text replacement I'm referring to specifically is the option you can disable by right-clicking on any text input area, then selecting 'Substitutions < Text Replacement' (see image).
I have a Mac running OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), and I just noticed this today:  I haven't installed anything new, and I have no reason to believe that there's a specific application responsible for this issue. I rebooted my Mac, cleared the NVRAM and ran CleanMyMac 3, but it's still there. Killing the dock or restarting SystemUIServer doesn't help. Question: Why is there a yellow bar over my Finder icon?
I know this has been asked here several times, but I already checked the other discussions and tried their suggestions, but without success. Is there anything I can do instead of re-installing the complete system? When certain applications want to access the keychain, I am getting asked for the "login" keychain password repeatedly and never-ending, even though I type in the correct password. I already tried the following, separate from each other: Keychain Access > Preferences > Reset my default key chain reset the password (new password = old password) of the login keychain Deleting the ~/Library/Keychains/XYZ... folder (as suggested here: *=URL=* restarted several times
If I have a file or directory path, how can I list all Time Machine backups of that path?
I have updated my MacBook pro Yosemite to El Captain. During the update my macbook put an error message saying it failed to load the update. So I rebooted the MacBook now he puts me this error message (see screenshot) and restarts repeatedly.
I recently got an Apple TV (the new siri version) at a stupidly cheap price (Supermarket mislabeled it as the last version) it seemed rude not to buy it! But now I'm not sure what to do with it. Unfortunately most / all of the information online talks about how well they integrate with the Apple ecosystem. So my question is what can I use an Apple TV for if I'm an Android household.
Use case, I'm presenting a web application on the screen and want the user to see where I've clicked (since I'm mirroring my display) on my iPhone 6. I want to say I've seen this used in Apple presentations before, but can't find out how to do this. Ideas? I've looked around the accessibility tab, but haven't had any luck...
Is there a way to get Pages to automatically save documents as .docx (Word) files? How do you do it? I'm wondering because I do not have access to Microsoft Word and this is the preferred format for what I'm doing
I don't remember creating one and I'm just trying to print in black and white.
I'm trying to convert html files to pdf files using the following command line But I got the message as below and empty pdf files Could you please point out the syntax error that I made in command line. I'm currently using Mac OS X 10.11.3
Carbon copy cloner made a few copies of my hard drive when it was cloning some stuff for me, and put them in a SafetyNet folder. It copied my library directory with some stuff in it, I was able to get a lot of the stuff erased with "Empty Trash."
My iPhone randomly decided to lose all phone contacts from the address book. Following these instructions to re-instate them... Settings > iCloud Turn Contacts (sync) OFF, then back ON Go into Contacts app and click top-left refresh button. ... It's not a refresh button, it says "Groups"...what is going on?
My daughter was typing work on her MacBook using Microsoft word. She copied and pasted an item and then deleted item. It changed her font and won't let her finish typing like she was. How can she change her font?
I was prototyping some USB things and I was wondering if the Mac USB ports have any short-circut protection. If I were to connect Vcc and GND directly together would it break my Mac? Would the motherboard be borked?
The problem with my MacBook Pro 2014 started when it took a water damage. The only ostensible casualty was the wifi function, and apple told me it was caused by the breaking down of the wifi airport card. There is apparently other hardware damage, but no other symptom that I can see. But to fix the whole thing will cost almost as much as a new machine, so I decided to buy a USB adapter (*=URL=* to regain the wifi function.
I have this VM which is currently on OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.4 Beta I would like stop downloading beta in future and just use latest stable version I have unenroll from the beta program Now when 10.11.4 Stable version becomes available would i be able to upgrade to that one? What is the best way to unenroll and go to stable releases in future?
I want to use this printing capability to create correctly colorized example output PDFs demonstrating the correct use of command line tools, so it is important that I be able to edit the scrollback history for clarity. For instance, if I make a typo halfway through a long demonstration, I don't want the mistake to appear in the PDF to confuse students/readers, but I also don't want to restart the demonstration.
I'm trying to add an alias to the bashrc file. Since I'm not good at this, Im' going to write all the steps I took The file had this in it On top of that I added my alias
Looking through the parental control logs on the path "/Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/Users/max/<year>/<month>/", I am finding a bunch of files with the extension .data. Trying to open them in a text editor, however, tells me that they are binary files. What format are the files in, and what program/programs can I use to edit the content of them? If they cannot be edited, is there way to convert the files back and forth between another file type? Thanks
What causes the iPad to show Bookmarks are being synced. Please add the bookmarks once syncing has completed when attempting to add a bookmark or favorite in Safari and how can it be prevented?
I would like to search for an app in the apples app store in a webbrowser, if this is possible. I know it is possible by installing Itunes, but I don't like to do that and I hope, that it is not needed to do a simple search for an App. This way I could send a link of an URL to someone to show the app. Is this possible? In GooglePlay it is so simple and intuitiv, but in the MAC-World I am lost again with such a simple request. I know, that the app exists, because I wrote it myself and I can find it with the "App Store" - App on my IPad, so I am sure it exists. Would be happy if someone would guide me to this search-feature, if it exists.
My iCloud is full and i would like to move the photos from my icloud on my macbook to my external hardrive. I do not have a desktop or WINDOWS
I am considering getting this device back to Apple because I have still warranty (5 years in total). However, I should have some sort of evidence that there is some problem.
The CPU and GPU temperatures while browsing the web.
Also nothing shows up when I type into the search box.
I'm under OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. When I try to search in terminal text by cmd+F it starts to search from the beginning rather than from the end backwards as it was in terminal on Ubuntu. So how can I change the search direction to start a search from the end in terminal?
I would like to know If I will be able to record using quick time player or other application you may suggest, both audio and video on my Macbook Air with head phones connected !! When headphones are not connected, there is no problem, i go to setting on the recording screen and i choose built-in microphone But what i want is while i'm using my headphones, when i want to record a video, i want it to capt the audio from that video rolling on my mac, not the sound of outside
The upgrade notification gets more and more intrusive day by day. Now there is no option to be "Reminded Tomorrow" or "Skip This" anymore.
What is the meaning of the SKUs of Mac mini: Difference between "MGEM2GU/A" and "MGEM2D/A"?
I'm searching an alternative Program which can draw Flowcharts for pieces of sourcecode. I found Programs like "C/Delphi/Basic Code 2 Flowchart" or "Visustin" but they're only for Windows. Helpful and lazy as it is - I'm searching for a program that turns C++ code into Flowcharts to have a better overview what my program does.
Is it possible to create a Japanese-style font for use with the Japanese keyboard layout, where I type two letters or a vowel, for example ba, and it converts it into a glyph? EDIT: Clarification. I want it to act just like the Japanese input source, but use my own glyphs. EDIT 2: Renaming the question to make it more clear.
I searched google and found a list of hidden directories and files in OS X at *=URL=* but .file wasn't listed. The file is 0 size and looks like this very suspicious? Running McAfee virus scan there were over 700 additional files that were Not Scanned because they were protected. /private/var /private/etc /Library/Caches /Library/Application Support and others
I have a Macbook Pro Medio 2012, 15 Inch Non Retina. It was running on a normal 750G HDD, but i wanted an upgrade, so i bought the Samsung V-Nand 850 EVO SSD 1TB.
I used to press F10 to mute, F11 to decrease volume and F12 to increase volume, but all of them suddenly stopped working. If I press any of those keys now, they send me to another screen that has nothing to do with the sound volume. How can I fix them?
So I only got my MacBook Air last year and I am travelling so am taking a lot o photos but I have a 1TB hard drive that I transfer the photos over to every now and then, my time machine also backs up to here. Recently I got a message pop up saying my start up disk was nearly full so I transferred all the photos over to my hard drive and deleted them all. It was still saying full even after I emptied my recycling bin and went through recently deleted photos and emptied that. Still no luck so I went through the steps to go onto my finder and computer and find the size of all the files to see where it was all being taken up and theres 49GB in my photo library and there is literally NOTHING in there! Its so frustrating because its now going slow and it gets super hot if I'm charging it whilst using it because its just too full. Please can anyone help? Thanks
On a stock MacBook Pro without FileVault, TRIM should be enabled out of the box according to wikipedia. Infosec experts warn against TRIM in conjunction with full disk encryption. When encryption is in use, using the TRIM command reveals information about which blocks are in use and which are not. (Quote also from same Wikipedia article.) Does Apple disable TRIM when you enable FileVault?
One draft window flashes continually on and off the screen even though I have deleted the draft from my menu on the left. Any ideas on what's causing this and how could I fix it?
When I close the windows of Thunderbird 38, it is because I have finished to work on my mails. But Thunderbird is still running and can tell me when new mails are arrived. For now, I have to click-right on Thunderbird to quit. Is there a way to quit Thunderbird when I close the window? I am using Mac OSX 10.10.
Is there any way, such as an application or a terminal command, to display a log of every application that has been running on the computer? A bit like a keylogger, but for applications instead of keyboard. I did not find anything on the internet. If it does not exist, do you think that programming such a tool would be possible? Thank you for your help
Based on the link, I can login in console mode. And then I can ssh into it from another computer. If I want to log out the console back to the login screen how can I do that?
I'm using a Macbook Pro Early 2015 running Mac OS X El Capitan. I'd like to measure the resolution (or at least the aspect ratio) of a specific application window on Mac OS X. Is there a way to do this? The reason I need to do this, is to ensure that I am running the application window at a specific resolution, or aspect ratio.
I use an app called "GPS Tracks" to track my movements throughout the day with my iPhone 6 on iOS 9.2.1. The app often shuts down while it is actively recording in the background, which the developer indicated is something that happens when memory runs low. Is there anything I can do to either 1) prevent iOS from shutting down a specific app for memory reasons or 2) tell iOS which apps to shut down first or 3) be warned when the app is closed by iOS. I am ready to jailbreak it if necessary.
I have just made a stupid mistake that cost me a lot. I tried to uninstall a software on my Mac, it is this one here: Uninstallation Ureka and I followed the instructions in the link. On the terminal, I typed exactly as in the documentation:
I don't sync my iPhone with my work computer. I just plug it in to charge it. Is there a way to prevent it from prompting me every time to update the phone's carrier settings?:
I have followed these instructions exactly, up until the point where I need to restart my computer and press the alt/options key right after the chime. I have tried doing that, but no menu has popped up - I just get my usual desktop. Note: I'm using a USB external keyboard. Any advice?
I'm trying to compile a c++ program on the Mac terminal with gcc then the source files path. I've found some short term fixes on the Internet but I want it so it works every time. Also I hardly know anything about the Terminal so can the solution be explained very simply. echo $PATH gives: /bin/cat ~/.profile prints no such file or directory, /bin/cat ~/.bash_profile prints: When I use gcc to compile the program I get "-bash: gcc: command not found" However if I run the commands
About 2 almost 3 years ago I purchased an iPod touch 5. My phone and my iPod both have 2 different Apple ID's (same as 2 different email addresses). The email address used for my iPod is an email I no longer use and I'm not sure if I deactivated it or not. Anyway when I go to Settings> iCloud> it still tells me that same old email address.
I was using El Capitan without issues till now. I'm starting to use Pro Tools 10 which is incompatible with El Capitan, so I will need to install a previous OS X version like Mavericks to make it work.
Have anyone heard of this problem before? Are there some specific components on the logic board that could be causing this? (I am not sure if it's worth having this repaired through official channels.) Update: To clarify the symptoms when the Air doesn't boot up: black screen, no fan, no keyboard backlight (or anything else that would indicate that it is running).
I have a large single page PDF file of a poster that is 200 megs. How can I duplicate the page nine times (so it's a 10 page PDF) without increasing the file size to 2,000 megs? Basically what I want to do is duplicate the page and only reference the original assets without actually duplicating the image files.
I'm trying to run: which suppose to snoop new processes as they are executed, but it fails with the error: dtrace: failed to compile script /usr/bin/newproc.d: line 22: probe description proc:::exec-success does not match any probes This is on OS X 10.11.2 and as far as I remember, this was working before the upgrade. It seems new OS X doesn't have anymore proc:::exec-success probe as I've checked by: Failing code of that script (note: this was provided by the system, I haven't changed it):
I'm aware of this question, however it doesn't solve my problem. Today I bought a water damaged iPhone 6 at a good price, thinking that since I am pretty decent at repairing iPhones (and fixing water damaged ones before), that I should be able to fix it without any issues and have a working iPhone 6. However, after doing my usual "take the while thing apart and clean it with isopropyl alcohol" water damage repair routine that has worked well in the past, it still won't turn on or even be recognized by iTunes.
In fact I want to port my wxWidgets-based application over to Mac using OS X 10.8 and Xcode 5. My application at this point will consist of the main executable and couple of dylib's. So, after opening the XCode and going to the "File->New", I see there are "Project" and "Workspace" submenus. I'm at a loss to: presume I need to create a workspace, and then in there create 1 project for the main executable and 1 project for each dylib library. forget about the "Workspace" and just start with the project for my main binary and then continue with another project on the same level for the library Could someone shed some experience please?
I want to create a service which will be shown in the context menu when I right-click on any link in the Safari (need get the URL into the service). This is my current contextual services menu on the right-click to any Safari link, eg. want add the my service to this menu.
We have 8 Apple Computers on a network in a dental office where users move from machine to machine and have no need to use any Apple ID capabilities. Each machine has several users in addition to the administrator. We set up each machine without an Apple ID but are constantly reminded to set an Apple ID.
After installing El Capitan (Currently on 10.11.3), the screen starts with a login prompt, which then displays a progress bar. At about 30%, the screen goes gray, then a faster progress bar completes the process. I have read several answers and it seems to be related to Filevault.
The WiFi in my iPhone has stopped working. I tried turning it off and on, and resetting the network but it didn't work. Also my WiFi at home is fine so I think it's the iPhone. Can anyone help?
2010 Macbook Pro. Pretty frequently, my mac will spend over 100% cpu on VTEncoderXPCService. It causes the fan to spin up and it causes the computer to get hot. shows which doesn't shed much light on the situation for me. I'm not doing anything with video when this happens, either. Any thoughts on what this is doing and/or how I can get it to not heat up my laptop so much?
Every so often, I'm listening to music in the standard iOS Music app only to realize that my Up Next list, which I never control, has shuffled my entire library, listen songs alphabetically. I do not use "Shake to Shuffle"
Two things I'm trying to figure out how to do on Apple TV 4: When I have a TV show with lots of seasons, instead of scrolling sideways through all the seasons and episodes to get to the latest, how can I select the season first? When I have a TV show with lots of seasons, instead of scrolling sideways through all the seasons and episodes to get to the latest, how can I select the season first?
I have just moved from a Windows laptop to a macbook air and I am facing an issue that certain web-sites are not loading in my mac - both Safari and Chrome browsers. In chrome I am getting the error as ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED and in Safari it shows as Server is not responding
Does/can the standard Disk Utility in OS X (El Capitan) log the "First Aid" disk check results in text file? Copy paste does not work on this control and to record the whole log I had to take 22 screenshots. Or maybe there is a CLI counterpart to this check?
In the area where I live there are frequent power outages for a few seconds. I am connected via a router, which (of course) restarts each time. Unfortunately my Mac (2011 MB Pro) does not automatically reconnect to the WiFi after the router has restarted and I have to manually reselect the network.
I am trying to pass some network traffic on my mac to my arduino. I am currently making a Li-Fi system and I thought that the easiest way to this was to use a local proxy. I have made the proxy but have just realised that Mac can only connect to a proxy when a network interface is active. Is there a way to make another loopback interface and configure a proxy on it or force a network interface such as wifi, ethernet to be up.
I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and the ZSH Shell. Here's what I get when I try to ping any server: I noticed this problem few days ago while using Docker, I wasn't able to access the Internet at all from the Terminal while I have Internet connection in the browser.
I can reproduce my problem by following these steps: Open Calendar app on my mac Create two events using just default settings. Close Calendar Reopen Calendar
I run about six IMAP accounts on two different OS X machines and one iOS device. Several of the mail accounts are under different domains, but all hosted on the same 3rd party mail provider so presumably running identical IMAP and SMTP servers. Also, the settings on the OS X mail clients in Mail/preferences/accounts look identical, except for the account-specific settings like name/password, etc. Nonetheless, still I have a several undesired behaviors, different both between accounts and between clients, which I can't seem to fix.
My Macbook Pro is crashing with the Kernel Panics recently. I have sent the crash report to Apple with the following data. Can anyone analyse, what would be the issue for crashes ? I am on OS X El Capitan an Late 2011 15" with a new logic board replaced by Apple last year.
I have tried burning the iso file 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image (from *=URL=* by running It tells me the burn has compeleted successfully, but when I put the DVD back into the computer, it tells me it can't read it. Any advice on what to try?
This whole mess started with trying to encrypt Time Machine backups. I have a 4TB Lacie P9230 external drive which has been working for about a year just fine. The drive has been partitioned into two partitions, one for TM backups and other as archive and other stuff that isn't important or can be downloaded from the internet. When I tried to enable Time Machine encryption, the process failed and the backup partition disappeared. Disk Utility listed it as grey and couldn't mount it or something. Then I did the wisest thing and simply unplugged the drive's power cord and reconnected. Now it's in this weird state where the volume apparently doesn't have a file system nor does the backup partition. The archive partition has a file system (JHFS+) and it is visible in Finder, but all the folders are there but they empty even though Disk Utility shows the correct amount of data used. I did try reformatting the whole volume, copying /dev/zero but nothing worked. diskutil list:
I need a quick and easy way to find the frame rate of a video in applescript. So far grabbing it through QuickTime Player's inspector seems like the easiest option.
My MacBook Air is not connecting to Wi-Fi through NETGEAR Extender whilst all other device do, such as MacBook Pro, Apple TV and iPad. I tried to: Delete all Network configurations from System Preferences. Reset SMC. Reset PRAM. Change channel on NETGEAR to channel 48. Disable password access on NETGEAR. MacBook Air OSX 10.8.5 13 inches Ending 2010 Any help please?
I program the wrong email on my I cloud account and when I go to fixing it I can't fix it because the email doesn't exist .
I recently realized you can use quicklook from the command line. Here's the example: qlmanage -p somefile.txt >& /dev/null & When this command is invoked quicklook opens its popup *in a different desktop*.
When I hit the left shift key the result is a capital W. When I click the w without the shift key I get a capital W as well. Any solutions?
I have a screen in my slide (iMac) and I have a mask (display), the mask image in the display is my website, which is 3000 pixels tall, then mask is 800 pixels tall, what I am trying to do is animate from the top of the page to the bottom, simulating the browser scroll. My first port of call was magic move, which I have successfully used when not using masks, so essentially when I have two slides of the same image in different position, magic move "Tweens" the frames in between. When trying this with the same image in the mask, it simply fades it, rather than animates it, not really sure why this is, it is like it is not detecting that the position of the image within the mask, just that it has changed. Is there any way round this?
I was curious to know if there is a way in Mac terminal to return a video's details similar to sips is for images on the Mac before I install ffmpeg? I am currently using Yosemite so if there an alternative has been developed for Yosemite for getting video specs through terminal other than ffmpeg or ffprobe please advise. After research the only Q&A returned is: Terminal tool to join mp4 videos
I have installed the Outlook app in my iPad mini and after some update the icon doesn't display correctly. Right now it looks like this:
Update 2: Fixed in iOS 9.3.1 Update: Apple has confirmed the bug and is working on a fix for a 9.3.1 release.
I've always opted to have my display turn off after X amount of time in lieu of using a screensaver. My screensaver preferences were set to Start after: Never. That is until today. I walked into the room and noticed the screensaver running. When I went to check the system preferences it was set to 20 minutes. I did not set it to 20 minutes. No one else ever uses this computer I haven't done any updates to my OS recently
I just started using TextWrangler in place of Eclipse for writing Java programs. I found a script for testing Java programs in Terminal, but I’d like to handle everything right through TextWrangler. What’s the Java shebang for OS X? Or is there a Java shebang which is specifically for TextWrangler?
Like how you put 127.0.0.1 example.com in the hosts file on a real computer.
The bottom cover on my Macbook7.1 (mid-2010) White Unibody is beginning to fall of. I tried using some glue that a guy from a repair shop I could use for rubber-on-aluminium. I tried it and all I got is an awful smell of the glue which sticked right off, and couldn't hold it for long.I can clean the glue off, and I can try a second time to stick it back. Anyone any suggestions on a glue? Or a cheap new bottom rubber cover for my Macbook? Thanks guys!
My question is pretty much summed up by the title, I have an external drive which I'd like to have recognized as an internal drive. How can I do that? Thanks for looking at my question. By the way I am running 10.11.3 on mbp
I just bought a used mid-2012 MacBook Air to replace the early-2014 model my dog killed but the battery life is terrible comparatively. Can I take the battery out of the 2014 and use it in the 2012 safely?
I'm am using a MacBook Pro 2012 using El Captain version 10.11.3 I received 5 minutes ago an email from WeTransfer (noreply@wetransfer.com) saying that "Your file has been sent to ***@libero.it. As soon as the recipient will have downloaded the file, you'll receive a confirmation email. Name of file: IMG_0508.mov", dimension: 30 MB", and there was a link to download. After 1 minute I received another email telling me that the file was indeed downloaded by the recipient.
I need an applescript that will find the path to the desktop picture used in Desktop 2. As this isn't the current desktop the code below doesn't work. Is there anyway to easily automatically find the path to the picture in desktop 2? runnning el capitan
I'm trying to get Windows 10 on my computer but since I have a small internal storage space I want to put it on my external Transcend StoreJet 500GB SSD. I installed OSX on this SSD and booted from it, and am now trying to use the Bootcamp Assistant to format this drive for mostly Windows, but when I try to run the program I get this issue:
0 bytes available even though the apps on my phone aren't close to filling the 16GB. I don't sync with iTunes, all I do is debug apps with Xcode. On iTunes it shows that "other" mostly fills it up. It's iPhone 6 Plus OS 9.2.1. I have already hit "Erase all content and settings" 3 times, it works until I connect it to my computer and debug an app I'm working on on Xcode - (I delete the app after I use it too).
TL;DR: Can I disable IPv6 on an iPad? Strange issue that I've just figured out. For months I've been seeing content show up in Netflix that should be unavailable to me (I'm in Canada), or things that should be available not showing up. Sometimes I'll pause a show and when I restart it, I'll get an error that it's not available in my region!
Over the last few days, I've noticed lots of messages pertaining to attempted hacking of the root account via sshd (a.k.a Remote Login). Here's a section of one such attempt from the Console log:
My WD 2 TB hard drive has suddenly stopped being recognized by my MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.11.3, but it's working on my ThinkPad, running Windows 7 and Linux Mint. The solution I found was to reformat the drive. However, I cannot do that as I do not have a place to copy all the files on the HD to.
I'm connecting to internet via PPPoE with a AirPort Express. Now I want to replace AirPort with another router, but I don't remember the password of my PPPoE account. So I'm wondering how can I extract the password from the provisioned AirPort Express.
An iOS device (iPad or iPhone) receives notifications, even when the device is sleeping. Apple calls these “push notifications”.
I run Contact Sync for Mac to keep my Mac contacts in sync with my Google Contacts. Occasionally this will delete contacts on the mac, that have been deleted as duplicates in Gmail. After Contact Sync deletes them - they can no longer be found in Contact Search.
Now that I have a bunch of applications on my Dock, I want to create a group to manage similar applications altogether. For example, I want to group a set of graphics apps (e.g. Affinity Designer, Sketch 3, Pixelmator) at one place, and access to them by tapping on the group first, and then selecting the app.
My iPod Touch turned off last night and after, it never woke up again. Is there any way to turn on iCloud Photo on this iPod by using my Mac? iCloud is working but not for photos, only for notes.
I recently messed up my iPhone and my screen's busted. I can't tap anything, but it'll tap randomly anywhere and everywhere. So I can't type my passcode and I'm trying to get all my photos back through iPhoto but since my phone died and I need to enter my password... I think you get the picture... Anyways, is there any way for me to get my photos back?
I tried installing Windows via Boot Camp Assistant 6 on OS X 10.11 on a MacBookPro Retina 15" (Late 2013, Model No MacBookPro11,3) but I don't get the new drive-less install option where the Assistant creates the OSXRESERVED partition and uses that as install source for Windows. According to Twocanoes (who found out about this) my machine is compatible.
On my local harddrive on my MBP retina (2014, 10.11.3) there is a Backupdb.backupsdb folder: drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root wheel 170B 2 Jan 03:32 Backups.backupdb/
So i know i can manually tail files using tail -f filename.log I would just like to double click any .log files and have them open with Terminal using tail -f Backgrounds i am a long time windows users, and i have always used baretail but this is my work MAC so i can't just install or download any software would love to use just out of box tricks Edits Not launching from console but more of like i open the .log and they can open in Terminal itself and then i don't mind just leaving that Terminal or multiple Terminals while i am viewing them
While I'm just switching to Terminal window using Cmd + Tab + Up my Terminal window started floating on top of all other windows. I am unable to bring it down. I've tried Cmd + Tab + Down but didn't work.
Which is to say, I'm working on transcribing a passage from an mp3 file. The play/pause (F7 on MacBook Air and OSX 10.11.3) button is very convenient; however, the play/pause cycle rewinds the pointer for a 20 second review. When I'm typically capturing a sentence or at most two at a time, this is by and far too much. Is this a setting I can adjust?
I have done a clean install but I was wondering if it would make any difference if I just reinstall all my old applications or if I just move my backup applications folder.
There's nothing out of the ordinary in Activity Manager / htop. CPU and Memory both seem reasonable. Also worth mentioning that if I start a game like Starcraft or Cities Skylines, these applications perform pretty well once started. Starting them takes a long time though. I'm basically at a loss why my fairly new Mac is worse at running applications as back when I got my first white macbook in 2006, when the applications I'm running haven't changed (firefox, terminal, thunderbird), and Memory quadrupled.
Time Machine says 100% of the time after a backup that verifcation failed and it needs to re-do the backup.  I use a 4TB WD MyCloud and backup over wifi. The SAN itself is connected to the router via ethernet. I'm running OS X El Capitan (10.11.3). How can I debug this issue?
I have downloaded stellarphoenixmacdatarecovery.dmg file. I dragged the file from downloads folder to applications folder. I double click on the file in the applications folder and I get a message: 'drag stellarphoenixmacdatarecovery.dmg to applications folder'. When I double click on the dmg file, I expect it to install, but the message continuously repeats itself. Can someone help me with installing the dmg file?
Now lately I reinstalled my iMac, so I wanted to modify Boot Camp again. As it turns out Apple 'fixed' this workaround by making bootcamps internal files not editable anymore.
Is there a shortcut to turn off/on the external display without using Sleep and having to enter the password? (note I still want to have to type the password when I wake up the computer after it actually goes to sleep.)
In my house I have multiple wireless access points, all of which use the same SSID. I'd like to know which wireless AP my iPhone is currently connected to. On my MacBook I use the WiFi Explorer app to view available wifi networks and verify which wireless AP the MacBook is currently connected to - the app lists the Vendor name (eg Netgear, TP-Link) beside the SSID. How can I verify which wireless access point my iOS device is connected to? The standard iOS Wi-Fi menu only lists the SSID name, and since all APs have the same SSID this doesn't help.
Apple provides this web page announces live streaming for tomorrow’s Apple Event on 2016-03-21. Join us here on March 21 at 10 a.m. PDT to watch the keynote live.
Early in 2016, I (and some others I know) started to get messages about our basic iCloud Storage being nearly full, despite not having changed any of our normal practices (photo usage the same, app usage the same, etc.) I have already turned off the photos and apps that together compose the largest part of the iCloud backup, but the estimated space needed for the phone is still between 4.7 and 4.9 GB. What gives? What else can I do to reduce the backup's size? Delete messages? (I use Photo Stream and not Photo Library, for what that's worth—the photos are not supposed to count against the storage space.) iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1
I created a .inputplugin file per Apple's guide to use with a custom font I have. When I try to install it, it does nothing and doesn't appear in my input menu. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I have MovieBox installed and it will work for a few days but after a while, whenever I try to open it, it will immediately crash. I searched on the internet and tried the following: Turn on airplane mode, kill all apps, then open it Set the date back 1-2 years There was another suggestion to delete a file in /var/ with iFile, but my phone is not jail broken so I don't think that would work, nor would I be able to install iFile by Carsten Heinelt. I've always had to delete the app and re-install it, but I don't want to delete any movies that I've already downloaded or favorited. iPhone 5, iOS 9
I have a new iPhone 6s. My contacts are Google and are all on my iPhone. I cannot see my iPhone contacts in iCloud on my Windows 10 PC to let me prepare Group contacts for my iPhone.
It seems there is no solution for inserting a vector-based figure (e.g. PDF) into MS Office (Word and Powerpoint). Others have suggested converting the image into a high-resolution raster image first, e.g. here and on the Microsoft support forums. However, none of the workarounds will keep the inserted image as a vector-based figure (which has many advantages over a raster-based image, e.g. you can select and search text). My workaround is to save the PowerPoint as a PDF after inserting the image. In that way, you can keep the image in a vector-based image. Does anyone know of a better solution? I’m a Mac user, so I’d be more interested in a Mac solution here.
Whenever I try to shutdown or reboot my Mac (Macbook Pro 15" Retina late 2013, OS X 10.11.3) it closes all programs like normal and then it goes into that black screen with the progress bar. When it gets to about halfway it permanently hangs and won't ever finish rebooting. I looked at the log viewer and couldn't find anything in particular. Is there a way to monitor a shutdown more closely and find out what's causing it to get stuck?
I just bought new Samsung earbuds and plugged them into my iPhone 4. Only the right side works though. If they're new, why is only one side working? How do I fix my phone itself because I know that it's my phone that isn't working because these are like the 6th new earbuds I've bought that only works on the right side?
I've got a macbook pro running El Capitan and when I wake it up from sleep, the password works fine. However, when I power it on from being shutdown or restart it, the password no longer works. I have another admin account I can use to reset the password but I've done this twice now and it keeps happening. I'm doublechecking that the caps lock is off and that I'm not mistyping the password or accidentally pushing the shift key or something.
My iPhone 5 with iOS 9.2.1 suddenly cannot connect to the internet, neither via cellular data or wifi. All applications that requires internet connection are unable to reach their server. I was in the middle of texting using WhatsApp when this happens, and this is my 2nd time experiencing this (the previous one I was able to get my connection back after restarting iPhone).
I've tried to install Ubuntu (and gave up), but now there's a stuck partition, of 24.22 gigabytes.  The pink shows the partition. I want to unpartition it, but when I try to delete it, an error shows.
I have just updated my OS X to El Capitan. In previous version I have git installed with Xcode (as it was recommended settings).
One of the few good features of Windows is its ability to view a zip file as a folder. Is there some way, possibly using a third party app, to do the same on the Mac? I know there are a number of apps which will mount the zip file as a volume, but I haven’t found a way to see one simply as a folder.
So I had these headphones and they worked for about a week and then suddenly they just don't fit into my phone. I have to press them really hard and hold it there. Other headphones fit just these don't. They're Apple headphones btw.
I know the thread How to uninstall Qt Creator on Mac Yosemite but I cannot locate Qt folders in $HOME/Library/. The following command is also unsuccessful
I already received an email notification and it showed up on an iPad lock screen. I wonder if it still show on screen of that iPad when i use lost mode on it.
I am studying carmel's answer found in the thread How to export non-blurry eps images? [I]n Preview in Mac OS X, you can make the thin white diagonal lines across each of the squares disappear by unchecking "Anti-alias text and screen art". Of course, the downside is that then any text (e.g. figure axes, etc) is not anti-aliased. Unfortunately, unchecking that has no effect on blurriness if you're using imagesc.
When i turn on my MacBook and select user and then enter password , it does not accept my password, after 3 or 4 times entering password it works, i do know how to solve this problem.
There is this nifty little help input field, which I use often as a new Mac user to find the right menu options. It says Command + Shift + ? is the keyboard shortcut to get there, even in the German Apple help pages.
As per Tetsujin's suggestion in the comments I did some further testing. There seems to be a problem with iCloud and sending a zip file of a folder with a certain amount of files. There appears to be a limit of 127 files in 1 folder, regardless of file type (tried .png, .svg and .txt).
I'm using an iPad 2 with 32 GB and SIM-Card-Slot. The sim-card-slot is not in use, so it's empty. Installed is the latest iOS version (no updates available). I don't use any jailbreak (and didn't used it before). All my apps are installed out of the App Store, so it isn't a development device. There is no "pseudo-background-app" like a anti-virus-scan tool or something like this. The free space is round about 2,5 GB.
There are two boot partitions on my MacBook. A working, bootable, El Capitan is installed on both. How can I prevent automounting partition2, when booting from partition1? According to many pages I found via google this is done by editing fstab via vifs an adding the line
Occasionally I’d like to connect to my home computer from my work computer. Both run Yosemite. I’d like to do this using Remote Desktop, as in I’d like to be able to run all programs on my home computer as if I was sitting behind it (view my Desktop, and access and run all my apps)
When news version of Jetbrains IDE is installed previous version does not remove automatically. And currently there are no option (i.e. checkbox) to uninstall old version while installing.
I bought a used iPhone 5s not to use as a phone, but to use like an iPod touch. I bought a cheap, dummy SIM card to get it activated. All is well, but I keep getting theiPhone is Not Activated. Contact Your Carrier. message. How can I get rid of this?
I was clearing up my Mac to download the latest Os X, but when I saw the "Photos" in "About this Mac" are taking 9 GB space! Any idea where I can find all these photos?
Where is a Save As Button in Excel (or Word) on OS X to save as a New File Name in a specific folder?
For example, I have Sublime Text that I can open from Spotlight. However, sometimes I'm navigating with the terminal and I want to do sublime source.php, but since I don't have the sublime app accesible from the Terminal, I need to do all the way from opening the app to navigating in finder to the location I already have opened in the terminal. Is there a way to include applications installed in the Apps folder in the terminal PATH?
At a public WiFi where I have not had this issue before (but last time was two months ago). WiFi connection symptoms seem like the access point/router is not communicating with the outside world. BUT it is a little unusual:
My employer plans to distribute Mac OSX software outside the App Store through their website. Do I need to get an organizational developer ID from Apple ($99 USD/yr) plus purchase an EV code-signing certificate from Symantec? Or, will the Apple Dev ID certificate work just fine? I'm confused -- what's the process? And if you could also show what we do at command line or XCode, that would help, too.
Every time I try to use Internet sharing Ethernet --> Wi-Fi, my Mac seems to create an ad hoc network, rather than using the currently connected wifi network. How do I make my Mac share to the current wifi network, and have a static IP? Alternate wording: How to share the ethernet-based Internet connection of a Mac with a computer that is part of router-based wireless LAN without Internet connection?
I would like to extract "testfilename.txt" from the posix path above? Anyone know how to go about to do that?
On Yosemite Messages my iCloud account is shown as inactive although I use it constantly for Mail, Notes, Contacts etc. It is also slow to log in when I enter my password and sometimes that fails.
My phone has been giving me the "storage is full" message for quite some time now. However now it is preventing me from downloading or taking pictures on my phone when I have maybe at most 20 pictures on my phone and two apps. So I hooked it up to my computer and iTunes is saying I have 10GB of pictures/videos that are non-existent on my phone.
Like text editing apps, i would like to change background color of some selection in Xcode editor. Is this possible?
I have a font that I use with a custom input to use my own glyphs. Is it possible (and if so how) to set the default font for this input to use across my OS (in a similar fashion to how the Japanese input works)?
So, my dad has an old version of Parallels at home. We can't find the original software box or disk but it is running on the iMac. I wanted to maybe avail of the (soon to finish) special offer of the €50 for the "Upgrade."
I want to restore OS X after installing Windows in a single boot configuration. So Windows is occupying the whole disk. Now I want to erase the hard disk and restore Mac OS X Mavericks. How do I do this?
Note: this question is a duplicate of Unable to reset password in Recovery Mode, but the solution mentioned there was to reinstall the OS, which is not really the solution I'm striving for if there is any other way to solve this. Due to a problem with my keychain mentioned here OS X is repeatedly asking for login keychain password, I now wanted to reset my user folder permissions by booting in recovery mode and then via the resetpassword app. But none of my disks shows up here:
I'm using a MacBook Air (latest OS X update) and today the number & punctuation keys on the integrated keyboard stopped working. All other keys are working correctly.
When I click sign out in System Preferences I get an error message reading: mail was unable to delete xx@comcast.net. Relaunch Mail then sign out of iCloud again. However when I try to launch mail, it quits unexpectedly.
I am trying to install python3 with homebrew and I would like to know if I can delete these files. After running brew doctor, I get this message: Unexpected header files: Can EVERY single one of these files be deleted?
Since today, my mid 2011 15 in Macbook pro freezes after login on the admin account. The status bar doesn't even appear, nor the desktop icons. Nothing responds and I need to force shutdown to be able to reboot. Those are the things I already tried : - rebooting in safe mode : desktop icons will appear, but everything freezes after a couple of seconds. I believe since safe mode doesn't work the problem is related with the Finder, DS_Store issue, icon issue, or an iCloud issue. So I went to the next step. - running the disk utility First aid tool in the OSX recovery tools (reboot+Cmd+R) : It says the disk is OK. - running /sbin/fsck -FY in single user mode : the disk seems to be OK. I don't know what to try next. Since I really need my computer for the next days, I might go to an Apple store later this week. I would of course be really happy to avoid the costs of that option. Does any of you have an idea of what I should try next? UPDATE
My sister has an iPhone 5 (iOS 8.1.3). Since some days, it seems to be impossible to open both WhatsApp and (Facebook) Messenger. For both of them, the following applies.
I want to install a gem. The instructions strongly suggest that I use Homebrew to install the gem dependencies. I have not used Homebrew a lot, maybe once years ago. I do remember that El Capitan already has it installed. I also remembered the 'brew doctor' and 'brew update' commands. First I ran brew update and got the following error:
does anybody know an easy way to make an apple script that changes the notification style for a specific app from "banners" to "alerts"? I've been trying for hours but I'm finding it hard to use the right combination of "tab group 1"/"scroll area 1"/"window 1" an so on... There is a script out there that seems to solve the problem but it doesn't seem to work for el capitan - maybe there is an easy fix? Link to script I'd like to have a possibility to make this change on several computers. Thx in advance! Daniel
Recently I downloaded VirtualBox to setup a Windows 10 Virtual Machine on my Macbook Pro. I bought a new 32gb PNY flash drive to boot Windows 10. Everything worked great until I shut everything down. Now my Mac doesn't recognize the flash drive (even disk utility gives me nothing). My USB ports are both fine and the flash drive still works with Windows machines. My question is two-fold, can I fix this and more importantly, can I prevent it from happening again?
I don't see Night Shift after upgrading to IOS 9.3. I was using beta 9.3, but deleted the profile after I didn't see Night Shift in Display & Brightness after upgrading
The favorite is disappeared from the sidebar of the download and upload window of all browser, either Chrome and Safar. You can see in the screenshots that I attached. I can see favorite on the sidebar of the normal finder. I don't know what happened.
Are the fans on MacBook Pro 15inch always on? If so should they be audible when ear against keyboard? I am not sure but I think my fans were not audible before but now I can hear them if I put my ear there. Using istats menu I can see them running at ~2100 rpm left fan, ~2000 right fan. The computer temperature is between 35-45 degrees celsius. All I am asking are the temperatures, fan speed and subtle noise normal?
I saw heavy CPU usage,d then a large upload and checked Little Snitch to see that nsurlsessionid is connecting to 'docs.bigassfans.com'. I know that nsurlsessionid is a system process that syncs to iCloud but docs.bigassfans.com and the relationship with Apple? docs.bigassfans.com, if typed into Safari's address bar, shows a XML file like:
So I have this VM in my VMware Fusion, I add 5GB of space to the HDD but then I got this message saying resize the partition:  But when I login to my VM and launch Disk Utility, I am not seeing the option to Resize the partition
Environment: OS X 10.10.5 Background: I have an applescript I've been using for past year or so. I use it for copying a password from my password manager (1Password, in my case), and it then pastes that into the system prompt to unlock my encrypted disks. As you know, OS X doesn't allow pasting of passwords into these password prompts. As my passwords are very long and very random, it's not easy to type them. I wrote this script to handle the pasting for me. It's worked perfectly fine right up until I rebooted my computer today. I last rebooted it about a week ago. When I wrote the script, I codesigned it so that OS X would not re-prompt me with assistive access issues every time I ran it.
I might be using the wrong words when searching but can't seem to find anything on this. I want to be able to create a project template, i.e a starting point for some new projects. One Example would be:
Do I need to reformat the hard drive when upgrading from OS X Mavericks to OS X El Capitan?
I just updated my iPhone 5S to the latest version of iOS (9.3). On the official Apple website, they list some of the most important new features of this release. My question is: are there any other hidden features (even minor changes) that may haven't be listed there? Thanks in advance.
Any good ways to easily do a 4-way split screen on OSX? I love split-screen and would love to also have 4 (in four corners) in addition to 2 (left-right).
After speaking with a senior advisor at Apple, I have been informed by them that the Night Shift feature (and other iOS features in the 9.3 upgrade) are not available for Ipod touch 5th generation, which is frustrating, as there seems to be no available alternative. I used to have a great app on my Ipod called F.LUX (which as only available if I jailbroke the Ipod). This app reduces Blue Light, and is what the new Night Shift app in iOS 9.3 is based on. Since Apple has abandoned Ipod 5 support for many new features in iOS 9.3, and does not support Night Shift on the iPod touch 5, are there any system wide apps that I can install that will protect my eyes at night by reducing blue light emissions?
The latest release of iPhone is 'se', with the appearance of iPhone 5s and features from iPhone 6s. So why does they call this new iPhone is 'se'?
As referenced in this comment, Apple doesn't remove features without a significant reason, but other 3rd party apps like f.lux and GammaTool can do colour changes on 32-bit devices just fine. What are possible reasons Apple might not have been able to do this?
If you buy either model of the iPad Pro, you have the option of using the smart-cover keyboard. Aside from the fact that the smart keyboard draws its power from the iPad Pro (using special contacts for that purpose), are there any other additional features that couldn't be done using one of the many bluetooth keyboards designed for tablets? I don't see any special keys on the smartcover keyboard, which leads me to believe the answer to this question is a simple: No.
My iPhone 6's contact names are gone, but the numbers are still there. However when I go to messaging and add a new message and type for a contact by name, all the contacts show up with both the name and the message. Therefore I know that the iPhone still has the names stored somewhere, because it shows up when searching in the messaging search. What can I do to get all my contact names back, because I know that they are stored somewhere. I don't have any backups, but I shouldn't need any, because my device seems to have the contact names somewhere, as I see them when I add a message and search.
My iPhone 5s currently running on iOS 9.2 has been misbehaving for a couple of months now. No matter, how much free space I give it, it slows eat it away, reducing MB by MB till I have 0 bytes free space left.
I am pretty new to Macs, but I am not sure that is relevant here. I do use a VPN sometimes (and will do so more). It seems to work OK for browsers, email etc as it should.
Putting it out there to solve a problem which has blighted me for some years now. Once upon a time, i entered my email address wrong in a form in Safari.
iOS 9.3 was released yesterday, so I wanted it on my iPhone 5s. However when I try to open Settings → General → Software Update, it pops up with a message: Unable to Check for Update, an error occurred while checking for a software update. I tried several things found on the internet like resetting the network settings, changing the DNS, switching to cellular network, but I am still getting the same error. How can I download iOS 9.3 OTA?
After some googling and asking around, I've not seen a similar description of what is happening to my MBP. I'm using a pretty new model (Early 2015 13" retina), and I have had no former problems with hardware.
I often need to write emails in French that contain English technical words and it seems that the spell check in OSX can't understand that a document can contain both languages. The result is either French or English words are red-underlined and this isn't pretty.
Apple's site says it is $199 to replace the battery. Do the techs replace the entire top portion of the case including the keyboard and trackpad? I've read a few things on the internet alluding to that since the battery is glued in, they replace the entire assembly.
As by subject. There are a number of links, such as this that deal with the issue but are not El Capitan specific and/or are just not that on the subject or are not up to date.
I have recently installed an SSD in my iMac and restored my backup using SuperDuper!. Since then, xpcproxy seems to randomly download stuff and uses all my bandwidth for minutes on end. What would be the reason? I am running the latest version of El Capitan (yesterday's update).
I have been trying to restore my 5th Generation Ipod touch from a backup which is stored on my computer. The restore process works fine, however after its' completion there is a white screen lock with a SLIDE TO UPGRADE option that prevents me from using the Ipod, unless I upgrade. Since I do not wish to upgrade the software on the Ipod from the currently installed iOS version (9.2.1), is there some way to circumvent this lockout by Apple?
Yesterday I did an update on IOS that was available in my iPad 2 (I think it was 9.3.2). After that it's asking me to configure and take some steps to reopen but after trying a while it says that the activation server is not available and won't open. Not even the home page.
iOS 9.3 was released yesterday to the public and I have installed it on my iPhone 5c. What I'm wondering is, why is Night Shift not available for my phone? Is it the architecture of the processor, something to do with the screen, or perhaps something else?
After downloading a template for my Keynote program, I can't seem to install it correctly so that I can utilize the 200+ slides that are included when I wish to add a new slide in the presentation. I have the latest software of El Capitan and the latest version of Keynote installed. This is what I have done so far: Purchased "Eureka - Minimal Keynote Template" from this site (*=URL=* and downloaded files. Purchased "Eureka - Minimal Keynote Template" from this site (*=URL=* and downloaded files.
This is not a question on how to disable the warning when opening files or apps downloaded from the internet but instead it is about Xcode Projects. New with Xcode 7.3 released yesterday whenever a project is opened for the first time that was downloaded from the internet a warning pops up asking
In OSX Calendar (El Capitan) I am on the "Month" view. I browse around and then I see a date that interests me and want to see a full day-view for that date. My instinct is to double-click on the date, but it creates a new event. How do I zoom into a specific date?
How to make your iPhone beep every 5 minutes
Back in the days I used to run Path Finder for a while, but then removed it from the system and went back to regular finder. Now when entering i.e. open Desktop/ in the terminal, it opens up Finder showing the Desktop directory.
On Ubuntu you can do something like this: That doesn't work on OS X, and may not be the best approach anyway. On OS X, how can you make Apache start or stop without having to enter a password?
Using the El Capitan Contacts app, I was able to drag and drop several contacts from an Outlook account to a Google account. However, there is one contact that I am unable to drag and drop. It has a bit more information than the others did. The green plus sign does not appear when I drag this contact over the Google account, but that green plus sign does appear when I wave this contact over an iCloud account and another defunct Exchange account. What is it about this contact that makes it different, and what can I do to drag and drop this contact from my Exchange account onto my Google account?
Some apps seem to freeze when they were started at login. The apps are still responsive, but the GUI does not update. Did anyone else experience this problem? What can be done to solve it?
I recently got a MacBook Pro. Its hard drive is completely empty. So every time I hit cmdR it goes to the internet recovery mode and takes hours to download data recovery. However, when I restart my system, every downloaded data seems to disappear, and it re-downloads recovery mode data. Does anybody know how can I make recovery drive permanent?
I'm working on an account cleanup script module that can handle the hidden and unhidden accounts we're creating in bulk on new MacOS systems. We've kept the logic simple to start. However I keep getting an error: line 4: [: missing `]'
I bought a macbook recently with 16GB of ram and with no reason sometimes it is using more than normal memory and I run su purge to free up memory. Is there any way we can make it do it by it's own?
So my workplace purchased a new Enduro 3E Card Printer and they asked me to install it--looking at the installation discs, I immediately realized that they were for Windows installations. So I went to the manufacturer's site and looked to see if they had Mac drivers, and I did find some. However, upon installing them, the printer still fails to even show up in the Add Printer window whether I connected it via USB or Ethernet. So I decided to use Wine to use the Printer Service Utility (only for Windows) to see if it's being detected at all, which it isn't. There isn't an available PC to use, so I've been trying to find a appropriate Windows emulator that has driver support. I should be able to get my hands on a Windows installation disc if I need to. Answers or links would be very much appreciated.
I am running Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3 with Xcode 4.3.2. I have this set up because I needed to get an old iPhone application running.
I have Macbook pro 15" early 2011 and my GPU died a couple of weeks ago. I contacted Apple service center about the costing and they said a whooping 1000 USD to replace the board. From one of my friend I got contact of former apple technician and he said he will change the logic board for half the price.
Looking at the iTunes storage information associated to my iPhone 5S, it seems that Documents & Data occupies around 3.5 GB of space.  On the other hand, on the iPhone, Documents & Data stored on iCloud are around 300 MB (so much less).
I want to execute a curl command in Applescript that does the following (per this SE question/answer): ...Do an HTTP POST of the contents (as a string) of a local file located at path/to/my-file.txt to a URL endpoint at *=URL=* The correct curl command for that is the following: Following the answers in this post, I tried the following Applescript command: The result I expect is to see the contents of my-file.txt POSTed to the API endpoint at *=URL=* with the key data. However, the actual result I see at the endpoint with the key data is the following string: In other words, instead of POSTing the contents of the file, it's POSTing the literal path to the file as a string. What is the correct Applescript command syntax? Other unsuccessful attempts: On list to try: Use the fully qualified pathname to my-file.txt, do not use ~.
I confess I'm not a regular Mac user so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I'm building a web page to be displayed (offline) as a projection on a wall. On the Windows PC, running Firefox in full screen mode (F11) gives me exactly the desired effect -- no toolbars or other distractions, just the web page filling the entire display.
On my iPod Touch I cannot find where to view app static memory usage (not RAM). Googled articles point to Settings -> General -> Usage. But Usage is not an option within the General section - it is not appearing. I'm using latest version of iOS. Where should I go to view the installed app static memory usage?
My dad just gave me his MacPro for me to test it, since I never used before. Since I wanted it cleaned, I follow some tutorial on the Net that said I needed to reboot it with Command+Option+R, delete the disk and reinstall it. Now the trick part, everytime I try to do that, I get a message saying my ID Apple was never used before and won't let me to proceed. I created my ID Apple just because the the reinstaller asked me an ID. So, basically, I can't log into the mac since the disk was already erased and I can't reinstall it because my ID was never used before.
I don't really like this behaviour. In Windows Explorer, if you have files and folders displayed along the full width of the screen, when you shrink Windows Explorer to half the width of the screen, the folders and file rearrange themselves so everything is still visible on screen. How can I get the same effect on Mac?
When I booted up my iMac yesterday, I was confused to find my login field had seemingly moved upwards, so that only the bottom half was showing. The lower half of the screen was just black. Is this a screen calibration problem? The display corrects itself once I log in to show a normal desktop. I've tried rebooting. Reference: iMac 27", Late 2013 Running OS X El Capitan v.10.11.2 Screenshot of the problem is attached below:
I've noticed my machine keeps swapping memory even though there is (at this moment) around 7 GB of RAM still free; does anyone have any insights on why this is happening, if I should care, and if so, how I can stop it? See this image:
How can I assign "middle click" to a button on my mouse? I am not seeing it in Preferences > Mouse, and every google search just returns results about how to set it up with Apple's Magic mouse.
I've found a few different answers, and was curious if there is a standard between it being in a folder under $HOME or something like /var?
I get an error message that says: Warning. The following disk images couldn't be opened. Image Reason SurveillanceClient.dmg invalid checksum Does anyone have ideas on how to install this file?
I keep discovering keyboard shortcuts that are not listed anywhere under preferences. For example, I discovered here that ⌥ ALT⌘ CmdE will eject all partitions on a disk when a partition is selected. How the heck do people find these shortcuts, and where can I find more?
I upgraded my iPhone 6S to iOS 9.3 today and now there appears a message on my lock screen This iPhone is managed by your organization.
I want to emulate the command-line experience from OSX with a small netbook and practice my skills with the comfort of this small machine. Surely Apple offers actual Darwin Links for developers or sysadmins... their url is even "OpenSource.Apple.com," but so far the images I've found in web-archives seem even older; see for example this post or this unix & linix post. I thought FreeBSD would provide this, and I'm loving using FreeBSD, but OSX has incorporated so much more into the systems that I feel like it is not accurate training or the answer to my question.
UPDATE: I didn't end up making any changes on the network and now the Wi-Fi Calling is active. I'm just going to go scratch my head for a while and assume it was an upstream issue I hadn't had a chance to diagnose. Thanks all for the replies and information.
I want to know if there is a way to prevent users (even administrators) to change a network parameter (dns domain for exemple). Not simply "lock" the parameters and be allowed to unlock them with a password to change them, I want something like the GPO on windows that disables totaly any possibility to change the network settings except if the local policy itself changes to re allow it.
On iOS 9, after restoring from a backup, a screen comes up that says "slide to upgrade."  This doesn't update your iOS firmware, right? I imagine it just prepares your backup for iOS 9. Is this correct? I have scoured Apple's support articles, Reddit, and the likes. All I can find is information about a bug related to the slide to upgrade screen.
I am trying to create a new OS X user account using iCloud password but the option to do that isn't displayed. I am on OS X 10.11.4 According to this support document I should see an option to pick the kind of password and set the iCloud ID. FileVault is turned off, so I can't think of a reason for this to be happening. I also don't have the option to change the iCloud ID on my current account.
I use 9.1. This happens when I have disabled extensions too, is there anything else I can try, and/or is this a known problem, if so, is there any solution. I might have to delete the preferences, but I want to try other things if it works.
I just plugged a USB hard drive into my MacBook Air and for some reason it immediately went into sleep mode (it also stopped the music I was playing on iTunes). What could be the issue? Is it something I should worry about? I just tried to plug it in again but nothing weird happened, the drive works fine.
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, Late 2012) running OS X El Capitan (10.11.13). What works: Secondary click with two fingers Feel/sound of trackpad click (no noticeable change in the feel of the trackpad) Three/four-finger swipes/gestures What doesn’t work:
In Apple's most recent event, they highlighted their environmentally-friendly products. One of their videos sported a robot named Liam, who would disassemble iPhones once they were in need of recycling.
How to change Gmail notification sound on iPhone is question a lot of people ask. So did I.
Can I install Windows (and if so, which one) on my Power Mac G5 tower? I know the maximum Mac OSX that can be installed is Leopard as I think, so it would be better to run some windows on it. Do you know which one can I install, and what is the maximum version of Windows for it? Thanks guys!
Okay my iphone needs to connect to itunes, but my device doesnt support itunes and my iphone lock button is broke, what can I do?
So I just updated to iOS 9.3 and everything seems fine overall. But when I launch the Music app, I used to be able tap on the name of a track while it was playing to view/edit the star rating. But now if I do that it just oddly brings me to the same track again… And again… And again…
Activity monitor shows finder using ~24 gb of RAM (screenshot below), when my machine only has 16 gb installed. I figure this has to be a bug because "Memory Used" only shows 9.62 gb, and I'm not experiencing any slowdowns. However, it's a little alarming and if there's an easy fix I'd like to take care of it. I'm using the most up-to-date Apple OS software as of writing (3/22/16). Thanks for your help! Jack
I have a Fritzbox acting as WiFi Access point and handing my home DSL connection, DHCP etc. I also have an Airport Extreme connected via network cable to the Fritzbox, only creating a Wireless network.
I'm trying to clean my old iPhone for selling it. iCloud address is a different Apple Id from the one I'm using now. I can not see a way to reset the password for the old linked Apple id. What should I do?
I am logged in as user "vlado" on my MacBook running El Capitan. If I go and type whoami in Terminal, it says vlado too. So this is fine. But in my folder structure in hd/Users/vlado/Applications I don't see my Applications, which I can otherwise see through Finder. I have my applications no problem and I run them no problem, but the folder structure is confusing me. Shouldn't the applications go into my user's (vlado's) folder structure and not to hd/Applications?
Following on from the answer to Can you make OSX mount just certain partitions when you connect an external HDD?, all of the sites that I have checked (CNET, OSXDaily, Apple Support community threads) say that you have to use Disk Utility (or the command line diskutil info /dev/disk<X>s<Y>) to find the UUID. Is there a command line equivalent that will give me this information, which is not diskutil? In particular, one that will work in single user mode? In single user mode (at least on Mountain Lion) after running: running: gives the following error My issue is that I have a dying partition on my internal disk, which only holds an out of date Snow Leopard OS, but is slowing down my Mac (unbearably), as the console is (repeatedly) reporting: I no longer boot into Snow Leopard as I boot Mountain Lion which is on an external FireWire disk, so I would like to leave the Snow Leopard partition unmounted, using the line in /etc/fstab. However, to obtain the UUID of the faulty partition, I ha
I have no experience with using Terminal but I am trying to install a program msbayes (installation instructions here. The instructions say to set up an execution path using either Or
I am currently developing an application in Mac OS X Yosemite. The Ipad which is being used to run the application runs on iOS 9.3 which requires Xcode 7.3 which can only be installed in OS X EI Capitan. Is there any way to resolve this issue with out upgrading it to Capitan? OS X Yosemite is not supporting XCode 7.3
How to see the directory path or navigation bar in Finder? Is there any ubuntu or windows like directory bar?
I haven't been able to connect to iTunes Connect for a few weeks... I have used Chrome on Linux and on a Mac. On Linux I see a white square on the login page after I log in, and on my mac the wheel keeps spinning for ever. Any idea?
I'm trying to install Linux on my MacBook Air but seem to have fallen at the first hurdle and am unable to partition my disk. I open Disk Utility, I have ~70GB of free space and when I click partition at the top it starts the process. What I then find is that Disk Utility says "Incorrect number of file hard links" and "Invalid directory item count". I have also tried to run first aid on my Macintosh HD, the same messages come up but then Disk Utility just says that the First Aid process is complete, leaving me still unable to partition my disk. Is there anyway I can fix this problem? Thanks.
I find this to be annoying. When I click on "History" -> "Show History", Safari shows the history tab in my current tab and not in a new tab. So let say I was browsing Facebook and then decided to see my history, its opens in the tab that Facebook is opened on and not in a separate tab. Now I have to navigate back (click on Back) to get back to Facebook. Is there any way I can configure that "Show History" is shown on a different tab in Safari when it opens?
This is quite odd, as... To my understanding, iOS is a derivative of Mac OS X, and that's based off of UNIX NSDate's reference date is January 1, 2001 (Reference) NSDate allows for dates to be created as an interval from 1970 so it can retain compatibility with BSD's time_t type (Reference: Discussion section of this method)
I frequently want to display my MacBook Pro 15" Retina with my iMac Mid-2011, in Target Display Mode via a Thunderbolt cable. TDM often fails on first attempt and just shows a black screen on the iMac. Getting TDM to work properly often requires multiple attempts to disconnect and reconnect the cable and going out and in of TDM again with fn + F2. Also, the faintest touch on the cable can inadvertedly make it lose proper connection and have the iMac only display a black screen. It's also erratic sometimes in it's way of handling audio, where sometimes it will be possible to change audio volume with the function keys, and sometimes not. Is this behaviour "normal" (and to be expected) or is there something wrong with my cable?
I must present my iPhone screen on a skype meeting, but Skype for business does not appear to have that option. A coworker said me that there is some official app that i could use to share my screen on my desktop computer running Windows 10. Of course, I searched on appstore and the internet with no luck. So, could you point me out in the right direction?
I have just updated iPhone to latest iOS. I do not have a phone contract and do not have a sim. I get an error message stating SIM required. How do I bypass this step.
I know you can customise the iPhone main passcode to strengthen the security but there doesn't seem to be that option when doing the same when setting up restrictions. After I have written it down somewhere I don't want to remember the passcode, and I definitely will if't it only 4 numbers. Is it possible to write an app for something like that?
Is it possible to create a symbolic link to easier change directories? like ln -s /Users/mles/Documents /usr/local/bin/d so I can cd d instead of cd ~/Documents?
My Google Account is connected to Mac OS X using Internet Accounts. I changed the password of my Google Account (at google.com) and now the OS - and especially Mac Mail - can no longer access the account. I believe that Mac OS X is using OAuth to authorise with Google, so is it possible to force the OS to reauthorise the connected account (without deleting and starting again)? Mac OS Version: 10.11.3
I recently got iOS 9.3 for my iPhone, but I'm not finding an obvious way to password-lock my Notes. This feature was advertised by Apple as part of the iOS 9.3 package, but is it only available for certain devices, similarly to Night Shift? I'm using an iPhone 5C, but the problem also seems to be occurring on my iPad Air 2.
I often write documents in languages that are not preinstalled in OSX (vietnamese in this case). I have copied the .dic and .aff files downloaded from *=URL=* to Library/Spelling folder and things are working great if I set the spelling language explicitly to vietnamese. As I also write in English, this option is not ideal. But if I set spell check to "automatic by language", the spelling check fails as it can't understand the text is not in English. Does anyone know how to enable "automatic by language" for languages that are not preinstalled in OSX? Thanks, Son.
Unable to change Carrier Name using carrier editor (iOS 9.2.1) My iPhone is not jail broken
I have installed windows 10 via boot camp. Now when i start up with windows , i can move magic mouse 2 on the screen but scrolling with mouse not working. When i start up with Osx 10.11.4 magic mouse 2 does not have problem.
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Since 21 March 2016, I am able to sync any books via icloud between devices. It works pretty good for pdf. But it doesnt work for EPUB files. I have downloaded for my iPhone some EPUB file from the website and saved to iBooks, but it didn't appear on my another device, while the pdf did appear. What is wrong?
I enabled two-factor authentication (the new one available in iOS 9, OS X 10.11, etc., not the old two-step verification) for my Apple ID. After doing so, my MBP prompted me to change my password saying that I couldn't use my iCloud password to log in to it anymore, so I changed it. I expected the same thing to happen on my iMac, but it didn't. iMac is still happily using my iCloud password to log into my local account. Going into Users & Groups & clicking "Change Password" for my account on my iMac, I still get the same old "Use iCloud password..." option, but on my MBP I don't have that option.
I got a new phone (iphone 6s) so I wanted to wipe my old one (iphone 5s), once I had signed into icloud on my new device everything was recovered, photos, contacts, apps etc. So I turned off iCloud on my old phone so it wouldn't remove everything from my new phone and laptop. However when I deleted my photos it still deleted them off all my other devices, I have now lost over 1000 photos! It didn't wipe anything else I deleted just the photos! Is there a reason for this? Or anyway I can get my photos back?!
I miss out on some of the new features of the newer OSs (e.g. Messages) I'm primarily concerned with the first problem listed.
Is there any way to get a Keynote presentation up on the web somewhere? There are things like SlideShare, but they seem to only work with PowerPoint. I see that Keynote provides a variety of export options, but each one is problematic in one way or another: PowerPoint: things get cropped weird, transitions are awful HTML: weird DHTML format that only seems to work in Safari PDF: not really a presentation Quicktime: umm... no
I have a brand new iPhone 6s which suddenly stopped displaying names on text messages after I downloaded iOS 9.3. Any new ideas?
I have a USB drive containing 2 FAT partitions which are automatically mounted when the drive is plugged in. If I run diskutil unmounDisk <device> and then diskutil mountDisk <device> I'd expect to be back on the initial state.
I have many apple devices 5 iPhones and 4 iPads to be exact I upgrade by connecting to my Mac and then from iTunes So when upgrading iOS, it's downloading the software every time? I would understand the reason for having separate download for iPad and iPhone but for all my phones it has to download 1.59GB every time Which is time consuming and also wastage of my download Questions Is there a way to make it so when i upgrade my phones it uses the same file same goes for iPads
Every time I put my MacBook Pro (13in, mid-2012) to sleep and shut the lid, then wait at least 20 mins then open the lid and wake it up, my CD/DVD drive makes an odd sound as if it thinks there's a disk in there to read but then realizes there isn't and stops the sound. Many of my friends own MacBook Pros and none of their CD/DVD drives do this on wake after a long sleep. I should probably also mention that this sound only started happening about 6 months after I bought it, it's now 1.5 years old. So, is it normal for my MacBook Pro to make a sound on wake after a long sleep?
Old iPhone 5 16Gb all backed up on iCloud. Tried to set up my brand new iPhone 6 but turned out the last (manual) backup attempted on the 5 hadn't fully completed. Reinitiated a new mail backup on my old 5 to iCloud (18 mins), just attempted to set up new 6 using iCloud but get "error connecting to iCloud". Reset new 6, finally logged into my Apple account but showing zero available iCloud backups with which to restore new 6.
Jdwonloader at the moment doesn't support Volafile.io. If there is no CLI solution, how to do that with GUI?
Typically one could opt-out of the Beta program by choosing the following option found in the App Store preferences pane. However once you opt out, the option to opt-in disappears and one has to use a utility found online to opt in again. This is tedious for me. Since most settings in OS X are managed using defaults, I wonder if anyone has a set of commands to enable/disable this option in the preference pane? If not then perhaps a process where I can discover the relevant defaults read/write statements to enable this feature? Ultimately, I would like to simply be able to opt-in during certain periods and opt-out during other times. If there is a simpler approach than using the Terminal, I am open to learning about that as well.
So my little brother used iMessage through my mom's iPad. He was just being funny and sending pics and cute little memes.
Per Apple->About This Mac->Storage, it says Apps - 276.79GB, yet when I do du -hs via Terminal, I'm getting something else: same goes for Photos (31.79GB), Audio (29.68GB) and Movies (11.3GB): I'm confused, how is it counting exactly, or what is it counting)?
I want to create a service using Automator to run a shell script on all files in a folder, say delete all log files. What I have done is Created a new service in automator.
I recently received a Mac and connected to my employer's network. When I connected, my Mac (not browser, it was in the connection dialog) asked me to do something with a new certificate. I accidentally clicked yes before I got past the title, and am worried I installed a root cert that allows my employer to see my encrypted traffic. Is there any way to check for any installed certificates not put there by Apple?
Opened a iWork 08 Pages file created in 2015 and very little appears. All text is white and can’t be changed to black. This was not a problem on my previous OS. IS this a El Capitan issue?
I have been told that there is a default Python installed on OSX, and that deleting it will cause SEVERE system issues, however, I want to clear these warnings in brew doctor. This is what the message says: How do I clear them and what happens if I just delete all three of those config scripts?
New macbook and while trying to sign into the App Store, iMessage and iCloud it just loads for hours, correct email and password yet loading symbol appears and spins for hours. Any fixes??
I've never written a script for OS X, and I don't really know which scripting tool i'll use for this task. Here's a pseudo code for the script I want to build : I don't want someone to code this for me, I want to know what tool (language maybe) should I use to write this script, and how to make OS X runs it whenever the event occurs.
What could be the cause of this? The only thing I can think of would be mobile Time Machine backups, but I have no idea.
I recently purchased a Iphone 5 in turkey, and when i try to log in into the app store is asking me for a credit or debit card. How do I by-pass this? Why I get asked for such info? Thank you.
My Mac turns on but it gets stuck on the white screen upon startup after the chime. I have OS X 10.7.5 I have tried many things unsuccessfully like: CommandR: Boot to OS X Recovery Mode => The window does not pop out. Option: Access Mac Startup Manager => When I choose the Recovery disk, again it goes to white screen. Option: Access Mac Startup Manager => Again it goes to white screen. I reset CommandOptionPR: Reset PRAM => with no luck I reset SMC, disconnected the battery cable and held the button for 5 seconds => No luck Used CommandS: Single User Mode => Type fsck –fy and press Return I typed /sbin/mount -uw /: I tried: => This didn't work either When I connected in Target Mode T via Thunderbolt cable to another Mac => I was able to scan entire disk drive and fixed any errors on disk => but now still unsuccessful with boot up. When I was in Verbose Mode I noticed the following line: Do you have any recommendations what I should try next?
I would have thought this would be an easy Google search, but I haven't found anything. I have inherited an existing iPhone app which is currently deployed to the app store (V1.0). I am about to do a bug fix release, V1.1.
Within a very important VirtualBox, which was at the time approximately 400 Gigabytes, Time Machine is not backing many files inside this machine, for even several months, despite them being changed every day. This includes an SQL database and other critical files. I assume, rather unfortunately, there is some kind of buffer space in the VB, and Time Machine is only operating on the basis of the file size of the entire .vdi file--does anyone know a workaround? This system runs on a RAID0 array, if that is any factor.
I followed these instructions to install Tomcat 8 on OS X El Capitan *=URL=* /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh How can i make these script start and stop tomcat on OS Startup and Shutdown?
I know that there exists an iOS simulator for Mac (how to get it eludes me - if you could give me a download link I'd be grateful). Many people want to know how to use multiple Apple IDs with Messages. Can I use the Messages app inside the iOS simulator to run a second Apple ID? Mac OS X 10.11.2 2011 Mac Mini
According to Using Netflix on your Apple TV, "in the App Store, search for Netflix to find our app, then choose Get to start installation." Where is the "Get" button? There is no option on the App Store screen:
When I checked it on System, it says 8 GB RAM. But I wonder, if I put 16 GB of RAM in the two slots of my MacBook (2 8GB sticks) will it work?
I want to block sideloading the apps (ipa) to my iOS devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad). I googled about it and to my surprise, everyone was asking questions on how to sideload the apps. So, if anyone could help me in identifying this, it would really be a great help. Thanks.
There used to be an option in Apple's developer documents, to download guides as PDF files. Not sure if this is guide specific. For example, this one Introduction to System Configuration Programming Guidelines has no download option. How can I download it?
Are the dimensions and the placements of the ports and buttons identical on the iPhone SE and iPhone 5 (which is physically compatible with the iPhone 5S)?
Is there a way, in Apple Photos, to convert a lot of RAW pictures into JPEGs and delete the RAW version, to save space? I'm looking for an automatic way of converting all RAW pictures into JPEG as I have several thousands.
I've recently deleted the Citrix Receiver app from my computer, but I've noticed that despite doing this (As well as deleting the plugin), my status bar has the Citrix roundel icon every time I boot up. I can't find a way to set it to not do that in the limited preferences menu I can open from it, but that is a bit besides the point. I want all traces of the application permanently removed, not just hidden from my view.
When i create a playlist then i add some songs from Apple music. These songs are added also to "My Music" as single songs. When i want to see only complete albums, it is impossible. I need to delete these single songs from "My Music" somehow but when i delete a song it also deletes from my playlist Anyone knows how to do that?
I ask if it's possible to resore some pictures taked last month an deleted from my iPad. More precisely, when I taked the pictures I wasn't connected to the internet.
where one of the first two should be a correct one. The project's homepage support for OS X is down here about installing Octave on OS X systems. There is also ruby's way of installing Octave described in the thread How to install Octave on OS X (Yosemite) but for Yosemite. I would like to find some standard way of getting Octave for OS X.
I would like to reduce the scroll surface area on my Magic Mouse. I tend to engage the scroll just by resting my index or middle finger on the surface. Thoughts?
I've had a computer failure and had to replace my computer with a new one. I have a Time Machine backup that I want to use to restore a large number of files from, but I don't want to do a full system restore. My old setup was a little crufty, and the OS version is old, so I want a new, clean OS/Application install. I don't want to use the Assistant, because I want more fine grain control over the files I'm copying over. I know how to use the "Browse other disks" function buried in the Time Machine setup, but this is a pain.
I have an iMac at my home office that I'm often playing music on from the output speakers. I also have an AirPort Express with a speaker connectable to via AirPlay / Bluetooth. I was wondering, is there any way to play my music from the standard output on my iMac, and at the same time, play it from my AirPort Express using AirPlay or Bluetooth? Reference: iMac 27" Late 2013 running OS X 10.11.3 AirPort Express Dual-band 802.11n
OS X has built in support for many Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts: for example, Control-A moves the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph and Control-E moves the cursor to the end. How can I configure these shortcuts and add more of them?
I recently updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 9.3 and there is a new functionality introduced as "Night shift" option. However it is not available on my iPhone 5 Any thoughts as to why?
I have an MBP latest OS running, I tried to follow a guide to install VirtualEnvWrapper a few weeks ago, not too sure why. But I keep getting this error when opening terminal and its quite annoying, how to get rid? *=URL=* and in my sublime text I see it too: *=URL=* How can I fix this? Edit: I also tried sed -n '3p' $HOME/.bash_profile and got source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh
Using TeamViewer 11, when clicking the app icon in the dock, it opens a separate app icon at the end of the dock instead of the one that stays there via the "keep in dock" option. Is there any way to fix this on my end or is this an issue with the app's development?
I deal with a lot of files (mostly images and video) with quite a few different words and phrases that I want to remove from the filenames. I keep finding Automator tutorials or AppleScripts to completely rename or replace X with Y in filenames, but what I really need is an action or script I can run from Hazel that just deletes X, Y, Z, A, B, C, and whatever else I might later add to the list of words and phrases to remove. For instance, I want to say something like search for "X", "Y", "Z", "A", "B", "C", "this phrase", "-)" and delete it or replace it with "". Could anyone provide me such a script or instruction on what Automator might need to do it? Thank you.
I am reading an old developer guide, that hasnt updated since 2007.. I want to access the file called preferences.plist located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist. It should look like this:
Like with old-days-UNIX when you can just send a command to init and you're staring at black text screen with shell for your own use. ;)
I am trying to manually modify preferences file located at To modify it, I need to give it read&write permission. I did that. The problem is that the file is in a folder, for which I cannot change permission (I am admin and I have no access), nor do I want to change permissions to the whole folder for security reasons. I only want to change it for preferences.plist file. How can I achieve this? These are the pop-ups I get when trying to modify it.
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my storage. About This Mac > Storage shows that there's ~11GB of Backups. Disk Utility seems to sort the same files as "Other". Googling tells me that the backups shown in About This Mac > Storage are part of Time Machine (and that they will be automagically deleted if the space is needed), BUT Time Machine is disabled, and has never been used (and there are no /.MobileBackups or /Volumes/MobileBackups folders). Running Disk Utility's 'First Aid' from the Recovery Partition says there's nothing wrong with the disk.
For some reason my Time Machine keeps getting disabled in OS X. Every time I look at it, it's disabled. Why would this happen? It is an office Time Machine server I am backing up to and only when I am at work, but the next day when I return to work with my MacBook Pro it is disabled again. How can I see why it is disabling?
I disabled SIP (How do I disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) AKA "rootless" on OS X 10.11, El Capitan?) and started editing the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
I am sure fans like even this, but what if I don't like web page look like this  Is there any way to make keyboard widget smaller?
Somehow the OS on a used macbook that I bought has gone missing. When I go to Internet recovery to try to reinstall is says "This item is temporarily unavailable, try again later." It's been saying this every time I've tried for a month now. Is there some other way to get an OS back onto the machine? This is my first time working with a Mac. More info: Macbook A1342 My best guess is it's this: MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.26 13" (Uni/Late 09)
I'm having trouble removing the Finder icon from the application switcher in El Capitan. The guides seem to be all from 2012 - I get permissions errors (even using sudo) when I try to update Info.plist. Is there a way to edit /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist, or a completely different way to remove the Finder that I'm unaware of?
So my bluetooth keyboard function key hasn't been working for a while, the built in one works fine. I bought a new apple keyboard to try and fix the problem but turns out its my laptop. I also noticed that where the bluetooth settings used to show battery levels for apple products, it no longer does. All the F1-12 keys work fine but the function key its self doesn't work at all or in combination with other keys. In the bluetooth settings it says no battery but at the time the keyboard batteries were full. I have tried basic things like un-pairing and pairing again, also some commands to unload and load bluetooth files. Thanks. [] [] []
Really frustrated trying to solve this, the only thing I played with was /etc/fstab when trying to mount & write to a NTFS external drive. Since then everytime I reboot my Volumes (besides the OSX volume) get duplicated as in this picture:
Is there a way to save or export Notification Center messages? Saving them to a file would be ideal, but I'd also accept pushing them to twitter or some other service where they'll be easy to get. I'm aware of the sqlite database in ~/Library/Application Support/NotificationCenter they're stored in but the messages are encoded. Specifically, I'm interested in getting the artist and album name that the Shazam app sends to Notification Center;
So I've been having a number of graphic problems with my 2012 MBP (Non-retnia) First is screen distortion. I have black rectangles flash black and a pixelated yellow. Moving a window or program over the area solves this. This has been on going for a year, with flare ups. I've been to the apple store, they've replaced the logic board, full re-install, and I've upgraded the ram to 16GB. Still happening. I talked to them today and they won't look at it until I get a new hard drive (It's currently failing) and "My MBP doesn't officially support more than 8GB of ram"
My Mac is running out of space and its shutting down VMs on occasion. I purchased a program called Space Gremlin from the App Store a few years ago. When I attempt to run Space Gremlin, I get the following message:
As a software developer, I often need to look into files within the Library folder. For quick access, I'd like to be able to see the files in my Spotlight searches. How can I do that?
In OS X El Capitan‎ the Mail app (Version 9.2, storage version V3) presents the list of email aliases in the UI not anymore as a string of comma-separated email addresses. This makes it very cumbersome to bulk edit (like removing duplicates etc...) if you have a decent amount of aliases (say 20 or 30).
I am using IntelliJ IDEA compiler for Java programming on my MacBook Pro 2015 Retina (Yosemite). When I run some Java program in my activity monitor appears Java process and takes 100+% of CPU. The fans start to run loud since it's starting to heat up. Sometimes there are 5 and more same Java processes and couple of them are using 100%. Those processes are turned off when I quit IntelliJ or when I quit them manually. Can somebody tell me why is this happening, or how to fix this if it is possible to fix?
How can I download the latest El Capitan? If I follow *=URL=* it offers me to upgrade.
I opened a thread about the issue in Oracle's VB forum here. I got this answer where I do not understand the thing about LVM and not content provided in the link.
How does one identify which process is behind a certain tool bar icon without having to rely on asking someone on the know or just killing processes until the icon in question magically disappears? For X11 there are tools like xwininfo. Is there anything similar for (older) OS X versions like Mavericks?
I want to create a bootable Windows USB from my Macbook manually as an alternative to Bootcamp. I've downloaded the Windows 10 ISO file. Formatted an 8GB USB with MS-DOS(FAT) with a Master Boot Record Scheme within Disk Utility. Question: Can I now finally mount the .ISO and copy it's contents to the USB? Please don't reference to Bootcamp in your answers.
I was using the Health App under iOS 9.2 - and in the 9.3 upgrade the Health App switched display from a line graph to a bar graph. I like the line graph better. I can't figure out how to get it back. My question is: How do I change my health app from a bar graph to a line graph?
My uploaded iOS app is showing 28.3 MB size in the App Store app on an iPhone 5s. As per the Estimated App Store file size from iTunes Connect, my app size will be as shown in the image.
Final Cut Pro (FCP) X 10.2.3 today gave me the most unhelpful warning message in my timeline: "Modified File" - thanks Final Cut Pro! What can I do to fix this problem?
All photos in my iPhone disappeared after updating it to iOS9.3. Besides, most app icons in my phone have been darkened and need to 'download' again.
My MBP Has crashed 2 times the past week. After the first time, I updated everything and rebooted. What happens is it suddenly freezes and then shows a B/W screen saying that my computer restarted because of a problem. Here are the logs for the two occasions: OCCASION 1 OCCASION 2 Does anyone have an idea on whats going on?
Where are Google Chrome cookies located on a mac? I went ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies, but I don't think that this file is the one. I cleared cookies, went to this file, copied content, brows a little, paste the content i copied back into the file and saved. I was still logged in gmail.
With the most recent iOS update, Apple gave users the power to lock notes on their iOS device. Is this feature also available on OS X after the 10.11.4 update, and, if so, how do I use it? Or do I need to use my iOS device to lock my Notes?
After a couple of false starts trying to download Xcode, I downloaded the dmg instead and succesfully installed Xcode 7.3 but in the App Store, it shows up as installed or installing like this:  I deleted the download in the Applications folder, deleted all instances of store in ~/Library/Caches and the contents of com.apple.appstore directories in /private/var. I signed out and in and restarted. I just want to get Xcode back to it saying get, or is it just not worth the trouble?
I have submitted all the required information last day. How do I know if everything is fine and there is no problems or anything? It doesn't tell me any current status. This is what I see:
I went to get onto Xcode, but when I tried to open it, I got this error:  I tried re-installing Xcode, but that did not solve the issue.
After some search on Google, I found a thread with people having the same problem. A lot of them solved the problem by following this guide: Enable the root user from Directory Utility and then log out. Log in as the root user account and change the password. Still on the root user account, disable and then enable root user from Directory Utility. Log out from the root user account, and log back it to the usual account. Now disable the root user once again. I have done all this, but it still doesn't work, and I almost going mad about it. Anyone have any idea why this is happening, and how to fix it?
Is there a way to skip this (or any future) updates? I'm using an iPhone 5s.
I have a custom input (.inputplugin) installed already. I'm curious how I can change the icon of the input from just the C in a box to my own icon. The installation was rather finicky so I'd rather not uninstall it, and I'm not really in favor of using Ukelele. Any ideas? Thanks!
I use a tool called variety which sets automatic wallpaper to my Linux machines via various websites like deviantart, wallpapers.net, flickr etc. Is there such tool for MacOSX?
where less RAM for guest OS than host OS (2 < 8 GB) dynamic space 50 GB so does not end too early System > Acceleration > Nested paging On; PAE/NX On; Paravirtualization Default (here, the new VB5 choses KVM automatically); System > Processor > 1 CPU (so Host OS has two) Display > Memory > 128 GB (can be too much, slowing the system) Playing just youtube video in Guest OS makes the OS X run in its max where the first process is VirtualBox VM
The way I think things are designed seems to contradict the popular question How can I open a .pkg file manually?, where the OP says: "Some applications come in .pkg files, and ask for you administrator password". We can see from the dialogue that when a package is opened it is the installer that asks for the password.
I am trying to use the locate command because even though I installed postgresql, psql is not recognized on command line: So I run the command: Output:
The new Photos application is great for viewing photos. However it's not great for editing them or organizing them, I dearly miss Aperture for that. Is there any alternate photo application that can work on the Photos library?
When I play Diablo 3 on my MBP (late 2011) the computer gets unbelievably hot. It gets to be too hot to touch near where the screen connects to the keyboard. I get the feeling like this is terrible for the computer. I put an external cooling pad underneath it, but it doesn't really help that much. I also have an app called "IStat Menus by Bjango" which controls the fans. I stopped using the software a while ago, but it is an option and it is legitimate. Is there any way I can help it cool down, or should I just buy a computer specific for gaming? I found a real good ARTICLE on the subject.
I have the following in .bash_profile: I even tried it without the string: I know for sure an executable lives in that bin directory: However, when I add the path to .bash_profile and then source .bash_profile (and even restart terminal), I get the following: What am I doing wrong?
I have a macbook air from 2014. I connect one monitor to it through thunderbolt to HDMI connector. If it's possible, how could I connect 2nd monitor as well? (it doesn't seem to have mini-DisplayPort only 2 other usb ports.
For years I have used the shortcut key Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-T to open my Evernote "ToDo" note. Recently OS X has hijacked this for some kind of "thread filter", and one has to click "Cancel Thread Filter" in the spotlight area of Mail. I do not like this for the following reasons:
My phone is making two sounds, but not providing any other notifications. I have no idea what is causing this. How can I track this down? I have it paired to an Apple Watch, and have Google Inbox installed (but not Gmail)
I'm facing an error with port forwarding on my Airport Express. Yes I'm using the Airport utility application for this. I go to the network tab and i can see the port settings - then i click +(ADD). I get a small window where i can write the ports but i need to add my IPV6 address which i don't have because I'm on IPV4. Is there a way to port forward with IPV4 ? Thank you
Yesterday I was hooked up to a poor internet connection when travelling abroad. As a result, my emails got stuck in the "outbox" when I tried to send them. Not a big issue as it was nothing urgent.
Is there a docking station that is compatible with both 13" Macbook Pro (2015 model A1502) and a Surface Pro 3? I am looking for one that has Connectivity up to two monitors (DVI/HDMI/VGA) Ethernet adapter 1 USB Port Portable Thank you
I just updated to IOS 9.3 and I accidentaly locked my Apple ID while logging in. I forgot the yahoo email in order to reset it. I don't know any of my security questions (because I'm an idiot and I don't write them down).
While running a local port scan for a troublesome process I discovered a few unknown open ports. I believe I know what redwood-broker is for, but the other one not so much.. I began by looking up its PID with: Then killed it with But it keeps popping up. How can I find the path to the files responsible for starting this process?
Uh... mu? Neither of those is a valid answer to the question. What does "Continue" mean? Why is "Cancel" highlighted? Besides forwarding this to the Interface Hall of Shame, what the heck am I supposed to do here? How do I answer this question in such a way that I will not get iCloud Drive foisted on me?
I have an old Mac(2010) and want to setup new MB Pro(2015). I want it the way I not only copy all settings but all installed applications(GUI based, command lines) as well as data. I found this tool, I wonder whether it's suffice? Also, new Macs don't have ethernet, will it be OK to transfer WiFi in multiple sessions? I have around 250GB of data. Update:
I am using Macbook Pro with El-Captian. I had only one user account in the machine and I created one another. After creating the new one, old user account is not showing in the login screen. It is showing in the Users & Group listing and I have tried a number of things like checking Firevault, creating root user etc. Actually my work files are there in the old account and even I can access the files with root access some of the applications like Vagrant is not working fine. It will be helpful if anyone can suggest me what I need to do now to get access to the old user account. I tried to change login option to Name and Password, but it also not working.
Okay so my MacBook Air is charging but the charger doesn't light up like you know that red light? How to fix this? Is it broken?
I know this is a notoriously difficult problem to solve on OS X, but I'll try again, circa El Capitan era. I have used the disk shown below as Time Machine disk with Yosemite.
My macbookpro is completely empty and the only option that I have is just internet recovery. I downloaded el capitan and with help of the terminal in the internet recovery build a bootable OSX el capitan. So when I hit c in startup, apple logo appears. Meanwhile progress bar goes half way and suddenly apple logo changes to prohibited sign. I also made a mavericks bootable usb. same results.
I am having trouble with Wake On Lan for my Mac. I am trying to wake it over the internet from my phone so I can log in to TeamViewer and control it remotely. I don't know if it is my router that is the issue or something on the Mac. Here is my setup: OS: Yosemite 10.10.3 Machine: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) Router: Xfinity Arris TG1682G, forwarding Ports 7, 9, 22 over UDP to my static IP machine Apple TV: 4th Gen
After syncing to my iPod Classic, all the Audiobooks appear, but only the Audible ones appear as a single entry per book. Each track of each of the MP3 books and the CD book appear as individual entries/books. This makes for a very long list, and, of course, makes it very inconvenient to listen to. I would have to scroll to "Chapter 1" of the book I want, listen to it, and then scroll to "Chapter 2" of the same book, etc. "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc. for each book appears in the audiobook list.
Now that iOS 9.3 finally supports encrypted notes, the problem's come up as to exactly how I'm supposed to encrypt my 300+ existing notes. Until now I've been storing my notes locally on my phone, since I feel uneasy about storing work and research notes on the cloud in plaintext (I don't consider it encryption if the service has a copy of my key), but it would be much more useful if I could have access to them on all my devices and avoid having to do manual backups.
I am working on a numbers Spreadsheet that compares dates in cells. I am trying to create a condition where a date cell will turn green when the date is 3 months or more later than another date cell i.e. In this case, the second date cell would go green because it is 3 months or more outside of the first cell. Would anyone know I can do this in Numbers?
I have an old iPod Classic (80 GB) which works fine; but I can only charge it via USB from a computer, and not from an official Apple AC adaptor. I have tried all the usual tricks found on other sites (like a reset), various USB cables, various USB adaptors, various computers... Note : as we have many Apple devices in the house, maybe I am not using the original AC adaptor that came with the iPod but a more recent one that came with an iPhone.
I was having a lot of trouble installing iOS 9.3 on an iPad Air and after a bit of searching around I was advised to delete the update file and try to reinstall. Having done this, I no longer have the option to try again. When I check for a software update I am notified that I am 'up to date' with 9.2.1 How do I get back the option to upgrade to 9.3? Any help is much appreciated.
I'm investigating how Safari syncs tabs through iCloud. To start, I really want to know how Safari is updating its shared list of tabs, which means monitoring it or some background daemon for file creations and modifications. (My hypothesis being: when I open a new tab on my phone, iCloud sends a push to my Mac which updates Safari's "iCloud Tabs" list.) I'm trying to use dtrace to monitor Safari's file opens, with something simple like: but dtrace prints out this error: (This is the same error as someone asked on Apple's forums) Debugging a strange iTunes permissions problem with DTrace had information about a similar issue with iTunes, but I don't quite understand what backflips they performed in gdb to get iTunes to be dtrace-able. Can someone help me understand Debugging a strange iTunes permissions problem with DTrace: what's the error caused by, and what's the resolution?
I have EyeTV Lite installed on my old computer. I'd like to move it over to a new computer. I simply copied over the application bundle and everything under /Library/Application Support/EyeTV, but when I try to start up the application on the new computer, it launches the EyeTV Startup Assistant and asks me for the Activation Key.
Everything starts fine and works great until I need to shut down or reboot my mac; then I run into a problem with how launchd tears down everything. Basically Launchd sends SIGTERM to every user process and then 20 seconds later (*=URL=* sends SIGKILL, but postgres treats SIGTERM as a "smart shutdown" signal (*=URL=* and waits for all it's existing sessions to close themselves before quitting. The problem is that the sessions are owned by the rails apps running under passenger and therefore won't shut down until apache shuts down. And apache doesn't shutdown until the system is shutting down. Which means postgres gets SIGKILLed and leaves it's postmaster.pid file lying around which prevents postgres from starting up the next boot until I rm that file.
From time to time I need to test set top boxes / DVD players, currently I carry around a 20" HDMI monitor to test them on, but is it possible to use an iPad as an display with an HDMI input adaptor (perhaps also requiring an app to view the video feed). So the setup would be: Set top box --hdmi--> adaptor ----> ipad
I get the following annoying alert randomly, usually when I launch an application. I believe I got this bug when I consented to have my disk scanned by some proprietary security application. The message varies from an offer to enhance disk storage to protecting sensitive information.
When I search something on google and try to click on the returned items/links nothing happens. Please help, do I have to do something in my settings???
I've just purchased a Dell P2415Q monitor which I've connected up to my MacBook Pro (running OS X El Capitan). Everything works great in terms of the display, however I've noticed that it goes into power-saving mode (i.e. shuts off the display) as soon as I disconnect my MacBook Pro from its power source. Given the battery is already charged up I don't want to keep it plugged in as I suspect it will damage the battery life if I keep it that way for a long time (and I do intend to take my MacBook Pro out and about for other uses). Does anybody know how I can make the display work irrespective of whether my MacBook Pro is connected to it's power source or not?
I have a tab open in Google Chrome. Is it possible to get or check it's url from terminal? If not, how about automator script? Will also be satisfied with a title.
I downloaded a video with these specs:  I'm unable to cut, copy, paste, trim and share since all these options are greyed out:
I saw an update for my iOS 9.2.1 device to iOS 9.3. However, it said that the update cannot be verified, although it was downloaded. I even deleted all data and applications from the device, but I still cannot update the device to 9.3; it just says "Your software is up to date" on iOS 9.2.1. Can you force an update to 9.3?
I have different Finder window sizes for almost each folder and just updated to El Capitan. Now sometimes it opens in the same folder and sometimes it even uses the last open folder like when I chose "Applications" from the menu. I can use cmd-double click and this usually helps. But sometimes I forget and thus half of the day I spend resizing my windows to the old size. Is there a Terminal code I can use to always use a new window when opening a folder?
Gmail has a nice feature that permanently deletes e-mails after they've been in the Trash folder for 30 days. This is pretty clever, because if I don't need a trashed message back after 30 days it's very likely that I won't ever need it again.
A few weeks ago I bought a used Macbook Pro Retina and I've been having severe issues with it since. The first thing I did when I bought it was to upgrade from whatever version of OSX it was using to El Capitan. During the install, it crashed several times and took many hours to do anything, and since then it's been really slow in all applications, struggling to even run Chrome and browse web pages.
Tried to install Xcode for the first time. Tried 3 times now, same problem each time. After it reaches around 95% it fails, and I have to restart from scratch (2.5h). Going crazy.
I really want to do this to support a minority language (Kouri-vini) that currently has zero input support but an existing digitized dictionary. I also have zero coding experience but I don't care if this takes me 10 years, I'll find a way to do it.
I have a long list of URLs. Contained within each of these webpages, there are links I need to extract. The Automator action Get Link URLs from Webpages is a very useful action for this task. Unfortunately Automator itself does not handle heavy workloads very well and very often either crashes or hangs indefinitely. How might I go about this using Bash via the Mac OS X Terminal app? Edit - this is the current script as it stands right now.
I'm connecting a MacBook Pro 13-in. retina (early 2015) running El Capitan to an LG 27" ultra HD 4K monitor. (LG 27UD68 to be exact.) I'm a noob, but everything I read about support for external displays says that up to 3840x2160 resolution is possible at 30Hz on an HDMI connection. Which is fine for now. But when I try to set the resolution in the display preferences, the largest option I get is 1680x1050. What am I doing wrong? This LG monitor has a Display Port input, so I've ordered a Display Port to Mini Display Port cable, which I assume will give me higher resolutions at 60Hz refresh, but is there no way to get higher resolution at 30Hz using HDMI??
I'm running 10.10.5, on a 13 inch macbook pro. Was wondering if I could use my airport extreme as an extra hard drive?
I'm currently using Aperture for all my photos, but I'm considering migrating to Photos to get better support for Burst photos and other such features. Once I've migrated, will I still be able to open the library with Aperture, and use it to edit my photos?
I have a serious problem with the Mail application. It just won't open. I've seen some 'remedies' for example, resetting rules and settings, but this can't be done if the app doesn't even open.
My grandmother got her iPad somehow in this state where it seems to be in language setup, but taps dont work as expected, rather they activate unusual boxes on the screen:  How can I fix this? Holding down the power and home button for 10 seconds restarted the iPad but the same screen was there. No interaction seems to be doing anything to advance the setup, the boxes that pop up seem to be interfering. The box in the image appears after tapping.
So I am learning apple development but I want to know that how am I going to earn once I'm done learning? If its the apps only then I don't have any guarantee that they'll be downloaded and stuff right? so I don't thin that'd be so fruitful. Would it? I'd be really helpful if anyone could help me with this.
Been running El Capitan since it was officially released. Updated to 10.11.4 a few days ago. I have a WD Elements USB 3.0 drive connected to my Mac mini (directly to the rear ports, not via a hub). Ever since the update to 10.11.4 whenever my Mac goes to sleep and I wake it up again, I get a notification to say the "Disk was not ejected properly". This has never happened with this drive before, not on Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite or El Capitan until now.
I've read online to delete images from a mac which you have imported through the Photo's app that you must Launch the Photos app on your Mac. Go to the File > Show recently deleted menu item. Click on the pictures or videos you want to permanently delete. Click on the Delete button at the top right. But I do not seem to have the option to Show recently deleted menu item.
Is there any difference between software/hardware of iPhone 6 devices in different regions/carriers or all iPhone 6 devices around the world are exactly same from applications perspective ?
Currently I'm using the free trial period of Apple Music. On iTunes, I'm adding the songs that I like to my music. Just adding not downloading. When I'm checking my iPhone and iPad, those added songs aren't getting added to My Music section.
Both my husband and I have iPad Airs. Both of our iPads are currently on iOS 9.2.1 and it states the software is up to date.
I am about to replace the hard drive in my MBP. What I would like to ask is once I have replaced the drive can I use Time Machine to restore it back to how it was? I have no other way to back it up. OS X El Capitan MBP 13" Mid 2012 2.5GHz i5 4GB 1600Mhz DDR3
I want to store some pictures that I had in a camera in a folder on my mac, but when I inserted its memory card on the the respective USB port, the app Photos opened up, and there was the option to import the pictures, which is what I did. Now, I just would like to retrieve all these pictures and put them in a folder that I want. How can I do it? I don't want this Photos app to keep track of any picture that I imported actually.
I'm trying to move my Windows 10 Boot Camp partition to an external drive. The ideal way seems to be with Winclone, however I've been unsuccessful so far. Winclone appears to clone the partition to the external disk successfully and does not report any errors, but upon ⌥-booting, the disk is not shown in the Startup Manager.
Whenever I go to my Apple Store it shows an the incorrect email (it show an email that is no longer active) How do I get my iPhone 6s to show the correct email so I can update my apps?
I have a 2008 MacBook. 2-3 minutes after startup the rotating beach ball appears. The only option at that point is to reboot. I have tried reinstalling the factory disks, installing Snow Leopard 10.6.3. I have replaced the HDD with a factory Fujitsu. It passes Apple Hardware Test (AHT). I have also created a USB bootable and booted from there. Same results, even with the HDD removed. Beyond that I have been through all the following: *=URL=* (start up options), *=URL=* (troubleshooting). The only mode in which it will operate without crashing is in single user mode. I've been working on it for 3 weeks and I'm afraid I'm going to have to throw it away.
I read a lot of PDF files in preview. Whenever I open a file, switch to fullscreen to have a view in which I can focus on reading the PDF without being distracted, after 5 seconds, preview.app goes to the second page. I understand that this is great for photos. At the same time, it's really stupid for PDF files with lots of text. So this function should either be file format sensitive or if that is too much to ask for apple to implement, there should be an option to disable auto-play for fullscreen view.
After restart, terminal app disappeared and estimated remaining charge time almost tripled. I am not sure how to interpret this, it would seem like something started terminal app with heavy load and either kept closing it that it wouldn't show in the activity monitor or it was somehow hidden (I am OSX noob, so I have no idea if any of that is possible). I will try to see if I can determine what and why started that Terminal process
On OS X El Capitan Disk Utility shows me that I have 48 GB Movies, but I don't have this films really. Where can I find these movies that shows Disk Utility?
I usually log in to OS X El Capitan without administrator rights. Homebrew upholds the principle that packages can be installed and used without administrator/root access, i.e. without using the sudo command. However, it seems that administrator access is necessary for installing Homebrew. Running the script from my normal non-admin user's Terminal yields
Deleting the iBooks app on the iPad, reinstalling it and resyncing my library. It's a huge library (many GBs) and it would take quite a while. Of course it's not a problem to do this once, but I have a feeling it's not the last time I'll need to fix this, and I'd like a quicker/simpler solution.
I recently recovered my lost iPad 2. I cannot afford a new tablet at the moment and I will use my iPad 2 as a daily driver (to browse the web, read books, college lectures, play games and other light applications). My biggest concern is that the iPad might become unusably slow with iOS 9. It runs smoothly with iOS 5 at the moment but most of the applications are not compatible and many features are not functioning (mail etc.).
So, I have this iPhone 4s, which was broken. So i replaced the screen. While I was replacing it, I accidentally broke the black wire that connects the battery to the motherboard. So I dont know if it works, and I dont want to spend money on new battery if the screen doesn't work. I also want to test the motherboard, since I replaced the screen because the old one showed blue vertical lines. So I need to be sure both screen and motherboard is functioning. Can you test it somehow without battery?
My MBP 2010 will only power-up if I disconnect power and battery, and then only connect power. When I shut it down, it'll only power up again if I remove the power first for >10 seconds. I've tried an SMC Reset, a PRAM Reset, but nothing works unless I disconnect everything for >10 seconds.
I have an Airport time capsule as a main wireless, I add an Airport Extreme and a Airport Express as extension of my network. All of them have the same connection name. Problem: the connection in the rooms where the extended devices are placed is too slow... Is there a way to check the internet speed of each of the devices? The one with ethernet cable that is the main the speed is very good, but the others :( Any help is more than welcome, thanks in advance.
I am using picture-in-picture in an iMovie and it works great except that I can't seem to figure out if there is a way I can have a different transition into the PIP versus out of it at the end. There seems to only be one selection where I can choice time and transition (like dissolve) and it applies that to both the beginning and end. Is there any way to have a different transition in versus out of a picture in picture in iMovie?
I want to see in iMovie if there is any way I can have my background image start in one location at the beginning of the movie and end of in a different position at the end of the movie. I see I can do that with a non background image using picture in picture and key frames but I want to see If I can do that to the background image as well?
I'm currently setting up the family system for me and my two children. We were previously using the account of one of my children for us three, and having the usual problems with messages being delivered to the 3 Iphones and the Macbook, etc, etc. Thus, all the music / app / video purchases have been made with this account.
I was having trouble installing the new iOS 9.3 on my iPhone 5 and I got the advice that I should delete the update file and try to reinstall it. The problem is now that I have deleted the file I can't find the update file for iOS 9.3 again. I have restarted the phone but it didn't help, it says I have the latest update (9.2.1). Is it possible to install iOS 9.3 now?
I lost my iPhone my phone is in offline so my friend search in find my iPhone but when he alert it in lost mode it never became online what can I do?
I would like to list all the changes between 2 backups in Time Machines for a specific drive. Is there anyway to do it?
I have bought this computer New at the Apple Store in 2014. Since yesterday it's showing horizontal gray lines across the screen. I suspect a hardware defect because that's how my 2 others macs older started showing problems too. All updates are installed and restarted the computer a few times.
I would like to keep track of how many abdominal crunches I can do. All the Workout Activity Types are based on Calories (some also distance) and the Start and End time. Are there any Workout types or any other data types that fit my need to log just a number? Maybe there are a third party app that can log special types to the Health App?
I had programs that relied on using curl in the terminal (bash) and one day thy just stopped working. I realized this was because the output of curl had changed for some reason. I thought maybe the website had changed but I tried another one of my programs that used it and it also didn't work. I then just typed in "curl google.ca" to see what happened, and it gave me this: 301 Moved
I've used PrimoCache on Windows. Specifically Defer Write feature not only for performance, I've used it for drive endurance. As a switcher from Windows to Mac, I can handle RamDisk thing now, but I can't find alternatives to this software or feature on OS X.
I would like to know how I can still be alerted to a notification (eg. Getting a tap when a message arrives) but it not necessarily being what I see when I look at my Apple Watch. I'd prefer to see the watch face with a red dot above it. It's very disconcerting to look at your watch to see the time, but get a full screen alert instead. Is this possible? Thanks!
I would like to insert a formula in a Pages document (under El Capitan). But when I chose Insert -> Formula in the menu all entries in the submenu all entries are greyed out. Also Insert -> MathType equation is greyed out. Do I need to install further software to have the options available? Clarification
I am helping a friend to fix her MacBook Pro 13.3 performance problems. It was barely booting, and terribly slow for disk seeks. Then I replaced the HDD. It was perfect with new SSD and El Capitan installation but in the third boot it become same bad as before.
A terminal approach would probably be most appropriate if not possible otherwise. I would like leave the removal of those applications for AppCleaner in the end. I see these locks on the icons of my systems apps in AppCleaner
I sometimes send text messages to myself in the form of pictures, and it always sends me them in duplicate. one on the right and on the left hand side of my screen. does anyone know why my phone would do this?
I ran man pbcopy which listed the flag -pboard with options {general | ruler | find | font}. I understand what the general, find, and font clipboards are, but I can't find any documentation on what use the ruler clipboard has.
I noticed OS X doesn't support SSL VPN by default. Any technical reasons why this might be the case? (i.e. Any security concerns?) What are the VPN protocols available for OS X?
I'd like to make items in the Finder's Sidebar larger like this:  Theoretically, you can do it like this: Open System Preferences. Open General. Set Sidebar icon size: to Medium or Large.
I want to migrate Source Tree (git client) bookmarks from one Mac to another one. Is there any easy way to do so?
I can't get AirDrop to work on my machine running OSX 10.11.4 (trying to send file to and from iPhone 6s) I'm missing the bottom menu that reads "Allow me to be discovered by..." Any thoughts?
On the iPhone logic board (or at least for the iPhone 6), there is a metal shield (heatsink?) covering the A8 SoC and few other components. There is also black thermal paste between the chip and shield. I have the grey thermal paste for computer processors and heatsinks, but I don't have, nor have I seen, the black paste being sold. Can I use the grey thermal paste with the A8, without it overheating and with it working long term?
Suddenly Safari won't work on my iPhone 6s. I cannot open links either. The whole thing freezes.
I have XAMPP on my Mac with El Capitan and the icon is strange and I don't like it. It is not the same one as I am used to, on my other computer running WIndows. How can I change it?
I use Apple Photos, with iCloud Photo Library, and I created an album, but after a while I noticed that the album disappeared. I never deleted it. The album is called "Nexus vs iPhone", and it no longer appears in the sidebar:
I have I mainly use it for LaTeX, Mathematica and MS Office 2016 for Mac. I am considering purchasing or a newer one, if available. Would it (MacBook, 12-inch) run faster than my MacBook Pro?
So when I got a new phone my apps that were downloaded previously still show that they have been downloaded on my previous phone? It's like the little cloud istead of the open. Is that normal?
I really like Terminal's "Homebrew" profile (black background with green front, instead of the default white background with black font), so I set it as my default profile. This makes it so that when I initially open Terminal, the first tab that opens will use the "Homebrew" profile. But I came across an issue where once I close the open Terminal window then try to open a new one by clicking on the terminal icon in my dock, the new Terminal window opens in the system default "Basic" profile. Can I make Terminal open every new window with the "Homebrew" profile?
Can't get the Whatsapp url scheme to work. Something as simple as sends me to the last chats window where I can select a group/contact and I get a prepopulated chat window with the text. But the abid parameter never does anything to avoid the contact selection. I am using Launch Center Pro and am retrieving the abid with their [contact-abid] prompt a described here: *=URL=* Example url:
I use Notes on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro. Of late, the gmail syncing has been unreliable. I want to move all my gmails notes to the iCloud folder. There doesn't seem to be a way to 'move' a note, apart from deleting and recreating it. My question is: How can I move my notes from one folder (gmail) to another (iCloud)?
I need to do a factory reset to my iPhone 4, but don't know how to save my stored information such as my Contacts, Pictures, and Purchased apps.
I would like to gain more insight into Family Sharing. Suppose I add Person X to my Family and let X buy apps from it. If later I remove X from my Family account, would I still be able to download apps later from iTunes purchases that X had purchased? Or will it be only available to X who brought the app in the first place? Also, if I add X to my Family account, would I be able to download the apps that X has purchased while X is still in Family Sharing?
I've got a (old "flat" version) 1TB Apple Time Capsule and I've configured my Macbook Pro (running El Capitan) to backup data on the Time Capsule, through Time Machine. From the top-right information on the menu bar, I can see that backup is working fine. Nevertheless, after backupping almost 2x the size of my hard drive in about 10 days (I'm not always attached to the network and I send to sleep my MBP during night), the first backup is not completed yet.
I have just bought a Macbook pro. When I install it, I click login to icloud but I forgot question that I use and I don't use email to backup.
On a site I have come along a pretty cheap 27" mid 2011 iMac. The seller says it's broken and when he press the power button it shows a white/grey screen and the "startup sound" plays. Is there any chance that this may be a motherboard/logic board, CPU, memory or GPU related issue? Or will I most likely be able to fix it with a fresh install on a new drive?
When I click on an external USB disk in Finder's Sidebar it shows it is still encrypting (which is expected):  diskutil shows only Encrypted: Yes in CLI and GUI. Is there any way to check the current status of encryption (percentage complete)?
I use my MacBook at work and at home. Whenever I switch between work and home, every now and again I get bug whereby the Mac thinks an external monitor is still plugged in, even if it's not. This means when I go to plug in either my work or home monitors, one of them doesn't work as OS X still thinks there is a different monitor plugged in. The only way I've been able to fix this is to restart, but I was hoping there was a quick way to fix this through a terminal command or something. Note that System Preferences > Displays > Option + Detect Displays does not work.
Does anyone has any idea how to make it work? May this be a hardware problem? EDIT I noticed that, we can surf for quite a while and we always loose connection when opening the app store.
After putting the following statements on the ~/.bash_profile file: when I've a command that is longer than the terminal width, this is the behaviour:
I've run nmap -sS [computer ip] and see that i only have one service running: What service is this? Should i close it? I've googled and only found some shady stuff: *=URL=* Maybe it is used by some of my other programs?
When in clamshell mode, locked, and with display asleep, I expect to be able to wake the display and see the login screen on my external monitor by moving the mouse or typing. Instead, the screen stays dark while I enter my password and hit enter--and for many seconds after that if and only if I successfully login. This is not the end of the world, but without feedback I can spend a minute before I figure out the computer is actually off, or that I've been typing my password into an email I was working on before I stepped away since the display can sleep before locking me out.
I am aware there are more questions with the same title, but I couldn't find any other post with this specific case. I have XCode 7.0 and I want to update to the last version (7.3). But it doesn't appear in the updates page of the App Store. So, I searched for XCode in the App Store and clicked the little update button. The button remains pressed and a loop icon appears on the top. But it stays like that for hours and there's no sign it's updating.
I am running Xcode 7.2.1 on my Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) and recently wanted to compile an Apache Cordova project and install it on my iPhone 6s running iOS 9.3 and discovered I couldn’t. The error message that comes up in Xcode is “Could not find Developer Disk Image” which I discovered basically means, “Time to get a new version of Xcode!”
When I boot to safe mode and try to restore my Mac from Time Machine, OS X can't find my WD My Passport External Drive as it's password protected. Unless I unlock the drive, OS X won't be able to access my Time Machine Backup. So what do I do now?
When trying to upgrade to 9.3.1, the terms of service come up for the upgrade, and when clicking agree (twice -- there's two popups about agreeing), I'm redirected to the home screen and nothing else happens. Note: I had this problem with 9.3, and at the time, the 9.3 update was not signed, but as of today, IPSW says this device's update is signed and available, yet the problem remains, even after a restart.
What is the easiest way to create a snapshot of my Mac at its current state that I can use to do future re-installs from. I want to be able to get my Mac back to a state where all my required apps are set up with their required settings and plugins and all my system settings are set to a state I'm happy with.
I've a 15-inch MacBook Pro and a 21-inch All-in-one Windows Computer. However, I haven't any HDMI or DisplayPort cable but Ethernet.
I've read lots of different things about using TimeMachine with VirtualBox, but I haven't been able to find a very clear answer about what an acceptable configuration is. Some folks say "include up the whole virtual disk", some say "use snapshots and include everything except the virtual disk", and other people say "forget TimeMachine, create a separate partition on you backup drive, and export you VMs manually". I've read that including the whole VBox vdi / vdmk will cause TimeMachine to write the whole disk each time something changes, filling up the TimeMachine backup & wiping out all of the incremental backup history.
I want to block all websites except one or two websites (white list) while working for 'productivity' purposes (when I am working only). I know how to block individual websites as shown here *=URL=* but I want to block all except one or two (i.e., create a white list).
Windows offers a cascading folder browser on the menu. It enables very quick drilldown to a buried subfolder.
When I have iTunes on shuffle, I invariably end up hitting a song iTunes can't find, and then I have to tell it to start shuffle over again (until I hit another song it can't find). Is there an easy way to go through and remove songs that it can't find from the list of all my songs? Or do I just have to go through manually and remove them as I encounter them?
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro 15". I woke up one day, but my Mac didn't. I was getting nothing but a blank screen so I tried to shut it down a reboot it. Now it won't boot up.. I get the white screen as it tried to boot and th processing bar starts to fill up, but it never finishes. I have been told it's the hard drive.
Ever since I update to iOS 9.3, text to speech has been super-slow in Instapaper and Pocket. I tried going to settings -> general -> accessibility -> speech and changing the speed, but it's not helping.
Here is a picture of my finder  On the left, there are my favorites which is very handy for quickly accessing important folders. I used to have access to the favorites when saving a file or when searching a file to send by email.
Upon attempting to open iPhoto.app, a window in Finder opens "The version on this Mac is not compatible with OS X Yosemite. Download the latest version for free from the Mac App Store." App Store says "Item Not Available....The item out requested is not currently available in the U.S. store".
I am running El Capitan on several computers and would like to be able to use at to run scheduled jobs in the background. Enabling at requires editing /System/Library/LaunchDaemon/com.apple.atrun.plist. Any way I have tried to do this, I have run into a permissions problem: using sudo, logging in as root or trying to change the permissions from the file information panel all result on a permissions error of some sort. I have tried: sudo vi /System/Library/LaunchDaemon/com.apple.atrun.plist and not been able to save the edited file. Copying to file, editing it and copying back - I am not allowed to copy back using sudo. Using Xcode to edited the fiel through a GUI, cannot save. using Property List Editor, cannot save, even logged in as root. Changing owner, group is not allowed, even using sudo or logged in a root.
I've taken a fairly tilted video and want to rotate it to be level, how can I do this? I'm open to any third-party apps but purely apple solutions are better. I have FCPX, but I don't know if I can use that.
I just bought an external hard drive (Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB) for my Mac (Yosemite installed) for professional photography. I wanted to make partitions for both Mac and Windows, but it only allows for Mac. I think as I tried so many time. So I put Basic device (2 TB) on Mac (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) and then made two partition, one just for the Mac (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 500 GB) and main one (photos 1.5 TB) for Mac and PC.
After upgraded to El Capitan, the image in Finder preview are overlapped by the filename, e.g.:
Every time I try to update a game it tells me their needs to be a verification is required. I'm putting in a credit card but it keeps on declining it. The credit card has money; I checked with the bank.
If Wi-Fi is turned on, then, AFAIK, my iPhone will connect to any available network even if the signal is very weak and inferior to LTE. Is there a way to make the iPhone automatically connect to Wi-Fi only if the Wi-Fi signal is stronger than the cellular network signal? Thanks in advance for suggestions. iPhone 5s, iOS 9.2.1
I am having trouble with iMac running OS X 10.5.8. I used to be all the time in the administrator account (mine) but I forgot my password so I did the reboot thing. Now it sends me to the Create Account (Apple video intro, select a language, and everything) and when I'm done creating the account it sends me again to the start. What can I do?
Coming from year on Windows, I swapped Cmd and Ctrl buttons. On bash I used to press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+E for jumping to the beginning/end of line. But, since I swapped the buttons I need press Cmd+A/Cmd+E. How I make bash recognize back my beloved key combination?
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11 and I originally partitioned the SSD into two - then I used the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows 8.1 on the second partition, everything was fine for a few months. I then made the Mac OS partition smaller and created a third partition, I didn't resize the Windows partition. Windows 8.1 then refuses to start, I get a blue-screen-of-death with the following message: None of the F8 options (Safe Mode, etc) help. I saw similar (though not identical) issues that people reported fixing using gdisk and fdisk - I went through those instructions and they didn't help. I've made a new bootable USB stick to reinstall Windows with, the idea being once I could boot from it I could repair my installation, but the Boot Manager (Alt/Option during startup) won't let me boot from the USB stick. I don't want to nuke the Windows partition because reinstalling all of my software takes a long time (over 4 hours).
It appears that iOS updates no longer run on the original iPhone. Apple eventually deprecates products from its iOS update cycle.
I want to play mobile games on my Mac. How do I do that? I have been seeing a lot of iPhones controlling Macs. Where is the Mac controlling the iPhone?
OS X - 10.11.4 El Capitan Macbook pro Retina Mid 2015 Macbook pro Retina Mid 2015 VPN type is PPTP, automatic encryption, All traffic over VPN. VPN type is PPTP, automatic encryption, All traffic over VPN.
I want to convert .mov to .mp4! I saved the video from iMovie but it is in .mov format! How do I convert it to .mp4? I'm using a MacBook and I want to share it to my phone, but my phone can't open .mov format video.
I would like to backup my pictures using FreeFileSync, I say pictures because i want to migrate both iPhoto and photos libraries till i figure which one i want to keep I have my reasons not to use TimeMachine So with FreeFileSync which folder should i be selecting as the folder to sync?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and I want to create a virtual machine running OS X. I have a friend who owns an iMac with OS X Yosemite. Is there any way to create an ISO without downloading an installer? Or is there any way to download a legit ISO from my computer?
So I recently bought a brand new SSD for my Macbook Pro Mid 2009 Unibody. I installed the new El Capitan operating system on the SSD by using a USB-SATA cable. After it finished installing, i replaced the old harddrive with the SSD and booted the mac. However when trying to boot it gets stuck on the apple logo with progress bar underneath. It just sits there at 100% (picture below) and has done so for about 5-6 hours now. Anybody with some sort of solution or question feel free to write I am almost willing to do anything to get it to work.
B. Why there are folders with different owner.
I often share my MacBook Pro's Ethernet connection with devices like a Raspberry Pi to log in via SSH and configure files without using a screen, keyboard, etc. My current method to find the IP is to ping the hostname. Example: Ping raspberrypi.local. Recently, I have ran into problems where the hostname is unknown of the device, and I need to login, finding it's IP.
How do I lower the brightness further than the limitations on the iPhone / iPad?
If i set an automator scrip to run each evening at 23:00 but my Macbook / Macbook Pro is closed (not off, but the lid has been closed) will / can the automator script still run ?
In order to build an ipa archive for Enterprise Distribution in Xcode 7, must I log in as an Admin user of the Enterprise Program to perform the build and code sign, or is it sufficient to have the Distribution Certificate, private key and Enterprise Distribution Provisioning Profile in Xcode? Thanks!
Today, I reset my User password to a temporary password for use in a service appointment. Previously, the account was using my iCloud password to log in, and I thought I could change it back to that after the service. When the service was completed, I used the Users & Groups preference pane to reset my password again, but the option to use my iCloud password to log in is no longer present. Based on this thread, I logged out of iCloud and logged back in from the iCloud preference pane, but the option to use my use my iCloud password is still not presented when I initiate a password reset in the Users & Groups preference pane.
I've upgraded the GPU on my MacPro3,1 (Early 2008) from the original 8800GT to a 6870 and things were fine. I've been looking recently to take it another notch up the ladder, but I've stumbled across some posts which suggest that the machine's PCI bus is too slow for anything past a (say) GT 680. Now I know the FSB and PCI bus of the older Core 2 architecture isn't PCIe 3.0 nor the best speed demon when it comes to memory performance, but I haven't seen any real quantification of why there is such a bias against the old machine.
The guidelines indicate separate rules for publications depending on the target, e.g. “iPhone®” within the US, but “iPhone” with a separate credit section outside of the US. But does an app count as a publication? We can't really guarantee someone outside the US will not download an app targeted to the US, or vice versa.
I have been using Android for many years, now I have an iPhone. I am used to Gmail, having my Contacts as Gmail contacts, Google maps, backup of SMS to Google, Chrome with sync of online bookmarks, backup of photos to Google Photos, Google Calendar (in browser) Basically, in what cases should I look for "native" replacements, and in what cases is it natural to use Google stuff? (I have used the migration app)
I am on Yosemite 10.10.5 and just now I updated my outdated MySQL to the latest version. I made a copy of my existing databases /usr/local/mysql/data/ somewhere safe. I have tried to setup MySQL both via brew & via the package installer, but seems I managed to mess up with both ways. There is a new icon in preferences panel that was created via the package installer but it doesn't seem to start MySQL. I tried running mysql.server start on terminal but i received the following error: I tried brew services start mysql and I get:
I just updated my iPad to iOS 9.3 today, and when it starts up it shows the 'slide to update", when I slide it requires me to enter my 4 digit passcode. I never added a passcode, and now I have no access to my iPad. Is this a known issue, or is this just me? I can't find anything online about this.
Has anyone found a fix to this yet? I have upgraded to IOS 9.3. I have reset my iPhone. But it still won't open links.
In attempting to get cups-pdf working in El Capitan, I'm running into the error that pstopdf errors out. The system.log shows that the sandbox kernel extension is denying read access to the following files:
I need to install Windows on my MacBook Pro. Hardware limitations are not a problem for me. I am mostly concerned about the long term effects that running Windows might have on my Mac.
Global Peace Mission Project looking for automating pre sorting movie file routines. Due to the instant impact inflow of third party YouTube contributions triggered by a blog launched March 22 after the Brussels ISIS attacks, I need an Apple Script. Can one automate the pre sorting process of copying the original file name of the footage and pasting it in the Spotlight comment box of that file? How does that Apple Script for OS X looks like? I would need to do THIS a thousand times otherwise (and meanwhile stacking up)and I'm not the only one getting repetitive strain injuries because of that.
My iPad is sending out emails through gMail titled for example CCE29032016_00050. All emails begin with CCE followed by a number. They are sent from myself to myself. I noticed that it is my iPad because it was sending e-mails from my home IP address (based on Google's activity details), and only my two iPads were connected to the home network at that time (I was not at home). Has anyone seen these emails before, and how can one stop them from being sent?
I have an XCode project that I tried to delete manually, and I did delete it, but some reference is left - apparently. This reference is making this project still display on the Welcome screen of XCode (XCode version 7.3) on El Capitan. If I try to double click on this non-existing project I get message in a popup "The file 'project.xcworkspace' doesn’t exist." and after that, when I click OK in that popup, I get another popup with message "The file 'Skocko.xcodeproj' doesn’t exist." How can I completely remove this project and not have it on Welcome page, since it is very confusing issue?
I was transferring (moving) files from one drive to another. Then the computer was out of battery and it did a shutdown.
Ever since I installed IoS 9.3 on my iPad 2, the passcode lock doesn't work unless Require Passcode is set to Immediately. Specifically, whether I let the screen go dark after the Auto-Lock time, or close the cover, if Require Passcode is set to something else, I never get a passcode prompt, while if it's set to Immediate, I do. Has anyone else seen this?
I am running the Boot Camp Assistant on El Capitan. Whenever I reach the third screen, titled "Save Windows Support Software", on which I can select an storage medium to save the Windows support software to, I am shown the following error message upon selecting a disk and hitting "Continue": "Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition.".
I received a normal SMS (GSM SMS, not iMessage) from my friend on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. There were lots of messages (more than 10K) in that chat thread before the last message received. When I opened that SMS, I saw that there is only one message in that thread. All previous messages were deleted after receiving that SMS. I tried reopening the Messages application, restarting my iPhone, scrolling up after more messages received, but no luck.
I get a message saying "Service Battery", but it continues working ok. How do I service the battery?
I just got a new iphone today. I set it up and restored the old information onto my new phone. I went back into my old phone to erase everything on it and it keeps telling me the icloud password is invalid. I know it isn't because I used the same password to get into my new phone. How do I erase the old phone?
In every text editor that I can think of for Mac -- including Atom, Sublime Text, Textmate and even AppCode -- accessing a new file opens a new tab. If a file is opened for which a tab already exists that tab is switched to. Is there any way to get Xcode to work like this?
A few OS updates ago (maybe as far back at the first 9.x version?), Spotlight search on my iPhone has performed very inconsistently. I can enter the same search string several times, but I'd say no more than 50% of the time do any results appear. I've tried reseting & restoring my iPhone, but the problem persists. Is this a known regression or something I can try to fix?
2) The HDD was encrypted with filevault 2. Does this provide effective protection from anyone getting at the data? 3) Is the machine bricked (like an iOS device would be) or can it still be resold as a working computer?
I'm curious about what all on a stock OSX install uses the WebKit framework, since I keep seeing it pop up in crashlogs and it's supposedly a handy rendering swiss-army knife. What's a good way to list all of the applications on my machine that use WebKit/Core somehow?
I want to enter a simple adb shell command, so I navigated to ...\sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe, and opened it. However, I am unable to type in it!
With Apple Health in iOS 9, how can I see the interaction between multiple data categories? For example, if I enter data for menstruation and sexual activity, it would be nice to see a graph with both of those overlaid on one another.
I need to send a colleague a relatively large application (>5GB), and was thinking of how I could go about sending it. Cloud-based services such as DropBox won't work because the file is much bigger than the storage, Gmail won't allow me to send files larger than 25Mb, and using a regular USB Flash Drive would take much too long.
I am trying to find mp3 and mp4 on my external hd. I tried to follow these methods here. How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? This did not work This was the only method that would seem to work.
Unfortunately, the last few versions of Skype are killing the phone. I mean the whole OS is completely unresponsive. Even volume controls take seconds to respond!!
Is there a way to disable imessages being received on an ipad without physically accessing the ipad? My family shares an apple account. I disabled imessage while I was back home, but it looks like it was reactivated on my mothers ipad. I go to university and she is tech illiterate, so I can't follow the normal instructions of just disabling imessage on the iPad's settings. Is there a way I can make sure imessages are sent to my iphone, and my iphone only without access to the ipad? EDIT: I logged onto appleid.apple.com and took a screenshot of the numbers and emails registered.
Does the iPhone SE use stronger glass on its screen than iPhone 5S? Does it have Sapphire glass similar to iPhone 6 & 6S.
I have a Mac mini, running El Capitan, which I use as a media server. I access/control it and control it via screen-sharing. The Mac Mini has no display attached, so it must remain connected to my Wi-Fi or I can't access/control it.
[retina MacBook Pro 15", Late 2013, OS X 10.11.4] I always keep Activity Monitor running, and just noticed that CPU usage was up significantly. The process maspushagent (owned by me) has now been running at ~123% CPU for close to an hour now. The requisite googling doesn't turn up anything useful. What does this do, and will it quit any time soon, or should I kill/reboot/?
This is the error message I am receiving as I try to attach something from my desktop to an email. “Desktop” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found. What should I do?
Is it possible to show photos from an iPad Air on a TV without an internet connection, Wi-Fi router or 3G data plan subscription (i.e. the iPad is completely offline)?
I have games challenging me that I have not had on my phone for years...Please help me remove them as it drives me crazy!
I'm using the script below to trigger a shutdown but I would like it to give me the normal warning menu with the 60 sec. countdown, I can't figure out the warning menu. I don't know what else to put so I get the normal shutdown prompt.
I noticed that since updating to iBooks using iCloud with iOS 9.3, I'm starting to see this "blank screen" page when staring iBooks. The books are still there, searchable by name or visible when tapping the top left icon. Toggling between list/shelf view makes books visible on the shelf view again, but this is rather annoying. How can I make sure my iBooks works properly with iOS 9.3 and iCloud?
I recently encountered an issue where a very important (and non-resettable) password was deleted from my iCloud Keychain. All of my OSX-based keychains are backed up via Time Machine, but I realized there is no backup for iCloud Keychain data.
I've been working on an app for a while on a school computer, and had it nearly finished before the computers were wiped without my knowledge and with no warning. I have the nearly finished app, however, published to my iPad under my own Developer App profile. Would there be any way for me to get the app from my iPad and unpack it somehow? I've looked the question up already and some have said that you can unpack it with some third party software, but it doesn't say what the software actually is.
OS X Terminal uses ⌘⇧} and ⌘⇧{ for next and previous tab keyboard shortcuts, respectively, the same way that browsers do. However, browsers (at least, Chrome and Safari) also use ⌃⇥ and ⌃⇧⇥ for the same purpose. I often find myself trying to use one of the tab-based shortcuts in Terminal, which of course does not work.
So there's this girl I'm texting and she usually never forgets to text back so I'm wondering if it's cause I had iMessage off and she tried to send me a message but it didn't deliver?? I've turned it back on since but still don't see a message :/
For security reasons, what should I block with the firewall? I'm just interested in the system itself, not additional installed software. For example, I'd like my system to synchronize the clock or download system updates in the background. Or, to turn the question around: What on my computer would need incoming connections? I don't use my Mac as a web server, but is there anything else that needs to receive incoming connections?
I have installed the Safari Technology Preview and whilst everything works fine, there is a lot of data which is missing and not been migrated. Bookmarks, Reading List and AutoFill have been transferred automatically through iCloud, and eventually History through iCloud too, but I would like to also transfer the following data: Cookies Preferences Extensions (specifically the extension preferences — I can reinstall the actual extensions) How can I export my Safari browser data into the Safari Technology Preview?
How do I delete iPhone photographs using my Mac? I have tried using Image Capture and it didn't work.
I recall that it was possible with iPhoto to rotate an image by a small amount, just a few degrees, to rectify the orientation of an image. This is useful to make sure that pictures taken at, say, the seashore have a truly horizontal horizon.
Mac Mail has some nice features, and I have used it for many, many years. But I can not figure out how to move a signature from one account to another. It makes no sense whatsoever that I can't use an existing signature on a new account.
When I connect my Mac via Ethernet it has 5x more maximum speed than when connecting it with the same Ethernet to the latest Airport Express. Is this normal (and if so, why)?
Since upgrading my version of OSX, my computer no longer detects a USB game controller. I know the controller is in working order because my Linux machine can talk to it. I don't know which version broke it, but I have photo evidence of the controller working about a year ago and I'm currently running 10.11.3 (Mid 2014 MBP). I can't divine anything useful out of /Applications/Utilities/System Information, maybe you can. How do I debug the onset of incompatibility with my USB game controller?
Hello, I would like to upgrade my macbook pro mid 2010's ram so it could run faster. I'm going to be a student next year so i'd like to lower the costs as much as I can. what would be the maximum ram that i can upgrade it to? Thank you for your help!
Is there a character for the below key symbol that you can copy and paste?
Currently I'm running an external 27" 2560x1440 apple cinema display from the thunderbolt port. I have a second thunderbolt port, so I was wondering if it's possible to also use a thunderbolt enabled 3440x1440 monitor, maybe like the LG 34UM95C. The computer is a late 2013 iMac with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M graphics card. Thanks!
Is there someway I can get this song to sync onto my iPod?
I need to zip all email that have in the body this words "Identificativo messaggio: CA3DA789.008822A5.C33F80AE". I have many email in AppleMail so i think if it's possible to create an AppleScript that select all email that have in their body this Word "Identificativo messaggio: CA3DA789.008822A5.C33F80AE". Once AppleScript find these mails, unzip them and tell me where Save the file zip and with witch name. It's possible to create this AppleScript ?
I need your urgent help. When I opened the photos app and I saw all of my albumns are gone but all the videos and photos are still in my phone. The problem started to happens when I use the jailbreak software called redsn0w as I'm trying to install cydia on my iphone to get the iblacklist software, but it didn't do anything so I decided to stop running the software so that is how it have happens that my abulmns are gone. I have backed up on my computer and on icloud, but I want to get the albums back that I have created important photos and videos to show to the urology when I see him on Monday. Any advice will be much appreciate.
I downloaded Office 2011 to my old computer that crashed and no way to retrieve HD contents. I lost everything. Now I have a new computer MacBook Pro and I have the key number that I had printed out before. Maybe this sounds dumb but can I download the program again on this new computer since I have the key number? How do I do it?
How can I set default ownership of newly created files and directories of a shared folder to the original directory owner? The original intention is letting B read/write A's shared Google Drive folder. With both users logged in. A's Google Drive folder is shared. B can read/write files in A's Google Drive folder. The problem is that whenever B creates files in A's folder, the permission is only for B(read/write). How can I make those newly created files (by B) have ownership to A with read/write permission?
I'm using Mac 10.11.3 I installed Card Reader for PIV and mess something and now I have 'wrong' Keychain CAC-000... It is not one that I need. I have to get rid of it and setup another Keychain. I tried to 'Reset My default Keychain' option but it did not remove this one. How could I remove this one?
I have downloaded the app before and then deleted by accedent but now it won't download at all and has a little cloud symbol instead of an install symbol
Okay well so this Macbook i have isn't giving me a full time its rather dying our very fast!! even after i don't know resetting the smc and the nvram and i have no idea whats going help its really urgent!!
When using Home Sharing on Apple TV 3rd gen, the Mac will fall asleep even though it is needed to stream content. So in the middle of a movie the connection will be lost because the Mac goes to sleep.
My osx box is connected to my TV via HDMI. I use "Share Screen" to login to the box and play a netflix video. I must have installed an update or something because suddenly, when I close the "Share screen" window, the TV will go straight to screen saver. Previously it would let me keep watching Netflix using my Macbook to control. Any suggestions?
The DivX player has installed a junk notification on my Mac saying: A new version of DivX is available. as shown below:
I have a file server which I can successfully and consistently connect to on android and windows. So I know the IP address and connection details. However when I try and connect using mac osx finder - connect to server or a third party utility it fails. What do I need to do on El Capitan to get SMB shares working successfully in the sidebar of finder? it just times out saying cannot connect - while my other devices all connect no problem.
I can expand the column width in Finder (OS X El Capitan, MacBook Pro) by clicking on the right-hand line of the column (see red arrow in screenshot). When I click this line, the column width is expanded to the width of the longest file name. How can I do the same with a keyboard shortcut?
Last week I upgraded to iOS 9.3 on my iPhone 5S and my 2nd Gen iPad Mini. Last night both started offering me an upgrade to iOS 9.3 again, even going so far as to download the 1.5GB update file.
Under System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items, I have a number of applications that are set to launch on system startup. Some of these, despite being marked to "Hide" on startup, insist on showing their application windows. I have to manually close them. Edit: At first, we thought that the reason may be that some of them were also set to Open at Login in the Dock Right-Click Menu options (as speculated in the comments below) – but that can't be the reason.
I've notived my Apple ID is not been accepted within XCode when I try add an Apple ID in the XCode accounts pane of preferences. I have tested the account details in both the member ceter and itunes connect sites and the account is fine. When I add the account details and click 'Add' I get the message:
My 13'' MacBook Pro 2010 running Yosemite suddenly stopped booting today. After I press the power button, I can hear the chime and the computer proceed to go to a blank gray screen immediately. The screen has no apple logo or loading bar. What I tried as of now: Booting in recovery by holding CMD+R -- no effect, blank screen Booting in single-user mode by holding CMD+S -- no effect, blank screen Booting in verbose mode by holding CMD+V -- no effect, blank screen Booting in safe mode by holding Shift -- no effect, blank screen Booting in hardware diagnosis mode by holding D -- no effect, blank screen Resetting PRAM by holding CMD+ALT+P+R -- reboots, chime again and then blank screen (from this I deduced that the keyboard actually works) Resetting SMC by holding Shift+Alt+Control while pressing the power button, then pressing the power button alone -- no effect, blank screen Choosing another booting drive or recovery partition by holding Alt -- no effect, blank screen Is there something 
I bought an AirPort Time Capsule to store my backups and read that it can also improve the speed of my Wi Fi; I have a mini Mac, a mini iPad2, an iPhone5 and until now I go in Internet with the Wi Fi Modem-router provided by the local telephone Company. Would it be better to connect the Airport directly to Internet instead of using the modem-router, or do I have to use the modem anyway and the AirPort as an extension for all my Apple devices, they profit from the enhanced signal?
Why are there AirPlay speakers or audio, but not for Video. I.e I have yet to see a single TV set support AirPlay mirroring, while many support Andriod ChromeCast type. Is it possible to have Video AirPlay to TV set without Apple TV, if not, is it because Apple has yet to open up the protocol?
I am trying to add a new mail account to my Apple Mail (OS X El Capitan, 10.11.4) on a MBP. I know the precise settings and ports I have to use. However, the standard dialog does not let me enter these and instead tries to determine the settings by itself. However, after a while it just fails and does not let me add the account so that I get access to the configuration, where I can set the details. I am confident that would allow me resolve the issues. Is there a way to manually set everything from the beginning?
On our Macbook Air (Mid-2011 11", OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks), starting a few days ago, every time we open Finder windows, the right side just shows screen artifacts/cheese. File Open dialogs in MS Word work fine - it is just the Finder windows with the problem. Can someone help?
I'm a font developer. I want to merge a DSIG code into a TrueType format (TTF) font, which makes it compatible with Microsofts applications that use OpenType features. I have had this working before but have now can only produce a zero bytes font.ttf file. I'm using Adobe Font development Kit (AFDKO). as prescribed along with Terminal to make the merge. I would appreciate knowing why I get a zero bytes file? Here is my step-by-step method, followed by the resulting Terminal window code. Launch a new Terminal session and enter which ttx A path ending in ttx means good to go. Launch a new Terminal session and enter A path ending in ttx means good to go. Paste this snippet… FLDR="${HOME}/Desktop/Dsig fldr" mkdir -p "$FLDR" cd "$FLDR" cat > dsig.ttx<<EOF <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <ttFont sfntVersion="\x00\x01\x00\x00" ttLibVersion="2.4"> <DSIG> <hexdata> 00000001 00000000 </hexdata> </DSIG> </ttFont> EOF then after entering the return key: open . Paste this snippet… then 
Since updating my MacBook to Mavericks and the update from iPhoto to Photos, iTunes is no longer syncing any photos to any devices. I don't use the cloud, but purely uploading photos to; 1. iPhone 2. IPad
Simply trying to disable Mail from downloading attachments automatically. So I went to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced tab and turned off the "Automatically download all attachments" option. I did this for every email account on my system. I restarted Mail. It still downloads attachments from shady senders, many of which are being caught by Avira. Most of the time I right click and delete the message if it looks like junkmail, sometimes I'm quickly reading emails and forget, allowing the preview to start the attachment download. I suppose I could turn off the preview window, but I'd rather not if possible.
Apple sells "carrier-specific" versions of their phones, as well as "sim-free" versions. If paying in full, these are the same price (e.g. a Verizon or AT&T 64GB iPhone SE costs $499, as does a sim-free 64GB iPhone SE). I understand that the sim-free iPhone does not work with Sprint, so if I wanted to use it on Sprint, I would have to buy the Sprint-specific version.
I have an interesting problem with an iPhone 5s I'm repairing for a client: Background The iPhone 5s was dropped in water and completely submerged for a seconds (I'm not sure if it was on or off when it fell in, but I can find out), but was quickly retrieved and still worked for a few minutes before the BSOD appeared and the iPhone restarted. My client immediately turned the iPhone off and texted me about trying to fix it, I agreed to try my best, and I received it the next day. Additional Problems I was also told that it was having a hard time recognizing touch input, detected buttons being pressed when they weren't, and inaccurately recognized headphones being plugged into the headphone jack when they weren't.
Icons may be changed in OSX by using the "get info" page of an app. LiteIcon uses this method to change icons without changing the .icns resources inside the app. Anyone know where these files are stored?
I am pulling out my hair trying to figure this out. I've run the ePubs through the Calibre ePub covert and even edited them in Sigil. The ePubs are perfect in direct download to the device, but about 85% of the time, they give that error whenever downloaded from iCloud Books. I've compared the ones that work to the ones that don't and can't find any differences.
I have been looking all day for an answer to this so I thought I would pick your brains :) Macbook Air 4,1 (Mid 2011) 11 inch, i5, 2gb RAM.
I have a Mac and I'm a Spanish Student. I primarily use Pages in English, but sometimes I work in Spanish and I'd like to have spell check and not have red lines under all my words. I went to system preferences and added Spanish as a second language but that didn't seem to work. Ideas?
Everyday I see the annoying popup message in the upper right corner saying: A new version of DivX is available Update Now / What's New
I have a 1 TB NTFS HDD which has 350GB free space, how would I format that 350GB to use it as a backup space for my MacBook? diskutil list output:
I have an iphone 4, with ios 7.1.2, and my phone tells me my software is up to date. When I log into iCloud photos, I can't view any of my photos. There is small print saying "iCloud photos requires ios 8.1 or later..." Does this mean I cannot use iCloud? I am paying for extra storage but where are my pictures?
I know next to nothing about the OS X, but I've been asked to make a few different scripts for actions in Apple Mail. One is to bind a hotkey that will create a reminder with a followup time of two business days.
Trying to connect two Macintoshs with a Ethernet cable (capable of Gigabit speed, of course) will not automatically set a gigabit connection. Instead of this, a 100MB connection is established. Does anybody knows why? After a thousand searchs at google, and trying with a bunch of machines, I still on limbo. Both ports are capable and set to Gigabit speed, imho. Thanks for any advice, answering or any way I should/could improve this question. Both Macs tested are: Both iMac (late 2011+), iMac + MacPro (Late 2009+) All machines running Yosemite full updated.
I've been trying to tweak the following script to achieve this. (original script)
I want to delete that camera 360 app after I paused it but when I long pressed the app, yes the X mark was there but it is not deleting. What should I do? Please help me. I'm new in using an iphone. And another thing, I'm still not jailbreaking it. Thank you
I have a file open in, say, a pdf viewer (or some other application). I want to get the path of the open file as text.
Recently I read an article on the Apple forums which says that Apple are not honouring warranty if the product comes for a smoker's home. This is also described in this other article which instantly got me wondering.. is this still happening?
Thus, I've tried to add it as an LDAPv3 server using the Directory Utility, but I can't get it to work. Connecting to the AD via ldapsearch on the Terminal is working perfectly, but I fail integrating this in the proper tools. So far I was unable to find any helpful tutorial on the web, as most of the scenarios on connecting Macs to AD want to completely bind a Mac into a AD - which I explicitly don't want to do, as for the purpose of working as a MDM for mobile devices, it needs to be accessible from the Internet, so I want to have the minimal possible link to any internal services. Any ideas?
Is there any way to mirror an application window onto a second display? Specific use case: I want to show a terminal window in a second screen (i.e. projector), while still working on that same window on my laptop display. Complete display mirror wouldn't work because I want to keep working with multiple apps opened but project only the terminal window.
I am trying to remove the app completely as I do not want it as it takes up a third of my memory on my iPad. Is there any way of removing it altogether please??
You'd think that there is more than enough photo management software out there. But for quite a while now, I have struggled to find Mac software suitable for my requirements.
I issued a remote SSH shutdown command to a headless Mac server. However, the server is not shutting down and I can no longer access the server with SSH, I get this message: NO LOGINS: System going down at 08:16
My battery is very weak in my iPhone 5, and I want stronger battery. I can buy double the size, around 2880mAh, but I want even stronger and I found one on eBay, battery for iPhone 5 with 3180mAh. Is it safe to install battery this durable into my iPhone 5? What would be the consequences, if any at all? Would be great if I could install this kind of battery and have no problems. Thanks for any advice guys!
Please help me, my iPod 4 won't upgrade past ios 6.1.6 and this is very annoying as there are many apps that you have to have at least ios 7 or 8 for. Does anyone know how I can upgrade?! Thanks!
My iPhone was not receiving imessages over mobile data. Accidently my wifi was off for two days. When I switched wifi on after a couple of days, I received imessages which my colleagues sent 2 days earlier. This is despite my mobile data was working well.
Does anyone know if I can use the full resolution 2560x1440 of this DELL U2711 *=URL=* With MacBookAir early 2014, using MiniDisplayPort (on MacBookAir) to DisplayPort (on monitor)
The best I have come up with it simply to not read the message in the messages app - then I can read the first sentence or so, get the gist of it, and I still have an unread notification on the app icon. But this is not ideal of course. One thing that's an obvious suggestion but is just too clunky is to add a todo-list item to respond (just like I'd add any other todo item).
The problem is, I have 200GB of iCloud space with only about 40GB used. 30GB or thereabouts would be books and the rest would be photos, backups, etc. i have checked from multiple devices and ensured my billing is ok(and it is, I definitely have 200GB space).
I failed installing Ubuntu, the remaining partitions are un-removeable, when ever I try and remove them I get operation failed. How can I resolve this issue? I need to either remove them or erase them.
It's one day that the AppStore icon and application of my iPhone 5S reports that there is one update to be done, but, in fact, no updates are available. I already tried to switch the iPhone off and on or reopen the app, but nothing changes. Why does this happened, and how can I fix it?
Running out of space to store photos on our iPad 2. Is it possible to plug in an external storage device, move photos to it, and then be able to access those photos as if they were stored internally?
In my case I can't actually use the applescript since 10.7+(?) warns when another machine is network shared with AFP or SMBed causing the shutdown to fail. The shutdown command forces the restart without popping up a dialog which is exactly what I need. However when the machine starts up I want exactly one application to start at login, and it is listed in Login items.
Using CCC, how do I restore my El Capitan OS system to a date of several days ago. I installed a flakey app. and I want to essentially backdate my system to before I installed it. Everything I can find re restoring with CCC seems to restore to the last backup. I don't want that; I want to restore to an earlier date. Thanks.
It's a while some random files with .download extension are emerging inside my download folder and I can't find what are these and what creates them, even I can't open them. These files are like this: And when I get their info it's like this:
I've had this problem before and can't recall how I managed to fix it last time. I use Apple Mail to access my Gmail and normally flagged emails show up correctly. Starred emails in Gmail equate to flagged emails in Apple Mail and I can unflag an email in either Gmail or Apple Mail and it works.
Sometimes I have doc and txt files that I need to convert to PDF. It'd be great if I didn't have to open an application to convert the item to PDF. Is there some way to add a convert/print to PDF option in Finder's right-click context menu?
I'm wondering if that is possible, so that I can use some X11 window manager for everything.
I have an iPhone 4S which works perfectly fine in all aspects… except one. Whenever I'm watching a video on YouTube, especially one with movement (not so much on videos that show one background with a song playing), the Wi-Fi connection completely cuts out. I have to manually go to settings and reconnect. This can happen multiple times per video. I've watched videos on other sites and they didn't appear to have this problem, although it's worth noting that none of them use the same player as YouTube. This has happened ever since I got the phone and has really been annoying me. How do I stop this? Additional information: I always run the most recent update to IOS, so I'm currently on 9.3.
I would like to install PIL by Pip but the code is unsuccessful I know the outdated thread here about How can I install PIL on mac os x 10.7.2 Lion, and my versions should be ok, since they are most updated. My Pip and Python versions in OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan
I have two external hard drives attached to my 2012 Mac Mini running El Capitan. All has been OK for around 2 months. Now, when one drive powers up, it forces my Sky WiFi Internet connection to drop, which you can't get back until the drive is powered down again, after which the `internet connects straight away. Any ideas (anyone)?
I'm trying to configure new Mac accounts to have certain languages added to their keyboard preferences. Is there a terminal command to add languages to a particular user's keyboard preferences or perhaps a command to manipulate a user's specific plist? Any help is greatly appreciated!
I'm looking at the new iPhone SE and was wondering if you're going to pay in full for the phone ($499) is the sim free phone different than the Verizon carrier specific one? I read somewhere the sim free had 1 extra band (so maybe that is better if you want the flexibility to change carriers later)? Verizon is my current carrier, and I'll start the phone there but could see moving somewhere later if the deals are worthwhile. Once I put a Verizon sim (which the Apple Store will give you for free) in the sim free one, is it the same as the Verizon specific one (and conversely if I get the Verizon specific phone and take out the sim for another can it go to any GSM network)?
My macbook pro OS X is broken behind repair and I need to re-install the OS X. Unfortunately it seems the online installation is not working, because it stops downloading about half way through and never completes.
I have been using VLC Player for 7 years and after update to 2.2.2 It is really painful to use it with El Capitan. It is very slow to forward or backward, It constantly freezes and lots of time the display gone, color changes in display. It happens with the same mkv files which I used to watch without any problem 1 month ago before 2.2.2. Is there a solution for this?
So I learned that on the Macbook Pro, the default Quicktime Pro has the ability to record video from your computer screen. This is great, but it doesn't have the ability to record sound unless it's from the actual mic picking up sound from the speakers literally playing the sound.
There was a similar question to this on Stack Overflow regarding Xcode 5, however, the solution no longer works. I would like to change my IBeam cursor in Xcode to use this cursor instead. How do I change my mouses Ibeam cursor in Xcode 7.3
I mistakenly unpaired my Apple Watch from my iPhone. Now the voice over on my watch is on, screen curtain is on, but my screen is blank. I don't know which button to press and I have been trying to pair it back. Since my screen is blank, how do I do this?
I like the headlines from Spotlight Search, but I hate that fact it displays many sites that have paywalls (e.g., LA Times, NY Times, etc). Is there a way to tell iOS not to show certain sites in the headlines?
Whenever I open an app it goes there for a second then crashes and goes directly to the home screen. This haven't happened before, it recently started. I have restarted my phone, powered it off, and updated to the latest iOS. Is there anything I can do to fix this other than reinstalling the application?
I have tried to forward local ports over SSH to a remote host: I've tried a bunch of things, but how do I make this forwarding accept connections from other hosts on my local network? i.e., listen on 192.168.1.116:29070 and forward traffic to km4ayu.com:29070? My .ssh/config Host entry: Here's the output of ssh -vvv km4ayu.com, using that .ssh/config file:
I don't recall exactly what info I was asked to provide at the time I set the mac up, which is leading to some confusion. On my mac, when I run whoami in a terminal, it tells me aerovistae, my general username. However, if I open Users & Groups, it tells me the current user is myFirstName myLastName.
Since the App Store seemed stuck with updating Xcode to 7.3, I have decided to delete it and reinstall. However, after moving Xcode to the Trash, it refused to be cleared and instead be stuck on the "Preparing to empty the trash..." window. So, I've decided to force empty the trash in Terminal by rm -rf ~/.Trash/*, only to get an endless loop of error message saying this: How can I empty the trash?
I have an iMac iOS 10.11.4. When I restarted it, all the programs and windows came back as it was. I do not why, it does not happen anymore. How can I have that feature back?
I'm trying to get the current time from OS X command line to work with in AppleScript to output the elapsed time. Currently I'm using this script: But it is too unprecised, so I'm looking for a way how to get the elapsed precisely with milliseconds or somethin.
I have an old MacBookPro3,1 to which I've added an ExpressCard/34 USB 3.0 adapter. The card is recognised by OS X out of the box, but when I connect a device to it I can't talk to it unless I wait forever. It's like the transfer rate is snail slow rather than not being able to communicate.
I'm using a date field as a conditional element. If cell A1 which is date field is empty (no date has been entered yet), then leave the cell A2 blank. If there is a date entered into A1, run a calculation (which I already have). Thanks
I have this unknown item in my Login Items How can i view what this is? Not looking to remove just want to know what exact it is
When I open the same URL in Safari, it shows the page perfectly:  From that I think I can conclude it's not an access issue. Here's how the app was created:
OS 10.11.4 : When trying to change password of my user i am getting the following error The password for the account was not changed The server is not available. Change your password when server becomes available
This last few days I've noticed my MacBook Pro's having issues with the connectivity each time I start it back from sleep. Checking the DHCP clients list of my router (a good ol' Linksys WRT54G2), I've noticed that, even if I changed the DHCP lease time to 30hs, my MBP always has 1h of lease time after reconnecting (the first row is my MBP):
I'm recording some video tutorials and would really like to disable the split view that Xcode automatically switches to when you build and run. Below is an example of what I'm talking about. Before clicking build:
I want to trigger "+" resp. "-" when I use the scrollwheel of my mouse (G700) together with CMD. Shortcuts triggered by key combinations only are simple, but using the scrollwheel as the trigger seems to be more complicated. What are my options to use CMD+mousescroll to trigger a key or service?
I cracked my iPad 2 really bad. I cant see nothing but white shattered circles. I was wondering if I repaired it will all my pictures in the gallery will still be there?
My son's mac running 10.11 has the hard drive named this curie HD""""""""""" copying and pasting reveals lots of spaces after the sequence of " characters. I can't rename the HD in Finder. Every attempt fails with "The name "Curie HD"""" " can't be used. Try using a name with fewer characters or with no punctuation marks.
Just upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan, and I started out with an Emacs problem: it wouldn't launch from the Emacs.app icon, complaining that it couldn't find /bin/false. I tracked this down to the fact Emacs.app was trying to run /usr/bin/login, the default for the "Terminal" app. I can switch "Terminal" to run /bin/bash, but that doesn't solve the Emacs.app problem or similar problems for any other apps that try to run /usr/bin/login. It looks like I need to fix /usr/bin/login to run /usr/bin/false and not /bin/false, but I have no idea how. I tried to trick the programs backwards,
I still need to check if the system is issuing any dmesg when things are plugged into the non-working usb ports, it might provide other clues. I'll also call back the AASP now that I got the error code, to make sure -3403d is not related to usb.
In the video for the iPad Pro, there was an architecture app that was shown several times. I assume this is some CAD or floor plan tool available for the new iPad. When I checked on the experience page, it didn't show any CAD tool that was specifically used for architectural drawings.
I don't know why this is bothering me but I've been pressing Cmd-R to refresh my browser and today I mistakenly pressed this combination while using the terminal. I came across an option known as "Mouse Reporting". What is it? Is it on by default in OS X? How do I reset the terminal to defaults (including mouse reporting)?
When exporting a video from iMovie it asks for a title. Upon saving the file you'll find it has named the file whatever you input for the title. Now if you rename that file in Finder then open it in QuickTime and show the Movie Inspector, you'll find that the video title is the old title - the title you input in iMovie. Unfortunately you can't edit the title here. It doesn't show the title in Finder's Get Info. So my question is how can you edit the video's title (not filename) without reexporting the movie from iMovie?
This has been an ongoing problem for over a year now. When listening to music in iTunes, something is causing the audio to cut out for a second or two at seemingly random moments. I never stream music. All the music I listen to is stored locally on my machine. I've had the same machine for several years now and it didn't always do this. It used to play music perfectly no matter how many programs I had open or how many labor intensive tasks I was performing. In fact I can recall instances where I was doing some video editing which slowed the machine to a crawl. And even with the spinning wheel of death and everything being frozen, even then, if I were listening to music, it never missed a beat. But now it seems like the least little network activity or the least little bump in cpu usage causes not only iTunes but also audio through VLC Player to cut out. The problem has persisted through more than one complete hard drive wipe and across multiple versions of OS X. Also, I'm not sure if t
I have downloaded the appropriate Linux distro (in this case Fedora Xfce Live) and I have partitioned the USB with Disk Utility and attempted copying both the Fedora iso, and a Fedora iso converted to the Mac .img format. When I booted (holding option key) the USB with Fedora didn't show up in either case in boot manager. What needs to be done for Mac to consider the USB "bootable" and for it to be visible in "boot manager" when holding option key?
when adding new photos to my OS X Photos.app and afterwards sync my iPhone with my Mac I see every photo I just added twice on the iPhone: One synced via iTunes and the other one via Photostream. Once I delete the photos in the photostream there are no duplicates anymore. I'm using most recent versions of OS X, iOS, Photos.app, Photostream activated, iCloud photo Library NOT activated on all devices.
Let's say, I sometimes want to use Application XYZ, but I don't want to set its Dock Option to Keep in Dock so its icon is visible at all time. When I want to use the application, I open it with Spotlight. It will open and place itself to the right end of the applications in the Dock. I would prefer it to lie closer to the middle. Is there a way to place it at a specific location permanently, without having to always keep it there, regardless of whether it's active or not?
I'm getting a warning that The provisioning profile "iOSTeam Provisioning Profile: *" is expiring soon. I'm not sure what to do and the Apple documentation, even the Quick Start Guide, is overwhelming and confusing for me.
I am not a mac user, and honestly, I have no idea how to use one (besides the terminal). So, a friend asked if I could help them out with fixing their computer. She says the last thing she was on, was on some website with "free movies", and she mustt've been clicking something. We can get into recovery mode and we can go on the guest user, but not on the main user. Whenever you log in to the main user, it just shuts down.
I wish to encrypt my WD My Passport Pro drive. I receive error
I do not want to use the "Photos" app and the "Preview" app. The "Preview" app only displays one photo at a time (unless you select all of them with CMD-A). I am missing the Windows program where you simply doubleclick on the first pictures and navigate with arrow-right and arrow-left. Is there a program like this for Mac?
The iTunesConnect help says: Your financial reports are presented as groups of transactions, displayed in distinct rows. Each row represents a unique combination of an app, transaction type (product type identifier), price (proceeds/customer Price), store, sale or return and promo (if applicable).
Recently one of apps is not showing in the Application Switcher, the Dock or even in the menu bar. The only way that I have found to get to it is via Mission Control or Launch Pad. And even when I do this it still does not show up in the menu bar so I can't access the menu items (preferences etc.) The application in question is Fantastical 2 (an alternative Calendar app).
How can I make ipad Safari bookmark list wider ? I want to see as much text as possible for each bookmark, not have more than half the screen devoted to a dimmed-out web page. iPad Air 2, iOS 9.3.1 See picture. When you choose larger text sizes, the default value doesn't allow for much text to show.
Note: Don't type rm or any variation of it into terminal under any circumstances if you are not experienced with the command line Does the Mac OS X block you from using rm in those directories to delete a user or delete all the users and do you need to use sudo and put in an administrator password or does it let you without any passwords? For example if you typed in the following line into terminal would it just completely wipe everything? Of course the echo wouldn't be used if you actually wanted the remove command to run.
I've been using Windows for many years so far but just started using a MacBook with OS X. As far as I'm concerned when I install applications on Windows they just go into Program files (by default). App preferences usually stored in user's folder and probably in the registry.
Theres a folder called /Masters in the Mac Photos App, when you "Show Package Contents". I was wondering if this contained all Photos and Video including Hidden content.
So I ran over a lot of post treating of this specific problem but none of the answer seems to work for my case. So this is the process : I installed mysql via homebrew that lead me to this : I tried mysql.server start I looked for the file but the parent folder was empty : I then saw So I run it after giving acces right to it. Still no changement at mysql.server start Anybody could help me pls I really don't know what to do anymore :/ As a plus : here is my.conf (should I edit it ?) So after klanomath proposition I decided to clean all my mysql file and remove by the same time MAMP and MAMPro since they could be conflicting. First step : Then I ran sudo find / -name mysql and decided to clean it all : I hard cleaned up this and finish with this : And finally I ran again brew install mysql And same problem came up : Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully You can try again using brew postinstall mysql And same schema again.
I cannot use my touchpad to scroll on my macbook. The arrow keys work but the touchpad will not. Is there a scroll lock button on the macbook?
I've researched this, but can't find the exact answer I'm looking for. My wife has an iPhone 6s and has taken many pictures that are apparently "Live Photos". I tried importing her pictures in to Windows for her to use, but some have the .mov extension, while others are in the traditional .jpg form. She really wants the pictures as full resolution pictures, but I am having trouble getting them for her. Is there a way to batch export all of the pictures she wants into full resolution photos? She has hundreds of them, so doing one at a time would take forever. I tried importing them with a Google program called "Picasa" but most of them are .mov files.
I'd like to be able to zoom in on a web page in iOS Safari the way you can in the Mac OS version using Command-+. Note that this is different than pinch/spread zooming in iOS. If I spread my fingers to zoom a page, everything is magnified but the browser window just gets wider so you can no longer see the whole thing, making side to side panning necessary. On a well-designed web page, if I use Command-+ to zoom in, everything gets larger but the margins don't change. The text gets bigger and re-flows so that it still fits in the same margins. Is there a way to do that in Safari on iOS?
I have Maverick and the option to Upgrade to OS X El Capitan pops up. I don't want to do this. Ever. How do I disable this notification?
I wipe and reinstall OS X about once ever few months—probably more than necessary if I'm honest with myself, but then, it has become my go-to way to fix problems, and I've become very fast at getting everything set up again. There is however one thing I have to do after every reinstall that takes quite some time on my slow internet connection: re-downloading the "enhanced quality" version of the "Samantha" system voice (my personal favorite).
My phone is currently trapped under a collapsed building. It is showing up on find my iPhone so it's still alive! I ordered a new phone as I don't know when or if they can recover it. If I activate the new phone with my old number, will I lose the ability to track my old phone? I'd like to keep watching it to see if it continues to survive.
I start Safari, and after a few seconds, I hear what seems to be the sound from a video. (Sounds like a british guy playing minecraft) There are no windows or tabs open to YouTube or any other video site. The sound keeps playing as long as Safari is open. Closing tabs, clearing cache, clearing history all have no effect. The sound only stops when I exit Safari. When I start Safari again, the sound starts again from the beginning.
It's needed to control from a Mac (turn off, install software, etc.), all another Macs connected to the same network (in the same classroom). Is there a software for it?
I've been getting many pop-up and email notifications about my meager iCloud storage space (on OS X even though I only really use iCloud with iOS). There's no chance that I'll upgrade so how can I turn off these reminder notifs?
I want to auto lock my IPhone 6 when entered to pocket/closed with case Also my IPhone is unjailbroken and I want it to stay like that
I have a program that changes a few files in the file system. I would like to know exactly which one it changed. How can I see all the files on the system that were changed 5 mins ago by a specific program. Is that possible? It will also work if I could find all the files that were changed most recently and than manually check which one belongs specific program.
I was working with my mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro yesterday and everything was normal. Today, when I turned it on, I've noticed that trackpad is feeling a bit "weird". It's like, unless I forcefully touch the trackpad, it's not registering any click. It was much smoother and easy-to-press just yesterday, and it was just inside my hard-bag all the day, not damaged etc. It feels like it's a force-touch trackpad (while it's not), this is the closest I can describe how it feels. I can't get the regular "click" feeling and response from the trackpad. What should I do?
I want to use pagestuff command line tool with my iphone application. It's working with Mac application but not with iphone application. used command Got error as Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/pagestuff: can't map file: MetalMatrixMultiply.app (Invalid argument) How to solve this error?
Is it possible to use the native keyboard on one Mac, to control the keyboard input of another Apple device, especially another Mac? And so doing, without having to completely redirect the input device, i.e. disconnecting/connecting a Bluetooth keyboard to switch it between devices.
Before El Capitan I used to enable pfctl at boot by adding -e to the start up parameters. In /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist Now I am not able to edit the file anymore (because of System Integrity Protection). Is there a way to achieve the same without disabling System Integrity Protection?
On 2nd iphone now and like the first usage was reasonable when new, then things started to ramp up. This time it's to a lower extent and in fact I could be imagining it (or maybe not). What I'm not imagining are the numbers in the cellular settings. Usage for anything that uses data is listed individually and they're always supposed to add up to total usage at the top. Just recently total usage has begun to doubled any app I've used, which is almost exclusively safari. So I would have 2 gb usage in safari for one day (this still seems high) but total usage is 4gb. There's no other listed app/process that makes up that remaining 2 gb and like I said I've been on safari exclusively.
Having an Apple Lightning connector cable beside my bed to charge my iPhone 6 at night, I asked myself whether the cable is safe for my three-years-old kids? I.e. having the cable dangling without an iPhone connected, my kids might stick their tongue right on the connector which is still plugged into the wall socket. I've read this thread and got no clear answer out of it. Therefore my question is: Would it be safe for my kids if they accidentially put their tongue on a Lightning connector or would they get a (severe) electric shock? Update 1: I just did a quick self-test and stuck my tongue to a Lightning connector which was still plugged into the wall socket. Even when trying to wrap my tongue around both sides, I felt no electric shock, not even a small prickling. That said, I still love to get quality answers that are more sound than my own "tests".
On common UNIX-like computer operating systems there was extremely flexible/customizeable/lightweight tool for System Stats monitoring, called Conky. I'd like to find alternative system monitoring tool for operating system stats in OS X, preferable with the same set of features or more, e.g.: OS stats monitoring (CPU usage, mem usage, network monitoring, disk usage, "top" like process stats, uname, uptime, etc); support of compact representation in system tray (menu bar), or/end desktop-widget view; lightweight; highly customizable, support of user configuration (alike in conky-app: display information either as text, or using simple progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours); What options for application/tools exist for OS X?
Is there a shortcut or such to send the currently active window to the back of the screen while still keeping it open (so that it ends up "beneath" all other open windows)?
The iPhone mail app of my collegue crashes when he tries to unsubscribe from any newsletter. The app completely freezes and needs to be restarted. He has an iPhone 6 plus with iOS 9.3.1 installed. The mail account is based on exchange 2010.
I really like the annotation tool in preview, but when i annotate a jpg or png image and save it all the annotations get flattened into the image and cant be amended. Im aware that if you annotate a PDF it lets you save the PDF then come back to it and amend, but is it possible to annotate a jpg or png and then save it as a file format that will allow it to be amended ? Currently if you take a jpeg on png and export as a pdf it will basically print as a pdf so it again flattens the image. Exporting it as a pdf first then annotating it would work, but that requires users to remember to do that first as if they dont they have to start again from scratch.
So, I have an iMac 27" Late 2012, and I have just installed Windows 10 Home 64Bit through BootCamp. BootCamp comes along with several "support software", useful drivers made for Windows and Apple hardware. I have recently noticed that one of the drivers mounts and makes read-and-writeable drives that are formatted in HFS+, including my Mac drive (which appears read-only) and an external HDD I make backups to. Since I'm afraid of Windows Ransomware, I'd like to remove any access to HFS+ drivers from Windows side of things. Is there any way to remove (or at least disable) the driver that enables HFS+?
I'd need to create an encrypted volume on my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan. It's been a while since I needed to do something like that, I think it was 2010 when I used TrueCrypt. I know that nowadays its development has been suspended or somehow discontinued, so I was wondering: how to have an encrypted volume with TrueCrypt-like level of security on Mac OS X?
Quite some time ago, QuickType started capitalising the word "long" into "Long", even if it was not the first word in the sentence. This issue has begun to affect more than the word long, and a few are mentioned below: There are many more, but they are too many to list and don't exactly contribute to the purpose of this question. I don't usually capitalise these words, some of them I have never used before (in the case of "cricket"), but they are just capitalised like that. Is there any logical explanation as to why QuickType seems to be capitalising these words as and when it pleases?
Automator Shell Script Results: after the first echo $PATH: after the second echo $PATH: As ImageMagick is installed in /usr/local/bin it means that it fails unless I mess with the PATH first anyone know where Automator (Java is the same) gets its path from and how to permanently add the missing paths
I have an old iMac (11,2) that doesn't have Bluetooth Low Energy. Do you know any way I can use my iPhone's Touch ID to unlock it? All the apps I found require Bluetooth LE support.
I'm Looking to get MacBook Pro. Is there a max OpenGL context? I understand that on OS X it is 4.1, does this change when booting in Windows, and is this diferrent or the same for the three models? Models 2015: 13 inch integrated, 15 inch integrated, 15 inch with amd graphics.
There was a chocolate coin from Christmas at the bottom of my laptop bag which managed to get shoved into the power port and conform to the space and fill it completely. I managed to scrape most of it away with tweezers but I'm afraid attempting to charge it will most definitely cause the residue to melt and harm the computer. Ideas?
We just recently developed an iOS app on a iMac. The process to get the approval tooks us 15 days.
Error: org.macports.activate for port gettext returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/autopoint already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port gettext. Use 'port -f activate gettext' to force the activation. but if I run sudo port -f activate gettext and re-try installing scite, I end up with the same error message, this time with /opt/local/lib/libffi.6.dylib and libffi and so on and so on... How can I tell Macports to force activate all ports that stand in it's way from completing installing SciTE, without having to manually re-run the installation of the package I actually want and without having to copy-paste each activation command?
I have an old Macbook Pro for which I bought a new SSD and replaced the HDD with the SSD. Can't go further, see below.
I have a handful of epubs I downloaded outside of the iBooks Store and read them across two different macs and an iPhone. For reasons I cannot explain some books’ data (highlights, notes, place in book) will sync across the devices while others do not. The following options are turned on in my iPhone settings: Sync Bookmarks and Notes Sync Collections On both macs I have the following turned on: Sync bookmarks, highlights, collections across devices
For years, I've been able to ssh into a linux host and then (using an ssh option like ‑L5902:127.0.0.1:7898) tunnel a VNC connection from my mac; I've also similarly tunneled VNC connections to other macs. In both cases, I was then able to use Screen Sharing to connect to the remote system and work normally (remote mouse and keyboard control were present).
Enabling AFP on Ready NAS (OS 6.4.2), well this was a little freaky for me. Structure is Artist/Album/Tracks.flac. Artists are there, album was there, expand the album to see tracks the Artists folder disappeared.
I am trying to migrate my local files from my mac filesystem onto iCloud folders such that I can view and edit files using Pages and Numbers seamlessly from either my the local apps or the web interface. However something that's always confused me about iCloud is the location of these files. Does iCloud force me to put spreadsheets that I want to be able to edit from Numbers in the actual Numbers folder? So for instance if I have client work that could be both documents and spreadsheets, in my local filesystem I would have something like Client A SS1.xls SS2.xls Letter1.doc Letter2.doc Client A SS1.xls SS2.xls Letter1.doc Letter2.doc Client B SS3.xls SS4.xls Letter3.doc Letter4.doc Client B SS3.xls SS4.xls Letter3.doc Letter4.doc Instead iCloud would now force me to adopt the following structure: Numbers Client A SS1.xls SS2.xls Client B SS3.xls SS4.xls Numbers Client A SS1.xls SS2.xls SS1.xls SS2.xls Client B SS3.xls SS4.xls SS3.xls SS4.xls Pages Client A Letter1.doc Letter2.doc Clien
I have a MacBook Pro, and according to the info in About this Mac, about 67 GB of storage is "movies". I don't have any movies stored. What does this mean, and how do I free up the space? Also, how do I find out what is listed as "Other" so that I can clean up items stored there? Thanks!
Okay so i dont know what a cycle is. Can you tell me that if I leave my macbook on charge all night, so at our place there our power outages so when my mac will start charging after the power comes back on will 1 cycle increase?
I connected an iPad to the Mac and ran configurator as usual, updating from a back up, however it stalled out at the "Restoring Default Data" step. I tried clicking the Stop button, and now it says it's "Canceling..." but it's still not doing anything. The iPad has the apple logo and a progress bar that's at about 80%. I was able to restore one of our other iPad without trouble after I pressed start, but I can't seem to accomplish anything. Can I unplug the iPad safely and "factory reset" it or something and then update from a back up?
I am creating an El Capitan Virtual Box on my Mac. This is the process I take. I pressed some keys (it says any) as shown in second image, but I get nowhere. What should I do to move from here? I double click the "El Capitan" option I double click the "El Capitan" option
I've avoided browser's saving my passwords for the past umpteen years because it wasn't safe. I've instead used products like KeePass. I don't like KeePass on OSX, and I'm not big on things like LastPass that keep passwords in the cloud on a server I don't control. While looking for an OSX solution, I discovered that Safari uses Keychain to store the passwords and there is a firefox integration that does the same. Is this a safe solution or am I better off looking towards some other encrypted store for browser passwords.
Gnu PGP was integrated into Mail using this project, but it appears to be dead (only supports old versions of OSX) *=URL=* Is there any other way to do it? Or do I have to use Enigmail for Thunderbird?
I have an iPhone 6 with 16GB of storage, and it has been saying there isn't enough space on my device (mainly because I had 6,000 photos in my album with was taking up 8GB). So went on my Mac and transferred all the photos on my iPhone to my Mac, and then deleted them off my phone. It has been 2 weeks now and my phone is still continuing to say I don't have enough space, and that photos is still taking up the 8GBs of storage. I have tried turning my iPhone off and on trying to reset it, but nothing is working.
How can I download a video off of Safari 9.1 and export it into iMovie? The video is not from YouTube.
I am trying to set the url of Chrome tab using Apple Script. I am using this code. It successfully sets url string, but in order to change url, enter needs to be pressed. This last step makes my code unfunctional, since it doesn't change the current website I am visiting. What workaround do you recommend? Chrome is already open.
When I first got my iPhone 6+, I registered it on my now exhusbands MacBook. Since the divorce and the separation of accounts, I still have horrible "gaming" data overages. I've never played a game on my phone. I have no games downloaded. He has also stolen money from my credit card once I used it on my phone.
I'm trying to split large .csv files into several smaller ones ordered numerically, i.e., "File.csv" into "file_1.csv, file_2.csv, file_3.csv...". When I use the command: split -l 100000 File.csv small_file I get a list of files named "small_fileaa.csv, small_fileab.csv..etc", that is, it adds letters to the end of the file name and orders them alphabetically instead of adding numbers. How can I change the list generated to a list ordered numerically?
A while ago Apple moved audiobooks from the music app to iBooks. Now I can't listen to audiobooks on repeat. Is there any way of getting back this functionality?
My script is as follows (and used to work but no longer does): All subprocess calls complete with 0 and all files I wanted to find are found. The issue is solely that Finder continues to show me these files. I tried running and relaunching finder, no success there either. Any ideas on what's going wrong?
I use the Sleep Cycle app to track how much I sleep over time, and I've recently wanted to do some analysis on how much I sleep. On the Apple-provided Health app, while the app shows there is information from today, April 4 all the way back to December 30 (when I first started using the app), on the "All Recorded Data" section of the Sleep category, the area that shows a breakdown of how much you've slept (the purple rectangle that should show a graph) says there is "No Data"
so I know that Airmon-ng isn't made for Mac, but every time I try to run it all it says is that the wireless tools are missing. And I've heard people say to just download the wireless tools but where exactly can i get those from?
First off: I'm a Linux Admin, but have to do a few MacOS things around the place (had very little exposure to it previously). One of the tasks I have is to take a backup-copy of a 10TB Promise Pegasus2 array attached to a mac-mini running el capitan 10.11.4. I'm root on the mac (sudo -i from admin account).
I need both of them and I am wondering if it is possible to buy them together or if I have to get two separate items? Also I am seeing a lot of third party Thunderbolt>HDMI adapters for cheap and then no generic Ethernet adapters, only the stock (expensive) Apple ones. Is there a way to get an off brand Ethernet adapter?
I recently met someone and got them to type their info into my contacts. I was really busy for a few days and didn't get around to contacting them. Now I can't remember their name. Is there a way to view the most recent additions to my contacts list?
I'm asking this because I think it would be incredibly useful to myself and other Bootcamp users. I currently have my default boot drive set to restart to my Mac partition and already have a script for restarting into Windows from Mac.
I don't think this is just true of Apple products but the weight advertised for iOS device model of varying storage size is always same. For example the weight of the iPad Pro is 437 grams. Is this the same for all models? Does an increase in storage size add extra weight? Is the weight difference so minuscule that it is not mentioned?
After I upgraded my OS to El Capitan (which comes with SIP), I am getting error in oci_connect() Warning: oci_connect(): OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries
My battery has become quite a pain in the neck recently, It's not lasting much more than about 2 or 3 hours and that's usually just using basic programs like chrome or pages etc. It's difficult for me because I use it quite a lot at school, and unfortunately school is a lot longer than 2-3 hours...I also use a lot of very intensive programs like blender and unity, but usually I try to only do that at home with my charger.
I went to disk Utility->Disk Utility of VirtualMachine and tried changing partitioning of the VM. It cant be done. It also shows the instructions I need to take, but the "Enable Journaling" command is greyed out. What could be the problem?
Everything I need to say is mentioned in the question.
Is it possible to create an Mac OS X .app application bundle from a Macports port without having to modify the compilation process? The goal is a portable .app folder and not a .pkg that messes up /opt/ or /usr/ folder structures and requires root rights to install. I imagine this might be possible by using scripts that simulate an environment in which the application exists as it was originally placed in by Macports but also think the resulting .app might not be portable because of required external libraries that can't be legally included.
I can't install iOS 9.3.1 even though its downloaded. It fails at verification. My phone is connected to the Internet and it's working perfectly (yes I've tested). I've restarted my iPhone but no luck. I'm currently on iOS 9.3.
After updating to iOS 9.2.1, I could not enter my iPhone because I forgot my iCloud password (not e-mail) and also my security questions to restore it. Are there jailbreak options for iOS 9.2.1 and if so, do I need to regain control of iCloud ID to use that option?
Every morning, on one particular machine, I get a popup that iTunes has an update to install. However, when I click download nothing happens. If I try to use the Apple Software Updater manually it reports that the Apple Software Update Server cannot be found. I have full Internet connectivity, having no problems getting to any other sites and my other machines on the network update iTunes just fine. Any ideas?
When I use "screencapture" Apple shell function, the created PDF screenshot cannot be open by any of the PDF readers. What would be the problem with those screenshots?
I'm not sure this is the best place to ask this question. I'm trying to simply apply a simple "red tint effect" on a video with iMovie, any idea how to achieve that?
How can a Mac running El Capitan always be ready for a VNC connection even after a reboot? I can vnc into the Mac with no problem but when I reboot the Mac remotely I can't vnc back in. Someone has to hook up a keyboard to the Mac and physically log in and log back out. Once the machine has been logged in locally I can once again log in remotely via Mac.
I want to see the whole calendar after swiping down. The part where the widgets are. Basically, when you swipe down, you can see the current date but when you try to click it, nothing happens. When you click the weather, the weather shows up so I was wondering if there is a way for the whole calnedar to show in the widgets page are.
I was forced to changed my account name from a nickname to an email address. Now I can't log in to my developer account from Xcode. There appears to be no way to just edit the current developer ID in Xcode. I can add a new address, but it requires an iCloud address, which my new email is not. What can I do here to resolve this? Also, how do I ensure all my entitlements are moved to the new account?
i have downloaded an .ipa file (My app). when I trying to install it form iTunes to my device, it is stuck on installing: like below screen and it's installing in my ipad but not installing iphone in my iphone 75% it's installing then app is disappearing why this problem is coming please suugest me some one
I lost my phone in a taxi just after landing at an airport. My phone was in airplane mode and I cannot locate it with iCloud. On iCloud help pages, it says I can turn on the lost mode. I tried:
When I decide I no longer like one or more songs from my iTunes library I remove it in iTunes (and not just the download). they then disappear out of my iTunes library and computer. All as expected Then i go to my iPhone and Often i will still find some of these removed songs on my phone.
My Mac is a work computer that used to have LANDesk installed. My admin ran a script that uninstalled it. However, when my machine starts I still get prompted to allow apps from LANDesk (vulscand, cba, proxyhost) to accept network connections. Neither my Admin nor I can figure out where these apps are hiding.
I noticed that some webpage won't be displayed correctly in Safari since 10.11. The page are to wild and we can't see the left side (even if trying to scroll right) Actually its not even the page itself, even if you try to do a search ( CMD + F ) we won't even see the search field.
all. I need to find the local directory for Google Drive. So far, all I see is the "virtual" folder in the sidebar. I'm trying to do network transfers, but it won't recognize the sidebar folder.
This script works fine and as expected in Terminal. However, when I attempt to automate this with AppleScript/Automator like so: I run into issues, namely:
I do not understand why my iPhone recently gets some strange songs and I would like to delete them, completely. To remove them, I first locate these songs in my iTunes library. But when I try to delete them, I get this message before continuing: These items will be hidden from your iTunes purchases.
I was gifted a MacBook Pro but the giver rescinded the gift and has locked the laptop; I agreed to return it providing I was assured the laptop would be unlocked long enough for me to download my research, manuscript and a screenplay. So far the person has refused to unlock it and has threatened to wipe 6 months of my work from the laptop. I have the device. Can the person do that remotely?
I currently own two 2 TB external hard disk and one 5 TB external hard disk. Is it possible to backup the two 2 TB external HDDs to the 5 TB external HDD using my Mac?
I just got an iPhone SE. I did a backup from my 4, then told iTunes to restore the new phone from the backup. It said there were a bunch of apps it couldn't install because they cannot be found.
On Android, if the user turns Wi-Fi off, the phone will still scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points to help determine the phone's location (discussed in e.g. this article). Does iOS also have this feature?
I'm replacing the hard-drive on my 2010 Macbook Pro, (This machine just keeps going, and I'm finally upgrading it to a SSD!) and I'm almost done (it's simple enough) but the plastic tab from the original hard drive just won't stick to the new SSD. I was wondering if I can use some electrical tape instead? I know that short-term it shouldn't be an issue, but these machines can get really hot and I'm afraid that the tape might turn into a gummy mess inside my computer over time. Has anyone tried this? Did it last?
Is it possible to run FreeDOS via Bootcamp on a Mac? If so, what are the instructions for doing so?
Why can't I watch my purchased itune movies offline on my MacBook Pro? no wifi no movie yet I have purchased all of them.
I need to create an automation to make a new folder named by my selected text and then make that folder the new default Safari downloads folder. This would be the default folder when I click on a download file link from a webpage until I run the script again for a new selection.
I have a script that I'm trying to port from Linux to Darwin/OS X. The Linux version currently depends on the watch command, which doesn't appear to be installed on Darwin/OS X by default. What's the native alternative?
I just got a Denon DA-300USB DAC, which requires drivers on the PC side but claims to work on the Mac without them (not unusual). This of course also means the user guide is useless, and seems to think things will Just Work(tm), but when the DAC is configured for USB input (using the little picker on the front-panel) it says "Unlock" when there is no audio, and "Unsupported" any time I try to play audio. I don't think this is just a DRM issue with iTunes audio, but I can't find anything on google to suggest what I should tweak (it shows up fine in the sound control panel, like my previous BitHead DAC).
I recently discovered that Vim 7.4 enables a hybrid number mode, such that if you do set nu and set rnu, you'll see the absolute line number of the current line and relative line numbers everywhere else (see here and here). I set this up on a Linux machine and it works great. Unfortunately it's not working on my Mac (El Capitan). If I type :set rnu I'll get relative numbers with 0 at the cursor line, and if I then type :set nu it will switch to only absolute line numbers, unlike what I see on the Linux machine. I have Vim 7.4 installed via Homebrew. How do I get this to work? Do I need to reinstall with some particular setting?
when sending a pic from nikkon camera to iPhone 4, will the date recorded be the one taken from the camera or the current date on the iPhone 4?
How I can modify the open filename.pdf command so that I can open a desired page number directly without having to scroll down.
Ok here's the breakdown: I just bought an iPhone 5s from a girl on the Internet. It wasn't in perfect condition but nothing was wrong to make it not run good. I was only on the phone for about 20 minutes and it was at full charge when I got it. It shut off at 20 minutes from dying so quickly. Then today it did the same thing. The battery percentage drops insanely fast and charges in weird leaps sometimes too. I assumed that I would have to buy another battery which I can't really do at the moment. I called the Apple Store but the guy that answered was a little impolite and seemed like he was just trying to get me off the phone already. He said I would need to buy a new battery for it.
I'm pretty sure this was not there before but now I just noticed it while reading on my iPad. I think it's only on the inside part of the screen as I cannot get the picture to show the yellow when I screenshot it...what should I do? Help! It's just over a month old!
How can I share my Mac's wi-fi connection with my iPhone? I am currently travelling (roaming out of country) and I am needing to work on the development of my iOS app, though an internet connection appears to be needed for the phone, otherwise it won't approve the signature of the "in development" app, even though I had previously deployed it to the phone. I am now in a location where my computer managed to connect to wi-fi, but not my iPhone (sign-in process is spotty), so I am trying to see what possibilities there are to be able to deploy my app. BTW certain functionality can be tested in the simulator, but there is other functionality that needs a real device. What I have tried: Connecting phone via USB and in "Sharing -> Internet Sharing" specify "iPhone USB", then enabling it Connecting phone via Bluetooth and then in "Sharing -> Internet Sharing" specify "Bluetooth PAN", then enabling it Is there another solution or a step I might have overlooked? I am using iOS 9.3.1 and MacOS 
This morning i received this warning from BlockBlock about a new kernel extension being installed. I'm running OS X 10.11.4.
I would like to build a tool which analyses someone's emails. Is it possible on iOS or OS X to build something which gets access to emails?
I am trying to automate a process where teachers delete content on memory sticks with different name then put the right content back (same each time) and rename the memory stick to UDISK. I want to add a formatting of the disk in the process, and because the students keep changing names on the sticks, I can´t use name tags and if the teachers have more than one disk on their Mac I am worried if I use "disk1" for instance I suddenly format the wrong partition. So therefor I am wondering if it is possible to choose the right disk based on size. I am using this code: sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 UDISK MBRFormat /dev/disk1
I can't download (update) files in iCloud Drive on my iPhone 6 over 4G connection. It only works with WiFi. Can someone help me? Thanks.
I have just got a new external hard disk, the Seagate Expansion 2 TB, and I am trying to format it to work on my Mac. I was told that I had to erase the disk and format it to OS X Extended (Journal) with the Disk utility program.
I'm running El Capitan 10.11.4 on a 2014 Mac Mini. I'm often running 10-14 apps at one time as I work writing reports, word/excel/Adobe/Safari/iTunes/calendar/etc...
I have several Ext. HDD attached via USB to my iMac. Turning the mac on this morning three of the four drives mount no problem. (all in the same ext power / usb tower) but one drive does not mount.
I just moved to a new MacBook with El Capitan and trying to set up my crontab to do backup tasks. Here is how I have it set up (via crontab -e) Daily.sh looks like this I have it set up this way so I see the terminals come up and can respond to some inputs and password prompts. Anyway, this task fails with the following messages:
Short Question : Is there a mobile app or some desktop software I can use while my iPhone / iPad is connected to my Macbook Pro that will allow me to record a video of the screen ? Long Question :
Everyone, I'm on OSX 10.10.3 I've tried a variety of different ways to change the message for the "message" screen saver. So when I change it through the GUI, at least the following plist files are updated: defaults read So when I try to update those files as root using: defaults write /Users/myusername/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Basic.UUID.plist MESSAGE "test" or defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Basic.UUID.plist after closing the prefs window, when I subsequently re-open the sys prefs and view the screen saver settings, they still show the old settings. The following command to restart the prefs engine doesn't work either: If I modify the above files using defaults without opening the system prefs, then restart, strangely, the screensaver reverts to the default computer name after the restart.
I have 15 inc Mac book pro with Mavericks installed. I can successfully on the Mac but I cannot login to my account. Upon press enter I get progress bar and after that I get grey screen then nothing happened. I tried all those online solution i.e press cmd + s and follow:
I have my new iPhone 6S, on iOS 9. I would like to have the counter of characters when I am writing a texto (SMS). How can I have that?
I installed Safari Technology Preview, but want to get rid of it now. Clicking and holding on Launchpad doesn't do the trick, STP "wiggles" without a cross. The download is an installer, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of an uninstaller. Else I guess I'll just dump it in the trash.
The only thing it returns on my keywords are things like how to remove temporary files, re-index size with Spotlight, Startup in safe mode. None of these things seem to work. @Edit 22:02 06-04-2016 I have checked Activity Monitor and got the following results: I have sorted on Bytes Written, that does not seem very strange. However if I check the Graph Data Written below it gives:
Some weeks ago I got a new router* and since then I encounter some local network issues from time to time (at the moment I can’t reproduce when this happens): Wifi is connected but webpages don’t load. The page stays blank and I get no message about a missing network connection.
I would like to disable the switching animation when switching the desktop in mac os El Capitain. Do you know how to do that? Thank!
How can I change proxy for Firefox from Terminal app? Not the whole computer proxy settings (the ones in Network tab), but just Firefox's.
I see many LaTeX threads with the font, etc here. I am interested in the similar colors as LightSteelBlue3 in OS X that are by default, because I cannot find the color in Homebrew and not by default. In TeX Live Utility, I find the packages xcolor, colortbl and caption as installed. How can you get a similar color as LightSteelBlue3 in El Capitan?
In my /usr/bin, the following is the result of ls -al python*: There are three: python, python2.6, python2.7. What are they and why do I have three? Can I delete some of them? Well, I have another python from the anaconda installation, which I mainly use.
I setup a build machine to check out sources from Github by caching the login credential in the keychain using instructions from: *=URL=* Using SSH to connect to the build machine and run the instructions provided fails silently, asking me for a password for each git clone command. Using VNC to connect to the build machine and run the instructions provided prompts me the first time, as expected, but not for any subsequent git clone commands, and successfully adds the credential to the keychain. How can I configure the credential helper and/or keychain to make this work over SSH without a VNC connection?
I'm using ios 9 and ipad pro 9.7 inch. When I set the homepage wallpaper the bottom horizontal area reserved for icons is not using the wallpaper, instead it uses a grey background :
I have done a lot of research and cannot find a simple solution for renaming a file by its parent folder. Basically I am zipping a bunch of files from an online file manager and I receive them in a ridiculous structure. (see below) the first column is the extracted parent folder which names itself after the last folder in the set when I zip it. The second column is the actual order numbers for each order. The third column is what seems to be randomly named folders which each contain ONE customer uploaded file. So, each file a customer uploads for an order gets put in a randomly-named folder, then into the order number folder.
I have OSX Server 5.0.15 running and am having trouble getting Windows 7 clients to connect to share via SMB. The file server is running and SMB is turned on. Accounts and groups are set up. The users are accessing the server by ip address.
iAds stopped being served in my apps and I just got the dreaded "No Ads: This app is not receiving ads. Your iAd Network Contract has expired. It must be renewed for this app to start receiving ads" message. No clear way to do this - the contract has vanished from the Dev connect portal.
I recently updated my blocking rules in 1Blocker (a popular iOS 9 Safari content blocker), and something is now blocking my ability to use Reddit normally. I already figured out that I needed to disable the Block Comments > Hide .commentarea rule in order to see the main comment area. However, one or more of the other "Block Comments" rules is blocking the main comments link at the bottom of each Reddit row. Here's an annotated screenshot from desktop Safari showing which link I'm talking about:
I have a newer MacBook with only a USB-C port. I use an Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, and the HDMI output has worked in the past.
This question is just for curiosity. My UK Macbook Pro's keyboard has a key in the very top left with the symbols § and ±. (On a US keyboard the ~/` key is in this position.)
I have an iPad Air and I want to update this game that needs 1.4 GB. I only have 5 apps on my iPad and when I go to Settings to look at my storage it says I have used 11 GB. I added up the usage for all my apps and I counted only 3.3 GB. I don't know how to fix this, I've restarted my iPad but it didn't work. I don't know where the other 8 GB is coming from. I also have the same problem on my iPhone 4s.
I have actually accidently done this when I first got my macbook and set both the right command and right option as an option key. I don't remember how as when I exit both SEIL and Karabiner it still happens.
I know how to open it in Finder: But, how can I open it in ForkLift?
I don't know when I stopped working yesterday, but very likely I saved a file before shutting down my computer. How can I find the (not system owned) file with the last save timestamp?
I'm just wondering if there is an alternative to hiding an application, that can reduce the performance demand of a program. I'm curious because I use blender from steam, but steam won't close unless all its own programs are closed. Soo, when I run blender, I run steam and I can't close it. Upon looking up the activity monitor stats I found that steam actually uses quite a lot of performance and energy so I would like to know if there is a way around that, but not just steam, it would be pretty useful for other programs too.
I removed phonegap from and installed it again using npm, now when running phonegap, I see this error: while phonegap is installed in How can I fix this?
App Store shows notification but no updates available. Tried closing the App and also restarting phone but no luck.
Bit of a long shot, I was connected to iCloud on my work mac and created some notes. Connecting to iCloud then became no longer allowed on my work proxy so I got a message to sign out. When I signed out it lost all the iCloud notes that (I assume) hadn't synced to the server (as they don't appear in iCloud on any other of my devices).
I'm newbie in Automator. There are many examples for simple actions.
I would like to understand if there is any chances of restoring the file. It is .tex file of some hundreds of lines. I had it in BitTorrentSync but it does not store old versions. This complication was caused either by TextMate 2beta when running compilation in non-TeX document; BitTorrentSync (has been unstable in 2.x but weak evidence). The file got empty with 50kB total size as a complication. In the compilation, I had in place the option --shell-escape with XeLaTeX which allows to run Python inside LaTeX document. In TextMate, you see the corrupted file
Windows would go transparent, as in the attached screenshot, at random. This has been happening for months. Finder is the most frequent window that would go transparent, second is safari. But basically any app can go transparent, including Eclipse in the screenshot.
I have auto update on for apps on my iPhone iOS 9.3 but I'd like to set certain apps not to update. Is that possible?
I just upgraded from Mavericks to El-Capitan. Upon attempting to log in to my profile, the login process gets stuck at the spinning load graphic, until I am forced to shut down. It appears that disabling SIP has fixed the issue, and the login took less than 5 seconds. Why is this?
I have a large remote (fuse-mounted) drive that I would like to be indexed with spotlight. After executing sudo mdutil -i on </path/to/volume> spotlight creates the .Spotlight-V100 directory which I presume includes the index for the folder.
As many I tend to misspell some words when I type. OS X is being nice and underlines them letting me know that something was not right, if use a mouse and right click on the underlined word a menu pops up and offers the correct spelling of this word. Is there a way to trigger this menu from the keyboard?
I have a MacPro (mid-2007) with the configuration listed below: Processor: 2x 2.66Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon Memory: 20Gb 667Mhz - DDR2 FB-DIMM OSx: Lion 10.7.5 NVIDIA Chip Model 1024Mb SSD: 512Gb HD2: 1Tb HD3: 1Tb HD4: 500Gb
Any idea how to fix the broken plastic/rubber covering of the cable on a MagSafe Power Adapter? Mine is showing the inner wires and I'm afraid of getting an electrical shock.
I downloaded BetterTouchTool in an attempt to configure my non-branded Bluetooth mouse so I could use the buttons on the side of it as forward and backward - OS X has no facility for this and my mouse didn't come with any configuration software. I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro on OS 10.11.4.
My friend's iphone keeps forgetting one of its iMessage addresses. Both the phone number and her email address are configured for iMessage but often the phone doesn't receive messages if they are sent to the email address. This often happens if she sends me message from the Messages app on her mac and I reply on my mac. Then she expects a reply on her phone but doesn't get it. Is there a way I can configure my Messages app to always send to the phone number? I guess I could just delete her email address from her Contacts card but I don't really want to do that and it might not work anyway.
Why can I copy a Linux ISO directly to a USB using dd, but in order to make a bootable USB using a FAT32 filesystem I need to convert the ISO to an UDRW image?
I'm creating some sounds to use on an iPhone app, using 8K samples/s, one channel, signed 16-bit linear. All done programmatically, as in C code to output RAW then using sox to convert to CAF. The possible range of values is from −32768 to +32767, however if the entire range is (over)used, I've encountered clipping distortion effects on some platforms as a side effect of various resample, filter, and interpolation operations.
I don't know why my MBP (Mid-2014) does not install Windows 10 recommended updates which are mostly drivers' update through Windows 10 update normal procedure. Good to know that I can not find these type of updates under "System => Update & Security"; however, my antivirus (ESET) shows me that there are some recommended updates and it's good to be installed! This inconsistency should have caused by something which I could not figure this out yet.
Browsers send HTTP Accept headers. This is an example of one: You can get yours here. How can I change curent headers from terminal app for Chrome or Firefox? EDIT:
I installed Windows 10 with Boot Camp Assistant, but when I press the option key on boot, it shows only the Macintosh HD partition. Why is that happening? Is the BOOTCAMP partition not bootable?
I have an Automator application where I'd like to drag a folder onto it and have it create a duplicate (sibling) of that folder with the duplicate's files renamed. For example, starting with the following: When dragging the svgs directory onto the application, I would like to end up with the following: I've tried the following: But it throws the following:
I'm having some trouble with iTunes We have 4 different devices connected to my iTunes account. I have one daughter's iPod, another daughters iPod, one iPad and I just got one of the girls their first phone last night and set up that phone under this same iTunes account.
I have a .dmg file of approximately 32 GB and I want to encrypt it. When I try to, using Disk Utility > Images > Convert, I get an error "status 28". Any idea what this means?
Why is this happening? I'm not downloading these files. I don't know how to find out what Safari is looking for. My logs are full of messages, but oddly, other apps don't seem to be having a problem accessing the keychain. Stumped. EDIT:
I am currently enrolled in the public beta for OS X. I have OS X El Capitan 10.11 beta (15A278b). When I sent my feedback through the Feedback Assistant, I could not even select this build in the dropdown (I could only choose between 15E65 and 15F18c). I have not received any updates to the later versions of OS X. App Store currently has no updates for my machine (everything is apparently up to date). I thought about opting out of the public beta, but the option does not appear in System Preference > App Store (the section with the "Change" button is missing).
I have recently discovered that AirDrop works with the Wi-Fi Networks on my school and office. But not on my Home Wi-Fi network.
I am using the following command to create a bootable SD Card Is there a way to track the progress?
I'm currently running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and trying to upgrade to OS X El Capitan. I'm in the App Store on the OS X El Capitan page: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1018109117?mt=12
So, since it was FAT32 formatted, I booted into Windows 8 to have a look at it. But Windows 8 wouldn’t even recognize the drive. The OS didn’t even mention the drive in any way.
I am having a project work which is split up as 10 different documents (each one is assumed to be a chapter). The first document has 12 pages, and I inserted page numbers and things are fine till this line.
At the moment I am moving large quantities of Emails from a local folder in Apple's Mail.app to an imap folder. I am talking 10+ GB here and more than 10,000 Emails. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8. It is a slow process, which is to be expected. It happens what is supposed to happen: Emails vanish in local folder and appear in imap folder.
Apparently I can't sudo on my Mac any more. It worked before the most recent El Capitan update (the upgrade to 10.11.4), and I'm on a mid-2013 MacBook Air. The account is an admin account, and I was able to sudo before then. My first thought was to add myself into /etc/sudoers but, haha, of course you need sudo for that. I'm able to create a new admin user, but that user has the same problem.
I run the command pbpaste in Terminal (bash) to get the result of my clipboard, but unlike other commands which leave the cursor at a new line below the previous stdout, pbpaste leaves it to the right of it, as in the example, showing the command sandwiched between two echo hellos: Why is it like this? It seems very odd and makes it difficult to read.
I have an elderly relative that can no longer write legibly due to a tremor. Can we use siri to add tick box items to a note?
Now for the stupid, require telling off part: I didn't create a backup prior to this, and I think my recovery partition is ****ed. Is my only solution to do the internet restore and start from scratch?
My Macbook Pro (Retina 13" late 2013, OSX 10.10.5) has fine battery life overall - this is not the problem. However, when the battery drops below about 8%, and before I normally get any "your Macbook will shut down soon" messages, average CPU use (over all processors) begins to go from a background low level (<10%) to >50%. It gets laggy, fan turns on, and so forth. Estimated battery life will go from 40 min to < 10 min. Looking at activity, the main culprits for the increase can be 'windowserver' or 'mds' or 'mds_stores', often running at 80-90% on one processor, but typically other running apps (Chrome, QGIS, Evernote, etc) seem to also have a much higher usage during this period, adding up to a total CPU load >50% (and consequent temps / fan use, lag).
Do I need to keep these backups as I use a Lacie external drive to backup? How do I get rid of them on my computer?
I have an iPhone 5c running iOS 9.3.1 Why does iMessage only give me sound and alerts when a message comes from a phone number and not when it comes from an email address?
When I plug in my Apple EarPod earphones, my phone sets the volume to whatever it was the last time, but when I plug in the auxiliary cable in my car (just a simple jack, no fancy infotainment system) it puts it to full volume, like the last time I plugged in that cable. Is there something special about the Apple EarPod cable? Or does the iPhone do something even cooler?
Disclaimer: I'm not sure whether or not this belongs in Ask Different or security.stackexchange.com, but I'm using a .dmg and Disk Utility, so I'll put it here. End of disclaimer.
I have installed Windows 10 on MacBook Pro with Boot Camp. Now I would like to know if I should also install antivirus on Windows 10, or is all virus protection handled by the Mac?
I had purchased an iPhone 5c in January last year, and recently it had an error with apps being updated. Initial error was that some apps being updating were stuck at some point, and when I tried restarting the phone, sometimes the apps disappeared from the phone (got deleted, or hidden from home screen).
I have a backup of my iPhone 5 on my computer and I had a security code that I know I used but as I just got a new iPhone 6S, the backup is not working as it is stating the security number I am putting in is wrong so is there a way around this or a way to reset the code of the backup that I no longer have the phone? I need this backup and I can't get into it....help! Thanks.
I am trying to solve a problem with quicktime. I have a set of pdf files on CD that are instructional. Adobe reader is no longer working at all since the lastest "upgrade." I found I can open all of the files in Google chrome except the videos made with quicktime. Any ideas for me?
I downloaded OSX El Capitan in one Mac, then I copied installation files (.app) to shared ftp folder. In another Macs It doesn't start. Is it for security? Can I do that? Can I copy installation files to USB?
If someone blocks my texts but has previously sent me contact info from their address book, can I access the info if my texts are being blocked?
When I browse certain websites in Safari, I am frequently met with popups with instructions on how to install Java. But I don't want to install Java, especially not the plugin. How do I tell Safari to shut up about it?
There is/was a feature in OS X Mail that allowed to fetch the list of messages from the server in a configured POP account. This fetched only message headers - all at once - and displayed the list in a window then allowed to individually select messages and delete them directly from the server. Not all messages via the Preferences - Accounts - Advanced - Remove now option but individually.
Between an iMac and MacBook Air, I use Finder Tags extensively. Normally, they sync without effort on my part. The Finder Tags are no longer syncing automatically. How can I 'force' synchronization and control that the MacBook Air updates the iMac and not the other way around?
I know that you can use the tell application "" command in AppleScript to do many simple things like open a website in Google Chrome, play and iTunes song, or do keystrokes with System Events. Are there any other things that you can tell applications to do that might come in handy in some way? (I already know the iTunes and Finder tells... please don't include those).
As the title says, how can I disable websites from being able to open App Store on iOS? I was reading a news website and clicked a link that opened a new tab (an advertisement) which then went on to opening my App Store and going to an Apps download page. How can I disable websites from being able to open App Store on iOS?
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro and 2013 Mac Mini. My local network has 2 routers attached: a Sky Hub and TP-Link. The Sky Hub is the main router with DHCP and Wi-Fi active. The TP-Link acts as a WiFi range extender (same SSID, different channel) as the Sky Hub won't cover the whole house.
I just got both a few days ago, and I really love it! I've been using it to take handwritten notes in my Calculus 2 class, but I noticed something that worries me...
I have a notification on my MacBook that won't disappear. My FaceTime app has a notification that wont disappear without me going into settings and clicking the badge icon. I want to delete the notification, not disable the badge icon, yet nothing works.
I have several thousand text files, some of which contain invalid UTF-8 characters. I want to recursively remove all invalid characters from these files in place. I am aware that many similar questions have been asked before, such as: how to remove non UTF-8 characters from text file but I have not found one that is both recursive and operates in place.
Am I able to detect if a phone has been jailbroken if it is managed/supervised by Apple Profile Manager?
I have a .dmg file and I want to hide its extension. So I do the usual and ⌘I, then check Hide extension. killall Finder just to be sure. I look and sure enough... the file extension is still there. So I use SetFile -a E myfile.dmg hoping that will work. It doesn't. Any ideas? Here's a picture just in case.
I have read through Make a FaceTime call using AppleScript, but the provided solution is for starting a video call. I am wondering if that solution can be adapted to make a FaceTime Audio call (and by extension, maybe even a call via iPhone utilizing Continuity).
On Mac OS X (such as 10.8 thru 10.11) is there a bundled command-line tool to ask a specific remote NTP time server for the current date-time? I found ntpdc but this queries the ntpd utility which I assume means going through my already-defined NTP servers. I want to make a call outside of my pre-defined NTP servers. Like this imaginary line where -s means server-address:
I'd very much like to please develop an AppleScript to send all emails inside a specific mailbox whenever it is run. Then I can create a mailbox called "9AM", place emails inside there, and with a little help from cron/iCal, have all those emails send at 9am each day allowing me to type emails late at night but have them send in the morning. My code below however fails on the send command. I also tried moving them to the "Outbox" mailbox but that just seems to make them disappear...
I have installed windows 10 on mac book pro (256 gb) size of boot camp partition according to default, now is 32 gb. I would like to increase size of that until 100 gb. I found some different solution on the net but i like to be sure about that. Also i would like to know removing and reinstalling windows is easier and better or resizing with some app and ...
With rootless mode enabled (a.k.a System Integrity Protection) it turns out you can remove /usr/local but cannot recreate it: How to (re)create /usr/local or any such folder?
Are there any alternative ways to switch your Input/Output sound device in OS X? My goal is to avoid going through System Preferences and have as few keystrokes/steps as possible.
Additional arguments on start of Google Chrome from Terminal app are send in a following way: What is the syntax to sending arguments to Firefox? Tried the obvious: This runs the Firefox, but the args are not set.
By default, a number of system directories (such as ~/Library) are hidden in OS X (ie. they don't appear in Finder):
$ netstat -nr is great for outputting the Mac OS X IP routing tables. However its output is long as it contains both IPv4 and IP6 routing tables.
--- EDIT --- I put the SSD in an external USB3 cradle: the system mount it, but shows it empty! How can I retrieve my data?
I'm trying to make an automator script to import photos in Photos.app that are in my DropBox folder. Nothing spectacular you'd say - true. But I can't get it to work. On a change in the folder, the script checks all files in the specific dropbox folder, and wants to import all of them. So photos is asking for 'duplicates'. Yes, I can turn this warning message off, but I don't want to have all my photos in duplicate. How should I design my automator script to import the photos in photos, whenever a new picture is added into the dropbox folder? Beside that, two other questions: Will the script always work when set as folder action?
Every time I want to use my wireless mouse (Apple Magic Mouse) with my Macbook Pro, I need to plug in a USB mouse and "Connect" the mouse manually via the bluetooth menubar widget. Is there anything I can do to make this happen automatically?
Can I just get a new screen and is it not covered under AppleCare?
My iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) randomly wakes up, up to 9 times a day. I'm using El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21). A syslog | grep -i "Wake reason" shows the following many times: There aren't any usb devices connected, nor any bluetooth devices, except the keyboard and mouse.
In my iMac 21.5-inch computer (OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.1) I have a cordless keyboard. At the top of the key 6 I have ˆ instead of ^.
Is it possible to get the hour and minute in 24 hour HHMM format so that 1:01 would be 0101 I figured out a way to do it for the month and year but can't find a way for the hour and minute. Here is what I have so far.
I used Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows 10 install disk. However, the disk is not bootable. I am confused as to why Boot Camp Assistant would make an install disk not bootable. Can someone please help me? I am looking for someone to either a) explain how to recreate the install drive in a way that will make it bootable or b) explain how to force the drive to become bootable. Here is the information:
Trying to debug AirDrop issues on the mac with an iPad mini 4th gen (both up-to-date). Basically on the Mac I can see the iPad (most of the time) and I can transfer files, however I can never see the Mac when I try to share a file (usually a picture from Photos).
The Dock on OS X does not have a wheel mouse button event, I think that it will be excellent to move on the open windows of an app (example: Chrome) when I put the mouse on the icon of the program in the Dock and mouse wheel up or down. I want to program it in python but I am a newbie.
I need to start my El Capitan OS X in Recovery Mode to run csrutil disable. When I restart holding cmdR the Mac directly boots to Internet Recovery Mode. But I need a local recovery partition because the online version doesn't provide csrutil! I check if I lost my local recovery partition but it seems present. Any suggestion what I can do to re-enable my recovery partition?
In the need to add custom logging messages to ppp.log, I see that the date and time are missing when outputting the command to >> /var/log/ppp.log. Other pppd related messages in ppp.log are prepended with a timestamp format that is similar to: "Sat Apr 9 17:18:02 2016 :". My goal is to output this exact date time format in a Mavericks shell script
I probably should elaborate. I'm looking for the icons for the keyboards (the flags and the cutout-of-white icons used for Japanese/Chinese/that one used for custom inputs). I did some poking around and couldn't find them. If you find them please post an answer. I really need these for something.
I've just gotten a new iMac 27" 5k (Late 2015). Works great, apart from one minor, yet annoying issue. Whenever I reboot, it seems bot my mouse and keyboard are not working once presented with the login screen. I can sort of solve this doing the following:
After a company is sold to different parties, you might end up with a situation where the old 10.0.0.0/8 network is split in two or more different networks, like 10.0.0.0/24 and 10.0.1.0/24. Now I wish to access both networks at the same time using Mavericks built-in VPN client. One VPN network is on L2TP, the other PPTP.
I changed my main Apple ID email address yesterday, and also changed from my iPhone 5C to a iPhone SE. Once I did changed my Apple ID email address, I had to sign out of all my devices, and sign back in with the new email cause I was getting error since the apps were trying to log in with the old email.
If I use Find My iPhone to reset my phone, will it give a notification that it's being reset? Someone has my phone and they will eventually get my passcode and I NEED to reset it so they dont see everything thats on my phone but I don't want them to know that I reset it.
I have an email address that is about 21 characters. Is there way to program, say F15, to paste in the address? This would be while in any app.
I wanted to upgrade my Macbook 2008 from Yosemite to El Capitan. Unfortunately, when I downloaded it and restarted my computer, on the "select the disk on which to install" page the only location, Macintosh HD, didn't have enough space (by about 2 GB). It doesn't seem like there's a way to free up space from this startup menu, though. I can open Disk Utility from this menu, and it seems logical to put some method of freeing up disk space from there, but if there is, I can't find it.
In Photos there are not a selector called "Face is empty" or "Tags is not set", so what should I do?
I was texting my friend and everything was okay until I took a few minutes to reply to her message and my text suddenly does not say "Delivered" under it. I'm under Wi-Fi and she possibly was too so what could've happened? Was it me or her?
When I enabled iCloud Music Library on my iPhone, I had the option of merging it with my existing music. I did that, and my phone has both music from my iTunes library and music from Apple Music on it. Now, I want to add some more music from my iTunes library to the phone.
Is there a website to check iPhone and iPad device ownership similar to the way we can check iOS's version ownership like this website: *=URL=* Thanks...
Pretty-print is always on by default. How do I make it be off by default?
I tried looking this up but there are only examples for previous versions of iOS where there was an option in the podcast settings called "mark all as played". This option is not there anymore. Is it gone forever?
The scenario is that I've moved six times in the last six years, and can never remember my home number. (Let alone the postcode of my PO Box.) So I have to look it up all the time.
What's the closest alternative to something like lshw or lspci on Mac OS X? The closest thing I know of is system_profiler but it spits out way too much unnecessary information.
My friend sends a movie from his iPhone to mine via AirDrop, and I accept the option to receive the file. However, the movie is not showing on my device.
i forgot my pass-code and I've never had the change to back it up until now, is there a way to backup without knowing the pass ?
Update: Reported the issue to Apple, and they said it was caused by an app called "Time Out". They are still working to resolve the problem. In the meantime, uninstall this app.
Is there a way to find out the date of installation of an application that was added to my iPhone?
I think this claim makes a lot of sense, even if it perhaps glosses over details. To me it seems strange that the timing of a prompt should matter: If you are doing icloud stuff and you are prompted for a password you may think this ok, but if prompted at a "random time" you may become suspicious. I think this is a good mindset from a practical point of view, but I think this does probably not correspond to the security model that the developers had in mind. My hypothesis is that no application should be able to generate a prompt with an "official icon" in the top left area, like the lock, or the icon for icloud.
I use the latest OS X El Captain on MacBook Pro Retina, and I had this issue since Yosemite. When I try to select a file to upload in browser (same problem in Safari and Chrome, but not in another applications like Photoshop) - it HIDES all the folders when I click on any colored tag on the side panel. Folders just disappear right after a half of second. So, I am able to select a tagged file but I can't go to tagged folder and select a file there. I have tried to delete com.apple.finder.plist, I have also tried to create a new user, but the problem remains :(
I spent a lot of time organizing my iPhoto Library with Events. Now, my events have been converted to "Folders" in the new Apple Photos system. I moved them up a level (making them Albums), and I've been using this kind of structure to keep my photos stored in different sets for several months. Now, I'd like to convert my Photo Library to a file-and-folder structure, so that I can move to a different program, such as ShotWell for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, it seems that they have been "converted" to a new Apple proprietary format (.photolibrary). Is there any way I can automate the creation of a folder structure like this: Without losing any quality? Here is what I tried: Right-clicking onto Library and selecting "Show Package Contents": files seem to be in a wrong structure Dropping all Albums from Photos to Desktop: does not export files with correct "Albums" folders Downloading PhotosToDisk from here: requires a $12.95 purchase, which is not acceptable. Help will be much appreciated!
I find hints on how to rename a photo stream on iOS, but how do I do this on Mac OS X (10.11)?
I opened Photo. I deleted all the pictures. Then I emptied the "Deleted images". My Photo app is apparently empty. I open finder, the photo library package is around 7GB an subfolders are full of old images and other unknown files. I wish to clean all, to gain a fresh empty Library. If I delete the .photoslibrary folder, the app shows an error message. Can someone tell me the right procedure, please?
Can I upgrade from iPhone 4 running old iOS7 to iPhone SE running iOS 9 and use iTunes backup restore functionality so that I don't have to reinstall everything?
I normally let my recently taken camera pictures sync with Dropbox. Since the sync wasn't happening, I started to investigate. It seems that my recent pictures aren't stored on my iPhone. When I try to open a picture, then do edit -> enhance. It says: "downloading picture", then it gets stuck at 25%. What happened? If the pictures are not on my phone itself, Dropbox can't sync them. My iCloud photo library and My Photo stream has been turned off for ages.
I tend to read Twitter from the Web, using Mobile Safari in iOS 8 (for Iphone). A few weeks ago, I stopped being able to dismiss the popups (cookies warning, "Open this on the Twitter app", etc.) that appear on the page. What I mean is this:
I am on OS X 10.9 Yesterday, an "alignment grid" mysteriously showed up on my desktop. How do I get rid of it?
I have an iPhone 4s on AT&T. I'm going to want to switch to an iPhone SE and also switch to Cricket Wireless. Cricket shows on their website that you can have 20 voicemails, but they also have a page giving instructions to set up Visual Voicemail in iOS.
After updating to GarageBand 10.1.1, all the instruments I've downloaded from MainStage 3 have disappeared from the instrument library. They still seem to be in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments, but they're not showing up in the list. Any projects with the instruments, however, play perfectly with them.
I've found I can jump to the next jelly fish by doing a 'corner swipe'. This is swiping along the top left hand corner of the watch.
I just started using OS X El Capitan on a new Mac Book Pro. I was looking forward to using split screen mode but I cannot get it to work. I have read online (cnet and apple) that there are two methods: By pressing and holding on the green circle with two outward pointing arrows. By making a window full screen, then using mission control to move another application to the same workspace. Neither of these options work for me.
I want to run a script every 24 hours, that scrapes a website and fetches data, save it to my local MySQL database, and push its DB to my remote Heroku or IBM Bluemix MySQL server (or ClearDB). I did this set of procedures in my Mac Pro in the past using launchd, but since I now have MacBook Pro only, I cannot ensure that this is always done properly, because I occasionally close the laptop. I know how to set the launchd to execute the script once the laptop wakes up, but I still must make sure that this script is executed in the correct time, because the remote database must be set up to be updated every day to ensure that users in my iOS app always see the updated datasets.
I got this black sun animation inside my iTunes. It was triggered by some shortcut, but I can't remember which one. Does anyone know what it is?
Finder not showing my folders and just spinning look at bottom right
Select NetAuthAgent, and then click Quit Process (the red stop sign button at the top of the Activity Monitor window). Then, click Force Quit. Your Screen Sharing should now work. But that is from 2008 so I know there’s no way that they didn’t fix that by now. Bottom Line: How can I fix screen sharing to this other device, for Good?
I've googled a lot about X button, that doesn't quit app, but simply close the window andnd haven't found a clear answer. I want to be able to know if open apps affect battery life or other resources. Should I quit apps or close windows, letting apps work in background?
I saw this screenshot of someone's menu bar and their time formatting is set in readable English.  Is this a this party app or a setting / script I can run on OS X?
I recently update my iPhone 5s from iOS9.2.1 to iOS 9.3.1. After the update I can't charging. When I connect Cable which comes with iPhone, it displays error message "This cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iPhone." Even iTunes connect to it. I have tried few things: None of them worked.
Hi I've just installed ZSH and it looks awesome but git icons are still missing and I don't know what I miss.  What I should do?
Note: This has to do with App Slicing and App Thinning that was introduced by Apple in late 2015. Nothing to do with your 2012 question. *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* http://www.appcoda.com/app-thinning/
Is it because I have 40,000 pics in iCloud? But I still have 1 terabyte of storage. Can someone PLEASE explain to me how iCloud works. My phone will randomly gets rid of a whole photos albumn but then only a fraction of the pictures are left. Also I CANT SEE MY PHOTO ABUMS IN THE ICLOUD APP only online Someone please help me. I would like to be able to download apps and have my music play without stopping because it "cannot download song". Thank you ☺️
My MacBook running El Capitan just got stolen. It was in hibernation, and will display a password prompt on opening the lid next. Assuming a not-very-technical attacker and a solid login password, how likely is it that my account passwords from keychain will leak?
I can't understand what's taking all my storage as the apps listed don't add up and I don't download videos or music etc. My iPad says I've used 12.2GB with 209MB available yet when I added everything up my total usage was 8GB. CONFUSED
I am using the official Apple iOS podcast app. A strange thing started happening 2 months back.
Instead of pressing Command + Option + Esc to bring up the Force Quit menu, is there a way that I can force quit the application that I'm currently using directly?
I'm trying to build a project that is using ODBC on Apple, where I installed iODBC. I have Mac OSX 10.8 where I put Xcode 5.1.1 along with an embedded iODBC.
Safari is sucking wind lately, for me. I have a new 1TB hard drive in my system, put in Jan 2016. For Chrome I use Great Suspender extension - it halts tabs/sites after not being used for a while. Anything similar to this for Safari? Or any other suggestions to get Safari nice and zippy again? Thx.
I have and use Photosynth regularly on an iPhone 4s. I bought a 5s last week and when i wanted to install the app on it i realised that the app isn't on the app store anymore. Is there a way to transfer it from the 4s to the 5s ? Thanks
I want my late 2015 MacBook Air to remain awake when the lid is closed. I have tried Caffeine, Stay Awake, and Theine, as well as changing my power saving settings to 'never' but nothing seems to work. The display still turns off when the lid is closed. Does anyone have a fix?
Is there a way i can upgrade my iPhone 3GS from iOS 4.1 to 6.1.6 without using a computer?
I have one of the new Mac Pros, and I'm thinking about upgrading the internal SSD. It seems that some Amazon sales suggest that the drive is the same format as in the Retina MacBook Pro.
I'm running an OS X 10.9 Server (it's a Mac Mini) that is providing a few services (iCal, VPN, file sharing, etc.) to a small group of Local Network Users.
I had downloaded several songs on my iPod about 2 years ago. I purchased more and downloaded them, but realized many of the original downloads were missing. I tired to download again and it doesn't work. Is there a limit for songs/albums? They are all on my laptop as purchased. I only use it at the gym, but would like to have more choices. Can anyone help?
In El Capitan, I mounted the EFI partition using sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1 and instead of finding apps that I can run, I found .scap, .smc, .epm, and .efi files. What are these? The reason I ask here is because (for example) a search for ".smc file" yields "It's an SNES ROM file".
I bought an iPad on eBay a few weeks ago. It's still covered under the original Apple warranty. There's a clear problem with the battery. Will the Genius Bar staff look at and service this device if I'm not the original owner? Do I have to disclose that I'm not the original owner?
I have a MacBook Air 11 (mid 2013), with OS X 10.8.5, and I want to install Homebrew, so I go to the site and copy and paste the following code in my terminal: The thing is, I get the following error:
I have been piecing together what little I have learned of Automator along with pieces I've found in tutorials, but cannot seem to get this to work! If I test this as a workflow using a file from "Get specified finder items" it works fine, but once I try to make a droplet or service out of it, it does nothing! Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? I would use a screenshot of my workflow but I can't upload an image for some reason. Set Value of Variable "File" Run Shell Script (bin/bash/, as argument)
If I go to the System Preferences and select iCloud, it prompts me to sign in with my Apple Id. Only problem is, it auto-fills the Apple Id of the previous user. If I try to delete the existing id by clearing it out, it comes back the next time I bring up this panel. This seems like a serious information leak, I have no business knowing this info, and it does not inspire confidence that all traces of the previous user have been removed.
I want to transfer some folders that concludes many mp3 files in them. Is it possible totransfer folders not a file?
If I send an e-mail to a contact, how long will it show as "recent"? I wonder because when I look at one of my contacts, it has an option at the bottom of the screen that says "Remove from Recents", but I don't recall having contacted this person in over a month. This is an iPhone 6 and I also use an iPad.
I'm trying to clean the gallery of the iPhone, I'm sending the images that I already put in the computer to the trash. But the pics still are in the phone. I'm an android user, so i don't know if the process is different for iPhone.
I am aware you can do it from Mission Control by clicking and there is no shortcut available in 'Keyboard'. Are there any ways to do this by using a 3rd party program or Applescript?
I recently updated my old iPhone 5 to iOS 9. One of the things I don't like about the new music player is that when I start it up after I turned on my iPhone, half the screen is taken up by useless stuff, the main offender is the "recently added" section. Is there a way I can get rid of this recently added section?
I have an old MacBook Air, which, when using Thunderbolt cable, I am able to mirror the screen on my iMac. However, I cannot do the same for my newer MacBook 12". Any ideas?
If Find My iPhone is active for my iPhone, will it upload its location if the iPhone is connected to an Internet-connected PC or Mac using a USB cable? Normally I would imagine it would ask for a password or 'trust this computer' for example, but since Find My iPhone is enabled for the iPhone it would make sense if it would just use the Internet connection to pass on its location details to iCloud so I can trace it. My iPhone is stolen but it had a PIN code on it, but at the same time it happened abroad so data roaming was switched off and it is very unlikely it will automatically connect to an unknown Wi-Fi network for passing on location data obviously.
I am Looping for an iOS app supporting "document sharing" which would allow me to print to a Samba printer. Use case: open a document (e.g., a PDF) with the app (via the iOS document sharing/document picker functionality, see note below) print to a Samba printer (with authentication). An example: open the Dropbox App choose a PDF and click on the share button in the list of apps able to open a PDF there should be (among others) the printing app the printing app should then send it to a Samba shared printer Does such an application exist? I am looking for an iOS app able to print on an existing infrastructure, not to build an infrastructure to share a printer via AirPrint.
I'm running OS X Server app version 5.1. I have mail configured for all my users. I have a default value of 200 MB for each mail box, as the server is only 256 GB. Is there any way to change the mail box location to my attached external NAS so I can locate more then 50 GB mail space to each user.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was forced to upgrade to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). Here, the process I followed was to: install Yosemite onto an external hard drive; migrate data from MacBook Pro to external hard drive; then re-format the MacBook Pro; install Yosemite onto MacBook Pro; upgrade the MacBook Pro to El Capitan; and migrate the data from external hard drive to MacBook Pro. During the migration, I've managed to keep the databases for MySQL, and it appears to be the same version I had with Mavericks (mysql-5.6.14-osx10.7-x86_64). However, when I go to the Preference Pane for MySQL in the System Preferences, I'm told "The MySQL server instance is not running" and the start button is disabled. I've done various searches and either the suggestions don't seem to match the specific problem I'm having, or I'm not confident enough to try them in case I make things worse. I've had a look in the "my.cnf" file and the settings are commented out and have blank values (a series of plac
I would like to create a Fusion Drive from my SSD and HDD both installed inside my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2012. I've read an article online which said that in order to do that, I'd need to boot Mavericks from an external USB drive. So I've picked a 64 GB USB stick and partitioned it in two, 8 GB for the installer and the rest for the operating system to install to. I've managed to create the USB installer of Mavericks using Unibeast, the installer boots without any problem, it installs normally but when I reboot I get a stop sign with a spinning wheel under it. How can I solve this problem? The tutorial I'm trying to follow to create the Fusion drive is this one: Manually Create an Apple Fusion Drive on Mountain Lion/Mavericks/Yosemite
I've got ~100GB of photos that I've imported into Photos. Photos stayed in place because they are in date related subfolders. I would stay with original sorting as it is more usable with other photo apps.
I accidentally overwrote my .profile file and I believe deleted my environment variables. To be honest, I don't really understand how the operating system handles environment variables. My rough understanding is that there are configuration files like .profile which the operating system looks at, or runs, automatically and sets the environment variables that way. But how does the system know which config files to run? Are there default config files? Is .profile a default config file in OS X? If .profile is one of these default config files, is there a way for me to retrieve it or else the environment variables that it sets by default. What are the default values for .profile in OS X?
my following code returns an error If I would write the string, defined in b, directly before date, it is working, but my date string is defined by some variables, so b is just an example for the string, how it looks like. But why does AppleScript returns the error, only because of the string is defined in a variable?
I have upgraded my iPhone OS to 9.3.1. Since then, I am not able to install apps to my phone from iTunes. I have latest iTunes version 12.3.3.17 and OS X 10.11.4. Has anyone else faced this issue / found any solutions?
Most of our webapp users never restart their ipads. (They think they are but they are just putting them to sleep).
I am trying to access some lost photos from a MacBook Air backup (I no longer have the computer). I am denied acess to pictures folder because I don't have permissions. How can I log in with password and get access? This was my wife's computer; she has the login credentials, I just need to know how.
I am using a mirroring app to present to people in a different geographic location, and I need to show them where I am clicking using different Apps, I know that PPT and Keynote already have those capabilities, but we are using iBooks and other Apps (in-house developments) Thank you in advance!
I have an iPhone 6S with the latest version of iOS. For a couple of months now whenever I receive a text message and put the phone back down it will wake up again for no apparent reason. Sometimes it seem to randomly do so without a text message, but the text message one is reproducible. Anyone have any idea why that might be and if I can stop it?
I would like to be able to print to the terminal of a computer on a different network (this should work bilaterally). I understand that this should be possible by using the command ntalk, but I have not been able to figure out how. As I understand it, a way to do that would be to set up a restricted shell for a ssh user which would allow that user to print in the terminal, while not being able execute any other commands, so solutions for that would also be appreciated (as well as any other for that matter). I'm just looking for a low security risk way to establish a point to point chat similar to IRC and with a minimal requirement to instal or configure additional software if OS X ships with something that can work. Can ntalk work between another computer and Mac OS X?
I used to be able to rate a song one star to 5 stars while listening to it on my iPhone. I do not have that option any more. Now, when I tap on the title of the song, it only takes me to the album, and I can only "heart" it or not. I have figured out how to get my ratings back in iTunes.. How do I view and edit the rating for a song on my iPhone?
Related: Chrome: Keyboard shortcut to go to Address Bar? You can go to address bar by ⌘ + l / Ctrl + l, but how can I go back to, or focus, the browsing area again?
I have all the necessary information like password and email address but I am unable to remove the apple account / icloud / iTunes accounts from my new device. How can I get them removed so I can add my information to my device.
Is there a way to see how many items are in the iBooks app? I have looked within the app and in Settings>General (where the song count is) to no avail. I would like help on both MacOS X and iOS 9.
Searching online, I saw indexing a directory that is synced by a service such as Dropbox/Syncthing would lead to excessive indexing. To eliminate this as the source of the problem, I excluded from the Spotlight indexing the directories updated using sync services. I even went so far as to exclude my entire home directory from Spotlight. Yesterday I tried deleting the Spotlight index forcing it to re-index, and it has been running constantly for the last 24 hours without change. The hard drive is 512 GB but only have 122 GB of data.
How do i add someone else's iPhone contact number to messaging on an iPad? I want to send something from iPad messages to messages on their iPhone
I have an iMac with OS X El Capitan and I use the iMac to sync the photos on my iPhone. I live with my girlfriend and she also has an iPhone. This week my girlfriend synchronized her pictures on the iMac and now I have strong problems detecting which device is the owner of each picture. Both of us are using the same device model (iPhone 5C), I synchronize my iPhone almost every day and she does every 2 weeks. Is there any way to order the synchronized photos by device?
iMessages sent from me to my friends, but not others, only go to their MacBook, not their iPhone. However, my friend receives iMessages from others to both MacBook and iPhone. Is the problem at my end or at the other end?
I have a problem with disk utility. I have a external USB3 drive, formatted HFS+. It should hold roughly 500GB out of 1TB of Data. Now Finder told me, that the data was there but no files were visible (out of the blue, of course).
I have a disk with a S.M.A.R.T. error. In my particular case I know that it is relatively safe to continue to use my disk. I have error in SMART attribute #173 (wear level) but all those block overwrites happened in small volatile temp partition, my main system partition is safe. In short, I know what I'm doing.
I used to create the ipa file from Xcode/Product/Archive and install it via iTunes. After updating the iPad to iOS 9.3.1, the app keeps showing "Installing" in iTunes and disappears the installing icon on iPad after loading but never completed. With the Build and run the current scheme option, this app can install on iPad.
I would like to browse video website on my iPhone and start watching videos on my Mac. I don't want to use Airplay as my Wifi connection is not good. I would like to just send an URL to a video player like VLC on my Mac which streams the video itself.
I want to install a new Solid State Drive (SSD) into the Mac. Can I just build in the SSD, start the MacBook in Recovery Mode and install OS X from there on? After reading a lot on the internet I still have some doubts… My HDD crashed, I can't repair it using disk utility or the fsck methods as mentioned on the internet.
I have iPhone 4 and my iOS is 4.10.01. I jailbroke it and installed a lot of applications. Being lazy to reinstall everything again every time after an upgrade, I decided to just leave it at iOS 4.10.01. It worked fine for a while but as new iOS versions came up, many of the applications I installed stopped working. I didn't care much for this as long as Cydia and my packages were working all right. However, at some moment the Cydia icon just disappeared, and I don't remember deleting it, though the installed packages continued working fine.
I want it to be so that, when I attempt to visit my server at 94.xx.xx.xx, it will automatically redirect me to the internal address 192.xx.xx.xx, when doing so from the local network. Can this be done with OS X DNS and if so how?
from sudo diskutil list I get 35 of these sudo diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk35 gives a hopeful Unmount of all volumes on disk35 was successful, but if I list it is still there.
I have installed Windows on a separate hard drive on my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan. OS X is running on an SSD and Windows is on another physical hard drive. I named the other hard drive Windows partition as Windows. On every boot of OS X, I am seeing the Windows partition listed as Windows X. X has now become 10 from 1 (I have rebooted my MacBook Pro ten times into OS X).
I'm writing some fairly complex Applescripts, but when something goes wrong - Apple event timed out - or similar, I can't tell precisely where it failed. At the moment, I'm wrapping all handlers with try blocks, with an on error that re-raises the error, with a reference to the handler name and the value of a variable that I set at various points through the handler so I can isolate the error to somewhere between two points. ** Is there a way to get Applescript to say 'Apple event timed out at line 15 in await(), at line 60 in connectRemoteUser(), at line 90 in autostartTestUsers()' without having to code it all directly? I can't rely on the script editor's location highlighting because the errors happen intermittently when the script is out in production.
I send a friend w/o a Mac some paragraphs & they disappear in the sending, so I'd like to include the paragraph symbol at the start of each paragraph so she can see where they go. How do I do that in Pages 5.2.2 on a Mac?
Looking at just one of the files, they're all variations, here's the filename. Note the accented character: Classics. . . Lè Tour Guide Training Guide.pdf This appears as this sequence in the logs (a deletion and the new copy):
I don't want anyone to be able to see from whom I am receiving iMessages or text messages or the content of those messages. Can I hide both!?
If you don’t have enough free space on your HD, and you are trying to buy an App in the AppStore, you get a message, that you don’t have enough free space and you can’t buy it. Since I always struggle with HD space and often don’t want to download the app immediately, I was wondering if there is a way to buy the app, even without enough free memory. (I know, I know, I should free up more memory … but this is hard on a 256gb SSD :/ ) Thanks!
I was doing some stuff with the system administrator to my computer and we are not sure what we did to have this happen but we now have 2 everyone permissions in nearly every file on my compute. The only thing we did was try to install cocoa pods and give my account the proper permissions to read-write to files application and other files. I am currently trying to run Illustrator and it says I don't have read permissions here eiher. Edit: also if i change the everybody with a custom perm to no access it says I have read and write again but sometimes it will still say you have custom permissions above the permission area.
I have to use the mouse a lot, but have to keep hitting enter as well. It would really help if I could use the mouse to send a global/system-level "enter" key event via triple click or something.
Greetings from Server Fault! We are a mixed PC/Mac environment. Recently at least one user has been having problems saving files to one of our Windows server shares.
I'm migrating to a new Macbook. On my old one, I generated an ssh key pair many years ago, and I have configured that key on several sites, some of which I don't have direct control over. After I set up my keypair, I used ssh-add to import the cert into my keychain so I wouldn't have to type the passphrase every time. This worked fine.
I want to dim the script below "0" on my iMac. Here is my current script, but this stick to OSX settings.
I have an iPhone 6 with the newest iOS. Today a friend sent me a text message. After a few hours I went into my contacts and tried searching for him but nothing came up even though I have him in contacts (checked by going into the message and clicking view contact). This has actually happened several times before, searching for some contacts doesn't yield any result or shows something different even though that contact exists. Anyone had the experience with this?
From this output I can't figure out why the crash happened. Obviously I pressed power button and rebooted my Mac. Any thoughts on why Mac could have hanged/crash? Let me know if I should get another additional info.
I've already asked a question about ransomware on OS X in general. But I failed to get a response regarding whether FileVault protects against it. That is what this question is about. I'm also interested to know whether encrypted Time Machine backups are safe from ransomware. Ransomware here is defined as malicious software that encrypts the user's data against their will/knowledge and demands a ransom in exchange for the encryption key. We'll look at three examples:
I have an external disk with partitions A and B. B is an encrypted HFS volume with as password. (Presented as "Apple_CoreStorage" or "Logical Volume OS X Extended").
How do I put computer to sleep and have it re-awake asking for a password? I'm looking for a terminal command to do this. I tried pmset sleepnow did not work.
Can the Macbook Air (2015 model) power a second external monitor via it's USB port (using a USB to HDMI cable)? I would also need to connect an external keyboard and mouse, so I plan on getting a USB hub to extend the second USB port on my Air. Will this setup work? I remember reading an article which said that the MBA can power only 1 external monitor. Is there any truth to this?
What does the star next to track #2 and #3 indicate in this screenshot?
Developers, does this lend itself to an Automator/Apple Script solution? I've dug around but it seems like multi-app (GarageBand, Finder, iTunes) scripts make the manual option look easy. Or perhaps I'm missing a simple solution like doing all of this in GarageBand on OSX.
If I send/receive iMessages, or photos and/or videos through iMessage, will those iMessages take up my iCloud storage space? I am not talking about iCloud backups. I'm asking that if I do not backup my phone using iCloud, will iMessages still take up iCloud storage space?
I have tried a couple of different brands of earbuds supposedly compatible with the iPhone, but on both, the mic doesn't seem to work and the phone itself will make Siri pop up, shut down or advance the audiobook I'm reading? I've read the other earbud questions and the two non-Apple connectors have four sections, but the ends are straighter/not angled as the iphone ones.
I just started an online course for learning Swift using Xcode to develop iOS apps. I'm using Xcode 7.2.1 and 10.11.4 on my Mac Mini Server. I use a 23" monitor. When the simulator window displays while running an application the default scale size is 100% which is really huge for my monitor. I would like to set the default scale to a lower percentage without having to hit keys on the keyboard every time I open a simulator window. I'm sure I will never need to have the scale at 100% because of the size of my monitor. I could not find anything in the Xcode Preferences to change the value. I do not see a Preferences option in the Simulator.
When I use VeraCrypt (a successor of TrueCrypt) to mount volumes on my filesystem, and I don't specify where it should mount them, the results are: ...and similar. I suspect these default paths don't come from VeraCrypt, but rather are set somewhere in OS X itself.
My Iphone 6 has my music library downloaded, I ensure that any music I purchase is downloaded to the phone, I recently purchased some more music. Yesterday I listened to various tracks from my music collection including mainly the new purchases, now I notice that only the new purchases are downloaded to the phone and all the remainder of my music (including stuff I listened to yesterday) has mysteriously evaporated into the cloud (still shows on my phone but needs the internet to play) I'm working on a boat with no internet for a month what is going on!!!
I have been the owner of an iMac 27' for the past 3 years. I have had the problem of the machine automatically powering off (for no reason at all) since almost day 1. After trying everything, including having the local iCentre change almost every part, I am still struggling with this problem.
I want to easily jump to gmail as one of many (many, many) open tabs in Chrome. If I could just type "gmail" into Spotlight and it would take me to that tab in Chrome, that would work great for me. Or if there was a way to get gmail in the top-level Cmd+Tab list, that'd work too. Anyone know a way to do this?
My wife's Mac is acting up and I've been trying to sort it out for a while with no success. Anytime she opens a new Finder window, tries to upload an image to Facebook, exports an image from Lightroom, or does any other file related task. The system hangs for 1 to 5 minutes before popping up an error that says "There was a problem connecting to the server "Steph's Mac". Everything then proceeds to work normally.
This person keeps hacking into my iMessage group conversations and it's really starting to get annoying. Every time I remove him from our conversation, he joins back in and is unkickable. I believe he has a jail broken device, but I do not know what hack he is using. I've searched up this and I can't seem to find anything. What is he doing and how can I stop him?
Does turning iMessage off remove previous iMessages and text messages that were saved on the device?
I currently have a Windows partition installed on my Mac, for CptS reasons, and since that took up a majority of my storage space, I've been using an external hard drive to save documents and whatnot. I wanted to know if I can download applications from the App Store to my external hard drive. I've read on other forums that it's possible to change the location of the download folder on a Mac, but you have to delete the application if you were to want to update it. I'm not sure if it's possible to assign the download folder to an external hard drive. Any input would be much appreciated.
How do I view a webcam image on OS X 10.11. I have a webcam previously used on Windows and just want to use it as a camera.
I've recently begun to learn how to program in C, and have been using the application XCode (ver 7.2) to do so. For the most part, it's been working very well, but I've recently come across a problem:
I can use my Ipad Retina (4th Gen, iOS 9.3.1) when plugged in via USB to tether the 3G connection. After it is plugged into USB, then I can see it shareable via wifi from other devices. (My Mac which is it plugged into via USB, and my iPhone 6S).
I purchased an Apple Magic Keyboard 2 (the US layout model). I own a Macbook Pro 15" (Late 2012), updated to El Capitan (if relevant, this computer was running the El Capitan Beta prior to its release).
Mac Book pro with 10.11.2 have this annoying feature that it disconnects Cisco AnyConnect VPN every time I lock screen. I found some instructions how to prevent wifi disconnection when locking screen, but I could not apply same instructions for anyconnect network. I´m usually connected with ethernet cable, if that matters. Is there some way to disable such feature?
When my MBP (Retina, 13", Early 2015, identifier MacBookPro12,1) is under load, could either be CPU load or "bus-load", ie wifi, usb, webcam etc the CPU System Agent Core-sensor shows a very high temperature. The SMC-key is either TC0E or TC0F (ie Tango Charlie Zero Echo / Foxtrot). With very high temperature I mean 90C+, and I start to get bus errors here.
How can I rename Macbook Pro in the screen below (taken from appleid website). I know that on iOS I can do that by going to Settings -> General -> About -> Name but not sure how I can do the same on Mac (I am on El Capitan)
please advise if there is a possibility to view list of wifi connections an Iphone has used in few months time Also advise if any possibility to check deleted call history of calls made through whatsapp and facetime on iphone
Siri has a lot of trouble understanding my Irish accent. for example when I ask it to add something to my "Quick" list, it complains that it can't find the "Quit" list. How can I find a set of words whose pronunciation is so distinct that Siri can understand them unambiguously? If I choose my list names from that set it might make my siri interaction a bit easier.
I was trying to update my system path, followed some directions online and accidentally types: Did I overwrite my .profile file? Does this mean that I have destroyed all of my PATH information? If so, how do I fix this?
Is there a technical reason why Apple does not support native IPv6 over PPPoE in their Airport Extreme Basestations? AFAIK here in Germany, all ISP using it and all modern routers seem to support it. The thing is, it even worked with prior firmware versions of the Airport Extreme!
I've read some things about rewriting the MBR and/or GPT. Is this the way to recover my datas?
I've re-installed my old system (10.7.5) and "things are different!" Is there a setting somewhere I need to change? I always used to see useful information at the bottom of a Finder window in list view and in other views.
I have an auto response to direct iCloud emails to my preferred address. The message being sent is having an 'r' added to the end of each line like so (except the last line....): Hi-r In the future please use my main email address:r Name@mydomain.comr This email has been forwarded on to that address automatically.r Thanks!r Joe
Even when my viber application is open on a specific discussion, it continues to vibrate on every received message part of the current discussion. How can I turn off this very annoying feature for Viber discussions ? or, if not possible, How can I turn off the whole Viber notifications vibration ? I currently use an iPhone 5
I will be traveling without my Mac, but need to continue my editing. Can I edit using iMovie online? I would want to upload an entire (huge) library to googledrive or etc and work on it from any Mac, maybe in a desktop-rental place. If that is not possible: can I save a project online and then download it to use in my library? For example, I would take along a Mac, but I don't want to chance losing the edited versions if the Mac and any external HDs I bring along are stolen/damaged. If I don't need to import new events (nor move events, nor projects from event to event) while editing, can I save the newly-edited projects online somehow, so that even if all is stolen I can have the edited project back when I return home and re-connect any Mac to the backup HD with the iMovie library on it, so that iMovie will load with the project I had edited while travelling?
I've tried these commands in OS X El Capitan, but it doesn't work: I have 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD, I just don't want the SSD to tear down faster just because I enable the swapfile.
I am using OSX version 10.10, I used Bootcamp to install Windows 7. I attempted to restart Windows and it stuck on Installing Updates 1 of 19 for about half an hour. I pressed the power button, I'm able to get into OSX but when booting Windows, Windows resumes and goes to the Installing Updates screen. Is there a way to terminate this or clear the state of Windows from Mac so I can get back to work? Thanks
From the App Store's Review Guidelines: Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the App will be rejected
I have a MacBook Pro running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and I'm trying to set it up as a server. I have a Realtek USB WiFi dongle (RTL8188cus) plugged in with the drivers installed, showing up as interface en6. I also have the built-in AirPort on interface en0. I don't care which interface is used, I'm just providing options.
I'm no longer able to control the visibility of formatting marks in MS Word documents using the "paragraph" button on the top menu/ribbon. I'm unable to locate an override setting that specifies to always display formatting marks. Is anyone familiar with how to remedy this issue?
We have a mac that acts as a CI-server. It needs to connect to our git-repositories which can only be connected to via ethernet.
I have an iMac 27inch from 2009 running El Capitain at work. It was used by other people before I came in working for this company. It seems a bit on the slow side comparing to my home PC. Would formatting it help? (it has a bunch of applications)
I have Parallels 7 on my Macbook Pro. I just installed El Capitan onto my Macbook and now I can't open Parallels. What do I need to do?
I have a strange problem with iTunes local backup of an iOS device (an iPod, in this case). I know I've backed up the iPod to my computer before, but iTunes states, "Latest Backup: Your iPod has never been backed up to this computer." The last local backup was a long time ago, under older versions of iTunes and OS X. Maybe the current version of iTunes doesn't entirely recognize the old settings.
I'd like to also display the SSID I am currently connected to next to the WiFi signal strength indicator. Running El Capitan (10.11.4)
My macbook air 13 mid 2011 keep heating and reach 90 degree I've changed it's fan as I thought it not giving the right coolness for it, but still got heated ? what else might cause this heat issue ?
Is it possible to tell OS X to always open one site in Chrome, and always open another site in Safari? In a nutshell, I want to set a default browser per domain rather than globally for the entire computer.
I want to see coloured output of the ls command and so I added to .bashrc file but now the spacing between columns in the output of the ls command changes. How do I maintain the same spacing between columns as the ls command without -G option?
WHY does OS X always prompt for certificate trust when connecting to WPA2 Enterprise (EAP-PEAP in my case) networks, even if the certificate is already marked as 'trusted'? Even weirder.. if I delete the cert from keychain access, then click 'Continue' to the first cert prompt, but the click 'Cancel' on the elevation credentials window.. I am somehow still able to connect to the WiFi network...
I installed an el capitan update about two weeks ago, and since then I've had constant issues connecting my macbook pro to my work VPN. I can connect ok, but after only a few minutes (usually-- it can be as long as 45 min and as short as about 2 minutes) the VPN dies off. Tailing the VPN logs, it all looks ok for a while, then starts repeating the following:
I'm getting an error when I open Terminal saying: I've read in several forums that this is usually a permissions issue and used to be able to be solved by using the Repair Permissions functionality in Disk Utility. Unfortunately, as of El Capitan, this functionality has been removed and is only accessible via Terminal by default. This has left me with a bit of a cyclical problem. As an alternative, I have tried repairing permissions with Onyx, however this simply freezes midway through the process.
I notice in iOS, often times when I open an app, such as YouTube, the first thing that it shows is a screenshot of that app from one of the more recent things I was doing with the app. When I multitask back to the app, the OS loads these images before the app is fully running and able to process input.
Is it possible to set up an old iMac as an external monitor without Target Display Mode? (basically the same question without enough details)
I have a Windows 10 install running in a Parallels VM on 2009 Mac Pro running OS X 10.11 and I want to access the IIS server in the VM for testing on iOS. I can reach website running in the VM from OS X without issue, but when I try and access it through an iOS device through an ad-hoc network or through the same wifi network it doesn't respond, but I am able to access websites hosted in OS X on the iOS device.
I maintain a set of command line bioinformatics tools which we distribute as source and binaries for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Currently the binary distribution for OS X is just a zip file containing directories for the binaries and the documentation. Our install guide directs the user to unzip the archive, copy the binaries to the desired location, and update their PATH to point to the binaries. That's fine for the command line savvy users, but some users have never heard of /usr/local/bin let alone PATH. We'd love to have an installer that's in more of the OS X idiom.
I can use my Ipad Retina (4th Gen, iOS 9.3.1) when plugged in via USB to tether the 3G connection. After it is plugged into USB, then I can see it shareable via wifi from other devices. (My Mac which is it plugged into via USB, and my iPhone 6S).
I'm running out of space on my iCloud and my storage in general. If I delete my backup, will I gain more space for pictures?
How can scrolling (horizontal or vertical) be disabled in El Capitan with a Magic Mouse 2? Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Mouse Options does not contain a checkbox as described in some online articles
I'm creating a bash script that will rename the USB stick using a diskutil command. From what I've read in the man and various examples, I need to supply the volume name. In my situation, the volume name varies so I'm hoping to use disk number (via diskutil list) instead. Any ideas on how this can be done?
I receive this error message when trying to run curl from the terminal command line: /usr/local/bin/curl: line 61: /usr/local/bin/sed: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/curl: line 65: /usr/local/bin/sed: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/curl: error: `/Users/xxxxx/.libs/curl' does not exist This script is just a wrapper for curl.
What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch the Safari application using Karabiner?
What I want to do: I want to put in a new Intel SSD with the latest OS (Mavericks, Capitan, heck even Mountain Lion, whatever will work in my situation), and put the old HDD in a drawer. I want the ability to swap in my old HDD to use Snow Leopard/XP without any difficulties. I don't want to jeopardize backwards-compatibility with Snow Leopard at the bootloader or EFI level. I am worried that Mavericks, Capitan, etc. will go all crazy and re-wire the whole EFI, because Snow Leopard was the last version to use a 32-bit kernel, even though my Mac has a 64-bit Intel processor. (Source)
I have to open the App Store and tap Update to keep all of the apps up to date. There is always a big list of apps waiting to be updated, which takes quite a while to complete. This issue seems to have started around the release of iOS 9. The option for Automatic Downloads is ticket under Settings > iTunes & App Stores; Connecting to Wi-Fi has not resolved the issue; The instructions displayed on Apple’s support page has not resolved the issue; Reset All Settings has not resolved the issue.
I've just found that brew doctor gives me the following error : I am suspected that these are remnants of Samsung Sidesync program that I tried to use recently but it never worked, so I uninstalled it (using iTrash). Should I manually remove those two libraries or not(one of them is 1.7mb)? Thank you.
Is there a possibility to list all the groups, a contact is in, on the card. This would make the organisation of my contacts much easier
I would like to be able to change the display colour profile of my MacBook, with a view to writing a program that changes the loaded colour profile on a shortcut key-press, or automatically at certain times. Does anyone know of a Terminal or AppleScript command that could load an existing colour profile? I am aware that this could be achieved through UI scripting of the System Preferences application, but I'm not a fan as UI manipulation tends to be slow, messy and unreliable. I know the .icc colour profiles used are stored at /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/, but opening one of the .icc files only starts ColorSync Utility, and I can't see an obvious way to load them.
I've updated bootcamp to Windows 10 which should support GPT with protective MBR without any hybrid tricks. I have 6 partitions on disk0 so hybrid MBR is also inconsistent with GPT and it's somewhat dangerous.
My iMac is hooked up to an HDTV, and sometimes I move windows over to the HDTV. But sometimes, my HDTV is not powered on, or it is set to the cable box, and I can't find the windows (apps) on my iMac, and there seems to be no way to see those windows (apps) without first changing the HDTV to view the iMac and moving the windows back to the iMac screen. Or maybe another way is to unplug the HDMI connector. But there should be a software way to do it... either by Settings or by a script, or maybe just by some function or command key combinations?
I want to jump between words in a text editor (e.g. Sublime Text 2). In Windows, I can use Ctrl-Left or Ctrl-Right. What is the shortcut on Mac?
Everytime I use cmd + shift + p (which is used in a lot of advanced text editor like sublime to open the command palette) my mac opens a window . I don't want this mac to be connected to airplay.
With Terminal 2.6.1, when I ssh a linux box, sometimes I don't know why, the two fingers scroll change behavior. Instead of scrolling the command output, it scrolls the command history. How to exit this mode?
I am using an iPhone 6. Whenever I try to open the default Mail app on my phone, it crashes within one or two seconds, rendering the app useless. The phone was running iOS 8 this morning when the problem was occurring, so I decided to make a backup and update to iOS 9.3.1, just in case 9.3.1 had a bug fix for this problem. However, after updating, I am facing the same issue. Any fixes?
I just had a Genius Bar appointment where the very helpful bartender(?) made some notes about the problem I was having. He said that the info would be emailed to me at my associated email address. I never got an email at that address... nor did I at my iCloud address. Is there a place online that I can log into where I can access my Genius Bar history and notes?
I try to remove all pip installed packages from MacOSX. I'm doing it to ensure I'm using homebrew pip from now on (to avoid problems with SIP). Following zsh loop removed most of them, but some resists.
What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch an application that needs to be defined (like Notes) using Karabiner?
I accidentally signed into Radar with the wrong account and I can't find the log out or sign out button in order to switch accounts. Is there any alternative besides clearing my cache?
My girlfriend sent me an invitation from an Apple device to an alias that sends to both my work and home e-mail addresses. I clicked on the Accept button and it says that I Accepted but I don't see the event on my iPhone or on www.icloud.com. None of these e-mail addresses -- home, work, or alias -- match my Apple ID. Is there a way I can get this into my calendar? I tried forwarding the work e-mail to my home address and adding the event from the .ics file but I get This invitation data is out of date when I try and do this.
I'm also curious about ESX, Drum samples, and Apple Loops. I have two folders on my Mac that have the audio files. One is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support and the other is Macintosh HD/Users/Sal/Library/Application Support. Which one is actually being accessed when loading the sounds in Logic?
I'm running on Macbook Pro OS X 10.11. I'm curious that when I check my storage the system reports I've used for apps 100.15GB whereas the applications folder size is just 39.56GB. Is it probably counted for storage that apps use to store their data?. If so how could I inspect those data (e.g. location and size) to consider removing them? Thanks in advance.
I've just bought for few euros an used pivot monitor. The problem is that if I rotate the monitor of 90° using display preferences I get black rows on top and on the bottom. I would like to know if there's a way to solve this problem from terminal.
Can Apple Watch track my fitness data while running back and forth on an airplane?
So i've battled with this for quite some time, look up various topics with various solutions, however i have yet to succeed with merging my partitions into one. I had previously installed windows 10 on it, but after i partitioned for a mutual accessible drive (for dropbox), windows stalled and i had to reformat it, resulting in a sort of "locked" partition.
In Windows, and every permutation of Linux I've tried, you can pin a website as a icon shortcut to the dock / start menu / quick menu. How can I do this in OSX? I use a habitica for my to-do list and I need a one-click entry to it all times
While using an iPhone 5, iOS 9, if I block someone, wait some time, and then unblock that person, will I receive SMS messages sent to me while that person was blocked?
When my laptop is closed at home and I am using a PC keyboard, I cannot access Start Dictation with "fn fn" because there's no fn key on my keyboard. How can I get a keyboard shortcut for this?
I have an iPhone 6s. It automatically records steps and walking distance in the Health app using the M9 motion coprocessor with very little battery impact. How can I record cycling distance like this? All the apps I find on the App Store for cycling seem to use GPS, which drains the battery quickly. I should also mention: After cycling, the Health app shows an increased number of steps, but I have no idea how cycling mileage correlates to step count.
I have a 250GB hard drive that I tried to "burn" an ISO to (to make it bootable). Something went terribly wrong.This is what the disk looks like in Disk Utility (unmounted).
I want to disable Safari because I end up using it to waste time on sites like youtube. I use Stayfocud and Leechblock on chrome and firefox, but there isn't anything good for Safari (WasteNoTime is too easy to disable). So initially I wanted to delete Safari, but I'm a little hesitant, because I don't want to hurt the OS in any way. So I wanted to know if there was a way to disable or "block" Safari using terminal. I realize that there are apps like Focus which can do this, but they are paid. Thank you for your help.
I am running a Mac using OSX Yosemite v10.10.5. I want to push my local git repo to my remote using AppleScript. So the git code would be: But in order to run this from the terminal, first I need to cd into my local directory.
I have a Macbook with a cracked screen, only the top left half of the screen works, is there anyway to reduce the screen resolution, keep the DPI the same, and thus have the entire OS visible in the top left section of the screen which works? The below photo demonstrates what I mean, with parts of the creen totally unusable, it would make sense to be able to display the whole screen in the remaining usable part.
My login keychain cannot be found. I have Keychain access but no Keychain repair option in the drop down menu. I am unclear if I have erased something in error, or if this is a common issue?
I have installed iTunes on my PC. However, when I click Photos → Sync Photos, it says
I love my world clock widget, but today I don't see it. How can I bring it back?
I've always wanted to be able to run a script I've downloaded online directly from the Finder but just double clicking the file does not work.
I have got new 28 inch 4K monitor (AOC U2879VF). Display options give me either 3840x2160 or 1920*1080. Full 4k is too small, but 1080p on a 28 inch is too big. I cannot find a way to sclae to something in the middle like ( 2560x1440 or 2880x1620). I tried using SwitchResX,but their scaling down looks terrible. Any suggestions?
I am a new Mac user trying to set up spelling checker for MS Office. I have downloaded the .dic & .aff files that I have to add to my /Library/Spelling folder. However, I have not managed to find this folder. I have looked it up in my Finder and also used Terminals to make files shown, in case it is a hidden one (even though that would not make much sense..), I still havent found the Spelling file.
My Mac OS X Server (which is used for wiki as well as a build server / time machine backup hub) is broken due to App Store update problems, and upgrading doesn't work because I cannot authenticate with valid Apple IDs. Furthermore, I cannot launch the Server app because it is out of date with respect to the OS. Although numerous posts have been noting different failure modes, none have shown the "action could not be completed" variant. Note: If you have a different message or behavior, your problem may be solved by one of the many techniques that didn't work for me. The following facts: I've tried several solutions already; references below. The account is active / valid: It works on other Macbook Pro as well as iPhone, and works on this machine when logging into the web-based iCloud. The machine is 2010 MacBook Pro running El Capitan (10.11.4 - 15E65).
Recently the clock on my OSX menu bar has disappeared for no apparent reason. I'm using OSX 10.10.5 I try to add it again by going to System Preferences --> Date & Time --> Clock --> Show date and time in menu bar.
Sample numbers file  B4 contains CONCATENATE(B2,B3)
Not sure what this view is called but when importing a file from computer to the internet I no longer have this type of viewing option (see photo), is there way to have it appear this way?
I turned off the Core Storage volume manager on my OS X partition (i.e. diskutil cs revert). Now my Recovery HD displays in Disk Utility and in Startup Manager.
Sometimes when I try to unmount a disk using the "diskutil" command I get the following message: when I replace "unmount" with "unmountDisk" it works perfectly fine. So my question is, what's the difference between the "unmount" and "ummountDisk" commands?
I am using a Mac running OSX Yosemite v.10.10.5. When I try to run my shell script from my AppleScript, I get the following error message: What am I doing wrong?
I recently upgraded an early 2011 MacBook Pro, installed 2 new Kingston SSDs and two new 4 GB RAM sticks (unsure of brand, and I think what may be causing the issues, but wanted to get a second opinion). I installed the new drives in RAID 0 for a performance boost and the 8 GB of RAM at the same time.
I added the word somehting (or similar) by accident to Dictionary of OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 in Google Chrome > 2nd click. I would like to remove it from there. I go to Dictionary but I cannot find by the Search tool, etc only someh and no success. So I should be able to find recently added words or user words. How can remove a recently added word in Dictionary of Google Chrome?
I have an early-2015 MBP running 10.11.3 and I keep having my internet connection drop when I am connected to certain WiFi networks. The temporary solution is to disable and then re-enable WiFi, but this gets very tiresome. It has been occurring more frequently recently (~15min → 5min). So far, this has only happened at my home and at my cabin - it's fine on other networks. I usually get an error in Chrome along the lines of: This webpage is not available DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET However, I have tried multiple different DNS configurations, so this does not appear to be the problem. Other laptops and my Galaxy S6 connect to these routers without problem. Any ideas? EDIT: Just got this error result earlier:
I'm working a lot with SSH connections to servers, by for example forwarding localports or just establishing SSH connection to manage some servers. For this I would like to be able to create some terminal shortcuts for example: Is there a way to specify custom terminal commands?
iTunes by default stores its settings, the iTunes Library.itl file, and the music library audio tracks, inside the \Users\username\Music\iTunes folder. I don't want my Music folder polluted with program settings, especially because I'm synchronizing that folder on the cloud. Via the settings panel I can only change the path of the audio tracks, but the settings remain in the default position. Is there a way to completely move the iTunes folder to another path? PS: I've looked at the answers to What is the safest way to move the iTunes Library from one hard drive to another?, but the focus there is on moving the media library only, not the whole iTunes directory.
I have an iPhone 6 running ios9 and the free app for Dragon Dictation. Is there a command or sequence of commands (voice or keyboard) to delete everything in the recording and start over?
Apple has a list of models that support CarPlay. Does there exist a similar list for models with Siri Eyes Free mode?
Whenever I want to use the pipe operator in the terminal, I get a weird kind of "bug":  As is shown in the image above, I can type the exact same command twice and it will sometimes register it or sometimes include some spacing in the command, as can be seen in the error message. The only difference between the two commands was the speed I typed them, with fast typing the char sequence "| " (without the "") leading to the error. I've checked in the terminal settings if this sequence somehow triggers a shortcut, but I did not find anything.
I want to sync the music folder on my system with iPhone. The folder does not contain any sub folders and only contains mp3 files. I want my iPhone music library to get synced with this particular folder like if I add/delete any song the change should be reflected on my iPhone when I sync it.
Edit - Disk Inventory X found this, instantly, a huge blue area - Now, how do I know what's safe to remove? Note - I'm not obsessing over ever last GB, it's just that a 3 to 1 filled/really used ratio seems pretty high.
I have never had this issue before, but sometimes when I turn on my Mac, Finder fails to start or crashes and then cannot be reopened. Other times Finder starts fine, but apps fail to launch, such as xCode, Atom, and Safari Web Content service crashes. I have booted in Safe Mode, used Disk Utility to check for problems, reset the SMC, reset the PRAM and nothing seems to help. I don't think it's my HD, because running my BootCamp Windows partition works 100% fine.
I've got a projector connected to my MacPro. Now I would like to be able to mirror the screen from my MacBook(!) to this projector.
There are quite a few links referring to whether a MacBook GPU is CUDA capable Is my mac book pro suitable for CUDA? Can I run CUDA on Intel? Apart from the information stated in the above posts, is there even a MacBook capable of running CUDA?
Sorry for bad english - this is computer translation. See figure - MBA41_0077_B12_LOCKED.scap (# 2) - is the actual firmware of my MacBookAir4,1, which is was used to update firmware, but that such Firmware.scap (# 1)? And the date of the change Firmware.scap 14.04.2016, although I have no new downloads, and even more so, no changes are made? Thanks in advance for your answers!
even though El Capitan, in recovery partition, allows the user to "disable" rootless, it should be possible to disable "even more" the SIP layer. could someone confirm that using would disable any feature for the SIP layer?
I'm new to mac and everything around, I just want to know if I can code a sort of plug-in to show the batterie of the magic mouse, in the menu bar. What is the type of template i have to choose in Xcode to realize my idea.
I get the UUID and label of a disk from diskutil info disk0s4 mount using the volume label does not work: mount using the volume UUID does not work with or without quotes: mount using the volume identifier works My goal is to put the mount line in /etc/fstab as I want to mount a volume to a custom mountpoint.
I generally buy a new SIM card each time I arrive in a new country, so when I'm traveling, my phone number tends to change. I can find out what my number is by Settings>Phone>My Number, but it'd often be more convenient to get it from Siri. I can't figure out how to get Siri to give it to me. None of these queries works: What is my cell phone number? What is my mobile phone number? What is this phone's number? What is the phone number for this SIM card? What's the proper incantation to get Siri to tell me my iPhone's telephone number?
I don't know my password to my Mac OS X account and it has file encrypt enabled on drive. If I reinstall Mac OS X, will it require a password to do so?
I have El Capitan on a bootable DVD. I restart my Mac and hold the option key until the disks come up and I choose EFI Boot (name of the disk is different than what it shows at the time of booting). DVD-ROM starts like a jet and a progress bar pops up. It goes all the way to very close to the end and then DVD-ROM stops and no more progress. I never have installed any OS X and now I am wondering if such a thing is possible at all. I checked the Boot ROM version and upgraded to the last version that matches my mac 8.1. My question obviously is what should I do?
No SSD, but this should still be performing well for basic tasks. It's stock, other than installing Chrome, Spotify, FCPX. I have nothing running other than OSX 10.11.2 defaults (wifi, bluetooth, airplay icons in the toolbar).
When using a browser with multiple opened tabs in full screen mode, the menu bar is constantly blocking my access to the tabs, because my gesture to the tabs area bounces off the top of the screen triggering the Show/Hide behavior. Its harshing my browsing!
El Capitan allows switching workspaces in Mission Control view (which shows an overview of all windows) by using 4-finger swipe left/right gesture. However, when invoking Mission control from fullscreen mode, and then swiping left/right, the spaces seem to visually slide in the wrong direction, which is very irritating.
I have some ISO files here with weird volume labels. I want to rename them to something I can easily remember.
I just installed gfortran on my Mac OS X 10.8.5, and now I need an IDE in order to write and compile and run my fortran programs. I used to use Codeblocks in Ubuntu, but I prefer to ask for an optimal IDE for Mac OS X.
Would really appreciate any help in fixing an external drive so can use with my Mac again. I had a power loss & when computer rebooted it was unable to see the attached Freecom 320Gig Hdd (FAT32 formatted) in Finder, but could see it listed in Disk Utility. This had happened a few times before, but I was always able to either eject/remount it or repair and remount using Disk Utility, however this time when I click First Aid (for both entire drive or just the partition) all options like Repair and Verify are greyed out and cannot be clicked and I am basically stuck there. This was the case both for normal Disk Utility or using it from the restart-up/install option on rebooting, and was also the case when I tried to use the drive with a different Mac, so it seems to be a problem with the drive, not the particular mac. Strangely, the drive works fine with my wife’s PC, can even watch the videos on it, but it cannot mount or eject with any Macs. Any ideas on how to fix? The content on my d
I have this issue where Inkscape does not appear when my MacBook Pro is plugged to an external screen. I tried several windows management tools (like Spectable, or Stay) but these did not work for the XQuartz app.
(Sorry, the Instagram photo is apparently too big to upload. Basically its got the same cloud as the one in the Kik picture) On Instagram, when I go to post a photo, all of my photos have grey clouds in the bottom right corner and they're slightly blurry. This happened when I updated my iPad. Since then, I have also noticed that on Kik, my photos show up as grey boxes with the same cloud in the bottom right corner. On Vine, the photos now show up but are also blurry like on Instagram. I've tried figuring out what's wrong but I have no clue, other than maybe it being related to iCloud. Update: Now my Dropbox is playing up too. Only 140 photos are loaded out of 900, and the rest have just disappeared, like they've been deleted. This is extremely frustrating for me as I use Dropbox a lot, and I've deleted and reinstalled the app as well as searched in the Dropbox help section.
so I have to edit the install of wine, and apply a custom patch. The patch I want is here... *=URL=* and when I add these lines with brew edit wine
I have an encrypted .sparseimage, and can't change password. Don't see any option in Disk Utility. Is it possible and how to change password of the .sparseimage encrypted image on El Capitan?
While installing / running the first time, I authorized the app to have access to addressbook and calendar. How do I go about to revoke that permissions?
I currently have 2 input languages on my Mac: U.S., and Hebrew - PC. The Hebrew - PC is almost the same as it should actually be, except the tilde key (`) should actually type a semicolon (;), but instead it creates a backslash (\). I already have a designated backslash key, and in order to type a semicolon I actually need to hit Alt+Shift+: which is extremely cumbersome. I'd like to reassign this key to work properly, but only when using the Hebrew layout - the English one needs to keep its use as the tilde which I use for window switching and terminal home dir.
I'm trying to format my USB so I can get all the space back onto it, but every time I try to erase it in Disk Utility, this comes up: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied
Seems like an idiot question, but I completely failed to copy a movie from one iPhone to another. We tried coupling with bluetooth, failed to send files. Enabling internet sharing (which worked) but failed to send files through Airdrop.
I have a MacBook 2011 running OS X 10.11.5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Drive. Today when I am restarting my computer, I accidentally pressed Cmd+R while booting. Now I try and restart my computer, it shows this:
I accidentally unplugged my hard drive without properly ejecting it, and now the drive does not mount when plugged in. What can I do to make it work again? I can see the disk in lsusb and diskutil list. So far, I've tried: sudo diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk2 sudo diskutil unmount force /dev/disk2 Reboot with disk. Reboot without disk. It seems that the disk is working because it's vibrating very slowly, but I can't see it in Finder.
I have a friend who uses an Android mobile phone and also a Mac. My iPhone contact page for him shows a FaceTime icon which I suppose is correct because it would go to the Mac when available but if I choose the speech bubble next to his phone number my iPhone goes to Messages and shows "iMessage" in the empty box. There's no speech bubble next to his email. The messages that I send him are delivered succesfully via iMessage (blue bg) but how can I explicitly send him a regular text (sms) message to make sure that it's delivered to the Android phone and not to the Mac? I'm using iOS 9.3 Please note that I don't want to disable iMessage altogether. Thanks
I would like two cells to contain the same information, if I modify one the other should modify also. I was using the Concatenate function to make "slave" cells that pull data from a "source" cell but I have to travel back to the source cell and modify it there. Are there other ways to do this?
I am trying to archive my old emails on my Mac. Is there any way I can archive a specific folder, including its sub-folders, from Outlook 2011 Mac? Few methods tried, please see below, but it archives all the mail not the specific folder that I chose. https://www.seattleserver.com/clients/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=556
When full screen mode was first introduced the window in Safari was resizable but it seems that it has been disabled or at least disabled by default. Is there a way to bring back this functionality? http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/04/resize-safari-windows-while-in-full-screen-mode/
When I use RunTastic to track my run on my iPhone and also use the Apple Watch health app to track my run (or not), is the resulting data which is sent to the Health app doubled? For example, if I run 1 mile (and track it on Runtastic and my Apple Watch), would I see 2 miles in the Health app?
I have hired a developer to create an iOS app. He was working on it and showing me the progress on TestFlight but now he is not responding, don't know what's going on. Now can I get the code from a TestFlight so that I can hire a new developer who can start from where the previous guy left?
Trying to create a mapping from my "Hyper" key to volume down and up and I'm not sure how to capture the complex binding in my Karabiner xml file. I want to map: Command_L+Option_L+Shift_L+Control_L+Bracket_Left to Volumn_Down Command_L+Option_L+Shift_L+Control_L+Bracket_Right to Volumn_Up This is not working, I think because I am not sure how to capture the combination I want to map from:
In looking at the browser name from our internal web stats I see "Mobile Safari UIWebView". What device does that represent? We record "mobile safari" separately (and is used 5 or 6 times more).
I'm trying to figure out how to determine the time websites were visited in the Safari history. (I can't imagine why this isn't easy to do like in every other browser I've ever used). I am running Safari 9.0.3 and El Capitan 10.11.3.
I've been looking for an app to check if the brightness of my computer monitor is too high and is straining to my eyes. Does such an app exist that measures brightness of a monitor using the camera perhaps?
How would I add and activate a proxy for my computer via terminal (without going into System Preferences.) Can I do that with scutil --proxy somehow?
Running a Mac mini with server app. (El Capitan 10.11.4 & Server.app 5.1)
The trackpad on my Macbook Pro of 2 years has suddenly stopped working out of blue. The trackpad doesn't move, respond to any gestures nor do any clicks work. This is really frustrating as I used gestures a lot to navigate around my laptop, and even though I use a bluetooth mouse it makes using my laptop unnecessarily laborious. Does anyone know what may be causing the problem, and any solutions?
I cannot for the life of me figure out how my SD drive is filled up because I don't have any large files, especially enough to fill 250G. I used DiskInventoryX to do a map of my drive and got this, a massive grey box full of "other" files, but they don't add up to 250G. I ran Avast to see if there were any obvious trojans or malware of some sort: nothing.
I have a .mp4 and .vtt file with the same name. I tried to synch both the files to iTunes by importing them at the same time, but when I play the video, there are no captions. The video plays in the browser (Chrome) with captions fine. How do I add the .vtt subtitles to the .mp4 video? I would prefer a raw, native way to do it, without using a third-party app (except for iTunes). If not possible I would be OK with FFMPEG if needed.
Is it possible for "Joe" to have two iphones with two different numbers and text Sally from both numbers, and when Sally receives Joe's texts they appear as one thread? In other words, Sally wouldn't know he has a second phone because it all appears as one thread. Thanks.
Related to How can I open a Terminal window directly from my current Finder location?, I would like to have a terminal window open in one location, and open another one. E.g. under Linux, I could be in ~/foo/bar/files/ in one terminal window, and type Ctrl-Shift-N and a new window would open at that same location.
I have a Mac Pro which is going to sleep during a RAID array rebuild. The disks are spinning down during the sleep, so I worry that the array will either not successfully build, or will require constant monitoring.
My question is directly linked to the thread Make Skim save PDF's with embedded notes by default What if the proposed solution (*=URL=* doesn't help? As in, I worked my way through all steps, but when I press command + s it still saves normally rather than embedded. I just found out I lost 200 hours of carefully made annotations, and I really want to avoid that from ever happening again. Please help. Skim version 1.4.18 running on El Capitan
Can the 4th gen Apple TV access apps/videos in different languages? Using the 3rd version of Apple TV I'm not aware of how you can access for instance Disney Jr Francais. Can the fourth generation do this?
I received notification that Find iPhone's remote erase had been started on my lost MacBook on a specific time. I suppose someone brought it online, Apple detected it and initialized the remote wipe request I had set up. Somehow It's not showing the last location, which is weird to me. Any idea why last location is not shown?
I would like to I've recently installed Debian Linux on my Macbook, which required repartitioning the hard drive. I now can't boot into Recovery Mode. Holding down Command+R on boot brings up Internet Recovery Mode. Holding Option on boot brings up the Startup Manager, which lists the Recovery HD, but if I select it, regular OS X boots. I'm using a Retina MacBook Pro Early 2015 13" on OS X 10.11.4
Right now USB C ports are just arriving in laptops and I unfortunately dedicated to go with a cheaper laptop (pc) but with thunderbolt-2. The thing I don't like about thunderbolt 2 products is the premium price you pay for the Lacie external drives with thunderbolt2. I hope that in the future USB-C devices will come out that will be a bit cheaper as the PC world and mac are seemingly getting 1 standard thunderbolt3 and USB-C.
In Linux ls -w 1 shows list of files in 1 column instead of multi-column. What flag or other command will produce the same result in OS X? Current output under OS X:
What's binary that will give exact result for Linux's time command flags? Current time in Mac OSX for command above is:
Is there some way to verify that DNSSEC was used by Safari when visiting a web site? I'm most interested in Safari for Mac OS X. But if there is a way in iOS, that would be important as well.
First, through recovery by restarting the computer and holding command+R down until the recovery screen appears. Then the option displayed is download and install OSX from Apple. I tried that first but I guess being in China it displayed more than 50 hours and counting! You can imagine why I had to cancel it. However, with this solution you supposedly get your Mac restored as it was when you purchased it, right? That's what I was looking for.
I have Console open on my Mac (latest OS X El Capitan) and this error keeps reappearing a few times every second. 4/19/16 1:15:18.021 AM com.apple.kextd[47]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.cisco.kext.acsock, will not load
I'm having trouble deleting the github credentials from Keychain Access. Keychain Access just freezes everytime I try. Is there a command to force deletion of an item in the Keychain from the terminal?
I have a strange problem. I'm having to use an old PowerPC G4 in order to use DVD Studio Pro for a project I'm working on for a client. I have to use an old Mac and OS because the version of DVD Studio Pro I need to use in order to create the final deliverable is only available in DVD Studio Pro which doesn't work on Intel/modern Macs. The specs of the computer are:
I want to be able to paste an image in a new blank page in Preview.app but do not see this option in the program.
I've recently created a DIY Fusion drive (240GB SSD & 1TB HDD) using the core storage commands on my mid 2012 MacBook Pro, I've restored from a time machine backup and everything works great. Now I'd like to install bootcamp (Windows 7) on it, but I'm afraid it messes up the Fusion Drive, any Idea on how to do it? This is what I get when I run diskutil cs list on terminal:
I have an external hard drive where my Time Machine backups are located. My OS is El Capitan. I would like to permanently archive this entire TM backup and move it to another hard drive, and it would be best to archive these backups to a compressed disk image.
I've lost my iPhone, and its power has run out. Is it possible to use iCloud to locate where it was last detected?
For some time my aging 2008 Macbook's LCD has been "flickering" a bit but since it goes away after a while I've ignored it. But in the last few days a red tint (might be pink - I am color blind :( ) has appeared in the bottom left corner that extends to about the half way point of the LCD. Initially it is quite red but after a little while it fades away though not completely, there is still a noticeable difference between the left and right corners if you look carefully.
Recovery Your PC needs to be repaired A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Press Enter to try again Press F8 for Startup settings When I tried pressing Enter and F8 keys, it returned to the same blue screen.
I have a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion recovery usb flash drive. It still boots but won't install Lion anymore (an error occurred during installation). I don't have a install DVD, however the MacBookPro's were able to install El Capitan directly. I have a Lion install dmg so there are two options: to make a bootable DVD or simply execute the dmg burned into a DVD - trying right now.
My computer's hard drive broke down and I got it fixed. I now have no pictures, music or documents on my laptop. I had a USB key of several songs that I'd like to add to my iPhone but when I tried to put them on manually, iTunes wants to erase everything and add those ten songs. Is there a way I could add these songs without having to lose my data?
I just purchased a magic mouse 2, and I can't figure out how to do a pinch gesture or its equivalent that I am used to with a macbook. From what I have read, it doesn't seem like it is possible to do the exact same pinch gesture, but are there alternative gestures or key combinations to get the same zooming capability as the pinch gesture?
I am looking for a way to contact my spouse when I am at work and too busy to text. I want to use my Apple Watch in the quickest way possible, ideally just 1 or two taps, to send an automated text or whatever, just so that my spouse gets some sort of signal that I am busy but "checking-in". I have dangerous job that sometimes goes 12+ hours later than expected, so being able to very briefly "check-in" with a few watch taps would be very helpful.
I have two media directories that each have a similar top-level folder structure. I'd like to share them over my network, using either AFP or SMB, in such a way that I can access both of them using one share, with the contents of both directories merged together. So if folderA has the following contents: ...and folderB has the following contents: ...then the network share would appear as the following: If new files are copied into the share, preferably I'd be able to configure which of the two top level folders they are placed into.
Just a simple question - my day-to-day setup is a MacBook Pro with 2 connected external displays. I want to try to organize my different "tasks" (writing code, testing/web browsing, and notes) into different Spaces. The keyboard shortcuts to change Spaces only take effect on my currently-selected screen.
I'm running OSX 10.9.5. I plan on upgrading at some point, so please let me know if that will impact an answer.
I have an external battery rigged up for my MBP. It goes through the magsafe adapter. The battery is about twice the capacity of the internal battery.
On GUIs with editable text focused on Mac I cannot seem to remap ctrlP and ctrlH to shortcuts I want. In IntelliJ I am trying to map my VIM ctrl shortcuts (ctrlH next tab, ctrlP open file). When I hit ctrlP I see that the "Navigate" tab highlights and the File... option is selected, but its function is overridden by moving up in the currently focused text edit window. The same problem is present with ctrlH and trying to switch to the previous tab. Any thoughts?
All of my iPhone photos are now in the Cloud, and when I hook the phone up to the computer I cannot see the photos or transfer them off. Phone storage now shows full. How can I get to the photos to transfer them to a PC and get them out of the cloud?
I am trying to restore my 5c, it boots to the charging page, then to the apple logo, after its done this once, and the restore procedure fails, at the pre mentioned stage, with error code 2001, it will then boot straight into recovery mode, I am unable to restore my phone. How can I fix this?
I've encountered this problem on 2 separate systems with separate email accounts and have not been able to fix it other than by switching to AirMail 2. After upgrading the computers to El Capitan, mail will occasionally not be able to load any content in messages. Screenshot:
In my residence there's a new Wi-Fi system. We connect to this network that requires a password and then it is supposed to redirect us to a website that ask for another, personal password.
I have a couple of cronjobs running on my Mac. cron will send out mails and put them in my user's mbox, which I can read via the mail command. However, it would be nice to see them in the regular Mail.app. Is this possible? If so, how?
How to configure ssh OS X host with Linux guest, so I can access my guest OS through SSH. I've tried:
I need the ability to write all incoming Push Notifications (APNS) to a log file. Basically, I would like to end up with an ongoing record of all the Push Notifications that I receive. What is the best way for a newbie to do this in El Capitan?
I recently switched from my iPhone to an Android. Before removing my SIM card, I disabled iMessage in settings. My Macbook Messages app shows it as disabled, and the online service to disable a number does as well. When iOS users send me a message directly, it is sent as SMS. However, when I am added to a group iMessage it doesn't change to MMS. Any ideas? EDIT:
This is for podcasting purposes. I just can't seem to figure it out. We both need to be able to speak and hear whatever noises/sound effects coming from the computer as all of it is being recorded. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My speaker on my iPhone 4 is not as strong as I want it to be, I am not hearing it well when someone calls me - the ringtone is too quiet. It is set to maximum, but still too quiet for my taste. Is there a 3rd party seller that has a stronger speaker?
Okay so quick run down, my Macbook Pro was stolen a few months ago. When it got stolen I immediately enabled the lock feature from Find my iPhone, & after a few weeks of waiting with no answers, I got bitter & also clicked the erase feature. Out of the blue, however, someone called my mother & said they found a computer on the side of the road with her name & number on it. So my mother got it off these people, brought it home while I was away, & turned it on. This brought up the lock screen with the "enter pin" & the message I put on it to the thieves.
I have a Canon DSLR camera and I am trying to get the output from the camera onto a MacBook Air so I can then AirPlay the MacBook to a different Room. The other room is on the other side of a school campus so running a cable would not work.
I work in a backpacker hostel where people from around the world leave behind an amazing amount of stuff, not all of which is junk. I've noticed that a Macbook Air model A1465 / 2631 has been sitting here for a couple of weeks. Now that I've checked that it doesn't belong to any staff member I'm wondering if it might be lost or stolen. Is there either some way online or via the Apple Store that lost and stolen Macs are tracked?
My late 2011 Macbook pro comes with an AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB graphics card and Apple state it: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors *=URL=* Having recently bought the AOC U3477Pqu I have so far only managed to achieve 1920x1080 via a mini-displayport to DVI adapter. AOC U3477Pqu - *=URL=* I thought maybe an end to end displayport cable might help me achieve 2560x1600 so I purchased a mini-displayport to displayport cable but the monitor does not even receive a signal. AOC customer service and Currys (the retailer I bought it from) say I should check my graphics card (which I've done, as above). Can anyone suggest something else I could try? PS: I know the monitor can achieve 3440x1440 and I'm planning on building a PC to make use of this but of course I'd still like to be able to use my Mac with it... Thanks in advance for any help.
So I removed the account from the settings --> internet accounts. closed mail.app, rebooted the mac and tried to add a new exchange account. But again "account already exists"
I have some money on my Apple account. If I buy a new iphone, can I still use this money to buy things on my new phone, or will I lose the money? Presumably it will still be the same log in details and account, so I assume that I will be able to use the money when I buy a new phone, or am I being overly optimistic? Thanks
So we have an app under Health & Fitness category. The app is based on only one main functionality and no other sub functionalities. Now, the client would want to give users some free trial period like 7 days and if the user likes the app they can subscribe to continue using the app, if they choose not to subscribe they will not be able to use the app any further. So, I have done some research and came up with this result: Option 1: Lite version/Paid version
I'm working on an Electron based application to write OS images to removable drives, which is being packaged as an *.app for OS X. Along with the GUI application, I'd like to ship a CLI version bundled with the app, that does the same thing, however I'm not sure how to make it accessible to the users. I guess I could put the binary in Contents/MacOS and ask the users to add this to the PATH, however this would be a very bad experience for the users. What is the recommended way to ship an command-line tool along with your *.app? Alternatively, I could add another *.app for the CLI tool inside the DMG I distribute to users so they optionally install as well, but having two separate *.app would be a bit confusing, and in any case, there doesn't seem to be a way to instruct an *.app to make its binary accessible to the PATH.
This is my diskutil list. I wish to merge Misc (disk0s4) with Macintosh HD (disk0s2) leaving only Macintosh HD (disk0s2). Normally I would use this command to merge the two disks:
I have a 500 GB Mac and set up Time Machine to do the back up to an external HDD (external hdd 1). All my files are also stored in the external hdd 1.
I have Yosemite 10.11.3 running. While using some Apple applications, when I hit the shortcut for Mission Control:Application Windows it shows the currently open windows and some recently closed ones at the bottom of the screen as thumbnails.
Command + (Zoom in) and Command - (Zoom out) are different from pinch-to-zoom on a trackpad. The former changes the layout of the page, whereas the latter just enlarges the page as if a magnifier was used.
I use music through Spotify while presenting. I want to move completely to Keynote from PowerPoint but one of the things keeping me from doing so is that the play button on the keyboard starts and stops the presentation in Keynote as opposed to starting/stopping music in Spotify. Is there anyway to remove this key binding from Keynote?
I am using mac OS X El Capitan and need to find a way to automate taking screenshots of 10,000 or more pages. The problem with all current solutions is that the webpage requires me to login using my email/password combo. The webpage is CSS/Java and the screen requires you to scroll down in order to view the entire page, all current solutions are not capable of scrolling down to view the whole page and only screenshot the visible portion. The second problem is that a certain combination of clicks needs to be pressed in order to go to the next page. I have considered using a "Cross browser testing" solution since some are capable of screenshots. The problem with that is that none are free and none are capable of entering login/password authentication. Are there any softwares/solutions that would allow me to screen capture 10,000 pages without manually doing it?
After that... Windows refused to boot. I managed to find a solution by "repairing" the MBR (or GPT?). Windows boots, but I'm not sure I did everything perfectly.
I want to add a key binding that allows me to use it even when the application is not in the foreground. Specifically how would I add play/skip/previous key bindings to Spotify?
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro running the latest version of El Capitan. I recently did an update and ever since then when I boot up I get a prohibitory symbol. I tried reinstalling El Capitan using a USB drive, but once it reboots it tries to go through the installation process again. When I take the USB stick out it gives me the prohibitory symbol. I tried to restore to a time machine backup from a time capsule using two different dates. The first restore attempt was to a date when I first installed El Capitan. That resulted in it saying there was already a corrupted version of the OS and it couldn't restore. So I formatted the hard drive and tried again, it resulted in a prohibitory symbol. The second restore attempt was to a date right before I installed El Capitan and was on I think Mountain Lion. That resulted in a file showing a question mark in the middle. What should I try next?
I'm considering involving a lawyer in creating a simple app to create a contract between two people. They read and sign the contract on an iPhone and both get copies of it.
By default, clicking on an email address from another mac app (such as Slack) launches the Mail.app application in a compose view to that email address. I would like to disable this - I never use the Mail.app and most times I encounter an email address I'd like to copy/paste it somewhere else, not compose an email to that person. Is there a way to disable that behavior?
I have been using nano a lot recently to code on Python. I have been flying by on it all until this little stump, no color... it makes it harder to know if you got the syntax right and harder to code! I'm not the best at code so please be nice and use step by step guide.
I keep getting this error on my Mac (see attached screenshot). It happened yesterday and now today again.
Per this similar problem with Macs connecting, I turned off bluetooth sharing, and internet sharing was already disabled. No dice. Ideas/questions:
The servers still do show up in Finder (even after rebooting). I just can't connect to them. Actually, it does connect to them long enough to ask how I want to log in, but then it pukes and shows that error.
I'd install rEFInd in my Mac Mini 2,1. It has a OS X Lion bootable partition and a Windows 10 install ntfs partition. I tried to boot from the ntfs partition but the Windows Installer won't run, only a black screen with a DOS cursor blinking. Now I can't make the rEFInd boot menu show up again. I turn on with "alt" key or "c" key pressed but Mac Mini ignores and (appears to) try to boot from ntfs partition again... Any idea before I have to open the Mac Mini physically?
Can I permanently elect to not send an error report for a certain application? When I need to use RSA SecurID I need it right then, not 30s later. Waiting just interrupts my workflow.
I'm trying to select text in chrome, and half the time I get this weird popup while selecting the first word, It's really annoying and I'd like to disable it, at least in chrome.  I've never experienced this behavior before today, I'm on a newly issued rMBP at work, I haven't seen this on my personal laptop, or other OSX devices, or windows or linux for that matter. I'm just not even sure where to start in terms of disabling this.
I would like to make it look like an object is rising from behind another object. The way I was thinking of doing it would be using a mask and key-framing the "Transform". The only problem is that the mask seems to move with the "Transform", stopping it from working. Is there another way to do this, or is there a way to lock the mask.
I have just installed MAMP. And I have just now realized that I already have a MySQL server and a database that runs under it. Do I now have two MySQL servers? Will they interfere with each other (and if yes, what would I need to do to have the existing database to work with the MAMP version)?
I need to set up a WiFi access point that can offering file downloading via web browser using what I will call a "DEVICE" here for short. I am open to what the device will be -- my MacBook Pro, a 2nd MacBook Pro I also own, a wide-squat Time Machine I own, another device I have not yet purchased, or one of those devices augmented with a new purchase -- I just want to achive the goals mentioned below. I am also interested in the DEVICE being somewhat to very portable, if possible. So I need a DEVICE that will not (necessarily) be connected to the Internet but that will allow people in the same room to connect from their computers via the DEVICE's WiFi and then visit the one website hosted by the DEVICE whose domain hostname will be served via domain name server on the DEVICE where they will see a webpage with links to and descriptions of files they can download via HTTP.
Its heard from century that iphone has bluetooth,but why we cant share anything over bluetooth,but infact we can connect bluetooth speaker and play some music.
I was riding my bicycle downtown today listening to music and directions from my phone through my headphones. Since I was riding my bike I wanted walking directions but any time I started picking up speed on the bike my phone would chirp "continuing with driving directions" and the next thing I know it's got me riding loops around streets that would be necessary if I were driving but were completely stupid and unnecessary for me on my bicycle. Or once it even took me several blocks out of the way before I realized it was trying to put me on the freeway. Very irritating.
If it's possible, naturally higher resolution image will be scaled down/transcoded to a lower resolution image. Texts and details on original image will be corrupted/blurred but it's ok, I don't expect/need a super clear image on the tv. So, will Apple TV do the job, can it transcode original high resolution image to fullscreen 2K image for my tv?
I re-installed my pfsense firewall the other day, sometime soon there after my macbook stopped doing backups using time machine. The pfsense is installed on new hardware, but the config was restored from the old, so it should be the same as before. The Time Machine target is a synology diskstation, which has worked fine for the at least the last 6 months.
I have iCloud Photo Library which is supposed to optimise its storage on my iPhone. But it doesn't. It's currently taking up about 25 GB of storage. I decided that in order to reset its usage, I'd try switching off iCloud Photo Library and Photo Stream. It warned me I'd be deleting about 7,000 photos, and I said yes. When I checked afterwards, the usage has only gone down to about 23 GB, and my Camera Roll still has over 13,000 items in it.
Given a MacBook Air that's working but with dead display and SSD, can I use it as a desktop-only machine with an external monitor and external hard drive? The guy at the Apple Store Genius Bar this afternoon told me I could install the OS on an external drive and boot from it, but I'm sure even Apple Geniuses sometimes make wrong assumptions? If it is possible would a USB external drive suffice or would it require a drive that connects to the proprietary connector? Also if it is possible, is it fairly straightforward? (I am a technical/computer guy, but not a Mac guy.)
So I have an apple script that sends an email via the mail app. I didn't make it myself though. Now I would like to change the script to, instead of opening the Mail app directly, just open a mailto: link with whatever client is configured for that. Is that possible?
I use the Apple UK Holiday Calendar on my Mac and iPhone, and it's nice to know when Easter is, but St George's Day and The Battle of the Boyne (in Glasgow for crying out loud) I can well do without. However, it seems that Holidays are just on or off. Anyone know a hack to customize or to create one's own?
Recently the keyboard and trackpad on my 2015 13" MacBook Pro have stopped working. This is the second laptop to do this, the same issue happened about 6 months ago and Apple gave me a new one when they could not figure it out.
There is a chance that support representative doesn't have a clue of what's going on - I had to call Microsoft once, ended up talking to their outsourced people, and that's the impression I got. So if that's the case, that means the issue is not fixed as he claimed, but that still doesn't clarify why Outlook keeps fetching mail while in Low Power.
I've just given an Apple TV (4th gen) to a relative, who is in the habit of powering off the whole TV system (TV, DVD player, stereo etc) when it isn't in use. Is it OK to: remove power from the Apple TV without shutting it down first leave the Apple TV unpowered most of the time? I've had a look through the Apple TV User Guide but can't find any mention of this.
How do I add German public holidays to my Outlook 2016 OSX App? I currently have the UK holidays but want to add the German ones.
I use vim to develop Perl code on a remote Linux box running Debian Jesse. The machine is a virtual machine running in VirtualBox. I use ssh and then issue a vim <file> command to start editing the file.
I want to clean install 10.11 on a MacBook Air 2008 and an iMac 2007.Both seem unable to boot from netinstall or an USB Stick. Which options do I have to get them quickly to 10.11?
I have a Late 2012 27 inches iMac with an internal HDD (that has a Macintosh HD partition, an EFI partition and a Recovery partition) and an SSD. I installed Windows 10 on using BootCamp Assistant; the SSD has only the BOOTCAMP partition (relabeled by me as "Windows" to make it look better) and the EFI partition. Even if Windows might seem to be installed as EFI (EFI partition, GPT scheme etc...), I mounted the EFI and found out that there is no boot loader on it. I then searched on the Internet, and on some sites they say Bootcamp uses "MBR Hybrid", in the sense the drive appears as GPT but behaves as MBR on the Windows side.
I've rebooted multiple times, tried force quitting the Spotlight process (but it just turns back on and uses the same energy) and tried turning mdutil on and off and forcing reindexing (to no effect, most likely because indexing is not the root issue?). Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?
TL;DR: Is there a way for Siri to create an item in a specific list, and add a timed reminder to it? iOS 9 Siri is able to add an item to a specific Reminders list in this fashion: Hey Siri; Add bread to my shopping list
For the past week or so, my Music app has been playing songs at least a couple of times before it gets through every song, which is pretty frustrating. My library is >1000 songs (filled a 64GB iPhone with almost entirely uncompressed music) but I'm hearing the same song a couple of times in the morning while at work, and I haven't changed songs manually, just let the shuffle do its thing.
Is there any way in iOS Safari (or third party app) to force a larger viewport? I'm fine scrolling around a website to see content but I'm not fine with sites hiding content when I use a narrower than desktop device.
How does the 'Applications' folder get on the path? For example, I installed Chrome browser into the Applications folder on my Mac and I can type chrome at a bash shell prompt to start it. Now, if I type which chrome, I get nothing, and therefore it doesn't reveal itself: how it got on the path.
On El Capitan, is it possible to display picture just on an external monitor, and not on the laptop's screen? I want to close my laptop and use it as a desktop, and I have every other piece of external periferals (wireless mouse, keyboard and external monitor) needed.
My colleague is sending emails with Microsoft Excel 2016 attachments, from Microsoft Outlook 2016, to a business partner who uses a Mac (I am not sure what version of OS) He has tried sending as html, rich text, and plain text and in every case, the recipient receives the email with a winmail.dat attachment instead of the excel attachment. We have proved that he is correctly sending the emails in each format by sending them to me in those formats.
I have a brand new 2015 mac, el capitan 10.11.4. The wifi constantly drops. I have re-installed a fresh el capitan, reset SMC, created new wifi profile/location with google dns, safeboot, updated router firmware, and update router channel. None of these things have fixed the constant dropping. The dropping mostly happens when I open multiple tabs or download multiple things at once. Any recommendations? How can I analyze the dropped connection report?
I have MBA mid 2013 and two 24 inch Dell external monitors. How to make mirror of laptop screen to one Dell display and then extend (or maybe I don't know which term should I use) with another Dell screen . Like this one :
An ex-employee change her administrator password when she was fired and nobody can access the MacBook Pro (late 2013 model). It is running on Yosemite. I have tried using the Command/S key to change it, but it does not work. What can I do to restore the computer and set-up a new administrator?
A couple of months ago, I migrated the data from my Air to a new MacBook Pro with migration assistant and shelved the Air. Recently, we recomishioned the Air for family surfing but noticed that when the Air connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi, the Pro wouldn't connect and vice versa.
My MacBook Pro (2006, model A1150) fails to boot beyond the white screen AFTER the screen with the Apple logo and spinner. I have tried: Resetting PRAM (doesn't work) Resetting SMC (how can you tell?) Apple Hardware Test (says no problems) Swapping RAM chips with a similar machine (no effect) Re-installing OS 10.6.3. (Seems to be O.K.) Booting in "Verbose Mode" (Stops at "Unable to read Block 16 17 18 19" etc) Booting in "Target mode" (this works!) Booting in "Safe mode" (this works too!) What is preventing it from booting, and how can I resolve this matter?
How can I replace a updated eBook (not via iBookstore) in Apples iBooks-App (on OS X or iOS) without loosing all the associated notes, bookmarks etc.?
Since a few weeks (maybe since updating from 11.3) my system (MacBook Pro Retina 13" 16 GB RAM) hangs for about 30 seconds every now and then. I am able to use the app where the focus is on, e.g. browser but I can not use the Dock or multitask or use any gestures.
Please help me as I do not want to reset the password. I inherited this mac and I do not know the admin password but i aslo dont want to change it
As there is no built in alarm clock in OS X, like in IOS, is there any way to set alarm clock via automator (playlist in iTunes), when Mac is in sleep mode and login password is required?
There used to be a way to get a direct link to a photo in iCloud and share it. I was surprised to see this still isn't possible from the photos app so i went to the iCloud website and i still can't get a direct link to an image. Is it possible to get a direct link to photo in iCloud that i can share with anyone?
My friend has developed an app and sent me the .ipa file. He wants me to install it on my phone. So I went into iTunes and dragged the ipa into the app section. Then I connected my phone to my computer, and made sure iTunes could access it. After that I went to the app section of my device info. I saw the ipa file I've imported earlier followed by an install button. I clicked on the install button and hit the apply button on the bottom. Now the app finishes copying to my phone and it does display properly in the device's app info's home screen section. But it is not appearing on the actual device. I tried restarting the phone, but that didn't help. I looked back at the row that displays the app, the button changed from 'install' to 'installing' but never changed to anything else. Any ideas? EDIT: I went into the storage settings and found out there is 40GB of storage left; after I press install it has 39.9GB left, so the app is definitely installed but just not displayed, I can't see i
My Macbook Air 13", Mid 2011, got heated and is slow in working. I noticed that CPU Die temperature reaches 90° C, is that normal? I've changed my fan recently but still get this issue.
I know this is because I did not check the "Mirror Displays" checkbox in the Display section of System Preferences. If I check "Mirror Displays", I can see my iPhone simulator and everything. But if I mirror the displays, I can't see the presenter's notes! If you don't understand what I mean, I summarised my question: What I want: (1) Be able to see my presenter's notes while the audience cannot. (2) The audience and I can both see the iPhone simulator window If I turn "Mirror Displays" off: (1) is achieved (2) is not (The audience can only see the desktop background) If I turn "Mirror Displays" on: (1) is not achieved (Both the audience and I cannot see the notes OR Both the audience and I can see the notes if I choose "Rehearse Slideshow") (2) is achieved How can I achieve both (1) and (2)? Note: I don't want to buy any adapters or cables or stuff like that.
An acquaintance of mine bought a used iPhone. The previous owner was a friend. They installed some apps that the new owner wanted, but used the previous owner's iTunes account for convenience. Now she has a new Macbook and wants to connect the iPhone to the iTunes running on it.
This morning I got the message "An error occurred while moving message to mailbox (null)". I discovered my entire mailbox is duplicated under Trash and under my Inbox. Anybody got any ideas on how to repair this?
I have a bunch of files that I don't need. I'm wondering what's taking up all the space. I am tempted to almost format the laptop and start fresh. What can I do to find out what is taking up all the disk space in my Macbook?
We got a recommendation to test our web application in Safari for OS X and iOS (iPad). Instead of using a MacBook/iPad will it be the correct way to confirm the compatibility of Safari OS X and iOS if I install Safari in Windows 7 and do testing? Or do I really have to use OS X/iOS only instead of Windows 7 to confirm Safari compatibility?
I have created for myself a build script to automatically import films into iTunes, making sure that they have compatible audio/video tracks. This generally means that if the input video track isn't H.264, it's converted to it, and if the input audio track isn't DTS, AC-3 or AAC, it's converted to a 2-channel AAC track. In the special case that the input video's audio track is DTS, AC-3 or multichannel AAC, then a second, 2-channel AAC track is added for compatible with iDevices and my Apple TV 3 (which isn't connected to a device which can decode DTS or AC-3).
On my Macbook Pro I connect to the Internet via Bluetooth on my iPhone, which does not work when connected to a WiFi network. How do I tell OSX to route WAN traffic over my Bluetooth connection, while still being able to communicate with other machines over WiFi?
I'm getting a permission denied when attempting to create or mount at /Volumes on my mac. I'm an admin and I can do both of those things with sudo, but I don't understand why I have to use sudo on this mac but not on other macs in my office. My thoughts are to use chown/chmod but I'm hesitant to do so without asking first.
I've recorded some actions and made an Automator workflow out of it. It's basically some clicks, selecting something in drop-down menues and quitting the app. I run the workflow at 10x speed, but it's still fairly slow. Is there a way to speed it up beyond 10x? It can also run in the background, invisibly, I don't need to see the steps. I don't know if it's possible.
..fades out, my entire computer's frame rate just seems to drop. For example when I'm playing Minecraft and I'm changing my brightness or volume, the FPS drops down to about 10 from 110. YouTube videos also go from 60FPS to around a few frames per second.
I have tried importing from a PDF, and using the insert tool. I tried copy and paste, I also tried converting the pdf to pptx then importing it. Each time, the figure is missing, and the caption is there. I need the figure, and the caption. I heard there is an easy way to import pdf figures to power-point, how can i do it?
I regularly put my 2010 Mac Pro under pretty heavy usage, maxing out the 12 core CPUs and GTX Titan Black. I can monitor the voltage and current using iStat Menus, but I'm looking for a specification of how much current is allowable for each device. The readings that concern me are Vcore, PVTT, PSU (PSMI), PCIe Slot and Boost.
This question is really more for my fellow computer scientists: how does the Put Back feature of the Trash directory work? I'm guessing the OS maintains some sort of index file which stores the path to the current location of the file before moving it to the Trash? Of course, this would be a bit more nuanced with non-empty directories...
The Finder displays nearby Computers and Devices in the left column whenever a network connection is present. Sometimes we let clients use our network when we discuss projects in meetings (aka they bring their Notebooks along). In some cases we would prefer if they couldn't see all the machines and devices in our network.
When I drag music into iTunes from the downloads folder, and then empty my downloads folder, the music is obviously no longer in iTunes because the source file was in my downloads folder. This is on Windows 7, but I don't think that's relevant. I think it's an iTunes setting/preference. How do I set it up so when I drag music into iTunes, it copies the music file to another folder, so I can empty my downloads folder?
I have a MacBook Pro 13 retina, which I've just recently started playing Call of Duty on, and I thought if I just blasted my fans the temperature would be kept in check. However, I only checked the actual temp. after playing a bit and it went between 96-100 C (204-212 F). I also have the laptop on raised off of my desk, so theres enough air flow as well. However, the fans don't seem to be enough. Could anyone recommend specific ways or products to cool down my mac? Thanks!
In my understanding, the 2010 Mac Pro is rated for 75W of power for each PCIe slot, plus 75W for each of the two 6-pin boost (aux) circuits. I know it's possible to exceed these limits, because I do it regularly. At what point does it have some effect, and what is that effect? I'd like a very specific answer, not just, "it crashes". My guesses: A thermal or power sensor trips and kills power to the offending circuit. A sensor trips and kills power to the whole PSU The motherboard traces melt and cause a fire The OS kills the process that is over-using the GPU
This terminal command sets the computer to sleep mode: How can I make the computer sleep for a specific amount of time, say 20 minutes? Do I need to issue a separate command to wake the computer up at a specific time? Thanks
I have a Gmail account. For years, it has sync'd very nicely with my Apple Mail folders. Now, several of my Mail folders are no longer syncing with their respective Gmail Label (folder). In some of these folders may show some of the emails stored in my Google Gmail account, but not all. Some other Mail folders are completely empty now despite the fact that their may be 100-150 messages stored in the respective Gmail Label (folder).
I have a late 2014 macbook pro, and i am trying to use my 21.5" iMac as just a display via the thunderbolt cable. But it doesn't seem to be working, what do I need to change to do so?
I was manually copying my photos from my iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3.1 onto my Windows 8 laptop and deleted all the .aae files associated with the various JPEGs before copying them over. I immediately found that the JPEGs associated with the .aae files were rendered unmovable and inaccessible. I understand that .aae files are used to keep a history of photo modifications so that one can revert if one wants in the future, but I didn't think they were integral to accessing my JPEGs as I've been able to delete them AFTER transferring them to my laptop before without issue. So now, I have a load of great pics I can't transfer and can't access. I also tried unplugging and replugging my iPhone to my laptop, but now the once-inaccessible JPEGs seem to have totally gone.
I found what appears to be a suitable guide here, but pfctl complains of a syntax error and "no IP address found for en3" which is my main interface. I have had other pf rules working successfully to forward ports, etc. but I cannot figure this out. I am on 10.11.4 and using Tunnelblick connected to a OpenVPN server i installed myself on a VPS.
I have just upgraded to El Capitan from Yosemite. Previously when holding down the option key I had the option to boot into Windows as I had installed this using Boot Camp. Now it doesn't give me that option.
I have a 4 years old iPhone 3GS that suddenly stopped working 1 and a alf years ago. It was already out of warranty so I preferred getting a new phone instead of reapiring it. But now I need to get its MAC address, however both on iCloud and using the backup I did on my pc some time ago, but I couldn't find any way to recover it? Is it written phisically on the board and opening the phone could be useful? I still have the serial number if that could help.
I'm on iOS 9.2 on an iPad air 2. I understand that since iOS 7 mail should open (for viewing) zip files directly.
Just updated to using the new iCloud-enabled iBooks for PDFs, etc. On my Macbook, I've also gone and fixed the metadata for all of the books, but it doesn't appear to sync that updated metadata to my iPhone (which is also iCloud-enabled for iBooks). Here's a screenshot from the Mac app:
Does the two folders ~/Library/Application Scripts/ and ~/Library/Scripts have different meanings? I’m considering where to put scripts for OmniFocus.
I need help with fixing an iPhone 6 plus. The user(my mom) accidentally booted the iPhone into recovery mode(not sure, but she says she's holding both power and home button) and leave the phone on as she didn't know how to exit recovery mode. After exiting recovery mode, it started to reboot, horizontal lines appeared on screen, pixels flashes, and the phone showed no sign of booting up. iTunes said the phone had some problems, and told me to update it. So far so good. But as iTunes was preparing the phone for update, display screwed up again and iTunes was stuck waiting for the phone.
How would I change it so that one account appears to the right of another in the login screen? I am using the latest software version on a Macbook Air.
Is there a way to retrieve my product key on my MacBook Pro? I purchased it from Amazon on August 19, 2011.
I have several images that I would like to strip the ColorSync profile from. Eventually, I would like to automate this in bash so I could easily process this on a file or folder from the contextual menu using an Automator service. How do I strip a color profile from an image file using Terminal?
My Macbook will drain of battery when it's not plugged in. I thought it was a bad battery (it says it needs serviced) but even if it's a bad battery it should not be taking power when the lid is closed and it's in a sleeping state. I figured it must be software since it's been software that sometimes prevents my computer from restarting (usually because I have an unsaved document): "Application X has prevented shut down of your computer."
Okay, here's the thing, I bought this Macbook Air at a thrift store a couple days ago, everything was fine when I checked, I could access the Mac and surf the web, but I noticed something when I tried to do get to "General" in settings, I needed an administrator name and password to get there, I looked more into this and I also can't install software on the computer. After doing some researching, this was the case of the Mac being used for school ( or it being a school computer ) so I went back to the place where I got the computer, and the store owner said it was non-refundable and someone brought it in a while back. I later found a fix for this, I could boot the Mac by holding command+R and factory reset it, but it requires a "firmware password", I have no idea how to get it, any suggestions? I've also read that pulling out the ram and reinserting it might reset or fix this, but I'm not sure if the Mac is "old enough" for that to work, thanks in advance for any help.
I'd like to monitor a fleet of machines and be notified when they fall off the Internet (independent of wifi access). Does OS X support this natively? Is there a go-to tool that IT folks use to accomplish this?
Currently, I'm using an iPhone 5s with ATT service. When I was up in the mountains for a concert, my phone was showing no service available, and all my calls were failing consistently. However, I would frequently get notifications from the Google inbox app about new emails. This also tends to happen when I turn off cellular data for the app (in my home area where there is perfect service) which sends me notifxations of new emails, but says no data when I launch it.
I'm on a late 2013 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Is there any way of disabling/enabling whether the display smoothly fades when the brightness keys are hit (F1 to lower, F1 to raise)? On my old computer, a late 2008 MacBook, it just snapped to the new brightness if I changed it in system preferences or used the Function Keys shortcut.
I use DragonDictate 5 on Mac OS X 10.10. Whenever I want to send a keyboard shortcut that comprises to keys, e.g. Command + C, I have to say press the key combo command C. Is there any shorter alternative, using voice commands? E.g. on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 Professional I simply have to say Press control C.
I accidentally ran this command and now I am missing 100gb of space, how can I get it back? All help appreciated!! Terminal gives this diskutil info: And this corestorage info: Partitioning will only allow me to change the 68gb and not the full 250gb.
I updated OSX last night to El Capitan and after the update, and restarting my iMac(2014) a few times, I cannot sign in with my Apple ID. The initial restart gave me the error: "This action could not be completed. Try again." I assumed I had forgotten my password, so I went through the procedure of resetting my password. I was then allowed access. When I then tried logging in to another service requiring an Apple ID (Mac App Store in particular), I get the error "This action could not be completed..."
For my Dad, who is losing sight, I'm looking for alternatives on the iPad for this: *=URL=* An electronic magnifier for magnifying paper articles. I found some alternatives in the appstore: *=URL=* But I'm wondering if there are more alternatives and do you have experience with likewise products?
When I restarted the computer, it could not find any OS and just displayed a flashing question mark. I tried starting the computer while pressing the usual special keys, but nothing worked. I gave up and went for 2 days of vacations, instead of being angry. I gave up and went for 2 days of vacations, instead of being angry. I just came back from vacations (after two days) and everything works fine. I just came back from vacations (after two days) and everything works fine. Update
I need to screen capture, either full screen or a selected area, for a long time; something in the order of 12 hours or more. I then need to compress that time down so anyone watching it can see the entire time-period over just a few minutes. Quality is really unimportant, we are simply watching for huge changes that should occur gradually over time, but for some reason are 'sticking' for hours, then jumping. I once tried this before using QuickTime, but I couldn't really figure out how to make it record at maybe 1 frame per minute but playback at a frame per second. Does anyone know if QuickTime can do this, or if not, of any software that can?
I restricted the iOS devices of my kids so they cannot install apps. This was necessary because it's not possible to revoke permissions given via family sharing.
What I want to achieve is simple: caps lock on = fn locked (use function keys). caps lock off = fn unlock (use media keys). I found a couple of topics around this problem, but their solutions didn't help me: Checking / unchecking the option "Use fn keys as standard" in the keyboard preference panel is what I want to achieve when pressing /unpressing the caps lock key. Others solutions, like the Functionflip program or remapping keyboard tools like Karabiner don't seem to be proposals to resolve my problem. Do you know programs or solutions that can achieve this? If not:
Anyone knows a way to get a one line weather output in the terminal window with specified location? So far I'm using curl wttr.in/city but I would like a one output like City, Sunny 0'. I've found something like this (first answer): https://askubuntu.com/questions/390329/weather-from-terminal
I have multiple Macs, all running El Capitain, and my login username on all of them is "Anon". When I have the Public folder from one machine mounted across a network on a different machine, that folder displays as "Anon's Public Folder".
I need to find a reliable way to save and restore the contents of NVRAM. Would this be correct? Preservation Recovery:
On the latest generation Apple TVs, you can add external buttons and set which button does what. The Siri button never appears. Why does it not appear?
I have a 13-inch MacBook Air, and have been using it for about a year now. There are 23.6 GB of memory that appear to be missing from my hard drive. About This Mac -> Storage shows 91GB of files, of which 61GB are "Other": The command df -h agrees, showing 91GB used (command output shown below): However, here the problem arises, as when I examine the disk, only 67.4GB are actually used:
Since I noticed TimeMachine continuously backing up large files, I had a look with tmutil compare to see where those files are located. Since I had not worked on my mac book air but used it to listen to music I suspected the iTunes library. As it turns out TimeMachine is continuously backing up /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/.
For a school project, I need to record a video (60 fps) with audio recorded only from the bottom mic. The default Camera app seems to use all 3 mics while video recording, which creates a distorted sound. Is there a video recording app which allows controlling which mic to use? I am using iPhone 6
The only problem is that it's off by one page. For example, if the intended view is the following: what Preview shows is this:
Properties say that it is a physical volume and it's not using CoreStorage. This is the output of diskutil list command:
I had Windows 10 Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro 15" 2015. I just tried to remove the Bootcamp with Bootcamp assistant by clicking "restore" and it gave me an error saying "The disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." So I followed instructions given by this answer and I deleted the Bootcamp partition using Disk Utility.
I'm trying to install Mavericks from a bootable USB. I'm using this guide; *=URL=* I delete El Capitan in disk utility, but there is no 'Install OS X', merely 'Reinstall OS X', which asks me to reinstall El Capitan. Where is the option to roll back to previous operating systems? EDIT: This is on an early 2015 model Apple Air.
I have a dozen or so mp4 files I downloaded from youtube. I would like to put these onto a DVD for a relative (He only has a DVD player, no PC or USB slot on tv)
I use Reminders simply as a set of todo lists. Today I created a reminder to "buy a shirt, size 14-1/2 32/33", and Reminders added a due date of "2016-01-14 12:00" (not sure how it calculated that exactly). This addition of unwanted reminder dates commonly happens with other inputs, too (though I don't have another example before me at present). Is there an app pref I could set through Terminal to disable this feature? Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
I am using a Mac. How can I use a command to delete all files in ~/Downloads whose dates added are greater than 1 year?
I'd like to configure an always-on VPN on my iPhone and as always Apple's absurdity gets in the way. Specifically, they require to put the device in supervised mode, which requires Apple Configurator running on a Mac. I don't have any and I do not plan to buy one in the near future. I've searched around and it seems like some MDM services allow provisioning of the devices from Windows, which means the supervision process of Apple Configurator has been reverse-engineered. Now, I'd like to know if there's other Windows or Linux software that allow switching devices into supervised mode, or at the very least some documentation about the process so I can write my own code to do it.
This Apple ad shows an Apple Watch app that lets you compete with friends. What app is this? My guess is that it is some third party app since other ads feature third party apps but others say it is a leak of upcoming Apple Watch functionality. YouTube: Apple Watch — Chase
Messages is open and working, but not the active application. I get a text, the top right hand notification comes in. I want to go to the Messages app so I click the notification and get this error. The application “Messages” can’t be opened.
Currently on iOS 9.1, iPhone 6s Installed biteSMS (8.0.3 I think) via Cydia to see if it will work and after respring, I got stuck in boot loop screen. Restarted the phone, no luck, still stuck. Cannot restore on Itunes to 9.1 b/c those are not longer signed as of December. The error is b/c of biteSMS and I'm wondering what I can do. Tried editing hosts file, no luck. If all else fails, I'm guessing I'll have to restore and update to 9.3.1 :( Any help appreciated.
I just received a new wireless controller (Livid Minim) that works over Bluetooth MIDI. It works fine with my iOS devices, but won't connect to my Mac at all. I'm using a 2011 iMac running OSX Mavericks and will not be upgrading (A previous attempt to upgrade to Yosemite was disastrous and lost my entire system, had to restore from a complete disk image I took before the upgrade)
From the Photos app in iOS 9.3.1, Dropbox does not appear in the list of places where I can share photos. I've tried clicking on the three dots at the right of both activities bars, and Dropbox is not an option in either list. The various guides I Googled all suggested that if I had the latest version of Dropbox installed, it should show up in this list. I've looked at the settings within the Dropbox app, and I've also looked at the Dropbox settings from the iOS settings app, and in neither place did I see any kind of switch to enable it to appear as an activity.
In the past when I was sitting near my laptop (from early 2015) with the Photos app open on my iPhone (from fall 2014), when I would tap share a picture, my laptop would show up in AirDrop. Now it is not showing up anymore! From my laptop when I click on AirDrop from the Finder, my phone appears, and I am able to share files from my laptop to the phone. From my laptop when I click on AirDrop from the Finder, my phone appears, and I am able to share files from my laptop to the phone. I have confirmed that Bluetooth and Wifi are enabled for both devices. I have confirmed that Bluetooth and Wifi are enabled for both devices.
On OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I am trying to add a word to the Kotoeri lookup dictionary. It is a name that does not come up when you type the Hiragana. The way to do it pre-10.10 no longer works. How can I add the word?
I'm trying to download all of the photos off of iCloud and onto my phone. I have gone onto Settings-iCloud-photos-Download and Keep Originals, but it doesn't seem to have downloaded any of them. I tried turning off iCloud photo library, but, in the warning, it tells me that 411 photos(all of them) haven't been downloaded. Does anyone know of a way to download them to the phone?
Why is my desktop showing this on the bottom left and how do I turn it off?  This is not part of my wallpaper, it's something Mac OS X is showing, I think it's something to do with OS X Server which is no longer installed, or something to do with remote access but I don't know.
Last night I got an issue with my MacBook Pro. After updating the OS to El Captain it shows the 50+ GB storage space for the Apps section. But after a couple of hours it shows 160 GB space. It's totally abnormal because OS capacity is not like 100+ GB, I didn't even install any other high capacity apps like Photoshop etc.. After I checked the forums thoroughly I installed an app called DaisyDisk to analyse the disk space. But the thing is it shows my filled hard disk space is 50 +GB . Now I'm struggling with these issue.
In my Pictures directory I have Photos Library.photoslibrary and iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary. When I open Photos all my images from iPhoto on Mavericks appear to be there. Do I need to keep the iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary?
I try to compact Time Machine disk image but i can't find it. TM is in BackupDisk. I think result of this last command should end up with ".sparsebundle".
I have a very large file to download, and I want to download it directly to an external hard drive and not to the download folder on my c: drive. Is there a way I can do this? There only appears to be two options, open or download. I can only find answers here for extracting zip files, not for downloading directly.
After having a jailbroken iPhone for a while, I wanted a clean version of iOS 9.3.1. So i followed all the steps in iTunes to achieve this. But when the little black bar on the iPhone was filled up it restarted into the iTunes recovery logo.
(The spoton-command is an alias for "sudo mdutil -a -i on") However, i tried to exclude also explicitly the subfolder "Backups.backupdb": The weird output is: Please note: "Indexing enabled".
I have done a foolish thing. I deleted private/var folder due to malware I was after. I immediately felt that strange things are beginning to happen so I pressed cmd+Z to reverse action. The computer frezzed so I shut it and rerun it. Now I cant relaunch it, because it shuts down while it is loading into my user account.
Is .Trashes folder suppose to be empty when computer is launched in single-user mode. If not, how do I see its contents? I tried ls command, but it doesn't list anything. It could be that the Trash simply is empty, but due to an error I am working on, I cannot login into my user account to check it myself.
I have entered Single user mode like 5min ago. Meanwhile I shut down the computer, tried to get back to Single user mode my pressing cmd+S and it doesnt work. It outputs the error saying Builduser() Error building user of type 0xffsomethinggoeshere
Is there a way to define (OSX natively, or alternatively: through some program) a global keyboard shortcut for a single letter plus diacritic, say: ctrl+alt+A gives "ä", ideally globally? Note: I am aware of various ways to access diacritics faster (e.g. the "key repeat" diacritics menu), but I'd like to know if there's some way to get the exact behavior described above. Does anyone knows if this is possible in OSX, and if so, how? (EDIT) Thanks to a comment, I realize I should clarify my question. I don't really care which modifier key I have to press, but what I want to do is:
I want to use an SSH connection to upload large photo files to a server. FTP taking 10 minutes per photo. Someone suggested SSH; I have managed to get the computer connected to the server, but I don't know what to do next. Shouldn't there be a window showing available files both local and remote server? Shouldn't I be able to drag and drop from local to specific folder on server? Where is this??? Thanks for anything helpful.
When I run the command on the home brew website, I get: However, I see no reason for this, as I am an admin on my computer.
For example, to reduce a song's rating by half a star when you skip it (and/or increase it by half when you don't?). Not sure if this would involve creating a new application or if somehow there's an easy way to do it. Thanks!
Because of security (malware) I run two ad blockers. System wide proxy Privoxy and browser plugin Adblock Edge. I wish to download WineBottler 1.8-rc4 Development
I have subscriptions of both Apple Music and iTunes Match, but I was wondering if I can cancel iTunes Match... What will happen if I cancel iTunes Match? Will I still have the benefits of iCloud Music?
I am thinking of purchasing this little fella *=URL=* and (also) using it as an external monitor to my MacBook Pro (mid 2014). Is it possible?
I don't use the internal hard drive on my iMac any more, but for obvious reasons, it's awkward to remove it. I'd like to stop OS X from automatically mounting it when the iMac boots. Is this possible? I didn't see anything in Disk Utility that looked appropriate. I know I can unmount it myself, but I'd prefer if it were never mounted in the first place.
I am using Messages on both Macs & iPhones and I am typing a lot of E-mails. Within all these environment I am used to the normal behaviour of the return key. Within Messages this key doesn't behave as a return key thus causing me to prematurely send truncated messages.
I have a USB keyboard where I swapped my Cmd and Ctrl keys, because I come from the world of Linux and that's just what I'm used to. However, this causes a problem in the Terminal because all of a sudden the Ctrl key (used for escapes and whatnot [^C, ^D, and so on]) is in the wrong place. As a result, I keep accidentally pressing the wrong key. Is there a way to swap my Cmd and Ctrl keys again only in Terminal (so that the keys are all in the right place)?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display and a Late 2012 21" iMac. I just purchased a Henge Docks Vertical Dock, to use at home, and the plan is to pop my MacBook Pro in and then use the iMac in Targeted Display Mode.
a few months a go, I opened my iPad to see my screen half blacked half works. I'm not sure what happened.. I attached a pic of its condition.
Thinking of getting rid of my laptop and using my iPhone / iPad / Apple TV 4 to access files on the PC now by getting a 2TB Time Capsule. Will I be able to edit photos, view and edit spreadsheets, etc. on the TB with an iPad Pro as if it is a hard drive? Assuming this is done on my home WiFi network only.
(4) Update the /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist file on the SSD boot disk to match that on the MacBook Pro 12,1 based on advice offered at this URL. Now when I attempt to boot from the SSD, I get slightly further - in fact I get past the 'No Access' screen, and I make it to the expected grey screen with the Apple logo; however, at that point things simply hang (in fact the spinning wheel never appears below the apple logo like i would expect).
Since I installed the most recent Apple Watch software version (early April, 2016) the temperature no longer appears on the watch face (-- appears), yet when I press the temperature (on the Apple Watch), it successfully loads the weather channel data. Why does the temperature no longer appear on the watch face?
In my living room I have a wireless router, the “main” router. One of its ethernet port is connected to a powerline (TL-PA4010KIT). In my bedroom I’ve another powerline connected to an AirPort Express (AP). If my brother uses his laptop (Minecraft & Skype) through wireless near to the main router in the living room my AP acts really strange like if it can’t get an IP or the main router DHCP goes nuts and it cant assign an IP to it. And as a result I can’t extend the network. My AP is Extending Wi-Fi networks over Ethernet (roaming) and it works quite well when my brother isn't side-by-side with the router (btw, shouldn't the problem persist if he is near or far?) If my brother uses his laptop away of the main router or in his bed room (using my AP extension) everything works well. What’s happening and how can we prevent this? Thanks. EDIT, user Tyson questions: Is the AP configured with static IP in the same subnet as the main router but outside the main routers DHCP range? No, but act
I have set up two IMAP email accounts on 1 Iphone. Both accounts are set to send via their respective outgoing email server. The first account sends emails properly. The second account tries to send outgoing email via an old mail server that no longer exists.
Today I faced really tight situation on my Mac with Skype (yes, again!) - it went unresponsive, and was not reacting on standard shortcuts, and I wasn't managed to close the app by standard means. I tried to use the keyboard combo: ⌘ Command + ⌥ Option + Esc simultaneously, but it haven't open the "Force Quit" dialog this time.
I have a WiFi printer that does not support AirPrint. Currently, I use a linux system with CUPS to share that printer to my iOS devices. I'm thinking about replacing this linux box with an Apple TV for media playback, and it would be great to keep the print support too. I understand tvOS allows third-party apps to be written and installed using Xcode, so are there any existing apps that can do this? Or would it be possible to create one?
When I log into my computer I get this message from my calendar program: What does this mean and how do I fix it?
As I understand the iPhone Upgrade Program: A 64GB iPhone 6S bought upfront costs $749, and AppleCare+ costs $129, for a total of $878. A 64GB iPhone 6S bought on the iPhone Upgrade Program (which includes AppleCare+) is $36.58/month for 24 months ($877.92), but you can trade in your iPhone for a new iPhone after 12 months (having paid only $438.96) if you commit to another 24 months of payment for the new iPhone.
I'm trying to resucitate a discarded 2013 11″ MacBook Air with no internal drive and hence no OS. The Apple Store Genius bar tested it and found the only problems to be the missing drive and broken display backlight.
I'm trying to compile thttpd 2.27 on Mac OS X 10.11 from source, but when I issue: It shows: I try to search online, someone said I should copy some files from /usr/share/libtool/config* but the path does not exist in Mac OS X 10.11. How can I resolve this problem?
The Sent Mail.mbox directory only has a .plist file in it even though there are thousands of sent messages. Doing a file count on the All Mail.mbox makes clear that that is literally all the mail (sent, received, drafts, etc) Looking at the .emlx header it is not obvious what would differentiate one from the other.
I write some scripting and I want to make it work on Linux and Mac. The problem is, that "Implementations of sed, readlink, zcat, etc. are different on OS X and Linux."
Already filed a bug in Apple's bug reporter, ID is 25949722 What I want to do is to set Canary as default browser, but when I opened system preferences, I cannot see any browsers listed. What's wrong with my Mac (OS X 10.11.4 - El Capitan)?
How I can force El Capitan to use SMB3 (I have heard it perform better than this)? Windows machines connect and list files fast but OS X machines are terribly slow and becoming nonuse because there might be thousands of files and folders to list. When I run in console: I get the following:
There is an item named Availability Panel in Calendar:  When I open it this message is shown: This calendar does not support availability.
I was downloading clash royale . First it asked me my password. Then it said verification required for app purchase. I can download the apps which i have downloaded before and deleted.
Is there a tool that could be used to mirror an iPhone screen via browser. What i need is to provide someone a URL and when that URL is opened in browser he could see a mirroring of my iPhone?
I have a pdf exported from a Pages document, and I want to be able to click a section in the Table of Contents to scroll to that section. Is this possible to achieve in Pages? Thanks
I'm installing El Capitan on a MacBook Air that I aquired with no internal drive, so no previous OS. I proceed through several steps fine until "Create a Computer Account".
I want to transfer files in Recovery Mode *=URL=* I opened Terminal in Recovery Mode and tried to copy files to external hard drive. I use this code
So, on a Yosemite system, I enabled Remote Login (ssh) and added a specific user. When I ssh as this user, my home directory defaults to /var/empty. Was I supposed to do anything else to enable a correct Home directory? (Note that the system has an Active Directory network account server.)
I am running in recovery mode to save the data from disk( I cant login due to deletion of private/var folder). I opened Terminal and went to Volumes. This folder should be populated with the Macintosh HD subfolder. It isn't. It just lists the OS X Base System, the external hard drive I have connected and .Trashes. I ran First Aid on Macintosh HD Parent folder called APPLE SSD... in Disk Utility panel. Nothing changed. How can I copy the data if there is no Macintosh HD to navigate to? This is the output from diskutil list
I understand that I can get the 2048x1280 resolution through scaling, but wanted to know if I can get the retina crispy feel at a higher resolution than the "More Space" option Apple give us. I've tried the following, no success: SwitchResX Retina DisplayMenu (used to be SetResX) scrutil ChangeResolution
Appreciate any help. I have tried the following with little satisfaction:
I was trimming a just recorded Voice Memo and accidentally kept the part I wanted to delete instead. Is there any way to get the original file back?
When I try to use wget, I am getting this error message: I have reinstalled wget using homebrew (brew reinstall wget), I updated and upgraded my homebrew, however this hasn't helped.
I was able to download my camera roll but not my photo stream. how do I download my photo stream?
I'm trying to install a custom keyboard layout I made in Ukelele that makes extensive use of dead keys and Unicode special characters. Ukelele seems to work fine and installation works for test keyboard layouts that contain fancy unicode characters. (By installation I mean copying the file into /Library/Keyboard Layout/, restarting, and checking System Preferences.) But the keyboard I actually want is never appears in System Preferences. I've tried overwriting a test keyboard that was found with the .keylayout file, resulting in the found keyboard vanishing from the list of keyboards in System Preferences. I've tried opening the console log and looking for XML errors and I don't see any; similarly I've run the file through a web service to check the XML which didn't turn up any problems. My best guess is that there's some problem with the XML produced by heavy editing, but I'm not finding it. How do I fix this?
I would like to lock my OSX screen at any time, irrespective of whether "Immediately" is configured in the general tab in Security & Privacy settings. Is this possible? Thanks
i wonder which of the two components (CPU & FAN) is more durable in a Macbook Pro Retina 2015 (13 inch). I am asking because i am doing a lot of compiling on my machine and it gets very hot (up to 100°C) frequently. The fan seems to kick in a bit late in my opinion. Sometimes i hit the 105°C and then the fan starts blowing at full power. Now i was thinking of using a manual curve setup for the fan, like 100% power at 95°C.
There is a command to erase a file without send it to the trash? I am pretty sure that i don't need some files anymore. I want to clean my storage. Do I need to send those files to the trash?
The last release time to TestFlight was: 30 seconds build time. 4 minutes uploading a 5mb binary. 19 minutes waiting for iTunesConnect to make it available.
"The Revenant" is clearly labeled on the iTunes store as 5.1 surround. But after purchasing and playing the HD Rental (yes it was fully buffered) it only output in stereo on Windows 10. The Netflix app outputs 5.1 surround correctly, and so do games, and so do 5.1 surround sound music downloads played through VLC, so I know my set up is correct.
I have iMovie '11 and wish to export an iMovie project to a mov file that I can import into another iMovie project. How can I do this?
My daughter lost or had her phone stolen. I do not believe she had her find my phone on. She went on to find friends through the icloud and it is showing a location for her phone. We are wondering if this is actually where her phone is. Or what is the app basing this information on.
So, I recently did an update on OSX, booted my computer up and I discovered that I the update replaced my EFI boot rom and the SMC with the incorrect SMC, so now I can't use my battery and the computer is generally acting very strange. I have looked all over the internet for some kind of answer on how to resolve this with no luck, or the solutions i have seen / found have been outdated and not appropriate for my Macbook Pro. So essentially I have a Macbook Pro 13" late 2011 8,1 running OSX 10.9.5 the EFI and SMC for this is meant to be: EFI MBP81.0047.2AB (2015-001) SMC: 1.68f98 (SMC 1.5) However, the SMC and EFI that I am seeing is this: EFI: MBP81.0047.B2A (2015-001) SMC: 1.68f99 (SMC 1.6) Which is for the Macbook Pro 17" Early 2011 8,3. Does anyone out there know how to resolve this I'm losing my mind over this since Apple refuse to tell me how to do it and the only option they are providing me with is a new Logic board, which we all know is not necessary. I would genuinely apprecia
Say, I purchased an iPhone (not from Apple or any official reseller.) How do I know that it's not Jailbroken?
I'm not even trying to sync apps. I only want to sync one movie. When I try to sync, I get this error message.
This may seem like an odd question, but it's one I've been wondering for quite a while. There is an old trick to get access to a console by typing >console as the username in the login window. However, since 10.7 (I think) this feature has been broken, and the console will become unusable after a few minutes. Which makes me wonder - is there any way to more permanently enable a text-mode login?
I could just do Cmd-Shift-4 and draw them out, but that would take forever and kill my hand doing that 500 times. Is there a screenshot app/utility out there for Mac that would allow me to set a specific size of a fixed box and just allow me to quickly take screenshots over and over just moving the box around on the screen?
I need to restore my Apple Mail messages and mailboxes from Time Machine. Where can I find these files on Time Machine?
After I had been here about a week, I went for a country trek and tried to use GPS. iPhone could not get a fix in ten minutes or more. It did work when I arrived (I tracked my route to get here) with the cell off (airplane mode). I was standing in the open waiting for it to get a fix which it never did though a Garmin I had with me had acquired more than ten satellites, five with max power.
Can I update my iPad if it hasn't been done for a couple of years to 9.3.1? I haven't updated in a long time and it's currently at 7.1.2.
I've been having problems with iMessaging on my Macbook Pro (iCloud account issues, which Apple support hasn't been able to fix over three support calls) for over a year. I really need to send texts and iMessages from my laptop (it works on my iPhone and iPad fine). Is there a non-Apple application I can use for this? I can see multiple reasons why one would not exist, but I thought I should ask. Thanks!
I need an Automator/Applescript to move a file to a certain folder based on a specific tag it contains. The input would be the file. Anybody have any ideas? TIA, Jake
I am looking to create a launchd job that will execute Monday through Friday at 7:32am, 8:32am, and 2pm. Do I really need a plist that has an array of 15 <dict> elements for every combination of Weekday + Hour:Minute? Is there no shorthand to repeat like cron syntax has? Haven't found any examples or docs that say so, I just don't believe this is preferable over a simple dual crontab like 32 7,8 * * 1-5 script >> /tmp/logfile and 0 14 * * 1-5 script >> /tmp/logfile
I want to get a growl notification any time my internet connection changes state - for instance, when wifi comes online, wifi goes offline, or when I switch from wifi to wired. I would love it if there was already an app out there that did this, but I'm definitely open to home-baked solutions. Any pointers?
I don't even know where to begin with this, but a while back I tried getting apple music and it worked, but I somehow messed up my iCloud because I changed my email. My iCloud on my iPhone has my new email, but I can't change it on my mac, and it says my password is wrong when I type it in to my old email for my iCloud. So now I can't use my laptop without something from my iCloud system preferences popping up telling me something's wrong.
There is a left column in calendar.app with calendar list in it, but it's a little narrow for me. It's possible to change it's width. But if close it, than close calendar.app, and than open it again, the width will be reset to default. Is it possible to change the default width of left column?
I use iTunes File Sharing (on Windows) to share a password file with an iOS app KeePassMini. I am not sure if this is a one-time thing or if iTunes copies the files whenever it changes. Ideally, iTunes would copy the file back from the device if it was changed on the device and copy it again to the device if the file was changed on the client.
I'm trying to create a Mac app bundle, So I did this, But when I do open android.app, it prompts me The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing.
This is not about authoring the DVD (not similar to this question): just want to insert the DVD in a laptop, start it in a video player, and then add a separate subtitle that I have myself found. (Some DVD movies contain no subtitles - or some subtitles may be needed that are not on the DVD.)
Synopsis I have been having trouble With my MacBook Pro (Mid '12, 15") I deployed tonnes of work Sunday evening/early hours Monday morning before I went to bed, leaving my MacBook running but locking screen.
I want to update my git Bitbucket online storage with apple script. This is the code that works in Terminal, but not when i run apple script. crafted into apple script:
Currently I have two partitions with data on them I would like to keep (marked with a *): Now I would like to install Windows on /dev/disk0s5. However, since the partition is GPT Windows cannot be installed. Is there a way to create my own MBR/GPT hybrid like the Bootcamp-Assistant does? /dev/disk0s5 would then be MBR and the rest still GPT. Output of sudo fdisk /dev/disk0: Output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0: My system: MacBook Pro 2011, OS X El Capitan
community Is there an IOS app that allows you to capture photos every X seconds and automatically saves it in the camera roll (not like a time lapse that puts it in a single video)
I right clicked an important email, and accidentally clicked "archive". I am not even sure what that's supposed to do, archiving sounds like it should keep it but the opposite happened. I was able to find it in ~/Library/Mail/.../Archive.mbox, but it doesn't appear in the Mail Application. Is it possible to get it "listed" again?
First, do anybody have a theory why would the router stop receiving packets and answers connections for short periods of times (It's a brand-new TP-Link Archer C9)? I checked the light-indicators on the router and everything seemed fine...
I want to hide the text under the name of the contact in the Messages app. So in the example below, it would be the text that is below the name Matt Brian.
When I started working at this company, they gave me a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) hardly customized (new SSD, 8GB RAM, etc...) and 2 years after that it's getting kind of slow. It was another coworker's old laptop, so it has tons of her stuff: software, private files (they only changed the username to give it to me LOL), etc... so I think it's time to factory-reset it! But it's my first Mac, I've been using Windows and Unix for 25 years and I've never faced this challenge. This computer has a lot of software licences which may be or may not be in a safe place outside the computer (for example, I asked our computer maintenance guy where's my Photoshop's and Office's license key and he has no clue... classic) so I'd like to cherry pick some Applications, backup them and then re-install the backup after the factory reset. I know it's possible to backup the full hard drive, but it's this cherry picked backup even possible for my computer? Do I need third-party software to accomplish
I have several directories that I want to quickly access in Terminal. And sometimes even in the finder. I would like to be able to hit an icon in the menu bar and have it drop-down a list of folders and files. When I release the mouse I would like the path to be typed out in terminal or a text editor if that's what I am using. If I am in the Finder, I would like the enclosing folder to open.
Don’t back up sensitive data to a network disk if you don’t trust the network administrators who control the disk. Instead, select a backup disk that’s under your own control, such as an external disk connected to your Mac.
Is there a 3rd party app or combination of system settings and scripts that dims a secondary monitor until focus is brought to a window displayed on it? I like having multiple monitors but I would work better if there were a strong contrast between the two, where the contrast would invert based on which monitor had focus. (I can and do manually adjust the brightness when I know I won't need anything on the secondary monitor for awhile). Running El Capitan with primary of a Thunderbolt display and secondary of a Macbook Pro. I have looked at questions such as Show a screensaver on a secondary display and Adjust brightness of secondary display and have a sense that some of the tools might, with a additional scripting, get me close to what I'm looking for, but I am hoping someone has already solved this specific issue.
I set someone's e-mail address as VIP, but lately his e-mails end up in the junk folder. Is there any way in the mail app to prevent a certain address's e-mails to be marked as junk?
I've been trying to transition from Apple Photos to a plain folder tree (and then use dropbox). For this to be useful, one needs a good naming scheme.
I need to replace the ribbon with the 2 contact points for the home button, I can't find it, all that comes up is the home button its self, any help appreciated.
I have written an AppleScript application and when running, it appears in the Dock, however I would like it to have it in the menu bar, at the top of the screen, instead. How can I achieve this? Is there some code I need to add to it so it can appear in the menu bar?
I am trying to free up space and want to delete the podcast and ibooks apps. I went into settings-restrictions and lifted restrictions for these apps but still can't delete them. How is it possible to delete these apps?
In the iPad settings I can change the text size to a bigger font. This doesn't change the font size of the back buttons and the search field. How can I change those?
I downloaded OS X El Capitan from the app store to create a bootable usb drive and now that I am done, I dont know how to delete it. There is no un-install option in the app store. How can I delete the downloaded OS X from my macbook?
How do you associate magnet links with Deluge BitTorrent Client on OS X? On other systems, you can associate magnet links with the client through Preferences, but this does not seem to be the case with OS X.
There is something very frustrating I am trying to figure out for a few days. My MacBook Pro has a 500 GB hard drive. It had Mac OS 10.6.8. There was a Windows7 installation done some time ago via Bootcamp and I was able to switch between it and Mac OS without any problems. Mac OS partition had around 180 GB and the rest was for Windows.
So I sign up for iTunes Match and expected to see all my music storage- on my phone-go down to zero Gb, so i could use the storage space for other things. Naive i guess. So am I correct that every time i want to listen to something on my Cloud Music/iTunes Match, that it downloads to my phone and then stays there taking up storage?? And can I, every so often,n just delete that Music storage under General settings>Storage>Music and wipe it back to zero? Is there a downside on doing this? I was hoping to use my recouped storage space from music for stuff like more photos or other.
I have been working on an Excel document for 6 hours and it has saved in an auto recovery file that I cannot access. I have reassured that I need to go to finder and select go. However I have a macbook pro and there is no go option in Finder. Please help
Restart + option so boot manager successful boot. However, drivers are horrible. Network does not work over wlan, eth0 (usb tethering).
I have a workplace setup for my Macbook Pro 15" (2011) that is actually two workplaces. One is the Macbook itself, for sitting. The second, right next to it, is a standing desk with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This works great - I can work on the standing desk, and when my legs get tired, sit down for a while and continue seamlessly on the Macbook. The only painful point in the transition is that I have to physically disconnect the external display (an Acer 23" display connected through a MiniDP-to-HDMI cable) when sitting down, so the Macbook display becomes the main (and only) desktop again. Given that I may do this several times a day, this is bound to wear out the connector over time, something I'd like to avoid.
I only recently upgraded from iOS 8 to iOS 9 on my iPhone, mostly because I hadn't bothered. So far there are a few things I like, a few things I don't, but it's not a big deal either way, except for one thing; my ability to compose text messages has been severely crippled.
Using Terminal on OS X 10.11.4, initializing Terminal opens a new window running bash (by default). As I understand it, inputting echo $SHELL should output the shell that said command is submitted to. So, why do I get this output after switching from bash to tcsh?
So sometimes my Mac loses its connection to the Internet. When I'm in front of it physically I can use the terminal and do the following to repair it: type my password then: and type my password again.
I added the pre-release profile to my primary iPhone so that I could use Night Shift. I considered the stability risk a fair trade off, because f.lux significantly improves my life, and I wanted that benefit on my iPhone as well. iOS 9.3 is out now, and I'm currently on a stable version. I don't need any pre-release features anymore but, I still get prompted to update to new beta versions. To prevent this, I've removed the profile in Settings.app, but the update prompts continue to appear. How can I re-enter the "stable releases only" upgrade path?
Is there a native OS X app that allows me to see my Google calendar?
I know in the Settings app, it says 30 fps. But after importing the video files to a computer, QuickTime 7 and X both identify it as 29.98 [sic]. MediaInfo calls it as 29.97. DaVinci Resolve calls it 30.00. Which is correct, and is it drop-frame or non-drop?
I have 2 known networks that I have signed into at my house. One is stronger at one side of the house and one is stronger at the other. Is there any way that they automatically switch to the strongest wifi signal instead of staying on one?
I want to hide TOP HIT, FOLDERS and DEVELOPER catalogues. The only item I expect is DEFINITION. Is there any way to do this? Here is my current preference, but it doesn't work.
This is strange. I formatted my 16 GB USB drive on OS X El Capitan with FAT file system and it worked fine. However, same drive on Windows 7 PC shows only 200 MB of size. Where the heck other drive size gone? I reformatted it with EXFAT this time and no problem of size on El Capitan but again it shows only 200 MB size available on PC. Tried to format it again with Windows this time but no help. Where all of my USB size gone? I had no issues formatting and using it properly on Yosemite or Mavericks. Any suggestions??
On a MacBook Pro (the office's, I'm a noob), I started the upgrade process from Mavericks to El-Capitan from the app store. After a while, the screen locked as, I assume, is usual. But now I cannot log back in. I typed my user's password in and hit enter, nothing. I tried hitting the the little arrow button to the right of the password and nothing. It's not frozen as the mouse still works, no beachball, I can clear the password. I clicked on the Cancel and Switch User buttons which appear to activate, but then did nothing. That was the case for quite a while, then I tried clicking the Switch User button again, and the desktop rotated like a cube and now gives me a light grey screen.
I have looked through Preferences, System Preferences, even looked at a couple of 3rd-party apps. I could find nothing of use. So is it still possible to change the color of chat bubbles (and text) in Messages, like you could in Mavericks, or not?
I need to know what applications are installed or were installed on devices which are associated with iTunes account. I don't have access to the devices. Is it possible?
I got this question is secure boot enabled? but I do not know how to check it in my Macbook Air 2013-mid with El Capitan 10.11.4. How to check if security boot is enabled in OS X?
In JetBrains's IDEs there is a option to launch custom commands while staying on breakpoint. Is there same functionality in XCode?
I am trying to do a clean install of El Capitan on my Mac mini but it seems that restarting while holding the Option key does not work. I guess it's a Bluetooth issue, and keyboard signals are too late. So, I wonder is there any way to make this happen?
I am salvaging a mid 2013 MacBook Air 11" that was discarded with a broken screen backlight due to beverage spill and missing its SSD. (I have a very tiny budget right now so I'm only spending on more expensive items when my testing shows the machine might work well.) I got the Apple Store to test the hardware then tested the computer myself by taking about two days to install OS X from one USB 2.0 flash drive to another USB 2.0 flash drive using an external display.
Some website requires the user to "crop" the photo, but sometimes you'd like to keep it original. Using OS X alone, can a a 500 x 640 photo be enlarged to 640 x 640 (with white or black bars at the left and right), without installing additional apps? (this can be viewed as, creating a 640 x 640 black image, and the pasting the 500 x 640 photo onto it).
When I receive a notification from an app which does not have a corresponding Watch app, the short look notification displays an upscaled app icon. I notice this mainly with Facebook and Instagram. Surely this is a bug?
I am using JavaScript for Automation in an Alfred workflow. I want to access the various environment variables that Alfred sets up. How do I access the environment variable like alfred_version?
I'm facing a strange problem on my iPhone with the email signature in a reply. Whenever I send a new email, the signature appears at the bottom of the new mail (as it should be):
I need to exclude Time Machine path /Volumes/somedrive/Backups.backupdb from the results of find. I currently use the following code, but it generates massive logs as it finds and includes all files in the Time Machine folder: I tried some examples from this site but I can't figure it out. How I can use find and exclude certain paths?
I use outlook app on iPhone for work email/calender/contacts. The app is great however iPhone does not recognize incoming number that is matching a saved contact inside outlook app. So the phone only show the phone number instead of contact name. is there any setting I need to enable? Thanks, /S
As I can check system processes in activity monitor, it is around 76 process running in my mac. As I assume if number of running system processes increases then it impacts on Mac speed. If number of running system processes is high then Mac speed will poor , if it is nearest to average running process then Mac speed can be fair , if it minimum then speed will be excellent Can anyone recommend or help me to identify that least number of system process and average system process runs in Mac.
I have re-added my keyboard that I am using, which does not fix the problem. I have the same problem on my built-in keyboard as well as my USB keyboard.
I have turned OFF the "Upload Burst Photos" option in both Camera and iCloud settings, but they are still always uploaded to my Photo Stream. I absolutely do not want such photos to upload automatically, I want to always have to manually upload anything that was originally captured in burst mode.
I commonly set custom keyboard shortcuts in System Prefs. I tried setting a shortcut (command-shift-a, mirroring command-shift-j to move to junk) for Mail app to move messages to archive, since the default shortcut is rather weird (command-control-a).
Is it possible to change Downloads folder in Google Chrome (or any other browser) on the fly, based on the website from which I download? Example: I start downloading on facebook.com and it downloads the file in ~/Downloads/Facebook. If I start the download from stackoverflow.com than the file is downloaded into ~/Downloads/Stackoverflow.
I have a MacBook Pro late 2012 with OS X El Capitan. Recently the number keys have become very flaky. Most of the time they're not working. They do work at times though, and it's the whole row from 1 to 9. 0 is working fine. And I'm using the Keyboard Viewer as a workaround.
We have an iPad that we use as our POS at work. I want to disable the private browsing function to be able to make sure people are not browsing the web. Is there a way to do this?
I have a MacBook Pro (unibody late 2008 15") A few weeks ago the charger was causing hassle and eventually the connector came loose. The MacBook eventually lost power.
This may seem like a stupid question but I want to be able to synchronise my Keychain records with my iCloud account. Currently when I login to the iCloud it downloads 5 year old records completely obliterating any existing records, how can i make this synchronous?
On my network when a user is auto-logged-out, this feature seems to just activate fast-user-switching, Is that what it is supposed to do? I am talking about the setting, as seen below in El Capitain, from System Preferences, and you can also access this setting with profiles/mdm for example from the Profile Manager (formerly Workgroup Manager). I have this disabled in both the local system and the profiles assigned to both the devices and user-groups.
I use the Text shortcuts replace function provided by Mac OS X's System Preferences' Keyboard panel quite often. It helps me type things faster in most applications, such as my phone number, my full address, etc.
Buying an iPhone 6s from a small unauthorised seller. When does the warranty with apple start? Does it start from the date he purchased/received the phone from phone company as a replacement/purchase or does it start when I open the product (it is sealed and never opened) and register it? Thanks!
I have two Bluetooth trackpads, one at work and one at home. Is there a way to select one or the other from the command line. My current workflow is going up to the bluetooth menu, hovering over to home or office and clicking on Connect, but I wish I could do this from the terminal.
Yesterday I ran into one of those rare problems with OS X (10.11.4) where I thought I had to reboot my MacBook. The cursor wheel was constantly spinning and I was unable to quit any apps or even access Force Quit .... (This was triggered inside Firefox.) So a reboot seemed like an easy way out.
For some reason the icon for MATLAB (R2015b) no longer shows the familiar orange matlab surface icon, but rather reverts to the generic black box with exec under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Any ideas how to get the correct icon back? The generic icon shows with Command-Tab and in the Dock, but the correct icon is shown in Finder.
When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native app, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user.
I always kept all the photos on my laptop. Now my space is getting low and I decided to switch to "Optimise Mac Storage"
I have noticed a lot of Adobe processes are running in the background at start up on an OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) machine with Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) installed. To get rid of this, I removed everything with "*adobe*" in the filename from the directories used by launchd, which are: ~/Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /System/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. It's not a bad idea to browse these directories manually just to get aware of what is - or could be configured to be - launched automatically on your machine.
I want to find out what's happened here, but I am unsure how to find out any more. If iOS' Mobile Data statistics won't tell me which app did this how can I find out?
I have a need to turn USB power off (and on) using a script or a piece of software. Ideally it should be possible to turn each port off/on separately, but also turning power off/on from all ports at once is sufficient. The machine I am using is Mac Mini. Anyone has a solution for this?
I am trying to get the name of file using AppleScript with the following code: I am getting an error saying: What I am doing wrong?
I have the latest MacBook Pro running the latest version of OS X and I am using the corded mouse. The horizontal scroll speed using the mouse wheel is dead slow. The vertical scroll speed is OK for scrolling regular websites, etc., but when I try to scroll something like a Trello board, the horizontal scroll speed is unbearable and I have to tilt the mouse wheel multiple times to get from one card to the other. Is there a way to increase the horizontal scroll speed, or am I stuck with a single speed for both axes? Hacking system files or config files is OK with me if that's what it takes!
I had already installed iMovie on my Mac. Now after some months I wanted to create a new movie, but I couldn't find iMovie in OS X again. When I look in the App Store I can see iMovie available now for $15.
I have an FTDI USB adapter for loading software onto Arduino's, but it comes with a slight problem. 90% of the time when I unplug the USB cable, the device is not removed as a USB device. It remains listed under System Information > USB > USB 3.0 Bus. This does not seem like a problem at first, but the USB port is not usable anymore. So I use the other USB port on my MacBook. Same thing happens and so both USB ports are useless. After a reboot, I can start over.
I have a dual-link (2560x1440) DVI monitor connected to my computer (2015 retina MbP) through the Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter. It is reported as not HDCP-complient by iTunes and Netflix. Is this because the monitor doesn't support HDCP, or because the adapter doesn't pass the HDCP?
How do I convert a .mov file to .mp4? There are a lot of converter tools. But I fear there are a lot of virus infected ones. How would you convert a movie .mov file to .mp4?
Recently I noticed that a strange dock icon sometimes appears in the dock, somewhere near the Downloads folder. The icon will only appear for about 1 second and then it will disappear, so I am not fast enough to capture the screen.
mix is an executable I installed with Homebrew. /usr/local/bin/mix is actually a symlink, but it points to a file nested under /usr/local/Cellar.
I need to write a few large files (larger than 4 GB) on a flash drive, but I can't do it, because the file system of the flash drive is MS-DOS (FAT32). How should I format the flash drive, so I can write down large files into it, and then open it on a PC on windows and download these files? What file system should I choose when formatting the flash drive?
I came across a problem today when there was a speaker in my class. The speaker was from the industry and had a company provided laptop which was not able to get connected to University network (some other problem which I had to raise in another question).
My iPhone 6 GPS sometimes just does not work properly. I might be using Waze or Google Maps, but it just looks like it's lost. It knows where it is, because it can follow my position on the map, but the application seems like it can't fully recognize its position and usually just says it's looking for GPS signal (well, sometimes it gets crazy too and goes back all the way to my starting point back and forth). Does anyone know what may be causing this? The only thing I suspect is sometimes I have a very low available space on my device, but I'm not totally sure and would sure like to find out how to fix this annoying behavior.
My old Mac crashed badly and I had to sell it. Had a Mac TimeMachine Backup. Bought this new iMac and it came loaded with Sys and a few apps. I want to get my old email from Time Machine back. How do I import that and put it into this Mac?
I decided to give iCloud a go, so I did the following: Logged into iCloud on iPhone Logged into iCloud on Mac The following happened:
I'm setting up an iPad for Mom's birthday. In the process, I created her an AppleID, and typed in her name. Signing into iCloud using her ID shows my name instead. How do I fix this?
I'm trying to find a method for booting the sparsebundle image of my Mac inside VM software (VMWare, VirtualBox, doesn't matter), either by booting the sparesbundle itself or converting it to a VMDK/ISO, but with symbolic links to the original file, rather than copying it. I create hourly delta's of my Mac as an image (currently through SuperDuper!), and want a way to boot that image should my machine die on me. Haven't found anything to do this, though I've tired a variety of options, they just all seem to miss a piece of the process. Would love any advice, thanks!
As you can see, according to Disk Utility, I'm using negative space in /dev/disk0s7. This is obviously incorrect, however, I am slightly worried as to what this may mean for the partition's effects on the other parts of the disk. For the sake of completeness, here is the output of diskutil list: gpt: Should I be worried?
My email on iPhone 4 consumed 8 GB from usage. I deleted all mail and the account and there's still 8 GB consumed. I use STMP mail. What else do I need to do?.
Just got a new iPAD air 2, iOS 9.1. It says I should update it to iOS 9.3.1. I might be interested to jailbreak it later on, so I'd like to preserve that option for me possible.
I rely PAGES as my go to graphic software and I'm dead in the water without it. It crashed with the Pages quit unexpectedly. I've rebooted many time, ditched the old iWork's folder and can't get anything to work. The font warnings message box pops but but I get the same crash log page. Anyone have any suggestions that could help?
Consistently at 4:33 AM, my laptop emits an audible buzzing sound. What could be the cause of this? I have had all app programs closed and this buzzing sound still occurs.
So I've got a MacBook Pro which I use for work (and thus every file is precious information) and my BootCamp partition was getting a bit small, so I resized it with GParted, but not before resizing the OS X partition using diskutil. However, after modifying the partitions, when I hold the option key at boot, I exclusively see the "Windows" partition, no Macintosh HD or Recovery HD. I can see both of these drives from Windows, and all files are intact. Is there anything I can do to repair this without Requiring a backup drive (My backups are done to a NAS and thus cannot be booted) Damaging any data on the device Going to the Apple Store (Nearest one is a good few hours away) Can I use the Internet Recovery system to get into a recovery environment?
2) I think that Apple keeps a record of my devices, and their OS's. If I went to the Apple Genius Bar, would they replace my OS for free and install it for me?
Do applications on Mac OS X (specifically the MS Office applications, but interested in others as well) generally preserve xattrs (Extended Attributes) on documents when saving them? For example, if I add an xattr to a file:
In total commander you can "force step into" archives that are not named accordingly. For example if you have a file named my-file.jar (which is a zip file with some metadata) the only way to step into this archive that I've found in forklift 2 is to rename the file to my-file.zip first. This is both time consuming and should be unnecessary. Is there a keyboard shortcut for doing this without having to rename the file first in forklift 2?
A friend has an iPhone 6 and a plan that includes tethering. A couple of weeks ago, her "personal hotspot" feature started acting up. It tends to be inactive. When you try to activate it, you get a message asking to contact the cellular provider. Turning the phone off and on again solves the problem.
How can I make Quicktime to always open in Fit to Screen option (available at View->Fit to Screen)? It doesn't seem to remember the last window size.
My iPhone was stolen back in february, since than it was on pending lost mode... by now I realized I will not see it again so I removed it from my apple id and from find my iPhone, now I saw that the activation lock was disabled which means that someone can re-use it, but the fact that I removed it from my account also removed the password it had? Thanks in advance
I'm a user of an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2. When I want download an app, it tells me it need to update to iOS 8.4, but it's not supported for the iPhone 4! Is this only a requirement for specific apps or it is a bug?
I use Apple Photo to kickstart my workflow of reviewing and tagging photos. I do "manually manage" my pictures (i.e., what some call the "referenced option) vs. copying them to the Photos library file.
OSX 10.11.4 here. I'm trying to create a workflow for use with a hotkey, to run a simple shell script. Created via: Automator -> New Service -> Utilities -> Run Shell Script, then set to 'no input' in 'Finder', and shell set to "/bin/bash". For a trivial script, say, one containing nothing but "ls", it works.
Today i format my "OS X El capitan" partition for installing "Yosemite". But due an error in bootable yosemite usb it didn't install on this partition. After some hours when i turned on iMac and hold down "option" key for boot into usb but just blank screen and mouse show. And every time when i turend on iMac it only show flashing folder with question mark. I've tried to resolve it by reseting "NVRAM". But after restarting problem still same. Also I've tried many "Startup key combinations for Mac" but didn't work any combination on startup. Also i have important data in my other one partition. Please can anyone tell me what i do for resolving that issue Without loosing my data?
I can remember maybe 50% of my password.I calculated that with the known part of my password I will have a maximum of 250 000 possible combination. A program like crunch could do the list of all the combination but I think it is not the most difficult part of this mission.
I have two mid 2012 MBPs. Sometime last year they both started randomly shutting down and showing the 'please plug me in to power' image when trying to start them up. That would be fine if the batter was at 1% or less but this happens when the battery is at anywhere from 30% to as high as 48% full. The power cycle info says 500 cycles or so. Both of them do this. They are both patched current, always. I asked Apple they suggested NVRAM PRAM and SMC reset, as expected, which had no effect. Any ideas?
So I basically want to trigger a app shortcut, regardless if the app is in the foreground or not. How to achieve that?
the computer is fully updated. I'm going to be using a different computer for the next month, so i tried to connect my iTunes so i could access all my music. when i signed in, it was only showing my purchased music from the cloud. i connected my phone and synced it, but to no avail. i have 140 songs on my other computer, and all of them are on my phone. how do i get the music from my other computer's tines onto this computer? i don't have access to the other one.
I want to see the list of the recent iCloud backups my phone has made. By going into Settings->iCloud->Backups I can see that my most recent backup was at 1:04am, but I would like to see all of my recent backups! This can't be seen on iCloud.com, nor on my iPhone. The only place I know I can see all the backups listed is after a factory reset, as in the image below, but I really would not like to do a factory reset.
I have a strange issue where Matlab stubbornly refuses to appear in Spotlight search results. I'm not sure what information to provide besides the fact it clearly exists in Applications:
I need to know if someone has used my iPhone or not. Sometimes I can't recall the last time I used my iPhone and I've tried many things to view the log if that is even possible.
When I watch video using Photos it looks good. But when I simple move video file from Photos to Desktop and watch it then it looks like it was downsized or kind of. How to export/move to desktop video as is?
Soooo something bad happened recently with my 1 TB Fusion drive on my 5K late 2015 iMac. I was creating a new 100 GB partition on my disk. So while the disk utility was busy scanning etc (doing its stuff). The power at my home suddenly went off so this got interrupted... When I rebooted my iMac back the disk size shows like this..
My hard drive crashed, so I purchased a new one on Amazon. I have installed it and located an OS X Disk to install from. I don't want to restore from any backups as this is just a computer with no saved files. I am in the startup and it asked me to choose a location to install OS X but there is nothing to choose. How can I install OS X on this machine?
On the local drives (internal and external), everything is fine. Any newly stored files on the Time Capsule open normally, but files that already existed no longer open when I double-click them. Any idea how to fix it? Did not help.
I just got a used Macbook Pro (retina) 2012 running El Capitan. I am keeping it charged and on all the time. Is there any harmful effect from doing so on the battery in the long term?
I would always like to use the GUI version of entering my GPG passphrase. Currently my pinentry program is set the same on my laptop as my desktop. But the desktop always asks for my passphrase on the command line, and my laptop always asks using the GUI. What do I need to set to force the use of the GUI on the desktop? Current ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf Current ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
It seems every time I go into iTunes it's duplicated my TV shows again. I could understand if these were shows that I'd ripped from DVDs myself (maybe I'd made a mistake or something), but in the case of CHEERS (see below), all the episodes are purely bought through iTunes.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro (MacPro4,1) which, until recently, had both OS X Yosemite and a Boot Camp install of Windows 10 on it. Shortly after I upgraded to El Capitan, I found that Boot Camp Assistant refused to run, reporting "This Mac does not support Boot Camp". Furthermore, I am unable to use BootChamp to reboot into Windows, as it reports a cryptic message "Bless failed". Any ideas what would cause Boot Camp to stop working?
What I want to do is select a bunch of images with varying dimensions and uniformly apply a percentage scale to resize them. The workflow comes very close to that. But I cant get more specific to the nearest tenths. By pixels it only takes length into consideration whereas I want the width. So i figured as long as it is in applescript I can easily specify the scale I want. I intend to run the script as a service.
I just bought a MIDI to USB cable so I could connect my electronic piano/keyboard to my mac mini. I open GarageBand and the keyboard will play one note at a time just fine, but if I play two or more notes at once, then the sound will kind of spaz out, with the two or three notes just lasting forever and no sound from any new notes being played. The sound only stops if I hit the spacebar about two or three times (to press play and stop).
I am an Apple user, and am currently using the Chrome and Vivaldi browsers. Not a computer programmer. Is there any easy way to make visited links stand out? The default color for those isn't defining enough for me, I would like the color to be more noticeable.
My left ⌘ (command key) doesn't respond, while the right ⌘ key works fine. my Mac: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) on keyboard viewer: when I click left ⌘ no respond on keyboard viewer, but right ⌘ and all other keys have.
I recently bought the phone in Japan because it is way cheaper but then I am unable to use my local SIM card (Indonesia). Please anyone kindly assist and solve this (free method). Thanks in advance!
Synchronizing iCloud photo library and downloading apps over 100 MB both require wifi, ie. they are not permitted when on cellular.
On mac terminal SSH'ing to a linux box, my local path seems to be interpreted as a server path: scp objects.yml ~/Documents I'm getting: cp: cannot create regular file /ngs/app/project/Documents': No such file or directory
I am trying to get rid of password when changing proxy with networksetup. I changed permissions to read and write of /private/etc folder and propagated change to subfolders. I tried this: and it says: Changed permission back to readonly, now it says
Here is the scenario: I was bouncing music and got a warning Macintosh HD is almost full! By the time I empty the trash my my froze. So I restart it and that infinite white progress bar below the gorgeous Apple never end progressing. I reboot in single user and tried a fsck check but in seem to only check for OS X base system which appear OK. Tried the verbose and got stuck within a pause.
I have recently started using S/MIME since we got a certificate from our school and are advised to use it when possible. I am using El Capitan 10.11.4.
I am using new version of Android Studio since one week (v2.1) and it completely freezes my macbook. Each gradle build takes forever, and my computer blows air like if it is going to die. Anyone experiencing issues of this kind ? OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 core i7, 16 ram GBB
I can't seem to find any iTunes Backup extraction utility that claims to be able to extract data from the pre-installed iTunes Alarm app (specifically the labels that are in each "alarm"), so cannot have complete confidence these are backed up despite the Apple webpage on backups not stating that they aren't. So how can I extract these labels from a backup?
My girlfriend forgot the password for her MacBook (don't ask), so I reset it using the Utilities. But as you may be aware, this doesn't reset the Keychain password. Her MacBook is now virtually unusable due to Keychain demands continuously provoking a request for the Keychain password. There are lots of other people asking this around the web and they're usually pointed towards this Apple support page, which doesn't apply in our situation because the support advice involves entering the old password. We don't know the old password.
I'm trying to setup my tax information on itunes connect as a New Zealand citizen. I imagine I should leave fields 5,6,7 and 8 blank as I do not have business, employee, benefits or TAX number in the US. I guess I should also leave field 9 & 10 blank as I do not have any tax benefits within New Zealand. Can anyone with with similar experience please advise?
In iTunes's "Albums" view it's easy to move from album to album using only the keyboard. However, when an album is highlighted (so that the album tracks are all visible) is there an easy way to begin navigating around the tracks themselves? The closest I've come to a solution is to press Tab 6 times in a row before proceeding to use the keyboard's direction keys--is there an easier way to get the same result?
I have a hard drive in my mac with multiple partitions, and I want to eject some of them with AppleScript. Simple:
What if I turn on Mobile Data whole day along with WiFi? In this way, How much more battery is going to be used up?
I have a MBP (13 inch early 2015, running 10.11.4) which after about 2 minutes of producing audio (Skype, Youtube from Firefox, iTunes...) via either the internal speakers or a pair of earbuds starts producing crackling distorted sound. Stopping the music and restarting also restarts the time-to-crackle. I am unsure how long this has been happening, but there are no USB, Thunderbolt devices, or even the power charge connected as mentioned in this question. Unlike this question this is a stock machine. The machine has not been through any physical abuse/drops. Is this likely to be resolvable as a software problem, or do I need to visit the Apple store for hardware help?
I currently have installed node and npm with the installer provided from their website. Although I have homebrew installed as well, and running brew doctor seems to complain about some files installed by the node js installer at /usr/local/include/.
Can't place or receive calls on my iPhone5s. Call failed comes up. Tried the *#31# option - not working. Tried turning phone off and then back on after several hours - doesn't work. Tried a few other options too. Please help!
My iCloud account shows that I have ~3 GB of backups, but when I check on all devices using this account, backups are off and no backups are showing. The storage bar. The backups list... empty!
iPhone 6 is not under warranty (no Apple Care+ either), but Apple Support on the phone offered a replacement phone that I pick up at the store (no mention of cost, did not ask) because of an issue with the phone that I did not cause (no physical damage). So, will this be a complimentary iPhone replacement or will it cost money like a screen repair? Edit: It was, in the end, replaced free of charge.
I have an 11" MacBook Air 6,1 from mid 2013 that I found discarded and had restored but now seems dead again. I got the machine with a broken screen backlight and missing SSD. I took it to the Genius Bar and they diagnosed only those two problems. I attached it to an external monitor and USB 3.0 hard drive and installed El Capitan and used it for a couple of days. Everything worked except the webcam. Though the machine had sat for several weeks with no power before I acquired it the battery life turned out to be very good. I put it to sleep when the battery charge indicator had just gone red and did not have access to a charger/power supply for over a day.
My 2009 MacBook's hard drive failed this weekend and I had to have it replaced on the spot or wait 3 days. I have successfully used a connection cable to connect the old hard drive to the new one and managed to get most files over without any problems. I am wondering if there is a way to transfer Apps, like Microsoft Office over to a new drive without having to use a product key? I don't think I have that info as the software came with the computer that I bought used.
I checked the password and it's fine. I changed the password just in case, it still does not work, but now my whole Mac is disconnected from my iCloud account. When I open Console, I get:
My cousin contacted me for tech support because her computer was refusing to boot to the startup drive, and the issue turned out to be a corrupted drive that Disk Utility refused to fix, telling us to format the drive. I looked for a way to back up her files and found this answer, which says that you can use Recovery HD's Terminal's cp command.
I was trying to install Python3, and Sublime Text 3 in order to learn and run Python. Unfortunately, I watched some videos on youtube and tried to follow their instructions, I did something with my Terminal and now it does not work at all. Please explain and show me how to fix it! In Terminal it shows:
When viewing a file in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI on OSX Yosemite, I sometimes want to send the file to another application. To create an action in KeyboardMaestro, I need to get the path of the currently-open file from Acrobat. How can I get the path? A way to send the value to the clipboard would be enough; getting a value I can manipulate in AppleScript would be even better.
I have been having some issues with my macbook running very slow. I read an article which stated that disabling the text-to-speech functionality could make the mac faster. Is that true?
I follow this youtube tutorial: How to Create ISO File to install Mac OS X on VMware and VirtualBox. It works perfectly until this step:
My wife's new iMac is behaving rather oddly. Despite being a pretty powerful machine, it's rather slow and laggy. I looked into it, and it seems her swap memory is maxing out, even though there's plenty of RAM left:
One of our software suppliers normally make .doc 's downloadable via the browser (desktops). Now I'm trying to download the .doc file in Safari on iOS 9 but it just prints the document. How can I save it to my iPad and open it in the official Word app from microsoft? Thanks in advance,
The internal speaker of my MacBook Pro suddenly stopped sounding. I just tried PRAM reset, but it doesn't work. The audio works when I plug in earphones and goes when plug out.
I have a Dell computer running Windows 10 and it have 3x DisplayPort and 1x vga outputs. I want to connect my iMac Core i5 27-Inch (Late 2013) as an external monitor to the dell pc. Can I buy a Mini DisplayPort -> DisplayPort (Male-Male) and connect the cable between the iMac and the PC and then use Target Mode to start seeing Windows on the iMac?
As a 4th generation iPod Touch user, I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the App Store; searching for applications turns up (thousands?) of results -- nearly all of which do not seem to support iOS 6.
I changed the proxy settings with the following code: It does indeed changes settings, but throws an error saying:
For some months, I have on my account almost 16$, but I am not paid yet. What should I do to receive those money from Apple? What is the payment schedule? How do I get paid by Apple for App sales?
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how many MB I can send over iMessage? And when and why messages get compressed sometimes seemingly by random. I find it very awkward that Apple made this very important information secret and nowhere to be found on the net. iPhone 6, iOS 9.x
My iPhone broke the other day and the screen is broken so bad it doesn't work anymore. It has typed its own passcode on the lock screen so many times it has disabled the phone so now I can't do anything with it. The lock screen says "Connect to iTunes," but when I try to connect it says that I have to enter the phone's passcode which I can't.
It used to be that if I clicked a web link to an NYTimes article from Safari, the article would open in the NYTimes app. At some point, I must have changed this setting, and now, NYTimes links open in Safari.
Is there a way on a Mac to have the input from the microphone be played in the headphones so I can listen to my own voice? Talking when you can't listen to yourself is a bit awkward
I'm running iTerm2. When do a text search ⌘ F, pressing Return moves the highlighted occurrence back (the previous occurrence). Is there a way to make it move to the next (forward) occurrence?
I've been learning lots of different programming languages when I came across AppleScript. Since I'm technically new to it, this question may seem dumb.I need an AppleScript script to quit the "Force Quit Applications" app. The following code doesn't work: tell application "Force Quit Applications" to quit
I'm looking for a decent multi monitor (currently 2) solution for Mac OS X. As I am constantly switching between Windows (work) and Mac (home/side projects) I am badly missing something like DisplayFusion on the Mac. Currently running El Capitan I am really interested in a solution that provides Separated Dock on every monitor Dock not auto-hiding depending on which monitor I'm working Dock Icons showing up only on the monitor where the app is currently running / located
I am working in an office that has its own wifi network...but there are also cable company hotspots around. Every time I come in the office, leave the office, come back to the office...my phone goes on Optimum hotspot. I want it to choose the local office wifi network. I would like to prioritize my iPhone wifi networks, not just "forget" one network.
How can I get a color of a specific point on screen with Apple Script? I would give the point in pixels such as {120,400}. Should I use an external app and "tell" it to find color value of some point or does Apple scripts come with this functionality? It would be the best for my needs not to launch another app.
I recently updated to El Capitan. But now when connection is established with my college's Wi-Fi network I am unable to use internet. Same goes for Personal Hotspots. Everything was working fine in Yosemite. How can I fix this?
I originally posted this on Information Security but am hoping to attract an answer here since this is OSX specific. So I'm fairly new to more secure forms of key management, I've been used to storing my keys inside key files on my computer. Recently I wanted to try and see if I could setup SSH authentication to my webserver using a key stored on my NitroKeyPro making my keychain more portable and secure in the process. I followed this guide *=URL=* pretty much step by step but noticed that in the end, I did not need my NitroKeyPro to be inserted into my computer at all for the authentication to succeed. I have a feeling that upon exporting my key it somehow got added to my local key storage making the NitroKey redundant but I am not knowledgable enough about the exact workings to be sure. Would anyone be able to help me ensure that I can only SSH into my web server while my NitroKey is inserted into my computer? Notes: OS: OSX El Capitan 10.11.4 NitroKeyPro Even while the NitroKey is 
iPhone reminders have a nice feature where you can remind yourself to do something when arriving or leaving a certain location. Is it possible to do something similar, but replacing the location trigger with a "person X calls trigger". For example: "Reminder me to tell John that story when John calls." In general, is there a way to attach additional triggers to reminders?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 6s 9.0.2 and recently purchased an apple watch. It came today and when I tried to set up, it said: "iPhone is Out of Date" - "Your iPhone is out of date. Before you can pair it with your Apple Watch, you'll have to update it to the latest version of iOS."
I have a 20,000 line spreadsheet in Apple Numbers, and I need to fill a column with data. I don't want to sit there dragging down the fill handle for thousands of rows. How can I fill the whole column with a value?
I have a MacBook pro and I'm trying to instal OS X El Capitan on a clean formatted SSD hard drive. While installing I encounter an error saying "this copy of the instal os x el capitan application can't be verified...". After some search in the internet I realized the problem is due to date and time being not correct. I corrected the time but I couldn't find a way to change the time zone because whenever I type "systemsetup" command I receive the "command not found" error. I will be more than happy if anyone can help me with this problem. Thanks
I upgraded my computer to El Capitan. It is MacBook Retina and late 2013 or early 2014. I did not know what was ping time before, but now it is usually about 23 ms. I have a Lenovo Yoga and a LG Android tablet. Both's ping times are 10 ms even sometimes less, but Mac's ping time is never below 20ms. This is absolutely a Mac's problem. Because my internet is faster on my two other devices.
OS X provides Keychain Access, which is a great way to save passwords of varying apps and websites. When you want to view a password via the Keychain Access GUI, you are asked the admin password. However, OS X also provides a command to export all Keychain Access passwords to a text file, unencrypted: This command does not require sudo privileges. So I have two questions: How can I add the sudo privilege requirement to the security command. Is this behaviour intended or is it a major inconsistency with regards to security concerns at Apple ?
This is was my /Users directory looks like. That Users link doesn't seem quite right.. You can then of course go on to do silly things like this.. It doesn't seem like the Users link should be there, there's a good chance I created it myself by accident; I just can't help but think some service or other might be relying on it being there. Can I just delete it?
I have a late 2009 iMac that I use as an external display for my mid 2014 Macbook pro. Everything works great except the iMac runs extremely hot to the touch, close to burning if you had your hand there long enough.
Can I use only two 8 GB RAM modules with my mid 2010 27" iMac (2.8 GHz Core I5)? In other words, do you have to fill all 4 memory slots or are 2 filled slots sufficient?
I have a mid-2011 MacBook Pro that I've used exclusively as a desktop. My righthand uses a wireless trackpad while my lefthand uses the built-in trackpad (in between are two large monitors).
I have accidentally learned 'formating'. I've tried unlearning by right-click, and have removed the word from the /Library/Spelling and ~/Library/Spelling directories. The word is still not underlined in red when I type it on various apps. Is there any way to make sure the word is unlearned? Pages recognises the word as incorrect, but not TextEdit or Google Chrome.
I looked around quite a bit for an answer to this question but can't find one, so maybe I'm overlooking something obvious. I recently starting paying my carrier for caller ID. This is great sometimes, but now when receiving calls only the caller ID name is displayed, not the caller's phone number. I can't find any setting to get the caller ID name to display along with the phone number before I answer an incoming call. This is especially difficult when the caller ID text is UNKNOWN CALLER or something similar since I can't tell if the number looks familiar before I answer. All of this applies to receiving calls from people not in my contacts list. Is there some way to make callers' phone numbers appear along with caller ID text when receiving incoming calls? This is an iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 9.3.1 on T-Mobile (US) in case any of that is relevant.
I have configured a new VPN connection (Type - Cisco IPSec) for work using network preferences and it works. How can I stay connected to my work vpn and direct only my work traffic through vpn? Given that I already know that all of my work related requests fall under specific ip-range say, 10.0.0.0/8, how can I direct my non-work web traffic to not use the work vpn? If possible, please provide an effective way to verify the setup as well.
How do I transfer songs purchased from my iphone to itunes on my computer? I only want to transfer purchased music, not apps or other purchases.
so I have my macbook air (late 2010) and it has been working fine for a good while, now all of a sudden for no reason (Ok i may of dropped it but the drop was less than 1 foot and mac showed no damage after) but the speakers dont work and when i plug my 'kotion each' (headphones) into the port the audio symbol is grey and no audio ANYWHERE. yes I have tried to wiggle the headphones and have looked many other places no luck...
The MacBook charger has frayed/ broken plastic near the connection to the box on the charger. It will only charge while in certain positions and gets hot and has a burning smell. How can I fix this? I'm hoping wrapping it with electric tape will be enough?
Recently I allowed my laptop to get messages that have been sent to my phone, but that was a huge mistake. I have a macbook air and I do not need to disconnect my phone from my laptop, I just need to disable my laptop from receiving or even seeing my messages.
I just purchased an iPhone (on Sprint), my first one, off of Craigslist. However I am having a problem: I get home and connect it to Wi-Fi and it says I need a SIM card. I looked online a bit to see if I can buy one, but I've heard if you go to Apple you'll get into trouble with them. I took a screenshot of the Craigslist ad, just in case. I was wondering if there's a way to buy a SIM card. I think it's a used phone, but on the ad it says new but out doesn't look new, if it makes a difference. I really want to know where can I get a SIM card, how will I be able to use it, how much it is, etc.
I currently use Ubuntu in a virtual machine, using VirtualBox software on my host operating system, OS X, on my MacBook Pro 2015. However, the battery life drains quickly when Ubuntu is used continuously. The battery life only lasts about four hours at the best. If I do not run Ubuntu, the battery life would be about seven hours. Will the battery life be longer if I run Ubuntu natively (dual boot), or if I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine, with VirtualBox software?
For the first time in roughly three years, the Terminal app icon in the dock shows that red new message overlay.  To the right, the same happens with Thunderbird which I am used to as I do have three new emails. But what does that new message overlay in Terminal app mean? I have no new mail in /var/mail/$USER nor does Terminal show any message when started.
Under ProfileManager, I can add certificate.. But don't know how (where to download/find) and which one I have to use? More additional information Mac version: OS X El Capitan (10.11.4) OS X Server: Server 5.1 Hostname: mdmserver.domainname.be Computername: macserver Internet: Available on mdmserver.domainname.be I opened port 80,443,2195,2196,1640 on the firewall (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202487)
I just received a MacBook Pro from somebody else because it was running too slow. Booting up takes about 4 minutes.
What's the best way to clean install (not upgrade) OSX (from 10.10 to 10.11) without formatting my drive? This is a MBPr with a 1TB internal, where I have 700GB of media that I would like to leave on there, all within 2 folder at / Can I just delete everything except those 2 folders then install OSX? I'm thinking I have 2 options: Boot from a bootable USB with 10.11 installer Boot from a CCC clone external of my system drive ... and then delete everything except those 2 folders, then run the OSX installer.
What voltage readings should i get from my 60 watt magsafe if I check the pins with a multimeter. My readings are all below 1 volt (I checked all combinations of pins), but I don't know if this is correct since there is no load. Also what pins should I check?
In settings I am not getting developer option. Tried with Xcode 6.1.1 (no clue). can any one help to enable developer option on iPad air.
Is it possible to get the geolocation of an IP address in Terminal? Not sure what the numbers in an IP address mean, but there must be some logic behind it, so lookup can't be that hard.
This morning I got the Passcode Requirement You must change your iPhone unlock passcode within 60 minutes.
I know how to turn on SSH server from System preferences :- (System preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login ) Now I am looking for a terminal command for the same. By knowing it I can use the command in my Python Script (for project work).
After upgrading to El Capitan, suddenly Spotlight dictionary searches only show results in Chinese (I think). I have absolutely no idea why it chose Chinese, as I am not a user of that language. This happens when my keyboard is set to Norwegian (as usual), but when it is set to US English, the dictionary seems to correctly give English results.
I have a local http service application running on OSX (hosted through Mono/OWIN) that I want to access on https instead. The service itself is easily configured to require https, but the local bit is causing trouble. On Windows I solved this by binding an SSLCert to the local port with the command netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:8000 appid={xyzw} certhash=XYZW which then means any access to *=URL=* is verified against the given certificate and allowed.
Using Mission Control I create 2 Desktops. If I create 2 different Firefox launcher files (Firefox1.app and Firefox2.app), I want to pin one Firefox1.app to Desktop-1 and Firefox2.app to Desktop-2. So that when I launch Firefox1.app it opens up in Desktop-1 and Firefox2.app opens up in Desktop-2. Currently if I pin Firefox2.app to Desktop-2 and then launch Firefox1.app, Firefox1.app directly moves to Desktop-2. So Mac is able to understand that both these launchers are for the same application. Instead of directly copy pasting and renaming the Firefox installation folder, I also tried to run Firefox as a different application using Automator as specified by this link.
I need to create a bunch of screencasts for my work. I was going to use Quicktime to do this but when I choose "New Screen Recording" to do this, the audio is never captured. How can Quicktime be made more useful for screencasts? Update: Here are some suggested methods that have been proposed in various forums that simply are not viable:
I installed triple systems (Mac, Windows, Linux) on my Macbook Pro retina mid 2014 with rEFInd boot loader. Hfs+ partition used to be visible in Windows 8.1 Bootcamp.
How can I change change screen resolution using AppleScript? If AppleScript can't do it, what about Terminal?
So I have this MacBook Air that I haven't used in a year and I forgot the password. Problem is, the display has been broken for a long time, so I have been using an external monitor with it, but I couldn't find a way to get Recovery Mode to display to the external monitor. I managed to use the VoiceOver function to erase the hard drive, but because I didn't remember the shortcut to close the window, so I could immediately reinstall OS X, I restarted the computer. Now it won't output to the external monitor, and VoiceOver doesn't do anything, so all I have is a blank screen. Does anyone know what this screen looks like and can give some simple guidance so I can reinstall OS X using the keyboard? Update: I remember it saying that it ran Mac OS X Lion while I was going through the options, and while I'm not sure exactly which type of MacBook Air it is, it is small and its model number is A1370.
One of the problems with iPhone/iPad cables is that they get bent and damaged. There is a smart idea floating around about a magnetic cable similar to the MacBook one. The lightning connected is attached to the iPhone and the cable gets connected to it because it magnetic
Android File Transfer fails to copy showing the following message:  Another symptom is that the copy is not continuous. It freezes after copying a few megabytes during a couple of seconds.
I've been messing around with this cool AppleScript scripting language and I have yet another question. How to make an AppleScript app locate itself?Like something like this (that obviously doesn't work):get info of myself set variable to "location" So the output, "variable," would be for instance /home/Desktop/MyEpicApp.app.Is there any script or a sequence of them to get the location of the app and store it in a variable?Many thanks in advance, even a tiny bit of help is appreciated.
I followed the Apple vs FBI case a bit, and I'm super curious how Apple implemented the auto-erase feature. Reading their documentation, it seems like it is as simple as erasing a key that is used to encrypt all the data. Is it actually a microkernel or something?
I have been having this problem probably ever since I bought my iMac. The Safari browser exhibits weird behaviour when I often navigate to a certain webpage. I do a lot of website development so naturally I have to test my sites. However, Safari seems to be keeping the old copy of the website in memory and keeps loading it! The only option is clearing the browsing data but that leads also to me getting logged out of all sites on the device so it's a pain.
I have several pairs of Apple EarPods, and I want to be able to use the buttons with music players and the volume on my PC. Is there a piece of software I can install to my computer to let the buttons work?
From my OS X 10.11.4, I do: However, if I do the same from a windows laptop, the call is successfully resolved. The three hosts (OS X computer, windows computer and ubuntu-workstation) are on the same local network. Running command: scutil --dns | grep 'resolver #1' -A 5, gives results: Running the command cat /etc/resolv.conf returns thiese results:
I am trying to click at radio buttons in Displays panel of System Prefernces. This is the code I use to identify radio buttons:
I have an app that looks like it tries to continuously install. It's been like that for weeks. I have free space, like 2GB. When I long press the icon, and try to delete it, it pops up a dialog asking me if I want to delete, but it doesn't delete. I can't even delete it from iTunes. It doesn't have an X on the icon like other apps do. I tried to click Update for the app and sync, but it doesn't work and the icon is still like that. When I just try to launch the app, it does nothing.
My MacBook, with Retina Display, has problems with smooth animations. How can I turn off the transparency (and blur) in Launchpad on OS X El Capitan?
i have a problem with accessing to my iomega-ix2 network storage. when i read the manual, i found that i have to download and install certain files (download link is in the bottom) so when i download the files and unzip them i found this: so i tried to run config to configure the system for installation and that's what i have faced: anyone knows what is the prolbem and how to solve it? i have a iMac 24-inch, Late 2006 - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 ix2-200-recovery-3.2.6.21659.zip
I have a folder with hundreds of text files. I'd like to batch convert them to audio files but make sure each audio file retains the file name of the text file From which it was created. I am newer to Mac, so this is proving difficult.
In the attached picture you can see the name of an unknown computer (desktop-aqnpumc) in my network.  "Delat" means shared and SuperNova is my own TimeCapsule which is shown in Finder. I cannot eject this computer, or server or whatever it is.
I noticed that when I hold the control key at the screen where you select a boot disk (the screen obtained from holding down option at startup), the straight arrow below the selected boot disk turns into a circular arrow (similar to the Time Machine icon). I clicked this circular arrow thinking it would take me to the recovery partition, but the computer simply booted seemingly normally instead. What did the circular arrow do differently than clicking the regular, straight arrow?
I'm pursuing an alternative boot drive so i can explore a yosemite or elcapitan environment from my old mac pro 2,1 currently in the last version of snow leopard. (with legally purchased soft ware from our new laptop) I have the pikers boot.efi files swapped out in my yosemite clone disk and am going to put it into the mac Pro 2,1. I know the video card may have an issue showing verbose boot language but it's a 512 MB nvdia so before i purchase a new one i'm going to try that first. If I want to be able to have two different OS versions (and keep old software tools functional) running on two different boot drives in the same machine and be able to choose which system with each boot using the option key held down- will that be possible with the existing firmware (it is 64bit capable) or will i be flummoxed by firmware or other factors?
I would like to be able to use AppleScript to paste the clipboard's text into the foreground application. Every solution I can find online uses tell app "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down. However, I am running this script with a keyboard shortcut, so I may already be holding down keys when this command fires, which makes the paste fail because more keys are pressed than just cmd and v. I know that I can use delay to give myself time to release the keys, but that feels like a hack (and ideally the paste would be instantaneous).
For some reason, Google Chrome tends to use a ton of memory, even though there is only 1 tab open most times. What causes Google Chrome Helper to use so much memory?
So i've been searching around and trying to figure this out but can't seem to. I know that the launchpad SQLite db is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/some-uuid.db (ref), but as best I can tell it doesn't seem to include any information about folders created in launchpad. Does anyone know where this information is stored, and in what format?
In iOS Settings / Notifications, I can control whether alerts use vibration or sound or vibration-and-sound for Calendar, FaceTime, Mail, Messages, Phone, and Reminders apps. In Clock App / Alarm / Edit or Add Alarm / Sound, I control whether alarm-clock alerts use vibration or sound or vibration-and-sound. But I can't seem to have timer alerts (from Clock App / Timer) that are sound-only (no vibrate), without killing vibration for all apps. Or am I mistaken?
I have a Mac OS X Yosemite downloaded file like this:  Like I see, it must have a Yosemite.app file in it, so why doesn't this have the file? This is truly from an Official Apple Website. It just has a .pkg file. Can anybody explain this to me? And, How to create a complete bootable Yosemite 10.10.5 DMG disk image for clean OS install?
I just updated to El Capitan (from Yosemite) and I noticed a problem in TextEdit, plain text mode. My tab distance is set to 8 characters, and I think it's the default.
I own a Macintosh laptop (10.11.2) that I would like to create a permanent reverse SSH tunnel. This way, when I switch network, or the computer is stolen, I can remotely SSH into the device independent on what network it is on. Currently, I run this command from when I am on the laptop, but if my network gets interrupted, I have to run it again. (and then run ssh -p 2000 localhost on my home server) But if my laptop switches network, or I am not physically on it to run the command, the reverse SSH tunnel does not work. Is there any mac command line solution for this?
Trying to switch tabs in Safari with osascript. I have tried multiple versions of the following:
I've am trying to delete the .Mobilebackups.trash folder on OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) by following these steps: The last operation failed saying the files are in use so I took the files out of the trash and tried to delete it from the terminal. This is the content of one of the folder I'm trying to delete: Looking into one of the for instance subfolders (Volume/Library/Preferences) is showing the following: Running rm -rf SystemConfiguration/ results in: chflags noschg SystemConfiguration/ is showing nothing. chmod 777 SystemConfiguration returns: I'm running all the above commands as sudoer. If I try to delete SystemConfiguration from finder I'm getting this message: “SystemConfiguration” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X. What am I doing wrong?
Hi I´m an OT working in a high school in Iceland and we are doing a project on internet usage and how we use it in our lives. I have been looking for a app that lets my kids monitor their app usage time so that they can analyze how much time each day they spend on different apps such as Facebook, Instagram etc. I can´t find any for Iphone except a Cydia app (we can´t use that) but I found a great one for Android called App usage tracker which gives me exactly the info I need. Does anybody have any ideas on similar apps for Iphone?
My media keys are not working on my Mac. Pressing play doesn't open iTunes automatically. This issue occurs across all users, even newly created users, and all applications. Here's what I've done so far:
I wrote an AppleScript that goes into System Preferences and clicks on some of the buttons. I does that by literally opening System Preferences and clicking UI Elements. I'm wondering, is it possible to not show what programs AppleScript opened and what it clicked and only show the result, (in my case it changes screen resolution)? That would result in faster script execution.
After a clean OS install, is there any way to recover my OS Keyboard Shortcuts from a backup of my previous User folder? Is is somewhere in Library/Preferences? I tried copying ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist (based on another thread here) but that did not seem to work. (I'm referring to various shortcuts set up in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, particularly > 'App Shortcuts')
I have an app that would fail once in a while, and I need to restart it if it doesn't works as expected. I can use Spotlight to start it after closing it. But how do I close it quickly using something as efficient as Spotlight?
I've got three calendars set up on my iPhone: Microsoft Exchange outlook.com (Windows Live) icloud
I have a strange issue with my early 2015 13" Macbook pro. The keyboard and touchpad no longer works during boot or in OS X. I can't, for example, use the internal keyboard to boot from USB, but have to hold down option on an external USB keyboard to select startup disk. Even the caps lock key light doesn't turn on when pressed. However, I can use the internal keyboard to do an SMC reset and both touchpad and keyboard works fine when booting Linux from a USB stick. External mouse and keyboard also work fine.
So basically I was messing around with AppleScript and created a variable based on the app's path and it always has a forward slash at the end that I don't want. See my other question for more info. Basically thePath is set to /Applications/MyEpicApp.app/ with that extra / I don't want.What's the "opposite" of "sometext" & someVariable in AppleScript?Many thanks in advance, I appreaciate every piece of information.
I shoot photos with my iPhone and localization services are active. When I open a photo from my Mac Preview (tools > show inspector > exif) I can't see any geotagging data. BUT, when I open the image with my Mac Photos it correctly positions a pin on a map.
If the focus in in the workspace with the IDE or full-screen IDE, it's fast. Once the focus is on a different workspace (so the IDE is either on a different workspace or in a full-screen mode (but with no focus)) then it is slower.
I want to transfer files between my Windows 7 unlimited computer and my Mac VirtualBox machine. I followed this tutorial. I did not set a password for my Windows computer While connecting, it asks this:
My Canon LIDE 600F scanner is old but still worked very well. When I upgraded to OS 10.11 my computer no longer recognized the scanner. Canon has officially stated that they are not making new drivers for this product, but I had a similar issue with my tablet not working and was able to find a solution on this site. Does anyone know of a workaround?
Is there an enterprise solution for backing up iOS devices locally instead of the cloud and also does not use iTunes? The goal is to have pure backup and restore functionality without allowing users to transfer personal data onto the device.
The title says it all. What would be the line of code to open a specific app created in AppleScript?
On the MacBook Pro with Retina display, what is the specific screen they use, (any idea on model number), or is it their own manufacture?
Does FileVault 2 encrypt my free disk space as well as the deleted files that may linger on there? I ask this because I am selling my MacBook Pro and want to sell it but I'm not sure how to securely erase my free disk space. So I'm trying to encrypt my drive then reinstall Mac OS X over it (purposely forgetting my encryption key).
I created a new album in my phone and added about 90 photos to it that I've taken over the past year -- all in-phone: no iTunes, no computer, no iPhoto... When I open that album, all the photos are in random order. Is there a way to sort the album by date? Or manually drag the photos to a new order?
I just need to know how to search (within Finder vs Terminal, if possible) for all file names within a specific folder, which begin or end with a space or a period. For example: " file.jpg" (begins with a space) "file .jpg" (ends with a space) "file..jpg" (ends with a period
I have a Macbook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) running OS X El Capitan. Prior to upgrading to 10.11.4 pressing SHIFT + 3 returned the £ (pound) sign and alt + 3 returned the # (hash) key. Since upgrading these have been reversed! Can anyone advise how to switch this back? Why has this happened?
I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 9.3.1. I have notifications for messages configured to alert with a sound. Other apps are set to notify with sound as well. I do have Do Not Disturb enabled, but it is on a schedule (nights only). The mute switch on the side is turned off. Phone calls and other things make noise properly.
All my files and pictures got lost or deleted while installing the OS X El Capitan software! Is there a way to get at least my iPhoto Library back? I have not made a back up before. Thanks for your help!
If I combine an acute accent with, say "x", with a w before it and a y following, like this: "wx̀y", this will look good in BBEdit and Word, and both programs will give a character count of 4. However, this applescript: set a to "wx̀y" display dialog (number of characters of a) ... will reply "3".
Does anyone know if I can connect two 4k monitors running at 60Hz to my MBP 13" early 2015, 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB). Specifically, I am interested in the DELL P2415Q. My understanding is that I can connect 2 monitors with res 3840 x 2160 via the two thunderbolt ports, but only one can run at 60Hz, the other must run at 30Hz. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
My friend owns an old iPhone 3GS(I know it's vintage) that entered a boot loop a couple of days after it was jailbroken. So how I tried tackling the problem was by performing a restore through iTunes(since it is the only way) but unfortunately that didn't work. I tried 5 different ipsw files and I even tried clicking on restore to allow iTunes to fetch the newest ipsw for me but still no luck. I tried using a different computer, still no luck. I even tried using an older version of iTunes since the iPhone 3GS's release but guess what, still no luck. Any ideas on how to tackle this problem and do you reckon the phone is soft bricked or hard bricked?
My Chrome 49 stopped receiving updates following Google's announcement of discontinuing support for Mac OS 10.8. Is there any way to install any Chrome version 50 supporting Mac OS 10.8.5 manually?
I have a MacBook Air 13 inch laptop since 2011. Quite recently the screen had problems. It start flickering, changing colors, and vertical lines appeared in the middle of the screen. All these are starting when I move the screen backwards, forward or when I am lightly pressing with the fingers the top of the screen. This is also the only way to re-adjust to normal operations. Any recommendations?
Two days later, when the disk was decrypted and the backup was ready, I finally rebooted the system. It has not come back since. It gets stuck on the screen with the Apple icon and the loader, the brightness of the screen dimming and then going up back and forth, while the spinner under the progress bar spinning while intermittently freezing for a while.
When I answer to an email in the Mail app, I noticed that the email is always sent twice. The first email sent is ok, the problem only occurs for the answers. I don't get this problem for the emails I receive, though, so maybe the emails I send are not sent twice, but they are displayed twice. What should I do to solve this little problem ? Thank you very much.
I have just migrated to OS X and have a lot of photos to import from my previous machine. The photos are already organised in a directory structure that I'm very happy with (i.e. 2016-05-04 Glasgow Trip). Is Photos making a copy of the photos in my existing directories, or is it copying them elsewhere?
I have a freelancer creating an iOS app for my website. He's asked for my apple developer account username, password and UDID.
I've Macbook Pro which I'm using now. I want to buy a new computer and I am between choosing Mac Pro (if new one comes out) and buying a standard PC which will be more powerful than Mac Pro for the same price (4000-5000 euro). Since I want to keep having Mac System for some tasks I thought of buying Mac Mini and connecting to it remotely. I know it's done via VNC but was wondering how's the "work" with it? I mean with Windows systems RDP is quite reliable on newest systems and you can really do a lot without feeling it's actually a remote desktop. With my old "VNC" days it always was somewhat pain to do so. Is it still so? I'm heavy Windows user so I use Parallels a lot but I like some features of Mac (sms sending, photos and few other features) so I would like to have both worlds.. not necessary buying Mac Pro which will be overpaid (hardware wise)
I have a very strange problem with my iPad Air 2. The problem is that certain apps crash immediately on launch. I tap the icon, the start screen shows and then the app crashes. This does not apply to all apps just a few. I have not been able to find a pattern. Even Apple’s own “Remote” app is one of the apps.
When I upgraded my iPhone 6 to 9.3.1, it started to show message "this phone is managed by your organization." In Settings it states phone managed by Comcast. This is NOT a company phone. My personal phone. I believe it is what keeps me from using international SIM card. Can't mast says this IMEI is not in their system. Help! Sorry if this question doesn't meet rules. I am still learning.
I have a File Server (Linux, Mint) running Samba which allows Windows machines on the network to connect as a Guest and read / write files to the shared folder. I have a Mac book running El Capitan. This is unable to connect to the server and on trying to do so gives the following error I have tried using all of the following connection strings But without any success. I can successfully connect using a username and password and am able to read/write but I am just unable to connect as a guest. The windows (xp) machines on the network can connect as a guest and can read/write without any issues.
Hi will resetting my 2011 Macbook Pro bring it back to the old version? I'm asking because i wish to run my pro tools but El Captian is considered "too advanced" for my software. Trying to save money and possibly reset my Mac. Does anyone know the answer to this? Thanks!
I recently changed my Gmail password, and as expected, the mail app can't log in to that account anymore. It says "Login Failed" in the top right.
I have a 27-inch, late 2012 iMac. After I upgraded to El Capitan the user interface (UI) partially freezes at apparently random moments. Parts of the UI continue to work (e.g., I can close applications by clicking on the red cross button). But, as soon as I try to use the menu bar or the dock, the system starts to get worse and more unresponsive.
My question is: What factors could conceivably cause a string of logic board failures like this? To clarify, I am not asking anyone to solve my issue specifically; it's just that I don't even know what kinds of things to troubleshoot. (For example: As crazy as it sounds, is it possible that my files, which have – aside from me as the user – been the only constant across the three laptops, could somehow cause problems like this? Or is that outside the realm of possibility?) Any suggestions as to possible causes would be greatly appreciated. Current computer specs: 15" MBP (Retina, Mid-2014) Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 HDD: 1 TB SSD
In Office in Windows, if you tap "Alt", letters appear all over the ribbon that illuminate how to navigate through it, switching tabs and hitting buttons to do anything that's on there.  How can I do that in Office 2016 for Mac? Related question about Office 2011, has anything changed?
I used this web page recipe - Create Your Own Custom Icons in OS X 10.7.5 or Later - for creating a .icns icon set containing a set of icons for an external disk that has been formatted with the ExFat file system. However, whatever I do, when I drag the .icns file on top of the drive, it just shows a .png dummy icon:
Arch Linux's pkgfile has a command-not-found hook that you can source from your shell's startup file (.zshrc, .bashrc, or whatever). Does Homebrew have anything roughly equivalent to this?
Previous questions/answers dealt with the simple case of a single partition on the USB disk that was just overwritten with dd. Also it looks like the disk utility gui doesn't allow creation of multiple partitions on a usb drive now. Anyway: I've created 3 partitions on my stick, with the command: diskutil partitionDisk disk4 3 APM hfsx d1 1.35G ExFat d2 1.25G ExFat d3 13.0G. This actually left me with 5 partitions:
This open the private browser by clicking the menu items. Then it closes the first window by looking for the unthinkable URL in the Window menu. It is working but flashy as the windows pop open and close.
Every time I boot my Mac, an "NTFS for Mac OS X" window appears. In the settings I can't change this. Here is the window I have El capitan 10.11.4 I found this: To resolve the issue you need to delete the service which is starting Preferences Panel with NTFS for Mac OS X. Go to Applications - Utilities Open Terminal Type in sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.paragon.NTFS.notify.plist Press Enter and provide Administrator password Press Enter again Preferences pane will not pop up again. But the file com.paragon.NTFS.notify.plist does not exist. Any solution? PS: sorry for my english, im from Argentina PPS: It does not appear as part of the Login Items
A long time ago, I made a relatively simple Numbers document with some tables containing text and images. It lives in iCloud, and I can preview it using Quick Look.
I am reviewing the answer here about Extracting embedded images from a PDF. It is not in Homebrew. How can you install pdfimages in OS X El Capitan?
I recently reinstalled OS X, which with my MacBook Pro (2012 Model) meant that it grabbed Lion from internet recovery. It successfully installed, and I installed some updates, but when it comes to upgrading to Mavericks or El Capitan, the App Store crashes, the download shows up in the Launchpad screen, but never downloads or even tries to download, and I'm left wondering why. Every google search reveals something similar, but nothing exact. I've tried signing out and signing in again, I've tried enabling debug and clearing cookies and resetting the app store, I've even copied and deleted the com.appstore.plist and com.apple.appstore.plist.
so I use a chatting app called WeChat and I have two phones. It only allows me to sign in on one phone at a time. But I can sign in on an iPad and a phone at the same time. It's an universal app, which means there is no iPad specific ipa. I like to know how I can put WeChat into a sandbox and makes it think my iPhone is an iPad. Thanks.
iam new on mac os, i find many thing that i want, but now have a problem around using mysql and phpmyadmin, i work as bellow Setup/Configure mysql: all above look to works fine, but when i run bellow command or i get this error or sometimes on following (installing phpmyadmin) but when i try to connect to phpmyadmin, it shows error great thanks for any idea
How do I setup youtube-dl to default download to ~/Downloads instead of the home folder?
I have recently collected & saved a large volume of internet links on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine that I wish to share with my other computer that runs OSX, but have come to realize that Google Chrome will not open these files on OSX as it does in Ubuntu. The files are.desktopfiles. An example of the file's contents is as follows:
I've created an USB with Windows 10 from where I can boot: Restart pressing option. Select USB EFI partition. Windows starts. When EFI password is active it will be asked when booting pressing the option key, and unless I know the password I can't boot using a different partition. I tried to set Windows as Startup Disk using System Preferences, but end up with this error: remove disk or other media press any key to restart Is there any alternative to boot Windows from USB without pressing the option key, but behaves the same way and I'm not asked for the EFI password?
How can I loop through every file in my file system with AppleScrip? And by every file I literally mean every single file, including hidden ones. Can it be done with AppleScript and how? I will check Date Modified of every single file to investigate what changed after playing around with a specific program.
I'm trying to transfer WiFi settings of saved networks from a Windows PC to a Macbook. I have exported the wireless settings via the freeware WirelessKeyView to a txt file (can also be created as a html or xml file). Is it possible to import these settings to the Macbook so that it saves the wireless network names and passwords?
I did a complete reinstall of OS X El Capitan last week-deleted the old Macintosh HD and installed OSX. Upon checking some hidden folders, I noticed that some files have Date Modified and Created property set to dates such as February 12 2016. I find that peculiar, because I installed OSX last week. How come I have folders on my computer that were modified even before they existed? Is this a leftover from Apple's team of engineers, meaning that they created this folder on that date?
I'm currently running a Dell U2715H at its native resolution (2560 x 1440) via DisplayPort as an external display, and I'd like to add another at that same resolution. The Apple specs on this model don't say anything about two external displays. Is it possible to run two external displays with this model?
I have a SOCKS5 proxy. I have a use-case, in which I want to route all traffic (even local URLs) via my proxy.
I have a mp3 song in iTunes, on some 3rd party music player apps, they have the lyric displayed on the control center. I think that is done using an .lcr file. So my question is, is it possible to import an .lcr file into iTunes? If it is, how to do it? Thanks
I'm a developer supporting Safari 8 and 9 and would like to be able to run both on the same machine. I assume Safari 9 won't run on Yosemite. Is there a way to install Safari 8 on El Capitan?
Attempting to make a Tiger-like dock on Mavericks. Slight bug in cDock 2 program:
I'm learning coding on OS X, as I'm a beginner, I have to read cheat sheets and I have bunch of files like that, Git commands, Ubuntu Server commands, Node.js modules command and so on. Today I saw my friend using Cloud9, it's Cloud IDE, it has a small area called "Commands" where he can search and read tiny description about it, also keyboard shortcut.
My husband and I have separate Apple ID accounts. He has gotten old deleted text messages from my iPhone appearing on his iPad. I do not own an iPad; only a Macbook Pro computer. My son had the same issue but at the time he did share an Apple ID with my husband. I, however, have a separate Apple ID and have no idea why he would be getting deleted text messages from my iPhone appearing on his iPad. Thoughts? We are on the same Verizon account and share Wi-Fi in the same house but that is all. Thank you for your help.
A similar question was asked before but doesn't go into the detail I am looking for- Backing up Photos library to external hard drive I would like to backup my Photos library but I don't want to use the .photoslibrary because there appears to be a bunch of meta material. If I right-click and do "Show Package Contents" I see a "Master" folder which appears to have exactly what I am looking for. Just a folder hierarchy with all the original images. Can someone confirm if this is the case? As well, what would I be losing if I go this route?
I need to install python3.4 on my OS X. Tried to do it with brew install python3 and now I have python 3.5.1. But I need py3.4. How can I install python3.4 on my Mac?
I'm using OS X Yosemite and having trouble running curl to POST data to my local server. Below is the command I'm running and the response:
I've left my MacBook running and then after opening the lid to start work the machine was not running. I had to power it on and see this in logs: this is detailed one: *=URL=* the panic file: full panic: https://gist.github.com/sevenfourk/4980df615efa7173b71788ce4ce76c91
I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine. The code of the file is as follows: the file is saved with a ".url" extension If I double click on the file I'm prompted by finder to choose which application to open it with (Chrome is greyed out, but I choose 'All Applications' and then choose Chrome), it will then simply load a page in Chrome and display the code on the page, instead of opening the url specified in the code. running Version 50.0.2661.94 (64-bit) on OSX 10.9.5
I have a table, and I'm trying to sort by the column headers, so that the alphabetically first column is to the left, etc. I've seen various instructions, and I've tried, but when I'm in the sort options, and select "left to right", and then "OK", it doesn't seem to change anything, and then I go back into options, it's back to up-down...
I was looking on my Mac's Launchpad today and saw a few apps that I'd like to clean out. I can't find some of them in the Applications directory, and the standard method of clicking and holding down, then clicking the X button isn't working – meaning that the X simply isn't showing up. Is there a directory in Finder where I can find the items stored in the Launchpad and delete it from there?
For some reason, when I activate Spotlight, the bar shows up in the top right part of the screen instead of the middle. I've tried restarting and connecting to an external monitor, to no avail.
I've always been a "naked iPhone" kinda guy since I love the design and hate the way cases feel in my pocket. I've managed pretty well for the past 6 or 7 years, and even when I DO get scratches I don't really mind. My latest iPhone, though, somehow got a pretty large scratch across the front (and a smaller one above that).
I thought that there's something wrong will all my compilations I upload to my phone. On iTunes those albums are correctly listed as compilations and artist is called "Various Artists" but I was unable to find them on my phone. Then I realised that there's a dropdown (highlighted) that is responsible for displaying different stuff.
I am pretty sure I have a faulty audio jack on my 13-inch, early 2011 MacBook Pro, given that I've spilled some liquid on it a while back. Ever since, it's been bad at detecting whether headphones are plugged in or not, and recently it got worse, to the point where it almost never detects them being in and always plays audio through speakers instead.
I am using Macbook Air Mid2012 with El Captian 10.11.3 version. I have two languages installed (two input sources). Currently my shortcut to toggle the language input is "CMD + space." I would like to use the option key on the right-hand-side as a shortcut for input source toggle. System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Input sources won't allow me to specify option key alone as a valid shortcut. Is there anyway to do this? Thank you!
I'm trying to run a game I bought from Steam: Dread Out. It starts the main screen, options, etc. but when I'll play the first level, it does not load the level. The loading screen stays forever, with music and tips. The app seams to be running but no content is loading and no error is dispatched. I did put a flag in the console and got the messages while running the app:
My Mac has the default installation of PHP 5.5 at /usr/bin/php and I want to remove it the right way because I want to have PHP 7 instead of this. So far no luck on how to uninstall the right way. I can't simply rm -rf /usr/bin/php because there's a lot of other components like php-cli, php-fpm, etc to be removed as well as apache and mysql.
I have a weird setup for my home office that allows me to switch from a standing desk to a sitting desk. The only problem is that when I alternate positions, my laptop's external monitor switches sides. (When standing it is off to the left of my laptop, when sitting it is on the right). At the moment, every time I go from sitting to standing, or vise-versa I have to go into System Preferences -> Displays -> Arrangement and rearrange them. What I would love is some sort of terminal command that moves the 2nd monitor relative to first one. Doesn't matter how long the command is since I can just alias it.
As you can see, there is no partition on the left side that I can remove. I simply have 60GB of "Free space" that I now cannot use. Please help!
I was googling how to mass delete photos from my iPhone and the consensus was to use Image Capture. However, I couldn't find that application on my Mac. Is there a way I can install it individually? If that's impossible, is there any other alternative app that does the same thing? I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3.
I am trying to look for a way to upgrade my 13 inch Macbook Pro Retina SSD because it's too small right now (only 128GB). I found out that currently it seems only OWC Aura offers the upgrade SSD for this model; are there any other brands that you know offers upgrade for 2015 early MBP? Note: I'm trying to install Windows with bootcamp, so external drives aren't really options for me. Many thanks!
My Finder on MBP has been giving me problems for a quite a few days and has become completely unusable. Once I start it, it opens fine but then I can't do anything. And it shows a scrambled view with images from background sometime (see below screenshot). Cliking on links on the side bar like Documents, Airdrop, etc has no effect. I have tried doing relaunch several times as well as restart. But no resolution.
I'm looking for a method to change USB or External Drive Icon using bash or any other command line method. I know how to manually chnage them like this I am using El Capitan
Just wondering if there is a URL scheme to switch between 3G and 4G networks.
I've written a simple bash script to check whether a program (supplied as its only argument) is running and send an email to a set address in the script if it's not. The script works if run on the command line, but I cannot for the life of me get it to work under launchd as a user agent (~/Library/LaunchAgents) where I try to set it to run every minute. The latest incarnation of the relevant .plist file is (monitoring Dropbox):
I normally resolve it by right-clicking the Chrome Dock-icon -> Settings -> "assign to Desktop on monitor x", which will move all the Chrome windows to monitor x. But it's becoming a bit annying because i would have to setup the window size everytime i do this. So I'm wondering if someone in here knows of a better solution to open windows in the "current" Chrome window.
HDMI has been working fine for as long as I remember. However, today when trying to connect it to my Sony TV, the HDMI wasn't working. It's not the cable or TV (tested different laptops/cables) so it must be my MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Mid 2012. I've had some issues with black screens when booting recently (still do, but can work around it by shutting my laptop lid for one minute and then opening it and it seems to work) which may be an influence.
I have been able to get this tablet working in Windows 7 by installing older drivers that were found online. This tablet is obviously not going to work with current Intuos drivers.
I already format first partition and it's now empty. The second partition contains lots of important data and I don't want to format it because I don't have backup of them. When I connect the drive with my Mac (I'm running on OSX 10.11.4), I can see that the total drive size is 500GB like below:
I also ran the Disk Utility's First Aid and the drive passed all the tests applied by that utility. So: Is this an unreasonable read/write speed? Would it be due to the hard drive being less than 10% full? Something else that I am missing? After the storm
I've seen tutorials on how to make a windows usb/flash boot drive on a mac using a windows iso & bootcamp. I've also seen tutorials on how to boot a mac from a usb drive (hold down alt when booting). However what I'm trying to do is to make a windows boot drive then boot my mac from it (installing all the 'stuff') and I'm getting stuck.
How can I clear the "Choose a Mac" list? I have 3 entries of the same machine, same ip address but different host names?
I believe Enhanced Dictation includes functionality to train itself on words found on the user's operating system (for instance, proper nouns found in the Contacts database) and also to improve its speech recognition processes. In order to restore Enhanced Dictation to its untrained state, is it enough to delete the /System/Library/Speech/Recognizers directory and its contents and then reinstall it from the System Preferences UI? Or is there training data cached somewhere else in the system that would also have to be removed? I am currently in OS 10.9.5.
For example, when touching on the very edges of the trackpad, OS X ignores gestures. In Linux, I can use the full trackpad.
How do I disable Apache running because I can't get it down since I cannot run this sudo apachectl stop. It will give me this but when I run this httpd -v then it will give me this
I saw that on my iPhone under iCloud settings Mail was turned off but under iCloud Drive it's turned on and Google Drive is turned on as well (didn't mess with those settings before). Are my Emails from GMail and Google Drive files backed up by iCloud? That would make no sense and only steal my space.
I bought my Mom a 1st gen for Mothers day. But now I cannot get any apps! Any help would be appreciated. I have no idea where to start.
I am trying to create a bootable usb drive in order to rebuild my sons old imac. I have followed the instructions given on this and other forums but am getting command not found when trying to run either of the commands
I have an iPhone but my friend does not. When I send a message, my phone sends it as an iMessage and he doesn't receive it. How do I sort this out?
I am starting to learn Cuda programming for scientific computing (in particular computational quantum chemistry) and I would like to test my programs on a decent Cuda-enabled GPU. The Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB integrated in my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) does not meet exactly my expectations. Recently Nvidia announced the GTX 1080 for a decent prize.
I need to know how to delay the automatic sleep on the Macbook Pro. It sleeps too early.
I have a Mid 2007 iMac, I've installed rEfind on the mac and the Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3) installer on an USB thumb drive . rEfind sees the USB thumb drive, sees grub installed on the key, I boot from it and start to install Linux Mint, at a certain point I get this error: 'the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/'. I manually set the partition table: sda4 / k gb sda5 swap 4096 mb The iMac has a Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and a NVDIA card. I'll try again using the last UNebootin version, ad some different Linux distro (Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Lubuntu), but I'd like to know what issue could I have.
I have a portable power bank and I can charge devices via USB on it. Is there an adapter to change a 3 prong charger to a USB, so I can plug my Mac into my power bank? A Mac air charger that can plug into a USB port would work as well.
Sometimes I set up a password for my Pages document, and I forget it. Is there a way to access the document without a password or recover password back anyway?
Use ASL or Syslog (see the Mac Developer Library) to e.g. write the error to an .asl file
Basically, I'm preparing to give a MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.11.4, to someone, but I need to execute "sudo trimforce enable" beforehand, as it contains an aftermarket SSD (fully compatible with TRIM). I wanted them to be able to use the normal setup assistant, so creating a user to run the command is not ideal. Is it possible to boot into recovery or single user mode and run the command, without having to create a user account? Thank you.
I've realized today that my iMac is sending/receiving(mostly send) some anonymous data over the internet(almost 500MB today), I checked with Little Snitch and found these addresses are consuming data on my Mac: p24-caldav-current.edge.icloud.apple-dns.net, p24-caldav.icloud.com, p24-ckdatabase-current.edge.icloud.apple-dns.net, p24-ckdatabase.icloud.com, p24-contacts-current.edge.icloud.apple-dns.net, p24-contacts.icloud.com, p24-escrowproxy-current.edge.icloud.apple-dns.net, p24-escrowproxy.icloud.com, p24-keyvalueservice-current.edge.icloud.apple-dns.net, p24-keyvalueservice.icloud.com As soon as i blocked them out, My mac stopped eating traffic! What are these and why would apple exchange such amount of data ?
While I am using multiple desktops on my Mac, I would like to mirror one of these desktops on a second monitor. This monitor would keep mirroring this desktop while I could switch between all of my desktops with my main monitor. Any ideas on how to make this happen? I am using an iPad as a second monitor if that might be important.
The following file encryption method works on OS X Yosemite: Encrypt: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.zip -out file.zip.enc Decrypt: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in file.zip.enc -out file.zip However, when on OS X El Capitan I get this error: Any solutions?
When I am playing music on my Macbook Pro and don't touch the computer for a while, the screen goes black and the music is still playing. How do I change the black screen to something cool that goes with the music?
Is there any way to disable all the background applications except WhatsApp for cellular connections? I have WhatsApp plan only from my carrier, I want to only use WhatsApp when I turn on the cellular connection. I dont see WhatsApp / Facebook or main apps in cellular section "Use cellular data for" but only default apple apps. How to disable for cellular only?
This is what I mean:  When I try to lock above keychain I get a lot of pop alerts similar to this:
Back when I used the Mail app on Leopard and Snow Leopard, it never seemed to tell the Gmail server that to mark as read the messages that I read. This had the annoying effect of requiring me to go to my web browser and mark everything as read there. Needless to say, I didn't use it much since I would have to go to my web browser to mark it as read anyway.
(EDIT 2) A comment by user duozomo in this A.SE question suggests that the problem is due to different image viewers using different parameters for "screen pixel per image pixel". Can anyone confirm this? And if so, is there a known list of which programs use which parameter for this?
I use a macbook pro with OS X El Capitan 10.11.4, 2,5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. I need to code in Visual Studio and use Microsoft Excel for Windows, thus I installed Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Business Edition Vestion 11.2.0, installed Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Here is the setting of Parallels Desktop:
On a MacBook Air running the latest El Capitan public beta (10.11.5) we're seeing very high CPU utilization (25 to 100+%) by the bird process. We're seeing a number of errors (rather than a persistent one) some of the more common ones are: The resulting CPU utilization makes the machine almost unusable, any suggestions for a solution short of turning off iCloud drive?
I could not understand whether other questions had been answered, or if the answers were valid for my version of OS X (Mavericks), so I'm asking for the definite truth about the following: Can I create a symlink so that ~/Documents, which opens with Cmd+Shift+O in the Finder, directly opens my ~/Google Drive folder?
Edit: I originally asked this in terms of forcing TM to do a "full" backup. After getting answers about how every backup is a "full" backup, I realized I asked the wrong question. The problem is that I have a backup that I don't trust, on a disk that has other stuff on it, including TM backups from other machines. I'd like to do another backup of one of my machines, independent from the first one. Below is the rest of my original question.
If so, how does one fix or get around this? Is there a setting to change? Is there an alternative app to use?
I have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2. The 4s runs iOS 7, the iPad 2 runs iOS 9.3. On both devices, I have two Gmail accounts (one is straight gmail, one is a business domain), configured as Exchange accounts rather than Google accounts so new emails are pushed, not fetched.
I rented a room in a shared house (we are in 5). What I've noticed is from my room the internet connection is really bad (sometimes it doesn't even load the google homepage). My guess is not that the bandwith is saturated even though there are 5 of us, instead that there is some kind of router problem in managing many devices all at once (like if I turn off my cell wifi gets slightly better). Today I was downloading a file at 1.5 mb/s from this connection even though pages struggled to load, but as soon as I clicked the download button it went straight up to 1.5 mb/s with a decent speed stability. Moreover I think the signal is good enough 4/4 in the indicator at the top-right of the screen.
If I make Applet Zed, I can open it again and again with multiple copies running. Can I change this behavior before saving the applet? If not, is there script that can detect the first occurrence and immediately close the second applet? I tried to immediately quit the second applet if it detected an active process named Zed, but nothing I tried worked. I tried using an if-then statement to skip past all the applet code if Zed was running. That didn't work either, which makes no sense because Zed was in the list of processes.
Strange bugs with iTunes and iphone, when trying to transfer and listen files in mp3. In m4a everything is all right. Is there any way to convert all mp3 files to m4a and save all tags and covers? Thanks.
My MacBook sometimes becomes hot when I'm using it, and I want to make sure it is operating within normal temperature. What's the operating temperature for the MacBook that was released in May 2016 normally?
I posted an old iPhone 4 to my sister (I'm in Australia; she's in Thailand) which was working fine both before and after she received it. Recently it has started cutting off while being used - especially when using data - and saying there's 'no reception'. This was happening every couple of weeks. My sister has been restoring the iPhone through iTunes each time this happens, which had been resolving the problem until it came back again. Unfortunately now though it is no longer restoring through iTunes, and showing this error message:
I'd like to have a tree view of my current folder (it's children and it's parents) for navigation in the left column of the finder's UI. How do I get that?
Just bought a Retina Macbook Pro and swapped the SSD for a 1TB drive, it boots and seems to run fine, except the drive in 'about' shows as external and when I set in finder show/hide external it appears/disappears- Is this going to be an issue (boots and runs) and how can I fix it?
Does Parrallel win 10 work well for Macbook 12" 2016 ? I am going to buy new MacBook 12" as it is so cool. However, I need to use Microsoft Office 365 for my work with full compability.
When I recieve an calendar invite and send an 'accept' the message itself is being deleted out of my mail box. I know the invite itself is able to stay in your mailbox but the big question is how?! Does anyone know how to keep your outlook calendar invite as an e-mail?
I'm trying to write a script that requests the user password for some sudo-related commands. My goal is to emulate the default method that OS X uses to obtain the user's password, Password: followed by a key-like symbol, as seen in the screenshot attached below:
I've seen many questions that relate to specific daemons/applications that exit on this same exit code (=1). All scenarios seems unique and unconnected.
I have iphone 5s , IOS 9.3.1 All the apps like whatsapp , facebook , twitter , skype etc from IOS Store are installed in my iphone and is available in Background app refresh section But all those apps are not appearing in "Allow Data For" section in cellular section in IOS.
In the past if I wanted to install Windows on Bootcamp, and then also use Parallels/VMware to open up the Bootcamp installation as a VM I would need two separate Windows licenses. Is this still the case with Windows 10?
I think it's a bug for sure. Older Safari versions, it has word wrap in that area but when updated, it seems there is no word wrap in web inspector console.
I lost my iPhone. I connected this iPhone to my iCloud, but I can't get this phone. That phone not having GPS on and Data Pack. Is there any way to find this? Is there any possibility to use this phone?
Hi what could slow down my massively fast solid state disks? I have from the start of owning it only had 10-15GB free on the 128GB internal drive but now writes are down from their 300+ mbit to 85 mbit very consistently with no spikes ever, Reads are down to 300mbit from 700+ mbit. Has been heavily used so may I have just written of so many blocks that the system needs to shuffle through and find a good bit of flash each time it wants to use the disk?
This is sorta urgent, since my dad's whole business relies on his computer, and it needs to be fixed. Anyway, it will startup and and make the mac "on" chime. But after that, nothing happens. We can tell it is on because pressing the caps lock key will turn the capslock light on and off, and the black screen is still brighter than the bezel. We tried doing a PRAM reset, and that didn't work at all. We still have yet to start in Safe Mode, but again, this is my dad's whole business at stake, so if you or you know someone who can help, that would be great. -LionMac
Both Intel and Samsung supply windows only configuration software for their SSDs (Intel® Solid State Drive Toolbox, Samsung Magician Software for PC). Is there anyway to achieve the same functionality under OS X? And/Or is this functionality actually needed? To clarify using Intel as an example (but samsung has something similar), their configuration tool can: Check and tune system settings for optimal performance, power efficiency, and endurance (Note that this is separate from firmware updates - which both companies do seem to support for OS X systems)
How do you move a tab's position amongst other tabs using the keyboard? Is it possible?
I'm getting my first Mac, a Macbook Air 2015. My other machine is a PC used for gaming and I thought I could use my external HDD with both. Now I see NTFS is read only in OS X. For now it's unlikely that I'll run out of space on the 128GB SSD because I stream both videos and music and don't save large collections of photos or videos on the notebook but if might need some more space, what would be the best way to upgrade storage? Move the files on the HDD to my PC, format it to another file system and only use it with the Macbook? Does OS X have a utility for that? I heard it's possible to upgrade the SSD but will it void my warranty to have it done?
I'm a Linux user, using Ubuntu for few years. Recently I bought a Macbook and I'm trying to understand how to set up my Romanian language layout.
My ipad 2nd generation is super sluggish and crashing a lot. It was suggested that I downgrade from the current release - which it runs on now - to iOS 7. I tried doing this through itunes and picking my own OS file to restore but I was told the ipad was not eligible for that back up. What is the best way to do that? Thx.
I know there are small USB boxes which are able to pass through image from HDMI (and record it) to computer. Is there something similar which would enable me to see stuff from HDMI on my Mac?
For some reason cat no longer shows line breaks when I use it, while all other tools (grep, more etc) do. I am using iterm2 on OSX 10.11.4. What could be causing this behaviour? Example I have a file test.txtcreated in vim: When I do cat test.txt the output is (note space in place of newline):
I cracked the LCD screen of my Macbook Air a few days ago and dropped it off at the Apple store to get it replaced. The 'Genius' there said it would cost around $500 and that having another repair shop fix it would void its warranty (I have the Apple Care package), so I authorized the repair. Today I received a call from the Apple store that the technician who opened up the laptop found 'a few dead bugs' in the laptop and since this is a 'biohazard', they won't be able to do the fix themselves. They weren't specific about the kind of bugs they found.
I've gotten mixed answers from various websites and people concerning this question, and I wanted to put it out there for all of you to answer once and for all. The question is, does force closing apps, (that is, double-clicking the home button, then swiping up on them), have any benefit to the battery or overall performance of an iPhone or any other iOS device?
I recently bought Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 bluetooth headphones and I use them mainly with my imac. After a bit of fiddling I figured out to force aptx via the bluetooth explorer and disable the handsfree profile as well, as countless people are recommending.
I currently have a Macbook Pro late 2011 15 inch which is running Mac OS X 10.7.5 which is a little outdated for my preference. When I run a software update there it says there is no software update available and when I open my Appstore it crashes so I can not download the update for El Capitan. Does this version of the Macbook not support later versions of OS X? How can I get around this issue and download El Capitan?
Using a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) The heat of the place where the wrist are laying is annoying. I cannot measure the temperature of this exact part but with the help of smcfancontrol I deduced that when the cpu is about 40~45°C this part is tolerable.
I have a 13" mid-2014, Intel i5 CPU, 8GB RAM and 128GB flash storage MacBook Pro. I'm trying to reinstall OS X El Capitan. I have downloaded the .iso file from the App Store, and I have created a install disk using Diskmaker X. When my mac reboots and chimes, I boot onto the USB disk and it runs the progress bar as if it was booting off the flash disk.
With the mac version of OneNote, the files that I attach to a page are always read-only. In the windows version of the software, the files can be modified from within OneNote. Is this a bug of the mac version, or is this something to do to be able to modify?
I use a MacBook Pro Late 2011 with OS X El Capitan (10.11.4). I wanted to install Windows using Boot Camp Assistant. However, I got stuck at Partitioning disk.... It seems that it is a very common problem, and there are many threads on the web concerning this. Here is the screenshot I took while stuck:
I'm observing the weirdest thing. I can't receive any ICMP echo replies from hosts outside of my local network on my MacBook running El Capitan. Pinging hosts within my local network (my router and my Thinkpad running Arch Linux) works fine. Also pinging hosts in the internet from the Thinkpad and from the iPhone (with mobile data switched off to make sure it has to go through the same wifi router the MacBook uses) works fine. So on the one hand I can rule out an issue with the MacBook (because it does receive replies from hosts in the same network) and I can rule out an issue with the router because devices using the very same router don't have any problem receiving ICMP echo replies. That leaves me thoroughly puzzled and I don't have any idea where to look for the cause of this. Here's some terminal output to illustrate what I'm talking about (the first ping is the router, the second one is the Thinkpad):
What is the best way to resolve Microsoft Excel for Mac OS X Yosemite error "Cannot use object linking and embedding"?
In Mac applications that open a lot of windows, the most common thing I do with a window (aside from scrolling it) is closing one window. The little red dot in the upper-left corner of a window is the obvious way to close it, but that little dot requires careful (aka slower) mousing to hit it, especially when compared to a browser tab, dock icon, or other frequently-clicked areas that are much larger.
Is there a way to test an ethernet cable quality signal in a MacBook Pro retina with a thunderbolt adapter? I've searched many places but all I can find is configuration issues. My configuration is ok but the ethernet cable is about 100 meters, which I understand that if I exceeded the connection quality drops a lot.
A few days ago, my IMAP files were sent to the trash (if I did it, it was by accident, but I really don't remember doing it...) So the main file is there in the trash but I cannot scroll down the files, and its greyed out. And also I cannot recover the files, or put them back on the inbox!! Any ideas? Here's a picture of what it looks like!Thank you for your help!
Is there any way to transfer the backup file from windows phone to Iphone 5S. Iphone whatsapp restore the data from icloud so is there any way to replace that file with the Windows phone whatsapp backup file or manually restore the iphone whatsapp from that backup. or a way to atleast open and view the threads Following is the structure of Windows phone whatsapp backup file i have saved.
Say a Mac Pro tower has OS X + Apps installed on a blazing fast PCIe SSD. It also has Time Machine enabled on a slow 5400rpm mechanical drive. The TM drive is internal and connected at all times.
On certain websites I visit Safari has a consistent problem. Using the back button brings up an old cached version of the page. Refresh works fine. An example is *=URL=* If I read the threads on that page and click back, it will eventually start bringing up an old cached view of the page without refreshing the list of threads.
I have a mysterious process on my Macbook pro which I can't isolate which comes around every 5 seconds and interferes with my connectivity. My ping history looks like this: I can tell that this is local to my machine (and not the network) because these results don't change when I switch networks and other machines on those networks don't show the same intermittent stagnation.
A friend installed Mackeeper, and I tried to uninstall it with DetectX. As far as I know, DetectX is not known malware as I can only find positive comments about it. But, I'm concerned that I cannot say this has not damaged their Mac. What should I do? I am also in the process of a fresh install.
I bought a ipod i tried contacting the owner i tried everything but there apple id and password is on the ipod i cant login or try to set it up for me becuase it says its linked to an apple id but the person i bought it from isnt answering my calls and i cant get in the ipod how do i get in it is there any other way????? any website ideas anything? i payed 200.oo i really need help geeting into the ipod a differnt way they basicly put find my iphone on the device
Here's my problem: ...should let me run as root and modify /usr & /usr/share directories, but I get this:
My company is moving to IOS Apps development and we are looking for a MAC's pc to compile the apps. Basically we will develop at Window workstation, then compile at MAC. Is the Mac Book Pro i5 or Mac Mini i5 power enough the the apps compilation(will only run as workstation to compile the IOS apps)? How about Running OSX at window 10 HyperV, is it support? Thanks Louis
I have an Apple Wireless Keyboard MC184LL/B which I use infrequently, but was using today (on a non-Apple machine). I attempted to connect it to a new device, unsuccessfully, and now I cannot seem to use it on the original machine or on my MacBook Pro Early 2011 running OS X 10.11. (The MacBook Bluetooth is OK as I can connect to other devices.) The MacBook sees it, and says "connecting" when I press the pair control, but always fails with Couldn't connect to the device. I have always found this device frustrating; it came with almost no instructions and there seems to be no on-line manual, although there is a similar keyboard with 3 batteries rather than 2. When I press the power the green light comes on for a few seconds then goes off. I possible broke it by attempting to connect without pairing from the new device. Is there anyway I can reset the keyboard to factory default.
I then moved those movies to another external HDD (which is not being backed up). The movies were kept in the TM backup as there was still space on the backup drive.
I am a web developer and I often need to do testing on i devices. I have a macbook around and I don't know what is the best way to test my web applications on iOS devices. I don't have any physical iPhones or iPads (yet).
When I've downloaded a file in Chrome for OS X, it sits in a little bar at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes I want to drag and drop that file directly into a Chrome tab (for example, to upload it somewhere.) Some websites allow this.
Is there a setting to delete the last word using the command key and backspace? Currently this combination of keys deletes the current line. Instead, I want to delete the last word (before the cursor).
My 2012 MacBook Pro was stolen, but it had Find My Mac enabled through iCloud prior to that event. I have not issued a remote wipe with hopes that I'd be able to use Find My Mac to track it down. Alas, it has not come online and I've now purchased another 2012 MacBook Pro to replace it. I luckily have a full system backup on my Time Capsule I can restore to this new MacBook. I am considering issuing the Remote Wipe command to my stolen Mac, but I am concerned that this might cause my new Mac to be wiped instead after I try to restore it, at which point iCloud will consider it's job done and remove the reference to the old MacBook. I know it has a different serial number. Is that enough or will it consider it to be the same device after I do the full system restore?
I enabled dragging with the trackpad in my preferences:  It works well, but there is a delay after I release my finger from the touchpad. So, I: Double tap and begin dragging If I release my finger from touchpad and then put it again, quick enough, and move the mouse, it's dragging the window. Instead of that I want to stop dragging the window when releasing the finger.
The usual behaviour when opening a Document on SharePoint ist that the document is opened in the corresponding Web App. In my case it is simply downloaded (with Safari). It was like that with OS X 10.8, than it was OK with some of the 10.9 versions and now is back to download only with 10.10. It should not be version related as I know of machines with El Capitan where the behaviour is normal (open in browser). Any idea what would make my browser act differently?
I have Macbook Pro 2015, running El Capitan 10.11.1 and I am having issues with NFS mounts. I also have an Android TV Box and it mounts NFS without any issues, so I guess the issue is with my laptop. Here is the NFS config(/etc/exports): When I run showmount: I mount from Finder > Go > Connect to Server and enter: nfs://rpi/media/mypassport
I tried various nvram commands to disable the internal display. While the internal display then didn't stay lit up during other attempts in this section, this did not seem to change sleep behavior.
I have a wireless keyboard and can't find the hashtag. I have found it on my iPhone but can't find it on the mac keyboard
If I type a command, and halfway through I decide not to run that command, I do a Control-C to cancel it without having to backspace the whole thing, e.g. mv foo.txt bar.txt. On Ubuntu it'll show up as mv foo.txt bar.txt^C to remind me I cancelled it, but on Mac it shows up as just mv foo.txt bar.txt. Any way to get that ^C behaviour on Mac?
After installing windows on mac,when i boot with windows i want to select items or deselect from the list of items (like files in explorer or filtering some items in ms application) my mouse does not select correctly , some times it select next item or pervious item , for example in ms excel when i want to filter something and want select one item from the list it has problem and select other items. Also when i want to go to bottom or top of the list and select some thing it does not go until end of list and it back to 2 or 3 items before last item. I do not have this problem with mouse when i am working with macintosh, this problem happened when i work in windows,
how do i update my macbook air Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 to a more up to date version as I need to install remote access. When I try currently it says Microsoft Remote Desktop can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because Mac OS X version 10.9 or later is required. please help
I want to create a recurring event on iOS calendar but the event is not getting created properly. The event dates go beyond the specified dates. There is event start and end date.
I have an old MacBook MacBook4,1 (named Mac1) under Lion. My daughter is working with it. I have just bought another old MacBook2,1 (named Mac2) which is under Snow Leopard and that I need to reinstall completely. Can I make a clone of the first one and use this clone on the second one ?
So my computer meets the tech specs, but it is a year older than the oldest stated supported model. Practically speaking, what is the latest Mac OS version this computer will be able to run?
Each member of our family has two unique Apple ID's, one for use with iTunes and another for iCloud (e.g. 4 members, 8 Apple ID's). On the family sharing page it says "Family Sharing requires a personal Apple ID signed in to iCloud and iTunes". We are hoping to achieve not only the shared apps functionality of 'family sharing' but also the shared calendar, photos and Apple music subscription.
Is it possible to install Google Maps without an Apple ID?
Windows has a feature that can make text and GUI objects larger by changing a DPI setting. This helps keeping the monitors native resolution, but still make text and objects larger on screen.
I just have made the biggest mistake in my life, accidentally format ~2TB of my personal data. Here is information about the Disk : Is there any OS X software able to simple undo the quick format, recover Catalog File section (which contains records for all the files and directories stored in the volume), preserve filename & directory structure... to put the drive back to previous state?
I have a Mac mini and a Windows 7 laptop. I want to control the Mac mini through my Windows laptop. Is there any solution in a way that I don't have to hook up the Mac with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse every time I want to connect?
I have my Energy Saver->Battery->'Turn display off after:" set to 2 minutes. This setting is exactly how I want power settings to behave when I'm using the computer on my lap. However, when I hook up to Apple TV for a presentation it still shuts off after 2 minutes which disconnects apple TV and disrupts the presentation.
I've had some issues with my trackpad and keyboard on my MacBook Pro 13 (Early 2015) for the past 3-4 weeks. After being awaken from sleep mode, they were sometimes unresponsive. At first, a couple of hard reboots made them work again, but lately no number of reboots fix it. However, they usually come back to life again by themselves after some time (12-24 hours). At wake up, when the trackpad and keyboard stops working, I found this error message in the system's log: Some other findings: The keys can sometimes wake the computer, but as soon as it wakes up they don't work. They don't work at boot (i.e., cmd+R, cmd+V etc do not work).
I've found that the speakers on my 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook aren't being used by Mac OS X. Some applications such as Skype that output directly to the speakers work, but the system (and any apps that use the system setting) are mute.
I have a PDF with a number of parts. I would like to create a Table of Contents to navigate the PDF with ease. I would like to do on a Mac this with freeware. (A command-line program would be great.)
I need to disable auto updates for one of the apps installed in my Mac (OS X 10.11.4). The developer keeps releasing new versions but I want to stay at a specific version that works just as I need. This is not a store app, I downloaded it from the developer's site. I know this app uses the Sparkle.framework for autoupdating.
My app has always(4 months) been free and I am wondering if I make it paid, will it be in the new paid apps category? It is not new in sense of app but new in sense of paid app.
I just installed El Capitan (I used to have Lion OS X), and I lost my address book. So I googled about it and I can restore them from my time machine. I did that but the file can't be opened in the address book app. What can I do to solve this? Thank you.
Using automator is somewhat of a tedious task. Using the shell in the Terminal is much easier all around. Even using the "Run Shell Script" action inside automator is not the same as using the actual shell in the Terminal. A script that works normally in the Terminal may break in Automator. Then editing requires opening Automator again (I have a habit of quitting the program assuming everything will work) and waiting on everything to load. So I thought, why am I even using this program? But then when I start thinking about creating a service, I realized that I have no idea how to go about it without the slow and clunky Automator application. Is this even possible?
So first of all, does this sound like a good idea? Second, would it be better to boot into the USB drive and choose to install to the clean install partition or should I put the install app on the clean install's Application's folder and run it from there?
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.4. I am attempting to use an external display with my Dell U2715Q (has 4k capabilities). I purchased an AmazonBasics miniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter and I am getting 1920x 1080 as my max resolution. My question is: how can I obtain the full max resolution with my mac and monitor set up? According to the official website I should be able to reach 2560 x 1600: Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
Does anyone know where this folder came from? I don't believe that I created it, but it doesn't seem that it comes by default because there is nothing in it. The folder I'm referring to is the one titled Data in case that was not clear. Thanks for any ideas you may have.
The top of my Mail messages say To: followed by the primary recipient, plus a link labelled and 3 more…. Clicking that link reveals the additional recipients. I'd rather not have to click the link, I'd like to see all recipients always.
There are two situations I found useful to limit download and upload speed on a Mac: iTunes download of a movie -- I don't want that to use a lot of bandwidth but want maybe 50% or 70% of bandwidth allocated to the download. iTunes download of a movie -- I don't want that to use a lot of bandwidth but want maybe 50% or 70% of bandwidth allocated to the download. When uploading something big on a website, such as uploading a video to YouTube, I don't want the upload to use most of the bandwidth, because when upload speed is used to the max, download speed will become minimal. When uploading something big on a website, such as uploading a video to YouTube, I don't want the upload to use most of the bandwidth, because when upload speed is used to the max, download speed will become minimal. Without using some heavy duty app such as Network Link Conditioner, which is part of Xcode, is there a way just to say, limit all upload to 100kb/s, and all download speed to 1MB/s on a Mac?
I am planning on backing up my pictures When I got to ~/Pictures it shows 168.57GB Size and then two libraries iPhoto and photos as shown below.
I can drag and drop an image from a folder on my MacBook into Photos. Now I want to push it to the photos on my iPhone. They are connect by USB.
When I press Option+D key in OS X, the current application loses focus. And if I press it again, the current window gets focus back.
I have tried repeatedly to change my Apple ID and password without success. I have followed all of the directions trying both my emails and asked for new passwords----no luck whatsoever.
I have installed Windows 10 Pro in Mac OS X El Capitan using Bootcamp, restored the same to external USB 3.0 HDD using WinClone Pro. Now I am getting error when booting to Windows.
I was wondering how one would go about doing this rather than waiting for them to be updated in a maybe too-distant System update? I receive notifications of security updates to Unix libraries like DSA-3574-1 libarchive -- security update and, while this is primarily an update for Debian, the alert says it's for "Unix variants" - including OS X. I see this library exists under /usr/lib, so, is it possible to update it independently of OS X updates?
Please excuse my language as I am not technically minded. I have a new iPhone 4s with Version: 9.3.1(13E238)as well as a new Mac and iPad. When I hit on photos icon the heading is "Moments" therefore I am not sure if this is a camera roll or what. I wish to delete all photos on my iPhone and iPad to free up space but have them remain on my iMac. I connected the phone to the Mac to upload my latest photos/videos. However when I hit the bin icon I receive the msg: This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices.
Question above. I often use QuickTime for watching video tutorials, but I want to be able to start it in fullscreen automatically.
Remember this old Easter egg from Google link. I want to know: is it possible to have the cursors from two mouses on one Mac? I am able to dualscreen. Thanks
I have been staring the following to dialogs for about an hour:  This problem does't only occur on one specific application. Instead, all applications seem to experiencing an infinite verification progress. What's wrong with my computer?
I have a multiple monitor setup. I'd like to be able to play a video full screen on only one of them. It could be Quicktime or a Safari video (mostly Safari/YouTube). Is there any setting to control this at all? Right now the video takes over the screen and the others go black. (Have seen other older answers but no solutions recently.)
Is it possible to install InkScape without XQuartz? I did install it already and it's working but I feel like it's not that native (e.g. the menu doesn't appear on the top pannel but until the title bar). How to install InkScape without XQuartz?
I am clearly missing some with iCloud storage, every few weeks I get an email saying my storage is nearly full and I only have a couple of hundred MB left. So I am always deleting my back up and letting it back up overnight. When I back it up it's only about 3GB. Why is it consistently over the weeks always full? I have no apps being backed up to it either, they're all off. So how do I stop this and what is causing it?
How can I change which browser the Mac Reminders.app uses to open "this webpage" associations for a Reminder, so I can change the "Open Google Chrome Canary" notification button to an "Open Mozilla Firefox" button? Given I've created a Reminder for a Webpage on my phone by asking Siri to "remind me about this tomorrow", when the Reminder appears on my laptop running the latest public build of OS X, then I expect the Open button to offer to open it in my default browser, or just not mention the browser and behave as open(1) does. Instead, what I see is "Open in Google Chrome Canary":
I've been getting this issue for the past few months. Apple won't look at it regardless of my apple care being good for the next year, since I have the operating system on a third party SSD. They suggested I purchase a new SSD as it might have been corrupted, and I did. I installed a clean opy of OSX El Capitan, yet the issues persist! Here's the Panic Report: Ran Rember to test my Macbook Pro's RAM:
So, someone showed me a secret with the iPhone that if you enter a certain pin on the lockscreen, the iPhone will be disabled for double the amount of time. I've been searching on Google trying to find this, but I can't find anything about this. I'm kinda skeptical and I would like to know if this even exists, and maybe any other secret pin combinations that can be entered that affect the disabling of the iPhone in some way. Honestly, I do not promote theft or anything of that nature, I would actually like to try these things on my old iPhone for fun.
Last year I purchased a Mac Mini from MacMall. It came without a manual or instructions. I'm trying to find a slot in the back to install a SanDisk card to view pictures off a trail cam. The slots will not take the card directly. Yesterday I drove 50 miles to a Best Buy and purchased an Insignia adaptor which the salesman assured me would fit any computer made. There are only two tiny slots at the back of the mac mini and the Insignia adaptor is too large to fit into either of them. Can any one offer me some advice or must I assume the mac mini will not take any SD card. Ron
I wanted to sell my old broken iPhone but was reluctant because of the data stored on it. I couldn't reset it because it wouldn't power on. So the buyer said I could just reset it via the utility so it would reset itself once it went online. I did that but now the guy (who repaired it) says I would need to enter my password corresponding to my Apple ID one more time in order for him to use the phone after the reset. Is it true or is he trying to scam me?
I have the iPod 2nd gen and it is pretty much useless as I cannot update to IOS 7 from 4.2, BUT there is this program called whited00r which lets you update to IOS 7. Apparently it has worked with people- so, is it safe and if I do install IOS 7 and it doesnt work, can I revert back to IOS 4?
I would like to be able to read/respond to my text messages on a computer. I only seem to find a place to do this if you have a Mac. Can this be done on a Windows computer or Chromebooks running Chrome OS?
I have dozens of apps in my iOS App Store that have updates available, but I have no interest in updating most of them. There are certain apps though that if an update were available I would want to install it. But I can't find any rhyme or reason to how the updates are sorted in that section of the App Store app which makes it harder for me to see if something is available short of slowly scrolling through the whole list or searching for that app directly. So how are they organized?
After deciding I dont want Apple managing any of my music through iCloud I decided to log out of iTunes. Now I am constantly getting an annoying message from iTunes that says: your iCloud music library session has expired
If I open a Terminal window and I type the letter "e" (without quotes of course) it beeps and will not type the letter. Every other letter works just fine in Terminal. Uppercase E works too. Just the lowercase e doesn't. In every other app on my computer lowercase e works without issue, so it's not a keyboard issue.
What I mean is whether there is something that kills all processes in the current tty
I recently bought a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter so I could have faster Internet. I plugged the cable into my Internet modem, and the other end into my adapter. I plugged the adapter into one of my Thunderbolt ports on my Macbook Pro running OSX 10.11.3 El Capitan. The computer recognized it and connected to Ethernet. When I used speedtest.net, my WiFi had a lower ping and higher upload and download speeds than my Ethernet. I tried the cable to both Thunderbolt ports, all the ports on my modem, and my router, and even tried using a different Ethernet cable; it just wouldn't go faster on Ethernet.
I was unable to just delete the partitions left by an old Linux Mint installation by pressing the '-' button in disk utility. I looked online and read that I could reformat them to a journaled format from the command line and then delete it from disk utility. The command was something like diskutil eraseVolume deleteme JFS+ /dev/disk0s4 (and then again for disk0s5, as there were two). After this command, disk utility showed the two partitions had been reformatted, but I could now see the Recovery HD partition between the two deleteme partitions and the Macintosh HD partition, which meant I could not delete them without deleting the Recovery HD partition, which even I knew was a bad idea.
I am looking for a way to issue a SCEP request to my organizations CAIssuing server. I manage a number of Macs and we currently import the certificates by hand using a profile on a web server. I know that we can stand up an OS X server or Purchase an MDM solution but I would rather not do that at this juncture. Is there any way to use a bash script or some other way of issuing a request for a certificate and having it import into the keychain?
Is it possible to open a new Finder window in List Mode with the file name column stretched by default to always show the longest file name? Oftentimes, I find myself having to double-click and adjust certain windows in order to properly view longer file names. Is there any way to control and define this?
It's got the same symptom at both house locations, whether it's his Mac Book Pro laptop or my Mac Air 13" laptop. (And it never happens on my telephone DSL Internet.)
Why does my Macbook Pro "see" my iPhone Personal Hotspot even when it is turned off? And sometimes, my iPhone Personal Hotspot gets turned on automatically. What is happening here? This does not happen often, and when it does, it is usually when the WiFi signal is unstable. 3G is always there as a back up, so I don't know why my phone is trying to cover for this unstable signal.
Since large SSDs were quite expensive a while ago, I've moved my User directory to a 1 TB HDD back then. Now I'm going to upgrade to a 1 TB SSD and am thinking about the best and safest way to move the user directory back. Here is what I came up with for now:
I want to play simple games like diablo 3 or sims and Internet stuff also work stuff on a laptop and don't know the difference between intigrated graphics and the dedicated graphics. I want a MacBook Pro do I need to get one with the graphics card or will I be ok without one? I can spend the $2500 if I have to but would like the cheaper one if possible.
I am using Firefox with 10-14 open tabs (AWS console, JIRA, GitLab, etc).My Mac hangs due to high CPU utilization by Firefox as per Activity Monitor. Can someone help me with this. Github Gist link to firefox sample from Activity Monitor: Firefox Sample from Activity Monitor Dmesg Logs My Macbook configuration is: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB Firefox version is 46.0.1
I'm trying to dual boot Windows 10 on MacBook Pro, and Boot Camp Assistant is failing to recognize the ISO I've downloaded (from *=URL=* I'm using an Early 2015 13" Macbook Pro, running El Capitan 10.11.4
I have Macbook Air, Mac OS X El Capitan. There is no warning box shown before the battery is near %15, like it did for Mountain Lion. So I can not notice and my computer goes sleep simply when the battery is off.
Using my .bash_profile, I used to change my iTerm2 profile per machine with the following command: Now, I want to change it depending on my current working directory. Ideally must work something like this: Once I enter /mnt/production or any subfolder inside, iTerm should change to production profile. Once I leave that directory, should change to bash profile. Is there any way of doing that?
How can I inspect IP packets send through currently open TCP connections? I opened a nettop utility in Terminal, which I think lists IP packet, but doesn't tell anything about their content, namely about TCP Data Stream. Any clues? I found the source and destination ports and some other data that doesn't look like http messages. I would like to see how stuff works for educational purposes.
Sometimes I receive an e-mail, which contains a link that I have to follow. I would like to be able to follow this link without having to reach for the mouse. I can locate the link with a search (cmd + F), but how do I follow it by pressing keys?
Some applications will signal to the OS that they can open special link type, such as ssh:// or github-mac://. They get automatically opened for such links by the web browser (or when using open in a terminal). If I have multiple such applications, how can I set which one should be the default?
I am occasionally running into problems where I can't login after sleep. Sometimes I open the lid of my Macbook Pro and it shows the usual login screen, but if I type my password in and click enter it just hangs on the screen. After a few seconds, my cursor starts "beach-balling" but still moves around the screen when I use the trackpad.
I'm trying to use Boot Camp after resolving a partition mess. I've gotten back to a single partition after receiving the The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. message from Boot Camp Assistant, so I figure it should be happy, but I'm still getting the same message.
After installing MacPorts and some software through that way, I noticed that MacPorts installed X.Org. I've already installed XQuartz years ago and I'm really fine with it. My 1. question is: Do I need the installed X.Org from MacPorts to run software like KeepNote or Gedit, which was installed automatically by MacPorts, or am I free to uninstall X.Org and leave XQuartz instead?
I'm trying to change the keyboard combination to change the input source from Option-Command-Space / Command-Space to any other combination. I am not able to find any solution for that. Is it possible to change this combination?
I had a problem with the digitizer connector in my iPhone 5S so I can't use the screen anymore, I couldn't even unlock it to back it up. So I send it to a logic board specialist to replace damaged connectors with new ones. My iPhone is locked with a 4 digit password.
I have time displaying like this:  in some my videos in .mp4 format (not at all of them). What is it about & how to change it to normal view? OS X 10.11.4
I am constantly using the command-shift-4 command to take a screenshot, since it is so easy, but it will always save to my Desktop, and I like having my Desktop clean. It is becoming a hassle to constantly move all my screenshots into a separate folder. Is there a way to change the save destination of the screenshots automatically? I would really like it to be able to save in a folder.
The login password is entered correctly. The progress bar starts to load and gets all the way to the end, but nothing happens. I did not turn on FileVault, just turned on my MacBook one day and this happened. I'm using a 17" Macbook Pro.
Between instant messages, emails, and calendar invites, I probably get notified about once every 5-10 minutes during normal work hours, and the social pressure of dealing with the messages quickly overpowers my desire to be productive by working uninterrupted for longer blocks of time, even though 99% of them don't need a response until 2-4 hours later. Is there any way to block off time during the day so that I can consume these notifications in bulk instead of piecemeal? The options I can think of that could work well are: A way to say "Only post notifications once every hour / two hours / whatever" A way to make "Do not disturb" mode happen for more than one period during the day Ideally there would also be some way to override this for notifications that I expect to be relevant or urgent. The only way I've thought of to do this so far is really crappy -- quit all the applications that send me notifications, and make calendar events to remind me to go check them at certain times dur
I have a roll up piano (see the image) that has an USB output.  An USB cable comes with it: it is able to connect the roll up piano with the computer.
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro 13" Retina running 10.11.4 , which has been crashing every now and again and have no idea what sets it off. The last two times I was on Safari and the other I was happened while playing a game. I've saved the last two reports the machine sends to Apple after it boots up. I'm not sure if they're of any help, but any help would be appreciated! *=URL=* http://pastebin.com/amPT8TUB
Is there a limit to the number of Wi-Fi networks I can save on my iPhone? I travel a lot for work and want to save the Wi-Fi networks from all of those locations (over 100), so it automatically connects when I'm there.
The HDD on my 27 imac Late 2012 has died. Is it replaceable? At present, I switch on (soundless) and get the white screen which loads up one third and then freezes. I tried Disk utilities which told me my HDD was inaccessible and un-repairable. If I fit a replacement HDD will I be able to restart, revive, reuse my computer?
I am using various online tools for translation and proofreading, and I find that it would be very interesting to be able to display the most common formatting symbols in a browser.  (Spaces and non-breakable spaces are be very different and important, as is being able to count line breaks at a glance for example). I believe that since they are encoded by different HTML codes, there should be a way to display them within a webpage, but couldn't find any way to do this no matter what browser I looked into. Here's what the difference looks like in the HTML between non-breakable space and regular space: It seems that it would be so simple to program it into an app or as an add-on (replace regular space with the regular space symbol, replace with non-breakable space symbol, etc), that I can't understand how there's almost nothing about such a feature online.
I noticed my new MacBook Air getting kinda hot and the fan spinning up when running a 3D game. I know this Laptop is not made for gaming but I like to run a less demanding game from time to time. Also I'm not crazy and wouldn't do this in a already hot environment but technically it should not degrade the Laptop in the long run am I right?
I have forgotten my 4-digit iphone passcode and want to restore it but have a broken wake/sleep button and cannot find a way to do so online, any suggestions?
Running 10.11.4 on a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Late 2013. Device is generally connected to an external display. When slept for a "long" period of time (more than an hour?) the graphics often don't "wake up". When I ssh into the box I see CPU for the WindowServer process at 100%. I have tried closing every running application (in /Applications) while the computer is in this state without resolving the issue. I have to restart the machine.
I have iTunes 12.3.3.17 on Windows 7 and I want to update an app through iTunes. All the tutorials I have found are for iTunes 11, where there is a clear button at the bottom. This is not the case with iTunes 12. How can I update an app via iTunes?
How would I have Applescript display the first one or two options in a google search in a display dialog window? Is there a way to create a functional browser through applescript?
Due to switching between iOS and Android over the years my contacts have been strewn about between all the services I use. The current situation I'm dealing with is that about half of my contacts are on iCloud, and the other half are coming from my Gmail account that I setup through the Settings app. I'm kind of OCD with this stuff so I would prefer to have them ALL on either iCloud or Gmail.
My goal is to take text from a standard .txt document, and use (preferably) Terminal or Applescript to extract text between the symbols ▶ and •. While there is only one ▶ symbol there are multiple bullet points, so being able to extract data between only the first bullet is vital. I am partially educated in the ways of bash, so explanation would help me out a lot, otherwise I might screw up. TIA, Jake
I'm trying to populate an Excel worksheet with controls that will play audio file examples of how to pronunce a list of words. If the content of A1 is "introduce", I want Excel to play an audio file named introduce.m4a when (say) a button in B1 is pressed. I don't want the sound played by an external app or another browser window. I've found a fair bit of VBA code that plays a sound triggered by events in an Excel worksheet, but none that gets the name of the audio file from a cell in the sheet. Thanks in advance for any help!
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to El Capitan on an iMac from 2009. I guess my iPad was connected or something, but I found that the operating system's mail application now had the accounts that I had on my iPad! This is a huge no, no. I wasn't even asked for it to do this, not to mention I don't know how it could have done this since only iTunes, AFAIK, syncs with iOS devices. How do I disable this?
Edit: The bit about my iPhone losing LTE, I think I've narrowed down the problem. I think it's just because Cricket isn't yet using VoLTE and I wasn't testing many phone calls. As it stands though I cannot change the greeting except through calling voicemail directly. This is not a massive problem though I would like to know what could be going on or if I should contact Apple Support since this is a new phone.
It seems that the new battery is glued into the computer. Does this mean that it can't be replaced, or has Apple somehow figured out a way to remove the glue?
I would like to somehow call this script from an AppleScript and process multiple files. The AppleScript should look more or less like this:
I'm considering a switch back to iPhone and iOS from my Android powered HTC One (M7) phone. HTC created a super cool app called Zoe. I'm wondering if there is an equally good alternative to Zoe on iOS.
I have a bunch of files to rename from someone else that sit inside folders and subfolders, and would like to copy the path and file name to the Spotlight comment of each file before I do anything with them. The script in answer to this question for adding the file name to the Spotlight comments works great, but I don't have the skills to modify it to include the path. I have tried replacing a few items with path or POSIX path in a meaningful way, but can't get it to work, nor do I find the commands elsewhere. Any help is appreciated.
I have some Stickies notes on different Desktop spaces. The problem is, every time I have to restart OS X, because of an OS update for example, a Stickies note does not restore to the Desktop space it was on before restarting. Thus, I have to move every Stickies note for each Desktop manually and I have 9 Desktop spaces to deal with. Why can’t they remember which Desktop they were before restarting? Does anyone know an AppleScript to save Stickies note state?
Homebrew upgrades itself to brew. And it looks like the maintainers have not implemented some daily-used commands like brew cleanup. So anyone knows how to delete outdated version of software automatically?
I have recently upgraded my 8GB MacBook Pro (mid 2010, model ID: MacBookPro6,2) from OS X 10.6.8 to 10.11.4. Under Snow Leopard, after I closed the lid it would take something like 30 seconds to write memory contents to disk before the HDD would spin down and the sleep light begin to pulsate. Under El Capitan, it takes five to six minutes between when I initiate sleep and when the machine actually powers down and the sleep light begins to pulsate.
I'm currently using iPhone 6 with iOS9.3.1. Whenever I try to play music I get an error. After I tap on a song I get the error item can't be played. Also, I have tried restarting my iPhone multiple times but it doesn't seem to work.
Sometimes I like to open folders in Terminal by dragging the folder to the Terminal dock icon. However this creates a new Terminal window instead of creating a new tab in my current Terminal window. How do I make Terminal open the dragged folder in the same window similar to the right click services option for 'New Terminal at Folder'.
I keep getting requests to update my iCloud preferences. I do so by reentering my password the the requests keep coming
My MBP crashed and had some permission issue on booting. I tried some repairs with the recovery session but now it has a kernel panic...
In short, I'd like to be able to complete a workout without having to bring my phone along. The introduction of native apps for the Apple Watch seemed like it would open the door to this, but I've not been able to figure it out. I would need: Heart Rate Monitoring An Interval Timer Music via BT Headphones
I have a service ran under homebrew. This service is simply started by running the command sudo stunnel
This is kind of an unusual question: a (non-technical) friend of mine (quite literally) on the other side of the world finds herself in the following situation: A person died unexpectedly, their Mac is still running and displaying the Lock Screen, and nobody has the password nor any sort of technical expertise. They would like to get access to at least the data on the disk, maybe also the account. They are currently afraid to shut down the computer because it displays a warning about unsaved files.
I am trying to locate my ethernet MAC address on a Macbook Retina 12" using ifconfig but I can only see en0 which should be my wireless card; it's quite baffling. Any help would be much appreciated.
I am trying to test a object property of elements in a whose clause. For example, let's use the common elements "document" and "window" that almost every Mac app has: So we see that window 1 has a document property that points back to a document element.
I have OS X in partition disk1s2 and Windows/Bootcamp in disk1s3. Is there a way of running this Windows (disk1s3) as virtual machine while I am on OS X? I read something like that for Linux + Windows and a tutorial from Lifehacker to use Parallels, but this is paid and Virtualbox should be better for me, since it's free.
I'm currently using pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv, which i've installed via Homebrew. I've added if which pyenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(pyenv init -)"; fi to enable shims and autocompletion and if which pyenv-virtualenv-init > /dev/null; then eval "$(pyenv virtualenv- init -)"; fi in order to enable auto-activation to my .bash_profile. Suddendly, running brew doctor, the following message shows up: What should i do to fix the problem?
I am looking to replace the hard drive of my macbook pro mid 2012 with an SSD from an ASUS taichi laptop will the SSD from the taichi be compatible with my mac book?
Is there a terminal command that will toggle between the Analog and Digital clock in the menu bar? Can do it via point-and-click, but would like to incorporate it into a script that prepares my computer for recording screencasts.
I can't turn on my iPhone because I don't remember my iCloud username or password. What can I do to log into my iPhone?
I was thinking what intresting in their website and when i looked for everything i found toys! Heres a picture i noticed Why would apple sell toys if they just are tech company
I have a late 2011 Mac book Pro, which I have kept in mint condition. Recently, my brightness has kept adjusting itself to full 100% brightness on the display, and keeps adjusting itself every few minutes even if it's still at 100% brightness. I have tried un-checking the automatically adjust brightness option and I still haven't been able to stop this from happening. Please help!!!!
Disk Manager from windows 10 looks like the below: (sorry about the compression!):
I am working on Yosemite 10.10.5 and using screen sharing to make remote control of mac. But my local mac intercepts system shortcuts and trackpad gesture even if screen sharing app is activated. I would like to send them to screen sharing app. Is it possible?
man systemsetup defines two separate arguments for setting (and two for checking) a sleep time: one defined as the "idle time until machine sleeps" the other defined as "the idle time until computer sleeps" On a MacBook Pro using either of the arguments changes the other one accordingly (battery/power adapter settings do not play role here either).
I'm trying to change the default handler for the tel: URL scheme to use Skype.app instead of FaceTime.app. Whenever I change the handler using lstool (the CLI component of RCDefaultApp; see this answer), like this: After a few minutes it automatically changes back to FaceTime.app:
Using Boot Camp Assistant, I started to create a 50 GB partition, but it hung on partitioning. After waiting about 30 minutes without the progress bar moving, I quit the Boot Camp Assistant, thinking I would be able to fix the partition either by using the Boot Camp Assistant or the Disk Utility. However, the partition doesn't appear in either. Instead, my drive has just become 50 GB smaller. Looking for other solutions, people were generally able to find the partition by using Terminal application commands, however I haven't even been able to do that. (Notice in Disk Utility, it says Macintosh HD is 441.65GB, but "Capacity" is 500.28GB):
I would like to log upload statistics for an application I run on my Mac. Now, I know that with netstat -ib I can access statistics per network interface. I also know that with lsof -i I can get a list of which connections each of the processes is maintaining. And finally I know that with iftop I can monitor in real time how much is flowing between my machine and a remote address. But none of this achieves what I am looking for. I am looking to get columns similar to the Ibytes and Obytes columns I get from netstat -ib, but get those for a specific remote network address OR for a specific local process ID.
Not sure what happened. Two days ago I just did a Time Machine backup and today the partition won't mount. The external disk is a WD My Passport bought several years ago and total 2 TB. I partitioned it into two partitions, 1TB each. One partition for Time Machine and one for general backup. Both are formatted as OSX Extended Journal. Usually when I plug in the drive both partitions will mount, but today only the Backup partition mounts. If I try to Eject the Backup partition the disk is greyed out and it seems the system is trying to eject it forever and ever. When I open Disk Utility it just keeps loading and loading and loading, see screenshot. I have Restarted many times, unplugged and plugged both ends of the USB cable, no luck yet.
Whenever I text or iMessage someone, they recieve it from both my number from my old phone that I transferred over, and the number on this phone. How do I make sure only 1 number is in use?
I have been using the magic mouse for two years. I always slide off the switch under the mouse after the mac shuts down as I have seen it to save battery life to some extent. Since a week the mouse does not switch ON consistently, it does not show the green light at all.
OS X comes with bash version 3.2.57 instead of bash version 4.3.39, which GNU lists as the current stable release of bash. Is there any way to upgrade bash on Mac OS X?
I am supposed to buy the phone off someone. She says she does not have the iCloud email, but has the password (she says it was her ex's).. She told me there is something online that I could do to get the old iCloud credential off and use mine.
I performed the following steps: Formatted a USB Flash Drive as: FAT32 Copied the Fedora Live ISO image to: /efi/boot/boot.iso Copied ISO 2 USB EFI Booter for Mac to: /efi/boot/boot.efi
I use the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (ver 8.0.31) to connect from my 2013 Retina Macbook Pro (OSX 10.11.4) to a Windows 10 desktop machine. When in fullscreen mode, I get the following experience:
How can I force quit download from App Store? I wanted to download OS X El Capitan for virtual machine usage (I don't have Install El Capitan.app in Applications for some reason), but my download is stuck: Looks like this:
I am trying to install ffmpeg and it's libraries with homebrew on a mac running osx (El Capitain). The installation completes however its seems only ffmpeg is installed and not ffprobe or drawtext. I tried reinstalling with this command: ..but I get this
I failed to find the path to iCloud keychain to do just security dump-keychain - the iCloud keychain isn't shown when I try security list-keychains. What is the path to that keychain (or, if it cannot be obtained, how to dump the whole iCloud keychain)? Or, maybe, Apple Script could help to do that?
I run Mac OS X El Capitan 10.4. I have used brew to install Compilation Tools (*=URL=* Now when I run make, it still appends to:
So, I have tried a lot of stuff but my App Store keeps getting stuck downloading the OS update that you see in the first picture below.  I have tried canceling, restarting, deleting some files Library/Updates folder, also deleting some files in open $TMPDIR../C The last thing I tried was doing what is suggested in this question Mac App Store update stuck (Installing - Calculating...) I am getting desperate because no matter what I do, when I try again, the update hangs at 125mb and the waiting time keeps going up when I wait.
I also don't have any problems connecting other WLAN devices to the network. Two laptops, TV, the Motorola, all work and have stable internet connections. What I've tried
I have a 2 TB Time Capsule and it was used by Time Machine for many months. Some days ago the Time Capsule was disconnected from its power supply and today is now connected again. Time Machine reports the error "Backup Disk Not Available". The Time Capsule lights are green, AirPort Utility is showing this device with green lights also.
I am using my early 2015 MacBook Pro as a desktop by connecting it to an external display, thus, it needs to be plugged in to a charger all the time. Does charging my early 2015 MacBook Pro all the time damage the battery? Is it a bad practice?
I have a Macbook Pro 13" running El Capitan, purchased in February 2016. For the iMessage app, which I have saved in the Dock, the unread messages badge says there is one unread message and there's not. If I click and hold on the iMessage icon, it tells me which message is unread. And I have viewed all of the messages from that person. I tried quitting and reopening the app - that didn't fix it. I restarted my computer, and that does fix it, but the same issue arises again within a few days. How can I fix this so the badge count is accurate?
I've configured an iPad with an iCloud account that I don't want to use anymore. I've changed the iTunes and App Store account to the right one. Now I want to change the iCloud account as well. I can logout, but don't know how to change the email address or account name. How can I change the account I use for iCloud?
I am aware of this question: How can I prevent iPhoto from opening everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone? And several others, but none of them present a "universal" solution, I don't want a fix for one situation, I want OSX to stop interrupting me, permanently. The nature of my work mean I am constantly plugging lots of devices on my Mac. Also, my Mac came with buggy USB ports, and I can't fix it or send it to repairs or exchange. This mean it is constantly opening software or trying to do stuff automatically and causing problems, some examples: When working programming iOS devices, it keeps opening iTunes, Photos, Camera Capture, and some other random apps when the USB ports problem make it mis-recognize the device, also the USB ports keep reloading the devices randomly sometimes, making the apps open again, sometimes with misread IDs, making OSX think is a new device and ignore past settings. When working programming iOS devices, it keeps opening iTunes, Photos, Camera Capture, and some ot
I just installed JDK 8 to my machine but maven still thinks it is using JDK 6. The correct java version is printing on the command line: Java Home looks okay: This looks suspicious: This folder has both JDK's:
I bought a refurb macbook pro a few years back, to use for video editing. It came with Snow Leopard installed. I never upgraded beyond 10.6.8 as I still edit in FCP 7 and didn't want compatibility issues. Now I've reached the point where I need to upgrade my OS for pretty much everything other than video editing.
I would like to use the same digital certificates already stored in my iPads to authenticate in the wifi (WPA2-EAP), to be used to authenticate to web applications. I know that if this is possible, web applications would need to be updated to support this option.
I have an Apple enterprise developer account with internal apps used on iPads that are only used by employees. Currently a manager sits and manually install each app on every website from an internal website. Searching for this brings up topics relating to the apple configurator and MerakiMDM, however it is unclear what these do and if they are the right solution. It is also unclear to me if you actually need the Device Enrollment Program in order to set up a server and use MDM. Is there a way to update and perhaps install enterprise apps on remote devices without the need for the Device Enrollment Program?
I recently had a problem with my MacBook Air. I went to Apple and they said they would fix it but all my data will get deleted. I said okay but when I got my MacBook back, I didn't know my apps would get deleted. Some of they apps were iMovie, Pages and Numbers. They were already installed when I first got the MacBook.
When Skype asked to enter my password it would not allow me to enter the full password. Skype simply stopped registering the keystrokes after 3 characters. I restarted the Mac but now the same problem is happening with my login password. I can enter the first 3 characters but then it won't register the keystrokes. Any clues?
I have a backup to an external HDD (using rsync) and could see all the files when mounted on Linux. (I can also load and edit in BBEdit through a Project). I just tried again and they were all back in Terminal.
While "Manually" option is absolutely clear to me, how differently will Mail behave when I will switch between "Automatically" and "Every x minutes"? I'm running 10.11.4.
Graphical info reader is the reader which colorises links in the info pages. I know there are good options in OS X but I cannot find them. I do home search info and I get but nothing seems to be a info -pages reader. How can you get a graphical reader of info -pages in El Capitan?
Example: Select 10x2GB files, then drag and drop to another location. Drag and drop each 2GB file to the location individually, in succession (10 times). I’ve tested this across multiple OS X versions and Apple computers, and the latter example always executes faster. Why’s the drag and drop sequential fashion faster?
I need to use/integrate GCC 5.X (in my case 5.3, and it is already installed) on Xcode 6.2. I've found a lot of outdated tutorials about GCC 4.X and Xcode 5 (or lower), but all of them are outdated and do not work anymore. I've also found this tutorial, but I have not the 5.3.xcplugin file that the tuto recommend to copy. I am still on Mac OS X Maverick, and I can install Xcode 7 if necessary. Anybody would know how to do it?
I'm trying to help a friend who got her iPhone locked for ransom through the "I lost my iPhone" feature. The screen is locked and says "Dlya polucheniya parolya, napishite na e-mail: helpicloud3@gmail.com". I got her to change her password and use the "sign out of all browsers" option on AppleID so now she should be the only one with access to it. I thought that was over, but when she accessed the "Lost my iPhone" page to unlock the phone it said "Device is offline". We checked and the iPhone seems to have WiFi off and says "SIM locked" in the status bar, upper left.
I'm about to buy a Mac Book Pro Retina, I'm going to use it mostly at home and when needed I'll take it to my workplace, and so forth. I know it does not have a removable battery, so I'm wondering what's the best solution to use it at home. With this is mean, is it best to keep it always plugged in the main or best if I use it as a laptop (fully charge it, remove charger when 100%, use it until discharged, plug it back in, and so forth)? My purpose is to have the battery live as long as possible.
I am currently trying to work out how to handle different versions of libraries installed via Homebrew on OS X. In particular Boost. I did have boost installed (currently v159) and boost155, but could not work out how to switch between versions 155 and 159 so I installed boost159. After a bit more exploration into the matter I'm guessing it's all down to link and unlink so it does seem little different to having: boost155 and boost159 installed vs boost155 and boost installed (Except the latter might update to later versions of Boost as they become available.) Then what I assume is the way: To switch from 159 to 155 and vice versa. Alternatively if I have boost installed (rather than boost159):
"Correct Spelling Automatically" box is checked in Keyboard settings. "Check Spelling As I Type" is checked in in Mail preferences.
Im about to go to US, and I was thinking about buying an "iPad Air 2", but Im worryed if, for some reason, Its needed to use the warranty. Could I do this in Brazil or would I need to send it back to US for that?...
I am trying to boot into recovery mode on a Mac Pro with 10.11.1. I have a firmware password set. When I boot into the boot menu (alt key), I can click on the password textfield and type the password and click on the round button next to it to proceed to the boot menu.
I am trying to run a python program, I installed python, 3.5 but it still says. When ever I try and start it, am I doing something wrong? I installed python via the package downloaded from the python website
Note: 1) There are other miscellaneous symptoms. E.g., Bash complains about not being able to create a sessions folder, and I get a spurious "StartupItems" has wrong permissions at login (even though it doesn't). I suspect all these are related.
I recently installed ubuntu on my macbook pro. I am using rEFInd to dual boot ubuntu. Following the installation, I tried to encrypt my Macintosh HD partition by first converting the disk to core storage. I received the following error message: Error: -69730: Unable to create boot loader partition due to the specifics of your partition map layout
This is really frustrating me. This problem appeared a few weeks ago. I would be using my Mac 'normally', and all of a sudden I can no longer browse to the vast majority of sites. Sites I can still visit are Google, Facebook etc. This is across all browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
I wish to update Xcode with Mac App Store and receive this error  I am logged in with my AppleID. Other updates working fine, only Xcode not.
I realize this question sounds rather idiotic, but I've truly looked all over the internet and haven't been able to find a simple answer (in a diagram or anything) telling me literally where the sound comes out of on a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (late 2012). All I can see on the laptop itself are a bunch of vents at the connection between the screen and the keyboard, some longer vents on the left and right sides of the laptop's bottom, and the gaps between the keys themselves (which seems like a bit of a longshot, but who knows...). Could someone perhaps quickly enlighten me...
When I started up my MacBook today my preview icons where gone as can be seen by attached screenshot. Any clue why they disappeared? And how to get them back? Thanks!
With Spotlight it's possible to find almost anything on a Mac computer, but to know everything, Spotlight must keep this information somewhere. Regarding text (txt, doc, pages, etc,) files, Spotlight indexes not only the file name and metadata, but also the content.
I want to use Apple Remote Desktop to install software on the Macs in our office, but often the installers come as an application bundle (not the actual application which could simply be copied, but an executable that has to be run). An example of this is Adobe Flash. Is there a way to convert or "wrap" this type of installer in a package so that ARD will recognise and be able to deploy them? (ARD only seems to recognise .pkg files).
Recently every time I try to delete files, my OS asks me to type in a password. After I type in password, the files are deleted from the folder, but it doesn't free up space and the files don't show up in the trash, so I can't empty the trash. I've tried troubleshooting different ways from searching on Google and Apple forums: I don't have Time Machine enabled. I have OS X 10.7.5. I've deleted over 100 GB of files, but I still only have 7 GB. I've tried typing in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal I've tried typing in Terminal: I've tried typing in Terminal: resetpassword I've tried typing in Terminal: I've tried typing in Terminal: sudo rm -r /.cleverfiles I've tried typing in Terminal: Any other suggestions will be much appreciated.
I have digitised my CD collection and have it on my iTunes on a PC. How can I add it to my partner's iTunes on a different PC?
I have an iphone 5S. Sometimes when I use the Google map and enter a destination, my current location is a flashing blue dot which is very convenient. Lately, the blue dot has been replaced with an arrow which is not as convenient. How do I get my map to permanently show the flashing blue dot?
I found Karabiner and it helped with reverse history search remapping. But Ctrl+C puzzles me.
When searching for specific words inside documents, upon getting the results, is there a way to then preview in the document where that word occurs without having to first open the document and perform the search again within the application? Ideally, I'd like to hit spacebar and have the preview jump to that section of the document of the first occurrence of the word. Would also consider 3rd party search tools if that provided the functionality.
I've been trying for a number of months, using many methods, to run a Nuiteq Application called Snowflake on our 10 Mac Minis attached to touch-screens in pure Kiosk mode. I'm using Yosemite. These machines must be able to: Run full windowless screens Have the Dock and Menu Bar disabled Access to finder removed Not show the default cursor, and only use multitouch functionality in Snowflake Unfortunately, I don't have build access to the application, and can't add things like NSApplicationPresentationHideMenuBarto Snowflake as it is proprietary software.
If I have two users accounts on one Mac is it possible to automatically use a different Time Machine drive for each user's data?
I have a Retina Macbook Pro 2014, in clamshell mode attached to a full HD monitor. I see that battery lasts much less when connected to an external monitor. Is there any explanation to why this happens? External monitor has its own power source, and Full HD is less than retina resolution. Is there any overhead associated the mini Display Port?
Do you have any suggestions for a guide that will show how this will work? Is there a difference between enabling FileVault and just changing the partition format on a hard-drive? Also, is there a difference in performance between the two methods?
I'm using an Apple Thunderbolt Display for network Ethernet connection of my MBPr 15 and I often experience something that is very odd. Ethernet has top priority on my network list (i.e. it's not this issue https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142500/24561).
I've tried to record a specific part of the screen with QuickTime Player. But again nothing works as expected with the Mac, but I have to work with. My result is always a black video with the selected size. What I've done so far: Open: QuickTime Player Open: QuickTime Player Choose: File > New Recording Screen Choose: File > New Recording Screen Press: Red Button Press: Red Button Mark an area on the screen for which I want to record. Click: Start Recording
I had Network Link Conditioner as part of Xcode 6.1 package & was working fine. I just upgraded my to OS X El Capitan. Should I replace my NLC to the one found in Xcode 7.3 or my existing NLC of Xcode 6.1 should still be performing fine?
I just fixed a few bugs and minor things after the initial version of an application was released into the app store. I've uploaded the binary to iTunesConnect but I see nowhere to change over the build version. Is it correct that every time a new version/build(1.0.1 -> 1.0.2) is uploaded it has to go through review?
I have set my MacBook to forget the filevault password after going into standby (not sleep) after a few hours. This works great, but sometimes I don't want to wait that long for the system to go to standby. So is there a way I can force going into standby immediately? I know the 'pmset sleepnow', so I was hoping there is something like 'pmset standbynow', but I cannot seem to find it.
I would like to be able to send a meeting invite from my iPhone/Calendar - as a text message - rather than to an email address. Can that be done?
I have an iPhone 6s. I want to put birthdays in my contacts however I don't want them to show up in my calendar. I've tried everything to stop it but nothing short of taking the birthdays out of my contacts works!
I try to create new user using the following commands: But after the last command I get the error /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist: No such file or directory. Actually, I get it on every launch of dscl command, even without any arguments. How can I fix it?
How accurate is the GPS on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app? I used Find My iPhone app to track a friend. The first 3 stops were dead on but when it refreshed it showed them to be several streets over from actual location. What could cause that?
Every time when I'm trying to reboot my mac(macbook pro retina|el capitan), everything disappear except dock so the process stops and thats how my desktop looks:
What tools can be used to monitor system activity under OS X? I am interested in which files are modified or created while using a specific app, Safari to be exact. I am familiar with fs_usage, but I find it cumbersome, since I do not want to monitor read actions, just write.
When i unlock my iphone by finger print or pass code it opens suddenly like in a second without any animation I want to ask why this is happen?
I've disabled Apple Mail from automatically adding calendar invitations, however when they're sent to me, they still get automatically added to my Apple Calendar. The problem with this, of course, is that sometimes events get added but I'm unaware unless I check the Calendar. Both my Apple Mail and Calendar are linked to MS Exchange latest version, and I do not use Outlook concurrently. Ive tried checking and unchecking the Apple Mail preference, to no avail. Any suggestions?
I have noticed that the spinning network activity indicator doesn't always show up when I know it's using the network. For example, I have my iPhone SE and my iPad 2 both downloading iOS 9.3.2 right now. The icon shows on the iPad but not on the iPhone. And then when I start typing a question in Stack Exchange, the phone does show the network being used as it searches similar questions but when the search is done, the icon goes away even though the phone is still downloading over WiFi. Searching for tags, though, it does not show the indicator. What is the cause?
How do I unlock someone's iPhone 6 without providing the owner's Apple ID and password? I can not contact the owner to find out the Apple ID and password.
When booting off a FileVault encrypted volume, OSX is capable of accessing the volume for the boot process once the user has entered their password at FileVault prompt. I want to configure my system so it also can access a secondary drive (containing my homedir) during this process. After an SSD upgrade, I have an SSD as boot drive and HDD as data drive. A secondary account exists on the SSD, with username "admin". My preferred account, username "chris", has the home directory on the HDD, with symlink /Users/chris -> /Volumes/Tracto/Users/chris. User "chris" has homedir set to /Users/chris (situation is the same when homedir set to /Volumes/Tracto/Users/chris, no change in behaviour).
I submitted my enrollment in the Apple Developer Program a couple of days ago. I'm waiting to be approved.
For example when I run open -a Kodi I'd like to be able to specify which Desktop I'd want the application to launch in. Trying to avoid dragging/dropping to the desired workspace.
I saw from this answer how I can get most of the cursors, but the busy and default cursors aren't there. Why is that?
When downloading software via the terminal is there a way to see the download progress? I kicked off a download via the terminal and I can't tell if it's progressing or stuck.
I have a Zagg Keyboard. For a while it worked fine when I used messenger. I thing the problem came alone when I up dated software. The issues is before the update the enter key moved the cursor down a line. Now the enter key send message. I can't stand this and want it back like it was before. Any ideas???
Recently I accidentally partitioned my Seagate Backup Drive (1 TB) not knowing that everything would be wiped off (silly me). I am now in shock knowing that my files are somewhat gone.
I just upgraded to OS X El Capitan and my Safari windows are constantly flashing. I've already re-started my computer, but it's still flashing. It's mostly when something on the page is moving and mainly on constantly moving pages, such as Facebook, Pandora, and Imgur. Is there something I can do to make it stop flashing?
In the app store, I have a update for an app called "Nepenthes", by Wei Li, which claims to be "for enterprise solution". However, I've never installed an app by that name, and I can't find it anywhere on the drive. How do I get rid of it - in two parts:
Specifically, the notification (both unlocked & locked screen) in iOS. I have setup two mail accounts (iCloud and another server). When I receive a new message, the notification shows the sender, subject and the first row of the message’s body. Is it possible to show the account where the mail was received?
I have a problem I cannot fix. The CANON i-Sensys MF4660PL printer I have is able to print double-sided, but it does not do it correctly. I have downloaded the latest printer driver from Canon (for El Capitan), and tried different drivers and settings in the printer, but after one-and-a-half hour I am inclined to give up.
Apple used to provide a COM-based SDK for iTunes on Windows. This could be found via *=URL=* and a search for iTunes COM. It appears as if the download has been removed. The API hasn't been updated in years, so pulling it from the download section makes sense. Is there any official communication from Apple, that the iTunes COM API has been discontinued?
I just submitted my enrollment application to be an Apple Developer. I have three Mac 3D Puzzle apps that were created using Unity 5.3.2 that I plan to sign and submit to the Mac App Store after I'm approved as an Apple Developer. I have .app executable files created, not Xcode projects.
Find my Mac is locked I wanted to know if there is a way to rebuild a Mac with find my Mac being locked to an Apple ID. I can't remember what I put for my 6 digit pin. Also, is there a way to just get back into it so I can back up my information.
For some reason my iMac keeps turning off around 5 to 10 minutes into boot. Also just recently it turns on but has shaded lines going down the screen. I have not installed any weird programs and i have not used it in around 3 months.
I'm trying to get the file size of a big file (1GB +) using the OS X Terminal. I'm using du -sh. But also after 30 seconds I don't have any result, is there any faster command? Thanks.
I got a new Macbook yesterday, so I was trying to configure an email account. At the same time, I recorded some important notes in the "Notes", which were automatically bound to this email account by the system. (which I was not aware of )
Every now and then the icons in my Dock disappear completely after waking from sleep, except some of them go funny or fuzzy. See screenshot.
I'm using Automator to run a shell script for taking an interactive screencapture and opening it in Preview for easy annotation. When running the script it fails and states -: -p: command not found.
My Command + Z stopped working. In any app. Including keyboard viewer. Neither Left nor Right Command. It's not hardware – Command + Option + Z (or Command + any other modifier) works on both sides.
Does anyone know if it is possible to copy a preference from the back up to the new disk that will re-enable QuickTime Pro? What would be the name + location of that file?
My Macbook Pro just updated its iTunes to 12.4, and now I cannot figure out how to navigate my Podcasts. In the previous version, I had a list of Podcasts in the sidebar, and I could select one to see a list of all current and previous episodes. Now all I see is "Most Recent" and everything is jumbled together in one list. Is there a way to restore the previous behavior of listing the Podcasts individually? Relevant screenshots:
I own a really old version of Photoshop. After I upgraded to El Capitan when I attempt to launch Photoshop I get a dialog saying... To open "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1.app" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. This is my current system Java version that came with the OS --> I downloaded the old, deprecated Java 6 DMG, but I haven't installed it yet. My question is, will it replace the Apple's distributed Java? And if so, is that likely to break applications that are expecting an up-to-date Java version? Or will it just make the older JRE available as an alternative for applications that need it?
I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3.1. I just made a synchronization with its host MacBook Pro with no problem and which might not be related in any way to the problem I witness. Upon opening Music on this iPhone, I just get this image: , with apparently not any function visible on the screen or hidden anywhere. I tried to click within the usual corners where hidden functions are placed but didn't get any reaction. I can close the application, reopen it. Same dead end.
My boss accidentally removed the locally saved contacts from his device. If I login on his account on iCloud, there's nobody in the contacts app. On the icloud website I can try to recover contacts, but that option also tells me there is nothing to recover He doesn't seem to have any icloud backups. Basically he never used anything iCloud, there really are no backups.
Preview.app has three options for turning an image into a PDF: File > Export..., Format = PDF File > Export as PDF... File > Print..., Save as PDF The first method yields a PDF that looks exactly like the image - no borders, not rotated. The second and third methods yield a PDF that has borders and is rotated. I have two questions: What is fundamentally different about these methods that they yield such results? Is there an Automator action that will perform, essentially, the first method with any files I pass to it?
In Apple Music on iOS I'm trying to sort the albums in My Music alphabetically. It seems really intent on sorting by Artist and either making the Album name or the Artist's name more prominent on the list. I chose sort by album, expecting it to be an alphabetized list of albums, but it's still alphabetized by artist and now the title of the album is prominent. Now I'm sorting by artist, so artist is prominent, and the albums are less so.
Installed bootcamp Win7 on my MBPro with Yosemite a couple weeks ago and both OS's worked fine for some time, until recently the Mac OS suddenly decided it couldn't boot anymore. If I select the Mac partition at startup, the computer will get stuck at the Apple logo with the progress bar making somewhere near half way through. I don't think I've done much in the Mac partition under Windows at all over this period, much less possibly modifying the system files. I can get prepared for reinstalling it at any time, but nonetheless would like to know what most likely is the cause and if it is in any way possible to repair Mac OS under Windows at all.
We have several iOS devices in our household (iPod Touches & older iPhones) that all sync through my account. All of them except my iPod Touch are set to manually manage music. However, I'm finding that when syncing, the play counts and ratings assigned by my kids are updating in my account. I thought that the manually manage setting should have prevented this. Is there any way to keep their ratings and plays from showing up in my library and on my device? One of my kids primarily has an iPod Touch for the games and only has about 20 songs on it (which he plays on repeat overnight), which means those songs have play counts in the thousands, while my most played songs are lucky to break into double digits.
System in OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Code which creates unsuccessful symlink Code which creates working symlink and visually same in Finder
When I open a page in Safari on my iPhone the handoff icon pops up in the dock on my Mac. However clicking on the icon will open Safari. As I am using Safari Technology Preview as my default browser I would like to know if there is some hack that would enable me to use is as a "handoff browser".
I need to disable Google chrome's print preview option using the script "defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -boolean true -contributed by CutMaster", to a mac using ssh and apply this to all users. The script above only works when you enter it when logged in as a user. However, I do not have access to the user's account but I do have access to the admin account. Your help is much appreciated.
I am using 10.11.4 OS X. I don’t know when exactly these are not working - files don't appear on desktop. Drag & Drop and popping up context menu with right click are not working on Desktop. - I’ve googled this problem and found no solution. Does anyone have any suggestions to fixing this?
Every two hours or so of using the Trackpad (the old one), the cursor stutters so much to be unusable. This started right after I updated from 10.11.3 to 10.11.4, and so I'm inclined to suspect that that update caused it. Have you managed to find a solution? Running the pair "Turn bluetooth off" / "Turn bluetooth on" solves the problem on my MacBook Pro, but I'd like a more solid solution.
I am switching from an iPhone to an Android. I dont have the time to transfer everything right now but am letting a friend borrow my iPhone. If I reset my phone, can I still access all my info from iCloud even if a new iCloud account is set up on my old device?
I've used a "Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter" to drive a single Cinema 30 from my (2014-era) MacBookPro11,2 before. Can I hook up two of them to drive a pair of Cinema 30's? It's got 2 Thunderbolt ports and 2 USB ports, but the USB are on opposite sides -- will the USB cable reach? (UPDATE: The cable will reach, but it's pretty tight. I wouldn't want to plug/unplug it a lot.)
The (bad) solution was plugging in my headset directly to the build in 3.5mm port. External microphone shows up in the settings. Testing the long extension cable and the Y-adapter I came to the conclusion both work fine. It is very unlikely that on both cables the mic channel broke at the same time. I tried my (never touched before) headsets from my iPhone and my HTC, both only work when directly plugged in, but not over one or both cables.
I am trying to remove all website data from Safari Technology Preview but after using the "Remove all website data" button the list of websites gets filled with html5test.com and i cannot find the way to remove it:
See attached image below. I have a few macs and on one of them, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to lock the Sharing tab under System Preferences. The lock is present and working on other panes that support locking. I also went to Security & Privacy advanced and could not find anything there. How do I re-enable the ability to lock this pane and does anyone know why or how it got that way? My other Macs don't have this problem. Edit: I am including another screenshot from my other Mac to show that there is indeed a lock on that pane. I am running OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 on a Macbook Pro Retina (late 2013)
I have submitted my app before and it was rejected. When I submitted it, it was reviewed within a day and rejected that same day. I have submitted it now and it still says "in review". Tt has been 24 hours. Previously it has taken 4 hours.
When you airdrop a photo, does it go to your recently deleted photos? I was wondering for a purpose.
After more research this documentation said that I could download it in iTunes Connect. I don't have a My Apps icon in my iTunes Connect account.
I cannot receive nor send texts to my friend on her phone, which is not an iPhone. The error message is "This phone number is not registered with iMessage".
I have spent quite some time Googling for a specific product solution that I cannot seem to find for the life of me, so I come to Stack Exchange for some help. I work for an unmentioned public university in which a certain group of incoming freshman students are required to purchase a new laptop and one of the options they have is a specific configuration of a 13" Macbook Pro. We are forecasting that approximately 1,800 students will be aquiring these Macbooks over the next few months before the Fall semester begins in August.
I am a complete novice when it comes to macs. I recently tried to use bootcamp to run windows 10 and partition part of my hard drive. I used the bootcamp assistant and I followed all of the steps but when It came to the formatting bit whilst installing windows somehow it went tits up. Now I can't re-do bootcamp because of all of these partitions. i have tried disk utility but to no avail the '-' is always greyed out and I can't resize them using the partition pie chart. I have trawled the internet for days now trying to figure out a way to put them all back into a single partition to retry the whole bootcamp procedure. Its a 2015 27" 5k mac. It is is literally driving me insane.
In previous versions of QuickTime you could remove the audio track and save the file. This function appears to have been removed in QuickTime 10. Is it still possible?
My TimeCapsule's file system got damaged and I lost my TimeMachine backups. It it possible to backup to two different volumes, for redundancy?
And it worked! Except it is obviously in a much worse shape than the original, I've been using it for months, but I am started to get worried it might die suddenly (although so far I don't got even a corrupted data issue!)
I am using this keylogger for my own statistics, it simply listens on KeyDown. But when I use the built in dictation, kCGEventKeyDown is not triggered. *=URL=* As seen in this file: *=URL=* How can I detect dictation input's?
Wondering how to turn up the volume on my computer from another computer. doesn't work Any suggestions?
At the weekend the laptop seemed to grind to a halt and lockup while we were browsing the web. After waiting for several minutes to regain any kind of response, we did a hard reboot using the power button. On restarting the system showed a grey screen and a flashing directory symbol with a '?', then switched to the Prohibitory symbol. Unfortunately the warranty has no expired so any trip to the Apple Store will be quite expensive. I've been reading various articles and posts for the last few days to try and work out how to fix this, as follows: Apple Hardware Test comes back OK.
We have been installing / placing a tool for dhcp refresh under /sbin till MAC 10.10 there were no issues. but now it is completely blocked. even with root privilege i cannot able to place it. Any way is suggested? Does Apple provide any other way to perform the release and renew IP address, clear the ARP entries in better way? Thanks, Saravana
I would like to build up a list of words and their definitions of the words that I highlighted (three-finger tapped) so that I can come back to them later. Is there a way to get access to the dictionary or the event containing the word?
I used to subscribe to BBC podcasts by clicking on the 'Subscribe' icon and selecting iTunes/IOS - simple. Now when I do it, the programme opens up Winamp and nothing is added to iTunes. Has something changed? Should I be directing this question to the BBC? I am just using my PC and Windows 7, nothing fancy.
I'm playing Vain Glory with my iPad Pro plugged into the 12W adapter via the supplied Lightning cable. Screen goes black, battery dead. Takes a few minutes to come back on.
I have an AppleScript source with this code: After some research, I found that coreslct is the code for the select command. It's used in all AppleScriptable Office applications, and has been around in both Office 2008 and 2011. However, the code seem to have disappeared from Office 2016...
Using Numbers 3.6.2, I am using cells formatted as "Duration" in days. I then have a SUM cell that sums all the durations and shows for example "64d" (Suppose in cell D1). I then do in a new cell (D2 for example) the following formula: =D1 and change the display days to hours. It shows "1536h".
There are several recommendations to set back the date in order to delete some photos, but I can't find a way to do that.
I recently updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 7; however, I need to fully unlock my iPhone (which I inserted a SIM card into). How do I do this? Note: my sim card is from Tahiti (French Polynesia). Can you help me resolve this problem?
I often use >Recent Items to select recent applications and servers, but I never user it for recent documents. Is there a way to remove Documents from this menu while retaining Applications and Servers.
How do I transfer a PDF I've saved in iBooks from my iPhone 6 to my iPadPro? Thanks
My iPad Air died a couple of days ago, I recorded its last dying breath >> Youtube Before it crashed for good my daughter was playing a disney game in Safari when she told me the screen turned blue than black. So I thought the battery was dead and plugged it in to not get it going again.
what is interesting about this issue, is that if I move the application to one of my dell monitors, i do not see the additional cursors but this laptop is fairly new and the display is otherwise fine so it is unclear whether this is software are hardware related. I am not using any bluetooth devices. I have also tried a PRAM reset. An upgrade to latest el capitan did not correct the issue sometimes linebreaks cause the cursors to appear, sometimes going back in the text with the arrow keys does as well sometimes using the arrow keys causes the phantom cursors to intermittently disappear the issue occurs on my macs retina display but not on a lower quality dell monitor i have checked system preferences but nothing stands out
How do I get the first 20 lines of a OS X Terminal result?
I was a long time google android user for my phone. On the google phone I could type in numbers that represented letters and it would pull up a contact for instance if I entered 62 on my google phone I'd get contacts for Mark Marcus etc...(6 being m/n/o and 2 being a/b/c).
This problem is quite annoying and I cannot search Google for 'set -x' because the minus sign has another terminology there. In my MacBookPro, when I use 'set -x' to debug bash commands, I'm getting the following each time I press enter. Any idea how to stop this ugly dump? because of this, for each command I run, I need to scroll back two pages to find the actual command I was running.
When try to download an app from the AppStore I receive this error message. Is there anything I can do besides waiting?
How can you set the output of a command run in terminal to a variable after it has run?  (You can skip of you don't need the background) I run VirtualBox VM and do a lot from the command line, especially when I am remote. VBoxManage requires either a UUID or the name of the virtual machine in order to interact with it. For instance, if I wanted to power off a VM, the syntax would be (I have an alias set for VBoxManage as vbm): vbm controlvm <vmname>|<UUID> poweroff
My MacBookPro11,5 boots the stick from Apple Boot Selector Screen and enters setup correctly. When choosing BOOTX64.efi from rEFIt it freezes...!!??
For some reason, I'd like to sync my home folders (that is ~) with sync tools such as Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive. However, making a symbolism link is not working. Then I found some apps while none of them actually works..
I created a location based reminder to notify me when I leave my house. However, the notification does not pop-up until I am about five miles away. What do I need to do to have the notification pop-up immediately after I leave the house? I am running iOS 9.
I'm developing iOS application for my customer. At final point he asked me to share "preview" of an app via link before he could pay me for it. How do I do that? How do I show my iOS app to someone, is there any other way aside from uploading it to AppStore and therefore making it public and needing developer account (I don't have at the moment)? How do I show my iOS app to someone, is there any other way aside from uploading it to AppStore and therefore making it public and needing developer account (I don't have at the moment)? If I upload an app to AppStore, is it possible for my customer to "steal" and save it (through installing to jailbroken device for example and copying app with file manager), I suppose this is how users of jailbroken devices download and install paid apps for free using torrents? If I upload an app to AppStore, is it possible for my customer to "steal" and save it (through installing to jailbroken device for example and copying app with file manager), I suppos
I find the AppleScript method of opening a file convenient but often cannot guess at the application name to use when I do not want the default options. As an example, I have installed Foxit PDF Reader to directly annotate a PDF. I have not been able to guess what to use in the open -a ??? my.pdf command.
I recall that Macbooks produced in 2009-2011 supported a maximum external resolution (through Thunderbolt or DVI) of 2560x1600. An aspect ratio of 16:10 is much more useful for those who use their Macbooks mostly for work, rather than entertainment. The aspect ratio of 16:9 is more suitable for entertainment. Yet Macbooks produced starting in 2012, and before supporting 4K external resolution, appear to provide only 2560x1440 (which is 16:9).
I've been comparing some specs between Mac Pro models, specifically with the jump from Harpertown (a.k.a. Core 2) to Gulftown/Westmere (a.k.a. Core i7).
I cannot mount .dmg file for VMWare Fusion installer. I get the error: Protocol wrong type for socket .
I have formatted a usb drive guid partition and installed Yosemite from another mac. When booting, the USB is showing as an option to install yosemite. When I select this and try to install I immediately get a prohibited sign. I also booted normally (el capitan) and selected the usb from the desktop and was given an error "the copy of the install os x application to old to be opened on this os x. Any ideas on how to erase el capitan and install yosemite?? Mac that I'm attempting install on.. -started with el capitan on it -el capitan has been updated once
I found out that contents of mds folder located at /private/var/folders/zg/jjtx0_k94pdc5p5q6gcvf4900000gn/C/mds gets deleted and back created quite often. I wonder, that is the purpose of this folder and it's content? It contains mdsDirectory.db, mdsObject.db and mds.lock files.
I'd like to identify which CPU this notebook is using, in terms of code names such as "Ivy Bridge" and "Haswell". The little Apple logo in the upper left shows some information, but not this.
This is an odd one. I was typing on an apple "smart keyboard" connected to an iPad Pro. "Notes" REALLY wants to capitalize the first letter of each line, and "Mail" REALLY wants to capitalize any letter after you type a ":" character.
I have a few accounts on my MBP. On one of them only as soon as I login the screen saver starts and then I am basically kicked backed to the login window (I had set for immediate lock). If I login the second time the screen saver does not activate. Am I missing a setting here or something?
I've created some rules in my Mail.app to change background color of specific messages And also I've created rules in the mail server to move specific messages to some folder For messages in the Inbox folder everything is fine. But if message has been moved by server rule into another folder, then rules in the Mail.app do not apply (and for some twisted reasons this is by design: *=URL=* And if I apply rules manually by hitting Command + Option + L, then Mail.app rules will apply as they should.
For some reason, I messed up my iPad and now when ever I try to download an app I already purchased, I have to type in my Apple ID password where before hand I could download it straightaway. I don't have this problem on my iPhone and they both use the same account. Is there a way to fix this so updating an app or downloading a previously purchased app on iOS does not require a password? Also I set it so that the password requirement is 15 minutes and free apps do not require a password, but they seem to have absolutely no effect (Settings>iTunes & AppStore>Password Settings)
I had used an answer for changing my new email address back to my old, as was suggested in a prior recommendation. Now, the system wants to send a code to my old address in order to make the change. The problem is that I no longer have access to my old email address. As it stands, I no longer can use iTunes as it shows my old address in grey and it doesn't allow me to change it to my new address. What can I do?
Why does OS X El Capitan freeze after it connects to an SMB share? The OS will successfully connect to the remote SMB share and mount it. After a short time passes, the Finder freezes and the entire OS follows. What should I do?
Is it possible to create a user that can log in to one's ssh server and chat, but is restricted from any other activity, i.e. cannot use any significant disk space, cannot access hardware (speakers, microphone, camera), and is perhaps even limited to a low CPU-percentage?
My setup is as follows: Mac Mini 2012 with a dummy video adapter with latest OSX. Retina Macbook Pro 13-inch, Early 2015 running the default OSX VNC client with the latest OSX. Display Menu to switch resolutions.
I’m on Mac OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan) and just upgraded to iTunes 12.4 and if I right/control + mouse click on a track I no longer see “Get Album Artwork” in the list of options. I am 100% positive this used to be the case in earlier (12.3 and lower) versions of iTunes. What gives?
Why do I get these copyfile(...) failed:45 errors?I found the source code for copyfile.c, but could not find out what triggers the error. In there it says about COPYFILE_UNPACK:
I decided to try file sharing on a mac mini, and noticed something odd. When I go to settings > Sharing, and enable File Sharing, then add ~/Shared. Now ~/Shared is the only item listed. When I go to another mac, find the shared device in Finder, and "Connect As" and login with my username & password for the mac mini, then I see the Hard drive is shared, my user folder ~/ is shared, and the ~/Shared.
On Mac OS X, some applications will display a notification that appears briefly in the upper-right corner (e.g., when I receive email). Is there a way to generate a notification from the command-line? In other words, is there a command-line program I can run to display a custom notification, with text of my choice? Ideally, I'd love to be able to run something like
When I open Camera, I can see the back camera is working but the front camera is not. When I press on the camera icon to switch cameras for a long duration, it shows 'AE lock'. Can someone help me with regaining access to my front camera?
I accidentally deleted a photo from the "Recently Deleted" album and I need it back. I have an iCloud back-up but every time I restore the back-up, the photo is not in the gallery and I know for sure that the back-up was made before I deleted the photo. Is there any possibility that I can recover the photo?
If you install Twitter, or Vine, equally, then you log in, then uninstall the app, then install it again, it somehow appears already logged in. I've got several ideas about how this might work, but they all are dismissed by various reasons: associate a unique cookie with the device itself, but that seems to contradict the App Store TOS (I don't know; I've written "seems", so I'm not stating it), and it will sustain after the device has been sold, so this approach is hardly viable; store the login data somewhere in the cloud, but, as far as I know, all iCloud records get wiped along with app uninstallation; use OS keyring, but I doubt there is such an API. For one, Telegram messenger always installs fresh so you have to log in again after each installation. That said, how does Twitter or Vine do this?
In one of my mailboxes, I can no longer remove e-mails. Every time I want to delete a mail, it gives me the following message: "247263.emlx" couldn't be copied to "Messages" because an item with the same name already exists. I have already tried to rebuild the mailbox, but without any result. How can I fix this issue? (MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012, OS X 10.11.4)
I am trying to follow this advice from stackoverflow and copy some library files from /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c to /usr/lib/. I have tried cp, ln -s and even touch, but they all fail. I am using the root credentials: In the right directory: But no write operation is permitted: Any idea how can I write to /usr/lib as root?
I'm trying to select, in the Documents tab, an A2 paper size so that it represents better the information that I will be printing out. However, there is no A2 paper size. I am also aware that under the Printing dialog (Paper Handling), there are more document types, but still no A2 size. Therefore, is there a way to make Pages visualise a custom paper size inside a document, and if yes, what is it? Specs for reference: MacBook Pro (Retina, Early 2015) running OS X El Capitan v10.11.4 and Pages v5.6.2.
I want to enable Shared folders on VirtualBox. I went to Devices tab and clicked -> Insert guest additions CD image. Nothing happened. This is an image of my Storage tab in Settings of Virtual box:
I bought a 128GB stick to back up my MacBook Air (Time Machine). This way I don't need to re-format my external HDD I use for backing up files from my Windows machine. Since I won't be using the stick with my Windows machine I thought I might format it with a "better" file system than exFat. Would you recommend formatting it to HFS+?
I want to buy an iPhone, and would like to ask whether the iPhone 6 Plus has either Persian or Farsi language support.
How can I use external hard drive via USB connection on a virtual machine using VirtualBox? I ejected the hard disk from OS X host, then the disk becomes available in OS X virtual machine. Clicking on the disk throws an error:
I'm not sure this topic is appropriate for this forum but I'm looking for a Multi-highlight extension or AppleScript for Safari. I using Multi-highlight for Google Chrome at the moment but I would rather do use Safari. *=URL=* any idea of a similar extension or a way to implement this in a script?
I've created a couple of aliases to Wine executables that I put in my dock, but by default they're all coming up with the standard page icon. I would like to customize these icons using custom ICO files (which I have) so I can more easily identify which one's which. I tried hitting "Get Info" on the alias and then dragging the icon in there (the cursor adds a green plus when I do this), but it seemed to have no effect. How can one customize the icons on aliases on OS X?
Every time I reboot my Mac a mount point for a drive I don't even have connected is recreated in my /Volumes/ dir. I can delete it, but next time I reboot it comes back. How can I find out what is creating this?
I have a early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch running El Capitan 10.11.4. For work reasons, I need a case sensitive file system so I created a second volume on my hard drive that is formatted as "OS X Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted).
When I first began using 10.11 El Capitan I had to disable SIP in order to run some stuff, and to avoid some crashes. The crashes were probably likely down to some kext I had leftover from older software installations, etc. Not sure.
I have a mail message where I typed the email address from a business card. Unfortunately I made a typo, so it bounced. I'd like to open the mail and edit it as if it were a new mail without "Fwd" or "Re" and all that, but I can't find an option do to that with Apple Mail. Is it possible?
I know how to create vibrations on the phone itself, but I'm wondering if there is a way to upload to a computer, download from a computer, or even create on a computer. I ask because I'd like a way to save and share vibrations (like you can with ring and text tones). And if there is a way to create them, that would be great. Because, let's be honest, you have a great deal more control over timing if you can use a computer.
Somewhere between every one and ten minutes, my MacBook Pro prompts the shut down dialog box or even starts to sleep.  This is what I get in the console. It really looks as if I've pressed the hardware "off" button:
I have to click the "Remind me later" to dismiss it. And if I click "Install now" nothing happens.
What is the purpose of /private/var/db/crls folder on a mac? I noticed that it gets updated regularly.
To quit screen you need to hit ctrl+a, ctrl+\. How do you do that if you don't have \ on the keyboard?
What is the purpose of /private/var/folders/zg/jjtx0_k94pdc5p5q6gcvf4900000gn/T/MediaCache folder? It looks like some sort of database. I noticed it gets updated while browsing quite often. Excerpt from one of files looks like elvish.
My parents brought me a iPhone SE locked by Sprint from US and I only turned it on here in my country (Brazil). It was not able to reach the original network.
I transferred photos from my iphone to my macbook, but turns out the photos were deleted from my phone after the transfer. So now I have the photos on my macbook but not on the phone. I'm trying to get those photos back on my phone. I tried changing preferences such that icloud would work on my phone and macbook, but it did not work.
I find iCloud really annoying and I want to remove my files (mainly photos) from it but still keep them in my phone and laptop. How should i go about doing that?
I have a MacBook Pro 2011 running windows 10 with bootcamp. How to use "Insert key" (Ins) or equivalent on Mac keyboard, in MS word 2016 ? There isnt key insert, and fn + return doesn not work, and also bringing the windows onboard keybord does not send inset command ? Thank you.
I want to do a clean install of el capitan OS. I booted to recovery mode, chose reinstall os x and followed the steps. So far so good. When it came to choose the destination disk where I wanted to install the OS, it did not show any hard drive, i.e Macintosh HD was not shown so I could select it. I figured I had to format it first. So I close the installation and went to Disk Utility. The problem is Disk Utility is stuck at loading and does not show anything.
I need to use Mac OS X's screen sharing app a lot to access a remote system (also using Mac OS X). I'm new to Macs and I keep having the following problem: If I leave my mouse cursor within roughly a fifth of the top of the screen, OS X thinks I want to exit fullscreen mode and shows the OS X menu bar. This is very annoying as the only options I can find will allow me to choose having the remote display get resized (which is terrible if I'm hovering over a button which was just about to click) or part of my screen gets covered by the menu bar.
I am having trouble downloading the OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 Update. Both direct downloads and App Store downloads end up being crazy slow (1kb/sec). Other App Store downloads or the direct iTunes 12.4 download are fast at ~2mb/sec. I tried flushing the DNS Cache, changing the DNS from Google to ISP, and restarted all systems (Router, Modem, MacBook).
I have been using this guide: *=URL=* But when I try and mount the .vmdk I get this error: Permission problem accessing the file for the medium '/Users/jordan/win10raw.vmdk' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component: MediumWrap Interface: IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda} Callee: IVirtualBox {0169423f-46b4-cde9-91af-1e9d5b6cd945} Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) I have tried this: *=URL=* with no luck mounting it on the ide controller
I met a problem recently. Sometimes the Google shows me a page says that my computer is sending frequent requests to Google so that I must enter the number in the picture to continue to use Google's services. Obviously, I would not do such thing.
I am trying to replace the hard drive in an old MBP-15 mid 2010 with a new SSD. The old disk is encrypted. I did that on my own two MBPs successfully, but both disks were not encrypted. The Mac is running OS X v10.10.5. I reboot the friends MBP with CMD+R into Recovery Mode and run Disk Utility -> Restore with the old drive set as "source" and the new SSD set as "backup" It runs for a few minutes, but then it fails with
I want to distribute an IOS app using Test Flight. If I go to the Account page of the Apple Developer site, I can see my account details so I am definitely logged in. On the left hand panel there is a Itunes Connect option. If I click on that it goes to the enter link description here. If I click on App, then it has a link with the text 'Get Started'. If I click on this page, it goes to a page, the top of which has an enroll option. But I do not want to enroll, I want to sign in, but there is no sign in option, and in any case, I have already signed in. On a separate page I have signed into Itunes Connect but that just takes me to the getting started page with the same result. So how do I get to the Itunes connect page where I can add my app? I am using the same apple ID to sign into my developer account and Itunes connect.
EDIT As my question has been marked unclear so I am trying to elaborate with an example.
I found a Magsafe 2 60W power adapter in the electronics trash and I would like to find out where it's fault is. I am pretty sure I can handle most of the common repairs on the chargers. I am asking, because I would prefer to leave the body of the adapter intact instead of prying it apart to measure if and where the cable is broken. If the electronics are gone I don't think I'd be able to save the adapter. So far I measured the pin voltages (the + to ground voltage should be 3V for Magsafe 2), but I can't get any reading which is not 0. I don't have a Magsafe 2 device, only Magsafe 1. ~edit: I measure 218kOhm between + and ground, 640kOhm between the center pin and + 420kOhm between the center pin and ground (Is electronics SE the better community to ask?)
My work involves trying stuff online and offline, on a Mac. Sometimes a try can be less than 10 seconds of needed offline time. Most of the time I still need to be online. Instead of going to Network -> Ethernet/Wifi and disable everything manually, I'd like to know if there is a way to disable it all at once, and re-enable it just as easily.
My email provider and thus also email address are changing. Thus I carefully followed the procedure Apple provide to change the primary email used for Apple ID. I used the "Managing Apple ID" Web pages. I had already, as instructed, signed out of and closed all services and devices using the existing Apple ID.
I have a Macbook Pro and a QHD BenQ monitor here. Should it be supported to connect these two devices using a HDMI to DisplayPort cable (So HDMI on Macbook DisplayPort on monitor)? For me it just does not work, I tried replugging checking the channel on the monitor and detect monitors, no cigar.
I need to connect to open Wifi network but I do not want all my applications access internet with it. Only one internet browser.
I need to get displays for my microprocessors which I need for different tasks. I can have a USB-microUSB-HDMI connection to the ultrabook. I am using Macbook Air 2013-mid and El Capitan 10.11.4. How can you make Macbook a Slave Display for Raspberry Pi 3b.
Previously, my wife and I shared a single iTunes store account and had iTunes match. If I added music to my library from outside iTunes, she could see it in her library and download it to her phone.
I am trying to serve an application I'm developing over the LAN at work. I'm doing this using Apache and this is working fine locally, but when I try to access from another client on the network the http request is timing out. The requests are definitely hitting the Mac as in /var/log/trac.log I can see:
On Windows I use GreenShots, which by default saves each screenshot with a timestamp followed by the name on the title bar. I'd like to replace the "Screen Shot DATE at TIME" with "YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS Whatever on Title Bar". This would make my screenshots easier to: order by date, just ordering them by name find out with a simple search (looking at the title) Is some way achieve this?
Is it possible to hide the notification from macs when a new mac is added to the iCloud account? Specifically this one: "Your apple is is now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new Mac" I'm "running IT" at a small startup, roughly 40 employees, and I want to be logged into iCloud on the administrator account so I can enable Find my Mac in case an employee loses one, or it is stolen. But I don't want them to receive this pop up every single time I add a new machine to the account. Or is there a better way to do this?
I was on El Capitan 10.11.4 and just updated to 10.11.5. Now the menu bar is missing on my second screen which is an enormous pain in the apple. I have tried: Searching Google and AskDifferent and wading through many answers for much older OSX versions that no longer are relavent Rebooting Confirming that it's not just my display setup hiding the menu bar above the visible area Moving different apps into the second screen Turning off and on the System Preferences > General > Automatically hide and show the menu bar setting Turning on mirroring and then turning it off Killing and relaunching Finder Petitioning the ghost of Steve Jobs for help
I deleted a note accidentally. I found it in my deleted notes. It will stay there for 30 days and then delete forever it says. How do I get it saved back into Notes from Deleted Notes?
I can't find a shortcut that's working on my MacBook Air. In Windows you can either click the rightmost part of the task bar to show the desktop or hit Windows+D to show the desktop. How do I do this in El Capitan?
I've tried following a few articles but never received good results. The one that got me closest is here: *=URL=* I don't need Dropbox so I edited that part out and I modified it based on some other suggestions - here's what I have:
I would like to make custom tasks for Automator to send to friends who are learning or even just to make new Automator apps easer to write without having to repeat the same tasks over and over. For example: run shell command (uptime) -> speak text -> copy to clipboard Would it be at all possible to make a task called Uptime and use one task instead of three? Any help would be appreciated :)
I've connected my Pi Zero over USB to my OS X laptop and under Preferences -> Network it shows up as RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget, with a self assigned IP. It says that RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet. I'd like it to be able to connect to the internet. How does one enable this?
How do you uninstall the HiCalculator app? I have tried the usual, hold down till jiggles and click on the X. Does not work, it won't jiggle. I have researched and researched on internet, cannot find an answer.
I would like to retrieve the Apple USB Keyboard's serial number from a command to use in a script. What command can I use ?
I've noticed a few sessions on my website with the referer of connectme.apple.com, however the server does not appear to exist on the internet. More specifically, this is the URL of the referer: *=URL=* (Could not resolve host) The most notable session from this referer was the following flow: Shutdown Causes Blog back then forward OS X - Blog back iOS - Blog OS X El Capitan Hidden Features back 3x The sheer length of this session is intriguing given that I rarely break 3 pages per session!
By default I have to hit fn+up arrow and fn+down arrow for page up and page down actions, but those buttons are on opposite sides of the keyboard. I want to be able to do rshift+up and rshift+down. I already tried System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts, but it only lets me map to menu items.
I have enabled hidden file visibility on OS X El Capitan 10.11, and the files are semitransparent. Is there a way to make them solid like all other files?
In OS X 10.10.5, I'm using QuickTime X to record video from a Logitech c920 webcam. The only video options I see are High (720p30 H.264) and Maximum (1080p24 ProRes 444). How can I independently specify frame rate, resolution, and codec? I know this camera supports a wide variety of frame rates and sizes, because it's shown in ffmpeg through AVfoundation.
Using Numbers 3.6.2, and would like to save document to finish later. Where do I save it? (Saving to PDF is permanent)
As shown in the screenshot the "Show Referenced File in Folder" is grayed out. What are the (remaining/alternate) options to locate them on disk?
I'm upgraded an late-2011 MacBook Pro from Lion to El Capitan. The install itself seemed to go fine. It got to the step where it restarts after the install and now it just hangs on this screen.
I have some epub files in my iCloud Drive that are essentially packages. I can show package contents and then it shows me a hierarchy of files and folders. How can I convert this structure to a standard epub that any regular epub reader will understand?
I have an old Mac Pro tower (2009; firmware 5,1). I just updated to the latest El Capitan OS X 10.11.5 from 10.11.4. Since the upgrade, the computer has not been displaying screens (I have an Nvidia Quadro K1200 graphics card). However, if I use screen sharing from a different computer I can see the log in screen. However, if I try to log in, I can not. If I type in an incorrect password, the little typing window immediately bounces left/right. If I type the correct password, the typing window disappears, to be replaced by this spinning wheel (shown here in very low quality):
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch. I have recently lost my notifications in the notification centre. The " today" tab functions but my "notifications" bar has nothing. The banners from notifications pop up but they are not saved in the "notifications" tab. I have attempted killing and restarting the notifications centre through Terminal but to no avail. Please help! TIA
I have a 2011 iMac with only Ubuntu installed. It's not a dual-booted iMac, it only has Ubuntu installed.
I have 2 differents 'free space' digits. And after delete something big from disk -> free space in 'About your mac' - still unchanged.
I don't want to mirror my monitors but I would like the files in ~/Desktop to display on both. Right now they only display on my primary monitor. Is it possible?
I am aware that there is a online view under icloud.com, and there is a OS X and iPhone app for iCloud. Why I am asking, is:
I run brew install Caskroom/cask/pdfinfo but I cannot find in my commandline. My PATH is How can you run pdfinfo of Homebrew?
I have an AppleScript that calls another script (a perl script in this case) which resides in the same folder as the AppleScript. Now I'm trying to put the script into a variable like this: But the result that I get from the find shell command has two slashes before the file name: /path/to/folder//myscript.pl Anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong? EDIT: While I don't quite understand the double slash I managed to resolve the problem by not invoking the Finder at all and doing the following: Don't know if that's the best way to do it but it works for me.
I recently lost my macbook, and fortunately I have all my backups in a Time Capsule. At the moment I only have an old window PC, and a friend who has a macbook. The question is: how do we recover the files on the Time Capsule thanks to the macbook in order to copy them into my old PC ?
I just want to know if there is a more comprehensive dictionary and ideally synonym suggesting keyboard for an iPhone.
My iPhone 4s battery was dying, so I replaced it (the battery). But the replacement battery (which was a cheap one from eBay) is pretty poor. The replacement battery looked exactly like the original one (to my untrained eye at least). Is there a way in which I can distinguish a good-quality replacement battery from a poor-quality one?
but I am ready to change my VPN provider if it is needed for the task. I am not sure if you can make split tunnelling yourself. Based on the thread FAQ on OpenVPN, it is possible to have multiple VPN connections active at the same time Make sure each TUN/TAP adapter has a unique, non-overlapping subnet using server, server-bridge, or ifconfig. Unsuccessful attempts to gain access to split tunnelling
I've been experiencing an issue that has causing me a lot of problems, as various apps including Whatsapp, Telegram, Linkedin, Authy, Lastpass, and more will randomly log out, and reset back to their inital state as if I just installed it on a clean phone. Apps like Whatsapp and Telegram will have lost all of their chat history, even if it was backup up on iCloud.
I created a backup system for a friend, using Carbon Copy Cloner. The system has been up and running since January, but it needs regular intervention.
I CANNOT get my mouse to easily move from one monitor to another. I literally have to wave the mouse in the direction of the other monitor and that sometimes works, though it's very clumsy. I can't understand this weird problem. The mouse just does not want to go the other monitor, no matter which monitor. If I'm on one, I can't get to the other .
I accidentally created a partition of 1.05GB space. Went to Disk Utility -> Partition, and I clicked on the - sign to remove it and hit "apply". It gives me the following error:
My fan is running really loud. I have tried resetting the SMC and it didn't work. I have no applications running and my mac is not hot. If you have any idea what is wrong please help me!
In Mountain Lion, I used one of the photo screen savers, and had a directory which contained symbolic links to images in various other folders on my machine. I recently upgraded to El Capitan, and all the photo screen savers I've tried (Shifting Tiles, etc) fail to load images from the directory containing symbolic links. They only seem to work when I point the saver at a directory with actual image files in them.
If you sign up for an Apple ID with a non-apple email account (gmail, etc.) can you still sign up for iCloud email aliases (alias@icloud.com)?
Whenever I start to compose a new text message on my iPhone 6 to send to someone, as soon as I enter their name in the To: field the last text that I sent or received from them appears in my message editing box. I can add new material at the bottom but cannot delete what was exchanged previously. This is causing my messages to people to keep building up in size with the total message being everything I ever sent to them plus what I'm sending as a new message.
I am running on macbook pro 2015. Since, few days, I have noticed a significant degradation in it's performance. Here is the screen shot of the activity Monitor. Can someone please help me on, how can I get rid of this issue
I am new user of OS X, I am missing one important feature is zooming page with trackpad or mouse scroll. I need to get the same result as shortcuts Command + - and Command + + do. I mean that the page should change it size, I need this for responsive web design. Is there any way to make this work for example using Command + Scroll?
A few days ago i noticed, that in new tab cursor doesn't set on address/search bar. Now I use ⌘+L combination to quickly switch, but it isn't comfortably for long time use. Reflecting on the causes of such behavior , I found that the cursor stands on a search tab in the private tab. What i tried to do to fix it: Set in general preferences parameter Open new tabs/windows with Empty page Turn off all extensions I have OSX 10.11.5 with Safari 9.1.1 (and also i have the same problem on Safari Technology Preview 9.1.1) Open new window Press combination cmd+T
My MacBook was stolen. I have a new Mac with all the data restored from my AirPort Time Capsule, including all the passwords that were on the stolen MacBook.
Is there a way to enable two finger double tap on Trackpad to zoom not only in browsers, but also in anywhere else on the computer? Currently it only works for browsers. I am running osx El Capitan.
I've just made a Fusion Drive on my MBP 2012 and restored data from the Time Machine. Unfortunately, right now I read information that the best place for SSD is the main bay of HDD not the optical bay. So I want to replace SSD to the main bay and HDD to the optical bay. My question is: it's possible without reinstalling the system?
I followed the instructions here and was able to record the AppleTV output. Awesome feature. I tested Youtube, Periscope, a few games and some German Government TV channels.
I have installed polipo-1.1.1 caching proxy on my OS X 10.11.4 with homebrew: Sometimes opening URLs (this page for example) is failed with this error message: I have set up ~/.polipo file as configuration file with socksParentProxy and socksProxyType parameters only. The value of ulimit -n is 4864. In /usr/local/var/cache/polipo I have 510 folders and total size of this folders is 297 MB. Total number of files that are open with polipo with this command is 219: Why this error is occurred and how can I prevent that? Is there any configurations that I missed to set up?
When you get a sync error (somewhat famous here) - the iPhone tells you to look in iTunes to see what it was that couldn't be synced. Interestingly enough iTunes doesn't actually tell you what it was that couldn't be synced.
I am trying to reach the webpage for certificates under developer.apple.com. But I get redirected to the Welcome page. My Apple ID is an iCloud address *...@icloud.com. Why does *=URL=* redirect to *=URL=* ?
I tried to reduce my partition size using Minitool Partition Wizard on my BOOTCAMP partition (I didn't touch Apple_HFS partition) now I can't see my Apple_HFS partition in Disk Utility. However this partition works under bootcamp.
I want to upload videos to my computer and have it available on both Photos and iMovie. Do I need to upload it twice, which seems very inefficient, or is there a workaround?
Question Details: Is it possible to make your macbookpro retina (2015) to hibernate (hibernate mode 25 i.e. fully powered off) via a shortcut? I still want it to go to sleep (the usual default safesleep) when closing the lid. Put differently: I would like to achieve the same settings that I had on Windows. Windows setting:
I installed a Safari extension. I need to allow this extension to access files on mu system. Chrome has option looking like this:
Is it possible to create a calendar event repeating every month but on a certain day? For example our window cleaner started on a Friday and comes every month but on the Friday. Calendar obviously works it out to be a Sunday but it would have been the Friday 2 days prior to that. Is it possible to do such a thing in Calendar?
When I'm using iPhoto, the hard audio buttons on the keyboard (previous, pause, next) no longer apply to iTunes. Suddenly, they do things in iPhoto instead. Things like play and pause slideshows, start slideshows, work like arrow buttons, etc. I dislike this. Is there any way to keep the hard audio buttons being used for iTunes while I'm in iPhoto? I'm using iPhoto 9.6.1 on Yosemite 10.10.1.
Dictation fails without notification, system log reveals above crash.
Hello I am trying to connect my late 2013 MacBook Pro with mini DisplayPort/ Thunderbolt to Dell 3007WFP 30" monitor. It is connecting fine, but the resolution is very poor. What is the best DVI adaptor; I'm looking at Apple, Kanex iAdapt, or Monoprice. What would be the best option to get 2560x1600 resolution?
I got an older Macbook Pro as a present, without battery and harddisk. Memory is installed, LED power adapter is on. Since the machine doesn't boot, my question is if I have to install harddisk or battery to turn it on?
I am trying to setup 3 monitors with my MacBook Pro (Late 2013). I was wondering if anybody has tried this docking station with mac.
I have a column filled with values like 3 days, 12 days, etc How can I strip out the text and force convert these to integers?
I have an iPhone 5 currently running iOS 8.2 I'd like to upgrade to 8.4 because there are some apps I want to install that require it. I would not like to upgrade to iOS 9 because I've had more than enough problems in the past with upgrading older devices with major version OS changes. Is there a way to do that?
I have recently asked a question about automatically inserting a value produced by a custom executable into a prompt field. Please look over this post to know exactly what I am talking about. The reply I got was exactly what I was looking for except for one but crucial detail.
Not sure if my Macbookpro Retina 2015 is waking up from sleep, safesleep or hibernation. I have enabled hibernatemode 25 (via terminal command: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25). pmset -g shows hibernatemode is indeed 25. Is this mode the equivalent of the Windows 7 hibernate and or, the hibernate button on the 'Deepsleep' widget/mac app *=URL=* or the other 'Deep Sleep' app's sleep button *=URL=* ?
I have a couple of files/directories that are named in GBK. I think because finder assumes UTF-8 encoding, all of those file names are displayed as gibberish. How do I make Finder display their file names properly?
How do I tell Siri to go away when I activate it by accident? The best I can come up with is "Cancel", which works but replies that "there's nothing to cancel". Functional, but irritating. Searching on Google has thus far just turned up a whole lot of stuff about how to turn Siri off altogether, which isn't what I'm after.
I'm using disk utility to try to divide the partition I'm working on, which is 51.28 GB, into one main partition (to run OS X on) and one smaller HFS+ partition (on which I will eventually install GRUB to boot Arch Linux, which is in other partitions). However, using Disk Utility, when I have this partition selected and click the + button, whatever size partition I try to create, Disk Utility shrinks the current partition to 25.6 GB, creates a partition of the size I select, and then creates a third partition out of the remaining space. Does anybody know why I might be experiencing this problem? I am running OS X version 10.11.5 on a early 2015 13" Retina MacBook Pro.
On many days, I use an iPad on a network that provides Internet. However this internet network restricts certain websites I can access. Even public VPNs are blocked.
So whenever I launch a game that uses game-center I get a message on the top of the screen that says "Welcome Back (My Game Center username)". How do I remove this? It's really annoying and it stays there for like 6 seconds.
When using Apple TV, it asks me every time I want to download a song for my password. It happens each time I download from Apple TV (not my iPhone). Is there a way to make it download the song without prompting for my password?
I have several iOS devices with iOS 7.x to 9.x installed and they are all synced with iTunes on my computer. How can I manage the differing versions of my suite of apps on these devices when iTunes keeps only the latest versions of these apps? Some later versions of these apps just will not run on iOS 7.x. How would it resolve this conflict given that it is managing both devices; both different iOS versions and App versions suitable for each.
The optical drive on my MBP stopped accepting discs, so I removed the optical drive and replaced it with the optical drive from my MBP 15 2009. Now it doesn't start. During the upgrade I disconnected some cables, one of which I failed to reconnect, is this the issue?
I have an iMac with OS X and Windows 7 dual boot (which was installed via Boot Camp). Recently, the OS X partition has been compromised, but the Windows one works great. I have created a bootable USB with OS X Snow Leopard and I want to reinstall OS X. I have 2 questions: Will I lose any personal data after reinstalling OS X? And will Windows 7 still work after reinstalling OS X considering that it has been installed through Boot Camp?
This is a company laptop and bought in October 2015, my company admin have sent in the macbook to Apple Authorized Service Centre but they say no issue found and return it after 1 whole month. After get back the kernel panic still remains. He also performed several fresh installation of the OS X (downloaded from Apple) and still get kernel panic. I'm not sure whether it is a software-related or hardware-related issue as the Apple Diagnostics didn't show any problem. Things I've tried : Apple Diagnostic Test Fresh install of OS X Use EtreCheck (Report seems fine) Use iStat Menu Pro to check on the temperature (around 40 degree celsius to 80/90) When kernel panic occurs, it usually stay at high temperature like 90 degree + Does it means overheat causes kernel panic? Use iStat Menu Pro to check on the temperature (around 40 degree celsius to 80/90) When kernel panic occurs, it usually stay at high temperature like 90 degree + Does it means overheat causes kernel panic? Resetting the SMC R
I found a port left to the headphone output (the one plugged in with a cord with a green jack), right to the USB ports, and under the SD card slot. It has the same radius as the headphone output. What is it?
When ever I try to export a video from my camera roll (at whatever file size) it comes up with the message 'an error has occurred during export'. I have tried everything I found when searching the issue, however in my phone settings -> privacy -> photos iMovie isn't an option? I don't know why and I don't know how to sort it. I saved a video from it this morning but I now can't.
Since a week or so, I have a very strange issue on my Mac... I can login from the login screen, but any further action that requires my password fails: from a terminal if I try to sudo, or from any system preferences pannel that prompts for my password. I cannot add "Show Input menu in login window" because this requires to enter my password... I have only one keyboard configured in System preferences so it is not even an issue of different keyboard layout as far as I can tell. And since my account is not bound to my appleid (and I need my password to do it) I am really stuck... Is formatting the only option ?
I have Photos on my iMac set to "Download and keep all originals". Can I simply make a backup of Photos Library.photoslibrary, then go to iCloud.com and delete everything in the "Photos app", and somehow restore everything from the photoslibrary file?
Why does it say my user name is illegal? I have no idea what to do about. I would appreciate if someone can help me.
This week my El Capitan system reported that the Flash player was out of date. So I did the usual thing and went to Adobe, downloaded the latest (21 A) installer and kicked it off. After entering my password, the installer went through the usual "downloading .." part and commenced on the installation part, at which point it failed, showing me this:
I am trying to sync my iTunes music to my iPhone. It takes a really long time (> 20 mins) when I try to do so.
IOS 9.3.2 I sent two text messages via Siri dictation. One was displayed in Green with a note saying the message was sent as text. The second was displayed in Blue with no accompanying message. Both were sent by WiFi with Cellular data turned off. Any thoughts on why the difference?
I have a lot of Programms that i always need to install to a new mac. I wanted to simplify this process through an installpackage. I allready tried Iceberg with some success but have a specific error. What i want to do with iceberg is to unpack all the packages and start a script to install it and delete the packages after. I can make a package that unpacks the packages in my destination but the iceberg Programm wont execute the script i add in postinstall. the script itself works fine when i use it through terminal. the Script i am using is iceberg packs the script in the programm but never uses it.
My texts are not showing up delivered. Does this mean I could have been blocked? Or did they put it on Do Not Disturb? Messages were delivered yesterday morning, but everything after that is not showing delivered.
I'm using OSX10.11.4. I've got several mail accounts and use mail.app to receive and send mails. One of these accounts is a gmail Account. I'm able to receive all mails with mail.app but I can't send a mail from my gmail Account.
Since time immemorial (at least 12 years) installing a new version of iTunes on Windows has been a ritual to get around the installer's seeming inability to replace the iPod service. To successfully upgrade iTunes on Windows 7 (and previously on Win2K and XP) one has to manually terminate all Apple services (iPod Service, AppleMobileDeviceService, iTunes Helper, mDNSResponder) and then be sure to run the installer using the "Run as Administrator" option, even if your login is a member of the local Admin group. Failure to do any of these steps results in "iPod service cannot be installed" late in the installation, at which point the only solution is to cancel, reboot and reinstall. Lately (12.4) even following all these steps still results in failure to install the iPod Service. Does anyone have any insight as to why this problem has gone uncorrected essentially since the initial release of iTunes for Windows, and if there is a foolproof way to upgrade iTunes?
My iphone 5 is not downloadig any apps from the App Store. I reset all settings, reset all network settings, changed WiFi DNS, set date and time, reset my phone, and tried to download on WiFi, LTE and 3G but faced same problem.
I need to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on my OS X machine with no internet connection. I need this in order to locally connect my Android smartphone via the hotspot and control the machine via an app (Unified Remote) for a presentation. The place where I need this only has a corporate network which doesn't allow for such local connections. I know this is going to work because I used to do this on Windows, but here the hotspot doesn't turn on until it has a wired connection, and automatically turns off if I unplug the ethernet wire. Is there a way to turn on the hotspot even with no connections? Thank you :)
Today, I suddenly got the following message on my iPod:  Question 1: Does this mean that someone has entered my Apple ID password, or are there other situations where this dialog is triggered? Update: According to an Apple Support representative, there may be other ways to activate this pop-up than entering the password. However, the representative didn't know of any such methods herself.
Is there any way to tell whether an attached external mic is making contact with an iOS device? I am trying to attach an external microphone (Sennheiser MKE-400) to an iPhone 5. The mic has a 3.5mm jack which fits into the iPhone's headphone port. I know that the port is capable of audio input. However, I also know that there are different formats for 3.5 mm jacks and ports, and that there are adapters available, one of which may be required to make this connection, though I am not sure. I can make a recording with the mic attached, but from listening to it, it is not clear whether the mic is in use or whether the iPhone is using its own, built-in mic.
I just dont like the system audio bell for the terminal in my mac. How can I get my mac use a different file which I have obtained from internet. Its a .wav file which I have got from the internet.
I'm not sure if this is normal but I've never been able to list all my apps in itunes. As you can see, the list is completely empty. This has been for the last few years and on different computers with the most updated itunes. Any ideas if this is normal?
OS X 10.11.5 on a Mid 2011 iMac. I'm new to development on OS X and am trying to understand enough to figure out a Ruby path issue I'm having. I ran Inspector on Terminal and was surprised by the complexity of the command.
I have a hiking trip coming up and I was wondering whether the iPhone 6S can be used for GPS tracking if there are no cellular networks available? Or does the phone not have the same GPS/GLONASS support that you would get from a hiking GPS device?
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina with a 128Gb SSD and 8Gb of RAM. I know I can't upgrade the RAM but I can upgrade the SSD. Will an Apple Store upgrade my SSD if I take my Macbook to them? Is it possible to know how much will it cost? Or maybe exchange my Mac for another one (same model) with a 512Gb SSD paying the difference?
I have installed up-to-date command line tools, and followed steps on other threads with this subject. I know this seems like a duplicate, but I don't see any answers to my issue here:
I have been using Google Maps iOS (Australia) and i have never received voice navigation. Is this supported? And if so is it supported in Australia? And if so once again, where should I check to get this working. I am using an iPhone 6Plus.
I am using iOS 9.3 and my auto-correct is working really weirdly. It will change valid words to those of existing brands. For instance, typing in "guess" will change it to "Guess", even if it is in the middle of a sentence. "subway" will be changed to "Sunway".
I have two wifi hotspots set up. Comcast X1 Router (Wireless Gateway 1) and an Airport Extreme. Both networks are set up with the same SSID, passphrase, and WPA2 Personal.
I'm very unclear about the iAd shutdown announcement. To clarify, I have an app that displays ads. Is the announcement that: iAds is shutting down entirely and I need to find another third party ad provider? iAds is shutting down entirely and I need to find another third party ad provider? something else about which I'm unclear? something else about which I'm unclear? I'm confused because of statements like this on engadget : http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/15/apple-iad-shutdown-june-30th/
These few links/ answers do not satisfy my question because Screenshots folder was introduced only in iOS 9.x as per: *=URL=* Also, I found a lot of tutorials/ sites that talk about How to Delete all Screenshots - But I'd like to Copy/ Move them before Delete. The simplest way to transfer photos from an iPhone to PC selectively (not sync-all) Transferring photos from iPhone to windows computer I do not wish for other pictures to go at the moment, just tons and tons of Screen shots that I've taken over the last 2 years.
I have a 128 GB hard drive on my macbook pro retina 13". My mac storage hard drive keeps decreasing for no reason, even when I do not download anything. This still happens even when I don't use any other application and when I use Chrome in incognito (so nothing is being stored in cache).
I have a Safari window displaying a webpage. I want to be able to retrieve the open URL into AppleScript. However when I do this:
This runs the risk of embarassing me in a meeting, giving me an unwelcome surprise if plugged into an amplifier, etc. Is there a way in El Capitan to completely disable all sound effects, except for the ones generated by games, music programmes etc. that I explicitly ask for?
I provided a screenshot below for what seems to be corrupted files (I'm referring to the black icons with question marks in them). It seems that I can't reimport those missing files from the memory card either.
I'm using a German Keyboard (Lioncast LK20) with OS X 10.11.5. I set the keymap to German and it is displayed correctly in the settings screen. Unfortunately the following two keys are swapped when I type on the keyboard: < Key (right of SHIFT) ^ Key (left of 1) Are there any advanced settings to fix this issue?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015, OS X El Capitan, 10.11.5) with Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB connected to an external monitor: Samsung SE790C: Resolution: 3440 x 1440 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Mirror: Off Online: Yes Rotation: Supported Connection Type: DisplayPort Television: Yes
The file in question is: /Users/me/Library/Containers/com.dell.Toad/Data/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/com.dell.toadext.oracle.core/connections.xml What is wrong with locate?
I am making a series of maths video tutorials to put up on YouTube. I have made a wooden crane that positions the iPhone above my desk looking down so that it captures an A4 sheet of paper. (I have an iPhone5s by the way).
I used Terminal command to unzip an audio file downloaded from a public library. Command used: unzip -v /<zip filename.zip>; rm -rf _MACOSX. Terminal displayed 31 files were extracted and stored. I used both Search in Finder and Go to Folder to find the files and only 1 pdf file was found. The other 30 files, all mp3, went missing.
In the preferences, the option "Set date and time automatically" is checked and the time server set is Apple Europe (time.euro.apple.com). The machine is always on but usually nobody connects to it for days/weeks (when something goes wrong usually).
A family member somehow got an automatic software update to Beta 15G7a that was released ±24 hours ago. He's very happy to accept PICNIC or CBI as responses to usual support from me, so it's puzzling as to how he was assigned a public beta.
Short Version Since upgrading to El Capitan, all folders in Mail that are "On My Mac" show up as having zero messages, but only on one of my two machines. The appropriate files are all there in the relevant V3 folder.
I was successfully using the Xcode Simulator yesterday evening. This morning when I came into work, I didn't change anything, but suddenly, every time I open the Simulator, this error pops up "SpringBoard cannot be opened because of a problem." The same exact thing is also happening to my coworker on his Mac. I've clicked Report and sent a report to Apple.
Or, can I just back up everything to iTunes and then copy the back up data to andorid? I rooted my android already.
I had a problem with my bootcamped MBP and I tried to format the HD. I wasn't able to format any of the partitions so I tried the following based on *=URL=* Now, when I boot from a USB to try to re-format the disk and make a clean install of OSX, I do But my /dev/disk0 is not showing up. Please help!
I tried deleting Cookies in Safari manually, by deleting ~Library/Cookies, ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and ~/Library/Safari. The folders gets deleted, but the next time I launch Safari all cookies are restored. I am logged in all websites.
My daughter has my old iphone but photos she takes arrive on my camera roll on my new iphone - how can I stop that happening please? Thank you
This is a distinct question from Is the "Lookup in Dictionary" context menu option hardcoded in Google Chrome for Mac? I want to get rid of the "Look Up x" contextual menu in Chrome: How can it be done?
I am trying to find a texteditor which can give an overview of Search Tool's Result. I find the current situation of TextMate problematic
You cannot do the highlight in Finder of El Capitan 10.11.4. However, there may be other methods to do it. How can you highlight a symbolic link in Finder of El Capitan?
We broke our Apple TV 4 remote, and bought a replacement. However, the new one does not appear to control the Apple TV. Do I need to take any steps to get the new remote to control my existing Apple TV 4?
I have the Bose Quitcomfort 25 headphones for Android and on it there are 3 buttons (volume up, down and play pause toggle). I was able to get the Play Pause toggle up and running by installing BeardedSpice Now I'm wondering is there any way to get the headphones volume up / down buttons working on my Mac?
I'd like to know whether geofenced reminders in Apple's stock Reminders app can use iBeacons to trigger. My use case is that I'd like to place an iBeacon in my home, and trigger reminders when it is detected by iOS/CoreLocation. The default GPS-based location finding can be less than prompt, since GPS reception near my home can be hit-or-miss. I've been unable to find specific confirmation that this is supported in the stock app. I may have to go to something like Proximitask if the stock app doesn't support this use case.
Every time new software is released by Apple for my iPhone 6s, I go to Settings to see the latest version that needs to be updated, but as soon as I click on Update, it closes out the Settings App. I have done a hard reset but nothing works. Can someone give me some advice on what could be causing this? Thank you.
This OS X image file.hdd file is in addition to the the file containing the actual virtual macOS, the .pvm file such as macOS.pvm by default or macOS Sierra.pvm in this screenshot. The .pvm file is the important one, the one to keep.
In El Capitan, in the Disk Utility app, I cannot find the option to rewrite bogus data (zeros or ones) across the entire drive multiple times. I am using a spinning rust platter disk, not an SSD. Some googling talks about doing this via command-line tools, and imply the feature has been removed from the Disk Utility app. But the Disk Utility Help window includes step # 4 on the Erase a volume: To prevent the erased files from being recovered, click Security Options, use the slider to choose how many times to write over the erased data, then click OK. Where can I find that slider?
I want to provide URL links to man page content at apple.com as an authoritative source of information. Describing and quoting the local man page is awkward. Does Apple provide man pages on the web?
When I use Preview.app to rotate a .TIFF image file 90 degrees, the resulting file is about 10% to 20% larger. All I do is open, rotate, save; there is no exporting or "save as" changes. I've tried this on multiple TIFF files and the behavior is constant. It's the same file with the same data, so why the size increase? (2013 rMBP) -- (OS X 10.11.4)
I have already an Apple ID through iTunes. I am a Windows user and have no Apple devices, but would like to have an iCloud.com email address. How can I do that?
Just wondering, is it possible accessing FTP on different port (not port 21) using Finder? For example if I have FTP port opened at port 8021 - how can I access that FTP server at that port using Finder? If I'm accessing it using Terminal, it's working like a charm and I have no issue with that. I want to use Finder because it will be integrated in the side bar, and that makes my life easier when transferring the files to the server.
One thing I don't like about the Preview application is that even something as simple as rotating an image 90 degrees requires Preview to re-encode the file, adding an alpha channel in the process. This results in a file that is 10% to 20% larger than the original, with no added benefit. This size difference may not matter much on a 5 MB file, but on a 500 MB file, it is a nuisance.
I can tap the upper-central "live photos" (short video) icon button to assure live mode is disabled. I can tap the upper-central "live photos" (short video) icon button to assure live mode is disabled. I can assure I'm switched to "Photo" and not "Video" or "Square" or whatever. I can assure I'm switched to "Photo" and not "Video" or "Square" or whatever. I can tap HDR to "auto" or "off" ("on" is not available for front-facing lens). I can tap HDR to "auto" or "off" ("on" is not available for front-facing lens). I can set the timer to three seconds or ten seconds. I can set the timer to three seconds or ten seconds. I can try rear-facing or front-facing lens. I can try rear-facing or front-facing lens. I can try a short tap, long tap, or double-tap of the shutter button. I can try a short tap, long tap, or double-tap of the shutter button. But I can't seem to stop the "burst photo" mode when using the timed photo option. I don't want to have to choose between ten "burst" shots for ever
I want to reflect the names from the WiFi network to which my Mac is connected on to the vmware virtual subnet on which my virtual machines connected. If you are familiar with avahi-daemon's enable-reflector parameter; this is exactly what I am looking for in bonjour.
I just keep getting this appear when downloading from the Apple App Store
Before this problem win + OSX worked fine. But I tried to settings>recovery>Advance Startup from windows. after a restart , there is no two boot option . only windows boot option is appear. But how can I go to my previous duel boot option? now I'm in windows 10.
After trying to install El Capitan and getting several notices that it can't be installed, now when I boot the computer it seems to be stuck in a login loop or something. Every time I restart the computer now I see the grey progress bar start as though it's doing something (with Apple logo), it goes for a bit and then shuts the machine off.
I'm working on some shell scripts to customize OS X to my preferences just by calling one script. From a lot of native OS X options, script is going to easily import some predefined settings form 3rd party apps if possible.
Then I tried to go into safe mode, and succeed going into desktop. After that, I restarted it again and successfully got to the desktop normally. But now, it would slowed down (cursor turns to loading icon every time you click on something) very often, around every 5 mins. Even more, some apps I frequently used (that I used when symptoms appear) cannot be opened, such as Chrome and Eclipse. I haven't even run IDE and emulator and it's like that already.
yesterday my computer stayed awake during all night, when I woke up it stopped working. I got many errors, one that says for example that I don't have enough space in my computer even though that when I checked it said I have more than 75 GB available. So after everything failed I booted in Recovery Mode (Cmd+R) and started playing with it. Currently my state is that my SSD is formatted to exFat because I can format to any kind of filesystem except OS X Extended (Journaled). Also, I can only boot up in Recovery Mode, no OS at the moment. Every time I try to to erase and format to OS X Extended (Journaled) with GUID Partition Map I get this error: MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2010 with SSD 240GB Kingston (SATA).
I happen to accidentally jam my charger in between a few moving objects and this was, unfortunately, the resut. Is this still safe to use? Are there any risks to continuing using assuming it will still charge my MacBook Pro?
I have a computer at home with an Ubuntu Server 14.04. This server has several hard disks that are shared using Samba.
What is the 'easiest' way to get word (and/or page) count of PDFs? By 'easy' I mean 'an app where you can read/annotate the PDF and get word count as well, without having to resort to clunky copying/pasting'. I know one can copy/paste things from any PDF reader into Word/Pages and get this info. I'd rather hear about a more practical/robust solution. Ideally I'd want to know if this is available (in this order of preference): In Preview (my default PDF reader) In another PDF reading app (which I'd be happy to make default)
I tried installing nvidia-smi with home-brew, but it is not working out, this is my output I have CUDA 7.5 installed and this is the output of my nvcc -V command Mine is a 15" Macbook Pro Retina, with Nvidia 750M GPU nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation Built on Thu_Sep_24_00:26:39_CDT_2015 Cuda compilation tools, release 7.5, V7.5.19 Output of kextstat command OS version 10.11.4
I decided to try using my husband's Apple ID, too. The exact same thing happened. The iPhone got old versions of his notes - eg, a particular note is dated Sept '15 on in phone, but May '16 on icloud.com and on his phone. I checked that the date and time are set correctly. Any other ideas?
I have a rather weird problem with my desktop of my MacBook Pro. I use El Capitan 10.11.15. For reasons I don't know I'm no longer able to keep more than one running application visible at the time.
In TextMate, it behaves the same as in Chrome. In the Textual IRC client's message entry window it behaves normally.
I have an Ubuntu server that uses netatalk by which I am able save files and backup to it. I want a way where the installation of an application in mac happens in the server and my mac is able to read the respective data from it. Till now I have not been able to do such a thing. Any idea?
The title says it: if I disconnect my Wifi the network does not come up on the cable LAN, unless if I reboot the system. Any fix for this, or workaround? Update 1: I get this data on my local LAN adapter when I ran ifconfig: I have tried, after disabling my wireless (en0), the following sequence of commands, but nothing happens: Update 2: the result of system_profiler SPNetworkDataType | pbcopy is
Every time I try to install any new software this happens...  The package starts verifying, but then makes no progress. Eventually I give up and cancel the install. How can I diagnose this so I can start doing new things with my computer again? I've tried examining the Console, but I see no related error messages.
I'm trying to use an auxiliary LCD as a light-pad/bed/table by loading up a 1080p white .PNG in preview and setting fullscreen ON. The problem is after several (20?) minutes of inactivity I get the Apple screensaver kicking in, and then have to enter my password. How to prevent this? Nothing in System Prefs -> Energy Saver works. *=URL=* suggests pmset noidle but that's also fails.
When I compress a folder or file by right click menu of Mac OS X, the archived file contains .DS_Store and __MACOSX folders. Because I share the archived file online for download, Windows users mistakenly trying to search the file in __MACOSX folder.
How do I downgrade my GCC v5 to GCC version 4.7 ? I currently don't have Xcode installed and I am using the command line tool. More details : OS X Version : 10.11.4
I've configured Home sharing to work just fine on my iPad and Apple TV, however for some reason on my phone I get an error pop up saying "You don't have permission to access the requested resource" when trying to play a song. I can view my library just fine, but I cannot play any songs. I've set iTunes to share my entire library which seems fine on the other advices. I've restarted both my phone and PC, and also signed out of home sharing on my phone and signed in again, and also disabled and re-enabled home sharing on my PC. Running the latest version of both iOS and iTunes. Thanks!
I have a MacBook Pro and I share its Ethernet connection to my iPhone and iPad as well as other wireless devices (enabling Internet Sharing in the Sharing preferences). However when I check on my iPhone what DNS it hands out, it shows 192.168.2.1. Should that be? That's not any actual DNS server, that's something local to the network. It's not even the home router, something about the Mac I think.
I texted somebody on iMessage but I think the recipient blocked me. iMessage says it got sent as a normal text. Will that text go to the recipient's phone?
So I have an iPhone 4s and it has the new updates, but the apps stopped working. When I clicked on the app it flashed on the screen but then went back to home screen. I deleted the apps and tried to download them again but when I click the download button it goes to the square in a circle for one or two seconds then goes back to the download logo. I don't want to reset my phone but I don't know what to do. Other than that, my phone is perfect and it's not slow and never freezes.
I want to save some pdfs but whenever I do, it opens automatically in preview and is really annoying. How do I stop it?
To what exactly do I need to change sudoers file to prevent asking for password when I change system time zone? This is the command I am going to run: I know I need to change it, but I feel uncomfortable changing sudoers on my own due to not knowing exactly what I am doing.
I have iOS 9.3.2 but this bug has been bother me for a long time so I'm sure it was present before version 9.3.2. When I'm on the first page of apps on my home screen I swipe to the right to access "Siri Suggestions". I love this feature and use it heavily. But the very first contact seems to be wrong most of the time. It always shows a dude I NEVER communicate with. I've looked through all my texts, e-mails, etc and I have received nothing from him. I have even deleted him from my contacts, restarted my phone, and he still appears as the first suggestion. This usually happens 90% of the time with this one guy but a couple other times another random person I never speak to shows up. What gives?!?! I'm sick of seeing this damn dudes face :)
I find that my passwords are being copied from my "bank" keychain into the login keychain every time I allow Safari to autofill the fields. How can I prevent that?
I am using an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3.2. It happens that Health app doubles step count (and therefore also doubles distance). I know this beacause the amount is too high (about double, I should be running to have >6 km/hour walking speed) and I beacause I tested it (I know the walking distance to my work because of Google) I have checked on Privacy which apps can write walking distance and I switched them off, however everything remains the same.
My 12 year old just got an iPhone. She has an old iPad that she has been using to text. She wants to be able to get texts on both the new iPhone as well as the iPad. Problem is, the iMessages she gets on the iPad are an aol account associated with an old apple ID. A couple years ago, we had to create a new Apple ID for each of our kids to be able to use family sharing. So she has 2 different Apple IDs. Is there a way for her to see texts for both on both devices?
Every time Xcode's launcher opens, I see the icon of a project that has been deleted for ages. I double click it, then the error message appears saying it's no longer in my system, but the icon continues to show up in the launcher. I've already tried: Any ideas?
I've got my iPhone sync my messages to OS X. However, even though my Mac and my iPhone are connected to my perfectly stable home network, OS X is getting messages with a few minutes of delay. All the messages are immediately available on my iPhone while OS X gets them with a huge delay, making it impossible for me to chat with someone on my Mac using Messages. This is happening occasionaly, and is happening for both regular SMS and iMessage.
So everyday, I change the preferences of modifier keys and set my caps lock to be the control key. The very next day, it comes back to being caps lock again.
I have an iMac, and always crashing almost everyday. Can you please point me out to the right direction? Below is the Report after it had crashed. I Have already reverted to factory settings. no software installed, still the same. Upgraded or not to the lasest OS ,same issue. Does anyone know what is the problem? I'm new to iMac, mercy. Thanks in Advance
I have installed Ubuntu on a Mac Mini, everything works great. I'm able to switch back and forth without any problems. After that, I used GParted in Ubuntu to resize the OS X partition. I then create a FAT32 partition from a unallocated partition which was resized in previous step. The result look like this:
I recently got a Mac in addition to my Linux laptop. I've tried to change around settings so that I don't have to use new shortcuts.
I tried using "Remove Hidden Information" on Adobe Acrobat Pro which was able to permanently crop the file. After the process completed, I clicked Save which opened a new Save As prompt. So, I re-saved the document, but the file size grew tenfold. No idea why.
Was using Chrome and WhatsApp on my iPhone 5 when the two apps hanged. Since I was unable to activate multitasking, such as to restart those apps, I tried to lock the phone. However, upon locking my phone, I was unable to unlock the phone. The phone is still switched on, since I can still activate Siri, but the lock screen is pitch black, so I am unable to access my passcode lock screen to unlock the phone. Essentially, my phone is switched on, but is effectively a brick. I am unable to do a hard reset on my phone, since my switch does not work (as a result of being used too often, the wire in the switch has come out of place and renders the switch obsolete).
I know I can trim videos at the beginning or at the end with QuickTime Player — And practically any other video-editing-app. But is there a simple way to cut out parts within a video — say ad-breaks in a tv-recording? I mean, sure, it might be relatively simple to do with iMovie, but than I have to import and export — and that takes some time. Isn't there a simple solution (probably without long re-encodings during import/export) to cut out parts out of mp4-videos? Example: I want to trim the video and cut out the ads, so only the «Movie»-parts remain (as one file).
I want to run a script on all files with two specific extensions on a disk with a hierarchy of multiple nested folders. My script works fine when I choose a folder further down the line with fewer subfolders but I'd like to run it on an entire archive with over a thousand folders. The AppleScript takes forever to get all the files and then exits without returning anything and without executing the operations after getting the files. No timeout message, no error message. And the Finder becomes unresponsive (and remains stuck after the script exits).
I am looking to launch an app within the next few days on the store. I have done this before in the past under a parents name but as I am 17 and will be 18 in a few months wandered whether it would be worth signing up to the program with my own account now.
My MacBook also not detect my external hard disk sometimes. In that case when I shutdown and start the computer, then it detects. I dont understand the cause of this behaviour. This was also not happening when I was using OS X Yesemite. Updata: I have tired this post, but this didn't worked for me
Earlier today, while running Bootcamp attempting to install Windows 7 on my late-2012 iMac, I suddenly lost 160g of disk space after Bootcamp failed to create the partition for Windows. Disk Utility reports that the main Fusion Drive is still 1.1tb, but the only visible partition is Macintosh HD, spanning only 950gb instead of the entire disk (minus the hidden recovery partition). Disk Utility also duly notes that there are only 2 partitions, which I assume to be the main harddrive and the recovery partition: Image *=URL=* diskutil cs list actually shows what happened to the storage (note the free space, which exactly matches what I specified in Bootcamp): Trying to run diskutil cs resizeVolume 933B0D1B-9E56-4DB3-8853-013BE1C2C6E4 0g to give Macintosh HD the remaining space did't work out either: diskutil verifyDisk disk0 ends with the following: gpt -r show gives the following: Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this Free Space back, preferably without needing to wipe my harddri
I have an animated movie in three different languages. The picture is exactly the same for each langauge, only the audio is different. I want to merge all these files into one, so that I have a single video file where I can switch easily between the audio tracks in VLC. Using OS X Yosemite, how can I create such a video file with multiple audio tracks? Although I doubt it's possible, I'd also be open to doing this on iOS.
I'm using FiLMiC to record a 30 minute video. In FiLMiC, I turn the flashlight on and hit the record button. (the iPhone has is the power cord connected). After about 20 minutes the flashlight just turned itself off!
I am trying to write a bash script that needs some identifier of the current active desktop (I want my emacs-clients to connect to different servers depending on the active desktop). I have searched around and I can't seem to find a command that will get this information. Does such a thing exist?
I have a movie on my android external sd card. I would like to transfer it to play on my ipad. What is the simplest way to do this? I have a very slow internet connection but both computers are on the same wireless LAN, if that helps.
As indicated in the screenshot I can't increase the size of the main partition.
I don't want to minimize it (⌘+M) or hide it (⌘+H). I want other windows to be on top of my focused window when I press some shortcut or fire some macro/script/whatever. How can I achieve this?
Specifically, I clicked on the Dropbox icon, went to Preferences -> Account, and changed Dropbox location. It took a while to copy the files. Now, for some weird reason, most of my files are stuck in 'syncing'. I don't understand why it has to sync anything at all, since the files were copied within the hard drive, and no file was modified in the cloud.
I do a lot of website work where I change nameservers for a domain, wait overnight for it to propagate on the host server, then go back to work on the site. Lately, what happens is that I can see the new site at the new location on my iPhone but not on my Mac (OS X 10.11.5), using any browser (Safari, FF, Chrome). This suggests I need to clear my DNS cache. I've tried two different Terminal commands for 10.11+: or
I need to fix an issue with my friends mac, but I do not know his pass, and don't want to have to make up a new one, can I disable it in recovery mode or single user mode, then re-enable it after I've sorted the issue and logged into his account, and have his default pass' restored?
So, I somehow have 40GB worth of applications on my Macbook, but I can't, for the life of me, see what these applications are! I looked in the Applications folder -- there are no apps except the default ones that come installed on the computer. (I made sure to delete the ones I didn't want.) Under About This Mac > System Report > System Information, I can see all these apps installed... but I can't actually uninstall them and they don't show up in my Applications folder.
I have a USB stick encrypted by Windows 7 built-in tool (bitlocker). I would like to open it on my OS X El Capitan. When I open it, all I get is a file "BitLockerToGo.exe" and another "Read Me.url" I found some pieces here and there but no full procedure for mac.
When using the Keychain Access app, I am often unable to delete an Web form password item. I have tried hitting the delete key and going to Edit > Delete. In both cases, nothing happens, there is no error message. I can delete the item if I use the command line version of the tool: If I now redo the search in Keychain Access, the item is gone. I am running El Capitan 10.11.4 (15E65), Keychain Access Version 9.0 (55171.20.2), and
I'd be glad if there's anonye out there to answer some of these questions. Thanks in advance!
So I have this setup: MacbookPro, external DELL monitor and Samsung TV that is connected to Apple TV. I study at home at the moment and use the laptop extensively. Sometimes I play movies to my flatmates via my Mac, but I want to keep the ability to watch my study videos on a Mac too. So for example: Playing a movie via Apple TV and have the audio output on the Samsung TV, at the same time having videos playing on my mac and have the sound coming from the headphones connected directly to my Mac. I have looked at Aggregate Device in Audio MIDI setup on OS X, but I can't seem to figure out how to set it up properly. I hope it is possible to do what I am looking for and I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks
I was using ipod nano and itunes on my previous computer. Now I have new computer with itunes. But when I connect my ipod it doesn't show the sync button. The connection is working, but when I click on Music in itunes it doesn't show me the sync button. There is only a list of all of the music on iPod and I can play it, but I cant delete it or add new music. There is a button edit playlist, but even if I click it I still can't edit the music on my ipod.
In the iOS YouTube app of my phone and iPad both on iOS 9.3, I see this as a menu choice when typing in the comments field. I don't have Chinese languages enabled on my phone or iPad that I know of. What is this button for, and why am I seeing it in YouTube only?
Is there a way to remove the Shut Down option from the login window on Mac OS X (10.11.x) while preserving the ability to restart?
My Apple external German wired keyboard A1243 does not work properly. When I press the space or m, it becomes m (space + m). When I press u it becomes u and sometimes ü. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
I have been messing around with applescript for the last week or so and i'm wondering if its possible to attach applescript to an email somehow so that it runs when the email is opened. It might not be possible but I am just wondering if it is, thanks.
I want it so that if the current date matches the string, it will log "works!". However it doesn't seem to work.
Long story short: a year of computing in the dusty environment of Queensland, Australia has lead to a buildup of a dust "carpet" inside the fan assemblies on my late 2011 MacBook Pro. I ended up successfully removing the right fan assembly and removing the carpet obstructing the airflow. However, the left fan assembly (the exhaust fan) I was unable to remove, due to the screws being stripped. My laptop is running on the hot side, as airflow is not optimal (I can barely feel any air when the fan's RPM is at maximum).
I bought my watch 19 days ago so it's 5 days over the policy. But it froze after the return policy date and I was wondering if they will let me exchange it for a new one. Anyone have answers or experience exchanging a new Apple product after the 14 day period. My watch had a problem after and it's not a lot after the 14 day window so I was wondering if they will still exchange it for me.
I use iCloud backups for long time. When I started out I could easily backup a 128GB iPad Air and a 32 GB iPhone5s to the 5GB of default iCloud storage. I recently switched phone to a 64GB iPhoneSE and now the backup size increased a lot with no apparent reason. Here's a screenshot of how the storage breaks down. It's in German, but I think it's clear. There is about 1GB of app data including photos and the total backup size is 4GB. Before the switch to the new phone it was 2GB total with 1GB app data. What are these 2GB and how can I get rid of them?
Also a partition named Boot OS X seems to be constantly mounted, even after restart, which has not been the case before. Now, I have most of the data backed up, but can I somehow get my partition back without all the hassle? Edit:
I updated to iOS 9.3.2 and now I can't download anything on the App Store. It is always stuck on "loading". I also tried restarting and logging out my Apple ID and it doesn't help at all. I have a stable connection and my brother has an Android device and he can download smoothly so I'm sure that it's not a connection problem and I think the problem here is the new OS update.
I have two pieces of code. One is Applescript and the other a Bash shell script. The shell script needs to run concurrently with the applescript, return some values and then exit. The problem is the shell script's read -p prompt does not pause for user input when called from within applescript using do shell script "/path/to/script.sh". I thought maybe
I've had my MacBook Pro 15" Retina for two years (purchased summer 2014). The last half-year, I have increasingly found myself wanting to turn up the brightness because I find the screen too dark – only to find that it's already at its maximum.
I want to access the localhost of my Mac from my iPad. From my Mac, the address is http://localhost:8888.
I am trying to login to iTunes App Store on my PC but it gives me the error every time "There was an error connecting to Apple ID server". Till now I have. Any Support?
Is it possible to only allow one single application to access the network connection, excluding all other applications from generating network traffic. Streaming video or music locally over the router seems to be interrupted by i.e. Mail, Dropbox, or update services etc. -- Hence, I would like only applications such as iTunes or Spotify to be able to use the network connection exclusively when listening to music or watching a movie...
We know why it is moving: Why does my dock keep moving back to my other monitor? Now, how can we stop it? Some terminal command or even paid software?
I'm looking for a way to have syntax highlighting for my source codes in El-Capitan's QuickLook without installing TextMate. Previously I had TextMate and I got hooked to this feature. Googling this bring some really old posts on web such as: How do I get syntax highlighting of source code files within Quick Look back in Lion? These are not maintained anymore based on their SVN/Git repo:QLColorCode and colorqc2 Surprisingly there are also some people who wants to get rid of syntax highlighting after installing TextMate: Remove Quicklook Syntax Highlighting with TextMate2? Having syntax highlighting is essential for me but I don't want to install a full featured text editor just to use on library of it! My rationale in not installing TextMate on my El-Capitan is that I have RStudio and Atom which are way more customized/customizable than TextMate. I would appreciate any suggestion/solution that is maintained properly, work with el-capitan. Cheers,
How do you change one person's name in a chat? I don't mean group chat, I mean just one person in this chat.
I would like to know if it is possible to add files to iPad (or iPhone), while offline, and be able to read those files in an iPad app. Maybe this is possible by connecting the device to a computer? Or any other means? PS: Need this functionality without jailbreak.
I'm struggling with a problem involving my Finder opening to the incorrect directory every time it is opened. I've deleted the com.apple.plist file located in ~/Library/Preferences several times, I've gone in and manually set the opening directory value to my Documents folder in the plist, but it refuses to obey any changes I make.
I am trying to share a folder with many Numbers files with iCloud, by sharing each file with an AppleScript and saving the path of each shared file so that I can send it to my collaborators. To do that, I use System Events. I got to the point in which I can share the files, but I cannot do something really simple.
So for the past few weeks, my macbook pro (13-inch, Mid 2012, 2.9Ghz intel core i7, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3, intel HD graphics 4000 1024MB, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5) seems to crash randomly with a rapid blue screen and then restarts as if normal. The last time it did this (about ten minutes ago), it produced a panic report as follows. I took it to the apple store today. They plugged in an Ethernet cable and said the hardware was fine within 1 minute. They looked at the panic report and said that the panic report says it is a CPU issue and I might have to replace the logic board. On the other hand, it could be a software issue and I could try updating to el Capitan with a fresh install. So basically they said it's either a software or hardware problem but they can't be sure: what do I do??
We're using Profile Manager on our group of Macs. The System Preferences options are setup as a whitelist. However, the profile manager doesn't know about certain options, so they get blocked by default when I'd like to be able to enable them (Example: Java Control Panel and Wacom Tablet settings). Is there a way to tell Profile Manager that those things exist so that I can enable them (and keep the whitelisting model)?
Lately I've been having lots of issues with my Mac randomly freezing. As in, multiple times per week. These are the symptoms:
I'm having an issue where an older version of Chrome iOS 43 is being updated to do Chrome iOS 50. I think iOS is doing this automatically in the middle of the night. I hadn't touch the iPhone 6 since yesterday afternoon, but this morning I noticed Chrome iOS updated to the latest version. I need to use Chrome iOS 46 or older because Chrome iOS 47 and newer changed over to some different engine. The Data Saver feature is gone and I rely on it to keep my monthly bandwidth allotment in check. There must be a way to restrict updating apps automatically?
So I'm working on a script and I want one of the buttons to open another script file. I have:
I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro running El Capitan (IP: 192.168.1.65) and a newer Macbook Air (~2014) (IP: 192.168.1.71) running El Capitan. Both are connected wirelessly to the same network: a U-Verse router (IP: 192.168.1.254). I have an Okidata MC362W (IP: 192.168.1.78) wired to the U-Verse router. All on a subnet of 255.255.255.0. The Macbook Air can print using CUPS without issue. The Macbook Pro prints OK until it doesn't also using CUPS and the Internet Printing Protocol. Then it will stop seeing the IP address. If I reboot the U-Verse, which takes more than 5 minutes, the Macbook Pro can then usually see the printer again until the same issue comes around 4 or 5 days later. Here's what I've done:
I followed this post to install automake, autoconf and libtool. When I check automake and autoconf versions they look fine. However, when I check libtool's version I get the following however if I run libtool from install folder I get
I am trying to make NONE of my text messages/imessage/sms messages (don't understand the universe of text messaging). I just don't want any of them to appear on the iPad my child sometimes uses. I've seen other answers to this kind of question mention going to the iPhone to SETTINGS / MESSAGES / TEXT FORWARDING but I don't find that on my iPhone 6 that is running with current IOS software. Can somebody tell me EXACTLY where it is located so I can make sure to turn off all that needs to be turned off. THANK YOU!
I just downloaded Brackets (web development IDE) and it associated lots of unnecessary file formats like .json that I would normally open using Sublime. Is there any way I can remove all file associations with Brackets and assign them to Sublime or at least, to TextEdit?
I have recently been getting a "No hardware installed" error when I click on my wifi. I have tried resetting the SMC, resetting PRAM, reattaching the cables in the electronics of the computer. Now I am stuck for solutions and I think maybe I need to get a new wifi cable? It is a Macbook Pro 15" early 2011 running OSX El Capitan.
I cannot update my MacBook Pro 13-inch Mid 2012 to El Capitan and it is driving me crazy. At the moment I'm using OS X 10.8.5 and everything on my laptop is going slow etc.
I created a folder and put some files there. She can see but cannot modify the folder, can't save anything.
Is there any way to leave dictation mode with a voice command, without having to press the done button in iOS 8 or above?  I use the built in speech recognition program.
I understand that the more you like certain music tracks, recommendations will be provided. I'm wondering about the Radio specifically. Are the radio stations also influenced by your likes? Similarly to how Pandora works?
I want to create an AppleID account in iTunes/Apple Music. iTunes forces me to provide a credit card. There is an option to select the country of my credit card. I have two cards issued in different countries and currently reside in third country. My question is: does Apple consider my country to be the country of my credit card, and will all the restrictions and media of that particular country be applied? UPD:
I am sure this can be automated with ‘automator’ but don’t know anything about it. Just managed to create a service that has the resolution pre-selected so at least I skip one pop-up.
I have an iMac I use everyday, and a MacBook Pro I use when I'm not at home. I use a lot of softwares, and I have customized the icons of them. Every time I install a new app, or I change the icon of one of the existing ones, I have to do the same with the other computer. This is pretty annoying, so, I was wondering if there is a software that let me backups my custom icons and apply them to another Mac when I need. I have found LiteIcon which seems to do a good job in simplifying the icons management, but it lacks an "export" and "import" feature, so it's pretty useless to me. Is there any alternative to achieve the result?
I am trying to enable the preview show option on my iphone 4s but it is disabled, I was wondering if there is anyway to enable it? Thanks
Today I was walking using my iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3 as a pedometer and it shutdown. When I got home and plugged it in, it said 30% capacity.
I use Messages on my Mac as well as my iPhone. Whenever I log into my Mac, notifications pop up for each Message I've received since the last time I logged in, even though I've already checked them on my iPhone. How can I prevent this? I like having new message notifications appear, but it's annoying to see the whole day's message history every time I log in..!
I'm trying to figure out how to use my Apple keyboard at times instead of the mouse. What keys do I press for the following shortcut?
I have a monitor picking up changes in netstat -s errors. Here is a typical block, it shows protocol:#packets previous_count > now_count error_message:
Can I wake up an iPhone/iPad by double tapping the screen without hacking/installing Cydia?
I have a calendar event set to open an application at an early time. However during this time, my Mac is at sleep. Will the calendar wake the Mac to open the application? If not, how can I make it so that it will do that?
I have a task in automator to make my backup, it runs shell script code, lot of code is working well but the unmount command doesn't works, I don't get unmount the unit after backup. I checked to run my command successfully from terminal, It unmounts my drive well, all fine, but when It runs from my bash script in automator It doesn't unmounts the unit, no errors, it runs well, but it doesn't unmount. :( My command used is: sudo diskutil unmountDisk disk3; I have try with and without sudo, and I have the same problem. I have tried diskutil eject command and same thing, it unmounts the unit typing it at hand from terminal, but from my automator shell script code it doesn't. Any idea is very welcome.
My iMac suddenly stopped booting, failing to mount the disk at boot. Running diskutil repair fails with this error: Such error is quite weird considering it was JUST reading information from that filesystem. How can I fix my disk and recover my files? Edit: More diskutil output:
My system: OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, Python 2.7.11, IPython 4.2.0 (Jyputer), Macbook Air 2013-Mid. I would like to have Internet browser frontend for my LaTeX source codes. In my Jupyter, there is no .tex viewer, only downloading the .tex file when clicking it. You can view .py, .txt, .md, .log, .toc, .aux, .synctex.gz, .bbl and .blg files there currently. But not .tex and .sh.
I got this error trying to sync from my Macbook Pro (OSX Yosemite, 10.10.5) to my iPhone SE: iTunes could not copy "The Song Remains the Same" to the iPhone "Dan's Phone" because an unknown error occurred (-5000).
System: El Capitan OS X 10.11.5, Python 2.7.11. I am trying to setup Python 3.x in my IPython Notebook by following the thread here. I run pip install conda where conda i.e. Anaconda but I get
I install numpy by sudo -H pip install numpy. I run the test code but I get
I just make dual boot on my macbook pro with linux fedora. when I enter linux on refind menu, it says "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". I know this question has been everywhere and I tried to fix it but no success. I spend two days already just to figure out why the hell I cannot enter my linux on mac. I reinstall again and again fedora but I just don't know what is going on. please help me.
I love Dterm but it is no longer maintained. Is there an alternative? I also use Alfred's term launcher and iTerm but those are not as efficient for context sensitive one liners.
After migrating the entirety of a a Backups.backupdb to a new hard drive as recommended by Apple by simply copy-pasting within Finder between two local disks, Time Machine encountered an interesting issue. Though it successfully used the new disk to backup whilst recognizing the old backups, instead of creating another incremental backup (as expected normally), it instead created a full backup. As a result, the old backups were deleted from the new drive to make room for the full backup (I still have the original drive and all of its data.) This is not the desired result for me, as I would like to keep my old backups.
I am creating a bash script to unmount my usb drive after the backup is done. To unmount the drive I use the command:
I recently bought a Corsair Force LE 240GB SSD and tried to do a net recovery on a macbook pro A1278 (MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 with i5) to the latest El Capitan, but for some reason, this is only possible if it is connected via USB (as an external drive). As soon as it is connected internally instead of the standard HDD, it does not show up in disk utility and can't be used as startup disk or location to where the OS should be installed. I cloned the working version of my HDD to the SSD, but when it is booting internally from the SSD (which now has a working version of Mac OS X on it), it freezes as soon as the progress bar reached 100%. It sits there for over an hour (I canceled it at that point always). Booting from the same drive externally boots into a clean working version of El capitan without any problems.
What's the simplest way to format a USB stick and write some video files to it in order for the Samsung TV to read it? As far as I know Samsung TVs support the FAT format (or maybe ExFAT too), but if I format the USB to FAT then I can't seem to be able to write to it (or even see it in Finder). PS: I don't have access to a Windows machine
I have Mac OS X version 10.5.7 so I downloaded Xcode version 4.6.3 and launched it. According to many tutorials (such as this) I am supposed to install further command line tools via terminal: xcode-select --install But all I get is a little manual page: I went into the Applications directory and tried to run the command from there, but the same outcome. In fact, the content of my Applications directory revealed through the following command is strange: What am I missing or doing wrong?
I have certain documents stored on a password protected disk image stored on Dropbox. Since the documents are small text documents, I made the image small (100 MB). But now I'm getting the following message when I save a document: The document “foo.tex” is on a volume that is too small to support permanent version storage. You will not be able to access older versions of this document once you close it.
All of my music in iTunes is gone. I upgrade to version 12.4.0.119 from the previous version. After I rebooted all of the music and custom playlists are gone in iTunes. All of the media files are available on my hard drive and iTunes is pointed at this folder. Is there an .xml file that I may need to move to another directory in order for iTunes to look in the appropriate place to 'see' the music and playlist files/db? I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this machine. I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this machine. I have no other issues with other applications. I have no other issues with other applications. My event log is clean. My event log is clean. I synch iTunes to an iPhone 5S. I synch iTunes to an iPhone 5S. All of my music and playlists on the phone are not affected by the issue as far as I can see. All of my music and playlists on the phone are not affected by the issue as far as I can see.
There is 1 calendar, that shows only birthday dates from contacts on iphone/mac OS. But if 1 contact has several dates (e.g. jubilee, birthday of kids or other important dates) that i want to be shown in calendar on iphone or mac OS. How can it be done? And can it? Thanks.
I already know about Arq, which is a great backup tool that works with ACD. I.e., it turns ACD into a CrashPlan-like backup service. What Arq doesn't do is backup your photos in a way that Amazon knows to display them as photo albums online.
It seems to be true, that I have to build a new app-version for only adding a new picture in the appstore. So my App has the same code, but a new version and I don't know what to write in the update text for the users. Its stupid to write "I uploaded a new picture, thats why you guys have to upgrade the app ". Is this just a design glitch again from Apple, or is there a real reason for that ?
So I was wondering, if I turn on grayscale, will it consume or reduce battery usage? I want to know because if my phone battery is low I want to keep it running as long as possible.
I never purchased any music and am not subscribed to iTunes Match. Everything in settings is set to "no" or "off". I have unwanted, unpurchased music and want to get it off my iPhone. However, I have two audiobooks, sync'd through iTunes from my computer, that I do not want to lose. I have to ask Seri to open them, because I have no Audiobook section and can't find them otherwise.
I don't know since when, but I believe from some update of El Capitan, this annoying sidebar preview on the right comes up everytime I open a new Finder window. If I hide it using the mouse, it stays hidden in the current window but re-appears when I open a new window. The sidebar on the left is all fine, showing items as it does normally. Logically speaking, when I have switched to the preview window option and I already see items at the top, why would I need a second one at the right?
I would like to build a 'Service' for selected text which: Get the currently selected text Creates an Calendar event adds the selected text as a 'note' for that Calendar event
I have a 13 inch Macbook Pro. I don't have any recovery discs or backup and the hard drive has been completely formatted to remove any Apple partitions. I think the macbook is probably registered to me if that makes any difference. I previously downloaded El Capitan and tried to install via bootable USB method but received a cryptic message (El Capitan cannot be installed on this computer, or something like that).
During development and debugging I have changed permissions of various files and folders using chown and chmod on my local system (I didnt maintain the list of changes). Now that I have fixed the issue, i fear of security consequences. Any way I could restore the default permissions and/or find vulnerabilities in terms of network security or other potential loop holes that might create due to my changes.
System: El-Capitan 10.11.5. Finder details of Dropbox folder
I am downloading OSX El Capitan through AppStore and it runs already 10 hours. I have downloaded 1,5 GB so far. I fear I can't work next week because of this slow download process. I need it because of the new XCode.
Big HD in ntfs. Both systems should be able to read it. However, possible conflicts with Linux permissions.
I have a 13" Early-2015 MBP Retina in which I am trying to install Windows 8.1 on. When I went into bootcamp, I received the ever so common error of:
I have a Mac running OS X Lion (10.7.5) and it is running server tools with Open Directory serving logins etc. To update to Yosemite, can I just update to the higher OS X version and then buy the newer Server.app and it will pick up the previous server settings?
I dont seem to have iPhoto on my Mac and can't find a link to download it, only to update it.
I typed a URL in Safari to check whether a domain name had been registered or not, and was redirected to this page:  (here I made the test with "*=URL=* a random string of letters and a domain I believe no one owns). The URL I was redirected to is: I couldn't find much recent information about this website, and I definitely never gave my computer access to this service knowingly. I can see that the home page has a "settings" link:
Is there anyway to invert left and right in iOS, such that the phone looks as it would in a mirror? (Yes all text would be backward, this is a desired effect.) Not just a specific app that displays itself in reverse, but a system-wide effect like inverting colours. It would probably not be a generally sought feature, one that apple would likely implement itself, but perhaps a third-party app exists?
I'm toggling a Mission Control setting with defaults write but the Dock doesn't see the change without restarting via killall Dock. How can I get the Dock to read the updated plist settings without killing it? The setting is stored in the com.apple.dock plist, this is the command to update it (toggling the boolean):
I just got back from a ride where other people had odometers on their bike. They read 26 km. My iPhone's HealthKit said 7.8 km of walking and running. Is HealthKit just not useful for biking, or is there some way to get it to recognize biking?
When I hold down the home button I can usually ask Siri a question and she will reply with an answer to web results. Now, it's as if the microphone is not working and after a few seconds my voice doesn't register and gives me suggestions on what to ask Siri. I tested using microphone using voice memo and that works fine. There are no obstructions on the microphone area. I tried: Turning off Bluetooth Trying with wifi and LTE Turn Siri off, power off, and turn Siri back on Tried turning on dictation and dictation off resetting all settings using reset option I also noticed I can't dictate on the standard English keyboard
My understanding of a .DS_Store file is that is contains details that describe a folder and the files within that folder. Based on that description, I can think of a few uses from being able to read a .DS_Store file. My question: Is there any form of a tool or program that would allow for the reading/examination of a .DS_Store file? Follow up question: If there's not a tool, can anyone explain to me the syntax of the file?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), and when I open it up, I still notice a certain smell, which I associate with the aluminum somehow. I wouldn't describe it as the same as the new Mac smell which gets so much press. What could be the source of the smell? Aluminum in itself does not have an odour.
The next panel shows that I've chosen Flickr (but the situation is identical if I instead choose iCloud photos).  After the Apple TV has been idle for 2 minutes the screen saver starts. Sometimes it shows 1 image from Flickr then immediately goes into a loop showing the National Geographic photos. Sometimes it shows Flickr photos for ~5 minutes before showing National Geographic.
Recently I've been seeing emojis under the frequently used section that I've never even used before. Is it possible I'm seeing my husbands frequently used emojis on my phone somehow?
I want to add some aliases to my OSX command line environment for easier navigation when in the root prompt (sudo su to root). On the Bourne Again Shell (/bin/bash), I can edit /var/root/.bash_profile. But with the Bourne Shell (/bin/sh), what script do I edit for that?
I'm trying to sort files on an external server using custom tags, however spotlight doesn't seem to recognise the custom tags. It works successfully with the standard OSX tags (i.e. red, yellow, blue etc.), just not with custom tags. Does anyone know why? (I'm using OSX 10.10.5)
So, my iPhone 6 fell in a pool and will not turn on. I tried plugging it in but somehow the charger port (like where you plug the charger in) is deformed or something because the charger will only go in about halfway. I'm sure this makes the usual methods of data recovery a bit more complicated. Is it possible to still recover my photos?
is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available with a Mac mini with i7, 16go ram and the iris graphics card? Thanks.
My system is OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I copied from my OS X Extended filesystem to FAT32 about 30 Gb files by Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V. Now, I received a proposal to do it by cp -R. I am wondering how different it is from the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. How is cp -R different from Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V?
How can I see a list of programs/services that have the ability to record my keyboard history? My goal is to prevent programs from recording my keyboard history without root privilege. I cannot seem to find any Apple's documentation on its security policies. References are also appreciated.
I am thinking about getting a used non-retina iMac with these specs: Since I own two Apple 27" Displays I'd like to hook these up via Thunderbolt/MDP.
I got myself this WD 2TB USB3 external harddrive for backups: *=URL=* I connected it to the USB 3.0 port of my mid 2015 Macbook Pro 15". When I run Time Machine, it really takes veeeery long for the backup (about 10-20 hours for a 350 GB initial encrypted backup).
Is it possible to configure Mac, so I will be able to switch to English keyboard with Alt+Shift?
How do you 'clear filters' in excel in office 365 for mac using the keyboard? On PC I can do alt+d,f,s or using the mouse I can go to Data > Filter > Clear
This is my current partition map: It's the result of previously having a Bootcamp partition, which I've removed using diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" "Free Space" disk0s4 (after first backing it up as an image to external storage).
How can I delete all cached/offline email from the Mac OS 'Mail' program on my SSD in Mac OS El Capitan? I have 2 Gmail accounts and an Exchange account for work. I'm running out of room on my 256GB SSD, so I need to clear out any/all data that I can.
Recently I'm facing random unexpected shutdown on rMBP mid-2014. I've clean installed the Yosemite with clean user and issue still continues. Apple online support suggested to work on Safe Mode and it didn't shutdown.
When I used to connect my iPhone 3G with the computer (via a non-original USB cable), it used to work and iTunes could read the phone. I decided to revamp the phone and jailbreak it since it was on stock OS (iOS 4.2.1), so I send it to someone to do the work. The phone came with Cydia installed (with a couple of games), however, since then, my computer cannot read the iPhone at all, even as a hardwared connected to the USB port.
brew doctor says 'Your system is ready to brew.' Upon installing with homebrew : I always get the following error :
On El Capitan (10.11.4) I somehow got into a state where using the key combination shift+option+key outputs accented or special characters. For example shift+option+k :  shift+option+j : Ô
I write a maintenance script with different commands. the script has sudo commands inside.
I have my home network listed as highest priority in my list of Wifi networks, and my Karma Go (like a Mifi) listed way down the list, and yet I very frequently discover that I'm using my Karma Go when I'm at home and my home network is available and working just fine. How can I get my Mac to work properly and always choose the higher-priority network over the lower-priority network?
Lately, I've noticed the process icdd is using up about 50 MB (doesn't seem like much unless you only have 2000 to spare). According to Activity Monitor, it's from Image Capture, but I don't use that program, and there is no image-related activity that requires daemon activity on my computer as iPhoto's preference on what to do with a camera is set to "do nothing" and I don't use Image Capture or iPhoto —ever— on this laptop.
I am using an Canon print workstation to send files to OS X. Unfortunately OS X El Capitan uses SMB3. It's no longer possible to send files scanned PDF files to OS X. How can I switch back to SMB1 for the OS X El Capitan SMB file service? Update: The command isn't correct.
I've been running a MacBook Pro with OS X Yosemite and dual booting with Linux, and I would like to upgrade to OS X El Capitan. However, I'm afraid that upgrading would break the ability to dual boot. How can I proceed safely with the upgrade?
I use Little Snitch as a Mac OS firewall. Usually, it's fairly clear to me what needs to connect to the internet and what doesn't. However, I can't figure out what akd is or does, and why it needs to connect to gsa.apple.com.akadns.net:
2015 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8gb ram MBP and it usually feels snappy but when I plug in my external Samsung HDMI display it slows down considerably. Animations are janky, delays in editing text, and overall feels sluggish. Looking at the activity monitor there is no spike in CPU usage or memory or anything. Any ideas?
I uploaded files and folders to iCloud from several external drives that have some of the same files and folders. There are very are many duplicates in iCloud now. I need to conserve space in iCloud and make the iCloud files and folders quicker to scroll through, so I would like to know how to remove the duplicates once they are in iCloud.
I used to use my iPad to crop JPEG's from camera roll, and auto enhance them, etc. It occurred to me that since the photos from iOS's camera app are JPEGs, it would be hard to edit them without losing quality. Is that the case? How much quality loss is there when editing photos in the native iOS app?
I am subscribed to Apple Music, and I also have a store credit from gift cards. Will my monthly subscription subtract from my store credit or charge my credit card?
I am using my notes app on OSX 10.11.5 and iOS 8. For the most part, things are working, but I am noticing that many of my older notes are not searchable. When I type something in the search box, these older notes do not appear in search results even if there is a match. However, if I edit a note or create a new one, it is fully searchable.
I use the VPN client Tunnelblick to redirect all the traffic to my VPN. However, if Tunnelblick is down, or while it's connecting to my VPN at startup, my trafic is not redirected to my VPN. This is not an acceptable solution to me, and I would like to know how I can ensure that either my traffic is redirected to my VPN, or I can't connect to the internet. Useful information: I am using Tunnelblick 3.6.3; My computer is running OS X 10.11.5, El Capitan; I control the server, and am using OpenVPN, but I can accept to change to another software to solve my problem.
I'm embarrassed to admit I don't understand how iTunes works despite having a mac for 6 years. How can I clean out my music folder (iTunes media) and then get iTunes to update? I've made substantial changes, so I don't mind just reloading the library if that's what I should do.
Can I use an iPhone 4s power cable to charge any other mobile device? Do any other mobile devices have a power connector similar to the iPhone 4s?
I have a problem with Mail in OS X El Capitan (10.11.5). If I archive messages from my Inbox, go to another folder, then back to my Inbox, the messages are there again. Quitting mail and starting it again doesn't solve this.. I rebuilt the mail database by deleting the Envelope Index files from /Users//Library/Mail/V3/MailData/, but that didn't solve the problem either. Any suggestions? Thanks, Richard ps I know there's a comparable thread on this forum, but it's specifically about Mail on the iPhone and Gmail.
I often use Google docs, and have to switch between Windows and OSX as well. I setup App Shortcuts (All Applications) in the keyboard preferences so that Control+C is for copy, Control+Z is for undo etc. They work well on most applications, and copy pasting from normal HTML sites to say, the Notes application works with these applications.
In the screenshot below, can someone tell me please how to shift the main text area to the left?  From the ruler, one can see the text begins at about 6.7 cm. Changing Document Margins from the default 2.12 cm to 0 cm helps, but still a long way from 2 cm. No adjustment of text columns, tabs and indents proved fruitful. Similar in nature to How to move "section"/change "section" margin in Pages but this one is tougher — not even an Apple Support rep knew how to get around it other than to use "Convert to Page Layout" which removes body text altogether. Thanks to anyone's efforts to solve the mystery.
I'm using iPhone 6. Sometimes when I answer a phone call, there's no sound. Only when I answer again or call back can I hear the voice. Does anyone else have the same problem? Do you know the reason?
Apple publishes the iOS version distribution across all devices:  Is there a way to see the iOS version distribution for a given app that I have published?
When I copy and paste a file in Windows, the last inserted file is selected automatically in the destination folder. Then I can (for example) press F2 to rename it.
Late last week I started noticing that I can't delete emails from either Junk or Trash folders in my Mail program. In addition the Mail program seems to run very slowly when sending emails and I cannot quit it and have to force quit.
I have been trying to download the new version of El Capitan and use UniBeast to create a bootable USB. However, every time I download El Capitan from the App Store, it takes 2 hours to download the 6 GB content.
I'm looking for a way to sync my Outlook calendar (Exchange) with iCloud or with Google Mail (one way, only from Outlook to server). The reason is that I'd like to make the calendar available to others without forcing them to use Outlook for Mac. Is there a tool or technique to achieve this?
At one time my Messages app showed text and the text field where I would type my messages but suddenly it has disappeared. How do I correct this? I've tried changing the contrast and the display settings and nothing has helped. Also it is hard to see fields where I might enter names or info. In other windows as I use the computer (although the problem has just recently occurred I did change the monitor recently as well).
I want to upgrade my iPhone 4s from iOS 7 to iOS 9.0.2 without iTunes, because iTunes has an unsolved error during restore: Error 3194. I followed the link to try to fix error 3194, but the error remains.
I have a MacBook Air a1369 running IOS 10.11.4 with a 1.7 ghz i5 processor. I use the Mac fine, but after about 30 to 40 minutes of usage, and I put it to sleep, after it wakes, the trackpad and keyboard are unresponsive. Only the power buttons work. However, if I connect an external keyboard and mouse, then work perfectly (I'm actually writing this question with my external keyboard. I also get a Bluetooth setup assistant pop up window asking me if I want to connect a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. additional information> Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: Some other findings:
I have the tip of a headphone jack stuck in the headphone socket in a brand new iPhone SE. I went to Apple looking for a repair and they said that it wasn't repairable and that I'd have to spend £200 (~$290) on a replacement.
How can I enable TSX on my Mac? The furthest I got was by trying to add a kext that would enable me to r/w to the model-specific register but I can't install non signed kexts on my Mac. Any alternatives?
In this MacWorld article it shows a screenshot of Health.app with a section for medications but I can't find it in my Health.app. Was this functionality moved or removed at some point?
I am using Numbers '09. I defined (and saved within My Templates) a template of a very basic table format where all cells are formatted with Palatino:
I am only able to mount the NTFS partition. The Ext4 partitions appear in Disk Utility, but nothing happens when I try to mount them. What can I do to access them?
When I'm typing a list, I very often want additional newlines between some (or all) of the items to provide some clearer separation. In many apps that allow lists, you can type Alt+Enter or Command+Enter to add a newline without adding a new list item. However, this doesn't seem to work in Notes. Is there something similar for the Notes app so that I can add newlines in the middle of a list without creating a new list item?
The bug mentioned in this question continues: Spotlight search on iOS 9 returns no results. I've tried Sending myself an e-mail (yes really; this occasionally works for a few minutes) Toggling off all entries in the settings for Spotlight (takes forever) Restarting Rebooting Toggling contacts on and off (suggested in several places, at least of iOS 8) Re-enablining only Contacts in Spotlight search settings (said to work for iOS8) All of the above in every possible pairwise combination
I ran a Java applet, and it used over 200% of my CPU....  It actually rose to over 400% after I took the screenshot.
To get location based reminders to work, are bluetooth and wifi required to be enabled or just bluetooth?
I wanted to upgrade my iPhone 5 to a higher capacity 2680mAh battery, but when I installed it the Apple flashes on and off and the phone will not turn on. I had to reinstall the old battery. Any solutions?
I have an iCloud account and there are my phone and a macbook which not belongs to me. I removed it from Apple ID and settings in iCloud, but it is still in Find my iPhone. I only able to erase this macbook. Is there a way to just deatache it from my account without erasing data?
I'm looking for recommendations as to which type of filesystem formatting I should use. I started out with exFAT and felt like it was a little sluggish, so I switched it to OSX Extended (non-Journaled) and I'm not seeing much of a difference. From what I could find, some people said that using Journaled with a Micro SD card might cause too many writes and could wear out the life of the Micro SD card.
It seems like a recent update to Mac Outlook 2016 broke the formatting of replying inline. Up until recently (the last 2-3 weeks) when I would reply with inline questions/comments, it would separate my edits from the indented, original email. Now, I don't see it creating this separation; my edits just blend in (with the same level of indentation) as the original message. Am I crazy, am I missing an option in the preferences menu to fix this myself, or is this actually a regression that other people are seeing as well?
Is there a way to keep the application Dock closed. Every time I do:
I made an alias earlier today that I saved in my .bash_profile. The alias was called date. I had momentarily forgotten that date is already a native command on OS X (and Linux) in /bin. I removed the alias that I had saved, but now, to use the date command, I have to type /bin/date instead of just date. How can I fix this?
I've installed iTunes on PC and have registered with Apple Music. I've started playing an album. But most of the songs are just not being played. Only one-three songs for an album are playable. What kind of issue with iTunes/Apple/Apple Music is that? How to force iTunes to play them? Here are screenshots of the difference. A song that is playable has a grey color slider:
If I repair permissions twice in a row, without launching any apps or processes while I do this, the results are almost the same:  Why is it that the second time around, the problems seem to be encountered again?
I recently came across a folder in my computer called "History" with over 30 000 (!!) files. It seems that Safari was collecting a copy of every website I visit (probably to display it in the "history" menu...).
Is there a quick way to check in terminal that the terminal command pwd returns the correct capitalization of the path? Note that if you do cd ~/desktop then pwd would tell you that your path is /Users/foo/desktop rather than the correct /Users/foo/Desktop.
I have a MacBook Pro and work with different external monitors. The monitors have a keyboard and a mouse attached. Frequently the MacBook does not recognize the USB devices in the display and the keyboard and mouse do not function. I have to reboot. Is there a way to reset the USB system without rebooting?
It has been asked how to customize the backup schedule of Time Machine, but the solutions in the answers only seem to work in releases of OS X that weren’t “rootless”, i.e. before 10.11 El Capitan (or was it 10.10 already?). The recommended tool Time Machine Scheduler also doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2013. Is there a solution to adjust the backup intervals for current (2015+) versions of OS X?
I have an Apple Watch Sport. Today I tried using a car port to charge my Watch. However, it does not work. I used the same charger and port yesterday and it worked fine. Why is my Apple Watch not charging?
Is there a way that I can get the iPhone 5S (without SIM, in Airplane Mode with WiFi on) to behave like an iPad and use the cellular connectivity of my iPhone 6S via Continuity over WiFi, so that I can also make cellular calls and send/receive SMS/MMS messages on the 5S (WiFi only) when the iPhone 6S is nearby? Or are the incoming calls really the only possibility in this case?
I am trying to use Kiwi for Gmail as my default email reader (for example, when wanting to share a link via email, I want Kiwi to open up, rather than the Mail application by Apple). In the Kiwi preferences, it says to use the application Mail to change the default email client:
History: Running an iMac late 2011 and updated the OS to Yosemite when the computer stopped booting. I have a history of killing HDD so I figured it was a bad HDD and I went to change the drive. Before I changed the drive I wanted to try and recover some of the files and using my Macbook I set the iMac in Targeted disk mode and I was able to access the drive and copy some of the files. Due to the length go time it took I shut down the computer and tried to pick up where I left off on the next day. This time target disk mode did not work. Since I had copied most of the important stuff I decided to change the drive and try and clone the the drive if it would spin up.
If an iPhone's frequent location service doesn't record a visited location because it was only visited once, will it show that the phone didn't go anywhere at all? For instance...if the phone was home before and after visiting the one location will it show that the phone was home for the entire time or will it show a gap in the time spent at home?
I've disabled automatic checking for Java updates the Java Control Panel, but my changes are always ignored, as I can confirm by checking the control panel after making and saving my changes:  How do I really disable automatic checking for Java updates?
Python (and other languages) can use a requirements file to specify a list of packages to install. Is it possible to use a requirements file for homebrew?
I've cracked my iPhone 5 and the touch screen no longer works. Is there any way I can load my photos onto my laptop without getting the screen fixed? My computer runs the latest Windows and its a ThinkPad if this helps.
I'm using a 13" (late 2011) MacBook Pro and it has been getting so hot that I cannot use it on my lap, even when barely any applications are running. I have checked Activity Monitor and there are no applications taking up significant Memory or CPU power. The heat is concentrated on the upper left corner of the body, around the power inlet. I have noticed some bending of the body in the same area. Having had a swollen battery before I suspected the same thing might be happening again (as sometimes—though very rarely—the battery is not recognized). However, the location of the battery is not the location of the deformation. What could be the cause of all this and how could I try to reduce the heat and (if there is a connection) reduce further deformation? EDIT: Here's a picture of the area affected by the mysterious deformation
I have an original iPad. I cannot upgrade it anymore because the newer OS's do not work with an original iPad. Unfortunately, I get incessant upgrade notifications. Is there any way to turn these off?
Is there a way to replicate an email bounce / redirect using Office 365 hosted email using either the OWA web app or Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac? Basically, some subset of emails that get sent to me need to be sent to another distribution list. I want to be able to automate sending some of my mail (but not all of it) to another address. When outlook forwards the message, it's now from me instead of from the sender which messes up replies and actions based on who sent the mail. Eudora used to tack on "via person who redirected" to the subject line and Apple's Mail app has a Redirect menu option that is disabled when connected to Office365 mail servers so I'm guessing this might be a configuration issue or banned by Outlook entirely. Is there any sort of rule or workaround that would enable me to redirect some messages when needed?
First-off, let me preface this question by stating that I know nothing to very little about computers, especially Apple computers. That being said, I have a MacBook Pro A1278 model. About a month ago, smoke started coming out of the top row of keys on the keyboard (not good at all - that much I do know); so, I powered it down. Then it would not power up at all. This morning, I tried plugging in the adapter and, lo and behold, it started to fire up. However, the progress bar only moves about a third of the way across before it shuts down again. It does this whether or not the adapter is plugged in or not, so I am thinking that it is not the adapter or the battery. If I continue to hold down the power button, it was going into my Desktop. However, as soon as I release it, within about 2 seconds, it shuts down again. Also, now when I continue to hold the power button down, it only makes it about halfway and then shuts off again.
A friend of mine offered to download a program for me onto my Mac, but he asked to see what version I'm running beforehand. When he saw that I was running Yosemite 10.10.1 he said I would have to change some things around in terminal for the crack to work. He sent me a link to a video which told me how to change the version number in terminal to 10.5, I did so despite my lack of knowledge on terminal, stupidity at its finest. Almost immediately after, none of my applications were available, not even terminal. I tried restarting my Mac and I hadn't been able to boot since. I can't reinstall OS X because it says the item is temporarily unavailable. Nothing in Disk Utility makes a difference, at least not from what others online have said. I've tried some of the terminal instructions others have posted online, but the commands "sudo" and "nano" cannot be found and that always seems to hinder the process. I ran out of ideas as soon as reinstalling OS X didn't work out. Please, please help 
So I need to setup a bootloader which has (hd1,gpt2) and (hd1,gpt4) in the same table. I may still have refind but not sure, because Ubuntu probably replaced it. Problem: ls (hd1,gpt2)/ gives
After reinstalling the operating system (OS X EL Capitan) I can't open video files in .mov format. I can open them using VLC but I can't open them in QuickTime and Adobe Premiere - what could be wrong? Maybe I need some codecs?
Is there a way to switch between windows by typing a portion of the target window's name? (like doing Spotlight search but for windows) I frequently have many windows open, and CMD-Tab & friends, and graphical utilities like Witch really don't cut it. I am looking for something analogous to the Emacs iswitch. *=URL=* apparently used to do this (and much more) in prior versions of OSX.
I'm trying to set a keyboard shortcut for "Right Size This Column" in Finder. I've tried setting it under Keyboard > Shortcuts in System Preferences, but this does nothing.
Friend woke up today to find only 15 of his 9000+ emails in his Gmail Inbox. Have confirmed on iPhone and Gmail website that for whatever reason, these emails are gone -- they don't show up in "All Mail" and they aren't int the trash.
I have 2 Macs (one MacBook Pro and one iMac). I made a copy of the installer on a USB drive and then installed El Capitan on MacBook Pro. Now I want to use the drive to install El Capitan on the iMac. How can I do it without losing my data on iMac?
This is very annoying. Why does my bluetooth Magic Mouse not work on the login screen (although the Bluetooth Magic Keyboard works) but after logging in, the mouse suddenly starts working?
So my macbook pro (2012 Intel i5 6gb ram), has been starting up to the prohibitory sign. This sign will kinda sway back and forth between the apple symbol and the prohibitory sign. Every once in a while it will stick at the Apple Logo and turn on. I have reinstalled the OS, reset the NVRAM, and pretty much everything else I could think to check, including hardware diagnostic checks.
This afternoon I attempted to mount a .iso of Windows 7 to a bootable USB drive. It's about 370GiB, so more than enough to store it. I did the following to get myself into this mess. Note,/sda/disk2 is the right disk. After that, I was left with a disk that was reformatted to look like this:
EDIT: I am seeing the same problem in other networks connecting via afp://. I have no issues connecting to the same machines via RDP, or VNC. It's just a file sharing issue, and it's not relegated just to Windows servers. EDIT 2: I have noticed also that there are no devices displaying under the Network sidebar tab, even though there are dozens of known devices on our network, and these devices are displaying fine on other Macs.
In Internet Accounts, I see my iCloud account alright, but under it, "Notes" is not checked, and I cannot change that (the whole UI element is disabled):  I tried re-entering iCloud password several times, but I don't see a way to make these settings editable. Also went to icloud.com but didn't see an option for this there either. Any ideas? OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
I tried essentially the same trick to eliminate the second login: I made the FileVault 2 credentials match the account credentials. On one computer, this worked: I can now log in to this computer via a single typing of credentials. But on another computer, this did not work: all credentials are the same, yet it takes two logins to get in.
iCloud won't accept my password even after going to iTunes and restoring data from iPhone. I cannot use my phone to call or receive calls. I have the iPhone 4S. What can I do?
I have two macs, one running Mavericks and one running El Capitan. Most of the users on both of the machines have their home directory in an external server connected by NFS. When I try to launch Terminal.app from a user with a remote home directory, it doesn't start up. When I try to remove an item from the dock, the dock freezes and I can't do anything until I log out and then log back in again. What is causing these issues, and how can I fix them?
OS X assesses my battery as "normal" under System Information > Power. I understand that at some point this is going to change to some kind of "we recommend you replace the battery" message. I am wondering if I can see this coming. Coconut battery reports that 'current capacity' / 'design capacity' is 96%.
In my home directory, there are two files called ._Desktop and ._Library. They have read and write permissions, but cannot be read, even with root.
Is there a way to reset terminal tab name (iTerm on osx or gnome-terminal on ubuntu) after exiting mc? It remains with mc title. Same thing after exiting ssh session - tab title shows remote hostname.
I have a small bit of a problem. My girlfriends Apple ID is currently linked to her school issue iPad and her personal iPhone. After awhile of iMessaging back and forth on the iPad, my iMessages will no longer go through on her phone and never give the delivered tag. However, I can message everyone else and even receive her iMessages; the only thing I cannot do it reply to her iMessages. She does not have access to the iPad anymore as she has graduated and had to turn it in.
Looking for an extension that will block websites from disabling right click or text selection.
From following the steps in the official apple support page, it seems my computer is not able to recognize my iphone. Other similar questions show an "unknown device" of some sort, which in my case isn't there. The phone is charging, so it's somehow connected and the USB port works with my mouse for example.
The issue is very minor but I'm OCD with these things. I love consistency.
I have a Canon Powershot G12, and I am attempting to get some files over onto my Macbook Air. This is the first time I attempted to do this, I normally upload them onto my Macbook Pro. But when I do connect it, it shows up as "Remote Disk", and there are no files in the "Remote Disk". Do I have to install a driver?
I work with an application that loads pictures from iPhones. Unfortunately, many newer iPhones seem to have iCloud enabled and Optimize iPhone Storage turned on, and my application isn't able to find pictures which are stored in iCloud (my app uses the Camera Roll, as noted in this question). The application is still able to access photos which are stored locally on the device - for example, photos downloaded from e-mail messages are loaded correctly.
After i cloes the Applications the Instances still be shown and can't be force closed. Same with the Dock only if I kill my Dock in my Terminal it reduces the symbol to 1. Also the processes don't show up in my activity monitor. Would be great if anyone could help me!
I have a 2012(?) macmini at home and last night I backed up my HDD to Time Machine then moved the 1TB HDD to the 2nd bay and installed a new 250GB SSD into the 1st bay. I formatted the new drive to Mac OS Journaled and rebooted. Now I have tried to restore from Time Machine, but my backup (after excluded folders) is about 375GB. I have 2 questions: Is it possible to alter the time machine backup and delete folders I know I have backups elsewhere to get this under 250GB and then restore from that? If 1 is not possible, how do I reboot to use the original HDD again and redo my Time Machine backup for essential files only? I've read other questions which say try a clean install, but it would take me days to re-configure my system the way I need it, so that is not an option. I have a full backup on external HD as well as full cloud backup.
I've got iPad 3 with iOS 7.0.2. I can't find anything using search option in App Store. No matter what I search for - even well known apps. I've got internet connection, no special search filters. It's been going on for days. I tried restarting the tablet, turning internet on and off. No success. I'll be very thankful for any ideas how to solve it.
I know how do install new fonts using Font Book. Is there also a way to install fonts from the terminal, using some smart shell command?
When my bootcamp asks me to inset windows 7 install disk, do I need to purchase a physical install disk or do I need to just purchase a windows 7 copy online with a product key? My Mac's Model is: MacBook Pro: (13-inch, Mid 2010) Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
I'm a new OSX user, and I've used Linux for the past 1.5 years, and I really can't live without dropdown terminal. So I googled, and came across this question: iTerm as a slide-out terminal from the top of the screen
-prune is about The primary shall always evaluate as true; it shall cause find not to descend the current pathname if it is a directory. If the -depth primary is specified, the -prune primary shall have no effect.
Yesterday I tried to install Win10 through bootcamp, but it couldn't install it on the premade partition. Eager as I was i meddled with the partition scheme during the installer but with no result. While in pain that I couldn't get my dual boot right, I wanted to reset the partition-table by using bootcamp, only it gave me this error: The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
I'm using tmux in iTerm2. To resize the tmux panels, I think I'm supposed to press Ctrl+b+Arrows. For example, if I press Ctrl+b+Down, it shows all the windows in the current app, probably because it catches the Ctrl+Down shortcut. How can I fix this, so when I hold Ctrl+b+Down (or another arrow key), the panels will be resized?
How can I connect dual monitors with DVI or Display Port or HDMI to my single USB-C Port on my 2016 MacBook?
When I use Disk Utility to create an image, it gives me five options: Read only Compressed Read/Write DVD/CD Master Hybrid Image
Further, I have tried to restore the phone using my back-up and by using my 8.1.2. ipsw but it wont work. I get errors saying e.g. firmware file is not compatible or cannot read library .itl as it was created by a newer version of iTunes. I've also tried restoring via basic recovery mode and DFU mode but get errors as above.
A macbook's battery has three charge numbers: The current charge The maximum charge The design capacity Even if a Macbook remains plugged in, OS X does not attempt to charge—as long as (1) is 95% of (2), which is why the percentage in the notification bar will often be between 95% and 100%.
I have a toolbar that semi-randomly every couple of minutes flips the Airplay icon on:  or off again:
One of the claims for El Capitan is that it improves load times for applications up to 40%, but has anyone identified what this actually means? Are only specific applications affected? For example, have Apple only reduced the load times of their own apps by up to 40%? Or is there some new feature at work that allows applications to get into memory faster, or load shared libraries faster or what?
This question, from 2012, asks whether there is loss in the signal quality of an Apple-Lossless-encoded file when transmitted from a Macbook to an Airport Express. I am wondering whether things are any different in 2016 when transmitting an Apple-Lossless-encoded file from a Macbook to a 4th gen Apple TV. Clearly Wifi is plenty able to transmit the file intact. With an HDMI connection to the TV and an Optical (audio) connection from the TV to the receiver, I should in principle be able to listen to an intact file. Is it still the case in 2016 that lossless files go through an encode-decode cycle? Is there any configuration that makes me say "use all available WiFi bandwidth, but let me listen to the original file"? Is there any configuration that says "drop the video signal (for example, just display a static image of the cover of the album), and transmit the audio signal intact"?
They open like power-points in Powerpoint with animations. I would like to maintain the animations. There are just a few mistakes that I would like to correct in the body. How can you edit .pps files and maintain the animations of the presentation?
I do a lot of writing on iOS: mostly email (in Outlook for iOS) and plaintext drafts (in Ulysses) using an iPad Pro with a keyboard. My writing style happens to include: Lots of bulleted lists Seriously, like way too many Sometimes even when they may not totally be needed Here's the problem: Sometimes, when I type: * Blahblahblah ...it changes to: I Blahblahblah What I've determined - this problem occurs: Inconsistently - I can repro it regularly, but not all the time After some (variable) amount of additional keystrokes happen - the text appears as typed (an asterisk) at first, then sometimes changes after I add more chars later - sometimes one later, sometimes a bunch later, sometimes not at all. Putting it together, I'm thinking it's caused by some form of autocorrect in the OS. Can anyone confirm if that sounds like the culprit, or how to determine if it is? If so, how can I teach autocorrect that I like bullets (and markdown), thank you very much, without just turning AC off entir
Configuration: Model Name: Mac mini (Late 2012) Model Identifier: Macmini6,2 System Version: OS X v10.11.3 (El Capitan)
I am trying to update to El Capitan. I am being asked for my Apple ID and password. I entered both correctly however I am being asked to enter a verification code after the password (see screenshot). This makes no sense, it's absurd, and very unlike Apple. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Note: I updated the password using the 2-step verification process, but the new password still does not work.
Is there an iPhone app, that help me reduce usage of the smartphone , by change it into an old style feature phone? Maybe I can turn on smartphone mode for 1 hour per day, but besides that the phone can only send text message and make calls.
I have a 2009 MacBook showing world with exclamation when attempting recovery. It would not start using regular startup.
I ordered and installed an SSD in my 2010 iMac (10,1). I tried installing El Capitan via USB. This failed and searching the internet I found out that it is best to use the original install disks.
I need space in my SSD. I just need terminal tools in OS X El-capitan, not the Xcode IDE, not iOS, ... The space 10.49 Gb is just too much in my 60 GB disk partition. These PATHs do not work anymore so I cannot delete them ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport/ ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator ... How can you remove iOS/IDE/... from Xcode?
Command diskutil list and its output Command diskutil cs list and its output Command sudo gpt -r show disk0 and its output I run exactly klanomath's commands in real partions but I get with the last command; everything goes fine before the last command How can you Make OS X Partion Smaller?
I'm wondering what would be the process of enabling/disabling the grayscale mode in the Accessibility panel in System Preferences? I would like to run a simple script, either by clicking on an app in the Dock or by a Terminal command, and have it switch from grayscale to regular mode. Any ideas?
I'm trying to add a printer through the Terminal using lpadmin, and it absolutely refuses to work. The printer adds just fine, everything looks perfect from what I can see, but any attempt to print results in a "Printer did not respond" error. Here's the line I'm using to add the printer:
I'm connecting to an SFR 'La Box' optic fibre wifi router / modem in France (with 180Mbs down, 10Mbs up) - which has a feature I've not come across before on a wifi router: parallel 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks - using the same names and passwords by default As explained in the system settings:
I have an Airport Extreme connected to the internet and a handful of Extremes/Expresses extending it wirelessly. It works OK. But when I connect one of the extending devices with an ethernet cable - on the theory that wired is better than wireless - things go awry. (My primary Airport Extreme starts dropping the connection, devices show that they are online, but they are not, etc. Basically, the network stops working.)
I have a USB 3.0 to Sata cable of which I will plug into a 500gb SSHD. I will try to install a completely new Mac OS X on it using the Internet Recovery option. Then transfer all of my files via USB 3.0 from the internal to the SSHD.
I want to make a shortcut for keyboard layout switching. The problem is I want it to be one key and I want this key to be specific "right cmd". Previously I used PuntoSwitcher to switch layout by cmd press but it works for left and right cmd and this is not behaviour I expecting. Also, I tried to use betterTouchTool, but i cannot make 1 key shortcut there. Is there any way to achieve this behaviour?
I have imported my movie files to the iMovie library (imovielibrary) but want them moved to the Photos library (photoslibrary). What is the easiest most efficient way to do this without reimporting the from the original source?
I have an old file named ˇ¡␀␀ˇ¡␀␀␀"9 ␀"9 which is not deleted when I empty the trash. I have tried renaming it but it does not accept any changes. Using the Terminal didn't work either so far:
I had absolutely no problems for months. When I first got it I did command+K and typed in the ip address of the server, then put in the admin login for the window server and all three shared drives on the server were there to connect and mount...
I couldn't find it on the Apple website, I was only offered the 64-bit version. Maybe that's because I'm using a 64-bit client for the download?
I hope i didn't break anything... I have found another stackexchange question which seems to be quite similar : How to fix broken GPT, GUID and unmountable, no type volumes?
I experienced an issue starting from few days ago. I cannot copy/paste (cmd+c cmd+v) from the terminal to other programs anymore, the opposite holding true. For instance, let's say I open my terminal, copy a path (highlighting it with the mouse then copying with cmd+c). I can paste it (cmd+v) anytime I want in any window terminal. I open another text editor, try pasting the path, nd it wont work. Then I find some bash code on the internet I want to test, I copy it with cmd+c, switch back to my terminal, try to paste it using cmd+v but it wont work the way I expected. It will paste the path I previously copied from the terminal, when I expected (and I want) to have pasted the internet code. If I go to any other text editor and use paste, it will paste the internet content. Now it's like there are two clipboards, one for my whole system, and another isolated for my terminal.
The guy at the Apple Store said if I am bothered with this ('cause it would bother him, he said), I should take it to a full checkup. This Mac is my workstation and 1,5 weeks in service is not really going to happen anytime soon.
I would like to lookup servers cnn runs on for educational purposes. I issued nslookup www.cnn.com command in terminal and got an error: 192.168.1.1 looks like an address in a home network.
I updated X11 by installing the most recent XQuartz package, 2.7.9. Now, when opening an application that is supported by X11 (e.g., emacs), my terminal throws an error (while X11 starts in the background):
I never had a single kernel panic on the 21" retina iMac (Late 2015) since I got it at the start of this year. This morning when I started using it (usually it is not shutdown as there are tasks it needs to perform during the night) there were two updates ready to install: 1password and iTunes. Once installation (I have no clue if they are somehow connected) the iMac started kernel panicking pretty regularly without a hinting at a possible cause. This is the latest report:
Tried switching the SATA cable as well, with one found in a 2009 Macbook Pro 13 inch. It did manage to boot the disk from the 2009 Macbook, However, no other disk.
I want to add my Novel GroupWise account to my Mac, which is not possible due to the lack of a (reliable and recent) client. The firm I'm working for set a data sync server up for this purpose but that only supports Exchange Active Sync if I am understanding it correctly. I am assuming this because setting up the account as an exchange account on the iPhone and iPad was no problem but it does not work in mail.
I try to connect Do Note with the iOS Reminders app and add a new Button to add Reminders to the "Scheduled" List but everytime I try to create a Note from Do Notes I get a new list in the Reminders app called "Scheduled" and it won't add it to the internal "Scheduled" list (which shows up in the Notification center and sends push notification when a scheduled reminder comes up). So my question is: What is the internal name for the "Scheduled" list in the Reminders app, so that I can add a Reminder from Do Notes Btw: I am using iOS in german so the german name for the Scheduled list is "Planmäßig" but even with this name set up in Do Notes it won't add it to the correct list
UPD: Brother just burned .iso file on DVD and inserted in mac mini. How installation had even started - I have no idea. But it failed. I erased entire HDD. Have tried all the startup key combinations (reset PRAM, etc). Nothing reanimated mac mini. On booting up I have "no signal detected" screen.
I have created a Playlist (pl1) and favorited some of the tracks in it. But because I want to filter (the heart symbol in Apple Music) only the tracks which are favorited from pl1 I created a smart playlist with following settings: contained in pl1 AND marked as favorite My Problem now is that the new smart playlist won't sync over to my iPhone... pl1 and the favorites sync normally and even the favorited tracks from pl1 show up in favorites on the iPhone but as I said the smart playlist won't show up. I tried the following: Restart the iPhone Re-Enable Apple Music Relogging from icloud Recreating both pl1 and the smart playlist I also found these two questions: ITunes Match: syncing smart playlists that reference other playlists iTunes smart playlist not syncing to iPhone But the first one is about itunes match and the second one said that it worked again after some time
I was surprised this does not exist and am considering writing the App myself in response. How can you merge multiple photos into a new merged photo? Like: Input 200x300 "A.jpeg" 200x500 "B.jpeg" 200x100 "C.jpeg" Merged Output 200x900 "A+B+C.jpeg"
I know that iPhones with enterprise provisioning profiles installed send massive amounts of data back to the company that added the profile. This includes your text messages, phone records, and internet history.
as discussed here it is impossible to move a window to another space by pushing it against the side of the screen. I wanted to know if there now is a workaround for this, since it is really annoying, thanks.
I have two aliases in my home directory: devbootcamp and bookshelf. I can cd into devbootcamp but not bookshelf but I'm not sure why. I don't remember how I made the alias to devbootcamp but I followed this tutorial to create the bookshelf alias. Also strangly in my terminal devbootcamp is purple but bookshelf is not. How do I make it so they have the same functionality?
I've got my Security preferences set to allow apps downloaded from "Mac App Store and identified developers." When I try to open an unsigned app: I see the following:
Can I mix the two 2 GB RAM chips in my iMac 21.5″ (late 2009) with two other type of 2 GB RAM chips? I have not opened my RAM slots yet but Apple says I have two 2 GB DDR3 chips. I want to add two PC3 8500 chips to it. Will it hurt to try?
I was wondering if it is possible first of all to get the overall power consumption for my MacBook? And if it is possible can I get this power consumption for each peripheral running (like consumption CPU, GPU, Wifi,...)? Have checked the activity monitor, but nothing really interesting there, except for a very vague energy impact number.
I have already restarted Mac 5 times and it did not work. My Mac is connected to the internet as I am posting this over the internet. I updated my Mac today and now it's running El Capitan 10.11.5
When I receive an email which has been cc'ed to a few people, is there a way where I can set the default reply mode to "reply to all", rather than "reply to just the sender"?
My car (VW Passat 2016) relies on a hotspot from a smartphone to have internet for all it's internet services (like traffic info). After enabling hotspot on my iPhone (iOS 9.3) my car can connect and everything works fine. The problem is that my car (or any other device) can't connect to my iPhone's hotspot (which I leave enabled) unless I manually open the Settings app and then go to the hotspot settings screen. I discussed this with a couple of friends and they all seem to have the same experience. This is really disappointing and I don't see myself doing this whole process everything I get into my car...
Sometime yesterday, and I'm unsure of what could be the cause, all my media disappeared from my iPhone SE, running iOS 9.3.2 (64GB). There is nothing in my Music app on the phone except for downloadable songs I had purchased (but they're not local on my phone anymore), the movies I had transferred from the computer to the Videos app disappeared, all my podcast downloads had disappeared (they show up as saved, just the download for them is gone), my audiobook is gone from iBooks but other items there appear okay. Photos and Voice Memos apps also appear okay.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS inside VirtualBox on a MacBook Air 7,2, but the guest screen window size is less than the host display size. I have seen a suggestion that this is possible by installing something called a Guest Additions inside the VB instance from the Devices menu - I tried to this but I get the following error.
Whenever I got to delete a photo, it says "This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices." I don't want it deleted from my iCloud Photo Library, only my iPhone 6s. What I want to do is import photos and videos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro and then delete them from my iPhone. If I import those photos and videos to my Mac and then delete them from my iPhone (ignoring the warning) will they also be deleted from my Mac?
I am noticing something both on my iPad 2 and iPhone SE running iOS 9.3.2 that I don't recall seeing until today. When I do a spotlight search, it shows a list of results from different apps, and then at the bottom options to search web, App Store, and maps. But now, if the search is such that there are no results from apps, it won't show those last three search options either.
I'm trying to install Crypt-SSLeay on a macbook and it failed. I manually downloaded Crypt-SSLeay from cpan and issued: The error is The file exists and it's located at: How do I go about fixing this, thanks.
I tried removing the smart quotes using the procedure outlined in this SE question, but nothing seems to have happened.
I am trying to do two demos running on two devices. The goal would be to plug an external monitor into my computer and have one display show one device, and the other show the other device. I would use Reflect 2, but it only does wifi, or personal hotspot I would use quicktime but it only supports one device at a time. Any ideas?
I'm doing a Corporate Challenge where I count all my steps every day and enter them into a website. The other day I had backed up my phone the night before, and had a problem with it that meant it had to be replaced. When I restored my phone, all my steps for the day I had the defect had been lost.
I'm trying to create a directory on a USB3 mounted hard disk drive and it is failing even though the permissions are open: The same operation works fine on the built in disk, but when I'm in a directory of the mounted USB drive it fails. Is this due to my drive containing a space in the name? Is this due to the drive somehow being mounted as read-only? From the finder I cannot see the test directory. I can also create it from the command line with sudo, but as myself, it fails.
I'm trying to do a 3-way call on my iPhone with two friends who both are running iOS 9 (as am I). I click the "add" button while in a call with one person and whenever I click their name or click the call button it instead hangs up my original call and calls the new person.
I'm new to Linux and have been playing around with manipulating files with cat ie.
I am having the exact same issue when it comes to not being able to reclaim space as in the answered question below... Reclaim hard drive space from deleted partition and reclaim Apple bootloader
Little Snitch is a well-known piece of software that allows Mac users to block outgoing connexions from a specific app. Now, whenever I ask how to do the same with built-in OS X tools, I get an answer like: "you can’t do this without Little Snitch. The built-in PF firewall is not an application firewall, and the built-in AF can only block incoming traffic. No OS X tool allows this."
I don't know how to find the image compression type used in a PDF on my Mac. I've tried Adobe Acrobat Pro, but the "Document Properties" box does not show any data regarding compression.
The emoji picker on OSX has a series of "category" icons, which emoji are grouped by:  Do you know where those can be found? I looked in the system icons directory, /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/, and couldn't find them there. I then used Font Book to look at all of the symbols in the Apple Color Emoji font, and I couldn't find them there, either.
Is there any easy ways to disable the built-in mic? My requirements are Software based Do not need to run every time after login Keep the system integrity protection on Re-enable at needed
When I try console login, my Mac freezes. Nothing happens visually: no switch to a black window, no spinning loading indicator in the ‘Password’ field; nothing. The only thing I can still do is press the [Power] button until the Mac force shuts down.
I'm running an iMac with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 12 GB of DDR3 on OS X 10.9.5 and am getting tearing with playing CS:GO. I'd like to fix this. How can I disable Vsync in 10.9.5? What does this have to do with Beamsync?
How can I delete Apple OS X application such as Photos, iPhoto, and others that I never use?
I've installed a new SSD not an OEM, but it's a compatible fit to my early macbook pro 2015 with retina 13". When my battery dies it doesnt hibernate my mac, so when I restart it, it freezes and then I have to hold the power button to force it to turn off. When it does boot, I get the following report. I've no idea how to read this so any help would be appreciated.
My backup set up consists on two external hard drives. They are named HDD1 and HDD2. This kind of set up what originally started by another question: Second HDD backup for OS X
I updated my 5c to iOS 9.3.2 and since then the phone has been behaving as though the headphone are plugged in. Neither speaker nor microphone work normally when taking calls - I hear nothing and the caller cant hear me. But when I switch it to speaker during a call it works fine, and I can hear the ring tone. Sounds in apps like Spotify dont work either. Of course I've turned the phone on and off again. Would anyone know what I can do?
I was installing Windows 10 via Bootcamp on my iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) running OS X El Capitan - Version 10.11.4. What happen was yesterday Bootcamp froze on "while partitioned" for around 5 hours. This slowed my computer considerably down and upon research online I found this amount of time was not normal and as I knew little about Bootcamp I force quit it (I realise that was really stupid, but it happened). I then found that I lost 200GB of hard drive space not being shown in disk utility or anything, currently when using Bootcamp the error which comes up is "The disk could not be partitioned". I tried multiple fixes online such as looking through disk utility and going into some sort of white and black text mode and typing stuff in. EDIT: Command I wrote in when holding Command + S during startup was sbin/fsck -fy Here is the partition map of disk0: partition map of disk1: diskutil cs list output:
I have a AppleScript, which changes the position and the size of the application Terminal: Like here: When i'm setting the size of the window to {1, 1}, it becomes really small that it's not more visible. My question is how can i set the focus of the window for a specific time, that neither any user activity nor any application can catch the focus of the terminal window? Best way would be with AppleScript, but any programmatically solution with python would be nice.
Using ⌘Shift3 or ⌘Shift4 won't work -- it will capture a grey window. (I think it is due to the video being displayed using the video card's video buffer). I think one way is to use an iPad and play the movie and take a screenshot by the Home and Power button together, but other than that, is there a way to take it on the Mac, without installing any additional program?
I haven't changed any relevant settings in Mail.app that could be causing this. The "Move messages to trash when deleted" checkbox is active as I suppose it should be. I can't find any other settings related to this. The problem persists when I manually move a message to the trash IMAP folder: it shows up in strikethrough in the webmail client, and not deleted on the iPad.
I block some websites via /etc/hosts on my machine. But for reddit.com it does not work. What does I have to do?
A simple barcode reader USB did work on old Mac. It did "beep" and it did write the scanned number properly on the screen. With new iMac now the barcode reader does "beep" but it doesn't write anymore on the screen (on an Excel / Notepad / Browser etc etc etc). Reading on the internet seems a well known bug of El Capitan.
Trying to open a http website on any web browser (event telnet) gives a ‘ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED’ or ‘connection timed out’. However, the same sites can be opened using https. I tried doing a traceroute and it works fine.
Which all seem to function. But how can they be accessed outside of the terminal? And if not, why do they have these descriptive names?
When I open the Photos app on my iPhone 6s, it shows me an tab bar saying import:  When I tap on it, it shows a blank screen. Also it doesn't matter whether I tapped on it or not, about two seconds later it disappears. Also it appears both when It is plugged to my computer and when it is not plugged.
4 years ago, I asked if it is possible to stop the menu bar from showing while in full screen. The issue is that, on tabbed applications, whenever I try to click a tab, the menu bar appears above it causing me to click in the wrong place. Half a decade later and I'm still deeply frustrated with this issue. Is there any way to do it yet? Here is what I am talking about:
Okay, so long story short, my husband bent my iPhone 6. It isn't that bad, the wifi and everything still works, but it says there is no longer a SIM card installed and I have no service. So I can no longer receive/send text messages or calls. Is there any fix to this that I can do? I feel like I've tried everything. I pulled it out of the phone and it's not broken. This is very frustrating. Thanks!
I've noticed on an iPhone I am unable to view all (and only) downloaded podcast episodes. I can connect the phone to a Mac and via iTunes I can see all the downloaded episodes but I am unable to delete any of them... So my question is how to view all (and only) downloaded podcast episodes on the iPhone?
I would like to instal putty with use of Homebrew. I'm performing the following command: which gives the seemingly correct output: However, the putty command is not recognised:
Friend running MacOS 10.7.5 wanted to update the OS but stick with iPhoto. So, we updated to Mavericks before realizing that she had an “old” version of iPhoto, version 9.1.5, which I figured we could update later. (In hindsight, I should have updated iPhoto when she was still on 10.7.5, but here we are.)
iMac with OS X 10.11.5. iTunes opens with no prompting from me. I can close it all day and it keeps re-opening. I rarely want to use it. How to stop this from happening. Thanks for the advice.
There was an external SSHD that had MAC OS X installed on it through Internet Recovery by using another Macintosh with a USB 3.0 to Sata II cable. Is there some sort of serial number that is tied to that installation of Mac OS X on the external SSHD? Or can I actually boot that external SSHD on another Macintosh and it would be fine?
The bash command last (needs sudo) prints out logs, which contain information on when different users log in/out of the shell. I have been looking for the file that stores this information, that last would access. I have checked /var/log/system.log and other files within /var/log. I have looked everywhere on the internet as well, and cannot find the location. I have, however, confirmed that the file is within /var/log, because when I did rm -rf /var/log/, sudo last showed empty output until the next time I logged in.
I have a Macbook pro 15 inch retina with a windows bootcamp partition installed. Recently I used disk utility to repair my Macintosh HD partition, however I can no longer boot into it (bootcamp partition boots normally). The gray progress bar loads completely but the partition never boots up and it stays stuck at full progress. I attempted to correct the error by booting into recovery and accessing disk utility, however now disk utility stays stuck at "loading discs" in an endless loop. I am in dire need of assistance as this is my only computer and I rely on it heavily.
While prepping for the switch to a new computer, I made the dreadful decision to move files from the "All My Files" Finder view to a new folder. All of the files moved to the new folder, but left the old folders in all of the previous locations (now with no files in them). I've completely lost the file structure that organized all of the files into something meaningful.
Okay, so I've tried so hard to set up Soundflower on my computer, and it doesn't seem to work no matter how many tutorials I watch. I'm running OSX El Capitan 10.11.4 on a MacBook Air 13-inch from early 2015. What I'd like to do is be able to record my computer audio, my microphone audio, and my screen at once, and hear my computer audio through my headphones. Here's everything I've done so far.
My father-in-law set up gmail ActiveSync on an old iPhone a long time ago and continues to add calendar dates to it even though it is defunct. He's upgraded iPhones to a 6s but still has that old account as his default. Question: How do I get those calendar entries off of a non-syncing account and move them to a regular google calendar account?
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking one can use the Scratch That command to delete recently dictated text. Is there any equivalent in dictation mode in iOS? I unsuccessfully tried: Scratch That undo cancel
I am using an iPhone 5, version 9.3.2, 32 GB of memory, 27.1 of capacity. Suddenly I cannot use my Messages. Other option is working well but when click Messages it's just hanging. I even cannot delete/read/send any messages. I already powered off my phone but still same thing. What can I do now?
The problem with refind is that it shows at startup just the Linux partition which is broken. If I click it, the thing goes to grub> where I already did this based on the thread
I have minimised a mail viewer window to the dock. When I click the Mail icon (to the left of the dividing line) it does not bring the viewer window up. I have to click on the actual viewer window (to the right of the line) to see the window and mail messages. This is new, reverts to normal if I close mail and restart, but soon reverts. Any suggestions please?
I was planning to buy a new mic for my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), but I tried connecting an old mic and nothing happened. The old mic is not broken, because I tested it on another PC and it worked. I just want to know if I can connect the mic that I was planning to buy. I was thinking of this microphone: http://www.amazon.com/Tonor-TN12326-Professional-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B00PZMP3Z0
so it took 64 minutes about for 70 Gb. You do not need status=progress. You can ask the status also by pkill -USR1 -x dd.
I have an old 09 macbookpro running 10.8.6, & have just bought a refurbed mid-2012 one running 10.11.5. I want to transfer some of my old files & apps from old to new, but not all of them. I'm looking for a simple way to do this; I'm not a techie, just an end user.
I just got a new computer with Windows 10. I have saved my pictures from my iPhone 5s to the computer however there is a block of photos from May 1-24 that it will not detect and therefore will not download. It will not even allow me to see these photos on the computer, so I can't manually select them for download. Does anyone know how to fix this?
A friend of mine gave me his old MacBook6,1. While I was trying to format it and run some diagnostics, I noticed a few weird problems, which I think are due to a corrupted EFI firmware. Here's what I noticed: Some keyboard keys don't work under certain conditions (but a USB keyboard works fine); I cannot hear any startup sound, but the audio volume is up and it works fine when using OS X;
When I ssh into a Linux server from bash Terminal, I can use CTRL+A to return to the start of line properly, and CTRL+E to go to end of line and everything works fine. When I use bash locally on my Mac, when I use CTRL+A it logically goes back to the start of the line, but doesn't display the cursor in the correct place. It displays the cursor 7 or so characters off and doesn't update the line text correct. Example CTRL+A! Insert "this is a test" (just to show) Displays: Command executed I use the same as I do on Linux. Version Info bash version: 3.2.57(1) terminal version: 2.6.1 (361.1) OS X El Capitan, 10.11.5
I'm unable to restore my iPhone. I'm getting an error about an incorrect password. First it backed up some stuff and not other stuff. I went to the Apple store and they told me to delete this iPhone and try to back it up again because it never finished restoring. Now it tells me I need a password and every password I've entered has been wrong.
Missing required icon file. The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPad 167x167
I was given a MacBook Air to use as a laptop for school in the sixth grade. Now I am graduating and heading off to high school, so I need to turn my laptop in for good. Now I have had this laptop for a long time, and customized everything just the way I like it. For example in my browser, Opera, I have added many extensions, userscripts, and customized it just the way I like it. Now I would like to transfer this browser along with all of its data, to my personal MacBook Pro. Is there an easy way to do this? I believe that the data is stored under: User > Library > Application Support > "Application's Name" / "com.Application's Website"
I'll soon visit US where I want to buy an iPhone 6s (money reasons).My question is: will I be able to use it properly (full capacity) in Europe (Romania)? I read a couple of topics and found out there are problems related to LTE bands and others but I don't understand it yet.
Let's say I have 2 MacPros: MacPro at work MacPro at home I wonder if there is any way I could access my MacPro at work from home using the screen sharing method, without anything being visible on the monitors of MacPro at work.
In the Applications folder (El Capitan iMac) there is no Applescript editor. I've also checked the Utilities folder, but didn't find it. I don't think I would have mistakenly trashed it. Should I download a new one?
and everything seemed to be going well through step 4. After it went through the SL Installer, I clicked on Restart. But then it shows a screen saying I need to restart again. I can't seem to get past this.
I have a 120 GB .dmg where I would like to study one directory. However, my Mac's HD is much smaller. I get a warning you cannot mount the directory. I used the command to create the image How can you mount/read some content of a big .dmg image in small HD?
I wonder if Homebrew is safe for Mac users... Do you have any bad experience with this software (like malware for example)?
Is it typical practice to download Bonjour on an HP laptop? I have an HP laptop and Bonjour was downloaded in the last day and I did not download it. Is Bonjour only for Apple computers?
A while back, I got a friend to share an app with me which was no longer on the app store. He logged in to his Apple ID on my iPhone, went to 'Purchased', and downloaded the app for me(Which, according to Apple, is perfectly legal- the app was free to get).
I would like to use DNSSEC tools (like dnssec-keygen, dnssec-signzone, ...) on my Mac without running or installing the BIND9 service. Unfortunately for me Homebrew seems only to have the BIND9 package, but not bind-utils The official website *=URL=* also doesn't provide these tools. Can someone know how I can use these tools on Mac ?
I'm using Apple Music and I'm still in the evaluation period, but the system isn't working very well: Either on my iPhone or my Mac (latest OS version), when I'm streaming music, it stops playing in an unexpected way after two minutes.
My iPod 5 (16gbs) won't let me sign into iMessage. I just updated yesterday to 9.3.2. I've tried signing and every time it says that iMessage server is unavailable. What even is that?!?! What should I do? Do I keep signing in until it works? Plus FaceTime is down. I signed into that again and it won't get it set up either. Can someone help me and tell me what I'm supposed to do?
The screen of my iPhone 4s has gone blank and does not turn on, even by use of a charger. However, it does make noise and vibrate, and sometimes I can hear Siri if I ask her a question, but it takes a while for her to respond. Sometimes, I can also hear my FaceTime calls going off, but I can not answer them. My on/off button does not work, so I will not be able to hold down the on/off button and the home button. Whenever I try to plug my phone in, it makes the noise that it usually makes when I plug it in, but nothing happens. When I was last on it, which was a few hours ago, it was fine and then I turned it off and I have not got it to work since. Also, when I didn't have it plugged in, it got really hot and other times it was cooled off. When I tell Siri to make FaceTime calls, she tells me that she is, but nothing happens. This has never happened to me before, and I would like to know if it has happened to anyone else, or if they have heard about it happening to someone before. Is t
Back on Mac OS 9 I used to have a great font browsing tool that allowed me to preview hundreds of fonts very quickly. Each font would only take up one line of text and everything was on the same page. It could take some time to launch but you could simply scroll through all these lines to see every font very quickly. I have been using FontBook for a long time but I'm not sure if there's a way to do this with FontBook... or with a font browsing app.
Is there a way to show a notification upon unlocking an iPhone? For example, I want to set a reminder to "do x" at 5 pm, but I don't unlock my phone until 5:30, but I would like the alert to pop up as soon as I unlock it.
I don't know what I did but... catch 22 I can't activate my iphone because I can't remember my icloud ID which I have stored in my iphone I know my password but that does me no good???
I've been getting this popup every day for the past few days... There is no application set to open the URL rstf3://
I have a Mac Mini with OS X El Capitan and I'm trying to login, but my password is Russian and I can't change the language, because Russian isn't available in language menu. I am using a keyboard other than Apple's.
Can iPhone play Opus music files? Nothing found on the web or here. *=URL=* https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=opus
When I try to connect to my work Cisco VPN using the Mac OS X built-in VPN client, all I get is an unexpected error. My Mac OS version is 10.11.5 If I run syslog -k Facility -k Sender racoon in terminal, it outputs;
How can I connect and use my samsung laptop as a second screen for my Macbook Pro? Is such a thing possible? Also, if its possible, how do I select which computer should be master/slave? Thanks
I have the standard single drive inside my MBP. The issue is inside my external usb drive. The HDD had 4 (visible) partitions: My Passport (Core Storage volume) 959 gb SSD (backup for my mbp) 339 gb A linux partition, which I have formatted called lin 140 gb. and i'm not sure why this Boot OS X one appeared, but it has 134 mb.
Want To Ask i did geekbench test on 2 types of RAMs on my MBP 13" 2.9ghz i7 mid 2012. 1-Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L-1600 SODIMM 32bit test 2913 Single-Core Score 6105 Multi-Core Score 64 bit test 3132 Single-Core Score 6754 Multi-Core Score. 2-Kingston HyperX Impact Black 16GB(8GBx2) 1866MHz DDR3L Laptop RAM (Low Voltage - HX318LS11IB/8) 32bit test 2715 Single-Core Score 5814 Multi-Core Score. 64bit test 2986 Single-Core Score 6975 Multi-Core Score
In my OS X El Capitan I can only use en-US input for all password boxes (other input methods are not available). But most of my password are in Russian. How can I change the input source in OS X El Capitan?
I want to buy a Mac Mini and I want to use it with my laptop monitor. My laptop is Lenovo Y510P. I searched some documents for using Mac Mini with laptop monitor and I only found a solution to using with an Apple laptop unfortunately.
Edit 2: add docker version output: Edit 3: add docker files NB: I've redacted the sensitive stuff. Here's the script we use to fire everything up and exec commands in the app's container; it is meant to be run from a node.js application's root directory (containing file package.json) on the host machine (mapped to /app in the app container) whose basename also serves as the application name, and it assumes docker-machine start default has been already successfully run:
I want to force myself to use the command line interface of OS X. How can I make my Macbook Air boot into single user mode by default?
I am attempting to install Windows 8.1 on my machine (a mid 2014 MacBook Pro running El Capitan) and I keep running into a BootCamp error in the first step that says The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. However, the startup disk is partitioned as a single HFS+ partition as verified by the output below: Why does Boot Camp think my disk is not partitioned correctly? I've read several posts about this error message, but all describe how to repartition the drive instead of why a correctly partitioned drive may cause this error.
I have a Kensington Expert Mouse on the Mac running the latest 1.3 drivers. There still is no option to use the trackball to in addition to scroll vertically also scroll horizontally. Similar to the ball on the mighty mouse. Has anyone found a hidden setting that I could enable with the defaults write command?
I like using the default terminal application, but as I use both Ubuntu and OS X a lot I want to make them behave and look the same. How can I change the Mac terminal to make as identical as possible to the Ubuntu terminal?
Tried Lookup in Network utility, works fine, e.g. result: www.google.com -> 216.58.213.4
As before, it requires the device to be physically connected to the Mac. (it works great, and installs the profile silently too - as the device is in supervised mode) Does anyone know of a method to install this profile wirelessly to a known device under the control of Profile Manager?
I had a daily event set up in calendar that runs a particular program. Recently it stopped running this (possibly after an upgrade?). Took me a few days or weeks to notice (because it happens automatically). I go into the event and see no alert is set. I create a new event and add my custom alert to open a file that is a program:
I'm relieved to discover that BackupLoupe exists, probably for the same reason everyone else is: Time Machine Restores correct system errors but wipe all recent data from your hard drive. BackupLoupe allows you to put it back.
If I choose "send directly" it attempts to do it without compressing the movie on-the-fly (like in the past). Then I am at the mercy of the mail servers. It can go thru or it can get stuck. I do not know if in the past iOS was compressing the video on-the-fly in response to the outgoing server not being able to send it or iOS had its own threshold.
I am trying to create a shared album in iCloud, containing about 750 photos and 50 short videos. Using Photos both on iOS 9 and El Capitan, the process of adding the photos to the album is extremely slow. On iOS, when I try to share the photos I am shown a modal "preparing" dialogue that doesn't seem to progress. On my Mac (which does not have "Optimize Storage" enabled) the sharing progress bar fills slowly, then stays mostly filled for a very very long time, while heavily using the CPU. Given the amount of network traffic that is caused by the request, I assume that Photos is trying to download/re-upload each image. Given that the photos are already stored on iCloud, I would expect to be able to share the photos instantly, as I can do with Google Photos. Is this the expected behaviour or am I suffering from an abnormal issue? EDIT: added photo of iOS dialog
Is there a way to toggle between Fn (multimedia keys, brightness, etc) and F keys (F1, F2, ...) per app? I used to use an app that could perform this but now I just can't remember it's name. As a developer I use a vmware fusion virtual machine to maintain some windows apps, and it would great if I could just enter the VM with the keyboard toggled to F keys, and when I get back to the OSX the keyboard gets toggled back to Fn keys. Any ideas?
I have access to a MacBook Pro and a Android phone. I know the username and password to a secured wifi network, but not the settings of the network e.g. PEAP or something else.
How can I stop my external keyboard from sending a text when I hit return? I want it to just bring up the next line but it sends the text instead. Originally, when hitting return, another line came up but now it sends the text...I must've caused this somehow but now I want it to return to the original function of just bringing up the next line. Thank you. I use Messages to text...
My iPad will not connect to the Internet, even though it says that it is connected with full strength. Everything else in the house is connected. There's one complication, my iPad's on/off button is broken (I dropped my iPad), so I can't turn it on or off.
To me, it seems as if this should be possible. With a normal app, you can go to 'Purchased' and re-download any previously downloaded apps. Is it possible to do the same with an enterprise app which was not downloaded through the app store?
I write all my emails in plain text, not rich text or HTML, but I do use punctuation markup as has been popularized by Markdown and others (which were inspired by prior customs in plain-text email). There’s RFC 7763 now, which registers the text/markdown media type with mandatory charset and optional variant parameters. Can I change Apple Mail to always send a respective MIME header? I hope for some defaults write magic since there doesn’t seem to be a respective plugin available (yet).
I have Playstation 3 Dualshock controller, which was successfully paired to my Mac running El Capitan. When I open my Bluetooth settings, I can see it appearing as PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller. When I open apps like ControllerMate, Enjoy2, Enjoyable, or OpenEMU I can see my controller appearing in the menu.
I am new to using an iPad but I clicked accidentally on a bad link in Facebook and since then My Skype has been hacked and sending erroneous messages to my Skype contacts..how do I find out and remove malware on my iPad. I have tried looking for an antivirus or a way to be able to look on my pad to see where I might be able to see where any malware may be hidden...I.e. On a PC it can be inregistry etc, whereas on an iPad I don't have a clue where to look but I have not been able to find any sufficient answer to help. This question may be a bit basic for here but I didn't know where else to ask as I wasn't getting any answers elsewhere I.e Apple, Google, etc X
I am planning on buying a 4K monitor. I currently have a mid-2012 Non-retina Macbook Pro. I know I won't be able to run on the 4K monitor full-res. I don't mind. I was thinking of using SwitchRes (a software that allows you to scale up and down your mac resolution), to run in 2K resolution on that 4K monitor.
Yesterday a breaker tripped in the same room as my Mac Pro 1,1 running Yosemite (Hacked boot.efi.) All other machines powered up but this one. Attempting to mount via Target Disk Mode timed out, so I pulled the drive and put it in a sled so I could access it with my MacBook. First attempt was with Disk Utility, it failed (Who'd have guessed?) I then popped open a terminal window and ran a fsck_hfs -r -d and it appeared to be doing work, but failed to fix the issue. I tried running it several times but to no success.
I am a complete amateur at this. How would I get this AppleScript to work on my Macbook Pro on boot? What steps do I need to take? What does the script do?
So here's an adventure. Twice my system has stopped working completely (gets stuck on endless loop booting, requires OS reinstall even to be able to get at a backup. Once, in spring 2015 on Yosemite. The second time, in spring 2016 on El Capitan. The only common factor between those two cases was this: it was immediately after downloading Xcode the first time around, and immediately after updating it, the second (in both cases from the App Store).
I would like to be able to view my Apple TV from my computer remotely (similar to Smart View app by Samsung, but in reverse) so I can use an automation tool. What tools are available that allow me to accomplish this?
How can I show the edits done on a particular day? Sometimes I want to check the starting/stopping times on a day, but there seems to be no way to list the edits in chronological order or search for, say, May 1st. Any help would be much appreciated.
I used a facebook account to sign in a game on my iphone ( the game is "top eleven"). Now I want to change the account and use another one because I have more friends in 2nd account. Already used 2nd account's username and password in setting but didn't work, even deleted facebook app and installed it again and signed in with 2nd one but when I open the game it runs with 1st one. how can I solve this problem ? thanks
In my PHP.ini, the extensions are not uncommented. But in phpinfo(), I can see that curl (by example) is enable and in my code I can use it.
I recently bought a 4 TB Seagate Desktop Expansion external hard drive. However, after formatting it with Disk Utility the device still says 4 TB but the capacity says 1.8 TB. What is going on?
I activated the Two Factor Authorisation at iCloud. Now, when I try to sign in at some Apple Service, I am getting the a message that a message was sent to my trusted devices with a code I have to enter.
Can I downgrade my iOS to 7.x? I need to do it for app testing.
Yesterday, I created a new iCloud shared photo album from my Macbook and invited some people to this album. I can see the album from my iphone and of course from my macbook as well. However, when I logged in to my icloud.com account today, the album is not visible there. Is it possible to make it visible on icloud.com ? How ?
I have been reading the review guideline: *=URL=* I see section about for subscription its has to be available for all iOS devices of a single user: Content subscriptions using IAP must last a minimum of 7 days and be available to the user from all of their iOS devices.
I ask because I have multiple redundant backups, so a ransom ware attack would force me to wipe my disk and use one of my backups (losing a day or less of files at most)? Multiple redundant backups are needed anyway, so what is the net advantage of using ransomware defeating software?
I have a file that is 237153620 bytes long. Interestingly, Finder shows it as 237.2 MB. But we all know that's not true. Obviously it divides size in bytes with factor of 1000 (base 10) to get size in megabytes, instead of 1024 (base 2). Why is this so? Some screenshots:
Recently I am downloading movies from iTunes Store and books from iBooks Store. But one annoying thing that I've ran into these days are The Movie/iBooks store is unavailable. This is happening for a week now. I've checked the Apple's Service Availability Page but it says that everything is available. Here are screenshots:
I've found tons of places that describe how to get the window title and tab titles to reflect the current directory (relative to my home directory). Here is what is in my .zshrc:
How do I properly "eject" a thumb drive? I just uploaded about 26 hours of shows off of 12 thumb drives onto iTunes. Went to FILE, add to library, then when done loading, go to CONTROLS and hit eject, then remove drive. EVERY time it says failed to eject properly and shows the date of show, etc. What am I doing wrong? New Macbook running latest version of iTunes.
My Mid-2010 17" MBP seems to be running warmer than normal recently; I've read that fan failure is not unheard of on systems of this age, but I don't know how to verify whether one or both fans is operating correctly. I have removed the cover and checked that there is no obvious buildup of lint, etc., in the fans and they spin freely.
When you go to a website with a file uploader you click on a choose file and a pop up window appears with a sidebar similar to what you have in your standard finder window, however recently all of the options like Documents, Downloads, Pictures etc are no longer present, now I can only see ak52-macbook and remote disk. In standard finder windows I have all my standard folders plus custom ones that I added. I made sure in finder preferences that all of them are displayed. I could not find anything in the finder or chrome browser preferences regarding this so here is my question, how do I display all of those folder in the pick file to upload pop up sidebar?
I'd like to track my fitness more automatically than I do now, because now it's not automatic, so I don't do it. In particular I'm interested in getting an ANT+ odometer for my bike. I understand that the iPhone can read these, but it is not clear whether that means it reads it into the Health app, or I still have to use some 3rd party solution. Does anyone know of a meter that goes directly into Health?
Using Ubuntu installed as normal operating system, I can switch between windows by using alttab. I installed Ubuntu in a VirtualBox VM with a MacBook Pro/OS X as host. In the Ubuntu guest, alttab doesn't switch between windows. How shall I change the keys to do that?
I have a client who is only moderately comfortable in Xcode, and regularly has problems building the app I'm developing for him, or git conflicts, or other things that are very painful to figure out over the phone or via chat. Up until last week we were using the "Ask to share Screen" feature in messages. I changed my iCloud password, and suddenly this option is dimmed. I can't for the life of me figure out what I need to do in order to enable screen sharing.
I have an Apple TV connected via HDMI to a Pioneer VSX-S510 which in turn is connected to my Sony Bravia KDL-32W4000 TV. I have everything set to power on automatically, and I can control the receiver's volume using the Apple TV remote. When the receiver is off, because I have 'Standby Through' configured on the receiver, the TV plays the audio and I can control its volume using the Apple TV remote.
All of a sudden I've run out of space. On my 250GB hard drive, 236GB is used up with only 13GB free.
in bash in gnome terminal in Ubuntu, the command line editing commands are by default emacs-style, and can be changed to vim-style. In bash in the terminal emulator of Mac, the emacs-style commands don't work. Are the commands just those of a regular text editor?
Im new with mac and tried to install gcc / g++ on an MacBook Air with El Captain. I installed Xcode and used
My new iPhone SE will not save new contacts, either by Airdrop, text, email or direct entry. It acts normal throughout the saving process but the new contact does not show up when I open Contacts.
I've got an iPhone and I've got a USB camera. Is there any way to plug the camera into the iPhone and use it as the source camera for Facebook Live or other camera related items?
I store some sensitive data on encrypted disk images. Sometimes for convenience I mount one of these disk image files (.dmg) over the LAN and occasionally forget to unmount it. A problem arises where even if the client machine where it's mounted is put to sleep, the host still sees the disk image as being in use and will return the error: To gain access to the image I need to physically find which computer it's mounted on, wake it from sleep and eject the image. How can I force unmount an image which is mounted by a network client?
I'm using mobile more often than notebook, so would like to have an app converting videos.
When looking into behavior for overheating I am seeing other posts that say anything up to at least 158F (70C) should be just fine. Why might I see this behavior?
Assuming that the four or six digit unlock code to the phone is in the Keychain, where exactly do I find it? I see my passwords for apps but not the unlock code for the phone
I have an iPhone 5, which has the screen broken, so I can not type the passcode. After connecting the phone to PC, I wanted/tried to backup the data that is on the phone.
I own an apple Macbook Air early 2015 version, I am not able to connect it to my Sony HDTV through mini DP to HDMI converter. Can somebody Help?
If I run Pulse secure (or Junos Pulse) on my iOS device, this breaks functionality of TCP socket in background. I mean if application is in background it can't be woken up by incoming data if VPN client is running.
I always knew that Mac operating systems had a concept of "resource forks" but have just learned that this feature has in fact been deprecated since the arrival of OS X. I also just discovered the mdls terminal command that lists metadata.
I'm registered for getting Public Beta updates, but in the last 4-5 months, I'm not receiving any updates in the Mac App Store. I'm currently on 10.11 Beta (15A278b).
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.2 On my iPhone, mobile-mail is scheduled to fetch emails from my Gmail account every 15 minutes. I recently noticed that more than 15 minutes can pass - the longest so far was 24 hours - without mobile-mail updating my email inbox. I had mobile network and WIFI connectivity during those 24 hours. I have accessed the internet, used iMessage and WhatsApp, and updated apps. When I opened mobile-mail, it connected to Gmail and - to my surprise - downloaded 24 hours of emails. Before doing so, I could see that the notice at the bottom of the screen said that my inbox had last been updated the day before. How do I figure out which setting is preventing mobile-mail from fetching my Gmail according to the set schedule?
I was told that the grey screen with the progress bar upon wakeup indicates the machine was hibernating. I managed to get this grey screen to show up after disabling standby. I was also told I could check what state the machine woke from via the following command:
Is it possible to use Apple Pay alongside Family Sharing? Is Apple Pay restricted to just the family organizer, or can everyone in the Family Group use their own Apple Pay accounts individually?
On my mac, in activity process, there are two processes that keep on running even though I stop them. They are AddressBookSourceSync and com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService. Is it possible that they are viruses or am I just being paranoid. How do I quit these? I tried everything but it keeps turning back on.
I want QuickTime Player to auto-play a file when I execute that file from Finder. The default behaviour is to simply load the file and wait for you to press play. I found a default pref that you can set to force QuickTime X to play movie files automatically. How can you force QuickTime to play all its files automatically, regardless of their type (mp3, wav, aac, etc)
I am using a MacBook Pro Late 2011. I lately took out the hard drive and replaced it with a new one. The old HDD still has OS X installed on it, so basically I did nothing before taking it out. Now I want to access some files on it, so I have a SATA to USB bridge. When I spin up the drive, I can find it in Disk Utility and with diskutil list, plus in the system report under the USB tab.
Update: I was mistaken that the backups were unencrypted -- they are actually encrypted. I was fooled because Time Machine preference window includes the word "encrypted" below the listed backup disks, but only if the backup disk is plugged in. If the backup disk is not plugged in, Time Machine still lists the backup drive, but it loses the label "encrypted". Doh! In Disk Utility, I verified that the disk is encrypted with FileVault2; moreover, OS X prompts me for a password when I plug in the disk. Would still like to know the answer to my original question though.
Does OS X support Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDPMED) ? I've been unable to find any documentation for LLDP on OS X, and internet searches seems to indicate that it's only available through Open LLDP, which requires it to be compiled separately.
Some of the shortcut titles take up too much space and are truncated. System Preferences cannot be resized, so I cannot see the full name.
EDIT: managed to reformat the partition to JHFS+, after accidentaly creating another partition i merged the new and the old one i dint want, then it let me merge all of them together. I created a partition to originally use for linux. I gave it 30 GB and installed Linux no problem. Now I am in need for space in El Capitan and I can not remove the partition to give me more space. I managed to reformat it to HFS+ and it is not a corestorage(?) unit. Here are screenshots of Disk Utility and the output of diskutil list:
Is there a way to prevent iMessage from downloading all the messages and attachments to each of my Apple devices? If I send a video from my iPhone, it goes to my laptop, my iPad, the iPad mini, my iMac and my tower. I am on a Verizon hotspot so I pay exorbitant fees for bandwidth and it is useless for it appear everywhere and expensive. Or, is there a way of just blocking incoming files?
Sometimes when I plug a cable in to charge, the iPhone says it may not work with this device. How does it know it's not an Apple cable?
I tried Chrome Remote Desktop but it's very difficult to use, specially because the Windows screen resolution is much higher than the phone's and it has a different orientation. I remember Android used to have an app called Youtube Remote and I believe this functionality has been integrated into the main Youtube app, but it doesn't remote control Windows, only TVs. Is there anything similar to the old Youtube Remote for iOS?
I have a passphrase on my ssh id_rsa key, and OS X asks me for the passphrase the first time I want to use it, but even if I decline to add it to my keychain, it doesn't ask me for a passphrase again until I reboot. How can I make it ask me for a passphrase every time I try to use it?
I spent about $1,600 for Adobe Web Premium cs3 (Windows version) back in the day. How can I get this to run on my Mac without having to buy a Mac license? Sorry, I refuse to pay a subscription for new versions of stuff I bought and it still does the job.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro which I tried to set up for dual-booting OS X and Linux. It resulted in some unclaimed free space on my SSD, see screenshot below. Unfortunately, I am unable to reclaim that free space: It is grayed out and there seems to be nothing in Disk Utility that I can use to change that.
Looked around can't seem to find an answer. This thread is similar, coincidentally no answer too... *=URL=* TL;DR: How to delete some songs off my entirely-synced iTunes, iPod and iPad without doing them all separately?
As the title says - I need to do a factory reset on my iPad Mini, but I don't want to upgrade the iOS version while doing it. Is this possible at all or will I have to make do and upgrade iOS as I am factory resetting the device?
For some time, several months at least, my inbuilt Firewall (OSX 10.11.x Application Level Firewall as available via Security and Privacy Preferences) keeps on getting turned off. It will be on for "some period of time" and then it will be off as indicated by the Preference Pane. Sometimes after a reboot and/or upgrade it will be off (and sometimes on). Then it will turn off again.
From left, second one(to the right to Evernote) As well as the fourth one.
I dont know how I switched this off, but when opening message or composer, it no longer slides up from the bottom of the email client. I cannot see where to reset this.
I am a "family organizer". The card is set to be shared with the members of the family.
I am trying to understand the output of the who command. When I add the -H flag to print the headers, the second column ( the one signifying the users logged in) is titled LINE. I am trying to understand what LINE is. I am logged into my computer twice, according to the who command, but one of the lines is bad. To understand what that means, I would like to know what LINE is.
I have a question and need a bit of help. I do have my complete mails on my Mac since 2012. Now today Apple Mail crashes when I opened it. I looked up where the files are and I do have more then 105 GB of mails in the Library. Now - YES - I could delete all folders - which would take away all my infos from the past. I can't get in and archive or do anything. Is there any fix to that or do I need to start new ??
Long-story-short: When does apple typically update their hardware? As a prospective college student, I'd want to get new devices before college begins, but I'd also prefer to have the most up-to-date once I actually begin college.
I am trying to open a DMG file to install an OS X app. I get the error The following disk images couldn't be opened. Invalid Argument. I have tried to open other DMGs that I successfully managed to mount earlier and they are failing too. So the issue is not with the current DMG only. I restarted and that did not make a difference. I ran First Aid in DiskUtility and it reported that my drive was corrupt and needed repairing. I therefore restarted my mac with cmd + r pressed, selected Disk Utility and ran the repair. The repair failed after running for about 5 minutes. I would like to keep the contents of the drive if a solution exists that allows. What should I do now? UPDATE:
Normally to mount a disk-image, I would run the command sudo mount /path/to/disk/image /path/to/mountpoint [-t filesystem type]. This is what I would do for any Unix-like system, including Darwin/OS X. But, recently I noticed that when I double-click a disk image to mount it (which uses /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app), there is a new node created in /dev (/dev/diskX). If I use DiskImageMounter.app to mount a raw disk image with two partitions, they will be both mounted in /Volumes/MountpointsNameUsuallyUntitledAndUntitled2 and in /dev there will be diskX, diskXs1, and diskXs2. And when I mount an image with one supported filesystem and another partition that can't be mounted, in /dev there will be diskXs1, which will be mounted), and diskXs2, which won't. And the node in /dev (/dev/diskX) is identical to the original image. I presume the reason this is done is to handle the issue that the image might have multiple partitions and it might not be a raw disk image. How 
On linux USB-serial devices create two aliases to its serial port: /dev/tty* and /dev/serial/by-id/<my_usb_device_id> Is there a way on OSX to identify a serial port by the USB device id? Both in System Profiler and using ioreg -p IOUSB I can see the id, but that doesn't get me any closer to connecting using that id.
As a alternative to Preview I started using Skim, which is very nice and covers all the features I want but Skim handles bookmarks weirdly. All the bookmarks from every single PDF appear together in the Bookmarks menu (regardless of which PDF is open) and I have to manually make bookmark folders for grouping the bookmarks by PDF's which is tedious and also simple drag and drop doesn't work somehow (turns all the bookmarks into the same bookmark).
From time to time drag&drop and copy-paste stop working. Somehow the clipboard machinery gets messed up (I suspect Microsoft Remote Desktop is causing it). In the console I see the following sequence when I try to drag something: The console displays similar lines for every application that I try to drag in. What is causing this issue and how can it be fixed?
I've done a lot of research about this problem, but cannot find solution. My mac randomly gives an -50 error - nothing can be written and ReportCrash is using like 200% of CPU... Restart helps, but only for a short period of time. I thought it is HDD problem, so I bought brand new SSD, but problem persists. I reinstalled OS, nothing helped. I also downgraded from OS X El Capitan to Yosemite, but nothing helps. It totally drives me crazy, because I use my Mac for presentations for big audiences, and when it happens when I am presenting, it is horrible.
I wish to create a chart where you can compare how many awards a bunch companies have won over time. After collecting the data I now want to plot it in Numbers. To simplify I have put together some example data. Let's ignore the Award column for now and just focus on the first two columns. I wish to create a chart in Numbers that uses the dates from a column as the x-axis and then plots cumulative occurances of "Agency" along the way. Hope the example explains it a bit better. I'm no stats guy.
I'm familiar with Ubuntu where USB devices are mounted at /dev/bus/usb/xxx/yyy. Is there an equivalent for Mac, i.e. a file system location where all USB devices (not just drives in /Volumes) are mounted?
Let's say, I have time settings set to automatic update. With airplane mode on and off (both cases), would my phone update timezone automatically?
Monitor is switching between being black and turned off. The same when starting with Cmd-R. I clicked update, rebooted computer, and this happened. What can I do? I was updating to newest El Captain, probably, as I already had quite fresh version of it.
We found ourselves in a situation where a company supplied iPhone got linked to an employee's personal Apple ID account, and the phone is now useless to us, as the employee was terminated. Is there a way using Apple's 'Profile Manager' to lock the Apple ID that are tied to Mac OS or iOS devices to their company email address? We don't want people to be able to change that address. Thanks!
The two files I want to do this to are part of a set of files N files, half with no extension and half with an extension for which no application has registered any interest. So presumably something set a preference for the two files. I want to remove that preference.
If I let my mac run flat, when I plug the magsafe back in and power it back up, it boots up with the black background and apple logo, the first logins screen is slightly greyed, after entering my pass, the screen goes black, then the normal login screen appears, I have to reenter my pass to login, this version of El-Capitan is not the public beta. How can I resolve this or is it just a current issue with El-Capitan?
I recently updated to ios9 and it now wants a passcode. I've tried to restore via DFU mode, however iTunes no longer lets you JUST "restore" - you now have to "Restore & Update" which puts me right back to needing a passcode. I either never set one up, or it was 10 years ago when I first go the iPad. My apple ID and other "usual" passcodes I might have used don't work. I tried a second time doing restore and now just get an error message. Ideas??
For a few days, I only used WiFi. Then I decided to go out and as usual, record the route with "Motion-X." Motion-X was unable to find any satellites. A Garmin that I also had found ten or more and said accuracy two meters¹
I just (in June 2016) ran the following instructions to update Openssl (in /usr/local/openssl) on my Mac, but when I check the version, it's showing that I'm using a version built in 2015 (the System/Library/OpenSSL version). Question: what can I do to get my Mac (running El Capitain) to use the latest version I installed? The commands I ran to use the latest version: When I run openssl version in the terminal, it shows me this output (the important part is that it was built in July 2015 and is the System/Library/Openssl)
I keep my apps organized in the /Application folder by arranging their icon manually. But in El Capitan, SIP prevents the modification of this folder privileges so I cannot set it to read and write for my user and change the presentation options nor arrange icons manually. I do not really want to disable SIP because of all bugs that seems to happen by doing it (even if I quite manage OS X since a while).
My MacBook's brightness decreases even though I've unset “Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes” & “Automatically reduce brightness before display goes to sleep”. It does so within about 2 minutes, in a variety of apps, both when plugged in and unplugged. How can I diagnose and/or fix this?
EDIT: Added another Screenshot from Recovery Mode. Where you can see 1,11TB used for "Other". I had ~900GB free of disk space before this issue. EDIT1: I can succesfully boot so single user mode cmd + S. I did EDIT2: Output of gpt -r show /dev/disk0 and gpt -r show /dev/disk1
When I try to two-finger scroll in a matlab window, I get the error The proposed solution (as posted on the Matlab forum) seems to work just fine for Matlab running on Linux but it does not work for Matlab running on a Mac. How can I get matlab to stop giving this error?
Can anyone point me in the direction of a real-world performance comparison between a iMac 5k's internal SSD and an external one (ideally one on thunderbolt and one on usb)? Basically, I want to know how much performance I'd give up by buying a smaller built in SSD and putting most data on an external. Update I guess ideally what I want is something like *=URL=* but for the iMac 5k (so including Thunderbolt 2) and with the internal drive included for comparison. A comment asked what specific SSD models: Internal - Whatever Apple ships I guess External - Let's say a Samsung 850 EVO (*=URL=* But if the answer is literally 'there's no performance benefit to the disk being internal; that answers the real question (but I'd still love to see numbers). Update 2
I was given an iPhone but I don't have the Apple iCloud password. I don't use as the iPhone as a phone, so no carrier is enabled. I just use it with my home wifi. A message to enter the old users iCloud password pops up at times. Any suggestions to make the pop ups for past owners password to stop?
So I have been trying to connect my microphone to my iPhone 5s while connecting another device(a speaker) simultaneously. Is this possible in anyway? Also can I speak on the mic and hear from the speaker when I'm on a phone call. I know we have car headsets and car hands free speakers with built-in mic these days but I was just wondering if it's possible to use two different devices sinultaneously for a phone call.
This problem has bothered me for a few months now, but only in very limited circumstances. When I went on medium.com and tried to access my profile, when I clicked to open the navigation, the box dropped down for less than a second before disappearing.
None of our OS X client machines in our workplace query local DNS names of our servers properly after connecting to VPN. For other client machines – including Linux and Windows – it works properly.
I'd like to move my .bash_profile to Dropbox to have my custom Terminal functions available on all my Macs. Is this possible and are there possible implications? For example I have a command for doing a git add and commit in one go: I've been unable to find any information about this.
I'm considering migrating to OS X and I have a question on configuring its Mail application. In my current setup, I use Thunderbird configured to keep all sent and received messages from all my POP3 accounts in a single inbox folder, so I can follow my conversations in a nice thread, without having to jump from inbox to sent back and forth. I hope I've described it clearly, if not - I am going for something like this:
I am running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5 on a Macbook Air. Recently, on two occasions, I saw the Launchpad icon in the Dock jumping up and down a few times and then it stopped. On that moment I was not active on the computer. What could be the reason?
I am using iTerm2. I would like to have a keyboard shortcut which runs a command and types the output at the current cursor.
I use Optimize iPad Storage in the Apple Photos app for my iPad, but sometimes I want an entire album offline to show someone. Is there a better way to do this than flicking through the photos one by one and waiting for them to download?
I discovered this not so long ago, when I started using Skype. I get notification sounds even though my speakers are on mute. The same thing happens with email. Suddenly there's a notification/alert sound for everything during mute. Is there a setting where I can disable this "feature"?
I have noticed that I cannot see all the episodes of a podcast in the feed section, even though I see it on the podcasts website. Can someone tell me how I can access the older episodes ? I'd like to watch some episodes not being shown on the app but available on the website. Thanks.
I will receive a new SSD very soon (Samsung 850 EVO 500gb). My question is, will it be possible to transfer all my data from my HDD(I have a time machine backup of my computer on the airport time capsule).
In Chrome's JavaScript Console, I can type the following: I can then access myVar from the window context, where it returns "myValue". Excellent. However, if I do the following in Applescript:
I have a work iPhone 6 that I just updated the latest software, and didn't realize that entering my personal iCloud information would result in receiving SMS's being sent to both personal iPhone 5S and work iPhone 6. I removed the iCloud and created a new iCloud account, and now get some SMS's from other people, and not all SMS's sent or receieved are showing up on the work iPhone 6. How do I remove my work iPhone 6 from the iCloud so it doesn't continue to show sent and received messages from my personal iPhone 5S? (Maybe the SMS's still appearing on both are from other iPhone users?)
So I recently bought a AOC monitor. It has a VGA port so I used a mini Display Port to VGA adapter and connected it to my Macbook Pro. Now the problem is that Macbook detects an external display, but there is no output on the display.
I have an external sound card that I plug into my computer through USB. Is there any way I can tell OS X to always default to it as output when it's available? Even if I plug it in while the computer is already on? I use OS X 10.10.1.
OS X has a feature where you can create a keyboard shortcut for switching to a particular desktop / space. However, there isn't an obvious way to use a keyboard shortcut switch to directly a full screen application. Is there a way to do this? A few other people have asked this, and there have been some suggestions, but I haven't found one that accomplishes what I'm asking:
I am installing a self-created certificate authority SSL cert onto a modern (iOS-9.3.2, iPod6) iOS device. It is self-signed and obtained over an untrusted transport. In normal, e.g. desktop, environments, I’d be able to print out the certificate’s fingerprint or view the fingerprint to verify that the certificate copied to the device is the same as the one I created. For example, on any unix system:
I've purchased a Mac OS X app (outside the App Store) that seems to have arbitrary limitations based on the Mac OS X version. It is fully functional on El Capitan, but has a few features that it simply won't allow on Mavericks. One of these features is pretty basic — reading / writing a preferences file — so I'm guessing the developer simply wanted to narrow down the range of testing scenarios when implementing it, rather than it actually requiring Yosemite / El Capitan functionality. Question: Is there a way to start a Mac OS X app in a manipulated environment such that I can supply specific values of my own choosing when the application calls methods like [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] operatingSystemVersion] or isOperatingSystemAtLeastVersion or whatever?
The left arrow key on my 2014 model Mac Air has been acting weird, so I took off the key cap and hinge to see what was going on and I discovered that the tiny piece that looks like a nipple (or a suction cup, if you will) is not attached to anything. I took off another small key to see how it should be. The nipples under other keys are firmly attached to either side of the key hole, but this one is kinda loose. As a result, the key works but you have to push really hard on it.
Is there a simple way to limit the use of a specific application to a certain amount of time (for instance one hour per day)? To be more specific, I use a Macbook with OS X 10.10, on which there are several accounts, one for me and one for my daughter, who is a Parental Controls account.
If I delete a photo from my iCloud will it also be removed from my devices that are connected to my account?
For some reason my Mac's keyboard has changed fro British English to US English. This means that when I need to do a "£" sign I need to hit option+3 rather than shift+3, which is pretty irritating.
I am running Ubuntu in Virtualbox in Mac OS. I found that rightclick in the guest Ubuntu, by tapping the trackpad while pressing ctrl key, doesn't work. E.G. it doesn't show the menu for file properties and removal option, when right clicking a file under Nautilus. it doesn't show the menu for file properties and removal option, when right clicking a file under Nautilus. in chrome browser, when right clicking a link, it doesn't show option to open it in a new tab. in chrome browser, when right clicking a link, it doesn't show option to open it in a new tab.
How do I hide all unused rows in Excel? I hate that if I scroll to fast I do not stop at the end of the data. I am running Excel 15.
My phone is switched off and I want to boot into airplane mode directly, without going online for even a split second (so quickly booting and opening control center and tapping airplane isn't an option as I'll be online for a few seconds). How do I do this? (and no, I don't have a practical Faraday cage or somewhere with no reception available)
In the contextual menu (right click) on a folder or file object in the finder will give you the option to select "Services". I wonder if there is some way to move those services into a button on the toolbar. In particular I would like to add "New Terminal at Folder" to the toolbar. Anyone have any idea how to do this?
I just recently enabled Filevault on my 2011 Macbook Pro. As long as I do not run out of battery El Capitan let's me enter my password and log into my computer.
I'm looking for a policy setting or a creative solution here. Is there a way to restrict the wifi networks an iOS device can connect to? We have business issued iPads, but are worried that they can be taken off-site and access company data elsewhere. If we could restrict that only the company wifi can be used, and no other public or home networks, we could mitigate this security concern. Ideas?
Since updating to OSX 10.11.3, I have found Photoshop CS6 will not load, as well as several other programs. Others include Hugin, possibly Dragon Dictate 5 (not resolved or confirmed yet re VP updating), Bamboo digital tablet, and a few others.
I am learning Russian language and I was wondering if I could add a Russian-English dictionary to built-in dictionaries of iOS. I want to be able to look up Russian words in iBooks app without leaving the app.
I want to install FreeBSD 10.3 as a virtual machine on my Mac mini with 10.11 via xhyve. I found this tutorial. But I don't get it to install. When I run the install script I get this error.
Both of them output similar voltages. iPhone 6 charger outputs 5v and iPad Air outputs 5.2v. The current on each charger is different - 2.1A for iPad and 1A for iPhone. What do those mean if the actual current is dependent on the load? How come an it is rumored that an iPhone charges faster with an iPad charger?
In previous versions of iTunes there was a info panel available when selecting my mounted iPhone in the left sidebar this panel showed all kinds of useful information! for example, when the last sync/backup was! this panel showed all kinds of useful information! for example, when the last sync/backup was!
In terminal I use escB or escF to jump through the words. If I want 2x back I've to do escB twice. Otherwise I just start typing F or B in Terminal.
Is the reason this bypass of *.local, 169.254/16 on my MacBook Pro OX S El Capitan computer the result of me giving my wifi password out to my neighbor?
The second HDD got a 240GB that Carbon Copy was using to daily backup, now I'm using an external HDD so I'll use this space to Windows. The rest of HDD is an OS X volume for everything that does not fit inside the SSD (extra space). So diskutil reports this info:
My macbook has a high cpu usage because of one process and i don't know why. This is the process all the time at 130%
My ~/Movies folder is empty according to both the Finder and Terminal.  I've never seen this before. In case it's relevant, this is a 2012 Mac mini running the latest version of Yosemite. It runs a few services, including file sharing, FileMaker Server, calibre, Time Machine and Plex.
All - how can I share some of my iTunes music (not purchased via iTunes) with my kid? Virtually all of those are ripped from CDs. I still have the CDs but I don't want to rip them all again. Thank you.
There's a thin black bar that doesn't show anything along the right side of my macbook air's screen (I dropped it). Is there a way to resize things so that osx doesn't use that part of the screen at all?
I have installed Ubuntu in VirtualBox under OS X on a MacBook Pro. The laptop has 16 GB RAM, and I assigned about 11 GB to Ubuntu, because I thought that most work would be done in Ubuntu anyway. But some said that I have to give OS X sufficient RAM, to maintain Host regular operations. Is 5 GB too little for OS X?
I own a small iPod nano 5th gen that I really like.  In order to try and troubleshoot a small, non-blocking bug that it seems to have, I would like to take screenshots on it - I would assume that storing them and transferring them to a computer wouldn't be a problem, since it shoots videos and has a camera roll. I couldn't find this info anywhere and I'm wondering if that's even possible, but if it is, I'd like to know how!
What I'm trying to do is redirect all requests to a certain service or port to a specific IP address with IceFloor as the frontend for PF. In the example I'm posting en1 is my only enabled network adapter, 192.168.0.1 is the server I'm trying to redirect to and port 53 is the port I want to redirect all traffic for to that IP.
How do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my Windows desktop without going through an external network? I used to be able to plug the phone into the computer with a USB cable and it would show up as a drive in Windows Explorer, then I could right click and select "Import Photos and Videos". But now after I installed an update to iTunes, it's not showing up in Windows Explorer any more after I plug it in.
I have changed the color in my profile, but some text is still black. How can I make all black text inverted, or any color that's visible? I'm including screenshot of my preferences and the issue. The second terminal screenshot is the result of highlighting, to illustrate the problem.
I currently own a Macbook pro (Retina 13",mid 2014) 2.6GHz Intel Core i5 8GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 Intel Iris 1536 mb 3 x 22" Samsung Monitors. 2 of them running through Thunderbolt to DVI-D adapter. The 3 monitor i have tried using both a DVI-D to HDMI convertor and USB to DVI convertor.
Without using a 3rd-party application, how do I go about changing the icon in the sidebar for the Developer folder? When I click on "Get Info" for this icon it's showing the icon does have the hammer icon but it's not showing in El Capitan in the sidebar when I add it over there? Does anyone have a solution or can refer me to an article that will provide me with some direct information on how to add/edit this?
I always use one USB flash disk on my MacBook Air (OS X 10.10.3), but I lost it recently. I need a way to view when the last date & time the USB device was connected to the computer.
My girlfriend always used Picasa to import photos from the camera, but since upgrading to OS X 10.11 El Capitan that doesn't work anymore. Using Photos.app, she is able to import the photos, but they're hidden away in a Photos Library file which Photoshop cannot open, meaning she cannot add photos as a new layer.
I have an iPad mini, non-cellular, without GPS. Yesterday, I had opened the app RATP. In the app, I had a map. I took my iPad outside, in Paris. I opened my iPad. I still had the map. And — surprise, surprise! — the iPad showed my location on the map. When I moved, the iPad showed my new location! How is this wonder possible?
I have removed the Transmit app (ftp program) by drag and drop it to my trash including the other files of the application in the Library folder ~/Library and empty the trash. Then I found out that there is a file was not thrown away, which is 'com.panic.transmit.sfl'. I tried to delete this file to, but when I want to drag it to the trash, the trash will be changing to an eject arrow icon. When I double click the file, I have to options: delete alias - this doesn't do anything - or recover alias - that will open a dialog where you can select a file - but I don't know which file should connected to it. Also the file doesn't have a path, but when I search in ~/Library for transmit the file appears in the finder.
A sloppy workaround is to create a CIFS share of the folder to be mounted, and (calling a custom, one-shot variant of smb.conf) limit its permissions in Samba just-so, such that it is not public, and has the same permissions as the target location, exactly the right file and directory mask, etc.; then mount it that way. But this would be inefficient, since it would be using the bletcherous Windows filesharing protocol, plus creating a visible share that shows up as a mountable volume from the SMB server, to anyone who can access this machine though SMB/CIFS (even if they cannot actually mount it). The Mac GUI will probably also represent it as a volume being shared.
One day my older Macbook Pro (which is now not in my hands) started asking for iCloud password with text "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with mail@mail.com." but I kept postponing it. The device is running El Capitan. The deal is I don't want the person who was the mac in their hands now (I'm not sure I had a log out after 5 minutes set to on) to read my messages and I was hoping that this would mean they simple would not receive them on the mac - because it kept asking for my iCloud password. And a tiny subquestion #2 - can I check to see when was the device last logged in?
For right clicking, there are two ways when using the trackpad Control-click, i.e. tapping the trackpad while pressing Control key two-finger-tapping Can they be used exchangeably? If not, when to use which?
I have checked almost all the "messed up the fusion drive" posts and don't find any close one to my situation, so I decide to ask a question and hope someone can help me, especially @klanomath :) Here is what happened: I connected my mom's iPad with MacBook Pro 17" Late 2011 running OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 and doing backup then I go to sleep. Next day my mom just pulled her iPad out, later I get up and find the MacBook Pro just with white screen and can't do anything. I turned it off and restart it, the loading bar runs really slow and without finishing loading the laptop shut down automatically. Then I boot it with OS X Install USB and tried to use Disk Utility to fix the problem and it can't even read the disk. After which, I used the Terminal to get this information. I don't have a Time Machine backup so if all the data could be recovered I would really appreciate it!
Using right/left/up/down keys with Fn key can do the same as page down / page up / home / end on a PC. Some mentioned about using right/left/up/down keys with either option or command key in *=URL=* . What do they mean under OS X? Thanks.
I'm new to OS X and I don't know too much about it. After installing Folx on my Mac I realized I didn't like it. I tried to remove it but the plugin didn't remove. When I download any file with Safari it gives an error for the Folx plugin. I've searched and found this website that shows how to uninstall Folx. I can't find the uninstaller file in downloader.mac.dmg. How can I remove Folx completely?
I can't play some keys, such as H when on Octave C1, H and D when on Octave C2 or J and K on Octave C3. When I press them, I get no sound. If I manually place the notes out and then listen to it with Musical Typing open, it visually plays them. Anyone know how to fix this?
Is it possible to run two external monitors with WQHD resolution (2560 x 1440) with a Mac mini or with a MacBook Pro via DisplayPort? According to Apple website the Mac mini is capable of handling two external monitors with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px. But I ask myself whether this resolution is the total maximum resolution or the maximum resolution for each of the two monitors. I'm running two Dell U2715H (supporting DisplayPort chaining).
Recently I got a iPhone 5 with iOS 9.3 installed. On connecting it to my computer iTunes said that I needed at least iTunes 12.2.2. I had 12.0 at the time. Mac Running Yosemite. I clicked download, and App Store launched, and said I had no updates available. Went through this loop several times. Called Apple.
I installed Ubuntu via virtualbox under Mac OS. My keyboard-shortcut experiences with guest Ubuntu until recently were the same as mine with Ubuntu installed directly on a computer. For example, text copy can be done by ctrl-C, instead of Command-C. Yesterday, I found that right-clicking by tapping the right region of the trackpad in the guest Ubuntu doesn't work, while two-finger tapping does work like right-clicking in PC.
I try to remove windows from my Mac. When I open Boot Camp Assistant and click continue, a notification appears.
Whenever I create a new playlist a new design is showing up. The problem here is, I can't edit the column browser anymore i.e. create a new column or change its order or size.
I migrated my iPhoto library to Photos 1.5. Where are the original image files stored? I've searched the file system for specific file names and don't find anything. The menu item 'show referenced file in finder' is greyed out.
I am planning to make my app free with ads but include an option to remove ads. Can I automatically give the add-on to all the previous buyers?
For as long as I can remember, iTunes has had bugs that will split the songs of an album into multiple albums with the same name when one edits the album name. This happens infrequently and seemingly randomly, and could usually be mitigated by selecting the offending tracks, renaming the album and then renaming it back to the correct title. But now I have this:
In Activity monitor, what do App Memory, Wired Memory, and Compressed mean? For example,
So I'm trying to move my music from my old iphone 5 (purchased in the US) to my new iPhone 5s (purchased in Canada). My music is backed up to my iCloud account and basically when I got the new phone I added my apple account so everything (apps, notes, texts, emails, photos, vids, etc.) transferred except for my music. I've been carrying both phones so I can listen to music but that's really cumbersome.
I have a 2012 Mac mini running the latest Yosemite that I use as a server for file sharing, FileMaker, calibre, Time Machine and Plex. The Finder reports that the internal drive has a capacity of 499.25 GB with 48.03 GB available. Listing the drive's contents with all folder sizes calculated looks like the following (having used defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE in the Terminal):
I keep getting a message on my PC that my iCloud is almost full. I moved the photos on my phone to my computer by cable and store it in my photos. Can I remove iCloud from my PC, and still keep it on my iPhone and iPad? If I remove it from my computer, will I still be able to keep iCloud on my iPhone5 and my iPad2? I want the photos to work between my iPhone and iPad2 only. I can email my photos I take with my phone to my computer or I can connect it to a cable and just download it directly right?
I noticed when I was checking a notification the other day that even when I was using 4G or LTE data, my phone just showed the Wi-Fi symbol, even when I turned Wi-Fi fully off. I am on an iPhone 5.
I would like to write a script (AppleScript or shell script) to open a URL such as which then launches iTunes and play a radio station. The problem is that all the commands I found will first open a Safari tab and then redirect to iTunes for the playback. Is there a way to not have an empty Safari tab/window left after launching this URL?
I'm looking for a way to search for multiple keywords on Safari. I assume it's not really possible on iOS but I'd love to be able to do it on OS X at least.
OSX 10.11.5 iMac turns on fine but loading bar gets to just over 50% and then a horizontal bar across the screen shows, then the screen goes black then to white. It stays at white then iMac turns itself off and restarts. This happens every time I try turning it on, booting into the backup, booting into recovery mode, and even rebooting from single user mode: the iMac will still be showing the terminal doing its thing the the line appears and mac goes to a white screen then reboots. Booting in safe mode and resetting PRAM and SMC have done nothing. Any ideas? or tips on how to backup any data and reinstall OSX from single user mode?
When I set up the port forwarding to my static IP address, I also wanted to change which port the router uses to accept ssh traffic. However, each time I change the public and private TCP ports on the base station and try to connect with ssh by specifying the router port-something like ssh Kyle@123.45.678 -p 1234-I get a connection refused.
When using Google Chrome in incognito mode on iOS on iPhone, it signs me out from Gmail after one or tow hours: how can I prevent it?
There is one App installed in my iPhone, that is news App. Now, whenever I connect my iPhone to Mac, I get notification also in Mac. What may be the reason ? I want to get rid of this.. EDIT 1
I'm pretty new to mac environment. Recently my mac mini is updated to OS X El Capitan from OS X Lion, due to which some of my software are incompatible.
have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015). When I connect to a meeting on hangouts, the cam keeps going on and off (the green light goes and off as well). I'm saying hangouts because that's the tool I use for doing such things. Do you know if there is a way to fix the problem? (for now I'm not considering it to be an hardware problem)
I am having troubles with finding driver for my Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. I checked the version and I have a BCM5701 chip. These Broadcom drivers don't support my adapter. I want to get it working under my second PC Lenovo X1 Carbon with Windows 10 64-bit Where can I find drivers to this ?
my Mac goes in kernel panic for reasons unknown to me, log from diagnostic report: can someone advise what to do? What I did: I ran the test (hold D when mackbook start and that test told me everything is fine) Config: MacBook pro 13" retina mid-2014 UPD: I noticed that the Mac dies when connecting charging UPD: Another log after crash
My Macbook's HDD is starting to show signs of age and I'm considering replacing it with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I know and am comfortable with the actual hardware replacement, but I heard that the newest Mac; OS El Capitan, has some "feature" to prevent using third party SSDs. Something to do with TRIM if I remember right. I would like to know if that is an actual problem or if I can go ahead and make the purchase. Thank you very much!
When viewing the Camera Roll in a friends iphone I am able to see many pictures. However when viewing the same folder in Windows Explorer I can only see a small number by comparison. My friend uses iCloud also and syncs to it and the pictures appear to be all there. The issue is that she wishes to copy the pictures from the phone to local PC storage to clear space on the iPhone memory.
I did change the tempo, but it is smart enough to keep the same tonality. How can I tell it to ignore that?
I have just bought a MacBook Air Mid 2009 and i'm surprised about the speed it uses battery during sleep. Here are the technical features : MacBook Air 13" Mid 2009 (MacBookAir2,1) Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 2GB RAM The battery has 528 cycles.
The Panic can happen any time no matter what I do on it like watching videos/movies, listen to music, browsing on the internet etc... But when I do heavy stuff like working in Photoshop, editing videos and such I've noticed that it happens more frequently. Some times it can happen up to 20-30 times a day. Because of it being a computer I've bought in connection my previous study, I do not have any warranty on it anymore, and there is no Apple Stores in my country where I can bring it to. At first I thought it could be a software-related problem, so this is what I've tried to fix it myself: Removed and/or reinstalled apps the Kernel Panic report told was the reason for the Panic Always made sure that all the apps and the system was up-to-date Cleaned up all my documents and files ..and followed a lot of different tutorials with no luck
I already asked this question on Apple's community forum, right here, so I'll post the answer here if something comes up there first. This is my problem :
In my scenario, I wanted to use dd to copy the contents of a Windows 10 USB installer onto an image file to test if it works. The original windows 10 image was only about 5GB. The newly created image however had the size of ~16GB, which is the size of my USB capacity.
I am writing a little cli tool to recover data from iTunes Backups. How does iTunes encrypt its Backups?
Is there any way to view the call history and message history of my iPhone which I have given it to my daughter because she deletes everything every now and then. I can't check the mobile again and again as a father I can't do this.
I noticed that I wasn't able to view my iCloud storage usage on my MacBook Pro running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5. To attempt to fix the problem I signed out of iCloud, but now I'm no longer able to sign back in – it displays You can't sign in at this time. Try signing in again. I also cannot sign in with another Apple ID. Additionally, I haven't been able to install anything from the App Store for a few days as it doesn't ask me for my Apple ID and password, and perpetually displays the 'throbber':
If you hold down a letter then OS X will show you options for accented versions of that character. This is very useful when typing in other languages.
Lots of documents, like this one, refer to the "Open Scripting Architecture Reference," which sounds useful to me. But I can't find it anywhere. Googling the title gets lots of non-authoritative links where people have posted old PDFs of what presumably is an earlier version of the same thing. Where is it?
I was using Safari when I got a pop-up saying you got a virus(7) click on ok to delete this virus and I clicked on ok because I thought I really had a virus but it said type your phone number. Should I type my phone number in or not. I tried to look up how to find and delete viruses but it is mostly Android and Microsoft products.
I have this strange bar at the bottom of my Dock:  What could it possibly be and how could I remove it? It is non-blocking but distracts me when using the Dock.
My phone is backed up daily, so all my pictures...are in my iCloud account. My phones screen completely shattered and part of the body is warped and I am waiting for my replacement phone to get here. My first question is, how do I erase my device as I cannot use the screen at all and Itunes wont let me access it without the "phones" approval or can I just delete it from iCloud settings? Second question, if I erase my phone/delete the device from iCloud will all my stuff be erased in my iCloud account as well?
Since I recently upgraded my iPhone, I wanted to try the Continuity features that the Apple ecosystem has to offer. However, since I have a mid 2010 iMac, Handoff is not supported. I've been looking for unofficial resources, and have reached no conclusions.
So I think I downloaded a program from Avatron called Airconnect. I'm not sure, but their website was purple when I looked it up. Anyway, now everytime I check my activity monitor, com.avatron.airconnect.daemon is taking at least 25% of my CPU. What have I done.
I have liberated an old 2006 Mac Mini (Model: A1176) from being thrown away and wanted to use it as a Time Capsule for my other Macs. To do this, I want to install Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS to roll my own Time Capsule over my home network.
I am on El Capitan OS X. I want to be able to hit some keyboard shortcut and then have today's date be automatically outputted. Example: When I press Option + D, "2016_06_13" is pasted into the text field. The date would be automatically calculated based on my time zone.
I am running OS X 10.10 Yosemite which happily runs my Adobe CS 5.0. When I upgraded from 10.8 to 10.10, I had to install Java SE 6 runtime.
My IPhone 5 is frozen. I cannot turn it off and when I try to restore it wont let me because it says turn off find my phone.
Is Xcode 7.x functional running macOS Sierra to submit builds to iTunes Connect?
I'm trying to identify a friend's iPad Mini. I know the model number from the "About" screen is FD528LL/A. Unfortunately, I don't have the model number from the back of the iPad. Is this an iPad Mini 1, 2, 3, or 4?
I have a macbook pro running 10.11.5 El Capitan. I have it connected to two external monitors -- one using HDMI, and the other using thunderbolt to HDMI. These two monitors are also connected to another computer using DVI cables. I'm also using the audio output jack for the macbook. When I switch the monitor to use the DVI input for the other computer, several things happen on my macbook The mouse and keyboard input freezes for about 3-5 seconds every 3-5 seconds. Video freezes intermittently, roughly corresponding with the mouse and keyboard freezes. Audio works fine without any freezes until I switch the monitor back to the HDMI input for the macbook, then it is completely muted and the volume control is greyed out until I unplug and replug in the external audio jack.
Despite what I thought, there does not seem to be any concrete/modern answer on the net, so my question is: where does the last command get its information from? I have found the file before, but months ago, and I can not remember where it is. So what is the directory of the file where last keeps its log? This is technically the same as this question, except for one thing: "/private/var/log/com.apple.launchd" DOES NOT EXIST on my mac (perhaps it was pre-El Capitan-only) as proven by the fact that
I've searched everywhere but couldn't find it , Would you please guide me where I can find the default MAC Osx sound alert file for new email Regards
Is it possible to use multiple credit cards with your Apple ID and switch between them? This is a common option with most online merchants, so I don't see why Apple wouldn't have this as well. For me the issue is that I have a private credit card I use for buying apps, music, etc. and a company credit card for paying for stuff like iCloud Storage. I don't want to manually have to update my credit card info each time I need to make a purchase with the company card.
Is there a list of officially-supported Mac models on to which macOS Sierra can be installed? I presume it is the same as OS X El Capitan as there does not appear to be many changes which would warrant removing some models of Mac from the supported list, but I can't seem to be able to confirm this.
My phone was replaced yesterday, and I've since been trying to restore it from the backup I made just before it was replaced. I have no greyed out apps, and all my photos are back, but it says I can't install the newest iOS update or make a backup to iCloud because it's still restoring from the iCloud backup.
I can't reinstall El Capitan from AppStore because of this:  and CmdR only suggest to reinstall macOS Sierra.
I want to resize (shrink) the capacity of the backup.sparsebundle to approx. the size actually taken up the files. I already compacted the image: My system: Disk image size: Volume size: The problem is that hdiutil doesn't allow to shrink the image, because the target size is below the content-min-length allowed: Here are the limits: The values are in 512 sized sectors, so the minimal size is (800587800 * 512) = 409900953600 bytes or 409.90 GB.
I'm creating an AppleScript Script Library, and want to call some Cocoa methods on NSString. I created an .SCPTD file with this method:
This is the error I am getting at the moment when I try to log into iMessage. The same error occured when using FaceTime. I can use my appleID for the Appstore. Do you know what I can do about this?
I went to terminal and typed in rm -rf hit return and then dragged the application to terminal. Once it showed me the path of the file I hit delete. Then terminal came back and said (-bash: /Applications/AVG AntiVirus.app: is a directory)
I'm facing a weird problem with my 6S 64 gig device running iOS 9.3.2 (with no problems for over a month now). Multiple apps have their data reset to a freshly-installed like state without any reason. I'd open an app and see that it shows me the welcome screen and initial setup, much like you'd see when you installed the app.
I am trying to add a background image to iOS app. I am not sure about the dimensions of the image for the 1x, 2x, 3x. I want the background image working for all screen sizes.
Quick easy question - if iPhone iMessages are synced to Mac, then somehow you get logged out of messages on the Mac, would any iMessages sent by your phone while you were logged out on your Mac show up on your Mac when you log back into messages on your Mac? Or are those messages sent while you weren't logged in just on iPhone and there will be a gap in your Mac messages for the period you were logged out?
With El Capitan, the Terminal app can automatically create marks, and bookmarks. However, there seems no obvious way to delete a bookmark that one's created (by accident). How can one delete a Terminal window bookmark?
I have been using a USB powered laptop cooler for a few months now and every time I plug it in it has been showing the warning "USB Devices disabled. Unplug the device using too much power to re- enable USB devices." and all USB devices have been working just fine. I haven't been able to spot any difference in the other USB devices' behavior therefore I wouldn't consider it a problem. I was just wondering whether it is something I need to pay more attention towards or it is just fine to leave it like that.
My mail-list panel usually shows but 5 or 6 previous emails with the message panel below. Was looking for a specific email and dragged the panel bar down to expose more previous emails. I "bumped" the bottom of the window which effectively closed the message panel . Now, I can't get the message panel back??? I move cursor to bottom of window and get the up-arrow-on-a-bar cursor but it doesn't close up the mails-list panel--cmd click, ctrl click, right click, nada. How do I get my message panel back? Clicking Window>Message Viewer does nothing. Yes, I use, and prefer, classic layout.
There is a site that in Chrome that repeatedly comes up with its "Aw, Snap" page. It's really bothering my co-workers that it's loading up fine in other browsers but not in Chrome repeatedly.
I need a good bi-directional file/folder sync utility for my Mac running OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I have tried some options but none seem to perform the tasks exactly that I need. What I need is this:
I'm trying to install Phoronix Test Suite. Once I cd to the folder it downloads, I try sudo ./install-sh which gives the error ERROR: /usr is not writable. Run this installer as root or specify a different directory prefix as the first argument sent to this script. I thought that sudo would run the installer as root, so now I am stuck as to what to do next?
I have an Early 2015 Retina Macbook Pro 2.7 GHz i5, and it does not work with certain displays. I first tested it with a display(call it display A) Mini Display Port to DVI cable which did not work. Interestingly enough, when the display was turned off, my Macbook was able to detect the display fine; but when truned on, the Mac was unable to detect the display. When I tried to connect a 2010 Macbook Pro, it worked perfectly.
Mac's Page's templates seem to be stored in: Library>Application Support>iWork>Pages>Templates>My Templates However, when I use Pages and wish to choose a template, what's available is different than what's in the Library folder. Can anyone explain this discrepancy? Thank you.
I got a call from a phone number that is not stored in my address book, and in the call log, under the number, a name was suggested: "Maybe: X" (where X is the guessed name). Where is this guess coming from?
I want to use "curl" with "do shell script" in an apple script. It already worked some months ago, but then the provider changed to https-only service. So I update curl on Mac OS Terminal: So it works in Terminal and gives back the right answer: But when I try to call the same command via do shell script in Apple Script it responds this:
I have MBP Late 2013 and El Capitan 10.11.4 installed. But i have got a serious WiFi Connection dropping problem for a while. It is quite irritating as you may guess.
I have an iPad Air that has Office 365 applications installed on it. I use MS Word very frequently and my files are all saved to OneDrive. I use the iPad Gmail application to send emails and I would like to attach my Word files (saved on OneDrive) to emails, but the iPad Gmail app does not let me select OneDrive files, just Google Drive. I figured out that I can 'export to Gmail' Word files from my iPad Word or OneDrive app which is great, but there is no 'Save draft' option if I do not want to send the email right away. To summarize: Is there a way to add OneDrive as an attachment selection option in the iPad Gmail app? When 'exporting files to Gmail' how can the email be saved as a draft without sending?
So I'm trying to find ways where I can easily control cursor position on my iPhone. I want to position the cursor just after the u in the work "cuck" and correct the spelling. Any ideas on it came be done --without-- resorting to jailbreak (which is not even possible on my version anyway). Thanks :)
So one of our consultors recently told us that Apple rejected their hybrid app because "It has to contain at least 60% of native code", which of course is hard to accomplish if you decided to go hybrid in the first place. I haven't been able to find anything about this anywhere. The official guidelines mention no clue about it. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks in advance
So I'm trying to obtain something like this DVI to VGA adapter or a DVI to HDMI adapter. The tricky thing is I need to obtain this in 32 hours for a job interview, so it looks as though mail order is not an option. Transferring files to another computer might be an option, but it would be a little more awkward.
In the Accessibility preference pane of El Capitan's System Preferences, I've noticed a "Differentiate without color" setting that I didn't notice before.  Does anyone know to what extent this setting will change the experience of Finder? I couldn't find much in the help and the only link I found about this was very succinct (I can't believe this setting only acts on the dots of this exemple). I would love to know exactly how toggling this setting would affect the Mac's OS display, and its apps.
In El Capitan's Accessibility Preference pane, there is a setting for Video Descriptions:  After looking here and there, I couldn't find very many informations about this feature. I understand that it might be a feature developed specially for people that are visually impaired, but as a person who produces films and videos, I would love to know more about this.
I am under the age of 18 so I can't get into the Apple Developer program. I am forced to just use my free developer account and I have been for the past year. Today for some reason I am getting this error: The maximum number of apps for free development profiles has been reached.
I use a lot of text replace on iOS + OSX, but today I woke up and my OSX El Capitan has lost it's text replace list. I have about 40 different text replaces there (long urls, bankaccount numbers, addresses etc), and they're on my iPhone but I'm wondering how to force-slam them back onto OSX, without having to copypaste one at a time from my iPhone to iCloud Notes and then to the Settings -> Keyboard -> Text replace? Also, does anyone know if these are actually on the iCloud at all?
Apple recently announced a new file system for Apple products, Apple File System (APFS). Amongst the characteristics, is Nanosecond Timestamp Granularity. Sure, this sounds impressive, and is a great improvement compared to one-second granularity of HFS+. Lee Hutchinson writes that: Nanosecond timestamps are important in a modern file system because they help with atomicity—in a file system that keeps a record of writes, having nanosecond-level granularity is important in tracking the order of operations.
I know I can remove __MACOSX in a zip file by: but I want to remove it in all zip files, I tried but it says
I've been trying to access the Myspace website and am receiving this message - 'www.myspace.com’s server DNS address could not be found' I've tried using Chrome and Safari and keep getting the same result. This is happening on my phone as well.
Basically the other day I left my macbook unattended at a coffee shop while I stepped out for a smoke. I feel as if I had something exfiltrated from it while I was outside. To cure my paranoia, I am making this question on due part. Can anyone tell me how I can view some kind of history or log file under OSX El capitan (if there is any) that can show me all USB devices that were connected to my macbook during a certain time or date?
Apple announced iOS 10 during WWDC 2016. It looks amazing so I wanna install iOS 10 on my iPhone 6s. But I don't have a developer account of Apple.
I have very slow Mac with an HDD (MacBook C2D 2.24Ghz/2.40Ghz) and there is no possibility to install El Capitan or Yosemite (very,very slow). I want to use a newer Xcode to learn programming though. Is there a way to install a newer Xcode with OS X (10.9) – maybe there is patch for Xcode or some hack for exec?
I have run out of space on my 13" MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2015). I used DiskInventoryX to see what's taking up so much space and I saw that a folder in my Library was over 50 GB.
Apps won't close when clicking the red close button in El Capitan. The "open indicator" stays on the app icon, the icon stays in the dock even if "keep in dock" isn't checked, and the app shows up in alt-tab. This is very odd to me since in Yosemite they closed just fine. I don't mind so much if the app stay open in the background, but if I use every app in a day and close them all, they all still look like they're open. This is confusing, and to me makes the close button no different than minimize. In fact, if you enable "minimize windows into application icon," the close and minimize basically act the same. Is this a bug, or a change? Any idea how to fix it? I saw a post recommending to uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps," but this option seems to be gone.
My ex-husband registered my iPhone and I have found out he has been using iCloud to check up on my every move (the iPhone he got me is connected to his iCloud account). Will he have been able to read all of my personal text messages exchanged through the iPhone? And is there anything I can do to prevent him from reading my messages in the future?
My MacBook Air had a Time Machine backup of my 60g partition on 80g partition of SD card. The drive needed reformatting, but when I tried to restore the TM backup after disk was erased, CMD-R wouldn't boot the SD card--it would see it but not boot. Now, I've destroyed that TM backup and completely started over both with a new encrypted 80g system partition (OS X 10.11.5 El Cap) on the Air, and 95g Time Machine partition (exfat) on the SD.
How do I turn off Num Lock on my MacBook Pro when I can't log in to get to System Preferences?
Since the last Update of the new Mirrors Edge Catalyst game, I can't play it anymore as it requires the new AMD 16.20.1025 or newer drivers. My config: iMac 5k late-2014 27", 24gb RAM, 4 GHz Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB, Windows 10 Pro (Bootcamp) Bootcamp doesn't list any available updates, and when I download the default Windows 10 drivers from AMD website, there is always an error message and it can't be installed :( I know that actually the drivers are always customized by Apple, but I bought this game online a few days ago and now I can't play it at all anymore.
Recently, a friend of mine who borrowed my old iPhone 5 informed the that he was able to listen to all my old as well as new voicemails (so they were updated on the iPhone 5 as well). Before I gave him the phone I did the following: Erase all contents Log out from my Apple ID remove all connections / log out from all accounts on the phone (iMessage, ...) Remove the phone from my Apple ID (via iTunes) Erase all content & reset the phone (* during that process, the phone did not have a SIM card inserted.)
I am running OS X Server on Snow Leopard (10.6), but I believe this same issue affects newer versions as well. (If the problem can be resolved by switching to a newer version, that would be welcome information.)
So I have an iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3.2 and recently, I have observed this very annoying trend. The phone switches off automatically when the battery level is around 15-25% [It always happens in this range].
I have an iPad 4 and I've searched everywhere for the answer to my question. And every website I've been to has given me the exact same answer. I've tried over and over, but it's not working. I've tried resetting my iPad, and I even bought a new iPad recently, and it's doing the same thing. I couldn't figure out how to add an image to my question, so I set my profile pic as a screenshot of my password settings.
I want to use internet only via Wifi, and be asked if I want to use the internet via my SIM (3G or so). How can I do that? Is there a setting for it?
This is an inconsistency I've found compared to Apple docs on this, and to all the answers in forums online, and to another laptop in my care, similarly configured. My user account is an Admin account.
I'm trying to figure out how to get some music on my iPhone SE from my Macbook. I have the music on my Macbook drive and I can listen to it in iTunes. How can I sync it with my iPhone and make it available on iPhone even when connected to internet or to my mac?
Using command line on Mac, I know that I can encrypt a directory with the following command: However, this does not encrypt the filenames themselves. If someone runs:
Although right click in chrome is generally working - as shown in screenshot - it does not (with any kind of reliability at least..) on links.  Instead when right clicking on a link it just opens .. the same behavior as left clicking. I really want the context menu to come up instead - in particular to use the Save As option.
I want to schedule Airplane Mode during the night (10PM–6AM) on my iPhone. How can I do that?
Disk Utility shows the disk as 251 GB unformatted with a child count of 3. Running diskutil list shows me the children, and they look correctish. output of gpt -r show /dev/disk0: output of diskutil cs list fsck output:
Weird and long story short: I am travelling around South America at the moment and am in Bolivia right now. Yesterday a taxi driver suddenly offered me a well working iPhone 6, with the front screen a bit broken, for a ridiculously low price (35$). I didn't want to take it at first -- his story was that a druken English tourist dropped it in his cab a day earlier. He saw me hesitate and brought his price down to 25$. At that moment I figured I might as well buy it and try to find the owner again, to give it back. Couple of things: the iPhone is SIM locked (no idea with which carrier), and presumably Activation Locked too.
How do I restore missing emojis to the English keyboard on my iPhone 6? They were there, and after a reset of my phone and restoring it from a computer backup, the emojis are missing. I tried rebooting my device and that didn't work. What should I do?
I have a Macbook Air 13" 2013 that won't power up reliably. I spilled coffee on it a couple of weeks ago and that knocked it out of commission. I was able to get it to boot up a couple of times and everything else worked fine on it. I decided that the power button was probably the issue so I ordered an upper case to put in. I have that case on it now and I still can't get it to power up reliably. Every so often if I shake it correctly it will boot up and everything will work but hardly through the power button. Does the logic board need replaced? or maybe something else?
I have 6 instances of httpd running, and they respawn after I kill them. I tried the solution provided on this answer , in my case, sudo pgrep -fl httpd to find out what process is creating them and got this as a result:
When I opened the folder of previously paid-for apps on the AppStore in order to download Yosemite, I inadvertently clicked the "X" mark next to the "Download" button. This removed Yosemite from the list. Any way to get it back?
I have some iTunes music files that are all capitalized letters and others that are normal small case letters. Instead of me going through and renaming each capitalized music file’s data is there a way that I could make iTunes default all music files and their data to small caps? …a way in Terminal or through and the iTunes Music Library.xml file, or…? I have swapped out the iTunes Music Library.xml file and the iTunes Library.itl file with new fresh files from an unused iTunes from another computer, but when I reinstall music files back into the Music folder it goes right back to being capitalized letters even though I had changed those large caps to small caps earlier.
I cannot get Mail to open everytime I accidentally try to open it it takes forever and never actually opens and then asks if I want to reindex or just reopen - I have tried both options with no results. I usually have to force quit it as it just freezes everything. Anyone got any ideas?
I use Chrome mostly and bookmark often. I would like these bookmarks automatically synched into Safari. Is this possible?s
I have a 57GB photo library that I would like to keep in iCloud Photo library, the only problem is that my ISP absolutely murders my download speed whenever I'm uploading anything. Is there a way that I can schedule Photos to upload my library only during off-peak hours (rather than waking up at 2am, un-pausing the upload and then pausing it again at 7am manually). I was thinking maybe a third party application like Little Snitch might work (I've never tried it) or something along those lines, maybe even some kind of Apple Script. I'm a bit over my head with this so I need some help
I did the image dump of an X window by using /opt/X11/bin/xwd, e.g.: Now, how do I open this file or convert into JPEG file? Probably I could use pnmtojpeg, but it seems it is not available in Homebrew.
I found an old copy of Adobe CS4 that I had tucked away. I decided to install on my 2014 MBP as I was interested in running Illustrator for some vector images I was wanting to use. It required that I install legacy Java SE 6 runtime. I did so, but looks like I'm still having issues so I decided to get rid of it. I've uninstalled Adobe, but I'm not sure how to get rid of the deprecated java version as I have no other use for it. There do seem to be guides on uninstalling Java, but I don't want to do this as I still need the current version for other applications.
Often, when I touch an iPhone 6 screen control the control highlights, recognizing that it's been touched, but the control doesn't activate to perform its intended function. Is this an intended mimic of 3D touch? Is this a feature of iOS (9.3.2), or of the running app? When it happens I have to touch the control longer for it to take effect.
I noticed the readyshare shared device has popped up in my finder windows. What is readyshare?
I have been trying to learn to control my computer through command-line, and keychain access is what I am trying now. I have been using the security command, and attempting to get my wifi password (I know it of course, but getting it through terminal is the challenge). From what I have read on other Stack Exchange pages (like this one) and this often referenced site,
Would it work if I run Siri on OS X El Capitan by copying Siri.app from macOS Sierra to the OS X El Capitan? Just want to find out what exactly would happen even though OS X El Capitan doesn't support Siri.
My mom has an iPhone 5 with some exercise videos in the Videos app, which just total about 150MB. After getting an iPhone 6S Plus, can those videos automatically transferred to the new iPhone through iCloud sync? I believe the new iPhone is set up as a new iPhone but not "restored from backup", and it may keep the new iPhone from having older stuff that isn't needed. But just the videos, can they be sync'ed by using iCloud?
I want to insert my existing SIM card from iPhone 4 to iPhone 6s Plus. I want to know if I remove the SIM card from my existing phone, will the data and photos and contacts and whatsApp chats will be deleted or will it remain in the phone? Please guide me on this.
When I open up QuickTime Player to record, where do I find the option to record a part of the screen? I have checked the little down arrow, nothing. I've been trying to find a way but no luck.
on OSX, I am using applescript to get a latex string from an application (OmniOutliner), process it via a python script that calls pdflatex and pdfcrop, and paste the final cropped pdf back into OmniOutliner. See details on github. Since I upgraded to OS 10.11 El Capitan and TexLive-2016 I have been running into a weird problem: applescript calls the python script that calls pdflatex, that all works still fine, after I changed the paths pointing to pdflatex. now, when I run pdfcrop from either within the python script from within the applescript set com to {"source ~/.bash_profile; cd " & presentDirStr & "; python create_latex_pdf.py " & strNoteQ} do shell script com or directly from within applescript: ` set com_pdfcrop to {"source ~/.bash_profile; cd " & presentDirStr & ";/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfcrop temp.pdf"} do shell script com_pdfcrop I get the error error "sh: /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfcrop: is a directory" number 126 now, when I run pdf
It would be faster query dictionary with middle mouse button click instead of right click then select "Look Up" menu. Is it possible?
If App Store tells you that an app supports Wallet, is there a way to know how exactly? I have an app from my car insurer and it apparently supports Apple Wallet but within the app I cannot find any Add to Wallet buttons. Is there a way for Wallet to add the app itself?
The only thing I've got going for me right now is that I managed to mount the broken boot disk onto my 2010 MBP and decrypt the volume, figuring that one less obstacle can only help (took 8 1/2 hours, but completed successfully!). I can read the files on this drive, so I haven't lost data per se. Once decrypt was done, I ran repair_packages from terminal on 2010 MBP on the mounted (broken boot) disk - it found some errors and repaired them. fsk_hfs also completed fine with green lights.
a friend of mine has an iPhone 3GS and is swtiching to an iPhone 4S. Now, she's tried to backup all her WhatsApp chats using the WhatsApp backup, but it gets stuck. So I'm thinking whether iTunes backup may do that too. I know iTunes backups everything on your iPhone, so if those chats are on her iPhone it should work, isn't it?
I want to add an additional key binding for Google Chrome. I want to switch between my Tabs not using (Shift)CtrlTab (really bad finger position) but use ShiftCmd -> or <-
Is there any way that my iphone can register that it's near enough to my mac to shut off notifications? I'd love to be able to get notifications for an email when I'm away from my computer, but just let my computer tell me when I'm near instead of hearing 2 different notification sounds. I understand I can turn off the ringer and have it work, but a proximity feature would be best. Example: I'm upstairs away from my computer, the alerts tells me that I have an email. 2 minutes later I go down by my computer and another email comes in, and my phone doesn't make a sound.
Are there any smart workarounds to disable autocorrect automatically -- or near automatic -- while using an external keyboard on iOS? By default iOS provides no way to do this as seen here on the Apple forums.
As the title says, I have a bunch of .pages docs from my previous MacBook Pro (running El Capitan), and they are not opening with the pages app on my MacBook Air (running Yosemite). The error message being displayed is: “Doc_Name.pages” can’t be opened. Below is the screenshot:
Is Back to my Mac an encrypted and secure connection? Is there a good technical explanation how it works? Would you recommend to use it to connect to a home server via VNC?
I'd like to automatically turn off all access to the Internet (through Wi-Fi & Mobile Data) on my iPhone when locking it. I don't really like to get notifications from different apps when the iPhone is locked. However, I do want to get all these notifications when I'm around and playing with it—so, basically, when I unlock my iPhone, I want to turn access to the Internet back on again.
While it's nice to have a laptop that can charge over a standard cable, USB-C is not yet ubiquitous. USB-A is: you can be sure that whatever hotel room or office you visit, you will find a place to plug in your USB-A charging cable.
I turned on my MacBook Pro, typed my user password, but it restarts instead of logging in. Now I'm stuck with the guest user and don't have a clue about what to do to access my user with all the files and everything I had saved. Someone please help me!
I have a MacBook Pro 2011, i7, 8 GB RAM, Apple SSD, but I don't know if the display is Retina or not. I also got two monitors. I am using a Thunderbolt cable to connect the first Monitor. Can you please tell me what is the name of the port between the Ethernet and the Thunderbolt port and if it's possible to use it to connect the second Monitor? This is the photo of the MacBook Pro.
Do I need two different passwords for my iPad (first and/or second generations)? Are they two separate password protected accounts: one for my login to a device and a second one for iTunes? I keep getting an annoying popup to sign in to iTunes. I don't have or ever bought anything from iTunes. I tried to put a new pswd.in for iTunes and it changed my login Apple ID instead. This pop-up comes up on the Ipad -1 constantly (every 60 seconds) and doesn't on my Apple 2 iPad with the on same Apple ID and password.
I've been swiping around the home screen on my iPhone when I see the text under the Facebook logo switch to cleaning..., but it's nothing that I made it do, is there any way to tell an app to clean itself?
I recently got a Wacom graphic tablet, Wacom Intuos Art with multi-touch feature, this is my first ever graphic tablet, and I immediately fall in love with it, the stylus drawing side of it. Here is the thing, before I buy, I am keep comparing it with Magic Trackpad's touch capabilities. The only gesture of the Wacom tablet that I feel really close to work like Magic Trackpad is two fingers fluid scrolling. The others, like mouse tracking with one finger, can't really track small movement nicely/precisely, only large movement will work well.
I have a mac and am using terminal to try out the dig command. I was trying to use the dig command from a tutorial, which stated that if I use the syntax given below I should get all the information needed, instead I get the following output. But when I use the command I get the following output So my question is why doesn't the first command work the same way as the second command?
I have the below SD card reader that imports photos and videos to iOS photos app. Is it possible to import .wav files onto my iPhone using the Apple lightning port SD card reader?
I installed iOS 10 beta 1 on my iPhone 5S but now I'd like to go back to the release version of iOS 9.3.2. When I go to download the IPSW file for iOS 9.3.2 from www.ipsw.me I am presented with two types of IPSW file, one for "iPhone 5S (Global)" and one for "iPhone 5S (GSM)".
The charger is the one for the MacBook (29W) and the iPad is the 9.7 inch Pro. Can they be used together without damaging the iPad battery?
I dropped my iPhone and shattered the external lens. The internal one was scratched, too.
Maybe somebody else is having this same issue? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) running OS X El Capitan. For some reason, anytime I unplug the laptop from the Thunderbolt Display, it will shut down. I need to hit the power button for it to come back to life. It shuts down pretty quickly most of the time, although I've seen it stay alive for 5-10 minutes at the most.
I'm trying to use an Apple TV to show the camera on an iPad on 2 projectors. The projectors will be about 50 feet apart. Is there a way to have the iPad show up on the 2 projectors?
I am planning on giving my iPad to son. I want to reset it for him but, first, I want to offload the photos and contacts onto my PC. I have found that if I use the iCloud, as soon as I shut iCloud off, all the photos and contacts are gone from PC. This is a pain. Can anyone help?
I have an iPhone 5S and I am looking for a way to mirror my screen to the TV. I was wondering if I could use the hotspot on the phone to connect my PC (on the TV) and the iPhone, to airplay to the PC, which mirrors to the TV. Thank you!
I just submitted a gift card on my apple id and wanted to purchase an app. After pressing buy it asked me to enter my security questions because it's my first time and I have forgot them. I have forgot my security questions and I couldn't find a way to reset it online, apple's page says I can reset it online but it seems recently they have removed the option to reset it online and they only give you the option to call them . I wanted to ask if you guys know any way to reset security questions without calling apple. Or if you know any way to purchase an app without answering security questions Thanks
We already known that Command-Shift-3 will capture a screenshot of entire screen. But if you have 2 or more display screens, "entire" also means "all of them". The question is: Is there anyway (or is it possible) to force Command-Shift-3 capture screenshot of primary display only if I have more than 1 display screen? Any help would be appreciated.
My data plan is with T-Mobile and I have to reset my iPhone 6s but I'm worried my data plan with T-Mobile will also get erased. So, has resetting an iPhone any impact on a data plan?
As Xcode 8 beta is available to download, I see it's distributed with a .xip extension, Xcode_8_beta.xip. What is the .xip format? What's the difference between previous .dmg format?
I have an iPhone 4 and I'm borrowing an old iPhone 5s from a family member. I understand that they have two different types/sizes of SIM cards but would I simply ask my carrier (Verizon) to send me a smaller one or would it be more complicated?
Is there a way for Applescript to open an Excel workbook (.xls) that is password protected? I see that in the library there are functions to check if a workbook has password, but I do not know the proper syntax for opening a wb with password protection.
I had an issue with my MacbookAir 2014 last month and I had to erase my hard drive and restore from Time machine backup. Since then, fan of my mac is always making noise. To test what happend, I installed Mac Fan Controller app and now this is what I see. Min/ Max value of fan is same. If I want to update it, I get this error message: Something is wrong - min/max fan values are equal(6500)
I'm trying to update the available Default Replies on my iWatch, for replying to SMS/iMessage messages. Everything I've read tells me to go to the Watch app on the iPhone, go into Messages, go into Default Replies, and change them there.
I want to create an access point using MacBook and investigate the traffic with Wireshark. But when I create it using "Create Network..." none of my devices such as an android phone see this access point in the list of all available WiFi networks. What am I doing wrong? The version of OS X is El Capitan.
The former owner of my iPhone gets a notification every time I receive a text message. I did "Reset All Content and Settings" I am signed in under iCloud (and did sign out the previous owner.) Under Messages > Send & Receive only my phone number and my iCloud-email are listed. What else could it be? It's an iPhone6.
On the newest iPhone, do cell phone carriers have access to FaceTime call data (such as which caller initiated and ended a FaceTime call)?
So, the trackpad started moving around randomly by itself; sometimes clicking around. It was dangerous so I disabled the trackpad from here: I've tried: Mac restart SMC reset PRAM reset Fontnuke Clearing some settings and caches Messing with the preferences
I previously changed the settings of which folder to save screenshots. Now I want to go back to the default settings, storing it on the desktop. I have read what to do, in Terminal enter:defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Desktop/ then killall SystemUIServer.
I wanted to inspect DHCP messages. To produce them I issued these 2 commands:
Anyway, today, the monitor is detected as a generic display again. I tried everything to make OS X detected the monitor as an LG 20M35 but I couldn't. Could you help me please?
Starting yesterday, all of the sites I use frequently that have a "copy" button that copies text to my clipboard no longer work. I can still highlight the text and cmd + c to copy, but would really like to know why the browser buttons are not working. This occurs in safari, firefox and chrome so it isn't browser related. Running OSX 10.11.5 13in MBP retina It is also a company computer, so please no solutions of erase and reinstall OS.
For about a year now I've been using the Photos app my MacBook Pro (OS X El Capitan 10.11.5). Before Photos, I used iPhoto for a couple of years. I only started using Photos once it shipped with newer OS X installations.
Successfully disabled System Integrity Problem. Please restart the machine for the changes take effect
I'm using an iPhone 6, running iOS 9.2.1. Recently, I experienced an issue with my iPhone email client. I hit "Reply All" on an Email A, composed my reply message, and hit "Send," but the email that was sent had some very incorrect information.
I have 2 external displays connected to my MBP via two MiniDisplay port adapters for DVI cables. Sometimes when I unplug them, then plug them back in, only 1 display is recognized. When this display is unplugged and plugged back in, the screen becomes "scrambled", and computer becomes non-responsive. The only solution is to power it off. What is going on? I have a Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2015, OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5
So I have recently switched to Mac from Windows and I like to have the dock always visible when I'm using programs (probably because I'm used to the Start button toolbar in Windows). I don't use the green full screen button, I just double click the title bar to make the window cover everything.
This worked and I no longer show any Windows info Disk Utility but today when I restarted my Mac it booted me up to the Windows blue screen showing that I need to run disk repair again just like it did before I removed the partition. Does anybody know how/why this is still coming up (especially as my startup disk)? I would really love to get everything Windows off of my computer without having to do a fresh install of El Capitan (ver. 10.11.5) since I just did one a few weeks back. Here is what I show when I run diskutil list in Terminal: Here is what I show in Disk Utility:
My girlfriend's brother just ordered a new iPhone 6s and he tried setting up his phone but the store I believe keeps asking for a password for a Japanese registered email address. Assuming that's not meant to happen. Any reason this is happening? Is the phone refurbished or stolen and not new? Thanks for any info
I have a Macbook Pro 15 inch 2009 running OS X 10.10.2. I want to update the OS to El Capitan but the App Store won't open - nor will Safari, Contact, Calendars etc. Chrome seems to be one of a handful of the apps that are opening fortunately. I've already tried the following: 1 - Opened Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist and deleted it 2 - As above but for Safari because apparently Safari, App Store and iTunes share the same history and preferences? 3 - Created another user but encountered the exact same problem. 4 - Tried running this command on iTerm (because Terminal wouldn't run either)
I'm interested in replacing written-out colors with their actual representation. The example is shown below is on Apple's website, and I can't seem to find a way to do it within Xcode. I'm afraid that something so useful might just be a marketing gimmick. If not, how do I do what's to the right of
It's working well, but I notice that it's using a lot of processing power. The fan is often whirring, and SMC Fan Control shows me that the temperature hovers above 90 degrees celcius.
I have some files on my drive. I want to access to my .md files and some specific folder one click. I wanna pin them to my Dock. What is the best way to access that files? Thanks in advance!
Under Settings > iTunes & App Store there is no Password Settings option for me on my newly activated iPhone 4. From reading this article, it seems this might be a bug and that I have to turn off Touch ID to access this setting. But iPhone 4 has no touch id. The hardware isn't there, nor is the software.
I've been using Dictation in TextEdit for several months now. Yesterday, out of the blue, it stopped working. The microphone icon appears and it responds to my voice, but no text appears. I've been using it with "Use Enhanced Dictation". I tried unchecking and checking again,turning Dictation On/Off, and switching languages (English (United States) and English (United Kingdom)) but this did not help. What is wrong?
I have an iPhone 5C, and I left it in the charger for >25 minutes to recover from a dead battery within the last 8 hours. It will not turn on. The charger works. It can charge another iPhone (6 Plus). The iPhone (5C) shows a dead battery with charger when not plugged in. When it is, it shows a dead battery without a charger. I have not had any water damage, ever. I don't know if there is a way to force power on an iPhone. iTunes does not recognize it, but the iPhone does charge from the USB port it is plugged into. For 25 minutes it has been in an Apple USB wall adapter block. There are no signs of physical damage. It is iOS 7.x or 8.x, but not 9.x. It did not have 3D touch, if that helps. Note: I am using a non-Apple charger that has worked before in the same phone. Thanks in advance!
disk0s1: EFI (where GRUB is currently installed. I'll say more about this later) disk0s2: OS X disk0s3: Recovery HD disk0s4: Windows 8.1 installed with Bootcamp Assistant, I deleted it later to install Debian. My current partition layout: disk0s1: Same as before, but with Grub installed at: (mount point)/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi disk0s2: Same as before disk0s3: Same as before disk0s4: ext4 partition with Debian / disk0s5: swap partition for Debian I was able to get GRUB installed (I don't remember exactly what I did and I tried to reproduce it but did not succeed which is why I'm asking here).
I have been trying to find an answer to this online, and the closest I have come is this question: Very long login times in Mac OS X. It does, however, not replicate my issue exactly.
I use Terminal.app and a tmux session. Without tmux this command works. I googled that and found Unable to use 'open' command in OSX tmux from 10 July 2015. I did that and have still the same error what is reattach-to-user-namespace supposed to do?
Is there a way to know which daemons can be changed without a negative outcome? Or to install software with an app like Pacifist to customise which daemons get left out? I just want my Mac to run smoother, and the daemons in question cannot be quit once open, and deletion usually corrupts the app— replacing is the only way I've found to circumvent the hogging of resources.
I use vi on mac os x at work and on Ubuntu at home. I like the colorscheme vim uses on the mac and I'd like to copy the corresponding file on ubuntu, but I can't find it, since there's no ~/.vim folder. Searching on the web I always find the answer "create it", but this is not the point, since I just want to see (and copy) an already installed colorscheme.
I have a mid-2012 MBP and I have done ye standard mod of replacing the original HDD with an SSD and shifted the original HDD into the optical drive bay. I then installed OSX (or should I call it MacOs now?) onto the SSD and wiped the original HDD ready for bootcamp. Now Bootcamp would not install to the HDD in the second bay, and the recommended steps from Apple was to disconnect the SSD temporarily, install Windows and then plug it back in. Worked a charm.
Is it possible to fix a MacBook Pro display glass for a cracked one of a MacBook unibody? Since they have the same dimensions.
Which processor architecture was used in mid 2010 27'' iMacs? (iMac11,3 - EMC 2390) The CPU is an Intel quad-core Core i5 CPU, 2.8 GHz. I'm trying to find out if it supports the AES Instruction Set natively at the hardware level, because it would significantly speed up File Vault encryption. So far I've found that it could either be Clarkdale or Lynnfield, but only the first one should come with hardware support for AES.
I have a VM with Windows 10 Educational Edition. DaisyDisk shows it uses 135,8 GB VMware Fusion manager shows a total size of 119,1 GB Windows 10 (VM) shows only 80 GB How come it shows different sizes in DaisyDisk, VMware manager and the VM and is there any way to reclaim the missing space?
I saw an issue with my MacBook Pro running El Capitan with Chrome running that the kernel_task went haywire and started sucking up all the available CPU and the % cpu just kept climbing to where it was in the 30,000+% range and the computer was nearly completely unresponsive. Eventually, I had to force a reboot, because the shutdown command appeared to be making no progress. On reboot, it restarted chrome automatically, and again, the cpu started climbing. I forced reboot a second time, and Chrome did not relaunch, the computer started running more normally, I was able to relaunch chrome and not reload the tabs and all seems ok now. What was going on? Was there some kind of malware or virus coming in through a website on one of the Chrome tabs? I have Sophos anti-virus installed and running on this machine. Should I be concerned that my machine is somehow compromised now? Is there a way to determine what program, driver, or plug-in is causing the high CPU load?
For my kid's account on OSX El Capitan, I've turned on Parental Controls, with the Web settings to "Try to limit access to adult websites". This causes non-adult websites to fail to load. For example, edx.org works for a while then inexplicably, Safari/Chrome can't access it. The same happens with nytimes.com. ping and traceroute to these sites eventually fail also. Why?
I'm traveling internationally and I'm removing my SIM card. Even if I don't have my phone number connected to my iPhone by the SIM card, will it still be connected to iMessage for people to contact me through? Should I tell them to text my Apple ID email(s)? Or well I still be able to receive the messages if they text my phone number?
So when you drag and drop a file, while you are still holding it, you can move the file to say on a folder and hover there for like 2 seconds and that will open up the folder for you and you can continue to navigate using the same method until you are where you want to be and release your mouse to finally drop the file there. Now the hover takes like 2 seconds, that is way to long. Is there a way to decrease this time and make this procedure faster?
This should max out one core with some intense floating point calculation. But when I check as it runs:
I am using a Mac (OS X 10.10.3) that has a Windows and an OS X partition. From Windows, I shrunk the Windows partition using diskmgmt.msc freeing up about 60 GB. I would like to expand the OS X partition into this free space. Disk Utility seems have greyed out the size field of the partition.
Here's the dilemma: My nephew decided to start a new game on GTA vice city which wiped out my hard worked progress. I have the progress in an old backup from a year ago. However, I would like to not lose the data I have from other apps. What I have: iPhone5 iOS 9.3.1 What I have tried: iExplorer and iPhoneBackupBrowser
How do find out which number you dialed after the call when a contact has multiple numbers associated with it. On an iphone
I'm wondering if there is a Terminal command or AppleScript or any sort of app that can scan a collection of MP3s, WAVs, and FLACs, and determine if they are corrupt. iTunes skips songs once it hits a corruption, instead of freezing, so my folk suspicions lead me to believe there is a way to use this functionality to scan files silently at speeds faster than 1x and root out the corrupted ones.
Is it possible to change a package directory into an ordinary directory, and how? I was copying an old iPhoto library to my "~/Pictures" folder from an external drive, but I somehow made a mistake as only the subdirectories of the iPhoto library were copied over.
Instead of that person not knowing that they have been blocked, is there a wayto set up your iPhone to send an auto-response to someone that they have indeed been blocked? Similar to email when one goes on vacation, they get an automatic response that they will be out of the office. Does anyone know how to send an auto response to someone that has been blocked?
I dont' want it done automatically, I just want to get a bunch of screenshots from the phone to the Mac (OS X El Capitan). I plug in the phone but only iTunes starts up and I can't find any photos in it.
If I get an Apple Music subscription, can I still keep the songs in my iTunes library without moving them to the cloud? I ask because I understand that Apple Music will swap your songs for the closest thing in its library. I'm fine with this, except that I have a lot of classical music and I prefer the specific recordings and interpretations that I've been collecting for years. Will I still have immediate access to these tracks? Also, if Apple Music doesn't have the song I'm looking for, can I still use iTunes to download it? Thank you.
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with built-in SuperDrive. MacBook Pro is running OS X 10.11. I am trying to erase a DVD-RW disc that is filled with some images. But the erase option is greyed out:
I want to buy a macbook pro in the near future, but choosing the configuration has been a headache for me so far. My options are : Macbook Pro 13" Retina 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz 16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage Or Macbook Pro 13" Retina 3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz 8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage Or MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x4GB 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
i have MacbookPro with retina display, model A1398 I have to buy a new charger and I'm not sure which to buy (EU - Bosnia)? :/ On the Internet I found that the original chargers manufactured by a Delta Electronics.
It takes about 300ms after a three finger drag for it to take effect. I notice the delay because an actual click drag releases instantly
Any good apps/tools for OSX that will convert an entire folder of mp4 videos into audio files?
When copying or moving files in Yosemite, Finder says it is preparing (for example) 400 items, when there is actually only 200 items in the folder. This has been happening a lot recently, on both my computer and external hard drives. Once the files have been copied over or moved, it has the same original amount of items in the new folder (200). I am just perplexed as to what these other secret files may be?
I have some backup HDDs with around 500GB in files. I want to back these files up in the cloud, but I don't want the iCloud folder taking up space in my mac (which has only 256GB). Is it possible to use iCloud as a storage solution for old files I don't want in my computer or is it supposed to only be a synced backup of files in my devices?
... no files are found. If I try searching for them via Terminal:
I have an iPhone 6 which never asks me for a password when updating apps, but my iPad 2 asks me for a password on every single app update if I want update apps individually even though I have the same restrictions settings on both devices (installing and deleting apps is allowed). Both are running iOS 9.3.2.
I noticed this a while ago: I used to be able to click on the title bar of applications like Preview or TextEdit and rename or move the file opened at the moment. Now if I click on the title bar nothing happens.
A family member's iPad 2 (WiFi), which is connected to my old Apple ID has been locked with a message that says she has to pay $30 to someone online. I said not to pay and I went online, logged into the iCloud account that was attached to the iPad, and removed the Lost status so she could unlock it again. However, the iPad is still in Lost mode because it can't connect to WiFi (to receive the 'unlost' command from iCloud) and to connect it needs to be unlocked. There is an option to enter a passcode but the old passcode didn't work.
I was attempting to use an Internet dongle but it wasn't working so I followed some steps online to try and get it to work. I reinstalled El Capitan on to my MacBook but when I returned to recovery mode my Macintosh HD had disappeared. I fear I may have accidentally formatted it in the process and there were no backups in time machine. Now my Mac only turns on in recovery mode and when I try to reinstall the software - I've given up hope on restoring my files - the only drive that is there is a base OS X drive which means there is nowhere to install my software. I'm currently on holiday so can't even take it in the Apple Store so any help would be really appreciated!
I want to record a short video of the app I'm developing. I'm using QuickTime and iPhone connected via lightning cable.
A week ago I had installed avast antivirus plus avast vpn for about an hour. That exact moment I encountered this trouble for the first time. Then I uninstalled avast by clicking on the uninstall avast icon. The problem still persisted. Then I didnt switch on mac for a day. When I did the problem was gone and mac was back to normal. And i started downloading el captain on appstore. Then I switched it off and restarted after sometime. The problem returned and the downloading showed error. Then again after 2 days I tried same technique and the internet was alrite. But after i switched it off and restarted the problem began again. I am not able to view any websites other than the above mentioned ones. Nor am I able to download any apple apps or update them on appstore. I have tried Pram, safe boot, Nvprm etc..... (I can view websites in safe boot mode but not in normal mode)
There are two of us with Mac book pros working on the same project and we'd like to connect our work to one one single monitor as we work to be able to share ideas and build the presentation we are working on together... how can we do this?
the Photos app on Mac is really nice, but it shows the oldest pictures first, so I have to scroll to the bottom each time I open it... and I have lots of pictures. So my question is: How can I reverse this order and see the newest pictures first? And can I do that across all platforms? Thanks anyway!
On a MacBook Air, running OS X El Capitan, can two different Users login to their own User Account while accessing their own individual and different iCloud Accounts?
I use my Macbook Pro 15 (mid 2015) with two Asus PA248Q monitors. It has Intel Pro gpu. I was just wondering that does it matter heat wise if I keep the lid down? The hinge seems to have some kid of deflector for the fan so it should push the hot air out. I was just wondering that can I even stress the Macbook Pro 15 so much that it would cut off and shutdown at emergency heat limit?
My iPhone 5 suddenly ceased using iMessages. The phone is unlocked, has ios 9.3.2 installed, I have very few apps installed, and no new apps installed recently. When I go to Settings > Messages > iMessage and try to toggle, I get the following: iMessage Unavailable Turn on cellular data or use Wi-Fi to set up iMessage.
Please forgive my silly question but can videos be edited on FCP via external HDD? My MBP is running out of storage and I want to start learning video editing where all everything is to be done through external HDD, no SSD involved. Possible? Thanks!
I accidentally hit command/underline and it made the print super tiny. I tried doing command/z to go back and it didn't work. I'm a 73 grandma and bit challenged technologically. Can you help?
I am not familiar with the right jargong or semantics but will try to explain it as well as possible. I have a Time Capsule which I use as an external drive to save media. I use a MacBook to access the data. My problem is that my MacBook isn't always "fully" connected to my Time Capsule.
On my Macbook Pro, I prefer the secondary click to be "Click with two fingers", but the closest option that exists in the Trackpad Preferences is "Click or tap with two fingers". Is there any way for me to keep the behaviour that "click with two fingers" is secondary click, but make it so that "tap with two fingers" does nothing?
By default, iOS predictive provides three suggestions on iPhone: how can I increase this number?
I have an older Macbook Pro (8,2 - Late 2011). It doesn't have a usb 3.0 port, only USB 2.0 ports. I have an Elgato Thunderbolt 2 Dock with a WD External HD, USB 3.0. I was expecting to see USB 3.0 type speeds, but only get transfer rates around 35MB/s, which looks like USB 2.0. Can a MacBook Pro that only has USB 2.0 ports realize USB 3.0 transfer rates when connected to a Thunderbolt Dock that has USB 3.0 ports and an external usb 3.0 hard drive?
I have this iPad app called AVPlayer. I used to plug-in the iPad and copy files to the app using iTunes. However, this doesn't seem to work in the newest version of iTunes. There used to be a feature called "file sharing" that allowed to do that, but it seems to be gone now? I can still navigate to the "apps" panel, but AVPlayer doesn't show up there, in fact there is no app that would allow sending files to it, and no such option at all. So the question is: how to send files to an iPad app via a usb cable?
I disabled iCloud backups on all my devices, but the storage report still claims I have 2gb of backups stored. I've gone into the iCloud preferences and double checked that no backups exists. How can I remove free up the used space? I should mention that my iPhone reports only 174.4KB of Documents & Data in "Manage Storage".
I want to calculate the total number of monthly workdays for part-timers. Example, I need to calculate the full number of workdays in a month for a 3.5 day workweek, running from Tuesday to half Friday. That is, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are full workdays, and Friday is a half day each week. In this case, using January 2016 as an example, the answer would be 14.5 workdays. But, I want to do this across all months, for different arrangements. I'm struggling to get either a Count or a Networkdays function to work for this task. Ideas for accomplishing this in a Numbers spreadsheet for Mac?
With a cell tower in sight about a 3/4 of a mile away how accurate is the share my location if the phone is in a Walmart
While I'm coping the file from the External hard drive to my MacBook Pro I'm getting Error code -36. Some recommended for dot_clean option, also I've tried and facing the same issue. Even I've tried to copy through the Terminal and also getting IO error. Desperately need to copy my stuff from my external drive.
I have a MBP 2012 and replaced the internal hard drive with an SSD and the SuperDrive with a 1TB HDD. I'm encrypting my 1TB HDD. Should I leave my Mac on until it's done? Does OS X pause the encryption process if I turn my Mac off (or put to sleep) or does it start over every time I turn it back on? I'm running El Capitan 10.11.5.
I imported lots of images in the Photos app. How can I export the selected ones on my disk? What's the easiest way to do that?
I am using Mail.app to access my gmail account (business / google apps email). I want to delete a big pile of emails in Mail to clean up my inbox, but I want to keep those emails in gmail (IMAP server) so I look them up in the future by logging directly into gmail.
After a power shortage a Mac with El Capitan installed, downgraded to 10.6 and the admin account is missing. The main session password is also in an older state, and we cannot connect anymore. We have tried to suppress the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and go through the account creation process but without success. Does anyone have any way to retrieve an admin account?
I've been having some issues with an iMac running El Capitan. The issue seems to be Finder. I tried leaving it to shut down by itself overnight to no avail. On occasion I get this message: The screenshot below is Dutch but says something along the lines of:
There is a well-known unix utility called mkpasswd available on many *nix systems. I was just trying to use it from terminal on an OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite (Early 2015) machine, and it is nowhere to be found.
Why does it advertise free for 3D tour of ancient Jewish temple then when I try to install the app it asks for credit card details
If I want to sell something online and create an ad on my Macbook, then snap a picture with my iPhone/iPad and both are connected to my home wifi, I kind of expect the photo to be uploaded instantly so I can use it on my Macbook. It's taking forever though. Could there be some kind of setting I have to change or some other problem?
I want to add a Finder shortcut to my Launchpad, but I am unable to do it. Is there any way to create an alias for Finder in OS X El Capitan?
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 running latest release OS X. Recently when I am shutting down my computer it just get stuck in the spinner. So the only way is to force shut it down which might not be good for the computer. Do I have to reinstall the firmware or I can do something to help it? Thanks Note that this doesn't happen when trying to shutdown in recovery mode.
We're using TestFlight with external testers to beta-test our app. In the guidelines to TestFlight it states that If you already have the live app installed on your device, the beta version of the app will replace the live version., but what about the other way around?
Now I want to increase the size of my virtual hard disk to 40GB. I used the following command to modify the vdi file:
Is it OK to clean the outside shell of a rMBP with a microfiber cloth and a little bit of water? Can it cause damage to the aluminum or any other thing on the machine? (there was a spot that I couldn't get out without a bit of water..)
I have an old icloud backup and I'd like to see whats in it. I'm worried that if I backup my current phone to icloud - restore it from the old backup (to see what it contains) - and then finally restore it from the current backup - maybe I will lose something. Is everything on my phone backed up (assuming I have all the toggles on)?
I would like to disable Command P shortcuts or change it to something i would not accidentally hit But i do not see options in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts Regards
I've Mac OS X (El Capitan) VMs in ESXi 6 on our local network that I can SSH into and I can VNC into and I can connect Xamarin Mac Agent to but I can't Remote Desktop Connection (Windows 10) into. Our developers are all on Windows but need access to the Mac VMs for cross-platform development, particularly viewing the iOS Simulator. How do you set up a vanilla Mac OS X install to enable remoting into it with Windows Remote Desktop Connection?
I have a Macbook air 11 inch early 2014 with Mac os X 10.11.5 installed. I can't send or receive from my mac to any other iOS device. If I want to send something to my iPhone, the iPhone never scans and shows up on my mac, and If I want to send something from my iPhone, like a photo, the mac doesn't show up on my iPhone. I have followed a lot of fixes on apple discussions and other websites but non seem to work. I'd be very grateful if anyone would help me.
I have just purchased CS3 and it has been legally transferred to me. Do I have enough memory to handle it? In addition I want to upgrade to Yosemite or El Capitan. Do I have enough memory to do that too? Also, can I erase photos from iPhoto that I no longer need and will this give me more memory? Attached is my memory indication.
The iPhone's alarm shares its volume with the ringer, and I don't want the ringer volume to be too loud. I am looking for an alarm application for iPhone using the maximum possible volume level.
In my old version of Numbers, I could see the page break (both at the bottom of the page, and on the side) so I would know when I needed to add a row or column. I can't seem to be able to see the page break anymore: I need to go to print preview in order to get a sense of where rows and columns are on the page. Is there a way to see the page break in the new version?
My ~/etc/path looks as follows: The Problem: When I type echo $PATH into terminal, I get back:
I reinstalled Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 on my 2013 MacBook Pro, today, and I've been having an issue copying files from my NTFS formatted external drive using Paragon NTFS. This issue was not present previously, nor is it present in my iMac. When I attempt to copy and paste, drag and drop, or move a file or folder from my external drive to a folder on my MacBook, I get the following error (obviously with different file or folder names).
EDIT: This is for a single user environment as MrWonderful suggested. However, I would like for the hosts setting of one user to be unaffected but another user. Thoughts?
I have all the latest software - El Capitan, Outlook 2016 fully patched, and an iCloud account that I can log into (from Safari) using either thisIsMe@icloud.com or thisIsMe@gmail.com with thisIsMyPassword. I setup Mac Outlook 2016 as per web instructions...
I installed Ubuntu under virtualbox under OS X IN MacBook Pro. A while ago, I asked a question about how to switch between windows in the guest Ubuntu by keystrokes, and the reply at *=URL=* suggested to press the left command key once before pressing alt-tab. It sometimes works, but sometimes immediately following pressing the left command key, Virtualbox will pop up a window saying:
how do I remove a redownloadable song. I down loaded a song and it keeps charging me for it per month. I want to remove it.
I was just looking at an iPhone 4 from one of my users, and I was unable to turn on the backup for notes because it says that I'm not using an iCloud email address. The user in question already has an iCloud account, and I can log into it with the using *=URL=* (which consequently also gives the same message).
I bought a Macbook 12" early April 2016 Model the other day and I really want to know if t will run Simcity 5. I tried running 'Can I Run It' but that doesn't work on Macbook's so I need some help to know if my Macbook can run the game before I purchase it. Thank you. Simcity 5 Requirements: Processor: Intel Core i5 or faster Ram: 4GB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 650M, 660M, OR 675MX OR FASTER -These are just the recommended specs and not the minimum specs so these specs can be lowered. Macbook 12" 2016 Model Specs: Processor: 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core m3 processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.2GHz) with 4MB L3 cache Memory: 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 515
Waking OS X computer A on the network, wakes OS X computer B. Plugging in an iOS device to charge, wakes B too. Prevent this.
Are there any tutorials someone could point me at for creating a terminal based, text interface application for OSX? Something sort of looking like Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS.
I've been trying to download apps from the App Store since last night. I continually get messages saying the download can't be completed.
I just got a new 1TB USB SSD, to use as a backup drive. I need cross-platform compatibility and durability. I've used LUKS+ext4, and it seems both reliable and well-established (i.e. long-term support is likely, which is a must for me).
I plugged guitar via USB external audio card U24XL to Mac OS X Yosemite. But I can't hear any sound of it in GarageBand. I set up input/output in GB's preferences, and marked the current (guitar) track for monitoring, but no sound of guitar is listenable, nor recordable.
I recently got a "This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons" message on all my apple devices. I've have since performed the obligatory password reset process and everything seems to be in working order again.
There are lots of photos in the iMessage History between my girlfriend and me. I wanna save all the pics to the Camera Roll. How can I do this? Thanks in advice!
Can anyone tell me for sure whether Apple pays the developer in Cayman Islands? Do I need to have the developer license from Cayman Islands in order to receive payment in Cayman Island ? Any resources clarifying my queries are appreciated.
I've got a two part problem. I am trying to pass a variable from AppleScript to be used as a variable inside a bash shell script. I cannot figure out how to this work. I have read about concatenating the variable and the do shell script command with & inside AppleScript. But that doesn't really work with a longer script. Here is the short AppleScript to select a file and (hopefully) pass it along to the shell as a variable. And then the shell script itself:
How to jump between Spaces on OS X using some key + number? I know I can jump between Desktops (not including fullscreen apps) using Ctrl ⌃ [num] . I know I can jump between Spaces using Ctrl ⌃ ← / → , but sometimes I want to jump from Desktop#1 to fullscreen app#5 and I want to be able to do this by pushing just one hotkey.
I am unaware if a third party adapter (Thunderbolt to VGA) would cause any erratic behaviour with a wired USB mouse? There is also an HDMI cable plugged in for an extended desktop.
After a brew upgrade every time I try to compile a .c file I get the following error: ld: library not found for -lgcc collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I have noticed this on my pin drives and also my external hard desk. They were perfectly working fine on my Mac Pro, and then after using them on my friend's Windows they don't show up again on my finder, and also they're not found in desk utility. What to do?
I have a complicated problem. It started when I created an apple id with icloud email. Later after some months, I created anther apple id with a new icloud mail. Now, I am using this new apple id on my apple devices.
I'm running Parallels 11 with Mac El Capitan and Win 10, and Office 365 plus OneDrive installed on the Win side. Am natively sharing my Desktop, Documents and Downloads folders between Mac/Win thru Parallels but I'd also like to sync them both with OneDrive. I don't want to use symlinks as OneDrive can't accept these, and if possible want the ability to shutdown my Win and run Mac on its own - so I'm thinking I need to customise the Win locations of each folder to OneDrive, and then use Offline Files or similar to sync with the Mac.
I have a MacBook Pro running El-Capitan v10.11.5. Whenever I plug in my earphones, the volume gradually increases (one bar every couple of minutes), automatically. This problem has been going on for at least some months, fairly sure this happened also in earlier OS versions.
I have a Mid 2011 Mac mini with 2x 500G HDD configured as RAID 1. Recently one of the HDD died. I planned to replace the dead HDD with a 500G SSD, and let the RAID 1 rebuild Is this a viable option? If viable, should I Leave the setup as is, or Buy another 500G SSD and replace the other HDD OS is Yosemite. Update:
I am trying to install rbenv by following instruction from the site Ruby on Rails development setup for Mac OSX when I try brew install rbenv I get the error below: Error: rbenv-rbenv already installed To install this version, first 'brew unlink rbenv' Here is the output from brew doctor I tried brew unlink rbenv which fails with message: Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/rbenv Please suggest how this can be solved. I have tried all solutions as listed below Nothing really works.
I would like to program my Wacom tablet, thus what is the correct Safari key command to go back to the previous page? I am using Safari 9.1.1 on Yosemite.
I disabled a User Account in the System Preferences > Users & Groups > Right-click on a User > Advanced Options... > Login shell: using: /bin/false Now the disabled account is visible in the login window but is gone under System Preferences. I used sudo chsh <username> /bin/bash and sudo chpass -s /bin/bash <username> in Terminal and it didn’t bring it back.
I need to know if there is an app for iPhone 5 that would control the data (or lock it down entirely)? Also need to control who is called and what callers can be received.
I'm trying to set up AirDrop to send files between my macbook and my iPhone. For some reason it doesn't work at all. I turned it on both on the macbook and my iPhone SE and my iPhone is not shown in the Finder nor my macbook on iPhone's screen. How to set this up?
I'm trying to send photos to my iPhone, using iTunes, but when I select the Photos section in iTunes, it shows me this (it doesn't let me choose a folder):  How can I sync a specific folder containing images on my iPhone?
I have an external mouse, with programmable buttons. I'd like to set some of those buttons to repeat if I hold one of them down- similar to how keyboard keys repeat, but don't see where to do that.
I have iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. I'm transferring my PDFs to the iPad via iTunes. I swear that I didn't find any option to increase font size in iBooks, not even in iBooks settings.
I have an interesting problem with regards to VirtualBox and displaying a VM in Full Screen mode. First it works, then upon reboot of my Mac it stops working. If I reinstall Virtual Box it starts working again until the next reboot. Wash, rinse, repeat. Here's the scenario... When I press ⌘ CommandF to make my Windows 10 VM full screen, I get the OS X "alert" sound, the screen flickers, but it never goes into full screen mode.
I know similar questions have been asked quite a few times, but my problem seems to be subtly different and I'm really hoping there is a different answer. I've got a work MBP running El Capitan. When I'm on the wired network at work, it's absolutely fine. When I'm at home on the WiFi, it's sometimes absolutely fine and sometimes it's awful. When it's not working well, I can reboot and it will be fine again for a week or so, and then something will happen and it will get awful again.
I run a guest Ubuntu under Virtualbox in Mac OS X. The host Mac OS X has been configured to print on a network printer by someone else.
My iphone has been put into lost mode by some hackers like this. I have regained access of my iCloud account and removed the lost mode from there however the phone has not updated yet because I always have cellular data disabled(because I dont have a plan for it) and I see that its not connecting to wifi. I can get 10MB data for a day from the Cell company. My question is: Will iOS enable Cellular data on its own while in lost mode? I have an iphone 4 with ios 7
Supposedly, the red badge that shows up on the Calendar icon in the app switcher (and the Dock, if anyone still uses that) represents invitations that you've not dealt with. That's a nice theory, but I have no invitations waiting for me to act on, and I still have a red badge with a "3" in it. I realize that I can disable the badge, but that seems like taking a hammer and smashing the light on the dashboard, instead of figuring out why it is lit up.
I have a used Macbook Pro i7 late 2013 that I bought when I started my contracting work. I was thinking of buying a new one (except 15"), but I don't know if it's truly worth making the purchase. I figure I do some homework first.
I was able to restore my iPhone and iPod but my iPad is "offline" preventing me from getting out of lost mode. I also have a call in to Apple. I've changed my Apple ID password and had to cancel my credit cards. Any help out there?
I turned on my iPod Classic 128 GB and all music content was gone. I charged it and the Apple symbol appeared and then it turned on with no songs/music at all. I have not connected to iTunes at all recently. Please advise. kristeen
I'm getting a "network error" code, no matter which Wi-Fi I am using. How to resolve this issue?
I have an older Mac Pro in 10.11. After a minor update, I can no longer log into my main user account (which is a standard account) with all my files; the rotator goes indefinitely. I can log into any of the other accounts, including the Admin. I have tried safe boot, reset NVRAM, repairing with disk utility, repaired with DiskWarrior, then with Drive Genius 3, then with DiskWarrior again. I have a clone that was made before the minor update, and yet it behaves the same as the main HD. The HDs are fairly full, but there should be room enough. I was regularly logging into my user account right up to the time I did the update, and the clone shouldn't have that update.
Is there a bash command to add an Open Directory admin group to the local admin group on a Mac with 10.10? I'm trying to remove all local admin accounts but still be able to control them with Apple Remote Desktop.
I'm using Homebrew with Caskroom and since a recent update, it installs the apps downloaded through brew cask within /usr/local/Caskroom/ I always used Spotlight to find and open these apps, but now that they're within /usr/local/, Spotlight doesn't seem to find them anymore. I've checked Spotlight's preferences but there is no folder excluded, nor is there anything else disabled that could cause this. Is there a way to tell Spotlight to search within /usr/local/Caskroom/?
I have this very restrictive work e-mail account which I cannot add to my Mac (Airwatch), and I tried to write a long email with the iPhone screen shown via QuickTime and a bluetooth keyboard. Suddenly the mail was available in the Mail app, and I was able to finish writing the mail on my Mac. I have no idea how I made that happen (Altough I did insert an image into the mail on my phone). Is this a feature I can activate intentionally ?
When I tick a checkbox in a fillable PDF in Preview, there is a strange double tick symbol. It's like a tick with a cross on it. How can I have a correct tick/check symbol ?
Whenever I try to backup my 128 GB iPhone 6s, I get an error iTunes could not back up the iPhone 'Talon's iPhone 6s' because not enough free space is available on this computer.
I have followed the instructions •Reset Network Settings by tapping Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. But prior to tapping "reset network settings" I want to be sure that I do not have my data deleted in the process. In other words it will not go back to factory settings will it? I made that error once and cost me much work wise.
I have two dell displays on my mac mini, both displays have a builtin card reader. For years, I've been able to insert an SD card and it's mounted w/o delay. For the last few months, I've noticed that neither card reader works. (The internal mac-mini reader is fine). The inserted SD card also does not appear in disk-utility, so it's not a "mounting" issue. The USB to the monitor seems fine as I can (and do) use external DVD on USB port next to SD slot.
I was testing virtual hosting and doing a lot of stuff. Then I suddenly delete my httpd.conf file using rm command. I've deleted httpd.conf.bak and original/httpd.conf. Well now I'm guessing i don't have any way to gain access on httpd.conf. Can any one please upload their httpd.conf from original folder. Anyone please kindly upload your /etc/apache2/original/httpd.conf. PS: I've tried copying httpd.conf from Reinstall/restore Apache httpd in OS X I'm getting load module error so trying to solve it. My system: OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
I have two WiFi extenders and when I move within the range of each extender or back to the router the IP addresses change but my iPhone and iPad don't apply the changes. I have to manually switch off WiFi and restart it to get the device to find the right address.
I need to copy some files from a RDC PC to my MAC. I can copy files from RDC to a PC but not to a mac. How can I do this? Thanks
After some overseas travel my imessage conversation with my contact (also an iPhone user) switched from blue (iMessage) to green (SMS) - due to problems with international roaming. We're back in our home country, but the message conversation persists in SMS (green) and we'd like it to go back to iMessage (blue). I don't know how to click it back over. My question is: How to get an iMessage conversation to go back from green to blue?
I have a web server in OS X Server with an open source digital asset management system installed: ResourceSpace. The main Web Root folder is shared via FTP and with permissions set to "All Users". I'd like to determine if "all Users" refers specifically to all the users in the OS X Server or if it is actually "Public" and it means anyone can access it (more like an "Everyone" permission in Windows).
I use my iPhone to connect to conference calls at work. Frequently I'll need to speak up, with little notice. But it takes me upwards of three seconds to be able to unmute to speak: Click home button to bring up lock screen. Use fingerprint to unlock phone. Hit green bar at the top to get into the current call. Hit "Hide" on the keypad if it's up. Finally, hit mute button to unmute.
Unless I am mistaken, HealthKit/Health.app will automatically track some BlueTooth sensors, like heart rate straps? Is that true?
I know that Apple Watch notifications are silenced while you are using your iPhone in order to prevent duplicate notifications. Is it possible to extend this functionality to silence my Apple Watch notifications while I am using my MacBook Air? I would only like to receive iMessage notifications on my Apple Watch when I am not using both my iPhone and MacBook Air.
I did receive a European 5 watt USB charger model A1400 that claims to be from Apple. The charger even claims to be designed by Apple in California and made in China. Possibly by "Salcomp". The "made in China" part, is most likely a valid claim. But how can I find out whether this USB charger is a counterfeit or a genuine Apple product?
I mistook the mini Display Port (mDP) behind my iMac to mean it was a Thunderbolt port. The ⌘ Command F2 does not work when both ends are Thunderbolt for my setup. Please suggest what cables to buy. Edit: This is 27 inch iMac Model Identifier: iMac11,3
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) with: 2 GHz Intel Core i7, Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB. I use it mainly with my Henge Docks vertical docking station and Dell 25-inch UHD monitor with external Apple keyboard. In this setup it works perfectly well. However…
I was trying to search the content of .json files using spotlight but the results always return nothing .. I've also followed the solution suggested in here but it didn't work .. is there any other way to search inside .json ?
Running netstat with -d adds dropped packets count But how does one tell where they were dropped? I know they were not dropped at ingress to protocol handling (the traffic is UDP, and netstat -s does not show udp drops) But I can't tell if the drop is due to some egress or ingress issue On Linux one can see RX drops vs TX drops in ifconfig Any other tools recommended? Netstat Output: BTW - due to external observation in my test scenario I can determine that these are egress failures - still would be good if I could tell from netstat (or other local command) what direction the drops are
I know that the new rMBPs have no "user-serviceable" RAM. But is it possible to solder a new RAM chip onto a 2015 rMBP? Given that the technician doing this is able to install the new chip without damaging anything, would it work?
I have a Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1 TB external hard drive that is formatted FAT32 and a 16 GB Silicon Power USB thumb drive and both of them uses USB3 but my MacBook Pro sometimes doesn't recognise them and I have to remove them or restart MacBook several times until they show up. What could be the problem? Specs: MacBookPro12,1 2015 with OS X 10.11.5
I often keep a ping running in my Terminal so that I can pop it up to keep an eye on any network issues in our office. Recently, I ended a long-running ping session and noticed in the summary statistics that the minimum round trip time was -520ms.
When I search in the spotlight for a locked note, I can see the content of that looked note. I went ahead and rebuilt the spotlight index, but still showing the content. Am I missing something here or is it a bug? OSX-ELCapitan 10.11.5
On my somewhat creaky MBP running Yosemite, I find that the POSIX environment variables for controlling the locale (LANG and LC_*) are properly set inside Terminal windows... ... but they are not properly set in the environment provided to GUI applications; for instance, inside an Emacs shell window, the above commands print
I own a Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2015 which supports USB 3.0 and bought a Western Digital 2TB external USB3 harddrive and a USB 3.0 Hub from Anker with external power supply. When I plug-in the harddrive directly to the Macbook everything is fine. When I plug-in an Apple Thunderbolt display to the Macbook's Thunderbolt2 port and then plug-in the harddrive to the USB2.0 port of the display, it works too but it's very slow due to USB2.0 limitation.
In the last day my Apple Magic Trackpad has started to cause long keypress events when I type on the keyboard. For example, pressing 'a' in a browser menu bar will cause the accent popup to appear. Pressing 'cmd+t' will cause multiple tabs to open, and causes the 'File' menu to noticeably flicker as if being selected.
I recently updated my computer from Mavericks to El Capitan, and I'm unable to add or remove items from the dock. If I attempt to change the dock, the computer freezes and I am unable to interact with the computer through the GUI.
I have a really strange problem with my sister's MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, running El Capitan): it is incorrectly identifying the physical layout of the built-in keyboard. It isn't just a matter of mapping the buttons to characters incorrectly; the diagram shown in "Keyboard Viewer" actually shows more physical buttons than exist on the keyboard. Note: see the update at the end for the current status. The physical keyboard appears to be the correct US English version, and it is called "U.S." in the "Input Sources" preferences pane — but here's a screenshot of what Keyboard Viewer thinks it physically looks like:
I am using an external monitor and the only way (that doesn't involve jumping through hoops) to turn off the MacBook Pro monitor is to close the lid. Does closing the lid causes any problems? I have read the following on another website:
I'm sorting through a bunch of old writings & am running across a large number of files, which are exe's rather than doc or docx or txt or any other normal text doc format. I am almost positive that all of these writings were done in Microsoft Word for Mac (probably) 2004. There are gibberish characters at the header & footers but the body text has all seemed intact, from what I've glanced at. I am curious about how this might have happened, but my priority right now is just reconverting these files back to a simple text format. There are hundreds of documents, mostly notes, but some finished pieces and I would much prefer to not have to go in & remove the junk text from all of them by hand. So...what are my options? thx
Why do SMS messages addressed to me also go to my wife. I also get messages addressed to her. We both use iPhones and have an Apple Mac which also connects to iCloud.
My iCloud account is not a @icloud.com address. It's a special mail address that I use solely for iCloud. I did not forward any mail from Gmail to it. There is not trace of that reservation with that mail address. How comes this flight appeared?
Due to a new job, I am about to shut down an old email address. Of course, I want to save the old emails so that I can access them if I need to. I want to save them on my Time Capsule so that they do not fill my local disk. How can I do this best?
I have created a Movie with iMovie. I have just realised now that in fact I should have created an AppPreview. Is there a way to convert my Movie into an AppPreview?
I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro with a higher resolution display (1680 x 1050), an option that was offered back then. Unfortunately, in many of the Apple apps the default 100% zoom level displays normal font sizes (12, 14) way too small to be comfortably read. In most apps, Pages, Safari, TextEdit etc. I can simply adjust the zoom level, so that the display correctly. However, the Notes app doesn't provide that functionality. Does anyone know of a hack to change the default zoom level of the Notes app?
On OS X 10.11, El Capitan, Safari regularly almost freezes. It usually happens on the same sites: Gmail and YouTube. I have to kill Safari and sometimes I even have to reboot the system. Sometimes it happens when I have too many tabs open and closing them helps (it takes about 10 seconds per tab thanks to freeze). I am not sure that the problem is in safari because I had the same problem with Chrome (once or twice, cannot really tell as I do not use it often).
I am trying to email an html file with some charts in it and it doesn't show any of the content if I open in the Mail app on iOS except a bulleted point, whereas it is fine in a browser or any other email client. I tried downloading it but it still doesn't give the option to open it in Safari or any compatible app, where I think it would display properly.
After my battery died I have replaced it in Authorized Service Provider. This costs nearly 140$. However after replacement I noticed that the weight of my Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2014) has been significantly increased. Is it something I should worry about or there is a chance that they put some not genuine battery into my device? Is there any way to check this? Has anyone had the same experience?
I use gmail in a web browser. I don't use Mail at all. Except... In Aperture if I go share -> email it opens up Mail.app. Is there a way through configuration or through a helper app to get aperture to open share by email pix in a gmail composer window? I'm using Aperture 3.6 on Yosemite.
From comments 'Franken-Mac' = Non-stock model. Mac Pro 4,1, upgraded to higher 5,1 spec than was available when new. All Apple, but there was never a 3.46 model originally. I have no idea what was in it before, as I bought it ready-upgraded. What worries me is that the 'main' temperatures reported by iStat Menus - which on this machine are the CPU A & B Tdiodes [not that I really know what they are] - are consistently out by about 15°C Under minimal load, this comes out as approx CPU A at 60°C & CPU B at only 45°C If I put the machine under load, I've seen that lift to perhaps 75°C & 60°C The booster fans always run at the roughly same speed as each other, whatever that speed might be, increasing with load of course.
My two displays (let call them A and B) have separate spaces. I can go back and forth among the spaces on the active/focussed display A. Is it possible to go back and forth among the spaces on B with keyboard shortcuts and without moving the focus to B? I do not mean assigning keyboard shortcuts to each space, because there are more than ten spaces and plenty of maximized windows.
I turned on bluetooth on my Macbook Air 13" (Early 2015, 8 GB RAM) and on my iPhone SE. I'm trying to access the files from iPhone using my macbook. When trying to connect to my iPhone, it shows an error: "There was an error connecting to the device".
I have the latest update on my iPad mini an I rented a movie from iTunes yesterday. It completed the download to my iPad but when I go to the iTunes Store and click on movies there is no rent tab. There is only purchase and it states no purchases....help!
I have used my new MacBook Pro Retina for a few days. After three battery cycles, the battery lost capacity from 6960 mAh originally to 6616 mAh now. Is it normal to lose almost 350 mAh of capacity in just two/three days?
I feel that its slowing my productivity, to have to click on the dock folders to see the list of contents. Are there any apps or tweaks that will enable me to view the contents automatically when hovering the mouse over the folder. I would also like to be able to 'open in finder' in 1-click, instead of the 2-step's of clicking on the folder, then selecting 'open in finder'
Is there a way of "resetting" the number of desktop Spaces in Mission Control in El Capitan? I'm working on a previous co-workers Mac Pro, and somehow mission control has....325 desktop Spaces...
When I run brew doctor It says While I already have latest XCode cli, which I found out by running pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables which says: How to I fix it ?
I'm pretty new here, and I looked for an answer to this question, and found some answers but none seemed to work for me. I want to be able to run an applescript that toggles hidden files and immediately updates all the open finder windows. Using the scripts in these threads: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* I've come up with something that looks like this:
I'm trying to use the Apple Wireless keyboard for coding in a terminal (with nano, vim, etc) using a app to access by SSH them in a remote server, and discover that all the function keys (Esc, F1, f2....) are not working. I have tried with Prompt2, but this will happen with any app because the F1 through F12 keys by default in the iPad are tied to special functions like control brightens. Is possible to change this? If not: Exist any terminal app that can remap the keys? Or exist a code editor with internal ssh terminal that work for remote coding?
I just started experiencing a bug where the SQLDeveloper 4.1.3 (latest) app icon freezes in the mac OS dock. This prevents me from relaunching the app without a hard reboot of the computer. sqldeveloper in dock Activity Monitor shows no app running.
So I arrived home from school today and wanted to use my iMac, but somehow it wouldn't react. I pressed the power button until it shut down (or crashed...) and rebooted it. After rebooting everything seemed normal, but there was this error, that the keychain login couldn't be accessed. After googling and seeing, that the login keychain was missing in "Keychain Access", I decided to restore my Time Machine Backup from the evening before. After TM failed the first attempt (Shut down at 20%) I tried again, but somehow everything got fucked up.
For a presentation I am making, I want to find my Mac's system's default "Spinning Wait Cursor" resources. I was told that the cursors are in here: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HiServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/cursors and here: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Resources/ Indeed, one can find some large and vectorized versions of most cursors in the first folder, and some other, smaller ones in the second. But, there seems to be no beach ball in there. I know one can find the graphics in high resolution online easily, but for my project I would need to get the original system files.
I selected: Main.storyboard > View Controller > Attributes inspector > Size: Inferred I also selected View as: iPhone 6 from the menu at the bottom of the storyboard window. How do I view it as a generic or square device?
I have encountered some strange behavior when navigating through the flash Local Shared Object folders on my computer running OS X version 10.11.5 The behavior is as follows: Navigate to the base local shared object storage cd ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/ Navigate through the shared object using the below path cd \#SharedObjects/6MB4PXSB/skype.com/ On this path is another folder named "#ui"
I have seen many answers to change the duration of photos on iMovie for the Mac, but none for the iPad. I have a lot of pictures that, for some reason, have different durations on the screen (for example, some are five seconds long and some are four seconds). I want all of my pictures to be on the screen for one second , but I cannot seem to find any solution for the iPad.
However, iOS automatically turns it off after the phone has been charged, requiring me to remember to go in and re-enable it after unplugging my phone. I occasionally forget.
Opening the oneplus 3 website (specifically this page) causes my MBP (mid-2009) to crash regardless of the browser -- I've tried it with the same results on Chrome, Safari and Firefox. It loads and displays correctly, then after a minute or so the computer stops responding, only the mouse can be moved occasionally but nothing can be clicked, and none of the keyboard shortcuts work so only a hard reset helps. I've done it multiple times with the same results, monitoring temperature sensors (nothing overheats) and CPU load (no abnormal spikes). I'm running a reasonably fresh install of El Capitan 10.11.5 and this is the only website I've found that does this. Is anyone else having problems with this site? Edit: I've attached the pertinent part from the Console log below, it looks like a graphics card bug:
In previous versions of the OS in the security pane, you are provided an option of:  But in this version there is no option anywhere:
I have some tables with cells like so:  Also, I have some more tables like so:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) that has a broken screen and I need to replace it. The online sellers post the "Apple Service Part" number as one of the identifiers to determine if it will fit the Macbook, but I have no idea where to find the Apple Service Part number for the display. In one of the sites, the service part number is listed as: Apple service part: 661-7171 and 661-7032 Is there a way for me to find out what the part number is? Many thanks!
When selecting or traveling through a set of words separated by underscores by using the optionarrow keys, I want to be able to stop at every underscore character as with words separated by hyphens. Is there any way to configure this?
At WWDC2016 Apple announced that ApplePay could be used to make purchases in Safari and they've created a JS API to allow this. From what I can see this is only for once-off purchases, it simply authenticates you and charges your card.
My Mac suddenly started showing a heavy processor load, i.e. 600% or more. When I checked in iStat Menus, Activity Monitor and sudo top, no process was shown to consume more than 10%. Should I worry about malware?
I've hit a wall with trying to get Alda to run on OS X. It's an executable I downloaded from here; then, as per the installation guide on GitHub, I ran chmod +x alda on it, and then moved it to my /usr/local/bin. After that, though, I've run into any number of issues:
We have an issues where an application changed it's service name and UAC prompted users to allow or deny, and a lot of users clicked deny. If users go in to system preferences, security, firewall and then change the rule from deny to allow, it's fine, but at this scale, it's just not happening fast enough for us, and we want to have users report in with this application ASAP.
Every time you connect a device Photos.app opens and you have to disable it for every device one by one. How do you disable this for all devices you connect?
I was able to change the wallpaper of the user accounts's window:  I did so by modifying /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png But I also want to change the wallpaper of the sleep mode's window, which looks like so:
Is there any keyboard shortcut to go here?  EDIT: This script does not work EDIT2: I made this Automator Script (when I execute it, it works) but when I try to assign it a keyboard shortcut it does not work.
iCloud, iCal and Mail integrates pretty well with Google Calendar, even though they are not both from Apple. But I have a hassle when it comes to Calendar Notification in Mail App specifically.
What happens when you get a new cell number and someone texts or calls the old number? Do they get some sort of response?
Is there a way to export or synchronize Reminders tasks to Todoist?
We are facing an issue while deployment of our enterprise iOS application. We are following the documentation from Apple link - *=URL=* We have followed the below steps, Hosted the html, ipa, manifest and png files in a folder in the server *=URL=* The following mime type is in the web server We instructed our employees to access the download page, in the following way, When I trying to click on the link, I am getting an error:
I am trying to send email to our users to install our enterprise application through OTA. I am sending a simple email which have a hyperlink with following itms-url. Like "click here to install the app". But when I open the mail in iOS Safari browser or Gmail, the link is not displaying. It displaying only a text "click here to install the app". Any hints?
Not something I really ever need to do often, but just how do you send to Undisclosed Recipients in Mail.app I've seen them arrive looking like this - but never figured out how I might do it myself Previously, I've sent to myself, then everybody else as BCC, but is that really the way to do it?
On the desktop version of Safari, you can type something into the address bar without going to it. If I think of something I want to search as I'm browsing, I can put it in the address bar, but I won't press enter until I'm done reading the current page.
I always use the same external hard disk on my Mac formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled). After upgrading my OS, it's recognized as NTFS volume now. What should I do?
When focus is on an html password field, the input languages options are limited to those using the Latin script only. If the language selected is some other language using a non-Latin script, like Greek, before going into the password field, it is automatically switched to one for Latin when focus goes onto the password field. This happens on all browsers I've tested: Safari (8.0.5), Chrome (51.0.2704.103), Firefox (47.0). I've tried it on Mountain Lion, Yosemite and EL Capitan. I have tried disabling the keyboard shortcut for switching languages but the problem remains. The option "Automatically switch to an document's input source" mentioned here is not enabled. The non-english languages are simply disabled when focus is on a password field. Here is a minimal html document which demonstrates the problem: Here is a screenshot when focus is on the password field:
I have set my Apple ID on two iPhones already and I'm wondering if the other iPhone will receive my messages? The phone I'm using has service but the other one doesn't.
Want to jump to the printer selector with the keyboard (and then select the desired printer w/the keyboard as well).
Inherited a MacBook Pro (2010 MacBook6,1 17"). Starts up fine, but wouldn't boot - no operating system found. Hard drive does not appear to be bad (see details below) but I can't seem to get it to accept an OS installation. What I've tried so far: Starting system using my 13" MBP as host drive in Target Disk Mode (intent was to check system hardware before I tried anything else) - would not boot, some type of error message appears over the loading screen, system reboots too quickly to read it. Placing 17" MBP in Target Disk Mode - My 13" reads the disk just fine, Disk Utility sees no errors in the volume, reformatting the volume gives no errors Starting from included OS X 10.6 installation DVD - Loads fine, Disk Utility shows no errors, installation initiates correctly, but exits with an error stating the installation could not complete on this system. Cloning Recovery Partition from the 13" MBP (using CarbonCopy Cloner) - Will not boot, same text error as encountered using 13" in Targ
We have a financial institution we are bring on as a client running on Mac's. The are looking to collect all the system logs from each computer every night and keep each for 90 days. I have seen others have scrips to collect system logs at time of an incident when someone is having an issue but nothing that will collect user data for security reason automatically. Can anyone point me in the direction of a 3rd party product or script structure?
My download of macOS Sierra (Developer Preview, see press release) began downloading, appearing in the Launchpad app. But then got interrupted. It failed to restart, so I deleted the icon in Launchpad by holding down Option key and clicking the "X" icon that appears.
Can I change the date of photos that's in the camera roll?
Most of the time my MacBook Pro stop charging at 99%. But when I check the battery status it says battery is charged. My battery cycles is around 500. Does it means I needs a new battery or it is something else? Thanks. I am using Mid 2012 MBP.
I current Apple ID automatic replace with other phone Apple ID ,also this other phone id relaxes iCloud id. After that I made new Apple id but it always ask password of old Apple ID . But old Apple ID shows not exist. Also during delete of iCloud ID it ask old ID password which does not exist. I made new Apple ID successfully but for updates it ask old ID password . How to solve this problem?
My iPhone is saying I need to do billing but there is not a none button by the credit cards what do I do I need to download a app for my cheerleading
I unplugged my iPad at 25% charge and used it. Suddenly my iPad froze at 19%. I rebooted it by pressing both home and wake/sleep button. It was stuck on the booting-up screen so I decided to charge it. After plugging in my iPad for 30 minutes, I came back to check it but then it was turned off.
I signed out from my old AppleID and it was removed from my iPhone. However, the iPhone still asks for the old AppleID and password when downloading and updating apps. How can I solve this?
I have a MacBook (2016) and the first time I plugged in my USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter it prompted me to install an update to the driver - I didn't complete the installation at that point. Now the (same) driver update prompt pops up every time I plugin the adapter - even though I've installed the update (multiple times).
It's possible saying to Siri: "Show me my current location". Then it opens maps and marks the current position there. One can then setting a persistent mark by using touch-screen. Now I ask myself: Is it possible to set this pin via Siri?
How can i bypass the activation screen of iPhone 5s (a1530) without sim card in india. The emergency call method is not working.
I have encoded a video that I want to transfer to my iPad. Using FFmpeg, the settings are: When I have tried the presets veryslow and slow, I get this message when trying to sync the video via iTunes to the device: "[Your File] was not copied to the [Device Name] because it cannot be played on this iPad." However, I have tried encoding the same video using the preset medium and sync and playback in iOS's Videos app works. Is there a work-around to get the "slow" preset videos onto the iPad?
I erased my disk while planing to reinstall the OS. Now I get the recovery screen as planed, I press "Reinstall OS X" and then press on "Continue". It checks my eligibility and tells me "Could not find installation information for this machine". Obviously I cannot go back because the disk is already erased, and I have no time machine backups.
Is it possible to use app made by me in my iphone without distributing it in appstore? If so, how? Thanks
I have an Apple (wired aluminum) Keyboard (using with Mac mini). Left Shift + [ does not work (to type {). But Right Shift + [ works. Left Shift key is working for all the other keys. I tried this keyboard with my laptop and the behavior is same.
I noticed that on when I go into "About this Mac" on my iMac I see a parameter named "Startup disk" while on my MacBook I do not... Is this because I have multiple disks in my iMac and only one in the MacBook?
Every websites layout is messed up. An example of BBC News can be seen above. I have attempted multiple troubleshooting methods recommended online such as uninstalling AdBlock however none of these have resulted in a fix.
So, yesterday I reinstalled ElCapitan. Since then everything was fine. But now it just happened again. I am worried that the computer is being damaged, and also since it's annoying I would like to figure this out for good.
My Activity Monitor is not displaying Chrome's memory usage in MB. Instead, it lists some huge 20-digit number. In addition, both Real and Private memory is listed with the MB suffix (as well as all the other memory statistics listed in Activity Monitor).
I looked in the forum and in 2009 someone asked a similar question. The answer was: Remove the voice narration when exporting to quicktime. However, there doesn't seem to be that option in the latest version of Keynote. Does anyone know the answer to this? Let me know if you need a screenshot or screencast for further clarification. Thanks.
I have seen that there has been a lot of questions asking how to unlock, but no question had an answer I was satisfied with. I want to unlock my phone at home using my Windows and/or ubuntu pc. How should I proceed? I have done this on my android devices but I am new to apple products, all google searches just tells me to pay my provider...
I was going to delete the Time Machine backups. I made a mistake and instead of deleting them using Time Machine, I just moved the Backups.backupdb folder to the trash. Now, if I try to empty the trash, Finder attempts to count the number of files that will be deleted, and this process is incredibly time-consuming, because the Finder tries to count each file in each backup. The same thing happens if I try to move the Backups.backupdb folder from the trash back on my hard drive where it was before.
I have iPhone 6....and standard iCloud storage of 5GB. Please see pictures - I have absolutely no pictures and videos on my iPhone but still the iCloud storage says I have more than 1 GB of photos on my iCloud. When I log into my iCloud storage via PC, it shows there are no photos or videos (Moments and Albums are all blanks).iPhone Screenshot
In Iphone 5 16 GB: I deleted all photos, junk files, backups, notes, videos and everything else and I reset it but after all, the available storage is just 2.8GB and 9.5GB is used. How can I free the memory? Is IOS using the storage? Thank you
Is there a way of updating GNU screen for Mac OS X 10.11.5? My current screen version is 4.00.03 and would like to use the features such as layout which does not seem to be available for me. If not, can I uninstall this version of GNU screen and install it from *=URL=* ?
On my MacBook I am connected to internet through WiFi but I also have a router for my lab connected to Ethernet port. When I try ping 192.168.1.254 or even ping 192.168.1.253 which is the other end of my Ethernet I do get a reply but when I run ping -S 192.168.1.254 192.168.0.4 or ping -S 192.168.1.254 192.168.0.1 ping an address on the internet I get this: So while WiFi can ping Ethernet and further to it, Ethernet cannot ping WiFi or my ISP's router or go out to the internet. My question is how I can make Ethernet reach my ISP's router and therefore internet as well as other devices on my WiFi network.
If I change my network interface card on my MacBook Air 2013, which I assume to be my AirPort/Bluetooth card, will it change my laptop's MAC Address?
Is it possible to create a Homebrew Formula that doesn't need a URL to download? In my case the recipe just depends on other recipes and installs a homebrew specific shell script. But running this gives
By all appearances the phone had never been used (original packaging, pristine accessories,OEM screen protector wrap still on). What would cause a phone to function normally all ways, but not register an LTE connection? I've tried: toggling LTE off/on in Cellular Settings. checking for carrier updates resetting network settings
I would like to use a mirrored emoji() in an imessage - is that possible? (I am interested in both mirrored, flipped and rotated emojis)
When I manually connect my iPhone to my Mac Pro, click on My Device, it does not show my iPhone playlists. My goal is to move specific playlists over to computer so I can play them on both.
I was just using my laptop normally when suddenly the whole computer just shut down. I turned it back on straight away and it was fine. Another hour passed and it did the same thing. I could also turn it on again. And then it happened again, this time I couldn't turn it back on!! I have never spilt any liquid over my laptop so it isn't liquid damage. I have tried resetting SMC, replugging the battery cable inside the computer, leaving the charger disconnected from the mac for a few hours, nothing works! The strange thing is when I have my charger disconnected and I press the little button on the side to show power, nothing happens. But when I do the same with the charger connected it shows full battery.
When I lock my screen using cmdalteject while Chrome is downloading, the download is canceled. I get back to my computer and see that download is not active. I also noticed that video streams I'm watching (such as live TV) also stop.
I have an Apple ID and a password that works fine on most things but not my iPhone 4. The address is example24@example.com.
I am facing annoying problem of only HTTPS websites working on my Mac (in all browsers). I can only visit Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo etc. So far, I tried following: Websites shows error of: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I have uninstalled Anti-virus Turned off firewall Changed DNS, to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 (Google), 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 (Open DNS), 0.0.0.0 My network is ipv4 supported (but not ipv6) so most websites should work.
Is there a simple but meaningful performance index for comparing various generations of MacBooks, and their different configurations, with a focus on everyday graphics and web development work? I will eventually be looking for a successor to my current work MacBook. I feel like I need as much performance as possible, but the top of the line 15" MBP is too expensive so I'll have to look at a more lightly configured 15", a 13" model, or go one or two generations back. I would like to find out how well those options would perform compared to my current 2011 model. I have tweaked my current MBP with more RAM (8 instead of 4 GB) and an SSD, though, so I'd need an actual benchmark program as well as a results table for the various models, so I can measure my machine's actual performance with the tweaks installed. Is there a benchmark/index that I can put to use? My typical work day sees Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign open, often with huge files A fat but indispensable Web IDE (phpStorm
I first moved Caskroom to new location Then tried to install MultiBit.app My brew installation looks fine is this a bug or user error?
Because Apple Thunderbolt Display reflects the whole room, I still use the matte 30" Apple Cinema Display. (Two cables are required for 2560 resolution due to some obscure technical constraints!) MacBook Air (Mini DisplayPort + USB) Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI) How do I connect the MacBook (USB-C) to the 30" screen with 2560 resolution? MacBook (USB-C) (What goes here?) Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)
Until recently apps that have been refunded couldn't be redownloaded from the App Store and I think they couldn't even be bought again. However, I recently noticed that these apps now show the cloud symbol for being downloaded again free of charge like any other app that has been bought.
See screen shot of my Finder settings  all folders and movies (flv, divx, mkv and mov) are correct categorized, only *.wmv file is a document. Should be movie.
By default the photos in user-created albums are sorted by date added, NOT date taken. The user may rearrange the photos one-by-one (tap and hold). I do NOT own a Mac.
Recently I've noticed that less command doesn't work. As you can see it didn't open less as viewer. It might be some global setting but I have no idea what might it cause. Update.
I have messed up my time machine backup file and did not back it up. Can anybody please post the default file from: for El Capitan (10.11.5)
I have my Samsung TV connected to my Macbook Air via HDMI/thunderbolt. Everything was working just fine until I upgraded to Yosemite (10.10.5). At the moment, in the "sound" configuration in the "output" tab I don't see anything except internal speakers and I can see the images on the TV but there is no audio. [I already rebooted, but with no change in behavior.] Any idea on how to fix this?
I've noticed that several apps on the iOS App Store offer two purchasing options: Free app, then an in-app purchase of $x to the full version The full version of the app for an immediate purchase of $x (Infuse is one such example) Given that both purchasing methods get you exactly the same thing (that is, a working full version of the app) why would a developer go to the additional effort to make available both #1 and #2, rather than just have #1 in the App Store? Please note
Just recently, an iBook I've been reading for a long time made iBooks not respond when I double clicked it to open. I've tried navigating to it several different ways, but it doesn't work. For some reason, however, the iBook still works perfectly on my phone, and secondary computer. Any ideas?
I have transferred a photo from camera to the Mac and it is stored in screen saver. I couldn't find any photo in iPhoto or in the library. If you can please help me how to import photos from screen saver.
My safari browser tabs are all blank.. Any ideas on how to make the titles reappear?
The built-in speakers are not working. The output shows a digital device only and when you hit the up volume key it shows 0.
I opened up find my iPhone account between myself my daughter 15yrs old and son 14 yrs old. We all previously had our Apple ID numbers. I'm listed as organizer I'm 38 yrs old. My son is listed under adult and with my name MICHELLE BANCROFT not his own. What do I do?
I have a user named 'tv' (OS X 10.11.5) and I have these files in /Users/tv/Library/LaunchAgents/ I get Path had bad ownership/permissions when I try to load either file. I've rebooted, changed the group to wheel, tried to manually load them repeatedly, but I always get the same error. The permissions look exactly the same as on my normal user account: This link is similar, but is dealing with root permissions inside the /Library folder
We already have one developer license, but want to buy one more developer license. Is it possible under the same Apple ID? We want to buy one more license under same company name, same Apple ID. Basically Apple ID (having agent role) is legal owner. So under the same Apple ID, we wanted to buy a 2nd license. If no, what are the alternate ways?
we already have one developer license. Now we want to buy one more developer license. Is it possible under the same AppleID? We want to buy one more license under the same company name , same apple Id, basically apple ID(having agent role) is legal owner. So under same apple id wanted to buy 2nd license. If no what are the alternate ways... Please note Entity Type: Company / Organization
OS X admin accounts are not root accounts. Any app wanting to go root will ask for your password anyway, so I see no additional security layer here. Try to put /var into the Trash.
I unfortunately copied few of my photos in the foto application and now I want to delete them. This is the specific setting. Is there a general way to mark files and select every second object in a short way? Thank you!
I was helping someone with their iPad that was redirecting a webpage to spam. The site was a respectable news site, and loaded fine on other devices. On his ipad, half way through loading the page it redirected to other sites - you have a virus, download this etc.
@user3439894 I thought about that, shouldn't need the MBR if I'm using a different bootloader, but I did neglect the System Reserved partition. The problem here is that I already have 4 partitions on the hard drive... I forget what partition 0 is (not in front of my mac), partition 1 is Mac, partition 2 is mac recovery partition, and partition 3 is the one I made for windows. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong... Boot camp has turned into quite the nightmare, would have been nice if it just took my image and did the job for me, but I digress.
I was using my Macbook Pro when it turned off. The things I had plugged in at the time were a USB cable to a sound blaster thing and then into some speakers. I also had a second monitor attached, along with a wireless mouse and keyboard plug. I have tried unplugging battery, waiting 30 minutes and plugging back in. I have tried resetting SMC. I have tried leaving for about a day. I dont think the battery can drain though. I checked the battery level indicator, it showed nothing. So I left it for a day, still showed nothing. I plugged in the charger and this time it showed that I had full battery. So the battery level indicator only lit up with the charger plugged in.
In a previous answer How to uninstall Git? it was suggested to run the uninstall.sh, but if I run cd /usr/bin/git I get -bash: cd: /usr/bin/git: Not a directory. Below I copied the output of ls -l on the directory usr/bin (only the files that look to me as related to git for reasons of space).
Is there some free software that can show CPU temperature in real time for OS X El Capitan? Any way to have CPU temperature in the menu bar? doesn't provide such an option.
I'm trying to update Xcode on my Mac mini. When I click the Update button in the App Store, a spinner appears, but nothing else happens.
Having an external monitor connected prevents my Mac from sleeping when I close the lid. Is there any way to opt out this feature?
I installed Ubuntu under Virtualbox in MacBook Pro with OS X El Capitan. To share my OS X home directory /Users/tli folder with the guest Ubuntu, I downloaded the Virtualbox Guest Addition iso file to /Users/tli/Downloads/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.16.iso, specified it under the virtual machine's Settings -> Storage -> Optical Drive (see the screenshot below), and installed it under the guest Ubuntu. Then the shared directory worked: my OS X home directory /Users/tli folder is mounted as /media/sf_tli, and I could access the content in my OS X home directory from guest Ubuntu.
Is it possible to make use of the Messages app to connect to Microsoft Lync / Skype for business ?
Following the instructions here, *=URL=* I deleted 10 months of old emails and emptied the trash in iCloud. Before I deleted those emails, I had 2.8GB of space available on iCloud; after deleting them and emptying the trash, I had 1.83GB available.
I have about 14GB of space taken-up by photos that aren't there. I've seen the date reset to delete recently deleted photos, however that does not work for me. I do not want to reset my iPhone to fix this problem if I don't have to.
I cannot enroll in the Apple Developer program because I am under 18. What would be the repercussions if I lied about my age and then signed up?
I'd like to know if there is a way to press the whatsapp "send" button while I'm offline (for instance on the metro) so they are send latter when rich connection. This can be done on the Android version and is a useful feature. There is a way to do it on the iOS version? If not do you know if there is any intention to implement this feature? Thanks in advance!
I just got a used Mac mini and am currently setting it up for me and my family to use. Before this, the only Mac in the house was my MacBook Pro and very rarely did anyone else use it, so I had the only account. Now, with the Mac mini, I'm giving all four of us user accounts and come across an annoying issue: we all share the same Applications folder. This is probably to save space on the hard drive, but I hate it.
I'm on osx 10.11. (Background: I'm having trouble getting the system installed Python to use TLS 1.1.)
I have a MacBook Pro running latest El Capitan and in the Bluetooth preferences pane I have set up that Bluetooth devices shouldn't be able to wake up the Mac. However, recently I have been finding my Mac overheated when I wake it from sleep. I observed the situation a bit, removed all USB devices and looked at Activity Monitor and the processes preventing from sleep were "rcd" and "hidd". After having put the laptop to sleep, the fans go completely silent for half a minute and then they start spinning. As soon as the fans start spinning either the keyboard's or trackpad's green LED turns on without any obvious input. A minute later the fans stop and that cycles until I wake it up.
I have a MacBook Air (13 Inch, Mid-2011) running OS X 10.11.3 (15D21) 1,7 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
The title says it all. Does anyone have experience with sending uncompressed folders to people using different operating systems? Can attached folders be opened on Windows?
I switch to, for example, Safari and find the window I want. I can Command-Option-H to hide all the other applications, but I also want to minimize all the Safari windows except the one I'm using (the front-most one).
I'm trying to write a Bash script that opens a browser, clicks an HTML button on a webpage, and closes the browser after getting response. I need this script to be executable from within Terminal. If not a Bash script, then maybe a Python script. Form is: Script I have is: curl -d value="Activate +15551231234 over SMS (recommended)" www.testpage.com Any help or direction would be appreciated!
I am new to the Apple world and running into difficulty while attempting my Photos from my iPhone 5S (ios version 9.2.1) to iCloud. In my Photos settings, I have the iCloud Photo Library option selected, yet when I log in to *=URL=* I do not see any items whatsoever. I've tried the usual options of restarting my phone, de-selecting and re-selecting etc. I have noticed that underneath this option it says "Low Disk Space - Uploading 311 items"
I am trying to create a script that wipes/partitions the hard drive of old macs and reinstalls OS X so that I do not have to click through the user interface. I can run wipe the disk, but I cannot figure out how to reinstall OS X using only the command line/bash script. Any ideas?
One reviewer (pictured on the bottom right in that screenshot) even mentions that the "genuine" charger caused the dreaded Accessory Not Supported error on their iPhone.
I was planning to put some songs on my mom's iPhone, then when I opened iTunes and accidentally clicked the restore backup. All the files (photos, msgs, contacts, notes, etc...) of my friends, were transfered.
I accidentely deleted the browser history in Safari on the iPhone, but would still need to re-access one link. How can I recover a deleted browser history?
Is there a way to create an executable Python script that will be able to run on any Mac via terminal, similar to a Bash script. I need any user to be able to just double click the file, and it should run. I want it to be able to run without the user having Python installed, but it has to be a Python script as it has to interact with an HTML button.
I was using a Dremel to make the aluminum shell on a new lightning cable (long, braided) fit through the hole in my iPhone 6S+ case. The aluminum shell got extremely hot. The cable seems to charge fine (didn't try data transfer), but I'm neurotic enough to worry that maybe the chip is somewhat damaged and something bad could happen in the future...Neurotic, right?
Chrome is quite aggressive about caching HTTP responses. I assume this is for speed. However, for a web developer such as myself, this can often be problematic, since pages I work on often change a lot.
I've look around here and Apple's support community, but can't find my exact issue. I recently reinstalled Windows 10 to my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012), added a partition to start on installing Linux, and now OS X doesn't see the Windows 10 partition at all. I can still hold down alt/option to start it up, but I would like to have the option to have it automatically start to Windows 10, which I don't anymore. sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 returned the following: sudo gdisk /dev/disk0 returned this: Of course, Disk Utility was SO helpful by showing this:
My MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) - 2.5GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 was stolen two days ago. I have notified the police.
I am using iPod touch 6th generation. I've tried to sign up in Face Time and iMessage a lot of time but they are showing that there's a problem on network. Why is this happening?
I tried making a facetime call on my macbook and it shows the view of my camera to just be black. The green LED for the camera turned on when I opened facetime but now will not turn off, even after completely exiting all open programs on the macbook. The only way to get the LED to turn off if to restart the computer. I also tried searching for "VDC" in utility and killing the "VDCAssistant" process to no avail. Any ideas:
I am running 10.6.8 on a 12 core MacPro. The only BU is for the main drive, a 512GB SSD with only 52GB of capacity used. Is it normal for the backs to take so long? Is there anything I can do to speed this up?
BUT. One fine day, shortly after, my computer stopped detecting the internal HDD at boot time.
Apple mail has found itself in a strange state: an email I tried to send this morning (which apparently failed) keeps appearing for perhaps half a second, then disappearing again. This happens even when I restart Mail or even restart the computer. I have tried interacting with it during it's brief appearance (close button, send button, ...) but it doesn't appear to be reacting to my clicks. Any suggestions on what may be happening or what I can do about it?
Are they recent from days, months? How long ago? Are they calls, text, FaceTime?
I have an issue where my kernel task is taking over a GB of memory on my activity monitor. My fan seems to be going pretty crazy and is loud. Any ideas?
I have an iPhone 5c with the newest iOS, 9.3.2. Every time I try to download an app or an update, the loading icon shows up. Immediately after that, it goes back to the download or update icon, without doing the download. Resetting the iPhone in all ways doesn't work. Please help, I've tried almost everything.
I have a new Magic Keyboard 2 and I was wondering if keeping it connected all the time to the USB port can somehow damage the battery
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I've tried all sorts of things, and need help. I needed to use some software from the Internet, so I got some installers for them. All of them are .dmg and have .pkg installers. I went through the installers and installed them, but after installing them I can't find them anywhere. Could someone please help me find them? Logs tell me they were installed:
Question title pretty much says it all. My wife just started working for a company that uses Office 365 online. When she is using a work computer, she logs in to her Microsoft Exchange Mail, Calendar, and her OneNote account via a web browser. When on her home computer, she can connect Apple Mail and Apple Calendar to her Exchange account. Is there a way to sync her Apple Notes to her OneNote account?
I have a 2009 MacBook Air (MacBookAir2,1) I have a compatible MagSafe and a Apple one.
The Facebook home section seems to be empty and I don't understand why... out of 3 pages I have, 2 of them does this. I don't get it because they all have the same option activated and it seems like there is no real logic behind it...
In Mastered for iTunes, Apple promises: Sound Check can also correctly set the volume per album, rather than per song, allowing albums that rely on volume differences between tracks However, my understanding is that afconvert (with the --soundcheck-generate and --soundcheck-read options) only works on track-level. How can I generate soundcheck data from multiple files and apply it to a whole album?
I have both python 2.7 and 3.5.1 installed in my Mac (El Capitan). I left version 2.7 as per this recommendation.
At the moment, I am running OS X El Capitan (10.11.5) and Windows 10 in bootcamp on my MacBook Pro. I plan on upgrading to the macOS Sierra public beta when it comes out in July or so.
I enabled 'show invisibles' on a docx that has been converted from pdf and this icon appears at several places:  I cannot get rid of it. What is this icon? What's its purpose?
I am aware that 'hiding' a wifi network/SSID does not make the network MORE secure, but Apple's warning on IOS 10: Using a hidden network can expose personally identifiable information seems to indicate that hidden networks are LESS secure. Clicking the 'learn more' link does not give any further info supporting the claim. Exactly how can hiding an SSID make the network any LESS secure (by "expose[ing] personally identifiable information")
When my Mac locks itself due to inactivity, or because I've switched to the login screen (without logging myself out), what actually changes? For example:
I partitioned my hard drive in order to install Ubuntu, but I now would like to reclaim that space and add it back to my Macintosh HD. I managed to delete the Linux Filesystem and Swap, and Disk Utility shows that I have some free space:
I take lots of screenshots that fill up my desktop very quickly, what im trying to do is set a system where all screenshots will automatically get saved to a screenshots folder on my desktop. Ive tried to set an automator action to do this, but couldn't figure out exactly how to do this, any ideas / guidance much appreciated
In OSX would it be possible to change the background colour and/or text colour of the address/search bar input field of a browser (Chrome, Safari, etc)? Not just the highlight colour (System Prefs > General > Highlight color) but as a permanent colour change, independent of focused or highlight state. Mock up attached.
I did some research on the various ways how corporate data can be protected on a user owned device (BYOD) running iOS. My understanding is that, through mobile device management (MDM), I could create networking and usage restrictions for certain apps specifically. For example, I could require the user to be connected through a specific VPN in order to use app "X".
I have a Mid 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" (16 GB, Iris pro, 750M Nvidia, 512 GB SSD). I don't like to use Boot Camp, it's not productive and I don't like to use Windows unless its super necessary. I saw a YouTube video of someone playing BattleField 4 with Parallels Desktop on the same model MacBook Pro I have, and the game seems to play fine.
I have installed f.lux on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) running OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 to make the color of screen warmer at night. When I pick my laptop suddenly and Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) activates, f.lux stops controlling the color suddenly. Sometimes it does not resume its task after SMS stops sensing the motion. f.lux uses Location Services to detect the time zone and schedule color shift correctly.
I tried to change input language by pressing shortcut commandspace and also by choosing language on the menu bar. It automatically switches to English language. The only way I found to fix it by rebooting the Mac. Maybe someone knows another way? I'm using English, Japanese and Russian on a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
Long story short I have more than enough space on my laptop to download my whole Apple Music library (which isn't very big at all) for offline play, but I have <1gb of space on my iPhone. Is there a way to download songs for offline play on my Mac without having it also download them to my iPhone (both which obviously use the same Apple Music account)?
I have Linux installed on a Macbook Pro 5.1 (2009). The Linux kernel starts up with the Performance CPU Governor, which causes the CPU to get hot. Linux will drive the CPU at 3.06 GHz, but Apple publishes this CPU at 2.6GHz...hence the heat. I want to edit the Max CPU Frequency in the Mac EFI so Linux will never run above the Apple published CPU frequency.
Okay, so I'm pretty sure i have this right because i have tried a bunch of fixes over the past few days to get to this conclusion. I think my IP address is for some reason being denied access to Apple servers. I am able to sign into iCloud via my cellular connection. But the moment I try to access or login to any of iCloud login (on mac/phone/windows pc) via my wifi (static IP) apple cannot sign me in and returns the error "unable to connect to server" or similar ones. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
Am aware of the fact, there is a known problem as mentioned in this Apple KB: Mac notebooks with optical drives: Noises from the optical drive link, that is produced when the OS is initializing the optical drive. It seems to be occurring in OS X Yosemite for now, but would like to know if there is any possible fixes for it in the same OS version or upgrading it to OS X El Capitan will fix the problem.
From Apple developer guide I learned how to download the TestFlight crash reports. In the crash organiser it shows only up to build number 3 while I have uploaded build number 6 to the TestFlight.
In WWDC, it was announced that macOS Sierra will have an 'auto-unlock' feature using the Apple Watch whereby if you approach your Mac wearing your Apple Watch, the Mac will automatically unlock. I don't recall seeing anything about the reverse though? Does macOS Sierra also have an auto-lock using the Apple Watch?
I've a UHD display connected to MAC via HDMI. But the external display is not rendering in native resolution. There does not appear to be an option in preferences to set to native resolution of monitor ? Update :
I have bought a new Samsung EVO 850 SSD, it is yet unformatted. I have a SATAI/II to USB3.0 dock which I want to use to get the drive formatted, but it is just not showing up in Disk Utility (Recovery mode or plain) or even Disk Management on Windows. I have a Macbook Pro 17" Early-2011 [El Capitan 10.11.5] and want to clone my current HDD to this SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner. The dock I am using is this exact one: *=URL=* The SSD is this one: *=URL=* I have read of a few people successfully installing this drive into their Macbook Pro, but success eludes me.
When I restore a backup to my iPhone or iPad I get asked to insert the password not only for my apple ID, but also for another account I own and for my sister's account (for which I don't know the password). I assume that the reason is that in the backup there are applications or songs that have been bought with these other accounts. Is there a way of detecting what applications/songs are causing this problem and removing them from my device so that I will not have this problem again the next time I have to restore a backup?
I want to make a new pdf from my old one: put portrait pages 1 & 2 on a landscape page 1, pages 3 & 4 on page 2, and so on. Preview.app does this, but I need to do it in the shell. jPDFtweak.jar also does this in GUI, but for no reason it fails to do it in terminal (for some of my files). I do not know, how to use lp to print to pdf.
By default, photo booth save videos in Is there a way to change this default path? I am on OSX 10.11.5
I've got multiple email accounts in OSX Mail, a mixture of gmail, google apps mail, and me.com ... all of which are connecting via imap / smtp. With one of the accounts I want to automatically cc a copy of all outgoing emails to another email address.
I bought a DELL P2416D with a 2560x1440 resolution but I didn't know that it wasn't compatible with OS X. I use a mini Display Port to HDMI adapter. Also the Mac detected the monitor as a TV and so used the YPbPr color format but I already fixed that issue by forcing the RGB color format and I would like to know if I can force a higher resolution or if you know a better solution to my problem.
I wonder if AppleScript can print a variable in the top menu bar in OSX 10.11 ?
when my daughter receives a FaceTime call from one of her friends (now that I think about it it may be only this one friend), my iPhone, my husband's iPhone, and my iPad all ring. I set up separate iCloud accounts for all of us and turned off cellular calling on my iPad. There doesn't seem to be an option to do this on the iPhone any longer. Despite these efforts, all of our devices still ring when my daughter gets a FaceTime call from her friend. What should I do next?
2.3 Ghz Intel Core i7 8GB DDR3: Was running NetAdmin Pro which is monitoring my office LAN, processors consumption was at ~15 - 20%. Simultaneously I ran WiFI Explorer, 3.7% no more than 5% CPU usage. And I was updating Xcode to v 7.3.1 and was browsing and watching video from playground.ru
my mac kept getting stuck on the apple logo when booting up so I went into recovery mode and formatted the disk and installed OS X again. But for some reason it is not booting normally when I switch it on it boots automatically into disk utilities??
I know if a disk is not ejected properly, that can cause corruption or data loss on that disk. But can it cause problems with the Mac as well, such as with the file directory? And if it did cause problems with the computer, would those be limited to how it relates to the disk in question?
I accidentally messed up my $PATH. I Tried to follow the instructions from the previous similar questions but I keep having the same problem When I type: echo$ PATH, I get the following response: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin . Do you know how i can reset the PATH? The operating system is OS X El Capitan. Thank you so much
When checking Google's certificate with OpenSSL I get I then extracted the root certificates from Keychain and supplied them to OpenSSL with the same result With MacPorts openssl or with the same on a Linux machine everything works as expected. Am I missing some root certificates? I am using OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016 on OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
My icloud account kept telling me it was nearly full. I had only 1 back up listed on my iphone (i don't have a mac etc) and the same on the dashboard on my laptop. I deleted the 4.9gb backup (nothing important- full of photos and videos already saved elsewhere) and now i have the full free 5gb listed in my storage. Does this mean my iCloud storage is now completely empty?
I recently deleted a bunch of apps on my iPhone 5 so that I would have room for more photos during a trip. I have returned and moved the photos off of the phone, and there is now plenty of space for me to redone load those apps. However, some of these old apps will not download. If I tap the cloud icon, it shows the loading circle for a second and then goes back to the cloud icon. I was only able to redo load two of the apps and I am not sure what is unique about those two.
I can open up the Character Viewer using the Control-Command-Space keys combination. I want to change this keyboard shortcut so I can use it for some other action. How can this be done?c
I can't remember what happens when I update my iOS: will I be asked for my iCloud password? I would like to delete my iCloud account ultimately and I guess if i didn't have an account I wouldn't be asked for the password after updating my iOS but just wondered if I will be asked while my account is active.
I recently bought hardware that apparently does not support Mac. When connecting it to my Windows VirtualMachine the installer pops up and the device is ready to be used. However, that does not happen on my Mac (Mac Mini Late 2012, macOS 10.11.2). I checked for available drivers for the hardware that I could install on my Mac to make it run but they do not offer any. Is there any application or 3rd party software that allows me to run Windows-only hardware on my Mac? Thanks in advance!
Mac doesn't show Nvidia 750M in place of graphics card here. Earlier I had Nvidia showing here instead of Iris Pro
I'm interested in buying the Sony XBAA1AP earphones, and am curious if earphones that aren't specifically designed for iPhones, but which have an inline remote control / mic, will provide basic remote control / mic features on iPhone devices.
MacBook Pro, Late 2011 2.5Ghz. The Mac works perfectly fine, however, every so often, the Mac simply freezes and doesn't respond. Therefore I turn it off, and when turning it back on weird lines appear.
The other day my MacBook Pro just spontaneously halted during regular usage. The screen went black, aside from the mouse cursor appearing once every 10 seconds (exactly). I don't seem to be able to move the cursor myself and upon trying to reboot the device (cold), I get the Apple Inc. logo / loading progress-bar combo, and then its straight back to being an unresponsive black screen with a cursor that flashes at ten second intervals.
My workflow from an SLR and a small camera is simple. Once a month, I take the SD card out, insert it in my Macbook, and Photos can (usually) correctly detect the new photos. I copy them to the Macbook, back up to Time Machine. Once every three or so months, I wipe out the SD card. It's seamless enough.
My 7-year-old daughter mistakenly set a 4-digit passcode on the iPad and doesn't remember what it is. Now it is locked and useless. What are my options to recover it (if any)?
My wife and I often watch videos on the plane together, we used to use our iPad together with a headphone splitter so we could watch a movie together - but then we lost the splitter. Anyway, I'm thinking about getting bluetooth headphones for work and am wondering: Is it possible, for instance, to watch a video / movie on an iPhone (we each have an iPhone 6) or iPad with both a wired headphone plugged into the 1/8" headphone jack, and also have a second set connected via Bluetooth?
I just upgraded iTunes to version 12.4.1.6, and now when I right click on a song the option of "Find Album Artwork" is gone. I use that option when I add new songs that aren't imported with it. (I don't like the "find all" option because it messes up some custom artworks I've added) Thanks in advance.
iOS devices with cameras allow the user to "zoom" into the image being captured. This does not move any lenses or anything; it is a digital zoom and is conceptually equivalent to cropping in post. However, I would like to know if there is any (however small) difference in output between an image that is captured while zoomed in and one that is only cropped after the fact.
I know that when you tap on the status bar on top, it will scroll the table all the way to the top. Is there a similar way that can scroll it all the way to the bottom?
Since a year ago my Macbook Pro (13-inch, late 2011, El Capitan) restarts and shows panic reports. I changed the hard drive and installed a Samsung SSD. Lately, the kernel panics are more frequent. Also, it doesn't startup/boot properly at times. I formatted the SSD and repaired the SSD with apps such as DiskWarrior. The panic report says: Thanks!
I have two mail accounts A and B and I don't want the mails from B to be junk filtered. I enabled "junk mail filtering" in the settings and I ticket the option "perform custom actions". The rules I defined are Account is A Message is junk mail To does not contain address from B Any recipient does not contain address from B Sender is not in my contacts Sender is not in my previous recipients And the action is simply: Move message to Junk Box of A I also configured that all of the rules need to be met in order to perform the action. My problem is that Mail still moves Mails from B to the Junk Box of A, how can I avoid that?
I have an internet friend, we were chatting using imessage, everything works properly until i try to send a message and then imessage doesn't say delivered neither sending. I tried using my other email address to text him, and it works, it says delivered, i know this is weird so i tried again using my first email, but it still doesn't say delivered. Did my friend blocked me? *i don't have his number, just his email.
Is there any way of customizing the "Recently Added" view of the iTunes Library? I would like to be able to specify a time range, as it used to be possible prior to iTunes 12.4.x. I'm thinking of some kind of hidden plist setting. I know one can create smart playlists with a "Date Added" field, but that's not what I'm looking for: when choosing "View as Albums", there's no "Sort by date added option", which is what I'd need to replicate the recently added view.
Since I updated the system to 10.11.5, the Facebook message notification is not showing message text. Is this a bug in this software upgrade of OSX?
I just got my MacBook Pro, and now I want to start using an external monitor hooked up to it. The connection, from my MBP is an HDMI adapter to VGA, and then the VGA cord to my monitor. So it's HDMI -> VGA (the monitor doesn't have an HDMI port).
Currently I am running Windows 10 on my MBP with bootcamp. In OS X, in disk utility, there is an "Untitled" partition of ~ 450MB. Upon closer inspection using disk management in Windows and the "diskutil list" command in OS X, this appears to be the windows recovery partition that windows 10 has made.
My iPhone 5 will not connect to the Internet via mobile data but will on wifi ? I have rebooted it several times, the first time worked but a few weeks later it has happened again and now won't clear. Help please ?
We are running Mac Server version 5.1.5 on a MacBook pro running the latest version of El Capitan. We want to migrate this install to our MacMini running the same exact OS and Server versions. What is the quickest and most efficient way to accomplish this? Thanks, Tony
Same question, different version. Outlook 2016 doesn't have the Edit > Substitutions menu item, and it ignores the setting in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Use smart quotes.
Up until today, when I would get a message notification from Facebook, it would say the content of the message and the sender. I had to delete and re-add Facebook to my "Internet Accounts" preference pane because I changed my password. Now it just says that I have a "New Message" whenever I get a message. How do I change it back? Re-adding my Facebook account and restarting don't fix it.
I have three monitors. I'd like to use a dock on each monitor that displays the apps / windows open on that monitor. Is this possible? Thanks!
I bought my daughter her ipad for Christmas (7 months ago) and she dropped it the other day cracking the screen; you can actually see inside of it at the top. Does this come with a manufacture warranty and will it cover accidental damage?
I am running macOS El Capitan 10.11.5, and in Photos I am unable to add a face. When I go open the ‘Info’ window, I do not get the option to add a face. I can only add a description or a keyword, and assign a location, but not add a face.
I'm trying to write a method that waits for an element on a webpage to appear before continuing, this code works when not placed in a method but I cannot appear to place it in one without getting the error above The "hplogo" is a google sign for testing. When run:
This is probably the most annoying thing I have to deal with on my iPhone 6s. I am often on conference calls for work. I mute myself so the background noise is not a problem, and I hit the power button to turn off the screen and put the phone in my pocket. However, when it is time for me to talk I turn back on the screen and it does not show me the call in progress, it takes me to the home screen. I just want to be able to unmute, but I have to navigate back to the call in progress screen to do that. Is there a way to make it stop doing this?
I am a new Mac user of less than a year. One of the first things I did was to install my favorite web browser - Google Chrome.
Is there a way to list all available commands in terminal? I know linux has compgen -c is there an equivalent command for OS X?
I have a short applescript I run on a schedule to pop up a dialog and ask me to log an entry. The script then submits the data to a shell/curl script. I must note that I barely know how to use Applescript and I've cobbled this together from web searches. The important part, that I'm having trouble with, is the behavior of the dialog. If I submit an answer as the dialog pops up, it works fine. However, if I switch to another window, I am simply unable to return focus to the dialog to be able to enter text. I can however close the dialog with the "OK" or "Cancel" buttons. Script contents Screenshots Initial launch of dialog
I'm looking for an easy way to see a list of all the apps that are currently installed on my iPhone (running iOS9). In earlier versions of iOS it was possible to just type a '.' into Spotlight and all the apps would come up in a list, but I haven't found a way to do this easily on iOS 9.
As a part of my workflow, I often face this scenario: I have a folder with let's say, 100 files named 1.mov to 100.mov I have a list of valid files let's say, files 1.mov, 2.mov .... 15.mov (These names can be random) Now I want finder to separate the valid files from the heap of original files by either marking them or creating a new folder and copying them recursively. How can I achieve this with automator?
We recently bought a used iMac, (iMac7,1 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Build 8S2167), from a garage sale. When I plugged it in I saw that the previous owner didn't factory reset it.
I have received in my telegram mp3 file. Now i have gone to telegram web service and downloaded mp3 file , now i do not know where does my iphone save this file? Where i have to find that?
I have a series of spreadsheets that I work with daily. Is there a way to use Automator to open the first spreadsheet and when I close it because I'm done with it open the next spreadsheet? Thank you. Here's the a screenshot of Alphaman's solution:
In previous IOS (7), I could have a playlist, shuffle to play the first song, then hit repeat one track and listen to the same music as long as I wanted. When I want another song, I could just hit next and the next song will play in a loop (as it's repeat one) until I ask to play the next song. This was perfect.
I am having trouble downloading El Capitan. I go to the app store and click download button for El Capitan. Pinwheel spins for 5-10 sec then "download" button turns to "downloading" (this doesnt go away unless computer is restarted)
We are two people with two iPhones that share one Apple ID. We individually listen to some of the same podcasts on each iPhone. The "played" status and current position of the podcast episodes appear to get sync'ed between the phones at least some of the time. We don't want this to happen. Settings -> Podcasts -> Sync Podcasts is OFF on both phones. We both sync with iTunes regularly to update apps, music, etc., but podcast syncing is turned OFF for both phones on iTunes (Windows).
Well, Time Machine used to work just fine to our Synology NAS. Today I got the message that Time Machine needed to restart, so I let it. It has not been able to successfully start, much less complete, the first backup. From the console: I've rebooted everything multiple times, deleted the .tmp directories that get behind by this embryonic failure... what else?
Once I've deleted an app from my iPad, I only see the iCloud icon with a down arrow rather than the "Install" button. When I click on the iCloud icon, nothing happens. I've looked at App Store sometimes can't install, iCloud icon instead of INSTALL icon, but I know my iCloud and App Store passwords and they've been updated in my settings, but I never get asked for any password. On rare occasion, when I click on the iCloud icon I see the timer circle that indicates something is downloading but it goes away in a second and the iCloud icon returns.
I followed the instructions to merge cells as mentioned on the apple page : select 2 cells > press format > but there are no such a button writing "merge cells"?!
Edit: I want to use the German version of the App Store because I don't have a credit card (I am a student). I need to buy a few apps for my education. Thanks.
I've been using my Macbook Pro(13-inch Retina, early 2015) for past 10 months. Initially, it's battery did not used to drain at all during sleep/standby mode, but recently it has started to drain (by 13-15% when on sleep for 8-10 hours, contradicting it's standby time of 30 days). I've already tried booting in safe mode and changed Hibernate Mode to 25 in order to detect/handle the associated background problem(s) but nothing worked. I usually prefer putting my mac on sleep instead of shutting it down as it allows me to resume my work right from where I left it. Battery Information: Health Information: Cycle Count: 216 Condition: Normal Battery Installed: Yes Amperage (mA): -622 Voltage (mV): 12128 Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6271 Is my Mac's Battery's health wearing with use and time or could there be a possible fix to this problem? Help would be appreciated, That you.
I have several external hard drives. They're consumer drives which "go to sleep" (spin down) automatically when unused; I can't (and don't want to) run them 24x7. I use them strictly for backup and long-term storage.
I bought a memory upgrade for the mac pro from crucial, *=URL=* I installed it, by itself, it works fine, system boots and everything is perfect. The existing memory also works fine, by itself. As soon as I combine the two the machine refuses to start and beeps once, to indicate there is no memory installed - I've confirmed this by removing all modules and starting up, the beep frequency and tone is the same.
I need applescript to open a link listed on a page in a new tab here is the page HTML I would like to open both Billing and Transaction in new tabs
I have a macbook pro 13" mid 2009 2,26GHz with HDD 160gb. I recently replaced my optical drive with a crucial SSD 240GB and it works really good and it was quite an easy process. Now i am trying to do the same to a friends Macbook pro 13" mid 2010 with a crucial MX200 SSD 500gb, only now it is not recognisable at all by the MBP. both sata drives on MBP 2010 are on 3gb/s speeds while the ssd is 6gb/s! Both macbook run el capitan
I have an iPad for my children and I want to stop them downloading the YouTube app. Can I put a password on their iPad to stop them downloading it.
Since I encrypted my external hard drive it does not stop running after I press eject. It disappears from the sidebar in Finder but it does not stop running. I have removed it and connected it again several times and the same thing happens every time. Can this be harmful for the drive or is it ok to remove it even though it is still running? Is there anyway to fix this so that it stops running when ejected? Or is there another safe way to remove it if eject does not work? I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5.
I don't know where this comes from. I can't click it, it is only present on the second display; when I mirror displays it goes away. Does anyone have an idea what this could be? I realise a reboot/logout will probably fix it, but I'm curious as to what this is and whether there is some method which will tell me, to which process it belongs. System: 10.10.5, Mbp 9,2
When I sync my iPad to my MacBook, a lot of my playlists are getting duplicated over and over again. Here is an example:
So I accidentally touched my rMBP screen , I have to admit that my hands were a bit sweaty when I touched it, I immediately took a microfiber cloth and cleaned the screen, did I caused any damage to it?
On Macbook Pro, I clicked "about this mac", and it shows that Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 I thought I have more cores and cpus, because when I created a virtual machine in Virtualbox, it allows me to specify up to 4 cpus to the virtual machine. So how can I find out the number of cpus and cores on this laptop?
I installed latest version of git into /usr/local/bin and change $PATH so that new version is picked up when using shell. Can I remove old version that is in /usr/bin directory ? I am afraid to do it because something could break in the system maybe. I am just curious about this.
I am currently running my MacPro (late 2010) with a 30" (2840 pix wide) and often an old iMac 27 as a secondary display. I'd really like to upgrade to something more crisp - the difference on my MBP Retina is huge. I thought about getting an Eizo 32" 4k - but it will obviously not be as crisp as the 5k models that usually come around as 27".
I am new to iOS platform. Recently, I have transferred around 150 songs from my mac to my iPhone, manually without syncing. But, what I see now all songs are added to recently added folder. Is there a way to categorize them into albums?
I'm new to El Capitan, after using Snow Leopard for years. Notification Center is nice, but clicking on a city in the weather list kicks me over to my browser and opens up a tab for that city at the Weather Channel website. WTH? How do I prevent Notification Center from calling up my browser?
I can't shutdown my Late 2012 Mac mini, running El Capitan, in the normal way, by selecting the Shut Down... on the Apple menu. Every time I try, Finder vanishes and the shutdown progress freezes. I'm still able to work with the Dock, so I can shutdown using Terminal. In long term it's really annoying. Hopefully someone has an idea whats wrong. [EDIT] I just found out that im able to shut the system down by sign out and them use the displayed shutdown on the bottom.
I have "Emergency Alerts" enabled on my iPhone, but I do not receive alerts on it. Emergency alerts are enabled, but Amber alerts are off. I know that some alerts have gone out today because I have an older iPhone that doesn't have phone service but which does still receive emergency alerts. What do I need to do to get alerts on my regular phone? I tried turning them off and back on, but it didn't help.
It isn't only on iOS 9.3.2, it's been happening since the later iOS 8 versions. But for some reason, I haven't been able to update a certain app on my iPod 6th generation for a while now.
It used to be obvious how to enable or disable Location Services on an individual app basis, but today when trying to do this on an iPad running iOS 9 I didn't see any way to do this. Has the feature been removed, leaving me no other way than to disable Location Services entirely? I just want to keep my photos from being geotagged. I still want to find my current location on maps and use other such features.
My iPod nano 7th generation is giving a lot of trouble in pairing with other Bluetooth devices (headphones, car audio, speaker). I cannot even pair it with my iPhone. I turn on the Bluetooth option and just keep going and going looking for devices, I put them close together and nothing. Any solution?
I bought my iPad Air 2 years ago, and it was fine until last week there is no sound. It's not muted. I can't play any video on the iPad no matter which apps I used, YouTube, Netflix, etc. I can't make a FaceTime call either, audio or video. When I opened Camera and switched to Video then it would hang and display a black screen. It also wouldn't connect to the Bluetooth speaker, as the device didn't show up in the list. I tried plugging in a headphone and there was no sound at all. When I opened the ringtone setting and tapped on some ringtone to hear some preview, the screen hangs a bit and then there was no sound at all. I tried everything: turn off and turn on, reset by pressing Home and power button, changed language, restore all settings in General Setting, restored as new iPad, and no improvement at all.
My MacBook Pro hangs for 5 to 10 seconds intermittently. Basically, when I either click or type, the computer just hangs and then the spinning beachball shows up and it takes about 5 seconds to respond even for the simplest tasks. Here are the computer specifications: Macbook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012 OS X 10.8.5 - Mountain Lion 8 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 512 MB 240 GB SSD (same problem occurs with the original 500 GB HDD) Here is what I tried: Reseting PRAM
THINGS I'VE TRIED SO FAR, THAT DIDN'T WORK: opening Windows File Explorer with "run as administrator." At Mac > Terminal window: set permission of root to read & write (chmod a+rw *) Set permission of target folder to read & write: cd to folder chmod -Rf a+rw * Turned off Mac and Windows Filewalls.
My iPhone and iPad both are connected on to the same exchange server. Recently I cleaned up the contacts on my iPad. On both devices I see revisions but most of the contacts deleted on my iPad are still in the contact list from the iPhone. How is it possible the number of contacts on both devices differ?
I wanna check how my application works for iOS 7.1. I have got an iPad mini 2. I know it has iOS factory 7.1 . But now it has 9.3.2 (the lates). Is it possible to reset iPad until the default iOS? How to do it?
I want to be able to take a screenshot on my mac, then send that to an OCR engine and get back the text it has identified. Are there any existing software tools that do this for OS X? I have a Windows solution but not one for Mac.
I need to present Power-Points with a projector and my Macbook Air 1.4. If I got an Apple TV would I be able to present my slides using the peer to peer mode on the Apple TV?
I accidentally emptied my trash (not secure emptied it) but there were some files in there that I should've properly erased. Is there a way I can bring them back to properly erase them?
I want to activate the NTFS support. But I can't find the /etc/fstab on my mac. osx 10.11.5 El Capitan
I recently purchased a MacBook (Mid-2009), but the hard drive is empty, no OS X and etc. I want to download the Install OS X El Capitan.app and install it, but I don't have any other Mac hardware to do that with. What should I do? Go to Apple Store and purchase the install disc? My friend has iMac and ask him if he could download the installer and make the USB Installer?
How can I get BOOTCAMP to be listed under Devices in Finder so that I can go into it and view the files there? I can boot into BOOTCAMP as normal on startup but in OS X, Finder does not list BOOTCAMP. It used to in OS X versions previous to OS X El Capitan, but I'm not sure exactly when it stopped showing and whether or not it's the OS X El Capitan upgrade or something else that caused the issue. Here is the screenshot showing that BOOTCAMP is not listed in Finder:
When I send a text message from my iPad, which is synced to my iPhone, I see that the caller ID on the iPhone is "Home". How can I ensure that text messages from my iPad show my name or phone number instead of home?
I want to buy the German dubbed version of South Park. How can I do this? I changed my region to Germany and found what I want to purchase. I even previewed the episode and sure enough the audio-language-dub is in German. iTunes won't let me buy this though because it's not available in my region.
On the "Touch ID & Passcode", there's the option "Erase Data", which says Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts. Data protection is enabled. Is it possible to restore the phone using a laptop that has backed up the iPhone?
I am trying to plot a family of similar functions in built-in Grapher. I read that one way to do this is to write one formula for all functions to be plotted and then define the parameter by which the functions differ. For example, typing in "y=sin(ax),a={1,2,3}" should plot sin(x), sin(2x), and sin(3x) simultaneously; however, I got an error message so I am thinking the last updates changed the way to do this; in that case, how do I do that?
Recently, I've been wanting to send and receive texts on my MacBook air, just like I do on my pro, but when I spotlight 'messages,' nothing shows up except for java and json files. Is there any way to download the messages app off of the app store (I've looked and haven't found it. Is it called something else there?) How could I get the messages app on my computer?Thanks-A Edit: I have checked to make sure my spotlight works properly, and looked through my applications folder. It is not present.
I changed Apple News channels to read the news, adding standard channels like New York Times, CNN, and The Economist. The Economist works, but NYT and CNN present an error: Channel Unavailable This channel isn't currently available in your region.
So now I am completely at a loss. Any help would be most appreciated! Additional info: Not sure this is relevant, but just in case it is: the anchor file (created by me) which is referenced by pf.conf looks like:
I am attempting to use an unsigned app. However, the options are grayed out under "Allow apps downloaded from". I did click the lock to unlock it, but still grayed out. I am an admin on my machine. Is there a way that I can change that setting by editing a file?
I'm getting into Vagrant and I installed a plugin that update my Mac's /etc/hosts to add a domain and map the IP address to the domain. The only problem that in order to change the file, it needs admin access. Is it safe to set the permissions of /etc/hosts to 664, where the owner and group has read and write access and everyone else can read? Or should I use 644 where the owner has read and write and everyone else has read access? Thanks,
I have a USB2, 500GB external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups. In order to test something, I created a new partition in the drive, roughly 30GB in size. Once I was done with my tests, I wanted to delete the partition and merge the free space back to the original, larger partition. When I deleted the small test partition with Disk Utility, I encountered an error. A pop-up indicated that I should try to repair the disk, and that I did. Afterwards, the old partition appears as free space, but when I try to create a new partition on that free space (and it doesn't matter which kind of file system), I hit "apply" and the partition isn't created. When I try to move to a different tab in Disk Utility, it warns me that there are unsaved changes. This is my diskutil output: Note: the free space is right after the currently functioning partition, and it spans all the way to the disk's end. What should I do in order to create a partition on the hard drive, so I could merge it back 
Today, I opened up an application to see check how my battery is going along, health, etc. It said that my Mac had an unknown manufacture date and no serial. I opened up About This Mac, and saw that for some reason, it says my serial number is "Unavailable", and it doesn't show the exact model of my mac (It just shows "MacBook Pro" instead of "MacBook Pro, Retina Late 2013" like it used to, even when I click on it)
When I try and understand this Kernel Panic Report, But I don't know what LR is. What is LR? How can I tell if this is a hardware problem or software?
How can I connect my iPad Air to an older Panasonic Viera TC-L37e3 to stream a YouTube video? What app do I need, if any? Can I use a HDMI adaptor?
I am unable to get my MacBook Pro to boot. It turns on, and the Apple logo + loading bar appear however after a minute or so of loading it eventually changes to a white/grey screen and just hangs. The machine is a 15-inch MacBook Pro from early 2011 running OSX 10.10.5. I have booted in verbose mode and I couldn't spot anything untoward however similar behavior was observed, just in verbose mode. I can get to a shell with cmd+s but I'm not too familiar with OS X so I'm not sure where to begin looking for hints about the failed boot. I tried to enter recovery mode by booting and holding alt and was able to get the screen up where you pick the recovery drive, but I experienced the same failed boot behavior as described above. Prior to all this the laptop had a bit of an episode where the video went very funny, top half of the screen at the bottom, and the bottom at the top with some horizontal bars of random colors, like colorful TV static... And it flashes a bit like this just before it
So I am a switching to the Mac guy and I have a query. Once I get my new Mac it seems I am asked to setup my country. Say if I set the country to be Germany will it change the interface language to be German as well or will it still be English?
I connected my iphone to a my friend Mac which running Xcode to debug an app. After plugging, I clicked "Trust [this computer]" and it took some time to detect the device in Xcode. While debugging, he opened a window which I saw my photos on my device and he switched back again to debug window. After fixing the app bug, I asked him to un-sync my device and he told me your data is just synced with itunes and when you unplug your device, I cannot see your data (photos) any more.
I have a 1 TB time capsule which I no longer need as a wireless station. I can however certainly find a use the 1 TB which already has some data on it.
There have been different triggers for this behavior such as Click on an random link in Safari (especially one with images, or google maps) But not all the time as I am posting here on the system in question. Plugging in a second monitor
For example, when I set the Documents folder in my user folder to "Sort by: Kind", it also sets the sorting option for every other folder on my computer. Can I have unique folder sorting options? Or is it impossible? EDIT: This is on El Capitan.
Do Not Disturb on my Mac keeps enabling itself at midnight or after every reboot even though I do not have it scheduled. As you can see from the screenshot below, DND is not enabled at all. What could be causing DND to automatically enable? I am running El Capitan
After finding out that my 2011 macbook pro is slowly dying I am now thinking about its replacement. However I would prefer an updated macbook pro in which I can replace both the hard drive and RAM. So is there a current, simple list somewhere that identifies the year/model of a macbook pro and what parts are easily user1 replaceable?
Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question, but I couldn't find it by googling.
I am still able to access my dock, and I can open up apps like Chrome, but Finder is down. Typically, I resolve this issue by holding down the power button, and then turning my laptop back on.
Please help me. Someone has supposedly used a clean up app on my iPhone & iPad. Spoke with Google & they said I need to talk with Apple. Of course with the Holiday that is impossible. I found it going into my contacts. My name was in my contact list. Clicked on it & found my email accounts & Twitter. He has also got in my calender & has revised it. There was a note that said use my photo & name for a Unified card. Looked online but not specific on exactly what a Unified is & how the hell did he do it.any advice ASAP...would be a blessing. Just bought a new laptop & has u can see, not to savey with it yet. Sincerley, Karen
I'm trying to make a math addition program, and I have a few questions. How do I make it so when it asks the question, it says it on the same dialog box? Such as: "What is the answer of x and y" instead of "what is the answer of x" followed by a new dialog "and y"?
I've been searching for a text editor on iPhone with the following features: Support for browsing files in Dropbox and editing them in-place. Support for keeping more than one file open at a time and switching between them. Apps that don't meet my requirements: GoodReader supports tabs, but it doesn't allow me to edit files in-place in Dropbox. Byword allows me to edit files in Dropbox in-place, but it doesn't have tabs. Are there any iPhone apps that support tabs and editing files in Dropbox in-place?
My Seagate 4TB HDD doesn't mount in OSX El Capitan on my MacBook Retina. I have been using it for the last week on this computer, but today it doesn't mount. It shows up in Disk Utility, but when I click "mount" it doesn't. I ran First Aid on it and it still doesn't mount. I ran First Aid on it and it still doesn't mount. I tried it on an iMac with the same results, but other drives work fine. I tried it on an iMac with the same results, but other drives work fine. I tried to shut down, restart - same outcome I tried to shut down, restart - same outcome on a different computer iMac - same outcome on a different computer iMac - same outcome different drive solid state and normal - both worked fine I ran First Aid in Disk Utility different drive solid state and normal - both worked fine I ran First Aid in Disk Utility
Currently when I try to use BootCamp Assistant on 10.11.5 it gives me the error "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." My drive only contains the necessary partitions for OS X to run. Running diskutil list in Terminal outputs: I suspect that the issue may be caused by the fact that Recovery HD is not disk0s3, causing BootCamp to think that there are extra partitions on the disk.
I bought the game Wargame: European Escalation a while back off Steam and went to uninstall it today. I deleted it, but now my storage is filled with 18GB of "Other". I am on El Capitan version 10.11.1. How do I remove this? Thanks.
I recently upgraded my Mac from Snow Leopard to El Capitan. I had been using a utility called Compost, which automatically deletes anything that has been in the trash more than a configured amount of time (also there are lots of other options, like if the disk is more than n% full). It doesn't seem to be working any more. The preference pane still works (although it's a 32-bit pane so it requires an annoying reload of System Preferences), and I can see the process running in Activity Monitor, but files aren't getting deleted.
Hope anyone has got a solution. I've tried rebooting the MacBook and disconnecting the keyboard and re-pairing. System: MacBook Pro 15 late 13, OS X 10.11.5
My son currently uses my apple ID on his phone with my credit card, and we have an apple music memebership, if he starts his own apple ID, can he still keep all the apple music and just use it under my account on his phone, i.e when he opens apple music he needs to type in the password for my account?
Skim by default makes every new bookmark in the bookmark menu for all the pdf's, even if I create a bookmark folder for the pdf manually, there is no way of making it save the bookmark in this folder automatically because in the save bookmark dialogue by default the Add To field will show Bookmarks Menu as the default location, which I have to manually change to the folder I created each time. So I was wondering if there is a applescript method of automating all this so, a bookmark folder will be automatically created when I save the first bookmark and every consequent bookmark will be automatically saved into this folder.
I downloaded from Internet (topcoder.com) a Java applet. When I try to open it, it says "Application blocked for security reasons" because "The certificate has expired".
could .bash_profile in theory be slammed onto iCloud Drive and symlinked from there? I'd love to use the same .bash_profile on every computar. Why this isn't the same as Dropbox - this, if answered, would allow for a person to install a new computer, run a command (doing a symlink to .bash_profile from a specific place on the iCloud Drive), and have all their aliases + etc without having to install a separate application like Dropbox.
Tried 30+ seconds and 3+ hours unplugged as a 'reset' of the screen. No change.
I'm using iPhone 6s 16 GB. My storage isn't full but still I can't download anything. Every time I wanted to start a download it keeps telling:
I want to upgrade my ageing Mac Mini to a new mac this fall (probably a new macbook pro) and I'm assuming they'll be USB-c only. I have 2 big external hard drive daisy chained that only have Thunderbolt 2 plugs. I am stuck with this current generation of machine or is there a way for me to adapt these hard drive on usb-c somehow ? Thanks a lot in advance guys =)
I have searched online but not found the answer to this problem. For some reason, the emails in VIP folders only remain in the folder for 2 weeks and then they are gone. The oldest emails in the VIP folders are from June 16. Is there a setting in Mac Mail for when these emails in the VIP folders are deleted? Thank you for your assistance.
How can I change proxy settings for Google Chrome without changing the proxy settings for entire operating system? I know that I can go to Network in System preferences, but that changes proxy settings globally.
From the same server I can successfully sync cardDAVs contacts, and IMAPs-mail, so I've ruled out network issues. Furthermore, that same installation also syncs many other users (non-i) -Devices Contacts, Calenders, and Mails, so I've ruled out SOGOs CalDAV implementation.
Please help me I'm completely desparate. I have tried to install Windows 10 and it completely messed up my macbook pro system, I cannot boot into my mac, and it's full with things I desperately need.
I'm using a USB device that combines a few inputs(optical, USB, 3.5mm) and outputs them to one 3.5mm port. After outputting my MacBook Pro sound to the device through USB for a few minutes there appears noise and not long later it becomes so unbearable that I have to pause the media. That cycles every 3-5 minutes provided that I output it through USB. If I output through the 3.5mm jack, however, everything is smooth. I tried using the device on a Windows computer and outputting through USB worked fine. I also recorded the outputted audio(screenFlow) and there was no noise there.
I am using OSX 10.6 I am the admin of my computer, however when I try to login as the super user through my terminal using my admin password, I am denied. Is there anyway to reset the password or find out what my password is?
I don't have animation for Mission Control anymore. It seems that it has been like that for few days. I have updated Duet a few days ago, maybe that's related...
I have an old MacBook Pro running iMovie 9.0, and a newer Macbook Pro with version 10.1.1. I am trying to get them to match.
The default folder icons are not helpful to me. I'd prefer to see a preview image of the contents or first image.
Is there any free program to crop animated gifs? With GUI, because ImageMagick can do that pretty easily, but I have quite a few different gifs and preset coordinates for batch cropping is a no go.
I have an early 2009 Mac Pro and a FireWire audio interface that I haven't used in a couple of years. I just plugged it in to the Mac and nothing happens. The device doesn't get power, and even if I connect external power to the device the system still doesn't see it. I found an article online that said to try resetting the NVRAM. I did that but the problem still exists. This is the only FireWire device I have and I only have one cable, so I don't have a way of seeing if the problem is the device or the cable. Does anyone have any ideas about how to track down the problem? Is there some way I can see if the FireWire ports are functioning without a device? (I did try all 4 ports.)
In hindsight, I made a bad decision, but I texted my wife a command: to run in a directory. She didn't think it worked and started putting spaces where spaces shouldn't be, so she wound up running: She shut it down after I told her she shouldn't have done that, and now I'm having no fun with this thing.
Apparently all the songs I have purchased aren't in iTunes. I can see the content that hasn't been downloaded by going to the "iTunes Store" tab, then clicking on the "Purchased" link, then selecting "Not in my library". At that point I can select each album one at a time and add it to the downloads list. It won't let me select more than one album at a time, although if there are multiple albums under a given name, I can switch to song view and download all songs for a particular artist at once.
I am having a hard time understanding how does Keychain works, whats the default setting for it as long as i dont touch anything? and what if I don't remember my first password? Can someone explain me? Thanks
My second hand 2013 iMac has been running really slowly. I have already done a complete wipe and reinstall, but that didn't help. trying to get to the bottom of this, and suspecting imminent HDD failure, I booted from a USB El Capitan installer, then ran diskutil in Terminal, and discovered a whole bunch of additional disk images. dev/disk0 is the internal physical disk, formatted as GUID journalled, with the EFI partition at 209.7MB, and the main Apple_HFS partition. dev/disk1 is my USB Flash installer, also with EFI partition of 209.7MB and the main Apple_HFS partition.
We have our Apple TV 4 connected to a projector and we're using an Airplay speaker. Upon wake-up the Apple TV defaults to the physical audio output; we have to switch it to the Airplay speaker each time. Is there a way to persist the Airplay speaker choice so that the Apple TV keeps using it upon wakeup/startup?
Clarification: When I mean background, I did not mean head-less process or background tasks, I meant normal apps (like browser or terminal) with the UI not in the immediate foreground. I feel like there is some kind of optimization (possibly for power management) that reduces process priority. I am running a fairly long running (data loader to AWS) and I would like to switch to other tasks, but the switching causes the process to be very slow indeed. Is there a way to circumvent this optimization?
I'm not able to see any predefined keyboard shortcut to call Scale under Transform.  If such a shortcut does not exist, is there any possibility to define one, so a specific thing will be called?
I purched yesterday the iphone SE, and I got bumped into some sort of issue. I would like to merge both my icloud notes and my gmail notes. (such that all of my gmail notes would be added to the icloud. the opposite - icloud notes being merged to gmail notes would also be good for me)
I have a cache directory in which several different programs owned by several different accounts create/read/write/delete etc new files and directories. I want everyone to have all the possible rights to all of these things in this directory and everything that is ever created in it in the future. How do I do this?
I have a macbook air on my desk. It was from a coworker who got fired. He had his personal iCloud configured on this device. I disabled wifi so that we could still access company data on the device since I could not remove the icloud account from the device without the (his) password. I could not format the device because there is data on it which we need. Another coworker forgot about the find my mac option and the remote lock feature and he turned on wifi... so now I am stuck with:
I created an Excel spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel Version 15.23.2 while the option for the decimal separator was set to , (comma). This setting had been made in the Language & Region settings of Mac OS X El Capitan. However, I then copied data into it from a csv file that was using . (dot) as the decimal separator. Now, these cells with the dots are not read as numerical, i.e. I cannot sum them up, etc.
I have the following setup: Basically: Internet is hooked up to the Time Capsule; USB HDD is hooked up to the Time Capsule; Linksys Router is hooked up to Time Capsule by cable; Everything works fine as far as internet connectivity; I can access the USB HDD while connected to the Time Capsule. How can I access files on the USB HDD while wirelessly connected to the Linksys router.
Previously, my iPad would play a playlist and stop. Now it keeps repeating endlessly. The only buttons I can find are play, stop, restart and skip ahead. There is no "repeat" button! How do I make it stop repeating the playlist?
When I type any word ending with an 'l' (ell, like "local") and then press the / key, the 'l' is replaced with another symbol and the slash, '/', is omitted. How can I deactivate that function?
I just read through Fast Charging iPad Pro 12.9 and am intrigued. However I'd like to use the USB 3 port on my MacBook air instead of buying a new power brick just for the iPad Pro. Has anybody tried to use an USB 3 -> USB C adaptor in conjunction with Apples USB C to Lightning cable?
I keep my code in bitbucket. Without warning git pull just hangs and after a long wait says to check Deleting all my keychain entries for bitbucket.org and relogging in manually didn't help anything. Following the instructions for caching credentials didn't help either. https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/permanently-authenticating-with-git-repositories-776639846.html#PermanentlyauthenticatingwithGitrepositories-Usingcredentialcaching
When using Command-F to search in a Finder window, what is the shortcut to disable the search and return to the standard finder window? For example: 1) Navigate to specific folder 2) Command-F to search 3) Finder window is now search specific How can I exit from having a search specific finder window and simply see what is in the current folder? Thanks!
In the menu Go > Recent Places you can get a list of recently accessed folders. I want to add this to the Finder sidebar, but I am not seeing any clear explanation of how to do this.
And then I looked that file as a size of 0 (zero) bytes. This must be related to my problem.
I know that on a Windows PC I can set my desktop background to be a slideshow of images that changes periodically. Is this possible on an iPhone in any way? If so, how can I do it?
When i try to log in into the Guest user it appears like this. And if I restart and logging into it, it shows up only safari. How can I log in normally to the Guest user account?
Some apps, like Preview, Pages, or Keynote have folders with different default preview icons publicly visible in the iCloud Drive folder. Where are those icons stored?
I had thousands of important photos, screen shots, etc. deleted by my wife.
Has anyone figured out a way to toggle the function keys on and off via key board shortcut on a macbook? Even remap the fn key to work more like the caps lock where you do not need to hold it down. It would be really nice to just remap the caps lock to toggle function keys, instead of using it for capitalizing.
First, just to get this off my chest, I used to have such a beautiful, simple, efficient system of cataloging my photos by date shot, whether from my professional Canon cameras or my iPhone. I did it all out of Lightroom. Then came the time when I could no longer import iPhone into Lightroom and this messed it all up. Then came the time when I could not import even into Photo and this created a nightmare that, if everything works as designed from here forward will take me months, if not years, if ever, to straighten out and at a tremendous loss of time. But Apple has trapped me and I am trying.
For example, when I close an app with some changes without saving ir before. A window asks me if I want to save or not.
I have the compass app (Comes with the phone) on my iPhone 6 and it can still tell me my elevation even though I have no service, why is this? Is there a magnet or something similar in the phone?
The problem is that when I type in Chinese, the program crashes. It happens in every program (Chrome, TextEdit, Line).
I use Safari version 9.1.1. I'm looking to make it easier to read my browser by changing the color of the background and text, however there is no option to do so that I can find in the settings panel.
For some reason I cannot edit the "Release Date" field in iTunes. I have been able to change it in the past, but it no longer saves changes.
I'm just curious. I know you can downgrade to iOS 9.3.2 from iOS 10, but I'm wondering if it's possible to downgrade between beta versions.
In (insert any other OS here), many context menus items have hot keys for fast access (which are shown by underlining the appropriate character). Is there a way to get this working on Mac? There do seem to be keys that jump to certain items, but I can't figure out what they are. Note that I don't want to set up millions of shortcuts because Applications have standard menu navigations across platforms There's hundreds of items that I use in different contexts
I pulled my hard drive from a kaput i7 Macbook Pro because it had Snow Leopard (10.6.8) with Rosetta Stone. I need to run older G5 software. I put the drive in an external case, and hooked it up via USB to the newer Macbook Pro. I see the old drive on the screen when I boot normally under 10.11.5. However, when I boot up with the option key down, I get to select the 10.6.8 drive - but all I subsequently get is a gray screen with a small apple symbol. What is the problem please?
Here's the problem: copying 10GB to the unencrypted part of the flash drive takes about 5-6 minutes. Copying the same 10GB to the encrypted disk image is estimated to take 2 hours.
I have an airport extreme as my main WIFI router and I have an Airport Express downstairs which is set to extend the network and it works flawlessly. I recently also got a second Airport Express to extend the Airport Extreme network at my top floor and it always tells me it cannot join the network with the exact same settings as the other Airport Express. At the location where the upstairs Airport Express is set up, the network signal strength is good. My question is: Is it even possible to extend an Airport Extreme network twice with two different Airport Express routers, or is this not supported? The error I get is the following.
I've went ahead and created the Automator workflow that let's me have a "print this file" right-click menu in Finder. It works fine for pdf and txt files, but if I try the same on a html file, the printer spits out a blank page. Obviously the file needs to be rendered by a browser first, then printed, but is there a way to do this?
Copying Finder folders of JPEGs from new iMac 10.11.5 to new SanDisk 256GB flash drive, USB 3.0. 129 GB is taking three hours. Seems slow to me, does this sound right?
I use a 2010 Cinema Display and a 2011 Thunderbolt Display, both connected to my 11-inch MacBook Air. The screens are ever so slightly different in terms of how things are reproduced. How can I get both screens to render things the same?
I am using a mac (el capitan), and trying to use w3m. But I don't see images when browsing pages. My question is: I want to view inline images in w3m, but don't find a way to do so.
This is occurring on my MacBookPro, running OS 10.9.5. I don't know what I might have done to change the behavior. When I executed ps before, it would show the username. Now, for some reason, instead of the username, it shows the uid of the person who executed the process.
For the past 4-5 days, I've been unable to send or receive photos with iMessage. If I send, it hangs for a couple of minutes and then returns a "failed to send" message. When receiving, little "tap to download" boxes come through, but the download progress never moves beyond 0kb. The messages are definitely going over iMessage and not MMS, as I have cellular data turned off to prevent international roaming charges, and I send from my iCloud email.
OverWatch is game that is run-able under boot-camp. While running the game, my MBP 2015 generates lots of fan noise and the keyboard becomes much over-heated. would this over-heating kill my machine at a faster pace than ordinary operation? THX
I was with iPhone for over 5 years and stored all of my photos in iCloud now that I have switched to an Android mobile I have lost access to my iPhone pictures is there any way for me to retrieve my photos from the iCloud so that I can view them on my Android? And I need to be able to do this without using a PC because I do not have access to one.
The Hitachi 5K750-500 initially installed in the MacBook A1278 13", Mid-2012 failed. I bought a new hard drive (Seagate ST500LT012) but it was not detected by the Disk Utility.
I'm not in university, but I am in high school. Is this enough to qualify for the educational discounts that Apple offers?
Mac 10.9.5 here. I am trying to figure out how to configured my machine to run an executable (Java) app as a service/daemon, so that it is always running so long as the machine is on. Hence, this app needs to start when I boot up, when I come back after being away for a while ('waking up'), etc. Say I can manually run my app (server) by running: How can I get myapp.jar to run as a service/daemon?
I am using an HTML signature in my Mail app on OS X for my iCloud mail account. I created this signature following this instruction: http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-make-an-html-signature-in-apple-mail-for-el-capitan-os-x-10-dot-11/
My iPhone 5c won't send SMS. The weird thing is the problem is fixed for a specific contact when they send me an SMS. Once they have sent an SMS to me, it's like the connection to them is 'unblocked' or something. However the problem persists with other contacts until they each send me an SMS.
I use outlook as client for an exchange server. I created several rules that are local to the mac (as opposed to server side rules), and I want to apply them for past messages.
I'm a Chinese learner and know from my teacher that there is software (for Windows), which lets you strictly input withtype in pinyin with tones. E.g. hao3 becomes 好. The Mac OS shipped Chinese input does have pinyin input, but no tone selection, hence you input hao to get 好 (no tone mark). I wonder if there is any way for me to use a pinyin input with tones for Mac OS or on my ipad.
So I need to have Windows 10, Linux and OSX on my Macbook pro early 2015 along with a shared data partition. There are several articles on the internet that say Boot Camp only works in so called "hybrid MBR" mode and may lead to some problems when updating OSX and it's generally hard to set up triple boot + additional partitions. However, all those articles are old and I've seen some comments on reddit stating that for modern macs Boot Camp actually lets to boot in native EFI mode.
Following the instructions at *=URL=* I've set up a keyboard shortcut to lock my screen by hitting Cmd ⌘ Ctrl ⌃ L . It works when the active window is Finder, or Notes, or Thunderbird, or ... well, most stuff.
I ask because I was looking at the maintenance scripts OS X runs (/private/etc/periodic/daily/) and, for example, the one that cleans out old tmp files (110.clean-tmps) uses the following 2 lines to run the deletion: There are both rm and srm utilities in OS X, but how would I know which one find was using, or if it was using its own? (or if I could force it to use one or the other). Since the maintenance scripts cover things like tmp files, log files and the like, it seems a possible avenue for data leakage. I also occasionally see scripts using the find -delete option - how secure is it? man find told me nothing about it beyond its usage. This may apply to other BSD's too (the scripts have comments about FreeBSD) but I'm not sure.
I have a AV receiver I use for FPV, I would like to use the high quality screen of my Air as a monitor for that receiver, would I be able to? I uses the tricolour RCA output. FPV first person view
How do I copy or save a video on a shared photostream to my iPad camera roll? Tapping on the video does not offer a suitable choice. Mail a copy is ghosted out.
I have recently sold my Apple Watch on Ebay. Before posting it i went through the following proceedure: Keep your Apple Watch and iPhone close together. Open the Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab. Tap Apple Watch, then tap Unpair Apple Watch.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro being used with a Thunderbolt monitor. It has been working fine. But just recently, it has begun not mirroring the screen to the monitor when it is closed. I am running El Capitan, but have been doing so for awhile. This issue just started yesterday. When I open up the MacBook, the monitor turns on and displays the mirrored desktop, then goes dark when I shut the MacBook. Help please.
I am trying to use Airdrop to send a file from my phone to my iMac, but when I am in the Airdrop folder in my iMac there are no options to make the machine discoverable. Both devices are on the same wifi network, the phone (iPhone 6) is discoverable and has successfully used Airdrop to send to other devices. If the 'make discoverable' options are not even showing in the Finder folder on my desktop how can I make these devices talk to each other?
I'm trying to copy files from an iPhone in DFU mode to PC via USB cable, but have not been successful in finding a way to do that. It needs to be done without booting into IOS, so does anyone know if this is something that is achievable? If it is, then how would I go about doing that?
I have IFTTT sending several new desktop wallpapers per day from Reddit to Dropbox. These wallpapers arrive often with very long filenames. I need a way to automatically shorten their names (without renaming to date and time) when they're downloaded to my Mac by Dropbox.
I tried modifying the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file with the mbasd=1 flag as I would have in Yosemite/Mavericks. However, I was presented with an Operation not permitted message, even when I tried this as root. (As it turns out, this is because of the new System Integrity Protection introduced in El Capitan, which supersedes root)
OneNote on OS X displays one note in one section of a notebook at a time. Is there a way I can get it to display all notes in a section in one big vertically scrolling window, like Evernote does? I don't like having to click on each note in the section to view only that note.
I am doing web-browsing with Safari on my iphone, and I have opened up a pdf. How do I save the pdf on the iphone? What if I don't want to save it as "ibook"? Thx
What is the best way to connect a device with a Thunderbolt 3 (USB Type-C) port to a computer (MacBook Pro) with a Thunderbolt 2 port? I understand there will not be full 40 Gbps speed. Device is a http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BL0CKIM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_D1BFxb33TZ5ZM
I finally caved and allowed my 16 year old daughter set up a separate iCloud/iTunes account because of all the problems we were having when using the same account. However, now I can no longer see her phone on Find My iPhone. I think when she set this new account up, it turned it off. I had her turn it back on, but I cannot see it. Any advice would be most appreciated. I need to be able to have this capability. I have a 12 year old and we are also having issues with using the same iCloud account, but I won't change his until I have a solution.
Is there anyway to record video of my facetime chats with my grandkids?
I've tried to install gromacs on my system (10.11.5) via homebrew. The command I used was brew install gromacs and it appears to have worked fine; gromacs is in my usr/bin/Cellar, and shows up when I run brew list.
In Windows, I enjoy the ability to toggle the "LAN" NIC between a known static IP and DHCP from the command line interface (CLI) via .bat files: What would be the OSX CLI equivalent? When configuring network devices, I find myself frequently toggling between DHCP <==> Static IP configurations on the CLI. There seem to be plenty of examples of performing this task via the GUI, however, this does not lend itself to frequent toggling between DHCP and a target static IP.
I am trying to set up an external hard drive with a copy of Windows 10 that I can boot from my MacBook Pro (Early 2015). I used the procedure posted by Alex Lambert in the following thread: Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?
How do I trouble shoot this issue? I don't see any errors in the Console logs and when the mac starts back up, there is no dialog indicating that it knows it recovered from an error. Other notes: Hardware check was clean. Identical mac plugged in on the same surge protector and not having issues. Bluetooth is disabled. I am using a USB mouse, keyboard and headset.
Can't get past my FileVault encryption on my Mac as I've forgotten my password. I know my admin username and password, but not my password for my FileVault on my regular user profile. I need to unlock my FileVault to even be able to switch users and login to my admin account. Also, I tried my recovery key and it doesn't seem to unlock it. Any ideas?
Do I have to enable Location Access Always for the Google App to do so? At the moment I prefer While Using the App for battery reasons. If so, are a) the other Apps on the iPhone or b) other devices connected with my Google account not able to sync the demanded location data?
I lost my iphone but the alarm is still on and I want to know if the alarm turns itself off or if someone calls the iPhone will the alarm turn off.
I have an iPhone 5s, running iOS 9.3.2. About an hour ago, I restored my iPhone and set it up as a new iPhone. When I signed into iCloud on my iPhone, I turned off all the features I do not use (I only use Find my iPhone and calendar/contacts syncing), and proceeded to connect my iPhone to my Macbook (early 2015 13" Pro model, running OS X 10.11.5) in order to sync the apps, music and podcasts that had been downloaded by that point in time. After completing a sync for the first time, I checked my iCloud settings about 15 minutes after setting up iCloud on my iPhone and noticed that the Backup feature had been turned back on, even though I hadn't been back into iCloud settings and even though turned it off when I first signed in. Contextual information: Phone was not jailbroken/has never been jailbroken. I definitely turned off the Backup feature the first time because I made sure to see that "Off" was next to the iCloud Backup option. I don't use the backup iPhone to iCloud feature at 
I have an iPad (2?) that is on loan from work. I'm about to leave the company that I work for so need to return the iPad. However before I do so I want to delete all the personal apps and data that I put on the iPad. How can I make sure I return a clean iPad and what hidden files should I look out for?
I have a Mail setup with four mail accounts, quite some rules and signatures associated with my different accounts. Now I like to have the same Mail setup on another Mac. Both are running El Capitan.
I'm trying to connect Yamaha's YPG-625 musical keyboard to a Mac, but it seems like there are only USB-MIDI drivers for Mac OS 10.1.5-10.4.0. Is there a way to connect it to a system with OS X El Capitan?
How do I get Automator to print 4 copies of the same image on 1 sheet? I have zilch knowledge about scripts so would appreciate any help!
I tab a lot between tasks and would like to make sure that I do not accidentally paste something where it does not belong. Thus, is there a feature or an app that allows me to auto-clear my clipboard after n seconds or after having pasted n times?
While I was doing some basic file management in the Finder, my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) suddenly went black. It wouldn’t turn on, even after long-pressing the power button or resetting the SMC (System Management Controller). The SMC reset caused the battery indicator light to go from green to red, but even after ten minutes of supposed charging it is not responding to the power button. My symptoms are similar to this and this post, but I have not spilled any liquid on the computer (quite the contrary; it has been stored for over a week on a dry, high shelf), and the laptop does not react to the power button even with the power cord attached. Do I have any other options but taking the Mac to a repair shop?
Both Find My Friends and Podcasts apps are listed among the updates in iTunes on OS X, but when I attempt to update my apps there, I get a warning for each app:  This happens each time I update my apps in iTunes, and requires me to dismiss the dialog for each Find My Friends and Podcasts each time I do so.
I have installed a bunch of certificates on my mac, due to italian legal system, in order to login to a certain website with a smartcard. It all worked well for a few months and then yesterday it started to ask me the password for a keychain called SmartcardS00...and a bounce of letters. When I open the app keychain and I look into this locked keychain it shows me the certificates and in order to do something I need the password it asks me, but I don't know if I have ever know this pwd or not. I tried to " delete " the keychain and try to reinstall all the certificates from the thumb drive with the smartcard, but I can't find the option to delete it anywhere. PS I have MacOs X 10.11.1 Hope you understand my english.
I have a pair of headphones with an ARM chipset of some sort, and wondered if there was a way of identifying it with a micro USB plugged in, but then I thought, how would I identify a USB device in the generic case? Given USB port X, and device Y, how might I go about finding information in OS X about what device Y might be?
I would like to create a helper function that displays my public key in the terminal and also copies it to the clipboard. How would I do that? I tried cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy, but this only copies the key to the clipboard.
I have some M4A audio files, that I can't play on iTunes (e.g. double click the file, and then iTunes fired up, the audio added to the library, but the play doesn't start. Tried double clicking on the audio on the library, still doesn't start the player).
My MacBook suddenly crashed yesterday. On startup, the computer would always shut down after a few seconds. I used ⌘ Command R to go into Disk Utility from Recovery HD to see what the problem was and the partition with OS X (Yosemite) could not be verified. I have 2 partitions one named BOOTCAMP (for Windows) and the other Macintosh HD (for OS X). The Windows partition was working properly.
Why does my iPhone calendar not sync with my Mac computer calendar? When I enter appointments in my Mac calendar they download automatically to my iPhone but when I enter an appointment in my iPhone it does not get synced or uploaded to my Mac.
I bought a Macbook for a low price because it has a headphone jack broken off in its port. I have tried some of the fixes for removing the jack, but it is broken deep in the port and unfortunately didn't come out in one clean piece. I would really like to be able to have some sort of audio, and I'm willing to buy Bluetooth speakers or speakers that plug into the USB, but first I want to know whether they will override the headphone port.
Lost my Iphone 6, I didn't activate the lost mode, can't see the phone on my Icloud, is there anyway I can locate my phone or is it lost?
When I am typing, OSX helpfully offers and inserts corrections for me. However, sometimes I do not want these corrections, as they can ruin an otherwise flawless piece of writing (see the below example.) Lifting my hands from the keyboard, gripping the mouse and then dragging the mouse across my frictious desk before contracting the muscles along my entire finger to squeeze the mouse and activate its clicking procedure actually takes a very long time. How can I cancel autocorrect suggestions without needing to use my mouse?
I'm using an iPad mini 2 with the latest version of iOS (9.3.2). For several months I have not been able to back up to iCloud because I supposedly don't have enough space available. This seems to be due to the space calculation, not the actual space that should be taken up. I currently have 4.2 GB available in iCloud. I have turned off the backing up of the majority of my apps because there are only a few I care about. However, iCloud still calculates that the next backup size will be 6.3 GB even though, if I add up the data listed, it should be about 753.5 MB. The calculation problems have existed for months, and I'm not sure what to do. I guess I could spend $0.99 a month to get 50 gigs and make it shut up, and iTunes backup works, but I'd rather use this like I have been for years.
I am trying to understand how I could switch back and forth in a productive manner when using a combination of VMware Fusion 7 and OS X El Capitan apps. The keyboard shortcut that I am used to use thousands of times a day between Mac apps is cmd+tab. I use it to cycle between apps, and would love to be able to do this to switch to other apps when inside VMware Fusion. What it currently does when I press cmd+tab from within VMware Fusion is that it will cycle through the windows of the virtual Windows machine, not take me out of the virtual machine and into my Mac apps again. This is clicked in my Virtual Machine settings:
If I sort my library by number of stars to create a playlist of favourite songs, I now have a bunch of songs automatically rated at 4 or 5 stars, interspersed among songs I've actually heard, liked and would like to hear again. That gets in the way of a simple select, drag and drop.
I have downloaded lots of duplicate files with my web browser. The first duplicate gets the suffix (1) in its filename before the file extension, the second gets (2) and so on. For example: my_music_file(1).mp3
I recently was forced to notice a pretty annoying problem in Chrome (tested with 51.0.2704.103 and the newest 51.0.2704.106 (64-bit)) in full screen mode under El Capitan (10.11.5 (15F34)). By default the tab, address and bookmarks bar are hidden in full screen mode, which is fine as it gives more screen estate. To make them visible one can use ⌘L but of course if you're using the mouse it's more convenient to just bump the mouse to the upper edge. The difference to ⌘L is though that this also shifts in the menu bar. This wouldn't be a problem (and is even desired if you want to use the menu) but when I move the mouse down again to a certain threshold (just below the tabs/title bar) the menu bar scrolls back after half a second or so and with it the button or whatever I try to press (e.g. when I try to press the "back" button I end up pressing the "Apps" button in the bookmarks bar below.)
In the iPhone Photos app, I am able to view a map with all of the photos from a given year when I am in the Photos/Years tab. Is it possible to do the same thing except with all photos, spanning all of the years? Or is a single year the highest level of aggregation that is possible?
I love using Macbook Pros for my professional work and general life use. However, by trade I'm a software engineer for all-things Windows/Microsoft based. As such, I run my Windows VMs in Parallels in OS X. I'm looking to go through a round of personal upgrades, and I wanted to know what is the best moderately priced mouse to use for such an environment.
I have an Android phone (Nexus 6P) and my wife has an iPhone 6. We would like to have the same functionality as Find My Friends offers, without both having iPhones. Thus, we share each other's location through Google. I have no problem seeing her location on my Android.
I’m sending a relative my old iPhone 5s running iOS 9.3.2 because her beloved iPhone 5c has finally given up the ghost. Her iPhone is running iOS 8.4.1. Ordinarily I’d advise her to upgrade to iOS 9.3.2, but unfortunately her device only has 250 MB available, which I don’t believe is sufficient to update iOS. And she doesn’t have access to a Mac or PC for performing the update via iTunes.
I have a 2012 Prius C. The Bluetooth for the phone works fine but the audio to play music from my iPhone will not play over the car radio. Why does one work and not the other? How do I fix it? Thx.
Why do I keep jumping between items when scrolling when reading an item in reading list on iOS?
I have an installed app lets call it my_app that I wish to be able to call from the command line. It is located in /Applications/my_app.app/Contents/Resources. So what I was hoping to do was to have my ~/.bashrc look like the following:
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) and have added a new hard disk drive in it. But Mac OS 10.10.5 is unable to detect it. If this were a PC, I'd check the BIOS to see if it was detected and listed there, to rule out hdd cable or connection issues. But as I understand it, Mac Mini's have EFI. What is the BIOS equivalent to a Mac EFI, to check if a drive is detected by the system?
I have added a couple of network folders to the OS X finder sidebar as a shortcut. This is working great as long as I don't shutdown or restart the system. Once the system has been restarted they are no longer visible in finder sidebar. I have also added a Automator script that auto mounts my afp network drive on startup.
I have a MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2013) with MacOS X 10.11. To cut a long story short, due to issues with the NVIDIA card and graphics switching, I'm able to boot into single-user mode, but can't complete the boot past that into the Finder, so I would like to make a back-up of the data while in single user mode before taking the laptop to the Apple Store (since the graphics card issue is a known issue). However, when in single-user mode, if I plug in a USB 3.0 disk, I get an error after about a second or so, once the disk has spun up:
I have a late 2014 5k iMac with 256GB SSD drive. Last night my iMac started making noises similar to that of a disk drive when it's reading and writing. After poking around I found that the noise must be related to the GPU because: The noises increase when scrolling a webpage or change workspaces and then subside when I stop. Running a web GPU benchmark or watching a video will make the noise constant until I close it Also changing the brightness causes the noise I doesn't sound like a bad fan as it's a very clicky noise versus a whine or hum.
Recently, I'm observing weird behavior when switching between applications and also when switching between some Finder windows. I'm using an external 4K monitor with my MacBook Pro Retina. It is as if I have two displays fighting to be shown on the 4K monitor, with my windows split between the two, some on one, some on the other. When I use Alt-Tab to switch between applications, half are in one display and the rest in another display, such that when switching to one in a different half the screen as a whole shifts left or shifts right by a full screen width to reveal the display that are in the current set, as if the two displays were to the left and right of each other. When in the Finder, using Ctrl-Tab to switch between windows only half are cycled through, with an extra blank position in the cycle with no window receiving focus. If I manually choose Window menu to select window that was not in the current cycle, I end up in the other set, and can cycle through those now.
I've got an iPhone 5 running iOS8. It can't use a sync cable, because it came broken when I bought it used in January 2015 (no returns accepted, and no resale value if it's broken, so I just kept it, but barely use it, would prefer to stop using it altogether, and only haven't yet because there are files still stuck on it). I just spent like two hours trying to upload my photos to Google Drive and Onedrive, and I only just figured out how, because the apps I was using seem to be designed to give the user a hard time with uploading (Drive app doesn't seem to have an Upload option, Photos forces me to select files one by one instead of hitting Select All, Photos forces me to only upload ten files to Drive at a time, drive.google.com doesn't work on my iPhone when I try it, etc).
I have a folder of documents that I want to sort by the date they were created from oldest to newest. I know you can do this in list view, but I really want it to be in icon view.
I have tried the examples found here to get Git auto-completion working on El Capitan, however none of the examples work for me. I installed bash-completion with Homebrew (brew install bash-completion). This is my ~/.bash_profile currently (as you can see, i've tried a few things): So, if I go into my directory with the cloned Git repo and type git checkout m and hit [TAB] I get nothing (when expecting master to be pre-filled). When I run a source on it, it doesn't exist - however it's installed.
My Developer Program Membership (along with the iOS Distribution Certificate - it seems) expires in a couple of weeks. About a week ago, Apple sent me an email implying that I must renew the certificate before it expires in one month. However, I expect to submit some apps in at least a couple of months, and I would prefer to wait until this time to renew my certificate. Can I do this long after it has expired, or must I renew it before the expiration date?
I've tracked Installer.app to be located at /System/Library/CoreServices/ but I can't find the sound that plays after a successful installation. I've looked at the following paths: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app /System/Library/Sounds Where is that sound file located?
I'm using an Exchange account. I configured it both on my iPhone and on the Mac (tried El Capitan and Sierra).
For example, you can close "Dashboard" widgets while holding down the option key. I can’t find a way to close windows and/or exit an application directly from Mission Control. Though I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut or builtin solution ideally, Third Party solutions are acceptable so long as the application is simple and non-intrusive. Here’s a screenshot if it’s still unclear what I’m asking.
Can we lock other apps (eg.Facebook, Twitter) with fingerprint using Xcode.
I've been using aText which is a small text expansion app for this - it's become pretty ropey on new OSX versions so I've given up. I've also been using the trial of the new TextExpander which is great, though it's billed monthly now and seems like overkill considering all I want to do is insert a date! My requirement is: if I type a short string like 'dd' or use a certain keyboard shortcut combination, I should have today's date output like so: [ Jul 8 ]
I took a backup on icloud and installed ios 10 beta 1 now I want to go back to iOS 9.3, so I used the option reset settings and data but still I'm on 10 beta 1. Please help me out. Ps- I don't have my laptop with me nor I made any backup on iTunes.
I've come across doing something like: Code: Output: But this is highly app-specific—doing this on MS Word, for instance, yielded pathnames and some apps like CodeRunner don't understand the documents keyword at all. Given these open documents: I want an output of something like this: How is it possible to list all open documents across all open apps?
We see that the Apple Watch sends step data from its accelerometers to the iPhone 6 (and above) which also has accelerometers. When you walk holding both an (recent) Apple phone and Apple Watch - you trigger accelerometers on both. This raises the risk of duplicate data. We can see data from both devices in the health App. My question is: What stops step data from the accelerometers on the phone and watch from doubling up?
I'm trying to create my first .plist. I want to mount a ssh drive on login so i don't have to enter the command each time I start my Mac! The command is: sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/user/ /Users/user/Desktop/Website/ -o reconnect The plist looks like this: I've followed a tutorial saying when done with the .plist I have to run these 2 commands: It then returns Invalid property list
I'm trying to download an update for a program I use frequently. The program can only run on a non-case sensitive file system, so it can't run on my main partition. I partitioned a second drive that isn't case sensitive so I could download it. That partition is now completely full. I tried partitioning more space but disk utility says "This partition cannot be modified.". Below is a screen shot of disk utility. What can I do to get more space for my second partition? I tried making a third partition, that was non-case sensitive as well to try and merge them together, but disk utility says "This partition cannot be modified." Please help?
I have a scatter plot in Numbers using one column of data from my table for X values and another for Y values and want to label (and ideally also highlight) each point with the corresponding entries in a third column (or additional columns). How do I do that?
Is there any problem that I may have in the future if I use the name 'scrat' in an web app? For example 'Scrat Store' or something similar? Since the name 'scrat' is the name of an Ice Age character and obviously is trademarked.
I have some songs in iTunes on my Mac (under 'My Music'). However, when I go to 'My Music' in the iOS Music app I don't see them. I do see 'Songs of Innocence', which I don't see on iTunes on the Mac. Both devices are logged in which the same Apple account and signed up for iCloud. I expect the same songs to appear in each place, but instead they are totally different.
Scenario: I have a Mac mini which is always on always connected to internet. I want to share Single application (let's say XCode).
I have a Macbook Air (mid - 2013) which means non - removable battery and currently it's running El Capitan OS X. I tried to do some SMC reset by pressing shift + control + option + Power button
Maybe I should be weary every time I do one of these shady Apple updates on my 3-year old Mac running 10.11.5. Suddenly, the shortcut to paste, ⌘ Command V, stopped working for me. But all other shortcuts using the ⌘ Command key still work, such as Copy, Cut, Find, Minimize, etc. Paste still works if I do it manually with the mouse by going up to Edit and clicking Paste.
I understand that there are various ways that the device can be modified or jailbroken, but I don't know if these are still worthwhile or still supported in any way. After doing some research they just seem to install other media playback software.
Recently there was a famous case: *=URL=* I was wondering if a regular citizen (US or non-US based) can apply to Apple and request all the iMessage history since the creation of my AppleID? (random thought: I should read T&C and privacy policy to learn who actually owns the right to my own messages) Alternatively - is there a service that would retrieve all the history without any involvement from Apple? Caveats:
I've just bought a new Macbook Air and the keyboard is an International English keyboard instead of an English keyboard. This means that the return key is too far away. Normally the return key is where the forward slash key is and the forward slash key is above the return key. I have small hands and to use the return key in its current location I have to move my hands to the left.
I cannot clone any repository on my mac anymore. I don't know since when exactly it got broken.
I had to restore my iPhone from iCloud backup. Unfortunately some of my apps are stuck on "Waiting.." stage. One of them is very important for me, it's Stash (*=URL=* It's an application to store documents, photos with password. I tried to find it under App Store -> Purchased tab, but it's not there. I have very important stuff in this app, so I would like to restore the application or the data. I think the app data should be in the cloud, but I can't read/download this data without the app.
How can I transfer Word and pdf files from iPhone to PC and PC to iPhone without using iTunes? Also, when no internet access is available, how smart and slick is iPhone in reality? Android phones can do this in a flick and no expertise is required.
I am on OS X 10.11.5 and Supporting Files folder is missing I am following tutorials and they all have that but not in mine I already tired recreating new projects but it's missing in all of them
I want to plug my very old iPod shuffle it into my more current Mac and play from my shuffle's play list. Can I do that and if so how? I can see all the songs in "My Music" but cant play it.
I went for a jog with my Apple Watch and iPhone in order to calibrate my Apple Watch activity monitoring. Annoyingly, I must've chosen the Outdoor Walk activity and not Outdoor Run. Where I used to get excercise minutes for brisk walks, I no longer do. Is there anyway to reset the calibration so that I can do it again? Cheers.
I have a recurring event in my work calendar that occurs every day. I would like to continue to get notifications for the rest of my events, but disable the notifications for only this recurring one.
I have two very similar find commands only one of which works. Since it's relevant, I must mention that there are no files with .c or .hpp extensions.
I have a 45-minute long video; I've split it into about 20 segments (things separated by a black vertical bar in the timeline, produced using the ⌘ Command B "Split clip" operation). I'd now like to export each of these, but when I select one and go to "Share...", iMovie seems to want to export the whole 45 minute video. Can someone suggest a way to export just one of these 2-minute clips/segments/whatever-they're-called?
I'm using this example on 10.10.5 but I can't get my packets filtered correctly using pfctl: Based on the man pfctl (see here): but absolutely everything gets marked because all of my traffic gets throttled. Any tips on how to craft a correct filter statement?
The male connector end of my keyboard, Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad, got squeezed beyond repair. I chopped off that bit and newly stripped the 4 leads: Red, Black, Green & White/Grey. I'd like to solder these to a new connector. I'm wondering: Is there a "standard" for the order of USB cables globally or for Apple keyboards? Is there a "standard" for the order of USB cables globally or for Apple keyboards? What's the right order in this product's case? What's the right order in this product's case?
Today I had to restart my rMBP multiple times (2-3 times, one after another) due to a software update, can it damage my machine (logic board, ssd, ram memory) at all? (long/short term)?
I want to replicate my Keychain setup for OS X in iCloud Keychain, to have passwords sync between iOS and OS X devices. The way I set it up was following this article. The idea is having the default login Keychain for all Wi-Fi and system passwords that remains unlocked after login, and a separate Keychain for website passwords that is kept locked and requires a password in order to access the passwords when needed. I would like to access these website passwords from my iOS devices in this same way, only when I set up iCloud Keychain, the login Keychain automatically became the iCloud Keychain. Is there anyway to have to separate iCloud Keychains syncing between my devices? Alternatively, is there any other way to make the passwords in my secondary Keychain available in iOS?
Is there any way to remotely make a Mac which is powered on – but locked – to go to sleep and/or shut down? If so, how?
I'm trying to install a locale on OSX (El Capitan) and I can't figure it out. I've been googling for hours now. In Ubuntu is as simple as locale-gen and dpkg-reconfigure. I'm coding a PHP application that uses es_AR as a locale and I can't get my number formatting right. Works fine in Linux systems.
I have a 2011 Mac mini that I have completely removed OS X from and installed Windows 10 instead. Since Boot Camp only supports Windows 7 for this Mac, I did not use it. I just formatted the drive, stuck the Windows 10 DVD in and installed it directly. Then I grabbed the drivers from Boot Camp and manually installed each one.
I've an external drive that consists of 2 partitions, one NTFS that I use for storing stuff and one Journaled that I use for TimeMachine. I've connected the drive to my Mac but now the NTFS partition is not showing up on the desktop, finder sidebar or disk util app, while the TimeMachine partition does. I though that the NTFS partition wasn't being mounted but if I go to /Volumes it's there and I can in fact browse the drive, open the stuff that's saved there and also save new stuff, so the drive is working fine, it's just not showing up where it should.. It even works and shows up on the Terminal when executing the diskutil list command, and I can diskutil unmount disk3s2 and diskutil mount disk3s2 without issues. What do I need to do for the partition to show on the aforementioned places?
I replaced my internal MBPr SSD for an OCW Aura one. It works great, but it's recognised as "External" (despite being installed internally), which means it shows up on Finder/Desktop as an external drive, and it even has the Eject button shown.
My iPhone 5s was shutting down automatically when it had 80% percent battery. Yesterday I restored it with iTunes and compatible firmware (6.1), now it shuts down at 73% battery. What is the problem and how I can solve that?
I have change permission of /var location by mistake with 777 and now my Keychain Access not working fine (i have stop chmod but some file and folder's permission are change ) folder in var location with permission login and system Keychain are in read-only with not item display when i try to first ads then when try to reset then when try to create new keychain then and some time i have got any help to restore var folder permission
I have published an app in the App Store. Now one of the customers/buyer wrote a review regarding a technical issue.
I've followed the instructions here : *=URL=* I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina. Currently running Windows 7 64bit. I've got the latest OS X 10.11 El Capitan, all software updates applied. I've run the Apple Software Update in Windows 7 - all up to date. When I click on the Get Windows 10 icon, it displays: "Unfortunately, this PC is unable to run Windows 10... because one or more things are incompatible. Viewing the report, it says:
P.S. I use Gentoo, whose kernel is perfectly capable of being booted directly from the UEFI firmware and there are instructions on how to do this using efibootmgr but they are not specifically for Macs and I've read in some places that efibootmgr may/will brick the firmware on Macs so I am reluctant to try...
I want to be able to copy movies on a Time Capsule and watch them on my Smart TV (Philips 32PFH5500) without the computer on. How can I set this up?
On my MacBook Pro i have realised that the default mouse cursor (black arrow) has its hotspot a few pixels off the top left corner. It becomes obvious if I move the cursor slowly to a button in the browser. While the tip of the arrow is already like 3 or 4 pixels in the button it does not highlight it yet. When I move it one pixel further the cursor turns to the hand cursor and the tip of the finger is exactly on the edge of the button.
Having tried to create and then delete a folder in Pages I now find that if I try to open Pages from the dock I get a message: "You can’t open the application “Pages” because it is in the Trash. To open this application, move it from the Trash." However I don't see it listed in trash. I can still open Pages from the launchpad. Any ideas?
Is there a way using security find-internet-password or something similar to get my exchange credentials on the command line? I'm trying to write a script to auto-login into an exchange server and I'm sure the data exists somewhere but just unsure how to grab it.
I want to use iTerm with my default bash terminal because there is a lot of customization that i have done to my .bash_profile and I don't want to lose it or perform all the hard work again.
I was wondering whether Apple Pay uses an EMV kernel. If so is there more information available like the implementation and who supplies it?
I'd like to delete all of the photos and videos from my iPhone 5S. I am willing to use [free] software on a mac or PC. Image Capture on a Mac does not have a delete option, before or after import. I imported all of the images and it did not offer any way to delete them from the iPhone. And, the instructions at *=URL=* do not work for me since there is no delete icon visible. On the PC side, the windows explorer delete function gives an error when I try to delete.
I know, you can't have the dock on both screens at the same time, and I know that there's a 'swipe down' gesture I'm supposed to be able to do with the mouse to make the dock appear. I just can't seem to get that to work, though... I've done this before on other computers. Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) clean install done yesterday.
Does anybody have any idea why is this happening? I am using Maverics (10.9.5 - for certain reasons I cannot update) and apart from knowing the reason, would be also interested if this can be replicated in other OSX versions.
All the software I could find that does this is broken on macOS Sierra and will probably break again in the future, so I need a solution to set the system volume in the same increments as the volume keys without needing a 3rd party app running. If my understanding is correct, keyboards with generic media controls work without software, if I could rebind my PrintScr and Scroll Lock keys as volume up/down that would be ideal. (I'm using a fullsize Majestouch 2 with ANSI layout.)
I have external drive which is always connected to my Mac. I want to disable the option to umnount/eject this certain drive in Finder. Is there any option to do such thing? I'd like to disable the button & the ability to drag'n'drop the drive to the Trash.
So I tried signing up for Apple beta program where I use Safari on my iPhone 6 and go to beta.apple.com and tap sign up. I'm then taken to the login page, and just after that to the legal page where I accept the terms of Apple beta program. This is where it falls apart and instead of redirection to the beta profile download page I get redirected back to beta welcome page where I can sign up again, accept the agreement again and than be sent right back to welcome page, thus creating an infinite loop. Things I tried: Deleting old iOS 9 beta profile and rebooting Reverting back to non beta iOS 9.3.2 Restoring my iPhone to factory defaults Leaving and signing back up for beta Trying beta.apple.com/profile directly, but again result is an infinite loop Searching Apple and Apple oriented sites for a solution Sacrificing a goat Basically nothing works for me, and visiting beta.apple.com on any browser, desktop or mobile is resulting in the same annoying behavior.
I have the following issues / question. I use WIFI and Ethernet through each other like most people probably. Certain things like ripping a blu ray I want to do through the Ethernet connection so that is when I plug it on. However, I first have to turn WIFI off to "force" the mac to choose to route the data through the Ethernet connection. In system settings under network / priorities I have the proper order, so Thunderbolt Ethernet above WIFI.
I own a 2007 Macbook running Mac OS X Lion, a 2009 iMac running Mac OS X Yosemite and an iPad Mini 2/iPhone 6 Plus both running iOS 9. None of my burst photos will import using Image Capture or Photos. In fact, Image Capture and Photos don't even recognize them at all. I have over 1,000 images in my camera roll. Over half of them are individual photos that were once part of bursts. Yet, Image Capture and Photos only see around 300 photos in my camera roll, which are photos that were shot individually and were never part of a burst. Even when I go into my burst photos and select each photo within every burst so that they're showing in my camera roll as individual photos, none of them import. How can I import and backup all of my burst photos? Please Note: This has been an ongoing issue for me ever since burst photos were first introduced.
There’s a lot of close-to-duplicate questions around here asking how to connect some computer (often laptop) with an iMac to reuse its larger display as a second monitor. Depending on the ports available and exact model number, there are frequently cited solutions like Target Display Mode, VNC Screen Sharing, Remote Desktop, Screen Recycler, Air Display or Air Play. They all require the iMac to run an operating system, though. What if some component of the old iMac (32-bit Intel model from 2006, limited to OS X 10.6.8) was broken, say the hard drive, so it won’t boot up and it would be okay to take it apart.
Example: On the USB monitor in workspace #8, I double clicked a .docx file in Finder. At the time, I had workspace #1 displayed on the MBP. The MBP monitor all the sudden flipped to workspace #2 and opened the document. Likewise, launching apps from the Dock gives inconsistent results. Note: The behavior that is most logical does happen when you start Launch Pad and System Preferences from the Dock. put mouse focus in the monitor and workspace you want. click on the Dock for Launch Pad or System Preferences. they launch in the monitor and workspace that has the current focus.
I followed the instructions on this sixcolors.com blog post to disable and re-enable 2-factor authentication on my iCloud account in order to upgrade to the "newer" version. However, now when I attempt to log in on the web or on a device, I no longer receive a push notification with a 2-factor authentication code on my devices. I am able to receive a text message or generate a code from Settings but I no longer receive an automatic push notification with the code.
I have an older iMac (2009) as a second monitor for a MacbookPro (2015). Both are running El Capitan. By hooking up a thunderbolt cable I can activate the second monitor feature using Cmd+F2 just fine. I only have one (wired) keyboard, so once activated I pull out the plug from the iMac into the MBP.
I deleted one partition on my mac and now I am not able to recover that space. diskutil list shows below output. Here I see total space is 500 GB and size of Yosemite(installed El Capitan on it) is 248 GB. So where is remaining 250 GB.
I have a folder with several hundred video files. All files names are in this format: 2011-08-27 11.18.00 Unfortunately the 'Date Created' for each file is the date on which it were converted (a date in 2014), not the date it was originally taken (specified in the file name). I've found that the touch -t operator can be used to change the creation date of a single file.
I have two virtual machines running on Parallels desktop (v11 if that makes a difference). They are operating in Shared network mode. When I have a wireless or Bluetooth network connection they can communicate between each other fine. When I lose that connection (phone tether drops out, flying, etc) the virtual machines no longer are able to communicate with each other. I have also tried the network in Host Only mode to no avail. Is there some way I can have these virtual machines communicate with each other even when I do not have an external network connection?
Apple's EFI in macs were the first implementation of EFI by Intel but then Intel revised their work and made UEFI for PC's which is newer and possibly better. I wanted to know if Apple's EFI has been receiving updates through the years or is it outdated compared to UEFI ?
I had to revert from 10.11.5 to 10.10.5 because of some devices not working on the newest OS. I had prepared a USB flash drive a while ago and in order for it to work I had to erase the partition the OS was on. I had been doing Time Machine backups regularly and before erasing the hard drive I copied the Users, Library and Applications folders to an external hard drive. Now I have a clean copy of 10.10.5 installed and transferring some of the files wouldn't work out because of the different operating systems. My question is if there is a way to keep my 'old' system preferences(at least) without having to set everything up manually.
I have installed Windows Server 2012 in VirtualBox inside iMac. Now I need to access the website created in VirtualBox in iMac. can any one guide me please?
Instead of having to remember to manually turn off the phone when I turn off the car, is there some way I can have the phone automatically power off when it is no longer receiving power? Ideally it would wait for 10-20 minutes before powering off (if I stop for gas or something), but immediate power-off would be OK too. I have looked for settings and apps that could possibly do this, but so far haven't found anything.
I set up an iCloud account under an old email on my iPad and I used the same iCloud account for my phone. Now I have no storage space on either device or the iCloud accounts. How do I transfer my photos, contacts, apps, etc. from the current account on my phone to the same phone but on under a different iCloud account without losing any information?
The user account I normally use has something wrong with its native OS "Internet Accounts" configuration. It's corrupted or something. This causes login failures within native OS X apps such as "Messages", "Notes", "Contacts", "Calendar". I've tried deleting all temporary files, such as preferences files. Nothing has worked. I want to create a fresh, new user account and copy over my preexisting user files for non-native applications so that my software licenses and software configurations are restored faithfully within this fresh account. What folders/files will I need to copy? What folders/files will I need to copy? Is there anything else I'll need to do, such as set permissions on those files? Is there anything else I'll need to do, such as set permissions on those files?
I am leaving for a vacation and leaving my rMBP. How should I store it except from shutting it down? How much charge should I leave in order not to lose too much capacity?
I recently created a few collections in iBooks on my iPad. When I synced my iPad with my Mac, none of the collections that I created in iBooks on my iPad are visible on in iBooks on my Mac. How do I get these collections to be visible and fully synced across all of my devices? Everything is fully up-to-date: the iPad is running iOS 9.3.2, the Mac is on OS X 10.11.5.
i have started considering developing an apple Tv app for my personal use so i got some questions and even tough i googled them im still not sure if i understood correctly. The new TVSJ Framework or the TVML wont work on my 3rd Gen Apple TV? Do i have to develop everything via IOS swift/Objective C? Can i test/install my app without a paid developer membership ? Thanks in advance , hope this was the correct place to ask.
How can I set an animated gif as user picture in OS X? Is it possible?
Newly upgraded to Latest released OS X - El Capitan (10.11.5). Now when I open App Store app, the spinning wheel to right of < > buttons on upper left side continues to spin with no content visible below on any tab button. Originally, I saw that 1-update was available. I read an earlier note to use Activity Monitor and kill processes related to App Store. Saw 2 that had long process times (storeassetd, storedownloadd). Plus now see App Store Web Content in "(not responding state). How do I fix this???
While typing problem is worse. If i try to enter password for AppleId/Wifi. If I type 's' it is typing 'oijh', something like that. If I open phone app, it automatically calls some number and some times dropping the call. If I open phone app, it automatically calls some number and some times dropping the call. If I open mail, it automatically opens some folders and some mail moving those into some other folder. If I open mail, it automatically opens some folders and some mail moving those into some other folder.
Now the challenge is I have never used Macs before and I don't have have any experience of managing or administering server. I tried to secure the Mac server by changing her account password which she gave before leaving. I don't want to disable her account on mac mini because there were loads of passwords saved in her keychain which we don't know and right now we are using the saved passwords. Could anyone please guide me how can we secure our Mac server in case any sabotage attempt is made by her since she can still access our server via iCloud and can remotely wipe the server.
After I connected my Macbook Pro to an HDTV with HDMI cord, I can choose to output audio to either the HDMI port or the built-in speaker. And I know that it it possible to create a "congregate" audio device so that the same audio can be outputted to both the HDMI port and the built-in speaker.
Recently I heard about new apple file system. Of course I wanted to try it. So I moved all files to one external hard drive for safety... And accidentaly switched it to APFS... How to revert changes?
I have two network drives in my local network - one is WDMyCloud device and the other is a USB hard drive connected to AirPort Extreme. All of a sudden the mac cannot connect these devices using AFP. I am able to connect the disk using SMB. SO if I use smb://wdmycloud-device it works fine but when trying afp://wdmycloud-device I'm getting the following error:
Somewhere the system has to record where to go in order to poll my NAS on its own. Since I also tried a complete reinstall of OS X the strange behavior was gone but it came back right when I used mount_afp again. Permanently mounting it is not feasible as I take my MacBook with me a lot when I'm out and about. I'm out of ideas.
My cursor on my Mac (running the latest version of El Capitan) has been freezing for a split second around every 10 seconds – it then reappears in the place it should've been if it hadn't disappeared. I've tried using a different mouse – still occurs. And have done a PRAM reset. Anyone have a clue of what could fix this?
Will Boot Camp Assistant create an "OS X Extended" partition for Windows as well? Or can I choose the type of file system format?
I have a problem with my Macbook Pro 15 mid 2010. This trouble appear when i run dota2 Thank you for any help
I'm looking for a router that provides file storage requirements for OS X Time Machine to see the router as a backup destination. I found that Netgear R7000 is supporting it. While unfortunately, Linksys WRT1900ACS doesn't. Of course, Apple sells their own solution (Time Capsule) which serves as a router and a time machine destination for backups but I don't prefer to invest in that hardware.
My IPhone 4S recently glitched and the notification screen is stuck disabling me from using it at all. I can't shut it off as my lock-screen button is jammed and cannot be used. I'm just wondering if there is anyway I can easily unjam it?
The command rm nukes files. rm -i asks for confirmation before nuking the files. When I use rm, I want rm -i to happen.
I recently installed Windows 10 using Bootcamp. When I try to turn up the audio nothing happens. I went into device manager and the High Definition Audio Controller has a triangle with an exclamation mark over it. I tried to update the drivers but it said they were already up to date.
Is there a way to get an iOS device to connect to an Airplay server and/or Bluetooth audio device by default? I would like my iPad to use my Mac computer's speakers by default, instead of the iPad internal speakers. I can think of two options: Run an AirServer or Airfoil server on the Mac, and somehow get the iPad to connect to that Airplay server by default when it's online. Trick the iPad into believing that the Mac is a Bluetooth speaker, and get it to connect there by default. Both options above would probably require some sort of third-party software like AirServer or Airfoil – or something for Bluetooth – but the big question is if it's possible to get an iOS device to connect by default to an external sound source.
I upgraded to OS X El Capitan a few days ago and was having issues with reboot and shutdown times. It could take up to a minute. So I cloned back OS X Yosemite from a backup and partitioned part of my SSD and installed OS X El Capitan to troubleshoot. Even on the partition OS X El Capitan still shuts down and reboots slowly. When it finally gets to the Apple logo it boots up fast.
In regards to the above question, does the behavior differ between Allow and Deny? E.g.: If I Allow ONLY a certain address AND port – will it disable prompts for all future variants of address and/or port? If I Deny ONLY a certain address AND port – will it disable prompts for all future variants of address and/or port? I am assuming that (2) above will just deny that specific combination – but what about restricting allowance as in (1)?
I'm used to having Alt-Tab set to cycle forward through the windows of a single app and Shift-Alt-Tab to go backwards. I had this working on Yosemite by fiddling with the shortcuts in System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts. But after upgrading to El Capitan, it is only Finder that responds to these commands, no other Apps, although they have not assigned this shortcut for something else. Is there a way to enable this behaviour on El Capitan for all apps?
I'm considering purchasing a Bluetooth portable speaker that has a built-in omnidirectional microphone. The advertising for the product says that the microphone can be used to "make calls" from a mobile device. However, I can't find out from the support pages if the microphone is "always on", or if it's just used for Call Audio Routing – as in iOS's Settings > General > Accessibility > Call Audio Routing. My aim, ultimately, is to use the Bluetooth speaker for playing audio from my iOS device, but also to use it as an always-on microphone that can accept "Hey Siri" voice detection commands. Basically – an "Amazon Echo" device, but consisting of an iPad + Bluetooth speaker instead. Is "Hey Siri" detection normally possible with mic-equipped Bluetooth speakers? Specific case: I'm looking at a Bang & Olufsen Beoplay A1.
I have edited this post in view of recent developments I have a 2 TB USB Disk used for all my data. I accidentally ran Lion Recovery Disk Assistant on it, instead of my Pen Drive, to make a bootable installer. Now I can't mount the disk. Disk shows up in Disk Utility Now surprisingly one of the folders showing up from the corrupted USB HD 2TB but the folder is empty
trying to merge empty greyed space above my yosemite startup disk to make my entire 500 gb hard drive just one whole disk, instead of 250 gb grey above my 250 gb yosemite startup in disk utility?
I made a bootable Windows 10 flash drive using Bootcamp on my MacBook. When bootcamp is finished with everything it restarts my computer like normal. But when it restarts so I can install Windows, it says no boot device.
This issue is being faced since quite a while on my iPhone 5c since iOS 9 upgrade. All the dates wherever applicable are getting displayed are something not-in-human understandable format. I tried complete restore, waited for updates till 9.3, also have asked for apple authorized service center. None helped. They said, its not a product fault. Attaching screenshots. these screenshots are old, but the issue still presists.
I am currently backing up my MacBook Pro late 2013 to a Time Machine. If something happens to my Mac (I can't use it anymore), can I retrieve my files and data onto another Mac? Thanks.
According to Apple's In-App Subscription Rules, Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. The questions are: If I don't link my webpage (where the user would be albe to subscribe without going through iTunes) directly but I just mention that it is possible to subscribe via my website (and perhaps I write my website down but I don't make it clickable), would Apple reject my app? If I don't link my webpage (where the user would be albe to subscribe without going through iTunes) directly but I just mention that it is possible to subscribe via my website (and perhaps I write my website down but I don't make it clickable), would Apple reject my app? What if I also mention that if you subscribe via the website you'll get a free month of subscription, but again, I don't provide any a
Namely, I have an iPhone 5 with a very weak battery, and I will form now on probably hold it in low power mode at all times. I am wondering if whatsapp messages will take a beating from this, and also if facetime will lose its speed and stability during the calls. Any suggestions, advice from experience guys? Thanks!
Since PDFs contain a lot of meta data like my name and the application name which created the file, I was looking for a utility that would allow me to remove all meta data from the PDF file. Ideally, I would want a tool that I can run from the command line interface.
I am trying to create a spreadsheet that will figure out how much has been paid to date, from a list of payments in a separate row. I have tried many different options including using SumIF and CountIF. With both functions I am not receiving the desired result. I suspect that the date value in the expression is not being converted to a string. How can you change data types (date/value to string)? There are many functions that will turn a string into a date value but I don't know how to do the opposite and turn a date value into a string. these are the formulas tried so far: =SUMIF(2:2,CHAR(34)&"<="&B5&CHAR(34),Pmt) where: CHAR(34)&"<="&B5&CHAR(34) = the expression = "<=5/1/16"
I'd like to delete a game off of an iOS device but I would prefer to not lose my progress in case I want to return. Is there any way of checking whether the game/app puts the game save either in iCloud or another external service?
I just received a new MacBook, running OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, from my new employer and I am unable to force hidden files to show in Finder. This is my fourth MacBook, and in the past I have always used defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES to show hidden files; however, on my new Mac, this is not showing the hidden files. I also tried defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE but still cannot see hidden files in Terminal or in Finder. I restarted my computer, but that didn't solve my issue either. Any ideas on how to show my Mac's hidden files?
Is there a way to set different modes on my Macbook Pro. For example, I use my MBP for work, school and home. When I am at school I do not have my macbook plugged in to a charger and have to choosy as to what apps/services I can run so my battery does not drain. However, when I am at work or home, my MBP is plugged in and the apps/processes running are inconsequential.
I have a 16 GB iPhone 6s. Just 7 days ago I restored as new because my phone keeps taking up all my storage. When I restored, I had 4 GB available, 5 days went passed and I was forced to restore again because I had no space. I didn't even download a single thing.
I have an iPhone 6 and I haven't used cellular data, only Wi-Fi. And every night, only at night while I'm browsing, that tab or whatever it is called keeps popping up and saying that my cellular data is off. I don't understand why do I need to know that multiple times and after appearing a couple of times it turns my Wi-Fi off!
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 model A1278 which wasn't turning on, then I bought a new battery and it ran just fine. But the charger isn't charging it up (the charger is also fine, I tested in another MBP). I tried to reset SMC, NVRAM and cleaned the charging port, but nothing happened. Now the battery just died (0%) and I don't know what to do, since I can't charge it up. Is there anything I can do to make it work? Thanks in advance, Luiz
I just recently purchased an iPad Air 2 and when setting it up, I successfully created the fingerprint ID but cannot remember my actual passcode. I can still access the iPad using Touch ID but is there a way I can change the passcode without knowing it?
Yesterday, I just installed Open Sans fonts family because I need it for developing apps in Xcode and to create some design in design software. Today, I see that almost all the text that should be using default fonts now using Open Sans Condensed instead, including some websites and some apps like Whatsapp chat bubbles. Open Sans Condensed is really bad for reading. How can I change the default font back to whatever the default system font was, but not turning off or deleting Open Sans font family because I need them?
I restored my phone from a backup and the apps were synced with iTunes, but the App Store says it's trying to download apps that are already installed. It won't go passed the loading wheel and it's doing it with multiple apps.
This thing never exited before. All of a sudden it started showing up and I hate it. Can some one help me remove this please. I am running 10.11.5 OS X
I have successfully downloaded and opened the program to install El Capitan on my computer. However, after the computer restarts the first time, it boots back into Yosemite and it doesn't continue. When it reboots Yosemite works, but nothing seems to have changed. I have run the installer 4+ times now and I haven't been successful.
I have several specks on the photos from my iPhone 5 64GB:  and here zoomed in
I just bought a new iPhone 6s, and want to move all the contacts from the old one to the new one. Can iTunes or iCloud help me do this, or are there any other ways?
Some of my Whatsapp group chats contain about 100mb of voice messages and I want to get rid of them. However, they are not being displayed as "media". On Android I could just go to the Whatsapp data folder and delete them from there but I can't access that on iOS. I've also found the whatsapp support being useless, so I am trying here.
I did a clean install of El Capitan and would like to retrieve my Reminders from my Time Machine backup. Which files exactly do I need to restore? I have read reminders are stored in ~/Library/Calendars, but restoring that folder does not recreate the Reminders and also makes my Calendar completely blank. Where do I need to look? Edit I did find that reminders reside in ~/Library/Calendars/<UUID>.calendar/Events/<UUID2>.ics, but simply copying the entire ~/Library/Calendars and ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.reminders/ directories does not help.
In my Mac(10.11.5), I find a strange php server is listening to my localhost: But I can't find any php process: And any suspicious process listening port 80: My question: How to find the process listening to localhost?
My MacBook Pro 2012 running ML has started not to load certain web pages. I tried with every browser but I have the same issue. I thought it was a firewall trouble, but it's disabled. Tried to ping websites, dns resolving works. Can't load even from IP addresses. Also apps that needs some internet contents can't work. I can just surf with tor p2p network.
In my Chrome Browser, whenever i "Force Click" (hard clicked by one finger) upon a Word, the dictionary lookup Pop-up is always popping out. Like this:
I'm following the advice here where I want go to settings and set a password. If I do this I get
I've changed settings in uTorrent according to my internet speed but it gives slow speed. When I try to download large/small files directly from a website (web server) it gives full speed my carrier supports like 40Mbps. I have the problem only when downloading the torrent.
Hi I started to use a third party keyboard with my MacOS. As I remember in the past bluetooth keyboards from third party are not activated on the login screen. I tried this one and it is also not working. The trackpad on the keyboard is not working either. I do have an original Apple bluetooth trackpad that is activated so I am looking for a solution to use my third party keyboard or a virtual keyboard with my Apple trackpad to type in the password.
The "Select A Wireless Network" prompt keeps popping up every 5 seconds. I DO NOT have the "ask to join wireless networks" marked on and I am already joined to a network but this will not stop. Anyone have any fixes for that? It is a major PITA. Thanks.
My Mac Pro asks for an e-mail and password. I was unable to remember them, I got a new password, but I'm still receiving a message 'unable to verify account name or password'.
I was using the Boot Camp. Somehow I managed to change the GPT partition scheme on my external hard drive to a MBR partition scheme. Below is the output from the command sudo gpt -r -vvv show /dev/disk1.
I use a 2015 Retina MBP (13inch) and have been experiencing wifi disconnections since I have upgraded to El Capitan. I am now using 10.11.5 and the problem remains. I am experiencing wifi dropouts on this computer only. My wife uses an old 2011 MacBook Air with El Capitan 10.11.5 and has no disconnections. My other devices iPhone + iPad Mini are also on the same wifi network and do not experience any problem. I have tried many of the usual suggestions such as: throw previous wifi preferences to trash, created new wifi profile/location with google dos, changed MTU to 1453 and disabling Apple Wifi Direct Network (awdl0) and nothing seemed to do the trick. I cannot seem to find a proper answer anywhere but have seen many people experiencing the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Recently, I tried iOS 10 public beta in my iPhone 6, but I am confused by the lock screen, see the picture, my question is what the number 33 means in my lock screen?  Update: In the new version of iOS 10 public beta 2, this confusion is no longer existed.
I have a Retina MacBook Pro and I don't know how to explain it well. One of the keys (number 9 key, if it makes sense) has suddenly "not sensitive enough" while typing fast. I mean, I can definitely press it when I want, the change is very subtle, when I'm typing fast it doesn't get pressed. If I explicitly press just a bit harder there is no problem. Whenever I tap all keys with my typing pressure, all get pressed easily expect the 9 key. The difference is subtle but it's definitely noticeable and is really annoying while typing (especially when typing ( when programming). How do I make it respond normally?
Something went wrong with my iCloud Music Library this morning. I now have a few thousand songs with incorrect metadata.
I've got an iMac that is performing quite poorly. The specs: OS X El Capitan 4.0 GHz quad-core (i7) 16 GB RAM
Is it okay if your power adapter gets hot, because mine gets really really hot, it's kinda burning to the touch and I'm really worried, especially because my Iphone is brand new and i don't live in US, but that is where i got it from, and there aren't any apple stores in my country so i can go and ask for help. If anyone knows any solution, i would be really grateful. Thank you.
I am trying to test my AWS git code commit: ssh git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
So my MacBook Air continuously flickers between on and sleep modes. It stays on only when I plug in the headphone jack and keep it at an angle pressed. I took it to the store and I was told it could be that the logic board is shorting.
This problem is not strictly an OSX problem, but I do not know a more suitable site. I belong to a club which uses yahoogroups.com for group mail. Recently every message I send to the group from my MacBook using Thunderbird fails with an error message I might addd that that link fails with 404 page not found which doesn't inspire confidence, but I have no choice but to use Yahoo. Following up other links I found the following:- I have enabled SMTP-authentication in Thunderbird.
Please tell me in detail about that. I need some reliable solution for my Mac OS X.
I have extensively been using Photoshop and want to improve my workflow. I have a Wacom tablet, which works great, but now the numpad on the keyboard, which I use for a number of things, is far from reach and on the wrong side.
I have a 27-inch Thunderbolt display and the thunderbolt connector--not the magsafe power cord--is fraying on the end that plugs into the laptop. I've seen several posts about using sugru on the power cords, can I use it on the thunderbolt cord from my monitor as well? Thanks!
I'm trying to send a message in Mail, but I don't have a Bcc field. How can I show a Bcc field? Is there a way to set it as default, i.e. always show a Bcc field?
My Macbook has defect RAM, so it won't run correctly. Now it also tells me, that something is wrong with my SSD (M.2-version). But it will not run a complete disk test - probably because of the ram-issue. ifixit shows that you can remove the ssd. Is it possible to place that into an external M.2 USB device and run it on another mac to check the ssd?
I recently switched to zsh from bash, and Go2Shell don't work with zsh. When I click the Go2Shell icon from Finder, the iTerm window opened but the directory is the last dir in iTerm instead of the current dir in Finder. How can I achieve the old function or is there a replacement of Go2Shell?
This feature not implemented? I wish also a command line interface.
I have recently bought a MacBook Pro 15". A couple of days ago I had charged my MacBook and left the charger to the socket and it died. When I tried running diagnostics, it showed that power adapter has to be plugged in.
Many people are annoyed by the big fat bezels that appear on changing the volume/brightness/etc. and are pretty intrusive. Now, I'd like to still have them appear but make them less intrusive, e.g. by shortening the time until they fade away or making them more transparent. Anybody have an idea how to do one of the two?
How can I get repeated alerts after a missed call on an iPhone SE? I am looking for some way to blink the LED flash and vibrate, periodically after a call has been missed. This periodic blinking and vibrating should continue infinitely, until I dismiss the alert. The notification needs to be noticeable even when the phone is lying on the desk, and the screen is hidden by the flip case, so an on-screen popup is insufficient.
I have Macbook Pro 15 Late 2011 with single Mini DisplayPort. Now I use MacBook display with external FullHD display via Mini DisplayPort->HDMI adapter. Is it possible to connect 2 external FullHD displays?
I understand that the hard drive needs to be formatted, which I already have in various filesystems, for example: exFAT, OS X Extended (Journaled). I have also changed various schemes and partition tables in Disk Utility.
I wanted to purchase an item in-game but I downloaded that game in a different account that I seemed to have lost. I now have a new account and I wonder if I can buy from that account instead.
When I connect to a particular Wi-Fi network, it asks me to accept a certificate. I can check the certificate details, such as signatures and so on, but not the fingerprint. I'm fairly certain the certificate is correct so I accepted it. Where can I find, in iOS, the certificates in use (such as this one I just accepted) and how can I see their fingerprints?
I am trying to configure the network on my 12-inch MacBook. I have the following manual:
There is a set of apps I use for my job. Instead of having them individually on the dock, I'd like to have them in a "stack" all together. How can I create a stack on the dock and add these apps to it?
I already had El Capitan and Windows running smoothly. I needed to add a partition so I could triple boot into Ubuntu. OS X and Ubuntu both work perfectly now but my Boot Camp side seems to have gotten screwed up.
I am making a grid-like diagram (for table seats at a party) using a Numbers table. Some cells are considerable wide and hold the names of the guests. But I need to make some of the rows and columns very narrow, to use them as margins (gutters?) between the cells that have actual content.
i tried installing windows 8.1 on my mac osX and while the boot camp process was on the disk partitioning was in process and my mac suddenly restarted with a bootcamp error. now there is no windows8.1 installed on my mac but my storage shows partitioned please help
After a recent run of Migration Assistant from an old MacBook to a new one, my Applications folder is owned by my normal user account rather than by root. This prevents VirtualBox from functioning (see here, for example).
I want to automatically back photos and videos from photobooth to google photos, but don't know where they are stored.
I know that you can do ⌘+1, ⌘+2, etc to switch between channel 1, channel 2, etc of a particular server that you are currently on. If you have multiple servers that you are connected to, is there any shortcut to switch between the servers?
Recently went into Apple with my early 2011 MacBook Pro, was told that my hard drive was broken. So I decided to replace it myself with a Samsung 850 EVO, all went okay, but now when I turn it on all I get is a file with a question mark in it.
My iPhone 5 is on iOS 9.2. I heard Bonjour instant messaging is enabled by default. How to view the people on the same network?
The specs are: OS X Yosemite (10.10) MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011) Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 GB 133 MHz DDR3 Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB I can't find any good websites, can anyone help me please?
By default, screenshot files are saved with names like this: Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 1.07.34 PM.png
I am an OS X novice. I have an Applescript set to run at boot and instead of running automatically, I have to trigger the script with a run confirmation: How do I get rid of this so the application runs seamlessly? The following file was saved as an application.
This happens every few days: I wake up in the morning, try to unlock my phone with Touch ID, and it prompts me for my password. The length and complexity of my password and my drowsiness in the morning make for an unpleasant combination. Why does this keep happening? Detailed information: I am using an iPhone 6 (64 GB), running iOS 9.3.2, though this has been an issue for several versions now (at least as far back as 9.3.0). It happens regardless of whether or not I charge my phone at night. It is not caused by iOS updates, because I always manually update iOS. It sometimes happens in the daytime, but seems to be more common after not using my phone for 6+ hours (due to being asleep). I have my "Require Passcode" setting set to "Immediately". I am using a custom alphanumeric code, not a custom numeric code or a 4-digit numeric code.
Doing ls -ltra /usr/local gives a lot of homebrew files and folders in /usr/local itself, as opposed to a subfolder: CODEOFCONDUCT.md, LICENSE.txt, README.md, .git, .gitignore, Library, bin, opt, Cellar and probably other files and folders refer to homebrew. Is this normal for homebrew when I chose "Install" for Xcode, and then installed homebrew as per the following? For what it's worth, I've also installed cask.
I know that the /boot folder contains the static files of the 'boot' loader. I'm just curious to why I can't see this folder on my Mac. Im using OS X El Capitan. Does OS X El Capitan have a /boot folder or is there an alternative?
My Apple ID region is Indonesia but I wanted to change it cause I can't download some app on the Indonesian store
I have a file in my Trash. The filename is 'codedesign' and it is a Unix executable file. This file ended up there in the process of me trying to fix a corrupted patch installer. The original version is still in my /usr/bin/ directory and therefore this one would be fine to delete.
For several OS X versions I've used: This has worked great, a nice and quiet mount of the network share, if it is available of course.
BRCM2046 is the USB card from my macbook (according to System Profiler), and one of the ports is a problem that it generates an error on the console. I would like to know how to disable this port.
This is a very specific question, but I hope that maybe a member of the Mac community may be able to offer a clue. Years ago there was a free Mahjong game called Double, or Double X. It no longer runs on current hardware or software, but I am interested in the icons which it used. Here is a screen shot:
I messed up and made the file name ... full name ....fbx. I don't really know why around the terminal. And after seeing How to move files to trash from command line? saying that rm "not permanently deleting files." How would I move it to trash or permanently delete it.
On Linux, (which I am used to), /home is the place where home folders live. On a Mac, home is some kind of crazy mutant:
I ordered a replacement keyboard from Ebay, but when I was in the process of taking the laptop apart, I noticed that the keyboard "connector cable" that sits on the logic board was loose. After refitting the cable I decided to put it back together again - leaving the original keyboard inside. Now it responds to the power button (keyboard and power button is connected to the same cable), but the keyboard still won't work. So I connected an external USB keyboard (that I have confirmed works on a PC), but that will not work either. It powers on, and after a few seconds it just says no bootable device... bla bla even though I have the original OS X DVD in the tray (and I can hear it working on boot).
In OSx 10.5, there was a way to show all open windows in a given space using expose. I always had my bottom left hotcorner set to "show all windows" and my top right hotcorner set to "show desktop", and I found this perfect. Now, with mission-control, there is only "show all application windows", which is much less useful. Is there a way I can restore the hotcorner "show all windows" functionality on my mac running OSX 10.9.5?
I was wondering if the X Ray machines at the airport can damage laptops (specifically a rMBP..) or their components (SSD, Battery and so on....)?
My MacBook Air keeps restarting and won't pass the apple sign. I tried to reinstall the system but it says I don't have enough disk space to install and needs to remove something. What should I do?
I have been trying to add some boarding passes to wallet. I have downloaded the airline app and logged in. I have tried to "scan the code" as suggested in wallet, but the only code is a QR code and nothing happens when I try to scan. This should be that difficult but I cannot figure it out. Is there an easy way to get this done? Please explain to me how to do it. Thanks.
My wife already has an iTunes account with her own music library. She also wants access to my music library. If I set up Family Sharing and invite her, will she lose her music or will the iPhone display both music from her personal account library AND my account library? Thanks!
When I go to shutdown my mid 2011 Mac Mini (running OS X El Cap, EDIT* 10.11.6), it will not do so "cleanly." I close all applications, then click Apple > Shutdown and finder closes like it's going to shutdown, but it gets stuck. I have to hold the power button till it shuts down, then when it powers back on I get the error message (with a yellow exclamation point):
I upgraded to 2016 but it wasn't really an upgrade but a parallel install Then i imported my default identify from outlook 2011 into the 2016 and 2016 is working fine and then i deleted my outlook 2011 identity to save space Now i want to uninstall 2011 and i was trying to follow How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011 Can i follow all the instructions from the above link and this will not break my 2016? Or do i need to follow a subset of instructions or there are completely different instructions?
I upgraded my Creative Cloud programs and now they are no longer on the dock. How may I get them there (Photoshop, Illustrator, Muse, etc)
I have a question for installing it again. I want to completely wipe EVERYTHING off the drive, including the recovery partition (it was the wrong size for no reason at all), and I want to get rid of every partition on the drive. Completely free of everything like its brand new.
Long story short, I've written a simple BASH script to control the brightness of a non-Apple external monitor using ddcctl. It works, with a couple hacks.
I received an MMS messages this afternoon on my iPhone 6. When I opened it, it was clearly a spam text message. I did not recognize the sender. I went to the link in the email on a spun up virtual machine and it just went to some Gwen Stefani article.
I am running Mac OS X (Version 10.10.5) on a MacBook Pro (13 Inch, Mid 2010) and want to arrange an external monitor of the same type to different positions. First, let me explain my setup: monitor at my office: DELL U2312HM (located above the MacBook's screen) monitor at home: DELL U2312HM (located left of the MacBook's screen)
You can assume that I am able to change Country & Region. I am trying to change my Country & Region to Germany, though i do not own a German debit Card to do the verification. I am currently living in Germany and I have a german phone number, i tried with that as well but it accepts only numbers from O2 mobile company which i dont have.
I am experiencing really slow write speeds on my MacBook Pro on a MicroSD from Samsung which should allow write speeds of up to 20MB/s. The current transfer rate seems to be around 3-4MB/s on HFS Journaled, and the rate was way lower when I formatted it with exFAT. I see some methods for increasing speeds on other devices like Android mobiles, which involve changing the cache, and also on OSX but only for command line processes? Is there a way to implement this when dragging files over with Finder?
I installed gcc with brew install gcc, but when I type gcc the default behavior is still to use clang. How do I set things so that typing gcc in the terminal automatically uses the gcc installed by Homebrew?
I recently download the Facebook app for iOS. It doesn't connect to the internet unless wi-fi is enabled. All other apps are able to connect to the internet with wi-fi disabled, just not Facebook. I am running iOS 9.3.
Okay - i know Apple say you must put in credit card info etc when you change region and try to log in -> sign up a new apple id. And i know there is no "None" option when you try to do this.
message. My other devices still connect. I have tried from this question to connect manually and it chucks the following error: com.apple.wifi.apple80211API.error error -3905 I have also: deleted my network preferences etc reset PRAM reset SMC changed modem channel
I recently purchased 200 gigabytes of storage in icloud for $2.99 a month. I want to transfer stored data from my iphone 6 plus to the cloud but don't know how. I bought the expanded icloud for music and phone data. many thanks for your feedback..
Does anyone know how to reformat my flashdrive? I tried sudo. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
As can be seen in the screenshot I have selected a bunch of keychain items. So why is Export items disabled?
I am unable to lock the Keychain Acccess on either of two macbooks. The login password is not accepted on either one. Is there a special step/process for setting up a keychain password - and it is not synced with the login?
My camera is currently set to take pictures in RAW + JPEG. I import the two files into the Photos app, and it combines them into one. I like this.
Gday all, So i'm trying to use the terminal to SSH into a server using a SOCKS4 proxy.
I'm not allowed to have a snapchat due to very overprotective parents. I download and delete the app multiple times a day so that I won't get caught. Today I deleted it and tried to get it back a few hours later but it didn't work. I proceeded to try to redownload the app multiple times but it still wouldn't work. I click on the little iCloud button and it acts like it's going to load but then the iCloud button just pops up again:/ I've tried restarting my phone multiple times, resetting all my settings, and signing out of my apple/iTunes account. If you have any ideas please help me out!
I ran diskutil to verify the volumes but everything seems fine. The disk health shows fine and I also ran First Aid on the Macintosh HD as well, but to no avail. I then tried by resetting the SMC and NVRAM but the problem still persisted. I updated bootcamp drivers as well as Windows updates, but the situation stayed. Finally, I took the laptop to an Apple store and the technician saw the issue, never ran any diagnostic and simply said something like "looks like an issue with EFI, we will have to send it for repair to change the logic board because the memory is soldered into the logic board", I couldn't fully understand what he meant by that and I am skeptical if it is really a hardware issue because the operating systems (OSX and Windows) both run just fine once it boots up. A few odd behaviours I noticed-
I just seen a video of a guy on YouTube running 6 4K monitors natively on his MBP but it didn't go into details as far as cabling/hub setup. How could I run just 3 4K at 60hz? I am confused as to the best way to get 2 thunderbolt into 3 DisplayPort. I haven't picked out a specific monitor yet but they will be DisplayPort monitors. I have a 2015 MBP with the AMD graphics card. I am not interested in eGPU options.
I have two backup hard discs for Time Machine: 1.5TB, and 1TB. My backup fits in 1.5TB, but Time Machine sometimes complains that it can't backup to the 1TB disk, because the space is not enough.
I use Time Machine with two backup hard discs. Does Time Machine create an identical copy of the data on both disks, or does it back up more fine-grained snapshots to different disks, so that I have more choices regarding the timestamp to restore to?
Where is this used, I read the README and it didn't say what program it was from, I do not think that it is the stock dictionary app because I tried some very obscure looking words that were in some of the files and they did not come up in the stock dictionary app. Any idea where this comes from?
Have got this crash report and havnt been able to find a fix for a while now. Hoping someone can read what the problem is. Thanks
Xcode gives me an error when looking for iPhoneOS 8.3 SDK. The path exists in my filesystem but contains only one unrelated file. Xcode tells me I have that version already installed inside Preferences > Components > Simulators. error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.3.sdk' The question is how to reinstall the SDK to stop having this error?
Hi i have deleted everything from my icloud account storage but it still has 2.4gb storage available and i can not free all the space please help
Is it possible to open folders with just one click in Mac OS 10.11? Renaming could be done using context menu with right click then.
Former staff member left iPhone 5s which is linked to his Apple ID. Sign in to iCloud pops up all the time. Find My Phone feature was on. I've asked him to remove this phone from Find My Phone which he did. Here is instructions how he did it https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2702?locale=en_US
I used to work on my own mobile application through my Apple Id, tied to my own mail address. Now, I am working for a company aiming to build their application. In order to correctly put the application build on my iPhone device in development mode, must I completely use a different Apple Id, meaning tied to my mail inside the company? To put in a nutshell, how to work parallely for distinct companies with Xcode? Note: Using my own Macbook Pro device.
In the past, when I connected my mobile, Image Capture launched. I have an Android device. At some point, I disabled this feature and now I need to set it back. Unfortunately, I am not able to find how to do it. I am on El Capitan 10.11.5 I have checked Photos but couldn't see any settings to change the default app. So, what happens now is that I connect the device, I launch ImageCapture and it doesn't recognise the mobile. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Until recently, I was able to connect an external display to my 2013 MBP Retina without a problem. As of the past week or so, connecting an external display results in the resolution of the MBP changing from 2880x1800 to 1440x900. The external resolution is unaffected. I'm unaware of any particular system changes prior to when this problem started. I use Display Menu to manage the resolutions of both displays and this has worked well for me for the past year or so.
My iphone recently died from water damage but i had an icloud account set up with all the phones details however i cant remember the username or password for the account so i can put the information onto a new phone any suggestions?
I understand that I can boot OS X from an external disk, but is that just as a means of recovery? Can I actually setup and use OS X from an external disk to do work and save documents etc?
When I tap spacebar on a .markdown file in the finder, Quick Look shows me a very nicely formatted view of that file. But the view doesn't act like a normal window, I can't select text from it, etc. All the apps I have that can open Markdown files show them in edit mode, without the pretty formatting. Short of buying an app like Marked, is there some way to open Markdown files with pretty formatting?
I run the command in OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan. It closes when reaching EOF. I checked aliases and I do not have LESS env variable set up but still it looks like zless runs with -Q or -q parameter on. less command runs just as expected not closing after reaching EOF. Any help would be appreciated.
I have an old Exchange account, I don't have access to it nor remember the password. I want to delete it.
I would like to delete part of a message history, not all of it. I know how to do this on my iPhone and iPad, but can't find a way to do so on my computer itself.
On a Macbook Pro retina 13 2014 with El Capitan 10.11.5 I can't access websites through their domain name (google.com, bing.com, etc). I can access the internet with Google Chrome, but with others applications I can't. I can ping 8.8.8.8: I can't ping google.com I tried to put DNS manually (8.8.8.8), reboot, but it doesn't work. I tried to delete these files and reboot but it doesn't work: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist` com.apple.network.identification.plist` NetworkInterfaces.plist` preferences.plist` tried: Could you help me please?
I've seen a few OLD articles on how to prevent iTunes from opening up every time you plug in your iPhone to your mac; however, none of those solutions seem to work or either they do not exist anymore. For example, in iTunes preferences, there is no "Open iTunes automatically when this phone is connected" from the phone's summary tab, so I can't uncheck that. "Prevent device from syncing automatically" is also checked off so I'm not sure why it still opens.
I have an iPhone on which I can't log in anymore. Too many failed passcode attempts. Now I want to wipe it with iTunes on my MacBook Pro. But iTunes is failing with
My macbook is presently completely unusable due to an apparently corrupted (?) keychain. As shown in the following question there seems to have been a change in 10.11.2 to have removed the First Aid
My family uses caldav in their iPhones to keep a shared calendar (yahoo) in sync with everyone. One phone, used to add a lot of calendar entries, has stopped syncing. I tried simply reentering the PW to see if that would jump start it, but it is still "stuck". With no diagnostic information available, I don't have a clue why.
At one point, I connected a USB mouse to my MacBook Pro, which caused the scroll bars to always be shown in every app. This was despite my settings in Appearance.prefpane where ‘Show scroll bars’ was set to ‘Whilst scrolling’.
I have 2 partitions (2.6gb, and 150gb) on one of my (3gb) drives. It had 3, but I removed one that wasn't used. Disk Utility should allow me to expand the 'lower' (150gb) partition into the free space - but not the 'top (2.6gb) partition. Is there a way, using terminal or an app, that I can expand that 'top' (2.6gb) partition into the free space?
Is there a way to disable the screensaver from showing on my secondary display? I only want it on my primary display. Running 10.11.1 El Capitan
Whenever my daughter sends me email from her iPhone, the email arrives with the wrong timezone in the headers. However, the timezone seems to be set correctly on her phone.
I am trying to boot a Yosemite VM (10.10.5) following these instructions here. But it gets stuck in a loop at the BIOS boot screen (the OS has not yet been installed) My hardware is a Mac mini with Ubuntu 14.04 installed (I specifically need to use KVM to boot OS X VMs for my use case), hardware is: CPU: GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4578U CPU@3.00GHz Graphics card: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT integrated graphics controller (rev 09) Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E0812OC7EEAF I have QEMU 2.6.0, and Chameleon Enoch r2839 (I've also tried Chameleon 2.3 r2838 with the same results) The command I use to boot is: (real string osk string is inserted here, I just didn't add it for public posting) When I boot, I get to this screen just fine: When I boot with -v option, it gets to these screens, goes black, and then returns to the original boot screen shown previously:
I have a 5th generation AirPort Time Capsule (3TB) with an additional G-DRIVE GEN4 (3TB) external hard-drive attached to it. The external hard-drive has an on/off switch.
It says that I have used 12.1 GB of data, but when added all up, it's no where near 12.1 GB. Maybe 10 GB at most, and I recently deleted a BUNCH of videos to clear up space, but it did nothing!
I recently deleted all of my pictures and backed them up on an app called Shoebox. I did it to save space on my iPhone 6s. I decided it wasn't for me and everything was out place. It was making things complicated and I didn't want it anymore. I now have all my pictures backed up on the app, but don't know how to sync them all back. I don't know if it's possible, but if it isn't I was wondering if I could recover my recently deleted section? If I can, how do I do it?
I am planning to buy an iphone4 for my son for Christmas and was wondering if GSM unlocked or factory unlocked both mean that I can put the phone on any plan or service I like? Also,what do each specifically mean when buying a used or new phone?
I tried macOS Sierra and now I want to go back to El Capitan. I have backups from both OS versions on the drive but Time Machine is saying that I can't restore from that drive. How do I restore my settings from Time Machine to El Capitan?
What is the X Server equivalent on OSX? I am not looking for XQuartz. What component of the OSX is responsible for rendering graphics? Just as X11 does for *nix.
I'm in the process of upgrading a test box to El Capitan and have run into some strange behavior with what may be network NFS share permissions? Background info: We currently authenticate to a 2008 AD server and use NFS shares to mount to the server. Example issue:
Testing Accessibility with iPad VoiceOver Turn on VoiceOver. Go to Safari, load page. Walk through page with QuickNav Intermittently, QuickNav jumps from html content on page to Status Bar (where the wifi status and battery percentage is displayed), often from the "Link to Main Content" screenreader link. QuickNav then is restricted to the Status Bar - goes through the items in the Status Bar and but not to the Safari URL-space nav items or to the webpage. There's a published shortcut to jump into the Status Bar (ctrl + alt + M), but how do I get OUT of the Status Bar and back into Safari's pageflow?
I bought an Apple MacBook with Retina display (Core M, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) and today I was experiencing the first problem with it. I was unable to log in to my account. During the login process mac turned off unexpectedly. After few tries I realized that I'm able to login as guest. After some Googling I tried to restore my Mac.
I have an Earpods. It beautifully works with iPad (sound and remote control works perfect) but not with iPhone (only sound is correct, but nothing works with remote control). Anyone know why? iPhone 6S, iOS 9.3.2
I have had a frequent issue with the USB ports on my MBP (Retina 13" Early 2015; OSX 10.11.5). This happens a few times per week, and reappeared today.
I am attempting to install OS X Snow Leopard on a new harddrive. I am using a Mac mini mid-2010 Unibody. I also have the original Snow Leopard disk.
If I bought a Mac mini, would I be able to find the mouse or keyboard in the same box as what the Mac mini came in?
I'm a newer;Can you help me? Thanks.I want to find some iOS development questions.
Yesterday, all of a sudden, my macbook pro (15 inch early-2016) started to forget how to charge its battery. According to the battery icon, almost everything looks great but one thing. It doesn't charge the battery. (I made some pictures so you can get a visual about the issue) Whats really interesting about this, is that my charger does work with other macbook pros. Some of my colleagues have the very same macbook as I do and the magsafe goes on, starts with green, then changes to amber; the battery status says says charging. Another interesting habit is, that when the battery charge drops below a certain percentage, it starts to charge itself, but only with other dhargers. Yesterday I discharged the battery until the laptop didn't boot anymore but said there's no charge. I connected the charger of my MBA, nothing happened. I plugged it into my MBA the indicator light started with green, then I plugged it back into the MBP and it started charging. Im sitting now on a charge of 85% but
What is the dns server bundled with OS X Server app on OS X El Capitan and where is the configuration file located? For some reason Server App crashes and the only service I tried to configure is DNS.
I've recently set up a new Apple Watch; during the setup process I selected the "most active" setting (Very Active, I think). Now that I've seen the daily targets in the Activity app, I realise that the move/caloria goal (red ring) is too high. Can I change that?
I am using an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 and trying to download games that require iOS 8.0 or higher, however I can't upgrade the iOS. Why can't I upgrade to iOS 8?
It's time for some professional help. I love my Time Capsule Extreme, since retiring my ancient Linksys routers and setting it up as my network's Wifi Broadcast point, all the things that used to glitch now work, from airdrop to my bonjour printer. But I've been plagued by an intermittent problem which required me to renew my DHCP lease several times a day to resolve internet addresses, and I've hacked the settings on every device in the house to try and resolve it. My latest setup SEEMS to have resolved that issue, but it was come and go I'm pretty sure I'm not doing it right. I'm hoping someone can help me stop guessing. I've diagrammed the system here:
I own both an iPhone and a MacBook. I have disabled iMessages on the iPhone and I prefer to keep it this way. I employ the latest versions of both iOS and OS X. When I send SMS text messages from my iPhone to contacts who also use iPhones their replies arrive on the MacBook (in its Messages application) but not on the iPhone.
Here's what I did while installing windows 10 using bootcamp.Firstly,i modified the Info.plist file of bootcamp in order to create a live usb(since I have a MBP with an optical drive).It worked.While installing,Windows needed me to have a gpt partition.So,I converted the hybrid MBR/GPT to GPT partition style using the gdisk tool.(before this,I formatted the partition to NTFS format)Again,I booted back to the usb drive and this time,installation started but while finishing up,it gave me an error saying "cannot access boot manager.Installation failed"-(something like that).Any solution?Also,state a way to go back to the original partition style.(In case i decide not to install windows.Also,I am not able to merge the partition since osx is not able to read the partition style).
In my Mac Numbers Spreadsheet, I have got a column containing a product title. I would like to add up the cells containing a title at the bottom on my spreadsheet. What formula do I use for that? Please note: Some of the cells are empty.
I'm waiting for my iMac 27" late 2015 4.0ghz i7 to arrive and I'm looking to buy a 32gb kit to upgrade. I've been browsing for an hour and I can't find any specific buyer guides or websites that sell Mac compatible memory (in the EU). According to Apple's RAM specs, I managed to find this: PCPartPicker.com This is what the Apple specs say: PC3-14900 Unbuffered Nonparity 204-pin 1867MHz DDR3 SDRAM Source: Install memory in an iMac
I have installed i.files app version 1.6 for iphone. In description of this app in app store has been written it can resume download from broken point, now i have tried to download 2 or 3 files with this app, when download was interrupted and we click start , it start download from first start point. Please help how this app works?
I have an app on my iPhone 4S called 7 Second Diet. It is no longer available on the app store. Luckily, it is still available on my iPhone 4S.
I'm having a hard time with iCloud Drive on Mac. The files I drop in iCloud Drive folder simply sync while I wanted to upload the file to cloud so that I can delete the local copies in my Mac to free up space. I had to open iCloud in browser to upload files. As I'm on slow internet connection, uploads stops midway incase of large files. I thought optimised storage feature in macOS Sierra might solve the problem, but its automatic and I don't get to choose the files I actually want to upload. So I need suggestion about any third party apps that could upload files to cloud or any other cloud service that works seamlessly among apple products.
I am creating an interactive project in which participants explore a room (a real one, not virtually) with their mobile device — iOS or Android — and headphones. The music in their headphones will change depending on where they are. I'm controlling the music from Logic Pro X from my laptop - I'll have to react fairly quickly.
This is about a MacBook running on 10.10.5 whose disk has recently been repaired (to try to solve the present issue) using Disk Utility. I created an alias as follows:
All my input sources have disappeared. I use Finnish, Japanese and Korean keyboards. For language switcher next clock on top menu-bar it shows "(NULL)" and "(NULL)" for Hiragana and Hangul input methods. Other input sources like English are fine and still in place. How can I re-install these?
I am new to AppleScript and trying to write a script to record from webcam for say X seconds. The script below gives an error that I do not have permission to save this file to Desktop. How can I avoid this error? Secondly how can I save the file with Date and Time stamp appended in the name of the file?
I have a Mid-2014 MBP retina 15" running OSX 10.11.5. It runs flawlessly except for occasional Safari freezes. It happens only while I'm using Safari, and mostly when I try to close a tab. I've contacted Apple support multiple times, and they advised me to try a few things, none of which worked. I've tried to following: cleared history deleted cashes in ~/Library/caches and /Library/caches/
I can play slideshow in my iPhone with Photos app but I cannot save or share that slideshow. What is the problem?
I've been running into trouble recently with a NAS device, Seagate 5TB storage system with a Linux back-end. Whenever I connect to the device with an AFP connection, the drive connects with no issues, and I can browse files and folders with ease. After a while though, Yosemite decides to mount another version of the NAS using SMB. This SMB connection is riddled with issues; folder names show off an old 8.3 NTFS name, and sometimes they cannot be changed. How can I stop my Mac from connecting an additional SMB connection the NAS?
I have set up family group on iPhones for my wife and daughter. Now they are allowed to purchase by my card only. Is it possible for my wife to use her own card and my daughter not to use any cards at all?
At least three apps are now doing the following: In its menu, I click on quit It starts quiting but then never finish quiting.
Is there any way i can mount or access the device so that i can copy files to this? I can't use another USB as i don't have another one to use for this.
The setup: I'm using Windows 10, 8, 8.1 and 7 with a international keyboard, US keyboard, Windows keyboard, PC keyboard with VNC client TighVNC, RealVNC, UltraVNC to remote control a iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, running OS X, with Screen Sharing activated as the VNC server. The problem 1: My keyboard mapping is all wrong, can't input Alt key(Option ⌥ ). It is identified as Command key ⌘ . The problem 2: My keyboard is international and a lot of the keys are wrongly mapped.
Every time I try to login with my usual username (i.e. gsamaras), I get a pop-up, like a suggestion from my Mac, for the word samaras, so unless I click on the x button, "gsamaras" will be replaced by "samaras". How can I tell my Mac not to correct gsamaras? Note: Formatting the laptop is not an option.
My girlfriend and I will be travelling in USA and using ATandT pay as you go sim cards while there. The only problem is that we don't get International calling. So I want my gf to be able to use data to void call family on their iphones.
I use RansomWhere, a tool to protect from ransomware. I have OS X Yosemite.
I took some pictures up at a state park where I was camping. When I tell Siri, "Show me pictures from XYZ State Park", Siri performs a Bing image search. When I say "Show me pictures I took at XYZ State Park", the Photos app pulls up and displays nothing. However, the photos come up when I ask for photos I took within the state.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong ... or what iTunes is doing wrong ... but when I go into my Library, the only music that shows up is the stuff I actually purchased from iTunes. Over the years my husband and I have gradually imported pretty much our entire CD collection ... but suddenly NONE of that is accessible. Where did it go? How do I access it? It's like iTunes suddenly broke. I can't update any of my playlists, because the music no longer exists. I'm so frustrated I could just cry!
I needed to delete/uninstall an application that was running. It was screen saver app that ran over the regular screen saver, and I hated it. I downloaded it from the App Store, and do not suspect malware. It was just an awful, inexpensive app. When I tried to delete/uninstall it, I got a warning message that said I could not delete a running program. But it also gave me a link to where I could over-ride that, I think, within System Preferences. I clicked a checkbox that would "allow deletion of running applications." After checking that box, I was able to delete the offending application.
Per earlier articles (especially Python IDLE from MacPorts can't start), I've attempted to get my Python version 3.4 to work from the Macports IDLE.app but to no avail. I've already tried the usual double clicking as well as running through the terminal, and I have the appropriate py34-tkinter port installed.
I have two sperate Apple ID accounts as I had to factory reset my phone, I created a new one a few months ago. My first Apple ID (before the factory reset) can connect with iCloud, but not the App Store - there is a problem with this one about billing on it but I've never purchased anything only free apps, so it doesn't let me update any apps or my phone software. After the factory reset my second Apple ID works with the App Store, but I'm not able to access iCloud because of my security questions (can't reset them either :(). & I would like to have all my music & pictures on there. So I was wondering if there was a way to keep the first Apple ID logged into my iCloud & the second Apple ID logged into my iTunes & App Store?
I had an iPad mini which had some valuable photos in the Photos app. I had backed up the device on iCloud using 4.2 GB of my available 5 GB of space. Now that device is dead and is beyond repair. I thought I had the backup in iCloud and didn't take care to backup anywhere else. Now when I open iCloud, I see that it is completely blank. Is there any policy Apple has to delete the backup after a certain amount of time? Is there any hope for recovering these photos?
how can Apple.ca accept my answers for security questions but when I type them into the set up for iCloud their wrong?? They are each 3 letter words, so spelling & capatlization wouldn't be a. Problem :( I forgot.ca doesn't help either
So I plan to erase my MacBook Pro completely. After I erase its drive from an El Capitan recovery drive that I have, I want to boot into Internet recovery mode, plug in another flashdrive, install Mavericks on it, and then use the recovery drive for El Capitan to install El Capitan onto my MacBooks internal SSD.
I'm just wondering: if I have two iPads, can I choose which apps go on each of the iPads. The memory is almost full on both. I hope I've explained this clearly.
According to Apple, You can also add PDFs to your iTunes library on your computer by dragging and dropping the PDF into your iTunes Book library. The files will appear when you are preparing your device to sync.
This is a general question about iPad apps. We have a conference coming up where we want to use some iPads and have an app that only displays our website. So pretty much safari – though minus a browser/url bar and minus pinching / zoom so it functions like an app, without letting users navigate away to any other domains. From what I understand there is no point trying to develop a site specific app that just displays a website because understandably, the apple store doesn't want that kind of stuff in it's store. I just need something that acts like a shell. Thoughts?
I installed and removed Quicksilver and since that time the keyboard shortcut for Spotlight has not been working. I mean when I press cmd + space it should open spotlight search bar. I've been into Keyboard Settings > Shortcuts > Spotlight and it is correctly set to cmd + space. I've tried changing it to another setting and then back and also by pressing the 'Restore Defaults' button on the page but nothing has helped.
App Store sometimes can't install apps, iCloud icon appearing instead of INSTALL icon, as in the attached screenshot. If i click iCloud icon it buffers some seconds & come backs to iCloud symbol.
This morning I needed to reset an administrator's account password on my Mac, because I had forgotten the password. I used the steps listed on this article to accomplish this, but after restarting the Mac, I found that it was taking a while to boot. I shrugged this off, let it sit for while, then came back around half an hour later and it was still booting. I tried to restart it again, but to no avail. References: the computer is an iMac 2009 running OS X 10.7.5 Lion no Recovery partition or capabilities Other notes: When I run the fsck -fy command in single-user mode, the computer returns: /dev/rdisk0s2 Root file system Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~34). Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. Invalid B-tree node size (3, 0) The volume could not be verified completely. /dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
Every month I usually give a go to Onyx so I repair all permissions and such. Every time I do that, I get that I need to repair the Disk and I end up having to boot with the single user (in which I see a hint of an error but goes quickly) and then use the fsck -fy command. After a couple of runs it gets solved and everything seems ok.
Here's my hardware setup : I'm connected to the TL-WR1043ND via WiFi, and here are my pings : Ping to modem Ping to router
This is actually my second post on this topic: Reviving white macbook (Early 2009)
IMovie is mostly a 'canned' software, I am limited to presets for the most part. I understand that there are a few workarounds to adding custom effects (creating 2d video with green background, or images with opacity etc.); however, I would like to create custom transitions/titles/filters that are recognized by iMovie and treated the same as built-in effects. I am exploring a few options:
I've been using Time Machine to backup my MacBook Pro to my local OS X Server for years, but I recently started getting errors when attempting to backup. When running either an automatic or manual backup, I receive notification that the system couldn't complete the backup. After examining Console logs I'm seeing the following error from the NetAuthSysAgent process: Additionally, the com.apple.backupd process is reporting an authentication error, and hints at System keychain problems: I've confirmed that a keychain item exists in the System keychain for this connection, and that the keychain item should be functional (its type is Time Machine Password, it contains the correct password; Access Control for the item is always allowed for NetAuthSysAgent).
Here's my situation: I ssh into a server running OS X, and from that remote shell I want to perform pushes and pulls (via ssh) for a git repository whose local copy exists on this server and whose origin is on another server out in the internet. (In this specific case it's a bitbucket repo.) I have generated an ssh public/private key pair with a passphrase on the server and uploaded the public key to bitbucket.
First I should note that I'm usin macOS Sierra (version 10.12 beta 16A238m), but I don't think it's that different than El Capitan in this certain situation (but I guess you know more than I do about that, or I wouldn't be here right now asking this question). So I installed GDB (The GNU Debugger) for following among a book I am currently reading ("Hacking: The Art of Exploitation"), which only explains how to use GDB, so I can't use LLDB. I installed it using Homebrew (brew install gdb), and everything worked fine. Until I used it. I compiled my C source code using clang -g hello_word.c -o hello_world (it's just a simple C "Hello, World!" program), and then I run gdb -q hello_world, and here's the session:
The standard, non-beta El Capitan installer corrupts the HFS+ superblock, and states that it cannot fix the hard drive and cannot continue with installation. (The repair tools won't fix the hard drive even in single user mode.)
I've used Erase phone on 'Find My iPhone' through iCloud's web. Is there a way except iTunes/iCloud backup to retrieve the lost files? (Images)
Some software running on Windows 10 requires me to have OpenGL 2.0. I'm running Windows 10 in VirtualBox, which is on El Capitan. How do I install OpenGL 2.0?
Let's say I lost my phone. If the person that finds that phone wants to return it, how would they be able to locate me? How to display my contact details and/or a custom message on the lock screen? Are there other ways to tag the phone with your details in case such event takes place? Assume the person that finds it knows how to use a smartphone but is not a tech expert.
OK, I admit a 5.5+ yr old MacBook Air is a bit dated, but I am not overloading it. Nonetheless, the constantly spinning fans are more than a bit of an annoyance. However, I do want to understand why it is behaving this way.
I know there are similar questions on the site, but I'm not quite seeing an answer that works for my network. I work in a hospital, and we have a guest network that uses a captive portal forcing the user to accept terms before use. On iOS devices, this network connects without issue. The Apple Captive Network Assistant (or whatever its equivalent on iOS is called) pops up and shows the portal page.
I have two recent Airport Extremes and a Netgear router (with wifi turned off). I'd like to connect one of the Airports to the Netgear via ethernet, and have that Airport provide a wifi network called ALPHA. Then I'd like to use the second Airport to extend the ALPHA network such that the extended wifi is named BRAVO. I've looked at the Airport Utility and I get the impression that if an existing Airport wifi network is extended using a second Airport, the extension wifi will have the same name as the source wifi from the first Airport: that is, ALPHA with no option to use the name BRAVO.
I know that I can record the phone's screen, but I want to record my phone audio too. I prefer for it not to hear the sounds around me (due to my house being loud).
So I was sharing an iCloud's account with person I know and lately I took some photos which I later regretted taking. So I deleted them immediately from my iPhone and I deactivated my iCloud photo library, my photostream and my iCloud photo sharing. Then, I logged out and made my own new account. I am worried that this person has access to my photos even though I deleted them, because I know it's possible to recover deleted photos from iCloud.
I've been looking at this command: But it seems there's no way to access the variables/settings inside it?
I have an external drive that is basically completely screwed. It’s just for backups, and I have redundant backups, so I don’t care about losing the data, I just want to completely format it and get it working again. (I highly doubt it is a physical issue with the drive) This is basically the state the drive is in now: The drive has two partitions One partition will mount, but cannot be unmounted, even forcing through Terminal The other partition will never mount Whenever the drive is connected, Disk Utility will stop working
the keyboard backlight isn't turning on. I tried to unplug and plug the cable over and over again, but nothing happened.
I need to "find and replace" text in a PDF file on OS X Yosemite. It would be better if there was a "replace all" feature. How can I do this on OS X?
I love Time Machine's functionality. However, I just hate that while the GUI is displayed, I cannot do anything else. It's slow. Slowness is more or less* understandable, given I am using it over Wi-Fi, but it takes fullscreen and defeats multitasking. So I am looking for a way to either force it to a window re-enable Spaces when it is on screen (as it disables it, for some change reason)
Maps for my area has not been updated and is missing some major highway additions. I'm currently using Google as a substitute but its not as integrated into iOS.
I used a Mac from about 2008 to 2012. I uploaded .pages files on to Dropbox and have since lost access to this Mac, but I have access to the Dropbox where the files are. I am currently using Windows 10 and would like to read these on my Windows machine.
Unable to delete application in iphone5s. There is no 'x' when the icon jiggles. I was able to delete previously until today (17-Jul-16). There was no apps update failure or IOS update failure. IOS version 9.3.2.
I have many many photos on a very old version of iPhoto (pre 9.0) that's proving a pain to upgrade into Apple Photos on El Capitan. Question is - can I simply copy the "Originals" and "Modified" folders that are inside the iPhoto Library out into the Pictures directory itself, and then import these into Apple Photos directly? EDIT
I just need to know if there's a way to update Xcode from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1 using terminal (command line interface)? The reason is I updated the Xcode via Mac App Store and once it was installed, the Xcode is still showing the version as Xcode 7.2.1. I've been searching here as well as over Google and I couldn't find any info regarding this.
I am backing up my hdd with the Time machine. Even small incremental backups take several hours. For an hour or so I am in the state "50.3 MB of 496.3MB", while in Activity Monitor I notice that mds_stores has accumulated already over 116 GB data read, and it increases by about 50 MB/s. My Hdd is this new pcie-sdd type, so it should be efficient with this sort of backup. Moreover in Console it is written that about 2300 files constitute this 0.5 GB of backup. I am backing up to external usb Toshiba drive.
When I turned my computer on this morning this is the message I received: This is very concerning to me since I can't think of any reason this should happen. I do not understand any of the answers I have read while do a search. I have not done anything complicated nor do I have a WiFi along with an Ethernet connection - only a WiFi connection.
I boot an iMac 5k from a MacBook Pro drive using Target Disk Mode. This is great except all the credentials for iCloud, Adobe, and Microsoft get erased when switching "host" computer. The volume on the MBP is encrypted. Is there a way to not lose my credentials when sharing a boot drive like this? It's frustrating to open my MBP up later and have to log into everything again, especially since some apps don't work until validated by iCloud/iTunes.
I have a 2014 MBP, and I'm trying to set it so I can charge my phone off the USB. I know it's 3.0 because it is capable of 1000mA in this cropped screenshot of my System Information: But it's claiming it's only requested 500mA which I know is BS because my phones says "Charging Slowly" Apple hates Google, idgaf, is there a way I can control the Current Required or Extra Operating Current or something?
Is it possible to turn Bluetooth off when connecting Apple Magic Keyboard over Lightning cable? I would like to use it in wired mode and don't want to empty and charge the battery all the time. Furthermore it would reduce electric smog. Does the keyboard keep broadcasting Bluetooth when wired, or does it disable the keyboard's Bluetooth?
I want to buy a iPad mini 2 and I'm searching about it. Actually I'm confused. Somewhere people call it just "iPad mini 2" and somewhere else "iPad mini 2 with retina display" ..!
Suddenly the most recent message in Mail is at the bottom of the list instead of the top. How do I change the ordering of messages? I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5, Lion.
If i close my Macbook Pro laptop whilst it's connected to an external monitor of lesser resolution, will I have more CPU processing power as it's pushing fewer pixels?
After three days I'm throwing in the towel on this one. Have an LG 27MB85R-B Monitor. Macbook Pro circa 2013. I first used an HDMI cable which worked fine, but I kept getting the Change Resolution message, plus the monitor has a MiniDP input, so I ordered a MiniDP-MiniDP cable. The color is beautiful and the resolution crisp and clear.
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 that crashes during startup after the chime and once in a blue moon gets as far as the login screen before crashing. Crashes during safe reboot or recovery reboot too Hardware test from original cd works but finds nothing wrong Smc reset changes nothing I have another 2009 MacBook Pro and on interchanging them the following parts work fine Hard drive Logic board MagSafe port Heatsink Fan Sata cable Battery Ram Any ideas for tests or parts to check that might be able to crash the whole computer during startup would be appreciated!
I clicked on resume download a hundred times, but it still shows up like the picture ("Waiting"). It's been like that for hours. I tried downloading the 10.11.5 Combo Update but I was told I needed 10.11.x to install it. So I downloaded the earliest combo update I could find for 10.11.x, which is 10.11.1, and I got the same message, that I need 10.11.x to install. How can I upgrade?
It is a latest model of airport time capsule, the lan speed is quite slow, the speed from macbook to airport disk is 20~25MB. And the speed between the connected macbook and another client is 8~12MB. Both the connections are 802.11ac，and Tx rates both are 300~800MB.
I am trying to create a bash script that automates all parts of a .dmg/pkg software install. For example, the script should pull the installer from here: *=URL=* It should pull the installer from online, run the installer, automatically proceed past all the user prompts, and run root so the user should just have to run the script. Is there anyway to make the snag it installer proceed without human interaction and finish the installer via this script? This is the script I have so far:
Is there a way to zoom in/expand/enlarge part of my Mac's screen to fill the entire screen? Basically, I'm looking for an app that allows you to select a part of the screen and that will then expand that part of the screen all the way to cover the full screen. So if I have a monitor that measures 1366x768 and I select a part of the screen that is 500X300 it will then enlarge that small part to cover the full available screen real estate.
I'm trying to update my apps on my phone but it isn't working at all. So I tried to uninstall my messenger 2 days ago and install it again but I can't install it I don't know why. It always shows that "waiting" it isn't even loading. Now I don't have messenger Pls help. Thanks
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina 13'', End of 2013) and I have Fedora Linux installed. Everything worked fine, until I got "display stains" and the local Apple Store exchanged the display for free.
It just shows error "The Apple TV software update center could not be contacted. The requested resource was not found." Is there anything I can do to fix it?
It's insane that in 2016 we still have to do with this, but since upgrading to El Capitan, previous solutions don't seem to work for me anymore. This is what I've tried. silence.sh
I followed what reported on Use Handoff in Chrome for iOS to use Handoff to be able to use Handoff with Google Chrome between my iPad and my Mac Mini. I connected both devices to the same Wi-Fi network I signed in to iCloud with the same account on both devices I turned on Bluetooth and paired both devices I turned on Handoff I enabled Handoff on Google Chome, which is the default browser on my Mac.
However, before I could implement what is detailed there, I had temporarily had to move from my normal work desk to another room but same network. Then realised…my battery life improved enormously!! Then it hit me that the only difference was that in my normal place I connected to the internet via cable and in the new place was I using WiFi.
I've been trying xonsh and I don't get used to it, so I would like to uninstall it given that I need to work. How can I get back to my previous (default) terminal configuration?
I am developing an website for client, the website is mobile responsive say www.myresponsivewebsite.com. The client want to bundle this website as a iOS application using the UIwebview and load the website when the App opens. Now according to the Apple review guidelines *=URL=* says
Is it fine if i go and update my phone to iOS 9.3.2? I am using iPhone 4s. I don't know if it's fine to update it or not. Cause I see lots of people not updating there's
I would like to replace the 2x8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 of soldered memory in my 15" 2013 MacBook Pro with some faster RAM. Is this MacBook Pro compatible?
Around 2010, my boss purchased a Mac mini Server with 10.6. (Macmini3, 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM) This server was retired last week. Is the Server License (unlimited client) eligible to upgrade to a new release of OS X (Mavericks or Yosemite) or do I have to buy a new license?
If I delete a picture on my iPad mini, it also deletes that picture on my iPhone too. I want to remove a lot of photos on my iPad mini and only my iPad mini.
Holding down ⌥ (option) so that I get the "Detect displays" button and clicking it does not change anything. However, if I change the Scaled resolution to anything else (say, 2560x1080) and back to 3440x1440 or "Default for display", then the underscan goes away:
I'm running OS X 10.11.5, and try to start Microsoft Lync 2011. When trying to start the Lync application, it directly just exits. I see following log messages:
I am a student who is looking to buy a Macbook. My budget is 1200 USD. I will be using it for programming mostly. I came across 2 laptops: Air:
The Wi-Fi where I work is spotty at times and spotty in certain locations (like where my cube is :-( ). I won't get into why it's still like this after months of complaining but I want to use the USB Ethernet at my desk since it's more reliable and then fail over to Wi-Fi if I unplug the USB to go to meetings or something.
Is it possible to jailbreak an iPad 1 on a PowerPC? I've tried Greenpois0n on PowerPC, but for some reason that doesn't work, so is there any other software I can use? (iPad is running iOS 5)
My wi-fi connect button seems to have greyed out. Last time this happened the provider replaced the phone with a refurbished phone but it's not an option anymore as the phone is no longer under warranty. Is there a way to have internet on my phone without using wi-fi?
Now when we turn on Mac of my friend while pressing Alt , I can see the icon to install Yosemite. So I click on that and continue first steps like language without error, but after 2 or 3 steps I received error
If someone steals my computer, if they have my account password they have access to the disk whether or not I've encrypted it. So what's the advantage of using FileVault in this case ? Dupe vote update: The linked question explains how it loads without asking for the password, but doesn't answer the question as to what's the advantage of using FileVault if all I need is my user password to access the disk ?
I have a UPS system setup connected to my MacBook Air's dock at home. Whenever I look to check for the percentage of battery remaining on my MacBook Air (when not plugged in), it shows the percentage remaining on my UPS instead of my MacBook Air. Is there a way to change this to show my MacBook Air's battery instead?
How would I open Terminal using BetterTouchTool? I tried using predefined action: open application, but I can't seem to find the Terminal app.
does anyone know if it is possible to download El Capitan directly, as opposed to going through the App Store? I'd like to be able to upgrade, but App Store is blocked on my machine.
I accidentally deleted some certificates from the Keychain Access application and I think they were somehow related to WiFi networks. Now everytime I try to join a network that uses PEAP authentication, it tells me to Accept the certificate (no password to unlock). I looked at Why does OS X repeatedly prompt for certificate trust when joining WPA2 Enterprise WiFi and added all the certificates as trusted, but that doesn't help.
How would I detect what my computer's battery percentage is using applescript? All answers to similar questions say to install additional software, but I would like to do this with purely applescript. Is this possible? I've also tried searching through the applescript library with no success.
So for a month or so my MB has been considerably slow at booting. I tried the OS X hardware test, and the results were fine. Could this be a problem of the hard drive or battery? I don't know.
when I move the mouse from my secondary display (the asus monitor) to my macbook, it gets stuck. I think the mouse can only move when you are in the resolution area of the macbook. So I have to move the mouse in the center of the screen and only then I can move it to the macbook.
So, in an attempt to take proper ownership of some files that somehow got set to read-only inside a subdirectory of my home directory, I ran the following command within that directory: sudo chown -R <myusername> / Now, what I meant to do is this: sudo chown -R <myusername> . (and what I should have done is noticed that I already owned the files, and I just needed to chmod the permissions, but I'm really tired today and I don't have a time machine to fix my dumb mistake) I realized my mistake after it took more than a few seconds to complete (not a lot of files were in that directory, so it should've been nearly instant) and killed it with Ctrl-C, but I now see a number of files in my filesystem root that my user owns, which I don't think used to be that way.
For example, in the Apple Music "For You" section, I start playing one of the suggested playlists. While that is playing, I am browsing around in Apple Music looking at other things (but still listening to the original playlist).
I have two partitions on my MAC both formatted as Mac OS Extended but only one has macOS on it. When I start the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows 10 I get the following message:
My question is simple, does send last location work even when location services are off? What are the minimal settings one needs to make it work? Currently this is what I have: Location services are always off; iCloud sync is off except for find my iPhone; In Settings > iCloud > Find my iPhone: Find my iPhone is enabled; Send last location is enabled; Find my iPhone is enabled; Send last location is enabled; Bluetooth is off; Cellular network is usually on only when I'm outside; and Wi-Fi is usually on only when I'm inside. Related Update: With the above settings, namely with location services off and the cellular network on, I enabled lost mode via iCloud and, because there is an Internet connection: the iPhone automatically enabled location services showing its location on the iCloud map; and iCloud sent me an email with the approximate location of the iPhone. This means one can have location services off, knowing that should the need arise the device can still be found as long as it
So I've been installing and uninstalling windows 7 and windows 10 since it came out on my iMac for a long time! My iMac does not have a dvd drive because I took it out. I've been installing windows 7 and 10 from a bootable usb stick for years
I configure the powerline theme on OSX like zsh vim and emacs But it has a strange colour in the ">" character
I frequently used album ratings in iTunes in the past, but it seems in iTunes 12.2, these ratings have been replaced by the heart for Apple Music. In list view an option for 'Album Rating' is still available but uneditable, while in grid view, which I prefer there is no visible rating for either the songs or albums. Is there any way to bring the ratings back??
I'm trying to run a package installer from terminal and have it complete with limited interaction from the user. This will need to be ran on any computer. The bash script I have so far is: It will not complete and I am getting the following error: installer: Can't load package "/Users/username/Desktop/test.pkg": The requested URL was not found on this server.
I recently installed a new SSD on my old MacBook Pro - replacing the HDD. It's running El Capitan. After installing the new drive, I booted from my SuperDuper clone, formatted the new internal SSD to be Mac OS X Journaled, and restored the files from the backup to the new SSD using SuperDuper.
There are buttons in the Starbucks app on iOS for redeeming free apps and if I long press on the button, it shows a URL like ua://75A6A5DC-D3BE-4056-9482-CEBCD5493F98. However, I don't know how to use the URL if I copy it. Safari won't navigate anywhere if I paste it in the address bar and press Go. If I just tap the button in the Starbucks app, it takes me to the App Store and automatically begins to redeem an app (presumably using a code embedded in, or retrieved from, the ua:// URL, but I'm not sure on that—just my hypothesis).
I got a new phone yesterday, and restored it from my recent iCloud backup and have all my apps etc... but I haven't got my photos!! How do I get them???
The question title says it all, really. I upgraded my SSD and now I don't have a disk to boot from except OS X Recovery. I have both Internet connection and a USB drive from which I can install a clean copy but I would prefer not doing so unless it is necessary because that usually takes a lot of time. When I try restoring from a Time Machine backup it says "Searching for Time Machine backups..." although my backup drive is connected.
I have an iMac20 with OS 10.6.8 and an external hard drive. It appears that recently the Trash has an large amount of items. When I try to use Secure Empty Trash it counts the number of items to be deleted, then starts the deletion process and fails after a short time.
When sending mail from shell, e.g., echo '123' | mail -s 'subject' name@mail.com The recipient gets an email from "my-local-username@my-machine-name.local", e.g., "bob@macbook.local" How can I change this to an email address of my choosing?
I am looking for a way to make my iPhone look 'battery dead' with no practical short-term means of bypassing. Is there a way to make it? Even hardware modifications or putting something into the lightning connector (maybe to trigger something that doesn't cause permanent damage) are okay for me (as long as it doesn't involve breaking something permanently).
I need to install software but I don't understand how to do so. I have downloaded a file which contains 5 files which includes a Unix Executable file which when I open displays this: One of the files describes how to install the program..but I don't understand how to interpret these instructions... Any help would be very much appreciated! Installation Instructions for Casper 2/09/2009
I used the "rolling eyes" emoji available in my iOS keyboard in a social media post, but was dismayed to find that it isn't available on my Chrome on windows 7 computer. While I could install fonts/extensions/etc to "fix" the problem on my computer's end, I actually want all my social media audience (such as it is) to enjoy all of my posts. Is there a list or resource that shows which iOS emoji's are available broadly on windows 7+ and osx with IE, Chrome, and Firefox, and on iOS 5+ and Android 4+? If not, can we make one here in a single wiki style answer?
So I guess I can use it to extend the length of the MagSafe power cable? But how? I see no holes that fit it! Also, I got this:
I just re-downloaded El Capitán off of the App Store for the purposes of transferring it to another machine via USB. When it was done downloading, it automatically launched the installer asking me to click on continue to start installing El Capitán. I do not wish to reinstall, so I quit the installer, but now I cannot find it. Where would the App Store have downloaded it to?
As Apple suggests I updated my OS and after restart it seems to get slow as it keeps showing busy cursor. Caps lock working properly. I just can't use cursor to select anything. How can I sort this out or how do I revert to old version? My old version was 10.10.2 and now .5
I have an iPad Pro 12.9 and an iPhone 6s, both have "hey siri" enabled, along with dictation. However I can't get the offline dictation to show up. I initially thought it was because I live in Italy (but I have everything set to US English), so I tried wiping the iPad and just setting up everything without logging in to any Apple account. I set the location to USA and the language to US English, but I still can't get offline dictation. Any suggestions?
Good day everyone. For only 1 hour (!) I used my relatives iPhone with my sim card and that's it, he keeps receiving all of my iMessages. I tried checking in iTunes all devices associated with my account and his device is not listed. I tried to log in and log out to/from iMessage on his phone with his apple ID, still won't help. How can I stop this nightmare!? When I go to iMessage settings>Send & Receive on his device, there is only my phone number listed, how do I remove it without smashing phone to the wall?! Thanks and have a great day
Alice and Bob share a computer. They both have email accounts in Mail. Charlie sends an email to them both: To: Alice Cc: Bob Alice gets it and hits "Reply All" and Mail opens a new message composition window: To: Charlie
I have a late 2013 MacBook Air, and I've noticed that my WiFi connectivity seems to work much better when the laptop is plugged in, or when the laptop is at full battery. I recently lost my WiFi due to construction, and I've been using my neighbors WiFi (I have permission to of course), however due to the fact that it's a house away, nothing but my most powerful WiFi enabled devices can connect. For instance, laptops can connect, but my first gen Roku and cell phone cannot maintain connections. I've noticed that when my battery gets low (30%ish) the WiFi seems to have problems loaded video streams and web pages, but when the laptop is plugged in, or at full battery, the WiFi works flawlessly! What could be the reason for this?
I am using Yosemite I tried to upgrade its version and I started seeing busy cursor. I then tried to run in safe mode and since then not booting up. Verify and repair disk failing too. For safe mode I press shift key in start. What do I do now? Right now I don't have startup disk either
My MacBook sometimes can't connect to the internet. Chrome displays "Resolving host" but a web page doesn't appear. Safari also doesn't work. Interestingly, sometimes Google seems to work as the only web page (also auto complete in Google). After some time (or sometimes when I call "dscacheutil -flushcache") it works for a few minutes and then the issue occurs again.
Using Chart in Numbers how can I reverse the plot values on the X axis of a scatter plot? I have searched Numbers Help to no avail.
I am trying to understand what all this means. This is one of the many different files in Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data that I have found on my phone. If someone can please explain what some of this means, I would appreciate it.
I have an iPhone 6 with the iOS 9.3.2, actually I didn't update my iPhone from an older iOS version. Anyway, I realized that I can't connect to any Wi-Fi network unless I am very close to the router. Today at McDonald's everyone could connect to the Wi-Fi but I couldn't because I couldn't even find it In Pokemon GO I can't get any GPS signal while playing and Google Maps is considered slow. My mom's iPhone 4S connects to the Wi-Fi from very far away.
I am a new apple user and I just signed in to iCloud. I see some strange values in my setting page.
I am trying to help someone recover data from a non-functional MBP (it was dropped). I have the internal drive mounted in a sled and connected to another MBP via USB. I can boot off of the drive holding the Option key and get the login screen but, as the password is unknown, I need to boot the drive into the external drive's recovery partition, open up the Terminal and execute the resetpassword command. How can I do this?
I am just starting to work with XCode and I am kind of lost. I am working on an iOS app and I want to add a friend who will help me to develop the app.
I am developer and I'm trying to simulate a different location other than my own on Safari on OS X (El Capitan). How do I do that?
I have an iMac that shipped with 16GB RAM (using 2 out of 4 slots). I ordered two 16GB RAM modules from OWC. Instead of just replacing the RAM, can I actually add the OWC RAM to what's already in there? Will this cause problems, mixing the two brands?
So one night I finished editing a video and I was so excited that I got up and realised the hard disk was still connected to my Macbook Air. When I stood up, the hard disk was hanging on the Macbook Air for one second. When I realised the hard disk was hanging, I quickly sat down and moved the hard disk to an appropriate position. The hard disk was working for 10 mins and then I accidentally put my hand and applied a bit of pressure on top of the hard disk and heard a crackling noise. Since then,it just stopped working. So I force quit all my programs and when I tried to connect to my hard disk to my Macbook Air, an error pop up saying "hard disk not readable.". I tried to connect the hard disk with a different USB cable but the problem was still not solved. I believe I may have corrupted my hard disk and I hope I'm able to repair it and get my files back. I read online that many people are also experiencing this issue with WD's hard disk. I also tried to use 3rd party recovery softwar
Unfortunately Stash got removed from the iOS App Store, but I need to transfer it from my iPad onto my new iPhone. How can I do that? If I'm right first I need to download it and install it with iFunBox. Where does the iTunes store the ipa files when I do a manually backup?
I am setting up a 1TB Mac Mini server running OS X 11 and the latest OS X Server app in my office and have a few questions. This server will serve as a remote Xcode build machine for a small handful of developers (some in the office and some in other states), NetInstall, and Open Directory mostly. File sharing and other services may come later. I want this server to be accessible without too much authentication to people in the office, and I want to make sure that this server is visible to the outside world but only for those people that have credentials to it (ideally access via VPN login).
Bitcoin links are formatted beginning with bitcoin: followed by a bitcoin address and optionally more information. On my Mac, the Bitcoin-QT program is the default one to open when I click such links. I wish to change it to the Electrum client.
She said his friend can jail break. So I let her have it.
I have a Mac mini that is on my network but not connected to any displays or input devices. It's running El Capitan.
Last month my iphone 5s 16 Gb (iOS 9.3.2) says that it has no free space. Even after I delete some music, on the next day I can get this message again. When I go to Settings > General > Usage > Storage and iCloud I can see the following numbers: used 11.6 Gb free 0 B But if I go to "manage" and manually count all numbers for shown apps and used space, I'll get 6.8 Gb. The question is simple: where is rest of the storage space and how can I get it back?
I got a new iPhone today to replace my broken one and I am trying to restore the backup from iTunes. I had around 50Gb of content in my old phone. The remaining time to finish the backup started in 2 hours, and is steadily increasing (to about 27 hours at the time of this post). Is there something wrong with my system?
I have a big pile of pdf's and I would like to batch rename them by content. (They are all searchable). And I'd like to do so using command line interface. They are all payslips so they have a constant form, and I'd like to rename by date. Currently they are named: payslip100 .. payslip308 The string for renaming would be the date component in Payment Date: 15/4/2016 I have installed pdfgrep using home-brew and am searching using pdfgrep -HC 15 "Payment Date:" paySlip.pdf which returns paySlip.pdf:Payment Date: 8/7/2016 I have attached my final working code in a reply.
On my home machine (which is still on Mavericks) I can load mission control and move multiple windows from a single app by dragging the app icon (instead of the individual windows) to another work space. This icon is not available in El Capitan, is there another way I can do this or at least a work around for it?
I set ~/.bash_profile some time ago to have more than 500 lines length but seems system can't catch this. Do you know why?
I defined a tab stop in the ruler  And I would like to enter a tab character to move the cursor to the tab stop. With older versions it was possible to enter special characters with insert symbol but I don't find the special characters anymore:
I wanted to export the SMS, picture, video from non-jailbroken device using programmatically or using ideviceinstaller. someone kindly help on this to accomplish this task Thanks in advance
I defined a shortcut for opening a Terminal, but it isn't working. Any ideas?
I used to be able to cd into aliases with my Mac. Today I was messing around with ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile to make PostgreSQL work. After I restarted my computer it stopped cd'ing to aliases and after some research I figured I was not supposed to be able to do that from the beginning.
When I double-click on the home button it shows all the opened apps. In the latest version of IOS, the apps are overlaid onto one another. Swiping left or right is so fast that it makes it hard to really stop on the right app to close it. Maybe it's just me :)
How can you drag thumnails around in Finder so that they can't overlap other thumbnails. Even when "Snap To Grid" is set, thumbnails just snap on top of other ones. I don't quite know how this would even be useful. What I'd like is the typical thing where as you drag it to a spot it opens a hole in the grid for it to be and everything to the right of it is shifted over
I created an automator workflow and saved it as a workflow. When I test it from within automator, the workflow works. But when I try to run it from the command line (automator path/to/workflow), I get the following: No application name for definition at URL file:///Library/Automator/Office.definition/ Failed to load definition at URL file:///Library/Automator/Office.definition/ No application name for definition at URL file:///Library/Automator/Office.definition/
I would like to enable repeated audible alerts of new SMS messages on an iPhone 6. Specifically, I want the alert to be repeated indefinitely until I read the message. This is because it is inconvenient for me to carry my phone with me around the house, but it is important for me to hear an alert when I return -- perhaps an hour or later -- to the room in which my phone is stored.
How can I set up my iPhone 6 to automatically forward incoming SMS messages to my email address (or addresses)? Is it possible to restrict this automatic forwarding to a particular set of senders, e.g., automatically forward only SMS messages from Bob and Charlie?
I have been having some terrible issues with my MacBook Pro Retina in that it randomly shuts down within 5 minutes of booting up. I seem to have isolated a problem free environment to safe mode immediately after booting up. (i.e. the problem exists when in "normal" boot, as well as in safe boot when the computer had previously gone to sleep.) Since I know the problem is started when the computer wakes up from sleep in safe mode, is there somewhere I can check to see which programs are only run then and not when the machine boots up?
I have upgraded my MBP from 4GB (2x2GB) to 16GB (2x8GB) SO-DIMMs. After upgrading it keeps restarting continuously. Here is the new RAM detail: Kingston Mac Memory 8GB DDR3L-1600(PC3-12800) SO-DIMM 1.35V (KTA-MB1600L/8G). This screen appears before restarting:
Nevertheless, it periodically downloads months and months of Podcasts that I haven't heard. In the process, it fills up my iPhone.
I had a serious failure on a 2TB external HDD this week. Yosemite says the drive is "not readable by this computer." Oh well, it happens to all HDDs sooner or later. Even though the contents could be re-downloaded from the internet, I decided to run Disk Drill to see how much I could recover. What seems strange to me is that Disk Drill says it has "reconstructed" 2.4 TB of files. While the HDD only has 2 TB capacity.
These two lines work fine as expected. first one to screen, second to file.
How can I stop the browser(s) in iOS 9 on my iPad from restoring the last session when I open them? When I'm browsing, I generally stay in Safari until I'm done. I then double press the home button, and swipe up on Safari to close it. But next time I open Safari, it starts loading my tabs from when I closed it. How can I stop this? I just want it to open the new tab page and that's it. I've tried installing Chrome & FireFox and they both do the same thing as Safari. Alternatively, is there another browser that will do this?
Can't find the setting to change the side switch functionality from 'Ringer/Silent' to 'Mute/Orientation lock'. If this functionality has been removed, is there any way to use the side switch to mute my app sound?
If I open a .plist file in TextEdit, all the properties with type "data" are displayed in Base64 encoding, for example <data>SGFja2ludG9zaA==</data>. Xcode shows these values in some other format, like <54657374 56616c75 65>. What is this format called, and how can I convert it to ASCII?
I'm currently making a workflow in which I need to combine two windows into a split view window (the feature from OS X El Capitan). I'd there any way to do that with AppleScript?
I have a Mac Pro 3.1 with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 video card which I need to replace. As I don't know much about video card specs: what do I need to look out for when searching for a replacement?
I created a Bash script that should be able to be ran on any machine. The problem I'm having it'll only run in terminal. When a user double clicks the script, some users have it open up in iTerm, and some in Xcode in read view. Any idea how to have it execute in these programs or make it only specific to terminal?
We have a Virgin Media cable provider and most of our neighbours are Sky or BT. All available networks appear in the drop-down on the top menu and indicate if they are secure or not. Ours is the strongest signal, yet repeatedly it is pushed to the bottom of this list and my Mac tries to join a BT one. I want to just remove all these BT and Sky Wi-Fis so the Mac always defaults to our provider and never tries to connect to them, but solutions supplied elsewhere don't apply.
Constant wi fi drop out only on my Macbook pro retina (late 2013) with el capitan installed. My imac is not affected, nor any other appliance using the wifi in our house. Can anyone help? Will the solution posted previously about similar problem with Yosemite work for El Capitan? Thanks in adavance
Yesterday i received an automatic mail for apple thanking me to have contacted the support and there was a practice ID and my mail. The problem is that i never contacted the apple support, so i further investigated it by going to the apple support practices website, inserted the ID and the mail and that showed me that someone has contacted the support asking for something about an iPhone 4 update, and on the field "Your contact info" there was my surname but a different name.
In El Capitan, is there a way to separate the request for password when the computer wakes from sleep from the request for password for stopping the screensaver? See System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General tab: checkbox for "Require password after sleep or screen saver begins." I would like to keep the password request after the computer wakes from sleep, but I don't want a password to stop the screensaver.
I am usually inserting return character within event I enter in Calendar on OS X. Most notably to separate key informations, for example hour of a meeting start, and the title of the meeting (when time is required to prepare it and to arrive to the location of the meeting):
I've recently started using an Apple TV 3rd gen. It's mainly a way to broadcast Spotify and Netflix from my phone. One thing that is starting to bug me a bit is the fact that, when I start playing a song via Airplay, it takes several minutes for the Apple TV to switch from the homescreen to full-screen album cover display.
I've uninstalled my former default text editor which I used for many different file formats. Unfortunately the associated icons are not removed automatically. As a result, several file types still use the icon of the program, even though it's not on my machine anymore.
I have a couple of apps that I use and when I leave them they always lose context. Eg. I use CityMapper and it AWLAYS refreshes when I go back to the app. I want my apps to behave like they used too ie if I am on a screen I want them to stay on that screen. Update: iPhone 6
Dropbox requests (though doesn't seem to require, i.e. it runs without) accessibility/control computer permission (under Security -> Privacy).
Related question I have configured some text replacements in my local machine, via Preferences > Keyboard > Text, including a lot of code shortcuts, including shortcuts for my own developed system urls, that are not by-default suggested by Atom, such as:
Yes, this is asked a lot, but most people suggest deleting the app and re-installing it with your own Apple ID. I can't do that, because I have made serious progress and I lose it all if I do that. You can't connect to the app through Game Center etc, so I can't transfer data that way either. What can I do?
So from the Authority= lines I'd conclude that the certificate chain could be verified as well, and it does lead back to Apple. How is that “unidentified”? From this post I learned about spctl, but it doesn't provide much information either: How can I get more information as to why exactly the app fails to load?
I locked my MacBook to clean the keyboard. While cleaning I pressed a number of keys in a random way while the system was displaying the login screen. At a certain point I noticed a light-blue double frame around my account icon and its name.
I can successfully use Charles proxy for my iPhone device through internet sharing via wifi. I also successfully installed a SSL certificate on my device to decrypt secure traffic. When I activate HTTP proxy on my device as directed on the Charles proxy website everything works perfectly.
I have a home network made up of an AirPort Extreme and an AirPort Express that is set to extend the network. Currently, my iMac is connected wirelessly but I have the option to connect it via Ethernet which I would like to try out. My question is this: a number of features in iOS and OS X take advantage of the local wireless network (e.g., sending green bubble messages from the Mac through the phone, streaming audio through something like Airfoil, printing to a WiFi-aware printer). If I connect my iMac with a wired connection to the AirPort Extreme, will it still be able to participate in the local wireless action? If not, can I connect it through Ethernet for Internet access but leave the WiFi on just for the local stuff?
So far my searching has only turned up mainly issues with AD passwords, not the username. I did find the ADacctChange script from *=URL=* however the script would not work on my test Mac (both 10.10.5 and 10.11.4).
OS X version 10.10.5, running on an iMac with no problem (uptime = 101 days). I had an USB key, named "Free" mounted on /Volumes/Free. I wrote successfully a file on it, and verified it successfully with Disk Utility. Then I tried to eject it from the Finder. This operation fired the beach balloon but no message was written on /var/log/system.log. After a while the Finder displayed me an error message telling me my volume couldn't be ejected because in use.
I'm going to replace my iPhone 5c with another new one. What should I do to keep my contacts, events, notes, etc. and then restore it on the new iPhone? Should I just backup my phone with iTunes or something else?
I'm trying to put the downloaded content for Logic Pro X on an external hard drive. I created the appropriate folders on my external and put corresponding symbolic links in the appropriate applications support folders. If I try to download more content through Logic Pro X, will it get downloaded onto my MacHD or onto the external hard drive?
I have an Apple Airport Extreme WiFi router and three wireless clients (iPhone, MacBook Pro & iMac). The iPhone and a MacBook Pro are connected to the WiFi network and everything works fine. As soon as I join the WiFi with the iMac, all three lose Internet connectivity and the ping times for external sites go to ~100,000ms at which point the network becomes unusable.
Suppose I have a text object currently selected on a slide. I'd like a keyboard shortcut that lets me edit the text without erasing it, just like F2 does in the Microsoft world. Return is close: it enters text editing mode, but erases the contents of the text object. Anybody have any ideas?
My iPhone was stolen, what can I do to protect my data and get the phone back?
Does anyone have this unibody from mid-2009? Has anyone upgraded it to 16GB RAM? If so, is it good news? Thanks!
I have my security preferences set up to delay for 15 minutes after screen saver turns on and then ask for a password. (I use two computers and don't always notice right away when the screensaver turns on on my mac.) However, when I walk away from my mac, I would like to be able to hit a keyboard shortcut or use hot corners to require a password right away.
My iPhone 6S on IOS 9.3.2 has been set in iTunes so that it automatically backs up to iCloud. However it only backs up if I manually choose to do so from the iPhone. The phone is charged at night and has a working WiFi connection, it is running a sleep monitor app. Why is it not backing up and what do I need to do to make it do so?
Can I download some apps if Apple loans me an iPhone? Apple is repairing my iPhone so they loaned me a device to use while mine is being repaired.
This is specifically for the Writer, but if you want to add Spreadsheets too, I don't mind. I am trying to do things like indent/unindent from the keyboard. Couldn't find (very quick look) in the menu, so no shortcuts from there. I've looked at Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer which doesn't seem to care too much about Macs (no Apple command button mentions), but I have also noticed that
tldr; How far back does the TIFF exploit affect iOS and OS X legacy versions? I've found conflicting information regarding how far back the recently reported image exploit can affect both iOS and OS X versions. The blog at Talos suggests that "all previous versions" are vulnerable; while This Reddit thread says that the proof of concept TIFF "didn't visibly crash Safari" on iOS 8.4 (emphasis added). Obviously, the proof of concept TIFF may or may not match the exploit patched this week by Apple. And Apple is not likely to offer up information on older OS versions it considers to be EOL. So, the question is if there is a reliable place to provide info for both OS X and iOS legacy versions against this exploit? Various stats generally show that around 15% of iOS devices are still running 8.4 or earlier; and, there is also an enclave of people who won't (or can't) update their computers beyond 10.6.8 or 10.9.5 for example. A nicely referenced source regarding the vulnerability of these ol
Command line isn't properly running programs After trying to run a program on terminal it doesn't execute properly and just makes a new line with > at the start How can I fix this
I have joined my home WiFi network and I don't get Internet through it anymore. Phones and other computers have no issues, others who were here haven't changed anything or noticed any difference.
I've never seen this kind of thing before. I have a 32GB thumb drive, which I tried to put a Lenovo BIOS/firmware updater on. It didn't work out, so now I'm trying to format it, but I can't. Mac OS tells me the target disk is too small.
My work has me back on a Mac. I am using my mechanical keyboard (USB, Cherry blue switches, not that that's important) with OS X. The problem though, is that I get relatively frequent "bouncing" or "chatter" of the keystrokes. For example, if I type hello something like heello might appear. This is rather annoying, especially when entering passwords.
I have an iPhone SE running iOS 9.3.3. Once in a while, it seems like the screen doesn't automatically turn off when it should. It should auto-lock (screen turns off) after 3 seconds on a lock screen, 15 seconds if media is playing on the lock screen, or one minute (based on the settings) when the phone is in normal use, with the exception of playing media or something that would prevent the screen from shutting. It normally does this just fine, but not always.
I’m sorting through photos in iPhoto (version 9.6.1) on my Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) machine and just noticed this odd “palm tree” icon listed under “Recent” and utterly have no idea what it represents or means. In my case it’s showing exactly one—seemingly arbitrary—photo from March 7, 2016 and for the life of me I have utterly no idea why this would be the case; see screenshot below.
I wanted to do a clean install and booted from OS X recovery partition. In disk utility I selected "erase" option. SSD was working correctly before that.
Do we need to install antivirus in OS X? I'm using macbook Pro 13" currently. Which antivirus is recommended (and free)? Any other better way to protect information in OS X?
In OnyX, there is a setting in Parameters > General > Animated desktop background: where animated wallpapers can be set. While this doesn't seem to work very seamlessly (moving between spaces displays old wallpaper briefly etc.) and doesn't persist over restarts, I wonder how OnyX does this. Is there some hidden setting where one can do this without OnyX?
So recently I have been facing an issue where I cannot unlock my apple ID. Here how my process goes: Login to my apple ID/icloud from either web or my MBA I enter the username and password. I get a message saying I need to unlock my account Visit iforgot.apple.com to reset password/unlock account Enter email Asks me either the recovery key (which currently I'm unable to locate) or send a code to trusted device which I DO have access to! I have it send a code to a trusted device Enter CODE Asks me for my current password Here where things gets tricky, It tells me my password is incorrect.
After updating to El Capitan I discovered that I was no longer able to type circumflexes. Before I was able to enable the "International Extended" keyboard in settings. Now it seems to be replaced with "ABC Extended", which does not permit me to type circumflexes in the way that I was used to. How can I input circumflexes in El Capitan?
Is it possible to change AppleID on the iPhone I want to backup keeping all the stuff untouched to link it to new iCloud account? Or is there another way?
I am looking for a bash command to query my LDAPv3 server from the client side in order to find the current user's last logon time.
An app we're working on has a field to accept email addresses. For a screenshot, we want to show something in the field. Some concerns:
If on the other hand it is run from a .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons, it appears to hang at a particular step (which involves opening a file in a directory on the local machine) and become unresponsive. There is a calling program which sends instructions to the plugin and it just does not get a response from it.
I'm seeing a problem where I have multiple mouse cursors on certain parts of my screen or screen configurations. I've searched bug reports and haven't seen any mention of something similar, so I'm wondering if anyone has seen this problem before. I've tried: Restating the computer Updating the OS I'm hesitant to wipe and re-install everything... but that's my next step unless I can solve this annoying bug. When I take a screenshot, the second cursor disappears, so please excuse the phone photos. Pointer and I-bar on text input:
Sometimes, newly-copied apps (though a bash script) end up retaining the "circle with strike-through" on top of their icon, even after running them. Restarting the system fixes this issue.
I have an older Mac book that will not boot. I have tried all key commands including fcsk which resulted in a "mach kernel" end result, so nothing worked. I don't have a system install disk (bought used). I would like to try a disk utility fix. I'm not sure if I need the specific install disk for the precise model, or if a generic Snow Leopard install disk will allow my to try to repair the disk. Or would the Snow Leopard that came with my husbands later MacBook Pro work? Or do I need Disk Warrior 4? I will try to actually replace the hard drive if necessary but I would lose my data. This is my model: Apple MacBook 13-inch 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo (Mid 2009) MC240LL/A [Condition:Good][Memory:4GB (2x2GB PC2-6400)][Hard Drive:750GB Hard Disk Drive][Optical Drive:SuperDrive-DL
I am behind a router, with some windows users, and I noticed that their computers show up in my finder, under shared. I never closely examined this feature, but today I decided to connect as my user on the windows computers. What I noticed is a directory labeled Users popped up. Clicking on this, and then my user directory, I see the normal OS X user folder structure, but the files are the ones on the computer. This looks like FTP to me, but the windows computer has no special configuration, so I don't think that that's the case.
So, i'm in a (bit of) a pinch. I was doing a format/fresh install of MacOS on my old 13-inch 2009 MacBook Pro going through OS X Utility and Reinstall OS X. Unfortunately when i do enter my Apple credentials for autentication i get a loathsome "This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later" error. I've tried logging into iCloud as said in this thread *=URL=* but while i do log correctly i get the same error. Please bear in mind that:
I have a MacBook Air and a hard drive that is compatible. I have already moved all photos and videos from my computer storage to my harddrive so no issues there. My problem is that I can't figure out how to get all of my photos/videos from iCloud to my hard drive (there are a little over 6,000) because my computer is still telling me storage is full yet it's not. This is stopping me from being able to download any of the photos onto my computer and export them that way.
How do I switch iCloud accounts on a gifted imac desktop from son-in-laws to mine. It won't update because it says it is registered to another account. Son in law did give me his iCloud signin info. This is the first Mac I have ever owned so a lot out my experience.
The screenshot shows the common items to be inserted into a PowerPoint Presentation. Being on a Mac, of course we are handicapped on not having mnemonics support to perform the action by the keyboard. Or are there some shortcuts to do these?
The answer to iPhone - in-App purchase consumable correct approach on stackoverflow is very appealing for keeping track of consumables in the keychain. However, using the keychain for this purpose (not username/password), will it trigger the need to document export compliance?
The Photos app in OSX El Capitan can import Live Photos from my iPhone. But when I look in the folder where photos are stored, ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters, I don't see any videos there. (Under iPhoto, Live Photos were imported as separate video and audio files.) So where is the video piece stored?
I want to transform some data by doing (from Terminal) a Python command that runs on a single core only and doing something I expect to be CPU bound once data is pulled from disk and is accessible at memory speed, not SSD speed. I'll be a bit surprised if the calculation isn't enough to get the fans engaged and keep them engaged until the end is reached.
I would like to preview my experimental data stored as text files with specific extension in Finder. I mean I would like to see the experimental curve in Finder. Is it possible to do this by scripting or should I create an application? I'd appreciate if someone could help my with the easiest solution or give my the reference to some explanations or tutorials how to do it.
I have tried to repair permissions multiple times using Disk Utility.app and also using the command-line diskutil. I always get the same output, so apparently it's not fixing the problem. I've also tried running it from the Recovery partition, and get the same result.
In Preview, how can I see the suggested replacements noted by blue strikethroughs? Do I need adobe acrobat to view these?
I have 2 iphones and use 2 seperate Telegrams. The 2nd one is assigned to me by the external project phone I'm assigned to and that company uses Telegram extensively. There is 1000's of employees communicating in multiple groups. There's a lot of traffic. Current setup: Main account / OSX: Official OSX telegram.app Main account / iOS: Official iOS telegram.app 2nd account / OSX: Official Windows app running in an VMWare XP box 2nd account / iOS: iOS Anyways Messenger For the iPhone I could live with the Anyways Messenger even though it hasn't been updated for a long time and contains a lot of bugs.
I have a Late 2012 Mac mini. I want to replace the hard drive with a SSD. The computer place wants to charge $99 for installing the OS on top of the $129 for installing the new SSD. The tech said I can install the OS myself. Could someone please help me on how to do it so I can save $99?
I'd like to change the volume on iTunes from the keyboard at anytime, regardless what app is currently being used. I understand there are the keys at the top dedicated for system volume (this won't work for me) and that there are shortcuts within iTunes. I'd like something similar that is globally available, whether or not iTunes is my current app. Details on why I want this:
I want to send commands from TextWrangler to the terminal. Even if I found this, I don't understand how that works since I'm brand new to Unix and running Applescripts. I saved an Applescript that looks like this: Now, what I think is to put the script in the TextWrangler Scripts Folder: But then, how do I send commands to the Terminal.app? How can I press cmd + enter to send a line from TextWrangler to the Terminal?
When I plug my IE80 into my Macbook Air and play any audio, it has a hissing noise in the background. I tried the solution in How can I make my Macbook Pro's headphone jack stop "humming"? by changing audio MIDI setup and it did not work. So I am wondering whether there is some other ways to solve i
I received a response from a friend via iMessage asking if I were going to call this evening and whether I had fun? When I asked what they were talking about they stated it was in response to a conversation sent last week...they sent a screen shot and it appears as though (last weeks dates included) that my iPhone sent old messages, however those messages were not on my end. Is this possible?
I dropped my iPhone 6 today; even though there is no noticeable harm on the outside, my phone screen is completely broken. Actually, the phone does not even vibrate when I turn it on. The only reason why I know that it turns on (I think), is that my iTunes say "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone 'my iPhone' ... because the passcode is not entered." I have tried holding home + power button for zillion seconds, and it does not do anything for me. I think the display is really gone.
I have read the other articles with a similar issue but they don't have the exact same issue as I do, hence this post. The Wi-Fi on my macbook air keeps dropping intermittently but works perfectly fine on my Windows laptop and Android phones at the same time. I have been having this issue for over 4 months now. Note: The Wi-Fi bars at the top right corner remain the same but the internet stops working. Here are the details of my Macbook and router: 2011 Macbook Air with OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6 Router: D-Link model DIR 600M I have tried the below options but nothing worked: Formatting the system Upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan Changing the Wi-Fi router from Linksys to Dlink Deleting the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and restarting the computer Adding 8.8.4.4 to the DNS tab of the Advanced settings in Network Preferences
I downloaded xcode from the Mac App store on my home computer and it installed to around 11 GB on my applications folder. I tried copying the xcode app from the applications folder to my external hard drive where I was stopped mid-way and the error said some items can't be moved to due permission issues (that's not exactly what the error said but something like that). Is there any solution?
When entering calandar events on my calandar I sometime need to go back and see what date I made a call or went to an event. All entry's prior to today date have disappeared. How can I get back to previous events so I can see what day they happened?
I'm looking to install perf which is a kernel profiling tool for Linux. Basically I'm trying to trace all page faults, so I run equivalent of:
Since I bought a new iMac, this action moves every downloaded file to the specified folder (see picture). What is wrong?
I'm trying to reinstall OS X on my girlfriend's Mac and when I go to recovery menu and select to install OS X from the menu, the system proceeds to start download components, which fails. I've thought about using disk utility to delete the main drive and then mount a new one and try the OS X installation from the recovery menu again in hopes it just fails because there isn't enough space for the components. But I am afraid to try it because I worry the recovery image will be deleted as well and I won't be able to run the OS X reinstallation after I have deleted and recreated the main disk.
I am running the iOS 10 beta and there is roughly 6GB on my iPhone 6s that is currently documents & data and other. I want to get rid of it the simplest way possible. Under non-beta I could do a backup and restore. In beta, it doesn't seem as simple to restore the phone and free up all that space. Any thoughts? Thanks.
I have a document that was imported from Word into Pages a while back, it auto imported page numbers that are somehow magically not selectable. They are not in the main body and not in the footer. I have found an article on how to remove them in Pages 4 here: *=URL=* how do I do the same thing in Pages 5?
Is there a way to globally ignore folders with a certain name (say node_modules) I know I can do it manually for each instance but I was wondering if its possible to just let spotlight know not to index these folders? node_modules, for example, typically has thousands of files that I don't want to search and it ends up slowing down spotlight.
I have a number of processes that I need a Mac Mini to run with no input. One of these tasks is to take ingested video files, rename them and transfer them to another location.
This question is prompted by this question on Ask Ubuntu, but before I make myself look like an idiot, I should do better research. Basically, can an iPhone (5 or higher) be used as an external Bluetooth-enabled wireless hard drive for a computer that is running Linux? (As far as I know, having owned iPhones for the past 7 years, I don't believe you can out of the box, and the only other ways I know require a wifi network and a third party app that spawns an "HTTP/FTP" method of storing and reading files)
I find findmnt's output much easier for a quick scan of the filesystem status than the traditional mount command. Is there an equivalent for it on Mac? It's part of util-linux package. HomeBrew doesn't have a package for it. EDIT: Here is a sample output, as suggested in a comment:
There is some issue with some chip, which they want to replace with a new one. So they are going to order it from the warehouse. That will take around 4 days to ship from there. And if it is not there it will take more time to repair and get back the device.
appreciate any assistance, I'm a Mac Noob Im trying to upgrade MySQL in MAMP to 5.6 according to the these instructions When I try to run the .command script as per #2 I get the following output:
I have observed many apps that show HTML such as Chrome and Steam have these 'helper' processes. These processes have been taking up insane amounts of RAM on my Mac. Applications such as Steam and Chrome will take up gigabytes of RAM. Most third party applications that have a helper process tied to it will render the computer unusable, and I'll have to reboot. The Unity Asset Store alone, when it's window is opened, takes up almost a gigabyte of RAM. My Mac is running macOS Sierra, which you would think is the problem since it's a Beta, but the problem was present in earlier versions of OS X since Yosemite.
I type a lot Unix commands and I need often "~" and "`" which in U.S. keyboards are on the key under the escape key. I'm now using an Apple spanish keyboard set to U.S. layout, and this key is mapped to the characters "§" and "±" instead. I can't find "~" and "`" anywhere, and I need them exactly at their usual place anyway.
I have Lion installed on this 2007 macbook. OS was installed from A1384 USB drive.
I have an iPod nano 6th generation that I don't use at all. This is because although being a music player, I usually just use my iPhone for that same purpose. So I was wondering whether it is possible to modify the software so that I could use it for another purpose such as a dedicated watch, a memory stick with a display, a miniature game system, a leveler or something else along the lines.
I have a MacBookPro mid 2012 with OSX El Căpitan and yesterday I resized my OSX partition in order to make more room for the bootcamp partition (Win. 8.1). After I decreased the OSX partition I tried to log into the bootcamp partition but it didn't show up anymore, even if it appears Ok in finder. Would you please help me to recover it ? Thanks a lot, Emil
I've found that new SF UI font for download (*=URL=* I wonder if it's legal to use it in the web app I am building now, i.e. for commercial use? I haven't found any licence info on the official page (https://developer.apple.com/fonts/).
I installed Windows on my MacBook Air 2015 and erased the SSD in the process because it's only 128 GB and because I thought it would be easy to create a bootable USB key to reinstall OS X should I need to do that. I then found out that power management under Windows is lacklustre to say the least. Right after that I had to realize that creating a bootable USB key from Windows is difficult to say the least requiring (paid) third party software. What is most strange though is how difficult it is to get the actual file from a Windows PC. I had to download one for OS X El Capitan from a shady website.
My iCloud Photos library is corrupt. Photos are missing, the structure is broken. I have a backup of the local photos library with all full res images. I'd like to replace the entire content on iCloud with my local data but am unable to. My library has more than 40,000 photos and is 200GB large. I tried: Create a new local, empty library -> it will download all from the cloud instead of replacing the cloud Delete all from iCloud.com -> returns a server error during deletion Delete in chunks of 1000 images -> "succeeds" but photos are not deleted Of course I turned off iCloud photos on all of my devices
This question has already been asked here before, but I feel I'm missing something or don't understand something from the answers. I have a MacBook Air - very little space left. I have a 128GB SD card. I want to dual boot Windows 7 and OSx. The Windows 7 would run from the SD card.
I'm using the latest version of El Capitan (10.11.5) and Messages.app/iMessage has ceased to function. Messages sent to iMessage users hang after a few minutes of trying to send. I've tried the following already based on some research: Signing out/back in of the relevant account Resetting PRAM Turning off iMessage on all devices for an hour+ to "reset"
Some weeks ago, the way FB Messenger notifications are shown on my installation of El Capitan has changed: The notifications don't include the actual text of the message sent, now they only read "You received a message". I'm not sure what has caused the change, but is there a way to change it back so that the text of the message is included in the notification?
I'm having a weird issue with the built-in display on a Macbook Pro Late 2011 13". As the lid is opened, the display usually activates normally at its threshold for turning on. Everything works fine. But if the lid is then opened all the way, the display dies.
My question(s): what these parts are actually called? Without the right vocabulary I'm having a hard time answering other questions like: Where can I get one? Do they make ones that would allow me to put the MBP HDD into the iBook?
Today my Macbook Pro 2013 crashed so I hard reset it. Since then it boots to a black loading screen with the apple logo and a loading bar in the middle. The loading bar progresses to around 60% then stops. I can't boot into recovery or safe mode and I've tried the usual trouble shooting steps to no avail. I'm at a loss because I can't even boot to internet recovery (it loads initially but then restarts). Do you have any advice on what I can try next? Edit: I'm not sure if this is related but the display also stopped working, I can only see the loading bar by plugging in an external monitor through the HDMI port. Edit2: I can boot into single user mode run fsck -yf but this reports that Macintosh HD is OK Thanks
I have two Apple IDs, one for work and one personal. My iPhone's Messages settings are bound to my work id. When it receives messages, they pop up on my work computer pretty as you please.
I force quit mail and opened it back up, just for it to happen again. I tried using tab to select "edit message," which would make this message disappear, but it didn't work. Do I have to factory reset Mail since I would need a ~4600p (34 megapixel) screen to select an option?][6
I recently went through the process of scanning old photo albums (in an effort to preserve them longer digitized). I would place 2/3/4 photos on the scanner. Now I need to extract the single photos. It would also help if there was an application to quickly recognize the rectangles.
I've seen a similar issue from other people but nothing seems to help. I got a new iPhone to replace my old one a couple months ago and haven't been able to back it up. My iCloud storage says it's too full. I went on iCloud.com (I have a PC, no Mac) and saw it was photos hogging up 3.95GB of space. I deleted them all off iCloud.com and then went into the deleted photos and deleted them from there.
Is there a way to put the Google Drive folder on a different volume on my Mac (where I have more free space)? I tried Googling the question, and just got tips about doing it on Windows.
Neither of my computers would recognize my phone (iPhone 6, iOS 8.3) at all. I've tried everything I can think of, like reinstalling iTunes, trying different ports, trying in safe mode etc., but nothing worked.
To save battery life I would like to be able to record video on my iPhone or other iOS devices with the screen off. Is there a way to do this?
I bought a new hard drive, installed it, installed El Capitan on it. Everything works.
I need to change the iCloud email address associated with my iCloud. I can't update any apps. I can't check the current email address as its no longer active. How do I change it?
The Documents folder on my Mac (macOS Sierra 10.12 beta) is not visible under my user in Finder. I can see the folder is there through Terminal: But in Finder, I can't see it:
What's more, I repeated all of these steps on a different Macbook, and the results were the same there -- drive not seen. Bad drive right out of the box, yeah? Rare, but it happens. So I got a new drive, same capacity, different brand and same result: I don't see the drive in Disk Utility at all, no matter how I boot.
Updating will stop any Server services that are running. Relaunch Server after the update completes to re-enable services.
I checked the Mac product download pages and found no new firmware updates for the new 2015 MacBooks. I found many for the MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs, and even the XServers, but the closest thing I found to "MacBook" firmware updates were for the older models. I looked at the release dates and they are relatively current. I would assume since Apple came out with the MacBook9,1 this year, they would have had EFI firmware download support for this newer model Mac. Can someone give me a hand?
I don't know any Applescript, but I tried to make an Automator workflow. The first step, "Get Selected Finder Items." One has a static location, the second may change, I'm not sure. ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.fontlab.studio5.savedState /var/db/BootCaches/34D6C504-2F5B-416F-9C91-0C9D019BF446/app.com.fontlab.studio5.playlist
Okay, I've got a problem. So I'm going to get a new phone, the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016), because I'm just tired of my iPhone 4 not being up to date anymore. But my iPad (mini 2) is synced with my iPhone, like the same apple ID, same apps, maybe the same bill. If I've got my Samsung, my iPad won't sync with that, so I can't use my iPad anymore, what do I do?! Do I have to get a new simcard for one of them, a new number (I probably don't want to transfer my data from my iPhone to Samsung because it's just way to much with 8.000 photos), do I have to get a new number? Help
I've seen some similar questions about iPhone on this site, but none of them focus on macbook, so here comes this one. The picture below is a screenshot of my current desktop, with menu bar and dock hidden, as well as grey scale turned on.
I've noticed that since I've upgraded to iOS 10 public beta, Health Data is using 275mb of my iCloud storage (and it's increasing), which I think is much more than usual. As far as I can recall, it was less than 10mb on iOS 9. Any ideas on why it's eating up iCloud storage and how to resolve this issue?
I need to get photos from my Mac to my iPhone, but best way I found was by AirDrop, but it is too slow (I need to transfer lot of photos). I would think that it would be faster by wire, but I didn't find any way...
There are tools for iOS developers like Sensortower and MobiledevHQ that let app marketers analyse the App Store with regards to keyword and category rankings. I assume the keyword rankings can be obtained by fetching the search result lists for each keyword.
In a Terminal window, if I issues a "clear" command it clears the screen. But if I scroll up, the messages are still there.
I am working on an idea that requires changing MDM-managed iOS device settings within a minute every few minutes. Are there any OS limits to the frequency/reliability of APNS-initiated configuration profile updates? Let's assume that we have a custom-built MDM that is supervising a single iOS device running iOS 9.3.3 and they have a 100% reliable network connection between them with unlimited bandwidth.
I have had my iphone 5s (still have version 7.1.1) for three years now and never have encountered such a problem until recently. When I plug my earphones, it works well depending on whether i want to facetime or play music but lately, it frequently stops, skips, pauses songs or activate Siri on its own accord. It even ends my facetime calls while i'm talking, so i have to call back every time (I can call back for more than 7-10 times).
What is the simplest way to append a list of urls with a selected URL when browsing either chrome or safari. I tried to do this with automator and it was easy to achieve by creating a service with a Write Text to File action (from an add on package). But it does not add a new line after each entry. It doesn't even write a space after an entry. So you end up with a file like
For a few days now my Macbook Air seems to hang for a second every five seconds or so. It is only noticeable in my browsers. Chrome, FF and Safari all have the same issue where the browser just locks up for a second before continuing. I looked in console and it is the same crash report being generated every five to ten seconds. The beginning of the log mentions a process x3d:
I'm selling my MacBook but I want to replace the screen first so that I can sell it as like new. The rear of the screen (the side with the Apple logo) has some chips. Where can I order a replacement screen for a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), or is there a reputable UK company that I can send it to to have it done?
I have a ipad mini 2 and I can connect to the internet via WiFi as well. My ipad is cellular model and I've putted a sim card in it. But when I turn off the wifi, the internet will be die and I cannot open a web page. Here is my screen shots:
I am currently learning the Dvorak keyboard at the moment so I need to change keyboard when I am not in the training application 'Type Fu'. What I want to do is: 1) Have the Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘ when I am in the 'Type Fu' application 2) Change to the QWERTY keyboard when I am in any other application Later on when I have learnt it, I would like this to happen: 1) Have the Dvorak - QUERTY ⌘ keyboard for all applications apart from developer environments such as Xcode and Terminal 2) Automatically switch to Programmer Dvorak when I am in developer environments such as Xcode and Terminal I know that the second option I want is similar to the first, however it has more exceptions.
Whenever I hit open blah.png (any image type) in my terminal, I get a message "Preview quit unexpectedly" from Mac OS X. The solution is to just open the folder in Finder using open ., navigating to the file and opening it from there. Preview seems to work fine then. However, this is annoying. Any ideas why I can't open images from the terminal?
On more than a few instances, I have accidentally disabled the internal keyboard and trackpad by a shortcut. The only button which works is the power-up key which I can use to wake up (if it's in sleep mode) and force quit by holding it.
I wanted to transfer an app from my iPod to my iPhone. The the app I paid for was on my iPod. And I'm trying not to pay for the app again. Is there a way I can transfer the app from my iPod to my iPhone without using any laptop or computer?
When I try to launch an application that is developed by my company, I get the "Certificate signed by untrusted issuer" error. I checked both these posts.
I can use command sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist to start TFTP Server on mac. But what is the process name of the running TFTP server? I tried ps aux | grep tftp and pgrep tftp, neither give me anything... My goal is to use script to track if tftp server has been turned on OR not...
I'm trying to mount the share from my Time Capsule via CLI (it works fine via the Finder's connect window, but I need to do this remotely). Should be a simple operation:
Now that the jailbreak for iOS 9.2.1 has been released, can I downgrade my iPad Mini 1 to older versions? It is so slow with 9.2.1.
Trying to install a clean version of El Capitan from a USB stick to an empty hard drive. I'm unable to boot to the Installer though, it just gets stuck with the Apple logo and the progress bar underneath. The progress bar fills up completely, but then nothing happens. Waited over an hour now. Anything I can try to get past it? It's a 2008 Late Aluminium Macbook. Thanks
I am trying to compile and use a shared C library as a python module and I am observing that depending on the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH my code works or it crashes with a cryptic error message. I have tried to manually inspect which libraries are common between /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib and /opt/local/lib but I have not been able to find the cause of the crash. One way to figure out the cause of the problem will be to figure out which dylib files do the two processes use? I was not able to figure this using opensnoop or dtruss but maybe I was using those tools wrong. How can I figure out the cause of this crash? DISCLAIMER: I posted this same question on SO 2 days ago, where it did not receive any replies and only 8 views.
I have some devices managed through MDM (JAMF) and a 640 x 1136 wallpaper that I want to set through the MDM interface as the home/lock screen background. Unfortunately, pretty much every time I set it it comes out zoomed in. I have set up the restrictions on the configuration such that the user cannot change the wallpapers. This may be relevant: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=3232
I am trying to connect to a Windows based SSTP VPN network. I am using OS X Yosemite, I was wondering if there is any solution that can allow me to connect to a SSTP based VPN.
Macbook Air sometimes connects, but if Macbook Pro is already connected with Personal Hotspot, then MB Air always connects in <1sec it MBP is not connected, then wither MB Air connects in approx 10-30 seconds, or it does not at all with "Cannot start Personal Hotspot" message If MBA is unable to connect, then connecting MBP and disconnecting it makes it possible for MBA to connect "reset network settings" allows MBA to connect with personal hotspot (but often only once). on Bluetooth/USB there are zero connection problems, all above is in wifi mode. if Macbook Pro is already connected with Personal Hotspot, then MB Air always connects in <1sec it MBP is not connected, then wither MB Air connects in approx 10-30 seconds, or it does not at all with "Cannot start Personal Hotspot" message If MBA is unable to connect, then connecting MBP and disconnecting it makes it possible for MBA to connect "reset network settings" allows MBA to connect with personal hotspot (but often only once). on B
I am looking for the exe files for BootCamp drivers for Windows 10. I installed Windows 10 on my Mac 4 months ago using the ISO and BootCamp assistant but then I reinstalled it directly on the partition which made the BootCamp drivers go away, and now some things (such as right click and two finger touchpad scrolling) don't work. I want to get the drivers without having to reinstall Windows (at the beginning Mac gives you the BootCamp installation files as an exe but I can't find them anywhere online.)
This question addresses how to restore a 2011 iMac to factory conditions, but the process doesn't seem to work with a 2006 iMac. Google searches suggest the install CD is required, though some people on forums also claim it's possible by using an Internet installation. Is it possible to restore such an old iMac to factory conditions without the install CD? The goal is to wipe all personal data before selling the computer.
I'm attempting to use Steam on my Mac, but I set up my system to have case-sensitivity. Steam has a thread for setting up an image file with a case-sensitive file system, however, I'm finding that it doesn't work. Regardless of whether I create the sparse image from Disk Utility or from hdiutil, I get a mount-error. However, as far as I can tell I've created the file correctly? Can anyone tell me what I am not doing correctly? UPDATE: The image that's created mounts properly in Disk Utility, but does not with hdiutil
I used to have iPhoto on my machine and have migrated to Photos. I notice now that I have two photo libraries on my machine that are taking up over 10 GB each. I'd like to reclaim disk space, but I don't know if I can safely delete one of them. The two files are: Photos Library.photoslibrary (15.6 GB) iPhoto Library.migratedPhotoLibrary (11.3 GB)
I'm using Mac OS (El Capitan) and in Notification center, Today's Summary part it shows weather information. I want to change from F to C here. My weather widget is already in C and working fine.
We've recently moved house and now I have a Macbook Pro, a 2009 Time Capsule and an ADSL modem/router from our network supplier, Telstra. The Telstra modem doesn't have enough grunt/range to reach another room for me to use my iPad there. In a previous house we connected the Time Capsule to another type of Telstra modem by Ethernet cable and the Time Capsule acted as router. It sent the signal throughout a two storey house. Can I do the same with this setup and what do I have do on the Macbook to make it all work?
This list of words also appears when I put a textbox on a PDF when opened in Preview and press Esc. I suspect this has nothing to do with Chrome.
Windows provide a facility to restore state of OS in case of getting corrupt by loading it up from Hard drive. Is there anything like that available for OSX?
What should be the proper way to backup photos from iPhone. iCloud do not have much storage for it, any apps is recommended to use for backup photos? I heard a lot of users use Google Photos for backup photos, is that reliable?
So I have iPhone 5c ME561LP/A with demo content. Can I replace the demo content with fully functional iOS?
My first question is what can you do and what can't you do with an apple watch with an activation lock. My second question is how can I unpair the watch since the phone is a different location (I'm in South Africa and my brother is in New York with my phone). Is it possible to remove it from iCloud.com
Since you can now login to certain OSX/iOS apps using your Apple ID credentials rather than with an application-specific account, is there a way to list all of the apps you have granted access to and edit their permissions (something like what Google does when you authenticate using your Google credentials)?
I can't figure this out. How can I use mdfind on OS X to find all photos with creation date between say March 10th, 2008 and March 15th, 2008? using mdfind 'kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2008-03-10 12:30:56 +1100' is too specific and I don't know how to simplify and broaden the search.
In the past I've disabled Location Services for a specific site in Safari for OS X, but would now like to enable it, for that site only. How do I do that. None of the instructions I've found describe the current user interface for Safari (e.g., there is no "Reset Safari" window in 9.1.2).
I need to replace a part in my MacBook 13", Aluminum, Late 2008 and I have found a piece that seems to match, but I got confused by the code "A1278" in the description, which I have not seen anywhere in my machine's specifications. It looks like it is associated with different models, not just with mine, and mostly with MacBook Pro.
I can not login to ProFTPD server. The logfile says: /private/etc/pam.d/ftpd: System: OS 10.11.6
My mac won't boot. I need to re-install OS. But hard disk is too full, so I need to delete some files. I boot Opt-Cmd-R then open menu > Utilities > Terminal but bash shell only shows boot partition files. How can I access the main hard drive, so I can delete some files.
I have a fancy PDF that only opens in Acrobat Reader and I cannot figure out how to export a plain, compatible-with-everything PDF copy of it. There is no option in the print dialog and the "save as" and export options don't give me what I need either (a PDF that opens in everything). I'm not going to sign up for an Adobe account to use their stupid online tools. I need a way to do this locally.
For example I just installed some Apple software on my iPad. Before I start using it I need to agree its terms & conditions. While I was reading the terms & conditions there are spelling mistakes I found in the document. How should I report this to Apple?
I am trying to set up Find My iPhone on an Apple 5s for my 16 year old son. However, he does not want his email address used for the Apple ID because it is connected to his school. Would there be any drawback to setting him up as an "under 13" child so he doesn't have to use his school email?
Yesterday, I tried to update to the second public beta of macOS Sierra. For some reason, however, the update process stopped shortly before the completion, and since there was no progress even after many hours, I decided to shut down.
The company I work for is hosting a corporate presentation next month. We have hired outside A/V services and he is asking me if I will be projecting in 16:9 or 4:3 and if we will need a 5k or 10k projector. From what I have found, I believe the 10k projector is necessary for the 16:9 aspect ratio. Is there anyway to determine which aspect ratio my MacBook Pro 2011 (OS X 10.9.5) would project in?
How to uninstall some application from iOS? Please don't say to press and to hold an app icon, because it is impossible to find it visually in my case. My child downloaded a lot of games and made a lot of folders. I need convenient way to delete application by it's name from alphabetically sorted list. Is this possible in iOS?
Whenever I leave my laptop on sleep for at least 10+ minutes, the trackpad becomes unresponsive and takes a while to load (NOTE: This problem mostly happens when I am carrying my laptop to another location in my bookbag). I have to keep tapping the trackpad 5-7 times (rapidly) in order for it to finally respond. When the laptop is on a flat surface, going to sleep and waking up is no issue whatsoever.
My MacBook Pro suddenly began crashing regularly, and I can't tell why. Panic report:
What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to mark music I like from any device and be able to find it later from any device. Also, I like the feature to star rate tracks to distinct music I love from music I like.
On an iPhone 6 Plus the calendar app will not allow me to add calendars nor edit calendars. The "+" sign is grayed out! What can be done?
Of course I normally don't intentionally keep Q pressed. While using the Quartz keyboard layout I never even noticed this, but when I changed to the Dvorak layout, I occasionally saw this happen (probably because of the location of Q on the keyboard). It happens with both layouts though.
When one uploads an app on the App Store, do you need to include a delete account (or even log out account) option? Is it required to wipe that data off the server?
I have an external hard drive which carries all my most precious files (some are backed up on a second hard drive, but not terribly recently). I decided to "encrypt" this hard drive (which I immediately regretted), and now the drive won't open. I know the password, but once it's entered, it says that the drive can't be recognized, giving me the options to "Initialize..., Ignore, or Eject". I then run Disk Utility First Aid, which says that "Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting." Please tell me there is something I can do to recover my data.
I just learned that I could wake my Macbook Air 2012 from sleep over the LAN under OS X. However, I can't make it work under Linux with the method described on the Arch Wiki. Has anyone managed to do it on Linux?
The title explains my configuration. I've done port forwarding on the FiOS router to my MacBook Pro but attempts to SSH from outside produce "network unreachable" (inside my home network SSH works fine). Is the only way to get this to work by setting the Time Capsule configuration to DHCP & NAT then port forward from FiOS to the Time Capsule then port forward using the NAT configuration on the Time Capsule to the MacBook? I really want to leave the Time Capsule in Bridge mode because traffic between my TiVo boxes and Macs/iPhone/iPad only work in that configuration.
(OS/X El Capitan ... MacBook Pro) From time to time, when I go to *System Preferences...Network...WiFi...Advanced," I find that two network-names have been added to the list without my knowledge or consent: XfinityWiFi PublicWifi
I am running 10.11.2 on a Macbook Pro and have downloaded the Quartz 2.7.9 and installed it. The installation GUI claims the XQuartz installation was successful. I rebooted my machine and logged back in. I attempted to start Quartz and there is a momentary activity on the docking bar, like the icon is going to appear, but then it does not. In the /var/system/log/system.log I see the following entry: I took a stab at installing a previous version of XQuartz 2.7.8 and that yielded the same results.
I need to extract (download) from my iPhone 6 the data from third party application (mp3 files) to my Windows 10 PC. The data load to iPhone were from this third party application (radio.kartina) and were NOT using iTunes or any Apple applications. Any applications I can download to iPhone and/or PC to have this access? The USB connection gives me access to photos (and videos) only, but I need to get these mp3 files from iPhone 6 to my Windows 10 PC.
What is the X29 Proximity (temperature) Sensor measuring? I'm on a 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina.
I'm looking at installing an application whose installation is supported on a few Linux distros via yum, rpm etc and from source. What I would like to know is given these possibilities, what would be the best way to install it on OS X? I'm only vaguely aware of Brew, Fink & pkgsrc. I only have beginner experience with package managers too. What I don't understand is once you install some variety of package manager, does the application have to have been "packaged" with one of those for it to be installable or, does it just use the package framework and (maybe) existing system libraries to produce what it needs on OS X with whatever package sources are available from the vendor? It seems even with a source installation some form of package manager is needed given they list various library requirements as being met via issuing:
I would like to import video from Hi8/Digital8 tapes recorded with a Sony DCR-TRV840, a Digital8 camcorder from the early part of the century, into iMovie 10.1.2 on El Capitan over Firewire. For short consecutive clips, iMovie works fine for me. When I finish recording, imported video clips appear in the iMove media library and are conveniently sorted in chronological order.
I'm using iPhone 6s plus 64Gb with 9.3.3. Does jailbreaking have an effect on performance/speed?
The theater company I work with is doing a show this fall in which a key plot point is an iPhone ringing while it's in someone's purse. They really want to make an iPhone ring and not just use a sound cue. But cell reception inside the theater is spotty at best. Is there some way to get an iPhone to ring without making a call to it?
I've recently migrated to a new mac, and since then I have not been able to sign into my account on iTunes. No items on the Account menu do anything when clicked. It also shows authorise this computer, and de-authorise this computer at the same time. Clicking any of these have no effect whatsoever.
I have a MacBook and I plan to upgrade to Windows 10 but want to be able to roll-back to the original Windows 7 in case Windows 10 is not good for me. I have used Symantec Ghost to do a Hot-image (i.e. create image when Windows 7 is running instead of booting from a CD), I also imaged the "System" partitions.
My current iPhone is on a two-year contract with Verizon that makes me eligible for an upgrade in January, with a plan that I share with my family. I'm really interested in Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program, so I was wondering, is it possible to get an iPhone through the iUP, keep my current number, and put the iPhone on my family's plan that has, until now, been all iPhones purchased through Verizon? If so, how would I do that?
I am preparing a new application, and iOS requires screenshots of the application. They ask for screenshots in the following sizes:
I am running a Wacom intuos tablet with the latest software driver v6.3.16-12 on OS X El Capitan. I have noticed endless error messages in the OS X console e.g Here’s what I tried I’ve reinstalled the Wacom Driver 2 times. Repaired OS X system permissions It also happening on another Mac running OS X Yosemite
I have an iPhone 5c and I need to determine the carrier for it. How can I do this?
Running OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 and trying to make a bootable USB for windows 7 bootcamp on my MacBook Pro. I disabled the SIP by using Terminal in Recovery Mode but I still cannot replace or edit the info.plist file. Optical drive is broken so that's not an option. Any advice appreciated!
I'm upgrading my mum's iPad from iOS 6.1.3 to 9.3 and it is coming up with a verification error. The obvious solution is to redownload the update and update from there.
Every once in a while, I need to "refresh" my shell session by closing it and opening a new one. Unfortunately the terminal tab ends up at the very end of tab bar, so I need to move it back to where it was (I use command-left and command-right to move between tabs a lot, so order is important). Since I am on a 13" screen, I keep my terminal maximized. When I move the tab with a mouse, if I move it even a little bit too much, the tab splits into its own, maximized, window and I am unable to re-attach it (because maximized == fullscreen now, right?). So I have to close the new window and start over again. Is there some way to change tab order without accidental detaching?
I got my iPhone stolen recently with Activation Lock on. It's been off since it has been stolen according to iCloud.
I am new to terminal. I started moving 30 gigs of data, from my desktop to my portable harddisk with the command mv location1 location2. The problem is, I cannot see, how much data has been transferred. How to see the progress in a bar format or in percentage format?
I love the notes app on the mac. One problem I face is that if I am making notes on the app and try to put some source code in it. the notes app completely screws up the formatting. It will mess up quotations, put line indentations. It seems that the notes app wants to treat everything as an english sentence. Is there some way by which I can tell the notes app that I am copying source code into notes so it should not mess it up?
I have an app on my iPhone , that i am trying to open . Lynda.com. I Tap the Lynda.com app on your device to launch it. Ignore the user name and password fields on the login screen and instead tap on the button labeled web portal log in On the web portal access screen, enter < company name >in the URL box. I am directed to Usher ( my company's internal authentication ) After successful authentication , i had to be redirected back to Lynda.com App .. This works on several of my coworkers phone , but on my phone after the authentication is successful I am still on Lynda.com safari browser . Things i tried : -Updating my IOS on phone to the same version that a current working phone is on ( latest update 9.3.3) -deleting safari cache -deleted and reinstalled Lynda.com app and retried ..
Apple makes it rather hard to change things like the system font and icons for the home folder. And while I understand the problems that can occur when the system font is changed; is changing your icons (for Documents, Music, Home, etc) truly dangerous?
Is there any application in macOS (MacBook Pro) which can work like SuperPuTTY / PuTTY CM does in Windows? I am looking for a free one.
I have the following setup: MacPro 2013 (trashcan) Primary / New Dell P2715Q monitor (2560x1440) Secondary / Acer H213H monitor (1080p) Problem:
According to the Outlook UserVoice site, the latest version of Outlook for Mac has an Archive feature. Based on this Microsoft article there supposed to be an Archive button next to the Delete button on the ribbon.
I sent an iMessage and it showed it was read at 18.01. Few hours later it just says delivered and the message i sent before the last one shows the time it was read. Why did it go from read at 18.01 to just delivered? Have i been blocked by this person or what?
I've recently bought apple tv for the bedroom and thought it was great.. at first. I only really use it for netflix, but now my remote doesn't seem to be working. I thought maybe that the battery died so I left it on charge overnight to see if that helped (it didn't and it didn't show me any indication of being on charge either). I've used the same charger as I use on my iPhone so I don't think there's an issue with the power cable.. Have also tried re-pairing it using the menu and volume up button but still nothing. I can only connect it through an ethernet cable if I take it downstairs and I don't have the remote app paired up on my phone (it won't let me connect it now)so all I have been able to do is stream things through air play which seems to defeat the purpose on buying this shiny new thing! Extra info: I've got the newest box, I think it's 4th gen with the siri remote.. Thanks in advance :)
I am running OS X El Capitan on a 15" Retina display MBP and I recently hooked up an external monitor (Samsung SyncMasterP2370HD) via an HDMI cable. The font is weirdly pixelated at any resolution available except 1600x1200 which I got by doing the force RGB work around. Unfortunately at that resolution everything is stretched wide. While I can handle the ugly font right now with 1080p and some underscan (I switched the profile back from the forced RGB to the default), I was hoping there was a work around which allowed me to pick whatever resolution my heart desires (I know the option + click "Scaled" trick, the ones I'm looking for aren't available).
My MacBook (El Capitan 10.11.2) one day cannot connect to the internet via wifi. It work solidly beforehand.
If time capsule can not be set up to log the web sites that users access, is there third-party software that will accomplish this for time capsule? Ideally something that would work through the time capsule and not have to be installed on each individual device, but would allow analysis by device.
I currently have OS 10.6 - Safari and other browsers are no longer supported. My problem is I have Adobe CS4 Design and web software and I don't have a few thousand dollars hanging about to upgrade CS4 SO..... Does Lion work with Adobe CS4 - or should I just start saving my pennies for more expensive software? I had heard that OS 10.6 was the highest OS I could get with CS4.
So sometimes my phone will be at 20%, and it'll die before going lower. Just now, it was at 4%, so I plugged it in, and it went up to 11%. After waiting 60 seconds, it's up to 34% now and has sat at 34% for the past minute or so.
I have a Mac. It is running Mac OS X 10.6.8. It is ten years old, came out in 2006. I go to the App Store. The listing for OS X 10.11 claims it is "compatible with 10.6.8", but when I "get" (click on the Get button) the update, it comes up with a message that says "...cannot be installed on this computer." What am I doing wrong?
My Mac hard drives become inaccessible, and I don’t have any data backup available at present. What should I do now to recover my deleted data?
Good day, After several failed attempts, my iPad Mini is locked and the error iPad is disabled - Try again in 13,568 is appearing. Now, I do not have anything important on the device and I am totally okay if I lose everything in there. However, I am not able to get it to work in recovery mode using the following technique turn the device off. open itunes hold home button for couple of seconds. insert the USB cable After doing this steps, the device boots normally and gets stuck on the disabled page again. What can I do to bypass this?
could someone please suggest how to solve this issue? I've got an iPod nano 2nd generation. Sometimes, the screen starts to display only lines (please see pictures attched for example). They change when I click around in the menu (buttons are still operational). They used to go away when connecting the iPod to my PC and iTunes, or when leaving the iPod in my drawer for days or weeks (I'm not that into music and I got this device in a raffle) - so this didn't seem to be a permanent fault. But now even that won't help. I tried resetting (pushing select and menu for 6 seconds) as well as restoring to factory settings. The line pattern changes and goes vertical when I shake or tap the iPod (I've read in some online forum that this might solve similar issues). I tried finding a similar issue online, but haven't found anything that looks similar.
All I need is to find a dialer keypad in the ipad.. is there any? If yes where exactly?
When browsing my "MyVerizon" call/text logs I noticed that whole conversations that were held via IMessage were omitted from the log. While conversations on my other iPhone that were IMessages from same iPhone/sender/number/etc... DO show up. Any idea what would cause this? Would sending IMessages to the email/Apple ID address rather then the cell # accomplish this?
I would like to create an automated brightness/dimming chase on my Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.5 using Applescript, I found this script>> Dimmer: tell application "System Events" key code 107 end tell Brighter: tell application "System Events" key code 113 end tell What I would like to do now is to repeat that action and control the speed/timeframe of the dimming, Any Applescript expert able to help on that?
This morning I experienced the weirdest thing by my iPhone 6S requiring me to enter my passcode rather than allowing me to use my finger as Touch ID. My phone was locked probably for like 4 hours while charging overnight and as far as my knowledge my phone did not restart during this time since my Stack Exchange app was left open and upon opening it the same content were still there. I didn't attempt even once to use my Touch ID; if I would've had a faulty Touch ID sensor then I should've seen such similar behavior either prior to this morning or at least afterwards (I'm already on my phone for the past 3 hours plus). I didn't register or delete any fingerprints for months. And finally, I don't have any restrictions setup to require the input of my passcode under Settings > General > Restrictions. I'm running on iOS Version 10.0 beta 3 (14A5309d) Anyone out there that has also experienced such similar behavior or with any suggestion on what might've caused it?
I read that the USB-C charger (29W) can "power charge" the large iPad Pro, almost reducing the charging time by a factor 2. Would the same work with the small iPad Pro?
I am used to working on a US/CA English keyboard, but I'm currently based overseas and the keyboard that my workplace got for me has a completely different layout (ISO European). It's especially difficult for me to remember where the symbols are that are being modified by the Alt Gr and Shift keys, so I thought I'd make a screenshot of the OS X keyboard viewer. I know that I can take a picture of an application window with the Apple + Shift + 4 + Space Bar shortcut, but I can't seem to get the modifier key to "stick" so that I can take a screenshot of the keyboard layout with the modifier. How do I do this?
Is this possible? I read on the crucial.com website that it is not. I imagine 2x16Gb would be a bit expensive but not unheard of.
I have some bills from my electricity and gas provider and all the bills are printed out with squares being displayed instead of text. I already restored the Font Book to default fonts. I have no problems with viewing any of those bills on my computer. I have other PDFs and they are all printed out correctly. If I open up the PDF which is printed out badly and export it to PDF within PREVIEW app, the output is same as on my printer. What else can I do to restore the normal printing?
I have a Time Capsule but no internet cable attached to it. But I have an iPhone with 4G and I need mobile internet to be shared with other devices connected to the Time Capsule Wi-Fi network.
I've just started running El Capitan (10.11.5) and one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts seems to have disappeared: the keyboard shortcut that let you move between windows within the same application. It used to be Cmd ⌘ ` (tilde) but now that shortcut doesn't work and I can't figure out how to get it back.
The following applescript waits for a page to load before continuing with the do javascript "document.body.innerText" part of the script. It seems to work really well except for one thing. If Safari is running but no window is currently open, running this script results in
In Outlook 2016, I just inadvertently replied-all to an email that was meant to go to a single recipient. You guessed it; I accidentally hit Reply All instead instead of Reply. Thankfully, the content wasn't too embarrassing.
I have a brand new MacBook Air, have not saved any files to it yet. But I just noticed there are files in AllMyFiles dating back to 1997. Are they "borrowed" from the iCloud? Although they are not arranged in folders like in the iCloud, the ones I have opened are also in iCloud.
I recently reimaged my iPhone, however I forgot to check my SMS history before deleting my original backup. I assumed, incorrectly, that it would sync via iCloud, or by the SMS Forwarding feature that brings these messages into Mac OS X Messages. So, I have no sms.db, but I do have chat.db and the supporting Attachments. Extensive searching turns up nothing.
I want to be able to open Spotlight and launch specific apps without touching my mouse or scroll down through lists with the arrow key. For example, I want to press Command + Spacebar (to open Spotlight), then press "ill" followed by Return/Enter to launch Adobe Illustrator. This works sometimes, but other times this will open a document which has the title of "I'll fly away." Similarly, I want the Spotlight search of "PS" to launch Adobe Photoshop, but it pulls up my "hp psc 1300 series" printer, instead.
Last month, for a temporary event, I've added a Polish number (+48 prefix) to 800 of my regular contacts using a vCard file. Now, this event is finished and now I'd like to remove all those temporary polish numbers from my contacts and keep all other information intact. Is there a way to easily do that, for example, using an Automator action?
I decided to try to turn on Filevault; the problem is I can NOT log into my Wordpress websites back end. It keeps saying that my passwords are wrong.
I was sidetracked while recording something off of the internet into Garageband. How do I cut off all of the dead space at the end of my recording?
Is there such a program that can scan my local iOS apps library on Windows and show me not just the metadata from .ipa file, but App Store data (rating, reviews, screenshots, description, etc) too? I know that .ipa files contain the id of the app, which can be used with the App Store web API to get some of that data. But every third-party iOS app manager I tried doesn't show me the store data.
I'm running Parallels 10 on a 2014 MacBook Pro with OS X El Capitan (10.11.6). I have five virtual machines set up for various versions of Windows (7, 8, and 10).
This is sort of a weird question, but it occurred to me that it might be possible to connect two different computers via a 3.5mm audio jack cable, and stream sound between them simultaneously. Is this a dangerous thing to try? More interestingly, if I were to re-write some of the audio handling, would it be feasible to create a custom protocol to transfer data/files over this connection?
I noticed that when I download a large file over Wi-Fi my Airplay stream stutters and then dies out. I am just streaming audio from MacBook Pro 5,3 (e.g. Spotify) to my Airport Express. At the same time a Xiaomi Redmi 2 and a Huawei P9 are often connected to the Airport Express. No heavy traffic is going to them (only some WhatsApp and browsing) During the download, data is coming in at around 6 MB/s, and I see that 200 KB/s is going up. When I check my Wi-Fi statistics I see I have a transmission rate of 145 (Mb/s I assume), which converts to 18 MB/s so I should have plenty of headroom. How can I give Airplay priority on my network, such that there's always plenty of bandwidth available to stream?
Do Apple Computers use the same-exact Intel processors available to PC builders or are they custom models made just for Apple? For example, if a Mac is marketed as having an Intel i7 3.3 GHz x-generation processor and there is a matching processor listed on Ark for that chipset "generation," is it safe to assume that same-exact processor is in the Mac? Or does Apple get custom models within the chipset families just for their computers? Also, is there a website where I can see the processor model numbers available in Macs so I don't have to spend time trying to match Apple's marketing to Intel's specs?
Chrome absolutely kills battery life on my MBA. So I would like to switch my default browser to Safari when I am unplugged. When plugged in, I would like Chrome to be the default browser. Any ideas how to do this? I've seen tools like Hammerspoon but couldn't find a use case for what I need.
My main goal is to be able use Terminal to turn into I thought a good place to start would be with finding a way to remove the *=URL=* I triedtr -d; however, there does not seem to be a way to remove only the first instance of a group of characters. The following (using cut) will only work consistently if there length of the string never changes, which means there is no guarantee for future use. This looked promising: But because I can not get | pbcopy to work, not could I get outer to print, I have idea what it actually does.
Same question was posted a month ago by a different user, but she stopped responding... I have the exact same Issue.
I used ulimit -c unlimted in terminal to get core dumps in the /cores folder. However, after reboot (kernel panic) I no longer can get any core dumps regardless what I try - ulimit -c unlimted or sudo sysctl -w kern.coredump=1 - core dumps just don't get generated.
I have a Macbook Pro retina display 2014 mid model. During boot, after logging in the top menu bar display is delayed by 2-3 seconds. By this time a black bar is displayed at the top. So is there any fix, so that the menu bar loads straight away after boot?
After following a few forums, I was able to rescue my hard drive with ddrescue. It took almost 24 hours, to rescue my files into a .dmg file. When it was completed I double clicked on the dmg file, and I get no mountable file system. Can anyone help, my first born pictures are on this hard disk, and I would truly be quite upset if I can not retrieve them.
I have a 5k iMac (Late 2015), with a spinning hard disc, running El Capitan. I'm considering enabling FileVault, but I'm concerned if it will hurt responsiveness. Will it? I understand that it doesn't on a SSD, but this machine has a spinning hard disc.
I haven't checked if other fonts are missing so I don't know if it is specific to this font. I'm trying to use it for an app.
I need directions on how to do this. This is not a duplicate question. As the answers given in the links before are all outdated and from either 2012 or an Xcode that doesn't support this format. I need steps that are currently working for this model. In my App store there is only insanely high updated versions of Xcode so idk.
I want to get an iphone for my daughter but I dont want her on internet all the time, what can I do so that she only has texting and calling?
I find it really useful to use Remote Desktop to manage OSX devices, Is it possible to use Remote Desktop or a similar tool to manage iOS devices ?
i have flashDrive it's not formatted I'm something do not remember what exactly but now it's detecting and i can't format it it always give me this error Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed and can't do nothing it's dead?
For a while now, we are developing an app that has to be distributed within the company. We are now reaching the final stage of the development proces and are trying to build for ios with cordova.
My MacBook Air display crushed but rest is ok. The apple authority advised to change the display, but I would like to use external display option. Since the onboard display is gone, is there any way to connect up external display like plug and play sort of thing?
iPhone 6 Plus all SMS/iMessage Disappear, but still show up in Storage, I haven't backed up my phone for over 8 months :( and the messages mean everything to me.. It's nearly a decade worth of messages (shows how I've travelled with an iPhone since first launch).. I have never had problems of such and I want a fix.. Tried contacting Apple but they are no help.. They make me go through troubleshooting.. If it works it's worth it but it's not and I'm really upset.. I've spent over 12 hours trying for a fix and over 3 hours with Apple Telephone Support.. Do you think the guys at the store can do anything? Please HELP!! I'll actually reward the person that can help me in this dilemma.
When moving between locations (work, home, coffeeshops...) I find that I have to manually set up things how I like them over an over. Is there an application that will automatically launch and position my applications when I am at a specific location, or select a preset "workspace"?
Let's say there's a web page that can be scrolled through and within that page there's also a box that can be scrolled through. Currently, if I do one scroll on the mouse while the cursor is in the main page and then move the cursor into the smaller scrollable part of the page while the larger part is scrolling, the large part will stop scrolling and the smaller part will start scrolling. Or if I just start scrolling in the main part of the page, move the cursor to, say, the desktop, and then quickly cursor back to it, the scroll will start, stop when I leave, and then scroll a little more when I get back.
I have an Apple TV 4th generation. The iPads and iPods I am connecting show up in iTunes on my Mac. However, the Apple TV will not appear when I try to connect it using a cable. How can I make the Apple TV show up in iTunes on my Mac, so that it's easier to push apps and media to it?
Can we submit an iPhone app as a free app, then after a short period, change it to a paid app? The guide indicates that the higher the intended price for an app, the more closely it is reviewed. We want the app to be free for an initial introductory period, but will it look like we're trying to take advantage of a loophole? If we can offer for free initially, then raise the price, do we have to wait for a minimum period before doing so?
I have a number of old, old CD-ROMs with large AVI and other movie files on them (usually one file per CD). When I try to copy the files over in finder, it eventually fails with error -36. I assume this is because some sectors on the CD have become faulty. Is there an error-tolerant way to copy over the files, including the faulty sectors, to see whether the files work anyway (with maybe a few minutes missing)?
I am trying to sync my Google Contacts with my iPhone / Apple Contacts. The contacts sync fine, but the groups are not preserved. In Contacts for Mac, I can create a new group and add contacts to it, but that contact group will not sync across to Google Contacts, and vice versa. Is there a way to keep these groups in sync?
I've got a MacBook Pro with 10.10.3 on it. For reasons beyond my control I am unable to update to anything above 10.10.3 (critical software needed for work broken on 10.10.4 and above, dev doesn't seem to be interested in fixing it).
Screenshot from jdiskmark Simple Java utility to help bench mark disk IO. Benchmark is done by creating and reading data files to a user directory that can be configured.
What I want to achieve is that when the Mac boots, my session starts without me needing to type my user and password. I have created a daemon that launches at boot time and this daemon will call the script that will contain the commands I'm asking for (providing by default my user and password I assume). I can't configure my session to start automatically in System Preferences because if my script fails by any reason, then I need the login screen to ask for my credentials. Is this even possible to achieve?
I am using a MacBook Pro 13" retina early 2015, running macOS 10.12 Sierra public beta 2. For the last two days my computer is not usable since there is no available RAM memory to use, the OS is just freezing and after few minutes the computer restarts itself.
I recently turned off iCloud in order to change Apple ID. I turned it back on before the photos were deleted from my Mac #1. Now it wants to reupload, but has to compare the photos to what is in the cloud. I have a huge photos library of about 700GB. I want to turn off iCloud for photos on Mac #1, let the photos be deleted from the mac, and then cull photos from the photos library on another mac which has iCloud turned on, before turning the cloud back on for the original mac. My hope is to decrease the ultimate size of the library and I don't want to wait for it finish comparing the photos it thinks it needs to re-upload. Is there any reason this won't work, or is a bad idea? Thank you for any input.
How many Liquid Contact Indicator stickers are inside a MacBook Pro (15" Retina)? Where are they all located?
What's the best approach for me? I can't use Boot Camp, because I already have the Yosemite partition. Should I blow out Yosemite, repartition to have one full-disk Lion partition, use Boot Camp to install Windows, and then... something else?
I've tried all the usual things, looked through tons of settings. It seems very unlikely the problem lives within the macs, seeing as they were connected to a Belkin N300 earlier this morning, and the one even connected to this one for a little bit. The only interesting thing I've noticed is that Wireless Diagnostics scan sees the SSID as being B/G/N, though the settings in the router's settings are N only. Any ideas?
I can't restart my iPad mini by holding the power button and even in the powwr button in AssistiveTouch.Furthermore,I can't use any app that needed wifi.Lastly, my battery life is staying at 96% even after a couple hour.Please tell me how to fix it .tq
I need to have different footers for left and right pages in Apple Pages to make a sort of book layout in which the page number is close to the outer page. How is this achieved?
I am working on an emergency device that is rather tiny and needs a small amount of electricity when in use. I wanted to have an app on the iPhone that would Bluetooth communicate with the device but I wanted to keep the product small by getting the electricity from the Apple battery by plugging in a jack from my device into the iPhone charging port. Would this work?
In the iOS Mail app (9.3.3), is there a way to whitelist senders for whom I wish to load remote images? Thanks!
I had trouble getting my son's iPhone 5s to show up on my Find my iPhone. We finally got that working, but all of his contacts were on my phone and mine were gone. We had to totally delete all contacts and start over, but now, my phone thinks it is two phone numbers. It shows my number as "This device" and his number as "This device". When I try to text him, I text myself, and he doesn't get any of them. I can call him and he can call me, however. I really don't want to mess up the Find my iPhone because it was such a pain to get it working in the first place.
I was trying to manage storage and deleting pictures to clear up space. I went back to my home screen and noticed something was different. Well it seems my Safari icon is gone. Also iTunes and my AppStore is nowhere to be found. It's been this way for two weeks and I've been tryin to search all through my phone to find em. When I go to settings I can't find any if them either. I thought about askin Siri to bring em up for me but she seems to be gone also!! And it comes up some voice control thing! Can anyone help?! How can I get them back?
I use Plex to watch TV/Movies (which stream from my home network) and I AirPlay it to my Apple TV. When AirPlaying, I have no problem navigating away to check my messages, etc.
My question is essentially the same as this question: AskDifferent.SE: How can I change the default width of Finder columns? But I am concerned about "List" view, not "Columns" view.
When I use the Cmd ⌘ Ctrl ⌃ Space , It does not open the Emoji viewer, but opens a 'Search My Mac' in the Finder.
I have created my Time Machine backup in El Capitan (and updated the backup few hours later). Then I decided to enroll in Sierra Beta. At the moment I'm writing this, TM is backing up my content to my ubuntu server via AFP (in Sierra PB1). Does Time Machine modify the backup by OS version on it's own or does it remove the old OS backup?
I am trying to upgrade my SVN version on OSX 10.11 El Capitan. I installed the latest SVN version by brew install svn. When I am typing svn --version I am still getting the old version. From a lot of reading, I understand that I need to change the symbolic link form the old SVN to the new SVN that was installed with brew. This is made by deleting the old symbolic link with sudo rm /usr/bin/svn and then creating the new one by sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/svn /usr/lib/svn. the problem is that the new "System Integrity Protection" of the OS X El Capitan is blocking the accesses to /usr/bin directory. I found a simple way to disable the SIP but I am searching for a way to do this without disabling SIP. Is there a way to do this? What will be the best practice?
I have installed first public beta yesterday. Now App Store says there is a second update to public beta. There is no problem with network or internet at all but somehow update stucks at 0 bytes and no progress. Any suggestions to fix this problem?
I'm searching for an app (for my iPhone 5S) that takes photos (without stopping) every X seconds. The requirement is an app that takes photos, not videos or directly generates a time lapse animation. For example: I set "shoot every 1.00 second" and here it is: the phone starts taking pictures every second (through that app of course). Does anyone know some app for that no matter if it's free or paid?
So my iCloud email told me I didn't have enough storage. I couldn't send or receive emails. Which I just realized I wasn't getting any new emails. I just added more gb. My question is will I never get those emails sent out during the time I didn't have enough storage?
Guys yesterday i asked my brother to delete python 2.7 and install python 3.5 but rather than delete parts of python, he deleted all /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. At this point /usr/bin is empty and /usr/local/bin just has the python files that i downloaded today. Terminal is not working (e.g. i can't even clear ,it says command not found. And btw he told me about 2 files called 'IDLE' and 'BuildApplet' we can't delete them what's about that files i know they were in the python 2.7. I'm not sure what to do to fix things up - can I undelete or recover these specific files?
I sign in, and go to the sign up page. That's where I have to accept the terms. Everytime I click the accept button, it reverts back to the sign up page. It's not taking me to the download profile page. I'm on mobile safari iOS 9.3.3 and wondering if I can enroll from that device or if e signup process is broken?
About two weeks ago, iTunes stopped recognizing my iTunes library. I get this message when I go to either File → Library → Update iCloud Music Library or Update Genius:
Does anybody have issues with Excel or any other office applications when opening them? Module 'merp' causes office apps to crash. Have you found a fix to this? Office 2016, macOS Sierra Public Beta 1 (16A238m)
As a newbie to Macs I thought putting files into iCloud would save me SSD space, but now I see that is not the case. I also have Dropbox and I was wondering if there is a way to transfer files from iCloud to Dropbox and use Dropbox's selective sync option to keep some of the files stored there from cluttering up my SSD. Early 2015 MacBook Air, 128 GB SSD, OS X 10.11.5 "El Capitan".
I am using the most current version of my Mac (OS X El Capitan). While I am not at all tech savvy, I have been saving some photos I would rather not everyone allowed to see in folders under my Finder. I have not locked the folder yet, but I notice all my photos that I am hiding under photos show up under "All My Files", I am wondering if there is a way to have these photos NOT show up under All My Files and only be saved in those folders. Thank You
I am going on a long flight and have purchased (and downloaded) some movies. Is it possible to download all the iTunes Extras so that it can be viewed offline?
The Facebook website itself is fine. But even in the same browser (I tried this with both Safari and Opera Mini), the little blue F for sharing a New York Times article (likewise several similar sites like Vox) brings an Error message. No details except "We are working on it." But I am not having any problem doing this on a desktop, so I think it is Apple or something about my iPad in particular. Ideas?
I have an old 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) which I recently upgraded with a new SSD from OWC (currently in Bay 4). I transfered my OS to that drive, and ever since the computer reboots instead of waking up from sleep.
I am working on an app that manages authentication keys, and I need to store them in hardware, because maximum security is absolutely essential. I did some research and only newer versions of Android actually integrate the KeyStore with hardware, but I can't find any source that clearly specifies the earliest version of iOS in which the KeyChain API or the like can be used to cache keys in the Secure Enclave.
Today when I got home and awoke my MacBook Air (running OS X 10.11.6) from sleep by lifting up the lid to login into it, I noticed the little Screen Sharing icon in the top-right corner (to the left of the battery percentage). I took this screenshot the moment I noticed it, but as soon as I actually logged in the icon disappeared. I am worried because I have always had Screen Sharing disabled in System Preferences and it has never been enabled, even if I try to start a Screen Sharing session from another computer to mine (I tested it through Messages on another mac) it is outright rejected. I also could not find any logs to indicate that there was a Screen Sharing session active or attempted. Is there any way to check if my system has been accessed, and if so by whom?
I'm considering getting a wireless headset for my iPhone (and the upcoming iPhone). During my search, I found that some of Bang & Olufsen headsets are supporting AAC codec, such as H5 and H7. Does it worth to get a headset with AAC codec considering that AAC is an Apple standard? Is there a noticeable difference between a headset that supports AAC codec and a one that doesn't? I'm an Apple Music user.
By using open, I can open a file via terminal. For example:
Is it possible to tweak siri to execute shell commands? Has anyone done it by now? Maybe use Automator can help to make this easier?
I set up an SMB server on my Mac by going to System Preferences > Settings > Sharing and enabling File Sharing. Afterwards, I tried to access it from my Arch Linux laptop. It asked for my password, as I expected, and I enter my Mac's login password. The dialog keeps showing however.
I am using the Mac OS Contacts app version 9.0 (latest). I only have the option to "Look for duplicates..." which will then allow an auto-merge option if it finds duplicate. What it doesn't do is show me which entries will be merged.
I can change the address bar search engine but it doesn't effect the special dial search engine. I like to know where to find its setting. Here is a screenshot.
I am currently a thousand miles away from home and will be for 2 months more. Today, another bad thing appended on my Weekend, locking myself out of my mobile, since I wrote the PIN wrongly 3 times. However, tomorrow I will have to go to work, how am I going to wake up?!
As shown in the picture below, within the highlighted green area, is there a way to put a text in the center of the menu bar?
I want to do it before iOS 10 launches and it becomes impossible to use 9. But I'm skeptical given the low-config nature of 5C.
I have three Macs and one Apple ID. If I remove a folder or individual photos from Photos on one computer, will it disappear on the others? What's the best way to manage this so each computer can be used independently?
My daughters iPhone (iOS 6) has been getting text messages from Unknown. There is no way to block this message. The content of the message is Message not found.
I have an old MacMini whose former Thunderbird display is no longer available. Can I perform simple management tasks (such as wiping the disk clean) without an external display?
The picture says it all ("6.06 of 4.43"!?!). Never seen anything like it! Shall I leave it, or re download? What is the size meant to be of Xcode 8 Beta 3?
There is a process »Crash Report« in the Activity Monitor which uses 10-25% and constantly disappears and shows up again. When I quit it from the activity monitor it comes back right away. Also, the MacBook fan is going crazy. In the systemlog I see this entry several times per second:
My iPhone has recently stopped making any sound, it will only vibrate when something happens, and I can only hear anything when I'm calling someone or have headphones in. I know that there isn't a blown out speaker, I've checked to see that it isn't on silent or on do not disturb, what do I do?
I'm moving my music library, which is FLAC files, from Windows to Mac. I'm exploring several ways of doing this, including (1) using an OS X media player that actually supports FLAC files (such as JRiver), (2) using iTunes and converting my FLAC files to Apple Lossless.
My console log the past week has been full of these errors. Generally they appear when anything accesses a google domain using HTTPS, such as loading fonts, or google analytics, or even google css files from their CDNs. How do I figure out what can do this? My ISP is brighthouse/charter. Until recently this didn't happen. I have switched DNS providers, cleaned the DNS cache, no extensions other than 1password, restarted, removed history, tried Chrome (same problems). No idea what to do now.
UPDATE: (1) Everything works correctly in one building but is weird in another. The difference is the physical WiFi access point. Same SSID, same password, the two directories in the same disk on the same server.
I have a 5K iMac, late 2015, running El Capitan. Two days ago, I enabled FileFault. After that, when I wake up, I find that the machine has rebooted to the login screen, showing me icons for all available users. At the bottom is a message about what to do if I'm unable to type my password. It happened last night, and the night before that, which is the first night after FileVault was enabled. I have "log out after X minutes of inactivity" deselected. I suspect it was a power failure, but I have a UPS, and "Start up automatically after a power failure" is deselected, so that can't be the reason. These are the log entries from the middle of the night:
My Facebook Messenger app will not open, and when I click it nothing happens. It will not let me delete the app. My iPod was updating the app for over a whole day and nothing was happening, as I am in Thailand at the moment with very bad Internet. I tried to delete the app so I could reinstall it. However, nothing happens, and now it remains shaded grey and says 'waiting' at the bottom.
Sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I find my iMac's screen suddenly come on, but with all pixels black. On one occasion, I also found color bars like
So, while I wait for a new battery to arrive, I would like to make the laptop at least hibernate before I unplug it. So far, trying things like sudo pmset hibernatemode 25 standby 1 standbydelay 0 haven't made this work yet. If I close the laptop or do pmset sleepnow, wait even a few hours and then unplug the AC & then reboot, the system is always starting afresh (no previous state to be restored, and loses system time).
I have a Mac, and a Magic Keyboard paired with it. I now want to use the keyboard with my iPad. To do so, I first need to unpair it from the Mac.
How can I enable dark theme of GUI? I can not believe that it is not possible. As I googled - theming was possible at the past but now for security reasons I need look to the bright screen at night. Quote from flavours.interacto.net: Apple introduced a new security policy on OS X El Capitan, preventing every process (even privileged ones) from modifying system files, either on filesystem or dynamically at runtime. No workaround?
I have tried syncing mp3 files I downloaded from a youtube converter (youtube-mp3.org), imported them to iTunes and then tried unsucessfully to sync them. My school has requested that I download a certain list of apps to use at school, i don't have an Apple ID so my dad synced the apps using his computer. Problem is that my iPad only syncs to his computer ever since he synced the apps. Are there any FREE solutions to fix this?
Can anyone help me understand what this is? The line is persistent and i'm not sure it's because of a faulty LCD or something else. Is there a way to fix it?
I am thinking to upgrade my RAM to be 16GB. However Apple states up to 8GB only. Anyone has experience upgraded RAM more than Apple allows?
I am wondering if it is possible to download document & data of a backup of a specific app from icloud to computer local.
Rrunning macOS 10.12, Sierra, on my secondary Mac and am fairly happy with stability and all that. Nonetheless the one thing bugging me to the max is the incompatibility of GPGTools. I know that it isn't GPGTools fault. What would be a recommended alternative to decrypt gpg/pgp emails coming into Mail 10.0 ? Yes, I am aware that I shouldn´t be running production stuff on a beta.
I just searched for a folder with that tool and now I want the 'history' of it cleared. I mean, I don't want it to show the last place(folder) I've gone by that thing. I tried Relaunching Finder while that window (that asks to enter an address) was open, it worked but only once. Now it doesn't work.(I did this on 10.7 and worked, but it didn't work on 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10)
There are a couple of background images and styles in Apple's 'Pages' and 'Keynote' softwares, that I was planning to include for my website and mobile app. Would this be intellectual property infringement? I was not able to find this answer in the license agreement of Pages, and Keynote, or may be i missed it since i am not a lawyer. Are these default content opensource?
When I ran OS X Yosemite, I worked on a .numbers file. Just recently, I needed to acces the contents of that file. However, the file opens only in Preview, and the Numbers app appears to be a paid one. I don't remember Numbers being a paid app in the last release of OS X.
When I use defaults write domain key value the information is written to ~/Library/Preferences/domain.plist. When I use the -currentHost flag, it has a higher priority then when I just use defaults without a specified host.
I have an external, long range, wifi antenna that I use for picking up internet and I also have a wireless nmea network on my boat for my marine instruments. The problem that I am experiencing is that I must disconnect from my nmea network in order to get anywhere on the internet because when I have both wifi nets active, the Macbook Pro wants to use the nmea network to connect to the internet and it can't. It doesn't matter which way I connect [internet on airport/nmea on external, or the other way around] the internet is inaccessible when the nmea net is active. Can I make it so that the internet will only come through the external antenna and the nmea net will only come through airport? Thanks for any help
How do I turn the SSH Agent off? I'm having troubles with Vagrant and it indicates that I should disable my SSH Agent before continuing, yet I can't find a straight forward answer. How would I do it?
So I have this "Citrix Receiver" item in my menu bar and I want to remove it. I have looked to see if I have an app in my system by that name and there is nothing. I did a search and nothing comes up. I have used "App Cleaner" to search for it and try to clean it and nothing.
I copied everything from a camera and now I have hundreds of folders like this: Just an example (there are actually 100's, maybe 1000's). How can I get all pictures in to a single folder so that they're easier to go through and sort?
If me and my two kids share the same iCloud and I constantly see them sharing my materials. How can I separate without loosing my personal stuff?
Have been searching for an hour. I am halfway through, but not getting very far. Does anyone know what code to use to 'Bring All Hidden and Minimized Apps to Front'? Regards.
I have installed the Chrome SSH client in my Chrome browser. How can I make the application association for "chrome-extension://" to the Chrome browser? I would like to execute this command in Terminal to run application. Here is my current workaround:
I recently updated my iPad Pro to iOS 9.3.3 and noticed that my dictionary always gives the message "No definition found". This might have started earlier and I just didn't notice until now. I tried selecting Manage from the bottom left of the empty dictionary message, however, I still get the same message and no dictionaries to add. I already tried to restore my iPad with no success. Now I updated it to 9.3.4 and the dictionary problem isn't fixed.
I'm trying to install Social Engineering Toolkit (S.E.T) on OS X Lion. I found these commands in the internet: git clone *=URL=* cd social-engineer-toolkit python setup.py install setoolkit But after I do python setup.py install it gives me this output:
I am creating a 'Quit All' keyboard shortcut. I have the Quit All Applications system command and the AppleScript to close open Finder windows (without it, Finder windows stay open). However, if no Finder window is open, an error sound plays every time. I therefore need to code the script to check if there are any open Finder windows, and if this is the case, to then close them. Here is the code I have so far:
I have recently upgraded to SSD (Samsung Evo 850) from HDD on my MacBook Pro Mid-2012. However, the installation of SSD has been very painful. I tried to use Disk Utility in recover mode many times but it would fail either to erase or mount the SSD, even though it recognized that the SSD was plugged in. I thought it was the faulty SSD.
I have a brand new Macbook Air and since first start fan is pretty loud. I've tried SMC restart but that didn't helped. Now I have installed SMC FAN CONTROL and it's showing that fan speed is currently 6945rpm after the restart, and before it was at 7065rmp.
Please refer this youtube video to see the issue : *=URL=* As it can be seen in the video , as soon as I change the tab the RAM usage reduces to more than half than what it was when I was on the tab with youtube opened. What could be causing this issue? Also while scrolling on a tab with youtube the frames stuck a lot while on the other tab its smooth.
I am trying to assign a keyboard shortcut to the screenshot app window feature (if you didn't know, it is ⌘⇧+4, then Space, which allows you to take a screenshot of a single app window). I have been trying to code it as an AppleScript for almost an hour, but there is something I am missing; I am only getting the standard screenshot selection feature. The code I have so far is:
I am able to upload Live Photos from my iPhone to Macbook. I am able to view the Live Photos within Photos.app. However, when I transfer a Live Photo from 'Photos Library.photoslibrary' to another location only a still .jpg is saved. How can I transfer Live Photos to other locations on my Macbook - keeping them Live?
I have a Macbook Air 6.2 (mid 2013). If I install Linux or Windows 10 (native or through Boot Camp) I experience some very disturbing screen flickering or screen corruption.
With Safari on the ipad (currently iOS 9.3.3 but also prior versions), often I have 5-10 tabs open. Regularly (ie once a fortnight) when I open a new tab or switch to view a different tab and at that moment, Safari cycles between all open tabs and closes each of them until nothing is open. I thought it may be a memory error or something, so I've gone to settings and cleared the history/cache, but even 10mins later after doing that, Safari did the same thing again.
I am trying to get save on my iCloud but I can't remember the password of my me.com account. how do I reset the password? I tried everything I thought it might be. I tried to change it but can't remember my hint. It doesn't do any good to have an email sent to me when I can't remember the password for the account. What do I do?
I was trying to open a png file, but for some reason the xdg-open and gnome-open commands weren't working. For example:
Booting into Safe Mode fails to solve the issue, though a spinning wheel (such as the one on the boot screen from old OS X versions) is overlayed on top of the loading bar. Booting into the recovery partition works fine (though the name is strangely “Recovery-10.11.2”.) Booting onto a clean installation on an external drive works as well.
I've searched but cannot find the exact situation I have with Apple ID and App Store. On my work iMac I have signed into App Store and downloaded software (El Capitan, Microsoft Remote Desktop to name a couple) with my personal Apple ID, but now I want to use a work Apple ID I have created. I cannot perform updates with my work account (as it didn't download the apps originally), is there a way of transferring these downloads from my personal account to my work account?
I have macbook pro 2015 model with El Capitan. Today when i clicked on reminder notification after login it fluctuated and finally went to black screen.
In safari, ibooks, notes there is no any dictionary to show/download after define and manage. Just empty list of rows. Reset all settings and update from 9.3.2 to 9.3.3 not help. It happened after update from 8 to 9 ios.
High CPU consumption, 33% battery, suddenly MacBook Pro Retina shuts down saying it needs to be plugged in. I plug it in and then Mac works fine and battery level is at 33%. I googled this, found nothing. Any idea what might be wrong ? Battery needs replacement ? Battery looks ok:
I'm from the Windows world, new to Mac. I need the column view of the Finder for most work I do with it, but I'm frustrated that many of the file or folder names are too long to fit. I have read about tricks for "resizing" the columns, but (1) I need to minimize my mouse clicking due to repetitive strain injury, (2) it seems like an obvious function to just automatically size properly.
I want to use Google/Android emoji (noto font) instead of the standard apple emoji set. Can I do that on mac? sudo cp Downloads/NotoColorEmoji-unhinted/NotoColorEmoji.ttf /library/fonts/Apple\ Color\ Emoji.ttf doesn't change anything and SIP prevents changes to /System/Library/Fonts/Apple Color Emoji.ttf I'm running 10.11.6 on a 5k iMac if it makes a difference
I just updated my iPad to iOS 9.3.3 this morning and immediately have been having problems with glitching and freezing. Hard restart will usually work but then within 2 minutes of using it, it freezes again.
I am new to Mac and I don't know very much about the operating system. I am used to Windows where I had a C partition for the OS and other partitions for data. When I wanted a fresh install I only formatted the C drive.
This 1345-page PDF (direct link, 28.2 MB) seems to be malformed : I regularly encounter problems when viewing it (Preview freezes so I have to force quit& restart it ; by the way I downloaded and saved it first, of course) I regularly encounter problems when viewing it (Preview freezes so I have to force quit& restart it ; by the way I downloaded and saved it first, of course) I tried to split it into smaller chunks with cpdf or Preview tools, but that also fails ; cpdf gives me error messages like this : Pdf.PDFError("Could not read object whilst reading file big_one.pdf at position 22692185") Pdf.PDFError("No /Root entry whilst reading file big_one.pdf at position 28182065") I tried to split it into smaller chunks with cpdf or Preview tools, but that also fails ; cpdf gives me error messages like this : Any ideas on how to fix this ?
On my iPhone's home screen I have created a folder wherein I have placed few of my private apps which I don't have to be accessed if someone just incase uses my phone. How can I restrict the user from opening that folder or to be specific to how add passcode on the folder at iPhone's home screen. I also search for appStore but didn't find any relevant app.
I'm trying to execute a pretty simple renaming script, but am unable to do so with an Automator workflow and my scripting knowledge is totally inadequate (this is ultimately for use with Hazel). The equivalent that I'm trying to execute in Name Mangler is to: 'remove 2 characters starting at index 1 - counting from start' and 'remove 2 characters starting at index 2 - counting from end' Any assistance would be appreciated; AppleScript, Java and Shell are all fine as this will be embedded in Hazel.
El Capitan 10.11.4 Server I've been accessing a php site I'm developing at *=URL=* But after I turn on SSL for that route I get a 403 You don't have permission to access /crm_tollring/web/ on this server. In the Apache log is : AH01276: Cannot serve directory /Users/george/Sites/myproject/web/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.php,/xcode/,/wiki/,default.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive So, I figure I have to remove the `Options -Indexes' directive from the apache conf for SSL... somewhere? It seems like the configuration files for running the Apache instance is: /Library/Server/Migrated/private/etc/apache2/ (even though configs also exist at /private/etc/apache2/) I checked httpd-ssl.conf, but can't find it there. Can someone can help me pinpoint the configuration for this?
I've tried to install Panda3D sdk, but I've received an error, saying the application isn't made by a known developer so I can't install it due to my security settings. I understand this precaution is made by Apple against malware. However I still want to install Panda3d, how can I be sure it isn't a malware or has malware in it?
I have a to-do app and there is a frustrating black Undo/Hide box that appears and stays there for 10 seconds, every single time you edit an item, or simply move one. In other words, it is there half of the time.
I commute daily, and listen to Podcasts / iBooks to calm the nerves of traffic. Once I get in my car and put the earphones in, iOS suggest that I play my podcasts (this is annoying, but ok - so I tap play). Half way home, my podcast would just stop abruptly, and I'll have to physically open the app again and hit play on the podcast. The same happens when I'm doing audiobooks. I cannot figure out if this is a location based problem (it feels that way) - however I cannot find any setting that's related to this. Have anybody any insight into what this might be?
I have been using Time Machine on 10.9.5 for quite a while now and recently needed to restore a file. I always thought that TM would copy new/modified files and make hard links for files that did not change, in order for every snapshot to appear as a complete backup.
My understanding is that RegEx will not do this. What will?
If I highlight text (drag and select with mouse) then hit delete, it sometimes only deletes 1 character, from the selection. Has anyone had similar problems?
I have connected my macBookPro multiples screens from left to right, 1,2,3,4,5... Is there any keyboard shortcut to just move my cursor from monitor 1 to monitor 5 without me needing to drag my mouse all the way? Or possibly a keyboard shortcut that would also move my cursor to the new focused(I mean if I switch apps using Cmmd + Tab) app
I downloaded this application (code composer studio from TI) and installed it and two applications showed up inside a folder called "TI (other)", one application called eclipse and another called "ti_distpack". But if i navigate to /Applications i see the TI folder which contains an alias to an app "Code Composer Studio." This is the application i want, the alias links to an app inside a folder inside that TI directory inside /Applications. I copied the alias and pasted the alias into /Applications to make the icon show up in my launchpad but no dice. I tried to manually created a symbolic link to the real app by doing ln -s /Applications/ti/ccsv6/eclipse/Ccstudio.app /Applications/ and it created the alias but still won't show up in the launchpad.
I have installed Apache Maven 3.3.9 and tried to run it with command line using mvn. For this purpose, I added the following symlink but it doesn't work : I tried first :
I have MacBook Pro (Late 2013) and a router, that serves two wireless network (2.4GHz and 5GHz) with different names. Most of my devices are connected to 2.4GHz network, while some are connected to 5GHz network. I'm running on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
I want to install W10 on my macBook Pro, after searching about a solution all ideas seems dont work with me. Now, I Follow instruction for BootCamp, i restart my MBP, it gave an error message: No bootable disk found, please insert ... I went with restarting and option solution I selected the EFI boot going to W10 and when I want install it on BOOTCAMP partition it wont. when I want to return to the begening, i deleted the BootCamp partition and another partition wich has 600 Mo about, but when i want restarting with my Mac Ox it wont boot, i clicked on option, and here no Machintosh partition is here, I think that I deleted the boot partition. please can somone give me a solution to reinstall it without formating my MAC
I have a Mac which was used by another coworker. I've never used a Mac computer before and I found it very hard to get used to the keyboard. I've noticed that something may be wrong with the control key, or I don't know how to use it properly. I cannot: Create keyboard shortcuts that are using control, Use control-U to clear the entire line in iTerm2.
When I'm initiating a call using any 3rd party app like Slack or Google Hangouts using Bluetooth headset (I've tried a couple of different models from Bose) on my iPhone I'm experiencing very loud noise. When I'm connecting headset during the call or listening music it just works as expected. Initially, I was blaming defective headset, so I tried few different models, and it's the same. Did anyone experience something like that?
I just want to verify the following holds true for installing kexts in 10.11 via the shell and that there are no other steps missing: As I understand it, it may be useful to also do the following as far as the kext caches go in current OS releases: Fix disk permissions Reboot: *NOTE: the process seems to have changed over the last couple years from this (especially with regards to the kext caches) and I would like to receive verification.
I recently got a new iPhone. I backed up my old iPhone in iTunes, and then set up my new iPhone as a restore-from-backup. However, I was just looking at my new iPhone and realized some apps failed to copy over. Is there a way to copy the app data from the old iPhone to the new-but-already-setup iPhone, or do I need to start over?
I am trying to install GNU sed. Following this post I did
I'm a bit nervous about those, because the machines are different, and I don't want the 13" to screw up the 15" drive. (I do have a write-protect switch on my USB/SATA adapter, but I had to connect the 15" disk in writeable mode so that the journal could replay. However, the filesystems were/are all intact, so I don't think any damage was done.)
I would like to completely remove the "Learn Spelling" option from the contextual (right click) menu. I want to be able to remove this item across all applications.
I recently switched to OS X from linux. And the thing that annoys me really much is ugly white spaces at the right and the bottom of the screen. You can see it at the picture attached. And I can't resize the window.
Often, though not always, I am unable to bring up the text insertion magnifying glass on certain web pages by performing a long tap within the text field. Usually, doing a long tap (holding a single finger down) within a text field will cause the magnifying glass to appear which facilitates accurate placement of the text insertion cursor. But there are times when I hold my finger down to place the insertion within a text entry field, usually to make corrections, and absolutely nothing happens! Usually it works like it is supposed to, but it seems that I'm finding more and more often that at times, and especially on certain web pages, I am only able to insert text in an existing line of text by doing a quick, hard tap, usually somewhere after where I wanted to place it, backspace to the point I wanted to make the change at, make the change, and retype everything I just backspaced over.
I have two external hard drives connected to my Mac with OS X El Capitan. I am using one of the external hard drives with Time Machine as the back up hard drive only. The second external hard drive I use to store my many photos. How can I get Time Machine to back up both the internal Mac hard drive and the external hard drive storing my photos? Right now, it will only back up the Mac internal hard drive. I need it to also back up the external hard drive.
Is there any way to set iCloud backup / photo sync so it only uploads within certain times of day? We have an up-to-date iPad Pro that periodically saturates our home internet connection (such that we can't surf the web). When it happens, if we put the iPad in Airplane mode, the problem goes away. We've done our best at differential diagnosis, turning off iCloud backup and turning it back on, etc., but since iOS doesn't always resume its uploading when we turn it back on (we haven't worked out the rules yet), it's hard to be sure. But we're fairly certain we've isolated it to iCloud > Backup and/or iCloud > Photos. As opposed to, say, some kind of malware.
Prior to setting a name in Siri, it does not call you by a name. For example ("I'm not sure what you said" rather than "I'm not sure what you said, insert name here"). So how do I revert to the behavior of not getting called a name after I have set one. There is no option to do that in Settings > General > Siri except changing to a different contact.
Why are they asking me for this? What is it used for? EDIT: Some have suggested that this is a recent effort to encrypt all of the iCloud data: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4b70xy/starting_with_ios_93_apple_will_encrypt_icloud/?st=irfs7s30&sh=2a9995dc
So I wrote a small service that, when hotkey is pressed, captures a screenshot, uploads it to imgur and copies the link to the buffer. Thing is, if for some reason I decide NOT to capture anything and press Esc (or any other key), it breaks and displays an error. I want the service not to display an error when I manually cancel the procedure. How do I achieve that?
Online Storage can be dropbox, google drive whatever. You only have files saved there but not on the mac. But when you upload from the online storage directly to a website, i am guessing the file has to go thru the mac, and does it get stored somewhere in the mac, then?
Can any one suggest to me how to delete the /cores directory, which is filled up with lot of core dumps automatically and my profile crashes. Any help?
I have searched as well as tried so many ways on downgrading from OS X 10.11 to OS X 10.9 on a new Mac mini which is loaded with OS X 10.11 but it always fails. Are there any tweaks or ways which can be used to achieve this?
Looking for a way to control precisely which process or application is allowed to communicate with the network in a low connectivity context, I found the pfctl command which seems to be designed for the job. I would like to allow only a few applications to connect to the network (ie: ping and Mail) and remove Apple unnecessary services. Here is my current /etc/pf.conf file: I try to understand the pfctl status with this command: Is it possible to achieve the filtering I want with pfctl and how?
While the version of Boot Camp Assistant that comes with El Capitan does all the correct things to make Windows 10 bootable if run locally, we are not aware of anyway to do the partition manipulations necessary remotely. We need a deployment to situate the Windows 10 image in a bootcamp partition that conforms to the new iMac requirement that the Boot Camp image is a EFI boot.
I'm having to hold and press links in Safari to open the pages - I used to just touch it and it would open. I prefer the latter but how do change it back? I can't find any info online (probably because I don't know the correct terminology to perform an effective search).
I have 2 questions. The first is does it matter if the memory in the four memory slots are from different manufacturers? What is the best memory chip for this model iMac? I need 2 x 8 memory chips. Thank you
I have my 3rd gen Apple TV connected to an xfinity hotspot (that's the only wifi I have right now) and the remote app from my iPhone 6 Plus S isn't finding it on the air play menu? They are both connected to the same xfinity hotspot. I can mirror air play but my remote app just won't find my Apple TV. I tried three different apps too and none of them are working. Some help would be best appreciated. Thanks
We noticed strange behaviour on a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.11.6 where the routing table is populated with hundreds of host entries for every website/host that the user has accessed. If he accesses a new host you can immediately see the new routing entry. Examples of these entries below: The BSD docs show that the 'W' flag is 'The route was auto-configured based upon a local area network'.
If I highlight text in a PDF, save it, close it, and reopen it, the newly opened version has a large part of the right margin cut off, and the highlight is displace (see image). This only occurs on some PDFs. Anyone know why this occurs or how to fix this?
I am on mac ElCapitan 10.11.6 (15G31) and running simple rack application rackup -p 5004. I can connect to it with *=URL=* and *=URL=* But can't connect with *=URL=* and http://192.168.0.111:5004/.
I have an unknown enormous number of browser tabs open in Google Chrome on iOS (iPad). The number of tabs has quietly grown over time, primarily through following links in Gmail that then opens a new tab in Chrome.
I have a 2012 Retina Macbook pro I use for work, with software that is windows only. I'm getting a bit tired of having to remember to hold down the option key every time I reboot. I know I can tell bootcamp to "reboot into windows", but that only sticks for one reboot.
In activing Open Directory on a new install of OS X, I am able to put in a diradmin name/password, and they I get the following dialog: This computer's host name is invalid.
Does anyone know of a tiny pseudo-app that adds fake menubar widgets, ones that take effectively no resources and have no icon, so I can ‘space out’ my menubar? (I ask because I use Bartender.app, and have ~30 menubar apps; they get pretty hard to skim over all in one line :P)
So I have this little script that, when launched does a screenshot of the current screen and then fires up an image editor to edit the image. However, I noticed that every time the editor is being fired up, it just hangs in the background — as in, it doesn't pop up on my screen so sometimes I just sit there wondering what the hell when I suddenly realize I need to do the edits for script to go on and that the image editor is already waiting on me to find it in Dock. Is there a way to make it start on top of other windows?
I cant delete or rename current version of git... Even with sudo...
I'm very new to Macs and I'm trying to install VirtualBox 5.1.2. Once I download the dmg file and double click on it, I get a virtualbox window asking me to double click on a pkg file. The problem is the pkg file presents a loader labeled verifing "VirtualBox.pkg"..., see the image below, and does nothing else - Virtualbox simply does not install.
I want to use iBooks to read the pdf I have synchronized on my old Iphone 4 (iOS7). I can't install it from the appstore on my phone because the latest version of iBooks require iOS 10.
I have a MacBook Air 2008 running 10.5.8, and I need to install 10.11 on it instead. Since there is no app-store, one of the ways is to find an install CD of 10.6, and then install El-Capitan. I however want to avoid this, as I don't have the install CD.
I'm running Windows 8.1 on Parallels 10.4.0 for Mac. My issue is that every time I double click my mouse there is a 'c' character randomly inputted, which is very annoying. There is a solution from this link talking about the same issue, but I am unable to get this to work. Has anyone ever had the same problem?
I am running OS X El Capitan, and any solutions I have found are out of date. I can add a colour to my swatch drawer by dragging it. However, how do I remove a colour? All the articles I have read suggest dragging an adjacent white cell onto the colour, but the empty cells are no longer white and and attempting to drag an empty cell does nothing. Thanks
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro running OSX El Capitan 10.11.6. I cannot erase a CD-RW that I have inserted into it. Disk Utility's erase button is disabled for it, and Finder's menu for the mounted CD does not show 'Erase rewritable disc'. System Information reports that it supports CD-RW and it knows the media in the drive is a CD-RW. Pictures supporting this are here: screenshots from my Mac:
Like this image suggests, the game centre cannot be quit, and there is nothing there. All I can do to quit the game centre is to force quit it. Does anyone know how to solve this? Is this kind of bug or something similar? I did not open the game centre before. This is the first time I open it since I installed el capitan.
I use VirtualBox 5 with an OS X 10.11 guest. I resized a VBox HDD from 20 GB to 29 GB. Now I want add the 9 GB to the main OS X volume.
At one point, my Macbook Pro (Late-2011 13 in. ver) started experiencing this issue every time it tries to wake up from a long sleep (longer than 1hr approximately). It fails to wake, and reboots instead, showing the pop-up that the os has shut down unexpectedly. It runs on a new SSD which replaced the old HDD.
When I plug in my Apple earbuds to record audio, much like I do on my iPhone for video blogs, I can use the earbuds microphone to record crisper audio than the internal mic. I want to do the same on my Mac. When I open Quicktime and I select an audio input (whether I'm doing a screen recording or audio recording), it only allows me to select the internal microphone, whether they're plugged in or not.
I want to upgrade my Mac to at least OS 10.9. It's running 10.6.8 now and has an Intel Core i5 processor. I've been making backups to an external drive via Time Machine, and I read that one step before upgrading is making sure my backups are good. One way to check is to boot up my laptop from the backup drive. But I was recently told that my current OS doesn't support booting up from my external drive, which I confirmed (the drive doesn't show on the screen while I have Option pressed during startup). What are my options for making sure the backups are good?
As you can see, they are -rw-r--r-- and so on. I would like to change it to 644 or 755. How could I do to change it? (Please, this is not a question about sudo chown.)
I'm using Time Machine with encrypted backups on my macbook air. A few weeks ago, I selected "remember my computer," when typing in the password to allow my time machine to backup, so now, when I plug in my external drive, it doesn't ask me for the password. I've been looking for the option to switch it back recently and can't find it anywhere. Anyone know where this would be located?
I dropped my iPhone 5s in water and then cracked it... Vegas what can I say? It was working that day but, the next it just went black and didn't work anymore. When I connected to the computer, it is recognized but it says is locked and obviously, I can't unlock it from the phone, is there a way to unlock it from my Mac? How do I retrieve my pictures from an iPhone I can't unlock?
When I close the lid, it goes to sleep mode. But sometimes I need my MacBook awake even when the lid is closed while downloading a very large file from the internet or listening to iTunes playlists.
I have a bash script imagecopy.sh that backups images which are located in a subdirectory with a prepended date string: this works perfectly fine when I execute it from the directory it resides in - /Users/danny/Library/Caches/. The script is I have also added the directory where the script is located to my $PATHusing nano .profile and confirmed this using echo $PATH. I would like to run the bash script periodically using a LaunchAgent, located in /Users/danny/Library/LaunchAgents. The LaunchAgent file com.user.imagecopier.plistreferences the script location by the lines.. I presume there is a mistake linking the LaunchAgent file to the script, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Updated LaunchAgent File as Suggested
I'm newbie for XMPP/ejabberd. My system is "OS X EL Captain version 10.11.4" and As per my title said, I can't able to open ejabberd admin interface. When I click on "admin interface" not able to open admin panel. For more clear look at below Images.
I enabled iCloud Music Library and subscribed to Apple Music. I have iPhone with 16 GB and wish to delete all local music files, to free up space for other stuff. Before iCloud Music I would "not sync" my music files and then they get deleted from iPhone.
I was on Sierra public beta 1, then on the lock screen, while trying to open the Guest account, it restarted automatically. Now it won't boot up, the installer is failing with the following error:
with European connectors  obviating the need for the universal adapters.
I went to a coffee shop that had Wi-Fi this morning and they gave me the network name and password. In the top-right corner of my desktop there is the Wi-Fi menu, and I selected it to "Turn Wi-Fi On" It searched for a few seconds and correctly found their network.
My phone's internal storage has been pretty full recently- so I plugged it into my computer and iTunes said that somewhere around 11GB of my 11.7GB was "Documents and Data". But according to Manage Storage, none of the apps come close to filling that much space, and I even clicked into each one to check that iOS didn't flub up and not add Docs&Data to the total storage. I've been googling this for a few hours now, and I'm starting to lose hope of any solution other than resetting it.
Whenever I open the terminal a new window automatically opens up, I'd like to turn it off so that when I open the terminal I don't get a window and have to manually choose one from the shell menu. The reason is that I'm opening a 3rd party application which opens an REPL in the terminal, and thus when the app opens the terminal I get two windows, one is the REPL which I want, and the other is another default window which I don't.
I see these two log statements non-stop in my console logs.. I have previously tried to eliminate postfix using this command and But it keeps coming back to life after every reboot.
I downloaded some apps, and my data tracker showed I used significantly less data than the file size indicated on the apps. Is it possible that the app doesn't need to fully download if you're updating it?
Problem occurred when I realized that Teamviewer doesn't support audio streaming to receiver. I have to work with Logic Pro files when I'm at work (where I have a PC). And yes, I know about delaying the audio but I'm ready to get it. So I need to stream audio from Logic Pro to my work computer so I can do some music when I don't have a lot of working stuff.
I changed my Apple ID and everything is good, FaceTime works on my iPhone and Macbook. However, when I go to send a message on my Macbook, it says offline. Also, when I go to send a message, it doesn't deliver and the person who I'm trying to send to's name is red. I used to be able to send SMS messages as well, but now I can't send iMessage or SMS messages.
I am trying trying to generate a private key and a self signed certificate from my terminal on OS X El Capitan (10.11.1) using the commands below: each command that I run returns the following error message: Segmentation Fault: 11 If I run which openssl, I get the following:
How to fix this issue and sync iTunes to iPhone correctly? OS X Yosemite, iPhoto 9.6.1, iTunes 12.4.3.1; iPhone 5, iOS 9.3.3
I have to use Python3.4.1 because I receive this error when installing opencv3 with python3: the error is : I went ahead and uninstalled all the pythons using brew uninstall --force python3 and now when I type python I get: as expected. However when I downloaded the dmg package I got this error:
FAT and FAT32 file systems support file attributes like "read only". How can I change those under OS X? The standard chmod command does not seem to do the trick. How else can I do this?
I previously had my monitor set up through a VGA cable and I was able to play music through an audio jack on my monitor — All while listening to something else through my headphones plugged into my computer. Now that I switched from VGA to HDMI, it doesn't seem to do the same thing.
I have installed Windows 10 on my Mac with BootCamp. This week, Anniversary Update has been released. I wanted to install it. I have launch wizard to upgrade Windows. Windows restarts.
I created a copy of a working (but getting a few disk errors) 1TB spinning disk drive using dd. I can mount the image (hdiutil attach or just double click in Finder) no problem and see the files on the main HFS+ volume. However, I don't see the other partitions which I know are there (EFI, Recovery HD). I know these are there because if I restore the image directly to a physical drive, they are there.
I used the directions referenced in many places to make Outlook the default mail application on a MAC (by going to MAIL and clicking the Mail menu - Preferences to set it). I can not do that because Preferences is grayed out because I do not (nor am I allowed to on my work machine) have an iCloud account to reference in there or any other mail account. So what else can I do?
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display and recently I've had some issues with it. Firstly it began to not charge properly - the charger light would stay orange and never go to green, and it wouldn't boot up (I imagine the battery was discharged and was failing to charge). This seemed to resolve itself but lately it has been unusable due to the system being extremely sluggish (taking 10 minutes just to open Safari), and the fans being at top speed constantly. After some research I discovered I could run the Apple Hardware Test to diagnose any hardware failures/issues, and it indeed find a failure with the code below 4SNS/1/C0000008: Ts0P--124
I have a rather complicated playlist in iTunes called "Headbang." It looks like this:
If I plug in my headset or remove it, then sometimes I have to go to Preferences >> Sound and change the output manually or if I remember correctly simply going to that screen and not doing anything would fix it Is there any fix for this? I am using MacbookPro 2015 (El Capitan) and this happens when I connect a USB Logitech headphone
I uploaded a garageband song-file to iCloud on my iPad. Unfortunately i deleted it from iCloud (on my iPad) and its gone on both my iCloud drive and iPad local storage. Is it possible to recover my deleted file on iCloud or iPad?
Apple community! In a couple of months, I will be setting up a booth at my high school. My booth will probably have some sort of table or desk for my MacBook (see below for specs) and more relevantly, some type of tv or screen. I will need to be able to loop a video either from a file or YouTube (it doesn't matter as I will have it as both) on the screen, which I will probably connect to through my Thunderbolt port, which I can adapt to HDMI.
I've got a new iPhone SE with all settings transferred from iPhone 5. I noticed that once a day, at around lunchtime, the phone heats up for around an hour or two, eats half of the battery and presumably also sends or receives a lot of data over 3G because every few days I get a SMS from my provider alerting me that I used 80% of my prepaid 1GB data. The phone is not on charger when this happens (I usually it recharge overnight). This wasn't happening on the old iPhone 5 - there the 1GB of data lasted for a month or more and battery on light use easily for 2 days.
UPDATE: I downloaded Airmail. In Airmail I added my @icloud account and one of my @gmail accounts. @icloud.com e-mails still won't stay deleted, they keep reappearing (not all, just random ones). @gmail seems to be fine. So it doesn't appear to be the app that I'm using. Is this an issue with @icloud email?
iPhone 4S (VZN Model) with IOS 9.3.2 unlocked and works with TMO. What is the procedure / process to configure it for wifi calling. As I understand it IOS 8 supports wifi calling.
I am not sure what caused it but several apps are currently dying on startup every time I launch them. When I check Console.app I see they are all having Excessive Wakeups. Any ideas on what to check or how to debug this would be much appreciated!
I have a mid 2007 MacBook Pro that I want to get Ubuntu Linux on as the only OS. I have tried SO MANY TIMES to get a bootable USB working, but nothing is working. I have reset PRAM, used many different software, and more. Any help would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: I have gotten it to boot, but it gets stuck on this line:
For a long while now I've experienced USB devices intermittently disconnecting on my Macbook Pro Retina 2012 (El Capitan 10.11.2). I'm currently using a Targus 7 port USB 3 hub (*=URL=* but this problem existed when I was using an older USB hub. I bought this one in the hope it might resolve this problem, but it didn't. This USB hub is connected to its power adaptor. From memory this problem also existed before El Capitan update.
I need an Automator script which finds all files with illegal Windows characters like <>:/\\|?* and replaces these characters with an underscore. The rest of the filename should remain unchanged.
I heard someone say: The mic in the apple earphones is located in the earbuds itself - it listens to the vibrations from your head. I had always thought the earphones where in the volume adjuster box.
I can't use the sandbox-exec command as I expected. The problem is that I cannot apply a custom profile with the -f switch: I get "operation not permitted" error which I could not trace to anything useful when I searched online for a solution.
I don't use any Apple gear, so sorry I'm struggling to find answers, as I'm not quite sure how to phrase my question. My wife had a banking app on her phone, but our son managed to delete the icon from home screen (where all the app icons are). If she uses the search, it lists, and if we go to the app store, it gives the option to "Open" (and not "install"). So we assume it's still installed. How do I add this back so she can access it without having to search or open the App Store? Edit: To add, it's an iPhone 5 Thanks
If I close the last window of Microsoft Word on Desktop 1, and there is an open Microsoft Word window on Desktop 2, I am automatically swooshed over to Desktop 2. This behavior does not occur for other apps like Safari or Finder. How can I disable this automatic space swooshing for Microsoft Word?
I installed 3 operating systems onto my MacBook Pro: OS X, Arch Linux and Windows 10. Since it's a "triple boot" system, I didn't use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows. I installed Linux and Windows by bootable USB sticks. Note that after installation, there are 3 EFI programs in the EFI partition. (This message may help)
There is a question on this Stack Exchange site that details how to disable images in Safari, but I only want to disable images on a website or two. How do I do this?
I have been running Apple Mail for years (too many to count) and I have never had a situation where messages won't un-flag. But currently I have about 12 messages that are stuck in "Flagged" state. They reside in various folders in Mail, but they always show up in the Flagged folder. I have tried flagging them with different flag color and unflagging them but after about a second or two they the number in the flagged folder bounces back up. When I select them and "clear flag" no flag appears on them but they stay in the flagged folder. Any clues on how to permanently remove the flag from these message?
Is there a way to open more than one app at a time in launchpad before it fades away? I've tried holding down command, option, control, & shift in different configurations while clicking an app, but all that seems to do sometimes is to make launchpad very slowly fade out. I like having my favorite apps on one screen, but launchpad is doubling the clicks needed to open apps as opposed to having them on the dock. Using Lion btw.
I personally prefer to use whatever coming with the OS X instead of installing 3rd party software to meet my needs...However TextEdit is a little bit struggle for me...Anyway TextEdit can be tweaked for code editor basics? Indentation for 4-space instead of 8-space when using Tab key Code syntax highlighting, mainly python. Brace matching
So I uninstalled Homebrew, and didn't remove the packages previously installed by brew. Is there any way to remove these packages? Without brew list returning anything I don't know where to begin with removing them. I stored a list of the packages so I know which ones to look for but don't know where to find them. Here's the list: autoconf freetype jasper libtasn1 mpfr sane-backends automake gcc jpeg libtiff nettle sqlite boost gd kakoune libtool node tmux carthage gdbm libevent libusb openblas tree chromedriver git libgpg-error libusb-compat openssl unixodbc cscope gmp libgphoto2 libyaml pkg-config wget elasticsearch gnutls libicns little-cms2 pypy3 wine elixir httpie libksba makedepend python wxmac erlang hub libmpc micro python3 xz fontconfig isl libpng mongodb readline zeromq mercurial
I'm creating a virtual machine for Windows 7 x64. However vmware fusion automatically decides the disk size can be 60GB and no smaller. How do I create a virtual machine with a smaller disk?
I am looking to grow a Volume on El Capitan that has run out of space, this is a secondary boot point that unfortunately has important information so I cannot be destructive when I do this. I have looked at the Disk Utility app multiple times, but it is frankly crap and will not do what I want it to do. I know that I can destructively merge Volumes doing something like this:
On my iMac the fans get very loud and with top I saw that processes named cc1 took very much CPU. Can you explain me this processes? Security incident?
I am trying to backup an external FAT drive with time machine on a new WD HFS+ formatted hard drive, and I've read it is possible. However, I find it in the excluded list, and I cannot remove it since it is grayed out. Do you have any hints?
How do I slow the speed of podcasts on my iPhone? I have looked through all of my settings and have searched all possibilities on the podcast itself. Voices are too fast to be understood. There is no trouble with the playback of music.
I was wondering if it is possible to use an iPad Pro sort of like a Wacom Tablet (or LiveScribe - but LiveScribe has a delay), where you can use the Apple Pencil to write notes on the iPad, and the notes instantly appear on the Mac's screen with no delay. This would be really useful for my online college assignments because half of the screen would be taken up with the notes I take on the iPad and the other half with the problems and I could easily solve algebraic problems. I would prefer not to use screen mirroring just so it was easier to save the files on the Mac and interact with the scribbles directly on the Mac (zoom in, rotate, etc) I would prefer to do it over Lightning cable just to avoid any WiFi delays my school has.
I'm trying to mount a DMG disk image I made from a Linux-formatted SSD plugged into a USB adapter. I installed Fuse for OS X and tried the following (I can't remember where I read it):
I have a zip file of all Windows XP sounds. Is there a way I can replace the standard OS X sounds with these?
I use the PDF Expert app on iPad Pro to annotate documents using the Apple Pencil, and it works brilliantly. Now, I'd like to mirror the same work flow to my MacBook Air (so I can still look straight down at my iPad, which makes annotation easy), and ideally, run a screen capture program on my MacBook Air. Two primary questions: 1) how do I most efficiently mirror (app suggestions), and 2) is there a way to run a screen capture program or any program that would accomplish the same thing on my laptop if I'm using my laptop as a mirror?
The account is logged in on Safari, but I don't know the password. Is there any possible way to save the password and get Safari to autofill the password when I log out and fill the username?
Besides xeyes and xcalc, is there any other X11 applications that I could launch from Linux with ssh -X ?
I tried to install Ubuntu on my MacbookPro (mid 2015, OS X Yosemite) dual boot, using the following: How to Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu (PDF) I was finishing up part 3 and Ubuntu was starting to download, until everything froze. Nothing was responding so I force shutdown my computer and now OS X seems to be working fine. However I have a partition disk0s3 (Linux Swap) and a bunch of Free Space I can't get rid of.
I have almost no disk space left on my MacBook Air. Having run Disk Inventory X, one of the main hogs is the files under Users/MyName/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams/assets (assets contains several folders with gobbledygook names).
I just bought the LG 29UM58 21:9. My computer is a Mac Mini late 2012 (i7 model) running OS X 10.11 The display preferences just shows 1920x1080 16:9 than then is stretched out to 2560x1080 21:9.
I'm trying to write an Applescript that will open a webpage, change the selection in 2 dropdown menus and then click on a button to Apply the changes. I've extracted the IDs for the 2 dropdown menus and the button using Inspect Elements on the webpage but when I try and set the values in the Dropdown menu I get a 'missing value' error. I'm trying to set 'Daylight Saving:' (DaylightSaving1_ddlDaylightSaving) to be '1 hour' (Value 2) and 'Max Graph Size' (DaysPerGraph1_ddlDaysPerGraph) to be '1 day' (Value 1), then click the Apply button (btnModsApply) What have I done wrong in the script?
I am sorting my photos in the Apple Photos app via Faces, and have two contacts with identical names. Is there any way to create two "faces" with identical names, or do I need to change one of their names?
The instructions that come with Disk Warrior state you should boot in Recovery Mode by: Holding ⌘ Command R Open Terminal Run command /Volumes/DW/go If you run this command you get an error saying that the directory cannot be found.
I have a Mac Pro running OS X 10.9 with FileMaker Server (FMS) installed. One of the processes running is fmsased (script execution daemon). Periodically this crashes and I have to log into and restart it from the command line (fmsadmin restart fmse -y). Is there a way of monitoring that process and if it fails automatically issuing the command line instruction? I've looked at Lingon but couldn't figure out how to do this with it. Thanks in advance.
I have an old homebrew installation that is now not in use on a backup drive. I'd like to list all of the packages that were installed when it was in use, how can this be done without mv'ing it back over to /usr/local and making it operational again?
I have a 2009 model 27" iMac (core i7) running El Capitan. When booted into normal mode, it is extremely slow to the point of being unresponsive, and the GUI has problems (pictures to follow). However, when booted into safe mode, it functions normally (for a 2009 computer). Furthermore, I could not boot from an external drive, I tried both Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) and OS X (El Capitan and Yosemite) drives, both of which could boot my MBA just fine.
I am a new Mac user, and I need help trying to install pip in OS X El Capitan. I ran this command, python get-pip.py and ended up with this error:
I've recently installed Pangu jailbreak where you get Cydia because a friend said it's a good way to customize your iPhone 6 (which I'm using) and other generations of iPhones. At the end my Cydia and Pangu crashed instantly upon opening so I tried deleting it but Cydia is "impossible" to be deleted because it has no profile or "X" mark on the icon when removing it. So I looked up that you can search for "Cydia compactor" (I think that's the name of it) inside of Cydia, but the problem is when I go inside of Cydia there's a database error popping out instantly in "RED": Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: no such file or directory)
I'm thinking to upgrade the ssd of my macbook pro 15 inc which is late of 2013. I haven't opened up the mac until now. But, as far as I see, ssd of the mac seems different like sliver. I think to buy that one. Isn't it suitable for the mac? I'd like to now the difference whether there is.
is there an app to extend a MacBook Pro early 2016 display (OS X El Capitan 10.11.5) to a Windows 10 laptop? Preferably free, by the way, and also not counting Air Display since the newest version doesn't work on Windows. The goal is this: just like you could extend the display of a Mac to a monitor using Thunderbolt, I would like to extend it to a Windows 10 screen using some software So far, I have looked into multiple apps, such as AirDisplay, Splashtop, WIDisplay, Synergy, and ScreenRecycler as mentioned by bwall's answer.
I'm trying to figure out how to customise some of my folders' sidebar icons that are using custom ICNS icons via "Get Info". They're basic "Documents", "Downloads", etc. folders that I've replaced with my own on a secondary drive. Currently running El Capitan 10.11.6.
I recently used CopyTrans Control to copy music files from my PC to my iPhone. When I try to access my library of music on the iPhone, I keep getting blocked by an "Account" screen requiring me to join Apple Music. When I plug my iPhone into my PC, I can see the music files I copied but I can't play them. Any ideas?
I'm trying to set a timer on macOS (10.12 developer beta 1) to no avail. Siri prompts me to set a reminder instead:
By default iTerm2 uses shortcut ⌘/ to find cursor on screen. And I want the sortcut ⌘/ to apply to another action. But I can't find out how to do this on new version of iTerm2. How to disable find cursor shortcut in iTerm2?
Note: it is not the entire folder that has been removed. The folder structure (subfolders for each artist, etc.) remains, and other files, like images of the album covers in .jpg format, remain.
My MacBook is running Yosemite 10.10.2. I want to delete a single file permanently using command-shift-delete but it asks "Are you sure you want to permanently erase the items in the Trash?" which is something I don't desire.
In OS X, is there some way I could disable thumbnails in Messages notifications? That is, if someone sends me a text messages or iMessage with an image, the thumbnail of the image shows up in the notification on OS X, even though "show message preview" is unchecked in System Preferences > Notifications.
I made the mistake of installing the EPSON Projector Audio driver. It gets selected all the time, now, even when there is no EPSON Projector around. There's no obvious way to get rid of it. How do I make it go away?
While opening up my iPhone 5s to replace the screen, I ripped this ribbon that was stuck to the LCD shield plate and I was wondering what it's called and what it's function is?
I have a 15 inch macbook pro (mid 2009 1.8ghz core 2 duo) and I want to upgrade the memory. It currently has 4gb (2x2gb) and the maximum Apples says will work is 8gb. I am wondering if I could get away with 16gb (2x8gb). I know this is possible on certain other macbooks, I am just wondering if it will work on my model.
I'm currently using the default Twitter app, and it's apparently used 13.9 GB since I purchased my phone in December. Do alternatives to the default Twitter app use less data, and if so, what are they?
I want to put my iPhone on offline mode completely. That way no-one can find me using Cell Towers or GPS. I want to keep my phone on. What is the best way for doing that?
I understand that Mac OsX should recognise the language automatically - and to say the honest truth - it does but... on rare occasions I need to see which language in"ON" and what are the choices... Menu indicator-switch would be of great help - maybe an extra function to the keyboard indicator would solve the problem. I use 4 languages in many programs...
Hi guys, thanks to everyone who responded and provided there inputs to solve my problem, really appreciate it. I don't know how but the space division is showing correct division now (I guess) , here is the snapshot of what is currently displayed :
The iPhone 6S plus has no dictionary. No matter which app I'm in. If I highlight a word and ask to define it it shows no results. I click manage to try add dictionary and nothing shows up. There is no list just an empty page. This happens in EVERY app. How can this be rectified?
I am trying to control an app on OSX with an Arduino Uno. Specifically, I would like to start and stop play of an MP3 on iTunes, or a track on Spotify, using an Arduino connected to the Apple computer with USB.
Every time I try and take a screenshot this appears ^. I've tried looking for the location of my saved screenshots typing in commands into the terminal and my Desktop folder is unlocked (in Get Info). This is what was on my terminal: I typed: defaults read com.apple.screencapture location Result: The domain/default pair of (com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist I typed: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop Result: Could not write domain com.apple.screencapture; exiting Please help!
I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) and I'd like to install Windows 10 on it. The best way to do it, is to use Boot Camp Assistant but not on my MacBook because it's not supported. In order to change my MBR from Hybrid into Protective to be able to install Windows, I have to "disable csrutil" which is just available through recovery mode.
Is there no way to just use $10 earphone controls as a switch instead? Jailbreak or not.
How can I open iTunes U videos and audio files in an external player, such as VLC? VLC does not show up in the share area [^] and sharing is only possible for the course title. Clicking, swiping left or right, and holding down the finger (2-stage 3D touch) do not add options to the media link. The file opens in the default media player.
How do I delete a purchase which is on my music that I don't want
The external disk has only been plugged in to one Mac since it was last formatted, which was in January 2015. It’s a 1TB partition of a 2TB drive, which is a Western Digital USB drive. The partition is damaged in some way: in particular, although it was originally read-write HFS+, it’s now read-only, and Disk Utility can’t repair it. The Mac in question is running the latest version of El Capitan, although at the time this file was allegedly created, it was probably running a version of Yosemite.
I want to restore my iPhone 6 because I can't temper my restrictions passcode. Will restoring my iPhone also take away the money I have in my iTunes gift card? And will my phone number be deleted too?
The eventual goal is to deal with xip archives that are signed with self-signed/self-issued IPSCs. It will be a script that first checks the signature with pkgbuild, and then, if the user wants to, it should export the certificates, and then add them to the keychain as trusted. I know you could always just dequarantine the xip file with the self-signed certificate, and this will be an additional option, but this is always on a per-file basis, so there also has to be the ability to extract the certificates (root/leaf) and import them into keychain as trusted (or trusted root). How I'll do the latter I don't know yet, but first thing's first.
Three days ago for some damn reason I decided Snow Leopard wasn't good for my Mac Pro 1,1 anymore. I decided to embark on the quest of updating it to El Capitan.
I have a MacBook Pro given to me by my IT department. The macbook has 2 accounts: Local Administrator My Account
I am unable to disable AirPlay. After swiping up from the bottom of my iPad i see the AirPlay symbol. If I click on that I have a list of devices and connections. One is always ticked but I cannot have zero options selected. I am quite new to apple and my connection is shared online with strangers
Not sure if it is possible - is there a way to make macOS Sierra beta change the input language as soon as an external keyboard is connected? I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" with an US keyboard layout, but sometimes I connect an external USB keyboard from Apple that has a German keyboard layout. While it is not difficult to manually switch between the two input languages, is there a way to automate this?
I have approximately 30 supervised WiFi-only iPad 2s located in a central office. They all need to connect to the same network to access the Internet. The most they'll do is visit a website, fill out some online forms, and download a 1 MB document for downloading. More than likely, not all 30 iPads will be in use, probably 15 on average. I bought this router thinking it could handle the load of iPads, but we seem to be having major slow down issues every now and then. I thought it was related to the speed of the Internet, but turns out the connection from the iPads to the router was severely degraded. I couldn't even get the Routers configuration page to pull up on an iPad connected directly to the wifi. I ended up completely turning off half the iPads and rebooting the router and speed increased drastically. Therefore, what would be the best way to go about hooking up 30 iPads to the same network? FYI, I'm using Configurator 2 to push the same profile to all iPad's to automatically co
I want to play videos using iTunes U. I put them into the correct folder. But cannot see them in the iTunes U section in iTunes on os x. Do I need to tag them or something?
After accomplishing a clean Mavericks OS installation on my MBP, I've plugged my external hard disk (HD), with USB, and it was working fine. It should be noted that, the external HDD has NTFS format. After few hours, I have updated the OS as it was requested. But now, after updating the OS, the external HD doesn't show up in the finder, desktop or disk utility. I have checked it with another laptop and found out, there is no problem with external HD. Update: I have even installed Paragon, which allows to write on NTFS disks, but it didn't solve the problem. How can I fix it?
I am facing the issue with my laptop as when its starts its booting and chime sound is present but the display is blank and after sometimes, the display becomes grey. Sometimes it will work fine means display is working perfectly I tried with changing RAM, reassembled display cable, but sometimes it will work, sometimes not. My laptop is not in warranty, I checked with the service center they said some issue with either LCD or logic board, so they have to replace and it costs similar to buy a new laptop. If I use with an external display, will it work?
iMac 10.11.6, iTunes 12.4.3.1 Regular update of iOS on iPod Touch, everything proceeds normally until the very end, when I get the message to leave the iPod attached as it restarts. A few moments later, during the restart, I get a msg in iTunes "iTunes could not connect to the iPod touch 'ABCD' because an invalid response was received from the device."
I'm using El Capitan and the Photos app. I drag-and-drop a photo from Photos onto a visible spot on my desktop. The problem is, the photo icon appears elsewhere on my desktop, so to do anything with it -- double click to open in another app -- I have to minimize my application to locate it wherever it end up on the desktop. I feel like Mac OS X didn't used to do this, that it file icons appeared exactly where they were dropped. Is there some setting I have to enable/disable to make this work? Thanks!
When I'm trying to install something using macports: sudo port install nodejs4, I'm getting the following warning: Warning: The Xcode Command Line Tools don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.. But compiler (cc) works, make works, and I actually installed few macports packages without any problems.
Not entirely sure if this is where to ask this, but I can't find another place to... I've recently switched from Windows to Mac and I am trying to understand more in depth what I'm working with.
Does updating of OS X operating system updates built-in software like Apache, git, PHP, Ruby ? If it is what happens with old software ?
When using Spotlight on my Mac, and I type Spo... (trying to launch Spotify), I get suggestions for the Spotify website, some apps from the App Store, and files containing a fraction of the word "spo" but no Spotify.app. When trying to search for other apps using Spotlight, if the app shows up, the focus is not on the app, it is on a web search for the app name. This is really frustrating, as i type quickly and Spotlight launches Safari instead of the app I'm searching for.
In my MacBook, running El Capitan 10.11.6 with iTunes 12.4.3.1. I'm right clicking on the sound file inside iTunes in order to convert it from an AIFF to a MP3 — I do not see either of the options “Create MP3 Version” or “Convert Selection to MP3,” even after restarting iTunes. How can I convert the file?
I have a Mac computer I'm not sure exactly what type and it's not updated. All I have is one of the magic mouses or whatever and it won't connect without updating. In order to update I need to hit agree but I can click on it without a mouse. What do I do to hit agree and update it? (I have a keyboard)
I have been using the podcasts app for a while now amd recently(Around a month ago) It started to crash on startup. Things i've tried: Deleted all downloaded episodes. Turned every "automatically" things in settings. Cleared Cache. Restarted IPhone. Phone Specs: iOS 9.3.3 Iphone 6s Thanks in advance for the help :)
I've noticed that every time I turn on my Mac mini, the Apple logo vanishes and the screen goes black for a split second during the initial boot screen. Then the loading bar comes back but the rest of the screen remains black until it finishes loading and the login screen appears. I've recorded it in video here.
I am logged in with my local acccount, I even sudoed to that account with SSH. I tried to install Bower with the following command: and I get this error: The error is pretty obvious, I have 2 questions: Why does it happen with my local super admin account? How can I fix this?
I have my StartCalendarInterval set in my launchd plist file like this: Even though I am declaring 3 different StartCalendarIntervals, the agent still launches the program every hour. What am I doing wrong? . As per @Phong's answer, for launchd plist files and StartCalendarInterval, midnight, 12AM, or 2400 hours military time is Hour = 0 not 24.
I just bought a new MacBook Air and signed into my iTunes account to get my music, but only my most recently purchased songs showed up, and a couple of other random songs. I tried looking at my previous purchased music not on this device, to see if I could re-download it, but they wouldn't show up. But when I looked up one of the missing albums, it said "purchased" but gave me no little cloud icon to download it. Please help.
Can we print with user code authentication in Ricoh MFPs from OS X, using PCL Driver?
When you set up your Apple ID when you first get your phone can you set up another once you have signed in on that account?
I have my reasons why I use a Win keyboard on a Mac, I'm interested to know how can I change keyboard combinations like: change Ctrl ⌃ vs. Win key, I want on Mac to have Cmd ⌘ functionality on Ctrl ⌃ key and Ctrl ⌃ on Win ... it is possible or does any software exist for that?
I'm using Gboard for iOS. Often when I enter a word using the swiping technique it comes up with the wrong word and no suggestion for the word I actually want. The word I want is often only 1 or 2 characters different so my instinct is to press backspace to correct the word but backspace deletes the entire word forcing me to re-enter the entire word again. Usually I end up doing this twice before I realize I have to enter the word by tapping instead of swiping to get what I want. Are there other methods of correcting/editing a word using Gboard?
The command to change the group owner on a whole directory is: For example: But when dir_name contains locked files or directories, this command will fail with: If you run the command with super user privileges it will fail too: If the number of files locked is small, there is a manual workaround through the use of the command chflags. Check that there is a specific flag (uchg) associated with a given locked file: Remove temporarily the uchg flag: Change recursively the group: Reset the initial uchg flag:
When I delete a picture from "Google Photos" on my iphone it is not deleted from the "Photos" app. How to fix this? Thank you
I have a website in a shared Linux hosting that uses Ghostscript. I use by php exec function that executes command line functions, gs commands to render PDF files, by simple gs commands. However, in my Mac OS X MAMP web server gs commands are only executed by full paths. How do I configure my local system so "php" user will find gs (and other libraries) without full path?
Apple seems not to be willing to give details about the CPUs it embeds in its laptops. Nothing beyond "i5" or "i7" anyway. The thing is, I want to choose a CPU that performs well on benchmarks. I want either to be able to check whether the CPU is one of those I think are ok or look for benchmarks for the CPU of a particular laptop.
Is there any way to avoid this message? I don't want to auto mount the SD Card, I have created an alias for that. I need to avoid this message. It's very annoying. diskutil list shows the following:
Is it possible to convert a MagSafe 2 adapter to a MagSafe 1, original, adapter?
Sparse and performant interace. Even though I have more than a thousand notes, search is extremely fast. Creating new notes is easy.
In the Web section of Parental Controls in System Preferences in macOS, under Customize, can wildcards be used under "Always allow these websites" and "Never allow these websites"? For example, if I want to allow/deny example.com and all subdomains thereof, will it work if I add an entry for *.example.com? Or is this implicit by just adding example.com?
Is there a way to export iOS Health data daily? I know about the in-app export option, but is there a way to automatize this process. Could be an app as well. Probably something like QS Access, but this tool is lacking automatic export as well. A daily email export would work as well.
I want run a First Aid on my hard drive, but Disk Utility does not allow me to provide permission to do this. System Information MacBook Pro 2012(MD101) Running Yosemite
I have added custom folder icons to some of the folders in my Dropbox. I would like this to get synced across devices, but it seems that it does not. Is there a way to get custom icons to sync with Dropbox?
I have installed Python 2.7 through mac ports, and now want to have it used in a cron job. Unfortunatly, each time the cron job gets involved, the standard Python of my machine (an iBook G4 using Tiger) which is 2.3 is involved, making my job fail. My PATH is (from the set command) P How can I have my cron job be invoked with my PATH instead of the faulty one ?
I have two multiple Macs. 2 Macbooks and an iMac. I installed El Capitan on all of them, with my one iTunes account. The issue I am running into is that whenever I get a message on iMessage, it shows up on all computers and my iPad...not just my iPhone (and my Macbook) -- which is what I want. How do I fix that?
On iPhone 4, there is no name of the sender of SMS nor iMessage, only his/her number, and naturally, I want the name to be displayed too. How to do this? I tried some things like: Resetting the phone using sleep button Resetting the phone using sleep+home at the same time Toggling on/off iMessages in Settings -> iMessages, Setting short name/last/first name, Toggling contacts in Settings -> iCloud, Toggling iCloud itself even (delete iCloud account on the iPhone and re-add it), Resetting Network settings I also tried setting the default account from iCloud to Gmail, and deleting the contact, and adding it again, this time to Gmail account (being the default one, this is what happens).
I'm wondering whether there is some TRRS extension cable available which has a remote control for volume and play/pause that would allow to extend any headphones by a remote control, or alternatively whether I could build one myself using the remote control from broken Apple earbuds.
I have two identical xCode icons on the launchpad screen. I guess the second icon appeared after installing xCode beta version. So here my steps for reproducing this issue: Install xCode 7 install xCode 8 install xCode 7 again.
The right speaker of my macbook pro retina 13" kept going broken even after I replaced the speaker. (Ran out of the warranty at this point so had to DIY, also no Apple Store near me, have to fly to one if need be). A while ago the right speaker starts to produce cracking sounds so I ordered a speaker online and replaced it myself. It worked for a while until today it started to produce similar noise again. I can take photos of the inside later today. I wonder if any of you might know how this malfunctioning appeared. I suspect it might be a software + hardware problem (meaning a software malfunction results at the speaker getting broken) but I might be wrong. Could it be overheating? It is really hot lately.
Thanks for reading. I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I have a jailbroken iPhone 6 on 9.3.3 that is stuck at the Apple Logo with the progress bar below it at about 5%. On top of this problem, my home button is out of commission due to a faulty repair by yours truly. That means a hard reset is out of the question. Here's what I've tried: Letting the battery die- First shows Apple logo and then shows bar and just loads up to 5% again and stops. Connecting to iTunes- Doesn't recognize my phone (although it does recognize other phones) Holding volume up when booting after letting the battery die- Just doesn't work Any help is appreciated. I really need my Phone back.
I have a FileVault-protected MacBook with OS X 10.11.6 installed alongside a BootCamp Windows 10 partition. Lately, whenever I reboot the MacBook and allow it to automatically boot into the OS X operating system, the FileVault password screen is extremely unresponsive. I can type in the password, but have to wait from 10 to 15 seconds after typing each character to allow the system to catch up with my typing. Besides these symptoms, the mouse pointer and the caps lock on/off light are equally very slow to respond / catch up. Both operating systems have their latest & greatest updates.
In Finder, if you right click a file → Get Info, you will see a checkbox in the Name & Extension section that offers users the ability to Hide extension. If you press Command (⌘)-Shift-3 to take a whole-screen screenshot on your Mac, a screenshot is saved as a .png file. By default, the .png extension for a screenshot is hidden. Can I change this hide extension status using AppleScript?
I often have the need to connect to devices directly through the ethernet port on my MacBook. When I am connected to a wireless network, I can share my connection to ethernet. However, the second, I loose the wireless connection, I loose connectivity to the devices.
When one right-clicks selected text on a Mac, one is presented with various contextual menu items. Is it possible to rearrange these items? Specifically, I would like to move the last item in this menu, which is a Service I created in Automator.app, to the top (or somewhere near the top) of the menu.
When one right-clicks selected text on a Mac, one is presented with various contextual menu items. You may notice that some of the item titles contain the selected text. For example, the Dictionary.app shortcut: Look Up "selected text"
I install a new SSD to my mid 2009 Macbook Pro. Attach a bootable USB drive to the MBP. When I power up the machine, I hold down the "Option + R" Keys until apple logo shows up. The boot up process goes straight to OS X installation. I never see disk utility screen during this process. I wonder how I can format the new SSD if I can not get access to disk utilities. I also tried "option + cmd + R" keys. It did not work either.
The Mac is encrypted using filevault. If the user changes the recovery key using 'changerecovery' command, is there any event generated? And is it possible to get the new recovery key?
I want to color correct a short film. The footage is Apple ProRes HQ (data rate around 300mb/s) and the total size 45GB (i found this using tha aja datacalc application).
I'd like to use tmux inside my iTerm2. and I have the following in my ~/.tmux.conf file.
I'm using Docker for Mac Version 1.12.0-beta21 (build: 11019) on OS X 10.11.6. The container folder in $HOME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker contains 3.1 GB of space. docker images -a however only shows one image which is 330 MB. How can I clean up the container folder, so that it only contains the images I'm able to use? There is an open issue regarding this problem: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371
I have no clue what happend but (almost) all the files on my local drive disappeared. The folders are still there, but if I click on "Get info" it shows they are nearly empty so there are no files in there.
How can we disable user's ability to change FileVault recovery key using fdesetup changerecoverykey ?
I would like to produce a few file names in a shell script, as part of an Automator workflow, and have the subsequent action act on the files. I echo the file names to stdout. But this does not work: the subsequent Automator action stops with the error message "No image files were passed as input to this action" (in my case, the following action is Import Files into Photos). I pass absolute file paths to the subsequent Automator action. Funnily enough, the Log says "Conversion from Text to Files/Folders completed", which seems to suggest to me that the text output of a shell script is interpreted and converted as a list of file references for the following action. See the following minimal (not) working example.
Why has Sky News in the News feed on my iPhone started to show annoying numbers and symbols in the text. (All the other news feeds are okay.) It looks like it might have something to do with computer commands for punctuation or something. (You can probably tell I'm not very tech savvy!)
On Linux mount -l nicely lists all my mount points: The same command does not seem to exist on OS X... Can someone point me to the right command?
I accidentally deleted my WhatsApp just now. When I try to reinstall it, it has an iCloud icon on it. Clicking it, it just say "You already purchased this, so it will be downloaded now at no additional charge". But then when I clicked "ok" it doesn't even start downloading. I've waited for 30 minutes but it didn't start to download. What should I do now?
It seems it does show erratic behaviour, and is somehow triggered by holding the option key while clicking the file. That is, if I just take the file without holding Alt, it doesn't happen, whereas if I click while holding Alt, it sometimes happens.
I'm setting up a new Mac from an old one, and everything's working perfect, except for getting Mail set up. This is what I'm seeing with Mail:
I'm locked out of an old Mac mini and would like to be able to use it. Completely new to the world of Mac so hoping someone more experienced can help...
Is there a tutorial on how to use the documentation for Script Editor and Javascript? I've been using AppleScript and Automator (with JavaScript) for a while but not extensively. I love how it works and what you can do with it. My problem is that I find very confusing the documentation (from Apple's website and from Script Editor's Library menu). I've been experimenting and doing stuff based mostly on examples. I am familiar with PHP and Java Documentation which are great, is there some kind of easy to understand docs?
How do you get Notification Center to be dark/black in macOS Sierra beta? I had it that way in OS X El Capitan but cannot find how to do it in new beta.
So I am trying to make a script that moves me forward and backward to prevent afk in a game but the game is not registering the key as it is too short here is what I have so far.
I deleted an app that used to be the default app for a file type, but its icon still remains in Finder windows:  How can I replace those icons for the icon of the current default app? Things I have already tried: Globally set the new app as default app for that type of file. Manually removed things related to the old app (as per this tuto). Relaunched Finder and rebooted system. My OS version is 10.11.6 (15G31) (El Capitan). Any help kindly appreciated!
While watching Youtube playlists on my Apple TV need to know how to jump/or skip to the next one using my Logitech Bluetooth K480 keyboard. It appears that F6 and F8 keys were supposed to do this but they do NOT work. There's very little info on this presently; so please if anyone has figured out how, please let me know!! Mr. Phil
I have this icon on the phone app. My phone is not jailbroken, I have no voicemails or missed calls and a reboot did not remove the line. I appear to be able to make and receive calls just fine too. Any ideas what it is? I'm running the latest version of iOS on my iPhone 6 (9.3.3 IIRC).
I have taken off my spacebar from my MacBook Pro mid-2012 and now one of the plastic rotating things is stuck to the keycap, while the other is still in the key space. How can I get the thing stuck to the keycap off the hook?
Just to the left of my battery percentage, there is a x inside of a circle in the status bar. I've never seen this before and was hoping someone could explain this! Thank you! Edit: Here is an screenshot:
I tried to install Windows 10 into my Boot Camp partition. I exited the setup and, normally, my computer restarts and I log into the Mac.
I was trying to add sound file options for the native Messages app on my rMBP with El Capitan. I disabled "System Integrity Protection" (SIP), dragged in the new file, enabled SIP (with all the correct rebooting, as necessary).
I am trying to use rsync for back up using this command: My goal is to have the destination be an exact copy of the source. I have updated rsync to 3.1.2 (using homebrew) on my iMac running 10.11.6.
To stop and restart a Rails application that's running on the command line, I usually do Control + C, and then use the up arrow to get the previous command for running bin/rails s. Is there a keyboard shortcut like Control + C that tells the application to stop, and start up again anew? I'm currently using Terminal.
I am trying to add some files to iTunes: some .wma files which it will not import, and some .m4a files which it will import but not play because it does not know bitrate or duration. I have tried the following: converting with VLC: the files all play fine in VLC but I can only convert them one at a time, despite being able to give multiple files as input for transcoding, which implies batch conversion should be possible.
So two weeks ago, I got the PP Jailbreak on my iOS 9.3.2 device. I installed it without the PP Helper software for Windows. I did it straight from iOS safari. It installed the PP Jailbreak application on my phone, and everytime I restart my phone, I have to retether (meaning that I need to use the app again to get my jailbreak back). Before, it was only a 20 second process, but now it takes me about 20 tries before my phone is re-jailbroken. I install Apple Conduit 2, but I still do not understand why PP Jailbreak app doesn't work for me anymore. It just restarts my phone without doing anything. Any help would be much appreciated. *Note: my Enterprise Certificate is still active, so everything should still be working fine.
I'm currently running Sierra beta 5, but the issue also occurred in El Capital. So far, I've tried the following coupled with killing the Finder process each time: Toggling the Finder integration via Dropbox Uninstalling Dropbox with AppCleaner and reinstalling Deleting ~/.dropbox folder Deleting ~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache folder Deleting /Library/DropboxHelperTools folder, which Dropbox recreated Toggling Finder integration in System Preferences > Extensions Toggling System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Folder Actions Setup... Disabling (and later re-enabling) csrutil Restarting Mac
On my MacBook, I have various lists and information, of which I use TextEdit to edit. Usually, these will have indents where I use tab to create kind of charts with columns. Like so: Item 1 [TAB] Info 1 [TAB] Info 2 Item 2 [TAB] Info 3 [TAB] Info 4
Is it possible to trim a number to only keep the last 3 numbers ? For exemple a phone number save in the variable, and I would like to keep the last 3 digit. Kind regards
When I go to open in Photoshop or in FCPX or in other programs - window size is small. Need the default to be larger. Any Ideas? (I know how to resize Finder window)
My Iphone 4 needs a software update when I try to download an app but when I go to settings it says there are none. How do I fix this?
I'm interested in buying the Dell U3415W for my mid 2012 MBPr 15". I know that thunderbolt 1 can drive regular 1440p displays such as a 2560 x 1440, however can it drive the Dell's wider resolution?
I'd like to reverse my scrolling direction every time i use a different app (i use a regular mouse). For example, when i use Chrome or the OS in general, i want my scroll direction to be set "natural".
Is there any way to add a pronunciation to OSX text to speech service? I've google for the last few hours without a solution.
Are there any ways/methods for clearing application cache in iOS? (I am not asking about Is there a quicker way to clear cache on Safari mobile? ) In Android OS, after taking application manager and then selecting a specific app, there's an option to clear cache. I would like to know if there is any way (like in Android) to clear cache other than closing the application and reopening the same multiple times or uninstalling the application and then reinstalling the same.
If I send an iMessage to another persons iCloud email will it appear on their iPhone and desktop? I am concerned about security of the message popping up on other devices than their phone. I am sending from my own iPhone - the iMessage shows delivered but I don't know where it has been delivered to them.
I am unable to download any writing apps because my MacBook Air OS X Lion is at 10.7.5 and isn't recognising that there is any other updates so i cannot update my MacBook to 10.11 to download any apps.
I installed the GNU core utilities via brew install coreutils. I also added PATH=$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:$PATH to the beginning of ~/.bash_profile (and it's auto-sourced in ~/.bashrc) as to enable accessing these utilities with their default names, ant not prepended with g.
This is my first time ever trying to use Boot Camp Assistant. I've watched like 50 tutorials and every had a choice to pick/locate an ISO image. I don't (see 2nd image). Is there a solution to this?
As I know, there are many audio splitter software like GoldWave on the Windows platform. But I cannot find any similar applications for Mac Os. What I want is an audio splitter which can automatically split the audio file according to its wave, that is, it can recognize the pause automatically; split the audio according to its lyric file.
When I pull down from the top, notification panel appears, and it shows 4 line preview of every message. I wanted to make it to 2 lines. Is there a setting for this?
I have a Mac mini (Late 2012), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Processor, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory that runs OS X Server 5.1.7. Three times recently (I think since the upgrade to Server 5.1.7), the machine has become completely unresponsive and I have had to reboot it. On both occasions the fan was blowing full blast. Given the complete lack of response I get the impression the CPU is completely tied up, but I can't see what process/es is/are causing it.
What we need is a shortcut to make a right-click where the cursor is on the screen. The same as the windows functionality. Mouse pointer:
Is there a way to keep all data backed up? It's iphone. I want all data, like save games for my infinity blade to be stored somewhere.
Is there any way to add a permanent pronunciation to OSX text to speech dictionary? For example: I would like the word 'mkdir' to be read as 'make directory' each and every time I use the "Start Speaking" service.
How can I reset the iBooks app, I mean completely reset it to the version that was installed and when first opened, where the app would show "Welcome to iBooks" and "Get Started"? I think I must remove a .plist file or something similar from Library, right?
When my 2012 mbp went down with a bad ram stick, I installed Windows 8.1 on a bootcamp partition on my wife's 2010 mbp. I got my laptop working, not longer needed to borrow hers and attempted to remove the bootcamp partition. It is gone but when ever she reboots, she has to remember to hold the option key or she automatically boots to a black screen. I assume something didn't get properly uninstalled and its attempting to load Windows bios but it doesn't exist. Is there a way to fix this? There is no time machine or back up pre bootcamp installation to restore to.
The Overcast podcast app (from Marco Arment) used to play all podcasts in a playlist sequentially. Now, the player stops after each podcast. How can I go back to previous behavior? Edit: This is on an iPhone6
I have some Applescripts that I schedule to run weekdays to do various things. I record radio programs for offline listening, I download CSV files for analysis, and do file folder cleanup. These actions run at different times of the day. These are scheduled in the "Automator" calendar as Events.
So I have an iPhone that's connected to wifi. I forgot the Wifi password and want to connect a device to my phones personal hotspot, does it cost extra money if I do?
When I connect my Macbook Pro 13" 2015 to an external monitor, the quality is horrible. I know it' worse than it should be, as I compared it with my Windows.
What commands are needed to install .NET Core on OSX?
I want to block certain phone calls with my iPhone. However, the block list in iPhone actively blocks users and the caller known that he's being blocked.
We have a small network that consists of 3 workstations: Windows 8.1 Pro 32 bit PC with Canon LBP 6020 printer connected to USB and shared to network. Windows 7 Pro SP1 32 bit notebook. MacBook with macOS 10.11 El Capitan installed.
I have shared an iCloud calendar to another user. We are both using iPhones running iOS 9.3.4. When both devices are connected to Wifi a change made to the shared calendar on one device appears immediately and reliably on the other device. However, when both devices only have a connection to the internet over the 3G cellular network, a change made to the shared calendar on one device does not appear on the shared calendar of the other device. Other iCloud services like iMessage, Facetime, iTunes, App Store, and Find my iPhone work over the 3G cellular network. Only the calendar does not sync. To make matters worse, when a change is made to a shared calendar on a device that is connected to a 3G cellular network but not Wifi that change sometimes takes days or weeks to appear in either user's iCloud.com calendar or on any other device to which that calendar is shared. How do I make these iPhones sync their shared calendars over the 3G cellular network? How can I make these iPhones relia
With what should I clean the screen of my Macbook mid-2010 White unibody? Which kind of liquid would you suggest?
Today I was trying to get photos onto my iPod. It is a sixth-generation IPod nano, and I was using iTunes 12.4. However, I was not able to sync photos to the iPod. Why is that? Here is what it looks like:
The FAQ page for the Public Beta Program includes the following entry: Is the public beta software confidential?
I could not find a way of executing a script for the Guest account during login which executes every minute. They say using cron daemon is deprecated so it looks like I will be using launchd with .plist files.
I have an iMac, and the internal HDD is failing. My files are still there, and I'm able to login, but it freezes when I try to do anything. I attempted to use asr in terminal to copy the entire Macintosh HD folder to an external HDD, but facepalm set the target as the WRONG HDD. When I hit enter, asr went through it's normal steps, and then hit PSTT 0 100 start restore and hung there for longer than I expected it to. Then I realized that I put the wrong target volume, and terminated the window.
Using a Macbook Air, I have 60Gb free space on my hard drive, yet I can't crop an image (W x H, Resolution setting) because "the scratch disks are full". What does the error mean? How do I fix it? I can't imagine Photoshop's doing an operation that requires more than 60Gb of spare disk space...
How to remove people list when you search in mail app? Take a look at the picture:
I know that this is a fairly common problem, but I've never had it before: if a pdf is displayed in a Safari window, clicking the download icon in the overlay in the bottom middle of the window doesn't do anything. I know that a common cause is the presence of an AdobePDFviewer plugin, but it isn't installed and Preview is my default app for reading PDFs. I know that I can do a "Save As," but I'd like to regain this functionality. I've tried various other remedies, to no avail.
I am hoping to learn how to do some GUI scripting in AppleScript because I want to control Emacs, an application that is not scriptable (as far as I know). So this works. It types "foo" into the Emacs window (called a "frame" in Emacs lingo).
I'm currently looking for an Applescript to help automate my desktop processes, as I do a lot of screencasts and I'm looking for something that would do the following. hide the dock hide the top bar change the wallpaper to a specified wallpaper is there a place on the web that has automator scripts that would do something like this ?
Edit: The referenced answer in the comment below does not answer my question. The problem is that I cannot locate the expired certificate.
I am able to list the password of a particular keychain item, but I need to be able to change the password using the Terminal. I intend to write a small script that will automate such a process. Note: I need to be able to do that using the Terminal only without any GUI! To display the password of my keychain item, I do the following: security find-internet-password -gs my.site.com | grep "password:"
As of iOS9 Apple stopped allowing iTunes or any other application to backup apps to IPA files. When it comes time to do a restore, one must download all apps. This can either be done to iTunes or on the iOS device itself. The reason is because in iOS9 apps are "thinned" so that data only necessary for an iPad does not waste storage space on an iPhone. Tools like iTools and iMazing and CopyTrans used to offer the functionality to backup apps to IPA, but have not added support for iOS9. To question, how to backup apps to IPA so that they can be restored without downloading them again?
I have a large collection of documents in various formats (PDF, TIFF, JPEG). Many of the TIFFs are multi-page, like faxes, and the only way I know to see all the pages is with Preview. Is there some method or app or shell command (via brew) which can find all the multi-page TIFFs so that I can convert them to multi-page PDFs?
When I get a message with WhatsApp and my iPhone is locked, I cant see sender's name as they set it in their own WhatsApp. I see the name which saved in my Contacts. Already 3 days like that... I want to solve this problem. I want to see the sender's name on the lock screen, not the Contact name.
I got about 300 PDFs which I need to transfer to my iPad Mini 2 but when I press the add folder to library in iTunes on windows I am unable to get the PDF's on, I only get the .epub files up... Any idea's on how to do this without having to add them one by one? (Yes I am a book freak :P)
So I have these few websites in the same domain (i.e. example1.domain.com and example2.domain.com) that have a different subdomain and Safari offers me passwords from all of them when I enter just one of them. Is there a way to disable Safari offering passwords if the subdomain is different?
So my friend shared an album and photos with me on ICloud but they disapeared from my iCloud photos stream on my phone 2 weeks later.By the way she just told me she deleted the album today but does that means can't get it back and it's gone forever or are the pictures still on iCloud somewhere
I am playing with Photos app on my Mac and I would like to have fixed zoom while switching between photos. This is the option in Photos app:
I'm following a tutorial requiring me to use mke2fs. I found that I could install it by brew using brew install e2fsprogs Tthis returned the following: So i tried using brew link e2fsprogs which then returned 119 symlinks created
I just upgraded my Mac mini to El Capitan and now after it wakes from sleep my remote (Harmony Ultimate) doesn't work. In order to get it to work again I have to go into privacy settings and disable IR and then re-enable and it works - don't have to do any pairing or anything. Is there anything I can do to resolve this without having to disable/re-enable IR every time?
I have a Mac Mini 2012 with 128 GB SSD on board. I want to buy an additional 1TB hard drive and transform the storage to Fusion Drive. My Mac use case is running Virtual Machines and Docker containers.
I am trying to use applescript to wait for a Serial keyword (in Screen - in Terminal), and then pausePlay Spotify when the keyword is seen. It works fine at first, but then quickly crashes. Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
Is it possible on iOS to activate a non-leaking always-on VPN? I've heard this can only be done through supervised mode and with a VPN provider that supports "IKEv2", is this correct? Are there any downsides to this approach, for day to day use on a personal phone? Also, is supervised mode configurable on Windows / Linux?
I know there are many questions like this on AskDifferent, but I've found none that specifically address the fairly glaring omission in more modern Mac OS builds of per-user home folder encryption via FileFault. I don't know when Apple changed it, but older versions of OS X FileVault let you encrypt individual user's entire /Users/[user] folders. Not only was it "possible", it had a super-easy interface that seemed to encourage users to discover the functionality, and do it.
I have a remote location were I have only satellite service, no cell service. When I first purchased my iPhone 6 to my surprise I received messages (voice) left on phone at this location. I couldn't call people back but could text them over the internet.
I have an Apple MacBook Pro Early 2015, with AirPort issues. The problem is extremely complex, but effectively it means I get page time out intermittently. I've reinstalled macOS from scratch, without backup, twice. The issue only happens on Wi-Fi. It happens when on WPA Personal Wi-Fi, but not Enterprise, unsure about Unsecured and WEP. It happens on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz on any wireless channel, regardless of interference. I can still ping local devices, but HTTP requests to the router's config page for example do not work, and internet requests either. It isn't DNS related as I've tried 3 DNSs and tested with IP addresses There is no Firewall, or tools like LittleSnitch running I can see when the issue occours by pinging 8.8.8.8 Other devices on the same internet connection both wired and wireless are unaffected. The issue is resolved by a reboot. I've reproduced this at other locations, as well as trying a new Router from my ISP, Virgin Media, and buying a Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC-LR We've r
I have a 2008 copy of Excel that I use to proof the occasional Excel file I need to email. When I click on the help menu item I am directed to a Microsoft advertisement. Where are the help files or manuals?
According to this list my tricked out mac pro won't run Sierra. Tricked out with 20gig of memory a big SSD and lots of HDD. Sad. .
The Option key influences what characters are inserted when pressing different keys. For example, Option-k is ˚ and Option-Shift-k is .
I sync my iPhone SE with an Exchange server. It retrieves the information and also the contact pictures of the contacts who have them. With Android, if I added/changed the contact picture by phone, they got also synced to Exchange.
I see all kinds of instructions online that say how to make a boot disk that installs El Capitan. I just want to start my computer from an external disk -- I am not trying to do a clean install. Is the procedure the same? Will the bootable install disk just startup as normal if I tell it I don't want to reinstall the system somehow? It's just that all the instructions seem to assume you want to do a clean install, and that isn't what I am after.
I upgraded a VZN iPhone 4's IOS version and noticed that it configured itself for VZN. I think that IOS examines information on the phone (someplace in memory) to determine which carrier it should provision the phone with. If this is the case, Is the carrier ID memory location a "known quantity"? Is the carrier ID memory location a "known quantity"? How to access the addressable memory space and view this memory location? How to access the addressable memory space and view this memory location?
Have installed a .crt S/MIME file from COMODO into the General->Profiles & Device Management (shows it contains a "certificate"). However when I go into Mail, Contacts, Calendars and select the relevant Mail account. When I check the Advanced->S/MIME->Sign it only shows my Crashalytic certificates and NOT the freshly installed Comodo S/Mime one. Are their certain settings that may need to be changed to allow it to be seen?
My contacts are on my phone and I can choose them from the contact icon. I can not choose them to make a phone call or send a message. Incoming phone calls and messages do not display the contact name, I have tuned off contacts in iCloud and then back on but it did not fix the problem.
I have a mid 2012 non-retina mac with El Captain. It is starting to get slower, especially due to the absence of the SSD, but it never gave me any problems.
Everytime I connect to the Cisco VPN using the built-in VPN client, it asks me for the password. I am wondering is there a way we can auto save the password, like using the keychain?
I've a need to virtualise an Android device on my MacBook Air. I've successfully installed the Xamarin Android Player and downloaded Nexus 7 Marshmallow image. The emulation starts correctly, but it is very slow.
So I have a company Macbook and a co-worker recently told me that it can be controlled or viewed any moment. Not that I do something illegal on it, I value my privacy and this piqued my interest so I wanted to know if this is indeed possible and how. What I figured so far:
I'm following this tutorial: How to create a bootable, persistent Ubuntu USB stick for Mac I'm using a 64 GB SanDisk USB with a GUID and formatted as FAT32. I'm trying to make a bootable Ubuntu thumb drive with persistence. When I'm using the following command to write the persistence: It won't go any higher than 4.3 GB even though the partition is 45 GB. If I then try to format the device so I have the whole 64Gb instead of parting it, it's still the same. Anyone who has experienced this before?
I accidentally dragged and removed an image/disk from the sidebar under the device. I can now only access this image under volumes folder, but I like to add it back to the sidebar. Is there a way to do it? (I can see it also in my diskutil. Thanks.
So I got my MacBook serviced by the Apple store and they had to wipe the whole SSD and restore it. It came with 3 partiions: EFI, OS X and a recovery. I restored my Time Machine backup (which I didn't know contains the old recovery partition as well) and now I have two... How can I tell Time Machine not to restore the recovery partition next time?
I can no longer log into Messages. It normally logs me in automatically, but now it didn't log me in and the entry in the menu is greyed out. I am connecting to the internet from a different network than usual. How do I fix this? I run OS X 10.9.5 and Messages Version 8.0 (4226)
Since upgrading to El Capitan my Keyboard layout has changed and is driving me crazy: The key "<" which should be right beside the Left Shift Key is now switched with the "^" key. Is there a way to fix this?
These kinks and rings have been there for a while now, and the charger still works, but I'm posting this now since it's starting to get worse. Should I be worried about taking it to Apple, or continue using it, and getting it checked out when something crazy happens (explosions lol))?
I have been charging my phone for a few days now from a plug, which I wasn't aware of being faulty. When connecting devices to the electrical network it made static noises and after I unplugged my USB cable from the charger I saw it had marks as if it had been burnt. It must have been releasing a lot of heat while charging. Is it safe to use that charger and plug in the future?
I want to connect my projector to my Mac Book pro. Projector has resolution 1920x1080 Full HD. My question is how to output the same resolution from MacBook. My Mac Book pro display has resolution 1280x800, I am not sure if I can make output 1920x1080.
I am connecting my 2015 MacBook Air 13" to an external display via the Thunderbolt-to-VGA adapter. There are black bars on each side of the external display screen. How can I remove the bars? Macbook Air 13" (Early 2015) LG Flatron E2360 Dell Thunderbolt to VGA Adapter.
Someone sent me an embarrassing picture on my iPhone, which is synced to my iPad for iMessage. My iPad was not connected to Wi-Fi at that point. I then deleted the embarrassing picture from my iPhone, before the iPad was connected to Wi-Fi. So, when the iPad is finally connected to Wi-Fi, will the picture come through onto that device, despite it having been previously deleted on my iPhone?
There's a coffee shop network I connect to fairly often. Usually it works fine, but sometimes it gets into a state where the connection repeatedly fails about thirty seconds after connecting. Once it gets into this state, nothing I can find will allow the connection to stay up short of rebooting my laptop completely. This is extremely annoying.
I've a single email server that is the same server for the following domains: myprivatedomain.com mycompany.com Say I've an account on that server, for example "me" So I've two email addresses for the same account me@myprivatedomain.com me@mycompany.com
I have done everything possible, starting from reading this : *=URL=* I have set the sync option on the mac , and also on the iPhone/iPad. When I buy a book outside the Apple store, i put it on my mac, then I would like to be able to see it on iPhone/iPad iBooks , but I just don't see it. It would be wonderful if I could start reading on the mac and move to the iPhone. Is it possible ?
A coworker and I timeshare an iMac (with external displays). I use it during the day and have it relatively bright to compensate for the light coming in the window and whatnot. He uses it at night and so he wants it more dim. We use different OS X user accounts, but every time I log in after him, the brightness is set back to dim. Is there a way to make the brightness a setting at the user level, rather than the system level, as it seems to be doing now?
I've gotten a MBP Mid-2012 & would really love to install Siri on the same. I've also had tested macOS Sierra Beta from Apple Developers Program & wanted this to be a part of more fast OS El Captain (OSX) as the current El Captain runs blazing fast on my Mid-2012 MBP.
I have a Macbook Pro 7,1 that may or may not have been damaged from water the other day. I noticed that the battery indicator now has the 'Service Battery' showing. I'm wondering if it's possible to determine when the warning turned on because that will give me an idea as to whether this is a water damage issue or just because it's almost 6 years old. CoconutBattery says my battery has 972 load cycles and is only operating on 37% capacity.
Today I noticed while trying to use the keyboard shortcut to enter single user mode that Mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13 Inch did not make the startup sound when turned on. After rebooting normally it still did not make the sound. The volume was turned up all the way and the internal speakers work fine. Nothing is plugged into the headphone jack. How do I turn it back on?
Is there a way to get screen to run on El Capitan? This link contains instructions that are 4 years ago.
Have many bookmarks in the Safari's Favorites. Let say, have an folder called perl and it contains many links and also subforlders with links, like in the screenshot:
I'm a newbie on Macs and OS X. I'm currently using "El Capitan" version 10.11.6 I have the Windows 10 Enterprise 64bits installer ISO. I have doubts about Installing Windows on SDXC Card using Boot Camp. Is it Possible to do this and if so, is there a step-by-step or HOWTO available? EDIT 1 My Hard Disk is 128GB, I really need another partitions for CentOS and Windows 10 then Is very few space for three OS. And now I know the speed is very slow for SDXC (I was thinking in Transcend).
I like to save inspirational imagery in my dock. Since my Downloads folder is always a giant pile of files that I hoard and enjoy to go through every once in a while. Now to save space in my Dock I’d have to have a folder as a stack where all those aliases to inspirational files are stored in. It would be nifty to be able to drag files into that folder and have the folder automatically create an alias of the file instead of moving it to there. That way I wouldn’t have to use shortcuts etc. and could simply drag files into there without actually moving them.
I am having an issue on my wife's MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.5 (late 2012 13-inch retina). The hard drive is only 120 GB, but the "other" category in the About this Mac storage option is taking up over 81 GB. I've tried following a number of turorials online including cleaning up mail cache, downloads, browser cache, etc. to little avail.
I just took over an old laptop running OS X 10.7, and it cannot upgrade. I noticed many apps don't support 10.7 anymore. For example, Chrome. I like to know if there is a trick I can do to run these apps (even though they might not actually work). I suspect some plist modification would simply do the trick, I just need to know it.
My early 2011 Macbook Pro which uses 10.6 Snow Leopard is going straight to OS X Utilities upon startup, no matter whether I use any startup keys or what those startup keys are. I have tried safe mode, resetting PRAM and SMC, recovery mode, everything I know of. Upon pressing the power button, the computer immediately turns on and chimes like normal, then goes to the white screen with the apple and a progress bar. After 5-10 minutes, it asks me to select a language, and then proceeds to OS X Utilities. I tried repairing the hard drive in Disk Utility with first aid, but it says it can't complete the repair. I tried erasing the hard drive (I have a recent backup), but it always tells me "Erase process failed." I tried restoring from Time Machine Backup, and although it found my backups on an external hard drive, it doesn't seem to recognize them.
I purchased an iPad Air 1, online from a reputable "group discount" website. Though the site sells certified refurbished and used Apple products, this product clearly stated "brand new". It arrived in the shrink wrapped Apple box and once opened,looked legitimately packaged new. I'm skeptible by nature, however felt questionable when noticed there was no manual or earbuds included. There was a new Apple charger in the box. Additionally,it arrived 100 % charged. (?) I recall having to charge every wireless purchase ever made! I'm not technically challenged, familiar to older iPads,and have purchased many Apple products in the past. However, they have always included an Apple manual,ear buds and it required to be fully charged. I had no problem registering the pad or assigning a password,however I want to be certain what I purchased is as advertised; Brand new and in perfect working condition. The product has a 30 day, no question, return policy and a one year Apple warrantee. Can anyone
Background: Two Macs which are running the same Operation System: Mac OS X 10.11.6, OS X Server 5.1. When I try to set up the second Mac as a replica server, it always shows an error as the following picture:
Today I thought that my WD external hard drive was making some noises. I don't know if it was coming from it, or somewhere else, but I decided to look into it a bit. According to DriveDx, the hard drive had one unstable sector that needed remapping. I have a few things on my HDD that I would like to keep, and have backed them up already. Currently, I am installing Windows 7 on a VM so I can test it out with WD's own utilities, as Windows 10 1607 bootcamp HFS+ drivers don't work at the moment. Should I immediately be concerned about getting a new hard drive should this drive fail, or is 1 unstable sector a very minor issue?
By default, launching any application this way results in a non-standard icon (a dark screen that looks like a terminal with the word "exec" written on it in green color).  The name is also sometimes not appropriate, for example "JavaAppLauncher" instead of the actual name of the application. It gets confusing particularly when I use several sandboxed applications at the same time.
I have a Hitachi rpm-5400 160GB hard drive in an Orico USB 3.0 hard drive case. The hard drive is formatted as ExFAT.
I recently got a MacBook2,1 as a gift and I'm looking to upgrade the memory, hd, and processor. Currently it is a MacBook2,1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and about 200GB of HD space. Oh yeah, and the battery's dead so it only works when it is plugged in. I read somewhere you can add an extra 2GB of memory to this bad boy. However, only 3GB is usable due to some I/O settings. What's the best way to gauge performance of this machine so that I can choose an upgrade on a budget?
I've a friend with a problem on his MacBook Air (updated). Every document he opens with Apple Pages (updated) get displayed only partially. The app shows just the first page and the last one.
I'm trying to update Airmail to the latest version on my MacBook with El-Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31). When I go under App Store > Updates, I see no new updates. When I search for the Airmail app I see that I am 1 version behind. If I click the "update" button, all I see is the progress indicator spinning for hours. I've tried: Restarting my Mac Clearing App Store cookies "Reset Application" in App Store Running killall -KILL storeagent (which says No matching processes belonging to you were found) Running Disk Utility to check for any problems (none found) How can I restore my ability to update apps?
Can anyone explain, on a deep level, why Flashlight for Spotlight does not work on El Capitan?
The problem is that the resulting dialogue box warns me that: "All iBooks data will be deleted from iCloud and all of your devices. You cannot undo this action."
When I try to enter commands into the terminal I get this message "myusername is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." It started when I tried to edit my host-file. What do I do to fix this? I want to spoof my MAC address. I have the newest version of OS X. myusername is not actually my real username.
I clicked Share Song, but didn't receive any feedback (what Apple Music did). Is there some kind of social network? Do I have a profile? Who sees the shared songs?
How do I clear the "cache" (remembered settings such as whether to mirror or have two separate displays or what my preferred resolution is for a monitor)?
When I walk into our master bedroom, about half the time, my earphones on my iPhone stop working. That is, the podcast continues to play (I'm usually using Castro, but it's hard to imagine that's the issue), but I'm getting no sound from the earphones.
Well, I was just wondering if it is okay for the OS X shell to display something like this: What does the above actually mean? I have tried setting my host name but still didn't work! And the Terminal window is name is name--- bash ---80x24 What does that mean? Thank you
Following this article: Create a bootable installer for OS X, I created bootable USB with El Capitan. The USB works with the computer I created it on. On my upgraded Macbook, normal power-on ends with grey screen with flashing folder icon, as expected - there is no OS there.
I have an iMac with this spec:  I have two external monitors, both 4k. Recently, Spaces has become almost unusably slow for me. Switching between spaces on the main display (usually between full-screen IntelliJ projects) using the trackpad is the laggiest. It will scroll a bit, pause for a second, then jerkily scroll the rest of the way. I think I managed to speed it up a little by removing files from my desktop, but that certainly hasn't fixed the problem. If I open Spaces, then dragging them to rearrange them takes several attempts, because the drag usually fails to start (or at least takes longer than the 30 seconds or so I've tried waiting), and even hovering over different windows takes a couple of seconds before moving the blue highlight. For some reason, things seem smoother on the external monitors, which only have about two applications each on them. Most things, like dragging windows around and opening menus, happen just as smoothly as you'd expect them to.
I'm trying to follow these instructions to add italics support to tmux. 1) I tried running copying-pasting and running this command but that gives me: I'm guessing this is because OS X's tic doesn't support reading from stdin. 2) I then tried saving the terminfo to a temporary file named tmux.terminfo and ran it using tic -x tmux.terminfo However, I get this error message 3) I also tried running tic without the -x flag, so that it doesn't treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That gives me this: I'm on OS X 10.11.6.
My machine is mymac and the remote machine is remotemac(both are running El Capitan 10.11.6) - I reference a share on remotemac, located at //remotemac/path/to/remoteshare, as /Volumes/remoteshare. Sometimes, especially when I have recently connected to that remote machine or share from Finder, the /Volumes/remoteshare path is available. But after some time, that /Volumes/remoteshare path is not available. What can I do in my bash script to ensure that the remoteshare volume is present, or created before it is referenced?
I have recently had to upgrade to Windows 10, and with the 2 subsequent downloads of iTunes, I can no longer sort playlists by Name (Song title), which is what I prefer on my iPods. They USED to sort like the Songs list does (just click on Name and voila). Now I get fancy, multi-coloured lists I can't read or manipulate in any way. Not user-friendly at all. Help! If I hadn't just had to completely re-create all playlists; all ratings, and reinstall all music into iTunes with the change, I'd be a lot more patient, but this is already a 6-month project to get back to where I was before.
Works fine. But the double-slash I have to remove manually. Therefore: How can I avoid it?
The issue occurs for some users using Excel 2011 on OSX. If the Excel spreadsheet is of any moderate size, say greater than 10 MB, when doing a simple copy and paste, there is sometimes a very long delay and the colored beach ball appears. It appears the program has hung.
Trash is not storing files any more. When I drag something to the trash it only presents the option to delete the item immediately and that I can't undo the change. I had a look at the folder in terminal: When I remove the Trash with: and restart the computer, it works for a few days, then it stops working again.
I've bought Jetech keyboard in Amazon for my Macbook Pro (mid 2015) *=URL=* It works well, but I can't figure out how to use Escape or F1,F2,ect.. Anyone used this can have some suggest? thanks indeed
I'm going on vacation soon (The Black Forest) and I'm planning to take a lot of Hi-Res photos and videos. However, since it is a vacation, I prefer to stay away from my laptop (otherwise, I would spend time coding or checking work's email). Is it possible to move the photos and videos on iPhone to external storage, whether it is SSD or SD card for example?
Let's say I have an app that can back up to iCloud Drive, like WhatsApp, on iPhone #1. I back it up to iCloud Drive. However, if I have the same app, WhatsApp, on iPhone #2 which is connected to the same iCloud account, will I be able to back it up to iCloud Drive as well, or will my #1 backup be overwritten?
I'm using an iPhone 6s with iOS 9.3.4 and Safari. I am encountering a problem when I view certain websites: if I tap a link to be taken to another page and then swipe right to return to the page I was first viewing, the site doesn't display the same way it originally did. The font and everything else is much larger (as if I hit ⌘+ on desktop Safari to enlarge everything). Please visit the link just below to imgur.com to see a before and after view of the problem: Before and after (Meta: I originally embedded both images directly into this post, but StackExchange wouldn't let me embed more than 2 links so I felt it better to save my second link and use it below to link to a particular site where this problem can be replicated for the benefit of those who want to try this with their mobile device.) I can't say for sure this started happening when I recently upgraded from 9.3.3 to 9.3.4, but I started noticing it right around that time, and I can't remember it ever having happened before 
These are the various processes with associated ttys. Again, I can't understand the life of me what 26065, 26066 and 29465 (all associated with 26065) are doing/why are they there.
After a botched arch Linux install, my whole ssd got wiped. I used a bootable USB drive for Ubuntu to see what happened and saw that all my partitions from the SSD had vanished and the drive was showing up as free space. I am loading up internet recovery but I am not sure what I'll do there. Everything went to hell after I typed parted mklabel gpt /dev/disk2 or something similar along these lines. I don't care about recovering my data but all I want is my MacBook to boot up again System: MacBook Pro Retina Display late 2011
How do I manually uninstall Adium from Mac OS X? I uninstalled Adium using "AppCleaner", which seems to have caused my "Internet Accounts" logins to malfunction (I'm guessing the uninstaller deleted necessary files that were modified by Adium). So, I don't want to use another uninstaller app to get rid of it.
On all my browsers on my iPhone6s like Safari,Chrome and even facebook browser , when I click on know website link or enter a link direct , it redirect it to random websites like maxonclick ,aigames and other ! I stopped javascript for safari but it's not a solution cause most of websites needs javascript , and I updated my iOS but still the same !
At /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj There is a fake called "Credits.rtf" only containing some random text. Is it an easter egg or something malicious? p.s it's also in the other xx.iproj folders.
In older versions iTunes played automatically the entire songs in an albume when I selected and pressed the play button. Now it only plays the first song then stops. What do I need to do to play the whole album?
As the title says, how many additional numbers can I set in one contact? I was playing around with a script and I was able to get even 2000 of them in on an iPhone 6 simulator. However, would like some official response about what is the max.
I am using sublime, I guess any text editors work the same. I've just learned from this form that alias won't work and I should use function. here is what I come up with, in .bash_profile:
How to make wheel mouse button work this way in Mac OS X El Capitan?
I didn't realize it but a bit of checking tells me that both Adblock and Adblock Plus slow down the effective and actual speed of refresh of web pages. Is there a configuration or other setting that I am missing or is this the case with all Adblockers?
I have a folder/package in the Applications called CrashPlan.app. The uninstall failed and I am left with a folder that has a Contents folder, but aside from that, is completely empty. The folder info: I have tried the following:
Let's say I'm working on my pork belly recipe [I'm not – there's only one you'll ever need] and I want to record a temperature. I don't want to write out "500 degrees" I want to write "500°". How do I do this?
I've got 10.10.5 on a mid-2010 Mac Pro with a PowerColor R9 280X (shows up as Radeon 7xxx class) I just picked up on ebay to replace my original 5870. The monitors are two LG 27UD88-W 4k on the MiniDisplayPort and a Benq 2560x1440 on the DVI, all running at 2560x1440.
I have installed the latest version of ffmpeg (3.1.2) through homebrew, and I have gone to Preferences -> Libraries and located the ffmpeg library in Audacity (/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.0.2/lib/libavutil.55.17.103.dylib). Nothing happens when I load an m4a. If I import it through ⌘ + I it says "FFmpeg not found".
I've assigned a long list of keyboard shortcuts for my Wacom graphics tablet. I would like to get a numeric keypad to be able to enter numbers for certain functions in Photoshop, but I would also like to use it to assign other keyboard shortcuts (this is for my work, so it would be awesome to find a way to integrate this into my setup).
where disk5 is the unlocked, but not mounted virtual volume. Here are the results of fsck_hfs on the unlocked virtual volume:
I have iOS 9.3.4 and sync to windows 10. iTunes will no longer recognize my iPad or iPhone. I plug in the cord, the iPad dings and charges but does not show up as a device in iTunes. I have reinstalled iTunes, and gone to iTunes Wi-Fi Sync, but the Sync Now button is greyed out and it claims the sync will resume when Desktop - Q369GQB is available.
I turned off the firewall. Then, using nmap in the terminal, I issued the statement and got How can I force open TCP 443 on my machine?
Each time I attempt to install Apple's Server.app, I get a hang at the point wherein it says, Preparing Mail service.... I am trying to set this up via both the GUI and the shell (sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/server setup) with the same result. I've performed rm /Library/Server and gone a bit further with removing some other folders: Any idea of any other steps I can take to troubleshoot this here? I've been thinking that perhaps I can use sudo iosnoop or such to scrub through what files may be active during this setup, but I've not really been able to isolate any problems so far...
I have tried power cycling the Time Capsule and computer, and doing a soft and hard reset of the Time Capsule, reloading the configuration from a saved file (using Import and Export Configuration File). I end up right back in the same place. Does this ring any bells for anyone here?
I recently bought a used ipad air 2 from ebay. But when i tried to do the initial setup i an taken to a configuration page that is essentially a mobile device management setup which essentially says the ipad is remotely configured by someone else. Then when i try to proceed with the configuration its asks for a username and password. which has not been given to me. do u guys know how i can remove this? I am perfectly fine with jailbreaking the etc.
I have written an rsync script to back my Mac (10.10.3) up to my NAS. I think I want to create a user account that will be responsible for running this script. This user would need to be able to see all the files on disk (read level access at least) and have a local home dir for their own ssh keys. The script will be run roughly once every 15 minutes via cron.
My mac is always quite hot and the fans are often at full speed even with moderate activity. Also, when I plug in the external monitor, the computer becomes very sluggish and kernel_task starts taking insane amounts of CPU. So it looks like I need a SMC reset.
On the terminal that doesn't work. Keeping the "shift" key pushed and pushing the arrow keys just creates this: ;2C;2B;2A;2D;2D;2D;2D;2D
I have a Macbook Pro with Turkish keyboard layout and I haven't been able to find what the equivalent shortcut combination for command+` to switch between windows, especially on Chrome. Does anyone knows what that is?
I have folder with 600+ .txt files. Each file has couple lines of short text. I want to create another file and write text from all those files to new one. Are there some Terminal commands or tools to do this?
I left my MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011 running OS X 10.11.6 for half an hour while was charged more than 50%, and when I came back, I saw the Battery status color in the menubar is red while it was at 51%. My laptop warned me 2 years ago about "Service Battery" but this color misbehavior has not happened before. Why is the status icon in red color while it is not under 20%?
Ok, so here's the deal. I have a picture, from Google Images, that I am trying to put on a flashdrive or such so I can make it the profile picture to the account I am currently logged into. I have the latest OSX and everything is up to date. I am on a Safari only guest account. Whenever I try to download anthing to the computer directly, I only get a "Safari could not download the file “Just Another Day For Arceus.mp4” because there is not enough free disk space. Try deleting documents or downloading to another disk." This of course, was trying to download a video, not the said picture. That, and when I try to right click items, the usual white bar with several items does not appear. I can access the USB, however, when I go to Google's homepage and click "Change Image" and although I can access the files already on it, I cannot add any new files. Please help if you can, and let me know if I can do anything without logging into the Admin account. Also, I am not much of a tech person, so
I've Googled "Mac startup scripts" and checked various directories for any obvious culprits, but nothing jumps out. Is there any good way for me to definitively determine what startup item is causing this window to open, so that I can get rid of it? For example does the Terminal app provide any visibility into what command started it up (is that what's printed at the top)? And if so can I easily deduce from that where the startup script/daemon/agent/whatever is?
I just bought an iPhone SE and I want to synchronize it with my iTunes library but when I connect the iPhone to my Mac I get a message saying that the iPhone can't be used because it requires a later iTunes version. I have iTunes 11.4 and when I check for updates it says it is the latest. I have O.S. 10.6.8 and would like not to upgrade to the next generation as some programs are not compatible any more. Do I have an option? Thank you
I'm trying to run a command at 10 minutes after 2am every weekday only. In my launchd .plist file, how can I specify this? I don't want it to run every 2 hours and 10 minutes, just once every weekday at the specified time.
I periodically have to move my display around (physically1) and this requires also rearranging my display arrangement in System Preferences. Manually doing this all the time is a pain in the neck. Is there any way to do it programmatically?
I am thinking about buying Keynote Version 6. I want to make a presentation and then export it to HTML, which I will upload to my website. Does the HTML export retain all animations, transitions, and sounds, ect... Is there anything that is lost? Is the HTML export responsive? Does the HTML export have any display issues when shown on a mobile device?
Maybe I need to duplicate this question here I am not sure. I need to connect my macbook pro to HDMI port on 3d projector to be able watch full hd or 3d video. What cable should I buy/use?
The Maps app on the iPhone shows the photos from a business's Yelp page, but for some businesses these photos are inappropriate. Is there a way to block them?
I am trying to set up a Root Certificate Authority using Keychain Access/Certificate Assistant but I am running into some trouble. When creating the authority the assistant asks you to enter Key Usage and Extended Key usage extension settings for both the CA itself and the users of it. However, upon completion of the certificate this seems to have been swapped around. So the CA itself seems to have the settings that were entered for the users of the CA. For demonstration purpose, I have made some screenshots of setting up a Test CA:
I am a windows user, want to build a safari extension, But i want to first know is there any way to test my extension in windows ? what is the latest version of safari for windows that apple support and if i build the extension on this version is that will run correctly on the latest safari version ?
I have a server (really a repurposed Mac Pro) running OS X Yosemite. (I skipped El Capitan on the server because it lacks native RAID support.) Recently, I've been interested in trying macOS Sierra, but I don't want to put it on my production MacBook Air for obvious reasons. Is there a way to dual-boot Yosemite and Sierra on the server in such a way that I can access Sierra on the server from the MacBook?
I have the ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory installed on an i5 iMac 27inch setup. Given that my current card is malfunctioning and that versions of that card are prohibitively expensive, which cards could I theoretically upgrade to?
WhatsApp was updating on my phone, but then I got a message so interrupted the update. WhatsApp then disappeared from my home screen. When I go to WhatsApp in the App Store I am prompted to open, but nothing opens. How can I get the app back?
My iPad Mini does not have GPS capabilities. I would like Maps to show my location. Can I attach a Bluetooth GPS receiver to enable this functionality? If so, will any Bluetooth GPS receiver work or will it have to be an Apple compatible one?
I've gotten a MBP with El Captain installed & latest MRD (Microsoft Remote Desktop) 8.0.33 - However when I try connecting to a Windows host with it's PC name given along with credentials .. MRD gives me the following: HTTPEndpointException: 4, The non-proxy http connection failed to connect with the message: 501 Not Implemented stack exchange
I have a new phone number. For some reason, I'm getting text messages from my old number on the new number. How is that possible? I've also sent text messages from my new number and the recipient sees that it's coming from my old number. Wish I could post a screen shot.
I’m a Mac OS 10.11. I've tried to build a bootable images USB flashdrive on 2 of my flash drives, now I want use them as a storage again. I want to format them. But they seems to stuck in 200 MB EFI mode partition or something like that, and no matter what, I can’t seem to format it back to it original size (32 GB).
my website locally on my Mac ready to host. It is accessible locally via *=URL=* running on MAMP. Let’s say my static public IP from my ISP is : 201.23.45.23 and I’ve already linked that IP with a domain like this : 201.23.45.23 —> http://mysite.online
I'm wanting to install a couple drivers like the keyboard, trackpad, airport card, etc to another operating system (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). I saw some stuff about drivers for other models on the Ubuntu website but this model was never listed. Am I missing something?
I have a webpage that will display notifications to OS X's notification (system notifications). But it will disappear in 10 to 15 seconds. Is there a way to change how long it stays? (and what about change to not disappear at all?) I found several pages dated 2014, which suggested using
Google Chrome can let a webpage show notifications as a system notification (of the OS). Is there a way to see a list of the past notifications?
After upgrading to macOS sierra I've noticed that scrollbars are appearing always, even if I go to settings and then select appear when scrolling it still shows them and after quitting and going back to settings it reverts back to appear always. Is there any ways to solve this issue myself?
OS X EI Captain (version 10.11.5). This issues is consistent, whenever Mac awakes from sleep, My internet is disconnected. I tried the following options, Turn off wifi and turn back on. Restart network service by sudo ifconfig em0 down and up.Basically restarting network services. Network settings to renew DHCP address, Prioritizing the wifi in service order.
I don't know exactly when it began but for few months i have problem with bluetooth speakers. When they connected to mac iTunes starts to play music from it's playlist. How can i disable this function? Also when my mac is in sleep mode and bluetooth speakers are connected, mac suddenly wakes up and start to play music from iTunes.
I was wondering if the root user on a Mac (Mavericks) can freely access any other user account and use a browser like they do? This means being automatically logged in their browser with all cookies/accesses for Facebook, Emails etc without a need of entering the password. Does OS X support this?
I am using icloud photo library to sync my iphone photos to my macbook. Does it mean that all photos are stored and saved on icloud. In other words If I stop syncing photos from iphone, will all photos on icloud.com be deleted ?
I've downloaded CoreFoundationLite - CFLite from apple open source of OSX version 10.10.5, and attempted to compile it on my own mac (I'm running 10.11.5 and Xcode 7.2.1). notice that this code compile under regular make, and doesn't use Xcode SDK ...
I would like to be able to build an IPA file with a given Entilements.plist file using command line. I can do pretty much anything, but I do not find a way to pass a code signing entitlements file using the command line (whereas I can do it in Xcode 7.3 UI). Any idea how to do that ?
I have a very big table, and searching for a string can take a few seconds. However, I only want to search in a particular column. Even when a column is selected, Numbers searches the entire table. How can I constrain the search to the selected column?
I access songs from bootcamp drive. All of a sudden, itunes took approx 20mins to open in macbook. Every action like playing a song took a huge time and finally it crashed. I get this when i right click the app "Application not responding".
In Keynote 6, if I have a slide with 2 images, how can I randomize the position of the images every time the presentation is run? For example: Sometimes image 1 is at the top of the slide and image 2 is at the bottom. Sometimes it is opposite; image 2 is at the top of the slide and image 1 is at the bottom. Is this possible?
I am trying to install Xcode 7.1 on OS X 10.10.5 using the dmg file downloaded from Apple. However, I have tried several times and the install always stopped at "Calculating size" when I dragged the icon to the Application folder. I waited for 2 hours and nothing happened. How can I install Xcode using the the dmg file? My MacBook Air wireless adapter is damaged so I am unable to update Xcode from Mac App Store — the only way I can get Xcode is to download that dmg file.
I need to set up a multi-user remote desktop OSX server, which users will access using a remote desktop client, such as OSX screen sharing or VNC. The administrator can just reset the user's password and log in as that user. What can be done to prevent this?
I have an old Mid 2010 Mac Pro running Yosemite that I am using as a server, and have a shared folder that should be accessible by anyone on the network. Well, it's accessible, all right...but any file put there can only be opened by the user that put it there. This is the exact opposite of what I'm looking for with this shared folder. Is there any way to set the permissions such that anyone with access to the folder has read/write permissions for everything in the folder?
Since yesterday I inadvertently deleted an important email (it's waaaay to easy to swipe left too much and delete the mail), I changed the default setting to "archive" instead of delete. But since I want to be able to delete those email from my phone, I created a folder called "To Be deleted" on my gmail account, that I can then empty safely from my computer.
I'm trying to install python3 using brew on a 2008 MacBook (OSX Lion). I have a few years using apt-get in Linux environments, but this is my first time trying to install something using brew. Per the instructions at Get Your Mac Ready For Python Programming and Install Python 3 on Mac OS X and use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper I entered: This was after accidentally trying to install version 2.x of python using The python package installs fine, but when trying to install python3 I get Per the errors I checked python & python3: fix sqlite3 on sierra which seems to indicate the fault lies somewhere with sqlite3 however the link at python3 (v 3.5.1) failed to build on 10.7.5-x86_64 indicates its an issue with the compiler? I'm not sure where to go next in the troubleshooting process.
I know there are several topics with tutorials for clicking links/buttons on webpages with AppleScript, but unfortunately none of them worked for me on this specific website. The website contains animated slides (realised with JW Player) and only when the slide (each one takes 30s - 90s) has finished, you are able to press "Next" to get to the next slide. Here is a picture of the buttons:
My iPhone has recently started deleting my email automatically from my Phone after a couple of weeks. I am wondering how exactly I can keep all emails that come to my phone as I need them.
For some reason, I can't update my MacBook Air to the new update "OS X El Capitan". The update is on "pause" and I can't start it again, I simply cannot click on it. I attached an image of what I see below. Does anyone know how I can solve this? I've tried rebooting several times, but that seems to have no affect.
I wonder if and how it is possible to set shell environment variables based on the Terminal.app profile. More specifically, I would like to use a coloured prompt in Terminal.app or iTerm2.app in Mac OS, but I would like to set the prompt colours (with PS1 variable) based on the selected profile of Terminal.app. Is it possible to define environment variables as a part of the profile in Terminal.app? Are there any workarounds for Terminal.app or for other terminal applications (for any operating systems) to define the prompt format and colors based on the selected "profile"?
I am wondering if it is possible to issue a command to print a PDF file from my iPad (connected to a WiFi network), to a printer which is connected to a LAN, provided I know the (global) IP address or URL of the printer. I routinely print research papers, and to do this, I have to issue a command from a Mac or a laptop to print the PDF file. But I'd like to be able to do this from my iPad.
Could it just be that the App store downloads are inaccessible today in my country? The App store itself appears fine - I can search for applications through the store, so it appears that connectivity isn't an issue, unless only the specific update/download services are down. To add more variables to the mix, I also updated to the latest version of iOS today after a long time. I already tried: Cancelling and re-starting the updates and app downloads. Re-booting my phone. Deleting an app on the phone (in case it's a bug and the storage value isn't refreshed - however improbable that sounds) I do not know how to clear my storage caches. Note that the phone doesn't give an error - it doesn't say that there isn't enough storage. Is there anything else I can do?
I want to safely change the "full name" for my account. (I only want to change the "full name" – not the "account name" aka "short username"). But, after modifying the field (shown below) and before clicking "OK", this warning shows up:
I have an awesome Pomodoro application, but there are no keyboard shortcuts to start and pause it. I've been trying to code an AppleScript for the past hour, reading the AppleScript reference and searching online, but I'm getting nowhere. What I want to do is have an AppleScript (it will be launched from an app called BetterTouchTool) click on coordinates on the menu bar, (the Pomodoro app runs in the background and I have all the coordinates needed), a cursor-back needed for the second cursor back (to get back to the initial cursor position), click a second time on the 'Start/Pause' dropdown item (from coordinates), and then do a second cursor-back to have the cursor back to its original position. EDIT: the application is a timer application (in the menu bar) with a dropdown menu that has as the first item either 'Start', 'Pause' or 'Resume'—which is what I want to be able to click via a keyboard-assigned AppleScript. EDIT2: got this far: But don't know how to code the cursor back, an
I've configured Hotkey Window to slide down from top when global hotkey is pressed (like console). But when I do that when maximized window is active it switches to a desktop. Is there a way to prevent that? I want terminal to just slide over fullscreen window.
When I run the command open -ga /Applications/Google_Chrome.app *=URL=* the application behaves normally and opens the url in Chrome without bringing the application to the foreground. But if I run the command open -ga /Applications/Google_Chrome.app without specifying a url, the application opens in the foreground. However running open -ga /Applications/Safari.app works as expected and does not bring the application to the foreground regardless of whether a url is specified or not. -a application Specifies the application to use for opening the file -g Do not bring the application to the foreground
I'm currently going through a divorce, and I do not want my text messages or browser history showing up on my wife's (used to be our) Mac from my iPhone. I'm not hiding anything, but since we are no longer together she does not need to know what is going on in my life. Since I don't have access to the computer, how can I turn off this feature?
For me system-wide hotkey does not work when iTerm2 is closed. Is there a way to enable it? Or maybe create an instance of iTerm that runs invisibly in background and listens for hotkey?
I've tried searching this question in multiple ways, but it always seems to turn up results for mounting from OS X either from the Finder or from command line. However, what I'm trying to do is mount a shared folder that is on an OS X host using smbmount (or mount.cifs / mount.smbfs) on a Linux box (specifically, a ReadyNAS). The general command like this results in an error: ...and I'm getting back After some digging, I seem to find that I can list the shares on the OS X box by disabling signing, e.g.
Without taking the mac apart since I tend to break things easily. Wasn't a really huge fall about 2-4 feet. Landed upside down and no visible damage.
The error message I get is "... could not be restored because the firmware is not compatible." I have tried: Reinstalling iTunes (yes, it's the newest version) Rebooting both my laptop and iPhone multiple times Putting my phone in DFU mode I get the file from ipsw.me (iPhone7,1_9.3.3_13G34_Restore.ipsw) iTunes DOES allow me to update my phone to the newest iOS, but I don't want that version - I want 9.3.3
Apple have confirmed to me (*=URL=* that with macOS 10.12, permissions to create a folder inside /Volumes require root access. Using the mount command requires that the mount point exists first, so you're going to have to sudo to create that folder for the mount point.
Is it possible to perform a case-sensitive search in Preview? For example, I'd like to find all occurrences of the text LAST but not last or Last I tried enclosing term in double quotes to no effect: "LAST"
Whenever I right click on a link in Safari and click "Open Link In New Tab" it leads me directly to it/ immediatley takes me to the new tab. Before, ever since I got my macbook, whenever I opened a link in a new tab it left it running in the background. It was more convinient for me and it was faster. PS: And before you ask, yes I have tried fixing the "Tab" setting in Safari Preferences
I have a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB external hard disk drive that I'm using to store a lot of large files. I have files from both Mac and Windows (as I use Parallels). I was trying to create a new iPhoto library on my eHDD when it started to give me an error. I think that iPhotos requires Mac Extended (journaled) or maybe exFAT format for a library to be written to that volume but I'm not sure. Even if I did, would my windows files work without any issues on Mac Extended? Is there any way to create an iPhotos library on my eHDD hopefully without formatting it?
The version of safari is 9.1.2 (11601.7.7) I am using OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
I'm using Jabra Halo Smart bluetooth headphones on my MacBook Pro El Capitan 10.11. One annoying issue is that whenever I'm out of bluetooth connection range the music starts playing on internal speakers. Is there anyway to pause the music on headset disconnect or change?
I use to create a link to folder Explore in the current directory. And it works. If I click on testExplore I see the content of Explore. However I want to create a link to Explore at "folder/testExplore"
How do I make OS X monitor the Console and say something when it finds the word "burning" in there?
A recent version of Google Chrome on Android included a feature where the browser tabs were each shown as a separate pane in the task switcher view, which was really convenient for my usage. So much so that when they removed it later :( I manually re-enabled it. I would like to be able to do something similar on my iOS device: make safari (or another browser) tabs appear as separate panes in the multitasking view, so I can use just the one multitasking idiom rather than needing to fumble around with both multitasking and safari tabs. How can I do this?
I use Lightroom and external CF card reader on a MacBook with 10.11.6. Every time I connect a memory card the Photos import dialog pops up, which is quite annoying since its starts reading from the memory card and often locks up. How do I disable it globally?
I have no idea what to do or if I've been hacked or not. Can someone explain what this means and can I log onto my iPhone and iPad? I am typing this on a Desktop computer as I am afraid to open my iPhone.
I took off the back of my computer to check if the hard drive was recoverable. Unfortunately I need a SSD adapter for an A1502 MBPr drive to find out, so this is not an immediate solution. I looked into purchasing a connector but everyone I found online won't arrive for at least a couple weeks. I can't wait that long.
I'm trying to click a menu button and then a related menu item. Anybody know how to do this?
OK, my macbook's battery is swelling and I have lost the use of my mouse and keyboard. To make matters worse, I'm in rural Indonesia and no immediate access to a USB mouse and keyboard. I do, however, have a Nexus 7, cubot Android phone, iPhone 6, and iPad pro (with duet) loaded, also my wife's MacBook pro. If I had access to the computer for even 3 seconds, I could wake it up and use to duet to install TeamViewer or any number of drivers for apps on the iphone, iPad or Android devices to act as mouse and keyboard. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can use one of my devices to wake up the computer and enter the password without downloading and installing anything on the computer - just to regain access long enough to install a driver for something more permanent? Thanks!
Trying to block incoming traffic on all interfaces to a specific local port on Mac OS X 10.11.15, including loopback. This is my /etc/pf.conf: However, when attempting to apply this rule, I get an error (line 29 is the one with the block rule): What would be the correct syntax in this case?
If a bluetooth barcode scanner is connected to an iOS device in HID mode, the virtual keyboard is hidden by default. There are some scanners which are able to show it again if needed for manual user input. My question: how exactly is this being done? My understanding is that in HID mode a scanner is acting the same as a keyboard. If that's true is there a special key code which does the trick?
I'm on my iphone 5s if my sister get iphone and we have same apple id. Example i download instagram it auto log me in. Will it do on her device also? Please help
I have a MacBook Pro. After 4-years of use, the right side of the trackpad has completely collapsed. It can no longer be pressed. The left side has risen significantly, but is usable. Given how a MacBook is built, is it possible to open it up, remove the battery, and maybe tighten some screws (or whatever) to level out the trackpad? notes MacBook Pro (13", mid-2012) I've already opened it once to upgrade to a (256-gb SSD) and (16-gb RAM).
I have a macbook air and I went to the store to install Xcode 7.3 and hit the Install App button, and a loading icon appeared but after waiting 20 min time nothing happened. I successfully installed one app from the store but I can't install Xcode. What might be the problem? What are the options to download it?
I've come across this problem a few times now. I initiate a transfer of an iMovie project from my iPhone to my son's iPad (both with current software as of August 2016: iOS 9 and iMovie 2).
I'm trying to get certain tools such as wget for my mac, and in my Internet adventures I stumbled upon this program called Homebrew, which seems like just the thing I need. So I installed Homebrew using the script from their website, and everything ran OK. And after it finished, I ran brew install wget, but I got the following output: TL;DR, I got the following error: I checked my config.log as suggested, and found this out: I'm guessing this was the problem, but in any case, here's the full config.log:
iMovie is almost ok for video processing, but it sometimes hangs when rotating video, so I'm using QuickTime player for rotating. Also, I was unable to set high fps when making video from photos, but maybe I'm missing something. QuickTime player is also almost ok for video processing, but free version doesn't support making video from photos, and I didn't try Pro version yet. So iPhoto + QuickTime player Pro is likely to be a solution, but I'd like to look at the alternatives before buying anything.
Is there a way to use Live Photos in iMovie on macos or ios? Or do we have to wait until Apple updates iMovie to make it so?
In other words how can I run Disk Utility from Terminal when booted in Recovery Mode / off Recovery Partition in recent versions of (Mac) OS X ? This was once easy; I've remember I figured it out myself in an old version. (Lion?). There's a solution at How to open Disk Utility.app through Terminal? that fails since around 10.8.
Most of my windows are normal but the root Applications window and some others do not have adjustable columns or triangles to open a folder. Has anyone seen this before and how do I fix it? I tried deleting the finder preferences; no change. Abnormal
I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 on my Macbook Pro 15" 2011 model running El Capitan I'm using Boot Camp and a 8GB USB First of all i only have two options starting Boot Camp and not three like i see in a lot of guides about how to do the install. My options are: Get the newest software for Windows support from Apple Install Windows 7 or newer After i've marked the two options the download runs, but after it's done i get a message telling me that the installationdisk doesn't exists. What am i doing wrong? Thanks in advance
Hi I just got the new MacBook and installed Mac OS sierra on it. I keep coming across an issue whereby there are pink and blue pixelated diagonal lines appearing in the notification centre and when I try to screenshot them they go away. Attached is an image I took with my iPhone as was not working
I activated iCloud Drive on my MacBook with OS X, and some folders showed as not downloaded yet. So I clicked on the arrow next to the folder name to download the whole folder from the iCloud to my local MacBook. I realized that my current internet connection (I am at my friends place currently) is too slow and therefore blocks all the traffic. How can I stop an active download from the iCloud Drive to my local Mac under OS X?
I created an iOS app for a small company approximately one year ago. It is a small app to help the employees, so the easiest method of distribution seemed to be ad hoc. I simply had the .ipa file available for download and had the users trust my developer account. I accidentally forgot to renew my apple developer account, and now the app will not open on anyone's phone.
I have a chart with two percentage columns (min, max), and a third which is supposed to show the min-max range in absolute values. I use the formula =A2*60&" - "&B2*60 in cell C2. The expected result is (for an absolute max of 60): Here's what I get: The percentage columns are formatted to display a percentage value with one decimal, and this format is somewhat applied to the text. If I change the formula to =A2*$C$1&" - "&B2*$C$1, I get: For every format on C1 I get 3 decimals in the expression, except if I set the format to only one decimal in C1, I really get one decimal in the expression. Question: How do I choose how the numbers are displayed in C2?
When I want to do "reply-all" to a message that involves multiple people, the mail app includes myself in the list of recipients. Is there a way to turn off this feature?
Auto-correct in my email is correcting the word to something that makes no sense, before I'm even done writing it. IE I was trying to write correct but it keeps changing corr to core before I can finish writing the whole word even though I am not pausing. I have OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
I tried to install chromedriver using homebrew and got the following error. $ sudo brew install chromedriver ==> Using the sandbox ==> Downloading *=URL=* curl: (35) SSL certificate problem: Couldn't understand the server certificate format Error: Failed to download resource "chromedriver" Download failed: *=URL=* I updated the curl to version 7.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0) using homebrew and link it but no luck. My os is OSX 10.11.5 and curl -V result is following : $ /usr/bin/curl -V curl 7.43.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0) libcurl/7.43.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.5 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Any advice would be appreciated.
Using El Capitan (10.11.6) on a MacBook Pro. I want to move an app icon to a different location on the Dock. I can get it on the dock but can't figure out how to move it from the default location.
I have a weird situation with a file that sticked into my file system and apparently there is nothing I can do to remove it. There is a file in the Trash folder of my external hard drive, and it can not be deleted. Trying with mac "Empty Trash" it says the file is in use: I tried to remove the file/folders from command line:
Every so often I move all the pictures and videos off my phone onto my desktop in order to free space on the phone. I have this app called 1 Second Every Day which uses video clips from my Camera Roll to build longer videos.
I trying to fix any problem I have in brew doctor, so I see: I look into ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/paths – and don't see this path. There is no files in /etc/paths.d/ folder that contains this string. So where this $PATH part from?
I am using iOS 9. I would like to delete my iCloud backup. So I go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage like the support page says to do.
Thanks to Little Snitch I've noticed that a lot of apps installed on my MacBook (El Capitan with latest updates) connect to an IP address in The Netherlands (23.74.205.239, registered with Akamai). As I couldn't find any more info on this I am wondering what to do?
I've read about FAQ and rest of details. It's confusing and I did not get a 100% answer to my only question.
I have an odd question: how can I persuade Numbers to show the signs of a series of numbers which may be either positive or negative? The negative sign is a default setting, but there appears to be no default to show the plus sign for positive numbers. It would be useful if it existed, or if some bright spark has a work-around.
I'm fairly new to using a Mac, and have a bit of an odd issue. When first setup, I was able to resize windows/panes etc pretty quickly and easily, however for some reason the 'hit' area(?) for resizing windows seems to have changed so that I have what seems like a single pixel area to move my mouse into to be able to resize a window. Previously this area felt more like 5px or so. Is there a way to somehow increase this hit area/tolerance?
Cycle Count is near 700 macOS Sierra Condition Good Like last night I went to bed and charged my mac a bit beforehand but when I woke up I had 0% and couldn't open my mac. After charging my mac to 30% I unplugged the charger and replugged it and my battery spiked to 65%
I'm trying to set up an OS X server/network with Open Directory enabled that will contain 25 iMacs and a Mac server. The network will have 200ish users split between several user groups.
When I turn on my Windows 7 PC, I browse the network and select the OpenELEC box. It tells me it can't connect, but after 5 or so seconds it starts working. This is because it has woken up and started being available on the network. When I connect to an already-woken OpenELEC box from my Mac (one Mavericks / one El Cap) it connects right away and can start working with files on the network.
So I wrote a small service (a couple of services, really) which basically lets a user capture its screen (full screen or an area) and then make edits if necessary and then it uploads it directly to imgur and gives the user a direct image link. I wrote it for myself but people at my workplace got interested and asked me to install it for them. Since my service has a couple of dependancies I basically had to borrow their Macbooks for like 15 minutes to install everything. I wonder if it's possible to somehow pack everything so that I can hand it to other people who want to use it. What my app consists of and what it requires: A package from brew called imgur-screenshot (also available directly from github afaik) A number of automator services that I wrote A free image editor — Skitch A config file for imgur-screenshot placed in ~/.config/imgur-screnshot/ Doing a couple of quick tweaks in system settings like assigning hotkeys to these automator services
I want to create a simple automator script foo.app which will transform a particular type of file. I would like the script to exist as an app, such that when I ask the Finder service to "open with... foo.app" it will take the file, transform it, open it, and then close out.
Then, I click "Diagnose errors..." at the bottom of the error. And, then it shows a screen like this:
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro running 10.7.5 and was trying to update to El Capitan at the advice of Apple Care rep to fix issues I was having. In midst of install the system totally froze and went black. When I rebooted I got the prohibited symbol so I went to recovery mode to try and reinstall the original operating system (Lion).
That is, are there nvram boot-args to disable wifi or a startup key sequence that does? Safe mode is said to PARTIALLY disable Wi-Fi on some Macs. I googled and couldn't find an answer.
Listening to audio in iTunes, after approximately 30 seconds, the audio will sort of crackle, then go out completely. The song will continue playing, without sound. If I press pause and play or switch to a different track the audio plays normally, again for about 30 seconds, and then fizzles out again. Running iTunes 12.4.3.1 under OSX 10.11.6 UPDATE: Tested audio in gpodder, and same result, so it is not an iTunes only issue.
Whenever I'm adding a new contact (iOS 9.3.4, German) and tap "add phone number", the default phone number type is "Home Fax" which is probably the least useful default imaginable. Is it possible to set the default to "Mobile"?
Weird issue here, after updating my client's OS X Server from 10.6.8 to 10.11.6, I can no longer reach my calendar server externally. My client's router is port forwarding to my server 8443 and 8008 over TCP/UDP, and I've tested those ports and found them to be open. External DNS is resolving to the correct IP, and Port Forwarding is pointing to the server It all works perfectly internally.
I took a bunch of photos on vacation and saved them into an album in the Photos app on iOS 9. I'd like to now share that album. Is there a way to do this other than creating a new shared album and manually adding the individual pictures?
How do I make a "sector level" copy of a 4TB external hard drive that contains Filevault 2-encrypted partitions? The hard drive has three partitions each encrypted using Filevault 2. I have all three of the filevault keys if it matters. I case I'm using the wrong term, by "sector level" I mean an exact copy of the drive bit for bit including deleted information.
I hooked up my 8,1 Macbook Pro's (A) fully Filevault 2-encrypted internal disk (El Capitan) to another Mac B (also El Capitan) externally to back it up. I had to input my Filevault password (every time) to access the disk, ran the graphical disk utility app's first help function on the disk which corrected some minor problem and after backup used diskutil eject to eject the disk (all on Mac B). The Macbook's (A) battery was disconnected for a few hours. When I put the disk back into my Macbook (A) (and reconnected the battery, obviously), there was no Filevault login, just a progress bar. It looks and feels to me as though the Macbook boots the system on the hard drive without the password. The boot does not complete beause my GPU is fried (that problem, yes). Can that be? Did disk utility app do sth. to the disk? Or is the Macbook booting the unencrypted recovery partition although I chose the recognized hard drive from the boot menu? Does anyone have an idea about what might be going
I have an APC UPS connected to my iMac that's set to shutdown after 1 minute of running on UPS power. I also have a Windows 10 PC plugged into the UPS that I'd like shut down as well. Is there a way to send a shutdown command from my Mac to the Windows 10 PC telling it to shut down as well when a power loss is detected?
If I take a photo using the camera and then to share it by email, the default is to send from one of my gmail addresses configured. I'm trying to use the one of the other gmail address as the From address. This question is similar: Setting Default Send-From Address on iPhone But that question along with the rest of what I can find on the web, only deal with a single gmail email address.
I am trying to resolve localhost which right now is "not found" if I ping localhost - I am getting I have made sure that the /etc/hosts file has the below entries that are necessary to have the resolution for localhost - However, when I ping 127.0.0.1 it is successful - In doubts of this getting blocked by my antivirus - I have also disabled my "web root secure anywhere" anti-virus... and it did not solve anything.
It seems like I can only shuffle songs within a single album for an artist. I want to shuffle all the songs from 1 artist. Found this question abou shuffling songs on iOS, but I have the same question for iTunes in macOS.
I'm looking for a way to prevent notifications from lowering the volume of music when they come in, as I feel this really distracts from the listening experience. I would rather not have to turn on Do Not Disturb, but I couldn't find any other setting for this in the Settings app. Is there a way to disable this volume drop without jailbreaking my iPhone?
I am trying to get a terminal command to work in Applescript and I get the error "Expected end of line but found identifier." How can I fix this? This is my code
I've always wondered why the Finder application on Mac computers are always on and why there's no way to quit out of them. Does anyone have an idea or supposition about why it is? Are there any consequences if the Finder is not always on?
I went into the FontBook and selected all fonts, then validated all fonts. All came back valid. Then I went into System Profiler, and went down to “Fonts.” Here, I again confirmed all fonts are valid. It was suggested that I download, install, and run “Font Doctor,” but this is a $69.99 application that I would not get much use out of.
I have a Macbook Pro. I'm legally blind and usually don't see the popup that says the battery is low. Is there a way to make it give me an audio alert?
I live in China. I need a VPN to get to the 'real' Internet. In my case I'm using Astrill.
How do I reenable System Integrity Protection, after using csrutil disable from the Recovery OS?
I want to write code on my iPad, with the possibility to do it offline and to download the files later on my computer (MacBook Pro), for instance via iTunes. I am right now coding in Java. Offline compiling is not my priority now.
When I opened xcode and tried to make a macosx app, this weird message came up. Is this a glitch or a virus, as Apple wouldn't say something like this. It does not look like a system message.
When making a backup of my iPhone through iTunes, how can I exclude the photos that are already stored in my iCloud Photo Library from the backup? I have the impression that an iTunes backup includes all of the iPhone’s data related to iCloud Photo Library. I made a few backups of my iPhone while it is still downloading my iCloud Photo Library (my MacBook is still uploading to it), and the size of the backup keeps increasing. I had also cleared out Photos on my iPhone and made a backup before enabling iCloud Photo Library on it; the size difference of the backups before and after is the same as the amount of storage used by the Photos app on the iPhone (which is several gigabytes). Photos on my MacBook is set to “Download Originals to this Mac”, while on my iPhone it is set to “Optimize iPhone Storage”. I don’t really need the iTunes backups of my iPhone to include another copy of my photos (except perhaps for any photos taken on my iPhone which have not yet been uploaded to my iCloud 
I've run Onyx 3.1.7 and received the following disk structure error: I've rebooted system in recovery mode and attempted to run the First Aid with use of the Disk Utility, however, after rebooting and running Onyx again I've arrived at the same error. The System is running on el-capitan with 500GB flash storage.
Mac n00b here. I'm running an iMac (OS X 10.10.4) with a projector attached as secondary display (extended desktop) and I have to set the position of this secondary screen in a way that the two screens align exactly at the center. My primary screen is of resolution 5120x2880, my secondary of 1920x1200, so I would have to place the latter at exactly 5120/840.
I'm no longer using the Apple Mail app built into OS X and it is consuming 20GB+ of space from old mail. However, I do use Calendars and Messages on those accounts. I unchecked "Mail" on those accounts, but that doesn't clear the space. If I try to remove the Internet Account, it warns that it will delete all my Messages (the Messages App messages), which I don't want to do. It has been suggested that I simply delete the folder where Mail App stores the messages ~/Library/Mail/V2 and/or ~/Library/Mail/V3. Can I safely free up space from mail messages from Mail using this method? Is there another method to safely do this?
After installing an add-in (.xla) which worked once, I'm trying to remove it so I can install an updated version. So far I've: deleted the .xla removed the check box in Tools > Add-ins removed it from the list Quit Excel completely reopened Excel. I get an error that Excel can't find the plugin, it's back in the Add-ons list, and the Add-ins toolbar is still there with the Add-ins buttons.
It seems that the setting doesn't work. It's unnecessary and annoying to input the password for free APPs times and times again.
If a user plugs in an iPad into the USB port of a computer which is running iTunes, iTunes recognises iPad, and allows the user to manage apps or media files on the iPad from iTunes. I know iTunes allows users to do that wirelessly (meaning that the iPad is not connected to the USB port of the computer running iTunes) if the iPad and the computer are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, but it seems that one must first connect the iPad to the computer at least once to make the iTunes recognise the iPad. Is there any way to set up the wireless connection between an iPad and an iTunes (computer) without the initial USB connection?
Possibly unrelated - although I am starting to doubt it - is another issue, whereby my partner does not receive text messages generated from online servers or non-iOS devices. When trying to activate iMessage and Facetime, my number is listed on her device. iMessage does not get activated, although it is on mine. Have you guys got any ideas on how to resolve this mess?
Okay so the cord from the brick has teared a bit and the charger only works on certain angles lol..  So what i did to hold the cord together was tying a cloth around it. I wanted to know is that safe? Or should I tie an IDE cable?
Is it possible to view 2 apps at the same, eg. 2 × Mail, in Split View?
Is there any way to re-arrange the order of the styles in Microsoft Word's Quick Style Gallery?
I have 2 iPhones: work and personal. For IT dept. reasons, I have to use a different Apple ID on each device: a work Apple ID and a personal Apple ID. I track my steps in Apple Health on my personal iPhone, under my personal Apple ID.
I would like to build an Automator application that counts the files in the hostfolder, creates a numbered subfolder named " [hostFolder name] [counter] ", moves at maximum 128 files from hostFolder in sequential order into this new subfolder, and loops until all files in hostFolder are sorted into subfolders (i.e. the last subfolder will have fewer than 128 files in it). Before the workflow runs, the hostfolder will always only contain files, no subfolders.
I have a macbook pro, retina with force touch, 15" running the latest version of el capitan. I've had this problem for a while actually: My macbook connects to my ISPs hot spot, over any other wifi connection available, every damn time, I've already set my network order preferences, under System Preferences > Network > Advanced > Wifi, and have my home network as the first wifi network, all the way on the top, and all the other private networks that I'd rather connect to in the middle, and at the very bottom I have xfinity wifi.
Have had MAcBook for about 4 yrs., this is first time I can recall using ethernet, and computer doesn't see it. SD card reader quit working some time ago but USB is okay. Ran diagnostic getting 4MEM/9/40000000 0:0x7f1c1390 error.
I’m curious, but haven't tested: What does the emergency dialer let you do? If you don’t unlock the phone and press the Emergency button, it shows a phone keypad. Can you only dial emergency numbers? What happens if you try calling a normal number?
I have a 4K monitor and before I have logged in, the mouse moves really slowly on the user login screen. Once logged in, I have configured the Tracking speed in the Mouse System Preferences to move fast. Since there is no known way to configure the default Tracking Speed before I've logged in, is there a way to select a login user without clicking on the user and using the keyboard to select a login?
I have bought the Hitman app for $4.99. When I checked for the app bundle, it says GET. Does this mean that the bundle is free, or do I still have to pay for it?
I'm curious because I don't see any text under my voicemails when I tap on them, but I've seen videos of that being what you do, and I've read that it doesn't require any activation. I don't see why it would be limited to the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, or the iPhone SE (I have an iPhone 6). I've narrowed it down to my carrier (AT&T). Is there a place where I can see if my carrier supports voicemail transcription? Thanks in advance!
I would let iTunes download the iOS 9.3.4 update, but it's already been downloaded & installed. And when iTunes tries to download the update again, it can't. It tries for several minutes, then stops the entire process--and I don't get my Restore.
Is there some way to enable Retina Display resolution on my MacBook Pro inside the macOS (Mac OS X) virtual machine (“guest OS”) on Parallels Desktop for Mac? I am disappointed every time I switch from the beautifully crisp fonts and lines of my native “host” Mac screen to the fuzzy blurry type of a macOS VM.
In your answers and comments several people have recommended that this discussion will solve Q1. While that article is indeed very helpful, I don't have the file The nearest file I have is I'm tempted to just wipe out the folder Suggestions?
Every time I subscribe to "the joe rogan experience" and go back to the "my podcast" screen "JRE" isn't there but some other podcast I know I've never subscribed to is there. What's going on?
After a while, View -> as List and View -> as Columns and View -> as Cover Flow stop working: the Finder window will not update at all, or - for the Cover Flow the "selection" part will not show a selection but the Cover Flow itself will follow selection changes. A temporary workaround is the solution at Finder doesn't work since Yosemite But after a while, the issue starts to appear again. Obviously something is interfering with Finder, but I've no idea where and how to get started, so: How can I narrow this down to a cause? I run a late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with Yosemite (10.9.5) and a truckload of stuff including: SwitchResX (I've disabled the extensions: no change in behaviour) DropBox Google Drive brew gfxCardStatus TunnelBlick
Since a Mac can easily speak something, can it speak what is in a system notification? Specifically, it is so that when a webpage displays a system notification, the text in the notification can be spoken out.
I use spotlight to perform calculations constantly, but at the moment the type of project I'm working on measures all angles in degrees. Is there a way I can make spotlight's trigonometric functions default to degrees instead of radians?
I can see the Apple Wallet app and the supported app list shows apps such as Paytm, Zomato, etc. Is there anything that can be actually done with the Apple Wallet app for indian users? I know India does not have Apple Pay support, at least can we use the Wallet app to safely store debit card credentials, etc?
Is it possible to edit the keyboard shortcuts so it can be a combination of a modifier key and a mouse button? I would like to change Move left a space to Shift+Mouse 5 and Move right a space to Shift+Mouse 4. I would like to do it natively without having to install third-party applications like Karabiner if possible.
I have a binary file. I released it to the customer, which is signed by a valid developer certificate. When customer is downloading that binary and trying to execute it (customer has a standard user account on Mac) the user gets a popup notification: signed by a unknown developer and you security setting allows installation only from Appstore
I have a MacBook I bought in 2007 and the charger recently died on me. (I'm assuming the computer itself is still working). I did some research and ordered from Amazon a Magsafe1 60W charger, but when it arrived the connecter is too large for the port.
I saw my iPad had uploaded all the photos the same as my iPhone. When I delete the picture from my iPad, the picture in my iPhone is also deleted automatically.
I constantly am told that I am running out of disk space, even though I almost have no applications (outside of the ones that come with the laptop). I have Xcode which is about ~10GB, but that is it and it says I am running out of disk space. I did a search on All My Files and sorted by size and I see the following...
I had upgraded vim with HomeBrew to version 7.4.1952 on OS X 10.11.6. It installed python 2 as a dependency package (Summarized parts of output is shown by ...): Now when I try to run lldb, it produces ImportError and NameErrors: This is my $PATH in zsh shell: How can I solve these errors?
I have been syncing my iPhone and Gmail contacts for years and consistently run into this problem. Some of my contacts were created in the group "All on My iPhone", always without my knowledge, instead of the Gmail group. Contacts in this group will not sync to Gmail. I have learned how to set my default account to Gmail so hopefully I will stop creating iPhone only contacts, but this doesn't fix the problem with the 100+ contacts I already have in this group on two different phones. Is there a way for me to force ALL contacts from the iPhone only group into the Gmail group? Is there a way for me to export just the iPhone group so I can then import them to Gmail using the web interface?
I'm trying to clean install OS X El Capitan on a MacBook Pro (early 2015). After erasing my disk I started the installation of OS X. After accepting the license agreement I was asked to choose a target drive. I hesitated a little bit and wanted to cross-check if I have created the partitions correctly so I canceled the installation. There were no options to go back to Disk Utility so I restarted my machine.
I type Polish a lot on my iPhone, requiring special characters. At some point, this started happening: when I try to type a special character, press and hold brings up the menu, but before I can get to the character, the keyboard goes blank, and I have to give up. I think the phone vibrates once, and it seems like it happens when my finger slips a little off the row of characters. A screenshot looks like this: What the hell is the phone trying to do, and how do I stop it? EDIT: This is purely intuition, but I think this is supposed to be a feature, not a bug, though I admit, I cannot figure out what the feature is.
A few months ago I installed Windows 10 on my late 2013 iMac without any drivers. Stupidly, I deleted the OSX partition because the only thing that didn't work perfectly was audio, which I was fine with at the time.
My spouse and I were driving onI84/81 in Annville, PA. Her iPhone 6S was in LTE mode. My iPhone SE was in Edge. We both have T-Mobile as a carrier. Do the two iphones have the same radios on the same frequencies? If so, why would I have Edge on one and she had LTE? Is there something wrong with my iPhone 6S? Is this something that can be tested in the T-Mobile store? In a nutshell - what process can I use to get answers to these ideas I have as to why one phone isn't working as well as another?
(I had a look at How can I find alert-type dialogs that prevent other windows of the same application to be focussed? and those solutions don't work either.)
In order to fix it, I need to press the Option key, right click the Finder icon to relaunch it. After a relaunch, everything works correctly for a few seconds and then it's broken again! I have to relaunch repeatedly in order to access my files. I've tried to restarted my laptop several times but it still doesn't work normally. I'm using OS X Version 10.9.5.
I can run "killall Dock" from Terminal, which makes the application disappear from the dock... BUT, the application still shows up in the force quit window, and it still cannot be force quit from there. Furthermore, a terminal-looking window labeled "java" appears after running this command. This new application cannot be force quit through right-click, does NOT show up in the force quit window, and doesn't show up in Activity Monitor either. Shutting down normally is still impossible. I've seen various other topics where people had this issue with certain java programs under El Capitan, but most had very little detail, and none had a true fix to the issue.
I just changed accidentally /usr/local chmod to 775 and I want to set it to the default value again. What is the default chmod for /usr/local in OS X 10.11?
I have the Lorex baby monitoring system. My wife and I were in the market for a system that allowed us to use our mobile devices for remote viewing, so we went to our App stores on our phones and found the Lorex Care app. We now have the system and (though not great) the app works to our satisfaction. Tried to install it on my wife's iPad but it only finds Lorex apps for security monitoring but not the one solely for the baby monitor. I want to know if there is a way to "extract" the program (like an apk) from my iPhone and install it on her pad.
I was just using Stellar Partition Manager to format a flash drive to HFS+. I deleted the current FAT32 partition and created a new HFS+ partition. I tried to make it as large as I could. Stellar wants to keep 128 MB as "FreeSpace".
Yet the same error appears when I try to sync again. I've tried 5 times.
I am not able to see path of my current directory or even username in terminal while using zsh. I was able to see it until few days back. Now it just shows blank. I tried uninstalling oh-my-zsh but it dint work. If I switch to bash, then I can see path. I have tried restarting my mac as well but no luck. Currently, terminal looks like below: Until few days back, it used to look like below: Below is my .zshrc
I have an old MacBook Pro (2011) which I use with an external 27" Thunderbolt Display. I'm now thinking about getting a new iMac. Is it possible to connect my Thunderbolt Display to the iMac as a secondary screen?
I use Finder windows to display pictures of the my company's employees on a TV screen. A Finder window for every department. The different Finder windows are adjusted to fit in to two 4K TV screens. Is there a way to use Automator or AppleScript to save and recall this exact configuration when needed?
So... How do I clean up this mess? I have a working OS X install, I just want to create another partition on my other disk and encrypt it... How can I fix this? Output sudo gpt -r show disk1:
I have to press and hold the the default letter "a" for example which then opens another list of modified letters which I can then choose If I slide my finger without lifting it up to the "ä". I find it inconvenient, is there a way to set it that you when you press and hold the default letter and lift up your finger that the alternative letter menu still stays up? Or any other suggestions which you think might be more preferrable to me?
It seems like a reset and is happening a dozen times per hour. It happen via HDMI on my Dell U3415W and on a low resolution projector (1024x768px), i used the original Apple adapter but also the Minix. Sometimes when it returns i have heavy artifacts on the display and have to unplug/plug the hdmi again for normal operation.
I have a MS Office 365 University subscription. For separation of concerns between my private files I have two local accounts on my mac (latest el capitan). However, when I try to launch an office application on my second user account, it tells me to activate my office subscription. How can I activate office 365 system wide across all my user accounts? EDIT: Word Build: 15.22.1
The latest backup on my MBA is 23 July and on my MBP is 24 July so I think that coincides with me updating OS X but I can't be sure. These are the things I have tried so far (I've turned Time Machine off on my MBP so I can focus on getting the Air working first) Turning time machine off and back on again Reselecting the back up disk Hard resetting the time capsule Factory resetting the time capsule Booting into Safe Mode on my MBA and then restarting into normal mode "First aid" (Disk Utility) on my MBA Renaming the Time Capsule to a short name
I want to connect to my local Web Server (NodeJS server) which runs on my MacBook with my iPhone. On my Mac I can access the server via *=URL=* Now all it should take is to replace localhost with my Mac's local IP address like this *=URL=* However, on my iPhone I cannot access the server this way and even when I try to open *=URL=* on my Mac there is no connection being established. This is definitely a problem with my Mac and not with my program because when I run the server on Windows and try to connect to it with the local IP address it works just fine. Also trying this in another Wi-Fi Network does not help or changing the port does not change anything either. I am using Mac OSX 10.11.5 and my firewall is turned off. How can I solve this problem? Routing Tables (netstat -r) (Deleted)
There are a bunch of kids in our house using wifi. When one is watching HD video on Youtube, everyone else can hardly load a webpage. How can I customize the Apple Airport to throttle usage for all machines using the wifi?
My paid apple dev license expired a year ago. In the meanwhile Xcode 7 came out with the option of testing locally on iOS devices without the need of a paid license.
I have an Apple TV in a shared space with roommates/friends. I don't want my personal photos to be shared or accessible there. I do like the idea of sharing some purchases and other apps in that space. Since Apple TV doesn't have the concept of "multiple users", and as of the latest iOS10 beta, that still seems to be true... what is the best way to configure Apple TV to preserve my privacy? In particular I'm referring to the App Store account The iCloud account Gaming accounts. I'm not terribly interested in restricting content / movies, but I simply don't want people to be able to see my personal photos. I also don't like the theoretical sharing of the iCloud keychain, which could put my account & PII at unnecessary risk in case of device theft.
I have a TimeMachine backup to a local NFS (1Tb partition) on a WdMyBookEX2. The backup works fine when I'm connected locally over ethernet/wifi (takes a while to backup about a TB).
This might seem like an odd request: There are some classic and early OSX apps which I really enjoyed using and I would like to revive. Is there an emulator which can run the versions of MacOSX Tiger created to run on computers with PPC architecture?
I am trying to use my Mac (I have a 2010 MacBook Pro) with ettercap, sniffing and MitM software, but I do not have a wlan0 card. All of the tutorials and recommendations I see for these "hacks" require wlan0. I have read that if you have an older card on your Mac it would be lo0, or local loopback, but that didn't make much sense to me considering all of the traffic I was getting from Wireshark.
I have an iPad mini 2. Also I'm using Telegram application. When someone sends me a new message into telegram, my iPad's screen will be turned on (light on).. and that's a huge problem for me .. Because I'm a member of lots of groups and channels so I have more than 1000 new messages per day. And honestly I'm worried about my iPad's screen, I concern it will be broken, because it will be turn on/off constantly. Anyway is there any approach to I disable the relationship between "my iPad's screen" and "new notifications"?
When formatting an external disk larger than 2GB, OS X automatically creates an EFI System Partition (ESP). For compatibility with other devices, I want to format a large disk with only one partition, and no ESP. How can I do this in OS X Yosemite? I found this Technical Note describing Apple's partitioning policy, but it doesn't say how to avoid creating the ESP. Edit: Forgot to mention I need to use GUID partition map for compatibility, not MBR.
Oh, come on! I can't close this stupid alert because it's taller than the screen itself. Pressing enter just re-opens the alert again. How do I close a Safari alert that's taller then the screen? (I have unsaved work in several other tabs.)
When I use a custom keyboard app (like gboard), my Bluetooth keyboard can't change its language (from English to other) But when I use Apple's default keyboard (after deleting the custom keyboard option), my Bluetooth keyboard can change language very well.
It happens sometimes. Suddenly. My phone is in my pocket and somebody is calling me. I see the slider that is for receiving incoming calls. But when I slide, nothing happens. Seems the screen has hanged. I can remember one day I pressed home button and then I could use the slider and receive the call, but that worked for that one time. It's annoying. I use 6S Plus, latest iOS. Any solution please?
In my MacBook Air "El Capitan", the Windows 10 was installed using Boot Camp, but the Windows 10 installation was corrupted (crashing). Then I removed (adding space to MAC installation) the Windows 10 partition using Disk Utility. Now when I turn On my MAC still message windows is appearing (showing MAC and Windows start options), and the default OS was Windows (appearing blue screen...). I want to remove Windows 10 option, but I don't know how to do it.
So, surprise, surprise, there is no "one" version of SoundFlower. There are many.
My Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) got its HDD corrupted due to some hardware issue. The issue has been fixed, however the MacBook lost its system partition data. The recovery partition is still there, but due to some issues (Read here), it never got upgraded to El Capitan's Recovery HD. Thus if I want to download the OS from Recovery Mode, it is installing Yosemite in it.
When I try to scroll up and down a sheet there is substantial delay. Using the keyboard arrows to navigate is also incredibly slow. I have no graphics or complex formulas. Just 10 columns of plain text and about 300 rows. I'm using a registered version of office 2016 (for business) and Mac OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan). This slow down appears when connected to the Internet.
I am using MacBook Pro 2015, EL Capitan 10.115. It has 2 GPU, Intel Iris and AMD Radeon.
I visited a page to stream a TV show, and upon clicking the search result link got the following pop-up:  I clicked OK, as nothing on Chrome was available, and when I did that, Chrome auto-downloaded a file called FlashPlayer.dmg. Here is a picture of that file:
However, I did mention: "not before learning the hard way"... In order to get to this version number, I had to update from 10.10.0, and when I did that update, I did it without the Software Update patcher. So, I ended up going into the Recovery Image, and deleting 'PlatformSupport.plist' from the Terminal (fun times?). Then, I rebooted into the fully-functioning 10.10.5 (Revision 1) OS X desktop. This, of course, was the easy part. I have now encountered the difficult part.
I was just clicking with the trackpad - I wasn't doing anything else, and my fingers moved a little and somehow my Google Chrome window took up the left half of the screen. What did I do here?
I live in Europe, and here I have to pay 850 Euros for a new iPhone 6s with 64GB of memory. I've checked that on German Amazon the very same model price is 700 Euros. The only concern I have is that previously I have only bought Apple products from Apple Stores, and I wonder whether it is safe to purchase iPhone from Amazon (or let's say, as safe as any other product sold on Amazon), or is it a 100% no?
I need to temporarily block the sequence cmdoptesc: I developed a formal examination test app for my students, and I need them to not get out of the test other than clicking a button in the test window. BetterTouchTool accepts any shortcut except that (it seems to me, but I might make mistakes) I tried any combination, but always the forced quit window appears, as well as it happens in System Preferences > Keyboard > etc as suggested in "MacBook Pro, Yosemite: change Finder shortcuts". I run Yosemite 10.10.5 and intend to stay with it until further upgrades will keep my Adobe suite working.
I was given an iPad 2 16 GB with Wi-Fi running iOS 7.0.4. I do not know who the former owner was...I do not have a passcode...it has been wiped clean. When I turn it on it says "iPad disabled - connect to iTunes". I did that and get a message that says "This iPad is supervised by another computer and cannot be used with this computer"...I have not registered with Apple and do not have a user name. What now?
DiskUtility on Yosemite gave me this error message : Incorrect number of file hard links I would like to repair my disk but i don't know if it will erase all my documents. Can someone tell me if repairing the disk is going to format it too? Thx in advance!
Every time I close the lid of my Macbook Air, it turns off and I have to manually start it later when I open the lid again. It also doesn't persist some of my settings such as volume level, desktop layouts (order of screens and which applications are full screened), and command line PATH changes such nvm's currently used node version.
I was using Terminal and accidentally fat-fingered some shortcut. The apparent result was the window was destroyed and all of the running processes (some local dev server processes running in the foreground) were put into the background. I tried everything I could think of to find the window (e.g. mission control), but even after quitting Terminal completely the local server processes are still happily running. What did I do, and is it reversible (barring reboot)? The processes were ruby and node processes if that's somehow relevant. Edit: I forgot to mention these processes were running from inside tmux.
I plan to use iosnoop to figure out what is going on, and eventually blog it if I get no results here. But if anyone knows what files are left by Adobe, and where they're located, that would save me a tonne of work.
Is there any way to view folders that require root access to open, in Finder? I can open them with sudo in the terminal but it would be good if some setting or script allowed me to look at hidden folders in Finder? I am running OSX 10.9.
My iPhone is all of 2 years old, an iPhone 6 (not "s") and as a result it doesn't have the magic Raise to Wake feature. At least so I understand. As a result getting it on and authenticated takes TWO presses of the button plus one to authenticate my finger. Press home once: Screen lights up and says "press home to unlock" Press home again: Displays passcode or TouchID Touch home button to authenticate
I have a LG 27UD68P 4K on my MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015. I can't get it to run on 60 Hz. Its only 30 Hz.
I'm trying to route my iphone traffic through my mac to view it with wireshark. However rvictl is not on my machine. I have: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) El Capitan 10.11.6 XCode 7.3.1 XCode command line tools for XCode 7.3.1 (installed separately)
I'm having an issue with my bash profile on my mac. Given the following from my .bash_profile The first line successfully completes, but the two following lines print the following error when I start terminal When I run brew --prefix ruby or brew --prefix python at the command line after terminal starts, it prints out their respective paths. Can anybody figure this out?
Disclamer: I am a newbie to UNIX programming. I downloaded Anaconda but then realized that I did not need it. I deleted and uninstalled it as fully as I could find out how. It seems that everything to do with Anaconda is gone except that the $PATH variable retains paths to folders which no longer exist. In the terminal when I type It returns /Users/Name/anaconda/bin://anaconda/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin
Here are the details MY iphone 4s have a broken sleep/wake button! The notification area is stuck midway and I can't do anything! I have assistive touch I have iTunes Phone have no passcode and I can use the Control Center and Siri The notification area is stuck midway and I can't do anything! I have assistive touch I have iTunes Phone have no passcode and I can use the Control Center and Siri I need to force restart! Please help!
I have a silver iPhone SE, and I have been using it with a soft plastic case. I took the case off and then I noticed if I lightly brush my finger over the power button it jiggles slightly and makes a faint clicking noise as it hits into the surrounding metal enclosure. It doesn't really bother me but I just want to make sure this is normal and isn't something caused from the case, so I can know that I didn't somehow damage the phone.
I'm having a little bit of an issue here. Here's the situation: We will be deploying a new application soon, and the server configuration resides in a simple XML file, located somewhere deep in the ~/library/Preferences. I want to create a bash/shell script that will basically copy the XML file at the right place, but for every user folder that exists. I was able to use the below script for Windows, but I'm wondering if there is something similar for Apple. Here's the Windows script: Could someone help me ?
I lost my iPhone 6S recently. I think it fell off my car and was crushed because it has been offline (according to Find My iPhone) ever since. I want to erase the phone and remove it from my iCloud account since the phone is gone.
I have misplaced my iPhone 6s password and it is saying it's disabled due to too many tries.
How do I add my friend to this group message I'm in? There are currently 3 people(not including me) Two with an iPhone One with a andriod(I think it's an android)
I'm trying to use set default permissions for directories and files but not having much joy. What I am trying to share a specific directory on a local external drive connected to the server internally. Everyone in the group has access to the drive and can view all the files. However once a new file is created by mac08, the group permissions are not set and only that user has access to modify it.
We're looking at deploying iPads using Apple Configurator, but one concern is the Personal Hotspot. We tried to hide the Settings app so it couldn't be turned on, but it doesn't look like that's possible in iOS 9.3 with Apple Configurator 2.2. As an alternative, is it possible to force all traffic from the Personal Hotspot to go over a VPN? The iPad will be in the supervised mode.
I installed and then un-installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Macbook Air (OS X El Capitan 10.11.6). I had split the hard drive into 2 partitions - Macintosh partition of 60.6 GB and now I have a free space partition of 59.6 GB. I'm unable to merge these 2 partitions. I have included some screenshots below:
I don't know if this goes here or somewhere else, but it's about my Mac, so I'll post it here. I got an e-mail saying my Google account was signed into on a Mac. I looked at the location and IP of said Mac, and it matches the only Mac that I have. The strange thing is, it shows two separate devices for my Mac. The only difference between the devices is the browser: the one that it says I'm using is using Chrome 52.0, and the other one is using Chrome 35.0.
While my iPhone's screen is locked, I am not able to receive any USSD session on it. There is no notification of it as well. If I keep my screen on I receive it fine. Is this a phone restriction or some network problem?
I'm disabling the cache from Safari developer menu, but each time I reboot my computer, the cache is re-enabled. I'm looking for a permanent solution for disabling the cache. Any ideas?
I've installed htop with : But when I run it with sudo htop, the user column is not fully displayed. Some parts are missing. How to display it correctly?
Let's say I have a developer account under ‘agent’ and I have 3 other companies that are helping build Apple apps for me. As for the role access, is it possible for me to limit this Company A to only allow him to see Application A that he help build under iTunes Connect? The same goes for Company B, to only allow them to see Application B apps they're helping me to build? I'm a bit confused as to which role should I select from iTunes Connect FAQ: What user roles are available on iTunes Connect and which permissions does each user role have?
I'm going on a trip abroad - where I will not have a data plan - to a place where there is no wifi. There is a TV, however, and I was thinking of bringing my 3rd gen Apple TV to be able to watch some media on the screen. The plan is to create a local hotspot on the phone; let the Apple TV connect to it and then use Airplay to play already downloaded content from my phone.
I have an iPhone 5s, an old laptop running Windows XP a Tesco Hudl, and a Samsung Galaxy 3. How can i easily move files and photos to and from the iPhone without using my limited data allowance?
I had to reinstall a new internal HD and now my computer works but the HD is seen as an external drive. Does this matter? Will performance, any apps or my VM be affected by this?
Within the last two weeks, the right tab in Notification Centre ("Notifications)" became completely blank, without warning, and with no apparent trigger. The sort order mode is "Recents". How can this be fixed? I have tried to restart the Macbook in question, and Notification Centre itself using Activity Monitor. (Mac OS X Version 10.11.6 (15G31))
Today I found an old iPod Touch and it seems like something is wrong with it so I boot it into recovery mode and try to restore it with iTunes. But there are something wrong and I have to manually restore it with the IPSW file. Now I am at ipsw.me and stuck while trying to identify what device this is. I went to checkcoverage.apple.com and enter my iPod Touch's serial number. It tells me it is OBS iPod Touch. Here's the result:
I have DHCP setup on an Airport Extreme to provide IPs for a network of iMacs and some iPads. The Airport's WAN port is connected to a switch that is used for a VOIP phone system. Would the DHCP service on the Airport conflict with the DHCP service for the phone system or will the Airport only provide IPs for its clients on its LAN ports?
Is there a way to reduce the size of the 'bottom' corner of the touchpad that responds as the secondary click? It's way to big and I would like to make it the bottom corner, not bottom quadrant.
So I know I can use open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane to open Keyboard preferences. But how can I open the 'Shortcuts' tab specifically?
I know I can just use open command on these files to run them and the user will be prompted with an option to install them. Can I install such services silently though?
If I make a Facetime audio call with my Apple Watch, is there a record of the time date and length of that call stored on the iPhone.
I just purchased Canon MG3600 printer/scanner for use on OS X El Capitan. I am unable to get my Mac to open the install CD for the printer. "No application available".
I'm asking for a friend who has a 2011-era MacBook Pro. She needs extra USB ports, and it looks like what she needs is a Thunderbolt device. The 2011 MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt 1, of course.
When I print from a Mac Pro (Early 2008) running El Capitan (10.11.6) to a HP 4730MFP, all my color prints come out black and white. However when I print from my Lenovo running Win 10, they print just fine in color. The print driver for the machine is PCL v5.1. Somehow I feel the driver is not translating properly on the Mac side. I called MAC and they said they no longer support drivers for that machine. When I reset the printing system and re-add, it won't even work if I select the apple driver from the software drop down list. It gives an error code 49.4C06. It only works when I select the PCL Generic driver which unfortunately does not have the option to print in color.
When I hit enter, asr went through it's normal steps, and then hit PSTT 0 100 start restore and hung there for longer than I expected it to. Then I realized that I put the wrong target volume, and terminated the window.
I created the configuration files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents When I attempted to load the plist, I got the message that the service was already loaded. When I attempted to find the Launchd agent nothing was returned. EDIT: fixed typo where I had: launchctl load ~/LaunchAgents/hosts_unBlocksites_AM.plist
I'm new to mac, so far when restarting everything worked reliably as it did before and was more or less in the same state. Can I as a dev lean on not loosing any state information when restarting? Can every application be restored completely and when does data loss occur ? Are there any known bugs ? Before getting too comfortable with the feature I want to know how much I can rely on it to restore everything to the previous state, otherwise I will be more cautios with restarts, so I think this info is helpful for any dev using mac osx as a platfom to develop.
I haven't found anything for the command key. They loose part is only the actual key, the white plastic thing and the steel bars are already on. I also tried taking out the steel bar and put it on the key, but no matter how I try, I can't get the key to stick. How do I put it on?
I have a 2009 27 inch iMac and hard drive died. I have a new 750 GB SSD drive for the iMac. How do I get OS X installed? i have no backup or installation discs.
I have Automator workflow applications that I run from keyboard shortcuts. It is great, however, a small gear icon always appears. I would like to remove it. How do you do this?
I have low vision since birth. I don't use magnifier tools or screen readers, but I have set my 24" monitor to a lower resolution and I have been creating custom Windows themes since Windows 98 to adjust colors to be more distinctive here and there (the default Windows high contrast themes are an overkill, my eyes get hurt, but other themes seem too dull). In this aspect, Windows 8 was a real pleasure for me with its flatness - no glows, no shadows or 3D effects, thick window borders, large close/min/max buttons so I can focus my mouse on them really fast... I just adjusted the highlight colors to be more distinct, and it was good to go. (And Windows Vista was a real nightmare with its distracting effects and barely visible light blue item selection color).
The "Find my iPhone" app won't install on my iPhone 6s. I tried several times directly from the App Store and I am unsuccessful
When I have clicked Tab to highlight the Replace All button, Enter doesn't do anything. Do I absolutely have to use the mouse for this? It's inefficient to move between the keyboard and mouse when carrying out a long sequence of "Find & Replace" actions. This is Pages 5.0 (1465) running on Yosemite.
There is a precisely 30-second gap between Phase 1 established and IPSec disconnecting. I have full network connectivity from this guest Wifi network as long as I don't enable the VPN. I am in the US, so it is unlikely this is government censorship, but it might be some kind of blocking by the maintainer of the guest network. I can successfully ping the server IP address (anonymized to X.X.X.X in the logs above). Anything else to check?
In OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 I am trying to set my custom Screensaver, i.e. my own picture and not the predefined ones, just like as one would do for the Desktop background. Is this possible?
I turned on HiDPI mode in my OS X El Capitan and now facing the issue: iOS Simulator screen shows only part of its contents. Please see the picture below. If I turn HiDPI mode off then everything gets back to normal. What can I do to have both HiDPI mode on and proper iOS Simulator screen? I am using Xcode 7.3.1 and iOS 9.3 simulator.
Unfortunately that doesn't help me, since I need the HFS+ to reinstall the OS. I have exhausted the options within Disk Utility and have gone command level with the problem from the terminal. I've followed walkthroughs with fdisk, downloaded TestDisk and installed gdisk as well--no success. I've tried GPT Destroy, rebuilt the MBR, and zero disk (abandoned after 1Gb) with Disk Destroy, still doesn't let me write a fresh partition and format. I left DD running for about three minutes, and my SMART utility is now reporting 13K CRC errors (apparently all Interface CRC Errors), but zero bad sectors. Before anyone says it... no, DiskWarrior does not work. I really am not in a position to replace this drive right now, and the fact that it works perfectly fine with Fat32 is taunting me.
I help manage Time Machine backups via OS X Server for my office running on El Cap 10.11.6. Is there a way to manage storage for individual users on the server side? Right now I have it capped out to 750GB, however I ran into a user that has a TB drive. I don't want to arbitrarily up the cap to 1TB, I need a way around this dilemma, so I can custom manage each user according to their needs. I researched this and want to learn more about tmutil, but didnt see a cmd that is applicable.
I have some older iPhone and iPad (iPhone 5S and iPad Mini) with iOS 8. When I charged it and powered it up again, and search for app in the App Store, it will ask me to verify the account in my other apple device. Sure, my iPhone 6 Plus and Macbook both popped up the "Allow or not" and verification code popups, but in the older device, there is no way to type the code in. If I don't create yet another iTunes account (and want to use the existing iTunes account), and not to be forced into upgrading to the newest iOS, how can I possibly make it work?
A friend has just downloaded and installed Chrome for Mac OS (current version 51). When they click to open Chrome the icon appears briefly in the dock, then disappears and Chrome closes. The behavior is replicated if you try to launch Chrome form the command line using They get an error If they run with sudo they are able to start Chrome.
This answer, or something extremely similar, has already been asked before, at MacBook Pro locked with Find My Mac and won't let me boot. That said, this question is not a duplicate, as I need an answer not listed there. One of the solutions was holdign down command-option-P-R as the computer turned on. This does not work for me, even though it should. Apple support has said I would need to come in to a store, but as it's a long drive, I would prefer to find an answer that does not require me to drive there. If nobody can answer this, please tell me what they would do at the Apple store, if you know.
I am trying to have an iMessage conversation with my family, but instead of showing their name it shows "ICE" because that same number is listed in my In Case of Emergency (ICE) contact. Is there anyway to change it so it shows their name not "ICE"
AirDrop is somewhat flaky for me in general, but I am having a frustrating problem finding transferred files from my computer to my iPad. My iPad shows up as a possible destination when I start the transfer from my laptop, and the dialog says "Sent", but no notification pops up on my iPad to show where to open the file (a PDF).
My Iphone 6 was laying on the bed and i wasnt aware of where it was, so i laid down on my bed and my knee was putting a lot of pressure on the screen and the screen cracked and now my iphone is black and has lots if different colors on screen . Is it replaceable? Help!!!
Is there a way to share a Photos album (regular or 'smart') via Dropbox? I know that I can copy the album to DB, but I'd rather create a symlink (or similar) so the photographs aren't duplicated on my HDD.
I use a set of applescripts to help report junk mail to spamcop. The first script, after sending the raw source of the selected message to spamcop, marks the message as junk and then deletes it. Later a mail rule sees the spamcop notification, fires of another script which "clicks" the link inside the message, then deletes that message, too.
...? This is where I must be doing something wrong. Tried so far: a. 'Set application for files - 'This action selects the application used to open the specified files.' - However, when I run the plug-in, nothing happens. b. 'Launch application' - When I use this, the application I want to output the PDF to launches, but the actual PDF output doesn't open in it. c. A combination of a and b - ie - Launch application then set it for files - This has a similar result to b.
I use a Mac mini as a Server and have two OWC MiniStacks attached to it. The Ministacks are connected via USB3 and are underneath the Mac mini. The Ministack in the middle started disconnecting randomly and I need to turn it off and back on to get it connected.
Somehow my macbook is infected by 'Trovi' malware & I am not able to remove it. So I decided to check all the packages installed. 'com.comyp.pkg.sfinst' was in the list of installed packages.
only been using it for 2 months. (OS X El Capitan 10.11.4) I'm creating web application using Ruby on Rails. I know it is a bad thing to find a cracked installer with license so, I got my karma. i was searching for a Rubymine license because i'm using Sublime. When I searched for a license I found this website: So I installed the apps and nothing happened but my browser was always redirect me in this site: I didn't know what that was so I search for ps4ux and found out that is malware. Then, when I'm working on my project, Chrome gives me this
I use multiple desktops to multitask between applications because I like using full screen mode. My problem is sometimes I run a command in Terminal that launches other applications. Whenever a new application is launched in OS X, it seems to think that it should automatically change to the "Main Desktop" and set the newly launched application as the active application. This bothers me because I would like to just run an application in the background without the OS deciding what I should be staring at. Is there a way to disable or work-around that behaviour?
Trying to setup Wifi on Kali Linux 4.3 for Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03) I keep getting stumped with the 'modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found.' error
Pressing a key that doesn't do anything, sheds a blue light on the screen for a moment, and it's quite annoying. For example, in iTerm, since pressing Down Arrow Key doesn't do anything, so it sheds blue light on the screen to let me know there is something with what I'm doing, but it's pretty annoying.
I am pretty much 100% certain that I have somehow gotten a virus installed into my Safari. My homepage and default search engine changes to "Trovi" every time I restart Safari no matter how many times I reset it.
I want to remove the current date from the Calendar.app dock tile. I have changed its icons (by replacing the icns-files inside the .app) however it still shows the current date over the icon. How can I remove this date?
I have a laptop which is Mac air 13' with OS.X.Yosemite. When I use VGA cable with MiniDP to VGA transformer to connect my monitor(23' Dell P2314H) and set the resolution to 1920x1080 to fit the monitor panel. But there is a black edge on the left side showing like:
How can I access the photos taken on an Iphone 5 that now has no screen? The phone was never 'paired' with a PC. The problem is that any form of interaction with a PC requires use of the phone screen e.g. to confirm pairing.
I'm using El Capitan on my Mac Mini now but it started when I used Yosemite. I need both English and Russian keyboard layouts on my Mac. However at some point I started finding Russian layout missing once Mac is launched, so I have to go to the settings and add Russian again every time my Mac starts. Did anybody encounter a keyboard vanishing from the system constantly? What makes it dissapear every time Mac is shut down? Ayn ideas how to fix that?
There are a few similar questions regarding "clipboard managers" but nothing that quite suits my needs. I often end up with an unformatted list of text that needs entering into various form fields. I'm looking for a utility that makes the clipboard act like a FIFO queue using a pre-defined text file of this nature. Say I have a text file with 30 names
My MacBook Pro currently has OS X Yosemite installed. I am upgrading the hard drive to an SSD. I understand you have to download the software to a bootable USB. Which software should I download, Yosemite or the original software that came with the MacBook?
I want to add a separate account or accounts to use as chroot accounts for an FTP server, and I want to use different passwords for these accounts. I know the AES-128 key used by FileVault is calculated from the password, so will using a new password cause FileVault to try to encrypt using a different key, making the ciphertext inconsistent? Or does FileVault calculate the key based on the password you used when you first encrypt the hard drive? I'm not sure about this, and I don't want to break my computer.
I'm working on two projects, let's call them Project1 and Project2. This week I'll be working on Project1. The files of Project1 on which I'll be working are stored at different place on my PC - Downloads, Documents and Desktop.
If I sign up for the Apple Music free trial (which now includes audio fingerprinting iTunes Match), will I keep my (DRM-free but watermarked) Matched music when the trial ends?
Background: I have a Mac Pro early-2008 DESKTOP :) with 3 HDD installed: 1 SATA OSX journaled HDD 1 SATA SSD partitioned with my OSX and Bootcamp for Windows 10 1 SATA NTFS formatted drive for use with Bootcamp, installing programs and storing data
I'm trying to reinstall Mac OS X El Capitan on a new Macbook Air. Disk Utility lists a single SSD with a capacity of 251GB and a single partition (OS X Base system) that is taking up 250.4GB. When I try to create another partition it says that I need to enable journaling, but the option is greyed out. I also can't reinstall from the internet because the OS X Base System partition is locked. Any ideas? Edit: As requested by @klanomath
I cannot remember my network wifi password to set up another device. Is there a way to see the password on my iPad since it is connected to my personal wifi?
I use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect to my office workstation running a Windows 8 Professional and predominantly work from using SuperPutty, an multi-tabbed terminal emulator which uses Putty in the backend. I am having hard-time trying trying to copy paste between the terminal emulator and windows machine when remote connecting from my MacBook. Within the remote session, between other windows applications the Windows default Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+X seem to work. What setting am I missing here, I cannot change the terminal emulator as it is the most comfortable client when working directly on the Windows machine.
When I attempt to buy an app but after clicking "GET" button for an app the following happens : The app is not installed. Not sure if related but this seems to have occurred since updating ipad to latest ios version - 9.3.4(13G35).
Are there apps or tools or ways, on a Macbook Pro, to have an alarm clock going off at random times? Apparently there is an iOS app, but nothing for Mac OsX. Any alternatives?
If I cancel my apple music membership will I lose all my music that i downloaded from the app? Is there any way I could keep the music ? I only need to switch my App Store country since I am moving to Boston from Indonesia..
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina) and recently my camera stopped working. I didn't drop it or anything, it's just not being detected as a hardware. When I try to see why, System Report shows me: I don't have Apple support anymore and I can't find any comprehensive guide or tips for this kind of problem - I just found issues with the camera, but not itself not being detected. I tried to reset NVRAM and other things such as Diagnose mode, which gave me this error code above:
We have an iPad 2. It is locked and can't be activated. We can't remember Apple ID and also the e-mail address which we used to create the Apple ID. We can't also find the invoice to prove to the guys at Apple support that the device is ours so they say they could remove the lock remotely.
MacBook Pro (10.11.6) All updates. 512Gb SSD with 17Gb free. On Boot, some sort of caching or other process runs that takes free space down to a few megabytes - or even zero. Quickly recovers back to 17Gb free, but only after the various errors appear. Not loading any major programs on boot - just Pathfinder, Google Drive. Don't recall having this problem prior to El Capitan.
I use the Google Hangouts desktop app. But when i use Command Tab, it comes under Chrome rather than being a separate application. If I have Hangouts and Chrome open, I have to use Command ` (backtick) to switch between them. Is there anyway I can move the Hangouts app to a separate Command Tab group?
I publish a blog with a new post every day. Frequently, my daily post includes a copy of something that has been published on another blog and contains links to other sites beyond that.
If I cancel my Apple Music membership and start a new membership will I be able to play the songs I downloaded from my previous membership? Will they still be in my library?
With terminal (grep'ing for 'Sleep' and 'Wake' in pmemset -g and a shell while loop with a date-command and a short sleep) I can see that it IS actually sleeping - but the CPU is running!!!??? In my System.log the last 20-ish log-enties, ending with 'hibernate_write_image done' and 'sleep' are logged (dated) at the time of wakeup, but I guess that is just a buffering issue... When waking up, the fans turn off for a second or so and SIL is blinking once right before screen is turned on. I have Reset SMC (I think - how do you know if it actually did anything other than making you look ridiculous using something resembling an IBM-grip on a Mac?)
when syncing, the error message reads "The iPhone "David's iPhone" could not be synced because this computer is no longer authorized for purchased items that are on this iPhone." [click OK] then, "To authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes store, choose Account>Authorizations>Authorize this computer." When I do this, the message reads "This computer is already authorized." So then, why won't it sync?
I have a lot of files with a .numbers file extension, and I need to convert them to .csv, so I can more easily work with the data. There are probably about 1000 of them, so opening them in numbers and exporting each one individually is not an option. Is there some sort of terminal function that could do the job? Update:
Say we have something like What do the figures mean? Is it: 1GB is compressed and we don't know how much it's compressed by so the app is using somewhere between 1.6 and 2.6 GB but we don't know how much 1GB is the amount of memory saved by compression - ie the app is using 2.6 - 1 = 1.6 GB of actual memory 1GB is the actual memory being used - ie after taking into account the compression of parts of the 2.6GB, we've been able to save 1.6GB and the process looks like it's only using 1GB Something else?
I have spent the entire day trying to resolve my 88GB "Other" problem (it is down some now). I discovered that my "Picture" folder, while basically empty, is ~47GB. In the folder is an empty photo booth library, and that is it. What are these phantom 47?
Any ideas? Support is out for the day, so I hope I can get an answer by tonight.
I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 model with the following changes: 16 GB Ram upgrade DVD drive replaced with bay and old (existing) 500 GB hard disk for storage Main hard drive replaced with 250 GB SSD (Samsung EVO 850) Windows 10 via Bootcamp Mac OS X Yosemite rEFInd installed on bootup
I accept to lose the ability to use this disk on Windows. (which may occur if I choose HFS+ encrypted)
I'm running OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan with a 240GB SSD. I made a 50GB BootCamp Partition using this guide because my usb/dvd wasn't being detected. I found myself searching for space because I somehow only have ~16gb left after installation of several programs. I need around 2-5GB more.
iBooks is synchronising with iPad (mini2) but not with iPhone (5s). All devices have the same settings and updated to the last OS although with iPhone synchronisation is going only in one direction: if I'm adding any book/pdf from iPhone in iBooks it's appearing in all devices. At the same time if I'm adding book from Mac or iPad in iBooks, iPhone cannot see it. Has anyone faced such problem? Any tips how to fix it?
So I've reset the PRAM and the SMC. I tried charging the iPad to 100% before connecting, with the Magsafe charger connected and without, switching USB ports, disconnecting the Wacom, etc.
After applying the parameters, I noticed I could not ping my Raspberry Pi with it's network name raspberrypi anymore, nor could I connect via SSH to it with this name. I have to use the IP address instead.
I have my Mission Control (el capitan, 10.11) settings the way I like: "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" is OFF. This works very well except for Spotify. Also, I have Spotify "locked" for a specific Desktop.
How can I change the default mail account when no particular mailbox is active? IIRC, you used to be able to drag them into order, but this no longer seems to work. I am aware that you can specify a default mail account for all new messages, but I'd like to preserve the behavior where it will default to the account of the currently active mailbox, if one is active.
When I open a PDF file in Acrobat Pro DC (2015 Classic), it opens with a window the size of my 27" monitor. This is not very usable. I'd like to suppress this feature, which was not present on previous versions of Acrobat. Is there any way to disable it?
I'm experiencing some kind of ghosting problem when connecting my iiyama 40'' monitor to my iMac 27'' retina 5K display (osx 10.11). Not sure about the term ghosting but when moving screens (and mouse pointer) on the external monitor, they behave sluggish and the contrast whith the movement on my retina display is huge and therefor a bit annoying (it is not display lag). I also had the same problem when connecting my iMac to a Samsung 4K tv (UE40JU6000) even in 'game mode'. When connecting my older Macbook pro (late 2009) to the samsung tv or the iiyama the 'ghosting' is gone and the screens and mouse pointer are moving very smooth, just like on my iMac.
How to resolve problem with connection to VPN via L2TP/PPTP on macOS? Apple announced ending support for PPTP in latest macOS Sierra. *=URL=* Prepare for removal of PPTP VPN So the only chance I have is to try it with L2TP via IPSec as my server admin does not offer any other options.
How to login into Gamecenter without my password
I do not know when it did not work, but I guess it was when I installed El Capitan. Actually it is at version 10.11.6 and every App (Skype or Facetime) tells me that there is no webcam connected. But my system says different: I read very old threads at Apple Help Site, but I doubt that these OS incompatibility problems do not fit to my problem.
When I press Shift+3 on my Mac, it returns £ sign instead of # sign. How can I fix it? Any ideas? Input source - British - PC
I have a Macbook Pro 15" mid 2012, and I want to add an external display running at 2560 x 1600. Given that I want a future proof display, I purchased a 4K monitor. (LG27UD88)
While going through my settings I wanted to try out the "dark menu bar" in the General System Preferences. Now I cannot turn it off. Each time I uncheck the checkbox, it seems to have no effect, it's stuck in dark mode. I've tried booting into Safe Boot as well to see if i could change it there, to no avail.
I have a particular contact I cannot delete from Address Book. There was a birthday event in calendar for a person I didn't recognize, so I tried to delete it. However, Calendar said that I needed to delete it from Contacts, so I opened Address Book and tried to delete the contact. Right-clicking on the contact's name did not list the option to delete it, the delete card option was grayed out in the Edit menu, and command+delete just make the computer beep. I found this page with the below command to try.
I just notice that when having the terminal in full screen mode, there is an extra space at the button. (see image) Terminal opened in full screen and vim opened. Another example: shell prompt. Any idea of how to remove it so that I can take advantage of that space? I am using using OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6 (15G31)
We're trying to test and debug Safari 7. I've used the Safari dev tools to connect to a physical device and use the inspector to view the page. That works fine, but I don't have access to a physical device with Safari 7. Tools like Browser stack or saucelabs I can see the issues, but I can't debug in an emulator. Does anyone have a solution to this?
On one partition of an external drive encrypted with Filevault 2, I have accidentally deleted a folder and files. Does decryption also decrypt the deleted files?
There are hidden files that are fairly important if you use terminal a lot at ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc, etc. Are these files backed up anywhere by default? sometimes I append to environment variables to .profile via command line, e.g. echo 'export foo=bar' >> ~.profile and realized that I could be in big trouble if I accidentally left out one of the > characters.
I have a MacBook Air 11 inch, connected to a Xerox monitor. For some reason I have 2 cursors, one lagging slightly behind the other. I tried unplugging the Xerox monitor, and that worked but when I tried it again, I still had 2 cursors
I'm plugging in a USB device which should be a USB/serial adapter. In addition to it not seeming to work, plugging and unplugging it produces absolutely no output in Console.app or /var/log/system.log. Is there any lower level place I can look to see what's happening when I plug it in?
Linux (Arch) recognizes the drive and the partition, just like OSX. I tried running ntfsfix, but to no avail. (It gave me a warning that said something about being unable to fix it and to try using chkdsk).
I recently upgraded my macbook pro with OS X El capitan. In the top Right hand corner of my desktop page I have 2 superimposed folders. How do you separate them? I've tried dragging one folder to another part of the desktop page but it will not stay there.
I have a WD My Book 4TB external hard drive that I have all of my photo/video content on. It was working fine with Mavericks, but when I upgraded to El Capitan, the drive is no longer showing up on my computer. When I boot into windows, I can see the device, and all of my content is still there... but when I go back to El Capitan, it doesn't show up in finder. This is what I see when I use the diskutil commands from terminal.
I have uploaded the latest printer Driver for the 2240 ( mcpd-mac-mg2200-11_7_1_0-ea17_2-2.dmg ). Not sure where to from here Kind regards Alan
So, there are two questions I want to ask: Did my charger get out of order and why? Did my phone's battery get harmed by my charger (getting hot, not charging properly, buzzing)? Thanks for your help.
I have replaced my Mac's original hard drive and now trying to use it as an external hard disk with an enclosure. However I have ran in to the below issue and I cannot access any data on this disk anymore.
On a Macbook Pro with a new install of El Capitan, a friend used the only account, Admin, for a while. A few weeks later I made a copy of that home folder, renamed it "B", and created a personal account for her, short name also "B" and allowed it to "adopt" the "B" home folder. Account B also has admin privileges.
I just tried to launch an application as root with sudo /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator
My child received an iPod touch as a gift but it contains the giver's Apple ID, email, etc. They put music on it for my child under that ID. We want to bring it into the family account for monitoring and such. Can I reset the device and assign a new Apple ID for the child? And should I assume any purchases made under the old Apple ID are lost forever? (We have no access to the account.)
I basically want to be able to connect my MacBook to my stationary Mac and use the keyboard and mouse on the MacBook. Is this possible? Ideally using standard software.
Is there anything else needed other than creation of "mywebapp.plist" in the "/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/webapps" and starting it with "sudo webappctl start" command in order to register and start new web application ? Do we need somehow register it anywhere (like Server.app/Webapps) before starting with webappctl? If not, what can cause this problem?
After iOS 9.3.5 update installed, I lost the ability to add events in my calendar. How can I restore this capability?
When I try to search for an existing footnote's number no results come back. Is there some special setting to search for footnotes?
Command: Last night I see 5 instances of Entering Sleep state due to 'Dark Wake Thermal Emergency': Using AC
I connected an LG 27UD88-W to my 2012 15" Macbook Pro via DisplayPort. However, it does not seem to connect at the expected 60Hz for the 2560x1440 resolution, but instead it shows 59Hz.
I'm trying to block some websites via /etc/hosts I can't seem to figure out how to run the LaunchAgent with the correct permissions. I set a UserName key: Here is the hosts_Blocksites_AM.plist: Here are the errors: I had tried to add the sudo command to the program arguments, but I don't think that was correct. EDITED: Changed Label key: Removed UserName key. Moved the plist and changed name: I was still getting permission errors until I ran launchctl with sudo:
I have several website project folders in a structure like this: The diagram above just shows the key folders, there are others. There are also more than 3 clients, but the structure is the same for all.
In the finder, files that begin with a . (dot) are not being shown for me. How can I configure the finder to reveal all files, including ones that begin with a dot?
My problem is that I toggled a setting which told the app to only show in the menu bar but now I can't access the settings at all. I want to reset the settings for the Chatty mac app but I can't find out how to do this. I have reached out to the developer too but I've not had a response as of yet.
Sometimes the phone would unlock to display a screen full of different colored bars, other times just a plain color. It wasn't consistent.
I just found out that the person responsible for submitting the previous build for approval never did so, so it's still waiting for submission. Since the provisioning profile change, our last build on TestFlight can no longer be installed because the provisioning profile is no longer valid. Does that mean that the build waiting for submission to the review team is also no longer valid?
This doesn't just apply to right-clicking. Really I could have titled this: Where is the "blank space" when in list view in Finder?
iPhones have a dedicated Voice Memos app. iPads don't, despite running the same OS and also featuring a built-in microphone.
is it possible to remove Dropbox's icons from the Finder context menu ?  I just want to be able to see the text and not the icons. I can't find anywhere in the settings to do this. Any other possible ways?
I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 9. For some reason it takes forever to load text on a Web page while all images are shown in a very short time when navigating to a new page. I tried CNN.com and other news sites as well. They all seem to behave the same while... Any ideas what can be the problem here?
After doing diskutil list: and sudo gpt -r show disk0:
I have a question regarding sparse image. One of my family members created a sparse image with a password that is known to us. However, another family member when once logged in tried to copy the files contained in the sparse image in order to save them in another location. Since then, the password we knew is not working.
On my iPhone (iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3.4) I routinely use the "heart" tag to mark my favorite pictures. But, when I sync photos with the OSX Photos App (v 1.5) these tags are removed. In reality I only want to sync or keep these flagged photos. Which brings me to my question(s) How can I keep the "heart" tags from my iPhone when downloading to the OSX Photos App? An even better option would be to ONLY download heart-flagged photos if possible and to delete all no-flagged photos on the iPhone, but perhaps those are covered elsewhere.
My Mac-Pro uses a Finnish keyboard by "hardware". When I switched to the US keyboard layout, I cannot type "`" anymore. The place where ` usually appears (below esc) gives § or ± (when Shift is pressed). How to type "`" in my case?
So I have this applescript that tries to grab all images from a folder and sends them to a friend through iMessage. The folder is structure like so: The problem is that when I read all files to a variable as a string and then try to set them to a POSIX file I get the error: Messages got an error: Can’t get POSIX file "/Users/user/Desktop/my-folder/image-name". How can I set imageAttachment correctly to a POSIX file so that I can send it with iMessage?
Whenever I plugged my iPad into my Mac, it will auto charge. For some reasons, I wanna turn this feature off. Is there anyway to do it? I searched but only got not revalent answers.
I've been having password problems for the past month or so. I first noticed that I couldn't update Flash because the installer rejected my system password. Today I tried to solve the problem, looking online for fixes, but nothing has worked so far. Tried to reset my password on the "Users & Groups" System Preferences pane.
I don't know why my apps use so much storage I haven't downloaded anything.
Recently I switched to iPhone otherwise was an Android user. I am trying to rotate the photo sent to my whatsapp messages left/right like within the app like there is a option in android. i can't find it in iPhone. Note: i am strictly not asking about the auto screen rotation.
I run a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.11. I've noticed the machine hasn't slept well last night. There were events logged every couple of seconds in system.log throughout the entire night that the lid was closed. I think it might be that two processes are preventing sleep while on A/C. Can I stop these processes (or any other process) from preventing sleep?
My iPhone, for some reason (I haven't set up anything like that), shows the next day's birthdays everyday at 12:00 (at noon). How do I prevent that? I don't want to remove them from calendar, I just want to remove those annoying notifications. (Default Alert Times for Birthdays is already set to "None")
MacBook responds to Shift+Control+Option+Power button, the magsafe's light color changes from orange color to green momentarily then goes back to orange. So it means the MacBook is still alive. What could be the possible cause why the machine won't turn on? UPDATE It's working again now, after letting it rest for about two weeks since it crashed.
In AirPort Utility v.6.3.2, what is the menu item "Restore Default Settings..." I see under "Base Station" and does it relate to a soft, hard, or factory default reset? Thank you.
I just got this Asus 1080p monitor and I've connected my Mid-2014 13-inch rMBP (2.8GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB of memory, Intel Iris 1536 MB Graphics, running El Capitan 10.11.6) to it via HDMI. The Macbook is in a vertical dock in closed clamshell mode. It's plugged in with the screen off, and I've got a cheap Anker keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2 connected to it. When it's plugged in via HDMI to the monitor, whether the monitor is on or off, the CPU load is constantly at 100% with the fan spinning rather loudly. Activity Monitor shows the CPU load is almost all from kernel_task, and ~3% user, ~97% system. When I unplug the HDMI cable, the fan stops going and CPU usage drops immensely. Is this behavior from my Macbook as unusual/harmful as I would think, and what can I do about it? Edit: Google Chrome and Xcode are running significantly slower on the monitor than they do on my Macbook itself.
Many of you might know that it is possible to add a spacer to the Mac OS dock icons with: but the problem is, I find them a bit wide by default. I do understand the size of the space is the same as an actual icon but I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to adjust the space of those spacers An image of the spacers I'm talking about can be found here
... This isn't the version of OpenSSH that's running on the phone. The version on the phone is 5.1. This is the same version that's running on my mac. Some how that IP is linked to my mac.
Error Message : Connection refused. ( On Chrome I can see the error code ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED). From the above error code I assumed that there might be an issue with the proxy settings but the are blank.
I have an image of a hand that I want to change the color of only the sleeve for:  I used the magic wand and it highlighted the area I wanted. However, when I open up the "Adjust Color" tool and slide the sliders, the adjustments affect the whole image and not just the highlighted / selected area.
I am writing a document in French and I can't change the spelling language from English to French. I usually manage to do that (Edit > Spelling and grammar), but it isn't working this time around: The "spelling and grammar" option seems to have been replaced with "spelling", and when I click on "spelling" the window that opens up doesn't allow me to change the language. It only allows me to specify whether I want to check the spelling in the entire document or in the main text body. I hope you can help.
I need to create 64GB worth of files with a size between 30 and 50 MB to evaluate copying a large number of files from an SDXC card to an external HDD. So I need a few files to try with. I figure I could create an arbitrary number of files (can be random bytes) with a file size between x MB and y MB who in total do not cap a size of z GB on OSX? Is this easy to do in terminal for a non-programmer?
There are two arrows moving in a circle next to the Wifi bars. I am confused. I was wondering if this means something is downloading because I just trying to sync music from my ITunes on PC, to my IPad, but everytime I click on a song, it says "Item Not Available." Do the arrows mean something is downloading? If not, what are they an indicator for?
My iPhone 5 touchscreen is not responding to touch! Last night, my phone was working just fine. I plugged it in overnight to charge, and when I checked my phone this morning, the touchscreen had broken. Here's what's going wrong now: The touchscreen isn't responding (I can't slide to unlock), though the screen is on. There are a bunch of lines on the screen, which disappear after the phone stays on for a few seconds or when I click the sleep/wake button. The power button and home button are working as they should, I just can't get past the lock screen because I can't swipe to unlock (it's not registering the swipe or any taps). What can I do to fix this?
In setting up FileVault in System Preferences>Security & Privacy, there is an option to use your Apple ID as a method to de-crypt the HD, once its been encrypted. The command-line equivalent is fdesetup, and on consulting its man page, I could not see the equivalent in its switches/options. Maybe I'm not quite understanding the implications of the terminology used in the man page, but I could not see how to do it. Does anyone know if specifying Apple ID decryption can be done via fdesetup?
I just bought a MacBook Pro and it's a beauty. I haven't opened it yet. I expect it to ask my about the language and for an account. That's cool, however I was wondering if there is something I could do, so that it won't ask me for a password every fOcking time I the laptop goes to sleep automatically (because e.g. I was on the phone). Any ideas?
What is the usual thing to do, without having to buy a whole new charger? Maybe I can find only the cable somewhere? Edit:
I have tried using Safari and Chrome to print really long webpages to PDF and both of them take awfully long... When I export the webpage to html and open it in TextEdit, it loads fine and even the Export to PDF is really fast...but the formatting isn't pretty with TextEdit's Print to PDF. Safari WebContent is processing really slowly and I wanted to ask if there is any other solution for printing awfully long webpages into pdfs quickly...
It seems that even when I restart my iPhone, some apps will send me notifications... so how do I make them not run by itself? (kind of like making it not in the Start Up folder on Windows 7).
I connect to my Raspberry Pi with VNC from my MacBook, however to do that every time I have to open the Finder, then select Go from the menu, then Connect to server. I am looking forward for having a shortcut (or an alias) on the desktop so I have to take minimal steps. This is the address I use for VNC connection: vnc://raspberrypi.local:5901.
When I opened the box of my new MacBook Pro (damn it smelled so uniquely!!), below the laptop there is a black case, where the charger and another long (looped) cable (I don't know what this is suppose to do..) lie. There is also a black packet, with the sign: Designed by Apple in California
I have an external hard drive. I use windows and macbook both. The problem is, plugging and unplugging from Mac is very much pain. If I accidentally remove it without 'ejecting', Mac doesn't recognise is next time I plug in. This is a very irritating problem and it keeps coming. Sometimes, while moving laptop here and there, connection gets loose and hard drive gets unplugged without 'safely ejecting'. Windows only warns, but recognises it every time I plug it in. Please suggest a solution. I don't wanna do all commandline stuff to make it work each time.
Using stock Terminal.app on El Capitan, the effort is to set up a shortcut in a sense, that upon press it would execute a specific command. Consulting man pages for bind command following steps have been taken but yielded no results.
I previously had 2 partitions on my 1TB hard drive... - Partition 1 (disk0s4): Macintosh HD (which had OS-X and all my data) - Partition 2 (disk0s2): Apple HD (which was a back-up partition) I erased partition 2 and tried merging it with partition 1, but Disk Utility didn't allow it (the "-" button was inactive). I then used the command diskutil eraseVolume free %noformat% disk0s2, but now I've completely lost the space of partition 2. When I type diskutil list, the following appears: I've tried resizing disk0s4 with the command diskutil resize volume disk0s4 R, but I get the following: Also, if I type diskutil cs list, I get: No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
I have Macbook Air 2013-mid which has only Ubuntu 16.04 and reFind bootloader. Now, however, I Would like get OSX back to the whole disk. I find only updates of specific OS Xs here but not whole ISO file, which you can boot for the install. I have had licences of El Capitan on my Apple store but cannot login now to any Apple store.
I have a MacBook Air with OS X EL Capitan 10.11.6, when I use an app like Safari or email and so on, in fullscreen mode the app work very well. But when I close the app and restart the mac I see this: or
Finder is frequently slow to populate the contents of folders, like /Applications and a spinning wheel for 30 seconds. Other times, Finder is snappier and population times are adequate.
This just blew my mind. Take for example Medieval II: Total war. Requirement for windows: 512 Mb RAM + 11 Gb free space on hard disk + 128 Mb GPU Requirement for mac: 4 Gb RAM + 32 Gb of free space on hard disk + 256 / 512 MB GPU
I've got program that create N processes, where N is input argument given in command line. I tried to increase this value and got fork: Resource temporarily unavailable. Even when setting the relevant params I got the same results on the same value of N. Perhaps there's other places I need to refer to make more processes in my station Or maybe I need to apply the configuration change (I thought it's done automatically) ? Seem like fork returns errno = 23 which means : I also tried to increase the following values but it didn't help (although I doubt if it's relevant, since my processes are simple and doesn't access any file) Also, rebooting the machine to make the new configuration effective, won't help in this case, as the params I've modified return to default value. My program source code :
I recently bought a new iphone se 64gb. I turned it on, signed in to my icloud account and selected my previous iphone's backup from icloud. After this, a screen displayed a message: Setting up your apple id. The screen after this message, displayed a prompt for password of an unknown email account that I have never used or known! This prompt suggested me to : Enter the Apple ID password for unknown_email to use for store purchases (including the App Store, Itunes Store and iBooks Store).
Is there a working Chromecast receiver for OSX. ie I could send audio or video from a phone or another PC to stream on there laptop? I know there were some experiments previously, but not sure anything is working now.
I am getting distorted and noisy sound in my macbook pro mid 2012 model. This happens when music with high basss is played. So, I opened it and found that the outer cover (don't know if thats called something else in this context) has some punctures for long usage. When music is played that punctured cover vibrates and causes the noise in the sound. If I press and he hold it so that it can't vibrate then sound is fine and no noise generated.
MBP Early 2015 keep losing internet connection! Still connected to the router but no data in or out, can't even access router settings.
It was strange that yesterday, the iPhone worked really slowly. The screen can freeze for a few seconds. It was like the Processor or the graphics chip went bad or something. It was like that when playing Pokemon Go, or just using iOS and the Settings as well, and it was the same even when I restarted the iPhone and used the Settings app -- it was really slow.
Wherever I search, I can't find any resources on how to run Docker on an iOS device. Is iOS a valid host OS for Docker?
When I play Minecraft, usually on servers, my game constantly crashes, and the reason for this is: 'Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again!' I am running on OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.5 I am running on Minecraft 1.8 I have contacted Minecraft support, and they didn't help me at all, but I soon noticed that Java was the issue.
I have to install Win 10 onto my mid 2011 MacBook Pro (El Capitan) using Boot Camp. I have two SSD on my machine (one was switched with the SuperDrive) and they works greatly normally.
Eventually I managed to restart it again by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button.
I joined National social service's online learning initiative program of my college. I have to make videos which uses a slideshow presentation with audio. Something like khan academy videos but instead of writing, I need to use slides. What all softwares should I install on my macbook?
I need to find how to display my DNS cache on the mac. I have tried multi Google searches but failed to come up with a good solution. The best I found was how to remove the cache with the command sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder which is great but I need to see the cache to see if the change works.
I'm getting Wrong path error in folx go when I'm trying to download something. I tried other folders to save downloads like home but I'm still getting error. What is wrong?
I'm considering to buy an iPad Mini and use it -- among other things -- for programming using Vim. I would connect via SSH to a Digital Ocean server and start Vim there. I would use an external (physical) keyboard when working with Vim.
I'm evaluating Antivirus software suites for my Mac, and would like to measure the performance impact they have on my computer. I am not looking to do a expert-level thorough examination, but rather get a crude measure with some snapshot data points (or time-series data if possible).
On my MacBook Air I use TimeMachine with two USB-Disks. (Latest El Capitan) My primary disk is located at my house, the secondary at my parent's house. As I am not always at my parents, this "No Backup for X Days" pops up daily:
Problem: Airdrop is not working in Macbook pro 2015 model ( OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan ) with iPhone 6s (iOS 9.3.5). Both OS are latest updated. Note: Tried mac connecting with two iphones (6 ans 6s). Although both iphones are able to connect with each other using Airdrop
I have an iPhone SE and when I tried calling my Boyfriend, he couldn't hear me. I called my Mom to see if it would happen but she COULD hear me. I could hear him clearly. This has never happened before and we've called multiple times. Why can he specifically not hear me? He used his phone earlier and was able to hear other people. What should I do to fix this?
On Windows, VLC's playback speed can be discovered on status bar, but the Mac version doesn't have a status bar. Where should I go to see the current playback speed?
I want to copy photos from iPad to PC (iTunes). On iTunes, I click the iPad icon, and then click "Photos" from the left panel. It shows "Sync Photos" on the right. But the problem is that when I click the Sync button, the pictures on the iPhone are not copied to the PC. Only the reverse was true (PC -> iPad).
Upgrading my Mac Pro early 2009 - MacPro4,1 running OS 10.6.8, looking at GeForce GTX 750 Ti Graphics Card and wanted to make sure it would plug n play?
This should be very simple, but I am unable to find a straightforward answer to this question. I have a few Mach-O binaries that have certificates embedded in them. Some of these might not be signatures, but rather root certificates that the code uses to verify other signatures with. Some of these might also be signatures. I'm working on some of Apple's core executables here, so that might help. How can I extract these from them?
A little background: my organization, a hospital, is in the process of rolling out more iOS devices throughout the enterprise and we are provisioning them through Apple Configurator (w/ Cisco Meraki MDM) which has been working well so far. However, this is mostly a PC shop and there's only one Mac computer for the device provisioning as of right now, so the question was brought to me if there was a way that we could host a Mac server in our data center and have the USB ports "redirect" so to speak from the local machine to the Mac server in order to provision these iOS devices without having to p-card multiple Mac computers?
I wanted to change my computer's name and did so. I used it for a while but when doing other programming related work felt like I was hitting a wall sometimes because of pathing. I changed terminal name by executing a command line command and did the rest through Users in System Settings inside of Advanced Settings that you can access by pressing control and clicking on the User.
I know people love the SSDs because they are faster, smaller and lighter. But surely I am not the only user who values capacity over speed -- right? What do people do if they need more storage with the newer laptops?
After updating my iPod I'm asked to enter the password for the iCloud account, which has an Apple ID which uses an older email which no longer exists. I don't remember the old password.
I broke an installation of Deep Freeze on a Macbook by upgrading it to El Capitan. I'd like to get Deep Freeze to work again, but "This version of Deep Freeze cannot be installed on a Mac that has CoreStorage volume". There are many guides to reverting a CoreStorage volume on the internet, but the steps aren't working for me.
Here is my need on keyboard mapping: When using Terminal, exchange the use of alt and cmd (map one to the other) Otherwise, restore the default mapping on these two keys How to achieve this?
My Wireless card is an Airport Extreme BCM43xx. The ioreg -l | grep 14e4 command shows that the card is specifically 14e4:4328.
On Linux, handling spaces when I am using the results find only requires wrapping the variable in quotes. This doesn't work on OS X. This code, for example, doesn't work:
I have a "Picture Clipping" file on my desktop. It has a preview of the image that I assume it has in it. When I double click on it, a window pops up. I assumed this was the standard "Preview" program that Mac seems to use for opening images. But no! It's the "Finder" program. And, of course, I can't quit Finder. In this non-preview view of the image, it says at the bottom "Clipping contents: TIFF image".
I have multiple Safari windows for tab organization. I usually have multiple tabs in each window. When I click on a link from an app other than Safari, it opens the link in a new tab in Safari, as Safari is my default browser.
ASUS RT-N16 router running TomatoUSB firmware v1.28.9054. All relevant devices (PC, iPad, printer) are visible in the list of connected devices, along with their 192.168.0.1xx IP addresses.
I would love to have a way to grab a screenshot to clipboard (via commandshiftcontrol4) and then paste it into Gmail on Chrome without it being so fuzzy. I do NOT want to save the screenshot (and run a folder action or whatever) and I do NOT want to launch a separate app that will save multiple versions of my screenshot. Is this possible? This thread describes a promising shell workflow, but when I tried it my results were either extremely blurry or completely garbled. My current procedure, after copying, is to Open Preview Create a "New from Clipboard" Tools > Adjust Size... Change Resolution from 144 to 72 ppi Copy & Paste This gives the desired result, but is cumbersome. I was hoping there was a way to do this through AppleScript, but Preview's dictionary is empty.
I have an iphone 4s, and it will not unlock, using my normal pin. I took it to a computer store, but they want 60$/hr for a 4hour minimum of work. This is more than I can afford.
It can't print both sided as the duplex select on the print window is grayed. It works fine on Linux. How to tell the driver that the printer is an actual duplex printer? Thanks.
I have a 128gb sandisk USB for my macbook pro 2015 13' (the storage capacity for the laptop is 128gb). Can I make the USB like my SSD for my mac (on laptop) so combined it will be 256gb total?
The following command, (where UUID is the hard-coded device id) works fine in Terminal. It opens a new window and runs the script, but when I pass it in via a .Net CORE api call I get the above syntax error. Even just osascript -e 'tell app "terminal" to do script ("idevicesyslog")' fails with the same error. Any thoughts?
I went to Settings and "New mail notifications on" is selected (there was a text as a link above it, I clicked on it). However, it doesn't work, i.e., I don't receive any notification on a new mail...Any idea(s)?
I've been working on getting some iMacs enrolled on an Open Directory, and using Profile Manager to push some settings that are useful for our office (some essential Dock items, a few security policies, nothing fancy). What I'd really like to do, though, is be able to enable (at least) SSH, and preferably Screen Sharing or Remote Management. I've looked at all the options in Profile Manager, and it looks like that isn't directly possible. So, I suspect I'll need to create a custom payload for something like the com.apple.RemoteManagement domain. Only, i have no idea what to put in there, and my Google-fu fails me. I've tried using XCode Instruments to watch for filesystem changes when enabling and disabling the Screen Sharing or Remote Management settings using the System Preferences app, but haven't turned up anything useful.
> EDIT- THIS IS SOlVED - I downgraded to OSX Maverics then upgraded To EL Capitan. When I press 'INSTALL' it counts down to 1 second, then freezes. Here is the error log:
Me and my friends want to listen to music together. Two of us have Bluetooth Headphones (Beats Solo2 Wireless, Beats Studio Wireless) and one has a wired headset. Is there any way to use all three of these together?
I'm trying to add a logo in apple mail signature. The image is a small PNG. When I added to the the signature in preferences, it's fine. But when I visit that signature again (or) create a mail with that signature, the image magnifies while the retina resolution is gone. How to I stop it?
Using Magic Mouse 2.0 on Windows 8.1 turns into disaster. It is hard to click anything without scrolling the screen. Is it was possible to disable one finger swipe? Is there any utility for windows that enables control over mouse settings?
I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and have noticed the Music folder is not listed for exclusion. However, this folder is not actually backed up, as I can see this by going into the backup disk, it is not there.
I've tried to re-install Windows 7 using Bootcamp Assistent, since Windows 10 gave me a lot of headache. Ran in to the error "No bootable device detected...", so I used following steps: Make EFI bootable USB installer Download Win10 install ISO Boot into Windows DVD setup to access a Windows command prompt open command prompt at install screen by pressing shift+F10 load diskpart and make clean install disk by typing: diskpart list disk select disk n #n=USB stick clean convert gpt create partition primary format fs=fat32 label=Winstall quick exit exit mount downloaded install ISO drag everything from the mounted ISO onto the USB stick delete bootmgr and bootmgr.efi from the stick to avoid BIOS/CMI boot and force EFI boot Make EFI bootable USB installer Download Win10 install ISO Boot into Windows DVD setup to access a Windows command prompt open command prompt at install screen by pressing shift+F10 load diskpart and make clean install disk by typing: diskpart list disk select disk n #n
I noticed that some of my photos won't load when double clicked, displaying a grey placeholder instead. Looking for them in Photos library, I did find them in the Masters folder, so they aren't lost.
The "Pop" sound I'm talking about is the one found in: System Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects -> "Pop". Is there a way to stop playing this sound?
I'm running El Capitain and have GIMP installed but can't figured out how to install the resynthesizer. I copied the files from the linux version of the plugin into the plugin folder of GIMP but GIMP does not seem to detect it.
Within system preferences --> keyboard --> shortcuts --> mission control I have the following shortcut set:  I record the shortcut by hitting Control5, but when I play the shortcut back, I am not able to actually move to that space. When showing my desktops I see that I have Desktops 1-5 as well.
I am new to OS X. In my About this Mac -> Storage, I have 21GB of photos. However, I have checked the Photos application and there are nothing in it.
Using Automator, I want to be able to toggle a folder or file's "hidden" status. How is this possible through the command line? (I'm giving the file's directory to the script via a variable.)
The problem only occurs with Mac laptops on our network. Linux, Windows, and Android devices all seem to stay connected. I did use Onyx to collect information about the connection when it failed most recently. From the bottom of the wifi.log: From wifi-oCZ0nU.log: Here's the relevant access points from the scan: Monitor results: I've been told that this is mostly a personal problem and not something IT can help with, so I was hoping somebody here could help.
I mean instead of affecting the brightness of the built in display of a Macbook.
How do I copy the whole partition map for a drive 'cloned' with DD? Same size hard drive for input and output of DD. Device block size was 4096 Bytes on input disk, 512 Bytes on output disk. Filevault 2 partitions on source.
This question is similar, but it's for Windows. Where is flash installed on OSX? I've searched the whole filesystem with find, and I see Flash files in the following places: ~/Library/Application Support /private/var/db/receipts /private/var/db/BootCaches ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player
When I have some downtime, I try to tidy up, and delete photos on my iPad, but only some of the photos have a delete button. Is this because those particular photos (ones without a delete option), were not taken on the ipad? With photo streaming, you can end up with thousands of photos, and I often will take a photo of something as a reminder, instead of writing it down. But then when it comes time to delete said reminder photo, I can't.
Is there a way to run a script on a Mac that literally will do ( sudo rm -rf / )? I need to schedule a complete wipe of my hard drive on next Friday at 6PM. I'm not very familiar with scripts so there's no clear answer for me. Can I run a script that doesn't involve me to grant the sudo password? I do have my root user password.
I have several iDevices that I use: iPad, iPhone and an iPod, all of which sync contacts with iCloud. I am experiencing the phenomenon where I update a contact on my iPhone and instead of syncing the new data to iCloud where the other devices can pick it up, the phone is pulling the old data down from iCloud and over-writing the updates I just made. Any ideas what the problem could be?
I found a setting to show or hide apple music (Music -> Show Apple Music). I turned it off, but now when I go to the music app it shows me the apple music ad with no buttons for ~2 seconds and then the app crashes. Restarting/Resetting the iPhone has no effect. When I re-enable apple music the app works again. I have iOS 9.3.5 on my iPhone 4S.
Few of the third party apps like soundflower and boom used to provide a master volume control for multiple audio output on OSX (aka combining USB audio output and 3.5mm output etc). None of the mentioned apps work anymore, say soundflower app cannot be loaded and boom 2 has a volume control but will not change the volume of multiple output devices. Is there someway on 10.11 to control the master volume of multiple audio output?
I have a MacBook air and want to attach a external graphics card but it's already attached to a monitor, so the thunderbolt port is in use so does anyone know of a hub-like device to make my 1 thunderbolt port have 2 plugs. For clarification I want to take the 1 thunderbolt port in my Mac and add a hub (like 100$ or less) so I can instead have 2 thunderbolt ports. (If it's not clear, I want you to submit possible hubs I can buy (off Amazon if possible))
I am having recurring "styles" folder inside my trash and when I try to delete it, it is showing "the operation cannot be completed because the item "styles" is in use! Is this a virus?
I have an iPhone 6s Plus. I want to change the country and region but I'm being asked to enter my credit card details, with no other option.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve the data generated by the brightness sensor of the screen in a MacBook with this auto brigthness capabilities. Do you know something how can we do something like this?
Right now, when setting up an ad-hoc network, using the "Create Network" feature in OS X/macOS, the device creating the network is "lost" – meaning that it can't be used for normal internet connectivity anymore. My question would be, if it's possible through some CLI utility or an app to create an ad-hoc network, but still be able to use the Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet?
I want to call my girlfriend using Siri. The problem is that her name is Hungarian and I am not able to pronounce it in a way that Siri recognise it and call her. So I thought that I give her a nickname "girlfriend" and ask Siri to "call my girlfriend". This does not work. Siri asks me who my girlfriend is even though her nickname is defined as "girlfriend"
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with a 480 GB SSD + a 500 GB hard drive (instead of default superdrive). I have rEFInd installed on my OS X (SSD). I have installed Kali Linux on my HD, to boot into Kali Live and install Kali I have added edd=off to make it work. Everything seems good, but when I'm trying to boot into Kali on rEFInd, I get a black screen with a white flashing underscore, nothing more. So I think is because I need to add edd=off option during Kali boot, like I did to boot Kali Live and the installer.
I am keen on installing Windows 8.1 or 10 on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013). Some say Windows don't work well as OS X interferes with it. Is it so ?
I have a WD external usb3 hard disk. I'm having a similar problem as mentioned in number of posts, which also offer solutions I've exhaustively tried. But of course some poster will ask me to list them all. I"ve closed many, googled for ages, here's some tabs that were still open when I finally posted. How to make my iMac recognize my USB external hard drive? How to Erase External USB Drive Which Won't Mount & Isn't Recognized How do I recover a HFS+ journaled drive? USB Drive Will Not Mount, Not Listed in Disk Utilities, but Found In System Profiler
When i did i clean install from osx 10.8 to 10.10 a year or so ago i lost the option to have a summary of the folder i was in at the bottom of the finder window. Recently i seem to have pressed a short cut that has brought back the summary, but i have no idea how i did it.. any ideas ? I have included a image of the summary bar below :
Trying to repair an external storage device in Disk Utility I first clicked "Verify Disk..." and then "Repair Disk..." but i got the below error: Verify and Repair volume “disk3s2” Repairing file system. ** /dev/rdisk3s2 Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: cc4542 File system check exit code is 8. Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required. Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files. How do I solve the problem? Specs: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
Accidentally removing a card reader without first ejecting the Sandisk 256GB MicroSD in it has caused the SD card to become corrupt. When inserting it now, OSX prompts that it cannot read the card and offers an option of initialising it. This doesn't work, and Disk Utility gets stuck "waiting for the disk to re-appear" when I try to format it. In Disk Utility and in /dev list, the card shows up as 8MB rather than 256GB. I am hoping that I haven't damaged the controller and that the card might be fixable. Any thoughts?
Is it possible to force-mount an external Fujitsu hard drive with command line tools, if it can't be mounted using Disk Utility? Whether it doesn't matter? I ask because this is not my Mac and at the moment I don't have it I have an error message the disk 'name of the disk' could not be mounted Info: MacBook Pro/OS X Yosemite Another question: Can I repair this disk through command line tools? I have an error like this exit code 8 something with filesystem and error using Disk Utility:
When I delete an application, preference files in ~/Library and other places usually don't deleted as well. How should I handle these files, should/can I delete them without impacting the system?
Was there an app switcher or did you have to stop an app and start a new one?
Just now using MacOs Sierra's Mail client. Compared to what happened on El Cap, which worked fine. It seems that now Gmail is accumulating drafts, in other words, once the email is sent, there may be one or many drafts of the email in the drafts folder. Probably corresponding to how many autosaves happened. Can I stop this from happening?
I installed a Time Capsule at my office to handle backups of all Macbooks (8). To ensure a minimum of privacy, via Airport Utility-->Disks I created One account per each user (Changed Secured Shared Disks-->With accounts). I used a default password so each user would then sign in via Finder and then change it to something else. I've been trying to figure out how a regular user with no access to the Time Capsule main password would go in and update his own password. When I connect from finder to the Time Capsule a modal comes in to sign in and there's a button to change password.
When I choose other connection schemes, like Open Directory or Custom, I was unable to even authenticate in the Directory Editor window. (Error 500, 2100)
I mistakenly deleted the latest backup for my iPhone from within iTunes preferences. How can I recover it?
I was working on a MacBook Pro which was placed on top of a closed MacBook Pro. There is a precise position where the screen turns black and the internet stops working. I can repeat this phenomenon again and again with always the same output.
I'm using OSX 10.10 and its showing movies 4.03 GB in About This Mac>Storage. I don't have any movies in my mac. I tried to check all my files one by one but i can't find it. How to clear this occupied storage. Any idea ?
When I use Command+F to search for a word or phrase in Preview, it finds all instances of the search in the document, but only highlights the matched areas when I click on a specific page on the lefthand sidebar (that lists each page with a match and the number of matches per page). Current behavior: I search for a word, and it finds a match on pages 1, 2, and 3. It brings me to page 1 and shows all instances of the word highlighted. If I scroll down to page 2, none of the page 2 instances are highlighted. However, if I click on page 2 on the left sidebar, it will then highlight all instances on that page. Expected behavior: When I scroll to page 2, all instances will be highlighted without me having to click on page 2 on the left sidebar. Is there any way to do this? (I'm using Mac OSX 10.7.5)
I plugged an iPhone into my MacBook Pro with iTunes open. After a moment, my MacBook got stuck and shut down by itself. Then, I tried to open the MacBook Pro again. But, nothing is happening except few things like the white light is blinking and fan is running. I tried a couple of times; nothing happens. How can I fix it? What is the problem?
I know that how to maximize windows has been discussed in several places. I have a more specific question here:
I am interested in replacing my hierarchical folder structure with the tag system. Are there any best practices (or do you have personal experience) of how to use tags as a replacement for the hierarchical file structure?
Is it possible that changing/adding permissions on a large set of folders can affect system performance, causing everything to run more slowly? The way this is done might matter. I'm imagining the case where permissions are set recursively on a user home folder ("/Users/MyUsername") via the "Get Info" dialog within Finder and additional users or groups are added to the ACL.
Normally I'm able to filter my search by file size as shown in this tutorial. However, for some reason this morning I can't find the filter anymore, where did it go?
I was trying to add paths to my ~/.bash_profile and accidentally screwed up the final one right when I closed it. Now, I cannot use a majority of the basic shell commands, like ls, touch, etc. I can still use echo and cd. When I echo my path, I get: “/Users/Forthman/Desktop/paml/bin:??. If I try other commands, I get: -bash: touch: command not found.
The only thing it will let me do is booting to Safe Mode. After running /sbin/fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/disk0s2 it returned with an incorrect number of extended attributes (it should be 486802 instead of 486801) and disk0s2: i/o error. **the volume macintosh could not be verified completely.** Running the command once more it returns:
I'm having problems with my main system OSX volume. When running sudo diskutil verifyVolume / : The error: Also tried:
I am having trouble with Airplaying to a raspberry Pi device using the shairplay software. The raspberry pi device is on 2.4 Ghz wifi. Iwconfig lists the wifi quality as: Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=77/100 Noise level=0/100
I downloaded Fitbit onto my computer and then deleted all of it, but I can not get the icon to delete from my menu bar. I have tried to drag it over so it will delete, but it will not move.
I want to lock FileVault when I logout. I have two accounts on my Mac one admin and a standard user, only the admin account can open the FileVault. How do I lock FileVault so I need to unlock the FileVault when I logout of any of the two accounts?
Can Apple's Preview app be used to reduce the opacity of an existing image? I might be asking this wrong. To be clear, I've Googled it extensively but Google seems to think what I want is to remove a solid background from around my image, for example making a the black background/backdrop transparent in an image that's of a car. However, my background is already transparent and what I want is for the car to be at about 90% Opacity.
The Flickr tool wants to sync my entire Photos library and Apple Photos only want a to share a small number of photos to Flickr at a time.
I installed OS X Server on El Capitan and set up Xcode continuous integration. I didn't touch any of the other features. Now I'm unable to find the other computers in my home using Bonjour.
I cannot work out the steps to reproduce this, beyond attaching an external monitor (sometimes it happens after I minimize an app, or sometimes it happens during normal work - e.g. I'm working, think I need to use something in the dock, and it's just not responding).
I'm using macbook retina mid 2014 with storage capacity 128GB. When i check my storage About This Mac > Storage, its showing uses of movies occupying 3.96GB. I check all folders individually but i can't find a single video file.
I dropped my iPhone 6 and the right side of the screen is black. I cannot type there, I can't activate my Wi-Fi access and data access. I need it to turn this on. Is there a way to remotely control the iPhone from my laptop?
I have noticed that when accepting a meeting arranged for my work, the default behaviour is that it gets added to my Home calendar, while I want it to be added automatically to the default Work calendar. Is any way to configure the calendar to schedule to a specific calendar the invitations from a certain person, or even better, a certain email domain?
Whilst reading a book on my iPhone, iBooks does not remember where I am when I open the book in macOS. Does anyway have suggestions to get this sorted. It's really frustrating and I never have this issue with Kindle macOS/iOS
I thought this feature was only for apps, not for documents. This is a C# script file, and I've told it to open it with Visual Studio Code. I can open VS Code with no problem, so it doesn't seem to be the permissions on that.
What is the best way to loop a number of videos, that are already on an iPad? Either an app or a built in solution. The slideshow feature of the built in Photos app does not really work - it crops the video, and adds a gray border. I have tried a number of apps for this purpose, none of which actually seem to do the job very well or at all.
For more than a year my macbook air used a time-machine (local network, synology). After completely new fresh install of my macbook air, i reconnected time machine. In TM, data before the fresh install is not shown if i enter time-machine. Only the backup made after the new install is shown. How can i access the old data? On the TM itself it looks like old and new data is merged. Kind regards George
I'm running my MacBook 2016 attached to LG 27MU67-B operating fine in native 4K resolution. But the choices for scaled (DPI)resolution are somewhat broken. In display preferences pane I'm presented scaled resolution setting choices as follows: 3840 x 2160 1920 x 1080 1680 x 945 and more useless resolutions.
When I put my iPhone 5s on charge, it takes around 5 seconds to turn on and show the Apple logo. Then it turns on to show my lock screen and dies straight away.
I frequently use ssh on my MacBook to connect to other servers and run long-running commands there. When I do this, I leave the lid open to let it run, but then if I don't go to make coffee or something, it automatically turns the screen off, and this also causes the ssh to disconnect.
[screencap lifted from another post with inbox button. Also available on my macbook, running same OS]
The sole answer for Remove shift key augmentation for Mission Control animation that works is a GUI-based answer. I like to store all of my mac configuration in a version-controlled dotfiles repository so I can quickly get back to ground zero when I make a new mac. How can you disable the shift key slowness that occurs when you do Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow and Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow from the command line?
This is a follow-up question to Mac Pro 4,1 (Early 2009) Sierra Compatibility? I installed macOS Sierra on an early 2009 Mac Pro and now I noticed that my wifi hardware "is not detected". Here's what I did: I used the MacPro Firmware updater to change it's version from 4,1...5,1. I used the MacPro Firmware updater to change it's version from 4,1...5,1. I installed a 480GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD which I bought from OWC in the next available slot. I installed a 480GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD which I bought from OWC in the next available slot.
After a painful conversation with the reviewer I was asked to remove our biggest USP and resubmit, however there is already a very popular app that blatantly offer the very same feature. I didn't bring this up with the reviewer on the call as she was very VERY aggressive and this could potentially have made matter worse. Which option do I have now?
I have a consistent issue of some legit emails showing up in my Mail client (OS X Mavericks) as junk. They are also marked as junk in icloud.com which is why they are coming in as junk to my mail client. The problem is, these emails can't be marked as "Not Junk" even in icloud.com. I can mark them "Not Junk" and they will immediately be marked as junk again and reappear in my junk folder. How can I get iCloud to accept that these messages are not junk and leave them set that way?
It is possible for a MDM to disable almost all apps on an iOS device by issuing a configuration profile that specifies "no apps" in the Restrictions Payload. When disabled, apps simply disappear from the device home screen. My problem is that if I distribute configuration profiles with this restriction and then later distribute new profiles removing the restriction, all of the app icons on the device reappear but not organized as they were before they were disable. Any ideas on how to prevent or workaround this?
Yesterday, I tried to open the R programming environment by typing "R" at the command line. I was met with the following error message: I didn't know what to do about that, so I re-installed R. That fixed the problem, so I went on with my day.
How do you do a group Google chat (Hangouts) with iOS Messages? Specifically I would like to do a group chat via iOS Messages with multiple people who use Google Hangouts either where they initiate the group chat or I do. Thanks all for any ideas or suggestions!
I have a free music album from the iTunes store that shows in my iPhone playlist as "Purchased." I want to rename it to the album name.
Is there a way to mount my Android phone on my Mac Air desktop in order to transfer files like images and music?
The file “watch.command” could not be executed because you do not have appropriate access privileges. To view or change access privileges, select the file in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.
I have an iPhone 5s on 9.3.5 and every time I add music to the device, the files play with artifacts(glitches) on the device itself. Meanwhile the files on the computer play perfectly fine. Any solution ?
I'm trying to get CPU temperature from the terminal using sysctl. Command: Output: But the given temperature is not correct(Original temperature is: 51c).
An example is when I open up League of Legends in Retina resolution, the cursor becomes extremely tiny for 3 seconds. That is how I want my whole Mac to look like. Is there any way to set the scaling to 100%, like you can in Windows?
My computer has become slow to fully boot since updating to 10.11. This isn't helped by Applications (including their previous windows) reopening automatically post login. I am aware that this is part of the default Mac OS experience and I've seen answers that involve checking a box when restarting, although I would prefer a permanent fix to disable this particular function and any other advice to improve my iMacs startup efficiency.
How to make the mouse pointer appear larger in size? Makes it easier to notice, and is handy during presentations or when working over darkly colored content.
I live in a building that has wireless internet. How do I use it while also having access to my wifi network, which connects my Mac to my other devices (Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, streaming music from my Mac to my Apple TV, etc).
So I'm running iOS 10 and Watch OS 3. I turned on my workout on my apple watch and went for a walk for 28 min. When I was done, I checked the workout and it says 28 min. If I go into my 'Activity' on the watch or my iPhone, it says my exercise for the day was only 11 min... But I can click on the workout and see it was 28 min. Any ideas?
The recipient is not registered on iMessage, which leads me to believe he is not on an iMac. I have received txts from him on my Android and I have his phone number. Is there a way to do it on OS X without purchasing additional software?
My macbook pro 2009 stopped hibernating after closing the lid, also keyboard back light seems stopped working as well, I tried LabTick but no luck.
I deleted GarageBand by dragging the app to the trash, but in the system information it says it is still taking up over 20gb, where are these files located?
This problem bothers me since I tried to add a hardware(smartcard device) information to the support list, so that I can use this smartcard device under my macintosh. But I don't have permission to modify this list file(Info.plist) on EI Capitan 10.11.4 or 10.11.5. Before 10.11.4, there is no this permission thing, I can't see why apple doing this. Anyone knows how to modify the Info.plist(directory: "/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/")?
You've probably seen this message (maybe in a bit newer GUI but still the same). I wonder if anyone know when it is triggered?
I have been having problems when I go to install the above update. I click 'restart' to allow the computer to update but it never does. The dock and desktop wallpaper remain but the menu bar at the top and all icons on the desktop disappear.
Apologies in advance if any of the details seem incorrect, I am helping my friends dad and am not a mac user myself. Background to problem: His System: Mac OS X v10.5.8 Original Browser: Safari v5 Recently he has been unable to access some websites and was informed by one company that he needed to update his browser. He downloaded Safari v7.0.4 to find that it could not be used with leopard. to quote The main problem is, that in the process of downloading v7, v5 was deleted & now I have no access to any website. I have dumped v7 to 'trash' but still cannot retrieve v5. I checked the compatibility and it looks like he needs to go back to Safari 5.0.6 (I'll worry about OS update later) Whats are my options to get Safari 5 working again on his machine? Also is there any way for me to remote to his machine without him having a browser? Thanks Joe
I am for the first time attempting to sync my two computers running Ableton Live using the OS X virtual MIDI Network driver over Thunderbolt. The connection works if I use the MIDI Network Setup option "Who may connect to me" set to Anyone. But if I set it to Only computers in my directory, I get the error message: (IP address) refused the connection request. Questions: What is the MIDI Network Setup Directory?
As advertised with the release of iOS 9, Low Battery Mode can be activated on most modern iPhones to conserve power. My question is, why doesn't the iPad support Low Battery Mode? It would seem to have the capability to – is there an official or proven answer as to why not? (I am using an iPad Air 2)
My work computer has a handful of personal applications that I store not in /Applications, and not in ~/Applications, but in another folder (/usr/local/data/Applications) for several reasons. However, despite this folder being within Spotlight's search index (it's not excluded from Spotlight's index), Spotlight doesn't find the apps there when searching.
After installing security update 2016-001 whenever a remote server outputs a lot of text very fast, the SSH connection is dropped with this error message: This happens when using an Ethernet-USB adapter only (which was fine previously,) over wifi it works fine.
I notice that iTunes 12 automatically writes metadata changes back to the file. Unfortunately, if you are using TimeMachine to backup your music library, this is a huge waste, since it means that every time a file is played (or any other metadata change is made) a new copy of the file is included in the next backup.
I got a second-hand MBP about a week ago and today I noticed that when I ran the battery to around 50% it wouldn't charge back. I installed coconutBattery and it shows the charging rate fluctuating at 0-10W.
I have this problem that most of the options in the system preferences are greyed out, even when I log in as an admin. But I need to log in to my iCloud account to get some software to run on these machines. So I changed the restrictions payload and tried to push it. But for some reasons only 4 of the 12 Macs will update the settings. All Macs are turned on and connected to the local network and the internet.
Before the messages app on my iPod 5 with iOS 9 was working fine, but yesterday I was signed out for some reason. When I tried to sign back in, it said that I needed to verify an email address and redirected me to the apple id site. I already had a verified email address, but it still would't let me sign in. I've tried re-verifying my email and verifying a new email address but I still get the same pop-up message. How can I sign in?
When I list files in the command line with "ls -l", I get all the xattr lines also and this clutters the output, making it hard to find the files I want. How can I list a directory without printing the xattr lines? Here's an example of what I get when I type "ls -l"
How can I set the name of newReminder to input text?
I hide my dock. How do I acheive this: double click on titlebar to maximize a window to fill up screen? Please pay attention to two red rectangles (not fill up the screen though I double click on titlebar) as shown below a screenshot of the entire screen.
I want to use two headphones simultaneously; one USB and another through the audio port listening to the same audio source (i.e iTunes, Spotify, or Netflix) at the same time. Is it possible? Info about my device,
My 6-month-old iPhone 6 is hot at the top, by camera lens, won't hold a charge and the camera is just black. All other functions are normal. This started a few days ago.
I am using OS El Capitan 10.11.6 . I have formatted a partition (D - 90.1 GB) of the internal/builtin SSD SM0256G of my MacBook Pro with exFat, and copied some data onto it. It was working good, but when I restarted my MacBook, the exFat formatted partition D is not showing in Finder. I can't find it in Disk Utility. The space of 90.1 Gb which was allocated to D partition is shown as untitled. My question is: can I recover my data which I have copied on D drive?
In order to start using the Photos app on my mac, which only has a 500gb HDD, I had to plug in a 1TB external, and use that to house the Photos database file. I had to do this because I had more than 500gb of photos. Now they are all imported to the photos application, and I have verified they are synced up to the cloud. Is it safe at this point to delete the photo database file from my external HDD, and then reopen the Photos application and start from scratch using my Mac's HDD with "optimize storage" enabled? I assume it would just download everything from the cloud in a storage optimized way.
I couldn't find a clear answer on the web and I don't know if there is any guideline from Apple that would disallow such functionally. I'd like to know if my own application is allowed to clear it's own cache from the Library folder for both scenarios (AppStore vs. downloaded from the Web)?
If I register an app named Kim Kardashian and my app display name is also Kim Kardashian, does that hold less/more weight as an app registered as kimkapp with display name Kim Kardashian - Khloe and Kourtney's Celebrity Sister when searching Kim Kardashian in the app store? I'm wondering how much value there is in reserving that Kim Kardashian name if the app display name is more important for app store optimization purposes. This:
We are using Mavericks OS X server with the Time Machine service. We had originally setup our Time Machine server to limit remote backups (backups of desktops and laptops) to 1,000 GB of space.
I want to know if there is any possibility to connect an USB 3.1 Type C device to a MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015. Is there any Thunderbold/USB 3.1 adaper? Thanks a lot
Is it possible to configure the Mac lock screen to refuse to accept login attempts for a certain amount of time after the lock screen is activated?
I was reading a book on my MBP when it connects to two external monitors. I have make the book window fits the screen width. However after I disconnected the monitors and tried to read the book on the MBP screen, it is what I see
I'd like my screen shots to only be named with the current date time, preferably in a format like: How should I go about doing this? So far I've tried inserting an empty string into com.apple.screencapture name as shown: But OSX is still inserting a space as shown below: So there's two problems I'm having: How do I change the date time format so there are no spaces? How do I make sure there is no leading space in the screenshot filename? Thanks :)
Command+Shift+I launches the Mail app (which can't be removed), but I can't find that shortcut in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. Where does that shortcut come from, and how can I remove it?
I want to create a rectangular display of iPads connected to a computer. Preferably the iPads would be able to display some message running across the screen of all of them, but if that isn't possible, then just every single iPad displaying the same message and changing when necessary.
I encountered this question when taking Apple's online survey: My question is: What does the "A Mac user" mean here? Someone using OS X or someone using a MacBook?
I have a .pages file I've worked on as recently as May. When I tried to open it the Console.app reported: 9/2/16 7:21:44.392 PM CoreServicesUIAgent[337]: Error -60005 creating authorization
I read the related entries. My Mac Air 11" from 2011 was charging intermittently when plugged in and shutting off suddenly regardless of battery charge level or adapter connection. This problem has been going on for at least a month. I have improved the condition and isolated the possibilities. SO Now:
Any thoughts on how I can connect 2 monitors? Both have VGA and HDMI ports.
I have a HDD with a OS X data partition on it that is encrypted with FileVault. It also contains NTFS and ext4 partitions. This is not a boot partition. My boot partition was on a separate SSD. I can not use the boot partition to boot OS X anymore. Can I take out the HDD with the encrypted partition, plug it with a USB dock into a macbook and unlock/read the data? NOTE: I just need to recover one small folder from the partition that I could transfer on a usb stick.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015); Model MF839. It's been working great so far but recently, I have been getting issues where the screen will go dark while using all of a sudden. In the beginning, it would light back up after a few seconds but lately it's been getting worse. It goes dark and I have to try to adjust the screen angle to try to get it to a working position. I have googled the solution to this problem but almost all of them come down to resetting the PRAM and the SMC, I have tried both it worked great for a week or so until I am back to the original problem. Can anyone tell if he's been having the same issue as well or if he's been able to resolve it?
I have an iMac (Retina 5K 27", Mid 2015) with OS X Yosemite v10.10.2. I am connecting to my network with a cable but when i type an address or refresh the page, the loading icon appears in favicon, but it keeps turning forever and the page is doing nothing. I have to refresh or re-enter the site like 4 or 5 times to make it work. Sometimes even that is not enough. I am pressing stop several times and refreshing it to make it work.
I have some alignment errors on my Fusion Drive after? reorder the CoreStorage.
I'm attempting to view 8k footage on my iMac however quicktime refuses to open it. Footage is in H.264 AAC format at resolution 7680 × 4320, and when opened in quicktime results in audio but not video, just a black screen. Converting the video with "MacX Video Converter Pro" to a lower resolution allows the video to be opened. I am using the current iMac with a 5k screen and a R9 M395 graphics card.
This problem is not specifically related to iTunes version 12.4.3, but has been appearing since 12.3.3 far as I can remember. I also had it on OS X 10.11.4 and 10.11.5.
I used to be able to take screencasts with QuickTime just fine for over a year now. But suddenly, every time I try and go above 3 or 4 minutes, by the time I finish, QuickTime just freezes. I can only kill it. When opening it the next time, it presents to me only part of the recording. What could possibly cause this? I got Yosemite v10.10.5 and QuickTime v10.4 (build 833.7)
For security reasons, I like to use different passwords for my account for logging in locally vs. logging in remotely. I need this so that a person who manages to read or keylog my local login password cannot easily gain access to it remotely as well. For ssh access, I solve this by simply disallowing password based access at all, instead requring a key file.
I am interested in understanding how much of my 7200 rpm hard drive's capacity is being used, because sometimes performance is very slow and choppy. The Disk tab in Activity Monitor gives information about Data read/sec and Data written/sec – but is there a way to display such information relative to what it's capable of, e.g. a percentage measure.
When opening documents in iWork'13, the documents are converted and may wind up looking different if they were created in iWork'09 (see Apple support article ”Working with iWork'09 files"). Documents created with even older versions of iWork can, I believe, not be opened in iWork'13 at all and must first be converted with iWork'09.
I want to reinstall OS X completely on my machine. I have backed up all of my documents and made a list of applications that I have, so that I can install them later.
New to editing my .profile, so please bear with me if my question seems somewhat trivial. I downloaded software to convert a proprietary data to ASCII, the software being from Trimble. Then I did the following: In .profile Then back out...
I burned my DVD of Windows 7 64 bit to an iso file. Moved that file to my USB flash drive using Rufus, and when I boot while holding the option key my flash drive isn't recognized. Not sure what else to do but Bootcamp only supports Windows 8 or later.
For whatever reason Memrise requires you to input a space character in some Japanese answers (I'm very much a beginner, so this may not be as weird as I think). However when I have my input set to Hiragana with Romaji typing method, pressing space converts what I've already typed into Kanji even though I have Live Conversion disabled (I think that's what it's doing, they're not Kanji I recognize but I don't know what else they might be). Obviously this is very annoying as I keep getting answers wrong when all I'm missing is a space or I'll have random Kanji in the middle of what I'm typing.
What is the oldest Mac OS version that can do iCloud sync from Contacts/Address Book to a current iOS 9 device (iPhone SE, in this case)? The goal is to sync contacts between my Macbook running OS X 10.6 and my iPhone. If iCloud sync is not possible, what synchronization options in 10.6 would allow for contact synchronization to current iOS?
OS X Yosemite introduced Extensions, which are listed in the Extensions panel in System Preferences. Currently, the list of "Actions" extensions on my OS X system contains only one item, "Markup".
I need to do a lot of copying filepaths written by people using a PC (which uses backslashes) to a Mac (which uses forward slashes), and I'm tired of manually switching them every time. I have to copy the filepath from our shared web browser, paste it into my file browser, and then go in and manually remove the backslash and replace it with a forward slash.
After installing, there is a new icon in system preferences. The tool allows you to completely disable mouse acceleration, and set a mouse tracking rate. I assume the range of values available will be suitable for most users. It is fairly simple and there are no other configuration options, however if you are like me and want to disable mouse acceleration while allowing the pointer movement rate to be adjusted, then this should work for you. I hate to be another Apple basher, but there are things I love and hate about my Mac, which has been used as a very expensive iPod for the last 4 years (essentially since I got it).
Is there a benefit to copying (with Carbon Copy Cloner) large amounts of data (400 GB) from one physical drive to another (both WD My Passport external USB 3.0 HDD), rather than to a separate partition / volume on the source drive? I imagine that using the same drive might be slower, since it must do both read and write. While with separate drives, each drive does only read or only write, so maybe it's faster.
I am trying to get Spotlight to search files on a AFP-mounted NAS on my home network. Per the advice in this question, I run the following command to activate indexing: But this yields the error:
I have an Automator Service that takes the current text on the clipboard and writes it to a new .txt file. This is executed simply with the following piece of AppleScript code: This code is from the following Stack Overflow answer: AppleScript to paste text from clipboard into a file However, this code converts the clipboard contents to plain text, removing all of the text's formatting.
A valuable feature of the Google Play Store is the ability to command a device you've signed in on to download an app without needing to go searching for the app on the device. I would like to do the same on iOS, but the iTunes Preview interface doesn't look like it supports signing in and cuing up app downloads on a device. Is it possible to tell an internet-connected iOS device to download an app from your computer either online or through the iTunes store browser?
When I open System Preferences, go to Privacy, unlock the pane with my password. When I click on the 'Turn on Location Services' checkbox, the computer freezes, and the box turn blue and immediately turns white. How do I fix this?
In Activity Monitor, kernel_task is showing that it is using 90% CPU. Chrome can't keep 2 tabs open at the same time without showing "Aw Snap." Other apps are slow and my fan is running at full speed. I have no idea what is causing this. I haven't installed any apps or anything that might affect my Mac.
I just acquired a 2 TB Apple Time Capsule and copied over all my movies onto the device, using the method described in this video. My question is this: Can my Apple TV device access videos on the Time Capsule, and play them on my TV? I searched the web and found this help thread, but when I try to drag and drop files into the Movies folder of iTunes like it says to, nothing happens.
For a while now I noticed that 'randomly', my terminal will paste in recent command/log as input. I finally narrowed it down to the fact that I have jitouch installed with 3 finger tap as 'middle-click'. But using command + tap/click does not produce the same behavior. Does anyone know what is the actual event sent by jitouch's middle-click and what command is it triggering to paste? I'm just curious.
I have just downloaded the latest IOS upgrade on my iPhone, it is showing the connect to iTunes message, I no longer have a lap top, is there any other way to get my iPhone up and working again. Can it be connected to iPad ?
I have a very odd failure. The app MusicBrainz Picard 1.3.2, when writing modified audio files to a Network Attached Storage (NAS_ file server, will sometimes spew hundreds of this message. While spewing, it hangs with a spinning beach ball until I Force Quit it.
I've installed macOS sierra (beta) on my MBP & iOS 10 (beta) on my iPhone 5S. Both of them have the latest release. I've connected them in the same wifi network and Bluetooth connection is also active on both of them. So the two-way copy-paste should work seamlessly on these devices. The problem is, copying on MBP & pasting on iPhone works fine but the reverse doesn't. What to do to make this working??
To sign in the YouTube app on my apple TV 4, it ask me to go youtube.com/active When I go to that page, the page says "This account has been terminated for violating YouTube or Google's Terms of Service."
I'm trying to take panorama photos with the camera of the iPhone 6s and the resulting files are shorter than what I am seeing when I capture. The photo I've attached (scaled down because upload-limit) should have an angle of estimated 160 degrees instead of maybe 110 degrees. Basically, the image saved is shorter than the preview indicates on the phone.
I would like to disable the extremely annoying notification popups when my bluetooth mouse or keyboards batteries are getting low. I have enough rechargeable batteries in my drawer, so I do not need a prior notification. Basically my problem is similar to this older question, but in newer OS versions, the notification center is being used instead of a blinking bluetooth icon.
It can sometimes be a slight nuisance to scroll through the whole list in Activity Monitor to find unresponsive applications – especially when this happens often and there's a lot of processes going on. Searching for "red text" as a visual cue is what I usually do. But is there some neat way to filter, or sort, the list to easily find unresponsive applications? Or, is there some other utility or method, outside of Activity Monitor?
I have already posted once, but the problem is so weird. Initially, when it started crashing (all of a sudden), I reinstalled iTunes and it was working fine. After a week, it happened again. I reinstalled it again. Two weeks later, it started crashing again. Then after some research on Google, it turns out that when I switch off Wi-Fi, it works fine.
I have a Mid 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display. As of a week ago, occasionally when I plugged in the MagSafe Adapter, the LED doesn't light up. The problem is fixed by unplugging the power adapter from the MacBook and plugging it back in.
Has anyone found a good way to view TiVo Premiere videos on a Mac (late 2012 mini, El Cap)? TiVo Transfer for Mac worked fine for years, but now only downloads partial files and has been abandoned by Roxio. I can't make cTiVo download complete files either - it calls it "Complete" after transferring 25 MB of a 1.6 GB video.
I installed W10 via Boot Camp and then (foolishly?) tried to install Nvidia's 650M driver. I gamed with it for a while, but as soon as I unplugged my power connector the screen went black and now the display will not turn on again.
i am on a Macbook air with yosemite 10.10.5 and my video exports fail. Trying to export it thru Photos menu - select file > export and choose my to LaCie share external HD but got that error.
I have grown to love the double press space for a full stop, especially when using a keyboard with my iPad. Is there any way I can enable this in OS X?
When I try to tab complete a file to open with vim (or vi) I get a bash error: Doesn't matter what file it is.
My Spotlight can't find any apps, even the native ones. It only returns results from web searches. With a little googling I found out that a pretty common solution to that is to rebuild the indexes. The problem is I can't do that: I tried a solution using the os interface (solution 1), but got the following error message:
I've formatted my SanDisk flash drive to a OSX Extended format with the GUID Partition Map. But when I go to encrypt the drive I continually get this error: "A partition, not a whole disk, is required for this operation."
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro (C2D version) that the battery swelled up in and the HDD was destroyed. I removed the battery and HDD and put a SSD in and I'm trying to do an internet recovery. I hold down Command+R and connect to a WiFi network and I get the globe. Then once the globe exits it goes to the Apple Logo screen and the loading bar at the bottom gets stuck about 75% done. Anyone have any ideas on this?
My iPod has been dead for about 8 months. I plugged the charger into a PC and its not blinking and there's actually no light at all. How long will it take for it to start again? I really need help and don't know how long it will take.
The account is up to date with all agreements and IAP is enabled in the app's provisioning profile. There is no error message displayed. There is a notice "Your first In-App Purchase must be submitted with a new app version. Select it from the app's In-App Purchases section and click "Submit".
So there is one folder that can't move from my external HD to my internal HD. There are many other folders that I have successfully moved, but this one is stubborn. Every time I try to move it, I get this error: The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "Microsoft Windows XP.pvm" can't be read or written
I wanted to know if there were alternate ways to edit an info.plist file that is inside of a kext file. From a Google search I saw, it seemed like it's not something you can easily edit.
So I'm trying to delete some photos from iCloud but keep them stored locally on my Mac (and ideally iOS devices but that doesn't really matter so much). Is there a way to do this? All research I've done shows me how to delete the photos locally but keep them on iCloud! Running El Capitan 10.11.6 and iOS 9.3.5
Is it possible to sign commits without typing passphrase from a script run via Launch Agent? If so, how should I configure gpg-agent in order to make it working? Note that I don't type passphrase when I commit from shell, so that part is working. Now that the question is asked, let me share more background on my problem. Whenever I run gpg in a script that is being execute via Launch Agent I see following error in logs.
I followed these instructions (Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?) to install Windows 10 to my external SSD (Samsung T3). I followed Alex Lambert's guide (the one with most upvotes & correct answer), and was able to install and boot Windows 10 successfully. I ran to a problem today, as I was connecting the drive to another Mac I have until I noticed that my drive was not being seen from the boot menu (option key), although I could see both of my drives (my drives are partitioned in half: 250GB for Windows (NTFS) and 250GB for Data for both OSes, Windows and OS X (exFAT)) in OS X on the other computer. Please help! Thanks.
Firstly, I apologize for duplicate posts -- I realized that I wasn't signed in to my account on StackExchange. I followed these instructions (Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?) to install Windows 10 to my external SSD (Samsung T3). I followed Alex Lambert's guide (the one with most upvotes & correct answer), and was able to install and boot Windows 10 successfully. I ran to a problem today, as I was connecting the drive to two other Macs until I noticed that my drive was not being seen from the boot menu (option key), although I could see both of my drives (my drives are partitioned in half: 250GB for Windows (NTFS) and 250GB for Data for both OSes, Windows and OS X (exFAT)) in OS X on the other computer. The computer I used to install was a MacBook Air Mid 2013 and the computers I used to test were two MacBook Pro Retinas made between 2014 and 2015. Please help, apologies for the noob question (I'm new to this site). Thanks.
I need to connect a MBP 15" to an external monitor with 2560 x 1080 resolution (this *=URL=* ). I already tried HDMI to HDMI but the text looks very bad (sharp). I guess I need to use Thunderbolt to Display Port but I don't know which cable adapter is the correct one. Then my question is which is correct connection and what cable do I need to buy? The MBP has: Thunderbolt Thunderbolt USB 3 USB 3 HDMI HDMI The monitor has: DisplayPort DisplayPort DVI-D Dual Link DVI-D Dual Link HDMI HDMI USB 3.0 USB 3.0
I am using an iPhone 5s with latest iOS update 9.3.5. Whenever I share images using WhatsApp, the app does not respond until the image share/upload is completed. Nothing works, keyboard or back navigation. The app works as usual after image sharing is completed. I have tested this issue with iPhone 6 and 6s too. What might be the issue ? Is this a bug in WhatsApp ?
I found a simple script to run Adobe Distiller on some file. How can I change page size inside this script?
So I had an iPhone 5 for a few years. I bought a 6s recently and after restoring a backup from my iPhone 5. After the restore, most of my apps are greyed out. When I tap an icon, the name of the app switches to "Waiting" but nothing seems to happens.
My mid-2010 MBP is malfunctioning. For all the keys I have to press down quite hard to get a response. "slow keys" is off. I spilled some water around the keyboard a few days ago, that's about when this started. I started popping keys off and it was rather dirty under each key, I cleaned them with a cotton swap and rubbing alcohol. Has made an improvement, more responsive but still hard to press. Is there another method for cleaning them better. Or something else that could cause low responsiveness?
I synced all photos and videos from my iPhone 6 to Google Photos. I then turned off "Back up & sync" in Google Photos, deleted all photos and videos on my phone, and discovered this also deleted everything in Google Photos.
I have three Newertech Ministack external HDD enclosures attached to my Mac mini Server. The drives inside are continuously overheating, since they do not spin down properly when inactive, while the Ministack's turns off. Setting is as follows: Mac Mini - USB2 - Ministack V3 + 2TB HGST Ultrastar Mac Mini - USB3 - Ministack 2012 + 4TB Seagate Enterprise Capacity Mac Mini - USB3 - Ministack 2012 + 3TB Seagate Enterprise Capacity Both Seagate HDDs do not spin down properly.
Here is the case: I have iPhone 1. It is my main iPhone. I also have iPhone 2. I use iPhone 2 to take 500 photos and videos. I transfer all the photos and videos from iPhone 2 to my computer, all in their original form with all the EXIF data and such.
I'm hoping to plug an Apple TV 4th generation into an LG IPS277L (*=URL=* which is equipped with the following input/output connections: D-Sub: Yes HDMI: Yes (HDMI 1, HDMI2/MHL) Headphone Out: Yes Others: MHL(Mobile) Can I plug in an Apple TV 4 with an HDMI cable, and then (in order to get the sound from the Apple TV) plug external speakers in the headphone out connection from the monitor?
I am trying to find out a way I can prioritise WiFi via GPS location. I have got a BT Hub broadband router which is installed on the bottom level of my house and on the top floor i have got CISCO Meraki AP which is connected via TP Link 1200mbps network plug. I always have to switch the Wi-Fi manually due to poor signal strength when I am upstairs and downstairs in the house.
I've done some research before, which led to the installation of an SD card adapter, together with a 128GB microSD card, which doubles the available storage capacity (original SSD storage was 128GB). Unfortunately that's far from enough and I am considering a further upgrade. I've again done some research and found this, which is unfortunately almost double the price of ordinary mSATA or m.2 SSDs, which are readily available on the internet these days. Therefore I am looking for alternatives, as I am not willing to pay this ridiculous premium for Apple-compatible hardware.
I would like to uninstall the "Realtek USB Ethernet Network Adapter" I can find it under System Information -> Software -> Installations in a list but don't know how to get rid of it.
My MBP (Mid 2012, Retina) running El Capitan is now connected to an external HP Display via an HDMI cable. It all works fine, but the fonts on the HP are not as smooth as the MBP. Now, I get that Retina is quite superior so I may immediately catch abnormalities in an external display - but I assure you, that's not the case.
Having some issues with Mac Pro I’m hoping you can help with. I received a Mac Pro 2009 4,1 from my work place after a user noted it ‘it just died’ Our guys here looked at it and could only conclude the fault could be hardware related but they were unsure what exactly. I took it home and installed a hard drive I had to hand with Windows 7 pre-installed, powered in on and after about a minute it loaded Windows normally despite not hearing the Mac start up tone.
I have a folder with about eight sub folders which contain about seventy folders containing about 10,000 files. I want to give students read access to the files, but want to prevent them from accidentally or maliciously deleting the files. Although my admin account is listed as the "owner" of the top level folder and all of its sub-folders and contents, a student with an admin account of their own can drag one of these files to the trash and delete it by using their admin privileges. Is there any way to prevent this? Can permissions be set at a root level that would prevent deletion without running a terminal command?
I have a program where the user may hit Stop and stop the program while running at any given time. I'm looking for a way to detect if the user hits the Stop button in Script Editor (producing the -128 "User canceled" error), so I can do a little cleanup before the program closes. Is there a way to do this?
I want to create a script that executes the command from the contextual (control-click) menu, "Copy Dropbox Link". How can I access this command with Applescript (or any other Mac scripting service)?
I am a Windows developer and have just got hold of a Mac for development of apps. I am fairly new to working with "Finder" and I am finding it easiest to do everything I need with the file system through the console. I have had to install alot of software and on the 128GB MacBookAir I want to keep the used disk space down...
It's been a couple of days since my Macbook Pro (Late 2011) started to freeze its screen on startup. The first time it happened I was just using my Mac for some Matlab simulations (which I do really often) while listening to music on Spotify. The screen froze, the mouse cursor disappeared, no commands seem to get any answer, but the song kept playing (even advancing to the next one as soon as they finish). I decided to shutdown the Mac by pressing and holding the power button. After that, I tried to turn it on again, but I got the following screen: (For those who cannot notice any difference between this and the "regular" screen, this one has some dashes and dots, and the loading bar started to get "thinner").
Running OS X El Capitan (late 2013 iMac). Unfortunately it looks like the "show displays in menu bar" option was removed from System Preferences. Is it possible to get the menu back? PS - opening the Displays.menu file (/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu) adds the menu back, but as soon as I click on it, it disappears.
My Mac says that the Startup Disk is full. I know I have way too many pictures in Photos so I got a huge Dropbox subscription to add pics before deleting from my hard drive to free up space. However, now it won't let me download pics since there is not enough free space on the hard drive to do it, so I'm caught in a Catch 22. My ultimate goal is to put pics in Dropbox and external hard drive and delete from computer so that I can have a place to access them when I need them.
Today I installed Windows 10, version 1607, on my MacBook Pro (Retina 15in Late 2013). Before this I had Bootcamp setup with Win7. So, I started out by deleting the old Win7 Bootcamp Partition using the Bootcamp Assistant on Mac and then created a new partition and went on to install Windows 10. Everything seems to have gone smoothly: Partitioning, Installation of Windows 10, and the Apple Bootcamp drivers. However, the Mac Partition does not show up in Windows File Explorer. I found this related thread Why I can not see mac partition under windows installed with bootcamp? I have run the commands with the following results:
The guy at the Apple store was like: "I just close the lid, and that works fine for me. I also shut it down every 1 (or 2) weeks, to clear the RAM".
I also find this question, however this question is different from mine. It just find the input source name, not the input language.
I'm running DNSMasq as a local DNS server, so I can resolve *.local.pcfdev.io (as discussed here Using PCF Dev Offline with Mac OS X). Everything worked when I first set things up.
I'm trying to update Homebrew on my Macbook Pro, but Homebrew says it is already up-to-date. However, I know this is not the case as I have another Homebrew install on another Mac, which is at a later Git commit. The brew config on my Macbook Pro: And on my Mac:
I want to remove the photo library from my mac as it is taking up 25.4GB of space but I want to keep all of the photos on the iCloud so they are accessible from my other devices. I saw in the settings that there is a Disable and Delete button but I am under the assumption that it will remove all the images from my iCloud too?
I am trying to transfer a couple of images from android device to mac. As per the following links it seems that this transfer should be possible: Apple support HowToGeek - how-to-use-bluetooth-file-transfer-between-os-x-and-android-5.0-devices
I've been given the below plist which points to a bash script. The script is supposed to delete the installer (El capitan.app) after it has been downloaded to prevent people from upgrading to it.
I have OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) installed on my MacBook Pro 2015. I use Spotlight a lot to switch between apps in different virtual desktops and one day some months ago I noticed that it won't switch to the virtual desktop of the app I wanted to switch to. The same happens if I click on the icon in the dock. Some apps that it doesn't switch to are Skype, FileZilla, IntelliJ Idea and more.
Hi I'm getting this error when I paste into the Terminal What am I doing wrong?
I recently factory reset my ipad through my usb cable connected to my iMac via iTunes. I went through the setup tutorial and logged in using one of my apple IDs. I then went to the app store on the ipad and went to search for an app to download. However, when I was trying to download it, the apple ID that popped up was my old apple ID. Does anybody know how to get the app store to ask me to switch to a different apple ID?
With Apple Support, I tried booting in several different modes, restarting things, etc. I was unable to login or see anything other than loading screens. So, they had me book an appointment for the Genius Bar.
When I first got my MacBook Pro (10.10.5) it had GarageBand installed on it. However, when I tried to reinstall it, it cost £3.99 on the Mac App Store. I'm not sure what version I had previously - all I can say is it looked a lot like the latest version of Logic Pro X, and I think it was the latest. How can I get GarageBand back for free?
FIXED: Version 53.0.2785.89 (64-bit) fixed it OLD: I've been noticing this for the last couple months, but whenever I watch a video in chrome (Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit)) I see small red boxes over the video. The boxes jump around and flicker. It doesn't matter which site it is for (screenshot is youtube and steam) Things I've tried: It does not happen in safari chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode (disabled) chrome://flags/#disable-cast-streaming-hw-encoding (disabled) chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-h264-with-openh264-ffmpeg (disabled) 
I want to change the keyboard of my passcode to Japanese. Even if I change the language of my iPod to Japanese and get rid of the English keyboard, I still only can set my passcode in English. I can't find anything that will help me do this. If any of you know please help! Arigato!
There seems to be a solution. You can go to File > Compress Pictures. However, I don't think that compresses the images properly. I can set the resolution to a very low setting. That makes the images very blurry and the file size is reduced. However, the file size it still much higher than using non-retina images without any compression. The non-retina presentation is smaller file and better quality in the end. I think that the way PowerPoint calculates the resolution, that still somehow does not take into account the retina conversion by the OS.
I have a few spiritual yoga and madras related mp3s on my MacBook's iTunes that I would like to listen to on my iPhone. How can I sync it through iCloud? Normal good old iTunes library sync does not work anymore as I experienced.
When I try to open GarageBand it comes up with the error message 'GarageBand quit unexpectedly' as pictured. When I try to reopen it it bounces around for a bit and then comes up with this message again. I have tried re-installing and deleting preferences, neither of which worked. I am using a MacBook Pro, 10.10.5 Can anyone help me?
My MBP boots-up to only a circle with a line through it. I have no idea what this means. It will not let me go into single-user mode or recovery mode. I'm assuming everything is gone. I don't have the disks that came with it. I don't know OS X, can someone help me and tell me how to fix it?
Is there an iOS app (free or paid) that sends push notifications when a new post with a certain hashtag or keyword is tweeted? I see Twitterrific can send a push notification when I get @mentioned or get a direct message, but I can't see how to configure it to subscribe to a #hashtag and push me a notification. Can this be done with one app or multiple apps/services?
Does anybody know which apps are supported for iOS "Shared Links" on iOS? Currently on my iPhone it is only Twitter (see screenshot) and RSS feeds which can be added directly from within Safari. OS X seems to support many different accounts, iOS looks a bit poor.
Recently I've noticed that I have no notifications (no badge, no bubbles) for SMS/iMessage in my iPhone. I have the following settings: Notifications: allow, show in notification centre, sounds - note, badge app icon, show on lock screen; Messages: iMessage, text message forwarding - my iPad, my MacBook - all off, send and receive - my phone and email; Do not disturb - off.
After plugging the phone into the car, and playing a podcast or music from an app, a few minutes later, the music stops playing. Sometimes it just stops playing. Other times, it switches to a song in the Music.app that had not previously been played, queued, etc.
I have the Pocket app on an iPhone and an iPad. When I check storage usage, they are over 2 and 4 GBs, respectively. Why is the size so big in both cases? The app itself is under 100 MBs according to the App Store. All the saved articles are just text. I have no videos or images.
I recently restored my 2013 MacBook Pro El Capitan system back to Mavericks from my Time Machine external drive. The restore was successful except a few that wont start: Calendar, Terminal, Messages, App Store. I tried loggin in as guest, same problem.
After investigating Box, Dropbox, Crashplan, Mozy, Carbonite, backblaze.com I'm struggling to find a service that offers all the following: Backs up files to the cloud, that is accessible 24/7 on mobile and web Can mail a bootable backup of your system on demand Works with macs Does any service like this exist?
Recently my mac has started panicking and I don't really understand why. The reason for the panics aren't always the same either. Sometimes the reason for the panic is the same but the thread is different. All the panics so far are in this gist (which as of posting only contains the most recent one). The only thing I can pretty much say is I doubt it's Avira as I installed it right at the beginning and this issue is a recent one; I mention this because I read that sometimes kernel extensions can cause panics and Avira has a Kernel extension. It happens whether I'm in the browser (Chrome) or my terminal (iTerm2). I have 3 spaces open, 2 browsers and one terminal. I'm running Tmux in my shell for multiplexing.
This has always been frustrating. I've restored my iPhone 6 a number of times, but when I bring the contacts from iCloud, the documents and data comes along for the ride. Is there any way to save contacts without anything else? I want to free up to my original amount of space.
IOS 9.X bricked my last device, so a replacement phone with IOS 7.X arrived. Before upgrading to the latest 9.X: I am wondering if it is still possible to obtain the SHSH blobs should I wish to go back to 7.X.
The new version 12 of Parallels Desktop For Mac has a new configuration option. In the configuration panel > Hardware > CPU & Memory > Advanced Settings > Hypervisor is a popup menu for: Hypervisor Parallels Apple Parallels Apple Which one do I should I be using when running macOS Sierra as the guest OS? What exactly is the difference, the pros-and-cons of each? The Parallels app Help has no mention of this new setting.
I need to compare a couple of folders to see if they copied correctly. The diff -r dir1 dir2 option seems the first obvious choice, but some comparisons that passed this way, didn't pass the test using the md5 tool. Why is that? Does that mean md5 is always the better option? And could there be an even better one?
I hate Flash but Youtube's HTML5 player stinks on Safari. See this video it freezes all the time on Safari (El Cap). I watch movies from this guy, almost every movie he posts freezes on Safari. It is annoying as hell. Any way to solve that?
I have a question about what should be located in the EFI partition of my macbook. A couple of years ago I dual booted ubuntu with reFind, however recently I erased my main partition to clean up my mac. Now I would like to dual boot arch also using reFind, so I mounted my EFI partition and found this:
I just created a bootable flash drive with El Capitan on it. I restarted my computer and went into disk utility to erase. I see that there is the disk 'APPLE SSD ...' That is 251GB, and there is the volume within it 'Macintosh HD' that is 249GB. If I want to do a clean install which should I erase? And what is on the 2GB leftover that is not taken up by the volume? Any comments are greatly appreciated, thanks.
MBP function keys f1 through f9 are not responding: brightness up/down, keyboard backlighting up/down, etc. Seems to be a fairly common problem looking through forum posts online.
The settings icon indicates a little red dot with the number of notifications. How does one acknowledge the notification and turn off the red dot? I want to avoid upgrading IOS and would like to remove the red dot. Suggestions are appreciated: thank you
I can't find any way to edit the tags within the context menu which appears when you double-tap on a file in Finder. Is there a way to choose which ones appear? An example of what I mean is below:
I'm trying to make a service to translate things which Chrome doesn't translate automatically. The following script works when run from my shell the result: this is a test However when I put this into an Applescript: The result is still this is a test)))
I have iPhone 6 and iOS 10. I notice that if the mute button is on or the volume is at zero then the alarm doesn't go off. I see many others note the same thing.
I have an early 2009 Mac Pro(4,1). Firmware upgraded to a '10(5,1), 24GB RAM, upgraded processors to two quad core 3.46 GHz Xeons', NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB. I'm looking at the next upgrade options and an SSD comes to mind. As you probably know, the '09 and '10 have SATA II, not III. What I want to know is the performance gain from a HDD to a SSD running at SATA II, as opposed to III, worth the upgrade? Can SATA II SSDs be found at a lower price than SATA III drives, if they can be found at all? I know I can either get a SATA III card or a PCI SSD and not have the performance hit, but that adds enough to the cost of the upgrade to not fit in the budget at this time.
My boss has an iPhone 6s Plus + iPad Pro + Win10 PC with Outlook 2007. He set the devices so each has their own default calendar, but all calendars are set to sync in iTunes. He refuses to utilize any cloud services for calendar sync, and use iTunes exclusively to sync everything.
A weird question - I'm not a designer, but think a few of emoji provided with apple keyboard would very well describe the nature of my app. I would like to include them in my app icon design. Can I use Apple emoji on app icon for submitting my app to iOS App Store?
I have a question about the iOS update. When the device was connected to the Internet it has successfully downloaded the update, verified and scheduled its installation at night. The problem is, when it was installed and the device was rebooted, now it keeps asking to connect to the internet to finish the installation, but there is no internet connection in that place. Is it possible to finish the update without the internet connection, or cancel the update and return to the previous version? At the moment, it is not possible to get to the home screen and to the settings, as the update was not finished.
I installed Docker on OS X, and now it automatically loads every time I log in. Is there a way to stop this?
I'm trying to launch an older app in macOS Sierra. It worked fine in El Capitan, however since the update to Sierra it crashes immediately on launch with the error… This UPX compressed binary contains an invalid Mach-O header and cannot be loaded. Using Homebrew in El Capitan, I installed UPX and used it to try uncompressing the binary, however this tells me that the binary is not compressed in the first place. This is the crash log from opening the app in Sierra. How can I get this app to open in Sierra?
iphone se was purchased from Verizon. Verizon setup the phone. i want to use Move to IOS. I have downloaded Move to IOS on my android device but I am unable to access setup on the iphone. What is the solution?
I'd like to have arbitrary labels that i create for each Terminal tab static. No matter what is going on inside terminal tab. Something like this:
1) sync all the IMAP folders? Now only the main Inbox folder is synced automatically. 2) get some sort of unified inbox showing all new mail from all the IMAP folders?
My iphone 5c (IOS 9.3) sent my location incorrectly. I "share my location" with my husband and on this particular day he checked my location and it showed I was about 1 to 1 1/2 miles away at a park (that I have never been to). I was home at the time and the wifi may have been down but I can't figure out why it was so far off.
The iMac I am currently trouble shooting will not boot past the progress bar screen. The progress bar will load 50% then will not load anymore. My two issues are fully booting the imac and also getting past the password to possibly re-image the imac. I work for a library and someone either forgot the password or a patron put it on the pc. I have tried rebooting in safe mode..if I do this I am prompted to enter a password under a lock. I have tried booting in target disk mode, nothing happens and the mac boots as if it doesn't recognize the command. Resetting NVRAM does not work either, the lock and prompt for a password appears again. At this point the imac might be written off as a loss since it cannot be used..
We have a 10+ devices/PCs (phones, Apple Macs, Windows, NAS) Ethernet / Wi-Fi LAN that I have to monitor and admin. I would like to find a software tool (better if on Mac OS) that enables me to monitor the traffic generated by each single device/PC. The LAN/Internet traffic seems to be high, I'd like to know if it's a local problem (high bandwidth requirement from single users) or slow internet connection (an ISP problem).
I've got a 10.11.6 (El Capitan) tower with separate drives for OS X and Windows 7 via Bootcamp, which I also use via Parallels. I went to shut down the Win 7 VM via Parallels yesterday and it wanted to 'finish' installing a bunch of Windows Updates. I let it run for hours and it was still stuck on 1 of 32(ish) so I reluctantly killed it. After this it was failing to boot up again, so I figured I'd reboot the entire machine into Win 7 to fix it... big mistake apparently.
I boot my Mac air into recovery mode over internet command+option+R (recovery drive has been deleted/overwritten). I am using mobile tethering to recover this device, just enquiring as to how much data will be used during this process if anyone can advise? I am unsure of the size of the recovery image it wants to download. p.s this is my only available recovery method, there are no ethernet ports on the laptop and it will not pick up our business Wi-Fi (we use WPA2-Enterprise which is supported but on a Cisco Meraki account basis, so it's not a case of SSID / Pass).
On Linux, if one wishes to restart the Bluetooth service, they simply launch a terminal and issue the following command: What is the equivalent on Mac OS X? I would like to restart my Bluetooth without having to restart the entire computer. I am using Yosemite. Update: Of the various command line options provided by Testing below the only one that seemed to work was the last, which is this:
I am assuming when the map expires, that I am SOL if I try to use it. Within the Google Maps app, one can download maps for offline use: great when traveling abroad, especially when there is no connectivity. What is the reason for having the maps expire after such a short time span? Is there a way to increase the number? It's odd in the sense expiration is 29 days and not a round number.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012, intel core i5 with an SSD and 16 gig of RAM and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB) and I'm wondering if it's possible to upgrade only the screen. Will it have adverse effect on the Wifi antenna or some problems with the internal hardware/firmware for the display camera? I know that for early 2011, it's not possible but maybe later versions?
iOS 8 introduced sharing extensions. But what apps show up in what share lists?:
First off my problem is incredibly similar to this thread where the answer was almost reached but wasn't fully finished. Accidently deleted some small sized partitions when installing WIndows(Bootcamp). OSX Partition wont boot
I have a newer model (2013) Airport Extreme and have activated remote logging with level 7/debug messages going to a Linux box. However, I find the messages actually getting logged seem minimal, and I do not see anything from the firewall. I have even thrown nmap probes against it, and nothing gets logged.
In Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, previously Ctrl+arrow moved the cursor one word left/right. Recently, this function no longer works on my iMac. Is there a fix?
It was not clearly explained, whether new iPhone 7 will be only compatible with affiliated brands rather than free to connect with any wireless headset.
For a Western Digital Duo drive, is there a major difference between the two? OS X Disk Utility doesn't have the RAID feature now, but OS X can still create RAIDs via the command line and diskutil. WD Drive Utilities can modify RAID configuration, erase drives, etc. If formatting a RAID, is there any reason to choose one method over the other? (Namely, performance and stability.)
I want to run a command, and not have it quit when Terminal closes. For instance, if I run top & ; disown, top quits when I quit Terminal. I want to keep top alive.
Apple just released the GM seed for Xcode: *=URL=* In the sticker app submission details here: *=URL=* I am unable to find how I can submit a sticker app through iTunesconnect. This is what I see when I click the +:
I am trying to switch from Windows to the OS X, but I have one problem. How can I drag file to the running application on dock? For example, I have running Chrome which is on full-screen mode (on another desktop) but I want to drag file to imgur.com for upload. In Windows I just simply drag file to the app on taskbar and app shows and I can drag file to the browser.
I have an Apple Watch. I have had it for a while. I just bought a new Apple Watch. (Both are Series 1, just different sizes.) I would like to transfer all my data and settings from my old Apple Watch to my new Apple Watch and then sell my old Apple Watch. Is it possible to migrate my profile from one Apple Watch to another? If so, what is the procedure?
I've been using an app named CourseNotes for college and just noticed it has not been updated since 2014. I've used it for years and has a lot of important notes in it, and I don't seem to get the same functionality in apps like EverNote. In the new upcoming macOS, is there a chance it will break and I will lose this data?
What is the best way to archive/freeze apps on iPhone SE (? I can uninstall the apps but then the data is lost. I would like to remove apps from the phone but then restore them in exactly the same way as before, e.g. via iTunes.
So, I know that the GM seed of macOS Sierra is identical to the release version which will come later this month. If I'd install this GM seed now, how do I get to the release version? Or does it recognize that it's practically the release version? Or do I really have to install an old non-beta backup in order to get the release version?
I have a 2013 Airport Extreme with firmware 7.7.7 and am using Airport Utility 6.3.6. I've searched through the menu options and don't see how to set the timezone and time for the router. This is of interest to me because I've found the time is off by an hour. I want to be able to set the timezone/time because of logging accuracies plus I'm nomadic and frequently change timezones. Does anyone know how to set the timezone and time on this router without rolling back Airport Utility?
This only thing I can think of doing is getting a new family sharing set up, but I'm still not sure it can allow different countries. Should I abandon the Family Sharing altogether? Thanks in advance.
When I click on the GM download link it asks for a download code or a gift card number? I already have a developer license. Where do I get the download code. I have already installed and use the last Developer Beta.
Few days ago I was trying to download the too famous Social Engineering ToolKit. After investigating I saw that the best option was writing this command in my terminal:
I have some lengthy 4k drone footage and just 10-20 GB of free storage on my Mac (OS X 10.11). I want to extract and save the best clips from the raw footage, keeping as close to the raw format before deleting the much-larger original video files. I'll be importing the footage into iMovie for editing.
I installed VLC app on my 4th generation apple TV. I also connected the VLC app to my time capsule. However the VLC app says "folder is empty". However there are 100s of mp4 files on the time capsule. Why can't VLC player see those files? I installed Infuse 4 and it said exactly the same issue.
I am a very heavy text to speech user on the Mac. Every time I use text to speech I have to triple click the paragraph to select it, and then hit option escape to activate text to speech. I wish that instead I could just option click a paragraph and it would immediately start speaking. I imagine this could be achieved using Automator or a similar tool combined with shortcuts? Does anybody know how to make this happen? Action I wish existed for text to speech: Option + click = highlight the entire paragraph and immediately begin reading = triple click + (option + Escape)
So i start up my macbook air after about 3 months of not using it, and i don't see any accounts on the log in screen, except for "Other," and I try to type in my old information, that doesn't work, and there's no option to create an account, so how can i create a new account?
With the imminent release of iOS 10, I'm wondering if I should upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 9 now. Specifically, I'd like to know if I will still be able to do that after iOS 10 is released? (Currently at iOS 7)
What is the recommended amount of video memory to assign to OS X El Capitan running in VirtualBox? Currently, I've set it to 48 MB on ad hoc basis, and would like to know if this is something I should adjust. I've seen a few different figures. Clearly, the default 16 MB setting may be too low.
From Apple’s official specs the bottom side holds two grills in addition to the Lightning port. Apple shows that the right grill holds built-in stereo speakers and a built-in microphone. The left grill only holds a built-in microphone. This suggests that only the right grill has speakers and that there are two microphones (one in each grill).
I use isoinfo to do it on Linux. Is there an isoinfo like command on macOS? ISO 9660 - 3.3 The Primary Volume Descriptor An example of isoinfo's output:
I have an iPhone 5S which I used to backup towards my old MBP. At some point I moved to a new MBP and I realized that I had forgotten my backup encryption password. Obviously there is no point to a password if there is a way around it, so I did what was recommended: take an iCloud backup wipe off the phone remove any existing local backup in iTunes restored the phone from the iCloud backup
I have some files on my iCloud account that need chmod 400 filename, but iCloud keeps switching the rights back to 444. Why it is doing that. Is it possible to set a file permission once, and force the system to keep it that way? Tech spec: El Capitan v10.11.6 (15G1004)
I got my new mac and when I maximise the window (with the upper green button) and I want to minimize it I need to click on two buttons(since the minimize button ,middle button is greyed out...) why is that ? and how can I fix it that when I max the window I can min it in one click
I want to remove all alarms / notifications (there may be none, one or more than one) of all overdue reminders in the Reminders app of OS X. I tried to use AppleScript for this, but having troubles understanding how to properly work with objects. I figured out how to get all those reminders, though:
From yesterday's iPhone 7 release event, Super Mario Run by Nintendo will be available on iOS soon. After searching same on iTunes, I found out that its iTunes page is available with NOTIFY button instead of the regular GET button.
I found that I have a lot of unknown 3rd party plugins installed in my Mac.  I thought they are Safari extension, but Extensions popup menu in Safari do not show these extensions.
Some double albums correctly imported via iTunes are then not correctly diplayed in the cover flow. Disc 1 and Disc 2 of double albums are not consecutive despite the information, names etc are correctly uploaded.
I'd like to have two "tabs" open in one window, but with the content of the two displayed pages simultaneously visible like this: I don't want the toolbar and location bar atop each content area, but I could tolerate this. The difference between this arrangement and just two Safari windows opened one atop the other is that if I resize the single containing window, the panes resize in lockstep with it. By the way, it would be even better still if I could have these groups of panes within a tab, and tab between such groups (again, like vi(m) tabs/splits). This doesn't seem remotely possible with basic Safari, but maybe a plugin enables it?
So I accidentally deleted the iMessages plugin from the Messages app on El Capitan. Now the app is broken and nothing works. Anyway I could get this back?
After I power on and type my password, there is a progress bar under my username. The progress moves from left to right and after finishing normally it would present my desktop. Now it goes to about 75% and then the system powers off completely. I would like to know how I can recover from this.
This topic came up yesterday from a friend of mine who owns both a Macbook and an iPhone 6. His iPhone is almost out of storage space; about 500MB remaining, and he claims this is due to all the iOS operating systems he has installed over his time with the phone. He also says that this is the same with Apple computers. When he installed up to Mavericks, he lost a lot of storage space because the new operating system "installed separately from the previous one", taking up more space. It just doesn't make any sense, and I feel like he is wrong, but I'm not sure how to explain it, nor can I find any data to back up his claim or the opposite.
My daughter's 2012 MBP would not load the OS (Lion I believe). She took it the the Apple store and they told her it was a failing hard drive but her AppleCare had just expired. I was able to boot the drive into recovery mode, but the main volume was not recognized. I tried to target boot with an iMac but the drive would not mount.
I'm using my MacbookPro Early 2015 to connect two external displays. One is an Asus display connected via HDMI to HDMI, the other, is a samsung display (Both are 24 inches 1920x1080) and is connected through VGA via adaptor to my Mini Display port.
I can't get an external monitor to work properly: the texts and images are sharply. I'm told that the external monitor might be using its native resolution and refresh rate. I need to know how to check it. Computer: MBP Retina 2014-15 Monitor: 2560x1080 resolution (this *=URL=* ).
Recently I couldn't get my Mac (bought in April - 2009) to boot. The hard disk was quite full and honestly speaking I kept ignoring a number of warnings from OS X to 'free up some space'. I have been trying to fix it for the past month, and I have tried a lot based on information available on Internet. The problems are: The startup DVD I have takes me to Disk Utility but it fails to re-install Mac OS X. The disk has errors and they are there even if I erased the disk completely. fsck -fy is not able to repair the disk. I created bootable USB for OS X El Capitan and I used it to boot the Mac: I get to the Apple logo and the progress bar filled up as well (after 1-2 hours)... but nothing happens after that.
Suppose I use instead a 256GB microSDXC card, providing the ultimate portability. I understand that by using an SDXC rather than an iPhone (or the less-than-very-interesting iPod Touch) I would lose the Plays and the Last Played counts. But that's about it.
I use an iPod Nano 4th gen. There are no playlists, just songs.
In Windows File Explorer if I create a shortcut to a folder on the disk and then rename/remove/move to trash the folder I will be no longer able to click and open the link. On Mac if I drag a folder to the Finder sidebar and then do the same operations with the folder, Finder will track it somehow and let me open the folder even if I move it to the Trash. What macOS API is responsible for this?
I have an iPhone paired with iTunes on my MacBook, and I would like to use Terminal to check whether an iOS update is available for that iPhone (using the last known state if the phone is not connected). Is there a Terminal command that can do that?
Thanks @fbara for suggestion to add more details Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) OS: 10.11.6 (15G1004) pmset -g log from one of the times it occurred UUID: (null) 2016-09-07 20:15:11 -0700 Start powerd process is started 2016-09-07 20:15:11 -0700 Summary- [System: No Assertions] Using Batt(Charge: 81) 2016-09-07 20:15:11 -0700 Assertions Kernel Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler 2016-09-07 20:15:43 -0700 Assertions PID 104(hidd) Created UserIsActive "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle" 00:00:00 id:0x0x9000001f5 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp] 2016-09-07 20:16:52 -0700 Assertions PID 261(Google Chrome) Created NoDisplaySleepAssertion "Playing video" 00:00:00 id:0x0x500000223 [System: PrevIdle PrevDisp DeclUser kDisp]
A few days ago I had to force shut down my iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012) running 10.11.6 because it wouldn't wake up. VMware Fusion 6.0.6 was running. Now when I start VMware Fusion I get in this endless loop of error messages:
My Google calendars have stopped showing up on my iPad calendar, after many months of working properly. When you tap 'Calendars' at the bottom of the app, they're not listed.
I wrote a python script to automatically send emails and used automator to run it by run shell: This assignments.py prints 'successfully sent the mail' after emails are sent I'm wondering if there is a way to let automator rerun this script if it did not receive the 'successfully sent the mail'
I'm really not sure whether this is really on-topic, but here goes... How does the iPhone Upgrade Program work?
I split terminal upper and down, I want to input the command in the upper panel, what should I do?
My plan is to use stationary Mac Mini through remote control from on my Laptop. How do I do that? My goal is to have supersmooth experience just like I would be using Mac normal way. To people that may consider this is offtopic and "supersmooth" is subjective, I'll say that I am aiming for <50ms at 1080p while using host in range of, let's say 300km (in Europe). For connection, I'll be using wi-fi 50mbits asymmetric 1/8 for my Mac and typical Cafe wifi (at my current place about 8mbits asymmetric 1/10) to connect my Laptop. Supersmooth may be called 60 fps-like (although 30 should be enough for office stuff).
I've enabled a password for root via command line with: but I can not use There is no modification to the root user with any GUI tool.
I am looking for a password manager that works on iOS and OS X (and syncs passwords between those) that is open-source. Currently, I use mSecure on my iPhone, but I would like to switch to an open-source option.
I know many people have complained about being unable to eject a Time Machine disk. The usual response I have found online is to download and use "What's Keeping Me?" to find out what process is accessing the disk. Well, I have done that, and it turns out the culprit is mds_stores -- in other words, Spotlight.
I've got hours of footage from a wedding reception. I have about 100 short 5 second clips in a movie. They are all in sequential order. I would like to shuffle/randomize all the clips so they are in a more unexpected order. Is there an easier way to do this than manually dragging and dropping clips around?
I have an Early 2015 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 (the latest version of El Capitan) that as of late had started randomly opening a website with the link fastlauncher.xyz [Thanks John Ramos: wouldn't be a good idea to try going to the link.] It does not happen often. I have tried: to use the latest version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac; it did not detect the adware. checking the browser extensions for Safari and Chrome, the two browsers I use; but do not see anything suspicious. checking for Login and Startup Items, nothing suspicious restarting (I'm getting a bit desperate and maybe it'll work - it didn't) using BitDefender (30-day trial); solved the issue I have not tried: using only one browser and seeing whether the adware will go away (hence I am unsure whether it is a system virus or isolated to a browser)
Help!! I have put in many hours trying to solve this and feel it is time to get some help :)
On OSX El Capitan, I have an issue developing a Wordpress site hosted locally by MAMP. When I visit the root hostname specified in MAMP, Chrome redirects me to an old hostname I previously used for the same site. Non-root URLs work ok. Every browser other than Chrome (FF, Canary, Safari) all correctly resolve the current hostname. Only Chrome refuses to resolve the new host. Steps I've tried so far: Restarting Chrome Clearing browser data Going to chrome://net-internals/#dns and clearing host cache Going to chrome://net-internals/#sockets and flushing socket pools Closing all tabs and restarting Flushing the OS DNS cache with: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; (yes, those are the same steps listed here)
The first song repeats forever. When I manually select the second song, that repeats forever. See screenshot:
I recently had a random and serious-seeming system failure, so chose to restore my boot drive (an SSD connected externally via thunderbolt). Normally I back up with Time Machine locally, CrashPlan remotely, and I use CarbonCopyCloner weekly and store the images on an external drive not connected to my machine.
Apple is pretty good at documenting the hardware differences between iPhone models such as the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus. However, I know there are software differences as well that don't seem to be documented. When making my decision to purchase one over the other, I want to consider these differences as well.
As title says, my installation of LibO (from "Collabora" -- the one in the Mac Appstore) is now missing several icon sets with the recent upgrade. Info: Version: 5.2.1.1 Build ID: 4afc24bb8402fb220914e41da1503f86441578cb CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en.UTF-8); Calc: group machine is MacBook, early 2015, 10.10.5 Yosemite What I see:
This question is about iTunes Connect, particularly Agreements, Tax, and Banking section. When I open this section I see the red message:
I like to decrease the zoom and the font size of Safari for a better overview, I know I can set a default zoom value, but can I set a default font size? I'm using JavaScript at the moment but I have to do that to each tab.
I am using Notes (the stock app) on my iPhone and on my Mac, synced throught iCloud. I have a note where I put some brainstorming in. Sometimes I add stuff on my Mac, and sometimes I add to it on my iPhone.
My MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (aka MacBookPro8,1) running OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite has just crossed the 1000 battery cycle count mark. It now suffers from random shutdowns without me prompting anything. I am sure it is not a software problem. What I have done: reset my SMC several times checked Console.app for .panic files - none exists
I'm trying to delete obvious (virus, spam, scam) email anyway from Apple's Mail.app. Getting error: File 7936.emlx could not be opened, because the file doesn't exist.
This question is exactly the same as this question, however, Alt (Option) + D did not work for me. I tried using both an apple wireless keyboard and a wired Windows keyboard. I don't have a problem booting into safe mode or recovery mode with either, so I know the problem isn't with the keyboard set up. I was able to reinstall OSX from the recovery partition, so the computer does have Internet access. I have a late 2009 27" iMac i7
I had hesitations about upgrading and just found out that my slow motion videos no longer play back. Displays a white spinner instead. I tried hard reset and recording a new video. No luck How to make slow motion videos play back on iOS 9.3.5 and iPhone 6s+?
I'm dealing with a Mac that has been affected by some kind of Trovi malware - I've managed to undo most of the changes but there is still one I can't figure out. The malware renamed the "Search With Google" service to "Search With Trovi". My fixes have sorted out the functionality of the service, in that it now successfully launches a Google search in Safari, but the name is still wrong. See pictures below. Any ideas how to fix this? I've tried searching the names and contents of all files on the Mac (including invisible files, and including those in packages) for instances of the text string "Trovi" but have had no luck.
My 2009 27" iMac i7 has several problems, however, the main one is the visual artifacts. They are large areas of black and grey bars, and text displays erratically. Spacing is also affected - the apple menu and all the toolbars are on top of each other
I have deleted all major iCloud backups and removed Camera Roll etc. from the impending backup so it should be less than 5 GB. Even still, when I re-enable iCloud Backup and go to sync for the first time, I'm told that the "Last backup could not be completed". Tried power cycling and still no change. What gives?
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011), since start 3 days ago i keep trying to install Windows7 with original apps Boot Camp Assistant on El Capitan, it start without any problem. Once the installtion after create partition and restart to start install Windows7 from booting my DVD Drive. I using original Windows7's DVD, but is just can't start load windows's file and start install. It just left and blank black screen and a underscore on the left on my screen. I keep trying and trying many ways to install dual boot on my Macbook Pro, i try many solution before like those using USB Bootable, third-party apps like VmWare Fusion, all i get is fail result. 2 Months ago i still can get boot into Windows7, after that i didn't turn on my machine for 1weeks, it just show me a underscore on my left screen. Can any one help and tell me is that my hardware failure or my software problem. I really need Dual boot on this machine for some work.
I installed macOS 10.12 GM (16A320) on my 2 Macs (a late-2012 Mac Mini and a 2015 Retina MBP). Both machines are signed in to the same iCloud account. The Mac Mini which is at home typically has my NAS mounted via smb. A new problem that has appeared is this:
I've just updated to macOS 10.12 and when I try to execute srm in Terminal, it says -bash: srm: command not found. Is srm removed? How to fix this?
There is /private/var folder, but we can't create /var folder! Why? I'm using OS X El Capitan 10.11.5.
Apple just revealed iPhone 7 which comes with earbuds with lightning connector. Will these earbuds work with other iPhones with lightning connector such as iPhone 6/6s?
I'm looking into a multiple monitor setup, but I have a spare TV I'm not using. My only concern is that I want to be able to make an app full screen without taking up the whole TV. Is it possible to map different portions of one screen to be treated as 4 separate screens?
I use askpass to run commands as root. In file pass.txt I have this written: And then I run it like this: Before Sierra this worked just fine, but now I get an error:
I have bought an Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter and can't seem to get it to work. It simply does not appear in the Network section of System preferences, even though the System Information dialog shows it is connected. Here is how it looks: *=URL=* I have tried everything from here already. I have el capitan and a retina macbook pro.
Is there a way to have Spotlight index the volumes on a NAS? I've used this: mdutil /Volumes/multimedia -i on. But results aren't there next time the system starts up. I'm running 10.11 on a Mac Pro 2012 Westmere.
I already own, and still use my original release Apple Watch, released Spring 2015. I love the bands that I own and have no need nor interest in another one. Apple's Gallery and Pre-Order page lists the body and bands together, is it possible to buy a Series 2 Watch Body only, and forego the band?
Is there a way to let iTunes automatically play a song after listening to a song I searched (not a part of a playlist), supposedly a "related" song? I'm aiming for something like Youtube's "Up next" feature, also available on Soundcloud.
Several months ago, I was interested in a Windows program "Azuon." They had instructions on how to install it on Mac OS by getting a "wrapper" from somewhere else. Sort of like WINE or CrossOver but it put everything needed inside the .app bundle.
Does disabling "App Refresh" in the Settings on iPhone (with iOS 9.3.4) actually stop an app from running in the background? Because I actually disabled "App Refresh" for all apps (globally). And then I started the app Nike Running, and then after it started, then I started Pokemon Go.
The new iPhone 7 has no headphone jack, meaning that Apple has to release EarPods with a lightning connector. Will these new EarPods work with older devices? I'm assuming yes, since I'm pretty sure all the lightning cable has always included optional audio output, but I'm not sure.
If I factory reset my iPhone 6 (currently running iOS 9.3.5), which version of iOS will be installed after the reset?
I have services set up, particularly the one for opening Terminal from a folder. However, it doesn't appear in the context menu and in Finder > Services, there is nothing except "No services apply" I'm using El Capitan 10.11.6 Anyone else have this problem?
Before I download an app from the Mac App Store I'd like to know if what if any permissions it gets. Is there a way to check? My understanding is that certain apps can ask Apple to grant permissions beyond the default. If true how I can check what those permissions are?
Newest iPhone 7 claims to have "Wide color display (P3)". What exactly is this, a color space? Could this be Adobe RGB, or just a different space created by apple? How does it compare to sRBG and Adobe RBG?
I have noticed today that the text kerning in Keynote '09 (5.3) running on El Capitan is different from that in Keynote 6.6.2, and the former is very ugly. You can easily see that the kerning between "T" and "e" is most clearly different, when Myriad Pro, which is not a system font, is used. Keynote 6.6.2 Keynote '09 Hiragino Sans, which is a system font from El Capitan, shows the same problem, while Gill Sans, Helvetica, and some other fonts do not.
My computer crashed and actually caught on fire destroying everything that was in it. I purchased a new computer and a new ISP and email address. But, my new computer does not have my ITunes library in it, just 1 song. I have contacted Apple about this. They sent me a link to get me started but, it really doesn't help me because of the old email address is not the current new address. Because of the different ISP's. I am stuck. I have Windows 8.1.
Mac OS X Server supports WebDAV and allows iPhones/iPads to connect, store and retrieve files. While Mac OS X can access WebDAV servers from the Finder using "Connect to Server" (Command+K) attempting to connect to the root of a Mac OS X server or any other assumed location results in an error:
Crucial and OWC both say that the 17" MacBook Pro (early 2011) supports 16 GB. But both only offer 1333 MHz when I select to buy. Rightnow I've got a single 8GB 1600 MHz chip, have had it for years and it works fine. Would this model have issues with two 8GB 1600 MHz chips?
For using RoboVM on OSX, I need to edit a file called info.plist, which resides inside the contents of the application called Android Studio. Last year I managed to edit the file for Android Studio 1.5 (right image), but I now installed Android Studio 2.13 and I didn't succeed (left image).
In Windows it is possible to right-click on a file. Then select "properties". In "properties" the file-system path is shown. Can then be copied by marking and storing (into the clipboard). I couldn't figure out a way to do that in Mac. Therefore my question: Can I retrieve the file-system path of a directory or file via the GUI of the Mac Finder?
I have a Windows 10 pc and attached an iPhone 6S to it. All files appear in Windows Explorer except one. It is a 4K Video going over 13 minutes. Is it too big? Is the file system the problem?
What if you're a person that sleeps and wakes at funky hours and wants to schedule things from 11pm-1am, for example. In such a case, the event would be split up into two different days. But for this weirdo, that's actually the middle of their day. I'd like to be able to view my "day" in one go, rather than having to flip back and forth between the end of one day and the beginning of another. Are there any calendars that allow for this kind of flexibility?
I often paste stuff into my terminal from websites, sometimes with newlines in wrong places, sometimes with newlines where you would expect them. However, iTerm seems to ignore any paste that contains newlines. This often leaves me confused as to wether I copied the contents of the text I wanted to paste correctly, and when I've found out that I copied them the way I wanted to, I have to reformat those lines in some text editor which all unnecessarily breaks flow. Above that, iTerm also has this weird feature that always pastes slowly instead of just putting the clipboard contents there. I know these things might have been implemented for safety reasons, but I can tell you now that I am going to execute every command I want to execute, wether they have newlines in them or not.
My son added Pages back when he was living at home and using my laptop. He now has his own and I still use Pages. I would like to update it as it has been a few years without updates now. I am even happy to pay for it again since he is probably using it on his laptop too from his cloud. But I don't want to lose my current documents. What do I do? I cannot update using my Apple ID and it will not let me purchase it since it is already on the computer. Does this question even make sense?
I have created an Applescript that will favorite the current track. I saved it as a service, and gave it a shortcut.
For example in RT app there are annoying ads. There is no way to pay subscription without ads.
For some reason the keyboard shortcut for New Smart Folder doesn't work for me in Finder and I can't figure out why. I have quit every program I use that can modify shortcuts - Alfred2, BetterTouchTool, TotalFinder, and PathFinder. Still, CMD-Shift-N does absolutely nothing in Finder. Selecting from the File Menu manually works fine, but the shortcut refuses to do anything. I've also checked in the System Prefs in case there was a rogue shortcut mapped to the same keystroke there, but there is not.
I updated to macOS Sierra (16A319) and was checking my storage where I saw this extra division greyed out saying Purgeable.  What is the significance/meaning of Purgeable?
Attempting to use a VIM syntax highlighting plugin for editing nginx config files on El Capitan. It doesn't take. It asks that you place these files and add these directores: filetype.vim contains just this one line: The default nginx config files directory, in os x (via brew install), is I assume the comma separated wildcard paths in filetype.vim are all the paths with which to look for nginx configuration files (.conf).
I'm connecting my Late 2013 MBP with Iris Pro graphics to a Seiki 39" 4K monitor. Seemingly at random, I get two different types of Settings->Displays screens:
On IMovie I used to be able to take a video on it and it didn't save to my camera roll. But now, after an update or something, it saves every video and picture to my camera roll. I don't want them on my camera roll because it takes up space and if I delete them from my camera roll it won't let my play the project on IMovie because it says "Items are missing." What can I do? Please help. Also, this is on my IPhone 5s. See my new comment down below..
Sometime I get email from recruiters asking for my cv in word format. I tend to have the cv saved in my hotmail email account as an email attachment. How can I reply back to these recruiters and add my word cv in the same reply email. Thanks in advance. Regards
I'm downloading a large number of mp3 files to a folder using wget (which is very fast). I want to add each new file to an iTunes playlist, and therefore set up a Folder Action in Automator to do this. I have tried following instructions available here and there, but can't seem to get it to work properly. It did add two files to iTunes, but then gave up – and I can't get it to work again. Is the fact that wget is dowloading lots of files very fast, something that throws the Folder action off? I've searched around for help with this specific issue but can't seem to find anything except an unanswered Apple forum post where a user is trying to use an AppleScript to do the same thing.
Apple has removed PPTP VPN support in Sierra due to security concerns. See: *=URL=* Unfortunately, I need to connect to an organisation that only supports PPTP (not my decision). I know about Shimo, but it's $50 and has a lot of features I don't need.
my apple time capsule is not working, it started to blink green and yellow (amber) light 6 times in a second. It doesn't works as a router and i tried all the kinds of reset and it doesn't work. I bought it 13 months ago, and it has all my files in it. Im really worried and i can't understand why it isn't working. I looked for in internet and nobody has that problem. Thanks for your help.
I am setting up computers to run at a visitor centre, to be used by the public. I have been able to work out how to use Google Chrome in kiosk mode, but not a way for people to not be able to easily exit the application.
I have the Mid 2012 Macbook Pro. I want to know if I should make a backup of osx, before dualbooting windows 10. I already have all my files backed up to the cloud, but not osx. Do I need to do so? Also, how is the performance of windows 10 on a mac? Am I able to un-dualboot windows 10 from my mac, if i dont like it?
One big concern is, if I do install all Angry Birds variations, a few casino roulette games, and all Cut the Rope versions and don't bother to delete them (the phone has 128GB storage). Then, will all these apps possibly run at iPhone restart time or just randomly and take up processor time and system resources (such as RAM)?
When I try to update an app, and I go to the 'Updates' page, I Get this error in a dialogue box: Could not load data from the Apple software update server. I checked my Internet connection, everything is fine.
I'm using a 2016 MacBook Air connected to iMac 2009 as external monitor. Is there a way to adjust the iMac brightness from my MBA's keyboard? Currently, whenever I connect my MacBook Air, the brightness of iMac changes to maximum level and I can't control it from the MBA. I tried control + f1 & control + f2, to no avail.
I have been using below script to clear the Safari history from selenium test in OS X Yosemite . I have upgraded to OS X El Capitan and now the script won't work. Error returned : Can't get "Clear History" button
I use the tag "red" to tag all folders and files on my machine which I want to quickly access. I am now trying to setup a keyboard command e.g. ctrl+cmd+opt/alt+R to open in Finder all my files and folders with a red tag. Yes, I know it is possible by clicking on the "Red" tag on the sidebar, but I want to do it using a keyboard command. I have BetterTouchTool installed on my Mac, created the keyboard combination above and have set it up to trigger to run an AppleScript when I am in Finder. What sort of AppleScript can I run to achieve my purpose above?
Added after reading comments: When I enable Siri, Siri doesn't activate when I press the button, unless I press it really long. But when I disable Siri entirely, it asks whether it's allowed to activate every time I press the button, even if it's just a short click.
I was cleaning my drive and removed many file duplicates. I removed many photo masters (originals) from OS X Photos app library, but when I open Photos app I saw that all photos are still in my library. Is there any way to delete photos without masters from my library?
I really dislike iTunes and would prefer to never use it. The only thing I use it for right now is syncing photos from my iPhone 6 to my OS X El Capitan.
I have iPhone6s (16G) and its current IOS version is 9.3.4. There is 2.6 GB free space on the device.
I have lots of pictures and videos stored on a NAS (that isn't backed up). I want to move the pictures and videos to my iCloud account since I pay for increased storage on that and it will have better backup rather than anything that I would ever be able to do, and just leave movies on the NAS.
In macOS, it is hard to constantly press ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ while navigating to go up/down in the folder hierarchy. Is there any way to natively achieve this in using the Backspace or Enter keys respectively instead, without having to rely on third-party program such as Keyboard Mastero? I tried applying a custom shortcut from settings to Finder.app, but it's not possible to apply Backspace or Enter as shortcuts at all.
The Problem: My macOS partition doesn't appear as an option at boot Background: I had a main el capitan partition and a bootcamp partition. I used the EaseUS program to resize the bootcamp partition from 90GB to 45GB and after rebooting, I could no longer see any option but 'Windows' when holding alt at boot. My Initial Investigation: I took a look at my paritions in three different places: The EaseUS program, diskpart on windows, and the disk utility on macOS Recovery Mode.
Pinned tabs are very useful feature in Safari and I'm using it all the time. But, I'm having some experience problem with it. When I pin several tabs from the same domain but different subdomains, I'm getting the first letter as the icon of this pinned tab to be exactly the same. Then it takes me a while to find the tab I was looking for by switching through them one by one.
As of about a few weeks ago, I'm finding that I need to often (not always) click on links multiple times before they activate in my web browsers. The details: it happens in both Chrome and Safari sometimes it's two clicks, sometimes 3, sometimes more it's not just web content, but the browser UI as well (switching tabs, closing tabs, etc)
I just updated to the final release of iOS 10.0.1 on iPad Pro 12.9 inch Swift Playgrounds is gone, and it's not in the App Store.
Possible Solutions: Ideal: Disable/Change the Applescript messages timeout. Make handler script pass enough information to respond to the same message into the script running under nohup or $ [script] & then have the script launch it's own Applescript to respond. make Applescript try to click "Wait" button in messages before responding (not sure if this would work). Thank you for any help!
Background: I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in a kernel panic. However, I can boot into Single User mode! (The screen has a bunch of green horizontal lines through it every other pixel, but it is still readable.)
I have GarageBand taking 2.46 GB space on my system even after I deleted the app. Couldn't find any other files when searched via spotlight.
I have a late 2015 Retina iMac running MacOS 10.12, and have connected a Wacom Bamboo Create tablet via the USB cable. It works, sort of, moving the cursor around the screen when using the finger. However, none of the other features work, including using the Bamboo stylus.
I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 10, which does not support Safari Content Blockers (like Purify, Peace, or 1Blocker) because of its 32-bit chip. Is there a way to block ads in the native Safari browser without using Content Blockers?
I do not have any experience with the Apple Watch, currently I am just using an iPhone. Before I buy an Apple Watch I would like to verify my question.
I tried searching for terms found on .eml files on my HD using Spotlight, but it never produces results. Is there a way to search within the content of .eml files using Spotlight?
I am new with Apple products. i just bought iMac 27 5k, 3.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 , 8GB Ram, 2TB Fusion Drive. i wanted to know if it is possible to increase its RAM? i asked the dealer here in Pakistan but they say you can't upgrade the RAM. you will see to send the to Apple USA which will be another expensive story. I want to know if i can increase its RAM to 32GB or 64GB?
I've been having problems downloading several apps and updates from the Mac App Store. One thing they have in common is that all of the problematic downloads are from Apple: Xcode, iTunes update, macOS Sierra beta, OS X El Capitan update.
I have a guest staying in my apartment and I would like her to use my iMac as guest. But when she boots it, she sees only the login to my account and cannot find any reference to the guest account. How does she find the login to the guest account? (iMac late 2015 OS updated recently)
In the ten minutes since I have updated my OS I have restarted the computer three times (I was testing something with displays having separate spaces, and a restart is easier than logging in). Each time it's started back up I've had to uncheck that box.
I have been looking for a way to permanently throttle these two processes. By default, they are all or nothing processes killing my network connection unless I manually "pause uploads" for iPhotos (nsurlsessiond) or killing/logging out of iCloud for cloudd.
I have a 21.5" iMac from late 2009 that runs great. For work I have a Dell Latitude E7250 that has a mini display port. The mini-display port cable fits into the iMac but is this a "Thunderbolt" port and not really a mini-display port at all?? Are they the same thing? If a had a mini display port to mini display port cable would I be able to use the iMac as the second monitor? Is that the correct cable? What keystrokes would I need to get this going? Thanks in advance for your consideration of my question.
I am not using the iCloud Sync feature right now. I manually imported all the pictures on the Photos app on MacOS and made some changes (deleted some, updated some etc.). I would prefer to not use iCloud syncing as I would rather not pay for storage and the service to sync more than 5 GB of free data. Is there a way that I can sync the same changes to the Photos app on my iPhone?
I've recently updated my MBP Retina 2013 to Sierra GM, and today it stopped to connect the Android devices. I have Android SDK installed and lots of devices available with different OS versions. But when I connect them to my MacBook, they are only charging, ADB does not work and I do not see them connected to USB at all: When I connect my iPhone: I've already tried: Windows way (reboot MacBook, reboot devices). Use different USB cable. Connect to different port (2 available). Use different devices (already tried 3 Samsung devices, 1 Asus and 1 HTC). Everything was fine for a few days after the update, but does not work today. Any suggestions?
My iPhone 6 is broken and the screen won't work it just comes up with green and red and pink lines down and I can't see. I want to be able to back up all my photos. But i have a password so when i plug it onto my laptop is says I can't because my iPhone is locked.
Does anybody know a free alternative to Charles (an HTTP debugging proxy), preferably with a GUI and similar features? Features that I'm interested in: Inspect HTTP requests/responses (header, body, etc) JSON syntax highlighting and formatting Request filter (by host, URL, etc) Search Would be awesome if it could render HTML (Charles can't do it)
I want to adjust emoji suggestions in iOS 10, like what car is suggested after typing "car" in a message. Or how can I add word-emoji links? Thanks in advance
I was trying to clear up space on my HD by running "Remove Attachments" in Mail.app on my Gmail accounts. Too late I realized this deleted the attachments from server (Gmail) as well. They all show "[The attachment ___ has been manually removed]".
I created a small AppleScript app to launch a webservice locally using the built-in PHP webserver. It's an interface to generate XML configurations.
TL:DR version. If I bought an official retail USB key of Windows 10, can I use it as-is in Boot Camp Assistant or do I need to make a new key from a downloaded .iso? A question on Super User prompted me to try research this, but Apple's Boot Camp instructions are somewhat confusing... From Apple KB : How to install Windows using Boot Camp emphasis mine.
I'd like to count words on a PDF file on OS X. The inspector doesn't contain the word count.
How do you adjust text width? I am sign writing a sign for a friend into timber, all i want to do is print out the stencil so i can use it. Everytime I enlarge the text the width changes ! I want tall skinny letters as I am limited on the sign length
I search all my notes for "fix". Apple Notes shows all notes where "fix" is matched.
I have a usb drive plugged in my Macbook. And I found I have mis-deleted several files, so I cd /Volumes/MyUsbDrive/.Trashes and I find a directory named 501, so I cp -r 501 ~
No matter the search term, the search results in the Notes app on macOS are always empty:  This has been going on for a while. On iOS, the same searches work fine.
I'm configuring a new Web development machine using the very complete and well-written guide published by Echo Software but I cannot connect to localhost after following/checking every step. My only changes were using PHPv7.0 instead of 5.6, and disabling MySQL strict mode because some third-party software I need to run requires looser rules. I can ping 127.0.0.1, localhost and *.dev domains successfully (all three commands return the exact same output): However I still cannot connect to any of those over HTTP (same results when using Safari Chrome or Firefox): I have asserted that Apache, PHP, and dnsMasq are all running by running brew services list, and that all are properly configured: I don't see port 8080 listed when I run a port scan on 127.0.0.1, but as I understand it is autoforwarded by pf. I have already: Checked my /etc/hosts file: it has not been tampered with. Disabled my firewall: no change whatsoever. Double-checked every step from the guide. Followed the same guide twi
AFAIU, OS X has a collection of built in users, and one of these users is 'mysql' user. The reason I am making this guess is, the first time I have installed mysql server using the dmg, it installed fine. However, later I have uninstalled it and deleted mysql users. When I wanted to reinstall it later again from dmg, the installation kept failing until I recreated the 'mysql' user and 'mysql' group.
Whenever I open my Mac Terminal something goes wrong. I am getting: -bash: USERNAME: No such file or directory
I have been facing big issue in my mac, For past few hours my terminal not showing any history of recently used commands in the terminal. Whenever I close and re-open the terminal its getting cleared all the data. I am not sure what is going on?
I am looking for a program for OS X that can prevent the user from inputting the same key twice in less than X milliseconds. The set of keys for which this limitation applies to should be configurable. Any price and license is fine.
I've been trying to setup launchd to block several websites on OS X 10.11.6 The /etc/hosts list is changed on schedule but a browser can still access the blocked sites. Another strange behavior is that launchd seems to execute the commands when I load the plist, but does not execute the commands during the scheduled time. Some googling suggested that I might need to reset the DNS cache:
In Mail.app, when the text looks like an appointment (date and time, etc) you are offered a shortcut to add it as an event in the Calendar app. There is no such thing in Safari (as far as I can tell.) Has anyone done an add-in or other trick to accomplish that?
I'd like to create a applescript that selects the "History" menu item from the menubar application Jing. I'm aware of how to create a global shortcut for an application with multiple menus, but I'm unclear of how to do this for an app that runs exclusively in the menu bar and doesn't have a "File" menu. Any help is much appreciated.
I'd like to be able to sign into different third party apps with separate accounts. Is there a way to force iOS to open a web view instead of switching to the app for sign in? For example, I currently have an app that I want to use to sign in to Dropbox. When I click sign in, it redirects to my Dropbox app, which is already signed in, but I want to use a different Dropbox account for that app. How can I make it open a web view so I can sign into a different Dropbox account directly?
I am trying to set my laptop's brightness level via nvram backlight-level= however I keep receiving errors, no matter how I try and input it. These are my past results. However, I tried this suggestion but I receive this error. What is the issue here, I just am looking for the proper syntax.
Is it possible to build complete Keynote presentations with a text editor, including layout specifications, font formatting, etc from scratch? I'm not trying to get around buying Keynote as I already own it. I'm trying to build a rather long set of slides without the cumbersome part of using the GUI application interface. I'm much more efficient with a text editor.
I have 2 monitors, and a 2010 iMac, which has only one display port input. My first monitor has got HDMI output, and my second has VGA output. I already have my HDMI monitor connected via a HDMI->display port adapter. How can I link up my third monitor (not as mirror, but all separate). Surely there is a fairly cheap solution?
The problem started a month ago. Suddenly my screen splits in half and the MBP shuts down and won't turn on. When I turn it on, it shows a blue or sometimes grey screen, or just stops loading. I have tried Cmd+Option+P+R and it worked for sometimes and sometimes it didn't.
Is there an extension I can download on an iPad to auto-refresh a Google Chrome page?
Confession: I come to MacOS with a heavily Windows-based UI familiarity, and I'm used to the paradigm of having window dressings like menus and the Windows Taskbar taking up part of the screen, but being able to easily maximize windows with the "Maximize" button. Indeed, this behavior is consistent for the majority of popular GNU/Linux window managers, too. It's only on OS X / macOS where I'm seeing this strange behavior of windows that like to slide a few pixels underneath the bottom dock, or pull themselves up a little over time.
I have this MacBook Pro running OS X Version 10.9.5 and it works perfect in every way except for one thing; it will not get updates. When I go to "About This Mac" and click on "software update" it will close out the window and --that is all. I am back on the desktop. there is no error messeges, or anything. Any ideas what I can do to fix this?
I have noticed that many developers chose to distribute their apps inside DMGs, versus zips or other archive formats. DMGs take more time to make, and need to be verified and mounted whereas archives can be unarchived and ready to go. Also, you have to unmount a disk image before deleting it. What are the benefits of distributing applications via DMG?
When booting to recover and running csrutil disable it just writes it into the NVRAM, unfortunately I reset the NVRAM very often so it's annoying to have to do that all the time. It's also annoying right now when I need to use something which requires me to turn off SIP when I can't reboot, (I am copying a bunch of files).
I'm looking to install Windows 10 on an old Macbook Pro (13 inch, early 2011), which I've replaced the HDD in with a SSD. I was able to do this using a flash drive, and managed to get everything working except the audio (Windows wouldn't recognize my computer's internal speakers). After doing some research, it appears that this problem occurs when you install Windows via EFI boot, so the recommended solution is to install Windows using a burned DVD. Unfortunately the optical drive in my Macbook is broken, so this method isn't available to me. I have to tried to install Windows on a partition of my SSD using Virtual Box, but it's not clear to me how to get around the fact that my drive is a GPT partition scheme. (Windows 10 won't allow me to install to my BOOTCAMP partition because it is a GPT scheme)
Finally, vim 8.0 has been released! However, the pre-installed vim is vim 7.3 on my system(OS X El Capitan), and I want to upgrade it to the newest 8.0 version.
I just installed and uninstalled Windows using Bootcamp. Now that I look at the output of diskutil list:
I have sign out my apple id and deleted my contacts then sign in my friend's apple id and merge his contacts.Then sign out his apple id.But the problem is when i have sign in my own appID,contacts were combined together.now our contacts are synced.i don't understand why this has happened and i don't want him to have my contacts.what should i do now???
I have a MacBoook Pro with OS X 10.9.5 connected to my router with a Power Line Connection and Ethernet, which I did because I use the laptop to play an real time online game which needs mostly a stable ping and no ping spikes, and using WiFi at a distance was deteriorating the gaming experience. The problem is, someone in my house has bought an iPhone 6 (after I installed the PLC, so I'm not quite sure if the problem arises all the same if the MacBook is connected by wifi), and by trial and error I highly suspect that it interacts with the internet connection to other devices. Whenever the phone came home, if I was playing, the connection went nuts. Not that ping went high, but overboard. To the point of not being able to navigate normally either: websites, youtube videos, etc. I mean, charging any light website shouldn't need that much speed, and still it doesn't work. I would think that it's not possible that an iPhone 6 with a few apps, which sometimes isn't even transmitting any s
As you can see from the image. the text is displaced. The app is running normal and no indication of any damage. It is not affecting the functionality, but it is very annoying. How can i fix it ?
As you know there are several ways a notification can occur. Badges, banners and alerts. The "WiFi helper" always uses an Alert, which is the most intrusive one. You know what I mean. Is there any way to convince iOS to alert you to WiFis with a banner? (Like my Android does?)
I download a zip file. After it has downloaded I want to go to the folder to which it was downloaded to extract it.
I did something mildly dumb and decided I'd finally try updating my old iPod Touch 5 to the latest version of iOS (9.3.5) from the iOS 7.1.2. Unfortunately, while it meant that some of my apps worked better, it also introduced a good 10s input lag whenever I wanted to unlock the screen or change songs more than once. I tried using a backup from before the update, but for some reason it kept the iOS version at 9.3.5, so I tried downloading 8.4.1 and updating from that .ipsw file. The update failed with an error 3194 (presumably, 8.4.1 has exited the "signing window" I saw mentioned when I was downloading the .ipsw and thus won't update properly), and now my iPod Touch is locked into recovery mode.
Can I delete the Apple beta program profile? I've signed up for the beta, and I want to get rid of it now that I'm on the official release. Is this ok to do? I'm on iPhone 6 running iOS 10.0.1.
Last night my laptop became extremely slow, and looking at the activity monitor I discovered two Installer.dmg file inside two Installer drivers taking up 90% of my cpu. When I eject them everything is fine, but when I restart here they are again. I'm not sure what they are or where they came from. Help! Thanks
MacBook Pro summer 2015 edition. Bluetooth is enabled. iPhone 6 plus and iPhone 7 plus bluetooth is enabled. When trying to connect from MBP to the iPhone after tapping 'Pair' on the iPhone with the message MBP is saying that the iPhone is connected but after a second or two the connection gets dropped. Trying to connect to the MBP from the iPhone gives a message on the iPhone What is the problem?
This is my /etc/hosts configuration. I can use ip address 127.0.0.1 to open a loopback, but 'localhost' fails.... I have read these two posts:El Capitan Safari Can't open localhost and El Capitan Safari Can't open localhost, but none of the cases fits my problem. The error message I got from Safari is
We are building an application where we have single sign on process in which the user from our app can use features of other websites. For example: There is as image of a book on our application. When user clicks it app takes user to a Third-party website in a Web-view. I did this before but my app got rejected.
I want to host a website on my MacBook for debugging. But often I don't have any possibilities to connect to a network, so how am I able to access it when I'm not connected to a network?
Does anyone know how the maximum size of the picture-in-picture window in macOS Sierra can be changed? I would really like to be able to enlarge it.
I can't delete the Finder favourites, however I can add them. No luck in editing com.apple.sidebarlists and com.apple.finder since the favourites aren't stored there (anymore?). My first guess would be a permission issue, however I have no idea where that would be.
A couple of times a day my fans start spinning, ready for take off. The activity manager shows that Mail is eating up my CPU, 250% and more. The console shows the following lines:
In Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Apple introduced a feature called "Automatic Termination" where apps would automatically quit after a while of inactivity. I personally only ever saw this working with Preview and a few other apps. Neither Apple nor third-party developers seemed to adopt it much. And in recent years, I haven't seen a single app automatically quit, not even Preview.
I'm looking for technical material that describes the quality of the iPhone 7 fingerprint reader, and ideally previous models as well. My hope, is that the specification is more in alignment with NIST/FBI requirements.
I have created a .dictionary file for the Dictionary.app in mac and I want to submit it to the Mac App Store. I'm curious, is it possible? If yes, how?
I don't need to read any HFS+ file system. That file system is buggy like hell.
A few months back I moved all my pictures from my pc/mac to iCloud Photo Library in a hope to better organise them at the time of taking them (or as soon as I get a sec after) rather than 3 months later while copying them to my PC. Now I know I can add a photo to multiple albums and that albums don't contain copies of photo's but instead pointers to them and editing one will edit all etc... which is great as I have learned to use the albums more like tags so a photo from a trip might be in an album for that trip as well as one for "food" if it has food and maybe "sister" if it has my sister in. This makes finding a pic later really simple by just looking in the album that relates to something I remember the photo had. Thanks to this smart album trick I can easily sort them all BUT I can't work out how to tell what albums a picture is actually in bar going though them all manually looking for that photo. Is it possible on ether an iOS device or Mac to find out all the albums a picture i
I have two Macs backing up to my 3 TB Time Capsule. One mac (250 GB disk) has 2 years of backups saved, the other (1 TB disk) cannot save because it needs 128 GB of space and there is only 25 GB available on the Time Capsule.
I've just noticed that my network speed when copying data to NAS is only around ~ 13 MB/s (iStat Menus) and ~ 15 MB/s in Activity Monitor I have Gbit router, the NAS has also Gbit and the Thunderbolt Ethernet is also Gbit I tried to copy some files to the NAS from other computer using same cable and settings and it was around ~ 45 MB/s, so this is a problem of the Thunderbolt or the macOS. I'm currently running GM release of macOS Sierra (but this happened on public betas as well) The interface shows this media: autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control,energy-efficient-ethernet>) I tried manually change it to full-duplex only, but with no change. I'm using the iStats Menu for
I remember that is has been working on and off before. Can't pin that down though. The global keyboard shortcut overview in the preferences doesn't show any action assigned to Cmd+Opt+F. I am on El Capitan 10.11.6
I participated in the iOS 10 beta, and now that it's release is imminent, I'd like to remove the profile and continue on with regular public releases, but I'd like to not have to wipe my phone. Is this possible at all? Looking at Apple's site, it states to put the phone into recovery mode, but I've always sort of associated that with wiping the phone.
I believe this problem started with iOS 9. My iPhone is connected to an IMAP account and used to correctly maintain unread status. Now it is common for - especially but perhaps not exclusively - the first unread e-mail to lose its unread status.
I think this started with iOS 9. App updates often seem to fail quickly and require multiple presses of either the UPDATE button or the Update All link at the top. This happens both on iPad (4) and iPhone (6S). It sort of looks like the connection to the App Store quickly fails but later works - it is unlikely to fail once the progress bar has started.
I have participated in the iOS 10 Beta in the summer and I have downloaded the recent release candidate version a few days ago (10.0.1 - 14A403) How do I go about upgrading it to the final iOS 10?
I want to disable people from contacting my phone, but I still want to use Wifi for web browsing. Do I just take the SIM card out?
I use the Airplay feature of my laptop at work and at home. With no change that I'm aware of, my laptop can no longer see Airplay devices (Apple TVs) to connect to at work. Other people's at work have no problem. I have no problem at home. What could cause Airplay to suddenly not work, only for me, and only at one location?
I was wondering if it is possible to switch tabs while in Windows using Fusion (i.e like how you would alt/tab in general on a Windows machine). So far it only switches back to the Mac side, so I was curious if I could make tabbing into other applications/windows in Fusion easier.
I want to buy a new iMac: Link And I need to upgrade the RAM. How do I know wich RAM is compatible with the iMac, for example: This RAM
Here you can read about people trying to put non-Apple MXM GPUs inside iMacs: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card-upgrade.1596614/
I have my iphone set up to sync contacts with Google. It works fine, for the most part. However, there are some contact cards that are not synced. I can find no rhyme or reason to why these are not synced yet others are. Any ideas?
I have a USB headset. It works just fine on a PC or a Macbook without any install.
As of the latest announcement in 2016, there appears to be 3 types of Apple watches Original (Series 0?) Series 1 Series 2 What isn't clear is the distinction between the original Apple watch and Series 1.
I upgraded to an SSD earlier this year, and the experience has been great! I use Time Machine for backup on a weekly basis on to an external hard drive and have noticed that the size of the backups have grown ~5X. Earlier, with a hard drive, the size of the backup was ~10GB, and now, the backup size is ~50GB. I suspect this has something to do with the way SSDs work, specifically something about SSDs having to rewrite huge sections of memory even if only a part of the section needs to be changed. Has anyone had a similar experience? Hardware: I am using Micron's Crucial BX100 SSD on an early 2011 MBP running OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11.6)
I was following this amazing guide on how to install Windows 7 without Bootcamp and got stuck at step 5. It should create files, but it didn't. I got the following result in Terminal:
I have a MacBook Air running OSX 10.11.6, and a WD My Cloud NAS device running Linux. It is no problem to copy files using a web interface, SFTP (i.e. SSH), and rsync.
How to reset iCloud account? Apple ID and iCloud are the same ID. At the same time both had been block. I go to iforgot.apple.com to reset, reset link had send to iCloud.com, but then iCloud I can't get to reset password.
I recently acquired a mid-2007 Mac Mini from a friend of mine. It had a corrupted hard drive and a dubiously functioning CD drive. I replaced the hard drive, and now need to load an OS. Also, I don't have any apple peripherals: my Logitech mouse and Dell keyboard seem to work ok, and I've mostly worked out how the boot-command mappings work for the keyboard.
I am just learning git and the terminal and I wanted to make a test commit but I cannot seem to be able to escape the text editor window to save the commit
Around the year 2000, Apple wrote a press release that every Mac since 1984 would avoid the Y2K problem, and could process dates for the next several thousand years. The good news is that since their introduction in 1984, Macintosh computers have had the ability to make the transition to the year 2000. In fact, the Mac OS and most Mac applications can handle internally generated dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940. This statement was made when Mac OS 9 was the most recent operating system.
A friend of mine just switched from iPhone to Android. He can text me without any problem, but I can't text him at all. I have tried everything I can think of but no message will ever reach him. They are of course transmitting as SMS since he is no longer on iMessage. The strange part is, my wife's iPhone (4s running iOS 6) can text him perfectly fine, no problem at all, so whatever is happening seems to be on my end. Any suggestions on how I can sort this?
tl;dr: How to access folder shared in host system from within Yosemite run in VirtualBox (guest)? I have added a shared folder in my VirtualBox (went to virtual machine's settings, then to Shared Folder and added a new shared folder path there). But since I'm a complete newbiew to MacOS (this is actually one of the first times, I see this system) I'm completely lost, where I can access this shared folder or how can I mount it in Finder.
I am aware that there is supposed to be a little dropdown in the upper, right-hand corner of Itunes that allows one to change the format of a playlist. However, my Itunes looks like this:
Someone at my school brought in a functioning Macintosh Classic running System 7 today that he bought off of Ebay. We were looking around on the applications that were already loaded on it and didn't realize that the keyboard's space button was busted, and we accidently renamed a few of the files in the Tetris folder to a bunch of spaces. The game still functions, but we would like to rename the files back to normal as the operating system would not let us undo the changes. Many google searches have returned nothing, and I am wondering if anybody knows of a website or repository that would show the original file names for all of the game's files.
I have a Mac Pro 2012, so it's running Mountain Lion :( but it has a few partitioned drives. I have tower 1 and tower 2. Tower 2 just recently froze my computer, this has most of my videos for editing, so losing it would be quite the shame. I restarted the computer and the tower 2 icon on the left side was gone. I tried repairing it in Disk Utility, and then also in Terminal. This is the response I'm getting from my trusty ole Apple:
Today, iOS 10 and watchOS 3 launched, however when I try to update my Apple Watch, I get "watchOS 2.2.1 Your software is up to date." Obviously, it's not. According to this article, watchOS 3 is for sure out. The paired iPhone is an American (just to rule out possibility of any regional differences) iPhone 6s running iOS 10.0.1. I've tried opening and closing the app, restarting my iPhone, clearing RAM (by holding the power button down until the Slide To Power Off appears, then holding down the home button)---nothing. This iPhone was in the Beta Seed Program, but I just deleted that profile and restarted the iPhone just in case. Still doesn't work. Also, my internet connection is good enough (LTE at 5 mbps), so that shouldn't prevent it from at least searching for the update. I'm out of ideas here. Is there something I can do to resolve this now?
Sometimes, while I close the lid of my MacBook as it usually is while you don't use it, and leave it on the desk without connecting it to an adapter, I find that my MacBook is insanely heated. When I open the lid and check out the Mac, the OS has crashed and the trackpad doesn't function, forcing me to restart the Mac. After the restart, the alert is shown with a message like: Because a problem occurred, it has been restarted.
Several iOS 10 apps enable typing suggestions by default, even if these were disabled prior to iOS 10. This is especially notable in Messages, where the suggestions include emoji. How do I disable typing suggestions in iOS 10?
If I send an iMessage to my son using his phone number, the new message effects work without issue. If I send an iMessage to him using his email address (still in Messages), they do not work and show the parenthetical text ("Sent with xxxx effect") when he receives the message. When I send it, I see the desired effect. Neither of us have reduce motion or anything of the sort turned on. Note that they are both "blue" iMessage conversations. I've tried deleting the conversation where it was failing (to his email) and that didn't change anything. Is there a reason why he would see the effects if I send to his phone number vs. his email address?
For some reason, I cannot get "Auto Unlock" to work. Currently running macOS Sierra GM on a MBP Retina Early 2013, watchOS 3.0 and iOS 10 GM.
At some point or another, I bought some albums on iTunes. In some cases, I've also ripped these CDs and imported them into iTunes. In older versions of iOS, I could hide purchased music from the Music app, but now that purchased music shows up, leading to duplicates like this:
When I Try to use Apple's built in dictionary, I only get Wikipedia:  As you can see, I have enabled English and Français, But I only get Wikipedia. I also don't have the 'Apple Dictionary' in the Reference Sources.
I know about Apple spec sheet comparison of the devices it currently sells (iPhone 7,6s, and SE) but I'm curious about what isn't usually on the tech spec sheet like RAM and battery mAH.
As my iPhone Home Button was broken, I use AssistiveTouch to help me to operate the phone. But when I upgrade to iOS 10, I try to capture screen by using AssistiveTouch Home Button + power button, I cannot get the screen correctly as the AssistiveTouch menu is still on the screen.
The screen brightness keys stopped working on my MacBook. So I went to preferences to turn down the brightness. I accidentally turned down the brightness all the way and I can't see my screen.
Will “Erase All Content and Settings” update my iOS to the latest version? I am currently on iOS 8.4.
how do I bypass a activation lock for a I pod touch 5th generation if I can't get a hold of previous users apple id and password
In iOS 10, is it possible to have the lock screen functionality so that you could press the home button to turn the screen on, and rest the Touch ID finger on the home button to unlock, as in iOS 9? If you don't want to do Touch ID or have just rebooted and want to do a passcode, can functionality be set so that the home button can be pressed once to show the lock screen and pressed a second time to show the passcode entry? Since there's no swipe to unlock I'd like things to be as similar to the way they are in iOS 9 as is possible.
The page then asks me for a code from the two-step verification app. I enter that code and press "confirm" (or whatever the button is called).
I used to have 10.11 yesterday when I saw multiple ads from multiple sites opening when I'm viewing webpages using Safari. I updated to the latest version of the OS, 10.11.6 but it hasn't fixed the issue. I've restarted the OS multiple times. I've tried MalwareBytes as it was suggested in forums. I also tried removing all safari data from Library folders to reset Safari and it still hasn't fixed the issue. The malware redirects websites I visit to offerland.info / bestphoneapps.mobi / mobrevflwms.com and many other sites. Solutions would be appreciated.
What's this "keep" function appearing next to each message in the new iOS 10 iMessages app? Where does it "save" messages (if it does) and how to get rid of the "saved" ones?
I recently reinstalled Mac OS X on my iMac to Mac OS X 10.6.3 then updated to Mac OS X 10.6.8 and now I am trying to update to OS X El Capitan but when I go to the App Store to download, I click the "GET" button and nothing happens. Nothing also happens when I try to do this with any other apps.
I'm travelling to the US soon and I would like to buy iPhone 7 (unlocked) from an Apple Store. However, I live in Germany. Without AppleCare, can I go to to an Apple store here in Germany in case something happened to the iPhone?
I have the following launch agent that runs on OS X and runs the below script to delete an app when a user downloads an OS upgrade from the App store. It then displays a message to a user after it is deleted.
I've updated my phone to IOS10, one of the features I quite like is the bedtime app (and no longer needing a 3rd party app). Whilst the features are pretty easy to figure out I can't seem to figure out... how to turn off the Bedtime app alarm if you wake up before it?
I cannot find any defragmenting application on the Mac, so is defragmenting disks for Mac necessary?
My iPad Air 2 was working fine until yesterday. Then I turned it off for a while, and when I returned, I plugged my headphones in and typed in my passcode to go to the homescreen. However, the iPad froze before the homescreen loaded, so I switched off the iPad to restart it. Since I turned it off, I have been unable to get it to turn on again (the screen is black). I plugged it in and it made the "I'm charging" ding but the screen didn't turn on to show my lock screen. I clicked the on sleep/wake button and home button a few times but nothing happened. It was fully charged before this happened. What can I do to turn on my iPad again?
Me and my friend just updated to iOS 10. I've sent him a music track via iMessage. He says that the sent track is a different track from the same artist.
Is it possible to create some script to show all the finder-tagged items in terminal/shell? I'd like to create something like this: ls-tag "Music" to display all the items of Music tag
I flipped Paste's and Paste and match style's keyboard commands. Since that did not do it, I also added shortcuts for Numbers individually. This is what Numbers' Edit pane shows:
I am 11 years old, and I have made an app I want to post to the App Store. Is there any way to do that, or do I have to use my mom's account? (I have an Apple id because of Family Sharing)
I spent a lot of time organising Faces in Photos.app. I use the iCloud Photo Library, so the library in OSX and iOS was one and the same, and you could even search for people's names from the iOS Photos app, even though there was no Faces album. Today I've installed iOS 10 and I see it has started scanning the entire library for faces, apparently oblivious of already existing tags. Does anyone know if the face tags from OSX El Capitan will be preserved at all?
For example, when I use the Messages app in which I use one keyboard, and in Xcode, I use only English keyboard. Can macOS switch my keyboard to English when I make the Xcode window active?
I have an iPad and I forgot the passcode. I can't remember email ID or Apple ID. Now I only have the iPad and bill. Many stories I've read suggest to reset the iPad and then login.
Prior to iOS 10, the Health app made it easy to collect and focus on health aspects of interest, and to view how these change over time. It was possible to:
Is there a way to manually re-add apps to iCloud backup. I subscribe to the 50GB service and I always have 37GB free, which seems a waste. Is it possible to add some apps back into the upload process, seems useless you can't do from the phone. Thanks.
I forgot my apple iPhone 6 iCloud username and password and need help resetting. I went to a shop for selling my phone then seller took my phone and rested it after that I forgot my apple ID and I couldn't active my phone.what can I do?
I am trying to get the list of visible windows, i.e the windows which are shown on the desktop and not minimized. So, far I have this script which gives me the correst list of processes which are running and have a windows associated with it. But I am not able to get the id's of visible windows associated with these processes. Here's the script : You can try this in script editor but its always giving a empty list. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.
I then started my script directly with cron and this also fails. Here is the complete error message. Would be great if somebody would help me get this running. My newCfSamples script looks like this:
I tried the following: What is this error message telling me? Any hints?
As shown in picture, app store tell me to update iTunes 12.5.1, but in updates installed list, you can see I have already installed iTunes 12.5.1. But actually, my iTunes version is still 12.4.3 Now, I click the update button of iTunes, then after download completed, nothing will install, and return this page to wait update. My mac os x system is 10.11.6
Yesterday I updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 10.0.1. Several of my apps, like Pedometer++, Swarm, and Yelp, support iMessage, but instead of showing content I can share, they just show an icon. See the Pedometer++ screenshot below. Swarm, Yelp, etc., appear similarly. The built-in #images and Music iMessage apps work correctly, as do simple sticker packs.
I used to be able to change the rating of a music track on my phone, and they would get downloaded to iTunes when I synched my phone to my MacBook. They seemed to have changed this in the new iOS, and there's only the heart button, but nothing else. How I set the rating stars 0 to 5 with the iOS 10 update?
I have a brand new iPhone SE, literally opened it two days ago, and for some reason my apps won't download or update? I do not have any paused downloads, and I made sure my iTunes works without internet, and I really do NOT want to restore my iPhone to factory settings, what should I do?
I have just upgraded to iOS10 and found that the "Define" feature (that appears after selecting a word) has been replaced with "Look Up", which now pulls the suggestions from various sources on internet besides the local dictionary. Is there a way to restrict this "Look Up" feature to search in local dictionaries alone? I couldn't find any solutions on the internet as of today (14th Sep16).
In WatchOS 3, there is an AirPlay button at the very bottom of the control center.  When I press it, the only option I see is Apple Watch.
I'm using iOS 10. Is there a way to rearrange the order of iMessage apps as they appear when you tap the App Store icon in Messages? Thanks in advance!
I downloaded the iOS 10 software. I am able to send all of the cool new text message features and they are being received, however I keep getting text message failure notifications that the text was not delivered. Why is this?
How can I access my elderly mothers iPad for teaching and troubleshooting purposes, while using my mac from many miles away. I have done some reading and found I-Keyboard and Airplay as possible solutions. Can anyone assist with which of these solutions is viable?
I've read about a semi-untethered jailbreak by Pangu. What does semi-tethered mean? What are the differences between that and a normal jailbreak? I have an iPhone 5 on iOS 7.0.6, and before to try upgrade to 9.3.5, I would like more information.
Last year my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan got stolen. I replaced it with a new one but I lost all my safari history (years of browsing). I didn't have a Time Machine Backup at the time, but I thought Internet-related-data was safe because of iCloud. I don't know if I lost it due to an error ow what, so I want to know if it is indeed backed up in iCloud. Thanks!
I have deleted all my pics including from recently deleted and i have 45GB in icloud but still my photos are taking up a lot of space even though there is nothing in the photo album. Please help urgent issue!!
The new Photos updates for iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra includes a much more powerful and integrated approach to organizing photos by who's in them. It's built around powerful, on-device facial recognition. But once it does its automated thing (finding the faces it thinks are the same person), there's still a lot of manual merging and labeling to be done if you have a lot of photos and are as obsessive about organization as I am.
I've just found out that my home directory is under the supervision of Git, i.e. there's a .git folder in my home directory. My questions are: Is it normal that my home directory is under Git? Is it normal that my home directory is under Git?
I don't know, maybe I'm missing something. I have upgraded my iPad Mini 2 from iOS 9 to iOS 10. Official release, not a beta, neither a GM. I don't see any new wallpaper. Are there any new wallpapers included in iOS 10?
For reasons past comprehension, the new iOS 10 Messages app allows applying "effects" to messages. I understand that I can disable the ability to generate these abominations by choosing Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
Can I do just that manually? By that I mean, I don't need to run diagnostic checks, only the thing to get the space reporting right Why the repaired space usage report does not persist‽
For instance when using Photoshop together with some other editing tool, when I switch between the apps I mistakenly do the gestures to zoom/pan on the wrong application, so I wonder whether there is a way to map different gestures like so: If working on Photoshop then take a two finder swapping gesture (vertical scroll) as if it where a pinching gesture, otherwise take it as is. Also change the two finger drag gesture while clicking by the two finger drag without clicking. I know it sounds convoluted but that's the kind of metal burden one has to deal when constantly switching between different editing software.
I recently got an Android phone, and I wanted to know how to sync Apple Notes to Google Keep. I have added my Gmail account to the Apple Notes app, but I don't see the notes showing up in Google Keep. What do I do?
Note: this was originally posted under stackoverflow, and someone sensibly downvoted it since it's really OS X specific. So I'm reposting it over here, since it's been generally helpful. I like doing Test Driven Development (TDD), and so I would like a way for my test suite to run whenever I make a change to a source file or test file. In addition, I'd like the results of the test to display in an ephemeral "Growl" style window in the corner of my screen, showing a green icon if all tests passed and a red icon if one or more tests fail.
I'm having problems restoring an iCloud backup. I updated my iPhone 6S yesterday from iOS 9.3.5 to iOS 10 by doing a restore so I can do a clean install. I do this for every major iOS version update and I've never had any issues before. My problem is that during the setup process after updating to iOS 10, I select to restore the phone with an iCloud backup, but the restore process fails every time with a "Cannot restore backup" error. I've read everything I could find in Apple Support regarding iCloud restore and iOS 10 upgrading and no article mentions this issue.
I've problem with my Macbook Pro (with El Captain installed on it) where one of the keys (such as r) doesn't work at all, so each time when I'm typing a word with "r", I've to keep pasting it from the system clipboard. It's very inconvenient. I'm planning to see Genius Bar, but since then, I'd like to find a better way to deal with such problem. I've also consider external keyboard, but it's another inconvenience, where you have to carry it physically with you.
My dad has an iPhone 4. He has his iMessage and group messaging turned on, but when I use iMessage to message him and my mom (who also has an iPhone, as do I), the messages that I send only go through to my mom (i.e. I send a group message to my mom and dad and only my mom gets it). When my mom responds, both my dad and I get the message, so that works normally. I can message my dad directly (not in a group text), but that sends as an SMS (it shows up green vs. blue), even though I have his number stored as an iPhone in my contacts. How can I get it so that I can iMessage him vs send him an SMS? I think once that part of it is fixed I might be able to send him group texts with success.
Note: I'm talking about the usability of the new ApplePayJS functionality - within Safari and not within an App. When you click on an Apple Pay button on your website you MUST show the payment sheet (the Apple dialog where you select a credit card and then pay with your fingerprint). This is perfectly reasonable for a usability standpoint and I think deviating from it is very bad.
Several printers do not stay connected to clients--even though everything has static ip addresses--and they are not searchable across networks i.e. they do not appear with Bonjour.
In Profile Manager to mount the default home drives set for the User in Server.app, you mark a checkbox "Add Network Home," but then. Does anyone know which plist in the system, etc, that is actually referencing? because it does not work for me, and home drives do not auto-mount. When you click "add network home" it adds text like {{{home drive}}} into the list of mount points (it looks exactly like that, but with less than and greater than signs instead of curved-brackets). This specific question is regarding a small network where upon login, users get several mount points authenticated, and one not authenticated (they were originally set up using .mobilconfig files generated in profile manager, and previously in Workgroup Manager). I've limited this question now to focus on the "home drives," because I believe so far, that overlapping device & user-group profiles were causing some of these problems, but I've removed these, and now, the OSX User/Networked home drives still do not auto
I have an Apple TV (4th generation, with apps) hooked up to a stereo system. My friend comes to visit, with their own Apple Music account on their iPhone/iPad. Is there some way for them to play the music from their account through my stereo? Can their iPhone/iPad pass the music to my Apple TV, perhaps over the network? Can we temporarily have the Apple TV login to their Apple Music account without logging out of my Apple ID?
I am following this guide, but cannot add the virtual hard disk at step 6. I get a 'No permission' pop-up.
When I connect my external monitor it shows up in the audio settings. That makes zero sense, as this monitor does not have any speakers. How can I prevent it from popping up as an audio output option?
Issues with volume .. Callers can't hear me. I can hear them when I cut on speaker. This is random. Sometimes a reboot will help. May work several days and then go out again. Replaced sim are, factory reset, and still no luck.
For example, as I understand it, if I go to a place where AT&T has poor coverage, then my phone roams and gets coverage from other carriers. (At least this is how it used to be.)
WhatsApp 2.16.10 update for iOS 10 now shows recent WhatsApp calls on the iPhone recent calls log, rather then just logging it in WhatsApp. Is there a way to turn this off? It's really not needed.
Today I got a message that my iTunes match subscription was cancelled because the payment information was invalid. That's because Apple removed ClickAndBuy support which was the only payment option in my country apart from credit cards (which I do not have) and gift cards. No big deal, I just bought a gift card and now I want to re-enable iTunes match, but it seems as if Apple has forgotten that it even exists. On my iPhone with iOS 10 there is no mention of it whatsoever, but on iTunes the Account info page shows a 'Renew' button, which takes me to the old iTunes Match subscription screen. Clicking the big blue subscribe button however doesn't seem to do anything other than asking for my password. I'm at a loss here, how do I get Apple to take my money and give me my music collection back?
I've bought a HDMI to VGA adapter (no external power source) so I can use my mid-2015 Macbook Pro with the old projector I have in class. Thing is, as soon as I connect it to the HDMI port (even without connecting the projector to the adapter), the mouse cursor starts to lag and drag, and the screen continuously goes off and on, off and on. When I connect the projector to the VGA port of the adapter, the problem keeps happening, and no image is shown by the projector.
I am trying to update XCode to 8.0. However I am getting We could not complete your update There is not enough disk space available to install the product.
Okay, this is weird. In OS 9.2 (the secondary OS), ethernet shows up fine EVERYWHERE and ALWAYS works. But a few hours ago, in System Preferences > Network > Network Status "Built-in Ethernet" disappeared. You know, like this.
Now plan is to create a future event at varying times. What I've done (which doesn't work yet) is to set a variable "reminder time." Later I've written Date--> Adjust date (add on a chunk of time) --> Get Variable (reminder time) --> Add New Event, with Start Date = Reminder Time. But no event is created in Calendar app. I can't see where I've screwed up the syntax. WF to set future reminder events from pick list choices
I work at a small office where everyone uses Macs. We have a shared SMB server for storing files, which often contain spaces and other special characters.
I want to save some phone space and dump pics to Photos, and some cloud pic storage. Is there any easy way to dump pics from all convos?
I have a ~/Library/Developer used by Xcode.app in El Capitan. The Finder > Get Info reports a size of 24 gigs. But the two nested folders each report only 6 gigs each. So ( 2 * 6 ) = 12, and ( 24 - 12 ) = 12. Where is the other 12 mysterious gigs?
ffmpeg runs exactly like I want it to. I'm sure the following is not super clean but it does work with one exception: it simply adds the .mp4 to the original filename so that the new filename appears to have two extensions.
I have a brand new iPad and upgraded to iOS 10. I have thousands of purchases on iTunes that I don't want cluttering the lists in the Music app. This was very easy on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4). I don't see an option in Settings > iTunes, Music, or iCloud. How do I hide them? I don't have a computer to do this through iTunes on a PC or Mac.
This question is in light of the new iPhone 7, but is relevant to older iPhones as well since the adapter works with all Lightning iPhones running iOS 10. Since the Lightning port is digital-only, the Lightning to 3.5mm connector must contain a Digital-to-Analogue Converter (DAC). Since the sound quality will depend largely on this DAC, how does it compare to the DAC contained in the iPhone and used traditionally for the headphone jack?
I've recently updated most of my certificates as they've expired at similar times. It appears that iOS mail is encrypting mail to one of my recipients using their old certificate, as such they cannot decrypt it when they receive it.
Introduced in iOS 10, a standard message for unsubscribing can be sent in a couple of taps from any Mail message that was sent to a list.  Since this feature allows the Mail app to send an email on my behalf and from my e-mail address (I suppose), I would love to know what message the recipient receives.
This strange icon decided to appear in my menubar this week, and I have absolutely no clue as to what it is. Could anyone help with this? What steps should I take to finding out what process that owns this icon?
Say I have mounted a sharepoint on /Volumes/Staff/. I find that I cannot copy files from /Volumes/Staff/Folder1 to /Volumes/Staff/Folder2 and vice versa. I get the following error: Can't connect to the server because the name or password is incorrect. The server is a Mac Mini running Yosemite with file server configured with Server.app.
I've found a few questions on here that are several years old and ask about general HDCP support. However, with the oncoming 4k revolution a new version of the specification, HDCP 2.2, has been introduced specifically to lock down 4k content. For instance, in order to stream Netflix at UHD quality, your display (and cables/connections) must support HDCP 2.2. From the Netflix UHD Help Page: Please note that both the HDMI cable and the HDMI port on your TV must be HDCP 2.2 certified. I'm having a hard time finding any hard facts on this. Mostly I'm curious about my current device, a 15" Mid 2014 MBP with an Nvidia GT 750M and retina display.
I love the new memories feature in iOS 10 but sometimes it grabs less than great photos. Can I remove those photos just from the memory?
I have a MacBook and an iPhone. The iPhone is setup to forward SMS to my MacBook. If the iPhone is turned off can I still send/receive SMS in Messages on my MacBook?
I have installed XCL(Xcode command line) through xcode-select --install therefore, not whole Xcode installed. and I can see the path However, I need to accept the license, but it complains that the Xcode is not installed
I have a bunch of Philips Hue lamps at home and decided to take the new Home app for a spin after installing iOS 10 on my iPhone 6s. The lamps connected without problem and are fully controllable but when I look at the automation tab the app just informs me that I can make an Apple TV the center of my home. I can find no way to actually create an automation. First I thought that this was an issue with my Apple TV (4th gen) but while looking around in the setting I was able to reset my home from the Apple TV so some form of connection must have been made. Maybe related to this is that there is no settings available for Home on the iPhone. I have tried multiple times to reset my Philips Hue Bridge and reconnect it to the phone but the result is always the same. Any tips? What I see (in Swedish): What I expected:
I continued trying various themes of changing the password using my Apple ID. I noticed sometimes after turning off wifi and only using ethernet via thunderbolt, I sometimes get an option to enter a new password. It tells me the "Password Reset Completed", however, this new password I entered still does not work after reboot.
In iOS 9, under settings -> Cellular, I can see how much cellular data each and every app has used. But in iOS 10, it's no longer there. Has it been moved to somewhere else? Or removed at all from iOS 10?
I want buy a Philips Hue White Ambiance B27 Bulb and want to know if I have to buy something special to use it or can I use it in any bulb fitting in my home? I want it for my new borns room, so I can dim/turn off the light as soon as he sleeps. PS: There is no Home-Kit tag at this stack avaible.
I can see via Activity Monitor that storedownloadd is receiving a lot of packets and responsible for my ~1mb download. When opening the App Store, I can see only one update (Xcode 8). Can I deduce that this is what's being downloaded? If not, how can I?
My OS X always forgets its Wi-Fi network passwords after disconnecting or sleeping. Do you have an idea of how should I troubleshoot this or what might be the cause? OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, MacBook Air
I'm using the phone to categorise my ripped music while I'm on the train or whatever. I sync this with iTunes to have the same information available on my Mac. With iOS 10 I am no longer able to do so, because Apple seems to think like/dis-like is enough choice. I don't concur with this view.
I am struggling to find some (elegant) way to connect my Mac to a (previously paired) Bluetooth device via terminal. There is a solution using Applescript simulating mouse clicks, but it has some major issues: Bluetooth menu needs to be visible in the Menu bar Terminal needs access to the Accessibility Controls Does not work reliably It is slow as hell When you use the mouse while the script is running, it fails. So, this is more or less a no-go.. I don't need to switch Bluetooth on and off in general, I don't need any pairing mechanism, I just need some way to trigger the connection to known devices via terminal.
I use a self-hosted IMAP email server. In Mail.app on OS X, the app gets any new mail pushed using IDLE. On my iPhone however, the Mail app only polls every so many minutes. Under Settings > Mail > Accounts > New email the option 'Push' is not available.
iOS 10 had one surprise feature: The speed dial for adding a conference code to a call now dials much more rapidly. In general, I appreciate this, but it has resulted in the code frequently being misparsed by the phone service, which means I have to dial the conference code manually; I usually don't have it at my fingertips, which results in a net slowdown for dialing in to (unfortunately frequent) phone calls! Our firm uses Global ReadyConnect.
I've just updated my phone to iOS10 and my message app is feeling a little overcrowded. Is it possible to remove these icons from the message app?? It's a little annoying have a shortcut to the app store forced upon me every time I want to send a message, I guess with the intention to sell animations and gifs to be able to include in messages.
After some serious googling, I still came empty handed. (I don't have access to such a machine, but I need this piece of info to make sure an installer script will run on one.)
This was a feature I used frequently as I had my calendar on my watch, I would scroll a few hours ahead with the crown to see my next event easily without taking my phone out. I looked quickly in the settings on the Watch app on the iPhone but could not see if it was buried in there. Any one know if they removed this functionality completely?
I am using an iPhone 5S and I just updated to iOS 10. I enabled the Siri support towards WhatsApp in Settings > Siri > App Support. However, when I use Siri and ask, for example "Send a message to XXX using WhatsApp saying Hello", Siri tells me "Sorry, you'll need to continue in the app".
I have the macOS Sierra final beta, but I seem to be unable to send or receive the new iMessage effects. Such as the Invisible Ink:
I bought Mac a couple days ago and I don't know anything about it. I uploaded a lot of the pictures but then it said that I didn't have any storage left so I went ahead and deleted a lot of pictures. Then I went to the photo trash and selected delete them all. But I still seem to have problem with my storage and I don't know what I should do to get rid of all of those pictures forever. I checked some of the questions here that seemed to be the same but they didn't help me out cus they we all talking about deleting iPhoto but I cannot find iPhoto even tho I search it on Spotlight or Finder. Somebody please tell me what I should do.
N.B. 2: I've tested this a bit further. After a reboot and reconnection, I could actually use the volume controls; but not the display controls. Either way, since this problem is frequently occurring – what can I do about it?
This makes me lean more towards adapter/cable issues, though it doesn't explain why it worked flawlessly at my home. But I suppose an interaction of poor materials and an interference-laden environment could be to blame?
I want to enable Tap-to-click for my trackpad on the login screen of my MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1004). I tried everything proposed on this old question but nothing has worked. Could you help me please?
Since updating my iPad to version 10.01 my iBooks app simply crashes. Strangely no one else except me seems to complain. Am I here all alone?
I am hoping someone can help me with an issue I am having trying to image newer MacBooks with a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter. The server is running 10.11.6 with server app 5.1.7 and the image I am trying to install is also 10.11.6. It isn't an issue with the image as it works fine on any machine with an internal Ethernet port but just not on any MacBook which needs a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter. I have also tried using a USB to Ethernet adapter and still have had no luck. When I try and netboot using the N key I get the flashing globe which would indicate the machine is requesting an IP address, but then it seems to time out and boots into the current Mac OS installation on the disk. I have checked the DHCP settings and everything is fine on that side. If I try holding the option key to bring up the Startup Manager it only sees the internal disk and not any of the images on the server. But if I go into Startup Disk preferences it sees all the images but selecting one of 
The journal does not want pdf nor 300dpi. They want 1000 dpi. How do I get there from mac powerpoint?
I have Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, iMac 27 inch late 2013. I can print any PDF but nothing else. In the print dialog box where I can normally see what I am about to print, it is blank. If I do print I get a blank sheet. If I save to PDF, you get a blank PDF except for a tiny box in the middle.
I am a new user of iPhone. I got this phone from a friend of mine. He already had WhatsApp installed. I just logged in using my WhatsApp password.
The screen above describes situation. Any idea how to turn it on? I have ios 10.
Today, JavaScript in Safari suddenly stopped functioning. I had just updated my iPhone 6s to iOS 10 yesterday. I eventually noticed that somehow, JavaScript had been disabled in the Safari settings. Furthermore, the control itself is disabled!
I can't connect to my Apple ID due to connection fail as it says, but my connection is good, I can connect to iCloud, visit sites,..., I just can't download books and apps on my Mac any more. I could do it before.
few days ago I wanted to split partition but obviously I can't read and I chose "partitionDisk" option, basically I did: That was a mistake. It didn't ask me anything about erasing data, but still its terminal so I don't blame it. Now I've got an empty partition, but I want to recover the old one.
I upgraded to Xcode 8 and now I really regret it. I'm trying to download Xcode 7.3.1 here: *=URL=* It is a 4.8 GB file. After three attempts - the download appears to finish around the 1-2 GB mark - and then I can't open or resume the download:
This question has been asked and answered in the distant past. And those answers don't seem relevant in 2016. I'm looking for a simple, low cost or free database app that I can use to track my books and other genealogy info. I'm an old dog and don't want to learn any new tricks so any app needs to be very simple. PS: this is my first foray into this website.
After I set a blank password to my admin account, My account icon was removed from login screen and I'm completely locked out of my Mac. Any ideas?
I'm Deaf and curious if there is the possibility to point the iPhone toward a speaker and see its text on the screen? Not sure if iOS10 comes with that Voice to Text functionality or if an external app is required for this? Thanks for any suggestions!
I had install iOS10 and i don't like siri suggested app, so i had turn it off according to this, but it didn't work. It still shows on notification center. I tried restarting it as well but nothing. Is there any other way around?
I need to know that if I deleted the .AppleSetupDone file from my MacBook, is it going to delete my iCloud account too or is it only going to delete administration account?
This is on OSX 10.7.5. Often when I install a new application it wont appear in the Applications folder and the only way I can access it is by using Spotlight. Any way I can make all applications appear in this folder?
it seems I am unable to connect my iPhone to my Macbook and PC. Plug in the lightning cable simply do nothing. I tried with 3 other cable that I know work fine on my other devices. Strangely, I can still plug the phone to a socket to charge the battery. I dig up a bit, and my Mac shows this logs when the phone is plugged:
Today I read: Apple today released an updated golden master (GM) version of macOS Sierra to developers… The new GM seed is build 16A323, while the build released last week was 16A320. After downloading, in the Finder > Get Info of ‘Install macOS Sierra.app’ I see ‘Version: 12.0.49’ but no build number. How to identifier the build number of a macOS installer? My goal is to verify what installer I may be using.
This is really weird. Sometime later than July this year, Mail.app would go "not responding" as soon as launched, never opening any window. system.log shows a lot of errors, but the very first is
I have a laptop running Sierra and a desktop running Sierra. They both sync with the same account on iCloud. On my desktop, next to the all iCloud link, there is a lightgrey error indicator: . Also When I click on it I see this odd error message: .
I'm using iOS 10 on an iPhone 6, with the latest Remote app (updated today). I want to use it to control iTunes on my MacBook Pro, running OS 10.11.6. Both devices are on the same wi-fi network and have Bluetooth enabled.
How do I see that list and the commands I can use for each app?
I have downloaded Xcode 8 from App Store. on clicking Xcode icon it is showing the following:
In Australia, Apple Pay is not widely supported, so the credit card facility is not of much use at this time. On the other hand, the two major domestic airlines certainly support Apple Wallet with their boarding passes. The question is:
I've followed the instructions here on how to make alt→ and alt← skip words backward and forward.. this works just fine on the original window displayed by iterm2.. however when i press F12 and the window shows up.. those keyboard shortcuts don't work any more.. any idea why and how to fix it?
When this happens she also cannot close the app neither from the File menu nor the Dock. She needs to go to Activity Monitor and force quit the app. Any thoughts?
I am developing an application for which I need an iTunes backup of an iPhone running iOS 6. This iPhone should not contain any data and the iTunes backup needs to be taken after performing factory reset. Are there any resources which provides this type of data?
[Rephrased and slimmed down as recommended]: Apple suggests a method to avoid saving passwords in iCloud backup by not creating an iCloud Security Code when KeyChain is enabled: *=URL=* I'm wondering if there is a method to keep the passwords from propagating to other devices (as the previous article suggests it does) by, for instance, disabling KeyChain altogether. Would this keep passwords only on the device where they are set? [Correction]: Apple says KeyChain is not stored in iCloud backup, just in the iCloud "live" data, so I've taken that bit out but the question stands... (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203783)
Need to mount Amazon Cloud Drive as a desktop network volume. I've tried ExpanDrive, but it's so slow as to be useless. It also completely freezes up Finder every few seconds.
I'm using Disk Inventory X to find what is taking up the most disk space, and I've noticed that it formats numbers oddly, it particular, the placement of the comma. For example: 2,01.5 GB and 1,24.8 GB. I would much rather not have the comma at all, like this: 201.5 GB and 124.8 GB. How can I fix this?
I have a Micosoft Outlook 2013 calendar account synched on my iPhone. Since I upgraded the iPhone to iOS 10.0.1, the calendar is not upating. I tried changing the calendar setting from push to fetch and back, and turning off the calendar in the account and re-adding it and neither worked. Email for the same account is updating routinely with no issues. It has been nearly 2 days, and because turning the calendar account temporarily off wiped the old data and it has not synched since I turned it back on again, I have nothing. Please help me!
OS X El capitan version 10.11.6 Macbook pro 13-inch Whenever I connect to projector, the projected screen has a old picture of me and it is quite embarrassing when I am presenting in front of professional crowd. I already removed that picture from the Desktop pictures folder but every time I connect projector, it still shows the same. This is not happening when I connect to external display (monitor) though.How can i change this?
As far as I can tell, suggested apps show themselves based on location. There are two places where these suggested apps show themselves to me: At the bottom left of the multitask screen when I double press the home button At the bottom left of the lock screen
I would like to create shortcuts to "zoom" my Finder window text size. I have tried in AppleScript which works but I cannot see the change until I "refresh" the window by closing and re-opening it. I tried adding but this does nothing. Any way to do this elegantly? I'm on El Capitan.
When will the Iphone 7 and Iphone 7 plus be released in Philippines? Iphone 7 plus is sold out, will the Apple reproduce? I am hoping that it will be available in our Country as soon as possible and Maybe this month.
I have autohide enabled for my dock and it seems to be a feature (at least in OS X 10.11.6) that, when I drag my mouse to the bottom of the screen when on a full-screened program, the dock will not display until I have attempted to drag the mouse down at least another time. This problem does not occur when I am not on a full-screened program; the dock displays instantly. I'd like my Mac to have the functionality of displaying the dock as if I was not ever in full screen mode.
I'm running OSX Yosemite and using JetBrains IntelliJ 2016.2.3. I can't resize the IDE window, except for the maximize or minimize buttons. What I want to do is use the mouse to stretch the borders of the window to make it smaller or larger. But as I hover my mouse over the borders or corners of the IntelliJ window, the cursor does not change and I can't grab the edge of the window at all. Every other application window on this Macbook supports resizing normally, but somehow IntelliJ doesn't. Strangely, I also run on the same Macbook JetBrains PhpStorm—another IDE product from the same company—and that window does support window-edge resizing.
I have a 64GB USB drive that was unplugged halfway through formatting it, and now it isn't recognized by Disk Utility. diskutil list also doesn't bring it up. I have tried formatting it on a Windows computer with no luck either. It gives an error that it cannot be formatted. Windows at least sees the drive, but Disk Utility doesn't at all. Are there any low level solutions that might work to re-format the drive or is it probably a goner that would need to be replaced?
I just updated to iOS 10 and I want to send an SMS instead of an iMessage to a friend. In iOS 9 I could continuously touch an old message and press send as a text message (or something like that). Now in iOS 10 I don't see anything relevant.
On Windows 10 (don't know about earlier versions), all you have to do is click on the image file in Windows Explorer and then edit the file details. The updated caption is written directly to the file.
How do you remove the word suggestion grey bar that is above the keyboard? On the previous ios you were able to pull it down. That option is no longer avaliable in ios10.
On my iPhone I like to have a contact associated with any number from whom I receive messages. However, I've been struggling to do this with texts from (e.g.) my bank who use an alphabetic sender ID. I've tried adding the text that appears in the Messages app to the contact as a mobile phone "number" -- the Contacts app accepts this, but it doesn't get associated with the contact in the Messages app.
I installed the security update 20016-001 for Mac OSx 10.11.6 this morning and now my use of sbt (0.13.8) with scala (2.11.8) and playframework (2.3.9) is giving the traceback below. I'm guessing that the update includes new shared object files that are not working with the java versions I have installed. I tried jdk 1.7.0_80 and 1.8.0_92. Update:
Is there a way to add a data point for steps and workouts in the Apple Health app in iOS 10? I cannot find it.
What feels missing here are the music controls << || >>. They are on the lock screen before you unlock the phone. However, it happens a lot of times that I accidentally unlock the phone, even though I want to perform operations on the lock screen. Having the music controls here is also an easy way to navigate through the playlist without having to switch to the Music app. Is there any way to bring back these buttons, or is there a new way in iOS 10?
If I were to say, remove Pages from my Mac, would I be able to reinstall it later from the Mac App Store?
My iMac has a broken screen which doesn't allow me to view anything. So I got a monitor and connected it to the Mac and it works great. My problem is when I boot up my iMac it won't display the grey screen with the apple logo loading into the OS. It simply stays black until it's at the login sequence of the boot. How can I make my iMac be able to display the whole booting process? I tried using the Mirror Displays and that did not work for me. I also read if I don't select the mirror option it should work, but that did not work for me either. I want to able to factory reset my iMac but I can't do it because I can't see the booting part of my computer which is where I get to partition the drive and wipe it clean. Any thoughts or suggestions on how I can fix this?
my emails are taking up 4.9 gb on my iphone 6 plus(16gb) when i deleted a year's e mails from one of my account on my desktop. nothing changed on the iphone. Please advise...
I have recently updated to iTunes 12.5.1.21 on a Windows 10 Pc. Many of my playlists are missing songs. I researched this issue and it looks like you can restore your iTunes library to correct this issue. Well upon restoring my library to a previous date it will display all my playlist with the correct amount of songs. Then after 10 seconds it revert to the new playlist with the missing songs. Is there some sort of playlist sync that is currently prioritizing a new playlist?
I have a very, very basic question: I have a little Applescript file that cleans up the html tags in a Textwrangler document. At the last stop, I'd like it to go to the end of document and add a line of text within an em html tag. I don't know applscript. To get this far I simply used the record-macro button in the script editor, but now I need to do something like "Goto EOF, write XYZ. Any help? Thanks!
My husband owns one iPhone - no other device. He upgraded to iOS 10 and now it's asking him to "approve the phone" on another device. Logging in on iCloud.com does not work. Please advise so he can continue setting up his phone without resetting all of his data!
How do I remove a photo that has accidentally been put in the wrong people photo album? I have a photo of my dad (who is now deceased) that has appeared in the album for my father-in-law (who is very much alive). I can't find a way to remove an individual photo from the new people album once it is in it. I don't want to hide the whole album of my father-in-law, just remove this one misfiled photo.
On my old Android device, I used Google Play Music. It would sync the music that was on my Android device (music app) into Google Play Music. I synced MP3s using iTunes from my computer to my iPhone, but they don't show up in Google Play Music.
I have a pretty unique and specific scenario. Here's some context. My friend lost his iPhone 6 in my house last October. Since he had insurance on the phone, he was able to replace it. I ended up finding it four months later. To complicate matters, Sprint said the phone's IMEI is blacklisted because the phone is listed as lost or stolen. My friend is contacting Sprint to let them know that he has found the phone, and he will let me keep the phone since I found it.
I've been trying desperately to pair my iPhone 6 which is running iOS 9.3.5 with my 27 inch iMac (late 2009) running 10.9.5 with no success. I have tried turning Bluetooth on and off on both devices, and was able to get the pairing code to show up each time, however when I click on the computer name the iPhone message says: "Connection Unsuccessful- Make sure the computer is turned on and in range". or it says: "Connection Unsuccessful- "Username iMac" is not supported"
What is the difference between Content and Service extension? I just started learning iOS 10 this week and I wrote a simple app displaying rich push notifications. I had to use Service and Content extensions to process rich notifications before display. I was wondering what's the subtle difference between the two and how do I use them? I used Content extension to change the label of push at run time and used Service extension to download an image to be displayed on the push message. Still thought of asking this question so that my understanding of using them is correct.
Attempting to fix this, I downloaded MIDI Opener. This offers direct access to Drive, but when I navigate to the same file, it is greyed out, I cannot select it.
My iPhone 6s+ is running out of memory. I have so many crochet patterns on my iBooks. How do I transfer those patterns to computer so i can delete them from my iPhone? When I first bought the computer I synced my phone then started deleting them from my phone, then they started deleting from the computer. What did I do wrong?
I find that it is virtually impossible to double click from the lock screen to open wallet and make a payment using a iPhone 6s and iOS 10. If can remember to shift my thumb and use the edge of the thumbnail to double click the home button then all is good. On the other hand, I find myself fumbling on paying at a checkout, unlocking and relocking several times.
I'd like to automate this sequence: →;← (right arrow, ;, left arrow) ...and bind it to a shortcut like mabye ctrlshiftJ. I'd like the binding to apply globally across the entire system. I'd prefer not to install a utility like Keyboard Maestro.
What would happen if you were to replace the SSD of your MacBook Air with an SSD directly taken out of another MacBook Air , same generation, same everything. Stock.
My cousin downloaded an app for me on my iPad Air while using his Apple ID. I signed out of it, and logged into mine. I updated my device to iOS 10 after I had to temporarily delete apps due to low storage.
I have a brand new Apple Watch Series 1, an iPhone 6 running iOS 10.0.1 public beta, and an early 2011 MacBook Pro with an upgraded AirPort card and Continuity Activation Tool running the latest Sierra public beta. Handoff and AirDrop and other Continuity features have been working fine lately between my phone and my laptop, but how do I get Auto Unlock to work? I tried following these steps for enabling Auto Unlock in general, but System Preferences isn't showing me an "Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac" checkbox. How can I make that box appear? Thanks!
I was looking trough settings since I've upgraded to iOS 10 and noticed that settings to disable erasing all data after 8 failed passcode is greyed out on enable setting and I cannot disable it or click it. Same with removing passcode I cannot disable it as well. My wife keeps entering passcode to lock off my phone to stop me using it sometimes (more attention to her) or friends do the same just to annoy for having an iPhone (apple haters) so I don't want this feature but I cannot disable. Tried googling it but all I find is how to enable ... I simply cannot click it to disable..
I'm considering having my 6S screen replaced at a non-apple shop. By shop, I mean one of a number of street shacks in Southeast Asia.
I’m new to iOS development also and want to enrol in Apple developer program. My question is how can I purchase ADP from Bangladesh? Anyone purchase ADP by Payoneer master card outside of USA? Also have Visa Card from Standard Chartered (can't charge in USD).
I want to have a quick and easy way to check bitrate of compressed audio files, without having to open iTunes/Quicktime etc. Either a Finder option (Get info/Inspector/List view) or perhaps an AppleScript via Right click > Service would do, via output to Terminal or system pop-up. Are there any established solutions out there, or will we have to look at a scripting solution?
I've looked into the iCloud settings on both my Mac and iOS, but I can't seem to find an option to disable this feature. Is there a plist entry somewhere that I can use, or is it forced on?
A few releases ago OS X introduced scroll acceleration, which means if you keep scrolling in some direction, the speed of the scroll will be greater and greater. You cannot disable this from the UI. It is extremely annoying if you want to scroll through a long website or a long source code in an editor.
I've got an iOS device that I want to block from EVER connecting to a public hotspot that might require someone to click on an agreement. Is there any way to disable the iPhone/iPad's captive portal functionality?
I have a plan of $0.99/month. Now I want to cancel my subscription.
I just got a new macbook pro (used to use a dual boot linux/windows system). I'm still getting used to some of the features.
I have recently noticed, that I needed more space on my Bootcamp drive, so I unallocated 10 GiB in macOS using DiskPart. After that I rebooted into Windows and used "MiniTool Partition Wizard" to assign that space to the Windows partition. It rebooted and expanded the partition as I expected, but afterwards I wasn't able to boot into my macOS again. It is cleary still there, but it seems, that I have to set a flag to make it bootable again. Also booting into Recovery Mode doesn't work anymore - it's loading very, very slowly and gets stuck at 100% (I even left my notebook over night). Does anyone know, how to set this flag using Windows?
Is there a way using AppleScript to detect when the computer connects to a network (just the connection, not a specific network)? I would like to have a script running that detects when a network (primarily interested in Wifi) connects, and then execute various blocks depending on what network it is. Right now, I've got code running in an on idle block checking for ssid name, but I'd rather execute it exactly when a new ssid is chosen.
I installed apache-spark 1.6.1 lately and then I uninstalled it and update homebrew to install apache-spark 2.0.0. However, When I run brew doctor I don't get any helpful diagnostics about what is wrong:
At work I use an iMac which I'm going to have to reset to factory settings after my job ends. Since I only have access to slow, unstable internet, I thought it might save some time to download the El Capitan installer from the App Store in advance and create a bootable installer drive, rather than using internet recovery.
As soon as I open my library with Photos it starts importing and optimizing etc. and all photos and videos are there. But it starts uploading every single photo and video to iCloud? How can I tell Photos that my photos and videos are already in iCloud and it should stop uploading?
I'm using iPython notebook. Anytime I make a change and close the window without saving I get this
One of my friends got this error on his iPhone (this is the translation of message in English) : Your Apple ID and telephone number are in use in iMessage on a new iPod touch.
I want to have AppleScript activate/deactivate a plugin, using a keyboard command. I have set the keyboard command in Google Chrome > Settings > Extensions > Keyboard shortcuts and it works when I do it manually. For this example, I'm using Shift + Alt + U. I've tried a few variants of this script.
I have a 2006 MacBook with a seemingly dead black screen. When powered up, it emits heat, so I assume it's just the screen that doesn't work anymore. I am trying to connect it to another display, so I can see what I am doing, to copy whatever is on its hdd to another. So I've bought a mini-DVI - hdmi adaptor, and connected it to another display. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work, the other display remains black too.
I have a number of old AppleWorks spreadsheets that I'm trying to open. I've tried a number of solutions that I've found while searching for an answer (below), but none of them really get me to where I want to be. Anyone know of a simple solution?
Is there a way to remove the camera from the iPhone lock screen on iOS 9-10 without disabling the camera entirely?
Every time I try to boot into Windows 10 , I get this message in a black screen: "no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key" Note that it was working before. Any ideas? diskutil list diskutil cs list sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0 sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
There is a memory I would like to save on my phone, but the name of it is just the name of my home town, which is quite boring. I know by default it looks like all the memory names are just the name of where the photo was taken. I was wondering is there a way to change memory names?
Sorry for the noob question, but I'm attempting to connect my MacBook Pro to a 4k UDH TV, and have tried several cable configurations to no luck :( Macbook Pro: 15" Retina El Capitan with Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB TV (just in case): LG 43" UHD with 4k @ 60hz I want to try altering the color sampling to 4:2:0, but can't do so on the TV, so I assume it's a laptop configuration? Appreciate ANY suggestions!
12" MacBookPro late 2012, OSX 10.9.5 Something is wrong with the Finder. When I try to open a new window one pops up, but the interior is the color of the background, nothing inside, and it reflects the image of anything that is dragged over it:
I just got an iPhone 7 Plus and noticed that the EarPod's cable is much longer than the one I had with the iPhone 6s. Do both the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus come with longer earphone cables than the 6s and the 6s Plus?
Many tools support an item link feature using protocol; with a given link, I can open the page with the tool that created it. For example, I can open the DEVONthink page that I made: Can I teach Mac OS X that the x-devonthink-item is the "DEVONthink" protocol to make the command like this?
I'm having an issue with Apple TV 4th gen not showing up in iTunes. Yesterday, the light on the Apple TV started blinking. Doing a quick search for a remedy led to an answer of a reset through iTunes, however, Apple TV is not showing up on my itunes. Any ideas out there on how to get iTunes to recognize the Apple TV? I've just downloaded the latest iTunes update and still not working. The Apple TV isn't responding, just blinking. Any help is appreciated.
I just got a new phone on iOS 10 and I have an Apple Music subscription. I have the setting turned on to automatically download music when it is added, but all the existing music in my library hasn't downloaded. Is there a way to make it download everything, or do I have to do it manually album by album?
Notice: This is not a duplicate! Other questions had to do with older versions of OS X or had to do with temporarily disabling resume.
Need to launch Mac OS 9 but it says it is no longer supported, is there a way around that? I am trying to put it and an old version of QuarkXpress on an old 40 GB external hard drive. I need access to both to open up some old important files. What are my options?
A pop up on my iPod 4th gen said blue skag could not connect, which freaked me out. I pressed cancel and turned off the Wi-Fi to see if I could find anything in the settings to help.
I use a clone charger wire for the iPhone. It looks very similar to an OEM version but is slightly different.
Prior to the update, I was able to select the "Shuffle Songs" button in the upper-mid Information Bar, click on a specific song in an album and then hear a mix of songs only from that album. For example: If I clicked on a song from the album L.A. Woman and I had shuffle enabled, I would only hear other songs from that album. Under the current version, If I select a song from L.A Woman, I will get that one song and then a mix of songs from my entire library. In this example, the next song might be from Frank Sinatra, the Dead Kennedys, or anything else. How do I disable this "feature?" I don't want to have to click "Shuffle Album" to hear the songs shuffled. Often I will start with one song I want to hear, hear another song from the random shuffle on the album, and then select a new song to hear from the same album
I have noticed that with iOS 10 Messages that the text message field is in a very inconvenient place for left-handed users.  As you can see, the lesser-used photo, gestures, and store button are in easy reach of the left-handed user's dominant thumb while the frequently-used text message field is far away from it. The inverse is true for right-handed users.
My Mac OS X El Capitan seems to start up on its own, out of the blue. Even though I have powered it off. It starts at random.
Is it possible to have a separate password for Game Center - one that is not the same as I use for my Apple ID?
I downloaded Google Drive, clicked on it and dragged the application to the Applications folder. When I clicked on it, it opened up in my browser. There was no further installation process. It didn't add a Google Drive directory to my computer. How can I add such a directory to my computer?
I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch early 2015 model. For the last few days, my MacBook started to sleep when I change the inclination angle of the lid. On repeated pressing of the Shutdown button, it wakes up.
EDIT 1: All pictures before and after the faulty ones - even by a matter of seconds - have the correct time and place. In the image below, you can see at the top pictures taken this morning with the proper location (blurred out) and the right times.
One of my friends, Alice, has an iPad 2nd gen with iOS9.3.5 installed on it. My other friend, Bob, has an iPad 4th gen, recently iOS10.0.1 installed on it.
I'm trying to set up 2FA on my iCloud account but I get this message:  Any ideas on a solution? There's also no option in the security settings on my iPhone to enable it. I'm running the latest versions of iOS and macOS.
This is a screenshot of the Mac App Store. I have been updating iTunes for days. Any ideas?
I wonder if photos (stored in iCloud Photo Library) are stored locally until local space runs out. From what I have read there is no persistant storage, only caching. Kind of like on the iPhone with the most recent photos available offline (depending on the amount of local storage available).
Is there a way to calculate inverse trigonometric functions in El Capitan's Calculator (ie. arcsine, arccosine, arctangent, etc.)? I've tried the usual alt, cmd, ctrl modifiers with the sin/cos/tan buttons to no avail. I'm especially annoyed because Spotlight does calculate arctangents and the result is claimed to come from Calculator itself, so I don't know if they dumbed the interface down or what. Examples of operations that work from Spotlight but I have no clue how to do from Calculator:
Using single-user mode, I get this message: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisory.plist What does it mean and how do I convert launchctl to launchd?
Today, after spending nearly 3 months without using my iMac, I decided that I should sell it to get some money. So I rebooted the iMac and launched Disk Utility in Recovery Mode and at this point the Mac started to do weird stuff.
I am having a problem with Xcode. It works correctly but sometimes after a period of using it, when I ctrl + drag an element on Interface Builder autoLayout popup shows and disappears immediately. Also, when I want to set constraints manually, I can't do that, because every single click is recognized as a double click as shown in the gifs below.
I think this will be a useful community wiki reference: excluding device settings, what iOS user data (the kind of data that is created and stored over time) can only be migrated to a new device through the use of iCloud/iTunes Backup and Restore from Backup? This can be relevant to anyone buying a new iPhone or other device to replace an old one — if you decide to set the new device up as a "New iPhone", even though you had data on an old iPhone Backup, you will immediately start creating two streams of data that cannot be merged without using 3rd party tools. This contrasts with data that can be re-downloaded to a new phone after logging in with an Apple ID (iTunes app/music/video purchases, iCloud Mail/Contacts/Calendars/Drive), as well as data that can be migrated piecemeal using iTunes (app documents).
I have an old laptop (which is definitely on its last strides). It's a MacBook Air Late 2010 and its running like a slug (I have abused the laptop beyond comprehension) so for its final year or two I want to get the most out of it. I already have a 2' monitor attached and I want to know if I get a GTX 970 and attach it with one of these things (Using thunderbolt) if it will function properly and that I'm not burning $600 for something my computer can't handle.
I try to activate an Apple iPhone 4 CDMA but my carrier says: As per our technical team confirmation received, the device is not able to send the MEID in response to "Protocol Capability Request" message requested by OTAF during *228 call, might be the device is not supporting MEID and is supported only ESN (Old 8 digit). Though the MEID/pESN is written on the device but in actual it is ESN based device, as this is an open market device.
I'm considering buying an iPod Nano 7th generation, but I want to be very sure Home Sharing will work with my iMac (OS X El Capitan) with iTunes 12.5 before I purchase one. Can you tell me if this will work?
I have lost my SD card. I want to know when it has been used last. Is there a way of showing up when which sd or usb device has been conectet to the mac ? Thanks for Help.
Recently, this USB Bluetooth adapter broke. I bought a new one, and inserted that instead.
So I see from others that this is not an unusual problem, but the answers I've read are not clear to me, so thought I'd try my own thread. I just bought a My Passport for Mac 1 TB drive. First thing I did was take a back-up of my laptop via Time Machine.
I use Gmail and Messages app on OS X. I would like to remove the Internet Account, and preserve my historical messages. If I go to remove the Gmail Internet Account, I get a warning: Deleting this account will remove its data from Mail, Messages. I realize that I can simply disable the account, but I want to remove it all together while preserving the historical messages.
When an iPhone is plugged in and syncing, the status bar shows a message like: Syncing "Phone" (Step 2 of 6) On the left side of the bar there is this icon:
watchOS 3 introduced a new workout type, swimming. However, this seems to be available only on the new series 2 Apple Watch. Is there a way to start a swimming workout on the old Apple Watch (not Series 1, the original from 2015)
I would like to know if a key logger can be installed on a non-jail broken IPhone? Thanks
There is a Music complication, and once in that app, there is a "Now Playing" button. But strangely it doesn't seem to be linked to what's playing on my iPhone at the moment, even when I've set the Source to my iPhone. Perhaps this "Now Playing" function is reserved for Apple Music only.
On my Mac I have a load of Kexts appearing that read like this (there are 14 or so): The system extension "/System/Library/Extensions/BJUSBLoad.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used...
The touch icon files used in Safari are stored on a mac in the folder ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons, and each file in a .png file, with what seems to be an arbitrary name. By swapping an image in this folder, I can change the image displayed in Safari in the bookmarks bar. However, I can't do the same for the bookmarks without an image already in the folder. Does anyone know how Safari names these files, and how it connects a bookmark to this image?
I have hundreds of different albums in my iTunes library and would like to see as many of them as I can while still remaining in windowed mode. Unfortunately, iTunes does not have a clear option to display albums in a smaller format. I have gone under Preferences and selected "List View" as Smallest and I have also tried using Command-J to select View Options but neither has had any impact. How can I make these unnecessarily large album cover icons smaller so that I don't have to scroll through the equivalent of several pages to see my entire library?
Has this feature been removed, or is there something I'm missing here? This Apple support page, last updated May 2016, says it should be possible in what appears to be iOS 9.
Is there any way to determine if a non jail broken iPhone is bugged?, is it even possible to bug a non jail broken iPhone? Thanks
I'm on the latest OS X, iBooks and iTunes. Have 20+ titles in eBooks, most of them added manually as PDFs or ePubs, only 3 bought from Apple. When I connect my iPhone 6, and go to the sync option in iTunes, it shows me only the 3 titles I have purchased from the Store.
Instead of letting Time Machine run automatically I use a shell script and the tmutil startbackup command to trigger backups, which gives me a much greater degree of flexibility. Specifically it lets me perform hourly backups to a local drive during my normal hours, with a separate network backup at night (since it tends to be a lot slower). Unfortunately, I've discovered today that if the network drive is filling up enough that old backups need to be deleted, then the dialogue informing me of this will prevent the backup from proceeding until I hit okay, but since it occurs after I normally leave my computer my machine just ends up staying awake all night waiting for me to do something about it.
How do you configure OS X/macOS on a (headless) Mac mini without a keyboard? The Mac mini is connected via ethernet A MacBook Pro is connected to the same network via ethernet The Mac mini is at the first screen of a new OS X 10.11 installation I want to login to the Mac mini using ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) but can't use the methods of 10.6 (serial number + IP address). Thanks for any hints.
I wanted to run something by an expert before I tried this. So if I was to update an iPhone from iOS 9 to iOS 10, would I be able to restore the now-updated iPhone to iOS 9 using an iCloud backup? Or would I need to revert it to iOS 9 via .jpsw before being able to restore the phone's data?
After updating my Apple Watch to watchOS 3 some of my contact names are missing in Messages and Phone etc. Some are showing name, others just show the phone number. The iPhone does show the contact names where the watch doesn't.
Mac mini running OS X Server 10.11.6, CommuniGate Pro, and nearly no other stock OS X Server services. Server's owner recently found himself on a network that blocked ports for both VPN connections and SSH, so we're trying to set up the server to allow for an SSH tunnel via SOCKS proxy to port 443, which is nearly always left open. (We have no plans on running web services over that port on this box.) Research indicates this should be a two-step process: 1) edit /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf to remove web listeners on ports 80 and 443; 2) edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config to add an SSH listener on port 443; then reboot.
On OS X 10.11.4, there are these sysctl entries: I can't find much on them, though I know some of them are important in some jailbreaks. What do the each of the ones ending with _enforce do?
I have a late 2009 iMac. The specs are in pic below. This machine got a new hard drive last year and is running 12GB of memory, yet it often lags and is not as zippy as I would like.
I recently setup VPN connections on my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.11.5 via the Apple Configurator. However, I am having trouble sending all traffic across the VPN Tunnel rather than through the regular Wi-Fi Connection. Although the default route is created when the VPN is connected, no traffic is sent across the VPN (the VPN has been confirmed to be working in Windows and Linux). Here is the output of: netstat -rn There is no option to enable/disable forwarding all traffic over the VPN like there is with PPTP. How can I forward all traffic over the VPN when the VPN is active similar to how Windows and Linux already does this? The more I dig into OS X and VPN Networking the more it seems like it would be easier to host a dual VPN of IPSec for the Windows and Linux clients and OpenVPN for OS X and iOS.
I was trying to erase my partition and reinstall OS X but it says that 108.35 out of 108.50 gigabytes are being used, I'm just curious on what they are used for and why is there space still being used even if the disk has been wiped.
In preparation for selling a used Apple Pencil, should it be unpaired or reset in any way (so the new owner can pair it with his or her iPad Pro)? Is the Apple Pencil tied exclusively to the iPad Pro it's been paired with? If it does need to be reset, how?
Every 5 or 10 minutes (or so) I see this window on my mac:  I cannot play games. Cannot write a song. It's highly distracting thing. I searched for solution on the internet and found nothing. macOS 10.12 Sierra Public Beta (16A313a)
Lately, when I try connecting any of my cameras' SD cards, either through a USB-based SD reader or by connecting the camera itself, Photos.app does not automatically launch when the card mounts, and if I manually start Photos (either before or after inserting the SD card) the Import tab does not appear. I cannot find any settings anywhere for controlling this behavior, either - as the Photos Import tab isn't appearing I never have an opportunity to check/uncheck the "launch Photos automatically for this device." I have tried formatting the card both from my camera (a Sony ɑ6000) and from my computer, and shooting in both RAW and RAW+JPEG - but to no avail.
My photo app shows two separate sets of the same person, but iOS thinks they are different people, even if the name is the same. Is there any way I can manually "merge" two separate people?
After upgrading my iPhone 5 from iOS 9 directly to iOS 10.0.1, all my icloud calendars are gone. They don't show up in the calendars list in the Calendar app, and dragging said list down to force syncing of the calendars doesn't even show the usual spinning loading bar indicator – the whole iCloud section is just missing from the list. Rebooting didn't fix the issue.
I found some errors in the list of detected people, wrong names attributed to photos. How can I reset the face recognition on my photo stream?
I follow 1.1K people on Twitter so my newsfeed is unusable. I've found it useful to get mobile push notifications for 9 thought leaders but have problems viewing the notifications.
Whenever I get a WhatsApp message with my iPhone locked, I can't see sender's nickname as set by them in their WhatsApp profile. I used to see it previously, but now I see the name which I have saved the contact with in my Contacts list. I would like to get back the ability to see nickname instead of contact name. I don't want to delete the name in my contact list I just want it to be like it was previously. How can I do this?
I'm facing this issue that i have accepted a friend's invitation for call and it got added as a calendar event in my iPhone. Now the issue is when i'm opening it, there i'm unable to find the edit button from which i can delete this event from the calendar.
I'm trying to make an extremely simple Safari extension that open the favourites page (the equivalent of Bookmarks > Show favourites), as that's what I think of as my home page and I'd like a button on the toolbar to do that, rather than have to do it via the menu. Is there a javascript command to open this window or, failing that, to access the menu bar button so it can be clicked?
The 'Load Remote Content' is a great feature and I like to use it. Is there a way to make a whitelist of sender addresses for which remote content is loaded automatically, whilst remote content of addresses not on the whitelist are not automatically loaded? Such whitelist will help me having the media content local and therefore the emails readable even after some time (media may have been deleted on server side by the sender after some time).
I'm experiencing a particular website that is extremely slow (unresponsive, to be honest) on one of my Macs, but not another Mac on my home network. My iPad is also responsive. There may be more webpages that are problematic, but this one in particular has been troublesome for a few days.
The update to iOS 10 has made type in Mail messages often appear too tiny to read. How do I restore readable type in iOS 10 Mail? This is not a question about how to globally adjust text size (the text is fine elsewhere) or about how to zoom (that really doesn't fix the problem), but about how to make text that appears unreadably small some mail messages appear as it did in iOS 9.
When I run some program with proxychains, it shows an error like below: Any ideas?
Today I ran brew update and after migrating the repository, it reported that it no longer needed ownership of /usr/local: This change seems a little dubious. How does brew accomplish this new behavior, apparently bypassing security controls?
After updating iPhone 6 to iOS 10, WhatsApp call ends when you press the power button to turn off screen while you are talking on the loudspeaker. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Not really the most pressing question, but it's bugged me enough to get an account and try my luck... When I try to save any .jpg or .jpeg, Safari forces a .dms extension onto the end of it, and there's no other way to save that picture. Usually with most things like this, a solution is readily available if you Google for it, but I couldn't find an adequate answer. It's been like this for months. Sometimes it goes away, only to come back the next time I try to save a picture.
I'm having a strange issue with Time Machine which is stored on a Synology ds215j. If I go to finder, I can navigate to the shared directory and see my girlfriend's time machine .sparsebundle file - but mine is no longer there. In its place is a package titled "AD4GNS~X". Clicking it opens a terminal window to its location. I can't view the package contents. I'm suspecting this is my backup rendered in some strange format I can't access.
We use Apple Configurator to generate profiles and import them to MDM. Suddenly after updating to iOS 10 (and using only allow the apps in the section - whitelistedAppBundleIDs - we can't make outgoing calls. Tapping the green button is not working. Any ideas what happened after updating to iOS 10?
I'm trying to remove an auto login to a dead share but it won't let me do it, any suggestions? There is an exclamation warning after the name of the server in my Users & Groups > Login Items in my preferences:
I have Apple keyboard (with numerical pad) connected to my MCP, but I can't lock my screen with ctrl+shift+Eject. Is there other way to fastly lock screen or some way to fix that?
I use iCloud and contacts since ages and noticed that contains more than 600'000 items (for example many copies of the same image used for the contacts). I see this behaviour only on one of my machines. How can I get rid of these many duplicated without losing my data? Can I simply disable iCloud and contacts, delete the folder and re-enable it?
I was wondering if there was anyway to view the recent activity on my MacBook. I accidentally left it unlocked for an hour in an environment that I do not trust and want to see if anybody did anything while I was away. I am using a 2015 MacBook Pro.
There are many times where if my macbook pro dies, it will simply resume where it left off once i plug in the power and turn it on. Other times, it will do a complete restarting and I will loose all my unsaved data.
With an iPhone 6 or later, you can bring the sleeping phone near an NFC payment terminal, and the phone will wake automatically to the Wallet, prompting a Touch ID authentication for the default Apple Pay card. Alternatively, the home button can be double-clicked while the phone is asleep to go straight to the Wallet in order to choose an Apple Pay card to use. With an Apple Watch, the side button can be double-clicked to bring up available Apple Pay cards; the Watch is then brought near an NFC terminal to authenticate the transaction. Is this first step always required, or can an unlocked Apple Watch simply be brought near to an NFC terminal to authenticate a payment with the default Apple Pay card, similar to the method in the first iPhone example?
I have a MacBook Pro which I use to connect to my iMac, using Target Display Mode (TDM) via Thunderbolt. Furthermore, I've got a secondary screen connected to my iMac via an DVI cable. When I invoke TDM, my MacBook will take control of its own screen and the iMac screen. But the 2nd screen is still displaying my iMac. What I would like to do here, is continue to use my iMac, only on the 2nd screen, while the MacBook gets to control my iMac screen.
I know that if you "Restore from iCloud backup" from a backup made with iOS 10.0.1, the iPhone 7 makes you install the update first, so it must come with a version before 10.0.1. Do you know which version this is?
On my Raspbian jessie I have NFS server running: and on my client machine mac I am trying to mount the shared drive
The answer to just about everything gem related on El Capitan -- including installing fastlane -- for me has been using this switch -n /usr/local/bin (So sudo gem install fastlane fails but sudo gem -n /usr/local/bin install fastlane works.) How can I apply this to all gem operations automatically?
I just got my Iphone 6 plus and there is no option to click on for auto lock. How do I set my time for auto lock?
I have a Java FX OS X application, which internally tries to copy the selected file to a temp location while performing an operation. But while trying to do that by right clicking the file, I see that the copy operation failed and in the logs it prints: "Operation not permitted" When my application was not sandboxed, I didn't face this problem .
I would like to customise the buttons on one screen. I need media, bluetooth/airplay, alarm clock, airplane mode, flaslight and calculator. That could fit neatly into one screen. Having different panels is annoying, as the Control Center was the kind of thing you could access without looking. Now I push the wrong buttons because I'm in the media panel instead of the basic controls or vice versa. Anyone know if this is possible?
I am a CS beginner taking udemy python course and trying to install pip in order to use matplotlib, pandas and so on in pylab. I use IDLE 3.4.2 and latest version Pycharm
Is it possible to force an app that is being opened to be actually opened every time in a different desktop, so that the current desktop is not polluted with layered or stacked windows?
I'm wondering if you can save a Digital Touch drawing made in iMessage on iOS10. For example I made this drawing:
I recently purchased a 15in Macbook Pro for school, but I need to also run Windows for some programs I use for class. Could I install Windows 10 on my hard drive, and put Windows apps and games on a 256gb Micro SD card and run them off of the SD card instead of them running off my hard drive? Specs: Late 2013 15 in Macbook Pro, 2.3 GHz i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, nVidia 750m GPU, 512GB SSD.
Is there an iPhone app that will let me pop up a message on another device (iPad / iPhone / iPod)? For example I would have the app running on both devices and from my iPhone type "come upstairs" and it would pop up a message on the receiving device that shows "come upstairs"
I'm having an issue with iOS 10.0.1 and Safari 10. In iOS 9 and Safari 9, I am able to go a web site on port 4190. As soon as I use an iOS 10 device, I get this error message using Safari 10:
If it is a Linux NAS (WD EX2100 or EX4100), should we use or to connect to it if for some reason, it doesn't show up at the side panel of Finder? The above line is to be typed into
If you turn on iCloud Photo Stream, does it automatically share all your old photos with everyone? Or just the recent ones?
I want to keep the Dock on the left/right/top side instead of the bottom side of my screen. Is there a setting in System Preferences or a Terminal command that allows me to change this?
Around the middle of the summer, all of a sudden, any of my sms/mms text messages are received my my dad on his phone instead of my phone. I have checked, and we are not signed in to the same apple id and in my settings, the only phone number shown to receive my messages is my number. I want to stop this, any ideas?
System Events got an error: Can't get window "All Devices" of process "Apple Configurator 2". (-1728)
I'm building an app that requires users to have an account to log in. There is no way to register an account through the mobile app. The users are hand picked and their username and password are emailed to them prior to downloading the app. Is this something Apple will give me trouble about during submission to the app store? Not sure if this is the right forum for this question either. Thanks!
not sure how iOS 10 chooses the images for its People movies, but i'd like to add/subtract some. anyone know how to do this?
I see a file of a particular type and it defaults to opening in the wrong program. I right-clicked the file, held down Option, and selected Always open with and then the correct application. The file opened in the right app, but it did not change the default. How can I set the default for a file's type?
I get notifications from apps like Snapchat or Facebook Messenger. Does turning off Refresh affect these notifications?
After a fresh install of macOS Sierra, I installed the macTex distribution without any GUI programs. After that, I installed the latest release of the Tex Live Utility to update my tex distribution via a nice GUI. However, I cannot start the Tex Live Utility because macOS complains about that the program has not been signed by a verified developer. After I tried opening, there is a button under System -> Security to open the program anyway, but I keep going to see the same error message. This worked with another piece of software but with Tex Live Utility, this approach fails. Any idea on how to solve it?
With macOS Sierra installed on a Mac from at least 2013 and an Apple Watch (the very first one), users should be able to unlock their Mac with their Apple Watch. I have an Early 2013 MacBook Pro and an Apple Watch, both of which have the most updated version of the OS installed. I followed these instructions to get it to work (checked 2 factor authentication is on, I have a password on my Watch), but I do not see the option to use my Watch to unlock under System Preferences. Any ides on why it does not work? Could it have something to do with me having 2 Apple IDs, one for iTunes and one for iCloud? Could it be my Mac is somehow not ready for this feature (although it is from 2013)?
Whenever I start up the Macintosh , I get the above mentioned error. I would like to know the cause of it and solve the issue. I am using El-Capitan
It is quite strange that an app (such as Pokemon Go), can output sound only to the car by bluetooth. If it is the "iPod" (using a lightning USB cable) to the car, then songs played by the Music app will come out as usual, but the Pokemon Go audio will not.
I just did a fresh install of mysql with homebrew, when I start it, it says Any ideas?
I just got a 4th generation Apple TV and finally I can watch videos on my NAS from Apple TV after I installed VLC. But I have not found a way to load my own subtitle files. VLC for iPAD has this option, so I just want to know if this is available. The only option I found is to download from opensubtitle.org. Thanks
On my devices I see two separate conversations. One goes to her phone and one goes to her Mac. I can't see which is which but she has only one phone number and one iCloud account. What is causing this and how to fix?
When I try to connect to a shared volume on another Mac on my LAN, I get "Connection Failed." If I try to connect with "Go > Connect to Server..." and use IP address, it works fine. But if I try to mount through Finder window "Go > Network" I get "Connection Failed." Both machines are on El Capitan, both are logged in to the same icloud account, both have the same user/password. I can see the icon for the other machine, but when I double click I get "Connection Failed." Clicking "Connect As..." just changes this to "Not connected."
After updating to iOS 10, most of the songs in my library that I could play before now won't sync and the error message I get is Some of the items in the iTunes library, including "Song name", were not copied to the iPhone "iPhone name" because they cannot be played on this iPhone. But I could play these items before, nothing has changed. When I check the media format of one of the items it just says: kind: MPEG audio file bit rate: 320 kbps sample rate: 44.100 kHz channels: Joint stereo encoded with: LAME3.99 format: MPEG-1, Layer 3 From what I know this is just an MP3 with constant bitrate, a format that the iphone did support one week ago...
If I create a folder on the system hard drive I can see the 'staff' group permission and can remove it. However on the external drive there is no option.
I wanted to disable the iCloud photo library and the information said that I could still download my photos for 30 days, so I did. After disabling the library I got an email with the instructions to download the photos to the Photos app on my Mac.
macOS Sierra added ability to rearrange items in the Menu bar, however after rebooting computer they reset to their previous order.  I'm not using Bartender or any Menu bar controlling apps. How can I make icon order permanent?
I wanted to make a mixed video of all the people in my pictures but accidentally merged them all as one. What can I do to un-merge them as seperate people again?
I have an iPhone 6s. Since upgrading to IOS 10 (version 10.0.1), whenever I make a phone call and the destination number is busy, the busy signal comes from the external speaker (on the lower right border) instead of the phone speaker (in the middle above the screen); it's just like having speakerphone enabled, but it isn't, and this only happens for the busy signal: if the number is not busy, all audio correctly comes from the phone speaker (unless, of course, I actually enable speakerphone).
I have an old MacBook (2-3 years old), it is running 10.9. Last night I cloned the hard drive and tried to use it as a startup disk on my new MacBook Pro (June 2016, with 10.11 installed).
This wasn't a problem in iOS 9 or earlier. However, now iOS 10 has added a new feature such that one doesn't have to switch keyboards to type in another language, which causes trouble: now I have both English and French dictionaries and both keyboards, and for example, when I type "critique" in the English keyboard, a word existing in both dictionaries, iOS will then prompt the French suggestions (de, le, la etc.), even though I never mean to switch to French -- I just want to normally type "critique" as an English word, but of course iOS can't detect my intention.
For some reason, the Airfoil AirPlay device (reachable in the below menu) has suddenly stopped working. When trying to send audio to it from my other Mac, I get the system pop-up "Could not connect to xxx-Airfoil".
When I dictate a text message to Siri and she sends it the message comes back with this code $!!$ . The message does not go through and this is also happening on my iPad as well. Is this a carrier issue or an apple issue? How do I fix it?
Let's look at the following scenario: an app is not supporting iOS 8 anymore. how would iOS8 users know they have to update in order to get the latest app version? is a badge still visible on the appstore icon informing the user that there is a new version of the app and when clicking on "upgrade" he will be informed that this app is not supported with this OS-version or how does it work?
I am using the Google Calendar app to sync all my calendars since I find it smarter than the standard iOS calendar app. However, I am unable to get my Google Calendar app to sync in the background on my iPhone. The app starts syncing to my calendars as soon as I open it, but it does not update events in the background if I don't start it. I have my Gmail account set up correctly in the "Accounts" section, with "push" turned on and "every 30 minutes" manual sync if push is not available. Background app refresh is enabled.
I have many music tracks on my computers which are free downloads from SoundCloud. They usually don't have all the proper ID3 meta-data. In iTunes 12 (released with macOS Sierra), is there a way to sort the "Artist" view, not by Album? Almost every single Web DL track will have the header "Unknown Album" which feels a tad bit ugly and useless.
I've got a mac mini running 10.8.5 that I want to upgrade to a newer OS. The most recent OS I can upgrade to is Yosemite 10.10.5 (due to the fact some software we need to run doesn't work on 10.11 or the upcoming 10.12).
I have a late 2012 Mac mini that came with a 500 GB HDD installed from the factory. It's almost full so I want to upgrade it to a 1 TB Fusion Drive, as the cost for a 1 TB SSD is still steep. The Mac mini is currently running 10.8.5 (I'm not sure if it's even compatible with Fusion Drives) and I'm going to upgrade the machine to 10.10. Do I need to do anything in particular to use a 3rd party Fusion / Hybrid Drive?
In Microsoft Office 2016, it's possible to Zoom In/Out using a Mouse Wheel while holding the Ctrl button. For some reason the zoom sensitivity is insanely high (probably because of my normal page scroll mouse wheel settings, which are quite sensitive). Unfortunately it makes the scroll/zoom function borderline unusable. Is there a way to adjust the wheel sensitivity in Microsoft Office 2016 (or Word 2016)? Is there a way to adjust the wheel sensitivity in Microsoft Office 2016 (or Word 2016)? Otherwise, is there a way in OS X or using a third-party utility, to adjust sensitivities on a per-app basis? Otherwise, is there a way in OS X or using a third-party utility, to adjust sensitivities on a per-app basis? Furthermore: I'm using a Logitech mouse that uses the Logitech Control Center utility in System Preferences, and holding the mouse's zoom button while zooming with the wheel, exhibits the same sensitive behaviour as Ctrl + Scroll.
My Podcasts are playing too fast. I have searched the web and there should be a 1x button close to the rewind button, but I do not see it. (See Attached Screenshot). I have a Iphone 5s running IOS 10. How can I slow down the play speed?
I forget a passcode for my iPad Air (model A1474). After several unsuccessfull attempts to enter the passcode, it become locked permanently and asked me to connect it to iTunes. When I connect it to computer, iTunes says "iTunes could not connect to the iPad “Ilya V. Schurov’s iPad” because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPad before it can be used with iTunes." And iPad still doesn't allow me to enter passcode. I also turned off "find my ipad" feature and cannot erase iPad with iCloud.
I have Voicemails on my iPhone 6s from my mother who recently passed. Please advise the best way for me to save these.
I have a source document that I'm trying to clean up, it's essentially plain text. But the author has bold text indicated with { } brackets, and italics indicated with < > brackets.
This is my /etc/sudoers file edited with visudo, but I'm still asked to enter my password when doing sudo. I had this running in previous OS installs but now it doesn't work. My main need for this is to automatically execute xampp at startup and not having it asking me for the password.
I recently went to a restaurant and found that their wifi network has "security recommendation" next to its name. I've never seen it before, and wonder if it might be a new thing introduced in iOS 10.
I don't know if anyone has had a similar situation going on with their account recovery if you ever tried to use this Apple feature but this is what happened: I was locked out of my Apple ID account because I had been hacked. Because of this, I changed my passwords numerous times, even my Apple ID for safety measures and for some reason I got a notification that someone from New York (I live in Missouri) was trying to access my account, thanks to two-step authorization, I declined the access BUT then a few days later my Apple ID said it needed me to put my password into my iPad for security purposes and my password didn't work! I write all my passwords down in a secure place and somehow my password had been changed!! I quickly tried account recovery and it said it would take a few days for Apple to send me a text message on my phone of instructions on how to fix the issue and I have yet to receive the message (it has been exactly 2 weeks and 3 days) I called Apple Support and they said
When writing code for web i need to have several programmes and files open at the same time, i need : project folder open in sublime text terminal open and on a specific directory tower (git client) open on the correct project mamp open and running browser open and on to local server url It takes me a few minutes to setup each time, is there a way i can automate these so that with one action all will open and be in the correct configuration ? Im running osx 10.10
My MacBook Pro is running Sierra with FileVault enabled. I recently enabled iCloud 2 factor authentication. I had previously been using 2 factor verification, and my macOS account password was linked to my iCloud password. When I moved to 2 factor authentication it asked me to create a new password for my macOS account (maybe you can't link your macOS account password to your iCloud password anymore…) Now that I changed my password, I had trouble logging into my machine so I had to use the password reset feature on the login screen (it rebooted into a recovery mode and I had to put in my iCloud password so that I could update my local user's password). I updated my password again thinking I had mistyped it, and had the same trouble. When I booted into the password change recovery mode again I noticed a message in the change password dialog box that said that you might have trouble logging in if your password has punctuation or accented characters. Sure enough, removing these characters
I have several folders and files that I would like to link to a local folder that happens to be a Dropbox folder. Specifically I'd like to put Finder aliases to some files and some folders into a folder that is on Dropbox. What happens when I do this? What is synced to Dropbox? Is it just the Finder alias itself (a special kind of file only meaningful on macOS) or are the linked-to files or folders copied to Dropbox?
Looking the Lightning Earpods, but can't seem to find a USB 3 or 2 to Female Lightning adapter. Anyone know anything or where I could find one?
I have iOS 10 installed on my phone. As far as I can tell everything is configured properly. A number of support documents out there for iOS 9 list verifying that "Use cellular data" is enabled on the phone in FaceTime settings, however this is not an option in iOS 10. I did verify under Settings > Cellular that FaceTime was indeed enabled. Everything I've read online is that since Yosemite, I should be able to place phone calls to any telephone number using features from that release such as is outlined here: *=URL=* Unfortunately, most numbers in my Contacts app have the dial button disabled. Both devices are on the same Wifi network (phone and macbook).
iPad mini 4 iOS 10.0.1 On several websites when the page loads, Safari is not rendering the page correctly. Content appears, but images, formatting, colors, etc are missing.
I am unable to update Xcode: after entering my user id and password I am getting "Your Apple ID has been disabled" error.
At one point, in my misguided youth, I set my left "fn" key to do something silly. "No worries, surely this can be quickly undone", I thought. But now I can't get it undone. I've gone to system preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts (which is where (I think) I made the changes in the first place) and asked for a restore to defaults. But, alas, the binding remains, surprisingly and frustratingly. I'm looking for (preferably non-drastic) further things to try. EDIT: Silly me. (1) There's only the one "Fn" key.
Whenever I have text copied to my clipboard, this text gets auto-pasted into the field of the "Find" command (Command + F) with no interaction from me. I don't like this behavior, as most of the time that is not what I wanted to search for and then I have to go in and delete it before I can search. Even if there is already text there from a previous search, the clipboard text will replace it when I hit Command + F.
When I run Diagnostics, the Network Status shows up green for Wifi, but red for wifi settings and everything below that. The actual act of running the diagnostics fixes the problem.
As the screenshot above shows, some tracks of the same title are failed to be uploaded to iCloud/iTunes Match. Even they have different time lengths and belong to different discs. For example, in the above screenshot, SHOW (3:32), the first track of the second disc has an iCloud status icon Duplicate, whereas SHOW (3:30), the first track of the first disc is successfully uploaded to iCloud/iTunes Match. Why does this situation happen, and how can I successfully upload these tracks to iCloud/iTunes Match?
Rebooting the iPhone briefly resolves the problem, but I get a pop-up saying that not all my iCloud data could be restored shortly after rebooting. Then after a few apps are done downloading, the stalling resumes. I know it's not my Internet connection because the browser on the phone is very fast and responsive on WiFi (and on 4G) and I get speeds around 25-30 Mbps with under 100 ms pings on both WiFi and 4G. When this problem is occurring, installing new apps from the App Store just causes them to show the "empty" download progress wheel and the app never makes any download progress, no matter how long I wait (tried waiting 2 hours for a 10 MB app and nothing, but I could stream music at 320 kbps on Spotify no problem while staring at the lack of download progress). Force quitting the App Store doesn't help. Toggling WiFi / airplane mode doesn't help.
I added a name for a person in the people album, but there was a typo. Now it says Davr instead of Dave. It bugs the heck out of me. How can I change the name?
Can I transfer data from my MacBook Pro which has a broken screen, to another Apple Mac. The screen is black when I turn on the laptop.
I've tried to install two TTF fonts, but they don't show up in FontBook. Message in Console is: Sandbox: FontValidator(897) deny(1) file-read-metadata /
I want to remove both disk0s4 and disk0s5 partitions which were created for a bootcamp install. However when I goto disk utility then try to remove the partitions from my drive, I get the following error: MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. Screenshots below:
I left my iphone 6 in the sun and it stopped working. It has been a few hours since I cooled it down and it still doesn't work or even take a charge. Is the battery damaged? How do I fix this problem?
Trying to install the official version of macOS Sierra, released today 2016-09-20. When I use the Parallels Wizard to create a new VM, I selected the Install macOS Sierra.app application as listed. Next step is saving the OS X image file.dmg file with its default name in a folder I choose. Then I get the error: Failed to create a bootable disk image file for this version of OS X. Running Parallels 12.0.2 on a MacBook Pro with El Capitan.
The Store in iCloud function that was introduced with macOS Sierra looks interesting to try out. It will store both the Desktop and the Documents folders in iCloud Drive instead of on the local drive.
Since upgrading to iOS 10 I've noticed that often when I want to hang up a call, I now have to unlock the phone, navigate to the phone app to finally press the red "hang up" button. Previously there would be some basic phone controls like "Mute" and "Hang up" even if the phone decided to lock while you were on the call. Now all I see is the contact information and call duration where the clock would be and "Press home to unlock" on the bottom. No phone controls. How can I reenable the phone controls on the lock screen?
I have used say in the past for text-to-speech from the terminal, but I've just tried it and it seems to never speak (nor end the process?). Does anyone know if it has an issue in 10.11.5 or something?
The shortcut Option ⌥ + ` (back tick on the tilde key above tab) followed by the letter a, e or u would allow you to type a French accent grave (i.e. "où").
Is there a way to easily switch display color profiles, instead of going to System Preferences > Displays > Color > Display Profile? It doesn't seem to be AppleScript-able. There used to be a menu-bar utility called ProfileMenu, but it no longer works in macOS Sierra, and is no longer supported. You can get the selected profile using AppleScript, but it's read-only, so you can't set it:
The Minimum Font Size option seems to be missing in Safari 10.0 / macOS Sierra. It's been replaced by Page Zoom (prefs > advanced). I'm specifically asking how to prevent Safari in Sierra from ever using a font size below a certain value. I don't want to have to fix this on a site by site basis.
I have a bunch of photos in Google Photos that I would like to share to Instagram using my iPhone. Is there a way to do to that? Or a way to move photos from Google Photos to Photos on my iPhone? Thanks very much.
I've found that some recent iMessage messages that were sent to me showed up only on my iPad instead of both my iPad and my iPhone. There are other questions at Ask Different that address how this could happen, but my concern here is getting the message streams back in sync so that both devices show the same history of messages. In other words, I want to get the missing messages to appear in the message stream on my iPhone (with the correct timestamps). Is there some way to force the iPhone to sync with the iPad or with a master message database at Apple? Both devices are running iOS 9.3.5.
I updated my early 2015 retina Macbook Pro 13" to macOS Sierra. In system information and in the menubar (see pic) the bluetooth version is 5.0.0 is it just a driver version or do i now have bluetooth 5?
Is it possible to see the lifetime totals (steps, distance, etc) from all data in the Health app? Perhaps with a third party app?
Apple yesterday released macOS Sierra for public. The update weighs ~5 GB. I have two Macs with me: one is my personal, the other my office has given. Instead of downloading the installer twice (10 GB), It would be great to download the copy and once use it to upgrade multiple devices (iMacs/Mac minis).
how people know what's possible to be changed via CLI in OSX / macOS if com.apple.finder.plist is a binary file and calling cat command for that file shows only a binary gibberish output? I've found great option in macOS Sierra: Keep folders on top when sorting by name What's the name of it's defaults write so that I can add it into my settings script?
I accidentally deleted my Photos.app from /Applications dir. I looked up the internet but couldn't find a way to get it back. Where do I download it from?
I have had Microsoft Word installed on my mac for years, and it used to be that I could see a list of opened documents just by right-clicking the word icon in the dock. But some time ago, it seems that this functionality disappeared.
I have downloaded the macOS Sierra from app store but unable to install it. It's not displayed in updates section...
However, when inserting a picture, I can't seem to find a way to pass a file-object. I use this code: The property file name doesn't accept a file-object, and there is no property file. Is there a way to get rid of this dialog?
On El Capitan and before I could set a different format language than the display language in OS X. So the UI of OS X would be English, while the date and number formatting would be Dutch. However this setting was changed when upgrading to macOS Sierra, it now uses English for both display and formatting. I would really love to revert this change to what it was on OS X El Capitan. OS X El Capitan:
I am trying to understand if under the hood of my MacBook Pro I can have access to its IR sensor (the same used for Apple Remote)? The goal is to read/listen to IR signals, for example a TV controller or my child's remote control car controller. Are there any tricks or software I can use to achieve this?
Apple AirPods are supposed to work for iOS devices, Apple Watches and Macs. Apple states that the OS requirements are: Requires iCloud account and macOS Sierra, iOS 10, or watchOS 3 (source).
I've recently installed the Google Chrome extension Streamkeys which allows the user to use keyboard commands to perform common playback actions on popular streaming sites (Youtube, Soundcloud, and many major sites). For macOS, Streamkeys default setting is to use the global Mac media keys (⏪ ▶/❚❚ ⏩). Due to Chrome design, global keys cannot be rebound to use modifier keys like SHIFT + ▶/❚❚.
I have just bought a Macbook 5,1 Unibody Late-2008 (the Macbook which looks like a Macbook Pro). The seller told me that the WiFi was not working anymore. The Bluetooth isn't working either so I presume the Airport Card is broken. I have added a USB WiFi adapter and it works correctly, but when I close my laptop it goes into sleep, the light gently fades once, and then the sleep light shines and no more sleep... I have looked in the pmset logs and found that the computer made DarkWakes but without telling reasons. If I look in syslog, I see Wake Reason: ? I have not found anyone experiencing the same behaviour with their computer. Could the broken Airport card make the computer wakes from sleep?
I need to install a single file in ~/Library/Spelling/voikko/, and I want to use Apple's software for it, to get signing and all that stuff correct. Problem is, so far I have found no way of installing a single file. All options and solutions assume you are installing a bundle. I need an installer since the ~/Library/ dir is hidden - it is too much to ask regular users to open that dir, find the correct subdir, and then create another dir manually. Any help appreciated :)
I initially had my Mac partitioned for Boot Camp. I re-image my computer once every year and did so today, of course knowing that my partitions will disappear. However this time, the maximum capacity of my hard drive seems to have shrunk (see picture), and I'm not sure what's happening.
On my main iMac, I've got a huge iTunes library which is shared with Home Sharing. I use my MacBook much more frequently, and I have basically no music on it. I would instead like to direct iTunes to always open/play from the main Home Shared library if it's available.
I know that we can AirPlay photos, videos and music from an iOS device to an Apple TV or AirPort Express, or AirPlay enabled speakers. But can we also airplay content from iPhone or iPad to another iPhone/iPad?
This is the setup: OSX Yosemite Java based service that is being started using a LaunchDaemon The service is started with a custom user that is being created during installation The user has a custom home directory to save certain information, like preferences Here is how is the user created: The service usually creates user preferences which are then stored in the ~/Library/Preferences directory - in a plist backed store.
I've looked at this question -- it has the same title as mine, but it is quite old. I had a mac.com and a me.com account through MobileMe back in the stone age. I've always found the me.com address annoying and would like to remove it. I have made it inactive by using mail.app > accounts.
Before making a bootable drive for Sierra's installer i want to make sure that the download was successful. Run in Terminal: shasum -a 256 "/Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" Wait some minutes for the result to show up. Mine is: 78a2701bb63a0dcb30862314d1a4598522cfe6a2dd2b096a4e30f256909a4446
After updating to Sierra today, I cannot connect with ssh to my Ubuntu 14.04 box because it says Unable to negotiate with port 22: no matching cipher found. Their offer: blowfish-cbc
So it turns out I can not install Sierra because I have a Mid2009 Macbook Pro. I wanted to update to El Capitan, but it turns out its no longer available on the app store? Any ideas, how to get El Capitan?
We use a Windows print server and until now it was possible to store the needed credentials in the KeyChain. By the first print, OS X asks for username and password with the possibility to remember it. On all the machines we updated to macOS Sierra, the system asks for the credentials for each print:
Can anyone recommend a free stop watch or timer which stays always on top on every application for MacOSX? I want to count hours when i am programming or browsing ! it should appear on top on every app like browser or editor !
Introduced in macOS Sierra, the user can control how fast the Mission Control animation moves to the “end view”, by how fast the action is performed on a trackpad. I think the default setting is much too slow, and I don't want to overdo the gesture each time just to get better efficiency out of the animation. This 2012 article refers to settings like these: for fast animations, and to reset: I have tried them in Sierra and they don't work. Here is a video of the approximate behaviour of Mission Control (source).
Every time I try to enable iCloud Desktop and Documents Sync it spins the spinner for a while and it looks like the setting is enabled, but as soon as I reopen settings it is deselected. Console produces errors like these: Any suggestions?
I need to be able to be notified by email or other means if someone logs into the Safari-Only guest user account. I found an old forum discussing installing Prey on the Safari-Only guest user account here, and I saw this as a good lead toward the solution. I also found a tutorial to send an email using a launchd daemon on Apple Discussion forums (thread #2523408). However, to put these together, it seems to me that there would require other dependencies to make it possible to send an email on the Guest User, or that I otherwise would need to write an applescript or something to do the notifying through Safari.
In Mac OS X El Capitan, is there a shortcut to move full screen apps between monitors? Today I first bring the app out of full screen mode, then drag it to the second monitor and then maximize it again. I wish there was a shortcut to just move it from monitor 1 to monitor 2.
I have about 50,000 files in a folder tree which show up as the correct "Kind" in Finder ("Sound Designer II audio") but which have no extension. I want to find all these and rename them to *.sd2 in Terminal. Can the find command be used to find by "kind" without any extension?
I have chosen "Block popup windows" in Safari's security tab, yet there are a couple of sites for work that still use popups for login etc. Is there a way to add exceptions (in advanced settings or directly in the plist file perhaps?) Or maybe via a Safari extension?
When I plug my headphones into my MacBook Pro or when I return to my MacBook Pro after the headphones have been plugged in for a while, sometimes I get no sound, the Sound icon in the Menu bar is greyed out and when I click the Sound up button on the keyboard I get the below icon (see screenshot). If I take the headphones out and wait a couple of seconds then replug them in they work again. Headphone wise I've seen this happen with a range of headphones from Apple EarPods to Bose noise canceling headphones. I've seen this happen on two Mid 2012 MacBook Pro models, a 15" and 13", both running OS X 10.10. Any ideas what's causing this and how I can be resolved? Just in case any one mentions it, I'm plugging the headphones into the 3.5 mm headphone jack not the cinema audio port.
I bought a MacBook Pro 13 Retina nearly a month ago. Talking to a friend he told me that is not normal for this pc to consume 10% battery over night with the lid closed and with "Power Nap" disabled.
We are looking to add a non-admin user to /Groups/_developer to allow them to work on xcode, following the instructions in this thread. But there is concern that a non-admin person in the developer group would be able to wreak as much havoc as if the person were in the admin group. What are the privileges/risks associated with putting the user in the developer group as opposed to the admin group? And is there documentation for that?
After creating a new encrypted id-rsa key file with ssh-keygen and using it for the first time, I cannot get macOS to forget the passphrase. This is similar to how to make OS X not remember ssh key passphrase question but worse.
I updated to Sierra yesterday and now my Time Machine backups to my WD MyCloud EX2 NAS aren't working any more. Scheduled backups get stuck in "Looking for backup disk..." in Time Machine preferences. Does anyone have ideas on how to resolve this? Here is what I did to troubleshoot:
The update to macOS Sierra wrecked scrolling with my Logitech Mouse (which uses Logitech Control Center). The scrolling behaviour is erratic because I'm actually assaulted by two issues: In native macOS applications, like Apple Pages, there is an ”inertia-ish” effect that slows down the scroll and introduces some sort of acceleration-like movement akin to the worst nightmares from Windows 10.
Yesterday I installed macOS Sierra and now I want to enable this new feature - unlocking MacBook with Apple Watch. I opened Security & Privacy settings and tried to check this option (Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac). It asked me for my iCloud (Apple ID) password, I provided it, but then it showed me the following message:
Prevent Voice Control from activating when the phone is locked? (I would also prefer that unauthorized people not be able to use its features.)
I use an external USB hard drive (Seagate SRD00F1) with Time Machine. I connected the drive and began making a backup with Time Machine, however the whole computer froze half way through. I unplugged the hard drive from the USB port and the computer became responsive again. I've restarted my Mac - including resetting the PRAM - and the drive doesn't show up in Finder or the Disk Utility. Effectively the drive cannot be seen by the Mac at all. The drive is "on" in the sense that it is spinning and has a light on it when connected. The drive does not have an external power supply.
I installed Sierra last night and my Microsoft Wireless Comfort keyboard suddenly started requiring me to press CapsLock two times in order for it to activate caps lock. I plugged in an Apple keyboard to test, and that still works as intended. Is there a setting that I'm missing?
I'm a visual thinker. I prefer seeing everything laid out clearly and then moving around a big layout. With screen zoom, I can quickly zoom in-and-out on parts of the screen. Right now, if I tile windows, then zooming in on a corner of the screen just makes everything about that window look big (e.g. every pixel is expanded, so fonts look bigger, icons look bigger, etc.). But what if I wanted to do the symmetric movement in the opposite direction: make it so that when the screen is zoomed, things look normal, and when the screen is unzoomed, they look small? So even with limited total screen resolution, I can imagine a screen dimension setting that "fakes" a higher resolution than the screen can actually achieve, then only displays at the correct resolution after zooming in.
I have a third generation Ipad with ios 9.5.3. In the app store I can try to buy Keynote. Everytime I do that, the app store begin telling me that I need IOS 10. Before IOS 10, how could people get keynote on a third generation ipad? And now?
According to the Mac support docs, I should be able to use Command-Shift-Control-4 to take an area screenshot to the clipboard. This doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Whether I use an external keyboard or not it doesn't work.
I want to turn off the little squiggle in the bottom right corner of the Messages keyboard (the one that activates drawing mode). How can I do this? Is there a setting?
I am running out of space on my 16 GB iphone 6 (shocker.) I have about 400 family photos that i've taken, and added to a shared album. All of these photos are stored locally on my iPhone.
I have tested my network download speed (hit 132 Mbps, but that was to server within 100 miles), changed the DNS server address to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, restarted my macbook, but the download time will not change! Please tell me there is something else I can do to fix this. I expected some extra download time with everyone upgrading, but this is ridiculous -- it is 2016, right? Thanks
After asking Siri a question on macOS Sierra -- her response window just stays pinned in the upper right corner. Is there a keyboard shortcut or another siri command to hide that window without having to click the small "x" button? Maybe a way to make it automatically close after some time has passed?
I have just updated my Mac to macOS Sierra 10.12. My hostname is ninjaPixels-Macbook-Pro and if I run: ping ninjaPixels-Macbook-Pro.local or ping ninjaPixels-Macbook-Pro I get an error of unknown host. host ninjaPixels-Macbook-Pro.local returns the error: Host ninjaPixels-Macbook-Pro.local not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) This is an issue as part of our codebase at work needs to run the following python: socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) and it fails because my computer seems to have forgotten who it is. I can successfully run ping localhost and ping 127.0.0.1 I’ve tried the following: Rebooting. Switching off the Firewall. Changing my local hostname, using System Preferences > Sharing > Edit. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder dscacheutil -flushcache sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
I have just updated my OS to MacOS Sierra. I have connected my external Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and it is not displaying under 'Devices' in my Finder window. It worked fine before the update.
I can't seem to get Siri to work on my 2014 Macbook Pro. I click the icon and nothing happens. Diagnostics and Usage data just seem to barf out a bunch of com.apple.siri attributes and ends with The system logs have the line
One way to sort of solve this is to open the affected files one by one. However, due to the amount of affected files, this is not feasible.
I know that I can set the System Photo library in Photos.app in Preferences > Use as System Photo Library I would like to know how to set this using the command line, giving the new System Photo Library location as a parameter. The background for this is that I keep my Photos library in Dropbox, and I have found that if I have it set to the System Photo Library on more than one Mac, I get file conflicts due to background processing - so I would like to do some scripting to work around some of these issues.
I want to update from Mac OS X 10.6.8 to the newest version which is macOS Sierra. My Mac should be able to run this version of macOS. If I try to download the update on the App Store it fails because I need Mac OS X 10.7 at least. What can I do to upgrade my Mac?
Since installing macOS Sierra my right alt key is being mapped to ctrl. This behaviour is also visible on the keyboard viewer, where pressing the left alt key clearly activates the alt functionality, but pressing the right alt key activates the ctrl functionality. How can i change this back?
I'm running into a an issue where Siri can't connect to her servers from behind our corporate proxy connection. What's interesting is that this isn't an issue on our iPhones behind the same proxy. Any ideas?
i have both x code 7.3.1 and x code 8 installed on OS X 10.11 and i need them both to manage my apps written with swift language. i have downloaded both from apple website (not from app store) and i still keep the setup files (.dmg & .xip) will xcode 7.3.1 still work on sierra if i upgrade? thanks in advance.
I've been trying to test my knowledge of what /etc/hosts is but I'm not getting anywhere. From understanding the point of /etc/hosts is it can round host names to ip addresses. So if you put the following in your /etc/hosts file:
When attempting to add a L2TP IPSec VPN connection in macOS Sierra, I'm unable to as the details in the 'Authentication Settings...' menu do not save. Adding the password and pre-shared key, leaving the menu, and going back into it shows empty fields. Clicking apply and then clicking 'Connect' shows a dialog to insert the password, the connection then fails (presumably because it's not using the correct Pre-Shared Key. Why is this happening?
I came across this question which is my exact issue: Do I have to enroll an Apple Developer Program to access itunes connect as a team member? I am part of a team and have access to the developer part of apple. But I cannot activate my iTunes Connect invitation. However, when i get the last step of the answer to "click the activation link" I am not asked to login, but rather enter a new password, and type a secret question.
When I attempt to do so, a prompt appears telling me to update my phone's iOS. I am wondering whether there is a workaround; I do not want to lose my jailbreak. Thank you in advance.
So, I downloaded the second GM before the public release, tried to open it and got this error: The application “Install macOS Sierra” can’t be opened. I then downloaded the public release from the Mac AppStore, same problem. I tried using chmod +x /..../Contents/MacOS/Install/InstallAssistant, made the app open but immediately stops responding.
In iOS 9 and earlier, you could tap any notification center row to be brought into the app, usually deep-linked to the source of the notification. Swiping on the notification revealed other options.
So I noticed recently that when I try to watch YouTube videos or Netflix in full screen on my Macbook Air, the whole screen will wash out with orange and yellow and I can't see anything, but it's perfectly fine if I don't watch it in fullscreen. And on Netflix if I use subtitles, it's normal when someone is talking, but when the text disappears the screen gets an orange tint again. I've tried calibrating the colors through the display section of system preferences but it always tells me that there is an error. I've searched for someone who is having a similar problem but haven't found anyone. Please help! Thank you.
Is there a way to keep in app always in front of other apps? The tool referenced here - Afloat - doesn't work in El Capitan. Would love to keep iTerm2 always in the forefront but can't find a way to do this.
Is there any difference between an iPod 5th Generation (80GB, late 2006) and an iPod Classic (160GB, late 2009)? The 80GB iPod works perfectly with a USA-SPEC PA-12 adapter for a BMW car stereo and a simple 30-pin to USB adapter for input to a receiver. The newer 160GB iPod is not recognized and will not play.
My husbands emails from his gmail account show up in my Apple Mail account. We both have separate gmail accounts, but all his emails show up in my Apple Mail inbox. How to stop?
My startup disk was formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)". Then I installed macOS Sierra, and it prompted me to turn on FileVault. I did, not remembering that the disk was already encrypted, and it went through the slow process of encrypting the data.
I created three Apple IDs on my iPhone. I have signed out of all three IDs one by one. However now I am not able to create a new Apple ID on my iPhone.
Can anyone running the released version of Sierra post screenshots of the folders: Library>Fonts and System>Library>Fonts? Got something I want to check about deprecated system fonts, but I don't have a noncritical machine I really want to install Sierra to. Thanks.
I've always used: Setting up a local web server on OS X to set up my localhost and userdirs. After upgrading to Sierra, yesterday, my localhost web server wasn't working anymore. I tried following the tutorial again but I'm not able to get into my userdir. localhost works:
If an iPhone 7 Plus is used as a hotspot for an iPhone 6 Plus, then I think the iPhone 6 Plus will treat the data as "not cellular" and use as much as it wants? So, for example, Google Photos or other apps, when set to not use cellular data, will transmit data as much as they want when using a hotspot, which happen to be cellular data on the other phone. That means, Google Photos or other apps can be transmitting 30GB or 60GB of data, and run up the phone bill to several hundred dollars. Is there a way to prevent or lessen the issue?
I have a perfect eye sight and can read tiny text, too. The Apple Music revamp in iOS 10 has huge text which is very awkward for me and difficult to use. I searched for any setting, but could not find one. Is there any possibility of reducing the size?
I've just upgraded my OS to Sierra and have turned on the "optimize storage" option for iCloud Drive. But strangely I now get a "your iCloud storage is full" message.
Is there a way to create a shortcut to the Settings->Music->EQ in iOS? Sometimes with my headphones I like to activate Bass Booster, but want to turn it off when listening via Bluetooth in my car...
After following the steps in: How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X? How can I undo these settings? How can I set Mail.app back to being the default mailto: protocol handler?
After I ran the macOS Sierra installer to start installation, my 2010 Macbook Pro wouldn't start anymore. It would get to the grey startup screen, flash the Apple logo for a second, and then switch to a crossed circle, and periodically restart that sequence.
After I updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 10 I started having issues with calls using the Parrot MKi9200 Bluetooth car kit. When I am talking on the phone through the Bluetooth kit the connection keeps dropping. Every minute or so it tells me that the connection was lost, and after a few seconds it connects again. This happens both when I am using regular phone calls and VoIP calls. However, when I am playing music or streaming a YouTube video there are no issues.
I have Apple Mail and Airmail 3 running side by side. Emails from lists which used to be perfectly rendered are now rendered by Apple Mail as text, while still being correctly rendered by Airmail 3. What's up? Example, rendered by Apple Mail:
Does the newest model of Mac-book pro 15 inch 256 GB (mid 2015) support Samsung's 950 pro NVM-E M.2 storage (512 GB)? Does the newest model of Mac-book pro 15 inch 256 GB (mid 2015) support Samsung's 950 pro NVM-E M.2 storage (512 GB)? Will it also improve sequential Read & Write speed of the system as the later form of storage is NVM-Express ? Will it also improve sequential Read & Write speed of the system as the later form of storage is NVM-Express ? NOTE: I tried to look it up over google & SE but I couldn't find any mention of MBP Mid 2015.
I update from OSX El Capitan to macOS Sierra yesterday. Now when I open PDFs containing highlights there are 'double highlights', ie. the original highlight and an additional highlight which is offset slightly. This only happens for some highlights.
I also get the same problem while uploading my build to the app store via Xcode 8. After uploading successfully from Xcode, I login to iTunes connect and see that it shows as Processing. After a little while it disappears. I've tried multiple times but have never been able to make it visible.
I have this command: Which works fine. Question is, how do I add another group in the same command? This does not work:
I updated to MacOS Sierra, and since then I have been getting a message (via CleanMyMac which tells me this sort of thing) that ZoomWindow is not responding. I get the impression that ZoomWindow is part of the system, but anything I find on the Internet is either uninformative or useless. What is ZoomWindow, and should it be unresponsive like this?
I've noticed that three finger drag does not work in the latest Safari. I used to be able to select text or pan in Google Maps easily. Now I have to push finger. Outside Safari it works as usual.
After updating to macOS Sierra, the OS no longer seems to automatically authorize network-mapped folders on system login. I have mapped NAS drives to connect to on startup, using System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. Keychain does save the login information, but it only appears pre-filled, and the network locations aren't automatically mounted on start-up. So every time I boot the machine, I am presented with a "Connect" dialogue with pre-filled passwords. In El Capitan, there was no need to manually authorize mapped network locations. I don't know if changing to an iCloud-based Keychain and Two-Factor Authorization in conjunction with the Sierra updated changed anything.
How do I get the list of the resources loaded in Safari's Web Inspector? (Web Inspector > Resources > Images) My goal is to download all images shown in the inspector. These are the manual steps: open web inspector (CMD + Shift + I; Develop > Show Web Inspector) click the "Resources" tab Navigate to your desired resource (fonts, images, scripts, stylesheets)
There was clearly something amiss and I was going to save her data, wipe the drive and install a new OS. However, in the meantime my friend installed an OS X update (not Sierra, but a regular package with minor updates).
My iPhone 5S shows iOS 10.0 in available update but for iPhone 5 it shows different. It shows iOS 9.3.5. What's is the problem ?
I recently swapped out the CD drive on my Macbook Pro late 2011 for a hard drive. On that hard drive there were some files that I wanted to delete, as per usual I moved them to the Trash. Now that they're in there they can't be deleted because due a to a message saying that the "folder is currently still in use". I located the folder to be on my newly added hard drive in its /.Trashes/ folder. I accessed this directory through the terminal and executed the command "sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/", however upon execution the message "No such file or directory" is noted after each of the folders within. I keep reading that this problem is something to do with 32 bit and 64 bit architecture confusion but if I'm honest I don't really understand what this means.
When using Yosemite and El Capitan, I set up a folder where screenshots are sent by default. Once screenshots were taken, they'd be added to the bottom of the folder, all in a grid and such.
This is more of a curiosity question that's been bugging me and I can't find an answer to. With the new MacOS Sierra, if you open the System Preferences, and look at the Date & Time icon used, the it shows the date July 18th, 10:10:30. In the past, Apple has typically been purposeful about their use of dates in icons, whether it's the day Steve Jobs came back to Apple, or the release of a new product. So the question is, why is July 18th used?
After upgrading to macOS Sierra yesterday, I notice that the system keyboard shortcut to shut down the computer no longer works. As documented here, before the upgrade you could shut down the computer using Control–Option–Command–(Power button or Media Eject). After the upgrade, the system seems to ignore the "Control–Option–Command" combo and merely sleep the display as if I had tapped the Power button alone. Do you know of any documentation on how to restore the old shortcut?
I would like to be able to record on my calendar a quick symbol to indicate that I exercised that day. Is that possible?
I wish to upgrade my OSX and am worried I lose my Adobe CS apps since they were issued by my (ex)college and i do not have the keys/seriel#'s I didnt quite understand the answer given. Will a TM backup save all this apps/data so if my new osx gives me problems I can 'go back' and recover the previous osx and ALL my apps/data incl the Adobe stuff! ? thanks D
I have the following .sh script that deletes Sierra, upon download, from the App store. This applies to any user on mac osx 10.10 or 10.11. However can someone add the code so that the app (sierra.app) actually deletes as soon as it starts downloading as opposed to when its finished downloading which is what it presently does.
I updated my Mac to 10.12 Sierra and updated Pages, Numbers and Keynote afterwards to the latest versions. So far so good, everything running normal. But unfortunately saving a Numbers file via AFP on a local Synology NAS (DS1815+, latest DSM) caused the application to crash and kicked all connections to shared folders. Saving on the local HDD is no problem at all. Then I tried to figure out whether thats a single problem with AFP and killed the AFP file service on the NAS to only start the SMB2 service. No problem to save on the NAS via SMB.
In the Contact card for myself, I have set up a related name for my mother to point to her Contact entry. When I ask Siri to "Call Mom", Siri correctly starts dialing her. Recently I've been tagging photos of her in the Photos app under the People album by associating pictures of her to her Contact. When I ask Siri to "Show me photos of (my Mom's name)" it works as expected, however when I ask Siri to "Show me photos of Mom" (how I would commonly say it), Siri brings back no results. Did I misconfigure something, or is that feature not implemented for Siri and Photos integration?
Using macOS Sierra, how do I migrate/switch/transition/upgrade the boot volume/partition from HFS+ to APFS in-place? Is this advisable, or perhaps already done by the Sierra installer?
In Calendar, you can have several calendar sources, e.g. Google, iCloud, other.
I last iTunes Apple have changed algorithm of displaying picture for Artist. How does it works? Why almost all my Artist's doesn't have artwork?
I select album and now I am listening it. But I am lookking the other music in iTunes. So I now I have the one album I am listening now and other page in my iTunes, like this:
My dock is organized with more commonly used apps at the left side. I would like, that when an app (not already in the dock) is opened, it should show up on the left and not on the right. Is this possible?
I have an NFS server running remotely on my network, but I am not able to connect to it. I am using NFS Manager which shows this information:
I am using a command line software for which I need to input a lot of arguments. Something like There are so many arguments that I get the error message
It seems I have some zsh misconfiguration. I use youtube-dl regular to download videos. But since a few days, I get this error
I notice that on Sierra, Siri's voice is much superior to the selection of system voices you can select in System Preferences → Accessibility → Speech. In fact, I suspect they use a different system entirely as the command say -v ? doesn't seem to list any voices which are used with Siri.
How do I see a sender's email in Google's email-app Inbox for iOS? I cannot click the displayed name or the photo, either while reading the email or when answering it. It just shows, in this case, an unknown first name of someone.
On Watch, I suddenly see no names for people in Messages. Instead I see the address (e-mail or phone number) they are sending from, even though the senders are in my Contacts and have the addresses associated with their entries. This was not the case before a recent update (I'm not sure which one). How do I get contact names to appear in Watch Messages?
I have 2 windows of Chrome opened in Display 1 & 3. Beside that, there is Terminal run in Display 1. Display 2 has some windows from other apps. In this case, I offten switch between Terminal in Display 1 and Chrome in Display 3.
I know I must upgrade first to El Capitan before upgrading to OS Sierra. But my question is will I loose installed Adobe Photoshop CS5 and my Bootcamp where I have 2 other costly programmmes installed.
I have been piecing together a shell script to use FFmpeg to validate video files in a folder and create a log file. When run in the terminal from that folder, it works fine. When I incorporate it into Automator to use as a service, it fails to create the log file correctly.
Config: Late-2013 rMBP running 10.12 (16A323) Issue: Spotlight appears to be mostly non-functional since upgrading to Sierra. I originally noticed it when searches failed to bring up anything in Mail, and Spotlight itself will only surface results from Dictionary. What I've Tried:
I've setup smart card authentication on macOS Sierra using a Yubikey 4. *=URL=* The default behaviour now is, that both smart card only and password only logins work. Is there a way to configure the smart card as a requirement? Login with a password only should not be possible, except for unlocking filevault at boot time.
I had installed Windows on my MacBook Air after wiping its HDD and then decided to have OS X reinstalled. One thing I noticed is that the office software that had previously showed up in the dock wasn't installed. When I look up Pages on the Appstore it shows a 20€ price tag. How can that be?
did anyone buy this at the time and they can access it in "purchased" tab of app store. and then get a link to it? i asked my apple business rep and they told me it was impossible... but i'd love to update my server to 10.10, and not have to move to 10.11. this happened with 10.9, and someone posted a link, i went there, bought it, installed it and it worked fine. thanks.
iPhone 5C, iOS 9. Was bought in the Apple Store and activated by me with my Apple ID a few years ago.
Updated to Sierra 10.12 and now see that all my Smart Mailboxes have disappeared from Mail. How can I make them reappear?
I updated my Mac to macOS Sierra yesterday, and now the location icon (which shows that an app is using location services) is almost always present in the menubar. The app using location is Siri and Dictation (not using dictation so it's definitely Siri's fault). Short of disabling Siri or blocking it from using my location, how can I get that location icon to get off my menubar? Edit: Now Weather, Calendar, and Siri are all using my location constantly.
Upgraded to macOS Sierra and found that the Pulse Secure Client is broken on the new OS. If you use Pulse Secure Client on a Mac let me know how can this be resolved on Sierra.
I had assumed that macOS and iOS photos would be synchronized through iCloud (assuming all iCloud features are enabled) but the people I see in "People" on iOS are not the same as the ones I see on macOS. As of today, iOS has spent days finding people and has nearly completed the process, but when I look in Photos on macOS, I see two contradictory things, neither of which is very comforting: Photos on macOS says it is just starting to scan for people, even though the process on iOS is nearly complete, and Photos on macOS shows a different but larger set of people (with different photos, completely different numbers, and names, connected to contacts, which iOS lacks). This is unexpected, since Photos is synced through iCloud. What's going on here: Why do Photos need to be scanned again for faces on macOS, even though they've already been scanned on iOS? Why are there already Faces in macOS; and why are they different? Why isn't iOS aware of the name sand contact entries associated with 
Late 2015 iMac is rebooting on its own. Only Finder running, OSX 10.11.6. (2) 8GB RAM sticks. Got to catch it in the act today. After reboot I find kernel: Previous shutdown cause: -128 That doesn't appear to correspond to anything useful in the old MacOS error codes documentation from 1998: -128 userCanceledErr User canceled an operation *=URL=* The is a refurb unit, hoping it doesn't need to go back for another refurbishment. thanks
Safari has become very slow to load pages. 5 to 10 seconds to begin to display a page. The problem is isolated to Safari on this computer. Other systems and browser are ok.
I have a Logitech Anywhere MX mouse that keeps on lagging. I had started to have a similar problem with the old Logitech (M505) and assumed the mouse was dead after years of wear and tear. So I got a new one, and the same issue persists. I think it's a software issue, somehow. What can I do to track the source of the problem?
I need to insure 18 MacBook Pro 15 retinas and 18 MacBook Pro 13 retinas for a school making a large purchase where the students are permitted to take the laptops home for homework. Does an insurance policy exist that will cover this? Both en masse or individual policies will work since parents will need to pay for their share of the policies. However, since parents are paying, the policy premium needs to make sense.
I restarted my iPhone 6 running iOS 10 and the home button is broken, so I was using Assistive Touch. But at the first launch, Assistive Touch is disabled. On iOS 10, we have to "Press home button to unlock". What can I do?
Prior to MacOS 10.12 Sierra, with Sticky Keys enabled, I could type ⌘, have it be "stuck", then click a link in a chrome browser tab and the link would open in a new tab. Now in Sierra, the same behavior opens the link in the same tab, even though the sticky key icon is visible. The only way to get ⌘-click to open in a new tab is to actually hold the key down while clicking (which defeats the purpose of sticky keys). Is there a way to restore the old behavior?
When I opened my Messages app after updating to iOS 10, my entire history of text messages was gone. I thought maybe they would return after leaving the phone plugged in and connected to wifi but this isn't the case. Where'd they all go? Literally years of conversations have disappeared - I didn't think this was a problem at first but I hadn't realized how much I relied on old text messages for stuff.
For whatever reason* you decide that you want your Apple Watch Nike Plus to function just like a standard Apple Watch: no more running notifications, no ugly watch faces, etc. which are exclusive to the Nike Plus. Is it possible to disable all NikePlus-exclusive features? you really liked the Nike Plus band and can't get it any other way, you broke your leg and no more running for you, some other excuse
I have macbook air ( 2014) and I want to connect 2 27" HP Monitors. I have thunderbolt to HDMi converter and then also bought HDMI splitter but it only mirrors the monitor. If I buy USB to HDMI converters, would that setup work or no?
Before upgrading to macOS Sierra, I really liked the Character Accent Menu by doing a long press on a key (for example, the character e) and being able to add an accent on it. However, this functionality seems to not work anymore, and so far, I can't find out why?
The campus I work for (I'm a student, not faculty or staff) is having issues with iOS 10 (for sure, haven't been able to get a single device running iOS 10 to work, even though 9.x.x worked just fine. It instantly says "Unable to join network" every time you tap the network name) and allegedly Mac OS Sierra not connecting to their 802.1x WPA2 Enterprise network. In doing some troubleshooting in my own personal time, I discovered that their certificate is self-signed. Could this be contributing to the issue?
I have Macbook Pro 15" Retina display. I recently upgraded to macOS Sierra from El Capitan. After upgrading, I am no longer able to open my Notes application. I have important data on Notes; how can i recover or can fix this issue ?
I recently bought a mac, and I need to know what the difference between installing nodejs (or any application for that matter) through homebrew and official downloader is? What's the recommended method?
What could be happening? Was after latest OSX update. Seems the app is not responding but is installed.
Whenever my mac boots up, each task that is launched prints the following message. See for example 22/09/16 14:13:45.070 TMHelperAgent[6171]: ApplePersistence=YES Whenever I run an AppleScript, I get the same message printed to stderr as well. osascript -e 'tell application id "com.spotify.client" to quit' 2016-09-23 08:39:15.084 osascript[1257:28252] ApplePersistence=YES
I started to have troubles with really high CPU usage when I replaced my battery. I didn't buy an original Apple one and from the first boot I had issues with the kernel_task process. I managed to solve this on Yosemite by moving the plist file for my Mac model following this tutorial: How to fix kernel_task CPU usage on Yosemite worked perfectly!
Since I upgraded my Retina MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra GM (16A319), rebooting the computer takes 20-30 minutes. I select Restart... from the apple menu, everything logs out, then the Mac hangs on a black screen for the rest of the time. I even have a mouse cursor. After a while it reboots normally, and booting takes 10-15 seconds as usual. If I force shut down, I can boot normally (except for the warning, that the computer was not shutted down properly). I've tried selecting Boot disk in System preferences, change the boot disk from terminal, but it seems the problems is with the shut down operation. I have only TripMode's kernel extension beside Apple's own modules.
It would appear that Gatekeeper in macOS Sierra is a bit pickier. At any rate, it is causing a small utility I made some years ago to throw a rather annoying error.
Is there any way to disable the time sync on Parallels Desktop 12 ? Whenever I resume my VM - certain tools I have running see the time change and immediately kick into high gear to update themselves and I'd like to prevent that.
I've been trying to download OSX "EC" (10.11) for the last week in order to make a recovery USB. The download always fails at exactly 1.92Gb. Now that macOS Sierra has been released I notice that the 10.11 download has been removed from the App Store. However, the macOS Sierra download also failed after several Gb, but unlike the 10.11 download I'm physically unable to re-attempt the download- please see the attached screenshot.
I've a lot of photos and videos taken on my iPhone. I'll usually copy the files of the photos/videos periodically from my iPhone to my PC. But this method of copying files manually is messy because the filenames of the image stored on iPhone sometimes can get confusing. I'm copying these files not for restoring them to my iPhone later, but to free up space. I'm not using the backup feature in iTunes for this because that backup is only an image of the phone and it doesn't let me view the photos. Is it possible, on a Windows 10 PC, that I can store, transfer and manage photos/videos from my iPhone to PC such that I can view the pictures/videos and recognise the albums in the Photo App on my iPhone?
I am overseas at the moment and I have bought a SIM which has plenty of data, but the plan doesn't include SMS. I have tried activating iMessage again as my phone number is different, but it is stuck on waiting for activation. When I turn on iMessage it comes up with "Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage."
I change the setting ‘Full Keyboard Access’ (the Keyboard settings in the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab) from ‘Text Boxes and Lists Only’ to ‘All controls’. Now, I am able to press Tab to moving focus, as illustrated below.
macOS Sierra I enabled Documents and Desktop iCloud sync and it looks fine to me at the moment (after moving one huge folder out of the Documents folder). But I tried to disable it and it told me that local files will be deleted but kept on iCloud. This makes sense as it is the same logic as with the Photos.app.
I have an iMac (late 2015), which I use with a wired USB Apple keyboard. The keyboard was working perfectly until I upgraded to Sierra, at which point it stopped working.
My WiFi can see 12 networks belonging to neighbours, locked and password protected, some with silly names. Network/Wi-Fi/Advanced allows me to remove names from the list, but only for networks I have joined. How can I remove the others?
I'm using an iMac (late 2015) with an Intel core i7 (quad core) 4GHz CPU with 32GB ram and a 3TB Fusion Drive. I'm a software developer working on a huge codebase that used to take about 30 minutes to build and run unit tests on my beast of a machine. Of course, running the build meant that the CPU usage was up through the roof and the fan working at its fastest speed.
I had to recently completely wipe my computer and reinstall everything. I just imported my photos from an external hard drive and that worked fine but the only issue is when i go into Photos, all of my pics are out of order.
I am downloading macOS Sierra from Mac App Store. But I have electricity problem here. Due to which my iMac will lose power after 2 hours. Now I want to pause the downloading so that I can resume the download later on. How can I do that? Here is a screenshot.
After upgrading to macOS Sierra the sleep keyboard shortcut doesn't work anymore. How do I re-enable it?
The Magic Trackpad 2 seems nice... except it's upside down. The tall part of the device should be closest to the user, not furthest. As built, it's a finger torture machine! How can I switch the default orientation 180º?
I've added a service through Automator, which opens iTerm2 in the current folder.  It works when I click in service menu. However when I try to assign a shortcut for it, it won't trigger.
I just installed macOS Sierra and when I log into the Recovery mode, I do not have the Utilities menu in it. Only the 4 options, Restore From Time Machine Backup, Reinstall macOS, Get Online Help and Disk Utility. How can I access Terminal from OS Recovery?
I just upgraded to MacOS Sierra and I lost a week-long of notes in Notes. It happened, after I restored a backup from a week ago and then installed Sierra. All my notes sync with iCloud, but there simply aren't any notes now from since last week. Is there any kind of way to recover those notes, because they are reaaaaaally important to me... Thanks:)
I've updated my app and due to some of the functions I'm releasing it has to be for iOS 10 and up. I understand that there is a way for users that have not upgraded to iOS 10 to be able to get the older version of my app but I haven't been able to figure out how to enable that in the app store. I just tested on a device and currently if you have iOS 9 it will tell you that you can't get the app because it is only supported on iOS 10. No option to download the previous version.
I stumbled upon this using Tunnelblick and Viscosity. Adding a configuration to those VPN tools it is possible in the GUI during the first connect to specify user&pass and save them in the keychain. The next connections will then use the saved credentials from keychain. However if I change the password in the keychain using the security terminal command (add-generic-password -U-s-a-w) or via keychain access application, afterwards both Tunnelblick and Viscosity will show the "Permission to access keychain: [Allow, Allow always, cancel]"-dialog if I try connecting the next time. Is there any way to prevent this dialog? I looked a bit in the Tunnelblick source code, but couldn't find a check for "keychain tampering" or anything that could force this dialog from Tunnelblick's side. If it is an configurable OS level protection?
I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 10. In the Photos app, there are Albums and each Album has a cover photo. How can I change the cover photo of an Album?
After updating to macOS 10.12, it cannot shut down (tried multiple times). I find the following log file. Do
I've run into an issue provisioning an iPad with Apple Configurator 2. I was in the process of redeploying an iPad from a former employee to a new employee, and noticed that I couldn't find Safari on the iPad, so I decided to just reimage it with Apple Configurator 2 (and our MDM platform). I figured I'd just restore it to factory default, provision it with our blueprint, get it on our MDM and be done with it, however, at some point in the restore process, Apple Configurator throws this unuseful error, and the device is stuck with a tiny bit of progress on the iOS installation screen.
I just updated to Sierra. As I am having problems to setup my Exchange email I want to reinstall El Capitan and use the Time Machine to get all the systems back. I already used my Time machine to backup 3 days of to Sierra.
I have downloaded ibooks from App store which sync without a problem I have also download ibooks from the internet, but for each device I have to manually download them and also I lose all my previous bookmarks and notes. In Settings .. iBooks .. sync bookmarks and Notes is selected In Settings .. iBooks .. sync collections is selected
I'm trying to add an alias for lolcat that will invoke after each command put into the terminal. I only know how to add it to select items, anyone know how to just make it a standard output?
I am able to bring up the Paper Tape window, but no calculator entries end up on it. Any hints as to what might be the issue? OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, Calculator v10.8 (123).
In macOS Sierra, the window edges are sticky and grab the edges of the display, the top of the Dock and the bottom of the menu bar when being moved around. This is very useful most of the time, but sometimes I would like to disable it. Whilst it is possible to move the window away from the edge and move it back again which seems to override the sticky edge functionality, I'd like something to prevent the initial grab in the first place. Is there a way to disable macOS Sierra's sticky window edges?
Cmd-D splits the terminal screen horizontally. How do I disable this "feature"? (Every time I accidentally this key, I have to undo it using Shift-Cmd-D and then re-maximize the window).
Is it possible to convert a Package into an App? I have a complete installer of El Capitan as a pkg file and I need to install it. But first I need to make it an app. I can't do it through the MAS because el Capitan is no longer available.
I got the iPhone 7, and I can't seem to find the true tone display setting. Is it still iPad Pro 9.7" exclusive?
Is there a way to delete all the related but undeleted files of removed applications? Like cached, configuration, etc, files. Are there any folders where these applications usually store these files? Are there any folders where these applications usually store these files?
So my MacBook Pro is getting super slow and laggy after a while of usage. I updated to Sierra today and my kernel_task is sky-rocketing - hitting up to 1100% and I have no idea why? I've tried all kinds of things like an SMC and PRAM reset and it didn't work. Has anyone had the same issue? Does anyone have a fix? Edit: I have 8GB of RAM and a 250GB SSD with 35GB of free space.
When I'm out of the country and don't have wifi or data and I want to send a text message to another iPhone back in the UK, it won't let me send a standard text message . It wants me to send an iMessage as it recognises I'm sending to another iPhone , but I do not have any data allowance or wifi so it won't let me send an iMessage anyway and I can't find a way for forcing it to send a text SMS message.
"Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly" seems to occur very often after upgrading to macOS Sierra. Are there any solutions?
I have an IMAP Gmail account which I have logged in through Apple Mail email client on my Mac book pro. I have sorted out some important emails and made a separate folder for those emails. Is it possible to backup only that email folder and not all the emails along with them? Thanks for your help.
I originally set my trackpad to drag items when tapping on them with three fingers but it no longer works? How do I turn it back on?
With macOS Sierra pushing Siri as a very cool new feature, the behaviour of my (wired) Apple earbuds has changed. When I give it a single tap, the music will pause or play, which is normal. However, I'm also used to double-tapping to advance to the next song, like on my iPhone. That feature is gone. Also, on the first tap, the "Enable Siri?" dialog comes up: I decided to disable Siri as I don't use it much and the additional battery drain (that I may be making up) doesn't seem worthwhile to me. How can I disable this dialog and revert my iTunes behaviour back to what I'm used to?
I am trying to install a homebrew formula, but it just tells me that I need to update Xcode. Everything worked correctly before and I can't install the update, first of all, my internet speed is very bad, and when I click update in the App Store it just says "waiting".
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to El Capitan earlier this year, and ever since it's been driving me nuts when I'm in Word 2011. (And no, I do not want to go to Word 2016. I deliberately bought 2011 because it's customisable.) The Start Dictation menu item seems to like moving itself about, and usually ends up very high in the Edit menu:
I just transferred by music to new computer (300GB). It no longer shows 20 years of ratings and playlists. I tried to uninstall and reinstall iTunes. Will they show if I sync my phone, or will I lose everything that way?
after the upgrade my iphone6 is not getting the special effects that are being sent by iMessage
I cannot get the Star Rating System to work through iTunes as it displays on my iPod. I can get the iTunes to display the Star ratings for music on my Macbook Pro. It was easy enough to go into Preferences > General > [Check Box] Star Ratings.
My laptop is a Macbook Pro Retina (mid 2014). I installed Windows 7 (x64) via Bootcamp. I've found there is a problem - after the lid is closed for a while and then opened again, the display does not turn on. However, if I then connect the Macbook to an external display, the external display does turn on. So I reckon the problem is related to the display card, it seems to output signal to an external one. How can I solve it?
Here is my setup - DHCP Reservations - Mapped Raspberry Pi (pi01) to internal IP address Port Settings - Remote Login - SSH Public UDP Ports: 2200 Public TCP Ports: 2200 Private IP Address: [internal IP address from above] Private UDP Ports: 22 Private TCP Ports: 22
I have iPhone 4s that is not compatible with newest iOS 10. I can send texts to iPhones with iOS 10 but I do not receive response texts. Is it my phone or the update?
App Store is not automatically showing the update for macOS Sierra? OS X version: 10.10.5
The trackpad on my MacBook Pro stopped clicking. I was able to enable the tap to click feature, so I can click around using that, but it's annoying to expect a click and get nothing. It's like the trackpad doesn't depress at all.
I've formatted my pen drive in FAT format but it's not showing in a Windows laptop, so I'm thinking the formatted pen drive through OS X is not compactible with other OSs. How can I format a pen drive through OS X El Capitan?
My son has a MacBook Air which was required for school (a). However, it sometimes comes dangerously close to running out of power near the end of the school day despite the fact that we've (I think) set it up correctly for low power consumption. I have suggested taking the power adapter to school, or even getting a second one to carry in his backpack) but apparently many of the classrooms don't provide enough wall sockets, or don't have them handy to the desks. The local Apple store was spectacularly unhelpful given that they only sell such devices for non-laptops.
In Cocoa applications (for instance, TextEdit) there used to be a completion functionality by which, pressing the esc, or ⌥+esc (apparently, it depends on Mac OS X versions), a list of possible completions for the word being typed appears. In latest versions, up to El Capitan, it worked with just esc; in macOS Sierra, apparently, it has been reverted to ⌥+esc.
My iPhone text messages are delivered to my work iPad, what is happening and how can I put it right?
I have my Documents folder synced with iCloud drive, I want to exclude some sub folders from the iCloud drive is there a way to achieve this?
So I am a software guy who is pretty oblivious when it comes to personal computer hardware. I really want to ditch my old pc for a macbook, but I'm not really sure of the right hardware specs I should be searching for.
Lately on macOS (10.11 and 10.12) I have been noticing controls showing the focus ring which I can't recall seeing before. I am used to seeing the focus ring show on text fields, but not all buttons. For example, even the segmented control in Notification Center shows focus rings.
I had to erase and reinstall everything on my macbook pro. I was having issues restoring from timeline so I did a manual copy over from an external hard drive onto my computer. The issue is that I don't see the Pictures, Music or Movies folders in Finder any more so I just put all of my files inside "My Documents".
One thing I've noticed while using Siri on macOS Sierra is that Siri's voice is not natural (not even close to natural, it sounds like the default system voice of my Mac). How can I get Siri on macOS to sound as high-quality and natural as Siri on iOS?
I have 25 GB of music on my Mac but for some reason when I click on About This Mac and click on Storage, it doesn't show any music.  I can see the music in my iTunes media folder when I go into Finder on right click on Music:
I just upgraded my Mac mini (Late 2012) to macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and noticed something strange: When running the last command in the Terminal—which shows you a history of user logins, reboots and shutdowns—seemingly all of the entries are now indicating “crash” when I can assure you this system has never crashed since the upgrade. Here is the output of last on my system:
I've already installed macOS Sierra. But I've also performed a "general" cleaning and I suspect some files were gone. Now the whole system is slow, some things doesn't behave the way they used to. Is it possible to download again macOS Sierra from AppStore and simple reinstall it? I mean, install macOS Sierra over macOS Sierra that is already up and running (not so well...). Thanks a lot for your help.
Since updating to macOS Sierra, many Finder aliases appear as generic document icons rather than as the informative icons that were available in previous versions of OS X. Is there something I can do to fix this?
With the new update to iOS 10, the Photos app searches for faces in your pictures and groups them into albums. One of my friends has an Android phone that superimposes a facebook chat bubble in the top right of her screen at all times showing her boyfriend's profile picture. The Photos app has recognised his face within the bubble in all the screenshots she has sent me and these now appear as an album in faces.
In System Preferences > iCloud > Options > Documents, there are checkboxes for "Apps that store documents and data in iCloud." For many apps, it's clear what the checkbox means: the app can, optionally, store a document in iCloud that can be accessed from any of my devices.
Hy all, I was tring to install Nautilus on my Macbook Pro 13", after installing MacPorts. But when it have to install the last dependency (gtk-doc source-highlight libexif), it give me this error:
I (stupidly) saved all my contacts to my Exchange account while employed at my previous job. Now I'm retired and that Exchange account is gone. However, the accounts that was synced to my phone before account deletion is still on my phone! How can I transfer them to my iCloud account or even better, my Gmail account?
I just got a mac and it asked me if i want to use FileVault to have an encrypted disk. I choose yes so that is setup now. I now just bought an external hard drive and I plugged it in for the first time and set it up with time machine.
through system preferences > internet accounts i enter my yahoo user id and password and am getting error message "unable to verify user id and password" i have enabled POP in my yahoo account and reset password to ensure it's accurate.
I need to download certain apps through homebrew, one of them being pygtk, but when putting the rather simple command that should install it homebrew says my Xcode (6.4 because I am on Yosemite) is outdated and that need the 7.2.1 which I can't install because it's not supported in Yosemite. How can I fix this?
If I use Apple Watch to pay, I cannot receive notification and also no transaction history found in the Wallet app. Is it a bug?
I've spilled 5-10 mL of liquid on my Macbook Pro (13 inch, early 2015) some hours ago. I purchased this laptop a few months ago. It has 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB storage, though this is probably irrelevant. The liquid came in contact with the trackpad (including the edges of it). I did not turn it off. Rather, I ran the Apple Diagnostics Test and it came out fine. Several hours later, I ran the diagnostics test again and it was fine. The laptop, including the trackpad, is functioning normally at this moment. What is the likelihood that the laptop, particularly the trackpad, will develop problems in the future? Also, Is it worth the time to go to an Apple Store and get this checked out?
I purchased my phone from US and brought it back to India. Now, its rear camera is not performing well, and there is also touch problem. I'd like to get it swapped. However, I lost my purchase proof. Can I still get it swapped without the invoice?
After upgrading to macOS Sierra, I tried to run git from Terminal but it kept giving me the following error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun. How do I fix it?
I have it enabled on my 2013 Retina MacBook Pro, my Apple Watch is on the same wifi network, and bluetooth is enabled as well. When I wake up my Mac, it says “Unlocking with Apple Watch” for several seconds, then it times out and prompts me to enter my password. I don't receive any notification on my watch either. I tried disabling and re-enabling the feature, but that doesn’t have any effect. Any ideas?
I updated my iPhone 5c to iOS10. I have three apps that have been stuck in the dimmed 'waiting' state for almost 24 hours now, and they don't delete when I hold down and click the x to delete them. They appear in the App Store as the loading circle with the square in it. My iTunes library on my computer has no 'app' section to delete apps from, and when I go to my iPhone itself through iTunes, it doesn't show the apps i'm trying to load as options on my phone, it just shows the icons.
When trying to Upload to App Store... received the following error: ERROR ITMS-90158: "The following URL schemes found in your app are not in the correct format: ... URL schemes need to begin with an alphabetic character" The url in question is the Google client ID, that worked well before and doesn't give any error while building or validating archive however, after uploading to App Store, gives the error:
Just went add a mail rule and it appears that the sierra upgrade has wiped all mail rules:  Is there any way to recover them, or do I need to set them all up again? Staggers me that apple still can't get this right...
I can't download anything from a website on iOS 10.0.2 because it says that "Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid. Does anyone know how to fix it?!
Is there any way I can remove some of the 'system' files on my Mac. I understand that normally they shouldn't be touched, but I think most of mine are for old programs that are no longer installed. It's wasting so much space on my computer. I have 41GB of system files, I'm sure a lot of these must be from old programs that are no longer installed.
So, just playing around with photos, and my kids baby pics are crossed over. When they were you they were both bald so it's hard for photos to correctly distinguish them.
New in iOS 10 you can add a message favorite instead of just phone favorites. How does that work with Do Not Disturb's only allow notifications from favorites? If I add just a contact's phone but not their message info to my favorites will I only get calls from them in the middle of the night or will I receive message notifications as well? Asked another way, do I need to add each method of contacting a person to my favorites in order to get those notifications?
I would like to see and view those essentials or special landing page that app store has, for example: Essentials for Parents. I can only view them on app store. Is there anyway we can access the web view?
I am using OS X 10.11.6. I wanted to increase the items listed in the "recent places" in the "save as dialog", so I followed the instruction here: *=URL=* and typed the command in the terminal: Then I discovered that it didn't work, and instead my "recent places" is not changing anymore. So I tried to reset by typing the below in the terminal:
I don't want every link I send through iMessage to be accessed and embedded inline. I can't find a preference setting or defaults key to turn this off. In this example image, I would want the YouTube link to be sent as a bare link, not a movie + screenshot:
How do I clear cookies on my iPhone 6+? I cannot complete an assignment for business. My company instructed me to clear cookies in order for it to operate correctly. So, how do I accomplish this task?
I've enabled the "Create NAT64 Network" option in network "Sharing". I connect my iPhone and it seems to work (tested in Safari). However, when I look at the Wi-Fi information for the connection my IP address is an IPv4 one (or at least has that format) IP Address: 169.254.34.19 Mask: 255.255.0.0 DNS: 2001:2:0:aab1::1 The DNS has a v6 address, but I was expecting the device itself to also get such an address.
I Have an audio track and the video track and want to split them both at the same point with cmd+b. I have to manually select Channels with the mouse in order for the split to be applied to the audio. But when I press cmd+b later the audio is not split and I have then reselect with the mouse, is this the only way?
I have two monitors. The left one is designated as the Main Display (in System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement, it has the little white menu bar dragged onto it).
In youtube I see our lot of cropped videos overlaid over screen captures movie. Is this possible in imovie? osX imovie 10.1.2
My iPad is stuck on Guided Access. I do remember the passcode but my home button is broken. I've been using the on-screen home button but that too is disabled. Will draining the battery out fix my problem or is there another way?
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010, MacBookPro6,2) which does not switch to battery power when the power adaptor is removed. It simply goes off. However the battery is reported as 100% charged. I can only use the MacBook with the power adaptor plugged in.
I just reinstalled iTunes for the first time in about a year (was having Config.Msi permissioning issues on install) and synced it with my computer. In my iTunes directory, I have a "Mobile Applications" folder with the .ipas of my older apps. How do I get my iTunes to download the rest of my iPad apps into this directory?
I've customized my terminal theme but I'd like to be able to share it with people. I know I've been able to download ".terminal" files, in the past. Where are these files located on a Mac?
Yesterday i had updated El Capitan to macOS Sierra on my Macbook Air 2015. But i had found a bug with changing keyboard layout. I have two keyboard layouts: US and Russian.
I was trying to remove extended attributes (quarantine) in order to install Fusion. This is what I ran in terminal:
Can the New Apple Watch 2 control Homekit enabled devices like the Philips Hue with Siri voice commands like the iPhone can? I'm thinking of buying an Apple Watch and I need to know whether or not I can control my Hue bulbs with Siri right from the Watch.
I received a PDF file in an email. I successfully opened it. Later, I went back to the email, but could not access the PDF again. The first time the PDF appeared as box. The second time I opened the email the PDF appears as follows: <2016 TIAHA Charity Golf Tournament, Participants 9-18-2016.xls> How can I access the PDF a second time?
I have to run this command since upgrading to macOS: Corrects the problem after the reboot but I have to run this command every time I log on to my computer. If I do not run the command above, my keys in ~/.ssh are skipped and I am being asked server password in order to establish the connection.
Hope someone can help me with this and save me a trip to the Apple Store. I have iPhone 5S, upgraded to iOS 10.0.2. I normally stay on lower power mode. I don't seem to have any problems with battery life after the upgrade.
With my previous iPhone 6 Plus, it was recommended that I use a 12W adapter and I found that (or at least convinced myself that) the phone charged faster with the 12W than with the 5W. However my iPhone 7 Plus ships with a 5W adapter. Can I charge my iPhone 7 Plus with a 12W adapter? Will my iPhone 7 Plus charge faster with a 12W adapter? What's the fastest charging power adapter for an iPhone 7 Plus?
After a Sierra update, Apple Mail is not searching anymore, and Spotlight provides incomplete results - it does not provide a top lists e.g. searching for "Excel" does not show Excel or it does not provide results in Mail. What should I do now?
After upgrading to macOS Sierra, I'm getting the notification that "Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimizing storage.":
I want to make an application use the whole width or height of my screen without having to drag the bottom/right sides to the edge of the screen. I also want to do this for the bottom right corner (as in, I want to make it go to the bottom right corner). Any cool tips that'll let me do this?
Now how do I sync this video to mac immediately? usually every photo and video I take on my iphone becomes visible in my photos application on mac. but it takes its own sweet time. I just want to know how can I make it happen immediately. Let's say I want to do this without physically connecting my phone to my mac with a cable.
My Apple ID has been locked because of security problems. Now I can't access or recover it. When will Apple delete this account? I want to re-create it after it is deleted.
This is how I see] ebay on Safari (MacOS Sierra)... I have disabled all extensions I have, restarted safari, but the problem persists.
I'm sorry if this is too trivial of a question, but this is the first time I've updated OS where my computer is loaded up with important third party apps. Am I correct in thinking that only a factory reset would remove apps (aside from deleting them individually)?
In Photos on macOS it is clear when I am editing a RAW file: I need to explicitly choose Image > Use RAW as Original, and the type of the file (e.g., Raw vs JPEG) is clearly indicated in several places in the UI. However Photos in iOS 10 lacks both these features. How can I be sure I'm editing RAW in Photos on iOS 10?
I'm wondering how to allow non-identified developers' apps since I updated my MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra.  This option seems to have disappeared. Can someone help?
I have an iPhone SE and I wonder how my device uses 1.93 GB for only 133 stored photos? This is the information I get to the 'storage' part of my phone, where it shows how much storage each app is using. In addition, only 0.53 GB of iCloud storage is used. How is this possible?
I have iOS 10 installed on my iPhone and macOS Sierra installed on my iMac. I'm using the iCloud Photo library on both.
I have an iPhone SE running iOS 9.3.3. I use the Notes app extensively to share between my iMac running Mavericks, and my phone and iPads.
In previous versions of OS X, it was possible to right click on an update in the App Store and choose an option, "Ignore this update." In OS X 10.11.6, nothing happens when I right click on an update in the App Store. I do not get any menu. According to this article, system updates can be ignored, but not third party apps. Is there any way at all to ignore available updates in the App Store for selected third-party apps in OS X 10.11? Apparently the current answer is "no"; however, I can hope that a workaround will someday become available, and this is the site where it should go.
There are about a dozen questions similar, but all of them get further along in the startup than I do. Purchased a used MacBook Pro 2012 (December 2011). Seller (whom I trust) said that it wouldn't start and she was told a procedure that included removing the battery. She was scared of that and took it to a genius bar, where it was "fixed" for free. Must have been something simple if they did it out front while she waited.
This is particularly infuriating when I have just scrolled somewhere and cmd-click on a link. Because of inertia, it is still scrolling when I press the command key, so it then zooms ridiculously fast.
My keyboard on iMessage won't pop up. Just the subject/message line is showing at the bottom. I searched the internet for solutions and tried what was suggested: powering off/on and hard reset (sleep/wake+home). The only thing next to try is backup and restore but that will take a long time. Is there something else I can try first?
This has been happening for some time, and now that I am organizing lots of files from various parts of my work and study, it is really driving me crazy. For example, I have text or spreadsheet files correctly organized in an area of the desktop. If I save one of those files, it goes all the way to the right side of the desktop. I then have to search for the file and drag it back to its initial position, every single time. My 'Sort By' is set to 'Snap to Grid'. EDIT: Changed the 'Sort By' to 'None' and the bug still occasionally happens. Does anyone know how to fix this?
This question applies to phones on the AT&T network. I don’t know if the same happens on other networks. You're no doubt familiar with the AT&T Star Services codes one uses from the Phone app on an iPhone, such as *3282# to check data usage or *646# to check minute usage. Whenever I send one of those codes while on the LTE network, the connection switches to 4G and remains there until you get the information you requested (via SMS), and remains on 4G even after the SMS text is received. After anywhere from 20 to 60 seconds the connection automatically goes back to LTE. Any idea why this happens?
Many HDR photos have an over-processed look with colors that are oversaturated and otherwise unrealistic, halos, excessive texture and local contrast, and so on. I don't like that. What camera apps exist on iOS that capture realistic HDR photos?
I was going to upgrade to new macOS Sierra on my MacBook Air but there's a FileVault process that is encrypting all the files that doesn't allow the installation of the new OS. In the window appears a message that says FileVault encrypting and a blue thermometer under which there's written counting the remaining time that keeps going back and forth. Is there someone that can help me to solve this problem? If I try to disable FileVault, it says that I can disable once encryption process is ended.
I used to use Console, with a Filter of backupd to check what Time Machine was doing; e.g. whether it had run on both of my backup disks, how much was backed up etc.
Right now, if I go on the People section of photos.app, a message says it has analysed x photos, while the remaining y photos will be analysed when I'm not using the app and my Mac is connected to a power source. What exatcly is meant by "not using the app"? Should it be open, but not the foreground application? Hidden? Closed? Can it run while the Mac is in sleeping? (I saw in the logs photoanalysisd asking to run at priority Maintenance). I'm asking because it's not making the progress I would expect andI'm having trouble understanding exactly how should I leave it.
Anyone know if there's an app that will not just let you save window positions for multi-display setups, but also create presets for different situations? For example Client A (saved as a preset) -all windows open and size to saved positions -different finder windows open to specific folders and views -browser open to specific tabs at specific addresses -terminal opens up directly to desired directory etc... Client B (saved as a preset) -same idea but maybe different programs, finder locations, etc..
I am currently using a German keyboard on El Capitan. I want to change the keymap for y and z. I have searched relevant information on Google, but the information which I have found so far is so old that I could not apply them. I also tried to use the following .Xmodmap: But this does not work.
Siri seems to be smart enough to fetch some news for me, but let's say I just want to find out the news in my country. I asked Tell me the news and the answer was: Here's some news for 'tell me the news'. I tried Tell me the breaking news and the answer was: Here's some news for 'Breaking'. So, how to ask Siri about the Breaking news and news in general?
I would like get a quick look of .dat, .pbs files in Finder as text files. In general I would like to see all these files as text. They appear as icons, in contrast to other text files such as .txt, .rtf, .m, .c and so on. Thanks
One of the new featuers in macOS Sierra are tabs in more apps, including Mail. How do I use tabs in Mac Mail? Clicking "View", "Show tab bar" displays a bar with one tab, but I can't find a way to open a new tab.
I'm confused setting up OS X Server 5.2 to cache IOS and MacOS updates on our local network. The Server Leo seems to cache software for some devices but not others. Leo is connected to the internet via ethernet and to the local network via wi-fi as follows, so presumably I have to tell the Caching Service to allow particular networks ... but which ones? Leo's network interfaces (per OS X Server Overview tab) And this is what the router says: (All the above connect to the internet via the router's ISP-allocated Public IP Address currently: 81.139.29.yyy)
I know the new IOS allows you to ask Siri to send a whatsapp message to a person, can Siri message a whatsapp group ?
I'm looking for a file on Time Machine and it says "waiting". It is a file in a recent backup. Why is time Machine "waiting"?
Ever since I upgraded to iOS 10, my phone no longer works in my car (connected over Lightning to USB port). It isn't a connectivity issue (I've received "device unsupported" before with bad connections) because the dash shows "No song" rather than "No device", but Spotify and Siri no longer run through the audio and iOS 10's (revamped) audio controls do not function. Is this an iOS 10 bug?
There is a keyboard shortcut for "Contacts.app" which does not appear to be documented anywhere (correct me if I'm wrong) which allows you to highlight the groups that the selected contact is part of, assuming the Groups pane is visible. You just hold down the "Option" key.
I have a private and now a company iPhone. I like to have two phones to seperate business and private.
I just bought an unlocked iPhone 7 in an Apple store. When I tried to put my sim in it - an AT&T sim popped out. This surprised me because the phone wasn't refurbished and the AT&T iPhone isn't the unlocked one - the T-Mobile one is. The phone works fine and unfortunately I threw away the packing so I don't have additional information. Is this normal?
I want to be able to switch between the tabs (Today and Notifications tabs) in Notification Center using a keyboard shortcut. Any way of doing it on macOS Sierra? I know it was possible on Yosemite, but I never had Yosemite so I couldn't verify that.
I'm was wondering, before purchasing the Airport Extreme , if it was possible to connect my 3 Sony Airplay speakers to the 3 LAN Ports of the Airport Extreme and airplay simultaneously as multi-room audio from my Iphone ?
I use the cfgutil from Apple Configurator with iOS devices on an OSX host via SSH. After upgrading to Sierra, I get a NSCocoaErrorDomain message and it fails. It works fine at the terminal, however. Here's my output of trying it successfully at a local terminal, then sshing and the failure:
I want to upgrade the hard drive in my iMac (21.5" Mid 2011) from 1TB to 3TB. OWC sell an "in-line digital thermal sensor". They describe the need for this:
How do I get my iCloud account to let me change my email account without having to give my old password for my other email account? I don't remember that password.
I erased both sparsebundles from our Time Capsule and started over. Again, my wife’s worked very well. Mine (180 GB) didn’t.
Although when I hold down 'e' the accent menu appears fine, if I hold down 'r' it does not. This is not due to no accents existing for r - the character I am trying to get is ' ř ' - as I have had the accent menu appear for it before. I do not know what has changed between my previous usage and my current that should have caused the menu to disappear. (I am currently using a MacBook Air running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5)
Post Sierra install, I can's scroll using track pad. I also can't backup using time machine nor external drive connected by USB
I am 100% sure I have not connected this iPhone to any other laptop. If my memory serves correct, I either didn't use a computer at all (I don't know if that's possible) or used the same laptop with the same account.
I downloaded font-awesome-4.6.3.zip from fontawesome.io. Double click fontawesome-webfont.ttf (under font-awesome-4.6.3/fonts/) to install the font, but I got this,
In OS X 10.11.6, I want to use a line of file paths output from terminal as input to another command. Right now, when I triple click on a line, the line gets selected, but with trailing whitespaces including a new line - this makes it hard to use that path in a command. Here is an example session that illustrates the problem: How do I avoid this duplicate effort each time - i.e, how do I select the line without whitespaces, so only foo bar gets selected?
We have a Mac Mini Server (macOS 10.12) with Server App (5.2) configured (Open Directory and DNS Server Services active, the network is on static IP). We used to have one Airport Extreme configured from the Server App, with Server providing RADIUS authentication.
I have a Macbook Pro with a broken OS (computer was turned off during an update and won’t boot any more). The Macbook contains some user data that hasn’t been backed up in a while, including a valuable iTunes library. Will those data be preserved when reinstalling OS X (Yosemite) from recovery mode, or is there an easy way to get hold of it again?
I recently installed macOS, but I have noticed that "Spotlight.app" has had high CPU usage. It is not indexing.
If I invoke Exposé and use the gesture to swipe between fullscreen apps, open windows from other applications will show (similar to ⌘+⇥). However, I cannot click on them to bring them to the front, so it is practically useless. I noticed this behavior since Sierra and wonder if this is intended behavior or just a bug. Bonus question (Since I don't have access to macOS 10.11 or lower): Has this behavior existed before?
Yes, I’m on a local network, and yes I’ve ticked the ‘Wake for network access’ in System Preferences. Also checked with pmset -g that womp = 1. I have also tried overriding networkoversleep (1).
I've switched to macOS Sierra and am not able to get port forwarding working for localhost (http and https) using the loopback interface lo0. I'm using pf and following the existing instructions for El Capitan but without success: *=URL=* *=URL=* Basically, I setup ifconfig: Then I create a pf anchors file: /etc/pf.anchors/myorganization Add a reference to it in pf.conf (had to disable and then re-enable SIP to do this): I test the anchors: and the result looks good: I've enabled them: I've added localhost to my /etc/hosts
In previous versions of macOS (OSX), when I scrolled fast, the page woule keep sliding a bit, as if there was some inertia keeping it moving. This seems to have been disabled in Sierra, and I can't find the setting to re-enable it.
When I click to dismiss a notification dialog box in OS X Yosemite, it doesn't disappear immediately: it makes a kind of puff-of-smoke animation before it disappears. When you have more than one notification on the screen and click to dismiss the first one, not only does OS X do the puff-of-smoke animation but it also does a sliding animation to move the next notification box up to the top of the list. All of this takes time, which is not only annoying, but a real waste of time when you have to dismiss many notifications on the screen. Is there a way to shorten the duration of those animations, or better yet, dismiss all visible notifications in one step?
This is like the weirdest problem I have ever faced with my MacBook Pro (OS X El Capitan). Everything was fine, till yesterday, but suddenly today, I find that my trash contains a lot of my files and folders that I never put there, including folders which I do not even recognise. I'll put a screenshot below.
I've had my MacBook Pro for around half a year. Before I used Windows all my life. The problem I'm having with my MacBook Pro is that it's very very very slow when I try to drag a file into a program when compared to Windows.
Right now I'am using npm start to open a desktop app (i.e nodejs server) which uses electron framework. So when ever I want to open that desktop app I have to open the terminal, go the application directory and use command "npm start" to open the nodejs server i.e desktop app. I want to write a python scrip to create a desktop app, and when ever I double click that desktop icon, it should internally uses 'npm start' command to open that desktop app. Can any one please help me, and my application directory is as: /Desktop/Electron/charityapp.
So I should have plenty of space to to copy over a 70 GB file onto the disk. Yet when I try I get an error stating "Not enough disk space to copy", like the following image shows:
If I decide to cancel iTunes Match for a bit and then resubscribe do I go through the whole 'match' process for my music again?
I'm trying to make my iTunes (12.5.1.21) music library show up in Music on my iPhone 5 (9.3.2). Nothing seems to work, i.e. whatever I try nothing shows up under the My Music tab on my phone (empty view telling me to find some music). Apple's instructions to use Home Sharing on iOS are:
Recently my Sound preference pane has asked me to reopen System Preferences when I select it, or when I switch away from it. I have added a few preference panes (e.g. Wacom, an Xbox controller pane, etc). I'd like to know how to identify all the 32-bit vs 64-bit preference panes? I would like to start uninstalling the ones I don't find necessary any longer and hopefully streamline this.
I'm new to OS X and need to install Emacs 24.5 and 25.1 using the console to test a package using Travis continuous integration (*=URL=* My .travis.yml file looks like this (also testing with Linux) - I initially got a syntax error with travis lint (*=URL=* - "syntax error: (): did not find expected '-' indicator while parsing a block collection at line 30 column 3", which is pointing at the first if statement - that error turned out actually to be due to having comments inside the third if statement, so I moved them elsewhere. So then I was able to install Emacs 25 with brew, as that is the current version it will build - but how would you install Emacs 24.5 with brew?
i wish to record FaceTime events when communicating with my family on my iPad. How do I do this? I can find no information about how this maybe done.
After doing a clean install of macOS Sierra I occasionally get the 'missing app icon' (the original app icon with a question mark superimposed). When this happens clicking the app icon doesn't launch the app (and I need to go to /Applications and re-drag the icon to the dock). Anyone else experiencing this issue? I also get the following warning for the apps this is happening with when trying to do an update:
I have recently updated to macos Sierra and have a very strange thing happening with my Fn key. I have looked everywhere but cannot find anyone with the same issue. Whenever I press the Fn key, it looks like the first key I press immediately after holding it is not recorded, instead, it acts like a long press of that key, and only the second press acts as normal.
Does anyone know a way to stop the "last login" message from showing up when I start up the terminal, but still have the MOTD show up? I tried touch ~/.hushlogin, but that prevented both from showing.
Since I upgraded to Sierra, Terminal no longer loads my bash prompt, making it unusable. When I start it, it doesn't hang, but it stays looking like this:
Is is possible to use the new macOS Sierra PiP (Picture-in-Picture) feature in browsers other than Safari?  Nope?
No error messages come up and upon initiating Google Chrome again, it goes to my homepage. I have gone into System Preferences and then to Security & Privacy and auto logout is disabled. Any other suggestions?
Is it possible to tweak the % that I get warning of low battery for my Magic Mouse 2? I currently only get it at 2% at which point it's very close to dying so I have to stop what I'm doing and plug it in. A reminder about 10-15% would allow me to plug it in the next time I have a natural break.
I have had a script that has worked for a number of years that runs on linux (ubuntu 14.04) that ssh's to my iMac. i set up public private key pairs for the script to log into the iMac. I have struck a problem so i regenerated the public private key pairs using ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 then i put the public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys i made sure the permissions of .ssh where set to 0600 i did the reciprocal key generation on ubuntu and the imac can log into ubuntu i have updated ports on the imac. a transcript of ssh -v 192.168.1.111 (imac) from (ubuntu) follows:
Do apple notify the developer or email when a push notification is going to expired?
I've had this problem for a while, but I hate not knowing or getting to the bottom of things, so here I am! :)
I realize apple provided a link to install El Capitan from Snow Leopard. However, when I follow the links to the app store to get the install file, I am met with this message: This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.
We only have Radiusconfig log viewable in Console, but the Radiuslog is not visible. Although it exists under /private/var/log/radius. In older operating system versions the RADIUS log was greyed out in Console, but you could activate it and view it, in macOS Sierra it does not show up in Console. Is there a way to solve this?
My iPhone plays music through any headphones perfectly. However, when I'm in a car and the car accelerates to a certain speed, at first I hear clicks every two to three seconds and then if the car goes faster the music stops, but the clicks get louder that I have to take it off.
I have a 15" MBP Retina from mid' 2014. Out of the blue the bottom 2/3 of the display turned a dim grey. Randomly this part of the screen will ghost images, flash white, and return to translucent grey. I have ruled out a software issue by resetting PRAM, SMC, and booting it into Windows. My question is this: What possible parts could be causing this?
I have a MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.6 signed in to iCloud. I also have an iPhone 6s Plus which is also signed in to iCloud. After upgrading my iPhone to iOS 10 I have follow-ups showing notifications and also frequently appearing push notifications about "approve your device". I push it, then enter my passcode to iPhone and see this: Approve This iPhone Go to one of your devices signed in to iCloud to approve this iPhone. Waiting for approval (spinning wheel)
I had ipv4 enable LAN connected to my MAC OSX 10.11.5 via ethernet. I tries to enable NAT64 and ipv6 in my mac from the steps mention in the link : https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternetWeb/Conceptual/NetworkingOverview/UnderstandingandPreparingfortheIPv6Transition/UnderstandingandPreparingfortheIPv6Transition.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010220-CH213-SW1
is there any settings in Xcode which can increase the font size of plist editor (especially the key and the value text)? (I tried Preference > Fonts and Colors but seems change nothing)
Is it possible to freely move the Picture in Picture window? By default, it just snaps to the nearest corner. How can I move the window to any place I like?
I have many windows and mac system users in my office & and mac users use Xcode for development. I have a mac mini server with 16GB RAM, i want to use it as a xcode server, means is that possible some way that multiple window or mac user connect that mac mini server, work on xcode and logout when ever he wants. I also tried screen sharing for mac users and vnc for windows system but both ways are very slow to respond. I heard somewhere like Xcode server i searched for it but didn't get is properly. Can xcode server solve my problem? Please suggest any idea.
I can't download / get calendar app from the app store. I just updated to iOS10 and when I finished I noticed that something was missing in my home screen. I took me a while to realize that I lost my calendar app.
I'm a new Mac user trying to create a *.pkg file which should hold an *.app (let's call it MyApp) and a corresponding sqlite3 database(let's call it MyAppDB.sqlite3). This application has been written in Python and transformed into a Mac application using Pyinstaller . It is hence not a 'native' Mac app. The *.pkg instalation process should copy the MyApp.app into ~/Applications/MyApp and the related database into ~/Library/Application Support/MyApp/MyAppDB.sqlite3 For this purpose I've used Packages, however the program seems no to copy the db into the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder since no new folders or files are created there after the installation process, only the ~/Applications/MyApp folder is correctly created where the app gets copied.
How can I disconnect my Internet connection and still be connected to my TimeCapsule? The only way I know of to disconnect Internet is to turn off my Wi-Fi, but I then I cannot reach my TimeCapsule, and that's what I still want to do. Thanks!
I am not happy with El Capitan, and it is also not compatible with both music hardware and software that I have, so I want to go back to Snow Leopard on my late 2009 iMac. After installing El Capitan the CD drive on my iMac is not working, and I was unable to install Snow Leopard from it.
On my iPhone 7 using iOS 10, I can hard press on the keyboard to move the cursor around. I've noticed on a few occasions that, instead of moving the cursor around, hard pressing on the keyboard will select a paragraph of text. However, I haven't figured out what aspect of hard pressing on the keyboard triggers a paragraph to be selected. So my question is: how can I select a paragraph of text using by hard pressing on the keyboard and using 3D Touch?
After upgrading to macOS Sierra, one of the things that bugs me is the altered scrolling behavior in Terminal, using the Trackpad. See screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUWO6-oOLoA
Where are the music videos in ios 10? they are not in the built-in video app.
I can no longer preview text files (e.g. .txt) in Finder. All I get is a preview pane showing a black square and TEXT.
I have my photos in Apple Photos (both on iOS and my Mac), synced with iCloud, and I'd like to keep things that way, but I'd also like to have all my photos available in Google Photos at the same time, without disrupting my Apple Photos. Is it possible to do this? I understand that, when given access to my Apple Photos on iOS, Google Photos works like any other app, and provides a view on the Photos that are stored in Apple Photos: The photos remain "in" Apple Photos and Google Photos is just providing another way to access them.
I upgraded to macOS Sierra and my Notes app crashes as soon as its launched. Has anyone else faced this issue?
The permanent ipv6 address of my machines changed with the advent of macOS Sierra. Note that we're not talking about the privacy enhanced temporary addresses. What I'm talking about happens even with "sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=0" in effect.
I'm trying to make an applescript that will write itself into a new window of Applescript Editor. But I can't figure out how it will paste itself with quotations. The code I have right now is
I just got a new MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 10.12 installed and am installing various applications on the machine to get it ready for work. After downloading the pgadmin3-1.22.1.dmg from *=URL=* I am unable to open the program. So far, I have tried the following:
So I wiped the HD on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro, and trying to reinstall OSX via Recovery I get this error: the feature is not available at the moment and to try later. I already had a chat with the support and they said that they can't give me any help, not even paid, because the MacBook is listed as vintage and to try the online recovery, I tried it to no avail. Unfortunately I don't have any installation disks nor backup Apple products nor Time Machine backups, I only have access to this Windows PC I'm writing on at the moment. I guess I could try to install the OS via USB but I can't find any legit way to obtain the installation files. The system before the wipe was 10.9.4 Mavericks. I really don't know what to do now, any help will be much appreciated.
I often shoot photos in a format that includes a JPEG alongside RAW. In Apple Photos (on macOS) these are "stacked" together by default. Is there a way to "unstack" them (as was once possible in Aperture, for example)?
Is there any way to hide sheets in Numbers? (like in Excel) I have tried everything other than delete, since I may need to refer back to them.
I'm trying to make and receive calls that come into my iPhone on my MacBook. Both devices are on the same Wi-Fi and have the same iCloud account logged in on the device (plus I had to log-in separately on FaceTime on the Mac).
I just upgraded to iOS 10 on my iPhone 5. Besides slowing down my phone greatly, the messages app has gotten cluttered with useless features. One of these is that each contact's photo now shows up at the top of the screen when I am messaging them. Besides the fact that: 1. most of my contacts don't have photos (so I just see giant initials), and that 2. the photos are too small to distinguish anything for the contacts I have that DO have photos, I have a problem with how much space these photos take up on the screen. There's just not enough screen real estate to justify showing me 2 less lines of messages in order to show me giant bubble initials or a microscopic static image of someone. So, how do I remove contact photos from messages in iOS 10? Messages app in iOS10: vs. iOS 9:
With the new iPhone 7 and iOS 10, I came across a problem that I ran into very rarely with the iPhone 5s/6s. Recently, I was sitting in the bus, when suddenly the Music app switched from headphones to speakers. It's not a pleasant way of getting attention. (I think I pressed the home button, activating Siri and then pressed it again)
The normal way to scroll on a MacBook trackpad is to use two-finger scrolling. Is it possible to scroll with one finger as follows:
In previous versions of OSX, I could use Ctrl Shift Power on my built in keyboard, or Ctrl Shift Eject on my (old) Apple bluetooth keyboard to lock the screen. After upgrading to Sierra, that shortcut stopped working. Using Karabiner-EventViewer I discovered that pressing the built in power button triggers SysKey 0x6, and the Bluetooth keyboard Eject triggers no events. Whats going on, and how can re-enable that shortcut?
I upgraded my iMac (model 14,2) from Mac OS X El Capitan to macOS Sierra yesterday. The update went smoothly except that once the update finished and I logged in, the volume icon in the menu bar was greyed out. I immediately opened settings, assuming the update had somehow deselected my default audio-out device (a pair of external speakers in this case). However, when I went to the sound menu I was surprised to see "No output device found".
Why does my iPad think I am in another state? When I go to Maps, it shows the correct location. When I want to order something off the internet, it autofills Oregon and I am in California. I did buy a refurbished iPad. Is there a setting I am not finding?
Since installing macOS 10.12 I noticed a flood of messages from deleted in the logs. I haven't been able to find any information about this daemon. Could anyone enlighten me what this does?
Here comes my first concern: since iOS is using the sandbox structure, we can't see folders when iPhone is connected to a computer, how could these apps find cache folders and delete files? Did they jailbreak the phone? I'm running iOS 10.0.2.
I have tried 2 microphones. I am doing screen recordings with audio. The volume is relatively quiet. How can I record the sound louder, or inflate the sound after, without having to use iMovie to re-render the whole video? I'm using QuickTime 10.4.
After I had migrated to 10.12.1, I started facing issues in creating new mailboxes in my mail account in the official Mail app. Earlier, I simply used to create a new mailbox and it used to appear immediately on the left-hand side along with other mailboxes. But now, when I create a mailbox, it asks me the Location and Name, and then nothing happens. Nowhere the mailbox is and I have a tough time to find a solution of this. I tried creating a new folder in my email account by logging into the web interface (Squirrelmail), and it showed up as a new mailbox, but the reverse is not working.
I was watching a video on YouTube and my iPad just blanked out. I have tried charging it for one hour (like the Apple website said to), connecting it to iTunes and held the 'off/on' and the 'home' button together for a minute (roughly). https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5894688?start=0&tstart=0
I'm about to buy a external monitor to Macbook pro 13 mid 2010, I really like Dell U2515H, can my mac support it without being slow ? I will use it for developing (sublime text) and Videos/Movies.
I use that shortcut system-wide for something else. Unfortunately although you can set menu item shortcuts from the settings, you can set it for a specific menu item. That means I can set it for Eject, but if I have a drive called Test it'll become Eject "Test" which I obviously won't have a shortcut for. I would also prefer not having to drag the drive all the way to the drive each time.
Looks like Console.app went through some changes in macOS Sierra. I really liked the font used in that app but can't find it anywhere in the app (probably they disabled changing the font altogether).
My best guess is that the Cisco client is operating in a perhaps new mode where it can negotiate directly with the server to auto-discover any necessary configuration information, and that it’s not stored on disk anywhere. Does anyone have any experience with a setup like this, or have any suggestions of what else to try?
I know that if I log out of my old apple id and sign into my new one that I will still keep my apps, but i'll need the password to update each app belonging to my old Apple ID. but i'm just wondering if i don't want to do that, should i delete all of the apps of my phone and re-download using my new Apple ID to save the hastle?
Is there any way to recover this? Can I change it without knowing my current password?
I'm confused about the use of the term "zoom" in much of the discussion about the iPhone 7 Plus. As near as I can tell, just as has been the case on all previous models, there's no optical zoom at all. There's the usual digital zoom (cropping) and what's been added a second lens with a longer focal length, that is switched to (under favorable conditions) when the zoom level goes over 2x. So what's really going on is an automated switch from one lens to the other as cropping passes the 2x mark. Is that what's going on, or am I missing something?
I'm trying to make iTerm2 and tmux play nicer with eachother (without using the builtin tmux functions; I'd like my windows and panes managed by myself). Therefore, I want to map ⌘+→ to a key sequence starting with ^Q (my tmux prefix), followed by →.
Buckle up kids, it's story time.. and this is a good one. So about a week ago I sold my iPhone 6s Plus on eBay to an older couple in Ohio. I erased my phone, made sure it was unlocked from my iCloud account and off it went in the mail. Well sure enough the couple contacted me claiming that the iPhone was "iCloud locked." Seeing as the eBay account had a very high positive feedback rate, I was kind enough to talk to them on the phone to walk through the unlocking process.
I'm having troubles with the system installer (/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app) where certain things are not installing and are not providing sufficient details in /var/log/install.log. I get the dreaded "The installation failed" error: Without sufficient details within the log as noted above.
I have a 21" iMac late 2010 running OS X 10.11.6 & a 13" MB-Pro late 2011 running the same. In /System/Libary/Core Services in the MBP, I have the following contextual menu:
I have an iPhone 6s and iPod Nano 5th generation which I use with a Dell PC (15R 5521) running Windows 10 version 1607 (updated to the latest version). The latest version of iTunes (12.5.1.21) is installed but it does not detect either of the devices. I have tried reinstalling iTunes (doesn't work), trying to update drivers for iPhone and iPod (from Device Manager, doesn't do anything). Any help or suggestions because I'm at a loss. Thanks!
I need to set a schedule of alarms using the below formula: Day:yes Day:no For example, starting Monday: Day:alarm Monday:yes Tuesday:no Wednesday:yes Thursday:no Friday:yes Saturday:no Sunday:yes Monday:no Tuesday:yes Wednesday:no Thursday:yes Friday:no Saturday:yes … Anyone can help?
Does this mean that I have to change the entire screen. I read somewhere online that I might have to change the entire screen. Can't apple just change the rubber gasket?
I am new to the terminal but find the ability to navigate folders quite handy, so I wanted to cd into the Creative Cloud Files folder but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working do you know what may be the cause here?
After upgrading, ssh -A no longer works. Uncomment ForwardAgent no line the /etc/ssh/ssh_config and change no to yes does not seems to work. This is extremely annoying. In addition, my Mac is password protected.
I am running my iPhone 5 with iOS 9. This setup is already slow and I don't want to update to iOS 10 to make it slower. I'm also considering buying the cheaper Apple Watch which needs tethering to my iPhone to access locations, etc. Could there be any problem with an iPhone NOT running iOS 10 with an Apple Watch?
What a mistake! Same problem there and some others too.
Desired behavior: When SD card1 (LABEL=NIKON D60) or SD card2 (LABEL=NIKON D70) is put into cardreader, it automatically gets mounted to /media/digicam. I run a script, which copies the files to my SSD, renames them with timestamps and rotates them if necessary. What I tried:
I maintain a library that reads and writes Microsoft Excel files. Due to some recent changes neither Preview, Quicklook or Numbers can open the file. Is there are any way to get debug information from any of these (or the underlying libraries)?
I found apple's product very difficult to use. ios10, iphone6s. After I connect it with my MAC pro, in the pop up itune, I cannot drag a mp3 file which is only 2 seconds, and another mp3 file 35 seconds to itune "device ->tone" section. I found answer in this website, in music, right click and choose convert to something, but I don't have this convert to something after right click on the music.....wooops,fall down at the beginning.
I often use the Siri suggested apps widget to start an app. After upgrade to iOS 10, I have noticed that I have to press several times on the app icon before it responds. If I wait a couple of seconds before pressing it the first time, it will respond. It feels like all the other widgets has to load their content before I can start the app. This lag kind of defeats the main purpose of quick access to an app as I have used it for in the past.
Using the system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType command in terminal will give info of all connected displays; something like this. Is it possible to get the total number of connected displays, in this case 3? If not, then how can the above output be parsed to return the total connected displays.
When using Tools > Adjust Size in Preview, there is an option to Resample image which is checked by default. When it is unchecked, a few things happen: The Fit into option is disabled and set to Custom Scale proportionally checkbox is checked and disabled the option to set the new size in pixels is greyed out
Mac 10.11.5 (El Capitan) here. I just tried creating a directory under /opt:
On apple.com some variations of this wallpaper are shown on iPhone 7 and 7 Plus screens:  I can't find them on my iPhone 7 (iOS 10.0.2). Are they available exclusively for 7 Plus? Here the same question: *=URL=* (but no answer).
This is not a "duplicate" question. This question is specifically for those who are used to using Property List Editor and have lost it as an option when upgrading to macOS Sierra. So keeping this question thread will help others with the specific issue, especially if they are not a fan of using Xcode to work with plist files and/or do not know how to work with plist files through terminal.
Waking from sleep to record is a built-in feature of the EyeTV software. As I mentioned, it wakes fine, it just doesn't seem to recognise there's channels available after waking. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and the stick is nearly as old as the MacBook Pro, so it's not some functionality that is meant for newer macs. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and the stick is nearly as old as the MacBook Pro, so it's not some functionality that is meant for newer macs.
I have a WD 2TB Hard drive. The Hard drive is working fine on macOS but doesn't show up in bootcamp windows 10. It gets connected but does not show up However Pen drives are working fine on Bootcamp. Please help!
The Smart Mailbox I have set up for Wells Fargo emails has stopped populating since January 2016. Previously it had populated properly since I made it in 2010. I have since received many Wells Fargo Bill Pay emails - but they don't populate into the Smart Mailbox.
If I move a directory to the trash that I'm already cd'd into that directory, pwd will report no change in location. I will still be able to do everything in bash normally as if there was no change in the directory, even though Finder says it doesn't exist.
I opted out of beta downloads under System Preferences > App Store, but I still see macOS beta downloads in the Mac App Store. How can I fix this? Caching issue?
I just updated from El Capitan to macOS Sierra and I found a problem with preview. When I open certain PDF with images in it, sometimes the image appears black and sometimes I see it. For example:
As my latest generation AppleTv upgraded it's os to the latest my library in the music app emptied. Previously it showed all my playlists and it synced with my devices. However my playlists are downloaded from the server when I try to add the to a playlist so this means the iCloud sync is working
I have a really weird problem. My girlfriend recently changed her iPhone password. The problem is that the iPhone says that the password is incorrect, but she had to repeat the code twice when she changed it and I do not think that she could have made it wrong twice.
We have some Mac Pro workstations, and a number of people with Linux and windows laptops would like to be able to run GUI programs from those workstations remotely, ideally with X11 forwarding. I know you can use Xquartz to get windows from a remote Linux machine, but is it possible to do it the other way around? That is, is it possible to use X forwarding to get windows from a remote Macintosh machine? If so, how?
How can I delete the folder "Reminders.app" from Mac OS when the current permissions assigned to the folder is currently Read Only for everyone and Read & Write for system? I've tried sudo / terminal, attempted to change permissions via the finder and all attempts to dislodge the folder result in access denied. Is rebooting into a special unprotected mode required?
So I have and Apple iPad Air (version 7.0.3). I haven't used it in a long time (about a year), and when i charged it and unlocked it, it continually asked me for my iCloud password. I have put in the correct password multiple times, but to no avail. I believe it isn't accepting my password because i changed it recently and the iPad won't connect to the internet because I got a new modem recently and it can't connect to the network quick enough before the request for my iCloud password pops up and interrupts it. What can i do to reset my iPad without my iCloud password??? Please help
There is an older question on here about removing mobile applications from iTunes. On my Mac, 5.73 GB is used by the iTunes Media/Mobile Applications folder. I would like to remove that folder, and from what I've seen in the other question I should be fine removing the mobile applications from iTunes. However I can't seem to find those mobile applications anywhere in iTunes anymore. Maybe in the redesign they removed or moved it? What is the proper way for me to remove the applications?
Is there a way to stop an app creating its own space at the back of the stack when you maximize it? I like to have my apps in the same space always but they keep jumping around to the back of the spaces stack, any help appreciated! I'm using macOS Sierra.
It is my understanding that restoring from iCloud causes apps to re-download automatically. If, however, I backup to iTunes, and iTunes does not have copies of my apps in the library, and I need to restore the device, what happens to the apps? My guess of what the desired operation should be is that the iTunes backup tells the device which apps it should have, and the device could then start automatically downloading them from the app store, organized the way they used to be and all (with the hopes being you have enough bandwidth for 5GB of app downloads). Is that how it works? And is there any way to backup apps from the device to iTunes to avoid the bandwidth issue?
My Fusiondrive has split and I really need your help. I made a backup and I am ready to delete everything clear slate. How can I get everything fixed? Thanks a lot for your help.
I am trying to install MongoDB on Mac OSx El Capitan. here is what the terminal gives me: Here is what I got during the mongod installation:
So, I have an Apple OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive Model A1384, and I'd like to erase it (specifically, to create a cute Apple-logo-branded macOS Sierra USB-install stick); unfortunately, it's not going well right now: Does anybody know how I can repair / restore this drive? I'd really like to use this specific drive, for obvious reasons; so “buy a new drive, they're cheap” isn't really a solution. System profiler output:
For example, this doesn't find the file: But this does: At the same time, for example: works quite well, though seemingly uses the same regcomp(). What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
I have a game I wanted to play on a different device, my new iPhone, but it isn't that new and I already have too much stuff on it to even reset it. How do I move that app? And remember, no resetting.
Since I have updated the OS to Sierra, I'm facing several issue (one example: Character Accent Menu doesn't appear anymore in macOS Sierra) Another bothering issue that is, I just can't log out. If I try to log out, shut down or restart the device, my applications are getting closed, the status and dock bars disappear, then... nothing. Just the desktop's background and my mouse. Can't do anything except moving the house, can't open Finder anymore, etc... The only way is to do a long press on the power button.
How do I get the Apple Music app to just play one song and stop, without automatically going to the next song?
It's super annoying. My iPhone 5 was dog slow after iOS 9. I don't want to waste my time with iOS 10.
This is the font looks on my friend's Macbook Pro: This is the font looks on my computer with DELL U2412M monitor: They look different, the first one looks smooth and the second one looks blurry. Anyone have insight on this?
I've been using Duet app intensively lately. The app lets me to use my old iPad 4 as the external monitor for daily use. Is it ok to keep the iPad plugged into the MacBook Pro all the time?. Will it add any new kind of stress to MacBook Pro?
When I right-click on a link in Firefox in Mac OS X, I get a menu like this:  Now most of these items have keyboard shortcuts, so I can quickly press a single key instead of moving the mouse to a specific item. For example: t = Open Link in New Tabk = Save Link As... etc. However I have no easy way of finding out what they are. Is there a way to highlight or visualize these shortcuts, for example by underlining them like this: (photoshopped example)
We have an ISP with a few thousand users which connect by PPPoE. Each user has his own public IP. We have central caching DNS servers (Ubuntu Linux 16.04 with BIND version 9.10.3) and users are transparently forwarded to them.
How to turn those additional characters off? After updating to macOS Sierra when I hit a key a little bit longer (it's the same amount of time I always did) i get this and it's constantly disrupting my flow
Is there anything I can do except changing the file names to ascii characters? Are there mount options I should set? I should mention that this problem is not new in Sierra - it was there under ElCapitan as well.
As you may know, a great email client for Mac, CloudMagic, was recently renamed to Newton and switched to a subscription model. The last CloudMagic version is supposed to stop working on 30th September 2016.
I have iOS 10 with Photos library taking 32 GB on iCloud. It was taking 2 GB on my iPhone 6, which was all the space left. I tried to completely disable iCloud and delete all the photos. After one hour, the deletion has stopped, but the Photos library is still taking 800 MB! I tried to connect the phone to iTunes/Image capture, but with no effect. It seems to be empty, but it is not. [
Fast forward to London, I was at my mother-in-law's house. She had the security I needed to work on my computer as well as an external mouse and keyboard. They worked great! The computer was not jumpy like it was in Indonesia. I took the battery out (please don't give me flack about how my battery is non-removable, I know what I'm doing). To my surprise, the internal keyboard and trackpad still didn't work.
Prior to my updating to macOS Sierra, autossh worked just fine. Now, when I run it the ssh session alway terminated immediately. This is the command that I use: When I look at the log-file, I get the following output:
When I try to configure an IKEv2 VPN on macOs Sierra the following errors occur: From the first line it seems it's not supported at all. Have you experienced the same issue?
I have iCould sync on. So all my books get sync across my devices. Great! Now, my question is: can I remove the PDF's (from my Downloads folder) after I added them?
It worked flawlessly1 before the upgrade. I know very little of how to troubleshoot macOS, what should I do?
After I upgraded an MBPr to 10.12 Sierra, the 4k external display connected to it shows significantly less options under Display > Resolution > Scaled (pressing Option to see the resolutions). Before, I always used it at resolutions between 2160p and 1080p, generally 1440p, but those are gone now.
Is there any way to turn off GPS when doing a workout to save battery? Cheers
I recently bought a MacBook Air and upgraded to macOS Sierra. While editing a file using vim I used sudo vim php.ini But when I trying to write anything or save it prompts that the file is in readonly mode. However when I edit the file using nano using sudo nano php.ini the changes are saved without any issue. When I did a ls -la I see a user group called wheel. I changed these entries in /etc/sudoers: But didn't work.
I am trying to make an app in Automator to hide or show the top menu bar and dock. I couldn't think of a better way to do it, so I used the "record" function so it could watch me carry it out. I tested it in automator, and it worked fine. Here's the workflow: Like I said, it works fine when I hit the "run" button in Automator, but when I export it as an application, it opens System Preferences, but stops working as soon as it hits the "Watch Me Do" function, and gives me this message:
My text messages are still on my iphone5, even though I removed the sim card. Will I lose the texts when I install a new sim card?
I tried using apple configurator to prepare and supervise some iPads but it ended up crashing them and displaying the iTunes logo and an indication to plug it in. I managed to restore the iPads through iTunes and then manually update them to iOS 10.0.2 using wifi.
I use Console to view php error logs—usually with something like: —which Console would present to me as nicely formatted information about my $happyVariable. macOS Sierra's Console app, however, leaves a single line of barf peppered with the \ns that should be read as new lines. I'm looking for a way to have Console read \n as a line beak or a workaround to have pretty logs with either Console or tail -f error_log.
Playlists shouldn't be used, because if I set up a playlist for current pop and rock music, and then if 15 other songs are purchased later, the playlist will again need to be updated constantly. Besides, it is a lot of routine work to add 200 rock and pop songs to a playlist. The iOS version I have is 10.0.2.
I have seen several Sierra/Spotlight questions posted but none are what I am experiencing. I am not receiving any errors when re-indexing. My migration to Sierra from El Capitan went without a glitch. However Spotlight does not return accurate results. Files I know exist do not show up. My first and second thought was there is a corrupt mdstore, Rebuilt mdstore multiple times to no avail.
Short summary: User attempted to decrypt FileVault protection and got impatient; now can't get hard drive working at all. No file recovery needed (good backup, thank God), just need to get the hard drive to the point where I can actually work with it. I have another system with a similar 1 TB drive, and used gpt to manually copy its partition scheme to the problem drive; it won't mount (from klanomoath's assistance to another user).
Since I upgraded to Sierra, mouse wheel scrolling has become a lot worse. When I scroll the wheel fast, it behaves like it did before and scrolls a bunch of lines, but when I scroll the wheel one notch at a time, nothing happens.
After upgrading my wife's iMac to macOS Sierra 10.12.0, she chose to disable Siri from the System Preferences for her own reasons. Now, every time we press the play/pause button on one of the older white infrared Apple remotes, the following dialog appears:
I have an HFS+ disk that will not mount. I've tried it in multiple enclosures, and the problem is the disk itself. Disk Utility says it cannot repair, and so does DiskWarrior. With fsck I get this weird output. Here is some output from syslog:
We currently use Netmotion in our organization to lock down laptops in the field...we are looking at the possibility of using iPads in the field, but so far it seems that the employee could turn off NetMotion and be unrestricted. Is there any way within IOS to lock down web traffic in the field?
The keyboard viewer is so tiny, but it does not seem to be resizable (other than full screen, which hides what I want to type into!).
One page about a free KoreanIM "from Apple" (NOT!) that is actually malware.
Last 4 days, I encountered this problem twice. I'm using my Retina Macbook Pro 13" (OS X : El-Capitan) with a Thunderbolt Display (+ third party mouse and keyboard plugged into the TBD) since about two weeks now. I tried waking it up by opening the lid, no display (absolutely, not even a black screen), unresponsive keyboard, I tried turning it on using the power button, I had to press it (and hold it) many times before it responded (finally), showing a message in multiple languages in the likes of Your computer was shut down because of a problem, and when I logged on this dialog box appeared:
Out of Apple's Maps (or just - Maps) and Google Maps, which is more economical on data? Google Maps caches the path to destination. I know this because I have searched for locations on Google Maps and then turned my phone data off. It still takes me there, minus the traffic updates. I can search for my destination on Google Maps when I'm in a Starbucks using Wi-Fi, or when I'm on my home network and then reach my destination with no phone data usage, which is great. On Maps, I have no idea myself and also there is no information about data usage online. The specific cases I'm looking answers for: Going to an address in the same city, which is better in terms of data usage? Going to another city, which is better in terms of data usage? What features can I sacrifice in one or the other so that I can get the most information with least data usage?
I've updated to MacOS Sierra a few days ago, and it has been really unstable (a lot of freezes and hangs, specially in XCode). I noticed that in Console, the following two lines appear repeatedly, for different apps and services:
I have a number of external drives used for Time Machine backups, including a Time Capsule. Since installing Sierra, backups to the TC have been significantly slower (e.g., 16 hours for a 2GB backup). Upon exploring the logs (and filtering on "backup"), I see a lot of TMCacheDelete messages, usually 8 or so triplets of, each 8-triplet sequence occurring every 3 seconds. default 10:40:19.147281 -0700 TMCacheDelete < private > default 10:40:19.147322 -0700 TMCacheDelete Skipping entitlement check... default 10:40:19.151540 -0700 TMCacheDelete newConnection invalidated This occurs whether it is a TC or a directly attached drive, and it also occurs when all the drives are removed/disabled from Time Machine Preferences, and "Back Up Automatically" (newly renamed in Sierra) unchecked. Thoughts on this sequence of log messages, or on its relation with slow backups?
I have installed Windows 10 via BootCamp on Mac OS Sierra on Air Early 2014 but the Windows just does not boot up. I have checked the presence of Windows data on a partition and they are there. The option showed up as Windows disk but it just simply blinks the DOS - sign and does nothing. Also, I would love to know how can I install Windows 7, more precisely how can I make the touchpad and internal keyboard work during the installation / os usage.
Does anyone else has this problem? I can't find the solution on the interwebz. Can't be the only one with this problem!
I need to block the app. Which domain names does it use? Can I use content restriction like Safari? Can I block the IP addresses in my router?
I want to start writing scripts to automate common use cases in OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. I'd like to work with ruby but I'd be willing to learn any high level language to do it with the exception of AppleScript. I'd also like to avoid Automator when possible and just stick with "regular" programming tools like text editors. I'm not opposed to using those tools as wrappers, but I'd like to do most of the work with a "real" scripting language like ruby, bash, python, perl, etc... I know how to use ruby or bash to automate tasks in the terminal. Things like file/directory creation/naming, or changing directories, or launching applications. I also use Alfred to launch many of the ruby or bash scripts I write and I love it! Now I want do things like:
This is driving me crazy and I think I've done all the obvious troubleshooting. Where might OSX be keeping keyboard-specific settings that would do this? Here's what's happening: When I plug in the keyboard to either USB port on my MBP, it works fine for about 3 seconds Then, the "a" key stops working (no response), and when I press "h" it types an "i" instead It works fine when I boot in Recovery Mode It works fine on other computers Different USB keyboard works fine on this computer Of note: I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Beta (16B2333a) I recently installed and removed Keyboard Maestro
My iPhone 5S (16GB model) has 1.9 GB available of a total capacity of 12.1 GB. I see that the iOS 10 update requires 1.4 GB. But I am assuming I will get much of that back. Can anyone give me a specific amount? Edit: My iPhone is currently running iOS 8.1.3.
If I have pressed the "play a sound" button in the app will the sound still play even after I sign out of the app?
I'm trying to restore my MacBook Pro from a Time Machine backup which has been made on El Capitan. After I wiped my MacBook it reinstalled the OS it came with when I bought it (Mavericks). But after I try to restore from my Time Machine backup, it won't work. After it's done it simply does not boot. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to upgrade to El Capitan before I can restore successfully?
Ok, so my Mac got a virus, two days later I came home and noticed a screen saying "your computer shut down because of a problem" and then stuff in (I'm pretty sure they were there) different languages. Apparently this is a kernel panic. So anyways, I got rid of the virus and thought everything was good, except the computer was very slow, so after a lot of Apple Support, I decided to wipe the hard drive, reinstalled OS X. By the way, I have macOS Sierra.
I have upgraded some of my Macs to Sierra. Now, I'm wondering whether I want to enable iCloud on the Document folder or not. It seems useful, if it works well. I'm syncing some of PDF files between iPad over iCloud and my expereince was "so-so" compared with Dropbox based sync (I'm using PDF expert on iPad). I'm particulary intereded in how git repository work (or not work) well on iCloud drive -- I have multiple Macc, I know iCloud drive is slow in sync. Do you have any experience, or recommendation on this?
Is there an easy way to lock individual cells or a group of cells in Numbers to prevent the data in the cell from being changed?
This first happened when I ran out of battery on my Mac. When I charged it, it was acting very weirdly. My desktop background is black and when I login the background is black. When I open Hamachi it says "Failed to connect to engine", Stuff is missing such as desktop pictures and letters that I used to see are now a box with a question mark "[?]".
I have set up Family Sharing on my daughter's iPad Pro and I am the Organiser. I also added my daughter as a family member. How can I delete myself as the Organiser and add my wife instead? I hope after doing that my wife can replace my bank details with hers.
For past few days, roughly 30, I've been facing issues with switching on my Macbook Pro 2015 model. This is what I've observed. So what happens is if during a day or night there is high humidity, Mac doesn't turn on in case it has been kept in turn off mode for 5-6 hours however as soon as I take it to an air conditioned room, it switches on just in a matter of 2-3 minutes. Also, if I use hair dryer on it for about 30-40 seconds, it switches on without any further problems.
What programming language does the iPod nano 7th generation use? I would like to develop an app for my own iPod nano 7th generation.
Using AppleScript, I need to check if Adblock Plus (ABP) is installed in the Chrome Browser. After numerous attempts at trying to figure out how, I have come to the conclusion that it would be relatively easy to check if the ABP "firstRun.html" exists. Or is there a more reliable script to check if this specific extension is installed?
I am having some trouble extracting the Xcode 8 XIP I downloaded from Apple. After trying to extract it, I get the following error:
Very strange issue here. Around the time the 5s came out I went into AT&T to grab a new phone. For some reason I couldn't get logged into my apple account during setup so the AT&T employee completed the activation while using their account.
If I use my headphone (EarPods), and have just normal music volume, and use some app such as Pokémon Go and have the sound effect on, then the sound effect will blow my ear drum off. (say, when the Appraisal texts are showing one by one, or after the items are dispensed from the Pokéstop).
Although I'm a Mac user for several years now, this noob-question is stuck in my head since the beginning: I'm selecting a text by holding down Shift and moving around with the cursors. Imagine I start at one line, press Down and then want to move my selection end to the beginning of the line (just like pressing Left all the way): how do I do that on Mac? Pressing Home or Cmd+Left always moves the beginning of the selection to the beginning of its line (which is also kinda cool, but doesn't help me here). I've even made a gif about this to demonstrate:
A client of mine has generated all 100 promo codes for their app without considering that they are valid for only 28 days. Do they ever regenerate? If I made version 2.0 of the App would that enable new promo codes? It's just naivety on the part of the client. Thanks, Paul
I have 2 iphones one is with my mother and one is with me but apple id on both the phones is same which is creating problm for me as my imessages and facetime calls are going to her also so how can i make my stuff secure and stop my calls and message on going on her iphone????
Background data refresh etc is on for these apps. I think iOS puts them to suspend so they do not respond via Bluetooth LE even though I haven't killed them and they are in the apps list.
Since I upgraded my MacBook Pro(mid-2012) to macOS Sierra the voice which is being used by Siri is unnatural.It sounds like the old iOS 6 Siri.I downloaded all the dictation voices but the problem persists.Somwhere on the internet I found a solution saying that enabling checkboxes under App Store auto-update fixes the issue but Siri still sounds the same.Does anyone have a concrete solution?
First, it showed nothing but I had to go to the dictionary and download it but now I can't lookup things that aren't in the dictionary, that would previously result in it showing me a Wikipedia page. Any way to fix this?
Me and my mother share one Apple ID. If someone sends an iMessages to my phone number, will my mother's iPhone also receive it?
I have an iPhone 5. I have the latest software update of iOS 10.0.2. How can I repeat a Playlist and song? Many thanks.
it used to be at the bottom along with the sync button. I see no bar and button anymore
I have a file that contains text. The file is not a text file, it is a SQL file.
When the g++/gcc [-c] .c/.cpp -g is executed before, *.o and executable format (a.out) seem to have included all symbol information. When g++/gcc [-c] .c/.cpp -g makes executable format (a.out) in case of Xcode 8.0 (8A218a) of Mac OS X EI Captain (10.11.6), a directory called a.out.dSYM is made at the same directory, and symbol information seems to be here. When there are no debug command line tool, if it's possible to debug a program by a GUI of Xcode in IDE, please tell me the way. Regards
I would like to prune the song list from the ones that don't align with the current value set of mine. How can I ditch the songs from the ios8 device from 10.11 desktop?
Below is one of the crash reports for the experts here that can actually make sense of them. I'm only gleaning from the gibberish that the crash probably occurred because of the GPU, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB in my case, suddenly becoming afraid of seeing my face and deciding to black out. Or does "panic" mean something else in this case ;-)
I have a British keyboard which I have set in my keyboard preferences, however my mac keeps resetting itself back to U.S.  This annoying feature happens about 5 to 10 times a day. How can I permanently set the language?
I've spent hours on a video and all of a sudden the Movie turned black in iMovie, Help! It was imported from a camera and deleted on the memory stick, now its turned black since I turned it off in the timeline I think.
I keep some files on an external HDD and I've wanted to know what is currently on it without connecting it. I've modified this command to get a .txt file with tree-like structure of my folders on that HDD uploaded to my iCloud Drive when I connect it to my MBP. This is my edited command which I have saved as .sh, now saving the file to desktop: So far I've made a shortcut in BTT which runs the script but I would like it to run when I connect that HDD.
Font smoothing appears to be applied to all screens but I prefer to have the fonts on my retina screen non-smoothed. However, non-smoothed fonts on the standard 1080p monitor I attach look awful.
I noticed recently that when I try to watch YouTube videos or Netflix in full screen on my Macbook Air, the whole screen will wash out with orange and yellow and I can't see anything. But it's perfectly fine if I don't watch it in fullscreen. And on Netflix, if I use subtitles, it's normal when someone is talking, but when the text disappears the screen gets an orange tint again.
What program or app do I use to open a chat.db-wal file?
When I try to use split view feature in macOS Sierra, I can not use the green button any more. Every help page found by google suggests I should click and hold the green button to activate split screen for the current window. The window would shrink and I could move it left or right and then choose an other open window to place it on the other side. This does not work with my MacBook on macOS Sierra.
In this century I thought pop-up windows were dying out. But no, the following... This Mac can't connect to iCould because a problem with "aa@bb.com"
I've got an iPhone 6 that I would like to keep running iOS9 for the purpose of testing iOS applications. Is there any way to prevent the prompts to install iOS10?
I'd like to create a test environment for Mac OS X. I would like to be able to repeatedly start from a 'clean' Mac OS X state, then install some libraries and programs (similar to what Travis-CI is doing). Is there a recommended way to implement such setup ? For example, purchase a Mac Mini + Parallels, then create virtual machines from the Mac OS X Recovery partition - would that work? Thanks!
On OSX 10.12 A friend's keychain somehow got the "restricted" mode added to it. I know about csrutil disable from safe mode etc, I'd really like to know how it could've happened. He has no idea what he was doing back then, of course.
Running OS X 11 or 12 on late 2012 iMac connected to company LAN via 1000BaseT. Even when not running browser, email client, …, that would use the network, Mac is quite slow. RAM pressure is light (8 GB of 32 used), negligible disc or other I/O, CPU 80% idle. Worst during peak work hours, better nights and weekends. Disconnect the Ethernet, and performance improves to level to which I'm accustomed. Firewall is on with strict settings.
Even with App Store Automatic Updates set to OFF, all of the iWork apps pop up a modal dialog box on startup to inform you there is an update. Is there a way to disable this behavior (in El Capitan)?
i got some problem, i want to disable [removing, deleting or writing a file] via administrator (sudo user) in MacOS. for example i want a create a some db of blocked websites without any web filters. i want disable access for any user in system for hosts file with no control.
On my MacBook Pro (Early 2015), I've been struggling with a problem since I upgraded to Sierra. I don't use Exposé very often, but some times, when I trigger it accidentally with a swipe on the trackpad, it freezes the window manager.
Is there a way to disable automatically connecting to a known WiFi network on an iPhone? Say that your work/school has a monitored WiFi network. You only want to connect to it when you plan on downloading a large file, so you don't want to connect to it automatically. But you also don't want to re-enter your credentials every time you want to connect. Is there a way to tell your iPhone to forget an network until you want to re-connect?
I there a way to restore the swipe to unlock in iOS 10?
In XCode: Received an unexpected response from the device. Please check your setup and try again. (0xE8000013). How do I get my computer to recognize my iPhone is unlocked and trusts the computer?
Clearly Migration Assistant doesn't like something in my set of applications, but I've found no diagnostics that would tell me what. If it were choking on one (known) application, for example, I might try temporarily removing that to see if it helps. I've got enough applications that I don't want to just start guessing.
I have two interfaces configured. Wi-Fi which receives DNS via DHCP and I have a thunderbolt port statically configured to connect to a local subnet without a default gateway. I have configured a DNS server on the thunderbolt interface and that interface has a higher service order preference then Wi-Fi.
I recently bought a 12" PowerBook G4 on eBay. I'd like to reinstall OS X to have a clean setup, but I can't find any original install discs online.
For a project I am working on, I'd like to connect my MBP to three 60in TVs. I've read that it is possible to hook up to three external displays via these configurations: 2012 MBPR with extra graphics chip can drive 2x TB-DVI + 1x HDMI 2015 MBPR with extra graphics chip can NOT drive 2x TB-DVI + 1X HDMI but it CAN drive 1x TB-DVI + 1x TB-DisplayPort + 1x HDMI as one of the answers here indicates.
I use a 4K monitor on Sierra, and by default, when in Chrome, the file dialog always comes up in a tiny size that I'm constantly resizing larger:  I tried the solutions offered in this answer, but none of the answers there worked for me in Chrome. How can I configure my machine such that the default size is twice as wide and twice as tall so that it is big enough for my needs in most cases?
I want to sign up for my Apple Developer account solely so i can provision an app and put it on a device(s) to test. How long does it take after I submit my payment for the Apple Developer account for Apple to respond? Is it a mechanized system so I can start putting my app on my device? Is there any other way to get my app onto a real device in the time while I wait?
Family with some iPhones, iPads and now a new iMac. We would like to have a common family calendar, which should be synced to the iPhones, as soon as they are in the local wifi. On the iMac, everybody has his own account and own iTunes. But it seems difficult to have a certain common calendar. Can I install the OS X Server on the iMac, which will be used for daily work (artwork, office)?
In terminal if I type I get the output /Users/brendans/Desktop/Shows I Watch/Bob's Burgers
Apparently my external HD went crazy (I've been using it without problem for a long time) and decided to change partition scheme from GUID to FDisk (look at disk1) but my data remains as HFS+ (disk1s2)...   I have important data in that HD, so my question is
Installed a new empty hard drive on a MacBook pro 2010, the old one is not usable any more, and I do not have the original DVD. As show e.g. here, pressing Cmd+R during boot, I should get an image of earth with a dialog to choose network. In my case I only get the image of a blinking folder with a question mark. I tried with Cmd+alt+R, with the same result.
MacOS Kindle version 1.12.0 no longer seems to keep downloaded books in the My Kindle Library location, no new files are showing up there. Does anyone know where they are being stored now? Without these files to find and remove the DRM for use on other non-kindle readers I'll probably just go back to finding my books on DRM free sites 8(
Well, it's in the title. I have a photo that I keep trying to permanently delete on my iPhone 6s running iOS 10 with iCloud photo library (though this problem occurred with iOS 9). I delete it, clear deleted photos, and a little while later it's back on the phone. Very strangely, it doesn't appear on Photos on my Mac or on iCloud.com! It's driving me crazy. How do I get this photo to stay deleted forever?
Is the time required for incremental Time Machine backups greatly affected by the number of files being backed up? I have a large number of files on my Mac that very rarely change and aren't "mission critical". If they greatly affect backup time I'll exclude them from Time Machine but if they don't I'll just backup everything. Backup size is a non-issue for me. If it matters, I have Time Machine backing up to a remote box that is usually on the local network.
It would appear that ~ and $HOME are equivalent in command line and shell scripts. Is that true?
Because my phone won't actually turn on and is stuck in the screen with the apple on it, it can't connect to iTunes where i need to go to restore it. Is there any way i can restore it without it connecting to iTunes?
I have an iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 that won't download any apps or update its OS. It was donated to my school so it was totally wiped before we got it.
So I recently got a new iPhone 7 Plus a week ago. Tonight, I got onto this website which kept on putting up pop-ups on the page. I went to the lock screen, and it instantly froze. I couldn't even unlock the phone. Then, it went into a black screen with the loading icon. I tried to shut it off several times, but no use. I tried to connect it to iTunes via my MacBook Pro, but since the phone has a password, iTunes sent a verification text to my phone. Of course, I can't access anything in my phone now. There's literally nothing I can do with the phone. (The battery was at 70%, if that helps.)
I live on campus and use a university secured 802.1x wifi network. The first question I have is, what's the difference between the IP address I can see from ifconfig and the address that is show as username@wireless1x-blah-blah-blah@university.edu? Since they both change does DHCP assign me both of them? Also is there a way to find this second, ssh usable address from the terminal? I can't seem to find a way to figure out how to make this ssh address static, so at least I'd like create a cronjob that copies and pastes it to a txt file on my cloud drive. Image of the address I'm talking about just for clarification:
I am fairly competent with computers, but I've run into a problem that has me completely stumped. I have an Nvidia Quadro K1200 graphics card in my Mac Pro tower. I have used the Nvidia drivers with no problems, up until a few weeks ago, when Apple released the security update for OS X 10.11. When I tried installing the new driver, it gave me an error. I have now gotten this error in both OS X 10.11 and macOS 10.12, with both driver versions 346.03.15f03 and 367.15.10.05f01. The error appears after running through the whole install dialogue:
I need to re-activate my Command+Shift+4 (for screen captures). I somehow lost this ability on my MacBook Air. How can I do it?
I'm currently on 10.10.5 and I want to partition my internal SSD into two, installing a fresh copy of 10.12 on the second partition (while keeping 10.10.5 on the original partition). I want to eventually delete the original partition on the SSD that the mac shipped with (10.10.5), leaving only the second partition of 10.12. Doing a search, it seems it may not be possible to make a second partition the only partition.
The man page for tmutil mentions that Time Machine records checksums of files, and lists a verifychecksums command. The man page is sparse on details, and does not otherwise mention checksums. I was wondering whether Time Machine ever automatically verifies these checksums (or if these are only verified when you run verifychecksums manually)? The page also says checksums are not retroactively computed, so how can I list the files in my latest backup for which no checksum is available? Also, is it known what checksumming algorithm is used? The above is from the tmutil man page in OS X 10.11.6, maybe the one in macOS Sierra has more details.
After downloading and running the installer, I met with the problem when the installer is asking "Select the disk where you want to install macOS". My default OS X disk which runs El Capitan normally grayed out, and when I click on it, it just complains "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer".
I cloned my MacBook Pro 1 TB SSD to a 2 TB SSD. The new SSD shows up just like the old one. How do I add the unallocated free space (~1 TB) on the new SSD to the main volume? OS X 10.11.6 is installed on SSHD2TB.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop certain applications from creating files on your computer but still run them? Maybe something similar to pythons venv but for .App files instead. I'm a little ocd with developers leaving behind unused files on my Mac even if they are harmless.
Is there an app out there that will let you memorize window locations over different desktops in mission control? Not just remember them when I restart, but save the locations of all open windows as different configurations that can be reloaded when needed. I've looked everywhere. Cheers
My Sound - first on El Capital - now on Sierra after upgrade - stops working about 1 / 5 times I put the Mac to sleep. When this happens nothing makes a sound, volume controls done - and even if I connect to Bluetooth earphones they get no sound either.
My iCloud Photo Library is 16GB. Because the drive in my Mac is only 128GB I don't want all my photos to be stored locally on my Mac but rather just load the photos when I open the Photos app. Any idea how to do this?
I'm trying to ssh into a remote server using the format: and I get the following error: Connecting to a server without an SSH key doesn't work either. Thanks.
I have a Macbook Pro with an SSD drive installed. The laptop runs OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition. Something weird was going on however. The drive itself is 512GB, but the only partitions I could see in OSX where a 170GB Macintosh HD and a 90GB BOOTCAMP.
I have enabled virtual hosts on my Mac running macOS Sierra. What I did, Uncommented Virtual Host line in httpd.conf Added a virtual host entry from my site in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file. After which when I try to access *=URL=* it gives me a 404. Initially I faced a 403, so I created a username.conf file in apache users directory and gave AllowOverride All for /
I'm trying to fix the known graphic issue for some MacBooks build earlier. I need to remove some files in another directory in the single-user-mode (cmd+s). When I try to remove a file to another directory I get this error: Sandbox: mv(31) System Policy: deny(1) file-write-unlink /System/Library/Extensions/AMD6000Controller.kext mv: rename AMD6000Controller.kext to /DisabledExtensions/AMDController.kext: Operation not permitted Here is what I did before: Then I get the error above.. My MacBook won't boot, so I can only use the single-user-Mode to fix this problem..
I have recently formatted my hard drive through disk utility and trying to reinstall OS X through the recovery mode but it comes up with the attached picture and the laptop is not going to its Recovery mode. Also i have realised when i press alt Key during the boot process i dont see any hard drive there.
If I take a picture on my iPhone, it shows up when I open up "Photos" app on my mac when I click on "Photos" in the upper left. This integration is quite nice to avoid having to do a manual sync but it has created a bit of overhead and confusion. In most cases I like to groom my photos to get rid of lots of fuzzy or duplicate pictures but since it seems like a copy of the photo on my mac, If I cleanup these bad pictures on my iPhone, i also have to clean then up on my mac. First, I am trying to confirm that my mac has a "copy" of the picture (or a reference to the picture on the phone) and if I go and delete that picture on my phone, can I also get it to delete that picture on my mac. Is this behavior configurable? I am trying to find a balance between enjoying the integration of things showing in mac photos without me having to do a manual sync with the overhead of doing these redundant cleanups.
I would like to install MS Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro but there's not enough space. I thought of installing it on an external USB drive. However, I got an error message that "Microsoft Office 2016 can't be installed on this disk. OS X isn't installed.", and hence I couldn't install it. Is there anyhow to overcome this situation? I have one more question which is, is it possible to consider a cloud storage drive like Google Drive as a kind of USB and install an app on it?
I have use my google account for example: ASD123@hotmail.com (google account/ google play account) to sign in every apps game to save the progress and data on Android. And now I have change a new phone which is iphone. Can I use the google account email to create an Apple ID? If it is yes, then can I retrieve back all the progress and data when I use the Apple ID to sign in for the game with the same email with google account?
Like most coders, I have hundreds of files organized within dozens of directories. I rely heavily on "date modified" for basic version control. On a daily basis, while digging through my codebase for recently updated files, I think the same thought: Why, for the love of all that is binary, isn't the modification date of each folder always equal to the most recently modified file it contains (percolating up)? Has anyone accomplished this, and if not, why is this not a thing?
Can Apple's Time Machine restore routine handle excluding files from a 200 GB MacBook backup, in order to make the backup fit a smaller 128 GB drive? Backgrounder: I have had the unfortunate experience to have to return an OWC 480 GB internal harddisk upgrade, that I installed in a 128 GB MacBook. It became unstable after only 4-5 months use and I have had to send it twice for repair/replacement. Until now, the replacement back-and-forth have lasted for more than 4 months, so I decided to go back to the 128 GB disk + an external drive and demanded a refund.
I understand I can't get make regular calls if it breaks (if I have enabled a passcode). This seems like a safety issue if even the emergency call feature is impossible to access if the button is broken. Am I missing a different way to access the emergency call feature?
I received a call that showed up as someone from my contact list. When I played the message back it was from a completely different business. This has happened once before... a call came in with the Contra Costa County Sheriff listed as the caller and it was a telemarketer not from the Sheriff's office. Why would this happen? How do I fix it?
I'm using latest versions of iOS and Google Maps on an iPhone 7, and when I turn the screen off, I do not hear turn-by-turn directions when using the navigation feature of Google Maps. Yet, according to the "Battery saving tips" of the Google Maps app documentation, I should still hear the sounds.
What is the preferred approach to locally sync (i.e., assume I have no Google account of any kind) the following data between an Android phone and my Macbook? calendar tasks address book / contacts
The issue seems to occur after updating to macOS Sierra. After the update, the position of the tray icons changed (from what they had been before the update). Redragging them works, but they are reset to this certain position if the system is rebooted. This didn't seem to happen before upgrading to Sierra. (Either that or the icons are somehow always placed to the position I wanted whenever I install new applications, which is unlikely) Is there a way to make the tray icon positions persist on reboot? I have Bartender 2 installed, but I don't think it is causing the issue.
Will the battery from an iPhone 4 fit into an iPhone 5? The battery in my iPhone 5 is bad and I have an iPhone 4 I was thinking of exchanging the battery from.
The iOS 10 Music app is revised and I had to get used to the new layout, thus investing some time in finding things. However, I am pretty clueless on where to find the Add to Up Next feature. There is the Play Next feature, but this doesn't allow me to add the selected song to the bottom of the queue. Using this on selected songs will essentially reverse the order of selected songs. Where can I find the Add to Up Next feature on iOS 10 Music app?
I have an iPad Air 2. I've been using a comic book reader called Bookman for years. It allows importing books over FTP on a set port (2121). It has worked for years without an issue, but ever since I updated to iOS 10.0.2, I keep getting "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server" trying to connect to the iPad's IP.
I'm using VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt had a mode called "Traveller Mode" on Windows, that allows for the encrypted volume/file to be accessed without requiring an installation of TrueCrypt itself.
I am trying to restore a disabled iPhone 4s so my daughter can use it but iTunes gives the error not enough disk space. Obviously I can't delete anything from the phone because it's disabled. Is there any way to clear up storage space while disabled?
Are there any solutions similar to a Fusion Drive, but where the large/slow part is a network volume? This would be to get usable speeds with a volume that has to be networked, and would otherwise be too big and complex to sync (intricate dependency trees with a lot of small, scattered files). I know of StableBit CloudDrive, but sadly it's just for Windows.
I originally prepped the new Crucial 2 TB SSD in disk utility. I then removed the Mac 1 TB SSD from out of my MacBook Pro and put them both in my Aleratec duplicator. I proceeded to copy. This process seemed to work, however I had 1 TB of free space that was unaccessible. I was unable to move/add that space to the logical volume. I attempted to resize the logical volume but had -5341 error. Partition map to small. After several attempts at this I erased the new 2 TB SSD.
I just installed MacOS Sierra on my macBookPro , I realised startup is slower than in Mavericks, can anyone direct me how can I or what Can I do to speed up boot and after booth startup. My MacBook RAM is 4GB, I hope this is not a problem otherwise.
Is there a way to change the iTunes Store country and still keep the Apple Music library? Preferably in an automated way.
Hi guys, Anyone know if Apple removed Verbose Mode in macOS Sierra or not? When It seems Verbose Mode couldn't be accessed any more. One more thing, it also doesn't work with booting into Single-user Mode, Safe Mode or Verbose Mode via command line.
I have just bought a new iMac. I have iTunes installed on my new computer. All my iTunes preferences are set perfectly on my old iMac. I now want to move my external hard drives to my new iMac. This is where all my iTunes music stored. There is one slight problem... I can easily connect the hard drives to my new iMac... One thinks that just locating the names of the hard drives and taking your mouse and sliding the folders into iTunes will all arrange the albums and all the tracks with all the album names and artists and everything goes in it's right place... Wrong... Doesn't work that way. There is a way to copy your iTunes preferences so that when you attach your hard drives the first time your iTunes program knows exactly where to find everything and everything is in it's place. Someone out there must know. I used to do it all the time but now I have not done it in like 3 years... Someone help!
Many VPN apps would create VPN profiles on the iOS device. Unlike VPN profiles create by the user, they cannot be edited, and therefore the user cannot see the setting of said profile. With a jailbroken device, is there a way to hunt down such profile and read the setting in file?
I am trying to partition my internal HDD so that I can install Windows 10. I tried using Boot Camp to do this (which is where I think the problem started) but it failed so I am trying to do it manually. Now when I open Disk Utility it looks like this:
I have a problem with Mail. My name is Oğuz and there is a Turkish character in my name. I set up a 'live' email address in Mail. When I send an email from a web browser my name appears as "Oğuz", but when I send one from Mail my name appears as "O?uz". Also, other Turkish characters in my last name do not appear correctly. How do I fix this issue?
Does the Mac App Store check for macOS 10.12 hardware compatibility before downloading? According to what I've been reading on the web, my MacBookPro 5,5 (mid 2009) should not support macOS 10.12, Sierra. However the Mac App Store allows downloading it. I would like to prevent downloading 5GB of files and finally discover that the installer says "your mac is not supported".
Downloaded and installed macOS Sierra (10.12) on 10/1/16. Since then, my Caps Lock key is behaving weirdly different (I'm an OS X user since Mavericks). Note: This only seems to affect users with more than one language as their input source.
I have downloaded and installed apache, php, phpmyadmin, mysql via macports. Everything was working fine before upgrading to macOS Sierra. After the upgrade whenever I try to access localhost I get the following error message: "This site can't be reached, localhost refused to connect." This is happening although my settings in the apache http.conf file remain the same. I am also providing the content of the hosts file Any advice?
Can I reclaim used space (even if very small) as suggested in the response of this question? (in other words: sudo ls -laOR /Volumes/UNTITLED)
I downloaded the "Install MacOS Sierra.app", it says there I have to move it to /Applications and then run it afterwards to update my OS on local machine. Now, after it ran through, can I cleanly remove the installer and any related files AppCleaner offers me? Or are there some mixups with the updated OS Sierra system files? I don't need the installer to use disk space, but of course don't want to crash my System by accidently removing something from ~/Library or wherever and then stand there with an unusable system. Anyone already made some experiences with this? Cheers, Tobias
I'm running Numbers 3.6.2 and am constantly annoyed at having to manually change the PDF export quality to Best. Is there a way to set Best as the default?
I can not find file-release through command line on OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6. On my virtual machine in Ubuntu I can do "ls /etc/*release" and it shows me two files with all needed information:
Hey guys thanks in advance I can't find help for this anywhere outside of an old thread mentioning mDNSresponder causing the problem needing to be replaced with DiscoveryD. They only recommend updating from Yosemite but I'm already running El Capitan. Some background: I have a Seagate NAS I auto connect to on my Mac via the log in items. I keep it accessible in my dock and the file path appears not to change However in my Torrent / Usenet clients the file path seems to increment everytime the server disconnects / reconnects Transmission
Is it possible to disable the fullscreen mode for applications in OSX sierra natively without using a 3rd party application like better touch tool ?
what i found is, if u uncheck iCloud contacts under internet account, then it work fine, i can then forward a website using the share menu in safari or file using the share menu in the contextual menu(right click) All others do work as example if you want to forward a website or a file to someone by email that works but with iMessage nothing happens. I'm using Sierra on a iMac.
In Linux I can set terminal shortcut like this: But in OS X it doesn't work, I've tried this construction with no success: How to setup Terminal shortcut in OS X?
i have developed a XCode IOS app, but can i use it on my TestFlight without a Paid Dev Cert?
I was trying to re-install Windows through Bootcamp, and it was stuck at partitioning. I quit Bootcamp, and now in the disk utility I get this error, even when in recovery mode:
So I had 2 OS's on my MacBook Pro, one partition was Mac and the other one was Windows 7. After I updated my Mac OS, my Windows disappeared from 'Startup Disk'
I'm trying to install LastPass on a fresh OS install that has no browser but Safari. Clicking the Download link at lastpass.com sends me to the Safari Extension Gallery with a link to install LastPass. Clicking that link, sends me right back to the previous download page at lastpass.com. At this moment I find it impossible to install LastPass with Safari. Am I missing something?
"Save as ..." ignores the location of the current file and ignores the last save location. This means I have to navigate back to the original files source folder every time I want to save a different version of the file in Excel.
Per this article, there are 4 methods to remove an app: tap and wiggle from settings from iTunes when updating Is there an advantage / preference to use one of these methods over another?
I have a MacBook Unibody 2009 and am facing a weird issue. My laptop only works when it's connected to a power source but not on battery.
My MacBook Pro was stolen a couple of days ago and Find my Mac had been enabled on it. I have already locked the Mac with a passcode and a message as well as clicked on the play sound feature(on the find my iPhone app), but those actions are pending until the computer comes online. The Mac is on El Capitan and came with Mavericks. The admin user is password protected but I had not enabled FileVault which is the disk encryption feature, so the computer can be wiped by erasing the disk in Recovery. The computer doesn't need to connect to the internet to be erased but it does need an internet connection to reinstall the operating system after the wipe. My question is, if the computer is erased and then goes online, will Find my Mac still work and notify me when it does? Is it still asociated with my Apple ID after the wipe?
I have an iPhone 5c and I've been trying to log onto my iTunes and Apple Store in my settings, but I keep getting a "Verification Failed. There was an error in connecting to your Apple ID." error. I don't know how to do resolve this. When I go onto my iCloud on my iPhone it says that my email is not verified even though I went to my email and verified it, it isn't recognized as verified on my iPhone.
I'm trying to make a Powerpoint presentation containing source code examples (something along the lines of: Without fail, when I copy and paste this from my text editor (that has this text as plain text and not as any sort of rich text) all of the text ends up as a single line in my presentation. Is there a way to paste plain text from the system clipboard into Powerpoint while preserving line breaks in the text?
What type of connector used to connect the various parts Apple MacBook? The connector of which I speak is like this:
I went to the website referred here and by mistake I installed the profile they offered to me. In one of the comments, someone mentioned: Do NOT use this site as it makes you install a Profile service which can make your data accessible to the owner of the site
I tried downloading macOS Sierra in the App Store. The download seems to be successful, but then the installation never happens. One solution I saw is to look for "Install macOS Sierra" in Applications, but it is not there. It's in Applications while it's downloading, so it should be there when it's done. I tried searching with Spotlight just to be sure and got no hits. The macOS Sierra App Store page says "Download" instead of "Downloaded". It's like the download never happened. Restarting and repeating did not solve the issue. Any idea what might be wrong? What's really strange is if I go to System Information > Software > Installations, it's there, so it really was downloaded:
I tried the guides here and here, which are so far the two main methods I could find online, with most of the others being a variation of the two. Both haven't worked for me. Here is some info that might help to diagnose the issue:
In the Emacs shell buffer I can do: repeatedly and Firefox will open each time, showing the Google screen (I quit Firefox each time). If I have the following in the Emacs scratch buffer and repeatedly evaluate:
How can I do the new balloons effect, like in the commercial? Can I do it on macOS too or just iOS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR6JtMIdMuU
My phone is showing "Message sent with Lasers" and "Message sent with (X effect)" rather than the actual animation. I've downloaded iOS 10—what else do I need to do to see the messages?
I have a wifi based disk on which I have many movies. I can access this disk from my mac finder and see all the files. I want to add these files to my itunes home videos folder without physically copying the files from the wifi disk. I thought the right way to do this was to open itunes movies -> home videos then drag and drop the files from the finder on the home videos. but in my case, it starts physically copying 100s of those files from the wifi disk to the local storage of the computer. I don't want this.
When I hold 'option' during boot I only am shown a 'Macintosh HD' disk to boot from. There is no 'Recovery HD' available. Using the 'diskutil list' command in terminal reveals that I do have a Recovery HD partition. Why is the 'Recovery HD' not displayed when I want to choose my startup disk by holding 'option' on boot? MacBook Pro Retina running OS EL Capitan 10.11.6
I have just updated to MacOS Sierra, and found that openssh version 1 has beed disabled or removed. I have to use ssh1 for some server, how can I enable ssh1? Or can I install another openssh which support ssh1 tentatively?
I'm sure everyone with a Macbook Pro has experienced the heavy heating and the fans sounding like they are about to take off. It's totally understandable when I run a GPU-heavy process such as video editing or gaming. My problem is that this is happening even with simple tasks such as web browsing or watching a video...
I have recently upgraded to iOS 10 and notice the new digital touch feature in Messages offers a "keep" button. Where are they kept? Can I see them in any other app, or do anything with them outside Messages? Can I export them? In what file format?
I'm trying to use this command to do so: where LatestDate is the key I'm modifying. The problem is, it doesn't recognize date "+%y-%m-%d" as what I'm trying to write to the key, and when I put it in quotes it simply writes that text, not the date to the key. How should I go about doing this?
My wife have a 16gb iPhone and her phone is now nearly full. I would like to import her photos to my iCloud account and free up some space on her phone. I have a 200GB subscription and she has a 50GB subscription the problem here is the phone's storage. How can I import her photos to my iCloud account and move the photos off to her phone?
I saw this when backing up my iPhone, and I have no idea what it means. It is in the space where the X/cancel symbol usually is, and it had no tooltip when I hovered over it.
I am trying to code in C on OS X (El Capitan) and need to use OpenSSL. OS ships with version 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016.
I've disabled the iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone and now have to wait 30 days to remove all photos from the iCloud (I don't need them on any of my Apple devices). Is there a way to do it faster (without deleting every single photo manually)?
I'm currently trying to install a Dell 1130n Printer Driver on macOS Sierra. Upon installation, the installer displays this message: Error opening file: libscmssc.dylib 1008:6, -35 Drive not found This file is located in a folder in the same directory as the installation file. I have disabled some security settings in macOS Sierra by running a line of code in Terminal, which I thought might have caused that issue: But it does not appear to have any effect on the installer. Any ideas?
So I found a command that lets me create Dock entries via Terminal. This was working fine on OS X El Capitan, but not with macOS Sierra. Any ideas how this can be done with macOS Sierra? This is sample command that works with OS X El Capitan:
I have downloaded Sierra from App Store and tried to install but I am not able to select a disk. I have installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro and have triple boot (Mac OS X, Windows 10 and Ubuntu). How can I install it? My Mac info: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) - El Capitan
I want some email accounts to be on "fetch mode", so that my emails do not fly inside my computer during the times I work on project, where those mails would be disturbing. However, I cannot completely close mail, as I have other mail addresses, with mails, that are important and urgent, because they are connected to those projects. I have in sum 8 accounts, and I want to disable 5 of them temporarily each time I work on my project, where I only need 3 accounts. In short project breaks, I would be happy to fetch the emails of the 5 accounts, that I don't want to push in. Furthermore, I already tried to set them offline, but apparently they go online by their selves and than mails fly in.
I used to have AirPlay disabled using the terminal (sudo chmod 000 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPlayUIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPlayUIAgent). I just upgraded to Sierra and now it has come back and the old way won't work anymore.
I can see on the Apple store that the standard charger is a 12W charger. Since it "should" output 5V, I can conclude it outputs 2.4A (12W/5V=2.4A). Considering the above hypothesis correct, could any charger having the same output be used for my iPhone 5?
One of our macs running El Capitan mysteriously can't save Word 2016 documents to our AFP share anymore. More specifically, when trying to save a Word 2016 document to our AFP share, the normal "Save" dialog pops up. After completing the dialog, Word dutifully closes it and then displays a "Save as..." dialog a short time later (with the file not having been saved to the share). Subsequent attempts to save via the "Save as..." dialog yield the same behavior. This is exceedingly weird, as:
I have reinstalled macOS Sierra on my machine. After installing Oracle MySQL Community Server 5.7.15 (mysql-5.7.15-osx10.11) I tried to stop the MySQL server from the console. I got back the following error "ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!". I have done some research on my own but it did not manage to find a solution on my problem. Any suggestions?
I have just re-downloaded Whatsapp and wanted to restore the chats that I have backed up. However, this occurs:
I have an early 2011 MacBookPro 13" with a dead motherboard. I would like to detach the screen and use it as an external monitor.
I'm reviewing some photos I've taken in the photos app on a Mac. I'd like to put some of them into an album. However, it seems that to do this, for every photo I want to add, I have to click the '+' button and select "Album", which then pops up a modal dialogue where I have to select the name of the album from yet another drop-down, then click OK. There must be a quicker way than this. (Right?) What is it?
"geodMachServiceBridge" errors show up every few seconds in the Console App in macOS Sierra. Quitting process from within Activity Monitor didn't help. Tried this solution (from here), didn't help too: Shows following error: Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged Googling relevant names "com.apple.GeoServices" and "GEODiskSpaceManager" didn't return any valuable results as well.
I want to use a OneDrive folder as the location to which Time Machine backs-up my internal drive. I'm pretty sure that Time Machine can't back-up to a cloud drive that is mounted on the volume that it is backing-up because it creates a loop (that is why I would mount the cloud drive on an external drive that Time Machine is not backing-up). If my internal drive fails then: get a new drive. do a fresh install of OS X. attach any external drive. install OneDrive and mount the OneDrive cloud drive on this external drive. point Time Machine at the OneDrive folder. tell Time Machine to restore. done.
i have an iMac 27′ late 2012 and I have a problem with my Fusion Drive … suddenly the SSD part and the HDD unlinked and now i have two separate disks .. I ran in Terminal: diskutil list and diskutil cs list witht he following results:
Does anyone know of an easy way to get the current timestamp copied to the clipboard on iOS, either via built-in functionality or a small app?
I recently got an Apple Watch Series 2 and I know it has water resistance up to 50 meters. I sometimes take it to the pool and it works fine there. In a few days I am going for a swim in the ocean and am going to swim there for a while. I just want to ask if the Apple Watch Series 2 is capable of being in seawater, which has salts rather than regular pool water.
I think this is a bug in Mac OS X: with a dual monitor setup, the Dock switches to the 2nd (not main) monitor from time to time. To fix this issue, I open the Dock, and click both the "Left" and "Bottom" radio buttons for the "Position on Screen" item.
I am no expert in DNS or IPv6. I am using a brand new Mac with what seems to be the default:
I have an old Mac and OS X won't start, it is stuck loading the OS. I want to reinstall but it just ejects the DVD a few seconds after I put it in. The Mac has an i5 3.1GHz CPU and 4GB 1333 MHz DDR33 RAM. I don't know a lot about Apple computers, I mainly use Windows; any help would be appreciated.
After Sierra update, a new bug was found where ssh-agent no longer remembers the passphrase for keys added. Not surprised by their answer, Apple stated TL;DR: is not a bug, but a feature. Many threads I've read revolves around using ssh-agent -A/-K but the problem is not the loading, but that I never wrote my passphrase down anywhere.
Im thinking of buying a pair of Bose bluetooth headphones as the non-bluetooth pair I've used everyday for 5 years are dying. I really like the idea of no cables, but what happens if I walk out of range of my Macbook Pro or iPhone? Will the music start playing through the phone or computer (not very practical as I'm in an open plan office)
Just yesterday night I updated my iPhone with iOS 10.0.1 but after updating I have found that App Store is not there so I cannot download and install new apps . I realised I cannot even delete apps from phone
After upgrading to sierra with a clean format and install, I can't partition any disks. When I select a drive (not the partition) and click the partition button, I get this screen. Notice that just about all of the controls are greyed out. I had this problem before and was able to partition and format from the command line - but that's very inconvenient. How can I unlock this? BTW, my install was from the pre-release GM, but that should be identical to the final release.
I'm a student in Germany, so I have to type a lot in German. There's four additional letters in German, ü ä ö ß. Since I'm using a computer with US layout, I can't type them directly but by using alt key. Ü by typing alt+u once then u, occasionally shift switch also, Ä by typing alt+u then shift+a. So it's a lot of keys, not quite efficient. Since I only have to type these 4 letters, is there any way to make it a bit easier? Like alt+u directly for ü, alt+a ä, alt+o for ö?
I have a white movie clip that I am embedding inside a white background as picture-in-picture. Although I have no border selected, the movie clip retains a small border on the bottom. How do I ensure there is absolutely no border in the clip?
OSX 10.10 I have an external USB drive mounted on my computer. Can that drive be hidden from the network? If I want to make it invisible to another user on a different mac on the network (even with admin credentials to my computer) that can still otherwise connect to me and mount my internal drive, etc. Just so it wouldn't show up in a finder window after the remote admin connects to my computer?
How can I backup my entire text message archive to my Mac in a format that I can read? I am eventually trying to save it to DropBox, but just figuring out how to get them onto my Mac will answer everything.
VMware Fusion suspends VMs very aggressively (Windows 10 in my case) in under 30 minutes. I have found how to stop it suspending at all - but how can you lengthen that time to, say, 1 or 2 hours - and a different amount on battery? Is this possible?
I've been having problems with WebRoot internet security ever since upgrading to Sierra. I was told to run the following command from Terminal When I did so, I got the following message
For a fair amount of time I used to use LogMeIn for remote logging in but their prices are becoming to expensive lately with the Canadian dollar for it to be worth it for me. So I decided to give the built in Screen Sharing a try. It was a quick setup and am accessing it remotely from a Windows machine using VNC viewer but my internet connection appears to be a huge bottle neck. In VNC Viewer I only have a few options for quality, it is currently set to 'Best Compression' (8 colors) and I could do with much worse quality.
Run in Terminal app: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL *=URL=* < /dev/null 2> /dev/null and press enter/return key. Wait for the command to finish. Run in Terminal app:
I'm going to be migrating to a new machine in the new few weeks/months, and want to avoid something that happened during my last migration. I used Migration Assistant and a Time Machine backup to load everything on to my then new(ish) MacBook Pro. Everything copied correctly, however, when I tried to set up Time Machine on the new MacBook Pro using the original Time Machine disk, I was unable to. I'm not sure why, and as a result, I had to buy a new external HD for a new Time Machine backup. This was a somewhat of a waste because the original Time Machine backup disk was less than half full. Also, I was no longer able to access backups from before the migration, since the new MacBook Pro would not recognize the original Time Machine disk. Now, I'll be doing the same thing soon, and my current Time Machine disk is barely a third (1/3) full, and I'd rather not purchase a new HD, and also rather not have to lose a few years worth of backups. Is it possible to re-establish Time Machine for
I have a spare SSD Drive that's been removed from my iMac. Is there a way I can use it externally using an adaptor or something though USB?
My son had to have an iPad for school and we used his school email address when first setting it up. He started high school this year and we just left it all as it was until he got his first iPhone recently. I changed his email address for iCloud via my laptop when I set up his phone but now we can't change it on his iPad. We are stuck with the old email address. I tried everything and I no longer have the credit card for verification and even though I remember my 'numbers' I do not remember the cvv! We can't confirm the code that is sent to his school email address as he is no longer in primary school and they deleted his email account. He doesn't want to lose all his photos, apps and game scores etc that we have backed up via iCloud and if I sign him out of iCloud on his iPad I am worried that will happen - even though I have changed his email via Apple when setting up his iphone.
update on Oct 19: I am still suffering from this. I tried a lot of ways. For instance, I removed the login KeyChain and created a new one. But it can't hold new items inside except I secured WiFi network. All the rest passwords can't be saved here.
I have searched and found that AppleScript is unable to detect key presses by the user. I would like to know is there any other alternatives to do this? I am building a script for a specific tabs in all Internet browsers, IE, FF, Chrome, Safari. The specific tab will be blur out, title tab, favicon, URL in address bar will be masked or replace. The specific tab will be blur out, title tab, favicon, URL in address bar will be masked or replace. When the user press "tab" key for example, it will temporary remove all the things that is done in step 1 and show the original content. When the user press "tab" key for example, it will temporary remove all the things that is done in step 1 and show the original content. If the user press tab again, it will go back to the state in step 1. If the user press tab again, it will go back to the state in step 1. I have only managed to temporary make the body blur out but not the rest of step 1 and the detecting of key press. My code: I am completely 
When you install macOS (10.12 Sierra), enter your iCloud credentials and then get prompted to create a local account on the computer, if you try to enter a password that matches that of the iCloud account you will get an error stating the the local account password cannot be the same as the iCloud account password. Why does macOS install not allow you to set matching passwords? (It is however possible to enter a different password at first and later change it to match the iCloud account, so it appears there is no technical obstacle to using matching passwords.)
I've spent the better part of a week trying to get Bootcamp setup with Windows 10 on my Mac and have finally ended up in a spot that I've not been able to get around on my own. I have installed Windows 10 via Bootcamp, and during the initial Windows boot-up during the installation, I'm given the following BSOD
I've recorded a lot of voice memos on my iPhone and now I need to transfer them to my computer and delete them. Is this actually possible? How is it done and what app do I need to use?
I just spent hours in iPhoto making a slide show for my daughters wedding. I have not yet saved my work because was still tweaking and all of a sudden got colored spinning wheel. Is there a way I can save my slideshow before restarting computer to try and get rid of spinning wheel.
I bought a cheap wired keyboard and mouse combo for my girlfriend's Mac Mini because the old hand-me-downs I gave her were starting to fail. The keyboard and mouse work great.
My 9 month old iPhone 6 would last just 5 hours after a full charge. Apple told me the battery diagnostics look good, and to reset the phone after backup.
I have tried using AppleScript to change my startup disk for Boot Camp and Mac. Previously I have tried using terminal (do shell script) but it seems that that option requires me to enter an administrative password. So:
I'm trying to test my mac app under OSX El Capitan 10.11 and OSX Yosemite 10.10 , and am currently running macos Sierra 10.12. So far I've tried searching under the app store but none of the older version appear when searching. Also have tried checking the apple developer downloads section *=URL=* , as well as the 'more downloads' section there. Are there any options besides attempting to download a torrent of the older OS?
UPDATE: I tried I following the instructions and below and ran across a couple errors. First, when I tried to mount the physical drives, it said: disk0s2/disk1s2 is a FileVault or Fusion Drive physical volume; use 'disk utility coreStorage list' to find its logical volume, which you can then unlock and mount.
Does anyone know how the Apple Watch unlock feature work in macOS Sierra? I figured out, that I have to be very near my Mac, that the feature works. Does it use Bluetooth (BLE) or WIFI? It would be really nice to get some details about this nice feature.
Today I had changed my MacBook Pro early 2011 hard drive for a SSD, and did a clean installation of macOS Sierra. Everything is working like a charm, except for the Mission Control, when I try to execute it via Trackpad shortcut or App in the Launchpad, it restarts me the Dock. That is an unexpected issue, and I'm want to know if someone encountered this bug before!
I have a 16GB iPhone 4 running iOS 7. In Settings > Usage > Storage, it says I'm using 13.3 GB and have 240 MB left, but I added up all of the space the apps/their data take up and it comes to 9GB (and thats rounding up!).
I recently received a 2012 MacBook Pro running Sierra for some development work. I'm quite new to Mac OS X, but was able to figure out how to enable fast user switching in order to lock my workstation when I'm away. I've noticed however, that when I lock my workstation, a translucent capture of my desktop appears behind the lock screen and if you look hard enough you can see what I was doing before I locked the computer. For example, if I were to lock my screen this very moment I would be taken to the login window but if I look hard enough I can read the text that I am writing for this post.
I'm using Photos to organize my photos since it came out. However, since the Sierra upgrade, the thumbnails for many of my photos are showing as missing:
I having a issue with safari 10, (OSX 10.12.1), often one tab get unresponsive, and I can't even close it, but other tab and safari preferences are working fine. No extension enabled, no plug in, cache cleared ... I don't know what to do. Any idea how to fix this? From Console I received this errors / alerts : Then a few minutes after I have Tried to go on the developer menu and display the console, page source or anything, but the tab is unresponsive Then I go on activity monitor and force quite : Safari Web Content (not Responding) I think this could be an issue with the Nvidia Driver / OSX Sierra : Safari Web Content details
After upgrading to Sierra I can't change any document with Preview if it is saved under ~/Desktop. I get the error "The original document can't be chnaged, so a duplicate with your changes has been created." However, if I copy the same file to my Documents or Dropbox folder I can edit it. The folder permissions for ~/Desktop my Documents folder are the same: Permissions for the file is Even if I change the picture and Desktop folder to 777 I can't edit it.
Prompted by this question - How to copy time stamp to iOS clipboard? Is there any way to use variables in OS X's standard Text Replacement? [System Prefs > Keyboard > Text] For instance, getting it to replace $DATE with today's date, or $TIME with the current time, $DEITY with The Flying Spaghetti Monster etc etc the last one is a joke, btw ;)
is there any quality difference between an iPhone bought in Dubai and an iPhone bought in USA? to be precise, my question is about the quality of the gadget itself (hardware), because some of my friends claim that if you buy an iphone 7/7plus in USA, the quality of the gadget (resolution, camera, durability of the gadget) is way better than the one you buy in Dubai or any other country rather than USA. I HOPE this time i am more specific. i am looking for your answers. respect
I want to use AirDrop to transfer some photos from iPhone to my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. AirDrop requires both WiFi and Bluetooth to be turned on. But when I turn on Bluetooth, WiFi doesn't work, I get errors like: This site can’t be reached www.google.com took too long to respond. I've found this very similar question, and I've tried some solutions from the answers but they didn't help me. WiFi router is TP-LINK TL-WR740N Channel is set to Auto and WiFi mode is '11bgn mixed'. I also use wireless mouse, I've tried to turn it off, it has no effect on network.
Recently upgraded my iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 10. Soon after upgrading I started to notice a intermittent issue where the phone would randomly jump to a black screen with a white loading spinner in the middle (similar to what you see when shutting the phone down) and then after about 5 seconds it will take me back to the lock screen. I'm still able to unlock the phone using the fingerprint reader (so the phone hasn't actually rebooted) and the phone appears to function as per normal. It is extremely annoying as it can happen in the middle of any phone function (including taking and making calls) and on some days can happen more than half a dozen times. So far I have noticed it happening when using the following Apps: Google Chrome Microsoft Outlook App Facebook App Apple Music App (completely stopped a playing track at the time)
Anyone know of supplier of such a cable? I have very restricted space at rear of car headunit to fit the USB connector - hence I need a down angled USB plug with a 30 pin connectoe at other end. Apple doe not seem to manufacture them. I want to buy one that is supported by Apple- ie they cannot "disable" it because the manufacturer is not licenced.
Mac version: 10.11.6 Outlook for Mac version: 15.26.1 I have reminders as a separate app, but I would like show them in native Mac notifications (i.e coming from top right corner) How can I do that? Thanks!
Suppose I want to come back to Color sidebar icon for Finder. For Lion I followed these instructions, but seems not working anymore (SIMBL is not working with Sierra): *=URL=* So, do you know if there is a way to change from this fantastic soviet union gray sidebar to one with color? thanks, Andrea
I have recently faced a critical issue with my iMac (since June 2016). The problem showed up after installing OSX El Capitan. It shutdown randomly and suddenly. It's as if the power cord has been disconnected. And it doesn't restart when I press the power on button. I have to switch off the power socket, wait for a few minutes, then it can be turned back on. After 3 visits to Apple Store to fix this, they ran same test to see if it's a hardware- or softwareproblem (negative), the ram-module is replaced, they have done a clean install and it's still the same problem. Is there anyone who has a solution for this problem? to be continued...
I think this is very basic question but I could not find solution online. I have keynote 7.0 on OS X EL Capitan 10.11.16. The problem is I have 3 objects and I want them to disappear at the same time. I tried to select all of them and put Build out animation on it but the objects go 1 by 1. And if I try to change one of the objects order to 1 another changes to that objects value. I was thinking i could put all of them to 1 but not possible. I am very lost over this right now.
I have tried to figure out how to install the Jack audio system, and JackPilot on macOS Sierra, but have come up with nothing, through any of Google's results, and Jack's own website. How would I go about installing Jack and JackPilot on macOS Sierra? I get this error when trying an installer
How can I create a trace of network activity at the aforementioned layers? For example, I want to see not just DNS traces, but any internal firewall that could be affecting me? (macOS has a built-in firewall that might be giving me trouble.)
Since upgrading to macOS I have had problems with slow connection to my local server running Debian. Running ssh -v shows that it is hanging at the following message. debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received A search has said try to enable the NoDNS option within the servers sshd config but that has not helped. Has anyone got any ideas?
*=URL=* says Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Dictation & Speech.
I'm a Linux user trying to get used to Mac. I've already swapped the Command and Control keys around. I'm using Gedit in Mac now, and the replace key combination I'm used to (Control-H) is hiding the Window. I've been using Karabiner to remap keys, and have been trying to figure out private.xml syntax to remap this how I want it to behave. Here's what I have so far (not working): I've also tried to remap it using Mac's settings > keyboard > shortcuts. The Mac keyboard is driving me batty.
I broke my iPhone 4S touch "screen and glass last year and left it unused because i bought iPhone 5 .. anyway.. recently I decided to fix it. I bought new touchscreen&glass and it works. However I entered few invalid passcodes and now my iPhone 4S says "iPhone is disabled. Connect to iTunes". Its running on iOS 8.4 jailbroken and if I restore it to 9.3.5 i wont be able to use it anymore ... as there is no jailbrake for it. I even believe I may remember my passcode if i had the oprion to enter it few more times .... so what I can do guys to be able to use it once again? Is there any way to try at least one more passcode that I believe should be the correct one or what basically i can so now ?
I set up a shell script to synchronize two directories, this is the code: Source is a local directory and destination is a smb mounted NAS drive. I added the -H option because I am very interested in keeping the hard links existing in the source. When the script is executed I get the following message: kernel[0]: smbfs_vnop_link: warning: pid 774(rsync) hardlink(filename)
Does anyone know why Adobe Reader requires a permissioned installer application, rather that simply existing as a self contained macOS application bundle? What system level configurations is the installer making changes to, and why does Adobe feel they are needed for a simple PDF reader?
In Numbers on a MacBook Pro Early 2013, how can one jump to a specific line, such as line 4223860. The data is actually csv formatted, and I have no clue what is inside that line. Any help is very much appreciated.
Photos taken on an iPhone 7 are encoded with the DCI-P3 color profile. Would editing those photos in the Photos app on a 2013 (non-Retina) iMac result in loss of quality?
In the "Artist" view of iTunes 12.5, is it possible to make a photo of the artist (or at least one of the album covers) appear in place of the rainbow microphone?  Update (2017) It appears that with 12.5.5.5 (possibly earlier, but I didn't notice), Artists that are known to Apple now have their photos set correctly:
I am unfamiliar with iCloud and generally a bit dim. If I amend or delete a note or Calendar entry on my iPad will that change affect the note or Calendar entry in iCloud, and vice versa? If so, is there a way to delete/amend notes on the iPad but preserving the original in the iCloud?
However, for each of the three I've listed, they seem to only work as expected for a limited time (no idea how much time), before they just stop working. For example, I'll add a reminder, take a photo, or take a screenshot, and the actions don't happen, even though IFTTT and Google Photos show that they are running if I flip through the open apps.
Since update to macOS Sierra I have permanent error while trying to watch movie on the ewebsite:  Do you know how to solve this?
[iPhone 6, iOS 10.0.2] I recently added a new IMAP email account (hosted at Rackspace, FWIW) to my phone using the standard Add Email Account settings. Everything seemed to go well... except when I now access my Sent folder (located on the server), there are obvious emails missing from the list displayed in Mail. If I search for the "missing" emails, they can be found, but they still don't show up in the list for email in Sent. There are 978 emails in the folder, but maybe 150 shown on the iPhone? And the list goes all the way to the first date of emails in the folder, it is just that somehow, ~150 arbitrary emails of the 978 were chosen to be listed. Trying to refresh the folder does not help. Any suggestions on how to see all the emails in the folder?
I have a script which remotes ssh into a Mac. The original script, which worked on El Capitan, would unlock the keychain with this: The above command gives on error on Sierra so I updated it to this: The command above appears to work but then when I list keychains, the login keychain still isn't there and my script fails trying to sign my code because it can't get to the certificates. This all works perfectly in a terminal window on the host but I need it to work remotely in SSH. Thank you for any help or suggestions.
I have linked a few GMail accounts (work, personal, others) to my Mail app on OSX / MacOS Mail app. These accounts take a whopping 47GB of space: The accounts are connected using IMAP. Is there a way to store only the newest (say, 60 days) emails (or attachments) on my Mac, instead of storing the entire history?
I have a web page that creates VPN mobile configuration profiles and signs them with a X.509 certificate. Whilst apparently the signature is recognised, and the profile works well with iOS 10, it does not work with MacOS Sierra, either signed or unsigned. In the past, the same mobile configuration worked well with previous versions of OS/X. Even more puzzling, when feeding the mobile profile, system preferences open however, neither it does not configure the VPN, nor it displays any error. The VPN itself is using Cisco IPsec configurations, and is well supported. The mobile config before being added the login and password, and signed, is as follows:
I updated to iOS 10 and noticed that when I open the notification center (swipe top-down) it always starts on the right card, which I suppose is recent notifications. It used to start on what's now the left card, which is more of a widget dashboard screen. How can I make it always start on the left card?
I talk to a quite a few Americans, I my self am English, they message me during the night but, I do not want to switch off notifications for that Skype chat, otherwise as always, I will forget to switch it back on, and will miss something... Can kind-of rules be added to the do not disturb? or is do not disturb do not disturb at all regardless.
I've recently switched from RVM to RBENV as my Ruby manager under MacOS Sierra. I've used Homebrew to install packages like vim for years and never had Ruby version be installed via Homebrew. Now when I brew upgrade vim I get a forced dependency install of Ruby. How can I get Homebrew (read: vim) to use the rbenv version of Ruby?
I try to setup custom nginx config for site. Local setup. I use vmware virtual machine Mac OS X EL capitan 10.11. and use this tutorial It's my nginx.conf project.dev configuration: host:
I need to send texts to my kids while they are away from Wi-Fi. I pay for a text message service through my carrier, but can't force my phone to send a text message instead of an iMessage with iOS 10. So are all our iPhones incapable of sending text messages to people without data plans now?
I have a lot of photos with me that I want to rename. I want them to be 10 random characters. Is there a way to do it? I am running macOS Sierra. I didn't try anything yet. I would prefer a free solution to this problem.
I'm from Costa Rica and I don't know if I can use In App Purchases in the iOS apps I'm developing. Does Apple have a list of countries for which this functionality is available?
I really need help with this one. It's extremely important, I can't afford to buy a new computer. So maybe like 3 or 4 weeks ago I got a virus. We got rid of the virus, but the computer was sill INCREDIBLY slow. It got so extreme I had to wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of macOS Sierra. This still did not make it faster. It sure helped, but it didn't fix it. I have to do frequent restarts to get mild preformance for like 10 minutes. As of time of writing, it's being very slow. I'm barely able to type.
After upgrading my iPhone 6 to iOS 10, iTunes and iPhoto on my computer (mac OS X version 10.7.5) will no longer sync with the phone - any solutions around this? My mac is not capable of moving to newer operating system.
I'm developing the site suttacentral.net. We've had a report from an iOS user that when Safari reader is used on our site, it joins a large amount of pages into one "article". The site is for Buddhist discourses, one per page, so one collection can contain over a thousand pages.
The display on the Apple Watch tends to turn on and off too often. This is distracting especially in darker environments. This rapid turn on -then- turn off of the display that occurs when "talking with one's hands" general household chores (emptying the dishwasher) moving around in a theatre (eating/drinking) This is distracting to the listener or the speaker (wearer of the watch). Yes, I can immediately dim the watch by covering it, but any accelerometer motion will reactivate the display. Preferred experience Ideally I would like to cover the watch and have it go dark for either a custom time period, or until the screen is tapped. Documentation or control over the actions that cause the display to light would be beneficial
I want to be able to change the default web browser of my Mac to Google Chrome using AppleScript. Here is my idea:
I have an problem with sign in into icloud, my iPhone give me alert 'The maximum number of free accounts have been activated on this iPhone'. According to this I cannot open icloud account in my device
I am using an OSX box to run a bash script to extract an iOS IPA file so that I can use otool and nm to extract details about the app for vulnerability analysis. The ipa files are already decrypted, because I am doing grey box analysis as part of scheduled testing.
I know It's one feature of iphone 5s, but can iPhone 5 do it? or can you record 60fps or 120fps with iphone 5?
Why would someones iPhone Google history, appear in my Google history on my PC? Has this person synced our Google accounts or something?
I'm on my Macbook Air past midnight, about 15 minutes prior to post. I'm watching South Park on kisscartoon.com (using Google Chrome equipped with Betternet VPN and AdBlock). About halfway through the episode, I'm startled by a louder-than-average burst of a random rock song. (There was a song going on in-show at the time. Pretty meta. Pausing in the middle of the episode left the out-of-place audio still going, though, so that isn't really related.) The burst morphs into a softer rock song, then a techno-y type of song, then a few weird sounds that sounded like those stock ones you find in iMovie or something. It stops. I say "brrr," and finish the episode, then head here. I can nearly confirm that it wasn't a popup, as there were no externally open tabs or windows during the happening or afterwards. The reason I'm giving so much info is because I have absolutely no idea what it was. In short, what the hell? 0_0
I just upgraded my iPhone 6 to IOS 10 and half of my notes are missing. I have a few notes under the cloud, gmail, and my phone but nothing is showing up under my email (not sure if notes were ever there).
I am having a bit of an issue here with the default mail application in mac OS El Capitan. I am using my gmail account on the mail client and it is autosaving drafts when I compose messages ... I have done some searching and found various answers saying that I can turn it off by going to Mail --> Preferences --> Accounts and after selecting the account in "Mailbox Behaviours" box just uncheck the "Store draft messages on the server" check box ... as explained in this tutorial that I have found How to Configure Apple Mail to Avoid Duplicate Drafts with Gmail ... But there is a issue ... I don't have that option in my preferences .. please see this screenshot of my preferences screen.
After upgrading to Sierra, The option to add a webpage to the default “Bookmarks Folder” of Safari has disappeared. I’m given the option to bookmark a webpage to my Favorites folder, as well as all of my custom folders, but I no longer have the option to bookmark to “Bookmarks.” The Bookmark folder still exists, along with my previous bookmarks within it, but the option to add to it has disappeared from the UI:
I ran out of space on my mac. Most of my local HD is used up with photos, so I purchased an iCloud Photo Library plan. I selected "Optimise Mac Storage" option in the settings.
I recently upgraded my iPhone to iOS 10. After a while I didn't like the interface so I wanted to downgrade it to the previous OS which is 9.3.5.
I have a 15in Macbook Pro (Late 2013 model) which, until recently, had no problem detecting a VGA projector connected via an adaptor connected to either of the Thunderbolt ports. Today I tried it and it simply could not detect the projector display. The only difference I can think of is that I've upgraded to macOS Sierra since last I remember using this system. I've tried some other combinations to see if I could figure out what the root cause is, but all of the following options work as expected: connect an HDMI display to the HDMI port connect an HDMI display to a Thunderbolt port via an adaptor boot into Windows 10 (using Bootcamp) and connect the same VGA projector to a Thunderbolt port via the same adaptor All this suggests it's not a problem with the adaptor, with macOS Sierra using external displays, or with the Thunderbolt ports - just with Sierra driving a VGA display. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how I can fix it? Edit: I've tried resetting the NVRAM/PRAM
I've upgraded my iPhone to iOS 10. I'm not able to add my google account to sync my Contacts, Mail etc. Please help.
OSX uses semi-transparent on-screen notifications for some system events, such as screen brightness and volume adjustment, and Bluetooth connection notifications. This notification will be visible for a brief moment at the lower middle of the screen. Is there a way to disable these notifications?
This is a strange problem that started today. The problem is as follows:
I have an iPhone 6s and am running iOS 10. I just tried to take a photo using the earphones volume up and down but nothing triggered. I also tried another pair of earphone, but it still didn't work. Is there a setting I'm missing? or did they disable this in iOS 10.
so I use this one app to save YouTube videos offline for later enjoyment and recently I've been getting popup messages that say "you've won" or something generic like that. They used to appear on safari, but I erased the cache and they've since gone. Currently they only appear on one app named Turbo DL.
I'm not getting ringing for FaceTime and not getting alert sounds when IMessages come in. I believe I've got all my setting right, and I can see the calls coming in if the iPad is in use. Do not disturb is not on, volume is not muted, the apps all have sound settings, etc.
Do Macs have something that can work? I would love to provide a solution. This is what it looks like in windows (this assumes all files are in the same folder, and the bat file runs from the root; it is just as possible to use fullpaths)
I found it surprisingly hard to make brew either install a package (if it is missing) or upgrade it (if it is already installed). Is there no simple command / arguments to do that? Based on this answer, I ended up doing this: after doing a brew update, obviously.
I just bought a used iMac. Should arrive Friday morning. I just thought of something... This is a used computer, so how am I going to delete certain files if I don't know the Administrator name or password?
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro (CORE i7, 16 GB RAM, 13" Iris display) and an Apple Magic Mouse. I selected the checkbox in Options->Accessibility->Trackpad and Mouse to ignore the trackpad while my wireless mouse is connected. Ever since I upgraded to macOS Sierra, that option is ignored after waking from sleep, and must be reselected each time. Is there a workaround I can use to make my selection stick, at least until this issue is patched by Apple?
Mac Mini (Mid-2011), 16GB SSD, 16GB RAM, El Capitan (v10.11.6) The Mac ran fine until I upgraded to Sierra. The latest Mac OS conflicted with most of the specialized apps I use every day, So I immediately returned to El Capitan.
I'm successfully sharing my Ubuntu Desktop with my Mac Book, using VNC. My Mac Book Pro is on the right, my external monitor is in the center, and I have an Ubuntu Laptop on the left as in this image:
Say, sumproduct(A, B)=a1*b1 + a2*b2 + a3*b3, now I have many columns C, D,..., e.g. c1 checked, c2 unchecked, c3 checked; d1 unchecked, d2 checked, d3 checked; Now I need a formulae which I want to put in a cell of each of column C, D... to compute a conditional sum product to get a1*b1 + a3*b3 and a2*b2 + a3*b3 respectively. This can be used in my nutrition calculation table of daily intake. Thanks a lot.
For development (backward testing with older OS versions) I need to install older mac OS versions. Ideally I'd want to go as far back as Snow Leopard.
I've disabled SIP and tried to install rEFInd on my MacBook, which is not partitioned in any way by boot camp and is one single drive. The install of rEFInd says it is installing to /Volumes/ESP for the EFI boot and completes successfully. After rebooting, however, rEFInd menu does not come up when holding option key or anything. How do I get that installed so that it is usable?
I'd like to send all of the calls that I receive from numbers that are not in my contacts to voicemail. Is this possible on ios10?
I sometimes like to have Activity Monitor running in the dock (to see CPU usage chart in the icon at a glance). I didn't use it for some time though, but with a new mac I bought (El Capitan) I thought I'd activate it again. Now I can have it start automatically but I always have to minimize the Activity Monitor window after login. I think in the past6 I had set it with that option (to autostart at login via right-click on the dock icon) so that it started minimized but I can't seem to remember how. Am I remembering wrong or missing an option?
I've given up trying to get around this and now I want to just delete it completely and start again. I've tried changing the backup target size, adding and removing it and I've tried deleting the sparsebundle completely. It still reports it as only 44 GB free when I re-add the target to Time Machine.
A widget I like(d) oddly much in the Notification Centre is the Tomorrow Summary, because it was a good finishing round-up to the Calendar widget. When upgrading to macOS Sierra a while back, the new update did not affect this widget. However, upgrading to iOS 10, I cannot seem to find this widget anymore. Has it been removed? Is it possible to somehow get a summary like this to show up in the Notification Centre?
Calling somewhere, being put on hold for 15 minutes and up, is not very pleasant. Especially if you don't like the waiting music. Now I'm not talking about the "on hold" music people hear when they call me; I'm talking about the music I hear when I call customer service, etc.
I'd like to be able to retrieve the current user's associated Apple ID from a shell script. My first guess was to do so using dscl which I can get using my own user. But I'm not sure how reliable/consistent this method would be generally for any user.
My iPhone 5 (iOS 6, jailbroken) battery inflated a little bit couple of weeks ago, but enough for the screen to pop out. Screen and touch were still fine, until last week-end where stripes start to appear. I had to wriggle a bit the screen (or the screen connector) to make them disappear but now it's completely off (there's only backlighting).
I'm looking for deep/detailed research into how the MacOS TCP stack works. Namely, what are the files/Dynamic Libraries that offer this service? What Libraries does WireShark interact with? My goal is to trace a logical chain of drivers, processes, and configurations that enable a TCP connection to work. I'll inspect the version of the files, their corresponding default settings, and anything else that can influence their behavior. My goal is to diagnose the issue described in this question.
well the issue is that I use to have ~20gb free in my disk, after updating and removing around 30gb a lot of things, I still have 20gb free in the disk and still says it only has ~20gb free in reality it has over "70gb" free... Is there a way to remove all that purgeable storage to make my disk free for real?
I have included a picture. My applications folder is on the dock and when I click on it the applications come up but the icon size is too big, is there anyway to make these icons a lot smaller? any help is much appreciated.
I have installed a new internal hard drive due to old one failing. I had made a complete Disk Image of the old Drive. I re installed snow Leopard, and then tried to restore disk Image from External hard drive, it allowed me to pick the source of the restore "disk Image" but would not allow me to choose the Internal hard drive. Can any one help with this problem Thanks Nicholas
Please note this is not the same issue recognised by Apple where opening the sound preferences you suddenly see that the balance is actually shifted to the right (or left). My sliders are always perfectly centered.
For both my Mac and my iPhone, I leave auto-update of App Store apps turned off. The reason being that there are several apps for which I want to know what is being added/changed during an update. However, this has two problems: 1) I don't care about changes to most of my apps, only a select few. So having to check which apps are being updated is a waste of time if it's not one o the ones I care about. 2) I would actually prefer the apps did update automatically when changes come up. I just want to know about those changes when they happen.
I am launching a jupiter-notebook on port 8888, but when I try to connect with Safari the browser goes automatically to search. Firefox and Chrome work just fine, as Safari did before the last update. Anyone else with the same problem? I checked a couple of posts recommended by StackOverflow (mostly about commenting the "::1 localhost" line in /etc/hosts) but it did not work. Anyone else with the same problem?
Loaded macOS Sierra this morning. Now, once VMWare is running, cmd+tab switches me back to the mac environment but system immediately and automatically switches me back to vm. Result? Can't access mac environment when vm is running. Help?
I have this problem since Lion if I am not mistaken. If a leave an USB or even my FireWire (backup) HDD connected OS X does not eject the drives before shutting down or entering suspend mode. Why? I am using now macOS Sierra and the problem persist. It bothered me for a while till I started unmounting the drives after using them. But I need to keep my FireWire HDD connected to use Time Machine's backup. How can I solve that since even with fresh installs of Mac OS X it happens?
I have just updated my iPad Air to 10.0.2 and now cannot find any Notes. I have checked iCloud and there is nothing there. Irrespective of whether a backup was made, upgrading should not remove user entered data, so why has this version upgrade removed all my notes?
To debug configd it is suggested by man page to run it using And you would kill it before launching it using SIGTERM otherwise it will launch again as follows: From man page of configd
Usually, when I make a Skype or WhatsApp call, while talking, I will switch off the display to conserve the battery as well as my eyes without the need to stare at the screen. This would allow the call to continue without any interruptions. However, since updating to iOS 10, turning off the display disconnects the Skype or WhatsApp call. Please help. Thanks in advance.
When my iPhone 5s dies, it usually turns on after 5-7 minutes of charging. Now, it sometimes takes 45 mins to over an hour to turn on while it's plugged in.
I have seen certain places where it is claimed that Apple is retroactively rebranding Mac OS X/OS X as macOS now that Sierra has launched. Some people disagree that this is occurring since as of now, not everything (not even the majority of material) reflects the change. Is there solid evidence of this changeover?
My wife and I have separate Apple IDs. To simplify (!) things a while ago we both started using a third ID. Now with Family Sharing we can each access the other's purchases. So I set myself up as the family organizer, invited Laura, and invited the 3rd account. Well to accept the invitation for the third account, I would have to sign out of iCloud, loosing a bunch of data, or possibly having merge problems later.
Has any one had and issue of feeling electric current through back of phone when charging. It's like vibrations. I have tried different cables, plugs and charged in different locations and the same every time.
When I have more than 10 characters in my "Press and Hold" set, I am unable to type 10 or 11 or 12 to select a character. It registers the second keypress. If I type "12", it registers "2" and inserts the character corresponding to "2". This is El Capitan. Note that I've modified my English options to include Vietnamese characters than I occasionally wish to type, but I assume this would also be a problem if I changed my locale to Vietnam.
Are there any standards or regulations concerning iOS system notifications? For example, it should contain at least one active button. If yes, please, give references.
I've got an old iMac sitting around, no one remembers the password to log into it so we are trying to erase the hard drive to setup a new OS. First I got to identify the model though. It would be great if someone could help me with that, I attached an image of what is written on the bottom of the iMac.
I've found som tools to monitor tx/rx and show the overall data usage and live graphs etc. But what I need is a tool to monitor how much data has been transferred between my machine and a specific host. Is there any tool where I can specify an IP/hostname for yosemite? And just to clarify the needs: required is Dumping/graphing the incoming/outgoing network data Limiting the output to a specific host Easily readable output (regarding the units - Mb/GB etc.) "Counter" can be reset Does anything like this exist?
I use bindfs with osxfuse and sshfs to mount specific folders (chroot) to allow sftp access for external users (macOS Sierra 10.12). Binding a readOnly folder for the user "sftpusr" is done with The folder is correctly bound, I can login using sftp and listing the folder once only - then folders and files disappear, I need to mount and bind again. There is no difference in using either homebrew to install osfuse, sshfs, bindfs or making my "own" binaries.
I have here created a web site to deliver mobile profiles to BYOD Apple devices to configure our corporate VPNs. The user as to authenticate in that site, his password is checked against our AD, and a signed mobile profile is then delivered.
Randomly, my Launchpad is failing to show app icons contained in folders.  Is there a way to fix it?
This delay does not happen on Photoshop, or on my girlfriend's Macbook Pro running Illustrator CS6. The hardware on my girlfriend's Macbook is comparable to mine, except for the graphics card - mine has a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, hers has an Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB. I'm thinking that perhaps my card can't process the changed shape of the vector quickly enough to provide an immediate response. I'm interested in what you guys think, and if you have any suggestions for improving its performance short of buying a new laptop.
However one annoying feature is that the window is on right hand side of the screen, very near the top. It is covering the tab bar on the right of my browsers. In particular it always covers the most recently opened tab, so I can no longer access that with mouse. If I could just move it down a cm or so it would be fine.
When selecting a word in an SMS message or email, how do I access the "define" ability?
After updating my iPhone 6 to iOS 10, all calls coming from Viber and Skype are appearing in the calls list as normal phone calls. Also, when I'm on a Viber call and a real phone call comes, I don't get notified. Before iOS 10 it used to mute Viber and give me a notification than someone is calling. How do I return back to these settings?
If I'd hold a key on my MacBook, I get a nice pop-up with the accents for that particular letter. Now, I can see that not all letters are being shown. For example, I'd like to show the Turkish letters Ş, ğ and ı but I can't see it.
I'm trying to temporarily disable KEX signing enforcement on my MBP since my company's VPN client (GlobalProtect) is failing the signature check now. This started yesterday when I did the OS upgrade to Sierra yesterday. The solution should be running this command: The problem is that I am getting the following response, and I can't figure out what it means or what to do about it (meaning I can't connect to my company network, too). Does anybody have any ideas of things I could try or otherwise look at to track down the problem? Thanks.
Most forums I found on Google mentions that the easiest way to zoom things up on a Mac Display is to set the resolution lesser. But, that just stretches the lesser resolution screen leading to blurry visuals. I'm in fact searching for something on Mac like this which is offered on Windows PCs
Hi and thanks in advance for any help provided! I just upgraded my phone to a 6s and turned on iCloud. That moved all my contacts from phone and Outlook on local machine to the cloud. I would like to maintain contacts and calendars locally. How to I bring items back out of the cloud? Jim
I'm using a MacBook with the Photos application and I'm using the iCloud photo library. I've created several albums from my timelined photos. Also I've created some folders where I moved albums with the same photo type in. So when I click on Albums in the Photos application, I will see some Albums, and some folders which contains Albums. The works flawlessly on all devices I've used so far. But now I realized that Apple TV 4, even with the latest software update, only show albums from the root, but neither folders, nor the albums within my folders. Is it only me, or is this a general problem with the current Apple TV 4? Thanks Atmananda
After the upgrade to Sierra on my MacBook Air, I'm unable to connect to the NAS on my home network through Samba. When I try Connect to server and enter: smb://x.x.x.x/MEDIA/
I have a microsoft keyboard. When I upgraded to Sierra Karabiner quit working. It was previously mapping my menu/application key to act as pressing the left Command key instead of doing nothing. How can I repair this behavior.
Alright about a week and a half ago my Macbook Pro started acting up. All of my applications were crashing randomly and what not so I decided to just try and reinstall El Capitan onto it. I tried and tried and tried but only got an error about how it couldn't be installed on that computer.
I have started to get text messages from bit.ly on my iPhone 6. It doesn't have a number—it just says "bit.ly".
When I try to install node.js from a package. I am getting an error. When I looked into installation logs I found this,
Any idea how to add a GO button to my menu bar to the MAC PRO? Menu bar I have contains: Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help NO "GO" Bar
I am on my trial here with version 10.2.3, its great but I get the above error when trying to put in transitions sometimes. How to fix?
On macOS Sierra I am seeing the following logged every 3 seconds. I rebooted into Recovery mode (Command-R during boot) and ran Disk Utility First Aid, with no change in behaviour. With each run of First Aid I received the following in the Disk Utility list of messages: Which seems odd that each run of First Aid would cause a change to the core storage system.
What is better option to improve RAM performance eon MacBook 13Inch Early 2011: Removing the original Apple RAM Memory slots of 2GB each (2 slots - each 2GB) and inserting brand new 2 slots of 4GB each OR adding 2 new slots of 2GB each ? And, what is the best Non-Apple brand for compatible Memory Slots ? thank you in advance Finn
When I watch videos in Safari sometimes I want to stop the video and go to another tab, then I come back to the video and click on it to start the playback. But instead of the video starting I go to full screen. How do I stop this behavior?
Short question : When backing up you mac to via Time machine to a 3rd party NAS (non time capsule, but instead something like a Synology or Drobo NAS). Can the time machine backups become corrupted and unusable, either due to the laptop / computer being turned off, disconnected from the network or for some other reason.
my mac book pro 2011 started having weird instances where it would just cut off and shut down immediately. Then when I tried powering it on, the indicator light would light up for 1 or 2 seconds before completely cutting off as if it were a power failure. Sometimes I managed to boot it up again after waitint for awhile and I managed to do an aht test on it, revealing no problems with memory or the logic board. What could be causing all this? Edit: sometimes I get about 5 minutes of usage before it shuts down completely again.
I have VirtualBox "Version 5.1.4 r110228 (Qt5.5.1)" installed on a MacBook Air macOS Sierra version 10.12. Now I got an update message: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/VirtualBox-5.1.6-110634-OSX.dmg
I'm trying to load a difftool (in this case, vimdiff) to see file differences in Git. However, it won't load, even if I attempt to force it with git difftool -y -t vimdiff. No matter what, I can't seem to get it to respect the tool I'm trying to use and it just outputs to the console. How can I get Git to respect my diff or merge tool requests?
What I tried today was reinstalling the OS (failed), booting it with SpinRite and booting it from a 64GB external drive (worked). Once I booted to the external drive, I ran disk utility which I started at around 1400 hours, it is now 1500 hours and it just now found its hard drive. A warning popped up and indicated that the drive could not be repaired. I am now running First Aid on it, just curious to see what if anything it can do there.
The macOS Calendar/iCal already syncs nicely with the Google variety. Since 2016 and shortly after the iPhone, the Google web calendar was taught how to do Reminders. Mac OS has its own flavor of Reminders. It would be most productive to be able to use both together. Is that possible? ..synced to.. ?
During my Windows 7 installation (via BootCamp) I came to screen that looks similar to this picture.  I chose to delete and format the EFI partition (~200 MB) and and the other small partition (~629 MB). I was confused why I had those partitions in the first place so I just wanted to get rid of them. I did not delete my main Mac OS X partition though. Just the two small partitions, thinking nothing of it.
everything works fine. I am a user administrator for my network, this is the reason why I guess I am able to mount the network drive in this way and everything works fine.
I just upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS 10.12 Sierra, and as i try to link my iPhone it tells me "wrong passcode". I can open and use my phone with that same passcode but my Macbook Pro mid 2012, will only allow limited access. Please help.
A friend of mine got her iPhone stolen. When entering iCloud to activate the "Find my iPhone" feature, I see that her account has 3 phones associated with it. The 3 phones are named: Iphone Iphone (Name)'s Iphone.
I would like to be able to quickly convert images to GIF as it can compress line art images much more than PNG or JPEG. The fastest way to convert is an Automator Service, and Automator does indeed offers a neat Change Type of Image function that you can drag and drop into the Service. The problem is that it does not allow GIF as output.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my mid-2010 Sierra iMac (with optical drive) using Boot Camp. I run Boot Camp and check the option to "Install Windows 10 or Later Version", and click Next, but then it says "The installer disc could not be found." I can't progress beyond this message.
I've read another post that seemed to address how to use Automator to open screenshots automatically. (Automator task to open screenshots in Preview automatically) I've followed the steps exactly, but the last step still doesn't work (opening the screenshot in Preview)
Apple sent a replacement 4S last month: I have used the wifi w/o problems until today. I have tried: 1) Rebooting the device several 2) Bouncing airplane mode Questions: A) Are there any settings (other than airplane mode) that will disable wifi? B) Are there any diagnostic procedure that can ID root cause of wifi disabled?
I just update from El Capitan to Sierra on my iMac, and the Cmd+C shortcut stopped working in Finder. This means I cannot copy files nor filenames. I tried both Cmd keys, neither works. Command+V works, and copying via mouse (right click, select copy) works. It all worked perfectly up until yesterday, before the upgrade! I already rebooted my iMac. Any ideas?
Ever since upgrading to macOS Sierra, previously solid background colors in Atom and on certain websites in Chrome are now not uniform. It almost looks like I highlighted stuff with my cursor or something.
macOS Sierra is a whopping 4GB+ download and on my capped bandwidth ISP connection I've wasted already 10GB just trying to download it. App Store always restarts download instead of resuming from how much it had already downloaded. I frequently get logged out (am guessing its because of heating issues) so the download is interrupted. Am running OS X 10.10 on Macbook Air mid-2011 11" model. Any help to fix this? Update Here's the output of syslog | grep -i "shutdown cause" Oct 5 15:24:17 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 5 17:05:43 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 5 17:53:43 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 6 18:06:44 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 6 23:32:49 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 6 23:35:42 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 7 23:18:26 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3 Oct 8 11:46:24 leh kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdow
How to open terminal in Mac using keyboard shortcut?
Was this from the update? Or was I hacked?
Just yesterday I updated my machine, a MacBook Pro (Mid 2010), to macOS Sierra. Everything seems to work fine, except when I try to use the homebrew packet manager with any command, for example brew help, the following error message is printed:
I have multiple JDKs installed. For one particular JNLP I need to make sure it is run with some older JRE. The Java Control Panel only recognises the latest version. How do I make it see the others and use them?
Is it possible to change the way folder content is organised to show in vertical columns? When viewing content by icon macOS Sierra seems to automatically sort in vertical rows from left to right. There don't seem to any options to change this in 'View Options'. Organising content vertically seems particularly confusing when viewing larger number of files. current: desired:
I have another HDD problem. I had a broken enclosure witch was acting really weird. It freezes up the finder at some point and I wasn't able to do anything else but to unplug it so "force eject" witch it seems that it was bad for my hdd.
I know you can look at a text message and see the "..." if someone is responding, but I was curious if there is an app or way to get a notification for this event?
I use iBooks, the app store, Apple Music and iTunes on my mac and iphone. Apple asks me for my password at least twice a week on each device. Does it anyone know how to prevent this? Scenarios: + I simply open iBooks on my Mac + I am listening to Apple Music + I open my iPhone with touch ID I am not even buying anything.
I recently migrated my library from iPhoto to the Apple Photos app. There's probably around 13,000 photos/videos in the library. After migrating the library, I closed Photos, and it is now been stuck "Closing the library..." for two days.
3) After logging in to Account A, macOS appears to run normally. Checking in Users & Groups, shows that Account A is still Admin. Account B is not listed. 4) Logging out of Account A returns to a screen with the option to log in again as either Account A or Guest. 5) A restart brings us back to #1, where we have to sign in first as Account B, then Account A. Attempting to reinstall macOS from recovery mode prompts for the password from Account B (not the admin account) to unlock the HD. What is going on, and how can it be fixed? Original post:
I have an iPhone 7 and I’m considering buying the Lightning SD Card reader that Apple makes. Is it possible to access the SD card’s files using apps other than Photos—for example, Dropbox?
Since updating to iOS 10, my alarm clock (which is set to play an hour-long song) is silencing itself after 15 minutes. It doesn't technically snooze itself, as the snooze button is still present on the lock screen after the music cuts. I've tried disabling the bedtime features, without help.
My Mac is OS X El Capitan. My Notes App version is 4.2 (555.10.42). I have NotesV4.storedata file(with -shm, -wal files) which comes from my previous old Mac machine. I hope to open old Notes app data in my current Notes App on my new Mac OS X El Capitan machine. When I visit /Users/~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes folder, I can see NotesV6.storedata file. So I renamed my NotesV4.storedata file to NotesV6.storedata and store it in above folder. Then I opened the Notes app, but I cannot see any data. Any advice?
I have failed to find any solution to this ongoing problem that works. Problem: The last page of every chapter of my document has a space at the top that I cannot delete. Each chapter is ended with a page break. If I key in a series of hard returns BEFORE the break they actually force the text up the page until it fills that space BUT I have been warned not to use hard returns this way as they can disrupt the book's overall formatting when finally printed. Any ideas as to why the space to begin with and how to fix it?
I'm running MAC emulation for the first time and I can see that the mouse behavior is lagging and choppy. I then noticed that the "Graphics Display = 3MB" would not change, no matter what I set the svga.vramSize value at. I suspect these are related, and fixing the vramSize may fix the mouse lag and make it smooth again - agreed?
I have an iMac with a broken internal hard drive. I have since attached an external HD that I use as my main HD. Half of the old one is corrupted and I can't do anything to it.
What do I do with the script? Please explain in plain English in step-by-step fashion. I saw that you can display images inline in iTerm2
I am used to it from Linux terminals. Using both Terminal and iTerm.
I noticed yesterday this weird behavior, don't how to trace it, actually. The thing is this: When the *=URL=* loads I'm seeing spinning circle for about 5 seconds while Safari is hanging.
Is there any way to prevent my MacBook Pro from sleeping when I close the lid on macOS Sierra? I used to use NoSleep on OS X El Capitan; unfortunately it stopped working properly after Yosemite and I've heard that on Sierra it causes problems, so I don't want to install it and potentially cause damage. Does anyone use anything that they personally have used that prevents MacBooks from going to sleep when the lid is closed on macOS Sierra?
Apparently this was possible with Yosemite, but I've never actually seen it in action, and I don't know if it has gone the way of Target Display and other cool features they've thrown away.
I upgraded to Sierra today and it appears that the "SystemCACertificates.keychain" file no longer appears in Macintosh HD -> System -> Library - Keychains. Anyone know a workaround for this? I use a smart-card to login to many sites and I no longer have access to 50% of those sites now. I think this might be the root cause.
Do FaceTime calls show up on my phone bill??? Is there a way for me to find out if someone on my shared account is making and/or receiving FaceTime calls and, if so, to/from whom? Basically, what I'm asking is if there is any way for me to find out if my husband is using FaceTime to talk to another woman? Without actually taking his phone and snooping or using an app like FONEPAW? What about messages sent thru Facebook? Can those be accessed without his phone?
Sierra added this feature that allows you to switch from a to Latin layout from a non-Latin layout by Caps Lock. It doesn't work with Russian, although last time I checked Russian was a non-Latin language. Does anyone have any luck with working around this bug?
I have a file on my desktop that is now synced with iCloud using the new feature of macOS. I would like to delete it, but keep a copy of it in the iCloud. I am nervous that if I simply delete it from my Mac, it will also be deleted in iCloud. Is there a way to keep the iCloud copy, but delete the local copy? For example, here are two directories on my desktop, one is only in the cloud, the other is both in the cloud and saved locally:
I just reinstalled Mac OS Sierra on my iMac, but Safari doesn't save any Preferences. When Safari starts it prompts me to "enable Microsoft Silverlight plugin" (because Netflix demands this plugin). When I try to enable it (in Safari->Preferences->Security->Plugin Settings and check the Silverlight box and click Done), and then restart Safari, it hasn't saved, and the same prompt comes up and when I look, that setting I just checked is no longer checked.
If so, what is the maximum size? I tried googling around a bit and saw an off hand reference that implies the answer might be eleven, but I couldn't verify it in the apple documentation or even find a second reference.
I have dual thunderbolt displays. One of them is breaking down. Since apple discontinued the thunderbolt display, are there other companies that can support daisy chaining a non apple monitor to an apple monitor.
I have a 2008 MacBook that cannot be turned on. It keeps restarting in a loop. It displays the Apple logo and a loading bar and then some text with a black background before restarting again. Among other things it shows: "Debugger called: " Here is what I have tried so far:
I'm a techie but fairly new to macOS. I am using a Mac mini running macOS Sierra as a build machine running GoCD. I want the server (go-server) and the agent (go-agent) to start on boot, but I can't find an easy explanation anywhere for how to do this. Things that worked on Mac OS X 10.6 don't work any more, and I don't want to have these apps start at login, because I don't want to remain logged into the console on this computer.
About 30% of the time when pressing Command + Space for a fraction of a second too long, it causes Siri to close and open again. This delays the process a significant amount that at times its required to be clicked just to even listen.Console: Errors & Warnings It seems that the highlighted error is whats causing this. Im not too familiar with AppleScript, I did try sudo killall for the associated processes but the issue is still persistent.
I recently upgraded my iPhone5, and want to download the iphone-user-guide-for-ios-10. I found in iTunes on my MacBook Pro running 10.12, and it shows "Downloading", but has been doing this for hours. It is only 23MB. There seems to be no progress report. I also tried iBooks (which I use, but have never used the iBooks Store), and clicking on iBooks Store does absolutely nothing. How should I be getting the User Guide? EDIT:- I successfully downloaded on my iPad, but could not transfer to the Mac.
Yesterday I (clean) installed macOS sierra and since then I'm having a particular error message in my console every few milliseconds, that I can't seem to find anywhere! Every 10-20 instances of the above error, I also get the following ones and occasionally I also get the one bellow
Simple question. I wrote a loop in QBasic (running with Boxer, on a MacBook Air) that I can't stop in-app because I need to use the Break key. I don't know how to do this!
While processing the image in Adobe Photoshop 14.0.0, there was no evidence of artifacts in the darker color transitions. However, upon opening the image in Preview, this was the result:
I am on iTunes 12.5.1.21 on OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. I would like to know where (by default) downloads are written (I am downloading many iTunes U lectures in sequence).
I'm trying to set up a folder action that triggers only when a new file is less than a certain size. With my limited understanding I haven't been able to figure out a way to do this. Can anyone help?
Short Question : Is it possible to use an Apple Time Capsule just as a network attached backup drive and not a router? Background : We want to use a separate router to manage a more complex network. We where looking at not using an Apple Time Capsule and instead a 3rd party NAS (probably Synology) for Time Machine to backup to but as I've read in multiple places that backing up to a 3rd party NAS can cause the Time Machine backups to become corrupt / miss files due to the fact the HDD in a 3rd party NAS is ext4/NTFS/... and can't be OS X journaled (or what ever Time Machine prefers) We've got a network as follows : TP-Link Gigabit Load Balance Router with VPN (we will also set VLANs, static IPs etc on here) 48 port Netgear gigabit network switch multiple in wall RJ45 ports 4x Ubiquity UAP Wi-Fi access points (some indoor some outdoor)
I have been using Karabiner and Better Touch Tool to remap my keys, so they match like Windows. Since I'm used to that layout, I wanted it switched. However, since I updated to Sierra, Karabiner no longer works, and I have to use Karabiner Elements, which just can't do multiple keys. So what I have now in Karabiner Elements is:
Can anyone simply explain the reason of memory leaks? My Firefox seems to use up to 500Ms of memory though it is only for reading news Online. It seems that certain browsers use significantly less for the same pages viewed although I like how Firefox is mostly fast.
My wife is having trouble scrolling using her Macbooks touchpad; but, I can scroll easily. Seems to not react to her 'touch'. Can the sensitivity be adjusted? She thinks her fingers are too dry...
Updated today to Sierra from Yosemite. Can't find disk backup function in new Disk Utility...
as someone interested in Electronics, this has bugged me for far to long, and I am hoping someone can put an answer to end this annoyance. My current idea as to how: the entire port is isolated with Transistors, when the power cord is plugged in, those transistors open and allow the port to function as a normal data/charging port, but this is far to simple I know. I am aware that this may be better suited to electronics.stackechange.
I have defined myself a file extension .ev, they are actually text files, which can be opened by TextEdit. In Finder, by Column view, a .txt document can be displayed directly on the right hand side. Does anyone know if it is possible to let Finder show .ev as well, it will be more handy:
What is the best way to delete all the applications and then restore them? If I delete them in iTunes, will syncing my iOS devices recreate the currently used applications again? If so, is that done by backing up the application from the device, or downloading it onto the computer from the iTunes "app" store – thereby not backing up the app data itself (assumingly, this is something that is done within the iOS device backup in iTunes, not in the App tab)? If so, is that done by backing up the application from the device, or downloading it onto the computer from the iTunes "app" store – thereby not backing up the app data itself (assumingly, this is something that is done within the iOS device backup in iTunes, not in the App tab)?
I'm a professional software developer who is still supporting clients using Swift 2. However, I'd like to be getting up to speed on Swift 3 since clearly it is the wave of the future.
Since iPhone 6S, Apple introduced "live photo" for taking a picture with a short 3 second clips. With the 3D touch feature, the user can see the picture in motion, which is great for capturing kids activities, etc. There are several photo backup solutions claiming they can backup live photos[1] [2] [3], but actually none of them seems to be able to restore to its original state.
I've installed macOS Sierra and I got an annoying behavior, which I'm trying to solve: Prior to Sierra (and in Windows, too): I have two languages - English and Hebrew. I'm switching between them using cmd+space. When in English, I'm using the caps lock to write uppercase letters. That's the exactly same behavior as any other English keyboard user. However, when using Hebrew as the input source, I'm using caps lock to write in english (small letters only). In this way, I can use some english terms in my hebrew sentences (which is quietly common, to be honest). This is the behavior in Windows too.
Is there a way for both my husband and I to have our information (apps, photos, etc) on one iPad? He's the original owner and now I have my own iPhone, but I want to be able to do the same things he does, but on separate accounts with one iPad.
I am in search for an iOS app that can open URLs in the default browser upon reading a QR-code. All I can find are apps that have their own in-app browsers. That's problematic since many of them are bloated with ads and won't work properly (I am using it for registration).
A user on one of our computers infected her user with some kind of adware malware that results in pop-back ads by "GamesCrystal", an ad that appears on random sites with a tag "Ads by Games Crystal" in the bottom, and multiple calls to various unfamiliar servers. I tried various things to get this removed. There was nothing obvious in Chrome that I could tie to Games Crystal. Malwarebytes for Mac didn't detect anything. Spotlight doesn't show any files with names like "Games Crystal" or any of the permutations of that I tried. There weren't any unfamiliar apps to delete in /Applications or ~/Applications. How do you get rid of this malware?
I'm not sure if I'm missing some sort of configuration here, but occasionally my cursor is unable to return to beginning of line where command starts. If I press FN+leftArrow, it goes few characters after beginning of command, if I press FN+rightArrow, ot goes way behind end of line. It seems like it thinks that whole line is shifted to the right. See screenshots attached. I was unable to reproduce this on purpose. It happens woth all kind of different commands pretty nondeterministically :-(. Any ideas are welcomed, thanks. Matthew
I'm a developer and it's possible to use BTLE to determine the proximity of a device from another. Is there any way to get only one device to ring when they are all adjacent to each other? For example, if I at the gym with my watch, connected to Wifi, it makes sense the watch would ring.
I tried it out in Virtual Machine, but it was quite slow, and I don't want to risk losing my Windows by trying to install besides it.
Lots of problems with my iPhone. iTunes music skips like messed up cd, websites timeout, some apps click to download but they do nothing. Restrictions are off. Factory reset phone and I wasn't allowed to create a new Apple ID but before signing in my iCloud storage already showed 1.99 GB being used. I set up as new phone and not logged in any account prior to this. Hmmm. Any help?
I'm not sure this is a macOS bug, a Chrome bug or something else but my macOS crashes when I'm watching fullscreen video in Chrome. By crashing I mean that I'm suddenly logged out from the system and all apps are closed. This happens very quickly in about a second, like I'm watching a video and suddenly I'm on a screen where you choose an account to log in macOS.
After updating to Sierra, directly after. The Mac Mail keeps crashing. I am trying to send an email and poof it crashes. It crashes randomly as well. Any way to re-install the app or do something without reseting my Mac? Log: http://pastebin.com/v2Gvw3J9
What's the significance of this error? It's showing up in the Console every 15 seconds: Where the full log for AppleIDAuthAgent in the vicinity of one of these errors looks like this:
I have downloaded an app for Messages, and I'm wondering how to delete it. I don't see it on the iPhone.
In macOS Sierra I'm noticing a very "chatty" and repetitive series of warnings in the console, like this: where dozens of processes are all logging the same "switching to keychain-db" message over and over again. These messages are coming from AppleIDAuthAgent, authd, secinitd, lcd, Finder, gamed, Mail, cloudd, and on and on.
I was using my MacBook air yesterday and my wifi turned itself off and now I can't turn it back on. When I click on the little icon it the dropdown menu appears after a good 5-10 seconds, occasionally the colour wheel appears whilst it's processing. After it's loaded I then click on 'turn Wi-fi on', but this has no effect. It does nothing.
My Mac has been having a lot of issues lately. Most of them have to do with lagginess and the spinning beach ball appearing quite often, and staying there for a long time. If my Mac is so slow, there must be some processing going on in the background that's using up all of the resources. Is there a way to "kill" all that processing going on in the background? If so, how do I map the command to a key combination? (Because when my Mac is hanging up, I can't open up the Activity Monitor. Yes, the lag is that bad! Even when I manage to open it up, it says I don't have permission to use it.)
My mom recently asked me about an email inbox on her phone called "My Weather". She didn't know what it was or how it got on the phone. It had 200+ emails in it and all were product or service offers from obscure websites. Basically just spam. Although, amusingly, there were new emails every day with a weather forecast. Funny. Anyway I checked email settings on the phone and there was an email account that was not my mom's with an address that went something like "FirstnameLastname157@minbox.email". There was no option to delete it like a normal account so I looked up minbox.email and found an Apple discussion forum on it. While this explains how to delete it, I want to know how it got on the phone in the first place, and what exactly it is. It must have been from a link in Safari or an email that opened something in Safari. I didn't think this was possible on iOS or any mobile device. I found very little information when searching for it. Maybe if I checked the next few Google pages..
I'm trying to figure out the best place for me to backup my Lastpass CSV and it seems like the best place to put it would be on my full-disk-encrypted macbook, but I would like to be able to require a password before someone is actually able to read it. I know I can password protect a folder with a chosen password but that's likely something that will be forgotten. Is there a way to set the permissions of a file to require the Admin password before viewing the contents?
P.S.: I tried several other unbound keyboard shortcuts, without configuring them in BTT but just pressing them in Mail, and all made the same flash and sound. I have no reason to think they will not make the same annoying sound if configured to actually do something through BTT.
I have a huge number of contacts. If there is absolutely no better way to organize them than a "flat file" list of groups, I may be forced to export each card individually just so I can have them in a directory structure. The things I love about Apple Contacts are: Integration with Mail.app. Integration with Alfred PowerPack. Pretty UI. So this is really a two part question.
I had an old 2011 13" MPB with a 250 GB Samsung Evo 840 SSD and, using the OWC expansion bay mod, a 1 TB Seagate SSHD. The SSD was the boot drive and the SSHD was just for Time Machine backups, file storage, and a boot camp partition. Unfortunately, I spilled water on that Mac and it subsequently died. Yesterday I finally got around to getting a new Mac. I now have a 2013 15" Retina model with 500 GB flash storage. I used Migration Assistant to transfer all my files from the SSD as it was the boot drive and the drive with my user account on it. However, after that I hooked up the 1 TB SSHD but the Mac gave me this error: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" So I opened Disk Utility and ran First Aid, but to no avail.
If you use a scaled resolution (not right-2X) on a MacBook Pro w/ retina display, it will tell "using a scaled resolution may affect performance". However, on a 12" MacBook, the scaled resolution is used by default (the default is "looks like 1280x800" and the non-scaled resolution should be "looks like 1152x720"), and there is no prompt about performance.
I have installed RStudio Server using Homebrew on a Mac Pro Server with El Capitan. Then I followed instructions in the INSTALL file. When I launch RStudio Server from the host computer (*=URL=* or remotely, it accepts my username and password but then I get this error:
Sometimes I find from searching Google that I can reset the SMC, PRAM and NVRAM. But different sources provide different instructions on how to do this. I have a MacBook Pro and iMac. I also have an iPad Mini and an iPhone 5c and wonder how these can also be reset if needed. Can someone please clear this up for me, or send me links to some info I can trust.
Translated: Welcome to the Telekom HotSpot (german network provider). You are connected to the internet via your SIM over Wi-Fi and are using your HotSpot flatrate. There will be no additional cost.
Can anyone help me with some code that will recursively find, say, a folder with 'Lounge' in the name which could be two folders deep in the folder I'm searching in? I'm making an Applescript droplet that helps me file my music into genre folders. I'm ok with the rest, just need a snippet so that if I click on the dialog 'Lounge & Exotica', Finder will move the file concerned to the folder identified. Here's the bit of code I can't get to work: I keep getting this message:
Many times, I feel the need to keep the current window open while having access to the desktop. A good scenario to picture where this could be handy is this:
I have a MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM. Current uptime is just 8 days. I may have triggered page out event while also being low on free HDD space.
I'm in a situation that I put myself in accidentally. So I needed to erase the OS and put a new one using Internet Recovery, first steps I did well there's no more OS, next quest is to put the OS back in, using "Reinstall OS X" button. Here comes the problem, it says "You need to have internet connection to do it"(something like that). If I reboot the computer to connect the cable(I need to transport it to the other room), can I go back to Internet Recovery mode? Thanks in advance.
I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 and 750GB hard drive. I tried to delete Windows partition on the hard disk and now I can't access my main Mac partition (disk index 2) anymore. It shows something like "FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF" and I don't even know what it is.
I'm having, I think, a subroutine problem. I want to use this 'Choose from list' system to order newly acquired music. After dropping on a bunch of mp3s, it should play the mp3 (so I can decide on the genre), then display the first 'choose from...' dialog, which should then lead on to the next one, until it reaches the one which prompts Finder to file the mp3. Then it should move onto the next mp3. But for some reason it merely plays the mp3.
I have a MacBook Pro 2014 with El Capitan and I tried to upgrade to Sierra. It seems to have downloaded fine, but when I click on install, nothing happens. In system log, I see the following message: 10/9/16 10:58:00.621 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.InstallAssistant.Sierra.338272[624]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 Not sure what is going on.
I am having a problem with my computer. It starts up totally fine, but as soon as I get to my desktop and try to open any app (Google chrome, Calendar, Messenger etc) the cursor just spins and the whole computer slows down. No apps will open.
If I have a Mac mini mid 2010 with 4 gb ram and Intel core 2 duo, will it be enough to run Xcode with safari or chrome?
When I try to call my iPhone from my Mac having upgraded to Sierra, it keep on asking for my password ... what pass word?
I just accidentally copied nearly 500 pics and videos to my desktop. Is there a way to delete all items by date from the desktop?
I have kids with set daily time limits via Parental Controls (e.g. they can only use the computer for 2 hours a day during the week between certain times). At the moment, they have separate accounts on the different Macs in the house and thus inconsistent settings and time limits. If they use up time on one machine, they go to the next and get more.
I'm using Fastmail and its web interface as my email client and I'd like to clean it up but save multiple hundreds of emails to some text-based format. Is there any macOS email client or utility that can do it?
Ever since upgrading to iOS 10, my iPhone 6+ has decided that whenever a shadow is cast near the top of phone, the screen needs to turn off. This was a great feature that Apple first used only in the Phone all the way back in the original iPhone - it disables the screen when you hold it to your ear, thus conserving power and preventing accidental touches from your ear.
I have a client who works in Publisher on a PC however, I work on a Mac and use InDesign. What is the best program for me to set up Templates in InDesign so they can open them up in Publisher on their system? Jeff
I've just bought a new MacBook pro off craigslist and I'm having a few problems with it, it has crashed three times within two days. The last two crashes were just a few minutes ago and the second one happened almost immediately after it booted up from the first crash and reopened all the programs. Here are the specs: Early 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 500 GB internal SSD.
Shortcut cmd+c brings up Finder window when trying to copy with shortcut. Edit command works from menu. I have tried resetting keyboard preferences to default. I have had same problem with earlier versions of OS 10 but need this function for Autodesk Fusion 360. I'm on a MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 and I have installed Kali Linux in dualboot. Apparently there is nothing going wrong with my jack but I have noticed that a red light is constantly turned on in the port. How can I solve it?
I had to let go of my white Macbook (2007) because the new OSX would no longer run on it. Currently Mactracker lists my Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) with a support status of "vintage" but that relates to the availability of hardware parts I read. I am not too worried about that because there have been so many of these machines produced that parts will be around for the next 10 years I bet.
I'm thinking about updating to macOS Sierra, but I'm worried if there are still any bugs. Has anyone used it yet?
I guess a turned on iPhone will always show up in iTunes when you plug it to a mac or PC (even if you need to unlock the passcode). I sometimes need to known if an iPhone is dead inside or it's just the screen not showing image.
Anybody knows how to fix Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 on Sierra? The app just dont open anymore. I was using it on a clean install of El Capitan, but after Sierra, the app crash right after toolbars appear. Things that I tried: Set 755 (read/write permissions) on /Library/Application Support/Adobe, ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe. Result: App crash. Start application with sudo.
Just upgraded 2012 mac mini to macOS Sierra 10.12. Now when I try to print to a Canon MF-4500, I get an error message (filter failed). I tried resetting the printing system and re-added the networked MF-4500 but I got same error message.
I called Apple to see if they could ping my stolen iPhone 4. They said that they cant because the "find my iphone" isnt on. The phone isnt activated but the person who stole it has been using … it to get into my emails, Facebook and other apps linked to my Apple ID, because as most know as long as there is wifi iPhones can used to do everytjing except make calls and text. Is there a way to find the location of the phone using the IMEI and the last time it was on wifi?
I just upgraded to iOS 10, and I see that there's a Reminders widget on my lock screen. I added a couple of test reminders to the Reminders app, but they don't appear on my lock screen. If I touch the Reminders widget on the lock screen, I'm taken to the Reminders app (after logging in), and there my reminders are visible. What do I have to do to get my reminders to show up on my lock screen?
Please anyone help me, especially expert on iPhone and iPhone 5 or iPhone 5 user. My iPhone is second handed, I don't know this thing is normal or not Fully charge about 2 hours 15 minutes Battery usage just 6 hours that I use for camera (full hours with airplane mode), and about 2 days (40 hours) with 3g (sometimes use WiFi) with minimal use (just open whatsapp and instagram for a while) It's easy to warm if I use more than 5 minutes, and easy to cold too. Touch responsivity in corner screens is less (only touch action), but it still works and smooth for scrolling or touch a large button Please anyone help me, Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome
You can clearly see what's wrong with Finder in the GIF. When I click the Finder window, it appears to restore the window, and then it's gone. This usually happens after a while. It's very annoying, a quick fix is to Force Quit Finder, and I can restore those windows again. There is only 1 Desktop spaces enabled I have tried removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
A Sierra installer I downloaded last week was corrupted. It wasn't obvious at first since I was able to create a USB installer and the USB stick booted fine. But after an hour of proceeding I had issues in MacOS installation process, I got a message that says my installer was corrupted. I downloaded it again and after one more hour it is working fine. When downloading Linux ISOs, most (perhaps all) distributions provides an MD5/SHA1 code so I can check my downloaded copy with those.
I want to use an Apple Watch 2 to track my sleep. In order to achieve this I will need to wear the Apple Watch during sleep, which creates an issue around battery usage. So my thinking is that I can put the watch on charge twice daily on most days: in the morning while getting ready for work and again at night while getting ready for bed. By doing this I estimate the battery will have enough power to keep the watch going 24/7 on most days.
I need to automate many clicks in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I need to open a PDF in Acrobat Pro > Tools > Action Wizard > Test (Action defined by me) > Start. Is it possible to automate this by using AppleScript? I'm using OS X 10.8.3
There are questions with good answers that explain how to remove the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute but I was wondering how does one restore / set it back again? I tried this: but apparently not knowing what attribute's value should be this achieves nothing. I guess it is all about the attribute's value, which is of the following format:
Yesterday I upgraded to macOS Sierra and this morning when I log-in via SSH to ubuntu 14.04 servers I'm asked for the user password. This is strange because I have my servers configured for public-key log-in, as explained here: *=URL=* This is not happening with ubuntu 16.04 servers.
In the Notification Center in iOS 9 it was possible to group notifications per app or by time/day. In iOS 10 I don't find the setting to change this behaviour. Do someone know if it can be changed or is this setting not available any more?
My Mac suffered a physical failure at the very beginning of the upgrade from El Capitan to Sierra. The physical failure has been fixed. I can get to the screen with Disk Utility, Reinstall OS and Time Machine options. But I don't have a Time Machine backup.
I have an album from a concert where all songs transfer into each other when played consequently. And it plays well in iTunes on macOS. However on the standard iOS 10 Music app the transitions are not fluid as if the last second of each song is ignored. Can this be fixed somehow through settings?
I've just finished a fresh install of Microsoft Office 2016. When I run Microsoft Word, I obtain the start page with different propositions for creating a new document.
I had the 1 TB drive in an enclosure and wanted to test if it would boot so I plugged it into a nearby machine (as the late 2012 Mac Mini wasn't reassembled yet). The nearby machine was a current version Mac Mini purchased about 3 months ago running OSX 10.11. When I booted into the external drive by holding down the option key I got a grey error screen with a no entry logo (see image below).
I own a MBPro 2015, its physical keyboard layout is US-Q style. Since my primary language is Turkish, I use the keyboard with TR-Q layout. In Turkish; we have these two characters: where as English alphabet just has Now if I set my password as i1234567 in Turkish keyboard, I can't login when I switch to English keyboard (same applies for opposite scenario). My question is; even though I write the same string with two different layout, why does it matter when it is used as a password ?
The calendar crashes after 1s while opening. I already opened the temp dir open $TMPDIR..deleted the cache C folder, restarted the computer and deleted the trash. This was not successful. Even after the upgrade to sierra the calendar is still broken.
I'm trying to compile xview (aka XV) on what is now macOS Sierra. The instructions I came across are for an old release of MacOS X 10.7. The difficulty I'm facing is with the location of the X11 libraries. I have latest Xcode and command line tools installed, as well as a functional homebrew installation. My question: can someone give guidance on compiling X11 programs on the newer OS X releases, from El Capitan onward?
While trying to write an image to a SD card, I accidentally overwrote an external disk I use for Time Machine backups. I did a which should have been /dev/disk4 instead… Now the backup disk is gone. A diskutil list just before gave The 209.7 MB EFI partition seems to be standard, so I assume the drive was formatted in a straightforward way.
Every time I click the update button to update my Mac software, a pop up shows up - An error occurred while loading the update (102). I don't know what to do; I can't update my software. I hope you can help me.
I read that you can expand you Macbook's storage with SD card. Is it possible to install an operating system (OSX to be precise) on that SD card and switch between the operating systems?
I'm currently on the beta program on my iPhone. How can I stop using the beta versions and go back to the newest version of iOS (non-beta)?
I have a Mac Mini server that seems to exhibit various issues while there's either a medium to heavy CPU load or disk access. I'd like to test this out by intentionally triggering varying degrees of CPU usage and different kinds and intensities of disk access. Are there any tools or techniques out there that can:
Since upgrading to Sierra I've noticed that sometimes when I swipe between spaces the background image moves left or right as I swipe along with whatever icons I have on my desktop and whatever (lets say) open finder windows I have. Other times the background remains static but everything else moves left or right as I swipe. I have the same (default) bg image for all spaces.
I want my macbook air to require the password prompt only after closing the clamshell lid, not once it goes to sleep/screensaver. I like to leave the lid open for quick reference, but have screen saver on (at 5 minutes) to reduce power/battery consumption. I haven't been able to see in OS where/if this is an available setting. Macbook Air - mid 2012 OS X El Capitan - version 10.11.2 Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I recently upgraded my computer to macOS Sierra. Everything went fine, but somewhere along the way something got changed (probably something I did) and now every time I try to ssh into another machine the terminal prompts me to enter my password. If I type the password and enter it the ssh session works as normal. But why do I have to enter my password at all? What can I do to fix this?
I am still not sure If I wish to upgrade to macOS Sierra, If I will upgrade it will be caused only by the fact that macOS Sierra should fix some security vulnerabilities , therefore I would like to understand more deeply what type of security vulnerabilities does it fix?
I am new to bash, so I'm a bit lost with this script I made to backup some directories from the local machine into a NAS. The NAS will contain only a certain number of backed up files, so before copying a new one I delete the oldest of the existing. First of all the script defines all the paths, directory and file names into variables
My iPhone 5s will only allow me to text up to 9 people. It is frustrating to have to text the same text over and over again. I'd like to text them all at the same time.
When I try to use my MacBook pro from work at home, the wifi slows to a crawl or is lost completely for everyone (including me) when I join wifi. If I turn off wifi on my MacBook, it all comes back for others on the network. I can sometimes rejoin and everything seems to work but often that doesn't work. This is killing me as I need to work at home but I also have 4 family members that need to use the internet too. If the connection works at all, it goes from >10Mps to <60Kbps (according to fast.com).
Photos & Camera took up somewhere around 2.5 GB of storage a week ago. I check now and it is at 700 MB. Does anyone how this is possible?
When I click on my downloads folder in dock it opens the downloads folder in Finder, instead of showing the expanded file contents. How can I fix this?
Macbook Mid-2010 running Sierra. If type sysctl hw.cpufrequency, it always shows 2400000000. And it never changes the frequency no matter what I run. I tried to use other software to check frequency and it was the same 2.4 GHz all the time. Is there any chance to make SpeedStep working? Can I control the frequence myself? (underclocking would be great feature since coolbook app is dead).
I've updated my macbook pro to macOS Sierra and now my (apple) wired keyboard is completely broken. I'm using a AZERTY wired keyboard (like the one on my macbook) but even if on my macbook every keys seems correct, on the wired keyboard two keys are reversed : @ and <
My Macbook Pro suddenly turned itself off (I believe I got a popup saying it was soon out of diskspace, but I didn't think this meant "Your OSX installation will soon be unusable"). After this, I haven't been able to boot into OSX. Booting into single user mode and running fsck -fy bails out with the message that the "Disk full error": Checking the Mac disks from Linux (I've got a dual boot), I can confirm that non of the Mac related partitions are out of diskspace: the EFI partition has 180MB free (9% used) the Mac Boot partition has 113MB free (82% used) the main Mac harddrive has 17GB free (83% used) Any help is much appreciated.
Here are some log files in case anyone can get any information from them about this problem. (Sorry to post the logs offsite, but there was too much text in the successful logs.) First, Client log of connecting to MacBook-Pro.local via SMB through Finder using flow like so: Produces log output like this in the console: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23308183/
I recently got El Capitan 10.11.6 installed on my MacBook. Now whenever I try to install ANY 3rd party font, they fail font validation in the Font Book app. The error is always:
I interrupted the upgrade to Sierra, which rendered my two year old Macbook Pro useless (kernel panic at boot, after entering password). I rebooted with Command+R, and reformatted the main drive (attempting to install from there didn't work). I could see my hard drive fine, but the installation failed due possibly to Internet connectivity issues.
I have a lot of old QuickTime VR cubic panorama images which I want to view with my Google Cardboard, preferably using Google Cardboard iOS app. I think for this I would need some converter, which makes a flat image from the cubic projection, then import this image somehow. Do you know such kind of a converter application?
I currently have a problem with my MacBook Pro where the SMC keeps getting screwed up and needing to be reset. The result is always that my keyboard and trackpad become useless, and I have to use an external keyboard and trackpad.
I've confirmed this issue has continued after a restart of the phone. I have not tried a full restore of the phone (would prefer to avoid that if I can). Aside from this, any other suggestions on my Phone app problem? Or suggestions on what I can do to debug it further when it happens again?
For some weird reason, hitting Enter, Escape, or some other action keys crash the save dialog, open dialog, Command+F, and many others. This makes the entire app crash, and revert to an autosave which is likely very outdated (if at all). This is after upgrading from El Capitan. I can confirm clicking the Open, Save, Cancel etc buttons with the mouse work fine, but when I use the keyboard, the entire app crashes. How do I fix this? Edit: The following list will be updated with all solutions I have tried, and have failed: El Capitan: every app crashes when browsing or saving file Edit 2: I have confirmed this issue also applies to authentication dialogs and the like.
I have a client who is using a laptop, iPhone, and iPad to send emails. However, after checking outgoing message queues on the mail server, one of the Apple devices is using the wrong settings.
Under El Capitan, if I try to delete a line of text (like this sentence) by holding down the delete key on my Logitech K750, it keeps deleting until I release the key. Under Sierra, I have to hit the delete key repeatedly until I get to the end of the sentence. How can I restore this functionality to what it should be?
Lolo Joe wants earphone jack to plug and use big speakers but at the same time he wants to partner the music coming out the earphone jack and his Bluetooth system and speakers. Is it even possible to use the earplug connection and the Bluetooth system and devices at the same time?
In response to an iPhone 7 freezing issue I'm having, it was suggested to try a hard reset (holding power + volume down for 10 seconds for iPhone 7 or holding power + home on older iPhones). This got me wondering what an hard reset actually does. After searching around online, I've sound some that say it is just a hard power-off (isn't this what holding just the power button does?) and others mentioning something about a library being rebuilt. Overall, many, at least from several years ago, cited it as a cure-all for various phone issues.
Everything I've seen says get it from the App Store, but when I search the App Store I get 'nothing found'. I am trying to build a USB boot stick on one old 15" MacBook Pro for an even older 17" MacBook Pro. Working mac: MacBook Pro 15-inch Early 2008 OSX Verison 10.9.5 (13F1911) Mac with corrupt disk: MacBook Pro 17-inch April 2006
Ever since I updated to Sierra a couple days ago, my 3 finger swipe, which gets me to my screen with the widgets like weather, clock, calendar, calculator, sticky notes, etc....is not working....at all. It seems my other gestures are working fine...but not my 3 finger to the left and back to the right. I have tried rebooting, all my boxes for gestures are checked...tried unchecking and rechecking. I am at a loss...and googling I couldn't find anything. Thank you!
New to using mac os. I was attempting in installing Mac OS X 'Yosemite' on a mid 2010 macbook pro. [Earlier before I started the whole process, I accidentally deleted everything (main harddrive) from disk utility including the bootcamp.]
I have an iPhone 5C that is no longer connected to a service plan. I have given it to my son to use as an iPod-type device. I have an Android phone. Can he text me on my Android from the non-connected iPhone?
I have a sparse image partition on El Capitan. I am not using FileVault. I've looked at several dozen search results on how to remove the partition, all explaining how to erase the partition and then select it and click the "-" to remove it, but the "-" is grayed. I've also considered using fdisk from the command line, but the version in OS X does not contain the -l (list) or -d (delete) switches. How do I delete the sparse image partition?
I'm trying to log events/check-points from my shell-script using logger. How to use logger or syslog utility in OS X (version 10.12 (16A323)). I have tried logger "Hello world" and checked /var/log/system.log using Console app, the following was the log entry created Failed to harvest strings for binary named '–Xó^H'
Using Skype 7.37 on OS X El Capitan, observing this highly unusual behaviour: I receive a photo in a Skype chat. I click "Reveal in Finder", Skype places the photo in my Downloads folder as it is configured to do.
So I am attempting to install Windows 10 from an .iso on my mac and I loaded it into Boot Camp and let it run, it managed to run till the partitioning bit and then it failed, however I did manage to save the WindowsSupport.dmg, is there a way to install Windows 10 with the USB Boot Camp prepared before it failed.
After doing a restore from an old iPad to a new iPad, and syncing up iCloud, contacts stored without a country code are displayed incorrectly. In Australia, the mobile number format is 04xx xxx xxx, or +61 4xx xxx xxx (with country code).
How can I configure Xcode so that I get syntax highlighting when using Standard ML? Is this even possible with Xcode?
I have a shared folder in a NAS (Synology DS115j) I mount this folder with the following command: shared-folder shows the following permissions: A local user wants to execute the following command And she gets the following error How is this possible when all users are given rwx permissions? How can I fix it?
I noticed that all the sound files in System/Library/Sounds have been replaced with a TextEdit file called "Sounds" with my upgrade to macOS Sierra. Is there a way to get the sound files I put there back? In the terminal, when I do file sounds it prints out sounds: IFF data, AIFF audio. Can I get it back into multiple AIFF files?
I'm running macOS 10.12 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Randomly, mouse keys was enabled when my hands were not touching the keyboard. I don't have a bluetooth keyboard (although I do have a bluetooth mouse which I was not using at the time). This is the second time it has happened. This is either a software or hardware bug, but it seems oddly specific to be a hardware bug when I don't see other random keypresses.
I have an app in the Apple App Store, and am curious whether Apple ToS permits end-users and enterprises to download my (or any) app and redistribute them using enterprise certificates (e.g. MDM) or ad-hoc Apple developer distribution? I haven't been able to find any direct information regarding Apples stance on the matter. As far as I know, tools exists that can change the bundle id and then using a custom provisioning profile resigning and distribution is possible outside of the Apple App Store. (Also asked on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39971753/can-users-enterprises-download-and-resign-ipa-within-apple-tos)
I tried installing HoRNDIS, and even restarting afterwards, but didn't solve. Tried to play around the USB Debugging option as well without success. My broadband allows tethering since I can do it over Wifi and Bluetooth really straightforward. Is there a specific set of Sierra native steps to set up a generic USB network interface that supports android 5.1.1?
I would like to create a Dock for all users which does not include Siri. It does not appear in the file com.apple.dock.plist, so where is Siri added to the Dock?
Under the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences, start automatically after a power failure is unchecked. There is also nothing in the Schedule that would cause the machine to turn on. Any ideas why my Mac won't stay off when the main power is reapplied? EDIT - pmset -g output EDIT 2
On iOS 9 I would utilize the quick reply functionality to reply to Google Hangout messages. However, since upgrading to iOS 10 I am no longer able to use quick reply as a swipe left on a Hangout notification only gives the option to clear.
I have some photos taken in 2012 and when I export them as originals to a folder they have a creation date of July 2016. Running an EXIF detailer showed the images to have been taken in 2012, so why does Photos export them and add another date to it? I tried exporting my whole album from 2009-2016 and noticed some pictures taken in years prior to 2016 to appear in July or other months of this year as well. I would really appreciate if someone can shed some light on this issue.
The Mac's FaceTime application, as of macOS Sierra, presents a very simplified call log (call history) in its main window: For any given contact, only a (time-stamped) SINGLE entry for the MOST RECENT conversation is shown, WITHOUT indicator as to whether the call was INCOMING or OUTGOING. Only missed calls (printed in red) imply the call direction (they're by definition incoming). WITHOUT information about the DURATION of the (most recent) call. only a (time-stamped) SINGLE entry for the MOST RECENT conversation is shown,
If I set an iOS device into single app mode via MDM, will the iOS update dialog still pop up? Is there a chance that the update can be launched while in single app mode?
A few months ago my iPhone 4 deleted all of my music on its own. I wanted to put it back in, but instead of iTunes I used iFunbox (fatal error). The music kinda worked, but the titles of the songs didn't show up. So, I deleted everything and opened up iTunes, but to my surprise I saw this:
Does anyone know the exact angular velocity of the spinning beach ball animation from El Capitan onwards? I'm trying to create an animation of it from scratch and googling has come up with nothing.
I just recently acquired an iMac. I'm not sure what model it is or anything but the attached pictures show it. When it boots up there's a pixelated screen and it won't boot into the OS, and when I try to boot from a CD it says that the computer needs to restart.
This morning I woke up just to find several messages sent to a Chinese number in my imessage app. I also found an email in my mail by Apple saying that someone had log in with my credential on an iMac (I don't own that).
I know Mac OS supports to some Emacs short-cut key to move cursor in text editor, e.g. Command + f/b/p/n to move cursor left/right/up/down, Command + v to page-down. In Emacs Meta + v is page-up, however the Option + v in Mac OS does not page up but instead print '✓'.
command + ` (left of the 1) works for other apps, but it doesn't work most of the time for Google Chrome. Anyone knows of another keyboard shortcut?
Good day. Currently I have a Photos library with all images stored within the library itself (Photos > Preferences > General > Importing: Copy items to the Photos library is checked). I have a four month old, and I'm saving raw (.ARW) images at roughly 25MB per image, thus this is quickly becoming a storage issue (currently ~130GB). Previously, I was copying the files via python script to my HD, importing the raw files into Photos, then converting to jpeg and importing that into Flickr (Flickr won't accept .ARW, but has a free 1TB). I don't like the fact that I have to alter the original images for my cloud archive, so I've decided to migrate my library to Backblaze B2. Their API is nearing completion, so soon we should see software like Mountain Duck and ExpanDrive supporting their service, or you could just as easily roll your own. Now, you can't just copy over the Photos.photoslibrary over to a mounted bucket because the Photos app will just complain because the bucket isn't HFS+. S
But this didn't seem to make any difference. I've rebooted, and softwaredownloadd is still downloading. 320MBytes now. Wait... how big is this thing?
What's the name of the temperature sensor closest to the PCIe slots in a MacPro5,1? I'm concerned that an installed PCIe card is overheating.
My macOS Sierra Installer isn't working, so I'd like to uninstall it in order to reinstall it later. The only problem is that I can't delete it directly because I don't have admin privileges on this computer. (I've also tried rm -r filename in Terminal.) How could I uninstall the installer without directly deleting it?
How do I launch or open a file with the extension .darwin.amd64? Double clicking it results in: "There is no application available to open the document..."
I have a 2011 iMac that I had used Bootcamp utility to install Windows 7 on. I got overzealous and tried to triple boot Windows, Mac and Linux on the iMac. I no longer need Linux on this iMac but the process corrupted my boot table and now I can't boot into Windows. If I press and hold 'alt/option' key after it reboots it doesn't show me the Windows bootcamp boot entry -- just Mac and Recovery drive.
I have an macOS VM running on my network and I am curious how I can have other Mac's see that VM as a specific device, and display more information about it than just "Mac". Here's what other Macs currently see:
I installed isync[1] on my personal Macbook, which runs OSX 10.11. I used the exact same .mbsyncrc file I wrote for my Macbook at work.
I don't get a ring tone when I get a face time call. In addition when i charge the iPad I used to get a ting sound. Now I don't get that either. Are both the problems connected?
This works: This does not: Can I use lookahead if I want to with the OSX supplied version of grep?
How can see call history in iPhone one month back, i also tried with tried party software but that is not perfect , is the any solution from apple?
Today I started the Terminal and the prompt showed: Now I'm confused because this is not the Hostname of my MacBook Pro. Furthermore my name isn't "Flo" and I don't own an iPad. The Username "mareek" is correct for the user I'm logged in to. I tried
Since the upgrade to macOS Sierra I occasionally see a service CalNCService running hot (i.e. on 100% CPU). So going from the name, this seems to be some Calendar Service. I tried disabling Calendars in Internet Accounts Preferences, but this was no help. One can kill the service or restart the computer, but the problem persists. Usually, after a few hours or so it goes back to normal.
I have used Kerberos GSSAPI authentication together with SSH to connect from my Mac to work servers. However, ever since the macOS Sierra upgrade, I'm forced to enter passwords again. My ~/.ssh/config looks like this:
I'm administering some Mac Minis for our workgroup. I recently needed to install Paraview, but ran into some problems I still couldn't resolve.
Has anyone tried upgrading the soldered RAM on the Late 2014 Mac mini? My boss bought me this Mac as a development machine, with 4GiB RAM, and it's really just not cutting it.
Normally when an application on iPhone or iPad needs to access the microphone or camera it should get permission from the user. Considering applications for iOS distributed through AppStore, if such an application never asked for permission, and isn't listed in the privacy tab in Settings, is it guaranteed that the application can't access the microphone or camera?
I have a directory in my Ubuntu computer with the following sub directories: When I rsync to macOS, I get an error:
What I've found so far is that macOS uses intended or buggy subpixel antialiasing on dark background, which causes more weighted font than on bright background. Refer *=URL=* and https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14890/antialising-of-light-text-on-dark-too-heavy-os-x-10-10.
I'm running on Sierra 10.12 my Magic Trackpad 2 is losing his connection after my Mac entered in sleep. The most strange is that if I restart my Mac without settings intervention, the Trackpad will reconnect automatically without any problem... PS : The issue was not resolved with this tread Bluetooth Magic Trackpad not recognized after sleep
Anyone has a clue? I know they are encrypted on the servers, but I would like to know if they are also particularly encrypted on my machine. Thanks!
I updated to Watch OS3 last week, and now my Apple Watch keeps entering Power Reserve mode, even when I have plenty of power on it! As it sits right now, I have 87% power, and it has already entered Power Reserve three or four times today! I did not ask it to go there, and it has enough power. Has anyone had this problem, and if so, how did you resolve it?
I'm looking for a battery efficient satellite navigation app for use on my bike. The problem is that GPS apps are a huge drain on the battery. My iPhone 6S lasts just under 3 hours when running Google Maps.
I have an external hard disk that serves two purposes: It contains a fully functional bootable macOS installation for use should my main installation of macOS become corrupt in some way. It contains a fully functional bootable macOS installation for use should my main installation of macOS become corrupt in some way.
I get the feeling I've pretty much exhausted my options at this point. What I want to try again once I'm back home tonight: Command + Option + R to boot into internet recovery - I don't know how successful this will be given my "hard drive locked" issue Try to get my hands on a USB boot drive/installer for macOS, and try booting and running Disk Utility once I'm booted from that.
I am trying to use an iPhone 5 with Tracfone's byop. However I can't seem to find the right sim card. At first Tracfone said that I needed an at&t SIM card but it doesn't work with iPhone 5 for it is much to big. Can anyone help me?
What's the NB30 or MM-TD in an iPhone description? I always see these nomenclatures Non block, etc, what does it mean?
I've got a 4TB HD that I use for cloning, moving machines etc. I previously had it setup as 1tb, 1tb, 2tb. But I was only using c. 400gb, 400gb, 500gb respectively.
I wonder if it is possible to share my location in find my friends via Mac ,and not an iOS device?
I have an ethernet network that authenticates with 802.1X. I want to provide temporary access to that network over WiFi, using my existing Hardware (MacBook Pro). I know about Internet Sharing in the System Preferences, but it denies sharing an 802.1X connection.
A Thunderbolt cable has a Thunderbolt-connector on every end. A Thunderbolt-connector follows the Mini Displayport specifications and should be usable between Apple devices as such.
I have recently upgraded to Sierra and was looking forwards to Siri on the desktop, but to my surprise she is quite different than the phone version - she seems much less smart, often falling back to web searches for simple questions she could answer on the phone, and her voice is much less natural sounding. I would have expected her to be the same code calling the same backend servers - so what are the technical reasons for the differences, and why did Apple choose not to make them identical?
I installed Evince, the famous PDF reader that comes pre-installed with several major GNU/Linux distributions, on Mac OS X using now, to open it, I have to type every single time "evince" on terminal. Is there any way to create an icon for that program, that could be moved in my applications folder?
Anyone have any ideas how to disable this? Thanks
At irregular intervals, my MacBook Pro is emitting a chime. Not the startup chime. More of a brief "alert" type sound.
I have the following HTML snippet open in Safari. Digital Color Meter reports the color as #FEDC53.
Every morning I have the same routine. I come into work and plug in my peripherals including my Time Machine Backup. I have my Time Machine scheduled to only run one daily backup at 3:30pm. I would like to run a script or a .plist LaunchDeamon to check all inserted external hard drives automatically and unmount if the
My son pulled out the USB cable while iPhoto was running from the external hard drive and a message came up when I plugged it back in that said there were inconsistencies that needed to be repaired. So I followed the instructions to complete it but it didn't work. Next I used a new external hard drive to make a back up of the MacBook and a copy of the iPhoto Library.
I wrote a script that opens an Xcode project of mine. I then went to Automator and created a Service. I set it to no input and All Applications. Saved it as "openX", then went to System Preferences and under keyboard -> shortcuts I added a new shortcut for "openX" with ⌘E.
How do I delete facetime calls from my Mac? Since the Sierra OS update I can not delete calls. I used to highlight then delete.
So I forgot my iPhone at my locker at school and I didn't turn off the wake-up alarm and I want to know how long it lasts.
My compass is often wrong, which leads to all directional modes of maps being wrong (very annoying for back country trail following). In old versions of iOS I remember the 'figure 8' popping up sometimes, but you don't see that anymore, nor have I found a way to determine if my compass is calibrated or not, other than checking the width of the blue cone in the Apple Maps app when you are in compass mode (it seems to get narrower as the compass is more accurate). Is there any way to force recalibration in iOS 10, and/or see further information about current accuracy?
I was wondering if there's an app that allows an iOS device to be used as a Bluetooth controller for an Android device. I've seen this setup made possible in a game, BombSquad. My Android device was running the game, while my iPod touch ran the controller app made by the same developer.
I did a clean install on macOS Sierra 10.12 on my MacBook Air 13.3" early 2015 and found out that most of the icons in App Store are blurred. Searched the web for a bit, finding references saying that this issue may be caused by the app developers who forgot to update the icon to better image quality. Some references also suggest deleting applications and downloading them again in order for the icons to be updated. Also no custom fonts were installed on this machine.
Sierra update corrupted $PATH, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and many others. Is this a common issue? Is there any way to get those files/settings back (I don't have a backup)? In the past I often installed new OSs and everything was fine.
Is there a way to use an iPhone as an external monitor for a computer? I'm particularly interested in the potential of using an iPhone with Google Cardboard as a VR device. But instead of using it just with iPhone apps, I'd like to be able to use it with programs that run on my computer. I've never seen anything that allows an iPhone to be an external display, but that's what I'm looking for.
After these steps I tested the iMac for four days with no issues in terms of booting up and using the computer. On the fifth day I needed to manually import seven Apple Mail mailboxes. I did these one by one and six of them imported within minutes.
Is it possible to setup a Smart Album in the Photos app that would group all Live Photos? Neither app seems to provide a quick way to find all your Live Photos.
When I start my MacBook Air, an empty/blank window appears. Does anybody know how to get rid of or repair it so that when I boot up it doesn´t appear? There is nothing else wrong with it, I can just close the empty window and everything is fine.
I'm trying to create a second user account with limited permissions which I can use as a honeypot if someone steals my MacBook, but it refuses to allow a standard user without a password. Is there a way to work around this?
If you use Spotlight in macOS with the . operator such as ‘.1.1.1.1’ the result is ‘0.0001’. What operations are being processed by Spotlight? .2.2.2 = 0.0016
I used the symbols font on a slide created using PowerPoint for Mac, and when I opened the same file in Windows the characters turned into squares. Does anyone know what is going on?
I can't seem to find Picture-in-Picture (PiP) in QuickTime 10.4. Is macOS Sierra's new PiP feature only for Safari?
I am using a jailbroken iPhone 6 on iOS 9.2. I have installed proxychains from here via Cydia and created a simple proxychains.conf file (containing http 10.0.0.5 8080) in the current folder. I then try and run a command such as: proxychains4 -f proxychains.conf openssl s_client -showcerts -connect google.com:443 I get the following error:
I never experienced something like this before I upgrade to macOS sierra a few days ago. At first, I didn't notice it, but after a while, it becomes annoying as hell.
What's inside the xip file ? Why don't download from app store?
I'd like to edit sound files on my iPad with my daughter - copying and pasting clips, zooming in to see sound waves, and speeding up and slowing down sections of audio. My question is: What is the equivalent of audacity for iPad?
I followed a tutorial to create dual boot with macOS Sierra 10.12 and Kali-Linux 2.0. I created a bootable USB drive and booted on a Kali-Linux live session in order to use GParted and resize my macOS Partition.
I installed Sierra OS on my iMac without any troubles. But, when I open Terminal, I can't scroll through the bash history when pressing the up arrow.
I have an index.html in my /Users/igor/Sites/MySite folder (igor is my username on Mac). Links (for example: <a href="/page">Page</a>) all go to localhost/page instead of *=URL=* *=URL=* reports It works!, in *=URL=* I see all my files and folders. My /private/etc/apache2/users/igor.conf file: My /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf file (without comments): Also I uncommented lines in httpd.conf as described here. Some lines from my httpd.conf: httpd -V output:
I have been using the Preview.app that comes with Mavericks until El Capitan. The reason that I have been copying that application instead of using the newer version is that it works better for my workflow and for a lot of other people, such as here, here, and here. I have been copying the version on every system upgrade without any problems but it seems this can't be done with Sierra.
I had to reinstall OS X. I was not succeeding to login to my Apple ID due to a server error, so I skipped that step and got a desktop -- but none of my data are visible. Assuming that the data have not been destroyed (IMO they probably haven't), how can I get at them?
This is driving me insane. The checkbox in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General Tab > Advanced > Logout after X minutes of inactivity turns itself back on whenever I move away from the settings screen. I recorded a gif to illustrate this:
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on its own partition, based on this guide. When I try to install the "rEFInd" utility, it warns me that it can't install because SIP is active, and that I should reboot to recovery and install it from there. But when I try to reboot with Command-R or Command-Option-R I get the icon below, then a normal boot. The MBP is running 10.11.4.
I cannot access Wikipedia on both my Macs. macOS says that the intermediate certificate used to sign Wikipedia’s certificate (GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2) has been revoked.
I work in a Mac environment with several Mac minis in the same network. I've a script which I run through Jenkins and this script creates a snapshot (.dmg) of a Mac mini of my choice and saves the snapshot.dmg to a Network Attached Storage (NAS). Everything works fine till here. But now I would like to use the snapshot.dmg and restore it on one of the Mac mini through a script/command line. Can some one tell me how to do this? I'm aware of the process through GUI, I would like to restore the snapshot.dmg on a Mac mini completely through a script/terminal. My effort: I've tried using terminal commands such as hdiutil and asr to restore the image but I guess I'm missing something.
Can closed apps (i.e. not running, or suspended) access background app refresh or modify their program state to gain access to background app refresh? And conversely, if background app refresh is disabled, can apps only access data in the foreground?
As of macOS Sierra, assigning a custom sound file in Mail no longer appears possible. All I get is “New Messages Sound” in addition to the old options:
I am running macOS Sierra 10.12 on a macbook pro late 2011 with a non retina display. I am experiencing pixelated icons when I brows the App Store. Does anybody have the same issue? Is there any way to solve this without buying a new macbook?
I have a slightly flaky old disk which was once used with Time Machine on an old Mac. Since Time Machine is no longer part of my workflow, I'd like to just access this disk like any other HDD. Currently, when I try to delete files I receive the message "The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified." Edit: I tried using tmutil associatedisk, but I don't see any old versions when I "Enter Time Machine".
Starting an avd from the AVD Manager (Nexus5 API22 on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) Error trace: dyld: Library not loaded: /tmp/darwin-x86_64-clang-3.5/lib/libc++.1.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/24.4.1_1/tools/emulator Reason: image not found
I don't remember exactly the sequence of events, but I tried to update stock apps like Notes, Numbers, and Garage Band first before updating to iOS 10. Now I am using iOS 10 smoothly but just noticed that Notes does have share notes (collaborative editing) feature added with this release. I went back to the App Store to find only an "Open" option for notes, and not update or download. I noticed though I have Numbers and Garage Band on my phone, but it showed in the App Store that they need to be downloaded again. I am new to iOS.
I have a 2011 17" Macbook pro with a 1TB HDD installed and running the latest OSX. I am looking at installing a SSD in the original HD bay for my OS and Programs and moving the 1TB drive to the optical bay. My current HDD location says it has a link speed of 6gb and negotiated link speed of 3gb and the optical drive says it has a link speed of 6 gb with a negotiated speed of 1.5gb. So my question is twofold. 1. Will my current drive work correctly in the optical drive space and 2. Can I put a 1TB in there? Most of the adapters specify up to 500gb. Thanks
Normally I give my passphrase for the private key on the first ssh invocation and then I am not asked for the passphrase (in this and all other bash sessions). However, under tmux, I am asked for the passphrase over and over even in the same bash (same tmux pane). I think the problem originated with the Sierra. How do I avoid having to enter my passphrase repeatedly under tmux?
My goal is to terminate all ethernet traffic through en0 until I bring it back up with ifconfig en0 up. When I run ifconfig en0 down through terminal, and then confirm ifconfig and all interfaces are inactive.
I'm making a script sync a local folder with a remote one from a NAS, the folder has been mounted into OS X with the NAS administrator name and password. The script is: The script must be executed by a user called Auser so I call the script from the command line this way: And the reply I get in Terminal is: I'm sure it's a permissions issue, so I've tried to change the owner of the destination folder to Auser without success: And I get:
I'm using family sharing to get the Apple Music family discount, but the only problem is that it stops me buying apps with my own account, and instead requires the family sharing organiser to buy them. This is the same even with free apps, which seems a bit weird. Is there any way to keep family sharing, but use my own account for buying apps?
How does one speed up an individual portion (region) of a track on garageband without altering the tempo of other tracks or regions? Altering the song tempo changes everything's tempo.
I was writing a .sh script for opening a bunch of apps and i was looking for a way to force my apps to launch minimized. The open command man page usage prompt, (displayed when you run open without args) says: -j, --hide Launches the app hidden.
Fan has ran for 3 days after upgrading my MacBook Air (mid 2011).
Lets say, someone managed to log into my Apple ID and then bought an iPhone from the Apple Store. I did not notice the purchase because i got mailbombed (on the email account behind the Apple ID) that day and had to bulk delete my emails (common approach to hide activity, rather sophisticated though). What i know: I see the purchase in the shop history, i see where it got shipped to (unknown to me address) Date of purchase Item: iPhone 6S Serial number (is stated on the bill)
I did ample research before posting this. I am using macOS Sierra 10.12 on a brand-new iMac, and when I search my files (I am searching for all .psd files in a folder with many sub-folders) the Date Modified column in the search result doesn't match the files' info. For example, the first .psd that pops up from the search is dated yesterday 2AM in the 'Date Modified' column (in list view), but opening the file info reveals the correct date, which is today, as I have just created the file. I tried a number of solutions I found online: Rebooting Relaunching Finder Resetting the system preferences for date and time Deleting com.apple.finder.plist and the sidebar.plist and relaunching Finder At this point I don't know what to try anymore.
My TimeMachine won't successfully perform any backups after the initial one to a drive. I have tried connecting TM to two different drives, one is a QNAP NAS and the other is a USB 2TB drive.
Okay, I admit it, I didn't really think it through when I clicked on the button to upgrade to Sierra. Having done that, I've of course made MacPorts lose its mind. I mostly don't notice because once I install Python and PIP, I don't do much with MacPorts -- except to install things like LaTeX or wget.
I have an Apple account and I'm on a share plan with my family, as we share Apple Music. I want to make app purchases, but I want to buy apps on my own, with my own credit card.
After installing iOS 10, I found that the screen on my iPhone 6s turned on at seemingly random times, and it slightly annoyed me. I now know that this feature does what it is supposed to (turn the screen on when the phone enters certain positions), but I want to disable it. Is there a setting can I use to do so?
My Mac book won't let me install hamachi or use some programs. The problem I tried to install says hams.kext or hamns.kext was installed incorrectly and told me to reinstall it, I tried looking into the web but no one has the same problem. How do I reinstall hams.kext, Hamns.kext? I waited 5 days for a response on my other article I made, but no response. macOS Sierra 10.12 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
I'm trying to Boot Camp my Mac Pro (Late 2013, MacPro6,1). You cannot partition an external disk, a RAID disk or an internal disk on which FileVault encryption is in progress. Restart your computer using an internal disk that is not part of a RAID set or try it again after FileVault has completed. Well, this is an internal SSD (an OWC Aura), and there's only one intentional partition; so I don't know why it's telling me this.
I have a dual-boot MacBook Pro late 2013 with macOS Sierra and Windows 10 (BOOTCAMP) already installed. I want to install Ubuntu as a third OS. Is there any (easy) way to do it?
According to Apple, there are 12 different workouts: The screenshot only shows 4. What are all 12 workouts?
I set up that thing where you can say "Hey Siri" using macOS Sierra and Siri will turn on yesterday. In short, this uses Dictation and uses "Hey" as the keyword phrase and "Siri" as an action to do the shortcut I have for Siri (⌥Space, no hold). This works sometimes, but most of the time Dictation doesn't even recognize my "Hey". How can I increase the consistency of Dictation? I should note that if it works, usually it keeps working until I reboot.
As many users know, the Library folder located within a User's Home directory is hidden in recent versions of macOS. And, to make this visible, the user can hold down the Option key while accessing the Go menu from within the Finder.
About a week ago, I was prompted to reset my Yahoo e-mail password. So I went to System Preferences -> Internet Accounts and double clicked on Ymail (the Yahoo e-mail account). I saw this screen:
I've been having this problem lately where Safari starts hogging the CPU for no apparent reason. It's not a plugin or a specific webpage that's causing the issue, it's actually the Safari process itself:
I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 10. When I send a text message in Messages, I get a message from the application saying it has not been delivered. Yet the recipients tell me it has been. Why is this?
How can I install macOS Sierra without a recovery partition? I am installing into a virtual machine, and will make manual backups of the VM. I do no need or want the extra 5 gigs of the recovery partition and its copy of the Sierra installer app.
I tried to take a photo but got an error message saying storage was full. So, I deleted about 100 photos (from both Camera Roll and Recently Deleted), but I still get the same message. On top of that I also deleted about 40 mp3s and 3 or 4 apps and restarted the phone, but it's still the same. Whats the deal?
I forgot the pass code of my iPhone SE. I have switched it off now. Yesterday, I reset my pass code but now I can't remember it.
I did not update again just before this happened. I was having trouble loading some apps, so I powered off and powered on my phone, and then found that the most recent message from about four people was all that was left on my phone, plus one empty text conversation with no messages. At the same time, the most recent several months of photos disappeared, though not all of my photos. (The missing messages covered a much longer timespan than the missing photos.) In the past I've experienced older messages temporarily not appearing, but after several days they had not returned. Additionally, the organization of text conversations was nonsensical. If I received/sent a text from/to any person not in those five that had remained, the new conversation would be inserted into the list in a random place. Wherever a text conversation was in the list is where it would remain--rather than being sorted with the newest messages at the top, I would just have to scroll to wherever there were unread mes
I have about 300+ photos taken in 2012 and it shows so in the Photos app. However, exporting it as original to a folder completely replaces that date with 2016 July. Not sure why, but even trying to extract EXIF data does not show the original 2012 timestamp.. So running EXIFTOOL to modify the dates would not work here, as the EXIF data with original creation date is not there. Any idea how can I force extract photos with the relevant timestamp shown in the Photos app? For example, the following shows in Finder :
I'm on Sierra, using a regular mouse with a scroll wheel that "ticks" when scrolling. I want to be able to scroll a single "tick" and have that actually do something, right now I have to scroll a few "ticks" at once before it picks up that I scrolled at all. This is really annoying because scrolling becomes something that's way out of control, I either don't scroll as much as I intended or too much. How do I set it to pick up that I scroll even when it's only a single "tick"?
I've noticed that finder is taking 1GB of memory on my mac OS X and it has no open windows at all. Is this a known bug? Anything I can do in order to avoid this ?
Disk Utility on OS X (macOS) shows "MS-DOS (FAT) " as one of the format options  FAT (File Allocation Table) has many variants like FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 My questions are mentioned below: Which FAT variant is taken when I formate disk using "MS-DOS (FAT) format? What is maximum size (for partition/disk) of FAT variant selected in question 1?
I previously used the option to add a smart folder to the sidebar on its creation. I've only done this in macOS Sierra, having never tried it in a previous OS version. Not wanting the folder to be stored on the desktop, I moved it to the default suggested location of the 'saved searches' folder and it promptly disappeared from the sidebar. Dragging it back is not possible.
Others have said to remove VIPs and delete file VIPSenders.plist from V2/MailData, but there is no such file there, just Accounts.plist! However, there is a VIP mailbox in my Sidebar. I'd like to get rid of it.
Today I updated to macOS Sierra. Until now I disabled WLAN, because my Mac is connected via Ethernet (cable). However, Siri needs WLAN to determine where I am. Thus without WLAN, Siri cannot answer my questions e.g. about the weather. So I enabled it again.
I've downloaded lots of music from the Apple Music trial, what happens if after say 4 months I stop paying? Does all my music get deleted or do I get to keep it.
I am using Macbook Pro Mid 2012 13" with 128GB SSD. The latest installed version of OS X was El Capitan which crashed during a Sierra upgrade. Internet recovery mode worked somehow to land me to install download and install a new OS but it's Mountain Lion, which came installed when I bought the Macbook few years back However, it's rejecting to install on current SSD drive as shown in pic.
Currently we are running a system where a group of 12ish Apple Mac computers connect to a Mac Mini Server. We also have a few off-site teams who need to access said server as well. We would like to know if there's a modern system that allows the user to drop files into a folder which then shares with the server and also shares with the off-site teams. (obviously allowing time for upload/download time) This would need to be peer-to-peer we do not want to use Cloud Computing.
macOS Sierra system is using over 200 GB of storage space on my 250 GB hard drive. I've removed Time Machine backups to no avail. How do I free up space? My current usable space being less than 50 GB is getting quite problematic. Edit:
I installed easy_install on mac wityh the following command: After that I tried to install pip but couldn't. After checking here is what I have in /usr/bin
When will my Mac (15inch MacBook Pro Mid 2012 ) become a vintage product? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201624
Any clues what cache files I should look at next? If I can pinpoint the culprit, I can design a manual purge of this file and hopefully keep my uptime of these machines beyond a week.
As soon as I upgraded to macOS Sierra a few days ago, my Bluetooth playback has been so choppy/buggy that it is entirely unusable. Playback will be as normal for 2-10 seconds, then cut completely for a few seconds, then cut back in, and so on. I am connected to a Sony Bluetooth speaker, to which I can confirm that other OS X (El Capitan) and Android/iPhone devices can stream audio to without incident. I do not have any other Bluetooth speakers to test on, but I strongly feel it's the fault of the macOS Sierra machine, not the speaker.
I'm wondering if the easiest way to push reminders might not be to manipulate the sqlite database. Thoughts?
I recently upgraded from Yosemite to Sierra. I have ~ 2.5Gb of data on my iCloud Drive. I am NOT using the Documents and folders sync, photos sync, or any of the other special folder sync options available. The exception is that I am syncing preferences. As I have said I do have two folders that sit in the iCloud Drive that are not part of any of the special folders.
I've lost my Settings → Mail, Contacts, and Calendars on my iPhone 5. No icon for Mail and no Mail settings. How do I get it back?
After replacing the hard drive in my 2009 iMac 27", I noticed that the hard drive fan spins at maximum speed since the sensor cable is not plugged in. (The new SSD drive doesn't support it) To solve this issue, I installed a software called "Macs Fan Control" that can read out the temperature from the SMART status of the drive and control the fan speed itself.
I keep my Notes.app notes synced with my Gmail account. In Gmail, I can see all my current notes in the Notes label and associated sublabels. I can also see many older versions of current notes, and previously-deleted notes, not attached to any label.
I want to convert text to audio and back to text for error-checking. I know how to get 'say' to go to a file but not a pipe. Apparently a third-party 'espeak' can go to a pipe. But I don't find a man page or any shell commands for Dictation. Another question pointed me to a company offering an app that can do it by GUI, but I'd rather do it by script.
Yesterday I filmed an interview and copy/pasted the files from my SD card onto my iMac, then imported the files into Premiere Pro to view the footage. Everything looked good, so I ejected the card and formatted it for another shoot. The files and Premiere Pro project were fine. I imported my next project, no problem. However today when I opened the first project to begin my edit, I found that all of my files and the folder they were saved in had disappeared: /users/adam/documents/DSS/Amanda/Amanda Video/Rushes The "Rushes" folder and its content no longer exits, and was instead left with an empty "untitled folder". I've searched finder, trash, everywhere for the "Rushes" folder and "MVI_0538.MOV" onward (up to 0570).
Is there a way to not only mute a call, but stop it hijacking the entire screen? I don't want the person to know I'm not answering their calls, so don't want to decline it and have it get sent to voicemail early.
I have made a decision to install Mac OS from scratch so I have erased the disk part.(by cmd-r beginning of OS). Now, I'm using Windows(bootcamp). Is there any way to install Mac OS via USB stick and downloading, writing it into the USB on Windows?
When taking new photos, iOS automatically sets date/time, lon/lat and other metadata, so the photos are nicely organised into events, trips, periods, etc. However, when you have old photos without metadata (eg. scanned negatives), they have no metadata, so they will just appear randomly if you transfer then to iOS.
I found this question Login - Screen Flashes and Returns to Login Screen - Tried Everything Possible, which is exactly like the problem I'm having. But the answer confuses me....
Now that I've upgraded my iPhone SE to iOS 10 (version 10.0.2), the proactive app suggestions are gone. What I mean by proactive app suggestions: in iOS 9, when I'd plug in my headphones or connect a bluetooth speaker, a small gray app icon would appear in the lower left of the lock screen or, in the app switcher, a gray app suggestion tab would appear along the bottom of the screen. This would usually be exactly the app I'd want to start using on my iPhone.
I have filled out a form in a PDF file (kind of a contract with signatures and everything). Before sending it back by email I would like to make it readonly so that the form data can’t be changed anymore. Is there any inexpensive way to write-protect a PDF file in macOS? May some option in Preview, Adobe Reader or some Terminal command?
I'm using a Logitech Performance MX mouse and since upgrading to Sierra I'm having difficulty when using my scroll wheel to select large amounts of text. Usually, I scroll while holding left mouse and this has always worked. Now when I scroll, it deselects the text that I have selected. Could this be a driver issue?
Could it be called landing, or profile, or main ? I am not sure what these are called on an app.
I'm setting up an iPad, and I'm trying to get my mail account settings from my Mac onto the iPad. Of course, it's possible to do it manually, but this seems like a case where syncing the settings should be simple.
In order to get macOS Spotlight to find Numbers documents, I need to enable "Developer" in Spotlight's settings. Why do I need to do this? I don't want to enable developer searches from Spotlight, so I'm stuck being unable to use Spotlight to find Numbers documents. (I'm not the only person with this problem.)
When I enter [xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:qqqq:d46b:9603:dbcf:48df]:82 (redacted, as this is my home server's IP address) into the URL field on Safari I get the response: Safari cannot open the page because your iPhone is not connected to the Internet.
For some reason app store simply does not work:  Solutions like: reset NVRAM; remove com.apple.appstore.plist, com.apple.storeagent.plist and then restart, did not solve the problem. Does anyone know other possible solutions? Thanks.
In iOS 9 my clock alarms repeated for an hour but in iOS 10 only play twice. My iPhone 6plus is so big and heavy it pulls my pants down if I wear it in a belt holster, so I often set it on the table.
macOS Sierra is constantly displaying an "Enable Siri?" dialog. If I pick cancel it just pops up again 5 seconds later.
What I've Tried: Searching (here, Google) pretty fruitlessly. (Would love it if Apple reconsiders naming apps after generalized terms) This only started happening last night - to the best of my knowledge no related or tangential settings have been changed on any of our devices that would've prompted this. If I do a new message, searching on my wife's name in (Sierra) Messages and select either to use her cell number or email address, everything looks good (her avatar shows as well as her contact info) - but once I send the message, the avatar in the left rail reverts back to me … and I get my own message (and she does not). If I scroll back within my own messaging history to myself, I don't see any of our past exchanges before this started happening. If when doing a new message by searching on my wife's name in (Sierra) Messages and her avatar comes up (as above), the messaging history is actually mine messaging with myself. Quitting and restarting has no effect, as does rebooting. It 
here we have another beautiful case of "Don't expect your Mac to be reliable by itself" What happened is as follows: I decided to encrypt all my data. Since I have a second hard drive in my MacBook I have my home drive on it, and hence not on the same drive as the OS. Encrypting the drive with the OS was easily solved via FileVault. Once that was done I checked online to see if I can encrypt the home drive as well, and found the solution to just right click and press "Encrypt."
Anybody else have this issue after upgrading to Sierra? Clicking the volume button and it shifts all the icons in the Mac menu... Never used to do that on El Capitan. The result is the mouse cursor doesn't line up with the control below it. I know they switched it to a horizontal control but I don't think it's supposed to shift all the icons right??
It was working fine until yesterday. A restart did not seem to help.
I am using an iPhone 5s which is associated to an iCloud account with Find My Phone turned on that for various reasons I won't be able to get the password for. This hasn't really been a problem so far as the iTunes and App Store account has been changed to my account so except for iCloud everything seems to work just fine.
How do I tell what version of DisplayPort is support on a Mac’s Thunderbolt port, when running macOS El Capitan or Sierra? I tried using the System Information app. No item listed for “DisplayPort”. The “Graphics/Displays” item lists video cards. The “Thunderbolt” item has no information about DisplayPort.
Safari won't open some pages temporary, however they are online (checked with multiply sites). Reboot helped once. And chrome does open them. What could be the cause?
My Mac used to have 2 Admin accounts: Admin1 which is the original one and has full access and Admin2 which is managed.
I'm trying to automatically tether my MacBook to my iPhone (the laptop is too old to make use of Apple's proprietary features in this regard), but I can't seem to figure out how to make this happen via the terminal. The obvious way to connect to wireless networks is When I call this with my credentials, however, I get
I’m currently thinking about buying paid iCloud storage, because I’ve got several directories on my Mac which I’d like to have backed up that way. My first look at iCloud was disillusioning, however.
Since updating to macOS Sierra, many apps fail to respond correctly to Command+Tab switching. For example, if the three most recent apps are any two other apps A and B and C, in the order A B C, Command+Tab from A briefly shows B, and then immediately switches to C.
Mail ran fine last night. This morning it won't launch and all I can do is Force Quit from the Dock. Tried a restart, no luck Tried a safe boot followed by another reboot, still no luck. Ran DiskWarrior; no luck. Googled the problem and found these instructions, followed them, but again, still no luck: In ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Saved Application State, remove the folder com.apple.mail.savedState to the trash, empty the trash and restart your computer. Did so, and mail still won't launch. I went to Console/All Messages and entered in the search box. This was at the top of the list, and had the date/time stamp for early today when I first attempted to Launch Mail:
I have received a video (I think it might be a gif) in iMessage on my iPhone 7 and I can watch it there, but it is so small. I would like to make the video full screen. Is there a way to do this? Single touching it, hard touching it, long touching it...none of these seem to work.
I have a MacBook Pro 2010 and it has been waking up every two hours while the lid is closed. Even after a hard drive replacement and upgrading from OS X Mountain Lion to OS X El Captain. Does anyone know why and how to disable this?
So after 5 years I've decided to switch to Android and I have almost 100GB of music stored on Apple's servers after uploading them there via the paid iCloud Music service. I want to download the high quality versions of my music on iCloud onto an external drive so I can then subsequently worry about getting them all onto the equivalent Android music service. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this that will not involve downloading every track individually (and possibly losing my mind in the process)?
I would like to change the default memories photo in the Photos app on my iPhone and Mac. When Photos creates memories, it will sometimes choose a photo as the banner photo that I don't want. Even after I edit the Memories movie and remove the photo, it still shows that photo.
From time to time I need to check a webpage, download a PDF file from there, find something inside, extract that page and convert it to an image. I can do it easily on macOS, but on iOS it gets more complicated. It would be great if I could on the way, using my iPhone.
In this instructions Apple references "Instruments". However, I don't see them in my Xcode install (version 5.1.1 for OSX 10.8).
I have a PDF document with a lot of notes. There is a yellow square in every note, and if I remove the note using the inspector, the yellow squares doesn't go away:
We have an older iMac (Model A1311, Mid 2011). It has been running Yosemite. We have run into some of the WIFI issues associated with Yosemite. Is it possible to upgrade to El Capitan but not Sierra?
I've used Activity Monitor to close every process with the Creative Cloud icon. I've deleted the Creative Cloud Files directory itself, and deleted it from the trash. I've gone to the "Extensions" preference pane and turned off "Core Sync." I've quit Finder and restarted it. And yet the "Creative Cloud Files" icon still shows up in my Finder sidebar, even though the original can't be found. How can I eliminate this zombie icon once and for all?
Please can someone help me work this out or let me know how I can fix it. Thank you in advance :)
It already passed 1000 cycle counts, and it doesn't say to replace yet. When I check the condition it states "Normal."
Does the MacBook Pro retina display (late 2013) have support for displays with 3840 x 1600 (WQHD+) (LG example shown below). If so, at what refresh rate and through what port?
Model: Macbook Air (11", Late 2010, 1.6 GHz) OS: El Capitan 10.11.6
I'm having a MBP (mid 2012, 13 inches), and I changed my HDD for a Samsung V-Nand SSD 850 EVO. I had created a back-up with my External G-drive. Now, the screen freeze since a good while.
How do I install sudo insults† on Mac terminal? Apparently Apple has cleaned it up from Darwin, so adding Defaults insults through sudo visudo does not help. † The insulting things sudo command says when you enter wrong password.
When browsing Facebook via the iOS app one often browses websites through the app. Some websites need login and since the FB app doesn't support password handlers it's a difficult login process. So any suggestion about how to handle this the easiest way? I'd wish one could automatically open all sites in Safari at least if FB doesn't want to support password handlers.
After update Safari 10 Safari doesn't open anymore. Is there any option to install Safari 10 or 9 from in 10.11.6 ?
I have my SSD partitioned into two 128 GB disks. I was managing my disk space and decided to shrink one of my partitions (the one with Mavericks) because it had more free disk space, in order to transfer this space into my main drive (the one with El Capitan).
My mac is kind of a mess right now so I wanted to fresh install MacOS Sierra. I bought myself a brand new 8gb pendrive since is pre req. But I cant seem to get it properly erased, I always get this message:
I have an iPad (32GB) and have been locked out because I couldn't remember the passcode. What can I do? I have never associated it with an iTunes account but want to get the pictures off it (which do not appear in iCloud) Is there anything I can do?
A few weeks ago I spilled juice on the keyboard of my MacBook Air 2013. Fortunately, I knew what to do and no problems since. However, lately, the keys on the right side of the keyboard are stiff which I presume is related to the juice spilling accident. The spacebar key seems to be especially stiff. I would like to know what to do here on out and if it is caused by the juice spilling accident what should I do?
2.) I have no screen sharing computer control apps
I'm watching a movie in VLC and, while the movie is playing, I can move it to the trash and empty it. At no point MacOs tries to warning me about anything. The movie continues to play, even after I emptied the trash. But if I pause it, the sound goes missing. Same goes for any other file...
After upgrading my Mac's OS to OS X El Capitan, an arrow sign appearing in top bar, Nothing happens whenever I click on this icon.
My new iPhone 7 (which I set up as a new phone and not from a backup) is reporting strange battery usage due to Photos. It's saying that 15% of the battery has been used in the last 24 hours due to photos being onscreen for 5 minutes, using Audio! What's happening?
Trying to do a manual backup of a 64Gb iPhone to an Mac Book Pro running Mountain Lion, iTunes stated that there wasn't enough disk space. I deleted enough files so that Finder reports almost 95Gb free.
I'm deleting email account from Mail App but it doesn't automatically deleting the email caches. There are still about 2 GB left in the ~Library/Mail/v4 Is it safe to delete all folders under the ~Library/Mail ?
Ever since the Sierra update, when I boot up my Mac the background is a lot less blurred and more saturated then the normal lockscreen. I'd like to be able to customise the the amount of blur (not remove it entirely) and saturation on the lockscreen and I am wondering how I would be able to achieve this. Boot Background (What I want the lock screen to look like as well): Lock Screen (A lot more blurred and less saturated): Thanks :)
My OS X went corrupt badly on my SSD(A)(internal), I had to wipe it completely. I downloaded and installed OS Sierra onto a USB flash drive(B) using another OS X Lion HDD(C)(externally). When I try to install a new OS onto my SSD using USB flash drive and try to reboot holding the option key, it does not work if the SSD is mounted internally.
It is also important that roaming (i.e. moving around in the room and reconnecting to other base stations without disconnects) is possible. This works fine with my 4 AirPort setup so far.
I've got 2 chargers (both EU) here: One from an iPhone 7 and one from the 6. Both are almost identical in terms of look and labels, besides the manufacturer: one is flextronics the other one is salcomp.
I have a strange problem and I'm not sure if it's the router or the Macbook pro retina that has the issue. This issue is evident on two rMBPs, both running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. When I connect to the wifi network for the first time and enter the password, the connection is successful and works fine.
I am experiencing some really annoying issues when using a secondary display on my 13-inch Retina Macbook Pro with OSX 10.12 (Sierra). I use two different external displays (one at a time): my iPad Mini with the Duet app and an LG M2550D with an hdmi cable. In both cases, Mission Control is not opening when I have the secondary screen plugged in. I tried disabling and enabling Mission Control, rebooting the computer, reinstalling Duet, changing the hdmi cable for the monitor and nothing has worked. I also tried using the trackpad gesture, the mouse button I have assigned for this and the keyboard F3.
I can't connect to my HP OfficeJet 6500A from my MackBook Pro anymore, but it used to work. "Printer is not responding". Accessing the printer web page also fails. The printer works if accessed from Win10 and Ubuntu 16.04LTS, both using wired connection though and having a static IP.
I've unboxed a MacBook Pro and am stuck at the very beginning. These are the two screens that loop - I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing now.
I'm using a US keyboard layout on two Swiss (CH-de) hardware keyboards. On the builtin MacBook Air keyboard it works, while on an old external Apple keyboard (M7803) I've the problem that the key which usually produces a backtick (`, i.e. the one left to the z on a US keyboard) doesn't work, producing a § instead.
I have a mbp late 2012 retina in wich I have installed mavericks and debian in dual boot with efi support. Well this morning I've done a repair in recovery mode on my mac and then I was no more able to boot. I have a blank folder with question mark inside displayed when I try to boot. I've tryied in recovery mode to reinstall the os since i've a recent backup on a hard drive, but it fails right after it downloaded the packages saying an error occurred. Same thing when I try to recover my backup, it fails. I suppose the repair somehow trashed the boot partition. I have to say I have filevault enabled, I dont know if it changes anything. How can I fix it? Considering that I've tryied all of the solutions on this answer [Blinking question mark on folder on boot which btw is about lion and it's not my case
I use to do hard reset of my Ipad putting it into DFU mode and doing it from my laptop. If he used to be recognized, it is no more the case. Neither in DFU or normal mode. I think it is a driver issue but I don't know how to cope with it. Can you help me getting my Ipad recognized by mylaptop?
I i initially installed node via the package download at *=URL=* This has served me well as I have built numerous projects. However recently I have been reading a tutorial that instructs me to install node via "brew install node"
I have a MacBook Pro 13", late 2012 model. This MacBook has 2x2gb 1600MHz DDR3 RAM. I am planning to upgrade it to 8GB of RAM. I am wondering, should I buy DDR3 or DDR3L type of RAM?
2010 MacBook Pro on Mavericks, Notes are not syncing with Notes on iPhone 5s on ios10. Is there a compatibility problem? I have tried all the usual remedies without success.
This is a self answer question of which I will answer and accept this evening unless someone else comes up with somthing better!! (let the competition begin!)I figured this should be written somwhere so anyone else suffering from this will have help.
I have a 2006 iMac and a backup and would like to restore the to the original install. However, it can't be upgraded, its too old, so finding software is impossible. Tried the Mac OS X Tiger system disk, which is the oldest I have, but its too new!
In other words, mostly directories or files that have been added/modified exist in this new tree. There are a few files that only by accident ended up having the same name (but in essence are different, and not from the same original) and a few untouched files here and there (mostly files in projects that were revisited, updated, but not in every single aspect).
I accidentally deleted the contacts widget (now that you can do that with IOS 10). The contacts option within the phone widget is also gone now. I reinstalled the Contacts widget, but it is still missing on the phone widget. How to I get that back?
This question might have been answered somewhere but have not been able to find it. So, I have a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro where I am still running OS X Yosemite since I forgot to update to OS X El Capitan when it was on the App Store before they changed it to macOS Sierra. If I try to install macOS Sierra through the App Store it doesn't let me because it says that: "This version of macOS 10.12 cannot be installed on this computer."
Ok, this is the weirdest thing ever. So I have a 4s and i can't update it past 7.1.2. I tried everything but it won't work. It is said that the iphone 4s can update to ios 8 (via apple support) but it won't work. On this site it says that it can't but that's not possible cause my friend has a 4s too and she's already at like 9.3. There might be a bug in the software that causes that for me but the issue is growing so i am just puzzled and I am sad cause i want free starbucks but i can't get it. ( starbucks rewards needs 8 or higher.)
I have written a script that works on its own or when I run it from Automator. But when I add it as a service to QuickBooks I get and error message: "The action Run AppleScript encountered an error." This is the script : Any suggestions appreciated.
I'm looking to upgrade my Yosemite system with El Capitan but I can only find 10.11.1 versions. Need the original. Any help? Any thoughts?
I'm having trouble updating Git under MacPorts. The problem has existed for a few days now. I uninstalled Git and now I am trying to reinstall it. There installation error is shown below. Other ports update fine.
This is driving me crazy. In 'Notes', with a note text open/active, I uncheck 'Edit->Spelling and Grammar->Check spelling while typing'. Now the red underlines disappear from words believed to be spelled incorrectly, as expected. I close 'Notes', open it again. The same note text is active, but the red underlines are back. Checking the menu item above, I see that it is now checked again.
Has anyone else encountered this (below) odd scrolling behaviour in Preview or found a better fix or workaround? I am using preview (version 9.0 909, 2016) from Sierra (mac OS 10.12) to view pdfs produced by pdflatex. For preview to stay on current page when the file is rewritten, I have kept my previous settings:
does not work, but Works correctly What am I doing wrong?
So my screen is shattered, lights out....I've been connecting to my Samsung tv via minidisplay/hdmi adaptor, and have had no problems until Sierra. Almost immediately after the install, I noticed more display options in the menu bar, one of which reads "connected projector:SAMSUNG", although it's shaded out and I can't select it. My actual display connection is check marked below it, so I know it's not just telling me what I'm sitting in front of. What gives? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
I have a Late 2015 iMac which has a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 8 GB of memory. I also have a Mid 2012 MacBook Air which has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB of memory. The iMac uses a Apple HDD in contrast to the MacBook Air's Apple SSD.
That's it. A quick summary of what I am doing:
I'm on macOS Sierra and earlier today I ran disk utility and it told me that there was something wrong with the disk (it said something about exit code 8) and I should boot into Recovery mode and run disk utility there. So I rebooted into Recovery mode and started running disk utility.
I have no anti-virus software installed but I recently upgraded to a new modem. Am using a Macbook Pro on OS X10.10.5. I’d appreciate any suggestions as I’m out of ideas. Thanks.
I'm using Safari 10.0 on macOS Sierra. I want to replace all the four default fonts in Safari - standard, fixed, serif and sans-serif. I've tried looking for a .plist file that contains the information of the default fonts but haven't found it yet. Please help.
So I try to use the graphical install and it freeze everything I try. I tried to go to my usb drive and modify the syslinux.cfg file to change "vesamenu.c32" to "menu.c32" but when I do that I can't get the kali-linux menu anymore.
Currently I have a small TV which I use as a monitor. However this monitor/TV is a bit troublesome. I have to choose a specific resolution for it to display on screen as well as it being on the 60hz refresh rate. Once I choose the correct resolution and refresh rate it all works fine till I close the lid. A second after closing the macbook screen the monitor/TV returns "NO SIGNAL". When I open the lid back up it works normally again.
The problem started a couple of weeks ago. I noticed that when I had Google Drive actively syncing the Finder would frequently "refresh"; if I paused the syncing, this stopped. Moreover, if I left it syncing/refreshing for too long, the Wi-Fi would stop working, or the computer wouldn't wake from sleep. I was running Lion for I thought these issues might go away if I just upgraded to Sierra.
I've got to have different Hardware UUID for software testing purposes. When cloning a VM in Fusion pro 8.5, the clone gets a new MAC adress but the hardware UUID in system report in macOS doesn't change. Any idea how I can achieve this ? Many thanks
I have defined some paragraph styles in my first document. But they are not defined when I start a new document with pages. What should I do to use it in every new pages document as well?
I mistakenly gave my phone number and email address in a pop up window, and I am now worried that it may have installed either spywhere or some form of keylogger onto my iPad. Is this possible?
My online bank is trying to convince me that it's because I have an Apple computer to log on to their service that's the reason for a table of transactions not displaying correctly: The website was formatted to be run using a 720p HD Ready monitor and this would be why your Macintosh devices aren't showing the full detail as they use a 16:10 Retina aspect ratio.
Ive got a strong password on my user account on my macbook pro running OSX, which will prevent someone from booting up my laptop and logging in and viewing my files, but will this stop someone from being able to remove the HD from my laptop put it in a external hard drive enclosure and view all of my files using finder on another machine ? Or are all the files stored in my user account encrypted using my user account login password ? If not how can i prevent someone from accessing these files if they get there hands on my laptop and remove the HD ? Im running OSX 10.10
Thanks for reading this. Here's the details: I have done a complete wipe of the HD and clean install of Sierra. I only restored my data files from a non-Time Machine backup. I have only installed apps from fresh downloads or original CD/DVDs. The machine is a 2011 iMac 27" with 16 Gb and 1 TB HD. Parallels is installed and it's running fine for the one app I need to use. The TM backup fails at around 280GB every time. I took the original TM drive (WD 1TB), reformatted it, connected it to my MBA and Time Machine ran perfectly.
I spilled some (very little) Whiskey over some of the keys of a Macbook Pro 15" Retina mid-2014 - let's not talk about that - and after turning it immediately off and letting it dry for over 4 days the keyboard has gone crazy: certain keys don't work at all (h, a, and others), other keys output double characters and other work normally. Now the weird thing is - the exact same keys don't work even on an externally attached usb keyboard. How can that be? Anyone ever experienced this?
Those two apps are always asking for the accessibility permission, one is location and the other is contacts. As the picture shows that I have already enabled those settings for them. It keep asking me every time I quit the app or on system startup when it run because of login items. Is there anyway to make it not ask again? or make the settings permanent. OS : MacOS Sierra (10.12)
I have an older MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) that cannot start and need to reinstall OS X from USB key or disc. With another MacBook I tried to download OS X El Capitan but is not available, only macOS Sierra, but my laptop is too old for macOS Sierra. How can download OS X El Capitan or older version of OS X?
I have configured my iPad to not do automatic autocorrect, seeing as I use the keyboard for my iPad Pro and prefer to type what I sant instead of my iPad continously secondguessing me. However, in Safari, while typing, such as this question here, it still tries to autocorrect my typing. Is there a separate setting somewhere? I want to disable this also in Safari. I have configured my iPad to have a Norwegian keyboard, so it continously tries to find the appropriat norwegian word which is kinda annoying.
I use Little Snitch (*=URL=* to monitor background network traffic. When an application tries to connect to the internet for the first time, Little Snitch pops up a dialog box that asks me whether I want to allow the connection. Most of the time it's pretty obvious what the process is, and I either Allow or Deny network access. But I'm stumped by this process:
I want to restrict access on an iPad so it is only able to run specific apps (in this case, a folder of children's apps) and prohibit access to things like Settings, Gmail, full YouTube, etc. It's unclear to me if the built-in Restrictions feature can apply to any app that is installed or if it is only limited to a set of native apps and functionality.
I want to create a Smart Search Folder that will contain .xcproj or .xcworkspace files. I have no problem spefying a single of them, but how do I search for both in the same search?
I know that in the past if I've previously downloaded OS X El Capitan from the App Store I could download it again from the Purchased tab in the App Store, however now that macOS Sierra is out I'm not able to download it as it says INSTALLED (and grayed out) even on a system running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5. Pressing any key combination, e.g control, option, etc. doesn't change the button to DOWNLOAD. All other previous versions of OS X can still be downloaded from my Purchased tab in App Store as they still say DOWNLOAD and are not grayed out, thus active. The image below is from a system running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5, does not have OS X El Capitan installed on it or even the Install OS X El Capitan.app on its filesystem, yet it says it's installed and grayed out.
Is it possible for such a setup as the following: Hooking one MacBook Pro up with two separate monitors, two separate mice, and two separate keyboards, allowing two different persons to work independently on their monitors, sharing the computer's performance? Perhaps this is a strange request, but it would actually be useful for me in certain situations. With enough adapters, simply connecting the computer to the necessary monitors, mice, and keyboards should be possible; however, the interesting part is how to allow to share the computer's performance and sending independent data to the two monitors.
I'm doing a disk backup in OSX Recovery Mode and it sleeps. In sleep mode, the backup stops dead. Hot corners do nothing. Sleep seems to kick in after 30 seconds - unsupportable for backing up 850 GB over USB 2.0 (sigh). I found articles about OSX's "caffeinate" command, but it's too late - I'm 1/3 through the backup. Can't I keep my Mac running while it's doing this actual intended important work in Recovery Mode?
At work, we have a certain esoteric calculation that needs to be made from time to time. There is a simple two-line bash script available that does it, but this requires a computer and I often need to do this calculation on the workshop floor or in the field where a laptop might not be immediately to hand. It would be very convenient to have something like an iPhone app instead. It must be usable without an Internet connection as I sometimes work in places with no wifi or phone signal. Of course I could learn Objective C, set up XCode, get whatever Apple dev account I need for this, and so on - but this seems like a disproportionate amount of work to replace two lines of bash script on one phone for my own use.
Since I bought my Mac, I always use Force touch in Preview in order to get definitions about words, translations and so on, but now, I've noticed that this is not working. Force touch itself is working fine (the trackpad reacts to my finger pressure), but the 'Look up' section that I normally used, is not appearing (it is only shown if I select one word, and with secondary click, select Look up). This is working fine in Safari, for instance, but not in Preview. It isn't fault of the pdf, I mean, it is not a scanned pdf where you cannot select nothing, but a generated pdf with selectable text. I tried to figure out what is going on, and I tried to navigate thought Preferences and all menus, but I am not able to find where it could be enabled/disabled. Anyone knows what could I do? Thanks
Using iTerm2, I start an interactive SSH session to a remote Linux machine (where pbcopy is not available). On the remote Linux machine I would like to capture the output of some arbitrary command (e.g. ls *.foo), and have it magically appear in my OSX clipboard, so that when I hit ⌘+v it appears in whatever OSX application I've just pasted into. Is this possible? I've tried the escape codes mentioned on the iTerm2 doc page and can't make them work.
Using an iPhone 6, I received a call which went to voicemail, and the caller apparently left a message. I say "apparently" because when I go in to the voicemail app, the message won't play. If I click the "play" button/icon, the icon changes to the "pause" icon, but otherwise nothing happens and no sound plays. The progress bar shows a 32-second message, but it doesn't advance. I exported the message to Voice Memos but that app exhibits the same behavior when attempting to play the file - the progress bar doesn't move, and no sound is played.
I recently added an external SSD to my 2012 Mac mini, connected with a USB 3.0 cable. I also have a 500 GB HDD and everything works fine. I am just wondering if it's recommend to move the home folder to the HDD to reduce the writing to the SSD.
I have a modified mbp 2012 with a Samsung 256GB 850 EVO and 16gb ram. I recently upgraded my mouse to a Magic Mouse 2, but so far it isn't the best upgrade ever!
I got into Recovery Mode (cmd + R while restarting) and tried using the repair disk option. After clicking repair it keeps telling me the disk needs to be repaired. I click repair again but the same message prompting to repair again pops up. By the way, it's showing my disk as a Virtual Whole disk (500.2GB partition + 499.8GB partition). NB. I managed to erase one of the partitions (I think the 499GB one) within the Virtual Whole Disk. However, the other one cannot be erased (the option is greyed-out)
I get bzip2 compression library… no error when trying to install some software on a mac running osx 10.12. Some googling revealed that the headers for bzip2 should be there for the installer to recognize bzip2 and this could be achieved by installing the dev package. However, couldn't find one for osx. For example for Fedora this is bzip2-devel.
I'm on a fresh install of iOS 9.3.5 (yesterday), on an iPhone 5. How can this be possible? Storage full it says!
Can someone let me know the version of ruby on macOS sierra? I have a public beta of macOS Sierra (10.12.1 build-16B2327e) and the version is 2.0.0. I wanted to know if the stable version of macOS has a higher ruby version than 2.0.0.
I'm having quite a few difficulties with my old, late 2010 iMac, and upgrading from Lion to Siearra did not help. I have used my Laptop to create a USB Boot for El Capitan, and I would like to use it to downgrade my Desktop to El Capitan.
On macOS Sierra, if I go to System Preferences > Bluetooth, and uncheck "Show Bluetooth in menu bar", the symbol remains stubbornly visible. How can I make it invisible?
Normally, when I have apps on two separate monitors, I can switch focus to an open app (on either screen) using Command+tab. I can then switch spaces on that specific screen using Control-arrow keys. However, I am unable to do that: Despite the fact that the screen will focus on a specific monitor, I can only switch spaces on the screen where my mouse resides.
I got bored and started to look through my mac console, but I see these couple lines that say: Should I be worried about anything or is this a normal message? Thanks, Extra stuff: I was downloading icons off the web earlier, does this have to do with anything?
Is it possible to run two external monitor setup on mid-2015 13-inch entry level MacBook Pro (the one for $1299), so that laptops screen is also available? Basically making it three monitor setup - two external and one built-in.
I get the following message after installing Oh My ZSH and changing ZSH_THEME="robbyrussel" to ZSH_THEME="random" in .zshrc. Users/me/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh:source:110: no such file or directory: /Users/me/.oh-my-zsh/themes/“random”.zsh-theme
I've had my Time Machine backup volume (sparsebundle) for a couple of years now and it's become quite large. Since it is very easy to delete old backups of certain directories in the GUI I was wondering if it is safe to just delete all backups of for example /System/ and a lot of subfolders of /Library/ because those files get replaced on every OSX upgrade and I won't ever go back to an old operating system anyway. Is that safe to do? There is nothing on the internet about that. Or is /System/ usually excluded anyway? That would kind of make sense, right?
I have an iPhone 6 and an iPad 4 mini linked to the same iCloud account, and have set synch settings in the usual way to backup photos and apps to the iCloud. I have storage plan of 50 GB, and currently using 37 GB from that. The app I use most the time on iPhone is Whatsapp.
I'm using an Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display and it has a native screen resolution of 2560 by1600 pixels, the default setting says "looks like 1280x800", and it seems like every program thinks this is my resolution I've set it to the "More space" option, which says "looks like 1650x1050", for now. This is still a problem for me, everything looks far too big for what I need. Is there any way to make the 2560x1600 display to look like "real 2560x1600"? Or is this just a thing OS X does? PS: I've tried this in OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra.
Edit: Please don't waste bandwidth trying to convince me of a client/user level work-around. I'm a senior netadmin, and am able to wear my big-boy pants. I've successfully NOT f'd up my dozen-ish servers over the past 2 decades operating as root.
My ipad is superrrrrr slow on 9.3.2 Can I downgrade it anyway?
This means that I cannot rely on ls(1)'s output (by default sorted lexicographically) to determine the last mounted image. I don't seem to have more success with ls -U or diskutil's output either.
my MacBook Pro crashed I pulled out my 128G SSD and was able to connect and read it with my HD reader, I would like to locate the iPhone backup created previously I would like to locate it since I'm a PC user I'm not familiar with Mac OS I have both Mac & PC available to use Thanks in advance Joe Hi, and thanks for the repay I was able to follow the steps provided but now it's telling me the folder "Library" can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents. Thanks in advance –
I have used Google Fit on my Android phone for a while, and recently switched to the iPhone. How do I import my step counts and other fitness data into Apple Health on the iPhone from Google Fit? Are there cross-platform cloud services that store this data in the cloud and have both iOS and Android clients so that I don't have this problem again the next time I switch phones? I posted the same question on android.stackexchange.com to get answers from Android users.
I've got a rule set in my Apple Mail app to move email older than 90 days out of my inbox to a separate local mailbox (to free up some space on my server – I use imap). My inbox rule is That works well, but I want to do the same for sent items. I can't see any rule options that affect the Sent items folder (or any other specific mailbox for that matter) Any idea? I'm on El Capitan 10.11.6
It is reproducible—if a song skips to the end, I can play that song over and over again, and it will skip to the end every time. But there is no evident pattern to which songs skip to the end and which don't.
From this point on, nothing has worked on the computer. Recovery mode wont start. Internet recovery mode wont start. Both simply show the aforementioned file and question mark. If I try to select a boot drive, it doesn't show the file, but it only displays the mouse on the whitish/grayish startup background. The mouse moves, but I cant't actually do anything; there is nothing to click on.
What are these certificates? Why do I have so many of them? I tried to delete them and got this scary warning:
So I recently found a photo of what appears to be a screenshot of a blend of iOS and macOS in my camera roll. It says it was taken on the 1st of September, but I am 100% sure it wasn't there then. I didn't take it, I'm sure of that as well. It seems to have Vietnamese text (I'm not in Vietnam) and I just don't know what to make of it. I have been messing around with some emulator profiles, if that's any help. What I'd like to know is, how did this get in my photos, and what is the screenshot of?
Finder's Go menu shows a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for many standard folders:  So within Finder, but also within the Open or Save File dialogs of other applications, I can use ⇧+⌘+O to go to my Documents folder, or ⇧+⌥+L for my Downloads folder, et cetera. I happily use this hundreds of times a day.
Cannot sign into any Google iOS app (Google, Google Maps, Google Earth) on my new iPhone 7 Plus. It says: "Sorry there seems to be a problem please try again" Have tried: -Resetting iPhone -Signing into the accounts on my iPhone 6 (Works fine) -Signing in to a different account on iphone 7 (Doesnt work) -Uninstalling and reinstalling the apps -Enabling 2 factor authentication But still no fix Logging into the account on the computer works fine as well. Any ideas?
The default language on my iMac is Italian, however, after restoring from a time machine backup, the language of the shutdown and reboot options from the menu bar have mixed language. The "countdown" is in Italian but the other text is not, as you can see. Also, the text of the password prompt of the lock screen is in English too, "Enter password". I tried switching the language to English and back to Italian but it didn't work. I'm running OS X 10.11.6.
I'm having trouble with this. It seems the standard way is to have the OS X install file in your Applications folder and then run the following in Terminal But when I do that, all I get is the error command not found I can't see how it could be the file path because this is the line of text given in various online tutorials for people to copy and paste? On a different note, I then tried to create a bootable USB the more 'old school' way purely through Disk Utility, but then found that my USB drive doesn't show up when I hold down the Option key when booting up my Mac... all I see is 'Macintosh HD' or 'Recovery HD' (or whatever they're called). Might that be related to my problem?
I have some MP3s on my Mac. I want to import them into my iPhone. The problem is that, using iTunes, the iPhone automatically create several folders or albums, depending on the artist, the album, the genre (and so on) of one particular MP3 file.
2 – This was marked as a duplicate of the above but I feel like it better suits the question. However, there aren't any answers for it 3 – This probably is my question best stated but there are no answers
I've been looking for hours now on how to edit a profile on Apple Configurator but to no luck. There are some similar responses, but none of them were of too much help. I am trying to edit a profile that exists on a iPad Air, but not the mac. Can anyone help me?
It is really frustration to read a rfc/book in preview app. Is there any way to go to the previous location, similar to any IDE e.g Intellij (cmd + shift + backspace) will take me to the last edit location. (alt + cmd + left arrow) will take me to the previous location of the cursor.
I'm trying to do a clean install OS X Mavericks. Previously I had Lion and thought it was time to get something a little more recent. I don't think my 2010 MacBook Pro could handle Sierra so I had a friend send over the Mavericks install file I made a bootable USB and then erased my hard drive through Disk Utility, I then created 2 partitions.
Since upgrading to iOS 10, in certain e-mail accounts (notably an msn.com account) I cannot delete certain messages in Apple Mail. If I swipe left or open the message, and click the Trash icon, I get an error message Unable to Move Message The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash.
I have been trying to achieve smb drive automounting on OS Sierra but I am unable to do it properly. I hacked /etc/fstab which seems to work on this OS to the point that I am unable to force it to change ownership or chmod so other users than root can access it. I seems that automount is ignoring all my attempts to set uid or gid for the mount and its always mounted as root:wheel. I went through several threads that deal with that and found no solution anywhere so I tried using Automator with Applescript, where I used a command to Finder app that mounted drive for me, but it always asks for credentials so it's no use for me either. Can anyone please provide working solution that mounts smb drive on OS X that's accessible for other users than root and works in headless mode (so it does not require any user to log in?)
I want to use dnsmasq when my Mac (Sierra) is not connected to a wifi network. Configuring DNS servers in the Advanced Network Preferences dialogue box works fine for dig and nslookup, and I can see via tcpdump that these tools hit the local dnsmasq server.
I had a locking up problem on my 6 Plus and after talking to a Apple Tech higher up the food chain he said it was a software bug somewhere and that I would need to reset and start over as a new phone. Instead I bought a 7 and started over with my 6 as a backup. The 7 worked fine until I turned off the Icloud Contacts at which time the problem is now on teh 7 too. I even reset it as a new phone and teh problem continues. What can I do?
When I open my laptop, I can click on Chrome exe and launch the browser. I know I can ask Siri to open Chrome, but I have to click to the Siri icon (or the keyboard shortcut) and then ask her to, which - well - is more work than just clicking Chrome. It will open Chrome and terminate.
I have a MB Pro that is locking up afer about 30 minutes. When I open console I find this message but cant figure out what is causing the problem. fault 12:14:37.463057 -0700 kernel IOReturn IOAccelSurface2::surface_unlock_options(enum eLockType, uint32_t): surface is not locked.
My /tmp directory became unwritable yesterday, I believe that the permissions are all set correctly: However, I get an error when I attempt to write into this directory, even with sudo:
I have an Apple Developer license, and an old MacBook that I want to use only as a build server for developing Phonegap applications. The Mac is too old to get anything newer than 10.9, but in order to use correct IOS SDK, it needs 10.9 or newer.
man mDNSResponder suggests that sudo killall -USR1 mDNSResponder will enable warning and notice logging, and that sudo syslog -c mDNSResponder -d will enable log levels Emergency to Debug. Additionally sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder should dump current state to /var/log/system.log.
I'm relatively new to Apple stuff, and especially to iOS. I have an iPad 4 running iOS 9.3.5 and have started to load in the usual apps/programs that I use. I have primarily used Android for mobile devices.
I got an iPhone 7 a couple of weeks ago, backed up my iPhone 6, and restored that backup onto the new 7. Ever since then, third party apps which have non-default notification sounds, including Facebook Messenger, Outlook, and Snapchat, are all using the default tri-tone notifications.
I recently switched to a new company. As I am the sales head, I receive a lot of emails to look at daily. Earlier I was using Mac Thunderbird as my daily email client but now here it is mandatory to use Apple Mail. So I need to switch from Mac Thunderbird to Apple Mail. The only thing that I require is to backup all my emails before I make the switch so that I don't loose any while migration. I am looking for a quick backup solution that won't take long to do the backup procedure. Thanks for the help in advance.
My original hard drive in my MacBook Pro is 250 GB. I used Time Machine to backup that original hard drive onto a 500 GB hard drive.
I have one USB 2 and one USB 3 hub, both connected to a USB3 port of my mac. The USB 3 hub has a small number of ports, so I have to pick exactly what will use that hub. Both hubs are powered. I have one iPad 1, an iPad 2, an iPad Pro, an Apple TV4 and an iPhone 6. I develop apps for iOS, so I need these devices to be connected on the right hub for them. Will it make any difference to connect them on the USB 2 or 3 hub? I mean in terms of data transmission speed. I don't want to waste a USB 3 fast port on a slow device.
I am wondering if there is a way to add custom Services to the Trash Can's context menu (specifically the context menu that appears when right clicking the Trash Can from the dock rather than in a Finder window.). The reasoning is that I've built a series of simple programs to replicate the functionality of the now-deprecated "Securely Empty Trash" option in Finder, but I don't want to put it up for download until it has a proper OS-integrated feel.
I'm trying to consolidate my late father's photo collection. I have found some photos hiding in various iPhoto libraries. He had 2 macs, 2 users for both, had multiple backups (but over the last 3 years at least some are unreadable). There are some photos that I have not been able to recover and place in the photos library. I have only been able to view them in the "change desktop background" under the iPhoto/Photos section but I cannot find them any other way. This option is clearly using a different directory for photos than I have found. To complicate matters, I recently updated the OS to El Capitan from snow leopard. Is there a way I can find out where these are hiding? Thanks for any help.
I just had the weirdest thing happen on my iPhone 6s. I'm running iOS 10.0.2 and while I was sitting in my office, my phone lit up stating that a location in China is trying to access my Apple ID, I denied the access, but shortly after my phone started acting really crazy. No weird text messages or anything, but my iCloud/Apple ID was locked, I changed my password twice and tried to sign back in after unlocking and no luck. My location services also drained my battery in about 20 minutes from 98% to 39%.
Is there a way to get all sound to output as Mono on older Mac operating systems? With El Capitan, Yosemite, etc, there is a tick box at System Preferences > Universal Access > Hearing, but this doesn't exist on Leopard (I'm running 10.5.8 on an old MacBook).
I have been going in circles for two days trying to get macOS Sierra 10.12 to work with my Gigaware USB to Console (RS-232). I have tried about 10 different drivers from a google search with no luck. No matter what I do, the USB device will not show up under the TTY lines when plugged in.
I restarted my MacBook Pro several times because the keyboard wasn't working. I couldn't even type my password. The caps lock was responding but with a 20 or more seconds delay. I was able to access my main user account after first logging into the guest account. I decided to logout of the guest account and the keyboard became unresponsive again till I logged into the guest account. I am using El Capitan 10.11.16 on an early 2011 Macbook Pro. What could be the cause?
Is there any app or software that can do the effect like in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHvGtoDOfk
I'm unable to access JQuery CDN as Safari states that the certificate AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2 is revoked. Recently, I also had this problem with Wikipedia. However, accessing the page in Firefox works, it only shows the error in Safari and Chrome. Why did this happen even though the certificate states that expires in 2024? What would happen if I click 'Continue'?
But this didn't work. It did write somewhere the line: "position-immutable" = 1; as this appears in the output of defaults read
I have saved the wifi password for our network on an iPhone 5c. In the meantime the wifi username and password has changed. So what I had tried so far: Go to Settings -> Wifi Choose the wifi network's "i" icon Choose "Forget This Network" Choose "Forget" Back to the wifi settings Select the wifi network's "i" icon again Select "Join Network" Safari opens and ask for a user name and password Enter the user name and password Choose Done Next time when I join the network again, on my on-screen keyboard, I go to "Passwords". The only options I see is the OLD username and password so that the new one that I just had entered is missing. How can I replace the OLD wifi username and password so that I do not have to enter it manually again?
I would like to be able to run sudo commands on MacOS Sierra 10.12 without having to type a password. I've read the following: Why does sudo ask for a password in terminal? allow sudo to another user without password Use sudo Without a Password on Your Mac And changed the relevant part of my /etc/sudoers file to: My local user id (whoami) is adamatan.
I can't rearrange full screen spaces in mission control. When I drag one to move it, it never seems to stick back onto the mission control bar. If I drop the space on the bar the animation shows it going back to the dock and it disappears from the mission control bar. I can drag the space from the bar to the desktop.
Recently I decided to install fresh Mountain Lion again hoping that maybe old software will help. I noticed that if I reset the SMC nadn NVRAM, AirPort connects and works for several minutes and then stops again.
My wife puts her phone on silent at around 10pm as the games notifications disturb sleeping children, she keeps forgetting to put it back in the morning. Is there an automated way to put the phone on silent during the period between 10pm-7am?
I have a root CA certificate I created for my personal software development needs. I want to add it to the keychain as a trusted certificate. I am running macOS Sierra 10.12 which I just installed this morning. I unlock the System keychain.
I'm at work, and my Mac mini has stopped being able to connect to the corporate SMB server shared folders. If I try Finder > Connect to Server (using the URL stored there from previous successful connections), macOS Sierra complains with a more than useless "generic error". In my Console logs I can't detect any error related with samba (where should I be looking into?) There are clonic Mac mini machines on the same floor (my coworkers' ones) and they can connect to this server without any problem. If I ping this machine from my command line, I can see it perfectly. If I try this on the command line: macOS Sierra yields this: If I try that very exact command line onto a coworker machine, it just lists the shared resources hanging from that SMB server...
Has anyone got MacBook 12 inch (2016) working with an external display at 60 hz. I know 4K runs at 30 hz unless you do the hack to MacOS but I was wondering how 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 performed.
I'm having an issue with Skim since upgrading to OS X Sierra, the first page of a PDF is not visible in "two pages" PDF display mode (the left-hand side should be the first page, but is instead grey):  I can make the first page visible if I switch to another display mode and then back to two pages, but as soon as I flip the page, the first page becomes invisible again!
I'm used to being able to close my apps from the mission control view by clicking on an X sign in the upper left corner - I don't have this feature in Sierra. How can I turn it back on or do it in a similar way from Mission Control?
We have a 2015 MacBook Pro here with OS X 10.11, which gets extremely (unusably) slow when starting a Time Machine backup. All applications freeze from time to time and the spinning beachball keeps coming up. The backup only goes to a few kilobytes and doesn't finish even after several hours. During this time the CPU usage is not high, and the memory is not full. What could be the cause and how can we fix this? Other symptoms:
The macOS Sierra 10.12.1 public beta train keeps chugging along, but my MacBook is stuck on 10.12.1 public beta 2 (16B2333a), which I installed over two weeks ago. Apparently the current public beta is public beta 4. I've tried going to System Preferences → App Store → Your computer is set to receive beta updates and toggling it off, then reinstalling the update enabler from beta.apple.com to turn it back on (since the preference disappears when you turn it off.) Is there any way to convince App Store to show me updates past public beta 2?
When I was on my iPad Air last night an Apple warning appeared. Usually I can go into settings and clear it. This one kept flashing. I clicked the button on bottom left to re-log in. After, I entered my password, the tablet went black and unresponsive. Now it won't power up? I am unsure of what to do now, any help is much appreciated.
If dual boot is used to run a second macOS installation off a different volume on the same hard disk, and that volume is encrypted, booting the first macOS will prompt for the encryption password for the second volume on each boot. However, there is no need or desire to mount the second macOS volume from the first macOS. How can this prompting for the encryption password be disabled? The solution needs have been verified working on macOS 10.12 Sierra specifically.
It seems that one of the surprises with Safari 10 on Mac OS Sierra is that it takes ages to perform a search using the search bar (using Google as default search engine). It takes on average even more than 5 seconds to open the new search tab with google results.
I'm looking for a simple command line tool to play audio files for the command line, I'm looking to play .wav files. I'd also like to be able to stream audio from http and pipe it into this tool. Does anyone have a tool that works?
For example, I would like to know what Shift-F1 does. I've looked in the keyboard shortcuts section and couldn't find anything.
I have a Mac Pro that has an issue I haven't seen with any of my other Macs. Occasionally, once a week or so, the UI will hang and beachball while the rest of the machine will keep running. Skype calls continue, music keeps playing. I can ssh in and use the terminal. Everything works except the UI is completely frozen. I have to power cycle. I'm running the latest macOS, but previous versions did it all well. Do you I diagnose the root cause of the issue.
About once per minute, my computer asks me whether I want to activate Siri as in this other question. Per that question, I have enabled Siri then dis-enable it from system preferences -- did not fix my problem At the same time, iTunes opens.
I have a gig in about 23 days and I'm using iTunes to play the clips for each speaker. I'm wondering if there is a sure fire way to stop iTunes from going to the next track? I tried to do my own research, however I'm kind of stumped as to what I can do as no one seems to have an answer. I don't want to use another program to do this. Of course I'll need to reverse the process after I'm done with the 3 day gig. Thanks all.
We have a number of reasons for not wanting local admins on our macs anymore (password rotation and user accountability are the biggest) We still want to maintain admin accounts but have them be strictly network admins only (domain admins etc). This way when a technician logs in remotely to administer a client, we have full audit of who/where/when. That being said, is there a method for running a mac client with no local admins and operating strictly network based?
I know that I was watching the video from WWDC 2015 with 10 (I think) stories about Steve Jobs. Can anyone help me find it?
How do I delete items from the Reading List in OS X/Safari? Little grey X does not show up, which is what it says to click on?
In IOS, adding a website to the home screen in Safari essentially produces a Safari bookmark on the home screen. When clicking on such an icon, the website is displayed in Safari.
The software side configuration of the side switch on iPhones (unlike iPads) was in one of the last iOS betas, but didn't make it through. Is there any other trick to prevent an iPhone from being accidentally muted via the side switch? Although convenient, I don't need the side switch to lock screen orientation - I just don't want to miss calls because it switched to "mute" in the pocket. Apart from applying glue, that is.
When I am changing the language layout (English <-> Bulgarian) most of the times I have huge lag or even buggy behavior. The language indicator says one thing, but when I type it is in the other language. This actually happens on every OSX version I've used the last years (Mountain Lion - Sierra). Here is a gif of the problem:
On a Mac, if one uses Inkscape, one cannot write equations directly (as far as I know). To go around this what I've done is write the equations in LaTeXiT and then import the PDF in Inkscape and then edit the image in Inkscape. When I do this the image decreases in font and quality and does not look as the original, as shown in the image below:
I am using ukelele to create some custom keyboard layouts. I have created a .icns file which contains an image I would like to represent this keyboard layout.
I just bought a refurbushed Iphone5. The language in settings is in English but when I type a text, on google or type on facebook etc it's in Mandarin/Chinese? Can anyone solve this problem! My head is wrecked haha! Thank you (谢谢)
This may be obvious but I have attempted to boot from a bootable USB on my MacBook Pro (2011, running Lion 10.7.5), the USB does boot but fails to finish the full boot process (it is a Ubuntu derived bootable linux USB). In terms of what happens during boot, well it goes to the grub options and after selecting, it will start to boot, get to a certain point and then "stop" and hang with nothing on the screen. I have used this same USB to boot into other, newer MacBooks with success. Has anyone else run into this issue? NOTE: The usb is formatted FAT32
I noticed the hyper scrolling problem using the Terminal, and JetBrains IDEs using the Magic Mouse, (some people report the same problem with the trackpad). Is there any way to disable this behavior and get back to the way it was in El Capitan?
How would one go about using a .raw (hard drive image from a .vdi) file containing an installation of Windows 10 in the creation of a BOOTCAMP partition (for Windows 10), on the latest version of OS X?
This question is a bit strange, but here's the scenario: macbook air laptop with El Capitan Mac OS X currently logged off any account liquid damage on keyboard has caused shift key to be permanently pressed password to admin account has some lowercase letters and numbers restarting enters "safe mode"
I am finding that MMS messages are consistently not containing geotag data using iMessage. This occurs for iMessage on iOS 10.0.2 and MacOS 10.11.6. When I am within the iMessage app (either on my Mac or iPhone) and I receive a photo from an Android user or an iPhone user that has not enabled iMessage it would appear the file does not contain the geotag data. I have tried saving the photo directly to my photo library as well as saving the photo to file. (On iPhone I tried saving it to DropBox and iCloud Drive as a file.) In either case, the resultant photo/file simply has no geotag data with it. In one instance, for an Android user, I asked the person to email the same photo as an email attachment and the photo file did in fact have geotag data, so the problem seems to be isolated just to photos sent over MMS using iMessage.
Is there a way to forward SMSs from iPhone to an e-mail or to a WhatsApp message? I don't want to forward all SMSs—just some specific/filtered ones based on from/sender field of SMS. I believe something like a tasker (automated scripting) would work but I have "zero" knowledge with the iOS platform.
I found out that Mac OS has Xcode which is basically an iOS emulator. I need that emulator for one reason only - to be able to use iCloud and restore. From Apple's site I saw a picture of that emulator and saw iCloud option in settings. However, is that emulator capable of something as complex as restoring from an actual active iCloud and copy all my files from my iPhone onto that emulator and show all the files I have on my iPhone on that emulator?
The most similar question that I've found is this: Whatsapp on iOS, how to delete voice messages? and also has no answer.
A friend logged onto their Facebook on my phone with the Facebook app and they also added their Messenger account. I'd open the app and it'd have both of our profile pictures to choose from. I deleted their account from the Facebook app and Messenger, but I am still receiving push notifications when they start a new conversation in Messenger. How do I stop receiving these push notifications?
I lost my Apple ID password and security questions and answers. What do I do?
How can I create a single dock icon for an application that is launched via the Terminal? I have installed spyder using anaconda. I can create a launcher app using Platypus (see this answer). But the actual spyder-application opens a new (ugly) dock icon labeled "python" next to it: The confusion starts when I want to switch to the Spyder app: I have to click on the python icon and not on the spyder one...
I get the following error in Photos app on my Mac. This is what has happened, I assumed that since the photo is in the Photo Library I could delete the file from the hard drive. Apparently not. The reason I deleted the files was to avoid duplication and save disk space. When I right click and look at the info for the photo, I see that the size and dimensions of the image are same as the original file. So I am really not precious about the file being there. So I have the following questions. How do I prevent Photo app from showing this error? Will I be able to export these files and edit them as normal? Here is screenshot of Photos app preferences
I've found WiFi routers where I cannot open domains, but ping IP addresses just fine. This means I can't browse websites. This happens only on my Macbook, and these connections work fine for Windows laptops. How do I fix this?
I am using an iPhone 5s on iOS 10 and nowadays I have been having an issue. I don't have an unlimited Wi-Fi connection as I use my Samsung mobile phone hotspot for my iPhone.
Before macOS Sierra I could do "alt + mouse click" on notifications icon (placed on the top right corner of screen, on the menu bar). It doesn't seem to work on Sierra. How to mute notifications on Sierra?
Seems that macOS Sierra now comes with some kind of inertial scroll when using the mouse wheel; scrolling slowly does not scroll at all and scrolling rapidly builds up momentum. I find this very annoying (mostly the not scrolling at all part), even more when using parallels or vmware. Has anyone found a way to disable this and bring back the none accelerated scrolling? Thanks Note: you can disable the inertia for the trackpad under System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options ...
I’ve got a MBP 13′ (mid-2010) 2.4 Core 2 Duo (full specs below) that I’m now operating solely under Win7 64Bit. It formerly run as well under OS X 10.6.8, relatively to which the firmware seems up to date (MBP71.0039.B0B).
I'm using an external USB keyboard (for windows, really). It's a 105-key UK layout and for some reason my ` and \ keys are switched.
I can easily join the Mac to the domain and can use AD Utilities to browse objects inside the domain so I assume it's working. Now I cannot find how to 'link' my existing local account to a specific AD account. The accounts are: local account: simoneavogadro (/Users/simoneavogadro) display "Simone Avogadro" Active directory account: simoneavogadro (simoneavogadro@wiselab.it) display name: "Simone Avogadro"
Two of my USB sticks (Lexar and PNY, both 32 GB) are not getting recognized correctly by macOS Sierra. Both worked before (one formatted with NTFS, the other with FAT32); they were then used as installation media for upgrading a couple of MacBooks to macOS Sierra. They have since been tested, getting reformatted by Linux as well as Windows 7 between tests, but the following output is always the same using diskutil list: /dev/disk3 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk3 1: Apple_partition_map 4.1 KB disk3s1 2: Apple_HFS 311.3 KB disk3s2
I get the following error in Photos app on my Mac. This is what has happened, I assumed that since the photo is in the Photos Library I could delete the file from the hard drive. Apparently not. The answer by @Tetsujin suggests that this is not the case.
Yesterday I discovered an unfortunate thing: iCloud Drive had apparently detected that I had too little free disk space for its tastes, and then it had decided to upload my ~180 GB VM image to iCloud and delete it from my local hard drive. Since then, I have freed lots of space, totaling around 280 available GB – but iCloud Drive refuses to download my VM, saying that I have too little available disk space!
I have a Macbook pro 2009. I had to do a hard reset on it. I was at the installing stage, when it just shut down itself, and now, when I turn it on, only the folder with the question mark is flashing. But my problem is that, I cannot go back to recovery mode, or any other mode. When I shutdown, and turn it back (while pressing the right key combinations) and just gets to the flashing folder again. Maybe I dont shut it down correcty? It doesnt even show the loading bar. Just a white screen, then the folder. Any help? Thanks
For some reason lately, whenever I take a screenshot, it will show up in the desktop folder for a second, and then disappear and I cannot find them. Does anyone know where they go?
I have an album I bought the uncompressed version of (wav) and used iTunes to make an Apple Lossless version of. I've updated the song names, artist name, etc. I've met all the requirements: under 200MB, under 2 hours, bitrate ok (of course), and there is no DRM. But it still lists as ineligible. Why? Here's the file summary.
Had to replace work Mac after graphics card died, now I'm having to set up all my preferences like touchpad, and wifi hotspots. If I set up iCloud credentials will it sync these preferences across devices? (obviously some things make less sense like monitor resolution). Which preferences does it sync? if any?
Let's say we have an app, and there's an in app purchase that unlocks something, let's say for example a pro subscription. You can't buy it from the app itself, because the app is glitched or broken. Is it possible to manually buy this in-app purchase through the App Store?
I use iTunes to upload music onto a WDMC NAS device, then listen via Sonos. After recent upgrades to iTunes (I use a Windows laptop) I cannot find access to the NAS (though it has not affected operation of Sonos). The folder location in iTunes Advanced Preferences is correct, but there is no link. Previously, all my songs came up in iTunes, now I can only see my Apple purchases. Any simple solutions please ? Thanks.
I seem to have a certificate in the keychain that is only sometimes output correctly from security find-certificate on the command line: The manual claims that this "Exports all certificates from all keychains". Specifying the system root keychain is no help: Adding a query suddenly produces a result: The same query on "all keychains" has no result (this time an error from openssl because the input is now empty): What is going on?
I am using external monitors. Because of this, whenever my mac goes to sleep, it automatically redirects output to the monitor. This is annoying to fix, as I have to move my mouse and click to fix it every time. Is there a way to set a hotkey to toggle the sound output for me? something like command+shift+s
I'm getting errors installing any pkg files. Seems to be valid for all pkgs, I uninstalled one app and run the pkg installer which fails for an app that was successfully installed 2 weeks ago. I'm guessing something related to permissions but I can't figure out what would have changed them... I'm on 10.11.6 and upgrading is currently not an option. The common issue seems to be: More complete logs:
After cd'ing I get the error "Abort Trap: 6". This continues after every command from then on. Bash version: GNU bash, version 4.4.0(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0.0) Update problem persist after reboot, logging out / in, and spawning a new shell .bash_profile ~/.bashrc Sourced files in .bash_profile Output from printf '%s\n' "$PROMPT_COMMAND" Update 2 The problems seems to start when cd'ing to folders owned by users who are not myself. ex cd /Users/testuser or cd /var/log Any help would be great.
On macOS Sierra, I am encountering a strange behaviour of WEBLOC files. In the Open with: section of the Info window, the drop down list for choosing the default application is greyed out. It is set to Safari even though I have chosen a different default web browser in the System Preferences. I would like to change it to the browser of my choice, but it appears I am stuck with Safari.
I have an LTO tape drive with a built-in ATTO Thunderlink SH 1068 that relies on an end-of-life(EOL) ATTO SAS/HBA kernel extension, the ATTO ThunderLink SAS HBA Driver 1.25. Upon upgrading to macOS Sierra, the kernel extension won't load, so the LTO tape drive doesn't show up in the SAS device tree. It was working fine on El Capitan 10.11.6. It seems that Gatekeeper in Sierra is now blocking this kernel extension. Running kextutil -t in Terminal as a diagnostic reveals that the code signature is invalid: What do I need to do to safely load the kernel extension so that my LTO tape drive will work again?
I have an external Apple Keyboard. I am used to using FN + DELETE to invoke Backspace on my laptop, but this keyboard does not have the Function Key in the same location. There in an actual Backspace button on this keyboard, but my instinct now is to hit FN + Delete. I've been looking at the Keyboard Shortcuts in the Settings Application, but it is not letting me set a Backspace combo, and/or it is not letting me set a CTRL + DELETE combo. I have also looked at "Modifier Keys" in Keyboard Settings, but that does not provide access to the Function key. Any ideas how I can set this up? Running El Capitan.
I've used a MacBook Pro in my last two jobs (one was circa 2012, and my current one is 2015), and at home I have an iMac (circa 2009) and MacBook Air (circa 2013). At home my Macs perform wonderfully - they hardly ever freeze or crash. I use the iMac for multimedia applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., and the Air is more for general purpose internet/office apps (although Lightroom is used on it as well).
So, I thought this was the same issue I'd seen before with the old Home folder name conflicting, but it is not. The issue is the the iMac "shakes" and refuses her password at login, but I am 100% certain it is correct AND she can login to her PC without issue (and her AD account is not locked out from password attempts). The iMac is running OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6. Windows DC is on Server 2008 (SBS 2008 to be exact).
I admin a bunch of Macs, and depend on unlocking user's screen saver as admin. I've always done this editing /etc/pam.d/screensaver
iTunes used to have a "party shuffle"/"iTunes DJ" feature that allowed users to vote on what was played, but as far as I know it was yanked a long time ago and nothing else replaced it. Is there currently any way to do the same sort of thing? (By "currently" I mean using current software, whether from Apple or a third party, not by digging up ancient software.) It would be fine if involves connecting to iTunes from other computers or from iOS devices, or whether it involves an Apple TV as the central point of control, where devices or computers connect to the Apple TV.
A while ago, my wife and I started seeing news story alerts on our iPhones on the lock screen. We didn't think much about it.
I remember running into this issue on a Linux machine and being able to change the mapping/scaling of the display edges so that the mouse can always cross that gap. So I'm wondering, on El Capitan or Sierra, is there a way to make both displays share a common edge? Either through a setting, config, or even a third-party app?
I have 2 MacBooks: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
I am trying to find a way how to search in specific subfolders through the whole drive on my mac. I will try to explain what I need exactly; I have a folder with images called "Photos", which includes subfolders; each of these subfolders has a date as a name and includes at least 2 another subfolders called ORIGINALS and EDITS. Images in "originals" and "edits" folder have matching names. When I search using command+F in "Photos" folder, my results are duplicated and I want to be able to include only files from "edits" folder. Is this possible to achieve? Thanks
On iOS 10, when you go to select a wallpaper, you can select live photos. Then on the preview screen, there is a segmented control that allows you to choose from: still perspective live
I am trying to pull a list of files with matching extensions from a directory with subfolders, to use in a terminal script. The list items must be separated by vertical bars "|" to run through the command line app, and I need to remove the first item in the list.
I downloaded Appcleaner from App store and want to clean up to get some more space. I have two versions of Xcode; 7.3 and 8.0. So there's no problem with two executable files but I'm wondering what that 'Application support' files are for. The bigger one takes up almost 19 gigabytes.. May i delete that one?
They did ask some other people in company on Macs and they said they were running the AnyConnect in a windows vm and I'm guessing making windows act like a proxy for specific traffic. Not exactly sure how that is being configured, but that's my last resort.
I removed the Notes app from my iPhone and thereby lost all the notes that had been stored in iCloud. (Stupid, I know.) I have a Time Machine backup from shortly before I lost the notes. I've tried restoring the contents of ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/ and ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/ but that hasn't worked.
I presently use an external USB drive to back up my Mac Mini with Time Machine which is a little about 1.5 TB total, however, I would really like to be able to trickle those backups onto some other cloud provider or even another location on a desktop located at a different office so I am protected from a massive catastrophe. I realize that upstream bandwidth is a major factor in successfully doing this. (I only have 10 megabit upstream.) I have tried to use ARQ which uses S3 backup, and while it works very well, the costs associated could end up being astronomical which I consider backup up my music, movies, etc..., not to mention the the loads of incidental file changes that I I don't need to capture every time. Also, there is simply no way it could ever catch up with with the amount of TM data that gets churned.
I do not have or use "AVID" as an editing program... I am using Adobe Premiere Pro to do video editing. If I download "AVID CODEX PACK" will this interfere with the APP editing system? Will this Avid Codex Pack carry all the codecs I need?
I am trying to install RStudio Server in OSX El Capitan. I did these steps from terminal
My left shift, option and control keys don't work from the last 1 year. I have got used to using the right shift and option keys. Now I need to do a SMC reset for various reasons and Apple Docs say that for my model I need to: "Using the built-in keyboard, press Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the keyboard, then press the power button at the same time." Model: Macbook 8,1 (Early 2011, 13" Macbook Pro)
I've just done a reinstall from the recovery partition and have found that all the previously known Wi-Fi networks have persisted, even though I formatted the main partition during the reinstall. How are they still here?
My Flycut clipboard icon in the top ribbon disappears when I open Word - the program where I most need it! I think it's just lack of space. The large icon in the bottom dock doesn't hold my cuttings.
All this has been ineffective: - The window has been thoroughly scrolled up before ejecting the media. - Changing and reverting the order and/or the sorting of the file list in the window before ejecting has no effect, switching to icon or column view and reverting is no more successful. - The file hierarchy of the media has been cleaned (._* files, .Trashes/, .fseventsd/, etc. have been wiped). The Finder Preferences seem to be the same across all the Macs.
Me and a co-worker are trying to embed an image in our email signature in the default apple mail application with an url. For example we have this image *=URL=* and want this in our signature. We do not want a file that is being sent with the email. We tried to edit the email HTML code in ~/Library/Mail/V4/MailData/Signatures but mail just either deletes it or completely ignores it even though we edited AccountsMap.plist and AllSignatures.plist with the correct data. Did apple remove that feature with version V4 because we read a tutorial about V2 and it apparently worked there.
Company tech guy installed Good Work into iphone6+ before given to me. now phone prompts update for Good Work. But I have been installing other apps into the phone using my own personal apple id. can I delete the originally installed Good Work app, and re-install it back using my own id without losing my mails and settings? thanks
My mom deleted some photos from an iPhone 7. She deleted them via Windows Explorer. There is no backup as she took them just a few days ago. Is it possible to recover them? Thanks. iPhone spec: iOS 10.0.3
I already made (like three times) a full restore, using iTunes with the most updated software (iOS 10.0.2). I also chatted with apple support. I'm able to see the log files in my mac, and I see several kind of errors (I don't know if they are common or unusual).
I have an early 2015 Macbook pro retina 13' I read this article *=URL=* It states that MBP will support So what happens If I try to use a 4K monitor which is 60Hz?
To improve the performance of my mid-2012 MacBook Pro, I upgraded to a 256 GB SSD. But, I also want to upgrade my RAM. What is the limit that this computer supports?
Running El Capitan on a Mac Mini and latest version of iTunes (as of 21st Oct 2016). When I click iTunes icon it just "bounces" in the system tray. Eventually stops bouncing but iTunes does not open.
Since I've been using Mavericks (currently I'm on ElCap) I have am a heavy user of screens insofar I actually use different desktops for different apps to reduce the ammount of clutter on my individual desktops and so I can use both Which, Dock, or follow hyperlinks, to switch between desktops which are used exclusively for an app. I realize for cases where I use an app on more than one desktop, when you switch to that app it will take you to the desktop that was last used for that app. What I am finding however is that doing things like following links within certain apps, it does NOT take me to my default browser (Chrome) on the last desktop I was using. In fact, I often find it does nothing and I have to manually go to the desktop I was just using. The new page loads there, but that's about it. This can bee annoying when I am running around 8 desktops. Any ideas why this would happen? Thought at first the machine was lagging and waited for it to "catch up" but it never did. Any idea
Worse, setting back Display Maid to restore the original configuration automatic doesn't work like it used to - previously it saved positions on all desktops in one action, but now it does it one screen at a time and forcing you restore eech desktop separately, which is tedious. It would seem that Display Maid is not great software anymore.
today i'm trying to use the typical 'caffeinate -t 1000' on terminal and get this output: Gabrieles-MacBook:~ black$ caffeinate -t 1000 -bash: caffeinate: command not found
I've also tried getting used memory by trying to figure up the used, but it always comes back with more memory usage than Activity Monitor reports. I've looked online, and all Apple's website says is that App memory is the memory used by apps and background processes, which isn't really useful. Is there combination of vm_stat pages that will add up to the used memory or app memory so that I can correctly show my memory usage in my geeklet?
Up to Yosemite I regularly used Disk Utility with Erase > Security Options... > writes a single pass of zeros over the entire disk... as a simple method to fully check that a disk is fully safe before installing a new system or backup on it. For me it is a rule of thumb to fully verify a medium before starting production work on it. Since El Capitan (and consequently on Sierra), this function isn't apparently accessible. Is this function hidden somewhere else? What are the other options to fully really erase a disk, whatever the technology used might be, the purpose being to verify that one can write everywhere on a disk without any bad surprise later?
my goal is to ID the source of these freezes, and ideally get them fixed or worked around (myself or have Apple do it). How do I trace and find the root of these pauses/hangs? Ultimately, I suspect the Intel graphics drivers, since they are responsible for the thunderbolt connector.
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3 in VirtualBox. The reason is I have to deploy an old iOS app to the app store. And it runs on Xcode 4.3.2. If I try running the xcode on a newer version of Mac OS X, like 10.9.5, I would get an error “This installation of Xcode 4.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.” My iPhone app is 100 percent complete and 100 percent working. I just need to deploy to app store. When I try to deploy on 10.7.3 on VirtualBox, I first try to go to Apple’s Developer Portal. I get the following message:
After upgrading to El Capitan I am having problems with avrdude. This line gives the following error:
I am trying to playback a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro. The picture plays back just fine. The problem is that the clip is all stretched out, making all the characters look flat and stretched out. When playing these clips in VLC or Quick Time, the image is not stretched at all but playing in the right proportions for the screen. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or how to change the video output on Adobe Premiere? thanks ROBERT
I need to copy a Word doc (it is a different Word document each time) a certain number of times into a new folder and then rename them sequentially starting at a different number. For instance, I have ThisDoc.docx and I need to copy it 105 times into ThatFolder with the name ThatDoc005.docx starting with value 005 (the numbers need to be always three places). The result of this should be a folder that contains the 105 copies of ThisDoc.docx but renamed ThatDoc005.docx, ThatDoc006.docx, ThatDoc007.docx, ThatDoc008.docx, etc. It can be done in Terminal, though, while I have admin privileges on my personal computer, at work, I need to be able to do it in one line. The Windows Powershell equivalent is: In Automator, I have the problem that I can't access it at work so it needs to be able to be saved as an application that will ask for the first file, the destination folder, the number of times it needs to be copied and and starting file number. Thank you in advance, for any and all help!
Google Chrome fails to paint browser tabs correctly while the Discrete graphics adapter is in use. I have an Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro running OSX 10.10.5 (Yosemite) and am running Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit). This problem began about a month ago.
I'm trying to buy one-year membership of apple developer program for 99$. I can shop everything else from Apple store. but when I try to buy ADP there is a field that needs zip-code for a state in the US and I don't have it! I have VISA and I can buy everything else but ADP! so how can I buy it?
I am running into an issue whereby the icons for things like 'Music', 'Movies' and 'Pictures' in the windows of the Finder side bar are showing up as generic document icons. I should note, that device icons are displaying correctly. Also, if I relaunch the Finder then the icons disappear and I need put them back, via the Finder preferences. Can anyone suggest a solution? I am using macOS X Sierra (10.12). Below is screenshot illustrating what I am seeing:
I want to reinstall El Capitan. After re=downloading from the App Store, a popup message says the file is too old. I absolutely want to revert to this OS, as I have had numerous issues with Sierra. I would appreciate help in this issue, thanks. MacBook Air OS Sierra 10.12 EtreCheck version: 3.0.6 (315) Report generated 2016-10-21 14:18:39 Download EtreCheck from *=URL=* Runtime 2:05 Performance: Excellent
I opened /usr/libexec/java_home in binary view and find that it is a Java class file because of the beginning bytes 0xCAFEBABE. Then I recompiled it and failed. So /usr/libexec/java_home start with Java class file magic number but it is not recompilable. Actually the file type of /usr/libexec/java_home is (Update: It's my misunderstanding. Mach-O executable file use 0xCAFEBABE as well)
I think this is specific to OS X Terminal.app Viewing many windows in irssi via tmux. I can use alt+right arrow to move windows as the metakey. but alt+5 only produces [KH^
I'm looking for any well made (paid/unpaid) music player applications which will let me drag and drop music (MP3, FLAC) using Wifi to my iOS devices. I know that applications like Xtreme Player and VLC media player do that for video clips. They can also handle music, but they handle music as an afterthought. What I mean is that they don't understand the concept of queueing music, playlists, etc. Are there any applications which do this? I already have an Apple Music subscription, but need to listen to some of the older stuff which I can't always find in their catalog. Thanks for any suggestions!
I upgraded to latest version of iOS and link my debit card to apply pay a few days ago. After that I start receiving a very suspicious invite on my iPhone calendar. I ignored it and on advice from my friend, disabled "Events found in apps". However, 2 days later, when I wake up, I received the same event again, and most shockingly the phone was at the payment screen, waiting for me to authorise the payment of $19,99 through my thumbprint. Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot of this as I immediately turn off and on my phone to get rid of it. I checked both my gmail and yahoo mail accounts that are linked to my phone, including the spam folder, but did not find any suspicious email.
Some "ejection system" kicks my battery out. As if the system detected overheating or such thing and decided to eject the battery.
Is it safe to clean the outside of an iMac (and in general, any computer, be it the tower or the display) with a Swiffer cloth? Also, is it necessary to unplug it for doing so? I've read that you're not supposed to clean the inside of a computer with them because they are electrostatic.
Before macOS Sierra I could open new link with command-click in Safari. It doesn't work anymore. What's the shortcut in macOS Sierra?
I received a 2009 macbook pro desk computer and did not get power cord. Need information on correct adapter to not burn out the battery or the computer which will be in constant use daily.
I recently tried iCloud Drive for syncing my Desktop and Documents folders. However, Documents was already being synced via Dropbox and I noticed that iCloud Drive and Dropbox don't get along. Seemingly random files inside Documents were copied over and over again for some reason.
I have a mid-2011 27" iMac and have a weird startup problem at the moment. When I try to boot I get a startup chime as follows: 3 beeps followed by a 3 second break followed by 3 beeps and it just keeps looping in the same pattern.
When I compose a new e-mail, the selected From address is by default one which is a) not for the default account in Settings; b) not even an account which is setup on the phone. This is very undesirable.
Sorry for my ignorance. I want to play my iTunes library of songs on my iPhone when in the car like I do when on my PC at home. Is it possible?
Canon 640 will not load & print from rear tray after installing Serria?
I have an Applescript to quit my local iTunes, access a remote computer and open iTunes there: The following error is returned:
I have an US App Store account from when they opened it, 2010 if I'm not mistaken ( I'm an early adopter :) ). Back then I used "None" as payment method when I created the account because I didn't have a credit card. I used a fake US address, as I live in Asia. I've heard that you can do that, but if you buy In-App Purchases your account will disabled forever, because Apple allowed buying apps with gift cards abroad but doesn't allow buying any IAP from abroad.
Also tried various commands in the Terminal, e.g. diskutil mountDisk disk name and diskutil mount volumeName, etc. Nothing seems to help, the delay is consistently there. After reboot, it always shows up immediately, which tells me it's not the disk's fault.
Paraview comes with a python called pvpython that I wish to use from the command line. Currently I have version 4.4 installed and to make it available I have added the following into my ~/.bashrc file: export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/bin/
Good day everyone. I've been at a bit of a bind as of late. I was trying to download Mavericks/Yosemite off of the Apple Store. I open it up, log in, then go to the "Purchased" tab. I scroll down and download OS X Mavericks. A confirmation pop up opens:
Can anyone suggest something, besides to taking it to Apple service, I'll do that if I cannot solve this by myself anyway? Since it turns on after waking up it feels like a software (EFI or kernel) related issue but since it doesn't turn on the screen on boot I cannot use command+R to format disk and reinstall.
The recommended Linux/Windows way is to use command line: I would like to do the same on OSX, but it doesn't have command line. I tried the same, but replaced cvlc with /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC, but it doesn't work:
I would like to see all my raw files in my iCloud Drive. I tried going to *=URL=* and ~/Library/Mobile Documents, but there’re only the “official, ordered and clean” iCloud Drive folder. From the iCloud preference panel, I can see every app that stores something in my iCloud Drive, but I can’t see what they store. Is there a complete way to check my iCloud Drive? EDIT: This is what I mean by “Raw Files”:
In iOS 10 Apple added the ability to react to messages (“tapback”). You can give a thumbs up, a heart, laughter, etc. You do so by tapping and holding the message and then tapping your reaction when the options pop up. Before iOS 10, though, tapping and holding a message allowed you to select part of the message, just like tapping and holding text most anywhere else on the iPhone.
I am trying to add HP P1606DN as a USB printer. The instructions from HP say to use Apple Update via the Printers & Scanners dialog: HP Printers - Installing a Mac Printer Driver Using Apple Software Update. However nothing shows up in that dialog.
After upgrading to macOS Sierra (version 10.12), I frequently get the following error when using different applications like Adobe Acrobat, XtraFinder, Microsoft Office, etc. Any ideas why this is happening?
Every time I restart my mac book pro, all my settings of default applications change to factory default applications. For eg, I set adobe acrobat reader DC as my default PDF viewer, sublime text as default text editor and google chrome as default browser but on next restart/power on, the default applications change back to preview, textedit and safari. How can I make my changes permanent and prevent this change from happening? Right now, for setting default apps, I right click on file -> Get Info -> Open With -> Change All But this has to be done on every power on/restart.
I have successfully added a tone to my iPhone 7, as explained in this Apple Communities discussion. However it is getting added as a “ringtone” rather than as an “alert tone.”
With Sandboxie for Windows, you are able to run applications that you don't entirely trust in a sandbox; it tracks all files the program creates and modifies, and although the files technically go to the system, you can roll back the changes by deleting this sandbox. This removes all the files created by the program and restores modified files to their previous state. In a way, it's like a system restore when you restore the system to a previous point; in this case, it would only restore the files that the program in question affected, so is much easier to use. At least, that's how I understand it works. On macOS, there are three(ish) ways to do this I know of:
I'm looking for a way (an iPhone app) to help me get as precise and accurate GPS coordinates for my current location as possible. Currently I'm using this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-gps-coordinates/id945482414
In the past week or so the process 'icdd' has been starting from time to time and when it does it consumes massive amount of RAM (upwards of 7 GB). When this happens, my MacBook Pro essentially becomes non-functional until I can open the Activity Monitor and force-kill the process. I've attached a screenshot of the activity monitor showing icdd using over 7GB of RAM and making the memory pressure skyrocket.
Questions: 1) How can we redirect the log stream from stdin to, for example lnav? Currently, I use bash | (pipe), but I would like to hear if there is a better way to do it - the pipe buffer flow is too fast for lnav to process and format it properly – any ideas/solutons here? I don't know how to set a bridge (I don't want to write/read to the filesystem) between log and any other shell process without pipe in bash directly. 2) How can I properly use the stream from log stream to put the JSON direct into mongodb? log stream --style=json output makes it a lot easier to hack some awesome node analytical/statistical or visual parsers. log stream --style=syslog --level=info can make one dizzy, with --predicate you can narrow it down to more readable flow: log stream --style syslog --predicate \ 'senderImagePath contains[cd] "TimeMachine"' --info The API is a good step forward – but I'd like to have more transition time with syslog until I forget about it and the uhmmmm the new memory persi
I have an external USB3 hard disk which used be my Time Machine backup drive. It is not mounting in Finder, but is showing up if I diskutil list. It sounds like it wants to mount - in fact, it sounds like a drive where there is data being read and written.
I recently updated to 10.12 - Sierra- and migrated iPhoto to Photos. In the system preferences I do not see a choice to select Photo library. In the source panel I just see National Geographic/Aerial/Cosmos/Nature patterns. I would like my photos to be my screensaver. Any help?
I was watching a movie on netflix with the back of the laptop facing the wall. It was pretty dark in the room I was in and I noticed that whenever there was nobody talking/less sound the illuminated Apple logo would dim down. Whenever someone started speaking it would light up again. I thought it couldve been the backlight of the white subtitles but in a scene when theres just two people talking I can clearly see the apple logo's brightness lower whenever it goes silent. Its not really a problem for me, I was just wondering if anybody else had noticed it and if it's normal in the first place. Thanks in advance, John
Right now they default to desktop, and I followed instructions found here. It works up until I shut down the computer; I was wondering if there was a permanent solution?
My iMac (27-inch, mid-2010) crashed and refused to reboot. I was able to reboot it from an external drive and attempted to erase and resurrect the internal drive; after several attempts, the drive ceased to be visible to Disk Utility and am afraid it may be physically defective. Is there a way of mounting the disk and confirming its status?
With an event spanning more than one day already entered, any new event for the first day is placed after the beginning of the multiday one in Month view. This happens regardless of its actual time. (Note: It is placed correctly in Day and Week views; and is placed correctly in Month view if the other events are within that day). This seems to be a bug unless there is an obscure (to me) solution.
I've got 4 desktops in Mission Control. I've assigned CMD+1,2,3,4 to switch between them. I've also assigned particular application to particular desktops, eg.Chrome to desktop 2, Atom to desktop 3. iterm2 to desktop 1. I've done it by opening the apps in the respective desktops and going to Options => assign to this desktop.
I have had a new iPhone SE for a few weeks. It works fine, but in the "Health" app, my step length is approximately 0.6 m (1000 steps give a distance of 600 meters), which seems wrong (I used to have around 0.8 m with my previous phone). I also checked with the distance on my companion's iPhone : my iPhone correctly measures steps, but not distances. Is there any way to reset this ? BTW : yes, I have allowed the "Motion Calibration & Distance" option in the "Privacy" setting.
I want to change icns (Application icons) in macOS applications to gray color. Is there is any script (bash or AppleScript) to do this? I need a script because applications folder always changing and no way to change everytime icons in this folder.
I want to get a list of file names (not paths, just the filenames without extension) of some dropped items in AppleScript. I can get the droplet to reveal each item's names incrementally, but what I really want is a list, each text item separated by a line break. Then I can pass this list to my next action.
Can I delete a pkg dmg zip file after I install itscontent? I mean if this is a little app can I delete the installation file without breaking the installed application?
In my videos I am recording 1080p on my camera and combining this with video from the iphone, however I don't have the option to use 1080 when uploading to youtube. How can I fix this?
in Terminal.app. But I got the following error: Error: No ports matched the given expression when used sudo port -fp uninstall installed
Setup: Mac Pro running Yosemite current patch level. Messages will receive messages but not send them. The red circled ! returns instantly. I can send from my iphone, and from my ipad without a problem. So far I have tried the following: Quit and restart Messages.
I want to test Sierra before fully installing it on my computer by creating a Sierra iso installer, which I can use on Virtual Box. When I attempt the first step below (mount the installer image) I get an error from hdutil that the resource is busy. Does anyone have suggestions on how to safely do this? error: hdiutil: attach failed - Resource busy steps: Mount the installer image hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify - nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app Mount the installer image Convert the boot image to a sparse bundle hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Sierra Convert the boot image to a sparse bundle Increase the sparse bundle capacity to accommodate the packages hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Sierra.sparseimage Increase the sparse bundle capacity to accommodate the packages Mount the sparse bundle for package addition hdiutil attach /tmp/Sierra.sparseimage -noverify -nobrows
I have the Pokémon Go app displayed on my lock screen and on this other screen. Is there any way of removing the icon from the lock screen?
Seems to be a very simple question, but i cannot find the answer in the many many documentation that is around on Applescript. I have a non-scriptable application for which i want to open a file using the File Open dialog in the application. This is what i came up with so far:
on iTerm2 bash If there any way to change the color when 'ls' so i can quickly know if it's a directory, a file, a script, exec? Just like the Ubuntu terminal so you know a directory color for example its green Thank you!
Are there any shortcut for the command merge all windows feature that comes with macOS Sierra? I did not encounter about an shortcut for this command and I did not see any property in Automator app. If is it possible, it will be nice improvement for productivity when we working with tabs rather than windows.
Then when I click on Safari, it takes Safari 23 seconds before I can actually type in the address bar. Note that after that even if I quit Safari, it will restart in a second. So I'm measuring here the first start after boot.
I use crontab -e without sudo to edit cron jobs and add the following line there - then I check the log file and it doesn't contain the date and time.
Is there any log, where I can see what pmset did and when? I am thinking about scheduling my macbook power on and the power off and scheduling some job in between to see if it worked, but is there any better way (some power management log file etc.)?
Today I've suddenly received spam calendar invitation for $19.99 Ray Ban sunglasses (never subscribed, checked, searched or visited any related site, so clearly spam) and it has other visible email accounts within the invitation. I'm wondering if I should be worried about this? Has any of my accounts been compromised or is it as simple as they have my email from anywhere and sent out an invitation like any spam email? Questions to be answered: What should I check/setup in order to make sure my iCloud account is safe? How can I delete this invitation without sending a notification to the sender, so as to prevent them from knowing my email address is live? How can I prevent these notifications in the future? Googled this problem but couldn't really find anything. Here's an image:
I have an iPhone 6 with up to date software. But every time I open a game, the music or sounds won't play. At first, I thought it was the problem with games, but I checked each of their settings and the music is on. So I turned the volume up on my phone, but it won't play. The volume works for my music apps or video apps just not for my games. Any advice would be great.
After installing macOS Sierra 10.12, I have started seeing these ghost windows across the top of the screen. Unfortunately they are appearing at random and I can not determine if this is the OS, a specific application, or a general bug of some kind. Has anyone else come across this and a way to fix it without rebooting your Mac? Example: Updates I have tried restarting finder... It seems to occur after the screen saver is initiated but I can not confirm... Plan of Attack Next time is occurs I am planning on running through all of these commands.
I've tried coding it in different ways, but no matter what I do it will not type "22.com".
My iPad 2 keeps asking for my Apple id and cloud id, cleared safari hx, reset my iPad. I was contacted by Apple that my id was reset by a ie on a windows pc. Changed my Apple id from my iPhone. iPad keeps asking for Apple id and icloud id. I believe I have a virus on my iPad. Suggestions?
I have a Mac app that is 443,245,675 bytes. When I copy it to a flash drive, the copied version is only 443,239,527 bytes and the app package becomes invalid (spctl -a fails).
So I think its I'm the only one who is having the issue as I might have tampered something in the macOS. The App store still shows Install button besides the Xcode instead of Open button though its already got installed and I am using it. How to let know the Appstore that latest Xcode is already installed?
I am unable to download free app from App Store. All app showing same thing. I don't know what they want. Each app showing this **it. Plzz help me out soon
How can I get back my data from the FFFF… partition which is ~350 GB by fixing the partition table? The disk is 500 GB in total. 350 GB is assigned for macOS, 120 GB for Windows and 30 GB for Ubuntu.
I am hours into this and I feel very stuck. I am wondering if there is any way that I can get Applescript to play nice with the menulet of any third party applicaton. EDIT Based on this post (*=URL=* I modified my script to be the following:
Was caught in the rain on Sunday last week, and on Monday afternoon my phone stopped working. Was checking my email and the screen slowly turned purple, then black w/ the backlight on. I let it sit for a few days near some silica gel packets but when I plugged it in to charge the backlight did not come on. Here's the current status of the phone: The screen is completely dark, no backlight. Connected to my computer iTunes recognizes the phone, but says I need to unlock it. The phone does not vibrate when the ring/silent switch is toggled. Doesn't respond to headphone button, doesn't ring when called, iCloud "find my phone" does not report the phone as powered on. Holding down power and home iTunes says the phone is in recovery mode.
Me, my sister, and my mom all shared a iCloud. I recently lost my phone in a car wreak and I lost some really important pictures. I lost my boyfriend in the wreak and I was trying to get my pictures back because of so.. but when I got my new phone and tried to sign in and get my pictures,notes, etc i got my moms instead. And everytime I try to reset it or try to do it again it always gives me my moms pictures and everything.. it says that there is 3 iPhones with data but won't let me get mine back?
Is there any way to type in a backtick and tilde, the key located on the top-left of the keyboard (below the esc key) in Safari in macOS? For some reasons this key works in all the other applications but don't in Safari. Also, I think this worked before Safari 9 or 8; I don't know why Apple ditched it, but I still want to know any ways to type in the key.
On most app installers you have to select a disk where you want the installation. Is there any possible way to select it withou the use of the trackpad or the mouse?
I'am trying to fully automate the process FileVault setup on multiple OS X user machines. E.g. to have a Bash script as a result. One of the steps is Institutional Recovery Key (IRK) generation. This key is required to access encrypted hard disk without user credentials. The generation command sudo security create-filevaultmaster-keychain create a public-private key pair. But only the public one must be installed on the user machine. I can delete it using Keychain Access utility. But this is a GUI utility and cannot be called from the Bash. So, how can i remove the private key from the keychain-file from the command line? Or maybe there are already working scripts for this task :)
I am using Mac Air 2013, and I have a daily limit on the data I can exchange over internet that is 1GB. I would like to measure how much data each application is exchanging over the network.
I tried to send them from iPad to my email. But these audio files as attachment are not sending. They are too big for sending via email.
I am running Sierra, but this seems to be a long running problem for me. I have 16GB of RAM on my rMBP (mid-2013), but this becomes less and less sufficient for my tasks. I notice that after a couple of days uptime, kernel_task seems to eat a lot of memory. Yesterday I rebooted and it started with using ~800MB. After one day of running it is now at 2.5GB. Sometimes, this even grows to 10GB.
Is there a way to setup a device as managed or whatever in order to put owner information on the lock screen without wiping the whole phone? Or, can you at least restore from a prior/unrelated backup afterward?
Before Sierra: Alt + O/A/U pressed then shortly afterwards O/A/U -> Ö/Ä/Ü With Sierra: Alt + O/A/U pressed then shortly afterwards O/A/U -> works only for ü with Alt + o -> ø, Alt + a -> å and pressing the key again leads only to normal letter
I have an application that is going to save a file to my MacBook Air El Capitan. Trouble is, I cannot seem to find a way to determine where it's going to save the file in the dialog. How do I find the FULL PATH of where it's going to save it? The file save dialog appears to give me no way to determine this:
All of a sudden calendar entries are showing up on the day before, instead of on the date entered on my iPhone 6. Example: a meeting entered at 10:00 Monday, October 24 is showing up on Sunday, Oct 23.
I installed Pidgin via Homebrew. I'm looking for config files such as accounts.xml and prefs.xml. On Linux, I believe they're located in are in ~/.pidgin, and %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Pidgin on Windows. I would expect them to be somewhere in /usr/local/Cellar/pidgin, but they're not, as far as I can tell.
In the last 2 days, I have found it difficult to login when I start up my mac pro retina. When I try to type in my password, I either have to retype the same letters multiple times or press the same letter key a few times before it is accepted.
The command diskutil eraseDisk is not what I want because that wipes the entire disk. I have a partition already allocated and it is blank. All I need to do is format it with VFAT/FAT32. How can this be done from Terminal? It must the same effect as using mkfs.vfat on Linux.
The W1 chip makes the AirPods and the new Beats headphones instantly pair with an iPhone. Does this work only with the iPhone 7 or would this work with all recent iPhone models as well?
I have a lots of book in a folder but they are all in the iBooks app. Can I delete them if they are in ? I have tried with one book look like nothing happens but I want to be sure before I remove this folder.
I have a 20" early 2008 iMac, I upgraded the Hardrive and using an external USB connector installed a fresh OS (Lion 10.7.5) and it starts up and runs fine externally. However when i put it in the computer using the internal connections I only get a blinking folder icon. If I put the original HD it starts up and works fine so I'm thinking its not a physical problem in the case. Anybody have any ideas??
Holding down a key on the keyboard does not cause it to repeat correctly. The key will repeat, but only after 2 seconds or so. In some cases it doesn't repeat at all. There are a few suggestions floating around in forums but none seem to correct the problem. Settings in preferences are ignored:
I have an iPhone 5S which I recently upgraded to iOS 10.0.2. Since 10.x, when I receive a call I cannot always answer it. The calls appears on the display with the swipe-to-answer widget, but the widget is non-responsive. Swipe all you want, nothing happens, and the caller eventually gives up.
Since upgrading to iOS 10 and macOS 10.12 at about the same time, I can no longer handoff calls from my iPhone to my Mac. When a call comes in I get the notification window appearing on my Mac, as before. When I click the "answer" (or whatever it is) button, it pauses for a moment, gives an error message, and then the iPhone disconnects the call.
I am trying to fix a Macbook Pro from around 2012/2013, the hard drive failed so I replaced it with a Sandisk 120GB SSD and I am trying to reinstall OS X Mountain Lion using Internet recovery. Here's what I've done: installed SSD, connected power, Ethernet, booted into Internet Recovery using Command+R, formatted the disk using Disk Utility (Mac os Extended - Journaled), started re-install. I starts out just fine:
I plugged my iPhone 5s into my computer and this happened: My phone went black but the backlight remained on and it showed it was connected to iTunes.
I have macOs Sierra installed on my mac book pro. Every once is a while I notice that mac mail is downloading a ridiculously large number of emails. I really don't understand why this is happening. Can anyone explain why this? Is there someway to see where these emails are being stored?
I have 45GB free memory space on iCloud:  but when I try to upload my photos to iCloud, there is a warning: low disk space.
Since I updated to Sierra I have the following issue both on my Macbook and iMac (btw. the new 10.12.1 update didn't fix this either). Whenever a new file is created inside a folder (that doesn't have auto-sorting enabled (so I manually chose something like "Sort by name" before) the new file is randomly placed obove or underneath other file/folder icons:
So, there's quite a few other “Boot Camp Assistant's handling of the ‘Windows support software’ is terrible” questions; but as far as I can tell, none of them directly relate to my problem: On a machine on which Boot Camp Assistant doesn't give the option to use external install media¹, I get stuck at the “Saving Windows support software …” step, when the progress-bar is at 100%: Screenshot of Boot Camp stuck http://ell.io/i1l8hv+
I've created the following crontab: But in result log.txt contains the following text - and empty (0 bytes) video.ts. What is wrong here?
I am trying to join *=URL=* , but I am getting this error: Error saving credit card information. Try again later. (Error: 3564473453).
I am dealing with a user running with El Capitan who was encountering a peculiar error message when compressing files from Finder: A peculiar error message. There was a blog post that suggested deleting and recreating /tmp, but I was hesitant to do so without further investigation, especially since the permissions appeared to me that they were correct at first glance. However, the user was turning off System Integrity Protection for an unrelated issue with Fireworks, and as it turns out, turning that off allows them to compress files again from the Finder.
I cloned a disk with dd on linux and want to be able to use the entire disk, but I'm not sure how as I don't think the OS is recognizing the free space that is unpartitioned. In Disk Utility, I can't select a size larger than 120GB (the size of my old SSD) despite the new one being 250GB. diskutil list output: sudo gpt -r show disk0 output:
At the moment I have created a USB stick with a very small unencrypted FAT partition which can be seen by the Mac, and a FAT VeraCrypt encrypted partition which can be seen on Windows and the mac. It mounts fine with the password on Windows, however when I run VeraCrypt on the Mac and try to mount it, I'm met with an error: Some googling on that error message has just left me more confused. Given that I'm running OSX Mavericks, and this image must be accessible to both Windows (versions >= XP preferably) and OSX (Mavericks or higher) without installing anything special (stock OS in other words), what do I need to do to get this to work?
How do I upgrade to macOS Server from a server running OS X 10.9.5 and OS X Server 3.2.2? I would assume that I simply upgrade the OS X to macOS, then buy/download/install the macOS Server app from App Store. Of course, I will have a full backup of server before taking these steps.
Have an older large environment running FileMaker Pro 10, on OSX 10.7. It's got: java version "1.6.0_65" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)
I am currently using iCloud Drive with my Mac and iPad. On the Mac, I am able to add color labels to documents and folders to better organize my files. I am wondering if it is possible to add these kinds of labels and colors to documents and folders in iCloud from my iPad?
I have attempted multiple times to update my iMac from the App Store updates section like I did when I updated to Mavericks, Yosemite, then to El Capitan. It would finish the download and then nothing. No attempt at installing the update.
I confirmed on another keyboard that selecting the address bar is still indeed Command+L. The reason Safari would open a new window instead is because the "L" button in QWERTY is "N" in Dvorak layout. Command+N is open a new window! It would mean that in macOS Sierra, pressing the command button does not always turn the layout in QWERTY, and sometimes it inputs the key value in Dvorak even if I press down the command button... How do I fix this issue?
I have spilled a little bit of water around my Macbook Pro and some if obviously got into the computer because it won't turn on anymore -- force booting it gives me the flashing "? folder" thing.
im getting issues while installing eclipse luna for MacOS Sierra 10.12 I have followed the procedure for the installing the eclipse.
I have an iPhone 5 and, like many of you, I receive emails on it. I do a little bit of translation on the side and receive emails on projects, where the email for example contains the sentence "800 Words". My question is, is there any way I can adjust my settings such that I only get notifications on emails containing the string "n Words", where n is greater than, say, 500? Thank you for your time!
I've got a mid 2011 iMac (27"). Originally, I had 1TB HDD and 8GB of RAM. Over the last few months, it's been getting progressively slower and buggier (lagging, app crashes, etc). So, I upgraded to the following: 4.0TB Desktop SSHD Solid State Hybrid Drive (by Seagate, from MacSales) 32.0GB (8GB x 4) PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz SO-DIMM 204 Pin CL9 SO-DIMM Memory Upgrade Modules (by OWM, from MacSales) Note: While Apple states that the mid 2011 iMac can take a maximum of 16GB, it is well documented in many places that 32GB works fine. My current stats are now:
MacBook Pro (13" Mid 2012). Upgraded to macOS Sierra. Booting with option and selecting Recovery-10.12 works. Booting normally (turning the MacBook on and not pressing any keys), starts rEFind version 0.10.4. Multiple icons appear. Selecting any icon works properly, except for the one with the label "boot Mac OS from Recovery HD". In this case booting starts and the Apple logo appears, the "load bar" indicates approxiametely 60% complete, and then the circle with a line appears.
Since last friday (October 21st, 2016) a reboot of both 10.6 (Snow Leopard Server) and 10.7 (Lion Server) result in numerous repetitions of the logged error message: LibClamAV Error: mpool_malloc(): Attempt to allocate 8388608 bytes. and
I installed Pidgin via Homebrew, and I created a .app file for it, so I could launch it like a standard application, rather than via pidgin from Terminal. I put the code below into Script Editor and saved it as an Application, and that was about it.
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro (non-retina) running macOS Sierra and I recently upgraded the hard drive to a 240GB SSD and moved the 500GB HDD to the CD bay, and then more recently upgrading to MacOS Sierra. Now in disk utility it does not show what file types are taking up space like it used to in all the previous versions of OS X. Am I being stupid or is this a glitch? Screenshots:
For reasons past comprehension, the new iOS 10 Messages app allows applying "effects" to messages. It used to be possible to disable the ability to generate or receive these abominations by choosing Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion but since 10.1, this now appears to be impossible. How do I disable sending or receiving "effects" in iOS 10.1 Messages?
I can't get Gmail to swipe left on my phone to trash even though I went to Advanced settings > Advanced for Gmail and the deleted mailbox is checked. Why is Gmail still showing only the archive as an option when swiping left? I have iPhone 6 with iOS 10.1.
I've upgraded my OS to Sierra recently, in El Capitan I had some apps and they were working perfectly, but in Sierra they show me: I even execute them via sudo but they won't work. Any idea?
Recently Messages stopped working on my Mac. Messages sent by my iPad and iPhone were synced to my Mac, but sending failed. After trying about twenty-eleven possible solutions from here, apple, and elsewhere on the internet, I rebooted my Mac. This doesn't happen often. The problem went away, but so did the last 2 months worth of messages. Is there a way to sync past messages between multiple devices? Iphone/ipad are on iOS 10, Mac is on Yosemite.
I need to shrink PNG files like the ones generated as the default macOS screenshot. SIPS was my first stop since it's faster than any other solution but I haven't quite been able to find the right command. This is my starting point to reformat to PNG: Which options are needed?
I am upgrading an older server. It was running Mavericks (10.9) and just upgraded to Yosemite (10.10). However, when I try to upgrade the Server app, the only option I have is the new macOS Server, which won't install on my OS. I've searched the web for hours looking for a legitimate way to buy and/or download this software, but there appears to be no way to do it. As I never bought the app, it doesn't appear in my Purchases list in the App Store. Does any one know how I can get OS X Server 4?
I have a podcast that passes all validation tests I can find, yet iTunes won't accept it. I'm hoping someone here can tell me what's wrong with it. The feed is *=URL=* It validates correctly at validator.w3.org/feed It validates correctly at castfeedvalidator.com It validates correctly at www.feedvalidator.org It even passes validation at podcastsconnect.apple.com/#/new-feed The only possible problem I can find is a warning message that states, "line 1, column 38: Use of unknown namespace: *=URL=* I've checked with the developer of the WordPress plugin (Podlove Podcast Publisher), but they claim that this shouldn't be a problem and that all of the other podcasts using their plugin (they have more than 2000 installs) work just fine in iTunes. I've asked for help at discussions.apple.com and the resident iTunes help expert (Roger Wilmut1) at that site says he can't find anything wrong with it either. I've tried writing to PodcastSupport@apple.com for their assistance on two different occ
I have a MacBook Pro 15" (Early 2011) model which suddenly is not booting correctly. Apple logo and loading bar appear. Loading bar loads part way, freezes for a while. Screen flashes momentarily, then grey screen appears. Grey screen stays forever.
I've got Verizon service with 3 devices, I've got an iTunes account. 2 of the devices are mine. I must keep the child on my iTunes account for 'find the iphone' app. Is there a way to share my contact list from device to device within my account without it being accessed by the child?
I'm using Mac OS El Capitan on the latest Macbook Pro. I was able to make Facetime before. But all of sudden now I'm not able to. I can receive calls! Everytime I try to make a call, I get call failed in less than a second. Any suggestions?
Is it possible to set what is the weight Keynote uses for bold text? I remember in previous Keynote versions I've had setting bold result in weight 500, but in the latest Keynote Sierra version I'm using, the default weight for bold is 900. I'd like to set bold to font weight 700. I have changed Character style -> Bold to 700 but that does not change the fact that pressing cmd+b makes the text 900.
I've been googling for hours; everything I can find either is for Bootcamp or doesn't work. So, I have a clean PC that I want to install Win10 on; I also have a Mac with a Win10 ISO and a flash drive; how do I put the ISO onto the drive? I've tried using Unetbootin, but the PC doesn't boot from it. My Boot Camp Assistant does not support burning ISO's to USB; it just installs from ISO directly.
I wanted to test SaltyBeer Skype Call recorder. So I downloaded saltybeer-mac-installer.pkg and installed it on my OS X 10.11.6. Now when I open Skype, it opens SaltyBeer automatically.
When on a FaceTime call and a notification pops up on my screen, can my FaceTime recipient see it on their screen too?
Tried to follow the instructions for installing Windows 10 here, but they didn't work for me, and now I can't delete the partition that was created. Is there a way to delete or merge this partition with Macintosh HD from Terminal?
I have macOS Sierra 10.12 installed, and Google Chrome 54.0.2840.71(64-bit) with Flash Player 23.0.0.205. I'm using the second monitor to watch movies. When I try to open full-screen Flash Player on the second monitor, I see only the top-left quarter of the image. Everything works like a charm with HTML5 video players.
I am trying to find the serial number on my Mac through terminal, but am getting the error seen in the image below. If anyone can help me, that would be great, but I understand if you've never seen this error, as I never have. I am connecting to the Mac via Reflection (the ssh app).
I have successfully installed Snow Leopard in a VirtualBox on my Macbook Pro Retina Early 2013 (running OS X Mavericks). While I can start the virtualized Snow Leopard in Oracle's Virtualbox or Parallels, I have no luck starting any Rosetta Application from within Snow Leopard. This happens even after a fresh install of Snow Leopard before any updates. All Rosetta applications fail to start or even to be install. Anyone know a configuration which allows using Rosetta in a virtualized Snow Leopard Environment? The software versions I am using: Virtualbox Versions: 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 Parallels Version: 8
I recently added/updated some pictures for my contacts within the built-in phone app. Gmail now somehow has those pictures, 1) how is this possible? 2) How do I limit Gmail's access to my contacts info/pics?
One standout difference for the 3770 series are that they both have lower Thermal Design Power, which will help with internal cooling and fan noise. BUT, the same series is also the only one without Intel Fast Memory Access, which sounds pretty great! On top of not being able to adequately differentiate them, I wouldn't know if any of these processors is/is not compatible with the graphics card and other components I've set up, or if they'll sun with my current OS. Just to recap, the hardware:
So google recently implemented reminders on both their web application and their mobile applications. This is a nifty little feature that instead of creating events on your calendar it creates these entries which, if not marked as done, will stay there until you complete them. When you add reminders a new "Reminders" calendar now appear under "My Calendars" list, however, I noticed that the macOS calendar app does not display this calendar, hence, no reminders there. Is there some way to also see reminders within the calendar app on macOS?
I recently attempted to enable FileVault on macOS Sierra. I clicked the restart button, but on reboot rather than starting to encrypt the disk it simply displayed the prohibited sign. Now I can't boot to my Sierra drive in single-user mode either.
When I highlight text and right click, I usually get this menu: Notice at the bottom where I have custom services such as "Custom Text To Speech" and "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track". This use to also be available in Preview when I would read a pdf but now only this appears:
After upgrading to macOS Sierra, Terminal no longer opens with a new window on startup despite having the preference enabled. I have to click on the dock icon to open a new window. Is there a way to make Terminal honor the preference setting? Here is a screenshot of my preferences
Whenever any external hard drive connected while it boots, even when it's flash drive, or external hard disk for time machine backups, it boots even slower. (2-3 minutes). I have Windows 10 installed on my Mac using bootcamp. I have Windows 10 installed on my Mac using bootcamp. I've using first aid on my APPLE SSD (not Macintosh hd), it said it gives me corrupt partition scheme ( I think ), and need to be first aided in recovery mode, but when I go into recovery mode, it still gives me the same reaction. I've using first aid on my APPLE SSD (not Macintosh hd), it said it gives me corrupt partition scheme ( I think ), and need to be first aided in recovery mode, but when I go into recovery mode, it still gives me the same reaction. There is only ONE person who I think have the same prob with me (OSX Startup Manager (Boot drive selection screen) slow/un-responsive in Macbook Pro (early 2015)), contacted him, he still haves the problem. There is only ONE person who I think have the same 
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running macOS Sierra, the Mac started to be slow due to storage. When I've checked my storage I was shocked, from 250 GB I have, 180 GB was allocated to the System it self! I've checked my friends storage and found that the System is only 30 GB! How can I manage this and why do I have that much storage allocated to the System?
I want to map CapsLock to Left Mouse Button using Karabiner Elements in macOS Sierra. I used to have such mapping in previous OS X versions using Seil and Karabiner but those no longer work in Sierra. I tried to guess what should I put in the configuration JSON but failed. Is it even possible to map Caps Lock to Left Mouse button in Karabiner Elements?
When I upgraded macOS to Sierra last month, I started getting this error on a few websites (Lifehacker, Xkcd, etc). When I try to read anything on Lifehacker, I get a particularly odd version of this error which says "Safari can't verify the identity of the website Kinja.com" ...but my link is for lifehacker.com
So right now my hard drive is not working as it should. I was running bootcamp on el capitan and decided to use parallels with the bootcamp partition.
I'm trying to set up a Win10 partition on my late 2013 rMBP through Boot Camp Assistant, however I'm getting stuck on partitioning:  Then after heading to Disk Utility, I try using the First Aid option and everything turns out fine:
Is there a correct standard format for pasting multiple names and email addresses into a recipient field? (Not names from the address book.) If so, what is it?
I have an MBP mid-2010, which had Sierra 10.12 running. I updated to 10.12.1 and now the MBP gets stuck booting at the screen with the Apple logo with the progress bar at 100%. I have already tried recovery mode with first aid disk repair, but the MBP gets stuck booting afterwards as well. What can I do to fix this?
Will my data on the Macbook Pro be destroyed if I upgrade to macOS Sierra from OS X El Capitan?
I go to the toilet for some minute and in the meanwhile the Mac start updating something. I sit again and see the white screen, the grey apple, and the progress bar which is almost full and think "Ok, this is not gonna be the Sierra upgrade, but minor updates". The Mac reboots and... The problem
I've searched high and low, but haven't come up with a viable solution. I want to enable sorting of these files by the sequence number in the file name, however the sequence is appended to the file name. If it was prepended I could accomplish my goal. Currently files in finder appear as: this is a great story_100.mp4 another great story of another time_103.mp4 yet another fantastic story_101.mp4 our last story_102.mp4 Trying to get to: 100_this is a great story.mp4 101_yet another fantastic story.mp4 102_our last story.mp4 103_another great story of another time.mp4
Note: – I am referring to an "iCloud" note that I need to recover, not the "On My Mac" note. I do not use "On My Mac" notes. – My iCloud notes get synced with my iPad too, but it is not available anymore under "recently deleted notes". I also looked on icloud.com but to no avail. – When I opened the Notes.app on the iPad that particular note was still visible on the screen as I had been working on it (I had not opened the app on the iPad for a month). After it refreshed the note was gone.
Your iCloud storage is almost full. You have 499.728 MB remaining of 5 GB total storage.
I need an easy way to switch files visibility on Mac. I know about Terminal commands how to show hidden files and hide files. However, I need a tool to make this task faster and easier. I was trying to find a special app in the App Store, but found nothing. Is there any way to show/hide hidden files without launching Terminal? Any tips or apps?
When browsing, particularly in safari, I get really annoying tabs opening up offering me to download the Junk software Advanced Mac Cleaner. I tried to use malware bytes and ccleaner but it didn't help. Also get pages saying your computer is infected yada yada. Anything else I can try?
We have a web app which is freezing in Safari 9 and Safari 10 on iOS 9 and 10. Worth noting this is a web page which is touch responsive, the users then add this web page to the Home screen of the device by opening the page in Safari and clicking 'Add to Home Screen'.
I set /bin/bash as my default shell like this: But it doesn't work when I open a new terminal tab. If you type any command, e.g. ls, no output is printed. Likewise if I simply run /bin/bash from a working shell it behaves the same way. My current shell is /bin/sh. I'm trying to change my shell to bash because the current shell (/bin/sh) doesn't execute neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.bash_profile for some reason, although it appears to be bash too: I used to use zsh together with oh-my-zsh but it was unacceptably slow, so I'm switching back.
I have a late 2009 iMac '27 and as a result, I am unable to enjoy airplay to stream video to my Apple TV. When previously I have used El Capitan, I managed to bypass this by using AirParrot2, a nice piece of software that provided all the benefits of the airplay for older iMacs for only $12. However, since upgrading to Sierra, the older version of Airparrot2 (2.3) stopped seeing my Apple TV and the newer version (2.6.2) which should be suitable for Sierra just wouldn't run (no icon in menu bar). If anyone have experienced the same issues with Sierra I would much appreciate solutions / feedback. Thank you.
pyqt4 is deprecated, but is still required for some applications, like electrum. homebrew says that it will not install. this is not possible without rewriting the program. can anyone advise of a workaround to install pyqt4?
I have a strange problem with bash: I switch my default shell to /bin/sh from zsh and it doesn't execute ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc when I open a new terminal, it only executes ~/.profile. What could be the problem?
Apple Mac OS can display a server side configured message when you establish a vpn connection (Cisco IPSec in my case). I want to disable this annoying popup so how can I configure the VPN configuration to just ignore this message instead of prompting me to press the ok button.
Sometimes the most simple things in this software are not obvious. I get a "Share Successful" message but have no idea where it is on my HD.
For the last month, my Mac has refused to go to sleep – even when commanding it to do so. The screen goes black, but the computer is still on.
Could you help me fix the following script? I have an actionscript which I use within Automator to pad any size image thrown at it into a square canvas. In other words, you need not feed it the literal dimensions of the longest side and then tell it to match the other dimension with the same pixels. (For 3000 images that would take up as much time as exporting each one manually.)
I would like to autostart a docker container in the background at boot. I do not want it to start at login, but at boot (to serve a HTTP interface to all my colleagues on the LAN) before/without anyone logging in. I have tried to start the Docker App using a file in /Library/LaunchDaemons, but it seems like the Docker App requires the user to be logged in first. When googling, I get a lot of solutions for old VirtualBox style Docker, but I would prefer to use the official (xhyve) docker.
Whenever I print something from my macbook the printout is always in color. On my windows machine, I could go to my printer preferences and set it to always print in grayscale. Then, no matter what application is printing, they always printed in black & white.
I tried many methods to toggle internet sharing with Alfred but its not working! Its driving me crazy! Can anyone please help me with an AppleScript which I can paste in Alfred and assign a hot key to perform this function?
I have a tp-link router with bridge option. I would like to connect with the router to iphone's wifi signal, and share it to an NVR using the ethernet cable. Is it possible? I tried it with TP-Link TL-WR741ND, but unfortunately the internet connection doesn't work.
I am typing this question on my mac using my home WiFi network. The internet connection is fine. My iPhone 5 running iOS 10.0.2, on the other hand, tries ad infinitum to connect to the same network, but displays a "No Internet Connection" in orange text under the network. I've never had this problem before.
Are there any drivers available for the Logitech C910 after OS 10.6.x? It works in Logitech Webcam Software, but the camera isn't recognized in any other application that accesses the camera. A similar question from 2014 led me to trying the webcam out in QuickTime; in my case, QuickTime recognizes the C910's microphone as "Unknown USB Audio Device," but doesn't recognize the camera. I've looked both in the Logitech support site and elsewhere for possible drivers, and haven't found anything, so I'm aware that there may be no solution for this.
I have around a dozen imacs running el capitan in a public setting and need to find a way to disable the internal speakers so customers cannot play music ect and distract others. Sound cannot be completely disabled since users are allowed to use headphones. Also, I need to find a way that is not necessarily easy for the user to go in and revert the external sound back on. I've researched this issue and haven't really found a solution for this issue since these are public computers and are not being used by myself alone..aka the user will try to turn the sound back on. Is there a solution for this that anyone has come up with? If anyone has any tips please be very descriptive. Thanks!
After upgrading to 10.12.1 my Mac no longer locks after display sleep. Before the update, a login prompt always appeared. This is either using: The keyboard (⌘ ⌥ power) Timing out (set for 10min) Closing the clam shell.
I have reviewed the askdifferent question here: "This Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account" - I hate to open a new question on this topic, but none of the answers or suggestions have worked for me. I can login to iCloud.com using the ID and can access mail, etc. with no problems. I have tried logging into iCloud in System Preferences and I get the error in the title. I have tried adding the iCloud ID to the user in "Users and Groups" and also without the iCloud ID there and I get the same error. I have rebooted multiple times. I have applied all available security updates to the system. I have run out of things to try... System information is shown below.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a Mac mini 2.1. The hard disk is 80 GB and the first half is occupied by the Mac OS X and on the second half I'm trying to install Debian. I tried to follow a lot of different tutorials and two Linux distros: debian-mac-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso debian-mac-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso debian-mac-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso debian-mac-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso
I have answered 'No' to Siri initial prompt, but I can still see it in my process list. I've tried to kill it, but it loads again immediately. How can I unload and remove Siri from my Mac?
My wife just forwarded me an Instagram video in the Messages app, and annoyingly, the video began auto-playing on my phone (though without audio). Every time I go back to that conversation, the video starts up again. Is there a setting, either in iMessage or in Instagram itself, to disable this auto-play?
I am a user of TeXShop, an application launched from the Launchpad. Everything works great except that in order to get full functionality, I need to set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. (To be precise, the variable must be set for certain processes launched by TexShop. It is normally inherited from the parent process.)
I play clash royale, and got pretty far up. However, I refused to sign into game center because I though it was stupid. I recently lost my iPod touch that I played on, and now have a new phone. Is there any way that I can get back my progress on the same account? I would really appreciate if you could help, even if it's a no. To review, I have not signed into game center at all, and I'm trying to get back my progress from my other account. I still know my Clash Royale username. Thanks again!
I am distributing my (heavily edited in the picture below) app via a read-only installer DMG. Both the app and the DMG are signed and pass the Gateway validation. My build machine is an El Capitan 10.11.6. On Sierra (10.12) only, after mounting the DMG, this is what Finder shows me (except the popup on the left that, of course, I trigger afterwards):
The modem is an Asus, RT-N66U. The router is an ARRIS surfboard SB6141. The connection is wireless.
I'm running a Late 2012 Mac mini Server, with macOS Sierra. This particular server has a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM and SSD internal drives. The server is mostly idle, and is used as a Time Machine server for 2 users.
I looked at restrictions and volume limit, but it does not limit volume for all apps (eg. youtube or VLC). Is there any way I can limit volume for all apps?
*=URL=* okay so basically half a week ago my computer would start making weird sounds and not letting me click on anything. pretty sure that's not normal for macs, but anyway, i have searched long and hard for the solution tried restarting my computer, using all the computer repair tools built into the mac literally nothing has helped. now i have two main theories, either my computer has been cursed or hive a virus. no clue what to do. any help at all would be very very very much appreciated Ps: i had to use someone else's computer to post this (yes it's that bad)
I edit Markdown documents on iPhone 7 sometimes. Some of the documents I want to work with are pretty long — 15,000 words or more. When I open a document to work on it (for example in the Byword or Ulysses apps, or even just a really long email), usually I want to append new text to the end of the document. Scrolling to the end of a 15k-word file by swiping repeatedly takes a really long time. Is there some functional equivalent of an "end" button in iOS? UPDATE
I have an external bluetooth keyboard attached to my macbook pro. I don't have function "fn" key on my external keyboard. The shortcut to call siri is fn + space. How am I supposed to call Siri now? Also I don't wish to change this shortcut.
Suddenly, today my 5c decided it would no longer display message alerts. No sound, no pop up, no vibration just the little red badges over the icon to show theres no messages. Everything's on in settings. Would anyone know why this has happened?
Today I wanted to backup my old iPhone which I didn't use for a long time and never tried to unlock it for one year now. It was just laying around. Upon charging and starting it up, I saw this message:
I am trying to configure a new mail account for IMAP. In iOS 10, I go Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add Mail Account. After I supply my Email and password at this time, iOS seems to attempt connecting with POP and if this works (which is the case) does not offer IMAP as a choice. So how can I configure an IMAP mail account with iOS 10?
I observed that quite often some accounts on Messages.app (Mac OS Sierra) may become offline and I want to automate the reconnection when I connect to VPN. So, the question is: what command line commands should I run in order to start Messages.app and restore connections. Note: Messages.app may already be opened but my account may be offline.
Spotlight has ghost entries for an USB disk that I cannot get rid of. It links to a bootable usb disk that is not currently connected. I have added that disk to Spotlight Privacy. Nothing I have tried unloading, reseting, deleting and reloading spotlight. Nothing. These ghost entries do not show up when using Finder search.
If an app running on my iPhone is currently in the process of background refreshing, if I open up the app and bring it to the foreground, what happens to the app and to the background fetch? Does the background refresh process keep running until it is complete or times out, or does it stop the process? Does it prevent the app from loading until it's background refresh process has completed?
I am looking for a way to stop sending an email if there are any spelling errors on outlook 2016 Mac. I know you can do this on windows outlook. Can someone please shed some advise on this. Many Thanks
I have an Applescript script which checks if my playlist has less than 25 songs in it shorter than 11 minutes and then moves some random files from another folder to my Temp folder to make up the number. Is there any reason the "Finder" bit of the script is so slow (it takes nearly 15 seconds to execute)? Any code workaround I could use here? Can anyone help?
Will update what I have tried as time goes on. I think that anything with the (probably glitched) document will freeze Pages, while anything else will not. For example, I tried making a new document and it worked fine. It doesn't matter whether I lose the document or not. Thanks!
I'm using I-phone 6s, today i suddenly found a notification box showing "select a wireless network" when i reached my office. I can't see any networks and at the bottom there is CANCEL option but its not cancelling. please help me out in cancelling it as iam not able to do anything(including switch off or attending calls) thanks.
I made a Carbon Copy Cloner clone of a hard disk to an external EVO 850. Then the EVO 850 was placed internally to MBP 2011 and all worked perfectly fine.
Whenever I start a new session with iTerm, it sends sudo su and PS1="[web stage | \d \t \w]:" to the terminal window. I'm think this is something that someone set up for me in iTerm a long time ago. It's very irritating and I want it to stop. :-)
Why my calendar shows local time AND GMT+N hours? How can I get rid of this GMT+N addition?
I have a modem/router in my room which is at the back of the house. As I was having poor reception in the front side of my home, I've got one of the cheap ADSL routers and I'm using that as another hotspot (connected via ethernet to my fiber router) and I'm using that for the WiFi at the living room. Whenever I come home from outside, I first pass through the living room momentarily to get to my room. And all my Apple devices insist on automatically connecting to the living room's hotspot, which has poor reception in my room. If it connects even once, it will not automatically connect to the much stronger hotspot unless I turn off Wifi and turn it on again manually. It sucks because when I arrive home, I almost always need to turn off Wifi on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro, which is extremely inconvenient. Deleting the living room's password from my keychain would obviously avoid the issue, though I'd always need to re-enter the password and delete it afterwards when I use the intern
I'm trying to let someone hear all sounds played on my Mac while talking in Skype. Simple test: call Skype test while playing Youtube music and talking, both talk and music should be recorded and played back. For this I created two devices in Audio MIDI Setup app: Aggregate device (Built-in Mic, Soundflower(64ch)) and Multi-Output device (Built-in Output, Soundflower(64ch)) I selected them as default input and default output correspondingly. Depending on ordering of Soundflower and Mic in Aggregate device either only talk or only music is recorded. How to change Aggregate device to record (transfer in Skype) both background music and talk?
Let's say I have: A txt file A 1920x1080 image I would like to generate a video like this where text is scrolling and audio is the output of the say command using automator (even a bash script is enough). I was digging a bit with ffmpeg but with no success. Can you help?
Now nothing happens. If I click on the Notifications panel, it's listed in the side bar, but it doesn't pop-up.
This one is becoming a huge pain. Every app where I try to open the file open dialog hangs with the cursor turning into the waiting cursor. E.g. Open gmail in Google chrome or Safari, compose a new email and click "attach a file" button.
I have 2 monitors on a Mac Mini (El Capitan) both plugged via HDMI. Whenever I move the mouse from one monitor to the other, I cannot directly interact with the applications on the screen where the mouse is. I must first click on the mouse.
I often use the following command to get a new terminal on XQuartz. However, since the last update of XQuartz, it takes about 1 min for the new terminal to open, whereas a simple xterm command without any options is immediate. Could someone help me out with this?
Recently upgrade iPhone 6S to 10.1 and iTunes to 12.5.1 Mainly use iTunes to sync my Outlook contacts and calendar via USB cable only (not Wi-Fi). Appears to begin sync and stops part ways through process and sounds as though sync is complete. Do not use iCloud for sync.
How to (inexpensively) lower the screen height of an iMac 27? (late 2013 if it matters) I can't damage the computer so torching the stand until it bends to lower the height of the screen is out of the question.
So when there's an Apple Event, and someone does a demo of how Siri works or play a game, etc; Are those done on real time or were they prerecorded? (Just a PPT presentation)
While connected to the Skype Meetings App, you are given the option to specify specific devices for audio output and input. However, since this is a selection within the Skype application, normal volume control doesn't seem to function. Instead, increasing/decreasing volume seems to change the volume settings of the primary audio device.
My spouse frequently snoops thru my iPhone at night, how can I disable my iMessage app on iPhone?
I ran a batch rename of all files named index.html to index.php with Automator - I meant to run it on a specific folder and instead ran it on my whole computer. I can't undo the changes as far as I know (no time machine backup either). Does automator have a log of the files that were changed?
I found on here that deleting an Application (in order to free up disk space) is as easy as moving an application to the trash and then emptying the trash. I tried deleting XCode. It was 12GB in size. So I deleted it and saw my Apps disk usage decrease by 12GB but saw my Other increase by 6GB. Did it just move half of the supporting files to Other? And if so, why weren't all 12GB of (related) files not deleted?
I often have to use the Ctrl A and Ctrl E shortcuts to get to the start and end of lines in Outlook, and it looks like in the latest version (15.27), these no longer work. Instead Ctrl A behaves like Windows and selects everything, and Ctrl E doesn't seem to do anything. I can't figure out anything in settings or another way to override this behavior - has anyone encountered this or figured out a workaround?
I have (probably accidentally) changed the speed on my podcasts, so that they are now playing at (I believe) double or 1.5 speed. I want to change back to normal speed. I have searched Google for some time, but every 'answer' references a speed button that it meant to be near the 'time bar'. I can't find any speed (1x or similiar) button anywhere on the podcast screen or in podcast settings. Help!
I'm wondering if the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar that was announced on October 27, 2016 can drive 4 external monitors? It says it has 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, but can the graphics card handle 4 monitors?
For some reason, I can not longer complete a backup to a remote Time Machine server. In the error log, I see thousands of error messages. Here's generally what they look like: 2016-10-27 16:13:31.330679-0500 localhost mtmd[745]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogError] -[FileAttrs writeAttributesToItemAtPath:] setattrlist failed for path '/.MobileBackups/Computer/2016-10-27-161316/Volume/Library/Preferences' (errno 1) The errors are slightly different only at the end (/.MobileBackups/Computer...) Ultimately, the backup takes days before the connection to the server is reset for some reason and the backup fails to complete. What are these errors and what do I need to do to fix this?
My MBP start to act weird; the trackpad has a mind of its own. While I am writing this, I have to be in Safe Mode as it let me control more than in when in normal mode, although it has auto zoom the screen. In normal mode, the clicks are happening on their own, something lookup, many times dictionary open up, and zoom is happening.
My dock tells me I have 8 available updates:  I also got the notification asking to install updates. However, when I open App Store, I only see recently installed updates (with no updates to apps or software visible):
I'm trying to use some shortcuts in Sublime Text 3 (on OS X 10.9.5), but every time I press command-control-up or command-control-down, I get a Space Above or Space Below message. It doesn't do anything, and I don't really care about spaces, and I want to disable this so that OS X stops hijacking the keyboard sequence that I'm trying to use. As far as I can tell, I don't use spaces at all, and would be totally cool with disabling that completely if that's an option (unless I am using it behind the scenes without realizing it).
My updates badge shows 6 (also in the  menu), but the section in the updates tab seems to be collapsed (top separator line is thicker, like two lines) and not showing the available apps. I'm currently running macOS 10.12.1 (Mac App Store 2.2) and first noticed this problem today. The other tabs are behaving normally and this badge has changed from 5 to 6 updates today. I've tried restarting my computer, but the problem persists. Any ideas for fixing this?
pod install realm heeeyy dude, you can't access pod cause you are not root .!.
Before I go sleep, I use to put macbook pro to sleep. I mean, press apple menu, and then Sleep option in the menu.
How do configure it all. From what i manage to understand it's now PF that does that, but with all the info out there i'm not sure what is what. I gathered so far that it can only be done command line for the PF and NAT and I guess that you can use the MAC Gui for the DHCP part?
I have a Linux web server running in VirtualBox and after upgrading to Sierra I found that my sites on the web server are extremely slow to load. It takes minutes. I thought it had to do with something about the VirtualBox guest installation so I set up my sites in a Docker container but I'm seeing the same thing.
My Apple Store notifies me that i have 4 updates, but when i go to the Updates tab i cant see anything.
Anybody know why in the new Macbook Pro 2016, they remove the ESC, F1->F12 keys with the Touch Bar but the Fn key is still there? a busy cat http://images.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/j/images/overview/keyboard_gallery1_large.jpg
Before installing iOS 10, whenever I plugged in my headphones (or car adapter), the lock screen music player would pop up (which is very convenient). Was this a deliberate change to the OS, or some problem specific to me? Is there some way to reenable this feature?
Just upgraded to macOS 10.12.1 Sierra and the mirroring display options keeps oscillating between: "Looking for Apple TV" and "Off". In preferences i have turned AirPlay Off. But it keeps looking for AppleTV. As recommended in an earlier discussion i tried: but it gave an error:
I am trying to restore an iPhone 6s with a non functioning home button. iTunes tells me in order to restore it I need to click "trust this computer", however the iPhone says "iPhone is disabled, connect to itunes." , so there is no way to even unlock it to trust it. What should I do?
When I look at my wifi.log, I get the following output:  Note that it's adding a few lines every few seconds. What's going on? Should I be concerned that it seems to be "changing quality" every few seconds?
Unfortunately, I can not find a way to start this update remotely. I did come across the "About" page in the web view of the "Profile Manager", which has a section on: "OS, Built-In App, System Data File, and Security Updates", but that simply says "No Updates Available." When I check inside the iOS device under "Software Update", I see "iOS 10.1", though.
I upgraded xcode from 7.3.1 to 8.1 and also I update homebrew using [brew update]. after that I could use [brew upgrade]. It shown the following warning message
On iOS, under Settings > Messages there is a section called Audio Messages and you can select the length of time before expiry. I have always had it as "Never". On Mac however, it seems that I have to manually click "keep" to prevent Messages from erasing audio messages? Am I missing something? I am on 10.12.1
I couldn't find a solution for why BootCamp's "Boot to OS X" functionality doesn't work. But I found a workaround today: I set my master (macOS) as startup disk.
I've tried toying with the "Displays have separate Spaces" option, only to find it that I hate it if the spaces are unified. I really only need spaces on my main monitor. Using a 3rd party software is fine, but I'm not throwing my credit card at just any suggestion, so open source or other free software is preferred.
Yesterday Apple launched the new Macbook Pro with USB-C 3.1/Thunderbolt 3 ports, which I ordered already. At home I still have a fairly recent LG 34UC97s thunderbolt 2 display of a whopping €900. I only have to figure out how I'd connect them both? So my question is: what are the current possibilities to connect a USB-C 3.1/Thunderbolt 3 port to a thunderbolt-2 monitor? -
I am using OS X 10.11.5, I have a crontab file under '/tmp/crontab', in which it contains: When I run crontab -l I get output as no crontab for Jhon Any suggestion what I am doing wrong here?
After syncing my iPhone with iTunes, if I delete my pictures from the device, will they also be removed from my Mac on the next sync? Is there a way to delete my pictures from the iPhone, but keeping them on my Mac?
Since Karabiner is not yet updated for macOS Sierra, is there a way to map volume controls (increase, decrease and mute) to function keys (in my case to F10, F11, F12)? From System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Display, I can map brightness keys, but is there a workaround for volume too? To be clear, it's not an Apple keyboard.
My program needs to copy a folder from its own directory to another on the Mac. I have tried everything and looked in all corners of the web but can't get the path to this folder:
I am considering the Apple TV. The problem is, all the promotions about Apple TV have been very US-centric, so I'm afraid of buying a useless device (I already have a Chromecast). Is there a matrix that shows which content providers and features are available per country?
I'm deciding to buy a MacBook Pro 2016 and installing Windows on it (via Boot Camp) but I'm not sure that the new Touch Bar works in Windows. Can I use the Touch Bar to access function keys in Windows?
When I'm using Siri in one language, Siri can't recognize names in another language. Example: using Siri in English and asking to play a song whose band's name is in Spanish or French. Siri understands the first part in English, like "Hey Siri, play a song by..." but then if the band or artist's name is typically pronounced in a French way, Siri doesn't understand and tries to interpret the name as an existing English word and fails. Is there a specific way to ask Siri for this?
This morning I had the same Issue as in this thread. I had 7 Updates, but the "Updates" tab was empty. The "solution" seemed to be updating on the "Purchased" tab. But my tab says, that I haven't purchased any apps yet.
I know that there is one way to do this with XCODE 7, however this doesn't seem to be working for me, possibly because I'm on iOS10? I have an app that I'd like to deploy on to my iPad before I decide to sign up for a developer account. Is there any way to achieve this.
i want to transfer everything from one iCloud to another one in same iphone. i want to finish iCloud and i want to have a new one. is there any one to help me?
How do I delete the "half-cooked" Sierra installer? The App store and "About this mac" show that Sierra is downloaded, but I still have that installer hanging out in my Lauchpad. How can i get rid of it? Is it safe to do so?
Does Touch ID for the MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar support third-party apps? E.g. could it be used, in theory, to authenticate login to password manager applications like 1Password, much in the same way that it can do in iOS? To answer this question, I'm looking for some sort of factual reference to what we know is in Xcode, or what has been said by Apple.
My Macbook Pro charger LED (T Type) working fine as a charger. But even though I plug it off, (make it separated from mac) it still keeps flashing. If I separate it when it was orange, it keeps flashing orange; if it was green, after separation, it keeps green.
I've done this before on a previous drive I managed to boot OS X and Kali Linux dual booting with rEFInd. However this time on a new drive and fresh OS X Yosemite install I tried rEFInd, didn't work at all.
Does Touch ID for the MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar support elevating admin privileges in macOS? Does Touch ID for the MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar support elevating admin privileges in macOS? Somewhat differently, can the Touch ID give sudo access in Terminal? Somewhat differently, can the Touch ID give sudo access in Terminal? I'm guessing that the former may be possible, but probably not the latter since it depends on string input. I wonder this because I'm considering getting a YubiKey which can do string input to password fields, but Touch ID for Macs may render it unnecessary.
I'm trying to understand if both the non-touch bar and touch bar versions of Apple's new MacBook Pros have the same generation of processor inside, but Apple does not seem to list generation of processor on it's website under tech specs (which is very misleading because based on the clock speed and i5/i7 listing, it makes it look as if it's last generation MacBook Pros have better processors than its newest machines). I notice that the non-touch bar MacBook Pro has slower RAM, but I'm not sure if this is because it's using an older processor or not. How can I get better technical details on the MacBook Pro processors (such as the generation) without having the MacBook in hand?
As shown in the figure below, I opened three Safais windows. To switch among them, I double click the Safari ico in the dock and select the window.
On Linux file manager, I think Dolphin (not sure right now, sorry) I can open Konsole just hitting F4. I would like to have the same on MacOS/Finder, openning Terminal instead. Is it possible? I'm on El Captain.
I'm looking for an app that contains a customizable list of fields, with a binary on/off or yes/no switch on each. This is seemingly impossible to search for, given the generic words involved.
On Windows Explorer file manager I can create a new file via right-click menu option. I would like the same functionality on Mac/Finder. Is it possible?
Recently I've tried to change the default application with which a file is opened, by doing the following: Right click on the file Right click on the file Get info Get info In "Open with", change to the application you want your file to be opened with. In "Open with", change to the application you want your file to be opened with. Click on the "Change All" button which is found under the "Open with" label Click on the "Change All" button which is found under the "Open with" label
The new Late-2016 Macbook Pros (with Touch Bar and Touch ID) apparently have Thunderbolt 3 connectors masquerading under USB Type C. I didn't pay attention how Thunderbolt 2 showed up, but I know that the original Thunderbolt appeared as Mini DisplayPort. With Mini DisplayPort (and Mini-DVI before that) it was frustrating to be somewhere and find that lacking the miniature cable interfacing with VGA/DVI/HDMI, one could not connect to the local projector.
I'm unable to perform a backup from my iPod Touch to iTunes because it says it's failing to read data from it and that I have to reset it to factory defaults. This will erase all data on the device.
I read that Airdrop will work without internet access. Will Airdrop work without access to a cellular network? Thanks
Any ideas on this one? Is the disk completely totalled or is there another way to get it to reset so I can re-back things up?
Very strange issue here. My Mid '11 Mac Mini (on OS X El Cap, 10.11.6) is randomly rebooting during the day and (mostly) at night when not in use. I will be up in the middle of the night getting some water and hear the Apple chime. Worth noting, I have never seen it reboot while I am using it.
I want to install Windows 7 on my Mac, which is running macOS Sierra. I can't do this with Boot Camp, since Boot Camp only supports Windows 8 and later. I need to boot from the USB, which I created, but I can't do it using the usual method of holding down option key while booting the Mac. I also tried holding down shift key, nothing works, it just starts as usual. How can I actually boot from USB and are there different keys to press in order to boot from USB or boot in safe mode in macOS Sierra?
In Mac's Photos.app, how do I get the GPS coordinates of a photo? If I go to a photo and click on the "Get Info" button, then I can see a map with a pin indicating where the photo was taken, but I can't find out how to get the actual GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) from this. Also, when exporting photos from Photos.app, the GPS information is removed, so I can't even use other apps or even just Preview.app to get this info.
Few weeks ago I noticed disturbing behaviour of my MacBook. Sometimes, but not very often, during shutdown or restart phase - just before the power should went off - macOS displays Kernel Panic screen.
This has been asked again but none of the answers apply because I've tried them all: My MacBook is a 2013 Retina Macbook Pro, so it supports audio through HDMI the HDMI cable is plugged directly into the HDMI port (no adapter) the monitor has speakers, and their volume is to 100% (Asus PA248Q) I've selected the HDMI audio output in the system settings I've tried with a different HDMI cable
macOS 10.12.1 (16B2555) on an early 2015 Macbook Pro. I can't resolve any .io domains on this machine. Other people on the same network can. This happens here at the office, and at home. I've tried different browsers, I've turned it off and on again.
How can I enable the Debug Menu in the App Store for Sierra? The defaults command no longer seem to turn it on.
I have an iPhone 6, and recently I've found out that if you put your finger on the thing next to the front camera, the display will turn black. but I can't find a setting to turn it off. Anyone know where it is? Or if I can? This isn't just calls it's anytime.
After weeks of troubleshooting failed Time Machine backups, I finally got a backup to complete by excluding most of my data. Now, I am running a Verify and it appears to be hung, with the destination disk with no activity for some time now, and the progress sitting at 86%. The only error I see in the log is this: [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogError] Failed to send message because the port couldn't be created. I've also seen this error in the Time Machine logs on other Macs backing up to the server.
I made a macOS Sierra USB installer using Install Disk Creator.app. I'm using MacBook Air (11-inch early 2014) with 120GB SSD, want to wipe & install Sierra with OS using as little space as possible. also interested in this post about installing without Recovery partition: How do I uninstall the macOS Sierra Installer?
I am wondering if possible to ask. Why songs with chinese titles can be arranged like english ?.... Taking e.g: C: 猜猜我是谁 Come Over D： 大方 Dangerous
I am running macos Sierra 10.12.1 It's a plain text file. I've put rw permission on it for all users, but the only way that I can write to it is by having an account with admin privileges use sudo to edit it. It claims to be 'locked' in TextEdit, and I don't have the permission to unlock it. Here is it ls -l@ entry:
I have a number of photos from a scuba diving trip last year that were shot with a camera that does RAW+JPEG (there wasn't an option for RAW only). At one point these were imported into iPhoto and then my library was later migrated into the newer Photos.app.
Say for example I want to use Touch Bar for time tracking, or todo list application. It'd be super useful to have something that's always there no matter which application I'm viewing.
I basically have no trouble seeing my own devices but I also see devices that aren't on my network in the list. How can I get those AppleTVs that are not on my network to not show up? This image is the devices that should appear (are actually connected to my network):
I recently had to restore a backup of my iPhone and when I booted it up it the only screen I can get is 'swipe to upgrade'. I'd really love to avoid upgrading past my current software version at the moment, does anyone know if there's a way to cancel the upgrade? Thanks in advance for your advice :)
How do you type control + [ on the German Smart Keyboard for iPad. I am missing the "Esc" on the iPad keyboard a lot in order to discard text fields. I read that control + [ might work as a replacement. How do you type this on a German keyboard layout with [ not being a dedicated key.
This setup has worked for me for a couple of years now. Ever since I upgraded to Sierra (10.12.3), I get only a black screen with the mouse pointer being visible though. When I log out (cmd+shift+q), I sometimes get an image but it does not really update and is displaced.
I use an openvpn client to a private server. However, when I run pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf I have the following error that i can't fix on line 20 referring to antispoofing. If I remove the antispoofing line, it works. Any ideas? My config is as follows: This is the error that i receive. This is in Sierra 10.12.1.
...after which the computer shut itself down. When I turned it back on, the same story went again all the way until it shuts down.
I have a plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ that should run as root on startup. When I run sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist, it works. However on reboot it does not work.
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo and I usually use it for gaming. I wanted to Turbo Boost it but how do I do that?
I have a mid-2014 Macbook Pro running macOS 10.11.4 and I prefer to have it on dark mode ("Dark Menu Bar and Dock" in "General" in System Preferences). However, every morning at exactly 7:51 it unchecks this box and sometimes right in front of my eyes changes from dark to light mode. I don't ever remember setting this in any setting. I have a small amount of software installed because this is a school computer, but I have asked our IT person and he said the software shouldn't be the problem and that no one else has had this problem. Also, I have f.lux installed. Is there some setting for this or some piece of software that is causing this and what would be a solution or workaround?
I'm trying to install new apps on iPhone 4S via iTunes 12. Music, info, photos are no problem, but iTunes will not allow me to install apps I have downloaded on my Mac via the App Store. All new apps have their respective "Install" button 'grayed out'. I have had no problems up to this point installing new apps. I have changed nothing on either the Mac or the device. All of the apps I want to install are free. Over 2 GB of free space in device.
I always get redirected to site feed.snowbitt.com when I run my Chrome. I tried to: -Delete Chrome from computer, and reinstall it. Didn' work. -Clear all my content, browsing history from Chrome. Didn't work. -I tried some free antivirus programs to scan my cimputer. Didn't work. What else can I do?
The problem is the iPad is connecting via my ISP and not via the SOCKS proxy. I have Wi-Fi disabled on the iPad so I know for sure it's not connecting via the router. Is there any way to have the iPad go via the SOCKS proxy?
I'm using putty as a client on my Windows machine. When I use the same putty configuration to connect to a Linux server, the locale information is fine.
Is there a way to filter the console by multiple criteria? I'd like to display only warnings and errors from the PHP log file. The following searches for the string error warning which doesn't exist
Before updating to iOS 10, I never actively saw the updates happen (the icon going dark, etc), apparently they always happened during the night or something. Since updating to iOS 10, every morning when I first look at my phone, I see various apps starting to download updates at the same time, which I find pretty unnerving.
If I reinstall macOS via Recovery without wiping the disk beforehand, what exactly will be reinstalled, what will be deleted, what will be kept?
Sometimes I hear sound of making screenshot on my mac - what can it be? How can I check if there is any spyware which takes screenshots?
MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015, macOS 10.12. Memory used now: 5/8 Gb, but lags occur after restart too. In the 'worst case' at one time these apps are running: terminal, safari, sublime, calendar, telegram messenger, iTunes. /.bash_profile
Some people I know have not been able to use function keys on their external keyboards after upgrading to macOS Sierra. I have not upgraded to Sierra because of this. Is anyone else experiencing these issues and is there any known solution?
Last time I got macbook and iphone from my brother. These devices were always connected with one apple id. I wanted to keep all apps and settings, so I did not create new apple id, I've just changed password, email, name of current apple id, so now it is only mine, not my broter's. And I don't know why, but imessage and facetime not working, on both devices. I can log in icloud, and everything if fine, but when I'm trying to log in on imessage or face time this appears : "An error occurred during activation"
I'm going on a trip where I'm taking my iPhone and leaving my iPad home with my wife. Is there a way for my wife to send me an iMessage from the iPad? Both devices are mine, so currently any message sent to one also goes to the other. But shouldn't there be a way for her to use my iPad to send my iPhone a message?
I have a Thunderbolt Display and am looking at buying a MacBook Retina. Is it possible to connect it to my Thunderbolt Display using the newly presented usb-c to thunderbolt 2 adapter?
I want my oldest folders to be at the top and my newest ones to be at the bottom. Sorting my Desktop by "Date Created" does the opposite of this, but how do I flip it?
Using Mac OS X El Capitan. I already tried removing the backup (which could be corrupted) and tried it again. Same result. (and removing the backup took like 15 mins...) What's going on here? I already repaired permisions.
iCloud asked to re-login with the password, but even though it was accepted, next time the Mac was restarted, iCloud asked again for the password. Solution here was to turn off iCloud entirely (with preserving all local data), then enable it again.
After upgrading to macOS Sierra I find that if I do, Apple > About This Mac > Storage, it just remains stuck on the "Calculating..." for a very long time.  I am pretty sure that this was not the case with OS X El Capitan. Does anyone else also see the same issue?
my email is my apple id so if it sent a email to my apple id that is ok, but i want to know if the person who pays for my phone, my mom, will get a notification. Please help.
I am new to MacOS (Sierra). I used iOS and iCloud photos for quite a long time now but I wonder why I cannot open any photo from iCloud photo stream in an editor like Pixlr to edit it directly. I know the workaround but I wanted to know if this is intended and maybe if there is a setting that I missed so far. I'd like to open photos from my photo stream directly in any editor and program.
The KIND is listed as SHAREPOINT, which I presume is the problem. I gather that Sharepoint is some new kind of network drive format? But the drive is formatted as Apple Extended Journeled. It SHOULD mount, because its all Apple equipment & formatting. Surely El Capitan MUST be backwards compatible with this configuration!!! I have played with permissions on the external disk, making sure EVERYONE has Read/Write access, and setting what I can to "ignore ownership.
I think I did very bad thing .. After restarting the mac and entering recovery mode and selecting Disk Utility I did erase "Apple SSD SM0256F Media" hard drive with all its partitions including Macintosh HD then I did erase Macintosh HD again with giving it a name instead of "untitled", now I don't have any operating system, after that I select restore from TM backup and I select last backup and it start erasing Macintosh HD then I get an error an error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk I did verify the disk and repair it , i got no problem all disk partitions are ok . My computer: MacBook Pro mid 2014 And this is a list of all partitions from terminal :
I'm running the latest version of macOS and always just use Terminal. Not iTerm or anything like that.
I note the question How can I pause the download on Mac App Store and then resume it later? saying that downloads can be paused in Launchpad. However, my Mac (macOS 10.12.1) has started to download an update automatically. I can see that in the Activity Monitor, where the storedownloadd is top of the network received bytes listing. And, now I notice it, I see the Launchpad icon in the dock is showing a download bar, "1.05GB of 1.54 GB", but right-clicking it gives me no pause option. It's probably the Xcode update, since that is listed as due and they are typically GBytes. Launchpad shows no Xcode icon, and no other icon in Launchpad shows downloading. Right-click of the app store icon in the dock doesn't give me a pause option. The updates screen in the app store doesn't seem to offer a pause option.
I live in Turkey and recently Turkish government has opted out of Daylight Saving system, locking the country's time zone into UTC+3 permanently. If there wasn't this change in action, time should have been adjusted -1 hour into UTC+2 today midnight. But since the new regulation, there shouldn't have been taken any action by the OS and it should have stayed at UTC+3 (time shouldn't have changed at all). But it did on my Mac.
I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro with 4 USB-C ports. I want to attach two screens, mouse and keyboard and ethernet to the MacBook Pro while using the fewest number of USB-C ports possible. So what I need is an adaptor with: two DP or HDMI ports (or one DP port with daisy chaining support) two or more USB ports an ethernet port
The facts: Today I got into my iCloud calendar, an event from some "fake ray ban" scammer/seller. The calendar is shared/synced with my iPhone (iCloud). Unfortunately, when I pressing the delete, the calendar popup told me that deleting the event means also decline it and the sender will be notified. I want remove the event without notifying the sender, because the event is sent to zillion other generated email addresses and I don't want confirm my address by "declining" the event.
I am currently facing severe issues with my MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) and my intuition tells me that it is probably a hardware problem only hard to fix. After all, I have used my machine for roughly six and a half years now. However, I want to make sure that I've tried anything not too complicated before going for a new one.
One thing that Windows has strength in, but the Mac seems to struggle with is a fully featured ID3 tag editor that has effective batch processing that doesn't cost and arm and a leg. Since most users rely on setting track info inside iTunes, there is a dearth of quality tools like Window's "ID3TagIt" which was my favorite back in the day. As people should know, editing data in iTunes doesn't update the ID3 tags of the song files. Therefore, when you try to move the files all of their markup data is lost.
I have an iMac 2006 macOS 10.4 and by mistake I deleted all the applications including System Preferences. Now, when I enter Recovery mode it only comes up with Macintosh HD and when I click the arrow it goes to a white screen and flashes with a folder with a question mark, and a circle with a slash in it and the Apple logo.
When I bought my iphone 6s the store put the sim card from my 5c into my new phone. I gave my old phone to my granddaughter just for the games that were already on it. When I get info on my new phone the same goes to the 5c as well. This includes photos, text messages, Amber alerts, etc. Can I do something so she can still use the games and take photos of her own (just for fun) and play games but not get my texts?
Since upgrading to Sierra and iOS 10, both my Mac and iPhone find an AirPlay device named "Apple TV (2)". The thing is, I don't own an Apple TV. Selecting the phantom device always results in "Could not connect to “Apple TV (2)”".
So I spoke to Parallels and they couldn't fix it so I tried VMWare. It is a little better but also locks up from time to time in retina mode. If you look at Geekbench the 12" is around 3000 - which is within 10% the Geekbench score of low-end MacBook i5 Pro 13" 2015 - and on par with Airs. Is this a driver issue - or does retina just require a lot more speed? Would a high-end new MacBook Pro likely fix this? Has anyone had these issues and found a way to overcome them?
After a Time Machine backup, a verification kicked off: 2016-10-29 23:47:35.736819-0500 localhost backupd[198]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogInfo] Checking for runtime corruption on /dev/disk5s2 2016-10-29 23:47:36.450339-0500 localhost backupd[198]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogInfo] Verifying backup disk image. 2016-10-30 09:18:16.815734-0500 localhost backupd[198]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogInfo] Backup verification canceled due to thermal pressure. 2016-10-30 09:18:17.167520-0500 localhost backupd[198]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogInfo] Backup verification skipped during fsck. 2016-10-30 09:19:01.016411-0500 localhost backupd[198]: (TimeMachine [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogError] Backup verification incomplete!
When viewing a long file in Terminal with less (or man, which uses less internally), I can use two-finger gesture to scroll up and down the file; it's great. But less on OS X has an annoying problem: When I quit, it resets the screen back to what it looked like before I started less.
Hello as I wrote on the title I have an issue with my fusion drive .. After entering internet recovery mode I only see the SSD ... Here is the photo also from my diskutil list and diskutil cs list :
I have a MacBook and recently tried connecting it to my TV with a HDMI cord. I bought the adapter so I am all set there.
I have an 16G iPhone 5s with iOS 10.1 that is very quickly eating up space to "Zero KB". When checked in "Manage Storage" the apps definately doesn't add up to 11.9 GB. When I try to remove some of largest apps, free space appears but shortly after is back to "Zero KB". When connected to iTunes Audio + Photos + Apps + Documents & Data + Other + Free adds up to less than 7GB only. Has anybody experienced anything similar or has any clue about where to look for a solution? Edit: Found similar symptoms described in https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/538v68/after_ios_10_update_storage_available_keeps/
I was performing a routine restart this evening, and all went as per normal until I logged in with my password to my user account. The computer encountered a kernel panic towards the end of the decryption progress bar and insisted on restarting. So far, despite what I have tried, I have not been able to get beyond the login. FileVault 2 was recently enabled on my computer. I have tried the following, to no avail: NVRAM reset SMC reset Apple Diagnostics (returned all OK) Disk Utility First Aid I am yet to try the following: fsck_hfs complete wipe and reinstall My data has been backed up as this is the beta system. Specs: Mid-2014 i7 MacBook Pro 11,1 MacOS Sierra Public Beta 4
I used to index my NAS with the command line mdutil -i on. Ok, I know it's not perfect, but it worked for me.
I know macs can be picky about how much their max memory capacity is, so what is the maximum RAM I can install in my two available memory slots? Model: Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
How do I install the "Ubuntu Hollywood" package on a Mac? (*=URL=* I am running El Capitan 10.11.6
I've recently downloaded an app. I can confirm it worked in OS X El Capitan, but it doesn't open anymore in macOS. When opening the app, I basically get a pop-up saying that the app is not supported with my version of macOS. I can confirm it is not a PowerPC application. I tried opening the app via Terminal. When trying that, I get the following result.
I have an Apple iPhone 6 A1586 from the US which was a replacement device from Apple, but the previous handset would've been locked to TMobile (always GSM and never CDMA I believe). I've inserted a new UK (GSM) SIM into the device and it's telling me the SIM is unsupported. I've checked *=URL=* and this tells me the device is not locked and can be activated by a new user but I'm unable to do that. I've wiped the phone and attempted to set it up as a new device but as soon as that new SIM goes into the phone it locks up saying "SIM not supported" but it will still work when I put the old TMobile SIM into it.
Within the last few months computer has been dying at 40+% After dying the computer will show the low battery icon on the screen, but once charger is plugged in it shows the battery has well over the % at which the laptop should be shutting off.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) and would like to set up two 24" Acer monitors so I can have an easier working life. The monitors support CDMI, DVI and VGA, I am new to MacBooks, so I'm not sure where to go or what to do, anything you can advise will be wonderful. Thanks in advance :)
I busted the screen on my iPhone 7 Plus. I have an appointment on Thursday to take it in, so that's OK. I backed it up to my iMac and I wanted to restore it to my 6s Plus and move the SIM card until I get my 7 repaired. However, when I try to hook up my 6s Plus to my iMac, it says there has been an activation lock and is asking for an apple ID login for b*****@icloud.com. There’s never been a user of this phone with that login. I purchased the phone at release and it was always tied to my regular Apple ID. When I got my 7 plus, I turned off Find My iPhone on the device and erased it. Since then, it has been sitting in its box. I have no idea what to do now.
This isn't the kind of slow when I get the pinwheel, this is slow like previews are INSANELY slow. The problem with this is that Final Cut Pro X works perfectly fine, however After Effects does not. The settings are set so After Effects can have up to 6 GB of RAM. Here is my graphics card info: Please help!
My password is at least 8 digits with a number and a capital, but it is still making me change it. The website says I need a "stronger password", but I meet all their requirements. I don't want to make a new password, how can I keep the old one?
When using Cisco OpenConnect client there are no problems resolving IPv6 only sites. However while using open source openconnect command line client from brew Safari can't resolve IPv6 only sites. Open source openconnect uses vpnc script to configure network interfaces. IPv6 address is assigned and connectivity is working just fine. Same problem with OpenVPN, both open source and proprietary OpenVPN.net client. While searching for an answer I came across a question first posted on apple communities exactly three years ago: *=URL=* but it does not provide any command line solutions suitable for adding to vpnc script.
I just tried to upgrade my OS from Mavericks to Sierra. The app store shows that I have installed Sierra (see pic), but "about this mac" and the command line both say I still have 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
Using MacOS Sierra, I have downloaded an unsigned app from a website. When I open it, my security settings prevent me from running the app (it is from an unknown developer), but I can open it from the Security panel in Systems Preferences. All as expected. However, if I put the same .zip file I downloaded onto a different server, and download it from there, when I try to run it, I get a different dialog about running applications downloaded from the internet, and if I say to open it anyway, it fails, presenting a dialog saying there was an error (but nothing about what kind of error), and the option to check the console (which does not present anything obviously useful). Can anyone explain this behavior, and what (if anything) I can do to prevent these problems when downloading from this second server?
While Messages for macOS allows for the deletion of individual photos from a conversation, the photos are not deleted on other iMessage clients so they have to be deleted off of each client that was open at the time. This is a problem when my girlfriend decides to text me risqué photos over the weekend and I left Messages running on my work machine. I guess I have some careful deleting to do tomorrow!
Is there a better way to update the photo metadata for pictures in the Photo.app rather than hitting "Get Info" on every single photo, such as weill a clever app or something? My goal is to add tags to my all of photos.
What can be done to recover the data: images, contacts, pdf documents produced by the app? the iPhone 5 + iOS 9.3.4 was working fine until it got stuck in a cycle with an apple logo displayed during start - when it boots, it stops on a logo part No updates were installed prior to the above event, and the failure just happened The phone in a DFU mode let's the iTunes to run the OS update to the latest one (10.02), but this process fails with an error code of 27. Some logs on PC show something along these lines: Code:27 Error:failed to mount filesystems... and before: CreateNewBTree returned -34, ... Disk full error .... ** The volume Data could not be repaired. ... volume type is pure HFS+ .... fsck failed on /dev/disk0s1s2 The update to a prior version (9.3.4 - the one it had before) ends up with a code of 3194 on a PC and TATSU denied image error on a Mac book / a switch to a different "TATSU" did not help - the same error is displayed. The idea was to fix the OS it had, especially if
On my iPhone, when I perform a search on Google in Safari, once a day it will ask for my location. So, it won't ask for that day, and then the next day, when I perform a Google search, it will ask for my location again. It seems to ask for my location even if I perform a search that doesn't even require my location. I want Google to permanently remember my location, or at least stop asking me for my location at all. I have already tried going to the Google homepage and clicking on the "Use precise location" link to try to get it to remember my location, but that didn't work. I've also tried clearing all Safari iOS data.
I have an iPad. Can I use its socket adapter (the part of the charger the connects to the socket) in my MacBook Pro charger
Context: With app thinning from iOS 9, iTunes does not transfer apps from iOS devices to the Mac (or PC). I know that downloading apps in iTunes and syncing them to the iOS device is a way to keep apps on the computer. However, I update my apps directly on the iOS devices most of the time and use iTunes only once a week or so for backups, sync, etc.
i try to open my website where there is some function to get current location and show the image of my location. but its only working when im using wifi data and when im using cellular data the image got blank.
I'd like to apply a mail filtering rule within Mail without it appearing in the rules list. Is there any way to make this happen, either from within, or from outside the app?
And then you can bind a hotkey to it in System Preferences (refer to original question). There are two issues I'm having though:
I've been trying to diagnose a problem with a MacBook that won't NetBoot off my Mac Mini server running MacOS X Server 5.2 and macOS Sierra. However it proved to be rather difficult when I came to actually looking at the server log files as aside from the server log they were totally empty, and the server log seemed to be lacking anything useful at all. After some digging around on the Apple site I came across this post which suggests that Apple have changed the logging system on macOS Sierra, and certainly following the instructions there I can find the logs, but they're still not viewable through the server app, and the official Apple server documentation still talks about logs going into the traditional log files. Is there any more detail or documentation anywhere on the new logging system, or how to get it to play nicely with the server application?
As in the title. I can only work with mouse and keyboard via USB/BT. Built-in keyboard and trackpad are unresponsive during the boot, login screen nor in OS. Tried: SMC, PRAM reset, safe boot, 3rd party service. Surprisingly that tricked worked 2 times in a row: Remove Existing Wi-Fi Preferences in macOS Sierra
Is it possible to prevent myself from using my iPhone (except say for messages or phone calls) between certain hours? If it is not possible with a existing feature (or app?), is there something in macOS Server (or other "enterprise" tool) that would help? I would like to get in the habit of not using my iPhone before bed.
When I recorded a movie with my iPhone, the date was not set correctly. So now the video shows up in the wrong order in the Photos app.
I have a Retina Macbook and macOS Sierra but the symptoms are the same as described in this post almost 10 years ago: *=URL=* I am using external display and keep MacBook closed. However when I unplug the display and later open the lid it either thinks that it is still connected or just hangs up.
Before maximizing an app (like google chrome for example) After maximizing google chrome:
I recently changed from using the gmail app to the native iOS mail app on my iphone. Now when i search for a contact in the address book to make a phone call it seems to have pulled in a load of contact info from peoples email footers, i have some email accounts for work that i dont want to clutter up my contact book, is it possible to only set the 'search emails for contact info' setting to only apply to select email accounts ?
Microsoft has released the new Skype for Business for Mac product on October 26, 2016, as a replacement for the old Lync for Mac IM client. On the "General" preferences page, the product contains a "Collect Logs" button. When I click that, nothing happens.
I am running into an issue trying to update keychain password with Applescript and Terminal. I am currently using this : and want to use: But then it does ask for Old password, New password, and New passowrd again. Is there anyway to get this to work, I am using this for work and for other users seeing a bunch of screen pop up is kind of nerve racking so I figure doing most of my script through Terminal will be better route. Thanks,
I have a mac laptop. At work, I have 2 extra monitors I'm using. One is set above the laptop, the other is to the right side. See image below for my configuration of monitors.
I have a MacBook Pro A1278 that recently had a bunch of screen flicker and then the laptop display went out completely. The system boots and I am able to connect an external monitor via a thunderbolt adapter. Detect display doesn't show the presence of the laptop display just the external monitor. Pretty new to Macs was wondering if there was anything to look at or test or if this seems like a clear screen replacement project.
The battery in my computer (MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)) is due:  I'd like to buy a new one. I'm looking for something efficient, i.e. having a long battery time and with the most refill. What kind of characterstics/quality factors do I need to look for while searching for a replacement?
Last week my Macbook Pro from 2012 suddenly had a display issue. I was working on something using my external monitor (through thunderbolt -> displayPort) when the screen showed some banding and the computer suddenly turned itself off..
Apple's Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter only works with Thunderbolt displays. So how do I connect my 2016 MacBook Pro to my Display Port monitor?
I disabled macOS Sierra storage optimizations and the Storage tab in About this Mac still shows over 70 GB as purgeable space. Is there a utility to display which files are considered as purgeable?
I want to create a simple Automator service that: Takes text as input from any application, Does some logic on given input Replaces the selected input text with the calculated output
If you turn off 2.4GHz in the Apple Airport Extreme, it pops up an alert that says Turning off 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networking on this base station can adversely affect the overall performance of your network.
I have noticed very strange behavior of the rings and Activity.app when traveling. Thus the question: How does the app deal with time zone changes, and how should it deal with time zone changes? Some comments I live in Germany and I'm currently in Japan which is 8 hours ahead.
I'm basically out of ideas on how to fix this or even troubleshoot further. From my troubleshooting, I can't put the blame anywhere but squarely on their firewalls making some sort of false positive match. The support folks claim that it can't be the firewall, because if it blocks your MAC, it blocks it for good until an admin unblocks it, whereas in my case if I shut the device down for roughly an hour, it'll be unblocked. Any ideas on where to go from here, or similar experiences? Thanks!
I don't want any sign-in, no Apple Store, no iCloud, no Apple nothing. Just want to use my iPhone as an internet terminal. The phone is setup to wireless connect to a Telstra 4g Air and it shows router @ dhcp address and then wants domain or ID. what does it need to be an internet terminal.
During watch mac unlocking setup, iPhone prompts for laptop user password, but iOS security guide (last updated at May 2016) does not describes, how that password will be used. Does iPhone needs it only for initial iPhone-Mac-Watch tethering, or maybe it saves password and uses it for every unlock? Does it send password (encrypted or not) to iCloud services? Do I have to provide new password to iPhone and Watch after I'll change it on Mac?
On my MBP (13-inch, Mid 2012), I note that the "fan" starts regularly for very little. Could anyone be able to tell me why is it the case and what can I do to fix it? I know if the fan starts it is because the temperature is to height, but I don't know what to do to decrease the temperature when I work on my computer.
I have been having an issue lately where after using my computer for awhile I will have these weird artifacts on the screen. What I find even more weird is that they show up in screen grabs, I have had this problem before where the GPU started failing and I would get artifacts on the screen but the screen grabs would not pick them up. What is causing this, is it still the GPU failing? My computer specs are as follows OSX 10.11.6 Mac Pro (Mid 2010) Processor 2x3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Memory 32GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4096 MB
Usually after I open quicklook and then close it again I cannot open quicklook again. And if I right click on an icon it lists exit quick look as an option but when I click it nothing changes. What's my problem here? I am on OSX 10.11.6
What does Settings > Privacy > Diagnostic & Usage Data mean? I think there is a chance that I am being watched.
So i want to know how to remotely unlock my mac via ssh so i don't have to put my password in front of people or having to make them look the other direction while i type my password. I have tried using the command on a post that is 7 months old but i get an error: "syntax error: Expected end of line but found class name. (-2741)". Any help will be appreciated, thank you in advance!
I natively installed Ubuntu a few months ago following this tutorial. I am now wondering if it is possible to go back to OSX or Windows? Currently when I hold option key on boot, I get a grey screen and only wifi connection settings are shown.
As a simple solution to avoid dead air, I'd like to overlap each pair of consecutive songs in a playlist by ramping them down/up. In effect this would be a poor man's DJ solution.
Is there a way to change this behavior to my expected behavior (the song I last listened to is selected when I insert my headphones)? From what I remember, that was the default behavior in iOS 9.
Does the Power Nap downloads the just purchased App Store apps? I am expecting it so as stated in this Apple Support Document - How Power Nap works on your Mac. But, I think I misunderstood it because when I have clicked Install below the Xcode icon in App Store which initiated the download, when the download is at 800MB I have plugged in my MBP-RD-2015, closed the lid, opened it after 30 min and disappointed to see the download is still at 800MB.
While I am waiting for my new MacBook Pro to arrive, I have started wondering how to connect everything together. My goal is to only have one cable to connect to the MacBook when I use it at home (which will be Thunderbolt 3 obviously). So I will probably get some sort of Tunderbolt-3 Dock with Displayport and Ethernet. However, I am wondering how I should handle audio: I have a 5.1 surround system which provides both digital (optical toslink) and analog input (using three cinch cable for the different channels).
I have just performed a fresh re-install of El Capitan on my MBP 2014 and have found that this setting is not working at all. When I log out, I leave the check box ticked (so I DO want to open all applications and my open terminal sessions to be restored, which also used to always work). When I log back in, nothing is restored, and my previous terminal sessions are lost. So how do I fix this? In general settings, I have un-ticked "Close windows when quitting an app", but I'm not sure if this is related to logout issue.
This morning I was surprised seeing that my Mac mini has updated to 10.12.2 (16C32e) beta although I did opt out under the System Preferences from receiving future beta updates . I am an Enterprise Developer so I believe that this is part of the Developers Beta and not the Public Beta, I mainly develop on iOS and would rather keep working on a non-beta machine so that my development could go smoothly without any beta bumps. Any suggestions?
I get the following error in Photos app on my Mac. I want to follow the instructions from how to avoid getting missing file error in photos, so my question now is, Is there some way to get all missing files from Photos library? It is going to be impossible to double click every photo to find out if it is missing. I need just the directories, i can place them back one by one and consolidate.
Either this is impossible, or google is failing me. Ultimately, what I would like to do is push system notifications from my Mac to my iOS device. Google only gives me 1000's of hits for going the other way around. The stopping point seems to be that there is no easy way for me to make script/app that can capture notification events (not script -> notification, but notification -> script/app).
I've been trying for a couple of ways in every way imaginable to create a Netboot image for sierra. Up until now I've tried doing the following: - Mounting the disk from a vm and using that as source - Using the Install Sierra.app as source - Using a tool like autoNBI - Doing the whole workflow through the automator
I need to perform an usability study of my application running on an iPad and would like to record the screen (video showing what is going on) as well as gestures (where and when users tap their fingers on screen). Tools like Quicktime Player X, Camtasia or ScreenFlow can record the screen video, but not gestures. Do you know any solution, please?
What's the best way of connecting two Dell P2415Q 4k displays to the MacBook Pro 2016 with TouchBar and TouchID? I have the monitors connected to an older MacBook Pro currently with two mini-DisplayPort cables. Can I somehow reuse those cables or do I need new ones? Apple's support page 1 lets me know that: "Note that although it uses a Mini DisplayPort connector, the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter doesn't support connections to Mini DisplayPort displays." So I guess reusing the cables is not the way to go?
Forgive me for what is probably a very silly question, but I just got my first Mac. I used to use PCs with Ubuntu because my friends got me using it because I didn't like Windows 8. I'm not strong with computers, I didn't like Ubuntu and all the problems that i needed a expert to help with so I went to Apple.
I recently had a problem with sluggish computer and I live in the terminal, so for me, when something's running slow, "top -o cpu" and "ps aux" are my bread and butter. However, I recently came to realize "ps ax" or "ps aux" or even "sudo ps aux" does not report everything that is running! Here's a screenshot while "top -o cpu" shows many more ruby processes than ps revealed:
When I double-click an attachment from Mail.app and it gets imported into the Calendar app, I am unable to change the Calendar that the event is in:  However, items that are created from within the application themselves can be changed without issue:
I'm getting the error message "Safari can't open the page because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server." Yet the page runs perfectly on an iPad and other computers. I suspect a problem with Keychain/certificates but I can't pinpoint the problem. Any ideas? Running macOS 10.12.1, and system date/time is correct.
I am getting an iOS system error: Could not activate cellular data network Turn on cellular data or use Wi-Fi to access data.
My iPhone was stolen. The person who has the phone accidentally face-timed me and agreed to return the phone, but hasn't. Is there any way I can discover an address just from this Facetime message?
My coworker uses a MacBook Pro, I use an iMac, both running El Capitan. We need to send a file from her computer to my computer very quickly. The file is over 200Gb. We don't have an external hard drive of that size, she can't zip it because her storage is low, and AirDrop is taking forever.
I want to delete an item from the Reading List on my MacBook Pro. There is no "X" in upper left hand corner. How do I delete item from list?
There's a peculiar thing happening in my launchpad. On opening it up anytime in general, all the folders show no icons in them but blank squares drawn using dashed lines, the icons don't come back even if I wait a while. If I go inside a folder, the icons are there. If I close launchpad right away and reopen it again immediately, the icons are there. I am almost certain this started after upgrading to Sierra.
On MacOS 10.12 Sierra (or/and OS X 10.11 EI Capitan) how can one use the passwords for ssh keys stored in the keychain headless? If one ssh-es in and left a local session running one can see ssh-agent is available and can be used by setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly
there is a situation that I can't resolve. It is related to the "Printer & Scanner" service on the Sierra. When I upgraded to it any app which tries to resolve the printer list crashes, including the System Preferences. I've already tried copying the default settings file: sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.old sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Assuming this is possible, what is the recommended method of running multiple webapps alongside the web based apps (wiki, etc) that come with osx server.app ?
I'm used to the ABNT2 brazilian portuguese layout, which is very nice for both programming and typing with accents, but my apple keyboard lacks keys that are standard for such layout, like one on the left of Z and a fourth on the right of M. As a result, slashes and question mark need extra work to type, namely pressing alt-q, alt-shift-q and alt-w. But nothing for pipe. So I wondered how I could type a pipe without messing with ukelele as suggested here?
I've noticed that when I drag my finger around the trackpad (not actually on the trackpad) that I get a strange little vibration. Is the haptic engine responsible for this? and why does it do it?
On the Windows Skype for Business client, to the right of each tab there is an X that allows closing the tab so it no longer shows in the list. I have not been able to find a way to close tabs in the Mac client, despite extensive searching.
I stopped using nslookup a decade ago because dig superseded it. Now I'm creating custom files in /etc/resolver/ and finding that everything works... except dig (and nslookup).
I wanted to duplicate a note and remove some of the texts. But I forgot to duplicate the note. So I did remove most of my writings accidentally. Closed to app and when I went back on it I saw the disaster my work have been lost. Is there a place where we can go back in time and choosing a note from versioning like on Dropbox?
I have one series of photos that I show to people I meet often. Using the iOS Photos app with an album is fine, except that it takes a while to launch and then find the right album, and sometimes that app is slow.
My iPhone is lost/stolen and I didn't have a password on it, lost mode is on pending due to the phone being off and cell data is off as well being that I'm in another country. Will lost mode goes into effect once the phone goes on? Are they able to see all my pics and data being that it was not password protected?
I keep a lot of apps running at the same time. I keep some apps in fullscreen next to the first desktop for general usage, and some other fullscreen apps next to a second desktop for "work" stuff.
I have setup a working Open Directory Master on on Mac-Server-1 running macOS Sierra and macOS Server 5.2 (latest as of today). I have also successfully started the Device Manager and enrolled a client computer with no problem.
My friend just tried installing Sierra on a blank internal hard drive in an iMac 21" 2010 (model iMac 11,2), using a bootable installer on an external USB drive. Seemed to install successfully, then rebooted, with a message saying the install had failed and advising: Shut down, turn on power, hold down D for Diagnostics. Holding down D does not actually activate any diagnostics. Any idea what might be going wrong, or what to try next? When trying to run in Safe Mode, this screen appears.
For the lifetime of a battery, is it better to shut down or sleep an Mac book Pro? Could anyone be able to explicit a full answer to this question?
How to use a USB microphone like the Snowball Ice by Blue with an iPhone with Lightning port (such as iPhone SE)?
I will be replacing my current Mac with a newer model, at which point I'll restore my Time Machine backup to it, then wipe the old Mac. However, I considered that it might be a good idea to keep the old Mac in case something happens to the new Mac, but for that to be useful I would need to be able to restore the new Mac's Time Machine backup to the old Mac temporarily.
Every Mac OSX/macOS update brings further challenges to get svn working after the update. Sierra's the latest. I have a subversion repo in ~/svnRepo
I know the Mac's tend to work intuitively... ;) Having said that, I often have wondered where the missing manual for Finder is hidden... Does it exist?
I am unable to search AFP shares on a netgear NAS device using spotlight. Spotlight reverts to the default local hard drive. "Shared" is not user selectable. The NAS is using the latest Netgear OS V6. The unit is new and installed 10/2016. Can Spotlight be used to search NAS shares, or is there another application that will resolve this issue? Thanks
I am getting "ctkahp quit unexpectedly" regularly on my macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Mac Mini. I cannot find any resources about what this process is. When this error occurs, my machine can't connect to the internet at all and I get a ton of errors, iCloud, etc. I have to reboot to make it go away.
I have a Macbook Pro, model A1502. While watching videos, the screen just cut to black. Now it won't do anything on boot - the MacBook screen just comes up black. I've tried zapping the PRAM, (ahem, NVRAM), an SMC reset, nada. It seems that the backlight is working - it's "LCD black" black, meaning it's not truly dark it looks like the backlight is working. Safe boot, boot to recovery, verbose safe boot, nothing happens.
In other words, which file causes Siri to stop changing PID? Even though I force process to quit, it will spawn again.
I've installed XQuartz-2.7.11(released 2016-10-29) and R 3.3.2 GUI 1.68 Mavericks build (7288)(released 2016-10-31) on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015). When I run example(plot), I got the following result:
I've recently taken the dive to Photos.app on Sierra and it does seem to finally replace iPhoto, but I am stuck in a rut with not being able to get to the original photos and videos via a right click and reveal in Finder function. Is there a plugin or some option that facilitates this? At the moment I'm having to drop to shell and issue an lsof to get file paths, but that's quite cumbersome...
When I get a message in from someone, and their contact card has multiple numbers associated with them, how do I then show the actual NUMBER that the message was sent from? (Currently it tells me the contact name, but not the number within that contact)
but nothing happens (even after a couple of days and reboots). Any idea on how to force a sync?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" Early 2013 with OS X Yosemite. While I was using a program (Screen Flow) non upgraded for Yosemite, my computer got stuck and after a while I decided to turn off the computer pressing and holding the power button.
I'm searching if it is possible to quick access apps other than Apple's on the lock-screen widget without unlocking the phone. Currently I can't find enough information, but based on what I know and found, I think it's a no. So I'm looking for an alternative. Would not putting a lock code on the phone suffice?
Print server (?) included in software / drivers. We don't need to admin / manage usage, more for handling the queue if 2/3 people try to print at once - we are all in different rooms. Ideally with reasonable processor / RAM to cope with small queues (generally not more than two of us printing at once) Usage / Speed
When I search for my app by it's name 'Go Arc 2' I cannot find it in the App Store Search on iPad/iPhone. I can find other apps that I've uploaded (we sell the app as a white label to different organization - we upload the same code but change the icon/splash and a short CFG file)
After I updated to macOS Sierra, Terminal.app and iTerm failed with the same error: Now I can fix Terminal with this. But then in Terminal:
My mac is still trying to connect to an old Time Capsule that doesn't exist anymore. I went to Finder -> Go -> Connect to servers and could see the old TimeCapsule server address: "afp://Timey%20Wimey%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local" (It was not listed in the favorites box however) Running OS 10.12.1
What are all backups and percautions one must take while upgrading the SDD on macbook?(Newbie to mac world.) Can I use the external SDD as a different partition for my MacBook? Thanks in Advance!
In the process of trying to remove a bootcamp partition I got myself into a situation where I have two erased OSX Extended (Journaled) partitions that cannot be partitioned back together or removed completely by erasing the SSD. The only HD I can boot into now is the Recovery HD and Disk Utility does not allow me to erase the SSD so that I can recover from a time machine backup. How can I find my way out of this?
I can't type the letter 'l' (lower case L) in my terminal on OS X Yosemite. I can type it in visual editor but not in the shell.
I have bluetooth device (speakers set). I can connect/disconnect them in menu bar. But this is not very comfortable to do. How do i create a shortcut to toggle connection of specific device?
My iPhone 6S will not charge to 100%. I have iOS version 10.0.2 right now but I'm pretty sure it has been like this for older versions. It also usually powers off before it reaches 0% (sometimes as high as 30%) so maybe that has something to do with it. I just downloaded *=URL=* to see if that might give any insight. Is there anything else I can try?
The company that I work for currently has restrictions in place to prevent users from copying data to a flash drive. Now, they are looking to install iTunes on firm workstations to allow users to sync their media library, backup photos and videos, and back up their entire iOS devices locally. The security issue is that iTunes has the ability to drag documents into apps' sandboxes in its Apps > File Sharing section. Can this be disabled in a group or app policy without affecting the rest of iTunes' capability?
I deleted the Facebook app on my phone, however when going into the settings in the iPhone for Facebook it shows that it's still installed. When going to the app store to download Facebook app, it shows the word open but when clicking on it, it doesn't work or when signing out of the appstore, it says update temporarily unavailable to download at this time.
How can I remove large.MOV and add restore.MOV to the Photos app? My guess is an internal database used by the Photos app must be rebuilt. I have tried forcing the Photos app to close, and rebooting my iPhone without success. I'm guessing How to Fix Your iPhoto Library When Some Photos Aren't Showing might be a solution, but I don't have a Mac.
This may sound like an easy question, but it's pretty complicated as I found. I just want to simple, open my Photos application on my Mac, choose a couple / multiple of pictures to send via Airdrop to my phone and send them. When I try to use the Airdrop option after selecting my photos, it automatically selects all and says "Exporting 21 of 2233 photos for sharing".
In Recovery Mode, I am able to see the free space of 50GB but I can't add it to my current partition, nor can I format it as another partition. It would get stuck on "Preparing to partition disk".
Apple's controversial decision to convert all the ports on their 2016 MacBook Pro lineup to USB-C ports contributes to blur the difference between ports that supply power (such as a power adapters) and ports that can power external devices (such as USB keys, mice or other gadgets).  This made me think about the following scenario: you sit at a table where your laptop is plugged in on the right, and don't notice that it is plugged in, so you decide to charge it with a second nearby charger that is laying around (i.e. belonging to someone who lives with you and who recently sat at the same spot). What would happen then?
Given a root directory upon selection, I need to traverse the directory and all other subdirectories, expanding all subfolders, so that everything shows hierarchically in the finder's list view. This answer select-all-non-folders-in-an-expanded-list-view-window acts to select all items in an expanded view. I need to expand all subfolders, until all subfolders from the root directory have been expanded, showing the contents of the root folder and all subfolders hierarchically.
The System Information report for Graphics/Displays on my MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2013) shows the following info for the internal screen and for an external Acer monitor. What is the meaning of that last item, Television: Yes? This hardware is not actually a TV, just a display with HDMI, DVI, and VGA inputs.
The highlight colours in my Preview application appear darker just after updating to macOS Sierra Version 10.12.1. Is this a change introduced in the update or is this a bug? Note: I'm using Preview Version 9.0 (909.6)
I have an iPhone 5s and when the battery goes dead it takes a long time for it to become useful again after I plug it in. I timed this today and it took 15 minutes to become useful again. All my other phones (Android-based) never had this problem. My question now is, can I somehow shorten this time for it to start up? Note: The iPhone is the property of my company, so jailbreaking it is not an option.
It is quite often I am submitting binary, and it does not appear in iTunesConnect. Why? my strategy is that I resubmit it. But it is often that resending does not help. Do you know the reason why Apple does not let it appear?
Let's say I have a long list of clients in one column of a Numbers table, most of them occurring multiple times, and in the adjacent column are amounts due for services received, as depicted below. What is the easiest way to automatically add up all the amounts for each client and have them appear either in a third column or in a new table next to his or her name? That is, for Ava I would like the total of 300 + 800 + 1200 + 1600 = 3900 to appear somewhere next to her name, for Chloe it should be 450 + 950 = 1400, and so on.
I've got an IPv6 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, configured into one of my Apple Airport Extremes (which is otherwise setup in bridge mode). That's all fine, except that in the IPv6 Route Advertisement messages the Airport Extreme then insists on advertising itself as a DNS server for the local LAN. I don't want this, as I've got perfectly good BIND instances on my network performing DNSSEC validation and the Airport's DNS server doesn't do this. Is there any way to disable that functionality?
It seems that play counts are totally disfunctional in the latest versions of iTunes (versions 12.5.3 currently). I know that there have been sync problems all the time, but since I joined Apple Music it won't even increase the count for songs played from the local library in the local iTunes. Most of the songs in my library are stuck at zero plays although I listen to them often.
I am using the Apple Watch to unlock my Macbook Pro Retina (Late 2013) and it works reasonably well, almost too well: When I stop working with the Macbook and close the lid, but stay in proximity, I will very soon get a notification that the Mac was unlocked using the Apple Watch. Then a minute later I will get another one, and another one. I have gotten up to 7, but most of the time it stops after two or three. Opening the lid right after one of these notifications confirms that the computer is unlocked. I suspect that this has something to do with Powernap.
Recently, I’ve received a couple of spam event invitations in Calendar on my Mac. The most recent had only Chinese text, and recurred at 5:46am every day.
How can one configure the Firewall on macOS Sierra 10.12 to open up a single port (in this case port 3690)? There's no obvious UI to do this.
I did research beforehand on google How to Sync Any Folder to the Cloud With Symbolic Links and on Ask Different, but I still cannot find an answer to this specific question. The file I want to symlink to is in the following format: /Users/Name/OneDrive\ -\ X\ Y\ Education/Documents/Z\ Documents Z\ Documents is the name of a subfolder of (~/Documents)
I've got a brand new computer which I bought last week. I've noticed that sometimes when I cycle programmes using command and tab, some of the icons don't appear, even though the programme is open. The only way I can get to them is to click the icon on the dock or find the window manually. I've also noticed that quite often when I quit a programme it remains as if it were open in the dock, even though it has been quit.
I'm here to ask you if is possible to change Whatsapp for Mac Notification sound. I tried to find any not-sound in library folder and into Whatsapp's Package contents without no result. Could you help me solving this trouble? Thanks in advance.
I am colorblind. I am looking for an app to help me identify colors by their basic names (blue, green, ...) when I am working on powerpoint or excel on mac (OSX 10.12).
I'm using a VGA adapter to connect my Macbook Pro to an external monitor and I see the Macbook screen on my external display but I'm not able to move my cursor to it. It was working just fine a day ago, all of a sudden my cursor is not able to navigate there and I'm not able to drag any open windows to the screen either.
My Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina is having an issue with internal display. The lower 2/3 of screen are slightly darker and sometimes display glowing around edges and/or vertical lines. This problem intermittent, it will occur for several weeks and then return to normal for a week before coming back. I suspect it is hardware not software as the issue occurs in the same spot regardless of resolution or operating systems (I have dual boot of Mac 10.11 and Windows 10.) Screenshots also look normal. I've tried resetting PRAM, no change. What are the most likely specific causes of this display issue?
Manual untick and tick of that checkbox in GUI, applies tap to click straight away. Am I the only one who's facing such an issue?
After the reboot, "Update Complete", then "Welcome to iPhone" screens are present. These interfere with automated operation of the device (e.g. launching apps). I hoped I could launch an XCUITest to navigate through this pointless wizard but I get Could not launch “WebDriverAgent”: Unlock the device “iPhone” and repeat the action in Xcode when attempting this.
In Keynote 6.6.1, how do I make the "previous" bullets become grayed-out when advancing bullets? I know it has something to do with "Build Order" and "build out", but I don't want the bullets to completely disappear (with splashy animations) after they are no longer "current". Rather I want them to remain visible, but in a slightly diminished form. How to achieve that? I used to have this nailed down, but I think the UI has changed and/or I forgot how to do this. Kinda inverse of the animated gif found in the question here: Reveal each bullet by opacity in Keynote 6.6?
How do I add cover art to an .aif file on OSX from the commandline. With ffmpeg this seems fairly easy for mp3 and other formats but i need aiff's with cover art.
I'm troubleshooting a new external hard drive. It isn't readable on the computer it was bought for (my mother's). It worked fine, at first, on my computer with OS X installed but she has Parallels and a leftover installation of Bootcamp. When we setup Parallels she tried to remove Bootcamp but the removal failed so it's still sitting there as we left it. I don't know if the failed removal is contributing to this problem (it's sitting on 300MB of unusable space).
My HDD was working properly in mac. My friend borrowed this HDD for a day and he used it in windows. Later when he gave back that HDD I was surprised that my hard disc was not detecting and in the mean time I updated my mac to macOS sierra.I don't know which is causing the problem Some say updating OS caused this problem. Please guide me how to solve this. I am getting this image in disk utility but I don't know how to open.
How to get iOS Human Interface Guidelines 2016 as epub or pdf file?
I am looking here for my iBooks in macOS Sierra: But the folder is empty. When I open iBooks (the App) in Sierra, then all my books are there.
Context: I use a mac for data recovery forensic operations, and for compliance with my users' requirements, I need to guarantee that no disk writes will be performed on a physical hard disk attached to a mac until a user enables the disk. Question: Is it possible to disable all access to a disk, SATA port, or disk controller entirely outside of the OS, before the system boots? Disabling only read access is acceptable, but tends to be harder to verify compared to "make the computer act like the disk itself isn't plugged in". When we were doing data recovery with a Linux homemade tower, we would go into the BIOS and disable the SATA port with the sensitive disks on it. It's OK to disable the entire disk controller as part of a solution; these systems are externally booted from USB devices, and internal hard disks will not be used until they are re-enabled. The physical port to which the disks in question are connected will not change. What I've Tried:
I've tried cmd+ and cmd-, and I've looked through all the menus. I'm aware of "accessibility zoom" and it is not an answer to my question.
Recently my phone broke and it doesn't turn on anymore, and I have been wanting to retrieve my notes on iCloud but only found that the ones that were backed up on the iCloud were some useless ones that I don't really need… so my question is: is there a way to retrieve all notes from my iCloud from my computer without the phone?
I have a large PDF with lots of text and diagrams. I want to compress it, but the quality is just to bad when using the "reduce file size" of Preview on mac.
How can I permanently remove the sidebar that pops up every time I open a tab in Safari 9.1.3 on OS X El Capitan?
My trackpad is dead. I need to commit my repository with terminal. I reopen it, but it is still halfway behind a nasty window "None of your preferred networks available".
Ethernet dongle, both of them, are functioning. As well as thunderbolt ports according to System Information.
Once upon a time, OSX had samba, so you could do this: and it would tell you the remote OS or you could run other commands.
The email app on my ipad suddenly stopped working without me changing any settings. I don't know if upgrading to the latest version of iOS might be the reason but I want to exclude it.
I'm having trouble booting a 2008 13" MacBook unibody (A1278) that hasn't been used in ~7-9 months. The laptop is in excellent physical condition (not drops/spills), and worked prior to storage in a safe climate controlled space. Only issues prior to extended non-use was an old battery that wasn't holding charge for long and occasionally a spotty WiFi connection.
Hitting ⌘ + Z Undoes the last action, and ⌘ + ⇧ + Z Redoes it. In order to see what exactly you are about to Undo/Redo, you can click on "Edit" on the top of the screen. Question: What is the keyboard shortcut to find out what exactly you are about to Undo/Redo?
The App store is nagging me to update OS X software (like iMovie, Photos) that I have no interest in. When I click or Control-click the white space of the suggested update I do not get a hide option (except for the banner for upgrading to Sierra, which I have hidden). How do I hide an unwanted update?
Just recently my iPad iMessage is not the same as my phone, I have no clue why it changed, if someone can help me get them to be the same, I would truly appreciate it. I notice that from my iPad, it uses my Apple ID, and I do not want that. I went to settings and clicked on send and receive but it only shows 3 different email addresses no phone number. If I sign out, I am inable to send messages without signing in to Apple ID. Extremely frustrated thanks in advance for any help Bob
I know this might be an odd question, but I'm always trying to find a way to look up ISBNs without looking for them at Amazon. I hate that site. I want to type in a book's name and have an output of books along with their ISBNs in the Terminal so then I can export them to CSV. Is there a way to do this? I'm guessing not, but it never hurts to ask.
I've got a music collection of lossy M4A files at assorted bitrates that I want to transfer to my iPhone, and in order to conserve space I want to make each track as small as possible while keeping the quality of it indistinguishable from the original on my computer. I took a small portion of the collection (30 files) and re-encoded each one to two different bitrates to test: 128kbps and 192kbps (what I've been using up till now without any noticeable lack of quality from the originals). As far as I can make out, the 128kbps files sound exactly the same on my computer as the 192kbps files do, so I'm considering making all of the music on my iPhone 128kbps, but I'm worried about whether these files will sound the same when I transfer them to my iPhone 5.
Since updating to iOS 10, when I update my apps, some of the indicator dots are bright cyan instead of blue. For example, Deltek in the screenshot (compared to Sheets). Why?
Currently using a Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse with the driver software installed, and I have tried adjusting the scrolling speed in the system preferences in both Mouse Settings and in Accessibility (not sure why there is 2 different settings). If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. I have to scroll through a lot of code when I work and my pointer finger is getting disproportionally muscular. Using macOS Sierra on a 27 inch Late 2013 iMac.
I'm migrating a Win box into an OS X and I have around 40 playlists in iTunes. Exporting the playlists revealed some kind of dB table which I would like to process so I can replace the object MS path by the OS X path. Any suggestion? Thanks!
Since upgrading to macOS Sierra (10.12.1 non-beta), I can no longer enter the keyboard combination Command+Shift+Up Arrow or Command+Shift+Down Arrow. I use this in text editors to select everything above or below my text cursor. On the macOS Keyboard Viewer, when I press the combination, only the Command and Shift keys show as pressed down.Command+Shift+Left/Right Arrow works just fine though.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (13 inch Mid 2012) running OS X 10.7.5 I'm using a USB drive to create the boot disk, and I also downloaded the drivers needed from the apple website. After creating the partition and restarting, the system tells me that there is no bootable drive available. I try holding the option key and then selecting the windows partition and then it shows the same screen. Any ideas of what's wrong?
I want to rent movie worth $4.99, and i have $7.39 but it still asks me for Credit Card security code from manager!
Getting many junk texts during election season. Messages come to both my iPhone and MacBook Pro (connected via my iCloud account). I'm not seeing any way to mark messages as spam, nor to block senders. Opening app prefs, and trying to copy–paste the number into the blocked list isn't taking either.
I sit there with MacBook on my lap and iPhone in my pocket listening to music from the iPhone with headphones. Is there a way to display the currently playing iPhone song on the MacBook?
I'm facing the problem as per subject. The iTunes app will open and instead of showing all the content I get a white page showing Open iTunes U App and a iTunes U icon on the footer of the application. If I click on this I get a message saying Cannot Connect to iTunes Store. Surfing the web I have found various solutions which I have tried: Reset Date/Time settings Sign out and in from iTunes Reboot the phone None of these have worked. The phone is an iPhone 6s with iOS 10.1.1
I remapped my CapsLock to Escape in System Preferences, but it doesn't work. I had to install Karabiner and remap it using that. Is there a way to just remap CapsLock using just the settings without installing a third party software?
I deleted Mozilla Firefox and I checked my file storage and saw that within my caches folder I have a folder called org.mozilla.pluginContainer which contains a fsDataCache folder which is taking 22.7GB of space. Can I simply empty that folder as I am not sure whether that folder will have any effect on other apps within my laptop. Is it safe to remove that folder completely?
I know it's possible to change all the wallpapers for a mac at once, as I had a script to do this in the past (disclaimer: I didn't write it, but can't remember where it came from). I've upgraded OS (now on El Capitan) since I last used it though and I think Apple must have changed something as the script no longer does it's job. Anyone know what needs to be changed to get it working again?
All of a sudden my iPad sends messages showing an email that I never use. For years it worked the same as my phone. Does anyone know how to correct this? When I go to settings, and click on send and receive on my iPad, it now shows 3 email addresses and not phone number. If I sign out, it will not let me send any messages without signing in, using my Apple ID.
Following on from a previous question I had asked how to avoid getting missing file error. I am attempting to consolidate the Photos Library to bring in all files into the photos library. During this process I get a missing file error, when I choose the folder that contains the file Photos app refuses to accept this location and shows the following dialog box.
I am trying delete the crashing reports plist using terminal (OS Sierra): But nothing happen. What I am doing bad? Thank you.
Whenever I get a new Facebook notification, the same message is displayed 20 times in the notification center. I noticed this is only the case for Facebook, and I've been experiencing this since I upgraded to Sierra. Any ideas on how to solve this, or what might be the cause of this issue?
Since I've updated to Sierra and started using XCode 8, XCode started freezing a lot, specially (but not only) when saving. The beachball appears and nothing can be done in XCode. Sometimes it freezes for some seconds and resumes, other times it won't resume (or at least, not in a reasonable time).
I'm a web developer and I have a Mac mini (late 2009) that I can leave always on in order to run it as a web server for my clients' sites that I work on (before I upload them to their servers). Do you know how can I set it up? Unfortunately I have dynamic IP. Basically, I want to access them remotely in order to show them to my clients and edit/develop them using my main Mac or my laptop. It runs the latest version of OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and I own macOS Server app v5.2.
I'm using the Bedtime feature in iOS 10 on my iPad instead of my iPhone since my iPad has louder speakers than my iPhone. But now how do I see my sleep history? I'm assuming that would be in the health app. But is there a health for the iPad or is that only on iPhone? The data didn't seem to move to my iPhone...
I have a MacBook Pro running Yosemite and my Photos Library is taking 235G of space so I want to back it up into an external hard drive and delete it from MacBook Pro. I am kinda new to Mac OS systems and never really understand how the Photos application works. I have my iPhone backups on this same MacBook Pro and have also done picture/video imports via the Photos Library application. The Photos application shows my pictures / videos from 2007 up to 2016. But I am confused that when I get into Show Package Content of the Photos Library and then the Masters folder, I only see year folders of 2015 and 2016.
Is there a way to prevent files being downloaded into the Downloads folder on a Mac such as when I open a PDF file from the browser instead of downloading it? To explain what I mean, on Windows when you click 'Open' when the browser asks what to do with a file, the file gets downloaded to a temp folder.
Can I use my iPod outside in the yard without the internet? I will buying one for Christmas and would like to know.
Other users on Ask Different have suggested that my question is a duplicate of this question, but it is not. I understand why Time Machine initially asked me to create a new backup. I have found that many people have solved the initial problem by using these instructions, however there appears to be more to it. The top upvoted answer suggests I follow the same instructions I have already followed, and while I was able to repair the sparsebundle, my specific issue is that Time Machine does not recognize the plist setting reset and immediately asks me to create a new backup. The question is why won't my plistsettings take affect and allow me to run a backup?
Time Machine is set up successfully on both MBPs. They also both have SMB and AFP enabled under File Sharing.
I am trying to do a clean install of El Capitan using guide on support.apple.com. I reformatted they drive as told, but now I am getting an error while trying to do the new install. Every time I try to log in with my Apple ID, I get the following error:
I am trying to connect to Universities VPN. I am using Cisco anyconnect. That is the error I have:
I'm trying to make a disk image as small as possible with a few apps on it. I need to find out what framework packages each app uses so I can copy them onto the disk image in order for them to launch. How do I find this information? Using the console, I've noticed that some apps generate error messages with the Framework name, but others do not.
But I figure out, that is not true. The reason is that I opened a text already written by another person, using DV1-TTGanesh, and those letters composed of 2 things, are nicely in the correct font, and are not changing. So meanwhile, I have to copy the letter I need and paste everytime from one document to another.
Rebases and stashes are noticeably, painfully slow. This doesn't seem to happen with the outdated version of git installed by xcode - but the macports version and the version installed from git-scm.com (v2.10.1) run like molasses. I've seen a few places (including this question) state that WebRoot is the problem, but I am not running it.
I have recently upgraded my Mac to Sierra. After upgrading AppStore update not working. It shows I have to update for apps Keynote, Pages, Numbers and GarageBand. But while I want to update those individually or all at once every time AppStore ask for the password. If I put correct password it ask the password again and again. If I put incorrect password it shows that password is incorrect.
Whenever I click file-open or file-save as in any program, the finder dialog box takes a tremendous amount of time to open (approx 2mins). I have tried all kinds of solutions throughout the web and none have worked, not even temporarily. Most of the fixes I have seen say that good patches came after Mavericks, but I am running sierra. I have had the problem even throughout El Capitan, but it was barely a problem. On El Capitan the longest delay was maybe 10 seconds. A few things I have tried/noticed The problem occurs in safe mode, but it does NOT occur on the guest accounts Going into Safe Mode doesn't fix the problem Deleting the Finder plist doesn't work Deleting Icloud caches do not work
Considering getting the new MacBook Pro 13" with four USB-C ports. It is capable of supporting two 4K monitors out of the box, but can anyone help me figure out how to add a third 4K monitor? Would this require something like a DisplayLink 4K adapter? Thanks for any help.
For some reason, many of the applications' icons in the Dock's Applications folder were replaced by the default application icon. I've tried to clear the icon cache, but that didn't work. Below is a screenshot of the problem.
UPDATE: Windows installer seems to have used the EFI partition on disk7 to copy the boot files to. I managed to "repair" the startmanager with this guide here. Windows now boots on every startup of the MacPro. I can also access the Apple Startup Manager and choose my Macintosh HD or the Recovery Partition. As soon as I mess around with choosing the startup disk in osx system preferences it will break again with the "no bootable device error". OSX or the Startup Manager does not seem to be able to find the Windows OS on the other disk6 without EFI Partition. Interesting also is that even when I disconnect the windows disk7 I will still see EFI Boot in Apple Startup Manager. Choosing it will get a Windows Error screen not being able to boot of course. As soon as I have more time I will continue to experiment further... Maybe somebody with a better understanding of the Apple EFI Startup Manager can give a hint in advance how to make it possible to switch startup disk from OS side in a "no
I'm looking at buying a used MacBook Pro on that comes with Logic Pro X that's running Sierra. However I need to roll it back to El Capitan so it will run my UA Apollo console software. It's not yet compatible with macOS Sierra. My question is, since it's already on the computer, if I sign into my Apple ID before I roll back, will I then 'own' Logic Pro X so I can install it again after I reformat from the Mac App Store?
I have been using for some time Time Machine to backup to an external hard drive. I have just noticed todqy that even when my external hard drive is unplugged I can enter the Time Machine and go a few days back.
I am experiencing a strange data corruption issue while working on a L2TP VPN, after upgrading from macOS 10.11 to 10.12. Random corrupted data occurs in the middle of somewhat "larger" downloaded files, e. g. JavaScript resources or any other source files with a file size around 1 ~ 2 MB. It seems the corruption comes up occasionally at file sizes < 1 MB, but quite reliable at file sizes above. The position and content appears to be random. I am attaching a screenshot containing an example of the file corruption which occured in a 1.4 MB JavaScript file.
My iPad air suddenly stopped playing YouTube videos. Everything loads fine in the YouTube app and in Safari except videos. I can see my subscription list and recommended videos and I can also search and get results fast. But now just three days ago both stopped playing. I'm running iOS 10. I updated several weeks when iOS 10 just came out, but this is the first time anything is happening to youtube so I assume it's not the update.
As all symbols on the left of the call tree are yellow (don't exactly what it means), it seems like my code never really started doing anything. Of course, my code works fine and run without error in both regular and #define DEBUG mode whether on Xcode or through the command line.
I have a MacBook Pro retina 15 inch. It's a retina model with a i7 4980HQ 2.8Ghz quad core processor, a 2GB Nvidia GTX 750M graphics with 2GB VRAM and 16GB ram. I was wondering if I would be able to connect 3 monitors to it to use mostly for coding, but perhaps also some occasional gaming. would the best way to do it be through the two Thunderbolt ports using a 2 Thunderbolt-> DVI adapter and one monitor through the HDMI? Will they all work properly, will there be any difference in quality if I'm using 3 monitors of the exact same model.
I would like to create a Mac Service where I could search on some websites, from applications like Scrivener. For example (with "{query}" for where the word should be): *=URL=* OR *=URL=* I already have the URLs, like the websites above, but I just need to know how to create the service in Automator.
My 2012 MacBook Pro will not boot up properly. I decided to start it up in Recovery Mode, using Command-R. There, I can access Disk Utility, Time Machine and Reinstall macOS, and Seek Help Online. Being the idiot that I am, I did not back up my important data on Time Machine or on an external hard drive.
Sierra dropped Bootcamp support for pre-Windows 10. I've just reformatted and was running Windows 7 and OS X Sierra before the reformat but now I can't reinstall Windows 7. Is there a way to roll Bootcamp assistant back, or an easy way to reinstall?
Is there a way I can remove "Open in Finder" from a Stack on the Dock when viewed as a Grid? I'm referring to the icon the red arrow is pointing to in the example image below.
Why does my iPhone say Activation Required? It started doing this out of nowhere. I try to unlock it and it goes to Activation Lock. It says "This iPhone is linked to an Apple ID. Enter the Apple ID and password that were used to set up this iPhone." In the "Activation Help" link it goes to a page: A password is required to activate this device because its owner has used Find My iPhone to link it to their Apple ID.
When I returned home a couple days ago, I had a notification that some updates had been installed. This had rendered my 27" iMac basically useless. It lags horrendously with almost a never ending spinning beach ball cursor.
I have the issue on macOS Sierra(10.12.1) and still have it on High Sierra(10.13.3). I get this error message(not all the time) a lot after editing an image, and trying to save it. I can't quit Preview either, so the only way to close Preview for me when this happens is to force quit Preview. Clicking on duplicate doesn't work because my edits made to the original document don't carry over and Preview still doesn't quit.
Just got a new iPhone 7, but when it restored it lost all my Google Authenticator two factor auth codes. I still have them all in my old phone, how can I port them to my new iPhone 7? This is quite frustrating.
Essentially, I would like to set my phone so that all my outgoing messages to a specific friend, with whom I currently text back and forth over iMessage, are sent out over SMS, never IMessage. Additionally, I would like to block any incoming iMessages texts of his and (hopefully) they'll fail and be resent via SMS.
I'm French excuse me for my English. I've noticed, since I've updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 10 that I'm always out of storage. This is very strange for various reasons and here are some : I used to have faaaaaaar more apps (now I only have just a little more than one screen) - starting from home. I have 0 pictures/videos. No big app (Spotify, Slack, Tinder, Piano Tiles...) I used to have instagram, facebook and messenger but since I have this problem, I'm obliged to use Friendly.
Recently time zone was changed in Turkey. It was UTC + 2, now opting out of DST, time zone is permanently UTC + 3. All iOS devices updated correctly.
I have an iMac, its OS (EL Capitan) is located on an external hard drive. I want to install WIndows 10 as a second OS on this drive. But, since it is an external drive, I can't devide it into several partitions, using BootCamp Assistant.
I want to hide Dock on non-full desktops. It takes a lot of space so some applications are hard to use in such small amount of space, but on the other hand I don't want to keep each single application on its own desktop, because of logical grouping.
After a complete freeze and hard reboot on my Mac Pro, I try to find out why. In Console “Devices” I only see the logs of the last few minutes.
I grew used to the azerty layout (which was a bad idea, but I don't have energy to spend months relearning to type). I would really like however to have the numbers row behave as it does in the normal qwerty layout (number input on press rather than symbol). This is less for typing purposes than for keyboards shortcuts relying on numbers, which depending from the app either force me to add an awkward shift press or just don't work at all. Ideas?
Every time I select two photos from the gallery and mail them, the iPhone also adds two text attachments. How do I get it to stop that?
I have about a few hundred of epubs that I’d regularly been syncing on my iOS devices until I’ve updated to Sierra a few days ago, when suddenly only a few books showed up in iTunes. I tried turning iCloud support for iBooks on/off as some people have suggested on other forums but it didn’t help. How can I make all epubs from iBooks to show up in iTunes?
I used the commands: defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitEject true and sudo defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitEject true (as stated on this page - Remove eject button from finder) The command prevented the 'eject' button from working, however i want to undo this command... Can someone rewrite the command to undo this, so that my eject button can work again?
TL/DR: encrypted separate disk partition for /Users won't index After installing too many junky apps, especially system monitors - I decided to reinstall. I grabbed a USB external 1TB drive, backed up my main internal (815 GB used of 1 TB), and erased it.
Not wanting my documents on iCloud as they about fill my 5gb quota,I tried to drag the folder to my desktop from the applications window iCloud heading on the left hand side, POOF and the folder was gone not to be seen again, Can any one please tell this old fool how to get the folder back and out of iCloud forever, many thanks :-)
I made some recordings with the Voice Memos app, something I've done often; then I load the recording into iTunes and throw it in a playlist that does Sync with the phone. When looking on iTunes, at the phone, the tracks are there. But in opening Apple Music on the phone, the tracks are not.
iPhone was exposed to water for maybe 2-3 seconds, pulled out immediately, put in rice. Tried to turn off but screen wasn't working. The phone sat in rice overnight, but was continuing to get notifications throughout the night and my wakeup alarm went off as usual. Decided to take it out of the rice, check it out. Phone seemed to be running as usual except the screen was totally black. Popped out the SIM card to check if any water there, and the screen turned on, with a few black vertical lines on the right side. Worked for about twenty minutes, then went black again, although the phone didn't stop getting notifications. Soft reset brought the screen back. Gradually more lines have been appearing, thin white ones this time. Turned phone off, when turned back on, screen is black again. Was able to unlock to backup on iTunes only because somehow the touch is still working even though the screen is black.
That's the message I'm getting when trying to empty the trash. To my knowledge, almost all of this is just old backups from an external drive, even though the message seems to imply I've been rooting around (no pun intended) in operating system files.
I would like to format an SD card to fat32 with 64kb Block Size. Disk utility seems to do use 32kb by default and there is no option to change this. Is there a terminal command to do what I want to do?
I use MacBook Air Mid 2013 (1.3 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB, 128GB flash storage) running macOS Sierra 10.12 I have an external hard disk (Western Digital WD Elements for 1TB USB3) which I use for external storage for big files. It partitioned into 2 partitions: JUMBO (HFS+, 794.8 GB, encrypted) and JUMBO 2 (exFAT, 205.0 GB).
When I look at my website data I keep seeing websites showing up in there that I know for a fact I would of never pulled up or looked on. For example: there was one for baby names, I can't have kids and have never pulled up sites for that. Can it be that someone is hacking into my phone and ipad cause there's a lot of suspicious sites that aren't mine?
I accidentally changed the /dev/disk1 permissions on my Mac and want to make sure they are okay. I set it back to 640 using: chmod 640 /dev/disk1 Is this correct?
I installed macOS Sierra on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro and it corrupted my Windows install. I had Windows 10 installed. I did not install this using Boot Camp Assistant. I followed this guide: By Popular Demand: My "Better Than Bootcamp" Guide to Installing Windows 8 Here is the output of diskutil list:
I have a Dell U2715H monitor connected to Thunderbolt port on my 2013 MacBook Pro using a Mini DisplayPort cable. With the new MacBook Pro with USB-C port I'm wondering what the best option would be to connect the monitor. It has both DisplayPort and HDMI ports.
I am trying to connect an IP Camera (with an onboard web server) to a Macbook Pro (OS 10.11). If I use a router it's very easy: they both connect to the router and then the Mac can log into the camera and see its image. I'd like to run on batteries and so I want to do away with the router. I've set up an ad hoc network with Create Network, and my IP Camera may be logging in, but I have no idea at what IP address. I've tried adr - a and ping 192.168.255.255 (because subnet mask is 255.255.0.0) but neither seem to work on an ad hoc network. Is their another builtin or add-on tool I could use? Thanks.
I tried to make a simple script that mounts the shares. So inside //server1/directory I created a file Server2.command with the following content:
Just got new iPhone after backing up the previous iPhone I had. Set up the new phone as a "new phone" and then restored from iTunes backup. I found that many apps that I had on the old iPhone were not present on the new one now. (After a bunch of them sat there and said "waiting" right after I did the restore.) So there are a bunch of apps that are missing.
When I ask for my system version in python interpreter, the answer is 2.7.10 : However, browsing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions, I can only find 3.5, why?
I have a simple script that creates a new directory based on the date then copies a set of files to that directory. It runs fine from Terminal. When I set it up to run as a UserAgent it fails. The error log shows that has changed to paths from /Users/Study/xxx to /var/root/xxx. I've tried running it as root from Terminal and it still works. I've ensured root is not the owner of the script file. I've changed my original path of ~/xxx to the /Users/Study/xxx but for some reason when run from launchd it changes the path. Any ideas? script: launchctl plist:
I am wondering if I can review a video I shot frame by frame on the iPhone. The video was shot on the iPhone. I have tried the feature that consists in expanding the frames under the video to get better control of the playback but it's not as precise as frame by frame for me. I know how to do it after the video is exported to QuickTime but it's not what I'm looking for. I couldn't find any help online.
Why is macOS Sierra taking so much system space? 160+ GB for system files?
I have this late 2012, 27" iMac (model iMac13,2) and I want to connect that to a 4K UHD TV because I am willing to create 4K stuff. Apparently this iMac is unable to output 4K resolution, right? If this is true, my question is: is there something I can attach to one of its thunderbolt ports (an external video board or something) that can make this iMac support 4K for cheaper as possible?
I'm looking for a way to put a filter on the rate of notifications iOS sends for an app. For instance say I have the google hangouts app with a group chat of ~10 people and someone is replying every few seconds. What I want is a setting where I can limit how often it sends me a notification, or even just how often the notifications cause the phone to buzz. If I could have a single notification for any amount of activity on an app over the course of maybe 5 minutes that would be perfect.
I'm trying to figure out if my Mac's hard drive could be failing, or that it could be some other component or the HD cable. After transporting my Mac about a week ago it started beachballing a lot. I mean a LOT, like every time I try to change the window or do anything, it will beachball from anywhere between 10 seconds and a few minutes. I was using Caffeine before to stop the laptop from falling asleep and I am afraid that maybe I left Caffeine on during the transport, which could have damaged the drive, but I am not sure. The most notable thing is that any operation that involves the disk itself seems to be very very slow. I tried DiskWarrior for example and it took a day and a half to rebuild my directories from status 8 to status 10, which didn't help the performance of the computer.
I need to move files from my desktop to a folder ~/Documents/Desktop migration and I have tried to code a script which will do that. Unfortunately, (and the reason why I'm asking here) it doesn't work. I am using a service (so that I can go to any application's menu bar > Services > (insert name of service here) ) and need to store the variable data, so I think automator is suited for the job, and I'm using AppleScript and Terminal to move. What doesn't work is it only transfers files to the desktop from the Desktop Migration folder and not back from the desktop to the Desktop Migration folder, so how can I achieve this? What I've come up with so far: Thanks!
Following a Hard-drive crash, i replaced the Toshiba original HDD With a brand new Seagate ST500LT012-1DG142 Media Hard Drive. The OS X Mountain Lion installation went fine, however i'm stuck at the white screen durring boot. after a few minutes the question-marked folder shows up.
Bought iphone 5s and it's previous owner removed icloud account on it. I created my own icloud account and associated with it. Everything is ok, but when i insert a sim card, it requres me OLD icloud credentials (one which was used by previous owner). If i enter my own credentials it says : "this account could not be used to activate phone". If i remove sim, turn phone on, and enter my credentials it works fine.
I downloaded a .tar.gz archive backup of a website. Every time I download it, when I click the magnifying glass in Safari Downloads, it takes me to the file, but it's now just a .tar, and so is double the size. Nothing pops-up to say it's extracting. Is it just Safari doing it?
I've been searching for this forever... By default EFI partition on Mac is 200 MB. I have a special Windows 10 image (enterprise compilation) I would like to install on the Boot Camp partition, which requires that the EFI partition be 500 MB due to the image installer boot.wim file size, which is 290 MB. The way I tried to do this is first install MS Windows 10 image downloaded from MS website by using Boot Camp Assistant to create and prepare Windows partition, then startup from the USB drive that includes the Windows 10 Enterprise image, deploy the image on top of the Windows partition, and reboot starting up from Windows to continue installation, but because I cannot copy boot.wim file onto the EFI partition, the deployment process cannot continue.
We also have several other premium features such as expert consultation, goals tracker etc. all this feature are available with premium subscription. We also have plans to sell few fitness products in the future.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with both discrete (AMD Radeon R9 M370X) and integrated (Intel Iris Pro) graphics. When this machine is connected to an external display, I find that the keyboard gets uncomfortably hot even when doing very light work, and it gets annoyingly hot when doing anything heavier like compiling code.
I am a little naive about this on iPhone at the moment. I have downloaded contact sync for Google Gmail with auto sync app, but only syncs one Gmail account at time.
At this point I'm just trying to get a copy of my hard drive before I wipe it. I have an iMac running El Capitan and I am unable to login to my user account (spinning wheel of death).
I currently have an old MacBook Pro 15" Retina from 2012, driving two monitors, a 24" 4K monitor and a 21.5" 1080p monitor. This setup works, except for one catch - the 4k monitor refreshes at 30Hz, which makes it a bit laggy.
Killing another users running processes is poor manners. Is there a better way to solve this problem? What can I examine to determine why the system is slow after switching users?
In much older versions of OSX you could set the size of icons for Application Open/Save Dialogs using this setting NSNavPanelIconViewIconSizeForOpenMode as in That doesn't work in macOS 10.12 What is the macOS 10.12 version of this setting?
I want to make sure all photos I receive in iMessage are saved to Photos app. How do I change this settings?
I'm using Slate window manager and I wanted a way to create a new space on El Capitan using script. I have found other solutions like the following, but it doesn't work on El Capitan. list 1 would contain all the spaces, but add new desktop and I didn't find any list 2 which would contain add new desktop. Thanks
The iOS calendar app doesn't sync iCloud calendars anymore. Example: I add calendar events on a mac, which uses the same iCloud calendars, and add a notification for in 5 minutes. In the past, my iPhone would notify me about this event though the set notification. This doesn't happen anymore as I now have to manually open the calendar app on my iPhone in order to make it sync the calendar events. How can I fix this?
OS X El Capital Version 10.11.1 after a sleep or lid is closed always gives this kernel panic. After waking up from sleep it wakes up but screen is darker, I can't move the mouse and system forced to be restarted. This happens when it is unplugged from the charger. shutdown cause: 5 On the other hand, if MacBook Pro plugged into the charger there is no problem. [Q] How could I fix this issue? Thank you for your valuable help and time. -
I am using MBP with external PC keyboard. I've swapped alt and cmd keys for the external keyboard in system preferences (on PC keyboards, alt key is sitting next to space).
There are some folders in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ (like XXXXXX~com~companyname~appname) which seems to be left by apps I already removed from all my devices. However, if I delete those folders, they restored back almost immediately. They are not visible in Finder or in iCloud management in System Preferences. How to get rid of them?
As title suggests, keyboard and trackpad are not working. However, force quit (shift+control+alt/option+power) had worked. Where is the problem and how can I fix it?
I'm trying to update my iPhone 5S to iOS 10.1.1 (current: iOS 9.3.2). I downloaded the ipsw through iTunes and tried updating my iPhone. However, I am getting error code 45 after iTunes says "extracting software". My iTunes is up-to-date, and so is my Mac. I did check Apple's error code page but 45 isn't listed there.
I have a Magic Keyboard and use it on my MacBook. I also want to use it occasionally on my iPad. As soon as the Magic Keyboard was paired to a device and is then paired to another device, the Keyboard cannot be paired to the first device again, except if you "forget" the Keyboard and discover it as new one.
I recently upgrade by Macbook to 10.12.1 and I am now getting persistent 403 errors when trying to sync the calendars between Google and iCal. I have tried removing my Google account re-adding and I get the same error (Attached)
Can anyone decipher this, I've been having repeated Kernel Panics for a few months now. I spent the weekend wiping my drive and reinstalling the OS and upgrading to Sierra. Not 20 minutes after everything was completely reinstalled, I experienced another Kernel Panic and then again a 1/2 hr later. Here's the log:
I have multiple powerpoint presentations that need to be combined into a single presentation. They have different templates/background slides. This seems to be rather straightforward to do on Windows, but I can't find any online documentation for how to do this on a Mac.
I'm trying to open an app in the background from the Terminal by using the -g or --background flags like so Unfortunately, the app isn't opening in the background. I've also tried the j flag, which is supposed to hide the app, according to the help: The app opens in the foreground as if the I had simply called Any idea why this doesn't work and an alternative?
I think that I have the proper settings that should allow me to use Command V to paste into my Parallels Ubuntu command line:  and
I recently updated my phone to version 10.1.1, and ever since I have gotten the attached error. i enter my iTunes username and password and I still get the error. I have tried restarting the phone as well. How do i make this go away? My carrier is Verizon
I have multiple svg files in a single folder and only a few of them have thumbnails - all those less than 10MB have thumbnails and all those larger do not. Is there a size limit for generating thumbnails in finder? Is there some way of increasing that limit?
We've got some embedded devices that we need to ssh in to sometimes in order to administer, but the devices' ssh server only supports the "blowfish" cypher. This has been working okay, except that for MacOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple has removed support for the Blowfish algorithm, meaning that MacOS's built-in command-line ssh client will no longer connect to this device.
Apparently when I upgraded to Sierra I enabled iCloud drive storage for my documents. Recently, when searching for some files which I've had for months/years now, I discovered that they were no longer on my computer, but instead "in the cloud". Notice the devilish iCloud symbols in the screenshot:
I'm curious how my iPhone knows what time zone I am in and change automatically. Does the phone use GPS to figure out where I am in the world? Or is there some other technology in play here.
My younger brother decided to sudo rm -r /Applications/System\ Preferences.app. Yeah, it was a pretty stupid thing to do. (In his defense, it's probably my fault for giving him bad habits--whenever I set up new macs, I always forcibly remove iTunes, Chess, and other preinstalled applications that I consider useless.) He is currently running MacOS Sierra, and aside from the fact that he can't change any settings, his computer appears to be running fine. I told my brother to redownload the Sierra installer from the Mac App Store, use Pacifist to extract the System Preferences application, and copy it back to his applications folder.
My iPhone 7 was playing music over my bluetooth headphones fine up until a few days ago. Now all music just plays through the iPhone speakers instead. I looked in the Settings - Bluetooth and the headphones display as "Connected". This is not a new headset; it was working correctly up until just a few days ago. When I power up the headset it gives me the same message it usually does when successfully connected to the iPhone, "Power On - Connected". Is there a setting somewhere that overrides where the audio outputs to?
So let me preface my image by saying I have made ~20 seconds of phone calls in the past 24 hours. After heavily browsing the web in 1-2 bars of LTE coverage for a few hours, I looked at my battery usage statistics and saw the following. What's the deal here? This is iOS 10.1.1 on an iPhone 7 on AT&T.
So the previous issue I had with my Mac Mini has morphed into a worse one and now it won't even boot normally, it just endlessly boot loops at the Apple screen. However, I have ran Apple Hardware Test twice and it comes back with "no trouble found." I'm really at my wit's end with this issue and am ready to just reinstall OS X entirely (I'm on OS X El Cap 10.11.6), but am not sure that would help...but I think it must be a software issue since I can boot to Safe Mode. Does that sound right?
I need to reset an iPhone. My grandmother somehow locked her iPhone with a pin and no one knows the code. I have a backup of her phone in my iTunes but I need to reset the phone before I can restore that backup.
When I try to view a certificate, a dialog popup and I'm unable to see the contents. What could the problems be?
Fields one and two are enterable by the user and there is a colon in between the two fields. Field three is a simple drop-down list and the user must select one of the two options.
I have a portable Bluetooth speaker and a Bluetooth enabled amplifier. Mine and my SO's iPhones (5 and 5c) have no trouble connecting to either of these. However, our MacBooks(both Airs, both running Mavericks) can't even detect them. Is there some setting or some way to make this work?
After a installing a system update my Mac mini won't boot at all, or maybe will but only after a few hours of being stuck at boot screen. I found the following in /var/log/system.log (repeats a lot of timeS): lsd_2016-11-08-083005_mac.crash Crash report for lsd contains the following stack trace: Does anybody know how to fix this?
I have a lot of pictures on my iPhone SE. I have them synced with my iCloud. However, every picture I add gets added to both my device and my iCloud. I don't want this. I don't have much storage so I want to delete all pictures I currently have from my iPhone and put them all on iCloud, so that I can start making pictures again! How can I do this?
My friend has the original iPad that runs iOS 5.1.1 and can't be updated any further. Very few apps these days are compatible with that version of iOS. The new version of VLC in the App Store requires iOS 7.
Playing fullscreen video, via AirPlay, from YouTube using LonelyScreen does not work. Play video on iOS device with full screen in Safari browser. On a Window's PC open LonelyScreen. Select Airplay icon or full screen video. Displays a black screen and stops mirroring. I uninstall Lonelyscreen, its work in AirServer/Airparrot/5Kplayer everysoftware. I would like an alternative way to show or mirror the iOS screen on my Window's PC.
Recently, all my browsers (Safari & Google Chrome) on macOS Sierra started crashing whenever I upload files to StackExchange, Facebook, etc. That is, let's say I want to upload a file on math.se. But when I click the "browse for image", as soon as Finder opens, both the browser and Finder stops working.
I want to write an AppleScript that runs (in a loop) until I press esc "listens" for keystrokes 1, 2, etc. executes a given command for a each keypress (running a shell command ddcctl to change secondary monitor brightness/contrast) I've searched and everything I find relates to simulating a key press. (If this can be done in bash that's fine but I don't know enough shell scripting to even start...) UPDATE
I am running iTunes 12 on a Mac Mini (OSX El Capitan). Previously I was using a USB external drive to hold my library. I have upgraded to a Synology NAS drive with RAID so that I have redundancy in the disks.
Is there any reason why the installation of a RAM, larger than recommended, cause MBP to slow during startup and during normal working? I am trying to understand the cases I didn't foresee when I went for higher than recommended RAM. I have: mid-2012 13 inch MBP; running macOS Sierra; recommended RAM for this machine is 8GB but I installed 2X8 (aka 16) GB RAM replacing my earlier 2X2 (aka 4) GB RAM.
Two months ago Collin Mistr shared a patch tool for older, low-end Macs to be able to install macOS Sierra (link). Besides the fact that I do this upgrade, since my Mac Mini is late 2009, I wonder are there any benefits. El Capitan looks good on it, with 4GB of RAM etc. Any advice?
I recently came across an adware on my Mac. I've uploaded a video on youtube. Pay attention to the very redirects! I used to have this on El Capitan as well, then I clean-installed Sierra. After about a month this is what I get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcPDWpB3XA&feature=youtu.be
I asked this question already on stackoverflow but since I didn't got yet an answer and this may be Mac specific I'm asking here again: I'm using Pyinstaller to package a Python app into a Mac App. This is working fine. Recently I have added a GUI window using Tkinter to check for updates, start/stop the app, etc.
I switched to from Google to Yahoo as my default search engine for Safari. The search itself works fine, but then when I click an item on the search results page, it will open it in a new tab by default, rather than in the same tab that the results were in. I really prefer the latter behavior, because otherwise my browser window quickly fills up with search results tabs that I have no use for. I also don't see myself getting used to manually closing every single search result tab I open during the day. Hence, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if there's perhaps a way to disable this "feature".
So, I re-enabled iCloud hoping they would pop back in. They did not. My dev folder in Documents contains the folder structure of what the project directory looks like but all of my source files are gone. All My Files in finder reveals that there are still files somewhere. But Get Info shows they are in a weird place that I have no idea how to get to.
Ok, i have asked this question two times in stackoverflow two times, here and here. I haven't gotten an answer, but after rethinking the problem i think it may be because of files / folders permissions, ok this is what it is happening. Environment: eclipse STS 3.8.2 which run over java 1.8 and the SO is macOs Sierra.
My Safari constantly keeps forgetting cookies, even during a session. I.e. I might log into this Stack Exchange, and a few minutes later I am logged out again (without even restarting Safari). This also affects other sites (e.g. Google). However, when looking at "Manage Website Data..." in Safari's privacy settings, it looks like the cookies are there (although I'm not 100% sure about this). Possibly related messages in Console.app:
Say there is a phrase in a pdf file that is a hyperlink: "This is a hyperlink". How can I select/highlight just the text in the middle in order to copy and paste it elsewhere without opening the link? That is, how can I just copy and paste "is a" from the example without triggering the hyperlink to open?
I want to use launchd to update my MacPorts tree periodically (i.e. port selfupdate. I have created /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.selfupdate.plist: It has the following contents: I've loaded it and verified that it's loaded: But it doesn't look like it actually run. What am I missing?
My question is regarding to sharing longer on chrome. Yesterday I was reading some papers right on chrome browser app for iOS and I just felt the need to save some quick note of what I had read. So basically my intuition (and maybe anyone's else) led me to copy paste the text to some notes app.
If you use the following code: The CurrentTime will be set in the following format: However, I want CurrentTime to be: So, I want to remove the characters in the 6, 7, and 8 positions in the string.
I want to use network link conditioning to slow my bandwidth consumption when streaming msnbc on my iPhone. I'm wondering what differences occur on my phone when it's in developer mode. Other than the fact that there are additional settings available, does the act of just putting it into developer mode affect any of its operations? Basically, is there any down side to putting it into developer mode?
Below is the 2 screenshot that I have tried after searching on so many places on net, but nothing worked for me until now. First one is via using DiskUtil :
I have an external disk drive of 2TB with two partitions, one NTFS and another with FAT32 format. The NTFS partition is automatically mounted when i plug the device using Paragon NTFS but I don't know how to mount the FAT32 partition. Can someone help me with this? More info: Here is what windows shows on Disk Management when i plug the external disk
I have a Macbook Air that's less than a year old and woke up today to an issue. When logging in, I have to hold each key down for 3 seconds before it'll recognise that I'm pressing it - so it'll end up writing four of the same letter in my password and I have to strategically hold down the backspace for 3 seconds to delete the three extra letters. As you can imagine, it took me about 15 minutes to get it right and actually get in to my laptop.
Then I booted into single user mode, mounted the hard drive and then also inserted a USB drive, and copied over all the personal files from the machines (spreadsheets and documents etc). This worked OK, so it doesn't appear to be a failed hard drive. Now seeing as I can mount the drives and view the contents in single user mode, is there anyway I can fix this issue (whatever it may be) and reset the login screen to work correctly?
Open the .txt file in your hex editor. Notice that this new blank line is 0A0D. It should be, however, 0A0A. So, while the answer provided by Christian Boyce does not change all instances of 0A0A to 0D0D (in the way that the answers provided by Matteo and user3439894 do), it does use 0D instead of 0A when putting "Wassup?" on a new line. It took me a long time to discover this glitch, as one could never tell that there was a problem with these AppleScript solutions unless one opens the .txt file in a hex editor. The problem with the answer provided by Mateusz Szlosek is more severe; it replaces all instances of 0A0A with 20, thereby ensuring that there are no blank lines anywhere in the .txt file (which, unlike the other answers, meant that I could easily identify that it had a bug without opening the .txt file in a hex editor). So, I am re-opening this question, now hoping that someone can provide a way to prepend text to a .txt file using AppleScript, and without converting line feed
So I am trying to install Metasploit on my mac running running latest version of Sierra 10.12.1. I already have Homebrew installed, and I installed latest version Xcode from the Appstore, but when I try installing Metasploit I get the error:
I'm aware it sounds fishy, but I swear it's not. If someone can reword the title, please do so. I'm in a dire situation where I bought a costly time limited WiFi access on my iPhone.
I've had this annoying problem for a while now (definitely pre-Sierra) and just reached the tipping point. I am using Network Preferences' locations feature, which let me switch between different network configurations. However, annoyingly, the switching does not work most of the time. When I switch, all the data in the Network Preferences panel change to the correct settings, I get a green dot on the left side and an information that, say, my Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter is active and connected - and yet, I cannot load any website (but the issue is not specific to Etherrnet, same thing happens with WiFi). The only way of fixing that is restarting the machine, which then turns on with exactly the same settings but also actually loading webpages.
This is probably the same as this one in spirit: MacPorts: Continue installing other updates after error. I don't buy the answers on that page, however:
Mac OS 10.12.1 Safari 10.0.1 Develop Menu enabled Disable Cache checked Safari's cache is full of garbage as pictured. For the past few years "Disable Cache" has blocked all this nonsense, but since upgrading to Sierra it no longer works.
Further update As part of deleting all the tokens in my keychain that seemed to have anything to do with Google or my work, I've now managed to wipe my work account completely from both macs (yay iCloud). Alas Now I am having the same issue on El Capitan so it's clearly not a Sierra specific issue. I'll change the headline to suit.
Since macOS 10.12.1 update, there's unresponsivenesss in Safari especially with JS.First noticed this error when using hotkey Command+Shift+L to Show/Hide Reading List.Unlike before, Safari is force closing on a daily basis. Ive had this occur in Safari && Safari Technology PreviewI thought this was directly related to the Sidebar, however console renders an error each time I swipe to go back or forward. Repair Disk from Recovery Mode Reset SMC Reset PRAM Internet Recovery Update/Edit: I finally was able to reproduce the Kernel Panic, however it happened while I was afk. Terminal ($ top -o cpu) Safari (1 window)
I have a .txt file saved on my computer. I want my Automator application to add a bit of text to the .txt file (the text will be entered by the user). I already know how to append text or prepend text in AppleScript. However, I want the text to be inserted into a specific location.
I have a Bluetooth barcode scanner connected to my Mac. I'd like to have a scan open a URL, something like: *=URL=* I was thinking I could somehow direct inputs from the scanner particular input device to a terminal script and figure the rest from there, but I can't seem to find any solution to this. I'd be happy if someone could recommend an app to achieve this.
I have a MacBook Air running OSX El Capitan, version 10.11.6. I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.11, but when the program that uses it launches it (or I double-click it in the Utilities folder), XQuartz begins an infinite loop in which the logo appears briefly in the dock, then an "Xquartz quit unexpectedly" window pops up. There's also a crash report, but I can't make heads or tails of it and it's too long to fit within the character limits here. What seems to be a bit more helpful is what appears in the logs recommended here, which records the following over and over: I get that there's apparently a syntax error, but why would there be, and what am I expected to do about it?
Hover over the Dock icon until the icon flashes a couple of times and then shows the open application windows. You can press the Space bar to speed up the process of showing the application windows. Drop the file into the email window that I opened in the first step.
I have a Mid 2012 Model Macbook Pro, nearly 3 years old, and my computer has recently become extremely, stupidly slow. It's becoming hard to perform simple tasks on the computer, like opening a Google Chrome Page, opening any app on my computer or even switching to a different application via the dock. I use this computer for school, however much of my classmates (who have the same model computer) aren't having the same problem as I am.
I'm using a proxy script to connect to the Internet. I've set it, system wide, in : and it works well. I've also set it in Firefox and it works well too. In Safari, which use the system proxy configuration everything works well. BUT in chrome Version 54.0.2840.87 (64-bit), which should use also the system proxy configuration everything is very slow and I always see, in the status bar, the message : I've found the following thread about Proxy Pac and Sierra but it doesn't help. Any idea?
I'm using Safari 10.0.1 on Sierra 10.12.1. At some point, usually after ~5 minutes or about 100 requests, the web inspector stops logging network requests under the Network tab. Same thing happens with the Timelines tab. I've had this problem since Safari 9 on El Cap. Any pointers on how to solve this?
Ive got a mac mini running osx 10.8.5. To get images from my iphone onto the computer i used to use osx's built in Image Capture application to transfer them across as it allows me to drag and drop file them where ever i want and is light weight and quick (unlike iPhoto / Photos in new versions of the OS).
I dropped my poor iPod again it is a generation 4 64gb, I use it for listening to audio books. I did buy it a protective hard hat because I have dropped it before, but this time the sound has gone very very soft. I tried a new set of earphone without any joy, I an 70 years old so no complicated suggestions please. I have been reading various things online but think I may have killed it this time has anyone out there got any hope for me. Or Have I got to ask Santa for a new one?
I have a 2014 iMac with a Bootcamp version 6.0 installed. I want to use it as a display for a MacBook Pro running windows 10 via thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable. Is that possible? or only works from OS-X to OS-X? Can someone refer me to a official documentation that states that this is supported or has done it themselves?
I am trying to install Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 . All latest macOS and Xcode 8 updates have been installed. I tried several commands in terminal: and In the first time I pressed Enter and then provide my password to install it, but I did not get anything that shows if Homebrew is installed successfully. Tried again and this is what I get: then I kept waiting and waiting and nothing happened. I tried this command : I found this in local:
I'm trying the Cloud Service tool: Egnyte Drive. But the process "SecurityAgent" will be activated and the administrator's name and password is required the first time when I try to launch Egnyte Drive. I wonder if there is a way to import the administrator's name and password automatically or any way to bypass to activate "SecurityAgent" and launch Egnyte Drive without user name and password. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Here is what I have tried: 1. The above code is invoked from How to enter password for prompt windows using applescript do shell script "open -n /Applications/Egnyte\ Drive" user name "USERNAME" password "THEPASSWORD" with administrator privileges do shell script "open -n /Applications/Egnyte\ Drive" user name "USERNAME" password "THEPASSWORD" with administrator privileges
Since updating to macOS Sierra, whenever I copy-paste something from Chrome to Powerpoint, the image is distorted (see an example slide below). Pasting into other applications, e.g., Gimp, does not lead to the same distortion. Anybody has a clue how to fix this? Detailed Setup:
I tried to install BitTorrent to download some Linux ISO files, but I clicked through the install screens too fast, and missed the part where it said that it would install browser addons and other junk. I removed the BitTorrent application by deleting the .app file, removed the browser addons, and reset my home page and search engine. I also ran Malwarebytes and it found some adware, so I had it remove them. Then I rebooted and ran the scan again, and it found one more piece of adware, which it then removed. After rebooting again, Malwarebytes says that it can't find anything. Is there anything else I need to do to completely remove BitTorrent and all the junk that it installed? I'm on a 2013 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6
I am running my manual backups with a shell script that asks me for a password. However, when I open the script from the Finder, it terminates immediately. How can I get a script to run interactively when double clicking on it in Finder?
I have an iPhone 5s running iOS 10.0.2. My iTunes version is 12.5.3.17. I have synced them together but I cannot see my Music playlist in iTunes.
I was trying to restore a backup from my computer to my iphone , however it's set to be password protected. I do not know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to make sure I didn't set it. Nothing worked. any advises
I have a problem. When I plug in my headphones, the music app starts automatically playing the last music I listened and it kinda irritates me because it didn't happen before, it just started today. Is there any option how to disable it? I'm on iOS 10. Thanks.
Will Icloud lock turn on even if the theif has reset the phone already?
I want to search for a specific app (example of Instaflash) on my iPhone or iPad but only remember part of its name. In this example 'flash' being the search term inputted into spotlight in iOS 10.X on my iPhone or iPad. Can search terms somehow be used with a wild card option? Something like flash to obtain a list of possible results?
Occasionally when clicking on an open application in the dock (e.g. Finder.app) another window will open with it, the best example I can give is that when I am in Photoshop and need to get something from Finder I click on Finder and Firefox (which was already open) shows it window. This is very inconvenient and I cannot find a correlation between when this happens and when it doesn't. EDIT: As it turns out this can also happen when using Cmd + Tab.
I am unable to login to my main account. This is pretty bad because that's the only account on my computer that I know the password to. I'm posting this as root. The user doesn't show up on the login screen or in the switch-user menu. You may think this is a duplicate, but I'm not supposed to delete/make a user. So this doesn't apply. This Mac also has a firmware password that I don't know, so I can't use Recovery Mode. Any help would be immensely appreciated. I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.1. EDIT: I should note I can su to my account.
How can I get Siri to fill in input fields on MacBook Pro? At the moment I have to copy paste from the Siri dialogue. Edit____________ I'm not interested in answers relating to normal dictation in the mac, I WANT SIRI!! )
I have a MacBook Pro whose HDD has S.M.A.R.T. errors, so I would like to install OS X in a external hard disk. However, it has some copies of Time Machine, so I need to do a partition. The problem comes when I try this: at some point (not always the same one), the computer just collapses or, if the screen was black, it keeps on like that, so I have to shut down, and when I restart it seems lie nothing happened. Does anyone know what should I do? I'm going to try to create the partition using another Mac as soon as possible. It's my first question here, hope I'm not doing so bad!
I'm trying to install UNetBootin for a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). However, I got this message when I tried to open it. Could anyone be able to tell me what I can do to force its opening?
I just got a MacBook Pro 2016 and am learning how to use it. I am a lifelong Windows user and have lost Photoshop when switching. I want to at least be able to change the size of photos so I can e-mail them more easily.
Is there any way to add a widget from a website to iOS? I'm not familiar with xCode, plus there's an annual fee of $99 to publish an app. Is there any way to add a widget from a website, similar to how you can add a website to your homescreen? The Apple page about developer widgets offers no info: https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/extensions/widgets/
I wanted to transfer a few photos from my computer to the iPhone and I though: lets do it quickly in a couple of minutes! It was quite sad to realise iTunes only allows me to transfer photos into my iPhone 7 if I mark the checkbox "Sync Photos". The, for a very strange reason, iTunes starts doing a backup of my iPhone when I click on "sync" in order to transfer the pictures.
I'm running sierra os and want to listen to my audible audiobooks on itunes. The audible website says that I don't need any additional software for Mac:
I would like to create a Playlist folder into which I could put album covers, without showing all the cuts within, since I play a classical recording as an individual entity. This would simplify finding an album without having to wade through all of the movements within a recording.
I'm having a lot of troubles getting Apple Remote Desktop to work in Sierra. Downloading the client (version 3.8.5) gives me the error:
Is it possible to login to another account from Terminal? I don't mean having a shell prompt as that user; I mean as if I went to the account switcher menu and changed using that.
My script sets the Natural Scroll Direction of either a Mouse or Trackpad (MB trackpad or Magic Trackpad), but instead of allowing the user to choose which one is attached, I'd like to be able to programmatically execute one of the two functions based on what hardware is attached. Is there a way to check (ie. AS or Shell Script) what hardware is attached?
I currently have a Apple MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 13" Mid-2010 model and for almost 6 months, I have been letting it sit with a battery service warning. I already replaced the battery once after getting the battery service warning and have been avoiding replacing it for as long as possible (with hopes of replacing the laptop itself). Currently, I just let it sit with the charger plugged in most of the time, because when off charger, battery life is < 1hour. My main question is, does the macbook slow itself down or handicap itself when the battery service warning is present? Additionally, this is the battery information under system information
I want to add a user script to Safari and activate the Script menu for Safari.  I have seen some references which indicate this can be done by adding a .scpt to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari but that does not seem to work. Neither does ~/Library/Application Scripts.
Suddenly my iMac (late 2013) started to throttle CPU to 0.80GHz, everything becomes super sluggish. It happens ~5-10 min after a fresh reboot, sometimes it goes back to full speed for short periods, but most of the time stays throttled. I tried to reset SMC, it doesn't seem to help. Also did clean install of Sierra, also did not help... powermetrics reports that throttling occurs due to "GPU LIMIT PROCHOT", even though temperature is normal on all sensors I could take a peek on.
Hi I have a 13" MacBook mid 2010 and the optical drive went out so I've been looking for a new one. I found one that I'm interested in but was needing to know if it will work with my MacBook I provided the link to the one I'm looking at. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2nd-9-5mm-SATA-SSD-Hard-Drive-Caddy-Bay-for-MacBook-CD-DVD-ROM-Optical-Bay-/131975475287?hash=item1eba59f057:g:IdkAAOSwpLNYBwIq
My iMac went dead, and was trying to recover data from it by connecting Thunderbolt. The dead iMac's hard drive did not appear on the other Mac. As a next step, I was trying to reboot to use Disk Utility for Target Disk mode, when my iMac showed this blinking icon with file and question mark. What does this mean and what am I supposed to do?
I am unable to run the command srm in macOS 10.12, Sierra. I can run the command in Terminal.app but not from within an AppleScript. This command works: This command fails with error "sh: srm: command not found" number 127: srm is not present in /usr/local/bin.
Every time I turn on my laptop (from a completely off state) the Bluetooth is on by default. How can I prevent it from turning on at startup and then only turn it on (manually) when I want to connect any Bluetooth devices like mouse and keyboard?
Incidentally, the iPad shows as Not Charging. I haven't yet investigated whether this is because it's connected through the keyboard rather than directly. I need to do further research to see what may have been the cause, but I'm going to post an answer myself as to how I got out of the black screen, in case it's useful to others...
I have JVC HA-SBT5 wireless headphone , I'm trying to connect them to my macbook air , but it can't find them ? however I connected them to my iPhone and they are working properly
I first had Command Line Tools for Xcode installed and then installed the Xcode app. I have now deleted the Xcode.app application bundle but still have Command Line Tools for Xcode installed. However, now when I try to compile via Terminal it says: xcrun: error: active developer path ("/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer") does not exist, use xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools (or see man xcode-select)
I have also put the connection username & password into my keychain so that the Mac remembers. This also works, because when I re-add the share I don't have to provide username or password.
Recently I've been googling about a problem with my MB and got very confused by the use of these terms on the internets: sleep mode hibernate mode safe sleep idle sleep standby mode poweroff mode (autopoweroff setting in $ pmset -g) I think some of them just mean the same thing, but could someone please clarify which terms are the correct ones, and what is the difference between them? I have El Capitan on MacBook Pro 2012
I wish to deliver lectures using Keynote, and record them while sitting at home. Therefore I wish to have the following: Play the presentation using Keynote At the corner of the screen, there should be my face captured by the webcam. Meanwhile, the mic would be on for taking voice input. All the above three should be recorded into a video file and if possible broadcast it on YouTube. How to do this on Mac OS? Comment: Sierra / 4GB / AirBook
iPhone 7 iOS 10.1.1 Gmail 5.0.3 Chrome 54.0.2840.91 When trying to open a link directly within the gmail app, it opens in safari instead of chrome. This used work just fine until the latest update of gmail.
I am going to format my OS X Machine (El Capitan 10.11.6). I created manually a disk image file (.dmg) of /myUser folder on an external HDD using Disk Utility. Will I be able to access/mount this disk image (.dmg) file after re-installing OS X or am I going to have problems with permissions and etc ? Disk image file had read/write format (not compressed) with no encryption.
I have bought an Apple developer subscription. I've developed a small Safari extension. To publish it in the extension gallery it should be hosted at a web server. I leased a domain name and a virtual private server. Hosted a web server. Apple has given me a certificate to sign the Safari extension. Can I also get a SSL certificate for my domain name from Apple? After all I have an Apple developer subscription.
I did an update on my Macbook Retina 13" to the most recent version of Sierra OS X. The computer never gets past the Apple logo (black screen with a full progress bar). I booted into Verbose Mode (command + v) and see that it is stuck at the following point: SmartBattery: finished polling type 4 Every now and then it will add another line of text (same text) but it never moves beyond that point.
So, both magic mouse and apple wireless keyboard left connected to my old MB Air and I transferred everything with migration assistant. Currently, both mouse and keyboard are paired to old Air and they aren't visible when I try to find them with new MB.
Some days ago the "Multilingual typing" option (which enables to type in two languages at the same time without having to switch between keyboards) in my iPhone 5S (with iOS 10) automatically shut down. I already downloaded multiple dictionaries and enabled the respective keybords under the General menu.
I just created an app (Let's say Test1) with AppleScript. It's used to activate another app (Let's say Test2). What I want to do is to delete Test1 or move Test1 to Trash, once Test2 was launched. AppleScript, Unix shell, Python, Perl or other language is welcome. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.
Using the AppleScript below I am unable to open the message ID. This same message ID is in a note in my Reminders app and clicking on the link works correctly there. I get the pop-up error The operation couldn't be completed. (MCMailErrorDomain error 1030.) Mail was unable to open the URL "(null)".
This application is not listed in my apps, nor does it ship with an uninstaller I can locate. The support site says to contact their support team, but the product is not listed in the drop down for support requests. Here's what I tried so far in order to get it to stop running, so I could safely delete the program from disk, but it didn't help: sudo ps aux | grep -i endpoint sudo launchctl list | grep -i bitdefender for each bitdefender product listed: sudo launchctl remove reboot The application ran again after reboot.
If I uninstall Gas Buddy, it returns to Music. But as soon as I reinstall Gas Buddy...yup, reverts back. Any suggestions?
Previously on Chrome, I could use ⌘+F to bring up the Chrome find bar, then esc would close it. However, on macOS Sierra, esc now exits full-screen mode if the Chrome window is in this mode (which I commonly use).
I know that you can get live logs from XCode, LemonJar, or cfgutil, but these are all in real time. Is there any way to access logs from before the phone was plugged into the computer? Thanks!
EDIT: The first part of this question might be a duplicate, but I would still like to get ideas about why my battery life changed so drastically within 2 weeks. I have an early 2013 Macbook Pro retina 15" with El Capitan. I got the top case, keyboard, trackpad, and battery replaced the weekend before last. When I replaced my battery, it had ~ 355 cycles on it and it was 3 years old. Back with the old battery, I almost always had my laptop plugged in, but recently learned that is bad for the battery life.
I know it can be done with the simulator's UI, but is there a way to do this via the command line? Whether it is done before or during the simulator launch does not matter. The device version is iOS 9.3 if that helps.
When I turn off my Mac if I have iTerm or FreeChat open, my Mac stops its shutdown and tells me that I need to manually quit these apps before shut down. I was wondering if there was a way to have it quit automatically for me when I shut down. I've looked at Mac Shutdown but its more of quitting at a certain time or event.
I just got a time capsule. It will do full disk backup rather than incremental backup every time. I tried to delete the original backup and start over. However, it won't stop full disk backup.
I have Apache and PHP installed. When I execute the function phpinfo() it shows PHP Version 5.5.38 In Temrinal when I use php -v I've got PHP 5.6.27 (cli) (built: Nov 1 2016 09:58:30) I searched Google, but can't find any solution
I have an iPhone and MacBook that are my own and an iMac that I share with my fiancé. I have it set up currently so that my txt messages come to my phone, and both computers. As this can be annoying when she is using the home computer and I am not (getting my random txts), how do i disable messenger on the iMac but not my MacBook/iPhone.
Is there a way to block access to the MacOS keychain for specific applications? For instance: Chrome wants to access my account informations which are stored from Firefox, but I don't want to allow this access permanently.
Is there a cross platform solution similar to a volume like with some DMG application installers when double clicked, they open with a prompt which pops up and asks if you agree with the terms or license before allowing you to open or access the contents of the volume. I would like to be able to do something similar with personal sensitive files I intend to share, I want to require that recipients agree to conditions before being able to view/ access the files. As I understand it DMG only works on macs though (with no additional specialized software installed).
I need gcc as a default compiler to compile cuda samples and I need clang to compile my network projects because clang has better warnings and errors specifications. Is there any way to run both compilers?
It works with my 2011 MBP 17" but when I plug it into my new 2016 13" MBP it does not. I'm using the DisplayPort input for both. thunderbolt 1 out on the 17" and USB C out on the 13"
I have a family member who has dementia. Their iPhone was taken away because they kept dialing 911. I gave the family member an iPod Touch, but they really want an iPhone. I took the SIM card out of the iPhone, but discovered that it is still possible to call 911. Is there a way to disable the 911 dialing functionality of the iPhone in the United States?
I sent my old iPhone 6 to Apple store to replace broken screen and the flat battery. Before that, I have backup my iPhone 6 with encryption. Apple store believes the easiest way is to give me a "new" iPhone straightly.
There are many ways to sideload apps on iOS. Apple has allowed anyone with the source code of an app to sideload it onto their iOS device using Xcode. (If it is relevant, I want to use this guide to sideload apps onto my iPhone.) If I sideload an app onto my iOS device, will it have access to my information that a normal app would ask for(ex:location, contacts, photos)? What I am asking is will it still ask for permission to use my data? I am using the iOS 10 Public Beta.
My computer runs OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6. It should be noted, however, that I first observed this bug from the very first time that I assigned a keyboard shortcut to my service, which was at least a year ago. In other words, I have never experienced the keyboard shortcut function as it was designed to work. It should be noted that this bug is not unique to my computer; reports of others experiencing this idiosyncrasy abound on the internet... Service not running the first time it's invoked via key combination Services shortcut not working properly Assigning a shortcut to a service Assign a shortcut to running a script in OS X (read the last paragraph in this answer)
I'm getting my MacBook Pro wiped at the end of the year because it's the school's computer. I was wondering if my iPhoto photos on my laptop will be wiped as well? I use Time Machine, so will that help me recover them?
I am using nfs to do backups to a synology NAS. Today I noticed that the nfs volume ("Duckology1") is mounted twice, as shown in df: Is this a bad thing? Could it be the result of accessing the NAS over both wired and wireless networks at different times?
Gparted from within ubuntu reports The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that will be used and I remember I tried to fix it via Terminal. The same error still pops up whenever I start gparted so I guess I failed. When I use gpt from within the El Capitan USB it shows me unable to open device '/dev/disk0': I/O error. Trying to partition the disk via command line (diskutil partitionDisk ...) also gets stuck at 50% as described above.
Trying to have a grid of workspaces which I can instantaneously switch between using directional keyboard commands. The built in workspace switching comes with an irremovable delay which can be reduced but not eliminated, and limits to 1-D movement. Have been using TotalSpaces which was perfect up until Mavericks, its okay (now) on ElCapitan, but apparently having problems on Sierra.
I have no idea how two files ended up in Trash, but I suspect AppDelete to be the culprit. Anyway, the first file is DeviceLink.framework and the other is MobileDevice.framework. Any idea how to remove them from trash so I can finally be able to empty it?
Since iOS 10, Apple has started using what I assume to be language-based settings for separators. Until 9 it was using region-based settings for me. I happen to prefer dots over commas but I don't really care about the appearance. My problem is Apple doesn't enforce proper localization and my brokers(which are the apps I use the most) all happen to have broken locale functions that turn 1,000 shares into 1.000 shares and then interpret that as if it meant 1 point O shares. I waited a few months but Apple seems to be applying no pressure on the infringing apps. Separators appear as if they were something the user could possibly set in the Settings screen. Is there any way to fix them without switching everything to US English?
I used to have access to two different app store accounts. My own, personal one and another that belonged to a client I worked with. I had to use that client's account a lot and AFAIK you can't configure an iOS device to remember multiple logins, so I would often install apps I already owned from their account.
I am looking to build and install several versions of clang simultaneously, including a build from svn. I do not wish to interfere with the existing Apple LLVM which I would keep available as the default clang, clang++, c++ et c. invocations. So where would the logical place to put these multiple versions be? I could place it in something like ~/llvm/svn/ but placing them under ~/ seems mildly unaesthetic.
When I enable the personal hotspot on my iPhone, a network appears called Greg's iPhone. I can navigate to it in the WiFi network selector thing.
Is there a work around or setting change that will help if the wifi server has "Security Recommendation" next to it and my iphone 6 will not connect to internet?
I have never used a MacBook for professional use and I find myself on a position I might acquire one over the next 6 to 12 months. Though I understand all it's benefits from a technical point of view, I never actually needed one. For all intended purposes, I still don't, as a matter of fact! My current work laptop is a 3 1/2 year old Dell and I'm running Linux on it and from a professional point of view it suits me just fine.
After days of troubleshooting I have finally found out exactly what is wrong with my Mac Mini: SLEEP and/or simply turning off the monitors causes a kernel panic that sends the Mac Mini into a boot loop. This can happen even when I'm booted to Recovery, Internet Recovery or even an OS X USB installer. As such, I think it must be a hardware issue, but I'm not sure which hardware. My questions are: What piece of hardware controls sleep and/or monitor sync in a mid 2011 Mac Mini?
So i repaired an L design magsafe connector for a friend (the wires were completely ripped off were they solder on the chip) After the repair when plugged in the light goes amber (never green) and doesn't actually charge anything, I tested the voltage before and after its plugged in and it does ramp up to ~16 volts like its supposed to but its like the macbook never even notices its plugged in (I've tested this on multiple macbooks at work and for each the other charger works but not the repaired one.) Does anyone know what just a constant amber light means? Also not sure if it matters but I have only tested the charger on the macbooks at work and not on the macbook it actually goes with but I'm assuming it would behave the same.
This is really weird, my App Store is set to my country, Portugal and I checked on the iTunes browser using "pt" at URL, and the app I'm looking for it is listed there. But when I search the app on the App Store in my iPad with iOS 10 it doesn't show up. I'm not using any type of filter in the App Store, I'm just searching for the app. By the way the app is AndroMoney. Thank you!
I am afraid I am not a Mac user so please forgive me for not knowing what I am doing. I work with a charity which has been collecting old laptops to send to schools in Ghana, Africa. All but one have been Windows computers. As you can see in the title of this thread I have a old Mac in my hands (in fact it looks like new!). I have, with the help of Apple had it de-registered. So I now have a computer with old Safari on which doesn't want to do a few things. It will not update Safari. The OS will not update. Apple said they no longer support it. So I thought I would download a different browser. Nope. No luck. I downloaded chrome but that won't install.
I have a 2015 MBP for work, which I connect my iPhone (6 plus, iOS 10) to charge, and I don't want to trust the computer, ever. However, I must click "Don't Trust" every single time I connect for charging. This is asymmetric to the "Trust" selection, which remembers my decision. Does anyone know if it's possible to stop the 'Trust/Don't Trust' modal from appearing every time, and have the machine not be trusted?
Apple's support page for the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter lists support for Thunderbolt Displays and no support for Apple DisplayPort displays. However it doesn't say anything about iMacs with Thunderbolt in Target Mode mode. Does Apple's Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter support Target Display Mode on an iMac? My guess is that it does since Apple's support page for Target Display Mode says that you have to use a Thunderbolt source for an iMac with Thunderbolt in order to use Target Display Mode.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32bits in a MacMini 2,1 using bootcamp. I used a DVD media with multiply choices trough an external sata superdrive with usb adaptor. Windows seams ok, with the exception that I can't eject the disk from that superdrive... things to solve later.
In macOS Sierra, Mail app, I select a message and right click. The "Services" selection is missing. I can select text within a message and right click, seeing the services menu, but I swear this worked before just fine and I've used it a ridiculous amount of times with specific apps. This: Services submenu disappeared from contextual menu of right click did not help.
To get the audio/sound working, I tried running the following two files. However, this still didn't fix the issue: BootCamp\Drivers\Cirrus\CirrusAudioCS4206x64.exe BootCamp\Drivers\Cirrus\CirrusAudioCS4208x64.exe
I just received a call stating my iCloud account has been compromised. They want me to go on my computer with them. Is this a scam?
I have been trying for 8 hours and sorry for bad englando/wording. I recently found my iPod touch 4G (i think it was running 5.0.1), and tried the passcode too many times, and disabled it (iPod is disabled, connect to itunes). What I would like to do is bypass that and eventually crack the password, however I am stuck at the first step - getting into DFU mode as my home button doesn't work. I have tried different versions of TinyUmbrella (32/64 bit) and recboot, but they all don't detect my device - I have tried with 32/64 bit versions of iTunes 10.7-12.xxx and lots of different versions of java, I can't add the device manually to TU either, as you need the iPod to be unlocked to get the UDID afaik.
I have a 2015 Macbook pro, which I bought about 3 months ago. Some days ago, when I was using it, and connected it to my house's wifi network, everyone's internet connection suddenly dropped (as in they couldn't load anything, but wifi was intact). It didn't just happen in my house, so it makes me think something is wrong with my Mac. If it helps, it's running Sierra. I found out that this has happened to other people: *=URL=* But nothing there was helpful. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I am trying to import my photos from my iphone to my mac and even though i already put trust this computer, the mac insists that i haven't done it yet. i have done it many times and its still not working. Any idea of how to solve this?
I have a small wireless keyboard. Where can I find the eject button to turn screen off??
I got an unexpected question when installing a Debian Based Linux on my Late 2015 MacBook Air: The list is huge.
I have accordingly rephrased the question in light of the next older laptop, as the repurposing of older macbooks is a field of significant interest to many long time mac users. At this point I'm leaning toward the TeamViewer approach.
I wish to modify an existing Configuration Profile installed on an iPhone, but I do not have a disk copy of it, nor can I download it again from the source (no longer available). Using Apple Configurator 2 there appears to be no way to export to disk, or modify, the full contents of an already existing and installed Configuration Profile. Nor indeed to inspect its contents (which would provide a tedious but manual way to re-create a new profile by inspecting the contents of an existing one)
(env) ➜ zhuaxia git:(master) ✗ tree /tmp/test /tmp/test └── 谢211220_3_8 ├── album_description.txt ├── cover.jpg ├── 谢211220;210\230浩231_3_8.mp3 └── 谢211220_3_8.mp3 (env) ➜ zhuaxia git:(master) ✗ ls /tmp/test 谢安琪_3_8 Using tree command, some Chinese character is displayed as Unicode, but ls is OK.
I have a Mac Mini (mid 2010) and out of nowhere the sound has completely stopped working, the only exception to this is the startup chime when turning on the machine. I have already checked to see if I just muted the sound, that the internal speakers are selected in system preferences, reset the PRAM, restarted the computer, and wiggled a jack inside of the headphone jack hole.
Alright, so I just got my iMac back from the store and I login to it knowing my password was correct, later I was trying to download a JDK but a window pop up asking me for the password of the admin account. I proceeded to entered my password but it won't accept it, all it does is say that it's wrong although I typed the exact same password. I tried contacting many people that I know but it still isn't working. Is there anyone who can identify this problem for me? If so then please do tell me how to fix it.
I have an iMac 27" 5K Retina (late 2015) with 32 GB, AMD Radeon R9 M395x 4096MB. I have just bought a second monitor, Dell Dell 27" UltraSharp UP2715K. I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.1.
So, I've found myself in a quite tight spot regarding my internal HDD. I've got a 13" Late 2011 MBP, running macOS 10.12.1, which is behaving very strangely lately: Mail will refuse to open, with an error message complaining about network and home folder problems; Finder won't let me create new directories (they appear and then instantly vanish - they weren't created at all, according to my Dropbox log); and Disk Utility gives inconsistent results: sometimes it will say everything's fine, while other times it indicates disk corruption.
MacOS seems to assume a WLAN connection to be free of charge if and only if it is not a tethered iPhone connection. So it will run all background update and maintenance processes via that WLAN connection. As my WLAN is in fact a small box with LTE access (payed by volume) I would like to configure the connection as if it were a tethered mobile connection, which it really is. The answers to the similiar question Managing Metered Connections on OSX all recommend some third party tools, how can I solve it solely with built-in functionality and tools (macOS Sierra, if it helps)?
I just found this site today and it looks sweet! I believe I need to replace the logic board in my unit. Would a board from a 2009 or newer work on my 2008 Mac pro currently with 2x Intel quad 2.8ghz (part 661-4449)? I would like to know in order to expand on the availability of used parts out there and possibly score a faster processor.
This is a Sierra box, the system memory was suddenly out of usage. I have checked the system to find out that the keychain process was busy and used nearly all the memory. I had to reboot the system, then i opened keychain to see the login items list is flashing, one unknown item in login keychain was keeping being deleted and inserted. Want to know why, I opened activity monitor, then got to know assistantd was busy doing that. I killed the process, the keychain came to be in peace. I think the process is used by Siri, as assistantd process came out again after I clicked the siri icon. Even I do not use siri, I want to know why this could happen, and what is the real solution.
I can't find the definition to enable curse words voice recognition on my Google Keep app for iPad , iOS 10 . It's not possible to change this ? I tested on multiple languages and it's using ***** for curse in multiple languages...
Unable to import events (36 total) from an .ics file I emailed to myself. I used to see "Add All" as an option when viewining the .ics events. Now, all I see where "Add All" used to be is "Done". If I tap any of the individual 36 events, I have an option to add to calendar as an individual event, but can no longer add numerous events from one .ics file with one click.
I recently updated my 6s Plus to iOS 10.1.1, and says it has the latest version. But when i connect it to iTunes both in mac & win it says an update available with the same version number. should i upgrade or ignore?
When I connect my new MacBook Pro to the Dell s2415h, the text is slightly blurry. I tried the solution here but it didn't work for me. I also found this older post which found success with DVI but my Dell only has VGA and HDMI. Is this a lost cause? If so, are there any reasonably priced monitors that people have had success with with new MacBooks.
So, I wanted to use an app to edit some audio for a project. I have a mac but it does not have an in-built GB app, so when I looked for it online, it said that I had to pay $4.99. I did not want to buy the app for I let it be. But I was on App Store just now and it asked me to install the app (it did not say purchase), so I installed it. Now, how do I know if it was charged or did it download for free because I have a mac?
Is there any way to rename the Terminal app? When I try to rename it by right-clicking it, that option is greyed out.
I wonder is it possible to hide a mailbox in Mail? I would like not to see the Draft. Currently I set it on local, and disabled showing Google Drafts on Gmail side. However, I see the box in the list on the lefthand side. Thanks!
So, I did a keychain reset on a Mac due to some process taking up a lot of CPU (a keychain cloud daemon). This worked wonders for the cpu, but now the user wants its passwords back and doesn't care about a constantly running fan. Keychain manager told me that the old standard keychain will be set aside, but I have no experience with this and cannot for the life of me figure out how to restore the old one. Any ideas? I looked into ~/User/Libraries/Keychain but that gave me no further clues. I'm quite familiar with bash but totally blank on OSX so I appreciate a detailed explanation of the procedure.
Is it possible to dual-boot Snow Leopard on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Sierra? I have the DMG file so maybe I can make a bootable flashdrive?
Whenever I scroll using my mouse, my computer does not register the small, individual clicks of the scroll wheel. I have to scroll much faster to make anything happen. I have tried this with two different mice, the Razer Death Adder and Logitech G403, same problem. Computer specs: iMac, Late 2012, 10.12.1
My brother and I share a computer and often use the same itunes app for all our music. Something that it does that I hate is it puts all my voice memos in, too. I would rather them not be there because I'm worried my brother will get on and listen to them one day. I try to delete them but it says if I delete them off itunes, it also deletes them off of my iphone which I don't want it to do. What should I do??
My iPhone 6 is iOS 10.1.1 and the mail app has taken up 2 GB of space and now I can't do anything (take pics, get apps, etc). I have taken steps like deleting my mail account and rebooting the phone, but when I go to Settings it still is using 2 GB of storage.
Over the past week, may of my apps have started resetting, losing saved settings and information. I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 10.1.1 and a Watch on watchOS 3.1. I updated my iPhone to 10.1.1 on October 31, almost 2 weeks ago. I suspect that the NSUserDefaults of my apps are getting reset based on the data being lost: The Messages app showed me the "What's new in Messages" page, but my messages were not deleted. My theme preferences on the app Reeder were lost, but I wasn't logged out of my accounts. I am logged out of Facebook daily. I was logged out of WhatsApp once, but my messages weren't deleted, and I don't backup my messages to the cloud. I was logged out of all my Slack accounts. I may have been logged out of Strava once.
Is there a slideshow editor similar to Powerpoint, but for Mac, that supports code pens and maybe markdown? Thanks
Apple Encryption Question: I know if you have the iPhone 3GS or later version, an iPod touch 3rd generation or later version, or any iPad, the user can employ encryption to protect the contents. My question is specific, does any one know what bit encryption Apple uses?
I need an applescript, which can do the job below: open the application Terminal with fullscreen run some scripts Here is what I've tried: But it doesn't work.
So we have a iPad with an old Apple ID that is now disabled, can't get the restore to work because find my iPhone is still on and it keeps asking for the Apple ID and password of this account to turn off the find my iPhone I am over it! Just painful, anyone know what to do? Dee
Does anyone know how to import a microphone mono audio into iphone 7? Can I use a bluetooth transmitter to carry the microphone audio? Can an APP to pick up the microphone audio via bluetooth? like Apple watch. Thanks.
I let a friend borrow my ipad that has some imessages saved. I signed out before lending it to him, but I got a notification that my ipad is signed into my imessages now. When I asked if they signed into it, they said their kid hit the button on accident, but if it's signed in now, will I get a notification if they are reading through my messages? Or is there a way I can find out?
I got a new MacBook pro and before I've win that I use the mobaextream software to connect to remote sys, when I configure ssh in moba I once enter private key (I browse the file ) and then every time that I want to access to that machine I just open moba and double click on the required system and Im In. in mac I didn't find a way to do it I open the bash and when I connect with ssh I need to add the user password , any Idea how can I configure it once ? *=URL=* any idea if there is software which I can use that help me to manage all this remote system ?
I would like to switch from 13 inch to 15 inch Macbook Pro (both are non-retina) because the 15 inch is 2 years newer and has 16GB RAM. However, I don't want to clone every single thing and I also don't want to lose the development environment setups (XAMPP, Virtual Machines, Eclipse) I have in my 13 inch Mac. What would be the best way to make the switch smoothly without losing these environments that are time-consuming to setup, but also leave behind a bunch of files cluttering up the SSD?
Some apps (Mail, Safari and App Store) crash when I try to start them. I have a Macbook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011, El Capitan). Also, the system often reboots due to kernel panics. To solve this, I recently reinstalled the system but after a few days problems reappeared. This is an example of the report shown when Mail crashes: Thanks!
I've got a problem that while installing El Capitan from USB Installer it says "copy of software is corrupted etc..etc". Actually I downloaded the copy of El Capitan from another Mac and then I created "El Capitan installer from my own Mac with terminal process and when I try to install it it says the above message "copy of software is corrupted etc..etc". So tell me please anyone what happened and if it's date fault, then what date I should set because I didn't download El Capitan on the Mac on which I want to install it.
according to the following website: *=URL=* it is stated that iphones encrypt all data stored in them: The iOS operating system on Apple iPhones and iPads has to deal with a similar problem. To ensure a user’s data can be quickly and completely wiped when the device is factory reset, it has a trick up its sleeve. All data on the device is encrypted by default using the hardware encryption feature. When you choose to set up encryption, the device is protected with your own encryption key. Even if you never set up encryption, the files are stored on the device in encrypted form so any bits of deleted files appear as random gibberish on the device’s storage after it’s reset. The data can’t be recovered. im confused.
I am a musician running ProTools and Maschine on my MacBook Air. I recently used Terminal.app to delete some standard Apple apps and clear disk space.
Inside my Documents folder there are a bunch of folders named with what appear to be hexidecimal numbers, eg. 01, 1b, 84, aa, etc. Often they're empty, but some have one or two files named with a hash: 5aaebbb6c171adb2159c17cd1c8e629fc774f1be.file I assume the files are binaries because when I open them in a text editor they consist of rows of eight two digit hex values, 00eb babf 314c 00eb babf 3130 d3aa 0109. I deleted the folders a few weeks ago, but they slowly grew back. My question is twofold: What is writing these files/folders? What is writing these files/folders? And because I doubt it can be diagnosed from my description, how do I monitor and figure out what is writing them? And because I doubt it can be diagnosed from my description, how do I monitor and figure out what is writing them? I'm on 10.11, El Capitan.
I have started using my iPad again after long inactivity. The mail app shows 7,288 unread email. I would like to get rid of that red number, the problem is that the mail app does not load old email – and so I can't mark them as read. By the way, is there a way to mark ALL that 7,288 as read in one go?
Since yesterday I am encountering WiFi drop outs with my Airport Express. I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and have a 1st generation A1264 Airport Express.
I am working on a Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 using the new Safari Picture in Picture functionality. It works well for single Youtube videos but how can I keep watching videos on Youtube playlists? Right now, I have to go back to Safari at the end of each video and reenabled Picture in Picture mode every time.
My MacBook Pro 2011 (with 10.10 Yosemite installed) has shuffled off its mortal coil. Unfortunately it contains import data to me.
I've been having trouble sending messages (SMS and iMessage) from my Mac for a week or so now. I'm not sure if it exactly correlates with my upgrading to Sierra (10.12.1) but I have a suspicion that it's related to that.
I'm running OS X Sierra and the latest iMovie, 10.1.3. I have a project and I'm trying to send it over to Final Cut Pro... the "Send Movie to Final Cut Pro" option in the File menu is missing. Not greyed out, just totally not there at all! Why? How can I get it back so I can get my movie into FCP? My only idea is that it isn't an option because I'm running the 30-day trial of FCP (downloaded from Apple's web site), but I can't imagine why they would remove the option. Here's my iMovie's File menu:
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
since my update to sierra my escape button doesnt work anymore. I have tried a NVRAM reset and yes, it worked but after 2 Days it doesnt work anymore. I am just struggling to get this work, i already looked in the settings and used the keyboard on screen and guess what?
I have noticed Messages App in macOS has the option to share screen, I was just wondering if could use this to share my mac screen with user watching this on iPad/iPhone? I have tried this, within Messages I clicked Buddies > Invite to Share My Screen and it started loading, but the user hasnt received anything. Any thoughts?
I have iPhone 5S with 10.1.1 iOS. I have experienced few situations where my battery life was about 30-40% and iPhone immediately turned off. When I tried to turn on it indicated low battery and kept doing this for about 2 hours everytime I tried to turn on. And then suddenly turned on and was back at around 30% battery life and I did not use charger in the meantime (I did not have it). Then this situation happened to me again when I had my charger with me, so plugged in and after while iPhone turned on charging but already had about 40% of battery charged. This happened to me like 5x in last 3 months. The scenario is always very similar, battery life about 30-40%.. (never happens when the battery is more than 50%) and then few hours idle until comes back. Does anyone has any suggestions? Many thanks for help
Is there a native or 3rd party way to highlight the currently focused app in the dock, similar to the Windows toolbar?
I have iPhone 5S with 10.1.1 iOS and sometimes happens to me that I loose mobile data connection. In other words in top left corner on my screen there is provider (operator) and right next to it I usually have LTE. This LTE disappears from unknown reason (even in places that are 100% covered by LTE, but that is ok, I can accept it) but the problem is that it doesn't come back until I restart iPhone completely. I tried to restart data connection or some other things, but nothing worked. Only turning off and on again completely. Has anyone experienced this or have suggestions? Many thanks
I've bought a Macbook Pro a pair of years ago, and it came with OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Since I am very happy with this version of OSX, I've ignored all the updates since then, and I'm still running OSX 10.9.5.
If I set an event to repeat every day, is it possible to auto-increment a number at the end of its name? E.g. every day at 21:00 I'd like an alert which says "Day #" where # is the number of days since the event started.
I am configuring an iPad with the apple configurator 2 on my mac book. I want to hide a few preinstalled apps like "tips" or "messages". The system language of my mac book is Spanish, so all app names are displayed in Spanish, while the iPad's language is English. Now I don't know what to type in the filter box in order to mach "tips".
I have just finished building an Applescript Application with Xcode and I'm ready for exporting the whole thing. As this app is not made for the App Store, but private distribution, I have followed this guide to export the .app to my mac. Upon looking at the resources folder (Application.app/Contents/Resources) I am able to see the AppDelegate.scpt file containing the source code for this application.
How do I quit multiple processes in Activity Monitor at the same time? As you can see, it doesn't let me do that:
I need an iPad connected to my iMac, but I don't want power going to it, because leaving an iPad charged to 100% ruins the life of the battery. I still want to be able to transfer data though(ex. syncing). I want to still allow data transfer, but with no charge(or extremely little) going to my device.
I'm currently in the process of downloading my pictures from iCloud to my iPhone. I've backed up all my photos on my computer, so I've deleted most of them from my iCloud library. I have little over 300 photos (no videos) left- however, iCloud always gives me an error when I attempt to turn iCloud photo backup off.
I have a MacPro5,1 (2010) with a 4-Core 3.2 GHz (W3565) and 12 GB RAM (3x4GB ECC 1066 MHz; 1 slot free). Would this be possible to possible to purchase 2 X5690 (3.46GHz/6-core/12MB/130W) processors to upgrade this or would I need a new tray + heatsink and some firmware update? Also, would the upgrade then also accept a 128 GB memory upgrade (via 8x16 GB; 1333MHZ DDR3 PC3-10600 Reg ECC Low Voltage DIMM)?
For the past week I have been getting this message when I try to open iTunes.  It doesn't matter how long I wait, nothing ever changes. If I reboot my computer and try to open iTunes immediately after startup, iTunes will open normally. But eventually this same message will appear again after closing iTunes and trying to open it again later. I am running El Capitan 10.11.6 on a late 2012 iMac. Has anyone else experienced this or a similar issue and does anyone know of way to resolve this problem?
After attempting to delete \var\db.applesetupdone the mac continues to reboot past the grey apple logo. Tried booting in safe mode and no work. I'm on MacOS Sierra
I organize all of my photos and videos on the Photos app in Mac, (with everything in the folder Photos Library.photoslibrary). I also disabled all iCloud Photo Library , My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing.
My MacBook Pro (mid 2014, Sierra 10.12.1) sometimes gets stuck after waking up after sleep. Some key seems to have stuck and keeps pressing into the password field forever, filling the password field and making me unable to type anything in. If I select all/delete, it refills again immediately, just like I'm pressing and holding a key on the keyboard. I've pressed all the keys as maybe OS thinks one is stuck, hoping that it will fix, but pressing all keys didn't work either. The only solution for me is to restart (and even if I press esc to sleep again, it immediately wakes up in a second as its "pressing" a key), if I close the lid, wait a minute, and open it again, it's still the same.
Is it possible to connect a bluetooth keyboard as a game controller to an iPad?
I have a mac book pro from 2013 (mid 2012 model) the only customisation I have done is install a bigger hard drive. Whenever I go into sharing settings the name of my computer to others is the serial number which makes using air drop confusing when trying to find my computer. I have tried changing it before but whenever my computer goes to sleep then I open it again it has changed back. Please help (I'm running El Capitan)
Is it possible to recover data from a restored iPhone. iPhone encrypts data by default so is there any chance of recovery after the key has been deleted during restore like brute force or jailbreaking etc?
I would like to slide the left pane in order to access the list of App Shortcuts. This is what should happen, as per an image I've found on internet.
I've learnt that DFU bypassed the bootloader and allows to downgrade the firmware. However, in the normal DFU restores I'm used to seeing, we just let iTunes proceed with the restore and don't intervene in any way to choose any older firmware. We usually use DFU for iPhones stuck in the Apple logo.
This is my first question on AskDifferent. I'm a photographer and have been using an external SSD to keep my Lightroom Library (develop and album metadata only, the picture files are on other devices). I usually have the SSD drive connected to a powered USB3 hub.
I'm using Macbook pro MF840 with a OS X 10.12. I installed a 3rd party input method to input Chinese, and when that input method is on, I can't quick-check a word definition in Spotlight. Instead, I need to switch to default input method and then type that word into Spotlight. Is there any workaround to fix this? Thanks in advance! Here is the screenshots showing the problem: with default input method on with default input method on with 3rd party input method on with 3rd party input method on
I am experiencing the same problem as in this question: The history is shared between my iTerm2 terminal tabs: how can I switch that off?. As the user describes, my history is shared between different tabs and windows in iTerm2, which is very annoying. I cannot use the solution suggested to the linked question, as I cannot use the setopt command:
when I type ls -li I get all files including their iNode-id. (e.g. 19753844) How can I now access that specific iNode (so that I see details and the data saved to that iNode)? I just can't find a command online.
I have a ThinkVision Pro 2840M which is a 4K capable display. I have attached a Mac Mini running on Sierra to it, and it is connected via HDMI. I would like to view at 1080P (minimum) at HDPI at 60Hz. I have used SwitchResX and as per the settings offered, to be brief, it is showing: 1080p30 at HDPi 1080p60 without HDPi So, how should I enabled HDPi on 1080p60 Thank you
My concern is that this answer on Superuser implies that there is a bitfield of a fixed size in the HFS+ extended attribute that is used for storing tag flags. Or maybe that just for the first N tags, and it has some way of handling the overflow case?
How Do I Type with IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)? I need to type in Phonetics, but I cannot find a keyboard. I tried the IPA Unicode 6.2 keyboard, but it did not work. It installed, but when I selected it, I could only type the normal english-latin characters. I cannot use copy/paste sites like This, as I need to type a lot. I am using a MacBook Pro, With Sierra
I plan to install Linux on my Macbook Pro and before removing an important partition, I'd like to know what I need to keep in order to be able to do a recovery to MacOS in case I need to. For information, here's what I currently have on my macbook : EFI : 200Mo Apple Core storage : 465.1Go Apple Recovery : 619.9Mo Here's the fdisk output : (sorry, in French)
I have this problem in my office that multiple Macs always run 24/7 and my boss said that I need to make it stop. Now I don't have much experience with Macs, I'm more the Windows type. I have one Mac who acts as a server and would like to run a script or something like that to orchestrate the power status of several computers if that helps. How can I shut down all of those 7-8 Macs remotely at 11:30pm?
Any files that you purchase from iTunes (or obtain with iTunes Match) will contain your personal information:  Is there a script that automatically goes through all music inside the iTunes Media folder and anonymizes .m4a (iTunes AAC) files to EFF-standards? While also meeting the following requirements: Not trans/re-encoding (and thus losing quality) Keep the same file format Keep play counts, import date, etc. Keep songs organized in playlists as they are I have thousands of purchased iTunes songs, so going one-by-one is not an option.
I don't know why, but the ² and < are inverted on my external keyboard. The ² is right after the left shift, where it's written "<", and the < is at the top of the tab key, where it's written "²" ... Any idea why, and how I can fix that? Thank you.
For a support information gathering tool, I like to be able to look up several apps by name (or rather by their bundle ID) and fetch their versions. I don't like to use the find command for this as that's not going to find all possible apps, or it'll take forever.
I am using iphone 6 ios 9.3.3 my battery Max capacity is 1118 mAH and design capacity is 1751 ? Why its Max capacity is is not 1751 what to do to fix it.
Yesterday everything worked fine. But tonight, I'm unable to access particularly a few particular websites on all the imacs, mbp and even iphones at home. Weirdly enough, a quick 4G access via my iphones show the sites are accessible, but when i get back on the home network (via wifi / ethernet), it becomes unavailable with these errors: ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED "...connection interrupted" "...connection interrupted" "This site can’t be reached.." "This site can’t be reached.." I've done all these tonight, but to no avail -- all on separate occasions on all imacs/mbp/iphone where possible: cleared all cache, cookies and whatnots from google chrome.. cleared all cache, cookies and whatnots from google chrome.. updated osx to latest ElCapitan 10.11.6 updated osx to latest ElCapitan 10.11.6 restarted fibre modem, restarted router, restarted all computers/gadgets restarted fibre modem, restarted router, restarted all computers/gadg
I'm using a Macbook Pro and I just upgraded to Mac Sierra. I wanted to see if there was a keyboard shortcut for accessing my Desktop (and the icons that are on it) so I read this article -- *=URL=* , and tried the shortcuts provided. Specifically, Fn + F11 or Command + F3 (Mission control key?) but neither combination works. How do I enable keyboard shortcuts for the desktop or what are the proper key sto press?
I have an external hard drive and I plan to put iPhone backups on it. I did symlink to it this way: When I'm trying to do a backup of my iPhone normally from iTunes, I get an error:
I had issues with an older server, so I have set up a replicated OD on 2 mac mini's. They are both running OS X 10.11.6 and Server 5.2.
I dropped my computer no more than 3 feet. The screen wouldn't turn on at first. I tried rebooting with pressing shift right after the power button, then I tried NVRAM restart. At that point I started hearing the booting sound (the chime), which I wasn't hearing before. But screen is still black (on but black). An SMC restart did nothing. Connecting the macbook to an external screen worked only in safe mode but not normal. Help?
My language settings are only set to English, but my iPhone speaks certain emoji (like ‍♂️ and ‍♂️) in a Japanese accent when I select them in a message and tap Speak. Can anyone explain? Here's a visual example of what I see when I select mixed words and emoi:
I am trying to connect to Wi-Fi. It does get connected but there is no internet. I can't use Wi-Fi. Weird thing is that when I connect my iPad and iPhone to the same router/Wi-Fi they work perfectly fine. But my MacBook Air has some issue. How can I fix this problem? My OS is 10.9.5. Update Wifi is working in safe mode.
I have two Macs and need to provide the fastest possible connection between them at the most affordable cost for file sharing of video editing resources. These are older Mac Pros (2010) and so I cannot simply use Thunderbolt between them. I was thinking about 2 10GbE NICs and simply setting them up under a different isolated subnet between them. It seems that FW800 would still be slower than 10GbE.
I contacted apple support about the problem. After an extensive conversation with the tech person, we decide that this problem would need to be taken to an apple genius bar to be repaired.
Scrolling slowly using a 3rd party mouse does absolutely nothing on Sierra for me. I just now noticed after using the trackpad for several months. I even purchased a new mouse to see if Logitech's software was interfering with something to no avail. I am using a Razer Naga, but the same issue occurs with my Logitech MX Anywhere 2, MX Master, M705, and my generic Microsoft mouse. Here is a little video showing the issue in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB975jLpmKg
I'd like to backup my local content with my own scripts. But I'm not familiar about how OSX apps works. So I can't find where does Ulysses stores its local content. Or generally, where usually does an OSX apps, stores its buffer content?
Is it possible to sync calendars across services on a Mac? For example, I have an Exchange calendar and I want to automatically copy all events to an iCloud calendar. This would yield two different calendars with the same content.
Is there an existent method, a driver, or some software that facilitates direct USB-to-USB networking in macOS similar to FireWire-to-Firewire ethernet or the new Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt ethernet networking?
All Yahoo Calendar Entries appear on my iPhone / iPad a day earlier at 11pm-11pm. Problem continues on both iPhone5s, updated to iOS 10.1.1, and iPad. (I have both Yahoo and [paid] Yahoo Small Business Accounts.) Reinserting the correct day/time on iPhone lasts for seconds before the entry reverts to 11pm a day earlier. Fortunately, the Yahoo calendar remains OK, but it is not practical to attend client meetings with an iPhone/Yahoo incompatibility.
I deleted accidentally a book that I was reading and it already automagically synced to my iPhone as well. It was a downloaded ePub. I added notes and bookmarks there.
I'm trying to follow the instructions found here to install windows 10 on my iMac. But I get this error The installer disc could not be found as shown below:
I'm trying to put two black boxes on my clip two block two names, and every YouTube tutorial tells me to export after placing the first box and do the trick again. How do I put multiple simultaneous picture-in-picture in iMovie actually? (It cannot possibly be the only way!)
I used to be in the beta program before Sierra came out, but I have since un-enrolled. I don’t have the beta profile in my App Store settings as mentioned here but the App Store still wants to update me to 10.12.2 Public Beta 3. I am currently on 10.12.1 (stable). Does anyone know how I can prevent the App Store from showing beta updates?
Can I shutdown multiple Macs in my office (9-10 Macs) in my office after checking their runtime? I have one Mac, which acts as a Server (with the OS Server application). SSH is also enabled on every Mac, so logging on remotely is not a problem. I want to write a script that checks: Now I don't know anything about scripting on a Mac but I've done this before with powershell and windows machines. Curently I have this script: but don't know how to run it on the remote Macintoshs
I'm trying to backup my MacOS computer onto an USB key, and when I run the restore command from the Disk Utility app, I get an error 254 : For information, the title is really odd since it shows Restoring to "My Usb Key" from "(null)" (sorry the text is approximative (it's originally in French), but the main point here is the "from null")
Knowing that I use the MacBook for programming, surf the web and write in latex do you think that the update to the new OS X version will provide me benefit in performance? Here the specifics of my MacBook Pro Mid 2010:
I've been asked to replace the logic board of a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15" Unibody 2.66GHz Core i7 laptop. When I check the exploded view of my Apple Technician Guide for this MacBook Pro, it lists part number 661-5480 for the 2.66GHz model. However, upon checking various stockists I see both 661-5480 and 661-6362 used interchangeably for this particular logic board.
On screen lock mac goes to sleep impacting the downloads & etc. Is there any way I can lock the screen with password protection and not loose the connections ? OS version: EL Captain Currently
We have a 500GB HDD on a iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014): 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB 224GB / 498GB available We have spoken to Apple who said we cannot upgrade it to an SSD Drive, because it could break the motherboard. We cannot afford a new Mac at the moment so I am looking for a solution to make these programs run faster.
I'm considering to buy the above mentioned MacBook with the Intel Iris Pro Graphics and without the additional AMD graphic card. Now my question is whether this configuration supports connecting two external monitors with 4k resolution @60 HZ or not. Moreover SST or MST support will be helpful, too. I'm thankful for every source link provided.
I've replaced /Library/Desktop Pictures/Sierra.jpg with a custom background image. Now, macOS Sierra applies the blur effect on my custom background image as well. I am looking for a reliable solution to turn it off e.g. overwriting a plist preference file or any non-hacking workaround? How can I completely disable the login screen background blur and show a crystal clear login image?
Notice that Macintosh HD is within the HDD, and the SSD is unformatted. Here's the output of diskutil cs list. It seems that there's already a Core Storage logical volume group, but it's too small (121GB rather than 2.1TB):
I opened this link I put above. And ran the command I mentioned.
Is it possible to install both mongodb 2.6 and 3.2 on the same Mac? I’ve been using mongodb 3.2 (Installed with homebrew) for a while but needed to install 2.6 to support an older project. I used brew install homebrew/versions/mongodb26 and got some issues with conflicting files, which I could sort out later.
I used to have an iPhone 5c and i used iTunes to back up it on my windows laptop. Now I've got an iPhone 7 and I am trying to set it up but I can't. First, I entered my iCloud and tried to "restore from iCloud backup". It works until it is 99% and then it gives me a message that it can't be done.
What is the default for NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat? I believe the value is 20, but I'm trying to verify this in order to understand the dynamics of shifting the value.
Will the person that pays my Iphone contract need to be with me when i have my Activation Lock removed from my phone? I'm confused as they asked for a proof of purchase letter and ID and when my mum went they said that they needed the 'Original Owner'to be there and i don't know if they meant me or the contract payer - (My Grandad) I have also tried taking it to other shops but nobody knows what to do If anyone could help that would be great, Thanks :)
Is there anyway to use AppleScript or a system utility to obtain a list of Application Shortcuts...? I've seen Apps like CheatSheet but I want to make my own cheatsheets. (i.e. physical ones I can stick on the wall by my Mac)
With named ranges it is more convenient to operate formulas. For instance, instead of typing =SUM(C20:C30) you can enter =SUM(FirstQuarterSales)
There is an app called "Pocket Points" where you gain points for having your phone locked in class. I am curious if there exists a tweak that can spoof your device being locked so that it registers as if the screen were locked and blacked out and gives you points, but you can still use the device normally. If this doesn't exist, is it even possible to create?
I have a new MacBook Pro (2015) from apple and I am trying to link with my iPhone so I can make calls from the laptop. I have done this before, with my iMac and other laptops but I keep getting a message (see below) that they are not on the same network...but they are!!! Any thoughts?
I have a hard drive taken from an old macbook. I am working on a university iMac, I want to run applications such as Android Studio from the External Hard drive however when I run the application from the external drive, the machine loads the Android studio application on the iMac not the External version. How can I get around this?
I have a problem. I used command chflags hidden to hide a folder named !_TRANSCODE. Now I'm trying to undo this by typing chflags no hidden !_TRANSCODE and I get this error: -bash: !_TRANSCODE: event not found Any help appreciated!
I used to be able to click through to the iTunes App Store on my Mac by clicking a link in Chrome, but now it just hangs on a "Connecting to the iTunes Store..." page. What to do?
I have several folders named "auto_saves" around my hard drive. I want to make smart search to find all image files from all folders named "auto_saves". But how?
My boyfriend sent me a picture from his Iphone 6, I have an iphone 5. I wanted to know if it was possible to find out when the picture was actually taken, not just sent to me or saved on my own iphone. Is there any way to find this out? I have used certain apps to find out with no luck. They only show me when I saved the picture sent to my phone or when he sent the picture to me in a text. Does anyone know?
Is there a way to force clear CRL / OSCP cache on iOS? I had a few websites (app.streamable.com, www.buzzfeed.com, etc.) failing on my iOS device since last month's GlobalSign revocation screw-up. I thought the issue would resolve itself after a few days/weeks, but it continues to result in Safari cannot open the page.
I have tried twice to run the Sierra update from the App Store. It comes with a pop-up that the restart will be in 60 seconds, when I fasten it up by clicking the 'Restart' button in the notification, the Mac begins to restart.
I just got the new macbook and the three finger drag does not work in a limited area of the trackpad (between center and top left). I've got a new one and it has the same problem. Did anyone find the same issue?
Using macOS Sierra (latest 10.12.1) on iMac and iPhone (iOS 10), copy/paste (Universal Clipboard) doesn't work. All necessary connections and accounts are turned on and connected.
For a great while (about half a year) now, my friends have said to me that there is a 'Invite to Messenger' box in my chat. All my friends see this as I have asked around and they claimed it was true.
I am in this unusual scenario. I have a Mid 2010 13in MacBook Pro and I am trying to make my family's 15inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro my new personal laptop. However this 15 inch model has a crappy hard disk drive which is beyond slow and makes the laptop unusable for me. How would I migrate to this 15 inch laptop and use the SSD from the 13 inch one? What is the most efficient way of going about this?
I have a small network of about 10 iMacs connected together via Ethernet. One iMac has OWC ThunderBay4 connected via Thunderbolt directly and all other computers are accessing files on this drive via ethernet. Even though the searching (using Finder) works fine on the computer attached directly, I am having issues searching on the remaining computers. Sometimes it works fine, but then suddenly the search stops working until I manually unload and load the index file. Today it happened again but with a difference that I am still able to search on two computers - one that is connected directly via Thunderbolt and on another one iMac over the Ethernet, but I can't search on the remaining 8 iMacs.
I was sold a Macbook a1278 and it only has some weird version of windows 10 on it (Everything is all red and inverted colors and the os seems to be all messed up). I tried doing many different things and I have a USB with mountain lion ready to install but nothing is working. What can I try? It has no mac os x utilities or anything at all. I tried booting up internet recovery and the computer fan just spins and black screen..
This is a very odd request, but I've had quite the fight with Apple now for over a year on my AppleID account. It turns out that my legitimate Mac Pro's serial number has been somehow blacklisted with Apple's system, but the engineers and sys admins and the Apple Support + Apple Customer Relations rep all refuse to believe it (they say that they've had extensive dialogues with higher end engineers, but still cannot get resolution). I've provided evidence that my account works fine on other machines with different serials, yet even on this Mac Pro with a completely fresh install, it absolutely will not work and the advanced debugging logs that only Apple engineers know (and I'm likely under NDA not to share) demonstrate the error message that indicates that it is a problem with their AppleID gateway server and my serial number.
My Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" says I suddenly ran out of Storage space. My Mac barely has any data and my upgrade to Sierra was a clean install. Nothing was ported from previous backups.
People simply say "that's just how it is. Get a Windows machine." Obviously not helpful. Obviously not helpful.
With this script I wouldn't have to do that. It then would be possible to instruct the creation of 3 only containing the exact view properties for list view for example. List view then being a container of properties defining 'Filename, Label and Comments' as the appropriate sort options I need. This script resulting in the automated creation of Me new folder The three folders I wanted to paste in my new folder Folder three A being named MyPreferredNameA in the script Folder three B being named MyPreferredNameB in the script Folder three C being named MyPreferredNameC in the script And this with options to create up to nine in just one hit after double clicking the ScriptCreate-3View-CommentFolders_ or ScriptCreate-6View-CommentFolders_ for that matter.
Combination of melted ice cream ,iphone 5s & someone sleeping on top of it all for an entire night. Now the screen looks like a retro jail house jump suit all black and white bars. I could think of a thousand ways to jimi rig it and know that none of them are any correct way. Need a positive solution. Phone still works as that it rings all the time and still powers up takes charge and powers down. Any one know what exactly and how to fix this probmlem. Or what needs to be replaced and best place to get a fix it my self kit? Thanks What parts do i need to purchase to just fix it my self?
Got my first Mac, a Mac mini, that runs Yosemite. I wish to create apps for iOS including iOS 10 but looks like I need the latest version of Xcode for that (8.1) and Yosemite only seems to support 7.1.1. I tried downloading and updating to macOS Sierra which didn't work, just installed Yosemite again.
I am using application TopTracker on my MBP My Mac have frozen and i have forced it to restart. Unfortunatelly, when i'm trying to restart the App, i have this error :
I'm trying to develop apps that use the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. On Apple Developer's documentation, it states that at least Build 16B2657 is required. To develop apps that use the Touch Bar, your Mac will need to run Xcode 8.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2657) or later.
When calling I use my iPhone 5S with headphones on and it always gets locked during the call. This doesnt happen when calling phone to ear. Is there a way how to prevent iPhone to lock when having a call with headphones?
This morning, I was using my Late 2008 MacBook when I found that audio wasn't working. The volume icon in the menu bar was grayed out and System Preferences said that my output was set to Digital Audio instead of Internal Speakers like it normally is (and Digital Audio is my only option).
I have a new iPhone 5s (my first Apple device) and an iPad both of which I've had for three or four weeks now. This morning I received a notification that I had been signed in on another device, an iMac called "macen" (or something like that). I do not have an iMac. I don't recall the exact wording of the message.
After upgrade from OS X 10.10 Yosemite to 10.12 Sierra i noticed that % of used inodes became 0% instead of 99%.  As far as i understand max number of inodes became 2^32-1 but i can't google anything about it.
The new Gmail iOS app (version 5.0.4) no longer allows me to edit quoted text in reply and forwarded messages. This is a serious limitation. Is there a fix or a workaround, short of copying the entire quoted text, pasting it into Notes, editing it, and pasting the result back in Gmail?
I am using macOS Sierra. Recently, the Mail app started having problems with attachments. On many (but not all) messages, attachments show up, but they are displayed as "Mail Attachment", not as the actual file name. Curiously, sometimes the correct icon shows up. I thought that maybe they needed some time to download, but waiting for hours does not solve it. I tried turning on and off the automatic attachment download and deleting the Mail Downloads directory, but that did not fix it. This is an Exchange account, which may be part of the problem. Any idea what could be causing this?
There's an setting in Amazon Music app "Add playlists from device" which lets you select from playlists in your iTunes library. I enabled this once and music from my iPhone added to the Amazon Music. However now I turned it off but the device music still in the Amazon Music app, how can I remove these songs without going to each one individually and remove it?
If I am using a friends computer as a GUEST and then sign out. Can my information still be seen by the owner of the computer or does it get deleted??? Like I did t want them to see what I was researching ect ??
So on previous Apple computers, one could shutdown using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Option + Cmd + Eject/Power. However, the new MacBook Pro w/ Touchbar has neither an eject nor a power key. Does this mean that the shortcut no longer exists for this computer?
I am working on an end users machine which is somehow not responding to mouse clicks, left or right. I've already rebooted, tried multiple USB mice (PC and Mac) and ran First Aid on the HDD from Disk Utility in Recovery. Had to navigate to it using Tab/Ctrl+Tab on the keyboard.
After updating my MacBookPro to macOS Sierra, the display sometimes freezes in the lock screen, when waking up from sleep. I have to wait for a few seconds before the Mac allows me to insert my password and unlock it. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
For example take this attached picture in your consideration. Here in this case, I want ditto "Music" type icon to replicate for folder type icon.
I used to connect to a remote Linux server through ssh -v remote from my osx client. Now the connection hangs after authentication:
When I try to connect to my OSX Sierra machine from ubuntu using: smb://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/ I get a prompt for username and password that I fill out and confirmed the credentials are correct from my OSX machine. But I cannot connect, I dont get any warnings just a quick refresh of that prompt and nothing. From OSX i have tried this sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server SigningRequired false *=URL=* I have confirmed file sharing is on and users have read & write privilege. What am I overlooking? here are log outputs from syslog
My computer identifies my external Microsoft Sculpt keyboard as my MacBook internal keyboard. When I run "Change Keyboard Type..." in System Preferences, I get the error "You have pressed a key on your Apple keyboard. Please press the keys on the keyboard that can't be identified." Also, the modifier key custom preferences for my internal keyboard get applied to my external keyboard as well. Everything works fine when I boot into Safe Mode. I had other recent keyboard problems that I posted about here on this MacBook, and followed these instructions to no avail. I have tried removing everything I found related to my uninstalled copies of Karabiner, Karabiner Elements, and Logitech software like the Logitech Control Center.
The screen is flickering in my MacBook Pro 13 Retina. I'm facing this issue after I disconnected from an external Dell P2414H display. I am connecting my MacBook Pro via a Display Port cable Details of my Mac : MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB macOS Sierra version 10.12.1 macOS Sierra version 10.12.1
I have a MacBook Air and just updated to macOS Sierra, which automatically installed the "Photos" app to replace my old "iPhotos" app. As I scrolled through the "Photos" app sidebar I checked to see that all of my photos were there in the "Photos" folder (at the top of the sidebar). Then I scrolled down to the "Recently deleted" folder and to my horror saw a huge number of my images shown under the advisory that these photos would be permanently deleted in 28 days! They are photos that I didn't delete from iPhotos or Photos, and I don't want them deleted. I looked again at the "Photos" folder and saw that those same photos — the ones destined for deletion in 28 days — were also showing up in the "Photos" folders. I don't need two copies of them but I am wondering if they are safe if I see them in the "Photos" folder?
Specs: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 MacBook Pro 15-inch, early 2011
I have been given a MacBook air by a friend that needs it repaired. The device is running 10.6.8 and has no available recovery disks. I am going to re-image the device and update it to the newest macOS but I have run into a serious problem.
I have an iPhone 5c and i want to turn off the dialer and voicemail on it and leave just favorites, contacts and recents. How do I do that?
I am using Artisan 725 on my Macbook and when I try to scan it says that the printer is not able to communicate - "Communication error has occurred." However, it will let me print. Has anybody else had a similar issue with this printer/scanner and found a way to resolve it?
I have the 15 inch MacBook Pro 2016, is there a way to plug in 2 hdmi displays into 1 port.
I'm getting this error on my mid '11 Mac Mini (running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6) when I'm trying to install an audio plug-in by Presonus, the demo of OrangeVocoder 10th Anniversary Edition. The software manufacturer is in Germany and this is just the demo, so I doubt they will be much help. The first thing I tried was downloading a new copy of the DMG file, but it gave the same error when I attempted to install.
Used to be, I bought music in iTunes and then sync'ed it to my phone. If I didn't have enough space on the phone, I'd only sync certain playlists. Then I always had the music on my phone, even if in airplane mode or off wifi. Now I do that but it doesn't sync all the music. Apparently I have to go to each playlist on my phone and click 'make available off line'. This is tedious as I have numerous playlists. (But it is not all my music that is in iTunes, because I don't have the space on the phone.) So if I must do both, I must consult the list of playlists that have been sync'd, open each one on the iPhone and click 'make available offline'.
I have a command line executable (written in C) with some related resources, and I would like to package it as an application (inside the .app folder). I tried appify.sh which could package shell script, but didn't work here. For this command line executable, I would like to open termial to show the STDOUT.
How can get Remote Simulator to Windows when it doesn't exist?
I tried to download Tumblr and it got stuck on the 'loading' part in the app store and I've tried everything I can think blr
How can I remove Siri App Suggestions in iOS 10.1?
I thought my computer had downloaded a virus, using an app I located the file and accidentally tossed a folder hierarchy that was inside the private>var hidden folders. Everything deleted and emptied except for zz>zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000>C>DeferredInstallFixUP.file_list AND zz>zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000>C>PKInstallSandboxManager-System Software
When I open imovie there are three choices Video Projects of Theater. I want to delete what is in the video file but can't work out how to do this as when I enter this there are all the video clips but no menu to do anything but view them. Can anybody help please.
update: I have check spelling on under settings for both keyboards. Please try and not misunderstand this question. I'm NOT talking about the white background word suggestions white typing. I believe before iOS 10 if a word had a red squiggly if you tapped it you would get a black tooltip with a suggestion.
A - if I restart the os, it takes more time than usual, then I get into the boot screen with the input devices (keyboard, trackpad) responding from time to time (i.e. they work for 2 seconds, then they stop working for 10, then the cycle repeats itself);
So I want to buy something on the App Store on my iMac. I logged in and I instantly got a notification on my iPhone saying that there's an iMac trying to log into my Account (I don't know why. That's the first time since forever). However, the location is wrong. It says that the iMac is about 200km away from my actual position (which is wrong).
I know the older mac pros are capable of running multiple processors. I have the 2013 cylindrical mac pro. I know I cannot put another internal processor in it, but I was thinking about getting a thunderbolt expansion chassis with a PCIe port and running another processor that way. What I would like to know is if the motherboard in the machine would be capable of running these two processors simultaneously?
Last week I bought new MacBook Pro 13", early 2015, core i5, 8GB RAM, and now I am a little bit worried about it's temperature. It's my first MacBook, so I don't really know what temperatures should I expect. I am getting 50°C - 60°C (CPU) when browsing the web, while having multiple tabs opened (Google Chrome) and Dropbox running in the background. I don't know if these are okay, the bottom side of MacBook seems a little warm on touch. Maybe I am a little bit overcautious, but I just want to make sure.
*Edit2: Please see discussion below. It would be nice if you could keep this thread open until it is answered.
I'm trying to figure out how to be notified that multiple stages have been reached in a series of piped commands. For the sake of discussion, lets say I have a command like so that any part of it could take a long time. I want to be notified when each "stage" has completed by having the script say something. where stage_complete.sh is a simple bash script to say the argument text, and pass stdin to stdout. This idea works fine - except that say doesn't "wait" for the word to complete - it just starts to say the phrase, and then immediately continues on, so if my commands run quickly, then it says "netstat" and "grep done" at the same time, overlapping each other.
I removed files so I now have 18.7GB storage free. Still, compiling is extremely slow. How can I remedy this? Is there some setting that I missed?
There seem to be different ways to do similar(?) things: brew tap caskroom/cask brew install brew-cask and even brew cask alone does something on a fresh install
My USB External keyboard layout changed to this format. And I am unable to reset it back to normal one (US input). Any suggestions on how to reset it back?
First it felt like the charger wasn't working, and when I tweeked the cable a bit it sometimes worked again. But then it stopped to charge at all. Now my macbook will never charge, not even with other magsafe cables. It shows the orange light but when I click the battery icon it says: battery not charging.
Trying to receive file name in python script and send result to notification. As I understood file names should be in sys.argv[1:]. But eventually getting empty array in notification
I had a mail service working fine before till i made this upgrade in Server App and OSX. I came from Server app 3 and OSX 10.9.5 to OSX 10.11.6 to Server app 5 and OSX 10.12.1, and when i tried to reload postfix in this version, i receive several warnings, I have tried some solutions from apple discussions (*=URL=* but i continue to receive the same output. I am using my mail service as it came by default, i have not made any configuration, with old settings that i was using before. Inside of that /etc/postfix/main.cf there is no config_directory=/etc/postfix, Other entries are in this file.
I want to copy text from a cell, exactly as it is. However, Numbers (3.6.2) put quotes around my text. Example: This is text inside a cell. When trying to paste the string that I've just copied into TextEdit for instance, I'm left with this: "This is text inside a cell." Any way to prevent Numbers from doing that?
As OS X was not operational I installed Debian because I thought that if it was the GPU failing, Debian could run without using the GPU. So indeed, Debian worked fine. To completely test that the GPU was broken I installed the GPU drivers in Debian and obviously the system got frozen and malfunctioning.
I believe I've correctly configured my MacBook Pro to hibernate (after a delay) when I close the lid, with the following settings However I'm not sure that my machine is actually hibernating as expected and would like to be able to confirm that it has. Is there a way to do this? I've tried things like which gives, for example and which gives or which gives but I'm not sure any of these are the right commands, or how to interpret their results. How do I confirm (ideally from the command line) that my Mac has hibernated?
While playing around with find in Terminal I came across this odd behavior: There seems to be an infinite loop in the Mac File System like so: ...and so on. Apparently it is possible to access Volumes and Macintosh HD over and over again.
The title tells it all. I have an old Mac Mini2,1 which I'd like to run a software that requires at least OS X Mavericks. It possible to install that on this computer? The detailed specifications from the 'About this Mac' section are as follows: Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac mini Model Identifier: Macmini2,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: MM21.009A.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.19f2
Magic Mouse 2 appears as it is connected but it will not scroll; when you click on something it will not put on the screen what you clicked on. I have to triple click on the item to get rid of it on the screen. I would like to know if there is a problem with the mouse.
I have a Word document with lots of equations in it. I created it on the Mac. I edited it on Windows. All of the equations got turned into bitmaps. This seems like poor behavior. Is there a way to turn them back? Is there a proper way to embed equations in a Word document to avoid this problem? I know I should just be using \LaTeX, but my collaborators don't want to.
When I open the Desktop folder where I saved my Xcode project, only a "main" or "swift" file is there, not the whole project. I need to zip the whole project and upload it for homework assignments.
so i accidentally pressed some buttons at logic and long story short some images and widgets like the red circle rec button or the drum kit at the new project are now replaced just by words (eg REC and drummer) I include some screenshots so that you can fully understand the problem. The top ones are taken from garageband. That was the way everything was presented at logic before shit happened. The goal is to reverse this thing and go back to the current garageband way. I tried to find the solution but failed and i guess its something very silly and easy to fix so...yeah.
I go to download my apps on my phone and it won't let me. It just comes up with this:
I recently purchased the new 15" MacBook Pro with touchbar (late 2016). My trackpad is set to 'click' with either a press (audible click noise) or a tap. If I right click by using a two-finger press, the response on the screen is virtually instantaneous. However, if a use a two-finger tap, then there is a noticeable delay (generally under one second). When I first noticed the delay, this delay was about one second long with a spinning pin wheel sometimes popping up. I restarted the laptop, and the delay was significantly shorter, though still noticeable (maybe 0.25-0.5 seconds).
I am happy with touch bar in general, but when I am working I want F1-F12 keys when editor is open. Is there a way to make touch bar go in function keys mode when editor becomes active?
Vague security and privacy concerns: synching via public WiFi hotspots. iCloud means no air gap (yeah, the "air gap" myth). General iCloud security, "ownership", what Apple does w/ iClouded stuff. Unforseen show stoppers due to hardware, software, personal-needs differences. Synergy and benefits I'm simply unaware of.
Some of the songs in my iTunes library refuse to play. When I double click on them, nothing happens. When I play the song before it and then skip over to the next song, it actually skips the song and thus goes forward 2 songs. There is nothing different about this song, it's part of an album where every song plays just fine, it's not unchecked or anything. When I find this song in my Finder and play it through VLC, it plays absolutely fine, no problem at all.
I want to be able to mirror an iPad Air and a late-2016 MacBook Pro to an HDTV. Not simultaneously, just one at a time. I know I could just get both the lightning to digital av adapter and the usb-c (thunderbolt 3) to digital av adapter, but is there a way to do it where I wouldnt need both? Like maybe a female usb-c to male lightning adapter (but it would need to be able to pass both video and audio). If it helps reduce the amount of stuff I'd need to purchase, I already have HDMI to HDMI, HDMI to mini HDMI, and HDMI to mini DP (thunderbolt 2).
This question is NOT about how to connect two Thunderbolt displays — there are plenty of questions asked here about that, but whether or not the graphics chip in the Early 2016 MacBook 1.3 GHz Core m7 (M7-6Y75) has the power to drive two external displays (Apple Thunderbolt Display) at 2560 x 1440 resolution? Here's the backstory. I have a MacBook Pro connected to two Thunderbolt displays. I am considering replacing it, but I love my dual Thunderbolt displays. I would like to replace it with the newest 2016 MacBook, but concerned it won't have enough power to drive the two displays.
I am trying to make an iso for VMware Fusion using snowyhack.sh with an image I made using my OS X 10.6 install disk. When using the command sudo ./snowyhack.sh Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD.dmg I get this error hdiutil: attach: extra image argument "OS" - "Mac" already specified The content of snowyhack.sh:
I have a Mac from which I make presentation (keynote). On the main display, I have the presenter view. On the secondary display, I have the slide displayed to the public
When I upgraded to macOS Sierra, a lot of my menu bar icons were duplicated. This included time, wifi, AirPlay, and Notification Center. I've been able to remove all of them except for Notification Center. Any thoughts?
Last week I found out when I am in a Team Viewer meeting, Team Viewer is lowering my Macbook Pro's audio. It sets the audio around 10%. When I put it back at 100% it's not the full 100% (for example, it's hardly to hear my friends on Team Speak). When I quit Team Viewer my audio is back at normal. Does anyone know what the problem is? Edit I created a video which will explain the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaiYha6XNno
If you open TextEdit and then click on the red x in the top bar of the document, TextEdit will remain open. This is evidenced by the little black dot under TextEdit, despite no TextEdit documents being open. Why Apple designed it like this? I haven't the slightest idea. I've found a piece of third-party software that offers this functionality called "RedQuits." Is it possible for TextEdit to automatically quit itself when the x is pressed, without installing additional software?
I installed on my iMac with Sierra the Paragon NTFS tool. I copied some files from NTFS to the ExFat partition and then suddenly the mac was hanging and rebooting. I was sure it wasn't good for the HDD, because it was in the middle of a writing task. So my Partitions on the external HDD are:
This was working on older Mac using CtrlShiftPower. But this doesn't work on the new Macbook Pro 2016 with touch bar. Can someone please help. I want to lock my Mac without putting it to sleep.
I'm trying to fix an iMac that won't boot any disk. The Verbose Boot option is on and a few lines are logged, but then it stops. A couple of seconds later, the computer restarts all over again with the bootup chime. The restart happens so quickly I couldn't read it all, but captured a photo of the display:
I installed parallels 11 on my iMac and installed windows on it. Then I'm trying to install my ATI card on windows so I can install the Catalyst manager as I want to disable the anti-aliasing option as shown here and here, and to do so I need to have the Catalyst control centre installed. So I want to have the Catalyst control centre installed, Any suggestions please? This is my iMac display details:
In trying to learn about data types in AppleScript, I referenced these web pages: *=URL=* http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24695
I'm running Pages 5.0 on Yosemite. In my table, the rows are alternately blue and white.
When I start a tmux session, and launch macvim from tmux, any custom Font will not load. If I open the graphical font browser, the font is listed and selected, it just does not modify the font in the UI. If I select another system font, the UI font will change!! I've tried copying the shell environments between tmux and the standard terminal, but it does not have any affect. Does anyone know how tmux could be breaking my fonts in macvim session? I'm seeing this issue in Sierra and the exact same config works in El Capitan.
For example When running this program, I get the error: Can’t make {false, true} into type boolean.
When I play any album in Apple Music on my iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 10.1.1, the tracks are shuffled. i.e. when I press the >> button some track other than the next one is played. The only icon related to shuffling that I can see anywhere in the app is 'Shuffle all'.
What is the correct way to configure minicom so that it wouldn't just print a dot in the console when trying to erase a character ? The actual input is correctly shortened, but in the console I will see annoying dot.. So, if in terminal I press keys a and delete, I will end up with: But actually if I press enter now, its same as pressing just enter in empty input. The terminal settings are:
Since the other keyboard worked, I think it would be the matter of Plume 84 keyboard itself. But I doubt if that's something possible happen, and would appreciate if anyone can give me explanation how this happened. Also, if there's some way I can use this keyboard to be recognized while booting procedure, I would be grateful if you enlighten me. Any suggestion are appreciated as well.
I need to make a video of browsing websites on iPhone. I don't have a Mac so I can't make Airplay mirroring and record it there. Is there any way to do it on Windows 10? I need to keep video resolution same as iPhone has. It's one time thing, freely is the best.
Little Snitch on my laptop just caught an unusual connection attempt - /usr/sbin/rpcbind tries to connect to 216.218.206.83 (scan-06d.shadowserver.org). This looks suspicious to me as it has never happened before. How can I check why this happened? Are there any logs or command line utilities that can point me to the origin of this request? macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2555)
For a week now, I'll get a notification at least once a day, if not more, telling me that I am to sign back into iCloud. I then have to go across all my devices and enter the password. Every so often the notification refuses to let me sign in without changing my password. I'm on my fourth password now and honestly running out of ones I can use (I won't be able to remember them at this rate). It's becoming very frustrating because I don't know what's causing this.
Does Apple change the serial number of iPhones they take in when they refurbish them?
I use iPad mini 4 (iOS 10.1.1) with a Logitech bluetooth keyboard (k380). I often need to switch the keyboard layout because I use more than one language in my writings.
I have several PDF files that I want to merge. I used to do it with Preview in my macbook, where I open all the files and then use the Print -> Save as PDF. However, this time, the files I want to merge have several Hyperlinks in the text and with this way, most of them get lost from the merged PDF file. Is there any way to use Preview and keep the hyperlinks or is there another way to do it?
My iPhone is not working right now but I need to change my iTunes payment method. Tried using another phone on my plan to change payment method but am unable to because Apple keeps sending the verification code to the phone that's not working. How can I solve this problem?
"Checking for Mail…" comes and goes as one might expect, and normal mail functionality seems to work fine. Connection Doctor shows nothing strange.
My Mac mini was running Sierra. It had FileVault enabled. I read that you shouldn't be able to erase a FileVault encrypted drive. I logged into Recovery and I was able to erase the drive.
I'm having issues with garbled text appearing in a PDF file when using Preview in macOS. I've tried using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, but when the app attempts to load this file, it will state that it cannot extract the embedded font 'AJPGJM+Arial'. The fonts aren't garbled but some texts are missing in the PDF file. Does anyone know how I can work around this problem?
If I quit iTerm2 I always get the "Quit iTerm2? All sessions will be closed." message - independent of the settings in preferences. I don´t tick the three options under "General/Closing" - all regarding the closing mechanism. Normally the message doesn't have to appear, does it?
The basic problem I am trying to solve is that a Norton Anti-Virus process got stuck soaking up one full processor, and I had to kill it. (there was also a message on the norton app that said something like "Norton Anti virus can't continue, please reboot to continue protection") I don't want to reboot because I have lots of state (ssh tunnels, command history in a bunch of terminal sessions, etc) that is useful and will be lost on reboot.
I have a USB headset hooked into my Macbook, that I use for calls with Skype, Google Hangouts, and UberConference (the last two via Chrome). Fairly regularly, the USB-C jack slips out, and the call switches to the MacBook's speaker and microphone. When I reinsert, and then switch back to the headset's speaker and microphone (by selecting them after option-clicking on the volume icon), the call stays on the MacBook's speaker and microphone. I then need to hang up and redial to get the headset working again. Any ideas on how to switch to a headset mid-call? It seems ridiculous, but I may solve it by using a headset that hooks into the 3.5mm jack instead, like https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Analog-Stereo-Headset-Microphone-981-000587/dp/B00WGQNJK4
Finder and all apps jump from 14pt to 18pt in dropdowns. Can a 16pt be added?
Do you remember the incredible​ Welcome Video​ on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Does anyone know how all this is achieved? I mean the principle of how to get the video to play automatically the first time one tries to log in to a New Mac. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.
for my studies I am very frequently using iBooks on my iPad, and for many PDF files it would be great to have them displayed, such that 2 pages are shown next to each other. It is a very common thing for me to have to skip back and forth, so that this would really help. I have allready seen a few questions akin to this one, however none exactly delivering what i need. Thanks for your help!
When I try to move a file to my WD My Passport Ultra external drive it just copies the file. It doesn't actually move them. What can I do to fix this?
I found a playground book from Apple online called "Talking To The Live View". It's an updated playground from the 2016 WWDC. I want to install it on my iPad and try it out. Further, I want to experiment with building my own playground books and installing them on my iPad. I'm a licensed iOS developer, and know how to install apps on iOS devices, but despite searching for a couple of hours I have not been able to figure out how to install playground books onto my iPad other than the ones that magically get listed from Apple.
I have an older iMac which I am retiring as a display. It works well enough in target display mode, but I have keep the keyboard around just to switch it to display mode. Is there a way to boot the iMac into target display mode start target display mode remotely, such as from the console?
I recently updated to Sierra. Now the Input Sources Menu isn't working. My 2 source are listed (US & Unicode) but selecting them does nothing. The checkmark doesn't move, the menu title doesn't change, and the keyboard function doesn't change. Additionally, the "Show/Hide input source name", "Show Emoji & symbols", and "Show character viewer" menu options tend to just disappear from the menu and stay gone until reboot. Any idea what would cause this, and/or how to fix?
How can I wake up my MacBook pro with an iPhone, when the lid closed (no external display)? MacBook is not connected to power and there's a local wifi that it can connect to.
I am looking for a solution to connect a MacBook Pro 11,4 (15" retina model from mid 2015) to two monitors. The present question is different from prior questions on dual monitor for Macbook Pro, as it is for a specific model (specific ports) and monitors with specific connections. Both monitors have VGA and DVI connections, but my MacBook Pro has two ThunderBolt ports and a HDMI port.
My MacBook Pro overheats (without this program on) and I am planning on reapplying thermal paste but until then I need this program. So whenever I log in it shows this prompt which it needs to disable turbo boost: So I have to type my password twice when I log in, is there a way I can just allow it to "make changes" without my password?
On a new system running MacOS Sierra, how to enable notifications for the NY Times, or any other news source? A client saw that my older MBP running Yosemite gets breaking news from the NY Times, and asked me to set it up on his shiny new 2016 MBP running Sierra. No joy -- neither Safari nor Firefox pop up a notifications request from nytimes.com. Further, notifications cannot be added manually in System Preferences/Notifications or in Safari's Preferences/Notifications. Is there some other way to do this? Thanks.
I'm facing some issue with Bluetooth device(s) still paired to my Mac after a clean install. I'm currently using a 2013 Macbook Pro on Sierra, which was previously used by one of my co-worker for the last year. He switched to another computer and after doing a clean install (internet recovery) he then gave it to me. (Mavericks was installed then I installed Sierra). So, here it is: he has an iPhone which he had previously paired to the Macbook, along with a magic mouse which he gave to me.
I just recently added several songs to my iPhone 6 Plus. Here is what I did: Add songs to my playlist in iTunes in my MacBook Air. Sync music to my iPhone 6 Plus Problem:
In other words, does my Macbook's CPU realize it is wasting its time and energy by continuing to send instructions to a screen that has been completely darkened by setting the brightness to 0%? (Not sure if this is equivalent to "display sleep." It may be.) I would hope so, but my guess is that it ignores the brightness setting and continues sending instructions just like it does when the screen is doing something useful with them. The reason I ask is because I use my iPad as an external display (via Duet Display) and routinely dim my Macbook's screen whenever it's hooked up.
Where is the power button on the 2016 Macbook Pros w/ Touchbar?
I bought my base model 15" MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar the day it was released, and I just received it yesterday. I've been copying and downloading all the data and files that I needed and the battery didn't last me more than 5 hours, if even 4. I have no idea what is wrong with it, but it's really overheating and I almost never hear the fan running, which also alerts me.
I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator. The application, right off the bat, presents the user with a dialog list. By default, there are two ways to select an item from the list: Using your mouse. Using your mouse. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator. I've created a Service in Automator which launches the aforementioned app. The Service is triggered by a keyboard shortcut.
I have a Logitech Blue Tooth audio adapter which has been working for like 2 years. All of a sudden, in sys preferences, it automatically switches to built-in sound.
One thing about MacOS I don't understand is how to quickly navigate the Finder in terms of quickly editing your file path. I.e in a centralised Version Control I may have and I want to get to In Windows, I would just quickly go to the file path and swap the 1 for a 2, but in Mac "Go To Folder" always retains the last folder I used, and it appears I either have to type the whole path out, or open a second Finder window, "Go to Folder", drag the folder from my first window in and then swap the 1 for a 2. There MUST be a way for "Go to folder" to just load the current working directory...but I can't seem to find a way anywhere! Thanks
I am looking into expanding my macbook pro's USB ports as I only have 1 USB port working and I have tried everything from resetting SMC and PRAM, frimware updates, etc. Using a USB hub from the remaining USB port is not really an option as I use it for my Traktor Pro 2 Soundcard I have been looking around for a Thunderbolt to USB hub/dock but they are quite expensive. I was thinking will a Thunderbolt to firewire adapter, Then Firewire to USB work? If not, are there any other options in expanding the USB ports without using the last remaining USB port? Thanks
I have an app which asks for Contacts permissions each time I launch it, even though I have already accepted it. I think it's because some fudging I did with the app bundle resulted in a non-matching app signature?
I have a problem with my AirPort / Wi-Fi hardware on my MacBook Pro. I updated to macOS 10.12, Sierra, and then the Wi-Fi would not work. Nothing I do has made any change. I have tried SMC and NVRam resets. Have used a different AirPort card. Different hard drive as well.
Nov 19 12:05:27 Patricks-MBP cloudd[390]: notify name "com.apple.cloudkit.pcs.flushCaches" has been registered 40 times - this may be a leak Any interpretation would be helpful.
Whenever I plug in my external display via HDMI on my macbook pro retina, there is a vertical pink line. It goes away after about 20 minutes, but it's still getting on my nerves. The pink line does not appear when other computers are connected to this display, so it's not the monitor itself. The line does not appear when the display is connected via miniDP (or thunderbolt?) to DVI. Changing the HDMI cable did not fix the problem either. Does this mean there's an issue with my mac's GPU?
Now I just got the new Macbook Pro delivered and the lack of ports is really frustrating. Looks like this:
I recently acquired the iPod in question, model MC297 (Classic, Late 2008/7th Gen). The SMART diagnostics came as follows= Retracts=7 Reallocs=16376 Pending sectors=0 Power on hours=163 Temp=current 31c Temp min=9c Temp max=53c.
Every time I turn my Mac on, after a while the app memory just runs out.   These are just from 10min apart, after working for a while. I need help figuring what those Installers are and why the kernel_task is taking so much memory. Those Google Chrome Helpers also look extremely unnecessary.
I have a certain structure in my files (YYYY-MM-DD_name of file_MYINITIALS). I could rename existing files in batch but to do so I would have to know where they are, as they are in different folders this doesn't seem to be right solution for me.
Do you need the same Apple ID to find my iPhone ? I have 3 iPhones 2 with the same Apple ID 1 with a different I'd can it be done?
Before you respond that this isn't possible, hear me out. I have a Mac Pro 4,1 (with 5,1 firmware), running MacOS Sierra. I want to disable System Integrity Protection (otherwise known as SIP), but have run into a snag. I don't have a flashed graphics card, so I can't see my boot screen (or recovery mode or safe mode) on my computer. Therefore I can't see how to disable SIP on my computer. I have tried:
I can update to iOS 10 betas with OTA Updates, but I want to update using my computer through iTunes because the it is connected via ethernet so download speeds will be faster. Is there any way to do this? Edit: I am not a developer.
I have found a lot of answers for this, which say Target Display Mode. Problem is, the iMac in question here runs Snow Leopard and predates Target Display Mode.
There are several questions that seem similar, e.g., TextEdit shows dialogs about not having permission to open any files, but they're not exactly the same and none of the suggested fixes work. Correction: when I posted, I forgot that one of the ideas in those posts I hadn't tried. Because I was doing a long slow backup via rsync, I did not reboot. This morning after that completed, a reboot has removed the problem. But it would still be nice to understand why, and how to prevent—since it happened again today (see comments).
I just got a brand new MBP with a fresh macOS Sierra install. I installed Elm, which simply puts 5 files in /usr/local/bin. However, when I try to run any of those files, they aren't found: I search for them in /usr/local/bin and I don't have permission: I have to use sudo and I see they are all owned by root:wheel: I can list the contents of /usr/local without being root:
The question "How to disable Escape key in Safari" was asked here a few times. Now since on the new MacBook Pros the Escape key is a touchscreen button, it is much easier to press it accidentally, but there is a good chance we can actually remove it in Safari once and for all.
I just wiped my hard drive and used internet recover mode to install Mac OS 10.12 "Sierra." As soon as I logged in, I noticed a new folder on my desktop called "$RECYCLE.BIN". This folder was not here when I was previously running Sierra (at least I do not think it was). I am a little afraid to just delete it as I do not know what that will do. Is it alright to delete this folder or is there another way I need to go about removing it from my desktop? I already tried hiding hidden folders, but I am guessing this is not a hidden folder as that did not work.
I can say into my watch: Hey Siri, start Outdoor walk and it will open the Workout app on the watch and start that specific workout. Later I say Hey Siri, stop workout and this used to work - the workout would stop. Now Siri says I wish I could but workout is not set up with me and I cannot see any options to do that.
I've been trying to allocate the left unallocated free space after uninstalling the ubuntu. As there are no options available in disk utility to do that now.
Does anyone have a list of spy services/daemons (colloquially known as "junk")? I know this question could be interpreted as primarily opinion-based, but I'd like to keep this thing objective, so here are the parameters: Services are quantifiable: sudo launchctl list Services that track browsing history location (I know Address Book or Maps needs to get the location when planning routes, but besides that?) installed applications Feel free to specify things I have forgotten in the comments It would be useful to know this list to remove them from the list of startup services/daemons.
Is there any particular reason for this with the latest iOS update? And/or is there anything I can do to fix it?
Has anybody already installed Windows 10 and verified the workings of the Touch Bar with the normal function keys (+ ESC) as promised here? Question from Abraham: Craig, am I correct in assuming that the Touch Bar becomes a row of visual function keys when using Windows with Boot Camp? Federighi's answer: You are indeed!
When connecting my PC to the iPhone WIFI hotspot, it assigned a 192.168.2.x address to my PC. I really need to change this to a different address range as it conflicts with one of our work subnets. Is it possible to configure the iPhone's DHCP settings so it gives out different addresses?
I keep getting error when I try to access some websites(xkcd, Soundcloud, Guardian). I've attached a picture for reference. This problem has been posted before, but there doesn't seem to be a solution yet. I'm running macOS Sierra on a MacBook Air. The weird thing is I don't get this error when I try to access the same websites safari on my iPhone(running iOS 10).
I'm looking at upgrading my notebook from a late 2011 MacBook Pro to a mid 2015 MacBook Pro. I found a great deal on a 2.8Ghz model and have a question about the graphics card: Does the 2.8Ghz model come with dual Intel/AMD graphics card or just Intel embedded graphics only? Thanks
"i" in english is always "I". Is there a preference to autocorrect that auto corrects small "i" to capital "I" in macOS?
Recently I replaced my MBP Mid-2010 HDD with a Zotac 480G Premium SSD. Things are really faster now, but one thing I noticed is that the CPU rises to peaks quite unprecedented with my original HDD. In video conversion, the CPU temperature soars to 95 degrees Celsius but the fans seem sluggish to kick in before the CPU temperature is 85 or so. The GPU temperature is also quite high. Of course, after they start spinning up they both work around 6000, but they cannot lower the CPU temperature below 92 degrees Celsius. I have stared to think of putting the HDD back. In idle mode while I am not working with my mac, the CPU temp is around 49, but on startup and when working with apps like pages the temperature is around 66 degrees.
I've been trying for days to figure out the correct way to phrase this question, so please do not hesitate to correct me. I have four apps that I always run in full screen mode and I always have them in a specific order. It looks like this: Dashboard Spotify IRC App Desktop Browser Sublime Text
Use the macbook for a while. Lock the screen, walk away. Wait a long time. Unplug the thunderbolt cable.
Does Family Sharing allow others to see the free Apps that you've downloaded or is it just the paid Apps? I did search online but couldn't seem to find confirmation.
Sold an iphone 5s on ebay, thought I had wiped it clean (still think I did). 99% certain.
From my research, it seems that macOS transitioned from 32-bit x86 to 64-bit x64 across the following versions: That is: Support for x64 apps was added in 10.5. A 64-bit kernel was introduced in 10.6, and the 32-bit kernel was removed in 10.8. It is possible to run 32-bit apps with a 64-bit kernel and (unlike Linux and Windows) 64-bit apps with a 32-bit kernel. Is this accurate?
I have a MacBook running macOS Sierra which has been successfully connected to my Logitech Bluetooth audio device. Recently it stopped working. Specifically, in sys-prefs/sound it won't select the device. In other words, the Bluetooth connection is made, but it won't set as a sound device. I checked this with other Bluetooth sound devices from other manufacturers, so I believe it's a general Bluetooth audio issue. Does anybody have any insight into this?
A couple of months ago, my iPhone 5 started to have lines on the screen. A common thing that some people do to diagnose that problem is to open the phone and disconnect the connectors to the screen, clean them a bit, and then put them back. I tried to do it, but once the screen was back in place and I replugged the battery (because I unpluged it for safety reasons when I removed the screen), the iPhone wouldn't turn on. I've tried the same procedure a couple of times but it still won't turn on.
One of my external USB disks died. I want to restore the time machine backup to a new (bigger) external USB disk. I could just copy the latest backup to the new disk, but I want to keep the backup history, so that time machine uses the new disk as a replacement for the old disk (with all the backup history).
(MacOS: Sierra 10.12.1 , iMovie: 10.16) UPDATE: I see now I have TWO iMovie folders, one on my local drive (with some valid projects and movies) and another on my eternal drive (where everything was supposed to be). With iMovie, I can only see the final movies only on my local drive. No Movies are found or visible that are on my eternal drive. So questions are: 1. I am simply unable to see, open, find ANY final movie via iMovie that resides on the external drive. Where are my movies? iMovie is really inconvenient to say the least. 2. How can I move/merge my local drive projects, folders, and etc into my external drive folder?
I recently got a new (and my first ever) Macbook Pro which is a 15 inch 2015 model. Everything is pretty great, when I first turned it on I had an update for Sierra which I applied. The only bad thing I have to say about it is the scrolling of PDFs when using a PDF reader app (this doesn't happen when reading PDFs from the browser). I've tried this with both Preview and Skim and it happens with both. I've even got a Skim update a few days ago that said in the changelog it would fix this but it didn't. Now there are a few things I've noticed:
On my work Mac (Sierra) I'm running a NodeJS webserver on localhost, port 3000. I need to access to it from Internet Explorer running in Parallels for testing purposes.
When two 2016 MacBook Pros are connected over USB-C, can they transmit power? Could an adapter look like a phone from one side but like a charger from the other, so that it would convince one MacBook to power another?
I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator. When I was saving the application, I made sure that the "Hide extension" box was unchecked, like so:
Mid 2010 13 inch MBP is under 10.11.6 while the 15 inch is a 2012 non-retina model that is under macOS Sierra. I've been told that this is possible earlier but would like to hear form more people. Some are saying Macs are hardware independent, some say they are, so I need a consistent answer. The 15 inch currently has a HDD which is not going to cut it for me.
While it's great to have a quick upload to Vimeo (System Preferences -> Extensions -> Share Menu) in Photos.app, what about a share extension to quickly upload videos from Photos to YouTube? Does such an extension exist that can be added to macOS?
I have a Nikon D750, D7100, and D300, and I shoot on about 5 - 10 SD cards per event. I noticed that the new Macbook Pros don't include an SD slot, and Apple is advocating for "Wireless data transfers" from the camera.
So I've been using the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter for years to connect to a DELL 3007WFP which only supports dual-link DVI input. Now I want to connect the new macbook pro (late 2016) with thunderbolt 3 to this monitor.
I use my MacBook connected to an external monitor via HDMI with the lid closed, and plugged in to AC power (in closed clamshell mode). If I disconnect the power cord (usually happens accidentally), the external monitor will lose signal, USB devices become disconnected and I need to enter my password and unlock the screen. Is there any way to prevent my Mac from stopping HDMI input when the power is unplugged in closed clamshell mode? I'm aware of NoSleep and InsomniaX, they work fine for preventing sleep when the lid is closed but they don't prevent screen lock when AC becomes unplugged (with closed clamshell mode).
I have made iTerm borderless, like this:  So, how can I move the window from anywhere inside the window and not just the title bar?
I have a early 2015 Retina Macbook. I recently got a Dell 1707FP monitor to use as an external display and I have an Aukey CB-C26 hub that provides me with an HDMI port. I'm using an Amazon basics HDMI to VGI cable. When I connect the monitor, the laptop recognizes an external monitor is connected but the monitor is just a blank blue screen. I know the cable works because when I connect using the same cable to my Windows laptop the monitor works fine. I also know my Aukey adapter works when I connect it to my TV using an HDMI cable.
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest Sierra. I often find myself wanting to type I²C and have created System Preferences/Keyboard/Text to replace I2C. I can't seem to get this to work in any program (Firefox, Pages, Terminal, BBEdit). The inbuilt omw doesn't seem to work either.
I have a particular person who continually messages me but I do not want to block them. Is there anyway to silence my watch so I do not get notifications from them, but I still get them from others?
I use Blogger to run my blog, and I would like to use Apple's Touch icons. However, I'm currently having trouble and I'm not sure if it's because of the limitations of Blogger or something I'm doing. I've looked to other sites for examples and I just can't figure it out. It keeps showing a default Touch Icon, not my image. Here's what I've got so far. Other information The file is a 60x60 png image Google Sites' file hosting service needs those parameters on the end for the download link to work. Blogger says there's a parsing error if I don't put a slash at the end, but every other site I go to doesn't use that slash, so maybe that's a Blogger thing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last week, while the outside temperature was about 20 Celsius, I entered a cold room ( -6 Celcius) for about 20 minutes. While in the room, my iPhone 6 suddenly shut down. I was not able to turn it on until about 20 minutes after getting out of the cold room (and charging it).
Good day, I recently noticed that my Mac is not searching inside files any more. If you notice, when you put in a search string at the search bar in Finder, Mac will also look up that string inside files it can read the text in (Word, Powerpoint, TextEdit files, even Java, PHP, C/C++ files -- as long as the file can be read as text). For example, if you look up "Hello World", it's going to look for all files containing in their filename and in their file content the string "Hello World" and show those files. This is very handy because I can just search up a line of code I want to search and then all the files with that line of code will show up, I wouldn't have to check every file individually as it will get very tedious once the files in my code work reach 20+ files.
I have not been able to find the official documentation of my time capsule. I'd like to know how secure are the different 3 modes: DHCP and NAT: this is the mode I'm currently using however the airport utility recommends me to use bridge mode. DHCP only. Off (Bridge mode)
Lately, I 've been experiencing a problem with my hotmail account when I try to get connected through the mail.app on my Mac (I have the latest version of MacOS installed). It cannot get connected and actually this is the error message that pops out.
When trying to run a PHP script from inside Terminal, the script is just echoed to stdout. This happens if the script is executed directly (first line #!/usr/bin/php) called as an argument (/usr/bin/php ./test.php), or if the php command(s) is input interactively. What could be the problem?
I have a dual monitor display and I calibrate both displays. My calibrator generates a calibration profile for each monitor, however the brightness is not saved to the profile (apparently this is the same with all calibrators). This means that although I can now switch between profiles with ease, if I change the brightness of a monitor (deliberately or accidentally), I have no way of getting back to the brightness that is correct for the profile. Is there any way I can save and restore the brightness of each monitor?
Background In our environment we have a login script that runs to connect users to the network shares. This worked flawlessly until some of the Macs were upgraded to macOS Sierra, when we were suddenly unable to connect to one of the SMB shares using the server's IP address. There are three Windows servers that the Macs need to connect to on login - one with IP address 192.168.65.3, one with IP address 192.168.65.30, and the final one with IP address 192.168.65.25 (this one connects using Acronis Access Connect and AFP).
I ran: by mistake, now my Mac does not boot... Any idea how to fix that? OS version: Yosemite.
I have a problem with disk space - all programs report that I used up 470GB out of 512GB, but all my files take about 245GB. Storage tab in "About this Mac" reports this space as "other". Where is the missing space? This is a Mid 2014 MBP with built-in SSD running OS X 10.11.6. I tried already without success: Repair disk permissions restarting :) Cleaning Spotlight cache Removing small files that resulted in many inodes Checking SDD health (is ok) Grand Perspecive shows this space in gray and describes it as "Miscellanous used space" - what is this? Daisy Disk and Path Finder reports 470GB used, whereas the sum of all folders is 245.3GB:
I have a Linux file server running NFS that is behind a firewall. As such the server is configured to run mountd and lockd on a specific ports (4040 and 4041 respectively). I have multiple Linux clients that mount the share from the file server and read/write to it successfully.
Recently I replaced the optical drive to SSD to make a fusion drive in my Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012. The hardware installation was successful and it is recognized in Disk Utility. I made a Sierra bootable drive on my 8GB USB drive with DiskMaker X.
I am trying to find shortcuts for the apps I am use. I know I can go to the preferences of a an app and then go into the 'key bindings' to see its shortcut. However I want to hover over a specific button/menu item of an app and then find out what shortcut I can use to access that button.
I am running iTunes on different Macs connected on Ethernet to download the last iOS version (10.1.?). Note: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth are explictly off to be sure what I am analyzing. On these different Macs, the download is similarly extremly slow: The actual version of iTunes I run is: 12.5.1.21 The actual connection I am using is: With the help of a tcpdump -i en0 I was able to diagnose I am actually downloading an Internet monstruous mammoth from: on port 80 (= http). A rapid ping analysis gave me: when at the exact same time, a reference one (on the other side of the world) gave me:
I want to be able to reboot my mac mini with a wireless keyboard (non apple keyboard) and not by using terminal/ssh. I don't want to pull the power or set a scheduled time - just be able to accelerate the shutdown without using a mouse or trackpad. Is this possible by using some pre-arranged combination of keyboard commands or shortcuts?
I've done a diff on two file names (via Terminal), whose textual content on visual inspection appear to be the same file. diff however reports the two as differing. The only difference I could identify through Finder is that file2 has a tag set, which file1 hasn't. I then did an ls -l@ on both files and noticed the following difference:
I don't know exactly how to match the MacBook Pro 2016 specs to this display to see if it would connect at the native resolution (full pixels) of the dell display. *=URL=* Where can I learn how to qualify a display with MacBook Pro 2016?
As the title says, I want to be able to switch the desktops by only using the keyboard. I have 2 displays, my MacBook Pro and a monitor. So far I've seen some solutions using System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts, but all these are deprecated in macOS Sierra. What I have tried: How do I switch monitor focus with the keyboard? Keyboard Shortcut to switch between multiple displays
I find the the default view of songs to "Songs" too white and it's irritating / abominable to view Playlist that way. It does't show enough details for my taste so I'd rather see something else than the current default view (Playlist): Instead, I would like to see content directly as the Songs view instead: Does anyone know of a plist setting (in com.apple.iTunes.plist) to change the default view of songs to "Songs" instead of the Playlist setting?
I'd like to block just 4 specific websites but AFAICT there is no such option. There's the option to "Limit Adult Content" but sadly it blocks way too much. For example it blocks stackexchange.com. I searched for restaurants on Google it blocked every single result. There's the option to only allow a whitelist of sites but that's not useful for me either. I'd have to add every result and every link I click on.
So, I'm looking to replicate the functionality of Keychain in every OS X until macOS Sierra. I have two passwords for my MacBook: the first is quite simple and logs me in, and the second is devilishly complex and unlocks my Keychain. On older systems, Keychain prompted for the complex password on boot but stayed logged in until I shut down. Now, Keychain prompts on boot but logs out every three hours (or perhaps when the computer sleeps), requiring that I log in many times in a session. I can see the benefit to this, but at the same time it's useless for me. I turn off my MacBook with regularity, so if stolen it will likely be off (and therefore not logged in) but the new password prompts seem to come at the worst times. Is anyone familiar with a way to revert to the old style (keep the Keychain logged in until I shut down)?
I have my Raspberry Pi setup as a WiFi router, which works great! Except for one problem, my MacBook.
As now new iPhones are shipping with a mini jack to lightning adapter and AFAIK lightning connector should be super-programable, is it possible to get audio input from a mini jack plugged into adapter? In other words if I take a radio, and I pug a male-male mini jack into a headphones port, can I record the audio on my iPhone?
I'm trying to get started on a new work machine. Both my old and new machines are running El Capitan. My problem is when I try to move a ".txt" file from one computer to the other, via usb-stick, it keeps coming across blank(missing all text). I get this problem when transferring both directions. I've tried both UTF-8 format and using Automatic formatting. I've tried changing the permissions of the file after the fact, using "Get Info". None of this has given me any success. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
I'm on OSX el capitan (10.11.6). I use outlook to access my email and would like outlook to be the default mail application. All the instructions I find online suggest that I should open mail and choose "Mail -> Preferences" to set the default mail app. Unfortunately Preferences is greyed out until an account is added. I don't have another account that I want to add to my mac. How can I set the default mail client to Outlook without adding an account to the mail client?
I need to replace an old airport express which I use purely to get audio from my computer over to where my stereo system is. It also acts as a wifi extender. Other than airport, what other modem/router/accesspoint hardware can I consider?
I want to use a certain name for my app, but it is already taken. But no known app exists with this name. Any idea how I can find the owner of the app?
Mine gives a warning at 5% and I'd be much happier if it could warn me at 10%. I assume there's either a way to do in the System Preferences or I have to set a value to some variable in Terminal.
For some strange reason when I try to type these keys: Grave = ` = keycode 50 Or shift + Grave = tilde = ~ = I don't know the keycode I get different chars, for the grave I get this = § and for the tilde I get this: ± My keyboard is:
Retina MacBook Pro takes a long time to wake from sleep, MacBook Pro: long time to wake from sleep, what could it be?, and Takes a long time for my macbook pro to wake from sleep do not answer my question. I have experienced multiple slow-downs of waking from sleep on my MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016) running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2555).
iTunes Accounts in System Services is draining over 3.5 GB of data per cycle (Settings-->Cellular-->System Services-->iTunes Accounts). I monitored it closely during this data cycle.
So I am trying to make my partition full size but there seems to be a limit. I am on OS X 10.8.5 using Disk Utility.
Recently upgraded to macOS Sierra, and since then I cannot delete multiple lines by pressing the Command key and Delete multiple times. The first time I press command-Delete it deletes to the beginning of the current line, but pressing it again does nothing. In previous versions of macOS, pressing command-Delete again would delete the previous line also.
I burned an install CD from this website which hosts old version of MacOSX. Everything boots up correctly, by holding the C key down when turning on the computer. I get to the installer wizard, and I get all the way to the 'Select Destination' part of the install, and this is where I get stuck.
Currently I am at: Is there a way with Homebrew to upgrade to 4.1 or 4.2?
I have had nothing but problems today trying to install Windows 10. Boot Camp Assistant has already created the flash drive for installation and the partition on my hard drive. I restarted and booted into the Windows installer.
After installing Windows 10 with Boot Camp Assistant for my Late-2016 15" MacBook Pro, I'm finding maximum volume to be almost inaudibly quiet under nearly all uses. The audio is deafeningly loud at full volume under macOS, so something is definitely wrong
I have been successfully using the gnupg21 package from MacPorts for several months. Within the past few days I updated my MacPorts installation (sudo port -d selfupdate) and then made sure I was up to date (sudo port upgrade outdated). Since then gpgv2 no longer works:
I yesterday (November 21, 2016) bought a new macbook pro 13 w/o tb late 2016. But I seen warranty up to October 28 2017, when I check at Apple site. It is less than a year. May be so? Or it means this macbook was in usage earlier? Cycle count is 3.
For forensic imaging of drives and/or segments with a native Mac application, I'm booting from external device (usb, hdd, etc.) into BaseSystem. I want to keep the internal drives and/or segments unmounted during the boot process. Later will disable disk arbitration, mount these drives/segments and image them. Since the drives should be kept unmounted, there is no way of knowing drive/segment volume names and/or UUID. I've created a deamon (System/Library/LaunchDeamons) for mount blocking (on external boot device), but it only blocks newly attached devices, not internal ones. Also, I've also tried disabling "diskarbitrationd" daemon (desperately, on external boot device), but not worked. Note: I've created boot image from BaseSystem.dmg of Sierra (10.12.1), and modified the contents.
I recently got a new iMac 5k late 2015 with 2Tb Fusion drive. Ever since arrival, it had sleep problems. It would go to sleep and wake without any problems except if it went into standby(after 3 hours of sleep). When waking the screen was black with some red graphics glitch on top where the menu bar is, it would go to a login screen only if i kept pressing different keys. After fiddling in the terminal I saw that in pmset -g standby was 1, so I removed standby like so sudo pmset -a standby 0 Now all seems ok. My question is, do iMacs need to have standby 0 by default and mine was activated by mistake or does it have a hardware fault that should be checked ASAP?
I have a password protected .xlsx file that I share with a few colleagues via Dropbox. In order to not get constant prompts someone has opened the file with unsaved changes (we don't have to update the contents very often) we configured it to open as read-only by default. I personally open the file a lot, but got annoyed by constantly having to provide the password and to have to click the "Open as read-only?" prompt that follows.
I am trying to find out if working directly from a USB3 external hard drive will slow down the Mac's performance in using software such as Photoshop CC. I realise this is not purely a Mac specific question, but I can't find the answer elsewhere.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina) and I am noticing that the fan is not running at all even though the temperature gets to more than 60c and the system starts lagging. I had iStat Menu installed and when I switched from default to manual setting and set the speed the fan would start spinning.
Can I connect two external monitors to my 12" Retina MacBook (early-2015) How do I do it and can it be VGA or only HDMI
I do not need the data on the HDD. It can be wiped clean before installing macOS Sierra.
I am trying to install Windows via Boot Camp Assistant on my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro Retina, but it's only giving me the option to install Windows 10. It assumes I want Windows 10 and doesn't give me any other options.
I have a MBP with Sierra that I use in clamshell mode with external monitor and keyboard on wired network connection. When I am not using it I put it to sleep from the menu.
I use an external apple keyboard with a numeric pad but its number keys don't produce numbers, in fact they produce nothing. The plus, hyphen, enter buttons do work even 0x47 keypad-numlock but it does not toggle on the numeric buttons. This is my keyboard: Please advise.
I'm working to replace Carbon Copy Cloner, that I've been using to backup my mac for years, with simple bash scripts using rsync. A thing that I'm not understanding is the rsync -E option, that should preserve the HFS+ extended attributes. I know that, when the target disk is not formatted with HFS+, the attributes that can't fit are saved into a ._ (AppleDouble) file. In fact, this is happening with my NAS which is a network drive, accessed by means of the SMB protocol. Fine.
I got the 15 inch 2016 MacBook Pro. Today I went to the System Profiler, and the USB section, there are an item called iBridge. Here are a screenshot (I covered up the serial number just in case):
I was trying to install Kali linux in a dual boot fashion when I accidentally ended up install a terminal only version of Debian as a second partition. So I decided to retry, which meant I needed to delete the Debian partition. When I tried to in Disk Utility, it gave me errors, so I booted into internet recovery mode and removed the partitions there. I then proceeded in clicking the Apple Logo and selecting the choose boot partition thing. It showed nothing. At first I panicked, thinking I had somehow deleted all of my data. I tried creating a second partition, so I could install Mac OS there and then fix my mac from there. I clicked on the create partition, waited 3ish hours while I went out, came back and it said preparing to partition. So I rebooted and saw that the partition type was: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFF. So I installed Mac OS X onto a painfully slow flash drive (15-20MB/s) and then looked up my problem. I found other solution people had created only they were spec
I have a Macbook unibody c. 2012 that will not boot (a coffee spill did it in). I suspect the hard disk is ok and I would like to connect it to another machine to try to copy data off. I'd like a "casual" interface, ala USB or firewire, as I may not have a similar laptop to use as a bootable host (I do have an older, non-unibody Macbook, however). Is there some cabling I can procure that could allow me to do this? tone
New MacBook Pro 2016 has only been in use for 2 weeks. Kernel Panics frequently when in use and also while trying to reinstall Sierra. I have reset the PRAM yet the problem persists. Any ideas whats going on and how to fix? Here is the Panic report:
Touch ID on my new MacBook Pro is pretty great, but I only seem to be able to use it to unlock the machine, not bypass/replace my system password once I'm in. Is there a way to enable this?
Sorry titled this one badly, I'm assuming power is the two centre pins, then data is the rest, but surely it's messed up when the cable is plugged in backwards?
I don't believe that the server isn't responding, iPhone 3GS. I'm not convinced.
The top bar of my screen looks like this:  What's with all the locks? Can I get rid of some of them?
When I launch Keynote on my new MacBook Pro, the window used to open existing presentations is opened:  I would like to simply open a new document instead, but cannot find an option for this. Is there any way for me to set Keynote to default to creating a new presentation, instead of defaulting to opening an existing one?
Is it possible to use an iPhone in a way that can be encrypted and accessed by both iOS and any unix based OS as an external drive? Even if additional software or tinkering is necessary in either system. Reasoning is that I always carry it with me and it seems a much more secure alternative to uploading sensitive files to Dropbox so I can access them by the phone and any other computer.
I had mac book with El Capitan with included Pages/Numbers/etc. Due to some reasons, I create bootable usb drive and installed Sierra from scratch. And now Pages/Numbers are missing. In App Store there is only possibility to buy them, not to download back.
I originally asked the following question: Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF Macbook Pro about how to change my partition type from an unknown to a normal one, since it was unmountable. I was able to and I can now view all of my files, however I cannot boot from it. When I tried verifying it with Disk Utility I received the error:Invalid Disk Label @ 4096: cksum mismatch, and when verifying the partition I get the same error.
I received my new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar today and quickly realized that the shortcut ctrl+alt+cmd+power (documented here under 'Sleep, log out, and shut down shortcuts') no longer works for quitting all apps followed by shutting down. Can this shortcut be reinstated or is it replaced by something similar?
So basically, in Mail, I'm trying to set it up so that if the word "attach", or "attachment" with any casing is detected and there isn't an attachment on the e-mail, it prompts me to add an attachment to the e-mail. I have Mail Act-On as a plugin to help me add more filters onto my Mail as it comes in and out.
Can anyone look at this crash log and tell me what's causing my kernel panic? Forgive me if I am breaking some rule, as I'm new to this https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Iuj8gMfe2GbFExTmpGOWFnT3c/view?usp=sharing
As the title says, I'm getting the error "Invalid number of allocation blocks" on a particular HFS+ partition of an external drive. I am unable to repair, even in recovery mode. Log results when I run Repair on drive: Log results when I run Repair on the troubled partition: The weird thing is that the other partitions on the drive don't have any problems.
We distribute a non-AppStore-app to our agents in the field. Since our app is not from the App Store, it has not been reviewed by Apple. An Apple retail store worker in Australia told one of our agents that the app is not authorized, and to stop using it or else they will void the warranty.
How do I do a partitioned install of Windows7 on my MacOS sierra? Sierra won't let me use boot camp assistant. I have a macbook air (late 2015) 8gb ram model. Any help would be appreciated.
My iPhone and iPad keep asking me to sign in to an old account that is associated with an old email address that is not available anymore. (Old Bell.net email. I'm using Yahoo now) I tried to use Apple ID to get into it and change the email, but lo & behold, Apple ID says it doesn't exist! I read that this may be a bug with iCloud, but can't find any more about that or a solution. I do use another account that uses my "new" email, but a lot of the time when I try to do something in the App Store, it asks for this old ID! Quite often my devices will ask for the ID out of the blue. How can I "remove" or make my iPhone/iPad use the "new" ID? It is VERY frustrating. I have the latest iOS's and all that. Both devices show the "new" ID as the primary ID, but since the old one doesn't exist I can't even access it to change or remove it! Has this "bug" been addressed and a solution made available? Thanks!
When I try to open the Mac App Store, I always get a blank screen with a loading animation. I tried resetting NVRAM settings, but it didn't help.
How can I disable the video of other people in Google Hangouts on iOS? Use case: I don't want the video of other people to eat up my 4G data plan.
Whenever I try to save or open a file, the "File Open" dialog comes after 30-60 seconds. Till then I'll not able to do anything on the application. But other apps work fine.
We have a cross-platform Xamarin application. iOS version is build remotely on Mac mini with El Capitan via SSH. We used to codesign our compiled application with Developer certificate.
I have an external monitor with USB ports which is connected via mini DVI cable to my laptop and additionally via usb for the hub. An external hard drive is connected to this monitor. Normally, when I connect my mac to the monitor, I first connect the mini DVI cable so the monitor switches on, as well as the USB hub within the monitor. Then I connect my USB cable. My problem is, the Harddrive is not recognised by the system. I have to unplug and replug the disk so it gets mounted. Is there something I can do about this?
Lets assume I selected text in a text field and focused another (in the same application, e.g. Xcode's assistant editor), so the first one is no longer the first responder. The selection will appear gray. Is there a way to return focus to the first text field without losing the selection?
I'm using Just Press Record on iOS 10.11.1. Since it records audio and keeps a synchronized transcription of the recordings, I'd like to keep all my recordings there. The app keeps the files in its own folder on iCloud Drive. I have an iPhone with 16GB of storage and the recordings will eventually be a lot. The question: Does iOS "delete" iCloud Drive Files from the device while keeping a version online when the device has low free space (like macOS Sierra does)?
I have a question regarding security on iOS devices. Is it possible to somehow extract a security certificate installed on the device and put it on another? Either with or without a jailbreak? If yes, then how?
This screenshot shows that there is 57+GB used on my iPhone. However looking through the list and adding up the values comes to a maximum of 10GB (and that's an overestimation). So, where is the other 40+ GB? I have been deleting apps recently to try and clear space but every couple days it tells me the iPhone is running low on storage. I feel like this is some sort of bug or something because I really don't know where the rest of the space is?
For some reason, sometimes when I dismount/eject a physical drive, Safari launches in the background. This behavior has occurred even in safe mode, in a guest account, with nothing else running. I've experienced it happening with SD cards, USB hard drives, and thumb drives.
I use Test Flight intensively to send apps for internal and external ("Beta") reviewers. When an app is sent for external Beta reviewers, is goes through an Apple review process before these testers can access the new version. If an beta-approved app is sent for an app store review, can I expect a shorter approval process there?
I'm looking for a 'Bring all to back' command. In fact, I'm using Magnet and I have many superposed windows, and I would like to put the front window A to back in order to see the window B just below the window A. Actually, I'm using Mission Control (*=URL=* to select the window B but I'm sure that is not the fastest way and I would like to create a Keyboard Shortcut to put the window A to back. Any help will be much appreciated. Edit: I can resumed by: "How to put a window back of the screen" instead of the feature "Bring to front" Edit 2: Screen aspect: [Back A B C D E F G Front] Screen content: [] is screen A B C D E F G are windows A & C are from Finder B D F are from Safari E is from Notes G is from Reminder Then: G is active Put G to back Get F on front So: If I put successively G F E D C B A to back I will retrieve G on front
I was bought an iPad yesterday. I'm actually a 12 year old and want to download Subway Surfers but can't. I always have internet but whenever I try my account is not verified. What's the step foward guys?
Which iOS app is able to connect to a Mac using its BTMM (Back to my Mac) address? The address looks like this: your-imac.12345678.members.btmm.icloud.com On a Mac using Screen Sharing.app, Apple Remote Desktop and Screens for Mac I can easily establish a connection.
This is a really annoying bug I've been experiencing since a while. Enter a query in the search bar in Safari. A drop-down list of suggestions appear. I hit enter to perform the search, the respective Google page is loaded.
I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch with i7 2.3 GHz, 16GB Ram, nVidia 750m 2GB and 500GB PCIe SSD. I've always been happy with the machine and battery life, except when I work in Android Studio (always updated to the latest version). I can never get past 2,5 - 3 hours of battery life. Is this normal ? I never run the emulator, as I always use a real device to test my apps. I've tried SMC and PRAM reset with no impact. Any ideas?
I purchased a new MBP 15 on Sunday, and today I had my first Kernel Panic while running Sierra 10.12.1 and was hoping someone could tell me what it says.
This was occurring in Mail.app 10.1 (3251) and is still occurring in Version 10.2 (3259) When I view messages in the Archive mailbox, The entire message view (including the scroll bar) moves one pixel down and one pixel to the right and pops back. About 1x per second, possibly a little faster.
I was reading the news on Apple news, was looking at a Fox News article, which linked to a TMZ video. When I clicked the link to the video, my News app seemed to be immediately hijacked. I was shown porn sites, and then asked to open the app store. Pressing the back arrow to go back to the original Fox News article wouldn't work. Each time I clicked the back arrow, the app displayed "wait" and I was redirected to another porn site or asked to open the app store, where an app was displayed. Is this considered an iOS security breach (being sent from an article to porn, and not being able to return to the article) or is this a third party problem with TMZ that Apple isn't responsible for?
Is there a way to disable "use safari suggested password" shown below, without disabling autofill?
I just got the new iPhone 7 and the new wallpapers which I have seen on ads and Apple's website are missing. How to get them on my iPhone? Current OS: 10.1.1
Is there a way to synchronize display brightness with keyboard backlight levels? So, when ambient light sensor detects a change automatically adjust both levels.
Is it possible to install and run Linux on a partition an external HD in OS X? Almost all the instructions I've found are about installing to the entire external HD, not to a partition. I've install rEFInd on a Core2 Duo late 2007 iMac and dd'd a Linux .iso to a FAT-formatted partition on an external FW 800-connected drive, but the drive disappears from Finder and does not appear as an option in rEFInd when the iMac is rebooted.
Whenever I watch netflix or youtube and go on fullscreen the screen either turns red and black, or get an orange/yellow tint as soon as the bar at the bottom disappears. The screen is completely normal if it's not in full screen, and when there's subtitles on, it's also fine, but as soon as the subtitles go away it'll turn red and black again. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I'm currently using an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro with Intel Iris Graphics 6100. I'm trying to use 3 external monitors, but I can only get 2 to work. I've seen people suggest using an active cable, but all of their suggestions are for MacBooks with a dedicated graphics card. Will an active cable be enough for my situation, or do I have to buy some other, more expensive piece of hardware?
I cannot be entire sure about this but it seemed to happen this way: When the iPhone 5, 6, or 7 was out of power, I could plug it into my car's USB charger or a portable USB battery charger for 10, even 15 minutes, before the phone is willing to start up. A 15 minute wait, can be a bit too much -- if it were 2, 3 minutes, it would be more tolerable, but a good 15 minute, is too much. But I noticed sometimes when I plug in the lightning jack for a charge, the iPhone will start immediately. Is it due to some charger are supplying 5W, while some are supplying 10 or 12W?
I have my Mac setup with a 500 GB bootcamp partition and I need to split that partition into 2- 250GB partitions that windows will use (one for C: and one for D:). I already have windows installed and don't really want to wipe windows off and start over. Can I use something like Partition Magic to change the windows partition and split it in two?
After I upgraded iTunes to 12.5.3.17, when I click on an artist it only shows the albums of that artist. It does not show the songs that I own of that artist from various compilations. If I click "Shuffle All" it will not ever play or show the extra songs I have of that artist. The mp3s by this artist which are not on their albums but are correctly tagged to this particular artist under the "artist" field in the "get info" window (it is not set to various artists) of each mp3.
In my .zshrc file I am loading my color scheme using the below command: But when I load my terminal I get another color scheme. I am not sure why this is happening. On sourcing
I have a .txt file saved on my computer. I want my Automator application to open the .txt file and then move the location of the cursor to the first blank line in the file.
In FireFox version 50 on OS X 10.10.5, when I create a new window (using ⌘-N), the new window opens with the FireFox logo and the input focus on the search field in the middle of the page:  I would really much rather prefer to start with a blank page and the input focus in the URL bar. How can I configure FireFox to behave that way?
I've recently started using a new computer (actually a Hackintosh) with macOS Sierra. My previous development machine is still on El Capitan. In the process of setting up the new machine I've added ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
I know it's better to upgrade SSD first before RAM. Bu in running multiple memory heavy apps, isn't it better to upgrade the RAM instead of the SSD? Since booting apps or my laptop isn't really an issue.
I've installed couchbase on my Macbook and now I'm struggling to import data from the csv file. If I go to /Applications/Couchbase Server.app/Contents/Resources/couchbase-core/bin where I installed Couchbase - in terminal and run cbtransfer command I have the response "Command not found".
Just bought my first Mac (Pro) and there is a bug I'm facing. There is a folder in my trash which is not getting deleted. It pops an error saying a file is already in use.
i dont know what happened all of the sudden my screen become blurry and shaking. no problem with touch and not any other problems and i never dropped my phone Tried complete reset but problem exits please suggest any one what to do
i am tired to Install RXTX Library on my mac i want clear discretion , i am use this code : and i am always git this error on many code pls give me right way
I am looking for an option to wake the Macbook at a given time or even date (if possible). Is there such an option?
When I download a free app in appstore it says "amd action:authenticate:sm". My device is iPhone 5c. How can I solve this problem???
I am beginning to use the U.S. keyboard because, as a developer, I have the key I use the most available more. Only problem is I lost direct access to the accent keys. So I want to remap the keyboard so that Alt+a would give me à, Alt+e would give me è, etc. since I don't use these convenient combinations for anything else. How can I do this on macOS Sierra?
I have developed an App on Xamarin and I have published it to TestFlight with configuration set to "Appstore | iPhone". As an internal tester I am testing the app and during a purchase scenario when I click Buy, it says "Your purchase was successful", but when I click OK, an error is thrown [file attached] saying "Could not verify InAppPurchase with the AppStore. (CIAP002)". Is it because, the account is of a beta tester? Or is it because of the build configuration "App Store | iPhone", that I have selected?
I visited the Apple Store yesterday to try out the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. The Finder has a really nice black selection when clicking on an item. I can reproduce it by changing the selection color in Settings.app.
I have a folder containing 7.000 images that needs to be zipped into zip files containing only 50 files each. Any way of doing this automatically? Any script, Automator workflow, batch whatever would be helpful. I am not very experienced in using either, so please be specific. I am running OS X Yosemite.
This morning I got the following error message on launch. I have not removed any applications since last launch. Google did not help.
I found several posts talking about how to disable auto-correct in the HTML of a website. I'm talking about as a user.
I have been using command+shift+R in Sublime Text forever (super+shift+R in Sublime). On my iMac all that happens is that I hear a beep (on Sierra).
search suggestions still appear:  Moreover these suggestions do not come from the search history of the specified engine (e.g., it contains entries absent from the selected engine's history) bug from somewhere else.
I'm trying to restore a Windows installer image to an external hard drive. To do this, I decided to use the command line because Disk Utility never bloody works. To identify the disk, I used diskutil list which generated the following output:
I have an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and a MacBook Pro (early 2015) with Yosemite (10.10.5). This keyboard comes with two 2.0 USB ports, which, as per own product description, states: enable you to connect your mouse as well as a high-speed peripheral such as a digital camera or printer. Every time I connect anything to these ports, the keyboard stops working (and of course, the connected device won't work either in almost all cases). I tried different USB flash drives from different brands and sizes (1GB, 8GB), 1TB external drive, charge my headphones.. nothing. Is there anything to be done in order to make the USB ports work in MacBook Pro (a hidden "use full power on usb" hidden feature perhaps)?
I'm upgrading from a iPhone 6s to a iPhone 7. I have about 3000 songs on it from my library of approx. 6000. Without going through the library unticking 3000 or so songs, is there any simpler way of transferring those songs?
I have had my MacBook just a few months so I'm very much a newbie with it and the OS. My mac has only one port that's the charging port I bought the USB adapter but when I put a thumb drive in, it doesn't show up anywhere.
After getting my brand new 2016 MacBook Pro with Mac OS Sierra, I have noticed that apps such as Chrome, Mail, Spotify, anything really, randomly and intermittently do not shut down when I go to restart or shut down my computer. I have to force quit them to get them to shut down. I should not have to force quit apps just to shut down. This did not happen on my previous computer, the late 2012 iMac also OS Sierra. What could be the root cause of the problem here?
Suppose I install a dual boot with Ubuntu on my MacBook Air using rEFInd as boot manager. If I decide to remove Ubuntu, what is the process to remove the Ubuntu partition and give all the space back to macOS?
I just bought a new MacBook Air and want to know if I can partition the drive and add Leopard (10.5.8) so I can run my older music software. The issue for me both the cost and I like the older versions interface better. I still have an old PowerPC G5 which would service the Leopard software, but no current printer will support the older G5, hence my thought I could use older software, make doc PDF, then print with new OS. Is this realistic?
I started to download Microsoft Excel app from App Store onto my iPad, but after almost an hour it was not yet half way downloaded (it's a huge file and I have slow wifi, so it's understandable). I decided to cancel the download. Now Excel is on the home screen and cannot be removed the usual way. I press and hold on it until it wiggles, then I click the x, and the usual message appears to ask me if I want to remove it, and I say yes, but nothing happens. The grayed-out Excel app icon just stays on my home screen. How can I remove this app?
If I plug in the USB-C to HDMI 2.0a adapter for my TV it doesn't work until I reboot Mac OS Sierra into Windows 10 on my Bootcamp partition, then reboot it back into Mac OS. Sometimes if I shut the laptop down completely instead, and then turn it on, it works. What's the deal here?
So, I did some research and found out that XQuartz installs its own libpng.dylib in /usr/X11/lib/, which hence superseeds the system installation in /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libPng.dylib. So after the above error disappears only to be replaced with the next:
I have a file that is 80 characters wide. I am using OS X. The problem that I have is when I open the file and try to print it in TextEdit, the lines wrap before the 80 character mark. I'd like the file presented in the same way printed as it is in the file. So, my question is this;
Is it possible to, for example, set icon view to be the view for just one specific folder in Finder? It seems as though if I set a folder to icon view (currently the default is list view), opening folders inside that folder cause the opened folder to change to icon view as well. However, I don't want this to happen – I only want to affect the folder that I changed it for.
The following things I've done so far: Download the ISO image of Windows from Microsoft. Using Boot Camp Assistant I successfully installed Windows 10 on my MacBook. Windows is running perfectly. While in Windows there is Boot Camp Control Panel to restart the MacBook using OS X. Now I am running OS X. The question is: How can I restart the MacBook to run Windows from OS X?
I was going to sell this macbook, so I needed to wipe it, however it doesn't seem like the recovery mode method will do everything, since I have 2 other partitions and I can't figure out how to merge them all to 1 partition with just mac os on it
I've got a Palm Centro and would like to sync all its content to Palm Desktop or similar programme. Is there any enthusiasts site or any software which can help with that? (It is ridiculous that these days there is no good analogue to Palm Desktop on any platform). Thanks.
I have been having problems getting my iphone to charge once it's already plugged in lately. Like a bad headphone cable sometimes just wiggling it around gets the little lightning bolt to pop up over the battery. So, figuring there were some tiny debris in there I looked for a toothpick, could not find one, and proceeded to click out the "lead" (graphite) of a mechanical pencil and use that.
I went to the Nikon site and installed S-VCNXSP-160500MF-ALLIN-ALL, but those are just transfer and editing stuff, I want to record from photobooth the raw live video. Is it possible?
I have two apps that are currently being tested by external testers, via TestFlight. When I do a new build of one, it always goes through app review before the external testers can try the app. Reviews are currently taking from one to two days. Another of my apps is always instantly available for external testers, without needing to be reviewed.
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 4S to an SE and successfully transferred everything. Today I took a photo using the new phone and wanted to download to my Win7x64 system. Previously all I had to do was plug in the phone and it would appear in my devices and as a removable drive in Windows Explorer. The iPhone SE did not appear in Windows Explorer, and in Devices and Printers it showed up as "Apple USB Driver" instead of "iPhone". At this point it was appearing just fine in iTunes.
I'm attempting to upgrade to MacPorts 2.3.5 on a PowerMac running OS X 10.5. The upgrade is failing with the error: More of the output:
I just got a new Retina MacBook Pro, and I keep it at the default 1440x900 resolution setting due to not liking when everything is super-tiny. However, I was wondering, does the resolution setting make a difference when playing movies?
A MacBook comes with 29W USB-C Power Adapter. A MacBook Pro 13" (2016) comes with a 61W USB-C Power Adapter. Both are USB-C adapters. Can I charge the MacBook Pro 13" with the 29W adapter?
We are experiencing a problem with flash projector .app executables that we build. When the app is downloaded from the internet on OSX sierra the message "XXX can't be opened. You should move it to trash." is thrown. Clicking on the help icon next to it additionally displays the info:
I am experimenting with the Nix package manager on macOS. The bash package I got from Nix doesn’t seem to have readline support enabled: How do I get Bash with readline from Nix?
I'm in +8 hours so when I parse that UTC string with .000000Z, I want the resulting time to be 201611120946, not 201611120146. I tried .%Z but that didn't work, so I am little stuck how to get this date parse to work.
I am using 10.9 with Server app 3, and right now i am using an obsolete connection with TLS 1.0, RSA and AES_128CBC with HMAC-SHA1 (that cames by default). While i was trying to upgrade openssl, i notice that when i tried to upgrade it says that openssl is not installed but it is. So i would like to know how can i upgrade it, and why is not being detected as installed?
Apple shipped the original MacBook Pro Retina 13” with a default resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels (retina). Why has Apple changed the default resolution to appear like 1440 × 900?
I have an external disk of 2TB which is fully loaded with all versions of my backup files, saved by TimeMachine. I want to bring that back to a collection of backup files containing only the latest version of each; all older versions of all 'involved' files (files which have been altered by the system or by me) may be deleted. It's not a solution to make a new backup of my current system, because the 2TB was produced using OSX El Capitan and I did a clean install of Sierra on the same hardware. How can I compress the TM backup of 2TB to in fact the size of my previous (El Capitan) system? Btw, main goal of this all is to save (external) disk space.
When I first got my iMac about 4 years or so ago, I created a Jabber account for messaging, however I never used it. The email I used to sign up I now wish to associate with my iCloud account, however when I try and do so, it throws an error saying that this email is in use. Jabber is the only place I used that email address. So is there a way for me to free that email address from the Jabber system so I can associate it on my iCloud? Thanks for any info, I've done a lot of looking but can't find anything concrete on how to do this. The email address I wish to use is my custom Gmail address (email @ my domain), when I look in the messaging accounts section it seems this email address is linked to Google Talk which is inactive and has an account type of Jabber.
I have installed Xcode 6.2 in 10.9.5, and i dont know why, when i run, i get this error message, After this i notice that xcodebuild is not well pointed, because 'xcode' folder doesnt exist, i just have 'xcode 2.app', so i dont know if i will have problems in the future, since i am getting this error, and if yes how can i fix it?
I have a Macbook Pro Retina and when I move my wired mouse (mionix Naos, but same with others) there is a high pitch sound coming from my mac. It does not make any sound if I don't move the mouse, or if I the integrated trackpack.
I installed a secondary HDD in my MacBook Pro in the CD drive tray using a caddy. In my main drive slot I have an SSD which works fine. The 500GB drive I had before, I decided to put in the caddy and replace the CD drive with it.
I need to buy something today via iTunes. However, I have gift cards arriving tomorrow that I had initially planned on using to buy this item. If I do end up buying it today, will I be able to use the gift cards tomorrow on the balance to not have it ultimately avoid a charge on my credit card or can they not be used retroactively like this?
I completed my 5k on Thanksgiving day. The activity is visible in both my Activity app and in the Health app. But the special achievement never showed up. Not the end of the world, but it does kind of suck. Anybody else experiencing this or have a solution? More info about the award here.
When I establish a connection using the integrated IKEv2 client on my Mac (OS Sierra 10.12.1), I get disconnected after eight minutes. Until then it works perfectly as well. Any idea how to resolve this issue?
But, currently I don't have an OS X installed on it. So I am trying to make a bootable USB with ideally OSX Yosemite installed on it. But there is no Yosemite available to download anymore (nor for example Mavericks).
I have a Macbook Pro running Sierra with an external monitor and an Apple bluetooth keyboard. I would like a way to assign the bluetooth keyboard to a specific application no matter what application is in the foreground. For instance, if textedit is in the background on the second monitor, and chrome is in the foreground on the first monitor, I want to type only in textedit. Bonus points if there is a keyboard shortcut that disables this binding, and another to switch between apps bound to.
I made 2 partitions on my external hard drive. One is 240ish GB and one is 10GB. I put the OS X Lion install image on the 10GB partition (using restore) and when that finished I tried to boot from that hard drive but it doesn't show up, just my regular hard drive that is in my computer. I am on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra
My phone showed that my brother-in-law wanted to Facetime. When I answered, all I got was the ceiling of the bathroom. He was taking a shower and hadn't called me.
Some icons in Launchpad are damaged since I've updated to macOS Sierra, like DVD Player, Mail, Image Capture, Contacts. How can I fix this?
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8. The output of sudo killall coreaudiod and sudo osascript -e "set Volume 5":
My iPad now won't play any videos from any site. Netflix, Safari, the YouTube app, YouTube within Safari, iMovie, and Pinnacle Studio Pro all cannot play videos after the update. My software is up to date with the latest update, I just checked it today. I've cleared my network settings, cookies, history, rebooted the iPad and tried five different networks.
Since iTunes 12.5.3 there are new work/movement no/movement total/movement fields and it is possible to set these fields with Applescript or by having the correct metadata in the file so I now have all this data set for my songs within iTunes without having to manually edit it. But when you view an album it still uses the song title rather than the work/movement fields because I have not set the use work and movement checkbox. I know how to do this manually by selecting a group of songs, selecting Get Info and checking the box but its not practical for me to do this for thousands of songs. Is there any way to enable the use work and movement checkbox programatically so it actually uses the work/movement info when displaying an album in iTunes, I opened the iTunes dictionary in Script Editor but couldn't see any reference to this option (there are references to the work and movement fields)
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) that I use with an external 4K display so I tend to leave the lid closed and plugged in almost all the time. Since it turns off external display when not plugged in when lid is closed. Someone told me this would ruin the battery slowly and that Li-ion batteries should be discharged to around 10% and then charged to keep them healthy and that this model trickle charges the battery which is bad for it. They suggested a docking station that would cut off the trickle charge.
I want to build a .NET Core Web API on my Mac using Visual Studio for Mac Preview. When installing, I have options to install components. I don't believe I will need neither of them since I won't be needing Camarim or Intel HAXM, but I don't have that option. If I uncheck them all, "Continue" grays-out. My question is: Am I missing something here or do I really need one of those? I'm really tight on disk space, so I'm saving wherever I can.
My iPhone is currently offline. If i erase the iPhone using find my phone will it notify the person who stole it or will it do it without them knowing?
I did some research and still have trouble to find any way to enable Ukrainian language spell check in OS X. Please advise how to make it happen.
I was using my iPad (iPad Air on iOS 8) yesterday and it asked me to update to iOS 10 and I selected to update it later and to do so automatically at night. Right after I pressed automatic update the iPad prompted me to enter in my Apple ID password, but I just ignored it and tapped cancel instead.
I got some spam events in my Apple iCloud calendar events and have been able to delete them by deleting the calendars. However, when I make a new calendar, I am finding it's being shared with two Chinese fake emails. It only shows in the iPhone calendar app.
Recovery HD has been started up from but it cannot load my OS. (read my other post) EDIT1: I might have the same problem as here as some others Additional info: diskutil list: gpt -r show disk0: dd if=/dev/disk0s2 count=3 | vis -c: EDIT4: These messages were shown after doing the removing and readding the partitions: *=URL=* The diskutil list after all the steps in @klanomaths answer (thanks for all the help by the way!) Also, the disk0 show: -bash-3.2# gpt -r show disk0
I'm using iBooks 1.7 on macOS Sierra (but have had this issue since iCloud syncing via iBooks has been available). Books added via file > Add To Library are not being synced across my devices. I have an iPad and an iPhone using the same apple ID all supposedly syncing bookmarks, collections iBooks data etc and yet it's not actually syncing any of them. The most progress that I can see is a cloud logo in the top right of the books on a (3rd or 4th) restart of iBooks and an uploads arrow listing the newly added books, but there's no option in the UI to start the uploads that are listed.
I am trying to migrate my information (including applications) from my old MacBook (OSX 10.8.5) to my new MBP (El Capitan) using a recent Time Machine backup, but Migration Assistant is not able to recognize as a source the external disk connected to the USB port. Instead it seems to be stuck on "searching". How can I manage to "connect" the disk to Migration Assistant?
I've been through this a few times on my own, some really vague high level support chats (one of which said my hardware didn't support it yet?), and a call with a helpful senior support guy at apple (though he was a cpu guy for some reason and not really up to date on recent bootcamp specific changes).
So, heres the situation: I have a 500GB external USB hard drive that is formatted with the GUID Partition Map and has 2 partitions, both formatted as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). one partition, TEMP (~120 GB), is barely being used and I have moved all data off it for this. However, the other partition, MAIN, is being used for backups and is about 320GB and is already mostly full.
My email address was sold a while ago so I get a lot of junk mail. I try to delete it and unsubscribe but some of it remains. Recently, messages such as the image below have started appearing on my calendar. Does this mean that I have a virus or that someone is accessing my iCloud account? A while ago my email name changed without my knowledge leading to some interesting times! is this related possibly? Does anyone have suggestions on what this is, how to fix it, or how to prevent this in the future?
I have an iPhone 4s with an iOS 7.1. I wish to update my phone to iOS 8 or 8.1 because most apps only support 8 or higher. I do not however want to update to the latest version supported on the 4s (iOS 9.3.5). Is there a way I could update by phone to iOS 8 and not iOS 9?
However, when I tried to connect with my iPhone the connection worked without any problems. I tried turning my Mac off and on several times but couldn't still make it work. After 30 minutes or so on sleep, I was finally able to connect it.
I've downloaded an app (that I built - I am preparing to submit) on my iPhone 6s Plus and I'm trying to prepare some screenshots for the App Store. Per documentation, the screenshots should be 1242 x 2208px, however when I take a screenshot and open it up on my desktop, I'm left with 674 x 1200px. What can I do to get the proper resolution for these screenshots?
I'm not too familiar with Apple Calendar because I don't use it, but every now & then I get spam entries ending up on it and receive alerts based on them. My question is how they are getting in there (it's pretty clear that it's happening through email - but I'm not clear on the mechanics), and how do I stop it? Screenshot below:
So, I've accumulated a lot of photos and videos on my iPhone and I'm happy to sync a few to iCloud, but I don't really want all of them there. Partially because there are lots of near-duplicates and also because I don't have enough space in iCloud.
When I send a text in iMessage sometimes some of the writing goes orange and the rest is normal black. Its not certain words that change to orange its really random and doesn't happen with every iMessage. Have looked in settings but cant find anything I have changed or selected. I am using iOS 10.2 on an iPhone 7.
I'm using a Macbook Pro retina with macOS Sierra. The Macbook is just a few weeks old. Only recently, whenever I try to compress, or paste a folder, it will stuck at estimating time remaining.
This morning when I opened by computer, I saw a notification for an event that I never created.  I have not linked my email address on macbook and I'm not even from US. So why is there an event with some random website in my calendar? I checked which apps have access to calendar, and it came up empty. So is it just some harmless ad pushed by Apple or something malicious?
I have a MacBook Air 13-inch 2013 model and I was wondering if it is worth downloading 1080p movies if I have the option for 720p? I know 1080p is much more crisp on my TV, but does the MacBook Air have enough resolution to even see the difference?
From yesterday on, my iPhone decided to just delete every single bookmark from bookmarks and now I have nothing on Firefox. Why does this happen? I have connected the Firefox accounts on my Macbook and my iPhone and the boomarks on iPhone and Macbook were always in sync, until now.
I just got an iPhone 7. But my email address book has merged with my phone number contact list. How do I remove the email addresses?
Recently I've added a 250GB SSD into my Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) and put my larger standard 1TB drive where my CD drive used to be. I'm wanting to dual boot with Windows 10 using BootCamp but I'm running into big problems.
There is a new "Reduce Motion" on macOS Sierra. If you turn that on and swipe to change desktops, I noticed that when you start swiping, all my desktop icons completely disappear and I only reappear when I've completely switched to the next desktop.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2659). Recently I found out that if I left my machine sleeping for a long amount of time (about 15+ hours), it will cause a kernel panic and restart itself so when I open my computer the next time it will tell me the computer have shutdown unexpectedly. Is this a software bug or my computer have problem? EDIT:
When I enter a new contact in Contacts it looks fine until I close and reopen the app, then it is gone. I have saved the new contact, but it is still gone when I reopen the app.
I am using a MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.1 I have to say my backup using Time Machine is extremely slow. I am using an external SSD as backup device. Doing some simple benchmarks writing to this disk could be much faster than Time Machine is doing it. I followed a lot of hints here in this forum and others but not really with success. More or less by chance I figured out that Time Machine is generating a lot of log entries.
I didn't change my email address, but I had to change my password for email on this secondary server, because of its password rules. At this point, all my emails, inbox and sent, were still on my iPad.
2012 MacBook Pro Unibody (Non-Retina, CD Drive)
I'm attempting to either restore or update an iPhone 5 which won't boot. It's stuck on the apple logo boot screen. Hard reset does nothing. I have tried normal restore mode via iTunes and DFU mode. I'm signed into iTunes as the same apple ID as the phone. I've authorized the mac for this apple ID in iTunes. each time I try and either do update or restore I get the following error from iTunes:
Newbie here! I'm trying to find a function so when I enter a value in one cell (A1) it gives me a predetermined word in another cell (A2). The values are ranges (0-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79 & 80<) in another table (A1-B1 to A5-B5) and each has a different word associated to them (C1-5). Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance!
I originally posted this here on October 18th and a user said I should ask it here: I just updated to Sierra from El Capitan. When I went to continue my work on my localhost, which happens to be on my Mac, it stopped working. When I go to *=URL=* 1st it says "It works", when I reload the page, it says "This site can’t be reached", the same when I go to localhost/~matthew. It does not list all the files and folders like it should. Does anybody know why or have had a similar problem? Any way to fix it? I've checked Terminal and localhost is in fact running.
What is the process name of Time Machine timeline?  I would like to write a script that looks up when it is running so that I can disable my windows manager (Kwm) when I enter the timeline.
In Messages.app, if a user sends you an iMessage from their phone number, it'll start a thread that's tied to their phone number, and not their identity as a contact. Subsequently, if you start an iMessage through a share sheet to their e-mail address, it'll start a new thread that's tracked as a separate conversation in Messages. It results in a discordant and confusing experience as you see multiple instances of the same person in your Messages list, but with each major iOS version, figuring out which e-mail/phone that thread is tied to has become more obscure (and sometimes not discoverable at all in iOS 10).
I've just notice that after I subscribe to Apple Music (and enabled iCloud Music Library that comes with it), music videos in my iTunes Library are no longer syncing. That is whenever I added a new music video (manually by adding the file to iTunes and setting the type to Music Video), it no longer shows up in my iOS device – even after I plug it in.
Thanks for any help. I would really like to get this working - its a very nice computer and as an amateur video editor it would be wonderful to have a decently powerful Mac (also 4K displays are nice!). TL;DR
What is this behavior and how can I make it stop? The apps are installed in /Applications (or in this case, in my prepane folder).
I found this which seems close to the solution, but it's not quite there. EDIT: With JavaScript, I know I can just run test.replace(/\w/g, "*"), where test is my username, but I don't know the equivalent for the Terminal.
How can I use NetStat on my mac to view all connected IPs of a gaming server? I wonder if theres a way to see how many ms they have.
I just bought a new iPhone 6 and I want all my old photos in the camera roll to my new phone. I was using an iPhone 5 and I keep all my photos backed up on my iCloud account. If possible, how do I get all those photos in my new phone through iCloud?
Is there any way to recover your apple ID if you forget both your password and your recovery key? If this happens: would it mean you wouldn't be able to use your your iOS devices that used that apple ID with activation lock active? Could you contact Apple to solve this issue? I hope it never happens to me, but I'd just like to know this.
When I switch on my MacBook Pro 2011, I see the Apple logo with progress bar but before it enters the next screen it turns off. Why?
I have heard it to be adviced that, with the general idea of least privilege, Unix-like users should create another account without sudo privilege, in addition to the built-in account with sudo privilege. In Mac, this translates to be: one should create a staff account for daily use, in addition to the admin account that comes with the computer, being reserved only when necessary.
I hope the Title question says it all. There are two 'Library' directories in my OS X 10.11 installation, one being /Library/, the other being /System/Library/. What is there difference between those? Thanks!
Im having iPhone, iPad, Macbook and Mac mini and using Reminders on all my devices synced through iCloud. I have several lists created and no incomplete items at the moment. However Reminders badge count on Macbook shows "2" while on Mac mini shows "1". On both iPhone and iPad the count is none ("0"), which is correct. If I check on my iCloud.com account the count is also none. Where do these phantom alerts come from then? And how do I get rid of them?
What should I do now? My Macbook and my iPhone are my primary devices and I can't live without iCloud syncing on.
So I have a US itunes account and a German one, because the US gets stuff earlier. The German one is my main account and I use that for the mac app store and for the apps on iTunes but I mainly use the US one for movies and TV shows. I recently bought a movie from the German account, and when I tried to stream it on the mac, it told me that this computer is already associated with an Apple ID and after switching I have to wait 90 days. So if my understanding is correct, if I opt to use my German account to download or stream the movie I just bought, I cannot access my stuff on the US account for the next 90 days, atleast not on this particular mac?
I'm trying to enable macOS El Capitan's built in read/write support for NTFS, but it doesn't seem to be working. First of all; I'm aware it's not the fastest, and no officially supported, but my needs for it aren't critical (nor the data super important, it's just games). Anyway, I've followed the usual guides to enabling support, and my /etc/fstab looks like: However, when attempting to mount the drive with diskutil mount disk0s9 I get the following error:
I used to lock my MacBook Air by Shitt-Control-Eject shortcut key. After replacing the Air with a Touch Bar MacBook Pro, there is no Eject key anymore. How can I lock it with a shortcut key?
I want to dual boot OSX and Linux on my Macbook Air, and to do this, I read that I need to install rEFind. If I try doing that I get a message in the terminal:
How do I remount my existing backup without loosing the data on the existing backup and why did this happen? I have a macbook that makes time machine backups to a time capsule.
I used Accessibility Inspector to try and help me figure this out but I wasn't quite able to get it. I'm navigating to the Accessibility pane but after that I am having trouble navigating to Mouse & Trackpad, or any other menu item for that matter.
There are lots of hardware to listen to music while charging iPhone 7 but is there any way to make calls and charge iPhone 7 at the same time? Using a lightning headset? Using a 3.5 mm headset?
I've created many shared photo albums using both my iOS device and my Mac. The Mac (running macOS Sierra 10.12.1) now seems to have lost track of many of the Shared Albums. All of the albums are still available on my iOS device. As a troubleshooting step I'd like to try turning off "iCloud Photo Sharing" on the Mac but I want to make sure that it will not delete the shared albums. Does anybody know what happens if I turn off "iCloud Photo Sharing" and then turn it back on?
So my MacBook Air under "About this Mac" is running OS X Mavericks 10.9.5, but under "Software Update..." thinks that macOS Sierra 10.12.1 is installed. I've tried rebooting to see if the system would update to Sierra, but it just stays at 10.9.5. App Store has no option for updating because it thinks Sierra already is installed. And my MacBook Air is Late 2010 so should be compatible with Sierra. Not sure what to do!
I want to buy an external monitor for my Macbook Pro (15'' early 2011). I would want a 27'' with 2560x1440 resolution but I have a doubt: a mini diplay port/DVI converter is sufficient or I will need this one? Mini DisplayPort/Dual-Link DVI *=URL=* the description of the adapter says: Use the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter to connect your Mac to a 30-inch display that includes a DVI connector, such as the 30-inch Apple Cinema Display HD, and enjoy the ultimate widescreen canvas with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels. Hardware specs for my model say (*=URL=* Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors Thank you for your anwser.
In my mac (running macOS Sierra 10.12.1) I use the default Preview to open the .ps files, including the .eps images generated by matlab or gnuplot. But my preview cannot show some characters or symbols in those kind of documents. For example, that's what I see on my screen, when I open a "ps" file: What's the most possible reason?
Over the course of like 15 minutes, iCloud starts filling up the hard drive, and when I restart, the space is freed again, and the process begins again. What should I do to prevent this?
I'm currently running Sierra and would like to revert back to El Capitan. Is there any way I could use a backup done on a newer OS with Migration Assistant?
How do I make my Keyboard font on iPhone 6 larger? I have tried enlarging my fonts on the phone - it only enlarges the typed words I need to have the Keyboard Lager, my fingers are too large so when I type I keep hitting the wrong letters. How can I increase the size of my KEYBOARD?
My macbook air early 2014 (Sierra) doesn't detect my external display (Asus monitor) with the thunderbolt to HDMI adapter (my old macbook white mid-2010 can't neither). However, no problem with this adapter on a TV. I tried wake from sleep; reset PRAM; reset SMC. I don't have a DVI or VGA adapter, so I didn't try that. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance for your help. Here are the specifications about my Asus monitor: link
I am using iTunes on OS X El Capitan. I have a CD with songs on it and I would like to import these into the iTunes library (the local one, not the cloud). For the option in preferences, I have it set to "Ask to import CD", but the dialogue for that does not show up. Is there some way to MAKE it import the songs without having to wait for a dialogue to pop up? Like maybe something in the menu bar that says "Import songs from CD"? Update: And now, when iTunes is running, the CD/DVD is being ejected right after being inserted.
Okay, this is very weird. I've a MacBook Pro Retina 2014 model. It's all going very well. Sadly I've to use it in a dusty area most of the time. I've noticed the quality of the audio (any sound, iTunes, YouTube, etc) is getting really really worse gradually. Lots of buzzing and screeching and it's not as loud anymore!
When I have video in fullscreen on one desktop and switch to another Chrome window on a different desktop it automatically switches back to the desktop with the fullscreen video. How do I stop this behaviour?
I bought a brand new MacBook Pro 13" 2015 (8GB RAM, i5, 128 SSD) 7 months ago. The thing is, my Mac works and I love it, but a couple of months ago, without doing anything, loading web pages even with Chrome as with Safari is extremely slow. My girlfriend has a Windows laptop and it works perfectly and when I connect to a different Wi-Fi router it works great. So my guess is there is a problem with my Mac related to my router.
The cpu level is low < 20% and there is free RAM available on my core i7 2.3GHz 16GB retina display machine. This behavior seems to briefly be mitigated after a fresh reboot: but soon continues again. Stopping/restarting the browsers (tried Chrome, safari, ff) has NO effect. The behavior has been ongoing for weeks at the least.
Do you have a fix for this particular scenario: 1) Two partitions boot drive, the second one formatted exFAT 2) Relocate Home directory to Partition2 using the default way: System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Advanced Options -> Home directory 3) Install Skype 4) At first launch Skype will freeze / not connect / CMD + Q will also freeze Skype 5) Any other app except Skype works fine I've tried installing Skype on two different systems (El Capitan & Mavericks) with Home directory relocated to another partition and the problem persist. If you want to experience this and hopefully find a solution you can create a small partition of a few GBs and another OS user and move its Home directory to new partition created then try to install Skype.
Facing a strange build error on OSX 10.12. Unable to build any software at the command line. For example none of the packages Opus, PJSIP, and LibreSSL will build. (Dependencies for Telephone: *=URL=* All the configure steps exit with the same error. Xcode 8.1 is installed with command line tools. I reinstalled command line tools once already.
I'm applying for an IT position and one of the test questions I'm up against requires that I spend 20 minutes looking into all the ways of troubleshooting a Mac OS X kernel panic, then compare it against the answers of other professionals. I think I'm underestimating the question since I feel that Apple's support article covers most (if not, all) troubleshooting steps.
In all dropdowns both in the browser and in the system the checkmark has disappeared. This is macOS Sierra and every dropdown in Chrome, Safari or any app looks like this:
This could be an interesting Question. I Found and iPhone 5S, I handed it into the police. After 2 Months they returned the Phone, no one claimed it. I have a Sticker on the back of the phone with police details on it. So in our country, that is proof of ownership. I am now the new owner of this phone. BUT.....It is a brick, as the security has been enabled. I have a start up screen that looks like a brand new phone and I must enter an iCloud account and password. I do not have this information. I have contacted Apple Help USA, They say I need a court summons ??? WHAT!!! I contacted Apple technical Support, ( basically they said NO ) SO. the Question is.... Is there a way around this? ( I am happy to send a photo with the police details on it. To prove ownership.) Thanks Anthony
My ultimate goal is to have my application automatically write today's date to the top of the file and add an additional blank line beneath today's date. But I only want this to occur if today's date has not already been written to file, of course. Here's the code that I have so far: It is Part 2 where I am in need of assistance. I may have made some mistakes in any of the parts of the above code (but none to my knowledge), so please feel free to correct me as you see fit. These are my sources: Part 1: Formatting short dates in AppleScript Part 4: How to prepend to text file in AppleScript?
I set up login with smartcard (actually a yubikey, but over PKCS#11/PIV). I restarted and logged in with my smartcard+pin instead of with my password, and I was prompted to give my old password to update my keychain. I foolishly entered my current password confusedly.
I would like to see the OS update history in my iPad, as in when and at what time did I install a specific iOS update in my device. Is there any way to see that?
Below is what the Mac screen looks like. Even the IP address is not the regular format (numbers). I'm not sure what needs to be done to make this work. All help is appreciated.
I don't want to get notification while I'm working so I want to disable Chrome's all notification (Settings -> Show Advanced Settings -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> Do not allow any site to show notifications) from Mac's Do Not Disturb mode? Is it automize with Automator or something else?
I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop v. 8.0.36 (have also tried 8.0.33) to a windows server. When I use the button to the left of 1 on my keyboard, I get a backslash in the remote desktop. If I enable the on-screen keyboard, I can see that it is supposed give the backtick, and if I click on the on-screen keyboard, I also get the backtick as expected.
I keep having the repeated problem of the Mac text services losing the keyboard shortcuts that I assign to them (in System Preferences > Keyboard Pane > Shortcuts > Services), ever since upgrading to Mac OS 10.12 Sierra. I have a large set of Automator workflow text services that I use, and I assign keyboard shortcuts to each of these text services for speed of access. For example, I've set up a workflow that inputs the current text selection, and uses that to search eBay. My keyboard shortcut for this text service is Ctrl-Command E. However, every now and then, all the keyboard shortcuts I assign in the System Preferences simply disappear (except for the default shortcuts, which remain).
I have Parallels Desktop 11, which does not have support port forwarding to VMs (just the Pro version supports it). So I am trying to use pfctl to forward ports to my Parallels VM.
I'd like to know, what is "wrong" with iPad batteries (and probably with batteries for all other Apple mobile stuff) in absolutely positive way -- why they're so good in idle mode power consumption? My six years old (!) iPad, charged up to 100% the previous day evening shows -- after whole long night of not being used (screen dimmed off, but WiFi connected) -- again 100% in the morning.
I have deleted an app with intentions of reinstalling, but when I clicked App Store and searched for the app, instead of showing the option to download it's showing "open" as if I still have the app. I've turned my phone off and back on multiple times but it's still there. Can anyone help get my app back?
After restarting my MacBook, I want to open Safari. Safari asks me if I want re-open my windows or just restart Safari. Whatever I do, Safari crashes and i can't open it. I have tried to create a new session in my MacBook, and in this session Safari works. I've been looking for the "com.apple.safari.plist" file but i can not find it... I have checked and repaired my partitions in Disk Utility and tried to clean everything with Onyx, but nothing works. My Macbook Pro is running on MacOS 10.10.5 version. Any ideas ?
I have a mid-2013 Air 11" with El Capitan just upgraded to Sierra. I have an external Seagate USB 3 HD with GUID partitioning scheme, an HFS+ partition I boot off, and an NTFS data partition.
I've set up a VPN on my Mac mini running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 and Server 5.2, and I can successfully connect to it from outside my house using my iPhone (using *=URL=* to give me a dynamic hostname). I now want to connect to the VPN using OpenWRT Chaos Calmer 15.05.01. I've installed the xl2tpd packages for the L2TP layer but I need to install StrongSWAN to do the IPsec bit. I can find plenty of info on the OpenWRT wiki about configuring StrongSWAN as a server, but nothing about using it on a client. Can anyone help? My post on the OpenWRT forum is here.
Terminal attempts: diskutil verifyvolume disk0s2 The volume could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8. diskutil repairvolume disk0s2 The volume could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8. Terminal attempts: fsck #1
I try to collect results of "svn info" for selected folders by run shell script,like this: But it's not work. How can I collect each result in for loop?
Since upgrading to MacOS Sierra, people are no longer able to see my mouse cursor while screen-sharing. Does anyone have any idea of what I could try, please? Thanks!
When viewing by tags in Finder I get no results from Time Machine or Trash. Are tags not retained by Time Machine or Trash? What about external disks? Spotlight is configured to index everything, no exceptions.
After a while I had my Apple Remote not working since battery was exhausted. Today I changed it and tried to re-pair the remote with my MacBook Pro (that meanwhile underwent several clean installations) that is on 10.11.6 with a case-sensitive (in general is case-insensitive) HFS partition. I'm following the instructions and pressing the Menu + Next doesn't trigger anything. I checked the IR with the camera of the MBP and I can see clearly the light blinking.
I've removed a wifi ssid from the remembered connections list, but I would like to go one further and disable it from appearing in the wifi drop down list (after clicking on the wireless icon on the menu bar). Can this be done? I don't want the computer user to be able to click it and switch to it again (this particular connection doesn't require a password and it is not connected to the internet). Thanks!
As it needs 3 keys on a German keyboard (alt shift 7) to get a backslash, I would like to use the keys on the numerical keyboard to get this character (and others difficult to obtain as é). I tried two different versions of ~/Library/Keybindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict available at *=URL=* and *=URL=* After rebooting, the first version has the effect that hitting the corresponding keys does neither insert the former nor the desired character but the acoustic system alert is audible. The second version does not have any effect. How can I get the desired effect? I am using a MacBook Air with macOS Sierra (10.12.1) and with an additional Apple Keyboard (Product-ID: 0x0250).
I recently had a problem with an administrator account on my computer. When I looked into adding another, I came across /sbin/mount -uaw and then rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
I am thinking to buy new macbook pro released but without touchbar version. I already have two dell u2415 monitors which I have been using with thunderbolt cables to my old macbook pro 2015. So I would rather buy two thunderbolt adapters and connect display or use one adapter if possible to use both the screens.
Because of some overly-enthusiastic self-written clean script on my Mac I have run into a very specific problem: all my applications are refusing to open 2nd windows, e.g. 'save file', 'open file', 'export file' windows. On some applications the 'save file' windows do open, but when I try to change the directory of where to save the file the window will disappear again and it will not come back afterwards unless I restart OSX. I have been trying to figure out if there is any specific systemprocess that is responsible for opening/displaying these kind of windows, but I have not yet been able to find one. I have however come across this python code on GitHub and it has helped me to see that the windows I am talking are about are indeed still being opened, but they are simply not displayed.
I use my Mac to login to remote hosts via Terminal.app using ssh and local stored keys a.k.a. passwordless login a.k.a authentication key login. All of a sudden the new ssh login attempts are: asking for the password, where before the logins were passwordless return The authenticity of host XYZ can't be established.
I run Debian 8.6.0 in a VirtualBox with a dwm window manager and xterm as the default terminal app there. The way copy and pasting works there is to select the text and press either Insert or the middle mouse bottom to paste the selection elsewhere.
I am manually transferring some files using SMB over my local network to a new MacBook Pro from an old one (mid-2012) via WiFi, and the old MBP appears to be the bottleneck, with its Data sent/sec rate averaging ~3 MB/sec. The WiFi router is rated AC3200, and I ran a download test to each laptop from a Gigabit Ethernet-connected NAS (isolating WiFi download), and they could both achieve 20-30 MB/sec download. On the sending computer, I copied a large file to Dropbox, and the total Data Sent rate jumped from ~3 MB/sec to ~18 MB/sec, so it appears the problem is specific to the SMB transfer, not that computer's WiFi connection. Why wouldn't an SMB transfer go faster, since there is clearly headroom for upload in the sending computer and similarly download headroom of the receiving one?
I tried booting a Windows 8 installation CD and first of all, my keyboard/trackpad didn't work, so I had to use external ones. When I got to the part where I'm supposed to choose which hard drive to install to, it didn't recognize my partition (tried both MS-DOS and Windows NT). I then tried downloading the latest Bootcamp drivers and put them on a USB and put it in the computer, I clicked on "Search for drivers" but it didn't recognize any of the drivers on the USB as drivers.
Has my iPhone been hacked? Yesterday evening, after turning on Do Not Disturb mode for the night, my phone begin to ring (an incoming FaceTime call) with a ringtone I have never used. The caller was not on my favorites list (so the call should not have made noise since I was on DND). That caller is my co-worker at the office, and claims to have not called me (and indeed his phone has no record of the outgoing call).
A 3.5mm jack broke into my mac's jack input and I can't take it out (we tried for a day, it's absolutely impossible) and because of that my MacBook detects a plugged in audio output. I can't listen music or audio output on my Mac's speakers. Is there a way to force the sound to come out from speakers, even while the system detects a plugged in jack?
I have an iPhone 4 and I need to upgrade from 7.1.2 to iOS 8 or 9. I would like to ask how I can get iOS 8.
My main machine is a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina, AKA MacBookPro10,1. Its fastest ports are good ol' fashioned Thunderbolt 1. I would like a dock for it. I would use such a setup with a keyboard, monitor, and USB devices.
I was playing Pokémon go and for some reason it's signed me out and I had to log in again, it wouldn't let me play it because I haven't enabled cookies! I tried and tried but nothing would work,YouTube(Failed),settings(Nothing), asking the company(noresponse).nothing would work so I had to make a new account. Now the same thing has happend and I need help on how to enable cookies for my game to work! Please.
I have one of these and use it on my MBP running macOS Sierra 10.12.1. When I scroll with the scroll wheel, the wheel gives little "ticks" as I scroll. Sometimes I want to only move the page a little bit, so I only scroll the wheel enough to feel one "tick". The problem is if I only scroll enough for one "tick", or scroll multiple "ticks" in succession but too slowly, the scroll doesn't register. If I scroll enough for multiple "ticks" but faster, I will almost always overshoot.
There's a person in my photos library that Photos seems unable to detect and tag. I've tagged almost 100 pictures of this person manually, yet Photos never suggests them as a possible match, or even detects their face at all. This happens with photos that were taken only seconds apart, or even black and white copies of identical color photos – things that would seem easy for it to detect.
My cellular data is on and I can receive iMessages and post notifications but when I get on and app that requires internet it does not work. What is wrong?
My iPhone 4s was recently stolen and I immediately changed my Apple ID password. Now I have an iPhone 5 and even though at first they asked for my regular Apple ID to restore backup, after then another Apple Id appear and I don't recognized it at all. When I want to download an app, the Apps store asks me for both Apple ID accounts.
I am French but I have always been using US QWERTY keyboards with my Mac. It suits me fine because 90% of the time, I type code or write in English. In the occasional 10% of the time that I need to type something in French, I have learned and committed to muscle memory the way to type French accentuated letters on a US QWERTY keyboard: first type the diacritical key (showing up as a temporary yellow-outlined character), then the letter (which is then replaced by the combined accentuated character). And suddenly, one important instance has stopped working on my Mac Pro: option-e, to represent the acute accent, essential to type the very common "é" French letter.
I am a beginner on this. When I perform a netstat -nr.
I recently picked up a 2016 Macbook Pro (with Touch Bar). I use an external keyboard. There used to be a setting in the keyboard system preferences that "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys". That is no longer an option. Is there a way to get that back?
I installed PostgreSQL using the interactive installer by EnterpriseDB following this link. It defaulted the installation directory to /Library/PostgreSQL/9.6. After successful install, psql is not in the $PATH. I have to navigate to the installation directory or enter the full path execute it:
My iMac Wi-Fi detects internet networks but it doesn't connect to any, but my other PC connects fine to them. It is a second hand iMac, it worked fine when I set it up, it connected for a day or 2 then no more. It still can detect the network but can't connect. With another PC of mine I can connect fine to the network I'm used to and the same one that the iMac worked with for the first 2 days.
Want to know if iCloud backup you can do on your phone will keep stuff safe. Would do on iTunes but laptop unfortunately broke down. Is it safe to backup your stuff onto iCloud and can you successfully get it back after phone is reset?
I want to capture popovers in macOS, to use them in my blog. But I couldn't find a good way to do it: whenever I try to capture them as windows (CMD+Shift+4, then spacebar), the area will include the windows they attach to. Is there a better way to capture the popovers (clean, but including their shadows)?
When updating from iOS 9 to iOS 10 on an iPhone 6S Plus, I noticed an app icon disappearing from a custom folder with all the iOS native apps inside. I couldn't remember which one it was, and some serious googling didn't reveal anything, either. I have a sneaking suspicion that it has something to do with HomeKit/Home. Does anyone know for sure?
I'm trying to set up calendar events in macOS Sierra's Calendar that repeat every 2,551,440 seconds (which happens to be the synodic period of the Moon). Ultimately, I want a calendar that provides the Moon rise and set times for my location, and it also needs to list the Lunar phase (e.g. Full Moon, New Moon, etc.). I have found plenty of examples on the Internet where people have manually created the events, but that's incredibly tedious (one event per day for years!), and it's based on different time zones (and so are of no use to me).
Does Chrome consume more energy(battery) versus Safari? I've seen reviews denoting Chrome drains the battery more than Safari. I'm comparing these browsers by myself to figure it out how much difference between them. Doing Browser benchmarks and regular usage and so on. Doing Browser benchmarks and regular usage and so on. Monitor Energy tab on the Activity Monitor. Monitor Energy tab on the Activity Monitor. After that, I don't think much difference between them as reviews saying. How do you think about it? Tell me your experience about browser energy consumptions. Thanks in advance!
I have an iPhone 4S with multiple backups in my computer and I'd like to buy a new iPhone. Can I connect the new device to the computer and immediately store all the content from the previous iPhone? I want to move all the photos, messages, etc.
On OSX 10.10 I created a plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ to start at launch an OpenVPN connection. However I encountered DNS problems when going from an internet interface to another (as WiFi to LAN Network) and thought that I needed to restart my OpenVPN daemon with launchctl to fix it. But with this method I need to go to a console, type a monstrous launchctl's command with sudo and, of course, type my admin password. Can this typing process be automated? Thanks for @bmike general answer which will open new horizons and @Graham Miln though I'm not fond of AppleScript, but as @Mark requested here's my .plist file :
My antivirus software has told me that a potentially unwanted program called 'Bundlore'has been detected, but to remove it I need to do so manually. It says it's located in /Volumes/Install/Install.app/Contents/MacOS/monetizer I've gone into my volumes, but where exactly would I be able to find the software?
Many services (BlaBlaCar, Banks, train companies) send SMS messages with a "fake" sender name and empty number, and the new iOS 10 message list is quite boring and difficult to read with the same icon. I've found no ways to save these senders as new contacts and add them a photo. Any ideas?? Update: As you can see in the attached screenshot many services use SMS for notifications and having some graphic icons would be VERY useful to recognize them at a glance - instead of all that "persons" icons - but they originate from a completely "empty" contact template (no real phone number), if I click on the person icon I don't see any data, so that adding this as a new contact is actually not linked to the SMS anyway.
I like to use Up Next in Apple Music on my iPhone, and sometimes I want to clear its contents to add new music to it. Earlier in iOS 9 it was possible but now I don’t see any way to do this in iOS 10. Is it possible to CLEAR the Up Next queue? (I know how to delete a single track from the queue) Using iPhone 7, iOS 10.2 (Public Beta)
I have Macbook Pro 2015 with Yosemite installed. I need help for my startup disk. I decided to delete my Windows to have more space on Macintosh HD. I used BootCamp Assistant to delete the Windows partition but it said it can not be a single hard disk.
I recently released an update to my iOS app. Is there a way to tell in iTunesConnect how many users have updated to the new version?
I have a really strange problem with my macOS Sierra Server. It is connected to the Active Directory server and limited access to the login window only for few people. This is working without any problem. (Really only these users are allowed to login on mac server with their domain credentials)
I need to merge two calendars in macOS Sierra Calendar App. I found instructions on the web that describe how to do this with previous versions of OS X, however these are not relevant for macOS Sierra. The answer to this question provides the same steps, which does not solve my problem.
Any help in finding and formatting the 320gb drive in preparation for the "El Capitan" install would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Note: The screenshot was taken from a separate device. Update #1
Some of my audiobooks download as 1 7-hour long track. Others are in iTunes as 50-100 separate tracks (that sometime get out of order). I would like to merge the tracks so each audiobook appears as one long file/track. How do I do this?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and an iPad 4. The iPad is freshly installed.
So, I've upgraded OSX to Sierra, but I need to downgrade (long story), and OSX won't let me because I didn't create a Time Machine backup before upgrading. So I have downloaded the Install OS X El Capitan.app image using BitTorrent.
I currently have a 5c which last night I backed up with iCloud in its settings. Today I'm getting a 6s and I want to transfer contacts, photos , iTunes music etc to. Should I take out my current sim and put it in my new phone or can I just log into my iCloud on the new phone and everything will be there? What is the easiest way?
I am an Apple User since 1983. But I do not know whey my iPhone Backup (with Encryption on) takes 23 to 26 hours!! I am puzzled. (I have iPhone 6, 10.1.1 iOS, Mac OS X Yosemite, iTunes v.12.5.3, MBP late 2008.) Any answers? Thanks!
I have given my grandson my old iPhone, but all the messages sent to my current one are still being received by that phone as well, even though it's a different number. How can I prevent my iPhone to do so?
I do not know what happened to my MacBook, but all the css files are appearing with the web browser icon as you can see in the following image. When I open it it is opening in safari instead of TextEdit/other any editor. This is not happening with other file like .php, .twig, .yml, those all are opening in Text file?
I have an iphone 6 updated to ios 10.1.1 (14b100). A short while ago, the calendar app would open on the button click, but not allow me to add anything to it. I realised it was just responding very, very slowly but it doesn't give me notifications or sync with my ical on my mac.
I bought a new MacBook Pro and began working on it. I saved all my preferences, had some files on here, etc. My old MacBook has USB ports that don't work so I can't transfer files via Time Machine. Apple's site says that WiFi is the fastest way to transfer (which is apparently inaccurate) so I did that overnight. I woke up to find that I still had 44 hours left, and I need to work so I quit both. Old Mac is fine. New Mac is restored.
So, I had a panic an hour or so ago because randomly my Macbook Pro 2011 screen decided to display flickering green on black pixels. This looked quite bad on my desktop as it has so many dark colours:
I installed the g2 graphical library on my mac using the terminal for a school assignment and now that I'm done with it I'd like to know how to remove it. Are there like commands I can run on the terminal? Are all the files in one folder and all I have to do is delete that folder? I'm very picky when it comes to these things and if I can't delete it I'll probably end up reinstalling the whole OS (I know I'm crazy) so any help is appreciated. Also if this is not the right place to post this question I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thank you! EDIT 1: I installed the library by following these instructions: Extract package with gzip -dc g2-xxxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - Extract package with gzip -dc g2-xxxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - Run './configure' Run './configure' Run 'make depend' Run 'make depend' Optionally edit src/g2_config.h to fine-tune g2 behavior (only if you know what are you doing) Optionally edit src/g2_config.h to fine-tune g2 behavior (only if you know 
I can not open external hyper link using Chrome as my default browser. Example: if I click a link from Mac Mail nothing happens. If I click a link from tweetdeck I get this error: The application "Google Chrome" is not open anymore. When i switch my default browser to Firefox then web pages are opened as expected in ff. OSX V. 10.11.6 Chrome V. 54.0.2840.98 (64-bit)
Basically, there was Karabiner that did the job, but with Sierra it doesn't work anymore and there's still no updates. What are other ways to change shortcut output? In Particular I need to change ">" + Option that gives "≥" to give "."
My friend asked me a question about "Is it possible to check what programs you open and you made" and I didn't know if its possible or not so I want to ask you if its possible or not. Like how can you find out what you did on a Mac and delete the history or edit something on it.
I just got a new MacBookPro with the Touch Bar (15" model) that is running macOS 10.12.1 I am currently using a 15" MacBook Pro 11,3 running macOS 10.12.1 with FileVault running. Typically I would
I had been using a program called f.lux to make my screen dark at night. I went ahead and took it off of the startup programs for my user account, and deleted the color display profile corresponding to it. Perhaps it could still be messing with things even though it's not on my user's start up programs anymore.
I’m using Safari Version 10.0.1 (12602.2.14.0.7) on Mac Sierra. Does Safari have a timeout value in which the client browser will terminate the connection with the server if the server hasn’t come back with a response in a certain period of time? If so, where can I lengthen this setting in Safari? Thanks, - Dave
osascript is behaving weird after upgrading to 10.12.1. Prior to this version, the command works as below: In 10.12, the output is in whatever case the input is: In 10.12.1, the output is forced to uppercase: Does anyone know what's going on here?
What's nobody phrase in Terminal (and iTerm)? It sometimes changes to my Mac name. But why is it nobody and how to prevent it?
Context I have recently acquired a series 1 Apple Watch. When I first started setting it up, I added a passcode out of habit. Now I want to temporarily disable the passcode as I'm continuing to do a lot of setup off of my wrist and it's getting tedious having to enter the code over and over. The Problem
I'm trying to order a 100 page hardcover book through the Photos app on macOS 10.12.1. I have placed all my photos, go to complete my order, but the Photos app repeatedly crashes at around 85% upload. Some points: Creating a PDF preview works fine, and everything appears fine. I have individually gone into every photo to ensure it is downloaded from iCloud. I have tried starting Photos while holding Shift to clear the cache. I have tried starting in safe boot. Here is the crash report (all the reports are identical).
So far I've seen three "solutions" to this problem. See the comments!
I'm new to macOS and Safari, while surfing, occasionally when I click on white page (empty screen, no links, etc) a new tab to a strange url opens, it redirects multiple times, then forwards to safemac.co. I think it's an adware.. How to get rid of this? Just happened again, redirected to this url: http://securemacfix.com/landings/197/?affid=mzb_349.40938911.1480466987.1111.mzb&utm_source=prpllr&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=mk_prpllr_wl_rmnt_ww&utm_term=&utm_content=&userDefiner=mzb_2952&alert=10&trt=29_3121511156&tid_ext=814559
I have received over 1000 messages (no exaggeration). I've come to the conclusion that the sender's very long message has been sent as an SMS instead of an iMessage and now it is on a continuous loop. Please tell me what I can do to make it stop.
Upon update to Sierra I'm finding that my wallpaper is set back to the default Sierra wallpaper at every reboot. The correct wallpapers are selected in System Preferences, but they are not shown. I find that I have to go into the wallpapers, select a new one and then immediately pick the desired one again. This is annoying when you have several monitors attached and have to do this for each one at every reboot. Any idea on how to resolve this?
As of this post on 29 Nov 2016, I have a single email showing "Today", them other Sent email on 24 Nov 2015 (5 days of emails missing). Not certain without doing some forensics, but I think other Sent emails look missing from each date as well. Interestingly, if I can remember the right search criteria (like entering "Today" in the Search box) the hidden emails found by the search appear. Any thoughts or suggestions? A possible new/additional clue:
I acquired an external hard drive that came preformatted with NTFS. My MAC quietly mounted it read only. After some conversations with google, I discovered that MAC couldn't write NTFS by default, but actually did have the ability to write NTFS on Lion I think Lion < 10.9.5
I have tried a soft reset and a hard reset (erasing all data and starting as if freshly out of box) but I still cannot play videos. I have tried playing a video from sources including YouTube, Netflix, Crackle and Amazon Prime. This happened before I upgraded to newest iOS version, and even the upgrade to 10.1.1 didn't fix it. What can I do to get my iPad to play videos again?
I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2555) with Xcode 8.1 & Command Line Tools installed but I can't install any Node.js native add-ons, I can't compile Python etc. I've tried removing Xcode and Command Line Tools (the latter via removing /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools) and then reinstalled Xcode from App Store and Command Line Tools via xcode-select --install but the problem is still there. For example, this is what happens if I try to install the contextify npm package on Node.js 7.2.0 or 6.9.1: It works fine on a colleague's machine with the same OS. I sometimes see App Store notifying me of a Command Line Tools upgrade for Xcode 7.3 which seems off, maybe my setup has some leftover from the old Xcode?
I will describe this problem details in shell interaction records:
I was wondering if it was possible to save on iCloud a WhatsApp call record. I have an iPhone 6s.
I lost my iPad somewhere, and was silly enough not to password-protect it. The device has direct access to my gmail and facebook accounts. Is it possible to disable its network usage remotely, maybe through iTunes or some other Apple service? I'd like to do something such as whenever that particular iPad connects to the Internet it would be either shutdown or disconnected from Internet.
In previous versions of mac/os/x you could type a slash in a open dialog, and the dialog would then let you enter an arbitrary path, such as /tmp. In Sierra, the slash key does nothing in open dialogs. Is there a way to re-enable that feature, or another way to get to an arbitrary path (preferably with the keyboard) in an open dialog?
I have a 2008 model iMac that just can't be turned on. When it died, it shorted the house's fuse with it. Is there any way that I can wipe out the hard drive (without much effort) before throwing it away?
I'd like to see what's in the LC_CTYPE files in /usr/share/locale/*, but they are binary files. Is there a tool that will make a human readable version, or a specification of their format somewhere? I'm mostly interested in seeing what each locale puts in the various POSIX named character classes. I would have liked to tag this "locale", but apparently that tag doesn't exist and I don't have the rep for it.
I bought a laser pointer, which pretends to support USB charging at this site. As soon as I attach the laser pointer I get a blue screen. Is the problem related to my system? I'm using a MacBook.
DaisyDisk scans my Mac's HD blazing fast compared to, say, du. I'm wondering what's the trick. I suspect it wouldn't be so fast on non-Mac filesystems, but I haven't tried. Any clues?
I have to add /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm to the exception list. I tried to find and edit com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist but I didn't found such file anywhere. How can I manually add a specific executable to the exception list?
I'm very annoyed with focus management on macOS since El Capitan. When I quit Safari (or any other app, that takes some time to quit) with ⌘Q and then immediately press ⌘Space to activate Alfred or Spotlight, the Alfred/Spotlight window shows up for a second, but then disappears before I can enter the command for Alfred/Spotlight.
I know it seems like this question is like the dozens of other questions about CPU overheating and kernel_task overloading it, but nope. I found an iMac (yep, found it. In the trash). I fixed it (power board was busted, screen was busted, there was no hard drive). For some reasons that are too long to explain, I ended up with both a SSD and a PCIe SSD. Whatever. I changed the LCD panel with a panel I knew was working, it didn't light up. Obviously, problem was not the LCD panel. Probably lvds connectors, since I already replaced the lvds cable by a new one.
I'm really enjoying the new version of Notes.app, now that I can set the text size to something I can read. But one aspect continues to bug me, and maybe it's some setting I haven't found. The first image above shows the list of apps in my Share menu, as listed in Safari, but in Notes it is a smaller list.
I have seen people respond on forums 'back up the data and reformat the disk' but this is simply not an option for me - it is precisely what I'm trying to avoid. In order to move the data onto our new NAS, I need to decrypt it so it can connect via the NAS' USB port rather than waiting for days for it to transfer through a computer over network etc etc.
I recently did a clean install of my Mac (running macOS 10.12.1). After the clean install, I copied over the Library/Keychains folder from my old home directory on my backup drive, to my home directory on my Mac. When I go to Safari > Preferences > Passwords, it now just says: Safari Passwords are Locked To unlock Safari passwords, enter the password for the user “Johnny Appleseed” (It shows my Mac username instead of Johnny Appleseed, but you get the picture.)
I have a MacBook Pro MD101 with 2 x 2GB RAM. I want to upgrade to 2 x 4GB but, I don't know where to buy it from? All online shops I've found only sell Corsair PC10666.
I'm subscribed to a calendar of my university timetable which changes from time to time, I'd like to receive notifications every time that happens, is it possible?
I have tried, several times, waiting for about an 1/2 hour but nothing changed. What happens is that my mac becomes warm and the fan starts getting noisy (something which I never see happen except in this situation).
Is there any objective comparison of third-party batteries for non-retina MacBook Pro (eg mid-2010)? Alternatively, what are the possible strategies to choose which manufacturer to buy from? Apple officially stopped supplying spare parts for my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 to its authorized repairers, and AFAIK there is no way to buy genuine Apple parts on the market.
My iPad air2, locks up usually once a day...when rotate, screen stays in either the landscape or portrait made. Have to force off. Ok when I turn it back on. 2 years old, this started in past month or so.
I'm interested in streaming video games at a minimum of 720p/60fps. I've got a Late 2015 iMac and a 2013 MacBook pro (as well as a reasonable Windows desktop PC), but none of these computers have the power to both play in great quality and stream at the same time, unless my iMac OBS Studio setup is seriously wrong.
Support: I called Apple and was told to call Dell. I called Dell and the tech informed me that it was definitely a problem with the source and explained how on a Dell PC you could switch between mirror and extended modes within the graphics settings. I again called Apple and spoke with a senior advisor. I was first told that it could only be done using Thunderbolt cables. I directed his attention to the support article and said the listed Dell monitors did not have Thunderbolt. I was then told my video card didn't support that feature but explained that he was referencing the AMD Radeon R9 M370X card which is not my card. He said he would escalate the issue. Question: How do I enable extended mode?
I have an old gmail account to which I forgot the password. I have it setup in Mac Mail, and I can receive emails, but I forgot its password to login to the web interface.
If I visit ~/code in Finder and order on modified at it does not recursively order. That is, if I have a file X in it which was modified yesterday and a folder with a file Y in it that was modified today, file X would be ordered before the folder with Y in it. Can it be achieved? If that is not possible, is there a script that is triggered each time a file is saved which touches the parent folder to get same result?
Here's what's going on: I have a DSA ssh-key set up on my MacBook Pro, and the id_dsa.pub file has been placed in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Permissions are 600 for id_dsa. I'm still being asked for my password, what do I do?
Hi I am trying to install windows 10 on my macbook pro 8,2(late 2011), when I open Bootcamp it is having options to create windows 10 installation in usb as seen in image.  Now, I am able to create the windows 10 install disk sucessfully using the iso, but after that the bootcamp popups the error message as seen in image
I've recently updated my iMac to Sierra (From El Capitan). I used to be able to connect to my Mac via SSH from another box. Now I am unable to do so.
I haven't really used iCloud Drive yet since I'm not a fan of putting my documents on the cloud, but I gave in yesterday and dropped my holiday greeting card spreadsheet on to it from my main desktop (MacPro3,1 running latest Yosemite 10.10.x) so that I could pull it up on my laptop (2010 MacBook running Sierra 10.12.x). Went to MacBook, noticed that the file appeared on iCloud Drive, opened it, satisfied. Computer goes to sleep. A few hours later when I'm NOT on a network, I edit the document with no problems and save the update. For the heck of it, I also duplicated the file (well, had to make it a 2016 named file instead of the older 2015 name) so that now the cloud had 2 files. My iPhone 6S running 10.x promptly told me that I had the files as expected and I could view them in the app. My desktop, however, is still blissfully unaware.
I have a mid-2012 13" MBP with a 750G,5400rpm,HDD and I am going to remove the SuperDrive and add a 1TB Samsung Evo 850 SSD. My question is, I am going to run my operating systems, macOS and Bootcamp Win 10 on the SSD and have the HDD for storage, is there any benefit to replacing my HDD with the SSD and then replacing the SuperDrive with the HDD? Just curious if there is any read/write difference between the SuperDrive connection and the designated hard drive connection. Thank you.
On my new SE, I used a software app provided by Verizon to transfer contacts from old 5C to new SE. I did it but now have many duplicates, have to go into each one, age down and delete. Any quicker way?
After hitting the ceiling on my 256 GB SSD, I deleted around 20 GB to free up disk space. Unfortunately, almost every time I start the MacBook, it issues a warning, that the startup disk is almost full. Seemingly at random, checking the free disk space actually provides the 20 GB of free disk space but after a while it falls down to a few MB (!). I already tried disabling Time Machine's Local Snapshots: sudo tmutil disablelocal but that didn't help. System Specs: El Capitan - 10.11.6 on a late 2013 MacBook Pro
I'm trying to create an automated Data Transfer script that transfers all files (including software and licenses) to another Mac computer that’s connected via thunderbolt cable. This should be able to be run on any computer by any users. The computer it’s ran on should transfer to the computer connect with a progress bar showing status. I know that I can use
This is the MacBook that I have: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) For some reason it started to freeze up randomly forcing me to restart, I don't really know why this happens. Every time this happens I'm programming in Visual Studio 2013 in Parallels Desktop, the settings for the virtual machine aren't very challenging so it shouldn't be because of the heat.
My Left-Command key keeps bringing up the Mission Control. I've gone through all the steps in Mac tip: How to restore your keyboard to its default settings to restore all keyboard mappings and shortcuts back to their defaults, but it hasn't fixed the problem. In TextEditor, I type some text, highlight it, cut it to the clipboard by selecting "Cut <Command>C" from the menu. If I select "Paste <Command>V" from the menu, the clipboard contents pastes successfully. But if I try to paste the clipboard contents using the keyboard, by typing <Command>V, nothing pastes, and instead I see a listing of my work spaces appear across the top of the screen, with a '+' at the right.
I own a 2011 MacBook Pro which has Thunderbolt Gen 1 (MacBook Pro 8,2). I know that TBolt1 is capable of 10Gbps, and the bitrate of 4k60 video is about ~5.7Gpbs. Is it possible to drive a 4k monitor at 60hz with my MBP? So TL;DR can I do 4k60 with my MBP?
Unfortunately the moment I open any software, like Photoshop, Buildbox, SketchUp etc, the green flickering starts and displays, even if the "Automatic Graphics Switching" is ticked or not. The moment I close the software, and if the "Automatic Graphics Switching" is still ticked, the display is normal.
I have a problem with window resize since I've update my OS X to El Capitan edition. I can not "catch" the edges and corners of windows to drag them for resizing.
My Macbook is 1.8 GHZ Intel core 2 DUO with 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, version 10.7.5. I'm not sure what year I got it but it's old. I'm not able to perform an update to the most current version and I don't know why.
I am having issues installing windows 7 on my macbook pro, mid 2010 15inch model. The model number is MacBookPro6,2 from the System Information tool. I am using rufus to prepare a flash drive from a Windows7 Ultimate 64-bit iso I created from the install DVD I bought online (with a valid CD key). I chose to use the MBR UEFI formatting option and kept the name the same as the iso title name.
Example would be take all cells that contain "1" inside range "main" then create range "_1" and add cells to it. then repeat until all 60 ranges are complete.
We currently have unexplained intermittent issues with our Mac OS X clients and permissions on AI, PSD or PDF files that are stored on a Win2K8R2 server using SMB. All Mac's are joined to AD via Centrify's client, and what seems to be a problem every so often is the user will get a message that the file is locked, or they cannot save it to the network share. All users are in the same AD group, and that group has WRITE permission on the share.
DO they automatically get deleted from the iPhone hardware or iCloud? The phone is not activated with cellular connection only wifi, does this make a difference.
I have two utility applications. I would like to detect which of these was run most recently. My initial idea was to use stat to check the access timestamp on the application files and then compare: However this is insufficient, because there are other reasons these apps are being accessed - I assume by the backup system I am using. Are there any system logs that I can examine to determine which of these apps was started most recently?
I have bought an iPad and the previous user had iCloud set to a gmail address of them which they forgot password and have no access to. I have set up apple ID to use my email address, but whenever I want to reset the iPad, it prompts me to sign in with the old Gmail address which of course I have no password for.
I have an external display connected via DisplayPort. With 144 Hz refresh rate selected the image brightness goes up by quite a bit. Any other refresh rate (even 120) will show a darker, less washed out image. The actual monitor OSD settings are not changed when this happens. Anyone know why this would happen and if it can be prevented?
I have Yosemite 10.10.3 installed on my MacBookPro circa 2011. At some point, my Speaker icon went gray. If I go into Settings/Sound/Output, all I see is Digital Out entry and it says The selected device has no output controls as per screenshot below.
My 3.2 quad, 8gb ram, sierra 10.12.1 is crashing when it goes to sleep. Any ideas? Does it in safe mode, after PRAM reset, and with all peripherals disconnected.
I am trying to write a program (using shell script or bash script) which accept command line argument using getopt. It is working fine on Linux terminal but when I am using it on OS X Terminal it is not able to read the provided command line argument. a sample code : Input : Output on Linux (FC19): Output on Mac :
I'm using a Volcano II Bluetooth Speaker with my iPhone. Since it once got connected to a friend iPhone, I noticed that my phone was randomly initiating calls to that friend, when I'm using the Speaker. What is this caused by ? How to fix that ? Please note Siri is disabled.
I use different screen resolutions based on the activity I'm doing during the day. For example when I'm coding I prefer to have more space available. Is it possible to associate a keyboard shortcut to change the scaled display resolution ? (see the attached screenshot)
I'm having issues with my Finder in that when moving files to another folder by dragging the file and dropping it onto a directory in the sidebar, it doesn't move the newly moved file to the very end of the folder. Here's a few screenshots showing the issue:
What has happened... the timeline: 29 Nov around 23:00 : iPhone 6s full backup encrypted 30 Nov around 07:00 : iPhone 4s synched (backed-up automatically in the process / incremental backup) 30 Nov around 18:30 : iPhone 6s full backup encrypted Around 30 Nov 22:00 : Need to recover the iPhone 6s 29 Nov backup not visible on the backup list ! 30 Nov 7:00 can be used but it recovers 4s backup onto 6s (included 6s app and some - not all - 6s data) 30 Nov 18:30 visible but when try to recover it says its corrupted operation failed (seems like my backup got mixed up)
I'm trying to retrieve a password from an old email account stored in Mac Mail from my keychain. When I view it, it gives me a "hash", it starts with "1/s....." and is 46 characters long. What is the hashing algorithm used here? How can I extract the password from it?
I am trying to follow up on this thread and to update it for macOS Sierra (and probably all versions since Yosemite). In that thread, a way to open a single port in the OS's firewall was suggested: However, since Yosemite, ipfw was replaced with pf and, unless I am mistaken, pfctl should therefore be used. What would the above command translate to?
I'm using Office 365 to keep my contacts in sync (iCloud isn't an option as I need Outlook support on desktops) and I would like to know whether iOS supports storing contact profile pictures on there. I've had a contact with a picture on it, just restored my phone and the contact no longer has its picture. Did I do something wrong or does iOS just not support it?
I have an iPhone 6S running 10.1.1 and I have some notes to import to my device. I don't know how to do that. Any help would be appreciated.
I mostly work with Notes app in iOS and every time when I capture an image from Note app specific camera, it saves in Photo library. So after making a note I have to delete few images every time to clean my library. So is there any way of stopping that?
When I try to play a video with 1920x1080 pixels and 60fps, in H.264 format using VLC player. It cannot keep up with this work and frequently drops frames (in other words, it's not playing it "smoothly"). OS X's QuickTime player seems to be free from this problem, but it's not a solution, since it's limited to a small subset of formats (can't handle 10-bit or 4:2:2 colorspaces, or MKV container, etc.) Is there a way to fix that problem (without upgrading to macOS Sierra), or I should look for another video player if VLC's performance is not good enough?
A weird problem started happening on my system in recent days (can't remember exactly). When I launch Activity Monitor, mouse pointer freezes and can't move normally until I kill Activity Monitor by using keyboard. It works OK otherwise.
What is the purpose of com.apple.diskspaced? What this service does exactly?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro 2016 (without touchbar) and noticed that the headphone jack doesn't go all the way in and sticks out a couple of millimetres: Despite that it seems to be working fine. However, I'm still worried that something might be broken inside and it will come up later. Is it supposed to be that way on the new models?
Both devices are with me and using the same wifi (the vast majority of the time). Handoff is enabled on my iPhone. The Reminders app on both devices syncs to iCloud.
On Unix/Linux there are some tools such as xwininfo, xdotool, xkill or xprop to identify a window's PID by clicking on it, but they only work with X11. Is there any similar solution for macOS? To get the process PID based on its visible window (e.g. once clicking on it)? Ideally invoked from the command line.
I'm using a 2011 MBP connected to a 1080 external display. I've noticed a bit of frame rate choppiness, when playing certain 60 FPS games (at low resolution) or watching videos, that I don't get on my internal display. This happens even if I scale the external resolution down or use the DisableMonitor app.
I have several calendars on my mac laptop, Exchange, Yahoo and Google. I'm having trouble syncing my phone with my laptop all of the sudden. I haven't changed any settings. The weird thing is certain appointments on my Exchange calendar show up on my phone but not others. Or I'll move appointments on my laptop but it doesn't sync with my phone. Any ideas?
When my iMac boots up the apple logo and progress bar flicker red very briefly. There doesn't seem to be anything else the matter with the computer apart from this. It's a very new retina iMac running macOs 10.12.1.
I have a brandnew iphone SE with ios10 on it. I previously owned an iphone 5s with ios8, and when I pluged my new SE I did a "restore from backup". But since then, I cannot access the "On my iphone" account option in the Notes app; it is now greyed. I was wondering if something like that happened to one of you before, and if there's a fix for it. Thanks]1
I recently switched from Android to iOS and am still getting used to the changes in the operating systems. In Android - or at least in Samsung's flavour of it - if I looked at a list of my text message conversations grouped by contact, any conversation that had a draft in it is clearly marked as such. Here's an example:
I have the following situation. I have an Exchange email account from my university which I use on my iPhone. I sync emails and calendar. All of my lectures are put on this calendar as events with lecture rooms put in the location field as text. Recently a new building on campus has been marked as a location on apple maps and calendar now recognises lecture rooms in that building as proper location which can be used to calculate travel time.
This happened two days ago on my MacBook Air 2011. When I log into other accounts on the Mac, the wallpaper and dock are there. So this only happens on the one account. I am sure this is a simple fix, but want this account back as all my photos and files are on it. Thanks.
I have a status bar icon that does nothing when you click on it. I have no idea what it does or what it means, it just appeared one day. Does anyone have any ideas on its meaning?
I've been trying to figure out why my network adapter kext is chewing up so much memory and just noticed this in my settings > network interfaces MT65xx preloader
I am trying to install 'Parallel Patterns Library' for c++. The package is generally abbreviated 'ppl'. As I did
I uninstalled then reinstalled the latest version. Still getting this error
Today I just open my Mac and I got a Terminal window as shown in the picture. Every time I restart my Mac I get the same. Any thoughts?
I think I have some sort of dns/proxy issues with my wifi settings. Many apps cannot connect to the internet: Firefox, Team viewer, Steam (works after 2 minutes). Chrome does connect but "Establishing secure connection" message for 30+ seconds on each website.
I want a "clean" partition without introducing Apple_Boot or EFI. (I remember from the old days there was a limit on the number of primary partitions, so having six partitions makes me feel uncomfortable.) To do this, can I use Windows to partition my external disk, and then use my Mac only to format H1 and H2? Can I still use H1 for Time Machine if I do so?
How do I connect an external hard drive to my MacBook Air? And once it is connected, how do I find it to see what is on my external hard drive? Very new to Apple products.
I am having an odd issue that started in the last couple of weeks where by if I flag an email with a 'Grey' coloured flag Mail changes this flag to 'Red' a couple of minutes later, I will therefore continually keep reflagging it with the correct colour until eventually it accepts the colour after multiple attempts. This is most frustrating as I use my mail flags to divide up my mail and they are synced across multiple Macs which have all started exhibiting this behaviour, I have used flags like this for years with no issues and now am suddenly experiencing this odd behaviour any suggestions in why this might be occurring and how to prevent it?
I was hoping to get an Asus MB169C+ monitor to increase my screen real estate while traveling and working on my 12” MacBook. However, I'm confused as to how I can charge my MacBook and use the display at the same time? I expect to have it setup for extended periods while traveling and would prefer not to run everything off the battery whenever I want to use the monitor.
I need to restore my Mac from my time capsule after a boot camp attempt went wrong. I have done this before with previous OS X versions without any problems. There is no problem when I enter the time capsule password:
I accidentally deleted a downloaded book from iCloud and wanted to restore the book to my phone. So I restored my phone to the last time I synced my phone. In doing so, I have lost all my Apple Watch activity rings data. Is there any way to undo that restore, and bring my phone back to before I restored it? I don't even care about the book anymore. I just want my old activity rings back.
Bottom Line - Source Control for iWork files in organised folder structure. Background - Our work has moved to iWork as the primary office suite. And one of my irks is that we have way too many emails with files as attachments flying back and forth.
If I navigate to a program in my Applications folder in Finder and press enter the program offers to be renamed. Only a double-click with the mouse opens the app. How can I open it with only the keyboard?
How did my iPhone determine the location of a Photo when the iPhone was offline and not connected to any wifi? It even determined the location exactly, even though there was no Network. How does this mechanism work?
Could anyone tell me how to transfer a playlist from iTunes (12.5.3) to my iPhone? I've tried selecting manually manage music, but the playlist does not appear in selection at all. I've also tried Wondershare TunesGo, but I have the same issue, no single playlist appears for me to select. I appreciate any tips you might have.
I must send a SSH script to terminal or to iTerm2. I have try with: or or
I have a 256GB SSD which usually sits at around 30GB available space, but recently I've had a problem with what appears to be over zealous caching which has on a number of occasions eaten the entire 30GB. Last time it happened my system was grinding to a halt with no space left at all, its amazing what breaks when there's no disk space, so I just deleted the offending files. This caused issues with my Keychain but I managed to recover. Yesterday I got the warning again, and I was down below 10GB, I'm now sitting at 18GB without deleting anything since, so it seems to be rapidly up and down. I've used Disk Inventory X to investigate and the culprit seems to be the folder: /private/var/folders/l2/khdpc8h92l187pz9yl490fhc0000gn/C/com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.32/fsCachedData
For some reason, I am unable to get my shell script to run when the computer boots. My script fine by itself, but for some reason my Launch Daemon is not starting the job. Please help. My launch daemon is saved in /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.pingtest.plist My Launch Daemon Plist: my shell script:
With Lion on my old 2012 MPB, I loved how I could scroll down through many figures or image files like .png with Quick Look on Finder. It was immediate and fast, so for comparing plots with different parameters was super useful.
I am macOS rookie and now have difficulties with Safari, I would like to find how I can save tabs? For example some tabs were open, than I close Safari and turn off laptop, next time when I turn on laptop and open Safari I would like my tabs restored and open again...
When I woke my MacBook this morning, it was frozen. The screen came on, but it didn't respond to keyboard, touchpad. I forced a shut down by holding the power button. Is there a log file or set of diagnostics I can use to determine what was happening before it froze?
The volume bar is greyed out in the menu. Even when I run Kodi and I have sound and I cmd-tab and check the volume bar it is still at 0 and greyed out Changing the volume from the commandline like recommended in this article has no effect. Here are my Kodi settings
We want to remove our app from the App Store and shut down the servers that support it. From what I've read, removing the app from the App Store will not remove the app from the devices of the existing users - and there is no way to tell users to remove it.
For Mac Outlook, Outlook apply rules to past messages describes selecting a mail folder and using Menu Bar > Message > Rules > Apply to apply rules to existing messages. This only runs the rule on the current folder, and not its subfolders. The alternative method of using a Folder Menu > Apply Rule > Apply has the same behavior. What is the way to make this recursive so it applies to the current folder and subfolders?
I am trying to get my husband's exchange calendar synced with my iphone 7Plus. Can someone please explain the steps to accomplish this? The tech people can't seem to figure it out, either.
Is there a keyboard shortcut I can use to open the Apple menu? The closest thing I can find in the Apple documentationis pressing Command + Shift + ? which opens the help menu (if one exists). I'm open to suggestions that incorporate the use of third party apps like BetterTouchTool.
many windows users used to use Control + Mouse Scroll Wheel for zooming in and out. But in macOS this doesn't work. I can zoom with gestures using touchpad, but I mostly use Magic Mouse.
I know you can show the contents of the NVRAM with sudo nvram -x -p, but doing that doesn't seem to list everything. I say this because I just had an issue with the resolution of my screen at boot, resetting the NVRAM fixed it. However, I compared the output of that command before and after clearing the NVRAM, and it is identical. Are there more variables in there that can't be seen with the traditional sudo nvram -x -p? If so, can they be seen with another method?
I replaced my Mac's hard drive and hard drive cable a while ago and every since I've been having a problem with my keyboard layout/settings. I cloned my Mac's HD before replacing it so it should be the same and in fact I haven't noticed any other differences or problems after the replacement.
I'm trying to clean up my mac a bit and therefore always check through logs to see what maybe unexpected or otherwise strange. This time I see way too much going on in the logs in terms of lines per second and one thing that catches my eyes quickly is these CSSM exceptions. Here's an example:
In Mac Mail I'd like to see the most recently sent message - whether it is my reply or the senders email - on top in list preview and also in the detailed view window. This doesn't seem to be possible. In list view even if I were the last person to write, my message is only visible if I expand all messages. In detail view the top message which automatically loads is the last message by the sender and I have to scroll up to see my sent message even if it is newer.
I'm trying to get back an old password for my email. I've found the password in the keychain, but it gives me a hashed version of it, along the lines of: 1/s...... 44 characters in total.
I am literally unable to free up any space on my iPhone 5S (iOS 10.1.1). I delete apps and photos and emails (when I have enough space to use mail), but it stays saying I have 0KB available. Even if I do delete an app or even 300+ (in one instance) photos, I STILL somehow manage to have no free space. Even if it does free space, it's often not a lot of space and it often runs out very quickly. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Playing the same audio file twice in Quick Look often adds an annoying "fade in" effect which makes it impossible to browse samples and comparing sound files by up/down arrow keys. This is especially problematic when dealing with short samples (like hihats for instance), in which you may not even hear the sound the second time you're playing it.
Why are some of my purchased song not showing in iTunes, AppleTV or available to play or download to iPhone.
I am trying to automate a set of terminal commands. I was given the below instructions and manually doing it works just fine, but I wanted to know if there was a way to use the Mac "Automator" on my Mac to make a script/batch so all I have to do is click on it to apply all of these no matter what computer I want to run it on. Is that possible? (see below) If the error persists, please try running these commands at the terminal to see if that corrects the issue: Launch Terminal Type sudo su then enter your password to log in as root Type vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.launchd.limit.plist
I use a lot of Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 (Linux). Will the new MBP with TouchBar support the function keys? Specifically, are the 'F1' to 'F12' keys compatible with Ubuntu? I practice a lot of programming (Python, MySQL, TensorFlow) and need these keys to work as they normally would.
When following various guides on using scutil the following would seem to be correct for setting the hostname: But as you can see instead of setting the hostname a prompt > is shown: and the hostname is not set. What is wrong here? I am on El Capitan.
I re-installed Google Drive for my mac (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) and the icon has since disappeared from the favorites bar in the finder. However, the icon shows up in the more info section. What is going on here? Here is the view of the Favorites bar in Finder.
My Mac Pro is Early 2009 4,1 and I'm trying to boot it in recovery mode so I can follow the steps of flashing it to 5,1. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6. My keyboard is directly connected to the chassis via USB. Unfortunately, doing cmd + R at boot chime doesn't lead me to the recovery screen. Instead I get the usual Apple logo and progress bar. Then, screens go black and the system cycles again (fans do their thing) and I come to a gray screen with several languages saying "my system shut down because of a problem etc...". If I wait or press a key, this takes me to the login screen, which has my user name and picture and I login as usual. Some pop-ups show in the login process asking me if I want to open previously open windows/programs. This same sequence occurs when I use cmd + opt + R. Any ideas how I can troubleshoot?
I'm having this issue since morning. Certain keys on my keyboard don't work when I try to type in my password. A few work and others don't. So I went on safe mode and changed it to no password.
I'm considering a touch bar Macbook Pro, but the majority of the time it will be in Boot Camp. I need to use Bitlocker, so if the machine doesn't have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) I need to enter a second password every time going to Windows which is frustrating.
When I go home, I usually turn on Reuters TV for 15 minutes. Is there any way I can automate, or script AppleTV to open an app when I open the front door?
I've been asked to help troubleshoot why someone's MacBook Pro (late-2016 with Touch Bar) would be producing lower Geekbench results than their MacBook Pro (mid-2014) laptop. Now I wish to add upfront that I'm not entirely convinced there is a problem here that needs solving, but this person is convinced there is either a problem or they've just been "ripped off for buying the latest and greatest Apple laptop that's not as fast as my two-and-a-half year old laptop". Here are the specs and Geekbench v4 results... MacBook Pro (15" Retina mid-2014) macOS Sierra 10.12.1 MacBookPro11,3 Intel Core i7-4870HQ 2.5GHz 16GB RAM 256GB SSD Single-Core Score: 4,236 Multi-Core Score: 13,971 MacBook Pro (15" Late 2016) with Touch Bar macOS Sierra 10.12.1 MacBookPro13,3 Intel Core i7-6820HQ 2.9GHz 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Single-Core Score: 4,526 Multi-Core Score: 13,792
I'm looking for a way to copy all of the data from my iPhone to a Windows PC, with accuracy down to the byte that could be used for forensic purposes. The iPhone in question is an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3 and is not jailbroken.
I seem to have lost the SMS/TXT messages on my iPhone 6 128GB (iOS 9.3). This iPhone is not jailbroken. I have the passcode. It's close to full with only about 3GB of storage left. Suddenly, a few days ago, I realized that about 75-80% of my SMS/txt message conversations had disappeared. This is a big problem for me as it may look real bad in an upcoming divorce.
I have a pair of 500 GB disks that are mirrored in a Mac. I want to replace them with a pair of 4 TB disks. Would the following process work? Turn power off. Remove one of the small pair.
Question in title. I know that the Touch Bar is not available for Ubuntu users, but that is fine. Will the rest of the machine work?
I'm looking to make a set of firewall rules in macOS for use on untrusted networks, such that no identifiable information, such as account or device identifiers, might be inadvertently leaked. macOS/Darwin not being my home operating system, I'm not sure which, if any, of the background services might leak such information in the cleartext. I'm particularly interested in cloudd, Handover, AirDrop and those services which would likely identify themselves to the network in some manner. I've been unable to find existing guides for hardening macOS in this manner, but am happy to be directed to one if it exists.
I'm seeing these errors in my MacOS (10.12.1) system log files in big amounts. Any idea where this may coming from? Didn't have success finding anything usable on Google so far. They seem to persist even if all networking is switched off. This is only a snippet - they keep posted to the log every few seconds.
When I open the Calendar app, I have some hidden calendars which I don't normally want to see. But when I ask Siri what meetings I have, she shows me all the events. I don't need to know what my family is doing when I ask about my own meetings:
So I don't have a the new MacBook Pro here, but can you actually turn the TouchBar off, like you can turn off the backlit keyboard, when you're watching movie in example? On a little research couldn't find any information about that.
How do I change my Apple Rescue email. It is no longer valid and there is no edit function to change it? The only edit function in this area is to change my challenge questions, which I have done.
While working with my Apple TV, I noticed that pressing the home button (to the right of the menu button) would instead take me to the TV app. Is there any way I can change this behavior, such as a toggle in Settings?
How do you take a screenshot of the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros? Specifically, I need a way to take a picture similar to using Grab or the shortcut Cmd+Shift+3.
How does an additional 8GB of RAM impact performance for the latest 13-inch MacBook Pro? It is used for graphic-heavy apps — Sketch, Design, Photo and image editing and to power a LG 21" display. Does the additional RAM help improve display performance or does more RAM mean apps will not run out of memory?
So I have already changed my number on my Apple ID and on my Gmail, but when I log in with my Apple ID on Facetime and iMessage it still has my old phone number.I restarted my phone but still the same.I look forward to your answers and I would really but really appreciate if you can help me!
/etc/sudoers permissions appear correct, read-only root/wheel. My user is in the admin group, and I can execute sudo fine - even for visudo! I.e. if I run sudo visudo -z (illegal option), I get:
My default df invocation prints way too much information for my needs. I can't find a way to hide this in the man page. It says use the -i flag to include it. But when I execute /usr/local/bin/df I get this:
I am using a 2016 MacBook Pro 15" (Model A1707). Whenever I put my computer on sleep, then wake it up, I find that I cannot use Touch ID to unlock my computer. The screenshot below shows the screen when I wake up the computer. How can I enable Touch ID after my computer is asleep? Thanks!
Google AMP results show on mobile search results, leading to pages like the following on iOS Chrome:  This wastes about a quarter of my phone's screen compared to normal results, e.g.
As we know, the Apple Watch 2 has GPS and provides accurate distance and cadence information when going for a run, for example, even without an iPhone. However, I'm having trouble finding a way of seeing a map of where I ran. Is there an app or way to track a run (without an iPhone) and get/save a map outline as well? I've tried the Workout app and RunKeeper.
I left my iMac on overnight, as I was copying some files between sd cards (one was via a usb hub). The following morning, today, at some point I realized that many apps I had downloaded had been deleted, as well as basically all files that had been added by me, especially in my home directory. I only noticed when I saw my iTunes library pointed to nonexistent files.
How do I add a custom alert sound in macOS Sierra? I've made some sounds I want to use in a variety of applications but when I try to add them to the /System/Library/Sounds folder, it says The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission. I also get the same message trying to add myself to the permissions on the Get Info window.
My OS is 10.6.8. Yosemite is no longer available in US. But Sierra needs 10.7 to download. Help! I'm stuck in a loop!
OSX Sierra added the ability to login to your mac via a paired Apple Watch instead of typing a password. This is a great feature, but every time I log in it sends a notification to the Apple Watch, which can be annoying (especially since the notification tone is exactly the same as the one used for actual notifications). Is there any way to disable that notification, or at least tun off the sound for that one without completely muting the watch?
My current MacBook (13" early 2011 model)is old and showing signs of ageing. As new the new MacBook Pros have just launched, the prices are quite high. Last evening I visited a store and found out the 15" mid-2015 model is cheaper than the 13" late-2016 (Touch Bar) model. As I do lot of software development work, and use Xcode and Android Studio, along with localhost server work, I just wanted to know if the 15" will handle this type of world well? Sometimes I also do movie editing and steam gaming too. I would be using the new laptop for a minimum of 3 years. Models: 13-inch (2016) Intel Core i5-6267U @ 2.9 GHz 512GB HD 8GB RAM (2133 MHz) 15-inch (2015) Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50 GHz 512GB HD 16GB RAM (1600 MHz)
In this link, there is the unix command How to go to this place by using terminal?
I have a 64GB thumb drive and about a dozen or so installation ISOs I'd like to have on it. I would like to be able to have a single partiton, so that if I boot to it I am given a GRUB-stle boot menu which will allow me to select which ISO to boot from. When I select an ISO, I want it to boot from that ISO on the thumb drive. Simple as that.
Sometimes I have a fullscreen app open , say safari. Then I want to switch to Terminal app thats open on the desktop( along with other apps like preview etc). When I cmd tab from safari to terminal , the PREVIEW app comes to focus , and its window comes on top. I am using macOS sierra 12.1 Any tips on how to fix this ?
I installed the keg-only readline This package installs manpages:
I just received a 2016 Macbook Pro 15 touch running Sierra and after installing a bunch of apps and restarting I received the error message Your Mac hasn't restarted because "Google Chrome" failed to quit. To continue restarting, quit "Google Chrome".
I'm looking for some software that would open BigTIFF files on a mac - ones that are 6GB or bigger. (I'm not opposed to writing some code to do so, but I'd prefer a prewritten solution.)
I can not listen to a whole album on iTunes, I have tried "ticking or checking all the songs in my library" and preferences/unchecking the list view check boxes. nothing works. Can anyone help me please?
I have iMac late 2009. The problem is that it has a running Windows 7. Now I want to reinstall macOS on it, so how can I reinstall macOS on iMac.
I'm trying to print something with my Macbook air, but when I try to print I have to add a printer. When I try to add a printer it asks for a username and a password of some user in the printer administration. How do I solve this?
I'm trying to override the EDID on my 10.11.6, Late 2012 MBP for my home-theatre setup attached via a HDMI->miniDP cable; basically for some reason the HDMI handshake fails, and the 5.1-audio-extractor only reports AC3 and DTS in its EDID audio block so I only have stereo output. My other HDMI-capable devices had to be forced to DTS output, but that doesn't work on a Mac... so before shelling out another 40 bucks for an HDMI inline EDID modifier, I want to try out if modifying the EDID actually works and provides 5.1 capability to OS X. The output from ioreg is (truncated): The decoded interesting part of the EDID is (decoded using edid-decode): So using AWEDIDEditor, I replaced the DTS block with a LPCM block: I put the resulting EDID in hex format and used the template from *=URL=* to create this override file: I disabled SIP, put the file into /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-1138/DisplayProductID-5429 and /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resour
If we go into System Preferences → Internet Accounts → iCloud → iCloud Drive (Options…), we’ll see System Preferences.app is syncing with iCloud.  What exactly is it syncing? I’ve just performed a fresh install on my machine (El Capitan to Sierra) and none of my settings carried over. So what is this doing?
I need to shoot an interview with my iPhone 7 Plus, and I'd like it to have the beautiful bokeh effect (shallow depth of field) that the Portrait mode in the camera has. However, my iPhone only lets me take pictures in Portrait mode, not video. One possible workaround is to record the built-in preview of Portrait Mode with QuickTime, which would work great except for the controls showing up, which cannot be cropped out. Is there any way to record video in Portrait mode (or hide the controls from my iPhone's screen so I can record using QuickTime), or at least is there any other way to get the bokeh effect while recording a video from my iPhone? Thank you in advance.
I'm following this guide to disable cert transparency policy for certain domains. So I modified the ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist, and confirmed it with However it's not effective.
So I have "2 Credits" showing on the top right of the iTunes Store screen. I've purchased music, but that hasn't changed the number of credits. Are the credits specifically to be used for certain items, if so how do I know what items?
How can I find out where the pictures on the Apple TV 4th gen screen saver are coming from? Some of them I recognize, but I'm stymied by a few and I'd love to know their source.
I want to connect 3 USB 3.0 devices to my MacBook Pro 2016. I'd like to do it through a single USB-C port using this a USB-C to 3 USB 3.0 hub like this one. Question!
I'm using a cheap TP-Link WiFi router and i'm hitting a wall at around 30 Mbps. I've tested with other laptops and they run fine to 100 Mbps. I have Yosemite at the moment, and an interesting fact is that, in the past, i don't remember on what OS, i was able to hit 100 Mbps on WiFi. Any suggestions regarding WiFi settings or chip firmware ?
A while back I elected to start syncing my Photos on my Mac to iCloud. I quickly ran out of cloud storage (5GB). I have decided I don't want to deal with some of the back & forth confusion between my computer & iCloud.
I'm trying to create a partition in following "Part 2: Preparing your Mac" from this website. I have to create "Ubuntu Boot Loader" in selecting the principal hard drive "APPLE SSD AP0512J Media", select Partition -> + -> Name : Ubuntu Boot Loader -> Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) -> Size: 128 MB, but I got the following error with Disk Utility :
We have a relatively old iPad 3 (a bit older than 3 years now). About one week ago (When we added a keyboard case) it started massively dropping in WiFi connectivity / quality. It mostly shows full connectivity in the icon in the top left. The Router (FritzBox 7270) is working absolutely fine (we get a perfect connection, fine speeds etc. on our phones). The Router is about 5-8m away from the iPad normally. When opening up the Youtube app, it often needs about 1min (!) to even start the Videobuffering, on Safari it often tries extremely long to search for pages. Once it has found the video in the youtube app, it normally (but sometimes even not without stuttering) goes through without problems. What is wrong here with the iPad and how can we fix that?
I want to click on Dec 25th 2014 and see all the photos I took that day. I thought there used to be a calendar in iPhotos, was that removed in Photos on macOS?
I have an iPad Pro with the Apple Smart Keyboard, which works well. I usually use it with the Colemak hardware keyboard layout, which comes built in to iOS.
I have a password protected Apache server running on my iMac (OS X Sierra 10.12.1) at home for personal purposes. It is accessible by the internet so that I can access my home files when I am outside my home.
I accidentally switched my Gmail to HTML. I want to go back but don't know how on my iPhone 6s.
I'm looking for a way to assign a shortcut for the right click button Look Up. So that I can just select some text and call that without using the mouse. Below is the pop-up that shows up when you look something up. I'm aware of the "Look Up in Dictionary" service and ability to assign a shortcut for that but it's not the same.
My USB key behaves as a CD, because I'm not able to copy a .dmg file from my MacBook Pro 2016 with `sudo dd if=/Users/jeremiegauthier/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.10-desktop-amd64.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2 or with the following method :  Could anyone be able to tell what I need to do to allow the access?
I am running a late 2011 MacBook Pro (Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5). I have 2 external monitors that I would like to use with my music production software (ableton live).
I'd like to remap dash to underscore and vice-versa in macOS Sierra. I type underscore way more frequently than dash, so this is a desirable lifehack. Karabiner doesn't work anymore in Sierra (and the Elements version is a non-starter at this stage), and I can't seem to figure out how to do it in BetterTouchTool or Keyboard Maestro. There seems to be loads of ways to remap keys for shortcuts, but flipping the primary and shift output from the same key is elusive.
Yet TM continues to make Backups.backupdb folder appear on the other drive. This dir is very hard to delete. If you Trash it and try to empty the trash, it says it's in use, and every other error message you can think of, including that some files are protected by System Integrity Protection. The last time I had to turn off protection via csrutil and reboot just to finally empty the trash.
I have many playlists synced from my Mac to my iPhone and recently I 'shared' one of these playlists with a friend via the share card on my iPhone (sent to his phone via iMessage). To my surprise he was able to listen to all the songs on the playlist, even songs that I know aren't available on iTunes (so only available on my Mac). I'd like to know how this feature works. FYI both of us have Apple Music.
I use ParagonNTFS on my Mac that I can write to ntfs drives. I have two very large NTFS drives that I try to keep in sync. I'd like to be able to do this quickly with rsync:
Is it ok to connect a Samsung Galaxy to a Mac for transferring photos? I'm not sure if it is ok to do this with two different brands.
I'm having a series of problem with my macOS Sierra 10.12.1 every once in a while after a random period of normal operation. The series of problems include:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013.) This model has an built-in Intel Iris Pro GPU and a dedicated GeForce GPU. Without an external display, the integrated GPU is active and the dedicated GPU is idle.
I have dual boot Mac with OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and Windows 10 installed. If something goes wrong and the Mac is not able to boot, I required a software which will enable me to backup working the bootable OS X partition and restore the OS X exactly to its backup state. To backup and restore the OS X partition I am planning to use Windows 10.
I've got a huge problem: I can't connect to some websites from all of my devices connected to my Wi-Fi network. I tried so far: Flushing DNS Using Google DNS Rebooted and reset the router Checked hosts cleared the browsers caches installed, checked and deinstalled anti-virus Checked any host conflicts with MAMP Pro Reset MAMP Pro ports
How can one play all the songs from a particular artist or group sequentially from different albums? Currently I have to open up the next album of the same artist or even the same album if songs from it were purchased at different times.
My EFI was version 1.7 and I downgraded it to 1.6 by following the instructions in the answer given on How to downgrade EFI firmware back to version 1.6. (I made it to the end of step 4 and heard the "angry beep".)
I'm experiencing extreme ping spikes to my AirPort Extreme (local IP: 192.168.1.1), however I am not getting these ping spikes on another MacBook Pro right next to it. Here are my ping results. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
In the Window where it shows Digital Color Meter, what is the unit of measurement used in RGB?
I'm currently using the MacBook Pro (13'', early 2011) which contains a Thunderbolt port. Unfortunately, the LG UltraFine 5K display uses a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) port. That's why I'm currently thinking about connecting them via a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter.
When I am playing a video in google chrome on fullscreen, for example netflix or a youtube video, my macbook seems very determined to keep me focused on that video. If I try to go to any other desktop or space by swiping left or right with three fingers, it keeps jumping back to the video. Sometimes this happens immediately, sometimes after about 10-20 seconds. It does not happen when I pause the video, as long as it is on pause I can navigate freely between all desktops. As soon as I press play again, it starts jumping back to the video no matter what I do. I would like to play a video on full screen while not actually looking at it the entire time. Sometimes I need to acces my work or chat windows at the same time.
Since upgrading to Sierra, changing default app for opening specific file types is disabled. Can anyone explain how to fix this?
I read about connecting the MBP to an iMac and booting it in "target disk mode". It appears I can run my system using the hardware of the iMac. However, it looks like this is rarely used, and I didn't find some good user reports on using it. So, some questions: Does it perform really well and really better ? Can I have a lost of performance because of the use of the thunderbolt port ? Is it safe ? Does sofwtare complains about switching from one system to another ? Are there any other alternatives ? Does the performance gain can be better than simply upgrading to an early MBP 15 inch ?
On my MacBook Air mail I have an iCloud and gmail email accounts. What I want to do is either create another email address with its own mailbox or can I create an alias email address that can have its own inbox to separate messages coming in.
Since updating to ios10, voice control intermittently launches itself,also between Sounds and Touch id/password under settings the menu for Siri has disappeared.
I have an Apple Watch paired to my iPhone. I don't use the apple-watch.app often, so I'd like to remove the app from my Home screen. Are there any consequences if I remove the apple-watch.app from the Home screen, such as getting my apple-watch unpaired or unable to load iphone-dependent apps?
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 71. I can't install apps from app store because when tap on install button of any app then showing error message " you most be update your iso device 8.0 or later version and try again..."
While trying to download Pokémon GO from the ios-appstore, this dialog box appeared:  Transcribed: This item is over 100MB. Unless an incremental download is available for this item, "Pokémon GO" may not download until you connect to Wi-Fi. Cancel OK What is an incremental download?
Just finished re-installing macOS Sierra on my MBP and am trying to move the ~/Downloads and other folders to a different drive so they end up in /Volumes/Data/ instead. I created a /Volumes/Data/Downloads folder and symlinked from one to the other like so: This works more or less, but it creates another Downloads folder inside the /Volumes/Data/Downloads folder so the full path would be
My friend has an iPhone (6 or SE, not sure) that is locked to a Japan provider. The phone received an OTA update (alternatively could have been via iTunes) in the US and now using a Japanese SIM card yields a "invalid SIM card" message. Any ideas on the root cause or how to roll back/fix? Thanks!
I use mdls and mdfind within scripts to automate playing music files. Recently I've noticed certain files missing from the expected search results and I have tracked it down to a case senstivity issue.
I'm running Aperture 3.6 on Yosemite on a Mac Pro. In aperture-tip-rapid-keywording Scott claims that command right-arrow moves the selected image to the next image, while leaving the cursor in the keyword box at the bottom of the screen.
I have an early 2011 MBP 15" with discrete AMD GPU. This is the same model that has the free repair/warrant described here: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Copy-paste stops working on my mac very soon after rebooting. It seems that "paste" gets disabled. The suggestions proposed in this question (including launchctl start/stop suggestion) does not solve my problem. I am running macOS Sierra version 10.12.1. All the updates are installed. Any suggestions?
Suddenly this morning my macbook pro became extremely slow and laggy. Just performing trivial tasks such as right-clicking, marking an icon, opening activity monitor, scrolling a web page, changing the active window, orchanging safari tabs will leave the mac in a frozen state for 20-40 seconds. I'm typing this post half-blind, as what I type only shows some 10 seconds later. Some specs: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 macOS Sierra 10.12.1 MacBook Pro, 13", Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, 13", Mid 2012 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM 1600 MHz DDR3 8GB RAM 1600 MHz DDR3
(TL;DR below) So I've recently installed Windows on my mid-2014 Macbook Pro Retina 13" to play some games. I never expected super incredible performance in 3D games, but nevertheless I have been severely disappointed with it and I wonder if there's something wrong with my hardware or drivers.
I installed gcc/g++ following this tutorial a while ago (version 6.2). Now that I updated to Sierra, it's not compiling anymore. When checking the version, it respond properly: But when I try to compile a code that has no compilation error (tried to use online compilers like cpp.sh and it compiled successfully) it outputs this weird message (as an image, for readability):
I want to copy some text that contain control characters (example: LF, NUL, BEL, etc...) Seemly OSX defaults don't let me, if I choose for example a text that is like this: 'abcdNULefg' to copy and paste, it pastes only 'abcd'
Getting an error when trying to install wine using brew. Made sure I ran brew update and brew upgrade. Tried installing libpng on it's own as well, but still getting same error. Just installed Xcode, and made sure I accepted the terms. Edit: Adding versions. Mac OS X 10.11.6 Xcode: 8.1 Another edit: Looking through the gist of the error, I think this might be the culprit.
I have forgotten the password of recovery mode when I holds command + R. I have no idea how to deal with it so if anyone knows the solution, then let me know.
So, I was trying to add Laravel to my list of executable commands and, somehow, I fudged up my iTerm 2 (and regular Terminal) and now they both appear like this. That just looks ugly. How do I change back to what it once was? With the Git indicator, folder name, colors, etc.
In my folder action, I added "Ask for finder items" action (asking for destination folder for move operation) after filtered items from the folder got stored in the variable. Whenever I add file to the folder, I can see folder action "gear" spinning in the status bar, but it stuck at "Ask for finder items" action and I don't see any dialog that asks me for destination folder. I guess I'm missing something here? UPDATE Added screenshot:
If I make replace duplicate files with hardlinks within my home (~) directory, I'm thinking it is completely irrelevant which of two files gets replaced. Is this true, or is there some asymmetry that I am not aware of?
Kinda a unique issue here I haven't been able to find the solution to on Google. As you can see in the screenshot below, my battery menu doesn't give me time remaining on Battery. Not even System Preferences gives me it.
I was given a iMacG4 (PowerPC) and intend to give to an 8 year old for the purpose of web browsing and exploring python. I would like to gain administrative (sudo) privilege.
I use Time Machine on my MacBook Pro (late 2011, macOS Sierra) to back up my internal hard drive and an external hard drive containing heavy files such as video, etc. This worked great for about a month: each backup would contain separate folders for my internal drive and external drive, even if my external drive was not plugged in (as it most often is not, since that drive is mostly used for long-term storage).
Problem from iOS 10.1.1 to 10.2.1. I have no photos at all on my iPhone yet in settings it says my photo library is taking up ~200MB of space. The number of space being taken up keeps changing constantly(in the settings app on my phone). In iTunes, the storage bar at the bottom does(when in the sync menu) not show photos.
I don't have iphone myself and that is why I ask this question. Also I don't have a smartphone and don't think that my cellphone is able to send Unicode SMS.
The old 'USB Prober.app' does not work after Mavericks. Is there way to capture USB data in Sierra? To be specific, I got a LG UltraFine 4K monitor, whose brightness can only be controlled from macOS via USB protocol
When I turn my Mac on, Messages, Mail and Creative Cloud are opened automatically on the main screen. It looks like this:
I am having a strange issue with MP4 video files in finder. I have 2 video files, both MP4, codecs: H.264, AAC, kind: MPEG-4 File.
Following the question, How to change the Mail “Archive” folder for email accounts in El Capitan: I have several mail accounts in macOS Sierra and would like to archive all mail in one folder in one specific account. It seems that I am only able to archive them in an Archive folder in the respective account.
I've just discovered this icon on my MacBook Pro's TouchBar:  Looks like some sort of statistics, or so? It only appears occasionally. Tapping on it I get this slider:
I am using 2x iPhones with 2 different SIM Card Carriers. Both iPhones sharing the same Apple-ID. Since I have upgraded to iOS10 the Phone list is totally unresponsive. As soon as I shutdown one iPhone, the 2nd iPhone is working again.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) with a SSD drive and 4GB of RAM. I perform Time Machine backups about every day, and since I have upgraded to the new OS Sierra I have notice that every day, I have around 10 GB of data to save. Before the upgrade, the backups were small only related to the real files that changed.
Is there a shortcut to close the current window? ⌘W closes the current tab ⌘W closes the current tab ⌥⌘W closes all windows ⌥⌘W closes all windows ⌘Q quits the app completely ⌘Q quits the app completely However, I’m looking for an intermediate between 1 and 2, to close the current window as if I’m pressing the red x.
Is there a simple meditation timer app that actually logs time spent meditating to the Health app as mindful minutes? I need just a simple timer, no guided meditation (and certainly no subscription). Preferably an Apple Watch app?
I have recently installed Mavericks on my MacBook early 2008 (which doesn't support mavericks) but I have two problems. The first problem is that I can't change the brightness of the screen. When I try to change the brightness it doesn't change. The second problem is that the speakers don't work. I have tried a lot of things but nothing works. Is there someone who know what is should do?
Any idea what quicklookd is? It seems to be using up a lot of my CPU resources. I'm running MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 on a Macbook Air.
I restarted my Mac (OS X 10.11.6) this morning and upon opening Mail.app (9.3), most (all?) of my display preferences had been reset. Very annoying! I have a Time Machine backup - what file(s) do I need to restore to get Mail back to where I like it? Thanks much!
Is there are any "best practices" for setting up touch id fingers on iPhone? I know how to setup this, but I believe I may miss some of the unlock scenarios during setup and end up unable to unlock my phone without taking it in hand or one of the "ways" I held it during setup.
I am unable to access certain websites within Chrome. I am getting the error message "Your connection is not private". Anyone know how to fix this?
My kid likes to listen to music on her iPad, but she can't read yet (she's working on it) so she has to play each song for a few seconds to find the song to which she wants to listen. Is there a way to enable VoiceOver for just the Music app? Enabling it for the entire device is annoying. Or is there an alternate way to play music that will speak the song titles?
As my iPhone7 doesn't have a headphone jack, I decided to get myself a wireless headset and went with the Bowers & Wilkins P5 wireless (had the wired version before and was very happy.) On my iPhone they work perfectly! They connect automatically once I power them on and keep the connection reliably! Same on my AV-Receiver, no problems there either.
I deleted the old ebook and loaded the new on the ipad but it still has the 13 chapters and 313 pages for the ebook. I can load it on my iphone and it give's me the 33 chapters in the TOC and more pages for the book itself. I attempted to fix the issue by deleting the book and restarting ibooks afterwards, even doing the same but with the hard reset. Neither fixes the issue. My main question is this: Is there a way to reset the ibooks memory on what books it has seen and what pages they are on without resetting the ipad itself or would that even work?
In keynote I want to seamlessly animate a couple slides together with magic move. However, this seems impossible because even setting the delay to '0' keynote still noticeably delays almost a whole second inbetween animations. How do I make keynote not delay?
I have an old PowerBook G4. Since my new Mac hasn't any built-in DVD reader, I would like to use the old one to copy the movies onto a USB stick to be able to watch them when I'm traveling with the new Mac (and then delete them, I don't want to do anything illegal! [In my country copying DVDs for personal use is legal.]).
As a developer of iOS software, is it possible to restrict an App to only be available on the iPad Pro? To be more precise, the App we are considering should be restricted to the Apple Pencil, which is currently limited to the iPad Pro. Is there any way to restrict our App to those devices which support the Apple Pencil?
On my old PC iTunes would come up with a tool bar with headings like File, Edit, Songs View ect. On my new iMac I can not find any place to get this tool bar or the information that it did display
I have a Macbook Pro (Early 2015 model with Retina Display) with macOS Sierra. For past 5-6 days its display turns off randomly while I am actively working on it. The touchpad keeps working and keyboard backlights remains on. If I restart it using power button on the keyboard then it works fine for a while (3-4 hours). What can I do to fix this? I have already tries SMC reset.
I use iphone 6s. whenever I need to run an app on iphone, I just search for the app. (using flashlight). Off late I have noticed that whenever I search for an app, it doesn't show the installed app anymore. I am pretty sure that this earlier the search on iphone used to show installed apps as part of search results. Now it only shows * suggested websites * wikipedia * twitter * itunes store Why did this behavior change?
My service has been disconnected on my iphone6. I want to use it for imessage, how do I remove the old phone number that's grayed out in the send/receive in message settings? Thanks
So I was about 3/4 of the way finished with this big Prezi project. I accidentally deleted all the words, boxes, and titles and refreshed it twice so I can't undo. But I thought that since it says "All changes Saved" in the top left corner, I can access all my changes from Prezi from my software...could you tell me where to access my software, how to edit my Prezi from my changes-software, and if this is all just a lost cause please? Thank you so much.
MacBook Air doesn't power on with the power-on button. But when I remove battery connection and put back it works. As long as it is in sleep mode it works. But when I switch OFF it doesn't power on and needs the battery connection to be reconnected.
How do I delete sites from my Safari reading list? There is no delete button.
I'm not a expert by any means and am stuck with upgrading my MacBook Pro to Sierra. I checked all the sys reqs before I went ahead and made a full back up - all looked good to go.
I am attempting to call testem on a directory in my terminal. It was working for a while, but now every time I call testem it returns the message "-bash: testem: command not found" I must have done something to cause this, but I can't figure out what it is.
I set a schedule wakeup in the energy preferences. It doesn't seem to wake up. Is the Macbook capable of waking up, turning on wifi and then running cron jobs while shut?
I'm using iTunes 12.5.3 on Windows 10. I am trying to create a smart playlist that selects songs from other playlists, limited by storage. (Much like in How do I configure a Smart Playlist to show songs not in other Playlists?) I have a number of these lists already, which I created several years ago, with a previous version of iTunes.
We have an office of about 15 Mac computers, and I'm looking to setup a Mac Mini server, to centralise the management of these devices. I've setup the Mac Mini server with the Server app and enabled both the Open Directory and Profile Manager roles. I've enabled the option to sign configuration profiles and selected the Signing Certificate certificate. In the profile manager, I've created an enrollment profile and unticked the restrict use to devices with placeholders option. On the computer that I want to join, I've first installed the trust profile and then I've run the enrollment profile to join the computer. The computer shows up under the usage as having joined the profile, and under devices, it's successfully adding the device (including the Serial Number and Computer Name), but it's only adding it as a placeholder. I can't seem to find anyone who is in a similar situation than me, but I should add the following: We use a managed service, and don't have access to our firewall rul
The right side panel for me, is white and disabled. I do not see any settings that would cause this behaviour. How can I return to the working version of this panel? In particular, the World Clock widget is important to me and I currently can't use it.
I would like to batch-remove all associations between XCode and any file type, because it is the default app for so many which I always have to manually set to MacVim. So I'd like to do this once and for all. Is there some place where these Associations are stored in an editable format? To be clear, I am looking for something more powerful than Cmd-I > Open With > Change All which would have to be done manually for each file type for which XCode installs itself as the default app. I run 10.12.1.
I've accidentally dropped my iPhone 6, the display glass is cracked but it still works fine. Except when someone calls me it always drops the first call like if I'm already talking to someone. It never shows me the first incoming call, I only see a missing call post factum. Although when the same person calls me again right after I get the call. Is it possible to fix this? Perhaps I just need to replace some module (e.g. the one which reads the sim card). I don't have an official Apple service at my location.
I have an iMac G3 that does not have a DVD drive, which was gifted to me along with install media for Mac OS 10.0-10.4. When I received it, it had Mac OS 10.4 on it, but I have since wiped the hard drive and am installing my way back up to it (I'm currently on 10.3).
My Spotlight, when I have selected an application, opens the "Applications" folder containing the application, instead of opening the application. I suspect I have a setting somewhere that is set in a weird way. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
When I am in that full-screen mode presenting a keynote, using the iTunes media keys seems to just exit the keynote instead of playing a song from iTunes. How can I play a song from iTunes whilst staying inside the keynote presenter?
Specs: MBP 15" Mid 2010 i7 8gb ram Specs: MBP 15" Mid 2010 i7 8gb ram SSD: Sandisk PLUS 240GB SATA3 SSD: Sandisk PLUS 240GB SATA3 OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.1
Changing languages input does not work, you can see the video.
Current behaviour of Chrome om MacOS is that you have to restart the entire browser if your kerberos ticket expired and was renewed. It seems that Chrome is using the kerberos ticket that was existing at the moment Chrome started but if in meanwhile this one expired and was renewed you have to restart the browser.
I have a 500GB HDD that I want to use for media storage. Currently, it's 75% full of TM backups for an ancient iMac that expired. I replaced it with a MacBook Pro. I don't need to keep any of the TM backups for the old iMac, BUT the TM backups contain a lot of iTunes music files that I want to save if I can. I spent a long time transferring my CD collection & I've no wish to start over. Ultimately, I hope to create an iTunes library on the external drive to free up space on the MacBook. There's currently little commonality between the old and new iTunes libraries, which is why I'm so keen to keep the old files. For clarity, I don't need to keep any other parts of the TM backups just the iTunes music files.
I have a Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch early 2015 model. It has the upgraded 3,1 GHz i7 dual-core in it. Is this possible to output to two 4k monitors on my macbook?
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra and since then I have noticed that none of my calendars appear in the sidebar space to the left of the ical window. Can anyone help me to get these back please?
I've been considering to move from OS X to Linux, because I want to have full control over the source code of the os and the apps I use, and Linux and open-source software allows me that in general, without having to go against the EULA. Bearing this in mind, I installed Fedora 25 on my Mac. I created a Live USB, with the given app for OS X, which I used to boot. I had no problems doing so, but after a while I started feeling like the os was not only comprising my hardware stability, but also there were a few tiny little bugs, which I didn't want to mess around. Furthermore, two days after installing the os, I had problems with the boot loader, and I had to format the computer again. Furthermore, I don't have graphics acceleration in my graphics card, and the Planet CCRMA repositories, which were the main reason why I moved to fedora 25, don't seem to work on my install.
I'm wondering where's a good place to start for this problem. I believe it might be achieved using apple script but admittedly I don't know its capabilities.
Yes, I am aware that I could use AirPlay. But doing so inevitably requires me to run back and forth between the Mac and the Apple TV. I could also send the URLs via Google Keep to my iPad, and AirPlay from the iPad to the Apple TV, but I'm hoping there is a way that turns the Apple TV into a standalone device, without requiring me to type the URLs by hand.
iTunes could not connect to the iPhone "iPhone (2)" because an invalid response was received from the device.
I was given a iMacG4 (PowerPC) and intend to give to an 8 year old for the purpose of web browsing and exploring python. I would like to gain administrative (sudo) privilege. Although I have access as a common user, I do not have the password, which means no sudo privilege.
I recently enabled iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone. Just underneath the toggle, it said it was uploading the 2 live photos I've taken. Then, it said it finished uploading. When I go to icloud.com and look at the photos, there is nothing there. Things I've checked already: The Apple id logged into iCloud is the same Apple id logged into icloud.com on my computer
I'm not sure what the actual problem is. It could be the macbook, the expensive thunderbolt to dvi adapter, or the monitor. Although I have been using this setup for over a year, I'm worried that it may be harmful in the long run. A bit paranoid, I know.
Before they went Retina, iMacs could be used as displays in Target Display Mode. Is this possible with the new Touch Bar / USB-C MacBook Pros (late 2016) via the USB-C ports? They don't have a Mini DisplayPort-style Thunderbolt 1-2 port, and the support article about connecting various things to the USB-C ports doesn't mention an iMac. Neither does the article that explains what can and can't be used with the USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter.
I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13", on which the webcam is not working. I tried Photobooth as well as websites on Chrome that use it, and in both cases even though access is allowed and the camera is detected, it doesn't switch on, neither does the green light besides the lens. Here's a screenshot:
Situtation: I have an old iMac running 10.10.x and I primarily use it as an external display for a Macbook Pro. I tried to login to the account and got a message saying my password was incorrect. Checked the caps lock and hint and I was using the correct password. I tried another account on the computer and it was incorrect password too. After a couple of attempts all accounts were disabled and I was asked to contact an admin. This is a personal computer so I guess that's me. I'm not a novice so I attempted to get to the bottom of it and seem to have some way bigger issue. The Problem:
I just broke my iPhone 5s running iOs 10.1.1 and I would like to restore a back-up to an old iPhone 4s that I own. iTunes claims that the iOS version is too recent to restore it. Is there a way to tweak/downgrade the backup in order to avoid using the iCloud backup?
I would like to know if there is any way to disable Spotlight Search, even when an user goes to Settings -> Spotlight Search, and change the options there. That's mainly because anyone could still search in Spotlight only by going to Settings -> Spotlight and enabling the search on the web. I do know that you can set it so you can apply filters, but they are not successfull at what I need. (Yes, I know also that Safari can be restricted under "Restrictions", but I am only talking about Spotlight) I would need something like "Spotlight Search" under "Restrictions", so I can turn it off completely, so any user can't enable the Internet search again.
It happens that I noticed a text insert I had pasted in an image in Preview 7 (Sierra on MacBookAir had been rotated I don't know how this happened but the text insert is definitely not horizontal. So there must be a way to rotate inserts. I haven't yet found out. Can anyone tell me?
P.S. I'd rather not use CCC or any external programs if that's possible. I'm running macOS off a USB drive and it's incredibly slow, so third-party software is merely a hindrance.
I have a mid-2014 MBP retina that runs OSX El Capitan (10.11.6). I'm trying to use my wireless Logitech mouse (Anywhere MX, the first edition), but there is an intermittent lag problem. Sometimes it lags so much that the cursor does not move smoothly across the screen. There doesn't seem to be a particular app that's running that causes it. Here's what I know: I suspect the mouse isn't the problem because the issue repeats with another wireless Logitech mouse. I suspect the mouse isn't the problem because the issue repeats with another wireless Logitech mouse. When I switch to an old wired mouse, the problem disappears. When I switch to an old wired mouse, the problem disappears. A reboot sometimes works. A reboot sometimes works.
Yesterday I started experiencing display hiccups in my new Macbook Pro The issue is most noticeable when playing videos, though it really effects every animation: minimizing windows, switching screens, even typing is now choppy. The display has hiccups where it freezes for a split second, making it very choppy. I get lots of warning from WindowServer in my console (snippet here). I've tried several solutions so far: Rebooting Disabling automatic brightness Resetting my user keychain Disabling iCloud keychain Removing all user LaunchAgents Turning WiFi off and on again
The home button on a friend's iPhone 5s has become unreliable. It responds maybe one time out of twenty.
Anyway, there are several applications where, when I switch to them (doesn't matter where I'm coming from), the desktop switches to Space 1 (which is the empty space containing only Finder) and the main application actually switches to Finder. I can hit Cmd-Tab once to get to the intended application (note that this means the target application moved in the list order, since tabbing once would otherwise result in returning to where I came from), but obviously that's another step that is undesirable. To make matters worse, it is somewhat nondeterministic (I'd say it happens around 60-70% of the time), so I never really know if I'm going to "make it" when I try to switch apps. A non-exhaustive list of applications where I've seen this happen (again, swapping to, not from): Sublime Text 3 TweetBot Calendar (like, the first-party Apple Calendar) Mail (very rarely) Slack I've never (not even once) seen this glitch happen with the following applications: Safari Terminal 1Password
Mac Mini mid 2011 (5,1) 2.3 GHz i5, 2 GB ram running 10.12.1 with 149/500 GB free. In application monitor everything (memory, disk, network, cpu usage) is nominal. Disk check (Cmd+R at boot) - Passed Hardware test (opt+D at boot) - Passed.
I don't think I even have a Shockwave plugin, unless it came with the browser. But if I do, I want to remove it and/or check the version number. IDS detected a CVE-2010-3655 attack aimed at me.
I just bought a Logitech USB keyboard (Logitech K120, if that matters.) It's a Windows keyboard, so it has a Windows key and an alt key. The Windows key maps to Command, and the Alt key maps to option. The keys are reversed from their positions on a normal Mac keyboard. It's driving me nuts. I'm running 10.12.1 (Sierra) Is there any way to remap them, for this specific keyboard?
I have recently bought an EasyCAP DC60. I have also downloaded easy cap viewer Fushicai on my MacBook Air which is currently running macOS Sierra. I'm trying to display my PS3 on my laptop using a HDMI to AV converter because I don't have an AV cable for my PS3. When I start up the easy cap viewer, it just shows a black screen. How do I fix this?
So I'm trying to make a script that holds down a key like Left option. But I don't want to use something like
In Keynote I use a lot of animations to illustrate my scientific presentations. Often, I find myself wanting to move an object (and/or scale and rotate it), and have it remain in its new position when I advance to the next slide.
Then I went to the Terminal. The disk is showing up there:
I've had many iCloud related problems in the past and all have all been fixable. This one I can't crack so am asking here. Since around 2 months iCloud sync has been broken for the Notes.app on the Mac, and Reminders.app on the iPad.
If I want to develop software on an iPad, how to start a terminal like linux and save the source local?
But I can't find the package name in the list. So I went to "About this Mac" -> "System Report..." -> "Software" -> "Installations" and there I can see the names of the packages, but unfortunately I can't remove them from there. So is there anybody who can tell me where I can remove them?
In previous Mac OS X versions (to El Capitan), you could administrate mail server settings in the app called Server Admin. In El Capitan, all I have access to is the Server.app. In there are only very limited settings for the email server.
Cmd + → is not finger-friendly for me. So I wonder any other way without the 4-arrow-key to do the same, any one will be appreciated. System: MacOS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 Usage: move the cursor in any form on the web like Google Search, when text is visually selected, I want to move the cursor to the end of the line to append something.
In Numbers (I'm currently running v3.6.2) after I have selected a cell/row/whatever, I want, without irritating my carpal tunnels, to format that text strikethrough. In Excel, I just had to add the little strikethrough button to the top bar and whoosh it's that much easier to strike items from my ToDo lists. In Numbers at the moment the only way I know to strike text is expand the right side format pane, click Text, find and click the advanced gear dropdown thing, and click the little radio button next to Strikethrough.
My Macbook Pro has run out of disk space, and I cannot find out why. I have minimal Applications and user data. Output from df -h As you can see here, it is reporting that I have around 6GB free space. I then used ncdu to try get a better understanding of what was actually using the space
I noticed that my iMac was not going to sleep automatically after idle; nor was it going in to screensaver mode. In activity monitor, I saw that a custom applet of mine was preventing sleep. pmset gives similar info:
Is Python pre-installed on every mac version? If so, how far does it go? Also, I know in CentOS, its encouraged not to use the Python Pre-Installed and to actually use your own Python version (to maintain longevity)
I have Sierra and I have started Documents in the cloud. Now, the system can purge a document, if it wants space and the document didn't change from a while.
I am attempting to automate the setup of a vsts 'build agent' for mac, as documented here: *=URL=* One recommended step, that is definitely useful in our usecase is to configure autologin (and lock), and the step links to this guide: https://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/terminally-geeky-use-automatic-login-more-securely/
I bought a Logitech USB keyboard (model K120) to use with my MBP while it's on a stand. I got some help swapping the mapping of the command and option keys to the Alt and Windows keys so the layout is more like a standard Mac keyboard. The next problem is this key: (The one under the shift key with the rectangle with 3 lines on it.) Apparently this is a Windows Context menu key.
I was installing ruby on rails along with homebrew the other day and was following a step by step list of what to do. I now have this bash syntax error every time I enter the terminal:
I have a standard Windows PC-compatible USB keyboard plugged into my Mac. It works just fine, but whenever I wake my Mac up from sleep, I am forced to unplug and replug the keyboard from USB to get it to work.
How can I create a formula that will sum up different times based on certain criteria below? The below table is an example of what my current formula looks like, which is very basic and is changed on a daily basis.
My main drive is encrypted with Filevault2. What I want to do additionally is to have a second user account with Filevault1 encryption set up. I'm not asking how to setup legacy Filevault1 for one user on a modern OSX system, because I know how to do that, just know if I will break my system if I try it with the setup already encrypted with Filevault2.
I am using iTunes 12.5.3.17 on Windows 10. iTunes Store pages show film/TV series Information sections which say "Downloading 720p". The title supports 1080p as well as 720p.
My iPhone7 (iOS 10.1.1) displays a "Phone App" (the icons is the same one that you make calls from) on the Settings > Privacy > Location Services page. My wife has same phone and hers does not. AppleCare does not show this on their lab phones either.
Mac OS X El Capitan This ordeal began when I was unable to connect Time Machine to a newly purchased Time Capsule; it still wanted to hang on to an older external drive which had died. I called Apple and they instructed me to create a new user account and try connecting the Time Capsule. This worked and I was able to back up to Time Capsule.
I'm trying to run Dia on macOS Sierra (MacBookPro, Retina). It crashed searching for libdia.dylib. Exporting Display=:0, as recommended here, does not help. Any ideas?
Imac having odd problem. Entering password at bootup, the computer does not respond to keystroke (usb keyboard), until it's been tapped multiple (but not consistent) number of times, then it will spit out several iterations of the same letter (but not as many as taps). Very difficult to backspace to correct. When that frustrating process finally gets a password, the computer works fine. After some use (a day or so) the keyboard starts not responding in a similar fashion. Rebooting is necessary.
Where is the list of sidebar's favourites stored in macOS Sierra? I tried to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.applde.finder.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/com.applde.sidebarlist.plist - almost all preferences are reset except list of favourites - it remains
I'm trying to get rid of the php56-pdo-pgsql formula installed by Brew so that I can install it again with the --without-homebrew-php option. pgsql is installed in the copy of PHP that came with OS X 10.12. However when I try to uninstall it like this brew complains like this
I have a user who had an iPhone 5S running iOS 10. He came to me complaining about non-functioning notifications in text messages and phone. The problem seems to be intermittent, if we reboot the phone the ringers come back. But then after a while they just stop working again. What we've tried... We Checked for mute and volume 0. We checked for Do Not Disturb. We changed the notification sounds. We checked Settings->Notifications->Phone and made sure Allow Notifications was on. We checked to see if numbers were blocked. We made sure no bluetooth devices were connected. We checked all apps, removing most of the apps he installed. We made sure the Otter Box case wasn't accidentally hitting rockers or buttons. We factory reset the phone. After all that we decided maybe there was a hardware problem with the 5S and upgraded the phone to bran new iPhone 7 from verizon.
In Mac OSX 10.12.1, using Terminal does not show logins before today? I did read the earlier article and tried which did not reveal anything earlier.
I have an iPhone 6 and have just got an iPhone 7. Due to such low memory on my iPhone 6 when I do an iCloud backup to the new handset I don't want my pictures/videos to transfer over with everything else like apps/messages etc. But I want my pictures to be saved on iCloud to view in the future. Please help.
I get the error message: Xcode Can't be opened. "Xcode" is damaged and can't be opened. Delete "Xcode" and download it again from the App Store.
My wife and I have iPhone 6s and we noticed something odd recently. Three of our lightning cables have stopped working when plugged into the wall. We both get a message "This accessory may not be supported". These are not cables purchased from Apple, but they have worked until a few days ago. However, when we plug the phone directly into our laptops using these cables, they still charge fine. We have a fourth cable that seems to work perfectly, both in the wall socket and our computers.
I can't imagine this would be an issue, but is there any reason why I can't/shoudln't install OSX 10.11 Yosemite on my MacBook Pro 2016? Sierra has always felt very sluggish to me, and it is the first OSX release where apps consistently crash. El Capitan was much more solid in my opinion and I would like to downgrade. Is there any reason why I shouldn't?
Looking for some help on this. These are some Kernel Panic and GPU logs from a 2014 5k iMac. This started happening on 12/06, after installing a new Synology DS416 and connecting via AFP. The issue seems to only happen when transferring data from an external hard drive to the Synology and/or using Capture One for photo editing. The machine was updated to Capture One version 10 and MacOS 12.1 on 12/05. Thanks again in advance! Second time: There were more, but here are some GPU restarts:
I have an USB external keyboard but the Fn(1-12) keys are kinda useless. I use my macbook in clamshell mode and I want to use the regular function like expose, etc.. using function keys. Is this possibile with os x sierra?
Anyway, this set off 100% cpu processes for like 6 hours. So I decided to turn iCloud Drive off, and just keep the folders in Google Drive (which now says its done syncing).
In macOS el capitan I used karabiner to get sticky keys without lock feature, but after updating to macOS Sierra, karabiner does not work and it's successor karabiner elements does not have the feature of setting sticky keys without lock :( Is there any other way of getting this to work? i really depend on sticky keys for using emacs and I find it annoying whenever I accidentally press a key modifier twice and it's locked in and i've to press it again to release the lock.
If I choose an SSD that speaks the SATA protocol, will it still work with my Mac, or must I get a PCIe one? I'm not worried about a slight difference in speed, since both are much faster than a spinning hard disc.
This issue is worrying me. One day I saw that Apache was running, and I never set it up to run. It is only on root's launchctl.
I have a iPad mini2 (cellular). Recently my modem has been broken and to use the internet via my laptop I use a personal hotspot connection. I mean I connect to my ipad by my laptop for using the internet.
I just connected a Bluetooth headset (Urbanears Plattan ADV Wireless) to my OSX Sierra Macbook for the first time, mostly without issue. Then I realised my "Play stereo audio as mono" setting (Accessibility -> Audio) wasn't being respected anymore.
When switching between applications how does one allow applications to stack or remain in view? Example: I have a web browser open (not in full screen but sized to cover the full display) I then open the calendar which is sized smaller and used to appear in front of the browser in previous OS versions whilst still displaying the web browser behind it. What occurs for me is that when I switch applications the previous application is hidden to the dock, not minimized but hidden. Here is a short gif as I have most likely explained my problem terribly.
Apple states clearly that the /etc/resolv.conf file is managed by Mac OS so it will be regenerated. The problem is that it seems that when I join the OpenVPN this does not happen and as a result tools like nslookup fail to see the vpn. I need to know which command can I run in order to force MacOS (Sierra) to regenerate the file.
A while ago, I wrote a few services and assigned them to key combinations. The problem is, even though services are under application's File menu item, I have to invoke it manually the first time, then I can use the key combination. Is there a way to be able use services when you first launch the application? I looked at this answer, but I'd rather use a 3rd party application only if I absolutely have to.
I've a Mac Mini and I tried to reinstall Sierra yesterday. I used Command + R at the log screen Erased my Hard Drive Click on Reinstall macOS Sierra
I want to check, from the command line, if a certificate is already imported in the KeyChain in order to avoid doing a sudo security add-trusted-cert ... if that's not necessarily. I already have the certificate on disk but I don't know how it verify if it already installed in the KeyChain or not.
My I Phone 5 calendar is stuck on Edit Event -won't allow me to save the event it is displaying or delete the event What can I do?
I have upgraded to El Capitan a few months ago. I have followed a few guides to install and setup AMP: Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.11 El Capitan But I can't access my /Sites folder, because I can't connect to "localhost".
Is it possible to change the passwords for ssh, vnc, sudo et.c. without changing the password I use to log in? If so, how can I do it? (Mac with Sierra)
Finder acts weirdly, or I'm unaware of some design or something (like "Enter do not open files by default" thing). In Finder: go to Finder Preferences navigate to "sidebar" tab uncheck [] Desktop re-login to macOS and Desktop favorite sill there
I have a new iPhone 7 Plus and would like to restore only my photos to my new iPhone from my backup. Is there a way to do that rather than restore the entire backup? Thanks. Jason
I often listen to news/podcasts through my browser (Chrome) on my MacBook and I'd like to figure out a way to pause the audio that is playing using my keyboard instead of trying to hunt down the tab that it's playing in and pausing it there by clicking a button. I can do this for native apps like Spotify, but not when it's playing through the browser. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
I've messed up something in iCloud Photos. I have placeholders for photos going back through time to my very first digital photos (2002!), but they are only placeholders. When I click on the photos, iCloud Photos crashes. I can't select them, I can't do anything.
I know the Apple Watch Workout app differs from the Activity app in its tracking of calories burned but what accounts for this huge discrepancy described below? I ran the "7 Minute Workout" app yesterday (Dec 8 in the image) and used the Apple Watch Workout app to track the exercise but forgot to stop it for about four hours. When I noticed Workout still running and finally stopped it, it showed me that I had exercised for 245 minutes and burned around 1100 active calories! Now, that's more than half of my allotted calories for the day. If it were only true for when I was simply driving to dinner and then gorging on pasta and wine! When I didn't forget to turn off Workout the other day (Dec 5 in the image) after doing two 7 MWC sessions (total about 25 minutes), I got what looks like a normal calories burned reading. So, in theory, if I run the Workout app from when I wake up until I go to sleep, I'd expect it'll show me that I burned a ton more calories than the Activity app would.
I am rookie with mac. I need to open Excel, Word and maybe I forgot about something else, but this two I really need.
I have a 4th generation Apple TV and I live in an apartment block, so I have very nearby neighbours. While I was watching a video, it was interrupted by the 4 digit confirmation screen of a new connection (Ryan's iPhone) flashing up. I don't know Ryan, and I don't appreciate him interrupting my viewing.
Photo.app does not open when clicked on in the dock or in the list of apps. Message comes up "The application "Photos.app" is not open anymore". How can I re-open it?
I installed windows 10 two days ago on my iMac 2011 21.5 inch with drivers from bootcamp. Unfortunately, I don't have sound and I don't have 1920x1080 screen resolution :(
I tried restoring the folder ~/Library/Messages, and ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat, but when I opened Messages every single Message but the last was gone for every conservation. Can I bring back my Messages somehow?
When recording audio in GarageBand (open GarageBand, New Project, Voice, then start recording). I would like to record to an external SSD rather than the system disk as I get occasional crashes that seem to be heavy IO related (either to much IO, or perhaps the disk is hitting a thermal shutdown point, I'm not sure). A simple solution seems to be to record the audio to an external SSD and bypass the internal spinning disk. Is there some hidden setting I can change to set the directory/location where GarageBand records audio to by default? This is on Mac OS X 10.12.1, GarageBand 10.1.4.
The web site my.yahoo.com has an irritating bug (I'm surprised it works at all) where clicking on one of its links sometimes produces a URL such as the following: In the example, you can see that "*=URL=* is repeated twice. I wanted to find the easiest way to correct these URLs while surfing. Sadly, I cannot even perform the first necessary action, which is to pull the URL from the title bar of the current tab. You would think sending the following command to Safari in an Applescript would work: Sadly, apparently, if the URL is invalid, I get:
How do you enable the app-context-dependent touch bar for Photoshop on the new 2016 rmbp? I've just updated to the latest CC software 2017.0 releases - and not seeing the custom touch bar. A Google search yields a ton of news article demonstrations without actually telling you how to enable it. A corollary question is - which are the context-specific touchbar apps?
So I am using TeamViewer to remote control a Windows PC from a mac. I can use the control key on the mac to active the Ctrl key on windows but it feels clunky. What I was wondering is it possible to remap the command key to the Ctrl key only when using TeamViewer?
The sound works, but only produces a low sound. Additionally, I have check the system preference's sound section, and checked the output, mute check, and made sure the headphones were chosen as the output. However still emits low sound. Is the jack damaged in some way and how can I fix it?
I want to use my old iPhone for iMessage but I am running into an issue setting up iMessage as it seems to be waiting for phone activation which wont happen because I have a new android phone. How can I set up my iPhone to only send iMessages from my Apple ID? Right now my old number is grayed out with a loading wheel to the left.
I deleted some photos from my iPhone 5S to free some space on the phone, thinking that the same photos would be saved in iCloud or go to the recently deleted folder after deleted, but now I realise that for whatever reason my phone wasn't synced with iCloud and those photos were not saved in iCloud, or in my recently deleted folder. Is there any way to recover those photos from the phone hard drive?
I'm publishing a textbook on iTunes Connect that has facilitator sections as HTML widgets. I'd like to password protect them as sometimes they have answers to quizzes that ideally the student doesn't see. I've created the widget and have it password protected, but I'm not sure how to communicate a password to the iBook buyer. Is there a way to get an email from iTunes Connect or something unique to the iBook?
I had downloaded macOS Sierra(~4.88GB) from App Store to create a bootable for a friend on my Macbook Air. After doing that successfully, I deleted the macOS Sierra Installer app from Applications directory. But my Drive size was not freed by 4.88GBs instead deleting it freed only 1GB. Are there any residual files I need to remove manually?
I have a macbook air which recently began showing the "lines of death" up and down my screen, a common sign of damage to the LCD panel. I can still login and to an extent use the machine, with the exception of doing so blindly. The model number is A1446, and it is a 13 in. screen. How do I go about making this repair myself at home? Or would it be more worth my time (and nicer to my wallet) to get it fixed at a store or other repair center? NOTE: I essentially need the repair completed within 24 hours as this machine is a critical part of my work Also, I dont know the cause of the damage exactly, i went to bed with everything A-OK, and in the morning the LCD wasnt working properly.
It doesn't respond to clicks or right clicks. I don't recall when it first appeared. I'm running 10.11.6 El Capitan.
When trying to order a print product through iPhoto or Photos, the following error code blocks the ability to get to the final step to place an order The information in the following fields is missing or incomplete: postalCode value '[POSTAL CODE e.g. W9W 9W9]' failed to match any valid regexes. "Fix" / "Cancel" This happens even with addresses and postal codes that have been previously used for print product orders.
The answers already posted to questions similar to mine don't seem to apply to my phone. I can keep individual tracks on the phone by pressing the download button, but with nearly 2000 songs on the phone, this seems like a long task, with no guarantee that the song won't simply upload again. Is there a way (as for photos) of preventing it?
I've tried and used Disk Utility to create an encrypted image, so I can store data in it securely. However, when I tried to write files to this image, the write operation was too slow (to write ~50 GB of data, it would take 1 day as estimated). My question: is there a robust alternative that allows creating an encrypted space in the hard disk to store data with fast read/write operations? Device : Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 Rotational Rate: 5400 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 Rotational Rate: 5400 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) OS version : 10.12.1
Someone stole my iPhone yesterday and Find my iPhone was on. We were tracking the place and then they might have turned the phone off because it appeared offline. Today I couldn't find my device on Find my iPhone. I was using two phones with the same Apple ID, and I can only see one phone now.
I need to install XQuartz to install Inkscape, a vector graphics application. May I know if issues would come when I install XQuartz? I'm new to OS X and I find the need to install an application to install another application unusual.
Sometimes I have a very large backlog of app updates (20+) and other times I do not. Sometimes app updates happen when I'm not using my phone. Sometimes apps start updating immediately after I unlock. What are the exact, technical criteria that govern when an automatic app update happens? I think there might even be some sort of concurrency limit, like three at a time.
I've just updated the OS on my iPad mini 4. Now when trying to start with the button and fingerprint it goes straight to Siri and will not let me past Siri. If I push the button again goes to password screen. It will accept a typed password, and the fingerprint goes back to Siri.
I am unable to boot El Capitan. When I turn on the computer it seems to load fine for a while, but then this screen shows up:
When I'm at my desk and using my smartphone, it is better to keep it charged or discharged? If I use it while it's discharging I will use up my charge cycles? Obviously this would be subjective to the smartphone model I'm using, but generally speaking from a li-io battery point of view? Does the iPhone offer a better charging/battery lifespan efficiency?
I have a file on desktop I need to trash it. I put mouse on the file make one short touch and immediately second touch and keep touch on file and now I am able to move file to trash on somewhere on the desktop.
I have a WD "MY Passport" 1 TB drive which I use for my TimeMachine backup on a 15" MacBook Pro (Mid 2014). Sometimes, the mac will not detect when the drive is being connected (it's not showing in the disk utility either). Rebooting the mac does not help. However, after some experimentations, I found out that if I connect the drive to a Windows machine, disconnect it and then connect it to the mac, it's detected and can be used with no issues (until the next time it's not detected). This happened to me on another drive (a seagate drive) as well. Anyone has any idea what's going on here?
I have a Time Machine drive for my laptop...  I bring the machine to work. Every morning I right-click "Eject" the drive, and it takes forever or just doesn't eject. I'm in a hurry, so I either sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now or if I'm really in a rush just yank the drive (then get scolded by the OS when I log back in later). What would be a better way? MacBook Pro mid 2012 ; OS 10.12.1 (Sierra)
Pardon me for not listing thirteen related but not duplicate questions about transferring purchases. What is happening to me is that every time I sync, I get (not an exact quote) "there are purchases on the iPad that are not in iTunes. Copy them in?" Even though I haven't purchased anything in a LONG time, and I say "OK" every time, it still asks again the next time. My library is in my home account, and due to an unrelated issue, not long ago I removed all ACLs from my account and recursively ensured I owned and had write access to everything in it. There is no diagnostic message saying it failed to copy anything. Why might this be and how can it be stopped without stopping a legitimate transfer?
I have two partitions, one for boot. Now I've enabled full disk encryption, looks like the one for boot is encrypted. But what about the other one? I'm not sure if it's also encrypted. How can I verify that?
I've tried and used Disk Utility to create an encrypted image, so I can store data in it securely. However, when I tried to write files to this image, the write operation was too slow (to write ~50 GB of data, it would take 1 day as estimated). My question: is there a robust alternative that allows creating an encrypted space in the hard disk to store data with fast read/write operations? Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 Rotational Rate: 5400 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 Rotational Rate: 5400 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) OS version : 10.12.1
I'm working on improving iOS cross-compilation support for ghc, which has a metaprogramming feature which requires running code at compile time. One mechanism for this involves running a process on the target and communicating with it from the compiler via pipes. This is a standard unix process (one compiled for iOS), not an iPhone app. How can I launch this process on a connected iPhone from the OS X box where the compiler is running? For the simulator I can use simctl spawn but I don't know of anything similar for real devices.
I have two macs, one of them is plugged into speakers. Can I use the mac that isn't plugged in to use my other mac for audio output in some convenient fashion?
I have iphone 5S. I want to know: How to save a doc or pdf attachment from gmail app locally on an iphone? How to view this attachment (from step 1) on iphone?
If an app has an entry in Diagnostics & Usage on a particular day, does that imply that it was installed on that day?
I recently upgraded to macOS Sierra and moved over my El Capitan stuff over via a Time Machine backup. Everything works fine on Sierra except for Scrivener, a writing app. The app constantly crashes, and here is the beginning of the crash log: I contacted Scrivener's tech support, and they said it's crashing because Growl is installed.
I've been getting this problem a lot and it's very frustrating. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, my MacBook will just freeze up or lag tremendously. The clock stops, apps stop responding, and it'll take a long time just to get a button to press. This usually happens when I'm watching a YouTube video in Safari.
With Command-tab we switch between apps. And with control-fn-F4 we switch between windows.
My current workstation has a Broadwell-E X99 motherboard which has an ASUS Thunderbolt 3 add-in card which "works" by having me connect a DisplayPort cable from my GPU's output back into the Thunderbolt card, which then combines it with the PCI-Express channels. My GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 which supports DisplayPort 1.4 - I note that only DisplayPort 1.3 is necessary for uncompressed 5K at 60Hz in 24-bit color mode - but Thunderbolt 3 only supports DisplayPort 1.2 - and I can't see any other Thunderbolt add-in cards that accept two DisplayPort inputs (for dual-channel DisplayPort) Can the LG Ultrafine 5K monitor be used with a PC - in any capacity? Can the LG Ultrafine 5K monitor be used with a PC - in 5K 60Hz mode using a computer with DisplayPort 1.4 ports?
The items in Firefox/Services menu disappeared after I restart my iMac, but not in every browser tab. For example, they are there and working correctly if the browser display the Help/Troubleshooting page (I'm not sure the name is the correct one, I have a localized version in Italian: "Aiuto/Risoluzione dei problemi"). If I actuate Firefox's refresh function, Services work properly until I close and reopen Firefox. I tried to run Firefox with the option "-NSDebugServices com.apple.mail" getting the following messages: Please, do you have any idea how to fix my installation? iMac Retina 5K Late 2015 - OS X 10.11.6 - Firefox 50.0.2 After the Firefox 50.1 release updated "The song remains the same"... but: Furthermore in other programs, where the Services menu works well, Internet related item like "Search with DuckDuckGo" opens Safari instead of my default browser Firefox (look at the icon near the menu text in the upper picture).
I'd just like to know how to add multiple lines in my autotyper. Currently, all that it can do is repeat the same lines over and over again, which is "NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE". I'd like to find out how to add multiple different lines of text, then for the lines to repeat. Here is my current code:
Does anyone know what could have changed such that I would suddenly start seeing this warning today? And why would I be seeing it when using the gpg2 binary but not the gpg1 binary? Other possibly relevant information: Update
Trying to create a new app and while Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Korean was created without any issue, Hindi gives an error: App Name must not contain the following characters: जी वं त ...
My primary partition is encrypted with FileVault2, and the other one is not. When I extend the primary partition, it succeed, but the space is actually not in use. I have 250GB
I just tried to install windows with Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro running macOS Sierra. Just when Boot Camp wanted to split my Mac's hard drive into partitions, I stopped it, leaving some useless space taken up on my hard drive. Now, I don't know how to delete that bootcamp space (about 40 GB); the bootcamp partition does not even appear in Disk Utility. How can I delete this partition and free up its storage space?
My iPhone has iOS 10 on it. My iPad Mini has iOS 9 which is the most recent version available for that device.
One can do searches from the address bar in safari. However one can only specify one search engine to use. Id really like to specify that I want the search to happen in google/youtube/wikipedia etc. Id really like to be able to do searches from the address bar in safari.
My mother in law is techphobic. She also lives 8000 miles and several time zones away. So I want to help set up her computer as solidly as possible without needed much long distance sketch support.
I use a MacBookPro 2012 with 4GB ram. My Word 16 used to work perfectly but recently the Copy and Paste function hasn't been working properly. If I copied a text (from a PDF or any other application) into Word, it would not work. Only if I used the special paste function did it work.
By default, user-domain keychains are placed in ~/Library/Keychains. Can this path be changed and, if so, is there a terminal command to print out the configured location? For context, I have a ruby gem and I'm trying to play good citizen rather than hardcoding the location. (I know you can add a keychain from any location, but I'm referring to the default path that keychains reside in)
This is what booting my MacBook looks like: Macbook booting very slowly (youtube) I tried a PRAM reset, which was successful (it reseted the speaker volume and now plays the startup sound, which it didn't before), but that didn't fix the issue. This is an early 2013 15'' Retina Mac, and I'm running El Capitan. I really need this device, so any help would be appreciated!
Okay I am not talking about the little yellow square of focus, I think this is a different thing. I was watching some online video and taking photos with my iPad when I notice a huge yellow rectangle, I would like to know what is it, does anyone knows?
Coming from Windows background, I'm usually very paranoid about the files I download, but one time I did something stupid - I downloaded some video files that were hosted in *=URL=* (not a malicious website, but it does store files that can have just about anything on them). I realized that this might not have been a good idea a few days later, and I deleted the files from my Mac. One potential issue is that I backed up my Mac to an external hard drive as well (so that drive got the files too), but I also deleted the questionable video files from there.
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 with El Capitan running on it. I wanted to enter Recovery Mode and pressed cmd+R until the Apple logo appeared with a progress bar. After about 3 hours waiting the progress bar was complete but nothing happened. I waited another two hours but still nothing changed.
Im on i5 iMac (late 2012), El Capitan 10.11.6. Today I have cleaned my hard drive. I freed about 200 Gigabytes. The bottom bar in Finder showed me 144 Gb of free space when I glanced at it the first time. 10 minutes later it was 38 Gb! And now it's 13 Gb. It keeps being taken by something that was waiting for enough space, I suppose.
I have some trouble with fileserver shares, if the share get's disconnected and reconnected again. The mount dir, e.g. /Volumes/Data isn't removed and when the share get's reconnected again, a new directory /Volumes/Data-1 is created. However, I need the mount to be available at a static path, so that I can use it in some tools.
I just upgraded to iPhone 6se at a Sprint store yesterday. They moved all my data from old phone to new at the store. Now, when I plug my iPhone into iTunes (v12.5.3.17) on my macbook, it only presents me with options to "set up new iphone" or "restore from backup." All the backups are old. If I choose "set up new iphone," will it wipe my device? I'd prefer not to lose everything I have on my iphone. Will my iPhone ever be synced to my iTunes again?
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.11.6 Time Machine Software: Need to retrieve, only, an application (Simplibudget) from "Time Machine". This would be a backup that is about six months back, with other more recent backups of this application in front of the one I want. Have attemped but no success.
Based on the order I insert USB disks, they can be named either /dev/disk2 or /dev/disk3 for example, and this is a problem for me. Is there a way to make the naming persistent, or reference them in a persistent way? Under linux I would use udev, or I would reference them under /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -- is there something similar for Mac? To clarify, although I could specify the UUID in /etc/fstab, I need to access the physical device file under a persistent name.
I was browsing the internet when the app store opened by itself, though the back button was greyed out and no apps were showing on that screen. I was unable to click out of it for maybe 1-2 seconds. I wasn't quite sure what was going on until my email app opened by itself too with a composed long message about virus software as a message to send. I didnt get a chance to see the address to whom it was being sent, but have lots of important work contacts I do not want to send weird virus spam to. So I wasnt sure what to do, so i tried quickly closing all apps and shutting off the iPad. I looked through my email accounts on my computer and do not see that any email was actually sent.
I am trying to enable two Google Drive accounts (private and work) following these steps. In addition, I did chown to my main account (user), and chmod appropriately. However, it seems to me that the second account is not synced until I actually switch to that second user. Anyone with similar experience? Any solution? Thanks!
How can I update screenshots (namely add iPad screenshots) without updating the application description or build?
This would be similar to excluding system files from time machine + using a boot clone, except you can get some bootable history if you want to (ie. keep the last 5 versions bootable).
can I change the text tone swoosh on sending to something louder/more noticable on my iphone 5S, if so how? Thanks
Iv'e got 2 Ethernet to USB type C adapters: first one: *=URL=* and second one i bought in a store, here is a picture: the one I bought from amazon is not even detected in the network preferences but the usb ports does work, and the Ethernet works fine on my friend's windows computer with usb type c. the second one works fine on my MacBook. I want to return the second one to the store but i am not sure how to configure the working one to be configured on my El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) Mac. What steps do I need to make ethernet work over USB C on Mac?
My Mac was lost the other night. Someone probably wiped it clean, and reset nvram. Is it possible to see last locations on Find my Mac? Because who ever found it, he must have been connected to Wifi for at least 15-20min so he can do what he has done. So the question is: can I see more than one last location of my MacBook, when he was online, on Find my Mac?
My wife has an iPhone 6s and I am trying to understand the way in which the device uses local storage. Her photos are very important to her and as such, I want them to be backed up safely. So we pay for extra storage on her iCloud account and her photos go there. Are they also stored on the device? Also, can they be deleted to make more available space on the local device but remain on the iCloud? I am not very familiar with iOS devices.
I tried to spoof my location with Xcode for my Apple TV 4, with a blank app. As soon I did this my network connection dropped and showed an internal IP from the Apple TV (and not WiFi option, only ethernet). So, I hard reset it via iTunes and it still only gives me the option ethernet (there is no option to connect via WiFi). Even when I plug the ethernet cable in it does not work and says 'no network connection found'. Also I am not able to set get connected via the option to set up the Apple TV with my iPhone?
I am MacBook Pro w/ Retina, Mid-2014, running macOS Sierra 10.12.1. About 2/3 of the time my computer times out and goes to sleep, the screen goes blank as normal, but tries to wake it don't work. Can move mouse, but screen is black, can't click, can't press a key, etc. The only way to tempfix that I know is closing and reopening the screen. Then, everything returns to normal.
I'll leave this open as a differently formulated question in case someone wants to elaborate on why it's impossible to add a google acc without gmail.
Capturing screenshots on the Mac has gotten very slow recently. It used to be nearly instantaneous but now it is taking more than 10 seconds for the image to appear on the desktop.
Whenever I open a .pdf (haven't tried with other formats) with many pages (at least > 5), Preview does this really annoying thing: I use the Rectangular Selection tool to select an area of the .pdf I want to copy. When I copy, the page does this: When I click the area off, then I can see the page again. Because I tend to make flashcards/store several selections of what I copied with the Rectangular Selection, I'd like to know what I can do to solve this issue.
I've been running Little Snitch for a month or so now and it has been quite fascinating to see (and block) so many attempted connections. gamed is constantly 'in the news'. Please check out the attached screenshot for gamed. I've been allowing connections as it is an Apple certified process. Is it meant to be hitting so many IPs and different ports? What's more, I do not play games on my MBP, though my kids play through my account on iOS devices so perhaps that is where the activity stems from. Is gamed meant to be hitting so many different IPs and ports?
I'm pretty well invested into the Apple ecosystem. I'm home sharing music between two Apple TVs & my MBP. Is it possible to play the same song through all the Apple TVs in sync? I'm basically trying to make the most expensive redneck housewide sound system.
MacBook Air 11 inch early 2015, Sierra, Version 10.12.1. This glitch actually came on after updating to Yosemite (using Time Machine) and stayed there after updating to Sierra using Time Machine transfer again.
I want to permanently delete twitter and facebook off of my iphone6s because they are a constant distractions. is there a way to delete a given app and then not allow it to be re-downloaded at a later date?
I have a simple script that generates different output every time it's run (e.g. generate a UUID). Is there a way to write an automator script that simply inserts the output of a script at the current cursor location? (I want to run this service from Thunderbird, if that makes a difference.)
I currently use iOS 9 on an iPhone SE. I frequently use the Music app to play a specific playlist of relaxing music before bed, so I like that from opening the Music app the playlists list is easily accessible. (The playlists tab is always on the bottom, unless a song is playing in which case I must minimize that first). And I can often bring up that particular playlist in the app so later when I go to the Music app it's right there for me to tap the first song.
I signed up to sell my apps on the Apple app stores, and the agreement says: Apple shall collect and remit to the competent tax authorities the taxes described in Section 3.2 of this Schedule 2 for sales of the Licensed Applications to End-Users located in the following countries, as updated from time to time via the iTunes Connect site: Albania Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada China* Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta, Republic of Netherlands New Zealand++ Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia South Africa Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States
I have a lot of connections in LinkedIn and due to this every time when I open my laptop I got notification about there birthday. My calendar looks like this
I'm trying to shutdown Macs after 24 hours of runtime with this script: The file name is ShutdownUPTIME.sh. Now when I try to type in:
I contacted Apple in Brisbane, and they were no help, and I spent about 40 minutes on the phone to the Melbourne help centre, and they were unable to help me either. How can I get my phone reactivated?
I have an iPhone 6 and it has the following problem: the phone can find my sim card, but can't find any network. It does everything, including finding Wifi- and Bluetooth-connections.
I was going to do a clean install of El Capitan and I created a Bootable USB drive. After making the drive I done the usual, I restarted while I held down the option key to white I was presented a screen with startup disk option screen and predictably I found my usual HDD that my OS is on, my backup drive, and my bootable USB which is called "Windows".
In Hebrew the Caps Lock is used to activate the vowel points. How do I restore this feature of Caps Lock in Hebrew, and without creating a new keyboard with a program that I do not know, like Ukulele?
I am recently unable to connect to my wifi AP from my mini which runs OS 10.11.6. There seems to be nothing changed about the AP, since other clients have no trouble connecting. Last week my mini began dropping the wifi connection after brief periods of inactivity, which was annoying, but now, connecting at all would be a positive. Signal strength of homenet is -58 dBm, which should be sufficient, and my wifi chipset finds my network and assigns it the icon indicating the strongest signal strength. I ran the wifi diagnostics, and here are some lines that are perhaps relevant: I am using the correct wifi password, and the MAC address is whitelisted on the AP. On the advice of another with a similar problem, I disabled AirDrop.
Hebrew vowels are normally typed with the CapsLock activated. Why did Apple remove CapsLock from the Hebrew keyboard in Sierra without explaining or showing how to type Hebrew vowels? In other words, how does Apple want the Hebrew user to write Hebrew vowels?
I have a MacBookPro with macOS Sierra v.10.12.1. I downloaded gprolog from this link and installed this using MacPorts. Now, given that Prolog does not work like I wanted, I decided to remove it, but I don't know how. I tried to remove it using Homebrew, running: but this gives me If I run gprolog command in terminal, it gives me
How can I use ps, or some variation thereof... to get a value that roughly corresponds to the "Compressed Memory" value Apple reports in Activity Monitor.app?  Ok, so it appears ps aux tells us... 3035512, aka 2.83 Gb, which corresponds to "Private Memory"
After installing a new copy of OSX Server I started the Profile Manager and wanted to add some users and enroll them for the VPP Managed Distribution (I am already registered for VPP). In the VPP Managed Distribution section I hit "Resend invitation..." and a success message is displayed, but no invitation is received. The possible causes: Missing SSL certificate Misconfigured e-mail in OSX server Misconfigured DNS I tried different email addresses and checked spam, but none of it helped. Why are my invitations not sent?
Using MacBook 13" Retina display with macOS Sierra 10.12. I already have Boot Camp option along with Windows. Will it be possible for me to use VM on the same machine for Linux?
With Safari, when I open a page by clicking on a bookmark in the Favorites bar, the name of the tab is set to the name of the bookmark, instead of the HTML title of the page. How can I get Safari to display the original page title in the tab? I need this as the page displays changing information within its title.
How do I search for messages that Mail.app thinks are Junk emails? I would like a search query that finds all the of the Junk emails without requiring them to be moved into a Junk folder. I am running macOS 10.12.
I've recently upgraded to a new MBP (2015 series) and migrated my old machine via a time machine backup. Since the upgrade, I have been receiving error messages in the console of R at more or less random intervals. The warnings usually appear when I start the R.app, occasionally when I switch from another app (like TextMate) back to R.app, and then even more occasionally just on random. The messages typically look like this:
Lets say I have the following structure: ~/DOCUMENTATION/UBUNTU/CHECKINSTALL reference.txt Is there a way to configure Alfred so that when I type in the search bar "ubuntu checkinstall" it would find this file?
So I done a complete clean install on my MBP with a recovery usb and had planned to use migration assistant afterwards to install over one of my time machine backups. But when I enter migration assistant I can only see the option to restore from 10am this morning. At which time of course there were no time machine backups because...fresh install.
I have an iPhone 7 Plus running 10.1.1. Everything works fine but I have a audible notice that goes off every morning at 8:00am. The problem is I don't know what it is from. I checked the clock app and I don't have any alarms set. I thought it was the Golden Days app, but even after removing it, the notice gots off. I have several items in OmniFocus that are due at 8:00am, but to my knowledge OmniFocus does not use audible notifications. I am stumped. Any guidance on how to track down and shut off this daily notice would be appreciated.
Is it possible to create custom short commands to run apps and open folders, to be called in Spotlight? I mean, I'd like to create custom commands so I just open Spotlight (⌘ + space) then run things like: cEnter to run /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome sEnter to run /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari gEnter to run /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app="*=URL=* wEnter to run /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app="*=URL=* workEnter to open the folder /Users/myusername/Documents/workspace/ servEnter to run something in the Terminal
I believe these crashes started after the recent upgrade to Sierra. Full computer specs: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB.
I have set up a 4TB external USB drive to use as a backup for my 2TB MacBook Pro. Everything seems to work all right, but the encryption takes forever, and the Time Machine insists on it being performed only when the computer is plugged in into a power outlet. Since I would like to use my laptop as intended (as a portable computer), what can possibly go wrong, if I disconnect the backup drive, while it is still encrypting its contents? I am running the latest Sierra on the 2016 MacBook Pro.
I have a portable external hard drive, and I want it to be the backup disk by using time machine. But first I encounter a problem, I can't divide it. In my Dish Utility, it display this.
I have an old 4th generation Ipod-Touch (8 gb, model MC540LL/A) I'm trying to set it up to get my Hotmail (now outlook.live.com) emails, but everything I try doesn't work, it's like the authentication on the pop server just doesn't work (even with correct username/password)
I do not want to disable all birthday events from showing up in Calendar from Facebook data, but I would like to specifically enable those that do. Is there a way to do this?
Today I received a message saying there is only 18 GB left. In the last few days I don't think I used so much space in the disk.
In IOS 10 we can develop apps or extensions for Messages app. I don't want to use another messaging to message android users using gtalk or hangouts. In macOS we can do that pretty well. Is there an extension for Messages app on IOS to do that? If not, is it possible to develop such an extension for Messages app?
My iPhone 5's Calendar shows the year as 2559 BE and I'm unable to change that to the current year.
I have a 17" MacBook Pro and a 30" Apple cinema display. The best resolution I can get on the cinema display is 1280x800. Is there a way to get better resolution?
My friend had an external drive with NTFS format. She started using iOS, so she formatted it to HFS+ using iOS Disk Utilities. She had realized her mistake and unplugged the drive just after formatting. My question is if it is possible to restore at least part of this removed data? If so, what softwware do you recommend? Should I format this drive again to NTFS format before trying to restore it?
I recently bought a new iPhone. When setting up my new device I restored the backup from my old phone using iCloud. When I look at my iCloud manage storage settings it says the old device backup is 7GB about and the new device backup is 4.5GB. If anything the backup size should be larger.
Is it possible to prevent Safari from auto downloading files? Kind of like how Firefox does it. To be clear, I am not asking about auto-unzipping, but rather webpages that auto start downloads for nefarious dmg files.
I am trying to forward all ports except port 22 on OSX Sierra using pfctl but it doesn't seem to work. file: /pf.conf I enabled it with The traffic seems to be redirecting fine to port 12345, but I can't get port 22 to passthrough.
I used to have the ability to write network shares on a Windows 10 pro machine. The shares are formatted NTFS. On the windows machine, I have filesharing turned on, and I am logged onto the machine from my Sierra Mac as a local administrator. I can read but not write. I upgraded to the latest version of Paragon NTFS and this didn't help. Any idea what's wrong?
When I get a standard text I can tap and hold the message > Copy. Now the message is on the clipboard and ready to use. If I perform the same action on an address I am brought to the Maps application (an app I do not use). I can create a custom Message, twitter, facebook etc...but no copy option. How can I copy and paste a physical address on an iPhone? Copy as human readable text to another human as a text message Copy and paste into Waze Copy and paste into any app that needs an address
I though of a random python program to take a URL and download the photo, then making it the Desktop background. People have had success with this before, but as of the macOS Sierra update I've been unable to do this. I've tried multiple ways, including those listed in this thread to no avail.
I would like to know what happens when you set Settings > Messages > Keep Messages to something other than forever? (I.e. 30 days) I was under the assumption that messages are stored both in the cloud and locally on the phone. Will it remove both versions or just the version on your phone allowing you to redownload those messages at a later time?
I'd like to run a system wide keylogger (For purely educational/backup purposes of course) on Mac OS Sierra, how can I do it without buying expensive apps for that? I've been using logKext from github but it stopped working after upgrade from El Capitan. I almost got it working, but console is showing me Error: Daemon must run as root., I've tried to sudo chown root each file but to no use.
I have a problem with my iPhone 6. My iPhone 6 bootloops similar to this question: Why would my iPhone 6 be stuck in a dead battery loop?
xserve servermgrd[66]: Record of type dsRecTypeStandard:Config named 'ServicesInformation101007' already exists in /Local/Default. Trying with new name: ServicesInformation101008 How to fix this OS X server?
I use a late 2013 macbook pro 13 inch retina display. I tried formatting my internal ssd hard drive (macintosh HD) after it started freezing forever whenever I tried to log in. I tried all the workarounds but nothing helped. I couldn't re-install the os on the internal hard drive because of an incomplete file vault encryption that was stuck at 'paused. ' I therefore decided to erase my internal hard drive but I formatted it as an MBR instead of Guid Partition Map by mistake. Now my macbook can't read my internal ssd drive at all. It doesn't appear in disk utility and I can't install a new os on it as it doesn't appear when I run an installer from an external thumb drive.
My new iPhone 7 shows that I am taking up 22 GB of photo storage compared to my wife's 6s Plus only taking up 7 GB. We share the same photos and iCloud. I tried re-setting up my phone as a new phone which worked temporarily to reduce my photo storage but it shot back up again. Any idea what could be causing this?
I'm trying to free up space on my iPhone, so I've cut back on a HUGE amount of music (~1000 songs). I went through iTunes and unchecked all of the music I wanted removed and then made sure that I had selected the option to only sync checked music.
iOS 10 has made the Messages app drain my wife's iPhone 6's battery. It uses up about 40% of her battery and most of that is background time. How can I turn off background refresh for ONLY Messages? (Not looking for a solution that turns off all background refreshes.)
I'd like to find and keep a list of the 1000 most recently changed files on my system. I've looked a little bit at programs like fswatch that allow you to monitor a specific directory, but I'm not sure that these can be used across the whole file system. Is there a good way to do this performantly?
Most of the articles I'm reading about the latest 10.2 update for iOS claim there is an option in Settings->Music to "Turn on star ratings", but I am not seeing this after updating. Is this something they introduced in the beta that didn't make the final cut? How do I turn this on?
I need to confirm a change of address with a bank on January 1. So I do my usual and ask Siri to set a reminder for me to do so. "Hey Siri, remind me on January first to call US Bank about the address change" Siri responds every time with:
My gut is telling me this is a hardware problem, but I thought I'd ask here just in case. I just got a 'new' refurbished Macbook Pro Retina 2013. Pressing the 'i' key inputs an 'o', and pressing the '8' key inputs a '9'. As far as I can tell, these are the only two keys whose mappings are incorrect. I can plug in a USB keyboard and it works just fine.
Just bought a MacBook Pro from a friend but he told me the HD drive was corrupted and the battery is messed up so I replaced the HD drive with a Samsung 1 TB SSD, new 8 GB RAM and a new battery but I'm having problems installing OS X. I made a bootable USB drive with OS X 10.11 but when I try to install the OS it says: there is not enough free space on os x base system to install
Today I'm trying to connect to my personal hotspot but a iclouddnsbypass.com pop-up appeared, the device is connected to WiFi but no internet connection. My question is what is iclouddnsbypass.com and how it can be appeared on my mac even though I never install their apps. Could be someone trying to gain access to my WiFi using this tool? Found similar situation *=URL=* but no answers.
So I heard that recently Apple has decided to remove the standalone app for game center and replace it with all this gimmicky stuff. I was wondering how am I supposed to transfer my clash royale account to a new device without game center?
I'm trying to run a shutdown script remotely on multiple Macs. The command I use to start it over ssh is:
I want to get all information related to Netstat. Here is some list which i need: Sync Cookie Sent and received. Sync Cookie Failed. Delayed ack and Delayed ack Lost. Listen Over Flows. Listen Drops. TCPBackLogDrop. Please also mention all parameters which I can get from Netstat.
My (Danish) keyboard on my 2016 MacBook Pro has changed layout after crashing. My password contains a pipe charecter but this cannot be accessed via the normal way (alt + i) or the US Way (alt + 7).
What if my iPhone was stolen and I do not want anyone else to use it? Is it enough for the thief to restore my iPhone with iTunes using recovery mode to use it as their own new iPhone? Is there a way to prevent this? What can I do to make my iPhone totally useless for the thief?
When I buy movies via German iTunes I like it that they also come with the original language. Sometimes that changes. Is there a way to get notified that a film now has more languages ?
what is the use of having a parental control on and administrator account? I have a mac where a 12 years old girl is using, she can do what ever she like (install apps, chat, etc) but want to have restriction on web sites against porn, etc
My current configuration is: 13-inch rMBP w/ macOS Sierra, 8GB RAM and somewhere around 30% available disk space. I've tried a PRAM/SMC reset but no lock. Also the diagnostics tool didn't return any error and in the recovery mode I couldn't find any disk errors to fix (before and after disabling FileVault). Even if I boot in Safe Mode successfully, after restarting it gets into the same issue again.
So I have this logitech mouse that I use with my Macbook Pro. I've been using it for a week now and I just CAN'T get used to the inverse scrolling direction on the mouse wheel. So I decided to change it in my System Preferences, since I can't automatically change it in the Logitech mouse software. But sometimes when I can't use my mouse I have to use my trackpad, and getting used to the "natural" scrolling is annoying.
My iMac is connected to the Active Directory server, with no additional GID and UID setup, I can login to the OS X using AD user credentials, but I also need to mount the Desktops and probably other shares. The problem is that I use Linux hosted Samba servers, and I need to push the Desktop's share path to the OS X clients somehow. I can mount that using OS X' Samba client, but I need to do that automatically. As I'm already authenticated against AD, there must be a way to use my Kerberos ticket to access the share without password, isn't it?
I recently purchased PDFScanner to convert a bunch of scans into searchable, smaller-sized PDFs. I specifically picked PDFScanner because of its AppleScript automation (see "Features" section on PDFScanner's website).
I was recently fiddling with my external drive and retroactively encrypting the partitions. I have two on there, one from my previous 2010 macbook, and my current 2015 macbook. For the 2015 one, I followed CCC directions and encrypted by using it as my startup disk and turning on FileVault2. For the 2010 version, since I am not using it as a bootable clone (I couldn't even if I wanted to because of hardware incompatibilities... unless I really had a strong urge to), I read that I could just encrypt it by right-clicking it from my desktop and selecting "Encrypt".
I'm looking for a way of using my trackpad to virtually tap things on my iPhone screen. I realize this is a long shot, and iOS quite possibly makes this impossible, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants this, and this is the best place to ask.
Hi, Any idea what the part number is for this logic board, or where will I find it printed on the board. It has no xxx-xxxx-x number on it and the serial number returns a different board type. So if I can find out what this board is, I will be able to replace it. Thanks John
2) DisplayPort cable The Dell also came with a Mini DP to DP cable. If I use that cable it works perfectly when I startup the MacBook from scratch. So, the beautiful full resolution of 2560x1440 is there! HOWEVER, when I close the lid or the MacBook goes to sleep it somehow "loses" the monitor. The Mac still thinks the Dell is there. It is there in the menu and you can even go with your mouse to the second monitor, the Dell itself however remains completely black. So the only way of getting the monitor to work again is fully power off the Mac and then power it on. This is of course not a workable situation. So, does anybody now how to solve this, either through a working HDMI or a way to get the DP connection to work normally. Thanks!
I'm using Quicktime 10.3 on a mac running 10.9.5. I've done several screen capture videos and recorded my voice using a Logitech USB headset/microphone. I've not updated anything. It worked yesterday and not today. But all of a sudden - no audio. I've run through the basics but still can't figure it out. Thoughts?
I'm new to the Mac world but have written my first application. I have it packaged as a .app (let's say my_application.app).
Any easy solution to (short of changing storage provider): A file or folder can't be uploaded because the path is too long. Please exit OneDrive, and shorten the name or path of: ... I have tried shortening all my paths, but the max path length seems extremly short and it is not trivial to identify paths that exceed the length (once they are synced with OneDrive).
While I was using my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) running 10.12.1 Sierra, dark horizontal lines popped up and the screen flickered a little. They turned off and on for a bit and I took 2 pictures while they were on and off. It's been 2 days and it hasn't turned off again. I restarted my computer by it's still there. Is this a hardware issue? What's going wrong here? Top image has lines, bottom image is normal.
I'm having exactly the same issue in this question: How can I mount partition disk0s4 that became inaccessible after a clean installation of Mountain Lion? Has anyone found a solution please?
Now, on to my problem. When I do the above, the Wi-Fi icon disappears from the top of my screen. If I go to Wi-Fi settings, it says "No Internet Connection", and won't connect to the network created by the port scanner, and my app won't connect. Is there any way to tell the iPhone to go ahead and connect to the network even though there's no internet connection in iOS10? I've tried the following: Static: IP Address and Subnet Mask - iPhone Won't Connect (No Internet Connection) Static: IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router - iPhone Wont Connect (The 'No Internet Connection' error goes away though) Static: IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router, DNS - iPhone behaves same as if I was on DHCP connection- it connects to the WiFi network but blocks cellular data and has no internet connection. I have found one other thread documenting a similar issue with an iPad running iOS10 being unable to connect to an ad-hoc network, with no working solution: *=URL=* Just a note that if I connect using DHCP, the po
Recently bought this computer and am not an administrator just trying to log previous owner out to log in via the use of the Terminal through accessing the physical written form of the password and using it to log prior owner out. Very basic understanding of coding and relatively new to the extensive study of it so details details details!
I just updated my iPhone to iOS 10.2 and went looking for the new TV app. I was surprised to not find it on any of my home screens! Instead, it had been placed in my "Apple" folder, where I keep most of the (semi-useless) stock apps. It was even alphabetized correctly, having been inserted between "Tips" and "Voice Memos"!
I currently upgraded but it still shows my other iPhone on iCloud. I don't want to delete it and then my messages erase. I have certain messages I want to keep. What will happen if I do delete it? Thank you
I am using the Dvorak keyboard map on my Mac, I used to just switch keys from the keyboard to have a nice Dvorak keyboard. Does any one know if there is a simple way to replace keys on the new Mac Book Pro released this last fall?
I tried to create my own S/MIME certificate with the help of this code: First, I have to say, on my Mac, everything works fine. I was able to import the root certificate on both devices and I also was able to load the .p12 file. I am even able to send certified emails to my iPhone which can be verified. But when I want to sign a message on my iPhone I go to the advanced Settings in E-Mail and the certificate is just not there. Are there any special requirements for the certificate which I miss here? Is maybe the key length an issue?
[Edited for clarity and brevity] The new TV app in iOS 10.2 is missing critical features of its predecessor Videos app. The primary flaw is that there's no way to delete videos from within the app (see comments below for kludgey workaround). Secondary flaws include removal of a "list" view (only "tiled" is available) and a bug in auto-rotate. Does anyone else... See the same problems? Know how to fix them?
My 2013 MacBook Pro Retina stopped working today and I have to use a 2010 white Macbook instead for a while (this is terrible, I have to admit. But this macbook look really better than today's macbooks). Anyway here is my question : Since I don't want to have a 2010's experience with browsing, I updated my mac to macOS Sierra. At first it was really slow but then I disabled animations, transparency, disabled weather, calendars, iCloud (it was impressively faster after I disabled it), notifications etc. Is there a tutorial or someone out there to explain how disable all unnecessaries tasks such as the ones on I mentioned ? Thank you ! Sorry I didn't explain how I did it : To turn off transparency : go to system preferences > accessibility > display > reduce transparency To turn off notifications : system preferences > notifications > then click on 'Not in Notifications' To disable iCloud : System preferences, iCloud and disable To disable Mission Control : I followed these steps
The bundle charger is 61W. This USB Type-C charger comes with Power Delivery 60W:
Random question...If your iPhone is off, do text messages continue to show real times that they were sent to you OR the time when you turned the phone back on?
My wife did something to messages and it left only the picture for each conversation and it removed the name and summary. We have gone so far as to reboot her Macbook but we can't get it back to normal. Here is an image of how her Messages looks now.
Qt Creator opens the UGLY Terminal app for running/debugging programs. Using this script: How can I force it to use iTerm2 instead of Terminal..?
I just got a WD My Passport 4Tb external hard drive (USB) and need to format it before use. I've done this successfully many times before Disk Utility version 15.0 (earlier OSes than El Capitan), but after trying twice today, the operation failed each time. The My Passport disk is the one on the bottom.
Despite being setup to allow background refresh, Inbox does not notify of new emails unless I manually open the app. How can I fix this?
I have several external hard drives attached via USB to my iMac. Turning the Mac on this morning, three of the four drives mount no problem. (all in the same ext power / usb tower) but one drive does not mount.
Hi, I want to view the history of ALL my calls on iphone 4. How can I do this? My phone is jailbroken by the way. Thank you.
(Similar to this How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar?, but those answers do not help) A site I visit frequently is located at: Unfortunately when I begin typing "exa" in the address bar, I get two propositions in top hits: with the first being highlighted, and used if I (miss the arrow down key and) hit enter I have bookmarked and favorited the *=URL=* site and try to never visit *=URL=* but never the less it always shows as top site. I cleared my history of each and every entry to *=URL=* except for *=URL=* and redo that step every time I accidently visit the wrong site And no, I don't want do delete my whole browsing history
I really need to confirm with independent tool very bad quality of code in one of ios projects written in swift. Is there any tool for this? how it works?
I found in my newly installed macOS system there is a service running on port 61500 and the process command is /usr/libexec/xartstorageremoted I issued man xartstorageremoted and found the manual of this deamon. After reading it I still don't understand what is this deamon used for. I searched Google and there is nearly nothing about it. Does anyone know something about it? What it used for in a common user's perspective?
My MacBook seems not to got to sleep probably. The battery is drained over night almost 25%. What is the best way to troubleshoot this?
Yesterday I updated my iPhone 6S to iOS 10.2, and now I cannot access web sites requiring client certificates. Safari prompts me for the client certificate to use but then immediately crashes. I tried with my iPad running iOS 10.0.1 and it works just fine. On my Mac / PC it works with any browser whatsoever. Can someone else confirm this problem?
My iPhone stopped working but I have encrypted backups on my machine. I won't get a new iPhone but I obviously want to extract all my data. Is there any tool how I can extract the data without buying a new iPhone? I know about many 3rd party tools, but they all have a cost behind it, and I'm wondering if you know a way to do this.
I'm having trouble shutting down my MBP early 2015 model(MF839) with retina display. Sierra had been working smooth for almost 2 months and now I'm getting this issue. Once I shut down, the screen goes black with just my mouse pointer visible on screen and stays like that forever until I long press the power button to force shut down.
I am rookie in mac and first time when I got mac I set user name as Admin therefore all that associate with the mac begin with name Admin. I would like to change this name to Aleksey I found in System Preferences tab where it could be changed
I have an office computer with Skype running on it, and some of the contacts are personal. I don't want the messages from them to appear on my screen or pop up on the top right, even when I am in Skype (talkign to someone else). Is that possible? I don't mind blocking it for all contacts, if necessary, though I would prefer to do it in a more refined way.
Since updating to Max OS 10.11.6 this morning I've seen this message several times. It's a bit weird as I never use Safari. I suspect it might be something to do with the AppStore trying to update. Any ideas on how I can stop this? From the report that this generates it's clear that Spotlight is the culprit (thanks Dmitri for pointing this out)
I've switched to Linux recently due to my work specifics, now I want to downgrade to free iCloud storage plan, but the related apple support page only describes how to manage iCloud subscription using OSX, iOS and Windows PC. Is there any other way to cancel iCloud subscription without those devices?
I am going to be away from my rMBP for 2 weeks, I powered it off and left it with around 56% of battery charge, anything I should do differently / didn't do? in order to keep the battery in a good condition without causing damage (losing capacity or getting it in too deep discharge state).
I just upgraded our iPad Pro to 10.2 and noticed it the video app was replaced by TV app. I seem to have lost all videos synced from iTunes to my iPad. I tried deleting and reinstalling the TV app and also resyncing the videos through iTunes but no luck.
When listening to music, after locking my MacBook Pro (ControlShiftPWR) and leaving, when I come back after 5 mins, I can hear the sound from the external speakers and nothing from my headphones. I have to unplug and replug to get it back to normal.
I just upgraded my iPhone 6s to iOS 10.2. But I came to this thing where I had to approve my iPhone. I have no other Apple device so I'm stuck. How do I approve my iPhone?
Whenever I bring my 2015 Macbook Pro to a certain corporate environment and try to use WiFi there, it is painfully slow. At times, Google takes 5-10 seconds to load. Now, a Windows machine works just fine on this same network. What is more, when another person tries to use his 2016 Macbook Pro, he encounters the same problem. Does anyone know what settings or configurations we can check either on the Macs or the network to fix this? Any advice is appreciated.
I hit this problem often when interacting with some Apple applications, mainly Messages and iTunes. After starting a song with iTunes, to clear my screen and get back to work I close the iTunes window with CMD-W. The iTunes application is still running in my Dock and playing music.
I had around 100 books which where categorized in my iBooks. Over the years, I had created these Collections, but today when I was cleaning my desktop, I accidently deleted .thumbs hidden file. I have two other hidden files .localized and .DS_Store. I am not sure if that is the reason my collections were lost. Is there anyway I can get back my collections? I can access my Books.plist file as well as all my pdfs.
From a regular boot, logging to the spare admin account had no issues, logging to my main account I could barely move. The Finder spent an hour trying to draw the contents of the Applications folder, & even then wouldn't launch anything, claiming every app was damaged. I could switch to the other account & launch the same app with no issues.
I don't add these web sites to the restricted list. Is the iPhone sending every page I visit to Apple? Random surfing will encounter a random restricted site. In this case it renders this app broken because the 'allow' link doesn't work. Setting is currently set to limit adult content which allows me to use a white list and blacklist. I never added this site to blacklist. I only blacklist 3 sites.
I work in a workshop that repairs iPhones etc. I find it strange that the iPhone 6 doesn't have any glue/adhesive surrounding the enclosure rim under the display. Yet, the iPhone 6s does. When doing repairs to the iPhone 6s without the adhesive, the iPhone passes all tests we've done at the workshop and is perfectly functional.
I recently reset my iPhone and restored it using my latest iCloud backup. I noticed in the podcast app that four Christian podcasts appeared under a "Not Subscribed" section (seemed interesting that all of the podcasts had the same general theme). I had never subscribed to, or even heard of, the four podcasts. I deleted them and closed the podcast app. Now each time I reopen the podcast app, one of the podcasts continues to reappear and attempts to start downloading an episode. I found this question that sounded oddly similar, but it had no answers. Update I tried removing all podcasts and syncing with iTunes on my computer (which shows no current podcast subscriptions), but this random podcast still appears.
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2012. I always had the common connectivity issues with wifi but now its beyond my comprehension. My wifi turns itself off randomly. Sometimes it works fine for days, other times the problem happens all day. It started when my Bluetooth speaker caused interference with the wifi signal causing it to run slow or disconnecting itself either the speaker or the wifi.
After upgrading to macOS Sierra I've noticed that my mouse cursor tends to lag, grab or stick to links when traversing over a web page. The effect seems mostly pronounced in Safari but is exhibited in other browsers as well. Anyone experience anything like this and know how to change or disable the effect?
When I go into any folder via cd and then press tab a whole list of options is displayed. How do I make the autocomplete local to the folder?
There should be a command on terminal that hides the history belongs a specific tab and lets you start from the beginning of the tab like it is new, but when you scroll up with a mouse you can see your history. I can't remember and find it online. I hope someone can tell it.
It won't let me update apps because it says I'm out of storage. But I did the math and I have only used 1.879 GB out of 5.000 GB! Please help. I have tried deleting apps and restarting my phone but that didn't work.
Sixteen years into the 21st century I remain baffled that we still have to go out of our way if we want to see a man page rendered in a proportional font (that is, not Courier or similar) with links to other referenced pages
I don't even have a phone number for Aimee. Amy is even marked as a favorite. Whenever I say "Call Amy" then Siri says "I don't have a phone number for Aimee." It was working with iOS 9. iOS 10.1.1, iPhone 5,1.
I got the macOS Sierra update when it went into public beta, and I've been trying to use the automatic Desktop / Documents upload feature with iCloud. I've enabled the feature, however since September 7 no files have been uploaded. By this point, the bottoms of my finder windows say: 15.78 GB available on iCloud, uploading 156,106 items (543.2 MB of 543.2 MB)
If it doesn't work I'll just go ahead and buy new memory, but if this could work (the processor might just tap it's foot waiting around a bit longer for memory access?) I'd rather save the $$. Thanks, Dave
I got a new computer and gave my old one to my wife. Before I had a chance to save some files she deleted my admin account and set up one for herself. How do I get my old files off the computer?
When I bought the iPhone 7 Plus, I also bought a Mophie External Battery Charger, the Powerstation 2, I haven't used yet, so far the iPhone battery lasts long enough for me, but I read on an article that external battery chargers are one of the reasons cellphones' batteries get damaged. Is this true, or it's only with certain chargers?
Internet was working fine on my MacBook Pro until this morning and now suddenly stopped working. I'm able to establish a connection with the Wi-Fi network but I can't access Internet or even ping the router.
Anyone please can help in checking the kernel-panic report? I hope it's not a hardware issue.
A SMS (text) message does not show up on my locked screen for one contact only. What do I do to fix this problem?
Reinstall: At some point, I wanted to make a clean install and booted in recovery mode. Here the internal keyboard and trackpad worked 100% of the time. That is until I erased the drive. Now only external input devices work at all (even in Recovery).
Turning it on is described here but there are no details. There is a vague description:
Do following real time protection apps for Mac harm Mac technologically or spy after the user? AVAST, Avira, Sophos, AVG
I want to use iCloud Drive to sync the Documents folder. When I run out of disk space macOS will free up space by removing old content on my SDD. My question is, will that also remove Spotlight's knowledge (that is the meta data) of these files?
I want to shutdown a few of my Macs remotely via an ssh script. I've got this so far: When I run it though, it says: Any ideas how to solve this issue?
The first thing I did was checking whether the Apache config is broken. But, apachectl configtest printed Syntax OK.
I am using MacBook Air 13" with macOS Sierra. I am facing with this problem for the first time, never had any issues with my MacBook before for almost 3 years.
how can I disable this popup? Please, no tutorials on how to use the optimize tools - or lectures on disk space. ;) Thank you.
As title, I'm trying to install a .sh file but I cannot get it to work. When I run sh or bash autopkginstall.sh I get the following error; Below is the .sh that I'm trying to install.
I wanted to share my root file system and in Server.app I set up / as a share. Unfortunately it wrote ACLs across the system that have caused a lot of various problems. sudo chmod -RN /* has resolved most of the issues, but there are still some permission issues on 10.12.2. sudo /Applications/OnyX.app/Contents/Resources/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume / is still reporting a few folders as still having ACLs that it can't repair with repeated executions, example:
I've got an iMac as my main computer and just bought a MacBook for while I'm travelling or visiting clients. I'm using Dropbox to keep my files in sync. But I've thinking about taking a step further and keep everything in sync, including Application, users preferences (everything in /Library/Preferences, /Users/user/Library/Preferences, /Library/Application Support and /Users/user/Library/Application Support) as well as Applications and everything in the command line (including home-brew install, packages, etc. Please note that I do know how to keep Applications and User Preferences in sync (ln -s /source/dir/ /Users/user/Dropbox/whatevername) but would like to know if its advisable to also sync Applications and command line settings/packages (which I have no idea of how to do it).
What's up with that? Breezy's iPhone? This is the beginning of all my terminal prompts.
We have two designers both using iMacs, running macOS Sierra; each have their own 4TB USB hdd. The designers have to transfer files to each other frequently over AirDrop but this is tedious. What would be the best way to have the drives automatically sync files on both drives?
I wasn't paying attention, and now I have a raid with a name similar to that of the boot partition. I'd like to name rename the raid set to a name that reflects the partition name. E.g. If the file system is mounted as /Users I want to name the raid set User_Raid
On my iPhone 7plus i created an event and selected INVITEES and two names I don't recognized appeared; how do I remove them (and how did they get there) The names do not appear on my contact list.
I use remote socks proxies for occasions when I need an IP from various locations. There is one that I use far more than any others, to the point that I would like a connection to be opened by default when my client machine boots.
I have an older iPad 3 running iOS6 that I no longer use as my main device, and it is now dedicated to specific apps. I no longer take photos or videos on it, so have no need for the Photo Stream feature on this device at all.
I'm using El Capitan, and I went to my Mac to check my calendar (which is sync'ed to iCloud). I needed to check the details of an appointment I had 3 years ago. I went back, opened that month, and I saw all my entries. And then after a second, they vanished. Why did this happen, and how can I stop this from happening? And, can I use Time Machine to retrieve my old Calendar entries?
I've enabled an NFS share using a tool on my MacBook Pro (aptly called NFS Manager), which has worked before. However I'm on a new network and when my mediaplayer is scanning for network drives it will not find the share. Manually entering the IP and folder does not give any results either. How can I check whether the NFS server is running and what is blocking access?
I see the topic has been brought up a few times, but since there does not seem to be a workaround, I am wondering if I can set the hover time to be a longer duration.
I am not receiving notification of new voicemails on my iPhone 4 (model A1349). The voicemails are available and I can listen to them if I check but I receive no notification when a new one arrives. This has been a problem for many months but I've finally missed enough information that I'd like to try to fix it.
I have Dropbox file with two lines of data that I'd like to parse into two variables. The following function should have the right logic but doesn't seem to work:
Is it possible to program the F8 key to run Spotify instead of iTunes?
I have been using the Japanese version of App Store for quite a while but lately I can't update my downloaded apps.  Every time I try to update my apps this message comes up and since I can't read Japanese I have no idea what App Store wants. Can somebody please help me?
I've noticed a black color coat on my Macbook screen. It's a very thin layer coating and whenever I tried to clean the display, I got some carbon black dust sticking to the cleaning cloth. I would like to know whether I can re-coat my screen since the layer has been deteriorating ever since. PS: MacbookPro is 15inch 2013 late December model.
I recently erased my hard drive and installed Sierra from USB flash, to start fresh. Before doing this, I copied the main 3 files of Notes to external drive. These are: NotesV6.storedata, NotesV6storedata-shm, NotesV6storedata-wal I copied them from: com.Apple.Notes>Data>Library>Notes
Since a few weeks I have some strange issues with my 2015 MacBook pro (running the latest Mac OS Sierra): Sometimes after I wake the PC or just start it, my keyboard doesn't respond (and external keyboard does work). SCM- and PRAM-resets don't work. But after starting repair-mode, without actually doing anything or running Diagnostic mode, it works again. The Diagnostic mode does not find any issues, except the recommendation to reset the SCM.
So I have an iPhone 6s for about a year now, and a week ago or so it uncharged (died) at 30% about. Then today it uncharged again at 30%, I tried turning it on right after but it showed me the black screen you get when iPhone uncharges (with the red battery level), in 5 min I tried turning it on again and it successfully turned on showing me 34%, but then died again in a few seconds. What could be the problem and what is the possible solution? Thanks in advance!
My calendar has made copies of all the birthdays of my Facebook friends and has created individual calendar for each of those. I cannot use the Calendar app at all. It takes about 10-15 seconds to load when I click on it. I have tried everything that has been posted on the forums and nothing works.
This must be some basic stuff but I'm unable to figure it out. I've restarted my iPhone, inserted my security code and then when the numpad appeared to insert my SIM pin code, I pressed the home button and now I can't trigger that numpad again to insert my pin code. The only thing I see is Locked SIM in the upper left corner and can't do anything about it. The question: How can I trigger the panel to unlock my SIM card again?
I would like to create a bootable USB flash drive for Leopard. I have a Leopard disc. My mac is running macOS Sierra. I know that you could do this before Disk Utility was redesigned. Is it still possible to do this in Sierra's Disk Utility? In the case it doesn't work, is there a free alternative? Thank you.
Since the update to Mac OS 10.11.6 the security preferences are not working properly. I'm trying to open OpenOffice and, even though I have disabled limitations, it is refusing to open and keeps telling me that the settings need changing.
Recently I've installed iTerm2 and customized key mappings. For example, I wanted Command+Delete to remove the entire line. In order to achieve this I created a new key mapping where Command+Delete maps to Send hex codes: 0x15. Could someone point me to the source where it is explained what sending hex code actually achieves.
When I try to repair the disk I get an error that says "Error (or exit? can't quite remember) code is 8."
When the headphones connect, quality is first good. Then in a few seconds it becomes horrendous. After 5 seconds or so it recovers again. After that it is fine until the next time the connection is made.
Apple stopped supported for VPN networks that still use the not so secure PPTP protocol when they released macOS Sierra and iOS 10 (more info here) In a nutshell this meant that the embedded system clients to connect to VPN in both the iPhone and the Mac don't have an option to connect to these networks anymore. The good news for the Mac is that you can still use clients like Shimo to connect to PPTP VPN.
When listening to my music on random on the Apple TV sometimes a music video pops up that I want to skip. Clicking on the right side of the Siri remote skips forwards a few seconds instead of the skipping the entire video. Is there an easy way to skip the entire video?
Is this something that is allowed as per Apples app guidelines? I've heard rumors that it's not, but wasn't able to find anything regarding this specific scenario. Thanks
My issue is unlocking my Mac with the Apple Watch feature. I've read where turning off the watch and phone will then in turn allow me to unlock my Mac. This works, the problem is, I have to do this every single day. Since enabling this feature, I haven't gone two days in a row without having to restart my watch/phone to be able to use this feature. Once I do this, the feature works great all day. But it's very frustrating to have to do this on a daily basis.
I want to reset and clear the iPad. But I would like to keep the iOS updates.
I want to lock some apps if I've used it for more than a certain amount of time. How do I do that? Or is there a way to do that? For what it's worth, I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.1.
After performing a macOS upgrade ssh asked for my ssh passphrase. I have completely forgotten the passphrase since keychain has been managing it.
I'm trying to solve a real head-scratcher of an issue on an older iMac (model 6,1, a 2006 24" white model) and want to eliminate the firmware as a possible culprit. To that end, I've created a firmware restoration CD (v1.4, which lists this model number as compatible) and I'm following the instructions to use it. With the disc not inserted, I'm holding the power button and waiting for the power LED to flash three times rapidly, three times slowly, and three times rapidly as described, however this is not happening.
I basically want to sign in with a US Apple ID for the App Store and an Indian ID for Apple Music. Is it possible to do that without losing all the music saved using Apple Music? Please let me know
My Safari browser is crashing again and again while I am working , this is the error that It prompts to send to apple overtime it crashes.
I'm trying to copy all files from an SD Card DCIM folder in to a folder in my Documents. What I do step my step (in Finder): Open SD card > Open DCIM folder Press Command + A (select all), then do Command + C (copy) Open another Finder Window, go to Documents, find the folder, do Command + V (paste)
I'm running El Capitan and java -version produces the following: I'm having severe slowdown problems with the h2 database console, so I want to see if going back to Java 1.6 has any effect.
Is it possible for find my friends location to initially identify the correct location and then suddenly shift to an inaccurate location even if that person is still in his initial location? What happened was I was tracking my son on his way to school just to know if he got there safe and after a few minutes, FMF located him exactly where he should be (school), but after checking again, his location changed to a few streets away from where he should be. I tried to find out what that place was and it was a furniture store which is not even open yet. So I'm wondering if it's possible for find my location to give off inaccurate information?
Because the default MacOS mount point for volumes is inside the root volume (i.e., /Volumes/…) find / -iname "hidenseek" searches every mounted volume, not just the root volume. How can I restrict it to just the root volume?
I just finished updating my MacBook Pro but when I try to sign in the loading icon still spinning. It's been 5 hours now I think it will keep on spinning forever. What can I do?
I run a 2008 Mac Pro and an old G5 Power Mac. Would it be possible to hook them together and use the G5 as an external drive mounted on the Mac Pro?
Every time I delete a file or folder from a shared drive Finder prompts me asking if I'm sure I'd like to delete it. How can I stop this prompt from appearing?
I tried loading and starting plist files by hand. Making sure they are in the right location (/Users/user/Library/LaunchAgents) with the right permissions/ownership:
I've never turned on "sync documents and desktop to iCloud" but a friend says she never turned hers on but it's on. When she tries to turn it off, the "are you sure" popup says that it will keep the documents on iCloud but delete them from the Mac. That makes absolutely no sense!
Because I keep creating keywords not in my hierarchy I've taken to keeping the keyword file locked. I keep getting asked about a keyword that I stopped using earlier this evening, consolidating it into another word. I get a dialog box
I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro that suffers from the flawed Nvidia chip. Using gfxCardStatus to force integrate works most of the time, but every once and a while mail.app or a browser content (e.g. FB 360 Videos) will force discrete mode and cause a gpu panic / reboot. I'm looking for a way to disable the discrete graphics so it always uses integrated. I found this and tried to follow most of the steps *=URL=* I had to boot into recovery mode first and use csrutil disable to disable the new system protection in El Capitan in order to move files
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with macOS Sierra. For the installation, I have followed this guide: Installing dual boot Sierra and Kali-Linux but at the end, when I go to part 3 I see only the Mac Hardisk and no other available selection. Someone have any solution?
So I've seen this problem on a number of different mac systems as far back as an older MBP from 2010, and seen on macOS as far back as Mountain Lion. It starts intermittently then starts to happen across all the pre-installed mac OS apps one app at a time....
We have three Macs at home (an iMac, the Mac-Mini and a MacBook Air, all with macOS 10.12.1). Internet and Routing is done via a Fritzbox 7490 (with FRITZ!OS 06.60). The iMac and MacBook Air have no problems connecting (via AFP or SMB) to the Shares on the NAS.
I am using an iPhone 7 on iOS 10.1.1 and I need some help! Every time I get a notification it is empty/blank, only the name of the app is in the title. How can I fix this?
So what can I do? By the way, the terminal command line diskutil cs or corestorage list does not work: Here's the output from the terminal and from the disk utility app.
I need to give Internet access to a VM under Vmware fusion 7 in Host-Only mode. I know how to do it in Linux, with the following IPtables rules:
Recently I have found that there are a network device called LPSS Serial Adapter (1) and LPSS Serial Adapter (2) in my network settings on my 2016 15" MacBook Pro, it has a phone (modem I guess) icon:  I tries to delete it, but it just comes back in a reboot. This doe not appear in any other Macs that I've own. What is it?
When I create a folder it will be placed in an irrelevant position to the existing items in that directory, making a mess, killing all aesthetics, whatsoever. How to make the elements to be listed in a grid or something, like for example in Windows? I want this option to be the default.
Recently I noticed that there are two kinds of transition animation when switching between desktops. Sometimes the background picture slides with the desktop, and sometimes the background keeps still. How can I set which transition animation to use using MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra?
When I ask siri to "delete all alarms" it says "Do you want to delete all alarms?" I tried saying "yes" "confirm", "ok" and tried clicking on the confirm button but siri says "Nothing to confirm" Things I have tried: deleting all alarms reinstalling iOS 10 (complete reformat and restore from iCloud) force quitting the clock app and reopening it rebooting several times set it into silent mode (doesn't seem to change anything) I have some alarms on a schedule, but since then I have deleted those ones and the issues still persist. I noticed that the changelog for iOS 10.2 says that some users were having problems with alarms not ringing, which might have caused my alarms to ring too often. What can I do to fix this?
I recently changed from a 2012 Non-Retina Macbook Pro (15 Inch) to the 2016 Retina model. As soon as I changed , my eyes started to hurt after only few hours of working (1-2) and painful headaches afterwards, this was never the case with the 2012 model, even after 15-16 hours.
I just got the Apple TV 4th Gen and once I've it set up, I cannot change the input to my XBOX. Not through apple remote, the tv remote, or the button on the back of the TV. Please help. My Tv is Samsung UN70KU6300
I've come to accept that there's no way to turn off Notification Center, but I'd at least like it to not disturb me. You can schedule a Do Not Disturb time, but there doesn't seem to be any way to make it 24 hours a day. If I make it 0:00 to 0:00, it's never on. If I make it 0:00 to 23:59, it floods me with notifications at the tick of midnight. Unfortunately, on the Mac, Do Not Disturb turns off automatically at midnight. Is there any way to permanently enable DND?
For a long time I had only one email account in my Mail.app and had all my sections (inbox, sent, junk, trash, ...) nicely organised in the Mailboxes sidebar. But recently I added another account and now I've all my accounts separated by section instead of by email. Is there a way to have it like: instead of: I understand why apple did this, to have a practical way of viewing all my emails inbox at once but I don't need it and always check my accounts separately.
I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any setting or installed anything other than software updates, but today I've started getting this dialog when I clicked a magnet link:  How do I get rid of this dialog? I've clicked okay once, but then I've clicked another magnet link and got the same dialog again. Why did it suddenly start and how do I get rid of Safari constantly asking about it? I'm on macOS 10.12.2/Safari 10.0.2
So I've been using iOS mail to support the use of my smime email certificate from a valid root CA. One of the things I like to do is cc or bcc myself to keep a copy in my inbox for quick reference while it's relavent. The issue is that if I encrypt it to send to another email I can't copy myself on it, Mail says there's an error and won't (can't) encrypt it. In the attached image the TO email is a valid certificate, installed on the phone, which I can send encrypted email to, and the CC email is the email I'm sending this message from which also has a valid certificate installed on the phone. Has anyone seen this or know of a solution?
Does anyone know how to copy your Stickies between computers when the target computer is running macOS Sierra? Articles I've seen say you only need to copy the file ~/Library/StickiesDatabase from your old computer to your new one but I did that but my Stickies aren't appearing on the new computer, even after I restart it.
I lost my iPhone 6s and got new iPhone 6s. I restored my iPhone from iTunes backup. All data appeared but a note which is very important to me disappeared. I saw all notes for few seconds and then they disappeared. How can I recover my notes from the backup or bring back the disappeared note?
I want to be sure that the USB stick at 'usbMountPoint' is also the one with the matching 'usbSerialNumber' When validating to check if usbMountPoint and usbSerialNumber exist in system_profiler, the code should check if the USB device at 'usbMountPoint' has the serial number of 'usbSerialNumber'. Without this "matching/pairing", the user could simply have two USBs connected - one with the right serial number, the other with the script; while the code will return "Found" becuase 'contains' reads the entire system_profiler without validating that both variables come from the same device.
Has anybody figured out yet how to use an external webcam which is connected to a MacBook inside a Docker container? I read that I have to pass this flag --device /dev/video0 to docker run, but I have a MacBook and there is no /dev/video0. Host Machine: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) External Webcam: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Docker container: wusuopu/python-opencv3-dlib:py3.5 PS: I do not have an iSight camera anymore, I took it out.
The articles I've read regarding this aren't very clarifying. Does an iTunes restore restore the firmware? At the end of the iTunes restore (not DFU), I can see "restoring iPhone firmware", but I had a chat with Apple through GSX and the technician told me that this is just "a misnomer", the firmware is only restored in DFU mode.
Apple's Airpods promise seamless connectivity to iPhones and Macs through intelligent sensors. At work I use my existing Apple Earpods for Skype business conference calls - as they provide a mic and earphones that are simpler and more compatible than other USB based headgear. (They integrate with the earphone/mic combo jack port.)
Can I use a copy of OS X Yosemite installer to install Yosemite on a Mac owned by someone else who obviously has a different Apple ID?
What if App name I have chosen is available only for English U.K. but not for English U.S? When someone will search from US will not able to see that specific name? I guess U.S. market is bigger, should I take app name always in U.S.?
Mac mini Server Mid 2011 Processor: 2GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB Software: Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) I go in at itunes.apple.com/se/app/macos-sierra/id... and select "View in Mac App Store". In app store I then select "Download" (my password is entered if not already signed in) after that simply nothing happens.
How can I watch the videos I recorded on my iPhone without first transferring them to my drive, so that I can Shazam the music in them? I have no free disk space and iFunbox is not a great file explorer. To my knowledge, Shazam does not have a desktop version. What software will let me watch the videos on my iPhone without resorting to the unusable Photos or Image Capture apps?
I want to capture screen of my iPhone (video call). When i use quicktime, i get this horrible echo, so i can't listen to the call and record it simultaneously. Is there any way to overcome this echo?
I have several users on my MacBook but have FileVault setup with only one uses, lets say it is called 'admin'. So when the MacBook goes into standby mode (hibernate) and the FileVault password is requested, the only user who can unlock it is 'admin'.
I'm not really sure how, but after I woke up today, my phone was just displaying the loading spinner and doesn't start up anymore. It's weird because my phone turned off last night and suspecting that it was probably out of charge, I thought charging it overnight would fix the problem.
I was given a Mac with that had an administrator account and an account for myself (with full admin rights). Using the migration assistant, I copied everything from my old computer, however it ended up creating a new account, so I therefore deleted the new account. I had no issues until restarting the new computer; it now no longer presents me with the new user, only the administrator account (which I don't have access to).
In console app I can see only couple system.log.${i}.gz archived log files that can only show me info about last 10-15 days. How to keep all logs archived somewhere, forever ?
On a new iPhone 7, when I unlocked the screen it suggested I should add cards to my Wallet. Can I turn off this kind of suggestions? It feels like ads.
I have an RSS feed that is updated multiple times a day. I want to get near realtime push notifications on an iPhone when there is an update to the feed.
Skype For Business 16.2.145 automatically starts and sign's in when my machine starts. The usual solutions for Skype don't work for Skype for Business. I cannot change this setting in the dock or in the app's preferences. How do I change this setting?
Why is there a headphone icon next to the battery % on my iPhone display and how do I remove it ? I haven't seen that there before
How to share Wifi connection from iphone to mac? I would like to know if an Iphone can share its Wi-Fi internet connection over its USB connection.(IE Use the phone as a wifi card for a mac)
The Finder seems to remember the width and height of window that last time I open that particular folder and set such. In other words, if I opened a folder and make the window really wide, the next time (after closing it) I open that folder, the window is still very wide. This remains true even if I restarted computer, and even if I delete the .DS_store inside the root of that folder.
I'm currently operating on a late 2013 MacBook Pro and am eager to buying a wireless keyboard for my setup. I was looking at the Logitech MK345, which is a bluetooth mouse-keyboard combo, and thought it was quite what I needed. Although, it didn't really say anywhere that it worked with Mac. I tried looking for answers to see if non-mac keyboards function properly with OS X and only saw answers for wired ones.
I recently updated my MacBook Air to macOS 10.12.2 and there are these two programs, DuetHeuristic-BM and nsurlsessiond which have been hogging CPU and memory continuously:  This heats up the machine and has significantly reduced the battery life. I went through the logs in Console and the most common logs that I see for these processes are as follows:- DuetHeuristic-BM :[ ] sumScores:38.410000, denominator:42.410000, FinalDecision: Must Not Proceed FinalScore: 0.000000} and nsurlsessiond HTTP load failed (error code: -1001 [4:-2104]) NSURLSessionTask finished with error - code: -1001 Task 281 for client will be retried after error - code: -1001 etc.
My Android USB C phone (Google Pixel) is not recognised by 2016 MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and Multiport driver installed) as long as no adapter is plugged in at the same time. It is working when the phone is plugged into the adapter using a Standard USB A to USB C cable
My next phone was Android, and I started to subscribe Apple Music then. However, I'm not sure whether these albums were okay at that time, because I immediately switched to iPhone 7 again. My first observation of the phenomenon was experienced at that time. iTunes on my two Macs have no problem with these albums (which I can't play/download on my iPhone). iTunes on my two Macs have no problem with these albums (which I can't play/download on my iPhone).
I'm still pretty new to the Apple world so please bare with me. I have an iMac (early 2009) with El Capitan loaded -- 10.11.6. Immediately upon start up, without starting a single program, something in the system starts producing wifi traffic. A lot of it. A program I got from the App Store called Bandwidth+ indicates the rate is between 400 to 500 kbps. Its eating up the bandwidth to the point its preventing others on the same wifi network from accessing the Internet. I haven't found any kind of Process Manager in the System Preferences. Is there a way to detect the process that is causing the traffic, something that might be running in the background, so I can terminate it?
I was very confused when I saw this notification. I've been asking my mom to get me an Apple Watch and I'm not sure if she is trying to surprise me.
The sound effects for screenshots can be really annoying and loud at certain times. How can I turn this off? It makes the noise even when my volume is all the way down?
but now I am unsure how to actually open them and view the content. "Open With" Notes app does not seem to work
From time to time I end-up having to connect to a machine that was not configured to use DHCP. Assuming that I know the static IP address of that machine and that this machine is already physically connected on my network, how do I add a custom route on MacOS in order to be able to ssh to that machine and reconfigure it? I assume it is something like sudo route add ...
I'm new to using the Mac. I'm a photographer, use a MacBook and recently purchased a Mac monitor (discontinued, bought it second-hand) to connect to my MacBook as a second monitor for my photo editing, lightroom, photoshop etc. On this site I learned how to adjust brightness on the second monitor (Control + F1, F2) but I need to know how to match all monitor settings in the two monitors, such as contrast, colour saturation and so on.
I am trying to open files on Time Capsule (not backups) but files will not open in Finder. I'm receiving error -36. When I copy files to my MacBook Pro, files opened without any problems. Quick Look works fine on Time Capsule. Can anyone please help?
I am using a Macbook pro (Sierra 10.12.1), under a non-admin account and I do not have the admin password. I was wondering how much of my data (passwords, files, etc) is accessible by the admin?
I'm trying to open the Backups.backupdb folder and when I try to open the sparse bundle I get the following error message. The application "DiskImageMounter.app" can't be opened. -36 Can anyone help?
I know some devices have two WiFi MACs (one for 2.4GHz and one for 5GHz). In some network monitoring like Fing.app my iPhone is displayed twice with the same IP but totally different MAC. PS: but "both" devices have a different bonjour name. Any more info on this?
I cannot get my Map app on Mac OS X Yosemite to navigate a different country. For example, if I search for "Osaka, Japan", it kept finding me the nearly Japanese restaurant named Osaka... How to get around this?
I have an image of screw heads (source) that I would like to print in its original size onto a sheet of (8.5 by 11 inches letter) paper. Opening the JPG in Preview, clicking File → Print, and then setting the "Scale" value to "100%" definitely does not accomplish this. In my case, it blows the image up so large that the picture doesn't even fit on one page. Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac?
I used to be able to unlock my MBP by simply using my fingerprint on the touch bar, but after updating to MacOS 10.12.2 using Touch ID is no longer an option. It used to have the indication text on the right side of the touch bar, but now it doesn't. I have to use my password to unlock/login.
This message appears when I log on to my machine. It doesn't tell me what change it wants to make, so I deny it access to my system. Does anyone know what change it is trying to make?
Have a Smart Playlist "ALL" made of multiple simple playlists ; that was created with iTunes on a Mac. All the music comes from CDs and is locally on the Mac, and on iPhone (via sync). After a Sync, on the iPhone (6+, latest iOS 10) the Smart Playlist "ALL" appears in Music that I'd like to play, but there's just a menu (in "Downloaded Music") Download Remove Add to Playlist (what is that?)
I recently purchased some Staples USB 2.0 27987 8GB flash drives to create some bootable OS X installers. I have found them to be unreliable. The problem:
I am trying to install iTerm2 terminal emulator on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 using Homebrew. I tried to download iTerm2 from its main site. However, the page is taking too long to respond. So, after searching the internet for alternates, I found and ran this command : brew cask install iterm2 I am new to MacOS and would appreciate if someone can help me out with this. Here is the traceback:
I'm remotely shutting down a bunch of Macs by using ssh to execute the shutdown command on each of them. I've asked the question before (Shutdown "no tty present and no askpass program specified"?) and got it working by adding ADMIN ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now to the sudoers files as recommended. In the meantime two of the remote Macs got upgraded to Sierra and I again get even though the line in the sudoers file is still there. What do I need to change to make this work with Sierra?
MacOS Sierra running the Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8.0.36 application connecting to various different MS Windows servers. Was working fine, but following the Sierra update 10.12.2 the drives are not mapping, regardless of the target OS. Current workaround is to use remote desktop in a VM, but this is really inconvenient. Edit: Feb 2017
Since the last update, iTunes is unusable for me on my iMac, because with every song change it shows a "Could not connect to the iTunes Store" error message. My network at work does not allow access to the iTunes store, but that is ok. I just want to listen to my local music connection there. I have disabled the iTunes Store in the parental settings completely, but still, the error pops up with each and every song change. Any idea how to prevent iTunes from showing this popup?
Would I be able to get a Philips Hue system on a guest network somehow? This answer leads me to believe I won't be able to connect it with ethernet, but is there a way to connect it wirelessly? My network setup is pretty straightforward: Cable modem Apple AirPort Extreme, creating a main and guest network Main network Apple AirPort Express to extend network Guest network Philips Hue? Main network Apple AirPort Express to extend network Apple AirPort Express to extend network Guest network Philips Hue? Philips Hue?
I have a 40GB Photos library on my 2010 13" Macbook Pro, which is running macOS Sierra Public Beta. I just purchased a new 2016 13" TB Macbook Pro, which is running a stable release of macOS Sierra (10.12.2).
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with OS X 10.11.5. Internet connection works only for Chrome. Safari and several terminal apps cannot connect to internet due to resolve host failure.
I have a task to create a way of monitoring a folder and files running on a MacOS 10.11 machine. Basically what I want to accomplish is each time a new file is added to the folder send a notification to a monitoring URL and if after 30 minutes no files are added it will trigger an alert. I am new to Mac OS programming but I have been tasked with this project and just looking for some suggestions on how to accomplish this
Does Forced Shutdown, pushing power button until Mac shuts down, damage hard drive? Or operation system? Can it cause damage to Mac's security so it will get weaker towards malicious things? And if I run Disk Utility after forced shutdown, will it find any potential damage? I've had it happen few times, but no underlying continuous problems, just want to know what could happen.
Is it possible to cancel file dragging on a Mac? I've noticed that with the escape key, you can cancel file dragging within the Finder, but if you're dragging the file onto another application you can't cancel it (which in my opinion seems very annoying when you really just want to cancel the file dragging). Is there any way to cancel the file dragging in such circumstances?
I am currently in the process of recovering information from a damaged hard drive on a Late-2009 iMac. I am using LazeSoft Data Recovery for the recovery process. Thus far it has worked quite well and I have recovered many of my pictures.
Apologies if this has already been covered. I am looking for a script example that will help install Office 2016 for Mac from a local file share. I will use an MDM tool to assist with the running of the script. Many Thanks
I don't remember if I was using android or the gmail app, but I was able to swipe to move to the next or previous mail (in any of the mail apps). I am now using an iPhone, so how can I achieve this? is it configurable? another mail app?
I have heard about an abandonware program called Doubletalk by Connectix that is supposed to allow my old G4 running 9.2.2 talk to OSX Macs and Windows PCs by giving it the ability to do so by installing an SMB client. I downloaded the program, no problem. I installed the app as well as its update, and I can see some other computers in the Chooser window, but I have been unable to access any of them. Every time I try, I get some kind of an error, whether it's "No response from the server, Please try again", or "guest access is not allowed" (when it is), or it seems to be accessing, but the shared file doesn't show up on the desktop. I am stuck using a combination of legacy Macs, iMacs, and PCs on my network. I don't have a choice. I would sure appreciate any insight anyone can offer.
This is so frustrating, I cant copy videos from photos to imovie by drag dropping and if I click on import media I can't select anything site the photos library, I really miss windows without apples hand holding. If I copy paste the video I get a 4s pic in the timeline, so sad!!
I'm working with 2 different Mac systems: 10.1 and 10.6.8. I've installed Dropbox since 1 year. When I was working with Mac number one, the Dropbox of my computer number 2 was updated. But this morning, it's suddenly impossible to open Dropbox on the Snow Leopard Mac. I have nothing changed… This is the error window:
How can I stop Network Settings from being able to change without my permission? Couldn't find anything under "Security" in Settings. OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) Changes (broke Internet): Settings -> Network -> Advanced TCP/IP -> Configure IPv6: "Link-local only" (vs. "Automatically")
I'm trying to extract all my photos/videos from Photos to keep a backup independent of a specific app/service. How do I export ALL (even in no albums) photos/video from Mac Photos in a \YYYY\MM-DD-album_name_if_exists\filename.jpg/mp4/mov format? I suspect I might need some AppleScript here especially to extract the date or album name info.
Is it possible to mount a network drive to my Mac server on boot, without requiring a login? I have one setup to mount on login via an automator script that I have added to the login items for the user account, which works fine. The reason is I don't want to have to login to the Mac server, just to mount the network drive.
I'm thinking about buying a new monitor for my old 13" Macbook Pro, primarily because I've been doing programming work on it and the laptop's display is often too small and seems crowded. I found this monitor on Amazon.com and liked it a lot, but I don't know how compatible my Macbook Pro will be with the monitor. One of my primary concerns is if the monitor will have black rectangles on the edges because the aspect ratio doesn't fit or something. Does anyone know if they are compatible or how this configuration would work out?
I was hoping that I could use the Mac mini as a bridge for all local traffic. That way broadcasts etc. can still come through. But I want any internet traffic from/to Apple TV to go through a VPN that is setup on the Mac mini. Question 1: Do you think that's the best way to achieve my goal? Question 2: If so - how do you set it up?
The fans on my 2009 Mac Pro are running at full speed after upgrading the CPU tray to the tray from a 2012 12 core. Temperature monitor reports that the CPU temperatures are steady 32° and 34°c, and all other temperatures are within that range, and other than the howling noise my Mac Pro is running perfectly normally. The firmware has been upgraded as per this site *=URL=* and the OS is Sierra. I've currently dropped back to the factory fitted 2.66GHz quad, albeit with the same firmware, and all is quiet and peaceful again.
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I have looked and do not find anything matching close enough to my situation. I have also already contacted Apple Support so I am looking for options. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. So far the two that are suggested as duplicates are not quite. The suggested duplicates kind of answered my first question, but still wondering if anyone knows the answer to the second one. Let me describe my situation and then I will ask my questions.
I don't ever want to be switched between spaces except when I request it explicitly. In Yosemite, this could be solved by: disabling "Group windows by application" in Preferences -> Mission Control typing defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO in the terminal. Together, these prevented all involuntary Space changes. However, these measures don't seem to work in Sierra.
I have a Facebook friend who is stating my posts appear huge to her. I use a pc and had thought she had one too. So with little known I told her how to make the text she was seeing smaller by using the Control and - keys. She said it didn't work.
I was wondering if there was any software to make my Macbook compatible with my external monitor. I've got a HDMI to DisplayPort adaptor connected to an HMDI cable coming from my mac, but the mac is not detecting the monitor. The other issue: I am in South America, so other types of connectors would be difficult to come by.
When doing a "Find" (on page) within Mac Safari, the highlighted text is initially scrambled (jumbled or garbled).  Is anyone aware of a solution? I'm using 10.0.2 and macOS 10.12.2.
For about a year or so, my iPhone 6+ and 6S+ could be commanded to tether to my MacBook Pro by simply selecting it from the special devices list under the Wifi menu. In the past few months, this has stopped working.
I want to transfer my Notes app notes from one Macbook Pro (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) to another (macOS Sierra 10.12.1). I've been able to transfer notes just fine from Yosemite to Yosemite before by simply airdropping my NotesV4.storedata, NotesV4.storedata-shm and NotesV4.storedata-wal files in /Users/myuser/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes to my other Mac.
I need to travel to a country that blocks port 25 (SMTP) and 993 (IMAP) country-wide. The stock mail.app does not allow me to specify multiple ports for both SMTP and IMAP. Changing the port values back and forth for up to 10 email accounts is very tedious… Does anybody know if there's a third party mail app client that allows me to specify, say, "25, 1225" and "993,9993"?
On my mac, trying to set up new Seagate Expansion Portable Drive. I get to the Disk utility, but the partition option is greyed out.
I'm running dnsmasq on a 2016 MBP running Mac OS Sierra (10.12.1) but I'm unable to ping any .dev addresses despite having what I believe is the proper config. Running dig does return sane output. /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/resolver/dev /usr/local/etc/resolv-dnsmasq.conf My DNS server list in System Preferences has only one entry pointing to 127.0.0.1. When I run dig on a .dev address I get the following output: I'm able to load external sites like google.com perfectly but if I try accessing a local web server or even pinging a .dev address it fails. Help would be appreciated!
For the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (and also the old tiny MacBook) that uses USB-C charging - is there something like a "status light" to see if your MacBook is charging (or full) without turning the screen on?
I have installed new version of npm in the custom directory .npm-global/bin and removed it from /usr/local/bin. The new path is declared: and the new npm is found with which: However, it still attempts to run from the old path and fails: Any idea what is wrong here?
I have a MacBook Air (A1466). I do not know the password for the screen lock. It has been set on Japanese (I only know English).
I'm trying to upgrade the RAM of my MAC Mini. Other questions I have found don't show which RAM is appropriate to use. What RAM should I use? I'm looking for all the specifics: type voltage clock speed ECC/Non-ECC
Some of my users may need a number when they are trying to make a conference call with their clients. So every time the users require for a conference call number via emails, I'll reply back with a number.
in macOS X the process configd log some information about ipv4 changes and dos changes to the Console application, all I wanted to know is where this logs are, there aren't on system.log. An example:
Recently I was using a VPN (provided by Avast) to secure my connection whilst traveling. Right now I am not using it as I am back in my office. But using it seems to have caused an issue with the auto time clock on my computer (see attached screenshot) any ideas how to resolve this?
My reading of the Numbers.app function reference failed and I doesn't find any function for such operation. Is it possible somehow? EDIT At the *=URL=* I found some applescript, but haven't idea how to use it... :(
I'd like to run a script on startup of Outlook 2016, so it runs as one of the first actions once Outlook is open. One example of this would be to automatically switch to a certain view on every start, something that isn't possible using Outlook's preferences.
I've seen how /etc/resolver/domainname works - but I'd like to know how to use scutil to do the same thing. I've found results that look right ( scutil list State:/Network/Service/[^/]+/DNS ) But how do you use scutil to actually set that DomainName specific resolver?
Well, basically the problem is that Quicktime and keynote are not reproducing some AVI files. The first thing I noted was that some AVI files didn't had a screenshot of the video in the thumbnail. After this, when trying to reproduce the video, a blackscreen appeared in quicktime. But, as you can notice in the screenshot, the time bar and the time stamp were "moving" (the video is being played, but a black screen in shown):
Since upgrading to Sierra, every reboot OSX asks me to set up Siri then says "setting up mac". How do I stop this? It seems to be blowing away my KeyRepeat settings in NSGlobalDomain
I've been hearing this unfamiliar "alert" sound – kind of like a badly played guitar string slapping against the frets. After the sound occurs I don't see any new badges or any other indications that something happened… I've been though all of the stock sounds in System Preferences > Sounds > Sound Effects and while Basso sounds close (hard to say for sure since I can't make the sound happen on demand) I don't think it is the one. So the question, in three parts: Is there any way to identify the source of alerts?
I have ITunes on both my work computer and my Mac at home and my IPhone. I am retiring and want to know if I can delete my ITunes off my work computer and not affect my Home Mac and my IPhone. I have heard if I delete a song on my work computer it will come off of all my devices. Is this true and if so is there a way around this?
Can someone explain to me why the Memory Clean (paid version) app reports memory usage in +- 3GB fluctuations than what htop/top tell me? Which one is more accurate?
Recently I updated my MacBook from Mavericks to Sierra and everything is going well… except the sync of my notes. I don't want to use iCloud sync because I don't want my notes on a foreign server. Yes, I am aware, that the new features are not supported by IMAP but I don't use them. I just use unformatted text. What I have tried so far: disabling the account, reboot, an re-enabling it -> didn't work deleting ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes -> didn't work following the description here: How to Sync Notes El Capitan to iOS 9 via IMAP -> didn't work searching the internet -> no further hints How can I get this sync back to work?
The TV app is cluttering the screen with old deleted movies. When I go to my account on the macbook, I can't find any of the movies to delete them again. How do I delete these movies?
But by doing so, you lose out on the ability to use the Opt/Alt key for its other, much more common uses, as you now cannot type any of the characters needing Alt. In Norwegian layouts you need Alt to type square brackets, tilde and backtics, which is a pretty essential thing for most programmers ...
I just bought the iPhone 7 plus and of course the first thing i tried was to take some pictures with the new dual camera. I was then wondering how the transition between the two cameras works since while zooming it looks as smooth as the standard digital zooming on any other phone.
I'm organising my iTunes media in two folder myself /Volumes/Data/Music and /Volumes/Data/OtherMusic. My 2nd hard-drive port (yes, the port, not the HDD itself) died so I copied all music to Volumes/System/Users/Me/Music/Music and Volumes/System/Users/Me/Music/OtherMusic How do I change all tracks in the library to be connected to the new location WITHOUT consolidating all files loosing playlists changing the folder structure if I have to tinker with bash and RegEx that is fine too.
My iPhone 4 keeps coming up with the message accessory not supported and stops charging. When I connect it to my dock it happens all the time but when I connect it to the charger it rarely says it. Is something broken
I have tried a number of clients every now and then over the past 5, 6 years, Apple Mail, MS Outlook, Inky, Sparrow, Unibox, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc. Thunderbird had a function whose description is the most similar - you can set synchronisation to days weeks or months but it didn't work or maybe I misunderstood that function. Are there email clients that can behave kinda like the mail apps on iOS/ Android, so they only download a fixed amount of recent emails?
for years I have been using the Contacts app to track addresses. I use Gmail as my main address book so it seems to either copy the Google user avatar to the contact card, or if a matching Facebook user is found, it will sync their profile picture. What I am wondering is where does iMessage get its user avatars from? They are definitely different from what is in my contacts, especially since many of my contacts lack them but for other iMessage users out there (presumably with iPhones) a different use avatar is shown. I presume that is the avatar that they are using on their iPhone or possibly with iCloud. That's all well and good, but is there a way to get the Contacts app to use those images for syncing and to have them overrule either the Google or Facebook avatars?
kill -9 will cause it to reopen with another pid. I keep hard killing it, and it keeps jumping to a new process. What is this?
I am trying to solve this problem on my Macbook Pro 2012, running Sierra 10.12.1. I've run First Aid from Recovery and did not find any corruption, everything was fine. I've run it again from my OS and I still get the problem as follow: Anyone had the same issue?
I am asked to update my OS to version 10.12, but I already have updated to 10.12.2 manually. So, how can I remove remove or mark as unneeded this update in the Managed Software Center?
My mid 2011 Mac Mini will not connect to the internet properly. I believe it is running Mountain Lion OS. Occasionally it works very slowly, but is more consistent with not connecting at all, even though the wifi signal appears to be connected.
I'm trying to get my El Capitan's (10.11.6) DNS cache to flush, to try and solve slow localhost domain name resolution, but nothing I do has any effect. My computer name, hostname and hard disk names used to be as follows: (I didn't choose to put the "-2" at the end of the hostname; that's what the Mac had in the Sharing preference pane.) I tried editing the etc/hosts file as follows: but even after a restart the resolution was still as slow as ever.
I recently got a macbook pro with the intention of dual booting Windows 7 so that I can play some old games I still have that don't run on anything more recent, and generally access my Steam library. I was frustrated to find that Bootcamp would not allow me to use Windows 7, despite the fact that my laptop is compatible, and therefore set out to create a bootable USB on my own.
After seeing this question regarding the serverperfmode nvram boot-arg, I thought I would check my server to see its status: Is this a normal response (i.e., if no boot-args have been set), or is something out of whack with my server. Apple's support page doesn't mention the error.
I made sure his OS was up to date (Currently 10.12.12 as of today) on the iMac as well. The Windows laptop doesn't ever use the Epson printer, but I could test using it if it would assist in troubleshooting.
12 days ago I was working on my MacPro when it made an audible 'pop' and shut down. Pressing the start button resulted in fan noise but no startup chime. After looking online I suspected the Power Supply Unit. I managed to find a replacement PSU (took weeks) but I've just installed it and it hasn't worked the oracle.
EDIT: Please don't just downvote. Ask me a question if you don't understand. I know the title doesn't ask a question, but I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO ASK THIS....
I tried right clicking the updates to see if it would show me a "hide" or "ignore" option without any luck. My OCD is not pleased. I don't want to see a number on my pretty App Store icon :p
I just upgraded to Xcode 8.2.1 and Xcode crashes every time I open my project with the following traceback. I verified that an older version of Xcode (8.1) can still open the project file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Does anybody know what methods Apple iPhone devices use for 3 button detection? Is there somewhere a publish specification released?
I have my messages synced with my iPad Mini and computer, but I've had the computer longer and I want to copy my message history from my computer over to my iPad. What's the easiest way to do this?
Currently when re-launching iTerm2 I'll get my window setup back, but they all share a common history. I.e. whatever is in ~/.bash_history. Can I get it to restore my sessions with the actual session history for each individual window instead?
How can I find the apple id associated with an application that purchased from Mac App Store? Earlier we could have find this information from .plist file that placed inside the app bundle. Now I am not able to find this piece of information there. Does macOS save apple id - application pair some where in any other form? I am using macOS Sierra v10.12.2 (16C67).
If you restore an iPhone 6 with iTunes, iTunes will first download the iOS image and then it will restore the iPhone. I wonder if this same iOS image will be good for a different iPhone model, such as an iPhone 5 or would it need to download a specific image for iPhone 5?.
I'm running El Capitan / Mac OSX 10.11.6 (15G1108) and I want to increase the "Max Open files" for some of my terminals / bash sessions. I'm logged in with my normal users. I read through all the guides I could find and managed to increase some limits: As my user: But, when I try to set the limit, I fail: The strange thing is that I actually can set the ulimit if I switch to root:
If I go to an application and open a file, such as using Cmd-O, is there some way to enter a URL, so that I can open a file directly from the web? For example, in a graphics application, I would like to open an image file directly from the URL without having first to save it from the browser. I know I can point to a local path using Cmd-G.
First of all, are there authorized attacks? I'm a beginner iOS developer and I just started reading the Apple's security guide and almost chocked on my sandwich. Does this not imply that my app's data (or my personal data for that matter) can be accessed with these "authorized attacks"?
The charging cable on the 2016 MacBook Pro is USB-C both ways, allowing me to plug the MacBook into itself. What happens if I do this?
But I also need to be able to perform keyboard input on the stuck Mac. What are my options for this?
I have mounted an SMB share and I want to disconnect, but CMD-E just dims the share disk symbol on the desktop but never completes. System log says:
When we transported a CMS filesystem and mysql dump via rsync from one Linux server to another Linux server, we used a MacOS in the middle to store the data temporarily. After the CMS was up on the other Linux server, all static image files where available. But all filenames with German umlauts where not to be found by the CMS, although they where visible and accessible. We quickly found out, that exactly this happens: When I create a filename with German umlauts on Linux like this: And then go to a Mac and issue there an rsync to copy the directory to my Mac... And then copy it back from my Mac to Linux: Then I have really a problem on my Linux, because the filename is kind of broken.
I have a Dell S2316H monitor which I connect to my MacBook Pro (early 2015) using the built in HDMI port. The fonts are looking very blurry on the external monitor.
I just wiped my 500GB disk on my Mac Mini (2011 model) to freshly reinstall macOS Sierra. I restarted the system, pressed CMD+R to get into recovery mode and went into disk utility.
My 2008 iMac/10.10.5 has recently refused to sleep... either automatically or with a menu command. The internal HD failed some time ago, since which it's been running fine on an external usb hd.
Tried installing printer driver software. There was some message, that might have been about "software for the printer was installed incorrectly", then asked if I want to repair the thing, I agreed and it started repairing permissions. In the end it still didn't properly work.
Every time I type in a quote mark ("), the "smart" Chinese input method would automatically convert it to “ or ” for me. But compilers and interpreters don't know what “” mean, they can only recognize ". How can I disable this conversion?
I own a new MacBook Pro and I've been using it without a mouse since I brought it out of the box. I tried to use the wireless mouse (not Bluetooth, connected to the laptop using a receiver plugged in a USB port) I used on my old laptop. However, it felt different. It was somehow slower. The cursor didn't move as fast as the cursor moves in Windows. Is it really like this?
I connect to the Internet with my Time Capsule's Wi-Fi, and it works perfectly. I also have been backing up to the same Time Capsule with Time Machine. But now, after about 18 months, Time Machine complains that it can not find the backup drive. I checked AirPort Utility, and there I just see the "Internet" sphere and the green dot letting me know I'm connected successfully. The Time Capsule neither shows up nor can it be discovered.
When I used Alfred's Lock command my mac locks and shows a screen with a password prompt. I want to know if I can do this on machines that don't have Alfred installed. Is there a way to do by perhaps creating an automator service?
Is there a way to clear the favicon/apple-touch-icon cache for mobile Safari? The "delete all website data" button in settings doesn't do it.
The caps lock key in my MacBook Pro (mid 2015, running MacOS Sierra 10.12) is not working. When I press it, the led doesn't turn on and it has no effect. However, if I logout from my account and go back to the login screen, then it works normally, which means it is some user preference setting. (by working normally I mean the led turns on and the sign of caps lock turned on appears in the password field)
I have a Microsoft Surface Ergonomic keyboard and a 2016 touchbar MBP running macOS 10.12 (Sierra). The keyboard is connected to the MBP (I can type) but it doesn't show up in keyboard preferences (so I can't remap keys).
I'm trying to figure out how I can automate a repeating key press within a specific application on automator. Essentially, I want it to run in the background while I'm free to do anything else on my computer. I'm new to this, so I don't know if it (or anything for that matter) can do what I'm describing
While using a brand new MacBook Pro, with Touch Bar, somehow the Dock got locked. I didn't do anything that I know of. Nothing moves at all, in or out. I'm trying to remove and add items, apps, and nothing takes.
So I want to know what indexing really does, from my understanding it keeps tabs on where all your documents are at. I use spotlight all the time to look for different files or to open programs, and I still want to be able to do this. However, I have a feeling that indexing is killing my SSD. If I decide to turn it off, what is that going to do for the stability of appfeatures and the OS?
So I am installing a new 1tb hard drive in my late 08 uni. This is a fresh install of both the hd and OS - I'll port any files I need at a later date. I'm running El Capitan on my current hard drive. I need to create a bootable installer to first load onto the new hd so I can then install the OS.
I found it once and not again, but there is a way to kill that horrible chime when you plug in the mbp. (It reset itself upon a reboot, but it's the best I could do.) Now I can't find that language. I'm not talking about the boot up chime, but rather that stupid cell phone charge plug in noise.
In a MacBook Pro, is the counter for charge cycles in the battery or in the motherboard? (I'm thinking it should be in the battery, but I've taken apart a MacBook Air, and those batteries don't appear to have any place to put a counter.)
I have no clue what is going on and I have never seen such an error before. If someone could help me out, that would be great. I don't want this machine to turn into an expensive paperweight.
I have a Logitech VX Nano and a MBP running Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2555). The problem isn't that mouse scrolling is choppy or slow, the problem is anything but a rapid 20%+ turn of the scroll wheel is completely ignored. I'm also able to turn the scroll wheel as far as possible very slowly and not have any scrolling occur. When using this mouse on other OSes, the slightest scroll wheel turn will result in a proportional scroll on the screen.
Is it possible to use the Touch ID fingerprint reader to unlock my SSH key? I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and I have a traditional text passphrase for my SSH key right now. I have noticed that I don't get a system dialog asking for my passphrase on 10.12, so this probably isn't a thing, but if I could do it, it would be AMAZING.
Firefox Preferences still permits explicit specification of Applications. When I checked this, I got the following: http://dsh.re/4893b
I have a wireless USB drive that I sometimes need to connect to, but most of the time it is disabled. When I turn it on and try to connect my iPhone to it, it won't even show up in the list of available networks because my neighborhood has so many (dozens) access points! iOS seems to list a maximum of 6 at any one time.
I want to create an AppleScript app with this perfectly working (bash) command: but I get errors with the variable "$f". How can I launch it through AppleScript?
I cannot figure out how to sync movies that I have bought on iTunes onto my iPad. The first problem is that one of the two movies I bought does not even show up in the screen and the other gives a message that the movie is "not authorized" for this device. Below I have included screen shots.
I stupidly used my terminal to create a symbolic link typing this: And now I need to delete it. I tried but when I authenticate it tells me: and even if I type y and press enter it tells me: Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I have this mystery Acmen5030 (PC) appearing on the shared computers section on my mac's side bar. I am just worried that someone might have access to my files. I have checked the sharing options but everything is unchecked, how do I remove this mystery computer from my shared computer section?
Does anyone know what can be causing my 2008 iMac 24-inch to shut down unexpectedly? I can only use it for a short moment, perhaps 20-30 minutes and it shuts down and the screen turns dark gray? It seems like it may be still running? I have to hold the power button to shut it off entirely. Then it will not restart until I leave it for a while. The screen seems to get pretty hot in such short time too? Is there anything I can replace to start? Apple Genius Bar could not load up their hardware boot up to check the computer. They said I need it to replace it; too old? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you Enrique
I have an old Macbook Pro 15". My company gave me a new Macbook Pro 13". Question, is there a way to use either of them as extended display to the other one ? Both support retina display.
I have a 2011 MBP Yosemite development 2011 machine that will not upgrade cleanly to Sierra, too many weird tools installed there I suppose. So I got another MBP from the same era, wiped the drive, installed Sierra, and planned to use Migration Assistant to move what I could. I plugged in an Ethernet cable, set the new machine as destination, and started the Yosemite Migration Assistant on the old machine, thinking to use it as the source. However, it hung on start and I cannot restart the machine to anything but the same Migration Assistant screen.
When I search for a contact in Spotlight (Cmd-Space), the correct contacts show. When I select a contact (Enter), Address Book opens, but it has no contact selected. I have to look for the same contact again, this time in Address Book.
I would like to set the double tap on the home button on the iPhone 6s as a click on the same home button. Has anybody done this?
For the past few days, developing on an Android device has been a nightmare on my MacBook Air (mid-2013) model. Here's what happens: I plug in an Android device (tested with 3 different devices and always the same outcome) I do some remote debugging for some time (like 10mins), everything goes great Then suddenly adb devices doesn't show any device connected, like if the connection just dropped
Because of Xcode bug I had to reset my default keychain, and since then I'm getting annoying messages like this:  Here is what does not work: unlock keychains reset default keychain change keychains password remove ~/Library/Keychains. It keeps popping once in 15-30 min, sometimes multiple times in a row. Note that there are no "fix keychain" or "keychain aid" anymore in macOS Sierra Keychain Access app. Here are two old questions with outdated answers. I would prefer not to create access exceptions for all items, and it's not allowed for iCloud keychain ("Access for this item cannot be edited").
I'm running my MBP (Retina, 13-inch, early 2015) with two external monitors, one connected with a VGA-MiniDisplayPort and the other connected DVI-HDMI. They are arranged from left to right as in the picture below.
This failure is silent. No warning is given, the invitees are simply never informed of the event at all. This happens regardless of whether the invitees have iCloud addresses or not (in most cases, for me, all invitees are iCloud users).
I just bought additional 50 GB of space in iCloud. I should mention that I had to change my credit card first because it was the first purchase in a while and the previous card expired. All went well. I received a security message from my ma bank, saying that my purchase went through, but when I checked in Settings, the available space still shows "0". I turned off the phone, still nothing. Anything else I can try? I wanted to sign out of iCloud as I saw some people being advised to do online, but I got a message that all my photos in iCloud library, drive, etc. will be removed from the iPhone. Unsure what exactly this means, I didn't risk it.
At first it stopped getting all my mails from all my hotmail/outlook related account, so I removed it from the preferences Then now I am trying to add it back and it's giving me this screen.
I have a strange behaviour with an USB keyoboard connected to a MacBook Pro laptop. In the laptop the keys are correct, but with the external keyboard the \| keys is inverted with the <> key: how can I solve this issue? Mac OS X version: macOS Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67) Thanks.
By default, the maven install step uses the maven-shade-plugin to build an uber-jar. It is this uber-jar that cannot be copied. If I disable the maven-shade-plugin, so that the final JAR is a normal jar, I don't see the problem. I have Trend Micro running on my Mac if that could make a difference.
But this isn't the answer. I don't have QuickTime Pro, so I went to see about purchasing a license. Googling "QuickTime Pro" with a couple other modifiers hasn't shown me anything of use and even the buy links from Apples own page seem to be broken. On the Apple support forums, I saw another user ask where to get a key for QT Pro, and someone responded that a security flaw was found in the Windows version and that Apple has since stopped selling licenses.
I have an LG UD88 monitor, which is 4K and connects over USB-C to my new MacBook Pro. I love it—except for a couple of issues, one of which is that when my MBP puts the display to sleep, any devices connected to the USB 3.0 hub get disconnected—like external drives—without being ejected. Bad news.
I am developing a program in go; it occasionally ends up allocating very large amounts memory (>>10G on a machine with 8G of physical memory), causing the system to become unresponsive. I want to limit the amount of memory the process can allocate. The usual way I would do this is: ulimit -m 4000000 ; ./myprogram ...which should kill my program if it tries to use more than 4GB of memory.
I am trying to mount a network share via the terminal but I'm running into permission errors when it comes to opening the share. Here are the commands I executed to create a mountpoint and to mount the share:
I am using a Macbook Air Early 2014 running macOS Sierra (I was unable to access the NAS using previous versions also) and I am unable to connect to an Iomega Home Media NAS attached to my network. If I restart it I am able to connect however this only lasts a few hours before it fails again. I believe this problem is related to my Mac because my phone (an Android) and the other PCs (Windows 10) in my house can all see and connect to the NAS through their file browsers and through its web portal I am able to see the Time Machine Share on the NAS appear under "Shared" in Finder however when I click this it gives me the error "Connection Failed" and when I click "Connect as" nothing appears.
I have a few files in the same folder and I noticed that the format for the Modified and Last opened metadata fields are the "short" format for most files and the "medium" format for just a few. Why is this and how is this set for a given file? Example of "short" format date:
I sent my wife a message from an iPhone 7 to her iPhone 6S. Both are running iOS 10.2 (14C92), but when she received my message, she got: (sent with celebration) (sent with love)
I am aware that I can reference cells using the name of row/column headers. It looks something like this: Sheet Name::Table Name::Column Name Row Name. However, I'm trying to reference something with two column headers. I'm hoping that I can reference something like Jan 2017::Balance:Salary (pictured below).
I have looked all over the place with incredible frustration - what should be basic information I can't find anywhere. Whatever I do find, is single items of information (and not what I was looking for).
I have a MacBook Air and regularly have to increase the print size to read what I want to read. Is there a way to increase the default print size?
What is the shortcut for switching the primary display when two monitors are connected. It is cumbersome to open up System Preferences > Displays and drag the menu bar across each time I switch.
I am looking to make an Applescript that will take a list of numbers inputted by the user like (copy and pasted just like this): 25082945 25463469 03146331 36584524 23461461 Then, in a browser, open a new tab or each number with the number as the URL. This is how far I have gotten:
Even though the only folder I have shared is my Public Folder, I just tried connecting from my Windows computer (windows 7) through my home network to my Macbook (running sierra). After entering in my username and password, I see three shared folders: Macintosh HD, User's Public Folder, and User. In other words, even though I thought I am only sharing my public folder, the entirety of my hard drive can be accessed by the other computer.
Recently I started seeing News notifications on my Apple Watch:  I've confirmed that News is turned off in the Watch app on my iPhone under Notifications:
I received an older MacBook Pro 5,1 (MacBook Pro 15” Unibody, Late 2008 / Early 2009), but it came without a hard drive. I installed Mountain Lion from DVD, then updated to El Capitan, which is the latest version of macOS supported by this laptop.
Named brand micro SD with 8 gigs on it. Trying everything to format as FAT32, on a Mac running Sierra and I get this error: When running this: Any idea what's going on here?
My mom got a hold of my phone and I need to delete some pictures is there anyway I can do so even if it means that I'll have to delete all my pictures?
Following this OSX Sierra tutorial from the folks at gorails, I am having trouble getting rbenv global to associate the install of 2.3.0 with the ruby command and to override the default ruby version on my MacBook Air with macOS Sierra v10.12.2 I tried rbenv rehash but ruby2.0.0 is still the default version. Briefly reviewing this blog about ruby and $PATH environment, I find I'm a little lost as to where the default Ruby "executable" actually lives... gem env shows me that Ruby 2.0.0 lives here: and whereis tells me something different: The tutorial says to add rbenv to my .bash_profile Do I need to set my path to ignore the default ruby? For what it is worth:
I just came from linux world (xfce4), where my keyboard workflow consisted of mapping F9 to terminal app f10 to firefox f11 to emacs
Thunderbolt 2 docks have been quite expensive and they will be obsolete once I purchase the new Macbooks with USB-C ports. I currently use a 2014 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 2 ports, and I want to futureproof my purchase by acquiring a cheaper USB-C dock now.
How do I save the output of a command to a file from terminal? That is if my command gives some output and it is printed directly on terminal but I want it in some text file or may be other kind of file.
I have the same question like this, but for macOS. There is a GUI solution with Activity Monitor. Any command line alternative? I use latest macOS Sierra.
I currently use the Apple Wired Keyboard (Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad), MC110LL/B. It is fairly large on my desk. I never use the numeric keypad, and could live with small cursor keys. The MB869LL/A would be fine, but they no longer make it.
I am trying to change my iTunes store region, and to do so requires me to cancel my Apple Music subscription. So I cancelled it, and it says "will expire on 15th January". When I now try and change the region, it still says I need to cancel my subscription. Can I kill my subscription before the last billed month finishes?
I want to delete the red one shown in the screenshot. I can not seem to change it or tap it somehow. Can somebody help?
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011. I'm thinking if to upgrade to Sierra. Right now I have Mavericks. If I backup my current system using the time machine, when I will restore from the backup, it will be back again Mavericks?
I am new to iPhone, and I am wondering if there is an option to only tap the home button to go to the home screen, instead of clicking it? Essentially the same as the "Rest finger to open" option, under "Accessibility > Home button", except I would want to use it for going to the home screen when the phone is already unlocked, instead of for unlocking it.
My mac is going very slow after I update xcode to 8.2 I checked activity monitor which is showing a process name ibtoold many times with huge memory consumption. Can anyone help please?
I have created a set of dictation commands in AppleScript. Now I want to move them to another computer. How can I do that?
On Android phones, there are apps (not native functionality) to make the phone silent for the next N minutes starting right now. This is different than setting specific times of day like Do Not Disturb does. The functionality I'm used to takes one of two forms: An icon you click that then asks "how long should the silence last" Or, automatically detect that I turned off the sound to zero (via volume rockers or otherwise); and asks the same thing. However, I'm not dogmatic, if iPhone has some other approach to solve this problem I'm open to exploring it.
Does anyone know where I can find the docs describing Regex parsing capabilities of macOS search fields? What I mean, I'd like to read about the regex syntax rules that are allowed and parsed by the search field. For example, what I didn't know until today that, in macOS Preview (or any other application with a standard search field, guessing) we can use input like this: "\s" AND "an" AND "\s"
I've been using my MacBook Pro for years and it was still working fine. For the last year or two I was using Yosemite, it was working without any significant problems.
The iPhone's keyboard seems extremely diligent with its autocorrection. Problem is, I very frequently type words that aren't in the dictionary (proper names, foreign words, etc...). In some Android keyboards, there is a function to undo a word that was autocorrected to the original spelling—is such a functionality available in iPhone's default keyboard?
I had a folder named private in one of my projects and had to change the permissions of it via chmod, however, instead of "private" I did "/private"! I am an idiot and can't figure out how to get it back. My shell is all messed up now and I am trying to restore the /private folder via time machine and no luck! It starts but then says "Security agent may only be invoked by apple software"
How do I add and remove custom words from the Gboard iOS keyboard's dictionary? This is the keyboard app made by Google for iOS devices.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" (Early 2015) and I have a bootcamp partition with Windows 10 installed in it. Also, there is an Ubuntu Linux on another partition, so it’s a triple boot computer. I’m not using rEFInd, but the stock startup manager instead. I am switching operating systems using the option key at boot and it was all working fine until recently.
I just upgraded my Mac Pro 4,1 (5,1 firmware) to dual X5690s. I was very careful and followed directions throughout the whole process.
I'd like some drivers for printer. Is Canon site safe to download them as self-installed trojans are Mac's worst nightmare and I have no real time scanner to detect if something comes in. Google gives me both sites, but is there any difference? *=URL=* *=URL=* I just find it weird one is canon.com while other canon-europe.com - if it is same company, shouldn't it be europe.canon.com...
Someone stole my phone today so I went and got a "new" older phone. An iPhone 5. It came with iOS 10.1.1 installed and I was wondering if there is a jailbreak for this? I've been looking on Google and have tried a few different methods but they all seem to be fake and only install a "Cydia demo". Can anyone point me towards finding a legitimate jailbreak or is non available?
And this is what diskutil list shows:  So my question now is this: how do I return things to normal on my hd and reclaim all the space for the main partition? Do I have to delete the Recovery HD partition and reinstall it afterwards? Or am I making a mistake and the space is still somehow unallocated?
I am trying to sign into my iCloud on my iPhone 6 and even with the correct password it is not letting me through but keeps asking with a prompt. I have local photos that I do not want deleted and need to pull off the device. If I were to sign out of my iCloud account will it delete the photos that are stored locally?
I plug my iPhone 6s plus into the lightning cable and it will make the "chime" sound to let you know it is charging, but if I move it even so slightly on the table where it charges or pick it up to text, it will stop charging. I checked to see if my cable was the problem, but it charges my iPad. It must be my iPhone lightning port then? Sometimes even when I do not touch my iPhone and it is charging, it will keep making the charging sound and light up (as if it was unplugged and the re connected).
I would like to create a Print Plugin to append the output to an existing PDF File. Here are my steps so far: Ask for Finder Items Combine PDF Pages (append) Open Finder Items It sort of does the job, but: It prepends the output: the new output is inserted at the beginning rather than the end. I creates a new file. I can handle the new file situation, I suppose, by doing a Save As…, but I don’t want the new output to be placed at the beginning. How can I append the output at the end of an existing PDF file?
How to uninstall Neo4j completely from Mac including the data it stored in database.
I have a black bar at the bottom of my screen which changes as I use the Touch Bar, but cannot remove it. It is eating up my screen space and I cannot see the Dock. Does anyone know how to remove it?
When I updated my iTerm2 recently in November (the main release, not nightly-build), colors are rendered strange. Fortunately, I restored old iTerm2 in the trash can, and made a comparison.
My MBP will not boot. Update. Added the SSD diagnostics output. I have: this mid-2012 MacBook (I think it was the latest pre-retina MBP update),
Has anybody successfully been able to run Microsoft SQL Server using Wine or another application like it (possibly Crossover) on macOS Sierra?
UPD3: tried EtreCheck. Chose the "Apps are crashing" option. The diagnostics started. Then the EtreCheck crashed as well. Here is the part of the log: Link
Is there no way to hide the clock on the iPhone 6+ lock screen?
What app would you propose to my father (simple HCI) who wants to sort, organise and attribute details to his pictures; which are taken or downloaded. Main aspects of the app is to organise easily or automatically and to set metadata to the pics so he can remember the details. I tried the Photo Investigator app but I was disappointed by the way you set the caption image details and messes with your photos.
I have a Macbook Air 13" (mid 2012) on which I installed Windows 10 via Bootcamp a while ago. It all runs smoothly and works fine except for the WiFi.
I have old printer and in Canon website, there are drivers, latest for OS Lion, not for El Capitan. Would it be dangerous to try and install drivers meant for Lion? Or would the issue just be if it works or not? I'm just wondering if there is more to dividing drivers by OS than incompatibility or would it cause security risk?
How can I set hourly reminder in Mac ? If possible how to set my customised voice?
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12 and I want to run a Linux VM such as Mint using VirtualBox. I am looking for best practices or official/recommended sources for an image that is packaged with the macOS host OS in mind.
Whenever I am trying to dowanload free apps from the store it asks me about additional purchases. I am unable to understand this . Please help
I can't find my iphone 6 using find my phone and I am not sure if the battery has died or someone turned it off. Is there any way to find out the last location of my iphone before the battery died or the phone was turned off?
I'm using macOS Sierra and I can't open an application because it's from an unidentified developer. I went into my Security and Privacy settings and clicked on "open anyway" but it still doesn't let me open the app. How do I open an app from an "unidentified developer"?
I bought a Macbook pro 13" retina display early 2015 and after about 13 months of intense use: battery stoped charging. still work when connected to the charger. The magsafe led is red. Battery Installed: Yes. Amperage (mA): 0. Voltage (mV): 8222. Cycle Count: 294. Condition: Replace Now. Stuck with 0% battery. Opened the mac and 2 cells of the battery seems to be "stuffed". Charge Remaining (mAh): 0. Fully Charged: No.
I want to block all calls from any not in my contacts list, and send them directly to voicemail. How can I do this?
On my 13" MBP 2015 I'm often getting strange error – Google Chrome tabs all become clean white pages, after several seconds it stops responding and can't be killed via process pid through terminal. When I close Google Chrome window and open it – it doesn't reopen tabs and open white page instead. Other apps get some strange behaviour too – for example I can't open ssh sessions in terminal.
I am trying to install a Python module: pip install -U channels Output has: Using a browser to go to *=URL=* or *=URL=* works fine. However, when I test the link using openssl, there is a problem: But the weird part is, I have the DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA in the System Roots section of Keychain and the certificate is valid.
I just got new Bluetooth headphones, but my Windows 10 PC does not have bluetooth. Is there a way I can play all audio from my PC to my iPhone 7 (preferably via the USB charger), and then use my Bluetooth headphones connected to the iPhone?
Today I've updated my 2011 15" MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra. After everything got updated, I've entered the Mac App Store in order to download Xcode. I saw in the "Apps Made by Apple" section the macOS Sierra, which seemed weird to be shown as downloadable, since I've already downloaded and installed it on my MacBook. I thought maybe it's a minor update, so I clicked on Download button.
I have a new MacBook Pro 15" with OS X 10.12.1. Just about every day for the last two weeks I get a small (annoying) reminder in the upper right corner of the screen to complete configuration of iCloud.
In the Photos app on my iOS devices, there is the "People" album in addition to the "People From My Mac" album. It seems silly to have both. How can I get rid of the former? I'd also like to get rid of the "Selfies" and "Panoramas" albums.
With iPhone 7 Apple introduced headphones connected with Lightning Connector. Are these headphones also compatible with older iPhones? Are there any limitations by using it with older devices? Which iOS version is needed for this feature?
When/if a Jailbreak becomes available for iOS 10.2, I am interested in installing it. Since I use Apple Pay (on my watch only), I would like to know that my payment details are safe. Since you can see your credit card information in the Apple Watch app on iOS, this means that the data is synced across both devices.
I try to learn swift and opened iTunes U lectures in iTunes on Mac. I wonder how can i change playback speed? It is easy on iPad, but i have no idea how to do this while playing videos in iTunes on Mac
I'd like to resize Google Chrome to 5000x5000 pixels and then take a screenshot of the document. But I'm running into trouble resizing the height of the browser to 5000px. I tried the suggestion of using an AppleScript like this: and then capturing a screenshot by
I'm using BASH in the terminal on Yosemite. Is the zip command lossy? I'm using it like this -e encrypt -r recurse I am trying to avoid lossy compression when backing up data. Would be super weak sauce if my backups came out corrupt :(
It is a common issue Mac users, when you try open NTFS external storage you allowed only read mode. And of course there are some solution. One of them it is NTFS 3G - free alternative. I followed instructions *=URL=* I set up FUSE then I set up Brew and eventually I set up NTFS 3G But because lack of experience in Mac and English I can't understand what I need to do after all According to link
My wife's iphone is full. I decided to free up some space by removing the photos. I connected iphone to PC and copied over complete photo collection. Then I disconnected the device and started removing each single photo by hand! Well, because you just can't select all and remove photos from your device in 2016 unless it is Android, Windows or Blackberry phone. So, after spending enough time to delete 1.5k photos by hand, I removed them from "recently deleted" folder only to see that the available space is 0 bytes. I restarted the phone. Tried to take a photo, no luck. The iphone refuses to take a picture because there is not enough space on the device. This is peculiar because I have zero photos according to "camera roll". So, now, I can't neither install an new app nor take photos, ffs Carl!
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro, with Touch Bar, running macOS Sierra (10.12.2). I am trying to install Windows 10 to a new external SSD using Boot Camp Assistant. I have read numerous methods detailing how to complete this installation, including this great thread.
I installed an app SysSecInfo and it shows 'anomalies' and 'custom jailbreak'. It doesn't explain what is anomalis about it or what it means. How do I know if my iPhone is hacked or if the app is broken?
I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.2. It has VMWare Fusion 8.5.3. I have downloaded Install macOS Sierra into the /Applications folder. How do I install macOS 10.12.2 into VMWare Fusion. I tried Google but there are so many references to overcoming issues with the beta versions of Sierra that I cannot find instructions that look as simple as this should be. I tried the normal way of creating a new image in Fusion, but I get an error about choosing a startup disk. File->New ... Create a custom virtual machine MacOS 10.12 Create a new virtual disk Finish Observe that it boots to blue screen and gives error about choosing startup disk.
As the MacBook Pro 2016 series supports various USB PD profiles, I'm wondering whether they will also charge using other USB standards, for example: USB Type-C, 1.5A or 3.0A at 5V using the passive marking resistor (not PD) USB Type-A using an A to C cable, connected to a USB BC DCP at up to 1.5 A (for example newer iPhone or most Android compatible chargers) USB Type-A, connected to an iPad charger at 2.1 A or 2.4 A (using Apple's proprietary D+/D- voltage handshake) I'm aware that most of these will not be able to supply enough power for normal operation of the computer, but being able to charge slowly while in standby would still be useful.
The keywords is an odd duck: It sorts on the alphabetical list of the keywords. So everything that has the tag apple comes before anything with the keyword banana.
I have 1 Airport Extreme (newer version) and 3 AirPort Express's (1st gen) in my house. I understand that physically connecting all 3 Express's over ethernet and setting to "Create Network" is the best option (according to this article), however they are not all 3 in range of ethernet. So my question is: What is the difference/impact between the "Create Network" and "Extend Network" options when the AirPort Express is not physically connected?
I just realized I got some recent contacts who have an "o" before their phone numbers when I'm adding a recipient after writting a text message, what does it mean? I'm sure it's the letter "o" and not a zero because it appears when I search for "o" when adding a recipient. And it doesn't appear as capital letter before the number, it appears like "o961231234" and those contacts are not on my list, but they do appear as recent contacts. Please, I'd really appreciate if somebody could answer this
Is there a way that I can make it that you have to put a password or fingerprint when opening apps on my iPhone? For instance, if I give the phone to someone and they want to try to open apps that I do not want them to use, the owner's passcode or fingerprint would required to use that app?
While I'm on the train using my AirPods with my Mac, how do I accept a call from my iPhone over the AirPods while using my iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot?
I have become enamored with Unibox's approach to inbox handling over the last couple of years. The key is that it groups by sender regardless of the mailbox and when handling 20+ email accounts, this has proven to be exceptionally handy. It eliminates a lot of extra visual clutter and allows me to quickly mow through many automated messages in ways that no other email app has allowed. There are a couple of issues that keep making me consider going back to Apple Mail.app, but the main thing keeping me with Unibox is this grouping functionality.
When I turn wifi off, YouTube works. Does it plays on my data plan? But with my wifi on, YouTube doesn't work. Why all of sudden am I having this problem and how do I resolve it?
Merry xmas! I have lost the password of my external drive. I am wondering if anyone here knows the "format" of the password - I mean, when you set up a password - does the password require special characters, or certain length, or are there some characters required to be in upper case? I ask because if I know the format, perhaps it will jog my memory and I can figure out the password I used.
I have the latest macOS version but today I noticed that on highlighting text in preview app, it lags for a milliseconds or less like what appears in the photo, I succeeded to take a fast screen shot during that lag. What could be the problem and how to fix it?
I've created an administrator-level account called "Administrator" on my iMac (macOS Sierra). I basically did this to ease copying existing user documents, etc. from a backup using the Migration Assistant without any name/user conflicts.
Dec 25 16:18:00 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds Dec 25 16:18:06 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Dec 25 16:18:37: --- last message repeated 2 times --- Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x7f9170659600.anonymous.sendmail[20303]): Failed to add kevent for PID 20303. Will unload at MIG return Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x7f9170659600.anonymous.sendmail[20303]): Unloading PID 20303 at MIG return. Dec 25 16:18:47 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Dec 25 16:19:00: --- last message repeated 1 time --- Dec 25 16:19:00 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds The reason I say "something like this" is that somtimes I dont get the "Fa
I have installed MenuMeters so I can see the realtime outbound date, sometimes it will display "out: 5xxKB/s" for a long time, so I want to know which process is sending data to the internet? How to do that in Mac?
I had some songs from what turned out to be a bootleg (and badly done) CD. I found the songs in the Store and bought them. But I can't delete the bad ones.
I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.2. It has VMWare Fusion 8.5.3. I have a Windows 10 usb install thumb drive for installing both 32bit and 64bit Windows. How do I install 64 bit windows into a virtual machine? I have tried to Google, but it keeps turning up instructions for how to install using an iso image. I have looked at the USB drive and cannot find iso images. I have tried: File->New ... Create a custom virtual machine Drop disk image into the file selector window that pops up.
I'd like to be able to have audio from 2 different applications go to 2 different audio outputs (say speakers from line out, and bluetooth audio headset). Is this possible on OSX 10.11.6 through standard system prefs or an external audio manager or something? Cheers.
Safari always tries to autocomplete websites to only be the host, with no path (nothing after the ".com/" part). That is, when I type "ever"... the first option is "evernote.com", when the only site I ever actually visit is "evernote.com/Home.action". I want it to go directly to that one. I don't want to have to press "down" once. Chrome does this the way I want, but I'm trying to move from chrome to safari (chrome eats battery).
Using macOS Sierra: Disk Utility > File > New Image > Blank Image..., I created an encrypted .dmg file. However when I open this .dmg (by entering password) and click "Info" in disk utility, it says: Is encrypted: No As I want to store some sensitive info (Credit Card info etc) in this disk and then upload it to cloud storage, I am worried if there is a bug in Sierra causing .dmg files to not be encrypted at all!
My chrome is not able to display my regional language like Hindi. But I can see that page properly in Safari. Chrome:
I've tried searching Google, the Apple Forums, and here for solutions to this and none of them seem to address the issue. Have been using a Seagate 3TB external HDD for years as a Mac formatted external library and also a partition for TimeMachine, a STBV3000100. The main problem seems to be that the Micro-B connection on the control board in the enclosure is not very sturdy and I have had to keep the cable at angle to maintain connection. This is very far below optimal and worried it could lead to damaging the drive.
My MacBook Pro with TouchBar is set up to use Touch ID, requires authentication after sleeping, has File Vault turned on… the complete works. Yet twice now I have noticed that it seemed to unlock after sleep without any input. It neither asked for the password nor did it require me to touch the Touch ID sensor. It only seems to happen at work, not at home. I did not have anything plugged in at the time; I opened the lid and was just about to plug in an external keyboard and monitor when it already presented the unlocked desktop. I'm pretty sure it was asleep before, as this was the first thing I did in the morning after taking it out of its bag.
I have iOS 10.2 on my iPhone. I can't access TV app. It is not getting opened at all. It struck for 2-3 minutes and even after that it is not getting opened. Do anybody have idea how to solve it?
I have an iPhone 6s which does not turn on and display remains always black. When it is connected to iTunes, the phone is recognised by iTunes and restore fails with error 9, while the screen remains irresponsive.
Services running on each server. OD1: DNS, Profile Manager, OD replica, Xsan secondary controller. MDC1: OD Master, Xsan primary Controller. I had tried fixing the OD using: sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openldap.slapd.plist sudo /usr/libexec/slapd -Tt sudo db_recover -cv -h /var/db/openldap/openldap-data/ sudo db_recover -cv -h /var/db/openldap/authdata/ sudo /usr/libexec/slapd -Tt sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openldap.slapd.plist ~This will work temporary.~ Thank you.
After my Apple Watch 1 I decided to switch to the Apple Watch 2 and gave my GF also an Apple Watch 2. The strange thing is: My green activity ring is filling during my day without starting a workout (just walking stairs etc) but my GF's watch barley updates the green ring.
I would like to view my photos and edit or delete the ones that I don't like. I would also like to do this while keeping the photos in their original location (e.g. an external SD card). Is it possible to use Mac Photos App to do the edit/delete without importing the photos?
Is there any alternative way? As the website itself is a prototype and since we are currently in the research and development phase, I cannot invest any money in this program now.
If you look at a list of open processes, either in the Activity Monitor, or in Terminal with the TOP command, why are the assigned PID numbers not all used sequentially. For example, is this because some processes with certain PID numbers have run and since ceased running, leaving a gap in sequential PID assigned numbers of existing running processes, or are their unlisted processes not visible in the Terminal tops command, or some other reason?
i can´t fix this external disk any solution??? this?
I see keyboard shortcuts in the menu of Brackets. There are two symbols that look like up arrow and down arrow, could anyone tell me what they are?
I recently updated to OS 10.12.2 (16C67), all of my apps (most recently iTunes), and my phone to 10.2, and I'm having an issue with my Apple Messages app not syncing, and not being able to send or receive messages. I was also getting various alerts that my phone was trying to access my messages (the map in the alert pointed directly to my house), and my Dropbox used to auto-download my pictures, and now it says it can't find any.
Is there any way to perform exact match search in macOS? I want to search file that contains "Endorsement Number", but entering endorsement number as the search criteria shows me the list of file that contains endorsement and number in the result. I want to find only the files that contain "Endorsement Number".
How do you prevent Apple Photos from opening on connecting a camera. I prefer to download all my work to Lightroom 3.
I am trying to write to a vim file, fortran.vim. I gave myself access to root following these guidelines. I also saw this SO post, but the answers did not help.
⌘+ no longer zooms in Safari content for me. ⌘- works just fine for zooming out. Selecting View -> Zoom In menu item does work as expected. I have also tried using an administrator account that has little to no additional software installed, but get the same results. Running macOS 10.12.2 on 17" Early 2011 MBP
I set iCloud up with my then email address. I signed out then signed back in with my new email address . Would this cause me to have lost contacts & pics?
I have videos in iTunes on my Mac desktop (in the TV Shows and Movies sections) that are shared using Home Sharing with my Apple ID. Home sharing is turned on and working; I can watch the videos on my Apple TV.
When I try to upgrade to 10.12.2, my mac mini reboots to a white screen. The mouse is responsive, but nothing is drawn. In previous upgrades, I could get past this by holding SHIFT for safe mode; and then the upgrade would complete. Not this time. There are no USB devices except the keyboard plugged in. I've reset PRAM/NVRAM, no change. I can boot to recovery. Any other suggestions?
TLDR; Is there a way to simultaneously open all iCloud tabs saved on iPhone, on a Mac? I use my iPhone for browsing and as a means of "read it later" I just leave the open tabs there with the purpose of opening them all later on my Mac. Is there a way to open them all (much like Chrome allows in the "Tabs from other devices" in History page)?
Turning on the machine, i.e. regular startup: Bootup stops at question mark screen. No surprise, since the system partition has been erased.
I just installed the latest patch for Sierra, so am now on 10.12.2. Post-upgrade my pointer controlled through trackpad runs very slow when I open the laptop. I can fix it by opening System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Point & Click, and just moving the "Tracking speed" slider a notch and then back to where I want it. But the fix doesn't seem to persist, so I have to do this every time I wake the machine. Does anyone know how to fix the issue permanently?
In the morning of christmas, i was browsing the internet on a Mac OSX El Capitan version 10.11 laptop. My internet connection stopped working on my laptop. That is, Ethernet and Wi-Fi simultaneously. Initially, i thought i had ISP problems. So i restarted both the laptop and the router. Still nothing in Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Yet, i discovered other people had logged in were using Wi-Fi from the same router. Also, the internet works alright in recovery mode.
I have a Mid 2011 MacBook Air that I want to connect an external microphone to. It looks somewhat like the first picture below, except that it has one ring on the audio jack instead of the usual three. So, I have purchased a splitter cable, like the second picture below, with three rings so that my MacBook would recognize the mic.
I can not find a way to add an invitee after the event has been created and the invite emails sent. Is it possible? Below is the already created event, where I do not see the field to "add invitees" any more:
I am a writer and have (or had, rather) many valuable writings in my Notes app. However, the notes made duplicates of themselves. I read from a post online that in order to stop this, you were to turn off Notes in Mail. When I did this, I opened my Notes app only to see that all my notes had been deleted (I wrote them under iCloud instead of My Phone, since all my prior notes were there before the update where iCloud was introduced). I checked on icloud.com to see if my notes were there, but they were not. There was no "Recently Deleted" tab, either. According to Apple, this means they are not recoverable. Is there anything else I can try to do to recover my notes? Still, I'm annoyed that the person who recommended turning off Notes in Mail did not warn in his/her post that such a thing would happen.
The beloved Solarized colour scheme seems to apply an italic face for comments, but when I am using it in vim in iTerm2, it does not. So, everything including comments are displayed in Roman (normal) face. Even if I select the Menlo font, which has an italic face I can see in iTerm2's preferences window, the comments are rendered as Roman. Together with the fact that comments are in light gray, and normal text in (not very bright) white, comments become rather difficult to distinguish from normal text.
Yesterday I accidentally deleted one of conversations in Whatsapp. So to recover it I decided to restore Whatsapp using iCloud backup. But when I reach the whatsapp chat settings I saw that Whatsapp already has started backing up to iCloud. But I'm 100% sure it was began after the conversation Deletion. So I stopped backup by turning off Mobile data and decided to turn off auto backup. Note : When I turned the backup off it was at 49% Problem
I have and external HD (it doesn't need extra power, just USB) that contains a lot of movies. I know that I can transfer those movies to the iPad via iTunes, but the iPad is almost full. Is there a way where I can connect the iPad to the external HD and watch my media?
On my original iPad Air 2 I was able to send text messages to Androids. I recently had to replace my device, however (good thing I had AppleCare!). With the new iPad, though, I can no longer send text message to Androids. Also, I would like to not use a 3rd party app as I was able to before without a 3rd party app. How do I set that up again?
Apple says here the battery power for all Apple Watches no matter which size is up to 18 hours. But is there a difference regarding battery? The 42mm version has bigger display, maybe also a bigger battery? Is there any difference? I would like to buy the device with the best battery.
I receive this message when I connect my iPhone to my PC: An iPhone has been detected but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPhone, then try again. When I disconnect and reconnect, the message reappears.
I was using this guide and changed a lot of pmset settings duo of FileVault2 *=URL=* Is there any option to restore the factory defaults?
For a few months I have been facing a problem with my audio jack (3.5mm jack) on my Mac Mini late 2014 version - every time I reboot my computer, log out and log back in or turn off one of my monitors, my audio output device stops being detected until I replug it. Is anyone else facing such an issue, and if so - what steps can I take to fix it?
My mother-in-law bit on a fake email ("Your USPS package...") sent to her AOL account and opened the attachment with her iMac. She's on 10.5. She called us shortly after she realized that the attachment wasn't opening. No symptoms yet. What is the impact? What diagnostic/recovery/protection steps should I take? (other than making sure in the future she's up-to-date with her operating system and has an antivirus)
Got a new grey iPhone SE for Christmas from the Verizon store. Seems to work fine except for one issue. When the phone is off (standby), any sudden motion turns the phone on, as if the home or power button were pressed.
I need to search for texts in several PDF at the same time. Preview does the job: I select the files in the Finder and open them together in Preview. Then, searching for some text happens simultaneously in all the PDF: great! But is very unstable. When searching, it often crashes. Is there an alternative to Preview with the same feature? My system is 10.11.6 and Preview is 8.1
Is there any app for iPhone where I can manage my server's MySQL databases? Or any app to just create an entire MySQL database?
A tcpdum of "loving" a song on iTunes yields an empty ppcap file. Is the data cached and synced later? If so, when and where?
I am looking for the ribbon button to clear text formatting in Outlook 2016 on Mac and it just doesn't appear to be there. Am I somehow missing it? Can I enable it? Is there a shortcut?
I have developed an application for OS X. As changes to this application are pushed to my code repository, a build server (Jenkins) automatically detects those changes and kicks off a build process. As part of that build process, I sign the generated binaries with a certificate I have received from Apple. Once that process completes, I am able to verify that the application has been properly signed by running:
I'd like to record/save my iOS notifications (e.g., games and apps) as they come in as part of a statistics project, and would prefer to have them automatically recorded rather than taking manual screenshots. (Ideally, I'd like to pull them into IFTTT and then push them to a Google Spreadsheet.) Some apps may let me switch the notification method in-app, but that may also change the frequency of the notification, and in any event, it won't work across all apps and I'm looking to track the phone notification frequency. Is there some way to do this without jailbreaking? If I were to somehow push the notifications to macOS, is there a method for automatically recording them on the computer? If the version matters, I'm on the latest iOS.
First, I just want to say, I'm not totally illiterate when it comes to computers in general; I've had 2 years of basic programming and computer science classes when i was in college, and I can usually fix any problem by just looking it up on the internet if I can't figure it out myself, but maybe this is an Apple thing, which i know nothing about, or I'm looking for the wrong keywords. I just got an Apple MacBook Pro that is 5 years old and I have no idea how to use it or if something is wrong with it. My brother gave it to me and he said he barely used it besides for school work and he even put a new hard drive in it for me(he won't be back for 3 months or I'd ask him to look at it). I downloaded a program from myoffice that says it's for 32-bit mac OSX 10.6 or later. I have 10.9.5 and it's supposed to be compatible and it didn't work. Since then, I've gotten 3 more programs from a total of 4 different places and they all do the same thing, so this isn't a problem just with one progra
I have an iPad Mini, and I have iElectribe which allows me to make music loops and render them as .wav files. I want to use them in other apps and also store them in Dropbox or Google drive, but neither app lets me see anything but photos, videos, spreadsheets and .doc files.
A typical use of a spreadsheet is to create a running total, as for a checkbook register. The usual way to do this is to simply add a current row to a prior row. My example is a variation -- showing the accumulation of bills over time.
nsurlsessiond makes numerous calls to apple.com over port 80. From other posts I have learned that some of this is iCloud, system updates and similar data. Is there some analysis available about what exact data is transmitted?
I have two Twitter accounts. Account #2 "recommends" tweets via in-app/push notifications and sends "highlights" push notifications but my Primary account only sends recommendation notifications (no highlights) but they don't show up in-app. All other notifications work well for both accounts on both iPhone and iPad.
I have just bought a new Macbook Pro with the Sierra OS. What I have found is that using the trackpad to move "back" and "forwards" between webpages, goes in the opposite direction to what I would expect.
NB30 stands for Non band 30, what is this?
I have 41 webform password items stored in Keychain. Each item has the same password (since each of them is a different wifi router in our building).
Sometimes remapping keys for tmux greatly improves quality of life, such as remapping the functionality of the modifier key caps-lock to control. Using 10.12.2 (Sierra), re-mapping the Modifier Keys via the Keyboard settings is simple (as shown in the below screen capture). What I'd like to do now is create a shortcut so that I can still use the caps-lock (functionality) by way of a shortcut such as simultaneously pressing shift & caps-lock (key) or fn & caps-lock (key). How is this done?
My mid-2015 MacBook Pro (Sierra 10.12.2) skips the login screen when waking from sleep, it goes straight to my desktop. I have my System Preferences set to require my password 1 minute after being put to sleep but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone have an idea of what the problem might be?
I have several boot drives in my Mac Pro, each with different operating systems. Right now, I have Sierra, Yosemite, and Windows 10. I use vifs to edit the fstab file, to prevent other volumes from mounting automatically at boot. But under Sierra, this is sometimes ignored, and the other two volumes are mounted automatically at boot. I never have this problem under Yosemite. The strange thing is, it doesn't happen every time. Sometimes when I boot Sierra, the other two volumes are mounted, and sometimes they are not. Below is the contents of my fstab from Sierra.
I've downloaded the source file from *=URL=* How can I decompress it to obtain the plain text (say, in a TextEdit file)? The file I downloaded is designated 1610.01410 that is it does not have a .gz or .tar extension
I am using this command to do some magic for my personal use: Is it possible to precisely define the width and height of the popup Terminal window?
I just updated my 15 inch macbook pro retina 2014 model from OSX El Capitan to Sierra (10.12.2) and have noticed an ugly problem. It appears when I press and hold the F1-F2 (screen light +/-), the F5-F6 (keyboard light +/-) or the F11-F12 (volume +/-), the whole system becomes unresponsive for an amount of time proportional with how much I hold the button pressed. In the activity monitor I can see when it recovers that the WindowServer jumped to 100%+. This used to work perfectly on El Capitan, with normal behaviour(incremented/decremented the values until limits 0-16 bars on screen). I will file a bug report on Apple forum as well.
I'm trying to install sheepshaver to run old mac games on my Macbook running Mac OS Sierra. I know I should download the Mac OS 9 image and name it "Mac OS ROM” and drop it over sheepshaver wrapper. I named it properly, dropped it on the wrapper, and I still get that message: What am I doing wrong here?
Ok, so i made the most idiotic mistake of upgrading to the latest firmware on my Iphone 5. I was running on 7.1.2. But now i'm on 10.2. Fack! My friend currently has a working Iphone 5 with the firmware 7.1.2.
I ended up restarting and was unable to log in to MacOS. I attempted recovery but ended up installing MacOS on a separate partition. Now the diskutil reads:
I have installed macfuse and fuse-ext2 multiple times and yet they don't seem to work. I want to be able to mount and edit a Raspberry Pi image file (NTFS) on an SD card. Unfortunately nothing appears of the image file in Finder. What am I doing wrong? One more thing: there's a file that should be edited to be able to write files on the target image. Every tutotiral mentions it yet it cannot be found : System/Library/Filesystems/fuse-ext2.fs/fuse-ext2.util Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
I know that all pictures from 'photos' are stored in the photos library. I want to move the whole library to my hard disk due to space constraints. I know that they are located in the masters folder.
Is there an app that makes it so that a pin is required to power-off the phone? Or, can someone explain to me how Find my iPhone works if is powered-off and can't be located?
I see column Expires but how can I edit it? Attributes window does not have such field. I want that aws tool for git automatically refresh saved password that generates every 15 minutes. Or maybe I can disable caching of passwords? Or maybe in some way I can persist always deny for reading some passwords from Keychain? Or maybe exists some correct way to disable of using Keychain for Git? This official article from AWS says: 'Install a version of Git that does not use the keychain by default or configure the Keychain Access utility to not provide credentials for AWS CodeCommit repositories.' How to do any of that?
Presumably since the last update to macOS 10.2.2, the system started to switch to my Bluetooth headphones automatically every time they come in Bluetooth range. That means that my Macbook switches audio output every time I come home (I use them on my iPhone as well). Even if I explicitly set the audio output to "Internal Speakers" on the Macbook, it will still behave like this. This is very annoying for several reasons, mostly because the Macbook does't seem to be very good at switching BT audio off when no audio is playing, which results in my headphone's battery being empty pretty much every day now.
I am running MacOSX Sierra and have homebrew installed. So I'm trying to create compress-slide.sh script under ~/bin. In order for me to get rid of doing symlinks I added the ~/bin in my path so my path looks like this now: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/bin I've set the path under /etc/paths and here is how it looks like:
I've just purchased a built to order MacBook Pro 15" Late 2016. It has been showing faulty behaviour since the first bootup. Firstly, right after the Apple logo on startup, the Mac gets extremely slow, like you'd need a minute or two just to move the cursor to click the user you want to login as.
My MacBook Pro is booting to a Black Screen and the only way I can get the display is via a PRAM Reset. When I shut it down it just re-boots to a Black Screen again. I have tried an SMC Reset and a Keypress Sequence to Ditch the Black Screen using the S key but they don't work. I am running Sierra 10.12.2 Can anyone help?
One problem from the past worth mentioning is that I’ve returned this Macbook for repairs twice, under garanty, because its logic board was fried (the wellknown graphics problem with the late 2011 macbook model where its graphics card would die and the screen would go berserk. The weird problem is that this happened even after having it repaired within the special Apple program). I'm kinda afraid my current problems might be a precursor to having this happen again.
Why does creating a new account and making it an administrator require system restart in macOS? I do the following: login to macOS (El Capitan) as admin1 open Users & Groups Preferences add a new user admin2 using + button check Allow user to administer this computer OS responds with: You must restart the computer for your changes to admin2’s administrator settings to take effect. The question is: why?
I use an iOS 10 device together with an Exchange server and several contact folders (some of them shared). When I create a new contact on the phone I have no control in which group it goes and this is really annoying. Back in older versions of iOS, I had the option to set a default group for new contacts (and then manaully sorted them in the correct folder). Now in iOS 10 my phone is just putting the new contacts in one folder, which in my opinion it has chosen random. Any idead how the default folder is determined and how i can set a default contact group?
I have a DVD from my holiday a few years back in which I would like to place into my mac and view, and extract the video for my library. This is my only option. I was wondering if anyone knew how to view a DVD on a mac that has been formatted as a windows DVD? Whenever I insert it, I receive a message claiming that it's an empty disk, but I know it isn't. If anyone could help me that would be fantastic!
How do I find out programmatically where the Photos app stores all the pictures? Before answering that it's always
I know that using a higher amperage charger will make a device charge faster. But is there a limit to how high the current can be? Could too high a current damage the battery?. Could I use a 24watt (5v/4.1A) USB charger (intended to charge USB-C devices such as my Nexus 5x) to charge an iPhone?. I'd use a USB-A to USB-C cable for connection.
I have several external hard drives, most encrypted with FileVault. Some with a 3rd party software called 'Espionage' (FileVault is better).
It seems that Chrome causes a crash on macOS whenever I insert a USB Ethernet adapter. For a long time I didn't know the reason; I just plugged it in and tried it again and again until my Mac accepted it and let me use it. I thought it was just a problem with macOS.
I want to be sure how secure Apple is. What does third malicious party need to gain access to my Apple account? Can it only be done if they know by password or security questions (those are all well guarded)?
This inconsistent behaviour is worrisome. Again, Drive Genius 3 finds no flaws; it feels like an OS issue. What could be going wrong/needs to be checked? 10.9.5 MacBookPro8,2 16GB 1333, no Windows server
My grandmother has an iPad 2 with iOS 9.3.5. Due to old age and Parkinsons, she's sometimes having issues using it for very basic tasks. We (her daughter and grandkids) want to be able to somehow remote control it, to help her with things like opening attachments to emails, finding her sister's blog in the bookmarks, and so on. We would like to be able to see the screen so we can give her better instructions over the phone, and be able to click things for her.
I have a IPhone 6S w/ IOs 10.2 and Outlook 2016 (office 365) in my Menovo ideapad 710S 64 bits with Windows 10. When I add a new event in ICloud calendar, the event apperas one hour later in the Outlook calendar, and when I add a new event in Outlook calendar it appears one hour earlier in ICloud Cal.
Two weeks ago, we had some friends over and one of them wanted to show us some of her photos, so she used my Mac to import them and do a slideshow on the TV. Now she just realized that the photos aren't on her phone anymore, and asked me to send the copies that were on my computer. The problem is that I deleted her photos the next morning, thinking she had them on her phone. Apparently the Photos app has a tickbox that removes the photos from the phone after the import but nobody payed attention to that setting.
Can i upgrade my mid 2012 macbook pro to use DDR4 ram ? Checking Apple > About this Mac > Memory i got the following Which seems to suggest not, but i wondered if DDR4 was even around at the time my mac was made, is Ram a backwards compatible upgrade like placing a Sata SSD in a 10 year old device ?
My grandmother has an iPad 2 with iOS 9.3.5. Due to old age and Parkinsons, she's sometimes having issues using it for very basic tasks. We (her daughter and grandkids) want to be able to somehow remote control it, to help her with things like opening attachments to emails, finding her sister's blog in the bookmarks, and so on. We would like to be able to see the screen so we can give her better instructions over the phone, and be able to click things for her.
Good day everyone! I am in a bit of a conundrum. On one hand, I heard following site is good to download Gutenprint software: gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Download.php On other hand, I also heard sourceforge site is bundled with malicious software.
I've been using the Jammit app for learning songs and it's now not supported as the company that made it has gone bust. I've got a lot of tracks I've brought from them and they're still on my hard drive.....
So my aunt wants me to update her Mac OS X (10.5.8), and while I have the DVD for the next update, she also wants her files backed up because they are important to her (pictures and what not). I'm not entirely sure about what I should back up on, as she has this harddrive cd thing (like the picture) and it comes up as a dvd that can be burned.
I'm trying to create a Folder Action to transcode videos using Don Melton's scripts. When I run the script, transcode_video complains that HandBrakeCLI is not available, but when I run the command directly from the terminal it runs fine.
My contact list keep showing a strange numbers and spam, and I can't remove them. The spam comes back again when I delete them.
I accidently configured a web-app to force a secure connection i.e. https, and although I have turned this off, I cannot get chrome to forget this error, so whenever I ask for the url of my local development server; Chrome instead returns and gives the error
I am trying to add a gmail account to my iPad in order to have contacts, email, and calendar sync. I go to Settings -> Mail -> Accounts -> Add Account and enter my gmail credentials. It accepts the credentials and then goes to this screen: The spinner to the left of Gmail will spin for about 20 seconds then it just takes me back to this screen:
My MacBook Pro (2010) doesn't want to charge when I plug my MagSafe into it. This is what I get:
On my Mac, Running OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks, I have my iPhoto library with 10,000+ photos. I am wondering if there is a convenient way to view this library remotely on a Windows computer.
My iPad frequently changes to the neighbors unsecured WiFi. I have added my own WiFi extender to increase my WiFi signal strength in the room where I work but frequently find my iPad switching to the neighbor's WiFi. I have connected to the neighbor's WiFi then "Forgotten" that network; however it frequently pops back on and replaces my own secured network connection. Apple has been unable to provide a satisfactory solution.
I was watching a video on an app and a pop up message shows up saying that my iPad has a malware or something I'm really confused what do I do and how do I know that my device has a virus or not?
I have my dock preferences to auto-hide. When I plug in my Cinema Display it works as expected: the dock hides when the mouse isn't hovering over it. Is it possible to disable this functionality ONLY on the Cinema Display and keep it happening on the macbook? For clarification: When my cinema display is plugged in I should be able to see the dock at all times on my cinema display, but it should still auto hide on macbook screen.
I have the following setup and am looking for a solution to delete a partition on the drive that has bootcamp. Below is my system setup -
Last week, I had an iPhone 4s, an iPad mini, and a Macbook Pro. My cell phone plan was connected to my iPhone, and I set up text forwarding so that text messages from my phone would also load on my iPad and my Macbook Pro.
In previous releases Apple had an "All Features" or "New Enhancements" page buried somewhere off the main Mac OS X page. It listed features that were beyond just the main marketing ones. Does anybody know where this information lives for Sierra? 10.6: *=URL=* 10.7: *=URL=* 10.8: *=URL=* 10.9: *=URL=* 10.10: *=URL=* 10.11: http://web.archive.org/web/20160710162027/http://www.apple.com/osx/all-features/
My iPhone 6s Plus randomly will display "System failure call failed" while I'm on the phone and will hangup the phone call. I have restored the phone but that has not helped. iOS 10.2 Any advice is appreciated.
Fairly technical question, not sure if a solution even exists. Some relevant information about my system; late 2013 iMac fusion drive 1TB macOS 10.12.2
security list-keychains print: but the same command from cron return: from cron I tried but result is the same. In the help of cli-utility security I did not found any other way to explicitly set the path to the db. Yes I know that Apple says that better way is to use launchd instead of cron, but I сurious to know - it is possible to manipulate my Keychain from cron?
See the screen shot. There is the '[' file at /bin.
* I did an update on my Macbook Retina 13" to the most recent version of Sierra OS X. The computer never gets past the Apple logo (black screen with a full progress bar). * This is a copy of the problem previously written up in November. None of the solutions worked nor a few others.
in iOS 9, the system font had changed from Helvetica to San Francisco. I love the change! However, it doesn't change it in pages in Safari. Is there a way to change it to San Francisco? Thanks!
My new macbook laptop keeps losing the sound, anyone knows anything I can do besides restarting or logging out? Last time It fixed itself automagically, it's a macbook pro 2016, 13" with touchbar I can even hear a tick when I switch from hdmi to the headphones but it wont output any sound from youtube or VLC or anything else. I can only hear Siri. I can't afford to be restarting my computer manually every time this happens. On linux I can restart the service and fix it but I don't know how to do it in mac. OS Version: macOs Sierra 10.12.2
I have noticed a bug in Mission Control on macOS Sierra (10.12.2). Here's a GIF to reproduce the bug:
Is it possible in the command line to have the same sort order for files/folders as Finder. If I run find . -type d, I get as output:
Is there any way to set the keyboard on a MacBook Air laptop so that I can toggle between normal keys and a number pad? Seems a little ridiculous to use the mouse for calculator entry and while the number row is adequate for normal typing, it seems like there should be a way to add this functionality. (FWIW: late 2012 i7 Intel MBAir, OSX Sierra)
How do I get all sudo insults messages list on macOS?
Opening iTunes brings up a blank library. When I open iTunes by clicking the app icon while holding alt, choose the library it says:
If I run the following script: defaults -currentHost delete -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-628-0 defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-628-0 -array ' { HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 2; HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 0; }, { HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 0; HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 2; }, { HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 0; HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 10; }' defaults -currentHost read -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-628-0 I get a syntax error defaults[22044:679428] Could not parse: ... Try single-quoting it. If I run the following script:
My MacBook Air (11 inch, early 2015) cannot connect to a wi-fi network. When I first tried, it said that it could not connect to the network since another device with the same ip address was present on it (say the address is 192.168.1.24).
I have a YubiKey from Yubico which I would like to use in order to secure my online accounts. When trying it with Google, it tells me that Safari does not support it, I have to use Chrome instead. Is there a way I can use it with Google when I use the Safari browser?
I want to swap my Fusion Drive for a 1 TB SSD, to gain more speed loading programs. Do I have to delete (uninstall) the Fusion Drive first or can I just take out the HD and install the SSD and then start to format and install Sierra.
Is it going to be possible to upgrade all the way from Tiger to El Capitan? If so, how? Can I download Snow Leopard and then use the App Store from there, or do I need a CD?
At the bottom of 'Photos' in my photo app, there is some status text that says  The upload starts when the Photo is running in the foreground. However if I switched to another app and back, the uploading line will become: and slowing climbing back to the previous high watermark. I think these 244 photos are waiting for upload for at least a week now (since I last take note of the text) How can I make the Photo app to continue even though it is running in the background?
Certain apps on the Mac App Store are not updating (apart from iTunes and system updates), these include Pages, Numbers, Shazam, Evernote, OneDrive, etc. It gives the following errors each time and refuses to update.
I have a file with a list of URL's. I need to pass each URL from a bash script to be used in an AppleScript.
How can I create a Finder Smart Folder based on an EXIF keyword? I confirm that the EXIF keyword exists using exiftool. For example, I added the keyword "Mango" to an image and created the Smart Folder like so: Open a Finder window New Smart Folder Click the Plus icon Change Name to Keywords Next to Matches I type Mango Click Save Save it in the default location (~/Library/Saved Searches) Click the Mango Smart Folder in my Sidebar but it returns no results How can I create a Finder Smart Folder that searches the files' EXIF keywords?
I have a CD which I'm trying to add to iTunes, however my MacBook Pro won't read it. Every time I put it in it tries to read it, clicks and ejects after approx 20 secs. I've played the CD in a CD player with no problem so I don't think the CD is the issue and I can read other CDs no issue. Things I've tried so far: Reset the NVRAM Reset the SMC Renamed the cdinfo.cdlib in the preferences directory. Run a cleaning CD through. I tried the above separately with a test of the CD between each.
Ive got 5 or 6 Macs that I'm responsible for the security of. One of the things I want to do is keep all the macs on the latest security patch for their respective OS. We have a mixture of 10.10.5 and 10.11.x OS across the different machines, some of the machines, need to be on 10.10.x as some mission critical software we use on them only runs on 10.10.x I noticed there is an auto update feature for the OSX App store, but I'm concerned of two things : It will auto update the OS to Sierra or what ever is latest when it is auto updating (I only want to update to the latest version of my current OS to encompass security patches etc.) It will auto update the OS to Sierra or what ever is latest when it is auto updating (I only want to update to the latest version of my current OS to encompass security patches etc.) If a user choses to restart the machine in the middle of the day it will start trying to install software and take 30 mins to to install where as the user was only hoping to do a
Are there any reasons not to use a 10w ipad charger with a USB->USB-C cable to charge a new MacBook Pro 2016? Have the one charger that came with MacBook but would like to be able to plug in at office, home on road, etc. with other chargers. Thx.
Using either the built in podcasts app, or a third party app is it possible to play podcasts with the audio getting sent to the bluetooth headphones connected to an apple watch? In my testing with Overcast the audio was sent to the bluetooth headphones connected to my iPhone. Since I'm a totally blind Voiceover user I'd like to be able to hear the podcasts through the same headphones connected to the apple watch so I can listen to a podcast and check out my workout progress at the same time.
Is it possible to build cask formula from source instead of installing the corresponding pre-built app-file?
I read Why doesn't .bashrc run automatically? about sourcing .bash_profile from .bashrc and adjusted my config to match this. I am using iTerm2 as my terminal.
Using the shell, I opened a tar file that was full of db dumps that were compressed with bzip2. For each dump file, I (1) unzipped, (2) loaded, (3) deleted.
I would like to enable Google's Location History on my iPhone, so I can see my location history through *=URL=* I tried enabling this functionality as follows: Open the Google app - Menu - My Account - Personal Info & Privacy- Activity Controls - Location History. Here my iPhone is listed, with a disabled checkbox. When I click on the checkbox to enable it, nothing happens. I have Settings-Privacy- Location Services enabled, and Settings-Privacy- Location Services-Google set to 'Always'. Is there any way to enable the Location History functionality?
After update on my iPhone 7, I was prompted to set up some sort of approval where I needed to approve my phone from another device. When I went to my second device it asked to verify from another device also. I go to my third and last device to approve both the iPhone and the iPad from my MacBook and it says my MacBook needs to be approved too!? How am i supposed to approve all my devices if they all need approved?
I have two copies of the same image (jpeg). One is 4.0 MB the other 5.9 MB. I have run and the only difference reported is the size. I used hexdump to compare them and they seem to be identical except the second has more data at the end. They did originally come from an an old Mac and one had extended attributes, including
When I click on iPhoto Library in ~Pictures, I get the following error: Cannot Open Merged Library I never merged iPhoto with the newer Photos app, but I can only assume this is what happened - is this correct? Reviewing the sizes of iPhoto and Photo in Finder indicate iPhoto is 10 gb and Photos 6 gb. I can access my iPhoto Library files via the open package contents -> Master folder, but everything was organized in albums, and I can only access images by date - and they are all difficult to access via many sub folders.
I have a Mac mini "Core i5" 2.3 (Mid-2011) model. I cannot get it to boot. When I attempt to boot it will show to a white page with a progress bar. It will load about half way and shut off.
Which keyboard layout is this? Its AZERTY so I tried French (all french keyboards but the keys up are not well mapped) it's really weird.
I studied several questions about this issue, but as I don't want to mess anything, I am setting my question as specific as possible, I have a problematic MBP running macOS. I can boot it, but when the system starts, the screen only shows the cursor. This may be caused by a lack of disk space (I think only 40GB free out of 500).
I lost the remote for my 3rd generation Apple TV, so I ordered a new one from ebay. I've been unable to connect the new remote to the Apple TV. I've tried everything on Apple's website to do, with no luck. Finally, I found a YouTube video on how to "program your All in One remote" and that worked perfect, but now the Apple TV keeps asking me to put the password in for an incorrect Apple ID username.
I am attempting to pair the magic trackpad with a macbook. The MB has bluetooth enabled and the "Setup bluetooth trackpad" is invoked:
Is it okay to uninstall apps that came with my Mac like iMovie and GarageBand? I don't think I'll be using GarageBand so I'm planning to uninstall it. Additionally, if there would be a time I may need it, is it possible to reinstall the app? Thanks.
I was testing out a Linux Mint installation on an iMac in order to run some programs written for Linux. This iMac was a dual boot with Windows installed through bootcamp. I think it corrupted the boot system for Windows (The MBR and hybrid MBR is confusing me). I thought of removing the Linux installation and thus I used Disk Utility and reformatted and removed the Linux partitions. However, when I list the disk, the (internal, virtual) and Recovery HD drive is missing since after the removing the first installation.
The Sharing pane of System Preferences allows one internet connection from one interface to be shared to one other interface, e.g., share your connection from Ethernet 1 to computers using Wi-Fi. Is there a way outside of the Sharing GUI to simultaneously share two different internet connections out to two other interfaces (e.g., if A,B,C,D are interfaces: share A to B, and C to D).
I have iMessage on my Mac and iPhone. I treat iMessage on my phone as the primary tool. Mac iMessage is convenient to send messages occasionally, but my Mac is not always connected to the internet.
Over the past decade, we've purchased thousands of TV shows and hundreds of movies and songs from iTunes. These have all been stored on a massive NAS, and served from a Mac Mini with iTunes Home Sharing enabled.
I have a MacBook Pro late 2014 - macOS Sierra which was installed on 23rd of December 2016. I had few issues with the iOS Sierra installation such as: Installation not completed or moving forward for a very long time (i had to restart) the laptop started then but kept on restarting and trying to complete the installation until it was completed (restarted like 15 times) after all it was installed successfully. When the laptop is on power (cord is connected) and I close the lid of my MacBook Pro, then I open it everything seems fine and the MacBook Pro wakes up normally.
So I've been trying to make a program using AppleScript, but there's one thing that's been teasing me for some time now - How do I make the mouse click at current location without using Mouse Keys? Also, is it possible to simulate a long click (that means I set the length of it)?
I connected my current iPhone to iTunes and I accidentally hit restore and now my iPhone is set up like my old iPhone 4! Is there a way to make my iPhone back to the way it was an hour ago?
I am trying to uninstall an application (Barclays application) I have installed using Apple Store and reinstall it again. The problem is that even if I uninstall (by tapping on it and click 'X')it and redownload it from Apple Store, the app still keeps my user data and I don't want that. This happens for the first time, only with this application.
I had buy a new iPad mini 2. The worker of the shop where I bought my iPad was already setting my iPad. He was also created an Apple ID for me. But whenever I want to install any apps, I must enter my password of my Apple ID although I already signed in. Why does this problem happen?
When I open a terminal and run htop I am seeing a -bash process that is taking up 75% of my CPU. I am not running any scripts or anything like that. I constantly have 3-4 terminals open and I have never seen this happen before. I tried to kill the process but it doesn't go away. What should I try next?
I've been using a Microsoft bluetooth mouse with my MacBook Pro (Early 2015 El Capitan 10.11.5) without issue for several months. OSX Bluetooth Firmware Version: v119 c4633.
I am trying to install wine, by running brew install wine, but it fails. This is the output: Both dependencies are already installed.
Previously, I was able to play music on iTunes without a Wi-Fi connection. Now, I get an error message and my music will not play. WHY? How can I play my music through iTunes without a Wi-Fi connection?
How can I fix permissions for files in the /var/folders/zz? There are a lot of file under /var/folders/zz that seem to be application caches or some sort. I am interested in this because, it appears that if the permissions of these folders get set incorrectly (and there is a lot of "help" out there that suggests changing these at one time or another) it can easily break the applications that use them, like Apple Software Update, Apple Setup Assistant, Adobe Flash Installer, and many others.
I installed Boot Camp with Windows 10 32-bit, but it doesnt give me the option to switch my Mac into Windows. Any help? I've tried holding option when restarting it but only the Macintosh box appears.
When I run Portal on my MBP with no external screen connected I get a solid 60 fps. When I connect and mirror another screen (same resolution and game settings) it drops to 30 fps, sometimes 20, and has a very noticeable impact on game experience.
None of the answers in here *=URL=* seem to apply to OSX. Well the one above is the closest one but it appears to be just telling me that cron is running so I don't have to worry about restarting it. Which isn't the point of restarting something. How do I stop and restart the cron service on a Mac?
when in initially began the iCloud setup on MacBook i put in wrong email address. I don't think i put in a password. Now i keep getting box that says it can't access iCloud . I have a proper username and password for apple id , iTunes etc which I want to use. How do i get rid of this wrong iCloud username?
My 15" MacBook Pro, running macOS Sierra freezes frequently. This happens randomly, it freezes and only a force-shutdown (hold the power button) works. First, the Beachball just spins, then sometimes a black screen appears without any description or explanation. At this point, other buttons do not respond.
I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp couple of months ago and it worked normally. Today I tried to boot into Windows, but a password form pops up (firmware protection form). Booting into macOS without holding option key works OK.
If I have purchased an album, may I share it with my husband's iPhone? I have tried the air drop feature, but he is unable to retrieve it.
Since the new MacBook Pros have been released and the "old" ones happen to be cheaper now, I decided to upgrade to the 2015 model. On everymac.com, however, I saw that there are two different models of the MacBook: the "IG" (integrated graphics) and the "DG" (dual graphics). Since I'd appreciate higher VRAM, I'd rather go with the "DG" model. However, when configuring the MacBook Pro on Apple's official website, it doesn't seem to offer the "DG" option. Is there any way to buy the "DG" MacBook Pro directly from Apple?
I have an external 2TGB HD which I use as a TimeMachine backup. This is permanently connected to my MacBook Pro whenever it is on my desk and connected to power. I noticed that no backups had been performed for 3 days, and after some investigation discovered that it had developed a problem. Disk Utility will not run when the drive is connected (it displays "Loading disks" until I give up). diskutil list /dev/disk3 shows:- diskutil info /dev/disk3s2 shows:- diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk3 shows The partition map appears to be OK I have tried various repair/verify steps; diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk3s2 shows:- Can anyone suggest how I could repair the partition? Failing that how would I go about copying the TimeMachine backups from a similar disk, which I use as weekly backups? I was using the Mac and left Disk Utility running; after some hours I noticed the TimeMachine Volume was mounted, so I ran First Aid with the following result:- I was able to perform a backup. I noticed the driv
I recently had 4 kernel panics on my Macbook Pro (2010), always when using a Webbrowser(newest Firefox / Chrome) I built in a new SSD two weeks ago, after my old HD was destroyed while having similar panics. First thing I tried out now was running hardware test, but I dont have OS on a drive and running the internet version returns the error screen "apple.com/support -3403D" Im running OS X 10.10, here are my logs: thanks in advance for any suggestion, where they could come from.. 22.12.16: and 3 of them today: first: second: and third:
I have a 2016 MacBook. First, OS X El Capitan was installed. Now, I've installed Sierra.
I wanted to create a Windows 7 installation on a USB drive for my iMac, so I followed these instructions. Basically, they allow you to create a bootable USB drive with Windows installed on it without resolving to using boot camp. The internal drive on the iMac is not big enough to also hold a boot camp installation.
I'm running Mavericks on a 2013 MacBook Air. Every time my clock reaches 10:00 (both AM and PM) it disappears, then reappears again once it reaches 12:00/0:00. I have it set as a 12 hour clock. I found a way to temporarily fix it, by switching to analogue and then back again, however the next time 10:00 AM/PM comes around, it disappears again. Is there any way to fix this permanently?
My goal is to find a way to play the same music (same song with control from one device, ideally) on a soundbar (either via bluetooth or an apple TV) and another bluetooth speaker. We have an Apple Music family plan.
When tethering a cellular-capable iOS 10 device, the traffic from the remote machine seems to bypass the connect-as-needed VPN and go directly to the cellular network. Local iOS device traffic starts and uses the VPN as usual, but web sites visited from the remote machine see the mobile IP address, not the VPN IP address (regardless of whether the VPN is on at the time of the visit or not).
It's the weirdest thing! It used to work perfectly. My TV at home does not have HDMI, but the VGA input works great. When I ordered this new MBP, I got all adapters from Apple. Today is when things got weird: When I plug in thunderbolt 3 -> VGA I get nothing. When I plug in thunderbolt 3 -> thunderbolt 2 -> VGA I get nothing.
Office 365 keeps prompting for login credentials within Mac OSX? I came across a problem where a client of mine had bought and installed Office Suite 2016 she than upgraded to Office 365 Business Premium.
This is on a Mac Pro Server Quad Xeon 3.2GHz (MacPro5,1) mid 2012 running OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and a HighPoint RocketRAID RR622SD eSATA/USB3 card. SansDigital 5-bay external drive enclosure.
If I just delete them on the iPhone they would be deleted in the iCloud too? I currently guess so ... What I want is basically to say: 'Remove it from the iPhone BUT keep it in iCloud!'
My macbook pro fell and the left side of the screen is now black. So about 20% of it is not visible due to breakage. I am working around this using an external display when I can locate one, but on the go I'd like to limp along until I can afford the repair. Is there a software solution for MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) Running macOS Sierra version 10.12 to adjust the screen resolution or placement to squeeze it without messing up proportions to the left so that it covers only the part that's not broken. Is there a way to manually adjust resolution through underscan/overscan (which is not visible to me for my own display) or through other means? I'm trying to push everything to the side so that it's visible (including the apple logo menu on the top left)
I'm having issues getting an AppleScript to run for an app called AutoRate. The script below was originally made for version 1.5.5. I've already tried to mess with AppleScript to get it to run on 1.6, but because I've never really used AppleScript before I'm not getting anywhere. The picture shows 1.6 on top and 1.5.5 on the bottom. The 2nd photo shows the hierarchy for 1.6. Any help is appreciated.
A large number of notifications are being generated for all contacts celebrating a 117th birthday. There is also no way to bulk dismiss them.
I've got a mid 2012 15" unibody MBP, non retina (one of the last easily user serviceable ones). I have used it every day since I bought it in early 13 and the battery is pretty weak now, a full charge lasts about 1.5hrs. (the 2:29 remaining shown in the screenshot seems inaccurate when you actually use the laptop)
I am single home user in one apartment with no other users, living apartment block house with over hundred apartments. I have cable internet and one modem.
How many external HD (not 4K or 5K) external displays can I use with the 2016 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, using multiple HDMI to Type-C adapters? The Touch Bar models also have 4 Type-C ports and an Intel Iris Graphics 550, not an Intel Iris Graphics 540 like the base model.
I have my Airport Extreme set up with a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel. I am 100% certain the tunnel is working, because my iPhone gets an IPv6 address that is on the tunnel-assigned range, and it passes the IPv6 connectivity tests (such as test-ipv6.com).
My system consists of a 2011 iMac running Mavericks, and using an external audio interface (iConnectAudio4+) along with a Bluetooth speaker and Airfoil to create a "surround" effect for music while I'm working. The issue is specific to SoundFlower, which I must use or I can't adjust the computer volume at all (volume control gets greyed out). My routing for this setup is as follows: Mac Audio Output > SoundFlower > iConnectAudio4+
I've followed the directions to the KEY. I've done it both manual, and using the script by disabling, and re-enabling SIP. It said success. I used the The rEFInd Boot Manager: Installing rEFInd help guide to do both of the techniques. This is on my macOS btw, and I have Windows 10 on Boot Camp already. I'm looking to triple boot it with Kali Linux on my MacBook Pro.
In How can I extend the time when system.log gets turned over? and How to find recently connected external disks? it says that /etc/newsyslog.conf should have an entry for /var/log/system.log that I can edit to change how often this log file is rotated and how many old versions are kept. But on my system there's no entry for this file. The contents of my file are (omitting the big block of comments at the top): I also looked in the files in /etc/newsyslog.d, none of them contain system.log, either. So how does system.log get rotated now, and is there a setting I can change to control it?
Here's the problem: If I shoot in continuous mode, I can have several images per second. Aperture will happily import these and rename them with Date @ Time, but subsequently sorting either by version name or by file name will bring results up in mixed order for a given time stamp.
I have a problem: due to high power electricity my charger was damaged and I had to replace it - an Apple 13 inch MacBook Air charger. This has happened already once before, a month ago, and now it has happened again.
Suppose that I move a.app outside /Applications to somewhere like ~/Downloads/MyApp (Note that I drop the extension). How can I run it from there using terminal? I tried open -a but it says ... cannot be opened because its executable is missing.
If I install malicious software (which is meant for Windows) using Wine on my Mac, will that malicious application be able to affect my computer at all? (For example, see/do things to files outside of the .wine directory, slow down my computer.) If a malicious application can do this, is there a way to sandbox Wine?
Is it possible to filter the Ask for Finder Items action by file type? In my case, I only want to display PDF files, but I get the whole lot.
I have no sound in my videos recorded in Photobooth. This happens on any user account, and the mic is working. I am using macOS 10.12.2 (16C67).
I've been having issues with many apps where they fail to render properly and take over the whole UI. Sometimes I need to restart but usually just closing the app solves the problem. Is there any setting I can tweak to avoid this?
I have an older iPad Mini and when I try and use a game iOS Game Center asks for my password, which I enter, and is accepted. Then it asks to type in the Apple ID Verification Code, although there is nowhere to type it in.
The recent update iMessage on iOS causes certain words to trigger screen effects. Also, there is a way to long-press on the send button, and bring up an interface for adding these effects. I've found the following associations between screen effects, and the messgaes that trigger them: confetti: "congratulations", "happy birthday" fireworks: "happy new year" What is the list of these?
I have a MacBook Air 2011, my macOS is 10.12.2. Recently it is very slow and sometimes it just restarts. It started to happen after the upgrade to 10.12.1 and 10.12.2.
I have one iPhone 4s 8GB version which I updated to iOS 9.3.5 and when I see the storage available, I got 4.2 GB after installing some apps. When I counted the sum total of storage consumed by all apps, it was only < 300 MB. But, it showed that the usage is 866 MB.
The internet is not very satisfactory when it comes to this question, I found one somewhat related question here where someone says allowing parsecd internet access via Little Snitch made their keyboard input smoother. But what the heck does parsecd actually do? I do see it pop up regularly via Little Snitch, and I would love to know what it does. Can anyone shed some light?
Is there any way to set different tracking speed for Magic Mouse and for built-in trackpad? I'm using both, but Magic Mouse acts good for me at max tracking speed, but trackpad good for me at average tracking speed. I see that tracking speeds are adjusted separately for each input device, but actually they affect both mouse and trackpad. Is there any chance to set different configurations? MacOs Sierra 10.12.2
I would like to know how to stop Mail app on iOS 9.3.5 from automatically downloading the mail attachments. It is taking a lot of space on my iPhone.
I've been spending some time with tools like BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, Alfred, etc. and I've found different uses for each. However I'm having a hard time keeping everything straight, particularly tracking conflicting keyboard shortcuts between default app settings, system level commands, etc. Is there a way to generate a complete, system-wide list of key commands that would indicate any conflicts and/or where a particular command is set? Xcode for instance will show conflicts with system settings - is there a way to do this globally?
My MacBook Air 2011 model's battery is broken, often can't be charged, and remains at 1%. Can I disable the use of battery, and only turn it on when it's plugged in with a power adapter?
Any one of these might be causing the problem. Another difference I noted was com.apple.iclou process was running in normal run and not in the problematic one.
Then I read that it might be caused because of an unstable Internet connection. I tried my home Wi-Fi, I tried my phone's 3G hotspot, both options gave me a 3001f error. I tried a wired network and it instantly gave me 1006f error. I tried a wired network and it instantly gave me 1006f error. Step 4 and 5 were both initialized with Command+Option+R.
I have 2016 MBP with Touch Bar, Radeon Pro 460, macOS Sierra 10.12.2 installed. Word 2016 is sluggish and keeps reporting that I either won't be able to undo an action or am not able to perform it at all because I do not have enough memory.
I have just installed an application called TeamViewer on my own and my very elderly mother's Macs. This is in order for me to help her online and occasionally use the remote control facility. However, because she is totally unfamiliar with the application and does not recognise it, she simply shuts it whenever she sees it, no matter how often I reopen it (when I am at home with her), nor how many times I ask her not to shut it. She simply forgets. I have already added TeamViewer to the login items on my mother's user account, but that does not stop her from closing it.
I have two apps on one Developer account which have been tested through TestFlight feature, but never released. Now, the customer accidentally decided to release them via absolutely new Developer Team. I'm Admin in both of teams, and have email/password access for Team Agent of new account.
I have been using "Remote login" from my Windows machine to compile code but suddenly it isn't working anymore. When I'm using git bash I get this:
I have a finished iMovie (made in the latest version of iMovie in the latest version of MacOS Sierra) that I exported to iTunes and then burned to a DVD. As expected, the DVD plays back not only on my Mac but also on computers running Windows. The unfortunate part is that the DVD does not play back in my home DVD player... What did I miss? Why does it not playback? Note: The DVD player that I put it in, I expected to be a bit more "lenient" with playback because it is also a DVD burner. I exported at 1080p onto a DVD-R. Also this is the latest version of iTunes. This is a Memorex DVD and the DVD player will playback MPEG and MP3.
How do you set an environment variable on startup so that it can be used in applications? For example, ATOM_HOME is used by Atom.
When I purchase something using Safari and the Apple Pay option, I either get to pay with my iPhone or Apple Watch. The selection isn't consistent. How does Apple Pay on iOS choose to send the verification (to a given device)?
Any idea why I can't setup a reminder or calendar appointment with Siri on the Mac? When I attempt to setup a reminder I just get her saying "One sec". When I press confirm after telling her to setup an appointment I get "Sorry Scott I can't do that". Any ideas? Is there something I have to do to get these useful features working?
So I have this issue lately, where I am only able to play like 45 seconds of a song in iTunes before it closes on me. It does not say anything about an unexpected crash, but if I am syncing my phone or something it will say "Do you really want to quit?" making it seem like I quit the application, when I did not.
I'm on Sierra and have MailActOn in Mail. I want to set up an Outbox mail rule to run an Applescript that effectively will delete all email attachments on the message I am replying to, after delivery.
App Store just ate all my mobile data trying to download Xcode. Is there a way to tell OS X that WiFi I'm currently using is expensive and it should not download its stuff without asking me first?
I've bought my iPhone 7 September 16th and noticed today a change in color of the antenna stripes - they are getting blueish:  I always wear it in my jeans pocket without any case or sleeve. Is there something I can do to clean the stripes?
I emptied the trash "non-securely," and now I want to find those files and delete them permanently, in order to free space on my startup disc. I learned from Apple that they go into an "invisible" trash folder, but I can't find it.
I'm using macOS Sierra and when I try to view failed login attempts, grep doesn't return any results because the keyword has probably changed or I'm looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know where/how to find these?
I want to be able to transfer some videos from my iPhone to my Mac so that I can create a YouTube video. The problem is that I can't insert a cable into my Mac because it only has inserts for a charger and headphones. Is there any way I can email or use Dropbox to get the pictures and videos into my Mac?
I'm having this problem where my computer performs some weird behavior when I turn off my external monitor. For example, I have to run some programs and I'd like to have my screen off because they take many hours to run. However, when I turn off my monitor it seems to stop the program. How can I make my computer not notice when I turn off my screen? I have a Dell monitor and a Mac Mini with macOS Sierra.
I have two Macbook pro retina's: MbPro 15" retina late 2015 El Capitan MbPro 15" retina mid 2012 El Capitan The first one is able to pair with the Magic Trackpad (not the "2" - instead the older version). But the 2012 one has the following behavior: initially detects the trackpad -including showing the serial # but then cannot complete the pairing - and I'm back to square one. The initial detection of the trackpad happened several times.
Since I came to Thailand 6 weeks ago, iPhoto on my Macbook pro has been scanning for faces. On my Mac Pro desktop, this process took about 2 days as I recall. My iPhone 7 Plus, which I bought a week ago is almost finished. This time it’s incredibly slow. I am so sick of seeing this screen:
If my phone is sitting on my desk locked, something like a napkin is just covering the proximity sensor, and I get a notification or something, the screen will not turn on. Can this be disabled?
I am in the process of transferring data from my old MacBook Pro to a new MacBook Pro. In order to transfer some files, I decided to plug in a USB hard drive that contained a bootable partition of my old MacBook Pro, as well as a partition that contained the files that I wished to transfer. (The drive contained a few partitions, all of which mounted on the new MacBook Pro).
I was adjusting Accessibility options and then poof the following programs disappeared from view. Finder Google Chrome Atom (editor) Opera
My small nephew dropped my iPhone 4s. There is a small crack on the screen. Now the iPhone is off / black and when I plug it into a charger only the Apple logo is displayed.
I'm adding 4 drives to an existing 18-drive RAID 6. In ArcHTTP I modified the RAID Set, then expanded the Volume Set. This part went fine and ArcHTTP reports back a 60 TB volume as expected
There are some videos telling how to install iOS 10 on iPhone 4s, for example How to get iOS 10 on iPhone 4/4s/5/5c/5s/6 and above. Though they contain the term iPhone 4s in the title, I am not sure whether it works, because that video doesn't clearly show installing iOS 10 on 4S device. The software update in iPhone 4S doesn't show the iOS 10 update, but is there a way to install it?
I've read about and seen other people have new cities appear in the Aerial Apple TV screensaver. My Apple TV, and with the latest software, doesn't seem to ever show these. Has anyone else had this? I've also experienced a black screen when the screeensaver is meant to otherwise appear.
I've downloaded an app from the App Store. If I open it from the home screen, everything works fine. If I open it from within the App Store by tapping on "Open" it (the app) crashes at launch. How can I fix this?
My mac just woke up on its own. Checked the logs: However I had disabled the "wake on network activity":
I have this shared folder on macOS and it was visible for a long time for Windows. Suddenly not. And somehow my mac has become invisible for my windows machine. What can be the problem? I am not a very technical person.
I am trying to connect and pair a Bluetooth device from the command line. I can do it over the GUI using the standard process but I am looking to automate the whole process.
The goal is how to prevent user from using social media or texting while driving by simply plugging into Special cable? Is it possible at all? Configuration profile Reference Some questions: Is there a way to disable or enable access to other apps or features using Configuration Profile? Is it possible to turn it on/off via simple plugging phone into the Special cable? Will app have possibility to install such profile on iPhone?
My MacBook Pro has a Danish keyboard. The character [ doesn't have its own key. I have to press ⌥+8 to get the left bracket character [. How do you use a shortcut like ⌘+⌥+[?
Just used the dreaded newer Disk Utility to merge two smaller partitions. It seemed that the operation caused my main 1.5TB partition, last on the disk to reappear, empty, with the name of one of the smaller partitions. Also a Recovery partition 600MB seems to have appeared and is now the last one on disk.
I have an external HD with a bootable version of my macOS 10.8.5 system. I recently updated to macOS 10.11.6 and with Disk Utility I wanted to add a partition to my external drive to have a separate backup disk for the updated OS. I exactly followed the steps described in "Add a volume to a device without erasing existing data" from Disk Utility for Mac: Partition a physical disk using Disk Utility but something went wrong and now I have three volumes which are all empty.
I have about two dozen iDevices, wild mixture of all OS versions, we use for app/web development/testing. In order to ensure a "clean slate", I want to reprovision them periodically using Apple Configurator. That works so far so good, but Apple Configurator does not allow me to specify Apple ID (aka iCloud) credentials and the PIN code - I want these to be the same across all the devices because they're shared anyway...
Is there somewhere public that Apple (or a third party) maintains a list of known serious bugs with Apple's software? For example it would have been nice to have known: That the reason that iCloud Calendar is silently failing to send any invitations to events I create is that for many users (for some years apparently) invitations for events with locations simply don't send. That Apple Pay does not integrate with App Store accounts so that users are logged out of their App Store accounts when they pay with Apple Pay and are thus unable to track or change their order in any way.
How to open an interactive terminal window after executing some commands? For example, I would like to have open a directory at a specific directory with a specific environment myscript.cmd If I double click the file, a Terminal window opens, executes the script and then logs out [Process complete] If I run a Terminal window opens, executes the script and then waits for input (but forgets the directory and environment set by the script) Finally I found to get what I want with but I wonder if there is a "proper" way to do it
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 10.2 and a 2015 Chevy Mailbu with Bluetooth capability for calls and streaming audio (non CarPlay). The problem I have is when I am receiving calls (everything else works fine). When a call comes in and I answer it, regardless if I press the phone button on the steering wheel or the answer button on the phone, the iPhone immediately switches to its internal speaker I have to manually switch it back to the "Bluetooth headset" (car speakerphone) for the audio to work properly.
Edited to simplify question: using host file, we can redirect a domain (example.com) to localhost: How can we redirect an ip (for example 35.166.133.11) to localhost (web server port 80) using Murus firewall’s custom pf rules?
My MacBook Pro Retina 13" late 2012 sometimes is taking more than 30 minutes to get back from sleep. Normally takes up to 10 minutes but often takes more than 30 minutes. Has anyone faced or have a fix for that? Notes:
Here's the situation. I backed up an old iPhone 5S to iTunes on Windows via a USB cable. I bought a new iPhone SE and restored the backup onto it. Everything works fine...except...no past messages show in Messages. The view, that usually shows them in reverse chronological order, is empty. Using the search widget doesn't find anything either. However, after creating a new message, that goes to one of the existing contacts, suddenly all the past messages appear in the chain!
On my iPad 2 (running iOS 9) there's a "Virus Detected" email popping up that I can neither delete or change. No matter what I do, the "Virus Detected" email keeps opening on my screen whenever I attempt to use Safari.
I am using a simple Numbers spreadsheet to track an expense that only comes up a few times per year. I want to be able to have Numbers automatically add the values that come from each year. For example,
I'm using homebrew as my package manager. While installing python3 with brew install python3 I am getting the following error
Does anyone know from experience whether AirPods work with the Apple TV 3rd generation?
I recently switched carriers and everything was done over the phone. I provided my account number etc from my old carrier to my new carrier and authorized everything to be transferred over.
So the limit of the Macbook Pro mid 2014 is 3840x2160 at 30 Hz through HDMI 2.0 (I guess it's only 1.4b). When I fire up VLC and look on my Macbook, the image is clear and there is no stutering what so ever. It runs butter smooth. When I look at my TV, however, the quality is still very, very good, but the video stutters all the time. It's like a bungee/elastic effect when there's a panorama shot, and when there's a rolling shot going very fast, it's like watching 10 FPS clips. I can see my Macbook Pro uses the integrated 750M graphics card, and it does get quite hot. What's the issue here?
We are a small team of developers and we would like to use MacBook Pro to develop for iOS. Is is possible for several users to log in remotely to the Mac using RealVNC and to work in multiple accounts simultaneously? Setup: We have two Windows machines in different geographical locations We have two Windows machines in different geographical locations One single MacBook Pro where one user works locally One single MacBook Pro where one user works locally What we did: We installed RealVNC server on the Mac What is the problem: When someone logs into RealVNC remotely he ends up in the same account as the local user.
I've tried other solutions I've found on StackExchange for this same problem, but must have a unique situation that is still causing problems. I have a hosts file setup as follows: I have httpd.conf setup and the line for LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache2/mod_unique_id.so commented out (as others have suggested). I can ping 127.0.0.1 and get this: I've run
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra and now have access to Siri. Whenever Siri searches the internet, it uses Bing, although I would prefer to use Google. I changed Safari's default search engine to Google, but that did not affect Siri's searches. How can I change Siri's default search engine?
Is there anyway to ''borrow'' from my 1.5GB of VRAM to be used for my RAM? Otherwise, am I flat-out stuck with my 4GB of RAM?
My iPhoto app, version 9.2.1, has a grey icon with a no sign and won't open. I'm running OSX 10.10.5, and I noticed a new app called Photos (version 1.0.1). When I try to open Photos, I am prompted to choose my single iPhoto library to convert to Photos. But when I click "choose library", I get the error Library Version Too Old Please upgrade your library “iPhoto Library” using the free iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple.
P.P.S. I've already read these posts, and they are not helpful for my situation because I already know about TRRS and what kind of external mic to use and have one that has already worked: External Microphone input for MacBook Air 2012 MacBook Pro (mid-2012) Microphone Input https://superuser.com/questions/361980/recording-with-audio-input-macbook-air
I use BetterTouchTool and Applescript to have hotkeys for specific functions. For example, I have Command F11 set up to set my Mac's volume to 19, which is basically the same as 3 dashes on the system volume overlay ("set volume output volume 19"). But the overlay doesn't display, and I'd like it to. How can I trigger the system volume control overlay in macOS Sierra?
On Mac, the print dialog 'Save to pdf' features captures all types of images and image-like things. On iPad, the tools I have tried run into problems, e.g.: On *=URL=* no MathML is included in the conversion or only that which appears on the first page or two. On *=URL=* no MathML is included in the conversion or only that which appears on the first page or two. On *=URL=* the animated gifs are properly converted to single static images, but surrounding text is lost. On *=URL=* the animated gifs are properly converted to single static images, but surrounding text is lost. Do any tools work properly on these webpages?
A simple df -h reports: What is devfs & map -hosts & map auto_home? Why is devfs 100% capacity?
What is the correct URL for connecting as Guest to a Linux Samba server share from OS X? Example: From Finder, press Cmd+K Enter url: smb://192.168.1.100/shared_files
I prefer to go by a nickname, and I have my iPhone set to address me by that name (from Siri et al). However, my Apple Watch's Activity notifications all address me by my first name as provided on my address card - and it seems to always use the one that it has pulled from Facebook, of all the places, rather than the one on my iCloud address card. I do not want to change my name on Facebook nor do I want to disconnect my Facebook account, but I'd rather my Apple Watch refer to me by my preferred nickname.
I am trying to design a plan for patching Mac endpoints at my company. Are there any readily available tools which I could leverage for continuous security patch/update management for 3rd party apps on Mac. AppFresh seems to be discontinued. I looked into the Sparkle framework. Has anyone used it within an organization, and if yes, what is the best way to use it? Any thoughts or guidance on operationalizing patch management on macOS in a startup would be highly useful.
Having just made the leap to Sierra (10.12.2), I've discovered that one of my favorite add-ons is behaving funkily, and wonder if any of you have discovered an alternative. I don't actually care that much about Growl itself, but Hardware Growler is a wonderful add-on to Growl that gives you all sorts of info about what's going on behind the scenes with the hardware you connect/disconnect from it. Everything from USB, Bluetooth & Firewire to Network, Power and Volume mounting/unmounting. Since it's primarily just reporting things that system doing & noticing, I would imagine there might be something like an Automator workflow, integrated with some command line tools that could replace it?
how can I change the Opacity in picture in picture in iMovie, like you can do in finalcut pro? Very rarely do I want to have an image completely opaque over my video, seems like such a basic thing to do.
Around every 5 minutes my iMac 2011 disconnects from the wifi. It is running 10.9.5. I don't think that this is a hardware problem because I can get the wifi to work again by disconnecting then reconnecting. This only happens on the iMac, not on any other devices. This has happened before, it stopped eventually. Please help.
I have an older iPad that I got in 2012. The iOS version is 8.1
I wanted to use a mini display-port cable then use "target display mode" to make the iMac an external display, but I just read that early 2009 iMac's don't have target display mode as a feature. Anybody knows of a solution?
Is there any way to play music through all of the speakers in a 5.1 (or 7.1) surround system in Sierra? I've looked at options like Soundflower, but everything I've looked into is 3+ years old. To clarify:
I have a new MacBook Pro and backed up (encrypted) my iPhone on the machine. I would like to transfer that backup to my iMac desktop and open it in iTunes on that machine. Is it possible to transfer the encrypted backup on the MacBook to the iMac? Thx.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Mid 2015) running El Capitan (10.11.6). It will often run for days with no issue. I will be using the Mac at the time, then suddenly the screen shuts down black as if its gone to sleep (nothing that I've done knowingly has triggered this). There is nothing that I can do to then turn on the Mac - Power button does nothing and pressing the touchpad also does nothing. I have to close the lid and then open it again to wake it up. When I then open up the Mac, it will stay awake and then repeat the above over and over, only staying awake for 5 - 15 seconds at a time before sleeping again. I have run: .. and i get (amongst all other lines) From all my Googling, this seems to indicate that the lid has been shut, but the lid is still open. Any hints on how I can stop this from happening?
Are there any guidelines for the position of the back button? I always see the back button at the top-left part of the screen, but I don't know the exact position I should place it.
The integrated dictation software on my Mac (whose hotkey is pressing function twice) takes 10 seconds to initialize after not using it for around 10 minutes. It's a minor nuisance, but still a nuisance. Is there documentation for changing the settings? MacBook OS 10.11
The man page for cp says this about the -a option: Same as -pPR options. Preserves structure and attributes of files but not directory structure. FreeBSD cp's manual does not have this caveat, although the structure of the options remains very similar, if not identical. What does not preserving directory structure mean in this case?
I have waited for an hour it doesn't work. All others apps are downloading smoothly. Also restrictions are off. I also tried to download it through iTunes from my laptop.
I just downloaded a game on iTunes name Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch. Now this app is downloading again on iTunes! What should I do to cancel this re-downloading? It's a big size app and I don't want to download again. How can I cancel this download?
Does Apple Watch Series 2 support all bluetooth headphones, or do I need to check for specific bluetooth requirements before buying? Most of the sites suggest Beats Jaybird. Will the watch not work with common bluetooth headphones?
Open Activity rings in Apple watch and then swipe left. Sharing screen is shown.
To slightly rephrase the question, should it be necessary to disable HD sleep in the Energy Saver pane as a means to maintain a live wi-fi connection as the computer becomes idle and enters sleep? Here's what prompts the question: I am attempting to make use of the open-source "Hermes" and the App Store "HD Radio for Pandora" to stream music. Everything is fine until I walk away from the computer. Shortly thereafter, usually about 7-12 minutes later, the Pandora app will get through the last song in the buffer and cease playback. When I return to the MacBook the System reports that the app has crashed. Each of the stand-alone Pandora apps I've tried has produced the same crashlog results. The log cites the main apple thread, another containing the words "Audio toolbox" and a remote/sharing process.
When I used Mountain Lion, I had a 3TB HDD that used the HFS+ file system, and I was able to create two partitions on my one HDD both of them storing certain stuff. I could also do this in Mavericks as well, but when I upgraded to Yosemite, I was not able to modify the partitions and can use no more than 1.5TB. I thought that this was the result of a botched BootCamp uninstallation, but I found out that it was because the drive was converted to CoreStorage. I did an IR which saw me downgrade back to ML, but unfortunately this did nothing to fix the problem, and in Disk Utility itself, everything is disabled.
When you open an email from someone in Mac Mail, their profile picture (set in the Contacts app) is displayed. If a profile pic is not found, a circle with that user's initials is displayed. Is there a way to publish a profile pic associated with my email address, so any user of Mac Mail can see that profile pic when I send them emails?
So there is a web appliance running on my Mac localhost. I want to check how it looks in Internet Explorer. I have Parallels Desktop 12 running Windows 10 with installed Parallels tools.
I accidentally erased my hard drive in my 2010 MacBook Pro that had all of my information, photos, contacts, you name it... is there any way I can recover my data that was on my MacBook before I erased anything? I'm in desperate need of help to recover all my files.
Is there a way to sort photos in an album in Apple Photos by date taken? The answer must be "yes", but I can't find it. The options that seem to refer to date (e.g., Keep Sorted by Oldest) seem to sort by the date the photo was added to the album.
I would like to restore my iPhone from a backup that is not listed in iTunes. How can I do that? The backup file is saved on my computer hard drive. Thx.
I want to use Tab to switch to the previously-used input source, and ⇧ ShiftTab as the usual tab function. As a Chinese language user, the key combination I use the most is ⌘ CommandSpace, which selects the previous input source. Since I only have two keyboards enabled, selecting the previous input source is the same thing as toggling between them. For every non-English user, this switch is frequent.
According to this thread from Apple Developer Forums, an APFS volume created on macOS 10.12.1 is not mountable on macOS 10.12.2, because of the incompatible changes. I put some important files in my external drive formatted as APFS, and now I would like to access the data. I tried this: This: And this: The error message is similar to what mentioned in the above thread: My questions are:
Both are 500 GB drives but only 250 GB are used. I have a mid 2012 MacPro (Incase your wondering how I have 2 drives in this mac I replaced my optical drive with a hard drive caddy) When trying to read the gtp/pmbr scheme this is what it spits out disk0 is osx disk1 is home.
I want to setup the window sidebar my Office apps to resemble my system windows' sidebar i.e. I want to see listed things like Desktop or a particular folder. Right now it only lists the system hierarchy and the various drives connected. Can this be altered?
Looking for some help. I have a 1TB external USB drive that is formatted using HFS+. I want my Windows 10 laptop to read it, but it won't show up in HFS explorer, or Disk Management.
I am interested in using my old MacBook as an audio baby monitor. My imagined workflow is to set a noise threshold for the internal microphone in the MacBook when baby is stirring or whining and to use Messages to text me or my wife when the threshold is reached. When I'm looking in System Preferences, I can see the Input level for the microphone is picking up noise, but how can I get a quantifiable number in Terminal? I've seen online about osascript -e "get volume settings" to access a numeric value for how sensitive the microphone should be set, but I can't find a way to access how loud of an input is coming in at any given time. Any ideas out there?
I am looking to find out how the apps are organized when you look under the App Store go to purchased and not this phone. Are they organized from Recently deleted or is there another random way that is done?
I am running Yosemite on a MacPro. I have an AMPPS installation with a file sharing database app running within it.
Is it possible to make the wifi icon in the menu bar the TX rate or the wifi speed rate? My wifi sometimes drops out and I would like to know if it is my wifi or the website I am visiting.
It seems if Do Not Disturb is set to on (manually or daily scheduled) on the iPhone, then alarm (in the Clock app) will still fire off, but Calendar alerts will not fire off? What are the rules?
I'm planning on buying a new Macbook Pro (13 inch) as my primary work computer. I do a lot of .NET development, so I will have to have Windows running in a VM inside macOS (Parallels).
The Reminders widget for Notifications Center on macOS Sierra only seems to show today's reminders. I create a lot of reminders that don't always have a deadline or alarm set on them. How can I show all of these all the time in the notifications center?
A non-tech savvy friend is going to China. I need to stay in contact with him while he's there. I've set up WeChat to ensure we're not stalled by firewalls, but I'd really like to use iMessage and FaceTime there. How do iMessage and FaceTime work in China? What about iCloud File Sharing?
If a picture is iMessaged to me, how can I tell what time that photo was taken? When I save it, it changes the EXIF info to the time I save it (which isn't helpful). I am trying to see if a stranger is lying to me, for my safety.
I can easily send all of my traffic to a SOCKS proxy:  How can I apply this setting to ONLY a specified group of Apps? Thanks!
I frequently edit files inside of kernel extension (.KEXT) files on OS X. To do this, I have to right-click and "Show Package Contents". To save time, I would like to simply double-click the package and have it open with Finder. Ideally, Finder would show the full folder hierarchy in column view. Currently, when I show the package contents, the folder hierarchy is "reset" with the package as root. As you can see in this screenshot, there is no horizontal scrollbar, so I can't quickly traverse up the hierarchy as I could in a normal directory tree. I'm working in Sierra, but this question could apply to any recent version of OS X.
They look OK in iTerm, but elsewhere - including browsers - font rendering is much worse. So how can I make these fonts as crispy as they used to on earlier macOS/OS X versions? I guess it definitely has something to do with AppleFontSmoothing, or font anti-aliasing in general, but I have tried the many other options in this regard, that are as follows: Setting AppleFontSmoothing with and without currentHost flag, and restarting the macbook each time I make a change to see the changes. Ran the command sudo atsutil databases -remove to remove all the user installed fonts.
I've been using my early 2014 MBA in clamshell mode connected to an LG Flatron monitor via VGA with no issue. I recently started using HDMI (using this Amazon Basics dongle). I used this with no issue at my folks' house with no issue over the holidays but now back home I'm getting lots of connectivity issues. Here's the rundown:
My iPhone 5 runs out of power very quickly. First it was 50%. Then it was 60%, then 70%, and now 80%. At 80%, the phone will shut down like it would when the power gets to 0%. When it powers back on, it says 80%. It's almost like the limit of when to shut the phone off was, and still is getting to a higher percentage.
I'm trying to find password-protected PDFs, using Spotlight (though answers involving a third-party app are also fine). Spotlight has a Security field that describes the "Encryption method used to make the document secure":
How do I tell how power is moving through my MacBook Pro's USB-C ports? My shiny new MacBook Pro (15", 2016), comes with four USB-C ports.
I just installed vim using brew I am on a ssh connection to a MacOSX desktop. I am heavily using homebrew. As soon as try to delete a character or copy something in vim, I get the following warning message: [15020] CFPasteboardRef CFPasteboardCreate(CFAllocatorRef, CFStringRef) : failed to create global data I suspect the vim is not able to access system clipboard. There is ticket on macport (*=URL=* it looks like that it wasn't resolved. I installed fakeclip plugin in vim but it didn't help either. Any suggestions on how to get rid of this annoyance over ssh connection? UPDATE
I want to schedule music to play at a certain time on either an iPhone4 or iPhone6 or iPad2. The device will be linked to an external speaker via Bluetooth.
For some odd reason, I am unable to witness my download button, even when i am downloading something. I am able to access the downloaded file(s) in Finder just fine, but theres no download button for me to access it, open, and/or drag and drop the file in Safari itself. Does anyone have a solution to this issue?
I'm facing an issue with Logic Pro X (on macOS Sierra) and Logic Remote on my iPad. Up until recently, controlling Logic Pro X with the iPad was working perfectly fine, but since a couple of weeks ago (might have been related to an update of either Logic Pro X, or Logic Remote), the mixing controls on the iPad are no longer working.
I want to disable the trackpad on my laptop without a mouse connected. I need this strange functionality because I use synergy (*=URL=* and game with my desktop. This is what I have tried so far, which gave Thus I went ahead and ran which gave the error To be sure, I also tried another way (which was floating around stack exchange) which produced the same error message.
I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 10.2 and after the update my contact photos are not showing in Messages. Even the bubbles are not showing the contact photo just the name. What can I do?
I have recently inherited a MacBook Pro which occasionally reboots at random. It has 4Gb Ram (2X2). AHT is consistently showing a 4MEM error - e.g. '4MEM/66/40000000:0xa1e45898' Diagnostics so far: Re-seating/cleaning modules - same 4MEM errors. Swapping modules between sockets - 4MEM error with different 0x value. Testing modules individually - no errors (in either socket).
At my workplace, I am unable to find a printer driver for macOS which works with the printer. Instead, I'm printing through the web-interface of the printer, and I'm wondering if there's a way to automize this. The steps I do manually that I want to automize (all or some): Save document as .ps (works better than .pdf for this printer) Go to the web address and log in to the printer Drag the file I want to the browser UI Writing a script to simulate the web login and transmission of the file is a separate problem which I think I can solve.
I was working, then I received a phone call and left my iMac for a while. macOS Sierra is actually running. I came back about 30 minutes later and found my Mac was turned off. Since there are no phantoms at home, I thought I forgot I turned it off, maybe absentmindedly (I'm quite sure I didn't, anyway).
Every so often I keep receiving this "java" command-line tool notification on my Macbook Air - macOS Sierra.  When I click on More Info it just redirects me to http://www.apple.com/safari/
I want to let TextEdit never save <CR>, the carriage return. Different operating systems save end-of-line as different Unicode characters. For MS DOS (like Windows) it is <CR><LF>, and for Unix and Mac <LF>, and for the very old Mac OS 9 just <CR>. Here <CR> is the carriage return, and <LF> the line feed.
Is it possible to have more than one remote Mac open in Apple's Remote Desktop software at a time ? Some tasks take a while on some computers so I'd like to be able to dip in and out of multiple machines whilst its working. Is that possible?
Is there a way to jailbreak an iPhone 6 running iOS 10.0.1 via mach_portal (a basic root shell exploit which can be found here) while the device is locked, maybe some runtime code injection exploit etc. , or is the whole NAND encrypted while the device is locked?
So my actual question is broader but I'll focus on a specific example to start: I created a Pages document with some sample text displayed in each of the available fonts for comparison. To do this I ended up having to copy/paste the text over and over, manually selecting a different font for each instance.
A couple of days ago my iMac (Late 2009) stopped turning on. It starts booting and the progress bar under the Apple logo goes to just under halfway before it turns off. Booting into recovery mode and trying to reinstall El Capitan doesn't work because it says the hard disk is locked. I tried running the chflags 0 and chmod to unlock it that are suggested around here from both single user mode and the recovery terminal but to no avail.
In OS X El Capitan, Apple introduced a feature called "Split View" that allows you to put two fullscreen apps side by side. Normally when you click and drag the middle dividing line one of the two apps will blur. If you hold Option while moving the divider neither window will blur. How can I make this the default behavior, so I don't have to hold Option when resizing?
About a month ago my Iphone 5s updated and afterwards I couldn't log in to my google account on my Iphone, when I try to log in from any other device it works completely fine. Neither in the youtube app nor when I try to log in to my gmail account in the safari browser. I always get following message:
Could someone help me with compressing thousands of files? I have a lot of folders and a lot of files in these folders, i would like to know if it's possible to compress each file separately. Foe example, folder 01 has folder 02 and 2 files in it, folder 02 has 2 files in it. I need to compress all files in all folders and leave these archives right where original files were. Thank you!
Is there a way to open a new Terminal in an existing SSH session? I am logged into a remote system and have a special session that I have to request and wait to receive. I know I can then use the "xterm &" command to open multiple xterm windows within that session, but xterm behaves differently from OSX's built-in Terminal. Is there a way to open multiple Terminal windows within the existing SSH session?
I am trying to use the ditto command after connecting to a PC across a network with a shared C drive. I try:
Short version: Does the Macbook somehow draw more than 60W while in use? We live in a house with a small solar power system. We've been here for 7 years and for most of that time have successfully run our (now rather elderly) Macbook on the 12v system. We do have 240v inverter to run the washing machine and food processor but it's pretty inefficient and not the right kind of sine wave for digital stuff anyway. So we use a car charger (not apple, obviously) to step up to 16.5v (giving 60w).
I just recently upgraded my 2012 macbook pro with a 250gb SSD and have succesfully clean installed a new OS on the SSD. I was also able to change the boot setting so that the SSD would boot first and be primary. I already erased the my existing HDD and will use it as a builtin storage.
I want to use Google Photos to back up my photos from my iPhone SE running iOS 10. I'm connected to Wi-Fi. I start the backup process and I connect my phone to power and then I lock it. It should just sit there and happily back up my photos. But if I come back to it after a few minutes, it seems like it had disconnected from Wi-Fi and that it only just reconnected after I unlocked it again. When I open the Google Photos app, it has to start backing up all over again.
Frequently when offering technical assistance, I either want to follow along with my own instructions to make sure they are correct, or provide a screenshot to demonstrate my instructions visually. Often, it is sufficient to do so on my own device, but there are a number of problems that can come up with this method: If my device is running a different version of the operating system, what I see is likely different from what the user sees.
I'd like OS X to default to whichever browser is open (i.e. have no default browser) so that links in other applications don't go off and open a second browser.
I tried googling but didn't get any adequate results. I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro mid-2010 and would like to upgrade the RAM. I have a ram module which says this on the front: 8GB 2Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-13-F3 and the company is SK Hynix.
I need to update an app and when I try, it tells me to sign into my iTunes store account. When I try it tells me my password is wrong. On the Apple site my password is correct and I can log in fine.
I have (using dd with an external SATA interface from Internet Recovery) copied my old 2012 MBP disk to the internal SSD of my new Mid 2015 MBP ("MacbookPro11,4", the 2.5 GHz variant with the Iris Pro GPU). However, the system will only boot to Recovery and Safe Mode - when booting "normally", the system eventually gets stuck at the progress bar and pressing any key only yields that "error" sound as if one would press a not allowed keyboard combo.
I'm trying to create an an AppleScript to turn dictation on or off (not just make it start listening). My goal is to be able to disable dictation when I am on battery power.
As we all know, clicking the green traffic light button on the windows in mac osx enter the app into fullscreen mode. Doing an Option + Click makes the window usually resizes to the to the maximum possible size. I rarely use fullscreen, only for iTunes I think, and sometimes mail. I use Option + Click all of the time. My question is - is there a way to flip the functionality of the green button, so Click does the Option+Click function, and vice versa. I'm on the latest Sierra. Thanks.
This is only its chat and related sound effects, NOT calls. Has nothing whatsoever to do with voice calls.
How would one ascertain what the bottleneck is on a system with high memory (128 GB RAM) and starts getting peculiar errors when there's only 10-20 GB remaining free? I'm getting various odd issues that are not being enumerated in the system log, but include apps not opening sometimes and no mountable file systems. When I close a significant number of applications, the system begins to start behaving properly again, but doesn't really behave entirely right until a reboot.
Running macOS Sierra(Version 10.12.2 16C67). I installed Wine version wine-1.8.6 (through a .pkg file). I opened up a game and it worked fine.
I have a Mac Server setup to reimage my Mac Clients and it has been working great since 10.9. My server environment is primarily windows with the exception of a few Mac servers (Imaging, Printing, and Caching). I have a windows server that runs DHCP and has a small range setup for reimaging. The clients used to get an IP in this range, however, since upgrading the Mac Server to 10.12 they are getting an IP address outside the DHCP range and causing IP conflicts. It just seems to pick a random IP.
I was in the midst of attempting to setup the built in apache webserver to do some light network file sharing to my iOS device that I didn't wish to sync, discovered that I can only access network related stuff from the machine itself and no other device on the network except the router can seem to discover the machine. For example, I can access the built in webserver via it's IP and localhost (as well as *.local) if I do it directly on the same machine. If I try to access the webserver using the IP address or the .local address from my iPhone connected to the network, the page times out. I also cannot seem to ping the machine from my iPhone either, however when I ping the machine from the router, the router gets a response. I also attempted to try installing MAMP and use the :8888 setting for Apache but it still can't be resolved from anywhere else on the network other than from the machine itself.
I was given a Mac Pro 1,1 2006 2x2.66 GHz Xeon. It currently has OS X 10.6.8. I do not have the original Snow Leopard installation disk.
I have a 27" external monitor. The 1080p fonts are oversized: I know how to decrease them in individual apps - but what about the OS/X top menu bar? Note: i have already chosen the highest available display resolutions - nothing more to do in that sector.
My iMac Late 2012 model initially came with OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion installed with a build of 12F45. I just obtained a install disk of 10.8 that has the same version but with Build 12F37. If I decide to reformat my hard drive and do an install of ML with the the same disk, could I do so without having to worry about getting a No symbol?
I have to use a different user on my mac for some tasks which include regular switching between users. I know about quick user switching, but this has two limitations for me: I have to enter the password each time I switch users I would like to have the second user in a window and not the whole desktop (as in a virtual machine) I would prefer the solution 2.
Recently I noticed a weird visual glitch in some of my notifications in macOS (Sierra). It looks like a misplaced shadow or dent in the background of the notification itself.
We are using ipfw in OSX 10.6 Server, 10.7 Server... all working fine until we add too many rules, I think. ipfw will still work, but only process up to certain number of rules. Currently wc -l /etc/ipfilter/ipfw.conf gives 10486.
This question pertains to USB-C not MagSafe. MagSafe negotiates available power with the Dallas 1-wire protocol. USB Power Delivery (PD) is an unrelated protocol. Answers based on experience with MagSafe are unlikely to be relevant. I'm considering buying a 2016 MacBook Pro Retina about which this article says: the Griffin product was only powerful enough to offer 60W of power, not quite enough for the 87W needed to power the larger Pro models at fully I'm also considering buying a LG 27UD88-W which it advertised as providing: Mobile / Laptop Charging Up to 60W What are the consequences of using a 60W supply instead of an 87W one? Does it just mean it will take longer to charge the laptop? Could it have side effects such as putting parts of the system into a slower, low-energy mode? This question covers MagSafe power supplies but Charles Duffy's comment suggests that the rules for USB-C may be different.
I synced some photos from iPhoto to my iPhone. iTunes says that the photos were synced and there's 8000 photos in my phone.
I need to fill up a text field and click on a button on Google Chrome Here is my script for safari. How can I use this (getElementsByName) with Chrome ? cheers.
Is there a way to completely disable mouse clicks while typing (including from external trackpads)? The old option 'Ignore accidental touches while typing' which is apparently enabled by default now does not seem to do anything at all. I'm using MacOS 10.12.2 on a 2016 MacBook Pro, and I have tap-to-touch turned off.
I know this question has been asked online a few times, but most questions are over a year old and so maybe something changed. I kickbox and swim regularly, but never wear my watch when I do those activities. I can enter those activities in the Health app, but they don't add to the infamous three rings that report back on my day. Is there any work-around? Maybe entering data into a 3rd party app will influence the rings Or Maybe if I keep the watch in my pocket (but not on my wrist) when I kickbox will do the trick?
I recently had an external hard drive develop a corrupted file system. At first, I started noticing some errors when trying to open certain files on it, and now OSX has told me that it has frozen the disk as read-only. I have everything backed up, so it is not a catastrophic problem. But, it is still a hassle to deal with. I would like to find a way to identify such issues sooner. I'm not concerned about identifying bad sectors or failing hardware issues (such as discussed here: How to identify and fix files with corrupted / inaccessible disk blocks), as I have other software in place already to deal with those. My naive approach to this would be to either:
Yesterday I added two Mac Mini's to as caching servers. The network already had a single caching server. MacOS Server installed fine, I turned on the caching service on each, they all peered up together without issue. The logs also indicate that they both registered fine. However, so far, neither of the new ones have been doing any caching.
Recieved the error: 'Your screenshot could not be saved. You don't have permission to save files in the location where screenshots are stored.' with OS X Yosemite. I opened terminal and tried directing the screenshots to save on my desktop: Brigittes-Air:~ eggsalad$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture location 2017-01-06 03:04:47.765 defaults[17729:1947540] The domain/default pair of (com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist So I tried writing and: Brigittes-Air:~ eggsalad$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop 2017-01-06 03:05:08.652 defaults[17742:1948451] Could not write domain com.apple.screencapture; exiting
I'm running OS X Server (5.2 on 10.12.2) on a Mac Mini late 2014 with 8GB RAM and 2.6GHz i5. The load is always around 3.5 - 6 even without any application running. Even in top as root, I cannot see any process that uses lots of CPU time. The server runs some services in our office of 10 people. File Sharing for 1 NFS host Calendar & Contacts Profile Manager with VPP and DEP (MDM) for 10 phones and macs VPN for the admins (so maybe once a week a login) DNS for the local network with 1 zone Open Directory for MDM and another backup NAS Time Machine is backing up the server but other than that there is no software or service running. I'm pretty sure it started with the latest Sierra and OS X Server update or at least I never saw it happen before. system.log looks normal with some launchd messages from quicklook every 5 minutes but nothing unusual other than that. All other logs look normal with no continuously repeating error message or something like that. iostat looks normal: and last 
The key is labeled such that it looks like holding down fn and pressing Return will produce Enter (as with Apple’s keyboards). However, when I do that it only produces a regular Return.
I have some files on my MacBook Pro that I sometimes want to be able to access from work. I have done it a few times and it worked perfectly using screensharing, but that is when my wife was at home to wake up the laptop for me.
Is it possible to press a modifier key with a number and then get that offset number to open and focus the nth application on the dock? If so can you point me towards a resource for doing so?
I saw the apple livestream saying the TV app would be pushed out to all iOS devices via an update. However, the app just appeared for me today without any update at all. It then was removed and the Videos app (which I'd removed) was added onto my phone.
I have always had whatever photos I take with my iphone, automagically in my photostream, and those then making up the screensaver of my apple tv 3. I guess with whatever is different with apple photos/photostream now, this connection doesn't work any longer. Any suggestions? The iphone and apple tv are signed in to the same icloud account.
Using MacOSX Yosemite, each time I restart my macbookpro and sign in, I'm prompted from multiple apps that want to use Local Items keychain. Apps such as: com.apple.iCloudHelper.xpc cloudd etc... Prompt looks like:
I'm concerned my roommate is looking at my text messages via the Messages app on my computer. Is there a way to know if/when the Messages app is opened on the computer? Maybe a notification or email to my iPHone?
First of all this is my hardware: When i power on my new mac book pro (with touch bar) i figured out a strange problem (i think is related with my graphic card). This is the procedure to get that issue: Power on my mac Type my credentials the first window i open (in this case the "spotlight" window) appears in this way: There are a lot of white pixel ... Then if i close the spotlight window and i open again that problem disappear.
Encountering a really bizarre error on a new iMac (5K, Late 2015) that is running Sierra. There is a folder called "Job applications" in my Documents folder that shows up in a Finder search of This Mac with a search string of "Job". A search string of "Job applications", however, returns no results at all.
I Found This according to my Problem in this thread : Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install) My MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M exhibited display corruption and associated system crashes/resets over a period of two weeks before it entirely failed to boot. The boot would progress through the grey screen with the Apple logo and spinner, but just when it seems it should have switched to the login screen the Apple logo and spinner would disappear and hang on a blank grey screen.
Up until a few months ago, when you uploaded a new build to iTunes Connect and tried to publish to TestFlight or the app store, Apple would display a simple yes-or-no dialog asking if your app uses cryptography. A few months ago, this dialog started containing a more detailed description of the export compliance guidelines, and some helpful advice about when you needed to select "yes" or "no" (I think it was something to the effect of "You can select 'no' if any of the following are true:" followed by a list of conditions).
According to this table, both pump up the version to 10.12.2, both have exactly the same changelog: macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Update macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Combo Update The only difference I was able to see was the file size (1.94 GB vs. 2.05 GB). AppStore seems to mention only the "standard" update, not "combo".
I have a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro that updated itself to El Capitan. There are no drivers for El Capitan at the Nvidia site, only for Snow Leopard that work for 9400m Nvidia. Is there any way i can install this package in El Capitan without breaking my OS?
I am trying to backup my iphone 6+ to iTunes. It will not let me : could not connect to the iphone ( insert your name of phone) because an invalid response was received from the device. I have researched on the web, it tells me to reset my network settings. - if I do this, will it remove all my contacts / photos/ notes before my last backup?
If I start up the mini with both monitors connected everything works perfect. The problem only arises if I power down the HDMI second display or plug it in after the mini has already been running.
I used to have a gesture where I could place 2 fingers on the top bar of an application/a file and use a third finger to drag it around. What gesture is this?
I'd like some inactive processes to app swap into virtual memory, freeing main memory up for other uses. I have created a few shell scripts - sleepchrome, sleepfirefox, and sleepsafari to sleep an app when I don't want to quit it, but don't want it hogging CPU or memory. The scripts work to prevent CPU usage - they identify and send a SIGSTOP signal to the relevant processes. (Happy to share the code if there's interest - ask a question.) But for some reason, MacOS seems to be uninterested in swapping them out to virtual memory: Even when there's significant memory pressure, per Activity Monitor, the processes memory usage doesn't decrease.
I just upgraded to macOS Sierra and now have duplicate google chrome icons on my docking station (one works the other doesnt) and when I try to access my aol email it says log in failed although the password is correct. Can anyone help? Thanks!
I have a Macbook Pro from late 2011 with a failing hard drive that had macOS and Windows 7 installed on it. I just bought a new one and decided to put in a Windows 10 USB to boot from since I never used macOS that often anymore. Once I got everything setup there were no drivers (which was expected), so I downloaded them from the Bootcamp Assistant tool on a friends computer. When I try and launch the drivers setup.exe I get the error "This version of Bootcamp is not intended for this computer model". Is there any way to bypass this error or should I download the drivers from somewhere else?
Side note: In the Linux paradigm, the OS doesn't follow the user or the machine. Just install it whenever, wherever.
I have some variable that I would like to highlight in Safari. I was thinking AppleScript, but I can use something else otherwise. I'm using a Chrome plugging which do the same, any idea how to do that? E.g :
I want to transfer files between two late 2016 MacBook Pros. I have a USB-C data cable from my external USB-C hard drive.
I no longer have the original three prong extension cord for my MBP, and am experiencing the shock issue described by many other users. I purchased a three prong travel plug and tried that, but it did not solve the problem.
Is there any app which allow any windows (safari / Text edit) to remain on top, even in full screen ? From what I search, afloat used to be a good solution but with random result.
How do I install sv.net/classic on macOS? That's a program you can use to submit information about your employee for german general social welfare insurance purposes and records. I don't want to buy licenses for VirtualBox and Windows. The ITSG support page about linux and macOS gives me a hint that I could use wine for this purpose, but it doesn't give a detailed step-by-step guide for wine newbies like me.
I use Pages to write my invoices and save a PDF version as well. Currently, when I'm done, I press Command-S to save, Command-P to bring up the print dialog, select "Save as PDF…" from the PDF menu in the bottom left corner, then I navigate to the correct folder (e.g. ~/Invoices/2017/Open/) and then press Save. Then I close the Pages file and prepare an email to the client with the PDF attached.
Using the Mac terminal whenever I hit enter, regardless of shell it outputs the line with square brackets. The issue doesn't occur in iTerm2. So above is what there term looks like, input goes at > $ however on enter it shows with [> $. Any advice appreciated, let me know if you need any other details. edit: To clarify as this was marked duplicate of another thread which asks the functionality/purpose of mark, when posting this I did not know what mark was or that it existed.
If I have an email in Outlook containing a link like *=URL=* and I click it, it gives me a warning dialog "Do you want to open the file? Some files harm your computer blah blah blah". I click yes and it starts Word, but then nothing. No error message, no document, it's just as if I started Word manually. If I right-click the link and select Open URL it opens it in Chrome and downloads the file which is slightly better. I did also try running "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Content/MacOS/Microsoft Word" "*=URL=* from the command line but it gives a dialog with the error: Word cannot open the document: User does not have have access privileges (Document.docx)
I need export the songs of SongBeamer with the accords as PDF on an MacBook. On Windows I can press Print and then select pdf as print options. with the MacBook I can't do the same. I have add an printscreen of the program. Do someone know how to print as PDF in SongBeamer? Thanks in advantage
I have installed windows 10 on my Mac and the Wi---Fi is interfering with the Bluetooth so I've turned off the Wi-Fi on the Mac. My iPhone is connected to the Wi-Fi so I want to usb-tether the Wi-Fi to my mac through my iPhone. But I have noticed that usb-tether is using cellular connection instead of Wi-Fi which costs me money. Is there a way to usb-tether a Wi-Fi network instead of cellular network?
I have a Macbook Pro 15" Retina Mid 2014 model running macOS 10.12.2. These past few months I've been experiencing super slow Up and Down speed on this machine. I have between 1-2mbps down on this machine atm.
I used to use kextload and kextunload to unlock/lock my keyboard. However, the actual kernel extension changes between MacBook models, and that can have unexpected results.
I have a lot of text on the file My_Note_Backup.txt Each time I run an another script, it added to this text something like and this repeats around 60 times a day. How can I have an AppleScript which copies only the last note in between { and } I have the text delimiter here, but how can I get the most recent text only? the text file is
I have a subscription to iTunes Match. Recently, I think in the last week, I am not able to listen to the music that result in the status "Uploaded" , therefore is not matched. Normally if I load a cd in my iTunes library (on my Mac) it sync with iCloud and I could have 2 status: Upload or Matched. In the recent past I could play any song in either the two status with any device with the same Apple ID associated. Now (in the last week) I cannot play anymore the pieces with the iCloud status "uploaded". Is there anybody who had the same experience and who have solved the problem?
I am running macOS 10.12 Sierra and I have an app which doesn't behave properly especially with multiple screens. Thus, I want to confine it into its own virtual desktop. The result I'm looking for is similar to what Wine can do for Windows programs:
I just received as Christmas present a Macbook Pro 15" Late 2016 with also a DELL UP2516D monitor that my friends said I should connect with the former. The point is that I am not a computer expert as this is my first laptop and I really don't know how can I connect these two devices. The DELL monitor comes with the following ports (product description): and the MacBook Pro has got only the USB-c ports. How do I connect my MacBook with USB-C ports to the Dell Monitor?
I have a strange issue on my new MacBook Pro (late-2016, touch bar). It works fine and then, after using it for a while, opening new Terminal windows doesn't work because login hangs. Rebooting fixes the problem. This seems to be an issue some other people have had so I tried all of their solutions already (from 1 and [2]): Removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist Setting my default shell to another shell (from /bin/zsh to /bin/sh or /bin/bash)
I have a series of local accounts on a El Capitan (Need to stay on 10.11.6 due to app compatability). I want these accounts to get the "default profile" every time they log in. I mean * absolutely clean* - new desktop, downloads, settings and preferences.. I want it all gone. I go about this by having a logout script that simply deletes the home folder, such as: This way the user and password is retained, but all rubbish that was left on the account is gone, and clean for the next login.
I got a video in WhatsApp from someone with an Android phone. When I open the video I can hear the the audio, but nothing is visible; it's just a blank screen with audio from the recording. I forwarded the same video to my friend who has an iPhone 7 and he is able to view (and hear) the video.
In the Script Editor when Exporting, there is a "Run-only" checkbox. It is not documented in the help. What does it do?
Every time I restart my computer, it tries to "add a new helper tool" for instance I have to reinstall shell commands in Atom on every restart, and it prompts with the "An update is ready to install." But I see this same issue with other programs too. Atom installs /usr/local/bin/atom -- but then when I restart it's gone. I get the same thing from MAMP that it "wants to make changes".
I think my macOS works in some debug mode, but I'm not sure, because when I open Console, I see a lot of log entries every second, despite not doing much. If I enabled that mode, I don't remember how it was enabled. There are some entries regarding memory allocation, and some other. Before I didn't see so much logs, unless it's a Sierra thing. I don't have any extras in boot-args section when running: nvram -p. Here is the example:
I would like my MacBook to connect to a specific MAC address whenever I select a given SSID. So if there are six xfinitywifi SSID in range, I want to be able to choose to always connect to one via MAC address. **PLEASE NOTE I AM RUNNING OS X YOSEMITE 10.10.5, THAT MEANS THAT OLDER SOLUTIONS LIKE: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport --associate=XXX --bssid=YYY DO NOT SEEM TO WORK.
As you can see in the screenshot below, somehow my iPhone subscribed to a calendar which is called "Deutsche Feiertage" (German public holidays). How can I find out where this is coming from and how can I remove it (not just hide or disable notification)?
I don't want my photos automatically 'tagged' by iOS. How do i disable this?
Every time when I am close to an "dm market" (a German drugstore) I am getting this advertisement on my lock-screen. When I open this notification it looks like in the second screenshot below. There is no app for "dm" or the related service "PAYBACK" installed on my phone. I used the app in the past but it is no longer on my device.
Karabiner seems like an extremely versatile piece of software, but I can't seem to find a way to invert the mouse axis with it. For example: When I move the mouse downwards I want the cursor to go upwards, and when I move the mouse to the right, I want the cursor to go left.(*) Right now I'm using USB Overdrive for this purpose, but I need Karabiner for other stuff, and it would be nice if I could get away with just one program.
I purchased this late 2015 iMac 27 with built in 8GB of memory in September of 2016. Shortly thereafter I replaced the original memory with Adamanta 32GB (4x8GB) Apple Memory Upgrade for Late 2015 iMac 27" DDR3L 1867Mhz PC3-14900 SODIMM 2Rx8 CL13 1.35v RAM from Amazon. I also cloned my internal drive to an external SSD drive, and use that as the startup disk.
I need to create an app video that need to show interaction b/w a iPhone and a Android phone (Galaxy). I could use quicktime to screen record single iPhone screen. How can I screen record iPhone and Android screen at the same time? The two screens should be visible right next to each other showing everything that is happening on the respective screens.
Is it possible to relay SMS to macOS without using iMessage? I want to only use a phone carrier's SMS service, without iMessage, but would like to leverage the Mac Messages app.
I transferred some videos from my Mac OS X Photos using iTunes app to my iPhone/iOS. I pressed Sync and it worked on transferring it to my iPhone. On my Mac OS X iTunes, the free storage for my iPhone reduced after the sync so I have some clue that transfer did happen. However, I don't where exactly in my iPhone are those videos transferred and how to access them?
I have an older iMac running El Capitan. I want to run a shell script when a DVD is inserted. I used Script Editor to create an Applescript that runs the shell script. The Applescript is just I used System Preferences > CDs and DVDs to configure the action when a DVD is inserted to run the Applescript. It didn't work, DVD Player still runs and the script doesn't. I used Script Editor to save the script as an application and configured it to run the application. Still didn't work. I copied the application to /Applications and changed it to run that copy of the application. Still didn't work. I changed the ownership of the application to root (sudo chown -R root /Applications/myapp). Still didn't work. No matter what I do, my script/app won't run, and DVD Player runs instead. What am I doing wrong? If I run the app by double-clicking on it, it runs correctly and invokes my shell script, so I know the app itself is working correctly. Do I need to do something special in or to my applicati
After installing Sierra and a number of other fonts from Google Web Fonts, I now see the 'question mark' against any list items either within the actual system UI and other applications such as Chrome.  Edit: I have already attemped two possible solutions: Font Book for Mac: Restore standard fonts How to Restore Default Fonts on Mac
don't know how elementary a question like this is, but... • I have a 2 column csv file that I want to search for a value in col A and then grab its matching value in col B. • I will store the csv file in an AppleScript bundle to keep things tidy.
I am see this appear repeatedly in my log. What is the IMDPersistenceAgent process?
So I have an iPad Mini First Generation that is currently jailbroken using Pangu. It is currently on 7.1.2 and I want to upgrade it to 9.0.2, but not the latest, which is 9.3.5. I've heard about using BLOBs and unsigned IPSWs but I'm not sure what to do. Could someone shed some light on me? Thanks!
I installed Wine through a .pkg file, and I want to completely remove all traces of Wine. I've searched around the internet, but I cannot find any way to uninstall wine if you've installed through a .pkg file. I installed this one: Can I just search Wine in Finder with show hidden files on, and delete all of the results that have to do with wine?
I am not very familiar with Apple products, but we use iPads for Point of Sale cash registers at my work. They keep interrupting us in the middle of orders prompting us to sign in to iTunes. It's very frustrating, I am wondering if it is possible for us to turn off this prompt?
Prior to 10.12, if I opened a Finder window and hit Command+↑ a bunch of times, I'd get to /Users, then Macintosh HD, then /Volumes Now in 10.12, I can get as far as /Users but then Command+↑ becomes disabled.
I have shot some video footage using two iPhones from two different vantage points for doing motion capture of a human figure. In order for this to work I need to do camera-matching in my 3D software. In order to do the camera-matching I'm searching for the following specs: iPhone 7's focal length (after cropping for stabilization) iPhone 7's sensor width and height (Update: 1/3" sensor = 4.80 x 3.60 mm)
I have created a 2048 Comodo email certificate. It works perfectly on Android and Thunderbird email clients, but encountered problem ("Unable to Sign") on iPhone 7 Plus running OS 10.2. Any advise? thanks.
I own the UE Boom 2, a bluetooth speaker that has "Tap Controls" that allow pause, play and skip track. These features work fine when I'm using iTunes or soundcloud, but when I use the Spotify app, triggering the actions does nothing. How can I fix this?
When I am making applications in Xcode, I sometimes find that I write duplicate code. Is there a way in Xcode to find duplicate code in all files? I would like to know this because I would put the code into a function instead.
I have an old Mac mini and I'm deciding on whether to get rid of it or to try to install the newest OS to use voice recognition. Does anybody have first-hand experience? If i upgrade the specs, would this the new os work, or is the 1.83 GHz core and integrated graphics card too slow?
When I first began using WhatsApp Mac app on a new MacBook Pro, the emoji and predictive text were working normally whenever I was typing in the WhatsApp desktop Mac app. I could quickly access the emoji on the Touch Bar and predictive texts show up too on the Touch Bar.
I've been having troubles with iTunes : it was working yesterday morning, and after I restarted my computer it will no longer run, it just gives me an empty message box  and if I leave it for a moment an error appears:
Why can't I set root as folder owner? But it works fine for folders on any other drive(physical)
As of 1/1/2017, my Time Machine backups are failing with the following message: Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "WDMyCloud". An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
I have upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra a couple of weeks ago. Today, I have been experimenting with widgets in Notification Centre and came across this puzzling issue. I am not sure whether it is a bug or intended behaviour hence I decided to ask a question and confirm. This is what my Notification Centre looks now
On my iPhone 5s I see a symbol for headphones next to the battery usage symbol. This only appears when the headphones are NOT plugged in. Also I am unable to get a sound notification for mail or messages. I think these are related problems.
There are some information to be inputted when creating the configuration file. Here is the correct configuration which works for me. But I can't 'mass configure' Exchange settings of Users or Email Address. It seems the only way we can preconfigure Exchange for each user is to create a profile for each individual user.
I was playing arround with iMazing and found out that it can reboot/shutdown my iPhone 6s without it being Jailbroken. Does anyone know what commands it uses and how I could do this myself from my Mac? When looking at the file contents, I found in the frameworks folder that is uses the frameworks DDNAToolKit.framework and DevMateKit.framework and in the MacOS folder, it contains an AppleScriptServer executable. This functionality works via Wi-Fi and USB.
We seem to have a lot of problems with genuine Apple power supplies for our MacBooks failing at the spot where the cable enters the case. So I've got some questions: Suggestions for best practices for keeping the power supplies alive? Suggestions for best practices for keeping the power supplies alive? Are there alternative power supplies that are either more robust or more repairable (either from Apple or from third parties – for example are the original MagSafe supplies more durable than the MagSafe 2, or vice versa)? Are there alternative power supplies that are either more robust or more repairable (either from Apple or from third parties – for example are the original MagSafe supplies more durable than the MagSafe 2, or vice versa)? I'm getting tired of replacing these technological wonders…
The last version of iTunes I liked was around 2010 when I had all my music and videos in the one menu list. Now if I want to change to videos from music I have to go to the dropdown tab (via mouse) at the top of the page. Is there an easier way? iTunes 12.5.4 Mac
Strictly for learning purposes (possibly maintenance as well) I am trying to have a Cron job empty my trash once a day. I have opened terminal and entered the command crontab -e to access the VI editor to add the command. I've entered Insert mode and added * * * * * sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*, hit the escape key to exit and quit VI with :wq!
I'm trying to run the HTC Vive setup software (yes, I'm aware the Mac Pro's GPUs are underpowered for VR; I've got an external GPU enclosure on its way, and am trying to do some initial room setup and installation while I wait.); but I'm getting the following error when I attempt to launch ViveSetup.exe:
Is it possible to output sound from a MacBook via USB to an iPhone/iPod compatible speaker (the speaker has an USB input that only works with iPhones), maybe making the Mac output sound through USB the way the iPhone does?
I want to use WeeChat on my MacBook. In a dream world I want to be able to launch it using Spotlight, and then preferably it will open a Terminal window that is not tied to Terminal. When I Command + Tab it will have its own separate icon. It would be preferable to have it act as if it is another application than Terminal, as I usually have a lot of Terminal windows open. I assume I have to write custom plist-files (if it is even possible), but I am kind of stuck currently. Is there a way?
I have an issue where when I connect my iPhone (6S) to my PC via USB in an attempt to transfer photos, only some photos are displayed in the folders. This isn't to do with the phone being locked (it isn't) or needing to tap the "Trust this computer" option on the iPhone when it is connected. Some photos are displayed and I can copy them from the device to my PC, but some, which are clearly displayed in iOS Photos, simply aren't there when I browse the file structure under the (the phone's name) > Internal Storage > DCIM > 100APPLE (etc). I've tried: Resetting the iPhone Restarting the computer Using a different USB port Connecting to a different computer I can also see the photos in question on iCloud and I can download them from there, but the reason I want to get them from the iPhone is that I also want the .AAE files.
I'm unable to permanently delete an IMAP account under MacOS 10.12.2. Deleting the account from System Preferences > Internet Accounts removes it, the entry in Mail,and the related keychain item, but they all reappear after several seconds. Using Keychain Access to remove the related keychain item achieves the same frustrating result. Disabling iCloud Keychain allows removal of the offending account, but it returns when iCloud Keychain is reenabled.
I use Parallels for Windows while VirtualBox/Kinematic (Beta) for Docker in OS X -- but haven't yet tested at the same time because of possible problems such as here, dated to 2013 so many problems may be fixed. So what is the status of VM/Docker and Parallels and is it possible to run them at the same time and if yes, how in OS X? Precautions?
Is there a way to install a package and include all --with* options instead of typing all of them individually at the CLI? To avoid:
Sometimes when I wake my MacBook Pro (late 2013) from sleep I only get the right half of the screen lighting up while the left is dark with a hard line dividing the halves (see image below). I can fix this by power-cycling the monitor but its annoying. Can anyone tell me what is happening and how I might fix it? My monitor is a 32 inch Samsung and I have a dual HDMI cable connecting it to my MacBook.
I have an iPhone 6S and Windows PCs. I do not sync photos between the iPhone and PCs. I have about 716MB of space occupied by photos "Synced from iTunes Library" that I cannot see on the iPhone, or have any way to delete them. These photos cannot be found in iCloud either. So this post did not resolve my issue: Some photos aren't displayed when iPhone connected to PC
I have about 7 GB worth of music, all complete albums, that I'm trying to sync on my phone. I select Entire music library and hit apply. Before I hit apply, it shows me 27 GB free on my iPhone. Then, it finishes the copying process way too quickly. After the sync completes, it says 34 GB free, and there is only one song per album. I tried choosing the artists and albums individually, removing all music and re-synching, and nothing worked. What could be the problem?
I have a Samsung M3 Portable External Drive that I use for Time Machine only. All of a sudden it refused to mount and Disk Utility cannot see it. Disk Warrior can see it but refuses to repair it as it reports a hardware fault with the drive. But when I plug the drive into my Chromebook it mounts immediately and I can look at all the files on it.
So Id‘d like to know if anyone had already changed country, re-downloaded previously (before changing the Apple ID country) purchased apps and can share the experience regarding these apps updates. Does it works normally with auto-update on macOS and iOS or is there any caveats? Bonus questions: Do the re-downloaded apps appear again in the purchased apps list after re-"purchasing" them? Can the other things you bought (music, movies, books etc) also be re-"purchased" for free?
I have a weird issue that makes my Magic Mouse 2 usage experience very uncomfortable on iMac 27. The problem is: when I move the mouse vertically (up or down), tracking works very slow. That is: I have to raise and move my mouse 3-4 times to reach the bottom of the screen (assuming I started from the very top). On the other hand, moving in a horizontal direction with the same speed works like a charm. OS X Sierra, tracking speed is set to maximum and no third party applications used. Is there a way to fix this?
I recently got an Apple Watch Series 2 and discovered the "Hey, Siri" feature, where you can talk to Siri hands-free after raising your wrist. I know Apple made very clear statements about the privacy of "Hey, Siri" on iPhone - no recording is sent anywhere until AFTER you have said "Hey, Siri". I couldn't find equally clear statements about the privacy of this feature on Apple Watch.
Yes, I already tried this one: Partition type suddenly FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF, drive unmountable My main partition is in this ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff format or whatever it is. And I need all the Data on this disk3s2. Here is a picture of my Disk, a couple of hours ago: disk3s1: EFI disk3s2: Macintosh (ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff partition with all of my Data on, I want this Data!) disk3s3: Apple_HFS Recovery HD disk3s4: New (Another useless Partition, its empty.) disk3s5: Apple_Boot Recovery HD What I did to try to repair my disk: So whenever I try to add another partition, I get this Error:
I can't figure out how to prevent my iPhone SE (iOS 10.2) from vibrating when messages arrive while I'm on a call (that is, it vibrates right into my ear). This happens regularly, and I'm sure it occurs with other models/software versions. I cannot find any setting regulating this, therefore it looks like a major bug: it doesn't have any function and interferes with the normal phone usage. Does anybody know if anything has been/is being done with respect to this issue?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro (with a SSD and 16GB RAM upgrade) that I'm very happy with, but it's aging, some ports aren't working anymore, etc., so I'm in the market for a new device. I do some amount of print design with Adobe CC, and web app/mobile app development. I seem to be pushing the 2011 MBP to the boundaries quite often: it will frequently (and annoyingly) start running its fans are when I work on complex, 500+-MB documents in Adobe CC, and when I code using Visual Studio (with npm, some linters, and usually an iPhone or Android simulator running at the same time).
I put a mac formatted hard drive on my export extreme. I can connect just fine. If I leave the house and use the computer outside I'll get a message about the drive not available and the option to disconnect. I pick that. Then when I get back home the Airport Extreme still shows up in the finder but clicking it I get the message "AirportExtreme" can't be opened because the original item can't be found Rebooting my mac fixes the issue but that's no good because I lose the state of all my apps.
diskutil list but df -h open the disk with hex editor, parse the gpt table
How do I find all of the Applications on my Mac which are not from the App Store? Is it possible to find all those applications using a Finder search query?
Click on the Side bar icon in the upper left corner of Safari. Click on the Side bar icon in the upper left corner of Safari. Select the bookmarks icon. Select the bookmarks icon. Open the Favorites section by clicking on the arrow. Open the Favorites section by clicking on the arrow. Click Edit. Click Edit. Where is the "EDIT" button? Help me please!
Trying to play Quatrian's multiplayer app "FaceMe Backgammon" between an iOS9 and an iOS10 client. How can I get these two to connect since the changes to the Game Center and iMessage? FWIW, the two are able to play Zynga's "Words with Friends" but that doesn't require the Game Center. The iOS9 device sends invites to the emil and Game Center username of the iOS10 device, but they are not received. The iOS 10 device has the Settings > Game Center but does not have an invite option. The two can txt w/iMessage, but the iOS9 only has "Message".app (the green one, which receives iMessage - blue - data) and doesn't receive iOS10's iMessage invites. The in-app multiplayer options are limited to Game Center "friends" but does not have the option of inviting. The email response I got from the people at Quatrian deferred to their "tips" page (which does not address iOS10) and these fairly useless links: *=URL=* http://appletoolbox.com/2015/10/ios-9-game-center-not-working-blank-page-fix/
I am not sure whether this is a good question for this place. But I'd still like to have a try. It's anyway an "Apple question". If it's not a good place, I hope someone can let me know where should I go. Here is my question: I've broken my new MBP (the 2016 version with touchbar) like this:
I'm on MacOS 10.12.2. I want to use Preview to give a PDF presentation. But here's a screenshot:
I'm facing strange issue with my new MacBookPro(4GB RAM). It is taking more time to load apps after signin. And when I click on any app, it is stopped responding for some time. I did FirstAid to my both drives(one is Macintosh, 2nd is other data drive) to find and repair what is going wrong, but result was success(Nothing to repair).
I would like to know if the Save Incoming Media feature in Whatsapp create duplicates i.e. saved in both Whatsapp application data and also Camera roll?
I actually receive iMessages on a Mac and an iPhone, and I could say that they are correctly synchronized on reception. Now from time to time, as everybody I have a huge volume of old iMessages to delete. Since I don't want to make masive destruction I usually perform this task on my Mac where it is much more easy and faster. The risk of selection errors is also much lower. For example I recently deleted a few hundreds iMassages on one thread Alice on my Mac. And I wasen't able to find any easy way to get the same thread Alice cleaned accordingly on my iPhone.
My iPhone and MacBook Pro ARE on the same network but I am getting a message that they are not. I usually make phone calls directly from my MacBook so this has proven to be an annoyance. What possible troubleshooting steps could I try or what should I make sure is clicked on or off to enable the MacBook to recogonize that it IS on same network as iPhone? Thx.
I'm trying to install Aircrack-ng on my MacBook but I've hit a brick wall. First I tried with MacPorts as suggested on Aircrack's homepage but I found that some tools were missing like Airmon so instead I decided to try the more traditional way of installing the .tar that I downloaded from the homepage aswell. Now running the command sudo make install Makefile produces the output: Reading that, I see that it's missing the file hmac.h from the openssl folder so I tried to include it in the file the best I could (I have no idea what I'm doing I'm new to all this) Here are the lines around where I added the include and the include itself: Running the Makefile again I get the following:
I recently made a full backup of my iPhone 7 to my computer a day back. I was adding some new songs in Itunes then I connected the Phone to those songs.
I'm trying to figure out how to free up phone storage space without losing all my pics. I have some loaded onto my laptop (Windows); don't know why they aren't all loading. I want to free up phone pic space but not lose all the pics. Some have suggested turning off "upload my photo stream"...
I have invested a considerable amount of time to move my music collection from CD to Apple Lossless under iTunes. Earlier on and while short on disk space, I used MPEG encoding for some albums. I would now like to capture again those albums from CD, but in lossless encoding. Is there any way for me to swipe an album in its previous place, while maintaining all accompanying (meta) information?
Running iOS 10.2 I added the root certificates of CAcert to my iPhone profile using various ways: directly from their website in mobile Safari sent by email to mail app by adding a profile with the Apple Configurator 2 software each time the certs show in the profile, but they are marked as "not checked / validated" in red.
I currently have libmobiledevice installed on my Mac and would like to use it (or another tool) to retrieve the ECID from my iPhone which would be connected via USB. To install ibmobiledevice on my Mac, I enterned the bash command `` in terminal which has given me access to the following commands. I have tried ideviceinfo, however, I cannot seem to the ECID infomation.
I bought an iPad Air 2 fourteen months ago. Recently I reset my iPad and now Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are not free — they ask for payment. How can I download them again without paying?
I found out, that from some time my contacts started to save to iCloud and not to Google. Is there some easy way to show diff between my iCloud contacts and contacts stored in my Google account? I would be even happy with some safe way how to merge iCloud contacts into Google.
What is it called when an app crashes and it ends up logging you out, without restarting your computer? The computer never fully turns off because the /tmp fold doesn't get reset.
I've been experiencing performance issues on my mid-2011 mac mini (running El Cap) for a while now -- beachballs, spotlight issues, general slowness -- and have been so far unable to discern the actual cause (this is, in part, why I haven't yet upgraded to Sierra). I just noticed that the root of my primary drive is marked as quarantined:
Note: In past OS X (I am under 10.11.x El Capitan) it was possible to locate an email by command clicking on his title bar. A menu appeared with the actual path on the hard drive. It seems Apple disabled this so we can only see account's name.
I recently bought the new iPhone 7 and backed it up via iCloud however, apparently all of the notes I had on my old phone were not saved to the cloud. (I already erased my phone so there's no going back that way). Is there a location on my MacBook (via Time Machine) where my Notes files were saved that I can locate via TimeMachine? I already checked the Notes app and it just has the 3 notes that were saved on the cloud. I'm running 10.10.5 Yosemite.
Can I hotlink to a photo in an album in iCloud? I need to insert the direct URLs into spreadsheets.
I have a hard drive which has one HFS partition of 1TB that is being used as a MacBook backup. Can I backup another MacBook to the same partition without overwriting or convoluting data?
This is good for reading but how do I get 'en1' programmatically in a Bash script so I can use the device name in a cron job?
all. I am a longtime bootcamp user and have dealt with a fair amount of its crazy errors, but this new one really has me stumped. So I recently deleted my windows 7 partition because it refused to update, and decided to simply reinstall windows 7 from scratch from an iso that had the most recent updates installed, which would unironically take less time than trying to figure out how to make win update work. Halfway through the normal process of creating a boot drive, bootcamp keeps giving me this error:
So I have managed to setup an IFTTT applet to copy new todo's and Shopping list items from my Alexa to my Apple iOS reminders. When I tried to create an option to remove them from Alexa (Todoist) when they were deleted the options to delete are not in the Alexa end of the app.
Unfortunately, within a day or so the problem reappears and again, the only fix I've found is the one above. While this fix only takes about a minute, it is nevertheless frustrating, especially when you're in the middle of a workflow and have to access Apple's servers all the time! Does anyone have any ideas about this?
From the Finder Fn+ctrl+F2 select the Apple Menu icon. Is there a way to make this keyboard kung fu global so that I can use it from within all the apps to get to the Apple icon in the menu bar?
Ok so I want to get some more games like five nights at freddys sister location but the get button is greyed out and it doesn't do anything
If I view *=URL=* on macOS 10.12.2 and Chrome Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit). It shows a few characters as rectangles with a question mark inside:
What is the proper name/number of the proper cable to get the fastest charging and data transfer for the new MacBook Pro? Obviously it came with a wall charger and a cable but I am looking to purchase a 3rd party cable/adapter and I am finding it very confusing between all the USB-3, USB-C, USB 2.0 Type-C, Thunderbolt 3...
I have seen posts like Snow Leopard Server in Fusion VM: installation keeps failing on how to install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 on a VMware VM, but as best I can tell, the recommended solution is to create a .dmg file from the disk, and then do one of several things, including install Snow Leopard 10.6.4 or more recent. I also tried adding cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" to the .vmx file without noted difference.
I'm on the 10.12.2 w/ 2013 MBA w/ 4GB of RAM (can't upgrade). It seems unreasonable that my system boots up with the kernel taking 600 MB of RAM - what are my options to see if there are some tweaks I can make to reduce usage? I've read the other threads on high-cpu-usage but didn't see any easy wins ...
Some years ago I read tip to stop Help popping up on top of the open document. (At the time I found it annoying as you couldn't actually see the document.) I would like to reverse this, but cannot remember how I did it, or even find the original hint.
I have this battery problem with my iphone 6(10.0) for over a month now. At 100% battery, it drains very quickly and most of the time the battery percentage jumps from 60% to 30% etc. And from 20% when the warning shows it then jumps to 1%.
I was trying to write an img file to an SD Card and just assumed it was the same disk as a minute ago but it wasn't. I have dd'd a Raspbian image onto my Time Machine disk and need a way to restore it. I'm trying Disk Drill Free to restore the disk but I am not sure if it is going to work. This is the command I used: The size of the image was 1.5gb. Solutions / tips please!
I'm using my new 2016 12" Macbook as a "desktop" by connecting it to an external display, USB Keyboard/mouse and running it in "clamshell mode". Works beautifully except the display never goes to sleep. I was kinda figuring it would go to sleep just the same way the internal display does but it will stay on for hours if I let it. I did set up a hot-corner to sleep the display and that works fine but that means I always need to do it manually. How can I get this to work so that it acts normally? Do energy saver settings not apply to external displays?
I've been using this solution to decompile AppleScript files before adding them to a Git repository. It basically creates a filter using osacompile and osadecompile to convert between plain text source and a compiled AppleScript. I noticed however, that some applications referenced in the scripts are unexpectedly starting on git add and the culprit is osadecompile. Example: When I run osadecompile script.scpt against the following script, a Firefox starts up: It doesn't open the location specified, however the Firefox process gets started and remains running. Questions: Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Is there anything I can do to avoid this?
I use two-factor authentication on my Mac for ssh connections, and Google Authenticator app on my iPhone. This works well, but I have back-up scripts running off cronjobs on my Linux servers, and they periodically rsync the backups to my Mac, which in turn backs them up to TimeMachine. Obviously, rsync fails, because it is expecting two-factor authentication. Is there any way on MacOS Sierra, to switch off two-factor authentication when ssh/rsync connections originate on trusted IPs like 192.168.1.0/24 ? Thanks.
On a MacBook Air running Sierra, I'm trying to create an image backup from my main SSD to an external USB disk using a clean shutdown, then during start: Command-R -> Disk Utility. Both the main SSD and USB HDD get through "first aid" fine. I'm not using file vault. It fails right at the end (after the progress bar has been fully blue). My Google tries all fail to return meaningful results: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* The only result is from someone trying to create an ISO image from an optical disk: *=URL=* This is the screen during backup (sorry for a non-PNG one: when in Command-R mode, I could not find a way to make a proper screenshot). On a Retina MacBook Pro with Yosemite this works perfectly fine.
I've got an iMac from 2011. Will I be able to use this as an external display for the new MacBook Pro? If yes, which adapters will I need? I'm not sure what to make of this info from apples site about the MacBook ports:
I cannot remove the WD items from the startup list. The delete button is not active (greyed out).
In a related thread2, deleting everything under "Settings > General > Profiles" (may be called "Device management" instead of "Profiles") was suggested. This entry however didn't even exist until I installed the certificate manually (i.e. there was nothing do delete).
I'm trying to create a launch agent, which launches an AppleScript whenever a mouse is connected. Similar to these two questions: LaunchEvents key unrecognized in launchd plist (detecting USB device) Execute an application on Mac OS X when a particular type of USB device is connected?
I am using Numbers on Mac and I am trying to get cells to change colour once a date has been passed, this is to keep track of warranty's of certain products, I want the cells to be green while the date in the cell is a future date and then change the red once the date in the cell has passed the current date. How do I do this?
My Apple Watch series 1 can play music stored offline without being in wireless proximity to my Apple iPhone 6. My Apple watch connects over Bluetooth and Wifi, and my AirPods connect over Bluetooth. My question is: Can I connect my Airpods to my Apple Watch Series 1 for music whilst running without my iPhone?
I bought SSD Samsung 850 Pro drive from my friend and it was NTFS formatted. I used macOS Disc Utility to erase it and after doing this the disc has 24 GB only (instead of 1TB). Any solution how to resize it to its previous capacity?
I can't get quite the right colors on my external UE590D 4k. Does anyone have the correct settings/colors so it looks as close as possible to the MacBook Pro retina display?
I don't have any cleaning product right now at home, and the only alcohol I have is vodka. Can it be used to clean my keyboard and trackpad, or will it damage my laptop? (I think that alcohol is often used to clean computers, but I'm not sure that it's the same kind of alcohol)
I'm currently using the default Numbers application to open my CSVs. My current use case involves a file that I had to use a different type of separator (|). Is there any way to change the separator? Right now when I open the file it just puts the entire row in one column.
I have Windows 10 and I just upgraded to a new iTunes version. Now, every time a new song starts I get a popup message saying "iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation." ... etc. OK... I do not care about having access to the iTunes store; haven't shopped there in 8 years. How do I make it so that the message stops popping up? There is no "Do not show this again" box on it. Thanks in advance!
I ran this line in Terminal: Now I want to reverse it to the default permissions. How do I do that? (I think the default owner is system)
We need to have two machines for exams with no access to any other application other than Microsoft Word. Is there any easy way how to achieve this? Preferred free solution if possible. Before you shout "Parental Controls" - I have tried these and it kind of worked but not always and it is prompting for application to run (which is fine but some just keeps asking over and over).
Is it possible to load WhatsApp web without camera?. My front and back camera are broken and I am not able to load WhatsApp web without it. Anyone knows if it is possible to load it without the camera?
Is it possible to increase the length of time that the fade in/out from/to black takes when editing a video in iMovie (added using the Settings pop-up menu in the video timeline(?) panel at the bottom of the iMovie window (apologies if I'm not using the correct terminology))?
When selecting the Apple on the top bar and then 'Shut Down' or 'Restart', Finder won't show the alert that asks you to confirm that you want to restart or shut down the computer (the one with the timer). Spotlight not working, and no dots under active apps... I tried relaunching Finder but that didn't work. Any ideas?
2016 MBP w/ Touch Bar is locking up randomly. I'll have a few programs open and I'll try to open Mission Control or open a Stack in my Dock and it will 'freeze' During these 'freezes' it can still move the mouse, and I can sort of use the Touch Bar but I can't get any apps to open, I can't use Mission Control, I pretty much can't do anything but force shutdown the computer. Also the Busy mouse doesn't appear. During the freezes I've tried relaunching Finder to no avail.
I have configured the Hot Corners as shortcuts for "Put Display to Sleep" and "Start Screen Saver". Both work as expected, but when the monitor stops, the Ethernet connection is lost and I'm forced to disconnect and reconnect the Ethernet adaptor from the laptop. How can I solve this frustrating inconvenience?
My personal Late-2011 15" MBP is having issues and I'm considering replacing it with an iMac (either early/late 2016). If I did decide to get an iMac, would I be able to simply put my MBP SSD into the new iMac, set it as my boot drive, and have a reasonable expectation that it would just work? If not, is it even possible? If possible, what is typically involved?
Can i create a mac Osx application that can bypass the audio jack to produce sound through the speakers. I accidentally broke off the headphone jack inside my Macbook Pro and sound no longer comes out, this is clearly a software issue since the internal speakers produce sound on startup but subsequently become "disabled" once logged in. Can't I spoof the MacBook Pro using software to think that the headphone jack is disconnected even if it is.
Boom, still doesn't work. Let's try 700G (300G (current) + 400G (free)): OK, let's take a look at the limits: Note: I tried all the steps in normal mode and the recovery mode with the same results.
At the bottom of my screen of my Mac I have a dock with different shortcuts inside. But.. where are these shortcuts stored? In what folder exactly?
In /var/db/diagnostics folder there are some compressed binary .tracev3 log files. How can I read them what is inside in a formatted way?
I have unlimited 4G LTE with Sprint so I should be able to upload to YouTube using it, but YouTube can only allow SD (Standard Definition) upload. The HD upload says, "Requires WiFi". (this was done by going to Photos app, and then using Share to YouTube). But my WiFi will be slower... and sometimes I don't have WiFi if I am outside... so is there a way to upload it using the unlimited 4G LTE?
I forgot my power supply today, but I have an older powered thunderbolt (2?) display and drives. Can I plug the thunderbolt out from my display into my thunderbolt to USB-C adapter somehow to charge my laptop? The connections I set up now don't seem to be doing anything. Please hurry ;^) 19% and dropping.... 18%...!
Hi there can anyone help. My hard drive Buffalo mini 1TB will not mount on my Mac. It shows in Disk Utility but won't repair. Is there anything I can do to get the files off this hard drive? Many thanks for your help
I have some PDF files that I want to open in preview, and others that I want to open in Acrobat. It would be nice if I could just set up that acrobat files with a different extention, say ".apdf" and have the mac automatically open anything with .apdf with acrobat, and anything with .pdf with preview. But that doesn't seem to work, because I think that the filetype is actually part of the file, not just the filename... any ideas?
I've searched all over and can't find a sure answer to this question. If a new photo is added to my iCloud Photo Library, resulting in a change to the "Photos Library" package on my Mac found in ~/Pictures, does Time Machine simply back up the delta within the package or will it store another copy of the entire library?
For some reason iCloud is taking up over 30 gigabytes of storage on my MacBook Air. How do I get rid of this? I though the whole point of iCloud was to save space not eat it up! I'm on macOS Sierra 10.2
I will sometimes use iTunes to listen to my laptop's music library while on an airplane or somewhere else I don't have an internet connection, and thus I turn off Wi-Fi to save battery. I haven't had problems with it in the past, but I took several flights today and encountered an annoying alert that came up every time a new track started playing, letting me know that iTunes could not connect to the iTunes Store. The network is down or unavailable.
I have a Panasonic DV camera which I cannot download via fire wire on the Camera and the USB on the iMac. (iMac doesn't pick up the camera). Apple recommend use of the thunderbolt port. I cannot trace a firewire to thunderbolt connector cable. Firewire to USB I have, and I am able to get a female USB connector. However, I cannot find a thunderbolt to USB to make this option possible. Anyone any suggestions please?
Our site analytics tool (we use Google Analytics) has shown a huge influx of Safari users (about 40% of all users, which is more than Chrome's 36%!), with over 17,000 of them reported as being on Safari version 537.36. The most recent version as of this writing is Safari 10.0.2 (and we only get about 2,500 users on 10.0.x).
I've noticed recently my iPad 3 (Retina) is making notification sounds for Facebook Messenger and some games even when the volume is turned completely down to show the muted symbol. I'm running the latest version of iOS supported on the device as far as I know.
iOS 10 iPhone 5 Airline: Westjet. Email App: Gmail
I accidentally left my phone in an Uber. It is still turned on and I have been using the Find My iPhone app to track it - the Uber driver claims to not have it in his car, however, the location changes every few minutes and going to all bars throughout the night - therefore leading me to believe it is still in the Uber. If I play the sound through the Find My iPhone app, is there a way to tell if someone has turned off the sound once it begins playing? I know you automatically receive an email that a sound was played, but I'd like to know if you can find out if someone turned the sound off.
Since my new MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar I'm unable to turn off my MacBook using the keyboard CNTROPTIONCMD + Power. I saw this question about the screen lock: Simular question but there is no button in the Touch bar for turning off the Mac completely. Is there a new keyboard shortcut for this? These are the only options to drag into the Touch Bar:
After upgrading to macOS Sierra on our Mac desktop, all of our desktop folders were as before but all subfolders were emptied. Many years of archiving gone? Anyone know how to retrieve?
Macbook Pro Mid 2012. Original board and display. About 2 months ago, laptop screen cuts out. External display used to prove everything working normal, including passing Apple Hardware Test. Take to store, conclude the "display is dead", but all logic board components functioning correctly. Take home, hook up to external display, use for a week - then, randomly, the laptop screen starts working. Works until I reset laptop, stops working. Tried all different configurations of plugging in external monitor / power cycling / diagnostics / PRAM rest/ display resolution changes / external display change while power cycling to try and trigger the laptop screen to work again. Fails. 2 days pass - laptop boots up with screen on! Alas I'm forced to restart, and it goes away again. Then comes back in a week. Then I have to power off... and its gone. I'm currently at gone. I don't know what to do - it seems like I either have to buy another display and hope that works properly or replace the logic
I have a MacBook air 2013. It has a 128GB M.2 SSD with 16GB of photos.
However, moments later, when going to App Store, the older email address was still there. We shut those windows, and restarted phone, but older email address remained. We signed out of the older email address, and signed in with new one. We got an error message. We then said let's see if older one worked, it does not either (of course, we knew this, we got verification it was switched to new email).
The following trick is supposed to enable selecting from a Quick Look preview: … and then relaunch Finder. In the past it worked for me, but not longer. Is this broken in Sierra?
I thought it was the HVAC system -- it goes on and off once per minute about 1440 times per day. Then I realized it is actually the external hard drive connected to a MacBook Pro upstairs. The laptop is sleeping. (Whatever happens by default when you walk away from the computer.) The hard drive is configured as an external Time Machine disk.
I have a contact with whom I share text messages from two different phone numbers. How can I distinguish the two text conversations? Right now, it labels them identically with Full Name at the top, and first name beneath. iPhone 6 running ios 10.
This leads to silly effects such as: if I create note "aa" on the mac, I will have "aa" on the mac and "aa" on the phone. If I edit to "aabb" on the phone, the mac version stays as "aa." The, if I edit the mac version to "aacc" the phone version becomes "aabbcc" or "aaccbb."
After searching related questions and answers, I find my issue still unsolved: editing /private/etc/hosts does not work on macOS Sierra. What in my /private/etc/hosts is the following two rules.
I'm on a MacBook Pro (2013) running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. The speakers work as usual, but when I plug in headphones, the audio stops working. When I remove the headphones, the speakers work again as before. With headphones plugged in, the only output device available is "Digital Out - Optical digital-out port", and when I try to change the volume there is a disabled symbol (and no volume bar is displayed).
System details: OSX 10.11.6 (15G1212) Calendar Version 8.0 (2092.3) I have a few Calendar subscriptions shared between my Mac and iPhone, including a few shared with multiple people. I noticed that on my Mac, when I open Calendar, there are 'exclamation point in a triangle' icons next to two of my groups of calendars. What are these icons indicating?
I have a new Bluetooth headset and would like to use Siri with it. As far as I know, the standard way is to hold down the "call" button for a long press. Unfortunately, my headset treats a 3-second press as a "turn off" signal. Is there a workaround? Possible options I've thought of include shortening the press needed to trigger Siri, remapping the "redial" function (which on this headset involves double-tapping the button", using an alternate combo to trigger Siri, or turning on "Hey Siri" for Bluetooth only.
After updating my macOS to Sierra I've started experiencing a strange bug. When trying to compress some stuff to a zip (via the Archive Utility) it pops up a new Finder window after each compression. Here are my Archive Utility settings:
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2015 running macOS Sierra 10.12.2. I want to completely stop my power button turning off, sleeping or restarting my device; I have already tried other solutions such as running this command: but all that does is change the behaviour to opening a window with a default action of shut down!
In Pages is it possible to open a single document in two windows? Example:
If I have a folder full of similar files, is there a technique to open all of its files with a particular app? For example, I would like to right-click on a folder and Open With a selected app.
I am forced to use the company's proxy, but some applications (apps) like Cisco VPN Client, Adobe, and others don't use system proxy, and I can't configure proxy settings in apps. Is any way to force that alls apps use system proxy?
In Mail.app and Text.app there's Edit > Transformations:: Make Upper Case Make Lower Case Capitalize ...but I see no keyboard shortcut options in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts:: Services.
What are the tools (hardware/software) required to develop iOS applications? Because I want to learn iPhone application development.
I'm looking for one of these types of stylish MacBook keyboard skins:  But I don't want any of the keys marked. I just want blank keys, without letters/symbols.
In Apple Pages, pressing "page down" makes the page move down one screen as opposed to one page. Is it possible to only move down one page? I don't like seeing half pages on screen. I only ever want to see one full page.
When a user persists an encrypted disk (or disk image) passphrase in the Keychain (e.g via Disk Utility as shown here, *=URL=* or when setting up an encrypted Time Machine backup, possibly on a remote device), an entry gets created in either the login (via Disk Utility) or System (for Time Machine) keychains.  Examining such an entry with security provides the following data: The account's GUID matches none of the users that can be found via: The ultimate goal is to non-interactively create the necessary entry in the Keychain for Time Machine to pick up the password and attach an encrypted, size-limited sparsebundle disk image on a Time Capsule, for which this is the missing piece. Unfortunately diskimages-helper is not allowed to mount it (observed via Console.app) when using the following command to create the entry: BTW this is on Sierra. Additional references: *=URL=* How do I tell if a disk image (.sparseimage) is encrypted? *=URL=* *=URL=* http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?st
Quitting the application in question will help for a couple of minutes, then it'll happen again. Restarting the machine doesn't help. I'm not seeing any weird processes or anything in the process list. What could be causing this?
I have not found anything like that anywhere. Is there a maximum memory allowed? It depends upon the computer? It depends upon the reader? Maybe it is just that the three micro SD memories where corrupted?
[Numbers, macOS] I need to merge data in 2 spreadsheets / tables. Both of them contain contact information. The second table contains a column that I want to append to the first table. Now, I can't just copy/paste the column, because even though the two tables contain the same column A, they don't contain an equal amount of rows. For illustration, I put sample tables below. Table #1 Table #2 How could I append the Website column to table #1, so that if the Name column matches, it pastes what it finds in table #2's Website column to get the result shown below? Target Table
I executed Command on my Macbook pro yosemite. Since then its not able to boot up. It just sticks at apple logo. Things I have tried:
Directory of miscellaneous jpegs that I want to bring into Aperture to keyword and export at web resolutions. So they are on /Volumes/Bugkiller/temppix When I go to import them, the directory appears blank. Permissions: In this directory they are all visible: ls -l@ shows neither the directory nor the files with any extended attributes. copying a file from NikonTransfer to Temppix, and the new file is not visible. Navigating to this location in Finder shows the files. A simple photo browser iSmartPhoto shows the files. What am I missing?
I signed up to the standard 5GB iCloud plan when I purchased my iPhone 6. Just a few days back was advised I needed to increase iCloud capacity to receive more photos. I have paid to increase to 50GB, and this now shows as available storage. However, I still cannot upload photos into this increased storage.
I have 2 monitors plugged into my MacBook Pro 2016, one via USB-C and another through a 5-port hub with HDMI. When the MacBook is not plugged in to power (through the hub) it seems to drain power very quickly. Would the monitors cause this? Thx.
I was going to install a new copy of El Capitan via my USB drive, but it turns out it's dead, it's been corrupted. I erased everything before that, so I'm stuck with the installation screen.
I have had my Macbook Air for nearly a year now. I have never had a Mac before but have enjoyed it. I cannot get my keyboard to work anymore. I have read up and rebooted it, have tried it in safe mode but am too frightened to mess around with safe mode. I want to get it back to factory settings......But I can't get my head round how to do it. I am typing this on my Nexus.....Can someone help me, I need it in real simple terms.....PS I am in my sixties..Not Mac Book savvy!
Ok I admit, this question will be part rant. Why Apple thinks we are too stupid to check the batteries when our mouse or keyboard stops working (and would rather pester us incessantly) is beyond me. These notifications are incredibly annoying and I am seriously considering investigating buying a Microsoft device if this isn't fixed in the next macOS release. Is there an easy way to turn them off?
I apologize if this is impossible to debug, but this has been happening on my Mac with macOS Sierra 10.12.2 installed since a few weeks and I thought I'd give it a shot. Basically, a metadata.json file gets automagically created on my desktop. I delete it. It appears again after a while. GOTO 1. Google gets a bit mixed up when I search for answers. So, how would I begin to find out which app is the culprit?
Due to sad neglect, I own the computer from the exorcist. I finally looked last night and there were 80 sshd connections from China. I blocked all traffic to/from sshd, and now that sshd is linked to launchd, I blocked all traffic there, too. Every time I disallow all traffic to/from launchd, it is immediately allowed again, talking to 121 servers.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014, running OS 10.12.1) and a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008, running OS 10.11.6) connected to the same home WiFi network. I am trying to use the Screen Sharing app on the 13" MacBook to connect to the 15" MacBook. The target MacBook has both Screen Sharing and File Sharing enabled. I am able to successfully connect file sharing using Finder > "Connect As..." and the name and password for the admin account on my 15" MacBook. When I try to connect Screen Sharing, using either the "Share Screen..." option in Finder, or by entering the "Connect To:" field, the Screen Sharing app will hang on the "Connecting..." screen.
I have had this Macbook pro since a few months and I am trying to download XCode. I have about 12GB free and apparently that is not enough to install the app. What is weird is that I had about 6GB free and I deleted the old XCode which according to Finder was 12GB, and my new total available space is only 12GB. Is Finder totally rubbish at estimating disk space? When I go into about this Mac it tells me I have about 16GB of Apps and 21GB of "Other"
My Magsafe2 charger just broke down. We have 2 Macbook Pros in house, and I can't be sure which is which. If it's my charger, I'll have to buy a new one. If it belongs to the other macbook - it should be still covered with Warranty.
My iMac Mid.2010 running OS X EL Capitan v10.11.6 will not format any of my brand new 2 x 3 TB SATA drives and although I tried any other format like exFat, etc, it keeps making them no higher than 800 gigs. I do connect each drive to the iMac with a "kdLinks HDD docking station" and a SATA-to-USB2 interface cable. The purpose is to use these 2 drives for Time Machine backups. What am I doing wrong? Update:
I'm new user of a brand new 15" Mid 2015 MacBook Pro (i7 processor), which I got about a month ago. I've been having problems with performance. Every time I try to do anything more CPU consuming than browsing the internet (for example opening a project in IntelliJ or compiling a Java project), my Mac becomes extremely slow.
I have an LG monitor with only HDMI outlets. My cable is HDMI to my MacAir mini port. Max resolutionis 1920. Is there an adaptor I can purchase that will bring my monitor up to 2560 x 1440? Thank you!
Asking for a friend. Imagine that one has accidentally created a file named ~ and in the process of deleting it, foolishly types:
I'm having an issue with "Preview" on the Mac. When I open a document with it, I can't find the button to delete it while in preview. What I have to do now is open Launchpad to drag the document to the Trash. Does anyone know how to delete a file while in Preview?
Every so often, when I open a new tab in Google Chrome and go to a site, the page appears with black squares where the content should be. The browser's UI is still visible, and when I mouseover where the links should be, the cursor changes from a pointer to a hand icon, but nothing on the page itself is visible. Any subsequent pages visited have the same effect, as does opening new tabs. Restarting Chrome gets rid of the problem. This only happens intermittently, otherwise I'd add a screenshot. I'm on the latest version of Chrome, it's been happening for months. Chrome Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit) OS X Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67) MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) \w Radeon Pro 460 on Sierra 10.12.2 IOGEAR USB-C Docking Station with Power Delivery DisplayPort 1.2a cable BenQ BL3201PT display (4K@60Hz via DisplayPort supported) Display can always run in 4K@60Hz as a single screen (mirrored to internal display).
OS: Sierra 10.12.1 System: Macbook11,3 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB Ram. Rather than telling you the whole story, I'll catch you up. Basically, three months ago, iMessage on OS X stopped working. Now I talk to Apple's Engineering team to trouble shoot. (Escalated like 25x).
I am trying to move a PDF that I opened in iBooks on my iPad, to Dropbox, however whenever I try the share option it will only allow me to print the PDF and not email it. How can I get it out from iBooks? I'm using an iPad Pro 9.7" with iOS 10.
My phones messages are still syncing with my iPad's even though both devices have separate IDs. The only device I'm signed in on is my phone, yet everything is still synced? I was wondering how to unsync both devices completely?
I want to port the Stocks app from iPhone to iPad. I transferred Stocks.app and the relevant frameworks files from iPhone 4 iOS 6.1.3 to iPad 2 iOS 6.1.3. The files are zipped via iFile on iPhone and unzipped into the right directories when the files are on iPad 2 so that the proper file permission can be preserved. Weather, compass and voice memo works, however this Stocks always crash at opening.
It is my understanding that Time Machine does not compress as it backs up and that it backs up everything (at least in default mode). Why then is the space-used stat given by Finder re my external hard drive to which I backed up my iMac's (OS X 10.9.5) internal drive much lower/less than the same stat in re my internal drive from which I backed up. The difference is 354.39 GB on internal vs. 85.83 GB on external.
I have been messing with an old PowerMac G4 running OSX 10.5 Leopard Server trying to get Open Directory running on a small network I set up for testing purposes. I can't find anything useful online about my specific situation. My network hasn't got, and never will have, an internet connection, but I have multiple Mac machines connected either through Ethernet or WiFi.
I have a dual monitors setup. Files in the desktop and shown on the first screen. Is there a way to have those files also appear (mirrored) on the second screen?
My Mac keeps crashing with the same error: a freed zone element has been modified in zone kalloc.64 Here are four crash reports I collected over a period of time. It happens no matter what I'm doing, using the terminal, the browser, even when the screensaver is on. I did try disabling avira real time scan (didn't exit) but that didn't stop the crashing. This is driving me nuts, any ideas?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1TB Fusion drive. The noise of the spinning disk has been increasing lately and I want to replace it with a Crucial MX300 1TB SSD.
This question basically is exactly the same as this question in Stackoverflow. Using the syntax of cut the specification cut -d '' file should actually work and (given the answers to the question) it seems to work on Linux systems. However, on Mac Os X I get cut: bad delimiter. My question is: is there a way to specify a null delimiter in cut on Mac Os X? (I know that one could just something else than cut but I am just wondering now ...).
I have an iOS app which is live on App Store and is published under my individual developer account. If I want to register a new company and obtain an Apple developer account with the company name (may be using my own Apple ID) and then re-publish the same app or just transfer it under the new company account to have the company name as seller. Is it possible?
I have the Freedom app installed to control my procrastination. However, I can force quit Freedom from the Activity Monitor, and the remainder of the week just goes by without me getting anything done. Is there any way by which I can restart this app if it is quit?
macOS allows you to change the Touch Bar to traditional function keys when you run specific applications. I have tried to do so with VirtualBox, and it works on the main VirtualBox window properly. The only issue is that when I launch a virtual machine, those settings lose their effect. The reason is that VirtualBox launches a differently-named executable file (from within its app bundle) in order to run the virtual machine in a separate process.
I have a DELL UP 2516Dt and I used to connect it to my old MacBook Pro with a HDMI. But for the new MBP. I tried the so-called "Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3" but it's not working (I found a lot of negative reviews at Apple Store). I think this picture below describes quite well my confusion.
I can add an IMAP/SMTP email account with a Configuration Profile. I want to take it one step further and disable Notes for the new mail account. I don't want to disable the Notes app. I just don't want to add another account to it. Currently I have a mobileconfig XML working with a com.apple.mail.managed payload.
I've done a Migration Assistant move of my apps/data/settings from a Yosemite machine to a Sierra machine. After that I verified that all my "System Preferences" keyboard shortcut settings and trackpad settings had been copied over (they are; I had disabled most of them so Microsoft Remote Desktop gets all keys and mouse events) On the Sierra machine, somehow these are note forwarded correctly: Option-Space Secondary-Click With "Yosemite", both will get you the Windows "right mouse button" behaviour (firing up the context menu). On "Sierra", this the resulting behaviour Option-Space will get a blank space Secondary-Click will paste the clipboard How can I force Sierra to forward them as-sis to the Microsoft Remote Desktop session? I'm using a "US" keyboard on both Yosemite and Sierra. I've reproduced this issue with: Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.23 Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.26 Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.29 Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.35 Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.36
I've got a Mac mini 2014 (running macOS Sierra 10.12.2) with the Server.app installed. I was planning on hosting a webserver on this device on the default http(s) ports. However, I've found that one of the services installed by the Server app has already bound these ports.
When I type "sudo some_command", the terminal shows: my account is an admin account, and the /etc/sudoers contains: How to fix this?
Can I feed another MBP by USB-C cable from a port on the first laptop? Power packs can deliver 1.5A (at 220V = 330W) over USB-C to the MBP. MBP power requirement is 4.3A (@ 20.2V = 87W). So seems the power pack can handle it.
I connected to an iPhone Hotspot with a MacBook. I got internet access. Within 15-sec, the iPhone said there was a second Hotspot connection. I toggled Hotspot, reconnected, and still 2 connections. Finally, I turned off Hotspot, changed password, and re-connected the MacBook. A second connection did not happen.
I have a MBP (mid 2010, 13") and this is the usual kernel panic that I see each time that it restarts (sometimes it doesn't restart and it makes a continuous beeping). Kernel Panic log here: *=URL=* What's the problem?
Postfix works great when I start it manually. Can relay off of it from other hosts on my network; telnet to it on port 25 etc. How do I get it to auto start such that It will always be listening on port 25? I understand it starts up every minute or so and sends whatever has been manually written to the queue (like with the mail command) but I want it listening for connections on port 25 (Which it does if I start it manually). I've found a bunch of things online but can't get any to work (they seem to apply to previous versions of OS X).
I am looking for a MacBook Pro MJLQ2RU, but there is no such model on store.apple.com. It's the same as MJLQ2LL but with a Russian/English backlit keyboard. I chatted with support, but they don't know such model. Are there any stores that sell Russian MacBooks in United States?
I have a 3rd generation iPod (Apple calls it an "iPod (Dock Connector)"). It syncs music, podcasts and audiobooks with iTunes 12.5.3 on El Capitan, but calendars and contacts are not synced. (I didn't notice this previously, because until recently I didn't use Apples calendar/contact apps). iPod has most recent firmware (Settings > About reports version 2.3). How can I get calendar events and contacts to sync with this vintage iPod?
Is there a way of just downloading specific apps from previous versions of macOS? Specifically, I want to download the El Capitan version of Preview or revert back to it. The colors on Sierra are way too dark it makes it harder to read the text for some of them.
I'm new to umask so please correct me if i'm wrong. We have a mac OS X file server at work with multiple SMB shares. Whenever users create files, they get created as -rw-r--r-- as this is the default umask (022). I want to change it to (002) so created files will have -rw-rw---- as default. This way all users in the same group can access the files. Apple advises to change umask like this: sudo launchctl config user umask nnn After doing sudo launchctl config user umask 002 I got the following message:
I do this all the time with the GUI and it does what I am looking for. No Problem.
Me and my ex shared an Apple ID, we broke up in 2015 and she moved as well, and therefore I had to change her Apple ID login from the shared ID to another email address. I have now battled for over a year with trying to update my iPhone with new info. Due to previous iPhone and iPad theft. I could not login into iCloud, so I could not report the device as stolen. I have lost all my music and photos and my only request is to be assisted to get the info from the iCloud up till the time that the Apple ID was changed I think in October 2015, please assist me
I have a late 2016 MacBook Pro with 4 USB-C ports and the LG UltraFine 4K Display that Apple is selling. So it is a USB-C to USB-C connection.
Does anyone know why the MOV files have a create date (several days to a week after) the create date of the associated JPEG file? This is extremely frustrating for someone who likes to organize photos by date. Thanks
I am trying to enter text in PDFs with the Preview app. Ins some fields the text enters, no problem. In others I get the text enter box but when I type nothing happens. Why is this? I can put text there by using Markup and creating my own text box but it is tedious. I would like to enter right into the box.
How to find which apps are draining the battery on an iOS device in iOS 10? Previously in iOS 8 you could go to Settings > Battery to see a list of apps with a percentage number for rating how much battery they were responsible for using, as shown in this posting. Gone in iOS 10.
I have a late-2011 15" MBP. Yesterday I decided to upgrade from El Capitan to Sierra.
If you click on Continue, it takes you to Internet Accounts in settings. There I can see two email accounts, iCloud and Hotmail. It is the hotmail account that has the problem, so she types in her password and then another message appears:
Due to the recent death of Pebble, I am making plans for a custom built smart watch that actually has buttons (seriously, try finding a smart watch without a touch screen) which will probably never be sold due to my priority for personal preference. One of my prototype designs has the watch connected through the 3.5 mm port (on an older phone obviously). I know data input through the 3.5 mm is possible because the Square Card Reader uses it as well as most quality headphones with the pause button/mic. I have torn apart an older set of Apple standard headphones and found that there are five internal wires (green, green striped, red, red striped, and green and red striped) plus a white plastic core. I haven't been able to figure out which goes to which ring yet but that should be easy to figure out with a bit more dissecting.
When watching Utube Rugby on my new iPad Mini 2 the sound is fine but as soon as I plug in headphones I have to turn the sound controls up to maximum and even then it's still too soft.
I downloaded an app for downloading things from the internet, mainly gaming videos off of YouTube. At first everything was working fine, but I got this generic you've won popup and accidentally pressed the only option on the screen (you've won) is it possible for that app to infect my phone with malware from that popup?
I have a MacBook and set up FaceTime with an Apple ID, email only. I can call from the MacBook FaceTime to another iPhone FaceTime user. However, the iPhone FaceTime cannot make call the to MacBook's FaceTime, as the video icon is dimmed. Is email-only FaceTime a/c not good for receiving video calls?
I'm using early 2011 i5 MacBook Pro. I upgraded to Sierra but the speakers and USB are not working and the system is very slow. Then I restarted my Mac with (cmd+alt/opt+R) to Recovery Mode. I cleaned my hard drive now I tried to reinstall Sierra but in the logs I saw it is downloading from the Internet. I stopped the installation and restarted my Mac. After the Apple logo it shows nothing but the . Then I boot my USB drive to El Capitan but it is installing Sierra from the Internet... it takes days to download with my internet speed.
I installed some video player and might accidentally clicked to install something in my Mac. Then I deleted the player from the application folder. Now, after several hours, the system pops out a small window (alert window, with accept and reminder me later button on the right). Safari and AppStore also pop out with the PDFExpert app page shown. I am wondering is there any place to fix this issue. I didnot find anything special in my Notification center nor any special app installed in my Application folder. Is there anywhere else I need to check to fix it? If no, I might need to us my timemachine to recover.
I'm trying to create a partition but the Disk Utility says it cannot be resized, and the + button appears greyed out. Why is that?
In the old days memory needed to be installed in pairs of equal size such as 2 X 2 gigs for a total of 4 gigs. Installing say one 2 gig module and one 4 gig module for a total of 6 gigs would either not work or would cause slower operations than if a same size pair were installed. Is that still the case? For example an a MacBookPro8,1 (Late 2011) might we install one 2 gig module and one 8 gig module for a total of 10 gigs without problem nor penalty?
from "About This Mac" I see that model is "MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)". From my understanding technical specifications page (*=URL=* for MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) lists two graphics cards for that model: Graphics and Video support Intel Iris Pro Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching I can't find any evidence of GPU "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M" in the system. About This Mac shows only "Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB"
My iPhone's power button is not working. I've been using assistive touch option for a long time.
As we know we can jailbreak any iOS device to loosen the OS rules. 1 Is there anything similar to macOS devices also? 2 If Yes, then what is it? 3 Is it possible to do it from remote? 4 How can I do for preventing my MacBook from getting jailbroken?
I am unable to log out of my Gmail account from my iPhone 6+. My screen starts from Inbox till end of folders but no log out shown. How do I log out?
My ex and I were together for 10 years. in all that time we had a joint iTunes account. I want to be separate from his account but still be able to keep the music we have jointly accumulated and paid for over the years. is there any way this can be done? or will he gain custody of our library?
I have a GeForce GT 610 that I have been trying to figure out how to get the Xserve to utilize. I have followed various guides and ideas to no luck. The screen on this card is always black and the system does see something on the PCIe bus but just doesn't send video.
I've just completed the install procedure for two, 2TB hard drives in my mid-2011 Mac Mini server. The server had been 'downgraded' to just run regular Mac OS Sierra on one 750 GB drive, with the second 750GB drive for data. Both drives in the machine were backed up to a single, 2TB external drive using Time Machine.
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from theguardian.com (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED
I use caps lock to change input language, but when Spotify.app is ON caps lock behaves like normal caps lock. Any ideas how to get def macOS functionality back? I looked through Spotify.app settings and couldn't find key mapping options.
I have a Buffalo mini station that I believe has died. It will not mount and will not repair in disk utility. It will not mount in terminal. How can I transfer the files from the dead external hard drive to another external hard drive? Please help before I throw it trough the window. Many thanks
I'm a new Mac user (macOS Sierra on MacBook pro). Coming from Windows, I used PuTTY as my terminal emulator which was fairly simple but quite useful. I'm looking for a terminal emulation program that copies text to the clipboard upon selection (and not requiring my to hit CommandC), like in PuTTY. Is there such an app?
I recently updated to MacOS Sierra Version 10.12.2. In the System Preferences > Internet Accounts > iCloud > Notes. The Notes application is greyed out. It was working fine in El Capitan. Did someone face this issue? Thanks in advance.
i've found a similar question but i think is a bit incomplete. I know how to download and install El Capitan now that Sierra is out. You just have to change the date in terminal to something like 2015 and the download will start. This is exactly what i did a month ago. Now i'm having some random reboot caused by some sw (most likely Paragon and NTFS), but this is another story, so i would like to reinstall El Capitan. I've done as usuale, booting into recovery and trying to reinstall El Capitan. After i put my credential in it said that "This item is temporary unavailable".
I have followed this link: Turn on the adaptive firewall in macOS Server and I get this output, but I don't know if I have indeed activated the adaptive firewall: I want to let the adaptive firewall automatically add users with several failed attempts to login.
My MacBook is bound to a Windows Active Directory domain. For the computer to keep contact with the domain controller, the DNS server needs to be set to the IP address of that controller. However, since we are talking about a laptop, it often goes off-site where so that DNS server is not available. In Windows, this is a very easy fix as the DNS settings are customized for different networks. I cannot figure out how to do this for macOS without manually changing it when I need to.
I'm trying to add multiple persistent static routes using the networksetup command. I've used this method in the past and am now running into a strange issue, where I only seem to be able to add 1 route. For instance, if I go to add another route the previous route will be overwritten with the new.
I have an iPhone 5s. Unfortunately, no iCloud Library is an option in my Music Settings. "Music" does not show up in my iCloud Settings either. This is now affecting my new Mac as I am trying to sync all my iTunes music and many songs are missing.
Firstly to let you know I am a mac dummy/newbie and I'm hoping to get some advice on a 2nd hand mac I purchased on ebay (while I wait the 3 weeks for my appointment at my local Genius Bar.) 20inch (Mid 2007) - From googling I think it shipped with Tiger os ? I can't seem to load/reinstall the operating system. Every time I start it up I get taken to OS X Utilities(Recovery?) for Mountain Lion. If I select reinstall OS X I can't get past the appleid/password prompt (I'm entering my details but I think I need the appleid of the previous owner as he was the one who upgraded to mountain lion??) This is not possible I don't have original installation discs either. Do I have any other options or have I bought a large and expensive paperweight(joke). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
I've run into an interesting issue while trying to migrate to MacOS. Whenever I go to right-click something, a click event will be fired on the initial mouse-down event, and then a click event will be fired on the mouse-up event. As an example, you can right click (hold the click down) to bring up a context menu, and then release the click while hovering over a menu item, and the menu item will be clicked. Is there a way to force the OS to wait for a mouse-up event before it fires another click event? It's frustrating coming from Linux and Windows environments that wait until a mouse-down AND mouse-up complete before firing a click.
I am just wondering if anyone had the current hosts of the iCloud Activation servers, as I am currently writing a script that utilizes them. Any help is much appreciated. I know that it used to be albert.apple.com, however I am away from home and don't have admin privileges to install a packet sniffer at work.
I have a 2011 MBP which is connected to a 1920x1080, 144 Hz monitor. I am using one of these cables to connect it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YOQYQWY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 10.2. The recent update included a setting which allowed users in India to make emergency calls by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. I seem to be missing that setting completely. My question is: Is it a build issue or a device issue? Is it not available for the iPhone 5?
I moved my Photos library to an external drive due to it's size. I removed ~/Pictures/Photos Library. When I launch Photos it asks to choose library. I select "Other Library" and traverse to external drive where I select the photo library I moved. Everything works as expected. I then choose Photos preferences and and select "Use as System Photo Library".
I shared an Apple Tv with my ex. We recently just broke up and she took the Apple Tv, even though it was linked to my personal Apple ID. I changed my password so my account can't be accessed anymore.
I want to downgrade from macOS Sierra to OS X Mavericks. I have backed up my Mac using Time Machine and I made a USB with the OS X Mavericks Installer.
Why here is only 160 instead of 250? What is wrong? How can I reset this?
I have the following set on my keyboard shortcuts: However, my option5 shortcut no longer works, because it prints ∞ in most of my applications.
This is the code I closed the terminal, but now I can't stop my Mac saying "one" every second. It is very annoying.
Recently my friend saw what I wrote as reviews on every application I downloaded. Is it possible to see another friend's reviews & ratings? How?
I saw the following icons in a screen shot of a mac. I know the F-icon is Autodesk Fusion, but what is the icon next to it, the red cone with a notch?
I want to change the default folder icon to something nicer. please help
I lost my iPhone 7. While tracking it with Find My iPhone, it died and is now offline. I can't see its last location. I have tried for a week now waiting to see if someone turns the phone on so I can track its location. If I sign into my Apple ID on my old iPhone 5, will I still be able to see my iPhone 7 on Find My iPhone if someone turns it on later?
The other day, I was mad so I took my anger out on my blanket and come to think of it, my iPod touch 5 was inside of it and I didn't realise it until I took it out. It was overheated so much, so I put it in a case so I wouldn't burn myself. When I put my usb port in, it showed a black screen and it says its charging with low battery, but when i take it out, none of the buttons work and it wont turn on, what can I do?
I have a setup with a laptop and a ultra-wide screen. I seldom use both screens at the same time. I wanted to have different backgrounds for my ultra-wide and laptop. But if I turn both on and try to set the background for one and another, when I close my laptop, the wide screen monitor gets the not-so-wide background. If I set a ultra-wide background in my monitor with the laptop closed, when I open the laptop, it gets the ultra-wide background, and the monitor gets another background. Can I sepcifically set the backgrounds for the monitors? I use a MacBook Pro Retina, running El Capitán. A similar question
Not long after that I thought to enable Filevault again, and so I did. This was not a good idea. I enabled it, I saw a recovery code that I copied into my Keepass database on the Mac, and restarted. Right after that I got the same problem with frozen keyboard and mouse. So I tried to go back by disabling FileVault, except now my password didn't work anymore.
As soon I bind a Mac to the AD Domain, I usually log into the Mac with the user account. Of course, under System Preference, User & Groups, the user account is marked as: Managed, Mobile My second step, is to make the user an Administrator account because I want to allow him/her to install/remove stuff from her/his Mac.
I downloaded a similar app called Cha Cha, which doesn't force the user to "Agree" to the EULA, I also downloaded another app called Cake, which does have the EULA when you sign up. Should setting it to Apple's EULA good enough? If not, would putting a link to it in the description suffice?
I despise having emojis in the subject line of my emails (iOS and OSX); I find it an obnoxious distraction. Is there a way to turn the rendering of them off?
I had a number of application warn me that Snow Leopard is no longer supported, so I've updated my main system to Yosemite. (I am on a 2010 Mac Pro, BTW) Now, Chrome is acting strangely, for a number of sites that have an embedded image I get
I have a .txt file that I open regularly on my Mac. I would like the TextEdit window of this .txt file to be wider than it normally is.
Is this a normal fan speed and CPU temperature for an idle MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015). The fact that fan 2 is not spinning worries me. I can get 'loaded' fan speeds and temps if that would be helpful. --- CPU Stats --- CPU temp: 52.38°C . --- Main Fan Stats --- Total fans in system: 2 Fan 0 speed: 2154.0 RPM Fan 1 speed: 0.0 RPM . --- Other Temp Stats --- TaSP Unknown 30.0°C Ta0P Unknown 30.13°C Th1H NB/CPU/GPU HeatPipe 1 Proximity 37.5°C Th2H Unknown 38.13°C Ts0P Palm rest L 26.0°C Ts0S Memory Bank Proximity 32.5°C Ts1P Unknown 24.63°C Ts1S Unknown 32.78°C TBXT Unknown 27.19°C TB0T Battery TS_MAX 27.19°C TB1T Battery 1 27.19°C TB2T Battery 2 27.19°C TCGC PECI GPU 56.0°C TCSA PECI SA 61.0°C TCTD Unknown -0.42°C TCXC PECI CPU 68.06°C TCXP Unknown 68.06°C
I often have deep nested files. For example: Users/myname/topic/subtopic/project/aspect/subaspect/myfile.pdf It's easy to navigate to this folder in Finder by using programs like Alfred which can do a quick folder search. Occasionally, I need to do something with a file using Windows Parallels. I have mapped my home directory (i.e., Users/myname)to the Z drive in Parallels.
I like apple's Photo app but I am not willing to let it manage my photos library for many reasons (eg I want to manage and edit the same files from different applications such as Bridge but I also want to access my photo library on other windows machines on the network etc). So I'm looking into using the Photos app with referenced files, not consolidated ones. For the most part it's working fine; But when I delete files via the Finder, I have no way of gathering up and de-referencing these broken references. If for instance I delete a 1000 photos, I have to manually go through each of the 100,000 photos in my Photos library to see which references ones are broken.
Let's say I have got a bunch of items in a folder on my Finder. And I want to make a non-continuous selection. I can do that using my trackpad and CMD + click as in this answer: How do you select multiple specific files?
I have file copied from an usb hard drive with a previous installation of os yosemite copied in it. Now I'm using Sierra. The status of the file: I have the same name user of my previous installation, maybe this could be a problem, but I'm not sure because from the finder, if I check permissions, I get 'Karim (Me)' as a owner. I change the permissions: The file permissions are changed. As you can see, I'can't modify the filename. I already checked on finder and the file is not locked. As suggested I run this: The last line seems to explain what is happening on the file.
I always convert videos in Mac and let them can play in windows7 with MS media player, there is 50 to 50 percent chance that which cannot play with MS Media Player. I have no idea about it. The following is the one:
I like to edit files in my /Library/WebServer/Documents without having to run sudo all the time. So I simply added my username abbood to the wheel group using this command: sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a abbood -t user wheel i verified that abbood is a member of wheel like so: If I run ls -l on my files in that directory.. the user is root and the group is wheel.
The "Install OS X Yosemite.app" (5.73 GB) is currently on an external HDD and I don't have enough space on my Mac because I ignorantly installed OS Yosemite on only 15 GB of partitioned system drive. This is the current state now.
If I go to localhost, I get the message '403 Forbidden'. This used to display the 'It Works!' page. Sites folder redirects to localhost If a file in the ~user/sites folder does not exist, for example: *=URL=* then the browser is redirected to *=URL=* This file is not found and again I get the error: 403 permission denied Sites folder redirects to localhost If a file in the ~user/sites folder does not exist, for example: *=URL=* then the browser is redirected to *=URL=* This file is not found and again I get the error: 403 permission denied What setting causes the redirect from localhost/~user/sites to localhost?
Recently I have noticed a small annoyance with SSH connections from macOS Sierra. By recent I would say the past week or maybe two.
I seem to have inadvertently removed the ability to select text using the keyboard: e.g. Shift+←.
When your entire macOS freezes up and restarts, are there crash logs or core dumps to diagnose the problem? I would in particular like to know which kernel module was active at the time of the crash.
I just upgraded my Mac from El Capitan to Sierra, and now I'm getting some weird keychain popups in Safari. When I browse Safari, if I visit a site for which I have credentials stored, a dialog pops up asking me whether or not to allow Safari to use the keychain info for an entirely different URL than the one I'm currently visiting (the url is a development server of mine). Here's a screenshot of it happening on Stack Overflow:
I got a new iphone 7 while on vacation and started taking photos on it right away. When I returned, I plugged my phone in the computer and registered with iTunes. Then my phone reverted to my last icloud update and all my photos taken on vacation were deleted. Is it possible to get these back? Thanks.
I want to disable Autostart of xdm on my mac os sierra ,there is no entry in login items in system preferences!neither there is any settings regarding such in xdm settings!!what should i do inorder to turnoff this Autostartup of this app? Didn't get any Google Result on this ! Help me please
On some of my Macs, .logarchive files are showing as folders instead of bundles. I need them as file bundles in order to open them in Console.app. Cannot figure out what's configured differently in these Macs, but I'd like to be able to flip them back into bundles. By the way, these are sysdiagnose files coming from iOS devices. Does anyone know what to do?
I think the title says it all. Can I run two 4k (3840x2160) displays, both at 60hz on a Macbook Pro 13' 2015? I understand they might need to be SST and each connected to a Thunderbolt 2 port. But I cannot get a confirmation whether that setup would work. *=URL=* says:
Smart zoom on the magic mouse allows to zoom on an area of page with double tap of magic mouse. Viewing the trackpad options this smart zoom does not appear available ? Is there a workaround ?
I use a MacBook Pro (running Sierra) and am frequently plugging in and unplugging an external monitor. I have lots of Spaces, some desktops and some fullscreen. Most of the fullscreen Spaces are browser windows. Having them constantly move around on me drives me a bit nuts. The "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" option helps a little, but it's not nearly as good as the seemingly trivial solution of having the same set of Spaces across all displays and never, ever rearranging, thank you very much. :-)
I have a MacBook Model A1278. After a replacement of the battery in a moment of low charge (like 5-7%) the laptop is abruptly shutting down. As far as I remember it should be like a "sleep mode" or something like that. Additionally, in a process of normal shutting down that I do by myself with any percent of charge, I hear some clicking sounds from the HDD that means that the HDD was turned off incorrectly (in a moment when read head doesn't stop in a parking zone).
when I drag and drop files from my dock download folder it crashes randomly. When I try to open the folder it does not respond or there comes a empty blank folder. Sometimes the dock is crashing and I am not able to click on any icons.
So, when I hold the Shift key and hit p,nothing happens. If I select Caps Lock and then p, I get a capital "P".
How can you print an email using gmail app on iPad
I am signing an OS X app using my Developer ID Application certificate; it is a self-hosted app. The build server is an El Capitan machine (10.11.6).
I have a very large number of folders/mailboxes in OSX Mail, including folders inside folders inside folders, etc. Lately, some of the formerly top-level folders have somehow ended up within other folders. I'm not sure whether this is due to a bug in Mail (a bug in Mail! how could that happen!?) or due to me inadvertently doing something with the mouse that caused the change (i.e. a bug in the user :-) .
I currently use Valet to develop sites, and many of those sites need SQL databases. To host SQL databases, I run a mariaDB server from the Terminal. In order to start the MySQL server so that I can connect to the databases, I run the command: sudo mysql.server start I want the server to start on login, so normally I would just have this command execute on login, but it requires the sudo command. What do I change and how do I change it so that I do not need the sudo part of the command and I can just start the server on login?
I have had this problem a while, especially through the iOS 9 and iOS 10 versions. Every time I pull down for searching from the springboard and type in a name of my contacts, iOS somehow lists my oldest and most unused as "top hits". Eg. if I have two contacts with a similar name, and one I have called 100 times the last month, and the other I haven't called or texted in 5 years, it is only the inactive one that is listed as a Top Hit. I have to scroll much further down to find the person I alway call. Is there some way to reset the contacts so that people I actively call and text will appear under Top Hit? I have tried suggestions from New iOS9 Spotlight search not finding contacts but didn't help. My contacts are synced to iCloud and have been so for some years through multiple upgrades of OS X and iOS versions.
I have two external monitors, positioned horizontally on each side of my MacBook Pro. When I am working in the far left or far right screens, I find it a little annoying to have to move the cursor all the way across to get to the opposite side (usually requires multiple swipes on the touchpad).
I'm finding conflicting information about this topic on the web, so I thought I'd raise the question here. I'm wanting to use an Apple Thunderbolt Display with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX9XX series card in a MacPro and/or eGPU box. I figure I could use this StartTech adapter to connect the Apple Thunderbolt Display to the Display Port of the card: *=URL=* However, I've found many websites that claim this doesn't work, and one lone comment on the link above under Q/A that said it does. To be clear, I understand that I wouldn’t be able to send a Thunderbolt signal to the Apple Thunderbolt Display using any of the outputs from the NVIDIA display adapter.
I have a perfectly well PDF file on my Mac. I copy it to my 1TB USB, and it suddenly is not readable from USB; only from Mac. I can copy some other movies from Mac to USB and it reads ok from USB afterwards. Why does this happen to PDF?
Consider the bash function: Calling it does what you'd expect: But when called from a subshell (eg using backticks or $()) it performs very strangely. This issue does not appear if cd is not executed in the function: This is causing issues with some scripts that rely on certain output behavior, eg CLASSPATH=$(func) where func is complex and requires the use of cd.
According to Activity Monitor, kernel_task is writing a large amount of data to the disk. This morning Activity Monitor showed it as having written 46 GB, accounting for 2/3 of all data written. At the same time, the amount of free space did not go down. If Activity Monitor is right, it would have to be overwriting the same files over and over. Any idea what is causing this?
I have a new MacBook pro, late 2016 with Touch Bar, and recently bought some adapters (Aukey) to use my usb mouse, ethernet cable etc. One thing that really bugs me is that the ethernet connection is lost whenever the computer wakes up. I have to unplug and re-plug it in again, i.e. the ethernet device is "unmounted" and does not get automatically detected again. I didn't verify this behavior with my other equipment yet, but I guess this could be a general thing?
Is there a way to display text messages in somewhere other than the top right? I would like it to appear in the bottom right, is this possible?
Recently I've crashed my secondary hdd that was in cd-rom bay and I dont want to recover it. (Its not possible) All I want to know if there a chance to see file structure and filenames of some folder of that dead hdd. My osx and primary ssd disk now is still the same, and still working properly. I'm dj and I really need to know my audio file names. And yes I have Itunes with playlists, but mainly my workflow is to work with folders and files directly through finder! Thank you very much!
I want to be able to see a preview of what is being shown on the second monitor attached via VGA on the Macbooks screen. In other words I want to monitor what is being shown without having to look at the other screen (it is not facing me). Surely presenters want to know what the audience is seeing?
I have a broken alias displays different locations for the original file depending on whether I am using Finder's "Get Info" command or if I use ls -l in Terminal. In Finder, it says the original location is some non-existent temporary file, while Terminal reveals that the file links to where it is supposed to go. I believe that Finder's junk file is the one the link actually points to, since using terminal commands to open the file in Terminal give a No such file or directory error. What is going on here?
Every time I plug my phone into my Mac, iTunes tries to synch hundreds of songs to my phone. If I just let it, it uses up all the available storage. I can't seem to find any menu option anywhere to stop the auto synch or to reverse the direction.
I need to completely disable the S key, as my keyboard keeps pressing (and spamming) it without any user input and it's very annoying while coding. I need to completely ignore it (but allow external keyboards to input it). Please help.
I keep trying to run this command and it is saying "Permission Denied" /Users/scruggsadmin/Downloads/cozmo_sdk_examples_0.10.0/lib/flask_helpers.py What if the file doesn't have the "execute" bit enabled? How does sudo get around that? – Allan 38 mins ago
There are hundreds of pictures that have been stored in my "cloud"... how is it possible for me to view the pictures that are stored there ?
Earlier today, I replaced the old, worn out battery in my MacBook Air to a newer one. Upon startup, the fans within the computer went off at full speed and the entire computer is laggy. I have attempted to restore my computer from a Time Machine backup by holding both Command+R and Option (two different startup times) to which both have arrived at the current result I'm at: My MacBook Air does not go past the initial startup screen and is stuck with a 0% progress bar.
I deleted my email account on my iPhone 6 because it has 2.69 GB of mail and attachments. The 2.69 still shows up with the deleted email account. What can I do to regain the storage?
My son and I both play Tropic Escape. He connected to Game Center on iPod Touch and it replaced my game on my iPad with his iPod Touch account. Is there a way I can get my account back?
I am trying to sign out of the Apple ID on my iPhone 6 Plus but the email it is under is a westnet.com.au account and is "out of date" so we can no longer receive emails. I also cannot remember the password for the Apple ID account. Could you please tell me if there is a way to sign out of the account with these existing issues or if I need to visit or call Apple?
I have a new broadband plan of 1000 Mbps been effective for a few days. With a new ac router claiming a max to 1300 Mbps, I have conducted a brief test with my SE. It was at 267 Mbps, far lower than I expect. I am going to test it with an iPhone 6s which may benefit with MIMO. What is the top WiFi speed that iPhone 6s supported?
My model is macbook pro retina late 2013 15 inch, I am facing a problem that the last time I tried to reinstall my system and be alerted for the possible hard drive broken. I met this problem before while I kept using that hard drive for more than 1 year and nothing happened. In my opinion, sometimes SMART monitor is not accurate and reliable...(two of my friends got this warning and kept using the hard drive for more than 1 year) So I think that I could still have a try this time. While the problem is that no system installed in the hard drive and the SMART monitor stops the installation every time. I just wonder whether there are some commands which could disable this stupid monitor through the terminal.
Sometimes when I want to use tethering I get a message that I need to ask my provider. How can I "unblock" the Personal Hotspot feature so it always works? (In the phone, obviously)
I connect my (13,1) MacBook Pro (late 2016) 13" to a Lenovo Thinkvision X1 (60E2-GAR1EU) 27" monitor using the supplied USB-C cable. I have experienced three issues. 1. When I leave them connected, my MBP gets really hot (overheated?). 2. When my MBP is left in sleep mode for hours (typically overnight), it doesn't wake up and needs to be turned off and on. It gives an error report of "sleep wake failure". 3. If none of the above happens, I have to unplug and plug again, and open the lid, then close the lid to get them work together. Could anyone advise me on this connection issue? Can it be the lack of specific driver or an macSierra problem? I checked out Lenovo's website they just offer support for Windows. Thanks.
I would like to copy a file from one disk (HDD with filesystem NTFS) to another (SSD with ExFAT, if it matters). The problem occurs in the middle of the copy process, showing me the following message: I have tried to use cp, rsync and dd without any luck. The rsync command (with --ignore-errors flag) throws me the following error: dd just copied a partial data (the part before the problematic sector, without skipping it). Any ideas how to copy this damn file?
My iPhone 7 just frozen right after the Passcode was entered. So basically it's frozen on the home screen right before the apps animates / slides in on the home screen.
I jailbroke my iphone4. I edited the fiel inside CoreServices and change the ios version from 7.1.2 to 8.1.2. Within a couple of days, all apps starting disappearing instantly after opening. Apps are there. I can also get notifications but when I click on the apps, it stays for 3 or 4 seconds and then goes off. I tried to restore through itunes but it shows error, and even tried to re-jailbreak to get it fresh or maybe get rid of jailbreak. But the computer says the iphone with that version of iOS is not compatible. So, I can neither restore nor unjailbreak. I can't even edit the iOS version because i can't open ifile anymore. Any solution?
On iOS, you can create custom vibrations for contacts whenever they call you. Since I only recieve notifications through my Apple Watch, is it posible to change the haptic feedback patten depending on what notification you recieve or not? I would like this so I know if the notification was from one of my social media apps, utilities or phone and SMS whithout raising my rist up to look at the notification.
I was looking into my users' Library/Mail folder at some emails and was wondering why they are organised the way they are. In ~/Library/Mail/V3/Mailboxes/Friends.mbox/5EF13EFE-AB95-43A9-93BB-E01CAE8DA511/Data/ there are a number of directories numbered 0 to 9. In each of these I have a number of further numbered directories, e.g. in folder 0 there are 3, 4 and 5. Each of these has a Message folder, which in turn has the individual emails.
my iPhone can not upload the contents in iCloud account notes to iCloud, which means my Mac and iPad can not sync it. But the iPhone can sync the contents edited on my Mac and iPad. So that I can edit the notes on Mac and check it on iPhone but can not edit the contents on iPhone and check it on my Mac. Google a lot but no answer. Tried log out apple ID and log in again already but it did not work. My iOS system is 10.2 the updated one. Any one can help me? Thank you very much
I have a Mac mini (mid 2011) i5, 8 Gb Ram and 500 Gb Storage, currently running Mountain Lion (10.8.5) installed after erasing everything from storage. I want to upgrade my Mac to macOS Sierra, but whenever I try to upgrade it from AppStore it throws an error macOS Sierra Failed to download Use Purchases page to try again Steps I have done: Rebooted Mac many times Rebooted Mac many times SignOut/Sign in to Mac Appstore SignOut/Sign in to Mac Appstore Debug->Reset Application Debug->Reset Application Can someone tell me how to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Sierra?
Photos.app automatically recognizes faces in photos and groups them by person. Are photos sent to Apple for processing or is everything done locally on the machine?
How do I stop iCloud from downloading files to my hard drive? I opened up a folder and it immediately started downloading all contents
So I would like to know the default keyboard shortcut for Application Widow/App Expose from OSX from 10.6 - 10.12. I have read it has changed.
I replaced the keyboard on my 2011 Macbook Pro, and when I got the computer up and running again, it won't go to sleep when I close the lid. And once I manually put it to sleep, it won't wake up again unless i press a button on the keyboard (ie, it's not sensitive to me opening the lid).
I enabled FileVault to encrypt my hard drive a few days ago. The encryption process is still not finished and the estimated time keeps changing. It's been anything between "4 days" and "300 days". The encryption process running in the background makes my MacBook Air (from mid-2011, OS X Yosemite) heat up very quickly.
I spilled a juice on my MacBook-Pro keyboard. Consequently, some keys like 2, esc and tab don't work anymore on my keyboard. Is there anyway to change those disabled keys with combination of some other keys, like Fn,Ctrl, Option+ something, using an app or a command?
I want to use Kodak ScanMate i1190WN with my MBA late 2015. This is a pc only scanner and no driver for mac os are available. Can this scanner be able to work with a Parallels Desktop VM in my macbook?
I just ripped a few episodes of a TV show, added them to iTunes, updated the metadata, then synchronized them to my iPhone 6 running iOS 10. However, the episode doesn't show in the TV app. Other episodes that I ripped and synchronized do show up. When I look in Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage > TV, it shows the missing episodes, so they are on the device. Why doesn't the TV app show some of my TV show episodes?
iPod associated with an install of iTunes on a Windows PC; the Windows PC died, and the iTunes library was lost. Most of the library has been recovered to a new install of iTunes on a new Windows PC by following the directions in this answer, but the process removed all playlists from the iPod.
I can see the backups and can select the disk to be my time machine disk, but Time Machine does not recognise the backups.  However, I can open the sparsebundle with diskimagemounter and browse the backups, so everything seems to be in order.
I want to keep an ipad in a wall mount running constantly by setting "Auto Lock" to "Never", the wall mount provides the ipad with power via the usb thunderbolt port, so there is no real issue with battery life degradation. But im worried about the screen, is the screens backlight and screens material similar to an LED TV in that if it stays on a static image for to long it can become burned in ?
I've found answers on this site stating that iOS 10 is not compatible with iTunes 12.2 (the latest iTunes version available for macOS 10.7). This helped with a problem I have. Is there an official document from Apple that shows which iOS versions are compatible with which iTunes versions?
I'm trying to open the iMovie app on my Macbook, but it has an X on the icon and when I click on it, it tells me I to upgrade the app in order to get into it. In the Mac App Store, I checked for new updates, and indeed there is a new update for iMovie (along with iPhoto and Keynote updates). To do the updates, I pressed update all, but only the iPhoto and Keynote updates actually happened (the iMovie update is stuck loading) My computer freezes and fails to update iMovie. How can I get iMovie to open? Edit: The update is to iMovie 10.1.4
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will open the sound menu bar item, but I want to delay one second then close it. I tried: but that didn't work
You may have heard of some news about iPhone (and computer) that some software can eavesdrop on you by, using a software/malware. A recent example of that is this one: Facebook Doesn’t Listen To Everything You Say, But It Does Listen When You Do This So I want to prevent anyone from doing that.
Safari recently quit displaying my web browsing history. However, it appears to be storing at least part of my history. (See Photo 1 and Photo 2). Safari preferences specify keeping history for 365 days.
I changed my passcoad and I choosed off passcoad and then close my iph.
My wife's iPhone 5S doesn't have enough storage space for all of her music. If we were to buy a USB drive that connects to her phone, could we put her music on that and then have the phone play it from there in a reasonably hassle-free way? What would the process be?
Im having some weird problem. I have connected my magic keyboard via USB.
Hi I have couple of questions regarding space on my iphone 5s, IOS 10.2 Q1) available space shown in my iphone (2,93 GB) is different than what shown in Itunes when I connect it to mac (3,5 GB). Any explanantion? what to do? Q2) In my Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage, I have around 1,16 GB used space by messages. However, I have deleted all messages from all my apple products. How do I delete that? I have almost try everything advised on internet. This might be related to question 1. Q3) when I connect my iphone to mac and open Itunes, in movie section from left side, I have a video that I do not know how to delete it. how to delete? Q4) every now and then, 3 deleted videos and a picture, show up in my photos on iphone. No matter how many times I have deleted them, they keep showing up like once every 3 days.
I have a 5th generation Airport Time Capsule as my primary router, and a 4th generation Airport Time Capsule in bridge mode, connected via cat5. When I connect my printer (a Brother HL-3040CN) to the 4th gen via USB, it's visible on the network and works fine. When I connect it by cat5 to one of the 4th gen's LAN ports, however, even though it seems to appear in the Bonjour list, from the 5th gen WiFi network I get "the printer is not responding". (This is after deleting it in the Printers and Scanners control panel and re-adding it as a new printer.) Also suspicious is that when I try to ping the Bonjour address, brn001ba94e93ac.local, I get an IP address in the 192.168 range, even though the rest of my LAN is 10.0. So I guess my questions are: is this a configuration that should work? why is the printer showing up as a Bonjour device if I can't connect to it? why is the Bonjour address mapped to an IP on a nonexistent subnet? Edited to add: Ping and traceroute both fail, and iNet Net
Is it possible to connect the iPad Pro to both RJ-45 wired ethernet (data i/o) and HDMI out? Note: iPad Pro to ethernet is already possible - using the lightning to usb female camera adapter... but is it possible to daisy chain in the hdmi out... Example: iPad Pro -> lightning to HDMI -> lightning to usb-female -> usb to ethernet or some other technique?
I found at least one web page that said this happens sometimes and a supposedly simple fix is to trash the *-in-progress backup, reboot, and try again. Not only did that not help, SIP prevents emptying the trash. Any explanation and/or solution? I would like to "inherit" the backup, but if it's corrupt, I would wipe the disk instead and start over.
Setting up a new MacBook Pro. In App Store, on Purchased tab, selected most of the apps I had bought (or got free) on the old one. When they finish downloading, the button changes to "installed" for some of them, and "open" for others. Why?
In previous iterations of OSX, I've been able to use the command line utility without issue. Now, no matter what the parameter I send, it shows me the --help output: Seems to happen with/without sudo, via zsh and bash.
I'm looking for a Mac command-line editor that follows Mac conventions, like Cmd+S for save, Cmd+X for cut, Cmd+C for copy, Cmd+F for find, and so on. This is for use with Mercurial. When I type hg commit, it opens vim, which doesn't use standard shortcuts, so I'm looking for an alternative that does.
I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and am trying to get Python's IDLE to work properly with Tcl/Tk. This is the error message I'm getting when I open IDLE:
I am a windows guy new to Mac, I need to deploy software to lots of Mac. I do centrally install software by scripts on Windows platform, but I still have no clue how to do it on Mac after having done some research. Can someone tell me What are some key components I need for centrally pushing out the software on the Mac? What are some key components I need for centrally pushing out the software on the Mac? What language do I need to use for the scripts? What language do I need to use for the scripts? Is there a Mac image create/deploy service available, like WDS on windows? Is there a Mac image create/deploy service available, like WDS on windows?
Translate "Xcode" is updating "Xcode" is updating, can not open it.
My Windows7 C-drive is full. My D-drive have 120GB free space.
Sorry if this is off-topic or just a dumb question. I've got a Mac Pro with plenty of free Thunderbolt ports, but I'm using all the USB ports - are there any Thunderbolt external DVD drives available - I've been googling for about an hour but only found one really expensive Sonnet drive - which has way more functionality than I need.
I have MacBook pro and iPhone 5S. when I tried to send file from MacBook to iPhone using AirDrop my laptop not finding my iPhone. Is there is any solution or additional settings needed?
I need help. I created a new Photos library on an external drive and enabled iCloud Photo Library (I have to mention that I have no library on the internal drive). When photos started downloading from iCloud, I saw that my internal storage, and not my external drive, is growing in space.
The gmail shortcuts list says to "Open spelling suggestions" you press Command-M, but that minimizes the Google Chrome window for me. Any way to get a workable shortcut for this?
I'm trying to import all photos from my iPhone to my MacBook. The iPhone shows there are 1,879 photos ("All photos" album). Connecting the iPhone to the Mac using a USB cable and using Image Capture. IC only shows 539 photos available for import. I've also tried importing using Lightroom, which only sees the same 539 photos. Any ideas?
I'm trying to create a simple Folder Action with Automator (on macOS Sierra 10.12.2) that watches a folder for PDF files and convert these to TXT files and save it to a subfolder. The problem is that the selected subfolder is not being stored. When I hit save and open the action again, the subfolder is set to its default Desktop.
I'm trying to setup a transparent firewall with a Mac mini running macOS Sierra. Basically I'm trying to do this (just with macOS): A Transparent Firewall Using OpenBSD This is my network setup: The Router also connects to several other devices via Wifi. Now here's what I did on the Mac mini to make it a transparent firewall: I setup the bridge via these commands: sudo ifconfig bridge1 create sudo ifconfig bridge1 addm en0 addm en4 sudo ifconfig bridge1 up I setup the bridge via these commands: From the AppleTV's perspective it's now like the Mac mini doesn't exist. I setup pf by adding this to /etc/pf.conf: anchor "org.user" load anchor "org.user" from "/etc/pf.anchors/org.user" and created /etc/pf.anchors/org.user with this content: # skip lo0 set skip on lo0 # options set block-policy drop # rules block on en4 all Then I "restarted" pf with the new rules: sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf sudo pfctl -e I setup pf by adding this to /etc/pf.conf: and created /etc/pf.anchors/org.user with thi
I have a mac pro 3,1 eight core; I am running eight monitors on it using four ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT cards, 256mb each. I just bought (but have not received yet) a Mac Pro 5,1 twelve core. It has a 2-port card that came stock with it back in the day. I would like to take that card out, put in whatever it takes to get eight (or more) video ports, then set it up the same way, with eight (or more) monitors. I'm upgrading primarily for more CPU/core performance.
I setup a VPN on my Mac mini that I'm sharing with my AppleTV via Internet Sharing. So my AppleTV is only connected to my network via Internet Sharing. This is my network setup (Mac mini has two ethernet ports):
I have a Macbook Pro late 2016 with Touchbar etc. and a Western Digital Elements external HDD of 1 tb. When I plug in my HDD it wont show up in Finder. It takes about ~20 minutes to recognise it, if it recognises it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not. When I type the diskutil list I get the following: But it wont show in Finder, So I tried to eject it with: diskutil eject disk2 but it says: Volume timed out while waiting to eject Why doesn't it show in Finder directly and what can I do about it?
Is this HDD totally unrecoverable? Or is there a way to fix this? What I've tried so far:
Is there a way to access the files stored in app data? I've already tried this terminal command: to show hidden folders in iCloud Drive - this shows some apps and their data but not the photo frame app. Can I somehow download a copy of the entire iCloud Backup and navigate to them that way? EDIT: I'm thinking accessing via iCloud because the files are stored there but of course they are also on the device itself so if it's more feasible to do it that way then I would love any suggestions for that too
I've got a couple of Macs that I regularly screen share to using the build-in Screen Sharing app:  A month or two ago, both started looking very pixellated when viewed — text is very difficult to read. Here's an example:
I am just looking to understand HOW syncing of playlists is supposed to work. Do I create new playlists on my computer or on my phone? Are they going to disappear the next time I do a sync? Would appreciate any and all help. I can't understand why this isn't documented in iTunes help!
I've read a lot about the B2B iOS apps distribution, VPP program, however I'd like to be able to verify my knowledge and hope you could help. Let's suppose a company A develops an iOS application, publishes it to the Appstore as a B2B app (hidden for all normal users in Appstore), and adds a company B already enrolled in the VPP program to the list of entities eligible to buy the app. Furthermore, let's assume the app is free. What's the easiest way for company B to install this free app on their devices? The document states there are two ways (MDM and redeemable codes), however this page mentions that B2B apps can be distributed with MDM only, and yet another source I've found stated that only paid apps can be distributed with both MDM and redeemable codes (the free ones are MDM only).
I am faced with a decision to either buy another charger (for about 90$) or buy a new non apple laptop altogether (I have seen the magsafe connector heating issue on many people's laptops). Because this is really affecting my ability to use my laptop while being on the move. Everything else in my Macbook Air is working great and I am very happy with everything else. It is just this charging problem that is frustrating me. I have to wiggle the port and try different combinations to get the green light to come. Even if the green light comes on, charging may or may not start until the orange light comes on.
So I'm new to this and I might be overlooking something simple, but after failing to figure it out myself I attempted to follow the instructions from grgarside's solution to this question: *=URL=* What I am trying to do is open 'System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation' (in Sierra, 10.12.2) using an AppleScript saved as an Application I've created via Automator. I've managed to open all of the other tabs within the 'Keyboard' pane (Keyboard, Text, Shortcuts, & Input Sources) using their anchors as part of an AppleScript but not 'Dictation', the 5th and final tab.
I've got a 2TB Toshiba USB drive which I have been using for my Time Machine backups. Since a few days this disk no longer shows up when I connect it. Already tried completely shutting everything down and rebooting, no difference. When running Disk Utility, it's not there. When running Disk Utility, it's not there. When running diskutil list, it's not there. When running diskutil list, it's not there. I can't mount it (there's no volume or anything to mount). I can't mount it (there's no volume or anything to mount). I tried both USB ports, with the same cable I always use (it has always worked fine on both USB ports before). I tried both USB ports, with the same cable I always use (it has always worked fine on both USB ports before). When looking in System Information, either in the Store or USB section, it's not there. When looking in System Information, either in the Store or USB section, it's not there. I have reset the NVRAM (previously PRAM) as well as the SMC. I have reset the N
I installed a 480GB Kingston Predator PCIe flash SSD in a 2009 Mac Pro. It worked great after installing macOS Sierra. Boots fast and is very snappy. Went to install Windows using Boot Camp and I couldn't get past the error:
I would like to start by stating that I am new to this forum, and have never used it before. Patience is appreciated! All greetings aside, I need help with my Mac Mini. I have an early 2007 Mac mini that I have running OS X Lion. (the latest version that it supports) I believe that this system is 64 bit, as per this post: is my mac 64 bit or 32 bit?
Currently I am using the below command line to bind any Mac to my AD, and so far has been work perfectly. dsconfigad -a hostname -u DomainAdminsUserName -p Password --ou "CN=Computers,DC=hello,DC=com" -domain hello.com -mobile enable -mobileconfirm enable -localhome enable -useuncpath enable -groups "Domain Admins,Enterprise Admins" -alldomains enable reboot Question, how do I unbind a Mac from the AD using the command line?
System Version OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.5 I installed homebrew and rvm. However, when I try to install anything with rvm (ie. rvm install 2.1.1), it says:
This has been for over a month and I have gone to the Apple store and called support. Support passed it to engineering and it faded away. This is the error:
In Ubuntu, I can get the default .bashrc by copying from the /etc/skel folder: This is extremely helpful for me as it gives me all the options and configuration already setup and properly commented. Is there a similar feature for macOS (currently using macOS Sierra)?
I was watching a programming video on YouTube and the instructor had the extension below installed. It looks very useful – instead of just showing open apps, it shows a wide range of default and customizable items. Does anyone know what it is?
I want to remap the command with the control in Blender application. I've tried using Karabiner and when I open it these are the default Blender options:
In my /etc/apache2/users/$USERNAME.conf file I had ProxyPass configured as well, and to get it working again I had to re-uncomment the following from my httpd.conf. LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_http.so In my /etc/apache2/users/$USERNAME.conf file I had ProxyPass configured as well, and to get it working again I had to re-uncomment the following from my httpd.conf. the instructions gave me a 403 error on localhost instead of page not found error. with more search finally these instructions did it:
(Not talking about Settings ➙ Accessibility ➙ Reduce Motion ➙ Reduce Motion) Is there a way, on iOS (10+) and specifically iPhone (6+), to suppress the Fade-in/Mixing effects? Especially pressing the HOME button to go back from an app to home, there is a small delay to which is added the fade-in effect.
I even tried using an app called "Clean my Mac". It didn't do much good.
I've searched and tried a lot of stuff but still can't get it to work. I was able to use my seagate HDD properly last week but now it doesn't mount. I tried plugging it to a PC & another mac, it works fine on both. The reasons could be Updating OS to macOS Sierra Not ejecting properly Installed sims4 with wineskin Things I have tried. From disk utility clicking on mount & first aid. From terminal writing: diskutil mount disk2s1 & diskutil mount readOnly disk2s1 both resulted with this Volume on disk2s1 failed to mount If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option From terminal writing: diskutil repairDisk disk2s1 & diskutil repairVolume disk2s1. Restarted mac in normal mode & safe mode. /private/var/log/install.log from here found some logs but don't know what to do with them. Switch USB ports & retry. A couple of other things.
I copied a file named class-dump to my /usr/bin folder, then neither Terminal.app nor iTerm2 work properly on my MacBook. There is something wrong with the sudo command. Here is what I did based on some online searching: Does anyone know how I can make sudo work again?
How can I go about changing the time that a banner notification stays on the screen before disappearing? I did some research and tried the suggestion found here, but am having no success on my MacBook Air. I restarted and logged in/out of my account a few times after re-entering the command with no luck. Does this command no longer work?
I'm thinking of buying a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable so I can connect my MacBook Air to my PC monitor for watching iTunes movies. However, the monitor has no audio capabilities so I wondered if anyone could tell me if I would still be able to listen to the audio via the headphone jack on the MacBook?
I have figured out how to add Calendar Events sent to me via email as ICS archives AND showing the accept/decline option in Calendar (this is done by going to Contacts, selecting your own Card and making it "your Card" on the top options, while having your email address in which you received the ICS as your email in that Card). But, when I "Accept" the meeting (showing in it 2 guests as accepted with a green tick, the organizer who sent it to me and myself), that Acceptance does NOT get sent to the organizer and so he doesn't know I have accepted it.
I use the in built reminders application in OSX 10.10.5 which pops up notifications to my screen, this is also true for mail and iMessages. This is great most of the time, but when giving a one to one presentation on my laptop or mirroring my screen to an external display via an mini display port to HDMI cable or via an apple TV, this has the danger of flashing up personal information to the screen.
I just upgraded to Sierra from Mavericks and since I did, the mirroring options icon is always in the menu bar. When I click on it, it says in grey: “AirPlay: Looking for AppleTV” then after a few seconds it will change to “AirPlay: Off”. I went to display preferences and the part that says AirPlay Display only has Off in the dropdown (which it is set to). I want that icon to go away, but I want it to appear if I plug in an HDMI cable or something so I don’t want to uncheck the box. Will my Mac look for an AppleTV now and forever?
After installing one of the major Windows 10 updates a while ago, I lost the functionality of seeing the HFS+ partition under Windows 10. After reading up on this issue and finding a number of threads where users experience the same issue, I am still unable to find a solution that allows me to regain this function natively without the use of third-party apps such as MacDrive or Paragon. Funny thing is that I am not running on CoreStorage and have FileVault disabled, hence cannot tell why this is not working as it supposedly is provided as part of the latest Bootcamp drivers. Any ideas? Terminal Disk Info:
I own a MacBook pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), running macOS Sierra 10.12.2 as host computer and VMware Fusion Pro Version 8.5.3 with Windows 10 and Linux as guests OS's. So my question is how do I open the two ports 1338 (TCP and UDP) and 1340 (TCP and UDP) in my case using my Windows guest OS. Both ports have to reachable from the internet. The whole network is attached to a Linksys X3000 router which connects to the internet. I have Murus lite, but I must confess that I don't know how to efficiently use it, even I can also buy the pro version anyway.
How should I regenerate ssh keys for OSX? The system is running El Capitan if that is relevant information.
We share the content of multiple linux servers through NFS. It's then mounted on a few macs (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) by an automount map using Freeipa.
I'm sick of switching my headphone jack from my Mac to phone and vice versa. Is there any way to stream all audio playing on my Mac to my Android phone, so I can hear any audio from either my Mac or my phone through the same pair of headphones, at the same time?
I keep getting this message when I type in my password to do an update. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled.
I'm running into a strange problem. I have a Mac Pro with a Kingston Predator PCIe SSD card, and a GeForce GT 120 card. I can install Windows 8.1 on the SSD after creating a dedicated partition without Boot Camp, but when I try to install the Boot Camp software and when it gets to the NVIDIA display driver step, the machine reboots. I tried: Removing the old driver and installing the NVIDIA driver from the Boot Camp NVIDIA folder. Downloading the official NVIDIA driver from the GeForce.com website. In both cases, the same problem occurs.
It seems like there should be a simple way for all links that I have clicked on to be highlighted in some way or have a color that stands out. I have not been able to find a universal way to do this on a Macbook Air. I am currently using Mac OS 10.11.6 El Capitan, and the Safari and Chrome browsers. Thanks for any help.
On my father's mac, dataloading.net keeps popping up in tabs. It doesn't seem to be in Safari's extensions (at least not visible in preferences). He has clean my mac 3 installed. Can this problem be solved with that? I'm having trouble recommending any virus scanner, because there's a lot of crapware out there.
I recently booted up my iMac, but then the Apple logo disappeared and a replaced it. I tried going into Recovery mode but recovery mode just takes LITERALLY hours. No matter how long I let it load, recovery mode doesn't help: I let it load overnight and it still didn't work. How can I fix this issue and boot into my iMac again?
My Mac's HDD is not opening. When I enter diskutil umountDisk dev/disk0 shows: At least one volume could not be unmounted
I go onto my music and select a playlist I want to listen to, I then click shuffle or select and song and it won't play. It looks like it is about to play but then it automatically pauses and skips to the next song. If you click play it restarts the song - no sound comes out and if it switches to a song that does decide to act normally there is no sound at all. I have tried plugging in head phones; this makes no difference and then taking them out; this again makes no difference. I have tried turning on the ringer and turning it off, again this makes no difference. Mobile data on, data off, no difference. Bottom line is I can't play my music. I am using an iPhone 5s with iOS 10.2. Please help :)
When moving the cursor towards a clickable item near the middle edge of a multi-monitor display, it is easy to move "too far", causing the cursor to jump to the other display. This is disorienting. Does OS X (I'm on El Capitan if it matters) have a similar feature? More info: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/display-dual-monitors.html#Sticky_Edges
This command works great to list the Full Name out: But, if you run it after a It returns CVMS Root System Administrator
Would such a solution work in terms of speed and practicability? Would small modifications in the image require the entire re-encryption of the image? Asked the other way: Would small changes only affect small parts of the image (and therefore also of the USB devices) or would it completely re-write the cipher, thereby essentially re-writing the entire content of the USB devices? In that case, I could imagine that my idea would be far from practical, both regarding time . Would my solution work or are there any other practical solutions?
The use case is that I need a particular VPN connected at all times on one of my servers which runs macOS. It's set up with Tunnelblick. And I know how to re-connect to it manually using Tunnelblick GUI. But I noticed that sometimes due to network sometimes disconnecting due to instability or some such, Tunnelblick could get into a state of repeatedly trying to reconnect to the previously connected VPN but would never succeed. Therefore, I'm hoping I can create a cron job to periodically check if the VPN is connected (probably by pinging an URL only accessible via the said VPN), and if not, reconnect to it by restarting Tunnelblick and reconnect to the VPN. What should the command line be? I intend to add the command line into my crontab.
I'm running the latest MBP 15" with the built-in Intel HD Graphics 530 and the AMD Radeon Pro 460 with automatic switching. When viewing PDF files in Preview (it happens with all of them, all kinds of sizes) after some time (10-30 seconds), I start to get flickering. It's merely the PDF content, tough, that's flickering, not the entire screen. Could the problem be associated with all the notes that I have in some of the PDF documents? (Like textboxes, lines, arrows, etc.). I couldn't find any help on this elsewhere, hence I'm asking here. Thanks!
I can't open files from finder when accessing files in an Apple Airport Drive. If I open a jpg for example in Finder I get the following error:
I would like to be using Facetime for audio calls only. When I open some contact on my iPhone I can see something like on the picture attached. The intuition tells me those two buttons within Facetime row should call using either video call or audio-only call. However it doesnt matter what button I click, it always starts the video call. How can I start the audio-only call from contact card, like the one below? Many thanks
I've been setting up an array of Mac Minis running Sierra, and I'm trying to be consistent about naming them. However, for some reason, some of their ssh name@hostnames are different. For example, the Computer Name and account names are all consistent, eg: Mini Kiosk 02 "mini-kiosk-02". But their ssh info is sometimes different. Some are "ssh mini-kiosk-02@mini-kiosk-02" while others are "ssh mini-kiosk-04@mac-mini". I'm not seeing how I can change, eg, the part after the @ sign. I thought scutil --set HostName etc might do the trick, but that doesn't seem to change anything. As you can see from the screenshot, hostname does not seem to correspond to what is after the @ in the Remote Connection settings.
I just received my new MacBook Pro 15" Touchbar (16GB RAM, Radeon 4G). I connected it to 2 external Dell S2715H monitors with USB-C to HDMI adapter connected to the 2 left Thunderbolt 3 ports.
I am trying to install the firmware update for my Samsung 840 Series (250GB) on my MacBook Pro 13" (early 2011). As explained in Samsung's installation guide I downloaded the respective .iso file and created a bootable DVD. Just before I wanted to reboot from the DVD I read in the installation guide that for some systems the firmware update utility will ask you to power cycle the drive meaning that you have to disconnect the SSD from the SATA and power cable for a short moment.
Since iOS 10.1, my iPhone often fails to send SMS. After sending, it waits, then display the red (!), saying "not delivered" it seems to only happen on non-iphone recipients
I just had my first attempt with diskutil mergePartitions - it was on a backup disk and I ended up loosing all partitions in between :p Having learnt from my mistake that mergePartitions merges from the first partition to ALL IN BETWEEN up to the last - how can i move partitions so that they are in sequence. So for example, say I have: I want to merge disk0s1 with disk0s4, so how do I get to the following stage, before I can run the merge command Any help would be appreciated.
If one uses the Command + Shift + G keyboard shortcut and asks Finder to navigate to /tmp, on occasion instead of being taken to /private/tmp (with appropriate hiding of the /private directory from the user) the user is taken to / as exhibited here:  And if I attempt to navigate to /private/tmp: What gives?
I'm aware of jailbreaking on iPhone 6 with version 10.2, but what about iPhone 5s? (I want to show off my phone with cool features), one of thing I want to do is replacing default Helvetica with San Francisco, unless Helvetica was intended by the website or app.
A user on this Product Hunt said that kinds of monitoring app such as iStatmenu, Menubar apps, that constantly poll the CPU for data, can drastically impact battery life. Is it true?
I have an iPhone 6+ and my mail icon shows 2730 unread emails. When I go into email, there aren't any unread emails, let alone 2730. I have no idea how to find them to remove the alert saying I have unread email. Can you help?
AMPPS prompts me for my admin password on startup, on shutdown, and whenever I start/stop Apache or MySQL. Is there any way to make it stop asking for a password? I tried the answer given in this previous question (editing /etc/sudoers) but it doesn't seem to work in Sierra.
This is the text I want to keep in a note: However note will always automatically convert the last double quote to a "smart inverted comma" like so:
Example: set theText to "I ate an apple at 11:54 pm without the skin." I would like theTime to be a string that contains the text: 11:54
My child accidentally downloaded an inappropriate software and I want to delete all history of me ever having it. How can I do this?
I need some help. Recently I have this message appearing each time I start my MacOS: "BambooCore wants to make changes". I don't remember I've ever installed anything like BambooCore. Is it safe? What is this? I tried to google it but there is no straight answer on this question. It shows up under a graphic tablet (never had one) or mouse controller. Did you have a similar experience? How to remove this? I can't find it in apps. Thanks Edit: The previous owner of this MacBook may have had a Wacom tablet, but I don't know how to remove this software and stop it asking for permission to make changes in the system.
I've tried to reset both the SMC and NVRAM, as well as plugging in a MiniDP -> DP adapter, and a USB3.0 Ethernet adapter into my computer and booting up. None of these steps have worked. I've also reinstalled the system (trying Sierra, Mountain Lion, and El Capitan) and none of these resolved the problem.
Not sure if it's since an OSX software update. The loading bar goes fast as usual till ~70% then it slows down and goes to 100% in 2-3 minutes then nothing happens. UPDATE: Verbose mode stuck at "pci pause: SDXC"
I have my birthdays stored in my contacts. As of late I see duplicate entries for each birthday in my Calendar on the Mac. On my iOS devices they only show up once. When I deactivate my contacts account (macOS Server account) the birthdays are removed from my calendar as expected. When I reactivate the contacts account the birthdays re-appear but only once. After a few hours Calendar on my Mac will then show them twice again. If I try to manually delete one of the events I get the error message: "You can't add or change events in the Birthdays calendar".
When I search Google about HTML5 offline features I can only find some answers dated 2010 / 2011. Nothing recent appears.
I have tried to follow this question so that at login, the currently configured screensaver becomes the desktop background. Therefore, I have created the following script: I have then created a launch service as ~/Library/LaunchAgents/my_login_items.plist with the content
My iPad Safari bookmarks, favourites & reading list have disappeared. It won't let me bookmark or favourite any sites either. I've tried a hard restart, switching off iCloud & deleting cookies but to no avail. Is there a way to solve this?
Can anybody recommend a macOS application to search for images similar to a single candidate? I can find plenty of duplicate finders which search folders for duplicate or nearly duplicate images, but I can’t find one which searches a folder for images matching a particular one.
I got the new Macbook Pro and i found out that the touch bar goes to sleep after 75 seconds of inactivity. This function is quite annoying to me.
On the 2016 MacBook Pro with touch bar, most Apple applications allow you to customize the touch bar. It's also possible to change the control strip in the System Preferences.
It is really difficult to download 5GB+ Xcode file each time iOS gets updated. Do we have any other option to make to new iOS support in our current version of Xcode without upgrading the version?
I'm trying to deny my user access to a certain folder. I can't.
I am trying to disable Messages on iOS because it is continuously sending SMSs to a foreign number (doing so wasting my credit). I disabled Messages and FaceTime from the Settings, but Messages still asks to send SMSs for registration. Where can I disable it?
When the code is running, 4 subprocesses are created. Although they use a chunk of shared memory, each of them shows a memory consumption of ~9G in Activity Monitor. However, total memory used is <10G and there is 6G free space. So, the memory of the inputs is indeed shared by the 4 subprocesses but Activity failed to show it properly.
First there was watchOS 1 which shipped with iOS 8.x. Then there was watchOS 2 which shipped with iOS 9. Now there is watchOS 3 which ships with iOS 10. The question: if you start with watchOS 1 & iOS 8, and then update your iPhone to iOS 9 or 10, is the user then required to update their Apple Watch to the latest rev that comes with iOS?
I have a new installation of docker on my Mac, followed offical docs for installation, but when I try to run docker run hello-world I get the following error; I am not behind of any kind of proxy. Version output: Info output:
I've done quite a bit of web searching and have not found anyone addressing this specific issue. After upgrading to Sierra (macOS 10.12.2) the Application Switcher (horizontal popup with app icons that pops up when you type command-tab) is noticeably slower.
How can I set VLC to use a larger cache (I see Settings -> Video -> Show All, but don't know if Stream Output: Muxer caching is the correct setting, because setting it to 9000, meaning 9 seconds, the video still would lag). The simpler setting Settings -> Input / Codecs -> Default Cache Level won't work no matter what I set it to).
Like others, I've noticed that gamed is quite chatty. One thing I've noticed through Little Snitch though that I find a bit strange, is that gamed keeps hitting my externally visible public IP address. My machine is on a local WiFi network with 192.168.. addresses, but gamed is trying to hit ports on the IP address assigned to my DSL connection. Any idea why it needs to connect to my network like a stranger?
I've got the new MacBook Pro with TouchBar and the new LG 5K monitor. I plug it into the USB port directly (single usb-c port using provided cable).
Recently the icons on a couple of files with particular file extensions have disappeared, particularly .csv and .tex files. The icons used to be there -- how can I get them back?
Why can I not burn a playlist to disc in iTunes. I highlighted the data I want to burn. When I go to file, the dropdown to burn the playlist to disc is grayed out.
Today I drained my iPhone 5's battery (went down to around 10%) and then went out in the cold (it is winter now and very cold, around 0ºC/32ºF). The phone died, and now I've left it on the charger for the last 2 hours, and the phone still hasn't turned on. Should I be worried? How long should I wait?
When sending a Game Center Friend Invite from the Matchmaking screen of an App the invited player cannot join the Game. When clicking on the Game Center Invite in iMessage it will open the Settings App instead of launching the Game.
I went to power mac service center to get my phone which is still under warranty fixed. They were not able to restore my phone and told me that in the event that it is hardware damage the phone will be replaced but because my phone has a small dent at the corner and had small cracks on the screen it is not under warranty anymore that is why I have to pay a big amount. I'm puzzled because they didn't even check if the problem is caused by the dent or if it is manufacturing issues and now they are declining me of warranty.
I recently got a new MacBook Pro and it only has 120 GB on it. On the system information page, I saw that garage band takes a whooping 46 GB on my Mac! I don't know how this has happened!
I would like to use VPN domain names instead of IP addresses to only allow some VPN servers on my Mac. I did everything here to set up pfctl to only allow some VPN servers to open access to some specific IP addresses however, I don't know how to add host names instead IP addresses to my allowed VPN list. Because the IP addresses changes but host names not, is it possible to add host names instead IP addresses to pfctl?
As you fellow devs can imagine, one of the most irritating things I experience in my daily programming life is this silly noise that Terminal makes every time I enter an invalid key. I've went to System Prefs and turned off all sounds for notifications and yet this same stupid noise that terminal makes keeps on inundating me with notifications that I have entered an invalid key sequence. Any way of stopping this or is Terminal conspiring against me.
I have a Mac Pro 5,1* with an Nvidia Quadro K1200 graphics card. Note that while this card is not officially supported by Apple, it works perfectly with Nvidia's graphics driver. The K1200 powers two Dell P2415Q 4k monitors (4k@60Hz). I am very happy with the monitors, as the 4k is a massive improvement over the 1080p monitor I was using before.
How to add a second additional email iCloud account in Mail.app? I am helping someone who ended up with two separate iCloud accounts. One is hooked up to his new MacBook Pro, no problem. Email, Messages, Reminders, Notes, and such all syncing.
I have two applications from unrelated vendors which display a similar problem with networked volumes. I am using both of them with photos on a networked directory, but I don’t think that is the cause of the problem.
I have two mail accounts in Apple Mail. Is there a way to ensure that, when making a new message, it is always sent from the correct sender account, based on which mailbox I currently have selected Inbox. E.g. Imagine I have inboxe with sub-boxes for company_a and company_b. These correspond to accounts for john@company_a.com and john@company_b.com If I have selected "company_a" I want outbound message to be sent from company_a account with corresponding company_a signature on message.
I bought a second hand MacBook Air 11" 2012 Model A1465 without SSD that was water damaged but runs... In order to make it run for cheap I bought 256GB M.2 SATA 3 NGFF SSD and a compatible M.2 to MacBook Air 2012 SSD adaptor. Now when I try to Partition or Erase the newly installed SSD using Disk Utility my MacBook Air gives error "Unable to write to the last block of the device" and sometimes "Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed"
Where are downloaded apps located on my iPhone? I went to download the Prisma App and the download page indicated that it was installed. Now I want to use the App but do not know how to find it.
Just looking for the UI for the magnifying glass feature in the recent iOS 10.
I have been using Netflix (for example) on my phone with headphones, but then I realized I would have a better experience watching it on the TV, but keep the audio on the phone. Is there any way to project a video (only) onto the Apple TV, and keep the audio on my iPad/iPhone/Mac?
I am wondering how enabling supervised mode on an iOS device affects the user's privacy, especially with respect gaining access to data on the device without the user's consent. As I understand, supervised mode provides a feature called 'activation bypass', which allows one to reset the device without the user's password. Does it also make it possible to unlock the device or gain access to some data without the user's password, as opposed to an unsupervised device? In other words, does supervised mode compromise the security of the device or the user's privacy in any way?
I have a Linux server with a number of NFS exports. I have been mounting them on my Mac by setting up an auto_nfs file, and mounting them in /nfs/… folders. I think this may the cause of some peculiar behaviour with some applications, which don’t seem to be able to fully traverse these volumes (see Applications Not Working Properly with Networked volumes for details on what I mean by peculiar). When I mount a SMB share, it appears as a separate volume under my computer, but not so with NFS.
What steps could I take to diagnose and possibly fix this particular slowness without shutting down the computer? And on a side note,
I have a friend who owns a iPad and iPhone, and a Windows PC. We are using iCloud to sync pictures between the lot. What we would like is for all images / pictures taken on the iPad and iPhone to push a copy up to the iCloud photos. What we would also like is for the devices to not pull anything down. The issue is, he has 10k pictures in his iCloud Photos and this is too many images on his handheld device.
Which sentence should I say to disable Location Services using Siri? Saying "disable location services" she says she is unable to do that!
There is an icon that looks like a spray can on the right side of the Touch Bar (4th-5th button from the right?) Does anyone know what it is for? (Sorry I couldn't find an image of it on the web)
This problem happens on both a 2011 Mac Air (Sierra) and a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina (El Capitan). For a couple years, I have had a powered USB 3.0 hub with a few devices plugged in, including a KVM, and an apple usb 2.0 ethernet adapter. I move it between the two laptops above, and everything was great.
I have a setup with two displays on my desk that are connected to my desktop PC. I sometimes used one of those displays with my MBP via HDMI. A couple of days ago, I've decided to use both of those with my MBP and an external keyboard/mouse just to have a more tidy experience on my desk. So I got two DisplayPort to HDMI cables to realise this extravagant folly. Now, when I plug either of them in, nothing happens.
I would like to know how to add an image (if that's not possible then a colour) to the Finder window of my USB stick - just the stick not every window. I have seen it on various .DMG installers (the ones which require the app to be moved into the applications folder often have an image with an arrow and a text telling the user to drag and drop) and now wonder how this is done for the window of a USB drive.
Im strugling to understand different installations of apache on macOS. As i now can say i have two installations of apache2 one in /private/etc/apache2 ->this one seams to be installed by default with the system /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4 ->this one i install with brew
when opening the app then authenticating i get an 4010:716 error. Trying to understand why and how to fix it. Tried: removing the app reinstalling the app removing all references of the app from the library and reinstalling. used that on another computer and the app works fine.
The back button in Finder seems to only remember your own trail. I.e., when there is a folder higher up the hierarchy, but you did not visit it before you came to the current one, the back button will be disabled.
I have a Series 2 with watchOS 3.1. As shown in the screenshot below, I have birthdays turned off for the calendar app. However, they are still showing in the scroll view.
When my command is long and I move the cursor through it, it jumps randomly to different places and start writing in any location of the command. I'm using OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) and have installed oh my zsh. I've also tested an alternative terminal (iTerm) and the same is happening.
I'm using pip to install python packages on macOS Sierra. When I pip install scipy and try to import it, python can't find the module. However when I pip install numpy and do the same thing, it seems to work. What's going wrong?
I have the Mac mini to shutdown at a specific time. However I have a VPN running, and when the Mac shuts down, the VPN asks "Yes or No." Since I'm not in front of the mac, it keeps the shut down from happening.
I have an Apple Watch that doesn't want to sync. When I update Reminders via iCloud.com or my iPhone 6, or my iPad 2, they sync well with each other via wifi.
Some days ago I mentioned by accident that my Apple Watch control center (the menu which appears when you swipe from bottom to top) does no longer show the symbol to lock the watch. My wifes Apple Watch still contains this lock button, so I'm wondering what I need to do to let it reappear. Any ideas? Thanks Markus
Similar, but not a dupe of Time machine restored recovery partition, now I have two I have a single Recovery partition on my boot drive, even after a recent Time Machine restore. I also intentionally keep 'spares' on other drives, in case of disaster, including an e-drive on the same disk as my Time Machine - so I'm fully prepared in case something ever goes wrong..
To increase the overal usability on my springboard I moved my apps down by adding dummy-apps (Webpage shortcuts) with a piece of the background as app-icon, which you can see slightly (normally it blends perfectly, just for example purpose now). This can be achieved by. Screenshot your springboard on a free page Go to a certain website (forgot URL..) Upload your screenshot Open each cut-out icon one by one (can be targeted by HTML class names) Save to springboard
I listen to Apple Music (subscription), and when I play an album I can't find a way to play the songs in order. If I have an album pulled up and tap the first song, it plays and when done skips to a random song on the album. If I click the ellipses and hit ...
I tried reinstalling the OS via safe mode recovery methods. No dice, but an externally (network) booted version of OS X ran perfectly. So I'm going to start again with a clean slate; a fresh factory-style install of the OS.
MBP 13" Early 2015. Currently on Yosemite (10.10.5).
I don't want to leave my monitor on all the time on my MacBook but would like Time Machine to run when the MacBook screen is off. My first backup is 500 GB and the computer keeps going to sleep and Time Machine pauses. Any way to keep Time Machine working but have screen go off only?
I have 3+ windows (different apps) placed on a single desktop. Also i have bunch of other desktops with other windows-setups. How do i toggle focus between visible windows of current desktop?
I have a Macbook and an iPhone who are both not syncing to iCloud, but the iCloud itself is filled with pictures that i want deleted. Is there any way of doing this without first having to delete thousands of pictures on one of them?
I can reliably reproduce this in several programs. If I hold a letter such as a to type aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, it doesn't repeat, it just types it once. But then when I try to input text in the app after that it doesn't work. Keyboard shortcuts still work in the app, but input no longer works. In Chrome, input in the page fails but I can input in the address bar ok. What on earth could cause this and how do I fix it? This is on a MacBook Pro 15 inch Mid 2015, OSX 10.12.2 (Sierra). Here's a screencast of it happening:
I am working on a MacBook Pro 2016 with 2 monitors attached. Often I look up, and the dock is now on one of the other monitors, not remaining on the MacBook, which is where I want it to be and stay. Is there a setting to make that happen? I have looked in SYS PREF for DOCK and DISPLAYS and don't see anything. Thx.
I've got a program on my machine listening on port 8080 to respond to HTTP requests. But when I try to go to *=URL=* in a browser... Chrome says: The localhost page isn’t working
I would like to permanently kill the discrete GPU on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 so that it will always use the integrated GPU, including on startup. (WHY? -- my 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.3 i7 quad core;16RAM;2000SSD/AMD discrete GPU) had the GPU go bad two weeks after the warranty program expired. I called Apple support to ask them their advice on disabling the discrete GPU on boot, and they could not or would not give me information on the topic. Further, I was told that the computer is now considered "vintage" and that "Apple no longer produces the logic board" so I cannot get the computer repaired even out of pocket. Well...that seems rather strange since program to get the logic board replacement program ended on December 31, 2016 (so two weeks ago.) Now I am left with a computer that works perfectly except for the bad dGPU, which had it not been a turd and just died 15 days earlier I would have been able to get it fixed for free.)
If I am currently playing a song (unshuffled) and use Siri to "Play all songs shuffled", Music continues playing the same song even though Siri is showing that "Shuffle" is considered on. Tapping Next does nothing. Is there a workaround for this?
My laptop (MacBook Pro late 2012 running OS X 10.10.5) has had an issue the last two mornings. When I turn it on I get a load of notifications saying that I need to re-enter the password for my internet accounts.
I have run into a few songs that are explicit (for example Pegboard Nerds - BAMF) but do not use for explicit ID3 tag. I understand that there are Explicit and Clean tags that can be added with an ID3 editor, and that this is not iTunes' fault for not applying those tags, but I thought iTunes had a general rule that explicit songs have to be marked as such. Especially since Apple has the restrictions you can enable to disable downloading of explicit songs.
I just upgraded to iOS 10.2, and now when I send a message to my niece (who has her WiFi and Mobile Data off, but Voice+Text Cellular on) it always goes as iMessage instead of auto-sending as an SMS as it used to. She then does not get it until she turns on her data.
I need to record my incoming and outgoing calls on my iPhone 7, but it seems that all third party app use their network to call and record (which requires an internet connection). Is there any way to record a phone call without an internet connection similar to what you can do on Android?
I just got a MBP 15" Touch Bar with sierra. I am using it for web development (Webstorm) and graphic design (Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer). When using the graphic design tools, my MBP can start getting hot... up to 88°C. Now this happens with within 30 minutes or more of using the software. I have to stop my work and wait for it to cool off.
Is there a way I can use the force click on my MacBook trackpad as a right click (secondary click)?
Yesterday my desktop MacBook with Yosemite took a screenshot although I did not use that facility. It made the sound and created a file that I threw away fearing it was a virus. The doc created was not in fact a photo from the camera or the screen. Today it happened again: the same sound of screen shot, but this time there is no file to be found in the computer. Can this be a virus or an intruder?
The application DISH Anywhere Slingplayer (currently at v. 1.1.0.386) automatically attempts to add itself to the current user's Login Items, both at login time and at app startup time (I use Little Flocker, so I see the attempt to modify ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist.) I am trying to disable this, without uninstalling or locking com.apple.loginitems.plist, but I can't figure out what setting/code is pulling this really crappy stunt.
macOS Sierra (10.12.2) - 2015 rMBP Installed Windows 10 via a direct Windows' ISO using Boot Camp Assistant. Made a partition, it installed fine, worked fine and then it got messed up and needs to be re-installed. Problem is, Boot Camp Assistant doesn't show the Windows 10 partition. Starting up BCA, there is no 'install/remove Windows' option, or any other options to select except to continue to the next screen, which once again doesn't show the Windows partition, but just the full size of my Mac's SSD. It says it'll restore my MBP to it's original 490~ GB. Is this going to erase everything on it?
The bluetooth keyboard on my iMac seems to work for a while then starts to skip letters or mix up letters while I am typing. It seems there is also a delay between the time I type a character and when it shows up on screen. I've switched to my wired keyboard and the same thing happens. If I reboot, the problem goes away for a while, then comes back. Any suggestions?
Somehow a block of WiFi passwords ("AirPort network password") disappeared from my System.keychain file. I'd prefer to not replace the whole keychain with a backup, as the most recent backup is a week old and I'm not sure what might have changed since then. Instead I'd like to copy just the WiFi passwords from the backup to the default System.keychain.
Is there a way to run AppleScript on mouse move? Ideally I want to detect the mouse location and if it is in a certain to run a specific script.
I need run a backup of the personal data from my MacBook Pro (native HDD) to an external HDD. I have used this external drive to back up this internal drive previously via Time Machine. I don't have GUI access due to an internal problem, but I have mounted the file system using the "single user mode" command line interface.
(That title is rather garbled but I don't know a better way to describe it) I email with someone who uses a PC – I don't know what OS version or email program he uses. I'm using OSX 10.11.6. Recently I've sent a few images in a couple of emails using Apple Mail. When my friend replies he includes the whole message including any attached images (not my preferred email etiquette but whatever).
When booting my mid 2014 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro, holding the option key to choose a startup disk doesn't work. I have just installed Windows 10 on an external SSD and the only way I can choose which to use as my startup disk is to change it from within whichever OS I am using, and my computer will boot into that OS until I change it again.
This has been irritating me for a long time and I have not found a solution for this whenever I have looked for one. This problem has perplexed me maybe as far back as Mac OS X 10.7, but I can't be sure. We share a couple of Macs in our family of five and because of that we each have dedicated user accounts. In total that's five separate user accounts. After booting up we get the login window just fine. However, the only way to select the user account you wish to log in to is to click on the user's name. In the past we could just press the first letter of our username and that would automatically select that user for you. But this hasn't happened for a long time now.
I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2012) and I have changed the hard disk to a Crucial_CT250MX200SSD and changed the RAM to CRUCIAL CT8G3S160BM. My Operate System is OS X 10.11.4.
Now, it appears that the local HTTP proxy fired up by Parental Controls doesn't correctly forward those responses chunk by chunk. It waits until the whole response (or a certain amount of data) has been received before passing it on. So: Have others seen/reported this problem? How can I work around it, without asking all my users to disable Parent Controls?
Running on macOS Sierra: I have a Ruby program - setup.rb - for setting up a development environment on a new Mac. I need to start the program using sudo ruby setup.rb because it performs some stuff requiring sudo. The program starts with tasks that takes fairly long time (around 2 minutes) which is long enough for a lazy programmer to wanna do something else, maybe crap a cup of coffee.
Then certain alias files get recreated. But not all! Working, but only sometimes: PDF, JPEG, ZIP if BetterZip QuickLook plugin is the handler. Out of these not all aliases get refreshed. It seems to also depend on the file's overall or individual associated application (Finder "Open with" setting, Uniform Type Identifier (UTI), TYPE/CREATOR resource fork) and which QuickLook plugin handles the file type.
After updating from Mavericks to Sierra, my MacBook Pro is not booting up. The safe mode verbose pic is attached for reference. MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Model A1502 EMC 2875.
For example, the processor specs suggest 32gb over two slots is possible, but I'm not sure if the logic board would pose a limit or not...Apple says 16gb is the max, but I think much of that material was created before a single 16gb DDR3l DIMM existed. https://ark.intel.com/products/52227/Intel-Core-i7-2820QM-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz
Want to display the Surface Pro in a second monitor that is a Apple Thunderbolt Display 27. Surface has Mini Display port Apple has Thunderbolt cable both are physically the same but the tech is different. What can i do to send image to the Apple Display ? tks for the help !
When I had El Capitan, I was able to (or assigned a shortcut to) : when I hovered over a dock icon and scrolled up (with mouse or trackpad), it would show all windows of the dock application i hovered over. i can't remember now that i have sierra how i did this ; any ideas?
How could I create a new keyboard shortcut to merge other shortcuts? In particular I would like to merge ⌘ CommandC, ⌘ CommandF, ⌘ CommandV (Copy, Find and Paste) - would be useful for instance for Safari. (a quick way could be automator, but I don't have much experience...maybe this post could help?) A good example would be the use selection for find (⌘ CommandE) feature that exists in preview. Thanks for your help.
I have 1 phone where the mail option disappears when 5-6 photos are selected for sharing What I do 1. Open the photos app 2. Press Select in top right corner and select one photo 3. Press Share in the bottom left corner Here I among other options have the the option for sharing via mail 4. Add photos by selecting them in the top When I have selected 5 or 6 photos, the mail option disappears. Is it possible to set a restriction somewhere, that I can remove, or is it size of the photos. I have another phone with the same setup, but different mail address, on the same domain though, and on this it doesn't happen.
I love using Vim through Terminal.app. Everything was fine until three days ago, when Vim starts to crashing. Each crash happens when I enter a newline('\n') character in the Edit Mode, but not every newline character entered would trigger a crash. Normally this happens once or twice a day. For the full error report, see this gist.
I bought a new Macbook and i'm trying to install windows on this computer with bootcamp (i added windows to my other macs too without problem) but this app won't gives me the option to choose the usb drive where he downloads the drivers and boot files... why is the first 1 - 2 step gone ? This way if the windows install starts it tells me there is a problem because no boot file is there... why i can't choose the usb ? did apple updated something ? :/ can't find any solutions... any idea ? Thank you
I am new here. I am looking for an iPhone online but, want to know if a particular phone would work with GSM carriers outside US. Is there a proper way to find that? Specially the iPhones unlocked from US carriers.
This may be the most easy question to answer but I have struggled for few days now to get a proper view on how to achieve attaching an email on another email in iPhone 7. I am a new iPhone user and would like to achieve Attach existing email onto new email Attach existing email to a reply/forward email Is this at all possible?
Glide I can make the MIDI instrument have a glide, and I can make it glide from the note that was played before to the one I want it to play. But this is very inconvenient because it makes me have to create a note that I do not want before the note I want the effect done to (which will create unwanted sounds that can break the flow of the song. Cutoff Changing the cutoff value through automations can create a similar noise, but this does not effect the time at all, and will create more work than I would like.
I've read that Samsung announced compatibility with iOS for their Gear S3 watches. As iOS is a peculiar closed system, what would be compatible? Will it be able to reply to Whatsapp or Telegram messages? Record voice? I've searched for some information but found nothing.
I am running iTunes on Windows 10 to play my personal music collection. Oftentimes if I pause the music it won't un-pause. I click the button, which changes to the "playing" icon, but the progress bar doesn't start moving and no music plays. Clicking repeatedly doesn't do anything. The only thing that does is quitting iTunes and restarting from where I left off, which is obviously annoying. Anyone know what might be going on?
The hyperlinks in Notes on macOS are essentially yellow on white, as shown in the screenshot below.  I would like to change the color to any darker color to improve the contrast, but how? I have tried to highlight hyperlinks to change their color, but the color remains the same even after selecting a color for them.
So then I tried using time machine, option click - 'browse other backup disks'. The iMac disk is now listed, but when it enters time machine, the finder presented is that of my laptop, and doesn't show the files from the iMac! Any suggestions on how I can do this?
I'd like to add the View->Light Table button on the touch bar. Is this possible? I've been trying to find a way, but no success until now.
In Firefox I find very useful this feature: after looking for a word (cmd+F) it allows to quickly open a new page — if the string I was looking for was part of an active link - just by pressing the return key. Is there a way to get this effect in safari too?
I have a MacMini 2,1 with Lion and Windows 7 via bootcamp. In Mac OS my MS bluetooth keyboard 6000 works fine (as MS bluetooth mouse). In Windows, I did install the latest drivers, Intellipoint 8 etc., but the Keyboard won't pair. I type the code, it says it's paired but the keyboard keeps blinking and does not work.
How to add all songs from 'Top charts' to my playlist at once (not one by one song)? There is no options exist for this playlist to do it.
2012-08-13: OS X Server: "The document 'file name' is on a volume that does not support permanent version storage" alert (affected: Lion Server, OS X Server (Mountain Lion)) 2014-11-14: OS X Server: "The document 'file name' is on a volume that does not support permanent version storage" alert - Apple Support – HT203598 2016-07-26: HT203598 has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple. I can find nothing current, from Apple, about either the absence or the presence of support for permanent version storage in its most recent Server product for Mac OS X. Has macOS Server gained support for permanent version storage? Or is there simply no current support document about the absence of support?
I have made a bootable Windows 10 SSD, which I use to boot into Windows on my iMac. This works fine, Windows runs natively and SSD over USB 3 if fast.
I am aware that there seem to be two shortcuts for disabling the keyboard. The first being hitting the option key 5 times, and the second being control-f1. However, neither work for me. I have enabled both the setting that allows the function keys to be used as function keys and the control-f1 shortcut. Why can't I disable my Macbook Pro keyboard with a shortcut?
How to enable AirPort network (and other) services; in single-user mode? Input: (including prompt string) Output: So I tried to power up the interface. Input: (including prompt string) Output:
I understand how to set the cover ("key") photo of an Apple Photos album, but I can't see how to change the cover photo of a "shared" (copied) album. How do I set the cover photo of a "shared" Photos album?
I'm trying to create an Automator workflow to export selected Pages documents to PDF. So far, everything goes well, except for the final export step. This gives me a Sandbox permissions error. After reading up on it here, it looked like I could fix this by changing _location to a POSIX file. So I added; However, that then gives me the error: Pages got an error: "macOS:Users:brunoscheele:Desktop:Test.pdf" could not be interpreted as a file URL. Using export front document to (POSIX file _location) as PDF gives me the same error. Does anyone know how to set the _location properly, so you don't run into permission issues?
I have an iPhone, and MacBook Air. If I delete a photo off of my iPhone, will this delete across all devices, or is there a way to only save in the cloud? Edit: I am using iOS 10, macOS Sierra, and I am using iCloud across devices.
today as i was playing a game on my ipod touch, i used assistive touch to get out of the app since my home button was jammed, but it was acting slow, so i pressed lock screen on the assistive touch and now it wont turn on at all i tried hard reset but nothing turns on at all !! and plus the screen is cracked, and i dont know what to do right now i had all my good photos and apps and music on it.. when i plugged the usb in the charger, it says its charging but nothing showed up at all
I recently installed Ubuntu in a partition of my hard drive in a MacBook Pro (Early 2011) running macOS Sierra. My recovery partition was corrupted in the process and I cannot longer access recovery mode. Internet Recovery works fine, but it is the original recovery that came with my mac (OS X Lion Recovery) and I cannot disable SIP from there since Lion did not support it. What should I do?
I am looking in a folder for a file which contains path in its name. I enter path in the search box, and select it to search the current folder (which is my default anyway). The tool tip indicates Filenames Name matches: path. What I see is 110 items, none of which even contain the string path, let alone match.
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with a touch bar, and without prior warning it is now refusing to turn on. Pressing the Touch ID button does nothing: no chime, no screen activity, no computer noise, no Caps Lock LED. Resetting the SMC has no effect.
I have a very strange issue with my wired Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad. When I try to type the large letter Q by pressing the left Shift key, it doesn't work. However, when I use the right Shift key, it works. The left Shift key works with most letters, but not all. The option key works in some shortcuts and in others it doesn't. The next (F9) and the mute (F10) button don't work. Typing some diacritics works, but not in all cases. It's seems totally random.
Google chrome keeps giving out my location to websites. Disabling Location Services does not help. I may have to physically disconnect the GPS unit, but before I void AppleCare I would like to attempt doing it by software. Now, as mentioned above disabling Location Services does not help, but I do believe I can prevent the kernel from accessing the GPS unit. How do I do this?
We have had an App go through the approval cycle several times and while the status went into "Pending Developer Release", our IAP's never changed out of the "Waiting for Review" status. We have tried resubmitting and also creating new product ID's and then resubmitting.
I frequently download from an unidentified developer, and I want to be able to always allow opening downloads from them. How can I do so? However, I don't want to keep an option to allow apps downloaded from anywhere, although on a side note that option seems to have strangely disappeared.
I have a problem on my iPhone 5s (running iOS 10). Sometimes my music player doesn't play music and just skips all of my songs, but after I reset my iPhone, it works well again. At first I thought this was just a regular crash, but as this problem became more frequent, it's become annoying to me. Is this a bug on iOS 10 or does my iPhone have a problem?
You see the bean and contract line left have a white space, how to delete them?  How to delete the white square?
I was accidentally able to turn on touch bar zoom, which apparently casts the touch bar and your actions to the bottom 1/2 of the screen. Now there is no longer an option to disable it in the 'zoom' section of 'accessibility'. As this is a new feature, there is no documentation of this issue yet. I would appreciate any help, as this makes the the touch bar near useless.
I am newbie to use Pages:  I have two questions: How to delete the square ? How to extends the line to the top ?
I have two RAM chips in my Mac. How can i get to know, how many of them can i upgrade? I mean, it could happen, that one (or even two) of them are soldered on…?
My friend needs to view source code on a webpage and select and copy it. She says she knows how to view it, but cannot select and copy it since an iOS update "last year". She uses an iPad 1, and believes it runs iOS 9.
The checkmark is not shown is the os, I don't know what is going on with this bug? I'm on the newest public beta, but the steady version still has the problem, I updated from steady version to this one. Anyone can show me where the symbol file is?
Additionally, it is not recognizing my live USB with Linux Mint on it under "Startup Devices". It does recognize that there is a USB installed under Disk Utility. This is what I get on startup (and no boot options seem to work, such as pressing C or command + option + 0).
I run a small-time iPhone repair business. I have done almost 200 LCD replacements to this point so I am moderately experienced.
My iPod is not playing any videos, not from YouTube or any video playing website. It seems that my video player in my iPod may be messed up. How do I fix that? Can I even fix that?
I cannot find any information on this, so I hope somebody with experience can fill in the gap. I am writing a simple Automator Service, and I can’t get past the first step. The script is a Service Service receives selected files or folders in Finder.app Run AppleScript The script is
I found /usr/bin/java linked to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java. And its file content is different from /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_121.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java. But when I type /usr/bin/java -version it prints So I'm curious about the implementation of /usr/bin/java and wondering why it can always point to the latest version of my JavaVirtualMachines?
The phone number in my phone, Apple account and iCloud etc. is my new (correct) number - in this screenshot with area code 661.
I am trying to change an mailbox password but each time attempt to I cannot procceed and I am faced with this error: The password could not be set. In order to set the password of a user with an Open Directory Password, your own password type must be Open Directory. Administrators with other password types cannot set the password of a user with an Open Director password.
I want to block an app from connecting to a specific website using the hosts file. How can I do that? Is something like this possible:
I have bought a new MacBook Pro 13, 2015. How can I check whether it is a new or used one? I don't mean optical checks. Maybe some kind of system values, etc.
We're setting up exchange mailboxes on an iPhone 6, but when you start to type an email address, it doesn't come up with the autocomplete from the server. We setup the same mailbox on another iPhone 6, and started to write an email address, and in the drop down, it comes up with "Found on server", with the email address. Is there an option somewhere we are missing which disables this functionality?
I have a Samsung 28" U28E590 4K Display and a 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (Intel Iris 550 1536 MB Graphics). I have a dongle for HDMI output.
I'm a new Mac user, having been issued with a MacBook Pro when I started a new job three months ago. A Windows and Linux user before, I'm now getting quite used to the differences with using Apple's desktop environment. One thing that is still slowing me down a little is the requirement to explicitly click in an application window to make it active, before the UI elements inside that window can be interacted with. For example, if I have two browser windows open side by side with the left one active, it takes two clicks to follow a link in the right hand window: one to make the window active, one to click the link. This is in contrast to Windows or Linux, where you can click on a UI element in a inactive window and that single click will both activate the window and the element in it.
I've had no end of corruption problems with my photo library ever since the transfer from iPhoto to photos. I've completely recreated a new machine and I am trying to re-create a fresh photos library by importing the photos from my old library (I've got a direct backup and a Time Machine). I'm assuming that if I just import the original photos then I will lose meta information such as favourites, projects, books, calendars etc. Is there a 'clean way' to import (most of) the photos with their meta information? I don't want to simply copy-paste the library from the external drive to the new computer. I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.2. Any help much appreciated.
I am wondering how the Keychain identifies applications. I suspect that this based on code signing, but the experiments are not really consistent with this: It works for executables that are not signed at all: But the R process is added to the ACL of this secret, and it can query it happily... There is also nothing in the extended attributes of the executable: If I change the file itself, it still works:
My wife owns an early 2008 iMac. She is the third owner, having bought it from her brother, who bought it from a previous employer. It had Yosemite on it when she bought it, but presumably it originally shipped with Leopard, judging by the OS X timeline. She now wants to sell it so I am trying to prepare it for that, but I'm having difficulties reinstalling a pristine copy of OS X that isn't associated with her or my Apple ID, probably due to my ill-advised meddling with it. Here's what I did after she got it: Upgraded Yosemite to El Capitan Realised that the Recovery partition would install a much older version, so thought it would be a good idea to update that as well, so: Made an El Capitan USB installer using the official method, completely erased the hard disk (including the Recovery partition) and installed the system afresh from the USB.
Is there a way to change the shortcuts to mailboxes? Since I don't care usually about VIPs/drafts (see attached fig.), it would be more helpful to have rather trash and archive, for instance.
I have a MacBook Air and run out of space so want to remove all my photos. I have deleted all of them by going into photo and also searching for jpg but it still says I have 32 GB of photos but I can't find them anywhere. I have deleted my trash - any ideas? thank you
When doing a search on my external drive (SSD) using Finder it only searches like 1, 2 or maybe 3 folders deep. I have to manually navigate deeper into folders, in order to increase my reach.
It appears macOS Sierra only uses search domains for fallback only. Example: A Mac has the search domain sfo.example.org and the host host1.com.sfo.example.org exists.
It has been well explained here how to delete photos from a device without deleting them in iCloud. However, if you want to use the same (now empty) device to upload your future photos to iCloud, you have to sync it with iPhoto again. The problem is, as soon as you sync it, not only will the future photos be uploaded to the cloud, but your old photos will get downloaded again to the device you emptied. Is there no way to automatically upload photos to iCloud without synching them?
I create a Smart folder to show all the files created today, but I want to exclude all the files inside any folders with a specific name. Example: I want to exclude all the files and directories inside any folders named foobar. Notice: also the files in the subfolders (foobar/subfolder/*) I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.2 How can do it?
This morning I was trying to send a text to my friend but it didn't say delivered on the bottom of it. I then tried to call her and all it did was ring for a long time before going to voicemail. Does that mean her phone is off? Am I blocked? Or the connection just sucks? This is the first time this ever happened, so I'm just trying to make sure I shouldn't be worried.
When I try to play a YouTube video I just see the following message: This operation could not be completed. I've tried restarting my internet, resetting my iPod, HARD Resetting my iPod, and deleting some apps.
The Terminal app is slow at reacting to input, lag is very noticeable when I press and hold Enter. When I type bash to create a sub-shell it becomes much faster. I believe this behavior started when I updated to Sierra, but I might be wrong. Does anyone know why this happens?
I am currently having an issue with Xcode 8.2.1 not being able to activate developing on my iPhone 7 Plus (on iOS 10.1.1). Whenever I try to deploy an application, it gives me the following error:
OSX server 5.2 is supposed to have this drop-down menu "Configure VPN for" but I don't have it. I'm not able to select the type of VPN at all, I'm not sure why : how can I have this option back?
This is super scary. Yesterday I closed my MacBook's lid in the evening. The next morning I opened the lid and my MacBook didn't ask me for my password. I was already logged in.
I did a dumb thing while messing around with Boot Camp and managed to lose a partition that I had made earlier to install Windows on to. A 300GB partition is now missing and I've tried everything since this morning to get it back but I clearly lack the knowledge and I need my Mac for school work. Do you have any suggestions on how I can restore the lost partition without a backup? Thank you!
I recently broke my space-key I've copied the space and I paste it to get the space when I'm typing. Can I get help mapping my key with Karabiner for Mac or any other key-mapping software?
I've setup a link aggregate of the two ethernet ports on my macpro6,1 (via System Preferences > Network > Manage Virtual Interfaces > New Link Aggregate). Due to the way my other devices are setup, I need to set the "bondmode" of my device to "static": The problem so far is that, for no reason that I can discern and triggered by nothing I can identify in the logs, the bondmode reverts back to "lacp", and all of my connections drop.
I'm trying to create a simpler alias to launch MIT-scheme from the Terminal so I did: Then I can launch MIT-scheme by simply typing mit-scheme. However if I close this Terminal window and open a new one, when I type mit-scheme I get -bash: mit-scheme: command not found. What am I doing wrong?
My personal phone is iPhone 5. Boss bought me a new company phone, iPhone 7. And it syncs with Microsoft Exchange server for email, etc. Before I got this new phone, I used my old one for work, especially texting.
If the MacBook is closed can it happen that the keyboard touch and scratch display? I don't mean anything to be put on the screen but something between display and key.
I've noticed that the Retina display on MacBook Pros gets scratches and dings very easily. I just recently had to replace the display for a different reason, and I'd like to put on a tempered glass screen protector to prevent scratches and dings. The problem is that I need to make sure that the screen is completely clean and dust-free before installing the screen protector, which I've found is very difficult to do. I'm wondering if there are any products that I could buy to help get dust off of the screen? Would something like an electronics brush or maybe even a camera lens brush work? Please let me know! Thanks.
I have a server computer running macOS and sometimes is using Wi-Fi only in evenings. The room's router supporting the Wi-Fi source is set to automatically reboot weekly. So when that happens, the Wi-Fi source disappears for a few minutes, and sometimes I find that the server by itself is not able to automatically reconnect to it when the router becomes normal again. I'm thinking adding a cron job to force the server to rescan available Wi-Fi signals and try to reconnect to it if it find the named source.
I just got my macbook white (2009) back again from fixing (batteries were swollen), and was trying to format it to OS El Capitan. I've been trying to do that all day,
This seems like a privacy setting, or some sort of notification setting, but I can't seem to find any option to reenable this functionality. Current settings: *=URL=* Issue at hand: http://imgur.com/a/nXfav
Specifically, my backup is for 10.1 but the existing iOS on the phone is 10.0.2. When I plug into iTunes, it does not even show my backup from the "Restore Backup" option.
Every time I reboot my Mac running macOS Sierra I lose my Launchpad layout. I’ve tried different apps, tried removing some preferences. All of the apps are reset to their default position. Anyone have a solution on how to fix this? Kr, Vincent
I've tried googling this issue for awhile now and have been unable to find a solution. I, for a specific reason, need to install an older version of virtual box. However, every time I try I get this error: Also I looked at this answer VirtualBox 4.3.26 on OSX 10.10.2 Fails to install Any and all help is appreciated!
When I plug my USB drive (FAT32 partition) the light turns on, I can see it in lsusb : I can also see it in OSX system report, and I can see the disk hash enough power to work (500 ma/500). But there is nothing about this disk in the Finder, nothing in Disk utility and nothing with the 'diskutil list' command. Is there a way to force a repair or a mount using the result of the lsusb command (Bus 036 Device 004: ID 0bc2:231b) ? Thanks!
My question is not about "should I do it or not?" Is there any solutions to cover camera and microphone? Some people use tapes. It will be interesting to have something that will not damage this parts and that could easy be "uninstalled" :)
Running MacOS Server 5.2 on El Capitan. I'd like to change the DHCP server's lease duration. I'd like to use 8 hours but the GUI only gives me a choice of 1 hour, or 1 Day, or higher. Can anyone help me with a terminal command to achieve this please? I've found sudo serveradmin settings dhcp | grep lease which lets me see DHCP settings, but I just cannot work out how to change the lease period.
Every now and again (when I plug my iPhone into my Mac with Xcode open), I get the following dialog:  The only problem is when I click 'Allow' or 'Allways allow', it pops up with this:
Paste the URL in Terminal (CMD+v), the Terminal automatically escapes ? and = and changes the text to *=URL=* How can I turn this automatic escaping off? [Edit]: a screen capture of the problem:
Every track in my Music app on iOS 10.1 displays a ridiculously long time of 74 hours 33 minutes 55 seconds, as on screenshot. Anyone know a way to fix it?
As of Sierra(?) opening ~/Library/Mobile Documents in the Finder actually takes you to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs. This the Finder stylizes as "iCloud Drive" and only has folders for certain applications. It is still possible to access Mobile Documents proper through Terminal, but even when opening the directory in Finder directly from Terminal it redirects to com~apple~CloudDocs. Is it possible to access the root Mobile Documents folder from Finder?
What is the default font and size of the font on the status bar on El Capitan and Sierra? My guess is: San Francisco size 14?
I understand that Three does not have an LTE-Advanced network, only regular LTE. So is this perhaps the distinction and confusion? 4G = LTE and LTE = LTE-Advanced?
Whenever some script or Git clones/pulls something from GitHub I don't wish to send my GitHub Account, if the repo is public. How to make sure I won't be authenticated with my GitHub user with Keychain?
It does not print any output. According this posting there should be GeoIP-data. Howto use that on macOS?
I have a short MP4 video (with sound), and a separate short MP3 file. I am looking for a way to replace the audio of the first file with the audio of the second one. Is there a lightweight app solution for doing it on a Mac?
When I open AirDrop on my Mac (10.12.2), my iPhone (10.2) shows up but the picture is wrong. I'm not even sure who it is or where it comes from.
Got my Mac back, it was like first time - appoint my admin user name etc. Those things Mac asks when you get it first time and make it yours.
Below are screenshots are of an iPad screensaver, the screensaver appears to be showcasing an application. The store staff were not aware of the name of this app. It appears to be a drawing app ?
I just fixed my Macbook Pro (late 2009) by downgrading it to Snow Leopard OS. But I do want to upgrade it, since my Mac can take a newer version and work just fine. My specs are: Model Identifier: MacBook6,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
I have been having problems is Messages. One post suggested chucking your login.keychain. This caused my secure notes to vanish. Restoring this file from time machine (~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain) did not help. In answer to comment below:
I'm on macOS Sierra and I have been losing icons randomly, as you can see below, the Adobe Illustrator folder does not look like it should.  This also occurs in the Dock:
There are indeed countless of these questions, some of them succesfully answered. I recently purchased an ACER R241Y. I started using Sketch and noticed the fonts quality was noticeably worse when on the Acer. System Information: Here are the screenshots:
So I own a MacBook air Air 13 11" which worked fine for about 15 months after I purchased it on Adorama. One day, I was using it and it froze. Command+Option+Esc would't work so I had to push power button to shut it down. When I turned it back on, it showed me the interrogation folder. Internet recovery didn't work and the computer couldn't even read/recognize the internal SSD. So I got the SSD replaced and the computer worked fine for a week. Then, same problem again.
Like everyone else’s, my /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf file contains the following entries: All sources on the subject I’ve found (example 1 2 3) seem to suggest that according to the rules of rootless.conf, those entries will be enforced at boot time, and can be roughly interpreted as follows: Inside the /System hierarchy, no process is allowed to write to any file or folder, except when a more specific rule grants such access; Inside the /System hierarchy, no process is allowed to write to any file or folder, except when a more specific rule grants such access; inside /System/Library/Extensions, any process that has root privileges is allowed to create new files and subfolders; inside /System/Library/Extensions, any process that has root privileges is allowed to create new files and subfolders; however, no process is allowed to modify or delete any existing files or subfolders inside /System/Library/Extensions. however, no process is allowed to modify or delete any existing f
I was looking at movies reviews online, and a hyper link took me to iTunes, it said "Hey this isn't available in the US but it is in the UK, would you like to change stores?" So I said sure, why not? Now I'm stuck in the UK store. I tried Settings -> iTunes & App Stores -> Apple ID -> View Apple ID -> Country/Region, but it doesn't work because of active subscriptions and passes (which I do have under the US store). How do I get back the US store front for my iTunes Store on my iPhone?
These ports, crucial to iMessage and Facetime, are blocked: TCP Ports 80, 443, and 5223 on macOS Sierra 10.12.2 (MacBookPro11,3). (*=URL=* In Network Utility, I perform a scan and the only Open Port is 631. When I run: I get a few calls then it reads that: socket.error: [Errno 13] Permission denied A few other terminal commands return similar responses.
I got a corrupted iPhone 5 with latest iOS 10.2 Before I will start over from scratch I would like to backup all my contacts and notes.
I am currently working on deploying a large number (500+) of MacBooks out to users who will own the devices and sign in with their own personal Apple IDs. Unfortunately whilst building the image we pushed, we logged into the app store and updated some applications, resulting in the iLife/iWork applications on that image being associated with the account used. Signing out and signing back in to the App Store after deleting the apps results in the price tag coming up to buy, instead of the "accept" option. I've wiped one of the machines and put on a fresh sierra, and can confirm that the "accept" option comes up on the same machine with a fresh install.
I have connected my Mac Mini A1347 to my Samsung Smart TV UE32ES6530 using a HDMI cable. This works out of the box but the display is rather ugly. I already changed the resolution to a lower value using this dialog but for my taste the display is still ugly. What else can I do?
Before doing a backup of the new system, I used 'last' to see exactly when the install started (so I would know which backups to get old stuff from). To my surprise, every shutdown, including the ones done by the installer, was labeled "crash."
I am going mad trying to fix the following error in my AppleScript code:  What this error means is that I have opened a comment somewhere in the code with a (* but I have forgot to close it with a *).
How can I eliminate the useless Control Alt F global shortcut (move cursor to the next word)? It's in conflict with another custom shortcut I really need. (macOS Sierra 12.12.2)
In Safari, you can press Cmd ⌘ ⇧ L to open/close the sidebar. When pressing this shortcut in Notes however, it creates a list. What's the shortcut in Apple's notes app to toggle the sidebar?
MBP 2015 13, 10.12.2 I want to use an external display via HDMI and turn off my Macbook Pro's display. How can I do it? Update There is another question: How do I turn off laptop display when I have an external display?, but I don't think this one should be marked as duplicate. Its 2017 now and the old question has answers from 2011-2014.
I have two laptops: MacBook 2,1 MacBook Pro 5,3
Macbook Air 13" mid-2013 (running macOS Sierra) with no USB devices plugged in (except a Logitech wireless mouse that I never have plugged in while the laptop boots up). I receive the message USB devices disabled: unplug the device using too much power once upon startup or logging in even when nothing's plugged into the USB ports.
I took a load of photos a couple of years ago using a negative image and "heat sensor" style filter. I'm trying to use my ipad to do this now and cant seem to find the option anywhere. I've tried going into settings and using alternate colours so it gives a negative image to my interface aesthetic and then using the camera to take a negative image, but as soon as i send it via idrop to another device, it comes out in regular colours. I've even tried viewing photos in alternate colour settings and taking screen shots, but once again it reverts it back to regular colours. what should i do? Where is the feature that i had previously used?
My MacBook Pro is going to a new owner and I want to be certain the data is adequately erased on the internal SSD (PCIe flash). There are two Stack Exchange questions/answers that appear to present conflicting facts about whether or not using Disk Utility to erase a partition will make it sufficiently difficult enough to prevent data recovery: Suggests that a simple "Erase" in Disk Utility will do the job: How to get the "securely erase" function of Disk Utility on El Capitan & Sierra Suggests that an SSD that has been erased can be reasonably recovered: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12503/can-wiped-ssd-data-be-recovered
How does the option “Optimize Mac Storage” for iCloud Drive interact with Spotlight and Time Machine? As far as I understand, the option causes macOS to remove your Mac’s copy of old iCloud Drive files. In iCloud Drive in the Finder, those files are then shown with a download icon. But I don’t understand what happens to those files in Spotlight and Time Machine.
I use an Android phone but many of my friends and family have iPhones. Starting a few months ago I discovered that several people sent me text messages that didn't go through. And after digging into the problem, I discovered that their messages appeared as blue on their phone, not green, indicating that iMessage didn't convert it to a standard text. Then I discovered that (at least for some of the people), their texts were being sent to my email, not my phone number. The weird thing is that I don't even think some of these people had my email.
There are a bunch of backups in the folder: However, they're all named gibberish and difficult to identify. This folder takes up 30% of the space on my 500 GB hard drive. How do I find out what device they're for, along with their date, so I can decide which to delete?
My home banking App can export to Numbers. It will give me a table with date, category, description and amount. I want to extract all the categories automatically in a second sheet. How can I do this? Example screen:
Problem I'm experiencing now is that the MacBook won't boot and shuts down after the grey loading bar passes the +/- 40% mark. The disk is also not recognized when booted from an external HDD. Starting in safe mode is impossible. Starting the machine in verbose mode shows that there is a problem with replaying the journal. The error reads as follows:
Maybe an ExpressCard? Is that the way I should do it? My ports look like this:
Trying Safari again because Chrome uses too much CPU in comparison to Safari. However, when trying to use Vimari (the equilant of Vimium for Safari that lets you browse the web using the keyboard), after submitting an URL, the focus is still on the address bar, which causes my keyboard commands to be typed in the address bar instead. Q: How to make Safari focus on the page after submitting an URL?
My husband and I have iPhone6 but his is a 6S. He misplaced his iPhone and I want to help him locate it. How do I do that? With my iPad & iPhone I can go to find iPhone and see my devices. How do I add his iPhone to my devices?
I have music purchased online, but I do not have my phone synced to iTunes. How do I put my songs into the phone? I have tried using DropBox, but the song has to be downloaded every time!
My ex and I had a family sharing farm on three iPads when we split one iPad left. The game is still on all three iPads.
The ⌘+↑ key takes you to the parent folder in Finder. How can I assign this key to do the same in iTerm - basically an alias for cd ..?
Years ago I've seen a great UX solution on a Mac: in a program, say, a text editor, I choose File/Open menu,
Before you say it, yes. I know that the control center in iOS 10 is divided into two panels. But whenever I try to play music from YouTube on Safari (being specific there), I click on the play button, but the music will not play on the control center while I'm in another app.
I've got a 2016 MacBook Pro for about a month now, and everything has worked very smoothly until today. Suddenly I couldn't detect any Wi-Fi networks in my area anymore. (including neighbour's Wi-Fi, hotspots, etc...).
So, I want to make a script that lets me repeat "R" a few times, and the holds (rapidly taps) "Shift." The process repeats itself. Could someone tell me how to code such a thing?
If I use Mail and double click a message to open that message in a new window, then minimise the main mail window, then switch to a different app, what keyboard shortcut(s) can I use to bring back to main mail window, leaving the message window open?
I would like to use an app multiple times. I installed Spark which is from my point of view a great email app. I have two companies with various accounts (pr@...,contact@...) and instead of having all of them in the same app I'd like to have spark1.app for company1 and the same for company2/spark2.app for example. I already tried open -n -a APPNAME but Spark is telling me that there already is a copy running ! Any suggestions ?
After a lightning strike I needed a new modem. Now I want to connect my existing Apple TV to my new Wi-Fi network.
I'd like to find a modern MKV video player app that supports macOS's new Picture in Picture feature. Note: I'm not interested in replicating PiP functionality, I'm only interested in the actual Picture in Picture feature.
I'm trying to move some files out of my Time Machine backup to a new location on the external drive (outside of the Time Machine folder) that is in use for Time Machine. I want to do this (as opposed to just copying from the original) primarily to retain all the hard links, not only between files under the directory I am moving, but also to previous backups, so I only maintain a single copy of everything. Also, I don't have enough free space to make an additional actual copy! But when I try to move the folder from Finder, I get the error: "The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified." When I try to do it from the command line using mv I get the error: mv: rename [...] to [...]: Operation not permitted I read this question where in an answer it was explained that the "bypass" utility supposedly "allows you to supply a command and argument to completely bypass the access restrictions." However, while I found this to work with the rm command, it failed with the
Just for curiosity! When the built in spelling is set to automatic language detection, how can I see which language it think the current text is written in?
I have a MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan. No matter where I click on the built-in trackpad, it behaves as if I am left-clicking. To right-click, I must hold control, then click the trackpad. Is there any way to have the behavior changed, so that if I click in the right half of the trackpad, it behaves as a right click?
My workplace issued me some Apple devices. When I am at work, connected to the workplace WiFi, I am able to AirDrop files between the devices. But when I am at home, connected to my own home WiFi, the AirDrop icons disappear on the devices. Does AirDrop require some special router or other hardware for it to work?
I've created an application with a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator. I've created a Service in Automator which launches the aforementioned app. The Service is triggered by a keyboard shortcut, assigned in System Preferences
I have recently been having trouble with MacWizz ads on my Chrome browser. The ads started appearing this morning. Any ideas on how to remove them? An example image showing the ads
I need to read a long row of output in Terminal and was wondering if there is a way to have the whole row where the mouse cursor is positioned highlighted. Alternatively, would there be a way to highlight a row and control the highlight with the keyboard? Thanks.
Every night, I run the following commands in Terminal before shutting down my Mac, but I wonder if I should just enter them in the same directory that my Terminal appears in (/Users/myUserName) or should I cd to a particular directory?
Is it suspicious that my battery was manufactured November 2016? I have checked it with "Battery Health 2". The MBP 13, 2015 is from early 2015. And battery is from late 2016. Update I have started with this question: Check whether a MacBook is new or not I didn't want to ask other questions in comment, that's why I've created this one. Update 2 This is the information I've got with serial number: Model: - MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) Codename: - No codename assigned. Build Country: - This unit was built in China. Build Year: - We could not verify the build year of this unit. Build Week - Week 24 (June) or week 51 (December).
I have a .txt file saved on my computer. This is the location of the file: /Users/Me/Desktop/My Documents/My Fruit Log.txt I want my AppleScript-based Automator application to delete a specific line of the .txt file. The contents of the .txt file looks like this:
I have a server application that binds a unix file socket on /var/run/appsocket. I have multiple clients which connect to this unix file socket, and I want to be able to determine which PID is connected to this unix file socket. What I've tried: Displays the following: appserver 101 appuser 6u unix 0x5d3497ad372af941 0t0 /var/run/appsocket appserver 101 appuser 9u unix 0x5d3497ad3aa380a9 0t0 /var/run/appsocket
Not sure why some sites in my reading list is blinking/flickering. Notice those site that blinks has a blank icon. Anyone having this problem too? Happening in private mode too. Safari 10.0.2 (12602.3.12.0.1)
Is there an app/extension to have UTC appear in the Sierra Finder (10.12.2) menu ? I bought "UTC Bar" version 1.31 from the Apple Store, but clicking on "Open" doesn't appear anywhere in the "Date & Time" preferences nor in the Finder Menu - No indication it was installed anywhere. I prefer toggling UTC to be displayed in the menu rather than bring up the Dashboard each time. thanks
The MacBook Air automatically connects to a (previously paired) Bluetooth speaker even when the lid is closed, which prevents the device I'm actually using at the moment from connecting to the speaker. How do I configure the MacBook Air to not automatically connect to a bluetooth speaker when the lid is closed? I want everything to work as-is when the lid is open.
When I play my playlists with iTunes on Mac OS when offline, I get a lot of messages iTunes could not connect to iTunes Store. The network is down or unavailable. When I start to play music for my sleep, the next morning I see these error messages:
I can see upload traffic to the internet being generated by a MacBook once it connects to our LAN. The owner states he's not using iCloud and doesn't know why this occurs. I am not a Mac expert but I may give it go to fix the issue.
Why Google Chrome responds to the Smart Zoom gesture in a different way than Safari? When zooming in an article or a picture in Safari, the Smart Zoom puts some space or bezel around the chosen content.
Mac has a neat little feature where I can (while grabbing a portion of the screen) hit spacebar and click on a window to capture it (and the surrounding shadow), for example:  I've searched for this on Google, but its stupid algorithm keeps searching for similar words, even when I put it in quotes (like mac "record window only"). I want to capture a video of a window only (including cursor of course).
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 (Model A1278) and would like to know if Corsair CMSO8GX3M1C1600C11 memory will work on it. Before making the investment in memories, can someone help me?
We have a forest with 2 domains: EU and NA. I have a workstation admins account in NA and need to be able to join a Mac to the EU domain. When I enter my NA credentials to try and bind the Mac to EU I get an error 'Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation'
I have an iPhone 4S with WhatsApp. I install WhatsApp Web on my PC. It starts, and displays a QR code. I'm supposed to use my iPhone's WhatsApp to scan the Qr code. The menu item to do this is supposed to be in "settings". When I open "settings" I don't see the option. It's supposed to be below "tell a friend".
This causes massive headaches for us, because we all have MacBooks and therefore do not have NTLM credentials stored, so whenever the above happens (and fails), we have to type in our ID/PW again. This happens literally 20+ times a day, and if we disconnect from the VPN and reconnect, we have to do it 20+ times yet again. No exaggeration, I have had to type my ID/PW into a browser window >50x in a single day on multiple occasions, and everyone on my 12-person team has had days that were just as bad. Clearly, this is not a positive experience. Corporate IT officially does not support OSX, so they are no help whatsoever.
In Google Chrome, one can go to chrome://plugins and check the "Always allowed to run" checkbox next to Adobe Flash Player. Is there anyway to set this via the command line, pushed preferences, or MCX flags on a MacOS client running 10.11?
With the old Dashboard it's possible to create a web clip widget from Safari. As it seems like the Dashboard is getting phased out and the Notification Center is definitely a handy place to have widgets, is there any way to get this on macOS Sierra?
I have an app that I developed a little over 3 years ago built with Obj C and not using ay type of database . Over the past 6 months I redesigned (UX / UI) the app and built it from the ground up. I used swift 3 / core data and added a bunch of new features. My old app is not compatible with the new app, and I don't want to push this new version out as an update, because anyone who downloads it will lose all of their information they are currently using in the app.
I have a MacBook Pro with OSx 10.11.6 installed. On startup, when I try to login as a user with password, each time I click on the input text box it gets deselected, and it's impossible to enter the password.
When I try to load a page and I have no wifi connection, I have to turn off my VPN, toggle wifi, and then reconnect VPN. But google chrome auto-refreshes the page before I have a chance to reconnect my VPN. How do I prevent this?
Using Onyx I have set the Word of the Day screensaver as my desktop. The shimmering blue water effect is wonderful but I am distracted by the words flying through the screen and the fade to black every 30 seconds. How can I disable the word effects and shift to black so the screensaver is the shimmering blue water by itself?
I have a WiFi network that I want to use from my macOS device (Sierra 10.12 / 2012 Macbook Pro), but not from my iOS device (iOS 10.2 / iPhone 7). The two devices use the same iCloud Keychain.
I'm running into the problem accurately described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4229655?start=0&tstart=0
For years, I've been able to use Quicktime to play live HLS video streams such as *=URL=* I open Quicktime, go to File -> Open Location, and paste the URL. After upgrading to Sierra, streams such as the above example no longer play.
I have exactly the same problem as this - Apple Photos Shared Albums on OS X are not updating - but the answer doesn't work for me. I was wondering if there's any way to troubleshoot, e.g. looking at logs?
I'm on MacOS Sierra. When I click on a link to XML file, Safari downloads it. Instead I want to view the XML right in the browser. Is there a way to accomplish this?
How can I remove third-party root certificates under Settings → General → About → Certificate Trust Settings that I've installed earlier without erasing all contents and settings from my device? Resetting "network settings" and "all settings" doesn't do the job. I'm not asking about emulator and I don't have jailbroken device.
I want to write an Apple Script that converts me Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into PDFs. I started with a small version, but strange enough, already that very short stub fails:
I'd like to invert my selection with AppleScript. This is analogous to Adobe Photoshop's (and other Adobe products) functionality "Invert selection (Ctrl/Cmd + I to deselect what was previously selected and select what was not selected)" I can select a group of cells with AppleScript. I can get selected range with AppleScript I can loop selected cells I'd like to select all cells that are not currently selected
Though we are able to re-insert the Apple USB Ethernet adaptor during boot time (and therefore get our SAN volume mounted) this is not an ideal situation. All three of these machines are managed remotely, and if they are rebooted while unattended they will not come back online. We have had some success making the USB Ethernet inactive in System Preferences/Network before applying the update, but this does not work every time. TL;DR, the most recent Security Update for El Cap and Sierra breaks our iMacs with Apple USB Ethernet adaptors attached. Anybody else encountered this?
When my computer starts slow down and the common operations don't have any effect I usually make a new installation and I have a "new" Mac. The problem is that I have to configure again every single setting and considering that I started using terminal to customize my Mac, it would be a very long work to insert all terminal commands again, so finally, my question: what's the best way to really refresh a Mac without new installation?
If I remove all chat.db files in ~/Library/Messages on my Mac, I have to restart the whole system, otherwise iMessage says "updating database..." without doing anything. I think this is because not all message caches are cleared. Does anyone know how I can clear those caches manually without rebooting the whole system?
When looking at the disk stats in the storage tab of "About this Mac", mkv files are showed as Other instead of being grouped with other videos on the disk.  When browsing the disk with the finder, mkv files are correctly displayed as videos when sorting files by kind. Is there any way to make the disk stats consider mkv files as videos ? Thank for you answers
Exactly what the title says... I'm new to coding and I am trying to make AppleScript simulate the key press of LShift. When I run the program, there seems to be a delay, indicating that it may be actually pressing LShift, but I tried a virtual keyboard tester, and it does not indicate LShift being pressed... I am not sure how to make the program. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I'm adding a Keychain entry programatically onto a machine via the security command as such:  It looks great, just like one generated one when you set up Outlook! However, I still get the "Microsoft Outlook wants to access key Exchange in your keychain" prompt when the user opens Outlook.
I have a user I've been trying to help that had used Time Machine to restore some folders and files from an older Mac onto MacOS Sierra. When I initially saw this user's system, he had the classic issue of a privilege for a user that was just saying "Loading..."
I'm looking for a VNC viewer which support a repeater server like the UltraVNC one. I tried to use SSVNC but it is not starting. So I'm wondering if anyone has been able to make it work on macOS Sierra, or has another Open Source alternative to suggest.
So it appears there are a lot of questions requesting the ability to boot from usb on a Macbook. Example and here
Any pointers to arpwatch or equivalent for OS X Yosemite? I'd rather not have to use Macports. Sledge hammers on gnats etc. I found one, Mocha, but it requires a version of Java 6. Current Java version is 8, and I recall 6 having all sorts of security issues. This arises as my MacBook Pro is detecting another device using it's IP address. Command line version is fine.
Since I've been installing third party apps that I trust onto my phone, going to Settings>General>Profiles and Device Managent>Developer>Verify has been a routine. But after iOS 10.2, apps that I previously verified weren't working. I attempted to re verify them, but when I clicked verify, it said loading for a second and then didn't verify the apps. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I would like to execute a script on my machine every five minutes, even when I am not in front of my mac OS X Yosemite. Therefore, I would like to lock my session and shut off the screen while the computer stays active. How can I do that. I have tried with a crontab. Let's say this is my script : and this is my crontab entry
I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina). I've recently installed Windows using Boot Camp Assistant and now I want to remove it. To remove the BOOTCAMP partition I have tried the following: Going to Boot Camp Assistant > Continue > Restore Result it was stuck half way.
I bought an iPhone 6S three months back. Earlier I was not aware that I would get push notifications regarding iOS updates. However, later I became aware of this thanks to a friend. Since buying my iPhone, Apple has released 3 updates and I had not received a single notifcation of these.
I have existing Apple ID but when I tried to log in itunes, clicking None as payment, I still can't proceed even if I click 'Next'
I inadvertently hit the wrong color for a human emoji. Holding it down does nothing and I really need this particular emoji to be correct.
I've just been Googling about this, but I can't find definitive information (some sites claim things that I'm unsure of). Which is faster for connecting an ethernet cable to a MacBook Pro - a Thunderbolt adapter or a USB 3.0 adapter? I've seen some claims that Thunderbolt can do a full gigabit while USB 3.0 can only do 100mb - but then again I've seen many USB 3.0 adapters advertised on Amazon as being capable of "10/100/1000 gigabit." So, what's the verdict? Which is faster?
The macbook i am using currently is MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). Now the battery warning is "Replace now" state. So i need to change it. I have another macbook with MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011). Is it possible the replace battery from MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) to MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) ?
I use Mac Mail. Sometimes it happens, that when I attach (drag and drop) a pdf file to a new e-mail message it doesn't show on other computer (PC). Is there a problem on my side? Or is it a matter of the way files are being attached? Thanks
I have an email that I keep moving to trash and my phone tells me after I've moved it some hours later it's unable to move the message. How can I get rid of this email?
I am new to Mac Terminal. I am learning. After entering a command it gives me just that: > What does it mean? What should I do now, how to continue or scape? Here is the command I issued:
I just bought a monitor, a 24-inches AOC U2477PWQ, 4K resolution. I attached it to my 2012 MacBook Air running the latest version of Sierra, and macOS thinks it's a 30-inches AOC U2477WM, 1080p.
So around last month my dock decided to make my notification badges blue and very large. I have no clue why. I’ve tried resetting the preferences, restoring them from time machine, restoring Dock.app from Time Machine and nothing works. Whatever caused this, also broke LaunchPad because the instant I try to open it, it just crashes, the dock quits and restarts, and it never appears. Any ideas? Retina 5K iMac (iMac15,1) macOS 10.12.1
I'm pretty new with MacOS and Macbooks in general. I've been a unix user for a long time and right now I'm trying to install the patched powerline fonts to use with OhMyZsh, VIM and the like but I'm running into some issues getting it to properly work. I've followed a couple different guides but I'm always getting the same error in that some of the special icons/characters show up correctly on the terminal while some others don't and that pretty much screws everything up. Here's the latest guide I followed (and the simplest one): powerline/fonts and here's a screenshot of how my terminal currently looks like:
The system has 16GB of memory, and the memory pressure looks well below even 50%. This doesn't make any sense. Usually the message starts popping after about 10 days without restarting.
Tapping the book icon to the left of the address bar does not remove the Bookmarks/Reading List Sidebar. How does one remove the sidebar?
When one adds a "Run AppleScript" action to a file in Automator.app (e.g., a workflow, application, or service), the following default code is presented: What is the significance of input and parameters? That is to say, Where does the AppleScript code get these variables from? Where does the AppleScript code get these variables from? To where exactly does the AppleScript return the input to? To where exactly does the AppleScript return the input to?
As some additional information, when I connect the SSD to the MacBook Pro, the enclosure light lights up, meaning that power definitely goes to it. However, it doesn't blink at all (which would suggest some operations were going on).
There are 4 very similar crash reports listed here: *=URL=* The starting lines suggest to me it might be a CRC check failure but what do I know ;-) This tends to happen with the lid closed and the machine not yet in sleep. Do I have bad/overheating memory? A similar report here was not solved.
I'm trying to use Macports to switch back to the system default version of python. When I run this command: I get back : So for example, I want to switch back to the usr/bin/python (which is the apple version of python), I would enter this into the terminal: It says:
When I open my Finder after a reboot or closing all Finder windows, the Finder starts out with the "All My Files" view. However, the scroll position is set such that the first four files are hidden out of view and the 5th file appears as the first file that I can see. To see the first four files, I've got to scroll up.
Recently I started to experience problems with my old MacbookPro mid 2012 which has Sierra 10.12.2, 512 GB HDD (the initial factory disk), and 16GB RAM (2x8GB, memory was upgraded from the initial 4GB). The problem is that after few hours of normal work a random application (one of opened) become unresponsive and freeze, I see standard Apple's rolling rainbow-colored circle. It's not that the whole macbook is stuck: the mouse works perfectly fine and I can move app's window around, but inside the window nothing works. Other apps may work normally (but rarely more than one app gets frozen at the same time). Then after about a half a minute (sometimes longer), it unfreezes and I can continue my work.
When I search in Preview using cmd+F, I am redirected to the first page of the document. However, many times I am just trying to find the nearest appearance of a word inside the page I am reading. Is there a way to go around this?
I recently switched from Ubuntu to macOS, and I'm in the initial learning curve for adapting my workflow in Mac. In Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) I can simply switch to any workspace (similar to mac mission control/multiple desktops) I want and I can open a new terminal instance in that workspace. In Ubuntu Unity, there is a nice way to see the terminal instances open in the current workspace only. Is there a way for me to open terminal instances in specific desktops like 1 & 3 etc in macOS?
I want to install a configuration profile to automatically connect to my university network but along with the two wifi network configurations there are also two certificates, their description is "AC du fournisseur d'identité" (in English: CA of the identity provider), those are certificates "TERENA SSL CA 3" and "DigiCert Assured ID Root CA", both emitted by "DigiCert Assured ID Root CA". What is the exact impact of this on the security of my system ?
When I right click on a book in iBooks and go on share I get only 'None' button on it. See image below. How can I fix this bug?
I have two questions about Mobile Device Management Server and Configuration Profiles. We are using a Third Party MDM server where we are registering our devices to have control of the apps that are running on our organization
I'm trying to copy a DVD as an image via the Disc Utility - yesterday it worked (same DVD), but now I get the error message on all discs: Could not finished (com.apple.diskutility-Error 3) Stopped with Error 13 (translated).
We have network with 40 machines and all machines are showing in Finder however our Windows Server 2011 is not showing under network computer in Finder. Can connect using Go -> Connection to server -> smb://ipaddress but I'm wondering if there is a way to get it to also show as a machine in the list.
I have a strange problem with my new MacBook Pro running Sierra. After visiting some web sites (such as stackexchange, gmail, and web.whatsapp.com), the F4 key stops to work in all applications. All other function keys continue working normally, as well as starting launchpad (which is also on the F4 key). It seems pressing the F4 key does not generate any key code anymore, according to Key Codes. This happens both with the internal MacBook keyboard as well as the apple wireless keyboard. Logging out and logging in again (or rebooting) fixes the F4 key, only quitting Safari does not fix it. Disabling Javascript (via Safari preferences) leaves the F4 key enabled. Other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) are not affected by this issue.
I'd like to create a folder hierarchy that is a duplicate of another folder hierarchy except that it excludes all folders or files with a particular label. Any recommendations on how to create or maintain such a thing? Specifically, I have a bunch of large 4K video downloads from a RED camera, so they are a series of nested folders with various metadata files, and R3D files that run up to 4.04 GB each at the leaf level.
I realized that the Mac OSX Sierra is taking more than 100GB+ on my machine. I don't think this is normal. I clicked on manage and I didn't see any very large system file. I wonder how can I reduce the disk footprint of the system? I have already optimized my document and personal storage, but I don't understand why the OS would take 100GB
I have a computer (Mac OS X 10.9.x) that became corrupted so I have reformatted the hard drive and am attempting to reinstall the operating system. It asks me to log in with an apple ID so I logged in to one I haven't used in awhile. I get the error message:
i used any osx from snow leopard to sierra without any problem and specifically i never had problem with spotlight. After last update with sierra i noticed that my mac is too slow so i switched to lion 10.7.4 Zero problems for months, but now from a while i can't use anymore spotlight cause doesn't stop indexing and drain drain my (bit old battery). Stay for hours to update the time to end, stop for a while and after restart in a loop. I already tried to reindex from its options adding the volume of osx system in privacy tab, clean everything and rebuild index with onyx, disable spotlight with mdutil from terminal and re-enable with no results. Also did a clean install of lion 10.7 and still no results. Also tried to check disk with diskutility and other utility from web and my disk seem work properly. Now i've disabled spotlight but can't find anything. Please, help me! My specs: Macbook 13 unibody 2010 Sandisk ssd 64 gb Osx lion 10.7.4
My sidebar is acting weird lately. All my favorites go away after rebooting. I already tried deleting Finder's .plist - didn't help much. Anyone else experiencing similar issues? Apart from that, after every reboot, I have to manually add keyboard layouts that I had before (second language) - it keeps disappearing after every reboot. OSX El Captain 10.11.6
I have encrypted my hard drive with FileVault. If I will manually create a backup by copying to some external hard drive - how will the information on this external one be stored?
I have downloaded the installer for El Capitan to my mac running Yosemite. I have placed the installed in the applications folder and double clicked on it to run it. The installer launches, asks me to agree to a bunch of stuff, asks me to login as admin, closes my open apps and prompts me to restart the mac. Which I do. This all seems like normal installer behavior to me. However, once the mac restarts I am prompted to login, and then the installation never begins. What am I doing wrong?
What is this menubar icon? I don't remember seeing it before, and it doesn't seem to offer any explanation of what it is.
This just happened tonight. Without warning and for no reason at all, the little triangle next to the folders on the desktop just disappeared. So I cannot easily see the contents of the folders, I have to double click them. But it's only on the desktop, all other folders have the triangles. I only have one display. I checked all the settings I could and did not see anything. I don't even know what those triangles are called.
I want to add my Downloads folder to my iCloud Drive so that it can sync just like Sierra syncs with the Documents and Desktop folder. Can this be done?
It seems strange to me I can only register 3 finger prints for TouchID on my new 2016 MacBook Pro. Is there any way to get macOS to allow for more? Note: I know with iPhones you could fool it by alternating fingers back and forth while registering them and may try that, but 3 just seem bizarrely limiting.
I clean installed Sierra two weeks ago and now I have a new persistent problem: "Your system is out of application memory" box shows up while I am using Safari and forces me to quit all of my apps except finder. Out of application memory? My activity logs show that this just isn't the case. I can see this being an issue all the way back to Mavericks when researching. Any solutions? Restart doesn't work. Hard restart doesn't work. Disk permissions repair doesn't work. Deleted apps one at a time to see if they are the culprits (even though activity log shows this isn't the case). No dice. I even brought my mac back to factory settings and clean installed Sierra. Didn't work. I'm being forced to close Safari (and subsequently every other open app like my VPN, iTunes, etc)about every 70-80 minutes. mid-2010 i5 Imac, Sierra current version, iTunes current version IPvanish current version
I own an iMac that was recently updated in error by a family member (I've forgiven them). This was a disaster because some of my hardware and software no longer work! Previously this iMac was running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. So, I decided to install Snow Leopard again. I have the original disks (remember those things) that came with the computer but cannot install Snow Leopard. I have wasted two whole days on this and am now desperate. My specs are: Late 2009 iMac 27" model 16GB RAM Apple Wireless Keyboard Magic Mouse Mac OS X 10.11.6 installed :( What I have tried: Booting into Recovery Mode, from both the local HD and internet, but my Mac doesn't seem to support this? Installing Snow Leopard from original Apple iMac grey disks that shipped with the computer Installing Snow Leopard from a retail version of Snow Leopard (borrowed from a friend) Verified the optical drive is working fine (it reads CDs/DVDs and burns DVDs fine) Verified that booting from the optical drive is fine (booted fro
I am currently subscribed to myasics ics running calender which shows my training plan. Its default alert is set to one week before.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) on the latest version of macOS Sierra (10.12.3 at the time of writing). Whenever I hold the Option key after turning on my Mac, it takes a long time (around 30 seconds) for Startup Manager to appear. When it does, it is extremely laggy. Cursor movements and arrow key presses take 10-15 seconds to register.
Oh, I just remembered I had a problem with being unable to unmount my flash drive, when trying to restore it. I had to go into the terminal and force unmount it. After I did I didn't have anymore troubles. Also it was having some difficulties loading disks, like after putting the disk in, it would try to read it and would kick it out after 30 seconds or so. I dunno if these have anything to do with the problem at hand though.
I'm creating a slideshow/movie in Photos, and some of my photos are actually animated gifs, but they appear as low quality stills in the slideshow. Any way Photos can properly support these gifs?
Every day I take notes on a morning meeting in the Stickies app. At the end of the week, I save all the sticky notes to a folder for archiving purposes. I close the sticky, and when asked weather I'd like to save the note I say yes.
Will I receive a confirmation email (to Gmail, the email I registered my device) in case I turn off the iCloud backup function on my device?
I installed macOS Sierra 10.12 like Guest on VirtualBox 5.1.10 on my MacBook Air with macOS Sierra too. I facing errors! I login with difficulties an when I can, raise the error and I need to log in... the machine is not halt totally. Here the video with the problem: *=URL=* For me is difficult to extract all Logs.
I know that the question can sound suspicius but let me explain. I've installed in end 2015 a frash mac osx. I setted up the firmware password and never used again. Until today. The problem is: I forgot that. I know that I can go to an Apple Store or a certified shop and have it restored, but this requires me a lot of time (I'm far away from Apple Store and the neares shop told me they have to keep it for 10 days beacuse they have other pc to repair first..).
Let me preface this with the fact that I know nothing about networking / security / etc. Twice now, I've had issues with root certificates not working and throwing errors, even though they are still valid. Here's the link to my last post that was was fixed after an update to the OS (at this point, I cannot update any further, as my system is frozen based on older software that requires it). Safari can't verify the identity of the website errors
Old Method: Click 'Select Photos' at the top Select the very first photo Scroll all the way to the bottom Hold the Shift key and click the last photo (this will select everything in between) Click 'Delete' at the top This does not work anymore I need a quick way of deleting 10,000 photos from my iCloud without selecting each one manually using Windows.
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Viewing webpages with syriac characters, e. g. Syriac Wikipedia, I get only empty boxes (the default character). I tried all three popular browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Safari), terminal, Libre Office, TextWrangler. This webpage syriaca.org has a teststring, which renders correctly, but specifies the font in CSS. If I write a small HTML file with CSS specifying an installed Syriac font, it displays correctly: Also on syriaca.org a problem on Mac is mentioned: Even with Meltho or other fonts installed there is also a known conflict with Apple's default rendering of the ܘ (waw) character when a conflicting Arabic font is installed.
I'd like to change the time format from 12 to 24 hours in the log queries. The logs themselves are already in 24-hour, but the queries show in 12-hour format. I checked asl.conf's man page but I couldn't find an option, nor did perusing the actual file at /private/etc/asl.conf. I also checked the default All Messages query file and a custom one, to no avail, at /Applications/Utilities/Console.app/Contents/Resources/ASLQueries/All Messages.aslquery. Make sure you select View>Show Milliseconds to reproduce it, which seems to override the setting Medium in System Preferences>Language & Text>Region>Times>Customize…. I use Console.app v10.8 on Mountain Lion.
Background: When submitting an (iOS) application for review which has functionality depending on a specific hardware, Apple asks for a Video, demonstrating the feature(s). If we’re not able to access part of your app because it’s geo-locked or otherwise restricted, provide a link to a video of the functionality (source) The Question: Are there any requirements or restrictions on this video?
I am experiencing trouble trying to get the combination of Qt 5.8.0 / PyQt 5.7.1 / sip 4.19 / Python3.5 to install & work correctly on my macOS 10.12.2 (Sierra). Steps to reproduce the problem: (I am being very specific for if anyone else will ever venture here trying to accomplish the same thing) Install Python3.5 via homebrew (brew install python3.5).
I have a Late-2016 MacBook Pro without Touch Bar. When I create a shared Wi-Fi network through System Preferences -> Sharing (while I have my machine connected to ethernet via a USB-C adaptor), no device can connect. The network is configured with WPA-2 personal security (just a password, though I have also tried with no security and end up with the same result).
We have a local DNS server running for development purposes. But it seems not to resolve subdomains to the same destination ip as the domain itself. As I figured out so far, we need to configure each subdomain itself or using a wildcard, so that the following mapping would be possible:
is there a way to recover your iPhone backup password (for encrypted backups) in Keychain or anywhere on a new MacBook?
I have a Macbook Pro which I am trying to attach an Android device via USB (the Macbook recognizes my iPhone 6S just fine via USB). The Android device is a Samsung Note 3, and I expected when I plugged it into the Mac it would show up in the Devices section of Finder. It does not. I tried a coworkers Android device, and the Mac was not able to see that either.
Many teams I interact with use iMessage as part of their productivity suite for quick, secure communications between each other. The new features introduced to iMessage by iOS 10 and above are causing some interesting problems. Is it possible to disable Reactions in iMessage so that inadvertent love hearts, etc are sent by those with the occasional sausage finger?
In past OSX versions, one could copy files from SMB shares like so: However, in recent versions, sbmclient has been replaced with smbutil which does not have copying capabilities. As far as I can tell, the only replacement is mount -t smbfs. I am not aware of any way to install smbclient on OSX (Print file from terminal via smb). Mounting is pretty annoying though: You have to create a folder for the mount point (what if it already exists?) If the same folder has already been mounted on a different folder, mount will fail (with a pretty misleading error) There's no "structured" way to tell which shares are mounted where (that I know of), meaning you'll have to grep/sed the output of df to try and work around the issues above Basically I just want to reliably copy a file from an SMB share in a bash script, and the issues above make it more complicated than it should be (and already was before smbclient was dropped).
On a mac mini running OSX 10.11.6, if I set dual screen resolution to 1920x1080, it resets to the default 800x600 if the computer is reset (or if slideshow mode on powerpoint is activated), or if the user logs out, or if the computer is awoken from sleep. I have tried resetting the nvram, to no avail.
2011 iMac, OSX Mavericks, latest updates. I have used XMarks (Foxmarks) for years to sync between Chrome and Firefox, but now I'd like to add Opera and Safari to that mix. Opera works just fine, but Safari refuses to play nicely and I can't figure out why.
I administer several computers for users that are not admin users and am trying to install software onto all of them. Most of the computers simply ask for the administrative password during the install process, which I can supply. However, some of the computers will not ask for the administrator password, it will instead just give an error message saying only local administrators can install software. There is no correlation between operating systems and I can't see any settings in users & permissions that would be different from one user to the next. My only work around is to make the users admins. The software I'm installing is Carbonite, but I don't think it's related. Thanks!
My wife and I have iPhone 6 pluses with latest IOS software. Phones are Verizon service. She gets voice mails right away but is not able to listen to them right away. The play button is greyed out. Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution or something we can check?
Similar questions have been asked by Developers in regards to availability on the store. My question is, if i buy an app today, 2 months later, the App's developer decides he's not making enough revenue from his app, and doesn't renew his yearly subscription, what happens to the app i bought? Thanks.
Given that the 6th-generation iPod touch gets its A8 processor from 2014's iPhone 6, it seems likely that other components were improved as well. Was the camera upgraded to the component used in the iPhone 6 (including the sapphire lens, even?), or is it carry-over from the 5th generation (released in 2012 with components from the iPhone 5)?
My Macbook Pro has a lit keyboard. I can change the intensity of the keyboard light using Fn F5/F6 on the Macbook's keyboard. My Apple Wireless Keyboard, Third generation (A1314), has no markings on F5/F6 for changing the keyboard light. Sure enough, pressing Fn F5/F6 on the wireless keyboard does not affect the keyboard light. (Fortunately, changing the Macbook's display intensity and volume both work fine on the wireless keyboard, where the inscriptions on the keyboard say they should.) Is there a way to configure the wireless keyboard to control the keyboard light?
How can I generalize that tutorial to block other kinds of traffic as well? In particular, I have unwanted traffic involving sshd, sshd-keygen-wrapper, and screensharingd, though I'd love to block any traffic that has too many simultaneous connections or too many attempts within a certain amount of time.
I've been able to correctly turn on MouseKeys via pressing Option 5 times, and the standard movement settings worked for 789uiojkl cursor movement. But how do I adjust the distance I want it to move per keystroke like with Microsoft MouseKeys or is os inferior? The goal for me is when i have mousekeys toggled on, I would like to press i to click, k to drop down to a certain distance of pixels so that I do not have to hold down as long for it to move to the area desired. Please assist.
I have multiple security cameras that generate dozens of files daily. Each file has a similar name structure (as you'll see below), including a Camera Name YYYYMMDD @ HHMMSS.avi
I have an old iMac, but also acquired a new one, and now run them both, side by side. I set up the new one to have the same AppleID as my old iMac, which has an enormous amount of music in iTunes. While there are a few iTunes purchases in there, mostly this music is from my CD collection that I imported over the years into iTunes on the old iMac.
Last week I attempted to log into my apple@me.com account and it stated that my account needed verification and is locked. To verify, I can have an e-mail sent or answer security questions. The address that the e-mail is being sent to is the very account that I am locked out of. There are 3 security questions, of which I need two correct. I only have one correct (it won't tell me which one) and I've exhausted all possible options. Apple support is telling me that my only option is to figure out the security questions. Why I appreciate the security, this is an account used for gaming and I refuse to believe that there is no other way I can verify my identity. I have other accounts linked to this one and they are telling me that that doesn't matter either. Any options or specific contacts I can reach out to would be greatly appreciated.
On Ubuntu it's extremely handy to lower a given window by clicking mouse middle button on title bar ... is there a macOS equivalent ?
Some of my contacts have multiple points of contact. A friend and I were trying to get to the bottom of why some messages didn't appear on his ipad, and some didn't appear on my mac. We both have iphones. On my mac, I swtiched a conversation from phone number to email address, and the text message one had this one word in caps, surrounded by double tildes
Running Sierra (10.12.2). Reproduced on Mac Pro and on 13in Macbook Pro after restart. I am running various background applications but wanted to see if anyone could reproduce this first. Steps to reproduce:
2 parts to this, can't see where I'm going wrong The 1st part works--get my BSSID through the airport command: then (this is where I get EOF or syntax errors): pass that value to awk, which will search a file (APtable.csv) for that string, and give me the adjacent value to it:
2 Thunderbolt 27 inch displays 7 port Dlink USB 2.0 HUB 15" MacBook Pro Retina, Late 2013 Various low power USB 2.0 Peripherals plugged into hub
We had a hard drive crash with 10.10.5. I replaced the hard drive, reloaded 10.10 using my native ATI 2400 XT, ran all updates, installed latest web drivers, added the nvda_drv=1 boot argument, shut down, popped in the GTX 970, heard the chime for start-up but did not get to desktop. I am aware that the boot screen won't appear. I put the GTX 970 in a PC and got video. What could be the issue?
When I get a phone call from an unidentified caller. I never answer it. It's always a charity or sales call. Can I make it just not ring through if the caller is unidentified?
I'm trying to migrate all mails and folder from a IMAP email to a another. I selected all the folders and drag them to the new mailbox. I can see some of the folder but not all the sub-folder, also when I check mailbox detail, the count is not the same. the issue is I start moving some new mail to the new mailbox only. How can I get the two mailbox completely synced ? PS one is from iCloud, the another is from a exchange server.
I want to share my internet connection in such a way that my SSID is not visible/discoverable on other devices. I want to allow access only to devices which know my SSID/mac address. Is there a way I can accomplish this?
I know there are plenty of articles here about CPU reaching very high temperatures but I am still concerned about mine. I bought a used MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015 (i5, 2.7 Ghz) computer this week. This is not my first MacBook Pro (I had 2012 non retina model) but it has never reached 100C unless I played games or did some video rendering.
Yesterday, I ran suddenly out of cellular data volume (I can only use 6GB per month) for this month while my MacBook was connected to the personal hotspot on my iPhone. If found out, that macOS downloaded an update automatically, because it treated the personal hotspot like any other hotspot.
I installed fish shell on my macbook. when I try to run the command adb - get error fish: Unknown command 'adb', though adb is added to .bash_profile. How to fix it? ~/.bash_profile EDIT: I tried a cd in the adb folder and run the adb command , also get error fish: Unknown command 'adb'
I am currently using this Automator AppleScript to create a service to open a URL using Chrome Canary in incognito mode Google Chrome Canary will launch with a new window, but the URL does not load. What am I missing? Thank you.
I created the following alias and put it into my ~/.zshrc: It's basically a pf rule which redirects all incoming traffic with the destination port 80 to 127.0.0.1:8080 (but what it does is not important, it's just to give you some context) Currently, I have to manually run this at every session startup, I'd like to automate it. It would be rather simple if it didn't need sudo rights, I'd just put kiosk-proxy in my ~/.bash_profile, I guess.
Apps licensed under the GNU GPL are not allowed in the App Store (Mac or iOS) because Apple's terms and the terms of the GPL are mutually incompatible. Could this problem be bypassed by releasing a non-GPL dummy application which simply downloads and installs the GPL application? Would Apple accept such an application? If necessary, the dummy app could be marketed as a "downloader" or "updater" for the GPL app.
I have 6 PDF files being the result of splitting multiple presentations in PDFs (which had 6 slides on each page). So essentially, now I have top-left pages of all the presentations in one file, top-right in another, middle-left in a file and so on... That's basically how every initial presentation looked like: Q: How can I merge them together to maintain the order of the initial presentations? I kind of have to do the following: There is around a hundred pages in each of those six PDFs, so rearraging by hand is out of question.
I have used iTunes for years, and now suddenly after an update I can no longer delete a subscribed podcast. I am used to simply right-clicking and selecting "Delete From Library on the picture of the podcast as in this picture:
I purchased a large inventory of office furniture with IT equipment. The Mac mini server I received is password locked and I can't get in.
One could expect that minimizing some of application's windows should give a clear hint to Mac OS X that it's okay to throttle related processes activity even further; but theoretical expectations could face some practical limits. Are you aware of any? Would you recommend actively minimizing app's windows to get better on-battery work duration or it doesn't change anything from this point of view?
I'm getting mad here while trying to fix a issue with iCal and Exchange. After removing and adding back the Exchange Account in 'Setting' 'Internet accounts' the Exchange Group in the calendar has disappeared
I have a lot of DVDs (Movies) that I want to save as an .iso preferably using dd. To speed up the process I have two drives.
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" running Sierra. The Macbook's fans are annoying me to no end - they are running most of the time I do serious work, right from the minute I start. It can get hot here in the summer, but it happens also at reasonable room temperatures, like right now, at 23°C (73°F). Here's a graph of my CPU load over an extended period of time, looking fairly relaxed to my eyes:
I have just recently experienced a problem with my finder, iTunes and others applications on my mac, but I used the safe boot solution and it worked , the apps are now responding, but I have movies and music on my iTunes and I tried watching the videos on vlc but it's saying that my mac lacks quartz extreme acceleration who's is required for video output and my iTunes is not playing any of the songs and the volume is not working as well. Thanks
My iMac (Late 2015, Sierra 10.12.2) is under a router connected to a school network, nothing wireless. Without me actually adding it, tens of the same network printer (HP LaserJet 9050) keeps being automatically added to the system. I have to periodically delete them before it becomes hundreds. Does anyone know how this happens and how I can prevent this?
The application I have in mind is the security command line tool bundled with Macos. The man page describes it as:
If I run commands in Terminal the output is sometimes shown in red or green depending on the command.  How do I search for such text by color (e.g. "Anything red" to find the line starting with "Connection refused")?
I am regularly seeing the top edge of another Chrome browser window in the bottom right of my Macbook Air screen (OS 10.11.6). I can't see enough of the window to view the contents, but it only last about 2 seconds, and then whooshes off the screen. It often happens when I open a new tab or window while using Chrome.
I have had repeated Terminal.app crashes while working with the command line, whether on the local computer or shelled into a Linux VPS. Is this a known issue? Are there alternative CLI terminal applications that will behave like terminal, only at least being more stable? Thanks,
(txs all for your help and suggestions, but suspending this for now while I track down my formatting errors on that SD. If I can't get that to work, little reason to expect dd to work, even if other people have encountered similar issues doing this on osx). I'm trying, as root, to write to micro SD to load up a Raspberry Pi's Linux: W$dd bs=1m if=/Users/jluc/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk2 This is supremely slow, it's been running for 8-9 hours and hasn't written much when I kill -9 it. 301989888 bytes transferred in 23103.442503 secs (13071 bytes/sec) Now, in such write ups as Solution: dd too slow on Mac OS X, he advises to use /dev/rdisk, because it's treated differently. But every time I've used /rdiskN instead of /diskN, I get: dd: /dev/rdisk2: Input/output error This is on Sierra, but it worked on Yosemite, if I recall correctly. INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEM IMAGES ON MAC OS mentions the possibility that /rdisk won't work and advises you to use /disk instead
As in the title, I have quite an old MacBook Pro. I bought it in 2013, and recently on some apps or webpages, at random times, my screen is glitching on the top side. I tried checking to see whether it's a screen issue or not, but when I tried to connect it to an external display, the glitch still appeared. So I made an assumption its a graphics issue meaning a logic board issue. My questions are:
My mac is only getting online from one of my accounts which is not Admin. The account it works on is fine and works perfectly but when i switch to my other account it starts popping up windows telling me to put in a keychain passwords or something, and doesn't work online!
Starting this morning Chrome, Safari et all started showing my ~/Downloads with an access denied icon. Finder does not show this icon. I suspect this is something Code42 CrashPlan did overnight (it's a work issued MBP with some pre-installed apps). Now, the question is, how do I make my downloads again available? adding read/write myself and everyone via chmod +ai adding read/write myself and everyone via Finder -> file -> Get Info ls -el shows that ~/Downloads is missing some attributes compared to other folders like ~/Documents:
When I double-click and open a csv file in Excel, the OSX Excel always opens it in Macintosh format destroying the visualisation of UTF-8 files with malformatted umlaut characters such as ö and ä. I want to avoid opening files in OSX Excel in UTF-8 format by manually typing the UTF-8 format with options such as Import. How can I change the default file option to UTF-8 in OSX so files can be opened in UTF-8, instead of Macintosh format, automatically even in the GUI and Finder? Microsoft Excel for Mac: Version 15.30. OSX: macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.1 Related questions in Superuser but not focus on OSX Change default encoding of Excel to UTF-8 Change default encoding of Excel to UTF-8 How to set character encoding when opening Excel How to set character encoding when opening Excel
My iphone 6 froze and turned into black screen with a small loading loading sign. I charged it last night for the whole night and woke up and found out nothing happened.
I have a problem with my macbook pro mid 2010. When am working, screen become black , but the computer is not shutdown. I force restart with the bouton and i have a error message. Can you help me to analyse the report ? I think it's a GPU but, i'm not sure. The BSD process name in this report is WindowsServer, but is not always the same (kernel_task, other...) I have done a SMC and NVRAM reset, and a memory test i don't have error. But i have the same problem Thanks you
I have this code to translate a word from/to English/Spanish: (trans is from *=URL=* Running the script straight in Terminal (bash) works great. But when I try to use it in Automator, I get this error: /usr/local/bin/trans: line 5073: gawk: command not found Running gawk in Terminal also works fine. UPDATE: Thanks to solver below, final working script for automator is:
After installing iOS 10.3 last night, iCloud is missing in my settings. Can anyone help or advise ?
The question is it possible to have X virtual desktops/screens on my OSX, which would be really isolated from each other? Maybe I've very specific use case :-) but I would like to have work desktop and for instance, home. And I don't want to be notified from one to another, I would like to control it by myself. I don't really need this overlapping. Or even further. I would like to have ProjectA, ProjectB etc... with different browsers, apps etc.. I understand that it's easier maybe to have X laptops :-) but it's quite expensive, to be honest. Therefore I'm looking the software related solution.
Sync Ipads with Itunes on Computer : it backs up then when I look at Summary it tells me this ipad has never been backed up to this computer? I have done this forever. So I then decided to go to Files : Devices : Restore Backup, which I do regularly and iPad backups up automatically when syncing anyway, and Backup device is highlighted and Restore Backup is greyed out so I cant do this either? W hat is happening. My last 2 weeks have been a nightmare upgrading to IOS 10 and now again IOS 10.2.1. I am working with a bank of 25 iPads so to loads seperately onto each iPad - my last resort which I have just started is really the end.
I'm trying to see the new 8k videos on Youtube with Safari but when I choose the 8k quality I get an error: an error occured, please try again later. An example of video: *=URL=* When I choose 4k works fine. I'm using a Macbook Pro 15" with touchbar with Radeon Pro 460.
If one inserts an "Ask for Text" action into their workflow in Automator, they will be presented with the option to "Require an answer" of the user:  If the user fails to provide an answer, the user cannot press the "OK" button. The computer will beep at the user if the "OK" button is pressed while the answer field is empty. Is there a way to replicate this exact behavior in AppleScript?
I have a Macbook Pro and an iPad Pro 9.7". Using Duet, I can use the iPad as a second monitor. That's awesome for my setup - but Duet requires the iPad being connected to the host machine through the lighting cable.
My mother has just moved from an Android phone to an iPhone SE and she misses the fact that she no longer gets a text message notification icon at the top of the screen. This is a small envelope shaped icon in the same region of the screen as the WiFi connected symbol. Is there any setting or application that will give her this functionality?
I've got 8 TB of NAS shared with a network of mostly MacOSX Lion iMacs via AFP. Right after opening the share, the computer starts to send an enormous amount of FPEnumerateExt2 requests, trying to get the sizes of the shared files and calculate sizes of folders.
I wonder on what so much time is spent during installation or upgrade to new MacOS. In other words: having strongest machine (MacbookPro) with fastest hard drive (1GB/s read/write abilities) and having fast internet connection (30Mbps) - why update between two consequent minor version (i.e. from 10.12.2 to 10.12.3) takes 30 minutes - even if update declared to be 800 MB in size. I expect in answers mentioning specific functional actions, if someone knows or can guess ones.
Will the early 2008 MacPro dual 2.8 GHz quad core function with the newer Intel 4GHz chips? If so, which ones?
I have jailbroken my iOS 10.2 iPhone and I would like to accsess the command line on my computer without using SSH. The reason why I would like to do this is becasue I want to keey my security while still being jailbroken. I would also like to accsess the command line on my iOS device on a bigger screen.
Last night I allowed my Mac to install some updates; unfortunately I didn't check to see which updates were being installed. When I came to my computer this morning it seemed to be on but the screen was completely black. I tried waking it up by pressing buttons, hitting the power button, etc. but nothing worked. Eventually, I did a hard shutdown by holding down the power button.
Can I schedule the ringer volume to drop during work hours and then go back up at the end of work?
I tried running sudo in a terminal and was greeted with the error message: sudo: unknown uid 501: who are you? I tried doing an ls -l ~, and instead of seeing my user name in the file entries, I saw 501. I think this might have happened in the process of upgrading Mac OS to Sierra; at least I think this is the first time I tried to run sudo since upgrading.
The Apple support document for the LG Ultrafine 4K display states here that only newer Macs are supported. https://support.apple.com/HT207447
I just installed a new ssd (samsung 250gb - 850 evo) and new RAM (8gb). now for the problem... I installed snow leopard from the disc that came with the MAC, and then updated the software as much as i could (By searching for updates). Now, I wanted the get the most recent OS, sierra, but it turns out you have to upgrade to El capitan first... Anyway, i download the EL Capitan in the Appstore and procede. The installation seems fine, but in the end it said "Installation failed" and im left with the choice to reboot and try again. same result over and over.
Lets say the battery has over 5000 cycles and is almost dead or dead. If I will use this notebook always with power adapter - is at dangerous in any way?
It seems that when I open up a spreadsheet with lots of formulas, within a few minutes I'm getting "Out of Disk Space" warnings. (before starting I have about 66 GB space)
I have found only one thing that actually solves it — copy the whole folder, delete old one with sudo, rename it back. But it's impractical for huge folders because it's slow and hurts SSD life.
There is this nettop tool which shows the IP address but it doesn't show the public IP address when the Mac is connected via router - it shows the same address as we can see using System Preferences' Network option. Does anyone know how to see the public IP address of outgoing internet traffic leaving my computer?
Every time I force quit an application from Activity Monitor, I get a pop-up saying "You have forced to quit. Click Report to see from detailed information and sent a report to Apple.". It gives me the option to Ignore or Report.
My company (like many others) primarily uses Windows computers and as such has a lot of Windows-based fileshares. We have also standardized which fileshares map to which lettered drives on those PCs, so everyone has the same "F" drive.
I have a very strange problem, and it started since I got my LG 5K Ultrafine screen and started using an external keyboard and mouse. I usually notice it in Blender, so it might be related to that. I use the middle mouse button to rotate the view in Blender, and suddenly it acts as if I'm holding down the mouse button, even if I'm not, and when I move the mouse the view rotates.
In Numbers, pressing ⌥ (option)+→ (or with any other arrow key) will add a row or column in that direction, relative to the currently selected cell. This is a useful shortcut which I employ frequently, and I don’t want to turn it off. However, I’m used to using that shortcut in text editing to quickly move the entry cursor around, by words rather than characters. What I would like is to have ⌥+←/→ add new columns except when I’m editing a cell’s contents. I can simply reassign the keyboard shortcuts if necessary, but I’d like to know if what I ask is possible.
I have the newest Mac OS 10.12.3. With the new rootless system Apple has implemented, I can't create a symbolic link using ln under /usr/bin. My goal is so that I can use subl in terminal. How can I do this?
Steam will not exit gracefully on macOS 10.12 Sierra. When selecting exit from the application menu or via secondary click on the app icon in the dock nothing happens. The process has to be terminated forcefully, and it will also stop the OS's poweroff process. On occasion the program will exit properly but I cannot see any pattern to it. When running the application from the command line and then attempting to exit, at first nothing appears in the output, but after a minute or so the following is logged: macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Steam API: v017, Steam package versions: 1490228413
I have no idea what happened, but my macbook pro's battery died, and when I went to turn it on, it took me to a grey screen with the prohibition symbol. When I researched the problem, most solutions were to reinstall OS X. I booted up recovery mode and went to do do so, but when prompted to select a disk to install it on, the menu was empty.
Hi I need help with some routing issues. I have mac server with VPN setup and have 2 internet interfaces connected to the mac server. One is a an airport (main cable internet) and one is a 4G router.
When I make any web video (including those on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.) full-screen in any web browser (by clicking the full-screen button in the bottom right hand corner of the video), there is always a small delay while the video fills the screen. The delay also exists when I exit out of a full-screen video. Is there any way to remove this delay?
Quote from macOS Sierra: Disks you can use with Time Machine If your backup disk is on a network, the network server can use Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing. Your Mac must be connected to the SMB server when you set up Time Machine. After you select the network disk in Time Machine preferences, Time Machine automatically connects to the disk when it’s time to back up or restore your data.
You can set the default browser on iOS 10.2.1), but only Safari and Chrome are listed as choices. Firefox, although installed and working, is not listed as a choice.
I can't see the Macintosh HD partition under Windows 10 in Boot Camp. I've already followed some guides on how to solve this problem that talk about CoreStorage etc... Now when I get this: I still can't see the drive from Windows, what should I do? My Mac is a 13" Mid-2012 macOS Sierra 10.12.3 Windows 10
I see a few games that only run on Mac OS 9 and I'd like to try them. However, I run macOS 10.12.2. What could be the easiest way to do it? Specifically, I'd like to play Bonkheads ;-) I have my Macbook Pro Retina available
I want to be able to create a new TextEdit document with an AppleScript file. The AppleScript file will then be triggered by a system-wide keyboard shortcut via FastScripts. Specifically, I want the AppleScript to: Prompt the user to enter a filename.
I'm having an issue with my 1st generation iPad. I intended on resetting it back to its factory settings since it was acting up in a lot of different ways - apps crashing, occasional freezes and just not very usable anymore. This has been going on for a while and gradually getting worse. Its quite old so I thought resetting it is probably worth a try.
Over the last few years my 2010 iMac has been suffering with crashes, which always seem to be when using Safari. macOS is always up to date, and this has happened on both Sierra and El Capitan (possibly back to Yosemite too). I have done a fresh install of Sierra, which has not fixed the problem. I have reduced the number of tabs open, last time it happened I only had 4 tabs open. I usually have 2GB out of 8GB RAM free.
I have sucsessfully jailbroken my iPhone 6s runing on iOS 10.2. I have installed OpenSSH through Cydia and changed my default password via MobileTerminal. The only problem is, when I run ssh root@my_iPhone_ip_addr, it just hangs and never connects. I have tried the SSH toggle springboard application, however it still hangs. Is there a how I could enable SSH on my phone via a terminal command or some other way?
I have MacBook Pro 2015 with 128 SSD and want to have some extra storage. The possible solutions I know are (all external): HDD, SSD, Flash. Are there any information about the performance of using any of the solutions comparing to my internal SSD?
I often use my late-2012 AirBook laptop to watch streaming videos through an external monitor using the Thunderbolt port. When I do this, I usually turn the display brightness of my laptops screen all the way down (such that the apple logo on the back in no longer illuminated). I don't know that this counts as the display being "off" but I am curious if (like the battery hours/lifecycle count or other usage info in the System Report) there is a total number of hours tracked for the laptop display?
Is it possible to trigger an Automator workflow/application when a specific action occurs in another application? I want to trigger the Automator script to play a particular track in iTunes when my Pomodoro work timer finishes.
The settings for the Share menu provide no option for disabling AirDrop:  Is there some other way to accomplish this? Instructions at How can AirDrop be disabled? have no effect.
Since I updated to macOS Sierra (10.12.2) PDF attachment are shown with sizes of 0 KB and a preview is not embedded. Resetting Mail and even re-installing the whole macOS system (factory default, no recovery) did not help.
Is there a shortcut for placing an X in a column based on the data in another column? For example, if column A has a value "red" can I get Excel to automatically place an X in column B, but NOT if Column A says "blue"?
I, too, am suddenly getting this message. I don't see a Keychain First Aid option in Keychain, and the two Login Keychain Settings were already unlocked. Any other ideas for what the error message is all about, and what I should do about it?
My call history is coming up on my roommates iPad, we do not share any accounts, although I do use his iPad on occasion.
Since preview doesn't support tabs, I open all the documents in a single window and switch between them using the Table of Contents window, where all the opened documents are displayed. The problem is that when I do a search within a certain document I get results from every opened document, which is insane and default behaviour. Can I disable this and search exclusively within the opened document?
I recently replaced my macbook's user account by changing account name from name1 to name2. Now I have to recover some very important notes that I had saved in default Notes app but unfortunately didn't sync with cloud.
Tried to reboot Mac, iPhone - didn't help. Tried to turn off iMessage in General settings, then turning it on doesn't help, but now i get "Waiting for activation..." below iMessage switcher.
I'm trying to use an external monitor connected via thunderbolt to my macbook pro 13. I'm running Windows 10 under Bootcamp. My Macbookpro is a 13 half 2012. The problem is the external monitor remains black, it doesn't receive any signal Uninstalling the Intel driver the external monitor works fine. So I assuming the problem is in the driver itself.
I want switch the functionality of the function and control keys on the keyboard of the MacBook Pro. There is a similar question to this, but unfortunately the software mentioned, now called Karabiner, doesn't seem to work with macOS Sierra. Is there a method to make this achievable in macOS Sierra?
It appears that Finder search results are displayed using metadata instead of the file name. I want to know the file name for the file in the results.
I have a macbook pro 2012 non-retina which has firewire and a 2007 macbook (a white plastic one) which I use as a local server and it also has firewire. In addition to that I have my desktop PC which is a hackintosh build. I know that firewire is kinda obsolete after apple killed it off but I know that firewire has good speeds and it would be great to use for copying big files (I often do). So does it make sense to invest in a PCI firewire card (for like 10-20€) for my desktop PC so I can copy things with good speeds even though firewire isn't used anymore?
I recently removed the Ubuntu disk partition from my macbook, now my osx or hdd is not recognizable and I am forced to perform the internet recovery mode to no avail. Update: I swapped out my original hard drive with a SSD that I recently bought. My MacBook is up and running using the new SSD, however the original HDD when plugged in via USB appears in Disk Utility, but I am not able to use it.
I have an AppleScript .app file that basically consists of a series of dialogs. I would like to keep this application on top of all other windows (including on top of any new windows that are created while the application is still running), until the AppleScript is complete and the application automatically closes. Can pinning a window on top be accomplished in AppleScript?
A MacBook Air was stolen, wiped (OS reinstalled from recovery partition), and set up in the place of ANOTHER system that was stolen at another site (i.e. someone stole system A, took system B, wiped it and replaced system A with it hoping it would somehow cover their tracks).
In an hour I am going to the Apple Store and get my cracked screen replaced or fixed. Since I still have time, should I restore my phone to factory settings first? I have already backed it up on my computer.
I tried resetting my login keychain on Sierra because I was seeing lots of duplicate codesigning identities when running security find-identity -v -p codesigning. It renamed my login keychain to login_renamed_1 and created a new login keychain for me.
Every time I start Terminal, it starts minimized in the Dock. As I saw from this question, the problem is in my profile (under preferences) but I can't find any option to change this behaviour. How can I solve the problem in my current profile? Update The proble is not specific to my profile - it occurs with all profiles I try using.
I appear to be having issues with my headphones port in my laptop, when plugging in my headphones they do not appear in the sound devices settings. I have attempted to follow some other suggestions including downloading a IDT HD Audio driver which did not work, downloaded airfoil which worked via WIFI however would prefer to use bluebooth to prevent audio delay. Looking to cut some videos on a long trip overseas and want to be able to use my headphones so that I do not disturb anyone. Any suggestions or recommendations until I buy a new laptop?
Using AppleScript, I want to set the bounds of the window for the Google Hangouts desktop application. The application file is located at: /Users/Me/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl.app (I have no idea why the application name is knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl.) I've tried the following but I am given the error:
Yesterday I've installed bootcamp, Windows 10 Pro, on my new tb/MBP (late 2016). Everything worked fine until I've installed Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3) with all of its components (50GB~).
I'm looking for a tool to digitally sign PDFs with the private key of my X.509 certificate. macOS' Preview app only copy a scan of my handwritten signature into a pdf...
I know it's possible to open a link a new tab by holding Cmd ⌘ when clicking a link. However, I think it would be great if I could simply use Force Touch for this - then my hands wouldn't have to leave the trackpad at all.
I'm trying to take a disk image of a MacBook Pro 2012 with an SSD and OS X El Capitan installed. I went into Recovery Mode and selected my partition and the target is an external HDD.
My magsafe charger has no green light, but my mac is charging.  I have tried a SMC reset and still, no green light.
Straight to the business. Recently I bought new Mac and unfortunately I didn't correctly import my old music library to iTunes. I always sort my music by 'Date Added' in iTunes, but since I imported the library wrong the date is now the same for all 2000+ files. 'Date Modified' is pretty much correct though. The question is: Is there a way to replace 'Date Added' with 'Date Modified'?
On Numbers for iCloud, how do I transfer a formula result from one cell to another on a different tab, but in the same spreadsheet?
I followed the instruction here The rEFInd Boot Manager: Installing rEFInd. mkdir /Volumes/ESP mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP/ bless --mount /Volumes/ESP/ --setBoot --file /Volumes/ESP/EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi --shortfor
Is it possible to use the same external HDD for both macOS and Windows? For example, can I use it as backup storage for both systems? If so, should it have at least 2 partitions?
How can I make my MacBook host a WPA2-encrypted wireless access point without tethering? I don't want to share my Internet connection and I don't want an ad-hoc network, instead I want to host a real /24 closed Wi-Fi network using just my MacBook.
I have an old macbook air (2012 edition), with BootCamp set up, with Windows 7 and Mavericks installed. I want to wipe everything, all the data on both partitions, safely, and reinstall with a different partition size.
I made an app by following these steps Make folder Foo.app Make Subfolder Contents Put Info.Plist in Contents with ... <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>Foo</string> ... Put Info.Plist in Contents with Make MacOS/Foo as an executable shell script Make MacOS/Foo as an executable shell script Foo looks like
I type really fast. Almost as fast as I speak. Is there any software that synthesizes text in real-time, as I type?
It gets to the point of rebooting into Windows but then "upgrade" says "Booted from install media, reboot under Windows" and "Install Windows Only" says the BOOTCAMP partition is incompatible because it's not NTFS. If I reformat the partition, it then says "Unable to create or locate partition see SETUP.LOG" and I can't find SETUP.LOG (in any case - upper, lower, or mixed) What do i do now?
So my mom just bought a new Iphone 7 and she wants me to transfer ONLY her contacts to her new phone but cant i just login in with the apple ID on the New phone and everything would restore on it? If not please show a easy way to do this
Like the title says, my phone downloaded the majority of my photos on icloud, but when I try to turn off iCloud photo library it says that the full resolution of 75 photos can't be downloaded and will therfore be deleted. So how can I get to download these?
Today I discovered something cool while using Amazon Prime + Airplay to Apple TV 4... I discovered that I can use the AppleTV remote to fast forward and rewind. Does anyone know how this feature works? Does anyone know how this feature works? Does an AirPlay session allow for more than just "broadcasting" to the target device, or is there some kind of back-link to the phone? Does an AirPlay session allow for more than just "broadcasting" to the target device, or is there some kind of back-link to the phone? Does the phone "see" the Apple TV remote? Does the phone "see" the Apple TV remote? Does this mean I can use the Apple Tv video game controller in conjunction with my iPhone while AirPlay is on? Does this mean I can use the Apple Tv video game controller in conjunction with my iPhone while AirPlay is on?
I was getting the annoying "unplug the device using too much power to re-enable usb devices" notification for a while, but no USB devices were plugged in, so I just ignored the problem. Today I wanted to restart my mac, but I had a crash report after login and couldn't go further. This is the error I got:
My 2012 MacBook Pro with Sierra recently started hanging at boot. It seems to start normally; the Apple logo and progress bar appear, but it hangs at about 3/4 of the way through.
I want to do a hardware security comparison between a Windows Machine described here and what Apple provides. Is there any documentation on how Apple is more (or less) secure than what is documented here?
Anyways - in 12 hours I've managed to upload 25k files. It seems awfully slow. I would expect that you would only need maybe 0.5-1h to upload that many files.
After installing ffmpeg using Homebrew on my late 2012 MacBook Air i7 with macOS 10.12.3, I get this message: Error: File exists - /usr/local/opt/ffmpeg/.brew This path is a link to /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.2.2/.brew which ls -al reveals to contain only the Ruby file, "ffmpeg.rb" Prior to this I'd installed ffmpeg successfully using brew install ffmpeg but then uninstalled it to re-install with all the options per brew options ffmpeg: brew install ffmpeg --with-chromaprint --with-fdk-aac --with-fontconfig --with-freetype --with-frei0r --with-game-music-emu --with-libass --with-libbluray --with-libbs2b --with-libcaca --with-libebur128 --with-libgsm --with-libmodplug --with-libsoxr --with-libssh --with-libvidstab --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opencore-amr --with-openh264 --with-openjpeg --with-openssl --with-opus --with-rtmpdump --with-rubberband --with-schroedinger --with-sdl2 --with-snappy --with-speex --with-tesseract --with-theora --with-tools --with-two-lame --with-wavpack
The drive works fine on Windows and Linux but gives me this error in OSX?  Is there a reason? Maybe something to run in either Windows or OSX to fix this?
I'd like to use a spare iMac as a digital photo frame to display my personal photos. Desired features: Turn off screen when the room is dark (or, worst case, turn off based on a timer -- would the Energy Saver schedule be sufficient for this?) Access photos from a shared network drive (so it automatically gets new photos) -- this Mac will not actually contain a local copy of any of the pictures Randomize order of photos If possible, allow multiple monitors (with different photos on each) Doesn't need any fancy animation effects -- I'd prefer it being more like a static picture that doesn't change that often, just like a traditional photo on the wall Are there any apps you'd recommend that can meet these needs (especially accessing photos from the shared network drive)?
Is there any way to configure ForkLift so that it connects to an SFTP server through some SSH tunnel? (without having to launch the SSH tunnel via command line) E.g., with WinSCP on Microsoft Windows, I can do the following:
I just purchased my first Mac, a MacPro. I have been using the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external drive, but with my new MacPro I cannot add any new folders. I checked the Sharing Permission and it states that "You can only read". In order to change my permissions, I reformatted the drive.
I’m have difficulty downloading WhatsApp on my iPhone 3GS because it is running iOS 6, which WhatsApp no longer supports. How can I update my iPhone 3GS to iOS 7?
Per the ffmpeg Capture/Desktop instructions using avfoundation to access input devices the FaceTime camera captures look fine: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "0:none" facetime_cam.mov ...but using ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "1:none" screen.mov ...the desktop looks like this:  How can I use ffmpeg to capture my desktop? ffmpeg 3.2.2 macOS 10.12.3
I've gotten into the (bad) habit of writing for hours within Stickies. It's fast to start up, uses very little RAM, doesn't distract me with bells and whistles or obtrusive GUI, it auto-saves, and the windows can be usually very small, which I like.
Can't remove configuration profile installed from *=URL=* When i go to "Settings > General > Profile > Altel internet" there's no DELETE button. How can i remove that profile?
I’ve got a Mid-2012 Macbook Air that I changed out the SSD to 256Gb using the OWC Aura product. No problems at all – but it still only has 4Gb of ram and sucks it up pretty quickly now I have installed Sierra! 8gb was a preconfigured option on these models and from what I can tell the RAM is soldered in. Has anyone upgraded one of these, and can you tell me how and using what RAM? Thanks! Phil in New Zealand
I have a 15" Macbook Pro mid-2015. If my headphones are currently plugged into the audio jack, is it possible for me to control the volume of the speakers? So that, after unplugging my headphones, the speakers can already be muted for example?
When I look at the "Recents"-tab on my iPhone, I can see about 100 call entries. But when I delete a call an older call moves up. So, older calls must be stored somewhere. Is there a way to recover the call history without deleting calls?
I would like to know how many antennas are inside an iPhone 7 for the 4G connection? Is it possible to have multiple antennas on an iPhone to make the received signal stronger and give better data throughput? Thanks
my MacBook Air (Early 2015) with Sierra (10.12.2) is rebooting very slow (more than 10 minutes). How i can fixe this issue? How i can see the log file, when MacBook is rebooting? (to understand where is the problem)
I am trying to set password when active the screen saves. This option is in Security & Privacy -> Require Password checkbox.
When I open a new Finder window, i.e. ⌘ N I am unable to access the 'Go To Folder' option. (Either via the 'Go' menu, or ⌘ Shift G)
How can I tweak Time Machine to keep the hourly backups for two weeks instead of just one?
I recently migrated from Android to iOS 10.2. One big problem I have are notifications, I receive hundreds of valid notifications each day (emails, messages, calendar reminders, etc) and I want to remove all notifications except calendar reminders. In android they were grouped by app so I was able to simply remove all emails for example. But now I either have to manually remove each email or I have to "clear all", which also clears calendar reminders. Any ideas?
The Samsung Gear VR headset, which is designed for Samsung Galaxy phones, has Netflix and Hulu apps that allow you to watch TV shows and movies in virtual reality. My question is, is there anyway to watch Nefflix and Hulu in virtual reality on an iPhone without a computer? I'm aware of apps that stream Netflix and Hulu from a desktop computer onto your iPhone in VR, but I want a solution that does not rely on a computer. EDIT: TrinusVR is an example of an app that allows you to stream Netflix from a PC to your iPhone in VR.
Inspired by this question over on Ask Ubuntu: A method to send Ubuntu's (16.04) audio over WiFi to iOS (10.2) device?
1 week ago my GPS worked very accurately on Google Maps. But now it's very inaccurate, seems like it works using 3g connection. What steps i did: Restarted phone; Reset network/location privacy settings; turned off then turned on location service;
I need to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Air Mid-2013 (MacBookAir6,1) via bootcamp, for various reasons I cannot use USB, as far as I know since El Capitan it's possible to install Windows without using a USB or DiskDrive, however only on some newer 2015 models. As you can see OSX tells me to insert the installer disk, I also tried to mount the ISO (no luck even there). Can I spoof my model id to look like a 2015mba? As far as I know no hardware is pulling back this "no-usb" procedure that is available on newer macbooks so it should work even on older MACs.
My kid smashed my Logitech M705, so I replaced it with a M720 that has BT as well as its own dongle. I used the BT to connect it. Suddenly my Apple BT keyboard is no longer working so well. Periodically it "goes nuts", almost always after pressing Command-Z for undo... it just keeps on undoing. It seems fine when you're just typing away, but do anything with command keys or such, and blamo. Is this something I should expect, or not?
Can anyone tell me what the bold text means in this image of my Bluetooth menu?  It seems that the mouse might be interfering with my keyboard, and I'm wondering if this is trying to say that?
How do I get rid of this error icon and use QuickTime Player to record from my FaceTime HD Camera?  The FaceTime HD Camera is listed as one of the input options:
My Ipad locked on it on I don't remember my I cloud ID or Password How do I unlock it? It came up on my Ipad Activation lock.
I want to make a launch daemon that automatically launches yalu on boot, but I cannot find the app executable. Does anybody know where iOS 10 stores apps?
I created a bootable image on a USB drive using this method: *=URL=* Basically, formatting a USB drive, calling it INSTALLER, and using a previously downloaded installer to create the bootable image on the thumb drive with this command:
In the past I connected my iPhone to my Macbook, and I had AutoImport.app automatically import (and delete) all my photo's on my iPhone in a chosen folder. Somehow this workflow has stopped, and I don't manage to get it working again. Instead, now I have to manually let Image Capture do it (don't like it, to much hassle). Mac OSX 10.11.6, iPhone 7.
I have tried 2 different iPads. Both have about 7 or 8 other .MOV files (from the same folder) that play just fine. However, this single .MOV file just will not output any audio. It plays fine on the PC (Windows 7). Should I just to convert it to a different video format or what? Thanks.
The interface on the NAS keep saying that 400 G0 are occupied in the time machine backup directory. But finder of command line show zero Ko in the backups.backupdb directory.
Recently I have been having these issues with my MacBook and iPhone wherein if I press the play/pause button on my MacBook to stop iTunes it "mutes" all audio and switches to my connected iPhone. Only when I reset my QC35 does it reset and behave correctly (where in pressing the button stops iTunes but leaves audio connected to my MacBook). Any ideas how I can solve this permanently or can someone guide me in the right direction?
I have enrolled in the Volume Purchasing Program and successfully pushed App Store apps to a device. I am trying now to push an "Enterprise App" to a device which is not available on the App Store. So far I have tried 2 different free applications available as downloads from the developer's websites and encountered the same issue both times.
Is it possible to save an image that was annotated in Preview as a PDF file so I can edit it again later, even after restarting Preview?
When I view it in Finder non of the hundreds of gigs of footage display. No files, no folders.
I'm going to Japan (Tokyo, being more specific) on April, and I'd like to buy an iPhone there. I made some research and found mixed information about whether is possible to buy an unlocked iPhone 7 256GB in an Apple Store in Tokyo.
Is it possible to use the multithreaded compression built into xz 5.2+ on macos? Currently using homebrew xz 5.2.3 on macos 10.12.3 with a hyperthreaded quadcore cpu and no matter my setting for number of threads in xz the compression time is always the exact same:
I see no keyboard & character indicator on the menubar panel, and trying to enable "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar" in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab, that has no effect and, after closing and re-opening that settings window, Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar is still NOT ticked.  I use more than one keyboard layout and I need to permanently see the active one on the panel, and switch between them from there (at the present I can only switch from shortcut), like in this image I found on the internet:
My 89 yr old Dad just died. Before I catch static, yes, I have a death certificate. He was somewhat forgetful and would often forget passwords and reset them (and forget those too). I have his phone and I know his iCloud ID but I do not know his phone unlock code nor his iCloud ID. When I try to reset his iCloud ID, it wants to notify his iPhone (which I cant unlock). Can I: erase his iPhone -- so it will be unlocked have iCloud send the password reset to the iPhone get into his iCloud and then restore the phone?
I want to transfer folder that contains many video files from MacBook to iPad. I don't want to use iCloud. I use AirDrop. Is there any 3rd party App, or how can I easily transfer and see the files in the folder in iPad?
My Activity Monitor shows a "java" process taking up 400 MB RAM. jps and sudo jps show only JPS. How do I find out what's running java?
Is there a way to open .ace compressed file on macOS? I tried searching for solutions but haven't come across any method to extract it yet.
accidentally my .cshrc file got deleted, which had many aliases. I have terminal tab opened in my linux machine, which has all these aliases loaded in it. How can i retrieve it so that i could write them back to .cshrc file and get it back?
I sent my friend a message 10days ago but she didn't reply me yet. I use "Messages" / iPhone. We live in Canada. I noticed that I hadn't added “+1” on her number (XXX-XXX-XXXX) when I sent. Is it necessary to add +1 when l send text message to her? Or she's received it but she doesn't want to reply to me? I'd rather not send a message again if so. Can you send a text to someone without +1 (just his/her number)? We have Canada numbers. Thanks!
Mac Os X version: 10.11.6 Since a few months, the Mac App Store application keeps telling me there is an update available for my system. Some application called "CodeBox" (website). If I try to perform the update, it tells me it is linked to another account and thus cannot perform it. But I can't remove it neither, as it is nowhere to be found on my machine!
In the Calendar.app on OS X I sync some calendars with an Exchange-account. When I look at the same calendar in Outlook all calendar items seems to be correct, but in the Calendar.app some items has the wrong date. I would like the Calendar.app to refresh so that it is equal to what I can see in the Outlook calendar, but normal Refresh does not help. Are there any workaround that could fix such an issue?
I am considering to use one of Apples iCloud plans. I read that photos and videos on the devices are "lightweight versions" using less storage (at least if you configure it that way).
i want to be safe from my child use my iPhone, what i have to do? To restrict my device running on iOS 10.2?
I kept receiving Full memory on the iphone so I changed the storage plan to 50 GB. It's been almost a week, I checked the payment, it's been succesfully done, yet the storage is not updated on the phone. Any idea what action should I take? Many thanks, Cristina
If I log into a Mac at my uni, then I log on as a network user, so none of my files are actually stored on the Mac and I can log on to any machine and anyone can log into their account on this Mac. Is it safe to log into iCloud in this case, as in noone else will be able to access it after I log out? Will it try and sync my entire iCloud Drive to this Mac?
I used bootcamp and rEFInd for dual boot of OS X 10.9.5 and Windows 7 on Macbook Pro 17" Early 2011. Worked well and stable. I tried to setup a third partition, using the free space of the first one, and formatted it FAT using the disk utility of OS X. I did not touch anything from within Windows. After this, rEFInd did not show up and Deleted the newly created partition.
I have no experience with apple devices. How do I emulate iOS Clash Royale on windows? i mean, emulating Clash royale but the ios one.
My daughter is using Mac Mail on a new MacBook Air running Sierra. Her ISP is BT (British Telecom). Initially this was running fine, but just recently perfectly good and normal mail that she wishes to keep is being automatically moved from her Inbox to Trash (not Junk) after about 48hr.
My daughter has an iphone and I would like to restrict when and who she can text with. I'm aware that you can turn off the messaging completely but that's not wanted. Is there a way to only allow texting to and from specific numbers.
I have Time Machine, up to date, but of course it's now syncing Sierra. I also have Backblaze. So ultimately I should have the resources to go back & find anything I may have missed.
During my typical workflow I need to connect to 10 to 15 different servers (samba and ftp), depending on the work I am doing. Usually I press cmd + K in the Finder and select one of them in my Favorites list. Some of the servers I also placed in the sidebar's Favorites to connect to them quicker. However, this is also awkward as the list in my sidebar is already rather long and some servers have the same name, which cannot be changed there. Can you recommend a better workflow or a tool when working with a large number of servers?
I used Unetbootin and accidentally chose a partition on my HDD to install the Lubuntu Live-USB I wanted to create on an USB Stick. Now, my HDD looks like this
Remember the milk, my absolutely favorite task list application has an integration with Reminder on iOS. But I do not get the same working on my Mac. Any suggestions ? THANKS
I want to be absolutely certain that my Mac won't delete any local data. Not documents, not movies, not music. Nothing. If I leave a 900MB file sitting around for six months or six years and my drive is 98% full, I want that data to remain on the SSD that is physically inside my laptop.
I have a late 2016 MacBook Pro 15 inch that, to my knowledge has 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on each side). I have two LG Ultrafine 5K monitors. When I connect them to one port on either side of the computer, they work just fine and I can see them connected to individual Thunderbolt buses in my system information:
When one has more than three Services in a context menu, what occurs is that they are automatically kept within a "Services" sub-menu. The user then must hover over this sub-menu before they may click on the desired Service title. Is it possible to show all 4 Service titles in the context menu?
Is there a spectral response curve of the main (rear) camera for iPhone 6? I need to know its relative sensitivity at 850nm vs. visible light. i.e., is it roughly 1/100th? 1/1000th? 1e-5? There is a similar question on iPhone 4, but the hardware now is significantly changed in terms of camera at least in visible light and sensitivity.
However, I faced some issues. Here is what I do (please note that I already have the BootCamp drivers, but at this stage they are not yet needed and the Windows 10 installation is on the same USB key I used to install Windows 10 in VirtualBox – see above): start the computer press alt key after chime select EFI boot Return Windows splash screen a little while later some points whirling below the Windows logo then I have to wait approximately 20 minutes it gets to the "Language, Time & Currency and Keyboard" settings click next "Install now" screen appears immediately click "Install now" button "Setup is starting" screen which lasts more than 20 minutes then "Windows activation" screen enter the activation key click next after another 10 minutes the licence terms appears check "I accept…" click on next immediately I get the "Type of installation I choose Custom install…" screen
I want to return my crucial mx300 to amazon, but first I have to secure erase all data on it. I don't have any particularly sensitive files, I'm worried mainly about passwords. Unfortunately I have snow leopard (10.6.8) installed on it, so it won't be possible to use FileVault. Searching in the answers to similar questions I found this method which could be handy in my case:
Automator should present you with a dialog asking, "Do you want to install the “ServiceName” service?" Click "Install."
I have both MacOS Sierra 10.12 for Host and for Guest using VirtualBox 5.1.10 I want to know how switch between applications on MacOS guest Side. Cmd + Tab On Guest Side, but is taken like Host Side, and change Guest to another application opened Host Side. How can I configure. I have Windows 10 and CentOS 7 like Guest too, and they works perfectly with Alt + Tab, but for MacOS guest I can't find. How configure combination for MacOS Guest and another combination for MacOS Host, to switch between their opened applications respectively? Thank you.
I have an iPhone 6s that i'd like to jailbreak, but it is locked to a carrier. I wouldn't be unlocking it, as id like to sell it back to the carrier at some point in time. Is it possible for me to jailbreak, use tweaks and mods for a while, then restore my phone and sell it back?
We would like to overhaul a current wiki but keep the existing one online. Ideally I would prefer not to spin up another Wiki server to do this. Has anyone successfully duplicated (and renamed) an existing OS X Wiki? OS X Server.app version 5.2 (16S1195)
Does anyone know how to sync/open an already shared calendar on outlook for Mac onto my iCal? I have a shared calendar on my outlook for Mac (not Outlook 2016), but I need to open and sync that cal to my ical.
Adding a shortcut for "⌘+P" or most other letters (different than P) just works fine. However, if I want to register a shortcut for "⌘+¨" or "⌘+^" BetterTouchTool prohibits to register this as an input. It aborts and plays the sound for unacceptable input (system sound).
I ask my question regardless of how I came to this point to make it more generally usable. Disk utility is not able to fix my partitions. First partition is OS X (runs fine), second one is Windows (non bootable at the moment). I used rEFInd for booting.
I've researched methods on how to get the selection as a text variable in an AppleScript. But these methods rely on copying the selection to the clipboard (for example, by keystroking the copy command at the top of the script) in order to introduce this text to the AppleScript (by using the clipboard). This is less than ideal, of course, because the actual clipboard text is overwritten. Is there another way to get the selected text, system-wide, in AppleScript, without disturbing the clipboard?
I am trying to write an Automator Script which involves, among other things, getting the GPS location data from an image. This will be a Finder Service. From what I have been able to discover so far, it involves running some AppleScript and talking to the Image Events headless application. From here, how do I actually get the Latitude & Longitude of the image? I know there are applications which can read this data, including on the command line, but I wondered whether it was available to MacOS without adding anything.
I want to split my stereo input channels so I can Eq one of them. They both would then go to the built-in output. I've installed SoundFloser and AU Lab on Mac OS 10.12 Sierra. I've read through the help pages for AU lab. I couldn't find anything specific to my need. With all the options, it looks like it should be possible. I've tried selecting two mono inputs. I get two left channels as input. I didn't see any way to change the source of the mono input, but I could have missed it.
I don't asking by homebrew or port only source code /binary I was trying to install pcre... Now... make Let's go to install autoconf Running I have this error message:
I want to share a USB disk via Airport Extreme as a network disk for our Mac and Windows environment. To read and write on the disk, I've set it up as FAT32 (max 4GB files) and I can connect with it with all computers. The problem is now, when I add a file / folder.. it's being displayed for 2 seconds and it hides itself (as it doesn't exist). So, how should I format the USB disk so I can use it as network disk and write / read stuff on it?
Over the past week or so, my Safari has been acting wonky. I work from home, online, and frequently have multiple tabs open. Lately, when I open a new tab and type in a url, something happens and the url I've just typed takes over one of the existing tabs I had on a different page. It's frustrating because I had the existing tab on a different page for a reason. Then the new tab ends up with nothing on it. How do I stop this from happening?
I was hoping to use the strace command to see what was happening while sudo ran but that command is not available on OS X. Has anyone ran into this problem on this operating system before?
How do I create a mailbox within a mailbox in Mail?
My notifications are blocking it ¾ of the way and it really sucks. I thought it might have had something to do with the really laggy server I was on in Minecraft, but apparently not, because I saw the other question. Is there any way to turn an iPod touch off without needing the slide to power off? iPod touch 5th generation
Couldn't find anything about this anywhere online. Maybe if I could reinstall the app but is there a way to do that without having to reinstall the whole mac os ? Any help would be very much appreciated.
I just purchased an AirPort Time Capsule and set up backups of my OS X Sierra. (Actually, they're going to a USB drive connected to it but I think it amounts to the same thing.) If leave for work with my laptop in the middle of a backup, will Time Machine handle that gracefully and do something sane or will it have a meltdown and corrupt the backup and all the other backups and become unusable?
I want to set forwarding IP address on a router. What port is used in OS X for remote desktop?
For the past year my Contact app has been crashing: several times a day with or without accessing it at the point of crash My OS is ALWAYS up to date, and I am enrolled in the public beta program. Any suggestions ? Thanks !
On Mavericks I want to start the terminal when using my Live-USB.
To extend my limited Macbook Pro storage I keep a 128 GB micro SD always mounted in the SD card reader (thanks to Nifty Minidrive). I use it for static files: music, photo and video files I need to refer to, but that don't change often. The SD card is formatted in exFAT and from time to time it gets disconnected when I bump my Mac during my commute, and to fix the file system corruption I need to mount it on a Windows PC (since Disk Utility doesn't seem to be able to fix it).
Disk utility says that there is an unknown filesystem on my harddisk. The main (and only OS) partition seems okay, though. I also checked this via /sbin/fsck -fy in terminal.
Example. "open myApp.exe --args -blabla" open my app on VM but without arguments
I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 2, and although sometimes it automatically connects to my MacBook, most of the time I have to manually open the Bluetooth menu and connect it. Is there anything I can do to have it connect automatically every time?
I had this Automator Service shortcut working in 10.10 ("Yosemite") but here in 10.11.6, for some reason it has stopped working. In my Automator workflow, I have 1 action, "Run Shell Script." The shell is /bin/bash; the command line is: (compiled Obj C software I wrote to immediately lock the screen)
I would like to repair the recovery partition or at least delete it. I know there are tutorials of how to create a new one.
I can browse to *=URL=* but it just redirects me to Google's home page.  iTunes 12.5.5.5, Windows 8.1
Is there a way to automatically have the iPhone send photo attachments in max resolutions instead of always asking me. it know it just one more step to push an additional button but it's really annoying.
Sometimes my system (macbook air, mid-2013, sierra 10.12.3) freezes (beachball + can't really click anything although some mouse movement is possible) and doesn't come back to normal unless I reset it. This usually occurred during archiving an app, but today happened when I tried opening extensions in safari preferences. I've tried running Disk Utility, but it says that the disk is ok. What other diagnostic can I run?
Assume I have a Galaxy phone connected via USB to my mac Listing USB devices is easy, and I can see my phone connected: Is it possible, given I have the ioreg output, to disconnect a specific device (without PHYSICALLY disconnecting it)?
Can I remove the broken recovery partition? And I am running Mavericks, original installation was Snow Leopard, on an iMac mid 2010.
I use Lion 10.7.2 and while I was trying to make Bluetooth kext work, I removed a kext named IOHIDFamily.kext from /System/Library/Extensions (SLE) folder but this gave a kernel panic so I copied it back to SLE. However after copying, it kept on giving kernel panic and I noticed that it had owner information like _unknown:_unknown Thinking that it was this false ownership causing the kernel panic I tried: # chown -R root:wheel IOHIDFamily.kext
I have managed to connect the screens by using one DisplayPort->HDMI cable and one HDMI->HDMI cable. That works fine, except, because the HDMI port is on the other side of the laptop to all of the other points I need, it makes the desk a bit messy.
I have a Mac running 10.7 Lion. I have the lastest compatible XCode installed but it isn't able to work with my iOS 10 iPad. It will work with my old iOS 6 iPod. I wrote an extremely basic app which compiled successfully and ran fine in the virtual device, however the system won't let me run or install the app on my iPod. I see I have a certificate issue and to obtain one I need to be part of the Apple Developer Programme.
I am a beginner and while attempting to get my Macbook Pro (early 2011, 4 GB RAM) ready for an online class (Python for DNA sequencing data analysis) I apparently did something wrong. I first downloaded Xcode (v7) from the App store. I chose version 7 because a friend said version 8 was crashing on him and also I've read that one may have both versions if they are placed in different folders. I agreed to the Xcode licence then installed Homebrew by running the script from the Homebrew website in Terminal. It installed successfully. Next I tried to insert the Homebrew directory at the top of path. I did this by first creating a .bash_profile file, opened the file and inserted: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH. This is when everything froze and I could not restart or force quit. Waited for the power to die then recharged. The computer is very slow now and Preview will not quit (tried many ways to force quit). Preview will not allow a restart or shutdown. Is problem from d
I think my 2008 Macbook is about to bite the dust and wanted to buy a new Macbook Pro.....I noticed that I have the option to purchase a 2.0GHz processor which has a 3.1GHz "turbo boost". Would the turbo boost make this a better/faster processor? I will be using the Macbook mainly to run Logic Pro along with music plugins.
I have discovered mdls as a way of extracting information from a (photo) file. However, I have found that it doesn’t seem to work properly if I am accessing the file over the network. Some of the meta data is missing, most notably the GPS data which is what I wanted most.
I made some changes to some source code today, and noticed that when I replaced "inDirectory" in a Bundle.mainBundle.pathForResource call with "subdirectory" and subsequently put it back in, Xcode replaced letters other unrelated areas of code with the letter "i". For example, if my code is: and I replaced line 1 with and then corrected the method call, now line 2 looks like: If I then try to replace the i's in line 2 with what's supposed to be there, Xcode "corrects" my "mistake" and puts the i's back in. Edit: Under System Preferences->Keyboard, I unchecked "Correct spelling automatically", but that did not help. Edit #2: I'm using Xcode 8.2.1
I'm trying to create a time-lapse video from jpegs using GoPro studio on the MAC but that (and alternatives I've tried) don't seem to understand how to access all the photos in the Photos app. If I right-click on the Photos app and go to 'show package' contents, I can see all my photos in a directory called 'Masters'. Is there any way to mount or otherwise expose that folder as a standard folder that other applications might be able to work with?
I would like to do the following share my photos library on mac to my iPad or iPhone which includes photos and videos not use iCloud use Local network are there any apps out there that can do this? what i know of but has problems: photoscope - unsure if 10.12 and photos supported plex - does not support albums and videos of photos library thanks
I am looking to upgrade to the latest iPhone mainly for the camera. I am wondering if the iPhone 7 and 7 plus use the same camera sensor. Specifically, will they handle the same in low light conditions. I shoot a lot of low light photos and am curious if they will perform the same.
The progress bar shows full the whole time. When I try to quit itunes it says "iphone is still syncing so maybe there is a problem with the sync? It doesn't tell me how much time is left or anything. I've tried rebooting both devices as well as tried backing up to iCloud. I have the latest version of iTunes as well.
I have a bluetooth mouse (a Microsoft Designer Bluetooth) connected to my 2012 rMBP running Sierra. The mouse works fine when it is connected. For some reason, however, when it is disconnected in usual circumstances (sleep/wake, inactivity, etc), it usually doesn't reconnect, unless I open the Bluetooth preference pane.
I had a couple Logitech mice lying around that I plugged into my new mac book air. It takes the scroll wheel at least a few "clicks" to scroll by one unit. Any idea how to reduce the number of increments or physical clicks required to scroll to one?
For reasons unknown, everything just completely vanished from my Contacts (including contacts and all of my groups). Note, these are all Contacts that were stored on my Mac -- I don't use iCloud and they are not synced anywhere else.
Is there any way to make the phone content inaccessible when connected via USB to PC. I want to do some settings on iphone itself so that the Internal storage isn't visible on laptop/PC to which it's connected. I want to use USB only for charging.
My grandma has an iPad but she doesn't know how to use YouTube to play her favorite songs. I'm trying to create a one-click solution that'll open YouTube and start her playlist. At the moment, I can create a home screen schortcut from Safari which loads the playlist in Safari. There're several problems with this: For some reason it doesn't auto play the songs, even with the &autoplay=1 attached to the URL. For some reason it doesn't auto play the songs, even with the &autoplay=1 attached to the URL.
Is there a way of downloading a list of all purchases from the Mac App Store? I know I can see them, and I know I can get a list of apps currently on my system, but I would like to have a list of all purchases ever made.
I struggle to understand how this updates, anyone so polite to explain?
We have multiple iPhone and Mac products, but I need to correct one specific problem. I only use Messages on my iPhone; but for some reason when I am near one of our Macs with my iPhone, my notification sounds for messages incoming to my phone do not play and the messages are appearing on my Mac. If I delete the messages app from my Mac, will it screw things up on my messages in general?
Having been using an installed version of mysql for some time without any problem, when I attempted to start the server recently it simply failed to recognise the command. The installation is still there and I can see my databases in the filesystem. However, I cannot start the server. See the following steps, which include trying to re-add mysql to the $PATH or the bash profile, as advised in several other answers (although I don't believe this was necessary before).
Black is turning green - but not everywhere and not on screendump or on my ext. screen (photo taken with iPhone). If I press the unibody hard on the left side, then I can make the green disappear, but that's not a solution. This is a MacBook Pro (15”, mid-2010) 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB / Intel HD Graphics 288 Mb, and the OS is El Capitan v.10.11.6 To determine if the problem is caused by a graphics card or not, I would like to know if there is a way to have only one card/processor active at time?
My MacBook Pro doesn't adjust the brightness when I hit the brightness controls on my keyboard (F5/F6). I've tried turning off automatic brightness to no avail. How do I use the function printed on the function keys?
I got an iPhone 7+ on iOS 10.2 and I just got this sky blue dot next to an app, instead of the normal blue one. As you can see in the screenshot, there's a real difference between the sky blue and the normal one Do you guys know what that means? Thanks
I am looking for a calendar app for mac, where I can choose email address that is used for sending invitations. By default, ical sends invitations with email account that is "hosting" the calendar.
In iTunes 12.5.4, I have mostly generic icons in the "artists' view. This is a huge waste of vertical height and I wish I could turn off these icons – but since I can't, does anyone understand how these icons are populated with image data? I have a few icons with images but did nothing (knowingly) to accomplish that. (sorry the image is so huge)
Updates not installed. Some updates could not be installed automatically
I wish to increase the delay between failed SSH login attempts on my MacBook (OS X 10.9.5). I see around various suggestions for Linux, such as adding a line:
Using macOS Sierra, when I double click a file that is supposed to open with Atom I get this message:  However if I right click and choose the default option it works fine:
My Reminders dock badge shows 6 reminders (am using macOS Sierra 10.12.3)  But there are only 2 due:
I don't understand: I cannot make sense of these results, especially since I'm getting: What makes A not equal to D?
I'm thinking of buying a mac but I am a bit worried about how mac will handle word files from a windows machine. I have a number of word files in both .doc and .docx format. Does anyone know if there might be any problems opening these kind of files and, equally important, preserve the formatting and styles on a mac? I will be using Microsoft word on the mac.
...and found that this path does not exist under my account but does exist under the account of my former coworker. When I try to update already-installed packages, this happens:
Whenever I use the new window shortcut in Safari, it creates a new tab instead of a new window. This most likely happens due to my having chosen the setting System Preferences > Dock > Prefer tabs when opening documents: > Always checked. However, strangely enough, clicking on the menu bar item File > New Window seems to create a new window normally – not a new tab. Is it possible to create a new tab with the shortcut?
I'm running macOS 12.12.3 (Sierra). I keep getting logged out when I try to switch users, both doing fast user switching and going back to the login menu and then logging in. It's incredibly frustrating. What could be a fix? The only "weird" thing that I have running is QuickRes. Any idea?
I have MacBook Pro late 2014 and it's running Mac OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan and I found out that I don't have recovery mode installed and I can't turn off sip. So I'm going to clean install MacOS Sierra and I'm a programmer I have a lot of programming apps and a lot of data and plugins for those apps. My question is can use Time Machine to specifically choose an app and its data to be ported to the new OS, or is there another approach?
Why do the usage and standby times on my iPhone 7 Plus always show the same value?  I have tried restarting my phone and I have let it drain until it turns itself off to see if that would fix the problem (it has in previous versions of iOS) but does not seem to now. I assume this is due to some background process that refuses to quit. If so, how can I find out which one it is and how can I fix it? I would like to be able to track my battery usage properly if possible.
From time to time I hear this sound without any visible notification: *=URL=* What is the reason of it?
I researched this all over and it appears that the Intel 600p is the correct form factor/spec SSD, but I can't find any references to anybody using it to upgrade one of these MBPs. The only drives I can find people linking to are the OWC Aura drives, which I've had heat issues with (on another laptop), and had 3 Aura drives fail that I had to RMA. So, I'm trying not to use OWC. The only other topic on this site about this upgrade is pretty outdated and before the Intel 600p was available, so I'm trying to find recent info... Thanks!
I have a WD Mybook Studio 500gb that will not mount. I've tried every possible option in Disk Utility and it see the drive (unlike finder), but won't mount the partition. I also tried plugging it in to a PC and again W10 didn't see the drive, but I could perform diagnostics on it via WD's tool (but no fix in sight). I did some digging with with testdisk and the data is intact, no errors, I can see the file structure on the data partition etc but the partition map/table has tons of errors and I believe this is the cause of the problem - the data is there but the computer can't access it due to a corrupt partition map. Here's what I get in terminal when looking at the drive info: And the second part for the drive in question:
I accidentally dropped my IPhone 5c, and now it keeps swiping and pressing things by itself. I have to press thing multiple times to get it working, but sometimes that doesn't even work. What's my problem? And can I get it repaired?
Is there a way to find out what versions of OSX/MacOS shipped with which voices?
I have a MacBook Pro with USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports. I would like to have only one cable ending on my desk to plug into the laptop. Is it possible to power the laptop through that cable and use the same cable to connect external thunderbolt periphery devices? What kind of adaptor would I need on the other end of the cable?
The last few releases of iTunes 12.5.x.y ask, every time iTunes is launched:  Is there a way to select either answer as a default and avoid getting constantly asked that question?
The above code produces the error: Finder got an error: Can’t set extension hidden of file "Macintosh HD:Users:Me:Desktop:Screenshot.png" to false.
I am making a script for my parents on their Mac's so that they can SSH into my Linux computer, and send commands, create popups etc. This is one of my commands: My problem is that the Mac treats the "&" as not in the sshpass script, and executes the argument after using the Mac terminal, no SSH. So would execute in the SSH session, but would be executed in the Mac terminal. If anyone could help me out with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
I am struggling to find out what process is eating away my Mac performance, and disk i/o is the culprit. Activity Monitor frequently shows megabytes of read/write, but unfortunately, it does not show the per process value (only total written by given process, which is useless). Is there a way to find out? iotop does not seem to work, because I am on Sierra, and SIP is enabled. Thank You, Zsolt
What is hiutil? Why is it sucking up my cpu? How long will this go for? When will it happen again?
Is there a way to manually control keyboard backlight with a MBP touchbar? The same way the old F6 key was working on non touchbar laptop
We read that Apple has a patent on a 'virtual sim' iPhone. Then we saw that Apple was selling a 'sim-free' iPhone.
I have managed to install Ubuntu onto my PowerMac G5 by changing the graphics card, but it will not start up again unless I use the CD. Any suggestion on how to make Ubuntu boot without the CD?
Contacts on macOS Sierra is not opening anymore. I get the following error:
I have gotten along quite well without Flash for a long time. But recently I had reason to install it for one particular website. Since it is installed, I figured I'd have it prompt me if another site wants Flash. But I've been asked to enable it for every website, almost all of which have worked fine without it and work fine after I say "never for this website." I've tried FireFox on a few of those sites, with no apparent difference from before.
I successfully installed Chrome on my Mac. However, when I'm trying to start it the browser icon just bounces in the dock once and disappears. Reinstalling, rebooting Mac and other options found on forums didn't help at all. How to fix this problem?
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016). I have noticed that when I play any sound through the speaker, the speaker starts buzzing. The buzz stops after ~1 minute without playing any sound. When I put the sound on mute, the speaker won't play the audio out loud but the buzzing still happens. The volume of the buzzing sound stays the same when I adjust the volume of the laptop, even on mute. I'm pretty sure it is the speaker because I can also hear the sound when the fan is on max.
I have removed my optical drive and installed a second SSD in its place. To do this I partitioned the first SSD to hold macOS Sierra. The other partition was RAID0 with a second SSD. I seem to have my Recovery HD on disk1 instead of disk0. This causes my Recovery HD not to show up when the option key is pressed prior to startup.
I have a retina MacBook Pro, and I am currently running macOS via USB from an external drive. I would like a way to prevent programs that I install on the external drive from writing files to the actual internal drive. To do this, I thought of unmounting the internal drive, in order to prevent files from being written to it, but in Disk Utility it seems as though it's not possible to "unmount" the internal drive. Is there any way I can unmount it, or even make sure that no program installations (via pkg files) have access to the internal drive?
I have a RAID I've used for years as my Time Machine backup. Recently the volume I have my backups on got corrupted and unusable. I also have a TM backup on a NAS with about half a year of backups already on it. If I copy the folders from the failing drive onto the NAS, will: TM detect them and allow backups from them? TM clean up the drive by adding hard links? it get indexed properly so it can be used?
I stumbled upon a post explaining how to auto delete files that are in the trash after 30 days (finder preferences > advanced > 'Remove items from the trash after 30 days'). I am willing to change this setting to 7 days. Does anyone know a command line or something else to change that value ?
So where, on my PC, do I find my iCloud photos in full? Sortable by album and bulk selectable would be nice.
I am trying to examine my settings to prepare for a triple boot and would like to know how to completely examine my HDD before to make sure I know everything usefull for the project to know about it.
When I go to 'Recents' in iPhone, I can see the location of my callers. I'm wondering how this location is determined. Is it the exact location of the caller at the time of the call, or just where the area code is registered?
The problem must be in my PLIST definition. Please help me spot the error. I expect this to run with the following conditions: Only while the user jaredclemence is using the system Once immediately on login Every 15 minutes thereafter Change Directory to /Library/WebServer/Documents/medface/ before running the script. The plist file is as follows: Notes: I have stored the file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.pediatricheartcenter.medface.crons.plist A previous version of the file used Program instead of ProgramArguments with a <string> value instead of an array.
I've seen a useful command like this: What do I need to change in that command, in order to keep only the "time stamp" string for a file with the following naming convention?
I use TeX a lot and it generates lots of auxiliary files that I am generally not interested in opening, and they clutter up my folders. Is there any way to make Finder automatically hide/gray-out files with certain extensions in Compact List or Column views, either for a specific folder or for all folders? Alternatively, if this is not possible, can I customize the "view by file type" option to separate into my own categories based on file extension (e.g., category 1 would contain .tex and .pdf files, category 2 would contain .sty and .bib, and so on) and have them listed alphabetized by category?
A friend tells me that on OSX, bypassing password and getting into user's files is very easy (especially when hard disk not encrypted, but protected with user's login password). He tells me this is how it would be done: shut down the mac hold Cmd+s boot up the mac that is all you need for basic root access mount -w / to get basic read/write
I have OS X 10.9.5 with a bootcamp partition but I am not able to mount the partition from inside Mavericks. Booting from it also fails.
I am working with someone who teaches an endangered language, of interest to a fairly small group. Many of the people in that group use only phones, and don’t have laptops. The language has a lot of special characters to represent the sounds of the language — that is, it has its own alphabet — but some of those characters are not available in any of the standard languages available by default on OSX. Is it possible to design a custom keyboard and define which keys will input which character? If so, is it possible to upload such a keyboard to the app store to make it available to people (he wants to make it free)?
My mouse movement periodically becomes choppy/jumpy after maybe an hour of use. The problem goes away temporarily with a reboot, but it returns before long. This seems to happen regardless of RAM usage (I'm always at about 3.25/4.0GB used).
I wanted to resize a VMDK, which VBoxManage can't resize directly, so I used the Convert to VDI → Resize VDI → Convert to VMDK procedure described here. For the last step, I could not find clear documentation of which --variant corresponded to the "dynamically allocated" option I chose in the GUI when creating the original VMDK.
I have a corrupted partition and upon trying to repair it with disk utility it gives the error Several postings on the internet describe this problem related to a wrong partition type GUID. They mostly look at the problem from the perspective of having a NFS+ partition that eventually gets a wrong GUID. My problem is different since this partition was/is a bootcamp partition.
how long will voice mail record a message? what is the amont of time you can leave a message on voice mail? I'm trying to find out how long of a message the I ohone can hold if there is a time limt then it cuts of ???? will it record for long periods of time
I want to use Internet on my laptop via Iphone 6 personal hotspot. It is very hard for my laptop(both windows and ubuntu) to detect the hotspot network. I have to disable/enable/ hotspot on my iPhone, or poweroff/poweron it for many times, refresh/enable/disable the wifi network on my laptop again and again, and suddenly, my laptop would detect the hotspot.
I have lots of old videos with low resolution. For example:
If I open up terminal with ⌘Space terminal and hit ⌘n a bunch of times, I get many terminals. I can get rid of all of them using killall Terminal, which sends the signal TERM by default. However, when I open the terminal application again, all of the previous sessions are restored instead of creating a fresh session. Is there a signal I can use to kill terminal applications in such a way that they aren't restored when I launch the terminal application again the same way that ⌘Q works?
I have a MacBook Air to which I have to install Windows 8.1 completely. I wiped the machine clean and did a common Windows install, but Windows didn't run well and while I was able to install some of the drivers that came along with bootcamp I downloaded from Apple, I could not just execute the package as a whole, as it was "not meant for my computer". So I decided to recover OS X (El Capitan), have it installed to an external drive and then use Bootcamp to do a full install of Windows to the main drive. But now he doesn't allow me to use the full drive, he always wants to keep a share of about 10 GB for an "OS X" that does not exist.
To automatically transfer photos from my iPhone 5S to a folder on my Mac (macOS 10.11.6), I had configured the macOS utility named AutoImporter.app. After upgrading my iPhone 5S from iOS 9.3 to iOS 10 (10.2), AutoImporter.app on my Mac continues to run upon connecting my iPhone to it using an USB cable. However, it quits immediately without importing any photos.
I'm trying to encrypt one of my 2 TB external drives using Finder > Right-click on drive name > "Encrypt" I moved all the files (~1 TB) to another drive because I was thinking that an empty drive will be encrypted faster than encrypting the drive with the files in place. However, I'm about four hours into the encryption process of the empty drive and it's only about 5% done. Is there any advantage to encrypting the drive while it's empty, or does having files on the drive not make a difference in encryption speed? This is on 10.12.3.
I tried the hardware test by hold 'd' but couldn't find problem. I tried format and install OS. This imac still has the problem.
With the following AppleScript code within a "Run AppleScript" action in a Service: the Service will only work if the application from which that Service has been called has been added to the list of applications under "Allow the apps below to control your computer." This list is found at System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Accessibility.
My mom got an iPhone 6s, and she LOVES it. There is one problem. When she connects to her car Bluetooth (the car is a 2012 Toyota Sienna LE), it automatically plays music, even without opening the music app. She tried Siri, opening and closing the music app, and turning off Bluetooth entirely. None of these work. So, is there a setting or a trick to stop music from playing automatically after she connects to Bluetooth?
I also had my Apple pro buddy try and help me since he has worked at the Apple Store in Tokyo forever, and he couldn't figure it out. But that may likely just be because he's been a Mac guy his whole life and has no Windows experience.
In El Capitan, whenever I try to change my default mail program from mail.app to Spark, it reverts my preferences as soon as I close the preferences pane.
Good day! iMessage on my mac fixes my typos as I type despite the fact that I've disabled spell check in settings. Here is how it looks:
I Parallels Desktop version 12 I have a virtual machine named Cinquième. Note the accent on the e. That VM is running macOS Sierra. In that VM, when I open the Terminal.app, the prompt shows: cinquième:~ basilbourque$ Questions: • Where exactly does bash in Terminal.app pick up the name of the VM?
I am not alone in seeing this bug. See the Parallels forum site: Mouse Problems - P12 - Host MacOS Sierra - Guest OS X El Capitan
Apple Mail asks for Google login on a daily basis. This happens to both my personal and work gmail account. I tried generating app specific password but when i go to preferences -> account information: there is no field for a password. This has been happening only since I have upgraded to 10.12.4. I couldn't reproduce the issue easily - not until the next prompt for password shows. Update
I'm getting trouble with my iPhone 4s. I don't have songs in the iPhone. I've tried many time but I can't find the perfect answer.
I was able to freely scroll forward and backward in time. I can only go forward via the arrow keys one page at a time now. No idea why this is happening.
Upon connecting a Audiotrak Dr.DAC3 (standard usb audio class 2 device, does not need any drivers on mac) to a MBP with Sierra 10.12.3 I have it recognised and shown in system inspector/ioreg, but not in sound preferences thus unable to use it. The DAC is working perfectly on other mac with Yosemite, so I guess there's something in Sierra. Once I managed to get it working by deleting /Library/Preferences/Audio/* and rebooting, but now it does not help any more. On connect dmesg shows: 000987.295886 AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice@: AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice::ConfigureDevice: unable to set a configuration (0xe0005000) It is recognised and listed in ioreg: And even in /Library/Preferences/Audio/com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist: What did not help: updating the card's firmware updating to 10.12.3 plugging in other port using other usb cable plugging through usb hub in an apple usb keyboard deleting audio preferences files (helped once, but no more) resetting NVRAM sudo killall coreaudiod
When I use this command to open some text-file ... ... then it works perfectly fine. TextEdit opens up and I can read / edit the file. Works with pdf-files the same way too. But when I do this ... ... then I get an error message: I've found out that I have to add an -a flag: Then the command works as expected: A second terminal is opened. The man-page of the open-command says: *-a application Specifies the application to use for opening the file* Okay, well ... but ...
I am trying retrieve an internet password from the keychain but I always get back: ...despite the entry being there in my key chain. The server name that I would normally place after the -s flag is long and is in the format ab-xxxx-8.somethi.abc.company.com, i.e. the server is *=URL=* My security command is:
I have Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) and I want to upgrade it's GPU to increase the performance of Windows under Bootcamp. I do not care about GPU power in OSX.
Is there a VoIP app for iPhone which doesn't need to be open to receive calls and is continuously on? I'm after something similar to the Skype app. I've tried Zoiper and Bria but neither have this feature.
I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Beta (16E144f) off of an external SSD connected to my 13-inch retina MacBook Pro. I am trying to install Windows 10 on it. When I open up Boot Camp Assistant and press "Continue," I get the following error: Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.
My home button needs the strength of a gorilla to press. I tried using the stocks native app power off trick but it didn't work: *=URL=* how else can I do it?
So it is possible that I can get a good deal on a 2012 iMac. The only thing that scares me is the slow 1tb hard drive in it. I searched on how to replace it but it is extremely complicated because the iMac is glued together, I'm not ready to go down that road. So my idea was to take a SATA3 SSD, put it in a SATA USB 3.0 HDD enclosure and then connect that over USB 3.0 and install MacOS on it.
Here is an example of Applescript code: Is there any difference in the behavior of these two commands? Because, to my eyes, it appears that they accomplish exactly the same effect.
So my problem is the following: At home I am connecting my MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra installed) to a second screen using the HDMI port. If I do that, and already have my mac running, on that second screen I have a new "Desktop" (i.e. in Mission Control) and all previously opened windows stay on the first desktop of my mac. This is the behaviour I like.
When I am on my PS4, I cannot get the sound to play through my Bluetooth speaker. What I want to do instead is to connect the PS4 controller to my MacBook Pro via the 3.5mm jack and then use some software to forward that to my Bluetooth speaker. How would I get the audio from the 3.5mm jack going from my PS4 controller to my Mac, again, from the 3.5mm jack? Here is a diagram of what I want to make it easier to understand. PS4 Controller-->3.5mm jack--->MacBook Pro-->Bluetooth
I was hoping that there was some shortcut for the search bar in Dictionary.app. I tried ⌘+L as one can do in Safari, hoping it would work, to no avail. Does anyone know a shortcut for this?
The following AppleScript code will open the link in a new tab, at the location of the very end of the current tabs: Is it possible to open a link in a new tab, that is located immediately after the currently open tab, using AppleScript?
Im having two OSX devices and network setup using AirPort Extreme connected to printer with USB. From both of these OSX devices Im able to print wireless and everything works fine for these. However I also have iOS device and from what I understand I can print only using AirPrint in case of iOS. In this guide they say AirPrint printers connected to the USB port of the Apple AirPort Base Station or Time Capsules are not supported with AirPrint. So it means I should disconnect usb printer from the AirPort and connect to wireless network directly, but in that case I would be unable to print from my OSX devices? (I assume this AirPrint functionality is not available in OSX, but Im not sure) Does this technically mean that you can use Airport Extreme to connect with printer centrally shared for the network but cannot use it for iOS and OSX devices at the same time??
I have MacBook Pro 13 retina (late 2012) with ElCapitan 10.11.6. I have installed "Security Update 2016-003 for OS X El Capitan 10.11.6" (now I know that I should not, there are a lot of issues with it).After reboot a have message box on black screen with message "OS X wants to access key "(null)" in your keychain".Pressed to "Always" or "Always Allow" or "Deny" several times. Nothing helps. I have tried to recover the OS. The issue is the same. Have found several articles with keychain issues but nothing similar.Unfortunately
When shutting down or logging out regularly, there is an option to reopen, or not, all the programs and their respective windows upon logging in again. That option for me is unchecked, and the OS seems to remember that choice. Likewise, in the General panel of System Preferences, I have it set to NOT reopen windows/documents when relaunching programs. However, if the new login occurs after a power outage, every single program that was previous opened gets opened up and attempts to load the windows that were open, rendering my computer basically unusable for almost ten minutes or more (I often have dozens of programs open and we won't even talk about number of tabs on Chrome). Is there a way to suppress the relaunching of programs and previously opened documents permanently and definitively? I'm on Sierra.
I've Macbook Pro (Reina Mid 2016) , Graphics: Iris Pro . I tried to install windows 10 using Boot Camp , it seemed to work. I was able to boot into windows.It worked for about 30-40 minutes and suddenly black screen. I figured it's graphics driver for windows failing. I did hard reboot and was able to boot again. After a while resolution changed and got notification graphics driver failed. I got black screen rebooted couple of times and same thing happened and after a point never recovered. I thought , it's corrupted graphics driver so uninstalled Bootcamp windows altogether. Nothing , still black screen tried following to no avail.
Hope someone can help. After discovering issues with transitioning from iPhotos to Photos, I've been consolidating my backups. My aim is to replace truncated and damaged files (1,400 or so) which I've identified. As I've got a list of problem files, my thought is I need to firstly search the backups identifying which files do or do not exist, then output the results and paths to a file.
Apple puts events in my Calendar like "Flag Day" Is there a way to delete such events? When I see a "dot" on a date, and go check what it is, it's a waste of my time if it isn't an event that I've posted. Really annoying.
I never "bought" the app, it was already installed when I bought my laptop. I do not use GarageBand or any related app (Logic).
iTunes authorization is machine based, not user based. So how does Apple handle the situation where same-machine user accounts have different iTunes (Apple Store) Apple ID authorizations?
Is there a way to have a running total as an all day event on ical? Such as "days since last cigarette"?
Every time I make a new webpage, I do the following commands in the terminal. I wish to automate this. like I wish I could type and all the above commands would execute on its own. Is it possible?
I try to build a bootable USB with Gparted on it with the use of Unetbootin. I downloaded the 32bit Gparted .iso from *=URL=* It is linked here, the first one under stable releases. When Unetbootin performs the installation on the USB stick the following error occurs. It says that file menu.c32 already exists and lets me decide if I want it to be overridden.
I want to convert an .iso to .dmg, how can I do this from Terminal?
I want to create a USB stick with GParted on it that will be recognized by my Mac. Obviously, I want to create it on a Mac, also. This is not mentioned in the documentation here.
I have an early-2008 Mac Pro (3,1) that I use for nothing but serving iTunes content via Home Sharing. I keep the MP in a spare bedroom and rarely interact with it directly. My usual workflow is to add content to the iTunes Library from my Macbook Pro via Screen Sharing (drag from MBP desktop to MP desktop, then add to iTunes Library), or to open the MP via Finder and drag-and-drop media files from MBP to MP desktop, then add to iTunes Library via Screen Sharing.
I have late 2016 MacBook Pro 13, which has thunderbolt 3 and according to specification can chain two 4k monitors. So if that's correct, how would it be possible to connect two LG 27UD88 monitors over single cable? I suspect I need some hub that will input thunderbolt 3 and output 2 USB-C as that's what this monitor supports. Also if this would work, will charing work too? So basically I want to plug two monitors with a single cable and the same time chard my Mac. Thanks.
I had Live photo enabled on my iPhone 6 and have taken over a thousand photos. When I attempted to import them to my MacBook, they all showed up as 3 second .m4v files. Converting over a thousand live photos one by one in iPhone was just too tedious...SO...I downloaded the Lean application to batch convert all the live photos to .jpgs. BECAUSE it was such a large batch, somehow, Lean was choking on the conversion so it asked me more than once if I wanted to delete the 1000+ extra duplicate images that it extracted from the 3 second .m4v files. I clicked yes each time, and discover it deleted entire sets of images completely. Fortunately, I had imported all the Live photos to iPhoto, so they all exist on my Macbook as .m4v. Video conversion software that converts .m4v to .mp4 abounds, however... Is there ANY WAY to batch export all the .m4v 3 second videos to still .jpgs in MacBook? Ideally without having to buy 3rd party software? iPhoto export does not seem to let me export the .m4v f
I have only one phone, an iphone, but have to access 2 whatsapp accounts. In android, we can use parallel space and have two whatsapp installations. But, iphone doesn't have any such option. Pls help me out.
I'd like to replace my MBP unibody early 2011 logic board that's broken, so I don't know which is the right choice because two Apple part number seems to be available. The first one is 6616080 and the second one is 6615850 and I'd like to know the difference before. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
While using my Macbook Pro (2012) yesterday, the screen suddenly went black and turned off - instantly. I turned it back on, can see the Apple logo bu the progress bar sticks at around 40%. The MacOS version is El Capitan, 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD.
Is it possible to auto-fill or save passwords for certain sites in Safari private mode?
I recently replaced my iPhone 6. The phone shows no web history. Can that be restored from original account?
If I move it simply to an external drive - it doesn't work. I think they have some internal references, maybe under config files, to each part.
I am not using iCloud drive, and I am neither optimizing disk space with iCloud. But the disk utility app shows that I have 12.62 GB of "cancellable" disk space. I thought that this space was due to the fact that some files could be safely deleted from the disk because they're backed in iCloud. But why do I have "cancellable" storage if I am not using iCloud to optimize disk space?
I tagged some pictures with a wrong person in Photos app of iPhone ios 10.2. How can I fix that?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to show/hide the keyboard visualizer? I usually access it using the input-method icon in the top-right corner then select "show keyboard visualizer" but I don't know how to do it without the mouse
We've got a range of laptops in our office all macbook pros some of which are 13" and some of which are 15". The 15" laptops came with 85w chargers, and the 13" came with 60w chargers. I want to buy some additiaonl chargers to leave plugged in around the office for anyone to use, but im unsure as to which type i should get. Would charging a 13" laptop on a 85w power supply damage it ? Would charging a 13" laptop on a 85w power supply damage it ? Would charging a 13" laptop on a 60w power supply damage it, or just make it slow at charging ? Would charging a 13" laptop on a 60w power supply damage it, or just make it slow at charging ?
I'm having issues with my macbook air 2011 HDMI connection. I am connecting through thunderbolt. Here is the problem; sometimes my mac connects to HDMI. Most of the time, it does not. Once it is connected, it will work flawlessly as long as I leave it connected. Once I disconnect it, odds are it will not work again for a while, no matter how many times I reset/shutdown the computer, with power cable or without. However, every once in a while, it does reconnect, and I haven't figured out why or how. The only maybe hint I have is that when I connect it to another monitor, it might or might not work, but if it does work, it might then work on another monitor. Also, if I plug in another macbook, it might sometimes facilitate connection when I plug my macbook in afterwards. Another hint is that at the apple store, on a same monitor, my HDMI would not connect, but after booting through their in-store LAN OS, it would work flawlessly. Most likely a driver-related issue, but have not figured o
I'm trying to setup CUDA on a Macbook Pro, I've installed cuda with brew: Added this to my .bash_profile I also installed cuDNN v5.1 I'm now trying to test it: but I get this error:
I am trying to make video calls via Skype or Viber on iPhone 5 but the other side doesn't hear me if I use the phone speakers. When I turn them off and use normal phone audio, then it works fine.
In Safari, it is often the case that web-form show up in such a way that the text doesn't fit. Safari then inserts "..." in the text box (or combo-box, as the case may be). This happens on many different websites so I don't believe it is a website-specific problem:
Apple's support document suggests consulting the manpage for spctl for more information. Going from there, I've tried spctl --disable <path to app>, spctl --remove <path to app>, and spctl --add --label disable <path to app>; spctl --disable --label disable, but the app still launches successfully when double-clicked in Finder.
I want to make music with a MagicTrackpad2, keeping it away from interacting with the mouse pointer. I found this software: MultiTouchMidi that works great with the builtin trackpad of a macbook.
My energy saver preferences are as follows:  However, no matter what I set the slider to, my MacBook Pro is going to sleep after one minute. What is wrong here?
I've bought a new Macbook Pro 13" 1 TB early 2015. I started it and during the setup procedure I attached my old 2012 MacBook Pro to migrate my data. Everything went as expected, after the process was finished and the new computer restarted, the white apple symbol on the black background appeared with a progress bar underneath. But w the progress bar was at the end, it froze. I waited an hour and a half, then I shut down the machine and restarted. Same result. I then booted in Recovery mode and re-installed macOS from there. After reboot: Same result. Tried Safe mode, reset PRAM, tested the SSD with Disk Utility, to no end. Could it have something to do with my old Mac having a SSD with the System and an HD with the data? The main user's folder links from the SSD to the HD. Any ideas? Thanks a lot!
Pressing PROptionCommand always loads Recovery utility. I have tried many times, and all variations in timings before and after pressing power. Based on Adriano's comment I need another way to reset PRAM, as I cannot log in to turn off Password Firmware Protection. Any Suggestions Thanks Colin K
I keep getting this prompt when I try to install a app or anything:  Usually I just enter the password and everything is fine (before the username field would be filled). Now it is not accpeting my password. Since I use the same password for iCloud I changed the password and enter the new password but it is still not working.
When I installed Sierra I also profiled my display (with a spectrometer) and have been using the created icc profiles since then. Both Quick Look preview and the macOS preview app when displaying images will show weird colors though: cutout deep burned shadows! The strangest thing is that on the quicklook preview, the colors will be fine until I zoom in the image: After that it will darken, and never recover (until I reopen the preview).
Does Safari have a similar data detector system like Mail.app? I don't think it has this because I am trying to add an event based on date and it doesn't occur. Is the data detector system limited on Safari compared to the Mail app?
When I'm trying to watch videos online, they will sometimes fail to play, giving the above error. The odd thing about it is that often it is quite random - it will sometimes give these errors and then run a day later, or be running, and when I leave and come back to it cite the error. Why does this happen, and how can I fix this? I've already tried clearing browser data and history to clear the cache, that failed
I accidentally erased my Windows 10 bootcamp partition using Disk Utility by reformatting it to MS DOS FAT. I then tried to restore it with a Winclone backup which failed. So I finally booted from and external drive with OS X El Capitan and used terminal and a get remove Here is where I am at -- any assistance would be greatly appreciated:
I bought a Neweer USB Guitar cable for my MacBook Pro 2015. When I connect it and try to use it it has a 1 second delay, and when I try to fix that with different options; i manage to fix the delay, but there is a scrambling sound that appears over time. This sound gradually increases in a matter of 10 seconds, and after that you can only hear this sound instead of the guitar. I tried everything, I don't know what to do.
I have a Powerbook G4 whose owner forgot her password. (This is a Powerbook 6,8. The install disk says OSX 10.4 but I don't know if it's been upgraded.) I can't insert the install disk into the optical drive (it encounters a solid resistance - I can't tell if there's another disk in there or not, but pressing Eject does nothing, and I don't see any hole in which to poke a paperclip to try to manually eject it). I found a recommendation to: boot into single-user mode run fsck -fy mount -uw / rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone reboot
I'd like to create a tarball using the xz compression tool. According to google, as of 10.10 there is an undocumented "--xz" switch for tar but I can't get it to work. On linux there is a "-J" switch that allows for xz compression but that isn't supported directly on OS X.
The only explanation I can think of would be a cheap hack to save some space on disk and/or traffic due to the fact that a screenshot is smaller than the original image. But the kinds of places you normally see this suggest that it's probably some form of ignorance. It's just that usually ignorance is a shortcut. But here we witness a detour.
If one opens Automator.app and creates a new Service document, one is presented with the ability to choose exactly what kind of input that that Service receives:  Outside of using these default data types, can the user further define the input of a Service, so that the Service can only run if the input meets some condition(s)? An example would be if I only wanted a Service to appear in the right-click context menu when the selected text begins with "Review."
I don't have an Apple device, but I'd like to try iCloud Mail on my PC. Can I create an iCloud account on my friend's iPhone, then sign out on his device and use the account on iCloud.com? If so, doesn't it erase his iPhone data or cause any problem whatsoever?
I've been storing image files on Dropbox (uploaded automatically from my phone via their "Camera Uploads" feature). I just discovered that I don't have permission to open them from my synced Dropbox folder on my computer. The error is a dialog box reading: In Console, I see:
My log-in screen appears with question marks instead of the usual text. (See screen shot - I have removed my log-in name from the picture). I am using MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 on a MacBook Pro (early 2011).
Yesterday I bought a used macbook pro from a person. Though I have removed that users account from laptop and erased home directory too. Now I have 2 questions related to it as below.
After a recent OS X update (currently Sierra, 10.12.3) the normal user on this machine is no longer in the admin group. I don't know what caused the account to be removed from that group; how can I get it back? Advice found via I don't have administrator account on my mac suggests booting to Single-User mode, and using the dscl command: This fails immediately:
I would like to enter emojis directly from the keyboard. E.g. that I type ‘:D’ and it gets converted to ‘’. Is that possible? I know about the control + command + space shortcut to open the emoji palette, but I am looking for a faster way.
I changed the name of a Service by navigating to /Users/Me/Library/Services/ and renaming the .workflow file in Finder. I tried restarting the computer, but the previous Service name still exists in the menu bar and the context menu. Is there something that I can do to force the computer to review the names of my Services?
I want to open this interface to look the source code or response, like below:  But, when I want to open the localhost:8080/xxx's page, I found I do not able to open that, it is gray:
I've been having trouble with my Mac since I installed Yosemite, where I open an .dmg file, and it would go to the Disk Utility, then I would have to open it from there. My MacBook running Yosemite did not do this, and would give the normal graphic to drag the file over applications to execute it.
I'm using my Apple Watch 2 for indoor running and found that in the first Kilometer Apple Watch show 750 meters and go on. The calibration I found is good for outdoors. Is it possible to adjust and calibrate the indoor distance?
My Macbook died and I had to switch to my emergency backup machine, an Intel NUC running Windows 10. I can use my Apple bluetooth keyboard all right with it, but I can't get a del key. Normally this can be achieved by pressing Fn+Backspace, but that doesn't seem to cut it now. Neither do any other combinations I've seen suggested (Ctrl+Fn+Backspace, Shift+Fn+Backspace, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Fn+Backspace and combinations thereof).
I am looking for information / help from someone who might experienced similar issue in the past or has knowledge about the problem described below. During last week I have been experiencing issues with trackpad on MacBook Pro Retina 13' Mid 2014. It all have started the next day after latest macOS Sierra 10.12.3 update. Symptoms: not registering multitouch commands, like thumb + 3 or 4 fingers, swipes freezes on the movement just to pick up a second later stops to respond at all moves and send click signals by itself without touching
I have the 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro. About every day I have to restart my computer because of some problems. I notice that sometimes when I restart my computer all my fingerprints are gone to nowhere. I then has to put all of my Touch ID fingerprints back into my computer. This doesn't happen on every reboot, I think there is about 1/20 chance of it happening but it is still annoying. Anybody else also have this problem? EDIT: I found out that the Touch ID fingerprint only get lost during force restart (when my computer lock up and I power it down with the Touch ID button).
I want to receive notification every morning with list of things (daily agenda) for the day in my Macbook. I could not find a way to set that up in Calendar, so is there another option or can I use AppleScript to accomplish this?
I am using 2015 Macbook Pro 13'' model. I am on OSX Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32). When I wake up my computer I see strange distorted colors I searched and found that many people have faced this issue. *=URL=* *=URL=* The only solution which I have found is that I go to settings -> displays and then change the display resolution and then set it back. Has anyone been able to permanently resolve this?
The emoji and symbol window is good for inserting into documents, but when I need the actual Unicode values, it isn't anywhere in the UI. Is there any way to get those information?
Trying to batch convert pages to plain text but I keep running into issues with file permissions. (Using Sierra 10.2.3 after upgrading from 10.2.2)
I've noticed consistently that a day or so after reboot, my Mac will refuse to go to sleep. Activity Monitor shows that the process corestoraged is preventing sleep. If I reboot, it will no longer be listed as a process preventing sleep -- until it starts doing so again.
Here is the problem with Photoshop CS:  I installed FontAwesome icons to my Font Library also. It seems great.
It is extremely annoying when some apps set the minimal size of their window too big. Ie. viber window is huge and should be very small considering occasionally arriving messages (there are a lot of examples of this behaviour).
So I tried Netbeans:  While at the same time the System settings report that Java 8 is installed and up to date.
I was wondering if there was a way of modifying the Mac terminal opacity just from the command line. I know that the manual way is to go to Terminal preferences, but is there a programatic way to do it? Note: I am on OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6
I would like to create an installer (.app, .pkg?) for a selection of data files. I need to place them in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw
I'm facing a weird misbehavior on my MacBook Pro (Retina). I switched the operating language from German to English several days ago. Since then, I can't use the "delete" button (fn + backspace) anymore as before the language-change. Whenever I press delete (fn + backspace), the button behaves as I wouldn't press the fn button (so just a regular backspace), but if I keep a finger on the fn button, and press the backspace button again, then the next letter will be deleted (a regular deletion, which is my intention). Is this a bug, or something I can change by settings? My operating system is: macOS Sierra 10.12.3
Some days ago, I installed Ubuntu on my MacBookPro, I created a new partition shrinking the one I was using for MacOS. Later I decided to remove it, so I deleted the partition containing Ubuntu, but I didn't manage to resize the MacOS partition back to the start, so I booted in Recovery Mode to do that. Then I realized that my battery was going low and I closed the MacBook lid to do that in another moment. The day after I opened my lid, I heard the Mac sound and the missing boot icon appeared. Now if I go to Recovery Mode, I can see the hard drive but the partition with MacOS is greyed out, and I don't know how to fix this. Here is the output of diskutil list: and gpt -r show disk0:
Key Repeat and Delay Until Repeat settings work fine and are immediately applied for the MacBook keyboard in TextEdit, but have no effect on the USB keyboard - even after reboot. If I hold hi, the result is hhi via the USB keyboard. Further, if I hold hit, the result is hhihit.
When my Mac sleeps, my AirPods disconnect (as expected, I suppose); but when I wake my Mac, I must go through the full process of connecting them again from scratch (either through the Bluetooth menu or by placing them back in the case and removing them again). Is there a way to have my AirPods automatically reconnect to my Mac after it wakes from sleep?
If I start importing songs into iTunes, randomly it will start playing those songs and there's no way to stop it. Why? How can I stop it?
The HDD on my trusty Mac has given up the ghost, and an attempt at repair this weekend resulted in failure to boot. It originally had 10.5, which I updated through to Mavericks. I still have a Snow Leopard install disk so I can at least get it running after HDD replacement, but Sierra will not run on it due to age and is the current offering in the App Store. Is there some way that I can obtain and upgrade to Mavericks to ensure my backup works? Thanks in advance.
I have set incorrectly the sshd_config on both these path: /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config The two file seems alias, but they aren't.
Is there a virtual ergononmic keyboard available for the ipad pro? I am coming from a Windows background and am happy with the physical Ergonomic Keyboard series from MS. However when using the ipad pro, I would like to use it with a virtual keyboard, so it's easily portable.
I have a server with some directories exported for AFP. I can mount afp volumes from Finder without any problem. When I try this from the command line: I get the error mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 2, errno is 2
Recently a new version of the Gmail app for iPhone has been pushed out. Among other changes, it added a "swipe to archive" feature. Thing is, I don't like that because I routinely accidentally swipe messages. I realize there's a brief chance to undo that shows up in the bottom, but is there a way to simply turn off the swipe functionality?
In attempting to automate setting up firmware passwords through DeployStudio, I accidentally wrote a bad script loosely based off Dash's post Setting a firmware password that did not work as intended. If you can tell already, when setting the variables for OLDPASSWORD and CONFIRMPASSWORD, I should not have added that extra space because I got "command not found" errors.
I have the following scenario: I have a Xcode project and I have archived and produced an ipa for the development deployment. This ipa file can obviosly only be installed on my device. Now, I give this ipa to a third party MDM provider. Third party enroll my device into their MDM, upload the ipa on their MDM and pushes the app to my device. This way I can run that app on my device.
I'm a relatively new to using macOS for work and using macOS windows management (Mission Control?) turns out to be extremely annoying. I'm using Sierra OS. Here are some things that I would like to understand:
I have high quality pngs and/or pdfs imported into iMovie. They look great on their own. However, when I share to file (using all the highest quality settings), the final result looks blurry. Any suggestions?
And if so, any issues? I was doing Geekbench benchmarks and found this profile: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/1046173
What does the alert box statement "suggestd quit unexpectedly" mean? It turned up on my iMac , OS Sierra 10.12. I have attached a screenshot.
For that matter, I wonder if there isn't a repository of all the methods for changing any and all MacOS preferences via the terminal? Such a manual resource seems like it would very nice to have
I recently got my MBP back from an Apple Certified Service Centre where they replaced the logic board and IO board. They fixed the initial issue (unresponsive startup manager + slow boot), however now my left speaker is crackling and popping. This is in MacOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan).
I heard that when using User Account, Mac asks more password and confirmation. But does this also apply to when running/installing new apps first time? What I'd like to know is, will Gatekeeper in Administrator Account still check every new app before it is launched and ask me if I really want to use it? I got worried that what if I end up downloading some image file that is actually hidden installer and Gatekeeper won't ask me if I want to install it (and notify me I accidentally got installer file hiding as something else) if I'm using Administrator. Basically, will security be as tight in Administrator account than it is in User Account?
I am making an iOS game using Unity. I am testing some shaders that I have made for the game, and in some cases the device will run at under 30 FPS but not have 100% device utilization. Sometimes a test will start at a higher device utilization %, and then over time go lower, even though the test is simply rendering a plane with a material on it. For example, a shader test I just ran on an iPad 4: Device utilization 85% Renderer utilization 85% Tiler utilization 1% Core Animation Frames Per Second 12 This test is using barely any CPU, and is only rendering 4 triangles (2 big planes covering the screen).
Say I had an iMac (assume newest models) with 2 external displays (USB-C/Thunderbolt 3?) in my office. If I bring my (assume latest) MacBook Pro into the office and would like to use it rather than the iMac, could I connect the MacBook Pro to the iMac and then use the iMac and the 2 displays connected to the iMac as monitors for the MacBook Pro? If so, what would I need to do to accomplish this? Update: (I realized I didn't clearly state my goal)
I'm trying to factory reset an old MBP, not sure how old but somewhere between 2009-2012. Weird things happen when I try to reset it though. I have tried twice and I get this error after download of the image is done, in other words, when the installation is about to start.
On this Apple page about recycling batteries, Apple offers to send a mailer for returning a depleted battery for recycling. Can I instead simply drop off the battery at an Apple Store retail location? Do they accept batteries for responsible recycling? Or would the staff refuse it? Or would they accept the battery merely to humor me before dropping it in the trash?
I want to be able to hit the Escape key on my keyboard to stop a Service (that is comprised of a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator) while it is in the middle of running. Incidentally, if one hits the Escape key while a Service is running, that Service will immediately stop by default. However, five seconds after you hit the Escape key and the Service is terminated, a dialog pops up with an error: The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error. Is it possible to implement the same function, except without the error, perhaps by using AppleScript?
The computer chimes, and when I press any key like the option or R keys to enter recovery or the Startup Disk Manager, nothing happens. I tried to reset the SMC to no avail. I have a 3TB portable HDD with a bootable install partition of Sierra I would like to install on the SSD.
What should I do next? Any ideas? All help will be welcome.
I've found solutions for this problem but they dont seem applicable now in 2017. For some reason, Google Chrome Helper is using a lot of my CPU and fans are going full blast. I found this link on Apple's site that seems to help everyone but I can't seem to find it on my version of Chrome. I have a MBP running 10.9.5.
I'm running Windows 10 Home in a VM under VMware Fusion 8.5.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.2. Machine is MacBook Pro (15", Late 2016).
I have iPhone 4, ios 7.1.2 and accidently deleted facebook messenger and don't have a backup of the app and now I can't reinstall because of 7.1.2. How can I get it back on my iphone? Please help.
Similar question to How do I flush the DNS cache on a OS X 10.6 machine?, but for iOS in general. Specifically, my use case is to flush the DNS cache for applications I downloaded from App Store. Likely apps with native networking implemented (example: apps that use Foundation's NSURLSession). Running an iPhone 7 on iOS 10.2.1 in China with frequent DNS hijacking happening before you even have time to connect to VPN, so rebooting the device would not be a sufficient solution.
I mostly use the "modules" watch face since I can have my next meeting in the middle. However I noticed now that the current appointment I have will disappear and show the the next appointment before the current one has actually ended. This is a big problem for me since it is very important I always know when my current meeting ends so I can close it in the right time.
I was looking to lock down the configuration on some macs, and wanted to know if there is any way to change the files and folders that SIP protects. I know it can be disabled, and its current rules viewed, but is there any way to add your own protected directories? Thanks
I'm trying to install nova client on OS X 10.12.3 I tried to install with sudo pip install python-novaclient. I wan't to access openstack server from OS X
I was not able to refuse changing my hostname by DHCP Server on Mac Book. None of these solutions below worked for me: How can I stop Mac OS X overriding my hostname when I receive a DHCP request on Snow Leopard? How can I stop Mac OS X overriding my hostname when I receive a DHCP request on Snow Leopard? Mac refusing to change hostname Mac refusing to change hostname Computer name keeps changing (deleting files) Computer name keeps changing (deleting files)
Regularly different keys on my new MacBook Pro (2016) are stuck. I assume little pieces of dirt or small crumbs interfere with the mechanics. With older Mac keyboards, I occasionally removed individual keys for cleaning. As the keyboard of the current model was redesigned, it seems much harder to do so now and I can’t find any tutorials. So: How do I remove (and reinstall) a key of a MacBook Pro (2016)?
I recognised a "weird" behaviour under macOS 10.12.3. When I start my Mac, and look at the hard drive usage, I am always around 15 GB under my normal amount of free space. After a while though (1-2 minutes), the 15 GB are back. Have a look here:
I have written a simple script for macbook and later found a program called platypus which makes an .sh file to an .app Now I want to ask if it's possible to launch that app from the USB automatically as soon as it's plugged in?
In giving presentations from my MacBook Pro on an Epson Data Projector (VGA connection), there is I have invariably found a decrease in the display dimensions. Initially only part of the previous screen area shows, but can be reset to fill the smaller screen.
I have been noticing that Safari has gotten very slow lately. Has anyone else had this issue recently?
I keep the WiFi on my iPhone 7 always on and connected to my home or work networks, but often the connection is not shown neither in the top bar nor in the settings even though it is obvious that WiFi is on and connected:  When I toggle it back on, the device remains connected, but after some time this happens again. Another example of an inconsistency:
This might be a long shot, but I have a problem where I've lost the encryption password to an iPhone backup created with iTunes for Windows. On a mac this shouldn't bee too much of a problem, since the password is persisted in the keychain, at least as long as you still have access to machine the backup was created on.
An app that has access to the list of contacts is capable, without further notice, to upload that information to a server. (If it has internet access, that is, but most do.) I am concerned of the breach of trust to my contacts that this entails. For example, someone on my contacts list may have gone into some trouble to remain unlisted in any phone book, and yet their phone number could become near-public, depending on the privacy policy of the app, which I, like many, never bother to read. I'm here not even referring to app(s) that exist with the sole and express intent of making contacts lists public. Is there any way to be in control by choosing whether a given app has access to my contacts list, similar to how an app can have access to notifications, but I can disable its access to notifications while continuing to use the app?
Som there are a couple of past questions with answers on this topic here and the bigger interwebs. My reason for re-opening this issue is that most answers are from around 2013 - 2015 latest. So I am wondering if there has been an update since. early apple forum that claims success of 16RAM on mid 2010, 15' when booting in safe mode: *=URL=* comments claim that upgrade to 16G RAM was a success (end 2015): *=URL=* last answer claims that the only way to do this is by installing linux: *=URL=* Mid 2010 can go up to 12G RAM: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/214900/223701
When opening one of my documents in Word 2011 on MacOS 10.12.3, I'm asked to download a series of fonts including: STHeiti and Osaka. I assume this means the document was opened on a computer with those fonts installed and now the file is convinced they need to exist. I've tried accepting the downloads but the problem just returns the next time I reboot my mac. So where should these fonts be installed and where is Office installing them?
My 2.7gHz core i7 mac mini running 10.11.6 will not open the Sound Preferences pane. Since upgrading to Yosemite I have had sound preferences problems. I produce audio using Logic X and an Apogee ONE audio interface.
I read about a full charge cycle at least once per month - how is this done? Just purchased this wonderful machine, brand new, want to keep it as perfect as possible, and am not sure how to do a full charge cycle of the battery.
This is likely dumb question, but I need to be sure. Situation where you download the installer/downloaded file, extract app file from it, eject disk image form desktop, then put downloaded file into trash and it suddenly don't want to be deleted. I suspect system was still using it in some ways... though disk image had been ejected.
Is there a brew --with-debug-flag-set package style command available to get brew to build a package that includes debug information. Specifically, I would like clisp to be built this way so that disassemble works in the repl. I imagine something along the lines of: or somesuch.
Late 2014 Mac mini running Sierra connected to an APC BackUPS Pro 900. No special software has been installed to support the UPS. At the moment I run pmset every minute to determine the power source, and trigger actions based on the results.
System Preferences in Sierra seems to know when a UPS is present. How do I check this from the command line?
how can I import all my iCloud contacts into the Windows 10 People app ?
What is the use of Login Window option in Mac. If user is already logged in, then what is the point of this option. When I select this option, it went to login window. Is it only to lock the Mac?
As the title says the old "import 'iTunes Library.xml' and migrate everything" trick is no longer working as of iTunes 12.5.5.9 at least. Does anyone know a workaround or alternate technique for achieving the old behavior? I was in the middle of merging almost a DOZEN older iTunes libraries when I noticed the trick had stopped working!
So, I need to mirror an iPad Air 2 (not just spare apps, the whole screen and audio) wirelessly to a projector, and I was thinking of buying an Apple TV. However, since the current version is so expensive, I thought of buying an older one (say, TV 3rd Gen version A1427, A1469 or 2nd Gen). Somehow, I couldn't find this in the Apple help (I guess... because they update it to the latest version, sometimes "hiding" previous ones). Which is the earliest version that can (decently) screen mirror an iPad?
I am using my MacBook pro 15" 2016 everyday and attached to it I have got a DELL Monitor 25" QHD. In order to use the monitor as main screen my MacBook pro needs to be plugged in charging all the time. Will the battery of the MacBook deteriorate because of this? Thanks
I just replaced the battery and screen of my iPhone 5. The phone does not appear to be working at all. There is no response from the phone after doing a hard reset and the phone will not respond to the mute button. There is no backlight. The only thing that seems strange is that the home button is a bit wobbly. When I plug the phone into iTunes, it says it can't access the phone because it is locked with a passcode. I have tried pressing all sorts of different buttons, and the only thing that gives any sort of response is plugging into the computer. Any ideas?
Yesterday, I installed an external hard disk for my Time Machine — well, a 1.6Tb partition of a 2Tb hard disk. I am running a new iMac with 512Gb SSD. The internal drive is about half full. After a day, I have about 5 backups, and I find that I only have 448Gb available.
I have an AppleScript code that I am having trouble writing. I would like a new, blank .rtf file to be created with a user-defined filename, saved to a predetermined location, with a predetermined document template. I already know how to accomplish all of these functions in AppleScript.
Whenever I try to use FaceTime to contact a certain person, it immediately disconnects with the message "X is not available for FaceTime". We are both using a MacBook running Mavericks, not iOS. The same message appears if the other person tries to contact me via FaceTime. I am able to use iMessage with no problems to contact them, and we have both made and received calls to other people.
In theory, is it possible to run Windows OS off a flash drive, so that on starting up the machine, if the stick was in the USB slot, it would startup on that 'hard disk' and run windows programs off it? I'm basically asking because I'm having nightmarish issues trying to get Bootcamp to partition my drive and run Windows on the partition. I've been searching the problem and it seems to be an ongoing problem going back to 2014, which amazes me.
After pressing Restart, the machine restarts and macOS Sierra version is still 10.12. I tried several times to update again using the App Store but it gets stuck with the same issue. Any hints how to complete the update to 10.12.3?
Is it possible to use a MacBook as a keyboard/mouse on a Windows computer, so everything I did on the MacBook would be reflected on the Windows computer? Would this be possible perhaps in some form of a Target Display Mode?
Recently, my Macbook Air (Mac OS Sierra) ran out of batteries. When I tried to turn it on, the screen was all black so I shut it off. When I turn it back on, the headphones don't work. I've tried to open Audio MIDI Setup, but it shows this:
I have two partition, every one is 250GB, one for macOS Sierra and second one for general purpose.  I want to shrink 50GB from Sierra partition and add it to the second one without loosing data. I tried to cut 50 GB using "Disk Utility" from Sierra partition, then click (-) while selecting the second one, but it creates a new partition with "untitled" name, so I am afraid to proceed in order to not to lose second partition data.
After spilling tea on the corner of this MacBook Pro we tried using a blow-dryer to warm and dry it. We over-warmed it, melting the upper edge of the right-side Shift key cap. It melted downwards, and stops the key from traveling. So that Shift key no longer works. Is it possible to replace a key cap on this keyboard? How to gracefully remove a key cap? How to gracefully remove a key cap? Where to buy a replacement key cap? Where to buy a replacement key cap? How to refit the replacement? How to refit the replacement?
All the sudden my passcode doesn't unlock my iPad Mini. The iPad is not synced to any computer. How can I get back into my iPad without resetting it? What could have happened?
I have the following accounts A personal iCloud account that secures my keychain / Facetime A personal iTunes account A work developer account for the App Store (not shared, I exclusively use it) Question How can I enable Two Step, or Two Factor for more than one accounts above? Background I have a mid-2012 Retina, a 2016 MacBook Pro, Watch 2, and iPhone 7. I use the same iCloud account on all devices, therefore I can only use two factor authentication for one account listed above. When I try to reenabled "two step" authentication for the other accounts, I don't see the option anymore within the idmsa portal. How do I enable either 2 step, or 2 factor in the above scenarios?
On the 2016 MacBook Pro, the touchbar has very high luminosity. At day it is very nice, but at night it blinds me. It's especially vexing because I run f.lux's Darkroom mode to reduce the glare that might wake my wife up, and the main source of light is the Touchbar! Is there any way to reduce the brightness, if not via a menu, maybe through a Plist somewhere or using the CLI?
I have an issue where my login password isn't being required after my Mac goes to sleep. In the System Preferences > Security & Privacy pane, I have checked the "Require password ... after sleep or screen saver begins" box. Every time I quit System Preferences, the box becomes unticked, and then when my laptop goes to sleep no password is required to login. I have tried: Reseting the PRAM multiple times I have restored the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist from a time capsule backup from before the issue began I have ran sudo defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 1 I have ran sudo defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -bool true I have put my laptop to sleep overnight with the password required option unchecked, and then re-checked it after
I have been using my outlook exchange account for a while already with Apple Mail on 10.12.3 Everything work just fine, until couple days ago, it doesn't login anymore, I get error about Username / Password combination miss match... However, login to outlook it self from webpage works just fine. Also, I'm using same mail account with iPhone with apple mail as well. I checked the login details, and even tried that same password to iPhone and it works... Where to start debugging ? Edit: All other non outlook emails work just fine, unfortunately I don't have second outlook account to test with...
I have an RGB keyboard. Is there a way to determine which kernel extension is used with it? MacOS handles the keyboard somehow without any additional drivers. Even lights are working. I would like to know what part of the kernel or what kernel extension does this.
i installed restic backup program with homebrew and tested its performance. Its great. So i wold like to set up a automated routine. I tried to do it in automator with a workflow but because of the password check it aborts. Maybe you wold solve different please let me know... What im trying to get: what i have tried:
The problem is that when I use external display with lid opened (so I'd have two monitors) the picture quality is noticeably worse (distorted colors, blurred text) compared when I use it with lid closed (only external monitor is active). Just see the difference between language input icon: Is there a way to have the better quality when lid is opened? MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra 10.12.3
I'm working with macOS Sierra and I have accidentally deleted /private/etc/ssh. How can I recover this folder so I can use SSH? The last solution is to reinstall the OS, but I want avoid this.
I've been having this issue several times: I'm writing a lengthy SMS, suddenly stop to do something else, and later come back with the auto-locked screen. When I unlock my iPhone, the SMS I was writing is gone. Is there any way to recover it?
I've noticed that since I switched to Sierra (currently on 10.12.1) whenever I write a backtick followed by enter (or shift+enter), in many programs I get another backtick. This didn't happen in El Capitan. I first noticed this in the Slack native app, where I could enter a code block by surrounding some lines with triple backticks, like
When I start terminal I get the error -bash: export: `PATH;': not a valid identifier Why? I've looked in the two files which I think bash uses at startup, and I cannot see an issue: /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile
Using an iPhone 5s on iOS 10.3 (14E5230e) beta. I recently tried to re-download Spotify after having some issues with low memory. Unfortunately Spotify didn't complete install, so there was only the grey app tile and after trying to delete it it remained as an uncompleted grey tile with just a number as name:
A couple of years ago, I downloaded the movie Sita Sings the Blues, put it on iTunes on my Mac and on my iPad. A few months ago, I got errors synchronizing my iTunes with my iPad and traced it down to this movie. I deleted it from my iPad and went to *=URL=* and downloaded it in the various versions available. Download versions are: All downloadable formats at Archive.org 1080p (HD) (4GB QuickTime H.264 .mp4) 720p (HD) (3GB Qucktime H.264 .mp4) 480p (SD) (1GB QuickTime H.264 .mp4) 640x360 700MB XviD download (burnable to CD-R/RW)
Situation today: Mac auto logs in admin user VirtualBox starts at login I have to select the guest OS click on Start (green arrow) in order to launch the guest OS What I would like is: Mac auto logs in admin user VirtualBox starts at login or not (if not necessary) Chosen (in advance) guest OS launches automatically in full screen mode
I am trying to automate some accounting tasks. For this purpose I have employed Noodlesoft Hazel's help to rename and sort documents. However, I am stuck at trying to combine PDFs that really belong together (i.e. invoice from vendor with receipt from payment portal for the same purchase). More specifically, the names of the documents to be combined have the same first part, say:
In other questions, such as "How to properly update git on mac?" it is implied that Apple Git isn't as good as using separately installed versions of Git. What are the downsides to using Apple Git?
Is there an existing application or a cheap solution to instruct an iPhone to play an alarm - sound and/or notification via a network signal/api? I'd like to connect a user's iPhone to an emergency/alarm system but without creating an entire application for that. It's important that this alarm sound is loud as possible (user evt. sleeps), until the user dismisses it.
I sometimes have the problem that my macbook won't sleep, even with the lid closed. After some investigation I tracked the problem down to Spotify app; when the app is open, even if no song is playing, my macbook won't go to sleep and eventually go out of battery power. I don't have need of spotify keeping my mac awake (for obvious reason I'm ok with a video player or a game instead); is there a way to ignore its request for preventing sleep without affecting other applications? I know I could quit spotify when not using it, but I am prone to forget it and it's very annoying to find my mac completely drained... EDIT: to be clearer, I am not looking for a solution about Spotify specifically (I could simply uninstall it and forget about it), I am just looking for an option which is the default in both Linux and Windows, that is that the user always overrides any setting when he/she closes the lid.
Have one encrypted folder and have erased the content of it. But not getting any option to merge the space back to the main partition.
When I went to restore an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 with iTunes, I got it stuck in recovery mode. I believe the device has been restored, since it has been reverted from 'Mike's iPhone' to just 'iPhone'. But now I'm stuck in recovery mode.
Need assistance, I go directly to login.microsoftonline.com and install office 365/2016 onto my mac. After installing the Microsoft office suite icons all show up. When I click on any one the of icons (outlook, word, excel, etc.) it first prompts me for my email account, which I type in. But after typing in my email address the icon (outlook, word, excel, etc.) does not open the program. Instead I am presented with:
I accidentally hit "Don't Trust" on my iPhone and now my MacBook won't unlock my phone. Is there a way to reverse this?
I've got a MacBook Pro 13″ MD101. After replacing the HDD it flashes a globe on the screen. Now here's the strange thing, the unit does not respond to key inputs. I've tried the option key on startup, recover mode, reset NVRAM/PRAM, SMC, target disk mode nothing happens. It ignores all that and goes straight and flashes the globe.
On the new macbooks with the Touch Bar, what keyboard shortcut can be used to mirror displays? On Macbook Pros without the touchbar, the keyboard shortcut for mirroring displays was Command+F1. This doesn't seem to work on the new Macbook Pro with touchbar - you have to press the Fn key to show the F1, F2, etc. keys, and Fn+Command+F1 doesn't seem to do it. Here are my current keyboard settings:
I was trying to install php downloaded from *=URL=* I used this procedure: ./configure ... --with-gd. But with the --with-gd option the installation doesn't finish properly. Then tested Over new recently installed macOS Sierra Virtual Machine (if before procedure of install php), and the before procedure worked perfectly! Some happens with my Library links, or path or includes on my MacBook...
Sometimes, when I start to use my iPhone as a hotspot, I see 2 connections. Since I am the only one supposed to be using it, and I’m only using wifi (not USB as well), I can’t work out why there is a second connection.
Is there a way to get an option when using finder to be able the right click and select "move to", in the same way you can "move to trash". I'd like to be able to move items around my finder this way. Usually when I've got my laptop connected to a larger monitor I just pull 2 finder windows side by side and drag and drop to organise folders, but it would be really useful when on a smaller laptop screen to be able to do this. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5.
I want to include special actions in Finder such as showing or not showing hidden files. most of the time I want to have a clean clutter free system, however there are times I need to dig into the library or other system locations. It would be nice to have a way to use the touch bar to create a clutter free Finder experience that can be enabled/disabled. Is it possible to include scripts in the Toolbar feature of Finder or any other app?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" late 2015, on whom I created two partitions on the main SSD, on one there is the macOS, and on the other I installed Linux Mint. As boot manager I installed rEFInd.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but maybe someone can help me out. I lived in Australia for a few month and got a new number on my iPhone. I backed up my WhatsApp a few times while having that new number. When I got back to Germany I returned to my old number on the same phone. I did a factory reset after I came back and then switched to my german number with a clean WhatsApp history. Now here is my question: Can I still restore my old history (Australian number) onto my new WhatsApp? I'm not even sure if my Australian number still exists since I don't have the SIM anymore.
I want to share my Ethernet through a Wi-Fi connection. I'm also doing Xcode iOS development. I have a custom change in my /etc/hosts file for a host pointing to 127.0.0.1. In my application, I want to be able to connect to my Wi-Fi hotspot using the custom domain in my /etc/hosts. Here is my /etc/hosts: And in my app running on an iPad, I want to connect to my.test.com without error. How is this possible?
I've created an EPUB file and used DropBox to transfer my partial file (chapters 1-40) to iBooks on my iPad which worked fine. When I finished the EPUB file, I attempted to refresh it on my iPad. I deleted it from my iPad; copied it updated file (chapters 1-53) to DropBox. I again selected open it in iBooks, but the original, deleted file with only the initial portion (chapters 1-40) reappeared. I tried it on my Mac and the whole book (chapters 1-53) was added. The only way I am able to get the updated EPUB was to give it a different name in DropBox.
I had multiple documents open in Preview, and then I accidentally pressed Cmd+Q, which quit the entire Preview program. Is there a way to make Preview prompt me asking if I want to close all documents before quitting?
I am attempting to calculate the quantity of a given weekday (say, how many Tuesdays, or Thursdays, etc.) between two dates. I'm running afoul of what seem to be Numbers' limitations as compared to Excel, though I can't testify that it's not just me missing a function. I have no problem calculating the number of days: DATEDIF(TODAY(),Due Date Storage,"D") with Due Date Storage being a date field and the formula returning the number of days. Dividing that by 7 will provide the number of weeks, which gets me closer though still imprecise. But I can't figure how to automatically calculate the number of Day X (some payments are made on Tuesdays, some on Thursdays, etc., so, essentially how many payments remain between now and a given due date.)
Is there any way to configure Transmit so that it connects to an SFTP server through some SSH tunnel? (without having to launch the SSH tunnel via command line) E.g., with WinSCP on Microsoft Windows, I can do the following:
What software did original Macintosh developers use and what were common languages used to write that software? In short, I am wondering what the original development environment was like.
I recently upgraded my machine to macOS Sierra. In the last couple of days I've noticed that cutting and pasting is increasingly flakey. I thought initially that copy wasn't working since I didn't seem to be able to copy new content to the clipboard, but after trying various things I now have my machine in a state where Cmd-V or pasting via the Edit menu produces a different result to pbpaste. Are there any circumstances under which this would be expected?
I am running BootCamp on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and Windows 10. I have two hard drives in my MBP. The system drive is an SSD, which is partitioned for each of the OSs. My "data" drive is formatted as ExFat so I can easily read/write to the same drive regardless of which operating system I am using. In theory, this works. But multiple times, I have had the hard drive fail when I restart the laptop into Windows mode. The data drive becomes unreadable and Windows says it needs to format it before it can use it. I think it gets corrupted somehow. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do to prevent it in the future? Additional details if they are relevant: one of my programs on my MBP is not quite fully compatible with OS X yet and the only way for me to shut down or restart my MBP is through the terminal (I am updating that so hopefully this variable will be eliminated shortly). Thanks for any suggestions.
I am experimenting with Sheepsaver and am having some problems. I've got it booting okay into Mac OS and have installed some games and other software. But I think I was a little too eager and installed too much without properly testing things and I'm experiencing a number of freezes. Actually, the screen freezes up and mouse pointer disappears but sound is still playing. Anyway, I remember in the good old days having some software installed on my Power Macs that listed what extensions conflicted with what. So, my questions are: What was that software? Is it still available? Does it work in sheepsaver?
I have an iPhone 7 and I have a Google Cardboard that doesn't have a magnetic clicker. I would like to use an app, but it requires me to either tap the screen or use the VR clicker to click. Can I setup some sort of "tapper" on Mac so when I click a key on my Mac it taps the screen of my iPhone? (Software Program)
As you see the mysql and mysql-5.7.17-macos10.12-x86_64 under the local path. The mysql folder icon has a arrow on the bottom left.
All of sudden my keyboard on my MacBook Pro 2015 has started glowing. I don't know which key I turned on. Is there way to turn it off?
I have setup SheepSaver with Mac OS 9.0.4 and it boots okay. I've installed software and games. One of those games is Swoop http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/swoop/
I've been a user of NetNewsWire as my RSS reader for god knows how long... it must be over ten years. Alas when it changed hands the new developer removed my favourite feature - showing the unread articles in a hierarchical menu in the dock. That feature allows the user to very quickly scan the unreads, especially if you have your feeds arranged into many folders/topics.
I have configured dnsmasq to resolve all .dev domains to 127.0.0.1. This works great as long as my Mac is connected to the Internet (using Wi-Fi or even my iPhone in hotspot mode).
I have checked the VM settings and they are identical. I have: toggled these up and down, wiped the VM image and created a new one, reinstalled VMWare, copied my colleague's VM, and I have wiped my Mac. I'm a Mac noob and am pretty much out of ideas, and so I want to check the hardware.
I somehow have multiple accounts for the same email address - they both receive messages sent to that address but one (the POP) has hundreds of emails in the Inbox and Sent, going back years and the other (the IMAP) has four in, going back a week, and none out. In Mail>Preferences>Accounts they both appear, one with a grey IMAP beneath it and one with a grey POP. In Settings>Internet Accounts they also both appear, this time with a grey Mail and a grey Notes beneath them. Is there any reason why I should want this setup, and what is the best way to rationalise it (which I would like to do by removing the POP, but without losing emails)?
I just installed ImageMagick (new to Terminal) and can't figure out how to bulk crop a folder of pngs to remove all transparent space around the png (i.e. a square logo on a rectangle png with transparent area that can be cropped) I am trying to take all the pngs and output them into a different folder called out. What is the command?
I can't work on my macbook anymore as it constantly pops up 'startup disk full' I went through every article I could find, cleaning up as much as I could. I deleted unnecessary backups, do not have any other user accounts, cleared trash, etc etc. I currently have about 70GB of files I actually need, and now Grand Perspective is showing me I have 164GB of 'Miscellaneous used space'. What is this space and can I get rid of it?
I can't find any extension that allows me to switch between open tabs every x seconds..... Before I 'dive' into extension development I have to ask....: Is there a limitation in Safari's extensions system which would block the development of an auto tab switcher?
I recently swapped out my 128GB SSD HD for a platter based Western Digital 1TB HD. I did a clean install of Sierra and just reinstalled all my apps. My files are stored in Dropbox.
I have a problem, my Dock have enabled autohidding option. And when I set for example safari maximize window, and after it open new tab or run something from Dock, my Safari window become minus few pixels at bottom (red arrow on screenshot), how can I fix it?
Whenever I try to install a program or unlock system settings on my old iMac (OS X 10.7) and it asks for an admin password, after I enter the password the password window just closes without anything happening. The padlock doesn't change in the settings, and with installations it stays at the window I was at without any response or change, leaving me only with the options to go back, close the window, or try to enter the password again (which of course doesn't work no matter how often I try). I seem to have the same problem as is described in this support thread: *=URL=* The fix mentioned in this thread is as follows: OSX apparently needs to regenerate a fresh auth.db from /System/Library/Security/authorization.plist. This can be triggered in terminal with the following command: sudo mv /var/db/auth.db /var/db/auth.db.old After rebooting the system everything works as it should be.
I have a Macbook running OSx and have two external monitors plugged in. Unlike for all my colleagues, whichever app I use, in whichever monitor, the menu bar will always be in the top of the lefthand monitor. This is obviously very annoying when using an app in the right-hand monitor or Macbook screen.
I would like my MacBook (on El Capitan) to dim the screen before going to sleep, so that I can hit a key to keep it unlocked if desired. Currently, there is no way to keep it from locking if it's started to turn off the screen. Any thoughts?
Does the iPhone save contacts in the internal storage, SIM card and iCloud (if activated)? I can see an option in Contacts to import from SIM. I wonder if the iPhone stores contacts in all these places.
I have a situation where Server.app works for many hours, never seeming to finish, when applying permissions on a large share. What is the shell incantation that would apply read + write access to a specific user for an entire share? ls -le shows the following permissions: But I'm not entirely sure if I should assemble a script that mimics these kinds of permissions or if there's a simpler, and more preferable way, to do this. Update: I did find an interesting incantation going on in the background that was executed by Server.app: /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/servermgrd/bundles/server mgr_sharing.bundle/Contents/copyprivs -p /Volumes/path_to_share -f 32 -s /tmp/CopyPrivsTemp.B251lF Help for copyprivs:
I know the question might be a bit subjective, but I'm really facing the problem and hopefully someone can help. I'm buying an iPad for my grandma. She is 80 years old, living in a rural area in China. She has very little knowledge of computers (but she has seen us using iPad and liked the look of it immediately), and she can't read that much Chinese (she never went to school). We want to connect her with video call (e.g. FaceTime, WeChat) regularly. I've tried to change the font size as large as possible, but it's still not large enough for her. Also, I tried to find a way to enlarge the icon size, but cannot find it. I'm wondering if there is a setting or theme special designed for a senior person like my grandma (that changes the iPad to have larger icons and text). Siri is not an option as my grandma only speaks a local dialect (not Chinese), a language Siri doesn't work in. Wish someone with similar experience can help.
I'm looking at my $PATH And noting that last directory is not a directory. I'm guessing it should look like instead of and that something went wrong with a node.js installation at some point. So I look at my .bash_profile: and I THINK I should correct the file to reflect the above change and run source ~.bash_profile Am I right?
Perhaps a mode close to 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 would be possible. If yes, how ugly will the interpolation be?
I'd like to be able to do "cmd +" to zoom in and "cmd -" to zoom out. I tried setting "Zoom In" on the app shortcuts on the keyboard (under System Preferences). Currently I'm just relying on the default Excel shortcut of Cntrl + scrolling.
Is there a way to avoid this error? For example, only mount these drives if I'm on my home wifi network or using geolocation?
Can someone tell me what is the best way that I can automatically insert a blank line at the top and bottom of these newly-created .rtf files, for these two separate pieces of code? First piece of code (for when the clipboard contains rich text): Second piece of code (for when the clipboard contains HTML): The blank lines do not have to be of a predetermined font type or font size; the blank lines should simply match the style of the surrounding .rtf file (that is, the style of the rich text on the clipboard).
I'm surprised this doesn't appear to have been asked here. Trying to change the color of the "Birthdays" calendar generated from my Apple Contacts and shared via iCloud to my macOS and iOS devices.
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 2016 13″, my first Apple laptop. I'm using an Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 due to repetitive strain injuries. I find that scrolling on OS X was an excruciating process for me.
If I mark an email as junk in Mail on iOS it puts it in a folder called "Junk". If I mark an email as junk in Mail on MacOS it puts it in a folder called "Junk Email". This was a little hard to spot at first as Mail displays this folder as "Junk", you have to see it on other devices (e.g. Mail on iOS) or the web app to see that the folder is actually called "Junk Email". My question is this: how can I tell one of these OSs to use a different Junk mail folder?
It turns out that in macOS Sierra (10.12) by default you can switch between languages with Ctrl + Space while previously it was Cmd + Space which is faster to click because you can easily do it with just thumb. My question is - is it possible to switch back to the Cmd + Space? From what I see now it's not doable
When I am watching movies (mostly on Amazon Prime) on my MacBook Pro (early 2011) I sometimes would wish a more even sound level throughout the movie, i.e. less difference in volumes (e.g. gunfire and whispering dialogue). Is there any way to compress the output audio (preferably on OS level) of my MacBook? Any Apps, Plug-ins etc.?
Running Apple Hardware Test (AHT) repeatedly on a late 2011 Macbook Pro over Wi-Fi (Option D). Completes the process sometimes and says no problems but sometimes freezes (has done so during RAM testing portion as well as during logic board portion of the test). Should I consider both RAM and Logic board damaged or dismiss the freezing as likely the result of flakey Wi-Fi service? I started running the test after reinstalling Lion over Wi-Fi because the trackpad had been responding weirdly.
I lost my iPhone and it had no password. I'd like to disable my Apple ID on it and wipe it. Is there any way to do it if I don't have the phone with me?
I'm updating iOS on my iPhone 6s Plus, and forgot my iCloud Keychain passcode. It gives me two options: reset keychain approve from other device The first option will erase all my passwords stored on my devices, which isn't acceptable.
I've been having problems with a SheepSaver installation (see my other question Unusual problem with Swoop on Mac OS 9.0.4 under SheepSaver) so decided to start from scratch and create a second SheepSaver installation. But instead this time I followed the instructions from here *=URL=* All was going well, but when I get to step 3b I get this error If I click OK, SHeepSaver just starts again and gives the same error.
I would like to utilise the Wi-Fi capabilities of my iMac for a music streaming device which requires the use of SSDP (a UDP based protocol) and is connected via ethernet to the iMac. If I use the regular MacOS internet connection sharing, I can get to the device via ICMP from another computer (i.e. the route is working).
When it does not work the computer can see all the WiFi networks from nearby apartments, no problem, with good signal strength. You select the right network, put in the password, and it says "XXXX could not be joined".
I am aware that older versions of OS X use secure.log, but I have been unable to find any definite answers as to where the the output log goes for for attempting to run a command with sudo privileges on a non-admin account, on macOS Sierra. When we see the command feedback "this incident will be reported"; where is that reported to and how can I see it on macOS Sierra.
I want to add a Google Hangouts / Talk account to iMessage. I am on OS X 10.12.3 (Sierra). After logging in to my Google account and after entering OTP, it brings me to a white screen that appears to be stuck. I already tried disabling OTP but it still gets stuck. I attached a screenshot.
I have an iMac and I have some mp4 videos in it. I'd like to play it from my iPad Pro remotely. Is it possible?
Is there any way to get the behavior of the older phones for vmail playback on the iPhone? Essentially a hands-free full playback? thanks
I have just upgraded to MacOS Siera, and all of my users are no longer recognized. I can see my user folder in the Users folder but OS won't recognize it. I have looked around but only found issues revolving FileVault, which I have not used in the past (though I have tried the suggested solutions and they did not work). To make it clear - none of my old users are available. One thing I have noticed is that the OS has technically installed on a different partition than the old OS, which might have something to do with that (I had a small, 256MB partition created to allow the installation process, as instructed on apple site). How can I restore the users?
I am trying to add a Google account using System Preferences > Internet Accounts. I already tried the following. able to reproduce this in 10.12.3 and 10.12.2. able to reproduce this in 10.12.3 and 10.12.2. disabled OTP, same issue disabled OTP, same issue able to reproduce in Macbook Air and Macbook Pro able to reproduce in Macbook Air and Macbook Pro same issue with both Gmail account (tried two) and Google Apps account same issue with both Gmail account (tried two) and Google Apps account I am not using any iCloud I am not using any iCloud it appears to be similar to this issue but the fix does not work: Can't login with Google using Internet Accounts it appears to be similar to this issue but the fix does not work: Can't login with Google using Internet Accounts adding LinkedIn works adding LinkedIn works I already tried to VPN to California and Singapore to check if something is wrong with Google mirrors I already tried to VPN to California and Singapore to check if something is w
Charging my Iphone 6s with a cable has become a real headache for me, where the cables keep getting "broken" and not charging Is there an alternative way to charge in a cable-free way?
I wanted to download windows 8.1 because I need it for some programs for school on my Mac. I used Boot Camp Assistant to make a partition for Windows, but I cant find or switch to windows 8.1. I would like to delete that partition and then restart the whole process, but none of these ways work for me. The Windows partition does not appear in Disk Utility, or when I restart the mMac and hold the option key. My storage has gone down from 250 GB to 201 GB and but the 49 GB seems to be lost which is impossible. Start up your Mac in OS X. Quit all open apps and log out any other users. Open Boot Camp Assistant, then click Continue. Select “Remove Windows 7 or later version,” then click Continue. Do one of the following: If your Mac has a single internal disk, click Restore. If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select “Restore disk to a single OS X partition,” then click Continue.
From this morning I cannot use anymore any account based on Gmail (neither work account). It asked me for password and every time I insert the correct one, it gives me a "grey" screen (check the screenshot below). I tried already to delete all the google/gmail entries on login/all from Keychain Access, to reboot my Macbook but the problem doesn't get solved. Anyone knows how to solve this? Thank you!
When I try to draw a line on an image using Preview's annotation tools, it doesn't remain as I drew it but instead the line is drawn linear. How can I set it to be preset as nonlinear? So looking to the images, I don't want it to be set like this:
I'm trying to build a local PHP server using XAMPP. When I'm trying to run one of the PHP files, I get an error about the fopen command in the file. From a quick search in the web, I've seen that in order to solve it I need to run this command on terminal: On the comments to this article, I've seen that I should use 760 instead of 777.
I have an iMac running Sierra and MacOS Server, on which the Time Machine service is configured and running, with a folder configured for the Time Machine backups. The file sharing service is also running. But none of the Macs on the network (all of which also run Sierra), not even the iMac itself, can see it as a valid Time Machine destination in the Time Machine preferences pane -- it's not shown in the list of Time Machine backup disks. Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this?
I'm trying to figure out the best permissions configuration for my home folder in Sierra. Would executing this make sense:
You can set certain applications to open certain files by default. For example, .pdf with Preview, .jpg and .png with Preview, and .txt files with TextEdit. However, sometimes you want to open them with alternative applications – .pdf with Skim, .jpg and .png with Photoshop, and .txt with Chocolate. Is there any way to open a file you have selected in the Finder in its respective "alternative application" with a specific keyboard shortcut, for example F1? It is possible to open files in specific application using a keyboard shortcut with AppleScript via Automator, but I am not aware of a way to open the file in an application depending on the type of file it is.
On Linux, you can examine /proc/$PID/stack. Is there an equivalent on OSX?
I had recently learned the Tagging system on MacOS and I had tagged the file with name - DA1 with a yellow tag. Shortly after that, I removed the yellow tag but the file keeps popping up on my Finder window. What should I do to remove that file from the Finder?
Suppose I buy an iPhone 7 directly from Apple, and I select the SIM-free version. Will this lock to the first carrier it is activated with? Or is it unlocked for life so I'll be able to switch carriers freely without restrictions?
I just got a secondary monitor to use with my MacBook Pro (13" Retina Early-2015). I previously had AppleScripts for dimming and for increasing the brightness of the MBP screen—either to no bars or to about 75%—but now they aren't working for some reason (w/ or w/o the external monitor plugged in). I also tried using Shades but both screens keep flashing every 2-3 seconds (I'd rather use an AppleScript as well). Basically, my external monitor is my main screen and I want to be able to dim my MBP screen using an AppleScript to either no bars or about 75% (of which the scripts will then be redirected to keyboard shortcuts with an application). What AppleScript code would be needed to do this? EDIT: Here is the old that worked really well before, but for some reason stopped (with out without an external monitor plugged in). tell application "System Events" repeat 16 times key code 107 end repeat end tell and tell application "System Events" repeat 11 times key code 113 end repeat end tell
I want to know what file is modified when I run a terminal command like: Is there a way to do this? I'm thinking maybe a command that looks for recently modified files in setting directories.
I have an old IPhone 4, jailbroken. When I was in cydia I deleted some elements to run the Iphone (I was young and naive, didn't have a clue what I was doing)
I have 2 MacBook Pros and one Thunderbolt Display (27 inch). Both MBPs support Thunderbolt connectivity and work fine with external display. I need a way to switch between 2 MBP, without changing the connection everytime. Is there any hardware / KVM switch which supports this functionality? MBP Models are as below: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
and then I rebooted. The system did not go to safe mode.
I'm trying to use a .dmg file. I have it downloaded and everything but whenever I try to open it, it doesn't do anything. Am I doing something wrong?
My left and right ⌘ Command keys are being extremely unresponsive on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012). They might work for hours and then stop working again. The odd thing is that when they do stop working, so does the number zero (0).
I'm on OS Sierra. I currently have subversion 1.9 and I want to downgrade to 1.7. I tried this so far with no luck: What other options might I have? Edit: More background: I'm getting this message when I run svn commands in my working directory:
I have more than one Mac Book Pro, and need to transfer large files between them. Can I repurpose the USBC cable for power to transfer between Mac Books? Is there a better/faster cable, or way to transfer files between MacBooks?
Was doing some work on my iMac, and then I got a black screen with some small red vertical lines. I was trying to restart, then it starts up and hangs on grey or blue screen. Have then read a lot and was trying this: Boot into Single-User mode Boot into Single-User mode
Is there a way to disable the microphone by setting the sensitivity to zero from the menu bar on El Capitan? Is there a keystroke option?
Here is the description of this feature: Set a key combination to speak selected text.
Reading up on how to improve my suddenly-very-slow Mail app, I found the tip to rebuild the sqlite index: sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/V4/MailData/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
I recently upgraded my Mac Pro from Yosemite to Sierra, and whenever I plug in my iPhone 6s, both iTunes and Photos will open as they should. However within Photos (and Image Capture), I get a "please unlock iPhone" message. When I unlock my iPhone, everything proceeds. While I do not get the "unlock phone" nag from iPhoto, however, my photo library has been converted to use Photos.
Is there a way to annotate PDF's without clicking the trackpad? Something more like writing on paper.
I have a Samsung S7. It's got gigs of audio on it, all legal and aboveboard. In my vehicle, it connects to the stereo, and I get all my favorites to shuffle or whatever. Works superbly. I thought it would be nothing to connect to my Mac Pro via bluetooth (it was, in fact easy -- phone says it's properly paired), but nothing shows up in the audio input devices, or anywhere else I have snooped around.
How do I know if an update requires restart in macOS Sierra? I just updated iTunes and read the description of the update, but couldn't find any mention of a restart required. After a moment the computer restarted without a warning. Luckily, I wasn't in the middle of anything important, but I'd like to avoid such forced restarts in the future.
I just got a 2006 macbook pro A1150. It's running version MacOS X 10.6.8. How do I reset the administrator information? Please help me.
Well, I've got my iTunes backup restored to my iPhone. Unfortunately, I've had an important application for me - Photo Drag Pro, which was probably now removed from the App Store. However, I need to restore data from that application.
I just restored my HD from a Time Machine backup and afterward my AHT won't work, despite the fact that I have the original install disk (10.5 Leopard, disk #2 that says it has AHT on it). AHT worked a week ago, no problem. I'm 100% sure I have the right disk. I've successfully run AHT many times using this disk in the past.
I have an Apple watch (2016, V1) and a friend have an Apple watch (2016, v1). On my watch it shows the message directly on the watch. As you can see here: "Person sent you a message: Hey" (Answer Button)
I have got my new iPhone currently with iOS 9.3.5 and another older iPhone with iOS 10.2. My goal is to get 10.2 on the new one (NOT 10.2.1!!). I tried a iTunes and iCloud backup but the version is still 9.3.5 :/ What can I do?
I know that there are multiple compiler apps for iOS, such as Pythonista. There are also apps to compile programs in other popular languages, like C++, C, and Java. However, as much as I have searched, I cannot find anything that runs Go code. As far as I can tell, there is only one app that is even Go-related on the App Store: Go By Example, which doesn’t compile code.
Edit. On page Crindori Disk sensei I found:
When we select one of the printer: printer-x, we see status: "Gathering printer information...". And its driver is automatically selected. How is Mac gathering printer information? What is this whole process of adding a printer in details? Is there any tutorial/article that can help? I have tried google search, could not find something of good interest yet.
I want to do a clean install of OSX 10.6 on my MacBook Pro. I created a bootable USB on Windows using Trans Mac from an ISO image of OSX 10.6, but when I insert the USB on my Mac and hold the option key on the keyboard the USB stick doesn't show up at all.
In Sierra, Mail no longer groups certain e-mail messages into threads. For example, my Linux home server sends me e-mail reports with the same Subject, from the same e-mail address and these e-mails are always shown as individual entries in the Inbox folder. Before Sierra, all these e-mail messages with identical Subject were grouped into one thread. I was wondering if there is a way to configure Mail to treat such e-mail liked it used to before Sierra.
I'm not able to clear off the backups on my iCloud account. I had deleted icloud sync from my old iPhone and iPad. It's no longer shows in the iCloud section on both the devices regarding any backup. Is there any way to delete it off ?
In Sierra, and it looks like this started with Mavericks, Mail downloads to a local disk entire e-mail messages when using IMAP. It used not to do this in Mountain Lion (10.8). Is there a way to configure Mail in Sierra to download just e-mail headers when using IMAP?
I have a GCX guitar switcher that opens and closes switches based on MIDI CC messages. For a given preset, I would like to send up to 8 CC# messages on channel 16. (Channel 16 is the only channel a GCX will listen to.) So effectively, when I send a program change on Channel 1, I would like MainStage to send a few different CC# on 16. I was able to tie a CC# input on a MIDI channel to a CC# send variable on another channel, but it doesn't seem to let me assign the one CC# input control to multiple CC# outputs controls. Further more, this is tying a CC# input to an alternate CC# output, not a program change input to multiple CC# outputs. I'm using MainStage 3.2.4 and OS X 10.12.2
Is it possible to glue a set of windows so that they can be moved, resized, fullscreened, etc, as one ?
I am happily using Apple Mail and have ordered my mail chaos into a great structured tree of certain archive directories. I use apple Mail rules to organize a lot of the incoming traffic to be sorted into the according archive directories automatically. Unfortunately, there are some incoming mails, which can't be sorted by a rule (unless you blow up the rule to have endless decisions and dare to completely mess it up).
I just installed Outlook on my Ipad and configured the account as IMAP. My primary email address has the form: x1272978546653@organisation.com and I have to use this as user name when I login to the servers.
First, here is the situation; To increase bootcamp partition (Windows 10), I diminished macOS partition size from MacOS from Disk Utility app (by the pie chart). Then Windows did not boot. There were many articles about this problem and I learned that it was because Windows partition number in MBR became greater than what it can boot. to fix it, I followed instruction here (only later though, I realized the instruction was not meant for my situation - he resized by Windows application while I did by Mac); Bootcamp won't start after resizing partition although without really understanding, I carefully followed the instruction and typed all commands correctly. but it still does not boot. moreover, when I see Disk Utility in macOS again, I no longer see the Windows partition which I could at least see before. still, I noticed the size of the partition "Macintosh HD" is not full hard disk size, I assume data in Windows disk is intact. Here are my questions;
I try to use my iMac as a external screen or otherwise if possible, but when I press ⌘ CommandF2 nothing happened. I also try fn⌘ CommandF2 just to be sure MacBook Pro 2012 iMac 27" 2012 Using Thunderbolt 2
I after some advnature (as described here) I have successfully booted osx installation from a brand new SSD by Samsung (EVO 850). I am running osx 10.11.6 (trim is not enabled). My Mac is mid 2009 macbook pro.
This is for a .scpt file, triggered by a keyboard combo in FastScripts, entitled "Type As Single Line Plain Text." The AppleScript code takes the clipboard text, removes all rich text formatting, and then removes all line breaks and indentations, setting this new string to a new variable, theClipboardTextWithoutAnyLineBreaksOrFormatting. Finally, I want the AppleScript to insert this new text at the blinking cursor.
I'm running OS X Yosemite on a recently formatted 2010 MBP. When I formatting the drive / installed Yosemite, I partitioned it with one partition called OS X and another partition simply called Partition. I would like to install Windows 7 onto Partition and I'm under the impression I need to use Boot Camp in order to do that... it's been many years since I last did this however. When I try to start Boot Camp, I receive the following error: The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
What does this mean:  The "system" section is taking up 80 GB. Why is it taking up so much and is there any way I can reduce it?
here's a issue – since I moved my iTunes Library to external HDD, every time I launch iTunes it asks Apple ID password.  When I enter the login/password – all works almost perfectly after that, e.g. I can use iTunes Store, download my recent purchases. “Almost” because except iCloud Music Library:
I have Jenkins running on my computer and occupying port 8080.  I'm unable to kill it. Something like ps -9 PID would kill the process, but Jenkins will restart with a different PID.
I have a MacBook Pro 8.2. Recently I have download Sierra and Yosemite, and am currently running El Capitan. And I created a bootable USB for OS X Yosemite with DiskMaker X 6, in case Sierra goes wrong.
Itunesconnect says my app has "6 reviews" (woohoo!), but I can't see them. It says "No reviews for this store front". I assume (after some googling) that the store front is associated with country. I tried changing from United States in the dropdown at the top, but United States is the only choice. I'd like to see all reviews regardless of store front/language. Is this possible?
I can't approve my iPhone from the household iPad because it uses another family member's account for iCloud. I hoped that because I make iTunes purchases on the iPad with my Apple ID that the iPhone would trust it, but it does not. In fact, the opposite has happened - after signing in with a now-suspect Apple ID the iPad is now also waiting for approval and refusing to trust the iPhone. I cannot log into icloud.com for the same reason, so there's no hope of authenticating from there.
Why there is a restart required for changing the text boldness in iOS? For text size there is no such requirement, why only for test boldness?
I already found out, that this could be done with the AppleScript snippet, that you see on the bottom of the screenshot. Unfortunately, the files will end up in /Applications, because the ABBYY app is in there and so the variable isn't being interpreted as I wanted it to be. Any insights and hints will be highly appreciated.
I wiped my iPhone 5s, but in the process of re-setting it up, it says "verification failed, there was a problem connecting to the server" after I tried submitting the two-factor identification code- even though the wifi is working. I tried to call apple support, but I have to have some "IBN"(?) number that I can only get to by going to settings, which I can't do because my iPhone isn't functioning yet. This number supposedly also comes with the packaging which I don't have anymore because I got the phone almost a year ago.
PREVIOUS MANUAL FIXES Previously, I have manually fixed the issue. For example, I sometimes would highlight only part of the associated text, then highlighting the rest of text (partially fixing the issue ex ante--but not allowing me to highlight all the text I wanted to at once). Other times, I would fix the issue ex post: I would highlight all the associated text, resulting in the bullet point becoming highlighted, but would then delete the bullet point, bring my text into line with the previous unhighlighted bullet point, and then click "enter" to create a new unhighlighted bullet point (this worked because the text associated with the previous bullet point was not completely highlighted).
I am using it by mid 2012. I was sitting out door for 2hrs at evening and keep working with mac book; and at middle of the screen around 1.5" or 2" starts flickering. Sometime it stops flickering and back to normal. I did clear PRAM and NVRAM by pressing option+command+R+P.
I want to connect my MacBbook Pro to a video projector without showing my desktop, menu bars, dock and anything else on the wall. Basically, I just want a certain window to be displayed.
I recently had a hard drive failure (which I now blame on the SATA cable because my SSD became corrupted). I have the stock hard drive that originally came with my MacBook Pro, and I have put it in an enclosure so I can use it via USB. When I restored my hard drive using Time Machine, the computer kept going to sleep despite being connected to power. After about 12 hours being stuck at the same spot, I decided to force shut down the computer and then restart the transfer. When the computer booted back up, all (or at least most, and some data I haven't needed lately) was there. I tried to open the Messages app and it would not open. I reinstalled the OS using the option that would allow me to keep my data, which fixed some errors that the system had been giving me. After researching online, I learned that I should remove the file that stores Messages information (I forget what it was called). My Messages now open, but all previous ones were deleted.
I'm considering installing Parallels to use Visual Studio for my personal use. Can I use the standard $80 version of Parallels? Or do I really need to commit to $100 a year for the Pro version?
I uploaded a ton of photos from a friend's iPhone before wiping her phone and transferring the photos to a flash drive for her to keep (I use the iPhone for myself now). But now all of her photos are interspersed throughout my photos on iPhoto and it is very bothersome. I need to delete all her photos from iPhoto without individually selecting them. Is there a function I can use to select all photos taken on a certain device before a certain time period or something? Thank you.
I had previously asked this as part of another question, but I realized it would be better if I kept them separate: I have newer messages on one hard drive, and older messages on a Time Machine backup. How can I merge them?
I think this started happening several months ago. I would type an address in a Safari tab (tab 1), then go to another tab (tab 2), which already has a page loaded. After a second or two, while still looking at tab 2, the new page loads there, replacing the original one! Tab 1, in the meantime, doesn't have any page in it.
I would like to be able to summarize daily network bandwidth usage for running applications. Additional details, such as a sorted list of addresses by traffic usage, would be nice to have as well but not essential. For the most part I just want to know which apps are using the most bandwidth.
I have my MacBook Pro connected to a cell-enabled iPad. Ping to stackexchange.com is less than 60 ms. But web pages are taking ages. A robot detector for a meta question has been there for several minutes, and the checkbox has still not appeared.
I was hoping that there could be some way to have the first action go, then wait .1 seconds before the next action. Is there any way to do this?
We're running a Mac Mini in a small business network, which hosts (among other things) a calendar server using Server.app. We have set up accounts for each user, so that they can sync calendars with the server.
Nearly every time I open Preview.app I will then immediately press the toolbox button and then the sketch button.  Is there a shortcut to access the sketch tool or some way to put the sketch button on my default toolbar?
in the last few days my password access to files has gone missing and the keychain lists have unidentified inputs such as "handoff-decryption-key-[REDACTED]" Whats going on?
I erased all content and settings on my iPhone, and the Find My iPhone activation lock was disabled (no activation lock). So ... Why is it still listed in iCloud Settings, Devices? The info blurb on Devices page says that it's listing the devices still signed in. How is this phone still signed in? Is this normal? Is something wrong? It should be signed out. Maybe it could be listed as an old device ... but not "Signed In". I no longer have possession of this phone. I am very concerned for what this means. Worried I did something wrong here.
I have an 11" MacBook Air running El Capitan that has trouble printing. The printer is an Epson NX430 and we print to it over wifi. There are 4 different MacBooks running a variety of OS versions in the house but only the one seems to have this trouble. I've tried resetting the printer system and re-adding it. I've tried changing with the protocol from Port9100 to IPP. Nothing seems to change. Once the computer starts to report that the printer is not responding, the only "fix" is to reboot, and this generally happens after just 1 or 2 prints.
In a Windows Command Prompt, I can find the location of things like Java and GIT by using the where command. For example, typing where java yields C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05. What is the macOS Terminal equivalent for the Windows Command Prompt command, where?
I got this computer from someone else and instead of reformatting I simply created a new user. I created a new user account, made it admin, and attempted to delete the old one. The old user was deleted from my new users' Users and Groups GUI. The language was set to english. But it didn't exactly "disappear".
I am using a 3rd-party messenger app for chatting. I don't want this app to notify me in any way, so I turned off all its notifications. When I open the app, I see everything I have missed, and it's good that way.
If I were to delete all of the pictures on my photo stream, would I still be able to keep the copies on my camera roll, or would they also be deleted from there?
change from U.S store to India store to update whatsapp without changing the number
Someone offered to share their account with me so I could get a couple games for free. If I use their account could they access mine somehow? I'm worried about them accessing my personal stuff that I have on my iCloud. Also they gave me an iCloud email.. can you even use a iCloud email for iTunes?
I have the Mid 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 15" (11,4) and originally installed Windows 10 Pro using Bootcamp assistant. I'm having issues with downloading over wireless (no / limited issues uploading), when I try to download any file more than about 1MB it will start off fine (anywhere from 400KB-1.2MB/s) and then suddenly spike down to something ridiculous (usually 15KB/s) and then stall completely but still say it's going at 15KB/s, this is making it pretty much impossible to download any file. I have tried resetting my routers configuration, reinstalling windows (I used the media creation tool and brigadier without any issues), reset the SMC and made sure I'm on the most clear WLAN channel and am still experiencing this issue. I have also tested to make sure this does not happen on other wireless devices and can confirm my phone is downloading near my downlink speed (~25Mb/s) but my laptop is still spiking around that speed and going straight down. This shows the inital spike up, spike 
Today I just noticed that my iPad mini 4 restarts itself when shaken. I started to notice it first today when I took off its clear case to clean the back. I also noticed that when I hard reset it sometimes a gold (sometimes white and gray) colored screen flashes before restarting itself. What could be the cause of this problem? BTW/ the iPad mini 4 is a 16gb wifi model and running on the latest version of iOS (10.2.1) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'd like to know what's the reason for Apple using two different nomenclatures for parts. For example: an iPhone 6s battery has these two ways to call it: Apple Part Number (APN): 661-00033, this is the one that is printed on the part itself. Part Number: 661-04581, this is the one that appears in GSX. Why doesn't Apple use only one?
(It would be nice if TM recognised that it's the same bunch of files - just in different places. But that's probably asking too much!) Thanks for any support.
I'm having this issue on my iPhone where it connects automatically to a certain network (Orange Mobile WIFI). These things are all around town but they do not work at all. The thing is that I can't even remove the network because there is no "forget this network" button. Has anyone else had this issue and how can I permanently remove the network? (iOS 9.3.3, jailbroken)
I have a mid-2010 iMac that has regular HDD (not a Fusion drive, just good old spinning disks). Recently, after reboot, I was hearing intensive HDD I/O sounds and firing up Activity Monitor I noticed applessdstatistics process was reading a lot of data. I found a way to disable it via Terminal command: But the question is: what was the process doing on my computer in the first place?
Yes, I know that both Apple and my service provider say minimum iPhone 5c. However, the 4 and 5 can do facetime, skype, etc, so shoving bits over the air isn't the issue. Can this functionality be enabled through a 3rd party app and/or jailbreaking?
To make a long story short, I signed up for a Windows VPS service which required 32-bit Java for Firefox. I already had 64-bit Java installed, and followed some online guides for terminal commands that would delete the 64-bit and allow me to install the 32-bit package.
I bought a used MacBook and the previous owner asked if I wanted Adobe CS 6 on it, so I said sure. I was wondering if there was a way I could find the serial number in the system files somewhere, so I can register CS 6 to my Adobe account.
I couldn't find anywhere what the -v switch does with the tmutil restore command. An answer would be greatly appreciated.
I have iTunes 12.5.5.5, which I think is the latest version. Previous versions used to color in an album based on the album art, but recently apple removed this aesthetic. Here's what I mean: Currently, the expanded list of songs looks like this:
I was having problems booting to Apple Hardware Test and decided to reset the PRAM. Big mistake; now it won't boot at all. It's a Mac Mini 3,1 (Early 2009) running El Capitan. PRAM reset chimed twice. Now it chimes after power button hit but then just stays at a gray screen forever. Using a wired keyboard plugged directly to USB port. I have tried everything I can think of: Reset PRAM again; SMC reset; Safe Mode (Shift key, pre-boot); Verbose mode (Cmd+V); tried to boot to install disk #2 (10.5 DVD, with utilities, currently loaded in drive) for Recovery mode using Cmd+R; replaced PRAM battery; AHT from disk (D key); Choose boot drive (Option key); reseated RAM chip in a different slot; unplugged everything overnight then tried again this morning.
Suddenly my MacBook Air won't accept my password. When I restart, the first screen offers to let me login with my username and symbol, and accepts my password, but then opens a screen giving me the option to logon as Guest or a fill in the blank Name, and if I put on my name and password it doesn't work. I can't get past this except as guest so can't get in the Apple menu. Any idea what is going on and what I can do ? Have tried restarting, turning off, logging in as guest, and still locked out.
I recently upgraded my HDD to a SSD. Before upgrading I never checked fan speed. Now, after my upgrade the fan spins at 1400 rpm on idle.
I recently tried to upgrade from OS 10.6.8 to El Capitan OS on my ~'09 MacBook (using a install file downloaded from the app store) and, for whatever reason, it the installation failed. When I reboot the computer after the receiving the failure notice, I am unable to select my original HD as a boot drive. By default, the El Capitan installation is selected, but I am also able to boot from the Recovery partition.
What are the benefits of Bluetooth ear/headphones with Apple's W1 chip, vs normal Bluetooth ear/headphones? Are these benefits restricted to use with iPhones, or will they also apply to Macs and/or iPads?
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15", running macOS Sierra, which fails to shutdown properly. Originally when I closed all applications and then went to shutdown, it would take less than 10 seconds to completely power down. My problem:
I am trying to present a video from a third party app on my iPhone 6s (iOS 10) to an extended screen via the Lightning Digital AV Adapter. But sometimes it lags/jumps, making the video almost unwatchable.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) and only recently I could buy a VGA mini displayPort adapter. The adapter is good as I have used it with my brother's 15-inch MacBook Pro and two different monitors and VGA cable are ok because of the same reason. The (almost always hidden) Detect Displays button does nothing and the Mac cannot recognise any monitor I connect to it.
Is it possible to copy a running Macbook's state (running Sierra) over to a new Macbook? I can't use target disk mode for two reasons: one, I don't have a Firewire cable and am not sure where to get one on my tiny island; two, the old Macbook is broken: when restarted, it usually won't boot, and I fear it won't boot even into target disk mode. (At the moment, I'm keeping it running until the replacement arrives. Day five so far.)
I have a small script made with JXA (JavaScript for Automation) that outputs a result to the shell with console.log. However, console.log seems to output to stderr and I’d like to output to stdout. I can always 2>&1 when calling the script, but it would be preferable to output directly to stdout from the script. Is there a way to accomplish that?
I want to start a private journal on my Mac, but I want to make sure that the file can only be opened by me. How can I put password security on my file without it slowing down my computer?
I had previously used Calendar search, but lately (since Sierra?) it won't seem to find my appointments. One example, I saw a Dr Wong some years ago, and was checking the date.
I tried getting to Apple Diagnostics: shut down computer, press power button, hold D key down: instead of diagnostics I am taken to the usual login screen. According to Apple's site: (*=URL=* I should try using Option D. Again, takes me to the login screen not the diagnostics. Not sure what my next step is.
I have over 150 million files to delete on my Mac, and I've run all the versions of rm -rf ~/.Trash/* in Terminal and nothing has happened. Can somebody please explain to me how to delete these files quickly and efficiently?
Running macOS Sierra. How can I complete remove all links to the default installed PHP version? I have installed PHP 7 through homebrew but when I run scripts that call external CLI applications programatically they still seem to end up using PHP 5.6.25 which is the default installed PHP version. What can I do to break all ties to this PHP version?
tl;dr: What does the automatic toggle above control and what will happen if I choose a carrier other than Project Fi? To clarify: Project Fi is a MVNO carrier run by Google that allows Nexus and Pixel phone owners to connect to T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular networks under one pay-as-you-go plan. I have my main Fi sim in a Nexus 6P. The carrier also offers data-only SIMs to pop into a tablet or spare phone to give a secondary device data service to the same three networks. That's the data-only SIM I'm talking about here.
So I wanted to download the git command line and when opening the .pkg I got an Un ID'd Developer message. I do not have admin rights and am locked out of the gatekeeper panel. I then tried the xattr -d com.apple.quarantine method to no avail. Any tips? Thanks! NOTE: OSX El Capitan
I have a MacBook Pro 5,1 running Yosemite 10.10.5. After replacing the battery, it has had excellent runtime on battery for about 6 months. Then the runtime had suddenly dropped by a factor of 2x-3x. The battery still has 95% capacity remaining as indicated by coconutBattery. Nothing seems out of place in Activity Monitor, there are no apps using significant energy, yet the idle power consumption as indicated by coconutBattery is never below 15W. The runtime reduction did not coincide with any Apple updates.
I recently updated my Macbook Pro 15 Retina (Mid 2014) to Sierra 10.12.3 and my wifi has been extremely slow since. Running SpeedTest.net I only get 2MB Down / 3MB Up. Other devices on the same wifi network get 60MB Down / 30MB Up which is my regular speed. So I know its not an issue with my wifi router. Things I tried that did not resolve the problem: Deleting files from '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration', rebooting router, then rebooting mac Setting up a custom Wifi Location with Google's 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.8.4 DNS, renewing DHCP lease and setting custom MTU to 1453 Reset SMC Reset PRAM / NVRAM Boot into Safe Mode / Reboot Changing Router channels *=URL=* Above was the extent of all solutions that I found online - none of which have worked..
We have a Mac mini which we use for remote building some iOS applications written on Xamarin. All build scripts are executed via SSH. Recently we have upgraded its OS from El Capitan to Sierra, but after it we encountered with a problem that Mac ocassionaly becomes unpingable at all. Its network connection is unstable and sometimes it work works quite well, but other times when we try to ping Mac, it throws next:
The BSD backend of MacOS has ps built in. The BSD General Commands Manual says that
The error messages read "Invalid Password. Please try again." (in Settings | Mail | Accounts | ...@yahoo.com | Re-enter Password) and "Wrong Password. Try again." for iOS Mail and Apple Mail respectively.
I added a table in Pages app in iPad and I noticed that if the table rows exceeds 29 rows the option of moving a row is no longer available and as long as the table contains 29 rows or less I can rearrange the rows. Is this a bug or something coz I just updated the app and this isssue is still there before and after the update.
I have a large set of mac mini's in the field with smb/afp shares enabled. For reasons completely unknown to me the file sharing sometimes gets disabled for some nodes. I could not find a single thing in the logs, but for now I'm trying to write a quick workaround until we can find the issue.
is there a way to wake the Mac out of a complete power off? I normally don't use the sleep mode,but I also want to wake the Mac sometimes for various reasons (it's a part of my entertainment system). Any way I can do this?
I want to use the fn key on my keyboard as a trigger for an AppleScript (.scpt file) via FastScripts. The reason that I want to do this is because the fn key is occupying coveted real estate on the keyboard, and I don't think I've once used a fn key shortcut in my life. I installed Karabiner and went through every option under the "Change Fn key" and "Fn To All Modifiers Mode" categories individually, to see if FastScripts would be able to pick up on me pressing the fn key and thus allow me to assign the fn key as a script shortcut.
I had an old Mac 5.1 that now, sadly, broke down. Now I still have the SSD, can I completely copy everything (including OS etc.) onto the new iMac I bought? I have an USB/Hard Drive connector. I also don't want to completely replace the new SSD in my new iMac, because it has more capacity.
Yesterday I restarted my MacBook Pro and it started installing updates after I logged in again. The problem is it does not complete. It fills up to 100 %, then hangs for like 10 minutes and ultimately shuts down. When I power on the MacBook Pro again the same happens cycle is about to take place.
I need to change the folder icons of a selected folder and all the subfolder inside it with the same PNG image. Accept any mode (Bash scripts, Automator workflows and so on...), I have no preferences.
Noticed today, Safari occasionally starts eating up memory until it reaches tens of gigabytes of memory used and freezes the whole system.  Both cases when this happened, the trigger was starting watching a video on youtube (using the HTML5 player). In Activity Monitor, no particular tab process shows high memory usage (not even the youtube ones), only the main Safari process. Closing tabs one by one does not stop the leak, even when all tabs are closed the main process continues gobbling up the memory. I have no extensions enabled (I disabled AdGuard after the first leak). I sampled the process during the second leak, but I'm not skilled enough to read the output (http://pastebin.com/MTxmEAQ4).
I have a PDF with following pattern:  I need to transform each page of this PDF into two distinct pages, as follows:
At present you can set your phone to erase when the correct password is not entered N times in a row. 10 I think by default.
I added a script which works when I run it from Automator. It's the script in this post: How to fade out/in in iTunes?.
Ok. So I like my scrollbars turned off in general. However, it turns out Eclipse has this issue that cripples the scrolling speed to a couple of fps unless scrollbars are turned on.. I thought I could do something like:
Every time I take a screenshot I try to open it, but it says that I don't have the permission. It's not only my screenshots; all the pictures that I save say that I don't have any permission to open it. Can anyone please help me resolve this problem?
Mission Control allows for multiple desktop (spaces). Does there exist a keyboard shortcut for moving an application's window from one to another?
I have a broken 15" 2011 Macbook Pro and am waiting for the replacement to arrive. (It'll be another week; I'm on an island and on a budget.) I know the HDD is fine, though.
I have a PDF with following pattern:  I need to transform automatically each page of this PDF into two distinct pages, as follows:
In previous versions of OS X, you could remove the name from the menu bar. I can no longer find the option for this in the Users & Groups window in System Preferences.
Whenever I leave my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) unattended (plugged in, or not) overnight (or for long periods of time) it shuts down by itself. When I open the lid it boots up to the FileVault password screen. It seems that if the lid is up, the laptop does not shut down. It is running the latest and greatest macOS Sierra build (10.12.3 (16D32)).
If I tap on the (i) for numbers in the call history then some have Share Contact displayed as an option but others do not. None of the numbers are in the address book so why should there be any difference in the options available when the different numbers are selected? For example here are two numbers in the call history:
I'm having a Kernal Panic with the following error: Could not read LR from frame at 0x0000700000080d48. How can I resolve this issue? Is there a way to diagnose the particular kernal issue or faulty program? Full Log Output:
My USB flash drive is recognized as "iPOD" but on Windows it works ok.  Can I remount this from Terminal? Does OS X has an option such as "select driver"? I couldn't find much related information.
I installed Private Internet Access VPN and then uninstalled it with CleanMyMac. As far as I can tell there is no PIA folders or files left on the computer (I could be wrong of course). I noticed that in the default web browser options under system preferences, Private Internet Access is listed as an option. How would I go about removing this? Do I have to edit a .plist file? Where would the available default web browser options be kept in MacOS Serra? Thank you.
How can I enable that dropdown, in order to change the 'Start after' time? Or is there somewhere else I should change it? I know that I can use hot corners to disable screen saver, but that's too hacky - if I forget to put the cursor in the corner, it doesn't do it, and I only know when the screen saver comes on - which is frustrating.
I inherited a Mac OS X 10.8 server that is now only used as a file server. Within the Server Apps settings it has File Sharing, Contacts, DNS, Mail, and Software Update services on. We have enterprise DNS servers which I configured in the general network adapter settings.
Have I reset SMC correctly? The change of Magsafe light from Amber to green sould suggest it has worked his page would seem to agree (bottom) *=URL=* -- But when fully charged the Magsafe light always stays green during the SMC reset
ssh: OpenSSH_7.4p1, LibreSSL 2.4.5 (installed via homebrew) System Version: macOS 10.12.4 (16E154a)
I would like to know if it is safe to delete the content of my ~/Library/Logs folder, because it is taking quite a lot of space. I have found that it should be save, but if there is someone who can confirm it it would be nice.
I own a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch, early 2013, and I would like to put the wireless card on board into monitor mode, but was unable to. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I get down to Step 6 in the MS-Word 2011 mail merge manager, Complete Merge, and the generate e-mail messages option is greyed out. In MS-Word the File>Share> E-mail attachments is active and will connect to and email using Mail app. I am using Excel as the data source for the Word template which is a donation tax receipt I need to issue for a charity with 100 donors. Thanks for any help you can offer and this is urgent. Erin
My iPhone with iOS 10 recently popped up a dialogue prompting me to update my carrier settings and I accidentally pressed not now. Is there a way to re-open that dialogue? A button that should be pressed somewhere? A page that needs to be opened in one of my apps? I have tried opening software update, Carrier settings, Phone settings, etc., but I just can't update my carrier settings.
How do I remove a specific link in the shared links list? I have some links in there that I do not want to keep since it's taking up a lot of space and it makes me hard to search for the links I actually care about.
I just ran into this question. I think there must be a plist file or something similar. Here is what I found: When customizing a plain folder with my own icon file, there is an invisible file created in the folder called "Icon^M", which I think is a kind of icon file? When customizing a plain folder with my own icon file, there is an invisible file created in the folder called "Icon^M", which I think is a kind of icon file? But system "special" folder like /Applications, /Users/Documents, and so on, do not have this kind of file in it, and are displayed as special icons instead of stock plain blue icon. But system "special" folder like /Applications, /Users/Documents, and so on, do not have this kind of file in it, and are displayed as special icons instead of stock plain blue icon.
I am testing software on an El Capitan system. Unfortunately it had the download in the background option checked and now it has Sierra "ready to install". The options are now, tonight or tomorrow. I need to stop this update entirely. I've searched my entire system for the installer file but cannot locate it. I searched for any file downloaded in the last day and sorted by size. There's nothing there that looks like a Sierra OS installer. I turned off all the auto update options in System Preferences. I wonder if that will cancel the update from proceeding? I'll know tomorrow when I find out if it asks me again or not. But if you know how to stop it immediately please explain how to do it. Thank you.
Whenever I open my iMessage on my iPhone it crashes. Someone sent a message that contained like 5000 of these (and I'm not even exaggerating) that's about 50000 characters.
I ordered a cheap (~$25) USB-C multiport adapter (USB-A / VGA / USB-C) from Amazon for use with my 2016 MacBook Pro (non-touchbar). When the adapter is plugged in, apps take a long time to quit and very often need to be force-quit. This happens for system apps as well as third-party apps.
A few weeks ago I had a severe issue with my laptop, and posted a question here detailing my issue: Prohibition Sign and Can't Reinstall OS X Today, a friend of mine was having very similar issues which prompted me to run First Aid using Disk Utility. The message I received was "First Aid found corruption that needs to be repaired" with instructions on how to do so. I then restarted my laptop, and lo and behold, it would load up partway and then just shut off. Restarting several times yielded the same results.
Alright, so I'm on windows 7 64 bit, but hopefully my question still applies to AskDifferent, considering it is an iTunes issue. I've built a new computer for my girlfriend, and everything went well when transferring her old library. I have one issue. She uses the Keep itunes media folder organized setting on, and it seems that a lot of songs with long names ended up being truncated. Wouldn't be that big of a deal (despite it being really weird), but we really really want to keep the old playcounts, ratings and paths in each playlist where these songs are used. So the old path is pointing here: /D:/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Alix Perez/U EP/1-03 Make It Worth (+ DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn).mp3 But for some reason when transferring the music over and letting iTunes take care of it, it managed to turn this file into the following: /D:/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Alix Perez/U EP/1-03 Make It Worth (+ DJ Rashad & DJ.mp3 Is there a way to fix this?
Is there a way to input text into a quick-entry form that takes that text to Google Translate, and then spit out a translation? You know how to-do list managers like OmniFocus and Things you can quickly add a to-do or when you press cmd-space for Spotlight Search? I have a feeling it would be through Automator, and saw the following question Automator Service with Google Translate
I have an Automator Service that is comprised of a single "Run AppleScript" action. The AppleScript basically consists of a series of dialogs.
I have a problem with my 2016 MBP. The problem is, when I click bookmarks in Google Chrome, the bookmark will quickly blink twice before opening the website. I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.3 and Google Chrome version 56 (although it doesn't seem to matter).
What's going wrong? I try to install something and after the install I can launch it. System doesn't see the installed app. For example: I tried to install "appium-doctor" and I did it successfully. After that I tried to launch the appium-doctor, and I got the error: My environment: - npm -v prints: 4.1.2 - node -v prints: v6.9.5 - npm config get registry prints: *=URL=* - OS: OS X El Capitan What problem is the feature intended to solve?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" Late 2016 with USB-C ports. I also have a LG 27UD88 monitor that can supply 60W, and a CallDigit Dock that can supply 90 W. But still sometimes the MacBook is at 0% battery, even when working with very low CPU load. Question: Is there a way to find out from which port the MacBook is supplied with power? Of course, I could measure the current on the AC side of the power supply, but I'd rather look for a software tool.
After long debugging, I found why I can not login to my MacOS machine with ssh: The problem is that I track my .ssh config directory in a git repo, and I link to it in my home directory. It seems that MacOS, as opposed to Linux, does check that all parent directories of the linked repo have strict permissions. And this even though the repo itself has the right permissions:
I am talking about the text input panel Emoji and symbols that could be opened thorough ctrl+⌘+Space. It could be opened as a bubble:
I have the following problem since El Capitan: My Finder is in column-view and I have a large number of files listed. So many that I have to scroll up and down. If I open a new file, it appears in alphabetical order at the position of N (new file). When I rename the file, it moves out of the Finder-window and I have to scroll up or down in order to fill the file. In Yosemite Finder automatically scrolled with my renamed folder to its new position and I could fill it right away. Can I reactivate this feature in El Capitan? I hope you can follow my description of my problem ;) Thank you for your help!
Restoring iPod Classic would not work because it simply erases "offsets" to data. Is there any software dedicated to this? Since iPod Classic has many system files on the root, I'm not able to use any kind of software that blow up the whole drive. FYI, I'm a Windows user.
When i create a new contact and go to insert a phone number the default category for this is "Home fax"! How can i change this default so that the category that appears first is "Mobile" ? IOS 10.2.1
How can I setup my Mac with three partitions, one with macOS, one with Windows 10, and one data partition that can be used by both macOS and Windows?
We have have a Mac-mini that is used for remote compilation via ssh. Recently we have upgraded OS from El Capitan to Sierra. After this we have faced with a problem, that ssh commands periodically fail with "Connection timeout" message. I found that Mac ocassionaly becomes unpingable at all. ping <MacMini_ip> -t gives next message
Had this strange issue crop up today that I haven't experienced before. I execute ssh <remote ip> and ssh crashes with the following exception: I have run the command with the verbose flag and can see this is happening directly after the key exchange between the local machine and remote host. Things I have tried: Restarting terminal Restarting machine Removing all ssh programs in /usr/bin and replacing them with those of a colleagues mac Booting to recovery mode and replacing libSystem.B.dylib with the one that ships with macOS Installing openssh with homebrew Removing openssh Adding a PATH to /usr/bin Note the same error appears on other commands such as scp.
I would like to know if it is safe to upgrade from Yosemite to Sierra, with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (version 14.7.1) installed. Will I have to reinstall it again, or is it safe and there are no worries?
Suppose I'm in a Skype meeting in a room with people speaking plain English, but I'm having some trouble to hear/understand what they are saying. It would be very useful to have a subtitle, so I can read it in case I miss some word. Is that possible to do on my Macbook?
I'm looking at a video and the Terminal in WebStorm looks like this  As you can see there is an autocompletion suggestion while he's writing the command. Any clue on how to get this feature? Here's the video: Creating Demo APIs with json-server
In Preview on both my iMac and MacBook I can annotate a PDF with my signature, which I find useful. I remember setting this up on my iMac, prior to doing a clean install of macOS, but not on my much newer MacBook. Would my MacBook and rebuilt iMac have pulled the signatures in from iCloud?
When I rightclick a file in Finder and hover over "Open With" (e.g. I have .mp3 files associated with VLC but sometimes want to open them with Audacity or iTunes, and then use "Open With"; or want to use LibreOffice for a spreadsheet file instead of Numbers), the "Open With" menu doesn't open and just shows, greyed-out: "Fetching..." and the menu with different apps doesn't appear, even when I wait for minutes. How can this be fixed?
From shell I am trying to start docker ps but I get this error: secondly if I run Kitematic and try to start a container I get this error:
I have a question about my MacBook Air CPU temperature. I've read a lot of similar questions but there's something I can't understand in my experience.
I have to set each individual podcast to "oldest to newest" when I would like this as a default. This would not be such a big issue except that iTunes unsubscribes me from an average of one podcast a day - anyone know why that happens? (these are active podcast with current episodes and current listening activity). Certain podcasts get unsubscribed about once a week - others are random.
I just bought this Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter for my new MacBook Pro (2016) to connect it to my old Thunderbolt Display, but realized that none of my USB ports or Thunderbolt port work (so no daisy-chaining). Is it something wrong with my setup or is this connectivity not supported by Apple's official Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 solution? This does not sound like "to Thunderbolt 2" adapter to me, since it only supports multimedia.
I have a MacbookAir 11" from 2011, with only 64 GB of disk storage. Originally came with OSX Mountain Lion and now I'm thinking on updating it to macOS Sierra.
I recently replaced the battery on my Early 2009 MacBook Pro as I was having issues with it shutting off without warning when running on battery power. However, this hasn't resolved the issue and it continues to only work when plugged into AC power.
I purchased this 5" screen with 800x480 resolution: *=URL=* The Elecrow screen is primarily designed for Raspberry pi, but I would also like to use it as a screen for my Mac Mini (running Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3) connected by HDMI.
This was happening on 10.2 . I upgraded to 10.2.1 to see if would make a difference: but no change in behavior. Note I also tried the older workaround described here:
Currently in iOS there is a feature where you click on one link (say link to a Youtube video) and the corresponding App will open to handle the request (the Youtube app will open to play the video). This is called App Link.
Problem is, the first mount command works, but not the second (whatever the order of the lines), as if there were only one AFP user allowed at the same time. The error message is (approximately translated): Connexion to nas.local server failed.
My Samsung phone has a setting that allows it to use 4g + Wi-Fi to increase speed in some cases. Can the same be done on a MacBook with Bluetooth network + Wi-Fi?
I've come across a PDF form, whose editable fields turn black when, after completing the form, I try to: duplicate move print, or email the form. Here's what the form looks like when I download it. And here's what it looks like when I try to take any of those actions listed above. Note: I didn't create the PDF, and I don't have (or want) Adobe Acrobat professional on my machine.
Doing clean install after mess up, put my image, video, music, text files to external hard drive (not time machine). I was checking them in Windows computer and found many files having copies that all started with " ._ " Like image.png was ._image.png
I cannot include full rich text content in a Stack Exchange post. Therefore, to witness my exact issue, please download this .rtf file via Dropbox. Open this file up in TextEdit.app. Highlight the sentence and copy it to the clipboard. Then, trigger my script while your cursor is in a form that supports and shows rich text (so that you can see that the script will type rich text).
Although i am able to plug thunderbolt 2 and mini displayport devices into my macbook pro either way. They only seem to function if i plug them in one way and not the other. I was wondering if my macbook is defective and that the connector is reversible? or not? If not can you please elaborate on why a connector design that allows for a cable to be plugged in upside down is used?
I am not able to send or receive messages on iphone. I get "not delivered" then "try again" but no option to "send as text". Worked fine until two days ago. MMS and SMS are on.
I am using a MacBook air and I am unable to go to websites unless I specify http or https My version is 10.10.5 Websites which automatically have https work like youtube.com and netflix.com cnn.com does not work.
I have a Mid-2015 15" Retina Macbook Pro running the latest macOS Sierra version with the AMD Radeon R9 M370X dedicated GPU and I have been trying to get it hooked up to my Crossover 324K 4K monitor without success. The symptom I am experiencing is that I will plug a the DisplayPort end of my DP to mDP cable into the DisplayPort connector of the monitor and the Mini DisplayPort end into any of the two Thunderbolt 2 ports on the Macbook. The screen resolution scaling switched back to default on the macbook and I see the external monitor light up and sometimes display a picture for a fraction of a second and then it goes right to no signal and the resolution changes back to what it was on the macbook as if no external display was plugged in.
The idea is that when somebody logs in to my Mac, a popup will show up and the date/time are written to a log. I run the bash script from a cron job: (I know about launchd but choose to use cron, much easier) the login.sh script:
So apparently many macbook pro models have a digital audio output hidden inside their 3.5mm headphone jacks. Example. I thought this was physically activated by the mini TOSLINK plug, but recently I installed Linux Mint (native boot) on my MBP and that red light came on and stay on. So I guess it can be controlled by software.
My MacBook got stolen and I put it in lost mode in Find My Phone, locked it and got email it successfully locked, but the app couldn't get its location. How is this possible?
Installed windows 10 on a macbook pro retina (pretty sure 2013) using bootcamp. windows install is totally fine, get into it to find that there is no wifi, looking for drivers online but I cant find any. All sources tell me that the drivers are in the bootcamp assistant that are not on the device, also holding option when booting back up does not give the option to boot back into macOS.
I have installed the recent version of xquartz on OSX 10.11.6. I would prefer to run the x-server in the background, e.g. as a daemon. From a user point of view I do not want to Cmd+Tab to the x-server but only the actual applications I use.
My external display has two refresh rate settings, but both have the same 60 Hz value:  If I select the topmost, the screen image is too wide for the screen. If I select the bottom value, all works well. Unfortunately on connecting the display it defaults to the topmost 60 Hz value, which means I need to manually set the refresh rate on each connect.
I walk the same route to work each day, however I have noticed that recently I am doing 500 - 1000 steps less each journey. This is an upto 25% difference. I haven't noticed at what point the this happened, and if it was gradual, but it is certain;y lower since upgrading from my iPhone 6 on iOS 9 to an iPhone 7 on iOS 10.
I sometimes use an external SSD with macOS Sierra on it, in conjunction to my current internal drive which has macOS Sierra running on it. One annoying thing about Spotlight is that whenever I search something in it for example when I'm running from my external drive is that I get results from both my external and internal drive, which is something I don't want.
Yesterday, while listening to the BBC radio iPlayer in Chrome, my Mac Book Pro made a frighteningly loud crack noise through my headphones. I have the volume set very low because I am using open backed headphones (Grado 325es)so it was quite a shock.
Does anyone know, if I can use a macOS server machine to replace iCloud on all other devices (iOS, macOS or even Windows)? If yes, am I going to lose any functionality and which?
During heavy use periods, my iPhone 6 battery doesn't last the day. I'm looking at the battery cases available and curious if these actually reduce the life of the resident battery?
An ad for Tinder appeared on lock screen of BF's phone. Says he doesn't have the app but did he used to? I know I only get ads/pop up notifications from existing apps. I'm not tech savvy enough to know.
I have never used Apple/Mac OS so I am very much in uncharted territory here. I need to test the site on Safari but after searching online, it appears as though it isn't possible to download a MacOS ISO to install in virtualbox: link (I do not have access to an apple computer)
I've run into this funny issue, where I've got a 4k monitor (Samsung U28E590), that I'm trying to optimize for resolution and hz-frequency. My optimal goal is of course 4k, with 60hz, but since I don't currently have a Thunderbolt to Displayport cable, I thought I'd give it a go with a HDMI-adapter for my Thunderbolt port.
When I wrong installthe MacKeeper, when it is installing I find the evaluation of Mackeeper is bad, but I can not stop the installing.  How to stop its installing and clear it ?
Hi I am using Google Chrome on my mac Version Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit) and my mac running on 10.11.6 (15G1004) OSX EI Captain. I can see chrome auto filling my passwords when I login to sites. But When I want to see my passwords, I am not able to see anything in the password list. Any idea how to fix it?
I am trying to run an AppleScript that runs a node command like I would run it in terminal and appear to have the right start with the code, but I'm getting hung up on Automator not recognizing the node command sh: node: command not found. Can anyone point me to the reason why automator can't locate node (node command as in Node.js. Node.js is installed on my machine)? Here is my AppleScript:
I tried to update my old MacBook Air from OS X 10.8 to the newest El Capitan. However, now (directly after the installation) when I boot it up the loading bar will stop at 100% and nothing happens. Then I wanted to reinstall OS X (10.8) but it says that it can't install an older version of OS X. Now I'm really tempted to wipe the SSD but I'm worried that if I completely wipe the SSD it won't be able to do anything with the MacBook since it doesn't have a recovery partition. Is it safe to wipe the SSD?
When expired beta opera mini, I tried to delete it. After reboot, it appears again on my iPhone. Anybody knows, how to delete this beta app? P.S. I'm sorry for my English.
Links that use the tel: protocol open in FaceTime by default on Macs. If, like me, you prefer to text/iMessage rather than call, it would be nice to have them open in Messages by default. I was able to use RCDefaultApp to set Messages to the handler for tel: links but it doesn't open a new message to that number, just launches Messages. Anyone know if there's a way to get it to work with AppleScript or something?
I routinely use the Personal Hotspot feature on my iPhone. Recently, I have set up a personal OpenVPN server (per here) to use with my phone. However, I don't seem to be able to use both at the same time - which I would like to do so any devices that connect to my phone's hotspot go through the VPN, too (for a few reasons - not least of which is to leverage the pihole server I run for ad-blocking/etc).
All my iMessages suddenly started sending from my iCloud address instead of my phone number this morning. I checked my settings in the "send and receive" feature and it correctly says "start new conversations from: xxx-xxx-xxxx (my phone number) so I don't understand why this was happening. For me everything is in one convo but for my friends receiving my texts there are two separate convos--one with my phone number and one with my iCloud address. If they switch back from the iCloud address convo to the phone number convo and then I text them back they receive my messages from my phone number so all is well. However, even if I try to start a new convo it sends from my iCloud address (for all the people I have texted today)
I have had a problem with children downloading apps. I would like to be able to see which apple device has purchased which app. How do I do that?
I'm required to change my school Gmail password every year. I recently did so, and it seems to work just fine for accessing Gmail with a web browser. It also works fine in the Mail app in iOS (I was asked to enter the new password, but it accepted it just fine). However, in the Mail app on macOS, I've run into some issues. It shows a "Login Failed" message on the top right of the window as well as the telltale lightning bolt "offline" icon to the right of the mail in the left sidebar. I totally expected to see both of those, since Mail is trying to access the account using the old password. But I can't get past that. If I click on either of those, it opens a dropdown/popup where I can enter the password: That's all good. After I enter the password, though, I see a "loading" animation (a spinning-type one) for a brief second and then just blank gray in the window: The same thing happens if I try to do this in the Internet Accounts section of System Preferences. Does anyone know why this
A box popped up that says "Turn on location services to allow weather to determine yor location". There are two tabs underneath that say "settings" and "cancel". Neither of the tabs work the box won't go away. I can't get it to shut off. It's just stuck.
On iOS, you can activate the Hey Siri feature in Settings and call out "Hey Siri" at any time to activate Siri without pressing a button. How can I do the same thing on a Mac running macOS Sierra?
I have buffer contacts which I have deleted/removed from my iPhone. However in the past, I have used iMessage from Macbook to sent message. Now these deleted contacts are still showing up in my Macbook. How to clean the buffer contacts from my Macbook?
I do not know (cannot recall) what the original partition format of Thing1 was. It would not surprise me if it were a partition format that would be accessible from multiple platforms.
My sister's iPhone was physically damaged (broken screen) and replaced. At some point prior to breakage (at least a few months from what I can tell) the phone stopped syncing to iCloud due to the iCloud storage being full. The damaged phone is now disabled from trying to get at the data still on the phone after she forgot the password (she normally used the print recognition which stopped working after several damages/ battery fully discharged). The replacement phone does sync properly to iCloud and does back up, however the data from the broken phone seems to be completely gone from the iCloud (most likely from when it stopped backing up because it was full). I have tried multiple data recovery programs, all of which require the device and computer to be "trusted" to sync, however the trust option does not appear due to the device being disabled. The main data points that are of utmost recovery importance are 3 voice memos from our deceased mother and one thing saved in notes.
I need a passcode to activate IOS 9. I don't recall acing a passcode. Is there any way I can retrieve an old passcode or set up a new passcode? It has to be 4 digits. I made 1 wrong attempt and may be shut out
When I close the lid of my MacBook Air, it's almost always plugged in. When I open the lid, I have to sign in and my screen is clear of all the things I wanted to see or was looking at, but did not finish. This happens several times a day. I have to close the lid because of a possible dust situation where I need to keep the computer during the day. This just started happening a couple of weeks ago. I am running OS X El Capitan. I do not log out, but it thinks I did. Grrrrrrr!
Can I initiate Family Sharing from my apple ID on an iOS device as the organiser to another account on my Mac so that latter can have the possibility to share the iWork apps i have on my iOS device without buying them from the Mac Store?
I recently set up Family sharing. My son purchased a game from Apple thinking he was using his iTunes voucher but the purchase has gone straight on to my credit card via family sharing. How can I rectify this? thanks
I need to dual boot on CleanOS on a MacBook Pro I installed ClearOS but at the boot I only boot on the Grub, when Command key is pressed I also have OSX I tried to install rEFIt, but without success, at the end I install it on a USB stick but only allow me to boot on the GRUB (or OSX) Can I recover & boot form the Grub ? UPDATE : I realise each time I do the install I have boot load not installed error
I have old external hard drive where I keep them, downloaded both in Mac and in Windows. After clean install (due to technical issues not malware), I was going to put my collection back to fresh Mac, but heard these videos could contain malicious code/trojans/malware? Haven't done it for a month now - likely never will again just in case - but it would be pity to delete them all so... do I have to for security reasons?
My macOS 10.12.3 crashed while suspended and I want to look in the log files to determine where the problem comes from. I opened System Information and in the Logs I found a Kernel log entry linked to /var/log/asl. But this file is empty. Why?
I'm not sure I understand the command "uptime" uptime 13:58 up 5 days, 9:49, 3 users I have 3 users detected, but I have only one user account on the Mac and no sharing enabled. What the users actually are?
I picked a song for an alarm and now every alarm that I create with Siri uses that song. I cannot change the default alarm song back to the default alarm sound. When I need to create an alarm manually I can see the default alarm sound, but every single time I create an alarm with Siri then it reverts back to that one song. It's impossible to change the default alarm sound that Siri uses. I'm using iOS 10.2.
I am trying to schedule my AppleScript to run on 60 second intervals that runs two shell scripts and have appeared to setup my plist correctly as two files are outputted (StandardErrorPath and StandardOutPath) after 60 seconds elapse, but I don't see the results of my shell scripts appearing like they did when I ran the script in Script Editor. To me this appears to mean that the ProgramArguments section is not loading my AppleScript. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Should I add some type of logging to my AppleScript to log to the error file in my plist? AppleScript file (Shell script runs correctly in Script Editor and Terminal): plist (Located in /Users/user/Library/LaunchAgents) Steps to load into launchctl: 1) Changed into directory 2) ran launchctl load com.user.webmasters.daily.pull.plist
For years, I’ve disabled my Mac’s caps lock key (because I only ever hit it by accident) in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys. Recently, I did a clean install of macOS Sierra on my 2014 MacBook Pro. Since then, my disabling of the caps lock key doesn’t seem to persist after reboots. I found an apparent report of the same issue on Apple’s forum, and there are a few similar questions about previous versions of macOS: Caps Lock key mapped to a second Control key, reset after wake in Mountain Lion How do I prevent my MacBook Air from forgetting my Remapped Caps Lock Key? But I don’t see an actual identified cause anywhere, nor a workaround.
I have a Jailbroken iPhone5s Or well I had one. I couldn't install any apps or update any apps so I reset my Phone with reset all in settings It was stuck in the Recovery Screen just stuck. I then plugged it in with iTunes and done Update and Restore but then it was just stuck in that screen. I left it in there for about 6 hours and I can't seem to fix at all. Is there any way to fix this?
I have an iPhone 7. For some reason, the music application is missing from my home screen. I have tried resetting to home screen layout but the music app still doesn't show up. I can see my music when I go into manage storage but can't play it on the phone.
I have a simple shell script: I can execute script successfully as: and However, the following throws an error: error:
I heard that sometimes hard drive can get damaged (holding down the power button to force shut down, for example when system is completely frozen - it has happened once or twice for me, no idea why). If hard drive is damaged, would it weaken security in some way? Like OS doesn't function properly and something develops security hole or security patches not working? How would I know if hard drive is damaged? Sorry for likely dumb question, but I'm trying to figure it out with absolutely no idea about tech.
If I use the iPhone in the car while it is parked, and check on the Pokemon Go app, the sound will came out from my car's speakers through Bluetooth, just like the Music app does. But when I leave the car, is there a way to force the Pokemon Go app to output the sound through the internal speakers of the iPhone? The Music app does that, but Pokemon Go still tried to output to the car's speakers and it became no audio at all.
I'm trying to use launchd to solve the above-mentioned. I have a networkchange.plist file as follows: Using sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/networkchange.plist after moving it to it's place it executes my bash script just fine when I switch Wi-Fi networks. My networkchangeaction.sh script:
I have a new phone and want to restore settings from the old one but can't remember my restore password. I can't seem to reset the password but can I reset iTunes somehow, do a new backup on the old phone then restore to the new one?
I would like to disable suggestions in the Calendar app on my iphone. Since my last update, if I add a new event and start typing it flashes through lots of suggestions. This makes it difficult to add the event you are trying to add, as often I cannot scroll past these to fill out the event, and if you accidentally touch one of the suggestions while you try and scroll you have to delete and start over. I have seen this question asked in a few places, but no responses, so I suspect this "feature" is something you can't control, but if anyone has found a way to turn this off I'd like to know.
Few times I've had to forcibly shut Mac down by holding power button. I heard it causes file system damage. Could any of such corruption to file system weaken Mac's overall security, damage files OS uses for security purposes? For example Gatekeeper not functioning properly (allowing something to slip through), Mac's own anti-malware checker letting something slip, some Apple's security updates not working - overall something in system weakening so that malicious party could gain access to Mac through Internet.
I've searched a lot for this, but all answers talk about how bringing a whole window (or dialogue.. which is still a window really) into focus via activate etc. But I couldn't find any way of detecting if a specific UI element was selected, in focus etc.
MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32) MacBook Pro (Retina, 15', late 2013), Model: MacBookPro11,2 2 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-4750HQ) CPU: 4-core . BANK 0/DIMM0 .. 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok . BANK 1/DIMM0 .. 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok Bluetooth: Handoff/Airdrop2 Wireless: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac turn wifi on (sometimes crashes happened just after deactivating wifi and when the systems restarted the wifi card had disappeared, icon marked with a cross and popup saying "no wifi hardware detected") disconnect any ethernet thunderbolt cable or deactivate ethernet connexion simply use the computer for instance navigating with safari or chrome or wait a little doing nothing (less than 2 minutes now, but it used to be hours before the problem occurs)
I am on iOS 10.2 (Jailbroken, iPad Air 2) and I recently installed a bad tweak, it put me into a boot loop in which I got out of, but when I enter safe mode I can't go into cydia and un-install it because cydia keeps crashing, I try to enter yalu102 app and re-jailbreak but when it "successfully jailbreaks" it goes back into a boot loop because of the bad tweak I installed.
I am using iTunes 12.5 on Windows 10 with an iPhone 5s. Sometimes I download hour-long .mp3 files that I want to put onto my iPhone as podcasts, so that it automatically remembers where I am in my listening if I have to stop in the middle. I know how to transfer .mp3 files to my iPhone, where they show up as Music. I also know that I can right click on any song, choose 'Get Info' and under Options change the media kind to 'Podcast.' But when I change the file to a podcast, it disappears from iTunes, though it does show up on my device when I open the Podcasts app. How can I transfer an .mp3 file to my iPhone as a podcast, and still have that podcast show up in iTunes when I look there to see what podcasts are on my device?
I use PuTTY on Windows to SSH into a Mac running OS X Sierra. When I specify no private SSH key on the windows side, and log in using the main mac user's password, security list-keychains returns When I SSH in using a private key in PuTTY (whose public key I have in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys folder on the mac), security list-keychains returns How come?
I have a MacBook Pro (13 Inch, End 2010) running OS X El Capitan. I had a bug with the Mac App Store, searched on the Apple forum, and got advice to remove a folder var/folders/zz. I moved it to the Trash and then the Mac was blocked on the start-up loading bar.
I can't get security (the command line interface for the keychain) to retrieve passwords with security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -ga <name> over SSH. It only seems to work in physical console sessions - is this actually intended behaviour?
My friend and I both own an iPhone 5s, which we have been using daily since bought (2013). Recently, he bought a $10 battery (0 cycles, manufactured 4 months ago) on eBay and replaced it, while my iPhone has the factory battery. How do I test both iPhones to see if it's worth to change my battery too? Note: cellular data is not available, only WiFi.
I had a problem with my Mac mail account and therefore I deleted some 4 keychain entries from my Keychain Access that were related to mail. I added a new one:
I am trying to get HDMI output working (both on tv and my normal HD screen) from my new mac. The device only has USB-C ports, so I bought two types of converters (not official from Apple, but didn't think that would matter): This adapter, that I use with a regular hdmi cable. This adapter with integrated cable.
I have 2 Macbooks, one old, one new. Both are configured to be able to receive the SMS of my iPhone and cell number through iMessage. However, only the old Macbook is receiving SMS, while both old and new Macbook receive regular iMessages configured with my Apple iCloud ID.
The February 2017 updates for Microsoft Office 2016 include Touch Bar support on the new MacBook Pros. But the defaults aren't very usable, and I can't find an option to customise the Touch Bar layout as is found on other apps with TouchBar support. Is there any way to customise the Touch Bar in Office 2016?
I have a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro, 15-inch. Whenever the CPU usage goes above ~30%, the reported temperature spikes and the fans kick in. As if the temperature sensor was oversensitive. I've tried resetting SMC but no change. Is there something else I can try? (An authorized service provider just sent it back to me after replacing one of the fans but that didn't fix the issue.)
I noticed an issue a few months ago that songs that had been uploaded to my iCloud Library (a feature of Apple Music) were occasionally not playing on my iPhone. Trying to download or stream the song would result in my phone waiting a few seconds and then start playing the next queued song. The phone never threw an error and it always happened on the same songs.
I had windows 10 running through bootcamp for a week and a half and I decided to run the updates. Now when I try to boot my windows I see a black screen with the spinning dots, and it stays like this forever. Is there anyway I can restore my windows 10 to a restore point through OSX? Since I have this new Macbook Pro 2016 with display bar, I don't have any F keys, so I can't seem to be able to boot it in safemode?
I'd like to associate different sets of pdf files to open with different applications depending on in which path these reside. All files are typically in different places. Some exists inside bundles. These can be pdf files or other specific types of documents. The end objective is to have these files open with a specific application only associated with these file sets when you open them, also indirectly, that is not manually, like when applications opens its help document or you open from Spotlight results.
Please do not give an answer how I "should have done it". I understand. A mistake was made, and to be honest I stoked that Apple made it so easy to overwrite the important backup, when it should have been obvious that I didn't intend to backup a newly installed phone with no additional stuff compared to a fresh install. Seems like bad coding to me.
I need your help in an extraordinary question. I have the following line in my bash script. As you can see, it scans the current folder for PDF, INDD and INDB files and it copies them to the folder called Cleaned.
I just deleted about 50GB of files from my Mac's onboard storage, however it only resulted in the removal of about 8GB. What happened and how can I fix this?
Here is my story. Few weeks ago I've bought a brand new MacBook Pro 13' (2015 edition). I've opened it and installed macOS Sierra for the first time. This laptop has never been on some other OS. However, I experience some UI lags which are just killing me and my experience. I've never expected this from a new MacBook Pro. For example when I scroll through Facebook or trying to resize some application (even if I try to resize the activity monitor) there is a noticeable lag and 'decrease of the FPS'. Not really expected this kind of issues. Just for my peace of mind, I've run a few benchmarks (CPU, GPU, SSD), downloaded a few 'normal-weight' games and everything looks OK. Games have I would say normal FPS and when I compare the benchmarks results they are pretty good and almost the same compared to other 2015 MacBook Pro's.
After the reports of the huge security flaws in Cisco's Webex browser plugins, I've uninstalled all of their browser plugins and would rather run it directly from the command line. I've figured out that the following seems to work for me but it's really brittle: The big question is how the browser plugins injects the name of the conference or how my authentication information into the WebEx application. It doesn't seem to be through environmental variables at least. I can't get dtruss to work with it to see what files it is opening.
I sent a voice text to a friend, but didn't save it on my thread. And it was automatically deleted after the default 2 minutes. Does the voice text stay on the recipients messaging thread until they have a chance to hear it, and then decide weather or not to keep it? Basically, do remote deletes on their thread happen once it's been deleted on my thread?
Hardware: Late 2016 MacBook Pro w/ TouchBar LG Ultrafine 5K display Setup: Screen Sharing app connected to remote instance in the cloud Problem:
In the Gmail iPad app, can I automatically download messages with some tag that are not in my inbox? This is a feature on Gmail for Android but I can't find it on the iPad.
A couple of days ago, my iPad started inserting random letters into what I was typing. For instance, I would try to type a C and a V would be typed. This would be the same for many letters. When I pressed Backspace to delete it would either delete multiple letters or insert various random letters. I reset the iPad and it worked better for a couple of days, but now symptoms have arisen again. This has been happening when using Facebook, Messenger and Mail so it's not restricted to one app. What can I do?
I would like to know whether iMessages will revert to text messages when I travel overseas and have my cellular set to "off when roaming". I normally use SMS or MMS to keep in touch when travelling.
Noobie here Pretty much what the title says. I have 2016 Macbook Pro (macOS 10.12.3), so, will changing the MAC Address by terminal or by using some program like SpoofMAC void my warranty or AppleCare Protection? Will it hinder my iMessage or Facetime or any other existing programs? Thanks!
swift auth yields the error: error: unable to invoke subcommand: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift-auth (No such file or directory)
I'd like to access the variables origTrack and origPlaylist from another AppleScript so that I can return to the track and playlist that were playing before the first script executed. Here's what I have in the first script: Second script:
In Keychain Access, I have some items where I cannot open the tab “Access Control”. When I double-click one of these items to open a window on it, the window opens with the tab “Attributes” selected; when I try to click the tab header “Access Control”, the header animates but the tab itself does not open. The tab “Attributes” remains selected.
Today I saw that when I open a terminal, the bash prompt displays username@228~:. When I type in pwd I get /Users/username so I was wondering where does this 228 come from? It wasn't like that couple of days ago and I am not sure what introduced this change. My OS is OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. In .bash_profile I have export PS1="\u@\h\w: ".
OK here goes. I apologise in in advance if questions is really stupid. My husband and I run a charity. The charity doesn't have much money so we use our personal iPhone (with shared apple-id) to do personal stuff as well as charity work. The charity bought another iPhone for another charity worker to use. The three of us need to be able to share all the Charity contacts which I have in special contact groups. At the moment this other worker shares our apple-id. It makes me nervous though 'cause she can see all our personal photos and contacts not related to the Charity. How do I get around this? And how could it work for other charity workers? Also we need to send out a lot of large group texts (as our charity recipients don't use email). Is there an App you'd recommend? The GroupText one I use doesn't have much flexibility.
I have a 2016 MBP with Sierra and have installed Windows 10 under Bootcamp. This has been running fine for a month or so but today I installed Docker in Windows and when it required a restart it restarted twice (both times requiring me to hold ALT to select Windows drive) and now does not get past the Windows 10 logo and cycling dots animation.
I'm told I need to get into Windows 10's Safe Mode running under Boot Camp, but I'm on a Mac Book Pro, 2016 model, which does not have function keys at start up. How can I force Safe Mode for Windows 10 on the most recent MBP? Previous Question: Can't boot Windows 10 past loading animation under Bootcamp
I have a 2011 iMac, 2013 MBA & 2015 MBP all with different Apple IDs, for the family, wife's work & my work respectively. We share a lot of common files as we're both anaesthetists, but need different setups on our laptops, hence the different accounts. Is there a way to remotely share the files stored on the family iMac whist maintaining the independence of the laptops? Cheers, Luke
Goal: I want to handoff my localhost site to my phone for testing. I can access my localhost by going to *=URL=* on my iphone. Of course, on my computer the actual address is just *=URL=* Instead of typing that address I want to trigger a script that will "handoff" the concatenation of my computer's ip address + localhost/page.
I don't have a iTunes account. Why is iTunes account showing up using cellular data in the system services view of used data?
Anyone know why blocking the Macbook Air's internal microphone hole (using a tape or finger) seems to almost completely disable recording? Surely, sound should penetrate through the metal case. Could it be that when the hole is taped, OSX thinks all sounds are ambient noises? EDIT: Covering the microphone hole on my LG G3 phone hardly does anything though.
I have a 3.1 TB Fusion Drive on an iMac running Sierra, and I wanted to create a new partition (of 1.5 TB). I booted into Recovery Mode and used Disk Utility to create a new volume. However, Disk Utility froze on Resizing Core Storage Physical Volume Structures. I quit Disk Utility and rebooted back into Recovery Mode. However, Disk Utility now shows my original partition with 1.5 TB less storage (the size of the new partition). However, using diskutil list doesn't show the new partition. How can I get either the storage back or have the new partition appear. Here the result of diskutil list: Here is the result of diskutil cs list: Here is the result of the sudo gpt -r show disk1 :
Trying to help a friend record and transcribe her experiences. She is not able to write for long periods due to vision issues. Considered voice recorder but need it to be simple with easy to read functions and then must be able to connect to her first generation iPad to transcribe and organize. Other options or ideas?
I have just installed MS Outlook for Mac and am trying to prevent it from downloading my entire inbox with emails dating back to 2008. I have an IMAP Gmail account and only want Outlook to sync emails from the 30 most recent days. This is quite easy to achieve in Thunderbird but I can't see anything for this for Outlook?
My apartment building provides free wifi internet. I have a local wifi network with multiple IOT devices, so I need to be able to serve the building's wifi across my local wifi just as I would if I was accessing the internet by cable modem. I own two wifi routers: A current gen Apple Express and an old Airport Extreme.
I'm trying to get rid of all of the cloud music from my iPhone 6S on iOS 10.2.1. So far I have: Gone to Settings>iTunes & App Store> and toggled Automatic Downloads> Music Gone to Settings>Music and: turned off (and on and off again) "Show Apple Music" turned off Mobile data. gone to "Downloaded Music" and selected to delete all songs - now shows "Zero KB" Signed out of home sharing
I was able to automate my backup with this first Question. Just copy pasted it to a .sh file and run it with my paths, runs smoth now. Then i followed this: *=URL=* This Lingon works fine as well and it backups every day.
Can I use a phone USB-C charger (e.g. the from google) to charge my 2016 MacBook Pro? How about a USB-A charger with a USB A->C cable? Physically it fits, but this answer says that it is not a good idea, without elaborating why.
In the folder “Keychains” in my Library folder (~/Library/Keychains), I have a file “login.keychain” and a file “login.keychain-db”. Is the file “login.keychain” still being used in macOS Sierra, or is it safe to delete it?
Whenever I reboot my Mac (formerly 2009 13" MBP, recently migrated to a 2015 13" MBP) my Google Chrome homepage shows the following Danish iWeb help page. I no longer have iWeb installed, but I imagine it's followed me onto my new MBP via the Migration Assistant. I've verified that my home page is setup correctly in chrome and if I close the Chrome window and re-open it my home page will be correct, so this problem only occurs once per boot. Here's the window that I'm talking about: I've never had my Mac set to Danish, but this Mac has gone through several family members and several OSX updates through the years.
I thought I read that since Sierra, Safari supported WebP, but when I try to view an image with a content type of "image/webp", it gets downloaded instead of displayed. So is it not supported after all?
I know I'm a bit silly here, and I've just recently switched from Windows to Mac. All I would do on a PC is press Win+X and then the F key to get to "Programs and Features" window, and search for the app from the list and then uninstall them. So I was wondering if there is anything similar on Mac as well.
I have recently installed macOS Sierra and sometimes my Macbook pro mid-2012 boots up properly (rarely). Otherwise it does not boot. When I try to boot it with cmd+v , it shows following text: Read error 0x6 Kernel cache read error 0x6
I got this MacBook Pro 15" 2016 with Radeon. And every time it switches graphic cards there is a delay for like 10 seconds.
My early 2011 MBP stopped booting up. It now shows only a grey screen after about 1/3 of the boot up process. I tried Verbose mode, where the last lines visible before the grey screen can be seen in the picture. Could it be a faulty GPU? It is a MBP from the era with defective AMD GPUs. So far I never had problems with it.
Here is the issue. When I have any of these accessories plugged in, I can not keep my iPhone or iPad powered or charging. The problem is similar to the Lightning headphones issue with the iPhone 7.
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I want to try Sierra as most of the software I want to use no longer works on Mavericks. I went through a number of post that I can install Sierra on 8 GB USB drive but that turned out only to be a macOS installer thumb drive.
I want to install "fink"to my new MacBookpro, when I assumed that fink has been successfully installed, but when I tried to follow the instruction call the command:
I worked for a long time on a Pages document: file.1.pages. I didn't activate Edit > Track Changes. I saved the modified Pages with a new name: file.2.pages. Now I would like to check I didn't forget a key point or made any error and review all the modifications I made. How may I compare file.1.pages and file.2.pages? This isn't a comparison I can deal with manually (too much text, too many small spelling fixes).
I have successfully dual booted both Window and Mac OS as well as Kali and Mac OS. The problem is installing Kali once I have dual boot Windows and Mac OS. I have tried several tutorials, and the one that got me the furthest was here. Once I had windows and Mac OS dual booted, from within Windows I shrunk the Windows partition to 128gb, and created a 32gb for partition for Kali, a 32gb one for swap, and 32gb for a shared file folder between all three OSs. I then tried installing Kali with the GRUB boot loader. No errors occurred, then when booting with rEFInd I selected the Linux partition, only to receive an error saying "missing operating system." I then deleted all of the partitions, reinstalled Windows and then tried installing Kali without the GRUB boot loader. This did not work any better. Windows still gave the 0xc000000e with the "preparing to repair" message, and Kali still said it was missing the OS. I know this doesn't pertain entirely to Apple, as it involves Linux and Wind
I've just started seeing behavior similar to this other question on 10.12.3 "Sierra". Both times, I was using Chrome to look at web sites which showed moving images. Suddenly I found myself looking at the login screen. Here's as much of the crash log as will fit:
Does anyone know when the compact cube charger was introduced for the iPhone? I am looking for an official source, either from Apple's website or an industry magazine / web article. It was 2008 at the latest; I did find an Apple webpage on the 2008 recall of the AC mains prongs coming loose.
I have a new iPhone 7 and reminders are not acting consistently. Sometimes when a reminder is marked as done it won't be removed from the notifications (remains on lock screen and badge remains on).
So I have recently been noticing my neighbor's Apple TV has been showing up under my list of audio output options under "preferences." I wanted to see if there was a way to remove it from from the menu. I have a mac with Yosemite 10.10.1. I don't really have any need for airplay, just need to be able to use wif. Thank you so much in advance!
How do I have my name show as text message sender? I have tried Settings, messages but have not found the place to change it.
emails mysteriously disappeared from Mail.app's archive area (they are not in the trash) restore from Time Machine but I don't want to overwrite anything in the current Mail.app
I'm able to access the bookmarks by going to the main menu and clicking Bookmarks and then manually searching through a drop-down menu. Is it possible to search this? Is there a hotkey to access search?
I have selected some text and I want to use shift+insert like I do to paste the currently selected text on Linux. How can I do that on a MacBook?
I have switched to Mac recently from Windows so I apologise if this question seems silly to experienced users. In various keyboard shortcuts, the ^ key is mentioned. Which key are we talking about here?
I'm trying to write an Applescript script that will open a pdf agile.pdf with PDF Expert and search for a page number. I'm getting close with the following script: The problem is my script as it is will only work if I've already "clicked into" a PDF Expert window. Is it possible for me to tell Applescript to "click into the PDF Expert window after it opens? Also, it is possible for me to tell Applescript to "wait until the window exists? I was reading another answer that makes it look like the following will work but it doesn't:
I've been trying to get Ionic push notifications to work on my TestFlight app for beta-testing for weeks now and I still have not managed to implement them successfully. When I build for release via Xcode, everything works fine. I have double-checked to ensure that the necessary certificates are set up fine yet for some reason however, push notifications fail to be received (though device token registration works fine) on TestFlight.
That's because currently, you have to press Home button and see the turning wheel for the shut down, and then wait, and then start the iPhone or iPad again. Is there an obvious or hidden secret method to just restart (or reboot) it?
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) running macOS 10.12.3 and have Compressor 4.3 installed. Every time when I restart my Mac, there are 2 processes called compressord, and CompressorHelper that got automatically started and causing my MacBook to use the discrete graphics card (which consumes a lot of battery power). One way to get rid of them is to open Compressor and quit it afterward. But it is annoying since every time I startup my Mac I need to do this process.
I was trying to move a full screen app from my external monitor to the macbook screen after activating mission control by dragging and dropping. The app was not moved across screen. Instead only a silhouette was caught on the macbook screen. I managed to move the full screen app over after a second trial but the silouette from mission control is stuck on the macbook screen and blocking the top left part of the screen. Please see the attached screenshot fyi. How do I get rid of the silhouette?
What is the best way to run an Applescript when my current location's status changes from night to day and day to night? Thanks!
If I want to copy some information on my iPhone and use CMD + C for it I can paste it with CMD + V after restart. After I turn my iPhone off and on again. For example I have typed in Safari Browser: Hello Stackoverflow I mark this two words and use CMD + C.
I am running MAMP 4.1.1 on my mac mini with OSX Sierra (10.12.3). lately when I try to load pages for a site using a virtual host, it is VERY slow to load. if i load pages without a virtual host it comes up very quick. in my httpd-vhosts.conf file I have the following: Can anyone provide some guidance on how to troubleshoot this further to get my local sites using virtual hosts to server quickly?
Say I open terminal and change directory to folder 'folder', I type Say there're multiple folders within this folder, i.e. data 1, data 2, data 3, etc., and within each of those is an image named 'image_a'. Is there a way to source all of the 'image_a' files, and open them via command line? Or write a script/run a function that does?
Background: Mini had RAM problems, but couldn't run AHT from original install disk #2 (Leopard 10.5), nor from USB flash drive (Previously discussed here: AHT problems). I tried a PRAM reset, which corrupted my main HD, but I managed to erase and do a clean install from OE disk (10.5) and recover Time Machine backup from an external HD (Discussed here: PRAM crisis)
So I'm having trouble installing any kind of OS X on my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. Sierra won't work. El Capitan won't work. Yosemite seems like it's really, really hard to get working and I haven't tried any other version before that.
I want to turn on do not disturb mode on my iPhone. But we use a pager application for work, and I want that application to still be able to notify me and make noises.
I have a Pegasus RAID array that connects to Thunderbolt 2 ports. I'm looking for a way to hook this up over USB 3 to my Mac Pro.
When connecting to a new Macbook Pro 2016, running Sierra v10.12.3, it doesn't ask me to type the 6 digits to pair it properly. It also shows up in the bluetooth list with the bluetooth icon, rather than a keyboard icon like other keyboards. And in keyboard settings, I am unable to adjust the modifier keys, as I can with other keyboards. Any ideas how to fix this?
I have an iPhone 5s (iOS 8.2) and an iPhone 6s (iOS 10.2). On the old iPhone I have a banking app which I'd like to copy securely to the new iPhone, including all the app's data. I do not want to make a full backup. Both devices are using the same credentials for iCloud, none of the devices is jailbroken. The app does not use iCloud. Is it possible to copy only this single app without using third party software?
I have a 2013 11 inch Mac Air. Since updating to Sierra, I have noticed the following problems: Wifi often slows drastically, this can be resolved for a temporary amount of time by rebooting, but usually reboot is required again at some point
On Windows (Chrome, Firefox) I was used to copying a picture to the clipboard and to paste it for example into the message composition section of facebook or vkontakte. On Mac OS X this does not seem to work, neither in Safari nor in Chrome. In order to send a screenshot as message, I now need to take the screenshot, save it and navigate to the corresponding location in the file open dialog.
I want to figure out, how can I get Samba server discovery in my LAN working in Sierra? Is there some method to force refresh Network on Finder? Addendum: To compile Samba 4.5.5 properly edit two files:
Why does Spotlight want to search Google for Chrome rather than launch the app Chrome? For some reason, searching for Chrome in Spotlight yields numerous suggestions (a Google search for "Chrome", the definition of "chrome", the Wikipedia entry for "Google Chrome") but none of them is the Chrome app on my computer—why doesn't the app show up? GIF:
Can you link/sync apple id and google play store account? So for example, you can buy in-app purchases stuff in a google play store account then use it in the apple account?
My iMac seems to have a problem with iCloud tabs. On my iPhone and MacBook I can see Safari tabs from my iPhone, MacBook and iMac. However, on my iMac I do not have the option to add an iCloud tabs button on the toolbar, nor are tabs from my other devices shown when selecting "Show all tabs".
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro with 2.5 GHz, 16GB. I'm trying to run someone's deep learning python script on my macbook. The program has to take in training data and process it. It maxes out my CPU. I ran the fans on max speed and it got part way through the process but because my CPU cores were hitting 90 degrees I had to quit the script early.
Last week my 2010 Mac Pro running 10.12.3 suddenly started getting stuck booting at the gray Apple logo and progress bar screen. The strange thing is that booting in verbose mode completes as expected. That can be a work around, but I don't trust the stability of the computer if something is getting in the way under normal operation. Attempted fixes
I've just installed ExpressVPN, which connects via an app. While it's connected, there is no extra VPN connection listed in System Preferences->Network, and the menu bar VPN status does not indicate that it is connected. It is working fine, so my question is purely out of interest:
What is a simple way to convert a Unicode text file to PDF on the command line on macOS? One can open a text file in e.g. TextEdit and print it as a PDF. Is there a command line equivalent?
On the right are songs I've purchased on iTunes itself, and on the left are songs I've bought (yes, I paid for them/supported the bands) from other sources, namely their websites and a code from a tour. How do I make the bands' names appear (Undercast and Sick Puppies, respectively) below the album names as they do on the right? Thanks!
Can we have an exact alternative (for macOS) to the output for /proc/net/dev on Linux systems? There's a slightly similar question at OS X equivalent of linux /proc dir but I'm looking specifically for /proc/net/dev.
Recently I made a hasty mistake in forcing a shutdown when it was becoming unresponsive. Previously I've been able to boot the system with no problems by starting in single user mode (to bypass the gray progress bar (which disappears after loading partially) and spinning wheel that stays indefinitely). However, now when starting up the system, it appears that pressed keys aren't recognized. I've tried resetting the SMC (by unplugging the power source and battery and holding down the power button for 5 seconds), but that appeared not to help. Is there another way to get to single-user mode or reset the NVRAM (such as by opening and adjusting something in the MacBook)? EDIT: I attempted diagnostics based on comments below by trying to boot into Verbose mode and holding Option to bring up the bootloader, but nothing worked.
I installed python3 a few days ago, but I need to use version 2.7 for school. When I run in terminal, it shows like below: I tried to uninstall python3 in Finder but my Mac still used python3. How do I cleanly uninstall version 3?
I have these three apps that won't delete. They come up as random number and won't go away. I tried rebooting my phone and checking in settings. Even in App Store.
The OS X Man Pages lists out all builtin functions. But where can I find the documentation of a particular one? For instance, the command fc, on ubuntu I can get its manual by: Another example is the if expression, on ubuntu: What am I missing here?
I'm having an issue where I cannot delete anything from the iMovie app on my iPhone 7. How do I delete videos from the iMovie app?
I'm trying to access a disk, from macOS, that has an Ubuntu installation on it. I was able to mount the disk with Paragon ExtFS tool but I don't know how to go about the encryption part. I do have the passphrase.
My mac behaves weirdly while connecting and disconnecting to Apple 27" display. Disconnecting: At the end of the day when i'm taking my mac & disconnecting it for my desk display I just disconnecting all the cables thunderbolt usb and power, then when I'm opening my mac in the train , it's stuck and laggy the dock is disappearing, only hard shut down helps. Connecting: Nearly same thing here , when i'm connecting the mac starting a new day, Again the mac is laggy and the dock is hovering somewhere in the middle of the screen, but here I can leave the mac for 10 min and it goes back to itself... everything in place and no more lags.
Here's the scenario- My friend destroys his 12" 2015 retina display macbook (model A1534) and I tell him I can replace the display for him if he buys a new display assembly. However, the display he purchased to replace the old one is a newer, 2016 rose gold edition (still model A1534, though). There are minor differences in the display cables but nothing that hinders the new display from hooking into the logicboard. However, when it is all set up the screen remains black after the start-up chime.
Last Week I found that the local backup took about 20-30 GB free space on my MacBook Air and I deleted them using: I weekly backup my notebook using my external harddrive with Time Machine. Was it important to keep local backup on my Mac and spare 20-30 GB space or because I weekly backup to the external drive, it is not necessary to leave it open ?
I installed Windows 8 64bit, via usb dongle (efi boot) on BootCamp partition. I notice the no audio problem (there is a device called "High Definition Audio" on system device that cant run properly and show code 10). I've already tried to install latest Realtek High definition audio codec, but still having this problem. Anybody had the same problem and resolve it? I've an iMac 2011 mid. Thanx in advice
I can show the desktop in Yosemite using cmd + F3 However I would like to change it to something else. I've done this in the past but can't remember how, and can't find anything online for that matter. Also when I look under System Preferences I see nothing relating to this action?
I've tried this with a MATSHITABD-MLT UJ267AM, it recognizes CD and DVD, for both reading and writting, but when I insert a brand new BD-R to record, is not recognized, so the MacOS Sierra built-in disk burning tool doesn't come up and the Disk Utility is not showing the drive. Don't looks like a hardware problem, because it works with empty CD and empty DVD as well. Any hint?
Recently, Calendar on my iPhone has started to cause my battery to drain rapidly by using 20%-40% of the phone's battery with "background activity". Calendar did not to this in the past, but the problem is now pretty consistent. How do I prevent Calendar from draining my iPhone battery? (Note that disabling sync, or using low power mode are not answers.)
I did a couple of idiot commands in sudo on /Applications and at least one non-Apple app now doesn't work. (Several others do, but I haven't tried all five hundred.) "Repair Permissions" no longer exists in Disk Utility, and Time Machine refuses to restore /Applications.
Very often I copy large video files to desktop for processing, editing, etc... Too bad it is using a lot of bandwidth and slows down other uploads. I want to use iCloud drive, but I want to disable Desktop. Is there a way of doing exactly that?
Java is listed in Tomcat's dependency list. But when I install tomcat there is no java. Why?
I'm having this issue with the "More Info" section of the Info window of a file (Cmd + I or "Get Info" in contextual menu):  I'm running Sierra 10.12.3, and I'm not sure when this started to happen, but it happens with all kind of files. Any idea on how can I track the root problem? Thanks!
When I use the inbuilt camera app, my finger sometimes accidentally touches the viewfinder somewhere, and it focuses and meters there. I want to undo the tap to focus, so that it focuses on wherever it thinks is appropriate, which is where it was focusing before my finger touched it.
i got an email that my iCloud was full. I went into phone settings and noticed that a lot of things i previously disabled were now enabled so i disabled them again ( backups, photos) it seems that disabling it did not remove anything from iCloud because it's still full. i logged into iCloud.com and i can see my storage is full but i can't find any way to delete my existing stuff.
I have a folder containing hundreds of PDFs, and I would like to remove the last page of each one in a quick way. How can I let my Mac automate this task? Do I need additional software to do this?
I synced an audiobook to my iPhone, now where can I go to listen to it? I can't find the audiobook in Music.
I don't know why but all shortcuts related to controlling tab in chrome suddenly stopped working and i have no idea why.  I haven't installed or changed anything. Just doing the same usual work. The only recent thing that I did earlier (which I never did before) was, opening the emoji keyboard using the control+cmd+space shortcut.
A brand new Mac locks after it goes to sleep, or when the screensaver happens. How can I keep the Mac from locking?
Is there any way to add devices to the selection in the lower left corner?  I want to add the iPad Air and iPad Mini, so that I can view their ID (e.g. for iPhone 4 "retina3_5") when I view the .xib file as code. My actual problem is that I am generating .xib files from a model and don't want Xcode to be asking like this
I can check to see if a file exists using AppleScript. But I am having trouble with hidden files. Is there a special way to do this?
I work from home a lot and want to create a 2nd screen for my Laptop by using my iPad. Is this possible and if so, what hardware/software do I need to purchase
Like the title said, IDLE opens and runs /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ctypes/test/test_find.pyc every time I start my computer, but I can't figure out why. It's not normal behavior for other Macs, but that's the directory macOs uses for its internal python frameworks so I don't want to delete it.
Disable User Interface sound effects in settings -> sound.  However still when I send a mail it makes a stupid woooosh sound.
I just want a browser window without the address bar or any menu, with just one tab. In Windows, chrome.exe --app=*=URL=* is used. I want the macOS version for it.
I'm using Google Inbox as my primary email service... sometimes using Inbox as app... sometimes using iOS mail. Although I've configured iOS mail to archive everything (I don't want to delete at all) some emails – not all – are moved to trash instead of being archived. I could not find a clear pattern for this behavior and think of it as a bug with iOS mail. Does anyone of you have that behavior too? I'm looking for a fix... so far without success. I still need to check Inbox' trash folder every 20+ days to avoid auto deleting those emails after 30 days. That's annoying... Info: related to iOS v10.2.1
I have a contact in my iPhone called "voicemail" that dials my company voicemail service. If I ask Siri to "call voicemail" it just says "you have no new voicemails" as it's trying to check the mobile network's voicemail service (even though I've changed the voicemail shortcut in the Phone app to dial said contact).
Strangely, all folders (only Downloads in my case) have vanished form my dock. A reboot did not help. I can still drag apps onto it, but not directories. How can I find out what the problem is and maybe fix it? Is there some configuration .plist to which I could manually add stuff? The system is 10.12.3 on an MBP 9,2.
I have an Apple TV (4th generation). Since this is a true iOS device, I suppose it has system log like every Apple device. The device has some issues with waking up and I want to know the reason why it does. I hope this can be found in the logs.
I have a MacBook Air, 2013-era, that will not charge. Plugging it into the charger briefly causes the "battery is dead, plug in" graphic to show up on the screen. The connection seems pretty solid and I can't see any objects in the port or plug.
My CD drive is broken and the option of creating bootable flash drive is also out, because mac mini 2.1's firmware doesn't support it. Is there a way how to install linux from hard drive? I tried doing it with UNetbootin as shown here *=URL=* but the mac version of this program doesn't have an option of Hard drive in the corresponding select box. I tried paritioning the main Os X partition into 2 partitions and then creating the second bootable via Unetbootin(yes I said it doesn't have Hard drive option, however, the second partition(empty, FAT formatted) showed available under "Type: USB Drive"), but when I use Startup Disk from System Preferences or hold option key while rebooting, I can see just standard OS X or recovery OS X.
I have accidentally added an entry to my defaults (/usr/bin/defaults) that is preventing me from installing apps via iTunes. How do I undo my change? This is the command to read the offending entry: Which gives the following result: It was added by I thought this would remove it, but I can't figure it out. This just returns the help for defaults Here are a few more things I've tried and the results
2011 iMac running Mavericks I have a number of hard drives on my machine, including a standard internal drive, an external SSD on Thunderbolt, a standard external drive on thunderbolt, a standard external drive on Firewire, and a standard external drive on USB.
If you run Apple Remote Desktop Admin you will notice Apple has recently released version 3.9. If, as happened to me, your AppStore does not display the update to the Apple Remote Desktop Client update as well as the Apple Remote Desktop Admin upgrade, and you upgrade your Apple Remote Desktop Admin first, these bad things will happen: You will not be able to open Apple Remote Desktop Admin on your machine, because your client is not the right version. If you run the AppStore again and pick up the ARD Client updater, you can open ARD Admin again, but You will lose the ability to send Unix commands, install packages, etc to all computers you manage that have not yet upgraded to ARD client 3.9 If you upgrade your remote clients to ARD Client 3.9 by whatever means, you will get back control of them through your ARD Admin but, The ARD Client version 3.9 is not compatible with any OS below Yosemite! If you run clients running an OS older than Yosemite, you will only have Screen Sharing acce
I have a weird thing that happened today on my Mac's disk. I had my main partition Macintosh HD and a 150 GB Linux partition. I tried to split up the Linux partition into two smaller ones using Disk Utility (on Sierra) but it failed. Since then, my Recovery HD popped between the Linux partition and Macintosh HD, making me unable to delete the Linux partition: Disk Utility would then try to resize Recovery HD to 150 GB if I delete the Linux partition.
So I've successfully authenticated myself with my private key, but now I want to disable passwords all together, so I can only access it with my private key. I edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config and I add the following:
I was stupidly doing things too fast and accidentally formatted my WD 1TB drive instead of a thumb drive. The drive was originally OS X Extended journaled encrypted and the operation attempted to format it to exFAT. Both would have had only one main partition. I tried to follow the answer to this question
So I was attempting to install OSX snow leopard on my Mac mini from OSX sierra by shutting down and then booting up but holding the option key. If this is totally wrong I'm sorry, but I found it as a tutorial on I-can't-remember-where. Upon doing this it came up with what I believe to be the recovery screen. Anyway, I connected successfully to the proper wifi network, and clicked the little arrow under the "Macintosh HD" drive picture. My computer has been displaying the apple logo on a black screen for 2 days and 2 nights constantly running now. Is my computer ruined? What do I need to do to fix it? Can I fix it?
So this problem particularly emerged with the Tinder app. I was using Tinder with a user account (A) and one day I logged out and created a new user account (B) which I never succeeded to activate due to sms verification problems, so I decided to login again with my old account. But even when I delete the Tinder app and reinstall it again, it still shows the B account logged in to the app. This means that IOS is somewhere storing a history for this app. Now I'm looking for a way to delete this history. Note that this question is not necessarily about a certain app, but rather about where IOS stores historical data of apps and how to delete those histories alongside with the app.
I got a used MacBook Air 11 (2014) and the first thing I did was wiping the whole drive and re-adding partitions. I picked OS X extended journaled encrypted which should be the same as File Vault 2 After reinstalling the OS (Mavericks) I've updated all the way to macOS Sierra 10.12.3 and added a second user non-admin user account. Now the confusing part:
Title bascily. The Macbook in question has been giving some trouble for a while, my sister (the owner) looked up the issue and apparently it was caused by the update to Sierra and the reported fix was to reinstall the OS.
On one of my machines, I have somehow hidden the panel which shows commit information, such as the commit hash and the full commit message. I'm sure it's just a setting somewhere to bring the commit panel back, but I can't find it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
I'v forgotten how to find a tab by its name and return the value (e.g tab 2) and eventually set the tab as the active tab too. I've tried the following, but it's not working: I also tried to start something with JavaScript: But then I get: {«class CrTb» id 4 of window id 1 of application "Google Chrome", «class CrTb» id 9 of window id 1 of application "Google Chrome", «class CrTb» id 2 of window id 1 of application "Google Chrome", «class CrTb» id 189 of window id 1 of application "Google Chrome"} doesn’t understand the “execute” message. How can I proceed?
I am stuck installing El Capitan on an MBPro for a while now. Installation never finishes, I can only enter the Mac in safe mode, but without any of my data. I can access Terminal in recovery mode and was wondering wether I can a) just exchange the InstallESD.dmg which I can access with the MBPro in Target Disk Mode to exchange it with the one from 10.8 or b) if I can handle the installation of 10.8 via Terminal if I use the disk image from an external hard drive. As you can imagine, I am desperate for help. So don't slay me if a) or b) are stupid ideas. EDIT: I verified the HD with disk utility and there are no problems with it. Checking with Terminal for the Data on HD reveals, that all my data is still on HD.
My Macbook Pro under Sierra needs repair. While it is being repaired, I am reverting to an old machine running Yosemite. Does anyone know if the format of Apple Mail files has changed between Yosemite and Sierra?
I had some problems with my USB stick so I wanted to erase it via Disk Utility but a "Operation failed" message appeared. So, I am currently erasing it via Recovery Mode. However, it is taking too long and it's stuck in "Mounting disk" message.
When doing a clean re-installation of El Capitan (highest supported version) from a bootable USB on an older Mac (MBP, 15-inch, Late 2008), I get this error: An unexpected error occured while signing in. AMD-Action:authenticate:SP The error shows up, while logging in with the Apple ID into the App Store in the installer. I tried with different Apple IDs, Also tried running these commands in the Recovery Terminal and restarting: csrutil clear csrutil enable Also tried running these commands in the Recovery Terminal and restarting: csrutil clear csrutil enable
When I run I get the message What should I do to avoid this error message?
Since the script is meant for a specific user and to be run on login of said user, it would make more sense to have the password in the user's login keychain. Same problem appears for a test keychain I added under the user's account. The results are independent form the Access Control settings in Keychain Access.
I checked out the solution here, but it is not adressing my problem too well, because it does not use the specific structure of my naming. I have a collection of files, enumerated and named in a systematic way, for instance filep-x
How do I know that what I store in this app is only saved locally, and the dev doesn't have access to my files? https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/foto-segrete-kyms-foto-video/id462182115?mt=8
since an up date safari Version 10.0.3 (12602.4.8) and Os 10.12.3 hotmail will not allow login due password fail or allow password reset however it works fine in Firefox and thunderbird .. on the same imac so the fault is 100% safari any ideas ??
I have this one file that, when I play music in iTunes using Airplay, always makes iTunes revert to use the computers internal speaker. When this specific track is finished, next track is again playbacked via Airplay, without me doing anything.
I am willing to dual-boot my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) macOS Sierra to install Ubuntu. I am having some trouble with my USB flash drive when I try to erase it using Disk Utility. It says "Couldn't open device". (as shown below) Please help me ASAP!
Am I posting on the right discussion board? I had iTunes starting download something related to "GarageBand" and since it kept increasing in size I had to sign-out and close iTunes. I have located files on my computer:
iPhone is disabled and the "Continue with iTunes" message is shown. The passcode has been forgotten. iPhone restored via recovery mode using iTunes. iPhone restored via recovery mode using iTunes.
I like to be able to use Touch ID for quickly unlocking my Macbook, e.g. for when I've walked away from the machine for a few minutes but it's still in a safe place. But I'd also like to be able to lock it properly, with a password, for when I'm taking it out of the office or otherwise want to enforce more security. By default you need to enter your password after a system restart, or if you get 5 failed fingerprints in a row, or after no login for 48 hours. Is there a command-line command, or a programmatic way to replicate this state, so I could script it using one of the various automation tools out there?
It might be related to xattr on that file? If yes, didn't find how to set proper xattr on id_dsa.pub.
Windows Environment and Windows Printer Server. When I add a printer to Mac users using the GUI, this is what I do: System Preferences Printers & Scanner Unlock the lock Type the administrator credentials Press the + sign Select the IP Tab
Since Disk Utility tells me everything is okay, am I able to somehow mount an external, and backup files? Possibly through Terminal? And If I were to use the drive with the old Time Machine backup on it, would I have to delete the backup before writing new data to the drive?
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I've run out of options. Within the past week or two my web browsers will not load anything unless it has 'https' in front of it. I am a web developer and work with Google's jQuery hosted libraries quite often, one of my sites isn't appearing properly for me because the script is loading from http rather than https -- I can't even browse to the script without https.
I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Sometimes when reading PDF's I notice I suddenly can not use the trackpad zoom feature anymore. It is not related to PDF's in general, as both in the apps Skim, Preview and Scapple it has stopped working. If it had stopped working, multi-touch features such as Mission Control still work, suggesting the problem is not hardware.
My Mac Pro ( late 2009 custom assembled in Ireland by Apple) Processor Name: 3.32GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Memory: 32 GB Processor Interconnect Speed: 6.4 GT/s Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B07 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 VRAM (Total): 4096 MB
If you run 'security find-identity -v /Library/Keychains/system.keychain' command from your terminal, you can see available/valid identities from your macbook with these private keys. What are these private keys? If i expose them, are my certs any good?
I'm trying to save a file download on my Macbook Pro. When i select a mounted SDCard a target, the file save dialog displays no file structure at all, although i can see it in finder. I currently updated to macOS Sierra. I can not remember having had this problem before.
I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to an Apple Cinema Display. It is *very* common for the external display's camera to be unavailable to my apps.
I have a new MacBook Pro..so I cloned my old one Sierra 10.2.3 over to the new one. Everything worked great however now I can't use the recovery partition anymore on the new MacBook Pro. It comes up with the "no smoking" symbol in white.
I've had this problem for a while in all types of Finder windows including open and save dialogs in Mac programs, that when I'm trying to navigate one directory up, by pressing Cmd + Up, Finder will jump to the hard drive root directory. It seems to happen mostly when I'm in "Column" view. Has anyone else experienced this glitch, or have any solutions? Thanks! OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217)
I don't see any of the usual text options while editing a Pages doc in iCloud online.  Cmd-L and Cmd-K both don't work. How can I add a link to text using the iCloud version of Pages?
Looking to record any audio that streams on my device. Are there any apps that are capable of doing this for ALL audio? (Im not interested in radio station apps that record radio stations only). I am willing to jailbreak the phone to make this work. Running ios 10.2 on iphone6
One thing I recall about my parents' old iMac (Mac OS X Tiger) was the ability to set a custom shortcut for a particular character or deadkey. While I did take advantage of that, I mainly used it in a frivolous manor.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010). I'm trying to put it on another monitor through an HDMI adapter. As I'm not able to display the image on the other monitor, the Macbook screen simply blinks when I plug the HDMI adapter into the DisplayPort output. I already tested 2 different adapters and all have the same result. I also have a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, and it works normally. Using macOS Sierra Version 10.12.3; What could be going wrong? Thanks!
I have an audio signal coming into the Mac from an audio interface. I want to be able to control the signal flow within the Mac, routing the signal through different applications, in the order I want it to, before going out from the Mac back into the audio interface.
Apple's Remote Desktop recently updated but I'm unable to install the update from the App Store, where I get the message: This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled. I purchased Remote Desktop before the App Store existed (or at least I think I purchased it through a different channel). How do I update ARD if the App Store won't let me?
There are VR headsets available for iPhone, like Google Cardboard, but Cardboard headsets only feature rotational tracking, not positional tracking like the Oculus Rift and the HTC. My question is, are there any VR headsets available for the iPhone which feature positional tracking? And if so, do they feature outside-in tracking like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, or do they feature inside-out tracking like the products I list here?
I have installed Apple Music on my android phone. I want to know is it possible to access my recently played songs and loved songs from android app on iTunes? For Spotify and SoundCloud all your listening history and liked songs are synced over all platforms but it seems such thing is not possible for Apple Music.
I recently bought a a pair of DDR3-1066 SODIMMs to upgrade a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro. On the packaging for the memory, it says "Compatible with MacBook Pro: Mid-2010, Early-2011, Late-2011". However, according to Wikipedia, the 2011 models require DDR3-1333. What would happen if somebody bought this memory and installed it in a 2011 MacBook Pro?
Due to a health issue I have very reduced hearing in my left ear. Because of this I often listen to music in mono instead of stereo. The macOS audio controls (under the accessibility settings) allow me to select that the stereo output be converted into mono, however this doesn’t seem to work with the the DAC I am using the Schiit Fulla 2, which stubbornly continues to output in stereo. It works fine for the built in audio output.
I haven't been making backups on my laptop (I know, this is something I'm going to change!) but I really want rid of Sierra, it's mucking about my wifi connectivity loads and I'm sick of it restoring Mac apps to the Dock that I just don't want there. All the solutions I've seen so far to downgrade rely on having backups of your machine from a time where it was on El Capitan - which I don't have! How/can I do this without having backups?
My internal hard drive was playing up and diagnostics found that it had 20 bad sectors. I've since done a high security erase of the drive and all my issues seemed to go away. Disk Utility reported the drive was okay and I was able to reinstall OS X and restore from a TM backup, etc.
Is it possible to select a specific resolution and refresh rate on os x el capitan? I attached a screenshot of paying software which gives you the possibility to do this
It is annoying that every time a message arrives, a notification pop up in the right corner of the screen, untill you click the close button. How can I disable this? I found that a software named growl may help, but it is not a free solution.
In my AppleScript, I use activate to bring an application to the front. However, on machines of some colleagues, it doesn't do that. The app-icon in the dock will bounce, but it doesn't get put into the front. This is very annoying, because the user has to go to the app manually every time.
I identified a problem of my OpenVPN client often disconnecting to be the size of MTU defaultly set at 1500. I can't figure out how to change it permanently as sudo ifconfig utun1 mtu xxxx only sets the value until the interface is disconnected. Is there a way to change it permanently? Also, since I am using OpenVPN client app, there are no .conf/.ovpn files to edit, or at least not that I am aware of. Thank you for any suggestions.
This Early 2015 12 inch MacBook was showing 75% battery remaining, and when I plug in my iPhone to try to record the iPhone, the Macbook began to sleep and refused to turn on when I press the power button. It showed the "Plug Me In" icon. So I unplugged the iPhone and started charging it, and then it would turn on right away, and showed a 69% battery level. So why did it refuse to be on at such a high level of battery remaining and how can it be fixed or prevented?
I turned on Two Factor Authentication mode, it worked very well. But yesterday, I reinstalled my Macbook, and iPhone, verification code popup don't automatically display when I login new device. I must get code through text message, or manually getting verification code from iCloud setting. I logged both iPhone, and Macbook, but all don't show popup (I also try to log from another pc but same result). I’m using Mac OS 10.12.3, and iOS 10.2.1 I think two cases: It's a problem occurred when I reinstalled my device.
A colleague of mine has a Mac which is no longer able to connect to our office VPN. It has worked in the past, and nothing has changed in his VPN-settings nor on the server side. (Other Mac users with identical settings connect without problems). Here's what he gets in his ppp.log: (I've replaced the IP address with a non existing one) So the client starts, but a 'IPSec phase 1 server replied' never comes. I'm actually not sure where to look next, given that our other Macs connect successfully, and our VPN-server & firewall haven't changed either.
I own MacBook Air (early 2015) where the GPU and its memory reads as following: Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB I think that the amount is a bit too high so I would rather decrease it to 1000 MB or something lower so I can benefit from higher RAM for applications. Is there a possibility to do something like that?
Is it possible to display my iphone LIVE on desktop or macbook, and use the mouse to click? For example if I need to click with my mouse on an app etc? Thank you
My Macbook Pro under Sierra is now at the Repair Shop. I am using another MacBook Pro under Yosemite while my Sierra machine is being repaired. However, I forgot to export Contacts before taking my Sierra machine in this morning and now my Contacts data is 3 years old, which is pretty well useless to me. It should be no problem, because all the necessary info is on my Time Machine linked to Sierra. However, things are not so simple (at least for me).
I bought a new battery for my Macbook Pro 15' Retina early 2013 and started to remove the old one today. I made several mistakes along the way: I had only experience with installing SSD, but was thoughtless to think it's the same.
I'm having trouble getting my iPhone 6s (running iOS 10.2.1) to be able to make calls and SMS texts from my Mac, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. I've followed this guide online: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph18756?locale=en_US
Does Apple's Gigabit ethernet to thunderbolt adapter work with old types of ethernet that are not gigabit? I am wondering because I want to use it with my 2015 macbook pro, wondering if I can connect to a non-Cat6 cable (my router doesn't support gigabit ethernet)
Many people think (and even some websites report) that the app switcher shows "apps running", e.g. in the background but this is not so. It just shows a recently used list of apps. Apps shown in app switcher can be in different states, including "not running" which means "The app has not been launched or was running but was terminated by the system."
My old MacBook Pro died recently (dead logic board) and I am unable to access the files on the hard drive. I used Time Machine to back it up and it was running macOS El Capitan.
I want to see if there were any invalid gets or posts on page 4 of our multistep flow, specifically any http status code 404's I figured out a couple of ways to view source but the only way I know how to do view HTTP request details is to wire it into my Macbook Pro. I'd like an option which doesn't require a computer if possible.
EDIT: I was able to go to /Volumes/ manually in Finder and delete this "rogue" HOME directory. Everything seems fine now... but I'm still very curious as to what caused this and how to avoid it in the future. Even reboots had not cleared it out.
I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro. My USB and Thunderbolt ports are not working anymore. I've tried getting the hardware repaired but it wasn't possible. I have a USB stick that I need to connect to my MacBook in order to be able to work remotely. Can you think of a way(s) to do that without using the USB/Thunderbolt ports on my MacBook?
I have (according to Apple) a "MACBOOK PRO (RETINA, 13-INCH, LATE 2013)". It has Windows 8.1 on itm installed via Bootcamp with the latest drivers from Apple Bootcamp Assistant on it. Possibly Intel display drivers have been updated via Windows Update, but I have no memory of any USB drivers being updated and it appears it is using "Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0100" (6.3.9600.17797).
I am trying to make a script which edits the sudo time length to 0, requiring the password everytime. I know if I was not using a script, I would have to type and add the line
Bought a WD Re 4TB 3.5" HD to use as an internal boot disk in an iMac 27" mid 2011. I have seen nothing online indicating that shouldn't work. iMac does not ask for any firmware/EFI updates so seem to be fully up to date in that regard. The WD drive is formatted with GUID and split into two volumes. But when the iMac starts with the new hard drive (cloned from the old with the newest version of Carbon Copy Cloner) internally mounted, there is just the blinking folder with question mark. If I then boot from a USB stick with the drive still inside, the iMac will say that it doesn't recognise the disk. If I open Disk Utility and select the WD disk, it will be listed as having a Master Boot Record partition scheme.
I've searched and found the Find My iPhone app in the App Store. However, I can't download it as there is an iCloud Symbol and I can't get rid of it. How do I get the desired app on my iPhone 6?
When I depress the sustain pedal on my keyboard while recording or playing the piano sounds in GarageBand, the sound loses its "brightness." The attack seems to be diminished when the pedal is depressed. Is there a way to remove that effect?
So guys I've done a very silly thing. I've installed a tweak that blocks ad websites, but apparently it blocks every connection on the internet(things using DNS, but now all the things use it) I only realised this after restarting my phone(silly me thought that restarting will solve the problem). Pretty much my iPhone is a brick because I can't even connect to the *=URL=* (again it uses DNS) to validate the developer certificate. So there is no way running yalu again or any other code. So is there a way to ignore/delete/edit that hostfile? I want the restore to be my last resort(hopefully to iOS 10.2(I have the blobs saved))
So my Iphone got snatched/stolen today and I would like to wipe all my things from my phone like apps and pictures and stuff. Is that possible to do from home? Thank you
I have a very frustrating problem: when I remove the HDMI cable from my MacBook Pro (i.e. to disconnect my external monitor, and move about with the laptop), the screen just refuses to wake up when I open the lid. It doesn't react to the keyboard or mouse. It's a 2014 model, 13" Retina with Integrated Graphics. What can I do to solve this problem of the MacBook hanging? It goes via an HDMI -> DVI adapter, in case that's relevant.
I've been annoyed and concerned with Macupdate's recent inclusion of adware in some of their update packages. I realize that a lot of apps that aren't from the Mac App Store include the Sparkle updater functionality, but it requires launching the app to trigger the update check. Is there a way to scan for all apps with the Sparkle updater and trigger the update check one by one?
We have configured our iPad devices to disallow in-app purchases (by all users, especially students), but we have a teacher loading apps purchased on her private Apple ID account (layered management) that wants to restore in-app purchases on these newly loaded apps. Can she do the restore with her "privately owned" apps?
A teacher found a school iPad 2, used by a former student, as a loaner, in the back of the iPad cart and they put their info into the apple id. So, we're locked out.
In my system.log file, this keeps happening every 10 seconds: I have read "How do I stop a particular service from running?" and it helped get rid of other wondershare processes, but after restarting, this one still persists.
I am looking to use my existing WD harddrive but use thunderbolt 2 instead of the usb3 A connection. I have looked for cables but all I find is type c ones.
I have a file encrypted. I want to get the content of the encrypted file and after that I want to encrypt the file with a new key. The output is content of the file.
While recording a screencast with QuickTime, I want to get video from the webcam in small window overlay. I can use photobooth video preview, but it's always too large and has lots of chrome. This would save me having to rely on third party premium apps. What are my options?
I upgraded from a Late 2013 MacBook Pro 15" to the 2016 13" MacBook Pro. On my old laptop, watching YouTube videos, and PlayStation Vue was smooth. However, on this new laptop, the video is jerky/choppy. For example, if I watch the news and the marque slides at the bottom of the screen, it slides smoothly for a moment, then studders, then smoothly again.
Just wondering if it's possible to lock the sorting order in Mail? My mom keeps accidentally clicking on the top bars "From, Date, Subject" and getting confused. I'd like to be able to lock it to only sort by date Descending but still display the "From, Date and Subject" tabs so she knows what she's looking at.
I am using iPad 3. I want to open multiple pdf documents from different locations one after another. I found this feature in one of friends iPad where all pdf files were displayed at the top of the screen and could be opened by clicking on it (one at a time).
Every time I attempt to create an App Store account, I get the following error:  Your session has timed out. Please try again. Code: 5107
I wonder how I can move items/folders using keyboard instead of drag and drop. Like sometimes I'm opening a folder and there is an item in it which I want to move it to another location but I don't want to open another finder window and drag and drop. I'm using macOS Sierra
I want to change X11 color settings from 'From Display'(default) to '256 colors' using Terminal.app. I already know how to change it using the GUI, but I need a bash script to do it. I have: Mavericks 10.9.5 XQuartz 2.7.7 (xorg-server 1.15.2) MacbookPro
I wanted to check my system and heard about EtreCheck. 1) Is it safe app to use? 2) Is this safe place to download it from?
I never use the menu items but I'd like to put more icons in the menubar itself. The (application contextual) menu items are useless to me without keyboard navigation, but they take half of the menubar, I'd love to just get rid of them. I'm wondering if there's a simple hack to get rid of all the menu items except for the apple icon (and maybe the current app name)? Thanks
If an iPhone screen recording, which is 1080 x 1920 (portrait size) is edited in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, and resaved as a final video, I noticed the video will be landscape: 1920 x 1080 with black bars at left and right. It isn't a problem if viewed on a desktop computer, but if viewed in any mobile phone, then, the left and right black bars will "push" the video to be really tiny, about 1/9 of the screen size. Is there a way to "preserve" the video as portrait: 1080 x 1920, so that there is no black bars, and so the video will be shown on mobile phone as the original 100% screen size, instead of 1/9 of screen? (iMovie's crop must crop it as landscape size, and Final Cut's crop can do a crop, except when "Share" as file, the file saved is landscape size again.) I can think of one way which is to use HandBrakeCLI to do a crop, but then can and how can it be done in iMovie / Final Cut Pro?
I'm feeling a bit paranoid, and was wondering if the biometric information collected by Apple's Health app stays local on my iPhone, or if it's being sent to Apple? Anybody know? Thanks!
I just purchased a 15 inch MBP, and the screen hinge feels a little loose, at least compared to my 2011 15 inch MBP. Is this normal?
I have a Mac OS X EI Capitan Version 10.11.6. Also got a 1.5Tb Seagate External hard drive. The hard drive is about a year old and my mac is only a few months old. The hard drive always work fine, but when I plug it in now, it doesn't mount at all and doesn't even show in Disk Utility? I thought of just re-formatting the hard drive. But I can't format it if it doesn't show in Disk Utility, it also doesn't show when I go to the Terminal. Type in diskutil list, it only shows my Mac hardrive. The hard drive is running, I even replaced the usb cord but still nothing. It doesn't even show up in my Time Michine. I added screenshots. Please can someone help me.
The first line of this snipet goes to the logfile, but the second doesn't. I need the second be executed and loged. How can i log the output= line as well?
I've been having this problem for a few days. Recently I switched my App Store country region from India to Canada. All my past app purchases and downloads were erased. I then downloaded some apps that I had already downloaded through the Indian Store. These apps were not added to my purchases. I am unable to review them therefore. Also, a popup for software update keeps showing up but when I check for updates I cannot see any updates. I'm using an iPhone SE.
My iMac is connected to my network with an ethernet cable - as such I have turned wifi off, to ensure that I am using the wired network, rather than the much slower wifi network. AirDrop never seems to work on that iMac, whereas I can AirDrop easily between my iOS devices and MacBook (which is on wifi).
I installed macOS Sierra as Guest System using VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. The problem is that some services I want to use prevent working when I'm connected to an external display. The display provided by VirtualBox is shown as external display, so the services won't work. Is it possible to set the external display as internal/built-in display? Thanks
I have the 2016 MBP and built up my Windows 10 installation just as I would like it. To speed up recovery and re-installation to it's current point I would like to backup the Bootcamp drive so that I can reinstall from that and not have to reinstall Windows and all the applications I have now configured.
I am having issues starting up Nginx with the MAMP Pro application. When I press start Nginx I get the following error message looking at the configuration file /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/nginx.conf I notice the following line has multiple users However changing it to just one user (rob) does not work because it gets overwritten and reverted back next time I start up Nginx via the MAMP application. I'm a bit stuck as what to do here?
I have a 13" MacBook Pro 2016 (non-touchbar) which I've connected to a couple of HDMI displays. I know that Macs support both HDMI and DisplayPort over USB-C Alternate Modes, and I'd like to know which.
Here is the button I would like AppleScript to click : Here is my code : However the script is returning a missing value and the button remain unpressed.
I've got a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) with OS 10.12.3 and I'm trying to connect it to an external display. In one of my displayports (got 2) it works and the other doesn't show the display (meaning I know that the cable is ok as it works with one of my 2 displayports). I also know that the displayport that does not show the display is working correctly as I validated it by connecting an ethernet adapter (and got connectivity). Also, if it is of any help, I am running CUDA 8.0.63 and my GPU driver version is "10.14.20 355.10.05.15f03". I have tried resetting NVRAM and SMC and those didn't help, and will appreciate any ideas on this.
Is this because I installed macOS Sierra from Yosemite a couple of months ago, it's on my B Mac so don't use it so much.
Me and my husband have just upgraded our phones. Since we have done this I now can no longer access all our music (on my phone). We have separate I-Tunes accounts and family share and for the last god knows how long I have always been able to listen to Albums he has burned from CD's on to our Mac on my phone but all of a sudden I don't have access to them all. Most I can access and download from the cloud but there are the odd tracks and all albums by Garth Brooks that I can not access. Does anyone have any idea what's going on. TIA
This question is just to fulfil my curiosity about how my mac works. I have a macbook air (2015) with 8GB of soldered RAM. And for what I know 2 RAM modules of 4GB are faster than 1 module of 8GB because they work in parallel and each has it's own bus, but as it is soldered there are no modules, so, are they more like 2x4GB, 1x8GB, 4x2GB, ...?
I have the cpff, and I would like to let my Mac automate removing the first page of many PDF's. I already have a script to remove the last page from my previous question, Automate removing the last page of a bunch of PDFs. How can I change the code in the answer to that question to remove the first page instead of the last?
Is it possible to reduce the padding between menu bar items? I'm mostly looking to reduce the space between the battery icon and the date.
I need to extract everything from "ORIGINAL COMBINED" that is between parenthesis and place it in the SPLIT A and place the remainder in the SPLIT B column. For example:
BTT should stop triggering actions whenever I am working in a specific app and BTT should automatically start triggering actions or listening to triggers whenever I move to a different app. Google search is not giving me any solution.
When I look at my storage chart about 100 GB is devoted to system storage. Is there any way to clear some space from the system folder and if so how?
A few days ago my local hard drive shows 68 GB of backups. I regularly backup with time machine on an external disk and even after running a backup these file stayed. I tired using SupaView and DaisyDisk to look at the files but both do not have access even while using then as an admin. Therefore I don't even know where this folder is or what i contains. I have OSX El Captain (10.11.6) Has anyone had the same issue or know what and where this folder is?
What's the best emulation system to use and what's the legal path to acquire a machine image? Or is there another way to do this? Is there a cloud provider that I can VNC into and run my licensed software on? What tree should I be barking up?
I'm using macOS Sierra and I have a strange problem: I'm trying to schedule Automator & a Calendar event to open up a file every day when a recurring calendar event occurs. But the Automator workflow only runs the first day!
I've been using the ⌥⌘Space shortcut to open a new "Search my Mac" Finder window. However, the problem with this is that I recently turned on Sierra's new "prefer tabs when opening windows" option on. That means that if I have a Finder window open in Desktop #4 but am currently in Desktop #1, the "Search my Mac" window will open in the Finder window in Desktop #4. What's even more confusing is that the Finder window isn't brought to the front. It stays in Desktop #4 and no matter how many times you press the ⌥⌘Space shortcut, you'll be opening new tabs in that window with no visual cues whatsoever.
My laptop shuts off with 50%-60% battery levels without saying anything - just dims the screen go off. If I try to turn it on again, it shows me the big "low battery level" indication and won't start unless i plug it in. Is it normal? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) macOS Sierra 10.12.3
A few months ago my iPhone was stolen... a few days ago I recieved a facetime call from a weird email at 4am so I didnt pick up then a message that says add +57(318)xxx-yyyy for iMessage and Facetime then it says This phone number was associated with the Apple ID (my email address) on Iphone (my Name)... What this means? Is the person who stole my iPhone?
I've run into a rather minor, albeit annoying issue with Airdrop where my Mac Mini won't appear on the AirDrop section of the share sheet on my iPhone until I open the "AirDrop" folder in Finder on my Mac. As soon as I open it, my Mac shows up and I can share the file. How can I have my Mac always show up in the share sheet without me having to open finder?
I have a 2009 Mac Mini A1283. I have 2 displays hooked up. 1) Mini Display Port -> Mini Display to DVI (female) adapter -> DVI Cable (male to male) -> DVI input on monitor 2) Mini-DVI Port -> Mini-DVI to VGA (female) -> VGA cable (male to male) -> VGA input on monitor My second monitor only has VGA input so I have no choice but to use Mini-DVI to VGA I wonder is this causing my problem which is:
This is the 3rd time it happens, but I don't know why. I turn on my Macbook Pro with Sierra, I open any app and when I click something it acts as if I did cmd + click. However, doing cmd + click doesn't work as a normal click. Any ideas?
Recommended my girlfriend's dad to upgrade his laptop with an SSD to improve loading times etc. I'd done this to her laptop (2012) and all worked no problem. Formatted the drive, carbon copy cloned, plugged it in and all was well.
I have a column in numbers with zipcodes. The zipcodes have leading zeros, only the column drops the leading zeros. I assume this is because the column thinks it's a number and not a string. I tried right clicking on the column header to get a menu item to to change the type but couldn't find anything. How can I change the column type from number to string?
I take photos with my iPhone SE running iOS 10.2.1. I edit the photos in the native Photos app (cropping and filtering). I sync to my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) using the native Photos app via USB.
So earlier today, I restarted my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.11.5, and when it booted back up, I couldn't get on the Internet. I check my Wifi settings and found that the reason I couldn't connect was "Wi-Fi does not have an IP address and cannot connect to the Internet." I tried all the normal stuff, restarting Wifi, restarting computer, etc. I then checked the IP on my iPhone, which is connected to the same network, and set the Wifi on my computer to configure "Using DHCP with manual address," and set the IP address to be one higher than that on my phone. My wifi then said that it was connected. However, when I tried to access any web pages, I was told that "This page can't be displayed because your computer is currently offline, as if I wasn't connected at all. I am on my college campus, so I don't have access to a router or anything like that. It doesn't seem like other people on campus are having the same problems.
I've tried turning off the cell and bluetooth radios. Both Safari and Chrome do NOT work. The phone WILL connect to a (wired) Raspberry Pi on the network. I tried plugging in my wired ethernet adapter to the MBPr, and the phone DOES connect when it is running on the wire.
I also have a pretty large iTunes library - ~250GB, 12,000 songs, all Apple Lossless. I store this on the HDD, and iTunes is painfully slow to browse - upwards of 5 seconds often to open an artist, etc. I also have several very large box sets (100CD) which are around 2000 songs a piece. When I click on these albums, iTunes takes a good 40 seconds to load.
For some reasons I need to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). But when I try to enter utilities by rebooting my Mac with Command+R, I get an earth icon and a message about recovering from internet. After an extremely long time waiting nothing seems to happen.
I have the wired Apple keyboard that has the numeric keypad. When I try to use the command or control keys in Cs4....they don't work. When I checked the keyboard input area in my preferences..it shows a keyboard that looks nothing like the one I'm using. How can I get my Mac to recognize my keyboard. Thanks for your help.
You might not believe me. So I have attached a video link below. I tried clearing history and restarting the computer, etc. It doesn't work. Is the combination "sac" something for quitting the app? Google drive link
Whenever a window is commanded to become full screen, Mission Control sends it to the right of the rightmost desktop. I find this cumbersome for my workflow, I'd prefer the window to become full screen and to be just at the next right desktop spot of the active desktop. Can this behavior be configured somehow?
My copy of Server.app has disappeared and this library has blocked connections to the app store. And my caching DNS server is not running. I still have all the configuration files, but I don't recall how to get it to run at boot. When I originally set it up, launchd didn't exist and I didn't have Server. I see that Internet Sharing will start it, but I usually want that left OFF. I've hunted through the LaunchAgents and Launchd but the only bind, dns, or named in file name or contents are related to crypto, mDNS, and extensions for DDNS. Also strike out with dns, named, or bind in man and apropos. I just saw an item in "Similar Questions" that sounded promising, but it vanished on a refresh just as I was getting ready to click on it!
I found that Spotlight directory /.Spotlight-V100 is about 13G, and it looks like Spotlight tries to fill almost entire disk space leaving only about 1G. Is it possible to restrict the size of this directory to a certain size?
I have a large number of files, and I want to create custom-named folder from a selection, where the selection can vary in number of files. I would like to name the folder with the name of the 1st file, based on either time-stamp or the incremental name. If possible, I also would like to add info from the EXIF-data to the folder name. Preferably, I would like to have a short-cut and maybe also a selection from a right-click menu, to access the creation of a folder. What are my options?
I have an Akai Mini Mpk Mk2 midi controller that I use with Garageband. I can use the modulation "stick-thing" and knob number 7 can control volume. Other than that, I figured out that CC (midi "continuous control") # 10 can control the pan, but I can't figure out how to control any of the settings in synths (neither the built-in ones in Garageband nor third-party plugins like the Tyrell N6 or Zebralette). I found out most of what I learnt from here: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/assinging-midi-controls-in-garageband.1709222/
I have a MacBook Pro 2011. I have go to Authorized Apple Service to fix this issue on 2014.
So, I have a Time Capsule 802.11n (3rd Gen) and I'd like it to connect to an existing wifi and provide internet connection through its ethernet ports. I reset it, set "add to a network" and it seems it successfully connected to the wifi, because I can see it via the Airport Utility (I am connected to the same wifi).
When I choose to pay for something in macOS using Apple Pay (e.g., from Safari or the App Store) from Mac hardware that doesn't have a touchID hardware itself, I'm sometimes offers my iPhone and sometimes my Apple Watch. However, I don't see any pattern in which device is offered, and often the least convenient device is selected. Is there a way to control which device is chosen for paying with Apple Pay, or to select or change to a different watchOS/iOS device?
/Volumes/Original_Time_Machine is no longer being backed up to, but contains old backups that I want to keep. /Volumes/New_Time_Machine_Archive is an empty partition Both of these are on separate physical hard drives.
3)Run First Aid From Disk Utility. The SSD is ok:
Can anyone say which keys represent the 2 symbols in the Run menu item from the screenshot?
I am doing something I thought would be pretty easy, but apparently I was wrong. I am wanting to edit blueprints for my sister-in-law's new bathroom redesign. I have made selections to the PNG with my rectangle tool for the shower, sinks, toilette, doors, etc., etc., I simply want to rotate these selections (not the entire imagine) 90°.
Well, I don't know exactly what I should ask, but I'm trying to fix that I've had kernel_task at 100-500% of CPU for most of the past week, bringing everything to a halt. I've looked at this thread: How to investigate high kernel task memory usage?, which gave lots of excellent things to try.
Every time I've tried to download macOS sierra from the app store I'm getting this message: "macOS sierra failed to download. Use purchases page to try again".
Unfortunately, there's not enough room on the Time Capsule to do another complete backup of my computer without deleting my old backup history (which I need to retain) and so if I click "Start New Backup" the backup fails (runs out of space) or if I click "Back Up Later" my MacBook Pro doesn't backup at all. How can I circumvent this odd protection to "improve reliability" and just backup my MacBook Pro to the Time Capsule, merging the backup with my new computer and only backing up the same 11 GB of new files that I had to back up to my external hard drive? tl;dr: How can I perform a Time Machine backup of my post-reinstall Mac to the Time Capsule without making a completely new backup, just like how I did with my wired external hard drive?
I am running a MacBook Pro 15", system 10.12.3. My incoming email doesn't come in, but outgoing is no problem. Mobile devices, iPhone, iPad, use same email and have no problem. Settings are the same on all devices. I tried to replace Apple mail, but get the message that it cannot be done because it is needed by the system. Any ideas?
When I restart Mac, I have the option of restart the applications which will quit. This approach brings back all the terminal windows with all info such as terminal old commands and output, their current directory, etc from before quitting the application. Is the above approach possible for manually quitting the terminal application using CMD+Q? Application of this: This will allow me to quit the terminal when I am working on non-developer tasks but allow me to jump back easily, no more CD to each folder and history will allow me to get back in the zone of various tasks I was doing in each tab(db session, test data, git commit's etc).
I hope this is the right place to pose this question. I have a MacBook Pro with just 128 GB of HDD space. Now I want to install Homebrew & FFMPEG - however, with what I have read it seems that Xcode is a mandatory. Is there a way to install just the required libraries for FFMPEG or Homebrew to run without having install the enormous 10-12 gig of Xcode. Thanks.
I connected the phone to the computer, trying to store some pictures, but the phone synced to my brother's account and all the contacts were overwritten. I don't remember if I had any iCloud account or anything on my phone. Is there a way to restore the data that was there before syncing?
I have an A1369 Macbook Air (mid 2011 13 inch model). It appears that the backlight fuse is blown. I have some hypotheses as to why that happened, but before pluging a new fuse back in, I would like to make sure the short to ground is gone.
Can you only make a partition "longer" and not move the start or "head" of a partition? That's all I could think, but was unable to find any documentation on this. There is a box where you can enter a size value for the partition, but I was too chicken to try it without asking here first. Thanks.
Basically, I want to be able to type "myfolder" from anywhere in the directory structure and have it change to that alias path. But I haven't been able to get it to work.
I was cleaning up my desktop today and wanted to move a file from desktop to the a sub-folder of a Dock Folder, set to "Stack" mode. I can drag the file onto the Dock, but it expands in a boring, not useful way alphabetically. If I click the stack to expand, it shows me a useful grid sorted by modification date, but when I click the desktop file, it closes. I'd like to either get the expanded stack to stick open, or the drag operation to trigger the normal, useful stack expansion. ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.12.3 BuildVersion: 16D32
Apple only issues signatures for the currently-available iOS version, which disallows installing older iOS versions. But if you have saved signatures for an older iOS version, you may be able to use a replay attack to restore that version. Therefore it is recommended to save the signature for your device as long as Apple issues it. But there is another note there
I was looking for ways to save money for a small business on Apple products. While I find that Apple makes the best products, it'll be too expensive for a new business, and will most likely seek some other company. However, I saw this... ...on the Apple website.
I have a 5-year conversation going on with my wife on iMessage. Every once in a while I want to find something like a restaurant she messaged me about. I want to search for the word "restaurant" and find ALL the times she used that word, meaning only within HER messages. How can I do that?
So, the particular Shift+Delete that I'm referring to is on a website like Reddit or any website with a search bar, on Windows, one can delete past searches by selecting an item and press the shift and delete (not backspace) and remove it. I've searched on Google, Bing, and here, and all I was able to find was using Shift+Delete to permanently delete a file.
I am in the process of creating a multiboot drive with OS X starting from 10.7 up to 10.12 (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra). I have bought Kingston DT micro 3.1 64GB and created a separate partition for each OS and their updates. The usb drive is formatted in GUID partition scheme.
When I am on the phone with a caller, they say they can hardly hear me. My volume is high and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I have a folder with absolutely nothing in it. Zero. I made sure there was no hidden files in it, by typing "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES." into my terminal. There is nothing in the folder 100% and I've emptied my trashbin, yet it still shows this folder holding 188GBs of space. I know I can delete the folder and get that space back, but I'm looking for the root of the issue. Why is this happening and is this happening in other folders on my Mac El Capitan
I am using OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6. I've noticed that whenever I open an app (irrelevant of which Space I open it in), continue operating in any Space other than the first, once the opened app is loaded, an auto-switching takes place, pulling me back to the first Space. Is there any way to disable this? This is extremely frustrating as it gets in the way of multitasking quickly, very often.
I am kinda freaked by this new computer that seems to be connected to my imac. It showed up ok I noticed it about 3 days ago. Am I being hacked? When I looked up epson it showed a microprocessing chip that's kinda pricey and only sold in japan I think and that is even weirder. Thank You
I want to select the entire line my cursor is on so I can delete it. By using CtrlE I can move my cursor to the end of the line. But CtrlShiftA doesn't work... What's the alternative(s)? Thanks.
On Linux you can login via SSH or a tty and trigger a launch of a GUI application in completely different graphical session: How to do it on Mac?
My wife translates legal texts from language a to b (and back). She has her own phrases which translate to specific other phrases.
Able to edit name because information and contact was incorrect however the address that is sometimes offered through auto fill on my 6+ I cannot edit because I don't know where their getting that information from it was not attached any credit cards or I haven't lived there since using the smart phone only previously synchronizing Contacts of older phone with Google accident line as my only guess
How can I get spotlight to recognise expressions like 8C5 or 7P4? I want to do combinations and permutations with spotlight.
I am scripting iTunes and have bumped into two problems when I in one step of my script need to verify wether windows/dialogs are displayed or not. According to Waiting until a window exists in Applescript? this should be valid code repeat until window "Print" of process "Evernote" exists
My trackpad is misbehaving, it randomly interprets clicks as swipes and the cursor jumps around or lags on the screen. How can I find out if this is a hardware or software issue?
A list of things I’ve tried, in no particular order…I’ve turned off the Wi-Fi just so they’d all be using ethernet, I’ve turned off the ethernet switch and had them use Wi-Fi only. I’ve replaced the switch, replaced the ISP’s router, replaced the Wi-Fi router, replaced every Cat 5 cable in the building. Nothing helped and the freezing continues. The only hardware I haven’t replaced is the actual Cat 5 cable coming from the ISP outside the building since I can’t get to it.
I have configured my keyboard for French and US layouts. I cannot find a tilde anywhere on there. Normally, the tilde (~) is on the upper case of the key to the left of the "1" character.
I'm trying to transfer (make a copy of) all of the photos/videos in my iPhone's Photos app (what I see under the Photos builtin) to my macbook laptop. If I go to Photos then "Import New Photo" or use image capture, nothing is available for import potentially because these are no longer on the 'camera roll' itself. What's the best way to do this in bulk?
I usually need a chrome page opened to localhost:3000 when I am developing. So, I just run the following cmd: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=http://localhost:3000
I want to use a low power, ultra light weight solar charger for a three week backpacking trip. But I have heard that any shadows will lower the output causing the phone repeatedly start/stop charging. On an iPhone, this causes the screen to repeatedly activate for a few seconds to say "charging started". This uses a lot of power I can't afford to waste! Can I stop the iPhone from waking up the screen when its battery begins to charge? iPhone 5, iOS 9.3.5.
I am doing a fresh install on macOS Sierra and I would like to use iCloud Drive on it. I currently have files (some as large as 3GB) on iCloud Drive and I would not like them downloaded on my computer.
I love the new voice to text feature on Gboard for my iPhone but unless I speak really really fast the dialog disappears before I'm finished speaking. Is there any way to fix this?
I want to create a custom label in contacts to designate GoToMeeting dial in numbers and access codes. I am able to create the custom label as "GoToMeeting" and save it, but when I get out of contacts go back in, the custom label is gone. The label reverts back to the generic one "work phone". I am able to create custom labels for addresses, notes, etc, but not phone numbers. iPhone 6+
I'm curious. As far as cp and rsync I see all these different options. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you copy + paste in Finder, lets say from one hard drive to another, it should preserve: All file attributes (access time, modified time etc.) All file attributes (access time, modified time etc.) All Symbolic Links All Symbolic Links Recurse through the directory structure Recurse through the directory structure (Can't think of anything else to preserve)? (Can't think of anything else to preserve)? So in the end, when you copy paste in Finder, everything will be an exact copy, just located in a different parent directory.
After getting to the menu bar (which in OS/X is already a hassle) we can use the first letter to access the submenu - ‘w’ for ‘Window’ in the screenshot below: Subsequently the ‘b’ was typed to access the ‘Background’ sub-submenu The question here is: how to expand it - without resorting to the arrow keys that are a big jump for the fingers and get them out of home row position?
Since I upgraded to macOS Sierra on my MacBook 15" (Mid 2014), I noticed some weird behaviour: When I'm running low on power, it doesn't notify me that my battery is going to die. It just shuts down. When I plug it in, it takes a few seconds and then shows me the login window, as if I put it on sleep. The battery icon doesn't indicate when it is loading
I tried to watch live stream from cbsnews, however installation flash is required. I don't want to install flash, so I set Develop -> User Agent -> Safari iOS 10 as usual try to deceive the website that I'm using iPhone. However it didn't work. How does it recognize the device I'm using? Is there any way to watch this live stream without using flash?
I am trying to run a launch agent upon a user logging in, but the script encapsulated by it requires knowing who is logging in. Previously I could identify the user logging in by checking the owner of /dev/console but this no longer works. The owner of /dev/console is root upon a user's login or more precisely when the launch agent runs as it changes to the user afterwards. Is there anywhere I can find out the username of a person logging in for the purposes of a launch agent?
I've always noticed that Gmail and Google Docs will take up ~1GB of RAM at any time if you have open in Safari. However, something odd happened to me just a while ago: I had a Google Docs tab open for a while, and out of nowhere it started using 8GB of RAM. Most of it had been compressed, but my memory pressure was quite high.
I have a friend in Vietnam. I tried to gift her an iTunes song, paid for it. She got the email but could not access the song. How can I send her iTunes music when she is residing in Vietnam? Any suggestions?
I have written an AppleScript to do a little task in the current folder of Finder. I added it to the Finder toolbar by dragging it while holding CMD-ALT. But when I click it, it opens the AppleScript in the Script Editor instead of executing it. The AppleScript file has following rights: -rwxr-xr-x@ The owner is the same user which is using it.
For historic reasons I have some apps installed on my iPad that were legitimately downloaded using another account than the one I am using now. I do not have the current password for said account, so I cannot provide it when I occasionally am prompted for it. The iPad synchronizes against an iTunes instance running on my MacBook which I have full control over. I have no idea which apps cause this, and I would like to identify them so I can get uninstall them and stop being prompted. How would I do that?
Starting Internet Recovery. This may take a while and then: apple.com/support -2006F
This happens lately and I don't know how to fix it. When I listen to podcast using the app 'cast' with my earpod, from time to time I long press the remote to ask for some information. Let's say the volume of the podcast output is at 8 (out of 10), the siri answer will out very weak and feels like it is set to 1 or 2. I have tried increasing the volume when siri is activated but it does not have any effect. Is there anything I can do to increase siri's volume? EDIT Add model and version info The iphone is 6s (NKQN2ZP/A) OS version is 10.2.1
I'd like to mirror the music tracks/files and all the playlists from one iPod Nano 5th Gen 16GB to another another (Nano 5th Gen 16GB). Is there a way to easily automate this process? Details
When I type a word into Spotlight (macOS Sierra 10.12.3) and I click on the dictionary (definition), it always comes up using the German dictionary. I have a German-bought Mac but work almost exclusively in English, so this is quite frustrating. I have tried moving the English dictionaries to the the top of the list in Dictionary preferences, and also tried deselecting the German dictionaries altogether, with no changes.
I'm putting old files to fresh Mac and on one external drive, there is bunch of video files I downloaded from Youtube and Tumblr at one point few months ago. Would it be safe to put them to fresh Mac or could those files be harmful? There didn't seem to be anything bad with them before, but as this is fresh Mac I'm more careful now. Should I keep them away from fresh Mac just in case?
I need to download black berry link onto my mac book pro running OSX 10.12.3 the black berry is really screwed up and I can't get into settings. I believe it is running OS 10. I think I need to download black berry link. I've tried the black berry website *=URL=* and clicked "download for mac" but it just sends me to an error page.
I recently replaced the HDD in my mid-2012 MacBook Pro with an SSD. After doing a clean install of OS X Sierra, I wanted to get my old notes from the backup copy of my old HDD. After some research I found that the data is stored in "/Library/Containers/com.apple.notes....". I've tried to copy this data to my current ssd, but notes doesn't recognise this data when I open the application.
I've got an issue with text input using special characters against my will each time I use the option ← → keys to jump between words. I'm not wanting special characters to be what I'm typing when I jump to another word and start typing. The option key seems to be acting quite differently than what I'm typically used to all of the sudden in general (it seems to jump way past words now also).
can i look at my text messages from imessage on my computer? because im grounded from my iphone and need to check my messages from friends. any ideas on what I can use?
I have an experience like of around 6 years as an iOS developer but I am feeling like stuck. Is there any certification for iOS developer which can help me in getting better job or which can put me in the priority list of recruiters?
Just bought the magic mouse 2 it's working but not scrolling up and down. When I go into system preferences and click on mouse, it shows there is no mouse found! Help!
Can several links be opened at once in Safari? Imagine you are on a page with a lot of links:
I'm searching for a free alternative of RealVNC for Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11). I have one "special need" for the program. I need to be able to change the port of the Mac I am currently using. I couldn't find anything yet, at least nothing that works with El Capitan... Any recommendations?
I have just experience this weird problem. My MacBook Air would not get issues an IP address by a WiFi router make Tenda model 11n. It would only say that it got a self assigned IP address and had no Internet connection.
I bought a used 2010 Mac Mini Server (4,1 - intel Core 2 Duo - A1347) off ebay, and I wanted to completely wipe it and install afresh. I upgraded from 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to 10.11.6 El Capitan first, so that I could use the internet recovery stuff etc. when I went into Disk Utility, it showed me 2 disks and 2 volumes under the 'internal' pane. My questions are: Are all of these partitions legit? Why do all of the tiny ones exist? How can there be 2 partitions, each 500GB, when the disk is only 500GB in size? How many of these partitions can I safely delete? I couldn't find any answers on the internet after an hour's research..!
I have a MacBook Air, mid 2012 running the macOS 10.12.4 beta. Since recently, my headphones stopped working. If I plug them in, the computer still uses the internal speakers. And if I go to system preferences, I still doesn't recognize my headphones. I've searched the web for this problem, and I saw that some other people have the same problem. I can only fix this by restarting, but that's very annoying. Can anybody please help me?
I am using a normal german keyboard and am well aware of the different keystrokes, to insert different diacritic characters as œ or Á. But being a programmer, I desire to be able to insert some diacritic characters directly, instead of using that key as dead key. For example, I would love to insert ^ by only tying the ^ once. How to get rid of those dead keys?
On previously Mac OS X version is was possible to change a single application to a different language via Terminal using a freeware application (Language Switcher and App Language Chooser), but I can't seem to get it to work on Sierra anymore.
That's because, to record iPhone 7 Plus's screen, I need to plug it into Macbook Air or Macbook 12 inch. Now, when QuickTime records the screen of iPhone, it probably use a lot of processor power (together with hard drive power constantly). That probably is a lot of power consumption all at once. I have noticed that in some cases, my Macbook 12 inch would even shut itself down when battery level is at 75% or 69%, probably due to power consumption bigger than the battery can afford.
Can my Find My iPhone password be different than my Apple ID password? I would like it to be different so my girlfriend can see where I am but not be able to access my entire phone.
I'm trying to connect an external monitor to my Macbook Pro with an HDMI cable. Neither the Macbook nor the monitor give any indication that they detect each other. The monitor displays the status of its inputs and it says that nothing is coming out of the HDMI cable. On the Macbook, the System Preferences->Displays thing doesn't indicate the presence of a second display. When I hold the Option key to get the Detect Displays button and click on it, it still doesn't detect the monitor. I've verified with other hardware that the HDMI cable and the monitor both function. Is there anything else I can try?
I'm developing an Android app that needs to store the user preferences somewhere in the cloud. If I enable the Google Drive's AppFolder in order to store the user's data, the user needs to give consent by authorizing access to their Google Drive account. I currently don't have my iOS device at hand and can't recall whether I needed to do the same thing when working with iCloud.
There's equivalent information available about this for Google Maps 3d views but I can't see anything relating to Apple Maps. Likely because there's no public-facing api that requires the user having the focal length or FOV data (to the best of my knowledge).
On my MacBook Pro, the Storage section on about my Mac shows that I have 730.21GB free out of 999.7GB, but it also says that my apps take up 545.33GB.  Why is this happening? How much storage do I actually have available?
I administer the computers in our office which run a mix of 10.10.5 and 10.11.5. To assist with problems I use Apple Remote Desktop allot to view and control users' computers. What I tend to do is control their computer whilst on the phone to them and talk them through why it happened etc.
I was making extensive use of Notes on a loaner laptop for work. I just got my permanent machine, and after updating from the backed up data on CrashPlan, I found my notes didn't make it over. I looked into the issue, saw what I needed to copy over, and asked the build tech to email me the contents of group.com.apple.notes from the old machine. I extracted the zip he sent me, and in Notes ran "import notes" on the directory he sent. It doesn't seem like anything was copied over. Any idea why this might not work? Am I copying the wrong directory, or importing incorrectly or otherwise missing a step? What are the actual files that need to be copied over? Both old machine and new are running El Capitan.
I want to download a folder from iCloud Drive using the web interface (iCloud.com). The only problem is, since it is not zipped, I cannot download the folder. Is there a way to download the folder without having to sync the entire content of my iCloud Drive with my computer?
I have a Mac connected to a large 27 inch monitor. I want to be able to remotely push audio and video to it. The source device can be an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac. (Imagine a dorm room situation, where I want to play Netflix, or other media on the big screen, from my phone, and use that phone as a remote) As a developer, I've come across some bugs in the past that make it appear that an OSX could act as an Airplay Target. Is there any way I can make this happen?
Google Chrome Helper is appearing in Activity Monitor a dozen times and overall using a ton of memory. How do I curtail this? Most advice columns say to go to my plugins and check "Play on click", but Google updated the browser and this option is no longer available. What can I do?
Given applications ABC; switching to C gives: CAB Command-Tabbing to an application brings it to the left end of the Command-Tab cycle. Any way to disable this?
Is it possible to configure cupsfilter to take input from the standard input (as opposed to only taking input from a file)? Specifically, I would like to do something like this: ruby do_some_processing.rb < input_file.txt | cupsfilter | lpr I tried both ruby filter < input | cupsfilter and ruby filter < input | cupsfilter - Both attempts resulted in a "usage" message being written to stdout. It wouldn't be terrible to create temporary files between steps, but it seems like that should be unnecessary. --
I am currently using macbook pro 2012( non-retina model ) having resolution 1280 X 720. When i connect it to external display( supporting max resolution 1366 X 768 ) using mini display port, external display switches to 1280 X 720 because of which quality reduces due to stretching. There is no option for 1366 X 768 resolution in display settings for external display. Is there any way to select that resolution for external display and use independent resolution on both the screens.
I need some.domain.com:8000 to be linked to 162.251.150.150:80. So when I load some.domain.com:8000 in my browser - an actual request should be going to 162.251.150.150:80. I was trying to use pf.conf for that with different settings, but without success: (I've created an alias for some.domain.com in hosts file along with that) I have MacOS 10.12.3
So I don't really remember how this happened, but during some sort of update I accidentally signed into icloud with my personal account instead of my work account. Somewhere in this process I actually activated icloud, so now ALL of my work stuff from my work machine is in iCloud, I'm not entirely sure how to get it back on my desktop without also putting a bunch of personal info and documents on the machine, and I'm hoping to fix this before anyone notices a massive change in my bandwidth usage. Any ideas for how to do this?
I tried installing the visualizer plugin Cover Version with my new mac with OS Sierra. I followed the instructions and put the file in the itunes plugin folder, but it doesn't show up in iTunes among the Visualizer options. I restarted iTunes (and my Mac) but that didn't help. Any ideas?
Installed windows 7 on Bootcamp partition. I want to copy files to my Windows 7 folder from Mac OS but do not have appropriate permissions, when I drag something to any windows folder it doesn't allow it.
Is it possible to set up a shortcut so that whatever is in my clipboard goes into a specific text-file ? The idea is to have an OS-wide inbox where I can send anything (img, pdf, text, url) quickly. Much like a generalized "read later" feature.
I have my iBooks setup on both my iPhone and Mac so that their contents are always in sync. If I delete a book on my Mac, then it gets deleted on my iPhone, too. However, it usually takes 24 hours before it takes effect on the iPhone, after I delete a book on the Mac. How can I force a sync on the iPhone so that updates are reflected immediately?
We got a new iMac and would like to enable iPhone Photo Library on it so it can download photos onto it from our existing iCloud Photo Library. However, since this is a new computer, our Photo library on it is empty, so before I enable iCloud Photo Library, I wanted to make sure my iCloud Photos are safe. If we enable iCloud Photo Library on our new iMac with the empty photo library, will it download our existing photos or will it try to sync the empty library to iCloud and possibly wipe out our photos?
This tutorial on how to "properly install git" on OSX 10.8.5, says: To run the latest version you need to adjust your shell path so that /usr/bin/git runs after /usr/local/bin ... So add into the path [in my case: ~/.bash_profile] similar to the below and keep what you already have in the path, each segment is separated by a colon: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/git:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH" So my understanding is this: when I log in, BASH will give priority to whatever is appended further on the right-hand side of the export PATH=... line $PATH is at the righter-most : delimited entry in the export PATH=... line $PATH contains /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
sorry if this has been asked before. I was told that IOS 10 won't download on iPad if IOS 9.3.5 is already installed. I have checked how to remove it so I can install IOS 10, but when I try follow the instructions given on most sites, I can't because it's not there in the list of storage to delete. Does anyone know why this is, and what to do about it?
Seems that if I download a jpeg with Chrome or Firebox it has the quarantine bit set. Does this mean that OSX has detected something off kilter in this file? Under what conditions can this be ignored? Is there a way to turn off the attribute for files downloaded under normal circumstances, but still not leave my self open to other download threats?
I had a RAID drive fail. I replaced the bad drive with a new one and, after some work, got it up and running. I want to delete the bad drive from the config. This is the latest listing:
I have a rather large iTunes library (~300GB) that is mainly classical music. I really like the Work and Movement format, but sadly it is not practical to manually update my metadata to the Work and Movement format. Almost all of the extisting song tags are in the following format: A script that could automate updating the tagging system would look like the following. On all selected songs, copy the Song tag to the Movement tag
I was working, when I noticed my phone screen suddenly goes black with the familiar white circle animation. I can't do anything to my phone (and I'm now afraid it was a forced iOS system upgrade). After waiting for a moment, I decided to force restart it (press power + home) because even an iOS system upgrade doesn't take that long in the waiting screen. The iPhone restarted, showing its usual black apple on white background logo. But I have waited for 5 minutes and there's no sign of it will ever finished. I restarted it again, but the result is the same. What should I do?
I just started using Safari and I notice the tools have no symbols to indicate their role. Is it normal or a bug? How do I fix it?
I have 2 VPNs that I have created on demand profiles for. One is for an OpenVPN server that connects when my iPad is on cellular and disconnects otherwise. The other one automatically connects only on my school's wifi and is an AnyConnect server (only protocol usable at school).
My mac tries to connect to an old NFS that I used at an old job. I tried everything and looked at every related question asked on this forum.
When I'm sending things to my desktop from my iPhone, it randomly doesn't show my computer until I open up AirDrop in the Finder. Does anyone know why this is? (it just shows the blue circles instead of my Mac Pro) Specs: Mac Pro Late 2013 (OS 10.12.3) iPhone 6s (10.2.1)
What could have caused this problem? The partition was fine a month ago.
I accidentally came across the keychain certificate part of my Mac and saw Department of Defense certificate. What is this certificate doing on my laptop. I am not a military member and never had any email account with them. I am not comfortable with this certificate on my laptop and for now I turned it off.
I did not noticed such problems with anything except some games. For example, i'm runnin Pillars Of Eternity atm, and if it's running fullscreen mode, i cannot switch to any other apps (i've tried alt-tab, cmd-tab, cmd-arrow, f11, custom spaces-switching shortcuts, touchpad gestures)
I have a table with 500+ rows in Sheet 1 (let's call this "masterlist". In another sheet, I'd like to be able use a drop-down cell containing certain key values (all taken from a single column in the masterlist), to subsequently populate a table with all the rows match that match.
My question is in reference to the title shown in Acrobat Reader's tab and title bar that reads "Modern business letter."  I generated the PDF from a .docx document, and the document is generated based on a LibreOffice template (.odt) named "Modern business letter", which is where the title name comes from.
When I transfer a folder FROM my Mac To a Windows machine by a flash memory, on the Windows system there are hidden files with the same names as the original files inside the folder. If I choose that Windows not to show the hidden files then they become invisible. When the folder contains a huge number of files then the scene is awkward and confusing and sometimes people think that there are malwares on my flash memory. How can I get rid of these hidden files when I transfer folders from Mac to Windows?
There are some Bluetooth mice that can be paired with an iOS device, for example the Citrix X1, or the Swiftpoint GT. These can be used in any app that supports them, like RDP clients, etc.
This is a followup question to Can't find 68GB local backup folder (regular backups on an external hard drive) I found out that this folder, now 75GB, is my Mobile Backup folder from Time Machine. From my understanding the local Backups should be removed after making an external backup. However that's not happening anymore. I've used Time Machine since 2007 and never had that problem.
I have exported from iTunes the XML of a playlist followed on Apple Music (I have an active subscription Apple Music). Now I want to reimport it again so, I do that in iTunes, sync iCloud Library, getting covers... But can't play tracks in the playlist anymore. When i look at the infos of the track you can see that :
I'm editing a presentation that's saved to pdf in Preview. I want to copy a slide and paste it back in several times so I can annotate it in different ways. Is there a simple way to do that? Normal copy and paste doesn't work. At the moment, I'm duplicating the document and dragging and dropping the same slide from the new copied document back into the original.
Today the commands in the terminal start with "public-docking-hg-2434:~ userName$" What is this public-docking-hg? Why did it suddenly appear?
I'm looking for a way to find size of individual folders (NOT on Exchange) in Outlook 2011. Searched far and wide with no results. Is it possible that nobody needed that feature before?
A couple months ago when speaking to an Apple advisor about an unrelated issue, they told me the auto-shutdown was a "security feature". I think I may remember something about it only happening when Filevault is enabled. I know it is intended behavior as per Apple, but as I'm sure we all know, they do not always make the best decisions. If anyone has a solution to disable it, please let me know.
I want to make a backup on my pc of the photos because I want to finally reset it and update it. I already tried the sc way, but there was too much quality loss on my photos. The itunes way isn't viable, because for some reason my backup gets encrypted, I already searched online, the password is the first password of your itunes account. Too bad I changed it years ago. I tried SC on an Ubuntu 16.10 pc, but I also have access to a mac (10.12.3) and a Windows 10 machine.
I am running Sierra 10.12.3 on a new iMac purchased in Jan 2017. We are running on an exchange network and I'm trying to re-create my groups in Contacts. I create the Group, search for the contact card on our exchange directory, drag it to the group and agree to import the card. I review the list and everything looks good for about 10 minutes. After that I can go back in and all or some of the contacts are missing. How do I make them stay in the Group as I rely heavily on them for booking committee meetings.
I built a self-made kernel extension (named KAuthTest.kext) and would like to test it out. So in a VM running macOS 10.12.3, I did the followings: disable SIP by running csrutil disable in recovery mode, and reboot. disable kext signing check by running sudo nvram kext-dev-mode=1 and reboot give it permission: sudo chown -R root:wheel KAuthTest.kext Then I load it using sudo kextload KAuthTest.kext. However, in the system log, I didn't see the log from its start function when I run kextstat | grep -v com.apple to see all third party kexts, I didn't see my kernel extension.
I have gone through Windows versioning information: Please Check out Windows file versioning information Now Windows provide quite an ample amount of information like productname, productversion, CompanyName, Comments, FileDescription and so on. I went through mdls command and that information is very less compare to what Windows provide. Does anyone have idea how to get equivalent information for Mac OS's (preferably in Sierra & El-Capitan) files as well ?
First time Mac user. I am confused by the fact that the finder application is always open. For example, when switching apps with Cmd+Tab, it is always there, even when there are no windows opened for the app. Cmd-tabbing to Finder with no windows/tabs opened for it has no effect (it seems to me it would more intuitive to open a new tab when this action is chosen).
This is an intermittent issue, and not predictable, but it does happen every day. Some HTML email that I receive and read in Mail is legible and normal, and other times it will show as text only, or else text plus some code I can't decipher. I might receive two emails from the same source and one will be legible and the other not. And occasionally I'll get a message like this one, "We're sorry, your client does not support HTML." It does support HTML, but not, apparently, consistently. After reading about other users with similar issues, I restarted in safe mode, but noticed no difference. For reference, I have a Mac mini (late 2014) OS X El Capitan 10.11.06
I'm creating a Keynote presentation. I have a slide with two overlapping images at the center of the slide. What I want to do is make one of the two disappear when the other appears. This should be done in one slide.
When I run an application, it shows a little dot next to the application icon in Dock, signifying that the application is running:  The problem is that I have no way of knowing whether the app is running on the current space. What I want to do is "show Terminal if it's already running on the current space". Otherwise I would open a new Terminal instance! Currently I have no way of knowing if it's open on the current space, which is very annoying.
Why are there so many "Google Chrome Helper" processes open:  I have been getting a lot of alerts lately because my mac is out of memory. I wonder if chrome is the cause, and how I can fix this. I only had 3 tabs open in chrome when I took the screenshot.
I have moved my pictures manually(by right clicking) to trash. But they are still being shown in Photos app, Why and how to delete them?
I want to copy files from my SD card to my Desktop but for some of the files I get: The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “GOPR0054.MP4” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36) I tried to use dot_clean because it seems to have done the trick for others: Didn't work.
Half of my Notification Center widgets (most importantly, Weather) suddenly disappeared, and can no longer be added back by clicking Edit at the bottom of the Notification Center. Those that remain, like Today and Tomorrow, show no information. They are also missing from  → System Preferences → Extensions → Today. I’ve tried reinstalling the macOS 10.12.3 Combo Update, with no success through multiple reboots.
I turn on my mac to a grey screen then the apple logo appears then the log in I put in my password then I see my account pic with a loading bar below it then the screen goes grey shuts off and does the same thing I have have tried safe mode and recovery mode the macOS Sierra. the mac is 17inch
In Why is the Finder app always open?, it was noted that you could add a Quit menu item to the Finder via a Terminal command, but the comments and one of the answers seemed to indicate that this was a bad idea and should be avoided unless you had a could reason. Why is this this? Does this prevent the system from working correctly?
I'm specifically trying to install system-wide support for Bulgarian. Tried looking for library/spelling but seems to be missing in macos Sierra. Got .aff and .dic files but... now what? Thank you.
I have a couple of custom shortcuts defined using System preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and I want to sync those between my two Macs. It seems, this is still not possible using iCloud. Are there any other ways? I thought about including them into my dotfiles, but can not find the shortcuts using the defaults command.
I have a Macbook pro 4,1 early 2008. It's a great machine for surfing while the TV is on, but it's starting to act strange.
Is it possible to track changes (version control) in Apple Pages?
For example, if I have a command line program (say nano) I want to launch directly with a shortcut, but I want the new instance of Terminal.app to have a dock icon depicting nano running in a terminal window, and for it to be named "Nano" in the dock. I also need this to be done without creating a second copy of the Terminal.app file, and preferably for it to be compatible with the command open -n -a Terminal.app /path/to/binary
I downloaded an update today and had to click "install later." Now, not sure where that update is. Where does MacBook save Sierra OS update files?
I recently purchased an iPhone 5s (I was on a budget) and lately I have been observing something weird. Know the SIM card hole where you insert a key and open? Ants randomly come from that. They are the smaller variety. I must have killed 20 of them by now.
and No panics reported, only diagnostics. However this link contains the full output for the AirPort crash mentioned above.
Lost my phone, activated Lost Mode not long after. Wondering if I'm able to take my phone off Lost Mode from iCloud, call it and hopefully it rings? I think I lost it down an embankment.
For responsive tests on macOS I'm using Xcode and his simulator, but I found something strange going on on real iPad and I want to test it. Is I possible that I pair my iPad with Mac Mini and test it with Inspect Element like I was testing with the simulator?
Yesterday when I was using my Mac, a small area of altered appearance appeared to the lower part of the screen (the section in the image with horizontal lines) but was just blurry and the rest of the screen completely fine and the computer itself perfectly usable. I've opened it up this morning to see this screen. I've tried rebooting holding cmd alt P R and the same thing happens. The vertical lines change slightly when rebooted but the horizontal remain the same. I'm not aware of it having been damaged in any way and I don't have access to an external monitor to investigate further. Any suggestions on the potential cause?
When I click on the Dock shortcut of a specific .rtf file to open the file in TextEdit, my cursor is by default set in front of the first character of the first line of the document. However, I would prefer if my cursor is instead set to the search field of the "Find" function. The "Find" function can be manually accessed by pressing ⌘ command + F . Is it possible for the cursor to be automatically placed in this location when the file is opened, perhaps with AppleScript?
As a technician, I'd like to learn when an iOS update appears so I can prepare iTunes with all the recent restore images. Any way to know that? or receive notifications when an new iOS update is released? (better if Apple official).
Alternatives App Stores (iOS) : Security risks Hi, I recently downloaded an iOS app from an unofficial store (GBA4iOS, from Builds.io website). Before installing any application, you have to install the developper profile on your device.
Is there any way to disable permanently the software Escape button on the Touch Bar. After two months I can't get used it, and can't help touching it inadvertently in the middle of some important operations. Any solution other than drilling through the touchbar is welcome.
I am encountering a very strange situation. After rebooting, I cannot use my password to unlock my iPhone, and the lock screen says "Emergency" at the bottom. At the same time, there is no time display at the lock screen. And every few seconds, the screen will be off. If I connect it into a computer, when the screen is off, the USB connection is also cut. However, it seems I can pick up in-call, and the notification still works. Is there anyone who knows the potential reason?
I can use mutt to read maildir on Mac, but is there any graphical tool available? Since mutt can't render HTML emails, I will need something else. Any ideas? EDIT for thunderbird I've changed mail store to maildir format,
All my bookmarks are also on my husbands user page, I would like to remove them and read one question as to sign out of my Apple ID when in his account but its asking me if I want to make a copy otherwise all my data will be removed from this mac but will still be available on my other devices .... I just daren’t risk losing everything on the mac either in my user page or his ... has anyone come across this problem and how did you solve it ?
Not finding this question answered anywhere: Recently upgraded to OS10.12 on my iMac. I have 2 LaCie external hard drives attached via USB. As long as the hard drives are awake (spinning, blue light on the front is on)---they function fine---I can view the contents in one and the other which is devoted to my Time Machine back up is backing up hourly as programed.
When using my MacBook for a while (Sierra, 10.12.3) then using cmd+tab to switch applications, I sometimes lose application icons. In the screenshot below, it's limited to Chrome but multiple applications will disappear at a time. I can get the icons back temporarily by restarting or running killall -KILL Dock but I'd like a more permanent solution.
I have a lot photos and recently I tried opening an older photo and it came up black, the next photo in the folder displayed properly except the bottom 10% of the photo was garbled green blocks, and all other photos in the folder were fine. I checked my backup drive and the files were bad on it as well, luckily I had an older backup drive and the files were ok on it. So sometime between when I did the old backup and the new backup, the files went bad on my iMac.
I store all my photos on a connected thunderbolt drive. I use a symlink in dropbox folder to keep the photos backed up to dropbox. all good. If I need to take my laptop with me, and I disconnect the external drive, then dropbox no longer sees the photos link, and proceeds to delete all the pics from dropbox. I would like to auto disable/ close dropbox when this external drive is disconnected. Any ideas how ?
I'm configuring my VPN with the native OSX l2tp-vpn client on a 10.11 Macbook. Right now the process is to open up the GUI and add all of them in manually. The VPN has about 20 different countries and regions, so it's a bit of a pain to add them all in:
Okay so, I have a Macbook Pro mid-2012 macOS Sierra 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD. I need Matlab for my work. And whenever I put Matlab on installation it does install up to 60% but in it sixties somewhere the Mac crashes. Showing me a gray background saying "You are seeing this screen because of a problem with your mac...". I cannot understand where is the problem.
I recently noticed that I had about 4 or 5 Google Chrome Helper processes running in my Mac. I have no windows opened on chrome and it seems that the Helper processes still stay there regardless. I looked at the other question Why does Google Chrome launch multiple instances of Google Chrome Helper? and this good article explaining what the issue is and how to solve it. They suggest to follow the following steps: shut down all your Chrome windows without quitting the program. go to “Preferences,” scroll all the way down in the menu click on “Show advanced settings…” The first item in the expanded advanced settings list will be “Privacy,” and click on the “Content Settings” button right under that. (step that fails for me) About halfway down the content settings list is a “Plug-ins” entry, which will likely be set to “Run automatically.” Instead, select “Click to play.”
As described in many other posts, after upgrading to MacOS Sierra I modified the ssh config file like so: Still I get the following error: What am I missing?
I generate PDFs of variable pages where every odd page is on normal letter size (8.5 x 11) while every even page is on a different size (3.5 x 5). I have two dedicated trays in my printer with those size pages loaded.
Does iOS 10.2.1 have a built in file manager? If so, where is it?
I foolishly let my iPhone 6 rest on my counter in my bathroom while I took a shower. A little while later I went to use my phone and all I got was an illuminated black screen. I plug it in. 10 minutes later I notice it's illuminating, but black screen present.
My MacBook Pro runs El Capitan. By mistake, I installed Nokia's flasher 3.12.1 (which they say is for Harmattan - to be honest, I do not really know what this means, but I content myself to know this is the wrong one). It is a command line utility. Now I would like to uninstall it, but I do not know how to locate all related files (they are spread in various locations - this is all I know). I tried to run again the installer and look at its log, but I cannot understand it. Any idea?
I want to know the resources used on the basis of applications. I found a duplicate, but the answer there has issues and since its over a year old, I decided to post a new one, instead of posting there.
I don't know the proper way to articulate a scroll amount to you in writing (and it of course varies based on one's screen resolution, monitor size, window size, and the zoom setting set in Chrome for that given page), but I can say that, for my unique environment, it is around 15% down the page. To clarify the meaning of this description, "100% down the page" would be at the lowest scrollbar position (the scrollbar can be set to this position by pressing ⌘ command + ↓).
I want to create one hotkey that puts my monitor to sleep without requiring a password to wake it, and another hotkey that puts my monitor to sleep which does require a password to wake it. I'll be using BetterTouchTool to create the hotkeys - but how do I create one that requires a password and another that doesn't? Bonus points if I can do this using Applescript since I already have a BTT/Applescript hotkey for when I'm leaving the house which turns off my Hue lights, mutes my Mac and puts my monitor to sleep. I realize I can go into system prefs > security & privacy and select "require password immediately after sleep or screen saver" but that would mean I'd have to enter my password every time I put my monitor to sleep, which is what I don't want.
Mountain Lion had "Click to Tweet" and "Click to Post" buttons in Notification Center if you had Twitter and Facebook configured in System Preferences>Internet Accounts. However, I can't find them. I'm using El Capitan. Did Apple remove this feature? I can't find anything on the Internet saying so.
My MacBook Air suddenly stopped connecting to ANY WiFi. It worked fine earlier. I have not installed any software between these Two Stages. MacBook just says "Network Could not be joined. Try moving closer to the router.". Other devices are able to connect to these WiFi networks. What should I do?
Apparently, you can still generate public links to specific files with Dropbox, but there is no longer a way to share a group of files publicly to browse, without generating a link to each one. So you can't just drop files in a public folder and instantly allow anyone to browse them. Sharing a folder is now only possible to specific users via entering their email address. Any files in your public folder which did not have links generated are no longer public. So I would like to find an alternative cloud drive service that not only has a public folder, but also allows generation of public links via a Finder contextual menu.
I have a few calendars in iCloud and gmail. Sadly when I receive a calender invite to my gmail address iCal always puts the invite into my iCloud calendar.
My MacBook Pro runs El Capitan. I am trying to install Nokia's maemo Flasher 3.5, which is an application (or better a command line tool) designed for a 32-bit system (I think it would work on Leopard). If I launch the installer, I end up with a warning (the package is not compatible with my system and may be harmful). Is there a way to get it work?
Last day at work. I have a Mac Mini with Sierra on board. FileVault is turned on. Disk is fully encrypted and the OS is not linked to AppleID. Just a local user account.
I cannot seem to find my app settings in the setting app after updating my iphone to iOS 10.3 beta 4 (14E5260b).  The issue is still present even after waiting a night, so it's not an issue about apps taking a long time to load.
I have an old MacBook Pro (13", Mid 2012; 5,400 RPM HDD) that I want to bring back to life with an SSD. The options I've been exploring are the 2.5" SATA SSDs—am I looking for the right component? I just realized there's mSATA, not sure if that's what I should be looking for. Thanks!
I'd like to use the pdf size reduction filters I've found, but from a script. Opening Preview and doing it manually is driving me nuts. The filters work very well, but I'd rather invoke the from the terminal. In 2010, someone wrote a post on another site about an executable located at:
I'm running macOS in a virtual machine and getting errors installing developer tools. I was trying to install xcode-select --install
I want to free disk space. Apple documentation about this says "When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac". Ok, so I have this 25GB file in my computer that I'm going move to the Documents folder and I'm wondering if it will really delete if from my computer once it has uploaded because I need more space to copy other projects into my computer. "When storage space is needed" is pretty abstract to me, I wanted to know how this really works.
I'm trying to proxy my traffic through my VM's instance of Burp Suite. I basically configured proxy settings via wifi settings on my iPhone to point to my VM (it's bridged). I can see some HTTP traffic go through Burp Suite in my VM, but HTTPS connections give me a SSL certificate verification error.
As stated, the network preferences control panel shows a yellow icon next to Wi-Fi connection. However, the laptop connects fine. This condition exists whether DHCP or a manually entered ip address is used. Turning wi-fi on and off makes no difference.I can see the little text label on the network preferences control panel change (the words under the button turn wifi off). They always come back
I don't have a computer to use to reset it and when I hold the power and home buttons down it restarts and still asks for the passcode. Will hard resetting my phone solve this? If not, what can I do?
I have a used mac book pro and have to reinstall the OS from remote disc. My question is: is the remote disc in this case (OS install) hosted by Apple or is it hosted by some other users' laptops?
I followed the instructions here to create the user jira: but I got two problems: first the user appears as not an admin member although I have added them as an admin (and I have rebooted, see here) second I cannot make this user own their directory, ie when I run I get I cannot login as that user either: although the jira user appears on the list of users: and
During upgrade to iOS 10.3, the file system format will change from HFS+ to Apple File System (APFS). How can the process retain the user data when changing file system format (how reliable it is? sounds risky)? Is the process reversible (when I try to downgrade back to iOS 10.2)?
Due to a Hard Drive failure I have had to restore my mac from a backup. Following the Restore From Time Machine Backup procedure under recovery mode takes about 8 hours. Eventually the data is restored on the new hard drive, but the drive won't boot. It gets stuck at around 50% of the boot process with the apple logo. I have tried the Reinstall macOS procedure under recovery mode, but at the end it prompts the message: OS X could not be installed on your computer
When I view my pom.xml in IntelliJ IDEA, an error is shown: Dependency "org.springframework:spring-web:4.2.2.RELEASE" not found more... (⌘F1) However, when I use ⌘ + F1, it doesn't show more information.
So I just got myself a new iPhone 7 Plus and I am having some issues with Airdrop. While I can send files to other devices just fine, the other devices cannot see my iPhone. Airdrop is turned on for Everyone and I already tried rebooting the device. Maybe there's some other setting that I am missing?
I am developing using electron on macOS. After making changes we need to run the terminal command npm start to run the app. I would like to create a shortcut on macOS so that it simply switches focus on the terminal and runs the command. Currently I'm using this, but it loads a new terminal window: I can't initiate a new terminal for this as the command has to be run from the current project folder to start it. Any help in right direction would be appreciated.
I have an Macbook Air 2015 (128GB ssd) upon which I am trying to install Windows 10 on an additional partition. My OSX is currently using about 35 GB, and I thought to reserve 50GB for windows, leaving another 35GB free for osx.
I have 2 data files each containing one column. I want to make another data file by merging both the columns. I have the command line in shell but I don't know how it works. Please explain elaborately the below command: Example: input: I used the command above to write a shell script and got following output: I want to know how this command line is working on this example to give the output?
I am writing a script to procedurally measure certain power system parameters. I am aware of system_profiler SPPowerDataType. However, this API only updates once a minute and sometimes provides quite different results than iStat.
I have laptop with macOS Sierra 10.12 and shared printer Kyocera_FS_1120MFP_GX which is connected to PC with Windows 7. If I connect it directly to my laptop via USB it works, but if I try to connect it via local network it show me Print queue window with Hold for Authentication.
Question: How can I get past the dialog? What am I missing here? Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running macOS Sierra 10.12.3 iPhone 7 iOS 10.2.1 Apple Watch 1st generation watchOS 3.1.3
I have an iPhone 5s I am repairing, I want to back it up, but it has no screen. Or home button. I know how to get the pictures off, but can I boot up the iPhone and plug it into my iMac even if it has no screen?
Every time I type it the terminal flashes but doesn't insert it. If I paste in a command that has a [ it will paste everything except the ['s This has been happening before I updated to 10.11, but has become a massive issue, I can't use jq at all because of it. I also have the same issue with iTerm2 ok so I have narrowed it down to this line in my .inputrc ```
After selecting Safari Technology Preview as default browser it now also launches macOS's default version of Safari at the same time on launch. Is there a way to prevent this?
How do I manage my settings so that I can take a picture? My storage says I have 11.76GB used and Available Zero KB. I actually have 32.49 GB available in Icloud....How do I free up space and how do I take what I have and transfer to the cloud? Thanks for your help - J
But I can't find any EFI partition. Is there a way I can fix that? And rebuild GUID partition scheme? Here is the result of sudo gpt -r show disk2: Follow-up: I tried what you recommend with the following result: this is beyond my understanding!
I've recently moved from Android (Nexus 5x) to iPhone. Added Gmail account and synced all contacts from Android to iPhone. I'm using both the iPhone and Nexus.
I have created almost an exact automator application as those who have posted before me and it goes as follows; 1) Get Selected Finder Items 2) Combine PDF pages 3) Move Finder Items (+show this action when the workflow runs)
Is there any way to prevent the deletion of iMessage history? Can a particular iMessage with someone be archived so I don't accidentally delete it?
Can the Thunderbolt ports on current (writing this question in March 2017) Mac Mini, drive two Apple Cinema Displays (which I believe utilize mini display ports? I got contradictory answers to this at the local Apple store.
My MacBook Pro runs El Capitan. I have a Nokia N900 connected via USB. I am trying to access remotely its shell by the ssh protocol. How may I?
I only use Photos.app as a browser of all my images. I unselected the copy items to the Photos library so my files can live in my hard drive and I don't duplicate them inside the Photos Library.photoslibrary archive. I use Image Capture to import the iPhone pictures to a folder and after I used to imported to Photos.app and everything was great.
Get a Thunderbolt to PCIe enclosure along with a PCIe graphics card. This is a very expensive option.
Today one of my users sent me some screenshots showing my application running in "Tabbed Windows" mode, i.e. with all the usually-separate windows showing up as tabs inside a single window, like this:
My university makes you download an anti-virus and something called safeconnect in order to connect to the internet (eduroam). I'm very careful and wouldn't have either on my computer if it was up to me, but unfortunately I have to adhere to their policies.
I just inadvertently closed around 20 Finder windows in one click, each related to ongoing projects in them, by clicking the red window button and having "alt" key pressed. Is there something I can do to reopen all the windows that have just been closed? It might be too late for me now but if I make this mistake again it will save me a lot of time to reopen these windows.
I installed Windows 10 through Boot Camp on my 2015 MacBook Air. It has 150GB of storage and after restarting and holding option, the Windows partition doesn't show up. I went back into OS X and the Windows partition isn't showing up in Disk Utility. I also cannot run Boot Camp to check because it it is now asking to free up space which I already did to install Windows. How can I get Windows to show up, or how can I delete the files to reinstall it?
To be safe, I have also included the local times in the notes section so I can compare; I will also have the original tickets any way. A few years ago I was caught out by the time zone difference, but, fortunately I was early rather than late. Update 2 I have just come back from an overseas holiday, which involved two other time zones and daylight saving. I can safely say that setting all times to floating has ensured that all times are local, and everything works as expected.
When working with tables in Pages, as I drag and drop content from, say from cell A to cell B, the font in the now empty cell A reverts to the default font. How do I stop this from happening? Ideally I'd like to maintain the font in the cell. I know I could press Option while dragging to "copy" it, then delete the original cell to maintain the font, but I'm hoping for something better.
I have had this issue for years with MS Word 2011. I upgraded to MS Word 2016 and am still having the same problem. I can only copy if I press command, then double press C while holding down command. Just pressing command-C does not add anything to my clipboard.
On older versions of macOS there used to be a file path at the bottom of "All My Files" so you could see where the files were located & click to path if wanted. Here's a random example I found online:
I want to create an Automator Service that will run an xattr Terminal command on a single or batch of files. I can do the operation in Terminal (kinda), but I didn't understand how to apply that to Automator.
I'm using FluidApp Version 1.8.6 (2331) on MacOS Sierra 10.12.3. Sometimes I need to copy current URL of Web page in FluidApp. I want to do it with keyboard shortcut and I know I need to use a service for it. So how do I create a service for this job?
Mac OS 10.12.3 Seemingly at random, certain functions stop working. Notifications (top right) are transparent, volume control from keyboard stops working but particularly the Apple Menu top left stops working so I can not shut down or anything else - force quit, about this Mac etc. Switch off using power button and all fine when switch on. Have look for conflict between pros but nothing consistent. Any suggestions please?
I am on MacOS Sierra 10.12.3. I have several updates pending in the App Store app. When I try to load them, I get asked to log in. However, the e-mail address that is pre-populated and not editable is an old one that I do not use anymore as my Apple ID. I have a new Apple ID and I am even logged in with that one on the store.
I have an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and I'd like to attach to it a 30 inch Dell monitor 3007wfp[t] at 2560x1600 px DVI input only. I don't know where to look for if that resolution is supported.
What codecs can be used by iOS ringtone files (.m4r). I know only about AAC and ALAC, is there anything else? I can't find any official information on this question.
I'm needing to free up space on my Mac and I have a migrated iPhoto library of 178 GB that I would like to move to an external drive as I'm too scared to delete it. However, it won't let me move it across to the hard drive - it just pings back to it's location. Looking for advice please on what to do with this iPhoto library.
While playing Spotify on my iPod Touch I have got some controls over the player on my lock-screen. I have to pause the player a lot and wish I could play the songs instantly after some time again. But the controls are vanishing too quickly (after couple of minutes) and I have to type login again (pressing home button twice and typing my pass-code), which is very annoying as I have to do it very often… (*How) can I increase the time to let spotify show the controls over a longer period of time?
I see that the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter has two 'inputs', the usb port and an additional Lightning port. From anecdotal evidence (I have found no official manual) it is for power supply. Nice, but. Can I use this port to connect to computer, for Xcode debugging purposes, while using the Camera Adapter for connecting a MIDI device at the same time? Thanks.
Actually I have sold my MacBook Pro and before doing that, I did rm -rf * in home directory and then in Disk Utility I erased both the disk options then I was not able to boot again , when restarted it came up with a flashing question mark sign. My question is that can I be sure that all my pictures files and in Photos app have been deleted or not?
I'd like to limit my exposure to the WiFi signal of my laptop while it is sitting on my belly or lower while being in bed. Is there a way to auto-turn off the WiFi directly after a website has finished loading? And to only turn it back on when I click another link?
I've deleted several books from ibooks but each time I open the app, those books are there and I have to delete them again. I've gone through this process probably 10 times.
When I use imagemagick's convert jpeg to pdf tool: an output PDF is created, but what I've noticed is that the even pages get rotated by 180°. What's even stranger is that if I open the even pages with Preview, rotate them 90° right and then rotate them 90° left, and then save it and run the convert command again, the page doesn't get rotated 180°. Is there anything I'm doing wrong over here?
The issue started a couple of days ago. My Macbook Pro kept restarting. After some testing I've realized this happens only when my iPhone is plugged in for charging. I think it's the device fault because it happened on a friend MacBook too, even with different cables. I've restarted the iPhone and nothing changed, any suggestion?
I recently purchased a refurbished iPhone 6. It's been set up from my old device's iCloud backup and updated to iOS 10.2.1.
I am having trouble downloading an iOS 10.x Simulator on Xcode. After spinning and waiting for up to a minute, a popup with the following message appears:
I'm running a dual-monitor setup, and I currently put Spotify (on its own) in my right-most space on my left monitor, so that it's easy to pull up when I need to. I'd like to be able to put Spotify in the right-most space on my other monitor, too. Some sort of mirroring would probably have to be involved. Any ideas?
Just wondering if I could charge my 12inch macbook with the type-c adopter that came with the Nintendo switch https://store.nintendo.co.uk/nintendo-switch-accessory/nintendo-switch-power-adapter/11396099.html
I just solve this situation (needed to change the language to test my multi-language website) by installing a complement in Firefox called "Modify Headers". But the fact is I like to develop with Safari, is my personal choice. Is there a way to do the same with Safari, to simulate a different language/location for web develop purposes?
When one uses the default answer parameter in display dialog in AppleScript, whatever text is set to default answer is automatically highlighted upon display of the dialog. Is it possible to specify a default answer without the answer highlighted? I would ideally like the cursor to be placed after the last character of the default answer, so that the user can append text to this answer without first pressing the → key (or, worse, accidentally overwriting the default answer).
How to accept incoming network connections even though the below app added as exception in the Security Preferences > FireWall in OS X 10.11.6 EI Capitan? How to dismiss this popup permanently?
I can get into the App Store from two other users on the same computer - a Mac Mini. However, when I attempt to go to App Store, or iCloud on USER1 I get the message "there is an error signing into the Apple server." When I then logon as either USER2 or USER3, there is no problem. What can I do to fix/reset/restore/redo whatever so I can go to the App Store and also use iCloud with USER1.
I want to make a simple macro for a game I play but can't figure out how through mac programs. I'm looking to run a macro where when I press x, it outputs as pressing the x key twice in a row very fast (.5milliseconds). Basically turning x into xx, but having the output very fast
On iTunes 12.5.3 on my Mac there is an option to "Encrypt local backup". My wife has just bought a new iPad, but when she tried to backup the old iPad there seemed to be no similar option (on iTunes 12.5.5). There doesn't even to seem to be a "Summary" item under the iPod. How do you set "Encrypt local backup" and/or change passwords.
1) I want to plug in an external hard drive and then download all of the photographs that I take in RAW format on my Canon 7D camera onto this external hard drive, and then backup these photos onto a second external hard drive. These photos would NOT be held on my MacBook Pro. 2) I then want to backup everything on my MacBook Pro to an external hard drive (but NOT the same external hard drive as the one the RAW photos will be held on).
I'm booting up my AWS app in iOS and I'd like iOS to give me a stored password. Ideally I'd like it to be generated. Is there any piece of software I can use to manage my passwords in the cloud and have access to them in any application in iOS, not just a browser? Thanks
I am a seasoned developer, but very new to AppleScript. I would like to change some of the details of an event in a calendar.
If I have several OS X Services set up for "Text," is it possible to organize them within custom-titled menus, within my systemwide selected-text context menu?
In Terminal, I executed the following lines: But try as I might, my screenshots never save to the Desktop. In fact, I have no idea where they go! Here's a GIF demonstrating the problem:
I'd like to view my contacts in order of last added in order to remember a few people who's names I now forget but meet this year when busy. The standard Select All… Copy… Paste into numbers as provided here doesn't have fields for record creation date and record edit date. Wondering if an Applescript or other tool on macOS would make it possible to get this data along with contact data?
So, I recently got an Android tablet (Samsung Tab E 8) from my carrier (Virgin Mobile in Canada) and it came with a nano sim card on a $15/month 3GB data plan. I’d way rather use this in my iPhone 7 than my current plan, and I've been trying for days with no success. I've established thus far that I need to change the APN settings to do this, but my carrier has blocked my ability to access these natively in settings>cellular>cellular options. I also attempted third-party solutions like unlockit.co.nz, which simply didn't work. I've moved on now to using Apple Configurator 2 on my Mac to create a custom configuration profile to change my APN settings directly, but all the APN info for Virgin Canada I can find online is not successful, and neither is the info I can find on the Android tablet. I've seen plenty of questions here and elsewhere about using iPad SIMs in iPhones, but I can't find anything with Android devices. In short, does anyone here know a bit more about this process, and 
I just got a used Early 2015 Macbook Air. I got it a bit cheap, due to the trackpad being stiff.
I copied some pictures in my mac from my phone using a usb. But in photos app some of them are being shown and some not shown. Some of them I have deleted are being shown and some are not being shown after deletion from finder as jpeg files. My question is how does photos app work?
In Youtrack (issue tracker) there are shortcuts that require 'insert' key which my macbook pro 15inch 2016 model does not have. How can I emulate it? Is there a combo like fn + that simulates insert key? I tried everything that was suggested in other questions and answers and have not solved my problem yet.
For a week or so, my iPhone 6s has been unable to start the call properly when I get an incoming call, and the headphones (Apple EarPods, wired) are connected. I accept the call, and the view transfers to the "call screen", but the call is indefinitely stuck at the call length time 00:00 and nothing can be heard or spoken. This problem occurred every time when the headphones were connected, regardless of having restarted the iPhone prior.
I got a macbook pro 13inchs (2011), Yosemite. One week ago a folder with a sign question appeared in the first screen and that's where all my problems started. I follow some links in order to reinstall the operating system but seemed like there wasn't disk on the macbook. I did two things: I bought a new disk and I installed it. I bought a new disk and I installed it. Then I performed a diagnostic test in order to check if there was a hardware problem: no problems. Then I performed a diagnostic test in order to check if there was a hardware problem: no problems.
My 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro is now experiencing shutdowns when the lid is closed. Though it is not a crash because I don't get a crash report when I turn the computer back on (unlike the problem I had earlier). I used the following Terminal command to obtain the Previous Shutdown Cause (as the console app can't do it anymore in Sierra):
I've been formatted my iPhone 4 iOS 7.1.2 and then I didn't find the podcast application ... also I've tried to download the app from itunes but the "get" button can not be pressed to download .... what's the problem and what I should I do ?
As the title says the mic only works in Mac OS when using Siri in any other application it is just muted, the input level in system setting is always 0 as shown in the picture unless I'm using Siri. The mic works just fine on Windows 10 through bootcamp which leads me to believe it is not a hardware problem. I'm on mac OS Sierra 10.12.3, I tried resetting SMC didn't make a difference.
My sister just got her iPhone 6S stolen. She somehow managed to ignore my advice to apply a passcode. We put the phone into "erase mode" right after we noticed it was gone.
Running El Capitan, I have two external monitors and the MBP monitor, three total. When the MBP is not hooked to any monitors, I have four Spaces set up, each with their own desktop background (A, B, C & D). When the external monitors are hooked up, I get two more spaces ("Displays have separate Spaces" is checked) with two more background pictures (E & F). I arrange them in a V:
When I go to Kickstarter.com, this is the site I see: Now, I have tried trouble shooting this by myself. I have deleted the website information from the privacy tab, I have turned off / uninstalled all extensions 3rd party or otherwise. None of these steps restores the website. Interestingly even Google Chrome does not work:
I blew my MacBook air's backlight fuse. I saw some videos on YouTube explaining how to remove blown fuse with a soldering iron, and soldering a new one back on. However, these videos don't mention the risks, and what one should be careful of when doing that.
I have a thunderbolt to usb 3 adapter & it is plugged into the thunderbolt port. I also have an ac wifi adapter usb 3 plugged into the thunderbolt adapter. It works fine, but my question is, in Network in system preferences shows the ac wifi adapter as connected but the thunderbolt port shows inactive. Confused about this. MacBook Pro 17" early 2011 - Sierra. Thanks
I just downloaded and installed Mac OSX El Capitan via the App Store and want to install it on another machine via USB , but I can't find the downloaded installer. Where did it go? I have limited MB's on my internet connection , so I don't want to download it again!
My Apple TV is connected with Wifi and all my devices can connect using airplay but as soon as i plug in my network cable i cant mirror my MacBook Pro or the iPhone. On the apple tv it shows that cable is connected and internet works fine using the cable but airplay doesn't work. Can someone please advise on how to set this up?
I am trying to find all files with no-extension in a particular folder, and after many attempts I finally came up with this regex statement: ls | grep "\.[A-Za-z]\{3,5\}$"
External is a Seagate 2TB Backup Plus Desktop Drive for Mac. I'm running 10.11.6 on a Mac Mini. It's connected by FW800. Disk Utility First Aid for just that volume stalls after the "Invalid Extent Entry" note.
Whenever I put in my SD card, the Photos app opens automatically. I can set it to not open on a per-device basis, but since I format my SD card frequently that doesn't really help.
I needed to do a clean reinstall with Maverick and am now trying to get everything python related set up and running again. Now I have trouble using pip and I keep getting ImportError: No module named glibcwhenever I try to do anything with pip. I don't really know what to do now. I found glibc versions to download, but do I need those? How would I install glibc? Cheers, guys!
GarageBand was updated using a different apple ID than my own. Since then it will not let me use my own credentials to update.
Question: can I create a game center account to save game data that is currently associated with ONLY ONE iphone device on an apple id, we'll call it ID A, and then use that same game center account with a different apple id, we'll call it ID B, on the same device? Context: The device's OS needs to be updated and I do not wish to lose game data. I'm currently on a family account and wish to move to my own apple id. There is no game center accounts on my phone, nor has there even been. The email I would use to create the game center account and the new apple id would be the same, but different from the family account. For the apps to be saved, itunes is telling me I need to authenticate the operation with an apple id.
Please keep in mind that I have to put this heavy of a workload on my laptop. It's what I do. I cannot just stop running these "heavy applications" (as many other websites have suggested). I'm of course having some other troubles, that come with age (I bought this back in mid-2014): Bluetooth barely works (a problem many MacBook users have, as I've found), the hard drive is too small, it's running a little hot, there aren't any USB-C ports, and it's overall taken quite the beating and is falling behind. Is there anything I can do to try and save my poor MacBook, or is it time to retire and find something new? I'm looking to upgrade, anyways, as I know my workload is growing too much for my poor baby. I just want to try and milk this guy out as long as he'll last. --UPDATE-- I've also downloaded some system monitoring software, and it's telling me that my CPU Proximity sensor is running around 140 degrees.
I'm installing Windows 10 on a external hard drive using a 2015 MacBook following these instructions: Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD? When running the ‘bcdboot’ command, I get the following Failure when attempting to copy boot files.
Hello I have a liquid damage on my MacBook Pro 15inch ( 2014 ) I brought it to service center and they told probably some motherboard issue, but they checked SSD Card and it's completely fine. I bought the new 2016 MB Pro 15 Retina and now I Need to Transfer data, I have only SSD chip from old computer. Can I somehow Migrate all data from old SSD to new SSD? I know that I`m not able to physically replace them. But is there any tools which will help to transfer data from external SSD?
I am signed into my iCloud account and I have the Desktop and Documents folder is ticked. It does not seem to be able to complete syncing to iCloud. If I look at the small information circle on the iCloud Drive in Finder, it says something like 'Uploading 27 items to iCloud (2.9GB of 38.4GB)'. It has been like this for a month with the same message. If I go to Activity Monitor and kill cloudd, the message might change to (5.99GB of 38GB). Maybe it is stuck on a particular file?
I got a new Accord which has CarPlay and even though I have used it with my iPhone 7 (10.2.1) daily for a couple weeks now the location options in reminders does not show the two car options. I don't see where I need to turn anything on to get these options. If I create a reminder via Siri I can use the car location settings successfully so they do work on the phone. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this?
I usually download large files overnight but recently I had my mac formatted so all the settings were lost. I not that much of a techie person and I tried adjusting the settings and all but I don't really know what I'm supposed to do.
I had the bright idea to try to install Linux on my MBP this morning. I was following a guide and created a new 100 GB partition in Disk Utility to install the Linux distro on. Fast forward and I'm going through the install process and I get to the disk partitioning section. I knew something didn't look right when it should the whole drive instead of the single partition I wanted but I was not as familiar with installing this distro of Linux as I should of been. I hit the continue button and I saw that it started repartitioning my whole SSD. So I pulled the USB out and shut down the Mac.
I was looking at my system.log for another issue I was trying to fix, and noticed after a reboot that I had a service hijack attempt, I then noticed that the process that was trying to hijack was called loginwindow.107. Below is the terminal output for relevant lines in system.log:
I have MacBook Pro 15" late 2016 w/ AMD r460, and I just found that Safari does not enable r460 hardware acceleration when viewing webGL sites. For example, I cannot play this site with Safari. https://wizgrav.github.io/clubber/index.html
I have a strange problem Sierra sudden shutdown and WiFi crashlogs. So far I tested the hardware with Apple Hardware Test and some tools for RAM and GPU. None found a problem. Are there some others to try?
I've recently moved from Android to iPhone transferred most of my apps. I've been told that WhatsApp on iOS doesn't detect chat backup from Google drive, so I don't really want to risk losing the chat history and have been using WhatsApp on my Android phone. Plus there's no file manager.
I have DropBox enabled on my Mac running Sierra and I have changed my Safari download location to the Downloads folder I created in my DropBox folder. Whenever I download a file under the same name, Safari downloads it as 'name.extension', 'name-1.extension', 'name-2.extension' etc. Is there a way how I can prevent safari from doing this? When I download a file with the same filename, it is normally because it is an updated version from stuff that I make. Since DropBox allows you to revert to the previous version, it does not matter if I accidently write to the same name since I will be able to restore it.
I am using MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 and recently I closed an email account using the Exchange servers. Despite the email account is closed all my email can be previewed in mail. I would like to retrieve all preview data that is stored somewhere on my MacBook. Does anyone know where these preview files are stored?
I'm having a problem with the Dropbox client for the Mac. I have symlinked ~/Projects/ into ~/Dropbox/Projects/ using MacDropAny.app, which basically runs ln -s. This works as suspected. But when I try to right click a file or folder within my Dropbox/Projects folder, the Dropbox sharing alternatives are not showing. These items appears fine in other, none-symlinked folders inside Dropbox.
I'm pretty new to macOS and today I tried to find out how to maximize a window as I cycle through them using Command+Tab. Here I found that I can maximize window just clicking alt before I release cmd.But I'd like to have Windows/Ubuntu like behaviour.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) with the following specs: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor; 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory; and Intel Iris 1536 MB Graphics. I wanted to upgrade the Processor and Memory but having read some passages online, it seems as though I will be unable to do so.
I've an "old" MacbookAir 11" (late 2010, 4GB of RAM, 180GB SSD), which I've loaned to a friend. Now he gave it back to me, and I'm planning to use it as a "mobility" machine. My problem is that the applications I use (Mathematica 11, Office 2016, etc) require at least El Capitan.
I hid the volume menu bar icon, and so have no indicator of my volume level. Additionally, it's a burden having to continuously mute the speakers. Is it possible to automatically mute the speakers when any audio finishes playing?
Is there a way to replace the (ugly) profile picture on the pre-boot login screen:  …with my iCould profile picture on macOS Sierra (10.12.3)?
Is there a way with macOS 10.12, Sierra, to safely turn off compressed memory? And is there a way to turn off safely swap?
As the title states, my library is a bit screwed up. For example, when I shuffle my entire library it tends to play some of the albums in its entirety. But this only happens to a few of them. In this case, it's Land of Pleasure & Caress Your Soul by Sticky Fingers and Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager by Kid Cudi. And no matter how many times I keep reshuffling the library, it tends to repeat the whole album everytime it gets to one of the songs. It doesn't even start from the middle, it always begins from the start till the end of the album.
I'd like to broadcast videos seen on common web sites (like CNN and such) to my LG Smart TV. I know I could use dlna or protocols like that to stream a local video file on the TV, but haven't yet found any way to play streaming videos. Any idea?
I've researched this and found nothing, but it's also just a hard problem to google. For the past year or so, my MacBook has been driving me mad by making this whining sound. It's like a holding 'beep' noise; it continues for 1+ minutes until it stops. To be clear, it doesn't sound like anything mechanical. It doesn't 'rev up' or anything - it is whining, or it is not.
My mac mini has been having a major problem.... basically becomes so slow that it's inoperable. When this happens and I click Command/option/ESC an item comes up in the force quit window that is labeled com.apple.PressAndHold. I do this when a window that says "You are running out of Application memory, close unused applications".... That is when I have literally only the finder open. When I force quit the com.apple.PressAndHold, the computer starts operating fine.... Any suggestions?
I have several Exchange/Outlook accounts connected to my iPhone. On one of my calendars, several recurring events from several years ago recently reappeared and will not let me delete them. When I look in Outlook, the events are not there. I have attempted to move all of the items out of the affected calendar (via Outlook) into a new one, but the invalid items remain on my iPhone. When I try to delete or decline the event, it simply returns to the main screen and the item remains. Is there a way for me to purge these invalid items from my iPhone?
I found some similar questions on here, but they are all from a few years ago and the answers don't seem to apply to the current version of itunes, so I thought I'd start a new question. I downloaded a couple songs using an online youtube to mp3 converter. They show up in the itunes library on my computer, and I can play them on my computer. However, when I try to transfer them to my phone, itunes informs me it is "preparing to update" and "preparing to copy items", but then stops the process there. Is there any way of transfering them? Additional information: All the songs I purchased through the itunes store transfer over without any problems I have an old Toshiba with Windows 7 and an iphone 5s The non-purchased songs are MPEG audio files I would very much appreciate any help, this has been frustrating me to no end!
My iPad 3 has started making static/cracks/distorted noise whenever I play sound apps like Music or Youtube. I tried deleting the suspected apps, closing active apps, restarting, doing a hard reset, resetting all settings, and even vacuuming the 30pin port and speaker outlet. Nothing worked. However, I did find this in settings:
Chrome was my favorite browser for years, but it drastically overheats MacBook, thus my patience was finally exhausted and I decided to move to Safari as it's the most energy efficient browser for Mac. The only thing I can't implement here is toggling between two recent tabs using ctrl+q or any other custom shortcut. Notice that these tabs shouldn't be necessarily neighboring.
When I plug in my iPad to iTunes 12 on Windows, it shows Documents and Data occupies about 8 GB. I would like to export all these documents to my computer so I can delete them from Ipad.
I broke my iPhone 5, so I got a iPhone SE but I still have the iCloud backups for my old iPhone. I cannot backup my iPhone SE before I delete my old iPhone backup because my iCloud storage is full. Would deleting my old iCloud backups ruin anything on my new phone?
I'm converting from Evernote to Dropbox/Markdown for my notes. And I really love the quick note capture menu bar applet for Evernote (image below).
On Linux, if a running process has a handle on a deleted file, and one knows the file descriptor number for that handle, one can create a hardlink from the handle in procfs (ie. ln "/proc/$pid/fd/$fdnum" ./undeleted).
Following the instruction of this Stack Exchange answer, I've tried creating a custom Service with the same title as the built-in Service, hoping that my Service would "overrule" the original. But, alas, this did not work; my custom Service shows up as a "Text" Service, not in the "Searching" category. They have identical titles, but they coexist. By the way, I noticed this problem as soon as I started paying attention, around 1 year ago.
In macOS Sierra 10.12.x, what is the modern way to add a directory to the PATH environment variable that can work across shells or specifically work with zsh shell (I switched from the default bash to zsh). I have seen some Questions and Answers such as this one that are bash-specific. And I have seen some such as this one about launchd but it seems I've read launchd is not the right right in later versions of macOS (not sure). I could find no specific references for Sierra, so I am posting now. I am trying to install Maven with instructions saying: Add the bin directory of the created directory apache-maven-3.3.9 to the PATH environment variable
My finder looks like this:  If I click on the text 'view', 'action' etc, it shows all the options and I'm able to use it quite normally. What gives? How do I get the icons + buttons back?
Is there a proper way to insert micro cd's so they are less likely to get stuck inside the cd slot on my MacBook pro?
i had this app on my old phone and when i got a new phone i could never find the name of it. I thought it was called "InstaFollowers" but i guess not. This app specifically has a calender where everyday for 30 days is something different and you get to spin a wheel and everything! If anyone knows what app this is let me know!
Was using my laptop (MacBook Pro 13 inch, Mid 2010, macOS Sierra 10.12.3) normally as usual during classes. Before the initial overheat and shutdown, while I was carrying the laptop with the lid open, the laptop's screen went blank, dark without anything on the screen, but the laptop was still powered on. I just performed a forced shutdown, shrugging it off as a random problem.
I have a late 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and when taking a screenshot, I get the option to choose the location on the Touch Bar. However since I'm using my computer in clamshell mode, I can't see the Touch Bar, and always want to save my screenshots in a specific folder. The Touch Bar behaviour seems to override the screenshot location that I have set in com.apple.screencapture: ~$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture { location = "/Users/[my_username]/Pictures/screenshots/"; } Even if the above is set, it always saves to Documents, which I chose on the Touchbar once.
I tried to use grep to match one pattern on the terminal, but n o any result comes out. I knew grep on macOS is based on BSD while grep on Ubuntu is based on GNU. How to make 'grep' work on macOS like in Ubuntu?
This is going to be a very simple and straight forward question. I do not have experience of using any MacBook. I'm a software engineer by profession and I'm considering to purchase a MacBook to get started with iOS development. I got some quotations from a local Apple Authorized Reseller and they are saying that they have 2 MacBooks that fall in my budget. Budget can be increased though. One is Apple MacBook Pro Retina 13.3" (MF839ZA/A). It has "Mac OS X Yosemite" on it. If I purchase this MacBook then can I upgrade the OS X to "Sierra"? What will be the software upgrade costs from the following OS X versions to Sierra: Mavericks to Sierra Yosemite to Sierra El Capitan to Sierra What are the minimum hardware requirements or MacBook version requirements for me to install Sierra on it? I need Sierra for XCode 8.0+.
I'm searching for a terminal command to find out the serial numbers of connected USB devices on macOS computers. Is there any equivalent to the linux command "usb-devices"? I tried "ioreg -p IOUSB" but the output does not contain the serial numbers.
I’m trying to delete a bunch of empty albums using AppleScript. I have verified that I am “getting”/“collecting”/whatever-appropriate-terms-you-prefer the correct albums. But when I try to delete these empty albums, I get an error along these lines: The same error occurs whether I try to delete the empty albums while I am looping through my albums and checking whether each one is empty, or if I collect the empty albums into a list and use a second loop to delete the albums in the list.
I had posted a map on a website showing a bike itinerary loop and was asked to add a directional arrow showing which way to go along the loop. Good question ! (*=URL=* <-- On this link, the arrows *are visible if you flatten the PDF
In Printer and Scanner settings, i click on plus sign, select IP and fill the following: Address: 10.242.1.xx:80 Protocol: IPP Queue: ipp/2299xxxxx9342/xxxxxxx Name: PRINTER-1 I searched on Google but did not give any useful infomation about it How can i add IP printer in command line?
There already is a question about moving an app running in fullscreen between physical devices: Move a full screen app to second monitor – Mission Control can do that. However, is there also a way to quickly move a single tab from an app running in fullscreen mode to another display?
I've been trying to restore my iPad 3 (A1430) using iOS 9.3.5, but I keep getting the error message.  I should also state that the iPad has not been charging properly it only shows the battery logo and indicates low battery power but does not show any charging progress. Furthermore, the iTunes logo does not come up until after about 40minutes to 1hour after connecting to a PC.
I've macbook pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.3 and Safari 10.0.3. I just need to change input language (eg. to Russian) for password input field, but it's disabled. I've 2 keyboard layouts/languages enabled system-wide: English and Russian and I can write with this layouts everywhere except password fields in browsers. So, how can I enable non-english layouts for this fields?
This is an observation that I have made and as a new Mac user, I just trying the OS better. This is not a support request for "4k Video Downloader". I have observed this in other apps too, but I decided to dig into it after I observed in this app. Below is the screen grab in case, I have not explained the issue concisely.
On a few occasions now, when viewing photos in the "Photos" app, I have seen a small inset photo appear in the top left corner of the screen. Insets seem to be triggered by some sort of downward swipe gesture, but I don't know exactly what triggers insets. I also do not know how they are of any use. Can anyone shed any light on how to produce this inset photo and why it is of use? This is what I'm seeing - NOTE THIS IMAGE WAS DONE IN PHOTOSHOP
When I try to invoke the Emoji and Keyboard Viewer via the Keyboard shortcut (CRTL + CMD + SPACEBAR), the menu bar icon crashes on me and the viewer does not invoke. I tried removing the preference file com.apple.HIToolbox.plist as suggested in this Apple Forum answer. After restarting the keyboard viewer icon appears in my menu bar (American Flag). I can select items in the menu. As soon as I invoke the keyboard shortcut however it disappears:
Ever since updating to iTunes 12.5.5.5 on Windows Pro 7, I can no longer subscribe to any podcasts or download any episodes. The buttons are not grayed out. When I click them, I can see them "being pushed". It's just that nothing happens.
Following these instructions, I was able to synchronize all my Google contacts to iOS. However, this bundled together all my Google contacts: people without phone numbers, people I haven't communicated with in years, etc... I was hoping to see only my frequent contacts list.
I found several old threads where similar situations were described with no practicable answer, so I ask again. Please forgive me if I am creating a redundant post but I have read the following threads with no answers: Using El Capitan, can I create a bootable Windows 7 USB? Create a Bootable Windows USB from a OS X to work on a PC Making a Bootable Windows 7 USB without Bootcamp How can I make a bootable Windows 7 usb in OSX Lion? How can I create a Windows 7 usb from Mac OS to work on a PC? Create a bootable usb from Yosemite.app and so I create my own post.
Music settings: EQ trying each type of setting option, Volume Limit specifying a Max volume that's as low as possible, Sound Check on/of. I've done every possible combination with no effect on the volume.
I'm researching historical changes of UI widgets. Do you know if there's an archive with all the iOS interface guidelines published by Apple over the years?
I am often in remote areas without cellular service. I do get wireless connection, and every so often my iPhone4S (iOS9.3.5) displays a notification on my phone service (the red dot without a number):
Currently, my Fn key toggles mission control. I am looking all through system settings, and I can't find a way to stop the fn key from toggling mission control. Does anyone know how to do this?
Other observation: - Finder shows the Airport under "Shared", but the icon is the same as what it would look like if it was a PC (the square box with the blue screen ) -- not the icon that one would usually see, one that looks like an Airport Extreme. - Disk Utility does not see the drive
I'm trying to make this app "forget" me and not be able to identify me when I install it again. I'm on my iPad Air 2 with iOS 10.1.1.
I wiped my SSD clean, reinstalled OS X El Capitan, removed corestoreage, and went on to remove SIP using csrutil disable in the command+R recovery environment. (I also tried it from the installation medium) It says it was successful and that I should reboot. I do that and once logged in, I type csrutil status and get back;
I'm trying to create an external hard drive that can boot off Mavericks to run old software that doesn't work on later versions of OS X / macOS. The only Apple computer I have available is a MacBook Pro 13 inch Retina, mid 2014 which is running Sierra. According to Apple's documentation, the original version of OS X that came with this computer should be 10.9.4, so I don't understand why it wouldn't be supported.
/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin vpn connect HOST works from the command line, but not after ssh localhost. How can I make these certificates available to myself after ssh'ing in?
I asked over on Stack Overflow, but this seems a problem specific to Mac OS X as the error does not happen on other OS (ubuntu for example). *=URL=* repeated below:
I have an iTunes backup of an iPhone, and I want to extract the contacts from there as a file, e.g., vcf or csv. There are many advertised paid software packages. Is there any free option?
Yesterday I updated my old OS to Yosemite. I saw that automatic updates were using a lot of data so I turned them off them off in System Preferences. After restarting my computer, I checked Activity Monitor > Network, and Received Data shows 1.67GB
it happens couple times every day, my MacBook becomes extremely slow. When I check Activity Monitor, I see that ntpd process uses more than 100% of my CPU (usually around 140-180%).
I have a 2012 Mac Mini (running OS/X 10.11.6) with an Apple-provided internal 1TB fusion drive that appears to be suffering from some kind of performance problem -- it seems to be getting slower and slower over time, to the point where it can be quite painful to use. For example, applications can take 10-20 seconds to open, and Mac Mail in particular can take several minutes to bring up an email or bring up the file requester to add an attachment.
I want to remap terminal shortcuts (In particular, I want to remap INTR from CTRL+C to Command+C) in Terminal. So these are my current stty bindings And for example if you want to remap something it'd be like Which maps SIGINT to CTRL+C
I understand that it is possible to trigger an .scpt file that is saved somewhere on my computer from within a different .scpt file. Can I call a specific subroutine of that .scpt file from a different .scpt file? I want to skip over the entire script, and only run the code that is found in one, specific subroutine
Double checked cable connection to new drive, everything is secure. Created a bootable drive using diskmaker on another MacBook and plugged it in (macOS sierra). Held alt/option key upon startup but no drive options pop up, only "Choose Network" option that leads to Internet Recovery. Also upgraded RAM, not sure if this matters.
My Mac just kernel panicked about 10 minutes ago. I have boot-args -v, and what happened was this: I was using my Mac as normal. Suddenly, I see the text that normally appears when I boot up appear in the top left corner of the screen (this occurred after trying to boot my Windows VM). I find this odd and remove my hands from my Mac keyboard and mouse. In a few seconds, I see a black-bluish screen with a box made of asterisks saying something along the lines of your computer was restarted because of a system problem, blah blah. Then my computer proceeds to reboot as it normally would, and I get the "Your computer was restarted because of a problem" message after my desktop appears, not during the logging in spinny wheel thing.
I have an older (2011-2012) MackBook Pro running El Capitan (10.11.6) and iTunes 12.5.5 (in other words, the latest of both). I have an iPhone SE running iOS 10.1.1.
I have seen this answer, which tells about copying a warning message(Which also does not work), however I always have to type that again in browser, How do i copy it
I have a USB hard drive connected to my Mac. I want it to be readable only by me, and not by the anonymous "guest" user. I right-clicked on the drive in Finder, and set the permissions like this:
I'm a huge clutz, and I constantly accidentally destroy electronics. A few days ago, I just barely caught my Macbook Pro as it almost fell off a balcony, and decided I really need insurance for this thing, specifically insurance that covers accidental damage.
Some relevant links: HDMI ARC functionality Confirms my understanding and use of ARC via hdmi. Apple MBP hdmi port audio functionality Confirms MBP hdmi port includes hdmi 1.4 and 5.1 surround sound consistent with home theatre box.
I was hoping someone knows the utility/app, perhaps a macro that can help to rotate part of the screen. Primarily I was looking in the Zoom option in Accessibility settings.
How do I temporarily enable do-not-disturb mode for 10 minutes? If I turn on do not disturb, silent mode, or airplane mode then I tend to forget to turn it off. If so, I miss important work messages.
I buy refurbished, unlocked smartphones and try to use them as long as possible with a discount MVNO for service. Right now, I have an unlocked iPhone 4s running iOS 7.0.6 (11B651). I'd like to try upgrading to iOS 9 so that I can use some apps that require it. However, my research has turned up reports of iOS9 being quite slow on an iPhone 4s. While the benchmarks are useful, it's hard to know how frustrating it will be to have that kind of performance day-to-day without trying it.
My MacOS non-admin account is not a member of group 'wheel.' But any file I create in /tmp from Terminal commands is always group wheel. There is no sticky bit nor ACL nor extended attribute to explain this on the symlink /tmp or on /private/tmp which it points to. I like to use /tmp as a scratchpad because the system cleans it up for me on every boot.
I have an old iMac running OSX 10.7.5/Safari 6.1.6. Due to some programs on that system & generally slow systems on similar iMacs with more recent OSX version I do not want to update to a newer OSX I have several websites forcing https which I can no longer access as safari says "Safari can not open the page …, as safari can not establish a secure connection to …" (translated from german). Chrome and Firefox on the same machine are able to open these pages, as are more recent Safaris on more recent machines. I tried downloading/installing the root certificate in the keychain, but this did not help. Are there some security updates I'm not getting via normal system updates which could fix this? For example: www.biblio.lu
I bought an ultra wide monitor (LG 29UM58) the other day. To hook it up to my Air, I convert a mini-DP signal to HDMI. With two different cables, I started noticing occasional latency on the signal where the screen freezes for about a second and then it becomes responsive again. Some more interesting tidbits: This happens on my laptop screen as well as the external monitor while I'm connected to the display. I can use the on-screen menu of my monitor while my screen is frozen. I never had this issue with my previous screen, a 16:9 Full HD monitor with a DVI port.
Is there any downside of encrypting my OS X 10.10.5 laptop via FileVault, in terms of usability? Obviously, if I lose the password I can no longer use the laptop. (out of interest is that correct, will the laptop be completely un usable, or will the hard drive be unusable eg. if I were to swap out the HD for a new HD could i use the laptop again)
However, if the first dialog is a display dialog or display alert dialog, then the dialog is automatically selected. It just so happens that the initial dialog of my .scpt file is a choose from list dialog. I tried writing activate me on the line above the choose from list dialog, but this did not do anything.
How do you get Pages on Mac Yosemite 10.10.05 to recognise different languages for spelling? When I write in German, everything has a squiggly red line under it and there is no option to change the language when I go into Spelling...
If there is only the Macbook 12 inch USB-C charger nearby, can it be used to charge other USB-C devices, such as any Android phones that also use USB-C? (will it "too powerful" and damage other devices?) Vice versa, if there is a Quick Charge 2.0 or 3.0 USB-C charger from other devices nearby, can it be used to charge the Macbook 12 inch? The main concern is about whether it could damage the device or battery.
Recently, my old windows computer broke down and I decided to purchase a Mac to replace it , and so far, it has been great! I have thought about using bootcamp to install windows on the mac as well, as I need several windows specific programs for my college work. Rather than installing through bootcamp, I was wondering if it is possible for me to buy an external hard drive enclosure, place in my old windows hard disk (which has been reset and only contains a fresh windows 10 install) and boot my mac from that? If possible, is there a way for me to get the Apple Windows Support Software separately in order to install all the required drivers on the windows disk? Thanks
I'm looking to write using the Georgian language script Mkhedruli on my iPhone. I can't find Georgian Mkhedruli on the keyboard options anywhere. Just in case you don't know what Mkhedruli is, it's the script which looks like this:
I am trying to use make to build a binary from a source code for a program I need. Link to source: https://github.com/pali/0xFFFF
My dad bought me ed Sheeran new album on his iTunes so now we want to get it on my iPad. I have my own Apple ID account but I haven't bought any music. How can I download the album my Dad bought to my iPad without deleting anything on it?
Apple does not support syncing/sharing folders inside iCloud Drive between users, for example in a family. Is there a third-party solution that provides this functionality?
If I delete all photos in the recycle folder, will those photos delete from camera roll or any other folder it may be in?
I have a small problem with my apps folder (/Applications/). Whenever I change the view settings, for example, the size of the text, and click "Use as standard", it works fine. But after some time, definitely after reboot or logout, those settings are not applied anymore and the old, ugly style is being used.
When you are navigating in Numbers, pressing the tab key will take you to the next cell to the right and allows you to start typing. Very quick and helpful for data entry. When the user reaches the last column, pressing tab has no effect. In MS Excel, pressing tab in the final column will create a new column and allow the user to continue.
I know that you can save an Excel spreadsheet as a CSV file and that this will put quotes around any fields that have commas in them. I have commas in one of my columns and want pipe (|) delimited output, just like the question asked here: Customize delimiter character with Excel CSV save-as with no Excel solution. I need an Excel solution due to limitations on my machine. Running version 15.27.
I hardly ever use emojis in my messages. Recently, I used one in a text and now predictive typing always recommends emojis for my words. Is there any way that I can keep predictive typing on, but not have it suggest emojis?
When I make a call through FaceTime in my MacBook, I can switch to my iPhone and continue the call from there by just clicking on the top green bar that appears with the caller name. But can I do the opposite and switch back to my MacBook? What I'm looking forward to understand is, how can I: Start a call from FaceTime in my MacBook Pickup the call in my iPhone And then pickup again in my MacBook
I recently bought an iPod Touch 6 and synced my entire music library, but some of my albums are not showing up under the artist. For instance, I would click on Demi Lovato, and a couple of her albums will be there, but other ones won't be. If I search for those albums, they're on the iPod, it's just really frustrating that they're not sorted with the artist.
I have terminal open for a lot things and added pretty gradient backgrounds. I thought it would be really cool to have stars zooming or green text falling or gradually shifting background colors in terminal. Does iterm or something have that? What is the way to get live backgrounds?
Both my iPhone (6S+) and iPad (Pro 9.7") have been paired with my Bluetooth headphones (August EP650). When I power on my headphones, they always connect to the iPad... despite last being connected to the iPhone. The iPhone is my primary listening device, so it becomes quite annoying to constantly connect the headphones manually. How can I prioritize the connection to my iPhone? To be clear, I still use the headphones on the iPad... just not as often… so I'd rather not forget the headphones on the iPad or disable Bluetooth.
I have a school computer and my school has been known to be nosey. I don't want them reading my messages but iCloud and iMessage are both blocked so I can't do anything through there. Ive already tried changing the send &I receive section in my iPhone, please help
I use Command + Shift + 4 + Space to screen shot. But you know the default place of the screen shot is Desktop.
I recently bought an iPhone 6 from a friend, and there's still an iCloud user on the phone. How can I log out of iCloud if I have no clue what the password is? Keep in mind I have no clue what my password is to the email set on the phone either.
My requirement is to be able to drag a folder from my desktop to my Terminal app. To do this, I must minimize all other panels except the Terminal. The beginning status:
In iOS, if you hold the home botton in the Camera app, you can take a series of photos continuously. However, I want to use this with a delay (10 sec), and since there is a reason to use the delay I can't hold the button. So is it possible to take a series of photos continuously, possibly the number of photos or the total time set in advance? I use iOS 10.2.1 and would like to use it in both the main and selfie camera.
This seems like the silliest thing, but when I import my photos from iPhone to Mac, all the live photos show up as both the proper 'moving photos' (in photos view), and as 3 second videos clips (when showing movies through a smart album or the 'movies' left selection). This is extremely annoying when trying to find actual videos through a smart album as they have the same extension (.mov) as real videos, and I can't find a way to filter by length or resolution in smart albums.
Recently I've a problem with TM, i do usually attach the HD every week, but lately it's not backing up and it's extremly slow. In particular, If i start the backup it says something like: backin up 21GB taking 10 hours . Which is way too much.
Or how can I export them? Or even just print them? There are far too many for me to do them over.
I would like the ⌘ command key to have the same effect when I run my Service. So that:
I want to have a similar group id on my host machine (macOS) and virtual machine (docker for mac) to avoid permissions problems. I wanted to create a new user/group with ID 82 but it's already exists – _clamav:_clamav. As I understand it's some kind of antivirus engine. Is it safe to add myself to this group?
some have touched this issue but not in a way to solve my problem. Im running Safari 10.0.3 on Sierra 10.12.3 and i usually load multiple sites and try to buffer videos while working on something else, instead of waiting for them to load in order to watch them because my connection isn't that fast. My issue is that the videos won't buffer unless their tabs are active. This is counter-productive for me. I don't want to open that video tab and just stare at the bar to load, which might take 15 or more minutes. Is there a setting/plug-in that would help in that regard? Thanks
I have a Macbook Pro with a mouse issue. I can move the mouse around using the pad but I can't click (nothing happens when I try to click). I tried connecting a usb mouse and it behaves exactly the same; mouse pointer moves around on the screen and wakes the computer but when I click there is no response. The external mouse works fine on another computer. I have tried restarting the Macbook but that didn't change anything. Any ideas how to solve this?
Recently I responded to a suggestion that I "upgrade Flash" on my macOS system only do end up with several applications running, and intruding into my browser and desktop that I did not (mean to) install: Mac Ads Cleaner Mac App Cleaner Porn Cleaner I followed instructions I found online for removing these apps and believe they are gone (Bitdefender's virus and malware virus scan shows no remaining malicious software).
So I decided to shrink the Mac partition on my SSD and make a FAT partition so that both Mac and Windows can use it. I resized it in Mac, but when I rebooted into Windows, a blue screen appeared with error 0xc0ea000a or something like that. What should I do? (Retina MacBook 12" 2016)
I have a MacBookPro 2011 (Italy) with OS X 10.11.6 and I'm looking for the combination that works just like the INS key found on Windows to overwrite text while I’m typing. The INS key is not found in the built-in keyboard, so I think there must be some other way to toggle this function! To avoid any misunderstanding, you can see the keys found in the Italian built-in keyboard in the picture here: I tried so many combinations, but none of these works: FnEnter⏎ (it just produces a new line) FnEnter⏎ (it just produces a new line) FnM (it just types an "m") FnM (it just types an "m") FnI FnI ControlT ControlT And many more (for instance some combinations mentioned here: How do I simulate the Insert key in Windows on a MacBook Pro?)
I want to keep syncing WiFi passwords through keychain, but I want to keep my iPhone off specific WiFi network, which I must use on my work Mac. How do I do this?
I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8. I need to update the operating system as I can't update search engines etc. but am worried if I do CS5 Adobe suite won't run (I also have Microsoft 2008). I need both for my job. Happy to update to not the latest OS, but just enough to make sure I can access the web (already can't do Linkedin).
just a quick question. I've got a MacBook Air and I'm a journalist, I need the SD Card slot. I've to switch to the new MacBook Pro and I will lose the SD Card, so I'm trying to solve the issue. I'm planning to use a wireless SD Card (Transcend) and a ruby script on my MacBook that looks for new files on the card and download them on a folder on my Mac. Here is the issue: everything is ok if I connect to the wi-fi hotspot created by the transcend, but of course I must connect to the wifi of the event / venue so I cannot lose the wifi connection. At this moment I'm using the iPhone as camera and AirDrop: I can send photos to my Mac without any issue to the wi-fi connection: my Macbook receive images while connected to the wi-fi. Is there a way to create a virtual wi-fi interface that looks for the Transcend SSID, connect to the card and download images?
When I try to enter my customer number on the NS&I website, my iPad seems to be treating it as a telephone number and inserts spaces in it. Because of this I cannot log into my account. The problem does not happen when I log in on my computer, so it must be caused by the iPad. Does anyone know of a solution?
How can I prevent my bluetooth headset from preempting the internal mic on connection? Every time I connect my headset I am forced to go into sound preferences to set the mic back to the internal microphone. macOS Sierra 10.12.3
I have purchased an in-app purchase for flightradar24 on my iPhone, and the in-app purchase has not appeared on my other devices. The app itself has synced to my other devices, however, when I purchased the add-on 'Arrivals & Departure' for £1.99 it only appears on the device I purchased it from, not on my other devices. How can I get the 'Arrivals & Departure' in-app purchase to appear on my other devices as well?
Is it possible to create more complex triggers than what the Home app enables? For example, if I have a motion sensor and a smart bulb in the bathroom, I can make a trigger to turn the lights on when it senses motion.
Guys I got GoFlex Segate 2TB OSX Journaled The error I get: Update:
I have a MacBook Air that was given out by my work to use. It has a profile on it setting some limitations. For example, 'Network', 'Users and Groups' and 'Profiles' are all grayed out in system preferences. As well I get a popup in the top right corner reminding that this computer is being managed. The plus side is that I am admin on this computer and am able to use 'sudo' in terminal. In the past and current time, I have been using a proxy setup in my browser (which doesn't get blocked) for all my browsing needs at work. Now I want to setup a SoftEther VPN on my home PC so I can use that, but most of the time only HTTP and SOCKS are supported, not IPSEC and L2TP. I am still quite inexperienced with networking, but I see only 2 good solutions: Setup an HTTP or SOCKS proxy server alongside the SoftEther VPN server I have so that I can connect to my home PC that way, then use a program to route network traffics of selected applications to that proxy (Proxifier for OS X). Somehow bypass 
My sister and I have a YouTube channel, and I edited a video and wanted to save the video to my camera roll. However, I deleted it from my camera roll & my recently deleted. Now I want to save it to my camera roll but iMovie won't even let me play it because it says that I'm missing files. Is there anyway I can recover these?
I have a MacBook Pro 2015. I want ctrl+alt+up/down to map to duplicate line above/below in Intellij, but it is intercepted by macOS and causes the window to maximize to top/bottom of the screen. I can't find where that mapping is in the keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone know how to remove the mapping from macOS?
Every once in a while when I plug in my MacBook Pro to my Thunderbolt Display and then press some keys on my external keyboard (laptop lid is closed) to wake it up, the computer won't wake up properly. The screen will either stay black or I will see a black screen and the beachball mouse cursor.
I use Adobe Connect for online classes, but for some reason it wants to use the discreet graphics in my 2011 MBP. I installed gfxCardStatus to force Integrated Only, but I'm wondering if there's a way I can limit the Adobe Connect application itself to Integrated, or at least write a script to force Integrated Only before launching the app.
When I migrated my old Mac to my new one, I copied some applications over from /Applications on the old Mac. Some of these were App Store apps, which I of course had to reinstall from the App Store in order to actually run them. What's happened though, is there are some apps that appear in duplicates, with a white nondescript document icon like so:
After upgrading my 2015 MBP to Sierra this past weekend, I've had a lot of issues with Samba, Veracrypt, and even VMware Fusion. VeraCrypt will frequently give the error in the title, mount_osxfuse: the OSXFUSE file system is not available (255), when I attempt to mount a valid encrypted volume. There's nothing wrong with the volume itself, and sometimes if I reboot, I can get VeraCrypt to work properly, but it's certainly touch and go. OSXFUSE documentation and googling hasn't suggested any fixes for this issue.
It seems like every time I buy an Apple product the speed of it always slows down. I bought an iPod a year or two ago and the speed at which it launches apps and runs the apps have slowed down. Is there any way to fix this? Like buy an iPhone and it will never slow down?
I am thinking about using Keychain to store all my passwords, but am hesitant as I do not seem to fully understand how Keychain works. I created a new keychain holding login credentials for some websites. Using Safari, I made use of the AutoFill feature, granting access to the keychain. Now the credentials that have been used for AutoFill have been copied to a keychain called "Local Objects". What is this Local Objects keychain and why are my passwords copied into it? Why are they already entries in the keychain belonging to Apple (like com.apple.account.SMTP.asynchost) – is this related to Keychain being deeply integrated into macOS? Does this have any negative security implications, or: Should I care about this behavior?
I have a relatively large iTunes library, a Macbook Pro laptop with a relatively small SSD, and a Linux box with plentiful storage space that is always connected to the internet. I have a dream that one day I will be able to store my iTunes library on the Linux box as a network drive, keep a hand-curated list of songs and podcasts cached on my laptop, and still allow iTunes to organize my media library on the network drive. (Specifically, I want to use the 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized' and 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' options in iTunes so that I can drag-and-drop files into iTunes, have iTunes organize copies via ID3 info, and delete the original files.)
Why do I have a "People" album and a separate "People: From My Mac" album on my iPhone? Why aren't these combined? How do I combine them? iPhone SE iOS 10.2.1 MacBook Pro macOS 10.12.3
Whenever I get notifications, there is no content, or the content that should be there.  In the News notifications and Google notifications, it only shows bold text, not any details like it should. In WhatsApp notifications, it shows the name of the person and the group, but for the content it just shows "(null)". For emails, it just shows the name of the sender, and shows "Mail message" underneath it. For texts from the stock messages app, it just shows the sender's name and "iMessage" underneath it instead of showing the messages content.
I like that Messages uses text replacement to change :) into an emoji. However, I hate the default mappings. I want to change the emoji that is mapped to those text replacement strings.
I had a friend who was trying to be funny and mess with my laptop and he typed in the command: sudo rm -rf / This completely messed up my laptop. So I decided to reformat my Mac. When I try to reinstall it it says "volume contains a macOS or OS X installation which may be damaged. Any suggestions of what I could do?
Currently, we have a script that uses calendarserver_manage_delegates to give our office manager read access to all of our calendars. However, the delegation system has a few issues (doesn't work on iOS). So, we've instead been moving to the Sharing model (where you click the radar icon next to the calendar instead of using Prefs -> Accounts -> Delegation).
I am restoring from a Time Machine backup. Along with Applications, my user directory, and a few other expected things, I see an item called "MacPorts", which has a size of Zero KB.
My Mac is listening on port 625. This listing by Apple of common ports used by macOS and Apple software claims that it has something to do with Open Directory. However, my machine doesn't have any sharing services on or is connected to any Open Directory services. The service listening on this port is launchd, so it's likely a system service.
What I'd like to do is plug the Yeti Pro into the H6 on channels 1&2 on the H6 (so 3&4 on the Macbook Pro) and use it both as the mic for recording and as my primary microphone for Skype calls and the like to take advantage of some of the audio features of the h6. The problem I'm running into is that the Mac is assuming that channels 1 and 2 (so L&R on the H6) are the default channels for recording and so doesn't pick up 3 and 4.
What I'm doing: Open Photos on iPhone (7 plus, iOS 10.2.0) Tap share icon Wait for my laptop identity to appear in AirDrop section Tap on my own face (i.e., laptop identity) Result: My face says, "Waiting…" After what I assume is a timeout delay, my face says, "Declined"
When I try to search something in Numbers, it will find in all sheets. Is it possible to search in currently selected sheet only? MacBook Air macOS Sierra 10.12.3, Numbers 4.0.5
I get popups for all of the MS Office apps on my Macbook Pro saying: Microsoft [whatever].app wants to use your confidential information stored in "[long hash]" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?
I'm a web designer and I haven't gotten any chance to shut down my macbook pro often with my busy schedules. When I'm not working (sometimes on weekends), unfortunately I forget to shut down my Mac for 8-10 hours! However, yet I can charge the Mac after its battery shows 15%.
Saw dust built up at the bottom vent of the Time Capsule (vertical model). Blew air in it to extract the dust from the other side of the vent. However I then noticed that some went back inside the unit (had the TC upside down for this). After some research to see how it's made inside, I saw that there is 2 areas, one for the wifi components and one with the fan unit attached to the power supply. I can't open it to clean it (no tools, no expertise).
A friend has offered to give me an iMac (either 2009 0r 2012 model but I haven't seen it close up yet). It works, other than a broken power supply. This ifixit page details the power supply replacement process: *=URL=* However, this guide warns you not to touch the exposed face of the power supply as the capacitors can shock you if they have retained a charge.
The application Genymotion opens its Android emulator windows at full size, regardless of how large they were when I closed them last time, and I always have to manually resize them. If this were happening under Unix/X-Windows, I could tell the window manager to recognise these windows when they open and force them to open at a smaller size. Is there some hook I can use to do this under MacOS, without having to wire a hotkey up to an Applescript?
When booting into Internet Recovery and looking at diskutil I found the partition type of my main partition had become FFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFF. To fix this I used the instructions detailed here: OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFF' after attempting to delete some Linux partitions—cannot log in, which seemed to work. But after this rEFInd still wouldn't load and macOS wouldn't show on startup disk or when holding Option on boot, in fact nothing shows in these menus. When trying to fix the partition via diskutil I obtained these error messages:
My Mac is showing lots of errors and running weirdly. The battery only lasts for a short time, there is a fan noise when I use it and I feel the temperature is high. In the report it says the following: *** Panic Report *** panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801db6ac55): "zalloc: zone map exhausted while allocating from zone semaphores, likely due to memory leak in zone ipc ports (3957835360 total bytes, 24736458 elements allocated)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.50.9/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:2521
Every two seconds I get the following messages via Console: And they keep on and on. Turning off the firewall, they disappear, of course. Now I wasn't able to find the meaning of the mentioned error codes. Does anybody know what goes wrong here?
macOS Sierra 10.12.3 is 16D32, but the SDK is 16C58 according to my Xcode. iOS 10.3 beta is 14E5239e. Xcode 8.2 is 8C38. You know how they look, and they are shared among all Apple software.
I've this arrangment of screens, and I've set the dock to stay on the left side. The problem is that the dock goes on the second screen, while i want to keep it on the main one (the one with the white bar basically). Any idea?
I want to automount a nfs share whenever a user logs in to our Mac Minis. My original idea was to use the remote share as the place for the user's home directories, but due to being not able to mount the share, I'm just trying to get it mounted to an unrelated directory via autofs first. My /etc/auto_master looks like this: My /etc/auto_nfs: The remote machine is running 4.9.11-1-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux and it's /etc/exports looks like and the share is also visible from the client: The machine trying to mount the nfs share is within the 192.168.0.0/26 subnet.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) MacOsX Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32) and I have a weird issue with my office's WLAN: I can connect to WiFi, and navigate on internet, then (usually after around one minute) it stops working: I'm still connected (the top-right icon shows the wifi interface it's still on and connected to the network), but pages don't load anymore and request end up in timeout errors. If I turn WiFi off and on again everything works again for a while then it stops and I have to turn wifi off/on again. So the loop takes place.
I have been remotely upgrading machines from OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 to Yosemite 10.10.5 recently. I've noticed that for each one, all saved Wi-Fi connections are lost during this update, causing a problem once the machine finishes its upgrade.
I have been trying without success to re-download WhatsApp and every time it says "unable to download". I am not sure if it's a space issue, I would think it would tell me I do not have enough available storage. I am using an iPhone 5c with iOS 10.2.1.
My father is a photographer and he uses late 2015 iMac (8Gb memory, 3,3 Ghz processor) to store and adjust his photographs. He has this problem with viewing folders - icon preview takes forever to load, and sometimes doesn't even load after a minute or more. This takes place only when viewing huge folders 150+ Gb, 3000+ photographs. Is there a way to make this iMac show all icons as preview and run smoothly or the only solution is to split huge folders into smaller ones?
I am using vnc viewer to gain remote access to my mac server, with server app 3, and I am facing a huge lag from server side. There I cannot see any issue because all seems fine, there is no overload of cpu, ram, ... . To access that network I use a VPN, but in both connections there is uplinks with fiber(100/10 and 100/100). This VPN is still using PPTP. So my question is, any of you have noticed this, if yes what have you done to solve it and what remote screen access's do you use? Thanks! UPDATE 1:
My photos are mostly 4000 x 6000 pixels. I want to email smaller ones. I use gmail in a browser. Right now to do this I need to: Select pictures Export versions - select a size Navigate in finder to the pictures Drag and drop to my open compose window. Clean up the created pix. I can drag and drop full size pictures but an 6-8 megs each they make for obese email messages. Is there a way to resize on drop? Edit:
I recently purchased a new 15" 2016 rMBP with TouchBar. It replaces my 15" 2015 rMBP. That system (the 2015 model) was the tail end of a chain of systems (some iMacs, some rMBPs) on which I had always done Migration Assistant to set up the new system. That system was also beginning to experience a lot of strange slow downs, beach balls, loud fan noise, etc. I suspect it's not the system hardware itself, but just years of junk piling up.
I often find myself in the middle of doing something in an app, then needing to find something relevant in another app and when I switch back, the app I was working in reloads and I've lost the data. For example, composing a message in Facebook.app, then switching to YouTube.app to search for a link I want to put in the FB message, but, when I go back to the Facebook.app, the FB.app reloads and I have lost what I was composing.
Router: Airport Extreme (latest model) ISP; local microwave Wifi Network: iMac, 2 iPhone's, 1 iPad, 1 MacBook iMac: Sierra 10.12.3 Wifi works fine until I connect to network with iMac wifi. It will either crash the network or reduce the speed to almost zero
I installed the Stamps.com Connect to my OS X Macbook. I cannot get rid of the stupid thing. I cancelled my subscription the day I created it but I cannot get the icon off of my menu bar not can I delete it from my applications. I have not been able to use the command key to drag the icon because that just opens it in the menu bar. In the applications file, it will not let me delete it because "it is in use." I am at my wits end. Please help. Thanks!
My MacBook screen went black while I was working and then started blinking with this file image:  I was not able to get the MacBook to recover, and I ended up pressing the power button and losing my work. When this happens is there something I should do to get back to my work, or is powercycling my only option? Details about my setup: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB Sierra 10.12.3 No Time Machine set up.
I have a Macbook Pro 2013 OS 10.10.5. Its beach balling really bad. I ran Mbam scan and no malware was found I ran Disk Utility and it gave me the Disk Utility: Invalid Disk Label @ cksum mismatch. I also ran time machine
When dragging the border of a Finder window in column view with preview visible to resize it, it seems arbitrary whether Apple will take or make space by adjusting the preview pane size or by showing more or less of the ancestor columns. Is there a way to resize just the preview pane? Is there a way to show more or less of the columns while keeping the size of the preview pane?
Google Photos starts every time I turn on my Macbook Pro. It is annoying and I believe it slows down the OS' startup speed. Is there a way to turn the launch at startup option off? I do not see it in Google Photos' preferences. It seems the only option is to uninstall it:
Whenever I query ARPA for the reverse entry for an IP through the host command, I get a correct lookup result at first. Example: However, when I query multiple times in a short period of time, it simply returns the default reverse domain name pointer:
I am trying to restore iPhone from iCloud backup that is shown in my iCloud account so I can get some notes that I lost. There is the iPhone back up on iCloud that I want and an iPhone back up on my computer (that I don't want). I am not being given options to back up from the icloud backup. I am connected to wifi (both iPhone and computer). I am following the apple instructions. I thoroughly searched for an answer on the web at large, the apple and iCloud websites and here and only find the "how to's" for how it should work normally, but that is not working. Thank you for any advice
I'm looking for a method that will allow me to turn custom, nonstandard key combinations into a currently-unused intermediary key (like F16 or something). The intermediary key would then be able to be recognized in other applications (such as FastScripts), so that I can finally assign this intermediary keyboard shortcut to whatever action within that application that I desire. By "nonstandard key combinations," I mean combinations that do not incorporate any modifier key (that is, ⌘ command, ⌥ option, ⌃ control, fn, or ⇧ shift). Examples of nonstandard key combinations, pressed simultaneously: 1 + 0 1 + 0 A + D A + D space bar + V space bar + V W + 5 W + 5 tab + Q tab + Q I have installed Karabiner, but I don't see a way to accomplish this in Karabiner. Are there any programs that can do what I am looking for? OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.
I have a MacOS on a MacAir laptop and a Safari browser. I have a link to certain page which contains a single image and a title (not many words). I want to somehow embed the link in such a way that this page (image/title or title only) opens spontaneously in a small fraction of my window in same way as certain advertisements always open (of pages one frequently visits and their relative content) each time the browser is opened? The idea is that who opens the browser, earlier or later, will take notice of this "advertisement" and click on the page/see the content. I am only interested to make this on my own computer and temporarily (and after some time I'll need to "uninstall" this link or "add"). Please, advise me if it is doable and how exactly?
I know my old game center nickname, and I know the apple ID its connected to. But there are several game center profiles connected to that apple ID. How to I login with that nickname?
Hi I've just got my MacBook Pro 2016 running 10.12.3 and I'm in a bit of a pickle... I can't seem to find a way to remap my CapsLock to Delete.
This is a somewhat common interface, and is generally used to move a user through a series of sequential operations. It can be found in Apple's Network Setup Assistant (System Preferences > Network > Assist Me > Assistance), in many third party .pkg installers, and in applications like VirtualBox. It has a Low Opacity (light) image as a background, with a translucent Text Field on it, with a visually distinct bottom row with the next and previous buttons. Here is an example:
Things like the share sheet, the forwards and backwards glyphs, the magnifying glass, etc. are standard across macOS.
My girlfriend handed me her Macbook Pro just a little bit ago, saying she cannot log in. Everytime she tries to log into her account, it brings her to the macOS Utilities window. I am not able to log in, and the only thing available to me is the macOS Utilities & terminal. Here is what I tried: Restore From Time Machine Backup - The Macbook doesn't find and backups.
I was using my macbook, which is running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (build 16B2555), normally until this airdrop notification appeared:  Out of curiosity, I accepted the AirDrop and an archive started downloading.
How to calculate SHA-2 hash on a file to generate a 256-bit result (SHA-256)? In the old days we used the openssl tool. I have heard that after terrible security vulnerabilities with openssl, the world has moved on to alternative tools. Does macOS Sierra ship with alternatives to openssl? What is the modern approach to running a SHA-256 hash?
The directory '/Users//Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/Users//Library/Caches/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.5.3-py2.7.egg So I used the -H flag and ran: Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.5.3-py2.7.egg So at this point I am not sure if I am good to go or not.
Sometimes, when Time Machine starts a new backup, I see that it'll be several GB of data. I then wonder: What did I save that was so large? Is it perhaps backing up unnecessary data, that I should exclude in the future?
I'm looking at a game which gives 'Intel HD Graphics 4000' as one of its requirements. My Macbook Pro Retina mid-2014 has 'Intel Iris 1536 MB'; will that be OK?
When I create or edit a Smart Mailbox and I want to add filter Message is not in mailbox it works fine for all my e-mail accounts except iCloud. So, if I add such filter in some Smart Mailbox settings and would try to add some mailbox from my iCloud account, it will do that, but it will reset it after I press OK - when I open settings for this Smart Mailbox again, I see the following:
I am trying to copy RevealServer.framework to /System/Library/Frameworks using Filezilla (because openssh isn't compatible with ios 10). But I get an error saying that the volume is read only. I am trying to follow the steps given here. Is there an easier way of using reveal on a physical iOS 10 device?
I created an Ubuntu-16.04 VM via VirtualBox on my osx machine. I'm using 2 network adapters: Bridged Adapter [en0: Wi-Fi (Airport)] and Host-only Adapter (vboxnet0). This is the ifconfig o/p from the 2 machines, osx first: Ubuntu next: I'm unable to ping osx from ubuntu:
I have a Mac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 still installed on it and am seriously considering installing Mountain Lion. I’ve read that from Lion onwards PowerPC apps can no longer run.
I'm trying to uninstall the Setapp. I was going to think about renewing my subscription later but it forced my hand because iStat constantly pops up a windows that says: Your Setapp subscription is no longer active, and iStat Menus Status cannot be opened.
We got our company macs, and I installed iStat menus on mine. What caught my eye is that there is a constant network traffic, ~2MB/s. Activity monitor also reports the same:
This week the keys hjkl on my (Early 2011) Macbook Pro sort of all stopped working at the same time (and only those keys are affected). I say "sort of" because they can all start working perfectly again for an extended period of time and then suddenly for no reason they all stop working.
When I drop pics into Powerpoint they break into skewed parts, as shown below. If I use the import function, it works just fine, but about 90% of the time when I copy/paste from anywhere, I get the skew. This is something I do at least 30 times a day so it's killing productivity - would really like help if anyone has any idea.
I have an external NTFS drive, and I want to securely remove some files from it. SRM is no longer available in Sierra. I tried to install SRM with Homebrew, and did install it successfully, but when I apply the command to an external drive I get an error: "Segmentation fault: 11" What can I do?
I'm trying to figure how to download the file for iTunes songs which are are not yet downloaded to my local machine (and reside in the iTunes Match Cloud) using AppleScript or any other library. My goal is to have a script running locally on a cron that downloads any 5 star rated song. As I stream most of my music via iTunes Match, I want an automated way to download those high rated songs. I looked around and figured something like this would work: Although it just blows up: Any help would be appreciated.
This issue is somewhere stuck between Android Enthusiasts and Ask Different, but seeing as the issue is with the computer itself, I decided it was a better fit here. I'm a college student studying CS and learning the Android SDK, but for some reason, Google's ADB or Android Debug Bridge software is repeatedly causing kernel panics on my Macbook Pro 2015 running OS X 10.11.6. I could just uninstall it, but I need this program to work and I know that it works for thousands of people without issue.
I've run into an annoying issue with Sierra. I typically run four or five desktops in Mission Control (and have since Lion) to group tasks on their own screen space. This is on a late 2012 mini, which I installed a pair of SSDs into and then did a network-install and then upgrade to Sierra before loading any apps.
I've tried the answers suggested in this question: How to turn off all animations on OS X But so far now luck.
I have iPhone 5s 16gb ios 10.2.1 still under warrenty. I'm facing some random restarts from past few weeks. I went to apple service center, where they kept my phone for few days but didn't face any restart problem, but i faced the same problem the same i got my phone back. I talked to apple support and they said either i have to replicate the restart problem in front of them as my device is not creating any kind of crash log report or I have to make a video of my device while it randomly restarts. Both of the tasks seems impossible as niether I'm able to make a video as its happens randomly and in fractions of second nor I'm able to replicate the issue, because if I could have, I would have done it already. Now Im stuck with my iphone and apple support is not ready to help me. Im writing here with my best hopes. Thanks in advance if you can help me in any way. How it restarts: Black screen suddenly with red thin line over it > black screen without light(energy)>apple logo screen but fr
I recently acquired a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2010) that has 4GB RAM (2x2GB) and according to Apple, the unit should be able to handle 8GB RAM. I bought 2 DDR3 PC3-8500 4GB from memorystock.com and when I installed the pair of them, the laptop would go into a continuous reboot cycle. I have checked the EFI and SMC. The EFI required an update, which I performed. The SMC is up to date.
I can't get past the error screen after the introduction. Originally, the disk was divided in 3 partitions, the primary one with the data,the second one with the OS X reserved and the third one with bootcamp. So I removed the bootcamp partition, and the error remains, so it's my understanding that the disk has to be in one partition. If I delete the OS partition, will I lose any data? My screen is something like the attatched.
I recently bought an Apple Watch Series 2 in Germany. I now want to buy AppleCare+. When I go to this site and get to the "Purchase" page, United States is chosen by default and the price is $50. If I switch to Deutschland, the price becomes 65€, which is considerably more expensive for some reason. Will there be any issue if I go with the US AppleCare+?
Is there a way to use Mic/Line in as an output to plug a second set of earphones? I gave a shot with JackPilot which is not compatible with macOS 10.12.3.
I am on OS X 10.11. Today, suddenly, the recent apps in my "Recent items" menu in Finder started showing duplicates: in other words, if I recently opened Google Chrome (for example), and then open it again, I get two entries for Chrome. And the same with every other app.
I've configured my touch bar to always show function keys in one program where I use those frequently (IntelliJ IDEA, code editor). Many hotkeys in IDEA are triggered using a function key together with shift, alt or control, e.g. for renaming a variable, I use Shift+F6. With the emulated function keys, this does not work, the program acts as if I had just hit F6 without holding down the alt key. It was no problem with the hardware function keys on my old MacBook.
I've added a 240GB SSD to my mid 2011 27" iMac. I installed macOS Sierra to SSD and then migrated apps and settings to SSD but left users data on HDD. After booting into the SSD, I opened: system prefs > user accounts > advanced options Then I pointed the SSD user account to my home directory on the HDD and restarted. Now when I log into my user account (SSD) none of my files or preferences are working or updating and I keep getting an error about keychain missing.
I want to disable further iCloud backups from one of my devices, but I don't want to delete the existing backup files already in iCloud. I couldn't find any way to archive iCloud backups the way you can do with iTunes backups, so the only way to prevent an existing backup from being deleted seems to be to not make a new one. Some context [Taken from comments]
This is not a situation where the resulting audio files will be mastered to a CD or something. I'm just looking for a quick and handy way to split an audio file based on a specific interval. A minor loss in audio quality is not a big deal (but this would obviously not be preferred). I do not want the originalAudioFile.m4a to be altered in the process. I do not want the originalAudioFile.m4a to be altered in the process. The most important condition is that the method requires minimal time and effort from the user. There are various methods to accomplish what I want in Microsoft Windows, but can this be done on a Mac?
So I get an error message saying "Keychain "login" cannot be found to store "551961960"" and when I get to keychain access and try to repair using the keychain first aid thing and I get "Keychain Access wants to use the "Local items" keychain" and asks for the password. I try my admin password and that doesn't help. I don't know the password. Help!
The macOS version is the latest and a fresh install, and it is the latest version of the software, but I'm not particularly interested in my specific case, as I already chanced upon a workaround. I'm mostly interested in debugging why it fails to install. Is there any way to debug a failed Installer package to find out anything about why it failed?
I have a late 2009 27" iMac, but recently the internal hard drive completely died. When I try to power it up, the iMac gets stuck on the white Apple loading screen. So instead I would now like to use it just as a display.
I'm trying to run a startup AppleScript, and a AppleScript which run at a set time (I hate the automator / calendar approach) the only issue with this approach is the script it's running all the time, using memory and also I'm not sure how to calculate the correct time yet. (24.60.60 is every 00:00 right?) I would like to run it at 05 AM if I understand it right, adding the script.scpt to /Library/LaunchDaemons will make the script run all the time even if the user is logged out, or logging with the screensaver on right? I read about a another approach with seems even better, basically using a Plist to launch a script at a set time.
With ~/bin at the beginning of my $PATH, I still have to name the directory if I put 'nice time' in front of the filename. Also, 'which' doesn't find it yet it still runs if I invoke it without 'nice time bin/'. This was not the case at some time in the recent past. Is it a bug introduced recently, or a "feature" that Apple failed to support until recently?
With macOS Sierra's iCloud Drive feature, it seems the promise of automatic space management is that: it will fill your hard drive's free space by downloaing iCloud drive files automatically it only clears the local copies when you select other iCloud drive files to download instead
The following image shows two screenshots of my Mac's desktop whilst starting up. The first is a few seconds after starting, whilst the other one is a few seconds to shutdown.
Can I somehow easily reverse the installation process? Should I?
Lets say I have a formula like (Q7+Q11)÷Q20 in cell O20 and I wanna copy it to another cell, lets say D47, is there any key modifier or shortcut to do it without losing the original references of the formula and without rewriting it? Something like Cmd+Alt drag and drop? I am with Numbers 4 on Mac OS Sierra
I want to run after every reboot, with no user logged I tried to do a bash script here : however trying the bash script in terminal give me this result "command not found" What do I do wrong if not everything. PS : when resolved, do I just leave my script in "/etc/crontab" (so he can be run every time at boot) or do I still have to do env EDITOR=nano crontab -e and add the job
I have an external hard drive (called SEAGATE Expansion Portable Drive) and I was wondering if there is any way I can tell whether this hard drive has been plugged into another computer any time in the past month? It went missing and then turned up again. I would like to check whether it has been plugged into another laptop and had any files copied without my knowing - is there any way I can check this?? Thanks!
Is it still the case that Purgeable part is not under our control (to be deleted)? There are several posts (e.g., How do I clear the purgeable area on my disk?) on this, but no solution as it seems.
I'm a software developer who is new to mac. I'm working on an app that exposes a lot of files through a WebDav connection.
My MacBook won't display anything connected through an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter to HDMI display. I have tried with many (Dell, Samsung, Acer, Iyama, LG, from the local store) external displays.
When I run an AppleScript and I am in fullscreen, it's always bring back to the desktop. as a work around I use "tell front window of application "Google Chrome" activate" but that still very annoying is there not a way to get rid of the focus to the desktop ? here is an exemple
Over the last couple months, I often run into issues were the TouchID dialog will not display when unlocking the touch Macbook Pro. It will also not display as an option when installing software other options. You are forced to enter your password. I was only able to get it working again by rebooting.
Having issues while trying to set-up Android Studio (latest release, 2.3) on a Mac (El Capitan 10.11.3). Studio is installed, but when I launch it a window for configuring the SDK appears, and after a few passages I get this error: "An error occurred while trying to compute required packages" Anyone got this?
Like most people I take loads of pictures. Some I delete and some I put into albums for events, food pics, etc. Since you can put a picture into multiple albums I tend to use albums a bit like tags by having one picture in multiple relevant albums like a picture of me eating a huge cake in a "food" and a "Me" album which makes it quickly and easily to find a picture I am after by what I remember it had in it.
I want to search file name that contains asterisk (*), e.g. How can I do that in Finder?
I learnt that by default the Photos app maintains a photo library within the pictures folder of my user account on my MacBook Pro. However, there is no such library in the pictures folder. I have searched thoroughly, but cannot find it in any other location either! Even so, my Photos app still displays my photos.
I'm about to factory reset an iPad with a broken home button. I've been using AssistiveTouch in place of the button. In iOS 10, unlocking requires the home button, so I have to use AssistiveTouch every time I turn the iPad on. My question is—if I factory reset it, is there a part of the iOS 10 setup screen that requires the home button to proceed? If I reset, AssistiveTouch will not be enabled and I won't be able to enable it until the iPad is finished being set up. This could make the device unusable.
I just authorized a newer computer and added my songs from my iphone. Most of the song names are now numbers on both my computer and my iphone. How can I have the song names display again? -2213363955719278735 4:27 Pearl Jam Vitalogy Alternative 0
I recently uninstalled a VirtualBox installation that was made available to all users using the provided tool. I went to re-install for a single user, but it will only let me install for all users, not single user or specific location. How can I resolve this problem? I'm using a 2013 MacBook Pro with MacOS Sierra
I need to make fresh installation on my iMac 2012 of macOS Sierra. I already upgraded to that one, but I want to make a fresh install. I found several articles, but I am not sure if they right, because I think they have an additional drive to make an installation on (they talk about non-bootable USB). As far I do the following: USB flash drive formatted to HFS+ Journaled + GUID Install on it Sierra files using: sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app --nointeraction Reboot + using Command + R key to show menu.
If I erase my iPhone, will my iCloud be erased too?
Just like the title: How do I configure my watch to display the full numerical date 3/11/17 instead of just the small date "Sat 11" or "Mar 11" I have viewed all the available complication and scoured for additional settings but the only options I see are large form "Mar 11" and small form "Sat 11"
I want to add 20 pictures onto one page (like a collage) using Adobe Acrobat. What am I am going to do with this one page is print it so that it consists of all pictures (on a paper like the Polaroids) and hang it on the wall as a big one.
I've managed to wreck my Terminal of my Air's OS X (10.9.5) while running a sudo command (sudo mv git /etc/paths.d) during git installation. (Following *=URL=* Now I receive a continuous string of errors on every new Terminal window that I start, the first 3 lines of which are: While the Terminal commands do go through after all the errors are listed, RStudio does not start, and the error pop-up states:
I understand that using homebrew, a plist file will be provided and a user can use launchctl to install that plist file. But, I am not using homebrew(nor macport). I built mosquitto binaries directly from mosquitto source distribution and I would like to be able to start mosquitto broker automatically (just like other daemons).
I'm kind of stuck with a 30GB partition on the hard drive of my MBP that I cannot regain. This is what happened: I used boot camp to try to install Win 10 on a partition I used boot camp to try to install Win 10 on a partition Once it rebooted into Win10 setup, it failed to install the system on the partition Once it rebooted into Win10 setup, it failed to install the system on the partition I tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the partition but I'm getting this message: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Then, I used disk utility to try to merge my main partition with the mentioned above but it won't let me remove it (I tried from recovery mode with the same results)
The default "Name" column width is too narrow; the full filenames of my files are always cut off. To fix this, every time that I open any folder, I have to either manually drag the "Name" separator dramatically to the right or double-click on the separator itself (which automatically adjusts the width to show the longest entry in full).
I have a table featuring some outcome (column B) versus the day it happened (column A):  and I would like to produce another table with the unique dates in the first column and the total outcome of the day in the second column, looking like this:
How do I change the default zoom level for new documents in Excel 2016 for Mac? I looked online but found a lot of conflicting information. Also, most tutorials online seem to be for the 2011 version rather than the 2016 version. The default zoom is 100% but I'd like to change it to 150%.
How can I keep alarms I have set from going off during a telephone conversation? I may set an alarm to go off tomorrow at 3:15 pm. If I receive a phone call at 3:12 pm, I don't want the alarm to go off during the phone call.
I've recorded my iPhone screen through QuickTime on my MacBook and made several recordings already. Unfortunately, the resulting files are too large. They get saved in .MOV format, and 10 mins takes up about 600-700 MB. How can I compress these iPhone 7 screen recordings made through QuickTime so that the file sizes become smaller?
I've created a stock list in Numbers for staff to input current stock levels. This is spread over 5 sheets. I'm looking for the best way for Numbers to read all of this data and, when an item needs ordering, copy that item into a separate table that is broken down by Supplier. So if we need to do our Tuesday order from Acme Frozen Foods, we can simply look at the generated ordering list that tells us what we need, rather than needing to scroll through all the items from the whole stock list checking one at a time – Is something like this possible?
I have been given a MacBook Pro 15" Core2Duo A1286 with corrupted HDD structure. I would like to reinstall MacOS X but when I try to use Disk Utility to reinstall it, it tells me I am unable to install from its recovery partition. (I was able to erase the HDD). Internet recovery launched with CmdOptR fails to install Sierra with an error UNTRUSTED_CERT_TITLE.
I have to give a 5-minute Keynote presentation from my MacBook Pro in a few days, and while I'd love to not carry my phone around as a remote, I'm also not a fan of the idea of tapping my wrist every time I need to change slides. Is there a way to use my Apple Watch as an always-awake Keynote remote that I can hold in my hand rather than needing to keep on my wrist?
I have the late 2015 (15 inch) MacBook Pro. By default it turns on when laptop lid is open. This is not good for me, sometimes I open the lid on weak battery to make sure it's not turned on, so I wanted to make sure it's off. And then it just wants to boot up, imagine.
Some time ago I split the Fusion Drive into 2 parts, SSD and HDD accordingly. Now I decided to return to fusion drive, but I have some data that I would like to keep. Is it possible to merge drives back into fusion drive without need to reformat drives? UPD
I ask this question because I've noticed that sometimes when I use delay with a sub-one figure, the delay never occurs. It is as if there was no delay line at all.
I would like to perform double-clicks via AppleScript. Two tools that I understand are suitable for the job (since AppleScript contains no built-in mechanism to do this) are cliclick and MouseTools.
how could I change the file encoding using OS X? If I open a file on Windows Notepad I see all the symbols and everything is fine. If I open it using TextEdit or TextWrangler I see only question marks instead of the normal symbols. I tried to save the file as plain text using UTF-8 unicode, but it didn't changed. Any more ideas?
My right ear hears slightly less compared to my left, (around 1.6-1.8 difference than the left if Windows' Audio balance is to be used as reference). I manage to change the audio balance just fine on my PC, Android, and WP, but on the iPhone I can't due to it's automatically setting the slider to 0 when it's near the centre... which is around where I'm at... Is there a way for me to adjust it to my circumstance?
I'm trying to find the free demo downloads for the following plugins: IKmultimedia amplitude metal IKmultimedia amplitude SVT Waves SSL bundle Steven Slate everything bundle I'm running Logic 8 on OS 10.5.8 with a G5 Power PC. Thanks!
I have a macbook and a belkin USB-C to Ethernet Adapter. I would like to use Wi-Fi to access the internet, and the LAN cable to connect to a local network. But it doesn't work. Whenever I plug in the LAN cable, I can't access the internet anymore, and no Wi-Fi networks are found. Why is that?
My understanding is that it is impossible to change the default width of the List View "Name" column in Finder on a Mac. To be specific, I need to increase this width. Is there a third-party program that can accomplish this? If so, please specify if the "Name" column width can be set on a per-folder basis per-folder basis system-wide (all folders basis) system-wide (all folders basis) or both. or both. OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.
Is there a utility that enables storing infrequently accessed files from a Mac on an external hard drive to free up disk space similar to the feature that moves such files to iCloud? I would like something other than Time Machine and iCloud to automatically free up disk space to an external HDD.
Update: There are no hardware problems. Everything works on a Windows 7 computer.
With Numbers' bar graph, I'd like to show all x-axis markers of my table, or at least selected few with all the columns present. but only a few is displayed when there are many. The only way to show more is to drag to enlarge the chart, but this makes the chart unreadable if I attach it in a post. How to I achieve what I want without resizing the graph or cut down my data columns?
I am trying to connect to SMB file sharing via ES File Explorer on Android. But every time I write "username" & "password" they come out to be wrong.
I want to buy a MacBook Pro 2016, probably the 15" model. Since I travel around on my bicycle a lot, I'd find it really nice if I could charge it with a solar panel. Does anyone know how much Output a solar panel would have to have to power a MacBook Pro via USB?
For example, I tried an application called Volume Mixer. It offers a handy audio "mixer" that even allows you to simultaneously set and independently control differing volume values for different applications. But, it offers no method to keep the mixer dialog open; if you click outside of this dialog, the mixer dialog automatically minimizes back into the menu bar icon. And, because the dialog is not a true "window," I can't use another application to pin the dialog on top of everything on screen. I don't know of a program that is able to keep a menu bar icon pressed permanently.
Roughly once a month my MacBook Air's keyboard stops responding. I have use of the trackpad/cursor but I can not type. I've found that going to Activity Monitor and forcing Finder to quit (and automatically restart) solves the problem.
So, what happens is after a turn on the macbook, it goes through the normal startup sequence, then shows a blue screen, and shows the desktop, just like normal. but then, after 15 seconds, the screen, keyboard backlight, and apple logo power off and the sleep light starts pulsating, i can wake it sometimes, but everything stays shut off. I tried resetting the nvram and the smc countless times. i ran a hardware test and it gave me back an error that says that there is a damaged thermal battery sensor. i cant run internet recovery mode, safe mode gives me the same problem, single user is the only way i can get it to stay on. The strange thing is, when i brought it to the computer repair place, he gave it back the next day saying it just needed a new battery, 2 days after that it worked with the charger plugged in, i replaced the battery with a factory new one, and the problem came back. What the heck can I do about this?
So, i was following this link -> *=URL=* And i selected EFI volume instead of kali or macos. It went to a black screen!
I have an original iPad mini running iOS 9.3. When sending large eMail attachments, it doesn't ask me if I want to use Maildrop and fails miserably. My iPhone SE offers me to use Maildrop though How can I convince the iPad to try Maildrop? Apple's support page says that the only requirement is iOS 9.2. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204230
My Apple ID got hacked a few months ago and it's still on the iPhone 5 and I can't access the password as it as hacked! How can I transfer just the music from iPhone 5 to iPhone 7?
I have purchased a Apple Mac Pro A1186 2008 original 2.66GHZ however I power cable is not supplied and I need to purchase one. What cable is it that I need exactly.
I'm trying to change the battery in a MacBook Air 11″ i7 1.8 GHz (July 2011) MD214LL/A. I found this Runpower battery, which is 39Wh. Yet when checking the specs mentioned above, the battery is a 35Wh.
A related problem is when Windows users send me a file path and I want to quickly access it. Currently, I manually navigate to it by translating the path in my little head, which hurts. So, I reversed the hack above and added a call to open the folder to the file. SOLUTION
I have been using my 6th generation iPod touch for a few years and the pre-installed mail application had been working just fine until a couple weeks ago. Normally I would unlock my iPod and see a notification if I received an email or not but now I have to manually go into the app and refresh it myself. I looked in the settings and there was nothing that I saw that I thought could fix it. Is there anyway to fix this?
I would like to have quick preview of raw cr2 files on my mac. When I was Windows user I've used Irfan View. On a mac I've tried preview but it chokes multiple (200+) high-resolution cr2 files.
The "Printers & Scanners" Setting preference pane has two color options: "millions" or "billions" of colors. I can't tell the difference. Is there a reason to choose one over the other? Perhaps specific circumstances?
I imported a CD to my iTunes library on my computer. It automatically detected the name of the artist and name of the CD. Then I synced my iPhone to my computer and when I search the artist's name for the CD it does not show up. However, when I search the songs they do show up. How do I get the album to appear when I search the artist name?
I've been using iBooks lately to read a book, and I'd like to be able to set a page goal for myself, like I want to read 20 pages per day. However, since page sizes differ between iPhone, Mac full screen, and Mac in an arbitrarily sized window, there's not really any standardized concept of a page of a book, which I find pretty frustrating.
I'm building out a presentation using Keynote 6.6.2, on a Mac. It's all type right now, no graphics, and I want to change the font size. Is there a way to do this on a 'universal basis,' throughout the presentation all at once? (I tried 'Select All' under Edit, but this doesn't seem to lead to a solution.)
Bear with me here for a second... I have an early 2008 MacPro3,1 that has been my work horse for many years and for the last several years has been running continuously as the home server. I've noticed in the last week that if I bang the desk that it is on, the machine will cold reboot immediately. (how did I discover it? hitting a stapler for big stack of papers)
I often find myself looking at files in an FTP client and I need to do something from the shell. My workflow is to open terminal/iTerm, SSH in to the same server, and navigate to where I need in the file system.
Since then, I've tried playing with the Touch Bar settings and reinstalling Chrome, but nothing's made a difference. Any ideas how to get it back again?
Having read about instances of wifi chips going dead on iOS upgrade, and knowing someone who had this happen 2-3 years ago, I have delayed upgrading the iOS on my iphone4. I am at iOS 6. Has this problem been fixed or averted in iOS versions currently available? tl;dr: Could my Wifi chip go dead when I upgrade my iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to iOS 7?
I have had some trouble understanding when manipulating my Terminal with the making of directories, and I've encountered with this "-p" option in the network trying to find easier ways to create directories. Any help? :/
I just tried out an app called AirMore to copy my music to my iPhone. It looked awesome, until I realized that it was just putting the music in its own app, not in the iOS music app. I see many more of these kinds of apps out there, and before I go checking them all, I thought I would ask to see if this is just something that Apple does not allow.
The above operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. So far, this script is not difficult to write.
There are some items in the dictionary that I can't find in the Window -> Resource Library. Actually they are all one application I created with Automator but for some reason appeared multiple times here. It looks annoying. Is there a way to delete them?
In Apple's Mac Management Basics 10.10 they say that NetInstall and NetRestore images rely on NetBoot to "boot an operating environment that frees the internal drive for an operating system image or upgrade." Is the operating environment stored in the NetRestore/NetInstall image or is it part of the macOS Server application?
I am running virtual box with 2 VMs using MacBook Pro(macOS Sierra). I noticed that the virtualbox is killed whenever the battery charge becomes very less(~ 4%). Does the OS kills it due to low battery or its just a correlation happening by chance after seeing it a few times.
How can I control what appears in the side bar. I have a large document, over 600 pages, with style sheets for the various headings. A group of people are working on the document, but I have control of the document. People copy and paste into the document which seems to be causing the problems because then the style sheets are different. Even after I go through the document to change the style sheets to what they should be, the sidebar is a disaster.
I'm using multiple iTerm2 windows on different desktops on my El Capitan and It's irritating how it keeps switching desktops when using Quake-like drop-down termina. Steps to reproduce:
I have just transferred data from my old MacBook Air to my new MacBook Pro. There is now a Deleted Users Directory in the /Users directory. Can this be safely deleted?
It has happened countless of times since the iPhone 5. Unmerging and re-adding contacts has become part of my routine.
When I first got my iPhone, I disabled receiving notifications from Mail and Messages apps on the lock screen and the notification center, because these apps display snippets of received messages in those locations and anyone could see them without a password. (Since most people send short emails and messages these days, the snippets are practically the whole messages.) I left the sound notification and the banner enabled. Yesterday, I saw someone else's iPhone: He still received notifications from Messages but the notification read: "You have a new message!"
I am not sure what all hosts I have accumulated over time under my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file are. Is there any risks in keeping all hosts' addresses or doesn't it make any difference?
I have two Macs, and iPhone and iPad. I have setup iCloud and Google accounts with Calendars on all of them. Its works everywhere, syncs and loads up great, except for 1 Mac.
I have a MacBook at home, where I have a webcam connected to. The problem is I'm not at home and the surveillance software I'm using can't see it. Is it possible to simulate taking the USB cable out and putting it back in again?
I am trying to write an Apple script to delete all the contents of a folder except one file (stage.txt). This is the script I've written:
When I synchronize iBooks from my MacBook to my iPhone/iPad via iTunes it synchronizes all my books, but it doesn't synchronize the collections (they are all just dumped into one single collection). How do I synchronize the collections? EDIT: the `Settings -> Synchronize bookmarks, highlights, and collections across devices" option is enabled.
I came into the office today with my MacBook Pro and usually my Wi-Fi automatically connects to the network, but instead it is constantly searching. If I go to System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi, there is a solid yellow circle and the text reads "Wi-Fi does not have an IP address and cannot connect to the Internet". I've tried turning off Wi-Fi and restarting the computer but neither has worked.
I want to open 3 apps in split view. Where one is on the left side while 2 are stacked over on the right side. Do I need another tool for it or can I do it in macOS itself?
I am experiencing a strange issue when starting Adobe Creative Cloud 2017.3 applications (Photoshop, Illustrator,...). The applications hang the system completely for a minute or two (50% System-level load across all 8-cores, reported by iStat) and there are many securityd messages "keychain reference in server mode" (700 in quick succession when app is starting up) in console. So it seems, there is something wrong with either keychain or the apps. This happens on my Mac Pro, but does not on Macbook Pro, both having the most recent macOS and the same settings. I've traced the message to *=URL=* but I have no idea, what does it tie to, as gServerMode seems to be some global constant set via SecKeychainSetServerMode() function in https://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-57336.1.9/OSX/libsecurity_keychain/lib/SecKeychain.cpp.
I need to sync my contact list with my husband's phone. We both have our own iCloud accounts.
My school have asked the students to bring their iPads and use them for school purposes. The IT technicians have installed an MDM on our iPads and I receive this message...
I am doing some development on my MacBook and I would like to use my desktop to access it remotely as I have a dual monitor setup. Is there a way to do this? My desktop is Windows and my Mac is a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro.
I have a MacBook Pro (2015) with an external Monitor Mac Thunderbolt (2013). I've NEVER had a beautiful image on my external monitor, no matter the OS X version was. At work, I'm working with an iMac, and despite being similar in specifications, the image is far better and cleaner than my monitor. I use the default calibration and default resolution from the general settings. I get a kind of yellow opacity, and the font is blurry. Has anyone already experienced it and managed to solve it? Considering the price it costed, I expect a great screen quality.
I have two macs on the same local network. What I want to do is to ssh into one mac from the other and open GUI windows. I do not want to share the whole screen, just windows I open from the terminal. Between Linux computers it is possible to do ssh -X user@host, an equivalent to this on mac is exactly what I want.
The AppleIDAuthAgent process on my 2007 Mac Pro running OS X 10.7.5 is taking up 95-100 % CPU continuously. I use it whenever I go to work.
I have an iPhone 5 and since I installed iOS 10 I have to press home button twice to unlock the screen. I hate having to do this. I feel that there is 200% probability more than before that my home button breaks. Is there any other way to unlock the screen? Is it possible to go back to the 'Slide to unlock'? I would also hate to put the Assistive Touch button on the screen.
I cannot understand this: returns no error, yet as I try to use it I get this: what is happening?
[[[ Please... this is not a duplicate. I've tried many/all the suggestions from other questions. Nothing helped. This could be specific to the resolution and/or laptop/monitor model. I've also upgraded to latest el capitan - no improvement, then to sierra - still no improvement. Can you unmark as duplicate, please? ]]] I'm trying to set 1280x720 HiDPI resolution for 2560x1440 monitor. That particular resolution does NOT appear in SwitchResX. And sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true apparently did not do any good. 1280x800 HiDPI works, but it's scaled and sides of the screen are black. My specs: MacBook Pro Retina late 2013, 13", El Capitan.
My MacBook Pro mid-2012 has been acting up lately. A year ago I replaced the original hard drive with a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB, and everything was fine. Then the SSD became corrupted and was exchanged under warranty. Since installing the second SSD I've installed a fresh copy of the latest macOS Sierra on a single 1TB partition and have been having issues ever since. The symptoms are: Random fails: When I wake it up from sleep or open the lid I find it with the "grey screen with crossed circle" (Similar to this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b29f58e707cef6f20a882248f4ee558c).
I am curious to know if it's possible to use my MacBook Pro as virtual host to test application in different OS environments. I guess it would improve performance of applications running on virtual OS .
I have a Wacom Graphire 4 CTE-640, silver. It reacts as though the pen is always down, no matter how I try to use it. The area responds, but I have to lift my hand completely for the pen to stop. I am running Mac OS X El Capitan on a MacBook Pro.
I am fully aware that in the recent times, Apple has moved from the IPhone Configuration Utility to the Apple Configurator that is available on Mac only. I, unfortunately, don't have a Mac, but I have a few WPA2-Enterprise networks that I need to create a configuration profile for. I have Windows and Linux systems at my disposal, is there a way to create a configuration profile that works with recent iOS versions without the Apple Configurator, and if so, how would I go about doing that?
First, to make it perfectly clear, this is about Artist artwork, not Album artwork, since most of the questions I could find related to Artist artwork had answers referring to album or genre artwork instead. In iTunes 12 on Windows 10, I don't always like or want the artwork iTunes chooses for a given artist. Sometimes (perhaps only for music not bought from iTunes, but I haven't done a rigorous experiment) I can trick it by changing the name of the artist (e.g. adding a space or extra letters after the artist name). But for other artists, even if I completely change the artist and album artist, it still "knows" which artist it is and uses their artwork. I've seen suggestions for fixing this in previous versions of iTunes that involved things like changing song ratings, etc., and I even tried using Mp3tag to strip out iTunes-related tags on a song purchased from iTunes, but nothing has worked. Acceptable solutions would get iTunes to do one of the following: Display no artwork for a pa
To make matters worse, after saving, the scrollbar in Script Editor is buggy and erratic for around 30 seconds. This makes scrolling manually largely counterproductive. Sometimes this erratic period is up to one minute. Combined, these two errors result in a frustrating and time-consuming saving experience.
I would just like to install Sierra on my unsupported Mac Pro Tower early 2008. I know it is not supported, but as the machine itself is no longer supported by Apple, I don't really care.
I'm experimenting with live USBs, and I'm curious what would happen. I mean setting this through System Preferences, not the Boot Manager.
I've been trying to run steam, and more specifically Saints Row 3 on my MacBook air, to no avail. I was wondering if there was a way to install Deb packages on Mac so I could run a Linux version of steam? Sort of like Wine.
I have a text variable of class text that shows something like this when it is returned: I want to be able to delete specific lines from the text, without affecting the rest of the variable: For example: delete {1, 3} to get this result:
iPad Air has SIM card inside. Can I receive SMS messages with it? My mobile provider sends control information by SMS messages, which I can't receive apparently.
I am currently developing an application in Python that will run on Macs and will need to print PDF files. In the past I have managed to send PDF files to printer automatically by using some commands in a Bash script. However, I never found a way to specify one printer, it would always send it right into the currently selected printer (usually the last used one). Does anyone know if there any way to launch the Preview application from command line, or any other way to preview and choose printers before actually printing?
I'm trying to run a potentially untrusted application without the following permissions, through the sandbox-exec command: file write (to avoid corruption/injection of files) network (to avoid communicate outside of my network) process creation (to avoid forks) access to system data (to avoid system corruption)
I am still running macOS 10.11, now I wanna update to 10.12, but since some apps must be running on 10.11, so I need to keep this system and here is my plan: I use TimeMachine to backup my system 10.11 Update the system to 10.12 Restore the backup 10.11 from TimeMachine to an external HD, so I can boot it up there and I can use two versions of OS together.
Is it possible to get Apple Keychain statistics as they are there for Chrome's smart lock? I'm looking for something similar to what is available at this page (if you use Chrome): https://www.google.com/settings/chrome/sync
So I've read that it is possible to enable Virtualisation on MacPro 2008 however I do not find how. I know that I have VMX since the output of sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features is : But I think what I need to enable is the virtualisaiton support which I can check with : sysctl kern.hv_support and output me
When I change a directory in terminal, the output is displaying the write permissions I have for every file in that destination folder. I'd prefer this didn't happen.
I am about to upgrade my mid-2012 MackBook Pro with a 500 GB SSD, and use the current HDD as external storage by placing it in an appropriate case that would allow me to connect it through USB later. Rather than backing up my whole system and data, I thought I would just do the SSD upgrade, and hookup the external hard disk later and copy over my files and projects as I need them (one of the reasons I am considering this is that I have lots of files that I may not need now, but that might be useful to keep for the future... sort of hoarding but that's just how it is...rather be careful than sorry).
I work on external screen mostly and have MacBook in clamshell mode. External screen is set as main screen with dock attached to it.
I have a new iPhone 7plus. My 17 year old helped back up my old iPhone before we left on vacation last week. My new phone was activated but not synced before we left. When we got back, I asked him to sync my phone thinking that still needed to happen. Well, it erased all my pictures from our trip and took my phone back to the backup before Spring Break. I have called Apple and an independent company and told there might be a tiny bit of hope in something on my phone called TRIM. I am obviously not technical and have no idea what this is. Any help is appreciated. Is there any possibility in retrieving my pictures or not?
So, I had my 12 inch MacBook plugged into an external monitor (with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse) and was working on it normally, when suddenly everything became really slow and unresponsive, after waiting for a while for Force Quit to work and with nothing happening I decided to force shut-down the machine. When it was starting up it asked me for a password after entering it the login screen froze after waiting for 5 min I force shutdown this as well.
I want it to apply to the inbox only. So far, it applies to the account and so everything in other mailboxes is moved to the reminder mailbox. I want the items in the other mailboxes to be ignored. Ie create a done mailbox and when items in reminder are completed I move the email to done mailbox and the rule will no longer apply. So far I can't find the option to only apply to my inbox and not other mailboxes.
I've noticed a sort-of lazy/post encryption strategy in MacOS/OS X with FileVault enabled and in encrypted Time Machine backups, and I'm curious when actual encryption happens. When I copy videos from unencrypted external USB 3 volumes to my FileVault encrypted volume, my write speeds are 100+MB/s. However, I don't think my macbook (Intel Core i7-4980) is capable of encrypting that fast on-the-fly.
I noticed that recently I can't zoom properly in Quick Look when I preview image files. When I press the space bar, I can zoom normally. After that, I can pan the picture in the Quick Look window. However, after panning the picture, I can't zoom anymore.
I have some PDF which I want to print out as hardcover. Sadly, the PDF is in a non-standard format (some weird American format, I guess), so I need to scale it to A4. The online print service I want to use tells me exactly how large the PDF shall be. So I open the PDF with Preview, open the Print dialog, select my custom paper size (A4 + some margins) and print it with PDFwriter.
I have tried both user.name@icloud.com and just user.name as the username for IMAP and SMTP. I have even tried myAppleId@otherProvider.com in desperation even though I'm clearly instructed to do otherwise. I have written my password in plaintext and pasted it in. I have tried STARTTLS instead of TLS (Thunderbird edits the port automatically when I change). I thought I had followed the (unassertive) instructions to the letter, but I must be overlooking something very basic here that I can't see.
I want to be able to automatically assign a red tag to any folder/file that is dropped into a folder sitting on my desktop. I've done some research about this and it seems like this can't really be done even with Automator or Smart Folders, even though it seems pretty simple.
I have just received and email which contained an Excel file with a potential virus in form of macro. I opened the attachment on my iPhone (because it looked like an invoice I was actually expecting) but nothing happened and it looked empty. Then I downloaded it to my Mac and opened the file but I chose the options to run without macros enabled. The Excel was empty, so I closed it and deleted the file. then I was thinking that it was some kind of virus/malware.
I can't add album artwork to particular albums in my itunes library even if the file is 'read and write' and MP3 Audio... Any ideas how to fix this?
I had my iPhone output music to my car's Bluetooth, and so Pokemon Go also output the audio to my car as well. But when I got home, the Pokemon Go audio was still tied to Bluetooth. I had to use a Bluetooth device at home, or plug in the headphone, in order to hear anything. Even if I reintalled Pokemon Go (by turning off Bluetooth on the iPhone, then rebooting the iPhone, uninstalling Pokemon Go, and rebooting iPhone, and finally reinstalling Pokemon Go), the Pokemon Go audio would still be tied to Bluetooth. Is there any way to make it output the audio through the iPhone speakers again?
I managed to install El Capitan (not Sierra) in Virtual Box on my MBP running Sierra. Looks fine on the first view. One major problem is that I can not sign up with my own Apple (or any other test) ID within the VM. The sign in process keeps spinning and spinning. Is it because the host system IP is already using the Apple ID? Installing Sierra into the box failed from scratch, but once the ID is up I want to try upgrading to Sierra. Thanks, EL
There are times when I receive an email from various companies (or even airline tickets) that shows an appointment time, and it automatically shows up on my iOS calendar app with the specific time and addition descriptions. I am looking for documentation on this.
I am trying to compile an Android kernel on my Mac (El Capitan). It needs to include a certain "elf.h" header file. It is not clear to me yet what this file exactly is, and I apologise for that; anyway, what I ask now is: how to install it? I tried brew install libelf, but this only installs a gelf.h, and had a look at elflang on github (*=URL=* but there are two options in this repository, none of which seems to include an elf.h
Have just started a new role where the company uses Exchange, after many years on Google Apps, and have been given Office 2016 for Mac. I want to use a different third party mail app such as Spark but the lack of support for the GAL lookup means I have to open Outlook quite often to search names and email addresses. My solution to this, and one that is easily achievable on Windows, would be to copy the GAL to my Outlook Contacts and sync with Mac Contacts so that Spark can pull from there but there seems to be a big design flaw with Outlook 2016 for Mac whereby you cannot copy all GAL Contacts but only search one by one.
I want to use JavaScript to set the scroll amount of a webpage in an AppleScript, using the second method described in this answer. This answer focuses on one webpage in particular. I want to branch this method out, so that I can use it on any other webpage. I am unfamiliar with JavaScript.
I'm very curious as to why Apple doesn't want to implement a download all music feature like Spotify. It's very inconvenient and I hate having to download each music respectively.
I have the following AppleScript code that opens a specific file in TextEdit in a window with predetermined bounds: The problem with this code is that, if I have any other TextEdit files open, the code will also bring the other documents to the front as well. I would like, however, that only this one, specific text file is brought to the front. The code will not bring a minimized TextEdit window to the front, but it will bring all hidden, non-minimized, TextEdit windows to the front. When I remove the activate line from the code: the file is opened, but its window is not brought to the foreground. OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.
Despite what this answer says (mail and mailx fail to send emails to gmail), /var/log/mail.log does not exist, at least not on Sierra. I have scoured the config files in /etc/postfix trying to find a reference to a log directory but didn't find one. I've even tried using the -mtime option of the find command to locate any changed files immediately after sending an email, but to no avail. All that comes up are the temporary storage locations within /var/spool/postfix, but none of those files are actually just a plain old log file.
However in "Users & Groups" preferences pane the "Network Account Server" indicator is green. I opened up the "Directory Utility", opened up the domain under "Services", expanded the details, clicked on the "Administrative" tab and told it to use a specific domain server via "Prefer this domain server". However that has no effect. Delving into logs I can see the following from "opendirectoryd"
When I try and open a .xip file macOS always opens it in TextEdit instead of Archive Utility even though the file is an archive. The main file I'm having an issue with is the xcode.xip which is from Apple's website.
I tried control+shift+power button as well as command+shift+power button. Neither seem to work.
I have two questions regarding using multiple developer accounts. I have two iOS individual developer accounts. Can the two developer accounts use the same bank account? If one of my developer account get terminated by Apple for some reasons, does it affects the second account?
I've been googling it and trying to find answers but I cant find a direct yes or no. All I find is "My 12w charger works on my iphone" and "iphone draws as much power as it allows so its ok to use an ipad charger" and "read the manual to be sure" Well I saw a 50W charger on amazon.
I want to be able to double-left-click, then immediately right-click using AppleScript. The location of the click is wherever my cursor is located at the time that the AppleScript is triggered.
We have two Apple computers next to each other on one desk: a Mac Mini and a 27” iMac (both late 2012) and both running macOS Sierra 10.12.3. We have a Wi-Fi router in the next room (about 9 metres away from furthest machine). It's a Virgin Super Hub 2ac. The iMac connects on 5G and works well – it rarely drops out and is quite fast (DL 49.37 Mb/S).
I want to know: if we allow a photo editing app access to the photo gallery, can it access the photos only when actively being used, or even in the background? Can it upload my photos to its server in the background? And if so, how do I know that the app is active in the background?
I am using the actual MS Excel 2016 on Mac. Excel on Windows has the shortcut Ctrl. to insert the actual date into the current field. On Mac I was not able to find this or another shortcut. I know this comparing list but at least on german Office-Edition the short cut is as noted above, in the link it is Ctrl;. I am able to insert the actual time with Ctrl; and even Ctrl:.
I have a MacBook and an iPhone around. On the ground I have no phone signal, therefore there's no way to turn the hotspot on.
I do not see this on other Macbooks. Not sure how I got it, but I cannot find any settings in the Preferences.
I have made an app and loaded it onto my iPad. I am wondering how I can pull the .app file on my iPad onto my Mac so I can distribute it. I would usually build the app for release to get the .app file outputted, but there is some bug in Xcode that makes the stage 'compiling swift files' last forever. Thanks.
If I try to open this video I get this message: or this:
My servers main disk where all the server data is stored has over 35gb of free disk space. No matter what I do I keep getting "Error Could not write to /Users/xcodeserver/Library/Caches/XCSBuilder/Bots/....." Disc quota exceeded (-1). Any thoughts?
If you open files A, B and C in the Xcode's Standard Editor, Xcode will keep all of them in memory to enable the ability to go back to them. You can see this clearly when you close Xcode after a long time; it will close every file (C, B, A) one after the other. Is there any way to change this file history limit?
At our company we are developing apps (Android and iOS) for use by other companies. The app (or the right to use the app) is sold together with the server solution (app works with a custom server at that companies' headquarters, that would only work on their network - or VPN) and also a desktop solution that uses the same server. Basically a complete software and hardware solution for use by that company. Payment is made for the whole package, together with maintenance, so selling the app in the store is not a solution.
Lots of notifications distract from work but ignoring them is bad. Is there any possibility to receive all notifications like on every 0 minute of an hour. Something like: I tried to google how to do that, but I didn't find.
How do I get the "necessary services" on my Galaxy S7 Edge phone using Android Marshmallow so I can use bluetooth to browse and transfer files between my Macbook Pro and my phone? The error message "The device does not have the necessary services" shows up after I click the "Browse" button on the "Browse Device" window after selecting my phone as the Bluetooth device.
I use Terminal to run a command. It runs fine from the command line, but I want to be able to automate it with Automator. The syntax of the command (of course, minus the quotes) is as follows: I've tried countless times to get Automator to: Ask for finder items (to create the "path/to/directory") Ask for Text (asking me to past in the URI/URL link from spotify) Run Shell Script (/bin/bash) spotify-ripper user.name "$@" Run Shell Script (/bin/bash)
Firefox was refusing to launch on my MacOS El Capitan. Console gave me the following message: com.apple.xpc.launchd: (org.mozilla.firefox.320352[6799]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
As I mentioned in my answer on tags best practices, the distributed version control software (VCS) Git does not preserve macOS tags (or other extended file attributes). Is there version control software (distributed or centralized) that features commit messages (like Git) and that preserves macOS tags? (The built-in versioning system in macOS does not include commit messages.) I am especially interested in software that can be easily installed through one of the package managers for macOS, but any software that meets the criteria is welcome.
My original OS is 10.10.5. I had trouble with really bad beach balling. I ran an Malware bytes scan, everything is good. I ran disk permissions in Disk Utility with a total of two repairs and verified after each repair. Verified a total of three times. Prior to verifiying it a third time I received a cksum error on both repairs. I erased the hard drive anyways because it was still beach balling and it went from 10.10.5 to 10.8. I ran an upgrade that took at least 12 hours to complete. It rebooted and it stilled continued to beach ball after the upgrade install. SMART status is verified so I'm assuming the hard drive is good.
Some hidden files appear in the verbose output of tar, but then do not exist in the directory where the tar output is deposited. I am surprised by this because I thought working in Terminal command line was pretty brass tacks. What you see is always what you get? In the ls -a output, where are all those ._* files I saw in the verbose output? The life cycle of this tar file is: files created in Windows XP, using TextEdit, saved to FAT32 file system. compressed using the "ZIP" file format. copied to MacOS (Extended / Jounaled). decompressed using unzip tar cfv stuff.tar Stuff bzip2 stuff.tar
When submitting the first release of my app for review on iTunesConnect, I'm getting a validation error that I need to upload a binary, but when I upload using Application Loader 3.0 I get an error ITMS-4238 "Redundant binary upload". Validation error:
Got this problem, can someone help? If external display plugged in - all ok, no blinking. Also, after waking from sleep - doesn't turn on display. Flickering only when nothing moves on the display. I've got a video of the problem here. UPD: Wipe and reinstall OS didn't helped.
I'm new to Mac from the Linux world, and I am looking for a command or file providing a list to default user applications associated with certain filetypes. For example, on Linux:
I have a Mac Pro 2008 with a blank drive. I need to install an os as a grey flashing folder with a question mark appears. However, when I tried to make a usb drive with OS Mountain Lion it didn't work.
I am developing Xamarin.Forms application to run on iOS. I want to check the version number of the user's current app against the latest version in the app store to prompt for an update. The version number that I have saved in my info.plist file is "x.x.x" with 3 digits, however when I am in code and returning lots of information about my application, the version number is returned as "x.x" with only 2 digits, even though in config files it is specified as having 3 digits. Does Apple only provide 2 digit version numbers and I need to check against this, or is it possible to retreive 3 digit numbers too?
I had a dual-boot environment macOS/Ubuntu running on a MacBook8,1. In order to sell it now, I deleted all partitions using Disk Utility after booting from a macOS sierra installation USB stick.
If one has selected some text in Google Chrome, and then uses cliclick to right click on this text in order to pull up the context menu for the selection, the text will no longer be selected. I would like the text to remain selected/highlighted after the right-click occurs (just like what happens when one right-clicks manually). Here is the AppleScript code that I am using to right-click (wherever the cursor is located when the script is triggered):
I am flying soon from New York to Hawaii. I've already set up events that will be happening in Hawaii using ios10 calendar, using Hawaii times. When I actually fly there, I want the calendar times to remain unchanged, as I entered them originally. How do I accomplish this on iphone 6plus?
In some cases, I can't use iTerm2 and have to use the default terminal. The text is extremely hard to read, especially the black text on dark blue background. Is there a reason it's not the same as the iTerm2 Solarized theme? Is there a way to fix this? I imported the theme from the same themes file: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
This one is from the amazon homepage where I know the drop down should have at least a few bolded items but none of them are.  Both of them have the same font and styling.
I have iCloud Photo Library enabled on Mac as well as iPhone so all my photos remain synced. Yesterday I imported a bunch of photos (~200) from iPhone to Mac with Photos app import feature. Then I allowed the new photos to be uploaded to iCloud from Mac. My phone didn't have wifi access at this time so phone didn't upload those, as expected. Now when I connect the phone to wifi all the photos seem to be being uploaded from phone as well ( as seen in Settings > Photos & Camera on iPhone. It says Uploading 268 items there), when they've already been uploaded to cloud from Mac.
I have received a powerpoint file where every single slide has a 1 second dissolve transition applied. I would like to remove all of the transitions so that there aren't any, and the slides just change immediately with no transition.
I'm one of the lucky (?) guys who managed to get a new MacBook Pro 2016 (the version that introduced the Touch Bar). This MBP model does not have a boot chime by default. There are documented ways to enable it, specifically going to Terminal.app and typing in: sudo nvram BootAudio=%01
Recently, my MacBook Air began making ticking sounds at regular intervals once powered on, akin to the sound of a woodpecker. The sounds occur at regular intervals, beginning every 5.2(ish) seconds and lasting about .8 seconds. I cannot identify where the sound is coming from. What could this be caused by? Is it something to take to my local genius bar urgently or is it simply an annoyance?
I have been listening to Professor John R. Searle's course lectures from U.C. Berkeley through iTunes University. Having finished one year's curricula, I wanted to listen another set, but, when I clicked on the link was greeted with:
I purchased an iPhone 6s second hand and the person whom I purchased is now in London. (I am in India) When I restart the phone, it says this iPhone is currently linked to an appleID. When I asked the person what's the appleID of the phone, he says that it doesn't have any but the phone shows something like this :
I was just about to make new screenshots to show you the dynamic of how everything described above progresses. Sadly I had only 500mbs left. And clearing up iCloud storage as @bmike suggested did nothing to alleviate the problem. But that was obvious. I just tried that to tell for sure.
This morning I restarted my iPhone 7 due to an unresponsive app - Facebook, which does not use Touch ID. On restart I had to enter my passcode, which was to be expected after a reboot.
All of a sudden my MacBook Air has started continuously rebooting. The screen cuts out, it goes back to apple logo then log in prompt. I can log in and then after a few seconds typically it cuts out and process repeats. Sometimes it cuts out before I can even log in. The time is quite variable before it does cut out and restart. I booted to safe mode and have run disk diagnostics about three times now, every time it comes back all fine. I panicked and finally bought a dedicated external hard drive and did a time machine back up which completed successfully. After this I rebooted normally and things seemed fixed, I was using it for about 30 mins with no reboots until an app which switched to full screen caused it to cut out and the same behaviour to start again. If it's not the disk- what could it be and where should I go from here? MacBook Air 2013 - os ex El Capitan
I have my Android phone set up with Bluetooth tethering and it's sharing its WiFi connection. I use this WiFi connection on my iPad (iOS 10.1.1). I have paired the devices via Bluetooth and switched off WiFi on the iPad, but I don't see any option to use WiFi via Bluetooth? How do I set this up on the iPad? Excuse me for my bad English.
Recently, I restored my iPhone from backup using iTunes 12.5.5. Now, every time I sync my iTunes, I receive this message:
I am using a Macbook Air Mid 2012 with Sierra. I am using a lot the terminal to run my local server etc. To cancel the local server I need to press CTRL + C. Unfortunately the CTRL button stopped working.
I don't have a way of testing it with other chargers and I don't exactly remember if it was happening before this charger. (It could have been). - Currently in my battery menu there is a legend saying "Condition: Replace Soon". I just replaced the battery for a new one and still is not working. Sometimes when this happens I run the following commands to recover my trackpad sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext to disable sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext to enable
I have an Airport Extreme with two WD 2Tb drives attached. The problem is that the router keeps loosing the drives. By this I mean the router disappears from finder and when I look at it in Airport Utility, the Disks tab is empty. If I restart the router and check Disks again, they're back, the router appears in Finder and I can use the drives as I would expect. Then sometime later, probably hours or days, I'll go to access one of the disks and the router will be missing from Finder again, the Disks tab empty and I'll have to restart it to get them back again. Any ideas why this would be happening?
I'm trying to use my iPhones mobile hotspot as a router between two laptops. Right now the laptops can't ping each other. Is there some firewall or settings on the iPhone that block communication between the two?
I am looking for a way to show a contextual menu for a Finder selected item from keyboard. According to the answers I saw, there is no macOS full equivalent for a Windows "Context Menu" button, but maybe it is possible to have a shortcut for "Action" button on a Finder toolbar? This is how it looks:
I know that I can remap caps lock to control. However, I occasionally wish that I still had a way to use caps lock.
We have a user who is running El Capitain on his system. He is a developer, so he does do a lot of things to change his machine, so we anticipate some things may not make sense. He installed a recent security update, which I believe is this one: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
I just have a cheap pair of wired headphones with an inline mic with a mute button. I'm using an old iPhone 5 since I just broke my Nexus 6 screen. In Android, this button was a very quick way to mute and un-mute calls, crucial during conference calls. I just tried this for the first time on the iPhone and it hung up the call instead. Is there anyway to change this behavior to mute instead?
After the screen was replaced on my iPhone 4S, I a got "disabled for 24+ millions minutes" text on my screen due to battery being unplugged. Unfortunately I have disabled cellular data and I wasn't connected to any Wi-Fi network. Is possible to unlock my iPhone without erasing data? I know the device's passcode.
Depending on when you bought your Macbook and from whom you will either get a 2 prong duckhead connector or a 3 prong grounded connector.  I noticed the three-prong grounded connector is well grounded. When is this a benefit(besides of obviously be longer). Also should I be concerned at times when there is no ground? I believe is actually grounded according to these pictures *=URL=* https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ByBt.jpg
I've been watching the news lately about these WikiLeaks about the CIA. Can the CIA hack my iPhone with the latest iOS version installed? How do they do this if my iOS is a closed system and Apple has to verify all software that is installed?
Normally pressing "archive" brings me to the next email but occasionally it brings me back to the inbox. Is this just a bug?
Left my 2016 MBP in coffee shop to go to the bathroom. I put my screensaver on but when I came back after a few minutes it required my password instead of Touch ID so I logged in and then put the screensaver back on and it still didn't work. Toggling Touch ID fixed it but I'm wondering if this is just a bug or something else.
MBP wasn't plugged into anything and isn't scheduled to wake up, the laptop was flipped in the open position all night. When I glanced at it at ~8am the keyboard was illuminated. I didn't touch it. Did the camera sense movement which caused the laptop to wake up?
Problem 2: Bootcamp can't seem to create a 3rd partition on my drive from the free space to install Windows Launch BCA, it does its thing by building a driver disk for 20 minutes and then goes to prep a partition. It sees 2 partitions and no free space. Even if I go back and create the partition BCA doesn't see the partition and no other partition is marked usable. So I'm at the nexus of not quite sure how to proceed.
I've created a Master password in my Mac laptop it says this password can override any account and be used instead of their original password but it doesn't work The admin account I don't have the password
I don't understand why this is happening now. This was never a problem. I have tried the following without success: Reset network settings. Reset network settings. Make sure the date/time are correct — they are. Make sure the date/time are correct — they are. Reset my internet modem. Reset my internet modem. Sign out of Apple ID for iTunes, then sign back in. Sign out of Apple ID for iTunes, then sign back in. What worked was turning off my Wi-Fi.
TL;DR: Can a smartphone LCD screen burn in when emitting nearly no light, but just dark dimmed pixels? And could, by such way, a screen-on time of 8 hours be achieved?
This alert appears periodically and annoying, because I don't intend to install macOS Sierra upgrade. How to disable it? I can't find any preferences related to it.
I installed Garageband on the iPhone and the UFO202 appears to be recognized as Garageband send modified sound back into the UFO202 (which I can hear in the headphone jack there). This did not appear to send anything over bluetooth but I am not familiar with Garageband.
I am required to find the peak memory bandwidth for a 2016 MacBook Pro. Where can I find this information?
I have a liquid spill on my previous MacBook Pro 2014 Retina 15ʺ MGXC2LL/A. The logic board is dead and fixing it does not make any sense. But the SSD has all data saved and a technician told that it's fine and safe.
Is there a command in security that lists the names of all keys that have been added to the keychain through add-generic-password? I've tried, but it find-generic-password only ever returns one result as far as I know.
All the beta services I've looked into (TestFlight, HockeyApp, Fabric beta, Test, DeloyGate, ...) seem to only allow one "active" build per app, or one per version (the actual x.x.x version and nothing else). For QA purposes, I would like to be able to publish builds per branch of my github repo. Ideally, testers would have an interface where they could install the last build of branch feature/money or feature/coins, with everything else that is already offered by regular services (push notifications, UDID handling if not using enterprise certificates, ...) Does this exist?
The title basically gives the gist of what I am curious about, but to explain more: I wanted to set up a system where I track various things, such as my habits, mood, and tasks every day. I was planning to keep all of this in an Excel spreadsheet. I thought that it would be great if I could make the document where I keep track of this easily visible, so I will remember to edit it every day, and also because it would be easier to access and edit.
I have various Safari bookmarks on my iPhone. I got a new Mac laptop, and when I enabled iCloud on the Mac, all the bookmarks and history from my iPhone were copied over to my Mac. I did NOT want that. How do I restore the bookmarks and the history that I formerly had on my Mac? I am using iOS 10 and Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra).
I want my MacBook to use Integrated Graphics when running on battery power and use Discrete Graphics when running on external power automatically. I can easily do this on Windows, but I couldn't find any setting to do this on macOS. So I wonder, is there any way I can do this on my MacBook, running El Capitan?
I know how to achieve these outcomes in AppleScript. I understand that my goal is entirely feasible if I set up two, separate Services. But, is there a way for my AppleScript-based Service to automatically determine whether the selected text is editable or not, so that I can add an if <selected text is editable> then statement?
I'm often opening a folder from the terminal in Finder using open . or open ./thisfolder. I just switched from Finder to Forklift, set it as default file viewer via defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3 but folders still open in Finder. How can I change that?
I have an external hard drive (WD Elements 1TB) that I use for Time Machine backups on my Mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro 15" with macOS Sierra 10.12.3. Lately, the drive doesn't get mounted any more when I plug it in. In Disk Utility, I see two instances of the drive when it is plugged in. When I unplug it, one of the instances disappears. The other one stays, even when I select "Eject" from the context menu. After a reboot, the "ghost instance" is gone, and the drive gets mounted again on plugin. But after one or two eject/unplug/plug-in cycles, I have the same problem again. Time Machine doesn't do backups to the drive unless it is fully mounted. Is there any way to forcibly "eject" the "ghost" of the unattached drive? As requested, here's the output of "diskutil list" and "gpt show": and two screenshots of Disk Utility: External HDD attached:
Before waking it today I connected various devices (charger, thunderbolt-ethernet, mini-dp for the screen, usb-hub in the screen and headphones) to run it in closed-clamshell mode. To wake it up, I open the lid slightly until I see light on the internal display, then I close it again so that I only use the external screen. When external display showed, it showed the login-screen, so I expect that it may have had a kernel-panic.
Unfortunatly that did not work. After I plugged in the drive. So I tried to mount it manually by: mount -a That gave me the error message, that none does not exist. So I created a folder /Volumes/external and changed fstab to:
I am having a weird issue that my location on the map keeps jumping around. Navigation and tracking my location became impossible since most apps are very confused when this happens. Model: iPhone 7 Plus 32 GB What I've tried so far ... Turning iPhone off/on (also leave it off for several minutes) Turning off/on location services (also leave it off for several minutes) Turning off/on flight mode (also leave it off for several minutes) Turning off/on wifi (also leave it off for several minutes) Resetting location service Updating to latest iOS 10.3 Beta (was running 10.2.1) Make a full reset of my iPhone and set it up as a new iPhone Restoring it from backup Downgrade to 10.2.1 and clean iPhone install So I guess pretty much everything one could try ... There is a video showing the problem: *=URL=* Also here some of the crash reports if you are interested. *=URL=* *=URL=* Contacted apple now, will send my iPhone for repair. This post is mainly for providing information for someone who t
I have Apple Pay enabled on my iPhone (6S) and it used to be available on Apple Watch (original edition) too. I wiped and restored my watch, and now there is no Apply Pay available. The instructions say to use the Watch app and select "Wallet & Apple Pay". For me the option is just called "Wallet" and the only option is to mirror the iPhone. Searching for "pay" doesn't help. I can make payments successfully with the phone. Both devices have latest OS releases (3.1.3 and 10.2.1 at the time of writing). Where has the option gone and how can I rectify this?
so I just did a fresh install of Sierra. Then it turned out the files are needed. I erased my drive with the fastest option and didn't installed anything on it yet except the os so I think most of the data should be recoverable. What's the best possible way to recover the erased data?
I have an old MacBook white (Model 2,1 mid-late 2007) which won't upgrade beyond Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). I have previously installed Debian with a dual boot by using rEFIt and booting from a DVD disk, but the DVD drive doesn't seem to reliably read disks anymore I would like to install Debian or BSD on this MacBook, either as a dual boot, or as the single OS -- alternatively, any current linux distro or even Windows 10 would do.
My AirPort Extreme (the 802.11ac 'tower' type) has recently stopped being accessible from AirPort Utility. It still works just fine otherwise, both as a wireless router and for Time Machine (with an attached USB hard drive).
The crash was logged into console and it caused logout from my system. After I've logged in again Safari lost most of my passwords and extensions. I've already looked at this and it didn't help.
The new MacBook Pro 15 supports two 5K displays or four 4K displays. My question is if it will support a triple display configuration with one 5K and two 4K displays(all displays being the LG Ultrafines), the PPI is almost the same so it will be great if this works out ?
In Apple Pages, is it possible to use a different header for odd and even pages? I have searched around and found this guide, but I think it's for the old version of Pages (as it is from 2006 and have the interfaces buttons mentioned don't exist). There are also guides on how to use different headers for different sections, but that is different from odd and even pages.
Edit: Further to this: a few things I've found: a process called 'hidd' is listed as Preventing Sleep in the Activity Monitor. Its parent is called 'launchd (1)'. And gives the following:
I created a keychain in Keychain Access, imported the certificate and saved it locally as company.keychain. I looked in the informations and saw that the Common Name of the Subject is, say, 'Company & Co'. When I try to sign with: The following error occurs:
In certain text files, after doing a save in vim with :w, the output mentions [dos] as such: "foo.txt" [dos] 38L, 193C Why is [dos] displayed?
I bought an AOC U3477PQU 34" Ultrawide Monitor and I am trying to achieve a higher refresh rate. I connected my monitor to my Macbook Pro 15" Late 2013 with Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB graphics card via HDMI directly and via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter and everything works fine but I have a refresh rate of 30Hz. This is quite annoying as I can see the delay even when I move my mouse cursor.
I synchronise my contacts over iCloud. On the web (iCloud.com) I have more than 1'000 contacts which are synchronised on my Mac Mini at home, on my iPhone and iPad. I then have a MacBook pro where only ~200 of them are synchronised: If I switch off "Contacts" in the iCloud preferences and I switch it on again, I re-get the same ~200 contacts If I create a new one on the MacBook it is correctly synchronised on all the other deviced If I crate a new contact on iCloud.com it gets synchronised on all the devices (even the MacBook) If I modify a contact on iCloud.com it then gets synchronised on the MacBook (but only if modified) How can I force a re-sync? Edit Although the problem is similar to Force contacts to sync with iCloud right now the solutions provided do not help: Closing and reopeningdoes not solve the problem Re-booting does not solve the problem Disabling and re-enabling iCloud does not solve the problem (see above) Adding a contact does not solve the problem (see examples abo
When I rotate my iPhone while in Messages, a totally different input area appears. I never use this, can I turn it off?
Some drops of pure water were sprayed on the keyboard of my 2010 MacBook Air. I immediately tried to dry all of it with a cloth, then turned it upside dow, but open, an put it near the heating, so the rest could dry as well. After a few hours, I tried if it still worked and it did, except that the Alt key was electronically stuck, i.e. always treated as hold down. I tried a reboot, with the power cable connected, which also worked fine, but I could not log in, likely because the key was still stuck and thus my password was invalid. I let it dry some more with the lid closed. When I next opened it, however, the computer would not turn on at all. This has not changed after three more days.
I am logged into my apple account. When I log onto icloud.com, and select drive, I get this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1jxbhpn5ebr8o4/icloudtroubles.png?dl=0
On Mac, en dash and em dash characters can be typed with Opt - and Opt Shift -, respectively. But are there default shortcuts for other bar-like characters, especially for these ones: U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, U+2012 FIGURE DASH, U+2212 MINUS SIGN?
I've seen this fault occur under El Capitan (10.11.4, 10.11.6) and Sierra (10.12.3). It seems to happen several times a week, and sometimes several times a day.
I've a more than 20 iPhone 5s/6/6s in my company. I normally download IPSW and update using iTunes so that the updates do not take all the internet bandwidth.
I don't want to actually mess with the contents of the folder, which rules out every idea given in this answer. Setting the .app folders +hidden or putting a dot in their names means I have to disable SIP, and besides this could cause issues with updating or using the app later should I need it. I don't want to trash the apps either. I don't want to maintain a separate folder with aliases to this one - having newly installed apps visible in this folder by default usually means I can launch them faster with the mouse than I can with cmd-space and finding it with Spotlight (since spotlight takes a while to update its cache) I don't want to maintain a separate folder with aliases to this one - having newly installed apps visible in this folder by default usually means I can launch them faster with the mouse than I can with cmd-space and finding it with Spotlight (since spotlight takes a while to update its cache) Ideally, I could remove certain items from my "view" of the folder, but leav
I want to upgrade my Macbook Pro 13 inch mid 2009's logic board with a new quad core i7 and 2gb or more radeon graphics. I have a few questions: Will this affect my OSX installation? Are Macbook Pro 15 inch and 17 inch boards compatible with 13 inch? Will the power supply suffice? Please send models of logic boards that are compatible. Thanks
I would like to use dual/two monitors with my macbook 12" (2016). Is the device feasible of connecting, for example, to two LG UltraFine 4K Display monitors? What kind of cables/connectors do I need?
I have a Python program that writes to the /etc/hosts file. It works correctly manually entered using the sudo command. I want it to open automatically. I can load it into sudo launchctl but it returns PID - Status 1. How do I fix this?
I'm using the most current version of iTunes on a PC, and streaming movies to an Apple TV (Gen4). I've noticed that though all movies come from the same Windows folder, iTunes divides them up, placing some in "Movies" and some in "Home Videos". Is there a way to organize that more intuitively so that all my true movies go into "Movies" and all my videorecordings of family go into "Home Videos"?
Press-holding the home button hails Siri properly. Pressing home once and then press-holding the earbuds' mic button hails Siri properly. Press-holding earbud mic button while phone is asleep (screen dark, phone locked, phone on not shut down) fails to do anything. In device settings, under Siri: Siri is on. Access when locked is on. Voice feedback is set to always. In device settings, under Touch ID & Passcode: Allow access when locked for Siri is on. Voice dial is on. iPhone SE iOS 10.2.1
I subscribed to iTunes Match a few days ago and it is obvious to me that it will not upload my entire library i.e. it only seems to be matching my library with songs only available in the iTunes store. For example, I have quite a few CD's of my own that are not available in iTunes Music Australia and I can see that iTunes Match is not allowing these tunes to be played on other devices, even Apple Devices! They are appearing 'greyed out' and won't play. My understanding from subscribing to this service was that it didn't matter what songs you had in your library, it would upload ALL of your music (that's right, it said EVEN your own CD's when signing up).
I would like to watch a movie with a friend, but silently. Can we each use a set of airpods at once? If not, what about other wireless headphones?
I've recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 5S (running latest iOS 10.2.1) and the battery percentage has been wrong ever since. It originally showed around 50% (which I believe is what the original battery was at when I did the replacement), I then discharged the phone (which turned off with the battery still at 50%), then let it charge fully to 100% (when it came back up it showed 50% instead of the expected 1% or so).
So I have downloaded the Google Photos app and selected free unlimited back up plan. It seems to display a recycle bin next to images that haven't been backed up. Now could someone explain how and when the app chooses when to back up photos?
I've been experiencing issues with my old MacBook Pro, early 2011, A1297. It started showing some vertical stripes, but resetting the PRAM did help. Some time later it ran into RAM issues, but removing one of the modules resolved this. And now Apple Hardware Test has detected an error 4SNS/1/40000000:VDOR-18.507
I am an iOS user and i have recently started ecountering various issues on my iphone. Given statistics given by the system monitor app about 800 mb of my 1gb memory is used almost all of the time.In addition the page fault number goes up thousands per second. I have also recently started encountering what I think are kernel panics on my iphone. The screen goes blue and my headphones make a crackling noise. I can not be sure however because nothing appears in the error logs.Another issue is that apps wont open sometimes until i kill the last opened application.I am on a jailbroken iOS 8 device and am wondering if the page faults and memory have anything to do with the problems I'm encountering or it they're normal. I also want to know if it's software or hardware and how to fix it if possible. Many thanks.
I bought a secondhand macbook pro mid 2012 without retina and it has faulty battery. So I have to use 3 pin adapter.
Convert the scroll gesture into a convenient zoom. The user custom sets the zoom amount. For example, if the file is a PDF.
I bought a MacBook Pro mid-2012 non-retina from the previous owner. Some parts of my MacBook like the top-left most area of the touch pad will get me electric shocks when I touch it.
I don't want my photos from my Mac going into my cloud. I only want to put my photos from my cloud onto my iMac....how do I do this? I tried a few things and the end result was 7,000 pictures that were in my photos app on the computer starting to fill up my cloud.
I have the latest version of Flash, there is no VPN or AdBlock installed on the MacBook Air and on the iMac's Firefox and Chrome. A message bar appeared in Firefox indicating "Firefox disabled Flash for this website" so I allowed it. Didn't make a difference. I also tried checking the browsers' preferences, as well as the Macs' System Preferences, but couldn't find anything that would prevent videos from working. I've looked for answers online but couldn't find any.
When I log out, keyboard input language changes (and I can't see it's select menu in top right (shortcut also does not work)), so can not enter password with numbers (screen 13-inch). If restarted, select menu appears. My default (as I think so) language is English (System preferences/Keyboard/Input sources), or should I set the default input somewhere else? Also wonder why select menu for input languages not visible when logged out...
Here is a line from my AppleScript that speaks the selected text: I would like the speaking volume to be much lower. I would prefer not to accomplish this by decreasing my overall system volume. I can successfully decrease the volume of say in Terminal with the following code: But, when I insert [[volm 0.35]] in my do shell script string, the volume does not change.
Terminal app in Sierra keeps crashing so I switched to iTerm. But iTerm tabs behave weirdly. Whatever I do in one tab automatically replicates across all open tabs! Am I missing some setting to turn this off? Please help. Attached a gif showing that I open 1 file in tab 3, upon switching to tabs 1, 2 I see the same file open.
Last year in Spain, I got a free app to manage my cell phone service. I no longer have an iPhone, and the app is useless unless I have that account in that country.
I remember (perhaps wrongly) an AirBNB update being several megabytes, implying the entire app. Today's update is only 129 KB. Are they allowed to just update portions like MacOS updates?
This is by far the weirdest problem I've come across, My mac can perfectly access internet through safari web browser, but when I tried to do through the terminal, it's requests is being timed out.
I've got a MacBook Pro, and I've got an IIS server in Windows, running in my Parallels Desktop for Mac. I need to connect to the server running on my virtual Windows from my iPhone. In my home network I can bridge the WiFi to Parallels, connect both Windows and my iPhone to my home wifi, they are all in the same subnet and I can connect perfectly.
I have an external BT controller with my MacPro 3,1. (I want it to support BT 4.0 which the built-in does not). A few months ago, somehow BT was no longer enabled at boot-time. How do I re-enable it? Mac OS 10.11.6. The nvram settings are as follows:
Is it possible to hide an application from Spotlight? I have an annoyance of sorts. This will probably seem trivial to others, but it happens to me enough that I find it rather frustrating. I have Quicken and of course, Quicktime is bundled with macOS. If I bring up spotlight and start typing quic it is showing quicken. But if I proceed to put in the "k" before hitting enter, spotlight switches from Quicken to Quicktime and that's what ends up getting opened. Often there is just enough of a delay that I see Quicken while pressing enter. Since I do not use Quicktime at all (vlc person), I would just force uninstall it, but it seems like there should be a way to hide applications from spotlight or give some applications priority over others.
I sometimes use a third party application with a built in terminal when writing and/or testing a script. I wrote this short applescript to fully clear the terminal screen regardless of which application I'm using. I set it as a function at the top of some of my scripts. I never had a problem until earlier today when I carelessly ran this in a while true loop.
I want to access a website and an API both running in Docker containers behind another nginx Docker container (reverse proxy managing SSL) from an iOS device. So I have: 1 iOS device having IP 192.168.178.57 1 MacBook Pro having IP 192.168.178.64 1 Docker container running nginx having two server_name settings: app.dev and api.dev, both using self-signed SSL certificates /etc/hosts points has these entries: ~/proxy.pac contains these entries: Squidman is configured on port 9090 and allowed clients are 192.168.178.0/24. Squidman template allows access to localhost The iOS device proxy is configured as 192.168.178.64, port 9090. The MacBooks Networks Automatic Proxy Configuration points to the ~/proxy.pac file. I can browse web sites from the iOS website like *=URL=* I can browse *=URL=* and call *=URL=* from the MacBook. I cannot browse *=URL=* nor call *=URL=* from the iOS device. What am I doing wrong?
iMac goes black when startup progress bar is about 1/3 of the way across. There is no cursor. Boot in safe mode also goes black. Boot in verbose runs a bunch of lines and goes black. Booting diagnostics (D) longer pause on grey screen before apple logo comes up. Can boot in single user. Booting from recovery goes black, but eventually voice says "to use English press the return key.
I can probably live without iCloud Keychain. I haven't used 1Password yet, but I'm sure it's awesome. My hesitation is that there are other things stored in iCloud Keychain, like Apple Pay, which would be nice to sync. I feel like iCloud Keychain will only become more important as all of my devices become more connected in the coming years.
I have bought recently an iMac 27-inch 5k late 2015 which came with two 4gb slots of RAM. I'm thinking to buy two slots of 8gb of RAM. My question is:
Is there something I can do so that when I turn on my computer the boot selector screen shows up, without me having to press alt. I've seen this answered, but that was 2012 and it doesn't work anymore.
I have a 4th generation Apple TV, and listen to Apple Music on my watch (with bluetooth) and my iPhone. I want to prevent anyone who uses the Apple TV from playing or saving music that changes my "For You" playlist on the TV. (this seems to be a curated list of songs that is based on my past listening history).
Anyone know how it works? I took it apart but I can't see any direct connections to the motherboard.
Of course, at any given time, I really need to have open at least two IDEs, multiple web browsers, multiple VMs, terminals, Finder sessions, iMessage, Slack, etc. But that would bring the system to a crawl, so I have to incur the cost of opening/closing these as needed.
I want to restart a MacMini with macOS Sierra in safe mode, but I have only remote access. You can do this with this: (source: *=URL=* But for macOS Sierra, you have to start in RecoveryMode to be able to do this. Is there a way to do this remotely?
I don't normally move my laptop. Today I made an exception and took it to a friend's house. Once I've returned home, I was no longer able to connect to the Internet. The browser says: "Server not found" and the system clock does not show the correct time. I don't use WiFi, I connect to the Internet using a physical connection. When I connect the same cable to my desktop Mac, I have no trouble connecting to the Internet, so the problem is not with my router or Internet service provider. I restarted my laptop in Internet recovery mode and was able to browse the Internet while in that mode. Please help me restore Internet connectivity. MacBook Pro macOS Sierra Version 10.12.3
Is there a keyboard shortcut to end a FaceTime call? I searched the menubar for such a command, in order to create a custom shortcut in System Prefs; found none. Are FaceTime keyboard shortcuts not listed in the menubar documented by Apple anywhere?
I currently run Sierra on a late 2013 MBP (Retina). I want to set up an environment where I can learn and experiment with programming in a Mac environment without the risk of doing damage or making a mess, so using a VM sounds like the way forward. I don't know much about VMs beyond setting them up; what I'm wondering is - applications and tasks aside - would running a VM of Sierra on top of the host installation effectively double the amount of system resources being used or do VMs not work that way?
I have the Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 (Original): Model identifier: 1,1 Ram: 32 GB Graphics Card: GeForce 7300 GT Hard Drive: 750GB HDD Seagate
I've got an early 2011 MBP running Sierra. Now I want to create a Bootcamp partition running Windows. Since I'm on Sierra, Bootcamp only supports installing W10, but officially my 2011 MBP does not support W10. I've read some threads were people got it working fine though!
I was recently having some problems with iTunes, and decided to reinstall macOS Sierra. I held Command+R on startup and clicked on "Reinstall macOS" without erasing the hard drive in Disk Utility. Once the reinstall was complete, I started back up and all of my files and programs were still there, along with my settings, desktop wallpaper, and everything else. (The iTunes problems were fixed.) What exactly does this "Reinstall" feature do, if it doesn't remove programs and change settings to default?
Have this weird wireless network, once the mac connected to the network, everything except safari shows offline (Skype, Spotify, Dropbox and other apps) an even when I ping google.com or ping 8.8.8.8 all results in timeout. But for some weird reason safari can still browse internet for known domains, and soon as I try to resolve an unknown domain, it can't find that host.
I want to install Java entirely from the terminal without using any GUI. Can anybody give some instructions? I know that I download it with curl, but it seems that curl doesn't play quite nicely with Oracle, and I have no idea what to do after downloading it. Edit: I want to use Oracle's JDK
I have several Gmail accounts set up on my Calendar app in OS X. Recently, though, most of the email autocomplete is not working when I'm creating a new event unless it's a contact from my personal Gmail account. I have several with different companies that all use Gmail. I have the Contacts checked for all of the associated accounts. I've attached a screenshot for reference.
Recently, after opening safari on my macbook air, it began asking for the password to my local items keychain. Immediately this raises a red flag, as this never happened before and seems not entirely unlikely to be some form of malware. Is this actually a security risk or is this something benign?
Employer replaced my Apple Air with a MacBook Pro. I had been backing up to a 2 TB Time Capsule. When connecting to it the first time I selected "inherit" and thought things were working. Checked my backup tonight and it says it can't back up, not enough room. I thought Time Capsule tosses the oldest to make room for the new. Digging deeper it says my oldest backup is March 4 (says that's also my last backup). I open Time Capsule and lo and behold, years of backups are gone, March 4 is it. But it shows last update March 12 (but tonight I get alerts every few minutes saying the automatic backups aren't happening. My wife has had this problem for a couple of months. What are we doing wrong?
I try to install Windows 10 on my Mac. After the installation I rebooted my Mac but it got stuck in Windows boot mode like in that picture.
Whenever I request a ride it defaults to Apple Pay so I have to change it to my card. I don't see a way to make it so that it defaults to my card every time.
I bought a grey-market import iPhone 7 plus in the Phillipines. It's a Hong-Kong phone, per the authorized agent in Manilla. How can I get it serviced by Apple, as the authorized agent doesn't want to cover the work, given it's import status.
I was hopeful about finding an AppleScript syntax error induced by Automator, as in SO answer to Apple Automator Applescript action giving “could not connect action” error, but my Workflow appears not to contain AppleScript. It appears to be a bundle directory containing files document.wflow and Info.plist. There was no AppleScript code that I could see.
I have a MP4 file with ad URI in meta data. I wish to remove those: I tried But it didn't work, the URI still in MP4.
I own an iPhone 5 and a 12-inch iPad Pro and I ran into this weird problem today where I was unable to reach any Apple related services via my home network. I was suddenly unable to connect to the App Store with both of my devices both via Wi-Fi when everything was just fine yesterday. It wasn't like my Internet's down or anything - I can go to any other sites just fine, and all of my games that need to be online didn't run into any problems, and I don't think anything has changed about my router settings either.
I have a MacBook Pro and according to Apple, its cycle count limit is 1000. What happens when it surpasses 1000 cycles? Will the battery continue working or not? Will the MacBook still be able to receive power from the battery or not? Should it be replaced? Thanks.
Each time I try to install Signal Application from App Store on iOS, I get the message "This item is currently being modified. Please try again later". How could I install this app on my iPhone?
When I started having problems earlier this year (2017), I decided to make a clean reinstall of El Capitan. The only option left for me was to download it through Internet recovery so I waited until it finished downloading.
My new iPhone 7 was accidentally wiped by our IT dept. I have managed to restore everything except WhatsApp, which is just showing a cloud with down arrow. I have deleted it from my iCloud drive and rebooted the phone but still no joy. HELP!
I used TextEdit to quickly add two sentences in my .docx file. Before I could react, the file was overwritten and I could not get the previous version of this file, as it was on my USB key. Fortunately I did not lose all formatting, but unfortunately ALL footnotes (that were added beforehand in Word) have been deleted and I do not see them in Word on Windows. Is there an explanation for this incident and recovery plan for this? I am perfectly aware of differences of formats used by TextEdit and Office.
I have an issue with AD binding on Mac. Computer shows its already bind to AD but won't allow domain logins. What I noticed is "Allow network users to log in at login windows" option is grayed out. I have a script which allows me to rejoin AD remotely which is fine but I would like to know if there is a command or script that can go this setting and see if "Allow network...." is available and checked through terminal. It would be great if someone can help me out or point me in the right direction. Thanks, Fahed
Is there a way to commandspace (i.e. bring up Spotlight), type the name of an already open tab and bring it to the foreground? Or an app that does it outside of spotlight? I spend far too long looking for tabs, only to give up and make another the same. I do have "Recent Tab List" *=URL=* but I don't see a way to invoke it from the keyboard or integrate it with Spotlight, as what I'm wanting to do is access this from anywhere (not just when I'm in Safari). I don't want to have to create an app for every website (Use spotlight (or Alfred) to open an existing chrome tab) Safari "Search Tabs" Keyboard Shortcuts leads to *=URL=* which again isn't integrated into Spotlight.
I am comfortable with creating new documents from command line on OS X (in my case El Capitan), but I wanted to explore the possibility to have Windows-like option to create a new document on right click. I have found the below script and I know that it needs running from Automator > Workflow > Run AppleScript:
When I open the Printers & Scanners preferences, hit the + to add a new printer and select the Epson Stylus SX420W in the list, the dialog tells me the drivers for this printer model is not available from Apple. Which clearly contradicts the page above...
I'm trying to download a custom android recovery image on my Mac but the extension is changed from .img to .ndif automatically. Is this normal? Will it have any impact on the installation on actual image?
On Youtube in safari, you can right click twice to get the PIP option. However, I can't figure it out for amazon instant video
I recently picked a 2010 Mac Pro tower & hoped that the problem would be solved with a new install of Sierra & Windows 10. No luck. It does the exact same thing.
I just installed Python 3.6 from python.org on macOS Sierra. Somehow, the path to python's bin is added to my every $PATH but I can't figure out how:
While in Music search/surfing through albums, songs and stuff sometimes you want to go back/forward (cmd + [/cmd + ]). And I noticed today this problem:
For security reasons I had to block address book access in iOS 10 entirely. WhatsApp for example doesn't see any address book entries and gives a warning. Any other app too. But the Facebook Messenger app behaves different. You can choose any contact from address book to start a new conversation. So how can I be sure, that contacts won't be uploaded to Facebook at all?
Is there a way to setup an external Bootcamp drive as the default startup disk? I want to do this in order to enable hyper-v virtualization on Windows on a MacBook Air (Early 2015 running 10.12.3 Sierra). This is the error that I'm getting:
I'm running macOS Sierra 0.12.3 (16D32). By exploding the desktop (four finger swipe up on trackpad) and then moving the mouse to the top bar I can create/update/destroy my workspaces. With a four-finger swipe left/right or C-left/right I can move to the left and right.Also with a tool like BetterTouchTool I'm able to set shortcuts to move left/right.
Symantec Endpoint Protection reported that there are attacks from my TimeMachine with Attack Name: OS X Apple File Print Remote BO
It looks like the functionality to switch to the last active tab is not supported natively. Are there any extensions that can be used for this purpose? Furthermore, is there an extension that would give me a tab manager?
/tmp$ tar xfv workArea.tar x WorkArea/ x WorkArea/kjDesc.txt // <-- where is resource fork? x WorkArea/._engGrammar.doc x WorkArea/engGrammar.doc x WorkArea/._gingers.txt x WorkArea/gingers.txt x WorkArea/._intro.docx x WorkArea/intro.docx x WorkArea/._myAntenna.doc x WorkArea/myAntenna.doc x WorkArea/notes.txt // <-- where is resource fork? x WorkArea/._notesKj.txt x WorkArea/notesKj.txt x WorkArea/._queen.xlsx x WorkArea/queen.xlsx x WorkArea/trans.txt // <-- where is resource fork? x WorkArea/._url.txt x WorkArea/url.txt /tmp$
My iPhone 5S can't verify iCloud but it can log into the iTunes store. I don't know what has happened. Please help me understand how this happened and what I can do to fix the problem.
When the new settings are being applied it disconnects wifi, this means they never actually get the new settings and consistently are disconnecting from wifi everytime the settings are pushed out (which is constantly). If i manually attempt to install the profile halfway through it will disconnect from wifi and then complain it cant connect to active directory server. Any ideas as this issue hasn't been reported anywhere on the internet.
It seems like by removing Language Files I can save about 1.18Gb space. I did a google on this and I find conflicting views regarding this.
I have a MacBookPro attached (wired) to a network port that is an Untagged member of a VLAN. WiFi is turned off. The MacBookPro has a manually set IP address, but cannot be pinged by, or ping to any other host on the same IP network and VLAN.
How can I display About This Mac window? I know that it is managed by the loginwindow process so I tried to open in applescript(I'm still a beginner).
I am trying to set up my half's iPhone and Mac in a way that the photos are synced to the Mac automatically over the WiFi, at the same time free up space once it becomes full as it's only the 16GB model. I thought iCloud Photo Library would do the trick but when I enable it on the Mac it wants to upload the entire existing photo library from the Mac first. I just want it to go one way, iPhone -> iCloud -> Mac, is it possible to set it up this way? If not possible can I create a second photo library that is blank on the Mac and contains just the iPhone photos? I would rather not but if this is the only way.
'There was a problem connecting to the server "". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.' What does work is: Connecting to the file share using Command-K, and entering smb://.local; Connecting to another SMB file share (a Synology NAS) on the network using the Network browser; Other Macs on the same network.
On our macOS Server 5.2, I want to run a PHP site. So my idea was to use the built-in PHP in OS X Server by simply ticking the checkbox "Enable PHP" in the Server app at the Websites general configuration page. However, when I open a page like test.php with some PHP code in it from a browser, the PHP code is not being interpreted but just delivered as is. What am I missing?
I'm working in in a timezone without DST shifts, while my colleague works in a timezone with DST. We have a daily meeting that is setup by my colleague in the corporate Exchange calendar (not sure what version it is, looks like 2014 or later) and I have this event in my Apple calendar.
I realized yesterday that I had no disk space left on my iPhone 5 after I got spammed with iOS notifications that my apps could not be updated (due to lack of disk space). This morning I woke up to about 350 MB of free space - and I didn't do anything.
In finder (OS X 10.12), when browsing the "All My Files" section I see usually 3 instances of each file. Even after deleting the real file the duplicates exist, and Finder tells me they are all the same size. When I try to move these duplicates to my trash can, it turns into a eject symbol and I cannot delete them.
I am wondering what maximum sample rate and bit depth is available through the USB connection to both the iPhone 6 and 7 (And any other models would be interesting). I am a registered iOS developer so links to Apple confidential stuff (Or however is works) is OK but still not preferred. Kind of related is this other question I just asked.
In the iPhone photos app, there are now special folders (Places, People, etc.). Unfortunately, photos in these albums will not import automatically into Windows when the iPhone is connected via USB. Photos in the Places album do not show up in the "All Photos" album or the "Camera Roll". Does anyone know of a procedure for getting photos from these albums (specifically, the Places album) onto a Windows PC?
I have a Late 2016 MacBook Pro 13" laptop and I am considering buying the Samsung CF791 34" monitor, capable of 3440 x 1440 @ 100 Hz resolution. I realize I may need to buy an adapter, such as the USB-C to DisplayPort Adapter Cable from StarTech, but I'm concerned I won't be able to get 100 Hz from this cable and/or the built-in video card won't support that resolution and refresh rate. If I buy this monitor and cable, will I be able to use the Mac at 3440 x 1440 @ 100 Hz resolution?
I created a partition on my Fusion Drive (macOS Sierra, iMac) and delete it after a while from the obunto. Now I want to create a new one and I receive an error message:
I encounter a kernel panic whenever I try to partition my hard drive to add a Windows partition (FAT). It also happens when I try to partition it with Boot Camp. I tried to repair my disk twice, no luck. Here's the error report: My computer specifications:
I can connect to my VPN with : /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn connect SERVER I can check the connection status with: /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn status That gives a printout of
I use better touch tool to manage my desktop spaces. When I double swipe to change my desktop from on screen to another I want to do that just on one monitor (I have 2 monitors setup) but instead it just shifts both monitors desktops to the next one. How can I only do this on one screen?
I looked-up how to fix that and, based on that, I re-downloaded and installed OSX Lion. When it restarted, it restarted to a earlier version, rather than the one it was on before I did the reset.
A message showed up in my iPhone Messages app, typed into the "new message" box but not sent. I did not type it in or said those words for the microphone to hear. It seems to have been entered remotely. It was not sent. I have an iPhone 6. I'm connected to an iPad Pro, and an iPad by Bluetooth, by WiFi, and have AirDrop. I erased the message after I took a screenshot, but it just looks like any other text message waiting to be sent. The text stream was between me and my wife, and she has iPhone Plus and an iPad. Is someone remotely accessing my text messaging, and why type in a short sentence and then not send it?
I've recently done an upgrade form OSX to 10.8 to 10.10. I did a clean install and then copied over my various documents, photos, and iTunes folders. All applications where manually re-installed.
I want to have a certain GUI-based application always running. It goes spinning-beachball a lot. How do I make sure it is always running, restarting it whenever it freezes or exits?
Trying to save an environmental variable. Then terminal tells me there is nothing with that name. To check And there are two files with bash .bash_history and .bashsessions .bash_history isn’t executable and when I open .bashsessions I’m not sure how I’d add
I have a video in the Photos library of the Photos app on my Mac. If I right-click it and select "Get Info" - it shows that the video is 1920x1080. Next, I share it to iCloud Photo Sharing. Then - if I right-click the resulting video in the Shared album - it shows that the video is now 1280x720. So - how can I share videos without reducing the quality? As a random aside... does anyone have any tips for how to search Google for help for an app as generically named as "Photos"?
I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro and want to install a new hard drive but I'm not sure how to restore my Time Machine back ups (Yosemite) with a new hard drive.
Normally, I would expect that when I hit option plus left arrow or right arrow the cursor (caret) would move back/forward one word. And if I hold shift I would expect to easily highlight the words as I move along. In fact there are questions that mention this behavior (How to use Ctrl+left/Ctrl+Right (instead of Alt+left/Alt+right) to move to the previous/next word) The current behavior I have observed is that instead of moving the caret the width of the window is adjusted by maybe 50-100 pixels smaller or bigger by moving the right side of the window. How can I get the functionality I expect? Version: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
My Apple Mail email client is a chaos nowadays. There are numerous emails, all unorganized. I need to clean it up a bit and organize the emails in segments. Before I do that I need to backup my Apple Mail email database so that when I organize I don't loose any email and if I did I can retrieve it from the backup I will create.
I'm building a webapp editor and want to enable Cmd+[/] for indenting. However, Chrome (and perhaps other browsers) uses these to switch page forward/back. I've seen lots of solutions based on editing the shortcuts in the OSX control panel, but I can't expect a new user to start editing those settings just to use my app. Is there some way to prevent an event bubbling out of the browser document - so that I get to use the keypress, but prevent it being used by Chrome - or is there a list of 'safe' keybindings that I could use instead?
I have a keyboard defined as a .klc file by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator for the underrepresented language Fulfulde (fub) in Arabic-style script. I would like to use it on Mac. How can I convert it?
I read from Apple's documentation that a D.U.N.S. number is required. But the problem is, I don't see any field where I should put my D.U.N.S. number. Apple just put a big sentence "Cannot enroll in Apple Developer program" without even providing any solution. I read this article that Apple is supposed to "magically" can pull the D.U.N.S. number from D&B for my client company. Is this the case? The main problem for me is that I don't see any field at all to put the D.U.N.S. number, so in this case I'm worried that I overlooked the important thing or settings to input this, so that the verification process can begin to enable the client's company to create Enterprise account.
I want to calculate the network usage like some apps do(which displays up and down which changes it's values by the usage of user) Using nettop: But then I saw this repo in Github. The command used there is Now I'm getting different values in bytes_in and bytes_out for both the commands. For the first command: For the second command: Taken from github
I am using a Mac Book Pro with El Capitan installed. Yesterterday I was trying to change a file permission and I made a very big mistake. This is the command I issued sudo chmod -R 777 /
Does AirDrop alter images in any way to reduce size for faster transfer or the "Preparing" is preparing the package for tranfer, involving no image resize/compression?
I'd like to purchase a case at the same time as purchasing this iPad from Apple's website, but I can't seem to figure out what the actual model number is. I can't find any reference to iPad's with A9/M9 processors. First image is from their store page, second image is the relevant 'technical specifications' from the link at the bottom of the first image. Thanks!
Is an external keyboard with the keys from the new Macbook available for purchase? I'd like to get the San Fransisco font key caps and crisp new mechanics in an external keyboard. Apple describes the keyboard on their site... Now when your finger strikes the key, it goes down and bounces back with a crisp, consistent motion that makes typing with precision a breeze. It definitely feels good to type on and I'd love to acquire those mechanics in the size of the Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad.
Photos aren't showing up on iPad Camera Roll after being received from iPhone, trough AirDrop. It's a large 5Gb+ data transfer with over five hundred images received at once. Send/Receive was successful, images take up the space, shown in Storage > Photos & Camera
We have some folders where the names are starting with a "-". If I try to enter them with terminal, cd interprets the "-" as an option. How could I manage this?
I have an used iPhone 6s that is pin locked and I wanted to check whether it was locked to iCloud or not. I opened icloud.com/activationlock to find out that the service is no longer available.
I work at a printing company and we are constantly copying/repeating previous job folders containing multiple files that begin with a job number. We go through the filenames manually and update the numbers by just copy/pasting. Just wondering if there is a solution of some kind available to automate this process? EXAMPLE
I have several Terminal commands I use for troubleshooting purposes, by typing them in one by one into the terminal window. These commands require the user's password to be entered.
I received an email telling me that someone requested a password reset for my Apple ID. Dear ___,
How do I stop websites from taking control of audio and pausing Music app? E.g. When I am listening to Apple Music on my iPhone and go to advert heavy websites like perezhilton.com and breatheheavy.com the websites repeatedly pause my music
I'm looking into an issue on an iPhone which has me stumped. It has a number of Accounts configured: iCloud (myname@icloud.com) Exchange (myname@mycompany.com) Gmail (myname@gmail.com) Outlook (myname@hotmail.com)
Is it possible to add a column of numbers together to get a total in the footer on the iOS Pages app on your iPhone? I've tried to directly enter the formula: =sum(c). However this doesn't seem to work.
A "Mailbox" (visible on the left sidebar on Apple Mail on Mac) was created called "Recovered Messages (Google)", I am using my Gmail account in Mail. It is categorized under "On My Mac". I believe that any messages which are not sent successfully sometimes get placed there (attachments too large etc).
I am following a tutorial on how to create a DMG on the command line there is an applescript which you can find here which sorts the layout of the DMG. The problem is that I can't get it to work the way I want it and position the apps and choose the window size within the DMG properly but I can do it manually on a rw DMG and then make it read only. Is there anyway to export these positions so I do not have to do it manually? Thank you.
I am trying to find out how (I'm assuming in terminal) to disable the macOS notification that slide out on either Failed backups or "time machine hasn't backed up in x days" without turning off Time Machine altogether. I manage about 10 machines remotely for an office, and have found a third-party application, "tmnotifier" that will remotely monitor and alert me when Time Machine backups have failed".
My goal is to use an iPad as a photo picture frame on my wall. I have a large library of family photos over the last decade-plus. What I want is a "this day in history" slideshow that shows photos from this date (e.g. March 20) from any of those years. I am wondering if this is possible with smart albums or any existing apps if needed. The library could live in a photos app on a local iMac.
I want to leverage the quick event detection feature on iOS iMessage. For example, if you text yourself:
I have a failing external drive with Mac backups as well as my iTunes library, Photos library, and other application files. I purchased a replacement drive recently and am ready to clone the files over to the new drive.
I've seen walkthroughs to set up 2-factor authentication for ssh on linux boxes. Is there any way to do it on OSX?
In my iPhone notes, I had created a "note" and had lots of text typed in there. By mistake, I deleted most of the text I had typed inside of the "note". Is there a way I can retrieve that text? I did not delete the whole note, only text inside the note was deleted, so what I want to know is if I can recover that text or not.
Sometimes, not always, when I drag a file to a sidebar folder, it turns white. The folder I'm dragging into turns white, and it doesn't turn back. I have to delete the folder from the sidebar, and then re-import it, and then it's a normal color.
I'm trying to replicate the setup I used with my iPhone 6 for music production. On iPhone 6, I was able to have midi input from a digital piano, via lightning port audio output to a mixer, via headphones jack Is there a way to do this on iPhone 7, perhaps with a 3rd party adapter?
I have a MacBook Pro (2008?) running Lion 10.7.5, which I have been told is obsolete. Really?
Yesterday, late afternoon someone spilled water on my desk at work and I thought some may have gotten into the machine so after quickly turning it off, I left it over night, upside down. Well today I came in and while I was in another room, before finding out if it were good or not, the "it guy" said it was fine. Well I didn't notice until this evening that my account had new restrictions on it and there are now files that I can not access even though I am admin and can "sudo". So I started poking around in the log files and noticed log that the log files had gaps in them.. strange ones. The machine was functional last around 6pm, March 20th 2017... at least the last time I used it. I'm seeing lots of logs in there from around, 8:30am October 29th 2040 and then it jumps back to about 10:17am March 21st 2017. I'm seeing lots of missing logs as well as seeing "last" logs that begin 10/29/2040.
There is a problem with the screen of my MacBook Air (13", Early 2015). A white ring-shape water-mark appears on the screen, which is similar to the luminous Apple in size. The ring is particularly obvious in white background. This has actually happened before and the screen was replaced three time (under AppleCare). Still the problem seems to appear gradually, around one month after replacement.
I am having trouble after replacing my iMac's SuperDrive with a Solid State Drive (SSD). I kept the original Hard Disk Drive (HDD) in place. I configured the SDD as the main startup disk and I transferred all the libraries in HDD. The malfunction is that in the process of rebooting the iMac turns off.
I am able to share my screen on my macbook pro from my iMac, however, I can only access the screen at the same size as it is on the laptop. Is there a way (like RDP on Windows) to be able to remotely connect to the machine, but not be limited by the laptop resolution ?
About 3 months ago, my windows often suddenly closed and the cursor would move. So I deleted all the team viewer apps and closed all the Share options in System Preference. I checked within Activity Monitor and also used netstat -n in terminal, but I don't know how to use/understand it. How can I know if my Mac was being remotely viewed?
How do I configure Mail.app to keep the oldest message on top? I regularly have a need to change the sorting of my inbox from "Date" to "From" or "Flag". When I change the sorting back to "Date", the newest messages are placed on top. This is, of course, easy to fix; but, it is terribly annoying to have to go through this two-step process every time. Is there a way to configure Mail.app so that it won't change this setting whenever I change the primary "sort by" field? (I have Mail.app version 9.3 3124)
Is it safe to delete the ViberPC folder (~/Library/Application\ Support/ViberPC)? It takes more than 1GB.
While working on something unrelated I had to look into my keychain access app and noticed that I have a self-signed root certificate in there with a name from some person that I don't even know. I have no idea where this certificate came from and what it means. How can I figure out what put this certificate there? What can it be used for?
I have noticed that fan speed on my Mac is 499 rpm. Now this is a computer with installed OSX El Capitan, Xcode 8.2.1... I have noticed this when Xcode got crashed few weeks ago (the information was provided in Xcode crash log). Now, today, when it crashed again, I have noticed the same fan speed, which is 499...That is a bit odd I must say, because rpm are very low, and I got same number twice. I wonder is this accurate info actually and what is the normal fan speed for MacPro3,1?
It seems not possible to set "Next Input Source" shortcut in macOS Sierra to ⇧ Shift + ⌘ cmd with the default OS facilities at the moment. It there a way to do it with any third-party applications?
So I am working on setting up an iPad for use as a POS system. I have a bluetooth bar-code scanner that I will be using, but I also want to use the on screen keyboard for entering information. Because the scanner acts as a keyboard, it automatically hides the on screen keyboard. I can hold the up arrow on the input bar to bring the keyboard up, but I was hoping that there was a way to keep its original functionality (coming up when I tap on an input section) and use the barcode scanner at the same time.
I want to simulate touch on my jailbroken iPhone 6s. For example, if I touch in the middle of the screen, it will count as I touch the screen bottom. I mean we assign a certain place to simulate tap another desired place, and when we tap that certain place, the phone considers that we tap the desired place.
I use my work email address as my Apple ID, and have it set up more than a year ago. I have had this same email address for almost 15 years and it is still functioning. Today when I went to sign into iCloud it says incorrect ID or password. I first tried to reset my password, but it tells me the email address is not a valid Apple ID. I thought that was odd, and tried to set up the email address again as an Apple ID, but now it tells me that is not available.
How to write/is it possible to write AppleScript, which will delete files in certain folder, if the file wasn't used/opened for a certain amount of time?
On my Mac, I am trying to set my DNS servers so that they are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 at my house, while at school they are the router default (they block google's public DNS) How can I set up my DNS servers to be configured differently for each wireless network? note: router configuration at my home is not an option. I am running: macOS 10.12.3 16D32 Sierra MacBook Pro 13" w/ 4 Thunderbolt 3
When unlocking FileVault on my Mac, the animations are very slow. The fadeout from the user picture to the password entry is a lot slower than on the standard unlock screen, and the cursor takes a moment to appear. When moving the mouse during the password box appearing animation, it is also very slow and leaves a trail, even though trail is disables in system preferences. Running: macOS Sierra 10.12.3 16D32 on: 2016 MacBook Pro 13" w/ 4 ThunderBolt 3 It has been like this since the day it arrived, and nothing else seems to give me this peculiar problem.
When I send an iMessage on Apple Watch there is only a "don't send" button, but I have no confirmation if/when this message is actually sent. Many times when I send a message, later to check the time (within 5 seconds or so), the message is still "pending" How do I Get a confirmation that a message was actually sent (as in UX, a whooshing sound, a tap... etc)
So I have a MacBook Pro 2009 running OS X El Capitan. Recently the wifi has stopped working. When I click on the WiFi icon it displays the message "No hardware installed", but Ethernet still works. Is there any way of fixing this by using a WiFi dongle or something of the sort, if so do I need a specific dongle and how do I install it? Thanks for any help.
Is there anything I can do to make the zoom spring back? or make it more apparent I'm within "mission control" mode? ... and confirm the Mac hasn't crashed? This is very frustrating while scrolling, or editing a document. The whole system appears to freeze and on occasion I have hard-booted the Mac in response to this almost imperceptible issue. I ask on behalf of other users I support who also experience this issue.
When I add new tracks to iTunes, some of them are too low-quality to add to iCloud. I have to manually convert them to AAC. How can I have iTunes automatically do this so all of my tracks can go straight to the cloud?
I'm currently restoring a MacBook from a Time Machine backup. Estimated time for completion is 3 hours. I'm traveling and will have to pack it up in 30 minutes. Will that cancel the restoration process? If so, how delicate would such a cancellation be? Might it lead to a corrupted state?
I want to be a able to download the amino app to my macbook but it has not been made to be able to do that but I would like to know if I could in some way
I'm working with Amazon's DynamoDB and I can't figure out how to programmatically kill the process reliably by name or PID. I need to restart it since I'm holding all data in memory and I can delete the entire thing by just easily restarting the process. Problem is I can't figure out how to kill it as easily as starting it. ps -ax | grep "Dynamo" returns 19355 ttys001 0:28.31 /usr/bin/java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar /Users/user/workspace/lib/DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -port 8000 -inMemory But when I try killall DynamoDBLocal.jar I receive No matching processes belonging to you were found and the PID changes every time it's started up. How can I programmatically find the PID to send to kill -9 PID or properly killall by name?
I know what this error means, and usually I just remove that entry from the known_hosts file and get on with it (when I know why the verification is failing). This time I still got the error after removing the specific entry for the host from known_hosts, so I removed all the entries and still got the error, then removed the entire known_hosts file and still get the error?! I'm having this issue on all hosts. I just moved .ssh to .ssh-bak, copied my keys into the new directory and still got the error. What is the cause of this? Almost everything in dev has these permissions: Could these 4 have something to do with it?
I burned a lot of photo's to a DVD but it was an older version of iPhoto and now I can't view anything from the DVD on the new MAC. Is there any way to access these photos? Thanks!
So that I wouldn't accidentally touch the screen while downloading updates, my iPad was face down on the bed near me. When I inadvertently touched the back of it and moved my hand, I felt a vibration. I experimented, and found that if I did not move my hand, there was no vibration. And I thought I actually heard a faint sound when I moved my hand. After a while of examining this, I realized that it sounded like mains hum. So I unplugged the charging cable and the phenomenon stopped. Plugged the cable back in, and the phenomenon did not return. But it did return, though not as pronounced, when I picked up the tablet to enter this question.
I remember in earlier versions of iTunes it was possible to increase the size of album artwork in the Album View via a slider - so, for example, I could have fewer albums with large cover art per row or more albums per row, but with tiny cover art. However, I can't find this function anymore in iTunes 12. Does anyone know how to do this? :)
I've been trying to connect my TV to my Macbook via HDMI cable so I can use it as a second monitor. Every time I connected it, when I check 'Activity Monitor' a task called 'kernel_task' shoots up to like 500% CPU, the fan starts spinning really fast and the whole laptop lags/freezes. The bottom of the laptop feels like it could melt glass. I've tried a few things like: Different HDMI Cable Unchecking 'Automatic Graphics Switching' Resetting the NVRAM None of these things have made a difference. Details of my laptop are as follows: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB OS: Sierra 10.12.3
Currently trying to configure Python3 correctly with boto3 to utilize the AWS Dynamo Python SDK. I've used HomeBrew to install Python3 and then I've installed pip and pip3 for my python 2 and python 3 versions respectively. I've also installed boto and boto3 for both Python2 and Python3.
I'd like to be able to hit a key combo on my keyboard without it waking my Mac's monitor. Let's say my monitor is asleep and I want to press a function key to do something (volume up/down, iTunes next/back, or something else), if my monitor is asleep, pressing the key wakes the monitor instead of executing the function I've assigned... so... I have to press the button twice, but what's particularly annoying is that I have to put my monitor to sleep again.
My girlfriend did a mistake when she deleted her session login! But, she has only one session login. Now, we can't connect to the Mac because we don't have any access... So I booted to Recovery Mode, opened Terminal.app and tried to execute: But it doesn't work ... Terminal said : create: Invalid Path What can I do please ?
I want to use launchd to run bindfs commands at login, as root. I have a plist in /Library/LaunchAgents/loginsftpjailmount.plist (with chmod 600) and a shell script in /usr/local/bin/loginsftpjailmount.sh. I should start by saying it works - if I change the bash script to run then it successfully creates the directory "itworks", both on login and by running
I have a multi monitor setup, and I want the ability to flip the desktop being displayed on my primary monitor and the desktop being displayed on my secondary monitor. I know this is a strange request, but I'm often engaged in video conferencing, I want the ability to remain looking at my camera while moving to work on related tasks. Is there anyway to code this type of macro, or is this a feature in OSX? Thanks!
Does anyone know where I could find the j5create USB to HDMI drivers that I just downloaded, or where they saved? I've searched but I can't seem to find them.
When we turn on this computer, it gets part way through starting up and then restarts itself. This repeats until we intervene by turning it off using the power button. Normally we see the usual grey screen with Apple logo and then the spinning progress indicator until the spontaneous restart. We have tried verbose mode and safe mode, to no avail.
I've got a WiFi (en0) and Ethernet (en8) connection on my machine. Each interface is on a separate network and en0 has priority over en8. The gateway for en0 is 192.168.100.1 and for en8 it is 172.20.10.1 There are services I need to access that are only available on the en0 network, and the VPN is only available via en2 network.
My machine is not starting after progress bar. I'm trying to find the problem by booting in single user mode. I tried /sbin/fsck -fy It showed me Missing directory record (id = 33899953) The volume Primary SSD could not be repaired
Since upgrading to Sierra on my new 2017 MBP i've got a very annoying bug that I can't seem to find a solution for. I've got a white bar showing over my iTerm window every time iTerm is the front-most in-focus app.
We have an app released on TestFlight to External Testing. When looking at the info about the app in the TestFlight app, it displays the same (correct) version on two different iPhone devices, but the "Size" is different: One displays 88.4 MB on the other device it displays 93.9 MB All other information is also the same, only the download size is displayed differently - the only difference we can see from the screenshots the external testers sent us is that the one iPhone that displays the bigger size also has a Send Feedback button at the top, the other does not. What could be causing this?
How can I achieve this? Does such a task require a programmer? As an example:
Is it possible to have an external developer in Xcode without being logged in with an account, but using a exported certificate and provisioning profile? Is it possible to select an imported certificate and provisioning profile without signing in with the account in Xcode? We do not want him to have access to our Apple developer account, but need him to use a specific provisioning profile, to be able to send out test versions. How do you solve this?
My new MacBook Pro 13" touch bar is connected to my Samsung Syncmaster monitor through USB-c hub -> HDMI -> DVI. It detects the screen (shows up on OSX) but nothing is displayed on my screen. I have connected the MacBook on my LG TV through USB-c hub -> HDMI and everything works.
Whether I agree or disagree, the iCloud Terms and Conditions popup will not stop. How do I make it stop? iPhone 6s Plus
I cannot get to the recovery tool or the Disk Utility. I've clearly deleted the recovery HD so Command + R fails to load a now missing recovery tool.
I've check all my settings, my phone is not in Do Not Disturb mode, but I cannot get my alert sounds (messages, phone calls, etc) to work. Only vibrate works. Toggling settings off and on does not work either.
Based on this post here, I am having a versioning issue with Imagemagick. php54-imagick version => 3.4.3_2 imagemagick => 7.0.5-3
I use a Recent Smart folder, that depends on last opened date of the folder. It works fine when you browsing the Finder, but it doesn't register change when I use cd command in a Terminal. Is there a way to change last opened date of the folder every time I cd to it in a terminal?
Is there any way to disable these pop-ups entirely? It is not possible for me to free up more storage on anything longer than an extremely short term basis, so that is not an acceptable solution.
I hope you're doing well. I have 2 MacBook Pros, different models, same size 15", 2010 and 2012. The 2012 one is suddenly dead and I have removed its SSD and put it into the 2010 one (HDD on 2010 is also removed). After then, I turned on the 2010 MBP, it works like a charm. There are still some minor weird activities: asks me to login again to iCloud, Firefox new addons popup, Photoshop warning about VRAM... but most of the system is working smoothly.
The title mainly says it all. I've been looking for a tool to resize a video just by scaling it down. The only options I find when googling is for cropping video but I don't want to do that. I just want to scale a video down.
I added a new folder in Notes but I don't know how to transfer new or existing notes into the folder.
I want to start using a different PC to sync my iPhone, this is so that I can retire my iPod (Nano 2nd gen) & transfer all my music to my iPhone: I have 2 email addresses and AppleIDs: "Work" (me@company.com) & "Home" (me@gmail.com).
I am using the QWERTZ keyboard and I can't get the "@" (commercial at symbol) in iTerm2. As long as I'm using the left Alt key I'm only getting a question mark. Using the same setup at my work keyboard works fine.
I know how to sort wifi networks by priority in macOS, but the interface makes it a serious tedious task. I travel constantly so I have a tremendous number of wifi networks. Being able to search for networks and more easily set priority rules would be a great thing. Are there any macOS apps out there to improve the interface on wifi sorting?
As part of my backup process I create a bootable clone of the HDD of my iMac. I have booted my iMac from the backup to test it works, this would be fine in the case of the original drive in my iMac failing. However, would I be able to boot a MacBook from this backup?
the destination folder doesn't exist yet. And I try to rsync the 2 aws files into a destination folder. Here is my command:
Is there a plist hack or something like that, or an alternative interface perhaps, to increase the WIDTH of the Spotlight search window in El Capitan? I would like to run searches similar to "kind:pdf keyword" and quickly visually scan the resulting documents. But, ridiculously, Spotlight insists on showing only a tiny, narrow preview.
I would like to use my iPhone 5 with an inactivated SIM card. I tried restoring using iTunes but each time I turn the phone on it starts all over again and asks me what language, what country, enter pass code etc. It connects to my Wi-Fi and then wants to know if I want to restore from iCloud, iTunes, or start new. I've tried this several times.
On March 23rd 2017, news of the CIA having possibly infesting Mac computers with malware have been released by WikiLeaks. "DarkSeaSkies" is "an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an Apple MacBook Air computer" and consists of "DarkMatter", "SeaPea" and "NightSkies", respectively EFI, kernel-space and user-space implants.
Story: Okay, so I have this "old" Mac which was fully signed in and connected to my Apple ID. But now that I have a newer Mac, I want fully sign out of the older Mac. So I navigate to System Preferences>iCloud>Sign out. Click Sign out, wait a moment, and it says it signed out. Problem: However when I navigate back to iCloud in System Preferences, inside 1 of the 2 sign-in boxes is my email I use for Apple ID.
I have my Terminal preferences set to use the "Pro" profile. When I launch a Terminal session from the dock, it uses the "Pro" profile (black background). However when I launch a Terminal session from "Services -> New Terminal at Folder" in Finder, it uses the "Basic" profile (white background). How can I set it to always use the "Pro" profile?
The haptic feedback on the Force Touch Trackpad is too loud/clicky for my preferences. I run macOS 10.12.3 (16D32) on the 15 inch TouchBar model MacBook Pro if that matters.
Spoofing a MAC or IP is easy: For Apple OSX the OS Fingerprint will be the MD5 hash of the filesystem UUID for the root file system (i.e. ‘/’). For example a Mac with a root UUID of “de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2- eb6b9e546013” would have an OS fingerprint of “c001163fbbaaadabeb733e1e9ceb95e6”. (found in: (S//OC/NF) Network Operations Division CNE Operational Data Exchange Format (Codex) Specification, page 9)
I just got home from buying my 2nd 4K monitor. This time, I bought a Samsung 4K monitor, but, I recently returned a 4K monitor from LG due to the same problem. The problem is that the colors are noticeable different on the monitor respectively the Macbook Pro display.
I'm new to OS X. If I open multiple Excel workbooks, how can I see each workbook opened separately on the dock? Any help?
While on a call, any other calls do not come in. After the end of the first call, I do not get any notification that I have missed a call. I have turned off call waiting but this has not helped.
I use multiple displays, and often find the mouse pointer moving to the other display when going to the scroll bar or pressing the close button on an application, for example. Is it possible to make the mouse "stick" to one display? To see what I mean, you could try to slowly drag a window to a side of your display. It will stop when the edge of the window touches the edge of the display for a little while, unless you push it further. I essentially want this behavior for my mouse pointer. I found something similar to this for Windows, but unfortunately that's for Windows, not macOS where I need it!
I've bought a HP Laserjet Pro M12 (M11-M13 series). I'm trying to setup the wireless part. No firmware has been released for Sierra yet. I have installed the drivers 10.11 instead. When I click open HTML config, I get sent to *=URL=* it seems to be a webhost provided by the printer via USB. The first page I visit renders fine, but when I click any link the page breaks and it says safari can't connect to the server "localhost".
In the documentation they say that the devices should be connected to the same wifi network: Each device is signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID. Each device is signed in to FaceTime with the same Apple ID. Each device has Wi-Fi turned on. Each device is connected to the same network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet. On iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices, then turn on Allow Calls on Other Devices. On iPad or iPod touch, go to Settings > FaceTime, then turn on Calls from iPhone.
In Finder, using the Connect to Server option, I am able to specify the server I wish to connect to using ssh://user@server form (hostname or IP). However, the server I'm connecting to requires public key authentication, thus Finder,when I press the connect button, responds in a new window: How do I configure Finder to be able to locate my private key in ~/.ssh? macOS Sierra 10.12.3
My Mac Book Pro 2011 17" recently started to endlessly boot, gets about 2/3s the way into booting then shuts down and starts booting again. Will not accept the original disks. Will not restart in safe mode? Does this mean I need a new HD or something else?
I would like to know what the external GPU (eGPU) options are for macOS in 2017 with the late 2016 MacBook Pro. I did my research, however on the internet I find a lot of confusing information. Some say it can work, but it requires Windows (dual-boot). Others say, it can only work for the older graphics cards as CUDA is not supported for the newer graphics cards (GTX 1080). Ideally, I would like to run the 1080 GTX of NVIDIA. My only purpose is to use Keras and TensorFlow with it. However, I do not know all the things that are important to get it to work. My question therefore is, is it possible to use TensorFlow with CUDA and eGPU on the late MacBook Pro 2016 (15")? I want to use the graphics card in macOS (with late MacBook Pro 15") as an eGPU (no dual-boot/Windows/Linux partition).
How can I configure the DNS server in the network preferences with 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) for my Mac but have it default to local network DNS servers in case Google's DNS server is not reachable from a LAN?
I'm moving towards IP-telephony and need a SIP-client for my mobile phone. My first choice would've been Linphone, because that's what I use on my desktop, but it disconnects from the provider every time the phone goes into "standby"... I can make calls using it whenever I want, but, if somebody calls me on the VoIP-number, when my phone's screen is dark, they just get a message stating: "The subscriber is not available". According to my VoIP-provider, this is a known problem -- I wonder, if there is a SIP-client, that solved it... Obviously, Skype and WhatsApp don't suffer from it... If it matters, the VoIP provider only accepts UDP (sensible) traffic, and ZRTP is the sole means of encryption. The family's iPhones are 5c, 5s, and 7 -- with the latest iOS at the moment.
By some reason I cannot connect to the software update server. I'm receiving the following message when I try to fetch the updates:
I am running a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB with macOS version 10.12.2. I have had a problem with my headphones for a long time where every now and then it begins to refuse to connect. When I look at the problem in Bluetooth Explorer I see the following in the logs: I also see the graph of the link quality for that device look like this: [\_ ]
The search box in macOS Messages.app seems to bring up results within conversations but doesn't search just by the name of the conversation sender or recipient. Often I'm trying to find the latest conversation with a contact and it doesn't appear that I can just enter their name in the search box. I'm curious if there is a way to specifically bring up a conversation by a specific contact.
I've installed vsftpd via Homebrew, and I found that the vsftpd.conf file should be modified in order to set write_enable=yes and put file. I googled and tried to find vsftpd.conf in my MacBook, but I couldn't find where it is. Generally, in Unix and Linux, vsftpd.conf exists in /etc/vsftpd/ but I cannot locate that directory in my computer. Could you tell me where vsftpd.conf is in macOS?
I have a question about my iMac 2015 Fusion Drive. I replaced my spindle with a SATA SSD 512gb drive. Here are the commands I used from an online instruction set to remake the Fusion Drive: And saw that PCIE SSD was disk1, SATA SSD was disk0 so I ran: Where [lvgUUID] was the unique Core Storage ID string
I'm trying to verify that a specified process (server) listens on port 8080 using Activity Monitor. But, for some strange reason, Activity Monitor doesn't show information about port numbers greater than 25XX. I do know that the server works fine and listens on this port. How can I see the process which listens on port 8080 in Activity Monitor?
I have homebrew installed long before the OS is upgraded a few times to 10.12.3. Now that How to properly upgrade to newer version, say 1.1? didn't work.
Upon opening a MacBook Pro (15" Mid-2010, 2.67 GHz i7, 8GB, GT330, Hi-Res anti-glare display), I noticed a small loose plastic part. Its diameter is ~5mm. Does this plastic part belong to the MacBook Pro? Should this plastic part be attached to something? Below are pictures taken from two opposing sides, and from the lateral side (object leaned to watchmaker's screwdriver)
Macbook Pro noob here, sorry if terminology isn't correct. Just given a broken A1398 and A1502 by work (on the promise I'd reformat hdds) and got them basically working. (cracked screen on one, dead battery on the other).
I lost my iPhone yesterday and I didn't turn on mobile data, so I couldn't use Find my iPhone to locate it. I have tried to call many times, but no one answers and the phone keeps ringing. That means my iPhone is still active with my SIM card. Does anybody know how can I locate my iPhone? (I use a Vodafone SIM card and I purchased my phone on plan.)
My apple password quit working. I can't download apps or buy games. This just happened a few hours ago. Where do I go to get this corrected?
I have a mid-2011 MAcBook Air which I just upgraded the SSD in. The old SSD had a windows install which I have been unable to clone onto the new SSD (perhaps that is the solution I am looking for ...). Ideally, I would like to boot Win 10 from the external SSD - is this possible and if so can you point me to the right methods to get the current partition acting as a bootable drive?
I am able to connect to IRC networks by Adium, but if I issue the /help command nothing happens. How to show the IRC status window?
As a temporary replacement, can I plug a MacBook Pro 13" mid 2009's display assembly onto my 13" mid 2011 MacBook Air's logic board? It is ok if it cannot close, or is not transportable. All I need is to be able to troubleshoot my MacBook Air. I am wondering : whether it will work whether it can damage either the display or the laptop
I am rather new to Mac and iOS. I have been a Linux, Windows and iPad user to this point.
I've been having troubles with my iCloud account on my iPhone lately and it recently became really annoying in the sense that i can't do basic things such as updating apps. Basically i have been told that due to security reasons i had to verify my account. Following that procedure i was given a security phone number entry to get some sort of key to reinitialize my account's password. Here's the twist though : I no longer have that phone number and I don't have any sort of key recovery either. Ultimately i just thought of logging out of the iCloud account - side question here, can anybody tell me what kind of data I exactly lose when I log off the iCloud session on the iphone ? - but then i realised that to logg OFF the account i had to logg IN that same account I do not have the logs of. Am I doing something wrong or is this kind of an irrelevant way to deal with people who lost their logs ? Thank you for reading/helping out.
Which ios devices allow a user to do speech recognition (the microphone in the keyboard to type) when there is no internet connection (or a slow connection). My brand new iPad mini cannot do it but some other devices can. Is there a list or some other way to know?
I'm looking for a way to lock or block changes made to the kexts under S/L/E, preventing Software Updates from "fixing" the modified or removed kext. I would be grateful for any suggestions, including a different workaround that might survive updates.
Im speccing a house that has 8 individual TVs. The plan is to have an apple TV local to each TV. Will i have an issue with limits as to how many apple TVs i can connect to 1 iTunes account ? Im based in the UK, not sure if that makes a difference in relation to the terms & conditions that govern this.
So I have an external SSD connected with a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter to my retina MacBook Pro. The wire supports speeds up to 6 Gbps. I could write to the SSD itself at such a high speed.
So I thought maybe the cert I had generated was dodgy. But no - all of my other (unexpired) self signed certs have stopped working too! Is it a coincidence? I don't know.
Maintaining my wife's MacbookPro, that never left the house over many years, i've found in the list of preferred WiFi-networks ALL networks, that i was ever connected to worldwide with another Macbook, even a complete new one. Also all networks, we was ever connected to with our iPhones are listed on this Mac.
I think my phone is broken but I am not sure. I have always been able to access my home internet and I still can. I can run small apps, like Clash Of Clans, but I cannot run any larger apps. I cannot use the App Store (It says I need to connect to wifi to access it even though I am) I cannot use Discord and many other things. And I really do not know why. Like I said, I can use apps that require little data usage but nothing large. It is definitely connected. Even if I switch to my mobile data I still have this problem. Please help.
I am using 1Password, but it's not free and I'm thinking about migrating to free OS app - Keychain. Is there anything similar to 1Password extension but for Kechain? I want to use the Keychain only for logins in Chrome and often using many logins to the single page.
I notice that in my iTunes there is a blue cloud icon next to some of my music, for example:  Does this mean Apple is uploading my personal music to "the cloud"? (Normally I load music only via CD-ROMs that I have bought). If so, how can I stop it from doing that?
I have an issue with my Macbook pro retina 13 2014 (A1502): despite high CPU usage, the fan spins constantly at 1300 RPM, which causes the CPU temperature raise up to 80C. This happened after i heavily broke my macbook and tried to repair it by replacing its aluminium body, its broken screen assembly and its noisy fan (was a bit bended which caused noise). All temperature sensors seem to work fine and I can manually adjust fan speed as well as it can be changed by MFC. Also i tried 3 different fans and the situation doesn't change. I tried to reset SMC, pram and to reinstall the system (was cooling down CPU manually, don't ask how) Atm i am using MacFanControl to regulate the speed of the fan, but the issue is still present and causing some discomfort, like i can't install new OS because MFC doesn't run during OS installation and i am afraid of overheating. Despite all components look good, the system doesn't regulate the speed of the fan.
I installed LibreOffice version 5.2.6.2 on my Mac. Unfortunately, whenever I open a second document (or attempt to view the Properties of an open document) a Tab Bar appears, showing open documents. This would be good, except the Tab Bar is positioned on top of the Toolbar, making it impossible to use. I have noticed similar problems (overlapping dialogs) in other applications since upgrading to the last couple of versions of macOS. Is there a app specific (or general) fix?
First up, I have searched around for a full day now and although there are similar problems around, I can't find anyone having this exact problem. My hackintosh running 10.12.3 has OpenSSH installed via homebrew. It hangs at the exact same "rekey" line no matter which server I am connecting to, and I have no idea why. (note: the expected result from the below should end with Permission Denied (publickey).
I have an older M-Audio Firewire audio interface that I use with my Mid 2011 Mac Mini. It's running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. M-Audio never made drivers for this version of OS X, so I have to disable "System Integrity Protection" for the audio interface to work. I do this by booting to recovery > Terminal: csrutil disable then rebooting normally.
I'm running iTunes 12.6.0.100 and MacOS 10.2.3 on a late 2015 iMac. Every time I open iTunes, whether with a brand new local library or an external drive library I've had for several years, the app crashes. It doesn't throw an error or anything, it just closes. I've tried, of course, opening it without a library to create a new one, and also booting in safe mode. Neither of these have helped. I've also tried reinstalling iTunes itself. I do have iTunes Match on my account, but am not an Apple Music user.
I'm aware of a method using the route command to add a static route, but that only works for a specific IP address. If the site I'm connecting to changes its IP (which is a distinct possibility) then its traffic will start going through the VPN again.
I would like to show the Library folder in Finder for a drive on a remote computer. I know I can open the view options for my local machines user folder and select 'Show Library Folder', but I can not do this for a remote machine. xattr -l Library print xattr: Library: No such xattr: com.apple.FinderInfo.
Is it possible to send an iTunes gift to my friends using my redeemed iTunes code (gifted) balance?
On my MacBook Pro, running macOS Sierra, Time Machine is not visible in Finder as an option, so I can't eject it.
like what is it exactly do I get more space for my phone and everything? Also if I decide to cancel will apps or photos delete?
I have a 1 TB external drive I use for Time Machine, and as manual backup external drive. It is encrypted.
I wish to migrate from using MacTex 2015 to MacTex 2016 on my Mac. I have Sierra installed on my Laptop. I wish to know if:
I have a NAS, which I use for storing my old photos. When moving the remainder of my 2016 photos, the following problem occurred, but without any error message during the move operation. The move operation was done by holding the cmd-button while dragging and dropping in Finder. In Finder on OS X version 10.11.6, the directory looks like this:
I have an old iPod touch which cannot be upgraded past iOS 3.1.3 and the (currently) newest version of iTunes (12.6.0.100). iTunes does not allow me to create a backup of that iPod to my Mac (the buttons and settings in the Backup section are just grayed out). That's not terribly bad, but it got me interested: Is there a minimum iOS version or other restriction that prevents recent versions of iTunes from creating a backup of a device? Is this documented somewhere? I think it's important to know because I may want to migrate my data to a newer device, regardless of how old the old device is.
I was wondering if it were possible to tie in a different input method for each keyboard on a computer with multiple keyboards? The reason I ask is I use a wireless keyboard with my macbook pro and thus have two keyboards available, and I use both English and Chinese for input. One hassle I have switching between the input methods, even with an assigned hotkey. Since I have two keyboards, wouldn't it be nice to have one keyboards input for one of the input methods and the second keyboard for the second input. Is there a way to do this so I can change input methods by typing on a different keyboard? Thanks.
This may be a bit of a easy question, but I couldn't find anything about it after googling a bit, sorry! Is there any way to make a command use both of my CPU cores? I am currently processing some PDF files using GhostScript, but whenever I run the command in the terminal, it uses only around 100% of my CPU. I have to run two instances of it to get it to use 200% of my CPU and thus be twice as fast. Even then, for some reason, 40% of my CPU is "idle," according to Activity Monitor, which may imply that I can run more instances. Is there a way to make this GhostScript command use all of my CPU to be as fast as possible, without having to manually run multiple instances of the command?
When I upgraded to Sierra, my shift key on the external keyboard stopped working when I press a key on my MacBook Pro Retina's keyboard. I have a setup where my left hand is using the external keyboard (to avoid pain due to chest compression), while my right hand is on the MacBook's keyboard.
(Side note: The reason this is even possible is that this particular Mac is actually the motherboard/trackpad/SSD from a horribly busted MBP rebuilt into a slapdash case made out of Lego pieces. The trackpad is resting on top of my Lego structure, and would only fit backward due to the short ribbon cable.)
Is there a way so Finder won't automatically jump to the folder when dragging and dropping files from one folder to another that's located in the side bar? I usually just go through my downloads folder and then sort my files manually, but it's a hassle that I always manually have to go back to the download folder to process the next file.
I have an iPhone 4 with 1275 photos in the "all Photos" folder. In the connected iCloud only 114 are shown. As we wish to replace the phone with a newer one we would like to save all 1275 images from the phone. Connected to iTunes about 600 are shown. All images previous to March 2015 are not shown in iTunes. Those image show a small exclamation mark in the bottom corner when looked at it on the iphone. We tried connecting to Dropbox without success. Also sending the images via email. What can we do to save the images from the old phone?
Mounting through disk utility, or using disk utility to repair/verify the disk (got this error message: Disk utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files). Suggestions on these sites: External drive does not mount after plug off without eject and Sometimes Mac doesn't recognise my external hard drive e.g., going through terminal to unmount OR eject OR view files in read only mode (all just say the volume timed out)
When preparing an App for iOS App Store release in iTunes Connect, there is a field under the App Store tab where you can type in a version number. But when uploading the builds, under the Activity tab we have a version number that is taken from the info.plist in Xcode.
I bought a Macbook Pro Touch bar, and I use a external monitor.. in less then a month it starts to blink to a dark screen and now it's completing black, even if I reboot the computer the screen comes back, it only works with a external monitor. I've seen that this new Macbook pro has a LOT of screen issues and I want to know if someone got this fixed because I use a Macbook so I can move, but what I have now it's a computer that only works with a external monitor.
I had wiped my 2010 macbook air and had tried to reinstall the os in recovery mode but the message "this item is temporarily unavailable" keeps popping up as I try to install os lion. Can anyone help me out ??
I am totally unfamiliar with Apple products, but my sister passed away last year and she had an iPad Pro 9.7-inch. I do not have the password but would like to unlock it or do a restore. I do not know her credentials for iCloud either.
Today, my MacBook Pro suddenly disconnected my USB drive but not correctly, it gave a warning like if you remove a drive without ejecting it before unplugging it. I did not touch or move the device, the system did this completely on its own while I was uploading a file from the stick to the web. After unplugging and connecting it again, after a few seconds of nothing happening, OS X shows a warning that the device cannot be read.
When plugging a second external monitor, macOS Sierra "logs out" (crashes?) user session. I get presented with the login window. No error message. It's not just "show login window", because all apps load anew after logging in (which takes a very loooong time, killing my productivity). macOS Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32). DisplayPort external monitors. MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013, 13".
Is there some key combination to put the display on a mac to sleep using a windows keyboard, or somewhere where I can change the default key combinations?
When setting up FileVault 2 on a computer, you're presented with 2 recovery options - storing the recovery key with your iCloud account / Apple ID, and displaying the recovery key (for you to write down / save somewhere yourself). However, after doing some research, I found some posts that claim to be able to extract FileVault recovery keys from users' iCloud accounts, which makes me wonder if storing the recovery key with iCloud is the best solution. For a point of reference, I also looked at Apple's whitepaper on FileVault, which explains that the recovery key is protected by a "wrapping" key generated by hashing the responses to 3 security questions. Still, if this exploit's legit, as far as I can tell this would only matter if someone had physical access to your computer. Given these two recovery options, which would be more secure? Store recovery key with iCloud Store recovery key in a password manager, where it's synced to multiple devices via a service like Dropbox I'm currently
I know of two ways to enable full-disk encryption in macOS Sierra: Turn on FileVault 2, or Boot to recovery, reformat the disk as encrypted, and reinstall macOS.
If I press the 'disable and delete ' button will my photos come back onto my phone or go somewhere else ? Where will they go and is there any way I can get them back into my photo library ?
Anyone knows how to select the delete button using only keyboard on the delete screen confirmation?
Last time I connected my iPhone to iTunes and I received two different announcements while restoring the iPhone: first:
I did something stupid and am hoping there is a fix: I deleted an app on my iPhone (Fyuse) and reinstalled it because it was crashing a lot, in hopes this would fix the crashing issue. I neglected to realize that I was deleting all the app data -- this included about 20GB of media that was stored locally. I would really love to have all that media back, but I fear there is no way possible now to recover it.
I intend to open a new Apple developer account (for a friend), are there any restrictions for offshore companies / offshore bank accounts? (Both his company and bank account are in Seychelles) Sorry if I misplaced the question, I didn't find any better suited category.
When I install packages manually, the typical layout looks like the following: But when I install it with homebrew, almost all the files are placed in the libexec folder:
My current RAM memory has 1867Mhz and I want to upgrade with 2133Mhz. Can this cause any problems? The RAM is compatible with my iMac, at least the manufacturer says so.
at 603 EDT I received a face time video call but somehow hung it up without answering (I was sleeping) at 605 they called back and since I was sleeping didn't really pay attention to it and answered it. It looked and sounded like a party in the video so I immediately hung up. The line was open for 3 seconds and I have since blocked the number. Here is the number +27 (64) 6528179. Do I need to do anything to further protect my iPhone iPad and Mac? Thx, Oscar
I have a URL, chizzle.com/app/download when I visit from iphone, my script detects the phone os and redirects it to specific app market. For android, it takes to play store, for apple, it takes to itunes, for other devices it takes to an Unsupported devices page.
I just purchased late-2016 15' MacBook Pro, which is shipped with macOS Sierra as of now. However, Karabiner, a software that I deeply use every day has a serious compatibility problem with macOS Sierra, and thus I couldn't work on the mac productively enough.
All of the Mac users in my organisation get put on mute whenever they make or receive Skype calls. None of the Windows users are affected. It mutes their microphones (headset or built-in) when their outgoing call is connected, but if you add a second call to that they stay off mute. Their microphones are similarly muted whenever they answer a Skype call, whether or not it's a group call. We're on Skype 16.3.240 right now, but it's been the case for a few months now.
First I need to mention, that I'm not enrolled in the Apple Developer Program but willing to do so, if it would solve my use case. We administrate several iPads in a museum. All iPads are hooked up in a stand and running the museum app (basically a website on a local server als Homescreen-App in Guided Access).
What I have: - 27" 2012 Mac with 3TB Fusion Drive - 3.4 GHz Core i7 (3770) ("Ivy Bridge") processor - 24 GB RAM I was trying to set it up with a Boot Camp partition for Windows 10. The story so far:
I want to save space on my backup drive by excluding some folders I don't care about. I also want them to be deleted from my old backups so I can keep them for longer. If I add folder exclusions, will the folders also be deleted from my backup drive?
I recently updated my OS to Sierra. The new Preview seems to have some serious bugs for searching words inside a document. 1st problem: certain words are not found despite Adobe acrobat reader is perfectly able to find them.
I'm getting a lot of errors while trying to install software with Homebrew. All of them are similar to the following: Seems to be a permission problem, but I can't figure out how to fix it. Any idea? EDIT: Command cd /usr/bin/ && ls -l | grep pod2man prints:
I need help for this iCloud problem: I had no available space left, (of my 50GB plan) so, to keep using iCloud, I deleted some files. After that, instead fixing the problem, the system keep saying that "iCloud storage is full", or "there is no available space left on iCloud". I tried to deleted more files, also my iPhone backup of ~7GB, but iCloud seems not to detect I have done free space, and keep saying that there is no more storage. Has anyone had this issue? Does anyone know how to solve this? Thank you and sorry for my English mistakes because it's not my first language.
I want to understand where parameters like More Info and Comments are really stored (is it hfs filesystem specific?) and how to access this type of information from terminal. "Who" updates this More Info parameter when I download some file from some website ?Chrome knows about it, or MacOS ?
The wifi that I use at a particular library has some weird issue. I have only faced the issue at this place. The IT helpdesk is not of much help and I am unable to understand the issue. This happened, every 2-3 weeks. I go there weekly 2-3 days for a couple of hours. This is also the only wifi where I have to put a new username and password every 2 hrs. The issue usually happens the first time I try to connect in a day.
I upgraded my hard drive from HDD to SSD. There is no change in download speed. Reviewer says SSD has very good write speed, but why does that not increase download speed?
I have a Mac Pro with an APC UPS supply connected. I have it configured to shut down the system when we lose power. What I'd like to do is to have it power up the system when power is subsequently restored, but I don't see any option that appears to do that. I am using OS 10.12.4 and an APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA.
According to both that answer and to Apple's own support, this should be possible. Basically I want to add music from "Apple Music" to playlists, so I can easily find it again. I often listen to their selected playlists and want to save the best songs from there, on my own lists.
I have a PDF file in my IPad and I want to send it to a colleague. Unfortunately, when I tried to send it he does not receive the comments, even if I put (Share flattened copy)
I've been running for 4 years and today I've encountered problem when I wanted to run with my iPhone 7. I was using the armband with my iPhone 5 and iPhone 6s and everything was great. I've placed my iPhone 7 in 6S's armband and it's impossible to unlock the screen because of the thin layer of transparent material. I've always been running with my screen off so when I was finishing my run I used to unlock my phone and stop the activity when I stopped (without removing it from the armband) Is there any way to unlock the iPhone 7 without physically touching the Home Button? I'd like to do as I used to in iPhone 6s - touch the home button and unlock the screen by typing the password (I know that Touch ID doesn't work in that case)
Since I'm not a MacBook Pro /w Touch Bar user, I occasionally use the macOS Emoji & Symbols viewer to double-click various emoji entries into the system. However, the Emoji & Symbols viewer is annoying because it's easily hidden by other application windows, and it seems to disappear once you click outside of the application window and select another app. I can't find a way to make it "float" on the Desktop, or to prevent it from closing when switching to another app?
How to programmatically find the latest version number of Homebrew? I can find this on my local computer with brew --version and string process the result to get a version number. What's a good way to get it for the released Homebrew? I'd like to programmatically verify the homebrew is up-to-date for many computers.
I have decided to add a firewall to my computer and have heard of applications such as 'Little Snitch' which help to give me control of inbound and outbound connections on my mac running macOS Sierra. Is there (free) application which would allow me to configure the settings via the command line? The default firewall is also an option, however, I would like to determine the ports myself and preferably the server address that is sending or receiving data from my computer like little snitch allows.To review what I want, Is there an application which would allow me to block ingoing and outbound connections on my mac through the command-line while allowing me to say what ports and addresses are allowed to communicate on my computer? It would also be good if the application is free.
My iPhone and iPad show an update and I'd like to know how long this update takes. Is this a quick update?
I am trying to find a replacement part for my macbook air 2016 (model-A1466) I/O board and flex cable. The cable has a part number printed on it: 821-1722-A C-{4 digits which I can't remember} I found a replacement part with the same product number, but the 4 digits on the second line are different. Does that matter or do I need an EXACT match?
NOTE: I did NOT create an app, I downloaded one from the Itunes store (Likie App) and trying to synch it to my FB. I received this error message instead...please help!
I need to repair my logic board of my MacBook Pro due to a water spill - I cleaned it with isopropyl but couldn't get it to charge anymore (the indicator of the power supply doesn't turn on; probably a fault in the onewire circuit - so I'm guessing the motherboard). However, I'm afraid to break it when trying to disassemble the logic board. So instead, I want to get it repaired. They told me it's about 450-500eur to get the logic board replaced.
I have been using a keyboard layout usd2.keylayout for 4 months on this laptop. After rebooting this last time (after many many other reboots..) it is grayed out.
We have two Macs in the family, one registered to me, the other to the wife. Whenever I tend to updating both machines, I have to call in the wife, to let her enter her AppStore password for the iLife apps (Numbers, Pages, etc). However, I have those apps as well, but the Mac AppStore does not let me use my account for this machine. Is there an easy way to change this, so that I can update the apps with my account?
• I've registered for the national "do not call" registry. This hasn't helped at all.
I would like to create a photo album that always remains on the phone is accessible even when I have no internet connection doesn't dissapear when I sync my phone to my computer still allows me to take new pictures and sync them to my computer but I can't find how to do that?
I have just purchased AirPods. When I'm in my kitchen watching videos from my MacBook Pro paired with AirPods, the audio in the AirPods frequently tend to switch over to low-quality audio for a second. This is discernable because there is a volume spike/panning-style effect. This is probably due to connectivity issues. I'm assuming the problem is due to one of the following: The Wi-Fi LAN router connection to the MacBook The Bluetooth/Wi-Fi connection from the MacBook to the AirPods I don't think that the first point is the main issue because I don't usually experience audio loss when playing video from the MacBook speakers in this room – but it could be.
On Linux systems, I can append to a system file like this: But the dd command under OS X doesn't have the oflag option. Is this possible under OS X? Notes: I need root access. I'm not asking for alternative solutions, I'm asking if dd has the capability.
I have a fully unlocked iPhone 5s bought in New Zealand, and I wish to use it in the US on the Verizon network, however when I gave them the IMEI number they said it was locked and they couldn't connect it to their network. I have been able to use it on several networks in each of New Zealand, USA, and Mexico, and Verizon is the only one that seems to think it's locked. They've said this on two separate occasions, at different locations, months apart, so I don't think it's just inexperience or operator error from the Verizon representative. Why isn't my iPhone able to be connected to Verizon, and is there a way around it? I have read a few other Q&As here that mention that Verizon was a CDMA network, however these were older questions, and some more recent ones suggested that is no longer the case.
I have two monitors plugged into my Mackbook pro. I have the "Display have separate spaces" setting enabled in Mission Control. Keyboard shortcuts "Switch to Desktop1" and "Switch to Desktop2" setting enabled in Keyboard shortcut settings.
I have a lot of Zip archives that I want to unpack in a script. Is there any way to run them silently? Here is what I have: Here is what I want:
As you can see it, after updating the commandline tools for xcode, the background turned black and the dock is missing  the OS is macOS Sierra 10.12.4(16E195) How can I fix it?
Until OS X El Capitan, I used Karabiner to swap the colon with the semicolon. However, at least until now, the Karabiner Element doesn't support a key swap where both of keys are based on the same root key (so for example, swap between delete and backslash works but swap between single-quote and double-quote doesn't). Is there any other hacks in Karabiner-Element that enables this swapping, or any other apps or workarounds in macOS that enables you to swap a key that built on the same base key?
Thank you in advance for the wealth of knowledge on this site. I am setting up a new MacBook Pro with Sierra and need to ensure the standard user account is able to install software and make changes to printing. Besides these two items it needs to be a standard account. With the research I have done it seems the security authorizationdb would be used however I am unsure on how to use this command correctly. Can someone please advise on how to achieve this?
My IPhone doesn't allow incoming or outgoing phone calls. Starts to dial then just goes back to the contacts screen I can receive messages and send messages BUT only to people with an Apple device. Please help.
My Macbook Air from mid 2011 has 2 GB RAM, its processor is 1.6 GHz i5, 64 GB of flash storage. Its OS is the one it had originally, Lion.
I've followed the official instructions and also tried running the official removal tool (which btw hangs) for Sophos anti-virus for Mac but I still see a "Sophos" entry in Keychain Access. I have also see errors in Console when system services try to open /Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Sophos.keychain which is a non-existant file. I've even tried recreating a file in that path followed by sudo security delete-keychain "/Library/Sophos Anti-Virus/Sophos.keychain" but the entry still remains in the list of keychains. How can I remove this annoying Sophos leftover? (can't remember which Sophos edition I originally installed, maybe it was called "Home", maybe that is the only one for Mac)
I'm trying to create a bootable USB in my mac to fix a windows PC. However I've tried everything and didn't find exacly the way. I've tried with boot camp but don't even appear the option to create a USB drive. I've tried with terminal (sudo dd if=/location/of/iso of=/dev/diskN) and after all the waiting i've only return with a message from my windows PC "create a bootable drive and insert it again". Can you help?
Since updating to iOS 10.3 the Bluetooth audio on my iPhone 6s no longer works with my Audi (2014 RS4). The phone calls still work, but no audio apps work - they appear to play and the meta-data appears on the car screen, but just silence. Most frustrating.
This is the weirdest thing. I have an MBP 9,2 (10.12.3). I detached my headphones, closed the lid and then opened it again after 1h or so. Now I cannot change the system volume, here's what I see:
My iPhone restarts "randomly" when the battery is below a certain threshold (which I haven't been able to specifically pinpoint). A couple weeks ago I had the battery replaced with a new one, as battery life wasn't longer than just a couple of hours The device has iOS 10.2.1, to be upgraded to 10.3 hopefully during the day.
Should I be concerned about this alert? Is this related to APFS?
After upgrading to MacOS 10.12.4 today, I started getting tons of Error/Fault log message in the Console generated by the CalendarAgent process. Some of the errors are pasted below:
When I have "Pokemon Go" running, and I double-click the "home" button, I sometimes see a blank window in the list of apps that can be scrolled through by swiping to the right. I've only seen this happen with "Pokemon Go." And, the app functions just fine with, or without it. What does that blank window represent?
I am trying to script partitioning the Macintosh HD. I am running in command line and I'm getting this error.
There are quite a few questions about this and the answer usually involves symbolically linking the backup file to the external drive. (E.g. Is it possible to backup iOS devices to an external drive? or Backup iPhone to external drive on Mac) The command I ran was But when I try to backup, I get:
Per the official site, the 9.7 inch iPad Pro supports 23 LTE bands for a max theoretical bandwidth of 300Mbps. ..While the 12.7 inch version supports only 20, with a theoretical max of 150Mbps.
I need to mount a disk image. From terminal, I issued: Now if I run mount I get:
I was successfully running two external monitors (not Apple Thunderbolt) from my 2015 MBP 13". They were both connected to the left side thunderbolt ports via HDMI to Thunderbolt cables. No problems.
I own an iPhone 7+, an iPad, and most recently a new MacBook Pro… so I'm starting to look at the more intelligent syncing of content between devices. If I mirror my photos (for example) or other documents between devices through iOS, does that effectively tripple the storage used in iCloud to back up that content, or is there a bit of intelligence to avoid backing up synch'd content multiple times?
For the last several months, I have used wifi to connect to the internet through an unsecured wifi network that my organization controls - had been working fine since last night. Today my iMac shows that I am connected to the proper network same as always but I am unable to connect to the internet in any way (web browsers, ssh, ping, etc.). The Network settings show me as connected and assigned proper IP and DNS numbers. Renewing DHCP Lease doesn't seem to make a difference. Also because this is a large wifi network managed by an organization and not me personally I contacted the administrator to make sure I hadn't been blacklisted (I had not) and also tried spoofing a new MAC address, which also didn't work. I also know that it is not an issue with the router itself as I am typing this from another device right next to my iMac connected to the same access point (several other devices are also connected with no problem).
I'm subscribed to some events calendar and its very common to have overlapping events with long descriptions. It is extremely hard to read, even in the day view. See image below. Because the events overlap, I couldn't click, to read more details for some events.
I wanted to send a single email to different users. I save an email to drafts and send the email to a user and it goes to the sent box instead of staying in the drafts box. Is there a way I can send an email repeatedly from the drafts box?
A couple days ago Outlook started giving me this error when I launched and authenticated to Outlook. I've completely reinstalled Outlook but the issue persists. It's not a password issue. I'm out of ideas on this one.
We have a Late 2012 iMac in the shop that needs the 3TB hard drive replaced. Turns out this model has a Fusion drive with an SSD that is on the backside of the logic board.
I've been successfully using the following script to initiate port forwarding for the last year or so: Immediately after running today's OS update to 10.12.4, running this same script generates the following error:
I only recently discovered that I can lock and unlock the keychain, but I can't understand if I actually need to keep it locked, because if I do, I constantly am asked to enter my password and unlock it by different services, essentially making it impossible to keep it locked. On the other hand, I like the idea of locking the keychain for things like ssh keys and whatnot. Am I doing something wrong?
How do I configure the Touch Bar on the new Macbook Pro's to only show my customized layout at all times? Forgive for the question if I can't.
Can I get Spotlight search to suggest the different LibreOffice apps? If I search for "calc" I want LibreOffice Calc to be shown. I guess it has something to do with all the apps are bundled in one big LibreOffice-file.
If I open up a .pages or .numbers file on my computer (macOS 10.12.4), the respective applications open without delay. However, when I search for Pages.app or Numbers.app in Finder, I cannot find either application! Neither application is listed in the Applications directory. Where are these apps located?
I have an email thread I would like to forward. The email thread has a bunch of replies each with pictures.
Sometimes I find that an app has it's own keyboard shortcut which overrides a MacOS default shortcut. For example Airmail assigns ⌘← to hiding your message panel, I would much rather have this shortcut remain as the MacOS default (which moves your cursor to the start of the line). All the other shortcuts are fine, I'd just want to disable this one. Is there a way to turn off a specific app shortcut so it reverts to the MacOS standard action?
The number of times I want to drop something from the Finder to another application but I'm stopped by endless open windows below. I have never found a simple shortcut to close them all except for the active one. Could this be scripted?
So I remembered an older account that I had with apple and I remember the password. I remember there being a lot of games I liked and would like those back without having to pay again. Can someone help?
I've had my iMac since 2010 without ever experiencing problems like this before. I understand that my machine is relatively old now (what with all the updates being released) and I haven't been able to update its' system for about two years now. However, it never caused me any issues and was running satisfactory to my needs all until a few days ago when I did the mistake of downloading Skype...
I have an iPhone 5S registered in the United Kingdom with a United Kingdom simcard and number from T-Mobile. I have moved to the USA permanently and cannot call or text any American numbers. I have been told this is because I need to get a US simcard and number. (Please correct if wrong)
I think this would be nice to have if there already isn't a way to send UI feedback. For example, is there an e-mail address dedicated for that proposal, such as usability-improvement-proposal@apple.com or something similar?
I've already reinstalled all of my browsers and deactivated Flash in them. That was helping until recently. Here's a screenshot, the embedded page changes, sometimes it doesn't even say one.
I recently updated to iOS 10.3 (14E5260b) and noticed one of the new features was a way for developers to request reviews from inside an app. Some App Store changes are coming in iOS 10.3, allowing developers to respond to customer reviews for the first time. iOS users are also able to label reviews in the App Store as "Helpful" or "Not Helpful" for surfacing more relevant review content, and Apple plans to limit the number of times developers can ask for a review. The update even adds a master switch that lets customers turn off app review request prompts all together. (Source: MacRumors)
This is my video I edit in Final Cut Pro, but I don't know where to set the export place when I share my video. If I share it, I don't know where to find my exported video.
I really like the emojis that appear on the touch bar in the Messages app. Is it possible to get this in other programs too? I can't see it in "System Preferences > Keyboard > Customize Control Strip" and it's actually the only useful thing I've found on the touch bar so far !
I like the "idea" of the Notification Center, but it is awfully coy and so is not as useful as it might be. For example (below), it tells me I have an "event" in the afternoon but it doesn't tell me what that event is. It obviously knows what that event is but it wants to make me launch the Calendar app I guess.
I'm very not tech savvy and I just heard about AppleScript that can automate some simple typing for me. I just want to continuously type in a loop. Could someone please help me translate the instructions below into an AppleScript loop? I appreciate it so much!
I am now on 10.12.6 and having a quite identical problem. But I'm not confident that the OS is at fault this time.
I'm in China and I'm using an VPN app to access YouTube/Google/Facebook. I want to access YouTube/Google/Facebook on my laptop, but the app can't be used on my laptop. I tried tethering on iPhone, but it doesn't work. Are there any apps which can make my iPhone as an proxy for my laptop?
I have installed MacTex and GNU Emacs on my iMac. I have created a simple tex file (the one suggested here) and tried to run LaTeX on it by hitting C-c C-c, but the following message appeared:
I am trying to connect to an email server via IMAP using Mail.app. The server only supports SSL connections (port 993). It used to work in some previous version of OS X, and it works with various Windows and Android apps, however I usually get a warning about an invalid certificate (it is self-signed / signed by a local CA). With Mail.app from Sierra (10.12.4), I get an error message The identity of "servername" could not be verified. The certificate for this server is invalid. [ OK ] Note there is no "Show Certificate" or "Connect" option. I read somewhere that Apple does not support certain outdated encryption methods, such as SSLv3, anymore, and I'm guessing this could be the cause of this problem.
Where is /proc/ in iOS? Or rather, why is it absent from the root directory structure? It's typically a crucial interface to the kernel of any UNIX-like operating system; what else is in place to assume this role? FYI: Following is the main system information and root directory structure of the device in question.
I received a notification from Apple stating that push notifications for Hotmail is getting revoked on April 8th. Can someone help me reactivating this notification?
Is there any hidden preference or other technique that could make "trending" searches to not be displayed in Apple Music in iOS? I couldn't care less what others are interested in. I certainly don't see any possibility in settings. Any ideas?
and not only is it not showing but 1.98€ was deducted from my account and not 99¢ as advertised. I am loath to click again as they may deduct MORE money!? Anyone out there know why my iCloud storage isn't appearing?
I need free alternative of Excel in Mac Os. I know that there is Open Office, but I am not sure if it is even supported anymore. Any ideas?
I'm using this command to launch a separate instance of Chrome which I use solely for chat (WhatsApp, Messenger, etc.) which is very handy, but when I Command-Tab to switch between it and my primary Chrome instance they both have the same icon. Is there any way to use a custom icon for this instance? (I know about apps like Franz and Rambox but they don't allow the use of certain text Services which I need.)
I connected a speaker with bluetooth, was not concentrating with installation, bluetooth is picking the speaker up as a keyboard. How do I change the setting for the Speaker to a Music device and not a keyboard device.
Is there some kind of background process that is accessing or modifying my Photos library? I tried shutting off iCloud on my laptop, but it had no effect on the problem. This is irritating, because neither my computer nor my internet connection is very fast, so it slows my work down. Thanks for your help!
I had to clear my MacBook air as i had created an account with a password I couldn't remember, and I had an old apple ID linked to it that couldn't be logged out of unless I remembered the laptop password. So I cleared the MacBook, completely reset it up , and logged into my new, current apple ID. Now it says pages and numbers cost €19.99 ? I could probably live without these, but I had pages saved to my initial pages iCloud account.. so i really need it back.. Anyone know how I can re download these apps for free, and then will I be able to get the previous pages back? Any help much appreciated. - I also have completely updated the laptop so it has sierra, and all software is update.And I have tried logging out and logging back in in the different apple Ids . I don't think I made a computer back up.. Everything is on my initial apple Id.
Upon updating from macOS 10.12.3 to 10.12.4 the following issues immediately began occurring consistently anytime the MacBook tries to initiate displaying on external monitors that are in power-save mode (i.e. on, but waiting for a signal and thus with the screen off). This includes when the MacBook boots up or wakes.
I wrote a droplet to hack a set of MS Word files. I have been using the Script Editor. In one incarnation I used the 'recursive file processing droplet' and in another I hacked a bit from a script I found online. If I drop only .pdf files, it runs fine. If I drop only .docx files, it runs fine.
I have recently purchased an Iphone 5s, when i turn the mobile data on and off i have to go into the settings. Is there any way i can do it easier? I have tried flicking up from the top and bottom, however cannot find an easier way.
I'd like to edit this so that I can obtain %>% when pressing BACKQUOTE twice. I cannot succeed with that key. Ideas?
Perusing Keychain Access, I see that "TÜBİTAK UEKAE Kök Sertifika Hizmet Sağlayıcısı - Sürüm 3" is listed as a trusted root certificate authority. Per this 2013 article, I understand that:
Also, I sometimes use the button to activate Siri and out of habit speak commands like "Siri, what's the weather like?", even though I know that "Siri" is optional. I'd like a solution that would work with that as well (although changing "Hey Siri" is a bigger concern).
Is there any time limit in the List view of the iPhone Calendar app, beyond which we cannot make any entries? Can this limit be changed to something else than the 2 years set by by Apple?
I found an old "answer" to this question, but the OS has changed since that anwer was posted and won't work now. So, here's the problem. I changed the Login password of my 2013 MB Pro running Sierra so that it is now the same as my Apple ID password. However, when I restart, I am badgered by a request to input my password for something called sharingd and cloudd. Neither will accept the NEW MB Pro login password, only the OLD one. As a check, when I attempt to reveal any of the hidden pwds in Keychain I need to input the NEW MB Pro password, and not the old one required by sharingd and cloudd. Many thanks.
I developed some test software that makes a lot of HTTP requests and database calls. When I run it on my MacBook, it sometimes breaks the network stack. When this happens, I notice the following symptoms:
I'm trying to set up a IKEv2 VPN on my iPhone that uses "connect on demand". However, there's a few websites where it's important for me to not use the VPN when connecting to them. Is there any way I can set up my phone to not use the VPN for those specific sites? Basically, I don't want to have to go into Settings, manually turn off "connect on demand", disconnect from the VPN, do my work on the site, and then manually turn "connect on demand" back on again every single time I need to use one of these sites, which is frequently. I'm open to using third party apps of some sort to accomplish this.
I have received a notification 2 or 3 times in the last week that "Someone has used your phone number to set up a new iPad. Are you aware of this?" It only has one option for response at the bottom of the notification -- "OK" What does this mean? There is no mention of my password being used.
Recently I found out that there is no option available in order to move your Outlook for mac email database to windows outlook. It a permanent flaw that windows have never worked on. And users like me are deeply suffering from such ignorance. I am here to present my problem of migration and find a suitable and quick solution for this migration issue.
For example, Apple Pay is just beginning to work in Taiwan. But can it work if I set up Apply Pay using a USA credit card? Will there be any foreign transaction fee (of 3% by the credit card) Same as (2) but what if it is a credit card like Capital One that doesn't have any foreign transaction fee when you use the physical card?
I've been relying on activity monitor to check my performance problems and what it relates to. I recently installed CleanMyMac and noticed that the memory reported by it is way different than the activity monitor:
When I double-click on a window in Aquamacs, it keeps the same width but maximises its height. A second double-click maximises the width as well. A third double-click returns it to its original size and position. I would like to tell Aquamacs (*=URL=* to act more like an ordinary Mac app, so the intermediate step with the height is omitted, and a second double-click will restore the window to the original size. A sort of work around is to use the green button at the top left of the window, taking the window to its own space, which is usually not ideal.
Over the last six months or so, I have seen irregularly recurring episodes of one or more of these drives spontaneously ejecting (not clean unmounts, but simply disconnecting). Usually, I've been able to trace the problem to the hub's power brick getting stepped on by a cat. (For some unfathomable reason, companies keep making wall warts that are not fully supported against the wall or the power strip, so that pressure on the end of the brick opposite the plug end pulls the plug out partially. Bad, bad design.)
So I recently I have had various issues with charging my iPhone 5C. Some troubleshooting led me to these conclusions: first symptom I noticed is that it will only charge once the battery is dead. The other symptom is that I tried a non-Apple USB to charge my phone and it will only charge from dead to about 4% battery life, and using my damaged cable charges the phone just as fine, but also after the batter's been dead. Using an Apple charger with non-Apple USB cable also seems to work and charge the phone okay. I'm really confused as to what's going on with my phone, but I'm confused. Thanks in future for any help!
When I want to use Siri involving my home address, such as navigate home or remind me something when I get home, it always asks me to clarify "which home address?" It gives one option that is the home address I put in my contact card in Contacts (it lists the street name and number), and it has another home address (it doesn't list anything, but I believe it's referring to an address that it imported from being connected to Facebook, and that address just has the city (not the street).
How do I send a message from my MacBook Air to a Non-iPhone user? I want to text my friends from my laptop (Apple) and I can't. What should I do?
I have the LG Ultrafine 5K screen, and the volume is extremely loud if I move the slider to more than 20%. The screenshot below shows a rather normal listening volume. If I double it, it's very loud, but it's still at only 20% or less. Anything over that, it sounds like the speakers are broken.
My iPhone 4s has the notification bar glitch, and I've been researching on how to fix it. Most of the people said to restart the phone by pressing the home button and lock button at the same time. But my lock button is broken!
The disturbing problem that I actually wanted to ask, happens this way: I have two iPhones, an iPhone 5 (Chinese model, for China Mobile) and an iPhone 5s (US model, for T-mobile, and also works with AT&T), both running iOS 10.2.1 (latest version when I was encountered with the issue). None of them has a SIM card inside, which means I cannot use cellular data on either of them.
When I wake my machine in the morning, it often stays blank because there's some conflict between my 4k monitor and the 'Your computer name has changed for the 3950th time' dialogue that means both screens are off until I dismiss the dialogue I can't see. I don't want to have to turn wifi on and off manually - we have computers to do things automatically for us - and I need a wired connection while I'm at my desk. So can I tell the Mac only to enable to wifi if eth0 is inactive? Or turn the 'Your computer name has changed' dialogue into a notification that doesn't need manual dismissal, because I really don't care what number Apple has decided to add to it today?
Is it possible to open a terminal window from a Safari webpage? I have found a way to open a ssh terminal window, but is it possible to only open the terminal window without pre filled commands? I have tried to search on google but i only find solutions for opening Safari from terminal. To open terminal with ssh from Safari i put the following link on a webpage: <a href="ssh://adminuser@10.225.xxx.xxx">ssh</a>
I'm testing the autofill feature of Safari. When I add the login and password for a site, Safari stores the information in the "Local Items" Keychain. My question is if I can change this default keychain to another one, for example mykeychain. I want to use a password protected keychain only to autofill data. Is this change possible on macOS?
Apple released Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. Is it possible to connect an external device using type C (ie ASUS MB169B+) by connecting the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter with an Thunderbolt cable into the Mac (this is an older Mac before 2015)?
I plugged my iPad 3 in order to charge it. However, after a couple hours I noticed that it hadn't been charging.
The physical screen is damaged on my MacBook Pro, so I'd like to RDP (or similar) to it from Windows 8.1 Pro, and use my two 24" monitors for a better experience. While I found Microsoft Remote Desktop in the Mac App Store, that's merely a client for connecting to other machines. I need a server component on the MacBook to allow RDP connections and translate the desktop experience to the client on the calling machine.
I think the Reminders app is linked to my Yahoo account on my iPhone; I've deleted the Yahoo account accidentally and the Reminders app is blank. the bad point: I lost my Yahoo account info too, so I can't add Yahoo to my phone's accounts. the good point: when I'm using Spotlight search, I can find the information which has been already cached on the phone. Is there a good solution to recover reminders without adding the Yahoo account again?
Is it advisable to follow this path and use Clover on a real MacPro3,1? If this was a Hackintosh, I wouldn't think much about it, but I do want to keep this machine somewhat pure to avoid any compatibility issues. If I have to sell this GPU and pick up something else, so be it.. but I'd like to think that it isn't that far off to get the R9 270 to work on this machine since it is so close to other devices that are supported officially by Apple. (BTW: the card does work in the machine as it functions under Windows 7 / BootCamp)
My sudo command is not working. After I type sudo and hit enter (or type sudo with some command and hit enter), the cursor moves to the next line which remains blank. It does not ask my password or anything, just a blank line. I can type in this, and hit enter, but then it just goes to a new blank line. How can I fix this? I dont understand because sudo always worked for me, i.e., it asked me my password. See screenshot below.
I do not like to shutdown my Mac mini - so it works 24/7. But sometimes it freezes - I can move my mouse cursor, but anything else is frozen - screen does not react to clicks/keyboard presses - it's like it's not a GUI anymore, but screenshot of it. It seems that this problem happens when MEMORY PRESSURE indicator from Activity Monitor is "high" *=URL=* Here's the output of /var/log/system.log before freeze:
I just started getting this alert at seemingly random points in Finder: Use of the requested audio unit(s) require lowering of the security settings for "Quick Look UI Helper". Are you sure you want to proceed? [Lower Security Settings] [Cancel]
I’ve updated the OS to Sierra 10.12.4 on my Macbook Pro Retina after which Magic Mouse started going crazy with the scrolling speed significantly increased (even with the minimum scrolling speed set in mouse settings), while both the mouse and the trackpad won’t scroll. Luckily, I was able to revert back to 10.12.3 via Time Machine and everything seems to be working on this version… What should I do to solve this problem and why does it happen?
I just reinstalled macOs on my Macbook pro, fresh install on a fresh new partition. The thing is : I usually go on a folder with Finder, and launch Time Machine to get files and folders back. When I want to do this now, Time Machine can't go on the previous states of a folder.
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12 Sierra. I can hit cmd+space and type a word that I would like to look up in the dictionary. If the word is Danish (my native language) it shows me the Danish definitions—that is fine. When I look up a English word, it shows me the translation from English to Dutch, which is really annoying. Does anybody have a solution to that? The dictionary works fine, if I just right click a word, and look it up. I have the following dictionaries enables under the dictionary preferences: And the following Language and Region settings under system preferences: And lastly, my keyboard input language is Danish.
I hope I'm in the right spot for this. I have my volume on the phone set to 100%. I connect via bluetooth to my car. My car's radio volume goes from 0 to 45. Now, when I listen to music, my car's volume is set to 10-15. However, when I listen to a book from Audible, or make a phone call, the radio volume needs to get at 37+ to be able to hear it. Is there anything I can do to equalize the volume between apps?
Is there a way from the CLI on MacOS or Linux to download all the photos from a shared photo album (an album shared with me from another iCloud user, that shows up the shared tab on iOS or under the shared heading on MacOS) in Photos.app? I would like to setup a cron job to sync the photos locally so I can add them to the rest of our backuped data.
I would like to use a trackpad on a windows machine. The catch is : I would like to use it through a KVM switch. Thus I cannot pair it by Bluetooth. I am looking for a USB trackpad that I could plug on the switch, but couldn't find one. Does it exist ? I would prefer an original apple one, but if it doesn't exist, and the alternatives are good enough, that could do as well.
I need to create an alias on my Desktop to an app in my Applications folder, using a bash script file. As far as I know, it's only possible with AppleScript. Unfortunately, my AppleScript skills are non-existent. I couldn't find a good working example on how to create an alias on my Desktop. 1) How do I create an alias on my Desktop using AppleScript? 2) How do I insert this AppleScript into my bash script file so that it could work in Terminal?
I am at the point where I am about to erase the HD on my old iMac 2009 running El Cap before selling it. I recently turned on FileVault to encrypt the volume mainly to see how it worked and also as an aide to what I thought was going to be a quick and secure erasure of that HD. I have reached this point following these instructions on MacWorld:
In the cast that malware and/or a trojan has infected macOS, can an attacker disable system integrity protection and inject code and do other harmful stuff? Can an attacker even discover your admin password before disabling sip as keylogging software would be needed? If he can't discover the password that way then lets say he guesses it because the passcode is really simple.
In OS X 10.10, Cmd+` worked flawlessly. Now it's intermittent at best. I haven't changed my workflow or anything--but now the shortcut fails. If I go into keyboard settings and change the shortcut mapping, it works again for a little bit, but then fails and I have to go change the shortcut again to make it work.
i would like to add the path to inserted flash drive named backup1 to a variable so i can copy /Documents/dir to this flash drive path in one script without user interaction
My finder's sidebar is empty (see attachement), this happens about once every two weeks, I would be working on my mac and suddenly the sidebar becomes empty. It works again after a restart, but it is a great inconvenience to have to do that each time.
I'm trying to script several app installations for MacBooks (running either El Capitan or Sierra). My goal is to complete the whole process with minimal user interaction, except for possibly entering passwords. It's very easy to record Automator workflows to do everything I want, but you have to allow Automator to control the computer by going to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Privacy/Accessibility, clicking the Lock icon, entering your password, adding /Applications/Automator.app, then checking the checkbox next to it. Is there any way to script the allowance of Automator to control the computer with no more interaction with the user than entering their password?
Forgive me for being a little undereducated here, but I'm new to databases in general. I tried to install Postgres with both brew and with the native desktop app for OS X/macOS from *=URL=* I can't remember which was first. After having issues with the port (5432) being in use and not knowing the password for createdb <mydbname> I decided the problem might have come from me trying to install from two different sources so I'm simply going to uninstall and try again.
How do I make my windows partition show up at boot time without holding option? I had this setup on a Macbook pro way back when that was setup this way. I recently bought an iMac and would like to decide which partition I want to use at runtime without holding option. Is this still an available feature? Right now it automatically loads the windows partition.
I installed Wine to open an .exe file on my Mac. I think I did something wrong and when I opened the file it installed to the Applications folder. Now, It doesn't let me force quit. I tried clicking "Force Quit" from the Apple menu and it didn't work. Now I can't turn my Mac off. How can I force quit the Windows application running under Wine on my Mac?
My phone carrier requested an update of the Carrier Profile (Delete + Install). They suggested also to perform a Reset Network settings after the profile installation. Is it really necessary? I don't mind doing a reset-network, but among the things the reset does, all Wi-Fi passwords are deleted as well, which is annoying.
I'm running some Python machine learning programs through Terminal that take hours at a time to finish. If I leave my computer unattended it hibernates - the screen goes off and I have to type in my password again.
I have been trying to remove teamviewer fully becuase of some leftover services trying to run the app (which've already been deleted a long time ago). I do run a find command to see what is left from teamviewer. See below; so the question is is it safe to remove all those files ( I believe so, but still need some experts' help).
My computer has user1 and user2, both administrators. While I'm logged in as user1 I'm trying to: "su - user2" -> prompts me for the users2 password, then I can type commands
I'm writing a React Native app for iOS and Android. After building the project through Xcode onto three different (physical) devices, the product owner wanted a version for testing on his personal iPhone as well. Now, when building to his device, Xcode simply spits out a few red lines, which seem to occur from the same error: Unable to add device (device-name-here) because the team has already reached the maximum number of iPhone devices. Then something about that the build can't commence, because the device is not registered in the team profile etc.
As the touchpad is bigger now, when I am coding in vim, my thumbs occasionally touch the trackpad and thus move the cursor to somewhere else, which is extremely annoying. How to disable trackpad automatically when I am typing, or else how to just disable trackpad in iTerm2?
When I send emails using Apple Mail to my colleagues (they use Outlook on Windows, various versions), it often happens that the mail looks blank and its body is split into various attachments.  Even the signature and the signature's images are moved into attachments. How can I solve that?
Twice recently I've missed important messages because they were routed to the "Messages" app on my Macbook and not to the iPhone, even though it was active. I don't really care what the app does, but I care very much that messages do not bypass the phone, because that means I will probably not see them!
I need a way to display full screen lyrics in iTunes of the song that is currently playing. Up until now I have used Cover Version, but it doesn't work anymore since iTunes 12.6:
I have implemented an iOS application and published in App Store as well. In my iTunes account, I have specifically mentioned that my primary language is Swedish.
I wish to shut down an application when I close the lid on my Mac. This works using sleepwatcher: However, "sleep" seems to be triggered as well when the displays is turned off as well (I have "Turn off display after 15 minutes" when on battery.)
My mother-in-law has an iPhone 5c and is using the latest version of the Google Wallet app. I'm trying to set the Google Wallet Balance as her default payment method so money sent to her doesn't go directly into one of the bank accounts she has set up. On my phone, which is a 6s+ with latest version of the app, I have an option to make it the default, but my mother-in-law doesn't have that option in hers. What gives?
For some strange reason I am not able to save a generated mysql backup via mysqldump to an afp network drive as a cron job. If I call the shell script as root user (login via sudo su in terminal), it works just perfectly. So, the script is ok. It must have something to do with the cron job itself. For doing so, I edited the root's crontab using crontab -e like so: This tells the crontab daemon to execute it every work day (monday to friday) at 12.10 PM. With the same call from terminal it works (as described above). This is the shell script that I am using for doing it:
I'm running El Captain 10.11.6 (15G1421) with all updates. I've recently updated to Safari 10.1 (11603.1.30.0.34) and now I get "Blocked Plug-in" whenever I click on Gmail links that lead to a PDF or even to a web page that links to a PDF.
Context I cannot seem to be able to get TimeMachine to backup my HD, because a given directory seems to contain corrupted files so that I get this kind of message in the Console:
I'm trying to open a .txt file in Sublime Text 3, but macOS won't let me because it says it's from an unknown "developer". I can totally understand this warning when it comes to applications, but I don't think it's warranted when it's just a text file. Can I somehow make it possible to open text files from the internet without making it possible to run applications downloaded from untrusted sources?
MacBook Pro Quad i7 late 2011, 16GB Ram, SSD OS 10.11.6 (latest El Capitan) Running Office for Mac 2011 (registered) Use: graphic / web design / video commercial I have opportunity to install MS Office 2016 FOC through my employment scheme and they are keen for me to do this to match Win team.
After 10.3 update all of my notes just dissapeared, all my gamesaves too and other stuff. I wouldnt even care because of other stuff on icloud but notes are pretty important for me.
During the day (at development) the local MySQL server throws randomly the "MySQL Server gone away" error message to the PHP MySQL driver. If I try to connect via the mysql console client, it works. But MySQL Workbench does also not connect to the server.
Is there anyway to make the Safari window smaller by width on Mac? It will only let you make it about 500px in width before it stops. Basically I'm trying to test out some mobile web designs so I would like to have a smaller window in Safari.
WatchOS 3 included a breathe app that gives occasional reminders to "take a minute to breathe". What prompts these reminders? Does it monitor your heart rate to know when you're stressed, or does it remind you at preset times?
Maybe a long shot but this seems instinctively possible. I listen to podcasts on my iPhone 6S via headphones that don't have a pause button on the cord. When people start speaking to me in the office I need to find the phone, push the home button and click pause.
I use Sleep Cycle as an alarm clock/sleep tracker, but it doesn't offer a bedtime reminder functionality. Is there any way to use the native Bedtime alarm on iOS 10 without using it as a wakeup alarm as well?
When I am typing in an application (say Terminal), and I want to google something, I open Safari. While safari opens and loads tabs and whatnot, I want to keep typing in terminal to get work done. However, after about a second the Safari window gets automatically selected, and whatever I am in the middle of typing suddenly gets input into safari instead.
I'm connecting to an Acer XR342CK with a 2016 MacBook Pro 13 via HDMI cable. The monitor is capable of 75 Hertz at full resolution and the laptop is capable of 60 Hertz. However, when connected either through the Apple USB-C Multiport adapter of the USB-C Dock from CalDigit, the the Mac shows a Refresh Rate of 29.88 Hertz (NTSC):
This started happening a couple weeks ago and I am at a loss. The issue has been happening on every wifi I have connected tom: my phone via tethering, my university's guest and student wifi, and third party wifi at a coffee shop. This is what happens: After a reboot and connecting to any wifi it will work for between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, then it still says that it is connected but no web pages will load (tested in safari and chrome.) What I've tried: • Reseting PRAM • Reseting SMC • Removing all known wifi networks • Creating another user account (same issue) • Changing DNS IP addresses • Reinstalling the OS (while preserving user data) • Tethering to phone's network via BlueTooth with wifi off (same issue, stops working after a few minutes)
I'm using my mac's Screen Sharing app to connect to VNC (vino) on a linux mint box. The linux mint box has HiDPI (sort of like retina) pixel doubling enabled. The problem is the shared screen is showing as gigantic windows and fonts and not the correct scaled size. Any way to correct this?
I followed the steps in Connect AirPods to MacBook / Macbook Pro with Mac OS Sierra (warning, Youtube video).  I tried and tried and never see AirPods.
Safari has been stalling when I load some websites. Github.com is the most reproducible. The page would load, but then my mouse would turn to a beach-ball and just get stuck until I close the tab with Github or whatever site seems to be causing it.
I ran the update last night and during the startup process after the update it asks you to log back into iCloud. However, when I do so, I get a message in red letters in the iCloud login box:
Apple Mail is producing multiple duplicate drafts on gmail. After I send a message, there are multiple drafts of it left :-(.
I've twice now tried to initiate a TimeMachine backup, and both times they got stuck during the "Preparing Backup..." stage. I think even on the same file, as shown in tmutil status which got stuck both times when processing file 1117289. I've restarted the computer.
As stated I'm trying to watch Netflix in my car. Called Netflix they say to turn off AirPlay on my iPad. Can't find it anywhere on my iPad. Is there a way to do this? It's weird if I move the search button it shows were I am in the show.
I thought I had issues because when I started up my laptop, I was still getting the windows start up (albeit broken beyond repair.) I now believe that this is just leftover files trying to boot what's already there. Here is what I'm left with in Disk Utility:
Sorry in advance for the lengthy post. There is a bug in a midi instrument plugin I'm running that can be fixed temporarily by editing its plist file. However, after editing it and using the plugin, the plist is updated by its program and has to be edited next time it is used.
I know that the Mac doesn't use a registry, but is there anything I'm unaware of that would make it better to restart a mac after an uninstall of software, a printer etc.?
During an rsync my USB stick became 100% full without me noticing it. When I tried to eject it, I got a message that it was in use, but no application was named and I could not see anything that was using it, so I took the option to "force-eject" it. After unplugging and replugging the USB stick it silently failed to mount. Here's my diskutil list: The culprit is disk1. Mounting it fails: and the volume info indicates the 0 Bytes available space (possibly the reason for the problems?) The verifyDisk fails: while the volume USB128GB seems to be okay: repairDisk fails as well:
Using the Google Photos app on my iPhone I backed up all my photos to the cloud. Unfortunately when I did that, I didn't realize it was uploading using the "High Quality" setting, rather than the "Original" setting. Which means that my photos in the cloud are compressed and cut in size and all that fun stuff. How can I re-backup the photos using the "Original" setting?
I have a huge collection of images and I would like to put them in folders matching their first 3 charachers+.jpg extension. So i would like to grab 4_1_0002.png file (all the files starting with 4_1) and put it in the 4_1_.jpg folder. Similarly I would like to grab 4_2_0002.png file (all the files starting with 4_2) and put it in the 4_2_.jpg folder.
Is it possible to jailbreak iOS 9.1 on an iPad 3, WiFi model? If not, I also have the possibility to update to iOS 9.3.5.
I'm a new mac user. i want to show my itunes songs view as a coverflow view. but i didn't find any options. i'm using Sierra 10.12.4. Please don't give a down vote for this.
My macbook started to look like this a little while ago, first it was black (what now are colored lines) and now it is like this. I dont know why it could have happend but my best guess would be that my charger had something to do. Please help me
My phone got dropped in the snow and now has white streaking lines on the screen and blue patches but no lines. Can this be fixed? Is it permanent or can I easily fix it myself? It's an iPhone 6 and I am on a plan where I can't replace it for a while.
Since upgrading to 10.12.4 on my mid-2011 MacBook Air, combinations of the left cmd and Z, A, and Q have stopped working. The Z doesn't work at all.
I make use of Apple Reminders on my iOS 10 iPhone SE but there never is any sound when the reminder is due. Do not disturb mode is turned off but it doesn't seem to matter. Anyone else who has had this issue?
I sent my iMac 5k with 1TB fusion drive to get it fixed and have somebody replace the internal HDD with a 500GB SSD. They were able to restore the fusion capacity with the drives; however, now when I try to partition the drive or install Windows on bootcamp, it keeps telling me I do not have enough space. I believe it is pointing to the internal 24GB SSD instead of my new 500GB SSD. How can I fix this so I can run bootcamp? This is the error I get when I try to run bootcamp (Every time I try to free up space to that number, it increases):
OS installs are now distributed as .dmgs. Is there a generalizable guide to converting .dmgs to bootable iso's on macOS? Related How can I convert a DMG to ISO on Mac OS X (preferably for free)? Install Sierra as guest OS in VM with Parallels 12
I deleted some important messages seven days ago and want to recover them. How can I undo my mistake and how can I read the data from my PC/Mac?
I am trying to create a plist for a unix executable. The executable works perfectly well when I run it in Terminal. However I simply cannot get it to run from launchd. Here are the steps I took: Then I input the following data: If I run: I get the response: Does anyone have any suggestions?
I know how to rename my iPhone. I'm curious if there is any problem with adding a character to the iPhone's name. Specifically, can I rename it to "TMH's iP7+" with the plus sign at the end? I have looked online and cannot find any mention if this is an issue.
Does time machine make a backup of files which are stored in iCloud, but not stored on your local hard disk (i.e. files which have been removed from your local hard disk when the 'optimise mac storage' feature is enabled)?
Every few days, my system gets into a state where a CD won't mount or eject. When I run Disk Utility, it hangs at "Loading disks".
So I just bought this phone BRAND NEW month and a half ago. Must have dropped it today as half of the screen is damaged and unusable (can't see or use touch) Went to Telus where I bought the phone and had some problems about the warranty. Its Saturday and I have to wait til Monday when a manager comes in Store for me to deal with this. The agent did do a factory reset on my phone in case it was just a glitch but its the same. So now its at the original welcome screen. Before I could at least see my texts etc, now its just at the spot where I enter a wifi network and I can't enter the password because I can't use the full screen and keyboard! Im hoping there is some way I can use my phone through the MacBook!! Only been using Apple products a short while though so I'm not familiar with all the mac can do. Can anyone help? I know before I had the phone reset I had it synced with the MacBook so I could see my messages and stuff from there but its not anymore. Shouldn't there be some kind 
I have a piece of AppleScript code that converts a numerical date to that date in words. The code accepts a variable that contains a date in the following format: 2017_04_01 The code converts this numerical date to the following word-based format: Saturday, April 1, 2017 My code has been modified from the answer provided to this question, by user markhunte: Applescript date manipulation to get multiple formats
I'm using an iPhone 6S+ Is there an app that will allow me to snap a picture when there is a sound? Ideally, it would be adjustable so that a sufficient sound level is needed to trigger it.
If I plug in my iPhone over USB on a life fitness machine I will be able to play media on my iPhone onto the included tv screen (Hulu/Netflix etc). Should I be concerned that it will install malware on my iPhone or is it safe to use?
I am senior, just purchased and hooked up the Apple TV, was trying to download the German TV stations but found them but was not able to open them up, it keeps saying enter your I tune password...I thought having a password for Apple goes across all accounts and I finished my account information. Do I need to pay for the German channels, willing to do that but I am confused my apple account should be my account information across and my apple id and password? I have no interest in music so why should I have a password for my Itune account?
The title captures the issue. I see this question: How can I repeat a Playlist? and this question: Repeat on iOS 8.4 music app?
My Mac is running hot with the fan cutting in often. How can I diagnose what's wrong? PS: Some sources mentioned Activity Monitor as a tool to diagnose this, but I couldn't find the application.
I would like to know how OS X makes this feature possible. Does anybody here have insight into how it works?
I have used some formulas in Numbers and I would like to change the dynamic values to static ones, so I can copy them to different sheets, without having any reference errors. Does anybody know how to do that?
Here is a brief, self-explanatory bash session on Linux: Here is the same session on a Mac:
In previous versions of OS X the Console.app had buttons to allow you to see earlier or later in the logs. In Sierra it seems to only show entries from when you start Console.app. How do you get Console.app to show earlier entries?
I've made a low-cost SSD upgrade to a MacBook Air 11" Mid 2012 (MD224) from 128 GB factory default to 500 GB Samsung 850 Evo M.2 NGFF SSD, using this cheap M.2 NGFF SSD to 18+8pin SSD Adapter. Works like charm and much, much cheaper than a genuine Apple SSD module.
Is it possible to receive text messages on both my iPhone and my Mac? Just got Mac for the first time. I don't carry it around with me but have missed some important text messages recently as they are going directly to the Mac and not to my iPhone. I'm not sure what to do. It would be great if I could receive text message on my iPhone and my Mac. If this isn't possible, I prefer to only receive text messages on my iPhone.
Using macOS Sierra on a relatively new (2 months) MacBook Pro. Sometimes finding my battery draining very quickly- within a couple of hours. Running top shows bash consuming 75% cpu. Running Apple's console program reveals about 20000 related messages per second (!) being generated, all looking like this: kernel AMFI: allowing exception handler for 'bash' (693) because the handler was set by master-entitled process 'init' (1)
I have some photos of notes that have been sent to me, and I would like to "fix" them in order to have a scanned-like pdf like the one that I get when scanning with Camscanner app (on Android or iOS). I've done some research but I've found only a discontinued app, doxcan. Is there a maintained app to do so? EDIT: from the comments, here's a more detailed explanation of what I need: I need something that allows me to "flatten" the photo and make it in white and black. Just like when in Camscanner you fix the corners of the document and it warps the image in order to make it as it was acquired from scanner. Then it performs a conversion from color to b/w (probably applying some filters too, but nevermind of that) doxcan does it but I cannot find anywhere to download, since it's discontinued... here is all I found about doxcan
I am able to mount VeraCrypt full disk encrypted volume under macOS Sierra, but I am not able to write to it. The VeraCrypt disk shows read-only as false, but I don't have permission to write. The volume is formatted as NTFS. I tried with Paragon NTFS driver, the free version, but it does not work. How to mount an NTFS volume as read-write?
I'm running on El Capitan 10.11.6, patched with the latest security updates at the time of writing. I recently ran a permission repair on the root volume: sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs / I noticed the following log entry: Warning: SUID file 'System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent' has been modified and will not be repaired. Intrigued, I investigated on the binary, and landed on this page (amongst others). This made me a little paranoid, so I searched again, and found this page, where the accepted answer reassures me that Disk Utility likely doesn't "know" the file has been patched for security reasons. As I'm a little stubborn, I checked the actual ownership/permissions for that binary on my system: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1.1M Mar 6 19:15 ARDAgent Looks like group (wheel) and all others can execute the binary. My question: is that actually safe, for an application vulnerable to arbitrary/malicious and escalated co
I've opted for disk encryption during install of El Capitan (v10.11.6) on my Macbook Air. Logged in from my admin account (not root), I added a new user to manage a second iTunes account (which I thoughtlessly created and tremendously complicated my iPhone-Macbook activities).
I have three children who share two desktop Macs. Each kid has her own account on each computer, but up to now none of them has had an Apple ID (they do not have phones or mobile devices, although they do have old-school digital cameras). Until recently the computers were both running Mountain Lion, and keeping each kid's personal files and photos in sync between the two machines was an ongoing headache involving USB thumb drives and lots of manual copying.
We have two servers, ServerOne and ServerTwo. Each server contains a folder called Projects. On Windows, the paths to each of these folders are \\ServerOne\Projects and \\ServerTwo\Projects, respectively. On a Mac, the paths instead are /Volumes/Projects and /Volumes/Projects1. Depending on which order a user accesses the Projects folder from each server through the Finder, either one might be Projects or Projects1. Neither will be available through /Volumes in the Terminal until accessed through the Finder. Is there a reason for this behavior? Is it possible to include the name of a server in URLs so the path is absolute and more easily shared across platforms?
i have a script set up to make a new directoy in folder based off a variable named for another directory that goes like this: What im trying to do now is find and replace a string in this varible when it makes the new folder. Example, i have:
I recently discovered a file named "en" in the root directory of my Macintosh HD. It's completely empty and was last edited today, around the time I logged in on my Mac. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0B 2 mrt 13:03 en What's it for, and can I safely remove this file?
I'm having this problem driving me crazy since some days. My macbook just turns off after around 1 minute of being logged in. I reset completely macOS thinking it would be a Software Issue but nothing. I though it was an hardware issue but if I use the guest safari mode it doesn't happend, or also if I install the OS in recovery (which lasts 40 mins or more) I have no shutdowns... so can it be hardware? CPU temp and fans are ok, same with battery. Bluetooth and WIFI are turned off thinking it was a driver problem, but nothing No useful logs in console and all ok running hardware test Reset SMC and PRAM Here's the latest logs before shutdown: https://gist.github.com/dariobanfi/6464faed360005041d9cc1a6895c1712
I saw some command line with sudo for using on macOS. I have seen it even used for NPM installs. I am under the impression that using sudo is discouraged for macOS. When do I use sudo in macOS?
When I airdrop a file to my iPad with no app installed to handle the filetype, the prompt still appears on the iPad that the file is being transferred. When the prompt completes, nothing happens.
I have a late 2010 Macbook Air that is having volume issues. In some programs, like Chrome, it doesn't play at all, and the only thing I could hear volume on was the Settings>Sounds menu. (It was very quiet) I have reset the NVRAM as well, but that didn't seem to fix it. (Side note: The startup sound(s) sounds fine.)
I noticed that some app icons changing sometimes with same blank like icon. Right now Sublime Text icon changed. Couple days ago it was happened on Safari. How can I prevent this? What will can cause this?
I made a Win10 USB installer using the media creation tool on my PC and I have a SSD in a drive caddy which replaced my DVD drive. I want to clean install Win10 to this SSD but the Win10 installer takes hours - no joke - to boot up and then it takes forever to start the setup.
While browsing for services in my local network with Bonjour, I notice that my MacBook Pro provides the _atc._tcp. service. However I couldn't find a description for such a service from the canonical list of macOS services nor inside the DNS-SD registry.
I do not know if this has anything to do with the problem - I recently returned from a China trip and all my call history got changed so the phone numbers are now displayed with "+1" in front of them. More importantly, when my existing contacts call me the Caller ID does not display their name anymore, but only a number with "+1" and in a small font below "Maybe: [Contact Name]".
Is there some way to get this information exported? I'm trying to write a script to auto-rename the files it finds to the correct (longer) file names. Edit: Here is an example:
I'm new to terminal and unix like systems. I'm searching a way to automatically create a batch file.
I know this sounds petty. It is. Regardless, I must know the answer. I was angry with the person I have an intimate relationship. I blocked him on my iPhone, in his contact profile, so that he could not contact me. I then sent him a message while I was still upset, a message I truly regret. Did he receive the message?? I still have him blocked because I don't think either of us are ready to talk.
I have some network volumes in my Login Items so that I can reconnect at startup. Being on a network, they naturally require a password.
I am trying to pass a variable that has been set in Automator to an AppleScript within Automator. My Automator workflow is as follows: Ask for Finder Items (only allowing folder type) Set Value of Variable (variable set to "chosenfolder") Get Value of Variable (chosenfolder) Run AppleScript This returns the error: Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the chosen folder in automator cannot be accepted in the AppleScript?
How do I stop Microsoft Skype For Business from automatically starting every time I rebook macOS?
I have two external monitors on my MacBook Pro 2015 15" and I was doing an adjustment on the display arrangement yesterday when suddenly the displays on the arrangement tab gone.  I tried already: Restart the computer Unplug and plug all the cables Change cables Reset NVRAM Reset SMC Click on detect displays Create another admin user The strange thing is when I click on Mirror Displays, the displays appear but right after I unmark that they're gone again.
I am trying to make space on my Mac. It's overloaded and slow. I wanted to know if I can remove my photo application with all it's data and store it on an external drive? I understand that I couldn't access it if the external drive was not connected to my Mac. Can I do this? I have a MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.12.3).
I'm not receiving any notifications for any apps on my Mac running Sierra. I'm pretty sure the screenshot of my notification centre preferences below is illustrating the problem, i.e. there's nothing there. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong and how to fix it?
Previously, the column view would allow scrolling that would display an items file type, created date, modified date, last opened date, and tags (if any). This would happen when the window's height wasn't very tall and the preview column was enabled (you'd see the preview of the file type AND if the metadata didn't fit, that part of the screen was vertically scrollable). Any thoughts on why this no longer works?
For reasons I can not identify the Navigator application would no longer open, leading me to reinstall with the latest version of the Anaconda package from the Continuum website at this webpage. I have not updated my macOS recently or made any other changes that might trigger this.
Please help me remove folder '/private/var/root/Android' on my Mac. I make sudo rm -rf /private/var/root/Library/Android/ but nothing happens. Any ideas, I will be very grateful.
I have a Magic Mouse 2 - the type that can be connected to my laptop with a Lightning cable, and a Retina MBP 15-inch Mid 2015 running Sierra (10.12.3). My mouse does not connect via Bluetooth. Power cycling the mouse, the computer itself, the bluetooth, and the wifi does nothing. I've also tried un-pairing the mouse as well. I followed every step of every answer on this already.
Anyone hazard a guess as to why? I have not changed my System language settings to Spanish, have not ventured with any Mac/iDevices to a country where the primary language is Spanish and nothing else on my machine(s) seems to have been translated...
I have an iPod shuffle 3rd gen with voiceover kit set up. It uses a horrid Microsoft voice you can hardly understand. Since the voice generated depends on the computer used, is there any method to customising the voice used? Thanks for any responses.
In my Mid-2012 13 inch MacBook Pro I have a 500GB HDD in the standard SATA bay and I replaced the DVD drive with a drive cage which has a SSD in it. I bought this Hitachi HST 1TB drive \to replace my 500GB drive, but when I put it in the standard SATA bay I can't format it and I couldn't install Windows or Linux on it.
On macOS (Darwin, 4.4BSD derivative), you have this nifty process manager called launchd controlled by launchctl analog to systemd and systemctl. Executing launchctl alone yields a list of subcommands. Among them are bootstrap and load. What is(are) the difference(s) between them?
I am using a Mac pro with MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 When using a Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 at 4k, the UI scale gets really large.  On 2k the ui looks as it should.
I have a small hard drive on my MacBook, and a (not so) large iPhone. Is there a way I can back up my phone to my laptop but exclude the hundreds of bulky apps? Most of the apps can be reinstalled quite easily from the App Store, and store no unduplicated local data worth protecting. I don’t see any reason to concern myself with including them in the backup and they make the size of the iPhone backups prohibitive.
I have a Google Translate app created with Fluid App. I want to translate any selected text with this my Google Translate Fluid App. So, for this purpose how do I create a service with Automator/AppleScript?
How do I install the program free on macOS Sierra? free prints memory usage to the terminal like top, but it just prints out once and works nicely with awk and sed.
For some odd reason Auto Unlock on my Mac doesn't work unless my iPhone is out of range, in Airplane Mode, or off. I just discovered this because it worked for the first time when my iPhone was rebooting due to an update. Is there anyway to fix this?
I recently installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I installed the drivers I could find from the internet (I installed this package *=URL=* and everything is working fine (kind of very bad performance) but the sound. I can't get it to work, the speaker in the menubar (in windows) shows a red cross and when I hover the mouse over it it says: No Audio output device installed. In Device Manager, the internal speaker appears but it displays an initialization error (code 10). I wiped macOS during installation so I have no access to it (or to recovery mode). Please Help.
I'm a mac user for years, even a developer, but I cannot remove this POS from "zoom.us" from my Mac.  Any ideas appreciated ...
When viewing my iCloud documents in a browser window, they are displayed by default in icon view. There doesn't seem to be an option to view them in list view -- which seems astonishing to me. Am I just missing it?
After updating to iOS 10.3 (and 10.3.1) there is a random, additional folder in Mail app attached to my Gmail account, named [Google Mail]. Prior to this update it was not there.
There are several questions about this, but none seem to address what I'm seeing. After editing my /etc/hosts with vi with a test redirect, nothing is redirecting when I visit in a browser, including Safari, Chrome and Firefox. This is on MacOs Sierra. the result of $ cat /private/etc/hosts shows the same contents. I have tried flushing the cache two ways: I have also rebooted my machine. How can I get my /etc/hosts file to redirect?
I've been using the Podcasts app and I'd like to be able to mark in some way the episodes that I really like. I was saving them but I realized that they get downloaded if I do that, which causes space issues.
Whenever I’m on a phone call with my iPhone 6S, the phone locks itself. The actual call continues normally, but if I want to access the screen, including to end the call, I have to unlock the phone using Touch ID or by entering my passcode.
My trusty 2011 mbp discrete graphics chip has died. It wouldn't boot- just gets to a point in the boot and shows bad lines on the screen and hangs. It even hangs on a USB recovery disk so it isn't the internal drive/settings.
I got the "Finder Quit Unexpectedly" upon turning on my MacBook Pro (purchased 2010) today. Went to Everything Mac booklet that came with computer, I have not done an upgrade recently because the next one would not support AppleWorks which is the mainstay of my work. I do not know the name of the OS I stopped on. These are the steps recommended in the book: Reset power manager; Reset PRAM; Hardware test from disk holding down D when starting (no error codes); From Mac OS X install DVD did restart holding down C - when installer instructed, open Disk Utility and followed instructions. When restarting same error message came back; "Finder quit unexpectedly".
I have some very simple applescript's that I run frequently and they seem to sometimes take less then second and sometimes like 2. Is there an alternative that would be faster? My guess is no.
When opening a new window in native fullscreen mode OSX creates a new "desktop" for the window, I'd like all new windows to open to the "first" desktop which means I can go straight into it instead of needing to swipe through every single current desktop. The first screenshot is the current behaviour. I'd like the second to happen. Notice "Desktop 2" as the new one I opened.
stuck updating to macOS Sierra. downloaded fine but when updating computer says i don't have enough space. and I am now stuck in reboot mode
I am new to Ruby and am trying to learn from a book. However, I have one problem – it says I should save a file so that it ends with .rb but my Mac only lets me use .rtf so that's what I used. But the next thing I needed to do was open it in Terminal and the command cd /Users/username/ruby didn't work for me. I'm guessing the reason for this is because I didn't use .rb it didn't work. So my question is: What should I use for writing Ruby in the end of that command, or for saving with the .rb extension?
Recently, out of nowhere, I lost the ability to listen to WhatsApp voice notes whenever I take the phone to my ear. When I do, I get the silent logo sign of iPhone, while in fact the phone is not silent. Also the volume is not low and is to maximum. Whenever I take the phone away from my ear, the voice note plays normally on the loudspeaker.
I have a folder called "from camera" that contains an AVCHD component. I recorded my videos using a SONY-X70.
Each time system up / restart, spotlight doesn't search any application. I have to re-index manually.
So I've got the following: I want to copy the file of this path to my clipboard. How to I do this? I tried:
It looks like keys with tilde ` and section § glyph are not working with OS X. I found a question on Official Apple Support Communities but there is no usable answers. I highlighted a keys that does nothing.
the simplest way to do so, seems to be to run the Buddy.app from within the same folder as MyApp.app. then i can move the Buddy.app with MyApp.app anywhere, and they will still work together to set up the relative file locations in bash script,
Since I work with Xcode and plug in and out iOS devices multiple times per day, I don't want iTunes to automatically backup them every time I plug them in. But at the same time I would like to have a daily backup of the devices. So I was wondering - is there a way to trigger iOS sync with a terminal command, so then it can be scheduled to run every day?
Every few days, all in app purchases disappear. I have to go into each app and use the "Restore Purchases" option to get everything back. Also: My alarms keep being deleted - the alarm page is just blank and I have to add them again. Passwords/Log in states for apps are being lost - for example I have to log into Instagram, etc, every few days.
Is it possible to open Keychain Access safety notes on iPhone?
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro, that runs only on charger (wall power), because the battery died a long time ago. With battery it used to be able to hibernate to disk, but it seems like I can not get that feature to work now, because the battery level never gets low enough to trigger the hibernation to disk - there is no battery. I want to be able to close the lid and for the system to get into safe state, where I can remove the charger and later restore my work from were I left off, when I plug it in again.
I have a new late 2016 MBP and a new Samsung u28ue590 4K monitor. According to Apples documentation: MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016) and late-2016 MacBook Pro models support 60Hz refresh rates over HDMI when used with a supported HDMI 2.0 display, an HDMI Premium Certified cable, and a supported USB-C to HDMI 2.0 adapter
I've added MacOS Sierra machine to a corporate Active Directory domain and have enabled the remote login for several users in an AD group. Those users can log in locally via UI and even can log in via opened SSH to mac.
I have some issue with my macbook air mid 2011 13" One day screen start blinking and flickering. This is a short video how it looks like click Only blinking, no stripes on screen or other artifacts.
I already returned a Macbook Pro 2016 to Apple because of that and also because it had some other issues with the graphic card. The new one that they gave me has exactly the same behavior as the one that I returned. Way to reproduce it: Install the latest Viber Open Viber and do a video call (cameras ON from both sides) During the Video call move around the screen some Finder or other applications windows.
I am using a Macbook Pro system with El Capitan that has an external monitor plugged into the lightning port and has my desktop expanded across the laptop screen and the external monitor. Whenever I start an RDP (v8.0.38) session (by this I mean connect to another computer, and not just start the RDP application), the session window always starts in full screen mode and covers the entire desktop. This is sort of OK when I am only using the laptop itself. But when I have the external monitor plugged in, the RDP session window extends across both the laptop screen and external monitor as one big RDP window. The only way I can get the RDP session window to only cover one physical screen is to disconnect the external monitor prior to starting the RDP session, and then plug the monitor back in. If I don't remove the external monitor, and then instead just try to change the RDP session window resolution (via ⌘-1) then weird things happen to the RDP session window (I see a blank window) and I
I have the MacBook Pro and several times the touch bar will just hang on me — freeze. I wont be able to control anything from it and it's pretty much unresponsive. Is there a way we can restart it or something where I don't need the whole system to restart.
We have these brand spanking new MacBook Pros for our sales staff. We develop industrial hardware and software that we run on Debian in production, so we're relying on VirtualBox. It has always worked fine for our development staff using Windows hosts.
When Night Shift is turned on on my iPhone and I toggle Inverted Colors on and off, mode Night Shift is still enabled. When I does the same on my Mac Night Shift is disabled. It looks like it is disabled as soon as I turn Inverted Colors on. Also toggling Inverted Colors disables the Night Shift schedule. How do I prevent this from happening?
Is there a way to have it so I only get messages and texts sent to my cell phone on my cell phone and only iMessages sent to my email on my Mac? For instance now if someone sends me a message to my email address, I get it on my Mac AND iPhone. For that particular message I would only want it on my Mac.
I'm using Sierra 10.12.5 Beta (16F43c) on a iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015). I wish to use an external Dell monitor 1600x1200px, dvi. I have two cables that I know are working fine and so does the monitor, (I can test with other devices) the problem is that since a few days I can no longer use the monitor, it's not recognised and it goes immediately on "Entering Power Save Mode".
I am using oh-my-zsh on iterm while I would like terminal.app to be using bash. I did see a previous thread, but when I ran chsh -s /bin/bash, I got: -chsh: illegal option -- c usage: chpass [-l location] [-u authname] [-s shell] [user]
I have a Early 2011 Macbook pro. A few days ago, I turned on my computer and it was on the lowest brightness setting (almost pitch black).
I have OS X Mavericks and Sierra on 2 Macbooks, and on both, sftp will not do command history. It will show something like
I just learned of a new way to connect to a server and do secure ftp, which is to use Finder, and use Go -> Connect to Server and use and it will open the directories just like inside of Finder (although on Mavericks, it is an X-window type of window. On Sierra, it looks like a native window). However, I found that I can drag and drop files from the remote server to the local hard drive, but not the other way around. Is there a way to fix it?
One of the oddities of the iPad is that when I activate the screen-based touch keyboard, there are no arrow keys. There are arrow keys on a physical Apple keyboard, but no arrow keys on the touchscreen keyboard. Am I missing something, or some shortcut? Without arrow keys I end up fumbling around trying to touch with my finger the exact place in the text where the cursor should go, but since my finger is the diameter of 2.5 lines of text, this is a trial and error process.
I installed the Google Play Music app on my Macbook (Sierra 10.12.4) then uninstalled it. Now my Touch Bar music controls no longer work with iTunes. How can I reset it?
Can time machine or iCloud backups overcome ransomeware encryption of your hard drive?
I've just upgraded my late 2011 MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra 10.12.4. When I went to check the storage used on my hard drive in About This Mac > Storage, at first it showed me the proper free/used breakdown, but when I got more details, it got way off:
I have a system set up where i can drop folders containing albums into a folder set up with folder actions running through Hazel, which runs a script on the new folder. I have 2 actions, one for folders containing .flac, and one for folders containing .mp3. both instances work along, but when i want the folder to have both folder actions, it will only do the first action. i suspect this is because they are both loops. And: They each work on their own, but they will not work when put together in the same script, only the for loop called first works, the second one never runs. Whats is a good soulution to this?
Suppose I have some moderately sensitive stuff in my user account on a broken Mac. Now bringing it to Apple for repair. (macOS 10.12.4 if that matters) Apple's advice is: OK, but is that enough?
I am in a hostel for the second night. WiFi worked great yesterday. Today, it asks for the password instead of remembering, but doesn't accept it. Keeps asking. I have airplane mode on to prevent cell usage but WiFi and Bluetooth on.
Make sure that you include the blank newline when you copy the text onto the clipboard. Make sure that there is a space between the hyphen and the first word of the text. Otherwise, the bug will not surface.
I have "Look up & data detectors" set to three-finger tap in the Trackpad preference pane. This means that when I three-finger tap on a word, I get a dictionary tooltip/overlay like so:
My iCloud shows that storage is full. I have closed the photo Photo Stream that relates to iCloud and I've double checked the memory using on Pages, Numbers etc and there is not much in there:
CalendarAgent is having some kind of issue and is creating hundreds (no exaggeration) of errors in the Console. I cannot find a way to resolve it.
I have a mid-2014 MBP Pro which I have updated to macOS 10.12.4. After running this update, the laptop refuses to connect to any Wi-Fi network.
How should I write the conditional SUMIF if I want to SUM values in column C where column B is IP?
I tried to configure the Mail App for my Mail Server using STARTTLS on Port 587 but it does not seem to work. The app complains that there is no connection possible whether I check to use encryption or not. In the server logs I see that the iPad connects but does not issue a STARTTLS command. I found these questions 1, 2 that suggest that iOS does not support STARTTLS but this sounds quite unreasonable. So I would like to confirm that iOS does not support STARTTLS or that the error has to be found somewhere else. Other devices can connect without problems.
Is it possible to open a CSV file with Excel direct from Finder and have the data grouped into columns. I know this is possible through the "File > Import" route, but it takes a lot of time if you are working with CSVs a lot. If I simply set Excel as the default application, it opens the data as follows: I would like to have that data in separate columns.
I'm trying to find the process that takes care of what applications are open. For example, an app I closed stills shows as open in Dock and Force Quit, so I want to kill/restart that process (which takes care of what processes are open). Logging out would solve it too, but I can't right now. Restarting Dock does not work.
Is there a complete list of all possible diagnostics reports (files created in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) groups and their interpretation? I'm aware of following types: app crashes: *.crash kernel panics: *.panic
so I'm trying to install either Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan on this MBP. Results: On Mavericks, I keep on getting a message that says "my copy of the installer is corrupt or may have been tampered with during downloading". On Mavericks, I keep on getting a message that says "my copy of the installer is corrupt or may have been tampered with during downloading". Same results as above on Yosemite Same results as above on Yosemite
I have a MBP17 with an SSD (Sierra) which I want to switch with my husband's MBP13 for work related reasons. Would taking out the SSD (OS and files intact) from the MBP17 and placing it in the MBP13 without re-installing anything render any problems? Meaning is the harddrive linked to an installation in any way, leading me to have to re-install Mac on the SSD before I can use the MBP13? Would it matter that the MBP13 is still on El Capitan and the MBP17 on Sierra?
On my MacBook Pro (Late 2013, 13-inch, Retina display, Intel Iris 1536MB GPU), the display and/or GPU seems to be damaged: There are colored vertical stripes, that seem to get worse on dark/black surfaces, when they are not regularily updated. There is a white bar on the upper side. And it seems that every second horizontal row of pixels in the Retina display is black (third picture).
I'm having some issues unrelated to the question (I have to unplug and plug back the HDMI cable for it to work). So I was wondering... Would a USB-C to DisplayPort work better? not only in terms of getting rid of having the unplug/plug the HDMI cable but also in overall performance? How does a USB-C to HDMI work vs USB-C to DisplayPort?
If I am connected to wifi on my iPhone, and I turn on my personal hotspot, and then tether to my MacBook will my MacBook use the wifi that my iPhone is connected to or will it use my data via personal hotspot? MacBook is not connected to wifi, only the usb tether to the iPhone, which is connected to wifi.
I have the Apple MacBook 12" (2016) 1,1GHz 256GB Silver and a 4K/60Hz monitor. I have tried this hardware to connect the displays at 4k/60Hz: Anker® Aluminium USB C Type C to HDMI Converter, Supports 4 K/60Hz to HDMI Converter Kanaan USB-C HDMI Adapter | USB-C USB 3.1 Type-C to HDMI Adapter Converter This works perfectly when the USB-C port is connected directly to my MacBook. I have only 1 USB-C port on my MacBook. When I add a Belkin USB-C hub or even try to use the USB-C port of the Apple Multi-AV adapter, both adapters don't work, they don't provide any video output. I have these USB-hubs/adapters: Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adaptor Belkin USB-C 4 Port Mini Port Expansion Hub
I'm running Fiery Command Workstation on a Mac and it tends to crash every couple of days. I've been looking in the Console but it shows any events for FCW that are a few days old, not for the days I know it crashed. Can anyone recommend software that can monitor specific apps so that when they hang or crash, it gets logged (and as a bonus, send out email notifications)?
(BTW: if you're using this as instructions to burn your own disk drives, MAKE SURE you have the right device identifiers (e.g. the /dev/sdb or /dev/disk2 mentioned above). dd does exactly what you tell it to do, so if you get the wrong identifier and tell it to overwrite your boot drive, it'll happily do so. Look elsewhere on how to determine the right device.)
I'm curious if there's a way to deactivate the feature/behavior in Mac Mail (Sierra) where mail is automatically marked as read when clicked (I want it to remain unread until I click otherwise). I know that I can use the "Classic View" to remove the preview feature, but that doesn't accomplish what I'm aiming for (I want the preview to remain active). And I know there used to be a plugin called TruePreview which offered this feature, but it's no longer available. Any ideas?
Since updating my iPhone 6S Plus to iOS 10.3 I stumbled on a bug that I really need some help resolving or at least confirmation that it exists. The problem is with the Gmail app on iOS, which is set up to work with my two Gmail email accounts.
I want to silence my iPhone during certain hours of the day manually … but with two exceptions: Some of my contacts are important and I want to receive calls from them (I know how to do it). I have a very important Slack channel which I do not want to be silent at any time. How can I achieve this? Update : If there is a 3rd party application to do this i hope someone suggest it .. Thanks.
After upgrading to iOS 10.3.1, my iPad Air 2 is no longer playing music videos (TV icon), which I downloaded using Syncios. I can see that the music videos are there on my device, but they won’t play.
Currently I have a challenging keyboard setup. My MacBook Pro has a fr_FR (French AZERTY) keyboard, but the layout is currently set to fr_CA (Canadian QWERTY). Even if the keys are not labelled right, it works perfectly fine for me who's used to a French Canadian keyboard.
I've gone into Airport Utility and set up a stable IP based on the MAC address of my Linux box's Ethernet controller. I then set up port forwarding for magic packets on public UDP port 29999 to private port 9 and the 10.0.1.x address I assigned to my linux box.
I fully understand these machines are not designed for gaming at all, but I was wondering if you guys can tell me approximate FPS for these games: World of Warcraft Heroes of the Storm
I've got the latest MacBook Pro with the touch bar. 4GB Graphics memory and I'm trying to figure out how much graphics memory is in use when I run certain apps. I also run Parallels which dedicates part of that memory to itself so I want to make sure I don't starve it for my normal mac use. I can see in Activity monitor that what I'm running requires High Perf GPU but I can't tell how much memory is being used. Where can I see that memory usage?
Is there a way to disable automount for all disks, not based on Volume UUID? I have macOS Sierra (10.12.3) installed on an external drive. Depending on the machine I am booting into, I don't always know the UUID for the internal disk and I need to have a way for the internal disk not to be mounted, or at least be mounted read-only.
I never wanted CC on my computer and now it won't let me uninstall - comes up with "You still have Creative Cloud applications installed on your computer that require it." The Adobe product on my computer is Lightroom; I've had it for years and don't run it through creative cloud. Do I have to get rid of this just to get rid of CC? Apologies if it's obvious to people who know more. Using 10.11.2 el capitan
I recently made the switch to Apple Music and have enabled the iCloud Music Library feature. The setup has been smooth and without issues, I now have all of the playlists on my Mac synced over iCloud to my iPhone. The issue is, all of the previous playlists from the last sync via cable (pre iCloud) are still showing up under 'on my device' section of the information pane for my iPhone when it is paired over wifi on iTunes. Is there a way to have it update so that it displays the current playlists on the phone after having synced over iCloud?
For my job, before I deploy a new Mac laptop, I need to enable these two settings: System Preferences - Sharing - Remote Login. Once enabled I also need to add the admin account that previously I have created by selecting the little + symbol under Only these users:
Every time I open Terminal this is on there like 50 times. I have no idea what I'm doing, I was just trying to get my Terminal to start with a folder and I found this online:
I tried to download Xcode from the Mac app store and the internet connection stopped at some point. It has downloaded more that 3 GB out of 4.53 GB. Now that I got my internet connection back, but the download stopped entirely.
I have Panasonic earphones, which used to work perfectly till a couple of days back. I haven't changed any settings recently but now my Macbook Pro (early 2015) doesn't recognize it as an output sound device. The input from its mic is working fine though. Also, I have a steelseries headset (USB) which works perfectly. Any ideas?
There is one specific word doc that contains a draft SOP for running a piece of manufacturing equipment. When I select this file to open it from the Finder or from Word, I get a permission error, and "Select this file to give access to it". I select it, and then it raises the error: "User does not have permission to access this file."
I went through the steps using BCA to create my USB installer and partition my drive. Everything went fine, ended up messing up after a successful install and decided to wipe the partition and start again. Here's where I went wrong. Instead of using BCA to wipe the Windows install, I did it manually through Disk Utility. I then created a new ExFAT partition in DU and went about the install process again. However, since that point I have had 2 Windows partitions show in the Boot Loader, the old non-existent one and the new working one. Here's what diskutil list gives me:
When pressing ⌘+tab , I want to cycle through only the apps on the display that contains the app which currently has focus or contains the cursor. Likewise, when pressing ⌘+ ` , I want to limit the windows to the current display.
I'm planning on buying the MacBook pro 2016. I can get it with two or four Thunderbolt 3 ports. However, I want to run two DVI screens with it, and I need one port for charging, and some extra I/O ports would be nice. I've seen the following online:
I have my screen at the lowest brightness level, the keyboard without light, and F.lux installed to remove the blue light from my screen. That has a very positive effect on my sleep schedule. Now, on my new Macbook Pro with the touchbar, there is this scandalous lighthouse below my screen. The brightness of that thing is giving me headaches. How can I just make it dimmer?
EDIT: It turns out the issue is not an incompatibility with my model, but the fact that I am exclusively using an external monitor, and cannot access the Night Shift preference pane as a result. If anyone knows how to trick the system into thinking an external monitor is the internal screen please let me know.
I have one column that is asking for my customer's name, some of my customers put just one and others put several names (first, last, title, etc.) I am trying to change this column to split at the space. I found an answer on here that gave me the following formulas LEFT(C2, FIND(" ",C2,)) and =RIGHT(B2, LEN(B2)−FIND(" ", B2)) This is working for me BUT if there is no space (they only put their first name) then it won't split out to the first column making half my users not have a first name.
We use a VPN to get around geoblocking because we now live in a different country to our native homeland. We do this by using an iMac to connect to the internet via an ethernet cable. I then connect to the VPN service and share that connection with internet sharing from the iMac. How this works is I use internet sharing to share the VPN connection via the iMac's Wi Fi antenna.
Title sums it up, pretty frequently, once an hour or so at work I get a pop up asking me to "always allow" "deny", or "allow" WebKit to sign using my private keychain. At this point I've answered it pretty much all ways and it keeps coming up. Some information that may be relevant: I'm not logged in as an administrator, but a normal privileged user Happens most frequently when I log in
Someone sent me an emoji in a text on an iPhone. How can I lookup the "description" of what it represents using the native UI?
I am in need to clean up my outlook for mac 2016 and looking forward to an organized mailbox. But before that, I need to backup all my email database from outlook mac so that I don't lose any emails. The Outlook for mac export is taking a lot of time to export the mailboxes as they are quite large in number. Is there any other way around to backup the outlook for mac 2016?
Given the US government's rollback on internet users' privacy with ISPs, what is the best way to protect your privacy when using Apple devices online? Not just within macOS and iOS, but also when using third party apps online?
I've had this problem for a while now on Yosemite. It all started when I tried to change Alfred to reveal files with forklift rather than finder. Since I couldn't get that to work i've reverted back to finder except now both Alfred and Chrome "show in finder" just opens the file instead of revealing in finder. I've avoided fixing it for a while by using the terminal open /path/to/folder but that is super inefficient. I couldn't find a similar question addressing this (frustrating) issue. Thanks.
So in El Capitan (and probably earlier), I was able to go to Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and copy that folder to an external hard drive, delete the old folder on my internal drive, and use terminal to create an alias folder of the one on my external hard drive to place where the folder went on my internal drive (ln -s /Volumes/INSERT HARD DRIVE NAME HERE/MobileSync/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup). The alias folder had the same name ("Backup") as the "real" one and so, as long as I had my external drive connected while I was trying to run iOS device backups, it worked. iOS device backups were saved to the external hard drive instead of internal SSD.
If you use an external monitor for your Mac of any shape or size and recently updated to macOS Sierra 10.12.4, chances are you've had some trouble with Night Shift. Common issues include: the inability to configure Night Shift from your external monitor Night Shift being impossible to disable (as a result of the former) a substantial loss of colour quality (as a result of both of the former happening at once on some connection or screen types, most commonly DVI-D to VGA, DisplayPort, and LCD screens of all kinds.)
I recently received a PDF and as I read through it using Preview I used the Dictionary lookup shortcut (Cmd Ctrl D). It was working fine. Later I added a memo to the PDF and it seemed to break the Dictionary lookup functionality. I reverted to a previous Version that had no memos and the Dictionary function worked again. This is not good, since I regularly receive PDFs that are not in my native language and I need to use the Dictionary lookup a lot, but I would also like to annotate my PDFs sometimes.
Recently I noticed that on both Spark and the default mail app, my name is being replaced as "Holiday In The United States". This is happening on all my accounts, with various email providers. I have verified my name in both System Preferences, Spark Preferences, and Mail Preferences. Additionally, I have checked my name on each email provider's settings. To clarify, I am only seeing my name as "Holiday In The United States" from my Mac, not online.
For the second time in a relatively short period I am having issues with the search function on my macbook. Whether in spotlight, Mail app, or Finder search results return nothing. If I reboot the search works fine again. Unfortunately this now seems to be a recurring problem. It's also a recent problem that I never had before, first noted it a few weeks ago. Macbook on macOS Sierra 10.12.3.
Is there a way to relaunch the upload to iCloud Drive? My Mac has been uploading severals files for weeks.
I have mid 2014 MBP. Sierra 10.12.4 just destroyed my laptop's Wifi. After the laptop resumes from sleep, it will not connect to a Wifi network again. Initially I thought it was a corrupt file or something, so I reformatted the computer and ran a clean installation of 10.12.4.
How does iOS detect the version of an installed app, to figure out whether or not an update (release with higher version) of the app is available? Is the app's info.plist taken into account or does the App Store app do some bookkeeping?
Is it even possible I have deleted the default trusted root certificates from inside Keychain Access, or why else can I not use the certificate anymore? Is there a way to reset or fix it?
I use an external usb mouse/keyboard when I use my Mac (and have been for some time without any problems). Since the C-Error 10.12.4 update, my Macbook Pro no longer allows me to set/save my Mouse Tracking Speed in the System Preferences and the mouse tracking speed is stuck on slowest speed.
In my list view, I keep only four columns: Name, Date Modified, Size, Kind  By default, Kind is the last column. With a mouse/trackpad, I can finely rearrange its position where I like it: in the second column. The final result is: Name, Kind, Date Modified, Size.
My Apple-ID (e.g., on *=URL=* ) is set up to require entry of a 6-digit code sent to my registered Apple products. This code is being sent to the same device I'm currently requesting to log in. I feel this absolutely defeats the purpose of this 2-Factor Authentication: If a person knows my password, this person can receive the code on that device, and access my apple account without any problems. Is this a bug or can I set up / change how this security step works?
I only recently updated to Sierra (10.12.4). Now when I use the Console program to view console messages, I see a massive amount of logging by WebKit, especially about "Current memory footprint":
Is it OK to put this MacBook Pro in my backpack to carry around? Appreciate hardware analysis.
I'm asking because I have had accidentally unplugged other WD external hard drives without ejecting in the past while not writing data, like in this case, but the drives never broke. What is up in this case?
My 256 GB drive is fairly full, so that's about 1%. Does that sound right? About 1% of the size of my stuff is used for indexing? Just curious. I have quite a mix of file types, years of photos, lots of text and pdf's for research, youtube downloads, python's numpy and other text and non-text data files... does it all somehow get indexed? Is there some magic way to stop it from opening file types I'm not interested in indexing?
Since my last OS update after every restart the following message pops up: macOS Updates Installed. Your computer restarted to install these updates.
My MacBook Pro was stolen. Is it possible to figure out what Apple ID is now associated with my MacBook Pro using its serial number? Is there a way I can still track down my macbook pro in the event that the one who took or "borrowed" my MBP... 1) Did not connect to the internet 2) Clean installed the OS (boot from USB, then reformatted the Hard Drive/Macintosh HD) 3) Reset the PRAM and NVRAM 4) Installed his own or new Apple ID credentials to iCloud I really just need to know realistically, if whoever took it did this. Is there still a chance I can get it back or at least track its location or who has it.
How can I tell if an Apple 12.9 inch iPad Pro with Wi-Fi is the latest model? Is the model # enough? Thank you.
My MacBook Air was stolen. Can you see what Apple ID is now associated with my MacBook Air using its serial number?
I had my mac recently stolen about 48 hours ago and I've been trying to track it's location ever since. Until recently it only showed its last location which was on my college campus, which didn't narrow down its whereabouts. Now it says "offline" on iCloud, is it lost forever?
I'm used to having Command-Left Arrow (⌘+←) and Command-Right Arrow (⌘+→) to switch between tabs, going to the previous and next tabs. I have configured these keys in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts for Safari.app.
I am trying to find Python.framework under ~/Library/Frameworks but it's not there. I need it to create a path from a software leading to my mac's Python including its bin and lib folders. I only see Samsung Kies in my Frameworks folder. Does anyone know why?
Have just bought a new iPad (iOS 10.3.1) for my son - our first and only Apple device. Since he's only 10, have been trying to set up Family Sharing with little success.
In Firefox, pressing ⌘ cmd K used to open a search page. But as of recent updates, it only focuses the URL bar.
Is there a way receive push notifications from GitHub on my iPhone? I'd like to receive updates about pull requests and comments for my hosted projects, but the site only offers notifications via email or through the website, and there isn't an official GitHub app either.
I have Plex Media Server on a Mac Pro serving video to Plex Home Theater on a Mac Mini. All file formats play just fine except for HEVC h.265 files.
I want to hide photos and videos on my iPhone 6s. Can I do that directly or I need any apps for that?
Now that MagSafe is dead in favor of USB-C, how many types of MagSafe are there and how do I identify which one matches my computer?
I have Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. I have some notes in Macbook Pro as saved in keychains. How can I view them in Macbook Air without affecting Macbook Air keychains?
I am using Safari on the MacBook Pro, and had about 100 tabs open. As a result the Touch Bar lit up with lots of tiny images of the pages I opened. I wanted to show someone how the Touch Bar had changed, but didn't want to take out my phone and take a picture of it. Is there any way to do this?
I have a MacBook Air (mid 2013) running macOS 10.12.3 which is connected to an external monitor. I have my dock set to auto-hide on my MacBook Air screen but I don't want this to happen on my external monitor. Is there any way to do this natively on a mac? Are there software that supports this feature?
I have many purchased iOS apps in my iTunes on macOS. I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 that cannot be upgraded to any upper iOS due to lack of compatibility. Some of apps in iTunes were downloaded in my iPhone 4 and then transferred to iTunes, these apps are compatible with my iPhone 4; But other apps were downloaded directly in iTunes need minimum version of iOS greater than 7.1.2. I want to find these incompatible apps with my iPhone 4.
The location permissions text for Apple's Clips app says Your […] weather will be displayed in overlays you can add to your videos. How dow I add weather overlays to my videos?
I installed dropbox and now my screenshots go to dropbox, I tried disabling "Share screenshots using dropbox" but now screenshots don't go to the folder but also not to the clipboard How can I store screenshots again?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro 2015 15" and I really want the battery to stay healthy. Is there a way to force my Mac to use the Power adapter as power source, instead of using the battery as source and charging it at the same time? (The Mac already does this when the battery is at 100% to, well, have the battery stay healthy.)
This makes no sense to me. Until now, my belief was that either the SSD would be unmountable or it would be 100% fine. This is clearly somewhere in between.
EDIT: Upon further testing, the issue mostly seems to occur when I start the selection and then move the cursor to the right with the touchpad pressed down. If I start and then move the cursor to the left, I can 100% select the text as expected.
As you probably know,  and Unicode keeps adding new emojis, but, if like me, you can't or you don't want to update to the latest version of macOS, you don't have those emojis. I know that there are several emojis fonts such as EmojiOne Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) But, I don't want to have this kind of library, I would like to have the "real" emojis from  (Yes, I ❤️ to use the Apple logo and emojis ). Is there a way to update the emoji list from the  emojis? This is my question, I think it's technically possible, but I have no idea where to find those emojis and how to update them.
Will an iPhone's battery drain faster in places with a poor wifi signal (or phone signal)? My bedroom is far from the wireless router, usually the signal is very weak and flickering, but I have to discover, that after waking up from sleep my battery lost around 25 % for 7-8 hours, while actually I don't do anything with my phone, but it takes more energy than average when idle. Someone can explain this for me, is it true?
On this website, the blue button has the defined color #1E9AE2. In Safari and Firefox on macOS, this color is displayed as #449AE0:
I just enabled coloring for ls command but for some reason few directories are highlighted, which bugs me because I don't know why. Could someone tell me how to disable it or why they are highlighted?
I was able to mount NTFS drives for both read and write in OS X 10.12.3. But in 10.12.4, it failed
Every time I sync my iPhone with my Prius audio system my music tries to play randomly when not selected. It interrupts phone calls and other streaming content. When it does this the music app doesn't even show it's open. Help!
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Several websites suddenly recently have popped up the dialog sheet in Safari requesting me to select an SSL client certificate. None of these sites (one example is forums.macrumors.com) actually use client certificates at all. It doesn't matter which one I pick, the dialog simply comes back. If I select cancel, then loading the site simply hangs. None of this happens with any other browser, or with Safari on any other machine. Where do I aim the scalpel to chop out this particular cancer?
First time I've installed Sierra a couple of months ago, I tried the universal clipboard with my iPhone 6. It worked immediately like a charm and since I used it, I found this feature really useful for many use-cases. Unfortunately, this feature doesn't work anymore after I upgraded from a 2 year old iPhone 6 to a new iPhone 7 Plus. I know what I need for that feature to work (as it used to work fine): Both devices are connected with my iCloud account (same Apple ID) Bluetooth and Wifi are turned ON on both devices Both devices are connected to the same Wifi network Both devices are next to each other (less than 1 meter). iMAC 10.12.3 (16D32) iPhone 7 IOS 10.3 Both iMac and iPhone have been rebooted a couple of times. No text, no URL, no picture can be copied & pasted from one device to the other anymore. Any thought what could be wrong with the new iPhone 7?
Is there an way to make a disk image on a booted mac show up as a storage device on the Thunderbolt bus ? I know it is possible to put the mac in Target Disk Mode and then the whole internal drive shows up as storage device on the Thunderbolt bus, but I only what to share a disk image that way, and I want to keep my mac booted up in macOS.
I've just acquired my fourth USB-C peripheral. In addition to the charger, that makes five USB-C devices that I want to connect to my Macbook Pro. Perhaps I want to connect all five at once, but it only has 4 ports or perhaps I just don't want to plug in four cables every time I sit down. I've tried searching google and amazon and elsewhere for /usb(c|-c| c) (hub|splitter)/ and I am only finding solutions for connecting a bunch of older devices to a single USB-C port. Am I missing something obvious here?
So I had bought an iPad about 5 years ago (iPad 1), and I found it lying on a shelf, and I thought: why not use it? But it doesn't turn on. I let it charge for 16 hours and it still does not turn on. Also, when it is plugged in, the screen turns on (it's just black but you can see its on) for less than a second and then turns back off. Can someone help me turn it on and get it working?
When the CPU/GPU of my early 2015 13" Retina MBP running El Capitan 10.11.6 is under strain, the wifi drops. I first noticed this whilst playing the web browser game diep.io in Chrome. When the game is running fairly CPU-intensively the wifi menu bar symbol turns to 'off' for a few seconds and then reconnects, hence booting me from the game. This happens intermittently - perhaps every 15 minutes. I thought it was related to the fan activating but I've observed it without fan too. I've tested on 2 different wifi routers, both 2.4ghz, and with/without power cable - same results. This is the only situation I've noticed the wifi dropping in - it doesn't drop randomly or suffer any other connectivity issues AFAIK. Are there further tests I can run or solutions to try? Update: some more tests Chrome with hardware acceleration off: no wifi drops, but game doesn't run hot enough to activate the fan Safari: Game doesn't work Firefox with hardware acceleration: same as Chrome (no drops but no fa
• I did a two-button hard restart on the phone. On the iPhone 7 Plus, this is done by holding down the power button and the volume-down button until the Apple Logo appears, then release. Upon returning to the App Store, I determined the problem persisted. All three apps were still listed as requiring updates.
I like browsing through the iTunes store's music content, but I really don't like the UI on the macOS iTunes store application (Macbook Pro). Is there a third-party app that emulates the iTunes store (API calls and whatnot)?
I'd like to be able to add a tag color to an image I'm viewing in Preview with a hotkey / keyboard shortcut. I found something for Finder: *=URL=* but I can't replicate it with Preview.
I have a Monoprice display port to HDMI adaptor and am connecting my Mac Book Pro to a 42" Vizio LCD display. The Displays system prefs show the Vizio display, but it shows "No Signal". If I toggle the input select on the Vizio, the MBPro, and the Vizio, will flash to black intermittently, but never stabilize and show a signal. I've changed HDMI cables. Could it be an issue with the Monoprice adaptor? I also downloaded SwitchRex X, installed it on the Mac, and it shows the Vizio resolution to be 1080p, but still no signal/picture on the Vizio.
I want to retrieve files from my recently stolen laptop and it's not showing up. I am using Migration Assistant. I can see the backup for the laptop I am currently using, but I want to see the backup for the missing laptop.
I have a bunch of voice memos, all under ten minutes long. I frequently have trouble syncing them to iTunes--at the moment one in particular won't play on my phone (although it's listed with the correct title and duration) and it's not syncing to the correct playlist. It appears in iTunes under my phone, but won't play. Generally, I change all the Voice Memos to the type "Music" and add an artist. Yesterday it played fine, both on iTunes and on my phone. I haven't made any changes since then so I have no idea what's different. Using an iPhone 6 and iTunes 12.6
I have a list of repeating events in my Apple calendar that are set to run an AppleScript at certain times. However, if I happen to be away (vacation etc.) then when I switch my Mac back on it runs all the scripts that did not run while the computer was off. Annoying and long.
I would like to open directly to the System Preferences pane, but instead it diverts to the iCloud pane. I have tried deleting the Users>Library>Preferences>.com.apple.desktop.plist file, but this doesn't exist--instead I only see .com.apple.dock.plist. Will this do just as well to delete?
So the firmware password isn't the one I entered. To avoid the usual onslaught of insinuations that it 'might not be my computer' that usually accompany questions of this nature, I want to state unequivocally that I am not asking how to bypass it, I'm trying to figure out why, and what (if anything) I can do to restore the EFI so that the password I entered will work. It may seem like a fine distinction, but it's an important one.
The wifi is connected to my Mac but the internet isn't working. On my phone, it is perfectly fine. I have tried: using a personal hotspot from my phone to my computer but the internet still doesn't work. in recovery mode, the internet works. Restarting Router (although I don't think the problem is there)
Recently updated to Sierra 10.12.3 on my early '11 macbook pro. Trying to use my external usb soundcard (Maplin HD 7.1 USB Sound Card - maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-hd-71-usb-sound-card-a01nc) because the headphone socket doesn't work, but it wont see the card. It doesnt require any drivers, is lit up to show it is getting power / cable working. I have also just repaired the disk. Any ideas? Cheers, T.
How might I run 3+ versions of google chrome so I can log into to 3 different google accounts. More specifically I am looking to have separate icons in the dock for the 3 separate running applications.
I'd like to a script to be run when I plug in my USB keyboard. Is this possible?
The Cardboard apps have chunkier movement because they are using the phone's IMU which runs at a much lower sample rate and may or may not correct for drift all that much, lack the kernel modifications which allows the GearVR apps to run uninterrupted and at a higher priority than Android apps are normally allowed, and the ability to set CPU and GPU performance levels to only spend battery and heat where and when you need it. The GearVR apps also have Time Warp to keep the motion-to-photon time lower, as opposed to something like the Vive which just tries to predict when the per-frame refreshes take place. This leads to my second question: Are any phones capable of achieving ~20 ms rate as a standalone device? I realize this is getting long but all this leads to my final bonus question.
If I add text boxes and shapes to an image using Preview.app, save that image, and then close the image window, the next time that I open the image in Preview, all additions are uneditable. In other words, all edits are made permanent upon save. Is there a way to retain the ability to modify markup elements in Preview.app?
I put the file proxy.pac in my linux host via scp command. When I checked the URL of the file with Mobile Safari, it displayed the code written above, so I guess it can access it.
I'm looking at the /EFI partition, and it has 2 .scap file. /EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE/MBP112_0138_B18_LOCKED.scap and /EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS/Firmware.scap They both have 2 files with GUID's that are present in the other, however the contents of each are different. The file with the GUID C3E36D09-8294-4B97-A857-D5288FE33E28 in /EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE/MBP112_0138_B18_LOCKED.scap contains the text $IBIOS$ MBP112 88Z 0138 B18 1610201654 Copyright (c) 2005-2016 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. However the file with the GUID C3E36D09-8294-4B97-A857-D5288FE33E28 in /EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS/Firmware.scap contains the text N $IBIOS$ ROMEXT1 88Z 0002 B00 0710231738 What is the Firmware.scap file, and how come when I delete it, nothing changes except that it boots faster?
If I add text boxes and shapes to an image using Preview.app, save that image, and then close the image window, the next time that I open the image in Preview, all additions are uneditable. Preview saves the edits directly to the image. I am looking for a basic program that can do the same thing as Preview.app (i.e., overlay shapes and text onto an image), except that I need the ability to edit or remove the new image elements later. Adobe Photoshop can accomplish this obviously, but I am looking for something more user-friendly and simple (à la Preview).
When I connect through SSH to my server via SSH, I am seeing something like this: I thought this could be an issue with my SSH client so I downloaded vSSH client and was able to connect! I've tried connecting via the ssh client on Terminal.app and iTerm.app but both times they seem to hang before reporting that there is a broken pipe. How can I go about debugging why my SSH client is not connecting but vSSH is? EDIT This is my version: OpenSSH_7.3p1, LibreSSL 2.4.1 And this is the -v info:
I'm about to upgrade my MBP mid 2012 with two SSD drives instead of the stock HDD and optical disc drive. I read on different forums that the optical drive link with the motherboard is only SATA 2 and that this will eventually cause problems with a SATA 3 SSD.
I am using bootcamp regularly with Windows 10. Everything was working fine but now caps, tab and fn is not working, whereas left shift is working fine and also tilde. I have tried SMC reset Created new account for windows
I just updated TextWrangler to the latest version (5.5.1 (3944)) but Split View does not work. As I see they promote a new editor - BBEdit, so I guess they don't care about this one? Or is it possible somehow to enable Split View?
Just checked my Activity Monitor on my Mac, and I saw something like the image below running. How can I uninstall/remove that:
I have just changed to Sierra - 10.12.4 Some apps (e.g. Aquamacs, Moneywell) in the Dock when you start them do not get a mark saying they are running but create a new icon that represents the running instance. This icon seems to have as its app one under /private/var/folders but with the correct app name not one in /Applications Why is this happening and how can I get things back to how previous OSX versions worked.
I am looking for a log of some type that will help me understand the connection between MacOS and WatchOS. I'm currently unlocking my Mac with the Watch, but all of a sudden it stopped working. I'm looking for debug/diagnostic information for this purpose. But while thinking about this, I would like my Mac to automatically lock when I walk away, or extend the inactivity timer if I'm (very) nearby. What WatchOS/Mac log files should I inspect in relation to the MacOS/Watch connection?
The volume containing my user folder was unexpectedly ejected, now iBooks wants the library to be in "Volume 1" instead of "Volume". Where is the preference file that tells it the location of the library?
iPad (iOS 10.3.1 (14E304) MacBook Air (macOS 10.12.4 (16E195)) A ten-year-old BlackBerry that very definitely doesn't run iOS. Apple have sent exactly one 2FA code to my phone, so I know absolutely they have got the correct phone number on their system and there is no typo there. *=URL=* works fine, going through the login process results in a pop-up on my iPad and on my Mac showing my 6-digit verification code. The website, the iPad, and the MacBook Air all show that both my iPad and my Mac are in my list of devices iPad shows message (in Settings.app): Update Apple ID Settings Some account services require you to sign in again. Pressing "Continue", entering my Apple ID password, then my device unlock code, leads to pop-over window saying: Go to one of your other devices signed in to iCloud to approve this iPad.
I noticed since Sierra, there is a new key called BackupTabState (with a default value of 0) while tweaking my Finder (via defaults read com.apple.finder). I tried to Google it, and even looked up Apple Community Forums, no luck on all counts. Anyone knows what it does?
I've had this problem for several days now. The Application-Switcher [cmd-tab] does not show the correct icon for my application, it shows a generic icon. Does anyone know how to fix this? See attached image:
For a long time I avoided upgrading to macOS Sierra, reason being my slow home internet connection. At my home, it predicts to take something like 1 day 2 hrs.
Does Homebrew offer anything similar to pip's pip install -r requirements.txt feature? I have a new MacBook Pro arriving today, so one of the first tasks will be to migrate my brew installations. I've already performed a brew list > brew.txt command. Will I be able to use this to install all the packages it lists in one command on the new machine?
There is an app I can't locate that is constantly making my phone vibrate. When it does, I immediately check the Notification Center. Nothing new there. The vibrate could be a setting for an email application, or some other app.
Yesterday I had my first photo session with my new Fujifilm X-T2. Today, I inserted the SD card on my mac, opened Photos (Sierra) and saw all the pictures I took (raw). I proceeded with the import, and all seemed ok. But even If I can see the thumbnails for all the pictures imported, when I open some of the photos I just get an exclamation mark.
I don't love windows but I do like the ability to search applications but pressing the windows key. I do not want a multi key shortcut like cmd + space. Is there a way to define the command key to bring up spotlight?
I have two Macs, both running Mac OS Sierra. I can ssh from the laptop to the desktop and use Apple's screen sharing to view the desktop's screen from the laptop. I cannot mount the desktop's disks on the laptop. I have Sharing turned on, both AFP and SMB, but I cannot connect via either. I've tried connecting to the desktop via smb://, smb://.local, and directly by its local IP address (and the same for afp://). ssh <hostname>.local works, so it's not a DNS resolution issue. The specific error I get is:
I've managed to successfully remove almost all elements of Adobe software I don't want. The only thing that remains is com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist. I have updates disabled and Creative Cloud uninstalled. In sudo launchctl list com.adobe.AAM.Updater does not show up, in fact nothing from adobe shows up in the list. However, in ~/Library/LaunchAgents it is there. When I rut EtreCheck it says it is loaded but not running. I've tried sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist but that doesn't work and neither does the same with ~/Library... Is there a way to prevent that .plist from loading? If I delete the .plist directly it gets removed but when I run photoshop it shows up again on restart. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
This is a very frustration issue and I am banging my head against the wall. I have an old iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2389 iMac I salvaged from my parents and the drive failed. I added a new 1TB WD drive to replace the old 500GB WD drive: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+Hard+Drive+Replacement/6284
So I'm learning about writing Kernel Extensions and while I was looking for examples I stumbled across webcontentfilter.kext. I gathered from this post Website gets blocked by webfilterproxyd even without website restriction that it has something to do with Parental Controls, which as a child in his mid-30's, I am whole-heartedly against. Upon deeper examination, inside the kernel extensions executable /System/Library/Extensions/webcontentfilter.kext/Contents/MacOS/webcontentfilter I found the following phrase which gave me pause.
Currently, I am able to mount and edit the EFI partition without any special privileges. Is that correct? I understand that the bootflags for SIP protected regions are stored in nvram which is inaccessible through bless, but it seems strange that I can manipulate the binary, and the changes will persist through a restart.
Today was apple doomsday for me. I have a mid 2015 Macbook Pro that just stopped booting out of the sudden. Thinking, I'll fix it, I formatted (erased) my hard drive (ssd) and first tried Internet Recovery, which didn't work. Then, using another macbook I made a bootable USB, which works great until I actually try to install sierra. It hangs for like 5 minutes then it shows an error: Any thoughts?
I have followed all the steps to enable "unlock Mac with Apple watch". Unlocking will work for a few days, then stops and I get the following.
I rescued an old Bondi Blue iMac and have plans to turn it into a terrarium. I have all the internals taken out and I am left with just the plastic shell. I would like to glue all the seams together so it will hold together tightly, but I am unsure what kind of plastic was used for the shell. I understand that you need to match the adhesive to the exact type of plastic or it could form a weak bond or even melt the plastic. I've looked for the little recycling symbol, but I can't find one on it to rule out some classes of plastic. Could someone tell me what kind of plastic material was used or how to determine this?
I updated the OS on my late 2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro to MacOS 10.12.4 and found that scanner of my Canon MX860 Multifunction printer did not work any more. I downloaded and ran the the latest IJ Network Tool, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I have read through Apple support pages etc and tried various suggestions but have failed to make it work.
When I switch desktops, I want to have a way to remind me of the purpose of that desktop. I'm thinking of using AppleScript to detect when I switch desktops, and show a pop up of sorts.
I updated MacOS Sierra's Apache and PHP, and now whenever I $ sudo apachectl restart I get this: Things I've tried so far that didn't work: Setting ServerName localhost in /etc/httpd.conf Setting ServerName localhost:80 in /etc/httpd.conf Setting ServerName 127.0.0.1 in /etc/httpd.conf Setting ServerName 127.0.0.1:80 in /etc/httpd.conf Ensuring 127.0.0.1 localhost is set in /etc/hosts Repeatedly restarting Apache
My phone was stolen 2 months ago and now someone is trying to blackmail me by the photos i had on the phone. I had a 4digit homescreen lock password, i have activated find my iphone just after they stole it and I have also activated the erase my iphone option a couple of days later.how do they have access to my photos? Please help
I use appleid@myowndoma.in but attached an address with my name. FaceTime seems to allow selection of the other address but my brother complains about seeing literal appleid@ address
I am looking to lock a single album on my phone within my iOS albums, where I can store things that... I to remain permanently on my iPhone/iPad I don't want saved anywhere other than in my backups I don't want my kids to accidentally see
I just deleted all kext from System/Library/Extensions/ and my mac is stuck at boot screen. Kernel was taking too much space so I thought lets see if I delete all kext files , I thought I deleted bootcache file too , is th is reason why its talking too long , mac is stuck on boot screen and its not opening
After I plug the disk it requests the password, I enter it and then it says it is not readable by my computer. Then with Terminal I ask diskutil cs list and displays that info about the volume (see below.) Can anyone interpret this for me? Is it possible for me to be able to recover my info?
Can I somehow instruct my Mac to download photos & videos from iCloud, but not upload to it? (I see that Photo Stream is a separate option, but I believe it doesn't support videos. It might work to simply not open Photos while my external drive with the large library is connected, so it doesn't upload them, but continues to download in the background — but I'm not really sure that will work.)
I recently updated to Mac OS X 10.12.5, which is a beta version as of right now, and Parallels Desktop has subsequently refused to start. It sits for a little bit with a spinner and then quietly dies. The log entries shown in Console.app for "parallels" are not helpful, so I decided to try using VMware Fusion instead. Unfortunately, the virtual machine that I want to import to VMware is suspended and VMware refuses to accept suspended VMs. So, I tried deleting the .mem file for the VM, but VMware still refused to open it. I deleted the suspended.png image for the VM and VMware got a little farther with it, allowing me to select my target location for the import, but it still just ended up saying "This virtual machine can not be imported in Hybrid Shutdown state." I'm at a loss for how to import my VM to VMware since I can't shut it down via Parallels, since it won't open. Anyone know how to forcefully un-suspend a Parallels VM without starting Parallels?
Digital Color Meter seems to drop pixels from the inspection window on retina displays. Here is what Digital Color Meter thinks the spotlight search icon looks like:
I was installing Homebrew on my MacBook Pro (as per the instructions on this page), when the following message popped up: git-credential-osxkeychain wants to use your confidential information stored in "github.com" in your keychain. The authenticity of "git-credential-osxkeychain" cannot be verified. Do you want to allow access to this item? Always Allow | Deny | Allow
I've been looking around and I can't seem to find a bash completion rule set for macOS specific utilities. (i.e. diskutil, kext(*whatever), networksetup, defaults, launchctl, etc.) comparable to tab-completion for git commands. Specifically, I would like to have TAB print a list of the options for the tool. Does that exist?
During iPhone update to iOS 10.3.1, I was asked for my password using the correct machine name for my Mac mini. To be clear, the request was not for my iCloud password, my actual local user account password for macOS. This can also happen in the other direction - setting up a Mac may ask for verification for you to enter your iPhone / iPad passcode (and not your iCloud password)
I'm trying to rename a folder which I've kept in iCloud. Mark the folder first and then press return as normal in Finder does not work. I've tried to google some solution but haven't found anything which has worked. Are there no way to accomplish that task?
How can I re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.0 on server 5.3 with macOS 10.12.4 in the short term while I evaluate all the clients that aren't ready for TLS 1.2? If you jump to the bottom, attempts to change comfiguration files have failed so far to restore backwards compatibility After having updated our server to macOS 12.4 and the Server app to version 5.3, using curl to connect to a macOS server https site from a Linux machine ceased to work, issuing the following messages on the client side:
I've fixed it again and currently I'm having no issues. But why would this keep happening? I'm on macOS 10.12.2.
Other than storage size, is there any difference between the 16/64GB versions of the iPhone SE released in 2016 and the 32/128GB versions released in 2017? I have the opportunity to purchase a 64GB 2016 iPhone SE for less than the cost of a 32GB 2017 one. Is there any reason to prefer the newer phone even though it has less storage?
I have a MacBook Air 13" mid 2011. I have had display problems, so I changed the backlight fuse. After that, there is still no display. The computer works fine otherwise, I can turn it on and hear sounds. As of now I am wondering whether I soldered wrong, or whether the problem is with the backlight itself.
I have configured an SSL web site using the macOS Server app (version 5.3). When I examine the Apache log, I see this message (twice):
While doing some cleanup of old files on my Mac (macOS 10.12.4, having updated a few days ago) I just discovered a weird file I couldn't find any information on. In usr/local, there is a folder called remotedesktop with a RemoteDesktopChangeClientSettings.pkg file inside. While I know that remote desktop clients have many legitimate use cases, I am a bit worried where this is coming from since I've never used any on this machine.
I'm using the Snipping tool (Cmd + Shift + 4) to snip images. Whilst I'm snipping a 200×200 image - evident by the snipping tool measurement metrics, the image produced states that it's 400×400 px in size (double). What could be causing this? I'm not on a Retina screen Desktop scaling is off This happens on my MacBook but not on my iMac
I want to see quickly/easily how much time is left on my timer while audio is playing. This was possible in previous versions of iOS by pressing home twice. Now in iOS 10, I have to press home, then lift the Control Center, and tap the timer button. Is there no quicker way?
My wife has lost the Contacts icon on her iPhone 6. Contacts are still listed uner the telephone icon, but there is no Contacts icon. We have looked in the Extras folder and it is not there. We have done a sesrch for Contacts as suggested and there is no indication of what folder it might be in. We also re-set her home screen to factory settings and still nothing. Are there any other ideas? Thanks
Since updating to 10.12.4, an icon has started appearing in my status bar 1-3 times every hour:  It looks like something's requesting access to my MacBook's location, but there's nothing in the privacy preferences that would indicate what:
I'm trying to run Wine with x11 driver (because some apps only work with x11 driver). I had installed XQuartz and it works and runs xterm. However, when I run Wine, it outputs:
I have a bootable floppy that boots just fine on old PCs. I want to boot it however on my 2015 Macbook Pro, which does not have the BIOS (whereas my 2013 MBP did). So I cannot on the 2015 model even boot a Linux CD.
Can't enable iCloud Drive on OS X Sierra. Going to Sys. Preferences > iCloud , can enable every feature, but not iCloud Drive. Can't enable it and icon has a fade out effect. Tried to log out and login again - didn't worked.
I don't like an unnecessary permanent open port from the Dymo Label Webservice when I use the Dymo Application every few weeks. Is it possible to remove the web service and still use the Application to print a label every now and then? All I found on the web were instructions to remove the Dymo software completely, which is not my intention. I have installed the newest version 8.6.1 of the Dymo Label software.
I'm new to Mac and trying to get dual display spaces to behave like my previous system. It seems like my choices are to have up to ten dual display spaces. Or I can separate the spaces, and get five on each screen.
Is it possible to install every version of OS X / macOS to a bootable thumb drive/external hard drive so you can boot off of it? edit: so I'm ignoring PowerPC stuff because it is rather old now. Also my main question wonders if the max number of partitions could be an issue.
My father created a family membership for apple music, and I created an apple account (icloud.com) for that purpose (I'm in the family group). I'm trying to login from the Apple Music Android app, and keep getting The code you entered is not valid. Try again. in the account review part.
I have a python project that needs to access sql data. I actually have the contents of this database as .sql files and I'm wondering what's the fastest/lightest way to run my project The python project uses the import MySQLdb statement. This led me to install pip install MySQL-python and brew install mysql-connector-c and then I'm trying to set up a MySQL server so I can finally run the program If possible I'd like to avoid the huge official MYSQL editions I can find on the internet I'm rather looking for lightweight alternatives It it actually possible to find some lightweight (my)SQL server that would successfully let me connect from python or is there no avoiding the heavy official MySQL editions ?
I have used Karabiner on El Capitan, but it is no longer working in Sierra. I used it to do whatever I like to do via keybindings, such as the followings: Open an application Switch to different languages Automatically back to English when I open Alfred Automatically back to English when I try to type in the search box in Chrome or Safari Open any folders in my filesystem Delete a character Move to the first or last part of the sentence
How do I slipstream macOS updates onto the installation thumb drive?
I have a Exchange account on my iPhone (latest iOS 10.3). If a meeting is created by my organisation, I get the entries automatically in my iOS Calendar. For example, I have a meeting at 9.30 to 10 AM.I get two entries, one for meeting and second for status as Busy.
So I have a computer that is stuck on Snow Leopard. How do I install Homebrew on such a old computer? Is this even possible? I tried the following command: However this gives me an error about needing git and I don't know how to install an old version of that.
Since I updated to 10.12.4, whenever I go to a website playing video (tested on YouTube, Vimeo and others), Safari 10.1 takes a few seconds to start the video and then plays it in fullscreen, whether I want it to be fullscreen or not. This only happens in my main user account, not in my second test user account. I already tested disabling all extensions and launching Safari with shift, but so far, no luck.
I've an app in appstore and when it has an update the link was given in the format itms://itunes.com/apps/[AppName] Now I've recently uploaded a new version of my app and from the older app when I click the update link it takes us to store but doesnt give option to update. It gives a button saying open, I have to then take the store option again for download then it comes with the update option. So, I changed the link format to itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/[AppName]/[AppId] and this time when I clicked on the link it opened up correctly giving me option to update. Was this a new update in the format? What was the difference between opening link between these two formats?
On Slovenian keyboard it's impossible to click the default shortcut.
my friend broke his iPhone 4S digitizer in very unhappy way. He didn't have backup or synced computers and he had cellular data turn off.
Is it possible to create a custom sidebar icon for a specific folder in macOS like Dropbox, Google Drive and Creative Cloud currently do without using an application?
I do need a user to automatically login on startup. I've achieved it as per *=URL=* This user performs actions like VPN auto connect in Shimo, but then the machine should be present for others to login. When that is done, I want that Mac to switch to login window without logging off the user right after the user is logged in. Is this possible somehow?
Background: We have 50+ agents placed at various locations throughout canada. They conduct consumer surveys at departmental stores using our inhouse built iPad app. They record consumer responses and give back to consumer a printout (A4 size) of the consent to participate in survey along with brief summary. Problem:
My mac was stolen, I requested that the mac be erased on this portal: Find My iPhone. I used Windows 10 via Bootcamp. Will this partition be erased as well? The 'erasing' was triggered last night so someone definitely used the computer to access the internet. It's quite important to know if the Windows partition will be erased or not.
Asked a question 9 months ago about how to copy images to a backup folder. That worked in that case! But now I have another problem. I have 233 GB of unsorted data, mostly images, and they are located in a unsorted directory structure. I was thinking to sort the images based on date (if that is possible on all images), and keep the original filename. I found a question here, but I haven't tried it - afraid to mess things up.
I sometimes open up my Macbook Pro and notice that my laptop panel is an odd resolution. When I check Display settings, it shows "Best for Display", when I really want the highest setting always. Is there a utility or command that can be used to automatically set the display resolution automatically?
I don't use the Calendar very much, but recently after missing a weekly event twice, I put it in the calendar on the iPad with a "travel time" alert and a fifteen minutes before travel time alert. Travel time is fifteen minutes. I was busy on the Macbook and no alert came up there until the actual start time of the meeting. This happened again another day on the iPad. Is it a bug, or is there some obscure extra step that needs to be taken? ("Time to Leave" is ON in settings.)
For about a week now I keep getting an SMS giving me an Apple ID verification code. It will do it a couple of times and then a phone call. Today I received this email: Subject: Verify your Apple ID before We closed Your account. Dear Apple User,
I've used "Forward Text Messages" for years to send SMS from macOS. Since last week, names of "SMS people" are marked RED in Messages, and I can't send SMS from macOS anymore. I've updated to the latest iOS and macOS, logged out and in of iCloud on both devices, and flicked "Forward Text Messages" in Settings off and on several times, to no avail.
A package is just a directory, apparently, but somehow Finder and Path Finder know it's a package. How is this indicated in the file system? I've tried a few changes to a directory to make it a package but to no avail.
This was fixed by reinstalling macOS Sierra, but I’m wondering why this happened.
As seen in the picture above, my Mac Pro is getting the white screen of death. Immediately after turning on, it goes to this - no startup chime, no Apple logo, nothing. I have tried: - Resetting SMC - Resetting PRAM - Holding shift on startup - Trying to boot into recovery mode (Cmd+R) But none of these change anything, the white screen stays.
I have been going nuts with this bug (it IS a bug as it seems to be caused by unhandled corruption to the icloud keychain). I've had it 3 times now and it keeps coming back.
I'm working in a pawnshop and when people attempt to sell or pawn an iDevice, I used to check its serial number or IMEI in icloud.com/activationlock. Now, without that tool, I'm concerned about activated phones that bypassed the activation lock with third party solutions. Once a co-worked bought an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 apparently without iCloud account, when she tried to reset the phone, the activation lock asked for the owner's Apple ID, then I found the Apple's official tool to check phones IMEI and since, it has been very useful.
My iPhone was stolen 2 months ago and now someone is trying to blackmail me by the photos I had on the phone. I had a 4 digit home screen lock password and I activated Find my iPhone just after they stole it and I also activated the erase my iPhone option a couple of days later. I received an email from Apple once saying that "erasing iPhone has started". The blackmailer has been sending me messages and photos which I only had on that phone and he also sent me a photo of my camera roll and home screen with a date and time matching the time he sent it (it seems like he took the photo just when he was texting me so I'm pretty sure he is not bluffing).
Is there a way to enable focus-follows-mouse behavior for Google Chrome windows? The desired behavior is that if there are two browser windows, occupying the left and right halves of the screen, then moving the mouse from the left half of the screen to the right half of the screen would change focus from the left browser window to the right.
I recently updated to macOS Sierra on my MacBook Air. I have started noticing that desktop applications will startup automatically.
I have used Apple's Image Capture utility to scan to a few different folders on my local storage. As I use each folder, its name accumlates in the pop-up menu of "Scan To:" locations, as a sort of history.
Inside htdocs if I create a folder, I can see it using mkdir test. However, if I use git clone {address} MAMP does not detect it. The permissions are the same (I even tried chmod 777 the files) but it still does not show up. Unlike it not existing (NOT FOUND), it shows up as FORBIDDEN.
I have a Sierra mac with a MS Natural Key 4000 keyboard. It's got a bunch of special keys that I'd like to do stuff with. Out of the box, only volume up/down/mute and play/pause work do anything.
Will this app *=URL=* come under the category of displaying & accessing third party content?
Ok, this is a simple one that has been bugging me for months. I've searched here, Google, everywhere for an answer. There is plenty of info about creating tags, changing the names/colors, assigning tags to Finder folders, even customizing the right click menu itself.
I have iPhone 6 on iOS 10.3. Recently, while watching a video (not stored on my phone, but on YouTube on Firefox browser) with volume set to zero, I put the bottom speaker on the iPhone to my ear (because in the silence of the room, I heard something), and I heard static, despite volume being zero! I closed the tab, which caused the static noise to stop, then opened the Music app and played a song on zero volume, and when I put the bottom speaker next to my ear, the static noise had come back!
Recently my iPhone 5S has become frozen as there was no or very little memory to save even a picture, I thought it was a software issue and later when I tried to hard reset it by pressing the wake & home button the red screen appeared. Later I restored the iPhone with iTunes on a Windows PC. Everything went normal and restoration was successful with no issues, but later the touch screen became buggy. Especially the keypad freezes often and also every time the touchscreen freezes I supposed to lock and wake the phone again and again to make the touchscreen responsive.
The tilde-character is a short-cut for the home-directory of the currently logged-in user (in UNIX-like operating systems). In the paths of iCloud-directories it is included too. For example: or What is it's meaning there? And in general: What's the reason for these weird file-paths?
I have a MacBook Pro from Late 2014 (I think). As you know, Apple introduced a new keyboard-mechanism (called Butterfly). Some of newer MacBooks have these technology already built-in. It is possible (based on hardware and compatibility) to upgrade the internal keyboard, means remove the old keyboard, get a newer keyboard with butterfly-mechanism and insert it to my MacBook?
iPhone 7 Plus can take 4k videos, but if you click on the Photos app and upload to YouTube, for some reason it is limited to 240p. If you click on the YouTube app and upload, then it is 1080p. Is there a way to upload directly from iPhone to YouTube in 4k resolution? I think one way that will work is to transfer the video to the computer first, and then transfer from the computer to YouTube, but is there a way to directly do it on the iPhone, I wonder.
So I guess my question here is, is there any way out of this mess for her? She has had this phone for 4 years without any issue and now it seems to be a brick.. Additionally, all of her data appears to be lost as well. Not sure if it matters but on her PC at home the iTunes program is logged in and working too. I was hoping some type of identification like passport, ID, and credit card that is on the itunes account would suffice but reading online I'm not sure that will do it either.
Apple seems to take out a lot of profit-margin on Memory. I don't like to pay that much "Just to be sure". How easy is it to get around the limitations? I am thinking of something like wireless disks, moving stuff to/from backup locations and silently pushing recorded photos and videos to somewhere else.
I have just purchased the GENKI Vocab Cards app for reviewing vocabulary from the GENKI Japanese textbook. It is a flashcards application. Every card is equipped with a loudspeaker button that is supposed to sound the pronunciation of the card's word or phrase when clicked. However, clicking the button produces no sound.
it is possible to configure the touch bar to launch cmd + ctrl + shift + 3 from the touch bar via the "Customize Control Strip..." setting. I would also like to store the keyboard shortcut cmd + ctrl + shift + 4 in the touch bar, so I can launch it from there.
I just downloaded  Clips, and I discovered that I could add some music in the background that you can download: But I would like to know if there is a way of deleting these background music without deleting the app. P.S. : I already tried to swipe to see if there is the delete button, and there isn't .
I tried to purchase something only to realise I didn't have the money in my bank, as this has never happened before I presumed that it just wouldn't work. Obviously it worked and now my App Store is only allowing me to browse the apps but not download or update anything. Since this I have tried everything, I have tried to report this to apple to cancel it and I've deleted the app but it has not worked, any advice? I have 10 apps waiting to be updated
I run iCloud on iOS/macOS with only "Contacts" (and iMessage) enabled, because I don't want other data copied out of my device. However, it seems that every time I upgrade iOS/macOS (and possibly when logging out/in of iCloud), that all other iCloud settings are forcibly enabled without my consent. And you don't notice this until the device is up and running again, and then probably a lot of data has already been copied to iCloud before you manage to turn it off.
Here is my .cshrc: "Enter" and "Exit" both get printed, but the keybinding is not working. If I try to execute the same commands, or source the .cshrc again, it works. Can anyone tell me what is happening?
I'm looking for a metronome app for my iPhone with a BPM analyzer, so it should be able to recognize if I play too slow, too fast or just in tempo.
I think I made a mistake by editing /etc/hosts within sublime text, because immediately afterward I was unable to run "sudo xxx". It would ask for a password, and then never resolve once I'd typed it in.
Is there a way to access play count or stats in general from an iPhone? Either Apple Music stats or local-content specific, doesn't necessarily matter, just can't seem to find anything like that.
One of our Macs is still on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and on that particular Mac, every so often, there is no Apple icon. When this happens, there is no Apple menu either. What I mean is that clicking where the Apple icon should be results in nothing - no menu options at all.
I'm using an html application with form authentication. If I open this application using Safari on iOS and complete the login screen, iOS asks me if I want to save my credentials.
I am currently in a joint Apple ID account and I'd like to transfer the files and data in my iPhone to a new individual account I created. My iCloud storage is completely full up on the joint account. Q: Is there a way to transfer my data onto my Mac or a new iCloud server so I can put them onto my new Apple ID account?
In website sites like Twitter & Facebook, I used to (can’t remember when things “broke”) have videos autoplay, but they no longer do. (Videos do autoplay correctly in Firefox.) I can get them to play after I double-click them, which maximizes them to full-screen. If I minimize back to a std inline video, they continue playing “correctly.” I have some extensions, but disabling them doesn’t help. Also, disabling all plugins doesn’t help. Suggestions to fix?
My daughter has the ipod 6th generation, it was working fine, then all of a sudden it started hitting random buttons, if there is a search bar or password area, it fills it with random letters, numbers, symbols all on its own before you can type in what your wanting to. It changes to different areas in the apps by itself, I was attempting to do a factory reset but it kept taking me to random different areas in settings. If I leave it off over nighthe, when I turn it back on in the morning it acts normal allowing me to do what I want except I keep getting this failure message when I try to bring up the messages, try to factory reset it, ect. Anywhere that requires the apple password. After about 30 mins to an hour, it starts the random stuff over again and you can't do anything. I have pictures showing the last back up to iTunes was on friday while it was connected to my computer trying to do a restore which I couldn't do because I can't shut off "find my ipod" 2 hours later it says it 
I use commandtab to browse through my applications, and command` for browsing through internal windows (e.g. for Firefox).
I realize that one can run apps in a macOS full screen mode, but sometimes I really want the webpage itself to take up the full screen real estate. And ideally, that would not require me to open such a page in a different browser.
I had the following problem with my internal HD. When I started my mac, after the logo loaded the screen went black and an error panel with the message: "Unapproved caller. SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software" showed. I've had HD problems before so I have an external HD with Mac OS X installed. I used it to boot Mac OS (with no problems) and used Disk utility to repair the ESP (disk0s1 partition of my internal HD), but the partition was deleted in this process. My internal HD (disk0) now looks like this:
I'm having trouble understanding the Apple watch high and low temperature values. They are never correct.
My MacBook Pro Retina updated last night (10-APR-17). Now the audio with my Plantronics USB headset is choppy ... it sounds like someone is talking through a fan. The built-in speakers sound fine. I called Apple support and they think it is a hardware issue, but the headset was working just fine before the update. Also Apple support suggested that I reinstall the OS :( does anyone have any other suggestions?
I own the MacBook Pro 13" 2016 model. It has two thunderport 3 ports on the left side of itself. I have two Samsung monitors with a HDMI IN on both monitors. Do I need to buy two Thunderbold 3 to HDMI adapters, to connect both my monitors?
Is it necessary to relogin (logout and login again) in apple services on MacOS after Apple ID password has been changed?
I have a script where i change directory alot, but the output is messy because it displays the file listing every time...is there anyway i can perform a change directory and not print the resulting file list. For example: I would prefer no response at all...like this My PS1 and PS2 is:
Opened the Activity Monitor and discovered many of the software such as "Alipay dispatcher service" that I have deleted like two years ago is constantly running on the back end of my Mac every second I'm using my Mac, same goes for many unknown softwares like "powerd" "mdflagwriter" "watchdogd" "socketfilterfw", etc, etc, countless. What could I do to stop them from preying my privacy and constantly running on the back end of my mac and using my CPU space? I tried the code but the Terminal says "Could not find specified service" Then I entered the code "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.alipay.DispatcherService.plist" but the system replies "Permission denied". What could I do to delete this "dispatcher service" once and for all? Same for all the "root users" software?
My organization contracted out the creation of an iOS application to a third party. The application was made through an Adobe framework which is prohibitive for us to setup (this is why they are sending us the .ipa). We now want to upload the .ipa they provided us to the App Store. When uploading it, we are getting a provisioning profile error:
I have been handed this phone from my workplace and have to use it. In the past I installed the Google Authenticator app on Android Nougat and it was working in all aspects.
My wife and I occasionally swap silly pictures via iMessage on our iPhones. I also sometimes forget my cell phone at home. I have signed in to Messages on my work desktop, so I can get the text messages from her; but the images are never displayed properly.
When I open some of my apps in iTunesConnect, I see that they are require privacy policy now (the app become edited, Save button is active, privacy policy field is highlighted): I have this problem only for particular apps. It started after iOS 10.3 update. Did I missed changes in iTunes Connect?
I'm having the following problem. When I try to boot my MacBook Pro 13" mid 2009 with "El Capitan" installed from my internal HD, a prohibition sign appears on the screen and eventually my mac turns off. I have an external HD with El Capitan installed and it boots nicely. When I try to repair the volume on Disk Utility I get the following message
Is there a good way to "force-synchronize" the Messages history between two Apple devices? My iPhone was stolen, so I had to restore from an out-of-date backup (I know, I know), and this means there are text messages in the history on my computer that aren't on my phone. Is there a good way to copy the text messages from the intervening period from my laptop to my phone?
My fans are blowing constantly, and some investigation of my Console shows this error being spit out at a fantastic rate and The following applications are producing it, but I seem to remember a few more during different log watching sessions: Twitter com.apple.WebKit.Networking 1Password accountsd I've tried the following things to work the problem:
When I turn off WiFi, I still have LTE, but TCP still does not seem to work. Safari, Stack Exchange, SpeedTest, etc. However, in a terminal, ping 8.8.8.8 sent and received 18 packets with an average round trip of 20 milliseconds.
I see my iTunes playlists (from my computer) in Remote but when I play one of them the sound comes from my computer but not from the iPad. How can I hear the sound on my iPad? Thank you. iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 10.3.1
I am looking for a way to move the macOS mouse in a pattern that I can predefine. Ideally I would be able to move it in a perfectly straight line or a perfect arc. I basically have some drawing software and I need to draw some straight lines and arcs but the software doesn't support those functions.
I am a somewhat newbie to Unix. I recently started a bash tutorial where I created a hello world bash script like this: then, I moved it into /usr/local/bin using this command: now /bin under /usr/local is no longer a directory, but a file, and when using ls -l on it, I get this output:
I have the Airport Time Capsule (3TB) connected to a 3TB HDD via the Airport Time Capsule's USB2 port. How can I set them up with RAID 1?
I want to write a service on macOS, and it only return a string, like my email address. So in any application, if I need input email address, I just hit the same shortcut. I write a service in automator, and run shell script: #!/usr/bin echo "my_name@domain.com" but it only output the text to stdout instead of application input.
I have 50GB of iCloud storage and want to backup all my photos. If I make a regular iCloud backup it says the following:
I want to disable one finger scrolling with my Magic Mouse while I click with it, because I don't like that it scrolls the content in apps if I click something. I also don't see any practical use of letting this thing enabled. Video about my problem: *=URL=* Very important, that I want to keep the scrolling on, which I generally love, so shrinking the scroll area with MagicPrefs or disabling scrolling fully is not a good workaround for me. Are there any tools which let me disable any scroll events during the mouse button is down?
As there are quite some rumors, about iOS 11 dropping support for 32 bit apps, I need to know, how to tell if an app is 64-bit. I know, that if it was published after february 2015, or if it was updated after june 2015, it has to have 64-bit support. But the app in question - IPELA Communication Mobile by Sony Corporation - was last updated on June 10th 2015. How can i be absolutely sure, that - just in case the rumors come true - I can still use it?
I'm struggling with signing my installer to keep Gatekeeper happy.  When building i sign the .pkg: using this certificate:
I have a bunch of files named similar to this: How would you replace .pngEND with _? I've googled this problem and tried literally 5+ solutions, non of which worked on mac.
My problem is that when I highlight some text (doesn't matter where or in which application) in order to write over it the cursor, sometimes, suddenly changes position causing a lot of typos. Let's say I've searched the phrase "stack exchange apple" in Google. Now I want to search for stack overflow so I first highlight "exchange" and "apple" this way:
I often want to pause my iTunes music when watching a video in Safari. Currently on some sites (but not all) the Pause button starts controlling the video in Safari in stead of iTunes. How to permanently link the buttons to iTunes?
I'm having a rather odd problem. I've installed Xcode from the App Store three times now. No errors are being presented to me, but after installing Xcode I can press Open (in the App Store) and nothing happens. Refresh the view in App Store and I can press Install again. What's going on? I'm on Sierra 10.12.4 if that matters.
My iPhone 7 iOS 10.3.1 randomly started receiving untrusted certificate pop-ups from onboard.info (but I’ve seen it on devices going back to iPhone 5): This was at home last night and I had just unlocked my phone. I tried to get a screenshot of the rest of the certificate details but it was registered as just a home button press and there is no way to switch back into the certificate warning dialogue by changing apps.
Everyone with an iPhone tells me they can see when I'm texting back because of the three dots. My question is: why can't I see the three dots when someone is texting me? I have an iPhone SE.
Is it possible to connect to a regular projector via network to present the screen? I have a Windows machine, and it quite simply can be done there. I just enter the IP address of the projector and that's it.
When I develop web sites I like to have them run locally and responding to a more useful name than localhost/site. It used to be you could write rules in hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1. It would seem you can't any more, as when I add a rule like 127.0.0.1 Site typing "site" in the address window of the browser won't resolve to 127.0.0.1. Is there a way to get the hosts file settings respected or is there another method I can use instead?
I do not prefer automatic updates because they can change the function of an app unexpectedly as well as use bandwidth when I am trying to do something else on the internet.
Strange is that the noise is much louder if I blow in the microphone, but voice is almost not echoed. Maybe it is a noise cancellation issue? There is no driver for this headset that I know of where I could configure something like that.
I want to know if the touch bar uses a miniature iOS-style CPU and processor, or does it share CPU, GPU, and other aspects with the main computer? Can I (in theory) offload tasks (GPU/CPU,etc) to the touch bar?
For unknown reasons I cannot change the once-set homepage URL in Safari (v10.1 on OS X 10.11.6) any more. If I change it in Safari's Preferences window, under General, it simply resets it to the value it was set to before. Same when I use the "Set to current page" button.
How do I access certain files without backing up my Mac from entire backup from portable hard drive? My external hard drive is full. It has the same capacity as my Mac internal hard drive. I' did a wipe on my internal hard drive to keep it running. When I plug my external up, it does a complete back up, fills my internal drive and makes my computer error out because my internal HD is now full.
I'm considering getting a secondhand Mac Mini (2011 model or later) for use as a media and backup server. Most of the time it won't need a screen attached to it, but I'll need one in order to initially set it up, and perhaps for occasional maintenance or upgrades. I don't currently have a monitor or TV so I'll need to get hold of some sort of screen for it and I'd prefer it to be both cheap and small.
Is there a way to set the default audio output source in macOS. Or even better be able to set a hierarchical preference list, as to which audio output device you would prefer in a similar way to how you can with network connections in the network preference tabs?
I have had a MacBook Pro (Retina, Early 2015) since October 2015. Recently, I started feeling that the Bluetooth hardware might be defective. It started a few months ago where I started being bombarded by Bluetooth pairing requests from different kinds of devices (even though the bluetooth settings say that my device should not be discoverable).
I'm having trouble updating my version of openssl so I can get Fastlane working. Can anyone explain where OpenSSL should be, and how different environments hook into it?
My hard drive is close to full, so I am trying to delete old and unused files. I am worried that I may delete files that the operating system needs, but I don't recognize. Is there a way to tag all of the files that are required by the system, so I can ignore them while cleaning up storage? I'm thinking in terms of a program or some code you may have made/come across. Currently using MacOS Sierra version 10.12.4
I've read several similar questions but they appear to be outdated. Many mentioned a "show fonts" option in the "Tools" menu which does not exist. Others mention a couple ways to show the markup toolbar, which does include a font formatting option, but changing these options does absolutely nothing to the text I'm entering. I've tried highlighting existing entered text and modifying the values, and I've tried changing the values before entering new text. Nothing seems to be working, and my text is far too large to fit on the field I'm trying to fill out.
How is that possible? How can I locate these files and remove them? I cannot locate them neither through the iOS Settings nor at *=URL=* All I am using iCloud for is creating a backup with only a small number of applications included and it is usually smaller than 2 GB.
I have a new MacbookPro with only USB-C ports. Does there exist a wall charger for USB-C that can provide the appropriate power while also providing a sort of built in dongle for USB and an SD card reader? I am looking for something like the below image, where the extra USB ports also provide data to my mac when plugged in via USB-C. Does such a product exist? I would never need to remember to bring another dongle again, just bring my wall charger.
On every other operating system except MacOS, when you bring up an Open File dialog, you can type (for example) *.txt or even *recipe*.txt to narrow down the list shown on the screen. On MacOS, there's just a predefined list of filename extensions that you can choose from, but I don't see anywhere to type a file match pattern myself. I want to filter by the whole filename, not just the extension. How do I enable this very basic feature that I take for granted on both Windows and Linux?
I've got a mid 2011 iMac that kernel panics roughly after 30 to 45mins of being powered on. Then the panics seem to get worst eg after every restart of the imac. I've tried x2 different boot drives both using OS X 10.10.5 as the base system, one being a USB drive and other being a thunderbolt drive. At the moment my theories are it's more of a hardware problem then software, either ram or possible gpu. See screenshot of report below:
Example: By default, upon entering the range of SSID A, using the iOS device continues to use either built in cellular or SSID B. After step 4 above and until the end of the day, the device will be on the network. For now the workarounds are:
Unsatisfactory workaround: Install network access point near the back yard. This is not a satisfactory solution because all this does is change the geometry of which areas near the house exhibit poor application behavior on account of wifi remaining in range but yielding poor throughput. The goal would be to eliminate the poor behavior happening within these regions, rather than changing the geometry of these regions.
After recently recovering my Photos library on MacOS I found another backup that contained the same master files but different preview files. Everything in the other backups's Masters folder were duplicates of my recovered files, but the previews were different, including in some cases larger versions of the masters.
I would like to connect to my office computer (running Ubuntu) via ssh and then open a pdf from the office computer on my macbook (similar to xdg-open in ubuntu) with the program associated with pdfs by default (for now, Viewer). I would like to do so without first saving the pdf locally. Preferably, if the pdf gets changed on my office computer, I should see the changes without refreshing the command. How can I achieve this?
The behavior of how videos play in mobile Safari has changed recently in iOS. For example, when watching videos on Youtube each starts playing inline rather than going full screen. Toggling a video to full screen doesn't persist the option for the next video. Are there any fixes for this?
i.e. Folder="Library" User="Fathom"
MacBook Pro 2013 retina. Sometimes I plug my phone into one of the USB ports to charge it. Sometimes I close the MBP and let the phone keep charging. Sometimes I then unplug the phone without waking up the MBP. Sometimes (not always -- just intermittently) when I do open the MBP again after this sequence, the keyboard and trackpad no longer work. An external mouse still works fine. But no combination of switching plugs, re-attaching the phone, sleep/wake, will get me the use of the keyboard again. I'm stuck at the screen saver login page with nothing but an external mouse (can't type password, no option to shut down cleanly). I have to force shutdown by holding down the power button, which is not ideal.
I need to set a login script for our mac hosts using Profile Manager on MacOS Server. I have uploaded this and other simple test scripts many times and had no success. On the page in Profile Manager where scripts are uploaded, there are these instructions: The above settings require specific properties in the file ~root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist, located on the client computer: Set EnableMCXLoginScripts to TRUE. Set EnableMCXLoginScripts to TRUE. Set MCXScriptTrust to match the binding settings used to connect the client computer to the directory domain. Set MCXScriptTrust to match the binding settings used to connect the client computer to the directory domain. I have added those keys to the com.apple.loginwindow.plist files located in both /var/root/Library/Preferences and ~/Library/Preferences, but no scripts will run.
I have a new Macbook 2016 and the space bar has been acting up. If I smash it down hard enough I can get the space character to appear but that's not very practical.
The Apple Secure Enclave offers many opportunities for privacy and security. Credit card information, Private keys with specific I/O functions (the private data is never exposed), PII, etc are all protected. Question Has Apple found a way to describe, illustrate, or educate an end user on why this is valuable?
I understand that I can accomplish the desired effect by writing an individual text item delimiters statement for every possible punctuation symbol and for 26 uppercase letters. I could use a replace_characters sub-routine to make this method a bit neater.
I love my current 2009 15 inch MBP but I'm looking to upgrade the display. My understanding is that I cannot upgrade to a retina but is it possible to upgrade to a higher resolution than the current screen? I do a lot photo editing and would love to have a little better screen. I'm not looking to upgrade to a new MBP. I already have a new 27in mac that I use for editing but thats in my office. When I'm home and just looking to edit a few photos it would be nice to be able to use my MBP. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
I have a first generation Apple Watch Sport with some minor cosmetic imperfections and scratches after two years of use, with Apple Care+. The support runs out soon, and I was wondering what use it the cover has. Specifically: If I were to 'accidentally' 'drop' my Watch, could I claim that on Apple Care and get a brand new one, or at least screen?
I have an iPhone 6, without Apple Care. A few months ago I noticed it got unbelievably, incredibly hot during use, both on and off the charger. It would also use the battery quite fast, up to 2% a minute sometimes, and would often be completely depleted by midday from a full charge, after it being in my pocket at school with time and social media checks being the only use. It also was in mint condition, having lived in a Lifeproof case for its entire life.
Every now and then, I use the "Layout" option in macOS's print dialog to fit two pages on a sheet, for instance when printing presentation slides. For some reason, this sometimes leads to 4 pages being printed per sheet, rendering the slides hardly readable. Happened twice to me today.
On Safari Extension Gallery page the "Install Now" button does not appear after updated to Sierra 10.12.4. It seems that Apple's official webpage didn't recognize that I'm using Safari 10.1 (12603.1.30.0.34).
I would like that if I press a certain keyboard shortcut (cmd + down arrow), the same will run on the next window in the same app. Is an AppleScript the only want to get this functionality? I have never made an AppleScript before.
I have an issue submitting an app build for review in TestFlight. (Yesterday, a new version of TestFlight was released in iTunes Connect, this might have caused the issue) Steps to Reproduce the issue: Log in to iTunes Connect Select the app Go to tab 'TestFlight' Click a build (in this case, 1.0.1) Click the '+' sign next to 'Individual Testers' Select 'Add New Testers' Expected behavior: screen to enter information of test users Actual behavior: loading spinner is displayed and web inspector console displays error:
When I search for music on Apple Music using the search field (on any device), it always only shows 38 search results. Of course, that is often not enough. How can I see more results (as possible, e.g. in Spotify)?
I have an AppleScript which allows me to maximize a window (not fullscreen just maximize (keep top bar & task bar)). For some reason certain applications ignore the request and just stay the same size (Adobe products consistently ignore it). You can read the script here, I got this from somewhere else (a stackoverflow post). Why might the script not work for certain windows and how could I possibly fix it?
I'm guessing this is likely not possible, but I have a setup on my rMBP 15" where I want most of my windows to be at 1920x1200. On one program, which has its own desktop, I'd like to scale that down some. Is it possible to assign a custom resolution to a single Space that doesn't affect other Spaces?
When I copy the body of messages in Apple Mail and paste to the text editor or web textarea, quoted line prefixs ('>') is alwasy lost. This is annoying behavior.
I have created a safari extension with tool button icon of 64x64 pixels. its not as crisp as the safari buttons. I have tried higher resolutions and lower resolutions which are rendered worse than 64x64 size. In below image notice how my custom tab switch icon on the left differ with the safari's on the right.
I have the free 5gb space in my iCloud storage and about 4,3gb of it was used. Then I plugged in my phone (android) and moved one 4gb file from my phone to my Mac desktop. I did not remember that the file would automatically go to iCloud when you put it to the desktop. It downloaded the file to desktop for a while but when it finished, the file was nowhere to be found but it says that iCloud storage is full and it was actually over 8gb. Where did my file go and why is the storage full even though there is no file anywhere.
Sometimes I leave my MacBook running (connected to the charger) and when I return it has drained the battery to 0% and powered off. This has been happening sporadically for over a year, but seems to be getting more frequent. (Under power settings I've set it to never sleep when connected to power outlet). Sometimes I have to turn it back on several times and each time it will power itself down within seconds to minutes.
Does anyone know of a calendar app that could handle a bunch of iCal events, each dependent on their timing for the placing of the final one, so that the final date could be copied and moved and all the others would stay the same distance apart? For example I might have an irregularly recurring event which is a concert. Two days before that I need to hold a rehearsal and book a hall three weeks before the rehearsal. Five days before the rehearsal I need to have all the music notated and send it out to the performers. At least a fortnight before that, on the nearest Monday afternoon, I need my calendar app to invite my performers to take part and then report back to me whether or not they are available. I then have to start notating music to suit the line-up I can get. I need to allow 50 hours of free time to do this task, so it needs to slot in with spare time I have from other events I might be managing.
I’m using a terminal script to capture my screen at set intervals. However, the resulting .jpg files are rather large. I’d like to control the quality of .jpg files being generated by this script: How can I control the .jpg quality of the resulting files?
I want to turn off my MacBook's Wi-Fi automatically when closing its lid. Is there any software can do this?
I am trying to take user input and send the data to a url on my site to do some checks against my database. In my php script I cant display any of the POST variables. it seems like the data is not being sent. I am new to AppleScript so perhaps I am not doing this correctly? APPLESCRIPT: PHP:
My wife's MacBook has a case-sensitive Time Machine backup (her backup is stored on a case-sensitive file system). Our Time Capsule is not case-sensitive. How can I migrate her Time Machine history from the case-sensitive USB disk to the Time Capsule, without losing the already existing Time Machine backups on the same Time Capsule?
I have two virtual disks: Main macOS disk Bootcamp windows disk When I use diskutil listin command line, it shows me:
EDIT: For others with the same problem: Phong was right, my friend had actually inadvertently blocked me. I have an iPhone 6s and my friend has maybe the 6 or 5, but definitely an iPhone as well.
Lately I have problems deleting messages in Apple Mail (Mac OS 10.11). I select one or multiple messages, hit delete key and get an error saying that these messages have already been "deleted" (moved to the trash folder in Mail): that's not true, the trash folder is empty and I'm stuck with the problem.
When I connect the Surface Keyboard to macOS, it seems to go fine, I enter the pairing code and everything works, keyboard works. However I want to switch the modifier keys (Option and Command) to work like the Mac keyboards, and I can't do it, because macOS seems to not realize this is a keyboard. The icon shown in the Bluetooth preferences is the generic Bluetooth icon, and this keyboard is not listed at all in the Keyboard preferences. Note the Surface Keyboard claims full compatibility with macOS, (see link above), so I'm not sure what I need to do to get it fully recognized.
I recently moved from Ubuntu GNOME (16.04 LTS) to macOS Sierra and I wondered how I could mount a Folder, located on a remote Server, using the sftp protocol. Ubuntu GNOME (16.04) comes with Nautilus as a File Manager by default, so I used that one for the purpose of having a gui for viewing remote folders. [Setup with Ubuntu GNOME and Nautilus File-manager][3] My workflow on Ubuntu was to open the Nautilus File manager Click "Enter Server Adress" Selecting the Connection (for example: sftp://user@example.com) Click "Connect"
My ipad wifi "switch" does not work, even after a complete reinstall. Is this something I could buy a spare part and repair my self?
My MacBook Air (a few months old) randomly wakes from sleep roughly 3 hours after the lid is closed. The wake reason is given as EC.LidOpen, but in fact, the lid remains closed. The mac appears to go immediately back to sleep. I am not experiencing any negative consequences from this, but wanted to be sure I shouldn't be worried about malware. For example (this occurs every night) log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason" 2017-03-18 01:33:44.916848+0100 localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer) 2017-03-18 04:33:58.836023+0100 localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User) EDIT: using pmset -g log, I got more information on the mysterious wake-ups, which seem to be caused by mDNSResponder. 2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Kernel Client Acks Delays to Sleep notifications: [AppleBacklightDisplay driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(984 ms)] [powerd is slow(16830 ms)] [AppleThunderboltNHIType2 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to
Safari puts background (i.e., currently not selected) tabs to sleep. If that tab is on a website that requires an active connection to its server, such as chat apps (Slack, Google Talk, etc.), then that app will disconnect from the server. Most of them will show you a brief "reconnecting" or "retrying" message when you select that tab again.
Whenever I take a picture or video out my window, it always focuses on the screen instead of what I actually want to take a picture of. I can press on the screen to adjust the white levels, or press-hold to lock the auto-focus, but there doesn't appear to be any way to force it to focus far instead of near. How do I force the camera to focus on distant objects instead of the near screen? iOS 10.3.1
I have MacMini with 1 Tb Fusion Drive. About 800 Gb is used. I have 5 Tb USB3 HDD connected to it specifically for Time Machine.
I'm currently reading a book, The Complete Privacy and Security Desk Reference; Vol. 1: Digital by Michael Bazzell and Justin Carroll. They specify many different types of user accounts and insist that you create several for the different levels of security involved in utilizing each. I'm planning to follow their instructions to make multiple user profiles on my MacBook Pro for security purposes. My question is how would I go about keeping the programs downloaded to each user profile synched without leaving my chosen user profile? Do I always have to sign on to each profile and independently download separate programs or is there a system-wide utility for downloading and running programs?
What is the difference (is there any?) between sudo install -c -o %username% binaryfile usr/local/bin and just moving binary file to usr/local/bin?
At first I thought Pokemon Go is the only issue, but today I installed Clash of Clans and it is the same situation: the game audio will try to go out through the Bluetooth channel but since there is no bluetooth device around, it is all mute. If I plug in the earbuds, then I can hear something for both Pokemon Go and Clash of Clans. The other way is: if I find and turn on a portable Bluetooth speaker, or if I go to the car and use the bluetooth there.
The screen on my (desktop, not laptop) iMac is not working .. the backlight only works sporadically. If I hold a flashlight up to the dead screen, I can see the pixels; the video is working, just not the backlight. I've connected a second display (it is mirrored; both show the same desktop), so I can still use the computer. The interesting thing is that if the computer "sleeps", upon being woken up, the iMac's display works briefly for a fraction of a second, then it goes dark again.
What do these green columns in activity monitor - energy - battery mean? I've included a screen shot of activity monitor - energy if that helps.
iCloud Restore in Progress iCloud Photo Library will begin syncing when this device has finished restoring from backup. What can I do about completing the restore?
Today I noticed that the System Preferences icon in the Dock has a red badge (containing a white '1' digit).  I presume the app or the computer is trying to tell me something, but I can't figure out what that is. I tried opening the System Preferences app in the hope that it might badge or highlight the preference pane icon concerned, but everything looks normal.
I am having a problem with QuarkXPress 9.5.4.0 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.11.6. The problem is that whenever I try to open a particular project QuarkXPress crashes. I would normally have a backup, but I’ve only been working on this project since yesterday and haven’t got one. Is there anything I can do that will avoid losing everything I’ve done up to this point?
And finally if I have to debug an USB device like "why it is not recognized on the system ? where is the problem ? how can I fix it ?" what are the commands I dispose of ? On Linux I used to use dmesg/lsusb/lspci/syslog...
I have enabled Remote Login in System Preferences in order to sftp files from my Macbook to my android devices. On those I have AndFTP installed and it used to work without problem. Now I don't think I've done anything to my system lately, but I am no longer able to connect to the Macbook, neither from my phone nor my tablet, both with Android 7. sftp localhost works
Every now and then, my Macbook Pro running the latest macOS won't connect to my WiFi. It just keeps insisting: The Wi-Fi network "Ubiquiti UniFi" can not be joined.
I've recently dug out an old iPhone to sell. It has activation lock on it which is pretty normal. However, it's linked to an Apple account which has had its password changed since then. I've also removed it from the iCloud interface. It now refuses to unlock with either my current password or the password I used then... :( Is there anyway to reset this iphone without having to go through tech support?
I'm using Cliclick, together with JavaScript (Node.js), to automate some tasks which involve clicking inside the window of an App running a virtual machine. That idea works, but I also lose control of the machine because it is moving the mouse around. Is there any way to achieve the same effect, but on the background?
I have two user accounts (a work and personal account) on my MacBook Pro 5,3 with OS X 10.11.6. On both I use the same Logitech MX Master mouse in combination with the Logitech Options application. I would like to keep the settings (scroll speed, pointer speed, etc...) in sync such that I do not have to do the setup on each account. How can I copy settings stored by an application (Logitech Options in this case) on one account to the other?
Alright, so I just started beginning web development using my mac. My localhost says "It works" and I read somewhere I need to add my code files etc in Library/WebServer/Documents.
I am sending user input to my server via an Applescript: My curl is sending the user input correctly and I am checking against my database to see if there is a match. I am returning true or false in my PHP script. On my server when I enter the correct email and productKey it returns true but when I display the response of the curl in my Applescript it always returns empty. And then it displays "Failed" from my if statement. It seems even though my server shows a true response that my curl is not grabbing that value as its response for some reason. Any help would be greatly appreciated. APPLESCRIPT PHP
My MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch Early 2013) has been crashing abruptly. This is especially happening when I keep my machine in sleep mode. Scenario:
How can I access the database of an iPhone app I have purchased to copy it to an Excel spreadsheet? And how can I access its media files to copy them to my hard drive?
A few days ago I noticed that the current temperature in the Today widget in Notification Center was wrong. The Weather widget said it was in the 70's, but the Today widget said it was currently in the 30's.
I am currently encrypting my external hard drive (1TB), but the process takes a while. I'm always using it on the go with my laptop, so I have to eject it at some point. However, after I eject my hard drive, the light on my hard drive is still on, indicating it's still active. I ejected it properly, but it still flashes on. So I decide to just shut down my laptop and plug out my hard drive. Is this safe to do?
I have a great little Automator App that makes use of AppleScript with an embedded shell of FFMPEG to convert files. It's great to be able to drag and drop files and they all convert...but they all convert at the same time. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to get the app to batch. I'm sure it's a simple matter of AppleScript language. I want to be able to drop a folder or a bunch of files onto the app and have them process one at a time. Right now I have: It works very well and I'm happy with it although I'm sure there are other ways of doing this I just need to help adapting this app to batch files.
I hate logging in to my bank account from my Mac via 2 step and having my phone in the other room. I want to set up text message forwarding to my Mac, but I'm wondering if it comes with an extra charge. I understand that sending text messages from your Mac will cost you, but what about receiving?
Everything that I have read says that iWorks/ iMovie etc should be free for Mac users after 1 September 2013. I already bought Pages but want Numbers and iMovie. My MacBook Pro with retina is early 2015 and I am being charged. Why is this please?
I have recently upgraded all computers to macOS Sierra V10.12.4 and found to my surprise that my MacBook Air's desktop files and folders are being mirrored on another, more public, computer on the network. To avoid embarrassment I want to stop this. I cannot find a way to do it - any help would be appreciated.
I accidentally deleted iTunes on my old iMac G5 running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11. It is not in the trash, and I would really like to get it back. I tried getting the latest version of iTunes available for my system from *=URL=* When I tried to open the DMG file it gave me, all I got was a notice that said "The following disk images failed to mount: iTunes9.2.1.dmg".
But when I tried to publish the app for the first time it went through. I was able to deploy X company app (version 1.0.0) using Apple Developer Program but then when I tried to deploy it again with some changes (version 1.0.1) I couldn't.
I recently learned that I can use iTerm as tmux's window management system (*=URL=* by calling tmux -CC, and attaching to an existing session by calling tmux -CC attach. How do I specify which tmux instance to attach to?
I need to scribble my signature on an electronic document. I see that Google Drawings has a scribble feature, but I can't get a mouse to produce anything that looks like my written signature.
I have US holidays and in the settings there is Chinese calendar too. But I want to have holidays of a few different countries included in the calendar simultaneously. Is there a way to do this?
This question is generic but for my case I have an iPhone SE with iOS 10.3.1 and a MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.4. Is it possible to have my iPhone backup to both iTunes and iCloud? When I connect the phone to iTunes the backup option seems to have a radio option for one or the other. But it seems it would be preferable to have backups in two different places, a more complete larger backup on the computer and a smaller backup to iCloud that has the settings/app list/documents.
I can't erase all content and settings on my iPhone 6s+. When I enter my passcode, restrictions PIN, and iCloud password it displays an error telling me that verification failed, there was an error connecting to iCloud. What's causing this and how can I fix it?
I've noticed I'm using a few Finder and other app instances per project. Sometimes I need to easily swap between "workspaces" and I've only recently started to use Mission Control and multiple Desktops which I'm getting the hang off.
I have a Mac Pro running dual Xeon X5675s (3.06 Ghz). I purchased 8 16GB PC3L-8500R DIMMs in the hope of upgrading it to 128GB. It sees all the memory, but it's only running it at 800 Mhz (PC3-8500 should run at 1066 Mhz). Is this a limitation of the amount of memory, or is it something about these DIMMMs that it doesn't like? I tried another CPU card (also with X5675s) and got the same result. With the original 4GB DIMMs, it runs at the expected speed.
I have uninstalled an app from Finder->Applications. But in launchpad, icon of the app still exists. How to remove it? I've tried to restart Mac, no luck. Screenshot:
Dusting off an old iMac and it was hanging at 50% progress bar during start up. Since I don't need anything on it I'm trying to reformat.
I recently bought a SanDisk 64 GB USB. It will not mount and doesn't reformat as there are no partitions/no file system. I'm not sure how to fix this.
I got my phone taken away and i found it in my moms dresser turned off. She uses Find my Friends on me so will it notify her if i turn it on? She also pays the bill if that has anything to do with it.
When given a well-known abbreviation or acronym, Mac's built-in Text-to-Speech engine automatically speaks the correct word or pronunciation, instead of the individual letters. For example: vs (Speech pronunciation: "versus") Dec. (Speech pronunciation: "December") 5 cm (Speech pronunciation: "5 centimeters") Dr. (Speech pronunciation: "Doctor") Dept. (Speech pronunciation: "department") Rd (Speech pronunciation: "road") OPEC (Speech pronunciation: "oh-peck") However, there are instances where Speech does not pronounce a lesser-known abbreviation correctly, and, instead, speaks the individual letters of the word. For example: BTW IMO YMMV Is it possible to change the Speech behavior, so that when it is given "BTW," for example, it reads "by the way"?
I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. Using the Time Machine interface, I select a folder I want to restore (from an hour ago). The folder is located somewhere in my iCloud Drive folder. I select "Restore" and apparently Finder crashes. In Console, the following is logged:
I have a Transcend 1TB external hard drive. The hard drive shows up in Disk Utility but when I click on Mount, the LED of the drive blinks for 2 seconds. And then nothing happens. When I clicked on Repair I got this message:
When an auto-renewable subscription is due for renewal, does Apple notify the user ahead of time, via a notification or email? Or is their credit card charged without their knowledge? I'm considering using auto-renewable subscriptions in my app, so I want to understand this.
I recently switched back from OSX to Windows on my Notebook and from iOS to Android on my phone. I backed up all my files from iCloud via the app for Windows (which I uninstalled after) and would now like to cancel the iCloud storage service. I can't find a way to to do it via the browser. Do I really have to reinstall the iCloud app for Windows in order to do it?
I am trying to add SSH key to ~/.ssh/config using echo "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-ssh-key" >> ~/.ssh/config It is showing me error -bash: /Users/gaurav/.ssh/config: Permission denied What i am doing wrong? Permission to folders
I recently bought a UPS for my Mac mini home server. It is a Chinese brand. When I plug the UPS into my Mac mini, the computer successfully detects the UPS and the UPS setting pops up inside the Energy Saver preferences. However, the battery percentage is always at 0% and the UPS menu always shows Unknown Time Remaining.
I would like to switch the Right Command (⌘) Key order with the Alt Key under the System Preferences (to be just like Windows) but there appears to be no option under System Preferences. Does anyone know how to move these keys' locations using Karabiner-Elements or some other software? In this case we would swap the right-hand Alt and Command keys.
I uninstalled Parallels Desktop, so I don't have a Windows VM any more. However when I type we into Spotlight, the Windows Weather app comes first, and if I press it, it says Parallels Desktop is not installed anymore.
I'm not sure what happened, but I'm no longer able to send SMS texts from my desktop (Sierra). I thought it was because I moved all my contacts to Google instead of iCloud, but even numbers that aren't stored anywhere yet I'm unable to reach. And even if I make a new contact on my Mac only, I can't text it.
I kind of am getting tired of Mac OS X Tiger, and I have decided I want to install Ubuntu on my iMac G5. I downloaded the ISO from this website. Then I prepared a CD. I TRIED to boot from the CD using the C key, but my Mac just did the normal Mac boot process, and I wound up at the Mac Login screen. Frustrated, I tried again. Then I tried to hold down the Option key while booting. All I got was a grey screen with a picture on a hard drive that said Mac HD below it. No CD. I am sure I made the CD right, using Disk Utility. Oh, I also tried using Open-Firmware, but when I did the keyboard combination, it booted straight into normal Mac OS X login screen. Does anyone have any advice?
I know how to create a bootable USB drive from which I can install macOS. However, the usual macOS installer is interactive, I can't just plug in the installation media and let it do its work. The setup assistant will ask for things like country, computer name, user name, password, wifi settings, etc. Can I somehow preconfigure the installation media so that it would complete the entire process without any user interaction?
The "Last Import" function of Photos seems stuck. It shows all my photos from Feb, 2012 - Feb, 2017. Which is really strange, as I import photos from my phone about once a week. I.e., I'm imported dozens of times since Feb, 2017. How do I reset/fix this?
I can't play this voice memo. It won't play. I also can't share it. iOS 10.3.1
For aesthetic reasons, I'd like to change the apple-touch-icon (the icon that is displayed in the favourites grid in Safari), for a website that I do not own (such as YouTube). I thought I would be able to do this by editing the html to include <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="*=URL=* then re-adding the website to my favourites. No luck. Although this did work in Windows to create a custom live tile. Is there any other way this can be accomplished?
I need to restore Google Chrome (Canary) browsing history from a Time Machine backup. It seems Time Machine has backed up all the profile files in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default except the History file. Oops. Why is that, and how can I restore Chrome's History from a backup?
I stupidly left my AirPods in the washing machine through a whole cycle. I took them out, hand dried them, and they were surprisingly still working. I used them for about an hour after that and then all of a sudden they shut off.
Some of my Apps Icons are changing to a generic app icon, and I have no idea why. Tried to restart the system and nothing. 3 days ago i updated my Skype and then the icon is gone.
My father's iPhone 7s shows such message: Could Not Sign In: A server problem is blocking Apple ID sign in. Try signing in later."
I have 2 WiFi networks I can connect to at home. There is one that I prefer but is not the strongest signal, so my iPhone will usually connect to the other network.
I have a problem with dropdown menus appearing in really large size, in a wrong location to where it should be on screen (namely below and to the right of the expected location). I have experienced this for over a month on various websites, producing the same result. the shown website I experience this in Chrome on my Macbook Pro 15" and have tested with all extensions deactivated with the same results. Anybody have an idea of what is going on or what could solve it? Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133 (Official Build) (64-bit), macOS: Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195), MacBook Pro: Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015
2 months ago I had strange problems with my Macbook Pro 13", 2012 which I luckily fixed by replacing the SATA cable. However, since last week I have another really strange issue. Every time after my Mac wakes up from 'Sleep', I get the following error: The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50). I removed my Samsung SSD 850 Evo and put the standard Mac HDD in my Macbook and everything seems to work fine, except it is slow as hell (but no error -50 after waking up from sleep).
Is there an image editor for OS X (e.g. Preview) that can be operated programmatically, preferably with python, or that has a built-in programming language, like MS Word has VBA built-in (at least on Windows systems)? I'd like to be able to do the following with code: Open an image in the image editor, Use the editor to save the image to some arbitrary location in the file system. It is essential for me to save the file via the editor, since when the editor saves a file it does more than simply save it: it also writes meta info, which I am interested in. macOS Sierra Version 10.12.4
I'd like to be able to stop iOS automatically converting emoticons as pictures. I want it so that, for example, instead of a picture of a smiling face my phone displays the raw characters of a colon followed by a right bracket [ :) ]. Anyone have any more thoughts on this?
I am running Sierra 10.12.4 on a 13 inch Macbook Pro, Early 2015. I recently purchased it.. In december. Anyways, I noticed this glitching when I was looking up sprites for a game that we had to make as an assignment. What I noticed was, the check pattern on png images (if they're transparent) is really glitching.
I'm aware that Reminders, Disk Utility, and App Store have debug menus. Are there any other apps that have a similar Terminal command for a secret debug menu?
At our repair centre we sometimes receive iPhones that have No Power and when we measure the current they're taking it's just 0.006 or a similar very low value. They have no liquid damage or any other type of damage when we inspect them and they cannot be fixed in any way. I wonder why is this happening, are they being connected to a faulty nor non-Apple charger?
Is it possible to wirelessly connect macbook pro 2015 to LG ULTRAWIDE monitor? Through airplay or whatever else channel, or even through 3rd-party adapter.
Is there a way to create a tar file in OS X (Sierra, preferably) that does not include the ._ files? I've tried using the --exclude option, but clearly don't know the right pattern to use.
I downloaded it form foxit reader's page but I got file may harm your computer warning like above. How do I verify this? Or should I just follow that suggestion by firefox? MacOS Sierra, firefox 52.0.2
I am trying to write OM tags using xattr. This works fine for one tag, but how do I add two or more? I have tried various combinations of quotes, commas, \, etc. without success so far. Help greatly appreciated.
I was having issues with my work laptop so I gave it to our IT guy who sent it to Apple for repairs. When it came back he told me they had to replace the logic board (which made sense based on the problems I was having) and also the SSD (which surprised me because when I was trying to figure out what was wrong it seemed okay).
I've got an 11" MacBook Air with a broken screen (big gaping hole due to mishandling). I've also have another 13" MacBook Air with a broken logic board (won't boot and the beeps seem to say "memory error"). What would be the challenges of transplanting the 11" logic board to the 13" one?
I have an iPhone 6S locked to TalkTalk (a UK network) which was bought from Carphone Warehouse - a retailer so it locks to whatever network of the first sim that is inserted (TalkTalk). Since TalkTalk sells unlocked mobiles they have no facility of unlocking it.
Why does the phone light up at times () and others it just black with a green dot next to it?
I've got an older (classic?) black plastic MacBook that can't be upgraded past OS X Lion (10.7.5). It looks like it's no longer receiving security updates, and critical software (like web browsers) have also discontinued support. This makes me nervous to use it on today's internet. Should I install something like Windows 10 or Linux Mint instead? (If it weren't for security issues I'd be fine keeping it running as-is.)
When I open Script Editor (by opening Finder, then clicking on Applications -> Utilities -> Script Editor) the following window shows.  As can be seen both in the top panel as well as in the side panel, Script Editor is is in the iCloud. Why is it in the iCloud? Didn't it used to be on the hard drive? Is it possible to download it to my hard drive? I tried to search for Script Editor in the App Store, but it doesn't seem to be there. macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.4
My HDMI is not working as usual. I can hear the correct sound, but no picture. I believe the last software update may have been the cause. I have attached a friend's MacBook Pro and the HDMI works correctly. I am running a 2015 MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12.4.
Currently, if I want to bind a new keyboard shortcut to a menu item, I need to go through a somewhat tedious, many-step process: Open System Preferences, then Keyboard pane, then App Shortcuts Click the + button Find the application in the menu Forget the exact name of the menu item I want to bind Go back to the other application, find the menu item, remember exactly what it’s called Go back to System Preferences and type that in the field Type the desired shortcut and click “Add” On testing it out, find that I somehow mistyped it and spend a couple minutes troubleshooting steps 5–7 For something so simple as binding a keyboard shortcut to a menu item, I feel like there should be a very easy way to achieve this in about two seconds. Is there some sort of script or app which I can use to easily manage an app's keyboard shortcuts? I would be equally happy with something resembling either of these: A small script/background app which I can call, which prompts me to select a menu item and 
I edit RAW photos in Photoshop using Adobe Camera Raw. The way the edits work is any time I work on a picture, Photoshop creates a text file with the same name as the picture to which the edits were made. However, sometimes when I delete an image, or use it in a Photomerge, the XML file stays behind. Thus I now have a folder with ~1100 RAW images (.NEF), ~1300 text files (.xmp) and a few photoshop files (.psd, .psb).
I'm using an application that loads the contents of a folder of audio samples for my use. The samples I want to use however, are scattered amongst many folders on my machine, and I don't want to copy them all into a single folder first.
Telegram Messenger on my iPhone has no chat group's exit button, like the existing "Leave chat" on Android version. Could anyone please tell me where is it?
With macOS sierra (10.12.4), Time Machine backups to a Synology NAS are failing in the "preparing backup" phase. The UI messages aren't helpful, but console shows this error from backupd: This repeats every 60 seconds for several minutes, and then Time Machine gives up.
I am getting conflicting answers (even from the Apple itself) about the validity of the applecare plan for Macbook Pro (purchased from US) in Turkey. I know that there are Apple stores in Istanbul and that Apple gives technical assistance there. However, some says that applecare is not valid in Turkey. They say that in order to benefit from the applecare plan I should either mail my computer to US or bring it to US or perhaps to some nearby EU country where the plan is valid. On the contrary some says that applecare is completely valid for MacBooks in Turkey (though not for Iphones, Ipads, etc.). I would be grateful if I can have the correct answer and, if the plan is valid in Turkey then how the process works. Thank you.
Since I can't copy the list of my 'Purchased' Apps on Apple's App Store, I'm wondering if there's any other way to do this. I have little computer savvy, so if there's a solution it'd have to be step-by-step. Thanks.
(This is not the usual "I want to share one Apple ID across two iPhones" question. Sharing an Apple ID may be the answer, but it's not the goal. I know of at least one other possible answer.) How can I share about 10GB of music on a computer (most of it not purchased from Apple), along with its associated metadata, between two iPhones?
At exactly 4 a.m., macOS gave a popup saying, “Update Available,” then abruptly closed all my applications. I don’t remember receiving any earlier popups or warnings about updates being available.
I am trying to use Plex to share my family's photo library (Photos.app) so it's available on any device to view photos. The problem is that adding the entire Photos library to Plex's library results in multiple, differing copies of the same image. QUESTION: Is there a location inside the Photos library package where there are organized sets of photos (edited, not originals), such that I could add a folder to a Plex library, or is there any good/better way to do this?
How does Script Editor choose the applications to show on the 'tell current application' popup? For instance, why doesn't Preview appear on the list (see screencap below)? Is it possible to add applications to this list? If so, how?
Consider the following AppleScript program: I saved this script as an Application, and ran it successfully by double-clicking the application icon. I then simplified the script by setting the 'tell current application' popup menu to 'TextEdit' and replacing the program with the following line:
I have an old-school text-based Citadel BBS running in DOSBox on a Raspberry Pi Zero, accessible via telnet at anthropocene.sytes.net:13000. It runs smoothly for callers using PuTTY (with line editing mode forced off) from Windows and Linux, or ConnectBot from Android.
Is it OK to run a MacBook Pro (late 2013) for 10 hours continuously with fan? I am thinking of turning it into a local Android build machine. It has a 2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor which means it takes about 8-10 hours to compile my Nexus image (depending on if I have other programs open). The CPU does get hot - close to 90°C.
When I just sudo pkill it: In syslog: However it automatically restarts: Also note, that using launchctl is also not the way to do it:
I want to install a new version of ruby via rvm. To install that, I need gnupg2. I installed it using brew, but it could not be linked. I get the following error message when linking with brew link gpg2: I have no idea what the gpg-agent does and if I can savely overwrite the link without destroying something that my system somewhere needs.
I have a setting that whenever I open up Finder, it would open my username files. However, it does not show within Favorites. Why does it not show there? How can I add my username there?
In my "Documents" folder I want files with same extension to be one after another. So I open view settings options and select "Sort By: Kind", then click "Use as Defaults": When I switch the folder to "Downloads" then back to "Documents" -- my sorting is lost -- the file list is sorted by name not by kind.
Since I use the control strip more often than the traditional function keys, I set the "Press Fn key to" setting to "Expand Control Strip" on my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. This option can be found under System Preferences > Keyboard.
Where can I find previous iPad alerts or warnings?
I downloaded Skype for Business on Mac and I have tons of Chats saved, but there is no setting for deleting them after X amount of days or a way to delete them in mass. Currently, I have have to right click then delete on every single chat. Does anyone know where the Chat history is stored on Mac?
Byobu has some keybindings that require a modifier key and a function key, like Shift+f2 or Ctrl+f7. Unfortunately macOS picks these up instead and does god knows what with them. How do I send these key combinations to iTerm2?
I'm not sure if this functionality is built into macOS or if there is an app I must download, please let me know. I'd like the functionality of the F1-12 buttons to only work as 'function' keys and not, for example, volume-up or volume-down, unless a specific application is open. Does anyone know if this is possible?
I am relatively new to bash and am having some trouble with a script I am trying to write. After spending the last hour or so researching and trying new techniques, I am still unable to do what I would like.
I know there's a way to collapse conversations in Mail so your inbox doesn't show each exchange in a chain of emails unless you expand them, is there a way to do that by sender? Like I get a collection of emails from places like Amazon, Youtube, ect. all the time and I'd like to be able to just have them all under a collapsed section rather than just tons of emails littered throughout my inbox from them.
Trying to answer the question Are true dynamic folders (NOT a “Smart Folder” SavedSearch) possible? I stumbled about the problem to loop the results of an mdfind search as quoted or escaped paths. Code snippet:
When I try to load a page in Google Chrome without Wi-Fi and then turn on Wi-Fi the page refreshes automatically. I do not want this because I don't have time to turn on a VPN before the page loads. How do I prevent this?
I haven't yet bought any movies on iTunes since I want to have this question answered, and I haven't been able to find it here/in FAQs/forums/etc. If I buy and download a movie, and keep it on an external hard drive, would I be able to watch it even if iTunes removes the movie from their store? Does the DRM expire and force you to re-download it after some time (meaning that you've lost it, since it's no longer on the store)?
I am using MacOS 10.12. I just started working for a company that gave me a VPN connection to connect to. I'm trying to come up with a script that, upon VPN connection, will: add route to remote VPN subnet mount NAS share via SMB
I recently acquired an Apple Watch (running 2.2.2). When it synced with my iPhone 7, the Keynote app was automatically installed on it, because I have Keynote in my phone. Then a problem arose: when I tried to install an app, it did not appear on the Apple Watch. It does not appear in the Apple Watch app anywhere, but it is installed on my phone. Needless to say, I would like to be able to install the app on the watch as well.
Using sntp to query an NTP server times out after just 15 sec. According to sntp documentation and man page for sntp, default is supposed to be 68 seconds. Is this a bug sntp installed in OS 10.11.6?
According to the man page, using -f, it should ignore that the file doesn't exist nor should it change the return-value. (I have tested the correct behavior on RedHat 6 for comparison.)
recently I have had a rather odd issue concerning the MacBook Pro 13 inch (early 2015) where it would crash after being unused for periods of 60-80 min when connected with a DisplayPort Cable to an external 4K display. It was plugged in every instance where it would crash. Additionally, when I disconnected the DisplayPort Cable and opened up the MacBook to use its normal display, it showed a black screen. However, the trackpad appeared the show functionality, but using the screen and keyboard brightness buttons yielded no responses. Any ideas as to why?
I'm working on a document based application in Cocoa, the file is a bundle type (a folder which the Finder shows as a single file much like an application.) I had everything working perfectly but then I made the mistake of adding a reverse domain name type identifier to my file's type in my info.plist (something I later learned Apple explicitly warn not to do here). Well, this immediately broke my file type, documents from my application only look like folders in the Finder now, so there is no 'open' or 'open with' option on any of them and the data inside is exposed. Removing the MIME identifier from my plist and rebuilding does not repair the registration of the files type in launch services, not even after explicitly pointing LSRefresh at the build (it is only a debug build).
Does anyone know if and where iCloud caches notes locally on macOS? I am trying to recover lost notes from a Time Machine backup, but I'm having trouble accessing them, as they were stored in the "iCloud" section of the Notes app and not the "On My Mac" section. So the notes I need would have been saved in iCloud.
I used AirDrop for the first time to move files from my iPhone to my MacBook. I read the brief information on the MacBook itself when set it up. The files transferred but I can't find them. They were photos and a brief video. Any idea where the files might be?
I want to make an automator workflow to find certain audio files in a folder, but I want it to look at the duration of those files. I'm looking for quite short audio samples of under 2 seconds. It doesn't appear to have the ability to filter by duration. Is there any other way to accomplish this in Automator?
Recently I tried installing Windows 10 using Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. The initial steps went smoothly until the actual windows installation where I was unable to install Windows on Boot Camp drive. I don't recall exactly if it was a MBR/GPT or NTFS/FAT32 issue, but after formatting the drive I was able to proceed with the installation. Now Windows 10 is installed and working as expected, and so is the Boot Camp Utility software inside Windows.
If an iPhone as a non-working screen (not detecting touch) or cracked screen. Is there a way to connect a keyboard (and preferably: a mouse connected to the keyboard) using a USB powered hub? Or would I need some low power Lightning keyboard?
Script Editor, the built-in AppleScript development environment, has no debugging capabilities. There seems to be just one commercial IDE for AppleScript*. It looks amazing and has all the debugging features that one would expect from a modern IDE, but it costs $100, which would be too expensive for my pocket even if Apple did not seem to be phasing out this programming language (see bullet point #1).
I have used iPhone 6s before it was stolen in December 2016. I bought an iPhone 7 Plus but cannot login into my old account. I already tried to sign in but it failed. It seems that the password has changed. I tried all my password possibilities but it still will not work. I need to login to my Apple ID because all my applications are linked with the old iPhone. I had also tried to enter my credit card number but still not work.
I've installed less via but less starts the system version of less, not the one installed via homebrew. which less shows:
Is it possible to lock my MacBook to my Apple ID so that if it gets stolen (macOS) is useless when someone tries to reinstall it?
I have a higher spec 2011 Mac Mini, i5 Dual Core Hyper-threading, 8GB RAM, dedicated AMD GPU. I damaged the GPU while playing game, it can only boot if I removed the all the AMD related kext, it can boot in to OS X Mavericks, but the UI rendering is painfully slow. I then use it as inefficient network file server as I did not install any other faceless OS. How should I install the OS into a hard drive externally and place the hard drive back into the Mac Mini?
Now the script runs everyday, the cron line itself works. The Macs won't shutdown though and the log just says that the Macs did not run more than 24 hours. Though I frequently have Macs that run more than 3-4 days. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Apple TV (4th Gen) MBP (15" w/ TB) I have a few hundred movies purchased through iTunes, some have mismatched genres, some I'd like to create my own. Examples: Rush Hour 1 & 3 are marked as Comedy Rush Hour 2 is marked as Action & Adventure Grouping all James Bond movies under a genre of the same name I found this article from 2009 that explains how to do this with AppleTV out at the time.
In windows I can get the resources by using the below method:   How can I get the resources under Mac OSX ?
I have a very wierd issue with my macbook air early2015. The shift key is almost always stuck after I wake the computer and login. However this does not affect text for some reason, I can still use the shift key normally in all text fields. It does however affect the slow animation and multiple selection stuff that happens while pressing shift, which makes using the mac almost impossible.
Off lately my iPhone 6 starts prompting "Incorrect Password" error while connecting to Wifi, it happens every time it dies due to the low battery or is restarted. I have tried all the steps suggested on Apple Forum as well as various other sources. Reset Network Settings,Reset All Settings, Forced Restart, Forgetting network and trying to join again, Turning off the wifi assist and tried connecting to Wifi during Airplane mode, I have tried them all numerous times.
Very strange situation I have two folders that I can't add to the dock in macosSierra, I can add all the other folders correctly. I check the library\Preferences\com.apple.dock.plist but they aren't too. I don't now where can I check to solve this problem, the preferences of this folders are the same to the others. Any ideas?
Im sorting images in a kinda large image library, and thumbnails from old iPhoto-library is still in there. And I'm in need of removing them to improve speed of sorting the images.
I've had a secondhand iPhone for three years, using it with my iCloud account. Just now I tried to wipe it with an iTunes restore. The first step was to disable Find My iPhone. Doing so, I received a confirmation email that the phone is now unlocked. To my surprise, upon reset, it went into activation lock mode and asked for the previous owner's login.
I've tried to figure out my AppleScript version, and arrived at a contradiction. According to Wikipedia, the latest AppleScript version is 2.7. According to this Ask Different answer, if I run the latest version of OS X, then I have the latest AppleScript version. I run macOS Sierra version 10.12.4. According to Wikipedia, the latest version of OS X is macOS 10.12 Sierra. Therefore I run the latest version of macOS. Therefore I run the latest AppleScript version. Therefore my AppleScript version is 2.7. However, according to this Ask Different answer, my current AppleScript version is specified in the 'About Script Editor' dialog of the Script Editor application, and the 'About Script Editor' dialog of my Script Editor application says AppleScript 2.5 We have arrived at a contradiction!
When my Mac is turned on, my iPhone / Apple Watch refuse to ping me for iOS Notifications such as Calendar notifications. I get the notification on my Mac but my Apple Watch will not ping me. From what I can tell everything is setup correctly to receive notifications on my phone and my watch but when the Mac is on, it steals notifications. How do I disable this so that my watch still buzzes me even when my Mac is on?
I have arm pain, and one helpful feature I've used in the past is where the mouse will automatically click whenever it stops moving and lingers on a spot for one second. I swear I've used this before on a Mac, but I can't figure out how to enable it. Are there any settings or Mac apps that enabled us?
The iCloud account will RECEIVE messages. The Gmail account will both send and receive messages as usual.
I used to have an iPhone 4S, on which I took a lot of pictures which have since become very important to me. The phone had a 4 digit lock code, was never backed up or connected to iTunes and never had Siri enabled. I don't own a Mac, but could have access to one if required (either a very modern iMac or a MacBook Pro from about 8 years ago). I do have a PC, and I'm comfortable using cygwin if necessary. I did have an Apple ID connected with the phone, though I have forgotten the details about it and the lock code. My question is whether it is possible to retrieve the photos, and if so how? Any help is appreciated.
Is there another software to uninstall applications without leaving confit files without having to manually navigate in those directories and delete them one by one? Thanks
I am using iOS 10.3.1 on iPhone 5S. When I connect to my Windows 10 PC using USB and view the device in Windows Explorer, I can navigate to iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM\ folder - which is empty (I recently moved all my other photos onto hard disk). When I open Photos app on the iPhone, I see 295 images. They all appear in "My Albums" in the album "iPhone".
I tried to delete com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse, so Mac would create a new one, if it had write permissions. The Mac created new files but the issue still persists. Same case with the case of mouse speed too. Any help is highly appreciated.
New here, but I'm having difficulty putting together an AppleScript that will basically take an SMB link and turn it into a UNC link before I send it over to a couple of Win10 clients. All same network, we're all using a SNS NAS and it's for Adobe Premiere links. We can do this all manually, but the editors don't have time/patience to convert each link. We're looking for an automated script that we could integrate as a service that will convert selected text.
I logged the AppleEvents that get sent from a Terminal window. The event that the osascript command sends to the AppleScript compiler/interpreter wasn't logged. How come?
I have a Macbook 5,1, and installed a patched version of MacOS Sierra not long time ago. If it matters the battery is not original, and the magsafe is also replaced. It also used to crash often with the old magsafe while I connected and disconnected repeatedly, this new magsafe I've soldered recently and I dont if it makes any problems.
I tried using a shell script ln -s but that just plain fails with a The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error. message after hitting a file that already exists.
I have a very disturbing issue on my mac. After I log in my mac keep asking me for an Apple Keychain password, for several times every few mins. Is there any way to disable those pop ups or more likely to disable Keychain entirely? Thank you everyone, yours, Roei.
Myself and my partner both have iPhones and usually take it in turns to take photos when we are together (so we do not end up with duplicates!). We then AirDrop them to each other's phones and they save in 'All Photos' on our iPhones. Having recently bought a Mac and also owning an iPad, I have noticed that these photos do not sync into photos across all devices, even though they are connected using iCloud and would usually sync. Is there a way to do this?
Scientific articles are usually formatted with two columns. Is there a way to highlight text from only one column with Preview? Like in my example I want to highlight only from Tree species to less so without the left column.
At one time I had several email addresses under one mac dot com account. Is that option still available? I cannot find the option anymore.
I frequently record my iPad (mini 2) screen with Quicktime. Has always worked just fine. Now suddenly I get the error message "The operation could not be completed" everytime I try it. It appears the iPad disconnects from the Mac as soon as I select it as a source in quicktime. It works fine with my iPhone, so it seems to be a problem with the iPad. I tried different cables, rebooting all devices, and even reset my iPad. Still the same. Any idea what else I could do?
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 and it has a problem that it turns off or restarts randomly. It all started when it began reacting slowly and then it went off when I opened a photo. A technician told me it was because a manufacturer's fault that the graphics card stopped working. Q: Where I can get a compatible graphics card with any specifications needed to find repair parts that suit my model?
I don't like the series Mail/iCal from Apple, reason why I bought Outlook 2016 for Mac. I was able to transfer the contacts but I am facing difficulties transferring the email database. It seems that outlook doesn't support the email format of the apple mail. Is there a way to transfer all the emails with their categories from Apple Mail to Outlook 2016 for Mac ?
When typing out country names for example Canada, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and China and all other country names I have tried using my iPhone with iOS 10 emojis are suggested with the respective flag for the country name I have just typed. When I type "America" this is not the case, why does typing the word America not suggest the use of the American flag emoji like so for all other countries?
I was just given an old iMac without a Hard Drive. This is the model (image from the software Mactracker):
While looking at Finder tonight, I noticed a number of log files in the root Macintosh HD folder:  What are these files and their purpose? Can they be deleted?
I saw same two applications under "open with" menu and searching for the other instance took me to ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/Media folder. After backing up notes, I deleted the Macvim.app from the notes media folder but the moment I open the notes app it reappeared. I'm not sure how to clean up and there are other apps also inside the folder such as Dashboard.app and Firefox.app. Please advise if anyone has encountered this issue or has resolved it. Thanks
At home I work regularly between two monitors – I have a Dell monitor connected to my MacBook Pro. It's not something I've done a whole lot until recently so I was trying to find a solution to the problem that when I'm working in an application on the connected monitor, how can I always have the dialog boxes for that application open on that monitor, and vice versa? It's pretty annoying and definitely slows down work a bit, especially if an application open on the other monitor is in full screen.
I now want to make a partition on the new SSD to install Windows 10. I've been told I need to use Boot Camp because Disk Utility (which I've used before to partition and erase discs) can't make a bootable partition for Windows. (If this is incorrect, I'd much rather use Disk Utility than Boot Camp, but in what follows I'll assume it is true.) (Mind you, I've never used Boot Camp before, so please bear with me if I'm doing things wrong.)
I have written a desktop application that I would like to install onto my clients machine and then lock down so that the user cannot leave that application (Exactly the same as guided access for iOS). Ideally, I'd like to stop the user from leaving the app at all. Otherwise I can set up parental permissions to stop the user from accessing an internet browser and messing with anything important. Q: Is there any Guided access equivalent for macOS?
I'm facing issues with iOS Calendar notifications on Apple Watch. I use Fantastical as my phone / watch calendar. I disabled the iOS Calendar notifications on my iPhone, and set the iOS Calendar watch notifications to mirror iPhone alerts. Then, I deleted the iOS Calendar app. The issue, is that I get two notifications every time, one from Fantastical (which is fine), and one from iOS Calendar app (which is wrong). How can I prevent the iOS/watchOS Calendar app to notify me ever again? iPhone 7 (iOS 10.3.1) Apple Watch series 2 (watchOS 3.2)
I have a very odd issue with my external USB3 hard drive. Sometimes, I can use it with no problems, but sometimes it slows down the entire computer and freezes processes.
I have a 6th generation iPod nano wit 8GB memory and I've recently subscribed to Apple Music. Whenever I sync my iPod with iTunes I get this error message:
I want to use my Apple Remote Control 2G (aluminum with black buttons) in presentations on my work computer (MSI GL62M 7RD-429XES Intel Core i7-7700HQ/8GB/1TB+256SSD/GTX1050/15.6") I have installed Bootcamp driver called AppleRemoteInstaller64in my PC (Windows 10), but I can not make it work. I can't connect the device to my computer. Do you have any idea about this? Thank in advance PD: Yes, I know that I should do my presentations on my Mac :P UPDATE: MSI GL62M 7RD-429XES Intel Core i7-7700HQ/8GB/1TB+256SSD/GTX1050/15.6"
I have a problem since i installed windows 10, i own an IPhone 6s and on iTunes Apps are not being shown in the apps tab (I mean the box on the left side where apps and its size are listed, it is just blank as if they were undetected although they are shown on the tabs on the right) I know this only happens on Windows 10 as i have a Laptop with Windows 7 and it is working properly with the same iTunes version. This is driving me crazy because sometimes i need to clear some space and do not know which apps to remove apart from guessing ... Can someone help?
The first process terminates when I quit iTerm2, but the second one remains. I have to manually kill it.
So I researched this also and an answer to this question (What is com.apple.bird? Why does it grow so big?) suggested using a script to tell me what apps are using this 89GB. I actually got the script to work (pat on back for me!) and this tells me that WhatsApp is the problem.
"This application will not run on your computer. Sorry!" The symlink has permissions rwxr-xr-x.
I was used to use the next key of my old MBP to quickly change the currently playing song. I would like to know if someone knows a hack to get the next media button displayed directly in the control-strip. I know I can access it with one more key press on the media (or expand) button.
I am still a little new to the macOS world, so my question might be easily solved. I have been doing some networking with my MacBook Air and noticed some things I did not understand/thought that they should be different. When I run ifconfig I see many network adapters, and with many I mean way more than I anticipated.
I wrote a nice script that, among other things, opens a terminal and does stuff (that cannot be done using a shell script). When it finishes I no longer need the terminal andI want to close it. However, using tell application "Terminal" to quit pops up this confirmation window:
In column view at text size 12 only the generic jpg, or png icon shows, but not the image content itself. If I change the text size (in view options) to 13, the icons slightly increase in size and laod and display correctly.
I have a Mac mini 2014, running macOS Sierra from a SSD drive, and using an Apple Keyboard M9034 D/A. Since I replaced the rotational hard drive (HDD) with an SSD, I do not see the Apple logo on the screen to show it's loading. The start up shortcuts below do not work: ⇧ Shift Start up in Safe Mode; ⌥ Option (alt) Start up to Startup Manager; ⌘ CommandS Start up in single-user mode; ⌘ Command R - Start up from macOS Recvery ⌥ Option (alt)⌘ Command R Start up from macOS Recovery over the Internet. The only combination that works is the PRAM reset: altcmdPR Already tried with 3 different keyboards. Already tried with 3 different keyboards. Installed a complete fresh copy of the Operating System. Installed a complete fresh copy of the Operating System. macOS Recovery only works if the system has some kind of issue, meaning if the boot does not work. macOS Recovery only works if the system has some kind of issue, meaning if the boot does not work. C Start up from a bootable USB only works 
When I use Finder to look at the time machine, on a 6 TB disk, it reports 480 GB for one of the computers being backed up there, and 570 GB for the other one (where I saw the error), and 4.1 TB available. Both of these make sense, based on the contents of the computers they are backups of. However, I receive the error message Disk is nearly full. Any ideas? MacBook Pro, macOS 10.12.4 Time Machine connects to a Time Capsule that is on the network
on macos Sierra 10.12.4 and latest version of LaunchBar I have a problem with indexing Contacts items and now I am sure it is not LaucnBar's fault because I ran it in debug mode and found this in Console: UNIX error exception: 17 MacOS Error -67050 There are bunch of other warnings (as always) which I believe are not relevant like:
I just recently upgraded my Mac and it's having some issues. It freezes for a few seconds, and when it resumes operation, things just go crazy. Among other problems, some text is missing, some text is not showing up in the contextual menu. I thought it might be a font problem or something, so I went to Font Book, tried to validate all the fonts there, and all seems fine.
my Macbook Pro has random graphical glitches. Most of the time they are present in Spotify, and less often in Chrome. An example of such glitches is on the photo attached.
Is there a way to measure program execution time on microsecond level from Terminal? The standard time command only measures milliseconds which isn't detailed enough for my needs.
I have my work iCloud account that needs to be primary for Keynote collaboration etc. But all most Notes are in my personal iCloud account. I can use my personal iCloud account for iMessages and iTunes, is there a way to also use my personal iCloud account for notes?
My iPhone 6S had an intermittent issue with the touch screen that was not responding to touch. I backed it up using iTunes version 12.6.0.100 to my laptop. iPhone was on version 10.2.1 when it was backed up. iStore replaced the phone with one that also had 10.2.1 installed on it. I tried to restore the backup to the new iPhone and got this message: iTunes could not restore the iPhone "xxxx" because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored. I took the phone and computer to the store and they loaded iOS 10.3.1 and said that this was the problem. However, updating iOS did not fix the problem.
Can someone suggest an adapter to connect to iPhone hotspot through Ethernet data cable? Wireless hardware in my laptop has stopped working and I am using Ethernet cable to connect to Internet. But once in a while, I want to use it outside and I am looking for some kind of hardware to connect to iPhone HotSpot. I looked at IOGEAR Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter and it could have worked but their customer support said they have had problems to connect to hotspot and they haven't tried iPhone hotspot yet. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UAKCS6/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_YL-9ybAKFN7NK
iPhone 6 The credit card in iPhone's iCloud Settings/Apple ID/Payment & Shipping/Payment Method (Payment Details) has just expired. I received a new card ( new expiration date and verification code) and entered it into Apple Pay a few weeks ago.
My music is already copied onto new Mac AND into iTunes, but it is not organized into the several hundred playlists I have. How do I get those playlists from old Mac to new Mac (and ensure the songs are placed in the playlists)?
I'm tracking the progress of my new app, and each day it is exciting to see new numbers. However, today I noticed a big difference between what's reported via iTunesConnect and App Analytics iTunesConnect App Analytics - 447 units on April 18 iTunesConnect Sales and Trends - 23700 units on April 18
When I delete a contact's old phone number it immediately comes back. Something so basic should not require 20 minutes of Google searches that lead nowhere.
I have an old Mac Pro 3,1 running on El Capitan and I was trying to boot from a USB on startup only to see that nothing happens. I can go into Recovery Mode and Safe Boot Mode and my computer runs normally too but the one thing that I can't do is I can't go into startup manager, I've tried to hold the alt key before and after the power on and nothing happens.
I was going to install vim on Xcode; and I saw I've gotta reset default keychains (or something like this; system language is not set to English) and I did so. The wireless access point I connected when I reset keychain stopped working; but other aps work as usual. The system says it cannot connect to Wi-Fi network and suggests to start diagnosis.
I have iTunes 12.6. I read that after 12.2 iTunes doesn't create .xml to store playlists. Is the .itl the same thing? Will it have my playlists? I tried importing the library.itl to my new computer, but nothing happened. How do I get my playlists to a new computer when using iTunes 12.2 or later?
Is there a way to change the delay time until a scheduled sleep/restart/shutdown occurs? It starts at 10 minutes (10:00), but I want to change it to 30 minutes (30:00).
Please note before reading this that: "Tell them to go to System preferences > Security & privacy and allow 3rd party applications to run. Is not an acceptable solve for this issue.
In Windows there is an option to allow you create an index.html file which opens a specific web address when clicked on it. How can I create a similar file in Mac? I want to have a file called index.html and when clicked, a web address www.example.com should open in the default browser.
Last night my iPad 4 went flat as I was working with it. I had failed to notice it was on low battery. I immediately plugged it into my charger and waited to see it turn back on and carry on working. It did not. So I proceeded to google hacks. I have cleaned 6 different wall sockets. I have changed the wall sockets obviously. I have tried to force restart it. I have tried a different cable. All have been in vain as it says that it is charging. There is no lightening bolt and charger symbol just the empty battery with a bit of red. but it has been like this for the entire night. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could fix this before I went to the iStore?
The storage tool, opened from About This Mac, shows there is 30.15GB of iTunes data. I went into the iTunes root folder and removed all the music and podcasts. The 30.15GB remains. I have tried restarting the mac. Is this a bug or is there somewhere else I should look to delete this 30.15GB of data?
Is there any way to change the iCloud account name (not the actual email address, just the name of the account as in System Preferences/Internet Accounts on macOS) on iOS? I know this had been possible in the past, but I can't find the setting anymore.
I need to prevent a Mac user from deleting some files, so my idea is disable the user to sudo to the root user. I tested it in Terminal, it's OK there: The staff group's user ttest can not delete this file. But it's very strange: when I tested it in Finder, I dragged it to the Trash, I needed to enter a password and after that, the file had been moved to Trash.
So I'Ve got the handy exiftool with has its own man page when executing exiftool or exiftool --help. I want to export this man page to a .txt file which I would to by typing: This works but has some weird double characters so I piped that output through col:
I have issue with wallpaper. When I am switching desktop, wallpaper is not moving along but "stays under". killall Dock fixes this but recently it is occurring so often that it became annoying.
Is it possible for a third party app to access macOS's clipboard content? I am asking in relation to copy & paste sensitive data such as passwords and sensitive file content.
I'm having trouble with my router, where the WiFi keeps disconnecting on most of our home devices, so I'm testing different settings on the router. (Seems to be affected by security protocol...) I would like to see a log – on my MacBook Pro (10.11.5) – of WiFi connect/disconnect events so I can keep track.
I have a server running Server 5.2 to provide LDAP services to a couple of things. One of these is a webapp which occasionally reports the following when I attempt to log in: Error (400 status code): The client HTTP request was badly formatted. XythosServletContextImpl:89 - DirectoryServiceUtil:1409 - The LdapServerManager is in sleep state; cannot connect to a directory server I have set power settings so that nothing should go to sleep. This error has only started occurring since I updated the OS to El Capitain from 10.8 (and an older version of Server).
I want to remap § to ` and ± to ~ on my Mac keyboard because they are located in a place I am not used to. Is there an easy way to do this?
LogMeIn Hamachi is crashing on a remote Mac, and I need to restart it without restarting the machine (because then I would lose access entirely.) I tried un/re-loading the global agent/daemons: /Library/Application Support/LogMeIn Hamachi/bin/hamachid /Library/Application Support/LogMeIn Hamachi/bin/hamachid /Applications/LogMeIn Hamachi/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar.app/Contents/MacOS/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar /Applications/LogMeIn Hamachi/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar.app/Contents/MacOS/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar
I've been messaging with someone from my iPad to their phone for over a year, but now they show up in red. My messages cannot be sent. I know it's not on their end because it happens with other people too. How do I correct this?
I am attempting to send an email via the standard Apple Mail application using a POSIX file reference on macOS Sierra (10.12.3). Everything builds fine, but when it sends, the attachment is not being received. Here's the code: The recipient is set earlier in the code, and there are no issues with sending the email itself: just the attachment. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
To mark pictures as burst in Apple Photos.app a random BurstUUID (same one for all bursts) is required. By trying to set an UUID with zsh: exiftool -BurstUUID='A4862FFE-5491-4F15-9AC0-0881859A0802' sample.jpg it returns
It seems that I can not find a solid answer on this. Currently, I've tried this... Using my NetGear Genie, I went to security and blocked the keywords/domains of: *=URL=* https://appldnld.apple.com
I am trying to enabled the Chrome policy EnableLSha1ForLocalAnchors on my Mac running Sierra and unfortunately have not had much luck! So far I have tried the following: Opened the com.Google.Chrome.manifest file Changed the code below to set the values to 1 and saved the file Restarted Chrome and confirmed that the setting is not shown as enabled when viewing chrome://policy/
This problem started nearly 4 days ago. Randomly, while browsing, or more specifically, entering a url in the address bar, my Mac freezes. After a while, it unfreezes but all the menu items disappear and all dialog boxes become black (but stay responsive). Even the windows have weird black areas. It's not reproducible. Initially, I thought it was a problem with Google Chrome, but the same happened while I was browsing on Firefox. I have resetted the NVRAM and SMC, but it doesn't fix my issue.
There are 2 Mac French keyboard layouts. The standard one : And another one :
So this is very weird, but the combination ⌘1 no longer works when I am logged into my iMac as me. It doesn't matter what app I have open (Finder, Slack, and Outlook all have different things bound to that combination, for instance); nothing happens when I press the combination. Both the ⌘ key and 1 work by themselves, but not together.
I have a very persistent cookie on my iPhone 7 which I am not able to delete. The cookie in question is puckermob.com and I am almost certain this is some kind of adware. Here is what I have tried so far: Under Settings\Safari clicked the Clear History and Website Data Under Settings\Safari clicked the Clear History and Website Data Under Settings\Safari\Advanced\Website Data clicked the Remove All Website Data Under Settings\Safari\Advanced\Website Data clicked the Remove All Website Data In addition to the obvious methods for removing cookies, I have also tried the following: Disabling javascript in Safari Blocking all cookies in Safari Uninstalled all third party applications as I thought maybe one of these might be creating the cookie. Disabled iCloud sync for Safari I am out of ideas and appreciate any help. It appears as if this is a known issue with iOS 10.3.1: some cookies will not remove using, which appears to be part of the bug, my experience is that google.com will not remo
I'm trying to track down the .icns files for these icons: Any ideas? Not seeing them in the app resource folder.
I've tried mashing various key-combinations into the keyboard. I've tried tabbing and option-tabbing. I've tried creating a keyboard shortcut for all apps in Syst Prefs. I wonder if there's something to enter into Terminal? And I'm not interested in changing the tab key to focus on all interactive elements. Thank you.
Viewing a pdf with Preview, I do cmdF to bring up a search box and then enter a word and hit enter. Basically nothing happens even if it's a word that's obviously present. Sometimes if I smash my hands all over the keyboard and spin around in my chair three times the search suddenly starts working again, but I haven't figured out how to do that trick reliably.
Hello I am trying to run an applescript that will launch VLC media player and play all the files in a folder whenever a new file is added. It seemed to work fine initially then I restarted my computer and not it wont run. I am running the script as a folder Action. please see attached script. What am I missing?
I am trying to develop a strategy to protect a 2016 iMac against ransomware and other types of malware. I have several assumptions:
I am not able to factory restore my iphone5. I tried every possible way to reset the phone. It is asking for environmental protection agency log in and password. I want to erase everything from that phone.
I have MacBook Pro 13' Retina 2015. When I connect the charger the magnet connector heats up, but when charging is complete and the green light comes on everything is normal with no heat.
Is it possible to make ctrl + left and ctrl + right switch between desktops on the screen where the window is active rather than on the screen where the mouse cursor is located? I work primariliy with the keyboard only, but a hindrance to my workflow is that the monitor on which the "change desktop" key combination triggers an action depends on which monitor the cursor is on rather than on what monitor the currently active window is. Using osx 10.12.4
Are there similar shorcuts to navigating to locations that you have saved. I noticed "Go Home" works if you have home programmed into contacts but nothing else. School used to work not anymore. Similar android question https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/172333/ok-google-go-to-blank
I stream youtube meditation video on bluetooth earbuds while going to sleep. I close the case and it stops so I open it and restart. runs all night!!! until a few days ago. now when I reopen the case and restart it goes back to home screen and shuts off the stream. I have not updated recently. I have made no changes nor have I done anything different.How do I resolve this issue?
When I send a message in Messages on my Mac, the text is sometimes auto-linked if it matches some product. For instance, I used the phrase "dark places", and the Messages app linked it to a film of the same name in the iTunes Store.
I want to check how (if) and what of my files and network data is logged when using my MacBook offsite. This is a work computer and I know almost all data is tracked when I am onsite. How can I check if this happens when I am offsite not using the VPN (company provided). Can someone tell me how this is tracked by IT, is there something like syncing drives to a network drive whenever a particular person gets connected on Office network?
Is there a piece of software that allows one to pause (& un-pause) a currently playing YouTube video (or, ideally, any online video/audio media), with a keyboard shortcut or a conveniently accessible button (e.g., a button that sits in the menu bar, located at the top-right of the screen)? The fewer necessary clicks, the better. The key here is that I want the ability to pause the video in any application, that is, when Google Chrome is not the foremost application (e.g., TextEdit or Microsoft Word is the foremost application).
Here's my issue: Recorded a podcast that we're splitting into a two-part episode. Editing part 1 was easy: I just deleted everything at the end. However, making Part 2 is trickier. Now I have an intro, 25 mins of blank space and then the rest of the audio (that was cut to make Part 1). Any idea how to get rid of a large chunk of blank space in the middle without individually having to drag over all of the remaining audio?
Lately I've been working on videography, but I've been using iMovie on my MacBook Pro, and its about 8 years old, and I know for sure there's an update for the iMovie, but when I go to app store it says theres no updates?
Can I set the app to Require High Perf GPU? The thing is, I use few apps which in my strong belief should use NVIDIA GPU (which is much better instead the Intel built in graphics) and it uses the built in Intel one? Can I change which application should use the second, better GPU?
I installed a HDD+SSD setup on this MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011. At first I installed the SSD where the Superdrive was with an optical bay HDD caddy, but then I saw in System Informations -> SATA that while the speed link was 6 Gigabit, the negotiated speed was 3 Gigabit.
Where is the following part of settings app?;)
I recently downloaded an app that tells me when someone in my direct area is in need of CPR (as I am an first aid worker). This app will sound an alarm to alert me, but this alarm is muted when I put my iPhone 4s in silent mode. Is there a way I can specifically unmute this app and keep the rest muted?
I have a file structure for photos which is Year >Date, then within each date folder I have RAW images plus a folder named 'jpg', which contains jpg copies of the RAW files. I need to move the jpg folders to a new location, but rename them first, to the name of the first file in the folder, which is always a descriptor, so from 'jpg' to 'Jack and Jill-1.jpg' Once I've renamed all of the folders, (10 years of photos), I can strip out the extension and number leaving me with a folder called 'Jack and Jill' I'm an absolute newbie with AppleScript, but have a script that works in a sense as in it performs perfectly on a test folder on my Desktop, but I can't get it to run on a mounted drive, or my network drive. The script I've butchered is possibly carrying excess baggage and can be trimmed down, but I'm really looking for function over form as it only has to run once. The script is purely for the initial rename, I have the extension removal side working okay via Better Rename. Any help i
Until recently, I was using iMessage on both iOS and macOS. Now, my phone is dead with a black screen, so I did a full erase from iTunes. ("Find my iPhone" and iCloud was turned off already.)
My C++ daemon for MacOSX is being successfully signed with productbuild: The certificate I am using has been created by first creating an App ID for my daemon, then by requesting a Mac Installer Distribution certificate for the particular App ID.
My macbook worked perfectly fine but then its battery ran out and when I recharged it, my screen looked like this, however, it functions perfectly fine. I cannot seem to figure out what the problem is because nothing happened to it.
I am not sure if I am the only one who is facing this problem, but interesting thing is that my Iphone 5S(IOS 10.x.x) vibrates everyday 12 O'clock for several seconds and there is no way I can stop it. It is really annoying at work place. I checked if I have any alarm for 12 O'Clock, but I did not find one.
Currently, I am still able to use iMessage from macOS. My iMessage account is connected only to my phone number, not my email address, and I'd like to keep it that way.
The wireless UE Boom 2 can be remotely powered on/off through the UE MEGABOOM iPhone app and that's very useful in some cases. It would be great to be able to do the same but from a MacBook, but Logitech didn't release such an app for macOS. I believe this should technically be feasible from any device with a Bluetooth 4 + LE device (which my MBP Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014 has). Would you know how this could be achieved, through a Bluetooth software or script? This is what my Mac shows for the UE in System Information > Bluetooth I've tried LightBlue but it can't show the available services for the UE:
My boss gave me his iPad and tasked me to get his Yahoo password that was in the default mail app. He made the account 15 years ago, and we both have tried all the recovery options (security questions are forgotten, backup email is no longer accessible). Additionally the passwords are not stored in the safari saved passwords What I do know is the format of the password ( x number of symbols then y number of numbers etc ) I understand that passwords are stored in the keychain and are encrypted. Should I: Jailbreak the iPad and get the db file for the keychain and decrypt it using something like hashcat (while knowing the format of the password)? Make an encrypted backup via iTunes and get the db that way? Or is there a better way to recover the password? Note: I only have Windows available to me
I was on the App Store, and accidentally started downloading macOS Sierra. I have no desire to download this, so I want to cancel the download, but I can't figure out how. From what I have searched, you should go to the purchased section of the App Store, and cancel the download, but macOS doesn't show there:
I have a .app that is quarantined. But I am super confused - how can my .app be properly codesigned and yet still be quarantined by Apple? I have an app called iTest.app that I downloaded from my server and made sure that it was codesigned correctly but yet it is still quarantined? I thought that having a valid code signature was the whole point of getting past Gatekeeper?
I manage a very modest macOS server (Late 2014 Mac Mini, Mac OS 10.12.4, Server 5.3) that supports several sharepoints for about 20 clients - a mix of macOS and Windows. I typically have my work machine set to 'AppleShowAllFiles TRUE' so I notice that the shares are accumulating '.smbdelete...' files. These are hidden for most users, but they are getting a little annoying for me because the file listing of one share in particular is getting long. From web searches, it looks like this has to do with macOS' handling of SMB connections to shares. So two questions: Can these be safely deleted? Can the accumulation of these be halted.
Every once in a while, I am asked to update my Java installation. I click update, it downloads and installation runs smoothly. Except in the end when it asks me whether I want to restore security prompts. The continue button is greyed out (regardless of whether I check the option or not).
I have this issue since upgrading to Sierra that the finder doesn't show the full location when it opens for things like downloading, saving, etc. This is across multiple apps including Chrome, Safari, Adobe products, etc. See attached screenshots but the problems works as follows: Initially I am prompted with the last memorized location I downloaded, saved, etc. Then if I'm wanting to save/download to a different directory I have to click the dropdown to select a new location. After that, the finder window shows the full location.
Does the iTunes notification center (Today view) not display the track for live streams? Mine only shows for tracks in my library. In the case of live streams, it is simply blank. The main iTunes window, and mini-player, show the live track info just fine.
I have a MacBook Pro 2010 and I bought the Sculpt keyboard but I can't get it working! The keyboard just doesn't exist for macOS Sierra.
The setup asks how I want to transfer information and I check the option for Time Machine. Next when it shows the correct Time Capsule I select it and it prompts me to enter the password for the Time Capsule. After it accepts the correct user name and password it just sits there. It doesn't load any further options and I cannot continue. I can connect to the Time Capsule and mount the backups from another mac so I know the backups exist, but I can't seem to restore the backup through the setup.
I had a damaged disk that's encrypted with CoreStorage / FileVault. DiskWarrior was unable to operate on it while encrypted, obviously (“This is an offline, unavailable Core Storage disk.”); but the diskutil corestorage unlockVolume [UUID] operation both unlocks and mounts the volume. With a damaged disk like this, I'd really like to avoid mounting the filesystem before working on it — I'd just like to unlock it so I can proceed with recovery tools. Is there any way to enter the disk's password without causing it to subsequently be mounted by OS X?
I tried to partition my Disk but it failed with this message:  I have tried First Aid under Recovery and it said the First Aid is completed. However, the partition still failed. What should I do?
New MacOS sierra 10.12.4 introduced us new feature called Night Shift . Is it better to stick with flux software *=URL=* or just use Night Shift? Pros and cons of using these softwares for adapting display colours on late nights? Edit: There is interesting article about this on iMore site: http://www.imore.com/night-shift-vs-flux-whats-difference
My Desktop folder is missing from favorites menu and also from Finder Preferences. How do I restore to the favorites menu?
I would like to add a folder to the left side of my Dock. When I try to do this it isn’t accepted. However, I can add it to the right side of my Dock. This doesn’t suit me for this particular folder. My question is: Is there any way to add a folder to the left side of the Dock?
I have texlive and texshop for Latex on my external SSD. I deleted my Library preference files for both apps along with a lsregister -kill command to force my Mac to forget all non-default pathing.
I have a 2008 Macbook Air that was running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I purchased it on eBay and wanted to do a full OS reset. This being my first Apple computer (and ONLY Apple computer in my household), I figured it would be a simple procedure -- 1. Wipe the partition, 2. install the OS. Boy was I wrong.
What if you bought a new iPhone so when you transferred your contacts your previous contacts via the old iCloud account, then you sign out of the old iCloud account into a new one. The contacts then disappeared, so how do you now retrieve the contacts?
Once I have restarted I can let the machine sleep or whatever, and the display still works unless I disconnect the adapter. As soon as I do that a restart is required to use it again. Using MacOS Sierra (10.12.4) Using this adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IUXA9YK/
I've accidentally edited an existing note in Stickies.app and found that command + z is not working? Is there any available functionality in the Stickies app for undo or to restore lost work?
I am considering a Mac as my main development machine, and will most of the time be required to use Windows for my development work. According to the Apple support article Turn off Hyper-V to use Windows 10 on your Mac it is not possible to use Hyper-V in Windows 10 on a Mac in Boot Camp. This is a big limitation for me, since also it means it will be impossible to use Docker Windows Containers on a Mac, since they require Hyper-V. Are there any practical workarounds for this?
It takes some time to remove the battery connector before replacing or re-seating the screen in iPhones. I wonder if there's any standby power there if the iPhone is turned off.
How can I view an iPhone app's user license agreement? I'd like to know the answer to the general case, but also specifically concerning this app.
How to delete (with CLI tmutil delete) all old backups from TimeMachine. I wish to keep only current backup. I wish to put that into crontab. Found How to Delete Old Backups from Time Machine on Mac
I'm trying to do this with Automator: I want to keep my Downloads folder always empty and as I use DEVONthink I would like to send them to DEVONthink. I can select the files but I don't know how to Right-click Send to Devon-Inbox. I tried recording actions to make a Watch Me Do, but the files are not being copied. Just selected and then deleted from the download folder.
I have an iPhone SE in almost perfect conditions (I never dropped it). I bought it 9 months ago, but since 3 weeks (and maybe more) the touch screen don't always works, I mean that when I touch, sometimes it doesn't understand that I'm touching, and that's very very annoying. The problem happened at least 1 time per hours and I already tried to clean the screen and restart my iPhone, do you have any ideas?
I'd like to use Chrome (currently Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit)) and on my iPad I'd like to use Safari (obviously). Since 10.10 the sync between Chrome and MacOS Keychain stopped working for me. Is there any trick to make this work again?
So already I've tried booting Ubuntu on a USB from the Mac's command line (verboes or something like that). But it didn't seem to work at all and said load size is too small or came up with a no entry symbol.
Recently, I downloaded a VPN app. It's icon appeared as normal for a second, and then became quite strange looking. After a while, this problem started to spread to the icons of other apps as well as icons within the apps. Is this a virus, or corrupted data or what?
I've recently started using a bluetooth keyboard with my iPad. I was wondering if there are any keyboard shortcuts for emoji ? Switching to the on screen keyboard is possible but forces me to take my fingers off the hardware keyboard and tap the screen which is a huge waste of time. On Mac the autocorrect replaces stuff "<3" with their emoji equivalent but iOS doesn't seem to do that. Regards.
I have MacBook Pro with Retina, and Iiyama Monitor that has HDMI input. Is there a difference (in performance or anything) between connecting MDP-HDMI cable into Mac's Thunderbolt and between using HDMI cable into Mac's HDMI output? I have both cables, but so far I am unable to tell what's the difference. I think that both options are actually HDMI's in the end, but I am not sure yet.
This problem has been around for at least a year on multiple Sierra versions. When I’m switching to another app through Mission Control it focuses on that app only for a split of a second and then switches focus to another app. Here’s the video showing the issue (it switches back to Evernote.app despite clicking on the Finder.app): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ustogynwyeu12w4/scr_focus_lost.mov?dl=0
How do I get the old Songs list view within playlists on iTunes 12.6? Some of my playlists (whether old or new) are now showing up in the stupid huge list that shows the album cover and all kinds of extra crap, and I only have about 8 songs per screen that I can see at once without scrolling. How do I go back to just the text-only list view within individual playlists (not just the main library) in iTunes 12.6?
I have multiple folders containing thousands of deletion-recovered files from multiple recovery scans. As per usual with deletion recovery, the recovered files have different names than the originals, and different names from one recovery scan to another. So, short of writing a custom program, is there a tool (or product) that can compare files by content and ignore the filenames?
The brother supported Apple printers site shows the HL2030 model as unsupported on MacOS Sierra. I have tried Gutenprint which says it supports the HL2030, but it doesn't work, I think due to this bug. Is there anything else I can do?
The software setting up the antenna may have failed during a software update therefore no longer has the cellular capability. (iPhones are not prone to this however)
I use a Microsoft Natural keyboard with a Mac Mini. Yesterday I found that Option-leftarrow (which normally moves the cursor by one word) no longer worked. All other arrow functions, including Command-leftarrow (move to left margin), were unaffected.
I am trying to install dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 alongside OS Sierra. What I have done so far:
I have a PC running Windows 10 and a Mac running macOS 10.12.4 both connected to a common home WiFi network. Mac network settings Firewall: disabled, IP: 192.168.1.18, Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Windows network settings Firewall: disabled, IP: 192.168.1.14, Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Ping Results Mac->Mac (other) = success Mac->PC = success PC->PC = success PC->Mac = fail When monitoring tcpdump via Terminal on the Mac it is showing that the computer is receiving the ping, but the PC is not receiving a reply.
I've attempted to install iTunes on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit for the first time. I downloaded the latest iTunes64Setup.exe from Apple's website, and the install seemingly completes without error. However, when I run iTunes, I get the error "A required iTunes component is not installed" with error number 45075, and then iTunes closes.
What event/selector/method is called, if any, when the user closes the app in the multi-tasking screen? Xcode reports Message from debugger: Terminated due to signal 9 (i.e. SIGKILL, which cannot be trapped). Is the use of AppDelegate.applicationWillResignActive,which is invoked when the user pressed the 'Home' button, the next best option?
In order to organize my workspace I arrange my fullscreen apps in appropriate order, so I know what app is on the left and on the right from my current position. However when I start an app by clicking on a dock icon and move to the desktop, my current fullscreen window places to the first position automatically, right next after the desktop.
In System Preferences under Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners I set up ‘Put Display to Sleep’ at one of the corners. Occasionally, moving the cursor to that corner results in.. nothing. Sometimes all four corners become inactive in this way; at other times it's only the "display to sleep" corner that is inactive and the others (Launchpad, ..) function normally.
I have two routers, both connected to the same internet connection: One that is shared with all my roommates and does not support 802.11ac, let's call it "slow". One that I own and manage (TP-Link Archer C58), does support 802.11ac and to which both my Apple TV is connected, let's call it "fast".
When I'm searching something using Safari's search bar, the search bar doesn't lose the focus when I hit Enter, so the suggestions shows up again. Has someone else had this problem? Is there a way to fix this? I'm using Safari 10 on macOS Sierra.
My mail app currently shows only 10 messages, where there should be 10.000. This happened after the update to OSX 10.12.4. The mail folder (~/Library/Mail) is about 8GB large, so the data is still there. I tried rebuilding the mailbox (*=URL=* I tried having spotlight reindex ~/Library/Mail (as suggested here *=URL=* Any suggestions for other things to try?
For some reason my Western Digital My Passport Ultra does not mount in macOS Sierra. I've tried plugging it in Safe Mode and I was able to access it (It mounted just fine). I've also tried plugging it in a different MBP(r) that uses El Capitan and it also worked fine. So therefore I'm assuming the problem could be caused by Sierra.
Following the update to iOS 10.3.1, my phone warned me (unnecessarily as it turned out) that I had too little space to store all my photos at full resolution, and suggested that I switch to "optimized" storage (which for those unfamiliar with the feature stores a uselessly blurry simulacrum of the original only), which I foolishly did.  I immediately realized my mistake, and restored the "Download and Keep Originals" setting. But this appears to have had no effect. I still see only the placeholders, until I click on an individual photo and wait for it to download.
I've noticed that after restoring or erasing an iPhone and setting it up, you're offered backups to restore from iCloud. How many and how old are these backups. I couldn't find any articles explaining this.
I am a proud owner of a MacBook Pro from Early 2008 (MacBookPro4,1), which is (apart from the problems) still running strong. Unfortunately I have been getting kernel panics for a while now. I am not 100% sure but I think it started after I let the battery drain completely one night with the MacBook being in Standby. The next morning it wouldn't turn on and I did not just have to reset the SMC but bypass it. After I started the MacBook that way I could restart normally. This was about two months ago and I think since then I get the kernel panics every now and then. More Information: MacBook Pro (Early 2008) 6Gb RAM Mac OS X 10.11.6 2,4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 128MB
When I type "mom" into the "To:" field, Mail.app doesn't load my mom's email addy:  ...but when I click the blue "circle/plus" button and type "mom" it does:
I had 2 versions of Mono installed, one via Homebrew, the other downloaded from Mono website (*=URL=* This was causing issues with versions, so I tried removing both. I uninstalled Homebrew with brew uninstall mono and the other one with (as per website instructions.)
Files (ex: .py files) are associated with their default program (in my case, Sublime text editor). The program (Sublime) then gets to choose what icon to show. It is possible to manually edit the program's (Sublime's) code to change the icons. Details: *=URL=* (I have done this with Sublime) _
I have MacBook Pro 5,5 Mid 2009 Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM running Mavericks and I am wondering if should I upgrade my system to Yosemite. Does Yosemite make my system run faster what about performance and heat?
My iMovie library is about 50GB, and appears to be one file. Does time machine version this file after each change, or is it intelligent enough to see into the library, even though I can't?
My thoughts so far: I think that it must be something wrong either in the mail preferences on the iPhone or in the yahoo server. I don't know why the old Macbook still syncs with the server and keeps the old mails.
I have got an iPhone 6S on October of 2015. Sometime in 2016, I downloaded Geekbench 3, to benchmark the device. My baseline results are: (5 runs)
I run a rather complicated stack of smart playlists to populate my iPod with music and videos, from the top one that pulls out the files I added to my library first, to the middle range that sorts that playlist by how many times I have listened to the files, to the actually used playlists that sort it out by media type (i.e. TV Show, Audiobook, and music genres) These low level playlists I have I usually limit to 23 items since this is the most I can have on one screen without scrolling, however I have stumbled across a small problem. I like to listen to my music by year, the oldest stuff first, but I have no way to LIMIT the playlist by this field. I can limit by random, but then my audiobooks show up all out of order, same with artist and album, sometimes I'll get the third book in the trilogy before the first one. Can playlist limit matches by year so I can always get the earliest stuff first?
I am unable (as of today) to access an external hard-drive (The USB variant). It does not or will not show under my Devices directory in Finder. If I open Disk Utility, the application will forever tell me it is loading the drives unless I unplug the external and plug it in after opening the application (at which point it shows nothing).
I'm trying to have the custom artwork I apply to movies purchased on iTunes (applied through using 'Get Info' within iTunes on a Mac) spread to my iPhone or iPad. As it is, these changes appear to just be local to the machine, so I'm stuck with the default artwork for iOS devices as they appear in the TV app. I'm looking for the artwork to sync via iCloud, but I'm not sure iCloud can do this.
I already gave up of using my iPhone as Internet connection by Bluetooth PAN because if I close the Macbook, or it sleeps, after re-opening the connection is gone, and will not come back. But I have a good mouse: Microsoft sculpt touch mouse. It lost too, I have to pick a wired mouse or restart the Macbook.
When I click with two fingers to open a link in a new window, Safari too often turn on the "Look Up" function. It is annoying, and I have tried to turn it off in System Preferences > Touchpad > Point & Click to no avail. Any other suggestions?
When I start my Mac each time I am faced with torrent opening automatically. I went to Share Preferenses -> User -> LoginApp to check if this app is chosen, but no... So how to remove this app from autolaunch?
How do I get both the answer and the button pressed of a display dialog on applescript? The following code will get me the text, but not the button:
I suspect that someone has logged on my iPhone (physical access, with my code) Is there a report of all connections with the hours that can be found on the iPhone so I can confirm my suspicions? If yes, do I need a special tool to read it?
I installed Wine using the .pkg from their website (installing the necessary dependencies like XQuartz beforehand). I was able to run the installer of the Windows app with no problem, but when I try to run the app itself I get:
I'm trying to record my screen through quicktime player on mac, however this warning sign appears (with no tooltip or anything) and selecting the iPad screen just leaves a black screen on the recording window. Any advice? Additionally, my Macbook comes up with the error 'the operation can not be completed' when trying the same. Currently on Sierra for the MBP and El Cap for the desktop.
A couple months ago I thought I'd switch from Thunderbird to Outlook, I thought it would make sense seeing as I'd started paying for MS Office. However it reminded me on just how bad Outlook is and I stopped using it a few days later. Seeing as it downloaded a pretty hefty amount of emails (there didn't appear to be a way to limit the sync like in Thunderbird) I would like to remove any files it generated from my hard drive.
I have a problem with my new monitor. Often when I unlock the screen, there are windows that are hanging beyond desktop border. It is quite irritating having to drag them back to the window centre manually. Luckily, I've found a script that can do it for me: https://github.com/bradchoate/gather-windows/blob/master/Gather%20Windows.applescript
I have to save data from a MacBook Air (13" Early 2015) that won't start. I was suggested to buy a Thunderbolt cable, to be able to connect the broken MacBook to another MacBook and see all the data as an external drive. At this point, instead of transferring all data to the functioning MacBook, can I connect an external drive to the functioning one to transfer all the data from the broken MacBook there?
EDIT: I should add that I only want this to be the behaviour for the folders in question. All other folders I would like to have a normal (A->Z) alphabetical sorting. I don't mind applying the condition to each folder separately (rather than recursively) if that's the only option. I'd just really like any working solution to this problem.
This morning, I woke up, opened my MacBook Pro 2016 13" w/ TouchID, and all the fingerprints were erased. Nothing should have caused this, and nobody else knows the password to my account. How can I determine what caused this so I can fix it and avoid this in the future? Running macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195) It did NOT update software or anything outside of the usual last night, it didn't even reboot.
My MacBook Pro Retina (2014) running 10.12.3 has a strange behavior on the train - while I'm actually using it, it goes to sleep and the only way to wake it up is to close the lid and reopen it. This happens when the mac is on battery power and on the train - doesn't happen when I'm in an office. As instructed by *=URL=* , I ran pmset -g pslog in a terminal, and this is the log that I got after a few times of this random sleep happening:
I did do a web search, I found someone with a similar issue who was mounting because they had hard drive problems. I did not have hard drive problems to begin with, does this indicate that I do now? If so, what about a bad install would decrease the capacity of a hard drive? How does it actually decrease the capacity of an HDD? EDIT: some terminal output
I've noticed that when I run : Homebrew is connecting to Google analytics. Why? And how to disable it?
How is imaging and initialization of laptops handled in the Apple world? Does Apple have tools for this or third parties are better?
In macOS Sierra, for some reasons, I would like to change my MAC address and I would like that this change survive a reboot. How can I do this?
I have a mid 2009 15" MacBook Pro (5.4), system 10.11.6 and its SuperDrive doesn't read disks that are burnt. Either they are ejected after a while or finder tells me that these are blank disks. However when I insert old install DVDs from Apple (Leopard, Snow Leopard) they are recognized and the installer opens without any problem. I can't reproduce exactly when it started behaving like that because it's been a couple of years ago when I last time inserted any disk in it, but I remember SuperDrive was reading them without any problem.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) running 10.12.4. At work I have an older Dell display and at home I have a new LG UltraFine 5K Display (I picked it up from Apple mid January 2017). When I travel I turn the power to my laptop off (I don't travel with it hibernated) If I go to work in the morning and hook it into my work monitor (USB-C to thunderbolt2 plugged into a Belkin Thunderbolt dock connected to the Dell monitor via HDMI) everything works fine.
I wanted to delete some files on an SD card but then emptying the trash would take too long so I just canceled it and went with terminal to wipe it manually with rm -rf But then there are some directories that have some files that show up like they're there, but then when trying to delete or list them I get No such file or directory. Trying to delete the directory with rm -rf gets Directory not empty.
For additional security, my Mac is requesting that I enter my iPhone passcode. My iPhone passcode contains non-English letters and other special characters. On my iPhone entering this passcode is done by accessing other keyboards or holding down a key for additional letters.
I'm trying to delete Contacts and Focuster. It is a Gmail account, and it doesn't appear on my google calendar. For some reason, it's not letting delete from my iCal.
I'm trying to run a backup from one HDD to another at 10pm everynight on a Mac Pro. I have tested the rsync and it backups just fine outside of the cron table. Here is what I have and it's not running * 20 * * * rsync -av /Volumes/HDD1/* /Volumes/HDDbackup/ This is on a Mac Pro that doesn't get turned off nightly
I tried everything that comes up in the Apple forums, such as booting in the Safe Mode, Disk Utility's First Aid, closing all the apps and paying close attention to Console app and System Monitor to find out the culprit, restarting several times, finishing up any system updates (I had an Xcode update in queue) etc. None above helped.
I am curious if Siri can be used effectively by those who stutter when they speak. By effectively, I mean that the error rate where it misunderstands what you are intending to say is low enough that it can be used without undue frustration in day to day life. I would ideally like to hear from someone who has firsthand experience with this.
After forgetting my passcode for my iPad, I have decided that I need to restore my iPad through recovery mode (which I am aware that it will completely erase everything else). However, will that erase my Apple ID and Game Center data? In other words, if I restore and wipe my iPad clean, then enter again and download my game and sign in to Game Center, will all that game progress still be saved somewhere online or something via Game Center or Apple ID, or is all that information only stored in the iPad itself and not online/in a cloud/etc and will be lost?
In Parallels Desktop 12.2.0 on MacOS 10.12.4, a Windows 10 VM is taking up over 170GB of mystery space. Windows only sees a 128GB drive. But Parallels claims to be using 300GB on hard disks.
How can I install the Adobe Reader DC without uninstalling the old Adobe Reader (11)? I want to manage the installation of Adobe Reader DC on my clients without deleting their old Adobe Reader. Is there a official download site from Adobe or could I edit the .pkg package? I got a free Adobe Enterprise License also but I can only find the installer at Adobe which installs the DC but uninstalls the old Reader.
I am trying desperately to change the login screen image (defaults to a blurred image) to any other image that I want. I have already tried: How to change your login screen in macOS (and change it back) How to Change the Login Screen Background In macOS Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan Change login screen in Sierra And I can garantee you, none of them work any more in macOS Sierra, they used to in previous versions of the OS, but not anymore. I would really appreciate some help!
After a hard disk crash and restore from Carbon Copy Cloner, Apple Mail refuses to accept known correct passwords. Connection Doctor logs say "Authentication aborted by client".
I am cleaning up old Time Machine backups, which slows stuff down to a grind. I want to tell Time Machine to delete all backups older than 3 months. I'd also like for Time Machine to keep that as a default rather than having to do that by hand myself each time. How do I do that?
Somehow in the process of installing Ubuntu on an external drive I seem to have overwritten my EFI partition to an HFS+ format named "Ubuntu". With rEFInd installed I don't have any problems booting into macOS, so I'm wondering if there is a non-destructive way of rebuilding my EFI partition. gives me:
I have a PDF file in OneDrive that I would like to copy to iBooks on my iPhone. Usually apps have an option to copy the PDF to iBooks, but apparently the OneDrive app doesn't. I tried pressing the button on the top right corner after opening the PDF in the OneDrive app and then selecting "Share a link", but it doesn't seem like the iBooks option is available there:
I have a MacMini with a VGA monitor plugged in to the display-port with an adapter. I've just added a 32" HD Ready (720p) TV as the 2nd monitor via the HDMI output of the MacMini with no adapter, and it looks terrible. I think it's being driven at 1080p by default, it looks really ugly.
There is a weird logout issue on my MacBook Air (13", Early 2015), with macOS Sierra 10.12.4 installed. When I wake up my computer in the morning (it was neither turned off nor hibernated, but simply locked), I found that the system wanted to log out automatically. Since an application wasn't closed (that's Oracle VM VirtualBox, if it helps; an instance of VM was operating) the previous night, I saw a dialog asking whether I would continue to log out (probably in order to let me deal with the unsaved VM state). Also, I saw a file called "logout", 0KB in size, resided in the Downloads folder, which was created in the midnight.
I have a similar "Internet unreachable" problem with 3 different versions of iOS: 8, 9 & 10. Unfortunately I can't reproduce it. The same problem occurs with 2 different mobile phone operators. Here are the common facts I was able to register on an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3.1. Mobile phone network is OK: All other possible Network connecions are off (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi). Any web browser give an error message clearly stating the Internet is unreachable: All other application using the Internet are endlessly looping without any clear error message. It is clear that the iPhone either doesn't have a valid IP address or doesn't have a correct routing information to reach the Internet. In such a case how to diagnose clearly if the problem is a software failure coming from iOS or a failure coming from the mobile phone network?
I have this weird issue with my Macbook Pro mid-2014, that whenever I close the lid of my Macbook, sometimes when I wake it from sleep I'll see from 2-10 new apps that are open. I can tell that this is an issue with the trackpad/cursor, because all of these apps are in the dock, and usually the ones that are open are all next to each other in the dock. One time, I had an Excel sheet open, and I woke my Macbook to see that it had duplicated a cell 900 cells down as well. It's likely that the lid is triggering the trackpad, but I'm not even sure how to start searching for a problem like this.
My MacBook is connected to monitor via computer's USB-C to monitor's Display Port with one cable. Given that MacBook only has one USB-C port, my computer cannot charge while using the monitor. If the computer is not charging the display will shut off when the MacBook's lid is closed thus requiring me to leave the lid open, which is, in turn, draining power quickly. Is there a way to power the computer via the monitor while plugged in?
I’m unable to use Siri on my MacBook Pro with macOS Siera 10.12.4. It says that there is some “Siri Audio Problem.” The issue goes away when I restart my Mac, only to return after a very short time. I have Dictation off. Here is what it looks like:
Right now I do: take a screen shot of every block of the conversation and send to my friend ⇒ 20 screenshots. Not practical for me and my recipient.
I can't access specific websites/applications such as Skype or Slack on my Macbook Pro. When I try to login into the Skype it just says "Connecting" and Slack doesn't connect to the server too (although I can reach Slack website). I also can't connect to Skype website (*=URL=* but I CAN reach *=URL=* I have tried: reinstalling Skype signing in and signing out reseting the router restarting my Macbook Pro deleting hosts folder disabling AVG AntiVirus flushing DNS cache
When you click on a link containing to a CSV file, Safari renders it by default. Most other browsers will download them in this circumstance and I'd like to make Safari do the same. What's the setting to make that happen?
As mentioned in the title, I need to restore my notes from files I previously copied manually from: I know that may sound stupid, but I was on a hurry to update my macOS, and I just thought I could copy the files manually and restore them back later. Now even when I copy the files back to their original location and reopen Notes app nothing shows up. EDIT: If anyone knows about a way to display my notes (Terminal command, open source tools or scripts...) from those backed-up files that would help, I do not mind copying everything manually.
In the beginning of 1995, we bought a Macintosh Performa 5200. I remember that after registering the machine, we got a box with some bonus software on CDs. I certainly know that The Daedalus Encounter came with it. This happened in Germany, if that matters. What else came with this?
I have a Macbook pro 2015 with a 256 GB SSD and a Linux partition. I would like to remove the partition. Following the steps written in here, I got stuck in the Modify step. Once I execute the command gpt add -b 409649 ... and than I do the diskutil list command, it does not appear any disk with the size 60 GB.
In settings, my iPhone 5 shows I have 327.9 MB of free space remaining. However, when I open iTunes on my laptop I see 2.29 GB of unused storage space showing on the usage bar at the bottom of my screen. Which is correct?
Yesterday I created an Adobe Illustrator file that I saved to my desktop. I worked on the same file this morning until about an hour ago when Illustrator froze my computer. After a few minutes Illustrator crashed without my computer restarting, but despite having saved the file every 5 minutes or so, Illustrator still seemed to lose most of my changes from today. I figured I could at least get some of the changes back from Time Machine's last local snapshot, however, when I checked the only two saved time periods from today the file was in the same state as the current one on my desktop. I thought that maybe something happened to Time Machine during the freeze, so I restarted my computer... only to find that double clicking the Illustrator file on my desktop brought up an error saying "The operation can't be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code - 43)". I quickly opened Time Machine's local snapshot again and restored the file to my desktop once more
In Chrome (I haven't tested it on any other applications), if I set a video to play in fullscreen mode and I want to see any other window within the same application, sometimes (not always) the fullscreen window will immediately switch focus to it. So I have to enter/exit Full screen mode whenever I want to check other windows. Why does this happen and is there a way to prevent the windows from hogging the focus? I'm also curious as to why this happens just sometimes. I have OSX 10.11.6
Sometimes I just want to listen to part of a song. In Youtube I can set start/end times for a particular video. I'm listening to this song and only want to start at 2:50, and end somewhere else. This example is a 6 minute song... but I'm sure there are other refrains/etc in pop music that could want this.
In Preferences -> Viewing you can select to uncheck the option "Load remote content in messages" This results in email with rich content displayed without images (since they are remotely loaded).
The control strip of my touch bar is not working anymore. Even after a full restart or start in safe mode.
After reformatting my drive and doing a clean install of Sierra 10.12.4 I discovered that I can no long add fonts to collections unless I add them first, close Font Book and reopen it. Anyone have a solution for this problem? Creating new users and safe booting is not resolving the issue.
Here's my problem which is driving me nuts: Me and my wife have an Apple Music family membership. Since some days, I cannot download Apple Music songs to my computer and/or add them to my library. It only succeeds like 10% and after a lengthy period of time. The rest of the times i get Error 11 444 None of these problems appear on my iPhone. But exactly the same problem appears on my wife's MacBook. Can it be something with our local network? No changes have been made to it since 1 year or something. Also, I tried briefly using my MacBook with my iPhone's cellular network and got the same problem. Both MacBooks run Sierra.
I tried to set a custom key combination to strikethrough selected text in LibreOffice Writer on my MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.4, but it doesn't work.  When I select my text and hit ⌥ + ⌫ it just deletes the selected text instead of applying the strikethrough format. But when I use the toolbar shortcut button it well works.
I have an iPad Air 2 and I just bought Loopy HD. I also have a Roland synthesizer with MIDI output. Is there a MIDI to lightning cable? I want to play something on my synth and add it to Loopy. Thanks!
I have an old WD hard drive that I used for Time Machine for a while, but the drive is showing signs of age (it starts buzzing loudly if left on for a while), so I bought a new (Toshiba) drive to replace it. I had on the WD hard drive a Time Machine backup for someone else's computer also that I didn't really need anymore. The total size between the two backups was about 300 GB (100 for theirs, 200 GB for my computer). Anyway in the morning I dragged the backups folder with both backups from the WD to the Toshiba. Took like 5 hours for it to finish "preparing to copy", and by the time I wanted to go to bed it still had like 70 GB left to copy. I didn't want to leave it running so I hit cancel, figuring that the next day I could delete the other computer's backup and try again. So today I was going to do that, and I saw it actually had already copied my computer's backup to the Toshiba HDD and part of the other computer's Time Machine backup. It seemed like it did the folder for my comp
Typically, if Google Maps is closed while in use, there will be a blue bar indicating that Google Maps is still in use. Recently this bar has stopped appearing for me. Why might the location bar have stopped showing up?
The context of my question is an AppleScript .scpt file that speaks the selected text in the System Voice at a specified volume. The selected text is copied to the clipboard, and then the text is spoken via the say command. The script is triggered by keystroke via FastScripts.app.
Without the 1 user in the thread, the group message continues on all devices as expected. This makes me suspect it's the one users device. Are there some settings or other elements that can prevent this from happening?
Does anyone know if a mac can be woken up from the sleep state by a Linux machine over WiFi? The router is non-Apple.
Mac says password is wrong, but is right, and wants me to enter it again to start Mac every time. My password is used to be characters and numbers. I changed my password into all numbers but it doesn't work. How could I solve it? Thanks.
I've created a symlink using: I can see the command ebook-convert in /usr/local/bin.
I have a model of Retina MBP late 2013, my internal hard drive is failing and I do not want to by an ssd replacement...(quite expensive!). I have a Sumsung MZ-750250B with a hard drive enclosure and with usb3.0 connection cable. Now could I install the OSX system into this hard drive and boot from it every time? And whether the reading and writing is fast enough? Thank you.
Does anyone have any insight on how to get the mac to read it once again without having to have a second windows machine?? Thanks!
I have many tables with two columns (key-value style) and I want to combine all the values in a single table. I lookup key in a first column and insert a value from the second one. I've encountered an issue when a wrong key is looked up. Here is a simple example:
On my mac (azerty keyboard layout), I have this key: `, but I'd like it to place the backtick immediately, as I don't have a need to place it on letters. How can I get my mac to make touching the ` button place the backtick immediately? I use it a lot in Q&A here and have never used it to place it on a letter.
As far as I can see, the major cloud-based backup services that exist for Macs - for example iCloud, Backblaze, or iDrive - back up only your work files. That's great, but it doesn't achieve the comfort of Time Machine which backs up the entire system state, allowing you to restore your backup to a different Mac and continuing with your work without having to first set up your work environment, like with those services that only save your files. Is there a product that does this, either as a cloud-based service or a tool that allows you to upload state to your own online space (Web, Amazon S3...) via FTP or similar? Alternatively, is there a sane way to do this using Time Machine, say by hosting a TM volume on a virtual private server?
Just watched Suits - S6; E13. I bought the season pass a while ago. Went to watch the next episode - S6; E14, but got the following error:
I asked our Team Agent to produce a Developer ID Installer certificate in order to sign our Mac OSX installer. He sent me the developerID_installer.cer file via e-mail and I added it to my Keychain. However, when I try to sign the installer I get the "productsign: error: Could not find appropriate signing identity for [common name]" error.
My MackBook, on startup, its showing the following:  They are just a bunch of vertical black and white lines, and it gets stuck there. What could be the problem?
While I was trying to unload my nfsd instance I found out that I cannot do it anymore. This behaviour was introduced with the Mac OS Sierra update 10.12.4. How can I enable/disable the nfsd daemon?
The setup is a 2015 13" Macbook Pro with Intel Iris Graphics 6100, connected via Displayport to a Dell U2711 (which is capable of 10-bit color.) The OS is Sierra. Is there a way to get the external display to run in 10-bit color?
When I am watching YouTube on my Mac, sometimes when I'm in fullscreen it'll shrink the video to 1/4 of the screen, nested in the top-right corner. What causes this? MacBook Pro 2016 13" Touchbar model macOS 10.12.4 (16E195) Using Safari
when I use my thunderbolt ethernet adapter I'm not able to connect to the WiFi, either when the adapter is plugged or not. I tried to check for errors in /var/logs/wifi and I got this:
I've been trying to repair an iPhone 4S for a friend, but can't get it to play ball. It almost fully succeeds (75%) to reinstall iOS, however iTunes then says Unknown Error (-1). I have read online that this could mean a hardware failure, but since the phone is able to get 75% of the way reinstalled, and it looks fine inside, surely nothing too serious has occurred. I don't care if I have to reinstall officially or via special software or jailbreak, as long as I can get this phone running again. Also, after iTunes displays the error, the phone just sits at the 75% mark on the installation screen (Apple logo with bar underneath). Thanks for any help.
I'm looking for a way to PXE boot macOS running in VirtualBox so that I can capture an image for fog server. When I restart the OS I can get into the boot options but there are no options to boot from LAN.
I just updated to Sierra on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012). Everything appeared to be working well, until I ran the battery down to zero. When I powered the machine back on, the internal keyboard was not working EXCEPT for the power button. The Caps lock does not work, nor do any of the functions: volume, brightness, etc. What I've done: Lots of restarting Disabling/quitting of startup apps (Dropbox, SizeUp, Alfred 2, TextExpander) Upgraded TextExpander and Alfred apps to latest version Reset PRAM Attempted to reset the SMC (though I was unable to do it properly because it requires use of the internal keyboard) Started in Safe Mode (keyboard works in Safe Mode) Downloaded LaunchControl and started to fiddle, and stopped to ask for help before I break something
The mds process, used by Spotlight, has been running wild lately, even if there’s no new content to index. It either uses 2 to 3gb of memory or 200% CPU. Restarting fixes it for a while, but I need a longtime solution. I tried disabling it on Terminal and by setting my whole disk as private on Spotlight settings, but it keep restarting itself. I’m using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) with macOS Sierra.
Often I find myself needing to take many PNG images and join them into a larger image. Specifically, in this particular case, I'd like to take 2 PNGs of roughly equal width (±2px) and different heights and create a new PNG where the first is above the other. E.g.
I see from Mactracker that a new battery has a capacity of 205 mAh (38mm Apple Watch Series 1). For the MBP and iPhones I have used coconutBattery to show the decay in battery capacity over the lifetimes. Is there a similar tool for the watch?
Have a couple of weird things going on with Chrome and external devices on my MacBook Air 2014 (OS 10.11.6). I have a setup where I have several devices connected to my MacBook via Thuderbolt port connected to a Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD (namely, monitor, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, headphones, Ethernet and external disk).
I can't seem to use any of my purchased songs in iTunes - basically, any of my iTunes music - in an iMovie project. I go to the music/iTunes tab in a project and I just get a notice that x-number of songs are protected and unavailable. Does this mean that now I literally can't use any music I bought in iMovie? I was working on just a personal video and have been able to use all the songs in my iTunes library in past versions of iMovie. I can't find an answer about it anywhere.
I have a movie I copied from my DVD into iTunes on my mac server. I can open TV app on my iPhone and it plays fine. When I try to play it on Apple TV using the Computers/server/Movies, it says there is a digital rights issue. How do I instruct Apple TV to accept the movie?
How do I remove an output device on a MacBook air? My computer has two outputs: Internal (which I want) and Belkin S52, which I want to remove. I have tried looking this up, but most of them are for sound flower or boom. I have tried looking through extensions and audio plug-ins, but I can't find it. It, for some reason always changes my sound from internal to Belkin S52, meaning I can never hear anything unless I manually change the volume setting, and some times it just goes back to Belkin for seemingly no reason. Is there a solution?
I'm using a PC keyboard[1] with my Macbook[2], and would like to bind the Windows key to Expose. Karabiner doesn't seem to offer this out of the box. What's the best way to accomplish this? [1] HP Wireless Elite V2 [2] MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.6) Edited: more information about keyboard and MacBook
This message just popped up on my Mac  What could have caused this? I see the file eficheck.bin, how can I tell if my EFI firmware is OK? After sending this to Apple, what happens next?
I want my macbook pro require password immediately after sleep, but the checkbox that controls this feature is not clickable. help..
On the left is what I have; wire part on the left, broken off part on the right. The right is what I would like.
Error message: What I did , but didn't solve problem. Also info about the Homebrew installation.
I asked this question on the apple forum, and I'm going to be reprimanded for the solution that I'm leaning towards: removing the back panel myself and staking the hard drive to the connector with adhesive. Taking it to a service center is unworkable for the following reasons: a) Because I'm currently on a Greek island in the middle of the aegean, and b) because I can't afford to lose my Mac for a month again for some tech to do what I want, which he probably won't because staking a hard drive isn't in the Apple book.
I don't want to sync all all my iPhone photos on my MacBook because it's going to use too much space. However, I do want to sync specific albums. Let's say I'd want to sync Favorites and Test. How can I do that? I didn't sync my iPhone with my mac for a long time because I'm afraid some of the photos will be deleted either from my iPhone or from my MacBook.
Then, when I want to free up the space on my MacBook, I want to merge the MacBook libraries (iMovie, Photos, iTunes and iBooks) into my external hard drive libraries, but without deleting anything from my hard drive and keeping the metadata (such as edited photos and so on). For instance, if I deleted a photo from my MacBook which appears in the HDD library, I don't want it to be deleted there as well. What is the right way to do this?
I want to dual boot between macOS and Windows 10. But I don't want to give each a fixed amount of disk space, which is hard to change later. I instead want to keep it flexible so that at some times, macOS can use more disk space, and at other times, Windows.
I'm trying to find out which cipher suites and SSL/TLS protocol an app uses. In the privacy policy it is written that it uses SSLv3 but when I tested the server of the app's developer using an SSL checker it said it supports TLS 1.2 1.1 1.0 and SSL 3.0. Is there any way to determine the cipher suites used and the exact protocol an app uses to send data to a server?
I'm trying to make an area chart in Apple Numbers (on Mac) where I have a series of values I want to plot on y-axis against time on the x-axis. Each value has a date that it occurred but the dates aren't equally spaced. Numbers is showing them as if they were equally spaced. Is it possible to plot them relative to their point in time?
I've recently been encountering an issue whereby dragging either an image or selected text on a webpage causes Safari (10.1, on El Capitan 10.11.6) to force reload the page (not a real 'crash', I guess, but a semi-crash). The page gets a slim alert banner at the top saying “A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded” and a modal alert box pops up saying “Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly. Click Report to see more detailed information and to send a report to Apple.”
PS: I have no recovery partition either. Not sure that is important, but means I can't use "Find my Mac". The MacBook was sold to me as refurbished at a very reliable retailer. I don't think it's a hardware issue, I did the NVM and SMC reset. Even created a new "test" new administrator user account, that made notes sync well, until my iPhone got involved.
I have 2015 rMBP and its hooked to a thunderbolt display and uses it's power cord for charging. I noticed that the charging wattage is really low(~2W) compared to what I see when using the MagSafe 2 power adapter(~54W). The wattage actually fluctuates when using the thunderbolt cable. So just wanted to know if this is normal? Or is there anything I can do for this? Would I be damaging the battery this way. I really don't want to use the MagSafe adapter because of how the cables are setup now. Thanks in advance for your help!
So, I'm trying to make a playlist for a party this weekend, and it's horrible. iTunes more often than not shows "in progress" when adding one single song (this shouldn't take longer than 1 second, I recon) and finally, it will just show a ! with "Due to error 11.444". I can't find anything about this error, and I have quite some songs left to add, so I'm hoping to find a solution here. Edit: The same seems to sometimes happen whenever I restart iTunes after I can't successfully add a song, but then with "Making your iCloud music library available"
iOS (10) has a speech-recognition-based dictation feature. You press a little microphone button, start talking, and it transcribes your speech into text. Commands I currently know: "new paragraph" "comma" "period" "hyphen" "dash" "colon" "semicolon" "open/closed bracket" "open/closed curly brace" "open/closed parenthesis" However, I do not know voice commands for: backspace/delete undo/redo cycle between alternate options for a word Please help. Also, if possible, please let me know how to: prevent dictation mode from automatically turning off convert pre-recorded audio to text using speech recognition
should allow me to make that key an escape key. (If I can find/create the layout for all the other keys too!)
I scanned my disk to find stuff to delete with Disk Inventory X. I am mystified by this directory, ~/Library/SOM. It's really big and all the files are *.tmp. Any idea?
I was offline due to an outage with my ISP. I disabled Wi-Fi and connected to my 2016 Macbook Pro running macOS (10.12.4-10.12.5) an iPhone to use its personal hotspot to connect, but when I did, the hotspot did not kick in as it has on past Macs. Instead, in the Network System Preferences, I see this message for iPhone USB:
Original Macbook HD installed in DVD slot. Not really relevant but this drive is partitioned into a second bootable Sierra partition and a "Media HD" drive for files. OS drive is not encrypted and the recovery partion works fine and is visible to select when booting and holding Opt key (but not Cmd-R). "Media HD" is encrypted.
After some rearranging my bedroom, I had to replace my US plug power adapter to a 3rd party UK plug power adapter, whenever I plug my iPad Air 2 into the 3rd party charger, the screen starts to glitch and it acts almost like there is another (invisible) finger constantly on the screen, this causes issues when selecting different keyboards, playing games, typing and scrolling through internet. But when I remove the iPad from charging, this issue doesn't happen... it's almost like the touch screen having a weird spasm whenever it's got water droplets on it. When I had my old original Apple US plug adapter, this problem never happened, also I replaced the original short and fragile Apple charging cord to another one that is 3 metres (although I don't think that the cable is the issue because I've been using it for a very long time). This issue is quite new to me and i am quite unsure whether it's the iPad itself or the power adapter... What should I do? Thanks, Sid.
Activity Monitor always reports several kB or MB being transferred. I do not know where it's going or coming from. How can I find out?
Please don't tell me it is the speaker magnet. I assure you it is not. Have had it a couple years, and this just started a few months ago. It will pick up nuts and bolts, I can toss it up against my fridge, it will stick. Same on my gunsafe, toolbox, car, and anything else metallic. This is not normal, and not healthy. So what is the answer? Anyone?
The terminal command osalang list the following installed OSA languages supported by osascript. Using AppleScript or JavaScript works. For example: However, something like to following returns a "found unknown token" error.
I am using Air, which is in the sleep mode almost all day. I want to have it run a shell script every morning, so I set my Air to wake up at 7:00 using "pmset" command and run the script at 7:01 using another command. However, this does not work when the lid is closed and is unconnected to power at 7:00, and the script is not run until I wake it up by myself. Does "pmset schedule wake" work when the lid is closed and connected to power?
When I run Console, a lot of messages have the text <private> instead of details, even though my account is an Admin user account. Here is an example for an application I'm writing and trying to debug: How can I make this stop happening, and get full information about processes?
I have multiples iOS devices - a 64 GB iPhone 6 Plus, a 128 GB iPhone 6 and a 128 iPhone 6 Plus. I want to combine all the data on all these phones into a single iPhone.
My trusty MBP 17" 2011 is now hitting the failing AMD GPU issues. This is what I understand from my research:
I would like to get data off from one external drive to another. Unfortunately some files must be corrupted or has issues. Whenever I try to copy everything (15TB) the whole macOS Sierra OS just freezes and die.
Hi I go to the /dev folder and I see this: But I search for some like ttyUSB0 (like linux) PD:
As the title suggests are there any apps that will remember where in the audiobook you last left off and pick up from there when you play it? Also I use the term audiobook here loosely, my books are just mp3 files not ones purchased through itunes or anything. Some of them don't even have meta data that breaks the file into chapters, etc. So really I just need a simple app that will pick up any mp3 file where you last left off and you should be able to play several mp3 files it will remember where you left off on all of them. I'm using an iPhone 6S running IOS version 10.3.1
Hey so I have had connection problems for over a year now on my 2014 Macbook Pro, and after trying literally everything Google could point me towards I have found a possible culprit - but obviously I have no idea how to fix it. After getting the computer I installed an accountability software called X3Watch that sends reports of flagged websites to a friend, to deter me from going to illicit websites and stuff. When my computer started having problems (it was only slow when using anything requiring an Internet connection) I uninstalled the program thinking it was interfering with the browser. It didn't fix anything, but apparently I was right. Here is what I found in my system log when I try to connect to any website:
Macbook Pro with Sierra 10.12.4. When in full screen view, while watching a movie or a video, the dock will randomly appear. Same issue when running application in window mode. Example Skype, not touching the pad and it seems like ghost clicking. The smaller camera window will appear, like I clicked somewhere to do multitasking. Any idea why this is happening?
Can this be configured to work in Vim and Zsh? Has it been maybe fixed in Sierra (I'm using El Captain) ?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2012 non-Retina (specs) and an AOC monitor with QHD res, but I cannot get it to reach over 1080p. On the Apple page linked before there is this: Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors.
Goal: clone my internal disk to an external disk, and boot from the external disk. update thanks klanomath, who pointed out that I had to change the uuid of the core storage disk for both the internal and external disk to be present at the same time. I tested the external disk on a different mac and it works perfectly. I have not tried to change the UUID as my idea is to now wipe the internal disk anyway. I used dd to make a clone and verified the md5 sums. At boot, I can choose from all the expected volumes: "Untitled", "Windows", and with external-disk-symbol: "Untitled", "Windows".
I wonder if I can see all the Exchange-ActiveSync restrictions imposed on my iOS device?
My issue is that I left my Mac on with an external (as an extended) display. When I came back the secondary display denies coming live. There is an application there (Word) which I cannot reach it with a mouse to drag it to the primary Macbook pro display to continue work. The application is live since I can see it in the Task manager (Command+Tab) I wonder if there is something that I can do from the Terminal command line. Please, no external apps suggestions, if possible! Thanks.
I want to know how I can permanent uninstall McAfee Endpoint Protection. I've used the uninstall command found here, and it works. It uninstalls the software. But after some time it will auto install itself again. Is there somehow a way I can prevent that from happening?
I successfully connected my macbook air (El Capitan mid 2013) with an external monitor .I was able to change the default desktop to the new monitor . I was expecting that i could use my macbook air monitor for coding ie; to get my ide open and the external one to see the changes in browser so that there is no need to use command-tab . Right now i have to choose either one of the desktops as my main one and i can do all the work in that only . Is it possible to use both the desktops simultaneously . Please let me know and thanks in advance.
I’ve just stumbled across this site by accident and you good folk may be my last good hope before I abandon this endeavour. My questions are simple: Can Sierra be installed on a virtual machine created by Parallels Desktop 10? Can Sierra be installed on a virtual machine created by Parallels Desktop 10? If 'yes' to 1, how do I do this? If 'yes' to 1, how do I do this? —BACKGROUND—
My Windows partition disappeared after resizing it. I found a post on NERDr with a walkthrough for how to fix it and I did everything. This is what I got in my terminal: The problem is the second to last line, says the action was aborted because the disk cannot be opened. Some partition map details: I also have some replies in Official Apple Support Forum, but in a hurry to fix this so I also posted it here.
Due to Notepad++ & XML background I understand the structure & once fixed to how I want, I'd like to replace it on my i5. Additional Info: *=URL=* Due to Notepad++ & XML background I understand the structure & once fixed to how I want, I'd like to replace it on my i5. Additional Info: http://iky1e.tumblr.com/post/11704062690/springboard-icon-layouts-iconstateplist
After trawling through Stack Exchange and other forums for a few hours, I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong! cliclick automates mouse movements on macOS. When running the following command in terminal it runs/works as it's intended to. However, I would like to create a .app to avoid running/opening the script in terminal. When pasting my command into the Automator > Run Shell Script and testing the result is:
I am therefore asking for suggestions about the best approach here. I assume I will have to download an operating system iso somewhere on Apple site and then use that to restore the system but I am not sure. This page seems to indicate that I should enter "Restore Mode" and work up from there.... but... does that mean that the "restore" component is still tied to the currently installed OS and could have been compromised too in a way that could give an infection the ability to survive the "wipe"? Sorry if those questions seems a little confused or paranoid, but having found no trace of the alleged infection I am now starting to evaluate any possibility.
I have iphone 4 and few days ago it stopped ringing though alarm is working but everything else is just shut. So i was working with the vibration of phone but from the last few days it stops working too. I tried everything from restoring to cleaning but it is not responding at all.
I would like to know if its possible to turn off iCloud Photo Library on one of my devices. The device in question is a MacBook Air which I use while at the office during the day. I would like to keep photos on for my iPhone, iMac, and MacBook Pro. Anyone know if this is possible on a device level?
I've connected a high-resolution projector to my MacBook Pro Retina through an Apple Mini DisplayPort-VGA adapter. It gets quite blurry (even for fonts) on the projector. Here are the settings.
I have a new MacBookPro, and I installed the latest release of iTerm2. Even after I imported various color schemes, I notice that they just change the color of the text and background only.
I have an external microphone (Shure MV5) which I can connect to my iPhone 7 via a lightning connector. I know I can use this external microphone to record audio on my iPhone. But is there any way I can make plain old phone calls from my iPhone, in speaker phone mode, using the external microphone?
I want to install Windows on my internal SSD. Because my internet connection is slow and unreliable, and the download within Boot Camp Assistant can't be resumed I've downloaded the support software (Boot Camp drivers: AppleBcUpdate.exe) directly from Apple using this direct link.
I've got a few Macs that target a Time Machine share on a NAS. We changed a few passwords and now the Time Machine backup fails with 'Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to ""
I have a mini that's running headless and mouseless. I connect to it through TeamViewer.
I received a FaceTime video call on my iPhone 6s (iOS 10.3.1) and I wanted to continue it on my MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra 10.12.4). Both devices were in the same WLAN and with Bluetooth turned on but I couldn't fine a way to transfer the call. I was able to exploit Continuity with other apps, such as Safari and Mail, during the call but apparently not with FaceTime.
I'm fairly sure this is not possible but had to ask anyway. My wife's iPhone SE was on iOS 9 which she loved, and she hates iOS 10 (has tried it on my phone and can't stand it). Today her phone popped up a dialog to upgrade and her finger slipped just enough to hit "OK" rather than "Cancel" (or whatever the precise wording, I forget). Now she's on iOS 10 and is absolutely miserable.
Just got given the above from a friend who had this as an upgrade but doesn't want it. I already have an old IPH5 which has been well used so the new one is preferable. Can I just transfer my SIM from my old IPH5 to the new one?
Using mail on my mac, I have two accounts my gmail account and iCloud account. The iCloud account has a badge notification of 7 unread messages that won't go away, even though there are no unread messages. Also, my gmail email address is my apple id. When I attempt to remove the iCloud account from my email, it notifies me that the account is used with other apps so I need to remove it via internet accounts. Will this cause me to lose anything or should I try this and then re-add the iCloud account? I am using Macbook Air with macOS Sierra.
I have always been a fan of Spotify rather than iTunes except for one feature. Spotify has no visualizer. The superb visualization feature of iTunes has always been an added plus to mirror to a TV during parties, but I'm tired of hijacking Spotify's audio into mp3 files so I can play them with iTunes to get a visualizer. My question is: How, if at all can I use the audio output from Spotify (Or boom 2 which I also have installed) on my MacBook Pro to run the iTunes visualiser? If this isn't possible, can I run the visualizer off of my computer's built-in speakers (that would presumably be picking up the same music I'd be playing?) Note: I have already tried multiple online and app store free visualizers, but all of them either didn't work or didn't provide a visualization experience even close to what iTunes offers.
I used terminal for long 3D render overnight. I planned for the rendering to be finished in the morning, but it was finished only half way. To prevent losing the progress and to continue using the computer without lag I decided to pause the terminal.
Is it possible to get something like a symbolic link/alias to direct to another folder on an external hard drive and still have the files display on the desktop? I used: But the Desktop is just blank, and when I drag files onto the Desktop, they disappear and are copied to /Volumes/<partition_label>/Desktop
As title, how can I change the default domain suffix to .com for my iPad Pro on screen keyboard (Safari browser) as shown below? Because I use the suffix .com more than other domain suffix. Every time I type the URL, I required to hold the .co.uk key in order to get .com which is quite inconvenient. I try google search but I didn't get any related result. Any solution? Sorry for my bad English. Here are some additional information of my device iPad Pro 12.9 inches Version 10.0.2 iPad Language : English (U.K.) Region : Malaysia Keyboard : English (UK) QWERTY Application : Safari Browser
A loved one recorded an audio message on Facebook messenger for me; it looks like the image below. I'm trying to download it, but nearly all of the ways to capture it don't see that the file exists, and the one exception to that downloaded a file that nothing can open.
I keep seeing a lot of errors like this in the console which seem to be causing beachballs: I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) and I'm running version 10.12.4.
I'm wanting to do this so when I'm gaming I can use the mouse button as my modifier "shift" key instead of having to actually hit ⇧+1 or ⇧+2. This will prevent me from having to take my fingers off of the "1-4" or "Q-R" keys in order to modify them to ⇧+1. Some notes: No Mouse Software Available from what I could fine. KeyRemap4MacBook doesn't have the ability to directly let me do it, so I was hoping there might be someone who could help me with the code needed to add it to the program. It doesn't just have to work for this mouse only as I'll essential always use it as a third shift key. I think a global remap might be best.
I have an Apple Watch with is paired with my iPhone. When my iPhone is out for maintenance, for how many days can I still use the Apple Watch without losing functionality and without losing the health monitoring data? i.e. when the phone will be back will I be able to dump all the data collected during the time?
I installed Fedora on macbook by wiping macOS, now I want to install macOS back, how can I do this? Before wiping I made a full backup of macos installer, but how to use it, I couldn't able to figure out.
The question is as the title says. I just installed my optical drive back into it's place, and a few cables got loose (namely the audio and "display" cables). I plugged them back in and switched on the Mac, but it said wifi hardware not detected. Normally one would assume it's a problem with the display cable (which is the cable for Bluetooth, the camera and wifi), but Bluetooth is working perfectly, the camera is functioning, but the wifi icon on the task bar still says the same thing. I ran a system report and refreshed it, and surprisingly the wifi card was being detected there! I reset PRAM and the SMC to no avail. What's going on?
I am trying to install the latest iOS version (iOS 10.3.1) on my iPhone 5S. I've already downloaded it, I just need to install it. However, when tapping on "Install Now", it keeps saying "verifying update...", and so I cannot proceed further (I need to brutally reset my phone). Can somebody help me fixing this issue?
I always used to use Get Info to see the URL where I've downloaded a file. Image, PDF, data. Now I can't see this field anymore in any of my recent downloads. I don't see it for old files or new.
I have a list of folders which have dates for names. The dates are in the format YYYYMMDD (e.g. 20150129). Within these folders are text documents which are related to that specific date. I would like to restructure them in a folder hierarchy going from year to month to date, and to move the text documents into the corresponding 'date' folder lower down in the hierarchy. In other words I would like the 'root' folder to be named after the year like 2015, and then create sub-folders named with months like 01, and then create further sub-folders named with dates like 29 which hold the corresponding text documents. So the path would look like 2015/01/29/file.txt or 2015>01>29>file.txt. I have taken a look at Automator and it seems that something like this is not possible although I could be wrong, so I would like to know... Is there some easy solution to this problem that any layman can understand, for example an Automator workflow, or does this require some understanding of terminal comma
I performed a fresh install of macOS Sierra onto a 2012 MBP13 non-Retina SSD. The install was from a USB flashdrive installer, and I set up the system drive partitions manually with a case-sensitive encrypted system volume, a FAT partition that I later installed Windows on, and a case-insensitive unencrypted volume for Steam data (Steam doesn't work for some reason, but that's another question!) Partition map while MacOS is running:
I want to connect to my Sierra Mac from another external location, but not with Screen Sharing/VNC but just like when I connect within my local network and view shared folders/files. I have an external shared USB Seagate drive that I need to access most of the time from other locations. Now I had my provider setup a static public IP address and he opened port 631. I also gave him the Mac's local IP address 192.168.x.xxx
I've seen Fugu questions asked on this site, but I haven't found an answer for this: My sysadmin locked my account on the server side, due to unexpected activity from my account. My password is now reset, and I can log in to the remote server via ssh in Terminal.
Starting to get pretty annoying. It never did this until recently, about 4 months ago. I usually keep my OS a version behind on purpose, fyi. Anyone else know what this is and how to prevent, disable, or correct it?
since yesterday my MacBook is stuck on boot after changing language in the systems control panel: Before the login I just see a circular loading indicator and my mouse cursor is stuck in the top left corner. It seems like a service is restarting all the time since the loading indicator spins for like 10 seconds before disappearing and reappearing again.
I have a set of hundreds of images and each one is in its own sub-directory. What is the fastest way to preview all images at the same time?
I am trying to use the 'security find-internet-password' command to show my passwords. I want to write a script to loop through my keychain and list all of my passwords. I have read the man page for security and tried the examples but cannot get it to return any of my passwords. Here is the command from the man page:
Every time I try to use a sudo or ssh command, it returns with this error: I was messing with Python installs, and am not sure what I did to cause this. How can I permanently fix this? macOS Sierra 10.12.4 16E195 MacBook Pro 2016 13" Touchbar EDIT: here's the path: Here is .bash_profile
A colleague has shared her Google calendar with me. It appears in Google calendar just fine. In the calendar settings I can see the iCal URL, but when I attempt to subscribe to that address in Apple Calendar, it says "A calendar wasn't found on ... Check the URL.".
Okay, first off - here are the components: iPhone 6 as my Personal Hotspot MacBook Pro which's connected to the Personal Hotspot Windows Machine which's also connected to the Personal Hotspot
Since upgrading to Sierra (but could be other cause), my mouse slows down in certain points (as if something is intercepting the mouse move event and swallowing it). Sometimes this is accompanied by mouse cursor blinking between rapidly between different cursor shape, in a certain point which allows drag&drop (only/especially when drag is started); then the mouse pointer becomes "stuck" as if moving in dense syrup, for a few seconds/pixels. But this happens as well when not drag&dropping as well. Though, the effect is weaker (though still negatively affects productivity). An extreme case is when doing native HTML5 drag in Chrome... Please note: this is not about scrolling (unlike some questions which seem similar).
I'm new to macOS (Sierra) and am searching a simple vector editing tool. Previously, on Linux I used Inkscape. However, on Mac the base on XQuartz is hard for me to use. Does anyone know of a better alternative?
I am having some problems searching and sorting data on my internal RAID drive. I have a Mac Pro tower (10.12.4) with five internal drives. One is a SATA SSD connected via PCIe as my boot disk (name: Server OS). The other four drives are in a software RAID 10 (name: Server RAID, set up by disk utility). Some time recently (within the last month, I believe, but I am not positive), I lost the ability to search for files on the Server RAID disk.
Macbook Pro Retina 13", late 2013. Unable to enter safe mode (via holding shift key). Result as in title. Hangs after me waiting for mutliple minutes. What troubleshooting can I do? Need safe mode to do other troubleshootings.
iPhone Simulator on Macbook is showing question Mark. I am not able to launch the iPhone Simulator. I have my app deployed on the simulator. How to fix the iPhone Simulator?
I am writing a script that keystrokes a variable, changes the variable, and keystrokes again, several times in a row. However, it appears to me the variable is being reassigned too quickly for the keystrokes, so a backlog forms and only the final value of the variable is typed multiple times. Is there a way to avoid this without just using a delay? Edit: Here is my code: I've settled for a 0.15 second delay in my actual program but an answer would still be helpful
iTunes shows that my iPhone holds 2,061 photos.  However the 'Photos' app shows that my iPhone has no photos.
I've set the info.plist to have an LSUIElement key value of 1. As described here: In Fullscreen, disable auto-hiding Mac menu bar
I have a keyboard shortcut set for lockscreen - ctrl-shift-F15 but if the finder menu bar is visible, the shortcut doesn't work. This is in El-Capitan on a macbook pro 2015 and I am using an external microsoft natural keyboard 4000. I followed these steps in setting up the lockscreen shortcut: *=URL=* Thank you !
I have an iPhone and want to share my live location using Google Maps. I can find my friends using Android and they can see one another, but somehow they cannot see my location. I only show up as offline on their phones. In Google Maps it says my location are being shared and I have enabled all required settings.
How can I neglect a update in App Store since it's annoying?
1- what are the consequences of allowing DEP, and is it reversible? 2- how to contact the person who has DEP and ask them to remove it from the program?
I'm trying to clear the history of commands that have been run on Terminal, I found an article which said I can do it with rm ~/.bash_history However, I am still able to see the previous commands that I've ran by pressing the up arrow
I am using macOS Sierra and I have enabled Announcing the alerts when they are displayed. It is pretty useful for when I am not sitting by my computer. Unfortunately macOS is reading them not just when they appear for the first time, but every time. Is it possible to limit macOS to read these only once?
I am under the impression that there is no real way to protect the hosts file completely without creating a none-admin user account on my Mac and setting the password of the admin account to one that I won't remember. So therefore I would like to make editing of my hosts file difficult as a next-best alternative. I have read that it is possible to set a system immutable flag on specific files which would need to be disabled before the files are able to be edited. So of course it would still be possible to edit the hosts file, but it would at least make it a bit trickier.
I have several PNG images that I intend to include in a LaTeX document, but it does horrible things to non-vector images. I've been using preview to export the PNG as a PDF which remedies the problem. I'd like to script this, so what would be the equivalent command in terminal to: Open specified PNG file Export as PDF to a file Specify the page orientation (as it defaults to portrait which is rotating all my images 90˚ Pretty much any solutions considered, applescript, automator, shell etc.
Hey I have set "Automatically Back Up" to "This computer" including encryption once and because of battery life issues, I want to perform a backup and restore. Under "Manually Back Up and Restore" I clicked "Back Up Now" but it didn't ask me for a password.
I have few space remained on my MacBook Air. When I check Storage and click on Manage, this is what I saw:
My Camera Roll is empty and so is my Photo Stream, and I've deleted all the photos in my iCloud account. So why can I still see (thousands of) photos via the Photos app? How can I get rid of them? iPhone: iPhone 4, Version 7.1.2 (11D257)
For years of development I've never had this issue. Today my Galaxy S7 Edge (Android 7.0) suddenly isn't detected via USB connection by my MacBook (El Capitan). AFT, adb, Unity, nothing detects it any more.
I installed windows 10 on my MBA 2015 11" with Boot Camp, did everything, installed the drivers using the support software. But, whenever i tried to open a game ( far cry 2) it crashed. Things I've done:
I can't for the life of me understand how, in iOS 10.3.1, I do what I've done many times before iOS 9/10, namely: Spotlight search for a contact Then edit that contact This is what I see:
Alright, so I already asked a related question here, and the solution used tput which worked, until I realized that it was screwing up how command-line folding was happening. (Long commands were not starting on a new line, and were folding over the current line).
Boot Camp Assistant says this: The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. But when I try to go into disk utility, I have a single partition, Macintosh HD (stock partition), not counting the system 18 MB partition, and it is indeed a "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" format.
I use multiple keyboard layouts (3+), very often switching between them, also within sentences. Stepping to all of them is tiresome.
I have an iPhone 6. It screen was changed about 10 months ago and its battery was changed about 1.5 months ago. Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that half of the screen is darkened and with yellow-ish vertical lines. As far as I can tell, there was no immediate damage that was connected to this (i.e., no drops, or water damage, etc). This appears to be a hardware issue and I don't know if it is related to either of the fixes. Here is an attempt at a screenshot (which is take from my macbook):
My 2015/2013 Macbook Pro's did not have this problem even though their power supplies were rated at 85w (18.5v/4.6a). The 2016 has an 87w (20.2v/4.3a) power requirement. I'm not really sure if that's enough of a difference to make a difference but it seems to.
When I press the lower brightness key (F1) on my MacBook the screen turns off (pitch black). When I raise the brightness back (F2) everything is fine again. This only started happening recently with this machine and I can't think of anything that I've changed that could have caused this. macOS Sierra 10.12.4 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
I have a Mac Air 13" and an iPhone 5. Is there a power cord / adapter that will work for both of them? My goal is to be able to plug one power cord into both of them.
When I use my MacBook Air in darkness for various reasons (e.g. causal stargazing or working late in close quarters) the last brightness notch before "black" is way too bright for me. There are add-on work-arounds (see for example Macbook air screen is too bright even on the lowest setting) so I'm not asking how to get lower brightness. I'm wondering if there are some hardware issues when operating at very low brightness that should be avoided, or if it's just a question of difficulty to assure the customer display quality at very low brightness, or something else?
I currently use a "Mid 2010" MacBook Pro and was able to install Sierra and XCode 8.3 without any issues. I would like to use this MBP for some two or three more years, however a person told me that Apple has an "8 year support window" and that 2017 is the last year in which I'll be able to update to the latest OS and install the latest XCode, etc.
I have a phone (phone 1) which works completely normally. Sends texts and iMessage from my phone number. It has a SIM card.
I was trying to get rid of an old Bootcamp partition I didn't want anymore. I followed these instructions to remove a partition using Disk Utility, but the removal failed. Now the partition is gone, but the space it used to occupy hasn't been merged back to the main disk partition - it's just gone. My SSD is 1 TB, but Macintosh HD is only 775 GB, the same as it used to be.
I installed dnsmasq using brew, and tried to run it as a service without success. This is how I installed it: system.log just shows 2 lines over and over: I tried running it manually, and I got similar results:
I have a MacBook 10,7 with macOS Sierra installed. I want to return to Lion; that was its default OS, but I have no backup from Lion. What to do now?
My question is as the title suggests. I have extremely important data in my samsung evo SSD that was in my macbook, and I got too overconfident while doing some repairs and didn't back it up..:(
I'm thinking of making my camera app free to download, and let users take 20 photos, after which a dialog pops up asking for a (auto-renewing) subscription. If the user doesn't pay, the app will refuse to work. The user won't be able to take photos, or look at existing photos. The only thing in the app that will work is the payment UI.
I struggle with my 27" iMac, with its fixed size and weight, to have it sit at a comfortable eye sight position for me when I look down at my screen. If your neck aches because the monitor is too high, a few recommendations are available here and on macrumors. I'm soliciting a solution for the opposite problem dismissing: Drilling holes to introduce VESA compatibility. Introducing a clash with the fine lines of the iMac by putting it on top of one or a few books or reams of paper. Getting an absurd-looking box to solve a problem that was contrived in the first place. Is there another method to make the 27" iMac ergonomic for someone a bit taller than average who does not wish to keep his head dangling over his body while looking down at the monitor?
I'm having the weirdest problem on my new MacBook pro, I had the same on the old one and I thought it might have something to do with that. On my old MacBook Pro, whenever I used the pipe char in my Terminal followed by, let's say, grep I'd get a command not found. If I then just typed grep in plain in the Terminal I'd get the standard output. Later I discovered that the problem only occurred when I typed in the command fast:
I use the ‘markup’ extension in iOS Photos to ‘black out’ sensitive information in screenshots, occasionally. Unfortunately, this leaves the “revert” button, meaning that said sensitive information is sitting archived in my iCloud Photos indefinitely. I've got the messy solution of texting myself the modified image, deleting the original, deleting it again from Recently Deleted Photos, and then re-saving it from the text-message I sent myself … but that's no fun. What's the quickest way to turn a modified photo into a flattened copy of itself?
I know I can use an iPod nano as a flash drive by connecting the iPod to the computer and selecting the iTunes option "Enable disk use". (as stated here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3091809?tstart=0)
Is iTunes configured to sync voice memos from my iPhone? If so, where can I find them?
Let's say I installed an app from the App Store, and my Apple ID is johndoe@gmail.com. Is it technically possible for the app developer (a random person, not an app developed by Apple) to see information such as: App installed by johndoe@gmail.com 24 April 2015 at 12:05 PM App uninstalled by johndoe@gmail.com 20 December 2016 at 2:08 PM App reinstalled by johndoe@gmail.com 15 February 2017 at 5:53 PM
We can enable SFTP on our MacOS by going into System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login This works fine and we can easily connect to our local server by sftp localhost and then provide the password of the current user.
I've been searching high and low for an answer. This all changed with a recent update to Sierra. I've got a M510 mouse. It's just the back and forward buttons that are not working. I tried using the older versions of the LCC Logitech Control but that didn't work. Also, I thought I'd try my Explorer Mini Mouse from Microsoft and those custom buttons didn't work either. I need my back and forward buttons.
I'm trying to keep Mac OS X updated behind an ancient Websense (pre-Cisco websense.com) and corporate IT won't play along. To anything other than Windows, Websense appears as a man-in-the-middle. So, (rightly) all bogus certificates are refused, and I can't update (an SSH tunnel is impractical for any transfer > 1MB.) Suggestions?
Today I noticed I have 3 emails stuck in my Outbox, and when I try to re-send one, I see:  If I press Settings, then select "SMTP Gmail SMTP Server", and "Gmail SMTP Server" (under PRIMARY SERVER--it is the only one shown as "On"), I see:
Does anybody know what to do? I can't use another installer by specifying the version, since it's a long bash script, and I wouldn't know what to change where.
I was asked to translate my iOS app to Lithuanian language. I did it, but now I would like to see the result, and...
I disliked a few sources in News app a few weeks ago. I want to review those dislikes and consider bringing some back. Is it possible? I don't find an option to do that.
I restored my home screen layout to factory settings after my email app disappeared, but now I cannot access my email. It just shows options to add accounts such as outlook etc. and then says the account already exists when I try to log in.
I have a Macbook Air and an iPhone 6 and iCloud Photo Sharing is turned on. Both are giving me messages that there's no more room for photos. I have around 3,000 photos. I thought my photos were stored in iCloud and not on my devices. How can I remove photos from my Mac and my phone without deleting them from my iCloud? And how do I access my iCloud photos?
My Macbook Pro Late 2013's battery puffed up (getting bigger and bigger by day) and I asked the Apple authorized service store to remove it completely so that I can use the laptop as a PC (table computer). After the battery was removed, I noticed that it run very slow. I went to many suggestions on google and found this Fix but I could not find the MacBookPro11_3.plist file (my model id MacBookPro11,3) to remove, other files could not be removed because of Operation not permitted. I also tried to run SMC and PRAM reset but they didn't help.
I need to remove one of the pre-installed applications (Safari in my case) from a macOS Sierra system. Yet simply deleting the app, installing 3rd party "cleaning" software or any attempts to delete it via the terminal remain unsuccessful. I found out that since Mac OS 10.11 apple features so called 'System Integrity Protection', that basically forbidds its users to modify or uninstall 'system relevant applications'. So how can I remove a pre-installed application on such a system?
I don't see any other advantages of TouchBar xD. So emoji enabled only in certain apple apps.
I am having a very annoying problem which is very hard to reproduce and describe. Sometime, suddenly, my macOS turns crazy. The symptoms I witness are: In the browser (Chrome or Safari) clicking a link opens it in a new tab
in ios is there any application or any other method to monitor ssl/tls connections, and the negotiated cipher suite. im trying to find which is the negotiated cipher an app is using to transmit data. is cbc mode used commonly or gcm mode?
I don't want the animation for when I change my desktops. Like I don't want my wallpaper to move, I just want my desktop items if you like, to move.
I have a new piece of software that I've installed that relies on a mounted network share in order to operate. The network share is a hosted MacMini Server, connecting over SMB. I've added the share to the user's login items, but whenever the computer boots and is logged in, I see the (There was a problem connecting to the server "MacMini") and it doesn't mount. However, if I simply acknowledge that message, then do Command+K and mount it manually, it will mount without issue. I've already saved the credentials to KeyChain, I'm just not sure why it wont mount at login.
I recently purchased an new iPhone 6 and now the time zone keep changing. I live in a border town which is on eastern time but the Phoenix changes to central time. My old iPhone 6 did not do this, how can I keep this from happening without changing the settings, as I do frequently travel to other time zones and do not want to change my phone on each trip?
A 2010 Macbook Pro was dropped. It will not boot in recovery mode. when I boot from a USB with Mountain Lion on it I can see only: Disk 1 -> Mac OS OX Base System. I was hoping to get data off the drive.
Can't figure out how to resolve this issue. The previous behavior is that when creating and editing a list when you press enter you will drop to a new line with a new numbered item.
For work I have to solve an issue involving very old and new systems. Because of legacy software required for the business, I need to sync folders between Mac A (MBP running 10.6.8) and Mac's B and C, both are iMac's running 10.12 Sierra.
I'm doing a quick project in iMovie but it's anything less than quick! I have imported all the pictures I want, no videos/clips. I have added them into the project and want them ALL to be the same length. I can edit them individually but not all at the same time. How can i do this? There was a suggestion on another site: Window->Show Adjustments Bar
For the past 2 weeks I've had a problem: my MacBook Pro starts to boot but doesn't load the OS. I think it is a kernel panic. Here is a photo from the verbose boot.
More specifically, I'm wondering if that will create stuff on my computer that will take up disk space for the admin user, such as iCloud Drive? Is there a risk of conflating application settings of the main user and the admin user which are stored in iCloud? And from a security standpoint, is it advisable not to login to Apple ID with my admin user (which I created just to isolate admin privileges from systems that shouldn't have them)?
I have my monitor Dell P2415Q connected through thunderbolt and the speakers connected through aux to my Dell monitor, so that I don't then have 5 cables going into my mac instead of 4 (Dell USB Hub, Ethernet(Thunderbolt), Charger and Monitor (Thunderbolt)). The problem is, when I connect my mac with the Thunderbolt the audio option to choose the monitor as the output in system preferences, is only sometimes there (when it is, it works seamlessly). Also sometimes the audio plays from different applications on my laptop and everything else on the speakers. The only way to get it to work is by running: and one time I ran that my whole system crashed with a terrifying error message from apple, so I am pretty scared to do that now. What would you recommend I do?
Since upgrading to macOS Sierra I can't update any thirdy-party app and have to uninstall/install updated app to keep it on the latest. I didn't have this issue with El Capitain.
So I ask you, is there a better way to do this? It would save us a lot of micro-management if there was. (New user, so if there is a better place to ask this, please let me know.)
I was trying to install Linux on my MacBook for class when I bricked my computer, which now in an unbootable state. I made my partition too small, so I was going to delete and create a larger one. However, Disk Utility did not allow me to delete the small partition. I followed the instructions from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/238088/236252
Thunderbolt Bridge Internet Sharing now appears to work. On the receiving MacBook, the Thunderbolt Bridge service is placed on top and has a "green" marker. I get Internet access even if I disconnect the Wi-Fi, so it does indeed work. However, I'm not sure what changed, except that I might've restarted the computers once or twice.
The scenario is that I have a computer whose screen is being projected and visible to an audience. Is it possible to start a Keynote presentation without showing the editor (and thus all the text on the first slide) to the audience? I know Microsoft Powerpoint lets you export a presentation so that opening it immediately starts the presentation. Can Keynote do this?
If I purchase Affinity Designer on my iMac will I be able to use the app on my MacBook as well? I'd like to know if it works on one device or on any device that my iCloud account is signed into.
I want to upgrade my iMac and could use some advice. Can I put faster RAM in my iMac 21" mid 2011? normally it's 1333 MHz, but the ones you can buy today is around 2100 MHz, but is it possible?
Years ago, you could get away with running brew as root just by chowning brew to root, but they removed that feature. So in Homebrew 1.1.6, I used to edit /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.sh to remove the root check (the one that said it's "extremely dangerous") so I could run brew as root.
Is there any way for apps to access your iTunes email address, in order to use this as a unique identifier to identify a specific user? I'm trying to figure out how certain apps can uniquely identify users outside of IP, Device Name, and Advertising Identifier. Is this a possible way?
I have a process on my computer which keeps logging to the system. I cannot figure out where the process is located. What I have tried: I have also tried sampling and finding the process in the launchd service in activity monitor.
I decided to delete all of my iPhone's photos so I copied everything to iPhoto and deleted everything on my phone. But I still worry if somebody could recover my deleted photos from my iPhone? Does this method completely erase my photos on iPhone?
a. It is using 5th gen broadwell processor as compared with 2016 skylake processor.
It happens when two monitors are plugged in and I think especially after I scroll or open many windows. After you let it idle it goes back to normal I will check the GPU temperature next time. The strange part is I can screenshot the issue. So I guess that might be drivers fault? The OS is the latest one: Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195) with all updates installed. It is probably not related to the temperature:
It gets added to the Recently Deleted folder. When I go to Recently deleted and click delete permanently, it is still on my phone, even a week later.
Every time I need to overwrite files on my macOS Sierra Macbook when saving from a different location, I have to necessarily click on the Replace button. Is there a way to do this via the keyboard? I tried enabling All controls in the keyboard options but I can't seem to get it to work. The button focus shifts when I press Tab but pressing Enter does not do anything.
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 running OS Sierra. I recently put a new SSD in, it is HFS+ Journaled and Encrypted. When I use Disk Utility's First Aid, it tells me, it needs to be repaired:
I have 3 SIM cards and I don't want to have 3 phones to manage them. I just want to know if for example I can keep one of the cards in my phone and keep the two others in my house plugged in one device. I just have to install an application and I can receive and send messages, calls from this application using the sim cards on my device. And everything will work using internet. I want to do that with my Iphone and not an other kind of phone Something like that should exists but I can't find it.
Does macOS Sierra do mac address randomisation? I ask if because wonder if I need to run SpoofMAC when in hotel or foreigns hotspots (mobile MacBook Air)
I just got a new MacBook Pro and for some reason all my drop downs now have this weird styling (example is from Xcode):  And when the mouse is hovered over it, it looks like this:
I'm running OX 10.11.6 and using the stock Photos app. Whenever I attempt to access the media browser from the Finder file upload box, such as when attaching a photo to an email or social media post, I am unable to access my library. The finder gets stuck in a loading state, forcing me to open the Photos app itself, drag the file to my desktop, and then attach it that way. It goes without saying that this manual approach is extremely cumbersome. Here's a screenshot of what I see when I try to access my photo library from the finder:
Apple Main (macOS Sierra) The problem: Mail opens new window when I press reply.
How can I assign a specific window to show on all desktops? (Not the whole application, just one of its windows)
When I'm at a specific location, I want my MBP to connect to only one specific WiFi connection available. Too many times it "automatically" connects to garbage WiFi signals like "xfinitywifi" or "CableWifi" that are nearby, and I always have to manually set the connection to the one I really want to use. Is there a way to limit a macos WiFi connection to a specific WiFi signal?
I am new to using macs. I was using the bash shell, but recently tried switching to using iTerm2 and zsh. Originally, it looked the way I wanted, but something changed and reformatted my shell.
For the longest time my Apple Music Playlists have been playing in reverse order. Albums too. What do I mean by that...
My touch bar often shows the wrong keys, is unresponsive, or (as is the current situation) only shows one or some of the keys. Right now I'm listening to Spotify and only the pause button is showing whereas it usually has my normal configuration. I have hard-set it to a custom configuration which is almost identical to the keys before the touch bar came out. Note - I just started pressing all over the touch bar and the correct buttons came on in each area that I pressed.
I've installed macOS Sierra on two different internal drives in the Mac Mini and both fresh installs fail to boot up fully unless in Safe Mode (They get about 45% of the way on the progress bar before rebooting) Apple Hardware Test said there were no problems.
I've created test account on my Mac for testing purposes. It originally worked with no issues, but now it is asking for a second password. Here is what I'm talking about:
First of all, I'm happy to pay the $19.99 for the Mac OS Server app from the app store, so that's no problem, it's just that at the moment I only have one specific need - NFS sharing between my macOS sierra host and a virtualbox VM guest running Debian Sarge (don't ask). This is something I am used to doing in Linux without any difficulty, but the syntax for /etc/exports doesn't seem to be the same? In the man page for exports on macOS it uses explicit flags? My regular line in /etc/exports on Linux: Calling nfsd checkexports returns the following: And if I simplify and change the etc/exports entry to /path/to/my/shared/directory -network 192.168.56.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 I get the following output from nfsd checkexports: Note: /path/to/my/shared/directory is obviously a just a placeholder filepath for this question, not my actual entry in /etc/exports
Here's the thing: I'm organizing my document (for example to organize papers). I divide them into subsections, (ex: astrophysics & quantum physics) and all those sections have a "Read", "Reading" and "To Read" folders. Could I alias all the files contained in the folder efficiently to have a folder where all papers (or at least their aliases) are present (no matter if they were in astrophysics or quantum physics). I wouldn't mind using automator folder actions if shown how... Example Folder Structure:
I have a 2017 13" Macbook Pro. Sadly, there are only 2 USB type C ports and 1 of them is for charging. I need at least 1x USB and 1x Thunderbolt 2 (for external Monitor). I bought a USB C -> Thunderbolt 2 adapter for $50 bucks...and honestly it feels like a complete rip off. I'm hoping for a similar product at this price with more than 1 connection.
Here is the panic report. Can someone explain why this is happening and how I can fix this? Thanks!
I created a trivial pthread program that sucked CPU time and set 10 of them running. The problem laptop ran that and warmed up to 95C without issues. I guess I will rewrite my code to reuse the same thread instead of destroying them and starting them up again. Update 5/13/17
I wanted to remove the NTFS support I installed using Tuxera NTFS. When I checked out my preference pane, the option seems to have been greyed out. How do I uninstall it now? I tried disabling it but still the "Uninstall Tuxera NTFS" was only greyed out. Running - macOS 10.12
I have a strange unexplainable issue with connecting to my home wifi. Let me set this up. I use a Macbook Pro 2016 and iPhone 6S. My router is in the same room that I use the said devices and had always been working fine. Until today.
Since I upgraded to macOS Sierra, the keyboard shortcuts to restart my Mac, shut it down, etc. don't work anymore. I press them, and nothing happens. However, if I restart my Mac, then they briefly work, only once I think, and then I have to restart my Mac before the key combinations work again. Anyone know what's going on with this, and how I can fix it? The combinations can be found here.
I can see all these drives fine with 'Disk Utility' but I simply can not mount them. I've tried mounting from the terminal as well, but I really get no error message at all. I have another MacBook Pro (without my NTFS adventure) and the drives all work fine.
Chrome keeps recreating Person 1 even after I delete it. It also opens up Chrome on a new google tab in Person 1's name. I have to switch to my account to get the tabs I left off at. I do have Settings -> On Startup -> Continue Where I left off turned on. I'm closing Chrome with Command + Q as is the proper way but reopening still occurs in the new window with the suddenly revived Person 1. How can I properly kill Person 1? I attempted to find User Data in Users -> Computer -> Library -> Application Support -> Google -> Chrome but I can't seem to determine what's the root of the revival. Google Chrome Help Forum how-to-enable-chromes-continue-where-you-left-off-for-os-x-el-capitan These links seemed helpful but I've gotten stuck.
I moved from just using zsh to using zsh inside tmux. As my terminal is iTerm2 for both combinations. I have the following lines in my .zshrc to enable jumping words on a bare zsh command line using the ALT+arrow keys: Sadly this is not working inside my tmux session. How can I jump words back and forth also in tmux using ALT + arrow key? What I tried so far: set-window-option -g xterm-keys on 1
Is there any way I can change the wind speed from miles per hour to kilometers per hour?
I've got Mac mini (late 2011), it stopped working recently. Here are the symptoms: Sleep LED fades on once for a second(a fan makes a spin or two), then Mac mini goes down. No booting sound.
I was able to record this random sound. It started playing few weeks before. I have tried many things to find out which application is playing it, but nothing has worked.
After I upgraded to Sierra from Mavericks I noticed that when I open something in Terminal with for example less or vi and I want to scroll back to see previous lines the scrolling happens inside the programs. How can I change it back to 'just scroll'? Thanks!
I recently reset my ipod touch 5 and left it for the next day. When I turned it on the next day it somehow got on voice over mode and I can't swipe the screen without it speaking. What do I do?
Ever since I purchased the AirPods a month ago, they demonstrate extremely poor quality while activating the AirPod Mic, whilst they are connected to a Mac. When activating the Mic to record audio, it seems that both the recording quality AND audio playback quality severely drops to a substandard level (Mono 8.0 kHz).
Any time I connect my two external displays (Samsung S27D850 over HDMI -> A-Data HDMI-USB-C adapters), I have to restart my MacBook Pro Touch Bar (15") in order for the screens to display the desktop. Is there a workaround not having to do this, i.e., just plugging the displays in and voilà? It's frustrating coming back from a meeting to my workstation and having to restart.
We have around 100 iMacs that all use the Guest profile. To save some time during setup, we download and unpack a pre-configured /System/Library/User Template folder. This worked great until we updated to El Capitan. Now, whenever we open Pages, Numbers, Keynote or Notes we get the error below. It only happens under the guest account. This can be duplicated by tarballing the /System/Library/User Template folder, deleting the folder and restoring it from the tarball. I've tried repairing permissions and chmod 777 on the folders (as a test) SIP is disabled I'm running the tar commands with the p switch and as administrator When the Guest user logs in, the /Users/Guest folder is created using the files at /System/Library/User Template
I have this vertical line at the side of my MacBook Pro, any idea what could be causing this/how to fix it?
I bought a Seagate Expansion Media 2 TB and formatted it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). All went well until I enabled Time Machine. I encrypted my backups (so, the drive) and now when I eject the drive the LED on it is still on, and the plates inside it are still moving. When I disconnect the cable, it makes the exact sound as if it's force disconnected. Can you help me, please?
How can I get Mail.app to use different certificates for signing and encrypting messages? I'm using Mail 10.3 (3273) on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. I have GPG set up but also need to get S/MIME working for both signing and encrypting/decrypting messages. The challenge I'm having is that my organization has issued me two certificates for the same email address and I can't get Mail.app to use both of them.
I don't want to delete it, as I fear apple has locked me to windows10 for new bootcamp installs. I currently have shrunk my macOS partition, and formatted that as a FAT partition. Then, windows wouldn't boot (which is expected as it's partition is now the wrong boot disk number).
In Windows there is a concept of creating a "disk image" for recovery, where one creates a complete copy of the operating system drive so that if the operating system doesn't work, the disk image can be reloaded into the computer, effectively bringing the computer to the state it was when the image was created. This is done with a rescue CD or flash drive - the flash drive is connected, the computer is started up, thereby booting from this drive, and the software on the drive can then reload the disk image from an HDD or wherever that image is located.
I'm trying to change a value in an array using plutil, but I get the error Failed to insert value new value 2 at key path PARENT.0.KEY_IN_ARRAY with error -[__NSCFConstantString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds Here's a sample plist to illustrate the problem: Modifying the SIMPLE value is easy: Getting the array value works fine: but I get the error when I try to modify this value:
Is there a way to log in as a different user, leaving all of my open windows and running apps as they are? All I can find is a way to log off, and then log on as another user.
Using the Apple Watch, what is the fastest way to adjust the volume of the iPhone? Two assumptions/criteria: When you raise your wrist, the view on the Apple Watch from your wrist, should be the watch face view; not the last view used. Audio playing on the iPhone is coming from any iOS app; not just Apple's Music app. The fastest way I currently know of (by my expectations neither fast nor nimble) is to open the Dock by pressing the Dock button; navigate to the "Now Playing" view with the Digital Crown (having ordered that view near the bottom of the Dock list); and when the "Now Playing" view is active adjust the volume with the Digital Crown. Unfortunately, "Now Playing" is not a proper watchOS application, and therefore cannot be brought up by double-pressing the Digital Crown, assuming it would've been the last app used. I'm wondering if there is a quick way to adjust iPhone volume from the Apple Watch, using a keypress combination or something else.
I would like to know the command line to verify the status of SSH on Sierra please. I tried using systemctl but got a command not found. Thanks !
On incoming calls on my iPhone 5s the phone numbers show but not the name of the caller shows. This only started about two weeks ago. Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!
I have downloaded and installed GitHub Desktop to my Mac and it shows a couple of my projects. Unfortunately I seem to be unable to use it to download anything. The most recent try I went to *=URL=* There is a Clone or download button, and pressing this opens a popup with 2 buttons Open in Desktop and Download ZIP. Clicking the Open in Desktop always takes me to a link and tries to download a new copy of GitHub Desktop, despite the fact I already have the latest. After trying every option I usually give up and just Download ZIP. Can anyone explain if GitHub Desktop CAN be used to download, and HOW to do so. /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A‌/Frameworks/LaunchSe‌rvices.framework/Ver‌sions/A/Support/lsre‌gister -dump | grep -B45 "github-mac:" shows:-
All of a sudden my mac has started prompting me to enter my password with the dialog: "Network Configuration needs to update DHCP setting. Type your password to allow this."
I've installed the AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and phpMyAdmin on my system. I set up user level root too (localhost/~user) and it worked. The things that make me still confused are: Why is it forbidden to access system level root (*=URL=* now? And if I want to use phpMyAdmin on my user level site (*=URL=* should I install it again on my localhost/~user?
"About this Mac">"Storage" shows 106 GB of Movies. The Movies Folder shows only ~500 MB. I also have deleted the TV shows downloaded from iTunes, so they are gone. Where are the remaining 105 GB of movies? How can I delete them?
On new Macbook Pro, Power Chime runs. Whenever I delete from core services it comes right back. It makes a sound when plugging in your power cord even when the volume is at 0%.
I have to always format external disks twice on my laptop (Macbook Pro, macOS Sierra). The first time I try to format an external disk it always fails. This happens with any disk, any format type, and regardless of whether I'm using Disk Utility or Terminal. I would like to know what might cause this issue?
How to enable undelete for files in my Downloads folder? How does this undelete works? Infos about the filesystem
How can I select preferred languages when I install applications from homebrew? Some applications (such as Firefox) have different binary versions for different languages. Is it possible to choose the languages that I prefer most/second most etc?
I know I can mount Samba share using either mount or open command from the terminal shell. See this related question: How can I mount an SMB share from the command line?. I prefer using open because it mounts the shared folder under /Volumes which seems kind of OS X standard, the expected thing. Namely this happens by typing
I have a script that detects where I am and then tries to change my network-location-setting to match that location. It works fine if I run /usr/sbin/scselect <location>, but when i put the script in cron, It complains about Only local console users and administrators can change locations How can I allow my cron-script to change my network location setting?
I have the filling simplified script on Mac OS X 10.12 : But the result when I run is : On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, the result is : Edit : With bash4 on Mac OSX 10.12 : I changed the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env bash4 and the result is the same : Edit: Thanks to you guys I understand the behavior difference on Linux or BSD egrep is because that at the time of the egrep execution the variable can be empty. I'm going the use therefore, the following regExp : egrep "File=|OK" Thanks again :)
I am trying to install a specific version of Buck using Homebrew. Facebook provide a formula on GitHub. I have added the tap: I can then install Buck using: However, I would like to install a specific release, for example v2017.05.02.01. What is the syntax for installing a specific release from GitHub? I am looking for something like: Note: other questions do not seem to be about releases on GitHub.
My Mac was sitting idle and the lid was open and when I checked it after one hour, I found the Mac was shutdown. I was sure that there was battery available before I left it. I tried to start it again by pressing the power button but it was not starting. So I kept the power button pressed and then it was started.
I tried to change to tap with three finger and it works on all Safari, Mail, Note,... When I changed to Force Click to Lookup data and defectors, it doesn't work on Safari, but every other apps go well. What should I do to fix this? I'm using macOS 10.12.4, MacBook Pro 15inch Late 2015
I have iMacs connected to AD, I have Samba shares like this smb://local/StaffStore/.../username/. I want to mount users's desktop from smb://local/StaffStore/.../username/Desktop without ugly scripting. I need to do this on hundreds of iMacs, so it needs to be automated.
I have a cousin with a MacBook Pro, CoreI5, 2.3ghz, Early 2011, 13". It came factory installed with two (2gb) memory chips. They're DDR3 1333.
When I open "*=URL=* I go to the Apple App Store and it says this is the El Capitan download. There is a blue button on the left side of screen under the large X that says "Get". If I click on this blue button, the button changes shade of blue as long as I hold the mouse button down, but nothing happens. If I click on the down arrow on the right side of the blue button, I get two options, "copy link" and "tell a friend".
I have a lot of installation to do. Nuts.... (But worth it!)
Awhile ago, I removed a former staff account from a mac mini but kept the home folder in users, using the regular user management UI in system preferences. A virus scan came up with multiple threats from that directory so I opted to su to admin and then sudo remove the entire directory. Is this wrong, to remove a user in this way?
I have an iPhone 6 (with proper iTunes backup) where all of my contacts where, but I bought a new iPhone 7 and had to initialize it as new iPhone, due to several time-related constraints, so now I have a few but new contacts on my new phone, but none of the older ones, but would be the best practice oriented, for just recovering the old contacts from the iTunes backups? PS: I still have the old iPhone 6, so it could be used as "temporary storage" if needed.
I last used my MacBook Air November 2016. OS was up to date at that time. I have forgotten my login PW (though I am pretty sure I know what it was). I am unable to reset login PW. It is not part of my Apple ID linked hardware. My disc is encrypted. I believe that is why no disc options are given to reboot and then change PW.
So I just got my brand new 2015 13' macbook pro, after a long thought if I should get the new 2016 model. So I'm used to the 2015 15' from work, and now when I watch videos on youtube, or even browsing facebook, everything looks a bit blurry.. I'm using the default resolution that apple recommend but something is missing. The retina display looks way better on my 15' MBP.. is there anything that I missed?
I did record a video on iPhone using timelapse mode. It was by mistake. It was very important video for me. In timelapse mode it is useless... is there a way to convert recording to normal video? Need to recover picture and voice.
Have an original Apple iMac OS 8.5 , with MS Outlook Express for Mac 4.01 . My wife and I would like to copy/export the old email messages(from our courtship) off that system. What File Extensions were used for email messages then? What folder(s) should I be looking for?
I am trying to determine if a student in my course is being deceptive by handing in work late. The student has Mail.app configured with multiple outgoing SMTP servers:gmail and two *.edu servers. The second edu server was configured as the default, but "wasn't sending mail properly". As a result, project submissions the student "believed" they had submitted correctly were never delivered.
I want to add photos for every contact in my phone; I tried to for some time but I haven't found any way to set it up. Can someone suggest me the better ways to do it?
I created a chart in Numbers 3 (version 3.6.2). In earlier versions of Numbers I could copy the chart and paste it into, e.g., Adobe Illustrator as a PDF vectorgraphic. In 3.6.2, copy and paste results in a blurry (low resolution) bit mapped image being pasted. How can I get a PDF version of my chart?
How do I turn off auto capitalization in macOS El Capitan? For certain things I do not want it and it's very annoying. For instance, dictating in a spreadsheet. In numbers, I cannot select a bunch of fields and lowercase the letters.
I use Finder's Search bar a lot to find specific items nested in my folders. It usually works flawlessly and I find all the items I want. Other times it just doesn't do anything:
I could install a python package (for example, numpy) on my Mac either via Macports: or via pip:
I know from another thread that the below should work. but i don't know how to tweak the text conversion to correctly apply to my file naming convention.
I bought the new MacBook Pro (with the Touch Bar) 4 months ago. The problem is I keep pressing by mistake "esc" and "siri" multiple times per day. I thought it was my bad and I'd get used to it, but after 4 months I really think I have a problem or this Touch Bar is not well made in terms of User Experience. Is there anything I can do to customise the Touch Bar avoid this problem?
I have an iPhone 6. It is the only device in the entire house that picks up the wrong IP address. Other iPhones, non-Apple devices, laptops, desktops, etc. are fine. But my phone is always assigned a link-local IP-address (169.254/16) instead of a private IP-address (192.168/16).
This must exist, but I can not figure it out with Numbers. I have an inventory of products I sell. I want to automatically subtract from the total original inventory each time an item sells. And to do this, I fill out a re-useable packing slip in Numbers. The item and quantity is listed on the packing slip, which in turn automatically deducts from the inventory- a simple sum formula.
If one moves any file to the Trash folder on a Mac, by default, a short sound effect plays through the Mac's audio output (assuming that the system audio has not been muted). I have an .scpt file where nothing is truly being moved to the Trash folder, but I would still like to have the Trash sound effect play. I understand that I can download the sound effect onto my computer as an audio file from the Internet, and write:
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10.3.2 public beta 5. Is it possible to connect Apple Magic Mouse 2 to my iPhone without jailbreaking? I've managed to connect Apple Magic Keyboard 2 to iPhone earlier.
I sometimes run distributed computing projects in BOINC Manager while my iMac is idle. Often, a Force Quit dialog appears displaying the message 'Your system has run out of application memory'. When this happens, all open applications except the Finder are paused and have to be manually restarted, one-by-one, from the dialog box.
But as long as the messages are still in the notification center, I can read it. Is it possible to see these messages again in iPhone (iOS 10)?
I am programming and from Windows I'm used to use the "shift" + "alt" + "arrow key right/left" keys to select a part from a word until the next capital letter starts. But on my Mac this shortcut only selects the whole word. Can this be done somehow on a Mac too? For example: myVariable (is the text to select, cursor is at the beginning (before 'm')). Now using the shortcut "shift" + "alt" + "arrow key right" would select only 'my': myVariable ('my' is selected, pressing it again would then select the whole word.) This is a shortcut often needed for example when programming using the programming language Java.
My Mac mini came with Sierra, out of the box. I want to run Pro Tools 10 HD as I already own a full license. Is there any way to downgrade it? I really want to run Mavericks. But it won't boot to my bootable Mavericks thumb drive. Erasing it just leads to internet recovery, which leads right back to Sierra.
I had a failure trying to repartition an external drive (a Drobo array) using Disk Utility. Now Disk Utility says my drive is 8.8 TB, but it has only one partition on it using 5.4 TB using up "all" of the space (according to the pie chart). I've been trying to increase the size of that partition to 6.4 TB with no luck. diskutil shows this: But df shows this:
Substitute formula is substitute(cell to focus on, text to replace, text that replaces it). 2nd and 3rd inputs need to be in quotations it seems to get the function to work. So how would you substitute a single quotation mark in a cell. None of the following work: Any ideas?
I have some edits to my /etc/hosts file that no longer seem to be working. Specifically:
Recently my MacBook Pro Retina started to have a weird monitor issue: horizontal "stripes" of pixels sometimes appear/flicker (I recorded the issue here). Anyone experienced anything similar? And should I be worried and send it for repair/diagnostics? I am not yet 100% sure how to reproduce the issue so I am afraid that the technicians won't be able to reproduce it. System specs:
I have a green curtain that I'd like to use as a green screen. The movie I'm making requires me to wear blue, so iMovie becomes confused and replaces ME with a background image and leaves my background green.
My code below works from Script Editor but the delays do not work when called from osascript. The script executes the keystrokes immediately without the delays. In this post one of the users said that this was fixed in 10.11 but I am getting the same error on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
When I execute echo -e '\033[49;36m\u2588\033[40;36m\u2588' in a linux terminal, I get two blocks of the same color:  Here, the first block has no background color (49) while the second block has a black background color. The character displayed should generally take up the entire space, so the background is not visible and they appear the same. However, if I repeat this in Mac Terminal I get something very surprising:
My laptop wasn't charging for a while, so I forgot the password for it. I went to log back in, and when I remembered I forgot the password, I went to reset it with my apple id, all the info was correct, I even changed the pass and email used, but it still wasn't working. I'm not sure what to do. I have a Mac Book Air.
I saw this post: What is com.apple.bird? Why does it grow so big? where they inform that the files in the directory com.apple.bird (session) is related to iCloud backup. I have some huge files (140Gb total) and I wanna check what is inside before I decide to delete them or to save them. Is there any software or script that can open those files and show me all the contents? Thank you for the attention.
I would like to enable Force Touch Lookup in Chrome (like on Safari, when you force touch a link it loads a preview). I've read somewhere that Chromium was working on it but when I checked the project's page, it was written that it's available, so I guess it's something to turn on. My question is, how do you enable it?
I am importing a CD to iTunes and find that when it appears the track listings are in the wrong order. The tracks themselves are labelled correctly as in track 1 and track 8 etc. but appear in the iTunes import page in a scrambled order. Can anyone help?
I'd like to free up some iMovie space but not sure how to do it. Here are a few files I have associated with iMovie: and Is there anything I can to do save some space?
I just fresh install macOS Sierra on my MacBook Pro early 2011. Now I would love to install Win10 using BootCamp. When I launch the BootCamp utility and insert the Win10 DVD, an error message appear saying that Win10 is not supported for my MacBook. OK.
The answers to this question don't work for me on iTunes 12 and MacOS Sierra. I can open pdfs and epubs in iBooks, and do see them in the "Me" collection:
I have a game where a glitch in the system has caused the Game Centre data in iCloud to be out of sync with the game on my iPad. I want to delete the iCloud data and then reconnect the game so it then loads the data from the existing progress in the iPad back to iCloud / Game Centre - any ideas. Please do not post on tips how to delete the app from the iPad.
Over time I've created several albums on my iPhone and these photos have been backed up online to iCloud. Now I'd like to download to my PC the entire iPhoto library (stored online) but with the album folders still intact. Is this possible?
I want to build a simple word translator which may look like this: COLUMN A: I have a list of words, each on a row. (1:Airplane, 2:Car, 3:Cat, 4:Dog etc..)
I have a MacBook Pro that's Continuity-connected to an iPhone 6+ running iOS 10, and when they share a Wifi connection provided by a third device, making and receiving iPhone cellular calls from the laptop works fine. Now my intent is to provide the MacBook Pro's internet connection via the iPhone's Instant Hotspot, using Wifi, while still being able to make and receive cellular calls from the Mac. Is this setup possible? I fear it is not (but I cannot verify it myself, unfortunately), because an Apple support article states states as one of the prerequisites: Each device is connected to the same network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet. While the iPhone and the Mac are clearly connected in my scenario, the iPhone itself provides the Wifi network, but isn't itself connected to it. Is there any way to make this work?
After upgrading from Mavericks to Sierra, the flagged emails folder in Mail v.10.3 (3273) has been problematic. The folder shows 8 emails but I actually only have 3. I cannot find a way to update the folder so it only shows 3 flagged emails. Is there a way to do this? Thanks. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Time Capsule; AGT784WNV DSL Gateway
I always install the system with English and have no idea how to add a Spanish dictionary and spellchecking on my mac, how can it be done?
We have two OS X laptops running Windows 10 Pro in Parallels where the other laptop is terribly slow, despite allocating 4 "cores" and 8 GB to the virtual machine. Each laptop has 8 "cores" (with Hyper Threading) and 16 GB. We don't know yet why the other laptop is so slow. What are ways to speed up Windows 10 Pro virtualisation in OS X's Parallels?
I'm having serious internet issues with my Mac (10.11.6 El Capitan). When I boot in safe mode I can connect to the Internet. But after a normal boot I cannot.
Most people have seen the Terminal hack to change the Dock Hide/show duration in How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster?, but I was wondering if anyone has found how to set each of these to different speeds. For example, 0 second delay for the Dock to show upon mouse hover, but 1 second for it to autohide again.
I have an Apple 2011 laptop. I haven't done any recent updates and nor have I downloaded anything either. My computer needs to upgrade to the next OS but it is saying that a change has to be made to my iCloud settings before I can use my App Store. I have no idea what this could mean.
Having trouble with an iPhone 6s running 10.2.1 It won't accept a password for iTunes, App Store or iCloud. Tried rebooting and then logging out of iTunes. Problem now is it won't allow me to log back in and I get no response by clicking reset username or password.
This is on IOS but it has happened on OS X in the past. No matter how many messages I have received, read, or replied to, every time I open Mail, the same five-week-old message is selected, and I have to scroll a long way to get to the new ones. Not earth-shaking, but I'd like to find a way to make it always go to the new messages like it used to.
I had a problem where I was wanting to make my windows partition bigger using Winclone. I also used a file-based backup in Windows. I made the wrong, move and after restoring the Winclone image, I then restored the file based backup on the wrong partition. Luckily I had a backup of my Mac from a few hours before, so it was nearly a train smash. I've restored my Winclone image to a new (bigger) partition.Just wondering how to get rid of the 'recovery-10.xx.x' drive from the boot menu after pressing option key? Bootcamp and MacOS still show up fine by the way.
I am in a playlist and if I tap the shuffle then the music changes but that song then repeats. I can't get the menu described in previous answers How can I get an iPhone to play songs in order What do I tap or do to shuffle a playlist?
I just noticed that in the Finder sidebar, I can see a PC under the shared section. Does it mean someone has access to the files on my laptop?
Want to buy a MacBook Pro. But afraid of Staingate. Do anybody heard about stain on MBP 2016 like it was on older MBPs?
I'm guessing the answer is no - and I've gone through every preference and option I can think might have any bearing. My Google search didn't turn up anything, either... but there's always a chance that I'm missing something.
When I clear website data in Safari (Preferences --> Privacy --> Manage Website Data... --> Remove All), nasdaq.com and yahoo.com remain in the list. Is this a known issue, and how can I fix it?
When I watched a tutorial on YouTube, it showed that I need to unplug fan, and the IR connector. But, I also read some comments that it's not necessary to remove and could be hanging there when I replace my HDD.
I upgrade to Sierra, reinstalled Macports and have troubles with dnsmasq. This is not a problem of Macports version because I also tried to build from various official sources too and all of them produce the same error. Here is what happens if I call it manually:
I get the above error message when trying to sign in to my Apple ID when trying to do a fresh install of OSX on my mac mini. It is an old version of OSX (Mavericks). Seems to be very little info on the web about this error in this situation in particular.
long story I have an USB drive to copy data between Mac, Windows (personally I don't own any) and PS4 - it is exfat formatted. Recently I noticed my Mac would freeze when I plug in this disc - also there is a directory in the top hierarchy that I could not open. Since this drive moves around a lot I suspected an unlucky disconnection caused corruption. Checked the drive and the only partition with disk-utility "first aid" - which report everything is fine. Despite this in the system log there are plenty of I/O errors. Looks like I need to trash it. But I sure had loved it if my mac gave me any warning that I was using a bad drive (I kinda forgive the PS4 that she didn't warn). So for the future what check should I use?
I have a 2010 MacBook 13" Model 7,1. It has recently gotten some upgrades and one of the screws wandered off and was eaten by a grue. What length and thread pitch are the eight screws holding the bottom panel on to the laptop body on this model?
It is shown here in an image from a Wired article on the watch before it came out.
I recently started using PIA VPN services on my Mac. Everything seemed great until this weekend when I started having iCloud issues. The error I received indicate that the account had been locked due to security reasons. So I reset the password and found I still couldn't access iCloud. I then found that I was unable to log into iCloud until I disabled my PIA VPN, then everything worked fine. Is this a new issue? Has anyone else experienced this?
I've been trying to restore my iPhone SE (running iOS 10.3.1) from a local iTunes backup, but iTunes on the Mac says that it cannot preform a restore until I turn off the "Find My iPhone" feature. I've been repeatedly trying to do this, but to no avail. I also tried restarting the iPhone or doing a hard reset between attempts. When I try to turn the Find My iPhone feature off via Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Find My iPhone, the screen shows one of three things:
I want to remove the USB drivers of my AsusTek P027 ZenPad from my Mac. Is this possible?
I tried to disable this power consumption feature. After some research on the internet I found the command pmset -b reduce 0 which is suppose to disable the reduction of the CPU consumption.
I believe the phone started to update but didn't have enough space and at some point the update failed midway and now the phone can't turn on. I believe this is also the reason why it wont update via iTunes. I do not know however as I wasn't present during this time and my friend isn't sure either, all she knows is it wont turn on anymore.
Is it possible to toggle the setting for the F1, F2… keys behaving as function keys programatically or via some 3rd party software? I tried looking for the option in the .plist files for Preferences but could not find it.
I'm using iCloud Photo Library to store all my full size photos and keep everything synced between my laptop and iPhone. The laptop has a small SSD, so I use the optimize space feature to keep only low-res photos locally. This all works great, but I want to have a backup of the full-res photos on an external disk, in case the iCloud servers fail. Time Machine will only backup the low-res photos in the local library. I want to continue using the local Photo Library without having the external backup disk connected all the time.
I did a cycle ride at the weekend and recorded the workout on my Apple Watch. When I finished I saved the workout and could see the route in the Activity app on my iPhone.
I have a Wine app that allows me to run a windows game on a mac. However for some reason, if I open the app directly, the binary file within opens, but it does not seem to run as intended and doesn't do its "magic" of running the exe file.
I don't want this message. I want my Mac mini to boot fully to a state where someone can remotely connect to it without being blocked by this keyboard message. How can I do this? I have already disabled bluetooth on the Mac mini, but it still gets blocked at this screen when it boots.
I got my MacBook Pro in December so I haven't had it for that long. After a while, on youtube the screen would act up a bit and move around or display transparent grey rectangles or a massive (transparent again) pause button. Until one or two days ago. I think it may have started yesterday or it might have been the day before. The letters displayed on the screen are just weird lines and you can't even recognise what the text is supposed to say.
I am trying to setup automatic login on my machine. I have FileVault off. I am not using a icloud account. Still the automatic login is greyed out.
I have about 43 files opened in the preview, however, when I run lsof -c Preview, I only get a fraction of those (i.e. 8 files) which are currently opened. This is the same output I get when using the Activity Monitor, but I would like to save the complete list of opened files so that I could reopen this list of files later on. I have found some tips on how to retrieve the list of current files opened in this link.
The iPhone 7 Plus has two front-facing cameras: a 4 mm "wide-angle" lens on the (user's) right and a 6 mm "telephoto" lens on the left:  I want to use an external lens that clips over the internal 6mm camera, which has the unfortunate side-effect of covering the internal 4mm camera.
I sometimes get very fuzzy short-term memory after a neurological event. When it happens, I'm told I often leave and take a walk. I want to use my iPhone to figure-out where I end-up walking when this happens.
I just installed a new WD Blue 750 GB 5400 RPM hard drive into my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, 13 inch, 2.5 GHz. I attempted to erase/format the drive, but it apparently froze while going through the process. I allowed it to run all night, but it did not progress overnight. I attempted to startup again, but the drive is no longer visible. I only see Disk0 Mac OS X. I opened the terminal and upon running diskutil corestorage list; the results said "No CoreStorage logical volume groups found."
Basically if I charge my iPhone 7 (or Apple Watch) to 100% using my wall charger or from my MacBook Air's USB the charge lasts MUCH longer than if I charge from my USB power bank. I've tried multiple power banks and have the same results every time. Same goes for my Apple Watch.
I'm looking to replace a drive with unfixable SMART errors, so I've asked my local repair shop about trying to install a WD Blue 500GB SSD on my Mac Mini (late 2012, OS 10.11.6, but building a Sierra bootable flash drive for the reformat/reinstall) -- and they were rather firm in saying that trying to install anything other than an Apple SSD is likely to lead to problems, including a much shorter life for the drive, and that putting an SSD in a machine that didn't ship with one is also inadvisable. They also insisted that installing a hybrid drive would run into similar problems (though their explanation for why that should be doesn't quite jibe with what little I know about how hybrid drives are supposed to work).
I have a Service that creates a new .txt or .rtf file. The Service saves this file to disk. The filename of this file is supplied by the user via an entry dialog. But, I have found that if the filename contains a forward slash (/), then the file will not be created. Let's suppose that I would like to create a file entitled: This is my / file.txt. I can create this file manually in Finder.app without error, which indicates that the OS allows forward slashes in filenames (unlike the colon, for example). Here is some code (i.e., a snippet from my Service) to reproduce the error: If you run the above code, you will be given the error:
I have now moved from Android to iOS. In Android , I used Yandex Browser in which I can use Chrome web extensions. But in the Yandex Browser iOS app f, I can't download chrome web extension. Does anyone know of a browser on iOS that allows the use of Chrome web extensions?
I would like to know if there's any way to always display current time in the touch bar in latest MacBook Pro. When using browsers and other applications in full screen, I'm unable to view the top status bar by default.
Is it possible to show Calender events and reminders from an Office 365 account set up in Outlook 2016 under the macOS Notification Centre? I can't seem to find a way to add them here
Is it possible to configure the notifications that they disappear after a timeout in OS X Sierra? Currently they never disappear until I click on them, which is super annoying. I can't find any settings in the UI to configure this.
I can change the scroll bar behaviour to only show when scrolling:  > System Preferences... > General > Show scroll bars
I want to connect my Linux virtual machine with the Internet, so I need NAT to translate packets then type: ppp0 is my PPPoE interface, virtual machine's ip addr is 192.168.100.100/24 then I add these line to /etc/pf.conf: at last: and test it on the virtual machine: so far so fine but when I request an Internet resource, for example: it doesn't work. Did I miss something? At first I thought I missed the TCP/UDP filter, but after adding: it still doesn't work. What should I do next? The hypervisor is VMware Fusion and the network interface settings are: macOS ppp0: PPPoE interface, ip from DHCP Server vmnet4: 192.168.100.1/24 Linux(Virtual Machine) eth0: 192.168.100.100/24 GATE:192.168.100.1
My brother-in-law spilt coffee on his 13” mid-2012 Macbook Pro just before XMAS. He shutdown the Macbook Pro and a few days later removed the HD. He bought a new Macbook Pro for XMAS and the old HD works fine in an external case.
I have an iMac 5k late-2014 with R9 M295x GPU, I'm using the graphic drivers from bootcampdrivers.com, as the default ones don't work with newer games like Forza Horizon 3... However, whenever the game is using much power, the iMac screen goes black, the fan speeds all the way up and after about 10-15 seconds it stops and the windows Login screen appears (no complete shutdown, only sleep mode), Applications and Games are still open but the network connection was gone (disconnected from online matches)... I had a freeze problem with macOS before but a complete formation of the Fusion Drive fixed this... If it isn't caused by the drivers, what could this be? GPU overheating, CPU or RAM not working correctly? GPU reaches about 110° max while playing. Thanks for your help!
After I updated my iPhone SE to iOS 10.2.1, the battery become really hot without changing it's life. Are there some new functions that stress the battery? What should I disable to keep the battery from getting hot?
In phone settings on iOS I have a button called "SIM apps" when clicked it gives me a button to open an app called Busy Calls, the app starts with the screen on the left. If I click "Edit SMS templates" it opens the screen on the right.
I can't seem to find the equivalent of: In macOS Numbers app. This statement in a formula tells that the formula should take the cells from H2 to the end of the row into consideration. I can't set it to a constant value, since the rows are constantly increasing, so I need a dynamic value. EDIT: This is what I was using in Google Sheets:
I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and am trying to open a port (12345). I can't use the GUI firewall tool as it's app specific, not port specific.
I double click on a jpg file and see this -  There's a PPC-only rev of this software on my Mac, but it's on a different boot drive, a drive with older OS. The startup drive is running Yosemite and has a new version of this software. If I open the app first, all is fine, but is there any way to tell the system that this current rev is my 'main' image app? FWIW, On a desktop MacPro 5.1, with multiple boot drives.
I want to get an iPhone SE with iOS 9. I think any new, never-used 64GB iPhone SE will have iOS 9 on it since I don't believe they ever shipped out with iOS 10 pre-installed, but I'm not certain. Does anyone know if the 64GB models ever came with iOS 10 and if so, when that began?
I am looking for a program running on Mac OS X that allows the user to auto-complete words in any program. For example, if the user types soft, the program could suggest software or soften in a dropbown menu, similarly to the auto-completion feature present in most IDEs:
I know the Microsoft Surface Keyboard isn't compatible with the lastest Mac OS. But was wondering if anyone has found workarounds to some of these problems.
I use a Mac at work and like to add comments to some of images (like when it was published or when we're supposed to receive a product shipment) so I can get a just look at the image in the finder instead of scrolling through a spreadsheet or word document for the same information. I was wondering if there was some way to make comments visible within the finder's icon view. Yes, I know I can just view comments by switching to list view or pressing Cmd+J —that's what I currently do— but I like icon view. Here's fake screenshot to show you what I'd like to make happen.
I have a PC which has no bluetooth and want to play music this PC to a bluetooth speaker using my iPhone as the bluetooth sender. PC and iphone could be connected via usb cable or wifi that is not a problem.
I was given a Mac by someone in my family, and wanted to restore to defaults (I already backed up). I found how to do this from countless webpages. It said to go into the recovery mode, erase the hard drive, and then reinstall the OS.
Whenever I try to log in to the iCloud, it asks for my Apple ID and MacBook Pro passwords. after that, I get this message:
Today, I noticed a image I downloaded earlier (one of two) has a large gray circle at the right-hand edge of the Name column in Finder:  Note that the other image made at almost the same time doesn't have it.
I recently purchased this 4,1 Mac Pro in pristine condition. Only issue is, none of the fans will speed up under heavy load. The temps can go up to 90°C and none of them speed up. I can manually speed them up, but that’s about it. Already reset SMC, PRAM and tried my troubleshooting booting from the secondary hard drive on which lays a clean OS X that got installed using this Mac Pro, since I took the main hard drive out of my iMac (thought maybe OS X installations are hardware-specific). I could just keep using MacsFanControl, but I rather have the underlying issue fixed.
Does the "Find My Mac" app automatically notify you every time your Mac is turned on? Or do you have to physically request for it notify you on a case-by-case basis?
I am dealing with a user that is going on vacation, the user has a external HDD hooked up to a Mac Pro that will be locked (not sleep) while the user is gone. This HDD is shared with a team that accesses it regularly.
I have a job that needs to run every hour between 09:00-15:00 M-F. How do I do that in a launchd plist file?
While debugging a Google Photos upload problem I realized that there are some photos in my Masters folder that aren't in my library. Is there some automated way to find all of these? I'd like to look at what's missing before adding them in wholesale, just in case there was a reason I pulled them out in the first place. With over 15,000 images this isn't something I can do manually.
Unfortunately it will just reject my user name/password over and over. I have to reboot before I can remount the drive. I can also see that my list of 'volumes' occasionally gets out of wack.
As seen in this question, it's possible to record an iPhone or iPad using a Mac by using Quicktime's recording features. This unfortunately isn't an option on Windows, as Quicktime for Windows was discontinued fo in 2016 without ever adding this feature. Is there any way to record an iPhone/iPad screen on a Windows PC?
I've moved from PC to Mac and I'm used to pressing Shift + Ctrl, while on Mac I have to press Ctrl + Space. This is a bit frustrating (probably because I've only used it for 2 days), so I opened System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and tried to change the shortcut to Shift + Command and for some reason it refuses to change.
I've installed hpn ssh using this command: I want to transfer lost data (100GB at least) using sftp command terminal command.
Previously, when I sent a clipboard copy of my terminal in the old Mavericks Mail client, it kept the original formatting (i.e. the white characters on black background copied from within the terminal) and when somebody received it, it was as I sent it (i.e. white on black). This was a very convenient way to show what was copied from the terminal.
I have my office network that looks like this:  My office network looks like this: the office network (wifi and wired) has the subnetwork 192.168.88.0. I have some server machines on the subnetwork 192.168.2.0 (NODE_1,.... NODE_10). I have a machine (it is a Mac mini) with 2 subnetwork interfaces that acts as: the gateway for all machines in subnetwork 192.168.2.0. exposes a VPN service (the Mac server app default one) and provides extra services, such as a DNS) the gateway for all machines in subnetwork 192.168.2.0. exposes a VPN service (the Mac server app default one) and provides extra services, such as a DNS)
I use a late 2012 Mac Mini as a music server. My expensive, external audio digital to analogue converter (DAC) was connected to the Mini by FireWire. After a lightning strike the Mac Mini FireWire and Ethernet ports do not work.
Mac connected via ethernet brew search package takes a few minutes, the same mac connected via wifi brew search package takes a second or two. This is the only difference, but really annoying. Everything else works the same on the wired and wireless connection, even speed is the same. So this is very specific problem to Homebrew.
After Windows 10 Update, ICloud no longer installs. Hangs at removing backup files. At this point, ICloud is installed and operating, but the windows installer hangs and requires a reboot if any install or uninstall is needed. After a reboot, ICloud is automatically uninstalled. I have tried all fixes recommended on the web, but nothing works.
Or the past two or three weeks, I've been frequently "dropping characters" typing on my iPad. Usually, it's the first character of a word. (See the "for" starting this post?) Of course it makes for some rather wild autocorrections.
After a real drama with iCloud, once I could configure it right again, my contacts show up triplicated. With Contacts, I used the search for duplicated and now it is just duplicated...
I have 4 large QTVR (QuickTime VR) files, which are displayed correctly QT Player 7.4.1 on old Mac. But they are transformed to movie format on QT Player 10.4 on a New Mac. How can I repair/avoid this ?
Is it possible to update the VPN server address from terminal? I've tried updating the server address on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist... but if I do so and then run networksetup -connectpppoeservice <servicename> it still connects to the old server. OTOH, if I open system preferences and initiate the connection from there, the new configuration is picked up... Is there any way to change the VPN server address AND initiate a connection to the new server completely via terminal?
I got a new computer and I didn't want to do a full time machine restore but rather pick and choose what files I was going to copy off of my time machine drive. So, I went into the directory, found some files I want, and did cp -Rpv dir /Users/username/dir
Command-line commands are collected in .bash_history. Fine! But not all. Often I close a terminal and try a day later to find a command with CtrlR, but bash tells me "command not found". Why are some commands stored in history and some not? How can I prevent lost commands? I use OS X 10.10.5.
I am missing the sizing buttons and pull down menus in Mail. It is a full window of the Mail screen and the wallpaper does not show. How do I get back the regular view?
I tried unticking "Put hard discs to sleep when possible" and it made no difference. I tried resetting NVRAM and SMC and that didn't work either.
The Xcode's Organizer window (Window -> Organizer) disappears, when using multiple (in my case 2) external monitors. Xcode's Window -> Bring all to front command doesn't bring the window back onto any of the screens Same goes for MacOS's Show All Windows command, when holding the Xcode's Dock icon The only option for me is unplugging the monitors, or restarting Xcode. Are there any alternative solutions?
I am having Macbook Retina(13 inches). How can I check whether laptop's fan is working or not? Is there any way to start and stop the fan manually?
I used to use Karabiner to remap Right Alt to Right Control (as an Emacs user I use Control MUCH more that Alt) but updating to Sierra broke this. Downgrading is not an option.
I am running a /Library/LaunchDaemons service at boot time - nobody is logged in. I want the computer to not sleep. Here's my pmset -g on macOS Sierra 10.12.4:
My network uses a magic triangle with windows server 2012 and osx Yosemite. I am migrating to a new osx server, this one using Sierra. So I copied all the user files from the old to the new server.
Trying to restore a file from TM I found that files as they appeared on even the oldest backup that TM had to offer me, were the same as files on my hard drive as they were changed or created just yesterday. How is that possible? Certainly seems to be contrary to the whole purpose of backing up. Clue for me?
I download the gcc, use brew install gcc but it said the gcc did not linked. how to link the gcc? or what should I do?
My 2012 MacBook has a 240gb SSD, will not boot up. I can get into disk utility, and it cannot verify disk or repair disk. I can see that there is only 32mb free. I think this is the problem.
We have deployed 50 iPads in field managed via Profile Manager. Recently one of the iPads got stolen. Unfortunately Find my iPad was turned off on it. We tried to wipe the iPad using Profile Manager but no success which made me think that probably stolen iPad needs to be connected to internet then it will be wiped. Is there anything we can do to save our data. Moving forward in future what could be the best and cost effective way to deal with lost or stolen iPads and protecting our data without spending alot or moving away from Profile Manager to other Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution. I have already instructed all iPad users to keep Find my iPad app on which again poses the limitation that lost or stolen iPad has to be connected to internet in order for it to be wiped.
The LG Magic Remote is a strange beast, because by default, the signals it sends to LG TVs tend not to be picked up by other IR controls (I don't know if that means it's communicating some other way, or whether the IR frequency it uses is really unusual). As a result, the Apple TV's "Learn Remote" functionality does not work straight away when operating the LG Magic Remote.
I have the following connection failed message on OSX 10.12.4. I'm used to access to a distant hard drive through a VPN (Cisco Anyconnect), but I removed that connection and the vpn software about two months ago. Everything was fine until yesterday where that message always showing up.
There seems to be two different SSH client versions on my Macbook Pro running Sierra (10.12.4). If I do the following: $> ssh dev
I am running SyncThing to keep a hard-drive at home in sync with one at my office. Is there a way to mount both drives at the same mount point? I'd like to detect when a drive is plugged in, and mount it at a single known mount point instead of /Volumes/[Disk Name].
I want to be able to run a bash script over each line output from diskutil activity", I haven't been able to figure out how to do this though. I thought maybe I could simply: diskutil activity | xargs bash myScript.sh I have a feeling that xargs is just going to wait until diskutil activity is finished talking, which it will never do until you end the process. Any suggestions on how I can execute a script per line of output would be appreciated! Cheers!
I have re-mapped several of the function keys on my 2013 rMBP's keyboard to execute tasks that have nothing to do with the original function (i.e., the function that is depicted in the image that is printed on the key). To be clear, I am referring to these keys:
I regularly use an iPhone 5 to record video of lectures and tutorials. If I transfer the videos to an OTG flash drive, and delete them from iPhone storage, is it possible to play them again (while the flashdrive is connected to the iPhone)? Is there any app I need to be download beforehand?
In Apple Mail v.10.3 (3273), is there a way to see received emails grouped together by sender name and subject as in Mail v.7 (running under Mavericks v.10.9.5) where I was able to click on the "#>>" (the number of emails in the group and 2 right-facing arrows) to expand or collapse the list? Thank you. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Time Capsule; AGT784WNV DSL Gateway
Monstercat releases numbered albums, starting at 001 and making it up (so far) to 030. I don't have all of these loaded into iTunes, but for some reason, I opened up iTunes to find some of the albums were not where they usually were. Albums 005 through 029 are sorted under "normal" albums while the rest (001 through 004) appear to have been sorted separately under a new "Compilations" category.
I signed into the Google Mail app with my Google account. I saw that Google Maps app automatically signed me in. I never gave Google Maps my account credentials.
I am using the normal cable Apple headphones and the voluma control works on my iPhone 5S, but not when I plug them into my Mac (Macbook Pro Early 2013, macOS Sierra 10.12.4). If I am not mistaken, they were working some time ago? Any suggestions how I can fix this, or am I mistaken in that they should be working?
I've bought the latest MacBook Pro with Touch bar. I've installed clean installation of Mac OSX (latest, no updates avail.). Whenever I open keychain, the Touch ID request dialog is shown. After using Touch ID the dialog is shown after few seconds. Multiple entry (like 20) didn't help. Even if I close the Mac and use external monitor, Touch ID dialog is shown.
I hope you can help me. I just upgraded to MacOS Sierra. I get the "Unable to verify account name or password." I'm pretty sure I have the correct password. I read that deleting and adding back the account seems to work BUT i already have a lot of messages in my inbox that I don't want to risk deleting. Thanks in advance for your help!
Is there a way to trigger some custom code to run if somebody tries to empty the trash like for login / logout hooks? Is there a way to trigger some custom code to run if somebody tries to empty the trash like for login / logout hooks? Is there a way to interrupt the empty trash process for non-admin users? Is there a way to interrupt the empty trash process for non-admin users?
My bluetooth mouse batteries died, and when I replaced them, the mouse didn't reconnect. Now how can I get OS X to discover and connect my mouse without having a mouse to open the mouse dialogue?
I have an AppleScript .scpt file, triggered by a key combination in FastScripts.app, that functions as a thesaurus. The script looks up the selected word in a pre-formatted list, and, if the word is found in this list, it displays the synonyms of this word to the user1.
I use a set of Bluetooth headphones (Bose QC35) that can connect either with good audio or with a microphone and some distortion. This works well with my iPhone usually in the audio mode, but switches when calling or answering the phone. On my Mac (macOS Sierra 10.12.4) they work as audio only. How do I switch the headphones between modes? On audio only they do not appear in the System Preferences -> Sound output.
I made a sheet in Google Sheets on the desktop with several filter views. Then I opened the sheet in the Google Sheets app on my iPhone. In the iPhone app menu, there is an option to create a filter, but I don't see any way to access my existing filter views. Is this possible?
I have the "scroll wheel" speed on my Magic Mouse set to highest possible. Is there a way to slow it down just temporarily in Safari? You can achieve other similar "slow downs" in the system by pressing certains keys (shift and click the zoom button for a window to slow down the animation, alt-shift and volume keys to adjust the volumes with higher resolution etc) but nothing I have tried work in Safari.
I have a RAID 5 solution with 4 disks of 2TB. That gives me 6TB disk space. Now Disk Utility tells me that my actual usage is 3,5TB and I have 2.5TB free space. But when I add up the disk usage of the individual folders then this does add up to 2TB. So there is a gap of 1.5TB.
So I'm trying to move images of a specific dimension to another folder. But working with a huge number of files, the same filename once and a while presents itself. And I have been using this script:
I am downloading the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But because I am using hotel Wi-Fi, it is slow and I will be leaving the hotel before it finishes. So here is my question: If I disconnect from a network before the movie finishes downloading, but then later connect to a different network, will the movie resume downloading from where it left off?
(no messages are displayed while running). It actually helps for ~half a day of active usage.
I have a lightning connector to USB-C I use for programming and development.  What would happen if I plugged the USB-C end into my late 2016 Mac Book Pro power supply (87 W)?
I have a 2010 21.5 iMac. During the boot-up I hear the chime and the fan is working but there's no display, only a black screen.
My wife is a prolific picture-taker, both on her iPhone 6 and her Nikon. As a result, both her 64Gig iPhone and 240Gig Mac Air are completely filled to the brim (the later has all sorts of others stuff too). As her devices are often running out of storage room, she sometimes uses my iPhone to take shots.
With iOS 10.3 Apple changed the mechanism for trusting a self-signed certificate. Before you simply just send the PEM file to your phone and it would install as a profile and the certificate would be trusted. Now that's no longer the case as even after installing the certificate, the cert is not trusted. Even when I use Apple Configurator to make a profile that trusts my cert, it still doesn't behave as trusted on the system. How do I trust a self-signed certificate in iOS 10.3?
I'm looking for a source of information on the inner workings of Back to My Mac. I'd like to know things such as: Each protocol used (Bonjour, UPnP, mDNS, etc., IPSEC, TLS, etc.)
I have used the command. It asks for password saying osascript want to make changes. What I want is, how do I change the word osascript?
The situation: My iTunes library has some files, like purchased music from Amazon, in their own folders which is annoying but at least understandable. Most of my music is from CDs I've ripped in iTunes and I recently noticed that some files are in ... and others are in:
When using Airpods with iPhone only everything works great, you put it on and start listening. When you start to switch between your Mac and iPhone, I have problems. Most of the time, if I open the Airpods and connect them to the Mac, I will have this problem where every few seconds there is a second interrupt on sound (it stops). You can't hear music like that. I'v tried to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone before connecting to the Mac, but this didn't work. I'v tried to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone before connecting to the Mac, but this didn't work. I'v tried to restart the Mac - and sometimes this doesn't work either. I'v tried to restart the Mac - and sometimes this doesn't work either. I also ensured I have the latest firmware on the Airpots. I also ensured I have the latest firmware on the Airpots. The experience is really not fun for a Mac user that switches between the Mac and an iPhone. Does anyone have any other solutions or suggestions I can try to resolve this issue?
Wondering if it would be possible to take the following Mac Pro... Mac Pro 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 Originally released December 2013 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 16GB memory 1 TB PCIe-based flash storage Dual AMD FirePro D700 graphics processors with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
One thing I noticed, when booting from USB, There were no errors like Wi-Fi: No Hardware Installed but the spinner was continuously moving and searching for the networks and it had blank dropdown (without any results). My router was on and WiFi for other devices on the network. Thanks in advance!
When I hover on some word and force touch on it then some popup appears and there is the meaning of the selected word. Here is this popup:
I am using an iPhone 6S as my primary work iPhone. I have an old iPhone 4 that I am trying to use as a dedicated baby monitor. The iPhone 4 has had its SIM card removed, but it maintains WiFi access to our network. Both are using the same apple ID.
I have a MacBook Pro. I can make screenshots. It lands on the desktop. By opening the context menu I can press the Share button.
Sometimes (about once a month) my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro Fans start spinning at full speed when resuming from sleep. None of the temperature show as hot. One cool morning, the highest temperature sensor reading was 81F (27C) degrees and the rest were below 77F (25C). If I suspend it again by closing the lid, the fans do not slow down, in fact they keep running at the same high speed (5500 to 5900 RPM). The only way to get the fans to slow/stop to "normal" is to perform a SMC reset.
An example of a console log I have is "system.log.0" (backed up the last day). I have tons of these log events from when someone was connected: (com.apple.screensharing[2323232]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch (3) API's There is no other logged info. Also, I don't have a "secure.log" file.
Currently there are two partitions on the SSD.  How can I remove the partitions? I want to have just one partition on the device. I have searched through Samsung's website but I cannot find any related software to download (including the driver)
I was trying to follow a tutorial online that included using diskpart on Windows 10 to format my 1TB external drive, with commands such as clean and partition. But after learning that it would not produce the results I wanted, I decided to stop and erase the disk from Disk Utility on macOS Sierra (10.12.4). So I completely erased it and formatted it as Mac OS Extended Journaled, but now I am unable to partition the drive because the button is greyed out.
I don't use spotify, but I do use apps from what I'm guessing are 3 different categories that handle media keys in different ways: chrome apple apps (itunes, quicktime, etc) everything else (mplayerx, vlc, etc) I bet spotify, rdio etc would get into one of those categories. if chrome global keys are activated with the media keys (by any extension or google music app), everything works as expected, except for apple apps. if I disable (or uninstall) chrome global keys, then the rest gets back to the normal expected behavior from the title, including opening itunes.
I have issues similar to this case : Accidently deleted some small sized partitions when installing WIndows(Bootcamp). OSX Partition wont boot
Where are the Core Storage instructions stored? In Kevin White's macOS Support Essentials 10.12, White says
I'm a new MacBook user, so I may be relying on rumours instead of fact. It sounds quite silly, but, from my perspective, if I always hold my laptop connected to a charger, then my battery is always around 100% and it seems like the battery cycle count is not growing at that time. And, if I take my laptop somewhere without a charger, then I get this 40-60% decrease, then I think it's at this moment the cycle count increases more than it would if it is connected to a charger.
I'm using MacBook Pro ("Core i7" 2.5 15" Mid-2015 (DG) 2.5 GHz Core i7 (I7-4870HQ) 16GB RAM) with MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 on it. After connecting a new LG 34UC98 Monitor I faced some heat problems and started investigations. First thing that was really strange for me is this:
I get a phone call on my iPhone which is paired with QC35 headphones. At the point that the call starts, my mac starts iTunes and starts to play music through the same headphones I'm taking the call on.
In the Apple's date manpage ($ man date) it's written: But when I'm executing this command ($ date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s") in a new Basic Shell from Terminal I get:
Here is the script I'm using to update my system time when it's wrong (in my case sometimes date go back to 2013). Script is checking some ntp servers with ntpdate and sntp commands and if not works, trying to get the date of google.com http header to set it with date and systemsetup commands.
Ever since upgrading to macOS Sierra, I have been able to keep track of when programs use my location because the menu bar displays an icon whenever an app requests this information. I have noticed that about once per hour, the location services icon appears for a few seconds, and when I click on it it says "Apps requesting location: Setting Time Zone"
I have a little problem. Maybe you can help me with it. I am shooting many portraits for a client. Like 200 each day. I have to email every single Portrait via Mail. A gallery with all portraits in one is not allowed because of privacy stuff. The client wants definitely emails. I tried to program an Applescript/Automator action to do this automatically. My plan is to name all the files like so: name@client.com_2847.jpg and let the action do the rest of the magic. It kind of works, except that i am not able to extract the mail address from the jpg file. How do I extract the Email from the file (for example deleting the last 9 digits) and putting it in as the recipient? I saw a similar question here: Automator -> send file to email (from filename) but for some reason I get many syntax errors. thanks!
As you can discover, there are two riser cards, each with 4 slots accepting ECC FB-DIMM modules with heat-spreaders operating at 800 MHz, and I've just upgraded from 4x1GB, all on riser A to 4x1GB on riser A plus 4x4GB on riser B for a total of 20 GB. My question is whether it is better to mix the 4GB and the 1GB modules (pairwise) on a single riser card or to do it the way I've done it, segregated.
I have a Logitech C920 webcam and after I use it for any type of video chat (whether it's in Slack, Skype or any other video chat service) the light on the webcam stays on until I restart my computer. Is there a way to see what is causing the webcam to either actually be on or appear to be on? I'm running macOS 10.12.5 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", Early 2015).
I want to install certain software and this requires system which supports at least OpenGL 2.1. Executing glxinfo | grep "OpenGL Version" returns OpenGL version string: 2.1 INTEL-10.24.45. On the other hand, according to Apple's documentation: *=URL=* my laptop, which is a Macbook Pro 13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, has OpenGL 4.1 installed. Which one should I trust?
I would like to use EasyFind to search inside the folder ~/Library/Application\ Support/Anki2/. Unfortunately, the Library subfolder is not listed under the home folder in the Select A Folder... dialog box. Is there a way around it? Alternatively, is there another file-searching GUI-based application that will enable me to search inside said folder?
I use the iCloud Photos web interface to move photos from my iPhone to my Mac all the time. This is as simple as logging into iCloud on the web, selecting a photo (or multiple photos) and clicking download. Works fine.
I want to get the wifi waveform for a project involving signal processing, I was wondering if one of you heard of a way to get such an access ?
I have a monitor which I connect to an older Macbook Air using an HDMI to mini DisplayPort connector. I also recently got a late 2016 Macbook Pro with 4 USB-C ports. So, my question is: if I plug a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 connector into the Macbook Pro, and then HDMI to mini DisplayPort connector into the Tunderbolt 2, would it work? In short, would the following chain work: USB-C -> thunderbolt 2 -> mini DisplayPort -> HDMI work?
I am looking for a way to compress jpeg images on a Mac from Terminal. Basically, a library like pngquant, except it is for jpeg format. Are you aware of a software that does that?
I need Numbers for OS X Yosemite. When I try to install from the Apple store, it only gives the option for 4.1. I think I need 3.2.2 or around there. When I try to install 4.1 it complains:
So I recently set up Boot Camp on my MacBook, and I am in desperate need of space. I have disabled iCloud Photo Library, My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing. There are still photos on my MacBook in the Photos app, and I am wondering: if I delete these photos, will they be deleted from my other devices too?
This question is about Preview (macOS builtin application). I am not asking for an alternative application, software of hack that "solves my problem". I know that there are plenty of ways of getting around this issue (eg not using Preview). This is what you see when opening landscape documents on the "Two Pages" (CMD+3) view mode in Preview:
I'm using Übersicht and I've created a custom menubar. I want to show the title of the current active app but my search-fu isn't great. I must be searching for it incorrectly so I figured I'd ask here. Does such a command exist?
I have one Mac Mini with Server installed and the NetInstall service On. It looks like this:
I copied my files to the iCloud Drive directory: I want to save them in iCloud but I dont want to use my disk storage. How to delete files from my mac and keep it in iCloud Drive? Dont need to access them without downloading. I want to use iCloud as place for backup for my files.
Tomorrow, I am leaving the US and traveling internationally. I added Sprint's "Global Roaming" plan to my phone. The details of the plan are as follows: "Unlimited basic data with speeds up to 2G and unlimited text in any of our Sprint Global Roaming countries at no charge with calling for just $.20/min. For a full list countries, visit sprint.com/globalroaming" (emphasis added).
Not quite sure if this is the place to ask but I'm trying to set up IAPs in my app so I need to fill out the paid contract first. I have no idea exactly who I'm supposed to put in my contact section.
It says that it was prompted because of some option enabled. This option here: “Prefs > General > Confirm Quit iTerm2”. What ‘Prefs’ is this about? I have this in System Preferences > General, and iTerm 2 context menu > Edit Session….
I am on a Mac running Parallels 12. When I run my Windows 10 VM in full screen mode, I don't want to see email or Slack notifications from Mac OS, just Windows 10.
I run curl I got When I run which curl I got When I run /usr/bin/curl --version I got What should I do to be able to run just curl again ? I never understand much about this export stuffs. Can someone please shed a little light on this ? If I run export -p
After the upgrade to version 7.25 (around April 2016) of Skype for MacOS, the ability to change the conversation volume in a way independent from the system volume seems to have been removed. To be clear, I am referring to the ability to change a Skype conversation audio volume, while leaving the System volume unchanged, so that System's sounds and other applications sounds stay the same. In the past versions this was done via two entries in "Conversations" menu, or via the two keyboard shortcuts cmd-alt-up_arrow and cmd-alt-down_arrow. Is there a way to have that functionality back?
I've a mentally retarded brother that I gave an Apple TV 4th generation. He loves it because of the YouTube player on it. I'd like to display a read-only version of a Google Calendar on it to see if we can replace his paper calendar. That way his care-takers can better cooperate in maintaining the read-write version of his calendar so he sees the read-only version of it (now often his paper one gets out of sync). I tried searching for apps, but haven't found a suitable one yet. Any ideas are welcome.
I recently came into possession of a 27 inch mid 2011 iMac. It only has 4GB RAM and I have been pricing compatible memory modules online.
I have an external HDD connected to my MBP (2016 model). Everytime the machine goes to sleep I get the "Disk Not Ejected Properly" message, which I find annoying. There doesn't seem to be a real problem. The drive is reconnected and accessible so it seems to be just annoying. The questions are: Is this really just something annoying, or is there an actual problem with this? Is this really just something annoying, or is there an actual problem with this? How can I make the notifications go away? How can I make the notifications go away? The HDD is a "LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive - 1 TB" I have seen this question: External hard disc not ejected properly - Mac OSX but it is rather old, blames the behavior on a special brand of hdd and also is about the drive not being usable, so I think my question is different.
On my iPad mini 3, a currently-playing YouTube video in Safari used to continue to play if the active tab was changed, similar to how a tabbed browser on an actual computer functions. This fact was true for the past year that I've been using this iPad.
Using MacBook Pro 13 2015 with macOS Sierra. Just closing my Mac lid. Went to sleep. Mac is connected to external monitor with miniDisplayPort, though monitor power turned off during the night. Mac is running on AC power. Next morning trying to login to my Mac, I'm seeing spinning circle on my monitor (not opened mac lid till now). Waiting some time, some seconds pass, spinning wheel just goes on. Tired of waiting, opening mac lid and pressing power button. Mac starts in login screen, suggesting me to use my credentials to login. It starts off with just one app I left before. Is this normal behavior at all? Also, I see that uptime is going on: I mean, it actually hibernated. Note: Currently having Bootcamp partition in place.
If I want to use VS to use Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android do I have to keep Xamarin Studio installed on my Mac? VS has always been my favorite IDE, I don't really like Xamarin Studio.
I routinely mount and work from encrypted DMG images where I store important files. These appear as mounted drives Finder. When my macbook runs out of battery completely, it hibernates to disk. When I wake it up from hibernation, it has unmounted the image files and abandoned anything I was working on.
How can I delete one of my devices from the "lists of known hosts (ECDSA)" after connecting to it with SSH on Sierra ?
I have a new iMac running OSX 10.12.4. It has an internal Apple-Supplied 512Gb SSD, of which about 140 Gb is used. As with my previous machine, I use Time Machine to backup on to an external 2Tb hard disk. However, I find that every TM backup appears to be a full backup, not an incremental backup. How can I get Time Machine to make proper incremental backups, as it’s supposed to? By way of background, Each backup takes a very long time; so long that it cannot backup hourly because it’s still completing the last backup. On the Preferences panel it tells me that it is backing up … GB of 131 GB. The space left on the drive corresponds to multiplying the number of backups by the full amount of data. After about 18 backups, it starts deleting old backups I get the disk full message too soon So I am convinced that they’re all full backups. I have tried everything I can think of, including: turning it off and on again re-formatting the drive replacing the drive reinstalling the OS deleting th
How can I make it so whenever a new notification reaches the Notification Center on macOS a script will be run and I will be able to get the contents of that notification through another app/script?
I have downloaded PDF files and saved them in iBooks on my iPad. I want to open some PDF files in Adobe Reader but there is no option to do so.
I have had a faulty internal superdrive (Apple calls their optical drives superdrives) for the longest time in my MBP 13" Mid 2009. I want to replace it, but in my area it's pretty hard to come across a superdrive, be it new or used. I considered an external optical drive but quickly dismissed it, as it would be a pain to carry around and from what I've heard MPB's don't allow using external optical drives for recovering from CDs.
I recently learned about subpixel rendering, and was fascinated by how it works. On my mac, I can turn it on and off in system prefs - general - LCD font smoothing, which implies to me that it is handled by the OS, not by individual applications. My first question is, is this assumption correct? How is subpixel rendering handled? On my friend's computer with a retina display, the LCD font smoothing did not seem to add colors to text like on mine. Do retina displays handle it differently?
I have scoured the web trying to figure out how to install XGboost. A simple pip or conda install does not work, even though it worked for many of my colleagues. I went to the installation guide which directed me to run the following to install gcc: To confirm I already have it installed I tried again and received the following message:
Hey, all. This is a question that seems painfully obvious and not worth asking all of you, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to run lua code on the mac. I have a folder full of .lua files that should run to make a simple command-line compression program, and I made sure to install lua using homebrew, so I don't know what I am still missing. I hope someone knows how to do this, as I can't find anything online to help me.
And admins do have read and write permissions  So I thought, maybe I should add the explicit account with read and write permissions because for some reason macOS might not see me as admin? I don't know, tbh. However I seem to be unable to add myself (the explicit account) to the applications folder permissions anyway (which I also do not get since I, as admin, should have god status and shall not be hampered in my devious plans by missing permissions).
Apple Mac Pro (Early 2009) running El Capitan OS 10.11.6 Connecting to the internet via a D-Link DWA-131 WiFi USB Dongle Hello, I am trying to carry out the infamous 4.1 to 5.1 firmware upgrade so that I can upgrade my existing 10.11.6 OS up to Sierra 10.12. I have established that I need to carry out the following steps: Boot into recovery mode and disable SIP since I'm running El Capitan Reboot Mount the MacProEFIUpdate dmg (for 5.1) Run MacEFIRom's utility. Shutdown and power back up by holding the power button until light flashes and beep sounds Verify Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03 Boot into recovery mode and enable SIP Reboot Reset PRAM
My kid did some magic with my Mac and somehow successfully rename the disk name to some weird name. When I tried to rename it back, Finder refused it.
My iPhone and my daughter's iPod both have iOS 9. I have tried to add her as a friend in Game Center using both her email address and her nickname. But nothing seems to work.
In garageband I have one audio track with many regions. I'd like to adjust the volume for each region. Is there an easy way to do that, or do I have to make a new track each time, and adjust the tracks volume?
So I've been using the MacBook Pro with Touch bar for a week and the Touch Bar seems pretty convenient. However, I haven't found an option to customize the Touch Bar for a specific app.
After rebuilding the Spotlight library the problem shortly disappeared (one week). But it returned again. So maybe my question is not how to solve this problem but what is corrupting my Spotlight index? Interestingly the Spotlight results look a bit different now and shows the App-Store Numbers version (which then automatically opens the local one).
I have recently installed MacOS Server on my iMac running Sierra 10.12.4. I am getting an occasional alert that a Volume is not responding. The message is of the form:
I am using macOS Sierra and recently I observed that the icons and images on Facebook page are all blurry on Chrome. I checked the same on Firefox and Safari and they also load all blurry icons and images.
That is, when you run games like Quake (which are, I believe in OpenGL), is every frame internally converted to PDF and then rasterized? Or, when I do a game in UIKit/GameKit, it is also internally converted to PDF, frame-by-frame? At least, I lost as I understood from the source: ARS Technica -Inside Quartz
I manage several Macs, and from a security point of view i would like to make sure they where always up to date with the latest patches for their version of OSX. I understand there is an inbuilt tool in the "mac app store" application to do this.
This is worm-like behavior. Something is causing my Mac to repeatedly try to mount remote file servers - several of them. Most of these seem to be SMB servers. What's most noticeable are those which I last used 10+ years ago, before multiple machine changes, a few complete OS reinstalls, and prompt upgrade to each newer OSX version. I'm fully patched Sierra now. Often the mounts are 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x, and I've avoided those ranges in DHCP for years, also. I installed Little Snitch, but it's not really detecting which program is triggering it. By watching Console I'm seeing something like NetAuthSys immediately preceding, but this only tells me it's getting a message from something else that I'm not seeing. I checked a SO/Ask Different thread from 2011 but I don't see it applying. Anyone with suggestions for diagnosis, please chime in! Thanks in advance!
Out of the blue today my MacBook Pro starting showing a flashing folder with a question mark during the boot process. I went into Disk Utility to try and restore or reformat the MacBook, but the hard drive does not even show up and everything else is grayed out.
Spotlight indexing has always been a problem on all of my Macs, and therefore, the first thing I always do on a new machine is disabling it. I use a different launcher, so it is OK. Yet, disabling Spotlight automatically prevents searching emails and notes. I have always asked myself if it is possible to just create a Spotlight index once, and manually update it via the command line at regular intervals of time (once a week, for example).
I'm looking at buying a used Mac Pro. However, I want to know what I'm really buying as the serial number he provided does match the processor configuration in the about:
As far as I know, the cache hierachy is: 64KB (I) + 64KB (D) L1 (per core) 3MB L2 (shared between cores) 4MB L3 (shared and "victim" cache) But I'm not able to find the cache mapping that Apple is using here.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina and I always used the EarBuds to talk on skype etc.. Suddenly it stopped working as the Audio Input. I still can listen to stuff, control the volume and everything else. The only problem is that It stopped capturing the microphone. I didn't change anything recently and this is how my sound settings are:
I'm reviewing moving to some software that has a system requirement of a 1GB of video / graphics card. The computer in question is a 2014 Mac mini, which I remember at the time of buying had a "Intel Iris Graphics" but no stated MB / GB number so I presumed it was a not very powerful graphics card built directly onto the CPU. Just now i checked "About this Mac" and it seems to state that the graphics card is "Intel Iris 1536MB" - Does that mean that I have a 1.5GB graphics card ? If so why doesn't apple list it as that, even now on the current mac mini page they list the graphic card as "Intel Iris Graphics" ? Mac Mini Specs
It is not first problem. Yesterday I saw that shortcut for my action is F11. I press F11 and nothing happens. After that I accidently (when I was not on full-screen application) noticed that F11 shows the desktop. I realised, that I can unbind it in system prefs and that worked. But I didn't find Shift + Opts + F shortcut in system prefs.
I am trying to prevent notification prompts from various websites in Safari 10.1. In the past one could go preferences > notifications and uncheck Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications, as pointed out in this answer. I still get notifications prompts from some websites whether or not that box is checked/unchecked... Is this a bug with Safari or I am forced to chmod the remote notifications directory?
For 3 users running a mixture of Yosemite and Sierra connecting, disconnecting, etc. from the AppleTV when their computer is connected to Wi-Fi works fine.
What can I do to upgrade to Sierra without having to install the Server app? I have to upgrade to install the latest Xcode etc.
I have an iCloud account with about 800 photos stored in iCloud Photo Library. I’m trying to move them to a Mac and delete them from iCloud in order to clear up space. I tried to connect my Mac to iCloud Photo Library by going into the Photos app’s preferences; however it then asks me to upgrade to a paid iCloud storage tier because I have over 5GB worth of local images that Photos wants to sync to iCloud. So I don't think using the Photos app is going to work for offloading pictures to a Mac.
I can choose in Syst Prefs to have the menubar show always or hide with auto-show (auto-show being show on hover or show on focus-by-keyboard-shortcut). But when I'm working, I want the menubar always visible. And when I'm recreating, I want it usually hidden. I like that with the dock I can hit commandoptiond to show or hide the dock, and it stays shown or hidden until I press the same shortcut again.
Recently my segate 1tb external hard drive has been playing up on my late 2013 MacBook Pro with retina. It has been very inconsistent. sometimes it works fine for a day or two or only 2 minutes, and then other times it doesn't even show up. I have looked in disk utility and I cannot find it there. I tried to run 'first aid' on it in disk utility yesterday but got a message saying something along the lines of "cannot perform first aid because the drive cannot be un-mounted. Thanks in advance for your help!
In Notes app I have some notes stored: On My Mac my share menu though only gives me the following choices:
What is this arrow mark on the Menu bar? I am using macOS 10.12.4. It shows up for few seconds and disappears automatically.
I would like to use my Dropbox folder as my Desktop. I know how to do it in Linux and Windows, but couldn't find any guide for Mac. Any ideas?
in the past I’ve been able to click a video in iCloud drive, and the option to ‘save to camera roll’ has been there. From there, I can use the instagram app and it will find the video stored in my photos/videos on the phone.
All of them are by default in the top right corner and native notifications cover those from Chrome. (MacOS Sierra) FYI: the only workaround I've found so far is to use native macOS notifications in Chrome (*=URL=* but these notifications doesn't hold all the information as the original ones.
I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. I find myself often renaming documents from within the Open and Save As dialog box windows. I hope the description below makes sense to explain what I mean. If you look carefully you can see the picture below is of the Open dialog box of Microsft Word in Windows.
I am using Apple Watch series 2 to get heart rate information. It works very well but I have a question.
In health.app, under the Sources tab, one of the apps that use health data is the messages app. It only has asked for the ability to read my heart rate data which is enabled.
Do a lot of local development and recently I've noticed that I cannot connect to non-HTTPS services running on localhost. If the services provide HTTPS then I am able to connect, but every time I try something like "*=URL=* Safari always tries to access "*=URL=* Using Chrome, I can properly access the site. Perhaps the issue is HSTS? I am running Safari 10.1 on macOS Sierra.
I need to find out how to set the permissions of a USB flash drive at the device (not filesystem) level. In other words, I need to grant the user read/write access to a USB device identified by diskutil which is /dev/diskX where X is some integer.
I am receiving normal messages that should be arriving as txt instead on my personal email(gmail) messages from another Iphone User. They should be arriving as messages. He told me he sends the messages exactly the same way as if any txt to anybody else.
I have changed my Google account, now I want to sync my contacts to the new Google account. How can I do this?
I plugged my phone to my brother's MacBook which has wiped my phone and store all of his data to mine. The thing is, I got it new, so I haven't back up any of it and the datas are so important. Is it possible for me to get my old datas back? If it is, how?
My MacBook runs Sierra 10.12.4 and I have 16 spaces, but there appears to be no way to get more. I find 16 spaces too few. Is 16 the absolute maximum or can I get more? If so how?
I am trying to change the default settings for right-clicking text in macOS. By default, the word that is being hovered over is selected/highlighted and the contextual menu appears, however, I would like the right-click to select everything until it finds a space and open the contextual menu. For example, if I have a file path:
My camera is not working, it just shows a black screen when I turn it on. Snapchat and instagram cameras aren't working as well. In the restrictions the camera app was not restricted and still it's not working. Can anyone help me out?
I find the Reminders app very important and useful, particularly scheduled reminders that repeat themselves. I have tried to use reminders several times over the years, but have always found Reminders to be hit-and-miss, unreliable. Sometimes reminders pop up when they should, sometimes they don't. (Yes, I have all Notifications turned on for reminders).
I'm a Linux sysadmin. I naturally try to apply Linux-y solutions to Mac problems. One problem I'm currently having is managing software on end-user laptops at scale, when the software I want to add is not available in the App store. Which seems to be most/all of the software I need to manage or install.
I checked this website: *=URL=* and I tried this code to start a Keynote presentation:
On iOS, is there a way to set a different volume (loudness level) for the alarms I set in the 'Clock' app? I'd like to lower the volume for the alarm I use to wake up in the morning, but without lowering the volume for when I am on a call. Right now I have to remember to turn down the ringer volume setting each night, then turn it back up when I am talking on the phone.
When trying to boot a NetInstall or NetRestore image over the network all works fine until the client tries to download the kernelcache file. At block 3005, the client keeps sending ACKs for block 3004 (s. screenshot). Edit: There seem to be some problems loading the image, so here's a rough transcription: The kernelcache file is below the (old) magic threshold of 32M. Server: macOS 10.12.4 Server 5.3 Client: macOS 10.12.3 (if that matters at all) MacBookPro12,1 (so nothing outdated)
I need some help with a table of contents. I'm trying to automatically add dots (take a look at red rectangles) at the end of a phrase with the number of the page, as shown in this example image I have found in the internet:
I need to perform batch cropping to approximately 3000 images. Each image is for a different item. What I need is a crop tool that can define the item from the background and add specific amount of pixels to the top, bottom, right and left of it.
Why is it so difficult to have my iphone 6 hotspot wifi show up on the list of networks on my various apple devices. Does not matter which client device (iphone, ipads, macbook pro). I ALWAYS have to stop and restart my hotspot in order for it to be seen with my devices. It alway works, but stop and restarting hotspot every time I walk away from my mac is a bit of a pain. This has been this way on prior hardware / software versions from iphone 4 to my current iphone 6 with updated IOS. Anyone else see this behavior? Is it fixable or should I just live with it.
I'm trying to change my iCloud account alias email address, but I couldn't find any way to do it. As you can see below, this account's Apple ID is name@email.com and it's alias email is anothername@icloud.com. I'd like to change the actual alias email to name@icloud.com, so it has the same name as Apple ID.
Is this sort order based on a different date? How can I make them appear in the right order? Or is this just a bug in Photos (in which case I'll abandon hope)? It also uses this same incorrect order on iOS 10.3.1, when I sync them to my iPhone. I tried putting them in a new album, as well as creating a Smart Album with the photos, but the same order persists.
I'm trying to add an Active Directory service to macOS image. I know how to bind AD on a Mac but I was looking for an automated way to do it for a large deployment 50–100 Macs, i.e add it in an image profile. What's the best practice for this?
After rebooting my MBPr, it is now frozen at the login screen showing the list of users. I'm unable to move the cursor or use the keyboard. Booting in safe mode does the same thing. A few days ago, I updated Sierra to 10.12.4, so it might be related to that. Right before the problem happened, I was pruning old third-party Launch Agents and Daemons, but I did not delete any from Apple. That might be related, but I don't know for sure, since I very rarely reboot the computer. I reset NVRAM. I deleted /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. I used Disk Utility in recovery mode to repair the startup disk, but no problems were found. I looked at /var/log/system.log using Terminal in recovery mode, and I see many lines related to Installer, so is it trying to install something, or is this a normal part of recovery mode?
Trying to resolve host: All is fine But if I'm using browser or wget: Host IP incorrect! Tried to flush DNS cache Tried to overwrite IP in /etc/hosts All the same dig name-of-the-host-i-needed ANY or dig name-of-the-host-i-needed A outputs correct IP How I can to fix it? P.S. and
I am trying to transfer a file to Computer A (my computer) from Computer B (the remote computer). I have looked through different threads, but nothing is working. First, I log onto Computer B using ssh which works fine. My code for the file transfer is
I would like to display the DPI and color mode (RGB/CMYK) for JPEG images, is it possible to write a plugin to add more info in Finder's Preview Pane? Is there an API for developers to do so?
I am writing an AppleScript .scpt file, triggered system-wide by key combination assigned in FastScripts.app, that adds parentheses around the selected editable text. If the selected text happens to already be wrapped in parentheses, then I want my script to effectively delete the parentheses from the selection. This is where I need assistance. I do not want to strip any of the formatting from formatted text. My script works if the selection-with-parentheses is plain text data, but not if it is RTF or HTML data. Here is my full code:
I found an iPad at my working office which was owned by the former director. Unfortunately, he locked it with his Apple ID. I restored the iPad via iTunes because I thought it would wipe everything out alongside with the Apple ID on it but it was not working at all. After restoration , the iPad asks me for language, country and Wi-Fi. Then it asks me for the Apple ID of former director. I can't find or contact that person. Plus, I don't have any information about that ID. I want to unlock that iPad for office purposes. How do I unlock it? The model is iPad2, A1395.
I downloaded the Myriad Tables Lib v1.0.8 AppleScript script library from here. Run the following code, and you will notice that the code will run without error: Now, un-comment the very first line of this code: use script "Myriad Tables Lib" version "1.0.8" Once you compile your code, the following line: will automatically change to:
I am trying to install this music reading software: *=URL=* I downloaded it and double clicked on it and went through the installer. Now there's a file in my Applications folder (OS X) with a bunch of folders in it but no application to run. What else do I need to do?
I want to run a script every time when I shutdown my computer. I know this is maybe a duplicate and I really read a lot of similar threads but either the answer isn't working anymore or I don't see how the answer is working.
Is there a cron command that go into a specific App and save? Or, another way around, how to save an App with a bash script? (and run the script with cron). Running OS 10.11
I had a short window of opportunity to install the 10.12.5 update today, but the update wasn't showing up on the App Store, so I decided to download it directly. I noticed that the download was over unencrypted http.
I've got two Macbooks and would like to two-way sync the ~/Music folder (200 GB). Is there reliable GUI tool that can do that automatically in the background when both computers are connected to the same network? Why I need to do this:
How would you remove the list of recently updated applications in the Mac App Store? (the part selected in red in the screenshot)
When an update is released I have to manually update apps. How can I do to update apps in the background auomatically. Does anyone know how to do this?
I have problem with my MacBook Pro 2015 (i7, 16 GB RAM). It crashes when I open my session or enter in recovery mode. I did a SMC and NPRAM reset but no improvement. Internet recovery by Apple doesn't work either, after downloading the recovery from Internet and loading the progress bar stops at 1/10.
My company develops an app that needs to be deployed internally (outside the App store). To do so, we need an Apple Developer Enterprise account. We went through the process of getting a DUNS number for our business (a registered LLC) and making sure it met Apple's requirements.
Is it possible to connect an Apple mouse and keyboard to the LG UltraFine 5k display via Bluetooth, and then interchangeably connect separate MacBook Pro's to the display without have to reconnect the keyboard and mouse to them? I have separate MacBook Pro's for personal and work, and I'm hoping the display itself can serve as a docking station. As soon as I connect the computer to the display via Thunderbolt, I'm hoping that the keyboard and mouse are automatically able to control the computer.
I am a windows user, and I am a game developer. I have my .exe file, and I want my friend on Mac to be able to run the program. I know I can use Wine, but my question is, if I upload my .exe file to a website, can a Mac user go on the website and run the application?
In macOS, it's possible to assign AirPod double-tap to Play/Pause audio (under Bluetooth options; instead of invoking Siri). But for some reason double-tap Play/Pause only works with iTunes.
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones with a microphone and I want to use the microphone on the Bluetooth headphones to record some audio into an audio recording app on the iPad. I have tried multiple apps so this isn't the problem.
My 2016 Macbook Pro screen has vertical stripes of bad pixels and I just scheduled to take it in for repair. Do they usually just fix the screen or do they replace the entire computer? I'm curious because I really want to know the following - Although it's advised, do I actually need to back up my data before taking the computer in for a monitor issue?
Is it possible to selectively turn off the notifications I receive from Facebook on Mac OS? In the system settings "Internet Accounts" I can only enable or disable the entire notification function. Currently I am using an app for Facebook messages and I am receiving double notifications each time a message comes in.
First apologies if this is not the best Stack Exchange site to ask this on, or this is "off topic", but I was directed here from Server Fault as it was "off-topic" for that site. I have asked this question over on Mac Rumors, but received zero responses at this time. Please feel free to redirect me to a more appropriate S.E. site if there is a more suitable one. I have seen many threads over the net about iPhone7 WiFi connectivity issues, but none of the answers for theirs have fixed my issue. Problem: We have an issue at home where the two iPhone 7s often will not connect or if they do connect, wont hold a connection for very long (10 - 20 minutes).
...and yet when I try to, a dialogue box tells me I can't delete it because it's already open. Any ideas what I can do?
I accidentally pressed that I agree to iTunes tos when I opened the app on Mac os Sierra. The fact is I don't agree to the tos. How can I get the dialog option back? I don't plan to use iTunes.
I am needing to convert about 100 .pages documents to either pdf or docx. With the AppleScript script below, I am able to open .pages documents from the folder that I select. However I receive the following error when trying to export. Question: What is causing the error and how do I fix it? Error Message with personal information replaced:
I want to add a couple songs to an iCloud Music Library playlist (in iTunes 12.6.1.25 on OS X 10.10.5), but the songs aren't in my iCloud Music Library:  If I right-click on the songs and select "Add to iCloud Music Library", the "spinner" appears in the upper-right corner of the iTunes window and shortly afterwards disappears. The songs continue to have the cloud icon with the slash through it:
Is it possible in Sierra's Finder to change the name of a program associated with a file kind? For example, when in list view, a PDF lists the file kind as Adobe PDF Document, could this be changed to simply PDF?
Some of my photos in Apple Photos 2.0 (3150.4.120) have the wrong time zone, but I don't know which ones. I can find the time zone for an individual photo, by selecting Image > Adjust Date and Time.
I'm looking at a 2009 upgraded Mac Pro with 2 x 3.46 MHz "Westmere" processors with the intent to fill the drive bays (all six) with SATA drives and run FreeBSD-based FreeNAS. Version 11 of FreeNAS has the ability to run virtual machines on-top of the NAS server. However, according to this thread on their forum, I might have difficulty doing this based on the requirement for these CPU attributes: EPT VT-x with unrestricted guest 32nm processors Based on my research, it appears I should be OK but I wanted to confirm my findings. Has anyone been able to get FreeNAS 11 running VMs or any other VMs to run on a Mac Pro with this CPU configuration (I'm not sure if being able to run Parallels is any indication of the ability to run VMs on FreeNAS). If not, can anyone confirm that 3.46 MHz "Westmere" processors that are usually found in these Macs have these attributes?
I can connect to a remote server through ssh from my mac laptop, i.e. From local : ssh <user>@<remote IP> is successful. Now after logging into the remote server, I can't ssh back to my local laptop, i.e. From server : ssh <user>@<local IP> fails!
I'm running a Windows 2012 guest in VMWare Fusion 8.5.6 on my Macbook pro. The VM itself is fine but the problem is: at work, my secondary display is a high-density Samsung, where I need things scaled up in the guest to be able to see them, but at home I use a standard-density Acer, where (at 200%) the text is enormous. Is there a way for Fusion to auto-scale the guest based on the attached monitor?
Even though JRE 8 is installed on my MAC OS Yosemite 10.10.3,while running the Android present in tools in sdk - the error - " No Java Runtime present,requesting to install " gets displayed in terminal- how do i solve this issue? I wanted to install Xamarin test recorder - after installing they asked me to install Android sdk SDK is downloaded in Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk Now when I run Android present in tools folder - I get the error - No Java run time I've installed JRE 8 with get the verified java version from their site Can someone please help!!
I've suspected this for a while, but have proven it for myself by keeping an accurate track of my Apple ID and Password, having written them down + kept a log on another system. I went to the App Store to download the latest macOS Sierra update. While the auto updates worked well, signing into the App Store with my Apple ID did not work.
I've recently been wishing I could still play a Minigolf game that came installed with my first cell phone, a Sony Ericsson T610 (eat your heart out, iPhone!), which roughly looked like this:
Trying to import this with the Photos app on mac sierra v.10.12.1. When I go to the import option the iphone is not showing up? How can I import my photos & videos to my mac? What other way is there to try?
I have multiple accounts set-up on my iMac. I'm running the latest OS X Sierra. When I draft an email I select the account and this updates the sender email address, all is good. However when I send the email, the email is sent not from the sender that was displayed whilst drafting the email but from the first account in my list.
We’ve just won a brand new iMac. It came with an Apple keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. The keyboard works well, although it's weird not having a numeric keypad. The trackpad also works well. But while the mouse seems to connect fine and I can scroll and click ok, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do right-clicking on the mouse? I did try looking for a Control Panel to try and fix this, but there isn’t one.
I logged my user out, logged back in and suddenly tons of Flash Player devices appear that were not there before. Anyone an idea what happened and what I could do so that it never happens again? I'm using a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.11.5
I'm on Sierra 10.12.3 and Mail wont display inline images. I already Googled for an answer and found a lot of stuff, but no solution so far.
I recall having 'Good News' and 'Bad News' voices for say commands on my older Mac, but now I don't have these. Where can I get them?
However, no matter how many times I restart the application, the update will never be applied, so it starts to download the update anew and ask again to restart the application. Some examples of applications I'm having problems with are: Atom Editor, Slack (Web DL version), and a few others.
Edit Added image below, note that this is set manually, I cannot get it this low with volume keys. Lowest with volume keys is "value" at 0.016 and db at -32.37, whilst I'd like 0.001 and db at -36 as I have now (via applescript).
I wish to update my Macbook Pro from El Capitan to Sierra. But I'm afraid it would remove files from my Windows 10 running on Bootcamp. Will it by any means, delete my data from the Bootcamp Partition?
Is there currently a way to control a Mac's audio volume from the Apple Watch? I use AirPods paired with my Mac to play audio. Unfortunately, Apple didn't provide a convenient way to adjust the volume of the Mac from the AirPods1. I realized that the Apple Watch might be able to work as an interface for changing Mac volume instead.
I use "Note List Search..." and it's great. However, it searches through deleted notes as well and I sometimes I get confused. Is there a way to search only non-deleted notes? This applies both to MacOS and iOS. Which of these is possible: Disable indexing of deleted notes somehow. Make notes disappear on delete instead of going to Deleted folder. Have one command for searching through non-deleted notes and another for searching all notes (including deleted). Clearly mark deleted notes from non-deleted in the results (with different colors perhaps).
Here is some background knowledge... My Apple ID is also used by my brother. This originated back when the iPhones came out and it was necessary to plug them into a computer to start in order to house the music, apps, etc, that existed on my laptop. However, I no longer utilize this laptop or any other ones. Since we share an Apple ID we receive phone calls, texts, and voicemails for the other person EVEN THOUGH we've both gone into our settings and opted to receive only our own via our respective phone numbers and emails.
My company is in the habit of adopting Windows-centric solutions. The latest is Webex for hosting and recording meetings. Webex records the meeting and makes the file available for download in the form of their proprietary ARF format. Predictably, their own player supports converting to MP4 only in the Windows version of the player, and not in the Mac version of the player. So the question I have for this community is: How do I convert an ARF file to an MP4 using a Mac? Update: Things I have tried: Applications:
I booted into recovery mode / macOS Utilities and erased my hard drive anticipating to reinstall the OS. Unfortunately my computer is paired to an Apple Wireless Trackpad that I can't find. I believe this trackpad's button is permanently pressed, preventing me from left-clicking, so I can't get all the way through the installer. This trackpad is listed as paired and connected when I go into Terminal and run system_profiler. However recovery mode has no System Preferences so I don't know how to disable this trackpad. Is there any way I can disable the trackpad from recovery mode, such as from Terminal?
I would like to sync my iPhone to iTunes over Wi-Fi but only if the process is encrypted for privacy. I'm still feeling a lack of trust after learning that MobileMe synced personal data across the Internet unprotected. Is the sync encrypted?
I've recently purchased a 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar and I've noticed something incredibly strange when playing games. Left-clicking with any pointer (either the trackpad or mouse) results in a noticeable delay in a game's response. So far, I've noticed it while playing League of Legends, Borderlands 2, and Mark of the Ninja.
I recently migrated my macbook 12" to a macbook pro (touchbar). I used the migration assistant to transfer a backup from the old mac to the new one. At first all was successful apart from a slight issue with the incompatible OS version between the two machines. (I had to update before migrating)
Roughly every hour, my MBP gets very hot, my fans go crazy, everything slows down, and when I look in Activity Monitor it tells me that softwareupdated is running at 100% CPU. It lasts about 2-3 minutes each time and then disappears.
I have a playlist that I sync between iTunes and my iPhone on iOS 10.3.1. Sometimes I see that a playlist gets duplicated with the number 1 after the name. I want to delete the duplicated playlist from my iPhone, but I get a concerning dialog, asking if I want to remove downloads ore remove the playlist from the library.
I have the following lines in my .vimrc for Ubuntu. They insert the current date as a string, and insert my signature at the bottom of the currently open file, respectively:
I'm logged in on "Joe's MacBook Pro" at a public Wi-Fi. I get an alert window (apparently from no program in particular). It says: Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new Mac. If you recently signed into “Joe's MacBook Pro” you can ignore this notification.
The Dictionary app is neat, but it lacks many words I encounter as a scientist. These more obscure words do appear in more comprehensive dictionaries. The default sources for my locale (USA) are the New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, Apple Dictionary, and Wikipedia. Is there a way to install a more comprehensive dictionary for this app to use?
Some time ago I pressed a weird key combination that seemed to add a margin to the top and bottom of active application window (in this case, iTerm2). See screenshot below:
I am using my company mailbox since 2011. It has 18gb and >120.000 emails. I feel it very slow since several weeks and would like to archive a bunch of mails. Whats the right approach for archiving in an Apple Mail + Exchange (Office365) environment? I would prefer to keep the mails online, not on any of my machines I would like to automate it I expect to significantly increase search speed on normal searches... ... but to be able to search through archived emails as well
I have a large file of plain text on Mac OSX that contains many http(s) URLs. For example: What's the easiest way to view that text in a way that I can click on each link and open it in a web browser? I would prefer a solution that doesn't require uploading the text file to the Internet.
Some sizes are greyed out in Finder in El Capitan. How come? What does it mean?
I want to use a Mac Pro on the display of a MacBook. That's because I mainly use MacBook and now would like to use Mac Pro only when I need more power. But since I'm a traveler for all year round, there is no choice to use iMac or MacBook Pro. So is it possible to use the display, keyboard, and trackpad of a MacBook to use Mac Pro?
I'm shopping around for a pre-loved Mac Pro with dual 6-core "Westmere" processors. Finding a decently priced 2010 base model is a lot harder than finding a 2009 with upgraded processors.
This is quite weird. Amazon had a recent update and when I tried updating it a message popped up saying that it is not longer available. However, the badge icon is always visible and it's stuck there waiting to be updated. Clicking on the app in the update page will prompt a message that asks to change store location because this item is not available in my country. But when I switch, it says I don't have an account/payment option for that country, and changes back to my home country. I tried the following : logging out and in from iTunes deleting the app and reinstalling restarting phone updating app to another version released today enabling/disabling automatic downloads clearing cache in App Store
I have a Mac mini server with Yosemite, and I plugged a VGA Display using a VGA/HDMI adapter. The issue is, when I shut down or restart the server, the display is not recognized, then I need to go to unplug and plug again, and server now recognizes the display. I need to know how to make a logical "reconnection" for the adapter. For example on Windows I use a devcom application to enable or disable the devices. I was reading that the possible solution is using a kextunload command on terminal. I don't know which kextfile I need to "unload" for the HDMI adapter. On terminal: /System/Library/Extensions/ kextunload exampleflile.kext kextload examplefile.kext
I'm trying to understand what the difference is between these three options, and more to the point, I'm trying to determine which one is right for me.  I'm aware that there is a difference in hostnames (.local vs .private), but I don't know what the implications of that are. Are there any other differences?
I just got a second display for my iMac and am wondering if there is a way to put the second one to sleep without putting both displays to sleep. I occasionally use Ctrl+Shift+Eject to put both of them to sleep but if I'm watching a movie on one, it would be nice if I could make the other go dark without having to unplug it. That causes all my windows to get all screwed up. If not, I guess turning down the brightness all the way sort of works.
I want to write an audio visualizer that I can run off of any audio data playing on my Mac Book Pro. Is there any way to get this data internally?
I use a language that has no dictionary in iOS. And when i type, autocorrect changes it to English. I'm looking for a way to load the frequent words that use to predictive dictionary in bulk.
I have three languages in macOS Sierra. I want to set a default one, when I open new window in browser, for example, English.
I've a problem with my iPad. After I updated to the lastest version of iOS the automatic screen rotation doesn't work anymore. I tried to restart my iPad because I supposed that it was only a system bug but it was not like I thought. How can I fix this?
I have added to my iPhone a new album which includes explicit music. When I check on iTunes I can see the music is on my iPhone, but when I search for these songs on my iPhone I can't find them. What do I have to do to make this album visible?
I don't understand why I can't save or take photo or video in my iPhone 6. I have 32GB and my photo gallery is empty. I did not install anything for example games and other app. When I record a video, appears a notice "full memory". I have just restart my iPhone 6 but it remains like before.
My contacts' numbers have been changed to add a hyphen after the third number. I am in the UK and so a London number which is 0208 shows up now as 020-8, which I think is Sweden?
My iPhone screen broke but I know my passcode. Is there anyway I can enter my passcode from my Mac? If yes, what app/software?
I have set ⌥ + M to execute the command "Paste and Match Style", system-wide. I assigned this custom shortcut at the following location: System Preferences → Keyboard → App Shortcuts → All Applications
I know it's default behaviour on Apple keyboards for F1-F12 to act like media keys, which can also be disabled in settings (this option isn't present for me though). Can I make the opposite for a non-apple keyboard?
My current Excel version is 15.26.0. Available is v15.34.0. Via the Check for Updates (Menu option), and with the update software itself updated, I have downloaded this update 3 times.
I have a Bluetooth receiver in my car for playing music from my phone. It's great for that. But also has a microphone that sucks.
My Apple Airport Extreme (3rd generation) is configured as a router and creates a main network (dual band: 2.4 and 5 GHz)) and a guest network. My Time Capsule (1st generation), configured as a bridge, connected by ethernet to my Airport Extreme and using the same wifi network name and password (roaming) will extend (on 1 band only: 2.4 GHz) the distribution of my main network.
I have 100 open emails in Apple Mail. There will be one recipient for each email. Such a requirement is very important to me and can't be changed.
I have just downloaded Xcode off the App Store and now when I try to open it I get this error: The application "AppDownloadLauncher" is not open anymore.
2011 iMac, OSX Mavericks, iTunes 12.6.1.125 I'm a musician and am working on finalizing my new EP. I have the master .wav files in iTunes, which I then convert to .mp3 to send to some people for feedback etc. I have two playlists, one which contains the .wav files and one which is supposed to contain the .mp3 files, but that's where I run into trouble.
Since then, none of the Macs recognize our users as administrators anymore, myself included (I'm in a separate AD group membership that was added at the same time). We then started going into each user profile and checking the "Allow user to administer this computer" checkbox, which again worked for a time but no longer does. We have started falling back on the local administrator user account to manually authenticate when needed, but we're not able to share that password with end users. The following link is what I used for reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202112
So a week or so ago I started to notice that pop-ups were appearing on websites like google and Facebook. Clearly I had a malware, since this happened on Safari and Chrome. I also started to notice that my Mac is laggy/choppy, and so I thought that was caused by the malware, even though the pop us were infrequent. At the time I had Sophos installed and it never gave me a warning or anything, and I scanned the Mac with Sophos and with Malwarebytes multiple times but to no avail. None of them detected anything. I got frustrated, made a (manual) backup of the important files, and formatted the SSD and installed a fresh copy of macOS.
Have an iMac 21", 2.5, Mid 2011 and a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and I just bought a Mini display to connect them through the Thunderbolt. I cannot see that they are connected or the choice to connect it in the screen logo in the menu bar. Command F2 doesn't work.
I asked Siri to remind me to purchase some personal items at the pharmacy, and right at that time the reminder appeared, I got an awkward phone call from a family member asking me why my reminders appeared on their phone. I discovered this when I opened "reminders" on the Mac. Somehow the only reminder list I have is "Family". That means every alert I had appeared on their devices. every.one. Besides being exposed to a complete lack of privacy, how can I stop default reminders, of any source, from appearing on the family iCloud group? Examples: Email, calendar, events, etc
Since upgrading from El Capitan to Sierra, I've noticed my applescripts no longer work. They are causing Script Editor to be "not-responding" on startup of the app when opening a script. In addition, all applescripts involving "System Events" have changed all instances controlled by it: keystroke lines have turned to this, for example: «event prcskprs» "c" given «class faal»:command down Multiple lines have changed themselves to include «event prcskprs» and «class pcap»: tell application "System Events" used to be tell application "System Events" This is how a script to with GUI-scripting now looks:
My main account is on the Canadian iTunes Store but I would like to buy albums that are only available on the Japanese and UK iTunes and have everything together on an iPad. Is it possible to switch stores on the Windows iTunes app, buy these albums, and then transfer them over to the iPad? Or even better, would I be able to download these albums from my account on the iPad directly? Regardless of which country's store they were bought from originally?
I own an iPad and an iPhone. I also have a work MacBook Air laptop which I will be returning to the owners soon. How do I stop this device linking to my personal iPad and iPhone?
Something is preventing my Mac Mini (Mid 2011, core i5) from restarting. As as result, I cannot install updates. How can I find what is preventing the Mac from restarting?
If I migrate to a new Mac using Migration Assistant, when it prompts about connecting a source disk, is using a fresh Time Machine backup equivalent to using my old Mac in target disk mode?
I get a lot of emails from recruiters sending irrelevant jobs to me, so I have a standard response that I copy and paste into replies. At the moment I do this manually from a saved text file. Is there a quicker way of doing this? I was imagining there would be some way to save a reply so 1 button or shortcut would send this reply.
I encrypted my Mac Time Machine recently, but have unable to figure out how to generate the 'recovery key' in the advent that I forget the password. Is there a simply way to do this on Mac like with Windows systems?
I was at a point where my iPad was full on storage due to huge amount of photos and documents. It was iOS 8.3 at the time. I decided to back it up and update it to iOS 10. I connected it to my PC, backed it up and updated it. It then gave me the option to restore from the back up so I did. I activated my iPad and started using it. Everything is fine, it is faster and smoother however when I try to play videos from backed up photo album, white loading circle starts turning and does not stop. How can I fix this? If there is any other way to get videos from the backup file I could do that too.
Creating a virtual environment fails on MacOSX Seirra When running virtualenv test When I run the same with sudo sudo virtualenv venv New python executable in /Users/shan/test/bin/python2.7
Any tips on forcing the laggards in my trash folder to disappear would be greatly appreciated. So far no terminal commands or disabling SIP have been successful - any tips?
I updated to Sierra and my Xcode server has stopped working. I'm trying to set Xcode 8.2.1 (8C1002) as the build version and all I get is This version of Xcode is not supported I'm working on Swift 2.3 and can't yet update to Xcode 8.3. At the moment it looks like my option is to downgrade to El Capitan. Is there any other way to get Xcode 8.2.1 working on Sierra Server?
I use WebStorm from JetBrains to write code. After some actions I can open Commit dialog. By the way the commit dialog opens with Command + K shortcut. Here is this dialog:
How can I delete or stop old automator scripts from starting at startup? I do not know where they are located and neither do I remember their names. Can I locate them by some sort of extension perhaps?
I been through a few topic online but can't fine a solution. Sometime my internet is offline, and iOS won't let met connect to the local network anymore so I can access the router settings or other local server. The router have DHCP reservations but my iOS getting the IP automatically, however same issue if I setup a manual IP. Anyway work around ?
My MacBook air begins to heat up everytime I its tur on, after few minutes the fan starts to become noisy, what can I do to solve this problem? This is the screenshot of my activity monitor and console
I just switched from Android to an iPhone. With Android, once the phone pairs with a bluetooth device, I can go into the settings for that device and determine which bluetooth interfaces it uses. For instance, for the radio in the car, I can set it up to handle media audio, but not phone audio. Is there a way to do this with an iPhone?
Normally, I mount a remote drive to a directory on my Mac and it all works fine. I can open, edit and save my files in a text editor and they save back to the server, using the following to perform the mount:
I bought an audio book from audible and want to convert it to mp3 from aa because my phone doesn't support the format. Is there any way to do that?
I wrote an Automator Service which executes a small applescript to set the volume and play a sound. To activate the service, I copied it into /Library/Services and did a chmod +x. To register a keyboard shortcut for the service, I ran defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"HelloWorld" = "$@~1";}' where HelloWorld is the name of the service as seen in the Services menu and $@~1 my shortcut (which resolves to ⌘+⌥+⇧+1)
I have an iPhone SE with iOS 10.3.1. The Settings app does not show the Siri option. I want to enable Hey Siri and I have restrictions disabled. Here are some screenshots: Settings View
An increasing number of websites like CNN.com take over the audio of my iPhone's Safari app with advertisements and pause the Music app. How can I prevent this. I only need the audio on Safari when I am watching a video.
I have a problem with my IPhone6 especially the ring/silent switch .It doesn't work. I can't keep my Iphone6 without sounds. I sent it to repair and they told me that now it should work. I tried but it doesn't work yet. What should I do to control the sound? For example when I chat with someone I can't switch off the sound of the messagges. I don't want to buy another Iphone6.
Few keys like i, k and l are not working for my login. These keys work at login screen and for other users. Had a conversation with Apple support online chat and we went thru the following but issue is not resolved yet. We did the following NVRAM Reset System Management Controller (SMC) reset macOS Recovery Updated latest OS :macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Reinstall macOS using macOS Utilities During the process, app representative asked me to create new login and try and it worked.
My issue is that preview is no longer rendering text properly, everything is very blurry with some pages being unreadable. This happens across multiple PDFs, so it's not tied to just one. Strangely, if I set it to single page mode and then proceed swipe up/down slowly, showing moving to the next page, both the current and the next page render perfectly fine. This is that what the text should look like: This is what the text actually looks like in a best case scenario. By the way, I have a 2013 15" rMBP.
I am wanting to re-format and start anew with my time machine backup, but I am unsure if restoring a folder restores all copies of files across backups, or only copies found in the most recent backup. Ex: If I have files AB in backup 1, files ABC in backup 2, and files BC in the most recent backup, when I use the "restore to..." function and restore a backup folder to my user folder, does it restore ABC? I've browsed Pondini's webpage and several posts here and elsewhere, and haven't seen this specifically addressed. I'm not so much worried about different versions of a given file, but am seeking a "flattened" restoration of files that have been since deleted along with more recent files, all of which should be present in various backups but that are not all present in any one given backup. Thanks!
From time to time the (Apple USB) keyboard of my imac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010, mac os 10.12.5) gets stuck on caps lock (namely all letters are printed capital, and I can't turn capital off), and I have to unplug the USB cable to fix this; when I plug it back, the light is on, and I can turn caps lock off. This happens more frequently after installing mac os updates, then it gradually becomes less frequent. Are there an explanation and a solution for this issue?
This worked up until May 16th. Before and after updating to macOS Sierra 10.12.5 did not solve problem. MacBook Pro Dell monitor iPad using Duet app I could expand fullscreen any app/program in Mac (the green button top right) and use 3 fingers on the trackpad to toggle between 'screens' on that individual physical screen.
Last Tuesday my computer crashed during a Skype meeting, it froze, the screen went black and 3 beeps started to sound in series. I googled the symptom and found out that it was related to a memory parity check problem. On Wednesday I removed the offending DIMM (left 1 "good" still working) and the computer seemed to work fine until today when the system has crashed twice with a white screen with a generic crash error in several languages. Tried the Apple hardware test (not the extensive one yet), but it reported no troubles. Does OSX store logs for crashed that I could read and/or share with you? Any hints on diagnosing a possible hardware fail would be appreciated. Update 05/22/2017: System crashed and rebooted, with the following output: Update 05/23/2017: just ran the full hardware test and no problems were found, bit once again I got a system crash Update 05/24/2017: System log shared here. Macbook specs:
Separately, I can hover to the left of the song and a heart outline heart will appear, and I can click this, which fills the heart in with red. Clicking again toggles it back.
Is it possible to add a comment or note to the Health app? I could see this ability as a useful way to interpret or supplement the data.
Recently my chrome has been acting weird. All of the sudden it's been opening a bunch of windows/tabs that has a muted audio tab in it. I can't seem to track down which application/plugin is causing it. Does anyone have any tips how to isolate which one is causing it so I can track down which one is causing it or better yet a fix for it? I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find any solution.
When I close my MacBook - my Ultrafine 4K display stays on (I want everything to sleep). It's connected via USB-C. I can find nothing about this on Google - in fact I found articles telling people what to do to make an external display stay on (like it goes off by default).
I was using this script by Evan Carmi to make audio calls via my Mac: This worked great until I recently updated my Mac to macOS Sierra 10.12.5. Now it returns an error (popup window that says "the action run applescript encountered an error"). The script allows any number to be called from any application (see this). Does anyone know how to update this script so that it works on macOS Sierra 10.12.5?
I am trying to run pure-ftpd 1.0.46 as a service and have configured my plist file as below: However, I find that whenever I try running as a service it logs the following errors. pure-ftpd: invalid option -- pure-ftpd: unrecognized option `--j -z' Unable to start a standalone server: Permission denied Can anyone identify an error I've made in my plist file? I tried to confirm it matched the example in SirPavlovas answer provided here : Getting launchd to read program arguments correctly
I have two iPhone batteries, and I'm having doubts as to their apparent metrics regarding max charge capacity. I want to compare their real life performance by putting a high load on them, but I want to do so in a reproducible way and in a way that lets me time the drainage without having to babysit the phone, in order to compare the results.
The followng AppleScript code shows a notification message with the texts Text A and Text B both in black. Is it possible to set their colour to, say red and blue each?
While sending data over SSL/TLS in iOS 8 iPhone, is it possible to encrypt data using AES in GCM mode?
I have my MacBook plugged into an LG Ultrafine 4K display (as recommended, sold and partially engineered by Apple). When I unplug my Mac from it the USB hub stops charging devices attached to it. This is ridiculous as I mainly use it as a charging hub. There is nothing in the manual about this - and I can find nothing on Google. Is there any way to keep the USB hub powered all the time?
I recently purchased an iPhone 6s. It's the first iPhone I’ve owned with a Touch ID scanner.
I'm trying to perform a clean install of macOS Sierra on a late 2009 iMac, but I can't get it to work. The installation comes up with errors every time when it's almost finished. As I've tried a lot of things, I'll list them up first as they come with different errors.
Does anyone have any experience if these cheap USB 2 > Ethernet adapters like sold on ebay for 1 or $2 work with mac. They say only windows compatible, but I can't imagine why they wouldn't work on mac too.
My retina MacBook Pro seems to like logging me out occasionally. Are there any logs which I can see that could explain why this happens?
I wish to see all launchctl daemons/agents and found How to show all running launchctl daemons/agents? This doesn't work: I doubt that I have that less Non-Apple launchctl daemons/agents. for example I have those installed and running:
I am wondering about the presence of an event "iOS / iPhone device connected" in macOS Sierra Automator. I would like to launch an automatic import from photos, into specific folder on my mac. (Indeed, the AutoImporter.app function of the Image Transfer app does not work with me, it's a unresolved BUG, please note iCloud disabled don't resolve it). Thanks for your help and knowledge in Automator
On FreeBSD/Linux, it is possible to restart network services by restarting a daemon. Is there something similar in macOS Sierra?
I'm on macOS 10.12.1 on a hackintosh/iMac. Is there a way I can force apps to nap? For example, Excel 2011 naps automatically but Excel 2016 does not nap even though it is hidden (CMD+H) and not in use. It seems most apps on my computer do not nap. It would nice to be able to force apps to nap.
I really need your help. I've tried to improve my graphic card with the help of this Video *=URL=* cd /S*/L*/Ext*/AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext/C*/M* sudo cp AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.backup sudo perl -pi -e 's|\xC7\x45\xBC\x00\x00\x00\x20|\xc7\x45\xBC\x00\x00\x00\x40|g' AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB sudo touch /S*/L*/Extensions But after this, my mac doesn't see my HD3000 How can i get everything back using kernel?
On my mac book (OS X 10.12.4) I have two libpng.16.16.dylib: one in /opt/X11/bin, for which otool reports and another in Users/me/anaconda/lib with anaconda's python installation, for which otool reports In my start-up script, I set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /opt/X11/lib. Now, when I want to import matplotlib from ipython3 (of the anaconda distribution), I get an error So it appears that dlopen tries /opt/X11/lib/libpng.16.16.dylib rather than the one under anaconda.
I have a 2009 and 2013 MacBook Pro (MBP). My wife has a 2015 MBP. I'd love to maximize their lifespans by taking care of them physically.
I have a 2008 Mac Pro that I bought w/o a hard drive. I have a hard drive to install, but can't figure out how to get it up and running since the hard drive doesn't have OS X on it... I created a bootable version of Sierra on an external drive and tried to boot from that drive, but just got an error and the machine shut off. What can I do?
I have a iPad 3 with iOS 8.3 and the latest version of Youtube installed. When I watch a video and put it in full screen, the screen doesn't respond, doing nothing to me, nor exiting the full screen, so I'm forced to close the app and re-open it. The video goes on as if nothing was. I've already tried reinstalling Youtube, doing forced reboot but nothing.
I need to extract my Snapchat data which is located in a folder in /var/mobile/containers/data/application/(snapchat). The problem is it doesn't seem any of the backup browsers offer this? I also tried sideloading iFile but I can't access it from there, and my phone is not Jailbroken and can't be(10.2.1).
I'm making an app in Automator to quickly delete my iMovie Library (to save space). However, I want my app to check if the iMovie Library has already been deleted and show a dialog saying so. I know how to make the dialog, but I can't figure out how to do it. How do I do this? I'm using macOS 10.11. My workflow: Ask for confirmation Get specified Finder items (the validation would go after this) Move Finder items to trash Run AppleScript (to show a dialog saying "Done")
Bootcamp does not recognize anything other than Windows 10 on the new MacBook Pro running Sierra. Anyone know how to get around this? Thanks! I am using Boot Crap version 6.1.0
From what I've been reading, people say you can't restore a phone that is running iOS 9, from a backup of the same type of phone running iOS 10. I'd like to know what happens if you try. Does the phone simply not recognize the restore attempt? If using iTunes, will you be told the device is incompatible with the chosen update? What about OTA, what happens there?
Is there an iOS weather widget (for the lock screen) that displays the forecast for two locations at the same time? I'd like to be able to see the weather at home and at my work or other destination at a glance.
I'm trying to create an automator app that will run a python script on text files that are dropped onto it. I have the following automator app set up using the various other solutions from SO;
I am using latexmk to compile file written in Latex in OS X (macOS Sierra : 10.12.4) to pdf. Recently I am facing that such pdf files are not being opened through Preview or Skim pdf editor! Earlier I didn't have such an issue. Any fix?
In the past (say, with Snow Leopard, although I don't remember exactly when I set up my old client) it used to be possible to have a "one-way synchronization" between the Mail client and a gmail account in the following sense: the Mail client would download any new messages that were sent to my email, but would not notify gmail of any changes that I made locally. The main advantage of this setup is that I could have an unofficial "cloud storage": my local client would be where I actually did my work. It would contain the emails I actually needed to respond to, and my drafts, etc. But I could recklessly delete things locally with the knowledge that if I ever really needed them, even years later, I just had to log into my account online.
I was trying to run some old software on my Air today and I got these messages: You can't open the application because the classic environment is no longer supported. You can't open the application because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
Is there a way to install newer Apple gcc without upgrading Xcode? I'm running mountain lion and for some reasons I don't want to upgrade the OS to a newer one. However, brew install often gives me errors about clang and it seems the culprit is the outdated Xcode and Xcode command line tools. The Xcode and Xcode command line tools I'm currently using is the latest version among the ones available for my outdated os: according to /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version and gcc_lion -v. Aside from this version of gcc, I installed via Homebrew the latest gcc, which is
I have a simple automator app that runs a python script on the file that is dropped on it. However, I need to also extract the name of the dropped file so that I can use it to create a directory name.
I have an iPhone SE that was recently updated to iOS 10 by mistake. Since it can't be downgraded, I've acquired an identical iPhone SE running iOS 9.3.4. I know I can't restore a full iOS 10 backup, but is there any way to restore just the Messages from the iOS 10 backup? I don't just mean to extract and save them as a text file or something, I mean actually restore them in Messages so they show up as they normally would, as the history of the people being messaged.
iBooks Author 2.5 But ePub is not one of the options. The options under Share>Export are: iBooks, PDF, Text. How can I create an ePub file??
I lost my iPhone. I have my Apple ID and password, FaceBook password, phone number and email password. Is it possible for me to view my texts, photos etc. and access them through my MacBook Pro laptop without having my phone?
In iPhone SE Simulator (iSO 10.3, running directly), I'm going to Settings, Apple ID/iCloud and trying to enable iTunes & App Store which is Off (I was manage already to log in to Apple ID).  When enabling, I've got the confirmation message to Set up iTunes and App Store. After Continue I'm asked for the password. When typed password and Sign In, I've got the following error: Could Not Sign In There was a problem connecting to the server.
I have an amazingly fast LACIE Rugged 1TB External Thunderbolt SSD and I want to create a small partition on that drive to use as an external installer for Mac OS Sierra instead of using a USB thumb drive which seems to be very slow. Of course I know how to make a USB Installer - but I want to make an installer on an external thunderbolt drive. I followed these instructions (but use the macOS Sierra installer instead) but when I booted my Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 iMac holding the option key, the only drive that appears in the startup disk list is the internal fusion drive of the iMac. diskutil list returns: Can anyone help me determine how I can make this work?
I just bought a new iPhone. I had an old Apple account with a lot of data but I don't remember my email. Do I have to create a new account for using my new iPhone, losing all my data? Is there a way to restore my email?
I'd like to use iCloud Drive to sync my documents + desktop. However, many times it will remove projects while I'm still working on them (even small ones, like 10MB). Is there some sort of flag that will tell macOS to sync a folder, but never remove it until I say so? Mind that I wouldn't like to not sync a certain folder, I'd like to keep macOS from removing it to create purgeable space.
My Notes icon from iPhone 6 seems to have got either accidentally deleted or somehow disappeared while it was in my pocket with keys etc. I have so many important work notes, and desperately need it. The icon does not show up in spotlight, is not hidden in any other app folder and there was no iCloud backup.
I went on a website and some ads (the ones that open up another tab on your screen) popped up. Then I did some research and it turns out the website I went to is fake and is known for hacking, however I did not enter any personal data so I just want to know if it's possible that either the website or the ads somehow got a virus into my iPad. (note that I did not interact with the ads I just simply closed it after the page loaded!)
I purchased a new Mac (Apple iMac MK142LL/A - Intel Core i5, 1.6Ghz, 21.5 Inch LED, 8GB, 1TB, Intel HD Graphics 6000, OS X El Capitan). It worked fine the first day.
How do I find and delete these 447mb of files?
Bought a used Macbook Pro. Was working fine until I downloaded some contacts recovery software for iphone, it was useless so I uninstalled it. Since then machine has run v e r y s l o w l y...... I tried command r which took me into the reinstall but in Spanish! My technical spanish is not too good so I bailed out. I have a 750gb hdd that will suit the machine, but I do not have original installation disks to install el capitan. Is there a way?
My iPhone 5s had recently been cleaned of all files and data, including iCloud so I need to activate it. It prompts me to press the home button to activate but the home button on my iPhone doesn't work. Is there a way I can activate this phone without pressing the home button?
I have been setting up my new terminal on both of my MacBooks Pro and I noticed that UTF-8 glyphs are way smaller on one of them. This holds true in every application and I can't find the setting that differs between the two laptops so I can get the big glyphs on both. Here are two pictures showing the difference: I thought it would be related to the locale variables but no: LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" and LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8". Any help is welcome! PS: I work on Mac OS Sierra
I have a Mac Pro with a PCIe flash startup drive running MacOS Sierra. I would like to fill the 4 empty SATA HDD bays with drives and use OpenZFS to create a pool/volume. Is this configuration possible?
I have an AppleScript file which works like a charm, except for the part where I use keystrokes to make VLC run fullscreen. The filename has been changed for privacy reasons, but the rest of the code is the exact same. My code goes as this:
In windows argument -w and number in milliseconds set how long wait echo reply from pinging host. I'm running now macOS Sierra and -t argument from ping help set count of echo requests. So ping google.com -c 5 and ping google.com -t 5 give the same result - five echo requests with default timeout. Is there a flag that does what I need?
When I open System Preferences (version 14.0) and then click on Security & Privacy, I get a popup error message: Preferences Error There was an error in Security & Privacy preferences. I am using macOS Sierra Version 10.12.4 (16E195) on MacBook Air (Early 2014), 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB System Preferences info:
I have some photos on my iPhone that I’d like to keep private. I searched on the App Store but I don’t know which of these applications are very safe for my privacy. Do you know if there is a safe app that works like a strongbox for my photos?
How do I sync my phone contacts with icloud? I will change my iphone so I need to sync my phone contacts on ICloud and then I want to recover the contacts on the new Iphone, what I have to do?
I’ve recently purchased a new Mac Mini, and I’ve been importing my old pictures into the Photos app. I want to have these photos backed up to iCloud, along with the photos currently on my iPad. I then want everything synced to my Mac Mini, but not to my iPad, which has limited storage capacity. Is it possible to have the Mac Mini and iPad set up to backup to iCloud, but only download backed-up photos to the desktop?
I'm installing a set of softwares/packages/formulas via homebrew with command like I wonder if it's a good idea to verify if the softwares <formula1>, ..., <formula2>, ... are already installed and only trigger the above commands for the ones NOT already installed. If so, how?
I reset my iPhone 6, meaning I lost all my information, contacts, photos. When my phone turned on again, I had to enter my iCloud, and because I had forgotten my iCloud password, I had to put in a new login and password, and create a new iCloud account. Unfortunately I have no backup. I am wondering if there is some way I can recover my contacts and other information from my old iCloud account?
I can't unlock my iPhone and it has been saying it's verifying the update for hours now. I can't turn it off or restart it because the button is broken. I can't even unlock my iPhone or slide to power off when using AssistiveTouch. How do I get around this problem?
The majority of my iCloud storage is in backups. 4.2GB in backups for my iPhone & iPad. I don't back up any photos, music or docs, just contacts, calendar, email and notes. Is this typical, 'cuz it seems like a lot to me?
I am using the Health app on iOS 10.3.2 (14F5089a) with 2 Apple Watches paired. However, there are more than 2 watches listed in the Sources tab. I know that only one listing contains the data for one Apple Watch, but the other Apple Watch has 4 listings with only one marked as 'still paired'. Is there a way I can merge the 4 listings with the least amount of data loss possible?
I'm trying to separately crop PDF's even and odd pages, by building on top of the accepted answer from How to crop odd and even pages differently in a PDF? My Automator workflow, roughly: automatically Extract Odd & Even Pages; each output PDF filename is suffixed with "(Even Pages)" or "(Odd Pages)" pause Automator Workflow with Ask for Confirmation and manually crop each of the two output PDFs (using Rectangular Selection and Crop in Preview) select the two cropped PDFs using Get Folder Contents Combine PDF Pages with Shuffling pages option
There was a cool app on windows, I believe it was called FastPreview - when you right click an image, you will get the small image preview right in the context menu. I find this very convenient. Is there anything like that on mac?
I am trying to start with Gitmoji and so far it takes me some time to find the appropriate emoji in the Characters viewer on macOS. Is it possible to define custom group of characters? There is already Emoji, Arrows, Bullets/Stars. I am looking for a way how to add my own. I am not interested into workarounds like using Favorites group
I found this one quite tough to Google. I want to have a command (or an app) that opens these 2 applications just the way I want to. In this case I want to open them with these screen sizes -- more or less. If it has to be a terminal command, is it possible to create a shortcut for it? I will be creating more shortcuts for multiple app / screen size combinations.
There is a big problem with the EarPods that I get with my new iPhone 7. Inside the Apple box there was also an adapter for the 3.5mm jack and it works perfectly with other type of headphones (with 3.5mm jack) on my phone. However the Earpods with the lightning work only on my friend's iPhone 7, not with mine. Someone could help me?
I bought few months ago the new iPhone 7 and it has already some problems with battery especially when I use the headphones with bluetooth (the airpods) and the battery is overheated due to airpods. Is it a problem with this headphones or maybe the last updating of the system has a problem? I don't want to change my Iphone 7.
Everytime I restart my mac, a pop up shows up telling me that "TunesGoWatch is an application downloaded from the internet. are you sure you want to open it?". I don't know where this message comes from and I'm not sure how to get rid of it forever (I downloaded this app very long ago but uninstalled it) It pop ups automatically at start up.
I own a 2015 Macbook Pro 15" with these specs: Sometimes red/grey squares appear below/around text labels, like this:
I'm using Xcode 8.3 and macOS sierra on a 2009 MacBook. I'm getting "failed to initiate service connection to simulator" and "unable to contact local DTServiceHub to bless simulator connection" errors when I run my program. It does compile correctly and I made sure the simulator was "added" under device manager.
Yesterday I wanted to share some photos with my friend so I decided to use Air Drop instead of bluetooth. After some attempts I couldn't find his device, I tried to restart my Iphone and I made me visible for everyone not only my phone contacts but nothing works. Do you know what is happening? Do I have to send my phone to Apple assistance?
I'm developing a website and there's a text input in my website's top menu and what bothering me is: I loaded the site in Safari before my style.css file was edited and after that I edited my style.css and gave a border-radius styling to my text input now I can't make safari show the changes, Of course it is working very well in windows after I pressed ctrl+F5. I want to know the equal of ctrl+F5 in Safari. Note that I've tried the shortcuts in this link but I still see the old styling of my text input in Safari. Also I must mention that I use this code in order to make sure that Safari accepts the stylings:
I've logged on to my Mac under 'user1', and opened a terminal in which I've switched to another user 'user2' using su command. Now I've opened a .txt file from that terminal by typing open file.txt which spawned the TextEdit application. However, its UI couldn't be shown since I've logged-in with a different user (user1) ..
I've got an external USB drive with a few VeraCrypt volumes. I want to use one of them for my Time Machine backups. The partition can be deleted entirely, I just wish to keep it encrypted with VeraCrypt.
I've been trying to set up a new Mac but I keep running into issues when installing the OS. I've tried two different, brand new SSDs (Samsung) with both a USB drive with Sierra and one with Yosemite but nothing has worked. There were no errors. It just goes back to the recovery menu after every installation. I've reset the PRAM and am now attempting to install via the wi-fi. Here are the specs: MacBook Pro (15-in, Mid 2011), 2.6 Ghz i7, 16GB Ram
I can't find the contact after I saved them on my IPhone 5S, I have searched for the name after I saved the number but couldn't find it, I don't know how to solve this issue I can't even find it in the Apps like Whats App.. It sounds like the contacts disappear?
How can I "unzip" or extract files from Xcode.8.3.2.xip.file on 2009 MacBook? Would you have to do it from the command line?
Is it possible to test the performance of a WiFi via the terminal? Basically, I want to check how good WiFi is in some spaces of my home to figure out where to place a access points. Can the terminal help me with that in any way?
How is the per-process "Memory" column calculated in Activity Monitor? The name is quite vague and I haven't found anyone say anything about it aside from stuff like, e.g., "Memory used in RAM." I can't quite tell the relation between it and real memory, shared memory, private memory, dirty memory, etc. FYI, I'm talking about this column:
I'm using Finder on macOS, and one major frustration I have is the disorganized grid view that always ends up cluttered and messy until I right click and 'Clean Up by Name'. I don't mind the grid view in itself, but I'm also fine with list view. What I want is a system where it will use list view 100% of the time, NOT on a folder-by-folder basis, which is what happens when I click on the list view icon in the title bar. Any help would be much appreciated.
As the title says, how can I edit the shortcuts in the notes app? Right now Font Bigger is obtained by pressing together cmd and = I would like to use cmd and + instead. Is there a way to change this setting?
What can I do? How to reset the settings? NOTE: The microphone work (the bars are moving in de Preferences panel). When I choose Start Dictation (or fn fn) nothing appends (no microphone picture). When I choose Emojis and Symbols nothing appends too.
Is there a way to send out my Caller ID info to people not on my contact list, or to people whose contact list I am not on?
I've noticed that unlike on macOS, I can't access my Wi-Fi passwords when in iOS (only browser passwords are populated in my Settings → Safari → Passwords). Is it possible to sync that Wi-Fi password (or all Wi-Fi passwords, doesn't matter) somehow from my iOS device to my macOS device?
I synched my Google Calendar with the iOS Calendar app by adding my Google account. I can see the attachments and file size in the event, but when I click on it to view the PDF file, it brings up a gray screen. Multiple attachments to multiple events do not work. I can share or click Done. The attachments work in the desktop web site.
My 85 yo Mom doesn't have a cell phone but does have a Mac. My son is going to college and she wants to keep in touch but he only texts and has an Android. I think I can set-up iMessage on her Mac as she has an Apple ID, but can she send texts to Android phones? She also has an iPad but has trouble using it.
I need to remap the tab key to a function key, as the Tab is broken. I've looked at Karabiner, but it doesn't work on Sierra
How do I disable autocomplete on macOS Sierra for MacBook, please, without disabling it on iOS 10 for iPhone? Seems to occur only in native/Apple apps. Appears below my typing as blue text in a white rectangle with a close button on its right. It flashes for a split second before inserting its suggestion into my typing, without feedback from me.
I just got a help request from a frustrated friend. She has a new Macbook Air and is unable to access Google Mail via any browser. Specifically, here is what she reports to me: She can access other Google Suites pages (Drive, Calendar) with no trouble. When she goes to mail.google.com she gets the following error messages: In Safari: "Safari can't open this page." In Chrome: "This site can't be reached, server took too long to respond (err connection times out)." She said it doesn't work in Firefox either, but I'm not sure what the error message is. She also reports that she doesn't have this issue on any other Apple device or on her PC. Other interesting details: She had the exact same problem on her old MB Pro.
I have my Macbook pro 2015 dual booted with Ubuntu 14.04. I don't need the initially allocated memory in my Ubuntu installation anymore. I need to decrease it and allocate it to my macOS. Is that possible? If yes, how do I go about doing it? Below is the screenshot of how my disk utility looks like.
If I select the secondary item in that list (Lexar), I can successfully do a format operation. But the "Scheme" popup menu does not appear in the panel.
I'm trying to add some text on a connection line. And when I move the connected shape, the text will move with the line. How can I bind the text to the line?
Plugging my iPhone on my MacBook Pro shows me a new network interface en7 and allocates an IP address. Why is this and what is it for?
I'm trying to add an external tester in TestFlight, but the Add button is greyed out:  Is this because the app hasn't yet been approved by Apple, or some other reasons? I tried in both Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) and Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4) on macOS 10.12.5. This same person is beta-testing another of my apps, so I'm sure the problem is not regarding their account or mine, just the particular app I'm trying to add them as a tester to.
I'm using microsoft office 2011 and for some reason option-delete doesn't seem to have the standard behavior it usually does. It works fine in word and excel, however. I don't have another computer to test with — can someone who has powerpoint 2011 see whether option-delete works fine for them too (I want to know whether this is an issue on my end or just microsoft's poor coding).
According to Apple, the 60W version of Magsafe is compatible with the MBP 13" Mid 2009. However, I've read that the 85W version is also compatible and leads to faster charge times. I'll keep this short and say, is that correct? Or will it fry my Mac?
I have the default macOS firewall enabled with stealth mode and block all incoming connections option set. And I have it locked. But after a while, the firewall is in green state with selective blocking and not block all connections.
Is it possible to install one of the latest software on a old iPad or iPod? The device still works good. But because there is old software on it, I can't do anything with it. Is it recommended, or do you recommend to do something else with the iPad/iPod? I have an iPod Touch 3 and an iPad 1.
I'd like to use Briss, a Java application for cropping pdf files. The application consists of a compressed folder containing several Java .jar files. Presumably one of them is the executable, and the others are auxiliary modules that the executable uses. The application has a GUI, but is run from the Terminal by running the following command line: How can I 'install' this application so that I can run it by typing the above command in a freshly opened Terminal window? One way to do it would be to dump all the .jar files inside /usr/local/bin, but I'd rather not pollute the bin folder with a horde of files, and also I'd like to keep the files together, so that, for instance, the application can be easily and cleanly 'uninstalled'.
I am a victim of gang stalking and have discovered that somebody has installed the PRET printer exploitation toolkit (github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET) on my HP Laserjet P2055dn printer. I wish to re-install the firmware from the Hewlett Packard support website (support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-laserjet-p2055-printer-series/3662052). The latest version of the HP Laserjet Firmware Update Utility only is for OS X 10.7 Lion, and there is nothing to download and use for later versions of OS X.
I'm using Logitech mouse with my Mac OS X sierra, the issue is when I'm changing the cursor pointer size, making it small, it's not appearing. Only big pointer can be seen not the small one. Can anyone help me about this?
But, when I plug into another identical display (I have one at home, one in the office) I have to repeat the process. This is a real PITA as I move between home and office every day.
I know there are general solutions out there to deal with problems ejecting hard drives, but I'd like to get more specific and understand what applications are causing problems so that I can deal with them without closing every app or by logging out when I'm in the middle of working. Or worse still to be unable to reformat an external disk or to do disk operations like create a bootable installer which is what prompted me to ask this question.
I discoverd that in iOS 10.3.2 (german language set, timezone Berlin / MESZ) in my iPad not every information concerning history and tracking could be deleted: Following Einstellungen (Setting), Safari, Erweitert (more or extended), Website-Daten (website data) there is a list of pages visited (I assume with cookies set). When I'm trying "delete all" none of the entries will disappear. I tried additionally deleting one by one. By entering this part of setting again (even without using safari in the meanwhile) there are some of the entries there again, some of them with 0 bytes. Resetting / rebooting iPad or cleaning history completely before deleting or combination of different steps cookies still are there.
I'm fairly new to the Apple App- I was a Fitbit user and Fitbit reflected Fat burn, active minutes and Peek time during a work out. Apple app reflects Active Calories and Total Calories during a work out and I am not able to find an answer to define the difference. what is the difference in a work out from Active vs Total. I am still on the fence about this app, fitbit showed when during my work out my heartrate increased, and clearly reflected the calories -
I have already tried several things in an attempt to get it to work, to no avail. They are, in order of when I tried them: Uninstalling and reinstalling the show Closing and reopening the iTunes application Turning off and back on my laptop Unauthorizing and reauthorizing my computer Waiting it out for twelve hours
Can I run a terminal app on IOS with a sandboxed filesystem (no jailbreak). E.g. is there an app that allows me to locally install linux on an IOS device (without jailbreak)?
I know voice calling on WhatsApp is logged but is it stored on the device in a way you can re listen to the conversation? I looked in the WhatsApp folders and everything is there from voice notes, photos, videos, etc. and there is nothing there for voice calling. Are WhatsApp calls recorded and stored on the device or is it just a log where you can see you made a call?
After entering password on login, the loader gets stuck 2/3rds in and shuts down. Seems like my account is corrupt somehow. Have tried to access safe mode to create an alternate admin account (pressing down shift key while booting), but the normal login screen just shows up again. Any way to rebuild my user account without having to do erase and reinstall MacOS? Edit: Single user mode, CMD-S on boot, isnt working either, it gives some kind of build error which I can't recall atm. Specs: MacOS Sierra, Macbook from early 2012.
I have a problem with an iPhone 6, every time I lock the screen with the lock button or with AssistiveTouch the phone will shut down. Is there any solution or is it an hardware problem?
Is it possible to make the clock to show 0900 instead of 9:00 for 9AM? I’ve already tried changing the format under System Preferences → Language & Region → Advanced… but the setting doesn’t save.
So, I've been using Apple's Health app, and I think it's wonderful. My Apple Watch frequent enters my heart rate and steps-taken into the database, and I can manually enter other common things like my blood pressure and weight. Cool. However, I don't see fields for everything that I may want to track. For example, there aren't any fields to keep track of so-called 'healthy' fats, like DHAs / Omega-3 fatty acids.
I am using Yosemite 10.10.5. I am using a set of text replacement defined within: as follows (partial view focused on interesting cases): . The -> and => are working in TextEdit: But within Calendar, -> is working and => is failing: . A test with a newly created account give the same abnormal behaviour. What may cause this inconsistent text replacement behaviour? How may I further analyze or debug this inconsistent behaviour?
My old MacBook has come out of retirement after about two years turned off. It connected to my WiFi but the browsers complain it's insecure and might be connected to servers pretending to be the ones I'm entering. And my ISP's security features are warning me I'm not using their DNS (which explains the browser warnings too I guess). I've tried forgetting the network and logging back in, and deleting any DNS settings I can see in system settings, and re-setting DHCP->manual and back, and nothing works.
My Late 2008 Aluminium Macbook has 10.9.5 on it. The update tool offered me Sierra but then predictably told me I can't have it as this Mac is too old. I don't know what the last supported OSX version is for this Mac... is there a way I can get it? In an ideal world I'd like to do a clean install as this MacBook is full of all kinds of crud I don't want anymore.
I want to restore my WhatsApp chat history somehow, while my WhatsApp app does not work anymore. I was having memory issues on my iPhone 5s (with iOS 10.2), and WhatsApp required more memory for the app to open. After I deleted some photos, videos and apps, I got enough memory to open WhatsApp again, but it says that the chat history cannot be retrieved and needs to be restored.
I run an online tech-support system. My Outlook 2016 for Mac is very slow in response & when I asked for advice on the issue, my friend asked me to clean up my mailboxes. However, I cannot do that because I have hundreds of emails that are important. So I tried to export the email database. But somehow the export is not working. It crashes after 3-4%. How can I fix this or is there other ways to backup Outlook 2016 for Mac.
I recently changed my phone (it was an Android smartphone) to a new iPhone 7. I want to export and import a lot of files from my Android device to my iPhone but I do not know how to proceed. I have already tried it manually but it is a long and tiring job. What is a faster method?
I am having trouble receiving Twitter notifications on my Mac. I have the account turned on in settings (with notifications turned on) and have checked that access is given to OS X integration in Twitter settings in the browser. Do not disturb is also not turned on. I have tried removing the account and signing in again a few times, notifications work on iOS devices just not the Mac.
When I ssh into the server and then open tmux, I'm able to enter in Unicode characters. It seems that the problem is specifically with sshing directly with tmux -CC a -t mySession.
Is there a keyboard shortcut or hotkey to switch between the "In Library" tab and "All Apple Music" tab when searching in iTunes? From my research, the only way I see the ability to switch between tabs is by clicking them.
Is it possible to download or save a voice recording sent via facebook messenger? I can't find ANY reference on Google or elsewhere as to how to do this. Seems if you record it from iPhone (Messenger app), it must be stored somewhere - I was hoping it would auto-save to Voice Memos app, but no such luck.
I know how to list user shortcuts for an app (in this case PowerPoint) like this: But is there a way to list the default shortcuts via the command line (applescript is OK)? That way I could avoid overwriting existing ones, and I wouldn't have to test manually every shortcut I want to add.
I just switched from TotalTerminal to iTerm2, and the feature I used the most was the visor. When I used my shortcut key (option + `), it'd drop a terminal from the top of the screen that i could tuck away with the visor shortcut again. Alternatively, if I clicked the terminal button in the dock, I could pull down the visor (or if I had other terminals open, I could go to those). Is there a way I can have iTerm2 not open a new terminal when I click on it in the dock, but to just go to the most recent active terminal (which may be the visor)? I'm running Mac OS Sierra (10.12.5).
I am "stuck" on the desktop. Clicking the dashboard icon does nothing, I cannot use the 4-finger swipe gestures to move to or view the dashboard or any application windows in fullscreen (yes, I have checked system preferences, it's on), and the function key that usually allows me to see fullscreen windows+the dashboard+other desktops does nothing. I have tried shutting my computer, quitting everything and restarting. If I open another fullscreen window, I am stuck there until I close or un-maximize it. This has happened before and it went away after a minute or two, but it's sticking around now. I have a MacBook Air running on Mac OS El Capitan. How can I solve/prevent this problem? UPDATE: It has started working again, but was stuck for much longer this time. This problem is continuing off and on.
I want to install homebridge onto my Time Capsule, but I was wondering if that is possible. Can I install things and run them on Time Capsule via a Terminal window on my Mac? It would be super helpful to have homebridge running on my Time Capsule instead of my Mac because sometimes I shut my Mac down and I would like to have homebridge running on a device that is always on.
My parents own a 2013 Toyota RAV4 with a single USB port under the front dashboard.  Any time I charge my iPhone or iPad using the car's USB port, my phone's audio immediately stops working. Apparently the iPhone thinks it's been docked and is trying to play sound through the car's speakers. There is no option to select any audio source other than the Dock Connector.
Browsing through my Messages on my iPhone 7+, I recently found a thread with no name, no number, and no message body. However when I click the ⓘ in the top right corner, I get the options to Send My Current Location and Stop Sharing My Location. I do not currently have my location shared with anyone, and seeing Stop Sharing My Location is a little scary.
Simple question. Can I turn off my Magic Mouse 2 when I'm charging it's battery through the cable?
Launchpad will not create a .db file in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock to save the state of Launchpad. It always resets to default upon restart. I have tried many terminal commands, the most recent being: How can I force Launchpad to create this file?
I'm working with Chinese text in TextEdit as a plain text .txt file. This is what a normal line looks like: (and the style that my text document basically looks like)
The Numbers App is not functioning correctly on my iPad Air 2, can someone help me ? It's doubling all my spreadsheets, and not allowing me to delete the addional spreadsheets
I am trying to improve my vocabularies so am hoping to log all the search I made on mac dictionary. I have found a link which probably a bit outdated so it doesn't work, thought I do get the file on my desktop but no history is logged. *=URL=* Just seeing if there are others who can help me on this. thanks
Some months ago I had increased the iCloud storage from 5GB to 50GB, paying €0.99 monthly. This week I got an "iCloud storage full" message and noticed that storage got back to 5GB. Any clues?
10 days back, I've made a backup of Whatsapp and then I uninstalled the application and Signed out of iCloud to give my iPhone 6 to my friend. Now when I signed back into iCloud and installed Whatsapp again and gave my same old number, Restore from iCloud saying "No Backup found".
Is it possible to set the title of an ssh connection by just changing something on my local machine? I mean I want ubuntu@ip-10-50-10-152 in the following picture to be changed to a name I like. And I don't want to change any settings on the remote machine.
I am very new to Mac (only 1.5 weeks) and am trying to get used to its different way of doing things. Most of what I loved in Windows I've also found the macOS way of doing.
I bought a new Android phone and I would like to pass the contacts I synced to iCloud from my old iPhone to my new Android phone. How can I do this?
This seems strange. The time of latest backup from the menu bar differs from the actual latest backup time (shown in the Time Machine preferences). What is the reason for this? Feature or bug?
I rather stupidly wrote a formula that has caused Numbers to get stuck showing the message "calculating...". I've waited over an hour and it's still not completed. I've also tried force Quitting, but the next time I open Numbers it immediately tries to carry on where it left off. Is there a way to cancel the calculations?
I'm using my Mac Pro as a FreeNAS server. FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, so I assumed it would play nice with Mac Pro, but it really doesn't as it relates to boot devices. FreeNAS will only boot IF you trick Boot Camp Assistant to think FreeNAS is Windows and when it prompts you to install Windows, you switch the disk on boot-up and install FreeNAS instead.
Google Drive is installed but there is no option "View with Google Drive" or "Share with Google Drive" when I Control-click / Right-click on an item in the Finder like my coworkers have. How do you enable them?
I've checked the "Enable stealth mode" option on my Mac (running macOS Sierra 10.12.5), which is supposed to make my computer not respond to "test applications using ICMP, such as Ping" however, this doesn't work. I can still ping my system with ping localhost and get responses, as well as from another devices on my local network (e.g. ping 10.0.1.5). If I check pfctl's firewall rules I get this:
I use an iMac as an external monitor for my MacBook pro (OS X 11.6), over a thunderbolt cable. I usually have a USB 3 hard drive attached to my MacBook pro as a Time Machine backup. Last week I thought I would try attaching my USB drive to my iMac, and mounting it as a shared network drive over the thunderbolt network bridge. Of course, Time Machine then created a .sparsebundle disk image to perform the backup over the network. I decided I didn't want to start a full backup from scratch, and so moved the USB drive back to a direct connection.
Excel 2011 (for Mac) consistently crashes on certain .xlsx files, at the moment I want to print it (either directly to the printer or to PDF). With Excel 2016 (both Windows and Mac), it works fine. The only thing I know, the Excel is created by a colleague who uses Excel for Windows.
I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2012) with a US keyboard layout, but after a keyboard replacement I noticed my backtick/tilde key is now a section § symbol. After some googling, I found the Karabiner app. Yes it can remap the button but I felt that my OS (Sierra) became very slow, and I don’t want to rely on an app just for remap a single key.
While on vacation, I imported my photos to my girlfriend’s laptop to free up space on my iPhone. She now has my Live Photos saved onto her laptop and I can view them when I open her Photos Library (.photoslibrary file). Now that we are home, I’d like to transfer these Live Photos from her laptop (MacBook Pro) to my desktop computer (iMac) where all my photos are stored.
I have a MacBook Pro with a touch bar and have never used BetterTouchTool. I know it has touch bar functionality, like adding a button to open an app. Is it possible to show either of the following? The Mail.app icon (with unread email count) Just the number of unread emails If so, how can it be accomplished?
I'd like to never show ANY notifications if I'm currently screen sharing to prevent those awkward moments where I forget to disable them manually and run the risk of someone IM'ing me something inappropriate. Notifications should be automatically disabled when I start screen sharing and automatically re-enabled when I stop.
I have an iPhone 5 with the last version of iOS, 10.3.2. When I plug in the headphones into the jack, the music application starts automatically on the screen block, and starting to play music. I have no open application in the background when this happens. What are the reason and can be solved?
I switched from an El Capitan machine to a new MacBook Air with Sierra. With El Capitan, when I ssh into an host from terminal, the SSH passphrase GUI dialog showed up, and then it never asked again the passphrase for the whole login session. Now with Sierra the dialog is not showing up, I recurred to adding the following lines to .bashrc: but the drawback is that every new terminal asks for the passphrase. How to diagnose the missing dialog?
2013 MacBook Pro logic board died. Removed HD and connected to Desk Mac, can access everything but Safari, want to get bookmarks, says "7.0.6 not supported". Can anyone suggest procedure?
I've read that some users have used the Apricorn Velocity Solo with some success but others have reported the same problem with this card as well. I have this card on order and will be testing it too. More on this to come.
I am trying to use some fonts in ImageMagick which are not showing up, despite me using the same script that works on another Mac. Listing the fonts in /Library/Fonts I can see that the missing fonts are listed differently when I use the ls -lahFG command. What does this way of listing files mean?
I have an iPhone 7 and I save all my work projects on it. On my iPhone I don't have any pictures or games but the memory is getting full and I'd like to free it. On my iPhone there are some preinstalled iOS apps that I don't use and they fill the memory. I would like to delete them but I don't know how to do that. How can I remove preinstalled iOS apps to get a faster system? Can I remove these apps or only the folders?
I have found that the GPU die on my iMac is around 90℃ and the fan is kicking in all the time. Is this normal? If not, how should I fix it? I have iMac 27″ Retina 5K (late 2014) with AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB, and I have Dell UltraSharp U2715H 27-inch LED-Lit monitor connected to the iMac.
I was using ssh-keygen which at some point asked me where I wanted my public key and my identification saved. I typed \ by mistake and the result was:
When I open Terminal, I get the following error Any idea why that may be the case? Is there a solution?
I have tried restarting my phone, deleting the app, deleting a few other ESPN related apps, made sure I am logged into my account on the Facebook app. I have looked in app permissions in Facebook and found nothing for either my account or my friend's.
The problem is how to make the font size of the MS Word 2016 Comments bigger. There seem to be three obvious paths to a simple Comments font size change. However, when each method is attempted the Format data shows one thing but the MS Word Print View Shows nothing has changed visually by size. These methods will change from Arial to Times New Roman etc ... but not the visual size of the font of the Comments.
I have an iPad 3 with iOS version 8.3 and the lastest version of the Stack Exchange app. It's very difficult to use the app because it crashes always, e.g. when I scraping the answers to a questions,when I go to my profile and so on. What is the reason and can be solved?
I have several email accounts set up in Outlook 2016. I use the unified inbox for them, but I have added a new account whose contents I don't want to see in the unified inbox. Is there a way to exclude them from showing?
I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows 7 laptop. Sometimes it will connect using the laptop's NETBIOS name. Other times it will only connect using the IP address of the laptop.
My UE Boom 2 stutters when using it with a web browser on my MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra. I can play Spotify fine if I just have it up front but if I push it to the background and try to browse the web, it starts stuttering. I can't play anything from the web either since it stutters from the start. My iPhone plays on the bluetooth speaker just fine but it's my MacBook that's having the problem. Has anyone else had this issue?
I'd expected this to be easy to find on Google, but wasn't able to discovery anything. I know that the working directory of a launchd agent/demon can be changed via the workingdirectory key. However, this key is optional. If no working directory is specified, what does macOS use?
Just wondering if anyone knows what I can do to stop this message popping up (for a specific drive, if possible)? I had an external hard drive that, because I was throwing it away, I didn't concern myself with ejecting it properly. I expected this message would come up once and I would click "close" and be done with it. The hard drive is now long gone (so I can't just plug it back in and eject it properly), but I am still constantly getting the warning pop up that it wasn't ejected. Thanks in advance for any advice on how to disable the warning about this particular hard drive.
I have an iPhone 6 and an old iPad, and they are connected to my wifi and are browsing the internet fine. I'm also able to reach the config page of my router at 192.168.1.1 from both devices.
Is it possible to prevent this dialog from needlessly appearing? Or, is it possible for Textedit to "save anyway," by default?
I'm running a Mac Mini server, IP 192.168.2.2. When users connect remotely, often they have issues because their network at home (or wherever) happens to also be 192.168.2.x. So I instructed server.app to hand out VPN IP's from an unlikely IP range: 192.168.168.x. Now, that's all working fine, but some users need to send some of their traffic over the VPN, so they have the 'send all traffic over VPN' box checked. Here's my question: it's not allowing them to get out to the internet, because there's no route between 192.168.168.x and 192.168.2.x. I've tried everything I can think of to try and make this happen but I'm having no luck. Help, please? I need traffic to flow both ways, from WAN to the server to the VPN network to the client and vice versa.
Time Machine allows the use of multiple backup drives. However, any exclusions of files applies to all backup drives.
I want to download macOS Sierra from the App Store to create a bootable USB stick (according to Apples web page). However, the App Store tells me that I have installed it and only shows me an "open" button. There is no Install macOS Sierra app in the applications folder. Spotlight however finds it, but it is marked as unknown version and does not start from there. I also cannot find it in Finder. Any ideas?
Marble is an Open Source alternative to Apple Maps / Google Earth: Versatile, yet easy to use. Use Marble similar to a desktop globe; pan around and measure distances. At closer scale it becomes a world atlas, while OpenStreetMap takes you to street level. Search for places of interest, view Wikipedia articles, create routes by drag and drop and so much more. From marble.kde.org deep link *=URL=* Mac OS X Desktop
I forgot the PIN code of my iPhone 5S; I tried many times to unlock it and I finished to block it indefinitely. I haven't got any backup files and before resetting it I want to recover all my photos. Is there a way to unlock it or at least save my photos?
I have an iPhone 5s. I can't receive any e-mail when the app Mail is not open. Instead, when the app is open I receive all the e-mail that someone send to me and appears instantly. What should I do to receive a warning when I receive a new e-mail?
I was trying to stop ssh from terminating after 10 minutes. I followed an instruction here saying to modify a config file and restart the service with: Now ssh pi@12.34.567.89 just hangs. I've reverted the config file and rebooted the machine but it still hangs. How to fix? PS sudo launchctl start com.openssh.sshd + another reboot also fails.
My iTunes XML export has not been working for months but I need it for DJ software like Traktor Pro. I would like to find and fix the problem and can't reset the database. When trying to export the whole library as XML manually (File -> Library -> Export Library) I can see Assertion failure: success == noErr (-8753) in the system log but that is ALL I know right now. What can I do find the root cause of this problem? macOS version: 10.12.5 iTunes version: 12.6.1.25 These are my relevant settings:
On Mac, the Excel show mojibake However with Numbers it can show the right content. How can I set Excel to show Chinese characters? My system language is English.
New MacBook Pro 2015 Kernel Panics frequently. I have reset the PRAM yet the problem persists. Any ideas whats going on and how to fix? Here is the Panic report:
Ultimately, I was able to resolve the sleep mode issue by powering down and unplugging the Mac (I read that this would reset the SMC). However, the issue remains when I power cycle. Is there a way to make sure that my display always works?
Time ago, when Apple released a new iOS update for iPhone, I could put iPhone on charge, turn it off and the update start (and also finish) automatically. This feature was easy but it doesn't seem to work anymore with the newest iOS updates.Does someone know how to fix it?
I have an internal server at the address *=URL=* If I type myserver/page safari starts a google search. How can I disable this behavior? I know I can prefix *=URL=* and it will start working, but other browsers lets me just type the address and takes me there.
I'd like to listen to Youtube videos without the video, while the phone sleeps, just like we usually listen to music. Is there an app that will play the audio of a Youtube video, but behave like the music app and continue playing when the user presses the power button to put the phone in to sleep mode?
I've got an encrypted dmg. Can I set a password hint for it?
I would like to have a web app to be the only thing you can use with an iPad. I managed to make the website (a simple HTML file with lots of integrated JS) open full screen when added to the home screen as a starter, so there are no browser controls, just the app and a black panel displaying battery status and clock. On the other hand I can use the Apple Configurator 2 to lock the iPad to a single app like Safari but in Safari I have all the browser controls.
I'm new to the mac, and apparently I've made some sort of error. I've been learning python, via tutorials, and between Homebrew, Pip and XCode somehow my versions are all mixed. Pip3 points to python2, so all my python3 trials fail, etc...
I updated to the latest iOS today and I heard there is a new version for Airpods also. So I paired them with the device then put them in their case. What's interesting is that you can't check their firmware on the iPhone since they just disappear from the general->about menu on the iPhone. Actually they are no where on the phone, but you can still hear music and pair them. Not only I don't know how to update them, I also can't check their version now.
macOS Sierra's System Information.app tells me I have 12GB of RAM: two 4GB modules and two 2GB modules. But I am aware of the following:
When I want to send an email to a specific group, I open Contacts, highlight the Group name, select everyone in that group, and then either drag or copy and paste those names into the To: or Bcc: field in Mail (If there is an easier way to do this, I'd LOVE to hear about it.) Recently, when I do this, a random person from other contact groups gets added multiple times in the To: or Bcc: field. It's always someone different and I can't find why this is happening. I end up having to go through the To: of Bcc: list and manually delete each time the person's address shows up. Any ideas on why this is happening and how to fix it?
I recently was provided with the latest MacBook model, for which Apple decided to switch from a number of ports to just one, USB-C port and a headphone jack. The only two accessories that I use on a regular basis, a mouse and a headset, both require a USB port which was not a problem on the old models. One can purchase an adapter to fix this problem, either a USB-C to USB or a USB-C to HDMI+USB+USB-C. Here the problem arises that there is only a single USB-C port, and these adapters only provide one USB port. Is there or will there be a way for me to have both my accessories function? This doesn't seem like an abnormal problem to have, but I can't find very much information on the topic.
I bought an app called Palua on the App Store a few years ago. Now I have a new personal Mac and I believe the app is no longer on the store. I know that it works on the latest version of macOS since I still use it on my work Mac. Is there a way for me to install it again, since I did indeed pay for it? I do not see it in my 'Purchased' apps in the App Store, which is where I hoped to find it.
Developing an iOS apps, there was a thing that drove me mad: executing the same app that created the same files at the same path, the iPhone simulator worked the correct way, while a real iPhone didn't. I eventually discovered that i mistyped a character (uppercase instead of lowercase) and consequently the iPhone created a folder starting with an uppercase character, while putting the file in a path with that folder starting with the lowercase version of that character. The simulator however, didn't care of that difference. I suppose that was because the simulator, running on a case-insensitive system (OS X/mac OS), inherits its "case-insensitivity", while the iPhone (seems to me) is natively case-sensitive. Is there any known explanation/documentation by Apple (or other trusted sources) on why the iOS filesystem is case-sensitive, given that is an OS based on a case-insensitive one (OS X)?
I recently ordered a straight talk iPhone 5s from swappa. I plan to just use it as a wifi device but my question is, can I use any sim card for the initial set up or does it have to be specifically straight talk sim. Also does the sim have to be activated and working?? And after the initial set up and activation can I simply remove the sim card and the phone still work as a wifi device? Sorry this is my first time buying a phone.
I am curious exactly what USB Type-C alternate modes (and variations of those modes) are supported on the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016). I've done some searching on the internet, but I've been unable to find any credible source of information on the subject. I would consider a credible source of information to be:
I installed an iMovie update on my iMac however now i have another iMovie update that is the exact same as i just installed..how do I cancel it?
But I had an idea to reduce her downtime while the disks were copying. If I install the SSD into my MacPro first. then copy all the files over the network from her MBP onto the SSD. All I would need to do is bless the new SSD and I should be able to just swap the two drives and it should be perfectly bootable with all files and settings intact right? the MBP only needs to be down for the 15mins it takes me to change the drives.
I erased (not deleted) the entire Time Machine disk by accident in Disk Utility instead of another disk. Under "Security Options" it was set to "Don't Erase Data", so I would think that it means the data is there, but the directory and information of where/how everything is stored is gone. Is it possible to recover my Time Machine disk?
I bought an album off of iTunes on my phone, and now my mom wants to listen to it. The problem is I bought the songs using my apple ID on my phone, and her iTunes is under a different account.
My 15inch 2012MBP has just died. The screen is gone and I want to keep using my old settings but I dont have money to buy a new MB right now. So I'm just wondering what happen if I put my old Apple Hard drive into another laptop that is not a mac. Do I risk losing data or will the OS not load at all? Please help! Thanks!
I got a new MG28UQ 28" 4K monitor and I plugged it into my mid 2015 15" retina MBP using a mini display port to HDMI cable. The monitor itself reports it's receiving image at 60Hz, however, Settings > Displays only lists 30Hz under "Refresh Rate". If I lower down the scaled resolution to 1600 x 900, then it starts using 60Hz and the mouse problem goes away. I'm using an Insignia Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable that states it can handle 4K. What am I missing?
I can't seem to find the solution to completely removing my old number from my Apple ID and linking a new one. I just bought an iphone 7 (with a new number) and wanted to use my old apple ID so that the contacts and the data could sync. However, my new number won't automatically appear on imessage "send & receive" section only my email address shows. I've signed out of my old iphone and even reset all its settings. I've also tried signing out of my apple ID in this iphone 7 and restarting it, but nothing happens. Only my email address shows on imessage and when I check my account in appleid.apple.com:
After I turn on the MacBook Air, it gets very hot, the battery discharges very fast (in about three hours) and the fan does not stop working.This started twenty-seven days ago. I think this is caused by launchd and UserEventAgent. It is macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Activity monitor show: launchd %CPU 59.3, UserEventAgent %CPU 57.2 system.log show: The temperature reaches up to 73ºC, fan RPM reaches more than 6500.
I have some problems in my Launchpad on MacOS Sierra. The first problem is that I have Xcode icon twice on the Launchpad, and both of the icons are opening the Xcode program.
What's your favorite Apple Watch app for Hiking. I'm looking for something that provide this features:
There are (at least) four difference ways for me to disable my Wi-Fi on my Mac: Click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar and select "Turn Wi-Fi Off" System Preferences->Network, select Wi-Fi, click Cog, select Make Service Inactive sudo ifconfig en0 down networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Wi-Fi off
I have a Mac running Sierra that runs without any user intervention to control hardware. Every night it is scheduled to reboot and it automatically logs in and opens our control software.
I've noticed very strange behavior of the internal keyboard's caps lock on a MBP15 Touchbar MacBookPro13,3 10.12.4 Sierra. Ever since, I've remapped caps to ctrl. Now, with the new MBP when I press caps + a key repeatedly, or hold it, some strokes are omitted. That results in very annoying behavior, for example in Terminal when I press caps-c, sometimes ^C and sometimes c is sent to the terminal. I've tried the following to pin down the problem but couldn't find a solution defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10 # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms) defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms) disabling Accessibility tools like BTT or Spectacle no .inputrc rebooting to login screen and pressing caps multiple times also seems to omit some key presses remapping caps to command and trying to open multiple tabs in Chrome with caps-t results in some tabs getting creating but also ttttt being entered into the URL bar ena
I am unable to mount the HDD using disk utility as the mount is greyed out. I can see two volumes / partitions but the mount option inside each of them doesn't work.
Im on macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I have customized a few things (finder window's toolbar, how to keep directories ordered by name etc) but sometimes (I think on restart, not sure) all this goes back to factory settings and I have to do it all over again. It is really annoying. It seems people had this problem on older versions too but I prefer to ask again since it was like 4 years ago.
Mac mini (late 2012) under macOS Sierra 10.12.4. During routine operations (at least I cannot think of anything unusual) an unknown “Pointing Up Arrow” icon (first on the left side) appeared:
I am using zsh with oh-my-zsh in iTerm on macOS. There are some aliases defined in my .zshrc I use often, like this:
I created a video with my iPhone 6 because I'm entering a contest. I don't know the format of videos from my phone?
when I was trying to erase my sd card in fat16 format i entered the wrong device tree .(e.g. instead of writing disk3s2 i wrote disk2 when i executed the command it said permission denied(which was supposed to erase my whole drive).then when i again tried to format it the right way it again said permission denied. So here's my question why am I not able to format my drive and sd card via terminal
With user-created dictation commands, it's possible to paste text into an application. I tried creating a voice command that would paste in a text command into Terminal. However, nothing gets pasted. I can see the command get activated because the "Edit" flashes. I am able to paste text into other applications with voice commands without an issue. Does anyone know of a workaround to this problem?
I'm trying to do a TestFlight beta test for an app, but app review keeps rejecting it saying it crashes. My app has UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities set to limit the devices it can be installed on. It doesn't support the iPad, but the app review team keeps testing it on an iPad, saying it crashes, and rejecting the binary. I've told them the above multiple times, both in the testing notes and when responding to the rejection. How do I get them to test on a compatible device?
I've recently bought an apple cinema display to complement my old MacBook Pro Late 2011 and I've notice the increment in the working temperature of the machine while connected to the display. I know that the cause of that increment is the continuous use of the GPU when connected. However, I would like to know if the increment of 20ºC in the temperature is something normal. When it isn't connected the machine is usually working around 50ºC and now it's around 72ºC.
The new MacBook Pro have a bunch of USB-C ports and no ethernet port, so you have to use an adapter. The issue is that as long as the adapter is connected to the MacBook, it gets very noticeably hot, even more than the power adapter. This happens both when the ethernet cable is plugged into it or not.
I'm trying to create a simple workflow to type commands into an open Terminal window that has focus. I want to run the script when I give a dictation command with Terminal open.
When using iCloud-hosted Photos, how does the Photos software decide which photos to remove from the device? Is it just chronological, or based on size, or what? Also, is there a way to explicitly tell it (like you can with Apple Music) to remove the photo locally but leave the cloud-hosted version in case you want it back on your device later?
For a given google account, I'd like to be able to do the following on my iPhone: Open email in gmail iPhone app. Add the email as a calendar event or appointment on google calendar.
The guest account appeared after a crash restart (with an unusual message and screen that I haven't seen in earlier system crashes). The guest account is now there despite it being turned off in the User settings and despite both Find My Mac and FireVault being disabled. Those would be the typical reasons for a mysterious appeareance of guest account but not in my case. I also haven't had any OS update recently so it's not something official change. So it's unsettling, I'm worried it could be a virus or a hack? It's not the presence of the guest account that troubles me but what made the strange restart with an unusual message and the apperance of the account, I just really want to know if this is a sign that my mac has been compromised?
Anyone having trouble opening Safari? I tried deleting the plist and restarting but still can’t open Safari. There was a security update on 24 May but I cant get in to read it.
I'm trying to debug a Cisco IPSec VPN issue (using native OSX VPN, not a separate client) but I can't find any options to turn on debugging. Looking around the net it seems there was options in the Advanced tab at one point but I don't see them in Sierra.
I created the following script to open up the dictation commands editor in system preferences. It works when I run it from within automator, but when I use a dictation command to initiate the workflow, it gets stuck after revealing the "Accessibility" pane. Any ideas?
iOS Simulator just hangs on the MacMini. I have a MacBookPro and MacMini from 2011. I decided to back up the drives and wipe the main drive on both computers(to speed things up during programming and simulations)... deep clean or reformatting on the MacBookPro hard drive(took 15 hours of doing "7 passes to write zeros"), MacMini("one time pass" of writing zeros).
My iTerm2 had developed some bug where it no longer saved new profiles. After restarting the app, the new profile would be gone. Therefore I tried reinstalling the app. I deleted it from the Applicatiosn folder and downloaded and installed it again. Upon launch all settings were the same including the bug, so I uninstalled it again and began hunting for lingering files. I am now left with these:
I'm working on some Raspberry Pi's and I need serial communications to the units to determine IP address. I've installed Putty via HomeBrew and with some assistance from this link. I also installed MacPorts via this link. When I run $ putty, I get the error message: (putty:36407): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
I can very easily see timestamps for texts (SMS) and messages (wifi? not really sure what this is) on iOS messenger by swiping to the left. However, in the Messenger app on OSX (10.11.6 El Capitan), I cannot for the life of my get these timestamps to appear (swiping, right-clicking a message, app options and context menus, etc.)
I have been having difficulty with importing RAW photos from my Canon EOS 77D. I am able to see the thumbnail of all photos (which leads me to believe that perhaps photos can process my images.) But when I click on a photo, I get the following (Please ignore the high ISO): What can I do so that I can see/edit my photos?
I can launch Script Editor and I can create a New Document. But, I cannot open an existing document. What I've tried: Restarting and shutting down the computer Restarting and shutting down the computer Running "First Aid' in Disk Utility.app Running "First Aid' in Disk Utility.app Opening Script Editor.app via the right-click context menu in Finder Opening Script Editor.app via the right-click context menu in Finder Opening a .scpt file via the menu bar in Script Editor (File → Open...) Opening a .scpt file via the menu bar in Script Editor (File → Open...) Opening a .scpt file via the right-click context menu in Finder Opening a .scpt file via the right-click context menu in Finder
I use Sudo commands in terminal but it always asks for the password.This is annoying because I always have to set a password.So how do I type blank password in terminal in MacOS Sierra 10.12.5
I read the Apple submission guidelines and it states that trials, demos, or betas will be rejected. However, if I'm offering a service and it isn't ready yet, but I want to get people familiar with the name, can I release a "soft" version of the application which tells users about the upcoming service and the ability to reserve a spot?
I am unable to see my contacts since few days. It has been working fine since I changed from iphone 6s to iphone 7. However since last two days I do not see any contacts. Can someone please help me to get this back? I have tried to sync my Gmail and icloud but it does not help.
Attached is a screenshot of an email. The blue highlighted text are hyperlinks that, when I click on them, should jump to a specific place further down the email. However, if I press on these links, nothing happens. How can I get these hyperlinks working?
As part of a family 'computer shuffle/switcheroo' I'm thinking of repurposing a Mac Mini as a media-server running iTunes (to feed our library of video content to our Apple TVs). However, I will need to store the iTunes library on an external hard drive since the Mac Mini has only a 500GB internal drive and the iTunes library currently exceeds 1TB.
I have a Numbers spreadsheet. Column B contains first names, column C contains surnames.
I remember I used to change the direction of text using keyboard shortcuts (like Command-Control-Right Arrow), but it doesn't work anymore. How can I re-enable it? I found this page about this topic from Apple, but none of these work.
I have been getting notifications to do a software update. The Software License Agreement has some strange characters. I am not sure if it would be ok to accept it.
After installing the newest version of Mac OS, I can't open Illustrator at all, and InDesign and Photoshop are giving me a notification that "The Universal Type Client application that is currently running is incompatible with the Universal Type plug-in". I don't know what that means but I guess its related to the fact that Illustrator suddenly isn't working either? I tried updating my version of Java but that didn't help. Does anyone know what I can do?
I have an old MBP (2008) and I've been updating the OS after waiting for so long. I installed Yosemite recently, and am now installing El Capitan. Idiotically, I forgot to make a backup before doing this, and of course this installation will give me problems. The El Capitan installation failed twice, so I used Safe Boot to create a new account and get access my old files. However, my old files are organized strangely; my old user account is now just a regular folder in /Users/, and all my old applications/library/system files are in a "Recovered Items" folder. Is there any way to restore my old account using these two folders? Summary: It would save me the hassle of re-installing all of my programs and settings. Any help is appreciated.
I want to keep it turned on until I turn it off, not until some fixed date. How to achieve this? (I know about the option to use f.lux, but I'd prefer to not depend on it now that macOS is so close to being able to do it itself)
I tried to install Windows 10 with Boot Camp and I got an error. When I tried to reboot my MacBook and held Alt, I have two partitions: MacintoshHD and Windows. If I click on Windows I have a blue Windows screen with "Recovery". So how I can delete this partition?
I have the following simple AppleScript which calls a perl script I wrote to clean the desktop: The script works fine when run from the command line, but when executing the script from my AppleScript, the modules I use aren't found and I get this error:
I just purchased a 2016 MacBook Pro but have a 2012 MBP Retina I use for work. I'm considering buying the LG Ultrafine 5k and I'm wondering, will I be able to use the display with my 2012 MBP? I don't mind if I don't get full resolution while using the 2012, I just want to know if it will work.
Using the proprietary software (even were I to buy a license) would be miserable... it doesn't save the scans. It OCRs them immediately, deletes the image file, and that's it (found where it puts the image file... I see it flicker into existence and then it's gone before you can click). Hoping for a minor miracle.
Xcode in App Store listed at 4.51GB. The same version of Xcode on my iMac is over 12GB. I understand the value may be different on the App Store but this seems like a huge difference. Is this 12 GB size accurate?
I have an AppleScript .scpt file that uses the Dialog Toolkit scripting library: Dialog Toolkit is an ASObjC-based script library for showing enhanced dialogs. The following line is at the top of the .scpt file: The Dialog Toolkit file is in the correct location: /Users/Me/Library/Script Libraries/Dialog Toolkit.scptd However, when I try to save my .scpt file in Script Editor.app, I am given the following message:
I had boot camp running with Windows 10. I decided I wanted to expand my Windows 10 partition so I created a new partition with disk utility. After that I booted with a windows 10 bootable USB and deleted the current Windows partition (along with others, which might be the problem here) to try and install Windows in the merge of those too. But not only I couldn't install Windows (it said something about it being a GPT partition in whichever partition I selected), but I couldn't even boot back then.
I recently jailbroke my iOS 10.1.1 iPad mini 2 with yalu102, and I erased all content and settings for some weird reason. I didn't backup my device when it had Cydia on it, so now every time I use yalu and press go, it will respring, but there will be no Cydia. It just says "already jailbroken". I cannot use Cydia Impactor because it says Provision.cpp:81 listteams=1102 This Apple ID cannot be used for development with Xcode Any idea how to fix this?
I lost my iPhone, but I believe I have "Find My iPhone" switched on. If I turn "Lost Mode" on, using a different Apple device, can messages etc still be accessed by a thief?
I'm planning to buy a Samsung Monitor. If I'm planning to play games on it, will it decrease my fps? Also, can I run window games on the monitor?
This is different from an overbar. A vector can be any letter topped by a small arrow like so:
In my local iCloud Drive folder I have a lot of unused folders from old iPhone apps. But I am not able to delete these folders. Even rm -rf does not delete the folders. The folder is in: Any idea?
Aloha, I would like to turn off iCloud Drive. But I activated in iBooks iCloud Drive. Now I don't see any "official way" to export all MY books out of iCloud drive. The only way I currently found is to use terminal and make a
Having some trouble restoring a Time Machine backup. After some initial disk problems we had to reinstall OSX and this is what has been done thus far: Booted into Internet Recovery Mode (Command (⌘) – Option (⌥) – R) Reinstalled OSX Rebooted and into Recovery Mode (Option (⌥) – R) Selected to Restore from the Time Machine Backup
I have a Mac mini running MacOS Sierra, with Remote Login turned on. I can ssh into the mini just fine (Cygwin's SSH client), but if I issue a long-running command (e.g. building clang from source) it doesn't complete, because the ssh connection gets disconnected. This is the end of the output of the ssh client when invoked with the -vvv switch:
My iPod 4 was disabled for 1657 Mins Yesterday. I put it on the charger to see if it would make a difference the next day and it did. Those mins were gone and all it said was connect to iTunes (but it is still disabled).
A HomeKit user has shared their home with me for the first time. They are reusing a very old iTunes/AppStore account to handle all iCloud functions... this means they are on the legacy "iCloud" and haven't yet taken the "one way upgrade" to iCloud for Xcode 6.
Is a Crucial SSD's encryption compatible with macOS Sierra's Filevault? Can the encryption algorithms or do they, run simultaneously (at the same time) ? Thanks !
I'm currently trying to jailbreak my Wii with an SD card and am using a MacBook Pro (El Capitan) to format the card to ExFat. The card is 32 gigs, but is reduced down to a mere 30 MBs after formatting to ExFAT via Disk Utility. I need to put one 40 MB file and one 2 MB file in the card, but it isn't letting me. FAT32 isn't working either. Here is the link to the specific SD card I'm using.
Doing a complete fresh install of OSX (I know, extreme. And ineffective)
I have an iPhone 6 that I purchased online. During initial setup I selected the language and country and also connected it to Wi-Fi. However, it's giving me the following error: Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server cannot be reached.
I have Automator running a shell script that ends with cat "tempfile.txt". The cat command should output the contents of tempfile.txt. The file tempfile.txt contains just the following three paragraphs over five lines: 1st paragraph Lorem 2nd paragraph Lorem ipsum 3rd paragraph Ut enim
I'd like to upgrade my late 2013 retina Macbook Pro with a M.2 PCI-E SSD. Is this possible? Do I need an adapter?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut that selects the full line (i.e., the text of the line) of the blinking caret cursor in any editable, multi-line text field. Nothing more than just this one line should be selected. I understand that one can use the following two keyboard shortcuts in succession to accomplish this: shift + ⬆ shift + ➡
In an IDE I use key combinations like Shiftshift ⎋ (Esc). I'm now using a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar. It seems this is not working anymore, as the IDE only reports Esc being pressed. Has anyone else experienced this? PS: I've heard about the workaround of mapping caps lock to Esc, but I'd like to use that as a last resort. *=URL=* https://discussions.apple.com/message/31206769#31206769
I dislike pressing the home button. How can I make it so that a tap equals a press? I have it for unlocking the phone (iPhone SE) so it should be possible elsewhere too.
I'm pretty new to the whole Apple story, so i'm not sure if this is possible at all. The story is that we have unsupervised corporate-owned iPhones at work. Now we are about to enroll an MDM (specific MobileIron) and the devices need to be in supervised mode. What we tried so far:
I had a work Google account. When I left my job, the account was disabled, but whenever I try to use my Google account for accessing something, it asks me to choose between my personal account, and this disabled account (which doesn't work, because it's disabled). I want to remove this account completely, so it doesn't keep suggesting I use it.
System: MBP 2016 OS: Sierra, updated May 28th, 2017 with latest fixes and improvements Typical internet speed: 70Mbps+ Speed on resume from sleep: ~20Mbps Workaround: turn Wi-Fi off, wait a few seconds, turn Wi-Fi on => normal internet speed (70Mbps+) Is there anything I can do to avoid toggling Wi-Fi on/off after resuming the MBP from sleep?
I'm out of ideas on what I can try to fix my problem. My configuration is as follows: MBP2016 13" with two USB-C ports a HooToo USB-C Hub (supports 4K) a (brand new) HDMI Cable (also 4K/UHD compatible) a HP ENVY 27s monitor
I have a late 2013 27" iMac i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD, running the laster version of Sierra 10.12.4 (I think) Two days ago I suddenly got the spinning beachball while browsing in Safari. However, after a few seconds it just froze completely - the first time ever! I had to hold down the power button to shut it down. I restarted and then a few hours later it happened again. I shut it down again but this time it would not start. Nothing happened when I pressed the power button. I tried a SMC reset and it started so I ran disk utility. There were a couple of minor permissions errors, which were fixed but then it froze again. After 2-3mins A black screen appeared saying there was a problem and the computer had to be shut down, which it did by itself.
Is there a way of combining two photos of the same thing taken in half? For example, i have two images of the same newspaper page taken in two halves in order to keep the focus and quality of the text to an acceptable level. Now, how do i merge these two photos into one seamless photo?
I am planning to purchase an iPhone 6s (unlocked) from the US and use it in India. Since Apple does not provide international warranty for phones rather than the iMac etc, I came across Apple Care+ (That covers warranty for 2 years of hardware & software issues). So, I am planning to get Apple Care+ along with the purchase of the phone. If issues arise with the iPhone, will it be covered by Apple Care in India?
Firstly, I don't know to use iMac well – I'm new to the business. Anyway, the Mac was making too much noise, that's why I came here. The CPU was running 3200rpm and I think the maximum rpm was approximately 5500 rpm. And I reset SMC fan control to the default settings. But now, the maximum CPU fan rpm is 2100 rpm and I think it's too low. I use this iMac for rendering. So it's a problem, what should I do? While the iMac is running idle: and if I render, the CPU core becomes approximately 65-70C.
I have a suspicion that I am having problems with Apple File System Events. It may be that this is resulting in issues with my Time Machine backup. My logs do include messages such as Not using file event preflight, which I understand has something to do with FSEvents.
I have no idea what is going on. Any similar experiences or ideas? Hardware MacBookPro6,2, 15-inch, Mid 2010 2,53 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
I'm using Mac OS Sierra 10.12.2 and recently installed Office 2016. Before that, I had Office 2011, which I uninstalled before installing Office 2016. However, the Managed Software Center is still trying to update Office 2011 and I can't get rid of the update notification that keeps popping up frequently.
I had my MacBook Pro 17", late 2011, in for a replacement of the motherboard. The technician in the Apple Store told me that their diagnostics said that not only my mainboard had failed, but also both my hard drives (SSD and HDD in SuperDrive slot). I asked them to NOT replace the hard drives. When I got the laptop back, I can boot up normally and all my data is still there and accessible. Should I nonetheless replace my hard drive? Is there any possible damage the hard drives could have that I can't see, despite them working from what I can see? Thank you!
Sent message from iPad or iPhone and message does not say delivered. But when I look at other device it shows delivered. Is message delivered? Example message sent from iPhone no delivered status. Look at same message on IPad and shows delivered status.
I bought a pair of Airpods for my iPhone 7. When I have them connected I can't answer calls, but I have to disconnect them to be able to answer. How can I fix the problem?
When you record a video of your iOS device QuickTime helpfully tidies up your status bar, including setting the time to 9:41. This is great in many cases, but I have several apps which display the time in the app and so showing 9:41 in the status bar and the real time in the app is very jarring.
I know a smartphone can be unlocked by either contacting the carrier or by using one of the websites that will do it for you for a fee. I'm curious to know what do the unlocking and smartphone repair street shops use to unlock the smartphones. Do they just contact the carrier and do the job for you. Do they just use one of these websites?
When I open a link on Safari, it opens another tab overlapping the original, so to go back to the previous I have to browse all the other tabs. This is uncomfortable because in case I want to read the new link later, I have to make that passage. Is there an option to change card management?
I'm about to switch my hard drive for an SSD. I checked for instructions online and found tutorials that instruct to disconnect the battery as a first step but I also found some forum posts from people saying it fried their logic board. A person also said a genius said disconnecting the battery could fry a logic board. The mac I want to install the SSD into is a MacBook Pro 13" late 2011.
I have a relatively new MBP 13" 2016 which used to use discharge at 5 - 10 watts without any intensive apps. Today, while unplugged, I noticed my battery discharging at 15 - 20 watts despite closing every app, turning off wifi, and disabling time machine, reducing brightness to medium.
I am backing up files to an external hard drive using rsync as a test, usually I just copy pasted but I read that rsync is more reliable and does a checksum to verify the copy so I am trying it out now. I'm just using it as: rsync -a --progress [SOURCE] [DESTINATION] I noticed in the manual page relating to rsync that it also copies the permissions and privileges, in fact after the copy when I right click and "get info" on the files and folders, they have the same "Sharing and Permissions". When I check files backed up during previous backup processes (using copy/paste), sometimes the permissions are "read & write" for the current user (me) and "no access" for everyone else, some have "read only" for everyone and spotlight.
In order to prevent my iOS device from sending possibly sensitive data over unencrypted wifi connections, I would like to configure my on demand VPN in such a way that it is automatically established whenever the device is on an uncrypted wifi network. I've found and followed this documentation, but there doesn't seem to be an option to trigger the VPN connection on such networks through InterfaceTypeMatch or ActionParameters.
1) which SATA cable speed do I need for a SSD installment in a iMac mid-2011? In OWC or iFixit kits, they uses SATA 3, but today I can get quicker SATA 6 cables, does that work or make it quicker?
When AppleScript's progress dialog is succeeded by a dialog, the progress dialog still lingers—even though all progress steps have completed, and the progress bar is full. It will linger until the script has been cancelled, until the script has completed, or until no additional dialogs exist in the script.
I have several PDF files in iBooks. I want to open them with the "PDF reader" App instead. How do I do this?
I bought a used Macbook Pro running macOS Sierra. It came after the previous owners reset it and installed the iLife pack (iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand). I couldn't use those apps since it came with Mac OS X 10.9, and those apps versions were to low to use on macOS Sierra.
Was given a 2009 Macbook Pro after original owner attempted to hard reset. Reinstall of OS X unsuccessful from OS X Utilities. I get as far as agreeing to terms, and signing in to App Store with my Apple ID, and then get this message: "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." I start school tomorrow and I am royally screwed if I can't figure this out. All data is clearly erased, as well as all Apps. Any info pointing me in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
I have a Windows and MacBook. I use Windows for my Visual Studio - Xamarin App programming. I connect Macbook to the Windows using USB Port. Both are shared. When i run the project in Windows, I can view the iPhone Simulator on my Macbook. Now, i am in the process of considering "Go to my PC" Citrix online which i connect my Windows from Macbook. My question is, without using USB cable to connect windows, is there a way to connect wireless.
How can I renew my Apple Developer Membership account manually? Is it possible to do this? I know that developer.apple.com/support/renewal describes renewing but does not explain manual renewal.
I'm soon planning to build a iPhone 6, but before ordering random parts, I've made a list of parts needed to have an nice overview. A list of what parts are needed: Housing LCD Screen + digitizer Motherboard Battery Volume button flex Power button flex Home button + flex Volume, Power and Home button spacers Vibration motor Audio and Dock connector Front camera, sensor + flex Back camera GPS
When I use my Apple Watch to send a text message to my wife, it first prompts me to ask which email address to use. (Oddly, it does not include her phone number as an option). Is there a way I can configure the watch to always use a certain email address? For now, I've just removed her other email addresses from her contacts and put them in the notes field instead as a workaround.
The answer to the above post gave me the idea to delete the default icon file located at /Contents/Resources/applet.icns (which I accessed by right-clicking the .app file in Finder and clicking the Show Package Contents context menu item). I then pasted my custom icon into this Resources folder, and renamed my icon applet.icns.
I want to stop importing my photos from my flash drive to my Photos library. However, because the flash drive holds over 80 gigabytes of data, the import has been extremely slow. I want to stop the import process. How would I do that without damaging my flash drive data or my Photos Library data? Will force quitting the Photos app damage the flash drive or my Library?
I have been creating 5.1 surround sound files from Apple Compressor, but need a way to visually see that the different channels are all working properly in the final file. I can't test with a physical surround sound speaker set-up. Is there an app that can show the sound levels for each channel, like you can with mono/stereo files in Audacity?
What can I do with this on Mac? The App Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is installed on mac, and when i launch that app, nothing pops up to accept any license. It makes, I cannot open pdf file in browser: This is screenshot of popover in my native polish language:
I'm getting a strange red background when I visit some pages using Safari. on Chrome the page is rendered in white normally. I am not using any extensions and plugins. How do I fix this bug? Safari: Version 10.1.1 (12603.2.4) macOS: Sierra Version 10.12.5
How do I get the first item from a list into a variable? I'm trying to get the first window of an application's windows. I tried but it throws this error: Can't get window of every window.
I have had an Apple Watch for two years now and have quite a history built up. I am very motivated by the fitness rings and constantly challenge myself to improve my streaks and averages I use the excellent Activity++to view streaks and averages. It also allows me to export a CSV of the activity data. When I view that data, there are several dates reported with all zeroes. A few from before my watch even arrived, and two with dates in '69 (only dates with 2 digit years are shown).
I need to save my iMessage conversations as they are, because I'm afraid all the updated dialogue will be erased as soon a I restore my iPod from a previous backup. The restoring of the iPod will happen, I just don't want to lose any dialogue from this very second until the last time I backed up my iPod. The conversation is very long and very important to me, and I need to keep all of it. I am not looking to add an unknown, potentially hazardous software of program.
After cleaning my keyboard and track pad with and hot cloth (It was greasy), I'm not able to browse any links in Chrome, Safari on my mac book air with El Capitan osx. When clicking any links on any website, it always starts an download with "download.html". I'm able to browse by right clicking on track-pad and choose "open in new tab", which is very annoying in the long run. I have somehow managed to alter some config on my machine, but don't know what I have done. I have tried to google this problem but I don't even succeed in asking the correct question, every result on google returns my with some irrelevant subjects. Any help would be greatly appreciated
So I would like to know what other options I have available to me to speed this up? I can't actually use it for the development work I need to do if the WiFi is so poor. I'm not adverse to nuking the Mac and starting again, but obviously I want to advoid this as best I can. EDIT: Following from the advice yesterday, I did the following: Removed the networking plist files (again) Reset the SMC Reset the PRAM/NVRAM Followed the steps in the Mac OS X Daily link in the comments
The below is for OS X 10.11.x (El Capitan) I've successfully been able to mount an AFP share (from my NAS) using the commands
My question is: How to natively enable TRIM in Sierra for a 3rd-party SSD? A solution I found involves installing an "out of the App Store" app that will probably ask for admin credentials etc which I generally don't like.
Is there a way to tell finder not to save any metadata about folders? I would love to get Finder to forget how it displayed any folder the last time I viewed it. So when expanding a folder it does not expand the whole subtree I opened last time.
My Mac remembers my old iPhone 6 and remembers the Hotspot password for that old connection. I think that my Mac thinks the new iPhone 7 is the old iPhone 6 because they have the same name. The Mac shows the Personal Hotspot item in the Wifi menu, where it used to work. When I select the item, the Mac tries to connect using the old password. Now, if I remembered the old password, I could change it on the new iPhone 7 side, but I don't remember the old password.
Periodically, Spotlight stops responding to keyboard input on my Mac. When this happens, pressing cmd-space brings up the Spotlight search field, but typing search terms has no effect. Characters don't appear in the search field, and even pressing ESC doesn't exit from Spotlight. The keyboard continues to work normally in every other app-- only Spotlight is affected. Rebooting restores normal operation but I'm hoping there's some non-reboot way to get things working again.
I have an iPad 3 with iOS 8.3; I wonder if there is some software/tool that allows to install Adblock and how to enable it on Safari (if I can of course).
A contact of mine changed their number and I edited their contact info in my contacts to update to their new phone number. Now, whenever I try to create a new message, it suggests the new number, but also the old number.
This seems so basic, but just can't figure it: I can easily find a note with an unique bit of text, but finding WHERE in my list of folders the note is stored seems impossible. One would think that when you tap a found note, the note's folder would become highlighted, or at least a tooltip would help identify the location, but no such luck.
I brought a Mac Mini (2009 I believe early as it had a 120GB HDD) of which I upgraded it to a 120GB SSD to begin with. Being my first mac I found I could re-install it using the internet recovery mode which I believe was how I installed the SSD. I was running El Capitan on the machine perfectly fine. However the SSD had to be taken out from it to be put into another machine as an emergency (The mac wasn't important) and recently replaced with a 250GB HDD and when trying to boot into internet recovery mode now get nothing but the folder with the question mark in. I've tried multiple key combinations and have been searching around online for solutions but haven't found one.
I have a phone now that has more storage, how do I remove what I have stored in iCloud storage? I don't need to continue paying monthly
The only manoeuvre I get to do in these cases is to force my computer to shut down and also force all my external drives to eject. I assume that it means that every day, this issue damages my computer and my external devices. I've already tried to: reset the SMC restore the factory settings - nothing changed. go back to El Capitan through Time Machine, successfully, but then the exact same issue occurs - nothing changed. re install Logic Pro, all components and virtual instruments again purchase a new external hard drive, purchase a new cable prevent Spotlight from indexing my external drive
I mainly use the USB connection between my MBA and iPhone 5s just to do backups. There is no music on my iPhone. Today, when I have connected my iPhone I have noticed a random music library from the person I have never met. macOS Sierra 10.12.4 iOS 10.13.2 I can confirm that my iPhone has never been associated with another AppleID as I have bought it brand new.
When I plug my (HDMI) display into my laptop, the sound output switches to it. I can switch it back, but is there any way to stop this automatic switch?
My Macbook PRO 13 inch of 2011 is booting to a black screen, i was trying to recovery it but the original HD was failing to install the OS, so i installed in a pen drive, then i erased everything in the HD, and then i accidentally erased everything in the pen drive, so i don't have anything in the pen drive and anything in the HD. I also have a fresh SSD, but when i try to startup with this new SSD, i only see a black screen. I already try things like: Remove the battery cable Press Command + Option + R + P Press Command + OPtion + R Press the power button 10 seconds Press the power button 30 seconds
My Goal Boot a basic version of linux on an old iMac so my girlfriend can use it as her computer What I know I inherited this device from a friend who is tech savvy and he completely erased all memory and operating system contents on the hard drive. Device Specs 2007 iMac 2.0 GHz Processor Model Number A1224 250 GB of Storage What Has Been Attempted
How can I get Valgrind working on my mac? Mac specs: mid-2012 11" 2GHz i7 MacBook Air with macOS Sierra 10.12.5. FWIW, brew install valgrind fails to build, as well as these steps from Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way" ex4: Valgrind also fails after modifying the file valgrind-3.12.0/coregrind/m_main.c line 4061 from: #if defined(VGO_darwin) && DARWIN_VERS == DARWIN_10_10 to: #if defined(VGO_darwin) (per *=URL=* ...I was able to complete an installation of Valgrind (prior to changing m_main.c the make error'd out) but unfortunately, now the simple test recommended in the README file for verifying the install is failing:
I'm creating a database on Filmaker Pro (FMP) of images that will be stored in a folder. I would like this folder to have an automatic action where I can, occasionally, drag one or more image files into the folder and their "basenames" will each be automatically renamed with unique random (ten) alphanumeric series string that will not clash with whatever filenames already in the folder.
Question is kinda nooby, but I haven't find any hotkeys for quicktime browser plugin. Space, arrows, youtube keys (J,K,L) don't work either. Does plug-in even have them? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– MacOS Sierra 10.12.4, Safari 10.1 A site I use to watch video suddenly started to use quicktime.
I use TextEdit to edit my text. If I type in a double -, it is converted to one longer -.
I'm desperately trying to fix the issue which doesn't let my MacBook Pro restart/shutdown properly. When I click on restart or shutdown, it gets stuck when the display gets black (but still slightly on, also keyboard lights are on) forever (once let it try to restart/shutdown the whole night).
I have MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) model, and I formatted the whole hard-drive to create partitions on 500GB HDD. So now I don't have any OS installed on MacBook and for booting I use Cmd+Opt+R and It gives me "Internet Recovery" option. After that It prompts me "OS X Utilities". From there I choose "Re-install MacOS" and It gives me Yosemite installation.
I've got an issue with my new MacBook Pro 15″ (bought it two weeks ago). Some icons are missing from the Dock:
I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.5, and trying to add a library to the usr/lib folder (for an OpenFrameworks project I'm working on). I've seen similar questions here, here, and here.
In Chrome, there is a very useful feature:  But I can't find it for Safari Browser. Is it possible to do that in Safari? Thanks,
To recap: I used Disk Utility to format the SSD drive using my new Macbook Pro and did Mac OS Extended (Journaled); Connected the SSD to the new computer and restarted the computer, hitting Cmd + R to enter boot mode;
EDIT: This eating up of space is most definitely due to VirtualBox. I created and deleted another Ubuntu VM instance and sure enough, lost out on another 2 GB.
Neither 1) System Information, 2) ioreg -p IOUSB -w0 -l, 3) system_profiler SPUSBDataType nor 4) jlhonora's "lsusb" for macOS (brew update && brew tap jlhonora/lsusb && brew install lsusb) tell me which kind of USB device is attached like the Linux command lsusb: DESCRIPTION lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.
I have 100+ or so flagged messages, and would like to send a single email, bcc'ing all the senders of those messages. Is there a way extract / copy all the "from:" email addresses?
I use my Mac connected to a remote server (Windows 2008) using Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta, and in the Windows 2008, there is a virtual machine on it, I use the Xshell connected to the VM. But when I want to paste some code, the shortcut key is Shift+Insert, however on the Mac there is no Insert key. How can I use the shortcut key to paste my code?
I would like to display a message, for example, the OS Version, the installed tool versions etc on the Desktop background of macOS. I understand that the lockscreen text can be edited, I am not talking about that. That is not what I am interested in. I know there is a way because I have seen my colleagues at my previous job do this. NOTE: I want to do this from command line.
When I connect my iPhone 7 to my computer, the PC does not detect it. My Iphone notifies me that it is connected and the battery is charging but it does not allow me to transfer works data. How do I fix it?
To my surprise I noticed that when I press pause on my Bose Q35C headphones they pause content playing in YouTube/SoundCloud on my MacBook Air 11" (2015). The media keys don't do that.
Reading about this a little it seems the compute power required is rather intense, but this would be a very useful app for finding old image files, even from their quicklook previews in the case of Adobe files like INDD, AI, PS.
My question applies to both the mobile and desktop versions of Safari, either as proper content (for example, supporting a news story) or inline video ads.
I'm trying to mount a drive from Linux on my macOS El Capitan laptop. I try a command like this:
I have an MP3 file located on my iPhone that I want to delete but am unable to find in the Music app. The track only appears when I connect my iPhone to my Mac and go to (Devices > iPhone > Music) in iTunes. There, it shows a list of all of my voice memos and songs in my music library. I have already deleted all of the songs from my music library using (Settings > General > Usage > Music...) on my iPhone, but it did not delete the file in question. I know absolutely for certain that it is not a voice memo.
I have a MacBook Air and with no apparent reason the AirPlay icon has dissapeared from the desktop. When I go to System Preferences → Displays, the status of AirPlay shows "Off" and there's no way to change it since it doesn't show the "On" option.
I just broke a computer with Windows system and I bought a MacBook but I don't know how can I open prompt command in it?
When mac goes to sleep mode, it also disables external hard drive. But sometimes after mac has been waked up the external hard drive stays asleep. How do i wake it up? It's connected, and when i'm opening it, i can browse directories i've visited recently. However, other directories appear to be empty. Hard drive is definitely not spinning. Any attempts to write or read files from the hard drive throws errors. diskutil list:
I have an iPhone6 and I want to import photos or videos in my computer ASUS zenbook ux31ua/gl100t but I don't know why in my iPhone6 doesn't appear the permit to connect with it and consequently neither in Desktop. How should I do to transer photos from iPhone6 to my PC?
I have what appears to be a corrupt system font (.Geeza Pro PUA). How do I go about replacing it with a working version? iMac running 10.12.5. It's doing this:
After updating macOS from 10.12.4 to 10.12.5, Outlook 2016 stopped connecting to our Exchange 2010 SP3 server. Existing identities show a yellow light in the account settings. Starting with a fresh install of macOS 10.12.5 does the same thing. Outlook 2016 is updated to the latest version.
So what is fact and what is fiction about the future of AFP? Will it stop working in future versions of macOS? I don't see how this is possible since Time Machine requires it. Can I safely use AFP without worrying about it "dying" on me?
I'm using Mavericks,10.9.5. The time on the menu bar exactly matches the time in the official Date and Time area… It is that time in the official area that is incorrect.
i'm having some trouble configuring my localhost with xampp. I installed de xampp, removed the # to include httpd-vhosts and then, i set a vhost, like this:
I have $50 of store credit to iTunes from gift cards for my birthday and when I go to buy anything it's trying to charge my debit card, not my iTunes gift cards. is there something I have to do to change that or what?
I would like to get a 27 inch 4k display to hook up to my early 2014 macbook air. My Early 2014 Macbook air only has a thunderbolt 1 connection and I an aware it is not possible to get 4k quality through my thunderbolt 1 connector. Could I still use the display, using a thunderbolt 1 to thunderbolt 3 adaptor, and get a decent quality, perhaps 2k, on it without anything looking distorted?
I would like to read from an SD card containing the filesystem and OS from a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian / noobs. I have installed ext2fuse (on Mac El Capitan 10.11.6): Now when I put in an SD card (with Raspbian linux OS on it) I get the following: But calling the following results in an empty directory being mounted:
Here's my situation. I created an AppleScript for cleaning up my desktop. It essentially selects all files and folders on my desktop, creates a new folder with a specific name and date format, and moves all the files from my desktop to the new folder. This script works beautifully until I realized that occasionally there were files or folders I wanted to remain on my desktop. My solution was to open the get info window for each file or folder that I wanted to remain on my desktop, and select the “lock” option in the get info window.
Recently my iPhone's mic has stopped working but solely for third party apps such as Whatsapp, Snapchat & Telegram. I have tried the following: Restarting my phone Updating my phone to the latest version Using compressed air to clear any debris I have tested the mic via phone call, facetime & siri and these all work fine as expected.
Is it worth upgrading an iMac late 2009 model to max RAM at 16gb for video editing/exporting? Currently to export a 3gb video file in Final Cut Pro it takes 1 - 1.5 hours to export the file. Is it worth it to upgrade the RAM or buy a new iMac ( was thinking this model) Think its a late 2015 model which is the current one in store 21.5 inch 2.8GHz Processor 1TB Storage 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz 8GB of onboard memory, configurable up to 16GB 1TB hard drive1 Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 1920-by-1080 sRGB display
When I try and change my iPhone 6s password I click "custom numeric password" and I type in a 3 digit code and it says "make password longer". Then it would be a 4 digit code and that's not what I want.
How can on stop Chrome from being a resource hog on Mac. If it often opens up many Chrome helper task and I understand it should make my browser faster, but it's make my computer slower.
I have a little problem with my iTunes on my pc. I have to delete all the songs that are inside it but to do this job I have to delete one song at time because I don't know how I can do it in a short way. I search also on the Internet a possible solution but with no results. Is there anyone that can help me?
I use Pages on my iPad pro and would like to edit using my new Apple Pencil - can anyone tell me how to get Pages to recognise the Apple Pencil? Would be very grateful.
One of the best Mac OS keyboard shortcuts I've discovered this past year is that by pressing SHIFT+OPTION while pressing the volume up/down keys or brightness up/down keys, the levels change in quarter increments instead of whole increments. I find that I'm using this so often, that I'd now prefer the quarter increment change to become the default for these keys. In an ideal scenario, for example, pressing the volume up key (without having to press SHIFT+OPTION) would increase volume by a quarter increment, and pressing the volume up key with SHIFT+OPTION would increase volume by a whole increment.
I have recently bought an iPhone. I don't know how to set a ringtone on an iPhone. Can anyone explain the procedure to set a ringtone in an easy manner?
As the title states, Can the Samsung Gear S2/S3 be charged with Apple Watch magnetic puck charger? I do not have the equipment to test this and I have not been able to find if the Apple Watch's magnetic charger abides by the Qi standard.
Many startups offer their premium version both via website and IAP. Lumosity is the example of such app. I know IAP is made for such cases, but since you can upgrade your account on their website, why do they use IAP and pay commision instead of redirecting to website to buy premium? Is it mandatory in iOS app that you have to support IAP for premium version even though user can upgrade his account via the website? I'm curious because in IAP commision is 30% while costs of operation on website are much lower. I mean, does these startups pay 30% to Apple just to allow users to unlock it from the app, instead of showing the message "Please visit our website to upgrade to premium version" What if someone has upgraded lumosity through their website - he doesn't have to use IAP, he just logs to the app and new features are available right away.
So I'd like to edit a plist file property using automator. I need to change the value of a key so that it's set to 1 minute before the automator app was launched. I'm quite new to all this and I need help... For a said SULastCheckTime, I would need the value to be set to Jun 1, 2017, 8:52:56 PM if the automator app was launched at 8:53 on June 1st 2017... Thanks
For some reason, Excel for Mac (15.33) is not remembering recently used files. How do I fix this? I'm not using Office 365.
If I move E-Mails to archive in apple mail will they still also be on the server? Or will they only be on my computer then where the archive is?
I have a website that I visit which updates every few seconds at certain times of the day. I need to see all of the new updates and be able to scroll the page down automatically after each refresh. I found a bookmarklet that refreshes the site but it only shows me the top row of updates. I need it to scroll down as well to load all of the updates.
"Someone" downloaded a Word document from a Russian site. I used VirusTotal to verify that it contained a Word macro virus. If they just downloaded it and didn't open it then I don't need to reinstall the machine. This is the link to the VirusTotal analysis.
I purchased an app on my old iPhone and then upgraded my phone. The problem is that I also changed my Apple ID as I couldn't remember my old login details for the original ID. Now I want to continue using a running training app from my old phone which has stored some personal data which I'd really like to continue using on the new phone. Is there any chance I can do this?
I'm using FreeNAS and it has the option to share data using SMB or AFP. Since I recently learned that AFP is being deprecated, I'm hesitant to use AFP but I'v read that AFP supports Server Side Copy and SMB on Mac does not. I want to confirm both points with the Ask Different crowd: Does macOS Sierra connecting to a FreeNAS server via AFP support Server Side Copy? Does macOS Sierra connecting to a FreeNAS server via SMB support Server Side Copy? Based on release notes, FreeNAS supports Samba 4.1.4 (SMB3), and thus supports Server-Side Copy when connect with compatible clients.
Per this 2016 9TO5Mac article and video, "How to install Windows 10 on your Mac using Boot Camp Assistant" I was under the impression that I could install Windows 10 and use the "Windows 10 Insider" option without a registration key. See also the article, "You Don’t Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10" for some notes on the limitations of the free "Insider" install. Do I need to purchase windows 7 first, then install that and then upgrade with the Anniversary Edition installer (and then upgrade to Windows 10 Creators)? Do I need to purchase windows 7 first, then install that and then upgrade with the Anniversary Edition installer (and then upgrade to Windows 10 Creators)? Is there a more appropriate .iso file I should be using? Is there a more appropriate .iso file I should be using? Thank you.
I'm looking for a setup where any new screen sharing (VNC) connection to macOS Sierra will create a new session, instead of sharing the session with the user that is physically logged in. What I got so far is this: if I activate the legacy VNC support (using a shared password), then connecting using a VNC client will not attempt to take over the existing session, but create a new one.
My apologies if the question is a bit trivial, but I am new to OS X and Mac ecosystem. In order to be compliant with best practices at work, I have been requested to disable SMB1 protocol client side. The SMB protocol itself is pretty important for our group's workflow since we use it to connect to a shared drive where all of long-term storage and shared files. The issue is that with that regards, Google was of no help to me - whereas I found instructions to disable SMB altogether, there is nothing relative to SMB1 specifically.
I was unable to google what the possibilities of this separate "chrome on mobile" task in the cmd-tab app switcher is. What's it supposed to do?
for printing fotographs I use a script that outputs the images in the colorspace of the printer. I print them using ColorSync where I set Color to "Print as color target". This works fine, but when printing several pages I have to repeat the sequence of opening the image with Colorsync, setting Color to "Print as color target", etc. for every single image. For a multipage document I would like to issue just a single print command.
I just downloaded Office 365 for Mac, and tried to install it in macOS Sierra 10.12.5. The installation froze when Running Package Scripts.
My wife has an iPhone with little storage and has iCloud Photo Library enabled on her Mac and iPhone. Recently it's been hitting the limit of the phones storage and breaking other apps. I would have thought that Photos would be smart enough to keep on thumbnails of the oldest photos, but about 80% of the phone storage is Photos.app and it just keeps downloading more.
Im trying to transfer large amount of data (4.36GB ISO) from 2016 MBP with ThunderBolt 3 (using the official Apple dongle) to a Kingston USB 3.1 Gen1 (USB 3.0) stick, but it is taking over 2 hours (estimated) to complete. The USB stick is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and has 8GB free space. What could be the cause for this slow transfer?
I have a mid-2010 27" iMac with macOS 10.12.5 and an external DVD - USB SuperDrive (the internal DVD drive is broken). I can't install Windows 7 from DVD with Bootcamp. After downloading support software to USB flash drive via BootCamp Assistant, I get an error on restart: No bootable device -- Insert boot disk and press any key. What can I do?
This school iPad is not letting me get games or anything like that so I'm asking how can you transfer games from a mac computer onto a school iPad?
I'd like to use Migration Assistant to migrate data from a Late 2016 13" MacBook Pro to a 2009 Mac Pro. The only connection options I see possibly working are gigabit ethernet or USB.
Mac's caffeinate tool accepts the name of a utility: caffeinate sleep 1, for instance. Is there any way for it to accept a function as well? For example:
I have a MacBookPro11,2 connected via HDMI to a 4K television. I would like to try driving the display at various resolutions and frequencies, to see if that might alleviate some problems with signal stability. However the Displays prefpane only offers me a list of "scaled" resolutions, all of which are interpolated up to 4K, meaning the HDMI signal and monitor are still operating at 4K. Is it possible to foce the HDMI output to a specific (lower) resolution/refresh rate?
I have recently been in terminal and somehow I lost my Mac name. It's showing a strange IP followed by some numbers. My computer's name is "my-xxx-macbook-pro." When I type hostname I receive: ip-10-xx-xx-xxx.us-west-2.compute.internal I have been working in AWS a lot to try to develop some products. How do I get back to my computer in terminal?
I have 20GB left on my OSX Macbook Pro so I bought the Transcend JetDrive sd card for extra memory. The iPhone iOS 10 back up takes about 80GB and would like to move it to that external memory drive. Moving is not a problem because I can manually locate the file, but is there a way to automatically backup my iPhone to that new location?
From the Mac, I can ssh into both the MacBook and the Linux box, but I am unable to ssh from the MacBook or the Linux box into the Mac (connection timeout). Remote Login is enabled in the Sharing preferences pane. I can ssh from Mac into itself (ssh localhost, ssh <local_ip>), so the daemon must be up.
ericholsinger.com/install-ffmpeg-on-a-mac - has a long & detailed steps on what they say to do. but then there's, idiotinside.com/2016/05/01/ffmpeg-mac-os-x - which claims its much easier to use something called "homebrew". but then there's, oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/Easiest-Way-To-Install-FFmpeg-On-Mac-OS-X - which also says to use homebrew but says you have to have "Xcode" first. but then there's, ...take your pick; there's just way too many options & this just seems way more complex than it seems it should be. so, can anybody boil this down to a simple/easy way to use this program on a Mac?
Can Airport Time Capsule encrypted backups be hacked open from internet ? How secure are the encrypted Airport Time Capsule backups exactly ? Any official docs anyone knows of ? Thanks !
I work in an organization that runs a Windows network of 1000s of computers with Windows 7 installed. We have lots of SMB share drives that store information. My job is a new role for a graphic design area and I've been setup with an iMac.
On my linux computer I am able to copy text to the clipboard with the command "+y. How do I do the same on Mac?
This is what I see on iphone:   but on macbook I do not see my gmail events. Why?
I want my applications to be moved between workspaces with only keyboard in MAC OS SIERRA Is it possible to move application to next workspace by any open source free tools ? any alfred workflows? using bettertouch tool This is possible in ubuntu via compiz-plugins-manager software or just using awesome unity hud :) more information As there are possible duplicates of this question mentioned below in the comment section and none of them have answers which works with only key board. My question is whether the software utilities mentioned above alfredapp, bettertouchtool can be extended somehow to move applications between workspaces ?
On my mac I can't login to App Store, iTunes , Xcode , iClouds. Tried using different Apple id but i keep getting error.
I am getting kernel panics on reboots for a few weeks now. They seem to be caused by an Oracle kernel extensions(I will add an image of the stacktrace). I am using a MacBook Pro 15" retina mid 2014 model with MacOS Sierra.
I logged into iCloud today, and the two factor auth code was sent to the same mac that i logged into iCloud with. My iPhone was right next to me with a full signal, but did not receive the code.
curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URLs. It is installed on my system as version 7.51.0. According to the tool's homepage, its current version number is 7.54.0. I'd like to update my copy of this tool to the latest version. According to the Releases and Downloads page of curl's website, the latest version can be installed on Mac OS X using Homebrew.
Everytime when I am running Matlab (2016a) on my Mac (Air Mid 2013, Sierra 10.12.5) in fullscreen mode, Matlab freezes when I connect my laptop to my external monitor. The fullscreen window stays in the old (smaller) dimensions and has black around it. I cannot take a full screenshot of it since it's frozen, but I can make a picture when I minimize it. It looks like this:
My girlfriend's MacBook Pro randomly stops responding - everything on the laptop keeps working as per usual (i.e. video will continue to play as if nothing was wrong) but absolutely no keyboard inputs or trackpad movements are registered - the only thing we can do is hold down the power button to force turn off the Mac then restart it.
I would like to show the function keys when using the terminal app. However, when I use system preferences to try to set this up in Keyboard Shortcuts, the Terminal app is not selectable. Screenshots:
I have a late 2013 15 inch MacBook Pro I bought off Amazon used. It has a core i7 2.0 Ghz processor and 16 GB of RAM. It's running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4. The battery cycle count is 414.
Just out of culture: Is it possible to use an USB-C to VGA adapter with the 4th generation Apple-TV by placing the adapter in the USB-C service port?
I opened Bluetooth preferences, right clicked on device and selected rename. I provided new name in the textbox and clicked on rename button. It did not change the name. I tried like 100 times, it didn't work. I am on macOS Sierra 10.12.5.
My Safari app is missing from my iPhone. How do I get it back with all my bookmarks and history?
I noticed the swap file went missing after the latest update to Sierra (10.12.5) though swap seems to be working. Has anyone else seen this behavior?
It also doesn't say, "Search done, found X results" or "Search in progress", or anything. There's no pinwheel, no information. I have no idea whether it's still preforming a search or not.
basically I'm looking to press a single keyboard shortcut, similar to Cmd+Shift+4, except rather than having to draw my own box, I'd like a box of a predefined dimension appear, such as 300px x 300px that I can move around. Or an alternative would be to have Cmd+Shift+4 work at a fixed aspect ratio, for example hold down alt and it will be locked to 1:1 The only tool I've found to do this is Snapz X Pro but the price is a bit crazy when I only need it for make screen snips.
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On both accounts, the trackball stops tracking. It'll move the cursor for a while and then stop mid-motion. The buttons still work.
I'm trying to track a problem with my wife's iPhone Photos app taking about 7GB despite "Optimize storage" being enabled. I want to compare her phone to mine since I suspect that it's storage full res versions.
As of today, when I connect iPhone to Mac to sync something weird happens. The phone seems to think it needs to copy all 10,000 tracks. It does so, takes 90 mins. Finishes with no error messages. And when I disconnect from the Mac, iPhone says it has no songs/music stored on the phone.
One of our Macs is having issues displaying message text in Mail. At startup, the messages appear normally for a short while, then suddenly "flip" to display all the text as boxes containing question marks. I was able to watch it happen, then retrieved the following line from the system log stamped at the same time: Jun 2 14:04:22 dyn-144-92-105-238 com.apple.PerformanceAnalysis.animationperfd[252]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[EVFILT_MACHPORT] monitored resource vanished before the source cancel handler was invoked
I have a mini iPad from apple for a few years now and never once has it played up. This morning however it refused to turn on (it was working fine last night). I have been charging it almost all day so it can't be out of charge. I have also held the power and home button for forever but nothing has happened at all. I'm stressing so if someone could hep I would be very grateful. I have tried a lot of things so I'm almost out of hope. I don't want to take it into the apple store just yet so I'm hoping you have something for me. Thank you.
I would like to print a PDF document, so that four pages of the docoument is printed on one A4 page. (It is 26 pages all in all, so I want to have 7 papers printed having four pages from the pdf on each and having two on the last one). How is it possible to set?
I often use Keynote's 3D charts. I find the rendering quality, precision of perspectives and speed to be similar to the results one would get from an actual 3D engine. Are these graphics produced by a basic 3D engine within Keynote, or are these complex images produced by the CoreGraphics engine?
My iMac has been running very slow since purchase. I've done all the tests and checks I can think of, below is a copy of the EtreCheck report that was done today. Reviewing it, other than not enough RAM (which is not fixable) I'm not sure what else to do.
I have in the offices an Apple TV with a custom app that allows each office to see a dashboard with data. The problem is that this data is in the main server, in the office headquarters. Is there any way I can setup a PPTP/L2TP VPN connection (something always on) in the Apple TV so that the app could gather the data from the main server?
It is possible to change the spelling dictionary to either British (-ise) or American (-ize) as shown in the solution to this post. However, I would like to use British spelling with -ize variant (recalled as en_GB-ize in some dictionaries). Is there a way to set this language in Mac?
I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. In Windows Internet Explorer I can go to the View menu and select Source as in to “view source”. This opens a window showing me the html code of the page I am visiting, just like in the screenshot below:
Is there a way to recover unsaved data typed on a web form on ipad which was lost when Safari automatically reloaded? I do not have the skills to recover lost data (if that is even possible) but if there is a theoretical probability I want to give this a go. How can I preserve the contents of my ipad's RAM or Safari's cache so I can analyse them at a later date?
Something is wrong with spctl the underlying command line utility which manages security policies. See below. Problem with spctl:
I would like to stretch the same image across multiple monitors.. how do i do that?
Does the amount of iCloud space need to be able to fit the current backup PLUS the new one? I'm assuming the answer is yes but since backups appear to overwrite each other I'm questioning that. Problem being that I keep getting a message saying that there's not enough iCloud storage and that my backup failed. If I have 5Gb of iCloud storage and 1.9Gb free with nothing else other than my current device back up in theory it should be plenty of space
It seems iCloud stopped to sync from/to Windows. Why? In Windows I see the following picture: The iCloud account is running on 1 Macbook, 1 iPad and 1 Windows pc. I'm waiting for a couple of days already and I see no network traffic indicating something going in/out on Windows.
My MacBook Pro battery is not charging for days. It only stops at 8% (not increase or decrease) when I plug in.
It seems USB Prober.app is no longer a part of Xcode, and iOUSBFamily hasn't been updated since 10.9.4... is there anything equivalent available for High Sierra?
I had updated my Mac 3 days back from El Capitan to Sierra. I had dual boot(Ubuntu + OSX). Before the update it was working perfectly with default boot as Ubuntu and by pressing option key I had OSX booted. But after the update I cannot boot Ubuntu. I have important files in Ubuntu, please help me.
If I erase my Sierra OS startup disk, will it erase the Parallels partition too? I can't seem to find an answer anywhere.
How do you do this please? This quora answer instructs on how to create a shortcut to a sheet in safari, but how about creating a shortcut to a sheet in the sheets app?
I'm stumped. Maybe the power that comes from the wall is introducing interference? I'm using an Australian charger with an adapter on a German wall socket if that helps. Added Speed-test results Test 1 Without Charger Download 21.00Mbps Upload 4.79Mbps Test 2 With Charger ---- Download _6.72Mbps Upload 3.35Mbps Test 3 Without Charger Download 22.61Mbps Upload 4.70Mbps Test 4 With Charger ---- Download 21.85Mbps Upload 4.59Mbps Test 5 Without Charger Download 22.69Mbps Upload 4.50Mbps Test 6 With Charger ---- Download _2.89Mbps Upload Failed
macOS seems to recognize WebP images as such, and seems like it actually tries to display previews of them, but always fails.  They are also associated with Preview application, just like other image formats, but Preview also chokes on it (without any error messages, it just silently fails to open a window). Does it mean that it's intended to actually work but it fails just on my system for some reason? In my case, the WebP images are lossless and not animated.
I would like to perform daily snapshots that I can revert to if someone: downloads Malware installs buggy software etc.
Recently, i opened my Macbook Pro (mid 2012) and it had a file with a question mark flashing. I did an internet recovery and i am currently using OS X mavericks that's on a USB. Immediately i went to disk utility, where i erased the /dev/disk0 but not the hard drive itself. disk utility isn't showing my internal hard drive and only the 32GB memory stick I'm running mavericks on. My hard drive is making a weird electrical noises and clicking. Without the USB my mac does not boot up. I can't see my hard drive in disk utility (not even in terminal). It's as if my 500GB hard drive has been rendered useless. What should I do?
Does macOS' dictionary app support visual dictionaries? Is there any English-English visual dictionary available for it?
I know there's an option to keep folders on top when arranging by name, but I like to arrange by date. When I do, I'd prefer not to have folders separated by date, but to always keep them on top.
I have an msata SSD and a 2010 macbook pro. Is there an mSata to Sata adapter that would work with a 2010 macbook pro?
I've got a Mac mini for temp/freelance staff to use while they were working in the office. After a few years there's quite a few accounts on the Mac mini which are no longer required. I don't want to delete them as there may be useful data in there, but I don't have time to do a full check/audit. Is it possible to hide an account from the login screen where you can see all the users? The mac mini is running macOS Sierra.
I'm trying to create an Apple ID from a used iPhone 5 that I have purchased but it's failing. After failing on the iPhone I tried to create one from the website but I'm always getting an "An unknown error has occurred" No clue on how to solve it.
Current I am running I have the new shell in and I can run it directly with I have done
I have wiped my wife's HD in preparation for selling her 2 hear old MacBook Pro. I am trying to reinstall El Capitan using my Apple ID and I keep getting a message that El Capitan is temporarily unavailable. I have tried my daughters ID as well and get the same message. Each time, we have been sent a password to our iPhones which we have entered on the MacBook to authenticate us.
Short of figuring out how to achieve a dual boot configuration for my mid-2012 2GHz i7 MacBook Air to boot to a Linux OS, I've made a "live" boot USB with Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS using UNetbootin. I would, however, like a "persistent" boot USB. Can this be done? So far I have tried the following to modify the "live" USB but would I be better off making a persistent USB on Windows and hoping it runs on Sierra? Per these Enterprise Installation instructions (from version 0.4.0), this seems like it might be an option:
I've searched everywhere in the Trackpad settings and am not able to find anything that suggests I can do a horizontal scroll on a MacBook Pro (2015). Is this possible in macOS? If not, are there any third party tools that could make this happen?
I'm trying to Homebrew my Nintendo Wii, and a 2 GB or under SD card is required. However, the Wii will also recognize 4 GB cards if enough junk is put on it. I'm attempting to do this with my Optima 4GB SD Card (goo.gl/qqJn8p) on Mac OS X, El Capitan (v. 10.11.6). After formatting it to ExFAT, I put a 1.28 GB file on the card. Everything went smoothly. The next time I tried, though, I got an error saying that there wasn't enough space, even though there's plenty left. Here's a screenshot of the SD card info.
Why doesn't my iPhone 4s have any iOS software updates available? How can I update this phone some other way?
I'm trying to lock my workstation but when I look for one or Google for any other buttons/keyboard shortcuts, either none of them work or they are not present on my screen. I don't see any options besides logoff, shutdown, restart, standby. Resuming from standby does not lock the workstation either. I've been Googling for like half an hour now and nothing works. How can I lock my workstation without logging off completely?
I often receive photos in Messages that I would like to forward to others via eamil. Currently I am using a copy/paste method but frequently I get multiple copies of the photo pasted. Any suggestions on how I can message photos by sharing/exporting directly to Apple Mail from the Messages app?
I want to delete all keychain passwords. I want to use my computer without any keychains.
I am trying to connect to a remote server via SSH using a private key. However, it is not working. It fails and finally asks for my password to authenticate to the remote server. I have set this up on on a different remote server previously with zero problems. I was able to figure out how to enable verbose output from the attempted connection. Here is what I think is the relevant output: Any idea what is wrong?
Messages.app suddenly stopped showing notification banners for the incoming iMessages (no sound either). The only visual notification is the badge on the icon. Further details: macOS 10.12.5 Messages.app has only one (iMessage) account assigned to it Do Not Disturb is off
I plan to find an old iPhone to make my record player connect to Airplay. Is that possible?
My system: MacBook Pro (15inch 2016) Sierra 10.12.5.
I've 2 accounts in bitbucket and want to use both of them in bot xcode and terminal. I tried setup ~/.ssh/config, so it worked in terminal with a specific custom hostname Host bitbucket-myAccount2. But xcode couldn't understand the host bitbucket-myAccount2, so it couldn't do the work (pull, push...) with that host. How do I config so xcode work with that? ==========================
Is there any software esp. forensics and such, that allow me to unlock a disabled iPhone from putting in too many wrong attempts. I know the correct PIN but I don't want to reset it since this contains VERY important data. The screen says iPhone is disabled, and connect to iTunes, but before I do that I just wanted to inquire.
I'm developing a custom dictionary add-on to add to Mac's Dictionary.app. I would want my user to report dictionary add-on's errors or his/her comments (if any) to me as the developer. So far, I have been using the following AppleScript to send such reports to me using Mail.app.
I have a large series of web pages to capture for documentation. Unfortunately it is mostly an interactive process, but can be repeated rather quickly. At the moment I am using the dreaded "Awesome Screenshot" extension because it has had the shortest path to the desired result so far, but yet it still has an extra step that I would like to eliminate. Presently when I click the "Awesome Screenshot" button in my toolbar I get an annotation page with the screenshot (this is the step I'd like to eliminate) and then upon clicking Done, I then get a draggable image. Essentially I want to be able to initiate a shortcut (either by keypress or button click) and then immediately have an image to paste or drag into a document (e.g., in my case I want to paste it into PDFPen Pro to add it to the sequence). Is there a way to shortcut this process in Safari, or any other browser on macOS for that matter, that will allow me to capture the visible portion of a webpage immediately to the pasteboard or
About a month ago I bought this MacBook. Light colours are very light, dark colours are very light. I don't see difference between between some. In Finder I don't see lines: But under shadows: I tried to reset NVRAM by holding Option+Command+P+R till boot, trying to calibrate display in expert mode, but it doesn't nothing radically changed. I'm tired and it driving me crazy :(
I'm looking at two fonts that come with macOS: Chalkboard and Chalkboard SE. What does the "SE" stand for?
I have a mac mini (mid 2011) with some strange sleep behaviour: Basically whenever (~90% of the time) it tries to go to sleep, it reboots. It also does the same if you hit shutdown. I assume hitting reboot causes this strange reboot behaviour, but hard to tell! Then when it's booting, it sometimes (~50% of the time) ends up in a boot loop - with the progress bar getting to about 30% before it reboots. If I get it to boot in verbose mode, after a couple of cycles, it boots. It will always boot in safe mode. The only thing I've found is the shutdown reason of -128 (unknown/other). I think it's RAM based, is there anyway to be more sure other than buying new RAM? It's definitely not OS or disc based since I've installed fresh OS's of different versions (Yosemite, Mavericks, macOS) and on it's two different internal drives.
iPhone Photos is not finishing analysing faces. It says :
I have an iPhone 6s Plus and it won't let me FaceTime my son's Gmail account that he uses on his iPad Mini. I checked both of our settings and everything looks good. He is signed in to iCloud/Apple ID; I can text him with my iPhone; I also can FaceTime him through my MacBook but just not through my iPhone.
How would I connect to another computer through SSH in one line? If I were to do ssh host@IP, it would require me to enter the password in the second line. I was thinking that I could do something like this: ssh host@IP | echo password, but that puts the password in before asking for the password.
On macOS in the Finder, one can see when an app was last opened. But suppose I have just opened the app and want to know the open history of the whole day, or of the past two days. Is it possible to find that out? Also, can I find the total time this app was active in the past x days? Given two answers suggest using apps for this, is it possible "just" by using the standard pre-installed apps from apple?
How would I find the command path for exit? I have already tried which exit but that returns nothing (it just goes to a new line). I have also played around cd /usr/bin, and when in that directory using ls -R, but I haven't found it.
Photos of "Patricia" are now listed as if they were dozens of different "Patricia" -- even though the name for each "person" is exactly the same. How can I combine all of these into a single record?
I have some Thunderbolt drives that I connect to the back of my monitor. Now the drives only work when plugged directly into the Mac. Is there any way I can reset the Thunderbolt monitor in a way that will permit me to see the drives?
I am using Safari version 9.0.3 on Mac OS X El Capitan version 10.11.3. I had dozens of Safari windows and tabs open when it became unresponsive. In the past I could force quit and then the session would automatically restore at the next launch of Safari. However, this time Safari was still unresponsive after force quitting and relaunching (the whole system was having difficulty at this point), so I force quit Safari a second time. Now the last session windows are gone, and the history menu option to restore it is greyed out.
I have just bootcamped my Mac using the Windows 10 ISO and can not find any setting to change the scroll direction to the MacOS way. I have tried other answers on here but they were for Windows 7 and 8 respectively and did not work. Is there a way to change the scroll direction for Windows 10 Bootcamp?
I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. I've just been given a 27" iMac (it's a mid 2011 model) by someone who no longer needs it. It has 4 memory slots and presently two are occupied with 2Gb modules each (4Gb total RAM).
I have been having an issue with the Music app since Apple debuted it. For some reason it "hides" some artists and albums from showing up in their respective tabs on that app. This includes the general Songs tab, as well. They are definitely on the phone, as I can search them and find them using the Search tab at the bottom.
I want to transfer all photos from my old iPhone 6 to a new iPhone 7 Plus(both running iOS 10.3.2, if relevant). Since my iCloud is full, I first thought about iTunes, but many photos are shown as blank after backing up the old iPhone and restoring data to the new one via iTunes:
I am having a Macbook Air and using OS EXL 1.11.6. The mail box size is 164 GB but on Hard Disk its showing 267 GB. This extra usage is eating my hard disk space. Please suggest why is this and how to clear this extra space used on hard disk.
How can I make my touch bar ALWAYS show the Volume Down, Volume Up, Brightness Down, Brightness Up buttons? I absolutely hate having to touch the button, look down at the slider, and try to drag it into the right position. Is it possible for me just to show these controls by default (basically the old keyboard layout)?
I am traveling abroad next week and in order to preserve data, I want to download all music that I 'own' on iTunes Music to my device. So I want to avoid downloading each song one by one. One trick I can think of is to create a playlist of all songs and then hopefully I can download this new playlist so that all un-downloaded music will be downloaded. Is there a better way to easily and quickly download all music at once?
I am going on a road trip through the national parks in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. I need to take my laptop with me for work. How do I keep it safe in the heat of the car as we drive?
My MacBook Pro (2011, 10.9.5) is suddenly unable to connect to my ISP. When I ran the Diagnostics, it could NOT find any Base stations, most importantly, my own. All of the other hardware pieces connected to my network (iMac, e-HP3830) had no problem connecting with the Base station and therefore none connecting to my ISP.
Downloaded the font manager FontYou, but since then the creators shut it down. I get an error message on startup from FontYou so have been trying to uninstall the app. I try to delete it in applications but get the message that I can't because the app is running. I tried to force quit through Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor but this isn't working either. What else can I do? Thanks!
One of my favorite Windows features is the ability to slam a program into the side of the screen to auto-resize it to fill that half of the screen. Is there any program I can download for Mac that makes this feature available on macOS?
I opened a Word file using the TextEdit app, highlighted what I needed from the article, pressed "Save" and moved it to the desktop before I closed the file itself. And then I tried to reopen it but there was nothing highlighted and all of my work has been deleted!
This is a 3 TB external Seagate hard drive formatted in Mac's Disk Utility as a single non bootable exFAT partition. It got unplugged from the computer and now the computer is unable to read it. sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk4: Is it possible to recover the hard drive?
I'm trying to modify a few settings via the default write command, Enable all controls
When we tried to open a new "Organization" account, we received the following response: We've withdrawn this enrollment because ████████ Ltd is already a member of the Apple Developer Program. Companies may hold only one membership in the Apple Developer Program.
I am not able to download any extension after resetting safari by the following way:(Mac Sierra 10.12.5 safari 10.1.1) 1.Clear website data 2.then quit safari 3.Then Click safari once while holding shift key 4. Then deleting the safari folder in library 5.At last a Restart Then I went to download wipr safari extension but the I tall button is not there.
I want to have the most # of backups of my actual files, not of temporary files, and easily restorable data. What can I exclude from a Time Machine backup to get the most efficient backups? (I use VMs, so tips for Parallels, Virtual Box, etc, are welcome) In the sample below, I blocked Backups of all Drive sync technology (Google Drive, One Drive, etc)
I have a problem with my Bootcamp partition. I decided to delete it because I don't use Windows anymore. I went through Bootcamp Assistant, tried to uninstall Windows but didn't work that way. So I formated with Disk Utility my 40 GB Bootcamp Partition and it's now empty.
This is really frustrating me. I have a Microsoft Sculpt USB keyboard and have just got a new Macbook Pro with touch bar, and it is just not pairing with the keyboard.
No, sorry. I'm still waiting on Tohuw to provide detailed advice on section 4. Tohuw (07:10 5 June 2017)
We are a small business and provide Iphones to some of our employees with the understanding that the business will pay for all the data consumed by specific apps. Is there a centralized management tool to capture this type of info, or a decentralized application that will transmit this data as needed to another interface? Our business is only concerned with these metrics and doesn't want to get consumed with a full mdm suite.
Lines have been appearing on my Mac Book Pro. I took a screenshot of this and after I took the screenshot more lines were added to it: I have been told that this is a graphics card problem. Is there a way to confirm this?
Color replacement tool in Photoshop CC missing. It's usually behind the brush tool. Just updated and it's still missing. It's there on my desktop Mac, but it's missing on my MacBook Pro. How do I find where to sync settings and/or find that control on Photoshop?
I have a Facebook Events calendar in Google Calendar, but the Calendar app won't synchronize it. It will sync all the other calendars like Meetup, ZipCar, etc, but not Facebook. The Facebook calendar won't even show up in the phone. I disconnected the account and re-connected it again but it still fails to show up. It does show up in the Google Calendar web page.
I've looked here Reduce minimum and here Minimum volume too loud And did not find a solution to this issue - minimum volume on my bluetooth headset paired with my iPhone is too loud when listening to streaming app like Pandora. One limited solution that should work with wired or wireless headsets - if you listen with just one earpiece:
I use a slightly weird setup where I will connect from my Mac laptop to a linux machine, using ssh -X, and from there connect to a Windows machine using rdesktop. This works just fine, but whenever I update Mac OS (even minor upgrades), I find I have to re-install XQuartz. If I don't, rdesktop fails with the message ERROR: Failed to open display:. After I re-install XQuartz, it works as expected (no reboot or log out or anything, just opening a new connection with ssh -X).
I have a FreeNAS server, with an SMB share and "Windows" dataset. I am consolidating data, including Apple Photos libraries onto the FreeNAS server. However, as I copy the libraries off of the HFS+ formatted Drobos using rsync, I get all kinds of error messages. The rsync command I used: sudo rsync -vaE --progress /Volumes/SourceName /Volumes/DestinationName Error type 1 (hundreds, if not thousands of these): copyfile(Unfiled/Backup of iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto Library/Database/Folders/.._390C4171-0F85-427D-972C-B36A8A0BBC4D.apfolder.MxAS1I,Unfiled/Backup of iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto Library/Database/Folders/390C4171-0F85-427D-972C-B36A8A0BBC4D.apfolder, COPYFILE_UNPACK) failed:45 Error type 2 (hundreds, if not thousands of these): rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/Archive/Drobo Gen 3/Unfiled/Restored iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto Library/iLifeShared/.._ApertureDatabaseTimestamp.XLAzek" failed: No such file or directory (2)
I would like to enable a different keyboard layout for one-handed use. I know it's possible, since it was mentioned at WWDC 2017, but how do I do it? Settings doesn’t have an option to enable a one-handed keyboard:
I noticed a cfprefsd process owned by root using 26% CPU constantly. I saw this SuperUser thread that suggested using fs_usage to find out what process might be involved. In my case, it showed that it's repeatedly rewriting the file /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.xpc.activity2.plist. Any idea what application could be triggering this? When I convert that plist file to readable format with plutil -p, it shows:
I want it to speak the word without selecting it, just hovering over it + a shortcut. Or by pressing a shortcut after using the lookup feature in Mac.
I have an old Airport Express (copyright information says 2008) that I have set up as purely an Airplay slave: my main router (not Apple) runs network, IP, DNS, etc, and the Airport connects via an ethernet cable to the router, allowing me to hook some speakers to the network via Airplay. Unfortunately, I have forgotten the password to the device. I want to reset it so I can apply system updates and the like, but I don't remember how I set up the device in the first place, and am loathe to touch it until I know I can replicate its current configuration. What do I need to do?
I'm running a 2009 13in Macbook running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with a USB keyboard attached. I'm noticing often that, while my macbook is closed. The fan turns on and off repeatedly and is hot. It's been happening for a long time now, though I'm just now deciding to consider that it's something to look into more. Can anyone help me to figure this out? I don't understand what any of the information means when I read the logs; I have never dived that deep into the computer world. From a few searches, I found that this might be related to Watchdog Daemon? When I first saw that I thought my computer was getting hacked. Same with things like: I'm running a 2009 13in Macbook running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with a USB keyboard attached. Here are some system logs: FAN TURNS ON: FAN TURNS OFF: FAN TURNS ON: FAN TURNS OFF: FAN TURNS ON: FAN TURNS OFF: And so it goes...
I am wondering why my MacBook pro retina screen gets cut off from the sides while connecting an external monitor. My monitor is LCD 1280 x 1024 resolution connected via display port to VGA adapter. Other monitors I have used with same resolution do not give same issue. Other monitor I tried was bigger in screen size but same resolution. Please explain. I have attached image of what happens.
I've installed the macOS Developer Beta Access Utility (.pkg file) from Apple Developer's official website. Upon completing installation, it opens the Mac App Store to the macOS High Sierra installation page automatically.
I inherited a Mac Pro 5.1. I originally planned to use ubuntu on it. Which I did.
I have macOSSierra 10.12.5, I have checked the keyboard shortcuts in system preferences and Cmd ⌘ ` (command + backtick) is enabled indeed! Yet, when I open two finder windows (not the tabs), I cannot cycle between them. I explicitly have to right click on the finder icon in the doc and select one of the open folders. This is bad, really bad for productivity, since I have to switch every time between mouse and keyboard. Is there a way out of this ? Thanks
What are the benefits of buying iCloud storage ? What's the point? What is it for? I bought some and I unfortunately thought it would give me more space for apps or photos but it still says I don't have storage so I guess not I just like to know what's the point of it what is it used for and if there are any other ways to free up space without deleting stuff.
In list elements inside System Preferences, I see a "plus" and a "minus" to add or remove elements (see photo below for example of Networking System Preferences).  In Windows these are usually associated with Insert / Delete or AltA / AltD. Is there keyboard shortcuts for these keys? I am trying to add keyboard shortcuts in preference without using a mouse but I have to rely on tab key to achieve this.
What are the sharingd and sharedfilelistd and why are they running?  I'm on OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
So I recently learned here that HFS+ is case-insensitive but the APFS on iOS is case-sensitive. Is there a publically accessible documentation/reference which describes how APFS does handle upper/lower case file names on macOS? Or has somebody tried on Sierra already and can provide examples?
I want to try updating my MacBook Pro 13" (2013) from Mavericks to Sierra but I am afraid of performance issues. So I would like to be able to downgrade easily if I like.
I have backed up my developer certificates. I have reinstall macOS Sierra. I have installed again my developer certificates in keychain. when I try to add my safari extension via extension builder, it says No Safari Extensions Certificate.
I would like to know whether customising MacBook Pro 13inch (2017 version) to 16GB RAM i7 7th gen processor 1TB SSD would have any implications on it's performance, especially in terms of battery life.
3 days ago I submitted app for review, and it still waits for apple's review. Now there is a WWDC in Cupertino. Is it mean that Apple stopped reviewing apps while conference?
I have a new MBP 15 inch, 2017 w/touchbar (MacOS 10.12.5) and it restarts randomly during sleep. I could not find any pattern in kernel panic logs (few latest attached).
Also: Before anyone mentions it, please know that I looked into "Recovery Partition Creator" v4.0.4 to re-construct the recovery partition, but from what I've read I would have to disable Filevault encryption on my system disk so that it can install the partition. Is this the case, or will it work with my Filevault v2 enabled system? Also, I do have a recovery disk installed after all and haven't tinkered with it since I installed macOS 10.12.5 from scratch.
What are the safest commands to use with rsync to copy from one hard drive, all its content to a new hard drive, both external through my Mac. The important thing is I want to be sure permissions and privileges won't risk denying me access in the future if I try to access files on a different computer with a different user account for ex.
Yesterday I found a Twentieth Anniversary Mac in my Nonna's basement. Apparently it's been there since 2002. I was very curious about this and I Googled it and found that it was a special edition.
I have a 2010 MacBook Air with a black horizontal line across the screen. as shown in the photo below. I don't know when it started; I just remember that I opened the lid today and saw it with the stripe.
My MacBook won't boot. I did some research online and I realized that this is a common bug. It seems that sometimes the OS starts with a blank screen. I have tried all sorts of troubleshooting but it still does not work. My final solution was to reinstall the OS using the Recovery Mode (boot and press the CommandR) but this also, unfortunately, does not work. When I tried to reinstall the OS via the Recovery Mode, I get an error message that my disk is encrypted by FileVault encryption despite having entered my normal login password.
I've been using my 2.5" 1TB external GoFlex HD on my Mac and it has been running pretty fine until last week when it stopped mounting out of the blue. BTW It is NTFS-formatted because from time to time I freelance on companies where there's Windows and I can't have it Mac-formatted. The thing is that I can hear the noise it usually makes but it seems not enough power goes through or something power-related just stopped working.
Step one, open App Store control panel: Step two, click CHANGE under beta updates:  Step three, click DO NOT SHOW BETA SOFTWARE:
I was wondering if someone had any ideas on how (like the title says) I could schedule an app to open, say every hour. Workflow app unfortunately does not support the app I need opened.
My iPad is unable to be turned off due to the power button not functioning, online forums said the solution was to add assistive touch to my home screen and use the lock screen button under the devices option. Even that wouldn't turn off my iPad, I have tried resetting it but that doesn't work. I don't understand why assistive touch wouldn't work. Should I do a factory reset in case it is a software problem?
Longtime Keynote user, and I'm starting to turn many of my Keynotes into movies that I can drop into Screenflow (a video editing app). I'm doing a lot of animated text instruction videos, and wondering if there's a way to create a keynote that has a clear transparent background, so that if I add other images into the Screenflow timeline, they can appear in the background of the Keynote movie. I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but I wanted to ask. Adding text into Screenflow is 10x slower than Keynote. Keynote really is the best text animator I've found for videos.
When I finish changing the icon in Liteicon, I select the menu item: 'Clear Icon Cache and Log Out.' Also, I have tried these commands in Terminal:
The holes of the speakers in the MacBook Pro (the recent model) are closed by dust. Is there a good way to clean them?
Is there a way to connect my apple ball speakers to my MacBookPro? The speakers have a 2.5mm jack but the MacBook Pro has a USB port. Thanks!
How can I force my screen to use a 16:9 aspect ratio? I don't mind seeing black bars above and beneath the screen content.
So I am trying to wipe an old Macbook clean before giving it away to charity or recycling but I am having some issues. For my PCs I have used DBAN successfully and I was hoping to use it here as well. But Macbook refuses to boot from my DBAN Usb drive! When i restart and hold the "alt" button I get into the "boot menu" but I can only choose from my standard HD. Any suggestions?
The reason i want to do the above is because i want to block incoming and outgoing network traffic for a few applications. I can do this no problem with Little Snitch, but if i turn Little Snitch on it will by default block all network traffic and require each connection to be manually approved. To get around this i would setup the "allow any process" incoming and outgoing traffic rights. This way all incoming / outgoing is allowed as a global rule, but certain apps are blocked as a specific rule.
How can I find the total number of songs in my Apple Music library (both downloaded and not downloaded songs)? If I go to Settings > General > About, I can find the number of downloaded songs, but I also want to know the number of not downloaded songs that are in my library.
Whenever I go to sync my photos to my computer I see all "pocket photos", screenshots no longer needed, and duplicate shots I'd prefer to delete. However I can't do this from my computer where it would be sooooo much easier. This is not just because of the UX, but also because you can see the images larger.
I have a few Thunderbolt 1/2 devices (eSata connectors, DVI/HDMI connectors, etc.) I still have an older device that uses these connectors. Now I'm using a new MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3. I noticed that there is a Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter at the Apple store. Will it work with any devices?
I have a bootable Windows 10 USB that I bought at Best Buy. Is there any way to install and virtualize it on my Mac?
It has to have an old stick in to be able to boot. When it boots the RAM shows as 6GB and seems to have no issues. So what's the deal and how common is it that the RAM is "just bad" and has to be exchanged? (See attached images for clarification)
Peer-to-peer Apple Pay was announced during the 2017 WWDC keynote. How does the money enter your Apple Pay account in the first place?
I'm getting electric shocks/strong tingling sensation with my Macbook Pro whenever the power chord is plugged. It happens all the time, anywhere, and is unrelated to wearing shoes or not. It's disturbing enough to prevent normal use, and really makes me wonder if it is a health hazard (what's the limit again for DC, 30 milliamps before you're history?).
I tried to add the control trigger, however. But the window box (currently ⌘⌥4 is shown) seems to not accept only the peripheral key like control, alt, or command.
I share my work calendar on iCal with my wife (synced with iCloud). Every time I add an event to that calendar, my wife’s iPad plays a sound. Because I live in Europe but work for a company in the US, this often happens in the middle of the night for us, and the pings wake her up. Is there a way to disable these sound notifications on her iPad?
I would like to cancel the Alfred search by ⌃+C on Keyboard Maestro. On Karabiner, you can set Alfred as only and set your keyboard settings.
My MBP has been for service once, I believe they changed a cable between the trackpad and motherboard. No dice. I have wiped the OS and reinstalled from scratch. I have booted in safe mode. You get the idea. I'm certain that most of the time I'm nowhere near the trackpad when it happens. (Like 10 seconds ago).
When I try to download an app from Safari or aother browser, I always get 'Unable to download the app at this time' but when I try to download something from the App Store it works perfectly just fine. I have iPad Mini2 iOS 10.3.2. My question: Can I download apps to my iPad from websites or only just from the App Store?
After the Update System is still showing the Old OS check the screenshot  and if i click on the system update there is no os update just some other updates.check the screenshot please help me out
So it appears that our two machines are attempting to use different protocols to communicate with the server. Is this because my laptop is running Sierra and hers is running El Capitan?
I was recently given an iMac (24-inch Early 2008) without a hard drive. Following the instructions on iFixit, I gave the computer a hard drive, installed Mavericks on it, and didn't notice anything damaged/broken. The computer worked really well a few times, then began not starting up properly. Disk Utility didn't report anything wrong. Nevertheless, it would either start properly, then work for a while and shut down (or not), stay stuck on the startup chime, the screen would remain blank at startup, or display typical kernel panic messages such as:
MacBookPro9,2 running Mavericks OSX 10.9.2 Mid 2012 I am trying to revert the triple boot and partitioning that I performed on my macbook pro a few years ago to bring hard drive space back to the main OSX. Forgot a lot of how I did it.
I am checking the available disk space using df -H command I find the results don't agree with the results on the disk info on the desktop. The info in the desktop says I have 77.12 GB free space but the df command says only 52 GB free.
My relative yelled at me for downloading an app for my friend now I have to delete it but there's no way I can ask my friend if she could delete the app and look for someone else to download it for her (Minecraft). I can't take her iPad and delete it so how can I delet it without touching the iPad. Is there a way? Mine is iPad Pro, hers is iPad Air 2.
If I send a message from my iPad to a cell phone that doesn't have my contact info, do they see who it's from?
A customer has reported a bug in Safari 10.1.1 (11603.2.5) which I cannot reproduce in Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4) on macOS Sierra. Everything is updated in the App Store. Is it possible to install a specific build number of Safari? Is it possible to install a specific build number of Safari? If not, what accounts for the different builds on different machines? If not, what accounts for the different builds on different machines? Are there release notes available at the level of build numbers? Are there release notes available at the level of build numbers?
I lost my mi5 charger.Is it ok to use my Macbook pro charger for my mi5 mobile ?
When I connect to my mid-2010 27" iMac in Target Display Mode, fans hum and hard disks spin (with occasional I/O). Being logged out in iMac's macOS doesn't help.
My AirPods are suddenly not working for audio input and I remember there was a way to force the OS to use the left or right one but I don't remember whether it was iOS or macOS. Sound Preferences on the macOS doesn't seem to give me the option.
Apologies if I'm missing something - I don't have much experience with Apple products. Any help is much appreciated!
As title above, whenever 1 is pressed (right of tilde), Internet Explorer launches when connected to a Windows 7 machine that I accessed remotely. I'm not sure what this is and what keyword to search for. Any idea how to solve this? Windows 7 VM on VirtualBox does not behave like this.
I use Automator to mount external disk. The disk is mounted successfully, but I am not able to open some files. I tried the same process on my Ubuntu system and I have found out that the reason is wrong encoding for mounted disk. If I set iocharset=utf8 in mount on Ubuntu, everything is OK. But I cannot open files when I use iocharset=cp1250. Is there any possibility to set encoding when I use Automator to mount this disk?
I am migrating a bunch of iPhone libraries from one drive to another, repairing them along the way, and migrating them to the Photos app. However, I cannot get the "Library First Aid" windows to open following the instructions provided by Apple to hold Option + Command while opening iPhoto: Quit iPhoto if it is open. Hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard. Open iPhoto. Keep the keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library.
I am talking about the text replacement function under system prefs/keyboard/text. I have added multiple replacements, but they don't work in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc). Anyone know how to fix this?
I use the iOS Stocks app to track different securities. Yesterday I had only four securities listed, yet somehow overnight six additional securities were added. Those additional six securities were tracked in the past, months ago. How can I tell if the app store past data in the cloud?
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 (now vintage) running macOS Sierra without any problem whatsoever. However, my trackpad sometimes (very frequently) starts to malfunction or stops to function at all. I am using an external mice without problems. On the keyboard, sometimes [it] starts malfunctioning when I type really fast which I believe it's correlated with the Trackpad issue. Things I already did: - Fresh install - New Battery - Reset NPRAM - Ran Apple Hardware Test no issues shown. Theories: - Some electrical charge probably messed up my trackpad and Apple Hardware Test is not showing it (however sometimes trackpad works perfectly fine). My MacBook has a small dent so the bottom case is not completely closed, could it be that is getting dust, debris or even some weird electrical issue? My MacBook has a small dent so the bottom case is not completely closed, could it be that is getting dust, debris or even some weird electrical issue?
Recently I've bought a new 15-inch MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch bar and I tried to install windows 10 using an ISO image and bootcamp. Everything was going well until I got the following error in my laptop's boot area within the Windows 10 installation environment:
My iPad mini 2 won't update. It is stuck on 9.3.5 Is it because my iPad is too old? Also, when I look at my storage stuff, the update isn't even there.
There are a lot of batteries like this on eBay, I was wondering about experiences? I know that this is PER SE not recommended and not reliable, but still, I am interested about experiences with it. Might be worth it to ask :) Thanks dudes.
I try to come back with Time Machine...nothing. Disk Utility...nothing. Bitdefender Virus and Malware scan...nothing. I've tried to reinstall the MacOS but after two days the problem appears again. I've tried to not use some applications in the background, but until now I can't understand if some of that cause the problem. What can I do? How I can understand if there are some app that is causing the problem? Thank you in advance
I installed the iOS 11 Beta, then downgraded back to iOS 10.3.2. I restored to my iCloud backup and everything looked alright. However, I am having issues after the restore, some of which include: Backups of Whatsapp conversations will not restore, as it thinks I am not connected to iCloud, despite being listed in iOS Settings. iBooks and Notes crash on startup. Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance Update After updating to iOS 11, all the probleme were solved and the all the data was restored.
I would like to use Applescript to change e.g. text with red color in a range of cells in a Numbers worksheet, to italic text? This would--for example--allow me to print a Numbers worksheet on a b/w printer and still be able to pick out the text that was colored red (the red color was used by the author of the Numbers file & he had a color inkjet printer available). I just need assurance that this can be done & will later figure out how to do it. I give red as an example, but there is also text colored green. Both colors can be present in the same cell--together with uncolored text. I've searched the web for such assurance and haven't yet found it (I am new to Applescript). I've used VBA with MS Excel and I recall that such a thing is possible in that case. One complication is that not all of the text in a cell is colored red.
I'm trying to process some files with double spaces in the name. It seems like xargs is removing spaces. Example
I thought would be a good idea to run chmod o-w,o-r,o-x in my home folder and /var/root. After doing that, programs were unable to start properly, saying they couldn't write to /var/folders. I moved folders to folders 2, but no joy. I ran chmod -R 755 in both folders and things were kind of fixed, but programs couldn't access the keychain. I restored back the original /var/folders, but now all I get is the Apple loading bar stuck at boot and can't boot to safe mode. macOS Sierra, SIP disabled.
I am having a problem with my iPhone 5S. Apple had disabled my account for security reasons and I have forgotten my Hotmail id so I could not reset my password. I don't have any pay slip of this phone now as a bought it two-three years back. Please help me what should I do now. Somebody suggest me about Jailbreaking. Is it helpful?
I had a java error when i execute photoshop CS5,I needed to install an older version (OS X 2015-001) in order to run my adobe applications. After that installation my macbook won't shutdown anymore. When i go in the menu and select shutdown,all my programs close, but my macbook stays on.
Around two months ago I did the usual drill of backing up my iPad, hard resetting it and then reverting everything from the backup cause it'd been a bit sluggish. While it did help, it also seems to have broken the iCloud backup options - for the said two months, not once have I been able to back up my iPad to the cloud. I just constantly get the "this ipad hasn't been backed up in X weeks" alerts but I can't do anything about it. When I try to force back up from the settings, it tries for a minute or so, telling me it's calculating the time needed for back up but then it just stops, the progress bar disappears and it says that the last back up couldn't be finished.
Like I said, I'm an admin for my computer. There is another admin account that was setup when this computer was imaged, but that account shouldn't own my keychain, right?! I tried looking for Keychain First Aid but apparently that's been removed. I'm running 10.12.4. Any ideas of what's going on and/or how to fix it?
I have a iPad and iPhone, both of which are having severe Gmail Notes syncing issues. My setup was working fine for the last several years, but recently (starting about a month and a half ago), my Notes randomly stop syncing between the devices and Google.
I just downloaded the iOS 11 beta from Apple's developer website, but I'm having such a headache downgrading back to iOS 10.3.2. I installed their provisioning profile from their website, as instructed on their site. To restore, I did the following: I restarted my iPhone to recovery mode to restore it, only to be presented this message:
I'm working from home from my macbook 12" and to have some more space on the screen I have an additional display at work which I connect via HDMI-to-USB-C converter, but at home I have Apple TV connected to my TV reachable over Wifi. After 40 minutes of working I noticed that my laptop has no connection to the Internet and Wifi is grayed out (disconnected). I checked my router but it was blinking as crazy. I disconnected from Airplay and Wifi started working perfectly. After reconnecting to Apple TV it worked fine for an extra 10 minutes and Wifi disappeared again. What can be the issue?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and it seems the larger the external disk I plug in, the longer it takes to show up in Finder. A 2TB disk is taking almost a minute. If I plug the same disk on a Windows or Linux PC, it shows up instantly.
We redeemed iTunes gift cards and have a balance of $60. When I want to download a song, there is no way for me to use the money on account, though I can plainly see in the top right corner that we still have $60 left from our gift cards.
I need to install PAW on my system for some analysis. I am working on a Macintosh system (Sierra), I tried installing it through Homebrew : brew cask install paw . The installation was successful, but when I run the script which calls for using paw to plot some data, I get the following error: PAW: command not found
See the images, it's an iPhone 6s, with iOS 10.3.2, does any one have the same issue ? It seems specific to any fraction with three digits after the comma on the denominator within spotlight:
I have OS X Yosemite installed on a Macbook Pro Mid-2012. I have a media share folder I connect to from time to time that is hosted by a Windows 7 machine. When I'm not using this share on the Macbook Pro, I eject it. I don't normally keep the share around because I frequently get Finder issues (extremely long delays opening folders) with the share after I wake from sleep.
I recently encrypted a SD card with disk utility to secure some of my most precious files, with a password. I then renamed the SD card, and then copied the files to it. The trouble is, that when I unplugged my sd and plugged it back, the password I did set didn't work anymore. I guess it's because I changed the name of my card. I tried many things with the terminal, but I can't get anywhere. Does anybody have an idea that could get me out of this trouble, cause those files are really important to me, I'd be desperate to lose access to them forever. Many thanks in advance,
I use my phone's bluetooth tethering most of time. Is there a shortcut (or a way to bind one) to:
Pretty much what I'm trying to do. I want to record the camera's picture but the sound shouldn't come from the microphone directly but via an external audio signal. What are my options? I have either an analog audio signal via a jack cable or using a Windows laptop on the other hand. The problem is: even though AirServer works on Windows and thus I can see my iPhone's picture on it I can't record audio with it from the PC nor record fullscreen video. I see that the only way to do this is to buy a Mac and use Quicktime? What about analog audio to USB going directly into the iPhone, would that work? Obviously I could edit the two together (video and sound) but I don't want to do that if I can avoid it. Thanks
I use Airpods with the iPhone SE and I also wear an Apple Watch. The Airpods work extremely well at home, in the office, or whenever I'm just walking. When I'm cycling to work, however, I often get interference in the Bluetooth connection, leading to stuttering music playback. Subjectively it feels as if this is more frequent at large intersections with lots of traffic and never happens in the park. What could be the source of the interference?
I don't know if the iTunesConnect Contact Us page is a fun way for Apple to troll developers or if there's a hidden path through this maze that I haven't found yet. But from what I can tell, you can't actually contact anyone using the Contact Us page. Instead, it navigates you through a tree of answers that have nothing to do with your actual question, and when you get to the end, you loop back to the beginning, but never actually contact anyone at all.
iPad data  The low storage warnings stopped appearing once I stated excluding Skype data from my iCloud backups, but I'm still perplexed as to why it was using so much space to begin with. Is there a reason why Skype would need over 1GB of storage space?
Is there a way to find the read/write speed of the SDXC card readers on Macs? I've been looking for it in System Information, or some chart on the web, to no avail.
Is there any way to check for changes in the pf firewall rules without actively querying pfctl (on a regular basis)? I'm thinking programatic callbacks for example.
I have tried the above steps again today with the exact same result. Below is a visual representation of this madness:
I played a game on my old iPhone and connected Game Center to it. I then got a new phone and played the same game (started over), but its not connected to Game Center. I am about to upgrade again and want to migrate the current game data onto Game Center and then to the new phone but am scared that when I connect game center to my current phone the old data will overwrite what I have currently been doing on the game. I have spent a lot of money on the game and do not want to lose the current data saved on the phone. How do I delete all data off of Game Center (I still have my old phone) and then have the new phone connect to Game Center so that I can save the data on the new phone for migration purposes?
On MacBook Air Early 2014 macOS Sierra v10.12.5 I am facing error code -50 (An Unexpected error occurred) when I want to write on SD card. Would you please help me? Best Regards,
I'm using my macbook pro with an international Spanish PC keyboard and am trying in vain to find the tilde '~' character. I've tried the layouts "British - PC" and "U.S. International - PC" but cant figure out how to get that tilde to show.
I don't own noise-cancelling headphones, but I do own a macbook (which has a microphone) and a pair of headphones. Is there a way for me to use this set-up (some macOS app or such) to cancel noise in the same way active noise-cancelling headphones do?
Can I set 8-bit/16-bit color depth system-wide without buying commercial software (e.g. Display Maestro)? I would preferably do this by editing system files, but a free app is OK too.
I don't really want to keep around the snapshots of the previous incarnations of the drive (the Photos and Photos 1 folders, in this case), as presumably they're taking up nearly 200G between them, which I could be putting to much better use. But it's not clear how to safely delete them. There's no way from within the Time Machine application to delete volume snapshots, and Apple's tech note says (emphasis mine):
When i connected mac to external five panasonic led display with Extron DA6 distribution amplifier, only four are connected but last dispaly flicker and then stop showing content. I'm running on macos sierra version 10.12.1 processor 2 ghz, i7 processor, graphic intel iris pro 1536 mb. How can I tell if this is a HDCP or edid issue?
Is this possible? If yes, how? What I want to do: I want to apply rounded corners to an image (pdf format) which I use in a pages document. I am searching for a way to automate this process, wether this is within Pages using a mask or outside of Pages using a script. Thanks for any input
I have a MacBook Pro (2008). It is a secondary computer I rarely use, so it was easy to last that long with it.
I've successfully set the MAC to enter hibernate mode after 1 minute delay upon going to sleep mode but it works only on battery power. When using power supply, the computer stays in sleep mode after 1 minute. How to achieve the same results using power supply? commands I've used: pmset -g gives me these results: I am using macOS Sierra Version 10.12.5 on MacBook Pro
There I saw tons of old iOS Apps I installed on my iPad over a year ago. Those folders are empty, but no matter how often I try to delete them (rm -r 'foldername'), they re-create themselves. I even cannot find them under the System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive So for example I find a folder called iCloud~com~FireproofStudios~TheRoom3 I type this in the command line: rm -r iCloud~com~FireproofStudios~TheRoom3 Now the folder is gone, but after a few seconds, it reappears again. How can I permanently delete old iCloud Apps and data? UPDATE This is the Library/Mobile Documents folder
In previous version of Dashboard I was able to preview how many records was created by users of my app. But in new dashaboard there is no info about number of created addresses in database. It was very useful for me. Do I miss sth, or it was dropped by Apple?
iMessage and whatsapp on iPhone not showing "Delivered" any more. It is showin gdelivered for those same messages in both whatsapp and iMessage on my desktop though.
I understand that math library integration is the main tweak that sets MRO apart from the CRAN R distribution, and gives it a performance advantage. I wonder if MRO (Microsoft R Open) binaries still have a performance advantage over Homebrew R, given that both Homebrew R and Microsoft R link their binaries against Accelerate (MKL) math libraries in macOS.
I wanted to update my email address associated with my admin account. However now I can't find a way to open my admin account as there is no option. I have a lot of important data associated with this account and can't afford to lose it . Can anyone help me please?
I have a MacBook which was recently bought and macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Sometimes the weird files named '!' and 'export' are being created in some random directories, for example in my home directory or in others. The files are 0kb both and have such permissions and owner: -rw-r--r-- alx(my user) staff
I have a folder with a lot of images. My client sent me a list of rejected images I need to delete from that folder. The list is like this: _001,_002,_003,_004,_006,_007,RAM08953,RAM08995,RAM08996,RAM09039,RAM09060,RAM09087,RAM09101,RAM09104,RAM09115,RAM09126,RAM09170,RAM09171,RAM09172,RAM09176,RAM09188.
I want to use my movie library's Posters and Artwork as a cycling background. The problem is movie managers place each movie in a folder, and then a subfolder for artwork (jpgs). And choosing a Folder for Backgrounds is not recursive. In Finder I ran a search for ‘type:image’ then saved that as "Movies.savedSearch". Then in the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane, I tried to add that folder, but it won't drag-n-drop, and if I hit the + to select the folder, it is greyed out / not accessible. Any idea how to get this to work?
I've installed Windows 7 64-bit (Dual boot) via Bootcamp but I need more storage on that partition. I've read that if I resize that Windows partition either via macOS or Windows, things will break. Is there any safe way to do this? Thanks.
In the terminal I am typing: sudo vi /etc/networks/loopback , but I am getting a permission denied inside the vi editor. The /etc/networks file has this inside: Are those three items actual files I can go into? I am running El Capitan Version 10.11.6. Thank you. Edit: I rebooted into recovery mode, typed in csrutil disable, and now when I type in sudo vi /etc/network/loopback I get this output: Then when I press enter, it goes into the vi editor but it still says [permission denied] on the bottom.
After a bit googling I found this answer, which suggests removing the folder by moving it to the Trash. That doesn't really work as it just says Removing files, but there is literally no progress after hours. I tried to remove the folder from the terminal, that's a no go due to Permission Denied.
MPB 15 2011 with Sierra on an ssd. ssd is almost dead, Mac OS (Sierra) isn't loading with a folder with question mark showing on boot. The drive is detected in bios though, which gives me hope :) I've taken it out of mac, connected to a regular pc & checked with mhdd & it shows dead & unrecoverable sectors on it. Disk utility from mac internet recovery isn't showing any partitions on the drive & cannot make an image because of input/output error. So I've googled & installed "Data Rescue 4" *=URL=* on another MBP & made a bootable rescue usb to try to recover data, but this thing isn't working properly :(
Some apps ask for accessibility permission every time they start. It's annoying to have to click "deny" every time. How can we make this choice permanent?
the "a" button is busted and behaves as if it's constantly being pressed down. I have a wired keyboard ready to use but I can't figure out how to turn off the keyboard here. I tried Control + F1 after enabling "Use all F1, F2, etc keys as standard function keys" but that's not doing anything. This "a" problem is making it incredibly difficult to code.
I'm having trouble downloading Asset Catalog Creator from the Mac App Store. I just purchased the app and it's failing to download. I don't know if they problem is unique to this particular app or given that there are similar questions out there for Xcode and iPhoto I'm unsure if I'm stuck in some weird App Store state. I always get the following in the Purchased tab when I try to install the app.
I've been experiencing problems with my Macbook Air recently. The last nine months have been a nightmare - Identity theft, bank account hacked, healthcare.gov hacked, etc. I ran EtreCheck last night - I'm not familiar with the macOS platform, however, I have run this tool before in the past, and the old log and the new log look nothing alike. There are a couple of entries which I find to be suspicious - and one that is alarming - Remote Desktop. I have disabled sharing in System Preferences, have the firewall enabled, and remain logged out of iCloud (my Apple ID has been hacked four times) Any assistance analyzing this log would be appreciated. EtreCheck version: 3.4 (420) Report generated 2017-06-08 14:23:20 Download EtreCheck from *=URL=* Runtime: 2:11 Performance: Excellent
I have noticed that when the dock menu auto-hide feature is enabled, applications (here Chrome) do not automatically open maximized - instead they open at their maximum size as if the dock were still present leaving a rather annoying gap which must be resolved by manually maximizing the window every single time an application is opened. How can I get applications to open maximized by default?
Macbook --> Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter --> Ethernet Cable --> Device under test with IP address The device under test is not connected to the internet. While I am testing the device I still need an internet connection, but the non internet device connected with the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter takes over and I cannot connect to the internet through wifi.
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro retina that was running fine until yesterday. I was watching Netflix on it (running on battery) and it just died without any warning. It has no response at all. When I try the SMC reset, the charging light changes from Orange to Green on releasing the buttons. That is the only response I can coax out of it. It is a lightly used machine with no damage. What could I try before taking it to the Genius Bar?
If I make an admin account on my Mac (running macOS Sierra) for my friend, will they be able to see the contents of my account (also admin) (Documents, Photos, Trash, etc.) or are they walled off between admin-to-admin accounts?
I have a Das Keyboard for Mac that includes an eject key just to the right of the backspace key and to the left of the home key. I never need to use it, and it accidentally press it constantly which causes my CD tray to open. It's really annoying. Is there anyway to disable this key?
What is the location where Apple Photos stores Shared photos? I'm looking for the photos that appear under the Shared tab, to view them in the Finder.
I got stuck in an endless loop trying to reinstall macOS Sierra but after following Monomeeth's advice in this question: Stuck in endless macOS Sierra installation loop I was able to get it installed. But now I get a kernel panic when booting up. I do not understand kernel panics and did a Google search and read this question/answer: What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean? but am none the wiser. I cannot paste the kernel panic as it happens every time I now boot up, and only appears briefly, so here is a photo I took: I see that it says Mac OS version: Not yet set.
I own a bit old MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7, so I'm considering replacing it with a new iMac, but not sure which CPU should I choose. 3.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz (MNED2LL/A) for € 2,699 4.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz (Z0TR) for €2,939 I'm a software developer who's stack is: Python Swift for iOS and macOS development Docker PostgreSQL Javascript
I'm trying to get a new MacBook Pro running the latest version of Sierra to connect to my corporate VPN before the login screen. My machine is connected via Ethernet so I don't have to try and start Wi-Fi service prior to login. My command line script to connect to the VPN works fine in terminal. I know the file needs to be placed in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ but I'm not sure how to make sure it's processing before getting to the login screen. I'm new to writing plist files, so any help would be appreciated!
I have a Mid-2014 15" retina MBP with an NVIDIA 750M running 10.12.5. I am outputting to a Dell P2415Q via an mDP to DP cable. When the display is in landscape (standard) orientation, I get a nice Retina scaling menu like so, the same options that appear for the Macbook display: When I rotate the display 90 degrees (portrait mode), I get these options:
I am having an issue on a week old rMBP 15" mid-2015 running Sierra 10.12.5. I use the scaled display option and have noticed that there is a concerning screen artifact that occurs when I shut down the system. Other than that, it works perfectly. Does anyone have any idea how I should approach this? I have not reinstalled the macOS, but is that the only viable solution? What shutdown looks like with normal scaling What happens when I shut down with screen scaling
Closing the lid to sleep, after waking, the system time would change by as much as 2 seconds. Verified by using terminal command for over a month, daily sudo -S ntpdate -u time.apple.com
Note that is a reflection in the photo, not a GPU problem. So I followed the advice and tested my hardware. I selected the extended test and over an hour later the test found no issues. But when I restart and try again, it keeps bring me back to the above error.
About a month ago, I accidentally spilled some water on my macbook. After taking it to an Apple store, they reset some hardware settings and it seemed to boot fine. But ever since then, when it goes to sleep, I have to reconnect USB devices after wake. Is there something I can do to fix it?
I have an iPhone that I fully plan to put on the iOS 11 public beta later this month, but I also have an Apple Watch that's going to be stuck on watchOS 3. Are there going to be any issues from that, such as my phone expecting my Watch to be on watchOS 4? (I know that it's impossible to predict what bugs are going to be in a beta, I'm asking more about if anyone has experience running an iOS public beta alongside an Apple Watch on the latest stable watchOS release.)
Since last year, PPTP VPN doesn't work. I have a VPN with PPTP for the workplace and I used to connect through FlowVPN by changing the address and the credentials. However, the last 2 days, it has stopped worked too if you are connected with a Wifi Hotspot. My Mac doesn't have an ethernet and I create a Wifi hotspot with a Windows laptop which is connected with ethernet. If I login directly to Wifi, FlowVPN works without any issue. So, do you know any free alternative?
I've got a WQHD (1440p) Monitor hooked up to my 13 inch MacBook Pro when I'm sitting at my desk. Love the high resolution (much screen real estate) but sometimes I find myself toggling Safari's Zoom to 125%:
Typically, when users download and/or upgrade to a new version or macOS (previously Mac OS X), via the Mac App Store, that version of the installer appears in the Purchased tab of the App Store app. Below is an example of how this appears (I've added arrows to highlight the macOS installations):
Installed MWeb for iOS and it created a folder, its available in my phone's iCloud drive but not in Web or Mac iCloud drive! Created a test folder and made sure no sync issues. Any help is appreciated
Since my code runs on Linux and Mac OSX, replacing the normal python shebang with a hardcoded path on mac is not a really good solution. Does anybody know what the best solution is here?
Simply: connected my headphones (mini jack) connected first display (Thunderbolt 3) connected second display (HDMI) and the effect is following:
Is there any way to simulate a 13 inch display on a 15 inch MacBook Pro? Some tool that would resize all windows, the dock and menu to take up less space? Reason is I am thinking of buying a 13 inch MacBook Pro and want to see how it is working with a smaller screen.
I'm new to iMovie 10 and in my project I added a title clip with a duration of 60 seconds and I would like to add a background clip UNDER the title clip. But when I select a background from the backgrounds and drag it into the timeline, the new background clip is layered above the title clip -- ie during replay the background is displayed over the title hiding the title underneath it. Repositioning the background clip by dragging it under the title clip in the timeline does not work - the background clip snaps back to the top. What to do?
Is Documents folder of any app on iPhone secure? Can anybody access it with iTunes, or may be a third party program? Can I protect this folder with a password? (for example, Documents can be encrypted if I lock the device). I would like to know this to correctly write a privacy policy for an iOS app that uses file sharing.
i live in a rural area and my internet provider is satellite. When my son is downloading a movie and the wheel beside wifi icon is spinning and spinning is that using wifi data? It could take a half hour before the movie downloads. He is constantly trying to download and eventually gets it. He is saying no data is used in searching. I do not agree. I think searching is using data. Am I correct? As long as that wheel is spinning you are using data.
I am importing old photos and videos (most from iPhone originally) exported from iPhoto into a new Photos Library. Photos export and import fine, but videos exported from iPhoto work fine (they play) but do not play (0:00) after they are imported into Photos. Just in case there were background processes that needed to complete for the import, I waited 12 hours then checked again, and but the videos were still 0:00 length. I verified the source videos on the file system played just fine. Both iPhoto and Photos apps are the latest versions as of this questions. How might I solve this problem? Thank you.
Here's a screenshot from Pages 6.1.1 on macOS Sierra.  I added a table after some basic body text. I removed the table's cell borders and outlines. As you can see the text is not left aligned. Is there way to align it?
I'm not a mac user anymore. But I used to be one when I was a kid. My father had a Macintosh Performa 6200 running MacOS 7.5.3. On said MacOS you could press command + the turn on key on the keyboard, and a white rectangle with a textcursor would appear. Does anyone know what type of commands (and in what language) this box expected?
Can I get the text from a submenu in machine-readable form? I guess I could try OCR on a screen-shot, but is there something better?
I've upgraded my iPhone to iOS 11, but I regretted from doing this. I've a backup saved at iCloud from Yesterday, and I would like to know if I reset my phone back to iOS 10.3 it's ok to restore this backup, even if it was made at iOS 11. There is something that I have to take careful or something that I will lose during the process? Im okay about having to download all the apps again, I just dont want to lose the phone data (WhatsApp chats, Contacts, Photos).
So, I have an iPhone 6. S. When I first got it and months after the internet was working flawlessly, better than any other devices in my house, specifically a laptop that I don't own. It seems like my phone and that laptop have now switched, because the internet on that laptop and all other digital things in our household are working flawlessly with instant connections all the time, but my phone now struggles to keep a connection for about 3 minutes. My issue:
I see one solution — install macOS on virtual machine and do the job in it, but installing macOS in a VM is a huge PITA, even if I find where to download the os distribution. So I am asking for better ways. Do you know of any software which can read data from keychains and is not tied to macOS-specific functionality?
From terminal I see that PreventUserIdleSystemSleep assertion takes 15 second before actually sleep. Is there any way to eliminate it, or at least set delay to 0/1 sec? 2017-06-09 23:36:15 +0500 Notification Display is turned off 2017-06-09 23:36:15 +0500 Assertions PID 603(AddressBookSourceSync) Summary PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:07 id:0x0x100000185 [System: PrevIdle] 2017-06-09 23:36:15 +0500 Assertions Kernel Idle sleep preventers: -None- 2017-06-09 23:36:15 +0500 Assertions PID 52(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:00 id:0x0xd0000018a [System: PrevIdle SRPrevSleep kCPU] 2017-06-09 23:36:20 +0500 Assertions Kernel Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler 2017-06-09 23:36:20 +0500 Notification Display is turned on 2017-06-09 23:36:30 +0500 Assertions PID 52(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15 id:0x0xd0000018a [System: PrevIdle SRPrevSleep kCPU]
I mistakenly deleted the photos from an Icloud account which was on a iPhone I no longer have. My Icloud account is the same but I don't have the old phone. Can I restore these?
I have a copy of most of my emails on my laptop, in the Mail app. Is there a way I can transfer these old emails to my new mailbox?
I have created a Bash command that will copy the contents of one folder into another, and it works as expected from inside Terminal. However, when I attempt to create a hotkey to execute this command using BetterTouchTool, nothing happens. I found another user who has encountered a similar problem, but I do not know enough about Terminal for his answer to be helpful. What do I need to change about my command to get it to run from inside BetterTouchTool?
~124GB is missing/inaccessible from Disk Utility.. I'm unable to resize the main partition, I'm unable to manipulate the missing space (delete, etc without erasing the entire disk). First aid on the disk and the partition said there's a problem and to boot to recovery and run First Aid there. Did that and it reports it cannot fix the problem. The disk is encrypted, I don't know if that matters.
My ethernet wired 2012 iMac with 10.11.6 is able to wake from sleep for SSH and AFP access. "Wake for network access" is checked in System Preferences : Energy Saver. There is no Bonjour Proxy or network router, it has a public IP address. The question is, how can I configure it to wake for access on an arbitrary port? I would guess that there is a list of shared services to monitor somewhere at the unix/darwin level, but I have not yet found it.
I have an old drive full of archived data that I want to refresh by reading all the blocks and writing them back on my Mac running El Capitan (remapping bad blocks along the way). I wasn't able to find a simple utility to do that (well, I did find badblocksas part of the e2fsprogs of MacPorts, but I didn't want to install MacPorts and didn't particularly trust badblocks), so I thought I'd make a blockcopy disk image of the drive and then write it back to the drive. That restored the data, but not the partition map. My drive now looks like this: Notice the absence of a partition map!
I tried using "Watch Me Do" in Automator to insert text "AW" and "Return" in a Stickies note. It recorded the following (Events were "Type 'AW'" and "Press Return", the rest is the expansion into code): -- Type 'AW' -- Press Return In System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Privacy I allowed Automator.app and Stickies.app to control my computer.
Run the following code to put some text on your clipboard: If you open up a new .rtf file in TextEdit.app, and paste the clipboard into this document, you will observe that the clipboard contains rich text. Specifically, the clipboard text is of the font Helvetica and size 12.
It was shipped with Snow Leopard 10.6.4, and I managed to update to 10.6.8 via Apple Software Update. After some research I found that this old iMac is capable of running Sierra (10.12.x) and made a few attempts to upgrade. I noticed that I must first upgrade it to Lion (10.7.5) or El Capitan (10.11.6), both of which are no longer available from the Mac App Store.
I would like to swap some key bindings on macOS Sierra. I have used Karabiner so far but unfortunately it is no longer working on Sierra.
For a long time I've kept a collection of MP3 files and other audio formats on a NAS device, organizing selected titles in iTunes but keeping the files off my system. Now, I'd like to copy them to my local system. Dragging all the files to my "Music" folder is the obvious choice, but it made me wonder, what exactly is the difference between dumping a bunch of files into a sub-folder under "Music" versus just putting them in some random location within my home directory?
I'd like to send some raw binary data out a serial device on my Mac (it's a Bluetooth HAM Radio TNC which exposes a serial interface). I'd like to send this data: This is the command I've tried:
I'm setting up my DNS to go through my employers DNS server and have entered the addresses they provided. They say it's a dynamic DNSSEC provider. I kind of understand this. But I noticed that under the search domains section to the right, there is an entry. What does the search domain for DNS do exactly? I would think my query, would go to the name-server I specified, and they would return the IP. How does this work exactly?
I own a MacBook Pro Mid-2015. I used Boot Camp to install Windows 10 on a 100gb partition. Everything went smoothly.. everything was fine.
I don't know why my DNS resolution is really slow for example I have this onfiguration in hosts And for example trying to access or to ping website3.local is slow I also tried But I have the same issue
After every command line do I have to press enter and wait for it to end before I go to the next one? I have no clue at all and am desperate to solve this problem. This is my first time using single-user mode.
This may be somewhat of a weird question. As someone who considers email signatures as information provided in the wrong place that just clutters up my email conversations, I've been wondering if there is some plugin/app/script/whatever that automatically removes email signatures from messages I receive, reply to, or forward on macOS and/or iOS?
What personal data is shared with an app developer when I buy an app? I am interested in Mac App Store and also iOS App Store.
I'm not sure how to read the terms of the developer program's marketing guidelines on in app purchase of consumable items. Is it possible to create a Consumable item for my iOS App which is Free for user's to consume? Or does a Consumable have to have a price?
Is there any evidence or technical documentation to support the notion that System Integrity Protection can cause excessive use of the CPU by kernel_task in some situation? No battery. All Apple operating systems on an external hard disk drive, limited (by the MacBookPro8,2) to USB 2.0. With Sierra, and with pre-release High Sierra, when not booted in safe mode I nearly always found that kernel_task hogged the CPU. My usual workaround was safe mode. After considering answers to the following questions: kernel_task consumes 500% CPU on AC power, sometimes (2012-11-24)
I have a broken "early 2014" Macbook Air ( Macbook6,2 ) with a 512 GB SSD. Is this SSD compatible with the current ( June 2017 ) models of the MBA? Rationale is to not get the most expensive one as a replacement, but just the one with the smallest storage to save some cash. Thanks!
I'm developing an app for an iphone. This applicaiton stores almost all its data in a sqlite database. As you known, support for sqlite is not built-in to the swift/objective-c framework (unlike android). Will this data be backed-up. I've read that icloud backs up app settings but would this include the sqlite database too? If it doesn't, is it backed-up using itunes?
I have recently been trying to reset data for a few of my games on iOS 10. I am aware that i have to go into iCloud and then documents and data to delete this. But somehow i managed to remove the games from documents and data, they are no longer there. Yet the app still saves my data. Help?
My friends and I have noticed inconsistent results with Apple's feature to find your parked car. We've all seen it work sometimes, but not always. The feature I'm talking about is described here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/06/14/apple-maps-ios-10-parking/
macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (and prior): When am using and viewing an app in full screen mode (such as, but not limited to, Matlab) and the program opens a new window, the window will open in the virtual desktop intended for full screen use, rather than on an adjacent virtual desktop intended for desktop use. The main problem with this is that if I do not move the new window, then when the full screen window is selected and comes to the foreground, it will completely eclipse the new window, which will become unselectable without using alternative means (alt+tab, etc.) It should not be the intent of full screen viewing to open other windows on the same screen as the full screen application.
Today when I tried to use the WWDC app (version 5.0.1) on my iPad, I got a message saying that this version is no longer supported, and I need to get an update from the App Store. But when I go to the App Store, it is not offering any update for the WWDC app. What gives? Maybe it's a temporary delay in posting a new version, or maybe there's a new version that does not run on my 3rd-generation iPad (iOS 9.3.5)?
With pre-release build 17A264c of 10.13 (macOS High Sierra) and 10.12.5 (Sierra) : after five minutes' idle time, the throughput drops to less than 4 MB per second (data written, reported by Activity Monitor). High Sierra:
My kid has so far poured my large mug of coffee into our Air, then barfed on it (yes, it got inside) and now another cup of coffee. That last one finally killed it. Apple says the mobo is gone and it will cost more to fix than its worth.
Process: Google Chrome [776] Path: /Applications/Google >Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Identifier: com.google.Chrome Version: 58.0.3029.110 (3029.110) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Google Chrome [776] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2017-06-08 23:53:55.944 +0800 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.5 (16F73) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: B346C290-BA5B-BE25-2627-258EB9202EB0 Sleep/Wake UUID: 09EEC28F-8E0C-41B3-8428-51BCC9E7DD6B Time Awake Since Boot: 70000 seconds Time Since Wake: 13000 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 0 CrBrowserMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main->thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 There's more to the crash log, but it's too long to put here.
This is my diskutil list. I've gotten my new iMac today and everything was going great so I wanted to install windows via bootcamp. After it booted into Windows setup I had problems choosing and formatting the BootCamp partition that was created, so I deleted it and chose new. After this didn't work either I restarted and after several different tries I now have this mess of partitions that I can`t delete via BootCamp Assistant nor Disk Utility. Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this so I can get to my original FusionDrive disk to try from the beginning?
Is there a way to reset the firmware password of a post-2012 iMac or MacBook without going to Apple to get it done? Isn't some keyboard combinations able to bypass it? Is there some way to reset it by shorting circuit lines to the NVRAM chip?
How does one remedy excessive heat? (I'm wondering whether there is a way to tell if it comes from a specific program(s) or whether it is wise to invest in one of those laptop cooling fans that you place your laptop on cop of for cooling purposes.
iMac won't turn on any farther than this. Blue line down the middle and that's it. Help!
I have a late 2014 Mac Mini running macOS Sierra 10.12.5. When I paired it with my Bluetooth keyboard, I was not prompted to enter a sequence of numbers.
To witness the issue to which I refer, follow these steps: Create an AppleScript that simply contains one display dialog dialog. Create an AppleScript that simply contains one display dialog dialog. Save this script as an .app file. Save this script as an .app file. Run the .app file. Run the .app file. If you right-click the file's Dock icon, then left-click Quit, as depicted in the following screenshot:
I am encountering a weird issue regarding the Wi-Fi speeds on my (Apple Refurbished) Macbook 15" Mid-2015. On my home network, sometimes the wifi speeds would be extremely slow. I ran "ping google.com" in terminal and the ping times are >1000ms. The weird thing is that this rarely happens on my school network, only when it is connected to my home network is when this issue begins to arise. Solutions attempted -
I recently created 2 small partitions, and after that, I shutdown my Mac. Then when I turned Mac back on today it took awhile to boot and then showed a blocked symbol.
I'm not sure I worded my question correctly, but I wasn't sure how else to ask it. I have multiple Safari windows open. In apps besides Safari, if I click on a link, it opens the link in one of the windows (the window that was opened first). This isn't always what I want. It appears that that first window is viewed as my primary window (or something similar). Is there a way I can set the 'primary window' to be one of my other Safari windows (without having to close and reopen all windows in a certain order)?
So the end goal here is triple-booting my Mac (running Sierra, Macbook Pro 7,1, if it matters) and I felt like I had almost done it until I ran into this problem. I had been setting up/configuring windows 10 to my needs, doing a couple restarts of Windows in the process and it worked perfectly fine. I switch over to OSX, where I partition my drive and restore it to Ubuntu from a flash drive, then I disable SIP, do a bless command to fix rEFInd not being prioritized on startup, then reboot hop into Linux to test that it works- it does. Also, I note that the windows partition was created using Bootcamp Assistant, but the disk I used to install it was not because it was unsupported on my model (created with Etcher if that matters). Also my model didn't support Windows 10 so I had to edit some file (plist I think?) and remove my mac's model number from an array of unsupported models to get it to work.
I've prepared a checklist for air travel with our two kids. Currently everything is ticked but I want to reset it for our next trip. Is there a way to untick everything in one go, or do I have to first go untick every item manually?
I'd like to decipher the Activation Policy Details for an iPhone such as these: • Activation Policy Description: UK Reseller Flex Policy • Initial activation policy ID: 399 • Applied Activation Policy ID: • Applied Activation Policy • Next Tether Policy ID: 399 • Next Tether Activation Policy Description: UK Reseller Flex Policy • First Unbrick Date: • Last Unbrick Date: • Unbricked: false • Unlocked: false
In the 20 or so days that my retina MacBook has been turned on, in Activity Monitor I can see that around 2 TB of data has been written and 1.2 TB read. Most of the written data seem to come from kernel_task, with about 800 GB written to disk. However, altogether the processes in Activity Monitor add up to only 1 TB written (not 2 TB, which is the total data written). What's even stranger is that the sum of the read data adds up to about 250 GB, which is much lower than the 1.2 TB read that Activity Monitor shows. When observing Activity Monitor, the data read or written per second goes to around 100 MB/sec even 15 seconds or so.
Suddenly two days ago the fan of my MacBook Pro 13" 2016 no touchbar gets louder a few minutes start up, also the part of the laptop near the bottom of the screen gets hot. It happens whether it started from complete shut down or from sleep. As I recall I didn't do anything unusual before this overheating. Any solution?
I created a smart folder using Finder containing images that I would like to sync to my iPhone. When I opened iTunes and tried to select that folder to sync images into my iPhone, the folder was grey and I was unable to select it. Does any workaround exist that makes it possible for me to accomplish this synchronization?
I'd like opinion on this: If I open email and see text, can it infect my Mac? Not opening attachments, just email itself. Can that be dangerous? I delete all suspicious and unknown ones, but there are few where I can't be sure or have to see the insides. I have no real time scanner and sometimes run Malwarebytes.
HELP!! 59.4GB "iPhoto Library" folder only contains a few folders (see attached screen shots), none of which seem to contain any original photos or even any image files?
I was wondering if setting an iPhone on low power mode would have an effect on the charging time, making it faster ? Thank you
I noticed recently that all 5 star song ratings in my iCloud Music Library totally disappeared. All other ratings are still there, it seems, and 5 star album ratings are still there as well. I have no idea now this happened. I have a smart playlist that shows all songs with 5 stars; I'm not sure if this playlist had anything to do with it.
I installed macOS High Sierra updating to APFS and everything was working correctly. After a couple of days I shut down and went off. I just came back and when I boot there are no users to login as usual, I get a Name and Password fields. Of course my user is not working and it is not the usual login where your user is the one you see and just type your password. So I have a Name and Password fields that I can’t fill with anything, so I can’t login to my user. In recovery mode I ran First Aid and I get:
I mean, if after my current Apple Music paid period will finally vanish, is it possible that iTunes will ask me to cancel iCloud Storage Plan too, and then I'll have to wait till the end of its paid period as well? So I better to reset it to default 5 GB right now?
I receive a msg "the recipient was rejected by the server because the user is unknown" when trying to send an email from me.com to icloud.com. Recipient is in Italy but I have no problem sending to hotmail.com in Italy
I don't play flash games a lot. In fact, I try to avoid flash whenever possible; I just don't like the thing. However, there are a few games I like to play in my free time, like Amorphous+. Lately (I can't tell you which OS it started happening on, but it happens on Sierra and it didn't happen, back when I was using Snow Leopard), whenever I restart my computer all progress made in those games disappears.
Having trouble installing Windows 10 version 1703 on the old iMac (iMac11,2 MC509LL/A) running macOS 10.12.5. The official page said it didn't support Windows 10, but according to my experience as long as it supports Windows 8, it supports Windows 10, too. I'm trying to setup W10 directly without first setting up W8 and then upgrading. Tutorials of modifying Boot Camp failed because codesign keeps on telling me "bundle format unrecognized". Is there a way to setup Windows 10 Creators Update directly on this iMac?
I'm setting up a new mac and I can't seem to set the keyboard shortcut to triggers I'm creating, as I've always been able to do before. I'm able to create the trigger, but then when trying to edit it, after clicking the (i) and attempting to click either the (empty) shortcut box, or the "edit" button next to it, the box flashes "Set Keys" for an instant, but then it disappears and I'm not able to set the shortcut. See here (you might not be able to see the flash of "Set Keys" because of the gif encoding, but it's there albeit very brief:
I attach 2 external monitors to my MacBook Pro (late 2011) using HDMI + USB (Diamond USB to HDMI/DVI adapter). no problem.
I'm helping someone who updated their iPad to iOS 10.3.2 and the sound stopped working for some websites. Did Apple make updates that would affect the ability to play some audio formats?
I created an AppleScript .scpt file in Script Debugger.app. Here is how I assigned a custom icon to this .scpt file: I downloaded a unique icon (in the "512px PNG" format) from IconArchive.com. I downloaded a unique icon (in the "512px PNG" format) from IconArchive.com.
I have a iMac (Late 2013) which has a standard 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive. Long story short, I noticed a dramatic slowdown in Windows (in Bootcamp) and on the Mac. After installing DriveDx, it reported that I had around 8,600 Reported Uncorrectable Errors. To my knowledge, that essentially means bad blocks/sectors.
I'm live recording and mixing video with the mimoLive application and it always cranks the fans and pushes the CPU to the limit so I want to know if it the 2015 MBP 15" will use the CPU to encode to H.264 for recording to drive (less file size by a lot) or to record to Apple ProRes 422 codec (massive files but less CPU load). I'm told some Macs have a H.264 encoding/decoding chip and others don't. I had thought even the integrated Intel GPUs had H.264 optimization but not sure.
When you open photoshop cc on mac you get this image: Photoshop CC Splash screen I want to disable it, or (if impossible) to change it to my own image. I know that is not something you can do by just change some pereference but i'm sure there is some kind of a hack that will do it... Thanks.
You know how you can press the home and side button simultaneously to take a snapshot of the screen, well, can you "snapshoot" a video of activity on your iPhone, like, a segment of a YouTube video (sometimes, something like t=1m45s on the end of a YouTube link doesn't get pushed to that time when clicked on certain devices) or "snapshoot" a process. That is, if I wanted to demonstrate steps quickly and easily I could press some buttons simultaneously and start recording, then do some things on my iPhone, then press some buttons and then it stops, and now I have a video of that activity in my videos. Is that a thing?
It seems that when updating multiple Apps and locking the screen, updates are not completed until reopening the phone. Once I used the 'Update All', which started updating, before going to sleep, only to find hours later that most of the Apps are waiting in some 'installing' stage. Once I unlocked the phone, it took 5 minutes for them to finish. Can't tell if this is intended and what are the reasons. It use to be that when I used the 'Update All', close the phone (locked screen) and come back 10 minutes later and everything is updated.
What data exactly is deleted when this option is selected? I am unable to access any other iOS device to approve my new iPhone so I am in a bind at the moment. I just don't want any of my important data to be deleted.
I have enabled mousekeys through accessibility options. My question is, how exactly do I specify the keypad movement distance? For example, I want to use 4,8,6,2 on the numpad to jump to specific (x,y) coordinates on the screen.
When I try to import or play a CD I loaded into my USB SuperDrive in iTunes, the SuperDrive ejects the CD halfway through a track. It began some time ago, but it only happened rarely. This morning, though, I was only able to import one full track and then from a number of tracks only the beginnings (why that happened I don't know either). When a track is cut short iTunes just displays a green checkmark as if the importing had finished normally. What causes this and can I fix it? The SuperDrive is not very old (bought it last year) and has only been used with one computer: my early 2015 MacBook Pro (frequently updated).
I have done a terrible mistake and upgraded my macbook pro to macOS High Sierra Developer Beta. I experience multiple malfunction behaviours, including: Missing files right after upgrade. Machine does not go to sleep when closing the lid (this might be the cause for other issues, since the macbook got VERY hot in my bag and shut down forcibly - twice...).
I was trying to install Windows 10 besides my Mac OS X El Capitan. I followed the normal steps I found on the Internet, but when I started to apply I got this and no idea what I should do in order to install Windows. After I click continue, I choose which USB to save the downloaded file on, and then nothing changed; I still can't finish the process of pointing to an ISO image of Windows 10 that I want to install.
Is there a way to see the photo metadata in iOS without resorting to third-party apps? I remember being able to see some in an older version of iOS but I cannot find it in the iOS 10 Photos app. Could it be elsewhere?
I accidentally opened a malicious pop-up for LinkedIn and now, my iPad 2 is infected with a virus. How can I delete this virus from my iPad? How can I clean my iPad 2?
TL;DR As far as I know there is no way to easily disable/enable an iMac's internal display at will while simultaneously powering up an external display. Can anyone suggest a solution to achieve this functionality? Background Here's the use case scenario presented to me today:
In iOS 10, is there an easy way to connect to a new WiFi network if automatic connect is turned off? I turned that off because it's way too annoying.
I changed 3 batteries during 5 years of using MBP mid-2012 because of swelling. First battery was Apple and it lasted about 2 years, then swelled. Subsequent ones I installed myself, one was supposedly OEM from trusted seller which lasted about 1.5 years, another was supposedly hi-end replacement alternative which lasted 10 months. I work mostly with the charger plugged in, though with my last battery I had a calendar event every month when I worked without a charger. I understand that more or less battery swelling is somewhat normal. But experiencing it periodically with every battery, and only after a year of use — is extremely strange. What can cause such fast battery swelling? Could it be a defect in my Macbook? Or it is a normal thing to change a battery once in a year? PS: I have a 15-inch MBP with SSD installed inside optibay and 16gb of memory
I've got a question, sometimes when the Caller ID is hidden, it will show up on my lock screen as "Anonymous". But recently, I've noticed something, there is a distinction between Anonymous and "Unknown", when missing a call.
When I turn on my MacBook Pro 15" late 2011 laptop, the computer appears to boot up normally. The Apple logo appears with the white screen, but the progress bar stops at approximately 80 percent. At this time, the mouse is visible and the laptop makes "invalid" sounds when I press CommandQ or ShiftCommandQ. I have tried: Resetting SMC and NVRAM Replacing SSD with HDD Replacing RAM Booting to Safe Mode: Apple logo appears and progress bar indicates 80 percent, but without the mouse pointer. Reinstalling OS X from another computer Installing OS X on USB flash drive and using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone to the HDD of the troublesome laptop Booting off battery power and booting off power adapter, no difference Is there another method I can try to somehow revive this machine?
On my laptop with macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (but it was happening with previous versions of the OS too), I get pinged by the system that I have only a few GBs left, I clean up, reboot, go from 4 GB left to 30 GB left, and within a couple of days, not doing anything special (not downloading movies or anything space-hungry), I get told again I have only 4 GB left ... I went through that cycle a few times now, and I'm wondering what could be causing that behavior, and how I could stop it. Any idea or pointers to what I should look at on my HDD to try and understand this? (sleep images, sparse bundles...)
Not able to sign in to iMessages on MacOS Sierra 10.12.5. I enter the correct credentials and nothing happens, I can't sign in. I don't really want to try anything rather than to enter correct credentials, so please, refrain from suggestions like "restart your computer or similar". Thanks for your consideration, because I paid properly for my mac, and I expect for this to work and not have to take it to a computer repair shop just to have messages enabled.
I'm trying to download over 1000 subtitle files for a list of films. I have the list in Microsoft Excel. I found an application called FlixTools that lets you search for a film and then download the subtitles for that film. So far, I have written the following AppleScript: Running this code returns an error saying: "Can't get button "Save Subtitle" of process "FlixTools"". The FlixTools window looks like this:
Why can't I use iMessages using cellular data any more on my iPhone? I can use it with wifi, but when I turn on cellular, the message keeps popping out that my cellular data needs to be turned on (which it is!), or wifi in order for iMessages to work.
I have two phone using the same Apple ID. Second phone was a temporary replacement, and then the first phone was found. I want to erase all the settings and data on second phone so I can give it to another employee, with a new Apple ID. Second phone wants me to log in with the Apple ID before it will allow me to erase everything. Will all the data be erased on the iCloud account, and also delete the data from the first phone?
The keys that were supposed to give tilde and back-tick in the keyboard are giving § ±, respectively. My input source is U.S, as you can see in the image, and my keyboard layout is the following:
I have iPad and I recently installed iOS 11 beta 1 on my iPad. Now I see some battery issues and I want to downgrade to iOS 10.3.2. But I checked on the internet and shows that a PC is compulsory. I don’t have a PC.
I have an external FireWire-disk directly connected to a computer for backups using Time Machine. So far, these backups have been unencrypted but now I want to start encrypting my backups (the current backup history should be left as is) but when I try to do that, after entering a password, TM displays a pretty scary dialog (my translation) "Are you sure you want to erase the volume 'Backup' that is currently used for backups? All information on the disk will be deleted and this can not be undone. If you want to enable encryption and use the disk for Time Machine it must first be erased".
New information: I've realized that what I'm looking for are finder plugins (I should have realized that sooner), even though the parent PID is launchd. I still can't figure out where finder plugins are stored. Some of the process names are: Original post:
I need to install an Adobe Air application on an external hard drive (the app puts a lot of data in local storage "/Users/$User/Library/Preferences/", and all this data only fits on an external HD). Is it possible to install an app (Air or otherwise, since other apps put data in the user's library) so that it will exclusively use storage on an external HD? If so, how should I proceed?
Gmail introduced the awesome bundles feature a while back that automatically bundles e-mails that belongs together as they arrive. It will for instance create travel bundles for each trip - grouping flights and hotel reservations together, or payment bundles for receipts. Is anyone aware of a way to achieve this with a native e-mail client?
This does not happen on Mac, I could not find any other key combination to do this. I need to functionality to quickly move around my code, please help. My Mac version is 10.12.5
When I activate mission control via F3 or a hot corner I have assigned the function to, I can choose which application to bring to the foreground. However, when I select Google Chrome and sometimes Finder, the selected application gets sent to the back, and some other application brought to the foreground. The only way to highlight the application I want is it use the Dock icon, click on the application window, or Command+Tab. Sometimes I can get it to work with Finder if I use Terminal to do killall Finder I've tried force quitting any applications/services/processes that I could think of that might affect Mission Control with no luck. macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195) Any thoughts?
What's the best way to record a video on Mac without the camera flipping right and left? QuickTime doesn't seem to have this option. I tried QCamera as it was posted as the answer to a similar question How do I prevent the mirror-effect in video recordings in Photo Booth? but it doesn't have an option for recording video, only displaying video. The only way I have access to the camera where the video is not flipped is FaceTime, but I have no way to record it (unless I did a screen capture on top of FaceTime, which just seems unnecessary).
I am new to Mac so forgive the naive question. I have used Windows & Linux for a long time in the past and no matter how slow the system becomes (this actually applies almost only to Windows), the UI is usually snappy if the system is not busy executing multiple background tasks. For example, if I click on a Window or hit Alt-Tab, the switch is almost immediate (unless of course, the application executes some tasks when its window is activated). However, this is not the case with my Mac and a simple click on even the Finder window takes between 500ms to 1000ms to take effect. This is always the case no matter how busy or free my Mac is. Even though it is relatively old (Early 2015), the hardware is quite powerful: In comparison, my Ubuntu laptop (System 76) is about 3-4 years old, but it is much faster and I rarely feel I have to wait for a second or so before it switches application! Has this always been the case with Mac, or there is something to configure on my machine?
Have troubles with connecting to my VPN from Mac. Using default Mac client, pre-shared secret. Also this works well on iOS 10.3.2 from the same Wi-Fi network.
I have exchange configured on my iphone from previous employer. Is it possible to retrieve messages? i am sure iphone stores the downloaded messages somewhere on the phone.
unchecking "Sync Music" in iTunes for my iPhone, syncing, then checking it again and syncing. Some playlists that had grayed out songs were removed completely from my iPhone and also from iTunes. The songs in iTunes still existed in the library. iPhone 6, iOS 10.3.2 iTunes 12.6.1 Windows 10 Pro
I just have installed Pages on my macOS Sierra Macbook Pro. For some reason, this is what I see on the Launchpad:
I've encountered a problem when I wanted to send an email with my xcode project compressed to .zip. It's roughly 1 MB. When I'm trying to send it using Mail.app or iCloud website there is an error:
I want to export my presentation as video. Followed this: Save a presentation as a movie file or MP4. But I can't find any video formats in the Export menu.
Situation: 3 users, all registered to iCloud, common Family. Calendars:
My iPad Pro 12.9 doesn't connect to the Mikrotik access point. I also use MacBook Pro and that device doesn't have any problems. Watching at Mikrotik logs I don't see any single action and it looks like device don't even try to connect to my Mikrotik router. I use Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN device configured with WPA2 Personal security profile. My RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN Mikrotik AP configuration My RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN Mikrotik AP security profile What could cause the problem ? I have heard that iPads have problem with some anti-radar detection settings but my newest Mikrotik firmware seems not to have any kind of this and it is looks like something fom the far past.
There's only about 10G of swap in use - at least, at the point where Activity Monitor itself is paused(!) - which is about 6G short of where I'd expect problems to start. I've tried switching the new machines into server mode with nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1" but there's no difference. The version of XCode and Sierra is the same for both, and both have maxproc increased to 2500 to accommodate the extra simulators, but I don't believe I've tweaked the old machines in any other way, so I'm at a bit of a loss to understand where the difference is aside from hardware.
There are two little computer icons on my menu bar and it keeps blinking. When I click on it, it disappear but again come back in a second. Can anyone please tell me what it is and why is it blinking? Thanks!
How do a I move the following so that it sticks to the window it belongs to. It's annoying having it only on one screen, especially when I have three screens and to access the menu I have to transverse my mouse over two screens just to get to the menu. I'd like it to act the same as in Windows sticking to the actual window. Is this possible?
I have the same problem as user916499 had here earlier on, posted here: Remove Add-in from Office 2016 for Mac Trying to remove the Add-In (Excel2LaTeX in my case), i did: -delete the .xla -removed the check box -removed the Add-In from the list in Tools > Add-ins -reopened Excel -reinstalled Excel from scratch Trying the solution proposed by Allan in the above thread, I found that the Add-In doesn't appear in the insert > add-in > my add-ins pop-up window.
I'm currently using a cloud storage app that runs in the background to keep my files synchronised. As it has an icon in the Menu Bar, I used the advice from Hide Adium (or any other app's) icon in the dock in order to remove the dock icon when the app is open (as well as some other UI elements).
I have a NAS with Time Machine support that I want to use instead of my locally connected Firewire disk for my backups. The current local backups are unencrypted but on the NAS I want to encrypt them.
I stumbled on other posts about the Ridiculously Slow Macbook pro 2013 That were remedied by replacing the harddrive cable. I am dealing with agonizing sluggish behaviour on my mac, It seems to be the same issue however as you know 2015 macbook pros have SSD's.. do you think its about replacing my SSD as opposed to a cable swap. I am desperate for help, I can't use my computer... can you help me figure out what to do?
I'm having a problem with the notes app and/or the calendar app. Is there a way to force an update/replace of either of these apps. Maybe that will solve my problem.
I was recently given a computer by the IT dept. at my company, right before the IT guy left for a few days... However it isn't configured to be used:
The title is pretty self-explanatory, but after upgrading to OSX Sierra, when I put the computer to sleep and then wake, it no longer asks for my password. This is a BIG issue. Any suggestions for fixing it would be greatly appreciated. Here's my auto-login settings:
I purchased a USB-C to DisplayPort cable from Amazon to connect my 2017 MacBook Pro to a Dell 2715Q however it does not seem to be working. From what I've read and from some of the cable reviews, there shouldn't be an issue yet my MacBook does not recognize the display. The monitor seems to know that it is connected to a device and shows a message saying that there is no signal coming from the computer.
I am trying to hook a dragonfly dac to my iPad Air using the lightning to USB3 camera adapter kit. When powering the camera adapter kit using a backup battery supply that outputs 5V/1000ma, the dragonfly will not work and the iPad says that it draws too much power and will not output sound through the lightning port. When I use the same configuration but plug the lightning power cable into an electrical outlet, everything works and the DAC captures and processes the sound. I cannot determine how large a power supply I would need to have the iPad keep working with the dragonfly plugged into the camera adapter kit.
Is it posible to use diffrent them in ITerm2 and Vim. Now when i set up Iterm to material-theme and vim to solarized I recive this Everything works fine if Iterm and vim is set to solarized
Trying to push calendar events from iPhone 6 to exchange calendar in Outlook desktop. Events on desktop push to phone but not the other way around. I tried deleting and re-adding the account and making sure calendar sync is selected under accounts, but no luck. Any ideas?
I have been a Windows user my whole life and just purchased my very first Apple product ever: a MBP. I have a question regarding Finder, which may be a bug or simply me who doesn't know how to use it properly. Anyways, here's the (potential) problem: when I am using Finder in split screen mode sometimes folders and files are overlapped by the upper menu. Check this out: As you can see in the image above, some folders are now 'under' the upper menu and I cannot seem to be able to get them back in 'visible' positions. Can someone advise if this is a bug or it's just me being newbie? Thanks :) --- UPDATE I am on MacOS 10.12.5 - the scroll bar is 'fully scrolled up' already. I can't drag folders or files - when I release the mouse button, they simply stay in their original position. The problem occurs in all folder view modes. --- UPDATE II I don't have 'none' or 'snap to grid' as options in the 'sort by' dropdown: Or in the 'arrange by' dropdown: The 'clean up' entries in the view menu ar
I’ve pinned a couple sites that start with local IP address. Now all see are pinned tabs starting with 1. How can I rename pinned Safari tabs to something more meaningful? I am using the latest Safari version in Mac Sierra.
Please, does anyone know whether Macbook (2015) with MacOS Sierra (10.12) is able to drive Dell P2415Q 4K (3840x2160) monitor at 60Hz? What dongles do I need?
I took a video in the mountains with my phone over the weekend. In the background there are others who are speaking during the video. I'd like to remove these voices but retain the sound of the wind and birdsong. Is this possible with iMovie and/or Audacity, or perhaps some other free or inexpensive app?
In Chrome, one can press cmd+1 to open the first tab, cmd+3 to open the third tab, etc... Safari has replicated this behavior now but has not replicated cmd+9 which takes the user to the far right tab even if there are dozens of tabs in the window. Is there a way to map cmd+9 or another key mapping to that action?
I want to remove a Boot Camp partition, but when I try to erase it first (in Mac OS Extended Journaled format), there is some space remains, doesn't matter if Disk Utility is in recovery mode or not.
I have a friend that has very sensitive information locked in a few WebSQL files stored in Chrome on their iPhone. The domain name changed, and now there is no way to access those files which are only accessible through the original domain. Is there a way of accessing these files? He is running iOS 10.3.2.
I am a registered iOS developer. I generated an IPA file using a signing identity that qualifies for App Store submission.
I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro. I need to access the recovery partition for several reasons, such as turning off "SIP". Until now, every time I pressed CMD+R during booting, it went directly to the internet recovery mode. That has never been a problem for me until now. As you can see from this picture the partition exists :
I happened to have stumbled upon an IPhone 5c that is on 'Find My Phone' saw a sim card inside from Lycamobile with serial number 8944260907010065854 and discovered it was locked. Since I can't open it how do I get the email or contact of the owner so that i can either send it back or open it, thanks.
my iphone facetime audio history shows a number i don't think i could have called. Absent someone accessing my physical phone, are there reasonable ways this number could show in my history?
My Macbook Pro(early 2015) functioned in english until I started up macOS Recovery to erase the startup disc with macOS Utilities. It was originally bought used in Japan. I would like the entire system to function in english.
As discussed here, whenever you try to initiate fast forward from a pair of bluetooth earphones, the Podcast app actually skips to the next track instead. On the contrary, the behavior is as expected in Music app.
Screen dimming is a great feature when moving to differently lit rooms. However, if the MacBook is facing a bright window, and the user is thus backlit, then the sensor goes haywire.
I am just trying to do a simple ssh into a VPS using the terminal. It asks for me to enter my passphrase three times then says "permission denied (public key)." I've tried: I'm able to SFTP into the server in Cyberduck, and have also tried their 'Open in Terminal' command, which again just asks me for the passphrase three times then says permission denied.
I have an MacBook Pro using OS Sierra version 10.12.5 (along with our iPhones & iPad) wirelessly connected to the Arris 6900 Modem-Router and wirelessly connected to our Brother printer. The problem is being able to print to the Brother printer on an every day basis. I can print from any device one minute, wait an hour or two and can't print. What is the problem with the connectivity issues to the printer. I've checked with our Cox internet provider, help people at Brother, and with the people at Arris. No one has a solution that works. I hate to buy a new modem-router but is that my only choice with this Arris product.
In Terminal, I used, useradd liao2, as I would also do in Linux, but it failed: I also tried using sudo: How can a user be added from Terminal?
There's a great answer to doing this everywhere How do I disable Chrome's two-finger back/forward navigation? But what about just in google docs?
I tried to modify it to replace clamscan with a script so I can verify which arguments it was being called with. However, when I try and load it, it complains that it's already loaded.
Can anyone else confirm if their Series 2 Apple Watch battery drains faster when it's not connected to iPhone? I leave my watch at home when I go to work, because my work poses too many threats for it, and it seems the battery dies faster in this situation. I assume it's because the watch is looking for the phone. Anyone else experience this? Are there any settings to change to fix this? Thanks.
I installed an app on iPhone 6 running iOS 11 using diawi.com. For some reason I can't open it, nothing happens when I click the icon, and I also can't uninstall the app. There is nothing on the profiles settings. What can I do to remove the app from the device?
I've just migrated to Mac from Windows and the adaptation process has been a bumpy ride. I now have a question regarding Preview.
My mac is connected to 2 displays. Mac is in the center, one display is in the left and one in the right. Sometimes it happens that when I disconnect and connect my mac from displays, display 1 becomes 3 and 3 becomes 1.
The process, RSScriptRunner, represents a currently running script that was triggered by FastScripts.app. (FastScripts does not assign unique process titles to scripts that it triggers.) If one has multiple processes titled RSScriptRunner running simultaneously, then the following code: will only return the window name of the process that began the earliest. However, I would like to get every window name of every RSScriptRunner process. Does anyone know how to accomplish this in AppleScript?
PROBLEM: When two IMUs are sending data at the same time and are received in my debug script only one stream of data from one IMU sensor ever shows up in the log. The same script shows the expected results when run on other systems. VERSIONS: My laptop's related hardware/firmware/software versions OSX 10.12.5 Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 5.0.4f18 Manufacturer: Broadcom Transport: USB Chipset: 20702B0 Firmware Version: v137 c9260 HCI Version: 4.0 (0x6) HCI Revision: 0x242C LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6) LMP Subversion: 0x4189 My test script's related software versions Xcode 8.3 node v6.11.0 noble 1.8.1 DETAILS:
I have a Retina MacBook Pro (mid-2015), powering an Apple Cinema Display 24" monitor, and a run-of-the-mill, cheap and inaccurate Samsung monitor (when it comes to color). I've connected both of these displays to the RMBP via Thunderbolt.
I'm running macOS 10.12.5 Sierra with Firefox 54.0 on a MacBook Air. A Firefox icon is present in the Dock. When launching Firefox from this icon (or double-clicking the icon in the Applications folder), it immediately crashes. However, if I launch it via the command line ($ ./firefox in the app folder), it does not crash. Launching via open -a Firefox also crashes. I launched Firefox from the command line in safe-mode and disabled all add-ons, but it still crashes when launched from the icon in the Dock.
Consider the nested menus structure (from Intellij) as shown in the screenshot: Using the right arrow key will cause the Find submenu to expand. But the right arrow key is inconvenient/slow to reach. In Linux/Windows the Menu actually opens automatically: is there some faster key combination - than the awkward ^F2-<E>-<F>-<Right Arrow Key> way to nudge OS/X to "move along" a bit faster?
Gmail is showing me this menu instead of the regular right-click menu. Particularly, I need "Open in Tab" for individual mails.
I have a NAS and I connect to it as a network drive, however when I leave the house with the MacBook Pro and come back I have to manually remember to reconnect to the network drive. Is there anyway to do this automatically? ControlPlane is not a solution as it currently has problems with macOS Sierra. System version: macOS Sierra 10.12.5
Usually, the signal strength on the iPhone is the same with the one shown on my MacBook:  However, in a specific area, between two hills, where the signal is pretty poor, my iPhone shows 1 circle of 4G signal (and the internet does work pretty well on the iPhone), but my MacBook shows 1 circle of LTE signal, and it's very slow. Is there any setting that I can change to make the MacBook internet via Hotspot faster? Why is this happening?
I was poking around in system.log and I'm seeing the following three lines show up about every 60 seconds for about 20-30 minutes at a time: I believe I had fitbit software installed on this Mac many years ago, but there's no application present now. Any ideas how to remove it completely?
I want to use my iPad for photography tasks such as importing pictures, using a third party App to modify them, and store them back to the Photos app. However, I never really know if Photos is converting my pictures after an import or not.
At my work, we have field teams that use the ESRI collector app to create survey points, add photos, etc. We have a set protocol for taking 6 photos, from certain set sites in the survey area, in a set order. When adding the photos, so that we know the order in which Our field team collected them, we ask that we add them in the order in which the took them. So, photo 1 on the ESRI app is the same as photo 1 in the protocol, and so on.
I don't want Mail to automatically download new mail. I want to manually do this by choosing Mailbox > Get All New Mail.
I am trying to find a method of Upgrading many computers, for example to 10.10.x to 10.12.x . Is there a way of doing so using Apple Remote Desktop? Planning to update about 40 computers.
I have a VPN which I connect to on my MacBook with Tunnelblick. I would like to setup my iPhone 6 to connect to the same VPN, however I am struggling to find an app or way to do this. In Tunnelblick, I can see the configuration file which looks like this: Can anyone advise me on how to connect to this VPN on iOS?
I have been all over WD homepage, but nothing useful there either. At this point my working hypothesis is that firmware on the disk cabinet is messed up or incompatible with USB-C somehow because: The same disk was working without any hiccups with my 2014 MBP. I can use another, stand alone external disk for backing up the new MBP. but that doesn't really make a lot of sense either.
When I have my wireless headphones plugged adjusting the volume in the volume menu tray or using the volume key has no effect on the actual volume heard in the headphone. I can however still manually adjust volume in particular apps like Spotify or YouTube. Running OSX - 10.12.5 (Sierra)
I left my phone charging overnight, and in the morning I woke up and the phone was stuck in bootloop. The Apple logo came on, then the screen turned white, sometimes with 1 black horizontal line or sometimes a pixel (greenish).
I have been happily using my Drobo external HD with MacBook Pro with no issues until yesterday. They are connected with Firewire. When I turn on the Drobo, the drive shows up in the Disk Utility as mounted, but the Volume is unmounted. Nothing happens when I click on the "mount" button. The Drobo does not show up on the desktop or Finder as it used to. Drobo Dashboard has no problem seeing it.
I've recently hit a pretty nasty problem when trying to enable Auto Unlock on my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro. For reference, I'm currently running macOS Sierra version 10.12.5, iOS 10.3.2, and watchOS 3.2.2. I know Auto Unlock is supported, as it says to in System Information.app under Wi-Fi.
I read this blog and many other pages, which would pretty much redirect me to that same page. I would like to understand the in depth behavior of the "intelligent tracking prevention" in Safari 11. E.g. what kind of classifiers are used? What are the features used to derive the target value? What are (could be) the target values? Can we reset the learnt model? Basically everything that can be known.
If a Mac is reinstalled by booting in to the recovery partition, and the Mac came with El Capitan but was upgraded to Sierra via wifi, what os will the Mac have after reinstalling via recover mode?
Is it possible to have fine adjustment to track position in Garage-band, using the keyboard? I'm trying to get rid of an echo (both tracks have some sound leak) from another voice channel caused by a 10-20ms track position of one track. Using the mouse for this is not suitable for purpose.
Using MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) with macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73), I have a VPN connection through Pulse Secure on my WiFi, and I would like to share it with my mobile device, so I got a D-Link DWA-131 Nano USB WiFi adapter, and tried to connect through the new adapter to VPN, whilst sharing the connection through AirPort WiFi using Internet Sharing. The sharing works, internet works, but VPN is not shared, only internet connection, so I tried to share my VPN using pfctl but with no luck, I've done it before through Ethernet, but I'm not able to do it through WiFi. Here's what I do: My nat-rules file contains: This is the only rule, it worked before when I was forwarding VPN from Ethernet to WiFi (different BSD device names of course).
Via a long chain up of OS upgrades I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.5. Setting entries in my /etc/hosts file is working only occasionally, mostly not.
Where would I begin to start troubleshooting this? I've had a look at the profile manager log but I can't see anything jumping out at me so if I could find a starting point, that'd be great.
So, a couple weeks ago I went to wake my computer up and the screen just stayed black. Strangely I could feel clicks in the touch pad (which means there is power and the haptic engine is working) but absolutely nothing else. I tried literally all day, to charge it, uncharge it, pressed the power button 1000 different ways and then nothing. So I got an idea:
I can add true/false buttons ok. I wish to have these buttons equal a number when it's ticked then be added to a total.
My 13-inch mid-2010 Macbook Pro is having all of the symptoms described in this Ask Metafilter discussion thread from 2012: As of this morning, the touchpad acts extraordinarily erratic. moving my cursor, the pad seemingly cannot tell whether I am using one, two or three fingers, leading to unintentional swiping and pulling up the dashboard, etc. But it does this when nothing is touching it or nearby as well.... As in the linked discussion, it's pretty hot and humid here, and I suspect that it could be caused by condensation inside the case (as was suggested in one of the comments on that thread).
I have an iPod touch 4g with 64GB storage space. Is there some way to store files of any file type on the device? I know that there are plenty of apps which let you share files via iTunes. Is there a way to make file storage independent from iTunes? Can I exchange data between a PC and a Mac that way? I have read that you have to use Jailbreak to access the file system. Is there any other more "legitimate" way of doing this?
I share a Macbook Pro with my partner. We have our own user account on the Mac which we sign into whenever we want to use it. We also have our own iCloud accounts.
The newer versions of iTerm2 have a "feature" in which a Search dialog is displayed instead of doing a Start selection action.  My intention had been to select the 14 and the following paragraph .. but instead I am presented with the Wikipedia lookup of the symbol 14. Not exactly what were on my mind ..
I purchased a USB-C Multiport adapter and plugged it into my new MacBook Pro. Immediately I was told to upgrade the adapter, and I clicked okay and then right through the usual installer screens. Installation finished, I clicked reboot and one of my Applications cancelled the restart. I quit that app manually and then rebooted. MacBook rebooted, but adapter doesn't work and the upgrade nag no longer shows up. I understand now that it's important to plug the power into the slot on the adapter (rather than into your MacBook) when doing the upgrade, and it's a good idea to read the installer ReadMe, but this was not done. Opening /System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware\ Updates/USB-C\ Multiport\ Adapter/adapterupdate1.pkg and trying to re-run the upgrader manually fails with the message: "This software is not supported on your system". System Report seems to recognize the USB Multiport adapter, and see's version 2.33, however any devices plugged into the adapter (HDMI, USB) while they regis
I'm trying to transfer a 4 TB Time Machine backup from one USB 3 hard drive to another. I'm currently using SuperDuper to do it, and it's going to take upwards of two full days to perform the copy, if not longer. That's significantly slower than the usual maximum speed for copying over USB 3, and I suspect that what's slowing things down is the overhead of copying each file individually, rather than just copying the raw data on the drive, sector by sector. Given that I just need to duplicate a partition on to another drive: Would it result in a usable partition if I did a sector-by-sector copy? Would that be faster than using SuperDuper? And if yes to both of the above, what are some methods I could use to do that?
I am using git mergetool to activate Apple file merge in a terminal, and after I finish merging a file, I cannot go to the next file. I will have to control + c to exist git mergetool and then do it again to continue merging next file. How can I merge multiple files in one go?
Previously you would get a notification that says "no backup in x days".. but in 10.12.5 there is no notification.. is that feature no longer there where it doesn't tell you that you haven't backed up for awhile? if not how do i get it back? thanks.
Is there a way to do something like Sheet1::Table1::SUM(A1:AΩ), where Ω returns the last row number on Sheet1? This would enable leaving Sheet1 with values only, no formulas.
THERMAL THROTTLING OF CPU (FOR COMPARISON): The thermal throttling on my current MacBook Pro is a separate issue from the kernel crashes, since I got the crashes even in the winter when I first got the computer and when there was no thermal throttling, and also got them with my previous two MacBook Pros as well. I've just posted this for comparison. [In case you're curious: The throttling occurs consistently when the discrete video card is being used (4K monitor attached) and the ambient temp reaches 83F; I've never gotten throttling when the monitor is disconnected. The computer is properly-ventilated; it sits on a raindesign mStand. The Apple engineer says it needs to be brought in for service to check the fans for dust, and for possible reapplication of thermal paste. It's under warranty, but I can't do that until I can arrange for a loaner.]
Two days ago, I run into an issue of my Mom's iPhone 6S turning off and on. I reset the iPhone after taking a backup and It ran fine for a day. Today, the issue propped up again and the device got stuck in a white screen. I did a hard reset with Home and Power Button combo, which restarted the iPhone with flickering screen and the phone is continously restarting.
I use a custom keyboard and unfortunately, the command: < ctrl+cmd+n > in the Finder to create new folder with selection doesn't work for an obscur reason, so I would like to change it to another command, but the problem is that I cannot enter the exact name in the application keyboard shortcut because the name of the action varies (is dynamic) in function of the number of elements that are selected or because it will say : new folder with "filename". I tried to add a custom one saying: new folder with selection (2 elements). And it worked, but only in the case that I have 2 elements. Is there a way to change the default shortcut so it will work for all files and number of files? I tried this But I fail when it comes to edit the .nib file. Thanks in advance for the help!
I have a problem with my headphones (Sony MDR 1000X) on my mac (macOS sierra 10.12.5). It can connect well, but the sound of it is intermittent.
I am trying to get on the Javascript for Automation bandwagon. I wrote a quick script that automates my travel request email, with a few dialog boxes. Here is my code:
Can you tell me what happens if I delete the macOS Sierra installer which take nearly 5 gigabytes on my Mac?
I created reminders and lists in exchange section. I remember making some changes in internet accounts in system preference the other day. My notes disappeared after that. Can I recover them?
People, The classical Command + F1 does not work to do screen mirroring macs with the touch bar running Sierra. Also, although in the System Preferences I have "Show mirroring options..." enabled, the option still does not appear in the menu when I'm connected to an external screen with VGA.
I am being connected to the Wi-Fi, but there's no internet connection, it stops working approx 30 seconds after I turn on my iMac. In Windows via Parallels on the same device, the connection is fine. Every other device is working fine, without any connection issues. Tried connecting to another network, same result. Changing MAC adress didn't help. I have Sierra 10.12.5 This is what i gathered as recommended by @User2707001 (sorry for the mess) in online mode: offline mode:
How can I remap Command+f to search the current web page? In Safari it somehow is set as a shortcut for fullscreen, which drives me insane! What I would like is to at least kill Command+f to act as a no operation or remap it to do text search in the page. This is crucial to sort throught the posts of an assortment of comments under YouTube videos.
Normally I would connect to a SMB share on my network using Finder. I have found that sometimes the result is a connection to the share but my folders that I expect are not there. I suspect a miss-configuration either on the client or on the server. As I do not have control over the server-side I would like to have more control over the connection on the client-side. Are there ways of getting more control on the connection from the client side? I use MacOS Sierra.
I normally have a "work" space and a "personal" space. And switching between them saves time. Is there a way to fix this on macOS Sierra?
On my macOSX I'm using standard Music folder that contains following folders with music and iTunes folder. I have imported Artists and Compilations into iTunes using "Add to Library". Now Music/iTunes/iTunes Media contains the same mp3 files as Artists and Compilations. Is it possible import folder into iTunes without duplicating it?
I am having a weird issue with CarPlay in my 2017 Chevy Colorado. The iHeartRadio app was working just fine when I originally hooked it up to my truck. The second time I hooked it up the app just kept loading and wouldn't play any music. The third time I hooked it up the app doesn't even start. Very weird. Wondering how/if this can be fixed?
We have an AD server to which windows and Mac clients are registered. We are able to push msi package to all connected Windows clients through a GPO policy. We are trying to push Mac package to Mac clients. Can anyone suggest any idea or documents to create GPO for mac clients. Any information is very much appreciable. Thanks
I have an issue with my Bluetooth speaker connecting to MacBook Air (macOS Sierra). My Bluetooth is showing as keyboard input while connecting. The same problem exists when connecting to my Android device also. But on my android phone, there is an option to disable input from it, after that it works fine as audio output.
I have a USB 3 external hard drive that I use for video media, it's HFS Journaled Encrypted. I have about 1 TB of data on it, but I no longer need it encrypted because I need the faster speed. Is is possible to remove the encryption on the drive while still retaining all the data?
I am on MacOs 10.12.5. I am trying to do high volume I/O but some task managed by launchd hits every modified disk block every 30 seconds. When this happens my high volume I/O has to compete causing a severe slow down. How do I identify the problem task?
I have about 1000+ Word files in a folder. It is easy to combine the text of all of these files in one big Word file, but I would like Automator to also add the respective file names to this big file. Hence, I will know from which file the text originates. So, how do you tell Automator to extract the text from each file and also always add the file name right after the text (or before it) in the new big file?
Video : *=URL=* + iMac 5k 2017 Core i5 Turbo 4.1Ghz + VLC 2.2.5.1 Result = video playback stutter badly. Is this expected? Any other software recommended ?
I'm using iTerm2 Build 3.0.15 and writing a script that opens a new window and prints "hello world" to the screen. Really, I'm interested in being to run any command but using echo "hello world" as a starting point.
I am using an old version of an App (update is available on App Store but I haven't updated it) and I want to install it on a second iPhone (same version, not the new one). I am running the latest version of iOS 10. Is there a way to do it? Thanks
By default the connection was Wifi. The problem, this connection is very slowly, I haven't option to select my thunderbold LAN connection, instead of Wifi.
When I try and text from my Macbook, I open the Messages app, click the New Message button on the top left, and then begin to type the name of the person I want to text. I will quickly type the first few letters, the name pops up and is highlighted, then I hit [Enter] and begin to type my message. Unfortunately, if I have an email for that contact, it will show up as I find them and sometimes is highlighted. I will click their name without realizing it's for their email and not for their phone number. Thus, I send a special text-to-email from my service provider and it looks like spam on their end. I don't ever want to text to someone's email, which I used the Mail app for.
There's no way to connect a display over DisplayPort (to get 4K@60Hz, whereas all the abundant HDMI-having docks/adapters/hubs would operate at HDMI 1.4 limiting to 4k@30Hz) while charging the laptop at the same time. Looking for a product that supplies passthrough power while NOT converting to an HDMI signal.
When a Google Calendar user sends me an invite to my iCloud address, I only get an email with .ics files attached. I get no invite in iCloud Calendar so there is no way to respond to the invite using iCloud Calendar. I was expecting the invite to show up on my calendar app so that I could accept or decline it there, just like it works between Google accounts.
I feel like my iPhone 7 Plus battery life has gotten seriously bad at the point where I sometimes run trough 2 full charges a day. I got the iPhone in mid-November.
In the fall of 2015, my previous iPhone 4S fell into water and blacked out. Afterwards, like now, when charging, the mainboard will get hot, but nothing will show up on the screen and the battery also have no reaction.
On Ubuntu/Windows when I have a gvim window open I just type :!gvim filename to open a new window. On OSX this does nothing. I think it may have to do with OSX not liking multiple instances of the same program, but it lets me open all the gvim windows I want manually from terminal.
I have a mid-2017 MacBook Pro that I would like to use with the messages app. I have successfully enabled text forwarding, and can now send texts to both iMessage users and SMS users. However, my Messages app does not seem to be able to get any of the old messages I have sent from my iPhone. It can send and receive messages, but cannot seem to sync text history across devices. This includes both iMessages and SMS messages. I have confirmed that my phone number is set to the default form of sending and receiving messages on both the Mac and iOS messages app by following the guide here How do I get it to sync?
I've been having some big issues with my iPhone lately, but the most infuriating one by far is that my messages are not displayed in chronological order. The usual way is that a new message from a contact brings that thread to the top of the list, but about two weeks ago, my threads got sorted into a completely random order and, worse, when I get a new message, that thread isn't bumped to the top anymore.
Update 2018-03: Originally reported for Google Drive app, still have this problem in new Backup and Sync app. Intermittently these Finder icons disappear and the context menus stop working:
I routinely need to run large programs for testing purposes on a Mac. And they have a lot of sudo commands. Most of the commands have to do with FTP and string manipulations in plists.
Can I keep Indoor walk on all day as I am a housewife and have do lot of walking up and down at home
I consider buying a new MacBook, but just found that the Simplified Chinese keyboard layout option has been added to the new model. However, as far as the picture goes, it seems there is no difference between the Simplified Chinese and US English with regards to the basic functionality. The picture below is from Apple Store China:
I uninstalled Keynote app from Applications, since I am unable to update it because of the error  I empty trash and try to reinstall it again. I am getting the same error. And its still showing UPDATE option, not GET option. I am getting this problem with this version of mac(v10.12.5), previous versions I updated successfully with my appleid. Any help on this..
I wanted to open my video file with VLC, so have opened the 'Choose Application' dialog. The window looks like this:
I have an imac running OSX 10.6.8 on which Mail for Mac 4.6 is installed. I use this app to access my .mac account - this being a MobileMe IMAP account. Since midday today I have been unable to access my inbox or send mail - I am repeatedly told my password is wrong. I have repeatedly reentered my password to no avail. I am able to access my account through iCloud (web based) using my usual password, so clearly I know the password and am not entering it wrongly in Mail. I have checked all the other IMAP and STMP settings - they are correct. I am also able to access the account through my father's iPad - but have had to set up 2 factor authentication for this to happen. I am wondering if I need 2 factor to access from Mail - but cannot find any way of generating or entering such a password. Help!
I use the Control+Space to search a file, you see the below image, but how can I go to the file's position?
I got up to check it out and the bottom plate was pretty hot and fans still going at 100%. I opened the lid and I couldn't get it to turn on. The screen would not show anything no matter how long I waited and how many keys I pressed. I ended up force shutting it down (holding down the power button).
Note: the Camera-based signature method technically works on my machine. However, its rendition ability isn't great. OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.
My main Mac is a late 2012 Mac Mini, currently running 10.10.5. I also have a late 2008 Aluminium MacBook, recently updated to 10.11.6 El Capitan (the newest version it will support). And an iPad 3 (original Retina) running whatever the latest iOS version it supports is (probably iOS 9.3.5). My Mac Mini is clamouring to be updated to 10.12 Sierra but I recall the last major update I did, there was some step forward in iCloud which meant devices running older versions of macOS and iOS would not be able to use iCloud once I updated - I'm fuzzy on the details but a little nervous that something similar may happen - being able to share GarageBand projects over iCloud,etc, is quite handy.
Is there any way to change the size of the blinking text cursor (not the mouse cursor)? It is sometimes quite hard to find after switching to another application.
Until now, only iOS devices purchased direct from an Apple sales channel could be added to the Device Enrollment Program (DEP). But at WWDC June 2017, Apple announced that any device running iOS 11 or tvOS 11 could be added to DEP. (The information is in this presentation - p25 of the PDF or around 05:20 in the video.) Although it wasn't stated explicitly, the slide implies that this requires Apple Configurator 2.5.
It seems the only way to enable two factor authentication on an Apple ID is by using an Apple device. I can log into my non-primary Apple ID on the appleid.apple.com website but the instructions for enabling 2FA require that I enable it on an apple device. But this would mean I would need to remove my existing primary Apple ID first and set the Non-Primary to be the primary. How can I enable 2FA for my Apple ID that is not the primary ID via the website?
At seemingly random occurrence, these days a few times per day, finder seems to confuse files. When opening a file from the column view list, or when dragging the file into another application (as an attachment for example), the wrong file is opened or sent. Usually it is the next or previous file in the list of files that I'm looking at. When the wrong file is opened I can notice it immediately, but when sending the wrong file there is no way of telling, even in the email the filename I intended will show, but the recipient will receive another file. It has been happening on two computers, one running el capitan (10.11.6), the other running sierra. I'm not sure if this is related, but I always use the Column view in finder, I still have to test if it happens in other views as well. Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?
I recently have to work with both a mac and a windows pc. Because I have worked my whole life with PC, I'm used to work with default Windows / Unix shortcuts. So I'm trying to get these shortcuts running on macOS, because I'm obviously too dumb for switching my typing behaviour between both systems. My main focus are following shortcuts: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Pos1, End, Ctrl-left arrow, Ctrl-right arrow
My Google-fu has failed me. Is it at all possible to use Target Display Mode to connect a 12-inch MacBook (early 2016) to a 27-inch iMac (Mid 2011)? Thanks for helping.
Well, basically I bought a good battery it was working fine, and lasting for a long time on a single charge. After like 40-50 cycles or so, I left it without charging and it drained to zero. Now, I can't charge the phone (I use wall charger). It shows only the battery red line sign and a cable, and when I plug it in, it only shows the red lining battery. I tried keeping it overnight on charging (I use wall charger, because I know it is stronger). I tried keeping it overnight on charging (I use wall charger, because I know it is stronger).
I have set up two gmail accounts in my iPhone Gmail app.  When I want to share something using gmail like: then it opens compose mail always in same particular account. How can I change this default account for sharing?
I'm wondering if anyone knows how to log all files that I open with my Mac. I suppose this would be something like a keylogger - but I just want a record of the files that I open by day. I don't want/need every system file that an app references, just the data files - .doc, .psd, .ai, etc.... I struggle with keeping track of my hours sometimes on projects and it would be helpful to be able to go back to a day to see what files I was working on. Anyone have any ideas?
When I boot to windows, the screen remains black (lit, but black) with no Windows logo. Moreover, when I turned my sound up, I discovered that it kept playing the boot chime over and over again. My guess is that it can't find the OS, but this doesn't make any sense to me, since I haven't touched its partition.
I have OS Sierra 10.12.5 on a MBP late 2016 - it's got the big beautiful trackpad. I love the trackpad, but I hate how it always clicks when I don't want it to. I want a trackpad that only clicks when I actually click, not tap.
I have a file with some leading tabs and I tried to convert the tabs to spaces by using sed: It works properly on various flavours of UNIX, but on my Mac (Sierra) it doesn't treat '\t' as an escape for tab (hex 0x09) rather it treats it as two separated characters. grep properly handles the \t shortcut for tab.
Ok, this is a bit confusing and has been happening for at least the last 5 macOS updates I've done (both public beta and full releases in Sierra). Here's what happens:
While trying to delete a few messages, I accidentally deleted all messages from a contact on my iPhone, but they're all still there on my iPad. For some reason, iCloud backup doesn't include the messages. Can I restore the deleted messages on the iPhone using my iPad? And how do I include messages in iCloud backup for the future?
How on earth do I remove one of my local user accounts from the default "staff" group in macOS? I've tried many of the obscure commands in the command-line to no avail, i.e dscl, dseditgroup. This is what I tried: Response: Tried removing: Checking membership: Response: How come? I want to remove a particular local account from the staff group so that it doesn't have access to the contents of home directories of other local accounts, amongst other things. Any commands and/or GUIs that you can recommend for this?
I created a bunch of smart boxes for diff kinds of emails... but these email continue on showing up on the inbox... I would like them not to appear on the inbox... how can I do that?
I am working on a Unity game, and I cannot afford to buy both an iPhone 7, and my main phone that I am upgrading to (Galaxy S8), nor can I afford to buy a Mac right now. Would developing on a Virtual Machine running on a Windows Laptop, along with using an iPhone 5C to test and debug on be a good idea? I have heard some problems with developing with the 5C due to the 32 bit processor, but I do not know if that would also apply to games.
According to this MacRumors post, Firefox version 54 now uses multiple processes to browse the web, similar to Chrome. However, although I have upgraded to Firefox version 54 (64-bit), it still runs a single process. I have verified this in 3 different places: Activity Monitor has a single "Firefox" process, except for "Firefox Plugin Content (Shockwave Flash)". I downloaded the Add-on Compatibility Reporter and it shows that multi-process id disabled. The Enable Multi-process checkbox doesn't even show up in preferences.
In Apple's Calendar app, it is not always possible to delete future events as a group. It seems to consistently be possible when I create a repeating event on my own calendar, but apparently not possible when I have accepted a meeting invitation. Here's the response when I try to delete an event I created:
I'm running FreeNAS (basically customized version of FreeBSD) on a Mac Pro. I would like to use the Apple Wireless Keyboard vs having to tie up a USB port and deal with a corded keyboard.
I am testing out tagging on a remote file. It works fine in finder if I use "Shared" instead of "This Mac" on the finder window, but when using mdfind with -onlyin pointing to the remote file system just generates a lot of "bad path long-id-string" and none of the hits that should be found.
I have macOS Sierra 10.12.5 in my MacBook Air, but I suffering Flickering with Samsung Smart TV & Epson Projector. I tested an Old Notebook with Windows 10, works perfectly with my Smart TV. By mistake, I tried to do an clean installation of the macOS Sierra (because my MacBook comes with El Capitan and it was upgraded), but I had problem and El Capitan was installed instead of.
I use iCloud's shared photo albums from my iPhone and look at the files from my OSX Photos app on my mac laptop. I would like to know where these files are stored / cached on the file system. I'm able to "import" these files from the shared album and then see them in Finder by looking at at "Photos Library" files in Finder. However, I can't see these files anywhere on my filesystem if I don't "import" them.
I have an imac 2006 running snow leopard. The matte screen is great on the eyes so I found a few articles on upgrading the hard drive and processor to a core 2 duo (had the core duo) that might allow me to emulate 64bit and run the newer mac OS versions. (http://lowendmac.com/2016/cpu-upgrade-options-for-2006-imacs/)
I have a 27-inch, late 2012, iMac running Sierra. On a recent boot up, I got the following screen, which I have since learned in a Kernel Panic message. I might have also been booting a hard drive while the main system was booting up. On a subsequent boot, the message did not reappear.
I would like to know the differences between ikev2 and IPSec. Differences as in speed, security, stuff like that. I've tried googling but I can't find an article focused on specifically IPSec and ikev2, they all compare all the vpn protocols.
I'm sorry guys if this is an easy fix. But I really couldn't find any useful info about this anywhere. iTunes ignores the 'the' and 'a' in the song names and sorts them this way. as you can see in the screenshot. This makes it extremely hard for me to crosscheck my folders with the iTunes. Any help is appreciated. thank you
So I have been doing some cleanup of my Photos app library and noticed something odd… Odd at least to me. I am currently running version 2.0 (3150.4.120) under macOS Sierra (10.12.5). Over the years I have been running different versions of iPhotos and when the Photos app came along, I imported my iPhoto library into it and all works good. That said, when I looked into the actual contents of the “Photos Library” via “Show Package Contents” I saw what seemingly—and I assume are—crufty old files, directories and symlinks to items that seem to be remnants of the old iPhoto structure; screenshot below with blue highlighted items being what I assume is “cruft.”
How to clean computer from recovery mode terminal? Stopped working after had about 33MB left. Now is loading until middle and stuck, then shut down automatically.
Just bought a third party wireless Bluetooth earphones. Whenever I pair it and use with my iPhone 6, I am unable to use my keyboard for any applications. Notes, SMS, whatsapp, in game typing etc. the keyboard just doesn't appear. But does whenever I off my Bluetooth. The earphone s costs a pretty penny but not being able to type while using it is a major hindrance, please help!!!
I recently started using Todoist as the primary reminder/task management app on my iPhone. However, one feature I miss from Apple's native Reminders app is being able to create reminders using Siri commands. (ie: "Remind me to buy groceries tomorrow")
I have had several windows open in the Finder, serving as bookmarks for things I was working on, but recently they have all reverted to my home directory. I would like to know where these open Finder windows are saved, so that I can look in a copy of that file from a backup, and either restore the file(s) or just retrieve the names from the file(s).
Can an iPhone (mine is 7) be used productively with an external keyboard and mouse -- connected via Bluetooth? Such peripherals -- combined with a screen-magnifier -- would turn a phone into a decent personal computer...
Recently by accident I tapped "Don't trust" and every time when I login to my itunes account I need to verify this with code as it is on the image below:  What can I do to trust that browser again or to force safari to display that dialog again to me?
I have an iPhone 5 connected to a pc via bluetooth using the HFP profile. The USB dongle asks for CLI notification issuing the command AT+CLIP=1 and the phone answers OK, as expected.
I have to solve following problem. iPhone 5 of which the OS has not been updated recently because of too less free space.
I am running macOS Server and using the Time Machine service. I have a Drobo attached via Firewire 800. I've been backing up my workstations and laptops to it for about 2 years and have built-up backups history.
2 with Mini DP and tried to connect it to projector and external monitor. Nothing... Maybe it is my Mini DP to DVI/VGA converter but I am worried since I don't see Display connected in System Informations... How can I check if my Mini DP is working at all? NVIDIA GeForce 9400M: Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Type: GPU Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0863 Revision ID: 0x00b1 ROM Revision: 3436 gMux Version: 1.7.10 Displays: Color LCD: Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Built-In: Yes
I had my hard drive protected by FileVault before I started having major software issues. I have plenty of Time Machine backups so I wiped the hard drive using the disk utility in recovery mode. However, I never overwrote the whole hard drive or used any kind of "secure" wipe program. When I set up my new accounts over the wiped drive, I did not use FileVault either. I gave Apple the password to my new account which barely had any new data on it (and changed my password to "hello" before doing so). I'm just wondering if the information that is technically still "there" when the drive was wiped insecurely can be accessed despite having been protected with FileVault prior to being wiped?
The EarPods which come with iPhone 7 are Lightning EarPods, there isn't a Female Lightning to Male 3.5mm connector in the market AFAIK. The cable which Apple gives along with iPhone 7 is Male Lightning to Female 3.5mm connector. Is there any way I can use the Lightning EarPods with my MacBook Pro?
I'm very new to Apple Script. That said, I'm running a Parallels Desktop virtual machine and simply want to quit the Parallels app before Time Machine begins it's nitely backup and then relaunch Parallels after Time Machine has completed the backup.
This is an Apple iOS question despite having google spreadsheet in the title. First a lesson: On iOS I can start an app by using an special URL. Specifically, I replace https with the name of the app and then the app still start rather then the browser passing the parameters on the URL to the app. Even more specifically, it is not really the name of the app, it is a name that the app registers when it is installed. The URL for my app looks like this: myapp://?fname=mickey&lname=mouse I would like to put that link in a google spreadsheet, then allow a user that is viewing that spreadsheet on their phone to click on the link and have the app start. I can put that link in email and have them click on it from email, so I am not asking for something completely weird.
I have an early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 connected to an ViewSonic VX2478 monitor using a MiniDisplayPort cable connected to a ThunderBolt port. The monitor is detected correctly as having a default resolution of 2560x1440. However, when I set it to the default resolution the monitor claims to have no signal while macOS seems to think everything is fine. If I set the resolution to 1080p the display works fine.
For a long time I used the "maximum space" 1920x1200 retina resolution on my 15" MacBook Pro for all my user accounts. I recently switched to the slightly larger 1680x1050 resolution - again for all user accounts - but when I now switch from one account to another, the resolution gets reset to 1920x1200. The "Login Window" screen also defaults to 1920x1200 However, when I restart the computer and log into one of the accounts, it uses the right resolution, only when I then switch to another user, it reverts back to 1920x1200
The macOS Photos app allows searching for photos that contain specific people. But how can one create a smart album that only contains photos that do not contain any people at all?
How can I get rid of the WINS NetBIOS Name MacBook-Pro Workgroup is currently being used? It would be great if someone could help me understand what this is exacly. The devices I see in finder are 1. Macintosh HD 2. Network - Neighborhood (Why do I have to see this) 3. Remote Disk - Remote Volume ( I am not sure what this is exactly) MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 Intel Iris 1536 MB Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73)
So long story short, I need to install 10.10.3 on a machine (later versions break a specific app I need). I have the 10.10.5 installer and I still have the 10.10 Developer Preview installer laying around. I've seen lots of previous posts saying if you don't have the installer you're out of luck for anything except 10.10.5. However since I have the DP, I installed that. Obviously it's buggy though and this is not useful. Is there any way to upgrade the DP to 10.10.3? I tried the combo update but it says it's not compatible.
Is this something I can fix easily and cheaply (ie. no apple store, replacement parts, ifixit, etc.)? Should I try getting a new cable (Is this the right one for that model)? I expect the battery to be worse-off after all this time being stored at who knows what charge, but I would expect it to still run without issue from wall power. Some things I have tried/Notes:
I hardly ever want to paste with formatting when copying into Word 2016 or Excel 2016 (seriously, who wants fonts when copying into a spreadsheet?). Is there a way to set the default paste to paste text only when I hit Cmd+V?
I'm using Siri to set short timers, many times in a row: "Set timer for 45 seconds." This is on an iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 10.3.2 (14F89). It works great, but each time Siri confirms the timer she adds a humorous quip from a short list: "Just remember, a watched iPhone never boils." "The suspense is killing me."
I have written python script to change desktop wallpaper. After I change my wallpaper using the below code: I have added
Many iPhone/iPad users still use apps on their devices which are only 32-bit. These apps will not work in future if users upgrade to iOS 11, unless of course the apps themselves are updated to run natively in 64-bit.
Had 13000 files roughly in "all my files" category and attempted to copy and shift the files off my computer. Decided to copy in chunks of roughly 4000 files and ended up accidentally deleting the first chunk beyond recovery. Still have the remaining 9000. However from earlier I clicked copy upon all the files and have a "paste" for 13000 items. Is there any way I can paste these inside a new folder and get my files back? Whenever I try to do so it says "pasting 9000 items" instead.
I can't seem to find a way to create a log-log plot in Numbers 4.2, something that should be as easy as clicking twice! The option is only available for the Y-axis:
I have noticed that retailers in the UAE sell FaceTime enabled or non-enabled iPhone 7. I wish to use the phone in South Africa. Will FaceTime remain disabled on the phone in South Africa. Are there any other differences between the phones that I ought to consider before purchasing?.
I have en external USB-audio device, which is great (Steinberg/Yamaha). And a bluetooth speaker and an Apple TV. Is it possible to stream audio to ALL this devices simultaneously and synchronously ?
There have been previous questions and answers regarding how to disable the option+... unicode/diacritic input: *=URL=* Disable <Option-u>, <Option-n> accent mark These solutions require creating a custom keyboard layout from a given one.
I'd like to maintain, in a single place, preferably on the Mac, a list of "URLs added to Home Screen" -icons and dump them, either via wi-fi or via Lightning-cable, to a set of iPhones and iPads. Which app should I use for this?
A few months ago I was experimenting with a PKI and installed the certificates on my iOS devices. I've since then removed those certs from the devices and reinstalled them multiple times.
Such as going back 5 or 10 seconds. This is a function I needed most but don't find on iTunes.
I have a 2013 Mac Pro (the black cylinder). I rarely turn it off. I recently went on holiday for 10 days and have returned to some weird behaviour.
Is there a way to get a list of recent times when a USB thumb flash drive was inserted? I'm using Sierra. Thanks
I recently purchased a MBP it has El Capitan. The people who I purchased it from were unable to perform the factory reset. They tried for over an hour. So I have this really nice MBP that still has all of their information. I have all their log in information, so that we can reset it ourselves. They purchased it as a reconditioned unit 2 years ago they haven't really used it and have never made any updates. It came with the box and all the installation disks. The disk is Snow Leopard. First and foremost what's the best way to process the reset? Will I have to install Snow Leopard? If so how do I install El Capitan​? Is there a way to upgrade to Sierra? It's a mid 2009.
In the YouTube iOS app, a playlist's name will be truncated if it's too log to fit on a single line. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to view the playlist's full title if it's been shortened. Is it possible to view a playlist's full name if it's been auto-shortened?
About three months ago, my MacBook Pro retina 2014's fan started spinning continuously because launchd is hogging the CPU up to 70%. When I checked the system.log, it shows this code over and over again:
I have been using matplotlib to plot 3D graphs, however I have found that matplotlib does not have a drag and rotate function for the plotted 3D graphs. I would like to install mayAVI that will enable me to do so, however I can't find any foolproof methods to install it. Could anyone guide me in the installation process? I do not use virtual environments.
The official docs say to use Option-Up/Down  I tried that - as well as Option-Left/Right and Command-(any arrow keys) and they all do different things than the page right/left. So is there any way to get this functionality short of point and click?
I'm trying to resurrect an old mac application. Currently it is trying to scrape data from deadurl.com/?12345
Alternatives are always welcome too; can't have the world. : j Additional interests would be: Locking out the hotkey if the built-in speakers are active. Disabling the passthrough if the audio output device changes. This is because passthrough is potentially damaging to built-in speakers due to feedback from the built-in speakers into built-in microphone.
I have an iMac running OS 10.4.2. It used to have a wired mouse, but it doesn't work any more. I have a Magic Mouse (the kind that takes AA batteries) that was paired with another Mac before. I'd like to pair it with this one.
On a Mac Sierra, the VLC embedded update feature seems to work fine at first and the download completes. However, just after, VLC gives an error Is there any way to use a workaround (that VLC bug)?
This morning, when I logged into my Mac, it forced me to change my password. Because I'm unlikely to remember a new password, I had to choose an insecure password that will be easier to remember. It also won't let me change the password back. I went to the Security & Privacy settings and found NOTHING that can control this behavior. Everything on the Internet that is even remotely related is about Active Directory, but I'm sure this thing isn't using Active Directory. How do you make a Mac NOT do this?
Occasionally - even with abundant care - my 16GB MBPro runs out of application memory and the dreaded "No more application memory available" dialog appears. Fortunately we are still able to access Activity Monitor: and the first thing I do is kill the web browsers that tend to accumulate large amounts of memory over time. Less fortunate is that - even after verifying that the Memory Used + Swap Memory are less than 10GB combined, it is still not possible to resurrect the Paused applications.
I currently own an iPhone 4s, which I decided to try and reset due to a weird behavior of its display. This mobile is jailbroken. I have tried to resetting it through Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Content and Settings after entering my Apple ID password, the display turned to the Apple logo and started showing the spinning circle, which I assume is the iPhone's way of saying I'm currently working on your request.
I know that I used to be able to start up Console to see things like what happened due to a system error: you could just fire it up and search for the most recent "boot" and look at the events before that to see what had happened. Now, however, it seems that my scrollback in Console.app is limited to the moment I started it. That is, I would have to have it running all the time in order to see what's going on on the system, and what I described above (i.e., seeing what's going on around a boot/reboot) is impossible.
We own 2 pairs of the same headsets and wish to pair them simultaneously to watch tv on the iPad. Only one at a time seems to work. They have the same name which may be the issue, but I can't find an answer online.
So I try to download an app but a thing pops up saying I can't because I don't have enough storage on my phone so I go to my settings and I delete some apps and some pictures on my phone but it didn't do anything it still said I have 0 storage! So I get a flash drive and download all my photos on to it and then go back on my phone and delete them all ( well all most all of them I had 1300 photos and I deleted like 700 photos)and I go back and there was no change my pictures was still using the same amount of storage and it still said I have 0 space left! It's making me mad! Please help! ( do I need a new phone??) Ps.i also deleted a bunch of old text messages and group chats but that didn't do anything either!
I bought a new 2017 iMac 27", but I still want to use my 4K monitor. I was using the monitor with my 2012 MacBook Pro just plugging in the mini-DP cable into a Thunderbolt 2 port. I tried the "All Smart Life" USB Type C to Mini DP adaptor, which advertised that it worked on the new MacBook Pro, but it didn't work on my iMac. Does anyone know what adapter I can use to connect my new iMac to my 4K monitor?
I have the following configuration: 2016 MBP connected to a Windows 10 Pro machine via Bluetooth PAN (ad-hoc). 2016 MBP connected to a Windows 10 Pro machine via Bluetooth PAN (ad-hoc). Internet sharing is working as expected. Internet sharing is working as expected. VMWare or HyperV on the Win10 box being used as a VM server in order to offload application intensive tasks from my MacBook. VMWare or HyperV on the Win10 box being used as a VM server in order to offload application intensive tasks from my MacBook.
Is there a way to make the Touch Bar esc key emit a "click" sound when it is pressed? This way I'd have some feedback that I successfully pressed the button when using vim. I'd be happy with an Apple Script, or whatever works.
I've had my 2011 Mac Mini for a while. About a year ago the internal HDD decided to give up. Oh well.
I'm using a custom method to deploy the iWork/iLife pkgs to my clients and have them install. However pushing them up to the latest version via pkg results in the app store still showing an available update. It's worth noting these don't have _MASReceipts. Examples with Keynote and iMovie:
My macOS spotlight search has become unreliable as it's not showing me anything on the side-panel/side-bar which normally shows the top hits, the Bing results and other categories under which more results are shown for the particular query entered. The only thing it gives me is the exact file, app or document for the query I enter. Below is a sample query image I extracted from Google which depicts how spotlight used to give me results.
I find there's a global policy that can temporarily block/disable a user (only 1 minute) after authenticating with wrong passwords a few times. But what I want to do is to increase that 1 minute to a longer time, or permanently disable that user. Is it possible?
I would like to backup the entire system drive/partition to a USB hard/flash drive. I have a 128gb usb flash drive and a 2tb usb hard drive. I am borrowing a friends macbook air for learning swift/ios programming for a few months.
I got a wide 27 inch dell monitor for my pc and mac but only see two aspect ratios in the mac display widnow. Is there any way to get more? It doesn't appear to like the wide display. I am not mirroring. I am scaling it.
On my iPad Air 2 there is a copy choice under the share button. When I use this button, I can't find the copy. It's not in my photos, and if try the paste function nothing is there. Where is the copy?
A few days ago I started noticing notifications from my email clients that there was an authentication error for my email address ending in @me.com. I tried re-entering my password several times, I changed my password, tried the @icloud.com version of the email address but unfortunately, nothing worked. I can however, still sign in to webmail at iCloud.com, and to other Apple services using these credentials, just not email.
I have a 2009 iMac (24 inch) running El Capitan (10.11.6). For a few days I have not been able to connect to the internet. The Wi-Fi network is connected to the internet because I can access it with my other devices.
When I want to connect my external hard drive to my 15-inch MacBook Pro with touch bar, I can see the popup which asks me that wether I want to connect my hard drive to windows or Mac. But no matter which one I choose the computer could not recognize my external hard drive. On the other hand when I quit Parallels Desktop and try to reconnect my External Hard my MacBook Pro recognizes it comfortably. This image shows my parallels Desktop's preferences for USB devices:
Today after opening the lid I found out that TouchPad and Keyboard doesn't work. I tried with an external USB mouse, but no success. However, keys work during the startup when I'm trying PRAM reset. Booted in safe mode but again they froze at login screen. Recovery mode didn't work either. I just can't login into my mac. My machine is MacBookPro 15" Mid 2009, running macOS Sierra.
My music is stuck on Shuffle mode. I cannot "unblock" the shuffle. It's greyed out on the screen and I cannot either make it blue (active) or inactivate it. It's always shuffling.
I am mounting my Music library via nfs on my mac by using the 'Connect to Server' page and opening nfs://fileserver/audio. This works fine, but after having occasional issues with iTunes I found that when I unmount/disconnect the drive - Finder does not remove the mount folder. I've also put a Screenshot for reference.
I am a previous windows user and I try to continue my work on a Mac. My dilemma now is how to simply save a web page as html and all associated files in a separate folder.
I have some music files which have somehow the wrong bitrate settings (32 instead of 320). Yes they are really 320bps, the file size and show exactly that. So this means no Apple Music availability. I tried changing the values in the iTunes XML file, but that did nothing, as kind-of expected. Other programs also show the wrong bitrate or none at all. Searching for 32 in a Hex-Editor of that file was useless as well.
So I did. But now there is the catch. I have 2 partitions and I'm not able to merge them. And in an attempt to fix this situation I converted the second APFS container back to HFS+ and actually split it into two and converted only one back to APFS.
I'm trying to use soundflower and co. to record desktop sound, but I'd like to be able to adjust the volume of my headphones simultaneously. The volume buttons adjust soundflower if I set the system sound device to soundflower and use LineIn to PlayThru to the headphones (same problem with soundflowerbed), or the volume buttons don't work at all if I use an aggregate device. What can I do to make the volume buttons control the headphones and not soundflower (which I always want to be at max)?
So, I'm having a very annoying problem with my new MacBook. I have a Raspberry Pi which I regularly have to SSH into. I have never had any problems connecting to it with my old MacBook (MD101), but since I got my new one, I don't seem to be able to connect. I can see the Pi on the network (when running arp -a for example), and I can SSH into it using other computers, just not the new laptop. Sometimes I get to the login prompt, but as soon as I successfully log in, I get a broken pipe exception.
I'd like to use an external USB3 drive for Windows 10, but I don't know how to install it. Booting the Windows installer errors out saying that it can't be installed on an external device.
I have different Apple IDs for iCloud (backups, iCloud Drive, Keychain Sync...) and iTunes (purchasing media—music and movies.) They are in different countries. Which Apple ID is used if I sign up for Apple Music? Is it even possible to be logged in with different iCloud and iTunes IDs and use Apple Music?
I don't know what I am doing. I don't have access to my iPad at the moment because it won't charge so I don't have an apple device to fix this.
This is MacBook Air 2012 A1706 Now it doesn't even power on. It just makes 3 short tones. Where could be a problem?
Is there anyway to reduce the disk space used to store the Xcode application? I only downloaded Xcode so that I could compile C and C++, so if possible I would like it to take up much less than the 9.22GB it requires right now. Perhaps there are optional portions I can uninstall?
I am about to obtain a new Mac laptop. However, the only internet connection I use is through a corporate proxy (Microsoft ISA server). I plan to install CNTLM on the laptop to tunnel traffic.
I had three operating systems (Sierra, Windows 10 and Ubuntu) installed and decided to get rid of Windows .. so using Disk Utility I removed the Windows partition. I wasn't able to boot anymore and I got "no bootable device press any key", following some troubleshooting practices I was able to boot into Mac white screen as default OS but after entering username and password I end up with the forbidden sign .. using Recovery Mode I find that within Disk Utility the old drive partition has a description with FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF.
Internet connectivity is painfully slow when running Windows 10 on a Boot Camp partition. This is compared to the same wireless service while running macOS Sierra on my mid-2012 11" AirBook (i7 2GHz). I have a Broadcom wireless chip (Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.171.126.1a2)) and have confirmed that I have the latest drivers for it. Using Google's "internet speed test" the performance while using the Windows 10 OS and testing Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox, is consistently around 5 times slower than when I am booted into the macOS Sierra partition. Why is this happening and, more importantly, what can I do to improve the Windows 10 performance?
I'm wondering if anyone out there has had any experience using a Mac Pro trashcan as a file server for a medium business. My concern is that it won't be able to handle the network traffic for 60+ connected users (AFP). The reason I am not wanting to use a NAS or something like that is that I need to have dropbox on the server syncing the shared volume. Does anyone have any experience with a scenario like this?
I have an external Retina display, which is teared down from another Retina MacBook Pro, the display works well. Now I would like to use the external Retina display as an external monitor. Is there any way to make it happen? Thanks. I didn't try anything, because I totally have no any idea on this.
My MacBook has been overheating for over a year now. More recently it has begun to perform alarms and automatic shutdowns. Also on startup there is (a moment) where I see a black screen with source code of some sort before the screen resumes with the grey bootup screen.
I have seen this instruction for hiding the Finder icon from MacOS: https://github.com/jesscXC/hide-finder-trash-dock-icons
So I tried to buy some in-app offers from a app that I downloaded in a different app store region, after putting in my billing information it won't go through. I'm using a US debit/credit card. Is there anyway to go around the problem like buying a iTunes card then use it for my iTunes account to buy in the in-app offer?
I have searched long and hard and have found no way to independently adjust the tracking speed of the mouse cursor on a Mac. I'm running 10.11.6 El Capitan on my 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro.
Is it possible to retrieve the Bluetooth RSSI value from the Terminal? The system_profiler holds the value in newer versions, but I can't locate it in Lion. Is it stored in some other file?
I'm looking for a screenshot markup/annotation tool that attaches text to the origin of an arrow. Screenshot markup/annotation apps usually allow you to add arrows that point to parts of the shot. They also allow you to add text, commonly to explain the problem.
EDIT: For what it's worth, I did a little digging and found that these values are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist. If you look you'll see these stored in the NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems key. I found that you can pull out these keys with the following command: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems" ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist So now it's going to be a matter of storing these and reinserting them into another system's plist key. Any ideas on how to do this manually from the shell so as to be able to automate?
You can trigger scripts by using rules in Mail.app. So you can fire a script when receiving a mail. I'd like to also run a script if all mails are marked as read or in other words if there are no unread mails left. Is this even possible? I know I could run a script periodically to check for unread mails but it would be enough for me to run a script once the last unread mail gets read.
I want to set up my computer to paste unformatted text by default. When I try to do this (following the advise of several online guides) my paste no longer works. I went to keyboard > shortcuts > app shortcuts > +. See my changes below. When I try command+v in Microsoft Word, nothing happens. What went wrong here? Is there a way I can make this work in Microsoft Word?
Running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73). After migration from my old machine to the new machine, I am experiencing an issue where some apps do not retain settings. The migration was not trivial and I actually had to re-create the user account and then move all of the user directories by hand, including the Library directory, where the settings, I believe are stored.
Yesterday, I restarted my macbook and after that, it just won't startup normally. It just shows the multi-languages restart message, followed by some error message (which displays so fast I can't read it properly). I did catch something like Mac OS version not yet set. I went on google and tried the Disk utility First Aid but it complains that my startup disk cannot be unmounted. I read on some threads to reboot from usb but how to do this? Panicking! Help!!
I have a key with values that I'd like to insert into .GlobalPreferences.plist. I've been able to insert these via the following steps:
I am connecting to a Linux computer through the serial port using screen on my Mac. I ran minicom on my Linux computer and minicom uses CTRL-A for commands.
Running MacOX Sierra on MacBook Pro, and setting up for local dev environment with nginx as the web server, but I have a problem. What I want to do Use dnsmasq as the local dns server that returns 127.0.0.1 as the host for the wildcard domain *.develop (as .dev now clashes with ICANN). Forward any unresolved requests to DNS servers provided by DHCP whenever I connect to a network so that I can resolve all other hostnames (external and internal.) Conditions and constraints
Note: There is some other odd stuff going on with this phone's memory display. I've deleted all the photos from the photo gallery on the phone, yet the data summary bar shows 1.49 GB, 1760 photos. It should show near zero memory / zero images.
We use our organization's provided SSO certificate for SSL client authentication from our Java based desktop clients (Mac and Windows). It seems in Mac, the certificate is marked with non-exportable private key and Java tries to export the key inside JVM for SSL client authentication. Hence our certificate authentication is not working. Is this a limitation in macOS where SSL client authentication does not work with the non exportable certificate or are there any workarounds for this?
I'm trying to understand the automatic download on iPhone. On Apple's documentation it specifically states:
Since two days I am using an external SSD as system disk (to work with my system on my iMac or on my new arriving MacBook Pro – on demand – without any synchronization process). Just attach the disk and boot my system.
I know this is a stretch. iCal and Address Book on my old iMac with old OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) were syncing with iCloud fine with a little complicated setting I learned on the web (something to do with CalDav server setting in preference). I am not sure when it quit, but it seems after iOS update to 10.3.2, they quit syncing. Before iOS update and when syncing server address: pXX-caldav.icloud.com (XX to be unique 2 digit numerals) server path: /123123123/principal (123123123 to be unique 9 digit numerals) port: 430
In very much need of resetting admin password for MacOS Sierra. Unfortunately the previous instructions for the Mac OS X does NOT work for my Macbook Air. Please help!
But in the Mac OS, I use brew to install the setuptools: I want to find the Homebrew, so I use:
Sample contents of a .txt file on my Mac: I want to implement a subroutine, like this: so that, the text file would consequently look like this: I know that I can accomplish my desired result by making each line of the text file its own item in an AppleScript list object, like so: I could then split the list, based on the desired line number, and then add it all back together. But, does a more efficient method exist? My real .txt file is much longer than the sample content above.
So I found out that "headphones' microphone is being used" only happens when Skype is running. But ever since I stopped using Skype (or having it running all the time), the problem was gone! This is not the solution for the original question, I'm just leaving it here for the future reference.
I'm using Pages for a document where I need to have a table that has both rows and column headings. (I have no idea how such tables are called.) This is what I have now: The following screenshot pictures what I'm after:
I have written the script below to move messages from one mailbox to another in Mail. But when I run it, just a few email messages are moved at a time. E.g. if I have 10 messages in the mailbox, only three or four are moved. So I have to run the script multiple times to complete the operation! As far as I can tell it's pretty random how many move each time. So does anyone know why this might be, and how I could improve this script? Many thanks! I'm using macOS Sierra
When running the time profiler via instruments the program keeps crashing with the following "Instruments quit unexpectedly." If I run the profiling through the command line via I obtain a segmentation fault "Segmentation fault: 11" I am running Xcode Version 8.3.3 (8E3004b) on Sierra (10.12.5)
I have a cell, the value is 90.90, I setup a continual highlighting for different value, one is suppose to be greater than or equal to 99.90. however I don't get this one to work as 99.90 is automatically change to 99.9 (even though the cell remain to 99.90) How can I fix it? Thanks in advance
You may wonder why I want that. In fact I don't want the screenshots, I want security. I want to make the shell of this another user completely isolated from the current user, so that any malicious code running in this shell will not be able to take screenshot of the current user.
I read that you can't delete the calendar icon. Mine is missing and not in a folder. I tried power cycle - no good. Resetting desktop icons changed everything. My Mail is now a screen icon and my messages moved to the toolbar.
I have a MacBook Pro 2017, a USB-C hub, a HDMI Display and external speakers connected to the audio jack. As soon as the HDMI cable only touches the USB-C Hubs input, the signal on the audio jack gets noisy (Audio is set to headphones, the monitor does not make any sound or noise).
I've had problems with my iPad's iCloud backup ever since I did the regular wipe&restore in April - it didn't want to sync ever since (prior to that, though, it worked great for the past few years). Thus, I decided to try a few things like disabling the iCloud backup and then enabling it back again, relogging into my iCloud account and even doing the wipe&restore again.
I installed PC Ram into my Early 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro (Ver. Sierra 10.12.4). It works great but occasionally restarts without any warning and sometimes, when I turn it on, this code appears. It is gone if I do a hard shut down and then start it again. I did a hardware test (pressed 'D' on restart) and that hardware test said there were no issues. Thoughts??? Type of ram - Komputerbay 16GB Dual Channel Kit 2x 8GB 204pin DDR3-1600 SO-DIMM 1600/12800S (1600MHz, CL11) for MAC and PC Image of error message is attached.
After having this problem for over a month and not succeeding, I am asking you for help. Sometimes (it is happening irregularly) a program is opening in the dock but closing again after a quarter of a second. I am not able to find out which program it is as it is happening so quickly. Now my question: Is there any way to find out which apps (or processes) have been opened in the past minute (so that I can find out which program is responsible for this strange behavior). I would be so glad if you could answer my question! With best greetings, Leon
I tried using my non-apple headset on ipad and it worked. This same headset is what I used on my android phone, but when I plugged it on my phone it won't work anymore. There's no headset logo appearing on my screen. Does this have anything to do about plugging the headset to the ipad?
I prefer using multiple Firefox windows. Until now I could easily switch between its different windows by using the command + ~ shortcut. But all of a sudden I can't do that anymore.
As you can see in the screenshot below the Photos app is using 53,1 GB of the total Disk Storage, but also the Documents Folder has a .photoslibrary file of 50,34 GB. I tried deleting the file from the Documents folder, but then I neither had the photoslibrary in Documents nor any photos in the Photos app. Also, there was round about 100GB more of available storage (both storages of 53,1GB and 50,34GB were gone). When I copied the photoslibrary file back in the Documents Folder, the 100GB were there again (Same Phenomen as before). What can I do to avoid having two Files using double of the needed storage?
I have problem with WiFi after sleep on my Macbook Pro 13 2015 Sierra. After sleep laptop is still connected to the network but i can't load websites, ping. I must wait long time or turn of and turn on wifi to resolve problem
When I have plugged in headphones and playing music on my MacBook Air I hear noise like buzzing and just a little sound of music. I've tried cleaning the audio jack using a toothpick but this made no difference. I've also tried resetting the PRAM and SMC. What else can I do to troubleshoot this?
My MacBook was connected to my Dad's iTunes account for awhile, but my Safari is still somehow linked to his Safari. He uses Safari on his Mac mini. The bookmarks are the same. I'm wondering if his Safari is connected to mine and if he can see my history? How do I make sure my Safari bookmarks and history are completely disabled from my Dad's account?
I have been trying to install "wireless" with pip but I keep getting errors.
For both battery-life and environmental reasons, I prefer my MacBook (Sierra) to enter sleep mode fairly quickly if I'm not using it. For security reasons, I would like for it always to require a password when it's opened. But it seems like the only way to make it lock when closed is to make require a password every time it goes into sleep mode.
My wife's Macbook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) has had issues for the past year or so where it immediately turns off at random times, with no obvious pattern with respect to whether the power adapter is plugged in or it is powered from the battery. Recently, it has started showing the battery icon with an X through it and the menu text "No Battery Available" just above the menu text "Power Source: Battery" while the power adapter is not plugged in. Any ideas on what these mutually contradictory messages could mean and/or what steps I should take?
I am trying to pair iPhone 7 through bluetooth with my MacBook Pro, but I have not been able to do this. It connects for few seconds then displays this message.
I see a reference showing the shortcut to be Ctl-Shift-I : but it is not working on Excel for Mac 2015 https://exceljet.net/keyboard-shortcuts/insert-rows
I am trying to achieve something similar to Creating a virtual serial port, for the exact same reason. I have NMEA data coming in over a TCP connection from my an app on my iPhone. I want to feed that NMEA into google earth. However, no matter how I try to create a "virtual" serial port, nothing works (google earth doesn't recognize it as a real serial port).
I'm new to Macintosh. Is it possible in macOS to create a certain "script" that will notify both the user and the admin whenever a flash drive/personal storage device is connected to the Mac
I'm wondering if it is possible to have an iPad on cellular and an Apple TV, and to use Airplay mirroring to have the screen of the iPad show up on the TV. I do have a router I could use for it, but it will not have internet access. I would want the iPad to use the cellular connection to get all data, then have the audio and video from the iPad come out of the TV. I know this portion is possible using a static IP setting for Wi-Fi if I have a router as it says at: Can I use 4G LTE (Cellular Data) and Airplay using Wifi w/ No Internet connection at the same time?
I use the Photos app and frequently enhance my photos. Is there a way to do it as a bulk operation, instead of going photo by photo? I am on macOS Sierra using Photos version 2.0.
I have found that using activity monitor I get all the information I need. I now just need a way to access this information via preferably Python or even Bash and Apple Script. I just need to get the information at regular intervals and put it in a log file while my program is running.
In the Mac I installed the mysqlclient, use whereis can not find the mysql_config, but use which I can find, why use the whereis can not find it?
How to nuke OSX birthday notifications once and for all? No matter how many times I uncheck this calendar group they still come back to haunt me. OSX shame!
My Base OS is Sierra 10.12.5 Model MacBook Pro Mid-2014 Model Model ID: 11,3 I have encountered an issue with reFind after installing Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS. It seems that the boot options doesn't appear anymore and it automatically boots the Ubuntu OS. The only way I can go back to my base OS is pressing the ALT key after rebooting it and before the chime sounds. Anybody knows what I need to do with reFind or what commands to issue on the MacOS terminal in order to show the reFind boot options again? Thanks,
After I installed the mysql in my Mac, it locate in the: And after I use export add the PATH to the $PATH, I can use which mysql_config find it: But however when I use Command+N create a new Terminal, in it can not searched the mysql_config now:
I have a number of System Preference panes I'd like to get rid of. My preference is to make them inactive so nothing loads, but not to delete them in case I ever want them back.
A few days ago I moved system to an external drive and I use it with my iMac. Everything runs nice and smooth. Today my new MacBook Pro arrived, but when I switch the Macs and start my system from my external disk everytime I start I get asked for my Apple ID and password (because of the App Scenario and maybe others.) Why can't Apple store the information that I am using two Macs with this App instead of have to type in my password every time. Has anybody an idea? Login screen like that:
I rarely use the Finder's Sidebar, but I can't get rid of it. I turn it off for a folder, and it almost always comes back the next time I open that folder. (This was asked before but solution does not work on 10.12)
I can't switch between windows smoothly. On Windows I could use Ctrl+Tab to scroll through all open Windows and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to scroll in the other direction. On the Mac, I use Cmd+Tab to scroll through applications and Cmd+` (key above tab) to scroll through open Windows, but this is not intuitive as my mental model is more interested in my task divided into windows than applications.
I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Touch Bar shows default buttons for brightness, volume, play/pause, etc. I know there is the option to add applications to the shortcut bar in system settings to have the function keys F1…F12 on the Touch Bar, but I want them ALWAYS. I need them for programming (and I'm lazy and don't want to change my behaviour — imho it is part of the job of my computer to adapt to me, not the other way around) and so I have added PHPStorm to the apps, showing F1…
I am completely new to this and have messed about in Disk Utility for hours without getting this to work. I have also read a lot of articles online that are way too simplified.
Went to a porn site using safari and suddenly a flashing message came to the screen, Big mistake on my part but can it be fixed. Two messages one says Print option and goes up the screen then down to disappear then up again like a jumping jack. The screen behind says at Top safari-securityalert.com and the actual screen says "Contact Support and gives a Telephone number Support 1 844 749-1071. Also says my "iPad has been locked due to detected illegal activity. Call Immediately and says call Apple Support to unlock". I very much doubt this is an Apple telephone number. . I have not been able to exit the site as it keeps flashing and jumping and no matter how many times I hit the X, nothing happens. I have rebooted twice. Can this be a virus or malware from going to a Safari site? What to do to remedy. Is this a virus? How can I get out of this cycle of jumping jack message?
I am often running into the problem of iTunes/Apple Music not playing the first song, album or item on a playlist, when I click on it. See the following gif, and notice how the song doesn't change, no matter how many times I click on the specific item. See this gif: *=URL=* (I can't seem to embed it)
I remember back in Yosemite and iOS 8, upgrading iCloud to use iCloud Drive would break iCloud's functionality on any devices running earlier OSes. Are there any features in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 that would similarly break compatibility with earlier OSes?
I have a problem when connect a iPhone6 to MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015. USB connect one second after that, it reconnects again. Any one have same problem like me? The log:
Running OSX 10.12.5. When I came in this morning everything was fine, grabbed my usual address off of dhcp. Later started having internet issues, local network was fine but dns was not responding. My netstat -nr reports that my default route is changed to 255.255.255.255 through my wifi interface. Turned off and on my wifi card and network again worked until it happened again a few minutes later. Repeated the process, watching dhcp traffic on wireshark and did not see any rogue broadcasts trying to set that gateway. What could be causing this?
Is there a system-wide way to configure the default newline character? If so, is there a way to query what this character is?
I have a large PostScript (.ps) file, which whenever I try to open it, only shows part of the image. Is there a way to open the full image on a Mac? For some context: The .ps was created with Graphviz (by the 'linkchecker' python script), and (though I'm no expert) I think the following might be the relevant part of the .ps file: (I've tried just opening it as is in Preview, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Inkscape; and I've tried changing the extension from .ps to .eps) How can I open/access the full image?
Position doesn't always sync (e.g. I listen to 43 minutes of a podcast and my iPad shows it unplayed. I finish listening to an episode in the car on the iPhone and the iPad shows it as unplayed.
Then I use the Chrome Task manager to find the culprit and shut it down. I do not want to investigate why some websites do that, just shut them down. Question:
I have a Java app that I use on a regular basis that has stopped launching. The application is a Java program with a Mac GUI tied to it. I suspect that with a recent upgrade of Java on the Mac platform has caused the app to stop launching. I tried stepping back a version of Java installed on the system with no luck.
How can I convert JPG into PDF easily? shows have to use homebrew to convert .jpg files into .pdf. I would like to convert many TIFF files to PDF but can not get it to work. For JPEG files, the advice was to use the following command: brew install imagemagick convert *.jpg output.pdf I am trying to use the Step 2 command for *.TIFF files into *.PDF.
I have a PowerMac G4 (AGP) with a working copy of Mac OS 9.2, and a corrupted copy of OS X 10.3. I would like to either reinstall Panther, or upgrade to Tiger. The catch is that for several reasons I am unable to use the CD drive to perform this installation, and am thusly relegated to using USB (I have no FireWire drives or other PPC Macs with which to perform a Target Mode install.). So my question is: how would one make a bootable Mac OS X 10.3/10.4 USB install disk(s) using self-made rips of the CDs? In the past I have successfully installed Mac OS 9.2 via USB on this machine, however 10.3 always begins the boot process, only to hang on the "Still waiting for root" screen (White background, grey prohibitive logo), and 10.4 always gets as far as the Apple boot logo, only to hang there and stop accessing the USB drive all together.
Does the Mac Notes app store its preferences in a plist somewhere, or does it have a different method of storage? It doesn't seem to use ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.notes as most system apps do.
I have tried writing launchd.conf, but it is not working. I have edited Info.plist, but no luck! Writing launchctl < /etc/launchd.conf in .profile not working either!
Had an Macbook Air that would not boot and needed the drive formatted and OS X reinstalled. I'm now trying to migrate the data from a time machine backup on a time capsule using migration assistant.
I have recently purchased the new 10.5 inch iPad Pro while also owning the 9.7 inch model. I am an avid user of the pencil, which I use daily for note taking.
I recently changed my iCloud account and deleted every app except WhatsApp (which is attached to my old iCloud account). I'd like to keep everything (chat history, media, etc) as it is, but since I don't have enough space to backup to iCloud (it asks for at least 7.57GB and my 16GB iPhone has only 3.44GB free), I just can't do it. Is there any way to do it?
Need a text editor with file browser that will keep files sorted by date and allow quickly switching between files in the editor. Lots of log files to view through quickly.
I'm looking to upgrade my MacBook Air to something with the new Thunderbolt 3 ports, but also has USB 3 ports. There seem to be so many models out there, but I didn't find one. Which MacBooks have Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3 ports without the need of an extra adapter?
I recently deleted my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist in order to fix something on macOS Sierra. After I killed the Dock and rebooted, I now notice every time I unzip a file, Archive Utility from CoreServices stays in the Dock after it is finished. It successfully unzips files and does not seem to be unresponsive.
How can I get access to family purchased apps in iOS 11? The new version of the App Store has no purchased tab where I can select the family member in top left corner and get access to download app without payment from my Apple ID. iBooks and iTunes Store have this tab.
I had been using a username ("Name (new)") with a space in it for two years without incident. However, for certain applications (QGIS), this space appears to be causing me problems and I've been advised to change it (https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/231731/qgis-saga-cross-tabulation-error).
Using Mac OSX 10.12.5, I have a ruby file with the following contents it works if I run it from the command line, but if I run it from LaunchControl I get the following error: How do I fix this?
I need disk space and thus would like to move an iDevice backup to an external drive temporarily. The online guides which show how to do this go into too much detail, showing you how to make symlinks in order to keep the backup on the external drive. Since I want to move the backup temporarily, I don't need all of this. Can I copy and paste the backup to the external drive, delete the original backup, and then copy and paste the backup back when I have plenty of space?
I can't find any documentation regarding this. Will HEIF be a natively supported filetype in 10.13?
I kept getting an error when I tried to email pictures so I looked online for help. It said to sign out of iCloud then sign back in, I did that now all of my pictures are gone!!! Is there any way to get them back? Thank you for any help you might offer.
I am not sure if this is a regression of some kind and I don't know when it started happening, but I know that it wasn't always this way: When using the shortcut-based system screenshot tools, I get png files on my desktop. Before retina Macs, these were all at pixel density 72 ppi. On retina Macs, these screenshots started becoming 144 ppi.
I have a MBP 13" (late-13) with macOS Sierra 10.12.2. I have this problem recently (not linked to the update): under General in System Preference I'm always setting my menu bar and dock (and implicitly, spotlight) to dark:
I'm using a MacBook Pro (2016) with Touch Bar running macOS 10.12.5. I'm experiencing graphics glitches in the form of red boxes especially when dragging things (files or app icons) around the dock or in toolbars (e.g. Safari). This happens exclusively when Mathematica is running. Below is a screenshot of what it looks like.
I would like to backup my MacBook (early 2016 model with 256 GB storage), but while backing up the storage, the battery would run out before completing the backup. The MacBook has only one port (USB Type-C). I backup it to my USB 3.0 HDD via Type-C converter by Apple. But since it only has one port, I could not back it up while recharging the batter on the laptop. I already deleted and/or moved some files to a cloud storage, but still it has about 200GB to back up, and the backup couldn't finish before the battery runs out. Is there any workaround on this problem?
In iOS10, by pulling on the Home Screen, I could search for an app. How do I do this in iOS11?
In Linux, I had managed to set up the terminal in such a way that if I type part of a command and press the arrow key 'up', it would auto-complete with the last command that started with what I had typed. I tried to do this following the instructions on *=URL=* but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to set this up on a Mac?
My VM was very slow and I was told to decrease the memory allocation for VM. From that time onwards the JBoss server started throwing ORA-12505 error.
Has Apple made it easier for devs to shoot down unwanted app reviews since 10.3? (Maybe 10.3.1, but surely around that time I noticed it.)
Where doe the sudo .bashrc file reside? I'd like to add some things to it.
Are there any adaptors so I can use the new MacBook Pro USB-C Charger in my old Magsafe 2 MacBook Pro? I know one day I am going to buy the new MacBook Pro and my old original charger broke on a trip, so I want to buy the new one as I use two chargers, one lives in my traveling bag and the other stays home.
I am trying to mount an USB drive with my macOS Sierra Parallels VM. I am using Parallels Desktop 12. I called the Parallels support – not very good support – he just tells me I cannot mount an USB drive in an macOS VM. But in my opinion that is a key feature – if that is not working how should I get data from USB drives?
There are about 10 of 7 of them and are images extremely small.Is it the requirement of system or the leftovers after formatting disks having other OSes?
Is it possible/necessary to configure a "Battery is full, remove charger notification" similar to the Low Battery Alert? I run macOS Sierra on my computer and wonder what software or scripts or configuration is needed to perform this. [Based on an answer, the question has been modified to include if this is necessary since that was the main intention behind the query]
I wish to remove all sites from the reading list. Under the spectacles is a list of sites previously visited. I now wish to remove all sites on this list.
I've changed to the OSX and tried updates from there. Eventually there was a software update of some sorts for OSX (El Capitano). After updating this; I did get a driver of sorts installed somehow.
Since posting this question, I have wondered if putting the destination path in quotes makes any difference. Commonsense tells me no, but best not to assume such things. My questions are: Why isn't rsync using the already mounted Archive volume? How do I correctly remove the Archive folder from the Volumes folder?
When I use Finder on OSX 10.11.6, selecting any of the "Arrange by date [modified/last opened/created/added]" splits up the window into various vertical subcategories which I can either horizontally scroll through or go through one by one and select "show all" to have them treated like regular files. Is there anyway to disable this and just have all the files in the folder sorted chronologically in the same way it treats files when you sort by name? I believe the behavior I'm looking for is the same as Windows 10 behavior. [EDIT] Just to clarify, I am wanting to achieve this in icon view, not in one of the other views.
I would like the mouse I am using for my left hand to use the right button as the primary button. However, it appears that this setting is global so that it impacts the setting for my right handed mouse as well. Is there a way to set this up so that I don't need to order special left-handed hardware?
My new iMac (2017, running 10.12.5) has by default F14/F15 bound to control the display brightness. I can't find any way to disable them, which means that binding them to other functions doesn't work. Using a third party tool like Keyboard Maestro can map the keys, but doesn't override the brightness adjustment, so you get two functions at once. In my research it seems that some versions of Mac OS had a Display option under Keyboard Shortcuts that had the applicable options: Unfortunately I don't have that. So my question is: How do I get that Display section back, or how do I unbind the decrease/increase display brightness shortcuts?
I am trying to get my external hard disk to show up again on my Mac. At some point, it just stopped working. I tested it on several machines, they all produce the same results:
When I am on my phone I can't figure out how to share a Google doc with anyone who has the link to the Google doc. I can see how I can share with other people who are using my domain, and a part of my G Suite. But I do not see how I can share a file with anyone who has the link to that file. Can you help me?
I want to save each page of a PDF file as separate image, compress them, and recombine back as PDF. Some PDF files I often use are strangely large in size. I mean, some 100 pages but some 200M. I suspect this is because some PDF files are saved in graphic manner of too high resolution or in a way not properly compressed. The fact that files having similar condition, in terms of resolution and legibility, have often smaller size, make me wonder there is still room of compression. (I have no knowledge in image processing, so this is just my feeling.)
Another problem, in my text editor I binded some operation to Control+/, and it works but every time I press the combination - Mac does it default "dung" sound, like when you trying to do something that is not allowed. Actually it does the sound even without my binding. What does it try to do?
I cannot pull up the summary tab or view info on my phone via iTunes, and I also cannot sync my phone with my computer.
I would like to download the Google Calendar app on my Mac. I found Google Calendar in iTunes and clicked on Download. It looks like the app was downloaded, but I can't find it on my Mac. Here is a screenshot of iTunes
I want to use the Mail app on OS X Sierra to manage my emails from 3 different Gmail accounts. But I am using a MacBook Air which is low on space. So is there any way to use Mail app to access my mails without downloading the mails, but only using the app to access the mails on the cloud?
Want to add background images to the front page only of a Pages doc. I can't understand how to do this—reading the Apple doc on this didn't help unfortunately. Can't get background images (Master Objects?) working at all. Using Pages 6.2. Also noting that Arrange > Section Masters > Move Object to Section Master is greyed out...
Looking for an iOS videowall type app that allows multiple iOS devices (no PC/Mac) connect over wifi or bluetooth and for one to act as a host/configure and the others to display sections on images or videos and act as a video wall. There was an app that did something similar many years ago but is not available now. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-matrix/id411537032?mt=8
I've been using Mail on my MPB (late 2016) with Touch Bar, and the Send "button" on the Touch Bar seems to require a significantly more thorough press to register; I usually have to press it a second time in order to actually send the message. Is this intentional (to give you more time to think and reflect before sending) or is it my mind playing tricks?
It was working a couple of days ago, I was able to set couple of mail rules. But from yesterday, I am seeing that rule window's "perform the following actions" space is so narrow (not draggable) that I can't do anything there. What is going on? you can see it:
My question: Can anyone confirm or disprove the support of NVMe drives (like the Samsung 960) by the Sintech M.2 PCIe SSD MacBook adapters for macOS Sierra and High Sierra, or would you have any information that could help me confirm or disprove this support? Below are the results of my research so far.
Is it possible to use macOS dictation to press the enter button (I want to select an item not start a new line)? Is it possible to press the command or function buttons using dictation?
I installed the muCommander in my Mac, but can not open it.  What is the best solution for it?
When I attempt to partition my disk and install windows 8.1 on the smaller partition using BootCamp, I get the error in the photo below. I have also tried to install windows 10, which installs without error, but the windows applications I wish to install do not support windows 10.I have seen many others onine with the same problem but I'm yet to find a simple solution. How would I avoid or fix this error and install windows 8.1 on to a partition without going to extremes (downgrading to el captitan)?
I have my script partially working. I'm using AppleScript to script interactions with Chrome. If I enter a multiple line textToSave for example " here blabla bla" then I have no text and --> missing value If I enter a multiple line textToSave for example then I have no text and --> missing value I need to set a popup field before this script, here is the HTML for it <select id="PaymentEnSelection" name="0.9.7.1.5.9.4.1.9"> <option selected="selected" value="0">Enabled</option> <option value="1">Disabled</option></select> and a another one : <select name="0.9.7.1.9.0.4.1.9.0.2.1.3.7.3.9.3.1"><option value="NoSelectionString">Please select a reason</option> <option value="0">R1</option> <option value="1">&amp; Review </option> <option value="2">Chart</option> <option value="3">R3</option> I need to set a popup field before this script, here is the HTML for it and a another one :
I have downloaded old versions of Xcode and macOS so I could develop and test an app on my old 1st-gen iPad device. I wonder if I can submit a new app which runs on iPad 1 (iOS 5) to Apple App Store as of 2017?
Why are some of the (top level) font names in Font Book, e.g. Arial, missing from the /Library/Fonts folder?
I am a DJ and use record pools to download music and music videos. This is a legal source of mp3 and mp4 of music singles remixed/edited from the album version. My current workflow is: Hazel will find mp3s that have not been matched before, open in Metadatics app and add a color tag. Keyboard maestro when it detects Metadatics is open and execute macros emulating keystrokes to select all then strip all artwork then save all and finally quit metadatics. Hazel will search for mp3s with color tag that are more than 30 minutes old and import into iTunes. I want to run a similar workflow with mp4 that will match mp4s that contain source/URL of the record pool URL. match mp4s that contain source/URL of the record pool URL. strip artwork strip artwork change metadata so mp4 is imported as Music Video change metadata so mp4 is imported as Music Video TL;DR what is the metadata tag to make a mp4 imported into iTunes as Music Video?
I've installed bash 4 and bash-completions@2 with Homebrew following all kinds of guides I found online. However, when I open a new terminal it just hangs. By placing some echos in my .bash_profile it seems to be hanging on loading the completions. My .bash_profile: (the DOTFILE stuff is loading my dotfiles) When I open a new terminal with the above .bash_profile I get this output: Running brew doctor doesn't say anything about bash completions. What can I do to get this working?
A few days ago my messaging app started acting really weird. All old conversations have lost all but 1 single text (I think this was the most recent text but I'm not sure ) New Messages are coming in but he preview message is showing a much older message. Messages no longer sort by date they seem to be stuck in the order they were in when this problem began, eg if I get a new message it doesnt appear at the top of the list. Specs. I am running 10.02, I have tried to update to 10.3.2 but everytime I try to install it verifys the update and then tells me something went wrong, I have tried to to delete download and do again with same problem. I was having trouble with storage on my phone and at one point had 0 bytes free until I deleted some photos, at the same time my GMAIL app got itself stuck in a non working loop, so had to delete and redownload. With any other app I would delete it and redownload it but you cant do that with messages. I could turn off imessages but am worried I might
I have a CSV file with 3 fields on each line, X, Y and Z. I'm looking for a nice simple way be able to search X or Y which will show Z in the result. So the user can just type a code into either X or Y search field and it will return Z. Don't have a iPhone myself, but I'm guessing some spreadsheet app will do the job, but might be over kill. Update
In Linux, when I installed the open-source Chromium Browser I was able to run it from the command line using chromium-browser with several useful options (such as specifying a proxy). I've switched to using a Mac and would like to do the same, but I get Unknown command 'chromium-browser'. How would I go about setting this up on a Mac?
The reason I did this is because yesterday the install process probably went the furthest it did. All the files managed to xcopy to the virtual drive, then back onto the C drive - and even showed in the Mac boot screen (which occasionally doesn't happen) - but upon loading the screen instantly went blue and said there was a problem with my boot files and Windows needed to repair.
Sometimes I need to send my traffic to a proxy, sometimes I don't. Currently, I have to go to the settings every time to click it.
Photos has been running for a few days and when going to the search for additional faces page, the animated "Searching for additional photos" has been spinning for a couple of days. The total number of photos is 13,204 and it says there are 557 videos. Machine is a 27 inch mid-2011 iMac, 16GB memory, 3.4 GHz processor. Processor use is near 0; activity monitor shows no measured activity.
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I changed the logic board in my mac and I'm having difficulty with updating. I have tried using internet recovery to fresh install sirran and now USB installing El Captain. I get to this stage and it completes all this: Then restarts and it hangs on this: Can anyone help? MacBook Air 2011 11" Was i5 1.6 2gb Now i7 1.8 4gb
After repairing my Aperture library, I have over 3000 photos with latitude and longitude information whose place displays as "Unnamed location" on the map. If I lift and stamp the data using Shift+Enter+C followed by Shift+Enter+V, Aperture names the place automatically. However, I don't want to have to do this for all 3000 pictures manually.
I naively expected the color space reduction from 16 bits per pixel to one bit per pixel to result in a large file size reduction. Instead the file size was more than doubled.
I want to map my keyboard's arrow buttons to mouse left clicks (mouse down/up) at specific areas of my screen. For example: left arrow key ---(map to)--> mouse left click at position W: 120px | H: 300px right arrow key ---(map to)--> mouse left click at position W: 120px | H: 300px Is that possible?
I recently installed Open MPI, and it's complaining This question suggests setting TMPDIR to /tmp. Is that safe? Will it mess up other programs?
Under System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard, there is an option to "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" which I have turned on. This enables a menu in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the time and date. In that menu, I choose "Show Emoji and Symbols" (which I think was previously called "Character Viewer"):
Is it possible to have a linked copy of a file that updates whenever the original is saved? This is mainly for use with Google Drive and SVN, where I need a file to exist in two locations, but not be aliases.
Today I open the laptop and it looks like it's at some type of loading screen. Next thing you know it says OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged.
My iPhone is stuck on Connect to iTunes Screen (support.apple.com/iphone/restore iTunes logo and up arrow with lightning cable) I have Tried :- Connecting it to iTunes and Updating, It updates Successfully.But on the same screen again Restoring, It restores successfully.But on the same screen again Tried Recovery Mode Screen Method and DFU method Tried Closing and Restarting iTunes Tried Deleting 'iPhone Software Update' folder in iTunes and Re-Downloding Updates Nothing Works... Any Help will be appreciated
I downloaded OS X El Capitan (.app) file and I wanted to make a bootable USB to make first (and then backup). I ended up using this guide: How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive. The problem is, this guide asks you to rename your USB to "untitled" since you'll be using a copy pasted code in terminal and the poster's USB's name was "untitled". So I did the same but guess what the name of the drive is where all my data is stored. That's right, its 'untitled'. Now, the partition is named "Install OS X El Capitan". But when I do try to install the os, it says the copy of OS could not be verified.
I recently purchased a MS Surface Studio after being a faithful Mac user for 27 years. It was a DIFFICULT transition but I'm learning to love my new computer (especially drawing directly on the screen). But now I have a beautiful Apple Thunderbolt Display that I am unable to connect to the Mini DisplayPort. I tried this adapter: *=URL=* but it does not work. Does anyone know of a solution?
Sometimes, I'll get a notification for an interesting story on the Medium app, tap it, opening the story in Medium, but then get interrupted, so I switch to another app, putting Medium in the background. If I'm especially busy, it may stay backgrounded like this for several hours, until I have time to read the story. Unfortunately, what happens when I bring Medium to the front later is that it "resets" itself to a default landing page, making it difficult to find the story again (the notification is "cleared" by tapping it, so I don't have it to reopen the story. This happens in other apps, too: I open a specific content item, background the app for some time, then returning to it, only to have my content item replaced by whatever default screen the app thinks I should want to look at. Is there a way to tell these apps to just open right were I was and stop trying to "help" me so darn much? I suspect it may have something to do with background refresh or whatever it's called… Thanks in
I could not set up my iCloud Keychain as I changed my phone number. It seems that once you log in to your iCloud Keychain, you can change the phone number.
Often I download files with funny extensions, like .wnd, .npy, .dat, etc. Is there some way I can make the default app for all files like these, as in files that the system does not already recognize, to be TextEdit? Edit Is there some way to at least let the "open with" prompt include TextEdit?
I noticed some Android devices clock down after a while. So they only may perform at peak performance for a single benchmark. Is this also true for iOS devices? How do they behave under heavy load, like exporting a 4K video? Does the performance decrease?
Is this even possible? Details: I work on a MacBook that I hook up to 2 external monitors at work. I use each monitor and have multiple workspaces on each monitor. When I disconnect my monitors, mac flattens out my workspaces into a pattern that isn't helpful. Of course, If I rearrange them, then when I reconnect my monitors, they don't go back to the monitors and/or order they were when I first disconnected them.
I recently installed Windows to my Mac and I have just formatted my hard drive on windows mistakenly while I was making a new hard drive partition on Windows. Now I cannot boot to macOS anymore. How do I reinstall macOS to my Mac?
I have this problem whenever a group chat is created in Messages with me included. Any time somebody sends a text to the group, it sends it to me directly, but to everybody else it is shown in the group chat.
So I have a .tar.gz wordpress backup file of size 1.6 GB. When I try to extract this file using FTP file manager, it partially extracts it.
Since MacOS's Trash-can has a "Put Back" feature, the information about files' source locations must be saved somewhere; where is the source location saved? And while we're on the topic, what other information about deleted files are tracked?
When I login, I get a spinning "wait" icon that lasts about 20-30 seconds, then a message comes up. Apple app store and iTunes store says "an unknown error occurred". iCloud says "Verification failed. An unknown error occurred." Apple app store and iTunes store says "an unknown error occurred".
The question is self-explanatory: How do I ensure my Mac is not sending data to Apple or programmers? I seem to recall these options appearing when I last installed the macOS, but want to make sure I did not say yes.
Here is what has happened. I'm hoping there is still hope in me fixing this since the weekend is here and the earliest I can get a repair appointment is Monday.
I do know that this question has been asked in many different places, with many different little variations, but I still haven't managed to find a satisfactory answer. I'm trying to build an iPad video wall, very similar to this YouTube video: I Need a Bigger Screen out of a whole bunch of iPad 2s that I have access to. I've been researching how to do this all day, and the best answer I've come up with is using the app that was featured in the YouTube video mentioned above. This app is called The Matrix and I had hoped it would be a simple download and test, however, after looking into it, this app has been removed from the iTunes store. Is there any way that I can find this app somewhere?
I also found on Apple Support article macOS Sierra: Erase and reinstall macOS as erase and reinstall from the Internet or the built-in recovery disk. I also found the same instruction on Apple Support at How to reinstall macOS.
If I swipe it up, it opens Clash of Clans. May I know what feature is this?
I have a local network at home. This network contains 5 laptops. One of the laptops is Apple laptop with macOS 10.8 on it. The other has a Linux installed, all other runs Windows. When trying to open my router and check "Connected devices", under the IP address of this Mac I see following: Host Name - some IPV6 address
recently I attempted a fresh, clean reinstall on macOS on my 2015 MacBook Pro 13 inch by rebooting and pressing cmd+r to open the option to reinstall macOS. When I select the boot volume (after the agreement), it prompts me for a password. However when i attempt to type in my password, it does not respond. It does not show any masked characters when using it, and when i pressed enter and ok to get a response, I got nothing. Any ideas as to why?
I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 15" that was given to me by a co-worker and on first start up I realized that it has that boot loop issue. The screen is stuck on the apple with the ring going in circles underneath it. I've tried everything I could find about it to no avail.
My dad gave me his old 2009 MacBook Pro yesterday. It was slow and clunky so I reformatted the drive. Now I'm trying to reinstall macOS through OS X utilities. It asks me to agree to Yosemite terms and conditions, and when inputting my or my dad's Apple ID and password it says the product is temporarily unavailable. I tried creating a bootable USB for macOS Sierra from the Mac desktop we have in the house, however when booting from the USB the screen gives me a circle with a cross in it. I believe I may have to purchase Yosemite for my profile before it will work, but I cannot find the item in the App Store.
I'm trying to remove linux partition from my iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) on MacOS Sierra 10.12 Beta 2, So I tried existing solutions by using Disk Utility, I tried from Recovery as well, But it says You can not remove this volume because the previous volume can not be resized
At this rate I'll be waiting for days for all this to upload again. I don't understand what's happening here? We have two Macs, two iPads and two iPhones. Does this mean accessing my music library has been compromised on all devices while I'm waiting for everything to upload again?
Why do you need wipes and encryption? (My work makes encryption the default and locks it in so you can't change it with a policy). Where this gets concerning is when your kids are playing with your phone, not knowing that they're deleting all your photos.
I've added a 128GB SSD to my mid 2011 27" iMac and replaced the defective original HDD with a new one (1TB). Used Time Machine as back-up. How do I transfer ALL my data (about 620GB) to the two new drives (from TM) using the SSD for the OS (Sierra) and the HDD for everything else. What´s the simplest way to do this?
I have an automator action that has a "Run AppleScript" action in it, that is running a shell script. Along with actions before and after this one, everything runs fine on my OS X Sierra Mac, but when bringing it to a OS X Yosemite Mac, it gets an error. Can anyone see where I have lost compatibility with this code? Thanks! Run AppleScript Action: Error on Yosemite:
I have a MacBook Air 2016 and a 1TB external hard drive. The external hard drive is in NTFS format and it has 4 folders. But when I mount it, the Finder shows just 3! How can I fix this?
I want to setup a wireshark group so I can run it without being root. I tried using the System Preferences tool, Users & Groups, to add a wireshark group but I didn't see anything show up in /etc/group.
My Mac was previously running Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion. While making a bootable USB installer of El Capitan, the terminal command to restore the image ended up writing over a partition instead of the USB since they both were named "untitled". This partition had Snow Leopard along with all of my data. The other partition is working fine.
Is it "safe" to install an App as such: (1) using only a cellular data connection (wifi turned off) login to the App Store. (2) enable wifi. (3) connect to public wifi network. (4) disable cellular data. (5) download app. (6) enable cellular data. (7) disable wifi. (8) install app. The iPhone can jump between wifi and cellular data without breaking a tcp connection right?
I use the most recent version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection [v8.0.40] to connect to my Windows PC at work. When the connection establishes on the Windows 10 environment, Mac's keyboard layout doesn't work. Thus I have to use different combinations of the keys to work on the remote desktop. It is very annoying as I am very much used to using command instead of ctrl and could not remap my keyboard layout. Is there anyone who can suggest a fix?
I cannot update my apps, and I get a message saying that my Apple ID is disabled. However, I can still access my account and I have updated the settings and everything. But still I cannot update my apps, and the same message keeps popping up. How can I retrieve my Apple ID?
I recently purchased my Macbook Air from school and they said that they have disconnected it from their server. But when I try to change the password for the admin account it shows me the following message:
iOS has an option to erase all data after 10 failed passcode attempts. Is it somehow displayed on the lock screen? Are any warnings about this options shown while the wrong codes are being entered? Is any notification or progress bar shown while the data is being erased? Is it possible to tell whether the data were erased when the phone shows "iPhone is disabled - connect to iTunes" screen?
I would like to permit a login to my MacBook Pro using a Linux PC via Remote Desktop like rdp. I need to use my Mac while a linux user can execute his session on my machine and the session are in parallels both with GUI. Is this possible?
May sound silly, but for the past few weeks, if I'm on my Macbook Pro (mid-2012) late at night (say, post-1 a.m.) - and I often am! - my trackpad will stop working. I can't move the cursor or click, etc. But I can grab the mouse and it works just fine.
I've had a referenced library of photos in Aperture for years, but after moving to Photos (2.0 on Sierra), I wanted to consolidate them so they could be on iCloud Photo Library along with the photos I take on my iPhone, etc. The referenced photos are stored on my home network file server (just a little box running FreeNAS that I use for Time Machine and my photos). I already have about 34,000 photos in iCloud Photo Library, so I created a new account on my Mac, took my newly converted Aperture library and opened it in Photos and then enabled iCloud Photo Library.
I use on AppleTV and iOS the podcast app weekly. In headlines there were sad news about privacy Apple is going to let podcast creators — and advertisers — see what listeners actually like: A new version of Apple’s podcast app will provide basic analytics to podcast creators, giving them the ability to see when podcast listeners play individual episodes, and — crucially — what part of individual episodes they listen to, which parts they skip over and when they bail out of an episode. The reason all of that is important is that up until now, Apple has provided almost no data at all about podcast listening behavior — just the fact that someone has downloaded an individual episode.
I'm connecting to my Mac using another Mac and VNC. Remote Mac use VNC built-in server and local Mac use VNC Viewer for Google Chrome. The problem is that, also if keyboard layout is Italian, the keyboard layout is different from "Italian layout" on remote keyboard. Any idea why and how to solve?
I have a Mac Pro 2009 (4,1). I have installed an mSATA SSD using an Addonics PCIe adapter.
I opened my Contacts app on macOS Sierra on my MacBook Pro. I selected all of my Facebook contacts and dragged them into my iCloud contacts, so I could merge them. I had 334 contacts in the selected group according to the selection drag and drop handler.
I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 and the weather widget in the notifications drawer (that thing which you can toggle on the right side of the screen, which has "Today" and "Notifications" tabs) has a little but a bit annoying issue - it doesn't remember my city. When I add a city I have weather for it displayed, but after a system restart the widget doesn't contain any data and suggests me to add a city again. Nothing critical, but annoying. How can I make it remember cities I add and keep weather for them shown even after I restart my mac?
How would I execute an AppleScript that is saved on my computer on a remote computer?
When I use migration assistant to restore a backup from my time capsule onto my new iMac, will the backups include settings of 3rd party apps like 1Password, Dropbox etc, or does it only save core mac preferences only.
I want to help a friend switch from a Macbook to an iPad. He has on the order of 2G of email on the Mac. Is there a way to move this to the iPad, preferably via USB?
I encrypted an external hard drive using MacOS Journaled Encrypted about a year ago. I'm confident that I was prompted to provide a password hint when I entered the original password and formatted the drive.
Okay so when I try to download a free app from the App Store it says "Tap Continue And Sign In To View Billing Info". I Searched up how to fix it and I found...."select none for the payment type of credit card " and I did that and it does not have that option!yes I have used a credit card on ROBLOX for ROBUX ....PLEASE HELP ME OUT I'm scared that I might mess up my ipad
How would I raise the brightness on my computer using terminal? Ideally, it would be done without executing an apple script or downloading external software, but whatever works. Thanks!
So every time I run a VM, quit VMware, and then restart VMware hours later, I get an error stating something along the lines of Cannot find /dev/vmmon. Make sure the kernel is loaded. I've gotten nowhere with trying to figure out how to resolve that other than to reboot the system. However, in Activity Monitor I can see that "VMware Fusion Services" is running when VMware actually works, and the service is not running when it's not working properly. Is there any way that I can trace what "VMware Fusion Services" is so that I can start it manually next time I get this error? Here are two pictures from when VMware Fusion services is running vs when it's not:
I also have an iPhone 6S and a Macbook Pro Retina. Normally the 2FA verification code (please enter this iCloud passcode) notifications show up on the other devices when doing iCloud related operations. (Turn on iCloud backups etc).
I have a USB stick from Microsoft, which was used to ship Office 2016 for Mac. I don't use Office 2016 for Mac, so wish to use this stick for other purposes.
I setup my macbook to show messages from my iphone conversations and they show up now but none of the pictures show up. I see a reference to a picture but i can't view it or download it. NOTE: I am able to send pictures from my macbook messages directly and those work fine. I have plenty of storage available on my computer so not sure what the reason could be.
I thought it would be a good idea to create another partition on my hard drive to use as a backup. I opened disk utility and configured the internal hard drive to split half between the OS partition and the backup partition and hit go. Then it started shrinking the OS partition.
I only have 5 GB of storage and I have already installed the installer but how much storage do I need on the HD to install it on there?
I have a 2011 MBP that I use as a studio computer, with it I use an archaic Mbox2 Pro soundcard with Firewire. The drivers for the soundcard are compatible with Mavericks 10.9.4 (the one in App store is version 10.9.5, which produce some irregular behavior). The OSX version I've used until now is the latest version of Mountain Lion, so I'd like to upgrade. Is there any way of downloading an older version of Mavericks (for example 10.9.1) and then use the combo update packages available at the developer site?
My Personal Hotspot is tied to a consistent IP address, but my girlfriends iPhone 5S changes IP every time it is turned off and on (and rarely returns to a previous IP). How can I replicate this on my iPhone 6?
What is the simplest way to capture keystrokes using mac keyboard symbols into word or pages. Directly copying the combination to clipboard would be even more convenient. Eg: when I press "OPTION + COMMAND + P" it should save ⌥ + ⌘ + P I'm trying to create a cheatsheet for an application I use frequently.
I use the X-Rite i1Display Pro colorimeter to calibrate all my monitors and I want to calibrate my 2016 MacBook Pro, but I'm not sure if I should stick to the 2.2 gamma settings or raise it to the 2.6 DCI-P3 color space gamma settings because apple automatically converts SRGB values into DCI-P3 colors space to perform matching by using Gamma 2.2 while preserving 2.6 for DCI-P3 tagged content. Does anyone know which one is best to use?
My friend recently left his iPhone out in the sun while swimming at the pool. When he came back, his iPhone was locked with the message "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it."
Preview app allows me to select lines and words of text. However, when I copy and paste it into another app, empty characters are pasted. For example, I select 3 rows of text and paste it, but 3 rows of empty text have been pasted. On macOS Sierra with preview and the PDF files in question do not seem to be protected as I can both select text and choose Edit->Copy. What is this and how I can overcome this? For example, I wanted to copy this
I own a mac book pro 15'' for 3 years. The last year on retina display appeared some permanent spots. These spots are growing as the time past.
I recently Installed Sierra on my sandisk 32 GB sd card which was not bootable after I formatted it it shows up as Internal how to I fix this issue? output of diskutil list:
I'm trying to downgrade from iOS 11 beta 2 back to iOS 10.3.2. I've downloaded the .ipsw from iOS 10.3.2 file from ipsw.me. After that, I've put my iPhone in DFU mode and plugged into my Mac (Sierra 10.12.5). iTunes detected the phone in DFU mode, so then I choose the restore option holding option key and selected the .ipsw file downloaded. The iTunes pass through all process of restoring the phone, but right after it ends, the iPhone restart and go back to the DFU mode. I've tried to download the 10.3.1 ipsw version but the same problem occurred. I've no idea how to proceed.
So opening Network Utility and trying to scan for 3300 - 3310 at 192.168.1.3 does not produce anything. It just says this: Trying to scan the machine where MySQL is I get following:
I'm using a Macbook Pro late 2011, it has been upgraded with a SSD and 8GB RAM. I was curious as to whether putting my mac on hibernation would extend it's life or I should just shut it down every night like a regular person...
This started after I tried repairing the volume, but it wouldn't repair. Now I can't select it. Any options at this point other than erasing the whole HD and starting over?
My apps on the screen are not showing all the way at the top. They are showing only on half the screen and I can't see all the apps.
I have a 60 inch retina tv that i use as my screen. Whenever I screenshare it tries to share all of it. Is there any program where I can only share part of my screen? Thanks!
Some apps have files or folders which are user-accessible through iTunes - Apps. How do I delete such a file or folder? I tried the File menu but I couldn't find anything there. And under the "File sharing" in Apps there is only "Add" (and "Save to"), not "Delete".
Can I pair my Bluetooth mouse with Apple Watch? Or, can I get the functionality of a mouse with my Apple Watch?
For a few days I've been running a pre-installed macOS 10.12.2 on a new, non-networked MacBook Air with language set to "American English". I've used "Dictionary" several times without any problems, with the default English "reference sources" (Oxford Dictionary, Thesaurus, Apple Dictionary etc.). The only change to Dictionary I recall making was to activate the Oxford Thesaurus for British English.
When watching YouTube videos I get a constant audio problems. The audio always sounds far off and it has a bit of echo to it. The problem is safari specific as the same videos work fine in another browser. Anybody know what is causing this and how to fix it? EDIT: The problem appears to occur only when the videos are played at anything other than 1.0x speed. I'm using safari 10.1.1
I have a 32GB iPad 1 that I have had running for about six years. Recently, there was a virus and I had to reset it. I did so successfully. It has iOS 5.1.1 (9B206) installed. In General > Software Update I see "iOS 5.1.1 Your software is up to date".
I paid for a game and app bundle in the App Store. I'm trying to change to a new iPhone, using the same Apple ID, but when I tried to find the app in the App Store, it shows me I have to pay for it again.
I am coping a about 5TB of data from a Drobo attacked to a Mac Mini running macOS Sierra to a NAS (FreeNAS). Here's the command I am using: sudo rsync -a --stats --progress "/Source" "/Destination"
I use the ps -ef to check the process, but every time the pid will change, you see the below, 1726-> 1728->...
I'm a Linux user who bought an iPad. I'm also an Infosec pro who uses the KeePassX password manager. All my passwords are too long to type on the iPad - so I want to use my password manager on iPad. I installed MiniKeePass on the iPad - and with some difficulty (had to type in the password for one service), moved the database (.kdbx) to iPad. I used the export/share functionality to make the kdbx to make it available to MiniKeePass app.
I have just downloaded iTunes 12.6 to my new PC with Windows 10, and am now unable to edit my playlists. Almost everything in the drop down screens is light grey and not usable.
There were previous questions explaining how to entirely remove the news from iPhone. However I like news and my iPhone homepage always shows news, but it is always anti trump and anti republican in general. 90% are headlines from anti republican websites like NYT, CNN, VOX, Washington Post etc. How do I change it to neutral news that is sometimes anti trump but sometimes pro trump?
No sound output in headphones after plugin. But after second plugin it works. This problem started since I used Sidify music converter. System Preferences -> Sound -> Output: Headphones selected, Output volume panel is disabled, mute is checked. Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5, MacBook pro 15' late 2013 Update: it works fine if plug in after sign in Mac OS High Sierra 10.13, MacBook pro 15' late 2013
The full spec for the 2017 12" MacBook is an i7 Kaby Lake cpu with 1.4 GHz base frequency and Turbo up to 3.6 GHz. Various articles on the web state that the i7 used is specifically this model: Intel i7-7Y75 Looking this up on Intel Ark shows the base frequency as 1.3 GHz.
I used ML to boot up, purchased a recovery software and successfully saved all my important data which is as of now backed up on the other Mac. I posted a question on this site, regarding the findings of the software and was told it showed that directory structure was lost.
Ok, this is not necessarily strictly Mac, however it does affect my Macs differently. I have an 5 years old iMac which is ok with Dropbox running all the time, while my brand new MBP (2017) struggle with Dropbox's CPU overhead (struggles is an exaggeration but it does get the fan running at full blast most of the time). I'm a heavy user and have the higher plan, which means there are some files that are constantly being modified, yet I find it extremely annoying to have it happening. Is there an alternative which uses less resources?
I noticed it goes away after clicking on that tab... May it be some energy saving feature? Here's a screenshot:
Ever since I had a storage issue, my messages app no longer puts new messages at the top of the messages list. When i get a message from someone , sms or imessage it is added to their conversation whereever that person happens to be in the list rather than moving to the top which it used to do.
I have macOS 10.12.3 and Windows 10 Pro running under Parallels. I try to install Docker to Windows 10. I could not install Docker for Windows rather Docker Toolbox (no idea why) but in installing the Docker Toolbox
Not output from headphones even when the system detects them. Interestingly speakers work fine on the system. I checked headphones for any hardware failure; it works fine on other systems. I tried resetting NVRAM and SMC but no luck. MacBook Air early 2014, macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Any suggestion? EDIT: I've added the pics of both external speaker port (Left) and headphone port(Right) Headphone model audio technica ATH-S100 Headphone model audio technica ATH-S100 Headphones used to work fine on my system, it stopped working abruptly from last couple of weeks. Headphones used to work fine on my system, it stopped working abruptly from last couple of weeks.
I have a directory full of pkg files that I need to install. I tried "installer -packages *.pkg" , but that didn't work. Any ideas on how to do this? Do I need to make a metapackage?
Every tutorial says go to Date and Time select Time Zone. That is all I can do as everything is grayed out, both checkbox and map. I only use eastern time zone daylight savings time. OSX=Sierra 10.12
I'm pretty sure I'm using my keychain to access my passphrase for ssh (.ssh/config includes UseKeychain yes). I don't ever have to enter my passphrase to ssh. However, I ran across this. It details that even after restarting a computer and locking the keychain, ssh still does not require that the passphrase be entered. The steps to reproduce (from the link) Set up SSH for another computer, using a key with a passphrase +Set "UseKeychain yes" as described in "man ssh_config" or TN2449: *=URL=* Restart your Mac (in case there are any keys already loaded by ssh-agent) Immediately lock the default "login" keychain in Keychain Access Open Terminal Optional: use "ssh-add -D" to make sure no identities are already loaded (in my testing this makes no difference) Attempt to connect to the other computer using SSH
I've seen many posts about this issue, but none have fixed my issue yet and wondered if anyone else has fixed it? After trying to restore my phone from a backup, the phone has entered a loop round the Recovery Mode and now I cannot even restore my iPhone as a new phone. I am trying this with: iPhone 6s Windows 10 Laptops Latest iTunes I have tried: Clicking 'Restore' iPhone Clicking 'Update' iPhone Different USB cables Different USB Ports Different laptop (both Win10) Shift-Click restore and providing my own IPSW file DFU Mode with multiple laptops Each time, just getting this: . I'm going to try using my Mac when I'm home and I have a reservation at Apple but it's for Friday...Anyone have any suggestions?
I have an AB-330m wireless printer, that uses BlueTooth, but on my iPod touch, iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 it does not show up when I search for BlueTooth devices. On my iMac, Windows PC and my Android phone it does show up when I search for BlueTooth devices. Anyone know why I cannot see it, and if the is a way to see the device.
In OS X one could manually add a printer using the Advanced tab of the printer system preferences dialog with an smb address. How can I manually add a printer in macOS now that the tab is gone?
The new iPad pro has a bigger battery capacity and yet weights less. Any idea why? 2015 iPad Pro 12'' *=URL=* Weight: 1.57 pounds (713 grams) Built‐in 38.5‐watt‐hour rechargeable lithium‐polymer battery 2017 iPad Pro 12'' *=URL=* Weight: 1.49 pounds (677 grams) Built‐in 41‐watt‐hour rechargeable lithium‑polymer battery
Not even sure what question to ask, other than "what should I do next?" UPDATE: Reinstall didn't work! (Details at end)
I'm trying to run a Python 2.7 script that uses a module that depends on lxml, and when I run the script, I get this error: I'm using OSX 10.11 without virtualenv and I just reinstalled lxml to the latest version. I've also tried reinstalling it to earlier versions with no success. Any ideas as to how I should proceed?
My father was lamenting how random ads will pop-up even with adblock and while browsing trusted websites and how Firefox was always on at startup on his OSX computer (with all software updates correctly on) since the day he installed it. I naturally checked System Preferences > Users Accounts > Login items and on the Firefox dock icon Firefox > Open at login. Nothing was there...
How can I change the default behaviour for the two-fingers gesture from scrolling to mouse movement? That is to say:
I've survived for two months or more without my MacBook Pro but I really miss a Windows app called Azuon. With that, I'd set up a search in ten seconds, start it, and come back a half-hour later to find what would have taken me days with Kayak, SkyScanner, Adioso, Momondo, Matrix, Rome2Rio, etc.
I use MacOS Safari's Responsive Design Mode for web development (Command-Option-R or 'Develop' > 'Enter Responsive Design Mode' in the menu. I have "accidentally" changed the largest window size to a random size (should be 1920 x 1080) by adjusting the horizontal and vertical handles. I would like to reset to 1920 x 1080, but it is very difficult to do by adjusting the handles because of the responsiveness of the controls; it's hard to stop on a specific dimension. Unfortunately, that is the only way I can see to do it, as I can't find a reset control or option anywhere?
I only wanted to restore my iPhone 7plus, so I downloaded iOS 10.3.2 and 10.3.1 from a trusted site. I have made backup and all is okay, then when I attempt to restore my iPhone using the downloaded version, at the end of restoration process, my iPhone stuck on connect to iTunes!
In iOS 11, three active apps can be on screen at once. Running the public beta on my iPad Air only shows one active app on screen at a time. I assume the new 2017 iPad Pro devices can show 3 active apps but can any other iPad do that?
Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 11 looks like a helpful feature unless I'm a passenger. How do I disable it if I'm an passenger?
I've had Time Machine set up on my OSX Server for quite a while, but now that I upgraded my USB storage I can't seem to connect to the server. When I go to Time Machine preferences and click Select Backup Disk... I can see the share as usual. After I select the drive, turn on encryption and click Use Disk, I get asked for my credentials. If I enter the wrong credentials, the dialog shakes as it's supposed to, but when I enter the correct username and password, I'm thrown back to the disk selection screen.
When I text people from my iPhone, people receive the texts from my cell number. However, when I text people from my laptop, it opens a new contact on their phones from "myname"@icloud.com. I can't seem to fix this annoying issue.
I found this install script for msodbcsql at odbc-driver-13-1-for-macos-released The relevant contents are:
This question is related to this one : Mac (OS X 10.9.2) no longer saving screen shots If I use only cmdshift it works as expected, a new image is created on my desktop. If I only want to copy it to the clipboard in order to paste it later into Photoshop or a Google Drive Document : I hear the sound but nothing append when I paste it (using cmdV) . I'm using Sierra 10.12, I'm new on macOS so that's maybe a stupid thing, the options "copy to clipboard" is checked in the system pref :
I have a MacBook Pro from 2017. It has the new keyboard with the shorter travel distances, touchbar, etc.
I'm creating an interactive PDF using InDesign, then exporting to PDF and finishing the form in Acrobat. I've made a bunch of them before, with little to no crashing. But everytime I try to go into Form Edit mode and make some changes, Acrobat is crashing. Not just on one computer, because I tested the form on another computer. I read on Adobe Forums (which usually aren't that much help) that this might be because of checkbox and radio button fields, which this particular form has a lot of. But I've used radio buttons before with no issues, so could it be check boxes? Which seems insane, and might mean I had to re-set the document. Has anyone had anything similar happen and found a solution? Not 100% this is a "Mac" question.
I just upgrade from an old iMac 2011 to the new iMac 4k 2017. I am quite pleased with it, but something's bothering me.
I've found lately that whenever I add a new contact it then doesn't show in my contact list either in the app or the phone. If I receive a call from them their name shows and if I want to send a message I can type in their name but I can't search for them if I want to call them for the first time. I haven't changed any settings in my phone and wonder how to make this change.
I’ve been on the developer beta since it came out, but for some stability improvements, I’d like to go to and remain on the public version. How can I move from iOS 11 Developer Beta to iOS 11 Public Beta?
So I've made the switch from Spotify to Apple Music, and definitely prefer Apple Music. One thing I would like to be able to do is shuffle all songs from all albums which I have individual songs in my library from. In other words, although I might have, say, 2 songs from each album "saved" in my main library, I would occasionally like to be able to shuffle music from all the albums which those songs come from. For example, I have "Monster" by Kanye West and "Bomb First" by Tupac saved to my music, but I would like to be able to play all of "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory" shuffled together.
Understand that some people managed to resolve the "stuck at Recovery Mode" by installing back the iOS 11. iPhone 7 Plus stuck in recovery mode and can't restore/update even in DFU Would someone walk me through the steps in some detail the process of how to do this?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) APPLE SSD AP1024J 1TB Does my partition map look "normal"?
I'm trying to install Tesserocr for python I'm not sure what the replacement for apt-get in apt-get install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev is in this case. I'm new to this and don't fully understand how it works.
Without using the Messenger app for Facebook. How can I view Facebook messages on iOS Safari?
Getting very odd behaviour from search in Finder (Sierra 10.12.15). Searching for '102 Skills' in Finder does not reveal the files and emails that the same search in Spotlight does:
Aperture 3.6 Yosemite 10.10.5 iPhone 10.3.2 Today my mac, running Aperture, will see my iPhone, but it will show "Loading assets" for a few seconds, then stop.
Today, Apple released their first iOS 11 public beta. As some noticed in earlier versions (first developer beta), using Field Test Mode to permanently switch your signal rating from bars to numbers (like image below) seems to no longer work (For instructions on how to do this up through iOS 10, see iPhone Field Test mode permanently in iOS 7).
I was running Windows 7 originally and it was working fine until I installed Windows 10. So I wanted to go back to Windows 7, but when I tried installing it again, it failed.
I was just migrated from a Windows machine to an Apple, which I was told would be seamless, but it's pretty seamy... My tech (i.e., husband) told me I should drag-and-drop icons to the desktop to create a shortcut, since there's no dropdown-menu item saying "create shortcut." However, all that did was move the file out of its logical spot into the desktop folder. That is absolutely not what I want.
A few days back I updated my iMac from El Capitan to Sierra. I have then noticed that the sudo command is not working properly. When I use something like sudo -v or sudo npm install grunt -g it becomes stuck and doesn't ask for the password immediately, as it takes like 20–30 mins and then shows the password prompt. I am not sure is it because of the Sierra update or something else, but this is really annoying me, as I can't install npm packages and other things.
Checking the activity monitor, I've noticed that one of my most expensive apps (energy-wise) is the Terminal. It's marked as "requires heavy GPU performance". Why, and what can I do to improve the situation?
I read somewhere that the sensitivity settings are built into the Microsoft IntelliPoint driver for macOS which means that it can potentially work in ways that SteerMouse could not - but I do not know much about how SteerMouse is implemented. Microsoft really should open source this driver.
I installed Windows 7-64 bit on an iMac (27" late 2012). Mouse and Keyboard worked during the installation process. But now when I'll try to log in into windows, I am stuck on the login screen because my USB keyboard and mouse aren't working. It looked like during the windows installation process that my mac installed the bootcamp drivers correctly (Version 5.1.5621).
I am using custom time zones, so I have "automatic update" turned off in General Settings // Time and Date, on my IPad 2. Today I created a new time zone and selected it, but the time shown at the top of the screen (the iPad clock) is not switching to respect the new time zone setting. Any solution for this?
I'm a little bit confused about the difference between a network interface and network service. For example, the ifconfig utility documentation talks in terms of the network interface: ifconfig en0 While "networksetup" is using network service: networksetup -getinfo %network service name% Can a single network interface have multiple network services?
I am running the iOS 11 beta but don't know if this is a new option or if it's there in 10 too. On some of my photos, there is a Stack or Unstack option on the share sheet. If I select it, nothing seems to happen and I can't find any documentation on it. What do they do?
I recently moved from PC to Mac, and have a legacy of PST archives which I'd like one day to access from the MacOS ecosystem. The folder structure in Outlook for Mac significantly differs from the PC world, in that my standard folder structure is duplicated in "«account name»" (residing on the Exchange server) and "On My Computer" (not residing on the Exchange server). If I import a PST file, where will the imported data items end up?
For some unknown reason my Mac deletes permanently when I hit ⌘+⌫. Normally ⌘+⌫ is to move to Trash and ⌥+⌘+⌫ is the one to delete for good. Can't figure out how to make it work 'normal' again?
when using ipconfig utility, it's showing ipv6 address: inet6 fe80::1c00:23f2:b82e:fc8c%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x4 But when using networksetup -getinfo %networ service name% it returns: IPv6: Automatic IPv6 IP address: none IPv6 Router: none Same when using ipconfig ipconfig getv6packet en0
I recently purchased a new ssd for my unibody 2009 MacBook (5,2) and installed el Capitan (10.11.0). Everything was fine until this and the keypad was working. So its not a software problem, probably.
I sometimes use the laptop periodically throughout day without unplugging it or the external drives. However, if it puts itself to sleep as a result of a period of inactivity, when I reawaken it, I get the message "Disk not ejected correctly" How can I get rid of this message as I have not removed the disks at all, the data is not corrupted, and I have not told the computer to go to sleep!
I'm working on a CRM (based on web application), using Google Contacts API. My iPhone’s contacts are linked through my Gmail account. I tried to find the refresh timing between my iPhone’s contacts and the Google servers, but I can’t find it.
macOS comes with some default ruby installations, more here, that I do not want to overwrite by running gems commands as sudo. I tried rbenv, instructed here, but I am getting a permission error in the last command gem update --system such that I do not want to intervene with the default ruby installation in macOS, not to get the need for a fresh installation of the whole OS. What is a proper way to install newer version of Ruby on macOS without intervening with the default ruby? Further questions on Ruby in macOS rbenv not overriding default Ruby version rbenv not overriding default Ruby version How to install ruby gems without sudo How to install ruby gems without sudo Which version(s) of Mac OS X have Ruby installed by default? Which version(s) of Mac OS X have Ruby installed by default?
I'm trying to use the shortcuts to "expand/collapse paragraph" of an outline like detailed here, only using the shortcuts as provided by Microsoft (here). Shortcuts:
There are several free BLE scanning apps and they work well, but I want to scan for Bluetooth devices like other phones, not just BLE. Is it possible either via an app or by creating some sort of ssh connection and running a tool like hcitool?
(Running macOS 10.12.5) I noticed that the disk usage statistics reported by /bin/df are nearly identical when I did this: run df -k delete ~20 GB of information run df -k again
I'm having an issue with my Macbook and a new iPhone 7 I just ugpraded to (from an 6S plus). With my 6S plus, AirDrop always worked flawlessly, however, with my new iPhone 7, I can ONLY send to my macbook book (which asks me whether I want to Accept or Decline -- something that didn't happen before with my 6S plus). My Macbook cannot send to my iPhone 7 at all. I have followed this article (*=URL=* thoroughly, and have also tried rebooting both devices, toggling the wifi/bluetooth on booth, and I also tried signing out of my iCloud account on my Macbook, then signing back in, but to no avail. I would think, that since I'm signed in to iCloud on both devices (especially according to the article I mentioned above), that this should just work. Any ideas?
I recently installed a new SSD on my 2009 MacBook and it ran fine for less than a day. However, it stopped recognising the keyboard and trackpad. As a workaround I tried using an external keyboard and a Bluetooth mouse but now it won't even turn on. I don't know if the power button is faulty or not, but I know the battery is definitely charged.
I have downloaded the Sierra Installer from the App Store and I would like to make a bootable thumbdrive out of it. I tried using the createinstallmedia binary that the installer ships with but got the following error:
I have just started to use proxy. It is set up system wide (Wifi - Advanced - Proxy). But macOS keeps me asking to allow using proxies by different apps. Like that
The odd thing is that in any other wi-fi network, all of those applications work perfectly fine on my computer. I've already contacted the wi-fi network's support, but they're just as baffled as me and claim that all other users on the network can use those applications without problems. I've already tried pretty much anything I could think of (system reboot, system update, logging on as a different user, turning off all kinds of firewalls, etc), but nothing helped. Does anyone have an idea why some applications can connect to the internet perfectly fine on macOS, while others cannot?
I am trying to use a single USB hard drive for two encrypted Time Machine backups. I partitioned the USB drive in half. I set the iMac connected to the USB drive to encrypt Time Machine to the first partition. I set the other partition to share (username/password for the volume). The first iMac works fine. The second iMac never recognizes the drive as a Time Machine back up volume, just as a share point. I've done this before not using encryption and it worked.
Apps on my iPad 2 are randomly switching to a gray or black screen or dropping me back on the Home screen. I am on a slow wifi connection All accessibility features are turned off Battery is charging normal and is fully power Problem happens whether charger is connected or not Problem affects all apps How can I diagnose and/or solve this? I'm less interested in "just reset / reboot" and more interested to know how it happens and / or if there's a remedy.
I have installed gfortran on my laptop, running macOS Sierra 10.12. I was trying to compile a simple "hello world" program, and I was given the following error: FATAL:/opt/local/bin/../libexec/as/x86_64/as: I don't understand 'm' flag!
It notes "Encryption is available only when you use the latest iOS or macOS and upgrade your Notes app." - and the latest version of Notes app has a "password protect" option. What I'm trying to figure out is in the latest version of Notes app, are all notes encrypted on Apple's servers, or just ones that are explicitly password protected?
I see that it's possible to password protect specific notes I wonder if this can be done automatically to new notes so that I don't need to do it every time, if I want encrypted notes Is it possible to lock all notes, and automatically lock new notes, on Notes app?
I know the question has been asked before but the different answers are somewhat confusing. I used the tmutil to delete several of my old backups. Some of the previous answers said you also need to run the hdiutil to compact the database. The example they gave was for a TM backup performed by a server. My backup has a different directory structure with different names. I'm asking if I do have to run the hdiutil compact command to reclaim my drive space and if so, what file or directory do I compress. None of this was clear from previous answers.
I installed the newest Ruby 2.4.1 as shown here without overwriting the default ruby in macOS. As instructed by patrix, I tested the last command gem update --system in a new shell instance and it did not anymore ask for sudo permissions. And gem got updated. but installation of packages with gem does not seem to work like the below with the LoadError What is causing the LoadError and how to properly install Ruby packages with a fresh rbenv and Ruby 2.4.1?
I made a backup of my entire drive before performing a clean install of Mac OS X. Now, having done the fresh installation, I'm restoring the settings that my apps had on my previous installation. I've so far been successful with most of the apps, but now I'm having trouble with Preview.app. It doesn't want to restore the condition it was in in my previous installation (i.e. all the PDF documents that were open and the pages they were open at).
My MacBook Pro 2017 (running macOS Sierra 10.12.5) won't detect my monitor until I've unplugged and replugged the cord ONLY into the monitor itself. The cord is a USB-C to HDMI cord. Things I've tried that haven't worked: Turning the monitor off/on, opening/closing the Mac with the cord in.
Is there a way to switch between discrete and integrated video cards via keyboard shortcut in MacOS?
Does anyone know of an application that would allow me to make universal color adjustments to the OS? This would mean being able to adjust saturation, black points, white points, or even ideally apply a LUT (Look Up Table) to everything displayed on my Mac. For those of you that are video production savvy, this would be like a much simpler version of DaVinci Resolve but for everything on screen. I know it's possible because applications like FLux have control over the universal color temperature.
Movie rental through my Apple TV (3rd generation) takes hours to begin playing. The screen displays "your movie will start in 4 hours 50 minutes" for example. Once the movie did start after only 40 minutes or so, but the continuing download did not keep up with the now playing movie.
When running Parallels 12.2.0 with macOS Sierra as the guest OS, I see windows that are blank, partially blank, or scaled improperly (zoomed in, magnified) in some apps such as non-Safari web browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc.). The behavior is consistent, either working properly all the time or improperly all the time. I am guessing that apps handling their own window-drawing rather calling upon Apple's usual drawing libraries is the cause of the bug. Is there any trick to getting the contents of these apps’ windows to appear correctly?
If I want to connect 2 usb external hard drives at the same time, will I be able to use a USB hub? I read somewhere "Never connect your external HD thru an external USB hub!" Is this really true?
I was perusing man pages for fun, as I often do when bored, and happened to be playing around with login today. The login man page mentioned that creating a /etc/nologin file would prevent a user from logging in. I decided to try it.
When I plug in my 1TB 2.5" SATA drive to my MacBook Air Mid-2013 Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 machine, the drive never shows up in Disk Utility. However, the disk does show up in diskutil list, along with corresponding disk devices created in the /dev directory: However, every time after about 35 seconds after the disk devices are created, they disappear until the next replug. Why is Mac OS deleting disk devices of a potentially corrupt disk drive? I've already rebooted the machine.
I recently got an older MacBook Pro that has an optical drive. Every time I insert a CD, iTunes will always respond in some way. I have already tried changing the setting in iTunes > Preferences > General, but I don't see the option I want. How do I get this Mac to absolutely do nothing when I insert a CD?
I deleted my appdata\roaming\apple computer\mobilesync\backup files. Now I can't backup. When I press Back Up Now, it waits a few seconds, then comes back and nothing is backed up. How do I make it backup?
My HDD corrupted, I reinstall macOS by using Internet Recovery and updated the macOS to Sierra and reset PRAM and SMC(to remove service battery message). Now, Power indicator does not work. Doesn't sleep after lid close. Doesn't wake up after lid open. Sometimes doesn't wake up for Any Key press or Power Button Press MacBook Pro, Mid 2012, macOS Sierra
I am curious as to what typeface was used on the Mac OS 9 & early Mac OS X boxes. Where it reads "Installing Mac OS 9". The slopes of the letters are slightly different than any font that comes pre-installed on a modern Mac, and the 9 is obviously quite unique looking. If anyone is aware of the typeface name please let me know. Danke.
I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything that can help with my specific issue, and it really bugs me because I feel like I cannot be the first person to try and figure this out. I have one of the new 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pros that I need to reinstall macOS. Typically whenever I need to reinstall OS X I just use my external SSD with a preinstalled El Capitan and run the DMG after some configuring, but with the latest MBP I've realized that I have to use Sierra since El Capitan is not supported. I only have about 1gb left of free space on my external SSD so I can't just upgrade to Sierra and go from there. Is it possible to host my Sierra DMG on my local network via something like OS X Server or DeployStudio on my other Mac? That way I can just hold the Option key down as I boot up and connect to my Wi-Fi network and have it "see" the hosted image like a NetInstall or something similar.
I have some bizarre issues with WiFi on my iPhone 7. Turning it on and off almost never does the trick - very often when the WiFi is on switching it off still keeps it on, and vice versa. My phone constantly forgets passwords for familiar WiFi network. When I pull up the control menu the WiFi switches off automatically. And the list goes on... Because of this it takes me at least 10-15 minutes to connect to a WiFi network (if I even manage to do it in the end), especially if it's the first time I connect to the network.
Is it possible to hide the downloading status on chrome icon in macOS?  I want to remove that downloading status.
I am not able to login into apple developer forum every time it takes me to create a new user account page and the displays the error, I have successfully validated with multiple user name as below screen shot -  when i try to hit submit it gives me below error -
When searching with grep -r, it avoids following symbolic links by default. This is true for directories, but grep still inspects the contents of files that are symlinks. For instance, if I have a framework with the following structure: grep -r "string" MyFancy.framework prints: This causes the search in such structures three times slower. How can I make grep exclude symlinks?
Safari has a file called /Users/King/Library/Safari/AutoFillCorrections.db. It is sizably large and keeps changing a few times every hour. I'm thinking of excluding this from my Time Machine backup, as it takes up a fair bit of space. However, I am unsure of whether this will have any adverse effects when I restore from my Time Machine backup.
While using MPlayerX, I see different documents in "File>Open Recent" menu with what I see when I right click on the app icon. The correct list of recent documents is the one that is listed under "File > Open Recent" menu of the app. File listed in the right-click menu on the app icon are from a few weeks ago. Is this a bug in the app or there is something wrong with Finder?
My iPhone 7 is stuck in recovery mode after downgrading from IOS 11 beta public version. After spending hours on the phone with Apple, they told me that I either have to ship it in or take it to an Apple Store. Does anyone have a fix, that will save me a 45 minute trip?
A week ago, I found an old MacBook Pro 8,1 (13” MacBook Pro, Late 2011). It was working fine, but the battery wasn't charging. The charging lights on the side of the MacBook said that it was fully charged, but when I unplugged the charger, it turned off instantly. Why is this happening and what can I do about it? Note: I installed Ubuntu so that it would run faster, but I do have a backup of macOS.
I have a split pane iTerm window I would like to have two tabs in the right "pane", but cannot figure out how to do this. I did it yesterday, for the first time ever and loved it, but can't seem to remember how it was done. Anyone know the process for this?
I have seen that the question has been already done, but all answers refer to 2016 MacBook Pro model, meanwhile I own a 2017. picciano found a solution (see Connect New MacBook (USB-C) to Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)) but is working with this model? Has anybody tried it and had real experience?
I have a 2015 (purchased in late 2016) Macbook Pro with the following specs : 2.5Ghz Core i5 8GB of RAM Running OSX El Capitain 10.11.6 It downloaded Sierra and is asking me to upgrade to the new version. I want to do it, but I'm worried that the new Operating System will be too demanding for my laptop or that there are some things that I won't like, and I might want to revert in the future. If I install Sierra, will I still be able to restore my Macbook to factory settings (including El Capitain) by doing a factory restore (where you hold CMD+R while it's booting, and format the drive to reinstall the OS) or will it always default to Sierra instead?
I recently used Siphonx's UEFI method of installing bootcamp on my seagate 1TB external HD. The windows installation only took 16gb. When booted into MacOS and opened the hard drive though I wasn't able to transfer files onto the drive itself.
In Safari (Version 10.1.1 (10603.2.5)) on OS X Yosemite, in the Preferences... -> Privacy [Manage Website Data...] I have an entry: If I delete this entry, it disappears, and returns in two seconds or less, even with no other windows open, certainly none open to jet.com, and even with Cookies and website data set to Always Block. Any ideas how to trace what is re-entering this super-cookie?
I'm connecting a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) to an Epson PowerLite 811p Projector. I need a 30-foot cable between them, and would prefer to use the HDMI cable I already have. Is it possible to convert the signal twice, first from Mini Displayport to HDMI, then from HDMI to VGA or DVI?
Seems like there are around 5,000 wifi logs, each 2MB each, totaling nearly 10GB on my disk in /private/tmp. Can I delete these logs, or will macOS automatically delete them itself? I tried making a file using the mkfile command until I had about 2GB of disk space left, but nothing was automatically cleared.
I am needing to find a way to download linked files on a webpage in Google Chrome. I am the graphic artist at the company I work for and I have a "project brief" type form that other employees fill out when they need to request design work. In the form they can upload files that relate to the project (such as sketches, or text files). I have an Automator app that sets up the project from creating a folder system for the project to downloading the form as a pdf to downloading all attached files. However it only works in Safari and I use Chrome. So far I've gotten everything moved over and working in Chrome EXCEPT for the file downloads. Can someone help me figure out how to do this Chrome?
Due to a hard disconnect of my encrypted external hard drive, it seems my HFS+ partition has become corrupted. Every time I unlock my hard drive, OS X tries to mount it silently in the background and then hard ejects the drive, such that OS X is not recognizing it whatsoever in diskutil list and I have to turn off/turn back on my hard drive bay. I run: To unlock the drive, which makes the GUI password prompt disappear, but then when I try to run: I get: ** /dev/rdisk3 (NO WRITE) Can't open /dev/rdisk3: Resource busy I was able to get one successful fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk3 to run, and here are the results:
I'm completely flustered by not being able to use the single key shortcuts in Chrome's debugger F8 = play F10 = step etc. I have to reach over to the laptop and press and hold the Fn key and then, with my other hand, I can use the F keys on my standard keyboard. I tried changing the keyboard settings to force the Touch Bar to display function keys for Chrome.app but this did not solve the problem as it only solved it for the built-in keyboard, not my external keyboard.
I found an AppleScript that creates .inetloc files allowing people to link to files on a company server. In my testing, it worked great, but it turns out that the script can't handle parentheses, (), in the file name, which there turn out to be a lot of. Is there a way to allow this script to link to files that include parentheses?
My sister and I both have iPhones and whenever someone texts her, I get those messages sent to my MacBook Air. It's really annoying and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it!
When I send email from Mail and someone opens it on their iPhone, the font is microscopic and unreadable. My bosses have quit reading my emails, stating it is my problem and I must get it fixed. I can not find anyone else with this issue.
I know this is not the primary use case for using external GPUs, but I drank the Space to Think kool-aid in a serious way. Can anyone find a source or share personal experience that confirms that I could potentially use e.g. 2 additional (to the spec below) 4K or 5K monitors with a new MBP (so e.g. 4 5K monitors: 2 powered by internal MacBook Pro GPU and 2 powered by an external GPU)? According to Apple, the new MacBook Pro (MacBookPro14,3 A1707, sans eGPU), Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colors and: Up to two displays with 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors Up to four displays with 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz at millions of colors Up to four displays with 3840-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors ...
Now, though. It just powers on, get to the first loading screen, and then freezes. Tried multiple times. Same thing. I wasn't sure what to do, so I had them follow this guide, What to do when your Mac displays a blank screen and the cursor after a macOS update. I had them reset the PRAM three times. Then boot to Single User Mode, and enter the commands in the article. There seemed to be some errors in the drive, but I am not qualified to interpret them. Here are screenshots of all the entries and readouts in Single User Mode.
What does it mean if I send a text to someone and it does not say delivered on my iPhone but it says delivered on my iPad? Does it mean the received it but not on their phone. I'm confused.
I would like to know how I can edit an incorrect 'sent' address in the Draft or Sent versions of emails within Apple Mail? It frequently happens that I have incorrectly entered an address and an hour's work bounces back.
I'm using AppleScript to process a folder of TIFF images that need to be converted to a specific CMYK profile in Photoshop. The script first asks for a folder containing the images and then prompts for an output folder location. However, I get the following error when running the script: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 got an error: Can’t get current document.
When switching to a full-screen app on a different space there is a noticeable delay (and jerkiness) with the animation during which further presses of ⌘+Tab have no effect. This continues for a fraction of a second even after the animation has finished. It's very annoying and disruptive if keypresses are simply ignored by the OS, and it's beyond me how such an obvious massive flaw goes past quality control at Apple (and how most macOS users seemingly just live with it). Is there a way to completely remove the fade (or slide) animation when you switch (⌘+Tab) to a full-screen app that is on a different space?
I have set up up a new computer (MacBook Pro) from a backup I made yesterday from my old computer (MacBook Air). In the process of that setup, I changed my user's home folder name, strictly following the apple guide on that topic.
I am using a MBP 13" late 2016 without touchbar. I use a CableMatters USB-C dongle to connect a VGA monitor to my laptop and it works. However, when I connect an external projector to my MBP (I tested on two different projectors) using the same dongle there is a black screen on the laptop then in a few seconds, it says there is a problem in different languages and press any key to restart
I'm trying to create a load of tables with captions in Mac Word 2011, interspersed with figures, text, ect. With all the insertions, there's a lot of adjusting of where things go. But when I move the tables around, the captions stay put, and I don't see any way to group tables to keep their captions with them. Is there a way to make sure a table and its caption move together in Word 2011? Just to be clear, I'm not asking how to make sure they stay together over a page break - I'd like to be able to move the table myself and have the caption come with it.
I have installed (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS in MBP ll,3 model mid-2014 with Sierra MacOS) using reFind as the boot manager. I followed this guide to take control of the fans on my laptop, A beginner's tutorial for mbpfan under Ubuntu. This is the output
I just created a new partition on my macbook's SSD set to Journaled/Encrypted. It seems I only get prompted for the password once, when the macbook is turned on, rather than every time I try to access it. How can I make this drive inaccessible unless a password is provided on-the-spot?
I bought Capture NX2 years ago. I love it for many reasons. Unfortunately, I cannot install it on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). Strangely, I had Capture NX2 on another mac, and it still works after upgrading to Sierra. The new install is the issue. I cannot install it on my new Mac.
The game's setup is pretty unusual, so a launcher is mandatory, but it seems that the game respects whatever folder was defined by the launcher. The windows version of this game (which has same launcher and same Java binaries, only compiled for another platform) runs from %AppData%/.minecraft and if you start the game EXE with a Batch script and you define a custom AppData folder, the game adapts accordingly.
I am using Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73) and Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4). When I visit youtube most videos play fine. but some videos say It also quickly bring up a prompt to say "upgrade flash" which leads me to Adobe website.
I had serval problems with the SATA cable for the hard disk on my MacBook Pro 13" mid 2009. Buying a new cable from apple was too expensive for that old MacBook, so I kicked out the SuperDrive and put my disk in there. Now there is quite a lot empty space in my MacBook and I wonder if it would be possible to put a bigger battery in there. Considering that the old battery is 8 years old and there is more space now it should be possible almost double the battery capacity. Now I wonder if there is any way to get such a battery?
It is possible to sign code or apps "ad-hoc" using codesign. The man page tells us the following about ad-hoc code signing:
I have a late 2009 iMac running 10.12.5 that I am attempting to set up as a wifi hotspot. My current internet connection is DSL (ethernet).
I recently acquired a MS Surface Ergonomic Keyboard. Its a great device for everything other than a Fn lock key that is awkwardly placed between the CTRL and OPTION/WINDOWS key. I've looked at the keyboard viewer to see what input is being communicated so i might try and override it in Karibener Elements - but the Keyboard Viewer is not showing any key inputs. How do i find what key is being triggered and disable it? Note: The 'Fn' key is stateful like a caps lock key.
While the person at the Verizon store had the AT&T SIM out, he asked if I still needed it. I naively said no. So, that being said, I now have an iPhone 5s that still works on Verizon and an iPhone 7 that, more than likely would be carrier unlocked if it still had its AT&T SIM card; which is my problem...
I tried Guided Access but, once the battery was gone, it booted back up in regular mode. I think there is a developer tool to put your phone in kiosk mode, but first I'm hoping there might be a simple app out that does that?
It's strange and probably not a duplicate question (since I've read a lot of questions with this issue, but none match with my problem). I believe I've setup everything correctly. In fact, I can copy from my iPad and paste to my mac using Universal Clipboards, no problem. But the other way is not working: I can't copy text from my mac and paste to my iPad.
Is it possible to use a USB Wi-Fi dongle to host a Wi-Fi network, while simultaneously using the built in one in the usual way? The reason I want to do this is to wirelessly establish an IP network connection to an Intel Compute Stick which is hosting software license servers, without losing internet connectivity. I would need to do this in places where I won't have control of the main Wi-Fi network.
The hard drive on my wife's MacBook Pro is partitioned between Mac operating system and Windows. She wants to "departition" it, to remove the Windows OS. How does she do that?
My iPhone 6 was stolen a week ago. I can't remove that phone number from my Apple account. It is still listed in iMessage, etc. The help file I see tells me I have to sign out of FaceTime and iMessage from my iPhone. I don't have my iPhone.
What are MacBook speakers power (in watts) and range of frequencies (e.g. 80 Hz - 20 kHz)?
I want to extract the note texts and modification dates from an sqlite notes database extracted from an iOS device backup. But I can't figure out how to convert the date format to a readable date string. I found out which file had the note data from this page. Relevant portion:
I bought one app and one app bundle on the App Store, but I forget what Appel ID I used. I've tried several Apple IDs to find it, but can't find the one. I remember I connected it to my bank card, if that's useful? How can I find it?
I'm trying to get Pages to stop words with a hyphen and continue them in the next line if they exceed the current line (like it is seen in almost every textbook). I don't know how to do this. When I google "word wrap pages", all I see is people having problems with wrapping text around images, which is not my problem.
I've been writing a script for my Mac Mini (2014) that does a speed test and logs the data to a database. All that works great, but the results were a lot lower than I was expecting.
Is it possible to have two backup disks, which, when connected to the same machine, can have directories symlinked to each other? I'm working on this triple redundant backup scheme in which not all data is replicated across all three disks, but when working in a given disk, I would still like to have access to files and scripts on another remote disk.
I need to connect my MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra to my company using IAS for Mac OS X. If I double-click the icon of IAS for Mac OS X (made in the year 2008) it is denied due to incompatibility (between IAS for Mac OS X and macOS Sierra). Is there an IAS for macOS Sierra? Or is there any way to allow the installation of IAS for Mac OS X on macOS Sierra?
I had Thunderbird configured with an iCloud (me) email account and it worked fine until about two weeks ago. When I tried to send a message, it asked me for the server password. When I entered it, I got a message saying the login or password was wrong. I also had this same problem on another machine with another account. I was able to add and use a Gmail account without any problems. My setting are: Incoming Outgoing I got the settings from How can I configure iCloud mail in Mozilla Thunderbird? I am able to login to both iCloud accounts through a browser.
I'm trying to reporpose my iPad Pro lightning cable and (originally) android USB host cable. This lightning cable once opened up has an odd config... red, white, green wires then 4 more what appear to be like earbud audio wiring, that cottony crap that you have to burn a little to expose the connection. Of course the OTG cable is the standard red, white, green and black. My goal is splicing the lightning male end (with wires) to the OTG female end and I need some guidance on which wire splices with which wire... if that makes any sense. Can you help?
We can start the screen recorder in the control center but this part also goes into the recording. How can we skip this part?
How can I hook up a 2nd generation AppleTV box to a Visio xvt473sv 55" Smart TV using only the optical cord, as none of the HDMI outlets work on the TV? I've tried to hook it up to the Visio 55" Smart TV using an optical cord, because the TV's HDMI ports don't seem to work. Is it possible to use the optical cable to connect the Apple TV?
Let's say you are at the office 9-5, can you schedule the phone to be muted (mostly messaging, FB) during these hours and / or this location.
Yes, I realize this question was answered here, but the answers seem to specifically address the 2015 iMac--not the late-2014 iMac. I'm specifically wondering whether the late-2014 27" 5K iMac can support two external 4K monitors.
I'm currently using an iPhone 5S. I installed the iOS 11 Public Beta a few days ago, and found that downgrading would risk my phone being stuck in recovery/DFU mode. I was wondering, if I deleted the profile (which would opt me out of receiving beta updates), would I get the update for the official release of iOS 10.3.3? And would I be able to install it, even when my phone is running on iOS 11?
I'm trying to install XMBC on my old Apple TV 1 (first generation) It says I can easily install it via a USB drive, but every file I have tried does not work. I saw some articles here referencing stmlabs.com but the file to download no longer exists. Here are the specs of the software version:
I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. Sorry for the noob question. I recently created a script to automatically mount a Time Machine image in a hard drive connected to my router. For the most part, the script works great. It attaches the drive when I turn on the computer and, if it disconnects for any reason, it reconnects and mounts the image again. Here's the script: However, every once in a while, I get this error:
Some macOS applications (e.g. Finder or Terminal, but also third-party apps like SourceTree) have a Windows > Merge All Windows menu item that allows to merge all application windows into a single, tabbed application window.
AirDrop seems to work smoothly as long my iPhone's Bluetooth is enabled. The MacBook can send/receive files. That doesn't even require internet connection. I found it very difficult, tho, to transfer a file, while my MacBook uses the iPhone's Hotspot. What is the easiest/fastest way to share a file from my iPhone to my MacBook when the iPhone Hotspot is enabled? Currently I'm sharing the files via email, sending emails to myself from my iPhone and downloading the files on my mac once the email arrives.
I bought the new iPad Pro 10.5" and with it the Apple Smart Keyboard with the US Layout. Now I am constantly switching between writing in german, english and some french. Therefore I would like to access special characters like in macOS or in iOS: So how can I access the special character menu via the Apple Smart Keyboard?
I have read about Windows Phone App for Mac but sadly it is not available from the store in India? Is there any alternative software? Will using a VPN help?
Today, the long-waited macOS high Sierra was finally arrived. I can’t help trying it after downloading it for several hours. But out of my expectation, the updating is stuck during the process of rebooting system. The a big file folder appeared at the center of the dark screen(see attached pictures). It popped out every 2 seconds. Very annoying!
I have a directory structure where some directories contain git repositories: I'm trying to come up with a backup script which would backup notes.txt and file.txt in their proper place, but would either not back up codedir at all, or would leave only an empty directory there. How can I do this?
Over the past few years, I have downloaded various apps onto my iPhone from the App Store. I have noticed that the App Store remembers the apps that I have downloaded. So, for instance: If I download an app and then delete it from my phone and go back into the App Store, the download icon is different (it doesn't say "+Get" like apps that I have never downloaded before, instead it will have an icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downwards). How to I get the App Store to forget these programs?
Very often the font size in pdf files is too small. To read the document one has to continuously scroll and zoom the document, which I find really annoying, especially when several windows are opened. On the other hand in ebook readers (e.g. Kindle) there is the possibility to change the font size of a pdf file. Do you know whether there is any pdf reader software for macOS that has this feature?
I wish the plastic Apple uses for keys was as good as the electronics and the cases. I had vowed never to buy Logitech keyboards and mice because their electronics are fine, but their plastic cases are so poorly engineered those devices collapse within a year. By comparison, one can get many years of an Apple keyboard. The aluminum cases are solid.
I understand that the update speed is a function of the speed of my internet connection. Both the Macbook and the iPad are connected to the internet via WiFi.
I have configured the macOS' native VPN to connect from location (a) to location (b), and now I would like to access the Thecus file storage server I have at location (b). Accordingly, pressing cmdK in Finder and typing: cifs://192.168.x.x <-- server IP here.
I'm using the latest version of Numbers (4.2) and am looking to plot a Line Graph, with a few sections highlighted in a color as shown:  Any leads on how to do the same?
My employer uses iPhone for company phones. Every time I connect the iPhone to a PC to charge I get a prompt to install iTunes. I can't install iTunes at work (don't have the permissions) and don't want to install it at home. The incessant prompting is a nuisance. How do I stop the iPhone from prompting me to install iTunes without installing iTunes?
Adding to the dictionary is not working for any app on my computer (word, messages, mail, etc.), and it hasn't through several OS upgrades, since I don't know when (we're on El Capitan now). This has been true for all of the Mac users in our office.
Is there a way to use the mark up tool in notes? Or something that works like that would? I want to be able to put shapes with text on top of copy pasted images. So I want to use a shape, be able to type text on the shape then put it on top of a image.
I've seen a video of a guy making an iPhone with some random iPhone parts. Before setting everything together, he made a test build. He just used screen, battery and the logic board itself. He clicked on something on the logic board and the iPhone started booting. Check 15:50 in the YouTube video, How I Made My Own iPhone - in China.
I have a mid-2010 MacPro Tower. Bays are full, including 2nd optical drive slot. I've seen PCIe cards that will hold 4 M.2 SSD blades, but the specs listed don't list MacOS as supported, although in some cases, a comment from a buyer says it works in a Mac.
Every time I reboot my computer, Today Summary and Tomorrow Summary re-add themselves to my Notification Center. I remove them (click Edit, click the red block button, click Done), and they only stay removed until next reboot.
I am experiencing a potential known issue of second monitor not waking when system wakes from sleep. I have done the perquisite resets of SMC and NVRAM and have been working with Apple support to a very deep level. To no avail. There seems to be an issue where system does not respond as expected when there are multiple power sources. Is there a way to disable the power flow from the LG Ultrafine 4k monitors? I will just rely on the wall. I have a 2017 15" MBPro with Radeon Pro 560. I have tested on MacOS 10.12.5 and MacOS 10.13 Beta (17A291m). Thanks!
Certain songs will stop playing midway through. The counter keeps progressing as though the song is still playing, but no audio. The same song plays fine on iTunes on the PC. I wiped my iPhone (I only use it as an iPod) and reloaded my entire library. Same issue. Found an old iPod Nano. Wiped it and reloaded the library. Same song, same issue. So 2 pieces of hardware have the same problem, yet the original file plays fine on iTunes on the PC
On my iPhone I can hold down on a key on the keyboard and than dragging can be used to control the location of the cursor. This makes editing text go from intolerable to doable.
All, I have (at work) the choice between a: 16 GB iPhone 6 (A1586) 32 GB iPhone 5S (A1457)
I'd like to know how I can delete all podcasts (via command line) or something, because unsubscribing from 90+ podcasts takes too long.
I'm running a Fedora (also a Ubuntu) guest in VMWare Fusion Pro 8.5 on macOS Sierra. I've got a problem that's been bugging me for a long time: the keyboard keys don't map across correctly from the host to the guest. I've got the UK, Macintosh layout set in the guests, and the keyboard map shows the correct layout. But, as an example, when I need to type ~, I actually have to type ±, etc. Yet the @ and " keys map correctly. I've read lots of advice about using the Keyboard and Mouse settings in VMWare Fusion to map the keys correctly, but as far as I can tell, these options only relate to shortcuts (am I missing something)?
I want to get into iOS development, but unfortunately my laptop is running Windows 10 and I don't want to deal with virtual machines and other headaches related to developing with Xcode on Windows. I want to develop for iOS in a native apple environment. I also want it to run the newest version of Xcode.
I'm trying to reformat a Mac that was handed to me by an employee after being wiped, and I'm starting to think they did too good a job. At boot, you see the blinking folder + ? icon, indicating no bootable partition found: Loading the recovery partition (after resetting NVRAM), I tried all this on both the Internet Recovery partition which was Snow Leopard and a macOS Sierra media installer via USB. First, Disk Utility didn't show the drive: From there, I tried diskutil list
I seem to be having a problem with trying to ssh into my Mac from a Linux desktop. I have two users on my Mac and can ssh between them, but other computers seem to be the problem.
I've been backing up my MacBook Pro for 5 years using Carbon Copy Cloner. The full backup is on a partition of an external hard drive and there is a folder called _CCC_Archives which I believe stores the diffs over time. I have upgraded the OS at least once and I'm wondering what the implications of this are.
Let's say I watch a movie from one MacBook using AirPlay to connect to the speaker. After few minutes some of the other devices connects i.e. to play notification (usually I cannot even hear it) and the intended audio stream stops being played - I need to switch back and forth to other device to revert original audio stream being played on the speaker.
How can I send an iMessage to multiple people from Terminal using osascript / AppleScript? I know how to send it to one person, but I want to send it to a group chat or multiple people.
I have an iPad 2 (MC769LL/A) that is running iOS 5.1.1. I need to update the OS. The device is telling me there's an update for 9.3, but I'm getting an error saying unable to verify the update because I'm no longer connected to the internet.
I'm trying to look up Sales and Trends data for yesterday in iTunes Connect, but it says that the day isn't over yet in all regions:  But it is:
I installed python3 with homebrew and can access it with python3 command in terminal. I'm installing a command line app that needs python3. When I try to use it it says: Python 3.3+ required When I do python --version it reports python 2.7. How can I get the app to use python3?
I am working on a job that will be published in print and online in grayscale. Most of the creative work is being created in QuarkXPress. My problem is that I really need to see how this is going to look in grayscale. Up until now I have been exporting the work to PDF in grayscale to see how things look, but as you can imagine this is a slow process. Is there a setting anywhere in QuarkXPress 9.5.4.0 I can use to view my files in grayscale, or a setting within Mac OS X 10.11.6 that I can use to make my iMac temporarily display in grayscale?
The upper case of my (5,2) Macbook has stopped working so I'm not able to use the power button to turn it on. I'm currently using an external keyboard/mouse. Here's the problem- In order to tun it on, I have to short the power pads on the logic board which I think is pretty risky if not done properly. I wanna avoid the risk of making the mistake and frying the logic board. under system preferences -> energy saver -> power adapter, I found "restart immediately after a power failure" So if there is a "power failure', I should theoretically be able to turn the mac on the next time I plug in the magsafe adapter, right?
I'm looking for an email client for Mac, with these characteristics: Must have:
I'm trying to build an automator script that will convert all Pixelmator files to Photoshop, but it's not working. This is the script:
Now I've tried upgrading to macOS Sierra again (using the macOS Sierra button that's been in my Launchpad for about the past nine months) and this time it was worse. I can access CMD+R, but restarting from there has no effect.
My MacBook Pro 2016 keeps freezing fairly frequently when I'm composing messages in Gmail, forcing me to power off and then power back on the computer. Weirdly, this doesn't happen when I have the MacBook "docked" into my LG monitor, only when I'm operating the MacBook independently.
Due to not getting Sierra upgrade work, I'm using El Capitan. Could this pose security risk due to El Capitan already too old to get updates?
I have been user ControllerMate to optimize my workflow when using an external keyboard to trigger macros with Keyboard Maestro. This worked very well until recently, when I installed an update for ControllerMate.
I have a bunch of photos and videos from different sources and want to normalize the file names using Terminal. I looked at a bunch of different tools from NameChanger to Automator and Finder itself. NameChanger does not allow more than one action at a time and Finder and Automator won't allow me to set the date format with a format string. I've been playing around with a few bash functions and found that produces the date time format I'm after. Yet I found that returns I'm not really proficient with bash scripting so excuse any incompetence in the examples above. What I want to do is remove all of the base name of the file (everything before .jpg) and replace it with the date and time format I got from stat earlier. For example: How do I need to do this?
I accidentally deleted my OSX boot drive. Is there anything I can do to recreate this.
I bought an iPad lately (10.5" 2017), and I want to connect it via HDMI to my HDTV. Now I know that because of the iPad screen size, I cannot get fullscreen on my TV (I have black borders right and left right now). But, is there any way I can make it work?
I have a MacBook Pro with ethernet internet access on a corporate network. Due to corporate restrictions I cannot wire any other device to the network. My solution was to create a wifi-hotspot from the mac to share the internet connection with my other devices.
When i use below command in mac terminal I get:
I'm getting a 5TB drive which I plan on using for backing up all my media, and my OS/config for my machines. The backup tool is Carbon Copy Cloner. I currently have two Macs but may get a third one and I'm wondering: Since the laptops have different OSs and configurations, do I have to partition my 5TB drive for each of these like this: ...Or, is it safe to put all three machine backups onto the same partition like this:
How do I rename the apps on my home screen? I have tried putting the app icons in edit mode ("wiggle mode") but I cannot find a way to rename them.
While working on other networking issues, I discovered my Mac, running El Capitan, was trying to make a TCP connection to 10.0.1.2:7000. What is trying to make that connection, why, and how do I turn it off?
For certain special characters and symbols, AppleScript will fail to keystroke the actual character, and will instead simply type the letter a. The following AppleScript code: types the following string of text (no matter what application that I am in): One can effectively "type" the text by placing the special characters on the clipboard, and then pasting the clipboard, like so: I avoid using the above method to put text on the clipboard in AppleScript, because it necessarily converts the clipboard to rich text, in the process.
I just got a new iMac Early 2009. It's running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I was wondering which Mac OS X version it would be faster to run on since it cannot run the latest macOS. As a developer that is new to Mac, I want something that will be fast and compatible with my current hardware situation & Development Tools. I was thinking Yosemite 10.10 or Mavericks 10.9. Any suggestions on what I should do? Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo running on 2.66 GHz. 2Gb of RAM Model Identifier is "iMac9,1" If you need anymore specs just let me know.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro. I recently moved and don't yet have a Wi-Fi router, so I have to use an ethernet cable. To do this I'm using a USB ethernet adapter.
I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 on the 4th partition of my HDD. The partitions in order: Partition 1, 280 MB: EFI Partition 2, 22 GB: Storage 1 Partition 3, 186 GB: Storage 2 Partition 4, 110 GB: Macintosh HD Partition 5, 600 MB: Recovery HD
My former employer allows employees to keep their work phones after they quit. When I was with my former employer, I had to install a series of corporate and company related apps so that they could monitor my phone. After leaving the company, I used the option "Erase All Content and Settings" so that my phone can start fresh. Does that mean the phone is completely disconnected from my ex-employer and I can treat it as a brand new phone?
I'd like to be able to use a 38" ultrawide LG 38Uc99-W monitor or the Acer XR382CQK with my 15" Mid-2015 Retina Macbook Pro with an Intel GPU (not the Radeon). Here are the specs for my Macbook Pro: *=URL=* Here are the specs for the LG monitor: *=URL=* Here are the specs for the Acer monitor: https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/UM.TX2AA.001
FYI: My iTunes and Siri also don't work. Playing a song in iTunes shows no song progress. If I try to use Siri I get a "no audio found" message. Below are various screenshots of my problem:
I'm running MacOS 10.12. Someone gave me the answer to an earlier question here. In the solution, we need to Reset Layout to Default Settings. That worked for Office 2011 but I can't seem to find it on Powerpoint 15. Can someone tell me where I can find it on Powerpoint 15?
Here's how I can use it in Vim (for example using ctermfg=darkred): So it appears to me, that Vim has both
I'm using Macbook Pro Mid 2012 on Sierra. It has two partitions without OS partition. Four times those 2 partitions getting corrupted(can't copy files). And I tried to repair disk, And got this message
I simply want to get rid of this buggy beta. I regretfully installed the beta on my dailydrive/main device. I'm aware that I may not be able to preserve all of my data because I didn't make any backups whatsoever, therefore I've performed manual backups of my most precious files. I just want to go from iOS 11 Beta 2 to a clean and completely-reset latest-version of iOS 10. I have the developer beta if that makes a difference.
I am creating Automator Service to unzip selected files in the same folder they are located. How can I get selected file absolute path in Automator, so I can pass it into my shell script ? As you can see I am only passing filename for now, but its not unzipping in same folder.
When compressing files/folders in Finder, via the context menu, i.e. select the files/folders then right-click and select Compress ..., a hidden folder named __MACOSX is created within the zip archive. How can the hidden folder named __MACOSX not be created within the zip archive?
I often take photos of documents, receipts, or product packaging; to have as a record. These photos usually waste space because they are higher resolution than I need, and they have extra space around edges that can be cropped.
I have a Samsung SSD 850 EVO installed in February I believe. No problems thus far.
I'm using a Mac mini Server (Late 2012) with 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB RAM. This type of processor (Intel® Core™ i7-3615QM) supports a max memory size of 32GB. Look at specification: Here. Is it possible to upgrade RAM in my Mac mini to 32GB (for instance a Crucial Kit 2x16GB)? I understand that Apple has to update Memory Reference Code in the firmware of the Mac mini but maybe exists another way to upgrade a memory.
Whenever I restart my Mac, I'm first required to sign in with my Apple ID and after that the Mac (local) account and password. It's sort of a two-step process and I don't remember where I may have accidentally configured this setting, which is really annoying right now. How do I turn off the Apple ID sign in, so I'm only required to log into to my MacBook using my local user account?
I have an old iPad 3rd Generation (Retina Display). I am planning on buying the new iPad Pro 10.5. I am a little confused with backup and restore. The old iPad has Kanini.Mom@gmail.com as the Apple ID (as it was my mom's iPad). The new iPad is for my dad and so the Apple ID is going to be Dad@gmail.com What I would like to do is: Retain Photos Retain Books from iBooks (These are PDF's not something which was purchased from iBook Store) I do not need the games and other apps that was in the old iPad to be transferred in the new iPad. I do want it use my new email address for everything (Apple ID, FaceTime, iMessages) etc. How can I achieve that?
There are two partitions currently allocated on my 100 GiB hard disk. However, only ~85GB is formatted and I cannot expand /dev/disk0s2 to the maximum size with various attempts such as diskutil and gpt. The last ~20 GB free space does exist, but it cannot be partitioned. disk0 is a VMware vmdk resized from 85 GB to 107 GB with vmware-vdiskmanager.
Is there any way to make this printer work? A long time ago I made it work it on Ubuntu with PCL-6 driver (I'm not sure about the name), is there similar driver for Sierra? I already tried IPP with universal PostScript driver but it doesn't work. Here's nmap output which may be helpful: Printer dashboard:
I do not want iCloud to back up my files from my computer. I only want to use iCloud for e-mail. How do I do this?
Always played music from my music library. Today all I get is "connect to WiFi or cellular to play music". I haven't done anything different or added anything! Does anyone know why??
I own a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB, USB 3.0 from year 2013. Now Time Machine throws random errors, so I wish to check disk health. Is my disk really not supported, or I do it wrong? I found smartctl on external hdd inside ide-to-usb enclosure with:
I started a OneNote import of Evernote notes, using the OneNote importer for MacOS, but have so many Evernote notes that I began to run out of disk space. I closed the importer mid-import. The files taking up space during import are still there. Where are these files and how can I delete them?
My wife uses the Pages application on her iPhone and iPad to write documents with embeded photos. When I try to print them - in 90% of cases, the images contain smudges. Quality control is very simple (like color and pages nr).
I've set up iCloud music library on my iPhone, iPad and iMac. The music folder on my iMac shows about 25 gigs used. I thought the music was moved to iCloud. What am I missing here and what should I do to free up that memory.
On Linux, the ACPID daemon acpid includes a command line tool named "acpi_listen" that prints ACPI events to standard output. For example, this is what it shows when I use my keyboard's volume up button and the play / pause button: Is there an equivalent tool on macOS (Sierra)?
I have a disk that was part of a RAID created with SoftRaid along time ago. I have reformatted the disk but it still comes up as mounted RAID. How can I remove the RAID designation and have it come up mounted SCSI?
Tried it in Recovery Mode as well and the drive was not listed. What are my options for data recovery? I'm not sure if the drive has completely failed because Apple was able to give him access to the drive when it failed the first time.
I installed v2.0.7 of GarageBand to my iPad a few months ago. I've just tried recording my voice using the audio option and it told me I did not have enough free storage. However, I can still record using the other instruments provided by GarageBand, so space doesn't seem to be the issue. How can I troubleshoot this to determine why I can't do a voice recording using GarageBand?
When I create an automatic TOC in my word document, the chapter names appear on the right and the page numbers on the left. I want it the other way around.
Here's my iCloud settings:  As you can see, the Desktop and Documents Folders checkbox is unchecked. Despite this, my Desktop and Documents folders have suddenly been renamed to "Desktop - Local" and "Documents - Local" respectively. The only reason I can think of is this may be due to installing iOS 11 on my iPhone, but I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest any other possible reasons?
The password is correct and it doesn't even say its wrong. Instead I get a verifying message and then it never logs in. I'm not sure what the issue is because my iPhone literally just goes back to the log in screen after it says verifying and that's it. How can I troubleshoot this?
I've been running into a lot of bugs using Apple's native Preview App, and it seems like other common alternatives like PDFPenPro, Skim, and PDF Reader Expert all use the same PDFKit engine. Other than Adobe's Adobe Reader DC, are there any clean and fast alternative pdf readers?
I am having issues pairing my wireless keyboard with my Mac after I changed the batteries. This screen keeps popping up when I restart that says Mac wants to make changes, enter admin and people. However, I can't type anything. It's as though it's locked up. Sometimes it even says keyboard found but still I can't type anything. How can I get the Mac to use the keyboard?
Is there a way to setup a shortcut to insert my email address when typing? About once a day I need to type my email address on some login form or order page. It would be really nice to have a kind of paste function that inserts my email address.
Is it harmful or dangerous to the other files in the same partition as the Time Machine? Because a lack of storage, every time the Time Machine backs up my Mac, it deletes the oldest backup. Is there a danger that the Time Machine is about to delete my other files in this partition?
When trying to unmount my Samsung T3, which I store various applications like Mathematica on, I am told it is being used by some software socketfilterfw This also shows when unmounting using the GUI and checking in Console.app I think socketfilterfw is involved in the firewall, however I'm not sure how to fix it or why it is happening, and whether or not it is safe for the SSD to force unmounting. What options do I have?
The new touch bar is not very good for people good at keyboard shortcuts and development. I used to be able to press Shift F8 to get iTunes to play without giving it focus.
I often scroll above the current document in Vim. I usually do this by pressing the shift key and then using the mouse or the trackpad. Recently I noticed that with the mouse this feature stopped working. Basically pressing the shift key on my external keyboard and scrolling upwards with the trackpad gives me the expected result. But holding the same key on the external keyboard and scrolling upwards with the external mouse does nothing. Any clues?
The dock icon updates properly but the calendar itself doesn't change the red highlight badge to the current day. In System Preferences > Date & Time > "Set Date and Time Automatically" is checked. If I quit the app and relaunch, it does open with the correct day.
I really despise the keychain "feature" in OS X. I do not want my computer or my browser to know my passwords. How do I stop keychain from being active completely? Everything I've looked at discusses how to change your password or make it more accessible, but I want to disable this altogether.
I'm trying to start learning Swift and when I use the terminal line $ export PATH=/Library/Developer/Toolchains/swift-latest.xctoolchain/usr/bin:"${PATH}" it gives me -bash: $: command not found
I have a number of Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra clients whose DHCP configurations give them the local IP address of a DD-WRT router with DNSMasq setup within my LAN. This is so I can use server.example.com and have it go to 192.168.1.3 and not our public IP address, and is far easier to manage than editing the hosts file of every mac, and also doesn't affect portable Macs when they need to connect to the same hostname from outside the building.
After my computer has been on for a day or two, AppleScript calls to tell application "System Events" starts failing with the following error: Restarting fixes whatever the underlying problem is, so presumably there is some way to simply restart whatever process is causing AppleScript to hang up. Does anyone know what process I can try restarting to fix this? Edit: Here's an example that will raise this error in Script Editor.app. I am on 10.12.5.
Apple Mail 10.3. I just downloaded Sierra 10.12.5 on my MacBook. I had to set up mail and it automatically started downloading a lot of email that I had already read. I opened the screen all the way blocking the body of the message so that all I could see was the email senders so I could easily delete all of the unwanted emails. So now my issue is for some reason I cannot move that curser back up to see the body of messages. It simply will not move.
My laptop was stolen from my house, and I used the lock feature on find my iPhone app. I received an email letting me know the day and time my laptop was locked and a sound was played, but I did not receive the last address that occurred in. Is it possible: To find the last address it was online? To find the last address it was online? For the thief to have unlocked my Mac and without me know and For the thief to have unlocked my Mac and without me know and If they do unlock it will I get a notification or will I notice on the Find My iPhone app? If they do unlock it will I get a notification or will I notice on the Find My iPhone app?
I would like to use Apple EarPods with a Nokia 130 (dumb phone). I only need sound and microphone to work. I don't expect the volume control to work, since I assume it's proprietary.
I don't recognize any of the addresses offered by Calendar.app, when I type "at home" in the location field. I'd like to be offered my own home address, but these look like they might be a data leak from somewhere...
When presented with the Insert dialog:  I have been unable to find any way to navigate the selections with just the keyboard. Is there any way to do this?
I'm trying to erase my hard drive by reformatting. I am following the steps here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
I'm trying to play anime with mpv. I have heard that it's the best player for anime. *=URL=* I go to the website and I see that there's homebrew.
I am somehow unable to restore my iMac from 2011. Someone gifted me the iMac but had his HDD removed. I thus reinstalled a new HDD. After the chime I press Option+Command+R and the network restore process starts.
If my ISP marks an email as spam, and moves it to the spam folder before the Mac OS X Mail.app sees it, Mail.app does not mark these emails as spam. This wouldn’t be too bad if there was a way for me to efficiently mark these as spam (so that I can review them just in case without triggering one-pix image trackers and the like), but there does not seem to be one: Keyboard shortcuts are a non-starter, as they require the message to be selected first. Right-clicking the emails one by one to mark them as spam (which requires going in a submenu each time) is tiresome. In Lion, I could select multiple of them (being careful never to select only one spam) and mass-mark as spam without viewing any of them, but that stopped working when Mail.app got the ability to show multiple message selections as a pile of messages. I can re-position the dividers or resize the window to hide the message view pane and mass-mark at that time, but that requires re-positioning them back manually each time, and 
I bought an iPhone 6 from an O2 shop thinking I could use it with a different carrier. But to my horror, I found it was actually locked to O2! How can I unlock it? My research so far:
I've got a Macbook pro running OSX 10.10.5, an iPhone 5s running 10.3.2 and an ipad mini 4 running 1.3.2. Ive noticed that notes that I make on my iPhone or iPad don't seem to be syncing with the notes app on my laptop. This happened around the time I upgraded my iOS on the phone from iOS 9 to iOS 10. I've checked and I'm still logged into my iCloud correctly on all devices. When I go to icloud.com I can see the notes there correctly also. Any ideas why the notes seem to have stopped syncing to my laptop and how to fix it?
I followed this question (How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick Using OS X 10.10.2) to turn the Ubuntu 14.04 ISO to a bootable USB. I have a MBP (with touchbar) running 10.12.5.
My Mac HD folder has a file in it called "model". It's a txt file and quite small. I don't recall seeing it here before. Does anyone know what it is or what file folder it belongs in?
Some of the older highlights in the sidebar are no longer displaying any text, as you can see in the screenshot below. What is going on here, and how can I fix it?
I followed the directions here for erasing my 500 GB SSD drive on a MacBook Pro: How to reinstall macOS
I have a WordPress website hosted on my MacBook at 192.168.1.8 but the connection from another PC on the same LAN doesn't work. Examples:
I have an iPad Air 16gb I bought off a popular classifieds website. It was advertised as WiFi only, and in the settings there is only WiFi. But when I look up the serial number on Apple's site, it says it's WiFi + Cellular. I've corroborated this on several other Apple serial lookup sites. Am I missing something? Is there something I have to activate to get the cellular settings to appear?
I am trying to dd an ISO to a USB so I can install Linux on another computer, but the USB changes from any partition table (GPM or MBR) to APM when it finishes. I'm using the following command: The command "diskutil list" successfully shows the usb is /dev/disk2 and Disk Utility shows the partition table before has changed to APM.
I need to set up environment variables for Pixar RenderMan Pro Server in macOS 10.13. Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra no longer recognize environment.plist located in a hidden .MacOSX directory: At the present time I'm using .bash_profile to set up environment variables: What else methods besides the described above allow Mac user to set up environment variables in macOS High Sierra?
I've noticed that iPhones sometimes don't show the battery usage by app in Settings > Battery. The iPhones are otherwise working perfectly fine. I'm seeing this happening in iPhone 6 and 5s at least. The iPhone has not been erased or restored yet it sometimes doesn't show this information sometimes. The next day you check and it shows the usage for the last seven days, then another moment it shows nothing. The iPhones have lots of free storage space. There're no panics reported in Settings > Privacy > analytic data. This happens regardless of having just restarted the iPhone or not. Why does the iPhone have these memory losses?
I have a rescued mid-2013 11 inch MacBook Air working great off external USB 3 hard drive but missing its internal SSD. They use a custom SSD, which seem to be expensive even used and aftermarket. Are any adaptors available to install a generic SSD? I Googled and thought I found that they do now exist, but then I realized the ones I found were the opposite, for using the SSDs from various MacBooks in other laptops etc.
I have a brand new hard drive with nothing on it. I also bought a brand new external hard drive to use with my MacBook Pro. I'm in the process of backing up to time machine and the encryption is taking forever. Why is it taking so long when there's nothing on my hard drive?
I produce a quarterly newsletter for an organisation I belong to. I have been using Pages '09 until recently, but now use Pages version 6.2. Once completed I Export as PDF for distribution.
I have an iMac here which does not wake from sleep when I press keyboard buttons or click the mouse button. Also while in sleep the iMac is not charging my iPhone via USB. So it seems that the USB ports are completely disabled.
I've just written up instructions for my Mum on how to use the AppleTV but I'm scared she's going to accidentally delete the contents of the note. Is it not possible to share a note "read only"? There's a label saying "People you invite can make changes" but there seems to be no way to edit the permissions before inviting. Maybe this is coming in iOS 11?
On July 2009, Apple discontinued Shake. No direct application's replacement was announced by Apple, but some features (stabilize and optical flow estimation, to name a few) are now available in Final Cut Pro X 10.4 and Motion 5.4 in 2018.
My iPhone 6 was stolen and I had only backed up to iTunes, not iCloud. But the company can only supply me with an iPhone 6s, which can't connect to be out of date iTunes (11.4) and OS X (10.7.5). This means I cannot reach the backup of my iPhone 6 within iTunes. Any suggestions for how to bypass this issue and reach the backup in order to recover my data?
Would it be possible to erase drive and then use Time Machine back-up to restore system WITHOUT installing OS first from another source? (I don't have El Capitan anywhere so if just Time Machine alone can't restore drive, then I'll ignore the tiny lagging)
A coworker has Apple in a mostly Windows environment, she sometimes receives email that has Icelandic letters in the subject and sometimes (not always) they get decoded wrongly. I have tried to fiddle around with fonts with no luck in that. I see from the mail headings that the mail gets sent using the ISO-8859-1 encoding but can't find a solution to the problem. Here are the headings from two mails, the former shows the Icelandic letter 'ð' as 'š' but the latter heading shows it correctly (note, this is only in the subject, the main text is fine). And the second one that shows it correctly.
So I have this issue where my iPhone picks up any incoming call automatically after about 1 second of ringing (96991-96994 in the log) (wrote about it on here), and in an attempt to debug it I am sifting through CoreTelephony. Anyone with experience of reading baseband logs is deeply appreciated to point out any anomalies in the dump. I've highlighted some significant events and cut repetitions for readability, and haven't noticed anything that might be causing this behavior so far. Supposedly the issue should pop up somewhere in the earlier mentioned period between DisplayOn and CallStatus=Conversation. Missing something or the issue is not here? Dropbox link to log
Is it possible to embed Unicode bidirectional characters, such as U+200F (Right-To-Left Mark, which, if inserted at the beginning of a paragraph, indicates that the paragraph should be right-aligned and flow from right to left) in a gedit document? The following method doesn't work. It assumes one of your input sources is U.S.. Add the Unicode Hex Input input source, if it's not yet available. Add the Unicode Hex Input input source, if it's not yet available. Open a new gedit document. Open a new gedit document. Choose Unicode Hex Input as the input source. Choose Unicode Hex Input as the input source. Holding down the option (=alt) key, type 200f, then release the option key. Holding down the option (=alt) key, type 200f, then release the option key. Choose U.S. as the input source. Choose U.S. as the input source.
Warning, a virus? I have made a search in Safari address bar. I put marqueting (marketing in catalan language) I have been redirected to a page that says: (Now I am in Spain and this is my translation of the message, as far as I know:)
Is there a way to disable mouse acceleration in certain apps? For instance disable in Team Fortress 2 but re-anable when the app doesn't have focus?
I've installed iOS 11 Public Beta on my iPhone 6 but it seems that I can't select the new HEIF format in Settings -> Camera. How can I check if I'm taking picture in JPG or HEIF? Or is it an iPhone 7 and above exclusive feature?
I had the Apple Helpdesk helping me to delete all the photos I had on my iPhone. I had to go to Settings and switch off the iCloud Photo Library and my Photo Stream. Well, I thought that would work but it only deleted 1/2 of the photos. I still have 17,111 photos on it. The question now is: how do I get the rest off? I tried to delete some, but then I get the notification that the photos will be deleted from all my devices. What to do?
My Father's iPod (classic) has all of his music arranged and named perfectly. However, his iTunes is not in sync with his iPod, as his computer hard drive was damaged, and all of his iTunes data lost. Because of this, we have not been able to back up the iPod, and if it is damaged, he will have to rename thousands of songs again. Is there a way to sync the music from his iPod to his iTunes, or any other possible way to backup the iPod data?
I use a mid-13 13-inches Retina MBP 256gb with macOS Sierra 10.12.2. I recently decided to securely erase free space using the following terminal command: After completing its task, I got 50GB of free space instead of the 80GB I had before the operation. Could it be a remaining temporary file used by secureErase?
What units does Finder use when listing an image's dimensions (e.g. 356 x 120 in the example below)?
This is probably a long shot but it would be really handy if there is a solution. I am logged in on a work computer I currently cannot access. I know the output of a long running job I previously started is on an iTerm2 window.
I've plugged it out and back in. It had trouble turning on for about 15 minutes after plugging in. Then it turned on and I didn't really pay attention as it turned on.
I have the 2015 MacBook Air running macOS Sierra with the Novation Nio 2|4 sound card. This card works perfectly on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (I also have the old white MacBook) and on Windows, but my MacBook Air doesn't see this card when I'm trying to plug it in. I have never used this card with this laptop. My cable is fine. USB interface works fine too (with USB sticks, for example). USB card is fine and works on other devices. I successfully disabled SIP. I installed the latest version of the driver from the official Novation site. I tried to using System Information to check the list of connected USB devices, and I didn't see the card there. Once I was able to turn my card on (accidentally), a couple minutes later it disappeared and didn't come back. What could the problem be?
I am trying to install linux on a 2007 MacBook (the white one). And everytime I try to boot from a usb or a cd I get a black screen and there is a white horizontal line in the top left which is blinking like in a command prompt but I can't type or do anything there, it stays like that forever until I power it off. I installed rEFIT. I have a usb stick I made with etcher.io with 32bit ubuntu server 16.04 on it but when I try to boot that it says "no bootable medium found - insert disk and press any key" or something in that direction. Does anyone know how I can solve this problem and install any kind of linux on there?
I want to restore an old backup onto my iPhone. Will that delete the data currently on my iPhone, or does my data get added to what’s in the backup?
How do I download a .dmg file or Sierra (or any recent macOS)? I have one very broken MacBook pro, and I want to make a bootable usb drive to try and fix it. I have another, older, MacBook, which unfortunately does not support Sierra, but it is the only macOS that I can find in the app store. It won't let me download it, because it doesn't run on my MacBook. I want to either force the app store to let me download it (on my MacBook, even though it can't run it), or I want to download the file from somewhere else. Is there no way that I can just download Sierra on my Mac that does not support it?
Does anyone know a way to remove animation from Dwell Control?
I’m using iOS 11 public beta 1 and today I’ve noticed an alarm clock badge on the YouTube app. Now I’m wondering why it is there and what does it mean?
If I plug it into a charger though, it will boot into iOS and claim that it has 3% remaining and is charging. There are absolutely no problems with it (besides the weird battery meter).
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that I am wiping for a family member so that they can sell it. It was connected to care patient data at one point so I want to make sure it's good and clean before we sell it. So I booted under Disk Utility and wiped the "Internal Drive" by going to erase and setting the security options.
I've been trying to buy some dongles for my new MBP 2017, but as I've been reading lots of reviews and product descriptions, it seems like some dongles that work with MBP 2016 does not with the 2017 version. What's going on?
Using MBP (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), 2.8GHz Intel Core I7 16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB 1 TB Apple SSD Top shelf system. Running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
I want to copy some files of my old encrypted SSD with ubuntu. I installed ext4fuse and done sudo ext4fuse /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/Linux, although I don't know if it is the right partition number (where can I see them in Disk Utility?).
I have my HP Spectre X360 & a Macbook Pro The question about using HP Spectre's keyboard as an input device for the Macbook Pro. Is it possible? if yes how?
I left a family sharing group a few months ago, and promptly joined another. In that time I did not try to make any purchases, until today. When I tried to buy an in app purchase, I was redirected to where I had to enter the security code. However, it was the security code for the former family I left. How can I change this?
I have HomeKit and it’s stuck on the accept invite step for about 9 months. The sender has since removed my access but this remains. What are my options?
I want to buy the new macbook pro 13" without touchbar and be able to connect two 4k monitors AND the charger. But this macbook only has 2 ports.
A few months ago, my laptop started playing a strange sound alert, but it's not from anything I recognise. There is no visual clue as to what it's related to. Just the sound plays, most commonly when I've just woken my laptop back up from having the lid closed, but also at other random times if I've been working on my laptop for a while. I'm worried it's some sort of monitoring or capturing app, but it perhaps wouldn't make sense for this type of program to have a sound alert. I just want to be able to stop it. I've gone into Activity Monitor, but can't seem to trace it from there. I've uploaded the sound file here if anybody recognises it: http://www.occupied.com.au/weirdsound.aif
What are the potential dangers to be wary of when changing the root drives read/write permission? Specifically, granting "everyone" read/write access?
UPDATE My attempt to copy failed after about 30% of the disk was copied. I attempted to use rsync but while this appeared to run could not create any new files Operation not permitted (1). Even though I had used sudo I probably should have used a root terminal. Ultimately this too failed, due to lack of resources.
Problem: I can no longer boot Boot Camp partition (BCP) running Windows 10 Pro 1703. I am also unable to start Parallels 12.2.0 Virtual Machine based on the same BCP macOS side. Problem occurred suddenly without warning. I cannot isolate any action from user side that could have led to this situation. I did not try to resize partition. I would like to boot from internal BCP as I was able to a few hours ago if possible. I do have a backup saved disc image (WinClone 6) from a few weeks back and a backup I made after the issue began. I would like to avoid a solution where I have to clone BCP to external SSD and transfer it back to notebook. Mac Notebook Specs:
So I had python 3.5 installed on my MacOS Sierra and got jupyter notebook installed via pip3 and run properly. Recently, I updated to python 3.6 and whenever I tried to run jupyter notebook and start a new notebook, the Kernel Error was happened with the following message:
I created a document in the web version of Pages and shared it publicly, allowing anyone with the link to read. I tried on other browsers and it works!
How to mount ext4 encrypted partition on macOS? The disk is encrypted by the default Ubuntu encryption sw. The first partition disk3s1 (GRUB) works with ext4fuse, but the fifth (there are only these two, done ls /dev) is apparently somehow normally inaccessible.
I've had a bluetooth keyboard connected to my phone at work just to see if it'd would. This was a Bluetooth Mac Keyboard. I've unpaired/disconnected the keyboard and clicked Forget this device. However, everytime my phone connects to my cars bluetooth for audio, the keyboard won't show up. I believe it somehow thinks it might be that keyboard....? I can restart it (and connect it to the car) real quick and it'll work but having to restart your phone everytime you get in the car is kind of annoying.
I can't find anything about encryption on Apple's sites, but are password-protected notes using E2E encryption?
I'm on my sixth Mac since purchasing my first in 2006. I've used Migration Assistant on every upgrade. In between upgrades, I've installed and removed lots of programs, changed lots settings, added and removed stuff all over the file structure while programming and on other spelunking excursions. My Mac still runs fine, but I suspect it may be a little disheveled. What's the best practice with Migration Assistance in cases like this?
I took a backup of my data on my iPhone 6s and then restored it on an iPhone 7. Now there is another SIM in the 6s, but all messages coming in on the 6s are also coming on the 7.
I keep getting reminders to subscribe to the iCloud service, but read my words: I do not want iCloud! Is it possible to deactivate these annoying reminders? (I'm on Mac OS El Capitan 10.11.6).
I'm not really sure how to address such problem, but it seems that right after I've pulled some major update to my project from remote git repository, Sublime was asking to reload the project, and got stuck in this stage forever.. I've tried to debug the problem from xcode (without sublime source code of course), and it looks like all thread are waiting for something which is a typical deadlock scenario (see snapshot). the real issue here is that the problem is persistent (restart the application wouldn't help).. so perhaps there's a way to remove sublime cache somehow in order to trigger reload project from scratch. here's the window from which the application was stuck : and here's the thread state of the application (notice all thread are either waiting for something or stuck in mach msg trap).
I use Apple Mail since 2004, am now on macOS Sierra (10.12.5), iMac Late 2015, Mail Version 10.3. About two weeks ago I noticed my mail signatures were no longer available. Later I saw my mail rules had gone too, filter settings like "all IEEE news to the newspaper folder" was no longer there.
I have a problem that has been driving me nuts for a long time already. Whenever I turn FaceTime on, the phone cannot recognize the correct number that is on the SIM card(number just does not appear, though it appears under My Number in Contacts. It takes the old number from somewhere that was used with this Apple ID last time.
I tested this solution on an Ubuntu machine and it works. Now I'd like to replicate this on a Mac but I can't seem to find any information on how to do this.
I was updating my iPhone and I accidentally pressed the home and lock button together thus interrupting the update. It has directed me to a link where I was instructed to connect the iPhone to iTunes and download the update. (I clicked update; not restore, of course.) My question is will there be any harm to my data?
When initiating run by NRC+ app in Apple Watch, all details related to the running (pace, distance, heart rate) are stored in Apple Health. How these data made available to NRC+ app in iPhone? Whether NRC+ app reads the data from Health kit and updates its NRC+ app? The run information is not syncing properly with NRC+ app (few run is synced, lot of runs are not synced), but I can see the data in Health kit properly.
macOS's default terminal shows the current directory as an icon in the titlebar (called a proxy icon). I can use it to navigate up, or drag the icon to another window to insert the path. Is there a way to get this icon with iTerm2? I tried to use various escape sequences, but the best I could to is to get the title set to the current path, but no icon.
I don't use key-chain, but it keeps on popping up asking for a password. At this point I have to use a network password from a year ago in order to get rid of the box that won't go away until I enter a password. How do I stop it, I can't seem to find an 'off' switch or an 'uninstall' option.
I like to connect my iPad (3rd Gen; Wi-Fi + Cellular) to iTunes in my macOS (10.12.5) using the USB cable. This fails but the funny thing is that it works fine when I enable the USB connection to be forwarded to my Windows 10 running on the same machine under VMWare Fusion (8.5.8). This rules out any hardware problem I think. It syncs and backups fine under VMWare.
While typing Korean, occasionally the characters do not render correctly. What should appear as: 안녕, will parse as ㅇㅏㄴ ㄴㅕㅇ. This bug happens especially as I switch focus between applications and try to type Korean in both. However, this bug also happens when I switch from English to Korean and back sometimes.
Winterboard is an app/tweak for jailbroken iDevices which allows theming of GUI elements by non-destructively replacing files for application. For example, it could allow you to replace the SpringBoard icon for an application on standard @2x retina displays if you create your own AppIcon@2x.png and place it in a folder called the bundle identifier of the application you want to theme in /Library/Themes/. Unlike replacing AppIcon@2x.png itself, this has the advantage of staying across app updates as the actual files aren't modified.
Trying to find the best app to use on old (unused) iPhone as a security camera. Minimal requirements: Motion triggered recording Cloud storage or some personal NAS Best so far I've tried: manything... manything.com Presence www.presencepro.com AtHome Camera www.ichano.com None of them are perfect, so I was wondering if someone knows/uses some great app that I haven't found yet?
I am unable to proceed beyond the initial screens of Boot Camp in order to install Windows 10. I am told the: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Upon checking I only have a single partition, my OS X partition, as per the screenshot below.
I have used gnuradio companion in Linus. I am trying to migrate to macOS Sierra. I used Macports to install and it completed without error. How do I run gnuradio now? When I type "gnuradio-companion" in /opt/local/bin I get the following errors: (process:37834): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' (process:37834): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
I have read here that you can simply copy/paste pages between documents. When I highlight a page, there is no option to copy and nothing happens (except the typical warning sound) when I hit cmd-c. Drag and drop doesn't work either. I have the newest OSX and pages versions. Is there any solution?
I would like to disable hotspot as a dropdown option under WiFi settings. I manage multiple Macs in profile manager and they are set to connect to a our WiFi which is locked down. Users have been able to bypass our network by tethering the Mac to their phones effectively bypassing our firewalls. This is not good seeing as we are a school. It looks like a massive omission on Apple's part - not allowing one to disable the ability for users to tether the Mac to any phone.
I have seen this issue discussed for previous macOS iterations, but there never seems to be a solution. I have yet to find much discussion for Sierra and I am getting quite frustrated. I run a digitization lab (we work with archival materials) and our workstations are all Macs.
So I had a problem few days ago. My MacBook was freezing all the time without any obvious reason. Googled for some time and figured out that HD cable was acting funny. So I bought a new one, but my new one came with no brackets. Tried to replace it and broke this little cable
I'm running Sierra (10.12.5) and I've been using the text-to-speech feature to read news articles. The system stumbled over the phrase "defeat ISIS" today, saying DEH-feh-CHURring EYE-sis. The system can pronounce "defeat" and "ISIS" correctly as separate words, but if I put them together, "defeat" gets the incorrect pronunciation. While probing this oddity further I've discovered that: Of the English speaking voices, only the Samantha voice has this flaw.
I want to delete some iBooks from purchased off my iBooks app, but the previous solution of hovering above it and an "x" appearing over it isn't working. I have an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.3.2
My wireless keyboard keeps losing connectivity for a few seconds but then connects back fine. This happens sporadically so I can't figure out if something particular is causing this. This will happen several times in a row over a short period before connecting and staying connected for several days. My wireless mouse never loses connection. My wireless keyboard is located right in front and slightly below my iMac. I'm running Sierra with the Apple wireless keyboard. Keyboard has new batteries and shows 70% charged.
Is there a dictionary I can download that has the symbols used in Microsoft Word for Mac? For example the Paragraph formatting mark that looks like a backwards P, or the icons used in the ribbon? I would use a combination on the keyboard to get the image.
I have a new imac with the Radeon 580 Pro. I'm getting this error message when trying to play games in bootcamp.
My MacBook charger is supposed to pass 60 watts power, but it's passing only around 12 watts. Also, the green LED just blinks randomly. Should I get a new charger or something can be done to existing one?
My Mac can recognize the signal, and I tap on the specific network from the list of networks available on the menu bar. However, it hangs out for a while and shows "cannot connect to the network" error or just switches to the successful connection icon but nonetheless you can't (this is the most likely case).
I'm requesting "advanced" troubleshooting tips/advice/procedure from those with the skill set and RCA know-how for repairing a BCP partition. I'm not sure Apple Support would be able to help. In low spirits with high hopes, I made an appointment with my local Genius Bar tomorrow. Really I'd appreciate any help here. TIA. You can read more about my specific circumstances here: "The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk" error in bootcamp macOS Sierra Others have experienced similar/identical boot camp issues in macOS Sierra: https://discussions.apple.com/message/30890339#30890339
I have a foldername with a space between the name: /Volumes/Img/Horos Data/DATABASE/ I need to put it in a variable to use in a script. In terminal I can use \ to use the folder: cd /Volumes/Dados/Horos\ Data/DATABASE/, but it doesn't work when I put in a variable like: How can I put it in a variable?
We have a networked NAS that is accessed by several computers via AFP. I want to know if it is possible to sync the Finder Comments across computers. The Finder Tags sync fine but the Comments, for some reason, do not.
I have a 2015 MacBook Air. It's still in warranty. Around 45 days ago, I put my Mac on sleep and when I tried waking it up, it wouldn't wake up. I tried many things including long-press-power-button and resetting the SMC but nothing worked. I contacted Apple Support on Twitter and after some basic troubleshooting, they asked me to take my MacBook to an Apple Service Centre. But then in 4-5 hours, it automagically started working.
I have a list of filnames like this: How to best find them all by single query in Spotlight, Terminal, mdfind or locate?
For various reasons that aren't important, whenever my MacBook reboots, Safari extensions are disabled. I can manually go into the Develop menu, and uncheck Disable Extensions, and that work just fine, but its annoying and an extra step that I have to remember. I wrote a simple script that checks the output of defaults read com.apple.Safari ExtensionsEnabled and if it is 0, runs defaults write com.apple.safari ExtensionsEnabled 1
MBP 2017 with touchbar. Brand new macbook, I upgraded to High Sierra and decided to try to reinstall macOS. Now as soon as you touch the power button, it boots to this screen with fans at maximum:
I have recently been having an issue moving a backup of an iPhone to a new iPhone. After many hours spent with Apple Support I've determined it's a lost cause, but I have the backup and am able to view the files in the backup, including my pictures. I was wondering if anyone knew how to sort these files using Automator so I can have all the pictures in one folder. I I have tried using the "Kind is image" filter, but that will only work if the extension is an image extension, and since none of the files have any extension this will not work.
So I mistakenly deleted the file /var/log/apache2/error_log. I recreated the file again via Terminal. However, I'm now getting a lot of 500 internal errors, but none are getting written on the error_log? What maybe the reason behind it. ls -la /private/var/log/apache2/error_log
We have 10 macs each with its own installation of Xcode on it. This consumes a lot of disk space. Is there a way to install Xcode on a common sever and have other 10 Macs use it?
So PayPal has the Siri control support according to the (German) AppStore. If my Siri language is on English it works (but I have to correct the text all the time because my English is to bad for Siri). In my native language however (German) it just says that PayPal doesn't support Siri control.
I want the option to "send as sms when imessage is unavailable" to turn off. But if it's on, does that mean it sends as SMS when imessage is unavailable on MY end (the sending end), the receiving end, or both? Example: while I had this option on, if I texted a friend whose phone was on airplane mode or off, it would go through as sms and not imessage. With this option off, if I imessage someone and their phone is on airplane mode/off, would it send as SMS because imessage is available on my end? Or keep it as an undelivered imessage because imessage is unavailable on their end??
I'm looking to script a temporary DNS server change to override the DHCP response I get from the network. I've figured out I can use networksetup but once we're done testing. Before I push to production, I figure I should know how to undo this. How can I script to clear these changes and restore the settings the network provides now as if I never ran the following script? It's not feasible to save any the previous settings and I'm looking to remove the setting so that the actual new values can be retrieved from the network as opposed to saving what the settings were previously so I don't save an old value that is no longer correct. Basically, I'm looking to ipconfig /renew on macOS.
I have got a problem with XQuartz. We are running a server on which we installed an application which runs via Wine. If I start the application via Linux it works perfect.
It’s easy to put app to the side in iOS 11, but how to un-pin it back? It always opens in this mini view.
I've been doing research into what solutions are out there for using iOS Safari browsers in terms of offline capabilities with web apps. Many articles and sources I've come across don't seem to mention much in terms of offline support apart from AppCache which is now deprecated. I'm wondering if there are any solutions out there for iOS Safari offline support apart from AppCache?
I just bought a new Mac. I want to transfer everything in my Mail install from my previous Mac to this new one. This includes all of the folders that I created "on my Mac"—meaning the contents are stored on the hard drive rather than on the IMAP server. I've tried copying everything from the ~/Library/Mail/ folder as well as the Mail-related items in ~/Library/Preferences/, but when I launch Mail on the new Mac those 'local' folders aren't there. I suppose I could manually export them from the old Mac and import them to the new Mac, but that seems incredibly laborious and unnecessary.
I have apple music on android. A friend shared an apple music playlist link to me over snapchat and when I click it, I get sent to the google playstore even though I have it installed.
Ok, so I received a call today from a friend whose wife's phone was in activation lock, so it was unusable. Unfortunately, she had also recently turned on Two-factor authentication, so we could not even use the AppleID website to reset the password. I was reluctant to tell them to go into Account Recover, because they really need access to their AppleID info (contacts, notes, files, etc.) in less than "a few days". At this point, is Account Recovery the only solution, or is there a way to register another number to receive the Two-Factor Authentication verification code?
I have a web server running on my (Linux Mint 18) PC listening on port 5000. With an Android device I can access this web server over USB from the device by running: After which I can browse to *=URL=* on the Android device and see the web server on the PC.
On the Lock Screen, Proactive Siri can suggest apps. If my iPhone detects I'm in the car, it correctly shows a Maps icon in the lower left corner on the lock screen. Under iOS 9, you could swipe up to open that app.
I'm using Gmail for all my mails but I would like to have a complete copy on my desktop. On Windows I was using Thunderbird but on my MacBook I would like to be sure that Mail is downloading and keeping everything.
I have to connect to Cisco AnyConnect VPN from my Mac for work. Whenever I do, I lose the Internet. My routing table before connecting; My Routing table after connecting; So the default gateway changed from en0 to utun1 How can I configure my routing table so that I can use internet too while I am connected to the VPN?
Is there a workaround or solution for the fact that Apple have made text highlight colour, in e.g. TextEdit and Preview (pdf with text) different from the colour used to highlight items in e.g. Finder and Activity Monitor. The item selection colour is more saturated/muddier/darker. A striking example is the difference between my preferred lemon Stabilo yellow (chosen from the colour wheel) for text which Apple couples to a nasty muddy mustard colour for item selection. Amazingly few other complainants on net, but I have found one from 2002. I've sent feedback to Apple, but no change or response, including up until 10.13 High Sierra Beta. Are there workarounds or third-party apps to correct this unwanted colour disparity?
how can I separate these folders in macOS Sierra? About a week ago 'iCloud' and 'Desktop' folders were not in my favorites, but I was able to move them down. Yesterday I ran out of iCloud in my macbook and disappeared from that location. Do I get separated?
Lets say I install a app on my phone which runs in the background, now every time I open Siri and start with the word "BOX" as a example "box whatever" it will open a specfic website (like www.box.com) and use the words after box as a specific search query something like (www.box.com/search/whatever). Essentially can a iOS app add functionality to Siri to redirect specific commands to the app which then builds a URL (or whatever it needs to do)?
I've got several computers that I manage using Apple Remote Desktop. Sometimes I have issues connecting with some of them. I've noticed this most often happens when their computer icon is light purple (greyed out) as opposed to dark purple. Any ideas what this light purple means?
While trying to get a few things automated for iPhone setup with Apple Configurator 2 I wanted to get rid of the language and region selection screen. The help states that those settings will then default to the settings of the Mac used to prepare the device:
If my app is live and users are facing a critical issue, can I upload another build and ask Apple to make it live within a day or two?
I just want to know the process from TestFlight to the App Store like Once my app is visible in the TestFlight of iTunes Connect: When and how will it be moved to the App Store for being LIVE? Apps, once uploaded, are automatically visible in the TestFlight app, when will this be removed: after 180 days, or 90 days, or when the app is live?
When I'm trying to run terminal commands in recovery mode on my MacBook Pro, most commands just won't work even if I'm root (the last character of the default(PS1) prompt is a '#'). So why is this and can I fix it?
I am unable to submit an iOS app to the App Store. It throws me Archive Upload Failed due to error -22421 I am stuck with this issue since a week now. Any help is appreciated.
I brought an iPhone 6 from Malaysia. One of my friends claim that Malaysia has lame quality and also a material difference. So people like to order only from Europe, because they have best quality, like Germany. He also claim that Germany has the best material. Is it? If so, what is the quality and material difference?
I use the Preview app (within macOS) and I'd love to add a traditional stamp to some documents. I note that under Tools > Annotate > Signature > Manage Signatures... I can use either the trackpad or camera to add signatures. Is there a way to import pictures (or even better, vectors) to my signatures without using the trackpad/camera?
I want to remote access my MacBook Pro running Sierra from my Windows 10 PC. I followed these steps from the Apple site but it does not work. I tried RealVNC and the VNC app for the Chrome browser, but I get a connection timeout error on both applications. Both computers are on the same network and I have tried providing port 5900 with no success. Any idea?
I get the following error when starting from Terminal: And when I run vagrant I get: I couldn't found any info about these errors anywhere. Please help.
Few months ago, I was trying to download pygame on mac. It was very difficult but I finally did it through terminal using bash. But after the download, I think there was some change on default path on my Mac's terminal. I searched many solutions through this site, but I can't solve the problem and I think those solutions are not really fit to my problem. When I open terminal, I can see this kind of message and i remember that i couldn't find the first line when i first use terminal. and on that state, i cannot use command line like ls, cd .. etc I can use only pwd as i know, and everytime when I want to use ls or cd, i have to export new path by entering this kind of command line, This leads me to use every command line, but everytime when i close and re-open the terminal, i have to set path. If I echo $PATH , my path is I think i download one or two additional Python versions on my Mac. So is it possible to set default path ? Oh, and when I try to figure out by typing open ~/.bash_pro
I have an app with one In-App Purchase item. When looking at the Payments and Financial Reports the Estimated Amount Owed is > 300 DKK (I'm from Denmark).
Recently I did a clean install of Sierra and I deleted a text file which is under 3MB.I scanned the disk immediately using data recovery software and I was surprised not to find the file there.Is this completely normal or not. Before I did a clean install I did the same thing but the file was still there.
Fix CyberGhost Mac: I am trying to install CyberGhost 5.0.15.3. When first running the application it asks for my password to install a new helper tool, than again, to make changes, and again for another helper tool. After entering the password the 3rd time, I get the error Helper Tool Installation failed!, CyberGhost installation failed.. When executing the exec the terminal outputs the following:
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to close a window of an app, skipping the "Would you like to save" pester dialog, while leaving the app, itself, and other windows, still open. If there's no way to do that, is there a keyboard shortcut for hitting a certain button in a window/dialog? In Windows, this would typically be ALT+[first letter of the button text].
I have a photo taken with GPS locations which I can see in Photos (MacOS 10.12.5) with Cmd-I. I would like to either assign that location to a new contact, or simply just open it in the full maps application so I can do it from there. Given I cannot easily locate the original in the photos library, how can I do that?
I have installed 3 different versions of Xcode we use on a mac. Can I just copy the /Applications/xcode* directories that I created from the mac and put it on other 10 macs I have? I dont want to go through the hassle of downloading and installing it again. Has anyone done this successfully?
Basically if you use an iPhone or iPod touch, if you swipe down from your home screen, the home screen will fade, and a search bar appears on the top (for spotlight search, I guess). If Siri suggestion is on, you also see suggested apps there. I would like to disable the feature completely, so that swiping down from home screen does not trigger any action.
I've been trying to come to terms with how to set environment variables needed by launched applications in Sierra, but I'm puzzled. Following various bits of advice found online, I created a file ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist. It looks like this:
I am trying to figure out how to switch the band on my router, using an Apple Time Capsule, MacBook Pro 2017. Is this possible? I want to be on 2.4GHz. I have this new Amazon Wand and it will not set up on 5GHz. Can anyone help?
Every time I try to open my Mac, it doesn't approve my password the first time but approves it the second time. What is the reason?
I'm moving my user account $HOME to a different drive. The Apple-blessed procedure is outlined here.
I have an Airport Extreme and my connection to the internal drive has a path to either the Data or Data-1 folder. This changes often when I reconnect and causes problems for programs referring to the path. How can I troubleshoot this or configure things so the path remains static between connections?
I have an old broken HP laptop from which I want to take its RAM and put it in a MacBook 7,1 and the RAM meets the specification that OWC recommends.
I have an issue on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid 2010, macOS Sierra). Some applications won't open, or don't work as expected, and generally I see the spinning pinwheel and macOS is really slow. Also, often when I shut down I see a black screen, but not completely turned off, so I have to shut down by pressing the power button for 3-4 seconds. Sometimes applications like Google Chrome or Final Cut Pro don't work well, often freezing up or not opening. But all these issues disappear if I boot up in safe mode (applications work well, restarting and shutdown always work, no frozen apps, etc). I tried to: follow the guidelined to isolate the issue on this article: *=URL=* but I don't have any login items. create a new user profile, but the issue isn't fixed.
So I made a really stupid mistake and while trying to delete a gatekeeper rule from the command line I managed to delete all of them. Command I ran New Output of List
I've been trying to copy an archive volume from one network share to another. Because most of these files are Mac files, I am using Mac Terminal to do so. I've tried every combination of cp, rsync, and ditto that I could come up with.
Running Sierra (10.12.5) MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015)
So I am not sure if this is supposed to happen but applications in '/Applications/' do not appear to be checked by Gatekeeper (As I previously asked and self answered about having to 'reset gatekeeper to default') the many exceptions I had added for various applications are now gone. However applications I know are not signed are still allowed to run.
I installed gfortran v6.3.0 using installer, and needed to go back to 4.9.2. I removed gfortran using sudo rm -r /usr/local/gfortran /usr/local/bin/gfortran, but when I try to install v4.9.2 using a disk image, it says a newer version already exists. How do I resolve this issue?
My iCloud Photo Library has been in a not enabled status (as if I have never used a iOS 8 or later device). When viewed from icloud.com: it seems that feature is uninitialized, and console log gives me Photos: P2.Application: startupFail
The question is clear: How do I perform Xcode's commands for git pull and git push via terminal? Reason:
This blank notification banner appeared out of nowhere, at the top-right corner, and won't go away even if I restart/shutdown the MacBook, kill Dock, Finder or Notification Center. It won't appear if I boot in Safe Mode though. If I have two desktops open by using Spaces, only the first one will have this on, but if I close it, the banner will move to the second one.
I'm trying to be calm... and will try to explain this as best I can. I was trying to use the dd command to burn an iso image to a 16GB MicroSD for my RaspberryPi. I had my 2TB USB hard drive also connected on the other USB-C slot and by accident, I completely wrote over the 2TB drive of important files instead of the 16GB MicroSD! The command I executed was: sudo dd bs=4m if=PlexMediaPlayer-1.3.4.699-1d4f6da1.RPi2-arm.img of=/dev/disk2
Maybe I’m going crazy, but I'm sure that I could listen to music on my old iPhone 4 and set the Music app to play to a sleep timer. So, if I wanted, I could play music for 30 minutes when I went to bed and it would automatically stop playing after 30 minutes. I've now got a new iPhone and cannot for the life of me work out how to do this? Did I imagine being able to do this on my iPhone 4, or was I just using another music app to do it?
I try to 'inspect element' in chrome. The element has a JS trigger that hide the element when mouse out. When I try to 'right click' + 'inspect element' the element disappear and the inspector is showing the wrong element - the element that was covered by the actual element. The same procedure works in chrome+win10 How can I inspect the correct element on chrome+mac?
On my Mac, I use VMware Fusion created a VM, my Mac's ifconfig is like below: And in my VM, the ip a is like this : you see the eno16777736 ip is 192.168.1.25/24, is the same WLAN with my Mac's en0 interface. But in the VM, I can not ping the baidu's ip: How can I use the VM connect the network? My host's system is: macOS Sierra 10.12.2 My VM's system is: CentOS 7.2 EDIT I use the ip route show: EDIT -2 I use the traceroute command get the below information: EDIT -3 In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, there is only only one network interface, but in the upper you see I use ip a I have three:
Could anyone explain detection mode ids in MultitouchHID/backboardd? I understand that they span 0-255, however, I have been unable to find data on what specific numbers mean for each detection mode, and if they do mean anything at all, and don't just list touch events.
Whenever I start my MacBook (mid 2009, running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6), like any normal day, I click on my main account and log in. Today, when I tried typing in my password, it let me in as usual but I get nothing but a black screen with the spinning beachball cursor. However, I can log in to my other account perfectly fine.
I know the way to change association per extension (get info => open with => change all) but is there a way like in Windows to change association of all video extensions to be opened by VLC like this:
The voicemail on my iPhone used to work well, so basically if I click the voicemail button on the interface of Phoneapp, I would get a list of voicemail that I can choose from and listen to. But recently, I found that whenever I click the voicemail button, I was transferred to a call as shown below and it looks pretty much like a virus to me. Click the voicemail button on the lower right corner,
My iPhone 6 (iOS 10.3.2) recently started making faint random pinging sounds. This happens several times every few minutes and doesn't appear related to anything, as far as I can tell. I performed a hard restart but it had no effect. None of my notifications were set to sound only and the pinging sound is faint, having a volume lower than my notifications. Does anyone have a clue about why this is happening?
Can I change or hide the "Lost iPhone" message in MDM Lost Mode? EnableLostMode doesn't seem to give options for me to do that. Is there an alternative to EnableLostMode with which I can lock the iPhone using MDM and show a custom message?
I've got a new iPad Pro (10.5" screen), with the cover that has a built-in keyboard. When I'm using that keyboard to type into the Mail app (iOS 10.3.2), the editing cursor gradually moves down the screen as I type line after line, until it disappears below the taskbar (which covers the lower centimeter or so of the screen). I can tap the down-arrow on the right edge of the taskbar to make it disappear, but it reappears very soon when I begin typing again. It seems there should be some logic that keeps the active typing point above the taskbar, so I'm guessing this is a bug. The best workaround I've come up with is temporarily putting a whole lot of blank lines at the end of the message so that my typing area moves to the top of the screen, but that only delays the problem until typing reaches the bottom again.
For example this ticket, If I want to go browse VSGN-146, and previously I was working on VSGN-145 (known project), on Chrome I start typing "vsgn" and then I move to the end of the url and I can change the 5 for a 6. If I try to do that in safari, the end of the line is "... - JIRA"
Is it possible to create a series of iBooks from epubs not donwloaded from the iBooks store? For example, I have all the series of "Game of Thrones" in epub format (not purchased from the iBooks Store), but when I synchronise these books in iTunes to my iPhone or iPad, they appear in a different order and do not appear as a series (e.g. Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 etc).
Using this tip from basic Google Search I was able to move the Dock to the right side:  The Dock does show only on the right side now. However it also displays (auto-unhides) when the mouse/cursor travels to the bottom of the screen.
A few days ago a hacked version of a Google Chrome extension I use was distributed via Chrome's automatic extension updates. Is it possible to stop Google Chrome from automatically updating extensions? I've seen instructions on how to do block Google Chrome itself from updating, and how to block individual extensions from updating, but those were for Windows, not Mac OS X. I'm currently running Chrome 60.0.3112.50 beta, under OS 10.12.5. Thanks for any assistance.
Problem: I would like to attempt migration of a BCP WinClone 6 backup of an internal BCP on a USB-C MacBook Pro that will not boot from an external SSD drive as a troubleshooting step. I purchased the latest of Samsung's line of external SSD drives (T3) and formatted as documented below. However, the device Bytes/Sector (B/S) is different for USB-C MacBooks that are 4096 (4k) B/S. Apparently T3 is 512 B/S. How can I advance format T3 drive named "3571260102" so I can avoid the WinClone 6 warning below. WinClone 6.0.3 Pro warning:
I would like to use AppleScript to perform operations on a particular application only if that application has windows in the current Desktop. Is there any way to do that?
I have a macbook air running Mavericks, and I want to transfer files to and from an ipad. When I connect them via usb, the ipad does not appear in the filesystem anywhere, and I cannot mount it via Disk Utility either. Some things I have seen recommended elsewhere:
I've just installed Microsoft Office 2016 and I can't figure out how to create an unified Archive folder just like it does by default for Inbox, Sent items, etc. [ I'd like my Archive folder to display all elements from the Archive folders in both the iCloud and Exchange accounts, and if possible be displayed at the top just like the default folders are. (also if someone has a tip on how to change the display order so that the junk mail folder is right below the deleted items that would be awesome) Regards.
While trying to clear space from my MacBook Pro hard drive, I noticed a 12.4 GB discrepancy between the amount of free space shown in Storage Bar in About This Mac and the total sum inside my Macintosh HD using OmniDiskSweeper (or du -sh * in Terminal). I’ve managed to account for 9.1 GB of that by running ODS as the root user. Where could the remaining 3.3 GB be?
Does this option completely re-install iOS from somewhere within the iPad, or does it just erase the settings?
I symlink the Documents folder on two different folders to my Dropbox folder, which keeps them nice and synced between the two machines. I'd like to switch to Google Drive for various reasons. I found an article (Symlink Google Drive) that gives good instructions on how to sync folders to Google Drive using hard links, and this is working well. My Documents folder has been uploaded to my GDrive, and syncing is working between changes I make in Google and on my machine. Now my question is: how do I sync the Documents folder on my other machine? I add Google Drive, and just repeat the instructions to sync the Documents folder? My worry is that because the Documents folder will already exist inside the Google Drive directory this time, it won't produce the desired effect. (Haven't tried, for fear of messing something up.) Thanks!
I maintain my contact list on an iPad/iPhone and use iCloud's web interface on my desktop PC. I cannot find any way to copy any data that is also a link, such as a person's address or email, from the iCloud web interface. The usual Alt-hilight to bypass link-following does not highlight, and right-clicking does not provide any "copy" option. Is there a way to highlight and copy information from the iCloud web interface when that information is also a link?
I created a wineskin app for one of my windows games on steam (H1z1). I installed steam and downloaded the game on steam in the wineskin app but it crashes at launch in steam. I created the wineskin using PortingKit, it offered at the beginning to install Mono but it also said I should skip it so I did. Now that I'm troubleshooting i'd like to try with Mono in the wineskin, how can I add it at this point please ?
I'm a heavy terminal user, but I'd like to be edit commands like I would in any other mac app, e.g.: select a portion of a command with the mouse and press backspace to delete it use shift+up to select all of a command to the start use the mouse to click and place the cursor (not in conjunction with holding modifier keys) I've tried Preferences > Profiles > Keys > "Natural Text Editing" but it doesn't seem to work.
How can I mirror my iPhone SE to my iPad Pro under iOS 10? There is a web site that says this is supported via AirPlay but I cannot get the iPad to show up as a destination for my iPhone, I can only get Apple TVs to show up there. The official Apple support documentation I have found only talks about Apple TVs as being the destination for screen mirroring and does not mention mirroring an iPhone to an iPad.
On June 28, 2017, Apple announced that macOS High Sierra will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromise. How can I find out which apps on my Mac are 32-bit so that I can see if I need to upgrade them?
I know how to use etc/hosts to block something such as youtube.com However, I when I try to use etc/hosts to block something such as: youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
I'm trying to stream videos from my Mac with a high-quality HDMI cable to a 1080p HD TV via a Denon AV receiver. Here's the issue: When I hook up with my run-of-the-mill Windows laptop to my Denon AV receiver box, everything works perfectly.
After taking a short break, I came back to my system to find it was hung hard. I had to hold the power in and upon restart, discovered the following panic... yet unlike other panics I've seen and been able to diagnose properly, this is much more vague than usual. Any ideas here?:
I have been trying to migrate from an old Mac Pro with big internal disk to a new iMac with (small) internal SSD and big external Thunderbolt disk for a while and found no direct answer. I have a time machine backup on an external disk. My preferred solution would be to mount the external disk on /Users. Apple support (whom I chatted with) does not have an answer. How to go about this?
I am using macbook on battery and only recharge when I am around 5%. So macbook was not connected to the power all the time (in case someone may think that constant connection to the power could have damaged the battery).
to make matters worse I no longer have the recovery email account. I can't remember the security question answers. Is there anything I can do? I have this problem as just had to replace my iPhone.
Recovery Mode : I tried re-installing the OS but the volume is now unmounted so it doesn't show up as a possible option. Also, I found an article saying that booting problems could come from old extensions that no longer work after an update; the article described the terminal steps to take in order to move all non-Apple extensions to a folder on the volume and make it bootable again. However, same problem, the volume is unnamed and unmounted and it doesn't show up anywhere, nor can I "cd" into it.
I've had an iPhone 7 for nine months and it seems to regularly break my headphones. I'm now up to my fourth pair of headphones and all, including the ones that shipped with my iPhone (they did not require an adapter), are significantly more quiet on the right side, but not completely silent.
Is there a way to render Autodesk Maya 2017 animation via Compressor 4.3 using 10 iMacs? It was possible in previous versions of Compressor (version 2, version 3 and up to version 4.0.7) There were Qmaster and Qadministrator utilities. But I can't run Compressor 4.0.7 or those utilities on macOS 10.12.
I'm looking for a MacBook to develop iOS apps and I've found this mid 2009 17 inch MacBook Pro at a reasonable price. Does Xcode 9 run on it?
Is there a way to put images in cells in tables in Numbers iOS version 3.2? I've looked at the Apple help and it only shows help for on the Mac and putting an image for a cell background. I'm using an iPad Air 2.
I've been trying to install DB2 Express-C on my Mac (El Capitan) and I keep getting these errors when I run "sudo ./db2setup" in my db2 folder : These are just some of them, it's actually a lot of lines of errors; at the end there is also this: I've tried everything, I can't seem to understand what the problem is; I also tried other methods of installation, gui, non-gui, root, non-root, ... Can anyone help?
My JBL Flip 3 won't connect to my 13" MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.5. Here's what I do:
I'm a little new to Enterprise Mac management but have 10 years experience as a Mac tech. I am in charge of deployment of 3k + macs for a LARGE international corporation. We are using Casper Suite.
I've seen a lot of questions about adding a smart card login to a Mac, but my problem is the opposite. I have a company smart card that I use on my personal computer sometimes for checking webmail and such. However, at some point I must have done some Keychain stuff with it inserted into the USB reader, because ever since it requires me to insert the smart card and enter its pin in order to unlock my lock screen or to approve software installs and updates. Note: I can Switch Users and login normally to those accounts. I don't want to mess up my keychain, so I'm hoping someone can tell me what I need to do to bring things back to normal so I can manage my personal computer with just my personal credentials. This is on Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.5
I am using 10.12.5 and iTunes 12.6.1.27. Whenever I quit iTunes it will hesitate, the main window disappears but the menu bar remains, but the process keeps running and the icon in the dock shows it's still there. And a click on the icon and the window reappears. In Activity Monitor iTunes won't disappear, but it doesn't show any %CPU, then it almost immediately reappears. It will force quit.
I'd like to use Hazel (a rule-based file system automator) for macOS to automatically move mixtape audio files from one folder to another, if their duration is longer than 30 minutes. Hazel doesn't provide a built-in method of checking for audio file length (that I know of), but it provides the ability to run rules if an AppleScript condition is passed, i.e. return true. Judging from the screenshot below, I think it works if length of theFile > 30*60 seconds: return true (pseudo code).
I've been having trouble with my iPhone 6s Plus lately. I have no idea, but my apps are not downloading.
The required options for certupdate seem to have changed in macOS Sierra Server or before, and the manpages have not caught up yet. When trying: certupdate throws this error: If you just use certupdate by itself you get: which says that now -i and -I are required, though not mentioned in the manpages or anywhere online that I can find.
iPhone SE 64GB (49GB free) with iOS 10.3.2 When I tell the Podcast app to download an episode it goes through the motions, displaying the progress indicator. When the download is complete the "cloud" icon does not go away, and the podcast cannot be played except when connected to WiFi.
I've tried everything and can't seem to get my script to run at startup. Modifying the .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc that route got me no where. Then I tried cron jobs, no luck. Then I've been pulling my hair trying to use the launchd function. I've made a launch daemon, which is allegedly the root functions, but that's no luck either. As a last try, I even tried Automator with no luck. The file I want to run as root is: "/Users/CURRENT_USER/Dev/my_script.sh" Here is what I have in my LaunchDaemons folder:
I have a new Macbook Pro 2017 (No touch bar) that will not boot from an external USB-C SSD drive. I cloned a 2012 Macbook air using Carbon Copy Cloner onto the drive and I have confirmed that the drive will boot from the MB Air. The Air has the newest version of Sierra. (10.12.5) I have a 2016 Macbook Pro w/Touch bar and it will also boot to that machine. I have tried to bless the drive in recovery mode (That did not work) I would like to clone the Air -> new MB Pro 2017 For a long term solution, I would like to be able to make bootable backups of the new machine. EDIT: I was able to clone the new OS on the new Macbook 2017 and it will boot to that.
Most rsync client GUIs seem to concern themselves with either 'backup' or 'folder sync'. I am writing a rsync GUI which 'looks like FTP but goes like rsync' and I'd like to know if such a thing exists already.
The example is Pokemon Go: when it is running on the iPad Pro, almost everything is fine, except you cannot see part of the upper screen and part of the lower screen. As a result, in a gym battle, when your move is super effective or not very effective, the message at the top of the screen cannot be seen. And when you try to catch a Raid boss, the number of Premier balls remaining at the bottom of the screen cannot be seen either. (unlike iPhone). So can you force the app to run on the iPad Pro like it is an iPhone app (or use the iPhone's screen aspect ratio -- long screen size instead of 4:3)?
I just received a new MBP 2017 (14,3), which has only USB-C ports. I have a passive Lention USB hub, which allows me to plug in traditional USB devices e.g. a thumb drive.
If you copy and paste a link from Safari into the Notes app, it is pasted as text that is also hyperlinked. However, I haven't been able to find a way to do this in the Notes app directly. I've tried using markdown, for example: However, it only made the part in the parentheses www.google.com a hyperlink instead of just displaying Google and making this the active hyperlink. How can I hyperlink 'text' within a note in the macOS Notes app?
A the title suggests, I'd like to connect my macbooks together to easily transfer files and mirror displays when i need to.
Can the Macbook Air 13" Mid 2017 power 2 external displays at 2560 if the lid is closed? This is what it says on the Apple website, Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz on an external display, both at millions of colors. So this means it's possible to have the Macbook Air running it's own display with an external display.
Well, I recently hopped back onto my old PowerMac G4 with a corrupted copy of macOS Panther on it, and clean installed a copy of Tiger. As I just said my copy of Panther had been corrupted, and I hadn't been able to get any installers to boot for years, so I had forgotten what a pain the list view for folders was.
Well, as the title says when I try to empty the Trash in Tiger (10.4.11) it doesn't ask for confirmation before emptying. The option is enabled under the Finder preferences, yet it still doesn't. I've tried disabling and then re-enabling the option to see if it wasn't registered as checked, no change. I also tried unchecking it, to see if it was an aesthetic problem, but it still refused to confirm empties. I have ownership over the preferences file, and other preferences are effective, so I have no idea why this is occurring, but I'd rather not accidentally delete something I don't have a backup of, so if anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated.
When I use my iPhone to send a message under an email address rather than my phone number, where is that message recorded as sent? It does not show up in usage logs the way text messages do, nor under 'sent' in gmail, for example.
Does anyone know how to get Port Knocking work on macOS Sierra. I couldn't find any useful information after a search.
I have a Linux machine which I'd like to use as a NAS backup, so I'm following this blog post by Sam Hewitt. My MacBook's drives are not encrypted with FileVault, and I'm on El Capitan 10.11.5. I am wondering how encryption works when data is backed up to a NAS Time Machine backup. More specifically: If I select the "Encrypt Backups" options in Time Machine Prefs, will my backup be encrypted before being transferred over my network? Is the transfer protocol used by Time Machine secure? Will backups on my remote NAS always be encrypted, unreadable by anyone who can somehow access the machine?
My podcasts played fine two days ago, and sound works on other apps. My podcast episodes are fully downloaded. One I listened to two days ago and was halfway through when I paused it, but now it suddenly won't play sound anymore. It is actually playing as the seconds tick down There are no updates for the podcast app. Is this a virus?
I recently reset my Apple ID the other day, and ever since my Mac always prompts me with a notification to reset my password from my device. It was annoying me so I eventually re-reset my password just to get it to go away, but it's still showing up. Any ideas?
I had a custom port by using the "Port" line in /etc/sshd_config. After updating to Mac OS X 10.12.4 I found I could no longer connect on the custom port - instead it was listening on port 22. I found that my sshd_config had apparently been renamed to sshd_config~previous, so I moved it back to the correct spot and restarted sshd from the command line using sudo launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd; sudo launchctl start com.openssh.sshd. However, after the restart sshd was still listening on port 22. I then opened System Preferences and under sharing clicked on "Remote Login". Running `netstat -a -n" showed that port 22 was no longer being listened to. I then click on "Remote Login" to restart sshd, and then found sshd was still listening on port 22, not my custom port.
I am downloading two files from Internet. Their combined speed would be around 80Kbps, but the activity monitor shows a huge data transfer, more than 200Kbps. I already turned off auto-update. Below is the screenshot of downloading in the browser and the activity monitor:
I wonder what's the purpose of ~/Library/Containers? I know that under ~/Library/Preferences you can find user specific app and system configuration plists. But I can also find them in ~/Library/Containers. What kind of configuration is stored there?
I plan to buy the new 2017 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for the new semester. However, I'm trying to decide between upgrading the RAM or the CPU.
I know where Safari keeps cache information, but my computer froze, and I had to reboot it forcibly. Prior to the freeze, I was using Safari with private browsing enabled (i.e. I was using a private window). However, after the reboot Safari completely restored the previous session. I did not expect this as I had been using it in private mode.
How do I know whether my Mac has a SSD or HDD installed without having to literally open my Mac? PS. Is there anyway to know it from Disk Utility?
Ive got an issue on a mac mini running 10.10.5 where it will crash, the screens goes black and about 30 seconds later the screens wake up again, on the login page. I believe the issue is being caused by either Adobe Indesign or Adobe Photoshop. (As from what i can tell from past experiences with this happening these apps always seem to be used at the time when i have the issue) I was running the 2015 version of these softwares, but have since updated to 2017 (as part of the subscription service) as i thought this may resolve the issue, but i hasnt. I have taken notes of the time the issue occurred, is there somewhere i can look in the logs to see what might be causing it ?
How can I solve this GRUB issue!!!
I am not asking for how to do it. It's just that where I live (Zambia), there are often offers on iCloud unlocking floating around on buy&sell FB groups. I am however under the impression that it currently is impossible to iCloud unlock a locked device, as long as it is reasonably modern and has a reasonably up-to-date version of iOS. It is however difficult to find specific and reliable answers to this online, either that or I am asking the wrong way. Is a prerequisite for iCloud unlocking to be able to jailbreak a device? And if so, what is the status of the jailbreak scene?
I often use the Preview toolbar in order to add text on PDF files. This feature is very convenient but I realized that a lot of fonts are missing in the font menu of the tool bar. Investigating a bit, I figured out that the fonts missing are the one missing from the English smart collection of the Font Book (called "Français" in my case), in which I can't add new fonts.
Just copying the following file from one computer to another does not transfer my customized preferences for TextEdit
The partition I was using for Time Machine started generating error reports about not being writeable and now fails to mount. The partition is on a 3TB Seagate drive. First Aid fails to repair.
So I have various command line tools like node, stats, etc which help me with day to day tasks, however I've noticed they don't show up in storage manager under applications and am unsure if there's a way to list all of those tools and completely remove all the files of the ones I don't use any more. It'll show as extra system memory use. It's not a big deal however I don't want to waste space. Is there a tool to manage all of this?
Some years ago I bought the app "Infuse Pro 4" for iPad. Now it has a new version 5 and for some reason the 4 version is not available on the App Store anymore.
I did an ls in my home directory and along with my normal folders it listed a file called chaos_control. It does not show up in Finder even when I show hidden files.
I'm trying to export my calendar for use in Magic Mirror (*=URL=* but only one repeating entry is exported, even though I have many entries in my calendar. Is there a setting I'm missing?
This is probably overly obvious but I am stuck. How can I complete the last leg of this install? If someone can explain what I am being told in the error after "make install" it would be helpful.
Why is it that macOS Sierra, when something goes awry, sometimes has a kernel panic, but other times just freezes completely (can't move mouse, use keyboard, etc.)? Is one worse than the other?
The autocomplete for including works most of the time in c++ source files(.cpp). It looks like this: However, if I try to do the same in a c++ header file(.hpp), it doesn't work: Is there anyway that I can enable include suggestions in header files too?
So what does all this mean? Obviously the popup is fake, there is no Firewall on iOS, the IP address is wrong, etc.
Not many years ago, there was quite a difference between accounts from different countries when it came to apps and music available for purchase. Nowadays I don't really see that difference, so I wish to change my AppleId's nationality. Is that possible? Will my purchased apps and music be kept with the new nationality?
With the Bootcamp tools/drivers installed in Windows, you have the ability to set the startup disk from the Bootcamp app in your systray. If you don't have Bootcamp drivers installed though, is it possible to change the default boot disk via another approach? I have an unflashed PC graphics card in my Mac Pro, so holding Option to get the boot manager on startup is also not an option, because you can't see the boot screen on power on. Switching when booted in MacOS is easy via the Startup Disk in the System Prefs, but how can you switch back to MacOS from Windows without Bootcamp utils? This is on a 2008 Mac Pro, dual 2.8 Xeons.
The only function keys I use frequently are F1, F2, F3, F11 and F12 and they used to work properly until one of these days when F1, F2 and F3 stopped working all of a sudden. F11 and F12 (volume keys) are still working though. I went through many troubleshooting guides that suggested:
I have a late-2013 Retina Macbook Pro running Sierra 10.12.5 with a myriad of issues that I've been trying to work out. Today's problem: First Aid says there are problems with the partition map that might prevent booting, and to fix them, I need to run First Aid from Recovery. Easy enough.
My late wife had a HUGE collection of Vinyl and more than a few CDs. I had some of each myself.
I have a friend who forgot her Apple ID password, so I helped her with the forgot Apple ID steps. She already put her Apple ID into two-factor authentication, so after entering her Apple ID the Apple website sent a 6-digits verification number to her trusted number, which came in form of an SMS.
We got an office with primarily Macs on the network, with a Mac server for file sharing using Open Directory network user accounts. I wish to help one Windows user to access the Mac file server. I have created a user account for them, but Windows says invalid password when I try to map the network drive.
I have deleted my iTunes application (using a terminal command) several times already and it keeps popping back up. I have to delete it every time it downloads. Is there a way to stop iTunes from automatically downloading?
On my iPhone SE, some (but not all) of my recent photos will display their preview within the Photos app, but when I click on a photo it just shows a gray box. On some photos, a single line of pixels will appear on the top or the right side. The images that are affected by this are unable to be uploaded onto iCloud or onto an alternative cloud storage service, and cannot be sent to someone else via any method.
I am trying to cleanup/organize my applications folder which is difficult because I can't move most of the apps (Technically I can move them but a copy is locked in the same position). Is there any way to hide the .app files of apps I don't want to see or some way to force them to move so I can organize the Applications folder? Most of the methods I have seen involve deleting the apps but I do not want to do that. What are my options?
First time here. I am using the latest version of iTunes. I made a compilation of songs. I added them under a playlist called 997
I was writing a simple bash script for a small task. When I executed it using bash script.sh , it just prints curl -b cookie pi/monitoring/traffic-statistics. It's as if the file said echo curl -b cookie $URL and somehow URL got corrupt. When I type cat script.sh, instead of listing the file contents, it just displays a part of one line in the script. Note: I was editing the file in vim, and it was displaying it without any issue. Nano editor also showed the same content. But when it comes to bash, it messes up the order, either when executing the file or just dumping the contents. This is the hex dump. (xxd script.sh)
Whenever I am on my Bootcamp installation in Windows and restart to boot back into macOS the dock is no longer there. I can fix this by restarting in macOS. Is there any fix for this? Or does anybody know the reason for this behaviour. macOS Sierra Version 10.12.5 Windows 7 in Bootcamp iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
I have an external hard drive that Time Machine is backing up to. Now I have setup a Linux server with netatalk to create an AFP share. Is there a way to convert the external drive into the sparesebundle appropriate for a network share?
Normally, the procedure for resetting the SMC on a MacBook includes first removing the battery if it is removable. I often use my Mac without its battery to avoid overcharging during long periods of plugged-in use. Could I still reset the SMC by skipping the battery removal step and just unplugging the MagSafe adapter and holding the power button for 5 ~ 10 seconds?
I'm in situation where I should: replace server address replace username & password absolutely, ultimately preserve previous emails on POP accounts on iPhone email client.
I am trying to install Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro mid 2012 running macOS Sierra using a 64 GB thumbdrive, and everything runs smoothly — until I reach the part where it says saving Windows Support software. I've been stuck at this place for roughly 1-2 hours already, and I'm wondering: am I doing something wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is it possible to send my Mac mini (current version) back to Apple and get them fit more RAM into it? With the old models i could add RAM into them, but as I understand on the new current model Mac minis it's not user upgradeable.
I would like to have three screens connected to my Mac Mini, so far I have one screen connected via HDMI and one screen connected via thunderbolt. The only ports I have left are USB and firewire, would there be any way for me to connect a third monitor?
I own a late 2013 MBPr with a dedicated graphics card. The other day, I tried to access Apple Diagnostic Mode/Hardware Test (D key at startup), but without success. The laptop just booted normally. I have two partitions: one HFS+ running 10.12.6 beta 6 and the other APFS running 10.13 public beta 1.
But is it possible? On iDevice you can block websites via Restriction settings, but I don't like to set all of them on both iPhone and iPad, let alone MacBook.
My MBP doesn't detect the Apple display camera when it is plugged into the display, with the lid closed. I know the display works because a different MBP plugged into it has no problems AND my MBP can detect the camera when plugged into a different display.
Is it possible to show only specific hard drives on the desktop? I have a MacPro tower (3,1) with 3 drives. The boot drive is running El Cap, but there is a legacy boot drive that I would like to keep live, but mostly I don't want users to access it. Can I put the El Cap boot drive on the desktop somehow, but leave off the legacy drive? Does not seem possible in the GUI, or by directly writing to the com.apple.finder plist. Anyone have any tricks?
Mac: System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxies -> Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains: "captive.apple.com" Should this address be bypassed? My guess is that TunnelBear VPN may have put this there as they mess with proxy settings.
I have an iPod Nano 7th Generation and a MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.11.6 and iTunes 12.5.1.21. When I sync a smart playlist to the iPod, the play order is not preserved. Instead the playlist contents all appear shuffled.
My iPhone is in recovery mode and I want to recover some photos. Does anyone know if dr.fone works? I don't want to pay for something that doesn't do the job.
My MBA (OS 10.9.5) is showing messages of full disk. So I checked the big files in the system. However I don't want to mess with system files as I don't know anything about them. So asking the fellow gentlemen, if it is safe to delete any of the following files: snapshots.db 2.1 GB '/private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.database' swapfile1 1.1 GB '/private/var/vm/swapfile1' sleepimage 1.1 GB '/private/var/vm/sleepimage' general.svc 488 MB '/System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages/en_US.SpeechRecognition/Contents/Resources/lm/combined/general.svc' general.svc 488 MB '/System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages/en_US.SpeechRecognition/Contents/Resources/lm/combined/general.svc' dyld_shared_cache_x86_64 , dyld_shared_cache_i386 386 & 274 MB '/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64' dyld_shared_cache_x86_64 , dyld_shared_cache_i386 386 & 274 MB '/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64' safebrowsing.db '/private/var/folders/s2/_szqd
I am having trouble with installing apps from App Store, it pops up "this app requires iOS 6.0 and later".. I've been trying to upgrade the iPad to iOS 6.0 and it is saying iOS 5.01.is the latest version.. What to do?
I run itunes on Windows 10 and Apple Music on my iPhone and iPad. When I play a song on Apple Music, it rarely updates the playcounts and last played fields in iTunes. Seems to work a little better if i Bluetooth to my Naim hi-fi system. Can anyone help?
I have a situation where I'm using an app that calibrates my monitors. I have several monitors attached and when I go into System Preferences -> Displays, I unfortunately don't see any options on any of my monitors to toggle an Automatically adjust brightness setting as per the instructions:
Recently, partially due to my own stupidity, I clicked on a phishing email sent to me that looked like it came from Apple regarding my Apple ID having been used to log in to a device in some Eastern European country. Upon clicking on the link, it became obvious that I wasn't on apple.com and, on closer inspection, the "Apple" email address was from a non-apple.com domain. I thought to myself, if there was a way to disable these "Smart Addresses", I would have seen the crazy email address (a random collection of letters and numbers) and would have known it wasn't Apple immediately and would never have clicked on the link. I found this related Mail.app question from 2013 but there is no similar setting in the iOS version of Mail. I've looked on Google for a solution to this and, as of yet, all of the searches only return hits about Mail.app, not the iOS Mail app.
I deleted the macOS installer file and Xcode application but instead of freeing up my space it got added in this section with title System and its greyed out section so I am unable to access it. Is there any way I can free that space?
I am trying to open a relatively large XML file (50mb) but my Mac just won't open it: No errors though, just been waiting for almost 10 minutes but nothing happens. Tried using TextEditor, Xcode Any other suggestions?
I used to have an old Apple ID, and I have a specific paid app I purchased with that ID. I now have a new Apple ID, and I wanted to update the paid app from the old Apple ID with the new Apple ID. I am wondering if I deleted the app, would it show up as "purchased" on my new Apple ID?
Everyone else is worried about clearing all records, but I spent more than a year setting up all the tabs that I want open for my work. After an institutionally mandated "upgrade", numerous programs failed to function and I got remote help that resolved most of those problems. Unfortunately, the remote Tech closed and re-opened Safari without doing a "Restore Previous Session" and then closed it, again. Short of painstakingly pouring over thousands of websites that I have visited over the past 12 - 18 months, perhaps I can find where Safari stored "Restore Last Session" history file I need within Time Machine. Any suggestions? I looked in ~Library//Caches/Metadata/Safari and found thousands of websites, but no "Restore Last Session"
I have a folder which I wish to copy from my Macbook Air (OSX 10.10.5) onto a USB attached hard disk. When I try to copy the folder, some files are copied, then the copy aborts with the message: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “PT3 Summary and Comments SM358 TMA01.htm”. If I just copy that file alone, I am asked to enter my password, and then the file is copied successfully.
How do you determine what folder a note resides in, in the Notes app? I have about 20 folders and put 30 or so notes in many folders. All databases use to have some way to view a path.
I have a 64gb iPhone 6. I've been butting up to my local storage limit for a while now but yesterday all my photos disappeared and most of not all of the apps on the phone no longer open. I've deleted several very large apps, but every time I do the available storage only goes up temporarily before getting very low again. I've been able to open a couple apps now but still no photos (the app never even opens). I've tried syncing to computer but it doesn't recognize any photos on the device. This happened once this summer but only lasted for a few hours. This is well past the 24 hour mark. I would prefer to back up the photos before going the nuclear option of restoring it. Any ideas of what I could try would be appreciated?
I like to use the "love" feature on iTunes to keep track of my favorite tracks (which is useful when you have +33,000 songs) but this is the third time that they've just disappeared... POOF. Gone. I can't seem to replicate the bug either.
What I want: A one-click action in the dock or launchpad that opens the downloads folder in a new finder window. Note: the Downloads "fan" thing that is in the left side area of the dock is not what I want. When I click that it opens a weird list / grid / fan thing of the stuff in my downloads folder, and then I have to click some more to actually open a finder window. Nope. I want a one click icon in the dock or launchpad. Additionally: the icon needs to be the Downloads folder icon, if at all possible.
Is always keeping 'low powered mode' on iPhone SE, running iOS 10.2.1 , good for battery health?
I have an iPhone 7 with Lightning headphones. I got a connecting adapter to use 3.5mm compatible headphones on an iPhone 7. But, is it possible to use these Lightning headphones on the 3.5mm jack of my Dell laptop? I tried Googling and haven't found any converter/adapter.
I've got a little problem with my text messages; here's the background... I had texted the family the night before but woke up with my phone dead. Once I had charged the phone to the point where it was able to turn on again, I saw various notifications which I had received whilst the phone had been dead. One of these notifications was a reply from the relative I had texted the night before, and although it only displayed their number (due to start up, contact names are not shown yet) I knew it was them. I could also see the preview of the message.
Alfresco contains a WebDAV server that can be accessed via two URLs: RFC-compliant WebDAV: dav://server/alfresco/webdav Microsoft-compliant WebDAV: dav://server/alfresco/aos The Alfresco documentation says: Microsoft WebDAV extensions (MS-DAVEXT) are only partially compatible with the WebDAV standard, therefore it is recommended that you use /alfresco/aos on Windows clients and /alfresco/webdav on Linux-based systems. Question: Which one should Mac users prefer? My main requirement is reliability, but if Mac can flawlessly use extensions I would be interested as well.
I've been getting GPU restarts and even some kernel panics multiple times a day on my Early 2015 13-inch retina MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.6 beta. The crashes tend to happen when I'm working in Unity (the game engine) and visual studio (for mac), but a reinstall for both of them did not fix the problem. After many google searches I can't find others using Unity that have this problem, so I don't believe Unity is the root of the problem.
I have Apple Mail version 9.2, but I would like to have the version 10.3. However, I don't want to download the 10.12 mac OS (Sierra) if I don't have too. I currently have mac OS 10.11.3 (El Capitan). There is a discussion here involving a much older OS (tiger) in 2010: *=URL=* I can't find many other resources discussing upgrading mail.
In the past week or so Apple's language translation widget (which uses SYSTRAN for translation) has stopped working, and in searching for a replacement widget I noticed that a lot of former widget developers have now abandoned support for their widgets, citing Apple's lack of support for Dashboard itself. Are there any announcements or plans by Apple regarding the future of Dashboard?
I'd like to keep same view on Xcode Navigator on every tab. On default setup, when I change tab, Navigator changes corresponding to that tab and shows different Navigator view.
I have recently changed the speakers of my 13" retina MacBook Pro(Mid 2014, MacOS Sierra) and after few days my Macbook crashed while scanning a document using an HP printer which was connected via USB cable. It was not responding to the power button. I went to apple service center, there they removed the connection of battery from the motherboard. Afer that MacBook started responding to the power button. But it is not working as it used to. It is repeatedly restarting without any warning and display is flickering.
Since this morning, I've been trying to download the new Xcode 9 beta 3 from the Apple Developer portal. When I click the "Download" button, I am seeing a security warning saying the site identity could not be verified due to non matching host name in the certificate (the exact phrase is different across browsers). Viewing the certificate details shows that the CN is "a248.e.akamai.net". It looks like a misconfiguration in Apple's server. Is anyone else seeing this on Apple Developer portal today? Can I trust the download anyway (since I was redirected from a trusted page, and since Xcode is verified again when installed on the mac)?
I just bought a new MacBook Pro 2017 (no TouchBar) a month ago. I have run a speed test with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test application. The result is in image below.
I got a MacBook Pro 13 inch, mid 2012 version. I would like to know if Apple does discontinue support (e.g. OS updates) for devices and if so, how I can find out what the max is going to be for my laptop. I found the following: *=URL=* Does this mean that devices will be supported until they have been out of production for 5+ years?
I try to open com.apple.finder.plist in Xcode, but it says I do not have permissions to view the file (I was able to before). Shortly after, I am able to open it, but the file is empty. The attributes are slowly regenerating.
imac 2011 10.10.5 Safari had homepage hijacked and I can't change it back to google.com. When I go to Safari preferences and try and change, it just immediately goes to www.rack-search.com/.... I tried deleting all the com.apple.safari.plists in library. Can you help?
How permanent is the GPU defect in 2011-2013 MacBook Pros? Suppose one tests a used Macbook Pro by running a few random programs for ten minutes. Is it possible that the seller would have experienced the problem and not have declared it, and that the buyer would see no symptom, perhaps until the machine gets really warm? The problem is supposedly a heat dissipation problem. Could it be latent—in the sense that it would appear and disappear—or does it become always visible once it manifests?
I enabled WiFi hotspot on my iPhone. I am only able to connect to it from my MAC only if iPhone screen is on. Some days ago I shared wifi on my iPhone to another iPhone and I was able to connect to the hotspot even with disabled screen on phone with hotspot. How I can "just open macbook and join hotspot, event when my iPhone is locked and it is in my bag"?
I'm trying to enable the Sunset to Sunrise option for Nightshift. When I do so, a pop-up informs me that it "requires location for time zone to be enabled," and offers a button to send me to the appropriate privacy settings page. Here's a screenshot of the pop-up.
I was changing some settings when I came across the user id in the accounts section. For some inexplicable reason I thought it meant my network User ID, ie what I would identify to a router with. No idea why I thought this. Anyway.
I have an iPhone with iOS 6.0.1. I need to update it to iOS 8 or later. I also have a MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra v 10.12.5. Problem
How do temporarily disable app badge alerts (the red dot in the corner of the icon)? I don't want to have to manually disable/enable this every time I enter DND mode, which does not seem to disable these alerts.
If we format and re-install OSX through Recovery Mode, will it download and install the latest version of OSX or use the existing version? I'm asking this because I noticed that it is downloading some files during the re-installation.
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2012. Charges fine. But while using it with AC power adapter, and connected to an external monitor, the AC power randomly cuts out (stops charging, cord light goes out, monitor shuts off) and starts running off of the battery. Then just as suddenly AC power turns back on. 10 minutes later, an hour later, the AC turns off again. Tried PRAM, SMC reset, Used different power adapters. Any thoughts out there about why? and cure? Many thanks in advance.//jasko
I have a USB flash drive which seems to be very corrupted. I didn't have any important files on it so I'm not trying to recover files, I just want to get the drive working again. First, whenever I insert the drive, I get this window. I press initialize... and I go into Disk Utility. However, Disk Utility says the USB drive is still unmounted. As you can see I cannot press mount at all. Erasing gives me this error.
After removing my Windows 10 partition via Boot Camp Assistant, I am not able to login into macOS anymore after I restart. After entering my password it will just hang for a while then should be the "Apple Logo" (the start up screen). The login does verify my password, if I am not keying the correct password it will not hang.
I upgraded to Sierra. Previously, when I had the dock hidden, windows could be resized to take up almost all of the screen; a 4 pixel margin was reserved for the dock. Now, when I have the dock hidden, the margin is no longer just 4 pixels: the margin is the size as the dock. I hid the dock to make extra space for my windows, but it seems like that benefit of hiding the dock is lost. Is there a way to revert to the previous behavior?
so I did not realize I was lacking this until I couldn’t use Twitter or Facebook to login to certain other accounts. I can’t seem to locate the area in Settings where I once had Twitter and Facebook listed (separately from the rest of the apps) and could manage my accounts for those two services from there. I’ve been prompted to “go to settings” and log in multiple times. Does anyone know where these are located now, whether they have been wholly removed, or wherever I need to do something to restore them? Thanks.
I want a single command to update everything on my Mac command line. No more brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup && brew doctor and npm update -g and that complicated command to update everything in pip3. Is there an existing tool for this, or should I just use a script? Also, is this even a good idea? Is there any benefit to updating all my software individually? For reference, this is the current function I have in my .zshrc that is supposed to update everything:
In windows you can jump to the end of the current word, what is the keyboard shortcut in Mac? I found the keyboard shortcut to Move the caret to the next word ⌥→
I'm sufficiently far away that reading Finder items is a little difficult, so I'd love to be able to zoom the screen with the trackpad. But the Trackpad System Preference is useless for this; it seems it only works with e.g. iPhotos. Accessibility System Preference insists that a key be held down while doing the zoom gesture in order to zoom the screen, so it's useless too.
I am using OS X El Capitan: When I try to open *=URL=* it works fine, but when I try to open *=URL=* I get the error: Safari can't connect to localhost. My apachectl configtest gives "syntax:Ok" as output and sudo httpd gives nothing but returns to the command prompt. Here is the output of command apachectl -S:
Every few sentences, the phone speaks a phrase that sounds like "one dollar." It's not in the text of the screen. Anyone know what this is?
On the lock screen, I need to use mouse to select the user to login. I would like to navigate using the keyboard. I tried Tab key, and combination with Ctrl and Option key, but can't find a way to navigate using keyboard. Any ideas?
I need to run a bash script (creating local user, setting NTP settings, enable screen sharing, etc), only once, when Mac devices are enrolled in Profile Manager. Profile Manager payloads do not have such features.
My MacBookPro running MacOS Sierra 10.12.5 cannot connect to my printer, while other Macs on the same network, running the same software, can. In System preferences the printer can be identified and added through Bonjour, but when it tries to configure it automatically, it won't connect. The printer has an admin page that the other macs can access through the browser via *=URL=* My MacBook cannot. My MacBook can access other devices on the network, like another printer via *=URL=* and our Synology, via IP and .local
Output from disutil list: I have no idea how it came to this state. Naturally I cannot boot from it and no file rescue software that I have tried will work on it. Looking at the info for the physical HHD, it doesn't look like it has any file system info on it at all, which doesn't look promising (?):
I use subaddressing a lot when I send e-mails. Currently I use Thunderbird with some plugins for this purpose but it is slow and I would prefer to use Mail.app. Is there a way in Mail.app to edit the from address when composing a new mail?
I have a service which takes a file or files from Finder and archives them. This all works fine. I have it set to save the archive in the Same Folder as Input. However, if I have a selection of files from multiple folders (by using Search), the archive is saved in the same folder as the first file in the list. I am quite happy with this and don’t want to select a different folder. What I would like though, is to return a message telling me the path to the archive. So, to recap Display path of first file from list of files sent to Create Archive
MacBooks come with power adapters that provide a certain wattage (for example 87 W) required to keep the computer running and charge the battery. If used with a lower-wattage power adapter (for example 61 W), there might not be enough power to keep the computer running. However, could such a lower-wattage power adapter be used to fully recharge the battery if the computer is kept turned off? Could even a low-wattage iPhone charger be used for this, although it would probably take a long time? Update: The question concerns newer MacBooks with USB-C chargers.
With the loss of the AppleScript menu in Outlook 15, what is the easiest way to launch AppleScripts from within Outlook? In earlier versions, these scripts were located in /Users/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items/. Is this folder still relevant?
I have a mid-2011 MBA with 128 GB SSD, running El Capitan. I bought an adapter for m.2 SATA drive (which will probably be Samsung Evo 850), but I can't find any trustworthy guide on how to swap the drives. I don't have any other Apple PC hardware, and my working knowledge about how things work in MacOS is limited.
I’m trying to install macOS Sierra on VirtualBox, but can’t seem to make it work. For reference, here are the steps I took. Downloaded the Install macOS Sierra app from the App Store. Used the inbuilt media creation executable, CreateInstallMedia on a disk image. Created a new VM with the default settings for an OS X El Capitan, plus 128 VRAM. Since VirtualBox refused to accept the DMG, I tried splicing out the InstallESD.
Usually I find ebooks/PDF I want to read while browsing on my PC from work or my Mac at home. I'd like to send them to Dropbox (or any other service) and have them automatically sync to my iPad so I can read them offline while commuting to home/work. My iPad is always connected to WiFi while I am at work or home.
Since I hate that waiting time (it seems very short but when you need to navigate a lot trough applications it becomes awkward) for now I am doing the following: I have removed the emacs deamon, every time I log in I start emacs.app, when I need to close the emacs app I don't use CMD+Q but CMD+H, when I need to recall emacs I simply launch emacs.app (trough an Alfred 3 shortcut) so I get emacs focus. With this workaround the transition to emacs is immediate, but I would prefer my script for two reasons: first, with the script so I can use emacs from terminal before having launched an emacs instance opening emacs.app, but the real reason is that using this method if I type "emacsclient -t myFile" in terminal and then I close the buffer returning to the terminal, then the emacs windows (the emacs.app) will get the focus, even if I have not given it to it. This is really awkward.
I've been trying to install meteor and as part of the install process it downloads node from a tar file which it pipes to tar. But the tar extract command is erroring out with a missing symbol? I used homebrew to brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names Will return this:
I use the Atom editor and I like to open it from the command line. For that purpose I execute the following line: The problem is that if I restart the computer, the link stops working, so I have to delete the file
I am trying to force Time Machine to do backup with terminal, to backup one virtual machine while it is saved and stopped, but till now I am unable to do that, and then, to check if that backup has been made, but there is no new entry in the list after.
I'm trying to change permissions for files and folders using the "Transmit" FTP client (from "Panic") and the "Apply" button is disabled so I can't save the new permission settings. This is a screen shot:
I’m having an issue with my iPhone 7 and I believe it’s been compromised. One of the phone numbers in my phone was mysteriously blocked and one happens to be the one phone number that shouldn’t be blocked under any circumstances. I only realized the number was blocked when the person informed me that she wasn’t able to get through to me. I’ve had the phone with me the entire time. Does any one know how that phone number could have become blocked?
For a while now my MacBook Pro (Retina, 2013) hangs when shutting down. I get to the black screen and the grey spinner just spins forever. Eventually I have to press and hold the power button. This doesn't happen when shutting down from Safe Mode.
For months, I have been unable to do several things with my iPad mini 2 (on various versions of iOS 10), all of which, I have discovered, are related to one problem. Something is inhibiting the operating system to send me notifications (though non-Apple apps work just fine). This means that I can’t delete apps normally, because that involves accepting an alert that appears. I can’t install new apps, because I can’t accept the confirmation dialog. This list goes on for quite a long time. Another seemingly unrelated issue is that locking and unlocking the device works abnormally. To turn on the display, I have to hold down the power button, and nothing is displayed in the screen until the “Slide to power off” screen appears. I have to close that before I can put in my passcode. I can’t use the button to turn off the display either; I have to wait for the automatic locking to trigger.
I use a 3 display setup. 2x 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display and the screen of the 15" 2016 MBP.
I'm repeatedly being asked to download the "Apple Dictionary" when I open the dictionary application. This doesn't happen every time I open it. I haven't pinned down specific usage cases where this message appears, but I think it may be every time after I reboot my computer. Is there anyway for the Dictionary application to remember that I have "Apple Dictionary" permanently? This has only started happening after I upgraded from OSX Mountain Lion to macOS Sierra.
I'm trying to change in vifm how the hidden and no-extension files are opened; how can i change the default app for opening files in vifm to use another editor instead of vim?
I have a problem with my iMac restarting when it should be shutting down. This doesn't happen all the time but appears to happen more frequently when I've had the computer on for a few hours. What happens I shut the computer down via Apple Menu > Shut Down The shut down cycle completes The computer immediately reboots
Whenever I perform a speed test using edge network or try to send an image via text message or a group text on edge network it fails, even if I have multiple bars. Why does it fail like that? I seem to be able to receive texts. I expect it to be slow, but I do expect it to work. iPhone 5, iOS 10.3.2
After reading a couple helpful threads on this forum, I was able to figure out why my Mac started being non-responsive despite having 32GB of RAM, and almost nothing open. Despite using only 4GB-ish of RAM for applications, my Mac had almost 28GB of cached files. Since the system stops being responsive once it hits that point, I decided to take this PrintScreen a bit before I run out. How do I clear the cached files from RAM, to make sure I don't run out of memory when I'm using practically nothing? p.s., I have more than 1TB of available HDD space-- so it's not failing to store swap files.
I'd like to thank @patrix for his bash script. It should come in very handy. & I'd like to let anyone who has come across this while searching for a solution know that the developer of the libmwaw library (& associated tools) very nicely updated the source and his mwawOSX app to enable created date/time inheritance for converted ClarisWorks files.
I have a 15" macbook pro with 4 USB-C/thunderbolt 3 ports. I bought a multiport adapter from USB-C to HDMI and also a U2417H dell monitor which has 1 DisplayPort, 1 Mini DisplayPort and an HDMI port.
I have many iPads that are being supervised on Apple Configurator 1.7.1 and the Yosemite OS. We need to start supporting the Mini 4 iPad, and it looks like that requires an upgrade to Apple Configurator 2 (which in turn requires an upgrade from Yosemite). So, if I upgrade from Yosemite to Sierra, and from Apple Configurator to AC2, will all of my currently supervised devices still be supervised and functional? Thanks!
I have an iPad Air 2 running iOS 10.3.2. What I've found is that after a while, the universal clipboard feature will stop working, and I won't see app icons from my other devices underneath the app switcher. This is always fixed by restarting.
I always have emacs running in full screen on one of my spaces. Currently, I assign it to particular space, and assign every other app I use to some other space. This is kind of inefficient, as I have to assign every app I use individually, when really, my purpose is to make sure that they never open in the same space as emacs. In fact, I actually would rather not have to dedicate most apps to any space, since I'd generally like to just use them in the space I started from, unless that space is the space with fullscreen emacs in it. As it is, I'm only really able to use two spaces effectively (one with emacs assigned to it, one with everything else assigned to it).
For in itunes 10 years ago you used to be able to sort playlist by rating, how do you do it today without messing with the smart playlist? I also don't get the nerfing of the view options to Windows 3.1 style:
had some issues with my mac which forced me to factory reset it but now i am stuck at installation and its not moving forward. It says "11 Minutes Remaining" and its just stuck there, I am leving it as it is and will be sleeping now, hoping when i wake up it would have co.pleted the process, if not please give me some solution to what i can do next?
The default MAMP's localhost document root is /Applications/MAMP/htdocs and I want to point it on my /Users/Me/Sites/ folder. I can do easily with MAMP PRO GUI but it's not working after I restarted servers and it's showing me a red arrow (as an invalid destination):
I purchased a new 2017 MacBook Pro 13" w/ Touchbar (updated in June) from my local Apple Store. I want to connect my 2010 LED Cinema Display 27" which uses a Mini DisplayPort connection. The clerk at the Apple Store wrongfully sold me the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, which did not work. I later confirmed on Apple's support site that it does not work for this use.
I have an iPhone 7plus. How can I simultaneously connect music to my headphone jack and my phone to a Bluetooth device? I am trying to play my music on my motorcycle through the stereo using the headphone jack while using my Sena Bluetooth headset to talk on the phone.
I have a Hackintosh computer, with a secondary hard drive installed with a bunch of data on it. I was trying to partition off part of the secondary hard drive to install Windows so I could dual boot, and I have managed to completely ruin the partition table and I'm afraid that I've lost my data. I used the Windows 10 installer to create a partition, but it did some weird stuff where it labeled my existing data partition as a recovery partition, so I ended up deleting everything that the installer did but I cannot see my old data back in OS X now. Here is the output of diskutil list: disk1s1 was where my data originally was, but it is no longer recognized by Disk Utility and I cannot mount it. Is there anything I can do to repair this, or is my data all lost? edit: I ran fsck and it recognizes the volume type and name, so it appears that it's still there: I'm not sure how to mount the drive/fix the partition table, however.
In Safari's responsive design mode, when I move the slider left and right to adjust the width, it's impossible to control. Do others experience this problem? Is there a way to adjust it's sensitivity? Thanks
In Safari's web inspector tools, when modifying a CSS property of an element, is there a way to increment with the keyboard's up and down arrows like in Chrome?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2014, running Sierra). Recently, it has started black screening and shutting off shortly after, after a few minutes' use—let's say 3 to 10 minutes. The screen will go black but the LCD backlight will remain on for about 5 seconds, then the laptop will completely shut off.
So I understand how to get into DFU mode when the phone is off. However, the problem is that I can't figure out how to actually turn the phone off because it's looping in recovery mode. Long story short -- I was running iOS 11 and wanted to downgrade back to iOS 10 and thought I was in DFU mode, but was in recovery mode, so the restore failed. Getting in DFU mode also suggests that to release the power button after seeing the Apple logo screen, but in this recovery loop, what happens is that the APple logo appears for a split second, followed by the "plug into itunes" screen. Any luck would be greatly appreciated.
How can I have list view icon (3 dots with 3 lines) on the calendar and I have updated IOS 10.
I have recently upgraded my Internet access to 100Mbps upload / 30Mbps download, upgraded also the modem router and switches to 100Mbps. Tested with Speediest app (Mac OSX) and found these figures: - download 94 Mbps (excellent) - upload 14 Mbps
I have two accounts set on Apple mail. One is my personal address and the other one is an Exchange address from work. Yesterday I sent an email to the wrong address because Exchange pulled a contact from the Previous Recipients list. Is is possible to set Apple mail so that when I'm composing a message from my Exchange account only contacts from the Exchange address book will get pulled?
I would appear as though I cannot always add music to a shared playlist if it clashes with something I have already ripped and uploaded. I know that I can't just add songs I own and uploaded to a Shared Playlist, because the recipient won't be able to see them. The problem is, even if I go to Apple Music and find the song there (with a '+' icon so I know it's not mine), it assumes I want to add my own uploaded version and therefore doesn't show up to others. Already have track "X" uploaded to Apple Music Go to Apple Music Browse section, search for "X" on Apple Music Song shows with a '+' symbol (so it's not identical to my uploaded one) Click on the '…' and choose "Add to Playlist", add it to the shared playlist Go to Shared Playlist and file is marked as "Uploaded" and not "Apple Music" Check Shared Playlist through web link, song is not there
How do I show the sum of multiple ranges in one cell? I want to add the sum of C5:C25 to the sum of G5:G25 and divide the answer by 14.
sudo Killall VDCAssistant does nothing except, for example, PhotoBooth.app or FaceTime.app change from a completely black screen to a black screen with the "There is no connected camera." message. The camera still detected on USB 2.0 bus and after restarting, the app displays a black screen with no "...no connected camera" message.
so, if I understand this correctly, ping abc.test should now ping localhost. alas, it does not. (or, is there a better way to test?)
So I turned to my windows 10 laptop for help. When the HDD is connected (through cable), It doesn't show up under "This PC" but disk management shows all its partitions. But when I connect the SSD (through cable), the disk management is not able to initialize the SSD. Shows the error "the disk is not ready". I used "diskpart" in comand prompt. "List disk" shows that the disk is online, but its size is 0gb. Upon using the command 'convert gpt' it shows the error "the device is not ready". List Disk correctly shows the size of the HDD.
Unfortunately, bless still does not work. When I run it I get the following output: And it still reboots into OSX.
I've cleared quite a bit of my user files off my Mac, and have restarted. The disk utility shows this:
I'm using wifi for internet access, but when I connect my iPhone via lightning cable all my internet activity comes back as "destination unreachable" or similar errors. How do I troubleshoot and correct this issue so the mac stays online using the wifi when I connect my iphone?
Non-silent push notifications do not work for a non-developer device with iOS 10.0. There are no problems with certificates or profiles, also APNS does not respond with "Bad error" or any other error so it seems that the token is valid (I've tried to send notifications from the server and from local tool named Pusher and results were the same). When I plug the device to a Mac and see Console logs I can see following lines: I can't figure out the steps to reproduce this bug, but it may be related to the installing the AppStore version over the TestFlight version.
I have an Apple iPhone 5s, which I have owned since I got it for Christmas in 2015 (it previously belonged to my parents). Often, I have encountered a problem where my iPhone will turn off and not charge. I know how to fix it (soft reset), but what could I do to prevent my 5s from doing this?
Is it expected that 4k video (shot on the iPhone SE) cannot be played without stutter on the 2013 Macbook Pro? It seems to be really a limitation of the graphics hardware as the effect is the same in finder preview, quicktime player, or iMovie. Speaking of which, iMovie becomes unusable because the previews that play everywhere don't work well. In the stuttering playback the sound is continuous, but frames drop all the time. Graphics Hardware: Intel Iris 1536 MB CPU: 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5 I find this quite unlikely because the same video plays without problems on a 2012 Macbook Air, but this machine has a much lower res display too.
When I connect to my mac mini (from my Mac Book Air) what happens is that the connection is made as a regular screen sharing. So if someone connects a screen to the mac mini then all the activity is seen. But if there's already another user connected then I get a message saying that another user is already using the display, and then I can choose to share the screen or to "login as yourself", and that's great! How can I always connect as login so each user get his privacy?
I'm not sure if my Apple Watch is still running the beta version or what, but I downgraded from iOS 11 beta to iOS 10.3.2 (went to iOS 10.3.3 beta first) and now I can't pair my Apple Watch. I tried to erase all content and settings and when it reboots, it goes into the pairing screen. When I try to pair it, it tells me that my phone needs to be updated. How do I downgrade the WatchOS beta while running a solid iOS 10.3.2?
The next day, I tried to turn it on and the booting (progress bar with the Apple logo) was extremely slow. In the log in screen, the trackpad and keyboard did not respond. It can take anywhere between 10-20min to get to the log in screen. The keyboard and trackpad do not respond.
I'd like to take a motion-recording of an interaction on an iOS device while it's plugged into a computer. (To report a bug or demonstrate a feature, without making a shakycam video with another device, i.e. my friggin' iPad ) Does Xcode or a similar tool support this?
I am getting duplicate photos in my MACOS Photos. I take many photos with my iPhone. Periodically I use Photos to import them onto my Mac for safe storage. Lately I've been deleting them off my phone at the same time.
I can change the bash command prompt for the Terminal for an ordinary user without issue. (In my case, I modified the $PS1 variable in /etc/bashrc.) However, that change does not modify the command prompt when one elevates privileges to root using sudo -s. Does anyone know where the command prompt preference is stored on a macOS Sierra (10.12.5) machine for an admin user who has elevated his privileges to root using sudo -s? I have tried modifying the following files... /var/root/.bash_profile /var/root/.bash_rc /var/root/bash_rc /var/root/.profile ~/.profile I have also tried using the command export PS1="Some prompt here# ", which changes the root prompt temporarily, but it does not stick when the session is ended and a new one is started.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM (system max) and a 1TB SSD. The drive has two partitions – one running MacOS Sierra 10.12.5 and the second running Mavericks 10.9.5 (for purposes of keeping commercially licensed software that is now only available as monthly/annually-paid subscriptions). This is the most complex setup I've ever attained, just to give you an idea of my technical expertise.
I have an app that deletes your Messages (formerly iChat) history in macOS. Its open sourced and freely available to fork or modify on Github What's worked so far... If I run the following commands in terminal the Messages history is successfully removed from my system and the script works as expected. I also tried killing the process for MessagesKit but that didn't do it either. It works by removing the files from ~/Library/Messages which can be easily found using a web search for "Delete Messages history macOS".
I can access HTTP and HTTPS sites from the iPhone without any problems. However, when I use the iPhone as a hotspot and connect my laptop to the it, I can't access HTTPS sites from the laptop. It's almost as if there's a firewall on the iPhone, but this link says that there isn't. What else could it be?
I have my github repo setup with ssh key to access it: pull/push. With command-line git commands it does flawlessly. But I can't push with Xcode.
I think this question is fairly straight-forward: is there any way to get Pages 6.x (I have 6.2) to have facing pages? I typically word-process in Pages '09, however that doesn't have right-to-left support and I don't need Adobe InDesign for this project.
My Apple Watch won't pair with my iPhone 7. When I tap "start pairing" I get a message saying that I should update my Apple Watch. But when I click on "update" it shows that there isn't any update and that my Apple Watch is up to date. How can I resolve this?
I am looking for an iPad app which allows multiple iPad users to draw to the same screen/page simultaneously so that the result is displayed on a monitor, possibly via Apple TV. We intend to use this for user experience (design) work, so ideally it would have Text and Rectangle drawing. Snapping would also be nice. Does anyone have any suggestions on an app or another approach we could use to achieve this?
I am trying to disable all password logins except for that through my ssh key. However now any time I ssh into my server, it just logs in automatically and doesn't prompt me for my ssh decryption passphrase anymore. How can I get it to "forget" and ask me again?
In order to setup a client machine i need to add Terminal, python and sshd-keygen-wrapper to "allow the apps below to control your computer" in privacy. I am not familiar with mac system so how would you go about it? I drag and dropped terminal and it was added.
Ever since I got my mac I was able to download movies by doing "Download Video" Or something like that by right clicking the video. Recently after I've cleaned out my Mac of all of the things I didn't need after doing that I am unable to download anything. It simply get this error Safari can’t show the file "_____" in the Finder. in the Finder because the file has not yet been created. Ive tried everything although there are no articles on how to fix this.
I have a file I created and edited with textedit. I saved the file many many times. Textedit crashed and I rebooted and the file it entirely gone.
How to install pgAdmin 4 on Mac using python wheel. I found a help for Ubuntu *=URL=* but I did n't find anything for mac.
I am trying to write a simple Automator service to merge selected text files. I’ve nearly got it, but I am running into one problem.
Quite some time ago someone told me (or maybe I read it) that iPhones have a built-in trackpad or mouse pointer that makes it easy for you to move the cursor around for editing text. I want to know if this is actually possible? Right now my computer is in for repairs and I’m stuck using an iPhone to edit a Word document and being able to do this would be great if its possible, but I can’t see any options anywhere in the settings.
When I open this link Erlang which has a video, the video won't play. I am a beginner to Mac and recently reinstalled my macOS. I dont know why this video won't play on my Mac, but the same video plays in Firefox on another Linux based machine. How do I solve this problem?
I have a company's iphone, and I would like to use it for personal purposes, as well as a testing device. The problem is that this is the only test device of the company, and since I'm allowed to use it with my personal phone number and data, the problem is that any day, somebody can request the phone to use it for test something (it's very improbable but posible) For this reason, I would like to know if it's posible to "lock" my personal user/data and/or switch to another user (the company's user) in a safe way so I can share the phone without having to be worried about somebody else seeing my what's app push notifications, my personal camera roll, etc...
Firefox does not respond. How can I quit it other than by Force Quit?
Are playgrounds created in Xcode compatible with the iPad Playgrounds app? That is, can I drop it into the iPad app's Documents folder (or otherwise use iCloud Drive, etc) to load a playground created in Xcode? Googling neither confirms nor deny this.
iOS 8/9 will get bricked if you set your date back too far. If someone could explain how exactly this happens, I would love to know.
I had 2 accounts configured on my Mac, iCloud (mail / calendar / contacts disabled) and Google (calendar / contacts enabled). Starting from some point, no idea when it started happening and what triggered it, all birthdays were duplicated in "Birthday" Calendar. Today I've got annoyed by this and completely deleted Google account from my Mac, which removed one set of birthdays from Calendar, but only one, second set of birthdays is still visible in "Birthdays" calendar on my Mac.
My phone already syncs photos to my laptop Photos App. I'm looking for the simplest way to share photos from the Photos App to the internet. I don't want albums or anything, just to get the URL of an individual photo. Ideally it happens automatically, and I just right click the photo in the Photos app and click "copy image url" I tried using Imgur, but you can't even drag and drop photos from the app to the website.
I had a 3-year old installation of Homebrew in /usr/local/Library/Homebrew. It didn't update properly, so I reinstalled it (without, unfortunately, uninstalling first). This time, Homebrew installed in /usr/local/Homebrew.
I've got an iPhone 6 running the iOS 11 public beta, and a few days ago, it suddenly stopped being able to play any audio or video unless it's through Bluetooth headphones. When I try to play a song, it says "The operation could not be completed. An unknown error occurred (-12746)." The player then proceeds to open the next song of the album, then the next, then the next, as if every song there had a length of 0:00. Trying to play a TV show throws the same error message, and when I try to play videos through third-party apps like Facebook our YouTube, they simply don't play, and my phone is so audio-free that I can't even hear people on the other end of phone calls.
I am using my iCloud account and want to make sure the the calendar I am creating an event in is an iCloud calendar and not on my Mac. Can't find the property that either tells me the account name or the server address of the calendar.
I used one of those services that scans the internet for compromised passwords, and some passwords I recognized came up, and some that I didn't. In any case, I want to search my keychain for all account credentials that are using that password so that I can go and change them, however the manual method of going through each one is too slow / painful. Is there an easy way to retrieve all accounts from Apple's iCloud Keychain that use a specific password (assuming you have regular access to the keychain) -- I am aware of solutions for local keychains, but all my passwords happen to be locked in the cloud and the local keychain solution doesn't work for them.
Is there any way to easily one search in the Messages App on MacOS within one conversation? Across "conversations? "Find" seems more for finding participants in conversations. Any easy way to export a conversation (or all conversations) to text files?
I am trying to use mount as in man mount, on MacOS. Ultimately, what I am trying to do is mount a directory which is outside of the Docker build context and put the directory inside the Docker build context. Apparently symlinks do not work, and so I am trying to do this with the mount command. (If you know of a better way, pls lmk). So I have this: which is attempting to mount the project into a local directory I get this error: mount: exec /Library/Filesystems/auto.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_auto for /Users/alexamil/test/some_local_dir: No such file or directory
I have discovered that you can open an Apple map using the following URL scheme: According to the documentation, the z= parameter is:
I have a Power Mac G4 and I'm trying to connect to the internet. I tried to connect the Ethernet cable to the modem (the other side was in the computer).
I have a MacBook Air that has single use mode and terminal blocked off and I want to get admin access because with out it I can do absolutely nothing. I thought maybe I could get into it using another computer or something but I have no clue. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? I am on the brink of giving up so if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.
I was updating to watchOS 4 beta 3 and its got stuck at this screen
I had a pretty bad spill on my mid-2012, 13" Macbook Pro about a week ago (just water, but it got on the keyboard and the system shut itself off). Fearing the worst, I did everything I felt I could, dried it out with the "fan trick", opened it up, etc. It eventually powered back up with the battery inside but attaching the MagSafe adapter did not change the status of the battery and indeed the LED indicator light did not turn on. I was initially scared that it would not draw power from the adapter at all, but upon disconnecting the battery the MacBook boots up when the MagSafe is plugged in.
I have an AppleScript .app file that creates a list variable based on a website's HTML data. The number of items in this list varies based on the unique HTML data that is downloaded on every iteration, and can range from 1 to 50.
This prompts with the "connect as" box but I can't get past it. I've tried selecting Guest which goes to the "problem connecting" screen. I've tried the names tim, Tim, pc\tim, PC\Tim and none of these work.
I am on an old MacBook (mid-2009) that is not supporting Sierra. When I go to the App store to install Xcode 8 (only option available) it says that it is for 10.12 (Sierra) only. That means that if someone has El Capitan only and didn't install Xcode 7 before, cannot start developing apps for macOS / iOS? That seems absurd to me, El Capitan is still a modern OS... I might understand if you are on Leopard, but El Capitan is from 2015! Is there any way to (legally) bypass this problem?
On macOS 10.12.5, I only see LaunchAgents in the Users Library directory. Are the agents only invoked if a user is logged in? /Library/LaunchAgents/ /Library/LaunchDaemons/ /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ /User/username/Library/LaunchAgents/
I administer a small network of approximately ten Macs using a Mac Mini Server with Server.app 5.3.1. I have been trying to setup a network library to share our fonts among the administered Macs. Font Book should automatically recognise fonts located in the /Network/Library/Fonts folder or at least it used to. In fact, if in Snow Leopard Server enabling these kind of shared libraries used to be possible and easily doable in Workgroup Manager, now Apple seems to have dropped this feature or made it much more difficult to implement.
Does anyone know the purpose of the OS X specific sysctl of net.inet.udp.randomize_ports? From looking at my firewall logs I can see that it ends up causing macOS 10.12.5 to use UDP ephemeral ports outside of the net.inet.ip.portrange.first/hifirst and net.inet.ip.portrange.last/hilast range (which is the same as IANA range). And the source code (/bsd/netinet/in_pcb.c and /bsd/netinet/udp_usrreq.c) for the kernel doesnt have any relevant comments.
I'm running iTunes on Windows 10 and I'm trying to move the iTunes folder out of the root of my music folder. I want that folder to have only music.
I am drawing a path in a Keynote canvas (using the tool under Shapes). I need fine control of the coordinates of the points in this path. Is there a way to get/set the exact coordinates of points within paths?
Is it by using the Photos app on the Mac? I had a 35 minute screen recording on the iPhone and then selected 4 minutes from it, and created a new video. On the iPhone I can see this new video in the Photo Album, but on Photos app on the Mac, I only see the 35 minute one, but not the 4 minute one. Are there other ways to transfer it to the Mac? One way is to upload to YouTube from my iPhone and then download from YouTube using some YouTube video downloader plugin, but that's kind of a silly way. If it matters, the screen recording was done using iOS 11 public beta 2.
In regards to this question: How to create a blank RTF file in AppleScript? Can you modify the code in a way it would save the file to the current location of the app? as in instead of saving it to Desktop, it would save it to wherever the .app is located. That way I could add the .app to the Finder-Toolbar and be able to click it from any folder and create that blank rtf file inside the current folder whatever it may be. if not possible, then maybe force it to ask for saving-location just like it asks for name. Thanks
After I did a clean install of Sierra it first showed as 14 GB in size in "About My Mac Storage". After some few weeks it shows as 8 GB in size. Why does happen like this and how do I fix it?
I am looking for an app for drawing in Mac. Not too sophisticated. I want to use it for:
I have a mid 2010 Mac Mini with 2 drives. I need to replace 1 of them. How do I tell physically which drive is the second drive? With the case upside down which drive (0 or 1) is on top? Thanks for the assistance
What will happen to changes made to folders such as/System or /bin (full list here) when upgrading to El Capitan or Sierra?
Is there any way to do simple offline spreadsheets (rows, columns, plus, minus, multiply, divide, sum of range) like below without using monsters like Excel, Numbers, Google, Open Office, etc.?
Using the Finder on my iMac, I goto the iCloud Drive. There is a Pictures folder showing 5.78 GB. Inside the Pictures folder are 2 files: "iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary" and "Photos Library.photoslibrary". These total 5.78 GB as expected. I logged onto iCloud.com and went to the iCloud Drive folder. The folder names matched what was displayed using Finder. Opening the Pictures folder however revealed it was empty. Why did this folder show empty on iCloud.com but showed over 5GB using Finder? A similar question has been asked but not answered. I thought I would try my luck.
Every time I turn on my mac, a set of like 10 recurring reminder popups clog up my OSX Desktop screen. I may be a procrastinator and all, but Reminders.app's interface on OSX feels downright buggy without a button to close all reminders at once, or at least all recurring reminders.
I installed Inkscape using brew cask install inkscape on OS X 10.11.6, and the XQuartz that came with it has a major problem: I can't type the number 0! The key is simply nonfunctional (you similarly can't type a closing parenthesis). I can't find any other questions that mention the number 0 being impossible to type. I've never changed any settings related to XQuartz.
I'm trying to create an iCloud email account. After following the steps and get to the end, I get a message that says "Problem Turning On Mail". It says to try again later, but I keep getting the same message. What do I do now?
My iPad is not capable of running Swift Playgrounds. I am wondering if I installed Xcode on my Mac and used the iOS Simulator, would it be possible to access the iOS App Store and install Swift Playgrounds on that so I could take a look at the app? I don't need to extensively use the app, I just want to have a look at it.
I keep ending up with a myriad of open tabs in Chrome. It is a pain to switch between them compared to switching between regular mac apps. So I would like be able to pin them to the task bar identify them using their favicon (task bar / ⌘ + TAB) always open them in a separate window Just like it appears to be possible on windows: https://www.howtogeek.com/141431/how-to-turn-web-apps-into-first-class-desktop-citizens/
If the download takes more than 15 minutes and your device exits recovery mode, let the download finish, then repeat these steps. Indeed, after 15 minutes iPad exits recovery mode and restarts. The download is then stopped.
I want know the PDF rendering speed of new iPad Pro 10.5", most preferably in units of Megapixels per second. I have an iMac which scored a score of 107.8 Megapixels/sec at single core and 343.6 MP/sec at multicore on Geekbench 4, but couldn't find the same test for the iPad Pro 10.5"
I created the above workflow ("Copy All URLs.workflow") * that functions 100% from the Safari contextual menu of a URL-with-path (ie, not merely a host), both with and without keyboard shortcut use. For example, likely in this page's control elements above, you'll see a "Questions" element with the associated URL *=URL=* and the large "AskDifferent" element with the associate URL *=URL=* (ie, no path, only a host). If I FIRST right-click (or control-click) on Questions, displays in the contextual menu every time. THEN, if I right-click on a AskDifferent, displays in the contextual menu every time; —OR— THEN, if I click on the Safari menu, displays in the Safari > Services menu every time. ON THE OTHER HAND, if I FIRST right-click upon a background or text page region, or on a host-only URL (ie, not a URL-with-path), the resulting contextual menu will not include Services at all, nor will a subsequent right-click on AskDifferent display Services, nor a subsequent Safari menu click displ
I have a 6s with iOS 9.3x installed. Out of the blue, the speaker volume became barely audible. By speaker I mean the the loud speaker at the bottom of the phone. I've used headphones and bluetooth to see whether those are affected as well - those continue to work fine. I've done the following - none fixed the problem: Restarted the unit multiple times. I've cleaned out the speaker and headphone jack. I've blown compressed air at the problem spots. I've toggled Settings/General/Accessibility/Phone Noise Cancellation and Hearing Aids options. Various miscellaneous things that I've read about here and there.
Is it possible to back up short messages from an iPhone on Linux, without iTunes?
You used to be able to clear caches and free memory by using the Apple TV app to attempt to rent a large movie. When the phone realized there was not enough memory it would attempt to free up memory, but the purchase would not go through if there still wasn't enough memory to download. This hacky workaround now fails as the TV app has been updated and allows rentals even if there isn't enough space to download. Is there another workaround/method to free up memory on the iPhone.
My MacBook Pro (2014) can not start after downgrade from macOS 10.13 to 10.12 via USB. I don't known why I had clover on my MacBook. Right now, my MacBook starts up with a light screen and doesn't show anything. Keyboard caps lock and USB don't work.
I´ve recently bought a Marson Type MT1227L Bluetooth Barcode Scanner. Among diverse serial connections, it can act as Bluetooth or USB HID keyboard, emulating manual keystrokes. Keyboard-Layouts can be configured e.g. English/US, English/UK, French, German. Scanning Barcodes with normal alphanumeric data (A-Z, 0-9) is no problem. Works like a charm.
On my iPhone's home screen, I have two versions of Cut The Rope 2 which have identical icons and display names. One version is the full version of Cut The Rope 2, while the other is the F2P Cut The Rope 2: Om Nom's Adventure. Because the display names are identical, I'm not sure which version I should delete. Is there a way to view an App's full name?
I cannot find anywhere in settings or the music app to set the play order. Ios just plays the track list randomly. The shuffle option doesn't seem to do anything in as much as it's not on or off. Please don't mark this as a duplicate without answering the question as I cannot find a satisfactory answer here on any previous questions. In fact one of the questions I was directed to was from 2012 which is obviously not relevant any more. I am on iOs 10.3.2 Thank you.
I'm deciding to install MacOS High Sierra on my Mac this autumn.So if I find APFS not useful can I convert it back to HFS+ via terminal or using Disk utility?
I run OpenVPN and Parallels on OSX 10.10.5, Server edition: OpenVPN 2.4.2 in mode tun, on subnet 10.211.54.0/24 Parallels in "shared network" mode, on subnet 10.211.55.0/24 ipv4 forwarding is enabled
Is there a way to find how much RAM is installed in my iOS device?
I have a MacBook Pro with 1 TB of disk space. When I run df -h I get the following:
I'm aware that I could just put a folder in the Script Editor menu and thus make sub-menus. However, I find that just a tad annoying.
After a few reckless uses of chomod (and some history I don't recall, apparently) I currently have the following ownership in my /usr/local: Is this the correct default ownership for current (≥ 10.12.5) macOS? Should I change some of these (back) to root:wheel?
As title goes ... I've been using TimeMachine for a while now and it contains a few months worth of backups. I went ahead and encrypted my disk using FireVault. How does this affect my backups?
Can I get my SMS messages off my iPhone and into a plain text format? I tried idevicebackup2 for libimodibledevice, but it doesn't work (error messages below). Besides it seems to operate with an encryption password I don't know. Using Linux.
I am trying to establish a ssh session to my MacBook using "Back to my Mac". So I turned the "Back to my Mac" option on in iCloud and ticked the remote sign in box. But if I issue the command
As part of a retrofitting project for my church, I purchased a variety of equipment. The minister has a recent model iPad with Lightning port. I purchased a Lightning to HDMI adapter to get sound and video. The church's overhead projector, for which there is no budget to replace right now, only handles a VGA input or composite input. I purchased a Belkin HDMI to VGA adapter that has a 3.5 mm output so I could patch into the audio system's soundboard.
I just got a new iPhone to replace my broken one. I can't really do much without signing into iCloud, which requires me to use a verification code. This can either be sent to some other trusted apple device of mine (no such device exists), or as a text to my phone (that won't work because I'm trying to set up my phone). So how can I sign in to iCloud?
I keep a subset of my photographs in Photos on my Mac, and I would like to sync these with Photos on my iPhone. I used to be able to do so, but the option seems to have gone away. The 'Sync Photos' checkmark in iTunes is now off, and if I turn it on, the only option is to sync the phone with a selected directory.
Tried so far: went into iPhone Settings -> Contacts -> Default Account and selected 'iCloud'. This apparently had no effect.
Why can't I access my keychain in iOS apps other than safari (or OSX apps, for that matter?). How can I access my passwords across the entire platform?
I am wondering why the manual pages in the Terminal app look like shite on my Mac running macOS Sierra 10.12.5? If I run the command man grep for instance I get a crappy layout of text in the terminal window (black terminal). But if I right-click grep and choose open man page then I get the properly formatted version (yellow terminal) of the manual.
I went through articles, but I'm requesting an answer for my instance. The relevant details are shown below, According to the console, it seems like something is happening.
I'm using iMovie 10.1.6 and am importing digital video cassettes, each into its own folder within iMovie Library. For each cassette, it breaks it into a series of clips, sorted in reverse chronological order. I want to save the whole thing into a single movie file (e.g., MOV or MP4 format).
I'm unable to get my MacBook Pro to connect to my LG monitor via a KVM switch. A direct connection to the monitor works. The KVM does report the correct EDID information (as testing via Linux), but on OSX I can't see the display at all when connected this way. macOS Sierra 10.12.15 DisplayPort->DVI Adapter (Apple) LG W2443T UNICLASS 4-Port DVI
My apologies if this is a really lame question, Im new here and Ive learned a lot over the last few years but all self taught, so clearly have a lot to go. I get the red circle, and aware of what root is, just concerned about these folders and why I wouldn't have permission. It says I have "no access" System has "read and write" wheel has "read only" and everyone has no access" . Its been calculating size for about 30 minutes now, says it was created march 12,2016 at 12:03pm , modified may 22nd at 4:18pm . So weird. So yeah just wondering is this standard and Im just being paranoid haha. Thanks in advance for any help .
The ⌘+Tab key combination switches between active and background windows on my MacOS on MBP. When hitting this combination, a small preview of the selected window appears. Another hit on the Tab key while ⌘ is pressed previews and selects the next window. Releasing the ⌘ switches to the currently selected window. Recently, this preview does not appear, so I can't efficiently switch to other windows using a key combination. Any idea how to restore that preview, please?
Today when I'm taking a look at my terminal, I realized that there is a weird string in my shell prompt. It seems that I've never seen this weird string before. What is that for?
My sound has stopped working and there is a red light coming from the headphone / 3.5" jack / port. I've read that is could be caused by damage to the port. What does the light really mean and how do I fix it?
Is there any way to remove a specific music language from Apple Music? For example, remove all Russian songs from suggestions.
An iPhone 6 Plus' Touch ID stopped working and the user couldn't remember the passcode and, after many failed attempts, was forced to choose between setting up as a new iPhone or restoring from backup. The iPhone 6 Plus was frequently backed up by iCloud and never backed up by iTunes. Directly (from the initial setup) or indirectly (once setup as a new iPhone), attempting to restore from iCloud prompted for and accepted Apple ID authentication (username, password, and phone number-based TFA) then prompted as follows and rejected all given: Enter Old Passcode Passwords, home and other data are protected by the passcode previously used to unlock this iPhone. Your passcode is encrypted and cannot be read by Apple. I wasn't able to find anything online regarding this scenario, hence this post.
I have a 12" MacBook and I can successfully hibernate it using pmset (I know for sure it's really hibernating because waking up the laptop shows a progress bar during the resume process). Unfortunately, sudo pmset -a lidwake 0 doesn't prevent the laptop from waking on lid open: seems like the setting is completely ignored. Is there a way to force a complete power down after hibernation?
I have a Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac installed and for a Vagrantfile I need to have virtualbox that I could install with brew such that brew install caskroom/cask/virtualbox. I tested Parallels Desktop 12 and VirtualBox from Brew Cask -- and so far they have worked side-by-side fine. The VirtualBox from Brew Cask apparently installs the Oracle VirtualBox. Anyway with the future compability issues in mind,
I am particularly interested in how the latest generation MacBook and MacBook Pro devices handle this, as I suspect their mechanism could be different than previous generation generation models. Since MacBook's download the OS install code, it seems that it would be possible for someone to compromise the source, thus making malware "unremovable."
I'm currently working in an environment with some Openldap users and nfs mounted homes. Everything is working like a charm, but I'm facing some issues regarding some ReportCrash that keeps writing in the users /home/user/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports thousands of logs suggestd_2017-07-12-095040_e5r1p1.crash When I give a look in /var/log/system.log, it's completely saturated with ReportCrash full log here suggestd[2792]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'SGSqliteDatabaseError', reason: 'Error(5): database is locked (SQL: PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL)'
The playback speed is set to 1x and it's still playing too fast. I have an iPhone 6s and iOS 10.3.2. It had been fine for two years up until a week ago. Why does it do this? And what is the solution?
iOS devices have DFU mode, which enable one to completely reinstall the firmware and operating system. Do MacBook devices have something similar? Is the firmware automatically reinstalled upon an OS reinstallation?
I'm sick and tired of having the App Store launched every other time I try to turn a page in iBook. Is there a way to turn the stupid "feature" off? Don't see a setting in the App Store panel, nor in iBooks.
I would like to set up DNS server in iOS, but as far as I know you must set it up manually whenever you connect to a new network. The example is here. However, is there any way to set up DNS server without bothering to follow the same procedure whenever I connect to a new network?
Recently my iPhone stopped charging at all. I took it to a local mobile shop in Pakistan; they changed my charger and it started charging, then all of a sudden it stopped. It shows the charging icon but the battery percentage was not increasing, rather decreasing.
I would like to know which of these two things would be required to get the stable release of ios-11: Upgrade from the iOS 11 beta to stable iOS 11 Downgrade from the iOS 11 beta and upgrade to stable iOS 11
I'd like to set another user's home folder to use a certain volume on my disk. To that end, I'd like to be able to mount said volume at a specific location, say, at Users/foobar
I am trying to boot into my mac and it's taking me into macOS Utilities. I selected the reinstall macOS option, I do the eligibility check, that works. Then I select the hard drive to install it on (OS X base System). However as soon as it starts, the install fails with an "Error occurred while preparing the installation try again." I tried the date fix as many people suggested but that didn't seem to work. What else can I try? Edit: Added images with result of commands
When I try to open most things in system preferences (e.g. accessibility) I see this in /var/log/system.log and as a result cannot open the preference dialog Any ideas ?
On my freshly hard reset iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2), when I record a voice memo it does not show up in the Recordings.db database. The database itself is present and well formatted but the ZRECORDING table stays empty. The recording and playback work perfectly well though. Tested on another iPhone 4 running the same iOS version, it works as expected (ie a new entry is created for each new voice memo with timestamp, duration and path)... Am I missing something here or is it a bug?
I am looking for a script I could use in place of Automator's built-in workflow: Rename Finder Items > Change Case > Title Case
launchd and kernel task are writing excessively to disk (and constantly running) on my mac. I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.15. Below are screenshots showing excessively logging.
I know in the days of Classic Mac OS, Apple had a habit of shipping the OS with pieces of software, often useful little utilities, that while on the face of it look like any other piece of bundled software, are actually written by third parties and simply paid for by Apple to be able to be included with every installation. Is this practice still followed? To clarify, I don't mean software written by a company which is then bought out by Apple and their software shipped; but software written by a company which remains independent, but is shipped with Mac OS.
My problem arises because sometimes I'm doing something on my MacBook and the user session logs out, as if I'd restarted the computer. Normally it's something exerting that must overload my RAM, like navigating and suddenly opening too many windows (e.g. I was looking for flights and the option was checked to automatically open windows to look in 4 or 5 more different sites).
I use VirtualBox for VMs. If I give one of my .vbox VM files a custom icon via Get Info > paste the new icon, VirtualBox reverts it to the default light blue cube after on the second open. That is, I apply a custom icon, open the VM, shut down the VM, and open the VM, and while it's opening for the second time the icon reverts. This is frustrating because I keep multiple VMs in my Dock, and they all look the same. I've filed a ticket at virtualbox.org, but does anyone have a workaround or hack?
I enable VO by pressing cmd + F5. But when I press caps+ a it reads from the start of the text. How can I get voice over to read from the current position of the cursor of the text I am editing in scrivener (or other text editor).
I need to move a large volume to a new raid server that's PC formatted. However I have a couple paths and filenames that are interrupting this process. I would just like to know how to use the terminal to: Locate the targeted external drive Then search that drive for paths/files that are over 130 characters Can anyone help?
I am trying to open an application on a different desktop on my MacBook (macOS Sierra Version 10.12.5). In the screenshot, I assigned Chrome to a different space (Desktop 1). I go to Desktop 2 and when I click on the Chrome icon, I am automatically switched to Desktop 1. How could I stay on Desktop 2?
I can't seem to access software updates on my Mac. When I go to 'App Store' on my Mac and check the Updates tab, it spins for a long time, then a dialog box pops up saying An error has occurred Can't load data from the Apple Software Update server. Things I've already checked:
The machine is still under warranty, and if it is in fact screen damage, I will try to get it covered. But before going to the store, I was hoping I could first determine if it's worth/necessary to go there, hence, this question.
First off, I’m using OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 and Safari Version 10.1.1. This website confirms that I “have a Unicode BASIC EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS font installed” and that my version of Safari “correctly recognizes that font” (which I believe to be the Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs font by Monotype). However, when I try to view these Unicode characters in my Emoji & Symbols viewer, I cannot see any of them.
A lot of questions and articles about this but I can't find a one that works on my system. Modifying emacs configuration looks working on other people's but it doesn't work for me. like this (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta) ; make cmd key do Meta Is this working on your system too? Currently I have no idea except just swap thos two keys using by third party app which I don't want to. Please help!
I am on a early 15" Macbook Pro Retina Display with dual Intel 4000 and Geforce 650M GPU. I know the early MBP 2013 doesn't natively support it. However I was told by this forum and others (posting screenshots with 4K@60hz) that there is a workaround where I am able to achieve 4K at 60hz or at least 50hz. I already bought the Mini Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0a active adapter and a 4K monitor. I use SwitchResX and I have done the pixel clock patch.
I can get the screen resolution of my Macbook pro using the AppleScript code on this site. *=URL=* The returned value matches from the information from "About this Mac".
Through a few formatting between Windows, Linux, and MacOS, my flash drive lost about 1GB or so. I only have access to MacOS Sierra now, is there a way that I can recover the unallocated space? *The unallocated space does not show up in diskutil list (terminal)
I switched iphones from a 5c to a 5s - both on AT&T. Got a new SIM card from AT&T store. The Contacts and old voicemails are all there and I can dial out as well as receive calls.
I do not have "Install macOS Sierra.app" anywhere on my computer yet when I open the app store the button on macOS Sierra reads "open" instead of download. After I click open, nothing happens. I removed the cache folders of the app store and restart, the problem sticks.
When a speakers private presentation notes are produced alongside a Keynote presentation, there does not appear to be an opportunity to protect them from editing and/or mistaken deletion. Can they be locked in the same way as the actual presentation frames are locked?
I have always kept Optimise Iphone Storage under iCloud for Photos on. Since last week however, it has stopped optimising and saving space locally on my phone.
I unchecked mail & messages in the spotlight preferences and also added the mail downloads folder to the exclude list but to no avail.
this message is annoying - can I disable it or remove the application as I only use Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Just to be clear this is on a mac with Sierra 10.12.5 and Excel 15.32 Cheers. Note, I have asked this on Superuser as well.
I have updated to 10.12.5 yesterday and I am facing some issues with Time Machine and volumes where the backups are stored. I used to have two Volumes where Time Machine backups are stored: network volume usb drive The first problem I faced was that all the backups, either on network or on usb drive, stuck on "preparing backup" state. I tried these solutions: reset Time Machine (removing /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist reset SMC and NVRAM
I have an older Macbook air and since upgrading to Mac OS Sierra get major performance issues. I see over 1000 threads in activity monitor and am trying to understand if it is due to iCloud drive sync process. CPU intensive tasks can freeze the mac, and operations take longer than expected
I have an iPhone (iOS 10) and a macbook (macOS 10). My SMS/iMessages used to be in sync between my computer and my iPhone. At some point, not sure when, they stopped syncing. Both devices are connected to my Apple ID. Handoff is enabled. iMessage is enabled.
This window does not have a tab, so once you alt tab away you can't alt tab back. Is there actually a way that I do not know?
I want to use my Android Pixel tablet as a second screen for my Macbook Air, similar to how users of the app Duet use their iPad as a second screen for the Macbook. Is there any free/inexpensive app that does this?
I can't find my podcasts in iTunes 12? They are all there in Finder in my Library, but aren't visible in iTunes?
I'm trying to add an HTML E-Mail signature to Outlook 2016 for macOS. The method that got me closest to my goal is documented here: http://mydesignpad.com/how-to-create-an-attractive-html-email-signature-for-microsoft-outlook-2016-for-mac/
I would like to use my touch ID to fill in my password at any website. Is there a plug-in for that or is it still inpossible. Example: Facebook asks me for a log-in on facebook.com and I want that when I lay down my finger on the touch id that it automatically fills in my password. Do I need to dream on or is there a possibility to reach this? Thanks in forward.
Two weeks, my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) started having kernel panics during sleep, effectively turning itself off (With all unsaved data lost, etc) and on while sleeping. I attached one of the crash reports, although I can't seem to find anything relevant in there. Can anybody tell what is the source of the problem and how can I fix it? Thanks.
I have MBP 13, 2015. When I watch some videos CPU Core 1 and 2 have a temperature near 70-80 °C. At this time the fan starts to work with some 1300 rpm. Is it a bad temperature in the meaning of long term condition for the cores' life? Should I configure my fan to increase the rpm at lower temperatures?
I just got a Magic Mouse that I'm using with MacBook Pro (15", 2015), macOS Sierra. I've noticed a problem where, if I'm in a window that has multiple areas with scrolling, if I start scrolling in one area, lift up my finger so I'm no longer scrolling but the inertia is still going, and then move my mouse over another area, the scrolling inertia in the first area will stop, and will continue in the new area. I've found this in multiple apps (Discord and Chrome so far), and in the case of Chrome, multiple web pages. One example is Facebook - if I hover over the news feed, make one quick swipe down the mouse so that it starts scrolling, then quickly move my mouse over the chat window, the inertia from that movement will stop in the news feed, but the chat window will scroll down.
When accessing an iTunes library shared over the local network, why do the usual artist images not appear? The album artwork appears just fine.
I'm on a Macbook Air, running El Capitan (10.11.6), and I'm not very knowledgeable about computers. I have a quick question about the Finder/Spotlight search.
I have something like but it never keystrokes y, it only keystrokes x, and when I reverse it it waits 5 second to do y first, but I just want x to repeat every 3 seconds and y every 5 seconds.
I've spent the day doing several researches and attempts on how to copy a file that is located inside an AppleScript app to the root Application Support directory (hdd -> Library -> Application Support). Originally I thought it was an issue with calling do shell script and administrator privileges but for some reason if I have a file located in an AppleScript app I try to call that file to be added to Application Support, for example: I've taken this down to the basic form when it comes to the folder path and file path but when I run the above I get an error message of: cp: Macintosh HD/Users/vader/someapp.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/foobar.txt: No such file or directory I can return true that the file exists in the app with: I've tried this with: but that didn't work either. Research when I tried to remove the file after manually adding it (yes I have admin permissions on my box): I've researched several areas to see how to implement the prompting of permissions using administrator
With this setup, I was able to hear the sound from my computer, but could not adjust the volume, and when I tried, instead of the usual popup showing the changing volume, I got this:  When I tried recording audio using Quicktime Player, it picked up the sound from my microphone, but no system audio.
I want to install OpenVPN on an iPhone 7 but can't get the OpenVPN app t open with the config file. I uploaded my own ovpn file to Google Drive and when I click on it it I can select "Open In" which shows me some apps including OpenVPN. If I tap OpenVPN it just flies away instead of opening the app.
The new globstar option requires bash 4. So.. Which bash are we on? Let us try out globstar : Is there any way to get support for this on macOS?
I have an event from Facebook synced to Google Calendar on my iPhone. Under the event details, I am currently listed as "Not Responded", but I would like to respond and confirm my attendance. Is it possible to reply to a Facebook event from Google Calendar on iOS?
I've read through several threads asking similar questions.. followed all instructions, but no luck. I installed ethereum's parity wallet a while back, but have since uninstalled.. still trying to run in the background though. I've deleted everything from the Library/Launch--- folders, and all traces that I can find. Here is a small exerpt my log if anyone can help:
The command works on my MacBook Pro, except when it's attached to my Thunderbolt display and the displays are mirrored, when nothing happens. When I disconnect the display, the notifications appear on the screen of the MacBook Pro. It also works if the screens are not mirrored. How can I get the notifications to work with the screens mirrored?
I want to add folder from launchpad, is it possible? I tried but coulndt put anyway. Is there an app or anything for this?
I'm preparing to publish an app I developed but the name I had in mind is already being used. To solve this I'd like to add a character/symbol (which relates to the name and gameplay) besides the name: ⟡. Is there a problem with doing this? Would this affect my app's visibility on the App Store.
Why does my iPhone use my location even though I tell it not to? As you can see from the Time Zone setting, I have it switched off, yet it says that my location was recently used. Why bother having a switch at all?
My MagSafe adapter stopped working 10 days ago, so I bought a replacement wire and replaced the original with this third-party wire. It worked fine until this morning. It magically stopped charging! So, I used one of those testers for current (This might've been a mistake) to check whether the charger was actually sending current or not. On touching the tester to the L-Shaped head, it sparked and then there was no current!
I configured DNSCrypt on router:  How to verify that this kind of blackbox setup is working with macOS, AppleTV and iOS? How to make sure no unencrypted DNS traffic?
I have a small shell script called "k" that i call everytime when i want to reset my complete Development Cycle: How can i find out the final name of the "Visual Studio Code"-Prozess to kill it also this way? I've tried: No matching processes belonging to you were found No matching processes belonging to you were found
My company requires the installation of a config bundle which (amongst other things) forces a 7 digit passcode on the lock screen. Usually the IT department will install the config bundle and get you to enter the new 7 digit passcode. One of my team members tried to log into their corporate mail via the ios mail app (without installing the config bundle first), her iPhone now has a 7 digit passcode on the lock screen (which she didn't set as it didn't ask her to) and she has locked herself out by getting the fingerprint wrong too many times.
I'm playing with macOS 10.13 beta but a volume seems to have been corrupted during migration to APFS. I can boot and log in but soon get a "static screen". I launched recovery mode and launched disk utility. When trying to run First Aid I get exit code 65. So I started the terminal: If I run diskutil apfs list I see the volume encrypted and locked. I then tried diskutil apfs unlockVolume /dev/disk1s1 which unlocks AND mounts the volume. Now fsck_apfs /dev/rdisk1s1 and fsck_apfs /dev/disk1s1 give error: container /dev/rdisk1 is mounted with write access.
I've got my hands on Apple Emoji TTC from Sierra and I'd like to install it on El Capitan, but since Apple Emoji TTF on el Capitan is a system file, it cannot be moved into trash, disabled or updated. Is it a possible operation at all? I cannot upgrade to Sierra, but I'm also fed up with seeing symbols instead of emojis because my OS does not recognise them.
and a lot of other goggles. But couldn't get it solved with either. It goes easy through : and but whenever i try: terminal returns:
I've enabled OSX Screen Sharing on a remote machine (OSX Sierra), following the steps provided in another question; in particular in this answer *=URL=* After enabling the Remote Management with the command in point 2) of the answer, i get: However, if I try to connect to the remote machine using Screen Sharing app or VNC Viewer (inserting the ip address of the remote host), it doesn't work. How to solve the problem?
based on some politics I cannot use proxychains* utilites ( no preload accepted ). As I understood is no chance to achieve it using sandboxes and no netspaces yet in OSX. I can play with the firewall little bit, but it looks complicated. Is there a way to redirect all traffic to the SOCKS proxy per specified cli app?
I have a MackBook Pro from several years ago. I have been in France the past few weeks, and I have been using a non-grounded adapter to a 3-slot extension to charge my devices. I was using this and felt the current vibration when it was plugged in and didn't think anything of it. Then I also had a personal adapter which broke, and after attempting to fix it, when I plugged into my computer it didn't work but when I touched the computer it shocked me. I have since thrown that away and I am back to using our family strip. Things charge normally on my computer, but i fear I may have broken the battery or something because every time I touch it, it seems to send a current through me causing a headache and anxiety. My question is, is this possible? Could there be a problem with the battery or am I imagining things?
Recently I had to switch to a Mac for my work. Since I'm used to Unix-like environments, I brought over my PS1 prompt generator from Ubuntu.
I have an Applescript that reports the currently playing song name, album, song number, and total number of songs on the album. If the album comes from a single CD or if the song comes from CD 1 of a multi-CD album, everything works, and I get the following:
Here's what I've tried: Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone Go to “General” and then to “Keyboard” Locate “Auto-Correction” and flip the switch to OFF This disables autocorrect for all apps, with the exception of Mail
Browsing my launch daemons/agents with LaunchControl today, I noticed this funny-looking user agent with the label "com.appstart.AppStart": "/Users/jstrout/Library/Application Support/AppPolicy/AppStart" -i -c 216107 -isn 5CE1E809-EF23-41E1-B157-B429F09DCCFF Looking at the executable, it is a 517264-byte executable in group wheel.
This happens regardless of which device is used. I've tried this on two iPhones, iPad and a Macbook.
I was working on illustrator and suddenly my laptop went off, and is now failing to boot. Random lines are appearing on my screen as it tries to boot. Below is a link to a video I made of the issue: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=79b5ThdXIjM
I'm trying to open iCloud prefs in System Preferences, but I get a preferences error saying "could not load iCloud preference pane" (see screenshot). I have run disk permissions, and even installed a new OS using recovery mode, i can however open iCloud prefs using another user account on the same computer, any ideas anyone?
Along the same lines as this other question, I've found a user agent I don't recognize on my system. The label is com.onlineapplicationrequest.AppRequest, and the command it's running is: "/Users/jstrout/Library/Application Support/AppCommon/AppRequest" --protect The ~/Library/Application Support/AppCommon directory looks like this:
A few months ago I copied the files onto an external drive. On discovering the files were missing, I went to copy these old files back to the same directory that has been partially emptied by Paragon HFS+, using OS X Sierra Finder.
I've got an iPad 4 that I use irregularly, so I was a bit slow to update it to iOS 10.3.2. Since doing so, I've found that Safari takes a few tries to start up normally, and, when I try to delete a site from Favorites after accidentally adding it twice, it freezes up for a moment, and may or may not close, but does not delete the bookmark.
Small issue: I only have a Sierra Recovery USB stick, so I can only use the terminal with whatever is already installed, like gpt, diskutil or pdisk. TestDisk for instance doesn’t work as it seems like it’s lacking some dependencies in this recovery environment.
I want to go for beta, but OTA updates are quite buggy, and on top of that, my phone doesn't see ota updates with beta profile installed. So I found ipsw image about 2,4GB, that I can download. If I flash that rom via iTunes without enrollment of my Apple ID, will I be able to use that beta?
I tried upgrading the software on my Macbook pro from OS El Capitan to Sierra. I downloaded software and was installing it. Got the instruction to restart computer.
2 kids with iPhones... Parent wants to setup controls. The two things I've seen are SL (SmartLimits) for AT&T PC (Parental Controls) on the iPhone. Using SL would limit Time, Numbers, Data, etc from the phone itself... while the PC would limit access to stuff like porn and other bad sites within Safari.
I have a Macbook Air mid 2012. If I get a thunderbolt mini display port to HDMI adapter can I connect my macbook to a 2nd monitor and have a certain window (app) running on the main screen while I have a second window (app) running on the connected monitor?
I recently started noticing that my emails were being replace to "Holidays in the United States" on the default Apple mail app. This is annoying because now I have to send emails from the browser. My name is correct in settings, does anyone know how to fix this? I am on macOS Sierra.
I have 3 users including me on my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" macOS Sierra with our own iCloud accounts signed in. My user account is Admin, it works perfectly with the Messages and FaceTime apps. However, the other two users are facing problems when logging into Messages and FaceTime:
I removed the T key on my MacBook Pro 2016 to clean under it, and when I tried to put it back on, the top part snapped on fine, but the bottom part wouldn't. I probably just put the key in wrong. Can someone guide me in the correct way to put the key back on? Thanks!
Is there a simple encrypted file vault for iPhone and Mac that share the same content, w/o third party server? This is the use-case: I have certain files (texts and images) that I want to be protected. On Mac, I can create encrypted disk and mount when I need the files. This works fine. However, what I want here is an app that works both on iPhone and Mac, since I want to use files on my iPhone as well. Preferably w/o third party, but if encrypted I allow using e.g. Dropbox etc. Here is a scenario:
I am using Pages 6.2 on macOS 10.12.5. Within Pages settings, Auto-Correction > Correct Spelling Automatically is disabled. I unchecked the Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Spelling While Typing menu item. I unchecked the Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement menu item. Within System Preferences, Keyboard > Text > Correct spelling automatically is disabled. Within Pages, if I select my document's table, open the Format pane on the right, and select Table, I don't see any options regarding spelling correction or autocompletion.
If I am storing photos on my Dropbox or Google Photos, can I delete them from my iCloud and still access them through these other apps?
I bought a discounted iPhone SE from Virgin Mobile (Sprint) which uses model A1723 which is supposed to be the "global" model at least based on the LTE bands. I, however, cannot locate anywhere if the Sprint model contains both a CDMA and GSM chip or if it only contains a CDMA chip. I've checked: *=URL=* which seems to indicate that there are 2 editions of model A1723.
I'd be glad if somebody could help me with these problems. For a couple of days I am experiencing weird behaviour with my MacBook Pro. OS is El Capitan 10.11.6. Could I maybe have a virus? Problems:
My iPhone 4 has many photos. I would like to have them all uploaded to iCloud, but I don’t have an option to enable iCloud Photo Library. How can I upload all my photos to iCloud?
I got iCloud drive which hang in the middle of an upload, this is the 3rd day I'm looking at 6.52GB of 6.52GB. The task seems to eat my CPU and bandwidth and makes using the Mac an ordeal. How to properly disable iCloud drive once enabled? What will happen if I click the blue remove from Mac button - will this erase my documents and desktop?
I'm using Forticlient to connect to a customer's VPN. It used to work on my MacOS, but it suddendly stopped with apparently no reason. After that I never managed to make it work again on my computer, even it it connects fine with every other device I try (Android, Linux, Windows, another MacOS).
I currently have the new MacBook Pro connected to a external monitor, USB keyboard, and a USB mouse. I set it to sleep every night but it wakes up with the slightest touch/activity on the mouse or keyboard. I also own two cats who walk all over my table, thus waking my MacBook Pro in the middle of the night from sleep. Is there a way I can set a keyboard shortcut to wake my MacBook Pro from sleep rather than any keystroke doing so?
Consider the simplest c++ code: In the macbook, if I type g++ test.cpp and then ./a.out, then the "Hello, world!" greeting successfully occurs. When I try to use an IDE such as geany, I got the error:
I'm currently trying to repair a corrupted APFS volume in Recovery Mode and want to include some screenshots or copy/paste some Terminal output to then paste into a bug report. How do I accomplish this from Recovery Mode to then transfer to a working Mac on the same network to submit?
I got a new MacBook Pro from late 2016, MacOS Sierra, 2 thunderbolt 3 ports. In this machine I need to plug in one external monitor via HDMI, and a few USB devices (mouse and keyboards). For this I bought an adapter that plugs in to the Mac's USB-C port, and supplies two USB 3.1 ports, one HDMI port and a power delivery for the USB-C power supply. The adapter is: Promate uniHub-C (*=URL=* The power supply works, when I plug in the power cable to the adapter, the computer charges. The HDMI works with another monitor.
We can use iStat Menus and other software. Is it possible to get the temperature of MacBook hardware components without extra software? To use only programs already installed/delivered with MBP?
Is there a way to remove sleep or standby on a MacBook Pro model id 11,3 mid-2014 that is running Ubuntu server 16.04.2 LTS image? I would like to close the lid while the ubuntu server is running if it's possible. Kind regards,
I had Windows 10 on my MacBook Air 128 GB (Windows partition 35 GB). I decided to install Linux and added additional partitions (4 GB and 15 GB) for Live Mode with persistence, but as of now after installing Linux, entering Windows shows a blue screen with Recovery/Your PC needs to be repaired ,error code:0xc00000f.
What could be the use of that selection like blue box(see the + sign and box from by it) which can be formed when we right click and drag in files like pdfs? on home screen this will be useful for multi selection of icons, so what is use of it in pdf? its is not selecting anything when we start dragging at some empty place. If its not having any function then why is it present?
I have Sierra on a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro. The computer takes long time to startup. Moreover, it is often very slow to execute simple commands, such as opening a textEdit file, opening a Finder window, etc. Below is a screenshot of 'htop' at startup. I don't understand all the processes that are running, so I can't identify the ones that are causing the slow running of Sierra. Can you guys tell ?
I am using an apple thunderbolt display and two mac pro's. I would like to connect the two processors to the one display. is this possible?
I need to disable two factor authentication to iphone with ios 10+ version, is that possible? or is it possible by supervisor mode ?
So i import images from my dslr to the photos app on my macbook which works perfectly but I only want to put a few of them onto my phone so it appears in my camera roll. I am aware of syncing an album through Itunes however they do not appear in the camera roll. Is there a simple method to transfer select images from photos to the camera roll?
By mistake, Chrome set my default location and search domain to Romania. How to change it back on macOS. I know this is possible because I have done it before. I just forgot to properly record how I did it so I know how to again...
According to Apple my friend's MacBook Pro supports up to 8Gb RAM. But I've heard people say 16Gb is possible. Is it possible later versions of OSX/macOS increased the supported limit?
My MacBook Pro mid-2012 is barely 5 months old and it just won't turn on one day. MagSafe Adapter doesn't show green or orange LED while charging. LED display did not show any lights either.
I have a Macbook Air 11.6" (early 2015) with macOS 10.12.6 installed on my Mac, and I noticed that the arabesque screensaver is not functioning properly. It crashed when previewing the screensaver in System Preferences, and it changed to another screensaver when it was selected. I have tried to reboot the machine on safe mode and also reset the NVRAM.
Randomly my dock icons will show the default application icon. Sometimes they return again. I have previously reset the dock and deleted the .plist, which temporarily corrects the problem, but it returns soon enough. Removing and adding the app to the dock again also restores the icon, until the next time. It's tiresome to do this all the time, obviously.
When I login to AppStore on Mac Mini, I get the message to review account followed by an error message  When I see the details in *=URL=* I get the below message. Need help in fixing it and login to AppStore.
I have more than one user account on my MacBook, but I'm almost always the one logging in. I don't want to have a click an icon or type my username. I do however, want my account to always be password protected. Basically, I want my account to be selected by default so all I have to do after turning on my computer is type in my password. If someone else needs to log in, they would press the back button,
I need to copy a large number of files and folders from one folder to another on the same SMB share exposed by an Isilon server featuring server-side copy. Copying individual files and folders through the Finder window works fine, almost instantaneously, and does not cause any significant network traffic, thus I assume that here server-side offloading works. However, when I try to copy files from the terminal, my network traffic goes up and the throughput is accordingly low. The share is mounted as follows: I tried to copy via the command line using cp, scp, ditto, and rsync to no avail, e.g., How can I imitate the behaviour from option-drag & drop through the Finder in the command line? Grateful for any hints!
I take daily showers in this bathroom. Showering produces steam and increases the humidity in the bathroom. I run the bathroom fan after showering for about 10 minutes, like one should, to remove much of the humidity.
My iPad has suffered a fall, and also because of keeping it open, and in charger, to read or play games or watch videos... its battery is pretty much gone. I need to change the battery or something - which means, I need to back up my system. I expect every day my iPad will simply become a paperweight.. so I really want to back up all these books.
I would like to know if it's possible to complete the word by pressing space like it happens on Android devices. This is because if you need to tap the word on the bar on top of the keyboard it's much slower compared to tapping space.
Where can one figure out which macOS versions are supported by Apple, and in which support stage they are? I ask because I always assumed that both the latest and the one previous version were supported. As of this writing, the latest version is 10.12 - Sierra. I just happened to land in the Wikipedia page for 10.11 - El Capitan and see the below info. Where do Wikipedia authors get this? Is there a corresponding Apple website to check?
I have a refurb 2012 Macbook Pro still under warranty. I have watched DVDs on it, and have burned audio onto blank audio CDs.
Any workflow to locally go from an mail.app message or mbox to Markdown? (locally meaning on the local machine and not through any webservice.)
Is it possible to create a shortcut that represents every file in a directory? I know I could just create an alias for the parent directory, but in my situation, I have to have an alias for each file. It would be prettier if I could create one alias that represented every file in a directory, rather than a whole bunch of them. The syntax, I imagine would be something like this: But of course that doesn't do anything.
I have a Mac Pro 2006 that has 64-bit processors, yet only boots 32-bit operating systems (aside from OSX). Is there a way I can install 64-bit Ubuntu Server, or any 64-bit OS for that matter, on this Mac? I'm getting tired of Snow Leopard Server.
I have a MacBook Pro from late 2011 (8,2). When I hit the power button, I hear the chime, then I see the apple logo, then a progress bar appears underneath. It goes to about halfway, then suddenly turns black, then fades to grey. And then nothing. It's not responsive to any keystrokes or clicks. The processor runs really hot and the fans run at full speed. Both fans are running properly.
I had an encrypted drive with two partitions. I tried to delete reFind but ended up deleting the entire EFI directory through Recovery Mode. Now my encrypted drive doesn't display any of my partitions. I am also unable to mount or unmount any volumes. How can I restore my Mac and reach/recover my encrypted data.
If I make a copy of WhatsApp chats on iCloud, then delete chats from WhatsApp on my phone, then make a new copy to iCloud, will the first backup with the deleted messages from before be available?
I recently saw that there are already UHD 4K Blu-ray drives (with SATA) available, like this one from Pioneer which should (combined with appropriate USB housing) make mounting the disks in macOS possible. So I was wondering if I can get UHD Blu-ray playback on my new iMac 5K 2017 working?
I'm creating an automator script that copies files from one folder to another and then runs an AppleScript to rename the file by splitting via delimiter and resaving with the second item. For example, using file names of: a new file$SG789.jpg file_2$123-456.jpg file_name$LG123.jpg this_file$558-432.jpg I'm trying to split the filename by the "$" dollar sign to create the following new files: SG789.jpg 123-456.jpg LG123.jpg 558-432.jpg However, when I run the script, I get the following error:
I've seen that newer versions of Linux block rm -rf / and require you to add no preserve root flag to the command to override it. Does macOS do the same if you are logged into the root account at the time and you accidentally type rm -rf / instead of rm -rf ./ is your entire disk just wiped?
I read on another site that you can use macOS Internet Recovery to install macOS on a blank SSD? Where would the files be stored? On the firmware? If there any way that the firmware could be erased? (I.e. would running sudo rm -rf / on the disk also wipe the firmware or is it more complicated than that? Is there any way that the firmware could be erased?). I'm working on a disaster recovery plan incase I ran a stupid command like sudo rm -rf /.
The iPad dings when there are messages, but the messages are not to me. I tried to add my iPhone number, but the iPad reject the number with the following messages:
watch is installed on my MBP using homebrew. When I run a command with UTF8 Output of Hebrew Characters without watch, it is shown correctly: With watch, the Hebrew characters of the address field disappear: I can easily work around the problem with while true and sleep, but I wonder if there's quick fix to the watch command. Is there a way to display Hebrew characters in the watch command?
I was running a script that takes ages in Terminal. I wanted to run it unsupervised while I was working away from my MacBook, so I chose from the menu (top right) username > Login Window..., which is NOT logout, but the lock screen.
I have to connect two apps to Bluetooth band (peripheral) at the same time and in same device. Please Guide.
The question kind of speaks for itself. I want to find a handy way to block new mail from coming in, to avoid distractions. I was thinking of creating a cronjob that enables and disables firewall rules on my MacBook a few times a day, but maybe there are other ways? I could also block the traffic on the router, but the idea is that while mail is blocked on the computer, I don't want to block it on mobile devices. What do you think would be the best solution? Even better would be if we could send and out of office or other gentile reminder that we only answer mail 2 times a day during 12-13h and 16-17h for example. But this is not so important, more like an experiment.
I have already installad iOS11 Beta 1 with Apple Beta Software Program. But there are new beta releases (Beta 2 and Beta 3), when I navigate to settings-general-software update, it says, iOS 11.0 Your software is up to date I have also checked version, it's 11.0 (15A5278f) which is actually Beta 1.
I have closed all programs running on it. With sudo lsof|grep ExternalHddName I wanted to find out the processes using this HDD. Nothing was shown.
I updated my iMac to 10.12.6. As soon as iMac restarted after the update was finished, the screen went off.
I just noticed that Safari does not recognise revoked SSL/TLS some certificates (for example *=URL=* but gives a warning for other cases (for example *=URL=* Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong?
My app store is somehow corrupted. I have installed Sierra, Numbers, Pages and Keynote. However I can install Sierra as often as I want. The app store does not recognize it to be installed and offers me the option to install it again. Further and even more annoying the three office apps permanently appear in the updates tab and are stuck in an update loop: They appear in the updates tab after installing they simply appear again. Is this a known problem to anyone and are there any solutions?
When my MacBook Pro is idle for a couple of minutes it automatically goes into sleep mode which turns off the Bluetooth. However, when it wakes again and I login; Bluetooth in the menu bar still indicates that it is on (both the icon and when click it the icon) and I am not able to reconnect to any deceives. I have to go to Bluetooth preferences to see that Bluetooth is actually off, and only if I toggle the 'Show Bluetooth in menu bar' will the menu bar show that Bluetooth is disabled.
I have a script that executes well in Terminal but not through Lingon X. This is what I have in "Run": The test button gives back: restic-backup.sh: line 31: restic: command not found But if I go to Terminal and enter:
I have a problem with iOS 10.3.x where the WLAN connection is dropped spontaneously while in use; it automatically reconnects when the settings app is open and in focus. Sometimes (but not often) it is fairly persistent, and disconnects again straight away, so I have to manually drop the connection and re-associate.
I want to reinstall macOS on my MacBook. But when it says "To download and restore macOS, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple" it doesn't proceed though I have pressed Continue.
Script: How do I provide assistive access to this script? When running this through 'Script Editor', all it it needs is 'Script Editor' to be enabled under 'Accessibility' in 'Security & Privacy'.
I have an online website that I'd like to move to a new URL. Therefore I need to edit all website html files (100+ files) to update the URL links inside each file of this website. I'm thinking of making an off-line copy of the website files to edit. Is it possibile to use Automator OS X to - open each file in the website file folder - search inside the file content for a specific URL link (say "www.website.com") and change it to the new URL (say "www.website.com/old")? Else, do I need to rely on a text editor + Automator to make this process? Or, can it be done using a UNIX script that you run in the Terminal ? Thanks for any advice on how to perform this process!
I recently bought myself a new Trackpad, since my old Magic Trackpad broke. Ever since, however, zooming (two finger pinch) gets stuck/disabled/not working somehow and, besides rebooting, the only simple solution is go to preferences → Trackpad and disable & enable PinchToZoom`.
I cannot do any new backups because my iCloud storage is full. I want to switch to using my computer for backups and delete the ones I have in iCloud. However I don’t want to lose my contacts and calendar that are also stored in iCloud.
After having my iPhone 6s locked for 2-3 hours, sporadically (once per week) it presents the following problem: No response to home button After pressing 1-2 times for 2-3 seconds the unlock button it shows black screen and the white "waiting circle" for 5-10 seconds It comes back to life but every time this happens it is also asking the Pin for the sim card. I would not consider this as a restart or that the phone shuts down and it just starts again because when this happens it does not show the apple sign that normally shows up when the iPhone is completely restarted.
I'm running the latest macOS (10.12.6) and something keeps annoying me a lot with Spaces: if you have an external monitor plugged in and spend some time configuring/customising your spaces placement, when you unplug the monitor, everything is semi-randomized. Semi, because most of the spaces will stay in the same order, but the number of spaces and the location of the spaces will still change. Here is what I have when the monitor is plugged in: Monitor space 1: empty space 2: app space 3: app space 4: empty space 1: empty space 2: app space 3: app space 4: empty mac book screen space 5-10: app (1 per space) space 11: empty space 5-10: app (1 per space) space 11: empty When I unplug the monitor, it becomes this: space 1: apps that was previously on space 5 and 6 space 2-3: ok, same apps as before space 4-5: empty space 6: app that was previously on space 7 space 7: app that was previously on space 8 ^ repeat up to space 9 / previously space 10 space 10: empty no more space 11 This is mo
My iPhone was not working, so I decided to force reset it (pressing the home button in sync with the power button) After this most of my apps were gone (including the settings, phone, messages, Facetime, etc). How do I fix this?
i have an old time capsule hard drive with a backup on it. i've restored backup from other drives, but this one has no valid backup folder (e.g. 2013-03-#######) but has a file ending with inProgress when opened in the finder. When I view "show contents" from finder, it shows a folder named "bands". it has almost 1 GB of data on it. Any suggestions?
I've been using startup key stated by apple here for a while, and they are pretty good. I can't find anywhere a way to force these in cli before a reboot ? So far I managed to use bless to netboot without the need of physical access to the machine, and press the startup-key Option. Does it exist a way to reboot a remote machine, and force a startup-key without physical access ?
Some podcasts are divided into chapters and you can skip to the next by double pressing the button on earphones, but if my earphones don't have that button can I achieve the same functionality from the lock screen? I remember there definitely was a "play next" button on lock-screen for Podcasts in the previous versions of iOS, but I can't find this button in iOS 10.
I want to build a folder action that cleans up the filenames of my downloaded files. For example Youtube_MyVideofile_(1080p_30fps_H264-128kbit_AAC).mp4 should be stripped by "Youtube" "30fps" "128kbit" "AAC" "(" ")" and "_" should be replaced to a "space". So the result would be MyVideofile 1080p H264.mp4
I have an ecobee 3 and I can't set the temperature exactly when using the home app while in Auto mode, instead it jumps to the degree directly above or below the desired temperature. When in Cold mode I can set the temperate in one degree increments. When using the ecobee app I can set the temperate in one degree increments in any mode. I assume this is a bug. Has anyone found a workaround?
I want to save all of the PNGs from this goofy website so I can turn them into a PDF. I thought I'd use Workflow for iOS, which I've never used before. I get the contents of this page and then get all the links But, when I want to filter or match those URLs for PNGs, I get weird applewebdata:// URLs, like
I'd like to access my Time Machine backup files using a little bash script. As I understand it, this requires a two-step process. First, I have to mount the Time Capsule "Data" partition:
I am wondering if the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller can be used with both the Nintendo Switch (obviously, it can) and my appletv(4th generation). The specific controller I am referring to is this one:
Opening a midi file (.mid) in GarageBand is the easiest thing ever, but how do I go the other direction? I want to take a piece I recorded as a midi performance in GarageBand and turn it into a midi file. How can this be done? Background: I have GarageBand 10.1.6 I record midi performances all the time in GarageBand and can easily export them as an MP3 I want to save/export them as midi files so that I can open them in Synthesia (Synthesia only opens midi files)
I'm learning Chinese, and I'd like to switch my system interface to Chinese to increase my familiarity with the language. However, since Chinese characters are not phonetic or alphabetic, it can be hard to even type or draw characters I read into a dictionary to look them up. I'd therefore like to find a way to copy text from the interface, such as app names, menu item names, etc. I know that strings files are found in the Foo.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/*.strings files. However, I can't figure out how to translate these files into a table mapping English strings to their localized equivalents for Chinese, and when I open the files in XCode, I don't see Chinese characters that I can readily copy. Is there a way to accomplish what I want?
Since wildcards aren't recognized by the GUI, is there another way?
I have access to an intermittent internet connection that is typically up about 99% of the time, but every 24 hours I am faced with a bit of a difficulty. For "Internet Sharing" OS X's default Wi-Fi behavior when a source network connection goes down is to cease the Wi-Fi sharing connection and for Airport Wi-Fi to go actively looking for a connection. I would prefer to have the "Internet Sharing" Wi-Fi connection stay up and reachable until the source network comes back online (so in the interim I can maintain LAN access to other computers). I have come across this write up: *=URL=* by Laszlo Pusztai about how to create a "Loopback" network service (that never goes down because it is local) that can be shared to Wi-Fi and while this is quite interesting it only provides for access to the local network via Internet Sharing and cuts off WAN access. I am thinking that if the Loopback service could be configured to provide DHCP and NAT services via bridging it could be a solution but I am
Re-indexing spotlight through System Preferences. I added the Applications folder to the Privacy filter and then deleted it, but it didn't seem to help. Same with other folders that I tried.
When using YouTube on the desktop, right clicking a video gives the option to copy a link to a specific point in that video. Is there a way to link to a specific point of a YouTube video from an iPhone or iPad? I've tried using the native iOS app and the mobile site, but I can't find a way to link a specific time stamp.
The notifications center is always just a swipe away, but I never use it. Stickies on the contrary I use them a lot, but I cannot easily have them on all desktops, hidden when I don't need them. It would be perfect to be able to open stickies with the same gesture used for the notifications center, does anybody know if an app like this is available?
I got a pop-up on my father's iPhone stating that there was spyware on it, along with a number to call for AppleCare support. I realized I only called the number because it was listed in a pop-up and wasn't really sure if it was really AppleCare. I looked up the number on my other phone and discovered it was a scam. How can I report this to Apple?
I want to easily remove all exif tags "Burst UUID" from a batch of photos. Snipped from this link: "All the photos that are taken in a burst sequence share a "BurstUUID" in their EXIF data" I have tried opening the .jpgs with Preview (Mac OS) and "Photos Exif Editor" (Mac App Store) but neither show "Burst UUID".
I have a really huge problem with my Brand new MacBook Pro 13". When I close the lid and I open it after serveral hours the battery is completely empty. So the Mac obviously won't sleep and do working in the background. So after that I checked the logs in the Console App and I found an process that will running every 1-2 minutes and obviously that will empty the MacBook battery. This process is called diagnosticd and does the follwing on console in short:
I am using my iPhone 7 Plus for taking work photos and I am finding the timer option unsuitable and using wired earphones isn’t practical. So I’ve been experimenting with Bluetooth headphones to try taking photos with the volume controls, but can’t get this to work. I did search via Google but all the results basically say that since the iPhone 5 people can use the volume controls of any wired and bluetooth earphones to take photos with the camera.
I enter some search words in the URL line of Safari. Upon pressing ENTER, I get the Google search result page. I click on one of the search results and of course, Safari takes me to that page. Everything as usual, nothing special so far.
I've heard that SSDs have a read and write limit.So,if my SSD is implanted on the logic board then I will need to get a new Mac.So how do I know if my SSD is removable via System Report or command line?
I am using MacBook Air. I am using Dell(I tried with HP, Siemens mouses also) mouse. My MacBook Air has two USB ports, one at right and one at left. The right USB port supporting my USB mouse and iPad and iPhone. Left USB port only supporting per drive or external drive.
I recently updated to macOS Sierra 10.12.6 on my MacBook Pro (2013). However, since then it keeps shutting down every 15 minutes or so. If I restart it, it will boot back without an error message but will then shut down again after roughly 15 more minutes have passed. This issue occurs regardless of the apps I'm using and whether its plugged into power or running off battery.
And nothing. Could not even get Recovery Mode.
I'm trying to do the following in an Automator workflow: Ask for Finder items from folder A In folder A, add a suffix to the file names Copy them to folder B In folder B, with an AppleScript, split the file name by a delimiter and then rename the file with the second half of the text split In folder B, add a prefix to the file names In folder B, add a suffix to the file names Here is a sample of the file names I'm trying to rename: a new file$SG789.jpg file_2$123-456.jpg file_name$LG123.jpg this_file$558-432.jpg The delimiter I'm splitting by is the "$" dollar sign to create the following new files: SG789.jpg 123-456.jpg LG123.jpg 558-432.jpg These are the file name formats I'd like for the automator to continue processing.
My macs gpu failed and my hard drive decided to go with it, apple replaced the logic board for free but told me to buy a new hard drive. I found a working 80gb hard drive in an old laptop of mine and was wondering if i would be able to replace it without causing any issues (both the same brand).
10.10.5 and 10.11.6 on same network, Imac and macbook pro. I get a re-ocurring popup that says, "cannot connect to idisk" popup notification. It keeps returning even though I select "cancel". It holds my system hostage, not allowing other apps to work until I (again, and again) try to click it away by pressing cancel. It goes away for a while, but eventually returns.
To copy photos from iOS (and make space for more photos) one connects the device (iPhone or iPad) with a cable to the Mac and opens Photos, then imports. But with music things "just work" without the user having to do anything. I have "smartlists" set up. When the music (even just play count) changes on my Mac, they sync wirelessly and with no intervention on my part, not even triggering the sync.
My stepdad recently ran into some issues with his iPhone, and I'm trying to fix it. From what I understand, the home button is broken and he factory reset it and took out the sim card (as he got a new phone). The issue is that I can get it to the white Hello screen, but it wants you to press the home button to continue - and I can't. So I connected it to iTunes to try to bypass it, however it can't actually connect to iTunes as I get the message:
I got myself a MacBook today, and one of the steps I took to set it up was adding my work email account (Microsoft Exchange) to the Mail app. I also had to give other apps access to my personal Google account, but because of that my linked Gmail account was added to the Mail app as well. Now, I get notifications from new messages in my personal mailbox every few minutes.
I trying to use the Gmail send mail as feature in which I use the iCloud mail credentials and smtp.mail.me.com. It works, I was able to send mail from Gmail web interface while the sender was my iCloud account.
Every time I sign in iCloud I receive in iPad a notification to allow login. Thats ok!
I managed to import all the photos off an old iPhone 3G I recently rediscovered while going through my junk drawer. I used Image Capture, but now I’d like to get all the texts.
My MacBook Pro 15" is not turning on but fans are running and it repeatedly starts and stops, no physical damage and also sometimes it starts but now it is totally frozen after shutdown (usually I kept the mac on sleep mode), warranty ended 1 month ago. I have reset SMC, PRAM, and removed the battery plug - the problem still persists after these.
I have been trying to install Windows via Bootcamp on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017, 3 TB Fusion Drive; Mac OS 10.12.6) and messed up. Here are the steps taken so far: Ran Bootcamp and partitioned successfully Rebooted to install Windows 10 and hit an error Stopped Windows installation and rebooted in Mac OS Tried to restore to single partition using Bootcamp and hit an error Tried to restore to single partition in Disk Utility, messed up and Fusion Drive now show as 1.62 TB only Ran First Aid in Internet Recovery Mode and had nothing to repair Erased and reinstalled Mac OS in Internet Recovery Mode
after installing rEFInd boot manager on my macbook pro '15 w/ macOS sierra, on boot my computer takes ~20-30 seconds on a black screen then boots directly to macOS utilities. I don't know why this is happening, I am unable to boot into my regular OS. The only way I can do this is by pressing x and directly booting from the recovery screen
How to hide the top menu of chrome? File/Edit/View/...
I have a macOS Sierra virtual machine that I would like to use (re)sign ipa files, but I keep running into problems. Sometimes IPA files sign fine in the virtual machine but for other files, there's always some problem associated with the ipa file.
On a fresh installation of macOS, I decided to use XAMPP (I have previously used MAMP (free ver.)) but I have encountered some simple issues.
I have typed the name of a bird on a .jpg photo. I made a spelling mistake and tried to edit it. I can create a new text box but not edit the original. Is there a way to edit a text box once you have saved the file
This day I create a new user. User "B". User B is a standard user. He don't have any admin rights. At this moment we have: Hard Disk encrypted with FileVault User A with Administrator rights User B with NO-Administrator rights With this scenario,the day n+1, every time I turn on the computer I can: Type the hard disk password Wait until disk is unlocked Choose user A or user B Type the password of the user selected Wait until user's session start But also, I can do the following: Type user B password Wait until disk is unlocked and user B session start
I need to download the macOS Sierra installer again (latest version, 10.12.6) as my latest installer seems to be corrupted. But going into the Purchased tab in the App Store does not show Download (obviously), but Open. Even if I move out the current installer, I never get the Download button ... how can I proceed?
So I recently lost an iPhone 6s Plus, and ordered a new iPhone 7 plus through the insurance, once the 7 arrived, I restored it via iTunes from a previous backup, now here's the issue. It is logged into my current Apple ID and iCloud accounts, and it is asking me to sign into the accounts to confirm, but they have a two way authentication that sends a 6 digit code to your main device, so essentially it should be getting sent to the new 7, but I receive no message
I have a jailbroken iPad 1 (running iOS 5.1.1), and I would like to install some free apps on it (namely YouTube). Unfortunately the App Store won’t let me install most apps on such an old device. Is there any way to work around this limitation and install an older version of those apps that would be compatible with my iPad and iOS 5?
I have transferred the .ipa whatsapp installer to an app called Xdownloader on my iPhone 5s running iOS 8.1.2 (jailbroken). The .ipa file is about 110 megabytes. My free space was 1.7 gigas. I then deleted and installed whatsapp several times where each time I would open Xdownloader, click on the .ipa file, and choose to open it using "AppCake" in which I would get the option to install popping up right away.
I am using chflags hidden method to hide apps in /Applications folder. It immediately hides the application in Finder, but when I click on the Applications folder in Dock (image below), I can still see the hidden applications there, until I restart the computer. So the question is: Is it possible to also update the visibility of the application in the Dock preview to Applications folder without restaring the computer?
YouTube videos have a duplicate set of controls under the normal controls in Safari. Safari: Firefox: MacOS 10.12.5 and Safari 10.1.1. The only Safari extension I have enabled is 1Password. What's causing that other set of controls under the normal ones?
However, the Mid 2011 will not back up automatically, even though the box was ticked when the TM backup was first set up. Both iMacs are set to be encrypted backups, so there is no difference between the settings. Also, they are both using SMB to connect to the NAS. I have tried to delete the backup of the Mid 2011 and redo the initial backup.
This is the second game I run into this problem with, the first being "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky" (which I ran using Wine, not Bootcamp). The interesting thing is that the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. works perfectly well (Wine as well). I already disabled "Adaptive brightness" as recommended in this question: MBP Boot Camp Windows 8 brightness issue, and it didn't help, unfortunately. Does anybody know any way around this problem? UPDATE: I can adjust the brightness in FEAR if the game is run using Wine, but I'd like to solve the problem in Bootcamp.
I have two iPhone 4 and I'd like to transfer calls from one to the other. Moveover I'd like to ring on both phones. Is this possible? I know how to transfer calls, but only one phone rings. Thank you for your help.
I don't have the little circles next to my texts with photos or the gray initials of the contacts. The circles ARE in group texts but not next to ALL texts in my message list. I have NO button for Show Icon Photos like everyone else does (in settings).
Now some technical details. I've tried to use both a .keylayout file as well as bundle file. I've tried to install it both in /Library/... and in ~/Library/.... When the problem appears, it's not easy to recover it, even with reboots. Removing/adding my custom layout again doesn't work most of the time. The Touch Bar does switch using built-in languages. I've contacted the developer of Ukelele, but he couldn't test it due to not having a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and had no clue. So I looked into logs and found a Touch Bar crash:
My mum received a piece of spam, that could not be deleted or moved on her iPad using the mail app. It was only removed after deleting the account within the mail app, and recreating it. Is it possible to send an email that can't be deleted from the mail app?
macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F2073) On my Mac whenever any application (chrome, spotify, slack, etc...) enters full screen mode I cannot exit or interact with the application in any way. option+F11 does not result in any change option+F10 does not result in any change option+F9 does not result in any change option+F8 does not result in any change command+F does not result in any change command+shift+F does not result in any change command+control+F does not result in any change Mousing to the very top of the entire monitor reveals a menu bar which does not respond to being clicked Window control buttons (red, yellow, green - top left corner of the window) do not respond to being clicked. command+W does not result in the window closing If an application supports multiple windows (eg: chrome may have multiple windows with tabs inside of them), I can move the window around but I cannot interact with anything regarding the application (all of the above also applies to this sort of window). I ca
I've been a Mac user for a while, and I was really upset about the removal of the startup sounds in the new MacBooks post-2016. I was wondering if there was a way to turn the startup sound back on, or even edit the startup procedure to play a sound file. I currently am using a 2017 MacBook Pro 15-inch running macOS 10.12.6.
I already get two-factor authentication alerts on my iPhone and iPad. Is it possible to stop them from appearing on my MacBook Pro as well?
After changing my iCloud account password, which I also use to log in to macOS, I can no longer sign in to Messages which means I can't use iMessage or SMS messages on my MacBook. Every time I enter my iCloud account email and password I get an alert, "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with [my email address]." The dialog has a link to iCloud Preferences and if I proceed to sign in there, I then get an error message that my username or password was incorrect (even though I know it's correct). This happens every time I try, the same thing happens with Facetime.
I think it may come from eclipse for java programming. But I don't use java programming anymore. Can I delete "Momentics" and reinstall it if I need it?
I have a table of data, I am using the following formula =ROUNDUP(Salary::Table 1::G2:BC5/6,0) Error : The range Salary::Table 1::G2:BC5 can’t be used as a single value. What am I missing ?
If I tell Siri "email me," the right thing happens: a new message is created with my email address as the recipient. But if I open the email app and type "me" as the recipient, I'm told "Invalid Address" when I try to send the message. How can I get the email app to understand that "me" as a recipient means to use the email address corresponding to who I've told Siri is me?
I'm helping a friend migrate off of a Macbook. I've created an imap account on a server to hold the emails.
It used to be shift + F14 or fn + F14 for scroll lock. I don't think it works anymore.
According to the prerequisites of CUDA, the Mac should have a CUDA compatible GPU installed. Does the Radeon Pro 500 series from the new iMac confirm to this requirement? The main objective is to run deep learning Python codes and I am hoping whether a Mac would be suitable.
I am using Day-O in place of Mac's default clock in the menu bar. But now Day-O is placed in the left as shown below:-
When I try using Voiceover to indicate the charge, will it only work if the iPod has a green light? A green light shows the battery has a high percentage charge.
Seems that my python3.5 is broken. I can still call it, either with python3.5 or with /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5. But it does absolutely nothing, particularly, it does not open a Python console. The only thing I did to it was setting a symlink with: How can I repair my Python? Was it really the symlink who caused harm?
I got a MacBook Air as my working computer running MacOS Sierra 10.12.5. Within the intranet at the company office we got a network share. Whenever I want to use it, I have to add it via the Finder using the CMD + K command. smb://server/share This is then mounted as: /Volumes/share/ There are two problems or questions about it.
I did a horrible newbie mistake. Recorded about half of a really cool interview with my headphones on, without realising it. I can hear my voice, coffee shop noise, and very very light sounds from the interviewee. Is there a way I could clean the noise to only get the interviewee? So sad.
I backed up my iPhone prior to taking it to Apple for repair, and ended up with a new iPhone. When I tried to restore the backup onto my new iPhone however, iTunes informed me I have no backups available. I located the backup file under MobileSync/Backup but I can't get iTunes to recognise it.
I am unable to get shimo to connect to l2tp sites as it keeps saying 'unable to launch ipsec backend racoon' system.log is showing the below i can disable System Integrity Protection but i would rather not, any ideas people?
I really don't know what is wrong with my screen . Can someone please tell me what to do.
I am using Day-O as the clock on the menu bar in place of the default clock. By default, Day-O is showing the display like below:
But there is at least one change: libusb works with a PN532 breakout board connected to the Mac via an FTDI adapter. Before installing the driver, I got an error, even though the adapter seemed to work fine.
To me, this shows that in general the proxy authentication works fine, if the system can get the username and proxy from somewhere. The question remains how/where to store the username/password so that all system services can find it. Some system services (I assume) don't have any means to find the proxy credentials where I'm currently storing them.
I have a folder containing scripts and files they operate on in a root folder /data. I would like to have them automatically backed-up as they get updated but I can't move them out of /data, as that's the folder most scripts use to locate their files. Is there a way to do this?
I have 2 external monitors hooked up to my MacBook (running Sierra). Every time I wake it up form sleeping it has the Desktop-Spaces mixed up between the integrated screen and one of the monitors. Thus I need to rearrange ~5spaces 4 times per day. Is there a way to avoid that?
I've recently purchased a MacBook 12' 2017 and would like to restore it with a TimeMachine back-up of my previous MacBook Air 13' 2014. When I try to do that from the recovery mode, an error message says something about the two models not being compatible. I wonder if this is indeed the case and if there is a workaround.
I have an iPhone 6 which charges on cables selectively. Meaning, I have other devices: iPad Mini and other iPhone 5s, and they all charge fine on any cables, except for my iPhone 6.
I'm using Workflow on iOS, specifically, an iPad Air 2. Whenever I get the contents of a web page or the links from that input, I notice that all of the links are re-written as I'm unable to use this input in the rest of the Workflow, because the steps don't know how to work with applewebdata:// For example, if I get all of the links on a page and try to resolve their content I get an error like unsupported url
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? For the "Weekly demo" one, I could ask the organizer to cancel and re-send. But for the unnamed one, I have no idea what this could be because all of the recurring meetings on my calendar are named!
The 9A8CE4BE-… is apparently the CoreStorage UUID. These UUIDs are also related:
My task is to create a simple database containing information about the MacBooks my company owns. In order not to do it manually, I decided to ask everyone using a Mac to send me a system report file in the .spx format, then I've built a simple parser to extract basic info from these files. I've been able to extract CPU model and freqency, RAM size, etc.
I received a Live Photo in the form of a JPEG and MOV files. How do I combine the two into a proper Live Photo that I can use on my lock screen?
Apple has a help page that documents the Item Chooser; an accessibility utility that lets you navigate a webpage on a Mac in Safari (and apps too, I think) by choosing a web page's interactable items from a menu instead of clicking with the mouse:  I can't seem to get this Item Chooser panel to appear. I have Voice Over enabled and am seemingly triggering the Item Chooser successfully by clicking VO-I on the keyboard (as is described on the help page). I get a message indicating that I'm doing things correctly…
I want to find the .mobileconfig file in the IOS10 that contains all basic setting information of IOS10 like (Restrictions, Passcode, Wi-Fi, Mail, etc.) and export it to Mac. How can I do it?
control> is used to switch to space right. I use two monitors. The above shortcut works on one monitor. To make this shortcut to work on the second monitor, I need to click on the second monitor and then use this shortcut. Even focusing on some application using cmdtab opened on second monitor doesn't work. How to make this work on the second monitor using keyboard only?
I don't know what this is called, can anyone clarify? Is it called the name / hostname. I don't know what you call it. On Ubuntu my Terminal shows kalima@coolbox:~$ But on OSX my Terminal shows compname:~ kalima$
I have iPhone 5 which is running iOS 7.0.4, in Software updates section, it is showing I can upgrade to iOS 8.4.1, I've read on other sites that iPhone 5 can be upgrade to iOS 9 and one user on Apple forum even said that it can be upgraded to iOS 10 as well. So why it is not showing me the last supported version? Or I have to first upgrade to 8.4.1 and only then it will allow me to upgrade to iOS 9?
I use an iPhone 7 Plus with an Overboard waterproof bag. I take a lot of photos and the waterproof bag is very cumbersome. I've noticed the only holes in the iPhone are the charging port and the speakers. The rest of the iPhone looks sealed. If I put tape over the speakers and charging port, will that be enough waterproof my iPhone 7 Plus? Are there any other "holes" in the iPhone?
So recently, I have noticed that commands like ssh, git push, and git pull sometimes stop working. They only start working after I restart my computer. The interesting thing is that I can still browse the web, use other apps that require internet access perfectly fine.
I can use time to GMT to get the difference in time between the current time zone and that of GMT. Is there a way to plug in coordinates of a specific location and get the time zone of that location, then compare it to GMT, or at least compare it to the current time and then to GMT?
We are trying to access some files from a Mac that was used by an ex-employee. The hardrive is password protected, so we are not sure of how to go about accessing it.
How could I improve the performance of my MacBook and stop throttling? Although the CPU load is not by 100%, the CPU cores heat up to 100 degrees.
I enter the time machine. I select a folder in finder. I see red bars on the right. If I try to click a red bar, scroll or click up/down arrows, nothing happens. It looks like I can't go back in time. I tried to leave the TM open for a while. Nothing. I tried other folders, same result.
I would like to know a way to boot from an ISO disk image on my iMac running MacOS X Tiger. I DON'T want to use a USB stick or a DVD. Is this possible?
I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a PowerPC G4, it does not meet the minimum requirements for Leopard (400MHz rather then the "minimum" 867MHz), however it actually runs quite well, it's fairly snappy, and the lower level elements such as Terminal run more smoothly than they did in Tiger. There is only one thing that is negatively impacting performance: certain animations. I have managed to disable most of the offending effects, and the rest don't seem to have any effect on performance, with the exception of one: the open animation on docked folders.
I have a large photo library on my 16GB iPhone (20,000 photos, mostly of cats...), and 120GB free space on iCloud (60GB is taken up by my photos). I have 900MB free space on my phone. Despite the 'Optimise Storage' option being turned on, it appears that Photos is keeping high-resolution originals of my photos in my almost depleted phone memory - taking up way more space than should be taken up by 20,000 tiny thumbnails.
I have been wanting to enable BitLocker without a compatible TPM (my MacBook Pro) on a Bootcamp partition that has read / write access to the EFI. Is there a way to do this?
I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse suite, but they do not work well with my Mac, the mouse usually gets stuck and the there is a large delay when typing with the blue-tooth keyboard. How can I get rid of that?
I am trying to buy an iPhone 7, but when the seller sent me photos of the box, it had a ICCID (SIM card number) number printed on it, along with IMEI, Serial number and part number. All other iPhones I ever saw have no ICCID on the box. Does this mean this iPhone is tied to a carrier?
I installed the Star VPN application from the App Store and connected to United States VPN. Everything was working fine until I removed the application. I'm able to access some Bigger or famous sites such as Google, Facebook, Youtube, Stack Exchange, etc. but I can't access other websites such as w3schools.com, kibase.com, etc. Not only it affected my Macbook, but other devices connected to the same router are not able to access these websites. Only after installing the Star VPN back on Macbook, these sites are accessible but only from that Mac which again won't load on even closing the VPN. Symptoms that I noticed after uninstalling Star VPN: Can't Open small websites Location Unavailable on Google Affected Every device connected to the same router Things I Tried: Reset my router Doubled checked the IPv4 and DNS settings(using a static IP address and 8.8.4.4, 8.8.8.8 DNS) Checked Browser Proxies(none used)
I am getting Little Snitch alerts for Firefox trying to connect to the malwaredomains.com with the IP-address 76.63.222.170. I have blocked the connection, but I wonder why Firefox needs to connect to that address? Can I trust it and let it connect?
We are developing a multiplayer game in which user has to buy some credit point through in app purchase, then he can multiply those points by winning multiplayer challenges with friends. On reaching a certain level of points, he can reward himself by re-deeming gift vouchers (amazon, ebay, etc) through those points. Does apple allow this type of game structure? Please suggest.
I'm using back quote many times but never use the '§' symbol. I'd like to change the key to always write back quote instead. does anyone know how can I change it programtically?
I'm trying to set up automatic profile switching between my Mac and a remote host. I'm having problems getting the profile to change to my default "Mac" profile when I exit from a remote SSH session. I have added \(session.username)@\(session.hostname) as a Badge on this default "Mac" profile, but not the remote profile.
When I reboot either my macpro or my laptop the following events happen: A: On signing into any google app, I get asked to re-authenticate. (I use Authenticator on my phone for my second factor. Even though I have "Remember me on this device" I get asked to re-enter every time. B: Right after entering my icloud password, I get an email notification that my account is used on a new device.
How do I rename files by moving the first 4 characters (numbers in my case) in file name to the end of the filename using A Better Finder Renamer?
I have installed DeployStudio. I am trying to install macOS Sierra on VMware Fusion. In the startup disk section, there is no network startup option. I have created a server. I can connect to server from the browser.
As is explained here and here, when POST is completed, EFI chooses an operating system, the location of which is stored in NVRAM. If multiple installations of OS X are available, BootROM chooses the one that was last selected by the Startup Disk System Preference. The user can override this choice by holding down the Option key while the computer boots, which causes EFI to display a screen for choosing the boot volume.
When programming with Xcode (8.3.3), the "View as" feature displays the user interface on many simulated Apple devices. Yesterday, I could choose among the following devices. AppleTV iPad (5th generation) iPad Air iPad Air 2 iPad Pro (9.7 inch) iPad Pro (10.5 inch) iPad Pro (12.9 inch) iPad Pro (12.9 inch) (2nd generation) iPhone 5 iPhone 5s iPhone 6 iPhone 6 Plus iPhone 7 iPhone 7 Plus iPhone SE Today, these devices are still listed in the Scheme Editor next to the "Play and "Stop" buttons (build and run, stop icons), as shown below.
I've read of some users having experienced that the Force Touch trackpad completely stopped working: that is, not only they can't click, but there's also no selection. In my case, the problem is different: the selection always works (the typical test I make is with Quicktime, where the fast forward button goes at different speeds in function of the pressure). What I'm missing is just the "click" feedback. But not always: in an intermittent fashion (I must also say that I have the strong impression that, when it works, it's less strong than when I bought my MacBook Pro). Intermittent at the level that it worked when I started typing this question, and doesn't work now that I'm reviewing it before posting.
I want to view the price of Cut The Rope 2 on the iOS App Store. However, because it's an app I've already purchased, the price listing has been replaced with the "redownload" button. Is there a way to view the current price of an app I've previously purchased?
I've got an iPhone 6 of the A1586 model (I believe it's called the Global/Sprint model). I believe it is unlocked. Will an american H2O sim's voice, text, mms and data features work on my phone? Thanks.
Trying to print from iPad, worked fine until we got upgraded from 60 MB/s to 100 MB/s; new router is dual 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz tried both, updated printers firmware. Curiously we can still print from within 'brother' app; can print pdfs photos webpages etc... it's just AirPrint with iOS apps like mail, safari that doesn't work: "No air printer found".
On OS-X it's Opt+Cmd+E or Cmd+R or certain menu options (How to clear the cache or do a hard refresh in Safari?). Is there a way to do this for Safari on an iPhone or iPad?
I have an iPad running iOS 9.3.5. When I open the App Store it opens with a blank screen, and “Updates” is the only panel that shows any data. How can I fix this?
With VirtualBox guest additions installed (both at 5.1.24 r117012 (Qt5.6.2)), Input > Mouse Integration enabled, my Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit guest mouse coordinates are not aligned with my OS X 10.12.5 host mouse coordinates. The guest pointer is positioned to the bottom-right of the host pointer, i.e. I have to use the tail of the cursor's arrow to select anything.
How can I remove a "shared" drive from Finder left bar (and my Mac mini late 2012 computer) under macOS Sierra 10.12.6? I've tried all the suggestions I can find online, but nothing seems to work. It is a drive called “intel_ce_linux”, and I first saw it after my new Internet Service Provider technician "installed" and checked my new Internet modem. How can I get rid of it completely (i.e. not just hide), please? I think the guy mentioned something like Bonjour (pardon my French…) while checking the modem, but I am not sure…
So, I have two monitors, and I often have multiple spaces on each, including an iterm2 window for each monitor. An issue I have is that if I have my iterm2 window active on one monitor, and then I switch to my second iterm2 space on the other monitor with a command+right-arrow press, the monitor I switched to is not necessarily the iterm2 window that is in focus. It seems to be in focus exactly 50% of the time (alternating), and this really screws up my workflow when constantly switching between windows. Is there anyway to guarantee that the iterm2 window of the space i just switched into is always the one in focus unless I specifically focus on the other? This is only an issue when changing spaces resulting in an iterm window open on each monitor.
Note: The desired character → (U+2192, Rightwards Arrow) is not the same as ➡ (U+27A1, Black Rightwards Arrow). The latter renders as on iOS, and as on Windows
Way back in the mists of time, when we’d insert funny little mirrors into our Macs, we could hit Control ⌃ Shift ⇧ and Eject ⏏ to immediately put our display to sleep. Once the mirror slot and its attendant Eject ⏏ key was removed, we could do the same thing by pressing ⌃ Shift ⇧ and Power ⌽⏻. However, I’ve just got a 2017 MacBook Pro, and when I use the same key combination with its Touch ID power button, nothing happens. Is there a way (preferably without installing any additional software) to enable this keyboard shortcut for immediately putting the display to sleep, or to enable a different keyboard shortcut to do the same thing, on this Mac?
I want to pull Safari history from a users OS X device but there is no history.plist file? I have the history.db but it only contains a days worth of data. What am i missing? Should I see a history.plist?
I own a 2013 15” MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM, running macOS Sierra. I would like to create my own ringtones from the songs in my iTunes music library.
I'm trying to save three distinct variables that my Applescript application would then be able to access on launch, and if the user wishes to he may manipulate those variables from within the application. More specifically, I'm working on a script that runs a bunch of equations based on a user's selected latitude and longitude, and outputs the results in a string, including the city's name. If the user wishes to, he may choose a different city and restart the script based on that city.
I had moved my Photos library to ExternalVol at one time in the past, but that was over a year ago and the Photos library has long since been moved back to my main SSD. It is in its standard location in the Pictures folder under my home directory, and also shows up in that location on the backup of my main SSD on TMVol.
I have the following current setup: /Volumes/Swap (8092MB) HFS+, Journaled /Volumes/moOS (macOS 10.13 beta 3) (~100GB) HFS+, Journaled
I use an iMac (late 2013, with Sierra v10.12.6) where 3 user accounts are setup. Every time I login after restart, I am not able to login with my account (say, user1) even with the correct password, the password box just shakes indicating wrong password.
My other apps work great. Downloaded directly from the Apple Developer site.
Would having 2 monitors attached to my USB hub (along with 1 monitor attached to the MiniDisplay port) contribute to the CPU getting hotter? My MacBook: Core i5@2.5-GHz 16-GB of RAM 1 HooToo 7 port USB hub 2 Diamond USB Multi-Display Adapter the USB Display Adapters attach to HP 2511x (25") and Samsung S24D300 (24") the MiniDisplay port monitor is HNC iF281D (28") MacOS 10.11 (El Capitan) I installed iStat to monitor things.
Skype isn't showing up in Siri's third-party apps for me at all. Running latest versions of everything. WhatsApp, etc., all showing up. Known problem?
If I choose to stay subscribed, for songs that are improperly marked 'Apple Music' and should be 'Uploaded' instead, how can this be repaired? (I've been reluctant to pick 'Update iCloud Music Library' because of all the warnings to back up your library first - is this safe in my case?) What is the best way to repair my library?
I have installed windows 7 alongside MacOs using bootcamp. Accidentally my mac partition converts into RAW state while accessing from windows. I can't even see the partition on startup. Can you please help me how to convert RAW partition to Apple HSF+ ?
I'm having issues identifying what type of PowerMac G4 Quicksilver I have. Looking at the stickers on the machine, I initially come to the conclusion that the machine is a Power Macintosh G4 800 DP (Quicksilver)800 MHz PowerPC 7450 (G4) x2 (that's taken from everymac.com) however when going to About This Mac the machine shows it only has one processor, making me think its a Power Macintosh G4 800 (QS 2002)800 MHz PowerPC 7455* (G4). The case itself has these two notes:
In my ~/.profile But $ locale prints empty LC_ALL: How can I set LC_ALL to "en_US.UTF-8" ?
I have impatiently updated my Mac to the High Sierra Public Beta and I noticed something strange when I was trying to mess with my external hard drive. I have a 4TB WD MyPassport for Mac and I was planning on partitioning it so I could have half of it to use as a Time Machine and the other half for storage. So, I naturally thought I would reformat the drive as APFS and then partition it so everything is in the same format as my internal hard drive. However, once it was in the APFS format and in the partition drop-down, everything was grayed out from the plus/minus buttons to the resize text box. Down below where they normally display the errors it only said that "This volume cannot be resized." I did also run into the issue where I thought that I would just reformat it back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (AKA: JHFS+). In the drop-down for the Erase menu, I was only given the four APFS options as the format. So, being the hard-head I am, I went into terminal and used the "diskutil erase
I got this error. Once i rebooted the system, I am not seeing the partition name by pressing ALT key. Can someone help me with the steps to make this partition as bootable ?
Look at : *=URL=* also others link have same problem no concrete answer. What is a minimum native functionality ? Many app's already have very similar view and functionality with own web app. I prepare to implement push notification , something around camera (new feature) and different UI style . If this is not enough i don't know what to do.
Uploading of Desktop and Documents to iCloud hasn't worked for me for months (macOS 10.12). I have now started from scratch with a brand-new install, and am trying to sync just ~70MB of files that are sitting on the desktop. It's been stuck on "77.8MB of 77.8MB" for 3 days. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it?
I've googled plenty of guides about disabling spelling and grammar in mac's Notes, and while unchecking the items in the edit menu works fine for the note I'm currently on, it turns back on for each new note and requires me manually disabling it each time. I would like it to never check spelling and grammar in Notes, and not substitute incorrect spellings (not swapping out for smart quotes and the like would be a bonus). Is there some way to permanently disable these features for just the one app? To be clear I don't want to disable it system-wide, only in Notes.
tput rmam turns off line wrapping on the terminal.app I always forget this command, because I never figured out what rmam stands for. Anybody knows?
Random contacts are appearing in my contacts, some are old friends, some I have no idea who they are. I have made sure that contacts from apps like Facebook and Linkedin, are not allowed to be synced. I thought that might be the end of it but no. A new contact appears on my phone with disgusting messages (redacted by IconDaemon) in the mobile number. I have a picture to show. I have deleted these contacts off my phone but can anyone help?
I like to listen to music and podcasts on YouTube on my iPhone while driving. I have my own custom playlists containing content to listen to while driving.
I have a MacBook Air (El Captain) with Kali-Linux dual booted. Well, kind of. It's a 4 GB partition for live and a 15 GB partition for persistency. So, all I wanted to know is, do I have any possibility of adding Windows onto my internal SSD too?
I have an 11-inch, Mid 2013 MacBook Air. I'm wondering if I can hook up two Dell U2417H monitors using the DP out port on the monitor. So DP from MBA to first Dell U2417H. Then DP to DP from first U2417H to second U2417H. Is this possible? The display is not 4k. Edit: I realize this question might have been asked, but the one I have found is asking about 4k.
Is it possible to connect 3 external displays (for a total of 4, including the built-in 5K display) to an iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017? I have the Radeon Pro 580 with 8GB of VRAM.
I just started having problems with my Mid 2011 Mac Mini — it's fan is continously on although the computer temperature is relatively low and not a lot of CPU is being used. I'm very nervous about this because my last Mac Mini died due to overheating issues. I realize this may be a common problem, but I specifically would like to know about two keys that appear when I run iStats:
I used Time Machine to restore the hard drive of the old MacBook to my new iMac. I now have what seemed to be two back up files with the same name except the new one ends with the number 2. This morning I got a message saying I don't have enough room on my 2T external drive to back up the 1T iMac with 264 GB available. The MacBookPro was also a 1T drive with 90 GB available.
I recently learned that launchd was written and used starting with Mac OS X Tiger. Before it's inception the progress bar would actually give useful information about what process was currently being executed. However, starting with OS X Tiger the progress bar was managed by the WaitingForLoginWindow process. You can read about this on Wikipedia here and the source of the citation here. Originally, the length of time required for the progress bar to complete was based off of the time that elapsed during the last successful boot as is described below
Given the two following factors: I own only a single Apple device (a MacBook, running Sierra) I don't use iCloud
It it possible to detect application focus event using applescript? What I'm trying to achieve is to open ios simulator when I focus on text editor. I know how to activate simulator but can't figure out how to detect when the editor is active.
How is PRK generated/derived and what is being sent to Apple's servers if I choose "use this iCloud account to unlock and reset your password..." during FileVault setup? I wasn't able to find this in FileVault technical whitepaper. Is it just yet another DEK (Data Encryption Key)?
When using my external screen connected to my computer, the external screen goes black after some time (usually fifteen minutes). The image on the external screen isn't functional, but the connection is still operational the screen hasn't frozen (nor has the computer) it is still recognized by the computer you can still drag & drop programs to the external screen (despite not being able to see them anymore)
Had an iPhone 6, created an iTunes backup, restored it to new iPhone 6s. Both devices are managed by my company.
I have more media that can possibly be stored on my iPhone, so I assume that most of it is stored in iCloud and downloaded when required (when I view it). What happens if I cancel/downgrade my iCloud storage plan? How do they decide what media is going to be deleted, so that the amount falls within the free plan? Is there a time period where I can cancel and then sign back up and it'll be as if nothing has happened?
I am really in need of a way to find out what window Finder is looking at so for example, if the user opens a certain folder I can get a notification. Is this possible?
This pdf, the manual for the R package knitr (also presumably build in knitr, then passed to texi2pdf), does not render properly on Preview in Mac OS. The first couple of pages end up being blurred, and the last pages are not rendered at all. After a while, Preview just crashes. The same can be observed with Skim, though not with Adobe Acrobat on Mac OS. Any ideas what's going on here? (I'm also raising an issue over at the knitr repo, just want to make sure that the problem is reproducible.) This is: MacOS 10.12.6 Preview 9.0 Skim 1.4.29 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2017.009.20059 (not affected)
Whenever a new update comes out for some iDevice, we need a way to push out the new IPSWs from a central location (right now we are using a Mac Pro running 10.12.5 and a dual 10GbE card connected to a 48 port 1 Gig switch with four SFP+ 10GbE ports.) The guy who had orginally setup the Mac Mini's used to use a rsync script to copy the new ipsw's to each mac mini, but he also had set each device's IP address statically so he could iterate through all of the IP addresses on the subnet without missing any machines. We recently had to reimage all of the machines using Deploy Studio, and ended up putting each Mini on DHCP instead of having the IP address set statically - so the old method of using this rsync script has gone out the window.
For many years I took advantage of the Keynote feature of being able to embed Quartz Composer patches. I have come to accept that this feature no longer exists, and so most of my talks can no longer be given in their current form. However, some still contain slides without animations that I can use, so I would like to be able to open them.
I added a CalDAV calendar account in "Settings -> Calendar". Issue: I can not see the calendar events in the calendar app. Tapping "calendars" to see which calendars are to be displayed doesn't help, as the newly-created account does not show up there. Why is the newly created account not displayed in the Calendar app?
Want to salvage the SSD out of a bad 2014 MacMini. When I pulled it out, I had no idea what kind of connector it uses. My friend suggested it was m.2, but I can't find one that looks like it. Anyone know what it is called off the top of their head? I'd like to get an adapter and put it in a different computer as an upgrade.
I have some end users that delay installing important OS X updates by clicking 'Remind me tomorrow' on the automatic update prompt, sometimes waiting days or weeks to get updates installed. To combat this I'm putting together a script to automatically install software updates in the background using the softwareupdate utility. In testing, after installing a Security update, I got this message:
Most of the private tutoring classes I give are done through the internet. I connect a Wacom tablet to my Macbook Pro, open a new Photoshop document, share my screen with my student through Skype and off I go. I am wondering if I could do the same but, instead of the Macbook+Wacom+Photoshop+Skype combo I could use an iPad instead and share my iPad screen with my students.
So recently I have been noticing that I have lost about 12 GB of storage randomly. Of course, I loaded up Daisy Disk and try to find the issue (with no luck unfortunately), so I decided to see what I could do with the Apple Storage Managment features.
Am planning to make a resume in pages. I want some of the sub headings to come in between lines. I have attached the image which I want to add in my document.Can somebody please help me?
As a software developer I often have to run resource heavy applications for a long period of time. As such my system is able to run the workload without too many issues (uses between 60-70% of CPU max) though my system can get a bit warm (Intel Power Gadget confirms 80 degrees celsius) are there any tactics I can use to reduce the amount of heat generated?
I have automatic updates turned on. This morning I was prompted to reboot in order to install a new (incremental) update. However each time I reboot I get the Apple logo + installation progress bar that takes about 15 minutes to complete.
So my iPhone says that all of the memory is used. In iTunes it says I still have like 7GBs free. Apple Support always says just do a factory restore, which is ridiculous. So what is going on and how do I get around it?
I often have to turn my iPhone ringer off. This is ok when I’m at my desk because when it vibrates it is loud enough on the desk that I never miss a call. My problem is that when I am walking and have the phone in my pocket, I almost always miss the call. This is becoming a real issue for me and I wondered if I could make the vibration louder, but this question indicates not. I have an iPhone 6s on iOS 10.3.3, and that question is about 4 years old now, so I'm hoping things have changed.
My boss has a MacBook Air and an iPhone, and pays for iCloud. We also use Outlook here. We discovered that her contacts weren't being synced properly between her phone and Contacts.app, and attempted to merge them. What we've discovered instead is that we've somehow created inexact duplicates, with the duplicates containing vCard flags marking what kind of data each contact is using:
I just rebooted and for some reason am unable to switch keyboard layouts. This feature had been working previously since just after getting the computer (and setting up the alternate keyboard layout). The secondary input source is shown here:
Whenever I use maps to get directions to any destination, Maps notes that I have to go over a toll road (denoted with a small € symbol). Except: I live in the Netherlands and we have no toll roads. Absolutely no road I take should be a toll road, but Maps thinks they are. It even helps by saying "Toll required". Is there a way to reset my Maps data?
Is there any way that we can set up an iPad to run as a Kiosk for a web application and not be able to access the browser toolbar? I understand Guided Access will help lock down the app but it was more the browser toolbar access i was looking at locking down. The browser that we are using is Chrome. Thank you in advance for all your help!
I accidentally deleted some library files from my Mac (running macOS 10.10.1). As a result it's now not turning on, so I pressed cmd+R while booting and entered Recovery Mode.
I’m an artist with a stupid question, the answer to which might easy… I have need of a process that can segment an image into a specified number of equal-sized tiles, that will then go through a separate image processor (it can't handle large files in one go; splitting them up into discreet tiles allows this), to be stitched-back together later (I was going to use PhotoStitcher or something like it).
It's possibile to easily turn on a VirtualBox VM at boot using LaunchAgents, but I haven't figured out a way to turn off my Debian VM when the Mac is turned off and/or at logout. The goal would be to run VBoxManage controlvm 'VM Name' acpipowerbutton at shutdown. I'm running macOS 10.12.6, all the examples I've found seem outdated or not working.
I turned on Messages on iCloud from my MacBook Pro with the last public beta of High Sierra and everything worked well. Every message was updated and I can see 15GB of iCloud storage used up by them. So I wanted to turn them on on my iPhone 5S with the last public iOS 11 beta too.
Potential Loss of Keychain Access. The previous version of software has an application-identifier value of 'A1B2C3D4E5.com.company.app' and the new version of software being submitted has an application-identifier of '5E4D3C2B1A.com.company.app'. This will result in a loss of keychain access.
I have installed tomcat from brew. It works fine but whenever I need to start or stop tomcat I need to go to the tomcat folder with catalina and start and stop it from there. I know I could simply do this with "brew services start tomcat" but I get: brew services list gives: My question is: How do I add tomcat to brew services?
I am trying to fix a MacBook 2,1 after the startup disk was formatted. I have a Lion 10.7.2 dmg mounted on a USB stick and also on DVD. When I boot and press Option key, I can select either the USB or DVD. However after the loading message and Mac logo disappear from the screen, I end up on Mac OS X Utilities.
I want to disable the slow menu blinking which occurs after I've selected a menu entry from any menu in macOS. It always takes about half a second or more and is just a waste of time since I know what I am doing. See *=URL=* for more information.
I have a MacBook Air 2013 with macOS Sierra 10.12.6 installed. When I press the power button, the flashing folder with question mark appears. I've started Internet Recovery (in the startup disk selection screen the internal disk is also missing) and with Disk Utility I ran 'Repair disk' / 'Repair volume' multiple times without any errors.
Although I've set Safari to accept cookies "from current page only," the ubiquity of advertising (even with a blocker) means I have dozens if not hundreds of cookies from domains I've never heard of. So I found and downloaded a tool that lets me delete all cookies not on a whitelist.
I see that Safari stores three things: Cache, Cookies, and "local storage." I know what cache and cookies are, but what is "local storage"? Semantically, cache and cookies are local storage, but presumably this is a third type.
I tried multiple times with many different fingers, but I couldn't get it to fully scan the fingerprint. The last "lines" would never fill up, and I couldn't get to the part where you're asked to scan the sides of your finger.
My only thought is that maybe the Mac automatically tried to update, but couldn't actually restart for some reason. There was a System Update in the App Store that required a restart that I hadn't (and still haven't) done. Moreover, when I tried to install the update earlier in the day, I was told that some applications needed to be closed before the restart could take place. However, I didn't schedule the update to run, and I've never had macOS decide to install an update on its own, so I don't think that this is likely. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have caused this? EDIT: This exact same thing happened this morning as well, so I'm beginning to think my botched update theory is correct.
So I deleted all my partitions and downloaded a Sierra image from someone who put it in Google Drive. I don’t know what I did wrong but it turned my hard drive into an “OS X Base System.”
Since OS X El Capitan, right-clicking on a file in Finder while pressing "Option" shows a menu function Copy "File.txt" as Pathname. I wonder if I can replace the absolute path of the home directory so that I get the tilde as in instead of
I need to replace a fairly new disk with a physically smaller one. It's not bootable: a Time Machine partition, an HFS+ storage partition, and an ExFat that has a trivial amount of Windows storage on it. Can dd duplicate the whole thing, partition map and three partitions? Or do I have to partition it first and then do each partition? Or should I just use Disk Utility as in How to clone an entire disk with Lion (+Rescue) & Bootcamp Partitions
My OS keeps rebooting since I installed photoshop. Save mode didn't help. Trying now too boot on single user, I have a UI to unlock my user account (the mac is encrypted) then I have the command line. I'm trying to remove everything from Adobe on the launch agent but I can't sudo rm -rf com.adobe.AAM.Uploader-1.0.plist returns "read only file system" and don't even ask for my password! Am I good for a reinstall or anything I can do to remove theses files / or fix my boot issue I'm running 10.11
I would like to transfer photos from my notebook (Linux) to my iPhone (6s iOS 10). Due to company restrictions on the device (AirWatch) I can't use iDrive or iCloud. I tried to simply copy over the pictures, but the gallery application won't recognize them and I did not find a way to rescan the DCIM folder. What other options are available to import photos from PC to iPhone without iTunes, iDrive, iCloud?
I was unable to find a solution online, so my question to the expert community is: Can I restore only the health data to my iPhone from an iTunes backup?
I've got this weird crash of /private/tmp/*/timingsafe which doesn't exist invoked from sh parent process which also doesn't exist. Here are the details: Above says that _timingsafe_bcmp symbol is not found (see: man timingsafe_bcmp), but I'm not quiet sure what exactly crashed and why it points to the file which doesn't exist.
Is it possible to access, after installing an app, the library directory in an unjailbroken device? I've only the compiled ready-to-use ipa and I'd like to add some files to the library folder, but it does not exist before installing.
How to monitor icloud back up progress? I have left my phone plugged in and locked for four or five nights now. The backup has still not completed, but my icloud usage is around 45GB according to *=URL=* Does this mean the 45GB of data has successfully been transferred to icloud? Or that 45GB of space has been allocated, but all the data has not necessarily been transferred yet? When I go to icloud photos, they seem to be more or less all there, but I don't know if they are the full versions of each photo. When I try to manually back up, it changes from "9 hours remaining", to "7 hours remaining", to "11 hours remaining", etc., even when I leave the phone plugged in overnight.
I'd like to reinstall php70-xdebug package with debug symbols like: however there is no --with-debug or other similar option to use (which does exist for php70). How can I recompile this package with debug symbols via brew?
Sometimes I need a "scratchpad" for creative ideas... and I reach for a pen and paper because I know that The paper is blank There are no notifications, sounds, or bouncing icons I have an intention, and I want to follow through with that, with no distractions.
Using the watch to unlock my Mac is a great feature, but I want the OS to shorten the idle time once the watch goes out of range. This way, if I'm wearing the watch, and I'm not facing the computer (I'm behind it), there is less of a risk of unintended use or disclosure of what's on my screen. Is there any way to control this, or to set up a script that will achieve similar results?
I have the Macbook Air Laptop: OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5 And on my desktop, usually if I drag a picture or take a screenshot, the file shows up on my desktop, with the preview picture thumbnail so I can see on my desktop all the different thumbnail preview pictures and therefore can easily differentiate from all the pictures. But recently, all of the pictures/files/videos have been showing up as the apple jpeg thumbnail picture with the magnifying glass. How can I return the photos to their normal desktop preview?
I have what I believe is a Mac Pro from 2012. It has 2 CPUs, 12 GB of RAM a 5770 and no disks. I want to stick an SSD in it and install Windows. The Mac Pro does not currently have any disks and hence OS.
Any ideas what I could do to fix this problem? How do people normally connect iOS devices securely to their networks?
I've got several Macs of the same model and I'd like to deploy a default image of the latest OS with a handful of applications installed. I've made the custom image by setting up a machine to the way I want them all to be and then turned that into a disk image.
I have a an old, mid-2007 iMac running 10.11.6 and a new 2017 iMac running the latest 10.12 release. The old iMac has 800 GB of data on it, spread across three user accounts, that I'd like to migrate to the new iMac. It has an up-to-date Time Machine backup on a USB 2.0 hard drive. FireWire 400 and 800 ports. Gigabit ethernet. I also have an external USB 2.0 hard drive with enough space on it to hold the contents of the old iMac's drive and I own CarbonCopyCloner. Most of the data is one user account and is generally iTunes media (ripped from CDs, so DRM-free on the hard drive of the old iMac) and Logic/GarageBand project data. I'm uncertain of my options for transferring the user data from the old iMac to the new iMac.
When I copy a cell that has multiline content, and paste elsewhere, Numbers puts quotes around it. How do I paste without quotes, I want to paste multiple line, as it is seen in the cell.
I'm hosting a barbecue on Saturday that is likely to go on well into the night, so I have compiled a playlist of approximately 10 hours of music. I want to make sure that if I need to stop the playback and start it again, I don't want to hear the same tracks already played recently.
travelling a lot and I have an iPad and iPhone with Amazon Instant Video, Netflix and Flixster running on it with some content downloaded for offline viewing as hotel wifi is rubbish for streaming. I'd like to be able to put the content onto the TV. But, I think I know that Amazon Instant Video won't put video out over the outbound HDMI, or airplay. I think Flixster and Netflix both support Chromecast. It's all a bit of a mess as far as I can see. So if I want to jack into a hotel TV via the HDMI port and stream content from my apps, what's the best I can achieve? Can I use them all via Chromecast or Fire TV sticks? I don't want to jail break, which seems the nuclear option :)
As a new user of MacOS - coming from the Windows world -, I'm trying to quickly learn how the Delete key works here and what are the possible combinations with other keys. However, while listed in this article (recent, Oct. 2016): *=URL=* the combination fn + ⌘ + delete doesn't seem to work. I tested in Notes, as well as Google Chrome (I thought at first it was a bug in Chrome). I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73) with an AZERTY keyboard (French layout).
When I install or reinstall a formula, homebrew automatically update itself before installing the formula. When working on a slow connection, this is annoying. How can I cancel this automatic update?
I created this AppleScript to play/pause Youtube videos running on Chrome: It works fine when I run it from Automator. I saved the service and added a keyboard shortcut ⌘+J for running the service. I also added Automator to the Accessibility settings (following this SO answer).
I use several smart mailboxes in Apple Mail. Eventually they get into a confused state showing a non zero count even though the boxes are empty and do not show any messages. The counts for real mail boxes are correct.
I like having my SSH passphrase stored for the duration of my MacBook session, so that I don't have to keep entering it every time I SSH into a server, but when I restart my computer I want to have to enter it again (I don't want my passphrase encrypted and stored on disk in the keychain). This wasn't the case until I upgraded from Mountain Lion to Sierra; ever since then, it has been permanently storing my passphrase in my keychain. I can open the keychain preferences and delete my SSH passphrase, but the next time I SSH into a server and it prompts me for my passphrase, it is immediately added to the keychain again. How can I get back to what I had with mountain lion, where my passphrase would be stored for the duration of my MacBook session, but then I would need to reenter it the next time I turn my MacBook on again.
I have an application (Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client) that starts every time I start my MacBook Air. (Sierra 10.12.5) It seems the app keeps adding itself to startup items. There are two plist files associated with the app that I can find: I have been looking in: This is what I have tried so far: Removed the item/app from System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Items Removed both plists and one at a time Edited the <key>RunAtLoad</key> to false in plist /Library/LaunchDeamons/com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist Locked com.apple.loginitems.plist in ~/Library/Preferences launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.plist sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist launchctl list also shows a service I can't locate: com.cisco.Cisco-AnyConnect-Secure-Mobility-Client.3092
The MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) has a Thunderbolt port of which I would like to know the maximum resolution. It does not say what it is on the specs site specifically. It merely says "supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors", without specifying whether this holds true for all types of connections including HDMI. I have tested a miniDP to HDMI adapter that allegedly supports HDMI up to 4096x2160, but the max resolution i get is 2048x1152. I don't know if this is due to the Thunderbolt port or the adapter.
I've recently moved to Sierra and, to my (pleasant) surprise, noticed that notes (Control-Command-N) in Preview no longer use that ridiculous Marker Felt font (or whatever it was called -- good riddance). However, it seems that Apple still wants to make it hard to customize the font used for notes...
I’m currently on macOS Sierra and will upgrade to macOS High Sierra as soon as it comes out, which means my machine will be using APFS. I also have an external HDD (not SSD) that has quite a few years on it, already. I use it solely for storage. I have it formatted as exFAT so it’s compatible with both macOS and Windows, out of the box. But recently I’ve noticed that I never connect it to a non-macOS machine.
Problem: When using my mouse, a single scroll-click scrolls several pages. I have read that this is due to scroll smoothing - a single scroll actually issues multiple scroll commands: tiny teeny 1-line teeny tiny thus the appearance of a smooth scroll. If this is the case, then when in single-page view, each scroll moves a full-page increment.
Also, sometimes when I reboot the computer the keyboard shortcut does open the force quit menu, but then the touchbar acts strangely: when I tap the buttons on the touch bar, I'm brought to the corresponding section in System Preferences instead (e.g. when I touch to lower brightness, I'm brought instead to the brightness section in system preferences).
My MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) is no longer recognizing a USB external HDD, flash storege and even SD cards anymore. I did nothing different than usual before I confronted this big problem. My wireless optical mouse works fine with USB. Additionally, my external HDD power light is on when connected via USB and it appears on Disk Utility, but is not seen in Finder. (Finder options are OK).
I have a project in process where the mask has shifted. I want a co worker to look at it and try to fix the issue. When I shared it to dropbox, they could not open it in motion, I'm assuming because all the media files did not accompany it. How do I do that so they can continue working on the project and all that I have done is not lost?
Recently bought a seagate backup plus HDD, and cannot write via MBP. I can see it in disk utility and USB device tree. Under disk utility I can successfully use first aid but still cannot copy files to disk. I have downloaded the paragon driver, but always shows not recognized, as attached. Any solutions? I am using El Capitan, 10.11.6
I have MBP 2015. I am running Mac OSX Sierra. I go to my bluetooth preferences and right click and rename a device.
I just spent an hour or so adding a couple hundred items to the Reminders in iCloud, using the web interface on Chrome. I added about a dozen lists, and the items, many with due dates. I don't have an iPhone yet (I used to, so I do have an AppleID that I've been using) - I was doing this in advance so I'd have my reminders in place when I get one. Everything was fine - I could view them, edit them, change the reminder dates, etc. I just opened the Reminders page again a few minutes later, and now all but one of the custom lists are gone, and even the default list and the one that's there are missing items that I just added.
After installing El Capitan, I cannot login to the admin account I was using for the install. I have other admin accounts that work fine, but this was the main one I use with all my important files. I have tried deleting this admin account but the system freezes. All other accounts work fine. Any suggestions as to how to access the admin account or how to delete it?
With Time Capsule discontinued, what's the best option for seamless network backups with Time Machine? Something that's out of mind, doesn't need babysitting and that can be trusted to work reliably when needed. Some suggestions I've seen: External storage attached to a Mac computer with macOS Server. An AFP compatible NAS with the TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes option enabled. Time Capsule is still the best solution, and we're stuck with that until it becomes painfully out of date and unmaintained.
I'm using the say command on macOSX to read from a file that has text in two different languages. Is it possible to indicate in the file from where it reads the content when to use a different voice? The content of speach.txt
Is there a way to turn off or bypass Bluetooth Privacy on iPhone 5/6/7? I want to be able to sniff my phone's actual BT MAC address.
I used this solution - Is there any other better way to physically locate this picture?
I have installed a OSX server a long time ago for testing purpose. It shows up in my App Store
Can I cancel my Apple ID? I have 3 accounts and I only need one.
I am aware of the Script Editor menu. That is not what I'm looking for.
Does macOS have a way to enter Unicode characters with more than four hex digits? The flags, for example, are ligatures, each with two five-digit code points. They are supported by macOS fonts, appearing as expected when I paste them into this question in Safari or into TextEdit (from Wikipedia). And they resize properly with the font. Flags:
Can I charge Apple magic mouse 2 using iPhone lightning Qi wireless charger adapter and pad? It seams like it should work in theory, but I wonder if there is some kind of compatibility or feature with the mouse that would prevent this. More info: Sorry, for lack of details, looking to use something like these:
I've a iMac 27" 2011 i7 thats not been used for 2 years, recently plugged back into power and get from what I can make out x8 beeps on pressing power button. Then the iMac sounds like it resets itself and tries to boot again and continues the x8 beeps.
Is there a way I can perform a block level copy of an NTFS data drive (used in Parallels) to a new empty drive? The source drive is a 750GB NTFS formatted drive used for backing up files from a Windows Parallels VM. The destination drive is a new 1TB empty drive, which will need to be NTFS format so I can continue backing up files to it. I considered using the dd command but I'm don't know if it'll work and I don't know what the appropriate command is to do this. Is there a way to do what I'm wanting to do using software in macOS Sierra or do I need to buy something or install a 3rd party software package?
Looking through the Mac App Store I stumbled across a result that really confused me. There I saw the FaceTime App made by Apple. It costs £0.99, with minimum requirements of OS X 10.6.8.
pip was fine but today when I tried to use it, I got this message: That's weird. brew shows that the python package from brew is still installed but now typing python in the terminal will run the one by default on the system instead: Trying to import the packages I had didn't work as well:
Does Private Browsing in Safari keep private tabs open when you restart your iPhone 6, or do they get closed automatically? If private tabs remain open, when opening Safari will you see the normal tabs or the private tabs?
I recently installed windows 8.1 using bootcamp and it worked well for a few days. For some reason when I turned on my computer it switched to the mac partition. When I turned off the computer and tried to switch to windows, I just got a black screen with no cursor or anything, although it didn't look like the computer was completely shut off. Now, I can easily go on to apple, but whenever I try to use windows I keep getting a black screen with no cursor. I tried searching up what the problem was, but I can't find any solutions.Thanks in advance! MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
My partition table is messed up. Here are the screenshots of all outputs gpt fdisk and diskutil.
The cable works and I can use my 1920x1080 native resolution, but it displays wrong. There's a black large line on the left (like 2 centimeters) and on the right you can see that it's missing a part of the screen.
Is there any information on the wattage of the four internal speakers in the new iPad Pro 10.5? I couldn’t find any, and Apple (inaccurate as always) just says it has the four-way speaker-system.
I generate files to the public folder using ng-cli from my terminal Using this command ng build
I was doing some cleaning earlier with brew doctor and deleted a file from /usr/local/lib with a .dylib extension. Now, whenever I log into a new shell, I get this error: Error: Could not find or load main class global
I tried rebooting again, it booted up just fine. Ran Disk Utility - First aid option, it told me all is OK. So, I thought of taking up a time machine backup in case I had to change SSD, I can just restore backup. Now, after trying a couple of times, in mid of the backup it would get stuck in a position where Time machine backup has stopped as if I cancelled it. The Time machine application continues to run. In finder, all the folders are gone. The computer is not much responsive at the moment. Again, pointing towards the fact that SSD stopped working in between, and hence backup failed + finder is not showing any folders in its sidebar anymore. Then yesterday, I tried booting it back, running hardware diagnostics at boot and it reported nothing was wrong with the hardware.
I'd like to set up a home system where users (i.e. house kids) have a given max time of computer use per day/week/whatever, and after that time they're logged off. They should be able to log in and out as wanted as long as they still have "credit time".
My Mac has died and I'm considering whether to fix and restore to the same hardware or get a new one and import data. The TL;DR: Do you know if Migration Assistant will take a bootable external disk with the data as source?
I'm a novice at network things. I enabled remote-login on my home mac (OS 10.12.5) so I could git between home and office. To make it work, I had to tell the wifi to fix my Mac's IP and to redirect Port 22 to it. Works fine. My log file, however, has thousands of messages (one every few seconds) of the form: Nothing in the log explicitly mentions a refused authentication, and I don't seem to have an auth.log or secure.log file (other posts suggested to look in there). Any idea what's going on here?
I did some partitioning using bootcamp 6.0 to install windows that left a 8 GB of free space with cannot be restored normally, How do I get it back? The diskutils cs list shows: My Disk Utility looks like this:
I use an iPad as Bluetooth hotspot and connect my Macbook to internet via the iPad's mobile network. However, every few minutes I have to restart Bluetooth on my computer because the connection seems to stall. The BT icon in the menu bar indicates that the connection is up but nothing loads. Restarting BT fixes this but it is very annoying to be interrupted like this. Any ideas what might be wrong and how I can fix this?
I'm trying a clean install of Lion on a Macbook2,1 from the Net but I am stuck on these errors in macOS Utilities. Anytime I try to click to install I get this in the Install log; I already set the time correctly via terminal and I just cant figure out what the problem is yet I am able to post on this site from the same machine in its Recovery Mode.
I was reading this article about the next iteration to USB-C ports. It says that the new standard will double speeds from 5 Gbps to 10 Gbps. It also says:
I have a Western Digital MyBook (25EE) 8TB External Drive. It is formatted with exFAT. I can't recall exactly how it was formatted, but I believe it was done with Synology's DiskStation for my Synology NAS. I am able to mount and read the drive when I connect it to the NAS, but not on macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
My internet connection is lame ass and the last time I tried to update with the download through App store, it downloaded and restarted but said that the verification of the update package was unsuccessful . I don't want to do that again .
Im curious why Apple support recommended that I download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, an app that is not available for download from the App Store. That seems strange to me. Why is that app not on the App Store?
Can someone tell me what code do I use to access login history (successful/failed login attempt & time) and wake-up reason (why the computer is waken from sleep) on Sierra? And how do I make the terminal show those log for a certain day?
I have Macbook Pro, Sierra, 10.12.6. I have activated iCloud and it shows I have 147GB available. I am trying to copy 20GB .mp4 files to the iCloud and it is telling me I am out of space??? How do I get it to download to the iCloud storage I just upgraded to???
When I try to drag to trashcan, it says it's a system app that is required by os. How do I bypass this check and remove the app?
I am trying to figure out macOS and want to install Composer which was not a problem....but I need the Laravel and Symfony installer and in the documentation it says that I need to export the variable in .bashrc file. Normally that file is in /home/username/ directory on Linux
When looking up how much data is left on my tiny MacBooks SSD (under "about this mac"/"storage" 1.74 GB are marked as photos, and 429.9 MB as movies, which is odd, considering that I intentionally have deleted the photo library and the iMovie library. This leaves me with two possible conclusions: either there are some "secret" photo and movie libraries containing above 2 GB of data, or this photo/movie data includes all image and movie files (ie. PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV, and similar) which are in use other places on my computer. My question is, therefore, does this photo and movie data only include files saved in specific folders/libraries at specific locations associated with build in movie/imaging programs such as iMovie, photobooth or similar, or does it include a vast number of files with different purposes at different locations around the filesystem?
I have an original 1st generation Apple Watch Sport paired to an iPhone 6. While at home, I had a scenario where my iPhone's battery died while I was typing out a text message. Without thinking, I held down the Digital Crown to send my message using Siri. To my surprise, a few moments later I felt my Apple Watch ringing with a phone call from my friend. Somehow, I was able to send texts and answer phone calls on my Apple Watch, despite my paired iPhone having a dead battery. How is this possible?
I run windows 7 in boot camp. I downloaded the support software. How do I install the support software on windows? The computer won't recognize my USB. For some reason the graphics and the track pad and keyboard works.
Whenever I add the documents or desktop folder to favorites on macOS Sierra, it stays there for some time but then disappears. Is it a problem with iCloud Drive?
I was wondering is it possible to connect, a MacBook and a PC by a USB cable and then mount the PC's HDD/SSD on the MacBook? Further more if this is possible, would there be any restrictions on the MacBook's side?, I know about lacking support for NTFS, but how about using programs such as Scalpel, and the Sleuthkit collection to restore deleted data, and such?
I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch bar. When I play loud music or watch a movie in which there's a noisy action scene for instance, the speakers' sound quality suddenly degrades. Sound continues to be played but as if there was no treble at all. The only "fix" I've found is to plug headphones, wait till the system output gets changed to the headphones, and plug them out again. This seems to reinit the built-in speakers to good, full-spectrum quality, but not for long — sound quickly degrades again under the same conditions. Is there anything I can do about this?
When I download a text file with extension .mac (or any extension but .txt) the file downloads but the extension .txt is added to file name. How do I prevent this from happening?
I'm graphing columns A and B, where A is the x axis. I have entries entered in A like so: 1, 3, 2, 4, 5... and so on. When I select A and B and make a graph, it seems like the x axis does not automatically arrange itself from the lowest to the greatest value, meaning the graph looks quite strange. Is there a way to make the x axis graph the data as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... instead of as 1, 3, 2, 4, 5...?
So I have a headset that i usually use for my iMac- Late 2015. and it worked perfectly. Then only one side works. i thought it was the headset, but I tried the headset on my phone and other 3 devices i have and the headset works perfectly on them, but not on my iMac.
My Apple TV keeps nagging me to enter my password for account verification. When I give it the correct password, it appears to accept it, but will continue to ask for verification. Verification isn't even actually required, because it gives the option to decline, so it's pointless. It's easy enough to deal with but it's constantly harrassing me with frequent verification request popups during movies, etc.
So I recently upgraded from from 10.x.x to 10.3.3 (don't remember which exact version I had before). Everything is fine, but one thing caught my attention. Before the update, I had 3 gigs of free storage. After, I suddenly have 34.8 gigs of free storage.
One of my favorite features about WriteRoom is that as soon as I open it, I see a listing of a Dropbox directory I have previously configured. No extra steps. This lets me very quickly get to my notes and records without navigating around, since I always want to go to the same directory. Since WriteRoom will soon become incompatible with iOS 11 since it is a 32-bit app and is not being actively developed, does anyone know which of the many text editors available has this feature? Per @patrix suggestion, here are prioritized features for a Dropbox text editor:
I lost my iPad Air 2 wifi and couldn’t get access to my iCloud account because I forgot my password. Therefore I put my account on recovery mode and after awhile I regained access to my account. About a month after I lost the iPad I trace it via find my iPad but the battery was at 2 percent. I set the device on lost and locked it with a passcode. Went to the last known location but couldn’t get it. Now the device is offline. My question is: can the device connect to an open wifi while in lost mode? Can the thief have access to the device or use it? Do I have any chance to get it back?
I was recently trying to partition my external drive into two parts, but I seem to have accidentally broken the partition table by trying to make the empty (1.7TB) part of the disk into a new HFS partition using a botched diskutil command. The previous data partition is now not visible on diskutil and does not automatically mount when the hard drive is connected. Here is my current output of sudo gpt -r -vvv show /dev/disk1: diskutil list doesn't seem to show the second partition: When I attempt to quick search for partitions using testdisk, it gives me a message saying that the partition is unrecoverable: Any ideas on how to make the data accessible again?
I have a GPS app (Waze) and when it runs, I don't want to recieve any notifications from Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, etc. Actually I don't want to recieve any notifications except phone calls. Is it possible to be in a "Driving mode" on my phone?
I am on a MacBook Air running OSX 10.10.2. I try to connect to an HTTPS website on Firefox and I get the message Your connection is not secure
I brought new SSD 240 GB and I using this SSD by Caddy. The SSD is showing in Finder. I can format it. The SMART Status is verified. But when I try to install any OS or restore my OS, it goes into infinity. I tried normal install and Time Machine restore.
I was writing a long (and to me important) note on my Iphone in "Notes", when it ran out of power. When I connected it to power and opened it up again, the note was missing. I have tried to find it in my mail-system, but it isn't there either (even though all my other notes are there). What confuses me is, that you never save notes manually in this app - it seems to happen automatically. I don't have connection to Icloud, it should be said, due to a lack of space. Could it be somewhere on the phone still, and what are the ways to recover it?
I have a Back-Up HDD (not TimeMachine) with only very important data backed-up there. Every once in a while, I connect the external hard disk and sync the files per hand. As the files I am syncing are always the same, it came to my mind that I could automate the whole process as a shell script.
Strange issue that neither my email provider not Apple could help with! so I come to you and hope you can solve the problem they could not!
The same happened when I tried installing macOS using the Internet Recovery. Without using the Disk Utility, the installer either could not find the drive at all or the download was so slow (even on a working and reasonably fast Internet connection) that it would take days to finish. The Apple Hardware Test run with the “extended” flag enabled found no errors.
I was wondering whether anyone knows of, or can recommend, an extension for Photos on macOS that allows correcting perspective?
I have always updated my application on iTunes and then let them sync to the iPad. Since I installed iOS 10.3.3, the apps no longer sync. I have rebooted the device. I have attempted to sync many times. The App Store on the iPad shows pending updates, but they never install. What am I missing?
I copied a Photos library from an external (USB) drive to an internal drive but Photos refuses to open it because it be "in use by another program". How can this be "fixed"? I can't even get to the repair dialog by pressing Option-Command while starting Photos - the other dialog is faster.
I want to sync my Outlook Web Contacts with iCloud and make iCloud as default contact in such a way when i add new contact or edit any contact in icloud, outlook web people (contacts) should be automatically updated. I have installed outlook app and integrated in contacts and turned on the contacts sync but there are few contacts present in iCloud instead of 200+ outlook contacts. I want to implement the above scenario, how to do that.
Is it possible to create a Bash alias that upon running, enters a string of my prior choosing, into Terminal? Let's pretend this is in my ~/.bash_profile:
I just got a new 15" MBP with Mac OS Sierra. I've changed the System Preferences to allow me to drag and drop things with the touchpad (under accessibility) and to prevent tap clicking.
I wanted to merge two partitions of my /dev/disk1 without missing all my data from "Data" partition. (There was two partitions named "Data" and "Data_2"). Using this tutorial I've erased my partition "Data_2".
Python Shell in windows usually remembers the history of Python shell commands, as long as same cmd is open. But even with in the same terminal session, why is Python shell not remember the older Python shell commands?
I imported a large OPML file to a Feedly (a RSS/source aggregator web service), and the import got messed up. I now need to delete the entries on their website using Google Chrome, but there is no way to bulk delete. Instead of manually clicking almost a thousand times, I'd like to quickly automate a Left-Mouse Click and loop it for as many times.
In Disk Utility, I've clicked on the top-level disk, "Apple SSD", and selected "Repair", and after ~2 seconds it said something like "OK". I don't have an option to click on "Repair" when I click on any of the partitions. I haven't used any third-party software, using only Disk Utility for its own purpose, and haven't touched the Windows partition. Please, can someone tell me how to get my Windows partition booting once again. I've since removed the empty partition which I had cerated, merging it back into the Macintosh HD partition. Here is the output from running diskutil list:
I know how to get it through the menubar, but how can I get it via the command line?
As the title suggests, I am having issue with the volume of the internal speakers from my MBP after I disconnect from the Bluetooth speaker. This doesn't happen always, but it seems to happen with both my headphones and with the speaker, so it is not one device specific.
When I open Spotlight and type something in, I can search that query using command-B shortcut (i.e. when I type something into Spotlight and press command-B, my search query is sent to the default search engine of the Safari). There is a small quirk however. If Safari app is opened, Spotlight window stays on and I have to close it down manually (two escape keys). However, if Safari app is completely closed, Spotlight window closes automatically. Here's two screenshots to show visually what I mean:
This is very weird. New iMac. 4 months old, brand new. 1 Terabyte of storage. The Mac keeps saying I am out of storage, but when you add up all of my word docs, downloads, applications, etc., it only totals about 10Gb. Then when I click on "manage storage" it gives me a breakdown of what my computer is using and at the bottom line it says "system: 990 GB" - Shouldn't the system be operating at about 8-9GB tops?!!? I have deleted all surplus items and literally the total of all downloads, documents, files, applications, etc. is only about 10GB but it says my storage is almost full!! Please help!
I am not sure what happened… My internet was working fine all day, so I do not know what would cause this message and notice my browser is currently not recognized.
How do I set up alerts on my iPhone 6 or iPad that are triggered for incoming emails from specific people?
I had a macbook pro 2016 and had problems with the key "b", which produced "bb" about 1/3 times I hit the key. After reparation and several months later, I had the same problem with the letter "n". I now own a macbook pro 2017, and I feel I have the same problem with the key "m", but maybe with an occurence of 1/40, which make it much harder to demonstrate. It's always the same zone on the keyboard, I was wondering if several people had the same problem ?
When I try to start my mysql and apache servers through MAMP on macOS, I get a message every time saying that mysql needs to be updated. I try to update mysql through the MAMP interface, but it errors out with this:
It is the storage usage as reported by System Information  If I run du -d 1 in /Applications, the total space used is actually just 18G. I have already installed and scanned the HD with Clean My Mac 3 many times but it did not report any space it can reclaim from apps. My questions: 1) Why the large discrepancy in space used? 2) How can I reclaim some spaces?
I have partitioned my internal Hard Drive. For testing purposes, I would like to MacOS (10.12 Sierra) onto the new partition and then to restore everything from my Time Machine backup into it. I know I can do this if I reboot into the new partition, but is it possible to restore onto a separate drive or partition without rebooting?
I have an image of my macbook from a couple of years back. I'm going through a tough case with Apple, trying to prove that I never placed an 'unauthorised part' (logic board).
People who don't understand Terminal are often afraid to use it for fear that they might mess up their command and crash their computer. Those who know Terminal better know that that's not the case - usually Terminal will just output an error. But are there actually commands that will crash your computer?
Tarsnap can exclude folders from backups using the --exclude '/Users/someUser/someDirectory' flag. I'm wondering if there's a way I could instead do something like: --exclude '/Users/Harv/noBackup/', and then create native OS X folder aliases and drag them into noBackup.
I understand that a device only draws as much current as it needs. So assuming the power supply and the device have the same voltage (5V), using a power supply able to provide more amperage (= more watts) will not change anything. However if the power supply can't provide enough current (nominal current of the device), that will either overheat the supply and/or the voltage in the circuit will drop. Also regarding the voltage it is important that it be the same. If that of the power supply is higher than the device, the current in the circuit will be too high (assuming the power supply can supply this new level of amperage) with a risk of frying the device. If that of the power supply is higher than the device, the current in the circuit will be too high (assuming the power supply can supply this new level of amperage) with a risk of frying the device. if that of the power supply is lower, then the device might not be working properly as not enough current circulates inside. if that of
I have a resource that has an hourly rental rate. That hourly rate has changed (increased) over time. To capture that rate history, I have created a table with the date of the rate change and the new rate that looks like this: Date of rate change | Rate 2015-01-01 | $60 2017-01-01 | $65 2017-07-13 | $68
SetUp Details :- IpV4 ethernet cable is connected to MAC machine. Now as per apple documentation steps are followed. Where DNS64/NAT64 is created and hotspot is created. Device is connected to wi-fi which is created by hotspot on mac machine. Application status :-
When I try to move a file into a folder, let's say Folder A, from another folder, let's say Desktop, how can I stop Folder A automatically opening. I only want to move the file into it, not see the contents. Is there a way to stop this? I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.5.
Having a Microsoft Hotmail account I used to login on my iPhone Safari browser using the Safari password manager. But since Microsoft changed the login screen to a two step procedure (first the username and the password on the next screen, aka "progressive login procedure"), the password manager cannot fill in the login name and the password anymore. How do I use the Safari password manager on iPhone to manage my password for Hotmail login (*=URL=* again?
From what I've understood, ⇧ + ⌘ + 4 is the way one currently gets Mouse Cursor Coordinates in macOS. I use this combination for something else. Is there a way to change the keyboard command for retrieving the Mouse Cursor Coordinates? I tried looking in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts, but didn't find anything. Perhaps then, the keyboard command could be edited with something like Karabiner? If the keyboard shortcut is not editable, is there a good and simple stand-alone tool for retrieving coordinates?
Having a Microsoft Hotmail account I used to login on my iPhone Safari browser using the Safari password manager. But since Microsoft changed the login screen to a two step procedure (first the username and the password on the next screen, aka "progressive login procedure"), the password manager cannot fill in the login name and the password anymore. How do I use the Safari password manager on iPhone to manage my password for Hotmail login (*=URL=* again?
Since yesterday text messages from one number are not showing up in messages on my Mac. They show up ok on the phone though, and messages from other senders (myself, friends) show up on both phone and laptop. I checked accounts and they are in sync, and the number is not blacklisted. I have closed and restarted messages - no difference. Any suggestions as to how to figure this out?
I want to install TexMaker 4.5 on Mac OS X 10.9.5. On the official page, I clicked on Texmaker 4.5 for MacosxLion (64 bits) and opened the folder that is downloaded. It contains the application texmaker.
For several weeks, my mac bug when I use Chrome or Photoshop. The mouse cursor make rainbow loops, for 2/3 minutes I can't do anything and voilà, it turns off alone ! This happens 2/3 times a day!
The other day something creepy happened to me. My anti-Apple friend has been trying to convince me for some time that Apple are spying on all their users. To prove her point she used my iPhone to ask Siri where a plane in the sky was flying to. And Siri answered that it was going to Delhi. I said that Siri likes to joke around and she was probably just joking. My friend then said if I didn’t believe it, just check the flight schedules. Sure enough, this morning I checked and a flight was scheduled to leave Toronto for Delhi at the time she asked Siri the question. I don’t believe Apple is spying on me, but how did Siri know about that flight?!?!
My applications folder has an ACE entry which prevents me from deleting its contents (not even as root, with sip disabled). My problem is, that the command sudo chmod -N /Applications
Is there a way to mark a road as Closed in Google Maps Directions on a mobile phone (iPhone but likely to be the same on Android)? So that the itinerary is changed, avoiding that closed road.
On Apple.SE, I found the question about sandboxes (and another closed one). So sandbox-exec looks like a way to go.
I sometimes reduce the volume on my El Capitan while working. I would like to ensure that it returns to, say, 80% before shutdown, in case I forget to do it myself. Any solutions would be most welcome BUT remember I'm a beginner with this stuff!
The -l flag to sh is supposed to source the contents of /etc/profile and other profile scripts like ~/.profile, which generally provide the initial set of environment variables for a login session. With that in mind, I run the command env -i sh -l -c env and expect to see a fresh environment plus the changes made by /etc/profile. However, /etc/profile is never sourced, despite this being the supposed behaviour of the -l flag. On other non-MacOS systems, this -l flag causes /etc/profile to be loaded correctly.
In Apple Numbers, I think that I cut the content and deleted a row at the simultaneously in a single step. I did that by accident, but then I could not reproduce it. I have been searching but I cannot find any command. I know I can: - command ⌘+X (cut the content of a row) - Table > Delete Row (or go to the arrow on the left and Delete Row)
I received some waring that my 'PC' might be infected because it supposedly tried to connect to two ransomware server: In practice I have a MBP with MacOS 10.12.6 Malwarebytes cannot find anything. I am on a network but to print I need to switch to a different one, and I get these warning only when I switch to the printing network. I am at loss why I get the warning to start with I get warnings only when I am on a specific network and not in the other
Is it possible to check the polling rate of my keyboard in OSX? Is it possible to change it? I'm using a standard Apple USB keyboard.
I have a bootable Sierra SD card that doesn't show up in Startup Disk but it does mount in finder. I can boot other MacBooks with that SD card but on this one it will not work. I've also tied to burn InstallESD.dmg to a dual layer DVD and that doesn't show up in startup disks either but I can boot from an old Mountain Lion DVD just fine. I have also tried booting from a thumb drive no luck there either. I know it can handle Sierra as it's on there now but the user wants it securely erased and reinstalled.
I'm curious if there is a limit to the number of usb and serial to usb devices my Mac can connect to. I've got a 2015 Macbook Pro running 10.10.5 and I'm writing a python program to connect to a bunch of serial devices which I have connected to a USB hub. I have four devices on one hub and then two on another. My computer seems to have some weird issues when I connect to all of them and chat with them over serial. Any idea about limits here?
Is it possible for such a setup as the following: Hooking one MacBook Pro up with two separate monitors, allowing two different persons to work independently on their monitors, sharing the computer's performance? Perhaps this is a strange request, but it would actually be useful for me in certain situations. (I will be working in one monitor and in the another one my daughter will be playing.) I ask cause I do not know how focus will work in this situation.
My credit card on file expired and I will not be replacing it. I selected the "None" payment option as per this answer. However, none of the apps (all free apps) will update anymore as it reports a billing problem. I have: Checked all devices on my account and confirmed they only have free apps Never used subscriptions of any sort How can I get iOS to once again update my apps?
I'd like to disable the exchange account for the time after work. I can also use my work-macbook at home so I don't want to be distracted by work-related stuff in the after hours. Is there any way to enable/disable the account automatically? With mail.app this is possible using But I haven't found a way to also disable the calendar and reminders.
When I attempt to re-partition the HD, I followed the partition process, and all seems well, until I end up at this screen:  Is there a way to completely erase the partition table/reformat to exFAT? (save the cash)
I am trying to stream audio in lan network in mac os sierra with vlc version 2.2.5.1 Umbrella. I am able to stream my playlist .xspf file. But it stops after one song finish or track change and need to reconnect again in client machine (receiver). I am using default vlc wizard to stream setup.
I also tried to reset the NVRAM by holding cmd + alt + P + R.... But then the system would just keep rebooting without displaying anything until I release the keys.
My current code: where customLat() is a subroutine that prompts the user for a latitude, tries to coerce it to a number and outputs an error if it can't, and outputs another error if said number is not between -90 and 90, and customLon() is a similar one, but it tests for between -180 and 180 instead. In either case, if an error is returned, it prompts the user for the relevant number once more. customCity() merely prompts the user for the city's name.
I asked a question about disabling spelling and grammar permanently in notes and got a great answer. Is there a similar command or set of commands I can run to disable all the smart substitutions inside the Notes app? (without disabling system-wide settings)
I'd like to be able to use a USB pen drive as if it's an internal drive - is this possible? I saw some info about flipping the 'removable flag bit' of the drive using terminal command however, after trying with a number of 64 GB pen drives from different manufacturer I always get the message I tried SUDO before the command (eek) but no difference. Any other ways to do this, or perspectives to add?
When I have a mouse cursor size that is bigger than the actual mouse, this shows up. Please help! It is really annoying and it makes my computer lag. It does not survive a reboot, but right when someone else logs into my computer or I log out and then log back in, it starts again.
My Macbook pro got disabled. I tried to go into the recovery mode using cmd+R and internet recovery mode using cmd+opt+R. Both ask for my firmware password, and when I enter the password,although correct, it takes me back to disabled screen. Find my Iphone app says my Macbook is locked.In addition I tried to reinstall OS through bootable installer but that too takes me back to the disabled screen.
I've installed macOS Sierra and then Windows 10 on the second partition. I've decided to split Windows partition to another 2 partitions and it doesn't work. Splitting executed using standard Windows disk management utility. Before splitting I've got message that "Your disks become dynamic..." something like this. Have clicked Yes anyway and splitting didn't done, but in disk management partitions become another color. Windows still running until rebooting. Then it won't boot with error "Something wrong with your PC. Try to reboot again". Autofixing problems, check disk etc. didn't help at all. macOS disappeared from boot menu and now has RAW filesystem. I guess splitting disk corrupted its filesystem. Is there a way to back macOS to boot menu? It seems RAW filesystem have to be converted to GPT someway. macOS is on G: partition. Please help.
A quick question here, but is it possible to connect to the internet using a USB Modem in Recovery HD? Or is the only way to connect through WiFi or Ethernet. I haven't seen any clear/obvious ways of connecting but is it in any way possible?
I had some problems with an old user account on a Macbook Pro with SSD, and I wanted to start fresh. I am not sure if I deleted the account, but I think I did reinstall the OS through I think internet recovery mode. The old account is not present in Users & Groups. I did and the following is the response I got from Terminal:
A full battery will drain in about 24 hours of lid closed, fully unplugged sleep. Sometimes, when I pick up the computer to use it, it's physically warm. Here's what I've tried: Power Nap on battery is disabled iStat shows no apps "using significant energy" before closing the lid.
In System Preferences > Notifications, there are two entries for Google Chrome, and they have different settings.   I can obviously change them both to what I want, but why is this happening and how can I get rid of the extra one?
I'm hoping someone has had experience with this and can offer some advice, here's the lowdown on my scenario. I have a Mac Pro tower (so 4 drive bays) with all bays filled. Bay 1 has a 320GB HDD hosting Mavericks Bay 2 has a 1.5TB HDD JHFS+ formattedd for a data/archive disk Bay 3 has a 320GB HDD hosting Windows 7 Bay 4 has a 120GB SSD that I just installed macOS Sierra on.
Just updated to iOS 10.3 and now all incoming calls get busy signal without roll over to voice mail. I turned phone off hoping this would reset it bit no luck. So I pushed down on home and power button till apple image came on and that did not help either. Anyone have any thing else in mind for me to try?
I downloaded Xcode from Apple Developer website. When I'm trying to open the app, it shows this error. You can’t use this version of the application “Xcode” with this version of macOS. Can we bypass this check?
With a USB cable, both my iPhone (running 10.3.3) and iPad (running the iOS 11 beta) can sync just fine with my mac (running 10.12.6). But disconnect the cable, and wifi sync doesn't work. I have tried each of the following repeatedly in various orders: Rebooting the mac Rebooting the device Reinstalling iTunes killing usbmuxd and letting it restart killing iTunes Helper and restarting it Unchecking and rechecking the wifi sync checkbox Unchecking and rechecking the sync automatically checkbox deleting and recreating /var/db/lockdown reset all settings (on the phone) logging out and into iCloud on mac and devices switching between WiFi and Ethernet on the mac Booting into a recovery OS (at the Apple store) scouring the logs in Console and /var/log replacing the login keychain None of that has made a difference.
I have switched from Ubuntu to macOS (Sierra 10.12.5) recently and I am missing few very basic keyboard shortcut in the terminal. I used to open multiple terminal in tabs and set name of each tab but couldn't find any keyboard shortcut so far, although I am using CMD + Shift + I which open the inspector window separately and there I can set the title name but again there is no way to close that inspector window using keyboard. Kindly tell us if there any shortcut to do that?
Other than right click the device and select eject (this is not unmount, because it completely delete the device in diskutil), and then replug the device, is there a way to do this via terminal? For example, if I eject a USB Mass Storage device, it will be removed from diskutil list output. I can find it again via ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0 with output as such:
I have a macbook pro 2016 model. I want to install a windows copy via bootcamp. I dont want to install windows on my internal HDD so i was thinking about buying a USB type c flash drive and install windows there. Is this possible and would there by any issues like transfer speeds ?
Our team is working on an app where user will download and install app. He will initially have 5 days of trial period during which all of the features will be unlocked. After 5 days, some of the features will be locked and user will have to make in-app purchase (non-consumable, one time only) to unlock those features. After reading the App Store Review Guidelines, they state : Demos, betas, and trial versions of your app don’t belong on the App Store – use TestFlight instead. My question is: Is it possible that our app will get rejected?
Xml file : *=URL=* I have a xml file includes many live stream url(internet radios). Can i import this xml file data to iTunes, and if is possible how can i do this? I tried to search this on Google but there is no exists :/
iPhone version: Up-to-Date (iOS - 10) I have more than 10,000 contacts in my phone.
If iMessage uses end-to-end encryption, how do the messages get synchronized across Apple devices?
I've recently experienced a problem with Pages and Keynote. You know when you drag an image and it gets automatically centred or aligned with some other image and the trackpad "vibrates" when happens? Well, that feedback has suddenly gone, but the normal "click" and feedback from force touch work regularly. I could not find any trackpad settings apart from the "click" intensity, cursor speed and gestures. Nothing inside those programs. What could it be...? I'm running Sierra 12.5.6 and a MacBook Pro 13" with touchbar.
I have 5-6 pills that I have to take during the day. I am amazed how bad iOS apps for pills are! For example, there is no app that: reminds me to take pill sometime before and after a meal!
I have a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, and on the front it has a porgrammers/interrupt button (the button which opens up a debug console in MacOS9). I also have a few PowerMac G4 MDDs. Is there any programmers/interrupt button on the MDD? Or is one of the unpopulated button pads on the logic board next to the PMU button set up to do that function? Thanks.
I've noticed, like many people I suppose, that I tend to get drawn into Facebook/Twitter/Email/News constantly, and once drawn in will often spend an hour or more wasting time in these apps. I've decided to allow myself to check these only during specific time blocks every day, for example Facebook and Twitter from 1pm to 2pm and 9pm to 10pm, email from 8am to 9am and 8pm to 9pm, news from 9pm to 10pm, and so on. Is there a way to enforce this by blocking such websites/apps outside of these specific time blocks?
I know that connecting an Exchange account to an iPhone can give the Exchange administrators the ability to force a Passcode change or remotely wipe the device, but is this possible on a Macbook/OS X/macOS client?
I recently bought a thunderbolt-ethernet cable because my university only provides internet access via ethernet, and I have a MacBook Air. The cable works pretty well, except that it really heats up my laptop (particularly the region around the top of the keyboard). Any idea how I can avoid this, if at all? Also, does a USB-ethernet cable also do this?
I seem to have Java installed on my MacBook Pro running 10.10.5. My default browser is Chrome (latest) but I also sometimes use Firefox and Safari. As i understand in an ideal world Java would be disabled as it can pose a security risk, how can I disable it or only enable it on a case by case basis?
I need to get the IOS 10.2 IPSW to install on my iPod Touch to jailbreak it, but there is no JB for IOS 10.3.2, which I recently downgraded to from IOS 11. How can I get it to install?
My company invited me to join its iCloud calendar. On my iPhone I didn't activate "Calendar" in the iCloud settings until now for data privacy reasons.
It seems to me I'm not able to add my Apple ID to my MacBook, which would be handy if I ever needed to reset my password online for example. There's supposed to be a Set Apple ID section here according to my Google searches, but there isn't. Is there anything I need to do to be able to add the Apple ID? Curiously enough, I am able to see the device under iCloud's find my device.
I frequently need to plug the following into my 15" touchbar MacBook Pro: External monitor (2560x1440@60hz) USB Mouse USB Keyboard Power (something in the 60W+ range - not 15W) Currently all the adapters needed to do that are turning my desk into a rat's nest and I'd rather not plug 3 separate things in every time I set my laptop down.
I have seen this question on here a few times, but never with a clear answer. I am using a iPhone 6s with iOS 10.3.3. When I take a picture I want it to be uploaded to my iCloud Photo Library; however I also want to be able to delete that photo from my iPhone while keeping it in iCloud (to free up space for other data). Is there a way to delete photos from my iPhone’s local storage but not from iCloud Photo Library?
I've tried deleting and reinstalling Podcasts. I have no problems streaming episodes or with any other network activity.
I obtain an error Some data can't be read or written (error code -36)
The first thing I thought of was thinking that maybe the app doesn't have permission to access the microphone. I looked though settings and on FaceTime but couldn't find where the permission could be toggled. And I had no idea how to force it to ask the permission question again.
This is the first time using an iPhone! I used to own a Samsung Galaxy starting with the 5.5.1, S2, Note 2, S4, S5, etc...so I'm defently not used to this iPhone! With the Samsung's I used the Google Play store & or Market, or the Galaxy Apps store to download my music, apps, & games.
I have an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.3.3 and after I login to iMessage on my mac, alot of my contacts are missing, but the funny thing is, if search for the name in iMessage on the iphone the contact appears, however it does not appear on iMessage on my mac when search for name. How do I get these missing contacts back? They appear not to be gone forever as I can still search for them in iMessage on my iPhone.
There seems to be no option for this on Numbers 4.2 There are a bunch of options with fixed sizes, but nothing to set custom values for the document's width and height. The reason is that I want to export the spreadsheet as a document with the size being roughly the same as the screen on my tablet, so that I don't have to scroll horizontally or vertically to see all its contents, nor to have black bars on both sides of the page, so to maximize the information I can fit in the document.
A family member has been using an iPhone since around 2012 and regularly uses the Notes feature to store various things to remember. At some point, syncing of notes was no longer supported by Apple as they decided that everything should be on iCloud. Said family member does not want anything on the cloud.
I installed some programs (e.g. Sequel Pro), when I eject the virtual device from the Finder it seems ok but after some time it is re-added. Is there a way to remove them permanently? What is the reason of this behaviour? Edit: My machine is a MBP 15" 2016 with macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
I broke my iPhone 7 screen the day before the case came in the mail, just my luck. A few days later the home button stopped working. I went to get the screen replaced (there are no Apple stores near me so it was a local repair shop). The guy told me if I bought a new home button he'd replace it for free. I ordered the button, but I just discovered that the issue isn't the button itself. When I double tap it, it still brings the screen down. I believe it's just the pressure sensor that isn't working. What part would I need to fix this? Would it be a new taptic engine? All of the vibrations and haptics are still working.
I'm trying to move my iTunes library to a new location. I'm running iTunes without the "organize media" option because I keep my library (60000+ songs) on a second drive in my MacBook... I recently upgraded to a new MacBook with a lot less storage but found out that you can run iTunes from a WebDAV cloud server without any noticeable lag (Yep!). I already have an exact copy of my second drive on the server but now I would like to know the simplest way to change the paths for all tracks in bulk? I've found some solutions myself but it would take literally weeks to complete:
Can I use an app I purchased on an iPad on a Windows PC?
I use Spotlight Search frequently to launch apps on my Mac, and it works perfectly. I use Telegram Desktop frequently by typing a few letters in Spotlight Search. I just type a few letters and tap enter and it opens. Simple as that.
In macOS, one can select text quickly and precisely using shortcuts. Pressing SHIFT and the arrow keys will select one character at a time (← →) or one line (↑, ↓) at a time. And pressing ALT and SHIFT in combination with the arrow keys will let you select each word at a time (← →) or from the insertion point to the very beginning or end of a document (↑, ↓).
Running OS 10.12.5 on an older iMac. Apple tech said it is not the software, probably hard drive crashing. Ran disk utility - no help. I have files backed up on Time Machine, but is there an easy way to back up apps online before it dives to the dust? Simple words, please.
I like to open custom URLs, such as "myscheme://a/b/c" from my AppleScript code. This is not about opening http URLs in a web browser. This is about getting the same result as when you create an .inetloc file in the Finder and then open that file in the Finder, or invoking this code in a macOS app written in ObjC:
I just updated my MacBook Pro mid-2012 Retina 15in to the latest OS X and now that I've rebooted it doesn't want to go into dual screen anymore. I've used this setup for a long time now (couple of years) and it's never been a problem. I'm connected with a mini-DP to DP cable, and I've tried to reset the PRAM/NVRAM already. When I connect the cable to my Mac the MacBooks screen starts flickering a few times, then I get a "No signal from cable" message on my other screen and everything goes back to normal on my MB.
Recently I have changed the name of my admin, and took off the password. at the beginning everything looked right. However, when I turned off my MacBook Pro 2017, and turned it on again,now it gives me only access to the guest mode, and my admin account doesn't available to enter at all, and the only options that I have is to enter/click the guest mode, sleep restart, and turn off the computer. I also tried to do some changes in Users & Groups. However, cause I'm in a guest mode, so I need to click (unlock to make change) and Mac just refuses to accept any username, or password.
My user's profile picture path is /picture1.jpg. I want to change it to /picture2.jpg using applescript. I run the following applescript:
I am trying to fix a damaged external harddrive via diskutility. Unfortunately, does not work, not even in the recovery mode. Any ideas?
Is this possible? I have searched for this, and what I tend to find is the opposite process, how to make Linux desktops look like macOS desktops...
I have deleted photos in order to reclaim iCloud storage, followed by emptying both the Recently Deleted album and the macOS Trash. I also restarted my computer.
A: Ahh, yes, you did send me an attachment yesterday. I'll open it now... --successfully opens attachment--
The iPhone has a great "Memory Movie" feature that that assembles pictures and videos of one person into a little music video. Can you do that on the Photos app too? I could only find the slideshow, which isn't the same thing. For instance it doesn't play the "live photo" videos, it just shows stills.
Machine has version 10.9.5 installed but the app store thinks that version 10.12.6 is installed. How do I update to the latest version?
When I update the softs of my Mac, there only can use the previous AppleID, but I want to switch other Apple ID, how can I do that? I can not click the Apple ID textfield.
I need to restrict iCloud login by system ip address without using Two Factor Authentication, Is there any possibilities?
I'm having trouble opening Xcode 9 beta 4 on my Windows computer. It's the first time I've tried downloading Xcode, and I think the problem may be my computer isn't able to open .xip files but I'm not confident. Any insight or advice?
I am using an external keyboard which is a Windows keyboard. I am not able to use copy and paste command with ctrl and there is no command key or the option key in this keyboard. What is the shorcut for copy paste or cut paste on such keyboard?
I am trying to modify default Sierra password policies through pwpolicy, trying for example, to lower the depth of password history from 24 to 1 by hitting as sudoer: But it is not working. The error message is: Error: Policy file not found The policyIdentifier I try to change that gets listed (with many more) when hitting pwpolicy getaccountpolicies reads like this: How is the proper way of doing it?
I've developed an Xamarin Forms App and want to publish on App Store. Have bought Apple Developer Program for 99$
On a Mac not using hard drive encryption, how difficult would it be for an attacker with physical access to a machine to break into the keychain? This document answers the question for iOS 10 (the keychain uses AES 128 in Galois/Counter Mode). But I can't find a document for MacOS.
I recently switched to Family Sharing. Previously, we all had our separate iCloud accounts for contact syncing, calendaring, reminders, etc. and shared a single account for out store purchases. Now that we've family sharing setup, besides still using separate iCloud accounts for the above purposes, everyone started using their own iCloud accounts for their store purchases as well. When I go to Settings > Apple ID > Family Sharing > Share Purchases, I see that the old account we used to share for our store purchases is listed as to be shared among family members but when I recently tried to download a past purchase with that account, I repurchased it(I was logged in to the store with my own iCloud account). What should I do if I want to be able to access my previous purchases?
I have problems with a provider that refuses to deliver important documents in anything but Adobe Reader specific documents. I think these are with Adobe Experience Manager pdf forms. Their documents open in Preview or Skim and similar with a note stating "The document you are trying to load requires Adobe Reader 8 or higher".
My battery is 300+ cycles on my iPhone 5s, and it is draining very quickly, even though I do not have much applications running, and not many of them use background app refresh. Where and/or how can I find a decent replacement battery for iPhone 5s?
I've been experiencing WindowServer crashes on my 13" Retina MacBook Pro (early 2013 version, running Sierra 10.12.5) for a while now. It happens at random intervals—sometimes a few days between, sometimes less than 24 hours—and basically just looks like I've suddenly been logged out. I've googled and googled and found plenty about WindowServer issues in general, but nothing specific to my situation, so I'm hoping someone here, who's more familiar with reading crash logs than I am, might be able to diagnose what specifically is causing the problem. My most recent crash log can be found here, as it's too long for one post to accommodate: *=URL=* Thanks in advance for any help!
I want to put 2 partitions on my USB stick: first one (so Windows can see it) with FAT32 (so also macOS can write to it) and a second one, bootable with system-rescue-cd on it. I started looking how to partition the stick and I discovered that Disk Utility will not let me create partitions on the USB stick (the button is disabled), let alone configure the partition as bootable in the MBR.
I am trying to SSH my iMac from an Ubuntu server (without root access), but the command just hangs without ever connecting. I enabled the "Remote Login" from the iMac's settings, but here is what happens when I try to ssh from the server: I am also confident it is not because of the server, because we tried from two different servers and a Mac laptop, same problem.
I have a weird use case. I have an Apple developer account with Private Limited, now we want to change that one to an individual account. Because of need to pay more for D-U-N-S Number. But we don't want to close our account in which we have live apps.
Suddenly, existing text strings are showing the contact number (not for all text messages), and not the contact name. If I look for the person in my contacts, they are not listed. If I use their name to start a text discussion, their name and number show in the 'search' like if they were in the contacts.
I notice that on a Mac, if I have several windows of one application (say, Chrome) open and click the Chrome icon at the bottom, it opens all the windows simultaneously, which usually fills up the entire screen. However, what I often want to do is have Chrome open side-by-side with another app (like Preview). As I recall, there was a shortcut key to minimize all Chrome windows except the current one - is this the case and if so, how could I do that?
I have one active playlist which contains about 50 songs. But I remove and add songs very commonly at this playlist. I want to have another playlist that includes all song that currently are and have been in the active playlist. Can someone help me to create that smart playlist? Here is a screenshot of my first attempt but this creates a live updating clone, which is not very helpful.
I've managed to reformat and install OS X Sierra on an external hard disk with an USB3.0 connection to a borrowed 2015 Macbook Air. The install was successful and the OS was able to boot and work fine.
I would like to have my web apps show in Launchpad. Is there a way to do this?
For the past few weeks I've had this weird behaviour of minimised apps. If I minimise an app with the yellow button, then it will go in the left side of the dock, like this.
My auto-suggest disappeared when I updated to iOS 10.3.3. How do I get it back? It was so helpful to me.
I have a new iPhone 7 plus, purchased last week on my personal Verizon account. I have dialed and received calls and messages from only 1 phone number. I do not have an Apple ID or email or anything else setup on this phone. How would I receive a text message from an unknown number, which would indicate that this person could read my texts?
Although I disabled local backups on my laptop, they keep coming back! I disabled it with
I have an image that shows in the “Browse attachments” view in the Notes app on Mac, but when I right-click on it and choose Show in Note, it doesn’t return any note, as it was deleted previously. Is there a way to remove this orphan image? And if yes, how?
Apple has strict guidelines dictating no charitable donations and the app has to be free if there are... Charities and contributions 21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free. 21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS. Charities and contributions 21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free. 21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free. 21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS. 21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS. I want to monetize the app and donate a portion to charity so free isn't an option. What if I had something in the app where it said 40% of proceeds went to charity, that way apple would get 30% from the in-app purchase, I would keep roughly 30% and the charity would get 40%
Does storing photos in the Photos app or finder take up more space? Or are they the same? I'm trying to free up some storage, and I have a lot of photos, so just wondering whether moving all that into the Photos app will change anything. (By the way, I DON'T use iCloud so don't tell me to store it there)
I want to transfer a legal, licensed copy of Photoshop CS5 from and old Lion iMac I am de-commissioning to my current El Capitan system. I have the license number, but not the install media as this copy of Photoshop started off as CS3 and then I did an online upgrade to CS5. So I don't have CS5 install disks.
I want to be able to change a user's local account picture from the command line. I've tried this: The above works to set the user's "Picture" attribute to "/Baseball.jpg" with the following result:
Dell U2715H has a USB-B 3.0 upstream connector for its internal USB hub. If I connect the upstream port with a USB-B to USB-C cable to a 13" 2017 MBP will it charge the laptop? Another way to put this question is: can I use the 13" 2017 MBP in closed-clamshell mode with the Dell U2715H connected through a DP to USB-C and a USB-B to USB-C cable?
I've used and already extracted the IPSW of iOS 11, there are 4 DMG files there, where could that be on that DMG files there, and where exactly insider one of there could I find that such files?
In many apps like safari or youtube the backbutton is at the top of the screen. That makes it basically impossible to use my ipad pro 9.7 comfortably in bed, I would have to sit up and use both hands to access the back button. Is there any way to get a back button at the bottom of the screen?
ios youtube app cannot seek by clicking on the seekbar. You need to find the current location and grab the red dot before you can move it. That's annoying and makes seeking a huge chore. Is there a client that doesn't have this problem but still has all the other features of youtube (like recommendations etc)?
I am new to this so this maybe a trivial question but I have a private web app that would like to deep link the chrome into it so when users visit it on safari I could give them the option to open chrome through the web app or when they are on chrome to be able to open Safari. However I wasn't able to do that using the URI scheme whereas I was able to do the same thing with other applications other than Safari and chrome (like open Microsoft word) I was wondering if such a deep linking possible and how and if not why?
When rapidly pressing the left area of the keyboard (directly under C,V,B,N keys) of the QWERTY keyboard on the mid-2017 MacBook Pro 15", the sound produced is different than pressing the right edge of the keyboard (under the M key). Simply put, the left side produces a louder sound which seems to occur higher up in the keyboard, where the right edge sounds like the normal alpha-numeric keys where the sound seems to originate further down. Is this an issue solely with my computer, or does it occur with every MBP?
My app update got rejected for its preview video. The message from the reviewers asked to include content only from the app. However, the video has only content recorded in the app, some text to explain what the features are and the background music (for which we have rights to). It would be a great help if you can check the video out and let us know what to change in the video and why it really fails the review. YouTube link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHwCyKvyoM
Music control center works perfectly fine, except it sometimes seems to "forget" the music app I was using it with. And then just clicking wont do it anymore. Instead I have to click at the top and reopen the app first and start the song there. After doing that, I can control it from control center again.
I know about the solution here: *=URL=* But all this does is make it so that when you unminimize a window which belongs to another workspace, it unminimizes in that workspace without also switching you to the workspace it belongs to. But the appropriate functionality would be for these minimized windows not to appear at all in a different workspace, I want my workspaces to be completely seperate, it doesn't make any sense for a window to stick around taking up dock realestate just because it's been minimized.
Ive got a MBP (spec below in screenshot) running OSX 10.10.5 Ive got an issue where every time i wake my MBP from sleep it will connect to the wifi network and my laptop will show up during a LAN scan, but will struggle to load pages it does eventually and intermittently load them, but takes for ever, even though I've got a 200mbps connection. There are several things i can do to fix the problem, each one of them individually will fix the issue, but none are ideal : connect to the network through a wired connection restart my MBP restart the wifi access point restart the network switch
I lost my iPad Air 2 with Find my iPad activated. I was able to track it once before its battery died. I set it in Lost Mode with a lock passcode. Ever since the device has always been offline.
Somehow I stupidly started to turn off my FileVault on my MacBook Pro. Not exactly sure how I did this, brain fart. Now my machine is trying to decrypt what I assume are all my files. Right now I have the decryption paused, but it is waiting for me to hook up my power cable to complete the decryption. I'm afraid when I run out of power and hook up my power cable to recharge my machine, the decryption will restart. I want to stop this process and go back to the way my machine was before. Is there some way for me to stop the decryption and restart the FileVault?
when I type this command open -a Terminal . while I am on the /tmp folder, a terminal appears and exits immediately. Before the new terminal gets disappeared, I see this message:
So, I recently noticed as I was downloading music to my iphone (iphone SE) that some of my albums that I've purchased are missing. They're not on the device itself, but in the cloud. I can see them fine on my macbook, but they're not available to download on my phone. For example, I have the soundtrack "Turbo Kid". It's there, plain as day on my computer. I go to search it on my iphone so I can download it, and it's nowhere to be found. Like, what the heck? Where is it? I thought music purchased from itunes would show up across my devices. I'm signed in, why isn't it there?
My new microsoft keyboard doesn't have an eject button which makes it impossible to put my computer to sleep using the usual shortcut. Is there any way to remap the eject key to an existing key so i can continue to use the usual shortcut.
Signed up with AppyPie to create an app for a small business startup. I was just told I need a developer account with Apple and to register here: https://developer.apple.com/enroll/
From a macworld URL ending in . . . ads/prebid.min.js.
I was having problems with my daughter’s iPhone 5s touch screen. I was advised to do a factory reset, as this could rectify the problem. After I did this I encountered Activation Lock.
Ok so I need adb for a problem in my android phone. And for that I need my root password. So I tried to change it since I was not aware of it being a thing in the first place. I followed this tutorial *=URL=* But I am not able to change it successfully since it tells me that my password is wrong every time. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but some help would be appreciated.
I have a Mac OSX host and an Ubuntu guest VM (via VirtualBox) and the guest VM needs access to an ethernet device (a GigE camera) that will be plugged into the host via an ethernet cable and ethernet/thunderbolt adapter. I have successfully booted my guest VM and can access the Internet fine using the default settings and NAT. The internet is coming to the Host machine via WiFi.
How do I change the font used in macOS Sierra? Has Apple actually taken away the ability to set the font?
new (old) mac, came with a 2tb drive for files and data, and a small 250gb SSD drive for only the OS. i have installed new version of sierra into that drive, now using Migration Assistant from a Time Machine disk I want to copy over my applications and files, Apps can maybe go to the SSD but files and data i want on the other, big drive. Unfortunately Migration Assistant wants to only install to the start up drive ( I assume) and so im getting a "Not enough space on target drive" message. What can I try?
Under macOS I want to convert HTML files with referenced images on the command line/programatically to webarchives. Given a sample file sample.html containing:
I had problems with colours not showing in iTerm2 for me. I tried a few fixes I found online which didn't work and now my serial number of my laptop is showing in iTerm & Terminal. Anyone know how to remove this?
firsttime user here - I'm not a programmer but sometimes have educated guesses on how to solve things with Applescript. My aim: all open tabs in 1 safari-window -> add those in bulk to my Instapaper-account. I use the following code (thanks to whomever originally created this): On running this applescript, I get returned the message "Something went wrong, I'm not sure what at this moment" I assume this means that although my username & password get successfully passed along to the Instapaper API, all is not well... I do not know how to further tackle this problem - the documentation at Instapaper's simple API documentation is possibly helpful.
I am using a MacBook Air running Sierra. I like to use different mouse settings with my touchpad, and my USB mouse. To facilitate this, every time I plug my mouse in, I have to go to System Preferences and change the mouse settings (reverse scroll direction and adjust sensitivity). Is there any way by which I can automate this change (maybe using automator) in settings to occur automatically every time I plug in the USB mouse?
I look at the instructions but there's nothing there. As if it was obvious but I'm really clueless.
If the Administrators (Group) is set to have R+/W+ access, do individual Admin Users need to be specifically set to have R+/W+ access or are they hierarchically included as falling within the Admins group? Also, is there a list somewhere that clarifies the (complete) hierarchy of all these Users & Groups that become visible when you Option Click the plus sign on the Permissions panel? I've found partial lists, but they don't cover even 1/3rd of the entries.
I have a medical device which needs to run while I sleep, and I need to be alarmed if for any reason it is not on during the night. For practical reasons I need a period from activating until the actual monitoring starts.
Can somebody help me resolve this issue? Does OS X have any limitation regarding CPU usage for java processes? I can provide more informations but need to know where to look.
I use a MacBook Air with limited storage space, with a 256 GB phone. Is there a way I can download music and sync it to my phone, then delete the files from iTunes afterwards?
My 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is connected to my Apple Thunderbolt Display via a genuine Apple Thunderbolt to USB-C adapter. The audio from the MacBook is piped through to the built-in speakers in the Apple display.
I want to know each and every core files my Mac sync with iCloud even the hidden files which one normally can't edit. I want to know what are other things iCloud sync except the items that are listed in the iCloud settings like: iCloud Drive Photos Mail Calendar Contacts Reminders Notes Keychain Safari (reading lists, iCloud tabs) What does Apple sync with iCloud we don't know about?
I would like an AppleScript to activate all rules that have the string "sort: " in their names. As far as I know this is how to enable a mail rule: How do I get the names of all mail rules? How do I filter these names for containing the string "sort: "?
I have text in column B. But there are some columns that are empty. There is no rule the empty raws are at random. This is what I have now:
I have a 2017 MacBook pro w/ touchbar and the Dell WD 15 dock (work issued it to me). The dock has thunderbolt, HDMI, and VGA on the back. A single USB-C cable comes off of the dock.
How do you manually rearrange single pictures in Apple "Photos"? In iPhoto it was possible to select the picture, hold down the mouse button and move to another position in the album. Has that feature been deleted?
as you can see on the left terminal panel there is a lot more colourisation than on the right one (black/grey backgrounds excluded as it's a result of focus). LEFT: '.bash_profile' RIGHT: '.bashAliases'
Apologies for the noob question but I'm looking around and finding different answers (including data not getting restored). So I would like to make sure I'm following the right process.
I just want to install Xcode 8 on Mac Sierra with the .xip format but in the expanding it shows the following error: The operation couldn't be completed.block-compressed payload operation failed. Anyone has a solution for this?
Looking to connect 4 Macs to a central Mac Mini that is running as a server (with a few Thunderbolt RAID arrays connected it as data sources). Network is currently gigabit ethernet, but would like to speed up data transfers. 10G Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapters are still relatively expensive ($300-500) - so I'm wondering if its possible to connect multiple Macs via IP over Thunderbolt? Apple supports a direct connection between two computers via IP, but is it possible to connect multiple either via daisy chaining them or via some sort of a Thunderbolt hub or switch (if one exists)? If so, this would make for a relatively inexpensive way to build a 10G LAN network with (mostly) existing hardware and a few Optical Thunderbolt Cables
How can I delete the photos within the recent section? I tried pressing the delete button, but it didn't delete the image from the list.
i need to monitor the memory of a program and for that i use the command top. I use it in a cron script. But 'top' returns values as string , like "520M" or "1420M+" and i need values as 520 or 520000 to be able to use it as:
When running two external monitors in OS X Sierra, my dock sometimes changes which display it is located on. Is there a setting to stop this from happening? This happens at random times, and I can't reproduce the issue.
I'm getting this error trying to install software on MacOS Sierra (10.12.5): Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers.
Is there a way to import tickets/events from wallet to calendar in ios? This seems to be a very basic functionality but still hard to figure out. I know wallet shows notifications but having all of my events in my calendar gives me a better overall look on my plans.
As shown in the screenshot only the Headphones are selectable:  But no headset is plugged in. I have plugged and unplugged the headset several times to see whether the Mac thinks it were plugged in and maybe to get un-confused: no difference. While I could try to reboot it would be helpful to understand if there were some mechanism to reset macOS "understanding" of the headset in/out.
I'm looking for a way to be able to remotely access an iPhone. I have moved fairly far from home for college, and would like to help my parents with various problems they have on their phones. It would be much easier if I could fix problems for them instead of trying to explain the solution. I would prefer to do it from a mac, but could also do it from another iPhone. I will not have physical access to the device for the foreseeable future.
After unbagging a MacBook Air on the top panel where the Apple logo is some weird patterns​ were generated. I not sure what are those​ .. can someone explain? The bag just has some black foam material inside.
I did the latter from the command line. It said tlmgr: package repository *=URL=* (not verified: gnupg not available) =============================================================================== tlmgr itself needs to be updated. Please do this via either tlmgr update --self or by getting the latest updater for Unix-ish systems: *=URL=* and/or Windows systems: *=URL=* Then continue with other updates as usual. =============================================================================== tlmgr: Terminating; please see warning above! So I proceeded with tlmgr update --self and it said tlmgr: package repository *=URL=* (not verified: gnupg not available) tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/tlpkg/backups /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: create(tlpkg/tlpobj/texlive.infra.tlpobj) failed: Permission denied at /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 561. How to proceed?
In Activity Monitor we can get how much time has passed since the last charge, but this time includes also the time in which the Mac was asleep. Is there any way or any app which tells the time the Mac was awake?
Following the directions outlined by Apple here, i can confirm that the system itself recognizes my device, but iTunes and (more importantly) Xcode refuse to. I made sure to update everything i could; and since this is a vanilla install, I can think of no "third-party security software" that would conflict. How does one troubleshoot this? Phone Type: iPhone 6 macOS version: 10.12.6 iOS version: 10.3.3 Full Output of system_profiler SPUSBDataType: here
Quite suddenly, Mac Mail has stopped displaying mail from my work account, which is MS Exchange. Nothing came in after 9:00 a.m. Tuesday. After deleting and restoring the account, the status bar suggested that messages would be fetched, and even appeared to count and fetch them, but nothing ever showed.
Although in the text editor, vowels and the like are separate characters overlaid on the previous ones, Script Editor doesn't see it that way, and sees בְּ and ב as the same letter. And yet, when comparing it to my list, it doesn't recognize the character and skips it. So how can I strip the vowels and the like from the letters while not doing an if-loop for any possible letter and vowel combination?
I have an mp3 audiobook on Google Drive that I want to listen to in iBooks on my iPhone. How can I transfer/copy/open that file from the Google Drive app on the iBooks app?
I inputted the diskutil list command and the following showed up So I tried the dd if=/Volumes/Something of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m (yes, I named the device something previously). The terminal returned Permission denied. I tried the same command with sudo. It then returned Device busy. What should I do?
So I've been "suffering" from my hardware issues for months now. My entire keyboard and trackpad stopped working (while all other I/O devices were working perfectly) so I've been using the bluetooth keyboard/mouse for the time being. The IT guy at my work said I needed to replace the entire top case, which I couldn't and still can't afford. So I brought it to Apple for diagnosis, just in case it was the flex cable problem. They said it was, and after replacing it, my keyboard and trackpad worked!..EXCEPT the 9 keys in the top row. All my keys work except QWERTYUIO (P works, oddly). What's the problem here? How can I fix it besides replacing the entire top case? Apparently replacing the top case is for replacing the tiny connection chip that's permanently attached to the case. It's really wasteful (in terms of money and resources) to re-purchase and discard the entire case when the problem lies in the tiny chip. Any way I can perhaps take that off and then replace it?
So I went to the terminal and tried the following and I get the error
My account is the master for family sharing. I’m missing important photos and want to find them of possible.
I'm running the High Sierra (developer) beta build 17A315i on my late 2016 Macbook Pro with Radeon 455 GPU. After a while, the discrete GPU's performance decreases significantly. The openCL score on Geekbench goes to 13k from 40k and FPS dips in all games. It seems that it is not using it's full potential since the fans do not really ramp up. Only a restart fixes the problem temporarily for a few hours before it goes back down even if I close all other applications. The intel GPU is unaffected.
I've never seen anything like this before, but I'm going to add it to my list of things to try when recovering a hard drive. Hopefully someone else will see this and it will help them.
Correctly formatted Tibetan text, when pasted into Word, especially using the Kokonor font, does not stack correctly. Is there a solution or workaround to this?
My team and I ran into a bug, which is probably caused by the iOS system time not incrementing monotonically, but jumping backwards. The measured time difference was about -50 milliseconds. (That's obviously no leap second or time zone issue.)
Let's say I have multiple apple devices connected to wifi via an airport. I would like to move to another location and there only have to re-configure airport. Keeping the wifi pass as it was before. I wouldn't go to each device and re-configure wifi settings. I tried that with an airport express 1st gen without success. Does the new line with simultaneous dual-band support help on the issue? May be this could be called kind of private own wifi.
YouTube has stopped working on my iPad 1, so I deleted it and tried to re-download it, but the current version requires iOS 9.0 or later. The only solution I have found involves using a computer, but I’m not allowed to and it has a lot of problems. H ow can I download a compatible version of YouTube on iOS 5.1.1 without a computer?
On my Mac, I have a Windows partition that I can either directly boot into (with Boot Camp) or run as a virtual machine (with VMWare Fusion). I set up Windows to reverse the scroll direction of my mouse. This works when I'm running Windows in Boot Camp. But when I'm in VMWare, the scroll direction is reversed twice — once by Windows and once by macOS — which puts it back to regular scrolling. How can I set this up to have natural scrolling in Windows in both Boot Camp and VMWare?
I have recently jailbroken an old iPhone 4 I have and have been having a great experience with it as a device to fiddle with, however I need to be able to use it in areas where there isn't any WiFi over SSH. Is there any tweak installable which will allow me to toggle the phone to make a WiFi Hotspot. The phone will not have a SIM Card installed to I don't care about mobile data. I simply want to connect to the phone's WiFi hotspot and SSH into its console via my iPad. Thanks for any responses.
Every 2nd Thursday our team has to produce reports from data provided to us in a Excel spreadsheet. Typically this data has about 23,000 rows of data. The problem is that since June these spreadsheets now have duplicated rows, due to a problem in the data warehouse they’re produced in.
I have a problem with fresh installation of XAMPP. It listens on my local IP address 192.168.64.2 instead of local host 127.0.0.1
Suddenly when booting up my MacBook Pro I got the message in the image It restarted by itself a couple of times giving the same crash message. Then it wouldn't boot at all. It would just go black midways through the boot progress bar.
I just got the new MacBook Pro (2017, running Sierra 10.12.6). I am trying to transfer my Capture NX2 software from my 2013 MacBook Pro (also running Sierra 10.12.6).
I was trying to restore WhatsApp chat history by method described by "oa-" user here on the forum. But can not ask him directly Transfer the WhatsApp Windows Phone Backup file to Iphone
The system was presumably closed at my workplace. How can I find why ? Some light on those 13Gb ? How Activity Monitor finds those numbers ? I will be glad to provide more information while the computer is not yet shut down. I have no automatic updates, last one was on 27 June, more than a week ago. system.log is full of entries like: During the night, when it should have slept - the laptop was very much alive:
I've tried following answers in this link but I still can't get the ANSI colours in custom themes to show for me in iTerm. Did anyone find any other fixes? https://superuser.com/questions/399594/color-scheme-not-applied-in-iterm2
I'm exporting MOVs from Flash, then converting them to mp4 with Handbrake. The video will scale to the screen size, but I would prefer it to scale down, rather than scale up. So, what are the maximum/optimum/best pixel width and height of a MOV/mp4 for iphones? Or, to take it a step back in the process, what are the pixel dimensions I should set for my Flash document (which is then exported to MOV at 1:1)? PS: I know iphone screen sizes have changed with each new iphone, and screen sizes come in points, rendered pixels, physical pixels and physical devices. But hopefully in the end there's max X-px x Y-px. (I asked this over at Video Production, but no answers)
I've read that com.apple.bird, is a part of icloud on Mac but mine is 202GB!! is taking a lot of my iMac space. Can anyone help me? Some say it is not safe to delete this cache, but I need to find a way to clean this one up. Thanks.
I recently ran rm -rf, not rm -rf /, but nothing happened. I just get a result like this:
I am a switcher from Ubuntu Gnome and I find the hiding of programs pretty annoying. I prefer all windows to be visible so I can rearrange them in different spaces.
I have a MacBook 12 Early 2016. When I'm using it outside and it is hot, it warns me about stopping because the temperature is too high. And then it stops. I'm using a tool to see the temperature of different elements of the MacBook but I would like to know what is the element that makes this warning : I don't think it is the CPU because sometimes it is hotter without any warning.
(cross post from stackoverflow.com) When our installer runs, if the user has previously installed or moved the app to some location other than /Applications (or installd finds a previous version somewhere else on the system), we see this message appear in our install log: (in this case, it has found MyApp.app that was built locally on my machine). When installd invokes our postinstall script, the $2 parameter is supposed to be the install location, but we're getting this error: when executing this line from postinstall:
Recently my MacBook Air stopped allowing me to adjust the volume. Whether I press F12 or F11 it shows a forbidden symbol on it, as in the picture below.
I've been experimenting with different ways of transferring files between Android and iOS devices while "in the field" away from WiFi networks and internet access. Nothing I've found works as well as AirDrop, but apps like InstaShare, Dukto, and Feem all work decently well if you have a WiFi network to connect to. Since WiFi isn't always available in the field, I thought that I could just create a WiFi hotspot on my iPhone, connect my Android device to the network, and use Feem/InstaShare/Dukto to transfer the files.
I have a MacBook Pro 13'' mid 2014. My 60w charger stopped working yesterday (no green light, no AC charger detected in system information). However, when I tested the charger with another MacBook Pro 13'' everything looked ok. Then I connected my MacBook Pro 13'' to a 85w charger from a 15'' and that one worked perfectly. What could be the reason?
How can I view the CPU temperature from the command line? It would especially be nice to also see the GPU temperature. OS X just crashed and rebooted on its own, and the Console logs ("Event: GPU Reset" and "GPU HangState 0x00000000") suggest that the GPU might be the culprit. I'm trying to determine if it's time to reapply the thermal paste and reattach the heatsinks (never done this before; not even sure it's within my ability).
Had problem with "Advanced Mac Cleaner". After some effort, and plenty of time, I think I have found and removed all files concerning this malware. My only apparent remaining problem is that the Advanced MacCleaner icon remains in my Launchpad. I really, REALLY don't want to bring any of the amc files back from trash unless I absolutely have to (and would prefer to empty trash entirely after I am sure this whole problem is solved.) Anyone got a fairly easy fix for this final step that a basic laymen (computer wise) like me could implement w/o too much difficulty? Thanks.
How do I find the keyboard shortcut Unicode characters in the popover launched by ⌃ ctrl ⌘ cmd Space (not sure of the official name, but I’m referring to the “emoji picker”)? Note that the ⌃ I’m looking for is different from the standard caret ^.
I’m using a third-party keyboard (gBoard, provided by the Google app), and I notice that anytime the Google app updates, the keyboard disappears from all my running applications. I have to shut them down and relaunch them for gBoard to appear again. Is there a way for apps to automatically load the new gBoard once it’s installed, without having to quit and relaunch them?
When you download applications with vShare PC client program it stores in This applications can be intalled ofline to any other device(No jaibreak) and even with any other program like iTool, iFunbox, the only thin that you need to do online is autorize the device first in vShare PC client The point is reduce the internet conections needed to preform a instalation off an app How to obtain this kind of apps that can be installed offline after vshare authorization? My goal is install app like kiwix and osmand that are free and opensource.
QC35's are linked to both my iPhone and my Mac but when I connect the headphones to my Mac (without pairing to my iPhone) the sound is choppy (brief & frequent loss in audio). Sometimes pairing my iPhone fixes the problem but not always. What can I do?
With Sierra, Apple's Mail.app behaves differently when using the move mail feature. Formerly it just offered you the folder you used the last time. In Sierra Mail.app tends to be much smarter, offering different folders depending on "something", probably sender or maybe also subject (which is unclear to me). However the problem is that for 80% of the mails I receive from various senders with various subjects Mail.app offers me only one folder to move the mail into which is wrong in 99% of the cases - probably due to the amount of mails in there, even though they are all coming from a certain system (error mails). Now I wonder if there's anything I can do to reset this logic so that Mail.app starts learning and gets better in offering the correct folder I want to drop a mail. What can I do? And: no, I don't want to (and can't actually) create rules on the exchange server to route the mails because it's a) too difficult (context based) and b) I need to have them in the inbox to realize t
I was wondering why my drive wasn’t converted to APFS after installing macOS High Sierra public beta. I tried to convert it to APFS after the fact, by booting into Recovery Mode and opening Disk Utility, but it won’t let me. The option to convert to APFS is grayed out. Is there any way I can convert my drive to APFS?
I've got the following warning repeated every few minutes: Aug 4 18:35:21 MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.501): Service "com.apple.xpc.launchd.unmanaged.diskspaced.92673" tried to hijack endpoint "com.apple.diskspaced" from owner: com.apple.diskspaced I've checked and I've got only one diskspaced service: How can I track the service which is trying to hijack com.apple.diskspaced and disable it?
Additional information: This is an OLD card. It doesn't appear to be the type that can be recognized by scanning. It does have a bar code, but the bar code is not in a box like the new cards. It also has a magnetic stripe. I couldn't figure out how to enter it into Apple Wallet or Apple Store apps. The front of the card is blank silver with white apple logo. The gift card number is 16 digits and the PIN is 8 digits.
Recently I did an update from Yosemite to Sierra and I realized my favorites were removed and the update defaulted to the typical Finder favorites left from the window. I didn't see a definitive answer under the tag finder or from any of the questions after searching Finder favorites. So my question is, can I parse a file under operating system that I can add back after the update to preserve my favorites without having to take a screenshot and add them back? Knowing this would be helpful because I could script it when I update my other machines and if I wanted to replicate my environment.
Looking at building a custom parser in AppleScript that would run throughout the day with launchd. The issue I'm looking at is trying to find what tmp directory to store the parse at that would be cleaned after log in or log out.
I have a situation in which I'm getting HTML content via a pipe. I'd like to display it in a browser window. But the obvious step,
I'm having trouble accessing my App Store account on my MacBook Air. First of all, my AirPort chip was broken, so I bought a USB wireless card. Then my App Store account stopped working. My question is: can I use my App Store account without having the card?
I noticed my MacBook Pro said it was offline when I signed into find my phone. I was using my MacBook Pro and it was not offline. I don't know what other MacBook Pro would be signed in under my Apple Id. I decided to turn off the offline MacBook Pro to see what would happen. My Mac is right here next to this computer and it is working.
I take many photos on iPad, some of them I would like to keep private. Not allowing someone using my iPad temporarily to see them. Is that possible? Is is possible to make some alguns only accessible via iCloud?
In the first scenario, I have a script containing all of my handlers and snippets. The filename for this script is “Jimz_Handlerz.scpt” and it is located here… /Users/Smokestack/Library/Script Libraries
I recently partitioned my 250 GB SSD to install Elementary OS using Disk Utility. I dedicated 100 GB to Elementary OS and the rest to macOS. I now want to resize the partitions to change Elementary OS to 30 GB and give macOS the rest. Before I installed Elementary OS, the partition was visible in Disk Utility, but now Disk Utility says that the main drive is only 150 GB and only shows the main partition. macOS version: Sierra 10.12.6 I don't want to buy any partitioning software. Output of diskutil list:
Input File: Kind: MPEG-4 File Size: 305 MB Dimensions: 640 x 360 Codecs: H.264, AAC Duration: 52:07 Audio Channels: 2 After using iMovie to trim a bit from the beginning and end of the file, I tried to export the file via File → Share → File… with the following settings: Format: Video and Audio Resolution: 720p (iMovie only offers me 540p as alternative) Quality: High (according to an answer to a similar question this means H.264) Compress: Better Quality
I am new to this Mac world and on the first day of my new job my boss gave me a tedious task to Backup Emails on Apple Mail. Basically, there are 3 email ids, and these are our support email database. So there are tons of emails stacked in the inbox. I have to backup all the emails, contact list, and even the address book. I had a look online for manual procedures and found out that Apple Mail Export and Time Machine Backup are best suited for these backup issues. I did try them, but the problem is they are taking too long. I need a quick solution to Backup emails on Apple Mail.
I don't want to have to resort to using another computer to print to the server-shared print queues. Is this possible under iOS 10, or might it be possible under iOS 11?
I would like to be able to view more Unicode characters on my iPhone—specifically, more mathematical operators and symbols. Most of these are not visible on iOS and either appear blank or as a question mark inside a box despite being directly accessible through the character viewer on a Mac. How can I view these characters on iOS?
I was experimenting how strong SIP is on Sierra. So I tried To delete Terminal.app using app cleaner but I can remove the contents then when I empty the trash it empties it. Then I open terminal App it works Fine.So is SIP that strong that you can't remove an OS X app using third Party apps?Is the only way to remove SIP protected apps using rm command?
I just followed the top-voted answer here and successfully installed Visual Studio Code's code command in my terminal. However, the code command fails to launch Visual Studio Code every time after I restart my MacBook Pro. Is it possible to install code permanently so that I don't have to install it every time I turn on my MacBook Pro? I also find out that the folder EA379FC4-05D2-4739-BE49-1D8870E47B8A get deleted after I restart my laptop. This is the reason that I cannot run code after the laptop is restarted. Why is code installed in a temporary folder? My MacBook Pro's version is macOS Sierra version 10.12.6
Are the screenshots of apps in the app switcher stored in RAM, or are they instead stored in flash, and streamed directly to the GPU via some kind of DMA (direct memory access) connection? RAM is precious, and after a few days I end up with a lot of apps in my app switcher. Are all those snapshots constantly using up RAM?
I use Apple's Calculator iPhone app all the time. Being human, I regularly make mistakes (or maybe my fingers are too big) and end up entering the wrong digit. But the iPhone’s “undo” function doesn’t work with the Calculator app. Is there any way to undo the last digit I’ve entered? Or do I have to clear everything and start again?
My phone doesn't show any signs of being in recovery mode but when I plug it into my PC, it says that iTunes cannot connect because it is "Recovery Mode". I tried to hold the sleep button and home button until the Apple logo shows but nothing is happening.
I'd like to customize what the keys in my Macbook Pro's touch bar do. For instance, I have no interest in Siri but I'd be great to have the Siri key be the hotkey for iterm2 for instance. Is there a way to customize the action for the "system" part of the touch bar's keys?
As several other people I lost my Boot Camp partition space after removing it. I have tried looking at other examples of people with the same problem but I can't figure out how to implement the solutions on my own system. It is a 1tb fusion drive. Below you can find the list & cs list: Is it possible to recover the lost space ?
My Early 2015 13" MBP's keyboard and trackpad quit working a few days ago. I thought it might be the logic board. But it’s definitely not. The power button (on the keyboard) works fine.
I got an iPhone from a friend and he’s far away at the moment but the phone has a software issue. I wanted to wipe the phone and restore it to a “new” state, but I was told it’ll require an Apple ID. Can I enter my current Apple ID, or do I need to contact my friend to provide his password?
I have a new MacBook laptop and I can not get a remote printer installed. When I do "Add Printer" it comes up with a screen that lists the remote printer I want (and a few others), and when I select it finds the location and driver, but when I hit "Add", it says it is setting up the remote printer, but the printer does not get added. If I connect the same printer directly via USB, I can install it. How can I get the printer recognized?
I've reset my iPod Touch running iOS 6.1.6. Now every time I try to login to iTunes after putting in my Apple ID and password it asks for an Apple ID verification code, which has been texted to my phone. However there is no place coming up to submit this verification code.
My mother has a the 30-inch LED Cinema Display, which is a bit too large for her everyday use. She prefers to use it in 1680x1050 or 1600x1200 modes, and can then switch to 1920x1080 for watching movies (Netflix, etc).
I have a fairly large collection of books stored in iCloud (hundreds). After a hard reset of my iPad, I would like to transfer them all back onto my device for offline use. Is there some "download all books locally" button somewhere, or am I stuck with having to individually press the cloud icon next to each and every single one? Syncing with the "All books" option iTunes only does so much, still leaving a large number of books on iCloud.
Is there a way I can go back to the first picture? (Here I simplify the case. Of course, I could cmd z, but that is not the point. I am looking for an easy way to save a specific order even after I close the file o even days later)
I am thinking of obtaining an iPod (any generation) for recording slow-motion videos, like the ones that can be shot on an iPhone 5s and above. Is there an iPod that can do slo-mo, or is an iPhone the only option?
I was given a 2009 13" macbook, but it needs a new hard drive and operating system. What is the most current OS it can handle and how much space does that OS take when freshly installed?
Hi I am trying to share fodler inside Mobile Documents on my Local LAN, ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs when I press [CMD + i] I do not get the sharing option. would be great if soemone can tell me how to share this folder
I have a huge problem. I’ve restored my iPhone without first making a backup. I have all my iMessage/SMS conversations on my Mac (macOS Sierra). Is there a way I can transfer those conversations to my iPhone?
I am running OS X Sierra on a MacBook Air. I don't remember exactly how, but quite some time ago I installed CUDA on my Mac (I was a newb then, I didn't know I wouldn't be able to run it without an NVIDIA GPU). So after installation I was always greeted by this box upon login:
I am trying to change the default size of my icons and their grid spacing as was asked in this question. For whatever reason, my Mac does not have a Use as Defaults box in Show View Options. Do you have any idea why it doesn't or what, if anything, I can do to make it so it does?
On my desktop I have an external drive name 4TB_Drive. On the same desktop I have a backup drive for the first one named 4TB_Drive_BU. I'd like to hide the icon to prevent accidentally accessing and changing files there, having it still be accessible to my backup software
I wanted to install catdoc on my Mac Sierra system. I was following the link here: brewformulas.org/Catdoc, but when I run the commands I get an No available formula with the name "catdoc" error. Below is the complete output. What am I missing regarding how to install catdoc via homebrew?
I have a laptop running 10.12.5. I copied a folder of photos from a DVD to the Desktop. Here's what happens next: I can open the folder on the desktop and see the files listed. I can see the thumbnail images in the preview pane above the file listing. However, I cannot open any of the photos: I get a message saying I don't have permission to view it and inviting me to change permissions by going to File > Get Info. When I do that, I see that I'm listed as having RW permission already. I figured I'd try chmod, so I opened Terminal. cd ~/Desktop/new_folder returns the message: No such file or directory.
Any problem with using a newer Mac laptop to install macOS Sierra onto an external hard drive, then install into an older Mac laptop? (assuming both Macs are Sierra-capable, obviously)
What are the correct paths to use for Sierra 10.12.5 as these apparently can't be found via searches: I was able to find the first path on the first window: /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight The second path is cut off on the first window and can't be determined. The path listed in the second can be found until the point I get to the "A" folder, but the last bit "/Support/SpotlightNetHelper.App" can't be navigated to.
I did not install any profile or certificate and those tabs are empty/missing in my settings. Nothing stood out in the signin flow either (I certainly wouldn't have pressed "Allow your employer to access X" buttons.)
I started using 1440x810 or 1280x720 resolutions on my 5k iMac. I somewhat expected better quality because I thought it would be 2x Retina. It looks like that is not the case. I would like to know..how come lowering resolution on my 5k does not enable HiDPI and..is there a way to do so if this is configuration issue?
Ok, my Specturm (former TimeWarner) modem Wifi connection shows up in drop down list. But does not accept password. I connect a direct ethernet cable. Nope, no internet, yet lights are all flashing green.
I have a 32-bit iPhone. I understand that 32 bit iPhones will no longer be supported by iOS 11. Will I be able to download and buy 32 bit apps from the store for iPhones running 32-bit iOS versions (ie iOS 10.x) after iOS 11 is released? In other words, is Apple removing 32bit apps from the store completely or just removing them for iOS 11 devices?
How can I find all of the different Python(s) installed on my Mac? I've accidentally damaged a copy of Python 3 that was under /usr/local/bin, and want to replace it/fix it, but I don't even know how Python 3 got there in the first place – macOS only ships with 2.7. Can I use HomeBrew to fix a broken copy? How can I clean up my Python copies, so that I just have what should be there?
The iPhone was perfectly working. Then it was left home for two weeks. Battery obviously drained out.
MacBook Pro Early 2013(macOS 10.12.6) Other device like iPhone, iPad and other Mac all get ipv6 automatically via Wi-Fi, but this one can't get ipv6 at all. Router:AirPort Time Capsule(Latest firmware, Latest Version)
My MacBook Pro 2017 was lightning fast at startup, then I installed macOS High Sierra on an external disk and tried to boot my mac from that disk. Everything fine. Now whenever I boot my Mac normally (without even having the disk connected) it gets stuck at the grey screen before the Apple logo for a lot of time, like 5–6 seconds, something that never happened before.
I have a 2012 MBP and the graphic chips gave up and the repair costs are huge. Is there a way to use it as a Unix server somehow? It is still a powerful machine and if I could boot into a mode without using anything that needs graphics that would be great. Thanks!
I have installed Windows 10 in my bootcamp partition of 70 gb and I have about a 50 gb of free space. But when I try to play a game (non-steam) It does boot up, gets into the loading screen but gets in a load loop or just stays there with a black screen every time. But this is not the case when I install it on my Seagate 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive, they work perfectly. Any suggestions to how I make it work?
In macOS Sierra there is a new daemon touristd. What is touristd and what is it used for?
iStat Menus 5 is displaying a dash after this sensor - HD proximity sensor. I'm getting a temp reading from the HD.
I'm not sure if this is an Apple specific problem, but I am not able to turn on the fn-key lock. I'd like to access the fn keys without holding the fn key. I've found guides online that seem to be brand specific, e.g. the solution for Dell computers is different from Asus computers. So how can I do this with the Apple keyboard on a Macbook Pro?
So to preface, I'm using a mid-2013 MacBook Air, macOS 10.13 Public Beta, and a 4 TB Western Digital External Hard Drive formatted as APFS Encrypted (Same as internal SSD). Now, I realize the problem may be that I'm using the beta, or APFS, or a combination of the two. However, I do not have the chance to test it out on another computer or OS right now without downgrading to 10.12, testing it, then going back up to 13. Especially since I have the external hard drive formatted as APFS and I'd probably have to reformat that as well which would just negate the entire reason of going back. With that aside, let me explain what actually happens. So in my external hard drive I have all my files organized in a very nice folder structure (4-5 folders deep to get to the files in question). In Finder, I can navigate through any folder I want, however once I get through the last one where it displays my movies/TV shows, it completely freezes and I have to Relaunch it. Now I have other files in the
I am trying to type a backtick (`) using a German keyboard. How can I do this?
I am dealing with some issues with a modified MacBook A1278 (RAM and SSD) Yesterday night, I arrived home, plugged my mac into an ethernet cable, to check email account, Facebook, etc., and: I could not make http requests; I could not access Network Preferences; I then rebooted my Mac and could access my boot system; tried to: boot into an install partition; system wouldn't install; ran into recovery mode; recovered partition using disk utility and first aid; partition got encrypted; Then booted into another system, made a couple of tests and realized: someone encrypted my hard drive remotely, or it simply got screwed up; please bear in mind that: I have backups of all the meaningful data; I erased partition after trying sudo dd if of to copy content of an alternative booting system i had to my main system, which runs, on my SSD. I could not install macOS from scratch - encountered problems when installer would mount unmount and format system to start installing; ran into troubleshooti
I'm not sure if it's possible but I'd like to disable color management on OS X, or at least when working with Photoshop and Illustrator. The problem is that no matter what I do in both application when trying to set a color mode, a color profile or the Proof Color options, both apps are showing different colors for the same image. Here is a screenshot with how it looks when I have both application windows with one part over the built-in monitor and the other over an external monitor.
It all started when I found iTunes is constantly re-syncing 715 songs; it appears to be the same 715 songs, too (hard to tell by just watching the sync process). I've found on the internet that one possible cause is that certain song information might vary within a single album, thus causing iTunes to always think the track has been changed. In order to check this I exported the library to an XML to analyze what might be varying. I have found that just 715 tracks (out of about 5500 total) have a "Work" key in the XML. The value is always "Oldies." I can't say for sure that these are the same 715 that always re-sync. But it's enough of a coincidence to dig further.
another mystery is that there are many apps shown in the list and in the visual view which are not currently on my phone. these are apps i downloaded in the distant past. they are not currently on my phone, but for some reason show up in the visual view. How can I get everything up to date?
The question is problem like and I'm looking for possible solutions. I'm running 10.2 on SE. I was in airplane mode for a couple of days and when I turned cellular on it has rebooted and now it is booting to a state where it is still on apple logo, a computer can read it, but since iphone has a passcode, it can not be backed up. When hooked up it makes that chime sound of charging every 3 sec. So I have a passcoded iPhone which I can't enter knowing the passcode and I need to recover data and erase it then from iCloud. The first idea is more of a hope that there is a chance to "fix" iOS and boot normally, because I haven't found any software that can do so without updating or restoring.
I want to make a bin and cue files of my audio cd. On Windows I use PowerISO but on macOS I don't know how to do it.
This is not about system autocomplete, it's about an autocomplete internal to Calendar (autocompletion of the name of the event when you create one) - and is there any way to turn it off. I have many hundreds of events in ical as I've been using it for about the past five years.
So I have a database of folders and files (.txt) and I'm trying to create a program that I can enter keywords and have it search those files, and it will output the text of any files containing the keywords. I have a working code that does just that, but it doesn't search the words individually - it searches for the words together, as a single string. For instance, if I input "Joe Bill Bob," I'd like it to output files that contain each of those words anywhere in the file, even if they aren't next to each other, or in that order. I would rather avoid doing a repeat loop to input one search term at a time. I'd also rather avoid setting up hundreds of variables in the code, and do a repeat loop that if a character isn't a space it adds it onto the first blank variable and if it is it skips to the next variable.
From the tutorial from here - System Prefs -> Language & Text, and select the “Input Sources” tab but I don't seem to have the "Input Sources" tab - any ideas why?
I have just finished an app and sent some builds to iTunes Connect, but now I intend to send it to App Store for a price of, say, 1 USD. I saw the 'Pricing and Availability' tab at iTunes Connect and it let me set the price of the app, so I set it 1 USD, no problems until now, but after that, in tab 'Prepare for Submission', there was no such thing as asking my bank or PayPal account.
I'm aware you can turn off autocorrect entirely. However I feel like Rick & Morty is popular enough to warrant its exclusion from being autocorrected to Marty. Is there any way to override/prevent auto-correct for specific words?
When on iOS mobile and you "share to" Chrome you can save the thing (URL) under "read later" or "add to bookmarks". If you select add to bookmarks, it only saves is under mobile bookmarks though. How can you choose to save it to the bookmarks bar for example? I don't use mobile bookmarks and want easy access to the URL later on my laptop.
I just bought a used 2007 MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5, 2GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo. I want to return it to factory spec to erase all previous owner's information and start fresh. Disk Utility's Erase buttons is greyed out.
My theory is now that macOS is only available if you have “purchased” it (or if it was otherwise registered as eligible). I thought that this could be fixed simply with having a user on an eligible system, but apparently not.
I have desktop Windows PC with a large display and nice keyboard and mouse setup. I have a Macbook that I would like to use with the same setup. My monitor does not have any more available input ports.
There are several similar issues here on stack exchange, and the solution is generally to rebuild the GPT manually, which all seems straight-forward enough. Luckily, I have access to an identical hd that's used as a Time Machine disk, and here's what I see with that one:
I have reset the mobile data statistic the day before. So these are data incurred within a 24 hour window.
I did a clean install with a new hard drive in my MacBook, with old drive externally connected. How do I move my 1Password vault from the old drive to the new drive? Is there a single file I can copy?
I created an IFTTT applet to backup photos from my camera roll to Google Drive, which is syncing to my Mac. I created a folder action to move all files from that Google Drive folder(~/Google Drive/IFTTT) to ~/Pictures/IFTTT. The photos backup fine, but the videos aren't even detected by IFTTT. How can I get IFTTT to backup all my photos and videos?
My MacBook (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5) is tethered to my iPhone (10.0.2) in order to provide Internet access. How do I AirDrop from my Macbook to an app on my iPhone?
I have been experiencing a number of issues since migrating from iPhoto to Photos, and I would like to provide useful input/feedback to the Apple software designers. What would the best way to do that?
I listen to music on my Mac every day. However after a playlist ends, playback stops and I have to hit Play manually to start playing the playlist again from the beginning. Is there anyway to restart a playlist automatically after it has finished playing the last song?
I would like an AppleScript .scpt file to determine the character count of any given .rtf file. I'm not sure if this is standard for character counts, but I would like each space character (" ") to also count as one character. I would like the script to accomplish this, without actually opening the file in TextEdit.
I just installed macOS El Capitan, and now I see there is an Untitled item on the Desktop:  This item contains the following directories:
I recently sent 7 photos to myself using iMessage from my iPhone so that I could have access to them on my Mac (it's faster than AirDrop for me). They appeared in Messages on my Mac, and I was able to double-click on them and look at them individually. However, when I tried to copy and paste any one of the 7 photos, either from the text or from their own (Quick Look) photo window, pasting would just paste all 7 photos, instead of the one I’d copied.
I have found that many do not like the Sound Check feature in iTunes. Will enabling Sound Check lower sound quality? Why does/does it not reduce sound quality?
I used Boot Camp to create a Win10 system on my Mac 2017.  But you see the C disk only 37.8G usable (40G), how can I divide a disk from the Mac to add a D disk to the Win10 system?
My local drive (Macintosh HD) runs out of space so I want to setup an external drive (External HD) with the same /Users directory and associated ACL as on the Macintosh HD drive and offload some of the more data-heavy directories there (Photos, Music, Movies). Get Info on the User directory of Macintosh HD shows these permissions:
This was the error. I tried sudo but it didn't work. I'm using OS X El Captain anyone know how to fix this please?
I was updating my iPhone and I accidentally pressed the home and lock button together thus interrupting the update. It has directed me to a link where I was instructed to connect the iPhone to iTunes and download the update. how can I recover my phone without connecting to itunes?
I regularly seem to have problems with my reminders not syncing in a timely manner. I am using the Reminders app on my iMac (OS X 10.11.6). Is there some way for me to manually sync my reminders with iCloud? I’m thinking something like the option to ‘get mail’ in the Mail app that you can click on to manually get your mail.
I have changed by Macbook Pro's (Early 2015 running El Capitan) battery, following which the function buttons (brightness control, mission control, skip, next, volume up, volume down...etc) have stopped working. I can confirm that the buttons are working as if the FN button is pressed, i.e. F1, F2...etc. I can also confirm that the FN button works using the Keyboard Viewer (it is not visible but the backspace, return and arrow keys change).
I have 32GB iphone 7, had 10gb of photos and it said i have 10GB free. Deleted 5GB of photos and it still says 10GB instead 15GB. How can I see correct amount?
I have recently jailbroken my iPhone 4s on iOS 9.3.5. Whenever I try to install a tweak I get this error message:
When I insert a movie DVD into my USB superdrive, the DVD player starts. I want it to stop doing that. I've tried the following to disable this behaviour: System Preferences -> CDs & DVDs -> When you insert a video DVD: set to Ignore (actually moved all of them to Ignore) DVD player -> Preferences -> unchecked "Start playing disc" for when DVD player opens and when a disc is inserted.
My app is already in App Store. Now my distribution certificate is expired. I know my app in App Store will continue running, but my questions are: If now I have a bug fix in my app, does it mean I am not able to submit the updated app to App Store since my distribution certificate expired? If now I have a bug fix in my app, does it mean I am not able to submit the updated app to App Store since my distribution certificate expired? If I renew the distribution certificate, my understanding is that it is identical as revoke the distribution certificate and create a new distribution certificate, am I right? If I renew the distribution certificate, my understanding is that it is identical as revoke the distribution certificate and create a new distribution certificate, am I right? If the answer to my 2nd question is "Yes", does it mean in future when I see my distribution certificate is expiring soon, I just revoke it and create a new one for existing app in App Store, am I right? If the a
Today I will purchase used iMac late 2013 maxed out specs (except disc) and would like to configure my new workstation to be in RAID 1, because it would make my life much more calm knowing there is always at least one up-to-date complete backup stored on separate disc. I am full stack developer and I am working on around 3-4 projects at the same time, so having a good (and multiple) backups of my operating systems is a must and I only work from home. Until now I had Late 2013 MBP for my work, with Bootcamp and used external HDD disc for Time Machine backups on macOS and File History & System images on Windows for Bootcamp backups. Here is what I have: 1 TB fusion drive in iMac (1TB HDD 7200 rpm + 128GB SSD) 512 GB SSD USB 3.0 external 1 TB external HDD disc for "cold storage" backups Here is what I want: macOS as primary OS and Bootcamp as secondary OS setup software RAID 1 for both OS It would be perfect if I could set iMac fusion drive to RAID 1, and use external 512 SSD disc as prim
I joined the company after that developer left. For the same app, I need to fix some bugs and release to the App Store again. What do I need to do with those development & distribution certificates?
I was using OpenVPN to connect, but it seems the latest upgrade to macOS version 10.12.6 has farked my ability to connect. I am getting the following error:
I am reading an .ibooks file which I downloaded from the iBooks Store in the macOS iBooks app. On iOS, to zoom in on the text you can simply double tap or use a pinch gesture. However, it doesn't seem like you can zoom in on an iBook in macOS iBooks with those same gestures on the trackpad. Choosing Window > Zoom only affects the size of the window, and unfortunately not the size of the text. So, is there any way to zoom in on a book in macOS iBooks?
I have a folder with a custom icon (via NSWorkspace's setIcon:forFile:options). I would like to zip the folder so the custom icon is preserved after unzipping. Currently, I call When I uncompress it via Finder, the uncompressed folder does not have any custom icon and the folder contains an item named Icon?. How to fix it / how to compress the folder properly?
This morning I tried to download an app off of the app store, and it asked me to verify the billing information for the master account. I am in college, and share downloads with my family. The app store wanted the security code for the card on the account. This was an old card, and my father switched cards this morning in the billing information. I have restarted the app store and my computer, but the old card number still appears in the billing verification window in an un-editable field.
When switching applications using Mission Control, the application I select moves to the foreground as expected. However on occasion, it will then immediately jump back into the background. This is very annoying. I closed all my other applications but that did not help. Please see this gif for a demo:
I have a 3rd gen Apple TV that I connect to my Mac, but I have issues with Airplay Display, namely that videos I try to stream from my Mac lag terribly. I recently obtained a Time Capsule which I use as a router, but I would like to know if I can somehow connect it to my Apple TV, i.e. play videos stored on the Time Capsule hard disk. I was also told that connecting my Apple TV to Time Capsule would improve the streaming speed and resolve the lag problem.
I'm in the process of trying to automate getting the LVGUUID and printing it as a string to a text file, or better piping it in terminal to other commands. All I can do right now is diskutil coreStorage list and then copy/paste the UUID as needed. Is there a faster way to do this?
The fact that Finder asks for entering the password each time you try to remove an application makes very hard to cleanup your mac. It seems that it does not even remember the password for one minute. I am looking for a way to avoid this escalation prompt while still keeping it for some other activities. I am currently using High-Sierra but I am pretty sure that the solution could apply to Sierra or even Snow-leopard.
Steps to reproduce. Turn off importing of tracks to iTunes Library Import Tracks Create playlists Change file names or move files Have broken playlists
I tried to download Downcast as Jawa and no luck as it's stating I need iOS 9 to download Downcast. I need something for offline music which I was hoping I could get by using podcast app however for that I need iOS 10. Since it's an older iPod touch, i cannot upgrade the software past iOS 6.1.6. What are my options for music offline? I don't have my laptop with me to connect to iTunes and only the iPod. I won't have my laptop with me for another 5 days. Thank you. Please assist.
I have a late 2009 iMac 21.5". I am buying a new iMac and want the old one to be put to use. Is there a way to make it a 2nd monitor? What can become of the old components inside the 2009 iMac? The hard drive (replaced by Apple) is only 2.5 years old - can that somehow be used? Thanks for any suggestions.
I've been having issues with my late 2015 13" macbook pro for a few months now, it kept freezing (the screen would stay on but nothing would respond, not even the force track touchpad) after 5-10 minutes of working with light usage (chrome and sublime text editor). I tought this was a software issue so I pressed Command + R to start the laptop in recovery mode, deleted the start-up partition in the disk utility software and tried reinstalling macOS.
iPhoto has the ability to recognize faces. You can tag them with names, which I have done for my relatives. Now I want two find all pictures in which two specific people are. Just typing "A and B" in the search bar of iPhoto does not work. Is there any way for such a query?
MacOS Sierra 10.12.5 early 2015 MacBook pro 13inch Transcend 1TB Keep doing this since 2015 when I bought both. Every time it is disconnected improperly it hangs a long time upon trying to remount it because the system keeps checking the fs: Tried force mounting, unmounting, eject, OS restarting, killing fs_check process, but every time it restarts the filesystem check.
I'm trying to figure out if the screen sharing data is encrypted when I connect to my Mac at home from another Mac at work. I've seen a lot of questions and answers but I can't really find a definitive answer. Basically, I just have my Mac sitting at home with Screen Sharing turned on and I'm port-forwarding 5900. It works but again, I'd like it to be secure.
But page in Safari doesn't change. However, when I change the PageZoom in the Preferences manually the page DOES change. I've tried reloading the page and changing the window size after setting the PageZoom in the Terminal, but nothing works. What do I need to do to make the defaults write setting become active? I don't want to use the CMD+ and CMD- keys all the time. In the end I want Keyboard Maestro to trigger this script when I plug in a device that signals I'm using this monitor.
My iPhone is connected to iCloud with the same account. In Messages → Preferences, under "You can be reached for Messages at:" my iPhone's number and my iCloud account are both there and checked.
I am using a 2015 15" MacBook Pro, i7, 16GB RAM, Sierra 10.12.6. The sound quality is poor, especially when I use Bluetooth earbuds. After some research, I tested and purchased the Boom 3d Audio Enhancer. Ever since I installed it the palyback from some apps echoes. Primarily Chrome and our video conferencing app, Zoom. I uninstalled it and removed all of the files from the Libraries, restarted the coreaudio daemon, reloaded AppleHDA.kext and rebooted after each step. I even reinstalled Chrome. Does anyone have any other ideas, other than wiping and starting over?
Some sources suggested starting by copying a small segment of the movie into a new project. However, I cannot figure out any way of creating a new project, and although I can easily create a new event, I can't figure out any way of getting a significant part of the window to correspond to the new event, whereas the sources I mentioned in my previous sentence show that having been done for the projects. ​ If I instead drag the segment over the name of the new event and let go, then it moves the entire movie to the new event.
I want to stream Rick and Morty to my Chromecast from the Adult Swim iOS app. However, unlike most media apps, the Adult Swim app doesn't seem to be detecting my Chromecast automatically. Is it possible to stream Adult Swim shows to a Chromecast from an iPhone?
Somewhat new to Homebrew. As I understand it, Homebrew Cask looks for apps in its Github repository. I don't know how they get there, but I assume that the app or the link which lives at Github is not supplied by the developers of the associated app. So, then, is a d/l from the Cask repository an exercise of trust in the Cask maintainers?
I've enabled fast user switching in my menu. When I switch to my guest account it shows the full name "Guest User" in Swedish, but my computer is all setup for English.
I know that iTunes sound check on the Mac has album mode, but does sound check on the iPhone have album mode as well?
I want to connect to wifi an Apple TV without its original remote. I've read other threads on here, I have restored my Apple TV to factory settings and when I come to the bluetooth connection step:
The developers of the apps claim that this would be a limitation of iOS and the functionality would not work. I would fine it bold to advertise a functionality that can't even work ... Shouldn't background app refresh allowing exactly this ... keeping those kinds of things working? I also have an Apple Watch and there I never experienced communication loss or problems.
I took a backup of all data in my macbook pro to a external hard drive, back then while the copying process was on, it asked for the password, which I think meant, that some of the files weren't given permission for all. Now that I've done that, and my macbook is in for repair, I try to access those files via my ubuntu desktop. I run into trouble with accessing the one's I do not have a permission to access. Can I somehow, using some terminal command, gain access to the contents of files and folders that apparently I have no permission of access. I am guessing if I provide my macbook's password to it, I could then gain access.
I have two keyboards connected to my MacBookPro. I'm using a different Input Source for the Mac keyboard. Unfortunately the external keyboard is not using the same Input Source -- it's always using the "default" input source and I can't find anyway to change it. I've even setup the shortcut to change layouts from the keyboard, and typing it on the external keyboard does not change it's layout -- it only changes the layout of the mac keyboard. The only place I actually see my external keyboard in the settings is under Modifier Keys..., but I can only change modifier keys there. How do I get the external keyboard to use my desired Input Source? --
Apple Watch should connect automatically to any network I was previously connected with on my iPhone. At my university I need to register devices for network access by providing them with a MAC address. There are no further logins required and the network is open.
Whenever I connect an external monitor all the minimize buttons on existing apps get disabled (they are gray). Why does this happen and how can I prevent it?
I've bought a mini displayport male to HDMI female 4kx2k adapter to use with an HDMI cable but it's not working very well (nothing usable). My MBP is running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 and the graphics card looks to be Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536MD. I've 4GB of memory installed.
I've installed Windows 10 EFI with this Tutorial and it worked fine. But when switching from Windows to OSX using the Bootcamp "Boot to OSX..." it just rebooted into Windows again. Then I unplugged the Windows drive and it booted into OSX, but now if I choose "Windows" from System Preferences->Startup Disk it just reboots to OSX. Is the only way of switching OS in this configuration by using a helper card and pressing alt on boot? My current setup: Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed to 5.1) 2,66 Quad Xeon RX480 graphics card Bay 1 OSX SSD Drive 2nd Optical Bay Windows SSD Drive
booted with a live Linux USB-stick: it works, although I have to enter the boot option "nodmraid". However, I cannot start Xorg. I can ssh into the MacBook when booting with Linux. I also ran testdisk and recovered (at least I think so) the partition table. Both, the normal Mac partition, as well as the Recovery Partition are there. booting to verbose mode. Some errors occur: and it finally stops at
I have a iPhone SE running iOS 10.2. It happened so that now I can't use it but computer reads it normally but asks to enter password. Is there any any way to backup it via 3rd party software or something so that I could do a iCloud erase and stay on 10.2 (which is important). Or maybe there's a way to enter or remove password from a computer?
Most of time I use Apple.Music for listening to music (from Mac and iPhone). Also I have locally stored music library (~1000 songs). So I want to find each local song at Apple.Music and add it to my iTunes music library. Is there a way to do it batch?
My screen was broken and Apple repair is pretty expensive (in Germany) so I chose to replace the display with one of the display units sold in the internet (GIGA Fixoo). After replacement the Touch ID including the touch functionality (double tap to bring down screen contents) button does not work anymore. The button I use is still the old one. What to do?
I've got an iPad mini 4, running iOS 10.3.3. When you head to the Settings > Display & Brightness, you can set if you want the iPad to lock when you close the cover/press the power button, as well as set a time for when it automatically locks. This does not, however, require a password.
I would like to have an AppleScript that toggles between "Default for display" in System Preferences and "Scaled" "Larger Text". The script should detect the current state of the display and toggle to the other state (i.e., if in Default for display, switch to scaled larger text). I gut this far with my script (that I got from this site and this stackexchange page), but it seems that I can't get to virtually "click" left most icon out of the five available ones:
I have a secondary user account that I use for work. Both my primary account and this one are set to Admin. When installing software updates (and in other instances that require higher privileges) while logged in on my secondary account, macOS will ask me for my secondary account's password. This does not happen on my primary account, and I wish for it to stop happening on my secondary account too. How can I make macOS stop asking for my secondary account's password every time a change needs to be made?
Is there a possibility to edit the following files in macOS 10.12 Sierra: and I want to change the following things of the Screenshot-Files: Filename Location Date and time Format in file name (no, that could NOT be done via System Preferences!) Previous naming scheme: Screenshot 20161004_162222.png Naming scheme now: Screenshot 2017-08-07 um 17.02.08.png I want to revert to the previous scheme.
Is there a way to lock an iPad, playing a Keynote presentation, in presentation mode so that you cannot access edit mode at all? We have a presentation which plays during a tour and if one of our guides, while getting the presentation set up, gets into edit mode, they can press our Bluetooth remote and it will add slides. We use guided access mode once we are in the presentation we want, but there are two different presentations on the iPad and they need the ability to switch back and forth between presentations, but never the ability to add slides or edit the presentation. How can the Keynote presentation itself be limited to read-only?
I have enabled the built-in firewall on my MacBook (Sierra v10.12.1), but unfortunately the log files located in /var/log (appfirewall.log and alf.log) stay empty. I contacted Apple Support but they don't know the reason or a solution to this problem. I saw someone with a similar problem and concerns at: Firewall logging enabled, but not recording which isn't resolved. Any ideas how to handle this one?
My company has a policy that when an employee leaves, we need to dump their e-mail account and write it to a DVD to archive it. How do you dump a particular user's e-mail into a .mbox or other archivable file format from the server (without access to the client-side of the user's e-mail account)? I didn't see any options in the Server.app GUI, so is there a Terminal command I can use?
I like this font and it's my default on Linux, so I tried to start using it on macOS (Sierra) too. The result is pretty awful and I don't understand why, in particular what puzzles me most is the fact that the lines are not parallel/perpendicular.
I am having a problem seeing all of my notes between my devices. Unfortunately, my primary iCloud account is @me.com. When my newer computer was set up, it was set up with @iCloud.com since @me.com is no longer around. I have the iCloud account as an alias and it works for everything but Notes. I can't figure out how to change my Notes on the Mac to integrate into my mobile devices. If I could just Airdrop, I could at least have the critical ones come through. Any advice?
Currently only my left AirPod is connected to my Mac and I can't figure out a way to have it recognize my right AirPod! My research suggests I need to completely reset my AirPods but I don't want to do that...
I have an iPad 3 cellular model running iOS 9.3.5. I recently noticed that apps are not able to fetch location. Now, Location Services are turned ON for all apps I could find in the list. Restrictions are turned OFF. I have tried rebooting, factory resetting and they did not fix the issue.
Is the Nvidia's Titan XP compatible with Apple's MacBook (mid-2017)? I have never used external GPU but it seems to be that you can use it on MacBook Pro. However, MacBook doesn't have Thunderbolt.
I have quite a few iOS devices on the same iCloud account and the "All Photos" (camera roll?) keeps propagating >9000 images/videos between all devices. I would like to get to "Camera Roll Zero" and reclaim all space being used by Photos at present. Each time I connect a different device to my primary Mac, it appears that all photos appear again in apps like Image Capture.app, while Photos.app continues to show the old photos at the top in the import pane.
I really messed up! Since I ran my Mac with the command below
When running Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.7 the first time on macOS El Capitan, a dialog appears asking: Nisus Writer Pro needs access to the "Document Manager" folder. Would you like to grant permission by choosing the folder?
I am using Apple's Photos app on macOS El Capitan. When trying to copy my Photos Library.photoslibrary file (44 gigs) from old external drive to new internal drive, I get a -36 error. Apparently the file is corrupt.
I have a macbook pro(2017) with macOS Sierra(version 10.12.6). I was trying to install kali by following the documentation: *=URL=* While installing rEFInd, it gave me an error so I followed the following link to install it: *=URL=* I successfully installed refind and also created a bootable pen drive for Kali but I got the rEFInd not working on macOs Sierra: “Not found while loading legacy loader” error: *=URL=* I found another way to do it: Installing dual boot Sierra and Kali-Linux but I dont know how to remove the rEFInd bootloader(and cannot by pass it because I did not create another partition while installing it) from Sierra. I am a novice and have just shifted from windows to mac, what should I do next?
Does anyone know of a way (hack or otherwise) to prevent incoming FaceTime and iPhone Continuity calls, other than disabling both entirely? I still want to make iPhone and FaceTime calls from my Mac.
I have an older model of LaCie 2TB USB 2.0 desktop drive. The speed of data transfer to/from this drive dropped from about 12MB/sec to about 1MB/sec after macOS Sierra was updated from 10.12.5 to 10.12.6 version on my Mac mini (late 2012). I tried different USB ports, with the same cable I always use (it has always worked fine on all USB ports before) with the same result. None of my other USB DASD (WD, Seagate, Fantom) were affected.
When using Open with > Other It always defaults to:  However, those recommendations make me cry. Is there anyway to make it default to All Applications?
It would be a bit of proctalgia to delete from iBooks and re-import after every edit. I have to re-sync either way, but I do that often anyway.
I don't have enough rep to comment on this question which would probably be more appropriate than asking a new question: How do you remove SSL certificate exceptions on OS X? I just tried this on OSX 10.12.5 with Safari 10.1.1 and it's not a solution for me. I can't find the exception'ed certificate anywhere to delete or change it's permissions. I've also chosen to show invisble items and expired items in the keychain and closed/reopened Safari. Personally I think the browser itself should include an option to revoke the exception instead of jumping through the OS, if it makes it so easy to set it, it should be just as easy to remove it from the same place like other modern browsers allow for.
I am developing a PHP web application where all data is to be stored in a MySQL database but unfortunately have no server on which to upload it to and even if I did I will be working offline quite a bit. My question is how to set up a database for free using a normal install process (I don't have sudo privileges in the terminal but can type in administrator password to install or download) that doesn't use up a ton of storage. To be clear, I do not need a massive database in which to store tons of data, I will be clearing it and resetting it to test various features all the time.
None of my apps including Chrome, TextEdit, and MacVim can display the unicode character subscript t shown here -> ₜ Example text: The subscript x displays fine but not the subscript t. How do I fix this? MacBookPro11,2 OS 10.11.6
Notice the massive drop off, from nearly 3 GHz to ~1Ghz and even less at times. This drop 100% correlates to my performance hit in the application I am running. It sits at this low speed indefinitely until I stop the high-CPU process.
I have a weird behavior with one of the apps on my iPhone. As you may see on the picture it's not installed but at the same time I can't seem to uninstall it because I can't find it on my iPhone, neither on the screens neither through search. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
(there are 10 icons, and all but 2 of them are displayed as the proper, correct icon from the site. For example, the Wikipedia icon has the large W icon. However, for Google Drive and Gmail, the icons are just big, ugly, generic G's)
I am running OS X 10.11.8. I am attempting to change some settings in /Library/Filters/. I am logged in as an administrator (verified in System Preferences > Users & Groups). When I go to Finder > Get Info for /System/Library/, I am able to click the unlock icon, and my password is accepted. However, when I try to change the permission for "everyone," I get the following error: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.
Last night, I was working on Photoshop and it said my scratch disc was full which, after looking it up, meant my startup disc was full. I went through and deleted a good 95% of my photos, all the apps I never use that MacBook doesn't deem necessary (because Chess is very necessary), a lot of my documents, etc., etc., etc. After that, PhotoShop worked for me.
A friend asked me to help her with her old iPhone 4 (she has upgraded to a 7). When I turn it on, it says, "iPhone is disabled" and "connect to iTunes."
I am getting the message: "Unable to add account" on both my iOS devices every time I try to use the Hangouts app; it has never done this before. I've tried reinstalling the app multiple times on both, and I disconnected my google voice from hangouts. Still doesn't work. I tried 2 different accounts. I can access all other Google services and can sign into hangouts on my computer.
I have two accounts in Mail (v. 10.3), on a MacBook Air 13" running macOS 10.12.6. One is a work-related account with a POP configuration and the second one is from a hobby-group with an IMAP configuration. The work account has changed servers several times in the last few years. When the work account changed servers, I would add the new account, and leave the old inactive accounts on the mail app.
I recently saw someone on a Unix system run the command cmdtool <some_log_file.log>
I have not an apple id and password.i have iPhone5s.how unlock it.
My brand new iMac is receiving iMessages from my daughters phone, not mine. Do you have any tips how to correct this? I have tried to restart and shut hers off on her phone.
Specifically in reference to the Volume menu item in the menu bar; As I am frequently changing audio input/output settings, and never using the slider that the normal volume menu click shows (I always only use the keyboard incremental volume keys for a few reasons), I'd like to make the volume menu more useful to me by automatically always showing the menu that appears when you ⌥option + click it. And for obvious reasons I don't just want every system-wide click to be rebound to ⌥option + click, just the menu bar items if possible. This sounds like a too-specific problem to have a solution, but thanks in advance if anyone could help.
I want to enjoy my iTunes digital media files on my iPhone because I am going on a trip. I currently have movies on my Mac, how can I sync them to my phone?
I transferred a bunch of songs from my song list on my PC to my iTunes app on my PC. Then plugged in my Nano into my PC. Transferred the songs from the iTunes app to the Nano. It shows that the songs are on the Nano, however, when I look at the Nano, none of the songs show up. What am I doing wrong or not understanding here?
I need to retrieve Messages and WhatsApp messages backup data from iCloud but I can't find the path. Is there any possibilities to find Messages and WhatsApp messages backup data location in iCloud?
I am trying to get my Ubuntu 17.04 machine to connect to my employer's VPN (using l2tp and IPSec). My Mac (10.12.6 Sierra) connects just fine, but the Linux box seems to get hung up on Phase 2 (I think).
Sound was working normally on this pretty new iMac for a few weeks, listening to YouTube when this strange behaviour started: There is a little pop sound, then suddenly headphone audio goes very quiet (maybe 10% normal volume). There's no change in the indicated volume level (ie, the Mac thinks it's outputting normal volume). Maybe 30-60 seconds later, another pop and it's back to normal volume. And then repeat... It affects the whole system (ie, sound effects), not just Chrome. Any ideas?
Is there any way to check each in-app purchases my app is receiving on iTunes Connect? On Android for example you have a list of every purchase with an ID so if a client makes a complain I can easily check if he actually made the purchase, but on iTunes I just see statistical data, but not list of every purchase, so I can't check purchase. My worst fear is a purchase properly charged but not registered by our servers, so the client loses its money and I can't confirm the purchase.
I'm new to Mac, and trying to do the following - In previous systems, when I was on a non-English input source (e.g. Hebrew), I could mid-sentence hold down the Shift key and type some keys, and they would type as uppercase-English letters. As soon as I would release the Shift key, pressing more keys would return to writing Hebrew. This is very useful for embedding some English acronyms inside a non-English sentence, like: אם למישהו יש OCD, הוא לא יאהב את זה שהמשפט כתוב בכיוון לא נכון.
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I've created a python script for my colleague - he has MacOS. Assume that he doesn't know anything about bash or python.
So, I have noticed that recently, my MacBook air briefly wakes from sleep at somewhere between 0 and 1 AM, at a time that looks like this: 00:*9:43
I have an iMac and a MacBook and also a Synology NAS that supports Btrfs. I would like to move my working documents inside a NAS shared folder that is sync with my computers. Synology provide Cloud Station Drive that is a sort of personal dropbox
Also when it reboots on its own WiFi is greyed out but when I reboot again (home button+power) wifi comes back. The iPad is 16GB WiFi & Cellular out of warranty. I feel like there is a problem with the internals! I have iOS 10.3.3 on it. Sometimes it also happens when i press too hard on the screen
I tried to find some details about the daemon hidd but only found information about a Linux daemon where it is the human interface device daemon. Is this the same function in macOS?
my launchpad feels congested. each screen displays 35 icons made up of 5 rows and 7 columns. i would like to have more space and wanted to try a 4x6 grid instead.
NordVPN provides an app for their customers that manages the VPN connection to their servers. The app comes with a kill switch feature that ensures that all network traffic goes through this connection. NordVPN claim on their website (emphasis by me):
I am using Day-O as the clock on the menu bar in place of the default clock. After installation I have checked "Launch Day-O at login" but whenever I restart my mac Day-O does not start by itself. I have to manually double click it to start.
I am trying to create an Automator Service for Finder's Right-Click Context Menu that can split any selected csv file, whilst copying in the original header at the top of every file. My current attempt is to make Automator run this Bash Shell Script:
I recently bought "The Bourne: Ultimate Collection" for Blu-ray and Digital HD and along with my purchase, I received a Digital HD slip that has movie codes for all the included movies in the collection. Great deal actually!
I am thinking about getting the iPad Pro with 4G and wonder whether you can make calls from the SIM card inserted in the iPad by either jailbreaking it or not. I am open for anything.
In the past I've been able to change the I-beam cursor for Xcode... It was a complete hack. I'm wondering if there is a way (a hack) to change the I-beam cursor for the entire operating system?
2009 macbook pro (I know, I know, it's old). I've searched the web for some answers and tried some methods but still can't sign in.
OS: macOS Sierra v 10.12.5 Chrome v 60 Recently stuck in chrome; unable to see the complete console information as there is no way to scroll up in attached Developer Tool. Even when I detach the Developer Tool from the window but scrollbar flash for a while, there is no way to scroll up/down. Already tried Cmd + 0 and Up/Down Arrow but no success. someone, please suggest how to see the console to scroll up within developer tool.
We need to figure out how many of our users are currently running on 32-bit hardware, however iTunesConnect Analytics doesn't break down the devices by: Device Model, or CPU Architecture
A lot of mobile optimised web sites display App Store links on the top of the page.  How to block this annoying ads? I already run and ad blocker for iOS.
My screen saver no longer shows pictures from albums - it says there are no photos but they are there. It will show single pictures and the default directories.
after downloading everything. I figure this happens because I do not have admin rights on this machine. Question:
I'm seeing the following symptoms on OS X Sierra: After a duration of time, my Logitech M720 Triathlon Mouse will register all left clicks as a left-ctrl click. This results in web links being downloaded instead of opened - etc etc. Turning off the mouse does nothing. Turning off Bluetooth seems to reset to default behavior. How do i determine whats causing this issue?
Testing what can be done with System Events I noticed when pulling system info: AppleScript Version: AppleScript Studio Version:
After upgrading to latest iOS I get a message asking to approve my phone from another device. Problem 1: I do not have another device. Is apple forcing customers to have more than one device? or how do i fix this?
While using apps such as Zoom or Screenhero, if I have a second monitor connected, then the internet connection gets compromised. For example, with the 2nd monitor connected, audio throughput becomes dilated, but, after unplugging the 2nd monitor, audio throughput is stable. Specifically: I am using a mid-2012 AirBook with a 2GHz i7, 8GB RAM and a SSD. I am connecting through the ThunderBolt port to a ThunderBolt/HMDI converter, then to an HDMI monitor. I am using an Oracle wireless router with a basic TWC ISP package (3-5MB/s). With an active Zoom meeting in progress, Google's internet speed test reports: 26.2Mbps download & 5.92Mbps upload.
After the restore, I rebooted and logged in with my user name and password from the old Mac. I got my desktop, dock, and other settings like I expected. My name is also on the menubar.
I have installed Xcode 7.3.1 on OS X El Capitan and when I want to open it, it says components need to be installed. When clicking on install, the progress goes until over half the bar and then it stops. I don't know if I should wait or not?
I'm trying to connect a 16GB USB Stick to a MBP 2017 version using the Apple USB-C to USB adapter. The stick works on a Windows HP Laptop. I tried to reformat it to either ex-Fat or FAT 32, but it doesn't show up on the Mac. It doesn't show up in either Disk Manager or System Information.
My Dad has an iPad with a lot of songs downloaded onto its iTunes library. Is it possible for me to put the songs onto my MacBook? The iPad uses my Dad's iTunes account and the MacBook mine.
I have a late 2015 13 Inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display, and here are the pics of that. Could anyone please suggest how do I get these spots of my screen? Regards, Bengalurean
I have an Exchange address which has 2 other email addresses associated with it... It will auto sync (get new mail) from the primary account, but not from the others... Already researched and found it to be a known problem. I am trying to write an AppleScript that I can auto run to accomplish this task... something along these lines, but it doesn't work: or maybe a "sync all"
I looked at the details provided in my system report/storage and I noticed that it appears I have a hard drive of 499.05GB and an additional SSD drive of 499.42GB. Does this mean I have 1TB of data? I only have 139GB available so do I have 500GB 'hiding' somewhere? (If so where??) I am unsure how to interpret this information- why does it list both storage types? Is it duplicating the information? Macintosh HD: Available: 139.8 GB (139,800,666,112 bytes) Capacity: 499.05 GB (499,046,809,600 bytes) Mount Point: / File System: Journaled HFS+ Writable: Yes Ignore Ownership: No BSD Name: disk1 Volume UUID: EF0908C8-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX80333709 Logical Volume: Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required) Encrypted: Yes Encryption Type: AES-XTS Locked: No LV UUID: 8CC9C88D-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX2002329B Logical Volume Group: Name: Macintosh HD Size: 499.42 GB (499,418,034,176 bytes) Free Space: 18.9 MB (18,903,040 bytes) LVG UUID: EE040070-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXA83B309 Physical Volumes: disk0s2
There are a couple of other random things that happened alongside this. I can no longer connect to an external display with HDMI (both when the screen is black and when it's normal), nothing is detected. Also, my cursor no longer disappears when I press a key while reading articles in my browser. Strange.
I have a bunch of macs I use for young kids in a classroom. They're quite old so they can only run OSX 10.11 which isn't ideal but nevermind! Anyway, I would like them to start up when the first class begins and shut down at the end of the day, but only on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
I have some old macs which cannot update to OSX 10.12, however this is the minimum requirement for installing those applications from the app store. Please could someone advise how to get an older, compatible version of this software legally through Apple? Thanks!
I’ve been trying to get my Apple ID unlocked, but every time I type it in at *=URL=* it says that there is no Apple ID associated with that email address. How can I unlock my Apple ID?
Apple has been misspelling the city "West Des Moines" as "West des Moines" (no capital "D") for quite some time now. I tried reporting this issue a number of times through the Maps application during the past few years, but it has still not been fixed.
Thinking logically setting perspective wallpaper requires some constant recalculations of background position. When I hold my iPhone and move hand, I see that effect. It's nice and pleases the eye but I'm sure that it requires some CPU calculations and that triggers higher energy consumption since nothing's for free… Question is - how much energy is consumed by this setting over still and can this have a significant impact on battery life in a longer time perspective?
While installing the macOS 10.12.6 Sierra update from the Mac App Store, my system rebooted with the error, “Cannot verify this update.” I’m trying to upgrade from macOS 10.12.5 to 10.12.6.
My 13" MacBook Pro (mid-2012, unibody) doesn't work anymore and I decided to convert its display into an external monitor. I have taken apart display of my MacBook Pro from the original laptop but I can't order controller board from eBay/Amazon since I don't know which one will work for that screen. Can anybody help me with this? If somebody can tell me display panel number of the MacBook Pro from that year it would help me order board for mine.
Using Apple Configurator 2. I connect an IPad and hit prepare. It says that the device has already been prepared. I erase the device, it restarts and goes through all the steps for setup (even though I chose to skip all steps for prepare).
So I decided to use my old MacBook Air 2012 as a Windows laptop. I installed Windows 10 Anniversary using boot camp. Everything went well and I've installed a bunch of programs, Visual Studio, etc. It builds perfectly and everything works great. Except for one thing: the down arrow key does not work!
Can I run command sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP as a standard user which shouldn't prompt for administrative username and password?
I've been able to configure a keyboard driven workflow in Preview.app using Karabiner and Keyboard->Shortcuts but there's one situation I can't seem to find a way to avoid using the mouse: Done to clear Find results. To clarify:
I have OSX 10.12.6. My dock is placed on the left of the screen and I have quite a few programs open, about 20 at the moment. This barely fits on my screen and I'm wondering if I can group those programs in the dock. I know it's possible when they are not opened like this: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201955
I am getting tired of this now. I have tried a lot of different suggestion on various forums but i still can not remove the old Ubuntu partition. I installed this using EFI.
I've seen a number of reviews that show the functionality of being able to highlight PDFs on iOS11 using the Apple Pencil, however, I'm wondering if I can do this with my finger on the normal (non-pro) iPad?
Just a couple of days into owning a new MacBook Pro (14,3) It seems the f4 key doesn't work if iTunes is open - I searched a bit and people were having this issue in January - Is there a fix / workaround (other than quitting iTunes) ? It disables f4 on external keyboards too, and takes approx. 30 seconds after iTunes has quit to function correctly again.
I would like to sync Panic Transmit keychain via iCloud. I know that Panic offers Panic Sync but I prefer to use iCloud keychain to sync FTP password. In this page *=URL=* it says that passwords are in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Keychains/ but I see different keychains.
Just now a Safari icon appeared to the left of my Dock with a tooltip saying it was from my iPhone. I have never seen this before! What is the point of it, why has it appeared today for the first time, and why has it now disappeared again?
Have any of you experienced similar issues with 10.12.6? Do they occur while waking up or during use? If so, are they exactly the same, or just general graphics glitches? Do the same two lines appear in your Console around the time of the issue? bool IOAccelDisplayPipe2::init_framebuffer_resource(IOAccelResource2 *): getPixelInformation for framebuffer 0 failed IOReturn IOAccelSurface2::surface_unlock_options(enum eLockType, uint32_t): surface is not locked.
My girl has an old iPhone 4 with iOS probably below v. 5 reckoned from Apple symbol. It was broken; now it is fixed, but I noticed that it is disabled, the screen reads "iPhone is disabled - connect to iTunes". When I connect it to iTunes, a message box says something like "iThone is password locked". Now I know that I could simple restore the iPhone and have it working again, but the trouble is that this iPhone contains pictures of our friend who died a long time ago and these pictures are the only memories we have of him. I need your expertise to retrive these pictures if possible. Thank you.
After iOS 10.3.3 I cant backup my iPhone due to the "iPhone disconnected" bug. I used a sync analyzer software and it reports the backup error occurring on an Application located in /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/4D762153-8922-432E-AE2B-2A02A1F1F710. How can I identify the app name from this UUID so that I can try uninstalling it?
Then I go to Finder > Applications, right-click on 'hide.me VPN' can choose "Move to trash". However, I get an error message that the program is open:
I’m wondering if it is technically possible for an app developer to allow running BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) projects directly on iOS devices.
After updating Yosemite on an iMac 2011 for some reason my F keys on my magic keyboard stopped working. When I researched the only question I was able to find was "Function keys Magic Keyboard not bound correctly" but that is for Mavericks. I've gone into settings and tried Change Keyboard Type.. but that hasn't changed the beeping behavior when I click an F key. I've tried both wired and wireless connections and I've removed the keyboard from the Bluetooth.
Today Ikea announced HomeKit compatibility for their Trådfri line of smart lighting. I assume the bulbs show as accessories in HomeKit but do the motion detectors, dimmers, and switches show up as well?
I'm new to AppleScript and Automator. I have explored the different threads at Apple but unable to find something useful.
Where can i find the file (?) where all the configurations for different external screens are saved?
I have attempted to add an ordinary partition with Disk Utility on my fairly recent iMac Mac16,2 under Sierra 10.12.10 and the process did not complete. I have now a shrunk disk capacity that I would like to restore to full size and of course hopefully partition again. The result of the commands diskutil list is below : The results of the command diskutil cs list is below : I have attempted various approches found in the various related posts, such as booting from both internet and from an external disk and using: The results finish by: The volume 965EB469-4062-42AF-95E7-14DA92C4DB7C appears to be OK Storage system check exit code is 0 Incorrect size for volume "Macintosh HD" Then I tried the following commands: However none of the two commands were successful I got an error -69674 reported, and: the provided core storage logical volume has an incorrect size you should run whole disk repair
I have few app that was downloaded to my Mac, now there are not available on the iOS App Store anymore, so can I install them when I get a new phone even those app are not available on the App Store?
This article from the Apple Knowledge Base: Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac describes very well which kinds of events are symptoms which might be related to an SMC in need of a reset. But the relationship isn't clearly established. Is there any simple method to diagnose clearly the SMC state: is it OK? does it need a reset? Something like (for NVRAM): or
I need to get a script that would map network drives based on a person's user name (we use AD to allow access). It used to work prior to 10.10.
I have been using Time Machine to back up my school folders, on a My Passport, for 2 years now, I have never needed to restore files until now. I opened it today to only find files from today. It says I have some 240ish GB used already, but I cant view anything older than today. I know I should have some PSD and CSW files on it.
I was using Audacity and it kept saying that it couldn't save to the autosave folder. I went to turn it off and it said it couldn't save its user configuration file. Now, when I try to turn it off, it says "Error Locking Temporary Folder." What can I do to fix this issue?
I want to be able to hear the system beep. Normally, this can be done by running any of the following commands in OSX: echo -e "\a" printf "\a" tput bel Running these commands in the standard Terminal app (Version 2.6.1 [361.1]) produces no visible or audible effect.
When viewing some files with quicktime on my retina MacBook Pro (Sierra 10.12.6), I can view it on Apple TV and the sound works fine. However some files produce the following behaviour: Select Apple TV / Airplay in Quicktime Video appears on TV, but no sound (on TV or laptop).
I replaced my broken gaming mouse with a new one and it doesn't work. The weird thing is that the mouse works when I reboot but only until I login, then the LEDs turn off and the mouse doesn't do anything (as if it is completely disconnected). My setup is a MacBook Pro (Retina 15-inch late 2013) macOS Sierra.
I want to be able to make a keyboard shortcut system wide on a Mac that will paste some text into whatever I am selecting. For example, I am typing in notes and I press cmd + alt + k, then text that says "Hello World!" will paste into the text box. I was looking for other answers to this but couldn't find any.
I have 2 external HDDs that went through exactly the same pattern within a couple weeks. One is a regular 3"1/2 disk and the other one a laptop SSD. Both were external usb disks with different enclosures and interfaces. In both cases, I shut down the computer and the disks were nowhere to be found when turning the computer back on.
In a Mac OS X native textfields, misspelled and typo'd words are underlined with a red squiggle. Is there a global keyboard shortcut that will correct all of the words in a document with their corrected spellings?
I’m on 10.12.5, running on a MacBook Pro late ’13, if that’s even important. Okay, I searched for a few things to do after that: Output of diskutil list: Output of diskutil cs list: Output of diskutil repairdisk disk2: Output of sudo gpt -r show disk2:
I'm facing the weirdest issue and have spent hours googling a solution but returned empty-handed. I have a Mac early 2015 laptop with OS X Sierra(10.12.5) installed on it. Whenever I try to save a word/ppt/xls/txt file with Word/Powerpoint/Excel/TextEdit, the dialog box doesn't show up. There's no confirmation of whether it's been saved or not and I have lost hours of work because of this issue. Has anyone here faced this issue before? Thanks
Pressing the play button on earphones opens up iTunes. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening without installing any third party programs? I would preferably want to control Spotify with my earphones.
Anyone have this happen? Safari stopped loading any pages I throw at it. Google, Reddit, Yahoo, CNN, you name it. The progress bar in the address bar sits at about 10% and doesn't move. I have done the following: Preferences > Clear History > All Deleted all com.apple.Safari related preferences. Deleted ~/Library/Safari folder. Disabled and deleted extensions. Restarted.
After a failed Linux installation I'm unable to extend my Macintosh HD logical volume to recover unused space. I'm on v10.12.6 of macOS Sierra. Trying to remove the "Free space" partition in Disk Utility results in a message of
I have a Macbook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2015) running 10.12.6 with a broken battery (Replace now alert) but I still couldn't find a proper battery in my region. In this case I should shut down the device to move and it seems loosing power also resets the date and time and also breaks hibernate mode which I can use. I'd like to know is there any solution for forcing AC Mode so it ignores battery (Performance issue due to changing between battery and ac somehow in runtime). I also tried SMC and NVRAM reset but no chance either. Please let me know if there should be more explanation.
I created an ipa file of my application to test it on a real device, but I'm not able to install it. I used a developmet certificate and in the related provisioning file I added the target iPhone (using its own UDID). I use iTunes to install it, but I only see the icon appears and the disappears. Why? What can I check to make it work as expected?
I tried rebooting my computer in safe mode. Then, any smart mailbox I created would contain no messages regardless of the rules I set. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which messages are problematic. My "Unread" smart mailbox still behaves properly for non-problematic messages even if it contains problematic messages.
This is my first question here and my question may sounds novice but I am going to spend my vacation abroad so I would like to make sure that my iOS devices are pirated free content. I may have copied some contents from friends such as ebooks, music, videos, etc. The problem that I have tons of apps so I may use multiple book readers such as iBooks, Kindle, and many others. Same applies for music and videos. Is there a way to check all of the contents on my devices using an app or at least a systematic way for check up. PS: my devices are 256GB and all apps are original and downloaded from app store.
My Macbook Pro battery was dying and would not hold a charge. Eventually it entirely stopped charging and the computer wouldn't turn on. I assumed this meant that the battery was dead, so I bought a new battery and replaced it myself.
As I do some audio development I regularly have to install related software (DAW's, etc). Also I use an RME audio interface that comes with Totalmix software. For me that means I do not need any further audio-routing within the computer.
Can anyone help me get El Capitan installed? Thanks so much.
As Apple has stopped to support PPTP VPN. I have installed virtual box with ubuntu 16.04 to be able to connect to my customer which uses PPTP VPN. I cannot establish the connection, It always fails Can any one tell will this setup even work of establishing a PPTP VPN connection in the guest operating system (ubuntu 16.04) if the host operating system does not support it (Mac os sierra)?
It seems this is a popular ongoing issue with no clear answer. I've read several other AD questions about this but most do not have any answers. I've created a Finder workflow and check-marked that workflow plus a bunch of other prebuilt services from the Files/Folders section of System Preferences. Only some of the prebuilt services then appear under Finder > Services, but not the ones I really want, including the service I made.
I have just upgraded git. It's now a symlink to the Cellared most recent version. However
How can I prevent a certain application (ie. the Tor Browser) from being executed on macOS 10.12.6? Is there a way to blacklist the application by its signature, or will I have to go another way? If there's an approach by programming manually, some hints and tips where to investigate further would be much appreciated. Some more details: It’s a single-user home Mac; however this user account needs the maximum level of privileges/permissions possible, because it is used for light development work.
Since my iMac is connected directly to my modem, I should be able to use the same process to connect from work. I open Finder and type smb://<my home's external IP> Unfortunately, this leads to an error message ("There was a problem connecting to the server.")
I have a problem with a Mac that is kernel panicking. The system runs macOS 10.12.6 (16G29). I'm trying to get a core dump from it. From what I understand after reading Apple's TN2118 - Kernel Core Dumps, this typically requires a separate dedicated machine configured to receive these dumps via Ethernet. I'd rather not dedicate an entire machine for this sole purpose (this is my home) so I'd like to spin up a VM to service this.
I gave my best friend my iCloud/Apple ID password because she forgot hers. Does that allow her to see all of my text messages that are incoming and outgoing, or only my iMessages? Also, if my new conversations start off with my number, will she have access to them if the person I’m texting has an iPhone?
When I open PDF's (seems to be ones generated from AutoCAD) preview adds rectangles around every text object.  I can remove these in preview (command-I, select all and delete) but this is a pain when you forget and then forward one of these PDFs etc.
Let's say I have two wireless networks I can connect to, alpha and beta. In this scenario the alpha wifi gives me access to a specific intranet and specific sites I need to access, and blocks specific sites. For example *=URL=* The beta connection however does not have access to the intranet but does allow access to the blocked sites. The case now is that I'm switching back and forth between the two connections, and it's really a pain point, it's slow and confusing.
I am trying to get information on how to reset the USB port on a MacBook Pro using terminal's command line. I use the USB port to access a network device via a serial port with an ioread GUC232A to conduct automation. When the script is done, I have to physically disconnect and re-connect the USB<->Serial adapter in order to free the MacBook USB port for a subsequent automation run. As you can see, this is not workable. I've looked at the following solution but it does not work very reliably and frankly, I'm not too keen on unloading and reloading drivers. I could use a single port terminal server from Lantronix to access the terminal server via SSH, which is in turn connected via RS232 - But this solution is not on the table at this point. Any suggestions on a USB to Ethernet Terminal server, where the USB port will act as a console to access the networking device would be appreciated.
So, I've got my screen-saver set to come on after 5 minutes,  … and my display to sleep after 1 hour:
I want to change the ringtone for many (thousands) of contact entries to "None" (or to a specific ringtone like the silent one I have). Multi-select in Contacts removes the "Edit" button. I tried adding multiple contacts to a new Group, thinking that might allow some bulk editing, but I could't find any additional controls. Ringtone, texttone, and other fields seem to be non-standard and are not exported from Contacts, seemingly precluding bulk editing with an external program. Here's a sample Contacts entry, which had manual editing of ringtone and texttone to "None", exported as .vcf (you can see no ringtone makes it to the file):
I have a macOS sierra 10.12.5 and every time I copy something from a text editor or web browser and paste it in to the terminal it pastes the last thing I pasted in terminal and not other apps. Also when I download something and drag it to the desktop it turns into the last thing I edited. When I try to copy an icon to an application nothing happens.
For some time (I'm on macOS Sierra right now, but I've got the problem at least since Yosemite), my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 acts weird. Even though keyboard/trackpad always work up until the login screen, sometimes they (always both) stop working after login. Luckily, the on/off switch still works, and a cold reboot usually solves the problem (sometimes it takes several reboots).
Okay, so I recently bought an iPhone 6 that is locked. It's locked to AT&T I believe and I'm pretty sure the fees and bills and whatnot are paid. It had no sim card when I got it so can I buy a sim card that is activated or not, will it "unlock" my phone or set it up as a new device? On the screen it says "Activation Lock" and it's linked to the other person's apple id but I have no sort of contact with that person. Help
Images which has different resolution(higher or lower) then 144 ppi look pixelated on a retina Macbook Pro 2015. I tested by creating images in Photoshop with different resolution and finding images in internet with different resolutions. But why?
I am signed into the same iCloud account on my iPhone and Mac book. Why then don't I see any of my subscriptions in iTunes? I have 'sync subscriptions' enabled in settings/podcasts on the iPhone. On the Mac book, I don't even see options for syncing in system preferences.
I like that Facetime Continuity allows my phone to ring on my computer. But it repeats the sound aggressively and it loops way too fast..
My external usb wont open or i cant do anything on it. I have tried to restore it using disk utility but i doesnt work either. PLease help me
I want to limit the amount of compressed memory in my computer's swapping system. Right now, when the system is in heavy usage, the OS will try to have 10 GB of compressed swap in memory, leaving me with only 6 GB of available memory. Reading the source code for the compressor *=URL=* I see this: What do I need to do to provide this -- a read of the source code seems to indicate that I can use this to set a lower maximum in-memory compressed swap.
My Mac Mini (mid 2011) frequently freezes under medium to heavy graphics load (e.g., while using Citrix RDP or playing games). Until today I used to think this was caused by overheating but after a thorough cleaning at the genius bar the overheating is gone for sure but the random freeze remains. Here is a photo of the display when my computer froze.
Why is this important to me? The router I have from my ISP discards packets from the LAN attempting to access machines using the WAN address. This means that commands accessing other machines on the network fail. eg: I am using macOS 10.12.6 Any suggestions as to how I should configure my Mac so it only uses the configured DNS to resolve hosts would be gratefully received.
So my girlfriend's "oldish" MacBook Pro (Model #: A1286?) won't boot. Upon pressing the power button the fan starts up and a short mechanical noise is heard that sounds like the DVD drive's loading mechanism. Then the screen comes up mostly whit with the pictured pattern.
When I'm in windows under bootcamp all I need to do to restart into macOS is Right click the bootcamp icon in the task bar Select "reboot into macOS" When I'm in macOS and I want to switch to windows I need to Click the apple in the upper left Select "System Preferences" Select "Startup Disk" Click the lock Enter administrator password Select "BOOTCAMP Windows" Click "Restart..." Am I missing some obvious shortcut to reboot into windows, or is this really the best that Apple can do to support restarting into bootcamp? If apple doesn't provide an easier way is there an app, script, or something that I can use to make the process of switching from macOS into windows a two click operation? Please be aware that this is an ongoing issue with macOS, and that over the years Apple has changed things so solutions that worked in the past no longer work now. The duplicate question how to quickly reboot from OSX to Windows and back does have one answer that may work for macOS Sierra, but it's buri
My laptop (15" Mid 2012 MBP 16GB ram, 2.6ghz i7, 1GB graphics card) is running Yosemite 10.10.5. I want to upgrade the OS, but one key piece of work software I have wont run on macOS Sierra 10.12.x, so instead I need to upgrade to El Capitan. Where can I download an Official installer for El Capitan?
Ive got a mac mini running El Capitan, i use a piece of CAD software which requires me to use the "mouse scroll wheel click" to move around the software. This works fine on other machines that i have the software installed on which are running Yosemite, but on this machine running El Capitan the "mouse scroll wheel click" shows all windows, the same as pressing F3. Is there a way to disable this feature in El Capitan ?
I subscribe to Apple Music (streaming) but not iTunes Match. I ripped a (somewhat rare?) CD, and was surprised to see its status as "Uploaded". Sure enough it plays on my other iTunes-enabled devices.
I've just installed a new hard drive in my 2008 iMac. As my old one died I put a copy of macOS Sierra on a USB stick, but when I try to boot from it all I get is the no entry sign.
I have a dilemma. I work for a decentralized organization with independent business units. We’re now starting to centralize the support of IT. I have a few companies who bought their own iPads from like Best Buy, amazon and the Apple Store. I had read that you cannot enter consumer purchased iPads into the DEP program. I have 20 iPads I want to manage and maintain, but it also seems like an Apple ID is a MUST to do literally anything. I read somewhere that an Apple ID has a max limit of 10 devices. The other problem is when I add a new iPad it sends alerts to ALL the other iPads, which could interrupt or scare a user in a different location.
I have an iPhone 6 with iOS 10.3.3. After updating, I've found a problem with the cellular data settings. None of the apps are appearing besides Wallet (which I previously removed) and FaceTime. I've been trying to get the apps to appear but none are showing up. I've tried reading similar posts, and using the answer, but have had no success.
Whenever I open safari, this alert opens with no buttons. The only way to close it is to force quit safari. How can I fix this?
I have a MacBook Pro with two partitions: macOS partition (200 GB). Linux partition (100 GB). When I enter the Recovery Mode and open Disk Utility, and click "partition" on my whole HD device, I can see a pie chart showing each partition and its size. My goal is to delete the Linux partition and get back to the normal state where my Mac has a full 300 GB of storage instead of 200 GB. My question is: If on the pie chart I clicked on the Linux partition and clicked the minus "-" symbol, will it achieve my goal? Is it going to delete my Linux partition and give its size to the Mac without losing any data on my Mac partition?
I am using Ubuntu Linux 16.04 for which Apple does not provide iTunes. So I connected my iPhone SE running iOS 10.3.3 to my laptop using libimobiledevice and ifuse. This enables me to access the files on the iPhone and I can at least copy my photos from it to my laptop.
I need to set the Mac clock to a specific date and time, to perform some testing. I'm new to AppleScript.
I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro to use at University (Studying Computer Science). I've been using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air for the last year. Current machine: Mid-2013 MacBook Air, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, core i5. I'm stuck between the 13 inch MacBook Pro without TouchBar with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, i5 Processor and the 13 inch MacBook Pro with TouchBar with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, i7 Processor. For a machine that'll be used primarily for programming and video editing would the faster processor or more RAM be worth it? I don't particularly want the TouchBar, but the TouchBar model has more ports. Also, would the TouchBar model with the faster processor have worse battery life due to the TouchBar and the faster clock speed? Would you notice a speed difference with the processor because only when video editing do I currently max out my machine?
I need to extract data from a Hard Drive of a 2011 MBP that usually won't boot because of a seemingly broken drive. The computer booted on some attempts, but it usually shows a gray question mark logo and holding CMD+R boots internet recovery. The MBP can be booted through an external USB hard drive with a copy of OS X installed on it, but only the external drive does shows up in Disk Utility.
On the theory that the settings might not take effect until a reboot, I rebooted. Nope: still wakes on lid opening. Here's my current pmset settings:
I recently performed a backup of my iPhone, but forgot to transfer my purchases to my PC before restoring from the backup. A couple apps had some data I'd really hate to lose. To make things worse, the backup is apparently corrupted, and the only solution seems to be paying 30$ for a program that can repair it.
I have the latest Xcode beta and macOS Server beta installed.
I want to create an AppleScript .scpt file that does the following: Accesses a router's webpage (i.e., its IP address). Accesses a router's webpage (i.e., its IP address).
On launchpad I would like to rebind left/right page from cmd + <-/-> to alt+2/3. Is this possible? There are no options in system preferences -> keyboard shortcuts, but there are shortcuts. I just can't seem to find them.
My Time Capsule is not working as it got short circuited and when I went to the Apple Service Center they told me that I need to replace it. They said I can't get my data back.
Using OS Sierra, I have configured iCloud Drive to include my desktop and documents folders. An iCloud file got corrupted recently and I realized I had no backup of the files on iCloud. So I immediately used the Finder to copy the iCloud files to a folder "iCloud" on an external disk "Data".
Alrighty, I’m working on some homespun financial rejiggering. I have a manually-entered “Keyword” column that features many repeated values. A small sampling: Cleaners Cleaners Cleaners Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cable Cable Cable Cable Band Band ATM Fee ATM Fee ATM Fee ATM Fee ATM Fee ATM Fee Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon I need to create either another column OR table that takes these many values, de-dupes them and sorts them alphabetically, like this: Cleaners Cell Cable Band ATM Fee Amazon This needs to be done with formula… not manually or scripted.
I recently installed Adobe shockwave to open a file. I couldn't seem to find any application (in /Applications) called Shockwave or Adobe Shockwave. When I installed it, it claimed that it would take 44MB, but the only directory I could find that it installed anything (via spotlight) was /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/DirectorShockwave.plugin. Are there any other places that this software installed files/directories? FYI, I'm running OSX 10.12.6.
I'd like to have some valid words actually marked as misspelled by the system for my usage. Example: wont
Every time after I log into my computer the first thing that happens is I get this message even if I put in the password. I can click it 3 times or so and it will go away, or I can give it the password but it will come back. I want to know what is sharingd? It looks like the terminal screen on the lock. Can anyone explain?
I'm using a mid-2013 Macbook Air and it's been shutting down unexpectedly. Initially, to fix that, I reset my PRAM which worked at first, running smoothly for an hour. Then I put it into clamshell mode and returned after 2/3 hours to use the system but now my computer has been running slowly.
So, my MacBook Pro just died and it appears to be the standard known issue with the graphics card. There seems to be a possible fix by moving some system files around. However, to do this, I have to disable SIP protection. To disable SIP, i have to boot up in recovery mode. MacBook won't boot up in recovery mode - grey screen of death MacBook can boot up in single user mode however. There are tales that you can boot in single user recovery mode by holding down command-R-S on boot, but that did not work for me. What can i do?
I got an iPad 4th gen from 2012 with 16 GB space. It's in use daily.
Would it be possible to make some sort of remap where command-clicking or highlighting some text in the terminal triggers iTerm2 to attempt to cd <text>? Would make life somewhat easier when navigating around complex directory trees with long names.
I'm trying to run this from the terminal: This gives me the error
I try to install NetBeans IDE on my MacBook Air (2017) with macOS Sierra. I tried both from .dmg file and directly with Homebrew, with the same result - the installation freezes. Have any of you guys had this problem? Here is the screenshot of what I've been seeing for like 2 hours:
Manually I can mount a network file system (nfs) volume from a Linux server (Fedora 26) but with macOS 10.12's automount it fails. Apparently a firewall issue, may be port 98 via udp, but so far no success.
Is there a simple way to count the characters of all text fields in a Powerpoint presentation? I tried exporting to Rich Text Format (.rtf) to do the count in MS Word, but the export function only exports some text fields (outline text) and misses small annotations, lists, etc. Some tools like Count Anything or Anycount are not available for Mac OSX.
For various reasons, I don’t want to use iCloud Keychain. This seems to have gotten harder with 10.11 or 10.12 (upgraded directly 10.10 -> 10.12 so I don’t know what happened when). Today, I noticed the following:
I wanna have a background software than can press a certain spot when the notification appears immediately. Is there any app that can do that? Or can I manually write an app and execute it on my iPad?
I am looking for a C# programming compiler on macOS that is a good value. Could you give me any advice?
I need an app to be able to measure distances at the very least that would correspond to real values. Let's say I have a graphic that has a few points on it instead of having to print out the paper and measure the distances between points by ruler, I'd like to do it on screen.
I only discovered this because SpringBoot in the ios simulator stopped working. Many of my apps work fine. Some others, such as Digital Color Meter, will load - but take more than 30 seconds to do so, and then crash sporadically.
My iPhone 5s battery is being drained very fast when in sleep mode (30-40% over night). I put it in airplane mode and in low power mode, and it still drains very fast in sleep mode. The battery however is fine during the day, lasts about 3/4 of my day when I use it.
I have a table that looks much like this:  That Category column is entered manually and will have several duplicated values.
I am running a VM on the Mac, and I'd like to be able to share a directory with the VM. The firewall blocks rpc so the mount command hangs on the VM. It works fine when I turn the firewall off.
I often pick up my iPad and move away from its Bluetooth keyboard without turning the keyboard off. Whenever I need to type some text, I'm reminded that I can't see the virtual iOS keyboard until I either: walk to the Bluetooth keyboard and turn it off, turn off Bluetooth on my iPad, which disconnects the keyboard but also other devices like Bluetooth speakers or Apple Pencil. Is there another, more convenient option? (Sent from my Bluetooth-disabled iPad since I was too lazy to walk to my Bluetooth keyboard)
My friend gave me her old iPhone 5 (iOS 10.3.2) which she can't remember the passcode to and I need to factory reset it from iTunes. I have tried doing this by putting the phone into recovery mode and trying to restore it but iTunes wants to update the phone to iOS 10.3.3. Because I have a poor internet each time I try to restore and update, downloading iOS 10.3.3 fails. Is there a way to restore it without using my internet? Cheers,
My MacBook Pro 13 mid-2012 (with DVD writer) won't start up. I tried resetting SMC but nothing happened. I could hear the start up chime but after that black screen. I kept trying resetting SMC and PRAM. Connecting charger and disconnecting. In the beginning the charger indicator LED was dim. But after resetting SMC it turned green and orange again (like before) but the MacBook won't start. The harddisk LED was on but nothing. I left the laptop unused.
Where is Shake's environment variable located in macOS allowing to launch Shake.app via Terminal session in High Sierra? There's no Shake's variables in ~/.bash_profile, /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc.
I recently installed VLC on iOS 10 and noticed that there is play history in it on a fresh install. How does this app preserve data between installs? Should it even be able to? It doesn't matter whether I restart the phone before reinstall or not. I forgot to mention that it doesn't have an entry on iCloud in the settings app.
I am trying to setup up my Mac Mini Server with VPN service for the office MacBooks. Being that the Mac Mini is not the gateway, our public IP does not resolve to the Mac Mini but instead to the gateway. So on the gateway (pfSense), I set up NAT for the ports listed in the Access tab of the Server.app. I also exported the configuration from the profile manager and everything looks good. I don't know what else to try? Is it because dhcp server is on the gateway, not the server? Thanks for your help
My MacBook locks up and shuts down. I have read numerous threads but haven't been able to get the info to fix this. I do get this error;
Using macOS Sierra 10.12.5, iMac 27-inch Mid 2011, AppleTV Model A1469 7.2.2 (8015) Connected via WiFi I have an Apple TV that used to work, however, now whenever I mirror or extend my display from my iMac it only shows a blank/black screen with audio. I found this post, Apple TV Black screen (OS X Yosemite ) however, the solutions there did not work for me, and I am not sure how it worked for the OP. I also found How to Fix an Apple TV with a Blank Screen and reset my Apple TV to factory settings, but still the same problem persists. The audio works fine and I can switch between internal speakers and the AppleTV but there's no video on the AppleTV. Any ideas at all are greatly appreciated...
We got a Mac Mini to setup for out small office. I was hoping to seize upon the nice features that macOS Server provides; Profile Manager being one of the larger targets. However, I have not been able to use the Default Configuration Profile or Remote Managment with any Mac in the office. Browsing to *=URL=* allows all the users to log in and download the .mobileconfig files, but the install of remote management fails with this error:
I have a dedicated external HD for our office to use with the Time Machine service in the macOS Server.app (5.3). Works flawlessly with Sierra clients, yet the disk will not show at all on El Capitan clients, or some intranet Lion workstations we have. When you go to select a Time Machine disk on these clients, the disk on the server doesn't even show up, but will connect via afp using CMD+K. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
My iCloud space is getting limited by having iBooks that I do not want sitting there. How can I clear them?
I have an error 43 when trying to delete a folder in Mac OS - I have read that to fix this I need to reset the NVRAM - to do that I need to boot with Command OptionP R - however, this makes the startup noise continually until I release the buttons. So far so good, but when I do release (I tried after 2 and after 3 startup sounds) - it just boots directly into Windows. How can I make this work?
In my Home directory on my iMac I have a Pictures folder. In it is a 4 GB Photo Library named Photos Library.photoslibrary. I have iCloud Photo Library turned on, and it has been on for more than a year.
Is there any way to add loyalty cards to the iOS wallet? I'm talking about those mini keyring cards. Or any arbitrary barcoded card, like my library card.
I have a few iMovie libraries on my external hard drive. I opened them all. I clicked the Media tab on the top, and then I clicked All events on the left side. Some dates are displayed:
I recently tried to take a backup of my Mac by booting in recovery then using the restore function to copy Macintosh HD but then I get an error "The disk should be GPT to copy recovery partition" I didn't want to copy it.But Did this affect my GPT head. sudo gpt show disk0 shows:
I am having issue with my trackpad of MacBook Pro Retina early 2015, As it was working properly a day before, the Hardware Keyboard and other things working properly. I did tried Reseting SMC, PRAM, but no luck, I am on macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Any suggestions?
I have a book on my iMac at work which has highlighting all over the book. But when I put the book in my Dropbox and open it on my MacBook at home there are no highlights. Is there a way to preserve the highlighting? iBooks is the app that I use and I made all highlights with it. iBooks version 1.5 on iMac 1.6 on MacBook The book is .epub file
I have a recent problem with my Mac mouse as well. More often it stops clicking/selecting links. When I click links on the internet, it seems to be inactive and instead of taking me where I want to go, it gives out different pop-up menus instead of letting me go in the menu and attach a photo or click to be taken to another website . After trying for quite a few times, it just changes back to active again by itself. Please see screenshots attached. I have 2 mice and it happens with both. Anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution? Thank you in advance.
Kinda new to Apple world so need some clarification here: does official MS RDP client support older iPads or no? On the official app page they say that minimum required iOS version is 8.0, but in these Getting Started docs they state that iOS 6 is supported too. So I'm a bit confused with what to believe? Will I be able to use RDP client on older iPads with iOS 4 or iOS 5?
Two, is there a way of sandboxing a RSS reader (ideally in the most complete way), so that it cannot be a source of malware? is disabling JavaScript and plugins in the RSS browser enough (not really clear what plugins the internal browser has to start with...)?
I was trying to use your method to create a USB on my Mac for a Linux boot USB to install linux on a Kangaroo mobile pc. Here is my process: I tried this with several iterations. My results are below. The final result has me stopped. Any ideas?
After a lot of struggling I managed to disable the Touchpad by using this command sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext . Then the external mouse started to work normally.
I am using following bash completions installed via brew: My .bashrc looks like: The problem is when I press TAB on an empty prompt on keyboard I get the error: -bash: words: bad array subscript After removing /usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion from .bashrc error doesn’t happen but I miss out on many completions.
Can I run a Dell P2715Q as an external display to my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) at full 4k resolution (3840 x 2160 Pixel) and 60Hz? If I understand the spec page for the Mac correctly, it won't work over HDMI, only at 30Hz. But will it work if I connect the display via a mini-displayport-to-displayport cable? I have also read this article, but I can't seem to parse the required info from it.
I tried installing php70-intl & php70-gmp, but the installation of both extensions failed. I don't have the time (nor the desire) to deal with this kind of issues right now so I removed them by running brew uninstall php70-intl & brew uninstall php70-gmp. However if I try to use php (in any way, eg: php -v). I get the following errors: Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/opt/php70-gmp/gmp.so' - dlopen(/usr/local/opt/php70-gmp/gmp.so, 9): image not found in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/opt/php70-intl/intl.so' - dlopen(/usr/local/opt/php70-intl/intl.so, 9): image not found in Unknown on line 0 How do I tell php|homebrew I have removed them?
At work, we have 2 monitors connected to a dock that plugs into the macbook pro via a single usb-c. Most of the time I'll work on all 3 screens (2Mons + macbook), but when I unplug for a meeting, do some work, and then return, all windows on all workspaces are in the one main monitor. Is there an automated way to return all windows to the monitor they were displayed in upon re-docking? note: I have disabled "Displays have separate Spaces" (for convenience)
I've looked around a fair amount, and every post I see is about changing the amount of applications that appear on the launchpad. I know that their size will change if you change the grid size using terminal commands, but I want to reduce their size without changing the grid. Is there any way to do this?
I have an iMac(2009) that has approx. 250gb of photos in 2 or 3 libraries. I would like to transfer all of the photos to my new iMac(2107) and then merge them into one master library. Due to the fact that the old iMac is running a High Sierra beta and the new one is not, I cannot simply use Migration Assistant. What is the safest, quickest and most efficient way to transfer then merge the photo libraries from the 2009 to the 2017 iMac?
Is it possible to start the Finder process from Terminal? If so, what would be the command?
I want to merge folders and the nested folders and the files to specific folder. I have many directories which is same name of a directory but it's under another folder/drive that has many files. So, I want to merge the folders and files according to updated/edited date with the proper time stamp of the files and folders which is not copied date and time by command. Could you tell me how to handle this by command, cp or so on? I failed to do this by rsync command bundled in macOS Sierra that can not keep a time stamp of source file if there is no same file at destination folder and that will be created as new file with the command run date and time. Current condition: Expected results: Environment: macOS Sierra latest 10.12.6
I'm trying to track down why my battery is running down so quickly on my iPhone 6s. Is it okay to erase Safari Website Data?
After the password is accepted, they are prompted to either request to view the display of the current user, or log in as themselves. They choose to log in as themselves.
Is it possible to mount and edit the contents of a .dmg file on an iPhone? I realize they are designed for macOS and larger computers of that ilk, but I'm curious if there's a workaround...
*=URL=* Is there a workaround to get HiDPI mode on external monitors on macOS Sierra?
I use a 2015 15" MacBook Pro with two external displays in the following approximate physical configuration: Displays 1 and 2 are external, third-party displays. Display 3 is the laptop's built-in display. Display 2 is the primary display — the one with the menu bar in Display preferences' Arrangement tab. Displays 1 and 2 are attached to the laptop with two Mini DisplayPort cables attached to the its two Thunderbolt ports, and are not daisy-chained — they're attached separately.
I have been using the DefaultKeyBinding.dict from *=URL=* to define cross application key bindings. I have also consulted the following documentation which hints at yankAndSelect but I couldn't find any follow up documentation. How can I enable ^w to send to the kill ring?
Since I made the effort to inspect my LAN (for other reasons), I'm just curious. Not really a big deal of course.
On Windows Microsoft Outlook I'm used to being able to display a pane to the right of the Mail screen showing: Calendar Agenda
I tried to connect to a public Wi-Fi on my MacBook Pro but can't do that. When I opened the network configuration it says something like "self assigned IP". In the meantime my iPhone connects to that Wi-Fi just fine.
I can say to Siri "Get directions to the nearest post office" and it will pull it up. However, sometimes I am on my way to an event that is in my calendar with the address. I would like to say "Get directions to my next event". However, that doesn't work as it pulls up event centers instead. Is there some other phrasing I can say to express what I want to Siri?
Been having an issue with video cards. We started loosing video on our at 2400xt, an old stock amd/ati apple video card. We Bought a Zotac GTX 970. It worked for a while but one day would not give video. Despite using the latest drivers for Yosemite, and having nvda_drv=1 in nvram, the computer boots to a black screen. Popping the old Apple video card in allows for a successful boot.
I have a new MacBook Pro 2011 (wanted the ports). I recently just installed an SSD and decided to enable TRIM on it. My computer restarts and I have the gray Wi-Fi symbol and "No Hardware Detected". I do everything, resetting NVRAM, SMB, all of it.
I am facing with an interesting problem that; if I use my both memory modules ( 2 x 8gb,1333 ) I am having memory issues and macbook crashes. I did run some hardware tests (Pressing D during the start up of the machine) and while both modules connected having the issue written something like; If I repeat the tests over and over again while both memory modules inserted; having the same issue with the last hex part (I assume it is the address on the module) different. I am running the "Rember" tool to test the memory as well and again if both modules inserted it is failing but there is no issue so far while only one slot is being used.
Sometimes when clicking my trackpad it does not really click on the object I want to open/select. Only hard restart works. Anything I can do about this or anybody else experienced this issue before?
I use the dictation feature on my MacBook quite a lot in my job. However, I often have to include proper names that are from foreign languages. Is there a trick that I can use to spell out those names or teach them to the dictation software? Incidentally, does correcting the words that are underlined in blue improve the recognition?
I am using a Mac on Sierra 10.12.5. I want to run the app XtraFinder which opens some additional features in Finder. I used to have it on different computer, but when I download it on this one I got this error:
I recently ran yes > /dev/null for a 3 minutes to drain my Mac's battery. During that time, the temperature rose to 72 °C and fans spun up to 4000 RPM. I immediately quit the process. Should I fear that has this damaged hardware or the logic board?
I have some static DNS entries configured on my Sophos XG firewall. Every device on my network (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows devices) are able to resolve all entries without problems. However, my two MacBook Pros cannot resolve most of these entries (2 out of 15 work). Something interesting I noticed is that nslookup works and give's me the correct IP address but ping does not resolve. MacBook-Pro:~ user$ nslookup nas.local Server: 172.16.1.1 Address: 172.16.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: nas.local Address: 172.16.1.3 Dig also works fine in resolving. But ping: MacBook-Pro:~ user$ ping nas.local ping: cannot resolve nas.local: Unknown host I also cannot access by DNS name in any app or browser.
I'd like to buy an external monitor for my Retina MacBook Pro mid 2015 (2880x1800 native resolution). I have 2 Thunderbolts 2 ports. I have the following questions that need answers to help me choose the best product : What monitor size/resolution I should consider?
My iMac, but not my iphone, merges messages to/from my wife and daughter, who have different iphone numbers and emails but share the same landline and street address. How can I unscramble this? It's impossible to know which of them I am contacting or is contacting me..
I have a MacBook Pro Retina Early 2015 model, that I have owned for 2 years. It was working absolutely fine just yesterday (or the day before). I consulted an Apple authorized service center that said I needed to replace the battery but I was confused how could the battery die overnight. So I contacted another Apple authorized service center. They took in my laptop for diagnosis for a couple of days and told me that the "topcase" was faulty and needed to be replaced. Of course they are also charging a hefty sum of money for it. I have two questions:
I live in the U.K. and I have a Macbook Pro (2016) which I purchased in Dubai. The power adapter works fine in U.K. / Dubai / India. I am traveling to USA next week. Do I need to buy the adapter so that it can be used in the 2-pin USA wall sockets or do I also need to buy something in addition to that - say, a step up / step power adapter (My apologies, I am not sure of what it is called exactly... to transform the voltage as well?)
My computer is running low on space, so after I sync my films to my iPhone, I want to delete them from my computer. How can I do this, without having iTunes sync this deletion back to my iPhone the next time I connect my iPhone?
When I use TouchID, I often touch the right side of control strip inadvertently. So I want to put a "Do-nothing" button in most right side of control strip. Is there a way for it?
My girlfriend has a MacBook Air 2012 and we were thinking of playing Diablo 3 together. When she tried to install Diablo 3, she got an error saying that her operating system is outdated. She tried to update her operating system but received an error that she cannot update her OS. I have several questions: Does Apple impose an operating system cap because her Mac is too old? Is it advisable to upgrade her operating system to the lastest version, or would it be too much of a strain on her system resource? Macbook Air 2012: Spec *=URL=* i5 - 1.8Ghz HD Graphics 4000 4GB RAM 128GB SSD
Running Sierra 10.12.6 on iMac. I recently had to jump through the second identification hoops, was re-directed to create new Apple password, which I did, was forced to enter that new password on all 6 devices, launched Messages after system reboot, and was getting a text stream from my wife's phone. I checked both my iphone 5s and her 5SE, and the settings are appropriate, so we both get only our own text messages on our handheld devices. I unfortunately cannot launch the Preferences window in Messages on the iMac. The app is otherwise stable and functional, and under Accounts, nothing seems awry, but whether I click on "Preferences" in the pulldown menu in Messages or utilize the keystroke shortcut: Command/comma, nothing comes up, and it does not appear that the window is elsewhere on the desktop out of view, hidden, or minimized. I'd be grateful for any ideas/help. Thanks!
On MacOS, El Capitan, any file I delete from Finder does not go to the Trash, it is deleted completely. When I delete a file the warning message says "you are about to permanently delete the file". So it seems as though, the Trash has been disabled - how do I renable it? The Mac is a Mac Mini, Core i5, 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD.
I am a first time Magic Mouse user. I love the vertical scrolling on web pages. However, on Google Calendar, scrolling left-to-right makes the calendar move forward and back between months. I'm constantly accidentally scrolling my calendar with the Magic Mouse.
On macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with Tunnelblick 3.7.1b connecting to either OpenVPN 2.3.1 or 2.4.3, I want to route all local network traffic (lab access, etc) across my cat5 connection, with all external traffic going over OpenVPN on wifi. So far, changing priority order of adapters in Network Preferences, attempting to add manual routes (per an SU question), and connecting the VPN before connecting the ethernet cable have all been unsuccessful. I recall doing this several years ago - but haven't had a need to do so again until very recently.
I recently switched from an Android to an iPhone (7) and haven't got used to it yet. I daily use a Bluetooth headset (Sony SBH80) and sporadically, my iPhone starts to route all audio to it.
Is there a way to set up VIP Alert Notifications to allow the sound even when my iPhone is on silent? I want to be able to receive notification of VIP emails during the night, but do not want the bother of a notification from someone calling/texting me.
I am locked out of my MacBook Pro. When I turn it on, I get the usual login screen which shows my username and asks for my password. I type in my password and at first, all seems right in the world--there is a progress bar as if it were logging in. But then a second login screen comes up asking me to type in both my username and my password. I cannot get past this screen. Very confused and a little distressed. I am running macOS Sierra on a late-2013 15" MacBook Pro. What am I missing?
I have a home video that I must have ripped in the early 2000s. I'd like to view it, but it doesn't have an extension and shows up in the finder as a unix executable file. Opening with VLC gives me an error saying it doesn't know the codec. Any thoughts on how to get this open or viewable?
How many external displays does a Macbook Pro 13-inch 2016 model support?
After I tried to log into the guest account for the first time after enabling filevault, it told me the computer was going to restart to a secure environment. However, after restarting the computer didn't prompt for the unlock password at all, and went straight to this screen after a wait. After a few seconds this screen crashes and the computer turns off. What can I do?
When I take photos of a crowded place, I often get random strangers in the shot, facing in my direction. The iPhone Photos app then adds these strangers to the People album.
I have an unfortunate hardware problem with my MacBook Pro (mid 2014) where the integrated graphics have become faulty and after a while, use of hardware acceleration causes the system to crash. I'm getting a new laptop soon, but...
From the way that I understand how external drives work (please correct me if I'm wrong!), there are two different speed issues to consider - the connection type (e.g. USB 3.1, USB C) and the drive type (SSD or 5400 rpm, 7200rpm, etc). Am I right in thinking that if I got an external non-SSD drive, no matter what connection type/speed it had, it wouldn't feel any faster than the stock internal drive? And if that means that I should be looking for an external SSD, how fast of a connection speed would I look for to have that SSD speed ("feel") to it? Would I be fine with USB 3.1's 10 Gbps or would I notice a significant difference if I went with Thunderbolt 2/3's 20/40 Gbps? Thanks for your advice!
Is it possible to export sharp pixels (similar to nearest neighbour interpolation in Photoshop, or image-rendering: pixelated in CSS) from within Motion? I would like to work with small 1:1 pixel objects and scale them — but I don't want them antialiased.
My friend's iPhone plays music, YouTube, etc just fine through my car's stereo using the USB cable. But my iPhone won't. I have reset and restored my phone. Even after I got a new iPhone it still doesn't play. Why would that be?
If you x out a notification (or group of notifications) or click on a notification it appears to be cleared. From time to time I wish I could see or interact with it again. Either the link doesn't work properly or I just wish I hadn't cleared it out. Is there a system, app, or log file to look through to get the info? Or is there a method to start logging or collecting them for the future?
The login screen has a default scaling that is set when you boot up. Once booted though, it will adopt the scaling of whatever user was last logged in. I've heard the default scaling can be set by setting the scaling of the root user, but this has not worked for me. My best guess is that this is due to FileVault being enabled. Is there any way to accomplish this?
My MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Early 2013, running Sierra 10.12.6 has a long standing issue where everytime I reboot (for many months now), it hangs during shutdown with a spinning icon near end of shutdown process that remains stuck spinning even if I let it run overnight. Upon forced power off and restart, I get the following report: I had the Genius store reinstall my operating system and I recovered my drive from timemachine backup, but problem still remains on every shutdown.
I'm trying to run a newly bought P2715Q monitor at 2560x1440 resolution using HiDPI but the resolution isn't available:  If I change the rotation to 90 degrees, however, the resolution 1440x2560 is there. Surely the monitor can display this resolution. So why is it only available when the display is rotated?
Can anyone where can I find the Settings to show the desktop content of each window by default (without I need to hover my pointer to attached image)? Previously I was able to see desktop content of each window but after some crashes on my Mac which led to restart, it becomes like this.
I seem to be having a strange problem with my iPad. The volume only sometimes works. The volume will be fully turned up and not muted, but it won't work. Then, without changing anything, a couple minutes later it will work. Or, I will try to FaceTime someone and I will not hear it ring on my end. Then when they answer, I can't hear them and they can't hear me. I'll try again a second after and it'll work again. It is never consistent though. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I have tried everything setting wise. Nothing fixes my problem. Help?
I have a large collection of mp3s (a backup of my old itunes from another computer) and I want to copy this to my new IPhone. Trouble is that my Mac is almost out of HD space, so I somehow want to copy the music directly from the external disk to the iPhone. I assume I can't do that from iTunes? Any ideas?
After traveling overseas (Vietnam & Japan) and using a SIM card for each country, I restored my AT&T SIM card into my iPhone and got:  I tried the suggestions in *=URL=* and all of the suggestions in *=URL=* except backing up and restoring, but nothing worked.
Problem remains, something is draining the battery. How can I prevent this drain from happening?
I am not sure if I am asking this question properly, but I am trying write a script to change some settings on Mac OS Sierra, similar to this script which sets the clock in the menubar to appear as analog: Instead, I would like to select a different keyboard layout which I have created using Karabiner elements, which also appears in the menubar, and I can change it using the mouse.
I am working on some long procedures that will need to reference a lot of file paths of documents located locally and on various external drives and servers. In all cases we are using Apple Macs with either El Capitan or Sierra installed. My problem - it is taking me a long time to manually type and double-check the file paths are correct. Preferred solution - I would love it if there was just a way to copy and paste the file paths into these procedures. I did try using the Get Info option, but couldn’t see a file path listed anywhere that I could copy and paste.
After trying to install Windows via Bootcamp on (yes I understand what "beta" means) beta High Sierra 10.13 I was left with unbootable partition:  I cannot mount this disk. It's shown as "Mac OS Extended" file system though it was APFS. (The Untitled is the partition with newly installed Mac OS version via internet recover. I have run two checks. Output: *=URL=* Output: *=URL=* I understand that I deal with beta software, and I should not expect to recover lost partition, but nevertheless I would be grateful for suggestion, what to do to recover this partition.
There are ways to break File Vault 2 encryption: *=URL=* Furthermore, even if someone like the aforementioned Macquisition isn't used, can't someone just login to your user account? It's not impossible to reset/find out someone's login password (for example, cnet.com/how-to/reset-bypass-password-mac-macbook) Thoughts?
I have my App Store set on country XYZ and I am currently long term traveling (for a few months) in country ABC. Hence I'd like to install some apps relevant to country ABC. I was able to do that for some apps. But some others tell me that I cannot install them because I am on another country App Store (country XYZ). Doing a little bit of googling lead me to such thread explaining what could be some reasons behind this annoying situations. Is there a way for me to still install these country specific apps without switching my App Store country settings?
Is there a keyboard shortcut for selecting a bookmark in the bookmarks bar in chrome? Like you can press f6 in windows and it selects the first bookmark and if you follow by pressing enter it navigate to that page.
I would like if there is a way to capture in a log file all the transfer file activities in a given time period. Let me give you an example. Let's say that on 16 Aug 2017 13:35 I copy/move a file/folder from my Mac to a usb device without giving any special arguments when using the cp/mv commands (in any case copying/moving files/folders can be achieved through GUI).
How do I prevent messages from my iPhone 6s from appearing on my MacBook? I’ve tried everything obvious and various solution that haven’t worked. My MacBook is running macOS Sierra.
This is an issue I've faced for such a long time on both macOS and iOS, though for the purpose of this question I'd like to focus on macOS as that is where, I hope, manually editing settings files might even be a possible solution to this problem. If a calendar alert pops up on macOS, we're presented with some quite usable snooze options: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 1 day, or 1 week:
This link doesn't help me:Why I'm getting "macOS can't repair the disk"  I was restarting my MacBook Air and I got this message:
On my iPhone 6 is there a way to see what numbers I entered after recently calling an automated service (like when you call the cable or power company and have to press the number that corresponds with the options you provided, like "press 2 to speak with a person, press 3 to pay your bill")? Not the actual number that I initially dialed to make the call but the numbers that I entered after the making the call that I had to press to navigate the options of the automated call service?
I have an iPhone 6 Plus and a 2015 MBP. Both are running the latest OS.
I can't seem to spot the difference between the preloaded two themes: Light and Dark. Background: I was looking for a theme that "inverts" the default color scheme, i.e. dark text and light background, but neither seem to achieve this.
I have files of 28GB size. I want to compress using .xz LZMA, with .xz chuncks of 1G (1024MB) size files... How do it in macOS? EDIT SECOND EDIT USING Here the output. Here the help
I am trying to SSH an Ubuntu server from my MacBook Pro (OSX Sierra). I systematically get an "Operation timeout", and I have run out of things to try (based on online searches). I can ping the server, and the output of nmap -Pn -p22 server_name is: Here is the output of /usr/bin/ssh -vv user@server_name:
I would like to configure the Touch Bar of my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016) to display by default the static fn keys (esc, F1, F2, ...) all the time, since they are the keys I use the most. For now, I only managed to configure the touchbar to be static selecting the 'Expanded Control Strip' option (in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard), so it shows the esc, brightness, mission control, etc.
Using an Iphone 6 can I see what numbers I entered after calling an automated service (like when you call the cable or power company and have to press the number that corresponds with the options that are provided, like "press 2 to speak with a person, press 3 to pay your bill, enter your 10 digit account number now)?
I received a 2008 mac pro 3,1 in pieces from a friend. He said that he was having trouble with the graphics cards cutting in and out and and then the power supply (PS) failed. I got a used power supply on ebay and put it all back together. It turns on, the graphic card (GC) ati 3870 fan powers up but there is no signal to the monitor. I tried all my monitors and two cables and still nothing on the monitor.
Sierra runs quite a few services and daemons that are useless for me, not supported by my hardware. So I try to slim down the list of LaunchDaemons and LaunchServices in general.
From my mac OS 10.8.5 I downloaded OS Sierra from app store. It said it was downloaded and the icon was in my apps folder. I clicked it, agreed, gave my password, but it wouldn't install.
Once I did what that window asked and chose Outlook. Big mistake! I accidentally chose Mac Outlook, not Windows Outlook. Now every time Outlook for Windows has a network problem, Mac Outlook (which I otherwise never use) is launched and starts chewing up my CPU and disk while processing the last few weeks of mail.
I had to install an older version of Elasticsearch (2.3.3) from source. The binary is located in /opt/local/elasticsearch-2.3.3/bin/ I created the following file /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.elasticsearch.plist I then issue the following command:
I am running iOS 11 beta on my iPhone 7+. When pics are backed up to Google Photos they are all being saved (or at least viewed) as one-second or two-second videos (live photos). Why is it doing this? In the past, they were saved as regular photos with the option to make them live. Is there a way to turn off the live photo option? I want pics, not videos. Thanks.
Google installed something called That will run endlessly in background every hour, consuming resources and battery life. Here is a snippet from Console-system log.
It's almost as fast and I'm happy with it. But if the cable moves too much while the MacBook is in my backpack the OS will crash and anything that was in RAM is lost. I want to transport the gear with the drive separate from the computer. This requires true hibernate and not just sleep. I've read that MacOS has several heuristics about when to suspend to disk (hibernate) rather than to RAM (sleep) and that one of those is whether any USB devices are plugged in, which for me is always. I have sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 but when I put the Mac to sleep now it starts right up when pressing a key or plugging in the AC, which tells me it's not suspending. Is there a way to really suspend my MacBook to disk, then safely remove the HD, transport everything, plug the drive back in, wake up the Mac, all without losing what I was working on at the time? Mid-2013 11" Air / Sierra 10.12.6 Output of sudo pmset -g assertions
My friend and I are planning to use Swift to develop an application for our computer science class. I know there is a $99 fee for being an Apple developer but I was confused as to exactly where this applies. The Swift language itself is open source and downloadable through Xcode. If we were to just create the application but not place it on the App Store for purchase, do we still have to pay the $99?
I’m purchasing several iPhone 4 models for an art project. However they are being listed by the seller as “iCloud Locked.”
I started MySQL with its PrefPane in System Preferences:  When I enter ps aux | grep mysql I get the following output:
I have a Macbook Pro 13" 2017 ( no touch bar ) and an external display Dell2214H I bought an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter but did not notice that Dell2214H only has DisplayPort. That so, I have to buy another HDMI to DisplayPort adapter, but the display does not work when I connect to my MBP. I'm not sure it is because of the setup ( USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter -> HDMI cab -> DisplayPort adapter -> external Display ) does not work or not.
I have a couple of iMovie library files. I want to export the raw videos/photos outside of the library. I don't want to edit them or anything like that. Just having a copy outside of iMovie. What is the best way to do this?
I forgot that I installed several MySQL (or MariaDB) packages on my Mac, such as rpm or source code packages. You know the Mac's System Preference has a MySQL quick start/stop panel:
I have been using my school's tux for a while. It was built with nice color code for each syntax for each programming languages. I want to do the same on the machine that I just purchased. When I invoke
I have both iPhoto and Photos installed on my Mac and use both independently of each other. However, whenever I launch the Photos app I get the following prompt:
I am new to Apple and I am not sure how it does things with new phones, but I wanted to know if and when the next iPhone is released will it be made available on its website the day it's released? I tried finding some info regarding this online but it's hard to get good information of when they updated their website and if it was made available on the same day. If it is, I don't quite understand why people would line up and wait hours to get it or am I missing something?
We have one AD integrated iMac in our company that is used by a couple of users. Our AD user accounts have set the following attributes: homeDirectory = \\ad.example.com\Shares\UserHomeFolders$\%username% In the Directory Utility (example screenshot for reference) we set the following options. So when any of the users log on to the iMac, the homeDirectory path is automatically mounted and visible in the bottom bar (can't remember name, please edit if you know it) represented by a globe icon. So far so good. We have two issues with that approach: The logon screen need about 20-40 seconds to eventually show the "Other…" login option. The logon as an AD user only works, when there is a connection to the AD server.
In all the years that I've done this, I've never had a problem with the process. At the end of the process, I would see the Admin account that I created (so I didn't have to ask the client for their password) and the user's account(s). Worked like a charm, every time. Until this one. I did the same procedure as listed above, but at the end of the Migration process, before rebooting I see the following:
Did I just imagine this? Was it a dream? Or is this actually possible in El Capitan too?
In my office, I have an LG ultrawide display connected to my MBP (which is inside a Henge dock). The size of the display allows me to use multiple apps in Split View really well. I often use two Parallels VMs next to each other in this way, and that works really great.
I tried to downgrade from iOS 11 beta four to 10.3.3 and my iPhone 6 is stuck in recovery mode. I read I need to restore to an earlier beta to unstick the phone but can't find good links (I am not a registered developer with Apple). How can I download the .ipsw?
I couldn't access my admin account on Mac, so I pressed cmd + R to use Disk Utility. However, when I selected the internal hard drives->my Mac hard drive, I couldn't see an option to Repair the disc. So, I chose Restore MacOS option. Now, the login page comes and after I enter the password, the boot gets stuck at the end and suddenly shifts to an account named 'Other' and asks for Name and Password. I don't have 'Guest' or 'Other' account set up. Please tell me any way I can override this and get in my account. Thank you!
I have a folder called "AeroFS", and another one called "AeroFS Backup". "AeroFS Backup" contains everything that "AeroFS" contains, and more. I need to merge "AeroFS Backup" back into the "AeroFS" folder, but not overwrite ANY existing files, even if they are newer. I'm not particularly comfortable with terminal commands, but may give them a try. Is there a free app that can do this without overwriting existing files at all?
I want to move all my data from one device to another with iTunes. The issue is - I can't disable encrypt iPhone backup, cause I don't remember my pass. Is it possible to do that without password?
I installed Kali Linux on a partition on my MacBook Air 13-inch Early 2015 model, but unfortunately something went wrong and I corrupted my hard disk. But that's a separate story.
I shot a video with an iPad recently for a school project. My teacher told me the iPad shoots at 30 fps, but opening the video afterwards VLC tells me the frame rate is 29.970030. By watching the video and stepping through the frames, how can I calculate the exact time duration between 2 frames?
I asked Siri on my Mac "where is X?" and she answered: "X is not on your find my friends list".
I use two external screens with the Thunderbolt ports of my Macbook. I organize the two external screens on the left and use the Macbook screen as the rightmost one.
I always open a program accidentally by clicking too fast within the Dock. I thought that maybe I am the only one having this problem, but my spouse recently got a Mac and keeps complaining about the same issue. This is especially annoying if you have programs who need some loading time like Photoshop or Office. Is there any way to configure macOS to open programs only with a double click from the Dock?
My typical login looks like this:  But when I start screen, I get just a bare bash environment - no environment variables, aliases, etc:
Some how my Cmd L shortcut is assigned to another thing. How can I make it default so that it will focus on address bar in Chrome?
I can't seem to get Tkinter to work on Sierra. I have tried various versions (Apple, Homebrew, Active) of Python 2 and 3 with various versions of tcl/tk (also Apple, Homebrew and Active) but I cannot find the right combination and/or the right way to install the bundle. Whenever I bring up a Tkinter file dialog and select a file the Python launcher hangs. Anyone got this to work?
Macbook pro hard disk not getting detected now. Earlier recovery process initiated showed up partitions but now not visible.
Is there anyway to install macOS Sierra and Windows 10 on external SSD drive? I bought a new T3 250GB Samsung external USB 3 drive. I want to install macOS on 100GB partition and Windows 10 on other 100GB partition for max speed on all OSes . Bootcamp only offers internal HDD drive of my iMac and Windows 10 can't install on the USB drive without formatting the whole disk and which I will lose all partitions like the macOS partition .
I have an external disk that won't mount on my Mac: When I first got the disk (from a colleague) it would not mount. I saw that /dev/disk6s2 was set to Microsoft Basic Data so I assumed that was the problem. I ran sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk6s2 --settype "Apple_HFS" to fix that and now (as seen above) disk6s2 is set to Apple_HFS but it still won't mount. The output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk6 is:
Why does this error appear? I've been trying to download them but I can't. It's been a month. I can only see the pictures I took with the camera and not the one I saved to iCloud.
Every time macOS starts I am presented with a startup screen that doesn't display the profile image. How does one fix this?
If I use Notification Center's "Do Not Disturb" toggle, will I still receive Skype phone/video calls? I know this toggle will temporarily disable banners/alerts, as those notifications are actually routed through Notification Center, but calls have a popup dialog of their own.
Email is from info@meetup.com (the meetup website). Problem is I only want to be notified when 1 of about 100 emails/month arrive.
I need to add a folder to /user/username/Library/Application Support/Google, on a number of computers. Is there a way to do it with a UNIX command in ARD, so I don't have to touch each machine?
We have a Business Unit that has about 20 Mac's. From time to time, when we need to solve strange issues that are not configuration issues. I will often run "Onyx", and unless there is an underlying hardware issue, it usually solves the problem. I run the Automation, and have it rebuild just about all the caches.
I have macOS Sierra installed on a external SanDisk SSD. I use it for school & work related stuff. I plug it into my MacBook Pro via USB and I boot into instead of the actual HDD that is installed in the laptop. At the end of the day I pack up my stuff and go home. What I do is turn off the laptop and then unplug the SSD. This is getting quite annoying and I was wondering if it was okay to put the macbook to sleep and then disconnect the SSD. Once home I would plug back the SSD again and wake the macbook. Would that cause any errors?
I got the following phishing email from “Apple”: Your ApрIe ID ( xxx ) was used to sign in to other device. Date and Time: 16 August 2017, 04:28 PM (GMT+10) Operating System: Linux If you have not logged in recently and feel someone is logged in to your account ,go to ApрIe ID ( Verification your account ) and update your account. ApрIe Suρρort The “Verification your account” text contains a hyperlink to https://t.co/ccFy4cn8jr?=redirect.
During an update of my iPhone through iTunes, an error message appears on my computer screen and since my iPhone 7 is just flashing slowly from black to white with the Apple logo. I tried everything but not avail, it's just flashing and flashing. Does anyone know how I can resolve this?
I want to take pictures of people I meet and add their name to the picture quickly and easily so I can move to the next person right away. Quick and easy is the key!
tl;dr: Is there a list of serveradmin command *:* commands ? On mac servers, serveradmin can be quite useful; especially when sending commands to its services, such as serveradmin command smb:command = getConnectedUsers
Some USB devices do not appear when plugging them in through the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter from Apple, but other devices do. My iPhone and a newer flash drive work just fine through the adapter's USB port, but my GoPro and an Android test phone are not recognized by my 2017 15" MacBook Pro. Could this be an issue with USB 2.0 devices? How can I get these devices to be recognized by my computer when plugged in through the USB-C adapter?
I bought a cheap USB mouse with 2 additional buttons, the ones that you can click to go back and forward when surfing etc. I'm wondering if it's possible to bind one of those mouse buttons to another key on the keyboard? Scenario: I press mouse 4, and it clicks on number 1 on the keyboard. I'm on MacOS Sierra.
I have a folder on a NAS drive connected to my wifi router with some mp3 files. Is there a simple way of playing them on mac with shuffle turned on? Can I use some lightweight mp3 player other than iTunes like Winamp. I tried running winamp under wine but it doesn't run on my current macbook laptop. I don't want to use iTunes as it will make a copy of the songs in its library. Thank you.
I'd imagine that I could effectively code an AppleScript to "write to a Notes document," by triggering mouse clicks and key presses. But, I am curious if writing to a Note can be done, in a "proper" fashion.
I use BBEdit to write and test Python scripts, and I usually run the scripts in a terminal process, with the "Run in Terminal" command. Is there a way to have the terminal process opened by BBEdit stay "active", after the script is completed? I would like not to have the
I figured there was no way I could find my iPhone, so I hit Erase. 3 days later I got a message saying my phone was erased. Is that a lie, because my phone had a different iCloud password on it than when it was stolen? It was running iOS 8.
If I block a number from my old iPhone without a SIM card, does that block the number on my new iPhone with SIM card? This is a replacement iPhone for my broken one.
My 2015 MacBook Pro uses wifi from a 4G dongle. Some process or application is regularly making large download requests, which are very expensive over 4G - it recently used $60 of data in a single day, for an unknown purpose. How can I detect (and disable) these processes? To demonstrate, I rebooted and immediately opened Activity Monitor (so I'd have an accurate measure of the network activity), then used the laptop for an hour or so (but without constantly monitoring the activity). The total Data Received is 428Mb (confirmed on the wifi dongle), but the cumulative network traffic of the processes listed is far less than this:
I have iPhone 4s and it becomes slowly day by day so I decided reset (format) my phone and reset it as a new iPhone. Then I began to install my essential apps. It's comes to know that my iPhone got unexpectedly shutdown, while making a call, during the conversation with messenger or regular phone call. The iPhone also getting very hot and battery draining very quickly. It was in rather good condition except slow. To make it fast I'm facing this problem. Please help me if there are any remedy? It's running with iOS Version: 9.3.5 ( 13G36 )
I have a big MS word file. I want to delete all words in the file except the bold and italic using terminal command. Is it possible?
I have a late 2013 27 inch iMac with a 3 TB Fusion Drive with macOS Sierra installed. I partitioned my drive right down the middle, so 1.5 TB on either side.
I have a headset which has separate headphone and microphone jacks (both 3.5mm) that I would like to do some recording with. I initially thought, just plug headphone into headphone and micrphone into line-in and it would all work. Needless to say, I didn't get any sound from the microphone. After reasearching, I discovered that the line-in is for amplified sources only, not basic microphones and that the mic needs to be ran through an amplifier first. Alternatively, I could get an adaptor which combines the 2 jacks into 1 and plug it into the headphone plug as I understand that it can pick up mic inputs. I don't have any adaptors and in the past (on PC) I've been able to run a mic through a line-in and use software to amplify and reduce noise to get a mic to work and record.
I need to transfer all apps from iPad 1 (without cellular) to another iPad 1 (with cellular). My eldest son plays some child's app on my old iPad 1. My younger son grown up so he want's to play this games too. As I have another one iPad 1 I wanted to install this apps on it. But they are don't support iOS 5 any longer. So I'm looking way to clone old iPad.
I'm new to macOS and trying to set it up. I have my config files in Google Drive, whose names start with dot.
Is there a way to recover files deleted from iCloud if an offline iPad still has them locally? Would renaming the local files on the iPad prevent them from being deleted once the iPad is synced?
I'm using MacBookPro13,2 that have a processor with two cores. When I run a software that consume a lot of CPU, Activity Monitor shows the software using more than 200% of CPU.
I had partitioned my MacBook into macOS and Windows when I bought the laptop. I gave my laptop to get the fans and keyboard replaced. It was working fine for two days until I rebooted it. The startup chime is heard and the Apple logo with the progress bar shows up, but 3/4th along the way the laptop shuts down. I was able to access my Windows partition though and had tried several ways to restore only the Mac side including performing Safe Boot (Shift Cmd V), resetting NVRAM and using Recovery Disk which showed a leaf count error and I had no idea to fix this. Was there a way to fix this without losing all my data on the macOS partition?
I have been trying to create some kind of script to automate the move of around 408 items sizing about 1.5 TB. What I am wanting to do is create a folder based on the filename, but exclude the extension, then move the original item with the same name into the folder. All files have different extensions, and also have periods throughout the name. It need to run as either a shell script or AppleScript, as it will be running under launchd after the initial move is done for automated moves of files. Is there a good way to go about this? (Even not using AppleScript). I don’t mind using the shell or any other method that is suggested.
Edit: This is a nightmare! After copying all the folders again, Google place all the emails in the "Drafts" folder on Google mail, but on Mac Mail, it doesn't show them there at all.
I'd like to create Smart Folders in the Finder favorite bars that I can access from different applications. Those Smart Folders will mostly contain regular folders of current projects I'm working on.
With last update Apple rejected my app, because I have donation process with PayPal through Safari. They said to implement in app mechanism. But is it possible for users to donate with In-App with amount the user want? I would like to avoid creating Purchase Items for every amount I want to use.
I'm having this weird problem with my imacs not being able to contact postfix. My macbook and iphone work fine, and they are on the same network. Iphone had similar problems for a while, but magically seems to have been solved (i switched to port 465 and back to 578 that did the trick). This is what i see in the server log when i attempt to setup a mail server account with them:
I know that I can use separate Apple ID's for iCloud and the App Store. However does this make them totally separate? In other words, if I am using different Apple ID's for iCloud and the App Store, will iCloud still be able to see the apps I download and will iCloud be able to see that I've logged into a different Apple ID for the App Store? (assuming I never backup my phone or restore a backup)
Here's a weird one: after a Samsung 840 pro 512gb has defaulted this week (applications didn't open, files couldn't be accessed any longer), I bought a Samsung evo 1TB SSD and installed it in my Macbook Pro. I restored from a time machine backup which worked fine.
I was traveling by air very recently, and once I got home I noticed that the button on my iPhone 6 seemed to be more deeply recessed. After a while I realized that this did not make any sense mechanically, so I removed the Rhinoshield phone protector and discovered that the screen of my phone was slightly pulled off!
I would like to print out the lists and tasks that I maintain in the Reminders app. I can copy the text or take screenshots and paste them to a program like Word, but… Is there an easier approach?
The behavior when booting from the FMS system (and when in single-user mode) suggests that the MBP is fundamentally healthy: mobo OK, HD OK, HD controller OK. I haven't tried swapping the memory, but I doubt that FMS would run successfully (and for hours) if the memory was flaky. What other troubleshooting steps could I try before consigning this MBP to the silicon graveyard? OP with an update on my MBP boot problem:
In the Activity monitor, under the tab Disk,  at the bottom center, there is a small graph which can be set to either IO or DATA
I often use the text-to-speech/screen reader feature of my iPhone. When a website does not use the html lang attribute, iOS chooses my standard language. That’s annoying on websites with foreign languages. I’m looking for a bookmarklet/favlet that changes/sets the lang attribute of the current website to the language of my choice. Does anyone know about such a tool? Or how do multilingual blind people act with this problem?
I take my Macbook out and about during the day and I'm often connected to my phone for internet access. I'm always careful to not watch videos or start any large downloads until I get home for obvious reasons. However, on numerous occasions I've got home, and started to use the internet freely, only to then realise I forgot to manually connect to my home (unlimited) network--that is to say I'm still connected to my mobile phone, blazing through my monthly allowance in no time. Is there any way to get my Mac to automatically (or perhaps with a prompt) disconnect to whatever network is was connected to, and connect to the new, designated network, whenever it comes into range?
How to disable Apple’s Two-Factor Authentication for macOS? Older Macs do not support Two-Factor Authentication. As a side-effect, a user cannot access their iTunes account in iTunes on any older Mac, and cannot buy music.
Just configuring a new MBP here and was wondering if there is anyway to set it up so on the lock screen you can log in with Touch ID OR the password. I can't enroll the fingers of everyone in my family. Thanks.
I'm new to Linux, and just installed Ubuntu 17.04 on a dual-boot MacBook. I'm having trouble with directories I'm creating on an hfs+ partition (created with gparted, so I can see files on it when booted into OS X). I'm assuming the confusion has to do with the hfs+ format being case-insensitive, but then, shouldn't it really be case insensitive, whether I'm working on it via Ubuntu or OS X? Here's the scenario: Created directory "DropBox" via Nautilus.
Every single time I open an email to address to my mom, I see this, and absolutely nothing I've tried will get rid of it:  This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't want to see porn spam in my auto complete addresses! There has GOT to be a way to turn this off! I've gone so far as to search for and eliminate every trace of every email originating from that address in my inbox, junk and trash, quit and restarted Mail and it's still there.
In terminal is there a way for Terminal to guess a file based on an incomplete file path? For example: Instead of /Users/me/foo1/foo2/foo3/foo4/TargetFile, is there a way to just do /foo3/foo4/TargetFile? I want to be able to access the file no matter where it is. Thanks.
I have a java app that ships as a .jar file (it's mqtt-spy in fact). Currently I run it by double-clicking the .jar file in Finder, or from the command line:
I was curious if Word 2010 for Mac has a activity/history viewer for what there has been written/deleted in the document, like Google Docs has? So far I have not found anything, not even on the web (Googled it).
I'm new with using Pages, and testing it for writing a spec for a small software project. As the spec should be a frequently kept up-to-date document, I would like to have a textfield on the front page that says "Last edited dd.mm". If this text could be made to auto-update, for example on every save or just generally, this would be a major boon.
I want to save a thread of messages from someone, but I don't want them on my iPhone, only on my Mac. If I delete the thread on my iPhone, will that also delete it from Messages on my Mac?
I have this PHP old legacy code that I have inherited. There is hardcode references to /home/project everywhere I can not change them. I am on MacOS/Sierra and it will not let me create a folder in /home sudo mkdir /home/myproj mkdir: /home/myproj: Operation not supported I am not new to Linux but new to MacOS I tried sudo as well and still will not let me. I also thought maybe a symlink but still not allowed. I tried disabling SIP I still get the same error
I recently lost my iPhone. I have no SIM and no backups (either local, or in iCloud).
When I mute a group conversation in Messages (by enabling “Do Not Disturb” in the Details screen of the thread), I still get a notification with every new message. This happens regardless of whether everyone in the group is using an iPhone or mixed (non-iOS and iOS). This also happens when my phone is both locked and unlocked.
I was cloning someone's drive, it was named Macintosh HD, just like my my own. Eventually it showed up in Spotlight as Macintosh HD 1.
I see now often a new error when invoking brew. It works anyway, but I wonder how to fix Failed to set filetime on outfile: errno 1
I'm running iMovie 10.1.6 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on a brand new, 2017 MacBook Air. I have a clip which I want to flip/invert horizontally so that writing which currently appears with writing in reverse, so it is unreadable. I've read up a lot online and everything I find says I should select the clip, click on the icon above the clip preview which is like 3 overlapping circles and then select Video Effect and choose Flipped. However, when I click on the 3 circles icon, there is no Video Effects option shown, only Clip Filter and Audio Effect, so I don't know how to get this done.
I have a 1TB external hard drive. It was used as backup disk for Time Machine. But from one day, my Mac cannot recognise it. The problem may caused by my removing disk without ejecting it first. I can see the disk by diskutil list: And the results:
I have Windows 10 installed on an external harddrive, since my MBP only has a tiny ssd, where bootcamp or a full vm would be a pain. Now, I want to start Windows from my harddrive without booting into it. Essentialy I want to use it like a VM (running it alongside MacOS), but can’t figure out how. I do have parallels desktop installed, but can’t find a way to do that.
How can I return 1 when the fn is depressed and 0 otherwise? I found this page that claims it has a solution but it relies on an external shell script file (I'd rather have a pure AppleScript solution if that's possible) which I can't download because it redirects me through some weird dutch scam sites. The aim of this is actually to have a way of checking for function key + fn key combinations in ControllerMate, which doesn't seem to have a way to check if fn is pressed or not.
I get spam calls that begin with the same 6 digits as my own number. It's always a different number so I cant individually block them. Is there a way to block a whole list or a range of numbers?
I went through the steps mentioned in previous queries (which noted setting it up through Camera Upload file). Bought the upgrade on Dropbox to 1TB ($99 per year). iPhone had photos and videos "on" for uploading. You can't do video only. If you turn off photo upload it automatically shuts off video uploads. After uploading all photos it never got to uploading video to Dropbox. Help.
My MacBook was stolen over a month ago. I stupidly hadn’t enabled Find My Mac, so I was unable to track it. I’ve just had a notification saying that the stolen MacBook has logged into my iCloud account.
Oh my :( I mean wow......I mean how does one get hbase to work on mac os?
A couple of days ago I found some strange lines on my iPhone 7+. When sliding my finger over it I cannot feel any surface roughness. I think it's the Home button assembly that can be seen through the glass. I have had my phone since December 2016 and haven't noticed anything for a long time.
Press these keys on iPhone calculator: 5 + 5 =
Is there a way to change the sounds for notifications from a HomeKit device? I have a flood device and want to make sure I don't overlook a notice.
I have started a spreadsheet in Numbers. I need a way to somehow flag (both) a first name and last name if the name if repeated more than once. The first name and last name are separated by columns. We are a non-profit and need to flag a name if it is recorded more than one time. It can be flagged with a * or any type of symbol. How can I accomplish this in Numbers?
I miss the old OmniDazzle product from The Omni Group that let us transform the mouse pointer in a variety of ways, some silly but some quite practical. Worked well for highlighting areas of the screen to focus the attention of the audience during a talk or presentation. I'm looking to make the mouse pointer more obvious, or darken the screen while keeping one region bright, or drawing colored crayon/marker lines, and so on. Accessibility features I'm open to accessibility features in macOS that could work to focus the audience’s attention. Keynote features
During last few days, when I click on certain web pages and this strange URL comes for a second and then website gets opened. Is my safari browser infected with something, any steps to avoid this irritating url behavior. Happened on chrome once too. Edit: lengthy/detailed post on security.stackexchange , proposed solution is to modify hosts file.
I followed the steps explained in the URL below, but still the ipad is not turning on, charged using power adapter (not using laptop) for more than couple of hours and tried hard restart connecting to power and laptop. Still it is neither turning on nor recognized by itunes. I am worried. :( iPad won't turn on after a complete battery drain
Does anybody know how to change the default ringing sound of Skype for iOS? Their standard sound is too soft and hard to hear. I've complained to their support several times and asked on their forum - not a single answer! Am I the only one who wants a different ringing sound?
I have a number of mp4 videos with poor resolution and/or small dimensions (dimensions: 320 x 240) that I wish to play on my iPad (running iOS 10.3.3). When viewing the videos that have small dimensions in iCloud Drive, the video player in iCloud Drive makes the videos full screen, which makes the videos very blurry. How can I play the videos in their original dimensions instead of full screen?
My iPhone 6 had a problem where the screen stops responding to touch for a period of time. It always becomes responsive again after a while, although sometimes it requires a power button cycling.
MacOS Sierra asks for password whenever I plug in partitioned external drive which I do not want to happen. I have Macbook Pro 2016 running Sierra 10.12.6 with a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive. I partitioned the drive with 1.2 TB for backups (Time Capsule) and 800 GB for other stuff that I can share with my friends (Tachyon). I ultimately want to achieve the following: (1) Have Time Capsule for my backups which is encrypted;
I want to add text captions to some videos I am uploading to social media/Facebook. Is there a simple way to do this in QuickTime? Adobe Premiere is too expensive.
I tried restarting the computer. Disk encryption is on. The initial password screen (disk decrypt) screen is asking for her username's password. No way to select any other username. Can't have her unlock it because she's on a plane to Japan. I suspect this has something to do with filevault.
My iPhone 5 froze after the YouTube app failed to open. I've tried holding the sleep/wake button + home button down with no luck. Nothing happens. I'm able to slide down the Notification Center and type and search in the box but then I try to open an app and nothing happens. If I press and hold to activate Siri, she appears for a second then turns off as if I pressed the home button again. I've tried connecting the iPhone to a Mac but as it's passcode enabled it tells me to unlock it and then replug it which I'm not able to do.
I recently had my Macbook (early 2015) reset after a bootloader mess up I won't get into. When I got it back I found that it would no longer show bootable USBs at startup in the boot menu even though it definitely recognised them as seen in Finder. The BUSBs definitely work as they have been tested on other computers, namely Windows 7, Windows 10 and a Debian box I have. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Over the last couple of days, I've been opening my laptop (from a physically closed, asleep state), to find Chrome running. It's open, in the foreground, and usually has a little plugin dialogue asking me if I want to keep a chrome extension (asking for permissions).
I have a .mobileconfig that autoconnects OpenVPN whenever i leave home. Only traffic to my local network is routed through the VPN but it still blocks my internet connection on my phone until it is established. This takes a while sometimes and is quite annoying. Is there anything i can do to the config to allow internet traffic while connecting to the VPN?
I have to give my Macbook Pro to a service center for a few days to replace the display. Is it safe from the data perspective? Can they access it? (user login is password protected, but I think the data is not encrypted) Can they just take hard drive and copy everything? What should I do to avoid it?
I want to print to a printer attached to a Windows 10 machine. I tried setting up a workgroup then selecting the Windows tab for adding a printer, but this does not seem to work. It can submit a job to the print queue and I can see it on my Windows 10 machine, but it immediately disappears. Is there another method that I can use instead?
In macOS, I want to use (⌘ + Mouse Scroll Up/Down) for the System-wide Zoom: System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.  This keyboard mapping conflicts with LibreOffice Calc's "smart zoom" that also uses ⌘ + Mouse Scroll, which I use frequently.
Two months ago or earlier I've installed iOS 11 beta. Now I tried to get back to ioS 10.3.3. using recovery mode. I did back up on my PC but after IoS 10.3.3. installing restore back up failed - message: this back up corrupted or does not support .......How shall I proceed? Shall I return back to beta ioS 11? Thanks, Maira
I can't find a simple way to edit this within iBoks. What is the best possible solutions?
In Windows you can choose to just run the executable without installing it but I don't see this option in the Mac installer. You can run the TV Quicksupport module on the host on Mac without installing but I am asking about the controlling side. Before I have used TV via a web browser but this option appears to have been deprecated now. Thank you.
I have a problem with folder naming in macOS — I need to name a folder with *.Menu in the end. But if I do that Finder thinks it's some sort of a system file and not a directory. The same goes with *.framework. Is there some setting in Finder to turn off this behaviour?
Note that I am referring explicitly to the Mouse cursor speed – not the Trackpad cursor. I am looking to increase the cursor speed of my Logitech Performance Mouse MX (without the use of Logitech Control Center!).
I have a lab set up involving AP and DHCP, I am using my Macbook to connect to the AP and it requests a DHCP lease, however, when I change the network information on the router, the Macbook still keeps the obsolete information and has connectivity issues regarding the Internet. I have been removing the network manually and this seems to clear the cache and accepts the new lease. This is too time consuming though, is there a quicker way to clear the cache/lease so it can request a new address without having to 'forget' the network every time?
When I use App Exposé to look at thumbnails for all files open for an app (I use ⌃↓) the files appear in order of latest use. Is there a way to lock the order? For example, I'd prefer alphanumeric order.
I'm looking to buy an Apple Pencil for my iPad Pro 10.5". I find listings for two different model numbers: MK0C2AM/A and MK0C2ZM/A. Some listings, for example, on eBay have one model listed in the title and the other listed in the description. What is the difference between the two models?
I need some advice. I have my Macbook running MacOS High Sierra Version 10.13 Beta. I'd like to downgrade to MacOS Sierra, can someone please help me with resources, a link, or anything similar?
Is there a handy way to switch the settings back to whatever they were before? I know I could copy everything to a blank folder on my hard disk, then wipe the iPod and re-import it. I'd just rather avoid that time-consuming nuisance if I can help it.
In macOS Sierra, HTML5 videos running under Safari can be put in picture-in-picture. Which process does this run under (WebKit, Safari, Dock, Finder, WindowServer, its own process or something else)?
I am using ControllerMate to try to change what my volume buttons do. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how I can detect that the F11 or F12 keys are being pressed at the same time as the fn key. Originally I'd planned to combine an F11 keypress detector and an AppleScript that checks for the fn key.
I have a bin directory in my home directory, in which I store random shell scripts & such that I write to make my life easier. It's been a while since I had to change anything in there, but when I tried to add a new script, the directory permissions had been set to deny write & append to everyone.
I am running VirtualBox on a Sierra host using an Ubuntu 16.04.2 guest. I have a an encrypted /home directory on the Ubuntu VM and my $HOME directory is encrypted as well. I want to mount my $HOME or a sub-directory of it so I can edit source code with a graphical editor. I have setup my /etc/exports like this: When I try to mount it, I get the following:
Question was going to be: Why does my internal hard drive freeze up when I try to copy large files? Found answer to my own question and posting here to help anyone else with similar issues. I was experiencing similar error messages as those described here: Copying to external USB drive in Mac OS X 10.8.2 yields "Device not configured" and hard lock and similar symptoms as those described here: New Seagate hard drive freezes MacBook Pro.
Was given a MacBook Air (2013) secondhand, with one stipulation being that I delete the previous owner's info and items off of the Macbook before I started using it. Did that to Apple's specifications on their website, but whenever it boots into Recovery Mode and I click on reinstall Sierra, I get a "no bag entry" error after clicking go on the MacOS Sierra screen.
It started with me finding spotlight results from Mail when I searched for my notes. Apparently the content of hundreds of my notes are in my gmail account, according to Mail. I have not had notes sync enabled for that account for a long time.
I would like to take a Time Machine backup, under a folder called "Backups.backupdb" and click and drag it into Google Drive. I am wondering if this process will cause any hard links or anything like that to be deleted? My question basically is, if I were to upload it to Google Drive, then download it in the future, would it be readily usable as a backup to restore a computer?
I'm on Mavericks. I have shared a list in Reminders with someone, and have put in a lot of effort to make sure the list is in a specific order. Just now she opened the list up on her iOS9 phone and the order is completely scrambled. She also checked the list on her Mavericks machine and it's in a completely different, but also scrambled order.
The Weber iGrill iOS app dropped support for my model of thermometer. I didn't realize this until I had already updated the app. I was able to delete the new version and restore the old version from a backup, copy it to iTunes and sync it to my iPhone. (I still sync my iPhone through iTunes, not OTA.)
Macbook Pro 2011 A1278 13" OS X 10.9.5 I cannot connect to Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi symbol in the top right has a cross through it and when i click it says "Wi-Fi: No hardware installed". I've tried connecting to the internet via ethernet, when I plug in the ethernet cable it says connected under "network" but the internet doesn't work - pages won't load in safari, app store won't connect etc. I've tried resetting the NVRAM and SMC. Thanks.
I wanted to know if there is any chance to run an animated gif or somekind of video within a numbers table?
The iMac was put to sleep, and, obviously, there was no activity to warrant more backups. However, the control panel does say the it keeps “Hourly backups for the past 24 hours”, and that’s clearly not what’s happening.
I was having a problem with a pointer so after installing latest system updates with no effect on crazy pointer, I did a PRAM reset. From then on, a log in page has changed:
I just got a new MBP, and I bought a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, assuming I could use the VGA, DVI and Ethernet adapters that I already had, so I would only have to buy 1 adapter instead of 3 more expensive ones. The ethernet adapter doesn't seem to work, and I can't get picture using the DVI or VGA adapters. I'm having trouble finding documentation - is that setup supposed to work? If so, what should I check?
I used to have an iPhone 4s which is broken now, and I got an iPhone 4 from a friend who doesn't need it anymore. I made a backup off my whatsapp chats via iCloud Drive (which doesn't exist on iOS 7), so I can't use them on the iPhone 4. By reading the Whatsapp FAQ I get the impression that this might be completely impossible. Is there any way I can have my chats on the iOS 7 device? It doesn't have to be via iCloud, and I don't mind investing some time to try a few things. Any help is appreciated.
I have a Mac Mini running macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and Server 5 (5.3.1), and an iMac running the same software. Both are connected to the same router/DSL modem. The Mini hosts web pages that can be accessed from the outside world (including the iMac) at address *=URL=* without any problem.
I own two USB C to C cables from Apple. One of which I bought about half a year ago (this one) and one that came with my MacBook Pro 13 (Mid 2017). I've noticed that the cable that came with the MacBook Pro has feels a lot more rigid, thicker and plugs into my devices a lot smoother than the older cable.
I have two new Mac minis, which have Sierra installed. I need to install Yosemite and El Capitan on them. However, there is no old versions of the OS in the App Store. Can I download old OS from some old account that has these versions in the App Store and install on my machine? If yes, is this legal?
I came back to work this morning to find that Synergy is no longer working between my Mac server and a Windows client. The client is trying to connect, and the Mac is refusing the connection. Actual message: I confirmed or tried the following: Confirmed that Synergy is running on the Mac as a server. The server has the PC specified as a client. The name of the PC in the server configuration matches the name of the name of the PC. On the client, tried both autoconfiguration and explicitly entered the IP address of the server.
I'm using iTunes version 12.6.2.20 (latest) with a combination of local music, Apple Music, and iCloud Music Library. In iTunes, all playlists are always sorted correctly except for "Current Favourites" which is supposed to be sorted ascending but always reverts to descending on restart of iTunes or the PC. This ascending / descending reversion affects all playlists. On my iPhone, the playlists are always sorted correctly including "Current Favourites". What could cause this?
I feel like this is a known problem on High Sierra, but I can't delete my BOOTCAMP partition to gain "Free Space" and I also can't expand my APFS container that contains my MACINTOSH HD. It's like they've turned into seperate hard disks, and I can't move over the space from the old file system to the new one. This is what I find when I type diskutil list into terminal:
Yes, there are a million ways to control your Mac from your iOS device, but I want to do the opposite. The scenario is that I'm sitting at my computer, with my iPhone charging in a stand in front of me, and something on the device interrupts me. I want to respond in a second or two, without having to remove the device from the stand, or take my hands away from my keyboard and trackpad. I do not need to see the iPhone's screen on my computer's monitor.
On a Macbook Air Windows in Bootcamp was recently updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 now ctrl+alt+del to login does not work without a external keyboard. All three of those keys on the MBA's keyboard work fine once logged in but you can't login without a external keyboard. Any suggestions?
My Brothers iMac ignores that it was muted before shut down and makes the start up sound when it will be started again. This happened all of the sudden – normally you can avoid the start up sound by muting the Mac just before the shut down.
Is it possible to send a message to multiple people without any of them knowing of any other recipients (undisclosed recipients) through iMessage and through an iPod 5 (iOS 9.3.5)?
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running macOS Sierra (10.12.6). It came with a 1TB fusion drive. I recently removed that drive to replace it with a 960GB SSD. All is working fine except for two issues. The old fusion drive shows in the left column of Disk Utility (as APPLE HDD...). The old fusion drive shows in the left column of Disk Utility (as APPLE HDD...). If I restart while hiding down the option key, it shows up there too. If I restart while hiding down the option key, it shows up there too.
I have built a simple command line program with Xcode, and I would like to access the NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents method. It seems like the program must be trusted for this to work. How can I add a command line program to the list of trusted applications?
I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 I believe this happened for 3 times already. When I view a presentation (Slide Show Mode) at PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, there are times when it lags and freezes; I would be unable to move to the next slide or see my cursor. Consequently, the Mac restarted on its own and told me my it "restarted because of a problem." I got this report afterwards:
How do I find the Apple startup chime/sounds on my computer? I know there has to be someway for it to be stored, but I'd just like to be able to access the file/raw binary...
As we know, our Mac own a Mysql, under the /usr/local/mysql, it is a soft link from /usr/local/mysql-<mysql-version>-macos<macos-version>. But how can I find its configuration file? because in general, the mysql configuration file is named my.cnf. Whether or not the mysql configuration file is under the /usr/local/mysql/ directory? I find the directory use find ../mysql -name my.cnf
I have recently setup a cool Graylog server for myself which I have various machines now sending their log output to. It's great and is helping me a ton. I want to do the same with macOS. There are outdated instructions on how to do this with syslog on macOS, but I think they don't work because macOS is pivoting to Apple System Log over syslog.
I do not want all extensions buttons to show in the toolbar, and removing them is inconvenience when I need to see the buttons or configure them. Is there an "Extension button" that folds all the buttons in one button? So that the toolbar is not cluttered.
When I change default app, settings doesn't changing. I tested in another user and there all is perfect. Can I reset settings for default apps or something like that without removing user profile?
I'm trying to download the file *=URL=* and launch it with Jar Launcher (the default application). However, I'm getting this:
I'm trying to do a forensic analysis of an iPhone, saving a backup which is as raw as possible. Using iMazing, I can backup apps using <Copy to Mac>:
I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13 Beta (17A352a) on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015). Whenever I reboot my laptop it turns my backlit keyboard to full brightness and turns on display auto-brightness which I dislike. I have to go into system preferences and turn it off every time.
How can I find the panel for the website cookies in Safari? I can't seem to find it in Safari's Network panel:
Initially is was doing an online chat with an Apple advisor and I was told I will get a phone call, which I did. Towards the end of the call the support person asked me my admin account name and password, which I found odd for screen repair, but I did not provide.
I don't know why but recently all SD cards mount as Internal on my Mac  How do I solve this problem?
I have 6 email addresses that I send from in my mail client. Each address has a different signature block. When I save a message as a draft (after choosing which email it will send from so the appropriate signature is applied), the signature looks good. When I open the draft back up, it always goes back to a default signature. Any ideas on how to get the draft to accurately save the signature block each time? Thanks!
I am filming using the iPad, and find myself in need of a microphone for long-distance shots. And so, I think to myself, I will use the built-in microphone on my Bluetooth headset! I can pair up with the iPad, tape the headset under the shirt of an actor, and record video with the headset as the audio input! Or so I think.
I use speech recognition on OSX (due to disability). It has an annoying tendency to occasionallyTreat each utteranceAs a separateSentence. ^ That's the problem in action!I spoke four separate utterances(Or phrases if you like). ^ You can also seeIncorrect spacing/CapitalisationAt work. This is an intermittent problem.Usually it is fine! Is anyone aware of a solution?
I have a bluetooth headset paired with both my iPhone and my Mac. When I end a phone call on the iPhone iTunes automatically starts playing its current song on the Mac even if the Mac is locked with a screen saver. How do I stop iTunes starting?
Ok. So I recently got a Mac Pro (older version) from a very generous person. It rocks. All this time, I've had to use a crappy computer that I've run macOS on, that wasn't meant to run macOS. It was an unnatural and sinful act. Anyway, ripped the hard drive out and stuck it into my real Mac. Deleted the Clover boot loader, which acted like an immunosuppressant to keep macOS from rejecting the computer, but Wi-Fi still won't work, and I don't know what to do to rectify this.
I'm testing out a switch from Chrome to Safari, and there's a little thing that I could do in Chrome which I can't figure out the equivalent of in Safari. When I'm reading PDFs in browser (which I do a lot of for work), in Chrome I could jump to the top of the next page by pressing the right arrow key, and to the top of the current or previous page with the left arrow key. This doesn't seem to be working in Safari's integrated PDF viewer. Is there any keyboard shortcut to do the same behavior? All I can find is space bar, but that's less than ideal because it just brings me down one view (which often isn't very useful for actually reading).
I have been able to connect 3 external monitors to my MacbookPro. However when I started to arrange them in the Arrangement tab all monitors disappeared from the window. When I unplug one of the monitors the window fills again without any issues. Can't seem to get it working with all 3. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) Version 10.12.5
I'm developing onto Arduino and sometimes the USB port that is being used stops working. Then I need to plug the device into another USB port. Once all the USB ports stop working I have to restart the machine which is really annoying.
I'm experiencing an issue with my iPhone 6s. I've not used it for a while and now said i need to synch it with iTunes to unlock it. Once i connected it to my PC it turned out that there are too many authorised devices, so I just removed it from my account. At the moment i'm experiencing strange issue with restoring it - i put it in DFU mode, start the restoration process and as the soft is being downloaded (somewhere about 10 minutes form the beginning of restoration) my iPhone just reboots into normal mode, therefore iTunes asks for synch and stops restoration process. How may i manage to restore it?
I have i.e. a folder full with alias from everywhere on my system. Now I want to give exactly this files as the originals to an extern hard drive or what else. Is there a way to simply take these alias and copy their originals into a second folder?
I have two version of clang installed: one provided by Apple, and a new one installed by myself: Now, building the same project, with the same CMakeLists.txt file, from the IDE (QtCreator) runs the new compiler. Building it from the command line, the old one is launched.
My finalcut pro trial expired before I could export the movie I was working on. How can I import it into imovie?
For the past week or so my computer has been crashing at least once a day with the same error. I've wiped the drive and re-installed El Capitan but I'm still getting the same issue.
Story I have a MS Exchange account, where I have access to a second mailbox folder. In MS Outlook for Mac (15.33) I can add it and send/receive mails from it. Question How can I achieve this in Apple Mail 9.3 (3124) on OS X El Capitan? Some attempts I tried the following: Add delegates, as described here was not possible, since I cannot find "Delegates" option. Trying to add the folder as additional Exchange account did not work, as it says that the account already exists.
the macbook I use for work will very occasionally 'blink' or 'flicker' while using external machine connections such as the Terminal or programs that connect to databases (used for work). As a bonus, occasionally, if these connections are left open for too long, my Macbook screen will go white or white/black striped. At this point, the only way to effect this is to manually restart the laptop. Has anyone seen this before and does anyone have any advice on how to solve this or at least begin to diagnose the problem?
I currently have 3 user accounts in my iMac. One of them I use for work, the other for personal and finally one for my kids. The admin account is under the one for work. I have been backing up the entire iMac computer using Time Machine.
I'm running macOS 10.13 High Sierra on my 2011 15" MacBook Pro. Whenever I try to enable Location Services, the checkbox momentarily turns 'checked' and then goes back to disabled.
I sent "feedback" to Apple that when I type someone's name in Messages (both on iPhone and MacBook) a list of all their phone numbers appears as options to send to, but none show the iPhone or Mobile label I gave them. I've texted land lines a good number of times because of that. Also, in some of my Contacts, the text bubble doesn't show up next to a phone labeled iPhone. (Sorry, that's two questions, but I think they're related). Anyone find workarounds?
Recently when I was on my Mac I had turned off Bluetooth accidentally when I had meant to turn the WiFi off and back on (the WiFi was acting up). I logged off when I had to get off. And since my Mac keyboard is the default Bluetooth connected one that you get when you purchase it, it decided to not work.
Given an IPhone with the google authenticator app installed. How can one find out what google account is linked to the authenticator app? The goal is to backup the authenticator and move it to another device.
After upgrading my Mac to macOS Sierra (10.12.5), I upgraded FUSE for macOS (*=URL=* to the latest stable releases: FUSE for macOS 3.6.3 and SSHFS 2.5.0. But now this no longer works: /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810 exists: Apparently sshfs now requires sudo: But now /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is not visible without sudo: How do I make /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ (the directory I mount into using sudo sshfs) visible without sudo? Update (addressing SteppingHat's comment): Yes, the owner of /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is root: But this doesn't work: And note above, /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is visible after I create it using sudo, but not after sudo sshfs: Update #2 (in response to klanomath's "I've tested my alternative proposal..." comment on his answer below): Here's what happened when I tried klanomath's alternative proposal:
It's really important. I tried to find a person who took 1300 dollars from me. i know the date and time. I have a iphone 5. iOS version 9.3.4.
Here's my scenario: I have two MacBooks (macOS Sierra), one for work and one personal. On my personal Mac I accidentally deleted an iMessage with a friend. Lots of photos, etc. in that iMessage. However, I still have that iMessage on my work Mac. Everything is there.
I just got a new MacBook, and I won't be able to restore the files from my previous MacBook (which isn't with me) for a couple of weeks. That older computer has my music library and syncs with my iPhone. In the meantime I'd like to add a couple of albums from my new laptop if possible. Can I add those albums from iTunes without deleting all the music already on my iPhone?
I just had a situation arise where I have a single note that has a sensitive password in it, that I don't want shared in the cloud. I would like it to only be "On My Mac", which I recall being able to do in the past.
So to try and give a quick backstory, I've been learning Swift in hopes of reaching the goal of a released piece of iOS software. Now I know that you need to be a part of the developer program to do this, so I looked into it today. What I read and clicked through so I could get to the last step possible without actually paying, and I got to a page that said "You cannot enroll in the developer program right now." Is this a problem, or is Apple just fixing it right now? And here's a screenshot of the page, if it helps: .
I have a MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra (10.12.6). I have two user accounts, one for work and one for personal use. Both are signed in, with the work account having some Chrome windows, Eclipse and the development environment running, and the personal account having some Chrome windows.
Is there any keyboard shortcut to pause the video, that is being played in Quick Look Window ? Quick Look Window launches when we click space bar on file (say a video file) I can find the pause button at bottom left of Quick Look Window, but i have to use mouse to pause the video.
I have almost exactly the same issue as it was discussed here: my encrypted flash dongle does not accept the password that I KNOW goes to it (besides, typing a wrong password makes the dialog do the usual wrong-password shake animation, while entering the correct password makes the dialog freeze for a while, like this:  However, the provided solution (launch Disk Utility, try to verify/repair until Disk Utility will mount the disk) doesn't really work: there doesn't seem to be a slightest moment when Disk Utility could mount it – instead, it verifies the disk, says it must be repaired, I press the Repair button, it checks/waits a bit, asks for password, freezes after it was entered, and then simply denies the password (and I will repeat, the password is correct, the keyboard layout is right, no caps lock is on, no additional spaces get pasted, whatsoever) – and the whole routine just goes on, and on, and on.
I love iCloud Tabs sync in Safari but, in one of my Macs, the button keep disappearing. I mean, normally I have it but, sometimes, after some days, the button disappear and I can't find it anymore, then it reappear randomly after some time... Does someone know the reason?
We organise our work by so called job numbers. However, Finder search on macOS El Capitan does not always find file/dir names. I managed to establish the following pattern: 1: works 12: works 123: works 1234: fails 1234_: fails 1234_t: works 1234_te: works 1234_tes: works 1234_test: works
The relate resource. I opened all of the right tabs, no one like Chrome's Network Preview tab.
Will I be able to create a Bootcamp partition that I can boot into from Parallels once I've upgraded to High Sierra?
Last week I reinstalled my Macbook because of problems with Filevault. I did a fresh install, new library and all. Now I see that I missed one document folder, and I want to restore it from backup. I attached my Time Machine disk, created by the old installation, and was asked if I wanted to use this as backup disk, which I want, so I agreed. First I got the message that I wanted to make an encrypted backup on a disk that was not encrypted, now I see that TM is decrypting the backup. What is going on here?
If I'm looking at a contact record, is there a field or icon that can appear to let me know the record is in one or multiple different groups?
A few months ago, I made it easier to run scripts I'd written by creating a .bashrc file. It worked for a while, but it has not worked in a few weeks. As the Terminal snippet below shows, the file apparently does not run when Terminal is launched. I haven't changed anything that should affect this. Is there a Terminal preference that non-intuitively has this effect? Does use of 'homebrew' override?
I recently quit kernel_task because it was taking a lot of cpu time, when I was about to force quit it it says you will be logged out but I did not care but then after I force quit it I thought does it disrupt the system? PS. Is quitting the kernel_task same as logging out?
I have a Pop Up Button in Xcode with multiple choices, they are All, 1, 2 3, etc. to 15. In my AppleScript code I call it ItemPicker:
It's like PhotoBulk, however I could compress photos inside Photos.app Because Photos Library takes me more than 30G, and I've noticed that many photos are not compressed.
As per the title I'd like to configure the preference entitled Group windows by application which is found in Preferences > Mission Control. Most settings seem to have something like But i can't seem to find one for this setting.
After I create an app (Optimize Application) and try to launch it I receive the following error: /Users/Mac/SPI/Reader Plat/Start Irule Client.app/Contents/Resources/script: /Users/Mac/SPI/Reader Plat/Start Irule Client.app/Contents/Resources/script: is a directory My shell-script is the following: How to solve the issue and successfully launch the app?
There are many tutorials that show how to use SoundFonts on GarageBand. (Source) However, when I do step 5 on this page, no dropdown menu appears (and nothing happens).
I am creating an app by Platypus. Is there any way to add description of an app that would be visible in About menu? Or how it might be done?
In the movie "Steve Jobs" with Michael Fassbender, it is implied that Jobs started NeXT, not to sell hardware, but to develop a new OS and have Apple buy the company, only for the OS. We all know the history and know that this is exactly what happened.
In Spotlight, you can set what types of items you want to be indexed and searchable. Most of the options are fairly straightforward: "Contacts" searches your contacts, "Images" for images, and so on. However, there are two options that I don't understand: "Other" and "Developer".
macOS Sierra introduced us to the ulimit-Justin-Bieber-restriction. Thanks, Apple!
Several pop-ups have recently begun appearing on my MacBook screen. They coincide with my attempting to update Adobe Flash Player. I suspect I was careless. I have never seen pop-ups constantly appearing on my Mac before. They have no name, so I cannot easily search for where the program is residing and get rid of it. Does anyone recognize these who would be able to instruct me on how to locate and eradicate?
My friend has a 2011 iMac from his Dad, we play a computer game which has had an update which now means his old OS wouldn't run it, it needs at least Mountain Lion, so after lots of research he took the plunge and bought Mountain Lion from the Mac Store for £20... however once he received the email with the download link and pressed it, it asked for a password... however the login account does not have a password and his Dad does not know what the password could be... Is there a way to download this new OS system which we have paid for without the password?
I recently had to retire my ancient print server because of hardware issues. It was running CentOS 7. I was printing to a Brother MFC-7220. I replaced it with a server running Debian Jessie. I am trying to set up the print queues on my iMac and two MacBook pro laptops, all running Sierra 10.12.6. When I try to print, CUPS on the Debian server reports
For some reason, I discovered I have an old iCloud email that is associated with my account. However, the section of the email before the domain (XXXX@icloud.com) is based on a retired AOL email that I haven't used in about 10 years. How do I either delete this email from my account (unsure what this is associated with as a side note, my Apple ID?) or change this email if I am forced to keep it?
For example, if I have 2 monitors and 3 opened browser windows, and I want to click a link on inactive window I have to click 2 times—first to activate a window and the second time to click a link. Is there a way to make all viewable windows active so that they respond immediately to mouse clicks without having to be focused first? I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
I had a USB thumb drive with two partitions, an HFS+ (journaled, encrypted) partition with around 118GB of space, and a second partition that was added using Disk Utility that was EX-FAT with around 10GB of space. I originally only had the first partition, and used Disk Utility to resize it and add the second partition. I was running Windows 10 in Parallels, inserted the USB drive and directed Parallels to use it in the Windows 10 VM.
Specs: Early 2011 15" Macbook Pro (Sierra). RAM upgraded October 2016, 16GB Corsair RAM upgraded October 2016, 16GB Corsair SSD upgraded July 2016, 256GB SanDisk SSD upgraded July 2016, 256GB SanDisk Battery replaced January 2016 Logic board replaced February 2016 (replaced as result of qualifying for the gfx card recall.) Basically a year old computer Problem:
Basically the function of this script is to convert a video file to Apple TV compatible format and then delete the original files after the conversion is complete. I'm absolutely at my “whits end”. For the past three hours I've tried every possible combination I could think of to get the conditional statement at the end of the script to function correctly.
I have a PC version of the USB Kinesis Freestyle keyboard. It've used these keyboards for years with my Macs and they work very well for me, but I have never used the block of keys along the left-hand side.
I've been having some trouble mounting my Buffalo DriveStation (HD-GDU3). This has happened on and off with previous versions of macOS, but I'm trying to solve the issue once and for all.
Macbook Air - Thunderbolt port iMac - MiniDisplay Port Cable Used - Thunderbolt cable
I made an iPhone backup on someone else windows computer and now need to send it to my Mac to restore my iPhone because it got bricked. If I simply send the file over a torrent and put it in the backup folder on my Mac's iTunes, will I have any trouble with restoring my device? I'm worried the format that iTunes on windows uses is different then on Macs'. follow up question: Is there a better way then a torrent to send a file about 50gb?
In a range of cells, is there any way of counting the ones with certain background color?
I have a Macbook with 256GB as I'm studying I have a huge amount of documents piling up, taking more and more space. Most of them I'd like to keep, still often I don't need them so often.
I don't deleted the files, my External USB Hard Disk is not broken, it not suffered fall.  On the second image you can check the size of the HD 1TB with 2nd partition Size of 999.9GB, but on the first you can see 649.69GB.
My launching shell script is the following: How I created the app by Platypus. The process is simple: I set my shell-script and add all my resources. Also I can set up the icon. And I add Credits.html to allow About description as said in documentation:
This behavior surprised me because I assumed "initialize*, erase, and format were all synonyms. I guess they're not. So what's the difference? How can one force the initialize dialog to appear?
I got WS.Malware on my Chrome since yesterday. I installed MalwareBytes but it could not detect it. It opens random phishing pages. How do I get rid of it?
I'm planning to buy a 64GB SD card to supplement the storage on my MacBook Air 128GB (early 2015) I wanted to know if I can move my Xcode and android studio to it as both have them take a significant part of the memory.
I've looked around for a bit but i wasn't able to find any app to track roller skating. The only app that i found is iSkate but it's pretty outdated and it costs about 10€ that it's too expensive to me.
I have a battery-emoji in my prompt when the laptop is on battery power. Because this is a double width char and iterm has issues with it, my prompt is broken. One char after the prompt sign is swallowed because iterm calculates wrong terminal width.
I've got a 13" MBP late 2016 (the first with the touchbar). I've also got two Dell U2715h daisy chained. The issue is that the U2715h's are being mirrored, and macOS isn't detecting multiple displays.
A few weeks ago, the left speaker on my MacBook suddenly "popped" when I received a notification. The volume was not high and no music was playing. It seems that the speaker was overdriven and pretty much self-destructed. It sounded like a very loud bang and the speaker never worked correctly again afterwards. The moment it happened, I noticed a fair amount of heat coming out of the part of my MacBook's chassis where the speaker is hosted. As this failure was not my fault (I was not playing any sounds at a volume you'd consider reckless), it was replaced by Apple under Warranty. Since I now have a fully functional MacBook again, I'd like to enjoy its speakers but I'm very wary of the fact that they're vulnerable. Are the 2017 15" MacBook Pro's speakers designed to withstand playing music (primarily Electronic Dance Music in my case) at the maximum volume with negligible wear to the speaker? Given that I generally play music no louder than at 50% volume, will this reduce the risk of dam
Unfortunately I have to use an old OSX10.3 System to access files on a Debian Server, that used Samba 4.2 on Debian Jessie. Since the update to Debian 9 (stretch) the access is not possible any more: I can select the shares, but cannot connect. Although other Windows Clients can Access like before. What has changed in the update from Samba 4.2 to 4.5? Last working version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 New version: 2:4.5.8+dfsg-2+deb9u1+b1 My Scanner also had no write access at the start, but I found out, on the update the smb configuration was changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf This config options works for Windows and the Scanner: (user myself must exist in /etc/groups and I added the log level 3 to get more output in /var/log/samba/log.myIP) In log.smbd I get the error when I try to tconnect to the share from the mac: although i didn't specify any folder yet. I get the same error when trying to connect on the console with
At first I thought it was just Chrome, but I've tried Firefox just now and it's just as slow registering map movements, clicks etc. It also feels like it gets slower the longer you spent time on those websites.
I have a friend who needs to get SMS messages and imessages from an old phone to a new phone. I understand that restoring the new phone using a backup of the old phone will acheive this. But this can't work in his situation because the backup is tied to the find my iphone on his ex wife's account. If he restores that backup his phone constantly asks for the password of his wife's icloud account. He cannot get that information. He has tried third party software with no success. Is there a way to get the messages off one phone onto another without doing the restore backup. OR, is there a way to prevent the backup tied to the wife's find-my-iphone from being bricked by requiring the wife's icloud password.
For some reason I have a specific color setting in Mac MS Office 2016 (see attached screenshot). When I get a new device, I have to manually set that again. Is there a away to get it in some file that I can easily "re-install" these settings on new devices?
As I use cmd+alt+h shortcut most of the time, I'm trying to find any way to change its default behaviour in mac, so my other windows won't be hiding on this keys. These shortcuts are not listed in settings and my searches so far haven't brought any results. Any way to do this?
When I open an image in the Preview app on a Mac I get a low quality view of the image until I select: View > Actual Size option, then the image looks very good. I have noticed the browsers also open the image with that low quality. I have tried to save the image in Preview and Seashore (Another free app =>) after selecting the actual size option trying to preserve the quality, but the browsers again open a low quality image. Is there a way to save an image to PNG as it looks after the Actual Size option is selected in Preview?
when you use find my iphone to locate a macbook does it notify the macbook that you are online? If I sign into Find My Iphone on my phone and my macbook is in use by someone else, will they see that I have signed in?
Straightforward question: Is there a way to flip the buttons so the minimized control strip appears on the left and opens to the right, and so the escape button is stuck to the right of the bar? I constantly find myself accidentally hitting the buttons on the right since they are so close to the delete button. Essentially, I'd like to mirror the two segments (control strip and esc button) of the touch bar shown below:
I have multiple email accounts that I have configured in the mail app. Is is possible to turn the synchronisation off selectively for one or two accounts?
I'm looking for an app for my mac that automatically rearranges apps when I plug in to an external monitor. An app that let's me arrange windows in certain positions and save them as configurations that I can select later to reposition them.
I am using differents Unix in VirtualBox on my Macs (MacBook Pro, iMac). I have standard QWERTY keyboards so as to be able to type fluently: English French German UNIX shell programming languages: C, Perl, make With the standard Apple keyboard mapping I am able to type very quickly: This mapping is:
I have an iPad using Safari as a browser. As you can see I have a very long list of History and/Favorites in the left hand column. There are hundreds of duplicates. I can get rid of the 1 at a time but I've already deleted several hundred. Is there any way to delete them all at once? Or find a way to stop duplicating them.
I have an iPad mini 2 Wi-Fi, model ME280BZ/A. It is currently running iOS 10.3.3. For testing purposes, I need to downgrade the iOS to 9.3.5. I have tried several ipsw files, but all seem to be unsigned and therefore iTunes cannot restore the system.
My Early 2011 15" MBP non-retina will not enter standby mode correctly. Meaning, when inactive for a few minutes, rather than just turning off the display, it goes into sleep mode, causing network shares to disconnect. I have the Energy Saver settings set to never sleep while on power This is a big problem for me, since I use NAS shares to store much of my work. Is there a way to either A) Disable sleep mode while plugged in (because usually when I need the shares up I'm plugged in) OR B) Configure macOS to keep AFP shares connected while in sleep mode I am running 10.13 High Sierra Beta
Does anybody know if it's even possible (I mean, osx providing the means/apis) to automate (using any automation tool, like Automator, Keyboard Maestro, Alfred, etc) the following sequence of actions? given two monitors, Left (L), Right (R) given that the Target App (T) is in L and the Source App (S) has the focus and is in R Swap S and T locations and focus, that is at the end of the action: T has focus and is in R S is in L in the location that T originally was T has focus and is in R S is in L in the location that T originally was
I am trying to ensure that all traffic from application running in the system is routed through a system proxy. I have set a SOCKS5 proxy server in Network Preferences (Advanced -> Proxies -> Socks5 Proxy).
I recently purchased a 15" 2017 MacBook Pro and when doing the same operation all the drives show except for the Windows one. I'm obviously trying to boot into Windows 10 to change the Boot Camp drivers on that install so that I can use it with my new Mac (and only my new Mac)
I have just bought a MacBook Pro yesterday. I have downloaded and installed VMware and Google Chrome. Today I see some sort of icon looks like a stretcher. That ask to search about any program but it doesn't show any thing after search. I can't remove that. :(
On my Mac, I seem to accidentally trigger the long-click on the dock icons a lot, which opens the context menu (right-click menu). Is it possible to disable this behavior?
I use the text to speech feature a lot. Sometimes, after I put the macbook to sleep and come back to it the feature no longer works. I would have to shutdown/restart the computer in order for the feature to work. Is there are a way to restart/enable text to speech without restarting the computer?
I currently own a 32 GB SanDisk flash drive with a FAT32 file system. It's been reliable for years, and on my MacBook Air 2013, I've never had any issues with it. However, I am unable to connect it to my MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar running macOS 10.12.6. After some further investigation, I found that the FAT32 file system seems to be causing the issue, considering that ExFat-formatted flash drives successfully appear in Finder while my own FAT32 drive does not.
I just purchased a non-Apple router (a pfSense SG-1000 device by Netgate). As a contingency plan in the event I would forget my web interface password, to then save my bacon, I want to be able to connect it to console in spite of the fact I do not do Linux and equivalent. The advice I found on the device website seems rather complex: Install an appropriate CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP driver on my Mac; Use a Terminal program (screen, or ZTerm, or cu, but not Terminal); Use Terminal to locate the port and connect to it.
Many of my apps I barely use but still need use up some of my cellular data. I would like to turn the data of for certain apps, but as you can see in the picture it looks ,in a way, tinted. It won't let me turn off the data on the apps or turn it on for apps. I don't know if I'm supposed to click a certain thing somewhere else in the settings.
I'm trying to create a symbolic link on my new MacBook that references a shared folder -- similar to dropbox, but on Box. Everyone on my team has created the symbolic link to be "C:/Bsync". On my Windows PC I used the following code: but how do I do it so that my Box Sync folder on my mac (path: /Users/Nina/Box Sync) refers to C:\Bsync? I tried this in terminal but it didn't work: ln -s "Users/Nina/Box Sync" "C:\Bsync"
I know I probably could just merge my iTunes Media folder from old pc to a new one, but that's just files and folders. But where does it keep info about what to sync to your specific device anAd what not? I am afraid that without that info it'll just erase my iPod contents and would try to sync my whole merged library to it. Is there some database or some ways to export without overwriting current iPhone sync data on the target iTunes? Both laptops in question have windows 10 installed.
I really depend on the keyboard shortcuts for cleaning up a finder folder like OptionCommand1 for clean up by name and OptionCommand2 for clean up by kind. Frequently, though, I'll come to a folder that doesn't respond to each of these. I've found that I can 'wake it up' by simply clicking (opening) the View menu. I can reproduce it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpXmrlOKSS0
I'm interested in using the built-in wireless sniffer (accessible from Wireless Diagnostics by pressing Cmd-Opt-6) as a part of a script. Is there a way to control it via scripting, maybe AppleScript? I need to: start the sniffer change the channel and bandwidth settings output to a file (as usual)
Let's say on my network there is a hacker who floods my computer with arp messages to associate his MAC address with the IP of the computer I want to reach. It's like he sends the following message continuously (100 packets per second) to my computer: the following does not work, I end up with the two association in arp -a: Is it possible on macOS to drop the arp packets from the hacker?
I have a my contact list on my PC, formatted as a table in Word (.doc). Is there a convenient way to transfer this info into my iPhone 7+ contact list other than manual data entry?
Every time i restart my computer (macbook pro 2017 touch bar, sierra 10.12.6), the Finder's favorites resets the custom sorting. I want the Desktop icon to be first. I already deleted both finder and sidebarlists files, but didn't work: I've created a new user on my laptop and there the reordering stays put after the killall Finder / reset test (see below). Any ideas? Steps: Open a Finder Window On the Favorites list (left), move the Desktop icon to the top Run the "killall Finder" on the Terminal Open a Finder Window Desktop icon is back to default
I want to create a list of my Safari bookmarks (folder, webpage title, and URL) to put into Numbers or a database app. This will help me find duplicates, tell me where a certain bookmark is, and keep from saving bookmarks again and again.
How would I get a listing of all the time zones that Apple has on macOS. For example: Pacific Daylight Time Central European Standard Time etc.
I want to donate my old IMAC to a refurbished store. I want to wipe my hard drive. The problem is the power supply went out so it won't boot up. I think I can wipe the HD with a strong magnet like putting the computer on a speaker. But I want to make sure that I wipe the drive. Does anyone know where the HD is located on the IMAC so I can located it without opening it up? Also how strong a magnet and how long to apply the magnet? Thanks in advance for any help
Terminal works just fine in my admin account, but won't open a terminal window in any of my regular user accounts. If I choose Shell > New Window > New Window with Settings, I get the following "Internal error": macOS 10.12 Sierra
I'm a developer (but not a network guy) and I often need my MacBook Pro and PC working together to do mobile apps coding/debugging. As of late, on my home network, my Mac has started to get an IP address on the wrong net (192.168.0.X). The Mac and PC is connected to the same switch but the PC gets IP 192.168.2.X, which is correct. I've tried specifying the router on the Mac as 192.168.2.1 but it still gets a 192.168.0.X address. I'm out of ideas and would love any hints at what might be going on (and how to correct it).
I have bought an old iMac G5 (A1145, iSight 20") from a friend and there was no OS installed on it. So now I want to make a clean/new OS X installation. I created an install USB (with Tiger 10.4.6) and boot from it. The Installer went well but there was no HDD to select at [Select a Destination] screen. So I opened Disk Utility (DU) to see what happened and found that DU did not recognize my HDD instantly, I had to wait about 10 minutes or more and finally DU can see it. I tried to erase the disk but it took so long to operate and showed the error message "Disk erase failed: operation timed out". I guessed that the HDD may get damaged so I bought a new SATA HDD (Seagate, 160GB, 7200rpm) and replaced it with the old one. Try to boot from USB again and now it stuck at the grey screen with the Apple logo (no spinning icon). Update: Try to replace the new HDD by the old one again and I can boot into the Installer, but there still no HDD to select either in [Select a Destination] or [Disk U
I use multiple sound inputs and outputs. For example, for outputs I have my internal speakers, Air Parrot, and Bluetooth speakers. For inputs I have my internal microphone, Line In, Air Parrot, and a Bluetooth microphone. To switch between these I go to Sound Preferences and select either the Output button or Input button and then select the device I want to use and then close the Sound Preferences. Is there a quicker way?
I'm looking for 123d catch on the app store, but there isn't. Where can I find it? Thank you in advance.
Macbook pro, 10.12.6, on AC, monitor connected via thunderbolt, screen saver set to start after 1 minute. Screen saver never starts.
open MacBook Pro + connected external display -> no power cable required closed MacBook Pro + connected external display -> power cable required
Is there a way to exit split view so that both windows remain maximized? Currently I "unsplit" windows by exiting full screen in one of the windows and then entering it again. I wonder if it can be done in one operation.
Windows DHCP seems to work far from flawlessly. Even though its always been set to discard A and PTR records from DNS, I had some records that are many years old.
My sister uses Read&Write Gold to assist her in using her Mac. One of the features it includes is a text-to-speech function, which highlights words as they are read out loud. The application uses the default system voice and rate.
I've installed homebrew and used it successfully for installing and using packages before. But when I installed a packaged called "shpotify" that can be used to control spotify from the command line, Homebrew installs it successfully, but then when I try to run it, I get an error "zsh: command not found: shpotify" Do you know what could be causing this?
I am trying to have everything in English, except day and month, which I want to change to my language. I followed this post, but this command does not work.
After some more frantic unplugging and re-plugging plus some command line manual mounts, I finally got it to where the Disk Utility would be able to run first aid on it. It failed. I don't recall the error. So I put it in a freezer. After a few hours I tried again. It is not any better. It still will not mount. Now Disk Utility sees it, but with no partition. I can't even give me information about how much space is used on it.
On this site and throughout other Apple enthusiast communities, I often see people strongly advise against disabling System Integrity Protection. This has always struck me as somewhat odd, as SIP did not even exist until recently, and it prevents a lot of tweaks that used to be relatively commonplace, such as SIMBL and OSXFuse. If I am an enthusiast user following basic security practices such as: Using a strong, unique administrative password. Only granting administrator permissions to applications I trust. Only using sudo when necessary, and only for commands I understand. What types of attacks am I opening myself up to by leaving SIP disabled? Put another way, is a Mac computer without SIP more vulnerable than a comparable machine running a default configuration of Windows or a common flavor of Linux?
I Received Messages Text invitation. script .Is it showing me how to do something? Is it used to send messages I get someplace else or hide in some way? Is it being used to block messages?
I currently use Mendeley and have been happy with its organisational capabilities. However, I would like to be able to make freehand annotations and drawings on pdfs, which Mendeley does not support. I've downloaded a trial version of Papers, but I am finding its metadata input extremely clunky and error prone compared to Mendeley. I would like to be able to sync between iPad and Mac easily. Can anyone recommend a good reference manager that supports freehand pdf annotation?
Let's assume if SIP is disabled and permissions get either maliciously or intentionally, but misguidedly changed. How to restore these permissions to their factory settings? What is the Current Best Practice to Remedy Such a Situation, Once it has Occured? It doesn't really matter exactly how a Sierra installation might end up with less than ideal, 'broken' or 'breaking', or simply altered permissions on its system files or directories. The question from the title is in slightly longer form: How do you reset the file system permissions in Sierra that are relevant to the systems operation to their default settings?
I recently changed my Apple ID from a Gmail address to an Outlook address. Everyplace I have checked shows the new address as my Apple ID. Yet every few minutes I get a icloud login screen showing my old Gmail address as the ID. The address is grayed out so I can't just change it. No matter how many times I close this window it just pops up again a short time later.
In QuickTime Player, I'd like to play the video back at slower than real-time speeds. I see that it's possible to play back at faster than real time speeds -- by pressing the option key and clicking the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons. How can I play video at slower speeds? I'm running QuickTime player 10.4 on OSX 10.11.x
I found the file was too large to email - like 42 mb, so I carved it down removing unnecessary content, but it was still closer to 40 mb. So I uploaded to dropbox.com, then found they only allowed viewing of folder not transfer, which is a problem because it means it will be unzipped in the cloud which is not what I want. (I want truly secure files to be viewed only by receiving party to whom I give password.)
After rebooting I was able to load rEFInd page, but I cannot find the macOS "icon" to boot the system, just the Ubuntu one. Any hint on what may be the problem?
After a migration to a new mac, I cannot access MacPorts mysql anymore. It's running mysql55, and I get the error:
Today my machine ran out of memory. I went to Activity Monitor and it showed a process called MRT using lots of memory. I restarted my machine hoping it would help, but even after a restart I see the memory on MRT climbing by about 0.01 GB every few seconds. I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), 16 GB RAM.
I accidentally deleted my Downloads folder as well as the sidebar item for it in the process of trying to fix it. How do I get them back?
Is it possible to get Windows 7 on the latest 2017 MacBook Pros via Bootcamp?
I turned my luminosity all the way down using the sliding bar, now I cannot see the screen to turn it back up - I know, really dumb - so is there a keyboard way to turn the screen lumins up?
I am preparing to sell my 2012 Macbook Pro, which runs 10.12 (Sierra). I have erased my hard drive using Disk Utility, but am a little confused on where to go next. I'm following this official Apple guide, but my screen shows this:
I have a MacBook (10.12.6) and an iPhone (IOS 10.3.3). I configured Safari to save my passwords on websites, and I changed the default password of 'login' on keychain. This way, the only way to see the saved password on Safari is using this master password I set on 'login' item on keychain. My problem is the iPhone's Safari does not know the password I saved on my MacBook's Safari. Both my MacBook and iPhone uses the same iCloud account, and the bookmark and history is in sync. The only thing is not working is the password. Is it a limitation on IOS or it should work with that setup?
I recently merged a library of about 110,000 photos into my iCloud Photos library, using an iMac running Sierra. The process went slowly, but well and I can see the photos on other Macs and on my iPhone 6S running iOS 10. However, my iPad Air 2 started often crashing when I loaded the Photos app. At first it was intermittent, but now it is constant. I've tried disabling iCloud Photo Library, but it still crashes. I've alternated between downloading all photos and optimizing storage and that does no good. I've tried force quitting the Photos app, restarting the iPad, etc. Today, I even downloaded the latest beta of iOS 11 to see if that might do the trick -- the Photos app still crashes.
I use iMessage on my Mac, my iPad, and my iPhone. On all three I am logged in to the same Apple ID. I would expect to see the same (recent) conversations on all 3 devices, but I don't, and I'm completely baffled why not. I've gone through settings and can't see anything that would seem to be preventing these from being in synch. I know this is a pretty broad question, but... any suggestions for getting these in synch?
I always have Siri turned off. Yet, looking at the usage data reported under /Settings/Cellular/SystemServices I observed the following: July Siri = 3.5-MB Hotspot = 1,300-MB August (as of the 25th) Siri = 1-MB HotSpot = 25-MB Is there an (easy to understand) reason why in one month, at least 1-MB of data usage is logged under Siri when Siri is turned off? As observed in my data, surely there is a causation between HotSpot usage and an increase in data usage attributed to Siri even when Siri is turned off?
What is the meaning of the gray toothed wheel on Mac Finder located right bottom? What is its name?
I have deleted the bootcamp partition and there was a logical volume created, which I have erased using diskutil eraseVolume free %noformat% disk0s2 and diskutil cs revert UUID commands, Now I have lost the partition and it doesn't show up in diskutil list or diskutil cs list neither in recovery nor in macOS. How can I retrieve this space?
I was using the dd command to burn a .img file to a micro SD card which was connected to my mac through a usb SD card adaptor. I need to unmount(not eject) the device first before I could use dd to burn the image file. I did that with the umount command. After the burning was done, I unplugged the SD card adaptor when it prompted me that the device was not ejected properly.
Getting a Thunderbolt 2 cable from a friend to connect my MacBook Pro 2013 in Target Disk Mode with Thunderbolt 2 (iMac2017 is Thunderbolt 3/usb-c) and try to boot from the MacBook Pro. Can select this as well but it doesn't work. Reversed the Target Disk Mode and booted the MacBook Pro from the Fusion Drive which gave the same type of errors on the display of the MacBook Pro. Tried Disk Utility on MacBook Pro and then mounting iMac-drive on that through Target Disk Mode but the MacBook Pro then resets and tries to boot from the iMac drive. Whatever I do; when I attach the iMac in Target Disk Mode with the Thunderbolt cable to the MacBook Pro, even if it's in Single User Mode, it switches to booting from the iMac drive (or at least it tries to)
There is something wrong about my mac (macOS sierra) , and it's happening for about 2 weeks , for example: I'm working with Xcode and suddenly i can't save any file, and I go to desktop , can't copy paste any item . I don't remember any error but I could not modify or create new file on my macbook.
There is an audible 'pop' when I change volume using the slider in System Preferences. I can also hear it when volume is being unmuted using the soft button on touch bar. I do not hear any feedback when volume is changed via touch bar. I have tried tapping touch bar volume button and then dragging the slider, tapping volume icons around the slider, pressing and holding volume button without releasing touch bar; none of them provide any audible feedback. This is true for both built-in speakers and 3.5mm output. Is there a way of enabling feedback sound when volume is changed via touch bar?
3rd party "fixes" for this problem are acceptable. Binding keys to specific windows would possibly be acceptable if I only had to do it once or maybe once per reboot.
We're on our way to getting more downloads of iOS Apps in August than in the last 11 months combined. Sounds great, except we're not seeing any evidence that the apps are actually being run, e.g. automatic registration in the database. They're free apps too, so not making any money off these downloads. Few questions:
I recently copied 3000 photos to an SD card during that time the fan speed was 1400 RPM and after half progress the temperature was 75 °C, then after 5 secs it decreased to 50 °C. Is this normal for a MacBook early 2015 Retina display?
Is it good for performing the below activities? Please suggest. I have looked into MacBook Pro line as well, since, it is heavy, it would be difficult to carry around where ever i go. My Primary Work:
Should there be any significant difference in quality between the iPad Pro 10.5 and iPhone 7 Plus, with respect to internal microphone quality? My iPad Pro seemed subjectively worse at dictation, so I setup a quick test: Removed cases from devices, ensured clear path to microphones Recorded a .wav sample to playback to the two devices, to test dictation, so the input wouldn't change. Held bothe devices microphones about three inches away from the test speaker.
macOS 10.12.6, iTunes 12.6.2.20, iOS 10.3.3 I synch my iPhone to the Mac via USB. I prefer to update iPhone Apps via iTunes rather than on the iPhone, but it's wearying to remember to check for App > Updates. It'd be easier if iTunes could be set to automatically download available iPhone app updates. Is there a way to do this?
This is not limited to Thunderbird, but also other software show dialogs partly in Finnish language. So, at first I just added English, chose it as a primary language and then deleted Finnish from Language & Region settings.
On MacOS I use a custom password for keychain. so the only way to see the saved passwords is with this 'master' password you setup on Keychain.
I logged into my iCloud account from a fresh install of macOS Sierra. I had a very old version of ScreenFlow (from 2011) under Purchases in the App Store. Installing it worked. When I try to open it (from the App Store or from Spotlight), it says it's incompatible and offers me to search for a newer version.
One-way cumulative copy from iCloud to My PC. Example: Files added to iCloud will be added to My PC but Files deleted from iCloud, will remain on My PC. This can either happen in near real time or on demand.
I am paying for 50 GB of icloud storage. It shows up in my settings, but I can't access it. I am still deleting photos so I can store everything on the 5 GB I have. Have spent hours researching this but can only find others with the same problem. No answers from Apple.
I'm looking for a way to get the expiration date of a certificate from the command line. The certificate is in the default 'login' keychain and I know its name. How can I do this?
Is there a place in safari that allows user to assign keyboard shortcut for extensions? For more specific information, I am trying to assign a shortcut key for this extension: Recent Tab list
I ran a bunch of stuff trying to get my Wi-Fi to work, which included updating my sources.list file and running apt-get update many times, but the Wi-Fi just won't work. I think I understand the driver wl is important, but whenever I do modprobe wl, it gives this error:
I am on macOS Sierra, and my SSH version is : OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017 I have this content in my .ssh/config : I also have a server with a public IP, that has direct connection with these two servers, I want to forward my SSH connection through this public server to my private servers (db and website). When I use this command: I get this error: Now, what should I do to solve this problem and connect my macOS host to my private servers?
One of the standard mac-applications I use a lot in my work at school is Grab, which allows me to take screenshots on for instance graphs and figures displayed on my screen. A minor annoyance with this particular application is the inability to cancel the screenshot when using the »selection« option (ie. the one that allows you to mark a specific rectangular portion of the screen, to be saved as an image). When I click the selection option, a pop-up window appears, stating that I with my mouse can pick an area to be saved as screenshot; this pop-up window also includes a cancelletion button, which can be used to cancel the screenshot before I start marking the area I want to save – after I start marking the area of the screen I want to save, there does however not seem to be any way to cancel the process (since there is no way to click the cancellation-button without releasing the mouse, and thus saving the screenshot), which is problematic when I, for instance, try to take a screensho
Is there a way to do this ? I have disabled iCloud Drive for certain directories by adding .nosync to it's name but this situation is different. Maybe using monitoring the wifi network SSID and launching a custom command.
I have a raw image of a Time Machine disk made with ddrescue, now I'd like to know if I can hook it up on the Mac and restore data from it.
I've got a new MacBook Pro 15" that comes with the 87W USB-C adapter from US. I live in Turkey and I've got all my MacBooks from US with US chargers, and had no issue with them (as they are meant to be used internationally anyway) for years.
Examples: I need Arial available to me and my word processors. I do not want to see it on web pages. Browser fingerprinting is also affected by the fonts installed (as seen through the browser). Using Writer I want to have the full set available, using image editors they should be almost font agnostic. But web browsers being the main concern here. Without resorting to big iron font managers, user switching, VMs or the like, and not counting javascript modifications to the browsers while running: I am aiming for something like at least two profiles for two kinds of programs running under the same user: 1. full set available 2. sandboxed/restricted set. How to force programs into seeing just a very small and clearly defined subset of installed fonts otherwise available to the system or the current user?
I think I have this figured out but I have been trying to get a definitive answer. I've spent a few hours today organizing, importing, and being very confused by Photos on iOS and Photos on macOS. The most important part is this. I was going to import a few thousand photos (and videos) I have stored on my iPhone 6s to my MacBook Pro but the Photos app said that there was only 205 new items on my phone. These turned out to be mostly videos, as My Photo Stream does not stream videos, and a few photos that for some reason didn't get streamed. After a while of searching and trying to find a good explanation on Apple's website about My Photo Stream(this is the best I could find: *=URL=* I think I have finally figured it out: There is an option in Preferences for Photos that is selected by default that says: "Importing: Copy items to the Photos library". I understand this to mean that while photos are in My Photo Stream, they will be copied to the Photos app on Mac. So: Is this true? Is that
There are lots of useless widgets in the notification center of macOS, so does anyone knows where these widgets are stored in the system, I want the path to that folder in-order to remove the useless ones to the trash.
I'm using iCloud drive to sync my e-books via the iBooks app. I noticed that the synced files show up in the All My Files view. I tried to find out their exact location, it seems to be iCloud Drive / iBooks (via Cmd+I) but when I try to navigate there from iCloud Drive, the iBooks folder doesn't show up, even when I turn hidden files on. Is that a bug or how come this behaviour?
The partition I am currently using is disk1s2, Apple_Boot Mac. Am I correct in assuming my best bet is to break down my internal disk and reinstate a clean OS X installation, and from there download a Windows ISO and run bootcamp? I've been searching for a solution to this issue for epochs, if anyone could help I would be eternally grateful.
Is there a solution out there that can screen record 1 application and "stream" it through a fake virtual camera, so the video can be sent live through apps like Skype? Just wondering if it's possible to, for example, stream a video playing in VLC/QuickTime through Skype, and be able to keep that video going through Skype even when I am doing other things on the computer.
I'm going to describe the symptoms I'm seeing, diagnostic steps I've taken, then give the hardware configuration below. I would love to have any suggestions on how to fix this, or where to take my investigation next.
I have installed TortoiseHg on my Mac. I can run it, and it opens the repository browser. However, unlike on Windows, it doesn't add new items to Finder context menu. So I cannot right-click a file or a folder and do 'commit'. How can I perform commit then, without going to Terminal level?
I need help adding another rule to my formula, I need it to also say IF U17 and X17 both have 0 in them, then leave blank Formula Y17 IF(OR(U17="",X17=""),"",IF(X17+V17=U17,"Push", IF(X17+V17>U17,W17,T17))) If two cells have 0, then leave blank and also if two cells are blank to leave blank
I've uploaded/synched photos from my iphone5C to the cloud. I think that all worked initially but now those same photos and videos are grayed out on both the cloud and on my iphone, both preview view and when opened up. In the cloud, there is an "!" inside a gray triangle over the grayed out photo. On the phone, there is a cloud symbol on the grayed out photo but it says "error downloading from the icloud". Geotag info, dates, even time span for the videos are still there. It's over 400 pictures so a big deal. I originally had the free acct but upgraded to the 50gig version some time ago (part of problem?). I've saw the similar question where they got around the problem by opening it in the editor??
The context is that I took some notes in TextEdit and copied command examples from my green-on-black Terminal window. The text appears in the style and color of the source:
When I use a terminal like iTerm or Hyper, right as I boot it up, the first message I get is: I don't know what this is from, and how to get rid of it. This message does not show up on the default terminal app though. I am using zsh.
So, 3 years ago I found an iPod touch. I did everything in my power (calling schools, taking a photo of my contact info with the iPod in case photos were streamed, craig's list ad, checking to see if the serial number was registered, etc.,etc.) to find the owner. After months, a co-worker "wiped" the iPod and it became mine. Suddenly, last night, the activation lock appears.
So the question is pretty straight forward. I've disabled SIP (System Integrity Protection) and I am able to use the "copy paste" method, described in numerous tutorials, successfully to change my Application Icons. I'm wondering however if there is a folder where all the Application Icons are stored. I know that the Trash Icons and the Finder Icons are located at System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources and that I'm able to for all intensive purposes "click and drag" the new trash and finder icons to this folder and it update the icons accordingly. Is there a central location where all Application Icons are stored so that I can click and drag all 50 of my 'new' icons to a folder and then restart the dock app to refresh the icons?
I recently did a Yosemite (10.10) clean install on my 4 GB 2010 MBP, but it now has so much memory bloat due to unnecessary launch daemons/agents /services that it causes frequent beachballing; excessive memory pressure. This is not a duplicate; I did research manpage/docs on launchctl, launchd, Yosemite/Sierra whatsnew guides, AskDifferent, SO, Apple.com, many Mac enthusiast blogs/forums and many other sites for over a month now; see comments below for examples of the many Google keywords searches I tried; also, the answer is very MacOS-version-specific. This is driving me nuts.
I can't figure out how to change the radii of the bubbles in a bubble chart in Numbers. I tried taking the original data and dividing it by 10, or 100, and redirecting the Size: data to the new column, but the bubble size hasn't changed. I'm finding Numbers to be frustratingly counterintuitive, and haven't found any mention of this yet on the Numbers Help Page. Edit: I used a circle detecting script to find the eclipse in the frames of a video, then I plotted the x,y coordinates of each circle, and wanted to use the radius of the found circles for the size of the bubbles—there probably isn't enough variation to matter, but obviously being so large is useless.
I want to test out my watch app on Xcode. So I plugged my iPhone paired with an Apple Watch Series 2 into my computer. The iPhone displayed a dialog saying whether to trust this computer or not, I clicked on trust and the iPhone is properly displayed in Xcode. In a minute the same popup appeared on my Watch, however I accidentally clicked Don't Trust on the Apple Watch, now the watch doesn't show up in Xcode. Usually to fix this for iPhone I would just plug the phone into the computer again, but I tried that, and the popup did not reappear on my Watch. Is there a way to trust my computer again without erasing all datas on the Watch?
this error comes when i use this command:- sudo apt install wireless-tools Unable to locate an executable at "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_144.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/apt" (-1) echo path gives an output like this :- /usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
It appears that the full complement of features of sharing a photo album with iCloud photo sharing is only open to fellow Apple devices. For example, only Apple devices can subscribe to the album and then comment, like and add photos/videos (depending on my permission selection). However, If I want to share the album with non Apple devices, then I have to send them a link and they can click on the link and see the photos and videos but they do not have the option of adding photos or videos or liking or commenting. Is this correct?
I am trying to erase my new SSD (Transcend Jetdrive 520 ) for Macbook Air using Disk Utility but it is failing & giving the error "Could not mount disk" after erase. Same is happening in terminal mode as well. I purchased the 480 GB model but Disk Utility and Teminal are showing only 1024 MB My terminal experience is as follows:
In macOS Sierra there’s a new Storage Management option. One way to get to it is via /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app (then with the app open) Window → Storage Management. I’d like to accomplish all that programatically, including closing the System Information.app window. If there’s a solution it’ll likely involve AppleScript or JXA, but I’m not picky on the method.
I have a question regarding the setup of a hotspot on my Mac. I have a wired ethernet connection, which I connect to the computer. I would then like to be able to connect to that same connection (and the LAN) on my iPhone over wifi. I followed the steps here (*=URL=* which worked, however, there is a problem. Whenever I do this, the Macbook acts as a router, not allowing me to access any devices on the original LAN the Mac is connected to. I would instead prefer if it acted more like an AP, allowing communication to flow between my iPhone and everything on the LAN. Thanks in advance!
I would like to merge everything from the library2 (the right hand side) into the first one (the left hand side). How should I do this?
I deleted a note from iCloud in my iPhone, I thought that it was only an extra copy of the actual note, so I deleted it. I tried to find ways to recover the note but it seemed impossible. I was wondering if it is possible for the deleted iCloud note to be recovered in my iPhone.
I have a USB3 drive with 128GB of storage. It has been working normally up until this evening, when I tried to right click > eject the drive. I received the following message:
I would like to port forward from my macOS Sierra computer with IP address of 152.1.2.3 to my NAS which is 192.168.2.3. Specifically I would like to access the HTTP web server on my NAS at 192.168.2.3/Photos. The NAS has all traffic that comes in over HTTP directed to the correct folder (Photos). I have Internet Sharing turned on and share my Ethernet connection of my macOS computer (152.1.2.3 on Ethernet 2) to my NAS (192.168.2.3 on Ethernet 1) My NAS can see the internet and get updates. I can access the webserver locally from my computer by entering 192.168.2.3 and it directs me to the webserver page at 192.168.2.3/Photos. I just cannot access it from outside the local network. The easy solution is to connect the NAS directly to the network but I cannot because of local policies. In Summary: I would like to type in the following and be redirected to the web server on the NAS --> 152.1.2.3:9999 would the terminal command be:
I have installed macOS, Linux and Windows to my MacBook Air. It was hard installing a triple boot system because each of issues with their boot loaders, but now everything works fine.
I'm using an iPhone 5S, running iOS version 10.3.1. I'm part of a chat group where a lot of pictures are posted. From time to time I want to see only the pictures I've taken in my photo app, but I can't find a way to do it. When I open the Photos app, this is what I see in the different categories: Photos: All photos ever stored on my phone Memories: Some random photos the app chose for me Shared: Photos I've actively shared to others
I desire to dual boot Ubuntu 17.x with my installation of OS X 10.9.5. I cannot upgrade OS X due to application compatibility issues. I've read a number of articles on how to dual boot over the past few years but have never held enough confidence in them to execute their instructions. It outlines a method, whereby the user creates a pair of new partitions (128 MB boot loader + 50 GB file system), installs Ubuntu on the latter, copies out a boot.efi file, and: create the mach kernel and System/Library/CoreServices directories, the latter of which will store our boot.efi file from before, along with a “SystemVersion.plist” file which provides configuration information. I have ample experience with the command line to not be intimidated by it's advance use. Is the method in this document by Caltech from 2015 compatible with OS X 10.9.5?
The help available through icloud.com reads: Specify the filtering conditions. In the “Name or email address” field, enter a sender’s full or partial name, a complete email address, or an email address domain (the part of the email address after the @ symbol). Use the “Then” pop-up menus to set up the behavior of the rule. Specify the filtering conditions. In the “Name or email address” field, enter a sender’s full or partial name, a complete email address, or an email address domain (the part of the email address after the @ symbol). In the “Name or email address” field, enter a sender’s full or partial name, a complete email address, or an email address domain (the part of the email address after the @ symbol). Use the “Then” pop-up menus to set up the behavior of the rule. Use the “Then” pop-up menus to set up the behavior of the rule. Which suggests that some form of regular expression is permissible in the rules setting dialog box:
I've had some problems recently with my Macbook on OSX (newest Macbook version with touch bar). Where my Touch ID used to work, suddenly, one day two things happened: My computer have started to start much slower (2-3minutes+) Touch Id does not work before
I am from Brazil and I am planning to buy an iPhone 7 in Dubai. I know that iPhones bought in Dubay have Facetime blocked at the hardware level. But, I would like to know if I will be able to install and use other alternative applications like facebook, skype, WhatsApp in Brazil.
Delayed loading: All is OK an the temperature side. GPU isn't idling at full power but idling at a much lower powerstate. Depending on OS version the sensors report temperatures ranging from 0°C–60°C. Although that reading seems not really realistic or trustworthy the whole unit also stays cooler to the touch.
In many situations I'd be nice to select the next list item using a keyboard. Say I want to select "Ava 614" from the image below. I'd be nice to just hit the down arrow (or combo keys) then space bar, or return/enter to select. But that doesn't work. Up arrow selects the last item of the list, and down arrow selects the first item of the list. Is there a way to select the next item in a list using the keyboard?
When I right-click -> "Open with" -> ... I see an option for atom 1.19.3 and 1.19.1. However Spotlight locates only one Atom.app (which is found in Applications).
In macOS High Sierra, when you click on a Mail notification while having a another app in full-screen mode; the Mail app will open in split view mode with your current full-screen app. Is there a way to do this for apps that are being opened with Spotlight? Currently what happens is that if you're in a full-screen app and you select an app from a Spotlight search, it will open that app in a windowed mode on a desktop.
On my MacBook Pro I have Homebrew as well as the CUDA toolkit. OSX and Homebrew prefer the 'latest' version of clang (currently version 9.0.0). Clang is used for several Homebrew packages that I need. Without a recent version of clang, those packages won't compile (and brew won't update). But for nvcc, I am forced to use the older clang version 7.3.1. So I think I need two concurrent versions of clang. I know that I can install a different version of clang by downloading and installing the version I need from the Apple Developers site, as explained here, but there must be an easier way to work with two concurrent versions of clang (using some script to switch from one version to another). I also found that, aside from using Apple's own commandline tools, I could use the LLVM package from brew, with the --with-clang option, as explained here. So my question is: how to use and maintain two versions of clang?
Whenever I try to open Preview on my MacBook, the application doesn't work and I need to force quit it. I would usually restart my Mac to resolve the issue, but I have some code running on the same Mac, which will be done in several days only. Is there anything I can do now? What caused Preview to freeze was trying to open several EPS files simultaneously, and whenever I try to open Preview now, I see all those EPS files as currently open (their names are shown if I hover over the Preview icon).
And the server starts on localhost:1313, however when I try to access that URL I get a 404. 127.0.0.1:1313 works, but then all of the links fail as they try to resolve back to localhost. I was able to access by enabling a domain name on my router (foo.home) and then I can open the main page with localhost.foo.home:1313, but all of the Hugo links still try to use localhost:1313. So, two questions:
I will commonly use my 2011 15" MacBook Pro to stream videos, and often use Chrome to stream e.g. Amazon Prime to my Chromecast.
Does the Gmail app on iPhone having access to your photo gallery automatically upload photos to Google Photos or Drive? Did any version of the Gmail app did this before if not now?
On IOS 10.3.3 I enter all the information: Enter the password for your Apple ID and it shows my email address. I enter the password I have had written down and which works with my iTunes purchases, APP downloads, etc., and I get back a message saying "that email is already taken" or similar wording. Or, I get in so far and it doesn't accept my password. I can’t get past this for 2 years.
I was trying to show a password in Keychain Access, so I put my password in to view it. It then displayed this message: "The provided password did not unlock this keychain, or access has been limited to a particular user account." My account is the administrator account, so I don't know what could be causing this. Thanks.
I'm very new to AppleScript and I'm held up in my command to click on a spot in an application. I'm not sure the proper way to tell it to click on the file. Open App, Click "Football" , Click the checkbox "Enabled"at the top, Then Click "Save" at the bottom
I'm learning linux bash on my mac. Is there an equivalent to this command in OSX?
I am attempting to send a friend some dank techno songs (mp3 format) through iMessage on my MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra), but as you can see from the screen shot, some songs get transferred and some don't. I can't figure out the root cause of this...
My development server is Server.app. After having to reinstall macOS in recovery mode, browsers can no longer connect to my local sites. I can't select the text of the error that Safari gves so here's a screenshot... Other browsers give errors of the same substance.
So for a very long time this question has been asked and asked again: How can you play audio from the built-in speakers with the headphones plugged in? When other people's Macs are dual booted (including mine), into Linux, or Windows, it is very much possible to switch between the built in speakers and headphones. The same with the startup chime, which sounds through the speakers with the headphones plugged in.
I bought a used MacBook Air (2011) before taking a trip to Vietnam with a max battery capacity of 43%. I decided to go for a new one and bought a "brand new genuine apple battery" at a local shop. I inspected it against the original and it looked identical and had the correct serial number. Long story short, it's a bad battery and the available capacity changes every time I turn it on. I took it to another shop and they recognized it instantly as being a fake, but couldn't really explain way (language barrier). I also bought a brand new genuine 85w MagSafe 1 power adapter that has given me no problems so far.
I've purchased an album on my iPhone with my account, I can see it on the Apple TV, but I cannot see it in OS X Sierra: I've checked this in iTunes preferences:
If I Sign out of the Apple App Store, will it sign out of my Facetime too?
I have one mail account with 3 aliases. I am wondering if there is any way to separate them from one mailbox to 4 individual mailboxes?
I have a new Macbook Pro, using OSX 10.11.6. Using Office 365, Norwegian keyboard. Q: which shortcut will change to other active word windows?
For the last two days I have been hearing a strange clicking sound in my earbuds when charging my macbook pro. Until last week I've never heard this before, but now, whenever I connect my charger to my macbook I can hear a strange ticking sound in my earbuds. It is not like static noise, but more like something with high voltage connecting and disconnecting. The best comparison I would know of, would be the sound a taser makes but slower. Sometimes it even is loud enough to be heard over the sound my music/movie is actually playing.
Quitting and relaunching the app. This doesn't work, as MacOS remembers which display the app was on previously and re-launches it on that display
The MacBook Air I own, and all other MacBooks I have seen can get its screen almost completely black with its lowest brightness settings. I have always wondered how Apple has managed to achieve this, and in case it is not such a challenging feature at all, how come no other brand of laptop has it. My question is: Does MacBook do some trick with its last bit of brightness reduction (from 1 to 0 ticks), like, for example, not really reducing the light emitted from the screen, but instead reducing the brightness of the colours of the individual pixels; or does the hardware really simply just manage to reduce the amount of emitted light from the pixels?
I've bought and downloaded the MacOS Server application to host a VPN and to host a Satis repository. When enabling either the VPN or Websites services, a dialogue appears asking "Do you want to change how your password is stored?", with the advice that "Authenticating to this service requires storing your password in a less secure form." I can't find any further information on this, not from the Server documentation, nor from searching on Google. What does this actually mean? Why is this necessary?
Updated: Here's a code snippet showing how I'm using AppleScript. Also, note that many of my categories are imported from a Windows PST file.
I use Screen Recording feature in Quick Time player for some purposes, but when I record my screen it records the screen actions very fast.Is there any way to chnge this to normal? Eg. If I move my cursor normally also while recording my screen it records it as if I am moving it in lightning speed.
This becomes a more relevant problem with the new Siri watch face. I ended up deleting most birthdays in Contacts to stop birthdays from clustering my Apple Watch screen daily. I tried the below but failed to achieve my goals:
How do I get this ifconfig loopback alias change to persist after a restart? The only similar instructions I've found are for nonexistent OSX files on other *nix systems for files like /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
I have a two part question here. I'm trying to make an automator service to quickly rename files. My job uses a file name syntax of 1234-01a-FileName.psd where 1234 is the job number, 01 the file number, and the a is a version letter, as in, version two will be 01b, etc. Getting the current letter with RegEx and incrementing it is easy, the issue I'm having is how to actually rename the file with JXA. Nothing I can find on google is actually answering this (I assume) simple question. I've tried a number of permutations of the following. Is there something basic I'm doing wrong here? I could alternately have both a Run AppleScript and a Run Javascript in the automator workflow, and try to pass the name back and forth, but I'd rather keep it simple if possible.
How do I force the display to come on at boot or login time (don't mind which) without needing a keyboard connected? I suspect something from pmset (e.g. pmset displaysleep 0) would do the trick but nothing so far.
I have gmail running in Chrome on my MBP screen and my web app that I am am developing in Chrome on my large monitor. I have on iTerm terminal open on my MBP screen running the webserver for the web app. I also have an iTerm terminal open on the large monitor running vim. My problem is I would like to be able to command-tab into the Chrome browser running the web app on my large monitor, but leave iTerm in the front on the MBP screen so that I can look at the output of the server as I interact with the web app in the browser on the large monitor. What happens instead, though, is when I command-tab in the large monitor from iTerm (vim) to Chrome (webapp), the MBP screen moves Chrome (gmail) in front of iTerm (web server). Any way I can do more intelligent app/window management?
in other words I am trying to join a few hundred csv files that are 1 column each and I would like each csv file to create a new column instead of creating a new row. This is the command I'm currently using: gls-Mac-Pro:~ gliiiitch$ cat *.csv >merged_files.csv
The touch display on my iPhone 5 does not respond when I turn on the display. However if I turn the display off and turn on it again, then it miraculously works! After the touch responds it works fine until next time I receive a call or try to unlock the phone.
My friends iPhone 4 will not provide notification when I send a message from my iPhone 5. All other messages from all other contacts will notify him when they text him. I was researching the issue and found the "just go into the go into the conversation -> details -> and toggle the do not disturb switch." How does he do that. We can find no "details" or "do not disturb" toggle.
Is there is a way to change macOS keyboard layout to match GNOME desktop?
I am looking for a formula which will compare the higher of two numbers in adjacent columns, and count the result of where in e.g. column B the value higher is than column C.
Look at the image above. What I am trying to do is create a service in Automator that will allow me to select two of the files, such as 3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).cdg AND 3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).mp3 And compress those two files into a .zip entitled 3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).zip And then be able to move down to 38 Special - Hold On Loosely.cdg AND 38 Special - Hold On Loosely.mp3 and compress them into a .zip entitled 38 Special - Hold On Loosely.zip
1st time using/playing with VS 2017 for Mac. Where do I enter command line arguments that will be saved for use with each run?
Windows I have an Excel file whose all sheets are protected with password, and even the Excel file itself is password protected. In the Windows version of Excel, I have no issue with this, password protection seems to work as intended. Mac When I opened the same Excel file from Windows using Numbers on macOS, only the Excel file password works, individual sheet passwords don't work and I can see the formula in Numbers. Am I doing something wrong in Excel for Windows to protect the workbook?
I bought this new Macbook Air, and am completely new to Mac OSX. I have Mac Sierra installed, and lately have noticed that the The I-Beam insertion cursor for the keyboard goes invisible occasionally. Maybe there's a shortcut or a trackpad problem, I'm not sure. Thought I could ask here. Thanks for any help!
I'm working with macOS High Sierra beta 17A352a, Photos 3.0 (3201.11.120). I don't know if this works similarly in earlier versions. When looking at people in the app, most portraits shown simply provide a key photo of the person with their name at the bottom.
Can I use soundflower and my microphone together at the same time? Example usage: stream desktop audio through Skype, while still being able to talk to the person simultaneously. I wonder if aggregate sound devices may be able to accomplish this, but I haven't found a way. I've tried making an aggregate device, and simply checking the 2 devices:
About a year ago I bought a used Mid 2009 MacBook Pro and it came with iMovie. The user before me clearly didn't update iMovie regularly, as the version is 9.0.9.
Something that might be noteworthy to mention is that since I bought this album from the U.S. store, the titles were originally in English. I then converted them to their original given names by the Japanese artist (iTunes/Music app has never complained about this in the past).
I just recently jailbroke my iPod 5th generation using an untethered jailbreak called Phoenix, but when I open Cydia I get the error: sub process /usr/libexec/cydia error 2. So I can't install or update ANYTHING. Here is some solutions I attempted and got no luck (in case you try to give the same one): *=URL=* *=URL=* There's one more solution I tried, but I can't post more than 2 links with a reputation of below 10, lol. All I want to do is to be able to fix the error so I can update cydia and be able to install tweaks, because at the moment, I cannot. Thanks.
Is it possible to get an analogue military time watchface on the Apple iWatch 2? Like this...
With a new iPhone 6S it never finishes with a back up, it says poor connection back up failed after 11 hours. My question is if you were to back up again, can't it begin from the 11 hours of data that it was backing up? Why does it almost finish? I have called Apple Tech twice and they don't really have an answer. My wi fi worked fine and backed up all the time with my iPhone 5s. My computer does not have a Wi-Fi connection so I cannot back up through iTunes.
I've just bought an OWC aura SSD upgrade For my MacBook Pro late 2013 retina and it should be 1TB but is only showing a size of 480gb. Is there anything I can do to get it to show the correct size, or is it a hardware fault?
When I'm trying to call someone, sometimes it'll ring half a time then go straight to voicemail, the other times it'll just keep on ringing for 2 whole minutes before it just cuts off, no voicemail.
I don't have a physical copy of the OS, so it concerns me a little. It's a second-hand Mac and came with El Capitan installed. Does a Time Machine backup contain the OS as well so it's as simple as boot to a Disk Utility and tell it to restore from Time Machine to the new SSD? My first Mac, so thanks for any help!
I have been trying to figure out how to completely remove preinstalled Apache and PHP from my macbook pro ... The reason is that I am using the homebrew version of both Apache and PHP. The current version of PHP that I am using is PHP 7 as you can see in the screenshot below
I have MacBook Pro with maximum specifications and mostly I use for video rendering stuff. The performance is great but I found that I could make video rendering a lot faster by enabling CUDA. I explore some sites and found that CUDA works with NVidia Graphics and there are many similar questions but there is a slight difference in model (like Graphic card). So, can anyone please confirm: if my MACBook supports CUDA? if not, what is the best alternative? MacBook Info: Model: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) Graphic: Intel HD Graphics 530 (1536MB) AMD Radeon Pro 460 (4096MB) Intel HD Graphics 530 (1536MB) AMD Radeon Pro 460 (4096MB) PS: Many people recommends to check GPU support on this link: *=URL=* As it's on NVidia website so I am not sure if they are listing all supported OR just NVidia all supported gpus.
I have configured my iPhone to backup on iCloud. When browsing the above mentioned directory on my MacBook I find some old files and directories from months ago which are using up 1.5GB of space. Can these be safely deleted without incurring in problems?
I find myself using the actual F* only for F1 to F6, but for music and sound controls I use the function instead. I've tried using functions by default, and it works great for F7 to F12, but then I need to use fn for the first half. I've also tried disabling the functions by default, but then I end up using fn for the other half of the function keys. Is there a way to configure the keyboard so they trigger the actual F* only for some function keys, and the function for others?
I have an AirPort Time Capsule (model 802.11ac 2TB). I connect to the internet via my work's WiFi. I have managed to set up the AirPort as my Time Machine backup, and can connect to the device by switching my WiFi to the new WiFi network that the device creates. Although this allows me to perform backups, I cannot use the internet whilst I am connected to this WiFi device. Similarly, if I connect to my work's WiFi network, my MacBook cannot see the AirPort device and therefore cannot perform Time Machine backups.
Spotlight used to work great. Now, when I type an application's name, it works sometimes and not other times. I checked Spotlight settings and it looks like Apps are enabled. I can barely find what I want with Spotlight anymore.
I created an aliases for a binary file (which runs in terminal) and want to put the aliases (shortcut) to dock. However, I can't drag&drop it to the dock. Is there a way to put the aliases to the dock?
Is there a way to turn on and off auto correct from keyboard instead of settings? All the videos and links I have seen, can only disable either completely or not at all. This is for iPhone 4S and Version 7.1.2
When I try to scroll the source window with the arrow keys, the previously outputted lines are not properly overwritten, resulting in a weird looking:  My ~/.gdbinit only contains set startup-with-shell off.
By running ps aux I can get list running processes with command associated with them, e.g. Unfortunately, COMMAND includes command line arguments and absolute path of file, both of which may contain spaces. How can I get process name in deterministic manner?
I have looked online but haven't found a good explanation of the error message. I would appreciate any help or resources I could check out. OS: High Sierra Beta 7
I deleted files in /private/etc/apache2/other/ by mistake. Then I tried to copy files from /private/etc/apache2/original/extra to /private/etc/apache2/other/ to recover my httpd, but it failed. Now I get the error message from apache:
I am the only user signed up on my macbook. My son's name comes up as the sender when I message someone via the mackbook. Also, why aren't texts to my phone coming through on my macbook? Thanks, everyone!
When I run I command in terminal to merge csv files (cat *.csv >mergedfile.csv), the csv with no longer display some special characters correctly. Any advice on an alternative or modification? Thank you!
No matter how I change my settings, my iMac Retina's monitor switches over to the screensaver after only one minute of inactivity. Quite a bother when I'm trying to read something. This continued after I upped to OS 10.12.6. I've zapped PRAM and repaired permissions and this, that, and the other but it won't stop doing this. I've looked on the web for answers but can't find any others suffering this malady. Ideas?
I signed out of my Apple ID and it deleted all my contacts from my iPhone 6. Now I can't even sign back in because it is waiting for approval from another device.
On a 2008 Mac Pro (a.k.a. MacPro3,1), it apparently has 2 PCIe 2.0 slots and 2 PCIe 1.1 slots. While the difference won't prevent any PCIe device from working, it does make a difference for speed.
I recently upgraded my GPU to one that supports double precision floating point math and apparently is compliant with OpenCL 1.2. While I presume that most applications won't see any difference, I am curious if Handbrake would?
How do I disable high resolution screenshots. After taking screenshot and opening in photoshop image looks big. I'm using MacBook pro 15" 2017
How can the suite number, apartment number, etc. be added to the location in Calendar on MacOS and iOS? If an address is typed locations are suggested and Time to Leave alerts are enabled, but as soon as the address is modified Calendar no longer recognizes it as a valid address. No Suite: With Suite:
I have External Hard disk in NTFS format. I need to copy few files from my system( macOS Sierra v 10.12.5 ) to this external hdd but I found that my hard disk is readable only. So I just want to know is there any way or method to copy data from mac to external hard disk via terminal or finder? I have tried cp and rsync but both failed.
Tried to install Windows10 via the Boot Camp Assistant. Boot camp assistant computer turned off after downloading boot camp components and did not restart with the windows installer as expected it would. I think my issue is similar to: Missing disk space after failed Bootcamp install and Mac Crashes During Boot Camp Assistant Disk Partitioning
On my external monitor, there is a slight jump of the mouse cursor when transitioning from one cursor type to another (say from the regular cursor to text caret, or from the regular cursor to the finger on link hovering). This is only slightly annoying, but I am wonder what causes this and if I can fix it. The behaviour I observe (had to film it, as if I do a screen grab with QuickTime the cursor appears fine): *=URL=* The behaviour I should observe: http://imgur.com/6bTKI6M
I was getting this weird issue with my MacBook Pro(Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Sometimes the keyboard suddenly stops working, just the keyboard.
I was recently given a retired MacBook pro from my work. It's a 2009 A1278, originally shipped With OSX Leopard 10.5.7. When I try to reinstall, it asks me for an Apple ID. Nobody around the office recalls what that might be, since it was 8 years ago when it was originally purchased, and the records from that time were messy at best, and we've gone through a substantial management change since then as well.
Double-click on a folder that exists on the Desktop. Doing so will open this folder in Finder.app. Return to the Desktop and double-click on that same folder again. Return to the Desktop and double-click on that same folder again. Instead of a second window being created, the previously created window will be brought to the foreground. Instead of a second window being created, the previously created window will be brought to the foreground. So, what do you do if you want two Finder windows of the same folder? A kluge exists:
Edited to add: This seems to be more likely to occur if one or more application is experiencing a "spinning beachball". My suspicion is that the app I'm trying to activate does not respond to a system call, so the system thinks it's not open and tries to open another copy of it.
Apple says: "When in single-user mode, the keyboard layout is U.S. English." (emphasis added)
I have just synced ~7700 photos/videos from my iPhone to my Windows 8.1 laptop, but I wish to view these files, except I cannot seem to find these files in a viewable format, so I can sort through them.
What is the good software to watch live stream (.ogg file) from the internet, on Macbook? I tried VLC player, but it doesn't work for *=URL=* .What can you recommend?
I have an external hard drive that contains the time machine backups folder, named "backups.backupdb". In that folder, it contains 3 folders for each of my 3 computers. The one I would like to backup only is named "Macbook Pro" and inside the "Macbook Pro" folder contains many dated versions of my backups. I am wondering if create a DMG image of the "Macbook Pro" folder ONLY will result in a permanent archive of a time machine backup without corruption? Meaning, in the future, in a new hard drive, can I create a "backups.backupdb" folder, then mount the DMG file image, click and drag the "Macbook Pro" folder into the "backups.backupdb" folder and have everything like it was? Thanks.
I am trying to copy over the time machine backups folder, "backups.backupdb" to a new drive but it keeps giving me errors like "V100 Spotlight" permissions issues. If I changed the permissions of the entire backups folder, would it result in corruption? Thanks
I have a Macbook Air 13" 2015 model running Sierra and I tried plugging in my Ducky mechanical keyboard today but it seemed to not detect it at all. The keyboard is functional as I'm currently using it with my Windows desktop and the usb port on my Macbook is functional as well. I'm thinking maybe the Macbook usb port isn't supplying enough power to operate the keyboard?
Whenever I open System Preferences directly to one of the subscreens (e.g. Network or Bluetooth), that screen appears for a split second, then Sys Prefs immediately jumps to the Keyboard screen. I have to Search and select the screen I want again before it will "stick." Also, if go to another prefs screen, then click away from it to another app, Sys Prefs again consistently jumps to the keyboard screen.
So, I just tried to log in to facetime on my macbook after some time not using it. None of my passwords worked, and none of my passwords worked on the appleid website. So, I thought I had forgotten my password, and reset it via my phone.
I updated my iphone to 10.3.3 and I think this bug came out. Like when I call someone, I cannot end it because this keyboard is blocking it. See photo for details
I have reason to believe that my iCloud account was recently breached and whoever did it is trying to lock my devices. I am aware that this is done through Find my IPhone and that they have set it to lost mode. However, when I go to Find my IPhone and I view the details of my mac, it simply says locked 6 minutes ago without an option to un-lost mode it. Is there any way to fix this / am I doing something wrong or do I have to go to an apple store and prove I own the device and such? Thanks all, Jimmy
For some of my Messages conversations, the message history is limited (this happened some time after upgrading to High Sierra) so I can't scroll back past a certain point, but the .ichat archives for older conversations exist. I have "Keep messages" set to forever.
I tried everything, changing my WiFi authentication type from WEP to WPA/WPA2, all boot shortcuts, resetting SMC/NVRAM. Pressing power + CommandOption shows me the following:
I used migration assistant to boot a new macbook pro with the latest Time Machine backup of my macbook air. Files transferred without a problem. However, the new machine is now called "First Last 1" even though I asked migration assistant to overwrite the user conflict. When I launch a terminal window, it says I am in my old macbook air, and git no longer works. Has anyone seen this before? All my files are there but somewhere the transfer went wrong.
I used to be able to add (or remove) users to this folder via Finder's Get Info. Today I noticed I was not able to do that anymore:
Basically I only have Windows. My Mac partition doesn't even show up in the boot menu. I was trying to format some unallocated space and basically ended up somehow merging it with my Recovery partition, then formatting that.
I am a beginner of using programming commands. Why {2} is not functional after ([^\t]*\t) in macOS terminal?
In Windows since always, when a prompt appeared with buttons like OK, Apply and Cancel I was able to target the specific button by using TAB key to be able to press it using keyboard (ENTER button). Highlighted button in Windows had that thin dotted grey border around. In macOS let's say I have a prompt like that:
I want to purchase iPhone 6s having iOS 9. I will update from iOS 9 to 10 but I want to know if after updating the iOS version Siri work with 3rd party applications or not? Are there any changes in Siri features in iPhone 6s to iPhone 7? I want to work with 3rd party applications using Siri in iPhone 6s. Is it possible?
I had an external 2TGB HD which I use as a TimeMachine backup which developed problems and could not be repaired. Restrict size of TimeMachine backups
it's now been a few weeks since my iPhone 6 started charging extremely slow after reaching 70% battery life. I am aware of what slow trickle charging is, and the issue I am having is not it. After reaching around 70% my iPhone charges by 1% every 25/30 minutes and even seems to slow down towards the 80/90%. In fact when I tried to charge it to 100% it took me the whole day. I tried every suggestion I could find on the internet, including restarting, resetting, and even erasing all content and settings and restoring the device (not using a backup). I am starting to think the battery has an issue, but just a few weeks ago I had zero issues related to my battery. Thank you in advance
My Mid-2014 15" MBP has been randomly crashing and I haven't been able to identify a pattern to the crashes. Here's a log right after a crash and automatic restart:
I have hundreds of empty folders with mangled names being put in my user folder. I have tried not showing hidden folders but I still have the problem. I can delete them and they come back on reboot. Running Sierra, and I just re-installed it this morning and still have the problem.
I have a strange problem. I have an external NTFS disk, and would like to rename a file. However, when I try to rename it in Finder, I get "Error -36". In the Terminal, I get mv: failed to access 'Ice Cream.avi': Input/output error The wierd thing is that I can rename it into certain names, for example an ice cream.avi, ce cream.avi, but not the ice cream.avi or ice age.avi.
I have just filled my work phone with name and phone number to all at work. Can I somehow make it autofill the email with a pattern?
Nothing seems to have any effect towards a positive outcome. On said machine this also happens with a newly created user. The same holds true after rebooting, rebooting in SafeMode, SMC reset, NVRAM reset. When KeyboardViewer is running and visible the following ports and files are open:
Google Chrome comes by default with Hardware Acceleration enabled. This setting can be changed from the advanced settings.
I'm running 10.12.6 and I have a strange issue where an encrypted Western Digital MyBook can only be used once per reboot of the Mac. The first time you plug it in everything is great. But if you eject it and then unplug it the MacOS never quite thinks it is gone. Disk Utility still shows the drive without the partition and if you plug it back in then you see the drive twice. The second one has the encrypted partition but refuses to mount claiming you should run Disk Utility... Does anyone have an idea of what may be keeping this ghost drive around?
Is it possible to find out how long a MacBook has been turned on since its production?
Complete newbie here so please let me know if I need to clarify or otherwise improve my question. I have searched multiple times using different keywords and have not been able to find a solution to my issue, or make the ones I hoped were a solution work for me. I want to create a AppleScript script that when triggered will allow me to paste a web text clip appended with source attribution and a timestamp, without loosing any embedded links within the selected text. Here is a screen shot of what I want to achieve:
I'm trying to follow Method 2 on *=URL=* to be able to quickly view HTML in Sublime Text 3 using Cmd + B. I've saved a Chrome.sublime-build file in ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User as follows: I've verified by that by typing these commands directly in the terminal, it opens the HTML file in Chrome as desired. In Sublime, in the menu Tools > Build System, "Chrome" is selected. However, if I press Cmd + B, nothing happens, and in the little console at the bottom of Sublime I see a "No Build System" message. What might I be missing here?
Every time I restart my Mac, my Keychain option in iCloud is unticked, my mail passwords are forgotten and my wallpaper goes into default. Everyday, I fix it by checking the keychain and changing my wallpaper and fixing my mail passwords. How can I get the Keychain to remain synchronized?
I often sort by "Date Added" when I work in Finder, it is useful for the work I do to know when a file was added to a folder. If I restore my data from a TimeMachine backup, the "Date Added" becomes the date it was copied from TimeMachine, so it looks like everything was added at the same time (which it technically was, but I am wondering if it is possible to preserve the date from when it was first added).
I have 2 systems that periodically get a pop-up notification "Paste to xxxx" where xxxx is another users system. How do I find out what app or where this message is generate from?
I can't boot my iMac (27", late 2012) and only get to see the white screen. Nothing works, CMD+R, CMD+ALT+Shift+R, Shift, C, CMD+S, ALT … I can hear the startup chime, screen goes white and stays white. I pressed the keys at least for 60 seconds. Neither another NVRAM reset nor a SCM reset brings my Mac back to life. I tried to use an external HD (bootable, Sierra install on it) but … well ALT key won't bring me the boot selection.
I use shift+cmd+x to delete line in editor vscode but sometimes I accidentally click shift+cmd+c to open a terminal. How I disable or remove this shortcut shift+cmd+c global?
While learning bash scripting by going through a Beginner's Guide, I tried writing some lines of code in the .sh file, created in TextEdit on macOS Yosemite and running it using the command bash \path\to\script\file\example_script.sh in bash Terminal. Line of code that I first tested: Standard output (stdout) in Terminal: instead of getting: Then, I got to know about the curious case of "smart quotes" from a stackexchange, and played with some funny combos, like below: Line of code that I tested later: Scenario 1: stdout: Scenario 2: stdout: Scenario 3: stdout: Scenario 4: stdout: Scenario 5: stdout: So, I thought why not find out the reason interactively on this forum. NOTE: Terminal always displays standard double quote " when Shift+" is pressed, but it allows displaying smart double quotes “ ”through ⌘+C, ⌘+V operation.
On macOS the keychain allows me to view all certificates and if I want manually revoke trust to a certificate. I was wondering how I could do something similar on my iPhone as my school forces me to install their intermediate certificate to use their Wi-Fi, which I would like to revoke when not at school to prevent the school from man in the middle attacking/creating fake SSL certificates for websites I view outside of school.
I'm using a MacBook Pro 15 inch retina (mid 2012) and I'm using a 27 inch iMac as an external display (connected using Thunderbolt) and another 23 inch display connected using HDMI.  I'm looking to replace the 23 inch display with a larger one and looking at my options. I've read a few posts on here and the general gist of what I'm reading is that it's possible to hook up a 4K display via HDMI running at 3840 x 2160 @ 30 Hz. My first question is if this would still apply when I keep the 27 inch iMac as a second external display. Does anyone have experience with this? It's working fine with my current setup, but the 23 inch display is only running at a 1920x1080 resolution.
I have two aliases set up in my Gmail account and on my Mac Mail.app I set up a rule for each alias that if an email is "to 'Alias A'", move it to folder "Alias A Folder" - respectively for "Alias B". The issue is that by creating this rule, it works perfectly on the Mail.app on my Mac and it sorts them well, but they are moved out of my Gmail account, so I cannot read those emails on my phone nor on the gmail.com interface. I understand that I could just create a rule to "copy" the mails to "Alias X Folder", but then my personal Gmail account would get cluttered with mail from the aliases. Is there any workaround or scenario for which I can organize my mails in a better way across my devices? Thanks a lot!
I'm putting some sensitive information on a USB thumb drive and I'd like to password protect it so it can only be accessed with a password I set. I used to be able to Erase with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) from Disk Utilities but that doesn't seem to be an option anymore. Is there still a way to do this?
For some reason macOS won't obey my preferences for host name. If I set my computer name to whatiwant, then change the NETBIOS name to whatiwant and workgroup name to workgroup under WINS configuration in Network settings, when I go to Sharing in System Preferences, I see: Other users can access shared folders on this computer, and administrators all volumes, at smb://new-host-4.workgroup. I don't know where else I need to change the host name to stop making it use new-host-4. I tried rebooting, but that didn't fix the problem.
If Safari is disabled under restrictions in the settings app, will that prevent the launch of third party browsers as well, or is it pointless without also disabling the App Store app?
When i go to settings to create apple id, there appears a dialogue box and on it is written that no more apple id an be created. What does it mean? Did anyone knows about it?
I've installed the Apple created "Find My Friends" app. It works great. But the only place I can launch it from is the App Store application. Every other app I've installed automatically creates a desktop icon.
I accidentally deleted the contents of .bash_profile in my new Macbook Air and want the default settings that comes with macOS Sierra. Can anyone just copy/paste their .bash_profile that hasn't been edited?
im having a big issue with my iMac mid 2011, last night the Imac just reboot itself and after that i can't use it. There is a white screen (see picture), the logo and loading is always there, sometimes the loading dont get to the end and the Imac reboot itself, an eterna loop of reboot. I tried all methods about how recovery with USB, from Internet, from the recovery partion and nothing works, in fact the OS doesn't load any visual window like OS X Utility. The thing is that i don't know if this is a hardware problem like HD or if this is a software problem. I have the MacOS Sierra Any idea about it? Thanks
I have been having an issue regarding keyboard short-cut to change input source between Japanese and English on a new iMac running on Sierra. On my old Mac, I used "command+space" (Fig. 1) to change the input source, but now on Sierra I have to use "control+space" (Fig. 2), which is quite inconvenient. Could someone help me how to set my system so that I can use "command+space" to change the input source?
I managed to install and run the Windows version of Steam using Wine. I have installed a Windows-only game (Sonic Mania) and I am able to launch it.
However, I'm worried that my old Mac Pro may not properly handle dissipating the heat generated by all five hard drives in addition to heat from the CPU and motherboard. I haven't ever replaced any of its fans. I'm also curious if there are other reasons making all of these drives internal might shorten their life.
I'm running macOS Sierra on an early 2015 MacBook Pro with a 500 GB SSD. I've been trying to get Windows 10 installed via Bootcamp by following this guide: *=URL=* I've allocated 80GB of space via the Bootcamp Assistant. I'm getting stuck at the following error: "Setup was unable to use the existing system partition because it does not contain the required free space" I can go larger, but am not confident that would resolve the issue (I've done some searching and others report an issue with 100GB) and I didn't really want to give Windows that much space. Any ideas?
I had some problems with a Mac's Fusion Drive. I erased the first MB of the SDD (Terminal in recovery mode). After that I partitioned the SDD again (with GUID). That works. But the HDD is now missing. It doesn't show up on diskutil list and distil cs list says there is no more core storage.
It stays and it goes. Sometimes I have to push lightly down on the screen to get rid of it. I tried to take a screenshot of it but it seems as if the glitch/ whatever it is, is internal.
How can I configure macOS' Finder in a way that I can move (not copy) files via drag & drop to another drive without pressing Cmd? I'm transferring files to a network storage on a regular basis and pressing Cmd all the time is a bit tedious.
The question is: What does the setting Time Zone Override actually mean? Does it in any way affect events which have a time zone or are marked as floating. More specifically, when I am in a different time zone, how does this setting affect the following possibilities: Time Zone Override: Off, Event time zone set to home Time Zone Override: On, Event time zone set to home Time Zone Override: Off, Event time zone set to floating Time Zone Override: On, Event time zone set to floating
I have bought a new Magic Keyboard in Portugal to replace my previous one as I spilled coffee on it! Now I find many of the keys produce bizarre non matching symbols. What on Earth is going on? If I try to hit the question mark key all I get is this _ If I want an apostrophe I get - instead The bracket keys are out of order and I struggle to find what I need. ; is found by hitting a key to the right of L but it marked with a another option. The key next to that is a ^ yet gives me " or '
I had no problem until the few last days. My phone was full and I couldn't download anything. Then I deleted the majority of my pictures and some apps and tried to download these apps back. But the icon that pops up when it starts to download, that circle, keeps rotating forever and it doesn't download the app.
I'm using iCloud Drive to sync my Desktop and Documents folders to iCloud. In theory this is good, but it's finished uploading every single file, and the files still take space on my HD. It doesn't seem that macOS makes space when needed, as when I try creating a large file with mkfile or try to copy a bigger file through the Finder it fails saying there's no space left. I know that if I'm sure all files are syncronized I can switch iCloud Drive off and back on to free up space, but is this really the official and/or best way to free up space after syncing is finished?
I am using a Macbook Pro running Sierra 10.12.6. All of sudden when I went to the studio to record an artist, I found that one of the USB ports (one next to the SD card slot) won't recognize any of the devices that I plug-in. While recording I need to use both the USB ports as I need one for the iLok and another one for my audio interface (Roland Quad Capture).
How can I delete certificates on my MacBook? In the All Items category I am having to spend to much time looking for the most current certificates.
I just installed High Sierra Developer Beta 8 on my 2015 Macbook Pro and I haven't been able to make Tuxera NTFS work with it. A few searches on Google seem to indicate that it does work with High Sierra, but all I get is an error when trying to mount my external HDD:
I've installed a font in the font book, but the bold format does not work. I see the bold in the font book. Also, the italic format does work. How to fix it? (I'm running on El Capitan). Is there an option to reinstall the font?
I am trying to edit the behavior of the media key "<<" on a macbook keyboard. There is a way to map the "rewind" button to the "short jump back" function in vlc? How does mac os deal with media keys under the hood?
I use Firefox and I got this message from Little Snitch. What is pingsender and why does it wants to connect to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org?
Skype is sending notification noises straight to my headphones, rather than putting them through my system's output setting. How can I make Skype send message noises through my wanted output device?
I mean, how to customize which font or glyph of font to use when there are missing glyphs in base font. Is there any way to do it on MacOS? Here is the link for "Windows font link": https://docs.microsoft.com/ko-kr/globalization/input/font-technology#font-linking
I had HDD 1TB with 2 partitions. A partition: 985Gb with data B partition: 15Gb empty I wanted to resize B partition with Disk Utility, after I did, it left me with 2 empty partitions without any files ...
Can I create a virtual MIDI keyboard that plays a .mid file? I have the Piano VST Addictive Keys, and would like to be able to play .mid files using the sounds that this VST provides. I thought I could use a virtual midi device as the input device for Addictive Keys.
I have a service, where an app is generated from a jar file, using Jar2App, on the fly. I use an Ubuntu Linux server as host for the service and I need to sign the app, after it is generated. How can I do this on the server, automatically? I know I need a developer id, but how can I make the codesign application work on my server or is there any working alternative to Ubuntu?
VS Code 1.15.0 and 1.15.1 macOS 10.12.6 Hello, I seem to have managed to install multiple versions of VS Code. I currently have 1.15.0 and 1.15.1. These can be accessed separately by right clicking a file in macOS Finder and selecting either version. However, only one copy of VS Code is showing up in Applications and that seems to be 1.15.0. I've downloaded the latest Darwin build but before installing that, I'd like to get things cleared up so that I don't end up with three versions installed!
Very often I get an error message on the terminal "cp: .: Invalid argument". It also happens with other commands than "cp". For example:
I have 2 Apple monitors: An old LED Cinema Display that has a Mini DisplayPort and a slightly newer Thunderbolt Display with a Thunderbolt 2 connection. I am currently using them both connected to my 2014 MBP with no issues. I recently got a 2017 MBP and would like to see if there is ANY setup that will allow me to connect both monitors. From what I've read, the TB3 to TB2 adapter will not work with the Mini DisplayPort. Is there any other setup that people have used that has worked for them?
A few days ago my iMac would notify me via a tone and a message whenever a call came into my iphone. This was good for me but my iMac suddenly stopped doing this. How do I turn it back on?
Safari 10.1 doesn’t display the page correctly in part that the picture and title that supposed to be on the middle and display properly on Fair Fox and Chrome displayed on the side of the screen. I find similar question (see link below): *=URL=* The suggested solution is to Restore Standard Fonts: "Try Applications > Font Book > File > Restore Standard Fonts" But I could not find where in Applications > Font Book File located. How to find it/or use another solution to fix formatting issues in Safari 10.1? thanks.
I'm new to using Apple coming from a Windows/Ubuntu background. I found if I have two maximised windows of an app, one on each of two monitors (e.g. Pro Tools mix and edit window), then I work in Firefox maximised, then try alt-tab back to the two windows only one will display and Firefox remains on screen. How do I make alt-tab show all windows of an app on screen?
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, mention that Auxiliary Windows "can be shown on the same space as the fullscreen window." source, see also. However, I haven't come across apps that support this feature (i.e. that can be opened on top of full screen apps) except for the two I mentioned (SideWriter and Helium). EDIT: Found a third app that works in full screen mode: Unclutter.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to plug in a single dock, and have that dock power 3 displays. I'd like to know if it's possible, and if so, what dock there is. If it's not possible, will just using two docks on the same side of the machine be okay?
I had a bit of water damage incident with my MBP 13 (mid 2014). Apple have quoted me £1250 to replace the flash storage, the top board and the logic board so obviously it's a write off in that regard.
Is it possible to access photos from iPhone iCloud backups without loading them onto a iPhone? After losing my phone, I purchased a new iPhone with less memory. I was able to partially restore my apps and photos on to this new iPhone but not completely due to lack of space. Now I have a situation where several hundred photos are stored in a iPhone backup but I have seemingly no way of accessing them without purchasing a iPhone with the same memory as the previous one. Is there any way around this? (I have looked into a few of the third party tools like 'iMobie phoneRescue' or Dr Fone and if anyone has any first hand experience using these I would be interested to hear from you)
I cannot see my external hard drive neither in Finder nor in Disk Utility and not even in Terminal. I tried on every usb port.
I have photos around 3021 and 91 videos on my Mac but once I sync with my iPad. The photo collection in iPad only have 2938 photos and 91 photos. My Mac still have 3021, how to I sync all the rest of the photos? At the moment, if I tried to sync, It has nothing to sync.
I get the following bug fairly regularily, all apps I try to open display this error message:  When I force quit the apps, the error windows as seen on the pic refuse to close or be moved. Only restarting my Mac seems to do the job. I recently reinstalled version 10.12.6 Sierra but to no avail. EDIT: the issue persists and happens after about 2 days after booting (I think it's directly connected to the duration of usage); it's the same when trying to open files that require an unopened app; I tried running the laptop in safe mode and I didn't seem to have this problem, although i had the cahnce to run the mode for only about 24 hours
EDIT: I tried rearranging the icons to see if anything on the far left will trigger this or it is just finder. Curiously, as of Sierra at least, the leftmost Finder icon seems to be fixed and impossible to drag/rearrange.
from quite some time I am using Apple Mail signed in with my Gmail Account. I have almost 20K emails and I need to clean up my Gmail account, make separate folders and categorize them. But before that, I want to backup all the email database that I have in my Apple Mail. I am using the export function but it's taking too long and I am not a big fan of TIme Machine as it backs up all the other things as well along with your database folder consuming too much space, so I disabled it long time back. Is there any solution with which I can backup my Apple Mail Gmail account automatically at regular intervals to an external hard drive?
I am trying to build a Mac application using xcode for use in OS version 10.8 and above. I've created the product archive(.pkg file) using pkgbuild and productbuild commands. My main goal is to create an app that can be installed without requiring admin password and displayed in launchpad for ease of access. But the problem with my .pkg is that during installation it asks for admin password. Precheck: No part of the code works on or requires sudo permission. No explicit copy commands made to root directories. The pkg is signed with a valid certificate.
I have an encrypted hfs+ external SSD. When I plug it into my mac and, it prompts for my password, but after I enter it nothing happens. I tried this in terminal:
I have two AirPort Extremes. One has its WAN port connected to my modem, and the other as been configured to wirelessly extend the first, meaning none of the Ethernet ports on the back are connected. I plan to connect four devices to this second AirPort Extreme. I know I can use the three LAN ports on the back to connect devices, but can I use the WAN port?
I didn't touch autoindex. I've already lost almost all hope.
As an administrator for this Mac, I suddenly became unable to add or delete user accounts. Other user accounts are working great, but the machine´s different users are no longer listed, except my own. How do I get this changed backed to normal?
We have 8 Apple IDs made up of 4 iCloud email addresses and 4 other email addresses. Is there an Apple service or other way for me to check if any of these addresses have been hacked?
I need to use an antenna connector in order to physically connect the iPhone RF antennas to a base station emulator for testing. I have an antenna connector for Android (samsung device) but it is different for iPhone. In the photo I highlight (in red) the two antennas for which I want the connector.
I'm running Sierra (10.12.6) on a late 2016 MBP and since some weeks, Keychain freezes every few seconds when interacting with it. For example, I start typing something in the search field, and after a few characters, it freezes for about 3-4 seconds before displaying the characters I typed in while frozen. If I move the mouse pointer into the window during such a freeze, it shows the spinning ball. I tried disabling iCloud keychain which didn't help. In the console, I noticed many messages like this: default 11:47:03.581923 +0300 Keychain Access CSSM Exception: -2147413737 CSSMERR_DL_DATASTORE_DOESNOT_EXIST
I came over a bug last month that enabled me to legitimately record a video on my iPhone's camera app without having to pause the music that was playing. But I shut my phone off and back on and it stopped working, I wish someone knew how to trigger this again or inform me if it was patched by apple in a recent update, but yea, that's basically it.
I was looking at a comparison between 2017 Apple computer offerings and the highest end system appears to be the Mac Pro, a tower-type computer 6 inches in diameter and 9 inches high. This system is described as expandable in memory up to 64 gigabytes. So, is that the top-end limit on memory for current Apple computers?
I just got a new samsung monitor: S24E650DW and want to connect it to my imac. I had an mini-display to HDMI, and the store didn't have an mini-display to display port, so I thought I could use the hdmi-displayport.
I just made an "Expedite review" request to apple for a major bug yesterday and Apple approved the app in few hours. Now (Today) I want to request Expedite review again of-course for a major reason. What is the chance of approval again? Will that affect my future requests?
I have several mail accounts. I've set Mail to send new mail messages from one of my accounts (my primary account).
Is there in the official AppStore a Webdav sync client that allows to open remote files (from Webdav or Samba server) in other apps (such as Pages or Word) without having to download, edit and upload the file manually ? Documents (from Readle) can sync remote files from a webdav server but the files can't be edited outside of the Documents app. That's why I am searching for another application.
Last night I accidentally deleted all my contacts from my phone. However, my contacts were synced via Bluetooth with my 2016 Kia Sportage. Is there a way to upload them back from the car and onto my phone, rather than trying to track them all down again? A cursory sweep of Google/Apple did not even answers if this is possible, let alone how to do it. Thanks.
I have a button on the side of my mouse that Mission Control sees as Mouse Button 4. In Mission Control's preferences, I can assign this button to either 'Show Desktop', 'Mission Control' or 'Show Dashboard'. All three of these works fine, but if I try to map it to 'Application windows' the mouse button doesn't respond. I'm able to bring up 'Application windows' using the keyboard shortcuts though.
I bought an apple watch just for this reason (Yeah I should have done my research beforehand). But I wanted to monitor her heart rate after she recently had a stroke. Is there an app that can send an alarm to my IPhone in case here heart rate exceeds a certain bpm or any other criteria? I know apple itself doesn't support a function like this because they don't want their device being used as a medical device, but that's exactly what I would like it to be.
I am currently trying to improve the appearance of the "Zen Mode" setting in VS Code on the Apple Mac. As you can see from the attached image, I've managed to get round the lack of centering problem by having an untitled buffer open to the left, and by various other tweaks, it's looking pretty good, I think. I've been using this page *=URL=* to get the names of various screen elements that I want to disable, but I cannot seem to find what the vertical blue changed text indicators shown on the left-hand side of the code, and on the extreme right-hand side of the code are called.
On my Macbook Pro OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 I have a problem with the reading list. I can hide it that works. The problem is how do I edit to delete some on the reading lists. There USED TO BE A SMALL X IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER. I could click it to delete it, but no more. Yes the software is up to date. Any ideas?
I cannot delete an icon from my menu bar. If I click the command button and drag it off of the menu bar, it shows a circle with a line through it, which is an indicator to me that this action is not possible. It is from the Malwarebytes program which I deleted, and the program is definitely no longer functioning. Is there another method of removing this icon?
So, here’s the thing. I have a new iPhone and an old Mac. iOS 11 (still in beta as of today) and El Capitan (no more updates for this Mac). I use iCloud photo library in both devices. When I take a photo in the new format with my iPhone 7, is there any way to use it right away in my mac, without having to convert it in my iPhone first? I mean, can I get those photos synced through iCloud and converted locally on my Mac?
The answer by tubedogg to question Reuse Time Machine backup drive after migration to new machine described a procedure to do this. It didn't address this issue: Stupid typo or fouled up TM BU drive?
I've been having some trouble with network handling using MacBooks and MacBooks only. At home I'm using really old NetGear WGR614V9 router, everything works fine but every single one of my Apple laptops (full list at the end of the post) was dropping wi-fi signal every 5-60 minutes for a few seconds, especially under heavy network usage (imagine you're trying to get Linux using Torrent, it takes a good while to find peers then the transfer gets better and better and bam, it drops completely, repeat). At my friend's place once any of my MacBooks joined his network - the whole network became unstable, to the point it was required to reset the router, because it won't accept any new devices. At my parent's flat if I use my MacBook next to any other laptop using wi-fi - Mac is stealing signal REALLY bad, the internet on the laptop next to it is usually unusable.
I've been having this issue for a while now. I cant remember if it was a problem when I was using Mavericks, but I've only noticed it using Sierra. Every time I initiate mission control (using either F3 or Three finger gesture upwards), if I click on a window, or even just want to return to the original window I was on, another open window comes to the front. This issue is extremely frustrating, as I almost always end up having to click on the window I was originally on when I see it behind the other window that comes up. I am using a Macbook Pro Early 2015 on MacOS Sierra Version 10.12.1
When macOS "sees" a printer listed on this page, it automatically fetches and installs a printer driver package that will support that printer if it didn't have it already. For example, if I have a new Mac, and I plug in an HP printer with USB, or see one on Bonjour and try to install it, macOS will install all a driver package for all of the HP printers.
So some things I figured out already like open this file/folder/app etc. What more can I ask Siri on my MacBook Pro?
I sign into a few different email accounts for different family members and I have a few. Im not sure if that is how it happened but What is ARDAgent.app? I found it as being allowed in my Security and Privacy in my firewall.
Can I Change my iTunes account credit to cash or used it for something so I can get money ? So can someone help me on this because I load $400 on my iTunes account and in need it back now Thanks
I have 4 Dell 1708FPT monitors (*=URL=* which use either DVI or VGA to connect. I am wondering what adapters I would need to get all 4 monitors powered by my MacBook Pro 15 inch early 2013 laptop running macOS Sierra?
I am trying to extract some data from an old iPhone backup which I have on iCloud. I am looking for a good way to do this. I have two options in mind, neither of which will work well for me:
I got a new computer from work: Macbook Pro 2015. Opened it up and the expected battery life read 14 hours.
To delete files/folders we need to use Command + Delete shortcut, Is it anything possible to change to Delete key as same as Window.
I need to reinstall Mac OS from recovery since Disk Utility was unable to repair some disk errors. I have few notes in the notes app and important Bookmarks/opened tabs in both Chrome and Firefox, Which I don't want to lose.
I'm in a bit of a predicament. Once upon a time, I installed rEFInd on my 2012 Mac Pro. I eventually removed it. I believe I also once tried to install Kali Linux in a dual boot environment. Fast forward and I have tried to follow the steps in this guide to make a Windows-bootable external drive. My final (and fatal) step was selecting the Windows disk in "Startup Disk" in System Preferences like so:
I currently own a MBP (2016, 13", No Touch Bar) as well as an official Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter (HDMI version). I have a second screen plugged in (Asus VS247H, HDMI, 24" 1080p), and everything works OK.
How do I mount an encrypted disk in single-user mode? I tried using one of the answers to “How can I mount an encrypted disk from the command line?”; but when I tried using “diskutil” as suggested, I got an error saying it’s unable to run. I booted into single-user mode, ran the two commands that are then listed after “To mount the root device as read-write”, and then got this message when trying to use “diskutil”: There's a question on “How do I load the DiskManagement framework in single user mode?”, but none of the answers seem to provide a way to run “diskutil”.
Skype (7.56.0.776) on MacOS (10.10.5) keeps 600Mb in the two caches below, are these both deleteable without any negative effects? Can I prevent Skype doing this with any (Skype or MacOS) config setting? or do I just have to write a crude wrapper which monitors/purges these regularly? EDIT 1: wrt effect on performance, Skype keeps large disk caches, and crashes regularly, which may well lead to fragmentation. Related to the second: How do I prevent the Skype emoticon cache emo_cache_v2 directory from being populated with automatically downloaded images?
This allows me to navigate to locate the Reason unix executable at Reason.app/Content/MacOS/Reason  When I execute the Reason file, reason starts up and I can use it normally. I can use my ignition key and after installing the latest version of code meter (6.50b from the codemeter.com) and installing Authorizer using Authorizer.pkg (from the Resources folder inside Reason.app) I was able to auhorize my computer to run reason without the ignition key. If you try this and find that the web page says it can't find code meter, try pressing the reload page button on your browser. My question is: how can I start reason without having to go show package contents and invoke the Reason executable directly? It's seems clear that something extra is happening when I double click the reason.app icon that causes the error, how can I get it to skip that and execute the Reason executable only. I've searched around in the Reason.app folder and I imagine that there's something in there that I need to ch
When I'm at my office I find that my iPhone 7 Plus Wi-Fi network performance is near zero, until I turn off Bluetooth. With Bluetooth off, I get the full bandwidth that I know our office offers over the Wi-Fi. I've spoken to the guy that manages Wi-Fi and he assures me the problem is with the phone, but of course I don't have this same problem at home.
Messages is slow to start. The icon will bounce once or twice, then show that it is running (black dot under icon) but it will take 10 to 30 minutes for the window to show up.
The TV has only HDMI inputs. I've found cables on the Internet that will connect Mini DisplayPort to HDMI: AmazonBasics Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Cable - 3 Feet
I have external hard drive Transcend. Previously I could work with it without problems , but I did not use it for two month. Today I tried to connect to my Mac and result : I can see HD in Disc Utility , but I can't see it in Finder. Is there a setting to change that would prevent or cause the vipooume to show in finder? EDIT Now I get new message when I connected HD to Mac
Today as I was using my WD HDD, it fell off my corner. After I fixed the thing, I plugged it into the Mac and it loads the HDD but it's very very very very slow. It also does not work sometimes. The entire laptop just hangs
I have a jailbroken fourth-generation iPad running iOS 6.1.3. I'd like to upgrade it to some higher iOS, but not the latest iOS (10.3.3 or 11), since no jailbreak exists for that. My question is, is there anyway I can upgrade my iPad to an iOS for which a jailbreak exists?
I made a recording in GarageBand and when I went to listen to it (after deleting some sections of it) it would play some sections like they should sound and some without the sustain. Why does this happen and how should I fix this?
I currently have a family plan with myself and 4 family members. Only my daughter is actively using Apple Music with over 2000 songs. I would like to downgrade the service to a single user for her to a student plan (she's in college). Is there any way she can keep her music if I downgrade to a single user?
From what I've read so far, it seems like VIDEO FaceTime will be free for both parties, other than: If the party is using WiFi, whatever they have to pay their ISP for internet access. This is usually a flat rate, though some people have data caps.
I use iCloud for my personal calendaring. I use Fastmail as my email provider and I have a custom email domain (eg me@mydomain.com). When I receive calendar invites from Google users, it seems I have to manually open the .ICS attached files to add them to my calendar and respond. Is there any way to make iCloud aware of these incoming invites, or would I need to start using my iCloud email for this? I know I could avoid this whole problem by switching to Gmail and using google calendar but I really don't want to.
I'm trying to convert my old 13" unibody MacBook Pro (mid-2012) display into an external monitor. I purchased a controller board from eBay that supports the display panel of MacBook Pro. I am wondering how to connect LVDS cable from MBP to the controller board. Controller board already has it's own LVDS cable. I'm wondering if there is any kind of extension available that can be used to connect these two cables. I'm not sure what would be the right terminology but I guess 30-pin LVDS female to 30-pin LVDS female port? Not sure. Below are the images of both.
I have a Mac Book Pro intel core duo running OSX.11.6. Suddenly today I get a mail error message when I attempt to open mail "You can't open the application "Mail.app" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported" and it will not open at all. Any ideas? No recent updates.
I've had a very strange Finer error caused by recent macOS High Sierra betas that affected Macs running macOS 10.13 as well as macOS 10.12 Sierra. This error causes an entire Finder window to show visual artifacts when opening certain folders on either an APFS or HFS+ volume. After moving the cursor or the affected Finder window, the window may look something like this;
This is unbelievably annoying, since when I code online, there is no means of undoing, and thus retrieving the text I deleted.
Is there an official online Apple source for documentation for Swift 3? (Preferably that can be accessed without signing in to a developer account.) Browser searches for "Swift 3" are finding links to documentation for Swift 4 at developer.apple.com, but I am interested in the older version.
I have a Macbook Pro from late 2011. it shuts down when the battery percentage is anywhere from 20-45%. Everything that I've been reading online says that the battery is dying and needs to be replaced, but I replaced the battery less than six months ago, and to my knowledge, they're supposed to last upwards of 4 years.
I have a late 2014 27-inch 5K Retina iMac, with a "Fusion Drive" composed of 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD. This particular Mac has Yosemite (10.10.5) installed. In order to do some testing of High Sierra, I wanted to create a new HFS+ Journaled partition using 200GB of the available 400GB, and once I install a bootable High Sierra, let High Sierra convert its installed partition to APFS.
I've got an Applescript program that works really well for getting most of the info of a currently playing track into a series of named variables: But I'm completely baffled on how to get actual file path of the current track. The Applescript library for iTunes has a "file track" entry that has a "location" item, but I haven't been able to figure out how to use it in this context. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would like to be able to read markdown (.md) files with Quick Look. Unfortunately, it just appears like this:
I would really like to continue using this keyboard as I paid good money for it and I really like the sound and feel of the mechanical switches. Obviously, the keyboard is working, and the problem appears to be with how macOS is interpreting the input. I'm hoping someone will recognize the symptoms I am having and can tell me that I accidentally turned on some obscure setting or something like that. Any help is appreciated, but I will say up front, I'm not buying an official Apple keyboard as an easy fix.
I just bought an iPad 2 mini from someone who listed it on a classified ads site. I updated the OS successfully but now it's saying that a specific organization will automatically configure my iPad...I am not a part of this organization. Even if I try to configure it with that organization's configuration, I am asked to login with my organizational credentials...which I don't have. Is it stolen and my hard earned money gone or am I just doing something wrong?
MacOS Sierra I have enabled remote for user git and able to change to that user from terminal with “su - git” command, but not with “ssh git@127.0.0.1”
I recently had to move from Aperture to Photos for organising and editing my RAW format photos as Aperture no longer lets me order print products. I use quite a few plugins for the editing bit, which in Aperture could be done with the lossless TIFF file format. However, when using a plugin in Photos I see the image file has been converted to JPG. Is there a way to change this to also use TIFF or PNG? I'm unable to see any quality loss with my own eyes, but I prefer to keep my photos as high quality as possible for print etc.
I recently read in a blog post don't run open "/Applications/*" otherwise many tabs will reopen, But I ran it in Terminal and then suddenly all my apps in my Applications started to open my Mac started to heat up to 60 C and fans 1460 RPM I immediately force quit all the apps.What does "open Applications/*" do? and what is the meaning of *?
I am trying to reset my MacBook Pro, and when I was re-installing the macOS I got this error: An Error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.
I have installed Linux on a second partition on my MacBook, it also installed the GRUB boot loader which is fine however I have the following problems: When GRUB loads by default there is no entry for booting into OS X, only Linux. When I hold option on boot to boot from the OS X partition it doesn’t detect that there is an OS on another partition and only gives me the option for my OS X partition or the Recovery partition. If possible I would like to remove GRUB and add the Linux partition to my OS X Boot Loader so I have to hold option to boot into Linux as I prefer the look of it and will be using OS X more often so would also be more convenient. However, failing that I would like to edit my GRUB MBR to add the OS X partition and have it set to auto-boot said partition within 3 seconds if no key is pressed. If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it, I’ve never ran into similar problems and dug my way out of the hole before but this time I can’t seem to, any and a
So we went on holiday 3 weeks ago and during the holiday my girlfriend received a notification saying that her iPhone was locked from iCloud. We got around it and changed the password to iCloud. Yesterday when we arrived home, and turned on the MacBook it was firmware locked. We can't do nothing.
All other countries I tried to set in regional settings works perfectly with Numbers and properly converting existing dates, creating new dates in Min/Max scale values. Can anyone confirm the same issue?
I downloaded something out of the Internet and executed it, which might could have malware. After that I deleted all of that and i opened my Terminal and it gave me this error:
I have created it this way: chosen to create a Service first, then set to get PDF in Preview.app, then added a Quartz-filter. Saved and opened to add to library.
I'm new in macOS and I'm using macOS Sierra, In my Ubuntu and other Linux-based system, terminal has an auto-complete that helps to complete commands and their options. For example for wget and other commands, in additional to command completion, after pressing Tab 2 times, it lists all command options (if any), or in sudo w it list all commands start with w
I have an interesting case on an iMac. It has a fusion drive and at some point it stoped booting up. Booting up in single-user mode, I tried to mount the boot partition but it gave an error "permission denied" (though it's not encrypted). I rebooted from an installation media and tried to use diskutil to check for errors. Repairing the volume failed after it attempted to resize the volume with the message "resize support required, such as HFS+ with Journaling enabled". I checked the file system and indeed, it wasn't JOURNALED. The "Enable Journaling" option in disk utility wasn't available despite having unmounted the volume. Terminal was also of no help since the "diskutil enableJournal" doesn't seem to work on core storage volumes. So my question is: Is it possible to reenable journaling on a CoreStorage logical volume? Diskutil output: Diskutil cs list output: First Aid Error:
The CommandTab (to alternate between applications) and Command Space (for Spotlight) stop working on my Mac once I open the GNS3 application (GNS3 is a virtual network simulator that I use for my Cisco studies). I did look at GNS3 support, actually looked at their forums. No one else as yet has faced this issue. I haven't upgraded to the new version of GNS3 and haven't made any changes at all on my Mac. I've been using the same version for over a year now and haven't faced this issue. This just randomly started yesterday.
man 3 nice says that nice is obsoleted by the setpriority call. In one of my plist files I use: How can I replace this to use SetPriority instead if that is possible?
On one of the first steps, I get a problem. When I tried to backup currently installed git I got permissions restriction. It's ok it must be some OSX system restriction.
I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I plugged in my external 1080p display (HP 25bw) in clamshell mode and it almost works great - except the screen is too large for the monitor. My dock is too far down off the edge, and my menu is too far up. For example, when I took the attached screenshot, the Chrome window fills the entire screen I can see: I have checked and the display options are using native resolution of the monitor (1920x1080 @60hz).
When I open photos it shows the number of photos and the number left to upload:  How come it is uploading more photos than I have?
Can anyone please help how I can turn off device enrollment notifications? I have purchased a MacBook Pro a year ago and after upgrading to Sierra started to receive notifications from a company that owned a laptop before. I have tried contacting Apple Service and the actual company, no luck so far. I have learned that I need to find two files: /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ManagedClientAgent.enrollagent.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ManagedClient.enroll.plist But I can't move them (and even create folders where they can be moved): /Library/LaunchAgentsDisabled and /Library/LaunchDaemonsDisabled Please help!
I have a huge (filesize) pages document, which I suspect is due to all the images in it. The images were copied from elsewhere and pasted in. A lot of the images are original resolutions of 1080 minimum (in most cases higher) However, in the new document they obviously don't need to be that large. Is there a way for me to reduce the document's filesize by limiting the images' sizes? I hope you can understand what I mean. (I need to be able to convert this to a word document afterwards if that matters)
I have been texting a friend in Mexico for several months. One of my friends was alarmed and said I was using my data. Is that true?
And then this. It's been a perfect machine otherwise and still runs like it did when I bought it new in October of 2014. I'm really freaking bummed and hoping that this can be solved. I will be going to an Apple Store in the city I'm moving to tomorrow. Do I need a hardware repair or can I try software fixes?
I signed into iCloud in my Mac and I was sent a verification code to my iPhone, which I entered in the Mac. But then I was surprised to be asked for the iPhone passcode. I then got this dialog box, what protected data would be unavailable? This situation actually never happened again, but I keep asking myself: in what situation are you required to enter the iPhone passcode?
However this isn't sufficient, as this doesn't say which applications are dependent on which services. Nor are the interservice dependencies clear. (E.g. in freebsd you needed to have working name resolution happening before attempting NFS mounts.) MacOS has a lot more services than most unixen.
I sometimes noticed that, when I swap to a different SIM (different carrier) on iPhone, I'm asked for my apple ID password to activate the iPhone. On some other swaps I did on different iPhones I wasn't required for the password at all. When are you prompted for your apple ID password and why?
I attached the panic report below, I have no idea what it means
About a week ago, I installed an application in my MacBook from a dubious source. Since then I noticed some weird behaviours. First, while I was making a bank transfer in Safari, I got the following popup warning: “Safari” would like to control this computer using accessibility features I denied the access, as it never asked for it before and I saw no reason to grant it.
I suspect that my cleaner has stolen my iPad Pro. I restored from an iCloud backup of an iPhone. It does not show up in find my iPhone on safari or my iPhone. I only had the device a week and hadn't had the time to properly set it up. I have definitely signed into iCloud on the device though. Is there any thing I can do to track it down, send a message etc without Find my iPhone? Is there any thing I can do to track it down, send a message etc without Find my iPhone? Can I reauthorise it so my iMessages aren't sent there? Can I reauthorise it so my iMessages aren't sent there? Before I definitely had my iMessages and other notifications being sent there
Currently I have WhatsApp backuped in my iCloud account. I want to change my phone number, not the iCloud account too. Still, I want to keep this backup. Is it possible to have in the same iCloud account two separate backups from two different WhatsApp numbers? Or the 2nd one will overwrite the 1st one and I will lose it? Thank you very much!
Why not? It is setup as DHCP. I have no clue what to do. Again, none of this happened until we rebooted/reset the router and modem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When there is less than 5% battery left on a mac, the battery indicator goes red and system performance significantly drops - presumably in an attempt to make that remaining 5% last a little longer. Is there a way to manually trigger this, so that the system performance is low (and battery life longer), even when there is plentiful battery? This would theoretically be a way of extending the number of hours on a battery beyond the rated amount.
I just bought a Macbook 13 (2017) without touch bar. I'm having this issue in which in order to make it work with my Asus PB279Q, I have to start in safe mode. Once the display is working in safe mode if I re start the macbook again to normal boot, the display will continue working just fine.
I'm starting on a fresh macOS install and so far only have Nix installed. Can Homebrew coexist well with it or do I have to pick one and stick with it?
I haven't used iTunes for a bit and I seem to recall a while back there was an update. Today I tried searching Apple Music for a few things and all I get is "An Error Occurred Try Again". Some googling turned up this discussion which strongly suggests that iTunes 12.6 (actually 12.5 or later) has a problem where searching will not work. Now I'm reasonably sure I was using 12.5 previously with Mavericks and was able to search just fine, but I don't generally pay much attention to what version of iTunes I'm running, so maybe I'm mistaken. Does anyone know if in fact iTunes 12.6 has issues with Mavericks or if there is any other reason why search would not work, and I would be getting this error?
I have an iPhone 5 upon which I have installed imo that had been working well. But now when I send a voice message to my friend they can’t hear and play my voice message on their phone. I have removed and reinstall imo on my iPhone 5, but it is still not working.
I've begun creating a centralised iPhoto library of all the family photos and was hoping to share it with my family members in a well presented way rather than just sending them the raw images. My current process is: - Scan the image - Add a rough date to the meta of the image in iPhoto - Use facial recognition in iPhoto to group / tag images by who they are
I have wondered to my self if I can search on YouTube through Siri (iPhone 6s), when I have tried the "help" with Siri it(she?) showed me how can I use it with Facebook and twitter. My questions are this: How can I use "help" for a specific app (like "help with YouTube ") and get all the commands I need for the specific app.
My right AirPod connected to my Macbook Pro 2015 plays quieter than left. But if AirPods are connected to the iPhone everything works fine and both of them sounds good. Any ideas or Solutions?
Could YouTube, Todoist, myEmail (fill in name app your looking for) be controlled/used with Siri? Could a third party iOS app be controlled by Siri?
I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 9.3.5 that i would like to wipe and reset. I do not have the passcode. I also do not have access to iTunes. My only computer is a Linux Ubuntu 16.04. I have tried to run iTunes under Wine and PlayOnLinux as suggested in some other posts, but neither of those worked. iTunes wouldn't run under Wine and PlayOnLinux didn't have USB support. Installing Windows to a new partition and running iTunes from there is an absolute last resort that i would like to avoid. I am also not reasonably close to an Apple Store. Is it possible for me to reset this phone without doing that, and if so, how would I do it?
I have a US power cord for my AirPort Time Capsule (802.11ac 2TB), and I want to use it in Europe (specifically Norway). The power outlets here deliver 220V rather than the 120V a US power outlet delivers. Will a simple plug adapter be enough, or will that fry my AirPort? That is, can the AirPort Time Capsule sold in the US handle 220V as well as 120V?
A colleague send me an invitation to a shared iCloud note which contains current assignments for my work. I accepted it and now can read and edit the note from my iPhone and from icloud.com, but I can't see it on my Mac Pro's notes application. I activated my iCloud account in System Preferences → Internet Accounts and checked the option to sync notes. What else do I have to change to see shared notes on my Notes.app?
When I type "P" on pages and safari, there is a bar above my ipad keyboard that says an explicit result. How do I remove the bar or the explicit result?
Unless I change it every time, the search criteria in finder are set like this by default: Is there a way to change it? Most of the things I usually search for are not like the ones filtered in.
When I use commands like scutil --dns or dsconfigad -show I get output like "india.CompanyName_Corp.com" which is the FQDN (Fully Qualified domain name). Is there any way to only get "CompanyName" which is the domain NetBIOS name? Would not mind if the answer was in Objective C / Swift / AppleScript.
iCloud not installing. I installed iCloud Setup 3 times and when l installed it...
How can I animate a sentence in final cut pro, where each word in the sentence slides in from the right (violently), slamming into place in the middle of the screen, knocking the previous word further to the left (but not off the screen, it just stops when the new word stops.) I hope that can help you understand what I'm going for, I can't find any examples of this effect even though I'm certain I've seen it before and often.
On a PC with multiple keyboard layouts, you can temporary switch to English by holding the Shift key. Can I achieve this behavior on a Mac natively or with a third party extension? I especially need this for Hebrew.
I just got my new MacBook Pro and the fingerprint is available only after sleep but not when starting the laptop. Is that the normal behavior?
On StackExchange the text system uses back-tick to start and end code samples. On my iPad Pro with the Apple keyboard (but not on my older iPad, my iPhone, or my Mac) back-tick gets turned into "10th" or sometimes "1st". I never want those, but I can't seem to stop it from doing that replacement. Sure, I can select the "proper" replacement if I notice that that's what it's planning to do, but that gets in the way of touch typing. I've tried defining my own text replacement to replace back-tick with back-tick, but that doesn't do anything. How can I get rid of this undesired behavior?
Since Yosemite and in every later operating system OS X/macOS runs coreduetd from /usr/libexec/coreduetd with the bundle-id com.apple.coreduetd.osx in the background. What exactly is this process doing?
I would like to delete all the users who have admin privileges except for a user named "administrator" dscl . -delete /Groups/admin I think the above command will delete all admin users, but is there a way to edit the command to accomplish what I want.
I can't mount /dev/disk3s2 inside macOS although I can do that when using Ubuntu. Am I missing something? What should I do to mount this partition?
Recently I have been getting the error message "USB devices disabled: Unplug the device using too much power almost constantly. There has been nothing plugged in for some time, and if something is using too much power, I'm not sure what it might be. Different problems that have suddenly appeared, but may be related - occasionally won't charge with the MagLite charger; occasionally runs slowly; audio stopped working just today - the little speaker symbol up top is greyed out and it won't recognize headphones or the laptop's own speaker.
I have a Western Digital 1 TB My Passport external hard drive and when I look in Disk Utility, I see two copies of the same drive - one that is uninitialized and one that is the one that's supposed to be there.  I've tried everything I can think of from erasing the ghost partition (which it says "Cannot write to the last block of the device". Duh, I ejected the drive.) to going into bash and using a whole host of diskutil commands to try and remediate the issue, no luck. I appreciate any help I may gain on this issue, and have attached some pictures to demonstrate the issue.
I have a table like this how can I do the same thing in Numbers like this
Which audio book metadata is visible and/or affects display & organization from the iBooks mobile app? (And does it change in iOS 11?) update: After fiddling with the metadata, it seems the same "album artist" is always shown for each audiobook in the same album, even if the "artist" and "album artist" are different for each audiobook and "compilation" is used or not...
I'm running macos Sierra with Preview 9.0 on an iMac. I have a fairly large (40 MB) pdf file that is a version 1.6 PDF. The Preview app does not have a 'save as' option. Your choices under the file menu are: save, duplicate, rename, move to, export, and export as PDF.
which Swinsian doesn't. However, in the menubar there is an "Airplay" widget. It has Airplay: Great Room -- use as separate display Airplay to -- Great Room Number 1 is checked, and I can't switch it to #2.
I am running Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. My 2TB Samsung T3 only shows 250GB Capacity. I have installed the activation software from: *=URL=* I have formatted the drive using all available options under Disk Utility. For an $800.00 hard drive that only has 1/8th of it's advertised capacity, this has turned out to be an enormous waste of money.
In Photos on iOS 10.3.3, when I select one picture and open the share sheet, there’s an option to “Add to iCloud Drive”. But when I select multiple pictures, the share sheet doesn’t offer that option. Adding multiple pictures to iCloud Drive one by one gets rather tedious. Is there some way I can add multiple pictures at once? Perhaps by using another app?
I have a 2013 Mac Pro with a 250GB SSD. I have it partitioned with Bootcamp, but I've discovered that it doesn't really leave me with enough space for all the programs I'm trying to install. I plan on installing most of them to a 2TB USB 3.0 7200RPM external drive, but I'm not sure which would be the most efficient way of going about it. Would it be more efficient to run Windows 10 on the external drive with MacOS on the internal drive, or to partition both drives? The majority of the programs are for Windows anyways, but they would still all fit easily within 1TB if I partition the external drive. All the Mac programs, however, would also fit within the 250GB internal drive if I move Windows to the external. I'm concerned about the efficiency - obviously, the 250GB internal SSD would be faster than an external disk drive. Would it cause performance issues if I were to try running Windows 10 and all it's programs from the external drive? Of course I'll be running the programs from the 
I have a shortcut to my Dropbox folder on my dock. Occasionally, a file called "Icon?" will appear when I click on the Dropbox folder on my dock, as shown below.
In Safari how can I stop certain websites from being allowed to open new tabs and windows? On some ad-heavy sites I click anywhere on the page and it spawns two or more new tabs trying to sell me some scam. Can I stop this from happening?
I want to decrease size of the .pdf filled with images. In Preview in can be dome through Export and set Quartz Filter-> Reduce File Size before saving.
When launching some alternate Mac web browsers such as Vivaldi, I get a message asking me: Vivaldi wants to use your confidential information stored in “Chrome Safe Storage” in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item? [Always Allow] [Deny] [Allow]
I dropped my new iPhone into the Puget Sound, so I'm trying to use my old iPhone for now. I have a new SIM card installed, but I seem to be stuck in an iCloud loop.
My MacBook Pro can undergo 1000 charge cycles (using up the battery completely and charging it back to 100%) before the battery's life is reduced to 80% of what it originally was. Obviously, using high brightness while the computer is plugged in speeds up the rate of battery discharge, causing you to plug in the computer sooner and thus use up charge cycles faster. However, if I were to increase the computer's brightness during charging, or up the energy usage in any other way, wouldn't the process of charging slow down, the time between charge cycles would increase, and thus the long-term battery life would increase? In other words, does increasing energy usage during charging actually increase battery life?
I'm having a hard time trying to get to an episode. This happened several times to different episodes. Basically, when I search for an episode in the Podcasts app, I'm able to see it in the Shows pane but not in the Episodes pane. I know for a fact The Nerdist podcast has an episode with Gillian, and the search engine finds it too since it's mentioned in one of the panes. If I click on The Nerdist under Shows pane, it just sends me to the root of that podcast and not the actual episode. You can see an example next:
I'm trying to install the Java JDK. The download page does not use HTTPS. I downloaded the .dmg file anyway; when I open it, Finder spends some time verifying it and then I have the option to install it. How can I know whether it's safe to install?
I have been noticing for a few weeks now that whenever I three finger swipe up to reveal all current windows, if I select to focus on chrome, the most recent window jumps above chrome. So imagine you want to switch to chrome, 1) swipe up to reveal all windows 2) single finger move to chrome's area 3) swipe down. Now chrome animates into focus, but then the window I'm navigating from jumps into focus again. In order to use Chrome I have to click in its bounds. I've noticed somewhat similar but less severe glitches in this interaction in non-chrome apps, but navigating from some other window to chrome seems to suffer from this the worst.
I have the original disks to my Macbook Pro mid-2010. Holding D or option-D at startup launches internet recovery, which ultimately gives error -3403D in both cases. (I was expecting only option-D to launch internet recovery.) The disk does seem to contain the correct AHT version (it is Mac-F22586C8). How can I run the local, non-internet, disk-based Apple Hardware Test? Mac OS 10.12.6, 15-inch mid-2010 (MacbookPro6,2), Boot ROM: MBP61.0057.B1C, SMC: 1.58f17
Sometimes when I put my iPhone to charge when its dead; it comes on automatically when it is charging, and sometimes I have to physically turned it on. For example, last night I was on my iPhone, at it died. I plugged it in, then like 40 min after I went to check and I had to turn it back on and it was charged.
I use Automator together with ffmpeg which works great. A shell script command is run with two parameters: -ss 00:00:00 (starting) -t 00:00:00 (time length) Q: Is it possible to set the two parameters using a popup window?
macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (MacBook Air) I am trying to move a directory/folder from my local disk to an external hard drive. But I get an error that says: Modifying "Remote Disk" requires an administrator name and password To move "<your-folder>", click Authenticate.
To get access to FTP file shares on a windows web server. I need to run this batch code. I'm on a MacBook so how do I make it so I can run this sort of code?
I have MacBook Air, OS X 10.10.5. Every time I close it for >1 minute and open it would lose its Internet connection. It is still connected to my router WiFI though (I check that it is my router, not some neighbours). The Internet appears but only after 5-10 minutes waiting. On the other hand if I turn WiFi (on my laptop) off and on it connects to the Internet immediately! What can be reason or workaround for this so I don't have to do this manually every time? Maybe there are some software, which can switch WIFI on and off everytime the laptop wakes up?
I have homebrew's php70 installed and successfully connecting to apache via a unix domain socket. I had to use sudo to start php though: sudo brew services start php70. If I don't do this, the socket is created under my regular user account name, rather than with owner _www, the latter being essential to allow apache to access the socket. Should I be starting php70 as root like this, or is there a safer way? I tried creating a group with my own user name and apache as members of it, with intention of creating the socket under that group, but gave up as not entirely sure on the right track.
Does anybody know of a video player for iOS that supports the following features? Play video directly from Camera Roll
Applications typically have tabs like so: Is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut that switches between them? I'm hoping for a shortcut that spans all apps, not just a specific one (like iTerm below)
I'm moving my files from Windows XP to OSX Sierra, and having trouble with rsync and directory modification dates. For now, I have moved the files from XP to a FAT32 USB drive using XP, and when I look at the directory dates on this USB drive from Windows, the "create time" is set to the time I copied the files, but the "modification time" is set to the time the directory was last modified. However, when I open this same drive under OSX, both the modification time and create time are set to the time the directory was copied. When I copy the files from the USB to my OSX drive, it copies over correctly the file modification dates, but again the directory modification dates are set to the same time as the creation dates. Any hints on how to debug what is going on here? I am using the latest version of rsync (3.1.2), but I suspect the problem is deeper at the OS level, as OSX is stating what I feel are incorrect values for the modification dates on these directories on the FAT32 disk.
I am not seeing how to sync my iPhone contacts with my computer contacts. It's an iPhone 5s and a 2008 MacBook. How can I move my phone contacts to my computer?
So, I have an older Mac Pro 2,1 that I received. Had a fresh install of Mavericks and nothing else. It worked fine, with exception to slow redraw speeds on the screen. When I got it plugged into a network for the first time, it said there were updates, so I let it do the updates.
I tried to install Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 2015 running macOS Sierra, but I am getting a message on Boot Camp saying Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows 8 or later installation on this platform. Please use an ISO file for 64-bit Windows 8 or later installation. I downloaded the ISO from Microsoft's website named "Win10_1703_English_x64.iso".
I took it to the Apple Store to see what they could do, and they told me that there were some bad sectors on the SSD. They said this is very rare, but it's also a $900 part. I don't feel like spending that much money to replace a part on a computer that old.
I have a Macbook Air 11" 2015 with a firmware password, it has a 128GB SSD. I want to upgrade the SSD to a higher capacity. Will the firmware password prevent me in any from doing this (like not responding to the new drive, not allowing me to load OSX into it, etc)?
I'm trying to upgrade from El Capitan 10.11.6 to the latest version of Sierra 10.12.x. I'm following this tutorial which recommends getting Sierra through the App Store. However when I open the App Store and go to the Updates tab, I do not see Sierra as an option, only upgrading security patches for my existing 10.11.6 installation:
I have this 20 GB app that is taking up a lot of space, but I am unable to remove. Is there a way to remove this app? I could really use the space on my partitioned 120 GB hard drive.
What does "Restore from iCloud Backup" currently NOT restore? Is restore from local backup more or less, complete? (My intention is for the answer to stay up to date, SE-style; I know this answer has changed over time and don't know what the current answer is.)
Every time I close the lid of my brand new MBP, the touch bar (including the Touch ID) turns off and stop working, and only turns back on the next time I restart the computer. I can't use the Touch ID to approve administrative operations or to unlock the computer, and I can't use the F keys or the touch bar functions at all...
The professor did not use a template and each text box was made as he created the presentation. Text color varies through the various sentences highlighting words, but I would like to remove these.
I ran into a frustrating problem at my parent's house over the holiday weekend. My brother has Down Syndrome, and spends most of the day using his iPad. He uses Clips to make little videos. They are just local to the iPad -- he never publishes them, and in fact does not have any social media, e-mail, or other accounts at all. This is probably key to my question.
recently updated to macos High Sierra. Whenever I three finger swipe up (to show all applications) then pick chrome and slide back down, chrome briefly appears but then the most recent window jumps above it. I checked and this only happens with chrome. I then have to actually click on the chrome window to bring it to the front.
I have a storage for file share. It's a linux-based system. The Mac's in my network are creating files and folders with 0644 permissions. Blocking the backup system to work properly, because it uses a group user and like this it cannot copy the folder and files. How I can set my Mac users to automatically create (and copy, etc) 2777 folders and files? The storage uses NFS.
I don't suspect a dirty key because sometimes he 'T' will appear after I have released the key. I have cleaned under the key anyway and it looks good. I have reset NVRAM and SMC. To illustrate the problem, here's this question as it was originally typed, before I painstakingly fixed it up. Can I fix it? Edit - answering questions in the comments:
Since I have installed MathType 6.7h, Pages will only import MathType equations from Word (.doc) as pictures. This is with Pages 5.6.2 under OS X 10.11.6 and Pages 6.2 under OS X 10.12.6. It used to import them properly with previous versions of Pages and MathType. Is this an established problem? Both Word and Pages can use MathType 6.7h equations, so it makes no sense that they can't be imported.
The Mail app in earlier versions of OS X had a usable Remove Attachments menu item in the Message menu in OS X's built-in Main app. It allowed me to remove large photos (etc.), and shrink down the valuable SSD storage used by the Mail app. But in macOS Sierra, the Remove Attachments menu item is sometimes grayed out.
How can I save a PDF I received as an attachment in email in the Gmail app my iPad? I use the Adobe Acrobate Reader app the read PDFs offline.
I'm just wondering if macOS has /usr/bin/env. I am a software developer trying to support macOS without having a box at my disposal.
Installing Linux with remote access ssh through on a imac with a dead video card. Question : What is required to make a linux hard drive boot on a Mac? (What piece of the puzzle might I be missing) Background Information iMac8,1 A1225 (EMC 2211) 24inch I would like to install Linux and use it as a headless server. Its not worth the cost to replace the video card. The logic board and power supply seem to be working. Trouble shooting steps taken If I hold C the system will boot from an ArchBoot USB stick that gives me remote access through ssh. I have attempted to install Arch to the system HDD the files do write to the HDD. I have attempted to set the HDD up with the correct bootable state UEFI etc (the iMac just seems to loop). Research has lead me to some possible solutions and ideas (would like feed back)
I have an iPhone 5s that I got from a friend & the power button is extremely hard, next to impossible to push is. Is there another way I can take screenshots?
I noticed that Pinterest app on my iPad (iPad 4, iOS 10.3.3) keeps log in credentials after delete/reinstall. As a iOS user and not a programmer, I managed to find out from some posts I could understand, that iOS apps can keep data between instalations on Keychain, iCloud or Dropbox.
Does private browsing in iOS (Mobile Safari) start with a clean cache on each page and on reload?
I just bought a new Moshi line to charge my iPad, it was working fine at first but yesterday it said something like unlicensed line and when i saw it i didn't really care and just pressed dismissed. When i woke up my iPad didn't charge. Now my iPad is completely out of battery and when i plugged it in the charger it showed that it was charging but i can turn it on. I change lines several times and it still wouldn't work.
My current workflow to do a web search is to: Open the Safari app Click on the "tabs" button Open a new tab Type my search query into the URL bar.
Here the list. I was trying to recover my data files: I have this message: gpt show: unable to open device 'disk2': Resource busy I have before question trying to recover: recover Files from corrupted External USB HD, macOS Sierra
One day I had some problems with the main SDD drive on my Macbook Pro. It could read files but stopped being able to save anything ('Can't save file. Invalid argument error'). I could reboot the laptop but when I logged out of my account, first my password stopped working then after another reboot it stopped showing any users - just empty name and password fields.
Just upgraded to macOS 10.12.16. For some reason my iCloud contacts are empty. Contacts.app does not show anything.
I tried to install Linux by creating another partition on my main drive but my main drive started showing FFFFFFFF.... and became unusable. After following other forums and using gpt remove -i 2 disk0. I removed the second partition and tried to add it back but it showed resource busy. Can someone help me? Update: After I installed macOS on my other partition and when I opened Disk Utility in macOS it shows free space with unknown partition type
I am currently running OS X High Sierra Public Beta 8 and since last 2 weeks I am facing an issue. My mouse cursor is moving itself in the right direction and sometimes auto-clicks occur. I have tried the following options I came across in blogs and Apple Communities Booted in safe mode and still could see the cursor moving Reset PRAM and SMC and still it recurs Cleaned up my trackpad and still it persists
I am using Pages on an iPhone (iOS 10.3), and I can't add a page break. Apple's support page (*=URL=* says to just press the "" key in the format bar above the keyboard, but I don't see it in my iPhone. What I see in my keyboard is just this:
I've got a 2011 MacbookPro 2011 with miniDisplay port, and a I Recently bought this beautiful monitor: Asus VS248HR Gaming Monitor I currently have a VGA adaptor, and even though that is a really nice monitor, it doesn't seem like one over the VGA connection type; therefore I would like to buy a HDMI adaptor and connect my new monitor over HDMI. I've found several cheap adaptors on amazon, but a couple of questions bug my head: One: can I possibly have a good resolution/overall good vision performance if I use one of those cheap HDMI adaptors you can find on Amazon, or I need to buy the more expensive Apple one? One: can I possibly have a good resolution/overall good vision performance if I use one of those cheap HDMI adaptors you can find on Amazon, or I need to buy the more expensive Apple one? Second question: will my resolution improve after connecting the new monitor over HDMI? Second question: will my resolution improve after connecting the new monitor over HDMI? Thank you guys
I’ve recently started using Universal Clipboard across my Macs, iPads and iPhones. So far it works very well and I’m very happy with it.
MacBook Air Wi-Fi icon showing as trying to connect, after contacted to the Wi-Fi network. the internet is getting but it showing trying to connect. Also not showing network name.
How do I check sent or outbound postfix queues for macOS and macOS Server? I've been getting some outbound traffic from /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp & /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp that is going to IP addresses that are not normal SMTP servers for me once in a while. I keep them blocked, but I still would like to know what may be going on in terms of external communications.
Does TimeMachine backup the files I have in iCloud Drive? I want to use iCloud Drive more for files I don't use a lot. But it is important that there is a regular backup.
I wanted an Automator folder action to automatically remove old downloads from my downloads folder whenever I download a new file (I wanted to avoid making this a scheduled job). The workflow looks like this:
I'm building up a few Mac Mini Servers (Late 2012). I will be upgrading the small internal drives (dual 500GB HDD) with either dual 4TB or 5TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5" drives, which are 2.75 x 3.95 x 0.59 in. It appears these higher density drives are a little thicker (0.59") than common sizes sold as upgrade drives for a Mac Mini (0.276" - 0.374"). A thread on the Apple Community suggests the largest size is 9.5mm (0.374"). Does anyone know the maximum drive dimensions that will fit in a Late 2012 Mac Mini Server?
Tell me please if there are any good applications to connect to the MongoDB for iOS (iPad pro). I tried to use online solutions, but they do not seem to be safe for me. Thank you!
I have set up an NFS/LDAP client under Sierra and I have write permissions problems with the user profile. Some installed applications do not want to launch with the user account such as LibreOffice, Filezilla, Opera... I use /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_nfs The user manages very well to write on his account nfs Here's what it is:
I read up on some options and it looks like it's fairly easy to turn your Mac into a router so I set it up so anything connecting to my Macbook through ethernet will connect to the internet through Wifi on the Mac. Seems to work pretty well. Here's a screen shot of the configuration on my Macbook:
I know metadata can be edited at the list view, like this: The thing is, for some files this works. However, for others, when I quit iBook, open it again, the author and category comes back again. Looks like the metadata never really makes to the server, and when I open iBook again, it syncs with server, and reads back the metadata.
I just recently learned that Photos app has a quite a lot metadata for the images I have taken, try searching for "fruit", "book", "food", "baked", "bottle". As a feature this is pretty neat, it simplifies searching for past pictures much easier. In addition to this the logic can detect people from pictures and even identify them.
I have TextEdit default to plain text files. I also have "Add .txt extension to plain text files" unchecked in the "Preferences" in the "Open and Save" section. If I perform these steps: Create new document Write some text Click on title bar to set the filename and save it Type foobar.md in the "Name" box Hit "Enter" The result is that the file is actually named foobar.md.txt.
I manage a large number (over 50) of unique iCloud accounts each with unique information, contacts, and an attached iPhone. Currently any changes among the group's information has to be edited in manually, with contacts being the primary offender for time usage as I delete and then upload vCards for each account through the iCloud website.
I want to know if there is a Google Calendar app for the Mac desktop? I do not want to sync my Google Calendar to my Apple calendar. I want to have the Google Calendar app itself on my Mac. Has Google made this?
When I open terminal now I get always this error message. Any ideas how to fix this?
I upgraded to macOS Sierra and now the Mail app won't open. Even though the Mail app. does not open, at Apple they told me there is nothing I can do and I will lose all email that I have on my Mac. I have very important data in my emails. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Currently, my only option has been to go to the computer, exit the presentation, move to the next slide, and restart the presentation again from there. Is there a way to accomplish this on Keynote? PowerPoint did this function as a default and I have been just dealing with the issue on Keynote for a year but really want to change it. My apologies if that is clear as mud.
Here is the situation: I am going to meet someone, who will set up their iCloud account on my device. Is there any way to remove their iCloud account from my iPhone? Can they find me if I let them set up their iCloud account on my iPhone for 15-30 minutes? Can they access my iPhone's secret information that may allow them to find the phone's location?
I bought a 2014 late Mac mini today from a shop where it was a test device. It has been registered but I got it cheaper. My problem is: it has macOS Sierra installed on it, which runs very slow, and the finder seems to be messed up. It does not show any file content. Mac mini specifications: CPU: Dual-core i5 1.4 GHz RAM: 4 GB HDD: 500 GB
I bought a Mobee Magicpad charger but the seller sent me a different model which looks just the same as the one I already have but without a USB port on it. The model number on the item is mo3214-52 which is different from the one I already have with a usb port.
I am using an old MacBook and I want to keep my operating system. For coding with Xcode I would need a newer version of OS X. My question is, if the performance is better when I: Install the new operating system on internal HDD via Parallels. Install it on an extern HDD and boot the laptop from there. I just want to code in Xcode so the only thing that matters to me is performance.
Are Mac OS X services name sensitive? I have the following Applescript code and can install it as a service (using Automator) with the name "Move_Mail_L5", but can't install it as a service with the name "Move_Mail_LV". My four files in ~/Library/Services are
OK, this is really weird. I'm on El Capitan, am developing a Java app. Yesterday I made a new release and put it in Applications on my machine, right where the previous version used to be. Went to double-click it and got told "The application "BLAHS.app" can't be opened."
I have an unusual question; I run Firefox on my 2011 MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12.6 (although the problem occurred on earlier releases). When browsing in Firefox, I attempt to scroll down, and often find myself in the Thunderbird application, and need to select Firefox from the dock. It always seems to be Thunderbird, although I usually have a dozen applications running.
If Chrome on OSX can play VP9 / webm videos, shouldn't Chrome for IOS also support playing VP9 / webm videos? My 10.3.2 phone refuses to play even when the page browsed is as simple as:
In Gnome using ALT + TAB you get a window manager to navigate to the child windows of Firefox or Google Chrome: In Gnome using ALT + TAB you get a window manager to navigate to the child windows of Firefox or Google Chrome:
For this issue, I find a solution online, that first login in iCloud or iTunes with Safari. After try again. I did same but no luck.
I have added a Sharepoint as a place in the "Open Notebook" dialogue and I can open end edit all notebooks there. However the "New Notebook" dialogue only provides my onedrive locations to save the notebook at. So how to actually create a new notebook in a sharepoint with onenote for mac?
I am trying to set up a live stream showing the screen of my Android phone. When I tried
I experimented a little bit more and discovered that the bindings work fine when using /bin/bash in tmux and only break when using zsh in tmux. I even tested /bin/zsh without loading .zshrc to check if something is wrong with homebrews zsh, but the bindings are broken there too. It seems like this is actually an issue with zsh. Edit:
I bought my Macbook pro about a month ago and have been liking it ever since. But today i had something really wierd happen to me!
Is there a way, with like a .mobileconfig profile or else, to disallow update of iOS version on a device? OTA or cable.
We have a Mac running 10.12.6 It connects to our SBS 2011 Server shares using SMB (CIFS makes no difference to the issue). For some reason Finder keeps forgetting that the user has permissions to access files and folders on the share.
I'm executing a bash script that downloads the newest version of docker via cURL: curl -O *=URL=* > ./Docker.dmg It works well. I also wish to install it for the user: hdiutil attach Docker.dmg This prompt the feature on OSX where the user has to "drag" the program into applications for it to install properly.
I am looking for advice for an iMessage program/app that can export threads with dates/times in conversation style, preferably to PDF. I have researched this quite a bit, but most results seem gimmicky and I am hesitant without some actually user feedback. Hopefully I can get some feedback here with which program is worthwhile at providing what I need.
I bought a new macbook pro and everything was running smoothly but some days ago I noticed that the screenshots (command+shift+3) are not saving to the Desktop (it was working before), only saving to the clipboard. It is not a wrong shortcut since I can hear the screenshot sound. It is not a wrong shortcut since I can hear the screenshot sound. I have already tried to Force Quit Finder or restart the Mac and none of these worked. I have already tried to Force Quit Finder or restart the Mac and none of these worked. I have already tried this terminal command defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/ and killall SystemUIServer but they didnt work as well. I have already tried this terminal command defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/ and killall SystemUIServer but they didnt work as well. I do not have DropBox Installed I am a developer so I install new dependencies every day, it may have changed some default configurations?
I am very aware how to access the keychain itself from the command line, what I seem to be unable to figure out, however, is if I can access the iCloud keychain from the command line as well. Currently the only way I've been able to access it is via the Keychain Access tool.
Clicking on Applications does nothing. Restarting the phone does nothing.
Attempting to automatically install a .DMG downloaded(of Docker), so that the host has access to docker run etc. in Terminal. I can attach the volume with no issue with: curl -O *=URL=* > ./Docker.dmg And then mount it: hdiutil attach Docker.dmg How do I step further from here and actually mock the "drag and drop to Applications" that will then be prompted to the user?
I logged into Single User Mode and disabled the WIFI. The loop disappeared, but there is a different error now, which seems to be kext file related: Note that I am no programmer!
I turned on personal hotspot on my iPhone 6s on a 4G connection. Then I go to my PC (windows 8.1) and it should list the iPhone on the available wifi connections but it's not.
I've seen many of the solutions on the topic, all posted in this site. But I haven't seen any of them mentioning Apple's adapter, Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter I have that, which was used to connect to my old MacBook Pro 2013. Now, I'm assuming that all I need is to connect the Mini DisplayPort to an adapter, such as AllSmartLife USB C Type to Mini DisplayPort/Mini DP Adapter (as mentioned in one of the posts) and the USB cable to a USB-C adaptor. Is this correct?
Please note: Although my question is tangentially related to iOS development, it is not a development question; it is an iTunes user question! iPhone 7+ here. I'm a developer playing around with iOS development for the first time, and am trying to deploy a toy/hobby iOS app (that I wrote via XCode) to my iPhone.
Is there a way to toggle the check boxes (enable or disable the services) in the System Preferences > iCloud preference pane via command line or Bash?
Is it possible to lock the iPad's screen by using a keyboard shortcut, when using a BT keyboard, or the SmartKeyboard? Cmd+Shift+Eject as on the Mac does not work. Holding down the Cmd key also does not show any shortcut.
I'm using Photos for iOS and MacOS to store my photos. When deleting a photo from either device, nothing happens with the photos on the other, not even after syncing. How can I avoid having to manually delete a photo on both devices for it to disappear? I'm not using iCloud sync.
I just reset my phone and restored a backup from iCloud. Now, I keep getting prompted to sign-in to my wife's iTunes account. No matter how many times I click cancel, it keeps popping up; over and over and over. Which content is causing this?
I set up a Certificate Authority and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Distribution Point. I was testing it using Chrome. The steps I took: Set up a web server that uses a server certificate containing a CRL distribution point URL. Set up a CRL Distribution Point that issues a CRL that revokes the server certificate. In Keychain Access > Preferences > Certificates, set "Certificate Revocation List" to "Require if certificate indicates". Use Chrome to hit the web server.
I've got a PC video card that I'd like to get boot screen support for on my Mac Pro. In particular, it is a Gigabyte R9 270X. The card is supported on the Mac once it boots, but I would like to get boot screen back since my old 8800GT has been baked in the oven a few too many times by now :-)
I have Macbook Pro 15'' and have 3 external displays that I want to connect to it. However when I do connect to it using these ports: HDMI HDMI to thunderbolt adapter DVI to Thunderbolt adapter All three monitors have a maximum resolution of 1920x1080.
How do I show the current date on the apple watch Series 2 home screen. I am only able to see the time, location, weather etc but not the date.
This is more easily said than done, I think. I am hoping to learn which of my iPhone todo apps might let me create a todo list so that each item disappears at the time it is marked completed, and when the last item is marked completed, all the items in the list automatically reappear as not completed. I would describe it as an assembly line list.
When I click on an external link and Google Chrome is not running yet, Chrome will launch but will not open the linked page. Instead, it starts at my last opened tab (which is the behaviour I expect), but the clicked link should also open in another tab. When I click the link a second time, it will open correctly in a new tab. Why is this?
I just ran Etrecheck on my iMac. I got a status report on my internal 250 GB solid state drive. The report stated the drive has SMART capability but that it was disabled. Is this an issue I should be concerned with? Does it affect the speed or other functionality of this drive. Most of my software is located on this drive.
I use karabiner-elements on sierraOS, but not sure if I can accomplish this in there.
I keep seeing this warning every time I open an new shell on one of my machines: Message keeps coming back even though it threatens that "you will only see this message once."
I need to replace the fingerprint sensor along with the home button on my iPhone 5s, but I am afraid of what would the consequences be on the screen. Right now, the screen assembly seems to be perfectly flush and tight with the frame. In particular, I know that there are often problems with closing it after the repair. Will I be able to close it just fine and will it be perfectly flush as it is right now? Any experiences guys? Any iPhone 5s repair masters? Thanks for any advice.
I found this resource which outlines exactly what I want to do, however does not work for Java applets. Is there any way to display the function keys as default when using a Java applet, or any way to set key combination I can enter to lock the function keys on the TouchBar until I enter it again?
I love creating events in my calendar from emails. But I recently missed an event because, when created from an email, the event default alert is "None", and I did not change it manually. Is it possible to change the default event alert for event created from the calendar to "10 minutes before the event"?
Spotlight isn't indexing my external drive. It's NTFS, but has the paragon driver making it writeable. I've tried: going to preferences->spotlight->Privacy->adding and then removing drive (didn't work) Then I tried directly on drive: sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/[DriveName]. This then returned:
I'm trying to associate my iPhone 7+ with my Apple ID so that when I log in to my Apple ID account I see my device associated with that account:  I have my iPhone connected to my Mac laptop and I have iTunes launched. Is there any way to perform this association through iTunes? If not, what's the easiest way to make this association between my device (ipHone 7+) and my Apple ID/account? Thanks in advance!
Frequent, almost daily GPU restarts. From the console, under System reports, there's a painful record of the Kernel panics. Here's the most recent one: Report Data:
I was listening to music and everything was ok but suddenly when I pluged in my headphones I got wrong witn the audio, I started out listening much over the right than the left side. Then, I went to preferences, sound, output but all was ok. I was shifting from right to left but I couldn't find the right configuration, all time it sounds saturated from the right as well from the left with the only diference that the left sounds lower. I plug in/out my headphones but the sound still is wrong, I restarted but nothing changed. That only happens with my headphones because with the internal audio it works ok.
I've been trying to host video study sessions on skype but the camera on my MacBook (13in, Early 2009) keeps auto correcting the light balance so low that it looks like the room is pitch black and the only light if from my screen. In reality, the room is fully lit. I've isolated the problem to the computer and its getting really frustrating. Specs; OS X Yosemite MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009) NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
How can I crop rotate a video, so that it crops and rotates at the same time. I know that there is an option for this in Photos.app, but it only works for photos. Is there some other application that can be used to do this? Here is a gif of what I am trying to accomplish:
The thing I want to do is after you've successfully swipe up and activated the mission control screen, there should be way to choose a selected program without clicking on it. It should work by simply swipe down with 3 fingers while the cursor is on that program. I know that this feature is working in most of the macbook's by default but not in this new macbook that I bought. I think, it should be fixed with a change of a setting.
Q: How do I use iCloud for Windows to accept an invitation for a Shared Photo Album without an iOS device or a Mac? I have an Apple ID, I can see my iCloud files and photos with a web browser, and I can use the PC iCloud app to upload and download photos but I do not have an iOS device or a Mac.
When I come back to my Mac after it was sleeping sometimes the Ethernet connection is not working. I have to unplug and plug it again. I am using macOS Sierra Version 10.12.6 Any ideas?
The SSD failed totally, is completely dead. HDD seems to be OK. I replaced the SSD and erased the HDD.
Is it possible somehow to search across all open tabs/sessions in iTerm2? I'd like to do something like a regular search (Cmd+F), searching the scrollback buffer, but across everything I have open instead of just the current tab/session.
On the machine I'm currently working with (OSX 10.7.5 Build 11G56), I can browse normally on safari, but I cannot, in any way access the internet from terminal. Ping curl nslookup and dig both time out. I already tried flushdns but it did not work. Edit dig output: nslookup output: ifconfig output:
I have already signed in with ten different Apple IDs on this Mac this was the 12th time I was trying to create a new Apple ID and sign in to this Mac, and it was then when my Mac (system preferences) gave me an error that this Mac can no longer be used to make a new Apple ID please check myappleid.com, so I went over to my appleid.com and created a new Apple ID then tried to sign in to iCloud with this new Apple ID, it was then when my Mac/system preferences gave me this error that this mac can no longer be used to sign in with a new Apple ID! I am stuck, please help!
I recently got a new MacbookPro with the Touch Bar, I would like to add a button to the control strip that acts like a typical delete key, AKA it removes the character in front of the cursor. Is it possible to add a delete button without paid software?
How to show header only on the first page in a document?
I have a folder in my finder sidebar under favourites. I moved, then also renamed, the folder that points to (without removing it from the finder sidebar).
I want to use the GraphicsMagick C API on a Mac. I used brew to install it, but the header files I need to use the API is not available. At least, I am not able to find it.
The title says it all. I want to know whether MS Office 2010 (i.e. the Windows version) can be installed via homebrew's wine on a Mac?
When iCal pops up an alert, it's a small banner that appears in the corner of one of my screens. It always shows up on the screen of my MacBook. I have multiple other, larger monitors attached and it's easy to miss the banner. I constantly find myself noticing alerts well after they've popped up, usually after the event has already started. I'm looking for a way to have more aggressive, persistent alerts.
Where do I find my "AppleUSBFTDI.kext" in my system? I am trying to load a different a FTDI VPC driver to use with my Lenz USB 23151 for use with my Macintosh (a late 2015 iMac 21.5" with a 10.13 Beta). I am told to remove it in order to load a FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_4_2.dmg
I installed Windows and Linux on my Mac. The Linux (Fedora) partition gets an icon on the boot picker (hold option on power up) as shown in picture:
I was not sure whether I should use disk1 or disk2, so I tried running diskutil verifyVolume diskX on both of them. For disk1, I received a message saying invalid request. For disk2, the following result and error message was displayed:
I'm trying to file a Mail UI/Usability bug and it won't let me file it without filing a sysdiagnose. I see NO reason that Apple needs that private configuration data for a bug that has nothing to do with my individual machine's configuration. How do I escalate this issue to Apple without having to include the sysdiagnose data?
I've managed to fix the disappearing folder icon, however my app's custom icon is still missing on every boot, no matter how many times I fix it, and Maps, iBooks, Siri, and Photos still reappear in my dock in the same spots every time I turn on the machine. This was at first a minor inconvenience, but it has since become a major annoyance that causes me to hesitate to reboot or switch over to Windows at all, knowing I'll have to reconfigure the dock each time.
My wife spilled beer on my Macbook Pro (El Capitan) and now everything seems kind of ok, except I can't use the keyboard because the Mac thinks that the left Cmd key is always pressed. I've taken off the key to try and unpress it and nothing is helping.
Are there any restrictions imposed by launchd that would prevent me from changing display options via a user launch agent? I can use John Ford's 'screenresolution' utility to set the display resolution from command line, but if it is called from a user launch agent or an application started from a launch agent, it has no effect on the display properties. The other items in the launch agent do execute correctly. I have also added the ProcessType key as Interactive although I don't really think that should effect anything that I am doing. My primary need is to force the desktop into 1920x1080x32@60 before an application is launched so when connected to an av matrix (which doesn't always supply correct edid info) it is already in this resolution and the application is viewable (it is not fully viewable in the 1280x1024 default)
MBP, OSX Sierra Today while looking at the network preference panel I saw a modem device with a name 'MT67xx Preloader' which googles to some generic mediatek device name - this macbook doesn't afaik have a modem and none was connected via USB or bluetooth pairing as far as I know, is it possible that OSX somehow installed device drivers for it as I was (physically) browsing the smartphone section of a large retail store or should I suspect someone has physically tampered with it ? How can I link this device to drivers / executables / processes on the system ? What log files can be expected to contain info about it being installed ?
OSX creates folders called "Applications" and "Library" on one of my external drives. Both remain empty and return even after I remove them. I thought this had something to do with the drive being blessed but bless --info shows the following: Nothing blessed apparently.
Using sudo find has randomly stopped working for me. It used to work as expected but now just hangs forever and just says: find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory ls -lOeR /dev/fd/* says that /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, and /dev/fd/2 are character special files and that 3 and 4 are directories, all owned by root. It then says: /dev/fd//3: ls: 3: Not a directory ls: 4: directory causes a cycle
I download MP3 podcasts when I have Wi-Fi to listen to when I'm offline. I just download them onto the hard drive. I don't have an iPod or phone or anything else attached to the Mac, either by cable or BlueTooth, etc. When I doubleclick on the MP3 to listen to it, iTunes starts up and I've noticed there's first a message telling me that it's copying the MP3.
I am trying to check an entire USB external disk that is not erased. For that reason I have typed This the result
gave up trying to boot to macbook pro so on new reinstall saw option to save old partition to "previous system" folder..Snow Leapard installed and see folders but they tell me I don't have permission to access (only account on system with admin privileges).looks like this..any ideas?
We're at High Sierra beta 9, and it still doesn't seem possible to convert an HFS+ Journaled boot drive "in-place" to APFS. I tested this with a totally fresh install using a late 2014 27" Retina iMac, installing onto an external SATA LaCie Thunderbolt 2 drive that I partitioned into three parts: 500GB for Sierra, 500GB for High Sierra, and 1TB for future use. While I was able to install the latest High Sierra 10.13 Beta (17A360a) on one of the partitions, I could not get the option to convert that HFS+ Journaled partition into APFS.
I recently picked up a refurbished "Unibody" Late 2009 MacBook, which arrived with a fresh Sierra (10.12) install. After going through the first time setup, I immediately upgraded RAM and HD. After that, I thought I'd fire up Apple Hardware Test for its memory test, since Apple describes Hardware Test as "built into your Mac" for this model (*=URL=* However, holding down D during a reboot just left me with a normal Mac OS X session. How do I get Apple Hardware Test working on this machine?
It seems that some files (or name thereof) are "ineligible" for iCloud drive. For example, if the file name ends with a tilde, it cannot be uploaded to iCloud drive. [Example of programs that produce file names with tilde are Emacs (for back files) and RCS (for revision files).] Has Apple published any reference on what is (or is not) "eligible" in iCloud drive?
Setup: In the above "experiments / observations", machine A is running macOS 10.12.6 on an HPFS+ (case-sensitive and encrypted). Machine B is running macOS 10.13 beta on an APFS (case-sensitive and encrypted).
Is there a command-line program that determines the status of files (uploaded, uploading, ineligible, etc) in the iCloud drive? For example, I would like to be able to use a program such as find to get a list of files that have not been successfully uploaded to iCloud drive.
I want to share my WiFi connection through the Ethernet port of my Mac. The Apple "Sharing" panel has an option for this, however it creates a new internal network using NAT. Is it possible to share my Ethernet port in a way that the connected device will attach directly to the same network as my WiFi?
I have a Mac Pro 3,1, which came without a hard drive. Now I want to install macOS El Capitan on a new SSD in this machine. I started creating a USB-Stick with El Capitan on it.
I'm trying to link my Clash of Clans game from my iPad to my new iPhone. The iPad is running ios9, and the phone is running ios10. When I click on Settings>Game Center on both devices I see I am logged in using the same ID, however when trying to migrate data using the migrate data feature the app claims to not be tied to the game center account. I have tried logging in and out of both devices numerous times.
I would like to inspect the state of desktops on my machine, but I'd also like to issue commands to create a new desktop space, if that is available. Does such a feature exist in macOS?
I'm transferring a lot of pictures from my Macbook Pro to a local Synology NAS (DS116), using an FTP software named Transmit. I noticed that the upload speed is quite different between Wi-Fi and Ethernet: Using Wi-Fi (ac): ~27 MB/s in FTP mode, and ~22 MB/s in AFP mode Using Wi-Fi (ac): ~27 MB/s in FTP mode, and ~22 MB/s in AFP mode Using Ethernet (via a Thunderbolt adapter): ~110 MB/s, in both FTP and AFP modes Using Ethernet (via a Thunderbolt adapter): ~110 MB/s, in both FTP and AFP modes
I'd like to see data on past voice calls using an iPhone. How far back can you check for a time duration that was made on my behalf without resorting to contacting a cellular carrier or looking at my past billing statements?
In a ".keylayout" file there is <layout> element where you can specify a "mapSet" and "modifierMap" for a range of keyboard types. Apples Technical Note TN2056 describes the XML file structure, but not what a "keyboard type hardware ID" actually is. They say: Apple will map new keyboard hardware IDs to one of the existing ones, so it is usually sufficient to copy and paste the entire element from an existing keyboard layout. Great, but I really would like to understand what this ID is. At first look it seems like ID 0 through 17 are ANSI keyboards, but when I look at the key layout for European layouts (which are usually ISO keyboards) I find ID 0 and 1, so I guess the IDs are not related to ANSI/ISO/JIS.
I am using a website called focusmate.com. The website pairs you up with study buddies, using appear.in
I'm trying to save a playlist from my iTunes onto a USB stick ready for an event, most people seem to recommend drag and drop which does work, but the order of the songs is completely out, and any edits I've made through iTunes to the start/end point of songs and normalising the volume are no longer in place. I was tempted to try to burn it to a CD and then re-import it somehow, but that seems really clunky and the playlist won't fit onto a CD anyway.
My iPhone with iOS 10 keeps beeping every several minutes to remind me of an incoming message (and other events) until I unlock the device with passcode or fingerprint. Is there some way to stop the repeated alerts? I want only one alert per event.
For the past year or so, my mouse has been acting really weird. I believe this happened halfway through the El Capitan update and has continued to be an issue in the Sierra update. When I try to scroll, every "click" in my wheel makes the page jump seemingly at random. The first "click" downward might bring me nowhere, and the second click downward actually sends me a few lines upward. I've been scraping by with clicking and dragging the scroll bar on the right side of the window, but I can't bear this torture any more. Is this a feature I can disable in System Preferences or using Terminal, or am I stuck like this until I dish out the absurd price they charge for an Apple mouse?
My iTunes connect is linked to an old account that closed on September 4 or 5, so I have no more access to it to check if the payment has been made on it. I changed bank so I updated my banking infos in iTunes Connect in order to receive the next payments on my new banking account and received a mail on August 30, 2017 that saying my banking infos has been processed. But when I go to the Payments and Financial reports part in iTunes Connect for July, it is marked that the payment was made on September 7 on my old account, not the new one. Will I receive an email from Apple saying that my payment has been refused and reported on the next month or something like that, or should I contact my old bank ?
Recently, I replaced my Windows laptop with a MacBook Pro. I'm very happy that I've made the choice to switch to OS X. It's indeed very user friendly. I've noticed that when you press a key on your keyboard longer than normal that you can choose different variants (with accents and things like that). As a student in electronics engineering I need te curly braces {} and sqaure brackets[] often. Can I change the way that the ( and ) keys work and add the square brackets and curly braces to it so they appear as an option when pressing the () keys? Edit: (I know I can type them by using option and option and shift key, but I find the little popup menu very nice feature)... Edit 2: If this is possible, I definitely want to add the ohm sign, and other symbols that I use on a regular base...
System Information says that /System is holding 80 GB but when I search with du I only find 5 GB. I reset my spotlight memory indexing by adding then removing / form the "privacy" list in System Preferences -> Spotlight but the discrepancy persists.
What exactly happens when you install an app from a .dmg image. My understanding was that it changes the inode and makes it executable (the specific application was GNU Scheme). But that can't be it since it takes about ~1m.
Where on earth did the "not junk"/thumbs up icon go in Mail? Just upgraded to Sierra, and am unhappy it's apparently gone. I use that one often. Nothing in Messages drop-down either.
I'm using Cloudflare, i have set redirect https to http and it just ends up in a redirect loop on Safari, Neither removing cache worked. Its very annoying , for a service status page of my web. But what, it works on Chrome, Puffin and a lot of other thirdy parties browsers.. Safari just tries to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Is there any way to stop this?
Albums created in Photo on my phone do not show up on my computer in Photos. How can I have these same albums show up and be useful on my computer? I'm running IOS 10.3.3 on my phone and Photos version 2.0 on my Mac.
It also gets hot while running simple programming softwares. Should I buy the cooling pad? Is it worth it?
I want to deliver my macbookpro to another country (Taiwain). And to do so, the country ask me to provide the wireless chipset's Wi-Fi frequency (Ghz or MHz) and output (dbm) information which is one of the input documents. I searched in the Internet for half of day and I have known is that it use the "Broadcom 43XX" as the chipset and "Murata/Apple339S00056 Wi-Fi". However there is still nothing about the information I need. And I had contact with the Apple Store and found out that they said it is the internal information they could not reach.
I have a cron job set up to run it every 2 minutes. It runs and works. It copies the "sourcefiles" directory to the "targetdir/sourcefiles". However, when the files are deleted from the "sourcefiles" directory, it copies an empty directory to "targetdir" ... that is, the backed up files in "targetdir" get deleted.
I just bought a 4k monitor (AOC u2777pqu) for my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13 inch, Early 2015). The shop advised a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable, which gives me 4k resolution but when I tried it only provided a refresh rate of 30Hz. The Apple support guide ( *=URL=* ) suggests that the Thunderbolt cable will allow this model to run 4k at 60Hz. My question whether getting a 'pure DisplayPort' ( mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable - 4k certified) provide the 60Hz at 4k?
I've set up Xcode/Instruments so that I'm monitoring an iPhone 6s's memory usage altogether. I've got a specific com.apple.WebKit Process that I would like to see very finetuned information on - as precise as possible. This com.apple.WebKit process will eventually crash the Mobile Safari running on an iPhone 6s using iOS 10 - this WebKit process will not crash an iPhone SE running iOS 11 Beta - but that's just to say that "things will eventually get better". It seems that 1Gb of memory is not enough to run the com.apple.WebKit process for this specific scripted embed. So, I start Instruments running and I see peaks of 640mb or so of memory usage - but how could I record this memory usage in the finest possible detail, so that I can figure out what drives this over the edge?
In the box of my iPhone 7 there was a leaflet with all sorts of small print easy enough to be dismissed as some legal document (and maybe it is). I couldn't help reading it and on the reverse page it says something about Class 1 Laser Information: See text: "This device contains a laser" So my question is where in the iPhone and, more importantly, for what purpose is the laser in the iPhone?
I'm extracting different date formats from a web page. E.g. Sunday 10 September 2017 / 09/10/2017 / September 10th, 2017.
This is a snapshot of the queue screen in the Podcasts app. Until recently, it showed the history (I can see that by scrolling up), the "Now Playing" and then "Up Next".
I am a new user of iPhone and seek any way of seeing all media on my iPhone in one place. This basically includes the songs, pics, videos etc... even from social apps like whatsapp etc. On Android this can be done in the Gallery app or even using any File Manager. Is this possible on iOS that run on iPhone 7?
I use a different password manager for most sites, but there is one site it doesn't work correctly on, but Safari/Keychain does work. I can manually store my password in Keychain for that one site, and it works correctly. However, turning on password autofill makes Safari prompt to save passwords on all sites, which I don't want. Is there any way to tell Safari to autofill passwords that it knows about but not to prompt to save any new ones?
i have all my old conversations from Messenger on my Mac (and not on my iphone). As I want to put the upcoming High Sierra on a previously deleted Mac instead of simply updating my Mac I wonder if it is possible to somehow save the old conversations. Any ideas?
I wanted to setup TeamViewer on my MacBook Air (2015, macOS Sierra 10.12.1) to wake up on LAN. Does MacBook allow wake up on LAN (WOL)?
I want to use my mid-2011 iMac as a secondary display for my Windows PC. My iMac features a 1st gen Thunderbolt port, running on macOS Sierra My Windows PC has a Mini DisplayPort, and is running on windows 10. My main concern is that (if I understand right), the 'Mini DisplayPort Source to Thunderbolt Monitor' is not guaranteed to work with any kind of cable, and after lots of googling I haven't found a case where it worked.
Since I have purchased my Macbookair, it has been going to sleep mode when I closed the lid and the apple logo on its lid would turn off. Randomly it started going to sleep mode after 15-30 mins later I have closed its lid and sometimes it never went to sleep. I typed "pmset -g assertions" in the terminal of my mac and these were the results: I didn't fully understand these results and tried several ways to solve my issue and I would very much appreciate it if someone could help me understand sleep and wake troubleshooting on the command line or from logs and settings.
I have a program I need to run every 5 minutes, but I don't know how, please help.
When I create a rtfd file using textEdit and save it, it seems that not everybody is able to open it, as if file where considered corrupted by default. Here is the file : *=URL=* I was reported that when trying to open this file with textEdit on another recent config, "the document could not be opened" error showed up. The config that created the file : OS : Mac OS 10.12.5 textEdit : 1.12 (329) Can you open it, and if not do you have an idea why it doesn't work ?
Is there a free option to undelete or recover specific files and folders from an external HFS+ drive that were deleted manually?
I am interested to know what is a typical iPhone speaker wattage power rating for reference (i.e. 1W, 3W...)? (The bottom loudspeaker not the earpiece.)
I have no idea what's going on with my iPad. It's an iPad Air and this is the third year I've had it. It keeps flashing to a blackish/navy blue screen when I'm reading, or on a website, or on the News app- it just happens randomly. I haven't updated it yet but I'm going to soon.... any ideas as to why/how to fix it?
I have a Macbook Air that isn't booting into macOS. I'm repairing it for a friend, and they said this issue started suddenly for no reason, but I can't be 100% sure.
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2015, 13"). About a year ago, the keyboard and trackpad quit working. I took it to the Apple Store and they said it could be that the cable went bad. They also said they may have to replace the whole bottom casing. I figured if it was just the cable, it would be worth me fixing it by myself. I'm not the most experienced MacBook mechanic, but I generally know what I'm doing.
I restarted my iPhone 7 today and all stock Apple apps have disappeared like Safari and Settings. If I search for them they do not appear either.
tldr: I need a whiteboarding/drawing/notes app that will also let me add text using the macbook's keyboard I have one macbook and one iPad pro. I use the ipad + pencil to sketch ideas and write math formulas. I would also like to type in the same document from the macbook. What app can do this? I like using Duet to make the iPad function as another macOS screen, but unfortunately the macOS version of evernote doesn't support drawing, only the iOS version lets one draw.
Ok, I have tried even doing in terminal ~/Trash then rm -rf to clear it manually, and in my Finder preferences I have deselected the "give warning" when emptying trash icon. My issue is I have these folders which I don't think actually contain anything, however when I was backing up another computer that I had connected I accidentally dragged all the important folders copied to the trash on this main computer - Applications, History, etc. Now they just sit in trash and when I put new things in trash, EVEN THOUGH I have the warnings off I get these dialogues from finder saying: or
In Finder (Sierra) if you select "All Tags..." in the Finder sidebar, it presents a list of tags. These tags, if they are above a certain length are truncated. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
I have a folder containing only PDF files from amid which some are searchable PDFs (OCR'ed scanned documents). There are almost 6000 PDF files in the folder and I need to filter out (copy/move to another folder) only the searchable ones. How can I achieve this, please?
Can I return an old 15-inch MBP rechargeable battery to Apple, or does it have to be disposed of locally?
In the Terminal, my username shows up as keegankuhn (firstnamelastname) when I want it to show kk (firstinitiallastinitial). (I want this to actually change and not just show something else!) How would I do this from my own account?
The podcast app just lists a lot of episodes that I've never listened to in the play history. Most are from the same pod. It's been like this for over a year. None of my recently played items ever appear in the History section, but the Now Playing and Next sections work as expected. Reinstalling Podcasts app doesn't solve the problem. iPhone 5 iOS 10
Every time I visit YouTube (or any video-related site like Udemy) and watch a video, my mouse cursor disappears. It only becomes visible after a click. Is this a MacBook Pro 15" issue? Has anyone experienced similar issues like these: Mouse cursor (pointer) disappears; invisible / missing; fix? Are there better ways to workaround this bug?
I had a MacBook Pro 2017, using a USB-C to HDMI which can support 4K@60Hz. I ran CoreDisplay patcher to enable 60Hz for 4K resolution:
I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro from mid-2009 running OS X El Capitan. I wanted to resize my Windows partition. After resizing the OS X partition in order to free up space, the Windows partition doesn't show up in the boot manager!
While viewing a list of files in Finder, I can set "item arrangement" to 'tags', which lists each tag and the subset of files that have that tag. I'd like to instead arrange by the full set of tags (so, e.g., some files fall under '{foo,bar}', some under '{}', and some under '{foo, baz}', so on). Is there anyway to do this, possibly with some third-party software?
I use mac os server to active the Profile Manager and Open Directory. And I want to enroll our devices to the server Why My ipad and iphone always get the error: [ If I use the server to enroll
I use a WiFi network that requires users to first go through a captive portal login window after joining the WiFi network. It works fine on my Android phone, but on my iPad no captive portal login window appears, and as a result I cannot use the WiFi network. What could the issue be?
Every time I plug my iPhone into one of my computers to charge it, it prompts me to trust or don't trust. How do I force it to remember he don't trust setting? I don't want this specific computer to ever be trusted, and I don't want it to ask me every time. All searches I've found relate to how to reset the warning dialog in case you've chosen the wrong option by mistake. It's running iOS 10.3.3
I have the following folder structure on my mail account My iPhone (7plus - latest os) does only retrieve messages that are put into INBOX by my mail server, the mails going to folder1, folder2 aren't synced automatically and I will receive them only after I manually entered them inside the Mail app and do a manual refresh of the folder. I would need to automatically receive those messages too, but couldn't find an option to do so. Is it possible to sync folders automatically that are not INBOX?
I have a corporate MacBook Pro (2015), and it has VMware AirWatch Agent (2.3.3) installed. I'm fine with that. It is their laptop and I still have Admin rights for my work.
I'd like to access my iMessages using Sequel Pro. I have been told that they are in a sqllite file.
For Huey Lewis and the news, I'm getting a thumbnail of Christopher Cross instead. Why would this happen??? The same thing has happened with my other artists. Wrong thumbnail pics.
I have a couple of rows and I have to move some cells from one row to another. Right now, I have to Copy/cut cell A1 Paste it in an auxiliary empty cell C1 then copy A2 paste it in A1 finally cut C1 and paste it in A2
I have a 2011 13' i5 8GB MBP, the user has always used Preview to combine PDFs as part of her work flow. To the best of my knowledge her process hasn't changed, however Preview is now failing to process this, it just locks up and fails to respond. A force quit show it has partially combined the PDF's but only ever adds the first page of the inserted file. We have a text only PDF (roughly ~35KB) and a 2 page scanned document (~750KB). The first file is opened in preview, we hit 'edit > insert from file' and choose the larger scanned file and the whole lot locks up. This worked before the update to macOS (she'd been holding off for other reasons that are now resolved, hence updating only this weekend). I see lots of people reporting performance issues with PDF's after the transition to Yosemite, with lots of people complaining of unresolved bugs around the performance of this app but very little with regards to this latest version. How can I measure what might be slowing this down or dec
I've got a Python 3 script going that will overlay a particular transparent PDF file on top of another for the purpose of watermarking. Copying and pasting the file location of each PDF into the script each time I want to watermark something is a bit of a headache though. The whole thing is not very flexible despite its great power. I would ideally like to be able to right click on a given PDF file in Finder and apply the watermark script to it as a service. I've done a little bit of tinkering already but the most I've been able to figure out on my own is that I need to run the script as it is (right now) I can make an Automator App with the "Run AppleScript" droplet as the first step.
My Mac is knackered so I'm wiping the HD and getting rid of the iMac! Have inserted disk 1 and got to Disk Utility to erase my HD! I am told that having done this I should Go to Mac OS Extended Journaled and close this! However this is in a grey area and I'm unable access it! Any ideas?
There are two email addresses listed in my apple id settings (section "REACHABLE AT"): The first is my login address. I want to change or remove the second one. How can I do this?
I've researched this problem that randomly occurred one day, but solutions which have worked for others; like software resets/restores, cleaning the headphone jack with a qtip, sucking out debris with a vacuum, etc. didn't for me. I think I remember someone mentioning that replacing the headphone jack part would fix the issue, but I wanted to confirm this before I buy something I can't use.
User name on iCloud mail account. I'm trying to set up a new windows 10 on my laptop and I'm trying to enter my iCloud mail account into the laptop. It seems to have my iCloud mail address but it is asking for a username , Where do I find the username or is it the same as my Apple ID?
I have a 2017 15" MacBookPro with touchbar and discrete Radeon Pro 555 GPU, running latest Sierra. I use the Apple Multiport adapter and connect to a Dell U2413 monitor via HDMI, with the laptop lid closed.
When you don't have enough iCloud storage (which happens, for example, when you are downgraded from a higher plan to a lower one), you aren't able to sync many iCloud items anymore because you're over your iCloud storage limit. This prevents iCloud Photo Library photos and iCloud Drive files from syncing. However, it (thankfully) doesn't seem to prevent your contacts or your calendar items from syncing across your devices. Is there a list of what can and can't be synced when you're over your iCloud storage size?
I uninstalled Apple Software Update in my Boot Camp Windows 7 install as it was crashing every launch, and a repair of Apple Software Update through Programs and Features didn't fix the problem. However, re-running Boot Camp Tools' setup.exe (it gives me a choice to do a repair) does not reinstall the Apple Software Update it initially installed. I suppose you could be in the same situation if you chose not to use Software Update when prompted during the Boot Camp Tools install. How do I install the Apple Software Update associated with Boot Camp when Boot Camp is already installed?
I am trying to diagnose my Mac Book Air, 10.12.5 follow link as below: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731
Specifically, I want to simplify editing the hosts file, which requires root privileges. The following command works in the shell: From what I am able to learn, the following should work using Automator: … the key being that with administrator privileges is the equivalent of sudo and will ask for a password. However, when I run the script, I get the following error: and then … which looks serious. If I try the same thing with Atom text editor, it works as intended. How do I get TextEdit to run as root?
I just reimaged a 2016 rMBPro and updated the OS to Sierra 10.12.6. Some files were imported manually (not with Migration Assistant), but they only take up 50GB of a 500GB disk. Now the program diskmanagementd runs every hour at around 95% CPU. Is this common? At the same time, the storage section of "About This Mac" does not show a breakdown of the disk, just the total amount used and free.
Twice now I've been in a situation where I remove my two USB-C Digital AC Multiport Adapters while running in clamshell mode and found that nothing I could do would bring my my display. So, alas, hard reboot. Each time this has happened though, my fingerprints appear to have been evicted from the machine.
I want to install Qi Dian on my iPad 1 but I can't. I've tried to download from my Mac first but this app can't be download by Mac, only iPad device or iPhone. How can I install this on my iPad 1?
Suddenly my iMessages stop sending texts. Then I tried calling some one close to me and it didn't ring. What's with it?
I tried to reset NVRAM with holding down Option+Command+P+R, but did not help. When I run first aid from the Disk Utility, it says:
I have a late 2015 iMac running Sierra. I have added an external 500GB SSD using Thunderbolt connectivity. Both drives are bootable but I usually boot from the SSD. I would like to use the internal drive for large and less used applications such as iTunes and Photos. Anything I do on one drive also happens on the other. What is the best way to make the drives independent of each other?
VMWare AirWatch (an MDM managemt framework) locks my Desktop background picture (Override wallpaper with VMware AirWatch Agent) I tried to find the existing picture with the following command in Sierra: and it showed me that the picture was in (0)/Library/Wallpaper.jpg How can I access this folder with the intent to change this managed setting.
I'm trying to export a very very important voicemail from last month, does anyone know how to do it? I have tried for nearly a week and still failed. Help please!
Today I decided to change the password of my iCloud account. I did so from the browser of my Mac. Then I thought I had to update it also on all my devices but surprisingly I did not have to. Is this normal?
I need a way to monitor the accumulated total number of bytes written to the disk by a process via the terminal. I've looked around quite a bit, and found several answers either saying to use pv, or iotop. However, pv is not installed on macOS out-of-the-box, and the version of iotop installed on macOS lacks the -a accumulated switch.
I'm usually running my Boot Camp partition in VMWare Fusion. When resuming the MacBook from sleeping (Boot Camp also ran in VMWare Fusion) the computer (OS X) told me it was restarted due to a problem. Now the Windows 10 partition doesn't boot, either in Boot Camp mode or in VMWare Fusion. The bluescreen error is 0xc0000225
It looks like this program Aventail was, in fact, run on my computer. After a google search told me that it has the ability to monitor activity via SSL VPN, I did a search in Finder for the term Aventail and found a few documents generated through the file recovery that seems to be relevant here.
In my favorites sidebar, my OneDrive Folder keeps moving back at the bottom of the favorite list each time I reboot. Can I make sure that it remains on top of my list of favorites on the sidebar of my Finder?
I need to create a bash file that executes google chrome (if installed) with some flags and an input file. Does someone know how to detect chrome installation and path via a bash file?
My iPad won't turn on and when I try to charge it only the red filler icon (battery icon ) display. The red filler keep blinking three times and then the screen went black. Its keep doing the same thing again again and I even let it charge for more than 2 hours but it won't turn on or charging. This happen suddenly cause usually when the battery died then I charge it, it work. But now it happen like this. Someone please give me advice or what can I do to my iPad ? And what it's problem...
I want to see which applications accessed my keychain of my Mac. Do know which apps have access and how often they do. Does macOS keep a log of that somewhere ?
Can I see on "find my iphone" a sort of tracking of where my iphone has been for a day? For exampel Between 1 and 5 pm my iphone were on this addresses..etc
I have an IMAP email account active on both my home and work computers (both Macs). The problem I am having is that when the emails are downloaded onto both computers from the server, if I delete an email or move it to a folder, on one Mac, it then disappears completely from the Inbox on the other one! The two computers are not linked in any way, and the email account is set up exactly the same on both computers using the same username and password. I can’t see any setting that gives an indication that it will delete an email if it is moved from the Inbox of another computer. Also, other colleagues who have the same email account set up on their computers, don’t lose any emails from their Inboxes when I move them from mine. They, however, are using Windows PCs not Macs. Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
So the problem is: Couple of days ago my MacBook Pro 13" late 2011 was becoming a bit slow. So I blamed an original hard disk for it. Because everything what was on an SSD drive (files, programs) works fast. So I decided to swap for a new one. I bought a 1 TB 7200rpm Seagate Firecuda. Installed it in place of the SSD (optibay) and transferred the data with Disk Utility. When it was finished I put an SSD drive in its place, then I swapped HDD disk with new one, started the machine and everything was okay. OS X Mavericks started a spotlight indexation. I connected old drive via USB box, that I bought with the new one.
I have this: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012) 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB
Using the public beta version of tvOS 11 on an AppleTV 4th-generation. How to pair my AirPods ear buds?
For the past month, networking on my iMac has had strange behavior after waking up from the screensaver. For example, the first website that I visit in Google Chrome (after exiting the screensaver) displays an error page at first:
"Your Mac restarted due to a problem." System.log showed boot time as 17:19 and the last message before was 17:13 but things had been working in the five minutes before the restart.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and need to know if I should be using a MagSafe 1 or 2 charger. I've searched around with Google but so far I've found conflicting information. I recently ordered an 85W MagSafe 2 (T-style) car charger and while the green light comes on showing power coming in, the menubar battery doesn't show the lighting bolt in the UI. Need to know if it is just defective or if I'm buying the wrong charger.
Point 2. If I have a webcam on the mac, and I visit the webRTC sample at *=URL=* in Safari or Chrome, I get a camera preview image on my screen, from the webcam. This is nice too.
I'm using an iMac desktop macOS Sierra version 10.12.6. I know there are shortcuts for an insert key on Mac, but NONE OF THEM work in Citrix successware 21 (Citrix receiver) . I need to know if anyone using Citrix or successware has been able to find a shortcut that works? I mainly need it for when I'm invoicing and in the invoice I need to add a new line item, it's insert but obviously I don't have that key. Or I need to know the EXACT command name to input for insert to make my own shortcut for Citrix receiver
I have seen easy methods to jailbreak apple tv 2. I would like to know if anyone has tried to manually install an apple tv 4 app on a jailbroken apple tv 2. Is that possible at all? Specific example: Bell Canada has introduced its Fibe Alt TV app to be used only on apple tv v4, I was wondering if that could be manually installed on an apple tv 2, or, I have to buy an Apple tv 4 anyways!
I am using USB OverDrive to remap a couple of rarely used mouse buttons (4 and 5) to do Copy and Paste. But I noticed that my mouse will misbehave randomly. Usually after I did some keyboard combination involving the modifier keys (Ctrl, Cmd, Alt, Shift). But I found no reliable way of reproducing it.
I am running macOS and Windows on a macbook pro using bootcamp. I have encrypted my macOS partition using FileVault.
As there is no Home button on iPhone X, how do you take a screenshot? Swiping up from bottom of the screen while pressing the lock button?
Me to Siri: "add to my calendar Tuesday noon meeting with John" Siri: "which John?"
With the announcement of Face ID, I wonder, will work in the dark? For example, a dark room? Does the screen allow enough light for it to work?
I am getting sporadic kernel panics like this: (find the rest of the log in this gist) I’ve read through the Apple tech note on debugging Kernel Panics, but couldn’t find how to apply it to this panic, plus the link to download the Kernel Debug Kit is broken, so I did not manage to get a mapping of kexts in kernel memory – iow, I do not know what was loaded around 0xffffff80189d435f.
Going with Apple's history it was OS X (standing for OS 10) in older versions of Apple's operating system. So with the new iPhone should I be calling iPhone "X" or iPhone 10? What did they use in the announcements?
I recently bought a Mac for some iOS development, which of course requires an Apple ID and gives you iCloud. I wanted to move some files from my Windows machine to iCloud and saw that there is a Windows iCloud app so I installed. Unlike Google Drive, DropBox, Box, or OneDrive, iCloud installed a bunch of other applications that duplicate functionality I already have, namely Calendar, Contacts, Find My iPhone, iCloudPhotos, Keynote, Mail, Notes, Numbers, Pages, and Reminders.
As we all have seen that the iPhone X is gorgeous with all its bezel less design and no home button. But it adds to the question of how do I go about reachability? There is no home button on it right, I can’t double tap on it now. The screen is big and how can one reach the top of the screen?
Actually, I'd like to try anything before spending money on a SSD that I can't use elsewhere. Battery replacements are cheap, but SSD drives are expensive.
Is it possible to install a custom ringtone on an iPhone running iOS 11 using iTunes 12.7 or later? If so, how?
Storage shows that System takes about 12 Gb of storage. Anyone else have System taking up 12 GB after installing, and know how to fix it?
My iPhone with iOS 10.3 is counting more than 300 times more steps than usual. Sensor broken? Or what can I do?
Since upgrading to MacOS Sierra, the PDFs I scan with Image Capture are much larger. My typical settings are 8.5x11 size, 300 DPI, "Text". With Yosemite, an average page of text was around 100KB. Now, an average page is around 1MB - 10x larger file size with no noticeable difference in quality.
My brother just tried to download and install a cracked application from some fishy website. In my own Macbook. Needless to say, the suspiciously small installer didn't install the application (even though it said it was successful), and it apparently "didn't do anything at all".
Apple announced Watch 3, with LTE capability and the fact that you can stream 40 million songs without your phone. So, what is the streaming technology used here? Is it HLS (HTTP Live streaming)?
If a user goes outside with the Apple Watch Series 3 and keeps their iPhone at home, how will the calling feature work?
Along the lines of this question—if you take a screenshot on an iPhone X, how is the camera cutout at the top of the screen handled? Is there just a black region of the appropriate shape and size at the top of the image?
Q: Can anybody try explaining to me why this new version takes only 18 seconds to complete, without having to use timeout clauses (not including the “archive command” on the fifth launch of the application), whereas the original solution usually took the better part of 20 minutes? How can a third party scripting addition perform 1000 times quicker than Finder.app scripting commands?
I found a lot of people wanting to hide the dock and I need the reverse, I'm a developer and like to watch youtube (I use chrome) on one of my multiple monitors while I work on the other two monitors (I have three total). And I frequently use windows that need to span multiple monitors which means I HAVE to have the Mission Control option turned off for "Displays have separate Spaces". The problem is when disabling "Displays have separate Spaces" and entering fullscreen youtube the dock and menu are hidden, this makes continuing to work much harder. So to be clear, I'm looking for: Dock and menu stay on the screen while youtube is fullscreen on monitor #1 While still keeping the ability to open a single window that can span across monitor #2 and #3.
The Apple page about "Wireless Charging" talks about Apple's new AirPower mat due in 2018 working with iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Elsewhere it talks about standard Qi charging technology being used. Does that mean today’s AirPods charge with any Qi-compliant charging pad?
i want to convert 'youtube link text (from clipboard)' to 'youtube title and embed html text' and copy to clipboard With Applescript
The Samsung S8 has top and bottom borders. The Mi MIX 2 and Essential Phone have bottom borders. Only iPhone X is able to eliminate all borders. How can that be done?
I'm having problems with the Epson XP-510 scanner. Periodically, the scanning will fail. Both over the wifi and over usb, the standard scanning app will report communication problems. No more specific error is available as far as I can tell. Restarting the scanner doesn't help, but restarting the macbook fixes the issue. Assuming the underlaying issue can't be easily corrected, is there a way to reinitialise the scanner drivers completely without a full system restart?
I want know more about the new feature Face ID in iPhone X, if user hold it's iPhone X upside down then Face ID will work?
When iPhone 6 came out, the non-updated apps in app store were stretched/scaled up with same aspect ratio. How will the current apps in the app store scale on iPhone X? I.e. without rebuilding them with SDK 11 / Xcode9.
Was the .heic file format created to address the advance features supported by Apple that is not supported by traditional .jpg files: Live Photos; Depth Map information; Filters used; Lighting modes; Other post edit information that can be rolled back, such as Cropping. If so, this would be a great wrapper format to handle all advanced features and support portability between devices.
I have two Mac minis which both lose the remote login option after a reboot, and I don't know why. After I check that box, it saves, at least during that session. But after a reboot, I always find the box unchecked:
Can the whole icloud library be converted from the non-optimised format to the new optimised format, or vise versa? I have noticed that some of my photos have automatically be using the new format.
Today, Apple released iTunes 12.7. Surprisingly for a point-release this version removes the iOS App Store and iOS app management features: *=URL=* Apps can now only be downloaded on an iOS device using an iOS device, and the same goes for ringtones.
Apparently the to-be released version of iTunes (v12.7) that “matches” the new iPhones and iOS 11 will no longer store/manage iOS apps, but rather they’ll be pulled from Internet. (Source: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/907751265811222528)
After changing region/country, News can't be opened. App Store shows installed, with "Open" button next to the App. Tapping on it does nothing.
I made the observation, that turning off Background App Refresh does NOT prevent Facebook and FB Messenger from receiving updates and giving me notifications and thus still run in the background. This awesome answer shed some light on the matter explaining that there are a quite a bunch of means for apps to run in the background unaffected by the Background App Refresh setting. However, I want to ask this question point blank: Is it not possible for the user to completely kill an app, meaning no background activity whatsoever, other than removing it from my device? This is not about battery life or something, but about Facebook (or some other service) being able to track my (approximate) location based on my IP address.
I've taken a couple of photos on my iPhone 5s running iOS 10 and annotated them using the built-in markup feature. The photos look fine when viewed on the iPhone but when I transferred them to my laptop (MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012, running 10.10.5) via the Image Capture utility it imported all of the photos, but they where not marked up, instead for each photo I got an accompanying .AAE file, which I presume is the markup overlay. How can I get the photo to save as a JPEG with the markup already overlaid ?
Does the iPhone X Screen really bend round back on itself? I don't understand the reason behind this. This was taken from the iPhone video. I was trying to understand if you could see the screen from side on; like in Galaxy s8.
I've got folder A with 8000 images and folder B with 9000 images. Folder B contains the 8000 images from folder A as well as additional 1000 images. I would like to delete the 8000 images which are already in Folder A, leaving only the "new" 1000 images.
Very odd. My mac is set to require a password after an hour of inactivity.
What can I do? Am I just going to have to rebuild all my users and settings in macOS Server?
So, this is crazy and I cannot find how to solve the problem. My calendar has a title to it and I can't get rid of it! Instead of the date and year it shows a sushi restaurant name: 29 Heisei How do I get that to go away? Please!!!
It seems that where I reset my palm on my 2017 Macbook Pro (w/ touch bar) - to the left of the track pad - causes accidental keypresses. Usually these are modifiers, though my palm isn't actually hitting those keys.
Is there any offline Workflowy alternative with breadcrumb navigation, click on bullet to "Zoom" and ability to paste image inside notes.  The closest I found was Taskpaper but it doesn't have breadcrumb navigation, "Zoom" into bullet and ability to paste image inside notes.
I'm running iOS10.3.3 on an iPhone SE with the latest version of Google Hangouts in the App Store (18.0.163919145). Hangouts has been running in the background, as usual, but for the past few days, Hangouts has been causing massive battery drain (70% in the past 24 hours). This was not the case until a few days ago, where Hangouts had more acceptable battery usage. My usage patterns for Hangouts have not changed on the phone.
I have found a way to reverse tether an iOS device, or connect it to the internet over the usb cable only. Many older ways to do this required an active data connection as you would set the proxy for that interface manually to use a usb tcp tunnel. The host is a Mac running the macOS High Sierra developer preview. The idevice is an iPhone 4s running iOS 7.1.2 jailbroken. The way I have done it is as follows:
I don't trust any SSH app on the App Store to make secure connections. Any clue if there exist open-source terminals for iPhone or iOS?
I'm a new iOS developer in Sweden and i'm gonna upload my app with in-app purchases to the App Store. The problem is that my bank requires me to fill out from what countrys i will be getting transfers from. So i wonder from what country my payouts will come from when my bank country, and upload country is Sweden?
I have a contact entry with no first name and a last name of "Charles Schwab Customer Service". When I tell Siri "Call Charles Schwab Customer Service", it shows the words on the screen exactly as I've spoken them, so it clearly understands what I've said. But instead of calling the contact, it asks, "Call Jones Communication Customer Service on 336 Post Office Rd...?" Obviously, Siri doesn't connect what it knows I'm saying to the contact entry I want it to call. What do I need to do to get Siri to make the call I want it to make?
Safari Networking is using more memory than I even have on my computer (only 16 GB RAM). This process, Safari Networking, seems to be constantly rising in memory usage. From the time I opened stack exchange to the time I took the screenshot it had raised from 15.48 to 19.03 GB, and as I am writing this it is at 20.41 GB. Also, it has the highest CPU usage, of about 90% (kernel_task is similar here).
However, when running a project or playground, there are multiple dialog boxes that pop up asking the students for admin passwords. Here is a screenshot of one of the dialogs from a student:
I am familiar with launching a daemon upon file or folder change by adding the WatchPaths key/value in a daemon's plist. However, there doesn't appear to be an option for watching a network connection. I can determine if the particular connection I care about is open via lsof -n -i. The -i section of the man page of lsof even talks about the results of this command as "files":
I have 2 Dell 4K displays hooked up via DisplayPorts to an early 2015 MBP. Setup works perfectly fine during operation. A friend of mine has one dell 4K display, same MBP.
I work each day from a Macbook Pro, connected to a thunderbolt display. I keep my laptop open so that I can have two displays at once. From the top-bar settings, I have the option to toggle my sound to "Internal Speakers", "Display Audio" or a couple of headphone options that I have available.
I will definitely be purchasing an iPhone X when it is released, it looks like the greatest iPhone ever invented, however some folks I've talked to who really dislike Macs have stated that all iOS devices are affected by Blueborne if they have Bluetooth, and that it's essentially impossible to be protected against without shutting off Bluetooth completely. How true is this? Are all Apple devices at risk?
I assume they are a video file but does someone have a sample?
I'm trying to get UDP port forwarding working and here's what I have for my anchor: When I send a UDP packet, the server doesn't receive it. If I change my anchor from nat to rdr, it works fine but the response doesn't get sent to the client since there is no IP translation happening. Can anyone help? My network is essentially:
I have a Linux server running Samba, that I need to connect my MacBook Air (El Capitan 10.11.6) to. Initially it worked fine, but now every time I try to connect from the Finder (Command-K), I get: I'm using Scenario to run an AppleScript on wake-from-sleep that uses 'do shell script' and the UNIX command 'ping' to test to see if the server is online and accessible and, if it is, tries to mount using:
It's now 2017. Someone, please tell me that Apple mail has an option where I can have the client only download emails no older than n days... Surely... surely there must be a way to stop the client from downloading every single email ever to land in my inbox? I do not want to have to go and change something on the server - that would be ridiculous. I could (and have a long time ago) written my own mail client and I know this is possible, but I am unable to find the option on my Apple email application.
Now that Apple has removed the ability to access the iOS App Store in iTunes 12.7 on Mac/Windows (See MacRumors article), I can't find any way to download an IPA file from the App Store. As a note, I'm not worried about installing the IPA files (see "How do I backup and restore my IPA app backups in iTunes 12.7?"), I just need the IPA files as a developer looking for some basic information on the apps. I'd like to solve this without resorting to jailbreaking as my devices are already updated to iOS 10.3.3. Here are things that I've tried that didn't work: Extract from backup: The apps seem no longer to be backed up. Save to Mac from iPhone management software: I believe this has been blocked by Apple works as far back as iOS 8.3.
I'd like a note-taking application that doesn't store files locally. Or, if it does, that also syncs these to a remote server via webdav. Notebooks no longer syncs via webdav, the author emailed me and explained that there is no intent to fix that issue (possibly it can't be fixed given environment limitations).
I get the error: "Can’t make {x:651.0, y:675.0} into type real." number -1700 from {x:651.0, y:675.0} to real"" when I run this script. I don't know why this happens! Comes from an autoclicker I made, Very simple, but it works with slightly obscure methods (Credit: Clicker, Mouse Position) . Code:
Trying to work with an automator script of mine in 10.11. Here's just a basic code example, this works on my 10.10 machine but fails on my 10.11 machine.
My fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 5s is not working, but the home button is working. I want to replace the fingerprint sensor. Is it possible to just buy a new fingerprint sensor - home button assembly and replace it, and will it just work? I heard stories that fingerprint sensor is somehow hard wired with the motherboard and no other fingerprint sensor can replace the original one. Is this true?
I am using Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with macOS Sierra v10.12.6. These are the problems: 1. It won't connect to the Wi-Fi automatically 2. It asks for password every time while connecting to the Wi-Fi
My iphone 5s is connected to Macbook 10.12 Sierra. Where oh where did the photos go?
For example, I've tried typing on the front of an anki card, Does [latex]\begin{math}\sum_{k = 1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\end{math}[/latex] converge?
I am relying on airport -s called from an application to return information about the available wifi networks. However, sometimes it immediately returns without providing any information. I've also experienced this when running it directly on the command line. Anyone know why that is happening and what I can do about it?
How can I receive calls only from a set of approved phone numbers?
For last two three days I have been experiencing this problem. My MacBook Pro looks like this while booting up:
I'd like to be able to programmatically detect the presence of a VPN on a Mac. Detecting if a VPN connection is active programmatically shows what the output of netstat -nr will look like when a VPN is active:
My class requires for us to make the homework in a linux server, but i want to copy those files to my local machine. I've tried so far to to use the cp command but it doesn't seem to take my arguments. It always return with either the host directory does not exist or with the target directory does not exist. My approach so far has been: Keep in mind that i'm connected to a remote server on ssh.
If I take my iPhone on a run with an Apple Watch without GPS the workout app on the watch will use my iPhone's GPS data. Is that same true for barometric data now that the workout app uses the barometer on Apple Watch Series 3 devices?
So I am trying to create a table that will compare the current time to a specified range and sum up a column IF now falls inside that time frame. I for the life of me cannot find how to do this in numbers. Has anyone else had some practice at this?
I am working on a script that will iterate through a folder/DroppedItems of photos and movies and place each one centered and maximized on a slide. I would like to set the movies to play automatically so it will work with a simple clicker. I've tried a bunch of different things with the syntax and I'm still coming up short. Here's what I have that I thought was most promising. Part of the issue it seems is that "play settings of theAnimation" looks like it is getting compiled to a type rather than a property. It should say "animation play settings" I believe. I've tried forcing it by pasting in the chevron syntax, but that still doesn't help. This is the setting in the UI that I am trying to change via AppleScript:
I have a habit of creating new user profiles on my mac that serves different needs (ie recruiting, software development etc). I'm always thinking of ways to make creating a new user less expensive, one is saving all sorts of setting files and saving them in dropbox (ie alfred settings, slate settings, bash_profile, vimrc etc etc). I also have many settings that I have to issue mac commands for (like this one): How can I save these in a "dot file", and simply have the system read them on load (ie like ~/.bash_profile)?
I've got a late 2012 Mac Mini set up in my living room, connected via ethernet to the home network. It's running El Capitan with the latest version of iTunes (12.7.0.166), and is Home Sharing my music collection which is stored on its internal hard drive. My desktop computers - Macbook and PC - can connect to the Mac Mini's Home Sharing library perfectly. However, my mobile devices - iPhone and iPad and Apple TV 4 - cannot.
I recently purchased a 3 year old secondhand corporate owned MacBook Pro which has a lot of files from the previous user. Users are as follows: admin (admin) from old corporate IT department myself (admin)
How is it that some processes can have working windows and some not? And is there any way to "kick" the system so we can get things like Activity Monitor or Terminal working without shutting down the system?
Is there a way to block incoming call on iPhone from unknown numbers while messaging and other apps still are not muted? Use case: Carrying a company emergency phone which should only be called from selected contacts/numbers. However, notification from the mail app, messages and other apps should not be muted.
There is this great question: What happens if you plug more than one charger in the new MacBook Pro (2016)? It doesn't tell me how to find out from which source the MacBook is charging though. Right this moment I have a power bank and a MacBook charger (small, not proper wattage) connected to my MacBook Pro and my battery is at 3%. I'd like to know which one I can unplug.
How can I execute a bash script when the external IP is changed. I wonder if there is a hook in macOS to run such a script.
Apple showed off its AirPower charging mat with an Series 3 Apple Watch. Will AirPower work with older Apple Watch models as well?
I have a Mac Pro 2013. I already have two 4k monitors now connected to the HDMI port (Bus 0) a thunderbolt port with a TB->HDMI adapter (Bus 1) Before I simply buy a third monitor and adapter, is it as easy as that?
I have two MacBook Pros, a mid 2015 for work and a late 2016 personal. I have the same setup for the most part on the two machines so that it's seamless working on the two of them. Many of the same apps are installed on the two computers, but the apps don't always work on the mid 2015 MacBook. For example, this app, Rocket, that picks emojis does not work on the 2015 but works on the 2016. Another example is aText. It works on the 2016 but not on the 2015. And the second app is sharing preferences across the two devices, so I know that it is set up correctly.
I've recently bought a 2 TB Time Capsule, and I'm struggling to access it when I'm not on my home Wi-Fi. I've added my iCloud account to enable remote access using Back to My Mac. When I open iCloud under Back to My Mac, it says "Back to My Mac isn't working properly because your DNS server isn't responding. Contact your ISP for an alternate DNS server address, and enter it in Network Preferences". I find that strange because I'm using the public DNS server (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Can somebody help me accessing my Time Capsule remotely?
Also, I open mail and NONE of the accounts I had before are there, but there are three (only) messages in a generic inbox from two of those accounts. And they are three weeks old; lots of messages came in since. Why is this, and is there an easy fix?
On the 2016/2017 MacBook Pro's the Touchbar animations are slow. After a little while I've become used to the keyboard and Touchbar. But the one thing I would like to speed up is the transitions.
For testing purposes I frequently want to restart my iMac in El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra which I have on separate disk partitions. When using System Preferences/Startup Disk, I have to enter my password to do that. Is there any way to avoid this requirement?
I noticed some novice users installed some spam configuration profiles which installed some email inboxes on their iOS devices such as 'Daily Bible Verse' or 'WEATHER ALERTS' with a email address ending in @my.minbox.email. This site has more information. How do I setup their device so that they can't install any profile? I think I can do this by creating a profile of my own and installing on their device. There is the following key that might help from Apple's support doc. How would I create a profile with this key and install it?
Does anyone know how Apple determine's the machine's model when adding it to iCloud? The reason I ask is because a MacBook Pro I recently added is showing as a Mac. This seem minor, and it is, but I'm also having issues authenticating with iCloud on this machine (repeatedly tells me to enter my password on the iCloud preference pane) and believe the two things might be related.
So I just recently noticed that my iMessages we're going in as my email instead of my number why is that? I just want somebody to help me figure out how can I get it to change into my number instead of my email I tried turning it off and doesn't work I try resetting my phone doesn't work and every time I try to click where it says my number it's all Gray with a little has a a loading icon on the left.
iTunes 12.7 removed the apps section. I've been pushing multi-gigabyte videos from my Mac to my iPad's VLC's application documents folder using iTunes.
Now that iTunes no longer syncs apps to iOS devices, can apps be removed from the folder that iTunes stored them in? (~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications in my case) I have updated iTunes, and was surprised to see that the applications were not deleted.
So, they think I got it, but I only get it if I am on the laptop. Since the laptop is off most of the time, the message is ignored.
This is what the tech specs page of iPhone X says in the section Video Recording: 4K video recording at 24 fps, 30 fps, or 60 fps 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps or 60 fps 720p HD video recording at 30 fps Just trying to understand that if a camera can record at 60 fps in 1080p and 4K resolution, what prevents it from recording at 60 fps in 720p?
I have several tens of gigabytes of iPhone and iPad apps inside my ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications directory. What happens to the .ipa files in this directory after updating to iTunes 12.7? Are the contents of this directory still updated after a Sync is performed with an iOS device that has new or updated apps installed? Or does this directory just become wasted storage that should be cleaned up?
I just updated itunes to 12.7.0.166 before making a backup of my iphone 5. To my surprise I can't find an apps section when configuring the phone in itunes, nor can I find the apps section in the itunes library itself.
I have several dozen 32-bit apps on my iPhone. What happens to them after I update the device to iOS 11?
I am unable to change the country in my iPhone 6s in App Store. It requires credit/debit card information which I currently don't have. I want to download a free app.
I tried to install OpenCV through Homebrew by following the steps given in *=URL=* but after installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper I updated the path as given. When I source it I get the following I have macOS Sierra 10.12.6, Xcode 8.3.3.
I accidentally deleted my default terminal icon and I also unintentionally replaced the Terminal.icns file in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Terminal.icns So can anyone provide me with the original icns file? This not a duplicate question the other question is regarding apps not icons and I have deleted the icon not app please red the question carefully
The "Internet Radio" feature to stream from hundreds of suggested URLs around the world, and allowing me to add my own URL for a stream, is gone from iTunes 12.7. Did Apple move this feature to a different place in the user-interface, yet again? Or did Apple remove this feature altogether?
Is it possible to use an airport express as a master in a master-slave multi plug? My intention is to connect airport express at home to an adapted car amplifier to use at home and power to 2 old stereo speakers. I would like to 'wake up' the amp every time I send music to the airport express. Any suggestion?
Short of using a script, how can I create a keyboard shortcut to tag files. I used to use Quickeys to do that which worked well but they stopped supporting the program and I moved to Keyboard Maestro. I've yet to figure out an easy way to do that with that program.
I do have a pretty good iMac (Retina 5k, Late 2014, 4GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB RAM with a 3 TB Fusion Drive) running the latest stable macOS Sierra. When powering on, the log on screen appears pretty fast. But when I entered my credentials, the mac takes about 10 minutes until it's usable. I can click on windows before, they react after a long time, but I hear the hard drive for ~ 10 minutes and only after that the mac is really usable.
All three of my Apple devices stopped giving me access to the internet yesterday. Ipad 4 Mini, iphone, and Macbook Pro all show strong Wifi connection but give no actual access. I have tried the following: Restart, Renew Lease, Reset Network Settings. Router has been restarted. Non-Apple devices on same wifi network working fine.
How do I increase the cursor size programmatically? I know how to do it manually. Is there a script that can do it from the command line rather than an AppleScript that does it from the GUI.
I have access to iTunes Connect with my Apple ID, but when I'm trying to sign in with the same Apple ID in iBooks Author it shows the following error: This Apple ID isn't associated with an iTunes Connect account.
this little item fell out of my iPhone 6, what is it? I haven't found out what part it is because everything I can think of still works, is there anyone that could tell me what this component do? the component in question is the red ring marked on this photo. following still works: front camera front camera face recognition(ie the orange/yellow boxes around peoples faces) wifi gps landscape/horizontal recognition go dark when on a call and helds the telephone against my ear sound when calling
The really annoying issue I have though is that I somehow broke the keychain. So now when I login with the yubikey I get a window like this:
Before when I had macOS sierra installed on my mac and when I used to open macOS sierra in the MacApp store there used to be an option to reinstall/download the installer but now I am seeing an open button below the macOS icon after updating to the latest stable build of macOS sierra
I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 9.2.1. I also have a Garmin vivosmart HR that I use to count steps and do the syncing using its official Garmin app. If I simply do a sync of the Garmin-bracelet while I'm on the street for example, then the steps DO NOT appear in the Health-App If I connect my phone to my laptop and then do the sync of the Garmin-bracelet, the steps DO NOT appear in the Health-App It only works if I do the sync while the phone is connected to my desktop-PC at home. This is very strange and I couldn't find anyone else that had/has this problem.
Is there some trick to allow me to crop a screen shot in Apple's Preview.app to 4:3 or 16:9 dimensions? I did notice holding down shift causes a 1:1 rectangular selection, but I need other common ratios. I am willing to accept a solution from other lightweight tools.
I have tried 5 different cables and bought 1 new one. Same result In my girlfriends Macbook air it recharges fine, also in other computers it recharges fine... The iPhone recharges okay from within the AC Charger I reseted PRAM and SMC, still the same result Other accessories work fine (Recharging camera, USB port for dock in display) macOS Sierra, iOS 11 Golden master beta, got Xcode 9 beta installed alongside Xcode 8.
The new iTunes (12.7) does not manage apps, this must be done from the device itself, my iPhone in this case. Can I delete all the IPA files from my MacBook HD?
My iPhone 4s wifi has been disabled/grayed-out. It seems irreparable as I tried all methods on internet and got it checked on repair shop. Just thinking can I use wifi with iPhone by connecting it to any external wifi adapter or through OTG? Is there any external wifi adapter available in market for iPhone?
I ask in all sincerity because as far as I can tell, swiping left deletes an email. There is no warning. It doesn't matter what you have set the left or right swipe to do either.
Macbook Pro (2017) cursor moves properly, but hover and click is completely unable to work (I couldn't click the Apple Menu). CommandOptionEsc doesn't work either, and besides, the Fn doesn't even work (normally touchbar would respond on Fn). (Keyboard lighting works, screen auto-dimming works.) Any tips on how I can at least get the &Lt;Force Quit&Gt; window to open?
I just got my first iPhone 6. I wonder if it is a requirement to get an Apple ID or if it is possible to install apps without having an Apple ID? I think that I already have so many IDs and I don't want a new.
However, when I click on backups, I see this. No backups are listed and according to this page 0 memory is being taken up by backups.
I'm a new user of Macintosh and I'm trying to set the Dock to full width from the center of screen, like with KDE on Linux operating system.
I changed from POP to IMAP a few years ago. My difficulty is that I cannot access with my iPad and iPhone the emails/folders on my mac that were established with the POP setting. The IMAP emails are fine between all three. Any suggestions?
I recently have been submitting quite a few reviews to Apple, and I wondered if they might get annoyed with the amount of times an app is called for review. I have not approached this limit yet, but I wanted to make sure I do not annoy Apple's reviewers.
The first time I connected my 27-Inch 4k display to my macbook it offered me to virtually scale the resolution of that display, so I could take full advantage of the 4k resolution while having it in 2560x1440 scaling, so similar to the iMac. After re-connecting the mac to the display it's been virtually scaled to 1080p and everything is just huge. When going to the screen options I'm only offered resolutions up to 1920x1080, even when clicking the options key it'll show up until 4k but it'll no longer scale texts and windows to make it look like 2560x1440. I basically just want the same options as my macbook screen offers, like I said it worked the first time I connected to the display and I've already tried holding the options key.
Since Yosemite the only way to add custom ringtones was to drop them into: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Ringtones Is this location still our only option for adding custom ringtones to macOS or is there a new ~/Library/ location available to users? I've had no luck isolating anything within ~/Library that indicates that it is a ringtone storage location for Messages.app, etc. Additionally, there is also an AlertTones folder in the above parent folder location: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AlertTones It appears that both of these will likely have to be remapped to something like ~/Music/Tones/Ringtones & ~/Music/Tones/AlertTones
I have gone into Terminal and typed for which it responds with But I am not sure if that is confirming if Java is not installed or whether the Java SDK is not installed.
I've got two offices, each equipped with the same NEC monitor - however, at one office, the MacBook sits to the right of the monitor and at the other office, to the left. I'm using the HDMI display port, and depending on my location, I've been needing to set the display arrangement up each morning. It's not a difficult task, but it sure would be more convenient to have the arrangement remembered. External monitor model is NEC MultiSync EA224WMi.
Does anybody know the dimension, in pixels, of a picture taken with the front and back cameras of both iPhone 8 and iPhone X at their maximum resolutions for both cameras?
Are there any change or new features with Terminal.app in High Sierra? There is no leak about terminal, so I want to hear from user who already use High Sierra Beta. I wish that apple support 24bit color rendering in terminal.
When you click on the battery in the menu bar in OS X it shows you how much battery power you have left. It also shows the processes that are using the most battery power.
I'm trying to understand just how many <4K displays I can hook up to a 15" MacBook Pro Touch Bar (late 2016, Core i7, Radeon Pro 460). I get that, as per the specs, I can have up to 4 4k displays. This support document also mentions that only a total of 4 Thunderbolt Displays can be added. But, when user via daisy-chaining this would leave two physical TB3 ports open. Can I use these, say, for two FHD displays via HDMI? Total setup would be TB3 1/4: TB2 adapter Thunderbolt Display (Daisy Chained) Thunderbolt Display Thunderbolt Display (Daisy Chained) Thunderbolt Display TB3 2/4: TB2 adapter Thunderbolt Display (Daisy Chained) Thunderbolt Display Thunderbolt Display (Daisy Chained) Thunderbolt Display TB3 3/4: HDMI Adapter some FHD Display some FHD Display TB3 4/4: HDMI Adapter some FHD Display some FHD Display Will that work? I've been googling around for a hard spec that clarifies this, but have come up short. (I did manage the upper part of the setup; 2 + 2 daisy-chained Thunderbolt
I use facetime to make phone calls from my mac using the iphone. From time to time facetime fails to make or receive calls with the 'call failed' error. Both computer & phone are on the same WIFI and the network is working fine. I would love to know what log I need to check to understand what is the problem in order to fix this properly.
The only folder I see in internal storage for Apple iPhone is DCIM which leads to 100APPLE, which has all my pictures and videos, and I can't drag the mp3 file there?
I foolishly installed iTunes 12.7, and now find that I am unable to install a development/QA version of my company's app for testing. After downloading the IPA, I am following the steps found on Apple's support page, under "Manually add items from your computer." There, I'm told to drag the IPA file to the iTunes sidebar, like so:
Mac mini Late 2012 OS 10.12 Sierra. I recently replaced fusion drive with a 1TB SSD and a 2TB disc Hdd as two separate internal drives. I restored using Time machine Backup from an external drive (which I curiously found to have been formatted Journaled Case Sensitive). I purchased a 5TB Seagate Backup+ Plus Hub external drive. As instructed I formatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as I usually do to set up a drive for time machine. It has been over 13 hours and it has only backed up 285GB of 1.6TB. I believe that using 3.0 hub should be much quicker. Yesterday after a similar event I stopped the BU and reformatted the drive and started the process over with stated results. Suggestions?
So, just started up iTunes and found that while I wasn't looking it auto-updated to version 12.7. Apps are gone, obviously. What is the replacement for iTunes File Sharing, which I used to use extensively?
As the title says, is there a way to get the input level in mac?  I want to get the value indicating in the input level bar(System Preferences -> Sound -> Input) in the pic. Is it possible? There are solutions on how to set the input and output volume but I can't find any solution to get the input level value.
I know I'm using unsupported hardware (power pc mac mini) and software (macOSX 10.5.8). I'm wanting to make as may of the ui elements of my mac dark like how it can be switched to in newer versions of MacOSX Anything I can do in the terminal or in the files of the Mac would be great. Any help would be appriciated
can I use one usb-c to displayport cable to connect from my macbook pro to one 1080p monitor and use another displayport to display port cable to daisy chain to another 1080p monitor? Thanks
My MacBook Pro got stolen, I have file vault enabled but not the Firmware password, too bad from Apple's part not to enable it by default with account's password or at least to raise awareness about it. I'm an advanced user but never thought about the firmware password. Anyway, my biggest fear now is that the thief can erase the disk using recovery mode, reinstall MacOS and have a new apple id configured, allowing him to bypass lock and find my iPhone tracking.
Is there a way on both Mac (10.12.6) and iPhone (10.3.3) to reset the mechanism that classifies email as junk? Every day I have to trawl my junk looking for legitimate email that has been misclassified. Even my iTunes receipts go on there - mail from Apple itself! I had understood that moving a message from junk to inbox (on iPhone) was equivalent to marking it as "not junk" but this doesn't seem to have a persistent effect. I don't want to go without filtering at all, but since I have to look in my junk mail every day anyway, that is effectively the situation I'm in.
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 with a 250 GB SSD split in 2 partitions: (1) OS X El Capitan (200 GB) and (2) Debian Linux (20 GB). Willing to give more space to Debian, I will wipe the SSD and reinstall everything from scratch. To put things into order, I thought about utilizing Time Machine for backups and restores. If after wiping the disk the created macOS partition is smaller than the previous one, will I be able to have a successful restore (assume that the real old data fits in the new partition)?
Ok suppose I am reinstalling macOS in recovery mode using a bootable usb stick so in recovery mode when I format macintoshHD should I format the volume partition I mean when you click on the downward arrow beside macintoshHD(The Disk) a second disk/volume partition appears below the name, should I erase that one or the disk itself what is the difference?
Currently my iPhone would not load the CSS parts on webpages so i.e. when I go to www.apple.com the phone would only load the words of the webpage I cannot access apps such as Itune, Appstore, Facebook that utilizes the internet and basically the only thing that I can do is use the cellular call function, Even then I cannot even send iMessage texts and send text messages either When I try to update through iTunes on my Mac the update doesn't work, what should I do?
*=URL=* - Shows how calls and messages can be blocked. From what I saw in the "list" of blocked it seems that the number are common between Phone and Messages. Can one or the other be separate? i.e. Block a phone number from calls or texts but not the other?
On a previous Mac I could switch languages and see a gray box in the middle of the screen that shows which language is selected. This is in addition to the small icon in the top bar.
I have develop the app for a client who has its own company, the employee within the company or any external user can use this application. But first user need to register himself to use this app. While registering user needs to give the unique code. This will be provided by company, user need to contact first to company. This is the my app's registering senario.
I have an iMac 21.5" from 2016. For several reasons I want to have the iMac available for logging in via Splashtop and some other over-the-internet access. Afaik I can't use sleep mode. How much more energy will the iMac use when not in sleep mode, but assuming screen is off and hard disk is idle?
I was taking taking time machine backup on a network drive in a sparsebundle image. In order to use another usb HDD (exfat) to take backup I ran the commands explained here: *=URL=* Now the previous backup destination is deassociated with the Time Machine and when I appended this (network) destination again using follwoing command it starts backing up from the scratch (first backup) Can anyone tell me how do I reassociate the network sparsebundle the the my Mac as it has latest backup.
If Optimize iPhone Storage is turned on and you're using Image Capture to import pictures or videos from your iPhone to your Mac, is the iPhone smart enough to download the original full resolution photo before importing?
I have my router setup with 2 frequencies: When I'm near the router, I'm connected to the 5Ghz wifi network. But when I go into my bedroom, I am switching to the 2.4Ghz network because the 5Ghz signal is too weak at that distance (barely getting any speed).
What does it mean when it says enter a phone number where you can be reached it will be shown on this iPhone after it has been erased does it mean that the iPhone will text my all contacts
Every time I try to sync my music from iTunes to my iPhone I get the "not enough access privileges" error. I have researched how to fix this and all of my setting are already in proper order (changing music folder "read & write" privileges for my user account). I have never had this problem until a month ago. I have never changed any settings on my computer, this just started happening.
Using here OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6. I reckon it is a little old, I will upgrade my old 15" macbook pro eventually (when I become rich). Is there any way to add an input source (keyboard layout) with: language: Italian keyboard layout: U.S. International It would seem that going to 'System Preferences' -> 'Keyboard' -> 'Input Sources' and pressing the '+' sign in the lower left, the people at Apple just thought of a combo Italian language + Italian keyboard layout. But this would be too silly to be true. I remember that years ago I had this option, but may be it's a false memory due to my ageing.
I really would prefer to just cut this up without having to decode and re-encode the file(s) all over again. I'd like to just mark the sections I want, and spit them out as standalone .mp4s. No other edits, no corrections, no effects, no anything... just cut & export without any formatting changes at all.
I have two locations where I work regularly. I have backup drives at both locations and run Time Machine with both locations listed. That works, but it appears that when I'm at one location (call it A), Time Machine may be backing up to A and simultaneously saving files in /.MobileBackups to back up for the other location. Then, when I'm back at the other location, it appears to be backing up locally and also saving files in /.MobileBackups until I'm back at A. If I'm gone for 2 weeks, the disk usage in /.MobileBackups adds up.
Im trying to edit .bash_profile because I am installing JDK on my mac. When trying to open up the file using vi ./.bash_profile, it said error because there was a swp file of bash. It also said there may be someone editing it or that a past session crashed. It gives me options to edit, recover or delete. So I recovered it and got this: Swap file "./.bash_profile.swp" already exists! "./.bash_profile" 2L, 87C
As of iTunes 12.7, Apple now advises manually adding custom ringtones to iPhone per their support article here. Apple's instruction is to drag and drop tones from Finder to the "Tones" section of my device in iTunes. This method works to add tones to my phone. However, I can't discern how to remove ringtones from my phone. I've tried clicking the tones in iTunes and pressing delete, without and with various modifier keys. I've checked the contextual menu under control-click (right-click) of the tones in iTunes. I've tried dragging the tones out of iTunes. I've poked around in iPhone settings and iTunes menubar and prefs. I've tried deleting files from my Mac at ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Tones/ and re-syncing my iPhone.
I have MacBook 17' early 2011, that max ram is supposed to be 8gb, but I recently installed Crucial 16gb new ram. I had it crashing several times and not turning on, but finally, it worked out and it gave this report. What is the problem? I also performed apple Hardware test and it said all is ok.
I'm using iCloud Drive with the Desktop and Documents Folders sync option and sometimes I need to log out and log back in from my iCloud account. When login out from the iCloud account, all the data from my Desktop and Documents Folders are either deleted or stored locally. I always choose the latter option, but I wonder if it could be possible to avoid this hassle of re-syncing all the files between my local folders and the iCloud ones? Does anyone have a workaround?
Almost all of my email calendar invites appear in my non-Apple email that eventually gets routed and delivered to Gmail and by me to my Google Calendar, however, for some individuals, none of their invitations come through email but instead show up in iCal as transient popup notifications, despite their inviting me with my email address. I have a hypothesis that when they invite me using the same email address of my Apple ID and they are on some Apple device such as a laptop or iPhone, that Apple sees the email and matches it to my Apple ID and decides to short circuit the email invite (never sending it) and instead just populate directly to my iCal. I haven't tested this hypothesis because I think it would involve asking one of the few people I have this difficulty with to take the action and did not want to impose upon them if I could avoid it.
Yesterday, I bought Rayman Origins from the Mac App Store. It appears in the Applications folder stack on my dock as "Rayman® Origins"
When the Apple Store goes down for maintenance in anticipation of a preorder about to go live, if I were to have the Apple Store iOS app open during that time, would the "We'll be back" screen automatically disappear when the time comes to preorder those items, or would I need to force-restart the app for the change to take effect?
Someone may have stolen my iPad mini 2, or I've misplaced it. Checked on find my iPhone, and it shows up, but it stalls on "locating..." So, now I'm thinking how can I show use of the iPad via all the synced apps I have? It has cellular, and I can see data usage via my ISP, and it only shows my last known usage, nothing recent. I'm looking for a meta data solution to prove current use. If I can prove current use, then I know who has it. If it's just lost or misplaced with a dead battery or something, then nothing will show up.
Exactly what the title says. Whenever I open Automator, by clicking on its icon, it keeps opening multiple files (Untitled, Untitled 2, Untitled 3). When I attempt to close them it asks me if I want to save changes for each one. This is incredibly annoying. Does anyone know how to stop this?
I want to put a folder called, say, Fonts in the Finder sidebar. Normally, putting a folder there gives you a generic folder icon (see the Fonts folder below):
NOTE: as suggested from Streaming iMac's Audio to iPad, this open source alternative was available however it hasn't been updated. *=URL=* (requires iOS 9.2.1 and self-compiled with Xcode from a Mac)
I would like to manage my Mac's Wi-Fi on the command line, but there are lots of different built-in Mac utilities that need to be called (airport, ipconfig, networksetup, netstat, security), with various options. I'd like a simple way to do the most common operations. Is there anything like that out there?
I have been searching for a long time for the answer to this question. I have a Dell XPS laptop with minidisplay port out and a 2013 iMac. Can I buy a mini-display port cable and connect it to the thunderbolt port on the mac and use Target Display Mode. or Can I buy a thunderbolt cable and connect that to minidisplay port on the Dell and use target display mode
I am seeking advice on the Bird Syncing process and when it decides to sync over the network. Particularly in relation to an iPhone bird process. The device that I have is not signed into an iTunes account and a review of the data indicates that the device syncs at the end of the month and also there is a possibility of it syncing when the device is powered down. Can anyone provide me with some advice in relation to when the bird process actually runs? Any advice appreciated.
I have a Mac mini plugged into a Sony STR DN1080, but it seems to be sending a container or empty channels (8 to be exact) at all times over HDMI. This causes my receiver to perceive that there’s surround sound when there’s not and hence, it’s not possible to utilise MULTI-STEREO, a feature that plays back stereo over all channels when there’s only Front Left-Right information. I though that maybe “Encoded Digital Audio” might fix it, but the option is greyed out. What can I do to get Stereo sound to play back over surround speakers i.e remove empty container channels, or correctly adapt to the content?
I've been wondering if theres an App for this. Pointing that the target device does not browse DLNA servers, it just receives a targeted streaming. In case anyone is wondering, it's a UC46 Mini Projector It also works with Miracast, if by some miracle someone know how to use it on mac... Thanks in advance.
I've a bunch (~200) of PDFs, organized in directories, (Topic wise), that I need to transfer to my iPad for offline reading. I've two problems: First, emailing is not an option. These are around 720 megabytes in size, and the current connection I'm on is barely able to download 40 megabytes in half an hour. Besides, I could try GZIP compression, but I don't know if Adobe Acrobat can handle GZIP files. Secondly, I would like to retain the directory structure of my documents.
I am using an audio enhancement app called Boom 2. It really is very good and makes a big difference to the sound on my iMac.
These days I have been stuck in a painstaking case where an input of language is not switched to some languages. I usually use English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese, but Japanese input language input has suddenly been unable to be switched on. This can be fixed on restart, but it is a pain to restart every time so I would rather like to know a way, if any, to just kill and restart the input language. For example, a command such as killall Finder or killall Dock.
My MBP has the following problem: Left Shift Key not functioning Sometimes Shift is on automatically and when restarting, will restart in safe mode What I've done: Try using usb keyboard, the problem persist (always in Shift e.g press 8 will output *) Restart with Option+Command+R+P, get option to reinstall and three others Restart with Option+Command+O+F, the problem is gone but not for long (first time, it takes a day to happen again.. now, every 30 minutes or so) Install Karabiner-EventViewer, the press the Left Key definitely give no response; when my MBP in Shift, the log shows Shift flags for every key pressed. Reinstall macOS, seems not solving my problem
I can use Coconut Battery on my Macbook which shows cycles number on my iPhone when I plug iPhone into Macbook. I don't want to use that however. I want to have an iPhone app for that. Do you know any?
I am having problems with the multitouch subsystem of my MacBook Pro. But I am happy working with an external USB keyboard. But: that multitouch driver keeps trying to load, I think. Sometimes it affects my external mouse and keyboard performance. So, therefore, I'd like the AppleUSBMultitouchDriver to stop trying. I get these messages in Console, about once a second:
The problem is that previously OCR'ed PDF text, that displayed correctly, turns into symbols and random letters after adding a note to a highlighted text in Preview app. Seems like encoding changes or something. OCR was done in FineReader 12.1.6.
All my (downloaded?) files restored from Time Machine are marked as "damaged". I assume the problem is similar to this one: All downloaded files cannot be opened as they are 'damaged and should be moved to the Trash' so I try to change the "Allow app..." setting. I open Security & Privacy and see App Store is selected: I click the padlock and check "App Store and identified developers": (I also notice that "Anywhere" is no longer an option.)
My saved Notes on my iPad were accidentally deleted. I tried to find a folder for the "recently deleted" and there is none listed, how do I find it?
I moved all my emails (13k messages) from Outlook to iCloud a couple of days ago using Outlook 2016 on a Windows computer and Apple's iCloud client for Windows. I see all of my emails in iCloud's web client so I assume that the emails have successfully been moved to iCloud. However, not all emails are being downloaded to iOS' default mail app on both my iPhone SE (running iOS 11 GM) and iPad (running iOS 9.3.5).
In the Apple Store they have a special software program that will check the remaining strength of your battery, and replace it under AppleCare warranty if it goes beneath 80%. Is there any way to check that on my own short of calling them and having them rerun the tests over the phone? It's not totally clear how the figures are actually calculated.
My cat keeps walking over my keyboard. Is it possible to lock the keyboard with a keyboard short cut but leave the screen running and all apps visible?
Over the past couple of years I've noticed that if I'm on my iPhone, using Safari, in private browsing mode, and using a 4G connection, that about 30% of the time I simply cannot connect to Google. Searching in the URL bar hangs without establishing a connection (no secure connection is made and the browser seems to sit without making any progress) and directly going to www.google.com results in a similar problem.
Im not sure whether this actually possible or not but I'm trying to add a newly created folder into the favorites section of the Finder window. If it is possible how can I achieve this? I have googled for this but couldn't find anything concrete. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I’m new to this Mac and have a month of experience. I think I have deleted every single photo on my laptop, and emptied recently deleted, and I'm getting this from the storage part of About This Mac...
I'm trying to convert my old 13" unibody MacBook Pro (mid-2012) display into an external monitor. I purchased a controller board from eBay that supports the display panel of MacBook Pro. I am wondering how to connect LVDS cable from MBP to the controller board. Controller board already has it's own LVDS cable. I'm wondering if there is any kind of extension available that can be used to connect these two cables. I'm not sure what would be the right terminology but I guess 30-pin LVDS female to 30-pin LVDS female port? Not sure. Below are the images of both.
I'm setting up a cron job to run an executable bash script which contains a pypdfocr command. Whenever I manually execute the script everything works as expected, if instead I use cron with this schedule: I get this error:
I can find no answers to changing the font size on a photo in Preview. It is not a PDF. All the answers I've seen are for PDF or from years ago. Thanks.
I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2011) running macOS Sierra that cannot recognize any audio devices. No headphones, no speaker, no microphone. I currently use a USB audio card, which works fine but isn't convenient. I have tried to fix this by: Reinstalling the OS Resetting PRAM Blowing compressed air into audio jack (and cleaning the whole computer) Repairing disk permissions Removing ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.BezelServices.plist and rebooted
My Wi-Fi is turning on and off every 5 seconds. It's not connecting to anything and just lagging my MacBook Air. Even when I click on AirPlay, it slows down and spins the loading icon. Seems like a bug with the Wi-Fi itself. I have reinstalled OS X and reset the SMC to no avail - still doing the same. Any suggestions?
I'm using the latest iTunes 12.7 and iPhone software (iOS 10.3.3). Any suggestions?
Lately, I've been turning off my Mac when I step away from it. The added trouble of turning it on keeps me from hopping on idly and accidentally wasting a few hours clicking through social media on autopilot. Rather than shut down and turn on my computer several times a day, is there a way I can artificially introduce a time delay when waking from sleep, either before or after the login prompt?
Right now I'm making a persistent Linux usb stick. I don't like the idea having the USB stick plugged in all the time and possibly losing my work if it gets jostled. Is there a work around that will allow me to place a USB stick inside my macbook where the HDD would go? Or, could the OS X recovery partition be used as a persistent OS?
Or other modifier keys, like Alt or Ctrl. Is there a way to bind those?
I can't find any substantial documentation for macOS 10.12 Sierra Server with Google. I've got a couple tutorials (which are entirely useless for my needs), a bunch of marketing info, but what I'm looking for are the PDFs that used to be shipped with every previous version. Or websites with the same thing would be fine. Even a gopher site would be fine.
I downloaded an app recently and when I was moving it from the screen it was placed after download; to another screen then I accidentally hovered over another app and made a folder. When I took it out of the folder I hovered over the section between the current screen and the next then I let go and the app had vanished (The app wasn't visible in any folders near the spot I hovered). I checked both screens. So I had to delete and re-install the app by going to settings and finding it on the storage menu. When I went to the app store and looked at purchased apps it was there and it had the open button but, it wasn't visible on any of my screens. Has this happened before? Specs of situation: - Using iPod 5 - iOS 9.3.5 - App downloaded: Google Authenticator
I'm running 10.11.6 and would like to download El Captian to make a bootable USB because my computer sometimes does not boot. However, when I click download in the App Store, a prompt comes up saying "This version of OS X cannot be installed on this computer." Why can't I download the installer?
Sorry if my question title seems confusing. I have a very specific situation here. My brother died and I have inherited his Mac. I don't know any of his passwords and can't access anything. His Mac itself is not password protected (I can use his computer) but to make any administrative changes/install programs/etc, I am prompted for a password. I don't know it, so I am unable to do anything admin-wise.
I have a MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with two HP ZR24w external monitors connected to it using two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. When I start my computer, or unlock it, the Mac often (not always) rearranges the screens, so that the left screen becomes the right and vice versa. Each time I need to arrange them back manually. How can I stop this?
Only with HDMI monitor and enabled mirroring my mouse simply disappears. I have Mac OS X 10.10.5. I have to remove the HDMI cable or disable mirroring and then it appears again. Any ideas how to fix this?
When i am in the Save/Open Dialog, i only see the current folder and cannot navigate a folder up? Any ideas?
Is it at all possible to create a DMG file which will run a few terminal commands when opened? These are examples for the commands: create a new folder with specific name. Place it in a specific location. Download a few files from my server and save them into that new folder. What I've done: I've created a file which include a basic script to create a new folder on my desktop and named it file.command and then opened my terminal and typed chmod +x file.command and then double clicked the file and it ran.
I am confused by all the posts, questions, answers, dropping symlink, linking, heartbleed bug, etc... that exist on updating your OpenSSL on a Mac. When I run $ openssl version I get OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016 but when I run $ brew install openssl I get Warning: openssl 1.0.2l is already installed. Does this mean I have two versions installed? What exactly should I do now via HomeBrew? Is there a clean way of updating it to the newest and bug-free version without all the linking and path changing, etc...? I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
I've been following Moving Fusion VMs to ESXi on moving VMWare Fusion images into VSphere Cloud/ESXi, and am unsure of something that comes out of this. When running the following command: It generates two files, filename.vmdk, and filename-flat.vmdk.
I have an app which requires me to enter my password every time I launch it. Can I somehow make this app access root account so that it runs automatically without having me enter the password? This dialog pops up every time:
All of the individual Sport Bands come with both a small-to-medium and medium-to-large adjustable band. On the other hand, the Woven Nylon band does not and clearly says so on its Apple Store page: Fits 125-195mm wrists. 38mm, not 42mm
We have a lot of MacBookPros, acting as a clustered test server, but we find that a handful of them usually freeze over the course of a week and need rebooting - Apple's watchdog works reasonably well for the newer touchstrip machines, but the earlier machines end up with an immobile pointer and only manually powering on works. I'm putting in a watchdog LaunchDaemon, that runs 'shutdown -r +2' every minute, and then kills the previous shutdown command, but that means there's a succession of shutdown messages for anyone who's trying to do debugging of stuff on one of those machines via ssh or terminal. Is there a way to suppress the '*** System shutdown' message that appears on all ttys, short of recompiling 'shutdown' from the Darwin sources?
I recently copied some PDF books onto my MacBook Air (running macOS 10.12 Sierra). Almost 80 % of them appear to good. They are readable in Preview.app. They appear as they would have appeared on any other app. But some books are appearing totally pink. The background is totally pink. Even in the folder they appear pink. For clarity I am attaching the appropriate screenshots. I need help on how to solve this
There are various resources about how to create a RAM disk, but they all deal with HFS+ RAM disks. But how does one create an APFS RAM disk?
I am trying to set up the vpn server on a Cisco RV325 in a client to gateway config, but I'm not sure exactly what the vpn client on the mac is expecting. I'd like to use the built in VPN client in network preferences rather than downloading some third party client. On the router under the IPSec setup there are options for: Phase 1 DH Group: Group 1 - 768 bit, Group 2 - 1024 bit, or Group 5 -1436 bit Phase 1 Encryption: DES, 3DES, AES-128, AES-198, or AES-256 Phase 1 Authentication: MD5 or SHA1 Phase 1 SA Lifetime: (Range: 120-86400, Default: 28800) Phase 2 DH Group: Group 1 - 768 bit, Group 2 - 1024 bit, or Group 5 -1436 bit Phase 2 Encryption: DES, 3DES, AES-128, AES-198, or AES-256 Phase 2 Authentication: MD5 or SHA1 Phase 2 SA Lifetime: (Range: 120-86400, Default: 28800)
I just re-initialised my login keychain because I had troubles after upgrading to Sierra (it kept asking me the login password). So I followed up an article in apple.com and recreate my keychain. Upon creation, the window said that the current default keychain would not be deleted, it would be moved elsewhere instead.
I've installed xampp on my MacBook with macOS 10.12, Sierra. Everything works fine, but I created php app with slim framework witch creates cache files. The problem is that I have no permissions to these files, I can not delete them because this files belongs to user daemon. I've tried to change user in xampp https.conf but when I change user to my username apache will not start: Anybody know how to deal with this problem? UPDATE: folder path is nfs://192.168.64.2/opt/lampp/htdocs/2017/cache I try this command when I am in 2017 folder: sudo chmod -R +a "staff allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit" cache And i get chmod: Failed to set ACL on file 'cache': Operation not supported chmod: Failed to set ACL on file '5d': Operation not supported chmod: Failed to set ACL on file 'dc': Operation not supported chmod: Failed to set ACL on file '5ddcda0f8a5b896924f37eaa7d4701bffab1d462': Ope
It's possible that my favorite beverage was spilled (or some other liquid damage). It's also possible that I have no idea what happened. It was working yesterday and suddenly today it's no longer working.
Using MacPorts, when I run Then I get an error. Snippet of output below:
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2009) I was changing the Thermal paste which involved removing the board and do some dust cleaning. After reassembly, the MacBook doesn't sleep when lid closes. What the hardware part(s) that are responsible for this problem? NOTE: I tried the following: Restored defaults in Energy Saver. Reset SMC (multiple times) Reset NVRAM
I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2015 (the one with i7 4870HQ & R9 m370x Graphics), today I lost my charger, they was a MagSafe 2 of 85w, and was wonder if can charge or use with a MagSafe 2 of 45w with no problem.
I use the built-in Photos app in MacOS Sierra, and I have some photos that I'd like to keep private. So I added them to Hidden album, which hides them from the Photos group at the top left. But they still appear in the All Photos album, which really defeats the purpose of hiding them at all. Is there a way to hide them from here? They also still appear in the Camera Roll album on my iPhone.
For months I've been trying to find a "Noting app that zeroes in/highlights the word upon search", but to no avail. Does someone perhaps know of any such app?
email is missing from my settings on iphone 5c. The icon is also missing. I don't know how it disappeared.
An archived Apple article says: "Note: With an SSD drive, Secure Erase and Erasing Free Space are not available in Disk Utility. These options are not needed for an SSD drive because a standard erase makes it difficult to recover data from an SSD. For more security, consider turning on FileVault encryption when you start using your SSD drive." Now the question is what is standard erase and how do I perform it?
UPDATE: After months of doing research and trying a vast array of different things I finally decided to call Apple. I was on the phone with them for over 2 hours and they could not figure it out. Finally they had me download some special software that would scan my computer and then they'd have it analyzed by an engineer. Then this morning when I woke up, lo and behold it was magically working! I'm thinking they may have done something server side for me. But ya thats what it took to get it working again. TDLR: Call Apple to get it fixed.
I have heard that some of the screws that hold the bottom cover to the 13.3" non-Retina 2012 MacBook Pro, and maybe some other models, are part of the grounding system. Is this correct? If so, is it true of all the screws, or just the long ones?
Recently (maybe even as of yesterday), when I tap a .docx file in iCloud Drive, rather than previewing it in the app, iCloud Drive opens it in Google Drive. The same thing happens on another phone with a different iCloud account. Short of (presumably) uninstalling Google Drive, how do I stop this behavior? iCloud
I've tried to create this partition and use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy over everything from one Mac. However, it shows this error on another Mac when I launch Disk Utility and try to repair it:
On older iOS devices, if you pressed and held a link in Safari, it would pop up a menu with options like "Copy Link," "Open in Background," etc. On my current phone, doing this causes a preview window to open up and only shows these options if I swipe upward. I'm not a huge fan of this new system - it doesn't let me see what the URL of the link I'm clicking is and it makes it harder to open a ton of links for later perusal. Is there any way to disable this preview window and just show the menu of options?
I have three Mac minis on our LAN, all of which have Yosemite and OS X Server, but only one is enabled as a web server. My problem is that I can see the WordPress-based websites hosted on this web server externally, and on all the Windows machines on our LAN, but not on ANY of the Macs on our LAN. One of our company's most important applications is based on being able to have one of the Macs query the webserver with http_get from time to time, and lately this query gets timedout or rejected also. Pic of our LAN
I'm currently working on an assignment for teaching and learning strategies for students with a very broad range of disabilities that can inhibit reading literacy abilities. I'm thinking of an interactive PDF with audio to accompany text. However, because of the nature of my content I would also like the document to be presented in a format where the viewer can easily adjust font size, background colour, typeface in order to best suit their own visual needs. but I have no idea how to do this? any advice?
I am on an iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 10.3.3 and the Podcasts app (the default podcast app by Apple) does not continuously play unplayed podcasts that I've already downlaoded. It plays one at a time and every time I must manually click on the next one. Very annoying. It's been like this for 6+ months now. I've restarted the phone, I've checked the moon button at the bottom of the screen to make sure it is marked as "Off". I also tried setting it to 1 hour and then back to Off...all to no avail. Curiously enough even after setting the moon button to one hour, and then scrolling to the end and letting it finish, it still does not even auto play the next unplayed podcast. Any ideas?
Hi everyone, I wanted to ask a question about the bash output inside the terminal The following procedure generates a command not found : How to avoid this and beautify the output ? Best regards SniperDMC
As you may already know, the combination of Microsoft Office 2016 and MathType does not work on macOS. Design Science announced support of that combination, but that was early 2016.
I want to know the working of the program. When an SMS is sent to the iPhone, does it upload after receiving it on the phone to the iCloud, which then syncs it to the mac or does is it received directly by the mac independent of the phone? In the first case, it would mean that the phone needs internet connection for the messages to be received on the Mac, whereas, in the second case, it would mean that messages are sent to Apple's server by the service provider. Or does it have any other mechanism?
When I complained saying I would leave them in Airplane mode and remove the SIM cards they said that wouldn't be enough to secure my data on these devices. Instead they gave me a mobile phone for the duration of the trip that was not a smartphone. It had no data connection per se, a physical numeric keypad, no touch screen or apps.
I am new to this site, so does anyone know the unlock code for Hutchison AT carrier, google doesnt give me any valid codes. Its iphone 5. Thank you.
I've used Caffeine before and it can stop my MacBook from sleeping when the lid is closed (sometimes I want to continue listening to something through headphones while moving around) Is there a command that can be run from the terminal that will do the same thing?
I have the following applescript Spyder3.applescript : I want to compile it to an Application, so I type this command : $ sudo osacompile -o /Application/Spyder3.app Spyder3.applescript but I get this an coreFoundationUnknownErr error : osacompile: couldn't write to file /Application/Spyder3.app: coreFoundationUnknownErr (-4960). Can you help me ?
I really like using block type cursors, but the one in the default terminal isn't transparent, so it obscures the character that is selected. Is there a way to make it transparent or maybe make it so the colour of the selected character is inverted, so it can be seen through the cursor.
My iCloud storage has run out. I want to transfer all photos/videos to my windows laptop, but when I log in to my iCloud account online cannot view any photos or videos in order to download. I also don't know if I can now turn off iCloud photo library without losing files, as I don't have sufficient phone storage (at least until I can download these photos/videos and delete them!)
I have a mobile LTE modem that I connect to via Wifi. Whenever I connect via USB (for charging) Sierra opens a /Volumes/Web Connection Finder window. How can I prevent that? I can't use bless as the volume is read-only. I also tried setting but they had no effect.
I deleted files from external hard drive, they are no longer there, trash is empty but space hasn't increased, what do I do?
Today I wanted to check my social media, but it didn't work. Then I saw the charging icon and it said it was charging, even tho it was unplugged. I tried turning off my ipad, but my ipad didn't allow me to do it. So I decided to restart it from the settings and now it just stuck with the apple logo it's not finishing restarting. What's happening?
My friend gave me his laptop which is Apple laptop A1286 (MacBook Pro 15") with the charger but the head of the charger was cut. I tried to charge with another charger but, it doesn't charge.
I'm looking for a way to change the UUID for a given disk in macOS High Sierra. Is it even possible without re-partitioning?
Under the Location option in the top-left Apple menu I have set up a few different options that let me quickly swap between different web proxy configurations when I connect to different networks. Normally I can just choose one and the new settings are applied immediately. It has started showing this message if I try to choose a different location while Firefox is open.
This is a bit of an out there question since I appreciate that the number of people with this particular configuration will likely be low. But I figured it's frustrating me enough to warrant the question! My setup is: Late 2016 MBP 15" w/TB (the 4 x USB-C variant) running High Sierra. 1 x LG UltraFine 4K (*=URL=* 1 x LG UltraFine 5K (*=URL=* I have this in a three screen setup which, broadly speaking, works pretty damn well.
So I wiped my computer at work using the disk utility. I went to install the OS again and when I select the drive and hit "install" I get "The operation couldn't be completed. Permission Denied"
I deleted all partitions on the MacBook's HD and installed Ubuntu. Now I want to reinstall MacOS but nothing will work. Holding option on startup shows the grey screen with the pointer but no removable media or HD partitions show up to boot from. Holding commandR at startup for recovery mode will just boot regularly into ubuntu. Holding optioncommandR at startup for internet recovery will boot on Grub, Ubuntu's boot loader.
My Open Recent lists in various softwares (e.g. XCode, Logic Pro) keep going empty. I read somewhere that I needed to fsck -fy on boot to fix the file system which seemed to work the first time, but now I've just done it again and it only worked for maybe a day, if at all. The issue is somewhat intermittent.
I'm trying to add a screenshot I just took to a note I created on my Mac, but the "Attach File" option is grayed out.  Is there something special I have to do to add a file or screenshot? I've tried dragging and dropping, but nothing shows up.
I have been writing my own daemon with launchd, and would like one of the conditions that causes it to start to be whenever the screen is locked or unlocked. Is there any way I can make a launch agent start whenever the user locks/unlocks the screen?
I just got an old macbook air (2011) and I wanted to reinstall MacOS. First off, Im not very common with MacOS and Macs in general. When I boot up, the apple logo apperas and a loading bar underneath. After loading is finished, the screen shows a forbidden symbol.
I got an SSD and created 30 GB FAT32 partition named WINDOWS I edited Info.plist successfully using Atom - bootrom version, model identifier and eliminated the "Pre" I created a Windows 7 bootable USB using Windows 10 computer - no results I copied Windows 7 iso to the WIN partition but it can't be executed
I have a 2008 MacPro3,1 that I've upgraded to a PC video card. I haven't flashed the GPU's BIOS to give me native boot screens since I haven't been able to find a compatible EFI ROM yet for the R9 270X card. However, I would like to get SOME kind of boot screen since I do use Boot Camp and the recent upgrade to El Capitan has made 'blessing' my boot drive a bit more difficult.
When writing paragraph on iPhone, I need to quickly move the cursor up and down so that I can go to lines above and below respectively. Although, you can do this by touch and holding the cursor, and then moving it to wherever you want, I specifically need to have a keyboard stroke. When filling up forms, you see the up and down keys.
Now that iOS 11 supports HEIC images as first-class citizens, I'm wondering if there's any way to convert existing JPEG images from the camera to the new format? My wife's iPhone 6 is stuffed to the gills, and the vast majority of it is photos. Upgrading them in-place would save many gigs.
I recently signed in to the Apple ID management site in Safari on my iPhone. Since I have two-factor authentication enabled, I had to enter a verification code that I was sent. However, the code was sent to the exact same iPhone that I was already using (as well as to my MacBook Pro, which is the other device that I have linked to my Apple ID and iCloud)! Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of 2FA?
I need to check to see if a MacBook Pro works which does not have a hard drive. This is a local private sale of a Macbook without a hard drive. Seller claims everything else works.
I have some files that are said to not exist by OS X, or something. I'm getting error code -36 I can manually delete this via the Terminal but I have like 70 files, it is a waste of time. How can I delete these files?
One of the best uses of 3D touch in my opinion was being able to push on the side of the phone and swipe between apps in a single, fluid movement. However once I updated to iOS11 I noticed that I cannot do it anymore. I have an iPhone 6s, this is also the case for a friend of mine who has the iPhone 7. Is there any option to re-enable it?
Is there a way to specify a board to open automatically when Trello for iOS is started?
On iOS 10 there was a button on the iPhone horizontal keyboard to dismiss it when it wasn't needed, on iOS11 this button seems to be missing. How do I dismiss the iOS11 horizontal keyboard on the iPhone
When I search for the Keynote app using spotlight there is a reference of a previous version on the Mac App Store.  However, when I press on it, I get the following error message:
I can no longer connect to a specific public user+pass protected network from my 2017 MBP 15″. Same network with same auth is accessible from my iPhone and Android tablet.
If I have one apple account signed into multiple devices, and I change the iMessage message history from Forever to 30 Days on one device, will this have any impact on any other devices with this same apple account? I'm just trying to make sure I don't delete older messages on any other devices when deleting older messages on the one device.
I would like to setup Mac OS mail to use exchange mail server. However after adding my e-mail and password the next prompt wants me to enter local and remote proxy server address. Question is how do I get around this and simply get the prompt to enter the server address? For on iOS I could simply add the server address and connect to the exchange server to get access to mails, no proxy settings asked for.
What is the significance of this (PrintUITool) process which goes by the name of PrintUITool, I cam across this process in activity monitor and found it take up huge chunks of memory and CPU space of my mac. I want to know what is the importance of this process and what happens if I remove it from my mac
I'm working with a complex Chrome Extension. As I debug it and make changes, some other files are created and modified.
I'm using an iPhone 7 plus device and I updated the software version of my device to the latest iOS 11 version. Are there public jailbreak steps for iOS 11?
I have a 2017 MacBookPro. When I connect my laptop to HDMI display, audio goes straight to HDMI. I can't control the volume. It is mildly annoying but I can understand there are some benefit in better sound quality.
It is about one of my iOS apps. Yesterday I had almost 1000 reviews, but today I have only 134. What happened to them? What apple did since yesterday? Maybe I missed sth?
I suddenly am unable to connect to my 2nd Gen iPod Nano via iTunes. Did they drop support for older iPods in iTunes 12.7?
After I install the gettext in my mac: I use the brew install gettext command installed it. I can not use the gettext still.
I am trying to install ViTables 3 (an HDF5 file viewer) on MacOS X 10.9.5 with Python 3.6 using the following command: It installs just fine but it still won't start, yielding the following error instead: I have tried the following to fix this with no luck Any ideas about how to fix this actually? I have also installed Anaconda just for this and tried installing ViTables with conda (conda install -c conda-forge vitables) but it doesn't work this way too, although the error (shown when I try to run ViTables, the installation process seems to complete without errors) is different: PS: I've also tried HDFView but it says there's not enough memory to open the file I need (I am almost sure ViTables will manage - it opens the same file just fine on a much older Linux machine).
I usually do not use messages app or don’t type other than english on iPad but today I had to and I’ve found out that it wasn’t recognising italian. I have same settings for languages and keyboard on both iPhone and iPad, and whereas on iPhone I have only two keyboards, english and emoji, and two dictionaries, English and italian, these settings do not work on iPad, forcing me to add italian keyboard to make it work and thus hard to switch to emoji keyboard. Is that a bug?
I tried to install JDK 7u67 on my MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.6, but all I get is this error message:  It does not really makes sense for me, because I already have higher version, so Java should be able to install. Has anyone faced same issue, please?
I want to know that what are the benefits of transferring iOS app from one account to another. I read apple doc, as per apple says: The App must have had at least one version that has been released to the App Store. I have an app with version 1.0 on app store, Now my questions are:
I ran another comparison and was again presented with lots of differences between those directories. I then set the system preference's Energy Saver to not set the display to sleep for 1 hour, because I had measured with time diff -r /path/to/directory1 /path/to/directory2 that it takes between 45 and 50 minutes for the diff to finish. My hard drives and the Mac never go to sleep.I then unmounted both drives and remounted them. Ran the diff again and voilà no differences found apart from one file. I manually compared that one reported differing file and found it to be identical.This seems to confirm what I found by comparing smaller chunks before. It also seems to confirm that there is something going on with a timeout as previously suspected, but I still wonder that if a FireWire drive would become unavailable or whatever, diff should not report a difference, but rather say "file not available" or "Only in /yada/yada/directory: file_xyz".Interestingly, the diff before the remount took
I've been asked to help restore photos and videos from an iPhone 4S, after a reset. No iCloud backup. I see a lot of software that claims it can do this, and paying a fee is just fine. But does it deliver? Has anyone done this?
I am wondering if the new iPhone 8 Plus is case compatible with the iPhone 7 Plus, meaning that I can buy an iPhone 7 Plus case today and would be able to use with my new iPhone 8 Plus once I receive it? The reason for my question is that I cannot find the physical dimension of these models on apple.com.
Recently (newly with iOS 11 for me, but apparently earlier for others) my iPhone has asked for my Mac password, indicating that until I provide it, certain features (on iOS?) will be unavailable to me. Which specific features will be unavailable without my Mac password?
Since updating to iOS 11, search is unable to find my apps. Is this a new feature of iOS 11; a bug; or something that will eventually resolve itself over time?
Do any websites out there support using the MacBook 2016/2017 Touch ID as a second factor when logging in? Some sites, like Google, Facebook or GitHub allow using a security key (U2F, e.g. Yubikey) as a second factor when logging in, does anything out there support the touch ID?
I want to decline current and future (recurring) events, but leave past events alone. Apple Calendar does not give me this option in any obvious way. How can I do this?
my Macbook pro early 2011 wont boot i tried pretty much anything, i changed the hard drive cleared the Pram and SMC and it still wont work. When i turn it on it has the SLR on but Im greeted with a black screen. The fan and SSD turn on.
I accidentally updated my "The Swift Programming Language" book to the Swift 4 edition from Swift 3.1. Can I revert back to 3.1?
I have a late-2013 MBP that I've been successfully running with two external displays (one on Thunderbolt, one on HDMI) for months now. All of a sudden, their arrangement became reversed (left screen became the right screen) and when I tried to change it back, it seems that the Display Arrangement tab just stopped working. Even after a restart I still have this issue.
Latest MacBook Pro 512GB 2017. For example: It did start since I ran Ccleaner yesterday, but I'm running a 64-bit version and not of Windows, so surely that's not related? It seems that mostly, but not exclusively brew installed applications are affected. Also node is affected the same way: Error on screen: I ran the suggested brew commands:
I have the same problem as in this thread by someone else from 2014. The solution in that thread was to make the settings in the top-level folders on the finder sidebar (Documents, Download, etc.) and then clicking "use as defaults", after which the subfolders are supposed to automatically be set. I did this, and the subfolders were not set. Anyone have a solution?
I just sign out and sign in again to my iCloud account on iPhone but there is no shared albums at all. Why?
[EDIT] I updated the guest machine to 10.12.6 and drag and drop started to work again. Problem solved except I want to get to the bottom of it to keep it from happening in the future. I just got this email from VMware claiming that this feature does not work:
I'm running a small company network with macOS Sierra Server and a few client Macs whose users access and modify files in various shared folders. I want to make it easy for users to keep track on a file or folder's access and editing history. I know I can do this via the servers log files, but I am looking for a way that makes this 'palatable' for normal users without much technical knowledge. Thank you very much for your help!
Is there some setting / block / third party app where I can prevent someone adding another person to group messages?
Tones option in itunes 12.7 in 10.3. iOS on my 5s is missing. Not able to set custom ringtones. Tried online options but never found a workaround for 12.7. Would be helpful if there is some1 who can fix this issue.
My iPad Pro does not seem to be willing to upgrade to ios11. General > Software Upgrade says ios 10.3.3 - Your software is up to date.
How does MicroSnitch work? Will it catch attempts to monitor the webcam / microphone that subvert the firmware security measures (i.e. attacks that don't light up the green light?) Is it able to warn about / prevent hijacking legitimate webcam sessions? Do competing products (e.g. Oversight) offer protections it can't?
The Bluetooth indicator in the Macbook's menu bar is indicating a connection, but does not list a connected device in the Bluetooth preferences. system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType shows it is my iPhone running services: PAN Network Access Profile, AVRCP Device, Handsfree Gateway, Audio Source, MAP MAS-iOS, Wireless iAP, AVRCP Device, Phonebook There is no indication of any bluetooth connection in the iphone's bluetooth menu, and i never asked it to do any of this.
I noticed this really weird behaviour in the macOS command line ftp client... fails if there exists no 'index.html' on the Desktop with the error but
I tried to install opencv via homebrew, but I have done something wrong. I closed Terminal to restart it, however since then I can't open Terminal normally.
Parallels Manage Snapshots has a graphical view with tiles. But when you have a lot of snapshots, it's hard to see all the snapshots. http://kb.parallels.com/en/5691
When I go to create an automation on my iPad which shows as the home hub device and is updated to iOS 11 I see this message: To run automations based on other people's arrival or departure, make sure your home hub's software is up-to-date.
If I buy an iPhone 8 from USA with AppleCare+ warranty plan, then would the warranty hold in India?
In earlier tvOS 11 betas, I still had the option to set my Apple TV as my home's hub. In the golden master/release, that option is no longer present and in the Home app it says I have no home hub. What happened to this functionality? Don't say it was to get more HomeKit sales.
Does anyone know what triggers the -50 error code. Simple tasks like copy and paste operations produce a -50 with no other details. Is there some storage area for the logs associated with these errors? The response time on most operations is slow to non-functional "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50) MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) macOS Sierra Processor 2.5 Ghz Intel Code i5 Will try to add pictures later.
After installing Windows 7 using BootCamp on a 2012 MacPro with HighSierra (Beta). I booted in Windows 7 and now cannot boot back in MacOSX as the BootCamp Utility on Windows isn’t working properly. I’ve tried using the Cmd and Option key combinations to launch in Boot Selector or Recovery Mod, but neither of them work as it seams that the keyboard isn’t being detected until Windows launches. I’ve also tried removing the HDD that Windows is installed on, but that only brings a black screen with a single flashing underscore in the top left corner. Need urgent support to get back into MacOSX to access my Business Critical applications.
I bought an iPhone 6s Plus from Apple a couple of years ago. Can I enroll in the iPhone Upgrade Program and upgrade it to an iPhone 8/X?
Recently (newly with iOS 11 for me, but apparently earlier for others) my iPhone has asked for my Mac password, indicating that until I provide it, certain features (on iOS?) will be unavailable to me.
I configured my Mac to show hidden files by setting AppleShowAllFiles to true running this bash command: That solved my previous problem. However, there's a file that does not matter to me and I want it to be hidden again, .DS_Store.
In Parallels, I can "pinch to zoom," maybe even Cmd-+ zoom, when in Microsoft Word/Excel running in a Windows XP guest on a MacOSX Sierra host. This zooms the view into the content of the document--which is what I want, and not the entire resolution/screen. Haven't yet found a way to do this in VMware Fusion 8.x, despite significant searching. Suggestions?
What the title says. I already have BeardedSpice for my media keys, but I wanted to know if there was a way to make the earbuds' play button not launch iTunes every time I press it.
I upgraded to iOS 11 today, and I am no longer able to add another email in Messages. And when I sign out of Messages, I can no longer use a different iCloud account (i.e., iOS will not allow me to edit the email address in the login form). This option in the circle is no longer available Is there another way to add another email to Messages?
In the past it used to be easy to install CommandLineTools without Xcode. Now I cannot get it to install correctly. Please note: this is not a development question but an installation of software question. There are many discussions of similar issues, but none exactly what I am seeing.
If you run airport prefs (using the full path to airport as given above), you might find that WoWEnabled=YES or WoWEnabled=NO. Mine is YES but I saw snippets online for both values.
I recently have a large amount of data I needed to upload into Google Drive. I decided to use Disk Utility to create a container for it (otherwise Google Drive would have to create many files and directories taking up a huge amount of the time). I noticed that Disk Utility creates a read-only DMG file by first creating a sparseimage, then converting it to a DMG file.
I bought a Kanex KTU10 to add USB 3.0 support on my machine because its only on USB 2.0. The product said my machine can support the product but when I plug it in it didn't work, while Mini DP to HDMI can work.
Till iOS 10.3, control center did not allow you to toggle mobile data from control center. Thus, if your phone was being handled by someone else, he could not switch off mobile data without locking the phone.
Is there any way to see what programs were installed and subsequently deleted on my Mac and when these events occurred?
So I just finished my 4,1–5,1 build. I installed a pair of X5675's along with two sticks of Samsung 16GB DDR3,4RX4 PC3-10600R 1333MHz 240-pin ECC REG Server Ram, for 32Gb. Trouble is, it's showing up as 1066 instead of 1333. Now, the machine is running fine, but I'm curious as to why my memory isn't showing full speed–I triple checked the specs on that RAM before I bought it and thought it should work, and it does, but not at 1333. Tried zapping the NVRAM, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?
When i use "sudo fs_usage -w -f diskio" in terminal to show disk call status, the call column show something like this: PgIn[ST3P], PgIn[AT3UP], PgIn[S], PgIn[AT1], WrMeta[A], PgIn[AT3U], RdData[ANT3U], RdMeta[ST2], RdMeta[ST3UP], WrData[AT1], ... What does that mean?
Can I safely rotate JPEG images on my MacBook or would this be lossy?
At the moment the users install it from a dmg file, but as recent macOS versions have become more suspicious (hostile?) towards non-app-store apps, the users (often with very low technical abilities) have more and more trouble with the installation.
Upgraded to iOS 11 and noticed that my share-sheet no longer includes the option to share in Messages. Has anyone experienced this and know how to get the functionality back? I’ve confirmed it hasn’t been disabled in the “more” options This seems to be happening in most 3rd party applications and from the home screen when using “Share App” feature via 3-D touch
Yesterday I was working on a project in Adobe illustrator, that project had various white spaces it was then when I noticed a black spot/smudge in the lower corner of the display of my iMac. I thought it must be a dust particle on the outer glass screen of the iMac so I used a microfibre cloth to remove it which eventually failed cause it was then when I realised there is huge black smudge in the actual display of the iMac which is inside the outer glass screen
After installing Little Snitch firewall, I have got regular notifications that netbiosd is trying to make outbound connections to addresses in 10.88.0.0/16 networks. All my IP networks are in 192.168.0.0/16 space.
I have a plain disk image, created from using dd. When I try to mount it in Sierra (10.12.6), DiskImageMounter.app tells me: legacy image should be converted
Can Applescript monitor application for events? I think I read somewhere that some programs support sending "Applescript Events" to some common service, and that you could have an Applescript listening to this. Specifically I would like to know when Spotify changes track.
My MacBook Pro (2011) is not up to date and it shows there are no software updates. I know it is not up to date because when I try downloading Xcode it says Xcode can's be installed on Macintosh HD, because macOS version 10.12.6 or later is required. where my xcode version is 10.12 Anyone can help, Thanks in advance :)
I own Macbook Pro retina(mid 2012) OSX sierra installed. I have a keyboard problem when using adobe products. The symptom I have been experiencing is that Alt, Shift, Ctrl keys are not responding at all sometimes(occasionally works) as I am using Photoshop for example.
We're currently testing an app with a bunch of external testers through TestFlight. Soon we will launch the app for the public with a price tag of $3,99.
I have a late-2009 iMac which seems to have held up pretty well, especially since upgrading the RAM to 12GB. I only fairly recently updated the OS to Yosemite after running Lion for so many years.
I am using a button on my site that opens multiple pop-up windows in one click. Since the update of September 20, 2017 - it doesn't work and only one window pops up at a time. On my other Mac - which has the Safari 10.1 version - it works. Tried to find answers on Mac rumors and other sites with no success. I have two questions :
When I copy a block of text more than about twenty lines long to the clipboard, pasting only pastes a hyphen character. Why is the clipboard buffer so small and how can I increase it?
We will soon be launching the first version of our app. We want to write to a lot of app review websites about our app and want to give a free test version to them. There are 2 options: Add them as external testers to TestFlight. Give them a coupon/voucher code to download the app.
I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 11. I need to wipe it out and reinstall iOS like it's a new iPhone (not restoring from a backup).
I've got no sound from Flash in Firefox running my MacBook pro through HDMI cable and I've found a similar question from '15 on the, cached, Adobe Forums When viewing video with flash player in firefox the sound is played through HDMI altough my USB headset is set as the default sound device. All other sound is played trough the default sound device EXCEPT flash player sound. Restarting firefox doesn't help. Reinstalling the flash player plugin doesn't help. To which the answer says:
I have an iPhone 5S that I upgraded to iOS 11 and now it will no longer connect to data when I have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off. My Carrier is T-Mobile and I have Wi-Fi Calling enabled.
Since my IT admin doesn't think that deauthorizing the iCloud account is necessary, he simply wipes the MacBook and calls it a day. Sceptical me does a little Research and finds the following link: What to do if I sold my MacBook Air and didn't disable iCloud One Comment states:
Scenario: I was using an AppleTV 2th Gen. The AppleTV is connected to the AirPlay speakers. When using mirroring from an iPhone to the AppleTV, apparently I will get my phone screen mirrored but the sound will not transmitted to the AirPlay speakers.
With that restriction in place, it's impossible to access shared purchases from my son's iPhone. Usually, I'd press the "person" icon at the top right of the "Updates" screen within the App store, but that icon only becomes visible and functional when I lift the "modify account" restriction. I don't think iOS 10 had that behavior.
Just a hypothetical question. I'm using an iPad Air with a PIN to unlock it and a Find My iPhone set up on it. If I lost it, can someone simply reset it and start using it like if it was a new iPad without knowing the PIN or having access to my iCloud account?
Can anyone reproduce this behavior? Open the "Messages" app on iOS. Find or create a message that contains an email@address.com.
I am trying to gain access to my old Admin account on my laptop as there are some videos from holidays that were just to big to back up in it. Everything else is backed up but I would like to get these if possible. However, there is a fair to good chance that everything is lost
I run 10.12.6 and I'm wondering how I can rename a Bluetooth device. The function Bluetooth Preferences > Right click > Rename seems to be a no-op, see below gif.
iOS 11 will nag you to "Finish Setting Up Your iPad" with notifications and a badge on the settings app if you don't have a passcode. Is there any way to turn this off?
I cannot click "Applications" on that screen, or get any info on which apps are not going to be compatible with iOS 11.
Since updating to iOS 11, I've lost the ability to surface apps from the swipe-down Spotlight search field. This was my preferred method of launching apps as it was quite a lot more convenient than swiping through endless pages of icons.
I just want to change the organiser, so I have to cancel the family sharing. I just don’t want to loose the shared calendar. When leaving, will you have a option to save the data locally like you would if you just disable iCloud ? For the app, I will just setup a new family sharing with the same people anyway and photo I can quickly create a new sharing I suppose, what o really want to save is the calendar events... Did any body tried and have some feedback ? Thank you in advance
I am using Keynote 7.2 in Mac OS Sierra. I want to add a curved connection line (aka arc or curve) to my presentation but with multiple bend points. How do I do that? Specifically, I am choosing "connector line" from the top menu.
I have an iPhone 6 which I recently updated to ios 11. Before the system update, I would occasionally get a notice saying "This accessory may not be supported" with a dismiss button. I have since updated to ios 11 but the notice still randomly appears. I know of nothing I do which triggers it or how it originated. Does anyone know how to stop this message from appearing?
Apparently "Shared Links" no longer works in Safari 11.0 - see e.g. *=URL=* though I only saw this today for the first time when Apple pulled a Microsoft and auto-updated Safari (apparently, anyway). See this picture for how it looks now - there should be three tabs on the far left.
Ever since updating to iOS 11, I haven’t been able to locate my wish list anywhere in the App Store. I had quite a few apps saved that I was planning on purchasing once the price dropped, but any trace of my wishlist seems to have vanished. How do I access my App wishlist in iOS 11?
I have a collection of several GB of mp3 files that were erased the last time I charged my iPod on my computer. The Apple store representative claims that this sync happens automatically anytime iTunes is connected to a computer but I have been downloading songs onto my iPod from different computers and CDs for several years now and this has never happened. In short, most of my songs were deleted, and are greyed out on my iPod. It is devastating. I have tried to find a solution to restore the files but cannot find one that does not involve uploading from a backup (which stupidly I do not have.) I have come across software like this Disk drill which is quite expensive so I would like a second opinion first.
My MacBook Pro ran into something weird this afternoon, it'll freeze for a few seconds every few minutes. I didn't run anything unusual. When I open the Activity Monitor, sometimes I can catch a huge spike on the CPU usage after it just passed. But there is no way for me to tell which processes caused those spikes. So I'm wondering if there is any way for me to check process's CPU usage history.
Since I updated to iOS 11 it's been warning me about using the phone while driving. I'm not driving. I'm on public transportation. How do I turn off the warning?
So I have a file with data, see link below: *=URL=* I'm trying to import this into numbers, but what I get is the following:
My phone is iPhone 5s GSM. I tried to go back from iOS 11 to iOS 10.3.3 and this happens. Now, I am stuck with apparently a bricked phone. Things that I tried: 1. Going to recovery mode in iTunes and doing the restore (I guess this automatically goes to the last iOS version, so 11). Result is 2006 error 2. Going to recovery mode in iTunes, option+click the restore button and choosing the .ipsw file of iOS 10.3.3. Result is 2006 error. 3. Going to DFU mode, option+click the restore button and choosing the .ipsw file of iOS 10.3.3. Result is 200 error. 4. Goind to .....Library/iPhone Software Updates directory and deleting it. Retrying the restore through iTunes. Same result. What else can I try guys, I am getting desperate.
In the middle of using my laptop hooked up to my 30" Cinema Display (circa 2004) via a Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter, vertical bands appeared on the screen, with horizontal pinstripes. They also appear with another laptop. Nothing happens if I wiggle all the cables hooked up to the display; the striping is consistently there.
Backstory: I am running macOS Sierra and use TextEdit a lot. The problem is that I hate the Versions save schema that causes the universal Save As shortcut of CmdShiftS to instead create a copy of the document. I also hate how Auto-Save makes permanent changes to documents I don't want to modify when I'm tentatively modifying a work-in-progress. Since the introduction of these nuisance features in Lion I have always backed up and then replaced TextEdit.app with the legacy 1.6 version from Snow Leopard. The problem: Today when I tried to delete TextEdit.app from my Applications folder using this Terminal command I got this error I was surprised to find that I can't kill it, even with sudo. How can I actually get rid of an application that is bundled with macOS? What I've tried so far:
Based on many posts in this forum, #1 is incorrect #2 seems like quite a good idea. I might even purchase a different case that would give the phone better breathing room.
I've changed the folder to which Screenshots are saved on the MacOS (This explains how it is done - *=URL=* I was wondering if I can create an Automator script / Workflow so that this custom folder, say ~/Screenshots, automatically opens up immediately after the screenshot is taken. (For reference, I want it to behave like the Chrome Fireshot extension).
I do not use iCloud to sync my Mac and I have several Safari Bookmarks.plist files that were manually backed up at different times. Thus each contain some of the same items while some contain items the others do not. How can the contents of these Bookmarks.plist files be merged together?
Is there a sendmail port for Mac that I can install? Mac already has a sendmail process.
I am aware that Safari for iOS is updated whenever iOS is updated. For devices that cannot update to iOS 11: Can the Safari on those devices ever be update to recent versions (outside of the iOS upgrade)?
Is there a way of dragging an open PDF out of safari into another app without saving it and then having to delete it like to the files app or notes?
I'm really confused with these two features: iTunes Photo Sync and Photos App (on macOS). I just want to keep my photos synced between my iPhone and MacBook. So if it is possible, every time I connect my phone via USB (or over WiFi) newest photos get copied from iPhone to mac and vise-versa.
Albergue in Spain asked me about their WiFi. I have used the same access point (AP) last year with MacBook Pro (MBP), iPad, and iPhone. Now, none of them are able to use it, and I have reason to believe the LONG Cat-5 cable has gone bad. However, I took it to another room and plugged in another cable that has been running a working AP. Plugged in there, my Nexus 5X phone can connect to it and `contact outside websites. But a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro cannot even see the AP.
Is there a way to determine who is listening to a given keyboard shortcut? As in, if I type something like "CMD+SHIFT+Arrow", can I get a list of programs that are listening to that event, or even processing it?
I am using a macbook pro with filevault turned on. I am planning to start using a zero-knowledge cloud service (sync.com) for all my files, to have a secure backup and as a way to share certain files with others. I was wondering if the two types of encryption will work alongside each other. If so, where in the process does the cloud encryption engage, and where does filevault take over? Will there be unnecessary redundancy in the two encryptions (perhaps with longer waiting times)? Just trying to picture what will happen. Thanks!
I just wanted to ask if it is possible to use Apple`s Magic Keyboard with a Windows machine (given that it has bluetooth). Is this possible?
Example: - I currently have 12 tabs open, 10 of them visible. Rest are behind the >> icon. - I'd like to open a new tab, next to a certain (visible) one.
I'm trying to restore my iPhone, since I've read that it could help me solve the continuous apple logo loop. But when I'm trying to restore it via DFU mode, it still shuts down and restarts. What could be the cause of this?
I don't use the iMessage apps very often. How do I get rid of it to free up some screen real estate?
I plan to buy a cellular iPad (iPad Pro 10") in US. I would like to know if I will be able to use it in Europe. On particular, I would like to know if I would be able to use it in France. If you have complimentary information, I would be very grateful.
Sometimes I forget to stop my workout and end up with a long running "workout" in the health app. Some apps (i.e. Strava) have a method for trimming down a workout if you remember what time the workout ended.
I have a MacBookPro ("late 2011"/ MD313LL/A) (i5, 4GB, 500 GB Toshiba HDD) with MacOSX 10.9.x on it. The MacBook won't boot. In verbose mode I see the following information:
I’ve upgraded my late 2009 iMac 27” with an SSD hard drive. Because of the fan noise, I’ve installed SSD Fan Control, but I’m not sure how to set it properly, avoiding to reach high internal temperature that could damage hardware. Using “SMART” mode fan are very quiet; using “Auto” mode are more noisy. For now my settings are the following:
As we know that we can "use mobile data for" a particular app so WhatsApp for instance can be allowed to use mobile data while other apps can't. How can I accomplish the same for WiFi data use?
I purchased a 200GB shareable (Family Sharing) iCloud storage plan but my family members can't see it on their devices. How do I fix this?
I've yet to find a guide that is both (a) complete, and (b) compatible with recent macOS releases. I have a Windows keyboard that I'd like to set up on my Mac to work with the same shortcuts. Some things I've tried include setting Application Shortcuts, and modifying key actions in the keyboard settings (i.e., setting ⌘ to take the action ⌥) -- these sort of work, but still leave me without several shortcuts. Shortcuts I'm specifically hoping to get on my Mac: I know there are tons more that I'd like, but I assume if I can get the Ctrl, Shift, End, and Home keys working, then the rest of my normal keyboard shortcuts will kind of fall into place from there.
Our cottage does not have broadband access (even 3G/LTE is really marginal) so I'm trying to find a solution so we can get some movies at home and then watch them. At the cottage we have an Epson projector and a TV with HDMI.
I can't delete a greyed out Google Translate application. It is there even if I try to delete it by holding on apps for longer time and click on the x button just above it, but it doesn't help me. I tried to delete it by closing my iPhone, not helpful. Then, I tried it to delete after resetting, not helpful. It is there. iOS 9.3.5 updated.
I expect my screen to go inactive when I hold my iPhone 6 up to my face. This is not happening, and I'm hitting mute with my cheek. The proximity sensor appears to be working, at least according to the three "phone test" apps I tried, all of which said it triggered when I moved my hand toward it.
There are two different "model numbers" for Apple products. For example, the Apple TV 4K has: MQD22LL/A A1842 Which is the "model number" and what is the other number called?
There are various mix compilations for purchase available on the iTunes Music Store. These are usually mixed by a DJ, i.e. the songs will be cut oft, often only playing for a minute or soo if you buy this compilation as a physical CD.
I am transferring data from a backup to a 15" Macbook Pro mid-2012 (Non Retina). The backup is a clone of a drive of another MBP done on a 2.5" Hitachi Touro drive with a USB-3 interface. The drive in the 2012 MBB is a Fusion drive (250 GB SSD and 2 TB Firecuda drive from Seagate (5400 RPM)). The Fusion drive is encrypted with FileVault, and the 2012 MBP is running macOS Sierra. All this being said, the transfer rate I am getting is averaging at 8 MBytes/sec. Which appears to me to be very slow. According to reviews I read, USB-3 real life transfer rates and Firecuda drive write speed are both above 100 MB/sec. So where is the bottleneck? Is there a way to find out?
So I was making this program that would write every number between 0 and 9999, but I need it to be 4 characters long no matter what the digit count is - the only way to do that, I think, is to have the program count the digits and then put it into a variable, subtracting that variable from 4 and adding that number of zeros before the number itself. How can AppleScript count the digits? Is there even a way to do it at all?
My daughter bought a new iPhone to replace her broken one. She took the sim card out of the old and put it in the new. She constantly texts her mom without a problem, but since she got the new phone and using the old sim card, every time she texts her mom, she gets a message saying you must use 10 digits. She has tried it both ways. Using the contacts and inputting the number herself without results. She can text everyone else ok. She has deleted every thread she had with her mom from the phone and still nothing. Removed her mom from her contacts and put her back in...nothing. What could be going on?.
I've been thinking about writing a LaunchAgent script that runs smartmontools every 6 hours and sends a mail in case there is something suspicious. Are there tools available for such a notification system, or is it even included in macOS?
The Siri Watch Face, introduced with watchOS 4, automatically suggests content, including "Photo Memories" from the iOS Photos app. I'm not keen on having year-old photos on my wrist, I much prefer stuff that actually are day-to-day relevant there. I've tried to get rid of these Photo Memory items, but haven't succeeded: Turned off Photos notifications in the "Watch" app. Turned off Photos notifications in the iOS Notifications settings. Watched the "Memory", did not help. Deleting the "Memory" helped getting rid of it, but a day later I get a new one.
There are some nice lens attachments for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus chassis. Are there adapters or cases that will permit the iPhone5/iPhone 5s/iPhone SE chassis to make use of these attachments? To be very clear: By "adapter" I mean plastic or foam jiggy-bits that would fit, alongside the iPhone 5/iPhone SE inside an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s plus case. By "adapter" I mean plastic or foam jiggy-bits that would fit, alongside the iPhone 5/iPhone SE inside an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s plus case. By "cases" I mean an external covering into which the phone fits. By "cases" I mean an external covering into which the phone fits.
I have an external hard drive that I bought for my laptop so I could back up the important stuff and do a clean install, as somehow I got that stupid MacCleaner adware thing on it and it was causing issues. I've used Time Machine only back then, several months ago. After doing a clean install, low an behold, someone's contact info directed me to update Adobe Acrobat and then quickly scrolled through some boxes where I accidentally clicked on something to install something similar (doh!). I followed the instructions to get it off my laptop but I'm not sure it's all fully gone as I occasionally get some pop-ups. Question, now that I'm backing up onto external drive again using Time Machine, will those little bad files also be backed up as well, or does Time Machine just back up files and applications?
I had a folder name "FruitFest" in my desktop. It's basically an iOS App project which includes a lot of files & xcode bundle in it. Today I accidentally deleted it into my trash and later on I emptied my trash. But now I badly want to get back my FruitFest folder .
I have deleted a track from my iTunes library (let's say Track01) and synchronized it with iPhone. Then I got an error that Track01 cannot be copied and File could not be found. I cannot find it on my HDD, nor on my iPhone, nor in the library itself. Every time I synchronize library with the phone I always get that error.
When looking at a photo in Apple's Photos.app I noticed a white exclamation mark in the bottom right corner of a photo. What does that indicate?
I would like to share a song with a friend of mine, not a family member, and I don't want to set up Family Sharing. I had purchased this song before signing up with Apple Music, however if I try to share it now (using the little square with an arrow) it will not work. In fact the little square/arrow is light in color suggesting that it isn't an option. I have looked for it on YouTube and tried to share it that way, but none of the YouTube clips do it any justice. Is there a way I can still share this song?
Adapters for USB devices to the new USB C ports on MacBooks are well-known. But what about the reverse?
So I am trying to write a launchd file to run a script on a Mac Mini as a specific user when they are not logged in. This is the plist file:
My DNS Server keeps changing to 10.0.22.1 & 10.0.22.2 in OSX 10.9.5. This causes me to regularly lose internet access until I go into the network preferences pane and delete the two "incorrect" DNS address which cause the correct addresses to automatically re-appear. Then after re-starting my browser, all is well again. If I check my network settings again, the incorrect DNS address have almost always re-appeared by themselves but loss of internet hasn't necessarily occurred. I've checked the DNS settings in my Apple Airport and they are correct and haven't changed and I've also cleared all caches but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Please HELP!
I have an iPhone 5 SE with ios 11.0 installed. I really love the idea of the Files app for managing downloads and such, however I am running into difficulties: If I try to save, say, a photograph locally using Save To Files > On My iPhone I can see the "On My iPhone" option, but cannot select it. If I try to save, say, a photograph locally using Save To Files > On My iPhone I can see the "On My iPhone" option, but cannot select it. If I try to enable On My iPhone in Files > Locations > Edit there is no "On My iPhone" option, just "iCloud Drive" and "Recently Deleted". If I try to enable On My iPhone in Files > Locations > Edit there is no "On My iPhone" option, just "iCloud Drive" and "Recently Deleted". I am (a) uninterested in using iCloud, and (b) uninterested in installing Pages (or some other app). Given these constraints is there a method for me to actually save things locally using the Files app? (I wonder if I am misunderstanding the intent of Files: perhaps local storage is on
My Time Machine developed problems which could not be repaired, and macOS will only mount it in read only mode. I followed the instructions to copy the data, which I did to a fresh partition on another drive. I am now in the process of restoring from this copy.
Firstly, I had disabled swapping and hibernatemode is set to 0 (macOS SIP was disabled when executing the commands above) Secondly, I use fs_usage to monitor fs usage log when sleep sleep time is about 8 hours.
From the feature list APFS supports per-file encryption. Hence by extension it should be possible to setup an encrypted folder (or at least just the files within that folder) with a password that is different than the user login password. Similarly, it should be possible to encrypt users' home directories with their own respective keys, and render them inaccessible to one another despite whatever their file permission says (similar to how NTFS was able to do that since early this century).
I want to use my laptop keyboard and mouse as the input for both the Air and the iMac. I have tried apps that let me use the same input devices across different computers via wifi, but found them laggy. Can I use ethernet to do this instead?
Hi I have realized my volume display(overlay) if off to the left, how do I center it? can't seem to find the shortcuts for it, thanks!
Setup: Windows 10 64-bit, iTunes 12.7.0.166, iPod Classic 160Gb. I have several gigabytes of music, podcasts and audiobooks in iTunes, all of which I have been syncing to the Classic for years, without problems.
A week ago my Mac stopped booting. It goes till 99-100% and stops. Booting in safe mode does not help. I brought my Mac to restore it. They have reinstalled my OS and restored my files. It was working fine at this point. But, I need all the programs that are there installed and I have restored everything from a backup and got the same problem. Any ideas what it can cause and what I can do against it? MacBook Pro late 2013, macOS 10.12.6
So far I've tried to look at the Finder Status Bar, while in a Tag "folder" to see if there's a path I could paste into the Terminal, and then open up - i.e., a "physical" location for the Tag "Folder". I haven't figured out how. The app that doesn't support Tags does have a way of going into even hidden folders, just by selecting "Go To Folder". But I'm not sure how to use that knowledge to then dig up where I should inform the app to go.
If I’m in a loud or quiet place can I choose whether Siri on my watch speaks aloud?
My wife and I have different tastes in music but her music appears on my iPhone 6. Unless I specifically choose an album or tracks before the phone links via Bluetooth to my car stereo it'll start playing tracks from her albums or randomly chosen tracks which my or may not be hers or mine. It's driving me mad help
I have Calender on my MacBook which shows events for both my iCal and Google accounts. Google is the main account that I use, I only have iCal for the odd event / reminder that I set a long time ago but I don't want to forget about.
I had an app called "Gitbox" on my Mac for 4 years with no problems. App suddenly does not display it's main window when running. The little dot is under the app in dock. I cannot delete the app when the dot is there, cause OS says it's running. I can verify the app is running, because the "Activity" window shows that it's fetching something.
I have an iPhone 5S, recently successfully installed iOS11. In the "Do Not Disturb While Driving" Option under Activate, I only get option to enable "When Connected to Car Bluetooth" and "Manually" but not "Automatically" which I can see by many tutorials and help sheets (and from the "Learn More" section from the iPhone itself" should be an option. Why is it not appearing?
In iOS 11 when we disable the Wi-Fi in the control center it doesn't actually disable the radio. According to Apple, the device is disconnected from Wi-Fi and auto-join is disabled until You turn on Wi-Fi in Control Center. You connect to a Wi-Fi network in Settings > Wi-Fi. You walk or drive to a new location. It's 5 AM local time. You restart your device.
My old MBP broke, which Apple replaced for me. By the time they decided to replace it, I had bought another laptop. I want to sell the unopened MBP that Apple gave me. Is there anything I need to be aware of when selling the MBP to something?
I don’t know why this is happening? In order to solve this problem, I have to turn of the power strip, which sometimes I can’t. It keeps waking me up whenever it does.
I am struggling to get the remainder of my hard drive back to my OSX partition after deleting my ubuntu partitions. I have been following the instructions in this answer but now I get an error saying no space on disk.
How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS - for each and every app. Whenever I turn off this option in anyone of my default or third party mac apps within a few seconds these option turns itself on automatically, so is there any option to turn this off permanently across each and every app? I have already tried each and every solutions mentioned in these question Can't disable 'Check spelling while typing' in 'Notes' in OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 But still it automatically gets turned on!
I am having a strange behavior in the iBooks author, the pictures I added to the book are set as Figures, there are many figures and suppose to change the number of the figure if I change the place of the figure back and forward, and this is not happening. When I change the picture position the number still the same, not in a new order. If I make a new picture just after the old one the number is correct but if I enter more lines and the figure goes down the number changes again to a wrong number. Any one has any inputs to help me?
My host command doesn't understand CAA records. how to install newer version of /usr/bin/host via Homebrew? In which package the host command?
I turned on my Apple TV this morning and it's telling me "What's New", with a list of features. I guess it updated. At the bottom there is a button that says "continue" but no matter what I do with the remote it doesn't highlight the button nor does it let me continue. How do I get past this screen so I can actually use the thing!
I made the mistake to get a 16Gb iPhone and now I'm running out of space pretty much all the time. If I'm trying to do a WhatsApp backup it tells me that I need 3 GB of storage. It isn't at all clear where this backup will live. If I clear that much space, and do the backup to iCloud, will this permanently take up 3 GB on my phone's internal storage or will it just be in the iCloud?
A while back I received an Apple Watch as a gift. I can’t tell whether or not the Watch is an original First Generation or a Series 1. How do I check which model of Apple Watch I have?
fdesetup disable did nothing as well. It succeeded but no change to filevault. fsck_cs -y disk_identifier_goes_here succeeded but didn't unpause the Filevault conversion. Tried to upgrade to Sierra but the installer complained about Filevault conversion in progress (https://i.imgur.com/k9ABpmI.png)
I just bought a used iMac G5 that does not have a hard drive, i bought a hard drive for it but how do i get Mac OS 9 on it (Mac OS 9 is the latest version it can run)
The Safari icon on my Mac's dock does not respond to me clicking on it. Safari will open if I launch the executable file from terminal at /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari but it outputs an error message multiple times.
I'm not a big fan of the native Mail app and the native Gmail app is okay but I believe lacks power user features, e.g. keyboard shortcuts. Is there a way to access the full-blown desktop version of Gmail? Do keyboard shortcuts and other features work as normal? And is it better to do this using the Chrome browser app than the Safari browser app, or does it not make much of a difference? Finally, is there a way to set up a shortcut to make the website as easily and quickly accessible as possible?
Is there a way (legitimate method or an ugly hack) to enable streaming of bbc radio (four) simply by saying a voice command to Siri? On Amazon’s Echo, saying “play radio 4” begins streaming bbc radio 4 from tunein. Maybe there’s a clever way using Launchpad, or Workflow, or some other app?
My photos are endlessly re-uploading (even though they are all already in the cloud):  Worse — or at least further unnerving, if the upload is actually doing something — this upload pauses itself after a period of about an hour (without notice) and needs to be manually restarted to proceed. (In contrast, Google Photos, which syncs with the same library on my iPhone, seems to be working fine.)
My fan on my Mac has been running all the time. I did google some solution for this problem. However, I didn't see any error on the system.log Could anybody have any better recommendation for my Mac.
I've got a point of sale terminal/pinpad connecting to the internet through the ethernet port on my Mac mini, which has internet sharing turned on. It works... but it takes almost 5 minutes for my POS software to talk to the terminal. It used to work perfectly and then a few days ago it just started taking it's sweet A$$ time. Nothing changed. No bloody idea. I digress. I feel like if the pinpad was on the same network than it would fix the issue.
I recently switched from PC (many years, many Dells) to an iMac. I'm learning to love it. I do not have any issues with my wrists, etc., but I am a very fast typist and am used to an ergonomic keyboard (formerly used one from Microsoft).
Before iOS 11, the default quotation marks were the ASCII ' and ", but now they are changed to ‘’ and “” (curly quotation marks). I have to long press the quotation mark key on the soft keyboard to type the normal ones and have no way to type them on a Smart Cover. I’m a programmer and I have to use ' and ", is there any way to change them back? I suspect this problem is linked to my language and region settings, I’m in China and my iPad language is English by the way.
I have two XCode projects I open regularly, so I added them to the Dock. Unfortunately, they're not labeled. Hovering doesn't help, since it shows the same name. In fact, they're two different Git workspaces with the same project, so I want to label the icon with the name of folder it's in. How do I do that? I'm open to third-party apps. I don't want to edit anything in the folder, since that will show up as an edit in Git.
This isn't a duplicate because the other question is slightly different(asking about wifi/bluetooth automatically turning on) and this was also asked first. In iOS 11, I can't disable Bluetooth or Wi-Fi using the redesigned Control Center. It disconnects from any Bluetooth/Wi-Fi devices but the radios are still on, draining battery. It also doesn't disable AirDrop either. If I disable Bluetooth or Wi-Fi using settings this shows:
My laptop became unresponsive yesterday and so I forced it to reboot. When it turned on again my user account didn't pop up as it usually does, neither did guest. There was only the option for "Other..." and it prompted me to enter 'User' and 'password' so I entered my name as it would usually appear and my admin password but it wouldn't accept it! I followed other steps online suggesting I use Terminal to reset my password (although i'm confident I am typing the correct password), but then it says to select a user account and won't give me any options! I haven't backed up my photos and I'm worried I will lose them all!
Apparently iOS no longer automatically includes apps in the search. Frankly, that’s the only thing I ever search for. According to the accepted answer in Why is iOS unable to find my apps?, I need to turn on the feature for individual apps in the Siri & Search settings. Is there a way of enabling all apps to be searched without enabling each individual app?
I have installed the latest version of iTerm2 and I have found that INSERT while inserting a file under vim is not showing on the screen. Also, I am not able to see parameters under top command.
I just updated to iOS11 and I realized that, when you enable and then disable the airplane mode, the Bluetooth is automatically turned on (even if previously is was switched off). Is there a way to prevent this annoying functionality?
I do listen stuff before falling asleep and for that I set the native timer on my iPhone to stop playing after ~30 minutes. When I cook something I ask Siri to set timer for let's say 5 minutes, but after the 5 minutes, my iPhone just stops playing (there is nothing playing at that moment actually). How do I tell Siri I want to be notified after the timer runs out?
A few days ago my machine started showing a weird behavior. It is a MBP early 2011, so not the youngest kid in town, but I have the strong feeling that this is a software issue so I hope you can help.
I'm not an AppleScript Ninja but so I followed this link to automatically hide dock when it opens Unreal Engine But, how to disable autohide when Unreal Engine closes? I'm running this script as an App.
While glancing through the marketing page of High Sierra, I read from the first footnote that: […] The playback of 4K HEVC content requires a Mac with a sixth‑generation Intel Core processor or newer.
I have an iPhone 7 (32GB) with iOS 10.3.3 and it seems like I'm not getting any notifications like "This App was updated" or "Some Updates are available" or any kind of Badges of available updates on App Store. I have turned on All Notifications for App Store in Settings including Banners and Badges. I had my iPhone reset like 3-4 times (including Restore via iTunes) and it just didn't work. I have to manually go into the App Store every time and push it down to check for any available updates. Why can't it just happen automatically. I have seen updates badges on many other iPhones.
I believe that there is an issue with the factory calibration of my 15" MacBook Pro 2016. This was the first MacBook with a DCI-P3 display and I got mine in December. I want to find out if this is a known problem and is this fixed in some of the later batches.
Can we sync iMessages with iCloud on iOS 11 Global Stable Update. Because I can't see any option to do that on iPhone 7 (recently updated to iOS 11.0 )
I created an encrypted disk on a USB drive the other day, and added a password hint. I don't remember what the password is. (I have a scheme for mapping hints to passwords, so when there's a hint available I just pick something random and write out the appropriate hint.) When reconnecting the disk today, OS X popped up the password prompt - but no hint displayed.
I need to change from another country's App Store to the US App Store as I have relocated. Some apps, like Venmo, are only available in the US App Store. So to download them, I need to change to the US App Store. But to do so, I have to unsubscribe from Apple Music. My intention is to resubscribe to Apple Music as soon as I am on the US App Store. My question is: would my downloaded music from Apple Music (not previously purchased) still be there when I resubscribe? I'd rather not the hassle of having to search and download all the tracks i previously downloaded when i resubscribe. Is this documented or explained by Apple or someone’s personal experience?
I have noticed quite a few times that after viewing a particular image and quitting Preview manually, Preview still remains active in the background sucking up huge chunks memory/RAM. It only stops after force quitting it. I don't know why this does happen!
Can someone please help me solve ? The screen suddenly turned blank with strange colors on the left, as the picture shows.
iOS 11 Spotlight Search seems to have introduced a few new built-in data sources, or changed the way they are Enabled or Disabled. I searched for the word "Posh" just as a random word, and there are some sections whose iOS origins confuse me:
My university has some sort of partnership with Microsoft so that we can use their Outlook interface to check our email. The email has the domain of our university and we login with our university login in order to access the service. I’m able to add the account on the Outlook app for iPhone, but I would like to use it on the Mail app where I have all of my other accounts. I’ve tried choosing the Outlook service when adding a new mail account, but it says the account doesn’t exist. Is there any way I can do this? EDIT: apparently the service is running on Office 365
Every time I start up my iMac running Mavericks with my phone or ipad connected, I get this dialog: Photos in the Camera Roll of “iOS Device” cannot be imported because the device is locked with a passcode. Image Capture is set to open no application on connecting an iOS device, iPhoto is also set to not open any application on connecting a camera, and I can't figure out what else would be causing this. Prevent Photos app on OSX from launching when plugging in device is technically a duplicate, however the answers in that question do not do anything for me (neither Image Capture nor iPhoto appear to be the problem). Why does this happen and how can I make it stop, short of upgrading my OS (which I have technical reasons for not doing)?
I've lost the functionality of my ] on my keyboard. Previously I used Karabiner to map [ + option to ], however now that I've updated to Sierra, this doesn't work. I've seen this post: How do I remap a key in macOS Sierra, e.g., Right Alt to Right Control? However is there a way to map 2 keys to a single key using hidutil property? Specifically, I'd like to map [ + option to ] I've tried a few iterations including: and Neither of these worked
I have an old iPhone that I would like to use as a camera and stream it to a server on my local network. Ideally, this would be done through something like RTSP.
Do appstore updates continue downloading and installing after Auto-lock has locked the screen? How about if the user switches to or runs another app? Lastly, does Background Refresh have an effect on appstore update progress?
How do I get my HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP to print wireless from my iPhone6+. I have tried in putting IP address, rebooting, downloading driver again.
Is there any official documentation on how I can read out a non-encrypted iTunes backup of an iOS device? I researched but unfortunately I didn't find an answer.
I think I may have a virus or something, because when I installed a program a few days ago it said something about "www.searchpage.com". How can I fix this?
I followed the advice on some old threads regarding finding why quicklookd is overloading my cpu and terminal keeps giving me this error: dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 6 (ID 938: syscall::open_nocancel:return): invalid user access in action #11 at DIF offset 24
In iOS 11 when you hit the "i" in the upper left hand corner it wants to open a new email. I want to save it as a contact because it is a new person I dont have yet in my contacts. What happened?
Do MacBook Pro compatible Thunderbolt external GPUs work with Boot Camp?
My iPhone still isn't offering me the option to update to iOS 11. Why is this? What can I do to let me update? I have no clue what to try next any sugustions?
The switcher do not works, after we killed the coreaudiod process. Rebooting do not helps. Also we tried to reliad the AppleHDA.kext We could not do it because of some dependencies. What could the dependebcies be? Am I thinking in the right direction or ahould I search for the solution in other depths? Hour of google do not really helps.killin the process do not gives nothing.
I just upgraded IOS and I needed to enter icloud password during upgrade and I can't remember my apple ID password and followed password reset page - *=URL=* After few crazy overlapping text in captcha retries I reached the final page where it says I'll receive email or text after 24 hours. After more than 12 hours I received email that says "An account recovery request was made for your Apple ID" and I'll receive another text or phone call to reset password on "8 October 2017 at 08:50:09 GMT+8" and today is 25th September. Does everyone really need to wait that long or am I not using the right forgot password page?
I have uploaded all my music and epubs to iCloud-drive in different folders. For books to be added to iBooks I had to select one book at a time and then select option Copy to iBooks and now the books are appearing in iBooks.
Is there any way to remove that annoying screenshot pop up after you take a screenshot? I was trying to play a game after updating to iOS 11 and it ruined my game thanks to not being able to tap the bottom part of the screen.
I have a new "Lenovo Professional Wireless Keyboard" that has a usb dongle. When I connect it to a usb port on my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 the "Keyboard Setup Assistant" starts and I click continue. It asks me to press the key to the right of the left shift key (which is Z). Nothing happens.
The Back Story My bro and I are getting by on ancient early 2008 MacBooks for school until we have a chance to upgrade to a PC. My friend gave me a white one for free. I bought and repaired a black one for my bro with a total expense of $110. The problem
macOS High Sierra will be released on 29.6 But, I have one issue Apple is introducing a new file system (Apple File System) which is for (Mac with all‑flash internal storage). Now as much as I know that I have a traditional Hard Drive the rotating one, so will macOS High Sierra covert my hard drive to the latest Apple File System
I just tested a version of my app in TestFlight for ready for updating, and in TestFlight the build is 1.1.5, but the build in the App Information screen is 1.1.4, regardless the title at the top of the page says iOS App 1.1.5 - how do I get the release build to be 1.1.5? Thanks for your time and help.
Up to iOS 10, the screen keyboard in landscape screen orientation had arrow keys which moved the cursor left and right. After upgrading to iOS 11, these keys are missing:
Is it possible at all to use the LG UltraFine 4K display with my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)?
I've been looking for a way to remove or disable the Mail and Calendar apps from macOS Sierra.
I have an iPad Pro 9.7 Wifi & Cellular 128 GB. In iOS 10.3.3, I could call Siri with "Hey Siri" keyword even if iPad locked and Smart Cover closed. Now, I upgraded my device to iOS 11. The "Hey Siri" keyword runs only if iPad locked and Smart Cover is open. However; if iPad locked and Smart Cover closed, it doesn’t work. I've been using my iPad (in a Smart Cover) for "Hey Siri what is the degree in my room" for about a year now. It stopped responding only after updating to iOS 11. "Hey Siri" and "Allow Siri while locked" toggles are checked in Settings also.
Two weeks ago, my MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 failed to boot. When I used verbose mode I discovered it was a hard drive failure.
I've been having this issue for a while where I come to open the Terminal and I'm met with this screen Terminal Error I've already deleted the com.apple.terminal.plist to no avail. The really interesting thing is that SOMETIMES it works, maybe 1 in 50 times. I litrally have no idea what might be causing it and after searching the web for the better part of half a day it seems everyone elses issues are fixed when they delete the plist file.
The utility in this article: High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week looks like it will improve security on a Mac running macOS, but is it available for Linux too?
I have MacBook Pro 2017. I have the very same docker hub at work and at home (moshi). Both have LAN cables attached. However, I can use only one of them: for example, when I make my work LAN working, I can't simply go home and have it home LAN working - and vice versa.
I want to force my keyboard layout to "U.S." when I open Spotlight search like how Alfred app does it. Alfred settings: I was wondering there is a script for doing that so I can run it on BetterTouchTool and achieve similar results? How can I do that? thanks.
Is there any way to empty the compressed memory used by an app without restarting this app? Apps like Memory Cleaner or the purge command do not work!
In a keynote line graph, can you differentiate segments of a line so some segments are solid and others are dotted, in order to indicate projections for example? Apparently this can be done in PowerPoint: http://www.presentation-process.com/line-chart-in-powerpoint-tips.html
I don't understand why my iCloud Drive folder is 12GB size:   I went to iCloud website and deleted all the files and I still have these 12GB, I tried to empty the trash but I can't because of an unknown error. Did anyone get this issue?
When I am trying to update macOS Sierra 10.12 to 10.12.6 update I have this problem: macOS Sierra Update can't be installed on this disk. The volume does not meet the requirements for this update.
I am trying to populate some data from an API call. (Below is the process to get the same example) Everything works fine until I hit the last button: all the data goes into the first column and does not seem to understand the separator.
The process com.apple.CommerceKit.TransactionService is using a lot of power on my 2017 Macbook Pro and I have no idea what piece of software is actually responsible for this. Any ideas?
In order to fully automate my project testing environment, I've decided using vmrun to start a vm and run installation script from my host machine. my setup uses host MacOS along with vm-fusion that contain vmx files - all running MacOS 10.12.6. However, I'm having hard times in running elevated privileges scripts like my installer which also performs action that requires preceding sudo (such copying my project files to folder /Library which is protected)
In macOS 10.12.6 , I am trying to forward the clock using the date command. E.g.: today's date is 25-09-2017 and I am setting it to 27-09-2017. But using ntp I am unable to revert my system time back to 25-09-2017. I have "time.asia.apple.com" set in /etc/ntp.conf. When I try to issue the command I am getting the following output: 27 Sep 20:25:36 ntpdate[5085]: no server suitable for synchronization found I am not sure why my system time is not moving back to 25th of Sep.
In macOS High Sierra, the new Lock Screen shortcut was added, but you can only use the shortcut ^ ⌘ Q . I'd like to change it to something more Windows-esque, like ⌘ ⌥ L . How can I go about this?
Does the CPU of your Macbook Pro overheat when gaming using a Thunderbolt external GPU ? Any feedback from fellow gamers using an external GPU ? Thanks !
I recently ran df -h on my Mac using Terminal. I was surprised to find that it shows my internal volume can store 112 GB, but it can actually store 120 GB. So I can't understand why this happens and should I worry about. The Size column shows as 112 GB.
I had a generation 0 Apple watch, and have used the alarm in nightstand mode for the past 18 months. The volume of the alarm was pretty low, but it always woke me up. This past weekend I upgraded to a new Series 3, and had my first alarm this morning. It was much louder and blasted me out of bed. Searching the web, I see many people complaining about the old volume being too low and there didn't seem to be a way to adjust it. Did watch OS 4 add a capability that I'm not seeing?
I have a Macbook Pro 2017 and an iPad Pro. Is it possible to navigate on the iPad Pro using the trackpad on the Macbook Pro 2017?
I am using Safari to develop for a while. One thing I always liked is when you clear the cache, it really does, unlike other browsers I tried in the past. But in previous versions, specially when working in a code in a local testing server, just reloading the page will reload everything from disk. Now I have to use de shortcut command+alt+e to clear before reload or some new CSS won't load, even some http request will return old values. Just reloading the page won't guarantee to show me the last modifications. I looked at preferences and develop menu but didn't find an option to just don't use any caches at all - the perfect option will be don't use caches when I have the web inspector opened, means I am developing. Did I miss this option, or there is another way to disable all caches?
I need to access Bonjour to get information from my printer and wonder where Bonjour has gone from Safari version 11.
When I plug in my iphone, I cannot see my apps listed under the summary as I should be able to. I have synced the phone, so it's not that. Just can't figure it out.
Bought a new iPad 2017 today. I start with the update to iOS 11 from iTunes. It didn't update, the iPad now shows "support.apple.com/ipad/restore" text at the top with icons telling me to connect it to iTunes.
I just updated to macOS High Sierra. What's the best way to use Time Machine under Apple's new APFS file system. Should I use Disk Utility to convert my external Time Machine volume to APFS?
Recently the names from users of my shared album have disappeared from the activity feeds (See picture) - this has only happened on the desktop, both the iPhone and iPad are fine. Just updated to High Sierra and hoped the issue would fix itself - but nope, still a problem. Any ideas? Searching for answers hasn't revealed anything.
I'm having network or disk problems with my 2010 Mac Pro. It doesn't seem to matter if I use Safari, FireFox, Chrome, Terminal, or the App Store, most of the files I attempt to download (zip, dmg, images in the browser, etc) seem to be corrupt; images don't display properly, compressed files won't open, the App Store won't display properly or successfully download files (wired and wireless).
My macbook battery is 94% charge , condition is normal and cycle count is 30 , it used to work fine a couple of days ago . now computer won't boot on if not connected to power and if I disconnect power it shuts down .
Need help to boot into the Mac's recovery mode! Recovery mode is missing. Each time I try to boot into it, it only shows the main disk so I can't do anything but boot into the main disk. The recovery mode partition does exist, but somehow it can't be accessed.
I have a macbook pro late 2012, single stock SSD, Sierra installed with latest updates. I am trying to install High Sierra. When I go to select the disk to install on (the current, normal boot volume), the installer refuses, with the error: "This disk cannot be used to start your computer"
I have a MPB with macOS 10.13 Beta (17A362a) (GM), when trying to install the public release from the App Store I get the following error: An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running the application again. Any idea what is wrong with the installation? These are the relevant entries I've found in the logs:
I upgraded to High Sierra, asked for my password. No problem.
The current understanding seems to indicate that "all SSD" machines will have at least their main/root file system converted to APFS on the install of High Sierra. That means HFS+ is still a viable boot file system (as it was during testing the beta on an external rotational drive). I want to keep HFS+ for now. How do I force a full default install, including Recovery HD, onto an "all SSD" MacBook Pro that keeps HFS+ as the only file system?
I have a 27" mid 2011 iMac with 32 GB of RAM. Apple officially says the machine supports up to 16GB, but in actuality 32GB works great and I've been running it this way for years using Mavericks without issue.
I want to make a USB media installer for the new High Sierra release. I commonly use createinstallmedia or DiskMakerX but for this new release I just can't make it work (both). I downloaded the Install macOS High Sierra.app from the App Store but the installer is only 14.2mb so it doesn't contain the High Sierra image. I started the installer and that starts the download but all the downloaded files are stored in ./macOS Install Data and I want to make a USB media installer with those files. Any idea of how to solve this? Also in createinstallmedia i'm using this command: and i'm getting: Screenshots:
I have run a cable from my Uverse router the the LAN port of the Airport. The setup for the Airport sets up a network but it doesn't connect to the internet. I see from another question that I may need to use bridging which I don't understand.
I'm using HandBrake to encode some videos using the MP4 H.265 format, but the videos won't play using QuickTime or Quick Look on macOS High Sierra, which is supposed to have H.265/HEVC support. They work in VLC just fine. Anyone else have this problem or know why these videos won't play in the system-provided players?
Here's the problem: High Sierra (as of 10.13) ships without the firmware update for this A/V dongle. This update package normally rests at "/System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware Updates", but this folder is empty following the update. So if you're stuck at an older Firmware Version (pre 2.33, article: Apple Support Article HT205858) there is no separate download for it, and you are on your own until Apple releases a hotfix.
Just me or has the appstore app stopped automatic checks for app updates since iOS 11? Updates aren't found and hence the badge on the app icon isn't shown. Only if I manually open the appstore app and refresh-pull the updates tab the app updates are polled.
Preface: I am now able to reboot from an external live backup I had of my previous macOS Sierra (10.12) install. So I am recovering from that and am not completely “panicked” about this… But this is baffling and annoying so sharing to help others if possible.
The goal is to be able to set the trackpad speed significantly faster than allowed by the GUI in settings. I'm open to downloading a third party tool, but would prefer a command line solution (or explanation as to why the one I've tried doesn't work as expected). I realize this is probably a pretty niche question, but your help is much appreciated.
I'm upgrading macOS High Sierra. During upgrading, I close the lid for some time, then open the lid to see if upgrade finished. But when I open the lid, the system continue to upgrade from the progress I left. How does Mac do this? I mean it needs an operating system to control pause/resume, but the OS is under upgrading, how can it control the computer?
I like the apple pay feature. however there are times when the apple pay pops up even though I am not buying anything or even close to a shop. The problem is that when the apple pay screen pops up, if I touch the touch id then it will end up making a payment. I want a sure shot way of safely dismissing the apple pay screen when it pops up without a reason. I am using iphone 8 plus with latest ios 11.
Ran the High Sierra updater, walked away as it ran. Came back after 40 minutes or so to find a black screen. That’s it.
Using an IPAD - (ios-10) I have Acrobat Reader on my Ipad I get emailed alink to a PDF - on a microsoft OneDrive account Or I get a email link to a PDF Or - I am on some web site that offers a PDF link I click on the PDF link - and it opens in Safari, and/or I can ask to open it in IBOOK
Sometime in the past if I turned off the power to my Macbook Pro, when I started it up it would ask for a disk password. After that it would load the OS and ask me to select a user to login.
The title says it: plugged into the wall (120vac), but disconnected from the MacBook Air, how much power is consumed by the power supply?
There are some real problems with not having ftp and telnet present in 10.13 now as per Apple's dictate. Has anyone found a solid way to bring BSD ftp and telnet back to macOS vs using inetutils?
I just created a USB Installer for High Sierra and tried to install my Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed to 5.1). But the installer wants to do a Firmware Update too and says I have to shutdown and press the power button until the EFI beeps. But this Shutdown button in the installer is greyed out so I can't proceed. Any help?
I updated my late-2013 MacBook Pro from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra this morning. The update ran fine and I got back into my system everything looking ok.
added (auto-fill-mode nil) to hooks for specific modes (e.g. html-mode, nxhtml-mode, xhtml-mode). set text mode hook in customizations.el to disable auto-fill-mode: '(text-mode-hook '((lambda nil (auto-fill-mode nil)) smart-spacing-mode)) set text mode hook in customizations.el to disable auto-fill-mode:
Is there any application or command line tool that allows controlling the output volume of each device without setting it as default output device beforehand? It would be great to be able to control the loudspeaker volume before switching to it.
I've just completed updating to High Sierra. I've also successfully installed GNS3 (Network Simulator for Cisco studies) on High Sierra. I get the following message in the console while trying to access the CLI for the network devices with iTerm. The following message shows up when I try and use Terminal. Any help would be appreciated.
I have installed High Sierra 10.13 today over the top of a working 10.12.6 installation. I have previously used the dictionaries app for the thesaurus and other dictionaries. Upon opening the dictionary app, and going to preferences I can see that only Wikipedia is available. It seems that it is supposed to download the dictionaries, but it doesn't. What should I do?
I'm thinking of upgrading to macOS High Sierra, however I'm a bit cautious with the APFS, also because it just came out. Are you able to use Time Machine on a Mac with APFS-formatted disks with an Apple Time Capsule that uses an HDD an older file system (HFS+) My guess is it won't work so you have to also manually convert the Apple Time Capsule to APFS.
I'm having problems using ´fastboot´ in high sierra. When I run the command: it tells me:
Today I upgraded my late 2014 iMac to macOS High Sierra, for the first few hours the mouse was working fine (even before upgrading to High Sierra) but after a few hours it suddenly started malfunctioning the left or the right click is not working properly then double tap to zoom is not working properly even selecting a text is not happening properly. Everything is hanging and freezing with the mouse gestures after updating to High Sierra!
Like many I have backups on external hard-drives, some are in HFS and others are in FAT32 or NTFS. What happens to those backups with APFS ? I won't be able to access, read and write to or from them if I update to High Sierra to get APFS ? Thanks !
I bought a DELL U2415 monitor and connected it via a MiniDP to DP cable that came with the monitor. Surprisingly the refresh rate of the monitor was locked at 59.88 Hz (NTSC), unlike a U2414H connected via HDMI, which has its refresh rate configurable as either 50 Hz or 60 Hz.
I have a 15" mid-2014 MacBook Pro (with a 256GB SSD). Today I wanted to install macOS High Sierra, so I created a bootable USB installation drive. Then I booted into the installer and fired up Disk Utility to wipe my internal disk. I erased the disk and created a new APFS partition. Accidentally, I clicked on the "Remove Volume" icon. Now my internal disk is completely gone from Disk Utility. That's why I can't select it as a target for High Sierra and start the installation. In a terminal, diskutil list still shows the disk with two partitions I created earlier (it also shows lots of disk images, but I assume this is not related): Here's the output of diskutil info: Any idea what's wrong with my SSD?
Got the following error The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged
I know how to create a shortcut; it is described on Apple website here. However, I came across a tricky case: I want to create a shortcut for the TextEdit application, particularly for setting the writing direction to Right to Left. The hierarchy for this is shown below:
I currently have (Arch) Linux on my MacBook Air (2012), and I want to install High Sierra on an external drive, so I can run the new eficheck. How do I do that, and without disturbing my existing Linux installation?
I'd like to know if I look at files (specifically jpegs) stored on a usb drive without opening them, will they leave a trace on the iMac I'm putting the USB into? Bascially, if I plug in a USB and don't actually open the jpeg files (eg. using preview) but only look at them as thumbnails in the finder folder, will they still leave a trace on the computer? Also, if I move the jpeg files from one folder to another on the same USB drive, or from one usb drive to a different one (both plugged into the same iMac), does that also leave any trace on the computer?
macOS High Sierra appears to treat font smoothing and antialiasing differently in PDF documents in Preview. Text is more blurry and less crisp. I turned off "Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available" in the System Preferences with no difference. Is it possible to revert to the way macOS Sierra used to handle PDF text?
I have icloud which is almost empty, because my phone does not send pictures to icloud. It has sent only 88 pictures and rest of them are in the phone, and I cannot take pictures anymore because I dont have place. Why?
I've tried Proxifier but it's not working. I can see the request sent but I can't receive any data from remote. Is there anything I can do? Thanks,
Apparently there is a new eficheck routine that runs on macOS High Sierra that detects if your Mac is consistent with a database of known good firmware signatures. Though it appears to just report a warning with the offer to send the information to Apple, it does raise concerns about whether or not a MacPro3,1 or MacPro4,1 are going to be prevented from running High Sierra as a result.
I have upgraded my Mac to High Sierra. So I was just looking at the features when I saw APFS container in Disk Utility. I googled it and found out that it is used for multiple logical drives but I thought I don't require it so is it safe to delete the containers?
Is it possible to get a larger resolution on my Macbook Pro than the one proposed in System Preferences ? I mean my screen is 1280x800 and I'd like to putt an even larger resolution so as to have a zoom out effect on the computer. In each application (like Chrome for instance) I have to zoom out manually.
What is iTunes error -45076, and how might one fix the problem? I have already searched Apple and AskDifferent for the specific error code, but come up empty handed. macOS High Sierra was install on Sept 26, 2017. iTunes 12.6.2
This morning I tried to use scp to copy a single large file from my old Linux Ubuntu machine to my brand new 2017 Mac Book Pro. I ran into a very strange problem: scp would happily copy 95% of data (around 150 MB/sec) - to then "stall", and at some point tell me about broken connection. Afterwards, I basically had no more LAN access.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one but every time I click 'Edit' on a photo that has already been edited by the previous version of Photos, it just crashes. This is frustrating because I did a lot of retouch edits in my library and now I can't edit any of those photos. I'm using referenced-based library (do not make copy of imported photos) so maybe it happens only on those kind of libraries. The only sign I see for the crash are two lines in the system.log: Does anyone knows how to fix it?
I want to create a Service using Automator on macOS 10.12.6. I selected: Service receives selected rich text in any application Input is entire selection ☑️ Output replaces selected text
By mistake I ran the Homebrew installation script at my home directory, then I got some problems installing it from /usr/local/bin. Running the uninstalling script results in the error:
Using a Mouse at the same time as being able to use the built-in Trackpad of a MacBook has worked in previous versions of macOS. But with macOS High Sierra, 10.13.0, they don't work in parallel anymore. The issue exists both with all types of mice, including Bluetooth and USB, and third-party as well as Apple's original mice. Is this a bug/issue or perhaps a new "feature", and can it be remedied?
I just upgraded to macOS High Sierra and now I am not able to login using network account. However, I am able to unlock the FileVault2 volume using the old credentials but then it asks for credentials again. On login screen, I see a red dot beside username saying network accounts are unavailable
Per this article I downloaded the 10.12.6 versions of Sierra's pkg and pfpkg files. I cannot use the technique described in the article because Sierra is no longer available in the App Store. Is there a way to use these files to upgrade my MBP without the App Store?
I brought an iPhone from someone and they have not given me their information. I need to get in the phone in order to sell it. How should I go about the situation? I tried to get in contact with him, he didn't even respond.
Is there a way to temporarily stop the terminal from automatically scrolling down when new output is output to the terminal?
In Mavericks, this works great and I have a couple of mailboxes set up this same way. But in Sierra, this doesn't work at all. The rules work fine for moving the emails into the separate folder/mailbox, but the smart mailbox rule fails to save. I can set it as desired, but on subsequent editing it will always read "Message is in mailbox 'No mailbox selected'" and therefore will show me all emails in my inbox, rather than just those in the Finance mailbox.
I am trying to convert a large series of .cwk files into a .numbers format. I have sorted the spreadsheets and put them into a directory for batch conversion. I have found that trying to open the files from "Numbers" (2.1 436) leads to an error (in OSX 10.12 Sierra) However the following code makes "Numbers" opening the files, but I cannot find a way to save them in the new format. (except manually) I have tried many options, but no luck...
i am using the following command to change the system date . i need to get back to the current time . My offset will be days, months and years. And ntp is getting synchronising the time as i have spent lot of time debugging i came to conclusion that internet is working, firewall is not blocking ntp port and also server entries are added. Hence, is there any other alternative for NTP to get back system time ?
I use Linux (CentOS) at work and quite like the PRIMARY clipboard. This adds highlighted text to a clipboard automatically and pastes the contents of that clipboard on center-button mouse click. Importantly, this clipboard does not overwrite the CLIPBOARD clipboard.
It used to be the case that we could organize iOS apps on iPhones and iPads by connecting them to a Mac and using some functionality in iTunes. But with recent changes to iTunes, this is no longer possible. If you have an iOS device with many apps on many home screens it is now more difficult to organize these apps into folders (by dragging the apps across many home screens). Can anyone recommend an easier way to accomplish this, including, perhaps, some third-party software that runs on a Mac?
I'm a developer and I have a project built with a task runner called Gulp, when I try to launch it via command line I get an error saying that the port is in use (3000). I then changed it to all other ports I could think off and still the same error. Need to work on this project, anyone know how to fix this?
I just switched my work computer from PC to Mac. On my PC, I'd created about 50 server-side rules. However, I can't get these to apply while using Outlook for Mac. I can see the rules, and I can open them for edit. When I try to save my edits, I get a message about errors in the rules (even though all I've changed is the name).
Will it work to restore my ~/Library folder from Time Machine while I am logged in? I mean, won't some of these files be in use and impossible to overwrite?
Out of sudden when connected to VPN via CISCO AnyConnect, I cannot ping IP addresses behind the VPN. Public IP addresses can be resolved and pinged. scutil --dns result: 192.168.168.103 is the remote DNS, 192.168.178.1 the local.
I am fairly new with a Mac (Mac from work), and get more and more disappointed. Now I am blocked again, because I did not find an EASY way to open an image from the command line... Here is how it works in Linux (simple, no installation required): How to achieve the similar thing on a Mac?
I have Google Hangouts enabled on my Messages application. I can send and receive Hangouts messages fine, but if I pickup the conversation on my phone for a while and then return back to my computer, I have no chat history from the time I was on my phone.
So I thought I'd try this on an old (late 2009) 27" iMac and the option was not available (the internal disk is actually new this year so it isn't just age). My Macbook Pro (early 2015) internal SSD converted automatically. Then I have some external disks all of which are perfectly functional. So I tried some of them. My Time Machine external disk would convert (not sure whether it is worth it) and old spinning 500GB spinning disk (extracted from an old MacBook) will convert. But two other disks (a LaCie 2GB USB and the original 1GB from my iMac) will not.
How can I change the action of the force click in finder from preview (which I find useless most of the time) to Get Info (which I use very frequently)?
Need a built-in laser pointer as well. Preferably a strong one, especially a green laser, though red laser might work if strong enough. Must be easily rechargeable, such as USB or Lightning, so no futzing with batteries.
Apple Mac Pro Early 2009 - Firmware upgraded from 4.1 to 5.1 - OS X 10.13.0 High Sierra - Hello, according to App Store, the OS X El Capitan Upgrade has just been released, and, while I am happy for Apple that this is the case, I'm slightly perturbed by being reminded about it in App Store and by Apple notifications, especially as I am now running OS X 10.13.0 High Sierra. Is there some way of stopping this "downgrade" option? Especially as the reminders appear to be getting more and more vociferous - I don't want to find that my machine has suddenly, and without my approval, been downgraded to El Capitan. Surely there must be some way of disabling this message. It's getting really annoying. Thanks in advance, anyone!!
When I walk up to a Mac, and open a Terminal.app window, what options do I have for editing text files? I see that both Pico and GNU nano text editors are included with macOS Sierra, along with vi and Emacs, but apparently not the ee text editor bundled in FreeBSD. What other options for command-line text editors are built into macOS? Pico GNU nano vi Emacs
I am trying to partition my HD to install Ubuntu. I have reviewed other questions with similar issues but haven't been able to find a problem with the same symptoms.
After installing High Sierra on my MBA Mid2013 SSD remains as HFS+ and I am not able to convert to APFS not even in Recovery Mode
The above mentioned Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2015) with SSD, running Sierra seems to be freezing most of the times, after attempting to "wake" it up from sleep. The situation has the following observed characteristics: Seems to "wake up" (you can see the backlight of the screen activating) but the screen remains black Sometimes the mouse pointer may appear but the screen remains black Some times it wakes up, gives the login screen but freezes (spinning ball) after logging in Happens only after some time has passed (perhaps 15') after initiating the sleep. It has higher possibility to happen when connected to power Thought there may be a conflict with the Energy Saver Display-off settings but keeps the same behaviour in all possible different settings including when choosing not to allow the display to switch off. In all the above cases the system has to be hard rebooted by pressing the power button.
Question: Would I be able to use an iMac from England in Canada. I am not thinking there would be any problems with the software it is the electrical part of the equation I am concerned with. Easy enough to get an adapter for the plug but will the difference in voltage and hertz cause any problems?
The link is generated with those brackets, to be replaced. Now I am completely illiterate with code, but I am looking for a way to: Select the text, and replace {keyword1} with the actual keyword I want, and {keyword2} with the second.
On Apple's website, the company makes this claim about macOS High Sierra's security features:  Can anyone give me more details on the technology that enables macOS to determine if a file downloaded with Safari is a malware ? I'm just curious to see how it compares with an antivirus (no need to start a discussion about why you need or don't need an antivirus on Mac or in general, please not for the 10000th time).
I use El Capitan and an Epson Perfection V200 Photo scanner. The scanner software is called Epson Perfection V200 in the task bar, but identifies as PrinterProxy, Version 11.4 (511.3) Copyright 1995-2015 Apple Inc in the About dialog.
There's a tutorial here Setting up a local web server on macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" *=URL=* localhost works but user shortname - fails. What gives?
After downloading the new macOS for my MacBook pro (mid-2012) with HDD, the computer restarted but continues to fail during the installation. The error I keep getting is com.apple.DiskManagement error 0. I completed a disk repair but no errors popped up there, so I assume nothing is wrong with the drive. I tried to reinstall macOS from recovery mode, but I continue getting this same error. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
I have some read-write disk images (some .dmg format, some in .sparseimage format) that I want to automatically open a Finder window to their base folders when I double-click them. Up to now, I have been able to do that using the bless command, like:
In website dictionaries such as Cambridge,Oxford,and Merrian-Webster Dictionary.Is it a must to use mouse to jump to the search input bar ? How to achieve it with keyboard?
I'm having problems recently with sending email from my gmail account on my iPhone using the mail app (keep being told username or password is incorrect, when they definitely are not). In trying to troubleshoot, I wanted to edit my SMTP server settings, but there is only one "Primary Server" shown and when I tap it to edit (it has no username or password so I wanted to manually add them in), everything is greyed out, and nothing can be edited. Not only that, but I can't even turn it off because when I flip the switch to deactivate it, there is no way to "save" the change, and as soon as I back out of that page in any way, the change is lost and the server remains activated. How can I edit this SMTP server's settings?
I used ClamXav to scan my iMac for viruses. Now that I have them quarantined (19 files) do I just put them in the trash? Or is there a different method to making sure these are gone and won't be a problem anymore?
Macbook Air Early 2008 (MacbookAir1,1) Macbook Air Early 2008 (MacbookAir1,1) OS X Lion 10.7.5 OS X Lion 10.7.5 1) Display backlight is off for minutes after waking.
I recently upgrade to iTunes Store 12.7.0.166, I searched for the iPhone App. in top right corner. I am logged in into my iTunes Store Account of my Mac,I can search for music but not for apps. To my surprise this is no longer working, any idea on this?
I've downloaded "Install macOS High Sierra.app" from the Apple App Store. On launching I get: "This copy of the Install macOS High Sierra.app application is damaged, and can‘t be used to install macOS." This error can be fixed by following the steps (from *=URL=* Go to your applications folder. Find the installer. Right click on the installer and click "Show Package Contents". Click on the folder named "Contents". Click on the folder named "SharedSupport". Delete the file named "InstallInfo.plist". Enter your administer password to confirm. Now open the installer.
I’m trying to update a iPhone 6 from iOS 10.3 to iOS 11. The iPhone is part of Apples deployment program. I tried to update it directly on the device, which didn’t worked. An update with iTunes caused failure 7 or 6 and the iPhone won’t start properly anymore.
When I click "Download" in the High Sierra page in Mac App Store, the button turns into a gray "Downloading" button and might even show an estimated download time but after a while it turns into a gray "Download" button that isn't clickable anymore. This happens on my 2 Mac's: a Mac Mini running Sierra and a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running High Sierra Beta (17A360a).
I've recently used veracode extension in my Microsoft Visual Studio project for security scanning. Now I'm trying to do the same for an iOS project, but I couldn't find any info on how to do it on iOS. Is there any veracode tool that can be used for scanning for iOS? Or are there any other similar tools that I can use for iOS?
My MacBook (late 2009) shows windows 10 installation usb at boot-menu and allows installation, but its not showing win 7 usb. this mac officially doesn't support USB installation or windows 10. i had to edit the info. plist of bootcamp assistat. can anybody help me to solve this problem????
Things I've tried: I've tried a plain old upgrade. Running the installer Macintosh HD as you normally would. This results in the above error message.
Title says it all. I know I won’t get the most out of an Apple Watch Series 3 using it with my Android phone, but I wonder if I can at least use the same number with an LTE Apple Watch Series 3? I am on a supported network, so I think this should be possible somehow, but how do I go about it?
After upgrading, I noticed my terminal got extremely slow (MBP 2013). There is a noticeable input delay, moving the window or switching to another application lags and skips the animation. I noticed the background needs around 1s to recreate the opacity/blur effect after window switching, so I tried disabling the effect in the settings, which restored previous performance completely. Is this a known issue? I'd like to have my transparent, blurred background back.
I accidentally deleted my /Library/Developer files while trying to delete the Derived Data. Now, My Xcode 9 has stopped working and is crashing everytime I open it. I have a extremely important project pending. I am using macOS Sierra.
High Sierra removes Google Talk support for Messages. That's not really Apple's fault, as Google is migrating all Google Talk functionality to Hangouts and doesn't allow third-party clients to connect to Hangouts. But after upgrading from Sierra on a machine that was logged in to a Google Talk account, Messages is still connected to that account and receives messages but can't send them. How can I log Messages out of this account which is now useless? It doesn't show in the Accounts tab of the Messages preferences.
While upgrading to macOS Sierra I accidentally enabled storage of my Desktop & Documents Folders in iCloud. I quickly reversed that by disabling the option, then moving my files back to their place on my local drive.
I upgraded my Mac's OS from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra today and found one feature disappeared: I used to swipe up on top empty area of a window to maximize the window to "fill" the full screen (not the natural full screen, ie, a new desktop space, just making the window as large as possible in the same space); also, by swiping down when the mouse position is on the window top I could resize the window to default size, in the center of the screen. I can't remember if it is a feature enabled by a util app (like Hyperdock) or can be configured in System Preferences. I googled around but cannot find it.
Is the Keychain Access Menubar Item missing for anyone else? The in-built Help app still claims setting the Keychain Access Menubar Item is possible through Keychain Access > Preferences > General. I no longer have a General pane in Keychain Access > Preferences and, thus, no way to choose to set the Keychain Access Menubar Item. Do other people using 10.13 still have this option?
In the developer menu there used to be two options; Disable Cache which disabled cache for the session, and Empty Cache which did an instant empty of the current cache. The option to disable the cache has disappeared - is there any alternative or has it moved somewhere I cannot find it? I've found some hacky solutions in other questions, but I am specifically asking about browser-supported solutions. Thanks
I have been unable to access tvtropes.org for the past week or so and get an error time-out message with yellow exclamation mark in firefox. I am using Mac Mini 2011, with Mac OS Sierra 10.2.2. I've run the dig command and this was the output:
Specifically, after I unlock my device many phantom buttons are being pressed and random apps are being opened by accident and things like that. Additionally, many specific clicks that I make have a massive time lag, which mixed with phantom clicks creates sheer havoc.
I am trying update to El Captain, got it open in the App Store, I am logged in and meet the requirements but when I click "Get" it does nothing. Just goes dark blue and nothing after that.
Does the upgrade from macOS 10.12 Sierra to macOS 10.13 High Sierra remove any extensions, kernel extensions, Applications or settings that are known to be incompatible or disabled? I looked briefly at /var/log/install.log and see there are over 20,000 lines of things that were logged during the migration and it looks like a lot of things were moved to /Volumes/whatever/Recovered Items but that directory is now deleted and cleaned up. Additionally, there appears to be a runtime check of this: Sep 10 16:53:56 MacBook osinstallersetupd[514]: Retrieved package com.apple.pkg.CompatibilityUpdate (*=URL=* package that now has a 404 not found error. Are there places to look for what was removed from a specific Mac post upgrade if there's not a more comprehensive list of things we can check before an upgrade?
has this issue been sorted out with High-Sierra? The issue being (in case you didn't want to click the link) that daisy-chained displays were always being mirrored instead of recognised as individual displays.
I am trying to updating my macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra through official installer package from AppStore. The installer started downloading the macOS High Sierra It almost downloaded the OS but its stuck on About one minute remaining
My iMessage and FaceTime suddenly stopped working with my Apple ID on my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.9.5) during my vacation at NYC. Even on my iPhone (iOS 10.3.3) I can now only use iMessage and FaceTime with my phone number, but not with my Apple ID independent from my location. Everytime I try to activate iMessage and FaceTime on my MacBook and my iPhone following error is shown: An error occurred during activation
I have used Accessibility Inspector to confirm the names of the windows and buttons involved, but (on macOS 10.12) AppleScript will not "click" the No button in this Logitech window. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks.
Over the last few years, I've accumulated several "suggested" sign-ins to Google. in the "CHOOSE AN ACCOUNT" screen. See pic below:
I have a networked share (AFP on FreeNas) where I collect all family phone photos and then process them at the end of the month, deleting ones I don't want. The "this item will be deleted immediately" confirmation dialog is driving me absolutely completely insane. I do understand why the dialog is popping up (non-support for Trash folders on network drives), but I really need a way to disable this obnoxious warning every time I delete a file. Has anyone figured out a way to disable the warning and just always delete the file immediately?
I left my iPad 2 unused for almost 3 months because I don't have a charger and no one wanted to use it so it's stucked and unused. When I bought a new charger for my iPad and charged it, the battery sign shown up but no other movement happens. Is my iPad broken?
I have a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro. The last few months my MBP has been very unstable. I must have performed a clean install roughly around 15 times. Everything works well right after a fresh install, however, give it a day or two, and it's unstable again. I don't really keep a lot of data on it, just use it mostly for browsing.
OSX includes pretty decent spell checker and autocorrect. Problem is, it's not working in Chrome, and Chrome is about everything today: we spend our days browsing, lots of modern chat & mail apps are just wrappers around web apps in Chrome window or some other browser-engine.
I use an iMac (2017, 27 inches) and a MacBook Pro (2013,13 inches) for software development and UI design. My work is remote 90% of the time and I use GitHub and other cloud services for sync.
I've just installed Livedrive, including and its Briefcase feature (basically a way to sync files across multiple machines and its web portal). When it starts up, it mounts an osxfuse volume as follows: I suppose the actual data for this volume must live somewhere on my Mac hard drive, because I can kill Livedrive, eject the volume, then it reappears intact when I start it back up again. How can I find where the actual mounted data is for this volume?
Is there a way to use CommandOptionControlShift, as hotkey? The same modifier keys (CommandOptionControlShift) work fine with letters, but I can't seem to make it do anything when using the , key.
I'm currently on macOS High Sierra and I changed my lock screen to a different image using /Library/Caches com.apple.desktop.admin.png. However, I recently changed the lock screen again but the startup screen is still the same as the first. Is there a way to change the startup background?
I have folders, containing files and folders. Among these files, some have extension, some have no extension. I noticed that a file without extension can have a type (probably stored in some kind of metadata) Example of a TextEdit file without extension :
I would like to be able to assign individual windows of an app to their own desktops (not just the app itself). The reason is I have multiple projects which use the same apps, and I want to organize each project by desktop.
hie there i would like to know regarding format on my secondary harddrive on my macbook pro.At this moment my main ssd drive is on APFS format & my secondary drive im using 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD...should i format the SSHD into APFS too like my main ssd drive or just leave it as it is Mac Os Journaled?? There NO OS/OSX/APPLICATIONS in that secondary drive 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD. Disk Information: i Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB disk1: (2 TB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) [Show SMART report] EFI (disk1s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI]: 210 MB (disk1s2) [APFS Container]: 2.00 TB ST2000LX001-1RG174 disk0: (2 TB) (Rotational) [Show SMART report] EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI]: 210 MB MAC SSHD (disk0s2 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/MAC SSHD : 2.00 TB (398.19 GB free)
VoiceOver uses Control-Command-Space for launching an action but I can't use it because Emoji and Symbols Viewer hijacks it. Is there a way how to disable Emoji and Symbols viewer? I need VoiceOver more than emojis.
When I arrived at home today, my Macbook Pro was frozen. When I rebooted, the backlight looks like this:
But when I go to *=URL=* I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /~scott/ on this server."
I've been looking for a Git Desktop client. I'm a high school student with an old early 2008 white MacBook. Its maximum OS is Lion. My hard disk is too small to effectively use two partitions with bootcamp to run Windows. Does anyone know if a GUI client I could install for Lion? Thanks.
I use cmd + alt + spacebar to launch a new finder window on my mac. Sometimes however, instead of launching a normal finder window complete with sidebar (something like this), it instead launches a window without a sidebar, like this . Why does this happen and how do I prevent it from happening?
When I plug in an external hard drive, I get "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer". The "Disk Utility" applications sees the physical drive, but doesn't show any partitions. If I use diskutil list, I get:
I am coding a time attendance app to be used on an iPad in a secure mount outdoors (in a weather proof box). I am thinking of blocking the home button, and leaving the iPad’s screen turned on at all times. I was wondering if this will reduce the lifespan of the iPad by a significant amount.
I've written an AppleScript to do as the title describes. It is supposed to go to a given folder, open each of the files one at a time in preview, click "file" on the menu bar, then click "Export as PDF...", then click enter to accept the dialog that will open. Repeat until there's no more files left to automate.
How Do I delete apps with the new iOS 11 update? I does not allow me to delete the app when I hold it down and it wiggles
As the title states, I am trying to ascertain whether or not it is possible to program (using XCode, I'm guessing) iOS apps for iPad and iPhone using an iPad. I cannot find any related details using Google or by searching the Apple website. Apple's recent advertisements lead me to believe they are marketing iPad as more of a general purpose computer and less of a tablet-centric device. If the former is true, it should be possible to create apps written in Swift using the device, right?
I have a pair of headphones with an AntLion ModMic (*=URL=* that I use for making VoIP calls with a soft phone. Everything is working properly with one small caveat -- I can't hear audio from the microphone in my headphones.
I have downloaded an album on Apple Music several months ago when it became available on pre-release. At the time, only one song was available to listen to. I had forgotten all about it and it sat amongst my albums and the release date came and went. Weeks later, I was scrolling through my albums and I saw it there.
I'm not sure how to reset my Launchpad so my apps are in alphabetical order on macOS High Sierra. I've tried running which worked fine with macOS Sierra but since updating to macOS High Sierra, this command no longer works. All it does is separate the built-in apps to be on the 1st page but the installed apps are not alphabetical (see photos below). Page 1 of Launchpad (built-in apps)
I have a Mac Mini with a Fusion Drive. There are two instances of macOS installed on it. One (just upgarded to 10.13) is installed on an encrypted CoreStorage logical volume that spans the SSD and part of the HDD, and the other one (10.11) is installed on the rest of the HDD:
My iPhone 4s' touchscreen is not working properly when I am on the transportation. It does crazy stuff by itself, e.g. if I want to click on app A it clicks on the app B, instead. If I want to open the browser it opens the Message or Call Contacts, etc. Basically, the touchscreen goes crazy when I'm on the moving transportation vehicle. It clicks on the places where I don't click. I just am not able to use it on a mobile vehicle. iOS 9.3.5, 16 GB iPhone 4s. Thanks.
I was on the internet and it locked up the computer so I forced a shut-down. But after that... it won't boot up. On boot it chimes On boot it chimes and nothing shows on the screen. and nothing shows on the screen. The keyboard back light is NOT on. The keyboard back light is NOT on. However, the fan is running However, the fan is running And if I leave it in this position for awhile the computer gets real hot. And if I leave it in this position for awhile the computer gets real hot. Is this a virus I got off the internet? I tried the options I saw to boot: shift shift shift+command+option shift+command+option boot up disk boot up disk Nothing gets past this problem. Equipment: OS: Sierra OS: Sierra MacBook pro 2011 MacBook pro 2011 15 inch screen. 15 inch screen. Can't boot up to see the model# Can't boot up to see the model#
I was wondering can you change the name on your email with out having to make a new account ? For example my email is kendrabarry@icloud.com and I'd like to change it to My married name but I don't want to make a new account and have to send it out everywhere..
None of the files are more than a couple years old, so i don't think there should be any compatibility issues, and none of the files were corrupted when I copied them to the drive. I have had this same problem with other drives, and they were perfectly usable after reformatting, although this involved erasing files.
I'm in the same situation as Recover deleted Encrypted OS X Extended volume but the recovery process did not work, understand there still a potential way to fix this but I need to view part of the disk. This is a big drive 24TB After accidental FAT32 partition. After attempted recovery Did not ask me for password and nothing shows up with diskutil cs list other than my main drive. Attempted to comment on original post but do not have enough reputation. These are the commands I used: I did make one mistake when doing this the first time and did "-i 2" instead of "-i 3" could have this messed up the drive, I have a bin backup that I can restore from? Any addition details would be helpful, I have the password to the encrypted volume.
I just install macOS 10.13 High Sierra and after entering my password to login a progress bar starts running. What's different is the background turns black and shows only a stark progress bar running.
I've learnt the HEVC format halves storage space of recorded 4K videos. Does it also halve the space if you record in 1080p and 720p?
In trying to fix intermittent wifi issues that I've had for years, I seem to have deleted my wi fi interface in System prefs>network>interface. I click the + and select wifi but nothing happens - no wi fi is added to the list. I can add other things like a thunderbolt bridge as normal, but no Wi Fi. Wi fi does not appear when I add it from the interface list.
I'm facing this issue after updating iOS11 in my recently bought iPhone 7 I usually turn off wifi during the night and found it ON in the morning. It automatically turns ON resulting in unnecessary battery drains.
I've got a few USB 3.0 HDDs I use for backup and game storage, all formatted in HFS+. What are the advantages/disadvantages of migrating to APFS on an HDD?
I dont know why but both Command-N and manually clicking open new window in the file menu of Terminal.app opens a new tab. Anyone encountered this before? How can I make Terminal.app open new windows instead of a new tab?
On Linux, IBM Notes supports "button counting". Meaning: in most views, you have a number of buttons on the top bar. For example when you go for "new Mail", you will see:
I've updated to High Sierra and one thing that I immediately noticed as an OCD-guy was the full name of the month in menu bar:  I like keeping things as short as possible and I want to revert it back to the format "Thu 28 Sep 11:08" as in Sierra and below, instead of "28 September Thu 11:08". I've fiddled with date formats in the system preferences but it doesn't seem to change anything. How do I get the shorter date back?
I was using Iceberg and Packages *=URL=* However, support for High Sierra (APFS) is lacking. Anybody have an alternative?
Everything is basically in the title. I'm preparing iPads via Apple Configurator and everything seems to work OK, but one thing I can't set is the default iOS language. To be clear: I want to skip the step in the configuration assistant in the iPads that asks the user which language they want I want the language to be something else than the default, which is English
I updated my MacBook Pro mid 2015 to High Sierra from Sierra. Update was successful and everything worked perfectly for nearly 6 hours. Then MBP hung and I had to hard power off since it wasn't responding for quite a while.
At first: There is an old question by "fefrei" here How to update Time Machine's recovery partition? . I think he wants to know the same thing as I want, but I am curious if there is any new answer to this today.
EDIT 2: Warning, if you go for the option above, make sure to backup your /users/ folder. In some tests I made I found out that after doing the above, High Sierra ends up overwriting the whole folder thus losing all data.
I'm working in either iTerm2 or the Terminal app. Suddenly and seemingly at random iTerm2/Terminal crashes. I'm still able to Force Quit it then.
How to jump to the end of software license agreement in the Terminal? I want to avoid hitting Enter or Space to read line by line, I just want to jump to the end.
Odd one. Without (knowingly) changing anything (of course SOMETHING must have changed) when I booted up Apple Calendar the other day I got this alert from Little Snitch: CalendarAgent via com.apple.WeatherKitService.xpc wants to connect to api.wunderground.com on TCP port 443 (https)
I accidentally click CommandL in the terminal and removed output that had been generated over a week. Is there any way to undo this?
I was trying to run a Java applet (downloaded) through the jnlp file which came with it. And I see this error always.
My Mac Pro (late 2013, cylinder), doesn't want to wake from sleep. I have not a clue what is going on (worked all fine with Sierra). Anybody? Config: MacPro 2013 (MacPro6,1) + 2x EIZO EV2450 (both via display-port) Energy Settings: everything unchecked Turn display of after 5 minutes What I noticed: Screens are in standby/sleep I can hear the fan (still spinning) Power button (on the back) is pulsating (yet fan is not silent?) What I did: Press power-button for 5 seconds Start and try to zap PRAM Shutdown Pulled power cable for 15 seconds Plug cable (wait 5 seconds) Start Mac. update: check your power-management settings: My settings are (and seem to work for now): update 2:
I have to delete fm iPhone memory 2 network names and settings, not removed by “forget this network” how can I ?i
iTunes use to allow me to see the apps installed on my connected iPhone. I could see the screens and rearrange them. But its missing now. Where did that section go? I am using iTunes 12.7.0.166 on my Mac running High Sierra with my iPhone running iOS 11.0.1
With iOS, certificates are installed as part of profiles. Deleting a certificate means removing the profile.
I have an Internet connection of 20 megabit per second. This is the download speed I get in Chrome/Firefox for Windows 10. Now when I connect to the same Ethernet Connection via my iMac and download a particular/same file used to test the download speed in Windows, I get only 1 Mbps max, no matter which browser I use in my iMac the speed is same. Why does this happen? For macOS cURL speed test:
What exactly has changed in regard to .DS_Store files creation with the release of Sierra? Currently I am a bit confused about the behaviour (changes?) of Finder, the filesystem or certain GUI settings.
Sometimes in the middle of day all sound turn off . I clear cache , my memory is close to the red zone on my hard disk . I am not sure that cache clear helps . Theres one way to turn on sounds when i go to System ref->Sounds and switch from internal speakers to other device and than back to internal speakers in that moment sound turn on but not always !
After returning home, I'll take my MacBook Pro out of my bag and plug it in. However, it will often be shut off (never occurred before macOS High Sierra). Obviously, this is a chore, but there seems to be a problem lying within my computer. Anybody know what causes this? MacBook 13,2 macOS High Sierra, 10.13 (17A362a) No physical damage
I'd love Safari to open in fullscreen mode. It doesn't look like Safari natively supports this. After some research I thought the best alternative may be to run an AppleScript when Safari opens forcing Safari into fullscreen mode. How can I run this script every time Safari starts?
I have a lightning cable connected to the USB hub at work and I use that cable to charge the keyboard, trackpad and the phone on occasion. It's really frustrating to get have to turn off the pop up that comes when I plug in the phone. Given that I never use the iPhone as a USB modem, is it possible to ignore this popup once and for all?
I accidentally deleted AddressBook.framework. Now when I restart my iMac the system can't load this framework thus nothing is working. I have a bootable disk of macOS Sierra but going to recovery mode and installing macOS Sierra is not possible because downgrading High Sierra isn't allowed. Formatting my disk will result in losing all my files because I don't have a Time Machine backup. How can I restore AddressBook.framework to get my system working again.
This problem is plaguing our users and driving management crazy. We have users that are onsite that need to share file locations for files that are on a local server as links in email to other users. They do so by right clicking on the file, clicking get info, and selecting the path from the "Where" section of the file properties. Some of those users may be connected to the network via VPN, so the afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local in the link doesn't work for them. We have found that if we manually map a drive using "Connect to Server" or Command+K procedure, using the following: afp://servername.domain.tld/mountpoint results in afp://servername.domain.tld/mountpoint/filename.txt when we select a file and right click, get info, in the Where section. afp://ipaddress/mountpoint results in afp://ipaddress/mountpoint/filename.txt when we select a file and right click, get info, in the Where section. Both of these options are clickable as email links for on-premise users and VPN co
When I submit a transaction using Apple Pay, all of my notification e-mails go to the wrong address (one of mine, but not the correct one). On iOS, the relevant setting (Settings > Wallet & Apple Pay) already has the correct e-mail address, but it's not used. I've also added the correct details within the Apple Pay payment screen but that isn't used or even remembered for subsequent purchases either. How do I select a different address for use with Apple Pay?
I'm trying to clear my login items list. It's full of Unknown items with a yellow exclamation mark. Visual editor is broken and a minus button doesn't do anything. When clicking on hide checkbox, broken items are multiplying and now there's 20 of them (there was only 1 at the beginning).
I've highlighted some lines in a Pages document by clicking on Insert and then Highlight. I then exported the document to a PDF but when I open it in Preview none of the highlights are visible. Is there a way for the highlights to be exported and show up when I open the PDF? This has been a difficult question for me to find on Google since the keywords (pages, preview, highlight) more commonly refer to something else, and duckduckgo wasn't any help, either.
I have an external hard drive. I often eject it. I noticed that around 80% of the time I need to force eject the hard drive instead of manually ejecting it. I ran this command to see what was using my disk, preventing me from ejecting it:
When I visit the URL it redirects to a different site even though I want the bookmark to initiate at the original URL. I don't see a way to manually add a bookmark with the URL that I specify, I only see a way to add a bookmark on the page I'm currently viewing.
I need an alert when someone on our home network LAN is doing too much uploading. This is just one wifi router for a small home network. I could keep an app running on one Mac (running Sierra) that would oversee this and ideally when upload bandwidth crosses a threshold of Mbps: throttle upload pop up alert on the mac send an email alert Is there a tool that could do this?
The iCloud system preferences on a MacBook continues to display "enter your password to continue using iCloud" even when the password is entered correctly and verified working with an iPhone and icloud.com. It looks like the issue is macOS being unable to store the password or access it on the MacBook. I tried deleting all iCloud entries in the Keychain but it didn't help.
I have an USB External Hard Drive which has been behaving strangely lately. I'm concerned, amongst other things, that it doesn't seem to Eject properly1. When I Press the Eject button in Finder; Eject the Volume in Disk Utility; Or diskutil unmountDisk in Terminal;
I have a Samba share hosted on an archLinux server and access my files on OS X 10.12. Is there a way to keep a copy of those files to have them available when I do not have access to my server?
So I moved my Photos library to an external drive by copy/paste, and then pointed Photos at the external drive (confirmed that's what it's using in Photos > Preferences). After waiting a few weeks to make sure everything is OK, I want to delete the original library from my Username > Pictures folder to reclaim the space. But the file there has a timestamp from when I last opened Photos (like, today)... why is that old library still updating? Can I delete it?
I accidentally deleted Siri.app from my applications folder in macOS High Sierra. I don't want to do a reinstall cause I have removed various system, files which I don't need one by one by looking up the processes via activity monitor now reinstall macOS High Sierra would reinstall all those system and missing default Applications, so how can I skip this traditional way of restoring system files via Install macOS High Sierra.app and only install Siri.app via an external source?
Today I have found this very strange thing. I downloaded Hearthstone (not the first time, that was in July but I deleted it because it was to big), everything went normal, but when it should install, I get a message saying that “Hearthstone could’t be installed” and if I try again it happens the same thing. In AppStore they say that it has 2,6 GB, but I have 4 GB free and somehow all the space is occupied and I have no memory left (probably that’s why it can’t be installed). Do you have any ideea, how could I solve this? (I have an iPhone 6 Plus, 16 GB)
During the WWDC 2017 keynote, it was mentioned Mail in macOS High Sierra would use up to 35% less storage space. An article on thenextweb.com also says: “After installing High Sierra, Mail will begin the arduous process of compressing every message it stores. When done, old messages will reportedly take up 35 percent less space on your computer.”
It seems that Apple deleted the Mac OS Sierra installer from the app store search and purchased pages. How can I get it now, in case my update to High Sierra goes wrong? EDIT : As asked in the comments, I'm running Sierra at the moment, and I upgraded from lion.
I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.0.1. I just started using TouchID to unlock the phone, and I've occasionally encountered an unexpected behavior.
Upgrading, but I'd rather stick with Sierra until MacPorts is ready for High Sierra. In the App Store purchased tab, I see OS X Mavericks and the rest of the set, but I never installed Sierra. If I search for one version in particular, either it doesn't come up or I'm sent directly to High Sierra.
Retina 5K not recognizing HDMI connection from TV. Not a problem with previous computer. We are using the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter to Thunderbolt connection. Nothing happening.
I've been trying to find a way to install macOS High Sierra using terminal to install it on various computers quickly. It can be done with macOS Sierra and OS X El Capitan after mounting the InstallESD.dmg file in the directory Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport using the following code in terminal: I've tried using the same methods to install High Sierra, but it always gives the following error: The OS Install failed with error: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=0 "Undefined error:0
I have a 1.4 Ghz iMac with a traditional hard drive so to spice things up and make everything a little faster I thought of installing Mac OS on an external drive The problem is I don't know how to do that and I have already gone through previous questions similar to mine but none of those answers my question. I want to simply copy all the old content on my internal drive to the new external SSD without having to do a fresh installation of macOS since I don't have the patience to customise the fresh installation similar to my old installation.
As the title asked, the office Mac Pro can keep running without falling in sleeping, however, the program, like TeamView, always falls in sleeping so I cannot remotely communicate with my office computer. I can remote log in my office computer using xshell and reboot it, and then remote log in TeamView. Is there any other way to change the sleeping status using commands or prevent the software falling in sleep? Any suggestion would be appreciated. MacPro 5 Sierra 10.12.6
I'm wanting to zip multiple folders at the same time, where each folder is it's own zip file. I'd like to create the zip without the _macosx or any other hidden files, and if possible have the zip file's extension changed to .cbz at the same time. That way I can just run one process on one entire folder and get them all done quickly. I'm using Ubooquity to host my comics and it treats the files as corrupt if the _macosx file or any other hidden files are inside the zip file.
I would like to download an app on the Mac App Store from within Terminal. Especially, if the macOS High Sierra can be downloaded from within Terminal, it is even better.
I added a large number of photos (110k) to Photos back while running Sierra. Several months later, it is still doing face recognition scanning. I upgraded to High Sierra and was hoping that would help, but the glacial pace has continued. For example, after leaving the computer on for two to three hours today (with the Photos app closed -- which I believe is what it recommends -- and Photo Agent running apparently in the background), the app has scanned 24 photos.
I finally upgraded to iOS 11 and when I go to Settings > General > About > Applications I have 105 incompatible apps listed. Is there a way for me to delete all these in bulk? I really don't want to have to go and find these apps one by one to delete them!
After plugging out my external harddrive without ejecting it prior the ext. HDD only shows 1 of 2 partitions. Tried to repair it in diskutil but it gives me the error "File system check exit code is 8. Restoring the original state found as unmounted. File system verify or repair failed.". I plugged the HDD into my Linux system and I was able to access both partitions but could not copy all data due to "not having the rights". What can I do?
As you can see phone on the left works well, phone on right is struggling. Resetting network settings hasn't worked on the problematic device. Problem randomly started happening a few weeks ago. Phone is not damaged...
I was trying to reformat my Mac Mini Mid-2011, so I went to Disk Utility. I saw that there was a Recovery Partition. Then I did an Erase Disk, which I thought was only erased the main partition and would leave the Recovery Partition.
However, I can't select the group. I can select the calendars inside the group but cant select the group itself. The only way I can highlight the calendar group is if I press control and click the calendar. When I do that the group is highlighted but published is then greyed out.
This reddit post shows a new suggestion in Safari called “Siri Knowledge”, located above “Google Search”:  However, it seems the post talks about beta version of iOS 11, and some commenters didn’t have this feature. On my iOS 11.0.1 on iPhone 6, I don’t see it too. Was this feature included in iOS 11 final release version, and, if yes, then how to enable it?
I have a process called silhouette running on 10.13 (apparently the executable file is located in /usr/libexec/). It is extremely mysterious, I found no information whatsoever on the Internet regarding this process. Even databases of macOS processes would not mention it.
Most often USB flash drives on the market are pre-partitioned under (Windows) Master Boot Record. Until El Capitan a special widget in Disk Utility made it possible to set the partition type to GUID.
Hi How to effective Battery charge in MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports). As per my previous experience , i was using MacBook Air and i charge it 100 % and wait till drain then again Charge it. I used it two years, with in two years. Battery got damaged.I am worry about my new MacBook Pro. My Doubts are- 1- Charge it 100% and wait upto 20 % and again charge full. 2- Charge 100% and Wait till it drain 1% and again charge it. 2- Always Charge MacBook Pro, when it is in use 3- How to increase Battery life of MacBook Pro
I upgraded to macOS High sierra and now my system shuts down automatically at night. This is quite annoying. I tried looking in System Preferences > Energy Saver > Schedule… settings but, there's no schedule set. Can someone please help me with this. I am using MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2015
I have one of the MacBook Pros with a shared audio input/output socket. Sometimes I find it outputs no audio when using an ordinary TRS cable. This was never an issue on the older model with seperate input/output sockets. Receiving devices will recognize that they've been connected to an audio output device, but there seems to be no audio signal transmitted. Is there a (presumably software) method for configuring the sound card and forcing audio output?
Fans are running at ~50% since I turned my MBP on this morning and this is a snapshot of the CPU use, it's crazy for 40 tabs open (I often have >100 tabs with several devoted to thread hungry social media sites like twitter and facebook). Processes in Activity Monitor sorted by CPU Time: Processes in Activity Monitor sorted by % CPU (changes order dramatically each few seconds):
Recently I enabled Speak selected text when key is pressed feature in Accessibility menu. It works well in Safari, Finder and other apps. But in Preview and other PDF readers like Skim, it acts wired. Although I selected a single word, it starts speaking from the first page of document, and if the first page contains only cover image, it says nothing. (silence) It's macOS High Sierra with latest updates installed.
I ask this question without any real hope; but:- Is it possible to configure macOS to use different default browsers with different URL. I normally use Firefox, because I can use the same bookmarks etc across multiple platforms, and because the add-ons make 99% of what I routinely do easy. Unfortunately, there are a number of sites, usually on-line shopping sites, that just refuse to work; usually only at the final stages, after I have spent ages entering data. If I remember before using the site, I will just copy the URL to Chrome or Safari, I would like some way of configuring this, so it doesn't rely on my failing memory.
OS MacOS Sierra v 10.12.6 Sublime Text V3 build 3143
In AppleScript, one can clear all notifications from all applications, like so: (Source)
I have a MacBook Pro 2013 with two hard drives. One of them is the original MacBook’s 500 GB HDD drive and I have extra SSD drive that I installed instead off cd rom. Mac OS is installed on both of drives but I use SSD as my system drive.
Since updating to iOS 11 I have noticed that some apps are opeing up in landscape mode. If I have my phone on my desk, sometimes screen up, sometimes screen down, when I go to check something, could be Safari, Mail, WhatsApp..... The app always opens in Landscape..... this is very frustrating. I can solve this by putting the orientation lock on, but then this stops me viewing and video links etc in Landscape etc. Has anyone else noticed this, or got a solution to this problem. I never had orientation lock on my phone on iOS 10, and never encountered this problem.
I'd like to reduce the set of apps for certain file types. For example, I'd like the 3-4 text editors currently associated with .php files to remain, but I'm never going to have a need to open PHP files in Monodraw or Numbers, so I'd like to remove them from the list. I see similar questions here about a bug involving multiple apps, but that just involves recreating the list rather than altering it.
I wrote an automator workflow which is meant to move downloads older than 30 days to the trash  However, if I download something with Safari this script seems to delete even those recent downloads. What's going on and how can I fix it?
I'm trying to install the Brother drivers for my Brother MFC-L5750DW on Mac OS X, but the installer app keeps crashing. I've called with customer support, who confirmed I'm trying to install the right drivers.
I have lots of audio files that I want transcribed. Dictation is the best transcriber I have found that will run on my MacBook (there exist others like PocketSphinx but this is no where near as accurate). How can I use Dictation to transcribe audio files in batch?
Quite recently, my late 2012 Mac Mini went from being virtually silent, to having the fan on quite hard nearly all the time, regardless what I'm doing. If I use some 3D rendering or similar then it understandably gets flat out, but if I am doing nothing at all the fan is still a constant whir. I am not using different applications to the past... basically browser and Parallels, but in my Parallels session all I run is RDP.
I completely erased the HDD and reinstalled macOS (High Sierra), but the touchpad is not detected in System Preferences, which shows me the error "No touchpad detected." The touchpad is working though, I just can't use System Preferences to make any modifications to the settings.
I know this is very dangerous but I this thought struck me when I had booted to Recovery to troubleshoot my Mac then I typed diskutil list I saw EBRs upto disk17 or so I thought of getting info about so I typed diskutil info disk17 I saw something like Recovery.tmp or so I don't recollect but I am sure it is the EBR.So my question is can one modify/erase it by executing rm -rf Dev/disk17 is single user mode or recovery?
a couple os versions back I disabled spotlight's web search with a terminal command and now I'd like to undo that but I can't figure out how to do that. Is there a way to undo or return spotlight to default settings?
Is it possible for a mac to get infected by just visiting a URL? I was searching for someone's profile when suddenly the URL browser showed a couple of re-directions and then my macbook started beeping. Ever since, the ActivityMonitor is also showing high cpu activity... I do not wish to download any mac cleaners or other software, but I wonder if I could check my mac myself to see if there is malicious software or something like that? Are there any folders I should look at to see if there is something in them that is not supposed to be there?
I am looking for an user friendly App to manage the Finder tags, multiple file, intelligent tagging and so on. Is there anything like that?
Is it possible to map the /usr/local/ path on MacOS to a directory that is unique for each user, for example ~/local/? Or is there another way to solve the following:
silentVolume doesn't seem to inherit the context (tell application "Spotify") of the main function. Why? Initially this subroutine was part of the main function and then it worked fine but I needed a recursive solution, therefore I had to break it out into a separate method.
We have ~300 iMac units (Late 2015 / 21.5") in a school district running OS X 10.12.5 that are sporadically encountering a bizarre issue. They're connected to Epson Powerlite 97H projectors using VGA cables and an Apple-brand VGA-to-Thunderbolt adapter.
I have two iCloud Drive folders. Is this normal behaviour? Can I delete one (or two)?
I have a strange behavior with a 3 monitor setup, 2 days ago everything was ok, then one monitor stop working and all monitors disapear from display arrangement tab. I have juste updated to High Sierra to see if it can solve anything but no.
When I tilt my MacBook, I can hear a moving object inside it (like a screw or grain). It should either be something that belongs inside and for some reason got loose, or something from the outside that entered the MacBook (via the fan?).
I recently installed Visual Studio For Mac. I didn't liked the IDE and UI so I removed it, according to steps suggested by various stack exchange community posts.
On linux more -10 <file> displays only 10 lines at a time of file file. On a macOS Terminal, however, this does not work (for me).
I'm running OSX 10.12.6. For some random reason, my internet accounts pane has cleared & I cannot add any new accounts:
I have a iPhone 7+ running iOS 11.0.1 which suddenly stopped displaying names on text messages & replaced each contact name with their cell phone number. I use the Outlook from the Microsoft Office 365 Suite (also known as: Outlook 2016) on BOTH my iPhone 7+ AND my Toshiba Laptop ("PC") running Windows 10. It may be important to point out that 100% of my 400+ Contacts are available on the Outlook 365 program on BOTH iPhone and PC but in the iPhone messages only the Contacts Cell Numbers are shown. I have backed up the entire PST on my PC but NOT on the iPhone. Any new ideas?
A Wikipedia page is pretty good at showing the precise date when a version of macOS was released. The corresponding wikipedia page for MacPorts is not quite so helpful, and the MacPorts.org download page does not list any release dates. How long has it typically taken historically (or for just El Capitan and Sierra) for MacPorts to catch up with the newest macOS.
The other night I wanted to install iOS 11 on my 6s+ overnight, but I had to accept the Terms of Service to do the installation. I woke up at 5, had to be up by 5:45, and didn't want to miss out on 45 minutes of sleep. I did not want to start the installation for fear of my alarm not going off due to the update. When I was fumbling around with my phone I accidentally clicked the install option, which took me to the Accept Terms of Service screen. I tried to exit out of that screen, but couldn't. So I hit Decline. Now when I go to Settings -> General -> Software Update, it says my software is up to date (10.3.2). How can I fix this situation and upgrade my iOS now?
When I echo $PATH I get: However, I have no idea where this stuff is coming from. When I try cat ~/.bashrc, I get PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' for my shell formatting. If I try cat ~/.bash_profile, I get:
After upgrading Mac OS X to high sierra, SMB connections started returning authentication error. If I use it on other computer (using el capitan), it smb connection works fine with my username and password. Was wondering if anyone else has faced similar issue.
I've got a bit of applescript that I wrote that presses a couple window buttons on screen for me. On use, I get a pop-up saying I need to grant permissions in 'Security & Privacy -> Accessibility'. The checkbox to enable permissions does not work; it's not greyed out, it just doesn't take.
In watchOS 3 the 'Now Playing' complication played music on your phone when you pressed play, unless you changed audio source to the watch. In watchOS 4 this defaults to the watch, and so far as I can tell there's no way to change it to the phone. In practice this means that I will travel somewhere listening to music, arrive at my destination, do something else for a bit, then when leaving I press 'Play' on my watch and it starts a completely different album or playlist from the watch instead of continuing where the iPhone left off (the desired behaviour – and the default if I pressed 'Play' on the iPhone, or in watchOS 3). Since it's not an LTE watch, and it has very little storage on it for music, this change seems completely bizarre as it means that there's only a small selection of tracks to play ever. My question: is there a way to disable this, and make the Watch start music via the iPhone instead of the Watch?
I have several older apps that are no longer offered in the app store. I am considering upgrading to iOS 11, but I am concerned that I will be unable to recover those apps should they be deleted from my iPhone (or should I lose it).
I started using Finder Tags very extensively a while ago. However, I noticed this strange bug (at least on my macOS High Sierra): Searching for tags by writing is not working for me in Spotlight.
I'm having trouble browsing another Time Machine disk. (The regular Time Machine interface doesn't show anything at all.) I can, however, browse the external Time Machine disk's directories. I plan to put the restored data on a second external drive.
Apple removed the ability to transfer apps to your iPhone via iTunes, which is the workflow I was using before. What is the correct way to do it now? Is there some way in Xcode? I typically use a Windows machine for development (but have a Mac for certificate signing and other good stuff that Apple requires), so I'd prefer to not have to transfer my app over to the Mac machine in order to transfer it to my phone, but if I have to do that, I'm willing to. What is the current workflow?
I'm trying to update my iPhone 5 from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11. But when I try to find the update, my phone tells me
I am wanting to get photos that a friend has on their computer to transfer across to my iPhone. My friend does not use apple products and does not have iTunes, and I don't want to set up iTunes on their computer or wipe my existing information. any suggestions?
After upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, Time Machine now says "Next backup: When disk is connected", even though the disk is indeed already connected. Also, automatic backups are still being performed. I already tried doing a full reset of Time Machine but that didn't fix it.
Since upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, I can't search for files using just labels anymore. For instance, I created a folder called "test", containing a folder called "folder", with the red label (called "Red"). If I select the Red dot, then the folder does not appear. But if I search for the term "folder" or if I search for "tag:Red" then it will appear just fine.
Apparently High Sierra has changed the way Safari handles untrusted SSL certificates. In the past you could bypass an SSL warning and visit a site. But if you visited that site again in a new session, you'd get the warning again. But now, asking Safari to allow you to visit a site with an untrusted certificate apparently requires that you add the untrusted certificate to the system trust store.
I've just updated to High Sierra and immediately noticed that copying files from external storage devices is much slower than in previous versions. While searching the web for info about what might be causing this, I noticed that every site is slow to load. So, I'm a little worried that something went awry with the clean install.
In circa Lion times, it was problematic to attempt running Migration Assistant after OS X was installed. It worked well only if I ran it during the OS's installation. I've recently had exactly the same experience: Migration Assistant runs fine during, but complains as follows if run (from a new, never-before-used, account) after:
For example, in a note-taking application like Evernote or an outliner, is it possible to create a link that will open a specific email in a specific folder in Mail.app on Max OS X?
I have a scratched DVD and can't copy its content to my hard drive on Mac OSX. When trying to copy, I get error 36: "can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written" How can I fix this issue?
So after browsing around the internet for a bit, I figured there are some solutions I could try. Reboot into internet recovery. From here.
I am trying to delete some unwanted files from my external hard disk in my mac air. I tried few solutions found on youtube. But not working. First Solution: Goto Folder -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Select checkbox of "Empty Trash Securely"
I'm visually impaired, and use the accessibility zoom feature to use my mac. When making a recording with QuickTime, the resulting video is zoomed as well. Is there a way to have it record the screen unzoomed, or is there other cheap/free software that does this? I seem to remember previous versions of Screenflow did it, but I've tested with the trial version, and the video comes out zoomed as well.
Clicking "Cmd + F" on Firefox will open the find bar. After typing in a search, clicking "Cmd + G" will run Find Again, i.e., will jump to the next match.
I'm using a cinema display for years but lately there came a darkening stain on the screen. At first I thought it would be something to wipe off with a tissue but I've noticed it isn't on the outside of the screen. Is my screen slowly dying, or is this a known issue? I can't seem to find much about it as it is kinda hard to describe.
I have a MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) from 2012 with a 512GB HDD. I've run some speed test with BlackMagic and those are around 75-80MB/sec for read/write. This seems slow, but maybe this is normal for this configuration. Are these normal values?
However, I noticed that Aperture is starting to fall behind in terms of performance, face recognition accuracy (and stability? Not a lot of experience with Photos.). Besides, the UI is beginning to feel a little... shall we say vintage?
I'm seeing several apps hang: iTunes does not load. Spotify and other audio apps do not play sound. Chrome and Safari hang when playing videos.
I've read quite some posts reg. eficheck; in itself it doesn't seem too "worrying" (for security reasons it's probably quite useful, but that's a bit off-topic here) I found this very interesting document here, which I unfortunately only understand partly (I suppose I could grasp it to 99%, but it'd take me 2 days - and maybe some others here already read this): *=URL=* In there it says: "[...] there appears to be another level of checking that takes place within Apple’s pre-boot EFI environment that prevents rollback to an older version of EFI. "
The box reads 'sharedfilelistd quit unexpectedly.' The IGNORE and REPORT provide no relief. Have had no luck with the 'Terminal Kill all' and have switched off File sharing. Grateful for any help. Thanks Brian
I’m using a large iPad Pro in portrait orientation (ie, screen taller than it is wide). I’d like to split the screen so that Safari is on the top half and my note taking app is on the bottom half. It doesn’t seem to allow it. Is it not possible or am I missing a gesture?
I am using MacOs Sierra and downloads across the operating system hang after a few seconds. To successfully download a file, I have to pause and resume the download over and over until it completes. Here's what I have tried:
I've been using Google Featured photos screensaver, and it was fine, until recently ( I guess after upgrading to High Sierra) Right now, it comes up, it shows the photo taker's name on left down corner, but photos are all blank (just dark screen)! Do you have any idea what's happening?
This used to be default behaviour for iCal (as with most other applications): you click the red button to close the open window but it will still run. A small dot remains under its symbol to show that this is the case. iCal could then pop-up notifications. For a while now, iCal closes when I hit the red button. There is no point under its icon in the dock. How can I keep iCal running without having to minimise it -and live with an open window in the dock-, to get notifications of my events?
I'm in court and I need to confirm by law something and the only way I can do it, is to offer the exact time I checked for a particular web page on that day. Can someone give me a software or a trick to uncover that data?
Without opening App Store or triggering an update in other ways, I repeatedly see a window popping up saying "App Store is trying to install new Apple software. Enter the name and password of an administrator to allow this" (as the message is actually in german, my translatin may not be verbatim)
When connecting my 2017 15' macbook pro to a 4k external monitor it gets a little bit warmer (65° celsius, while it's only at 35 without the monitor) than I want it to be, even if it's just idling. Since I don't ever use the macbook screen as a secondary screen when connected, I thought I might turn it off completely and hopefully cool the machine down a little bit. Is there any way of doing this? I figured out I could just set the brightness to 0 but will this prevent the machine from actually rendering images?
I have a 1.4 GHz iMac (8GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB). Running a simple code or creating a level in Unreal Engine makes everything work very slow. The graphics performance is lagging behind a lot when editing a level in Unreal Engine plus the whole UI freezes and seems a little hazy or blurry with screen tearing. So if I raid the HDD and external SSD together will it solve my graphics performance issue?
I understand how to transfer Watch settings to a new Watch while unpairing the old watch. Is there a way to transfer settings while adding the new watch as and additional paired watch? Can I copy the settings from my old watch to the new one while keeping the old one paired?
I just install macOS High Sierra and Windows 10 through BootCamp Assistant. The problem is that, Windows have a strange issue and I need a bootable USB to go to the recovery mode. I tried to make one from BootCamp Assistant but in the latest macOS the process is different and there is nowhere the "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" option and the only option I have is to remove the windows partion. So, how I can make a Windows Bootable USB in macOS High Sierra?
Recently when I visited itunes.apple.com page for some app, Chrome asked me if I would allow opening the product in App Store. I chose "Yes" and I made a stupid mistake of allowing it permanently: Remember my choice for links of type App Store.app
Every Watch I've ever had is listed among sources in Apple Health, and I see no way to remove or even disable them. How do I delete old Watches (including ones I no longer own and that have been unpaired) from Apple Health's list of data sources?
When I put a website through "command/shift/D" into my reading list, that site disappears after a couple of seconds. It happens to every site I'm putting into that list and also tried to restart Safari or my MacBook Pro. But it was no use. How can I solve that problem?
When I installed VirtualBox it said that the installation "failed" but I still got VirtualBox.app in my applications folder. When I try to boot windows 7 VM, it says "Kernel drivers not installed (rc = -1908).
Have Windows 7 with Outlook 2007 linked to iCloud to sync calendars, tasks and contacts. works great. Now I have to set up new Windows 7 with Outlook 2007. Installed iCloud for Windows, but when I start it the checkbox for "Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks" is missing. Only have checkboxes for "iCloud Drive", "Photos", and "Bookmarks". Every troubleshooting post just assumes the checkbox is there, and I just can't figure out why it is not. any ideas?
I receive a "could not sign in" error after upgrade to iOS 11.0 Now I can't access my iPhone. What should I do? Since I have the same problem described above, I am going to describe the steps which I take before the message "could not sign it" appears.
I have been updating the macOS from 10.12.4 to 10.12.6 . For this I have downloaded the macOS dmg file from the Apple website. But when I go on for installing the macOS then I see this error.
I do graphic designing, prepress & most of the file management at a small (2 owners – 5 employees) print shop. Although its not a huge operation, we're very busy and the iMac that I work on has taken a decent beating over the past few years, and definitely needs an upgrade because the performance of the HDD thats currently being used can be pretty bad at inconveniently random times. I use an SSD with my MacBook at home, and the performance between the two is always noticeable, so we're looking to get a SSD running on the iMac.
Is there any way to set timer for Do Not Disturb? Sometimes I forget that I enabled Do Not Disturb and I miss some notifications afterwards, so I want to be able to enable it only for some hours or minutes.
Something went wrong while trying to follow this and this solutions in order to add 'launch at login' functionality to my app. Now I have many unknown items in there which are not removable. They don't appear in any of .plist I see people suggests to look in. I was able to retrieve the 20 items only by running this code: However the LSSharedFileListItemRemove method is deprecated and I can't remove them.
I have never seen this shortcut and I am curious to know what combination triggers it. See image:
I have a list of conference attendees, and I want to make sure the emails are unique. I could use a countif statement and then sort and delete but looking for other ways and ideas.
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro lying around that I wanted to revive. The problem is that I've lost the original DVDs. The original HDD is now blank and this version doesn't boot via USB.
I recently updated to High Sierra, and am now unable to open books (ePubs/PDFs alike) via iBooks. These books are there, I can drag them out to my Desktop or sync them to my iPad, but they do not open in iBooks. Instead, an alert is displayed with the following text: A black-HUD-ed spinner appears on the book's icon, spinning indefinitely. How do I resolve this issue?
With macOS Sierra, a new folder has been added to the root folder: macOS_SDK Inside are a bunch of folders, each containing only one folder, till the last one, containing a single file. Here's the path: /macOS_SDK/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs The file is clearly visible (in Terminal it shows you that Xcode.app is actually a folder), but trying to opening it (in Terminal) returns an error saying that the file doesn't exist.
Based on Apple's developer documentation, APFS appears to support three models of disk encryption: No encryption Single-key encryption Multi-key encryption with per-file keys for file data and a separate key for sensitive metadata Following the upgrade to 10.13 and the in-place filesystem migration from CoreStorage/FileVault/HFS+ to Encrypted APFS, which of these models is in use? diskutil and related tools do not appear to provide any indication of which model is in use, and I would like to know, for the purpose of data recoverability and O(1) secure file erasure capabilities, whether multi-key is in use on my machine and disks.
I want to type romanized Mandarin Chinese in Pinyin spelling system, attached to Chinese character texts. Are there any direct input method to type roman characters with full diacritics (without converting to Chinese characters, and not deviating to symbol-insertion methods using ctrl and alt keys)? E.g. 明月千里寄相思 míng yuè qiān lii jì xiāng sī tone 3 on "i" should be "i" ripped off with its upper dot and replaced by a hacek, but I don't know how to get that single pre-composed letter from the usual English keyboard. My second best compromises are: 1. using doubled vowel letter to show its being in the third tone as shown above (orthographically a odd-ball) ; or 2. shifting to Gwoyeu Romatzyh, like MING YUEH CHIAN-LII JIH SHIANGSY. When I was using GlobalWriter on windows machines, I used to switch the keyboard to IPA input layout and type directly macron/acute/hacek/grave + vowel letter to get appropriate tone-marked vowel letters. All the needed diacritics were allocated the top row of 
I upgraded my Mac to High Sierra and I wanted to open the sleep image which is situated in /private/var/vm But when I opened it it showed 'you have no acces to open this file please contact your administrator or network administrator' message like that.I am not sure whether this is a problem with me or has Apple restricted access to sleep image on high sierra
I removed the iTunes synched photo folders from my 5S and they no longer appear on my phone. However, they are still showing up as being stored when I look at the usage on my phone. I am constantly out of memory because of these photo files I can't even see on my phone anymore. Any ideas?
When copying a PNG file with transparent background to an iPad or an iPhone using an application like iTunes, the image is copied to the device but the transparent background turns white. I have tried emailing the PNG file as an attachment. While it retains its transparency, I'm looking for faster ways of transferring such a file?
I have an Apple Watch Series 2 running WatchOS 4.0, and an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.0.1. One of the new features of the new OS on the Apple Watch is the ability to calculate a VO2 Max for any run longer than 20 minutes. I have been on 3 such runs since the update, and 0 of those times has the Health App on iOS given me a V02 reading. Under the "Data Sources" tab for V02, nothing shows up as a possible source, not even my Apple Watch 2.
My iPhone 7 used to consume 3-4% of battery in standby mode but after upgrading, it is consuming 40-45% of battery in 10 hours of standby mode. What shall I do?
I am very new to coding/scripting.. I have a noob question I guess: I have this script to upload and delete files on my remote host: Ok so now I upgraded my mac to high sierra 10.13 and there is no ftp command anymore. Can please someone help me out to get this to work with lftp?
Since three days or so, "My New Music" Playlist has disappeared from my Music on any device whether it is iOS device or Mac. The playlist is still in my library except that it is not shown in "For You" tab of Music app.
The Get Info box for an external hard drive shows "Custom" under Privileges in section Sharing & Permissions. Interestingly this is for groups with these names com.apple.sharepoint.group.6 com.apple.sharepoint.group.5
The Get Info box for an external hard drive shows "Fetching…" under Name in section Sharing & Permissions. This process never ends
I am not able to see or even login as Guest use in the login window after I did the following stuff I opened Directory Utility Searched for Guest User and deleted it then problem occurred with my main admin account the correct Password wouldn't be accepted so I reset my password by restpassword command then I logged in successfully then I saw my /Usersit had created a new Guest account folder then I enabled "Allow Guest users to login" then I restarted my computer then Only see my main admin account.Any ideas to fix this?If clean install the only option please tell in detail how to erase an APFS volume in the right way?
I'm on macOS 10.13 High Sierra with Safari 11. I noticed that whenever I close an re-open Safari, it keeps reloading all of the favicons for every bookmark as if I freshly set it up. When I made the upgrade to High Sierra I reinstalled my MacBook from scratch. Since then the issue with the bookmark icons surfaced. The new tracking protections under privacy settings don't seem to cause the issue, since icons reload even when I turn them off. I tried deleting Safari .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences, deleting the ~/Library/Safari directory but to no avail. Although it's just a minor issue it's annoying and could burn a lot of data when I'm on the go and use my iPhone as mobile hotspot (from what I understand Safari loads the .png web app icons instead of the favicon.ico files which should be considerably larger in file size).
I have a spreadsheet that has cells with two currencies. USD & EUR. I have a cell that is a USD formatted cell. I now have a EUR cell that is based on a multiplication of the USD formatted cell with a specific exchange rate. Now, Numbers does not let me manually change the EUR cell to EUR: When I click "Cell" -> Data Format -> "Currency" and chose a EUR, it reverts back to USD.
I have a lot of apps that no longer work in iOS 11, similar to Little Eden's question: How do I bulk delete incompatible apps in iOS 11, but my issue is not so much being able to bulk delete these apps (but that would be nice), it's the fact that many some of them contain data I can no longer access. How do I retrieve this data? I don't mean encrypted data or anything fancy like that. I mean apps that contained data like word documents, excel spreadhseets, and PDFs.
I am cleaning my MPB 2014 and I noticed that the System takes 180GB of disk space. I wonder if there is everything okay, because that seems like an extremely big number. Is there anything I can do to free some space the system is using?
I would like to know my iPhone's model no. Is that GSM or Global? On the back of the phone it says “Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China – Model A1530”.
Can I completely disable the haptic feedback from my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina's trackpad? I want to click without any kind of vibration/feedback/noise.
I upgraded to High Sierra and now the "View as Icon" option in Mail is no longer there. Anyone know where it went? Is it gone for good :-(
I just set up family sharing for purchases. Is there some way of showing the purchases in the iTunes library like the person own purchases appear so that they can be streamed?
Today, I was enrolling my developer.apple ID for 1 year, by 99 USD. The region of my ID is currently set as US. That's why it's showing billing information as a format of US.
I want to update macOS to High Sierra. This question is for precaution purpose before updating macOS. I have two drives : SSD-Primary and HDD-Secondary macOS is installed in SSD and HDD is for backup purpose. Will High Sierra also convert secondary drive into APFS automatically, when I upgrade macOS to High Sierra installed on primary drive? Should I disconnect secondary drive before the upgrade?
I have an external Bluetooth speaker that is paired to my MacBook but normally remains disconnected. Whenever I put my computer to sleep and wake it up again, the Bluetooth speaker magically connects to the MacBook. This happens even though I explicitly disconnect the device.
It is really strange since I've downloaded a fresh boot install app... Apparently this remote administration is installed at a deeper level in the mac (directly in the bootloader?) How can I get rid of that and clear it once and for all? (I don't want to have to contact my employer every time I make a reinstall !) Thanks.
I was trying to expand my main drive by deleting a third partition I used to have after deleting and formatting with free space: I could not expand my drive and now I can't find the drive I formatted "free space"
When opening a big file (for example with VLC or QuickTime) this message pops up for lots of seconds (different durations for each file):  I use encryption on iMac 5K.
In MacOS High Sierra's Disk Utility, the partition is listed as Kernel Core Dump Storage (655MB). Its type is Apple_KernelCoreDump in the result of diskutil list. There is also a description, "You can not remove this volume because the previous volume can not be resized." However, if the partition is simply a collection of core dump files, it should be safe to remove the partition.
Came across the second MacBook Pro keyboard recently that exhibit very strange symptoms. Certain keys seem to stop responding despite being clean and traveling very easily just the rest of the keys. Both of them went to the Genius bar for testing, one of them for the 'long run', and came back as "works normally". Of course, despite still intermittently showing symptoms.
The laptop is still working fine, so clearly it was nothing dreadful, but I'm no futher with my attempt to roll back. Any advice?
I am having an odd issue with my installation of High Sierra. Every app which connects to Apple server (Safari, Maps, Siri, iTunes, iCloud) runs either super slow (after many attempts), or don't run at all. For example, I am not able to login to iCloud and the error states that there is an issue with the servers. The same happens to for the App Store, etc. I also have an installation of High Sierra on a bootable pen drive. When I boot to that installation (which was a fresh install as opposed to the one on my main disk which was an upgrade) everything works fast and smooth on it. Any ideas as to what might be happening and what should I be looking around in order to fix it?
I have a custom keyboard layout that I have been using for many years on OS X (alternative to the french layout). Since I upgraded to High Sierra today I face these issues:
I installed Windows 10 on my Mac using Boot Camp Assistant, but later decided to remove the partition as I no longer needed Windows. I did (or tried to) using Boot Camp "restore", but it gave me an error saying it failed. Now when I go into Disk Utility, the Windows partition doesn't appear, so I can't delete it. But it's there somewhere because I'm only showing 180 GB on the Mac partition (not the full 250 GB). Going back into Boot Camp Assistant doesn't help, it just allows an option to make another partition (no delete or restore option). I'm at a loss for how to proceed.
Most importantly I need a built-in search function similar to WinGrep. I.e. It must search all the files in the current folder and all its sub-folders looking for a string of text. Must search both the filenames and the file contents, then provide a list of matching text files so I can select any one for them for editing.
In my (dual stack) network, a router provides IPv6 addresses and DNS servers (RDNSS) via router advertising. There is no DHCPv6 server running and I want my mac to accept the DNS servers being provided via RA (RDNSS). Address acceptance out of advertising is well running. Wireshark also shows that the RDNSS addresses are sent properly and the flags are set as configured on the router. IPv4 is configured via DHCP... I have now played through all combinations of the M, O, A Flags, found this very enlightening article about SLACC on different systems but still can't get managed that my Macs show the DNS IPv6 Servers in the known DNS Servers area of the system control.
I have two work stations with different platforms (macOS High Sierra and Ubuntu 16.04). I need to have an encryption utility that works on both of them. To be more specific I need to encrypt a removable hard drives.
I am using both Ubuntu 16.04 and OS X. This is an alias in my bashrc, but somehow --group-directories-first option got illegal in OS X after I upgraded my bash with Homebrew. In my Ubuntu desktop, I still can use that option.
Is there any way to manage an external USB drive in iTunes as if it was an iPod? Specifically, have it appear as a device in iTunes, and be able to specify which playlists, etc., should be synced to it.
It's actually just a minor inconvenience because I can reboot and hold down Option to get back into High Sierra. I'm mainly hoping to find out if there is a way to "update" this existing boot camp installation so that it can find the new macOS volume again. That way I won't want to try to reinstall windows again. I'm sure it's just some partition/volume handle setting stored somewhere in the bootcamp system in Windows.
I have an Airport Express 2nd Generation (Version 7.6.8) that I'm using as an access point for my desktop PC. My house has a Technicolor DPC3848VE modem and WiFi router with dual-band network. I set the Airport express to connect to the 5GHz network (the networks have the same name + 2.4 or 5.0 for differentiating them). All the connection is done without problems, but when I check the Network Icon in the Task Bar, the tooltip says I’m connected to the 2.4GHz network.
Files without extension always open in TextEdit ... I want them to open in SublimText 3 I tried to change my com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist, but simply adding public.text did not work ...
I have a Samsung SSD 850 EVO (1 TB), and I have two identical setups. One of my mac though, I can only boot the system by making the SSD externally connected through a USB. When it is connected through the USB, it boots and works perfectly fine. When I switch it over to internal SATA, it loads the Apple logo right till the very end of the status bar and gets stuck at that screen. Things I have tried: PRAM reset HDD as internal and SSD as external SATA connector works fine with the HDD Tried updating the boot rom driver, but it was already updated to the latest Updated to macOS High Sierra Safe boot Replaced the SSD with the exact same new SSD, same issue
I have just upgraded to High Sierra from Sierra, and immediately I noticed that screenshots would take a good 10-15 seconds before appearing on the desktop. How can I fix this?
I am currently backing up a large amount of files to a portable hard drive on my Macbook Pro running High Sierra. It should take a few hours, and generally in around 15 minutes my laptop screen goes dark, and when I wake it, it asks me for my password again. Does my computer continue to copy files when this occurs? If so, does it do so at the same rate, or a reduced rate due to the computers state?
I've just installed iMovie from the App Store. When I run it, it crashes after the Welcome wizard. I've rebooted, deleted and reinstalled, and the same thing happens each time. I've tried opening with Cmd and deleting preferences, I've deleted everything in ~/Movies, ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iMovieApp, it still crashes every time 2014 MBP, 16 GB RAM, just installed 10.13 There may be vestiges of old iMovie installs/projects laying around; if there are, I'm OK with completely deleting them, if someone can tell me how to hunt them all down Crash report
I have contacts on my phone that I can ask Siri to call, and it works fine. I can say "call John Smith" or "show John Smith" and that contact shows up. On the other hand, if I go to the Contacts app and search for "John Smith" the app won't show it.
Mail.app on my High Sierra (it also did this on Sierra too) keeps crashing. In the error report I see that it always crashes with the same error: Got EXPUNGE but EXISTS is already 0. What does this mean and how do I avoid crashes?
I've been using the Touch Bar send mail shortcut a lot for sending email and it used to work well in Sierra:  Now, after upgrading to High Sierra, when I hit send, it asks for confirmation:
I just got my first Mac running Sierra and set it up for development and designing tools. The default php version in macOS is 5.6.* and I have tried to upgrade with the following url: "PHP 5.3 to 7.2 for OS X / macOS 10.6 to 10.13 as binary package" and I found it has installed the new version but in a different location (I believe).
I use my iPhone (iOS11) when on the road with a Windows 10 Pro laptop. I want to use a fixed local IP address on the laptop because I do web development and it makes scripting things a lot easier.
I guess my final advice would be to fiddle with your DestroyFVKeyOnStandby a bit and restart a few times. I know that's not very scientific, but it shouldn't hurt.
I want to be able to access a Windows Domain Server from my Mac. I tried going into Finder and accessing it from the "Connect to Server" dialog, but it won't connect. Thanks in advance
I have a MacBook air, practically new, no problems until now. I usually just close the lid and the computer shuts itself down instead of entering sleep mode. Friday night, I shut my laptop down properly and didn't turn it on until this Monday afternoon. Except I didn't turn it on - it was already on. It was on, and very hot, and had a flashing file icon with a question mark. So my question is How could my laptop turn itself on, heat up, and fry my hard drive?
I got a brand new (i.e. sealed) iPhone 7 Plus without simlock. When I turned it on it asked me for my Wifi password, activated itself, asked me to login to my iCloud account and configured itself as a new iPhone.
is there a way to add a lftp script into a Launchagent? Before i used ftp in launched agent to upload to remote host, but now on 10.13 there is no ftp command and i had to use lftp but i don't know how i could do a launch agent of that script. with ftp i used this script: and launchagent how could i make this lftp script working with an launchagent? and i execute it with lftp -f script.lfp How can I change a scripted ftp upload to lftp for High Sierra?
I loved to use macOS' default mail app. However, at some point, I found that some mails which are starred from gmail appears as blue flag, not red. I selected all flagged mails in mail.app and flagged them as red. After few seconds, all red-flagged mails turned into blue-flagged.
I would like to map the Alt (Option) + (a/u/o/s) to ä,ü,ö,ß Is there a native way, or a software for it?
I've been having trouble recently connecting to wireless networks with a login page - the kind you see with Gogo Inflight, many hotels, etc. where you connect to a network, launch a browser, and it redirects you to a login page. Recently, while talking to tech support for one such network (they ended up just giving me access based on my MAC address), they suggested it was because I had fixed DNS servers, particularly 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Does this make any sense and if so, is there another way those should be set up to allow the detection of redirects?
I'd like to stop webpages from binding to ⌥ (Option) only shortcuts. E.g. these can be bound to: ⌘+V ⌘+⌥+K ⌘+⇧+E ⌘+⌥+⇧+X etc. But these I want to prevent being bound to (so that their default comes into effect, I have set them up as dead keys/special character keys on my keyboard to type symbols I find important): ⌥+/ ⌥+⇧+E etc.
I recently discovered that iTunes has support for Equaliser, but these option/setting is available if and only you click on the get album info button and set the Equaliser in the next window according to your needs, but this option is available if and only you click on a particular song, I mean you have to individually set the equaliser for each and every song in my iTunes library now it is not possible to change the equaliser setting of each and every song, I mean I have an iTunes library of 48 GB So, I thought there might be a centralised option to change the Equaliser setting of each and every song all at once and guess what there is not such option in the preferences menu of iTunes! Can anyone tell me how to change the Equaliser setting of each and every song at once!
Firstly, this is for High Sierra I've already tried this step: Character Accent Menu doesn't appear anymore in macOS Sierra Add a second language like French in Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Source Add a second language like French in Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Source When I type defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled in a Terminal I got a 1 When I type defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled in a Terminal I got a 1 Go into Settings, Keyboard and make sure the Key Repeat slider is set to Slow and the Delay Until Repeat slider is set to Short. Even if I restart the Accent Menu doesn't appear. And this is my Mac: macOS High Sierra | version 10.13, MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
I have a photo in Photos that I have added keywords (tags) to. When I export this image I can see other metadata, such as description and location that were added by Photos in the EXIF data but not the keywords. Is it possible to make Photos also add the keywords to the EXIF data? If I export originals there is also an option to export XMP data, but I don't see this option when exporting as JPEG.
I have a problem with my free space. macOS started to run slow, all apps reports that there is no space of device, while I have a lot. From System Information: df -h macOS version: Sierra 10.12.6 (16G29) Filevault: no APFS: no (at least I didn't do anything to convert) First aid: Incorrect block count, Invalid volume free block count Tried to fix it while restarting (cmd + R) Tried /sbin/fsck -fy Tried to install mac OS while reinstalling, fails with error (can't find a folder) Can't update to High Sierra, fails to download Any ideas?
I want to be able to take a screenshot using Spotlight. I know I can just press "Command-Shift-3" to get the job done, but I want to get some very computer-illiterate people to learn to take a screenshot without having them to learn a shortcut. They already know how to use Spotlight, hence the question.
Hallo I am annoyed that hot corners won't be disabled when I am playing a fullscreen game. So I want a quick way to toggle the settings. I found this command
Here is a small introduction to my situation: For the sake of an example, I'm running a small IT firm developing really nice banana Software solely on MacBooks. In order to prevent data leakage, there is Data Loss/Leakage Prevention (DLP) Software installed on each of them. Now, it seems that my IT admin ran into a little problem:
My new iPhone 8 is not showing sms messages after a restore using itunes. Created a backup of old iPhone 3G (ios 4.1) and restored it to new iPhone 8 (ios 11). Notes, contacts and calendar have all transferred over fine but not my sms messages. Every time I open the messages app its blank.
I'm using Jamf to configure my companies MacBooks and just recently got the request from Management, that every screenshot taken should be placed in a special Directory. For now, the only thing I found is this: *=URL=* It states that: defaults write com.apple.Screencapture location /Users/benutzername; killAll SystemUIServer
Today I have just got an SSD installed in my Mac Mini 2012 via an authorised service. I did not ask for data migration because I wanted to start "fresh".
Wife has an iPad Mini running iOS 9 or so, and an iPhone 7 running iOS 11. Images shot in HEIC get synced to her iPad via Photos app, but no thumbnails appear. If clicked, the images appear normally. Seems iPhone is converting images for sharing via Photos but is not including the thumbnails... anyone else seen this? (My iPad is running iOS 11 - so I have only seen this on my wife's device - can't tell if it is a flaky device or a bug in image sharing conversion)
Yesterday, I enrolled in the developer.apple program for one year, for 99 USD. But I want to increase this for more 3 years. Yesterday, I didn't find any option where I can increase the time period. It had only one option: 1 year 99.0 USD What is the process if I want to enroll in the program for next 3 years? Thanks a lot in advance.
After I've installed Nvidia Cuda Drivers the Activity Monitor show that Graphics Card is always on High Perf. status. No application that "Requires High Perf GPU" is running and the battery goes down quickly, very quickly. Any idea how to solve that expensive problem?
Move the cursor using a mouse (not the trackpad) and note the cursor speed. Now Press Command + Shift + 4, which should change the cursor to a crosshair. Move the cursor again. No change in mouse sensitivity
I don't like how Apple rearranges Spaces depending on how much you use them because I kinda get lost when they are not where I left them. That's the main reason why I always disable the "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" setting in System Preferences → Mission Control». Now, this setting is not perfect, at least for me, because when you open a new Space, it's automatically situated at the end of your list of Spaces, so if you for example have 3 Desktops and you're currently working on the first one and you open a new Space, it would be right on the end, which is kinda uncomfortable as you have to swipe all over there. Is there a way to make it position all the new Spaces just on right of the current Desktop?
Pretty simple question, when I press the up arrow to scroll through previous commands, they show up as truncated, even though the terminal is wide enough (and displays output beyond the truncation point): The last line in that shows the truncated command, which should have been along the lines of ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper my.zook.com:2181 --list. Any help getting it to stop truncating would be great. Thanks!
We have tons of users who have been using s/mime certs from Entrust to encrypt their email....for years. The problem we are running into is that since Outlook 2016 is becoming standard in the environment, it needs to reassociate with the certificates and find which one to use, we wrote a detailed instruction guide for our users to go into Keychain Access and delete any invalid/expired certificates, but they don't have the competency to follow this. I'm not a scripting expert, but I'm trying to find out if I can use the security command to check whether a cert is expired, and then delete it.
It's quite annoying that I register on a site using my phone but the login info does not sync to my Mac when trying to sign in there. Mac OSX and iOS 10.
I have a 1tb sata hdd, pre installed with windows 7 and other applications. Can i use in macbook air as a external hdd using sata to usb converter and then use Windows 7 installed on that hdd in mac.
I have a mac pro which I and several colleagues access through screen sharing. It has no need of an external monitor itself. Periodically, it shuts down (perhaps because of university-mandated update) and won't restart without a monitor attached. How can I get it to reboot without a monitor?
I have never installed Adobe Flash Player on my Mac cause it has some dangerous security breaches and potentially harmful for your mac then how come this plugin is showing up in Safari, is my Mac hacked? One more thing I have Creative Cloud installed on my Mac.
When I try to open my photos file I get: Photos cannot find the system photo library named "photos Library.photoslibrary" You can open another library and set it as the System Photo Library in Preferences. I've never seen this before and have no idea what to do?
I am trying to get Automator to move my photos around based on the time photo was taken. My folder structure is as follows:
I would like to input faster some special characters (math symbols, emojis, etc.). I found this article, but the instructions are obsolete for EL Capitan or later. I would like to add either keyboard combination shortcuts or a long-key-press popup (like for diacritics.) Any ideas how to achieve one of the two ways?
Last night I wanted to silence a text conversation and didn’t see the option. Is that gone, too? iPhone 6s after iOS 11 upgrade
I last used Twitter some time ago and no longer recalled my password. I did a reset and let Safari suggest a password.
I have a folder full of files. There are 98 images, and 98 symlinks to those images with alternate filenames.
I took a live photo using an iPhone 7 Plus (iOS 11). How can I delete one (or more) frame from a live photo?
The problem is that I didn't select the "4+" age rating--Apple did! Their age ratings are determined automatically by a questionnaire I answered concerning adult content (i.e. violence, drugs, etc.). I said "No" to each question since my app doesn't contain anything like that whatsoever. (It's a very plain music education app.) Apple does not allow you to just select an age rating like "13+".
I know I'm using windows, so don't be hate'n. I am bootcamping on imac so I'm not all bad. lol.
I purchased a RGKNSE Nano Cloud R-SIM 11+ for my new iPhone 5s. It won't fit--too thick to shut the tray. Is this SIM card simply the wrong one?
Another thing I should mention is that when I go to iTunes > Preferences > Devices, I don't see my iPhone backup in the list. I was under the impression that symlinks worked on a low enough level such that applications like iTunes would be fooled into thinking they were on the main drive itself. That isn't the case though, apparently.
I have a 3rd generation iPad and 3rd generation Apple TV, both running the latest possible versions of their respective software (iOS 9 and Apple TV 7). What I would like to do is AirPlay YouTube videos to the Apple TV at 60 frames per second. I can't seem to find a way to do it. The official YouTube app, Safari, and some other apps that I've tried all AirPlay the videos at 30 FPS. They all seem to be fooled into thinking that since the iPad itself cannot play 60 FPS video, then neither can the Apple TV.
Title is everything on this one. I know that Apple had just shut the door for 32-bit iOS. However, taking audience out of the picture, would I still be able to build and deploy (all the way to the App Store) iOS apps that will run on 32-bit iOS devices?
Is there any terminal command which allows the user to input the name of the application along with the command, executing which shows you all the hidden files and folders the app has created or installed on your mac
Recently iTerm started showing an emoji key instead of the sexy key symbol at password prompts. It now shows this:
Mac has horizontal workspace switching, which is great. However, I find it very useful to have a 2D workspace grid (which I am used to from Linux) and I can switch both horizontally and vertically. Is there a way to do the same in Mac?
After some period of work with my MacBook Pro its bottom part can be hot. If I want to take a break and close the Mac - does it make sense to turn it around - the bottom part will be on top. Is it better for the working of the fan? I have seen some users turn their notebooks around the way that the bottom part doesn't have contact with the surface anymore.
After updating to High Sierra on my Mac, I realise that Apple had changed the media(play) button to unified all the media that playing everywhere including Safari webpage. Previously the button only affect songs playing app like Spotify or iTunes, now it stop my video instead of the song when I pressed it. I already sent feedback to Apple, *=URL=* so I’m looking for a workaround / fix / script or tool to revert the play pause change that Apple has made. To be clear, I'm using MBPnTB 2016 version which means I have the physical media function button. Can I get the play physical keyboard media buttons back to controlling iTunes only?
I am writing an Applescript for Spotify that is supposed to do two things: Log every new song played. Every N seconds check what sound device is used.
Is there an API, or a tool, that allows a developer to set all the translations of the "what's new" description to save the need to go over them one by one in the itunesconnect's painfully slow site? Thanks.
I have a contact defined as a VIP with a different ringtone as the default. Since a couple of months I began noticing that my iPhone was ringing for this particular person even in silent mode (Do Not Disturb was not activated.) The behaviour was present in iOS 10 and is still there with iOS 11. How can I make the iPhone silent even with VIP contacts?
I used a Chenyang NGFF to Apple 12+16 adapter and formatted the disk in Disk Utility in the installer to APFS, then installed the system (10.13, initial release). Note that before wiping and reinstalling the OS, I had previously upgraded to High Sierra.
I am thinking of deleting some contents from /usr/libexec/ , I don't use AirPlay nor AirPort so if I delete these two processes will it again screw up my mac the processes are AirPlayXPCHelper and airportd I don't even use Safari sync nor iCloud so I am thinking of deleting these .plist files /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent.plist - 'com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent'
After upgrading to "macOS High Sierra 10.13" Textedit will reset the default settings seemingly at random. Maybe more often when the clipboard contains html etc... vim is nice but not suited to pasting large chunks from the clipboard. Is there any way to force the settings to stick? (maybe chmod some file) [EDIT]
I'm unable to encrypt an USB thumb drive on MacOS High Sierra. Although I tried different approaches, it never worked: Use Finder (right-click, then select "Encrypt Drive"): this option is not visible on my machine Use Diskutil (no option to use encryption) Use diskutil command line tool: unable to reformat as APFS, no clue what to do next…
After upgrading to "macOS High Sierra 10.13" "Finder Preview" (QuickLookUIService? the space bar feature) will sometimes show a blank window when navigating with the arrow keys. I used to use this feature to verify I was uploading the correct images. Is this a known bug, and are there any workarounds?
I have an Apple Music subscription and I would like to be able to play files through QuickTime and not through iTunes. When I try to open up specific .m4p files (found in /Users/USERNAME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Apple Music), it tells me that QuickTime is not authorised to play such files and that I should open them in iTunes (which I don't want to do). Is there a way to be able to play .m4p files in QuickTime without having to download some sort of conversion software?
On my Macbook pro I frequently use an external mouse while working. When the option to use the "Swipe Between Pages" gesture is enabled, it also makes horizontal scrolling on my mouse do the same thing.
When you input a new username/password combination, Apple (macOS and iOS alike) asks if you want to save the password, also offering responses of “never” and “not now.” I understand the “save” response: the password is encrypted and stored in the keychain, and if iCloud is turned on, it syncs across devices. I understand the “not now” response: make the decision another time.
In defaults write <domain> <key> <value>, how do I provide a <value> that contains parens; i.e. "round" brackets, "(" and ")" ?
I have years of messages on my iPhone 5s. Associated attachments are taking up many GB on my phone. I can see them in my Settings >> Messages >> Documents & Data, but I can't find an easy way to remove them from my phone. As far as I can tell the UI would require me to individually click on every single item in order to delete it.
I have an encrypted USB stick. I put it in the USB slot on my MacBook Air, then I input the passphrase but nothing happens: the USB doesn't show up on Finder and doesn't mount. I can see the USB stick in Disk Utility and when I run First Aid on it I receive an error.
Dell P2415Q and P2715Q flat panel displays purchased before March 2016, only support HDMI 1.4 and provide 4k x 2k (3840 x 2160 pixels) resolution @ 30 Hz using the HDMI cable connection. 4k x 2k @60Hz is available via DisplayPort connection on these displays. Soooo, off to my cable provider once again to get a DisplayPort to USB-C cable instead.
So I recently upgraded from El Capitan to High Sierra, and for whatever reason, I can't get my custom pmset profile to work. It was working fine before the upgrade. I've tried resetting SMC and NVRAM, then readjusting the settings from default, but that didn't work. So, in reading manpages for pmset, I noticed three plist files:
I see that Apple Supports iOS 11 on an iPhone 5s, but will I experience degraded performance if I upgrade? The effort to get iOS 11 onto my semi-antiquated phone will require a few hours to transfer pictures/music/etc. off prior to the upgrade and then bring it all back after the process is completed. This is not a big deal if I'm not going to see any performance hits, so I'm hoping some other, more adventurous sole has taken the dive and can let me know if it's worth the jump or not.
I have scanned a 150 pages long document with my iPad (with the iOS 11 Notes feature). Now i've moved the document to my mac and i would like to use the enhance camera picture feature of Adobe Acrobat Pro to make the text look sharper. However, there are a number of problems:
Also, I can no longer pause and play using the button on the headphones. These are the Beats by Dre headphones that are included for students and educators. The quality is great when I plug in the wire connection.
In linux the basic ps command only shows very basic information about the processes running in the same terminal. For example: What is the way to achieve the same simple output in mac? The ps without any options in mac, prints a lot more information than processes running in the same terminal. Apparently there is no ps port from linux to mac for a good reason About the ps that I have : Running El Capitan 10.11.6 Some example output
We know that iPhones will backup Messages in a SQLlite-accessible database called (of course) 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28. So I'm browsing that using DB Browser for SQLlite, and it's not obvious what fields I want to best reconstruct to and from whom each message was sent. So far I've gotten this, which at least gets the timestamp right, but which doesn't make it clear whether the message was sent or received on the phone in question:
Disk Utility ran through its checks and there were no errors. It then changed to "Resizing" and thought about it for about 45 minutes.
2) In addition to using CCC, I create parallel backups using Time Machine (though I prefer the former). I’m curious if the cloning function is also used to make Time Machine more efficient for non-cloned files. What I mean is this: In older OS’s, if a file had changed, Time Machine had to save the entire updated file. Thus, if one was using Entourage, where all emails were stored as a single multi-GB file, one would quickly fill up a Time Machine partition, since Time Machine would have to store a new multi-GB file with each backup. What I’m wondering is if, with High Sierra, Time Machine now only stores deltas of each backed-up file (i.e., just what’s changed). [EDIT: It appears this part has been answered in the discussion section, below: APFS doesn't change Time Machine's behavior, which was always to create binary deltas when the file configuration allowed it.]
The YouTube app seems to have access to Safari's cookies because if you watch a youtube video in Safari, the app knows it. Is there a permissions setting to prevent this? Is this not an alarming permissions leak?
How do I configure my MacBook as a host and ssh over USB to a Linux machine. I want the Linux box to be a client. If no Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections are active, when I connect the Mac (USB type a) to the Linux box (USB type-c) I should be able to do file transfers or connect using ssh.
While browsing on Safari and listening to iTunes I come across a video and then press the "play" button on the keyboard (to stop the music while I watch the video) it starts/stops the video instead of the music. How can I quickly pause my music and then have it resume quickly once the video is over?
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 6 Plus to the iPhone 8 Plus. I did a backup to iCloud before I erased the 6 Plus, but my photos did not carry over. Some were very precious to me, such as some of my brother who is now deceased. How do I get those photos back?
I created a workflow like this after asking another question:  It should delete downloads older than 30 days, and has been working fine until today; today I updated to macOS High Sierra. Now whenever the Application tries to run I'm getting the error
So my iPhone (6s, Verizon) became stuck in a boot loop and I had to restore it to a clean build of iOS 11.0.1 last night. I had no backups of it, because iTunes hasn’t worked with my iPhone for the longest time.
I have an iphone 4. When texting how do I get it to auto-complete?
I was upgrading the CPU in an old xserve. I accidentally tore the connector off of the wire of the small temperature sensor on the copper CPU block, as seen here: https://m.ebay.ie/itm/Apple-Xserve-Intel-Early-2008-Copper-Processor-Heat-sink-w-temp-sensor-076-1291-/262260775146?_mwBanner=1
I'm using Crashplan 5.4 on Mac OS High Sierra. I would like to backup my Downloads folder, but I cannot select it in the "Manage Files" window because the selection checkmark box is grayed out. How can I select it to be backed up?
A red badge appears on my Settings panel right underneath my name next to "Start Using iCloud". Under Settings>My Name>Start Using iCloud, I am given two choices: (1) "Start Using iCloud"; and (2) "Not Now". When I tap "Not Now" nothing happens. I would like to get rid of the badge. How can I do this?
After installing High Sierra the Japanese input method has started to behave very oddly: My keyboard shortcuts to switch input methods all work as expected but... My keyboard shortcuts to switch input methods all work as expected but...
I am a physics teacher who routinely uses Greek letters while typing, and I insert them with the Characters pop-up dialogue box ( ⌃-⌘-[space] ). Unfortunately for me, most of the population uses Characters for emojis. Accordingly, Characters default tab is Emoji.
I'm on MacOS Sierra. I'm using Apple Mail with Exchange Server. I want to set a rule that when an email is received from a specific sender, then redirect the email to another email address. I'm trying to use the "forward to" or the "redirect to" options but both only forward the email without the attachment. Can anyone please tell me how to set the rule to send the email along with its attachment to the specified email?
Today i installed windows 10 ver 1607 on my macbook air with high sierra 10.13 on it. but i cant find my mac partition via windows 10. I tried repair it with step that suggested in this forum: How can I make Mac Partition visible in Bootcamp (Windows 10 Anniversary Update)?
I have a MacBook Pro running El Capitan that I need to upgrade to Sierra 10.12 (not High Sierra) for development reasons. I have previously upgraded my personal computer as follows: El Capitan -> Sierra -> High Sierra. Knowing that, I should be able to see the previous version in the App Store as outlined in this answer. However, I don't see Sierra in my Purchased tab in the App Store:
This is so not me:  But I was curious if there was a way to call 911 while recording, so, anyone who is like this can at least have an option. :-)
All videos except those taken by Apple devices show up with wrong timestamps in my Photos app. They are all shifted by 5 hours and 30 mins (since I live in India and my time zone is GMT + 5:30). Further, when I upload them to Google Photos, there again they have the wrong date and time. Is there any way to ensure that all my videos will show up with the correct date and time on any platform (Google Photos, macOS Photos or on Windows)
Last week all my contacts mysteriously deleted from my iphone and computer. However when I type names into my Messages app on my mac, the phone numbers show up in the autofill. Does anyone know where these suggested contacts are stored?
My 32gb iPhone is irreversibly broken but I have an encrypted backup on iTunes (not iCloud). I want to load it onto my older 16gb iPhone but it's too large. I've found some software that lets you browse encrypted backup files but I need something that will let me browse it and delete large media files to slim it down to <16gb. Any suggestions?
someone with physical access to the mini (i.e. it gets stolen form my house) is not able to access my data the mini should reboot after power failure/update and resume its normal tasks What would be the best way to do this?
How can I disable updates of a particular app (in this case: iMovie) in the Mac App Store? The method documented here (right click on update, select Hide Update) no longer works. I have app Store version 2.2.1 (584), macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 (16G29).
I was trying to reinstall, but it seems I ruined it. Now I'm not able to reinstall and there is no "Macintosh HD" I can only see OS X Base System with 250GB space but I'm not able to do partition on this drive.
My MacBook language is set to French, but the physical keyboard layout is US English, therefore I am using a US layout in layout preferences. Now, this is the problem:
I often need to change the spelling language in OS X from English to Turkish and vice versa, how can I do it with an AppleScript? Note: I have read this question already, but in there, the answer suggests using Automatic by Language, which does not work properly, so I need to make these specific changes. I'm using a Mid-2015 MacBook Air with OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
I recently bought my father-in-law an Apple Watch Series 2, which I thought he would love, but we encounter a usage problem: He seems to get the watch to reset itself to factory settings by mistake all the time! Is there anyway to prevent him from inadvertently resetting the watch back to factory default settings? I currently use watchOS 3, and as we speak I'm updating to watchOS 4.
Does anyone have an idea what is going on? I have restarted all devices and reset both ATV's and generally fiddled around with plenty of settings, but to no avail. It is also not possible unfortunately to mirror the screen to one ATV and airplay the sound to another. Also, if I use the tiny speakers on the projector, everything again works fine, so it's somehow only the connection between the two ATVs when screen mirroring that produces the lag.
The "tell me to quit" statement is very useful when you run an applescript as an applet or from the script menu, however when developing or debugging scripts in Script Editor it is very annoying since it quits Script Editor rather than just stopping the execution of the script. Two questions: Is it possible from within a script to check what environment it runs in, something like if environment is applet then tell me to quit else display notification "Done" Is it possible from within a script to check what environment it runs in, something like if environment is applet then tell me to quit else display notification "Done"
I recently imported my Aperture library of 17,000 referenced images into Photos. Initially, they were referenced in Photos as well. Since I plan to upload my entire library to iCloud Photo library I told Photos to consolidate all 17,000 files. This revealed a problem. Photos is unable to locate and consolidate about a 1000 of my photos even though Aperture has no problem pointing me to them when hitting "Show in Finder".
I'm looking to restore my old messages to my new iPhone however when restoring from backup the messenger app stops working. Apple support say its the database that is corrupt. From looking at the .db files of 4.1 and 11 the schema is different.
I brought an app bundle called Arcade Ecosystem at App Store by accident (it's my first day using iPhone, so it's not unusual to make such a stupid mistake...right?). It costed me 25 CNY, and since I had 4 CNY in my Apple ID Balance, only 21 CNY are charged from my WeChat account, which is bound to my Apple ID for payment purposes. After realizing I purchased it my mistake, I requested a refund at *=URL=* Then I bought a 100 CNY App Store & iTunes Gift Card for a local grocery, and charged my Apple ID Balance to 100 CNY with it. After that, I made another two purchases (not by accident this time), costing me 12 CNY and 60 CNY respectively, so at this time, I had 28 CNY in Apple ID Balance.
I realize that many keyboard and mouse emulation apps are available, but these require a host application to be installed and therefore do not work on the iPad. They do work well between an iOS device and a Mac.
I was updating MacBook Pro to High Sierra and it restart few times and suddenly shows black screen with flashing question mark. I tried to restart it several time and same issue. Then I googled and found that, I need to re-select startup disk and I followed the instructions but no luck.
I have a MacBook with an SSD, so space is limited. I've been using a single external drive to store my overflow, but would feel a lot more comfortable if it was on a RAID 1. So, I've bought an 2 bay USB 3 drive case, and an additional hard disk (same exact disk). What I want to do is create a RAID without having to the move the data on the external disk to a new temporary home, if at all possible. I have: Disk 1 - contains files. Disk 2 - empty.
A DHS sweep of the network showed that one of the researchers Macs is running a non-safe version of Apache (2.4.25) and they would like him to update to at least 2.4.27. He is having difficulty getting MacOS to use the new version of Apache rather than the one installed by default with Sierra. His issues are: Mac OS X 10.12.6 Sierra
I have modified Heading 2 to be orange, 13pt, etc, and to have 10pt spacing after the paragraph. The spacing does not get applied, however, when a 2-column section follows it (see images below). The first image, where the H2 says 'Experience', shows the correct amount of spacing after the H2. The second image, 'Volunteering', shows 0 spacing after the H2, even though it is set to 10pt spacing after the paragraph. What can I do to get the 10pt spacing to be applied? I have tried to apply spacing before paragraph to the 2 columns but that doesn't work, and I would rather have the spacing applied to the H2 anyway. I could add a blank line after the H2 but again I would like this to be consistent across the document and this should not be difficult.
I have configured my SMTP-server to allow relaying of e-mails to clients, who present a certificate issued by my own Certificate Authority. Things work for sendmail and Thunderbird, but now I struggle to configure the iPhones...
iOS11 installs a new keyboard layout on the iphone. On iOS10 (and prior) the keyboard would have arrow keys when used in landscape (horizontal) mode. This is no longer the case with iOS11. Is there a way to get the arrow keys back in landscape mode in iOS11? Thank you.
I have a Microsoft Sculpt Desktop (with usb transceiver) - main keyboard, numeric keyboard and mouse. Macbook pro 13'' 2015 - Sierra 10.12.6
Every once in a while, my mouse cursor will stop for a second, or move extremely slow, every half minute or so. I recently upgraded to High Sierra, but also noticed this occurring when running Sierra. The only way to resolve it is to reboot my machine, which is a problem due to the type of work that I do where I need to keep my undo history.
I am looking for a tool similer to powertop for macOS. I'd like to see which processes have the largest power use (activity monitor shows apps but not servers like nginx and node and I'd like to see the power use of those server processes too). Any suggestions?
I have some photos I want to put into my iPhone. So I used iTunes when I chosen my folder with photos:
I have taken the key off and cleaned underneath but that hasn't helped matters. If I open the visual keyboard I can see that the right shift responds to my presses but the left one does not, which leads me to think it is the one that is bust.
TL;DR, somehow ⌘⌥\ has become aliased to ⌘C on High Sierra (possibly earlier). I cannot for the life of me determine the source of this.
I have a mid-2014 15-inch MacBook Pro (the one with the Retina display) with macOS 10.12.6. My Mac is quite well behaved, but about half the time the apps hang after startup: when I open them, they'll bounce on the Dock for a very long time and then stop bouncing but not respond (if I right-click their icon on the dock, I get the "this application is not responding" message). This is regardless of the specific app I'm trying to run; it happens with Apple apps and all kinds of third-party apps. It's not that some apps hang sometimes and others hang other times; half of the time no apps hang, while half of the time all apps hang. Whether it happens or not seems to be random, but when it happens a restart will normally solve the problem.
I was trying to uncompress a tar.lz file. *=URL=* What can I do?
I have a mid-2014 15-inch MacBook Pro (the one with the Retina display) with macOS 10.12.6. I use spaces a lot and normally have my most-used apps open in specific spaces. One of these is Safari, which is set to always open in space 2 (out of 5). However, I often move Safari windows to different spaces as needed (for instance, if I'm going to use a website for reference while using an app that runs on space 4, I'll move the window with that website to space 4).
I tried adding the following line to /etc/fstab, but it doesn't work: I confirmed that it does work with unencrypted APFS volumes. For encrypted HFS+ volumes you have to add the password to the keychain, but this workaround doesn't seem to work with encrypted APFS.
I want to install an SSD in an iMac 2010. The thermal sensor has no place to install, and if I don't install it, fans will spin at maximum speed.
I have a bunch of audio files that I need to classify, so I need to play a few seconds of each file and then rename it accordingly. I can do almost all the operations with keyboard shortcuts, except for playing the preview, for that one I need to click on the play button on the center of the preview column.
Set-up: iPad user connects to WiFi via Airport Express. A printer is attached to Airport Express for (Airprint) printing facility.
Got a 3rd gen Apple TV for my mom. Works fine.
Bootcamp says there isn't enough space to create the partition (must have 28gb), but there would be enough without MacOS. Also, when removing all the MacOS Partitions with the Windows 10 Installer USB and finishing the install, I can get windows running, but it fails to boot again, always going to the windows recovery.
Recently I upgraded my iPhone 6S to iOS 11 from iOS 10. After upgrading many animations stutter a lot, sometimes screen transition animations are delayed by seconds. When I press and hold on the screen to get the cursor selection magnifying glass there is a delay of about 3 seconds until I see the magnified text. Is there any way to improve this other than downgrading iOS? I'm currently on iOS 11.0.2.
Is there anyway to re-start the installation process? Because I saw installESD and other files in Install directory including Install MAC Desktop.app NOTE: Please keep in mind that the solution should works from recovery mode because don't have access to OS
Around my residence as well as other places around town my macbook will connect to "open" xfinity wifi networks. I want nothing to do with xfinity.
I have an enterprise account and the distribution certificate for the account is going to expire. I read through the documentation here and understand that I need to generate a new certificate and attach that to the existing mobileprovision.
Some PDFs have fonts that are too large to maintain an optimal reading speed. Is there a normal page-scrolling (not flipping) PDF viewer that can stay zoomed out at the zoom level you've pinched to? Everything I have tried so far automatically zooms back to 100% after releasing the pinch-zoom.
I'm in a bit of a difficult situation at the moment. I have an iPhone 6 and a MacBook Air, which are both asking me for two-factor authentication every day. The only problem is, all that ever seems to happen is a never-ending "waiting for device". In order to do that it asks for my phone password on my phone and my computer and Apple ID password on my computer. I've read some answers here and they all say to turn off Keychain and then turn it on again to enter the security code, but when I tried that there was no little box for the security code. I really need an answer since I may get a new phone and I won't be able to upload my iCloud drive if I don't get this fixed.
Whenever I try to download anything from the App Store it says "_____ can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because OS X version 10.11 or later is required." And true enough when I check "About this Mac" I find I'm currently running "Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F2511)" But when I click software update the app store checks and says "No Updates Available". It also tells me I've recently (early September) installed updates for iTunes, the security update and Safari. What do I do?
I have the 27" mid-2011 iMac that was recalled due to an issue with its AMD 6970M card (1GB for me), but in my case it just malfunctioned after 6 years and it's out of warranty and not eligible for any free repair. In this forum I got the details of how to connect it to a new 2017 MacBook Pro with Touchbar, using TB cable (older) and TB to USB-C adapter. That's all good. Questions I have: Will Target Display Mode attempt to use the GPU of the old Mac or use my MBP's GPU?
In Mathematica, if I put the marker right next to a line of text and press Tab, the line indents, but if I mark a block of text and press Tab the whole text is replaces with an indent. I've tried different combinations like shift + Tab, option + Tab, none of them work.
We're facing the issue that websites that have been added to the home screen can't access the camera anymore with iOS 11. That is, after clicking the input (type file) 'Choose file' button the options 'Take Photo or Video', 'Photo Library' and 'Browse' are shown as normal. Choosing the first one opens the camera but the screen stays black, no matter what. I've tried with the latest update (11.0.2) but the behaviour is the same. I tried to debug the website but it simply doesn't show up in Safari > Develop menu (it shows up if opened normally with Safari, not when added to home screen).
I recently bought a macbook air so that I could carry it around easily while having Linux, Mac and Windows on it. I decided to go for multibeast. I found out later that multibeast was NOT meant for macbook or apple hardware. My knowledge to Mac at that time was basically close to zero, and I thought I could do whatever I want with the software because I knew I could just reinstall the system. I bought a used macbook online, and reinstalled the system, looked for some multiboot examples online and went for it. After I installed Multibeast, I used the system for about an hour and then restarted the system, booted from it (could only choose that or the flash drive for some reason) and it didn't boot.
I don't know if this is a problem specific to Windows 10 (which I'm trying to install), or High Sierra, but here it goes. I am trying to install Windows 10 Anniversary Edition on a Macbook Air (early 2015) which is running High Sierra (10.13). I first freed up around 40 GB, which meant that I had 65 GB free, which was more than sufficient for Bootcamp.
I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (MacBookPro13,3, 2016 - running 10.12.6 as it's a company laptop and I cannot update) with two monitors plugged in, each using a USB-C port (but using a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter for each). Whenever it wakes from sleep, the screen arrangement of these two monitors will have switched from what I set it as and I have to go into System Preferences and move them back to get my preferred arrangement back. Just to clarify - the cables have not been switched during this time.
Mac paused all my running apps (including Terminal) when the OS was low on memory. Now due to a Mac bug, the paused apps wouldn't continue even while I had clicked resume. I'd like to send SIGCONT (kill -cont) to the Terminal app. Is there an alternative Terminal?
I've an external monitor connected through HDMI and thinking about getting another external monitor for my MacBook Pro 2015. How can I connect a second external display to my MacBook Pro?
How can I remove iTunes from my Mac? I've tried to delete it via Terminal and using the app AppCleaner. No luck. Results in: Operation not permitted I also tried to change iTunes.app to "Read Write" for everyone but macOS won't allow me to do that even as root.
I was really enjoying the smooth UI improvements in iOS 11.0.1, until I realized something: after the update, all my photos from October 2016 to the present are gone. Today I tried the 11.0.2 update, optimistic after reading a note that it fixes a problem where "some" photos may be "hidden" (haha on both counts--good joke, Apple!), but this did nothing--all these photos are deleted from my phone. I did backup the phone a couple of months ago, which I try to do fairly regularly, and thus have most of the photos on my laptop, but still lost 2 months' worth of pics.
I use the export function in iPhoto app to backup my photos but a new photo always gets transferred from my iPhone to my Mac so it is difficult to find the individual photo and export it. So is there any option to only export new photos?
I have an iPhone 6s Plus. I upgraded to iOS 11 and initially lost all my tasks in the app gTasks Pro (about 300 completed, 150 open). I had backed up the list to two email addresses, but nothing showed up after the upgrade. All other apps were fine.
So, I used to be able to cycle through apps back and forth by holding cmd+tab while pressing left/right arrow keys. I can't now that I've done a fresh install of Sierra. What happens now is when I press the arrow keys, the next or previous program opens up. I can't cycle anymore. Only tab does that now, and just in one direction.
How can I see the raw data stream sent/received from my Mac to/from a Bluetooth LE device? I tried /var/log/Bluetooth from within console. But I don't see any data there.
At work, I work with a MacBook Pro (Sierra 10.12.6) and I have one extra display monitor. Since the start of this week, the upper portion of mission control which shows all of the full screen applications has flipped all but the main Desktop and Dashboard upside down.
Is there anything wrong with creating a roaming WiFi network by just setting all Airport WiFi access points to bridge mode and doing home runs to the hard-wired router with all the Airports sharing the same SID with addresses assigned by the router and NOT any one of the Airports? Specifics: Spectrum Communications -- 300Mbs --> Cable Modem (Bridge Mode) Cable Modem (Bridge Mode) --> Netgear 16 port ProSafe Router (DHCP & NAT) Netgear Router has home-runs to various hard-wired hosts 3 AirPort Extreme AP's (All Bridge Mode) share SID -- ethernet -- Netgear router Logically this appears to have the lowest overhead for WiFi while at the same time allowing me to have maximum throughput on all my dedicated wired devices to the router.
I am doing development work. We have some test equipment that uses a self-generated SSL certificate. When I try to browse to the equipment in our lab, I get an error that "this connection is not private". However, the only 2 options available are "Show details" and "Go Back". Show details just lets me look at the info on the certificate, which shows all of the expected self-signed details.
I've disabled the kext signing security setting in my Yosemite (SSD) MacBook Pro with this command sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1" to install some audio interface drivers and now it seems really slow. Can this be related? And since I've read that it might induces issues with upcoming driver installations, what would happen if I reactivate this function? Would my audio interface still work?
Only iCloud folder displays in the move menu. Even though GMail folder is normally present.
I was recently asked to have a look at a laptop as the os had stopped working. It was encrypted with FileVault (1) but it appears to be damaged/corrupt and won't boot up. I've tried taking the HDD out and putting it in a HDD caddy in order to extract all the photos/docs from the user files but although it shows the file size to be 90 GB+, I cannot access the files I need and cannot see a way to decrypt the HDD. Can you help?
I'm kind of worried about the macOS (10.13 High Sierra) installed on my computer. I restarted my computer because it was misbehaving with Reminders (I logged out and in to iCloud to see if Continuity would start working again and it caused some trouble). When the login window appeared I saw a Guest User which I had deactivated before. I then logged in and it was still disabled. I enabled it and restarted and now I have two Guest Users ... only the one on the left asks for a password. I might have been hacked, don't know though... Some possibly connected information: I installed macports (reinstalled to the latest version) I installed gnupg using macports I ran geth (Ethereum client) (no sudo) I played with iCloud (log out and in) My HD is encrypted so I get the login before booting
I was decrypting a drive from Recovery menu and I restarted machine because it was taking a lot of time but now the decryption has been Paused at 42%. I listed all available options using diskutil apfs and there isn't any option to resume/revert decryption process. I also tried to verify/repair disk option but it is still paused. I found this command but it is for other file system. diskutil cs revert /Volumes/title_drive -passphrase As this file system is new so I was not able to find any helpful material on any site. Please tell me, how can I resume the decryption process.
iOS 11.0.x merged the photos of my daughters into a single "Person ID" in the People functionality. I know I can select photos of my older daughter who is incorrectly identified as my younger daughter manually with pain. but I have 2 questions: 1) since the photos of my daughters were ID'd as different people in my iphone prior to iOS 11, can this all be straightened out without having to manually ID all the "Not This Person" effort?
When I run Xcode Simulator the devices are simulated with black cases. I'd like to be able to toggle to show devices with white cases to see them easier. I don't see a setting in Xcode for that. Can it be done?
How much MBs take an average iPhone SE Photo? I want to compare it with iPhone 5 file size.
The apps are Safari and Xcode, both are loading local files. I close both with the keyboard shortcut in the title but they always launch again at the next startup. My system is running Sierra
I finished an app a while ago but this app's layout only works well in iPhone and I didn't plan to let it available for iPad, I just want it to work on iPhone devices. Is it possible to submit to App Store and iPhone app that won't be available for iPad? At iTunes Connect -> My Apps -> (App Name) -> App Store -> iOS APP -> Prepare for submission I didn't see anything like permitted devices.
I would like to connect an display (Dell LCD monitor P2715Q) to a MacBook Pro Late 2016. When connecting via USB and Mini DisplayPort, the display still says that there is no signal from the computer. I can't insert the CD that came with monitor since this model of MacBook doesn't have an optical drive. Is it driver issue (and where could I download them) or is it compatability issue?
I want to use LTE network to activate an iPhone. How much data volume is needed to activate an iPhone?
Is it secure to update iOS when using public WiFi? Is there a chance the update is manipulated?
The objective is for iTunes never to pop up or be seen again under any circumstance. The preferred way is via completely and utterly uninstalling it. The alternative is open to suggestions.
Prior to updating to High Sierra, the touch bar would display any media that is currently playing (such as iTunes) and allow me to expand it and control it. As I'm typing in Safari, the touch bar displays no options to control the music that is currently playing in iTunes. Obviously I could expand the control strip to display the play/pause button but previously the blank space would display the media.
You know that you are forced to type the Hindu-Arabic numbers (١٢٣٤...) in iOS and Mac OS if you are using the "Arabic Keyboard", so if you wanted to type English numbers (which in fact called Arabic numbers ) like (1234...) you will have to switch to the English keyboard, type the number, then get back to Arabic Keyboard. Is there any way to override this? I am already using Karabiner to remap some keyboard keys, but it is not useful for the problem I am facing.
Today I've started my custom iPhone 6s 128GB build out of new parts. Only the motherboard was used. I came to the part where I had to screw the bracket for holding the power button in place. When screwing the bracket in I realised a very important part of the button. A good working button requires the power button itself, metal spacer and a metal ring what goes into the button. The work of the metal ring is for getting the button pushed back when clicked in.
I'm a Windows 10 user, running macOS High Sierra 10.13 via VirtualBox 5.1.28. I didn't fully understand how to share a folder. The part that I did understand and did, is: Devices → Insert Guest Additions CD image...
The Apple article If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts, suggest using the Card > Look for Duplicates option. However I can clearly see three or four contacts all with the same exact details in the list (e.g. for each contact, there are 3 or 4 duplicates of it), but the "Look for Duplicates" option simply can not. Is there a way to select, by hand if I have to, the contacts and moosh them together into just one contact?
Can a custom ringtone be created or installed on an iPhone using the GarageBand app from Apple on the iPhone? (and without using a Mac or PC, and without buying the ringtone using the Music App).
When you open finder, there is a download folder with a unique icon. I'd like to move that folder to an external one and force the system to recognise that new location.
For the last few weeks I've been going through my Photos library, setting up faces data. Some data was already set back in the iPhoto days, but I've found a few photos with faces set, but the coordinates within the face are incorrect. Here's an example.
I have a flush-mounted 128GB SD card for my Macbook Pro. Had it for a year, never any problems or issues. Today, while trying to free up some space on my main drive, I was moving a large directory -- 11GB -- onto the SD card, when I had to leave my office. So, I closed my laptop, thinking the copy operation would just resume when I opened it back up and the machine woke up from sleep...
I have a 2017 13" MacBook Pro -- I just setup my monitors, connected via two usb-c to hdmi dongles. One of my monitors works fine (ViewSonic VS2450), but the other extends the desktop beyond the edges of the monitor (HP 2509m).
My company's Wi-Fi network requires that I use an Automatic Proxy Configuration (setting in the Advanced Network Settings) to access external websites. However, I don't want to use the proxy when connecting to my home Wi-Fi network. In the Network settings, I created a Work location which uses the proxy, and a Home location which does not, but this requires that I manually switch my location every time I go to work or go home.
Several hours ago Apple released a fix update for macOS that solves the issue with "Vulnerability Exposes Password of Encrypted APFS Volumes in Plain Text". My question is: Straight when High Sierra became available I pulled the Installer (last icon in the bottom right corner).
I found some forum threads where PC users with Nvidia cards had this problem, e.g. the thread here. However, my Macbook air, if I'm not mistaken, has Intel integrated video, so that doesn't apply.
Can I reinstall iOS (11) but preserve installed apps and data? I'm having some issues with my phone and I'd like to try reinstalling iOS but I'd rather not have to restore all of my apps and data as that would be slow.
The logic board of my iMac 27" Retina broke and I find it impossible to get a new one in the country where I'm living in. I wonder if it's possible to access the data in the Fusion hard drive, connecting both SSD+HDD as external drives in another Mac OSX system.
I royally screwed up today. Long story short, in trying to help my wife fix a bug she was having in an app on her iMac, I accidentally executed an rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences. This blew away all the settings in her various applications. She is a wedding photographer, so I essentially reset her Lightroom back to defaults along with a flurry of other photo apps. Woops.
I usually work in several Google Chrome profiles (like "My working me" and "My procrastinating me") and I prefer to keep those windows on different "virtual desktops". So, every time my laptop boot up, I spend few minutes on "dragging" windows at their destined screens. I know that I can "pin" specific apps to specific desktops by using "Options > This desktop" and it works great.
Whenever I build my application using Electron Packager (on Windows) & try to run my application (on a macOS 10.13 via VirtualBox, I get an error message: When clicking "Show Details", the error expands and the following text appears: Thanks a lot for helping!
I had a problem where both my Mac OSX and iPhone iOS10 stopped sharing iCloud tabs. So I logged out from both iCloud accounts and signed in again.
I am using a dell mouse with my mac. Although in most context scrolling the mouse wheel produces the same effect as swiping down with two fingers, it sometimes happen that the mouse does not work. One example is with vim (terminal).
I connected an external Logitech wireless USB keyboard to a MacBook Pro. Generally the keyboard works fine. But the Insert key (present on this external keyboard, is not present on the MacBook's built-in keyboard) and does literally nothing. Even in the Ukelele application (a keyboard layout editor) this key does nothing. Short question is: How to make this key visible to macOS? Long question is: how to make this key work in following use cases: VIM running in terminal: switching COMMAND/INSERT/REPLACE modes. VIM running in terminal: switching COMMAND/INSERT/REPLACE modes. Using SHIFT+INSERT for inserting text from clipboard in any application. Using SHIFT+INSERT for inserting text from clipboard in any application.
I have a bunch of small PDF files, which are a few hundred pages but generally less than 2 MB or so in size. Scrolling is perfectly smooth in Preview.app, but if I click anywhere inside the PDF, macOS freezes for a couple seconds. The issue is perfectly reproducible and happens every time for certain PDF files.
Right now I am running two external 4K Displays (Dell) on a Dell XPS 15 Notebook with an UHD-Display (Geforce GT 750 M) on Ubuntu Linux. It feels a little bit slow. What can I expect if I switch over to a MacBook Pro Retina (15") or iMac 5k (27") with these two displays? For example - will it be possible to watch three YouTube 4K videos (each on every screen) in full screen mode without lagging?
Time Machine automatically backups to my Time Capsule. Everything seems to work fine. Except: When I try to open the backup with the Migration Assistant, it mostly tells me that it didn't find any volumes in the backup.
After I receive an email, I can preview it easily from the notification. If it's just an email I don't need to react, my workflow is to just leave it there as read. However, I can't seem to figure out how to mark an email as read on the Apple Watch, so now I have to dismiss the notification, take out my phone, force touch the email and mark as read.
Graphics: (2 listed?) 1. Radeon Pro 560 4 GB, 2. Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB
How to remove Chrome 54 from this list? I don't use it and it's not installed. However I do use Chrome 61 and it's visible in Applications - I want this one to stay as it is.
I have several Word documents with check boxes  On Windows, you can simply click them to change the status (checked / not checked). But the only way I found to check/uncheck the checkbox with Word 15 or greater for macOS is to double click it and then to switch the value in the form field options:
Is there a way on Mac to see the full list of past wifi server connections, along with the certs the servers used to identify themselves? Where is this info stored in Mac?
I got a problem in creating directories under /Volumes in macOS Sierra. To create a directory under /Volumes changing permissions and an owner is not enough. One can use the command:
With watchOS 4, is it possible to display complications on the photo album watch face?
How can I determine what the problem is? This was working fine yesterday.
I can see my mail, so I assume the Notification Center has some capabilities to link with Outlook. However, I can't see any calendar items. Is there a way to change this?
I am hoping to use CMD+i to replace esc in vim but found that CMD+i is mapped to Show Inspector. How do I remove this so that I can free up this shortcut in vim?
If it is a song, and it is delayed for 0.5 or 1 second, it really does not matter. What I am trying to find out is for games and videos. If there is a 0.5 second audio delay, for videos (movies or youtube if video/audio is unsync’ed) or for games, then it could be a bigger problem.
I have a folder with different 100 rtf-text-files in a folder. I would like to have Automator to take the content of one text-file and send out it out via mail once a day to the same mailing-addresses - without sending the same text twice. Because I am a newbie and don’t find a way to filter out only one rtf file with Automator’s predefined actions, I think I have to create a script. What I’ve got so far: New Application:
I am on Sierra now and I started High Sierra setup from the AppStore. I already opened the installer and passed all the steps and get "reboot to install" message.
I have installed node using nvm first time and now when I run which node in terminal it gives me /Users/username/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.4/bin/node but what I need that node path must be at /usr/local/bin/node Do I need to uninstall nvm and install via brew so that it will set the node to correct location? or how to set correct path?
Using Siri, adding items to a Reminders list can be done one-by-one by saying, "Hey Siri, add apples to the shopping list". Naively trying "Add apples and oranges to the shopping list" results in a single item, "apples and oranges", being added to the list. Is it possible to add multiple items with a single command?
I'm trying to install Quantum ESPRESSO, but I keep getting an error when I'm configuring the make files (this installation procedure is addressed on page 8 of the manual). In particular, I invoke sudo ./configure in my terminal, and I get the following error: My config.log is posted here.
Why, when my hdd has only 160 gb of files on it does my time machine say it is backing up over 250 gb?
Back when I got my first Macbook I had Snow Leopard installed on it. I remember I had renamed some folders and whatnot. Some of the aliases on the desktop hence became broken but I remember double clicking on them and Snow Leopard would automatically fix them if the folders structure wasn't too far off. If it couldn't find the original item the alias pointed to only then would it show a dialog box. I just had this issue now with Sierra and, even if the change is minute, Sierra will never automatically resolve a broken alias. A dialogue box will always show up with options to fix, etc. And it would always annoyingly default to look in the applications folder when manually trying to fix.
I'm running Sierra and trying to connect to VPN network using a certificate. When I press the Connect button I get an error:
I tried using symbolic links but they make me lose the default's Downloads icon which I don't want. Is there a way I can just made files saved or downloaded to the system's Downloads folder be automatically moved and stored to an external drive?
I'm trying to install a windows 10 on my late 2015 iMac. My current partitions are USB SSD - primary boot hdd that replaced slow hdd from the factory 128GB internal SSD - this is detached SSD part from 2tb fusion drive 2TB internal HDD - detached HDD from 2tb fusion drive
On iOS 10 - I could regularly enter the health app to enter my weight each day. Each day the weight graph would come up when I opened the app and I could enter my data with a single tap.
My filesystem was corrupted when updating to High Sierra so I wiped it and restored my files from a dropbox backup. However, I didn't back up my iMessages because I thought I could easily restore them through iCloud. Since Apple removed the iCloud message history synchronization feature after the iOS 11 and High Sierra beta period, is there currently a way to transfer my past messages from my iPhone to my laptop and view them within the Messages app? All of the third-party solutions I've found so far export iPhone iMessages to pdf or csv files rather than the archive format used by Messages on MacOS.
I have 2 mac pro desktop systems: 5,1 running Sierra and a mac pro 1,1 running SUSE Linux. I remove the SUSE disk from the 1,1 and insert a working, bootable disk with Lion on it in its place. All I get is chime, black screen with cursor and an unseen keyboard.
This problem came to be out of nowhere, I've been using a sapphire radeon HD 5770 in my Mac Pro 3,1 without it being flashed and having no drivers as far as I know. All of the sudden, my computers screen flashed and my screen went black, my computer was still running fine, and when I switched back to my radeon xt 25600 it ran fine and I've been using it since. I can't find out whats wrong with the card, it could be dead for all I know. My concern is that it most likely isn't, the fan still runs, so its not a power/pci-e issue. Also it shows up in a system report if I put it in my mac. It's pretty much useless and I would really like to find an answer to why it stopped all of the sudden, and a possible fix, thanks.
I currently have two Time Machine external drives, but I want to move to using just one (I'd still have more than one backup, as I also use Backblaze). Is it possible to merge the two different backup folders from the individual drives into a single backup folder on one of the drives (or possibly to an entirely new drive)?
I’m running iOS 11.1 public beta. There’s a strange bar which appears under my keyboard, regardless of where I’m typing. The attached screenshot shows an example. What is this? It doesn’t seem to do anything.
Today I faced a low memory warning on my Macbook Pro 2015. I opened Storage Management application and started deleting unnecessary files and I accidentally removed a zip file.
I read a lot of PDF files (papers from the arXiv) and sometimes I like to read them in Safari instead of downloading them first. But unlike Firefox and Chrome, the in-built pdf viewer in Safari doesn't let me hop within a PDF file that has hyperlinks to internal sections. For instance, most modern papers written using LaTeX have internal hyperlinks. A good PDF reader lets you navigate using these hyperlinks, but apparently the one in Safari does not. Are there keyboard shortcuts or workarounds for this?
I have just updated my os to High Sierra after a format. Through the App Store app, a version update was required (namely macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update) so I did it. Then as it was installing I encountered the following error, The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged
Can Apple SIM cards be freely purchased, or are they tied to having an address in one of the thirteen countries where they are sold? I noticed an article on Mac Rumors that headlines “Truphone's Apple SIM Data Plans for iPad Will Be Available to Buy in Over 30 Countries Later This Year”. As I understand, data plans for an Apple SIM card can be purchased in other countries besides the 13 where Apple sells the cards. It sounds like it might be useful to have a card around, can I buy one when visiting one of the 13 countries? How much does Apple charge for the card? Apple Support lists the countries where an Apple SIM card can be bought: If your iPad didn't come with an Apple SIM card, you can buy an Apple SIM kit at an Apple Retail Store in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, or Turkey.
I finally managed to decrypt an old backup of an iPhoto Library. The result was a file without an extension (maybe I removed it back then?) and the following header: ./._iPhoto Library
If I connect to a specific wifi network with my MacBook Pro, Safari can't load any site, but Chrome can. This problem occurs only one wifi network (but unfortunately I have to use this network). I've tried it with Sierra and High Sierra too. How could I solve this problem? What should I try?
I have one of those new fan dangled Apple Watches and sometimes my workouts don’t count towards my green exercise ring. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t! Why? -Extra info- Before anyone questions this, I know this to be fact because I’ve tested it as follows: I take a screenshot of my rings I start an Outdoor Walk Workout I walk for 20 minutes I stop the Outdoor Walk Workout I check my rings and the red Move ring has grown, but the green Exercise ring hasn’t changed
I've set up file sharing from my Mac so I can connect to it from my Windows machine. I used to have to enter my password on the Windows every once in a while (few hours), but lately the credentials seem to stay around and I don't need to enter my password.
Using High Sierra with Axure 8.0. When i go to "Applications" folder in Finder and press to open Axure.app twice, thrice.... It launches 2, 3, 4 and more instances of Axure.app, i think it's wrong behavior.. I expect following behavior: if you click to open already running app it should focus on this running app instead of launching another instance of this running app..
I've bought a new TV as a TV and also as a monitor (cheap 4K). I wonder if it is possible to hot plug HDMI to Mini DisplayPort cable to TV. I've read somewhere that HDMI is a killer cable. Is it true? Can it kill my devices? I want use my MacBook as host and TV as monitor and if need to just unplug and use the notebook standalone somewhere else. Can I do this without affecting anything?
I have tried to install VirtualBox 5.1.28 to macOS high sierra but it fails every time with the following screen: After some looking around I found this thread and I did indeed see that it was blocking VirtualBox from installing.
I'm on a Mac with no TouchBar (so I don't think this answer will help) running 10.13. I had YouTube open and my media buttons weren't useful for stopping iTunes so that I could start a video. Is there a setting that will stop Safari from being able to use those buttons? I would prefer not having to install 3rd party software to do this.
I was trying to use this website: *=URL=* But it wasn't working at all even after I allowed it access to the microphone. I suspected this may be to do with me having six different "microphones" (input sources—I have both soundflowers, a device for my TV, and a bunch of virtual ones from Loopback) I thought maybe Safari was using the wrong microphone, so I went to these two sites to check that and neither worked (they didn't even prompt for microphone access): *=URL=* https://www.onlinemictest.com/microphone-settings/mac-os-x/
I saw in the Hong Kong iTunes store showing "Featured 4K HDR Movies":  but it doesn't show a 4K logo or a 4K download size:
I'm trying to generate a series of GPG keys gpg --gen-key but coming up with the same error that there's not enough entropy to generate a set. I can't seem to find any solution specific to OS X. Is there a way to generate more random numbers and avoid the timeout? I'm using OS X 10.12.6 and gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.1.
So I see I can purchase macOS Server in the Mac App Store for about £20. This is all well and good, but very different to the way things used to work. By purchasing the server app on the app store, do I get all of the features of the old server OS, for example Mac OS X Server 10.5, or does it only add a few features? Is this a set of server management tools, or does it convert my client OS into a full server OS?
How can I record a video on iOS with an aspect radio of 16:9? I am using the iPad 9.7" 2017 model. I am running iOS 11.
I should temporarily suspend Apple's payments for sales of my apps on AppStore. Other markets allow you to change the minimum amount to receive your payments, or suspend payments for a few months. Is there any way to do it on iTunes Connect as well?
The Advanced section of the Wifi - Network Preferences allows for dragging and dropping of known wifi networks in order to set a priority order for joining networks. (Networks higher in the list will be joined first, when multiple are available.)
I have an iPhone 5c that is not eligible for iOS 11. I don't want to have to buy a new phone if this one will still work, so is there a way to jailbreak the phone and install iOS 11? Or does it not work like that? Thanks for any help, I'd like to understand how this works.
I am seeking a low-profile USB flash drive (in either 2.0 or 3.0) that would sit nearly flush with the side of the MacBook. This way I can leave it in through reboot cycles, and hopefully find that macOS will mount it without needing to insert anew after every reboot.
I would like to read all of my books on my iPhone in iBooks, but there seems to be no way to copy the books into iBooks. I can't use iCloud/iCloud Drive because there is not enough space available in iCloud to store all of my books. It seems that iTunes is only able to sync audio books to my iPhone and not (ePub) books (like it used to).
I'd like to know if there is an app that shows you how fast (how many Watts) the MBP is consuming and how fast it is charging (Watts and Voltage). I know that there is the Activity Monitor but it only shows an Energy Impact that doesn't translate to Watts.
I have a unibody late '08 MacBook I received as a birthday present two years ago. For those last two years that MacBook has been locked up in a storage as I was moving. I recently got it out and bought a new charger cause mine had broke so I could boot it up to wipe the system clean to start fresh. As I was attempting to erase the drive and reinstall OS X El Capitan (the latest version I had on it at the time) an error popped up saying that Apple couldn't find installation info on my machine. How do I reinstall without needing to call AppleCare or buying a new copy?
I've put my iPad into recovery mode, but it's not restoring. I click the restore button on my Mac, agree, etc, and then just get this
I was trying to update the locate database, but when input sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, I got a bunch of errors. When I try to use locate again it would not work. I can’t remember what I did, but I ended up finding out that the locate.updatedb file had been corrupted. I got locate to work again by using Time Machine to recover the locate.database file. But I want to be able to update locate without corrupting the file. How do I fix this?
I have two Macs in two rooms. Both have just macOS (High Sierra). I would like to log into either one from my user account, and find my files the way I last edited them on either Mac.
For the last couple of macOS versions, it has been standard to upgrade the system from a downloaded package, or to create an installation USB drive. However, how can I make an installer that boots from a CD-ROM?
In Safari v.11.0 (12604.1.38.1.7), I cannot print a message I received in a website's Message Center. I have an account on this site and never had this problem before in Safari. The print window starts to open but then closes immediately. All cookies are allowed, pop-up blocker is disabled, etc. The company's tech support says my online account is functioning properly. I tried to print in Firefox and had no problem. Is there something else I can try? Thank you. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.6), Time Capsule; AGT784WNV DSL Gateway
A recent update to iOS 11 eliminated the volume control, which used to be in the corner of the screen when you tapped a movie as it was playing. My iPad is on a stand and the physical volume controls are not as easily accessed. I found that I can do a cumbersome double-swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and sometimes get to the control center. Sometimes I just get the home bar and have to try a third or fourth swipe. Once I get the control center, the movie shrinks (while still playing) into a tiny window near other apps that are running. Then, I can tap on the volume control, which looks a bit like a white and black thermometer now, and hold my finger for a while. It will enlarge and the everything including the movie will blur. Once it is enlarged, IF I keep my finger on it, I can slide the volume up and down, but if I accidentally remove my finger the control is unresponsive, and I need to collapse it again and press and hold a while more to start over. Finally, I get to adjust
Been looking everywhere online, could only find references to Lion and Yosemite, with one unsourced page (macOS + Windows 10 + shared data partition) saying that all the old methods would no longer work. I have a new 2017 Macbook Pro, with a 512 GB SSD. I wanted to run Windows on it (obviously). At first, I just ran the Bootcamp Assistant and everything went well. But then I decided that I wanted a shared exFAT partition between my MacOS Sierra and Windows 10 installs. I tried to repartition the Mac partition with Disk Utility, and ended up bricking the laptop. First Aid kept giving "Invalid number of allocation blocks" errors, and the laptop refused to boot.
Sometimes, when switching to a fullscreen Terminal.app window via a trackpad gesture, the cursor (insertion point) is shown in outline, as if the window doesn't have focus. (I'm using a block cursor in Terminal.) The application otherwise behaves as if the window has focus; for example, I can still type. If I click somewhere in the window, the cursor becomes solid, as it should be, but it also sends a click event to the running process, which tends to (annoyingly) move the cursor in Vim. (No, I don't want to use set mouse= to solve this.) Has anyone else experienced this?
I have a mid 2013 Macbook Air. Without realizing the effect of my actions, I accidentally typed into my terminal a sudo -rm -rf "Xcode" command, where I intended to delete Xcode but in actuality deleted all files that contained anything to do with Xcode. As a result, my Mac software was corrupted, and I am unable to login to my computer (it goes to login screen, after entering credentials it crashes). After countless hours with Apple Support, I: Tried reinstalling Mac OS in normal recovery mode (Command + R) but it doesn't let me because it keeps asking me to enter login info for App Store purchases and never closes that screen.
A few pre-requisites out of the way: I'm on iOS version 11.02 on an iPhone6s with FaceBook version 144.0 (all software is current and has been rebooted.) I've noticed that at times any action showers me with white flashes. When I say flash I am referring to the area of the images, photos and buttons. I don't believe the camera flash ever activates during this.
I have a Mid 2011 iMac currently running MacOS 10.12 Sierra. It’s not my main machine, but I would like to install 10.13 on it. Updating starts smoothly enough, but when it comes to restarting, I get the following message: macOS could not be installed on your computer An error occurred while verifying firmware. I understand that my Mac is on the edge, but I read that any machine which supports 10.12 will also support 10.13
this happens only some times .  what changes is the info displayed in the lower portion of the window , what could be the issue?
How do I fix the iOS 11 update not appearing on an iPad? Oddly, the Software Update menu item in the Settings app is showing a red “1” badge, indicating that an update is available. But when opening the item, there’s only a message that the iPad is running iOS 10.3.3 and is up to date. This seems like a bug? I already tried restarting the iPad, but this hasn’t resolved the problem. The iPad is a family member’s iPad Air 2, and there’s more than enough free space to download the update (> 30gb). Is there anything else I can try or is my only recourse to bring a laptop and use iTunes?
Realising that the installation had probably failed, I rebooted to try again. Now I cannot get beyond entering my password to unlock the storage drive (SSD), some console errors appear briefly on the screen, and then I get a multilingual message on a black screen to wait or press a key to reboot. What should I do now? Is it: Try to launch the recovery system (if this has not already been wiped), Reinstall the existing OS from there (or from USB stick, failing that), Restore my files from Time Machine, Try again?
So, a while ago something happened to my MacBook Pro such that when I boot it, it doesn’t turn on the screen - it hasn’t been a problem, because I simply closed the screen, waited for it to go to sleep, and then opened it again; the screen would be working and I could login. So, today I decided to update to High Sierra, and now it won’t turn on the screen whatever I do - I suspect it has to do with the startup screen when you install a new OS. It’s HDMI port doesn’t work, and I can’t find my mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, so I don’t know what to do. Can anyone help me?
When on the road, I would like to use my phone's LTE connection and tether it to my macbook. However, I do not have an unlimited data plan, so I don't want the mac to download a bunch of stuff (OS X updates, Chrome updates, and so forth) and kill my monthly allowance.
I am struggling to restore my system from a MacBook Pro of one generation to a more new one. What I have tried: I restart the system in recover mode: "cmd + r" I choose the proper backup version from my Time Machine hard drive I "Accept" but id doesn't allow me because is a different model and it recommends to me to choose "Reinstall macOS" and wait for the option of restore from Time Machine during the reinstallation process ("You can't restore this backup because it was created by a different model of Mac") I choose "Reinstall macOS" but after 30 minutes of install process not option about using an existing Time Machine backup asked I am expecting to see the "Setup assistant" but at the end of reinstall process my system restarts with the old installation (with the old Users and everything) I have tried this process several times, always with the external disk with the Time Machine version connected, but always the above same result. What can I do to make my Time Machine backup appea
Is there a way through bash/terminal commands to get the following - Manufactured date OS install date Anti Virus installed I have been doing some research and these three items seem to not exist just wondering if anyone has any ideas. PS: If anyone is interested its is for an Audit program I am writing that requires these commands.
Long story short I am in desperate need of help figuring out how to prepare for and replace my Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) hard drive. An SSD is not an option, to clarify, and I've already purchased a hard drive for the computer, so that step is complete.
This is a "late 2015" iMac running High Sierra; 2 TB Fusion Drive, if that makes any difference (I guess it means it isn't running APFS). I had a Time Machine Sparse Disk Image Bundle on an external drive that belonged to an old computer, so I no longer needed that backup. I deleted the backup, which moved the bundle to my Trash. Now, I can't empty the trash. I don't think it's doing any harm, but it's annoying to see the "Full Trash" icon. (Google suggests that I should have deleted the sparse bundle in situ, but that doesn't help me now.)
With the introduction of APFS in MacOS high sierra I am unable to read/write from/to my external HDD which is formatted in NTFS. I need this case because I regularly switch between windows and mac and hence want to keep my HDD format as NTFS. Previously (on Sierra) I was using OSX fuse on my mac for NTFS read/write support but they haven't released any update for APFS. Any suggestions or alternatives I can use to achieve NTFS read/write on APFS?
Any idea why is system taking so much space? Also the free space + used space on my system is not showing correct data. It shows available space is 154.76 GB and when I add the used space (171 GB) it goes beyond the capacity of my internal SSD. Any suggestions to why is my Mac showing such behaviour?
Unless I right-click "Exit" on the icon in the taskbar, chrome being closed any other way will not restore all tabs. This is a problem when my macbook pro crashes or decides that it should restart some applications, which has happened a few times in the last couple months. Also it's annoying that I can't just click on close. I think this happened after I installed a newer version of Chrome. Specs: Chrome 61.0.3163.100 Macbook Pro 15-inch mid-2015 MacOs Sierra 10.12.6
I'm trying to install windows following this answer *=URL=* but in the 9 step after I'm selecting the Windows icon I'm getting black screen and blinking cursor and I can't do anything. I already tried reset PRAM and SMC but it didn't help. I have two internals physical disks - OCZ-VERTEX where is OS located and HITACHI separated on two partitions - HDD - just for macOS files and BOOTCAMP where I'm trying to install Windows 8.1.
Every time I use Java in IDE or Terminal i have the following JAVA_OPTIONS message: This message "Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xverify:none" is really annoying. I was looking at similar stackoverflow tickets and one of possible solution was just to execute unset command:
The closest way to getting what I want is to check "Turn on until tomorrow", which works as expected. However, I have to do this every morning.
I'm developing some low-level system tools that need to read the physical storage device. Prior to High Sierra, I was able to open /dev/disk0, /dev/disk1, etc. and read raw data from the device. But after upgrading, I'm no longer able to open these devices, and I get "Operation not permitted" errors, even though I'm running as sudo. Has something changed in the access policy for raw block devices? Is there a better way to access the physical drive in High Sierra?
I need to remap "Select the previous input source" shortcut in macOS High Sierra 10.13. I recently installed fresh macOS High Sierra removing my previous OS and I found that there is no option to change default shortcut from Ctrl+Space to something else.
This is a sequel question to a previous one. I would like to set up a home networking solution with Direct Attached Storage. "Direct Attached Storage" seems to suggest that I would run cables (Ethernet, presumably) from two Macs to some kind of medium.
That seems to mean that the answer given here: Is it possible to reinstall MacBook firmware? might no longer be valid for those firmware upgrades (needed for APFS) in macOS High Sierra 10.13 coming within the installer for High Sierra and that they are only applied during the installation process.
This is a sequel (1, 2) question. I'm interested in setting up a home networking solution. One or more individuals would be able to access their accounts from any one of multiple Macs around the house. Direct Attached Storage is one solution. Here I'm pursuing the alternative, Network Attached Storage.
I tried cmd R and this is what appears. I tried every password, code from two factor and nothing..
I tried to install Windows 10 via Boot Camp, but got stuck at the creating a new partition part. The error states:
In macOS Sierra this information was stored in: But in macOS High Sierra this file only contains the 3rd Party Apps from the App Store. The Update Information from Apple Updates is apparently stored somewhere else Is there a second file somewhere else, or where is this information now stored?
It does it when I’m reading a page that has links or images on the right hand side of the screen. I will be scrolling with my thumb and if I am touching an image while scrolling the save/copy dialog pops up instantly. I then have to tap the screen to make the dialog go away to continue scrolling. It is very frustrating. Usually you have to tap and hold for a second without moving your finger to get that box, but it pops up almost immediately. Sometimes it will also do this when I’m tapping a link that is also an image. The screwy thing is that it will actually scroll for second or go to the link I tapped with the dialog on the screen. But I have to clear the dialog before it will recognize any further gestures. And it doesn’t do it every time, but most of the time.
After the incident both disks were cloned to external 1TB HDD each. The failed HDD was replaced by a new 2 TB disk. I cloned both disks back to internal.
I downloaded Richard Thompson's "Acoustic Rarities" album this evening. Unfortunately track 10, "Sloth", cuts out after about 15 seconds with a glitchy sound and then silence.
If I open up Spotlight, I can use metadata attributes such as kind:pdf and date:today to refine my search. I'm curious if there's a way to list all of these attributes that I can use with this syntax (attribute:value)
Since yesterday, my MacBook started to have rendering issues in the Finder app when I open specific directories. I managed to fix some of them by removing the .DS_Store file in those directories. But now I have one that occurs every time.
Are lightning splitters thats supports charging and external device available on the market? I want to use my iphone with irig keyboard or pads when it is charging.
When I try to install the application "USB Network Gate" I get message "Administrator of this Mac Disabled Your User Account from Accessing USB Network Gate. If your require further assistance, please contact your local/network administrator."
I have set my TV to turn on and/or switch to Apple TV when the ATV wakes up from sleep. Until tvOS 10 it worked as expected but since I upgraded to 11 the other day, the TV switches to the ATV input every (exactly) 5 minutes with a message (translated, but something like this) "Multi purpose remote activated". First I thought it had something to do with the screen saver since it was set to turn on after five minutes of idling but changing that time out to 10 minutes didn't change anything. I have restarted the ATV, turned of WiFi on all other devices I have (to make sure they don't use the ATV for AirPlay) and put my ATV remote control in my micro wave oven (since it has a Faraday's cage), all to no avail. What's going on here?
I am not sure if it is a generic behaviour or merely a problem with this particular keyboard. I have used the eventviewer of karabinar to check. Pressing the left or right window do not register any event at all. OSX recognise the keyboard as ANSI
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I own an old iPhone 5s. It hasn't been hooked up with a carrier for a year and a half. I wish to reset it to get all my personal data, contacts, etc. off and then give it to a new user. I want the phone to continue using iOS 8.4. I DO NOT want ios to update to a newer version when the new user connects the phone to a carrier.
I have discovered an annoying lag when typing on my Mac. It’s a fraction of a second, but it’s enough that it can be as much as a word behind. The lag occurs when I use Firefox, Notes or Atom, so it is clearly not related to a single application.
I want to remove the voice memos from my Music so it doesn't come up when playing songs, but I want to keep the voice memos. To clarify, I did not purposely move my voice memos to the Music app. When I synced my phone to iTunes, all of my voice memos were added to my music library, and when I synced again later on, those voice memos were added to my phone as songs. Will deleting voice memos from the Music.app also delete them in the Voice Memos.app? I use an iPhone 6s running iOS 11.
My iPhone 4 gave up its last hope and hasn't turned on in two weeks. I need to get my contacts, and it's not backed up. What do I do? Phone doesn't turn on, say it's charging but won't turn on. Left it plugged in for three days, still had red battery sign. I'm about to hook it up to a computer to find whether or not I can access its contents.
I am new to Apple platform. I create Apple-ID using my personal email-address. When I check term and condition and click on submit button, I receive no message on webpage. But When I go to network in Developer tools. I found following response. Furthermore, the request are sending over and over again (like infinite loop).
It seems that macOS can't install some boot files on that disk. Running First Aid on that disk in Disk Utility also produces an error:
I get the log (located in /private/var/log/apache2) E, [2017-10-09T08:46:36.060348 #62744] ERROR -- : Exception raised running /usr/sbin/httpd-wrapper: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII E, [2017-10-09T08:46:36.060890 #62744] ERROR -- : Proceeding with exec of /usr/sbin/httpd What can I do to run Apache on OS X 10.11 El Capitan?
I had a problem where I was able to connect to my usual Wi-Fi but there was no access to the Internet. Also, no Internet when connected to the wired ethernet cable. iPhone connected no problem. I started looking for answers and found one here on StackExchange and started working through the given solutions contained here: Full Wi-fi/ethernet signal but no internet. If you scroll down, the second reply from the bottom is a downvoted comment by @dvvidko suggesting he simply turned his VPN on then off and the problem was solved.
I've recently updated to High Sierra and am now having issues with the encryption of my SSD. When upgrading I was prompted to create a new password for my user account, the dialog saying that I couldn't use the same password as my iCloud account anymore. This led to when I restarted my MacBook Pro, I had to log in twice. Once for the disk encryption, and one for the user account. This wasn't ideal for me, so I contacted Apple support to ask about the issue. They were only able to help me roll back to a previous Time Machine backup from before I updated, so now I'm running Sierra again.
I encountered a problem after upgrading to High Sierra. I have a mobile hard drive which is NTFS formatted (USB 3.0).
I want to install an application from the AppStore but therefore I need at least iOS 10.3 installed on my phone. Currently 10.2 is running on it. Since the release of iOS 11 my phone informs me that I can download this. I run out of memory so I don´t want to download 11.x.x. Is it possible to select a specific iOS to install it on my phone?
I was going to buy an external hard drive to backup my mac to upgrade to macos sierra , but I was wondering if I could back it up with iCloud (200gb) account, then download it back to my mac paying just $3? Is it possible?
A week ago I've updated my Macbook Pro to 10.13 and reformat both internal disks (SSH and HDD) to encrypted APFS. So far the SSD is working good but I have a problem with the HDD. I can't mount the APFS volume from HDD to the system it just takes to much time and nothings happened. If I'm trying to run "diskutil repairvolume /dev/disk3" it gives me that:
Macports inserts /opt/local/bin/ ahead of /usr/bin in the path, and so if the same program exists in both folders, the Macports-installed one takes precedence. I'm unclear on how Homebrew manages this issue. Taking a concrete example, say I run brew install git, I now have
It seems that the Safari address bar width is locked to a maximum size that may make some URL impossible to read, especially if the domain part is longer, like in many intranets, or when the the of the URL is longer and when it contains essential information near the end.  I fount no way to change the width of the bar using Customize Toolbar option. I am using Safari 11 on macOS 10.13 (high-sierra) but I am pretty sure that the same problem would apply for macOS 10.12 (Sierra).
My MacMini Late 2012 has a 1Tb external USB drive, which I use as the main data store (the internal 256Gb SSD being too small). I have been running parallels on this Mac for years and both native Mac drives were visible... I think it listed each twice in Windows Explorer for some reason.
Is there a way to screenshot a part of the screen in Retina quality (x2) on a MacBook Retina? It works as default when you’re capturing the entire screen, but if you capture only a part, it produces it in x1 quality.
The urgent need for the mouse preference is because I'll go crazy if I cannot turn off the natural scrolling setting. Down means down!
My iPad has just been updated to iOS 11. The new app store doesn’t seem to show the download size of each update any more.
In iTunes Connect, we can analyse the apps daily retention rate i.e., "The percentage of users that first installed the app on a given day and used it again in the following days." We can also define retention rate as "The percentage of users that first used the app on a given day and used it again in the following days." I want to find out the monthly retention rate of our app i.e., "The percentage of users that first installed/used the app in a given month and used it again in following months**."
Ever since iOS 11 came out, my iPhone 6s intermittently "freezes" or "shuts down". It's difficult to phrase it exactly, because I typically see some different behaviours:
I tried booting into recovery mode, but reinstalling from here wanted to use Beta. I tried downloading High Sierra from the app store and creating a bootable USB drive from it, but booting from it gave me the dreaded "stop sign" - *=URL=* - and couldn't find a way to fix this, tried different USB pens as well.
I have installed Evince on my El Capitan using the link below. *=URL=* Now I would like to change some shortcuts, how to do it?
Due to a Open Directory configuration error on an iMac running Yosemite, a Windows network user has managed to log in without choosing to create a Mobile Account (they clicked Cancel by mistake). As a result, the Mac is trying to create all the users MacOS library files in their Windows network folders & it also causes the Mac to crash or hang regularly. I have managed to get to System Preferences > Users & Groups and have attempted to authenticate as an Admin and create the user a Mobile Account, but the Mac often hangs whilst getting to the screen. I have deleted all references to the user I can find using Finder/Spotlight and also deleted the System Cache folder, but no matter what, the user keeps logging into said Mac as a Network User. Maybe I'm missing a trick, but is there a way to scrub a user from any files that manage the login process so as to trigger the 'first-time setup' for a mobile account?
I recently updated to macOS High Sierra recently and noticed that sometimes there is a red bar/background over the right side of the menu bar, near time and Siri icons. This happens only on the secondary displays and also not on all workspaces.
With 'Backup while on battery power' off, if Time Machine is in the midst of a backup and the system switches to using battery power, it seems like Time Machine pauses the backup (and often has trouble restarting the backup later). Is this the intended behavior of Time Machine? If so, is there a way to prevent this behavior and instead either finish or cancel the backup?
At every start I get the message "Welcome to macOS High Sierra". Whatever I click - Show/Later(remind me, don't remind me) it appears on the next start.
I have an app which is in live (Published in AppStore). Now if I would removed that app from AppStore ,can that app still able to use in already installed phones?
Coming from the Windows/Ubuntu world I enjoy a lot of macOS things, but one thing that drives me crazy is the lack of new file button in the finder. I know that you are supposed to save the file from the proper application but I hate it. Is there a Finder plugin (or anything like an Alfred workflow) or an alternative explore manager that have this functionality?
I have a MacBook, with el Capitan. I am in Finder, looking at a folder which contains a lot of files. I have arranged by kind, which means that I have to scroll horizontally to see all my folders. But there is no horizontal scroll bar. The only way I can scroll is by using the arrow keys. This happens in any folder in icon view using Arrange By kind, where there is so much content that you need to scroll. I tried going into Settings | General | and selecting "Always" for "Show scroll bars" but it made no difference. Does anybody know how I can fix this? This is what I see:
I am editing a slide in Apple Keynote and would like to select a color in the default color picker list. What I have been doing so far, is entering the HEX code of each color I need, but this is so time-consuming since I am editing a very large presentation.
I updated my iCloud Storage to 200GB and I planned to put all my important files from my macbook pro into the iCloud. Unfortunately there is no such thing as the selective sync feature in Dropbox.
Are there any such tools available? Something to do comparative analysis based on snapshots/scans that I can take on a nightly basis? I'm running OsX Yosemite (10.10).
During the setup of a new iPhone 8 / iPhone 8 Plus / iPhone X, there is a step for migrating the settings from another iOS 11 device. On the old device, it says: Use your Apple ID "xxx@xxx.com" to set up your new iPhone. On the new device, it says: If you have an iPhone or iPad running iOS 11, bring it nearby to sign in automatically. If you want, you can also set up this iPhone manually. After tapping "Continue" on the old device, on the old device, it says: Position the pattern in the circle On the new device, it says: Position this image in the frame of your other iPhone. A pattern of moving blue dots appears in the new device, as shown in this picture: *=URL=* And in this video: https://youtu.be/tHxhZu97pXc
When I try to do any simple change to some preferences, for example changing the timezone, I get prompted to use the touch id to authenticate but it fails and after 3 retries I am forced to manually type the password.  Anyone experiencing the same issue or knows what is this caused from?
I have external CDROM connected to MBP and I wanted to read one data CD. The media was in bad shape (scratched) so macOS could not read anything. I wanted to eject the disk and try another media, just to find out I am completely stuck.
So I went on the App section on my Mac's iTunes, and clicked download... asked for my AppleID, and I typed it in. But then I get red text above it saying This action could not be completed. Try again. Help? OSX 10.13 iTunes 12.6.2 Yes, I know it's not the latest iTunes, but the new one doesn't have apps.
Before upgrading to High Sierra, for many years prior, it was possible to highlight text (e.g. in Chrome), drag it over another application (e.g. Preview), and then hit escape without anything happening. I'm a web developer, and I did this dozens of times daily to compare the text in the browser to the text in the design: I could simply overlay the text I drug over the design and see if sizes, letter spacing, line spacing, etc. were lining up. Really quick and really convenient.
I've tried doing disk utility, will attach image(it was all good). Also diagnostic's test was fine. Picture 1 of when I tried opening recovery mode command + r. https://imgur.com/a/MILQ5
I'm at a total loss to explain this strange incident. I have a dedicated Mac Mini as a media server to the house, and it has a 5TB external Seagate drive hanging off of it. The drive is partitioned into two partitions, one called "Media" which is 3TB and contains our household movies, TV shows, etc. The other is called "TM iMac" and is a network volume I use to backup my personal workstation (an iMac) via Time Machine. It's been set up this way for years, never had a hitch until yesterday.
Since upgrading the OS (about 2 years ago), I noticed that iTerm 2 does not update the window when new text is printed to it from a running process (guard). It only updates when I hover over the window, or after a few seconds. It there a preferences setting in iTerm or in the OS that controls this? How can I figure out where this is coming from? OSX 10.11.6 iTerm 2.0
I'm trying to enable firmware password protection on my Mac. According to HT204455 I can accomplish this by booting into Recovery Mode, enabling the Firmware password there, and then reboot normally.
When I first started downloading Metrics reports, the download button gave me choices and I meant to click PDF, but accidentally clicked CSV format. Now it won't bring up the selection list, and I'm forced to download CSV reports. How can I switch it so I can download Metrics reports in PDF? Thanks.
Now that iTunes no longer lists apps in the iTunes store, the only way I can find to browse or search the iOS app store is on an iOS device itself. This is rather inconvenient when, say, I'm trying to do research on which of several related apps to get - or even if I just want to look up info on an app while I'm at my computer and my iPad isn't nearby. Is there any official way to browse iOS apps from a desktop computer?
The other app was written in the programming language Racket (racket-lang.org). I changed the logo from the Racket logo to my laptop (see path above). I am having a similar problem where the icon does not change. Note that I renamed the new icons to the old icon's name to avoid problems.
I have had similar activation question as others; my iPad2 says activation needed. My problem is I cannot charge my ipad to get to iTunes. My cable is fine, my port is fine, but it will not charge past 2% and will not stay on long enough for me to enter my password. I have tried the hard reboot (hold power and home button down x 1 minute). Nothing.
When I do my workout in the morning I don't want to get any notifications. I put the watch on Do Not Disturb, Silent, and Theater Mode. This silences all notifications from my phone ... Except, at some point during my workout it vibrates me letting me know I've closed my daily activity goal and then again that I've closed my daily workout goal. This seems like a bug.
I use my laptop screen, two external screens, and a total of about 5 or 6 virtual desktops at any given time (usually full-screen applications). I've noticed that I can't cmd+tab to an application that isn't on the desktop I'm actively viewing, if the application isn't also in a full-screen desktop.
I decided to Resize my Boot Camp partition so I freed up 100GB from OS X and used EaseUS to "merge" my C:\ drive on Windows with that 100GB floating space (yes it was a mistake..) Upon restarting, Windows gave me the blue screen, so I turned off/on the laptop and tried to boot into OS X again (Opt), Mac HDD partition no longer exists… I didn't backup my Mac HDD for 2 months and I have extremely important work-related data that would be lost (another mistake). Note: I need to recover Data on my Desktop, no interest in having OSX back, taking into consideration that FileVault was turned on (Mac HDD Encrypted). MacBook Pro 15" / 500GB PCIe (SSD) Mac OS: High Sierra Beta (400GB) Boot Camp: Windows 10 Pro (100GB)
I was upgrading my MacBook Air from Sierra to High Sierra, but the installation failed and the last line of log window was an error about directoryd. I restarted and then came across the blinking folder with question mark. So I tried recovery mode (Command + R). Disk Utility shows my Macintosh disk properly and there is no problem with it (I checked it with First Aid), but I cannot see any disks on Startup Disk window. what can I do to bring it there? I have "Install High Sierra.app" on my external drive, can I use it somehow to install the OS?
Here are some various tries. On purpose I stayed away from ~-based shell extension. each one of these shows a variation on ls: /Users/myuser/Library/Application\: No such file or directory
Recently, I also purchased a Cannon t6 camera. After taking pictures with that camera, I transfer them to my phone. I do not resize them during the transfer. They are all shot in RAW but to my knowledge are changed to JPEG during the transfer.
If I leave Family Sharing will it notify anybody of this?
I struggle with procrastination on sites like reddit, youtube, and netflix so I want to block them. I know I can do this by modifying /etc/hosts to redirect to 127.0.0.1, but I still can and do change the hosts file back. Is there some way I can set a password for /etc/hosts so that I can not sudo edit it? Alternatively can someone recommend a better solution to block these sites? I use High Sierra and Chrome. Thanks for your help.
I need to pass a variable in Automator in "To:" field from Mail, but I see that it is only supported in the Subject line or Message.
I washed my iPhone SE with my clothes in the washing machine on warm for about an hour. It didn't go through the dryer, but sat in the wet clothes for an extra hour after the cycle was complete.
When I enable the dark dock + menubar option, system icons on the upper right corner remain black instead of becoming white. To be clear, the menus on the left hand side switch correctly, as do my app icons (Skype, BTT, etc), and Spotlight:
So I'm in Australia and I bought Apple Music, I wanted to pull a particular album I really enjoy. Artist - Recoil, title - 1+2 While I can see it in browser by googling it.
I'm trying to debug a web client issue on my iPhone, and it would be really helpful to get a full trace of the traffic between the client and the server. I set up Fiddler on my Windows PC as a proxy, and configured my iPhone to connect to the proxy, as described here. I enabled HTTPS decryption in Fiddler and installed the Fiddler root certificate on the iPhone, and it seemed to work for a while.
After factory reset, my iPad asked for a 4 digit password, when I used the old password it doesn't recognise it anymore. Now the devise is locked, how do I find out the new password?
Option is greyed out and I cannot enable spell checking in Xcode
I have an apple id which I am trying to use to install apps on my IPad. When I go to app store and click get -> install then it asks me to login. I provide id and password and then it shows me a popup saying "This Apple ID has not yet been used in the iTunes Store - Tap Review to sign in, then review your account information"
In another forum I saw this command: ls -1 | xargs -n 1 cp ../y/info.txt
I upgraded to High Sierra recently, and immediately encountered graphical glitches in Finder windows when trying to copy files from one folder to another. I found a solution for that problem, by selecting 'Clean Up' in the 'View' tab, the problem is solved. However it still happens whenever I copy other files in Finder. Folders where the problem is solved are endlessly big, having tiny scrollbars at the side and bottom (see attachment). Is there a solution to make there go away, and perhaps even to get rid of the graphical glitches altogether?
My boss is going to make a very long audio recording using the stock audio recording app on an iPhone. I am worried that she might run out of space on her phone, especially if the app records in HQ. My boss is far away, and I do not have an iOS device myself to test this on. Does the app have different settings for audio quality?
I'm creating an interactive workbook in iBooks and need a way for students to answer questions on each page. Is this possible using iBooks? If so, how do I create fillable boxes? Many thanks!
Since one of the recent updates I no longer see the option to change the scrolling speed of my Magic Mouse. It's way too slow. Any way to speed it up?
My MacBook Pro will not play sound when I connect a second monitor via HDMI. When I use the volume buttons, I see this icon:
We launched our iOS camera app only for iPhones and we do not support any other apple devices. We have telephony in UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities which iPads don't support.(Check here) But in Xcode -> Organizer -> Crashes we are receiving crash logs from iPads.
Both monitors are a bit older; they have DVI ports which connect via DVI/HDMI cable. Monitor 1 is then connected via a Kensington USB-C dock, Monitor 2 is connected via a StarTech HDMI<->USB-C adapter.
A colleague who I admin for has just asked me why, when he wants to unzip an IPA file, the GUI archive manager asks for an admin password when he tries to decompress an IPA that he has downloaded (his user is not an admin, so someone from ops has to come over if he wants to do this). His work around is to change the extension to zip first, then he is able to unzip the package without an admin password. I haven't seen this before, and from a cursory google I see a couple of other similar posts recommending this workaround in the answers: *=URL=* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16975049/change-app-version-with-only-ipa-file-provided-no-xcode/16975145
I have a mid 2012 macbook pro I just took out the optical drive put my main hdd in its place and installed a 525 gb ssd in the original hard drive slot. I've been trying to install osx on it for the past 2 hours using alt/option but the computer just boots up on the hdd hard drive even after selecting the usb Any help is greatly appreciated...as I'm close to throwing my computer out the window.
Given the following log entries (which I run in other Terminal to compare my filter): Note: Removed datetime column for above example for better visibility. Now I'd like to filter log based on the Google keyword to display log entries from Google Chrome Helper, Google Chrome and Chromium processes. However the following command doesn't display these entries: I'm following the man log docs page logic as per this example:
I got dragged a PDF into an iCloud folder on my mac and since then it status is: Waiting to upload I already tried to put the PDF move the folder into a local folder and back into the iCloud, but the problem persists.
I have two external USB3 disks, each with a Time Machine (TM) backupDB directory. When both are mounted, backups alternate.
The High Sierra upgrade messed up my gf's world, and to fix it (either by getting the reinstaller to run or disabling the upgrader), I need to mount the internal drive as read-write, otherwise I just have to wipe the thing. The drive is on CoreStorage with a logical volume. The GUI disk utility mounts it just fine, but mounts it read only. Things that have not worked: remounting it with mount -u -w -o rw /dev/disk2, including trying to leave out -w or -o rw
I have a macbook pro (15 inch mid 2015 with macOS High Sierra) with Hebrew keyboard (the keyboard has this *=URL=* layout, this is European layout with Hebrew keys on it). On the '7' key there are the '&' and the '₪' sings. The '&' sign can be triggered by the standard shift-7 shortcut, but I don't have any idea for how to use the '₪' sign (its pretty useful in Hebrew). I haven't found any solution (not online or in the keyboard settings), does anyone has any idea? Thanks!
I'm serving an m4b from a Node HTTP server. Technical details are in this Stack Overflow question. It doesn't matters which headers I send: Safari doesn't play the file nor asks which app use to play it. According to Apple docs the first thing must happens ('cause I'm using the right Content-Type header) so now I'm wondering if it is possible to achieve what I want. Maybe the only way to play m4b files on iOS is by syncing using iTunes on a desktop computer? Thanks beforehand!
This iPhone hasn't been backed up in 141 weeks. Backups happen when this iPhone is plugged in, locked and connected to Wi-Fi.
I have a Magsafe charger (original) that doesn't charge my MacBook Pro's battery. When it is connected, it will allow the machine to switch to power adapter mode (meaning no battery consumption) but the battery icon will show "Battery is not charged".
I am using 6th gen iPod touch. When I was using iOS 10.3, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed with Twitter icons, and I could open Twitter app from Reminders by tapping Tweet URLs. From when I updated to iOS 11, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed without icons, and I could not open neither Twitter app nor Safari from Reminders by tapping Tweet URLs. How can I launch Twitter app with tap Tweet URL in Reminders in iOS 11 ?
It looks like Outlook 2016's calendar Reminders window is set to "always on top" and there's nothing I can do about it. But that seems crazy. Googling isn't finding other people complaining of the same thing, and I can't find a setting for it, so I wonder if it's specific to my machine. Can anyone confirm?
I use my iPhone a lot while the charging cable is plugged in. I keep damaging my lightning connector internally, I suppose, by bending it too much while connected to my iPhone. I go thru a lot of cables and have tried many different brands. Can anyone suggest a lightning/USB cable that may withstand this use better? The damage must be where the connector and cable are connected.
I see a folder and /Volumes has while the "Computer Name" I chose under Sharing in System Preferences is "Gregory's MacBook Pro". (Note to self: it's a bad idea to name a volume after an OS release that will be upgraded sooner or later.)
I'm running gigabit internet in my home and have a mac mini connected directly to the ethernet cable. I'm currently getting ~30Mbs on the Mac Mini, if I test on a newer mbp I'm getting ~700. I'm using the same cable, the only difference is the computer it's connected to. Apple specs say that I should be able to get gigabit through the ethernet cable, I've tried turning off bluetooth, bluetooth assistant, etc with no luck. I'm running El Capitan, with no VPN. Any ideas on what to do here?
I am preparing to buy a new iPhone but the salesmen said I need the iCloud address and password. I have no idea what that is. Is it the same as my apple id?
My wife sent me a video of my son saying something, to which I responded: A few seconds after I sent the message, the text "book?" (and possibly the last dash) disappeared from my sent message. My wife says that she originally saw the word "book", but when she went back and looked, it had been removed for her too.
When I connect my iPad and want to add new, or remove old movies/videos, this is what I see in the Movies section:  I removed it from the iPad manually, then also from PC later. Now there should be just 2 movies, not 122. How to clear that cache or whatever is it? It is really annoying to list through 122 items to find just few. Not talking about warnings "Some of the items in the iTunes library, including XYZ, were not copied to the iPad XYZ because they could not be found".
My late 2012 MacMini i7 is running Yosemite 10.10.5. I have some apps that need at least 10.11, but I've read reviews saying upgrading to High Sierra, the newly released OS, is not recommended. Is there a way I can install a newer version until such time as the newest one has been out a while? [EDIT] Unfortunately I have not previously downloaded any macOS installers for El Capitan or Sierra.
I'm trying to combine multiple txts into a big file. I want them to be put in sequence but this seems not to work properly. At this time I tried from the terminal:cat *.txt >merged.txt but this seems to concatenate the files randomly.
I was going through keychain access sorting through passwords and such and I came across a strange problem. I clicked my email (for Apple ID) and I hit "Show Password", I then entered my admin, and when the password came out it was a list of numbers not my password. I know my Apple ID password, but for some reason I am very bugged by this and wanted answers :)! Haha Thanks to all who respond for my OCD's sake...
Why System on my Mac storage is occupying so more than 50GB leaving me with almost no memory for other things and I just bought this new MacBook Pro
I'm planning on selling a used external HDD on eBay. Are there any applications for Mac out there (preferably free) that can show me statistics about the usage history for the drive so that I can let potential buyers know the condition more precisely?
Two weeks ago, Apple released iMovie 10.1.7, which suddenly requires macOS 10.12.2 (previously it only required 10.11.2). Unfortunately, my Mac, while perfectly capable of doing everything else I want, is stuck on 10.11, and now I want to use iMovie. Is there any way to get an official copy of iMovie 10.1.6?
I am working on a computer used as a server running 10.10.5. I created a folder on the server as follows. Folder List Shared-Folder1 Shared-Folder2 Shared-Folder3 Shared-Folder4 User List UserA UserB UserC Permissions List (Read/write) Shared-Folder1: UserA, UserB Shared-Folder2: UserB, UserC Shared-Folder3: UserA, UserC When I login to the server using UserA's credentials using my Windows 10 computer over the network, I see Shared-Folder1, Shared-Folder2, Shared-Folder3. I made sure that every folder's pre-defined groups in the permissions section is set to "No Access" and all permissions are assigned by username and not by groups. When I make changes to Shared-Folder2, UserA also sees the changes. The problem is that UserA should NOT be able to see Shared-Folder2 at all but they clearly have access to it. Is this a bug in OSX 10.10.5? Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. ls -lae "Shared-Folder2" output:
I have the option to open groups of files in same window setting turned on, and this works for pictures. However, for PDFs this setting does not seem to work. I know opening multiple PDFs in the same window was possible at least in Sierra, I have no idea if they changed anything for High Sierra that caused this to fail. I went through ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.preview/..../com.apple.Preview.plist and found PVImageOpeningMode = 1 so this should be the correct setting, at least from what I know. I tried getting my old ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.preview/fluff and replaced whatever setting I have right now ( it worked before ), and unfortunately I still cannot view multiple PDFs in the same window ( without using tabs ). This is pretty vexing, right now im leaning on the conclusion that apple had some how changed how preview app works, unless there is another hidden preview setting location some where. Has anybody found a solution to opening multiple PDFs in the same window in Hig
What steps should be taken to move an existing Time Machine backup from an AirPort Time Capsule to a NAS? Apple describes how to do this when the source and destination are both AirPort Time Capsules: How to move Time Machine backups from one AirPort Time Capsule to another My initial approach Setup NAS per the QNAP instructions for multiple Macs resulting in a SMB shared folder on its own volume and a corresponding user with Read/Write permission to the shared folder Connect to the Time Capsule "Data" share from the Mac Connect to the NAS share from the Mac, using the QNAP instructions for multiple Macs Drag the sparse bundle from the "Data" share to the NAS shared folder Point Time Machine on the Mac to the NAS shared folder
Sometimes I get caught walking my dog back home in the dark. When that happens, I'd liked to be able to hold my iPhone 6 up and let the LED blink so that I'll be more visible to traffic on our seldom-traveled road. I searched for apps to do this simple thing, but I came up empty. Surely there's a way to get the phone's LED to constantly blink, right?
On the Mac, there is no sudo group. But inside the sudoers file, there is something called the wheel and it says: root and user in group wheel can run anything on any machine as any user.
The video format in iPhone 7, new iOS 11, changed to HEVC and will not show up in Final Cut Pro browser. Can not drag from Photos to FCPX.
When I play media in iOS 11 (e.g. spotify), media control doesn't recognize it and show it on my lock screen or in control center. If I do a hard reset, the problem goes away temporarily. I am using an iPhone 6S (64GB) and running iOS 11.0.2. UPDATE: the problem has magically dissapeared on my device, though i'll leave the question up since I know others might have this problem.
My iPhone 6s was updated to iOS 11.0.2 recently. After that I began experiencing various unresponsiveness problems. Today it got even worse; my phone's display is 100% unresponsive when unlocked. However, when locked the display works as normal. So I can use the camera, browse the lock-screen widgets, and use Siri. This means I can make calls to people in my phone book. But if somebody calls the phone, it rings but there's no option to answer the call.
The calendar app changes times, and sometimes dates, when I travel across timezones or the international date line. It doesn't matter if timezone support is on or off. Is there any way to display absolute times, like a paper calendar? If not, is there any calendar app out there that will do that? Thanks.
does macbook has capability to handle both charging of laptop & data transfer simultaneously. i have the hub which has three type c connectors 1.) dedicated charger port connected to charger 2.)downstream port of that hub is used for data transfer 3) Type C port which can be connected to Macbook.
I've been trying to use drawing/painting software like Inkscape and krita but they won't open because the software may not be "safe" for my Mac. Does anybody know how to enable the software so that it will work?
I have an external drive which is only recognised running diskutil list in Terminal, not in the GUI version or Finder: I have tried the following: Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting Error: -69808: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup Error starting file system verification for (bad disk ref): Disk object invalid or unable to serialize (-69810) Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map Error: -69808: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk or: Error: -69877: Couldn't open device For the first error I did subsequently:
2 people told me (in the last 24 hours) that they bought an app I sent to App Store, but neither App Analytics nor Sales and Trends in iTunes Connect show a thing, they show there isn't any sale and no analytics at all. How can I see the information of the app correctly? Why is this happening?
Most software I know, if they happen to have a lot of dialog boxes asking for confirmation before an action, have a check box to "do not ask again" so that the option you choose for the action will be repeated in the future without a confirmation dialog box somewhere in the options you can reset all the confirmations so that even the actions that you had ticked to not be asked again will appear again
I have this issue: rMBP 13" 2015, two external LCD displays connected with Thunderbolt and HDMI, everything works fine, but when I turn off one of the displays using power button on the screen - the cursor on the other one hangs for 0.5s every 5-6s, if I disconnect the cable from turned off monitor everything is back to normal.
Can someone let me know how can I create a macOS 10.12 VM for VMware Fusion? I am not able to find the ISO of macOS 10.12. In app store I am seeing macOS High Sierra which I am not interested in. Environment:- VMware Fusion - 8.5.8 OS in which Fusion Running - macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Have installed windows 10 from ISO on macbook pro, but can't get audio drivers to work from boot camp - no MacOS installed. Downloaded following bootcamp versions and extracted audio drivers without success. Device manager shows "High def audio controller" - device cannot start. Everything else is fine. Mac: Macbook pro core i5 13" Mid-2012 Bootcamps tried: 5.1.5621 5.1.5722 5.1.5769 (latest) Am new to Macs so any advice welcome TQ
How do i stop this smoothing option from occuring automatically after every free hand sketch because i have to continuously remove the smoothing after every line drawn. Thanks in advance.
Im working on a web application, and I need to be able to make requests and view the app from outside our network. I need to be able to use separate nameservers as well. Ive found the easiest way is to just launch an SSH tunnel, then I can use the OSX networksetup command to duplicate an existing interface and implement the proxy settings and different nameservers.. And this works fine for now, but when im done testing and need to go back to using my internal network, I have to disable Wi-Fi-External or change the network service order.
I have installed a fresh copy of macOS 10.13 on an empty drive. After logging in I checked for errors/faults in Console.app. I didn't expect to see any errors let alone faults but Console.app displayed quite a few of both. I rebooted but this didn't get rid of the displayed errors and faults. Q: Should a fresh installation of macOS ideally display no errors/faults in Console.app? Specs/Details: macOS 10.13 High Sierra (10.13 (17A365)) installed using Apple's Installer from the Mac App Store to an external HDD Location Services: On Share Mac Analytics: Off Apple ID/iCloud is still turned off macOS Volume: HFS+ on external HDD installed using Apple's Installer from the Mac App Store to an external HDD Location Services: On Share Mac Analytics: Off Apple ID/iCloud is still turned off macOS Volume: HFS+ on external HDD MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) Magic Keyboard connected (Bluetooth) Magic Trackpad 2 connected (Bluetooth) Network access using Wi-Fi (WPA2) external HDD connected 
I'm considering buying iPad Pro 10.5" and meanwhile tried to download and install iTunes - main method of connecting it to the PC. My OS is Windows 7 pre-Service Pack 1. (I don't have MacOS) The installer of iTunes v12.7 is telling me I need to get SP1, which I don't want to do. Previous versions of iTunes I searched through on Apple site state: iPad Pro (9.7-inch) is not supported on Windows XP or Windows Vista. Is it possible to have iTunes that can sync iPad Pro 10.5" models running on Windows 7 without Service Pack 1 installed?
When I try to message a contact, the suggested contacts presented includes group message contact so I have to scroll down quite a bit to get to teh individual contact. Is there a way to have the solo contact appear first? I have a 6s running iOS 11
I have a 2012 mac mini I'm setting up. I've connected it to a new dell monitor I bought for it. I plug in the usb mouse and can get the pointer to move, but the click doesn't work. Any advice? I've read other posts and thought maybe it was my nearby imac keyboard or wireless mouse interfering, but I've turned them off & taken batteries out and still no click action.
I Install VirtualBox for Mac but I do not use it. The VBoxHeadless process still takes a lot of memory. How to stop it permanently and prevent from the automatic startup?
In iOS 11, I tell Siri "Google Boston Strong", and Siri remains onscreen, displaying the first five results. I do not like this behavior.
Today, the WD Drive Utilities app on macOS started crashing on launch. This is very strange, since it was working fine as of yesterday.
I lost my WhatsApp chat history from my phone, but discovered that it was backed up on another device. Both iPhones have different Apple IDs for iCloud, so I am unable to just restore it in-app.
When I had initial releases of macOS 10.12 like 10.12.1, I used to type ‘uptime’ in Spotlight and it would run the uptime command in Terminal and show me the results. But now, with higher versions, when I type Uptime in Spotlight and press enter, it opens it in Xcode?
I have been recently noticing that my iphone does not turn off the screen when I answer calls or have it in my pocket... something seems off with proximity sensor... but how do I assure that this is the case, and not a software issue...
On iOS if you visit a website with an invalid SSL certificate, you are presented with this prompt (ok, it’s in italian but you get the picture):  Tapping “show details” allows the user to proceed to the website, assuming he understands the security implications. In my case I had to accept a self signed certificate to a local web server but it’s not required anymore. The problem is that I didn’t find any way to remove this exception to make safari show the warning again (restoring settings doesn’t seem to work). Do I really have to perform a full restore?
Recently I have been facing this issue that is really boring. My last debit card went to expiration and the owner of the family group has his own debit card registered. Moreover, I have been adding my own card to my account, it's been more than a month and I see it registered as the first way to pay with my account, but the Mac app store keeps asking me to enter the family owner's card information whether the app is free or not (wanted to download Slack in fact).
I need to create workflow that allows the user to drop files onto the application and then have those files moved to a particular folder to be processed based on their file type. So far, I've not got past the drag, drop, and move part! When I do the drag and drop, I get:
I use Notes on my iphone and mac. When I type an emoji checkmark on the mac it is text-sized (✔). However, when I type on my iphone and then view on my mac, the checkmark is larger (✔️), and increases the line spacing. Is there a way to type the smaller version on my iphone? Extra info: The small mark (✔) is unicode U+2714 The large mark (✔️) is unicode U+2714 U+FE0F
cat-ing it shows a header of bplist00?XUTI-Data? followed by readable text. I tried: but even after this it still opens with Finder and not the associated app for the .txt files. Another 'oddity' is that dragging a .textClipping file into the terminal — which I sometimes use as a way of inserting the full path — has the unexpected effect of inserting the contents of the file rather than its path. I wish I could use .textClipping files to quickly create snippets from web pages and other apps, but for obvious reasons, I want to avoid the snippets being stored in some Apple proprietary binary format.
My MAcOs Sierra version 10-12-6 dont connect to internet anymore. I run diagnosis ISP failed, Internet failed, Server failed. wifi (green light) Wifi settings (green light) Network settings (green light)
I have a OS X 10.12.6 recent MacBook Pro. On a previous version of the OS, if I had an image file on the desktop, it was easy to grab the icon with the mouse and drag it onto another application. Now (I think when I upgraded to 10.12.6), such a drag action is very difficult: it only occasionally works, and most of the time as I start to drag there is an additional trackpad-depress sensation and a quick preview pops out of the icon. Here's a screenshot of such a preview:
In Disk Utility, if I want to erase the container Disk2, it tells me that an internal error occured... The BOOTCAMP partition is actually formatted as APFS...
What is the MakerNote Apple 0x0002 field in iPhone/iPad images? Is it a unique identifier for photos? Example: [MakerNotes] Apple 0x0002 : bplist00O..?~yvronlkigc]F".???{ws[...]
Is it possible to enable SMS forwarding from iPhone to Mac without iMessage? If so, how?
Is there a way for me to recover all of my data from an encrypted SSD? MacOS Sierra, MBP early 2013, 16 GB RAM, 768 GB SSD, 2.8 GHz.
I have pulled some iChat messages from an old hard-drive. The messages are from a couple of years ago. I can double click them and see the messages, but I would like to know if there is an AppleScript, Terminal Command, GitHub Project or anything that might allow me to drop these fragmented messages into, reconstitute the conversation into one message and display the time stamps with them?
I'm writing a script to check for security compliance on a number of computers and wanted to verify that the user has set the computer to require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver. Basically I want to verify the status of this preference pane:
At some point, Terminal started saving sessions. It's controlled with /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal. For some reason, my subshells are also using this feature: As a workaround, I can do Luckily, it works across platforms, but it's kinda silly.
When I want to install software, I typically download a .dmg (Disk iMaGe) file. When I open it, this .dmg file looks like what I would call a "virtual disk" (hence its name I presume) and is listed in Finder under devices. It is also listed in Disk Utility under Disk Images and it seems like it can be erased or unmounted just like any other disk. What is the logic for which software needs to be installed with such a "virtual disk"? Why doesn't it come as a simple binary file or I don't know what?
If you haven't noticed, telnet is gone from MacOS high Sierra. I'm experimenting with ways to use built in MacOS utilities to function as a basic TCP-based VT100 emulator... an ASCII console that's dumb as bricks. I have tried SSH in "forwarding mode", but unsure of the syntax of source and remote port/socket ssh -L 192.168.1.162:30000 SSH without encryption nothing yet, but experimenting with cipher=null and other settings... Question
As per apple new update in iTunes app install via iTunes option is removed and if you want to install app you need to use Apple Configurator 2 to install app through system. But Above Tool is for MAC user only what about Windows user how can i distribute my app to windows users? Any Idea how to install iPA file through windows machine ? Note : Due to security reason my company not allowed to use any third party site like Diawi. Help me to find out way to install my app through windows machine. Thanks in Advance!
Simply look at this. Mail consumes 2.5 GB. Why? I removed all messages, readded gmail account. Anything else? iOS 10.3.3, iPhone 5, 16GB
When I run my script from the command line I can use - am actually prompted to use - System Preferences to add ssh-keygen-wrapper to be authorised to access the Calendar. But when I run the script as a CGI program it is not authorised to access the Calendar - it is running as nobody and fails - and I don't know how to give the CGI-invoked script required permission. A related question is even whether I should as giving nobody access to Calendar ... but that's a separate issue. [FYI] macOS High Sierra Python CGI script using an AppleScript to read Calendar events
The USB ports stopped working. I tried resetting NVRAM, and all non- physical solutions. It seems it is a hardware malfunction, so is it possible to replace the USB port only on the logic board of a Mac mini Late 2012 - 2.3 ghz Core i7?
I want to access a remote server where my website is hosted. Before I was on Windows, I used WinSCP to connect. Now I'm trying to do the same on a Mac. When I try it from Finder, I use Go>Connect to Server, then I add ftp://my.site.com. It asks for my username and password, then I connect and get the sound of an error (but no error message) and an empty window with the header myusername.com@my.site.com. But no files or folders can be seen. However, when I just type ftp into the Terminal app and use open my.site.com, add the same login info and then ls, I can see all my files. What am I doing wrong? Why can't I access my folders from Finder?
My colleague has noticed there is a Chromium icon on their launchpad screen but it's not possible to remove it. We've tried dragging it to the Trash but nothing happens. There is no app listing in /Applications
Today I spilled quite a bit of coffee on my MacBook Pro. Mainly the top left corner and along the top of the keyboard. Now, my laptop screen initially would not work but I left it to dry and had to go to work (ugh). When I came back laptop died because the battery ran out.
What I mean is that it sounds like the speakers are from the 99cents store. The sound at particular instrumentals is quite low in quality while the vocals seem to be a bit more sharp and okay but I can tell that its not the same.
I have an iphone 7 and i know I am part of two different group messages but I'm not seeing anyone else in the group except the person that set it up. what I receive is a text from one individual when I know that there are at least 8 or 9 people in the group.
I'm on a ship in the Canadian Arctic and trying to link up to a wireless network that has been set up on a Windows 7 laptop, this is connected to the satellite system. My MacBook Pro shows the signal under device when I click on the wireless symbol on the top right tool bar. When I click on it and it connects with a check mark, all I get at the top is a greyed out computer network icon symbol. What do I need to do under wireless network connections to make this work? Here a couple of pics to show you what I am looking at.enter image description here Thanks, Captain Marc
I'm trying to use boot camp to dual boot windows 7 with mac. but i get this error
I want to remove an icon from showing in the menu bar of a 3rd party usb wireless receiver. Anyone knows how to do it without using an external app on macOS?
Update: Found a solution to prevent pinning of iCloud Photos to quick access. Just disable the permission to following registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{F0D63F85-37EC-4097-B30D-61B4A8917118}
My OS X python installation is through homebrew. I then add python software using pip. I recently upgraded matplotlib from version 1.4.3 to 2.1.0 via pip install matplotlib --upgrade, and now matplotlib gives me this error when I try to make a basic plot:
In iOS 11, the Podcast app got a radical UI overhaul. I have figured out how to add podcasts to my queue of upcoming podcasts by selecting a podcast and choosing to "Play Next" or "Play Later". How can I view this "Up Next" queue so that I can reorder it or delete things from it? If it matters, I am interested in the app on an iPhone SE.
I was using the program Lightroom and I tried to rename the Desktop folder to DESKTOP but when I clicked enter, it said "This folder can not be changed." I clicked "ok" and then all the files in my Desktop were gone.
You want to have a video set to full screen, while also being able to have multiple other windows next to it. (If you'd go split screen, you can only have 2, i.e. Safari → Youtube + Pages)
The keyboard on the 2016 MacBook Pro is very prone to breaking, I've had the top case replaced twice in the past year so far and and I'm for a third time before warranty expires. Does the new 2017 top case fit on a 2016 Macbook Pro? I heard they fixed the keys in the latest iteration. Best case they will cover it under warranty and switch to the new top case, worst case I'm considering buying a 2017 top case myself and changing.
Running MacOS Sierra (10.12.6) I have a web app that expects to find log files in /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/. Since such a directory doesn't exist, I'm attempting to create /usr/share/tomcat6, and then make a soft link from there (called logs) to the actual logs directory. How do I defeat OS/X and get my way?
If my Internet connection goes down or my WiFi router hiccups, my Macs, iPads and iPhones will connect to my wireless printer (HP OJ 8600 Premium.) On the Mac, I tried System Preferences -> Networks, unchecking "Automatically join this network" for the printer, but the Mac still connects to the Printer if the WiFi router is turned off. MacOS High Sierra, iOS 11.0.3.
There is a partition of 20.6 GB for Ubuntu Linux that I want to delete. How can this be accomplished? Disk Utility will not let me select the partition but it does show that space allocated to a partition 'Untitled'. This does not work to bring up the Debug Menu: Helpful Output:
I've synced an mp3 file (I got it by extracting the audio from a Youtube video with Freemake video downloader). After syncing it, I got the message in iTunes in my Windows 10 computer: something like "...because they cannot be played on this iPhone". I guess this is related to DRM (Digital Rights Management). Can anyone explain this to me? The audio I synced doesn't have any DRM that I know, it's for everyone to see.
I am trying to copy some files via command line to the icloud drive This is I have done:
I have two Macs with iTunes, one (PC1) is playing music and the other one (PC2) is not. Is it possible to manage the "play next" of PC1 list from PC2 ??
How can I display the contact photo in my Messages app? My device is running iOS 10.3.3.
I attempted to log in using my Apple ID and have subsequently been locked out. I do not know the phone number to unlock the account. I have phoned Apple support and they advise I need that phone number. My iPhone 5 is the only trusted device I have other than my Macbook but feel even if I gain access it will advise my account is locked and need to know the trusted phone number to unlock. The Find my Phone is switched on so I cannot even do a restore on the phone using iTunes unless this is deactivated and again needs the apple account unlocked. I am at a complete loss and have no way of accessing all the necessary areas to set the new phone up. If anyone has any experience with this or knows a workaround I would be most appreciative.
Is there a way to get the three-finger tap (AKA Look up & data detectors) to include more than a single word? I've tried selecting the desired text, then three-finger tapping, but to no avail. This would be helpful with proper names (cities and people).
I've highlighted it in red in the screenshot. It seems to show up almost all the time on my Mac, regardless of what applications I have open. Pressing it does nothing apparent. If I "Customize Control Strip..." in System Preferences, it disappears. It does not appear on Apple's list of touch bar icons. I'm running macOS 10.12.6 on a 13" MBP.
I am installing El Capital in VirtualBox on High Sierra. The reason I am doing this is that I have an enterprise application that stoped working in High Sierra and so I am going the VM route. When I need to select a disk to install the OS, there is no option for me to choose except the dmg file.
To log in, a financial institution's website requires a user name, a password, and a PIN. Keychain happily memorizes the user name and the password. But if I ask Keychain to memorize the PIN, Keychain does so but substitutes the PIN for the password. Is there a way to direct or allow Keychain to memorize all three inputs for this site? macOS 10.12.6, Safari 11
I believe that the answer to this question is "yes you can but you should not." Explanation is below.
I have an iPhone at work, and I charge it by connecting it to my work laptop (Windows 7) via USB. Every damn time I do this, the phone asks me to Allow this device to access photos and videos? with the choices Allow and Don't allow.
Can I (should I) instead some how encrypt the drive first, then restore? Will there be any issues with that order instead of the default order?
We have 2 applications: a small launcher/updater, somewhat like the Steam client, and a bigger app which is started from the launcher. Right now the launcher downloads the big app inside its own Contents and starts it from there. The launcher/updater and bigger app cannot be merged into a single app as per design requirements. The problem which we're facing is that in some cases we need to overwrite the launcher completely and when we do this the bigger app inside it gets removed. We want to avoid removing the bigger app when we're overwriting. We're considering a few solutions but are unsure which approach is the best: 1) Create a directory in /Applications, so that we have /Applications/MyApp/Launcher.app and /Applications/MyApp/BiggerApp.app 2) Install the big app in the Library dir so that we have /Applications/Launcher.app and /Library/MyApp/BiggerApp.app Approach 1 has the advantage that all the files are in a single location so if a user wants to remove the app he can just delet
I have Hey Siri enabled and really love it! But sometimes when I want to use Siri I don’t want to speak out loud. Is there a way for me to manually use Siri with a keyboard instead of having to speak? I do not want to turn Hey Siri off. I just want the extra option.
Since I upgraded to High Sierra, my 2-display layout gets reset to side-by-side every time I reboot, when instead it should be vertical to match the physical layout of my monitors. While potentially unrelated, High Sierra also lost my Login Items after the upgrade. I'm using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), running 10.13. How can I get High Sierra to remember my display layout?
I'm planning to install Arch linux on my Macbook Air (mid-2015), and installing means I'm going to mess with the partitions on the disk, and lots of stuff, and I'm not expert on these topics, so there is a chance that I might delete something important for OS X on the other partition, or about recovery partition etc. So my question is in which cases I would lose my OS X license? I mean for example if I unintentionally delete the recovery partition would I lose anything? etc. What I'm trying to understand here is that what is the worst thing that I can do unintentionally during the installation? Edit: It would also be helpful if the answer contain how is licensing works for OS X on Macs.
When you double click a single e-mail, mail.app opens it in a separate window. Is there an easy way (except searching in the app) to go back to the thread of this email?
I enabled FileVault on APFS encrypted volume (don't ask why). Then I disabled FileVault. The device was automatically decrypted. After that, I enabled volume encryption with diskutil (diskutil apfs encryptVolume <disk>). Now, the disk can be only decrypted with the disk passphrase, not with the user password (although local open directory is within crypto users on disk.) I am able to click my user on "pre-login" screen to unlock the drive, but my password does not work. I need to get into "Disk password" option. diskutil apfs updatePreboot <disk> does not help.
I had to replace my power adaptor of 2010 version MacBookAir with a third party power adaptor (because it was cheaper) a few months down the line I am having to force wake up my MacBookAir and worried that the third party adaptor may be slowly damaging internal power circuitary. Am I right to be worried? Thanks for any help.
For some reason Disk Utility (16.0) didn't eject my HDDs correctly and show the list of ghosts external drives as per below image:  despite I've no any external hard drives connected. Ejecting them from contextual menu doesn't do anything. I've tried to use diskutil to unmount these non-existing drives: but it didn't work. Including this shell command to unmount them all:
I'm coming from reddit where they suggested me to post here. There seems to be many users with the same issue. Using a 13" MBP Early 2015.
I bought an iPad Air 2 from a third party and I see it's supervised.It has many restrictions.There is no delete button in Settings.The iPad is iCloud free.I tried restoring it in recovery mode, restore and update in iTunes and then Set up as new, erase all data from the iPad but the configuration won't be removed.When it's being set up it says "retrieving configuration".I tried iActivate win but it says that it's not in their servers. From what I've read, if the configuration persists then it's in DEP.Can it be removed from DEP somehow? Is there a WAY to make this iPad a normal one so I can use it?
When a macOS High Sierra Terminal shell is ended using the exit command the Bash shell history is saved and can be recalled in subsequent shell sessions. However, if the shell is ended by closing the Terminal tab or window, the shell history will not be saved. How can the shell history also be saved when closing a Terminal tab?
Before iOS 11 I could navigate to a web page, hit Upload and select Dropbox from my list of File Providers/Sources. Google Drive was also in the list. Now in iOS 11, they route you thru the Files app and I can access my Dropbox files there...but I can't select multiple to upload at one time! This issue is the same on my iPhone 8 and my iPad.
I'm able to find processes using top or ps. That's no problem. Sometimes I find that some processes are taking up a lot of memory or cpu and I'm trying to identify what the root program is.
launches the Emacs GUI. How can I make the Emacs GUI launch by executing a command from the Terminal? macOS Sierra Version 10.12.6
I have a pair of the same model and size monitors at home, as I have in the office. They're all named "Company Model (1)" and "Company Model (2)". It seems like the setup I have at home has them physically arranged from L -> R: 1 -> 2, but in the office, however, it's 2 -> 1. The result is when I work from home, or work from the office, I need to constantly set the Display Arrangement in Preferences. Is there a way to delete the displays, so I can reintroduce them to the computer in the right order, or just rename them so the one physically on the left is always 1, and the one on the right is always 2?
Since my update to macOS High Sierra my memory is always at 75% even after a fresh startup. Is it just iStat Menus that shows it this way or is there really only 25% of memory free (out of 8GB) ? Or is it the memory that is saved for applications ? What is the difference between: Wired (???) Active (currently in use?) Compressed (not used since longe time?) Free (free...)
I am noticing for quite a few days that after upgrading to high sierra though DND doesn't has any custom timeline for auto on and off in system preferences it automatically turns itself on every-day at 12:00 am and turns itself off at 12:00 pm, I don't know why is this happening
Due to data loss (and yes, I didn't have a backup, how lame...) my mailbox got deleted from the server, and the only copy of those emails I have is on my iPhone in an account set up with IMAP. I have created a new mailbox on the server side, and a new account with the newly created mailbox on the iPhone, and my intention was to simply move emails manually from the old one into the new one, but this doesn't seem to work. When I do it, it does look like it's moving the emails (it animates the papers flying into the target folder, and the emails are gone from my old mailbox), however I do not see them in the new mailbox, and when I go back to the old one, they are there again. Any ways I can add these emails back into a mailbox, maybe Gmail somehow? EDIT: forgot to mention that the mailbox on the iPhone is set up using IMAP, added it now (see above).
I'm looking for a way to totally blacklist a Wi-Fi network (by SSID) in macOS. And no, I promise you that I really (truly!) do not need to just have the computer "forget it" by removing it from the network list. I need to completely and totally prevent the computer from connecting to a certain network entirely.
I just discovered today that the 2016 MBP15 has different usb c port versions on the 2 sides of the laptop.  The left side has USB 3.1 (USB 3.1 gen2) ports while the right side has USB 3.0 (USB3.1 gen1) ports.
I'm using OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan, and currently have the following versions of java listed in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/: 1.6.0.jdk jdk1.7.0_79.jdk jdk1.8.0_111.jdk
The last thing I tried out of desperation was to trash ALL my preferences and plists. I'd like to avoid doing that again.
I used this command to disable screen sharing: But when I try to confirm if it's disabled using the following, I get "enabled"
I also notice when the Item2 is not response. I see a process take a huge virtual memory. Another things: I try to use Activity Monitor's tool "Running System Diagnostics" but it is always in running status and can't stop.
I would like to select multiple files non sequentially as in the illustration below...  On Windows I could simply hold down the Ctrl Key, navigate with Up and Down keys and hit the Space key to select or deselect a file.
a month or so ago I formatted my fusion drive on my iMac 5k late 2014 (128 GB + 1 TB). Before the formatting, the drive was split into two partitions, so I had to wipe out everything and recreate the fusion drive. Everything worked fine until I updated to High Sierra. The update itself took longer than expected (about 2 hours, if I remember correctly). Then, after the last restart the boot failure sign appeared (a circle with a line). I restarted and held opt+cmd+p+r to reset pram - the sign reappeared, but after 15 seconds it went away and the login screen appeared.
I have edited the /etc/hosts file on macOS 10.12.6. Then trying to flush the DNS services has no effect, why? Here is what I have done: cat -te ... shows a ^I for tabs and a $ for newline to show what is exactly in the file. None of my browsers (Safari or Chrome) seem to honor the new hosts entry. I am most certainly doing something wrong here, any help is welcome.
I know there is the sound effects list in Preferences->sound, but this will change only the alert sound - that I like. What is annoying to me is the notifications sound. I like to work with headphones and music, and I wish to be notified when a new message came in by freechat, for example. But the sound is loud and annoying, maybe another sound or just lower volume...
The following page indicates what the multitasking bar should look like after pressing home twice: https://gigaom.com/2011/02/21/ios-101-how-to-use-multitasking-on-your-iphone-or-ipad/
So I got a bunch of photos that have the correct date/timestamp stored as filename, but the wrong infos on the "date created" and "date modified" fields (I guess they have been touched by some Windows application). Is there an app (or a simple way) to fix the fields using the filename? Thanks
This is a simple power option in both Windows and Linux but I can't seem to find the same option in MacOS. Please don't answer with placing the mouse upside down, or in a box etc, this is not a solution for me, neither is shutting it off or hibernating it. I'd like some kind of OS or hardware option.
I usually plug in my phone at night when I go to bed but it’s almost always at around 70-80% so am I damaging my phone (iPhone 6S) from having it plugged in at 100% for a few hours every night?
I don't really know how to explain this problem, so i'll just show some screenshots. GIMP is completely unusable. it looks like it's in another language. Visual Studio does it too, but only in certain cases. even safari has become a problem. That leads me to believe that it's an OS issue. Strange characters appear randomly where normal english text should be. Can anybody help?
How do I set a static ip address on a iphone 5s running ios11.0.3? Have looked in wifi but could see nothing about setting static ip address. thanks Elaine
In the new update of Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iOS 11 and in Files you can now add tags. Is there a way to change the colour of tags once you’ve added them?
I thought, No way! But, then it occurred to me, "What do I know?" I surely could use some more input.
Since upgrading to High Sierra, both Chrome and Safari have been hanging randomly following startup. The rainbow pinwheel would appear every few seconds and I'd have to force quit/re-open those applications. However, the same problem keeps recurring no matter how many times I restart. The only potential solution that I've come across is from *=URL=* GETTING THE RAINBOW WHEEL EVERY FEW SECONDS AFTER UPGRADE
For months I've occasionally been having problems with SSH connections to dedicated servers - I'm talking every single server I connect to, from multiple locations and the servers being various distributions of Linux. The problem is that once I have connected via SSH, the initial connection is instantaneous as expected when I'm typing some of the time the characters appear in the Terminal instantly, other times I can be waiting from 1 - 4 seconds and then a chunk of characters appears... I have attempted Google searches but most results come back as latency issues with the initial SSH connection, or connection timeouts - these are NOT the issue i'm having. I'm not sure how to debug this further; if it's a bug in Terminal, a configuration issue with Terminal.app or even an ssh_config issue specific to UNIX/BSD...
Windows 10. iTunes 12.7.0.166. I followed the directions found everywhere to create a new aac file less than 30 seconds long and rename it to .m4r then removing original (newly created) file from library. When dbl clicking the new .m4r file iTunes launches but nothing happens. I noticed that I have this same behavior with files already in my Tones folder which are a mixture of .m4r and m4a files. The files play fine in other players such as groove.
I bought apple watch 3, but I didn't expect that it doesn't work with the iPhone 5s. Is there any way to disable the cellular functionality given that the GPS-only version should work with 5s?
I'm new to all of this, starting from scratch, and looking for the current best alternative for Mac OS X 10.11 for TextWrangler now that it's discontinued.
When i tried to take screenshot of issue, it is not getting captured.Screen is turning black and then white
This weird box keeps showing up. Looks like the only thing open is finder, can't imagine what else would be 'running' it.
When you type “congratulations” or “congrats”, iMessage (iOS 11 is the first time I noticed this) automatically sends that confetti animation whether you want it or not. Same goes with the balloon animation when you type “happy birthday”. (Don’t know if any other specific phrases but there may be more)
I am trying to connect my MBP 2017 to a Dell U2713HM with a USB-C to DisplayPort cable (Part No ELUCDP-01) made by Alogic. When I plug in the cable to the USB-C port, the monitor will say there is 'No DisplayPort cable' and then show 'Entering power saving mode'. The main monitor on the other hand will dim for a moment and the keyboard will become unresponsive for a moment. Anyone know how I can fix the issue? Error messages in log:
I don't want to update my pre-installed Ruby to the latest version. My question is: how can I upgrade the version of Ruby to version 2.1.6 on Mac via terminal?
I would like to move all photos from iPhone 5s to iPad Pro 10.5. I want to move them, not copy or sync. Photos in result should be stored on iPad and deleted from iPhone. I've read this article - *=URL=* -
The ⌘+; (command + semicolon) hides all guides in Adobe Illustrator. The problem is that I'm using a Swiss keyboard layout. The semicolon for me is located on the comma (,) key and I type a semicolon with Shift+, (shift + comma). However, neither ⌘+, (command + comma) nor ⌘+Shift +, (command + shift + comma) seems to trigger the actual keyboard shortcut. I am aware that I can change system specific keyboard shortcuts within the keyboard settings of Mac OS but this doesn't work in Illustrator and, unfortunately, there's no keyboard shortcut setting in Illustrator either. Is there any general way how I can access a keyboard shortcut if one of the keys is not accessible by a single key press?
Five other people and I are developing an iOS game using ARKit. I have a MacBook that I use for myself, and a Mac mini sitting at home that could act as a remote build server.
My MacBook Pro 15” 2012 Retina screen is completely black. This happened right after I updated to High Sierra. I tried doing all the resets, and at some point I realized that I could flashlight the screen from behind the logo, so I tried more things. Suddenly the screen turned on when I turned on the computer, and I could see the apple logo, but then it went black again - and now I can’t see the screen when I put a flashlight to it, for some reason.
In Preview, how can I return back to the previous position after clicking a link in the pdf file? I found command+[ or command+] doesn't work.
Recently I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro 17" early 2009 (boosted with SSD and 8 GB of RAM), I need to code Windows apps... Installation was not so easy because my Superdrive doesn't work anymore, so I had to use a USB pendrive but the EFI of my Mac doesn't support USB boot for non-Mac OSes.
I was following a Vuforia & Unity tutorial when I realized that (upon building for iOS) Xcode would not launch. So, I issued the following commands at the Terminal to find out if I had Xcode installed:
I have a Samsung S24C650 monitor and after upgrading my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012 to High Sierra I cannot use the external monitor. I have a hub that connects to the thunderbolt, and from the hub an hdmi cable that runs to the monitor.
Initially i was no problem with the internet access on my device (Macbook pro 2017). until i plug in the external hard disk to the macbook, and i cant access internet. i was try everything that i know on the system preference but there's no way out, and i frustated cz hv no idea until i eject the hard disk, and everything back to normal i can access the internet. but when i plug the hard disk again, it happen again... i cant access the internet :( someone help me please
I have recently upgraded my 2013 Macbook Pro to have 2 hardrives (1 SSD and one spinning) and by doing so I have removed the optical drive from the machine. Since there is no optical drive, I have no use for the Eject Disk Button located in the top righthand corner of the keyboard.
I've reinstalled it a few times, but the same thing happens after Migration Assistant. Any help?
After upgrading to High Sierra, I have 2 guest accounts. It's disabled in the settings menu and I've tried the trick of turning filevault off and back on. Find my mac is turned off.
My iPhone 7 is too buggy since I upgraded it to the iOS 11 beta. Now the iOS 11 had finally been released for a while, but my iPhone, even after upgraded to the official release, still too buggy (while using an app, the screen suddently got freezed and it is not responsive for a few minutes; an app didn't launch sometimes and crash immediately; etc...). I already cleaned all my data and settings, and restored it from my backup, but it didn't resolve the issue.
I just installed iOS 11 on my iPhone 6 and want to use the new Files app to view the iPhone's file system. But the local iPhone is not listed as one of the locations I can browse: Do I need to do something to enable the ability to view local files?
I'm using this mobile video surveillance app on my iPad, called Exacq Mobile 3 to monitor cameras in our store when I'm in the backroom. It works for what I need it, except that there's one seemingly trivial issue -- this app doesn't disable battery saving mode of the iPad when it's in the camera display mode:
I've recently started using a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 running macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A405). I've installed the macOS 10.13 supplemental update. When using the Monitors system preferences pane to change to a display colour profile I've created using the calibration assistant, windows in list view get all items of text weakly highlighted - including all the column names. The highlighting just affects the actual text - it's not like highlighting an item in Finder list view, where an entire line is strongly highlighted. This mostly affects the Finder, but it's apparent in some other applications which use a list view such as Activity Monitor. Sometimes, items all get highlighted in black when I subsequently select an affected window, but I've failed to find a consistent trigger for that problem. The only reliable cure is either to close all affected windows and re-open them if I want to use the locally created display colour profile, or select any other display 
I have rotation enabled and it does work for most apps. In fact the freehand "drawing" in Messages rotates to portrait automatically. However it is not possible to induce the messages to allow the keyboard entry in landscape. This is a problem due to the small screen size so I make too many typos on the small keys. btw : This question is identical to one made in 2013 in the apple communities: *=URL=* however, the whole multitasking has changed since then and so that answer is no longer applicable.
I would like to know if there is any app that would notify me when locational service is being used up . Or it been open .
I’ve kept daily journal entries in Text Edit. Is there a way I can combine them into one file without cutting and pasting? I’m using TextEdit 1.1 on Mac OS El Capitan Version 10.11.6.
I got a palm reading app, not knowing that it included a monthly fee of $9.99. I have the iPhone 7 so I put my fingerprint in my phone. My fingerprint lets me pay for stuff, download apps, and open my phone. I accidentally gave the app my fingerprint not even thinking and I was so used to it. After I gave the my fingerprint, I saw what I did. I deleted the app right away and viewed its description, it said that it has a free 7-day trial so technically I didn't buy anything, I just allowed it to take money from me every month without my saying.
I go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General and there is a checkbox [✔] Require password [immediatly ↕] after sleep or screen saver begins So my guess is: when my mac's screen turns black, when I come back and use it, it asks me my password, so if I uncheck that box, it will stop asking. So I open the padlock below, uncheck that checkbox and close the padlock again. When I come leave Security & Privacy and come back, the checkbox is marked again and the password is still asked after mac sleeps. What am I doing wrong or how can I deactivate this password?
I am trying to install Windows by Bootcamp on my MacBook Air (2017) 128 GB. I am using the newest macOS, so High Sierra. Unfortunately I am getting "Disk Could Not Be Partitioned" error. I tried to use First Aid and "/sbin/fsck -fy" from Single User Mode and there aren't any errors. What can I do to fix my problem?
That there are a lot of MacVim.app left overs in my system, as follows. They are all accessible (I can open a file through any one of the following 5)
I have a 5 TB Seagate external drive connected to a 2012 MacBook Pro (non Retina) through a USB-3 connector that always gets ejected while I am copying files to it. When I try to copy large amounts of data to it, I get the message Drive was not ejected properly after about 20 to 30 seconds. I have macOS Sierra installed on that MacBook Pro. Before, I was using this drive with a 2011 MBP with OS X Yosemite, and it did not have that problem.
Do I still need data to play Apple Music "offline"? Currently, Apple Music's downloaded music stops playing after 10 minutes of no data/no wifi.
I sync most of my photos taken on my iPhone 7 to my Mac via Photostream, but I still need to physically plug it into the Mac and sync in order to get videos and live photos to import. After upgrading to iOS 11.0.3, my first import found several hundred "new" photos and proceeded to import them, but named like "IMG_E1234.JPG" (notice the "E": I already had a "IMG_1234.JPG" in the library).
Title says it all--but basically I wiped the water off and my laptop was fine for a few hours and then the next time I opened my laptop part of my screen was discoloured. I flipped my laptop upside overnight and when I turned my laptop on in the morning, it was all cleared up. However 8 hours later the screen is back to being pixelated. I don't exactly what it is and how to fix it. Should I get a new screen, fix it myself or buy a new laptop.
I am a new Mac user and have struggled mightily to find an answer to this question in recent days. I’m running a MacOS Sierra client, and sharing a folder of files with other Macs on my local network. I have given them sharing-only accounts with read-write access, but I want to be able to monitor which users access, modify, and delete the various files in my folder.
I have a Macbook Pro that will not boot up, and I would like to grab files from the disk before re-installing. I have successfully booted up macOS on the laptop via an external hard drive, and I can view the Applications, Library, and System folders in Macintosh HD. However, there is no User folder. Where can I find the User folder so I can retrieve my files?
Since upgrading to macos High Sierra, my Photos.app's editing functions have been troublesome. Features such as Retouch simply do not work, and I'm unable to access advanced options, such as the Shadows slider commonly found under the "Light" adjustment.
I have a MBP Retina, i7, with 16GB of memory and ~500GB of disk. The computer is from 2013, I think. I regularly use Xcode, Safari, iTunes, Messages. Sometimes also Affinity Photo, Aurora HDR, Luminar and qbittorrent.
The issue started after updating to macOS high Sierra. The problem can't be shown when a screenshot is taken or if the cursor is hovered at those areas. So below is image captured from my phone and the screenshot from iMac.
I have a rMBP (late 2012 model) that I recently installed High Sierra on and enabled FileVault (this has apparently been known to cause some similar issues on older version of OSX, but I found no work around with High Sierra). Currently when I try to log into my standard user on boot up, I get a progress bar that get to ~75% progress and then freezes (I have left it in this state overnight with the hopes that it was just slow - no luck). Restarting the computer in recovery mode (cmd+R) causes a similar issue, where the progress bar gets to about 50% and then freezes (again I've let it sit here overnight with no progress), meaning I cant use the disk utility to repair the disk. Safe mode (shift on startup) also doesn't do anything - progress bar freezes at ~75% on logging in. Resetting the PRAM and SMC also don't appear to do anything. Booting in single user mode (cmd+S) lets me attempt to repair the disk manually using: But it repeatedly returns the error: Running verbose mode (cmd+V) 
In iTunes on my MacBook Pro, when I am listening to a song and click on the + to add it to my library, it stops playing. I don't have the same issue on my iPhone. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? I don't see any posts on here or elsewhere on the internet about this? Is there a workaround? iTunes version 12.7.0.166 macOS Sierra 10.12.6
When I connect my Sony digital camera to my MacBook Air, photos go Dropbox instead of going to iCloud. I have enough space in my iCloud account, which is almost empty.
How do I determine if my hard disk was ever disconnected from my MacBook Pro 2012 and then reconnected? Can I use the Disk Utility log or any other tool? OS X 10.8.5 is the version.
I have a MacBook Air 11" and a MacBook Air 13": the 11" is lot older than the 13". Although High Sierra is installed on both MacBooks, on the 13", I can't find caps lock option in Settings-> Keyboard-> Input Sources, but on the 11" it is present. I even don't know what to search for: both laptops have the latest update installed from the App Store.
On Linux, I can edit the efivars of my MacBookPro via /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/. E.g. here is a description to disable the AMD GPU via the efivars, which basically is this on Linux:
When I open an e mail on my iPad it scrolls straight to the bottom and won’t let me move it up. How can I stop this & get it to scroll manually again.
I need ability to manage my apps but not the app Store. Can OS 10.13 be installed without installing iTunes 12.7. Where can I download OS 10.13 that does not include iTunes?. I will be installing on a Mac Book Pro - Mid 2014.
I have a time machine, in which I backed up my macBook´s HD, it ran on a macOs Maverick. Apple reapir, changed the logic board, and wiped the HD, then installed a new version of the OS (OS Sierra). I want to backup what I have in my HD now (OS Sierra) and recover to one of the previous old backups in the Time machine. When I open the time machine under the new OS, it does not show I have previous backups. However, you can see the space in the TM disk is taken up (I assume thats where my old backups are) Will I lose my old backups if I now back up the Mac? How can I switch between backups ? Do I have to roll back to Mavericks, and my old backups will show up? Thanks in advance.
After upgrading to High Sierra on my mid-2015 MBP I've started to experience lag and spinning ball every time I use a shortcut, may it be cmd+a, cmd+z, cmd+c etc. The Behavior is extremely consistent and happens across all apps. Things I have done:
I'm using an iPhone 6 with iOS 11.0.3. Siri is set to English. Since I live abroad (Thailand), some words are not recognized by Siri, for example, Sukhumvit Road. There is an option to change this (General - Accessibility - Speech - Pronunciation), but when I'm adding a new substitution by dictating, I get the following error: "No phonetic transcription was available for the phrase "Sukhumvit Road." Here the screenshot:
I transferred by mistake some files from the "all my files" folder to the trash folder (but haven't emptied it). Do I risk to delete these files? How can I undo this?
I recently updated my iPhone 6s to iOS 11 and, as expected, some apps became incompatible with the software. There is one app in particular that I'm desperate to recover (the thumbnail is still there and when I click on it, I get a 'keep' or 'delete' option).
I have photos on my iPhone in Photos.app and on my Mac in Photos.app as well. How can I remove all photos from my iPhone without losing photos in Photos.app in my Mac? I understand that all is in iCloud and photos are seen on all devices, and that's great, but if I need more space on my iPhone, can't I trust that my photos in PHOTOS on my mac are safe, and just delete the ones on the phone? This has been asked before, but there are no clear answers.
iCloud Notes not syncing says the solution is to update to El Capitan or log out of iCloud. But I am now on 10.13 and have had to log in to iCloud many times due to updates and new devices. All (Macbook Pro 2012 and iPad Pro) are on the latest updates. (Which is why the other one saying to "upgrade to El Capitan" is not helpful.)
In the past, the resource files that held the bar's configuration exited in SArtfile.bin files. These have been done away with in favor of Resource.car files, the relevant ones housed in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources.
While trying to install Windows with the Boot Camp Assistant a partition needed for installation could not be recognised. I deleted the partition created by Boot Camp Assistant and I created a new one (all in Boot Camp Assistant). Two other partitions were created together with the one I made. I still could not install Windows.
I've been getting frustrated with my 2012 macbook air running el capitan. My trackpad no longer registers clicking in the sense of a 'regular' quick click. Out of frustrated, I started applying more pressure and that would often work but after some more experimenting, I discovered that it's not a pressure issue, but a delay issue.
I plan on uploading my photos/videos from my iPhone to my computer using a usb cable. I suspect that my iPhone may have a virus because I've been to questionable site on accident. If I upload photos/videos I taken from my iPhone to my computer via usb cable is there a chance a virus can come through the connection?
The phone was wiped but they left their AppleID logged in. I deleted their AppleID and their iCloud account from the phone and replaced it with my own. Will my stuff still go to their iCloud?
I have a 2015 MacBook Air 128GB with Sierra Recent purchase as new from Apple, still under warranty). A couple of months ago I was looking at the SSD using DiskUtility and saw that the SSD seemed to be a lot more than 128GB, it looked like it was 256GB. 128GB was available to me and the rest was a CoreStorage partition. (Give or take a few GB for the Recovery partition.) So I thought that if I could remove the CS partition, I would have 256GB available to me, not 128GB.
Yesterday 13,000 photos from my camera roll vanished. This has happened before and usually the photos trickle back in over the course 10/15 mins and eventually they all come back. This time they only get to about 4000 (if that) and then the photos app crashes, similarly if I try and view any of the photos or videos.
Software: macOS: Sierra (10.12.6) Microsoft Word for Mac Version 15.39
I have decided to turn my old Mac Mini (2011) into home media center. To do that I simply connected it to TV using HDMI cable (directly via HDMI port) and installed Remote Mouse on it as well as corresponding app on my iPhone. Now if I use Remote Desktop / Teamviewer app - I can wake up this Mac Mini and can use Remote Mouse app from phone to control it without any problem (rather flawlessly).
I have a couple of audio books on my MacBook which I want to listen to on a Road Trip. I imported the files in iTunes and then changed the media type to "Audiobook". Now they show up as an audiobook, but it seems they won't get uploaded to the iCloud. Q: Do I have to label the files as normal Music files with the genre "Audiobook" to be able to listen to them on the go, or is there a way to upload audio books to iCloud?
As of now it's set to ⌘Q everywhere which is very unintuitive and being next to ⌘W, which I use a lot, it's very annoying too. ⌘Esc doesn't do anything (on my laptop at least) and I think it makes sense to remap the quit action to it. I think I can do it one by one - one app at a time. But is there a way I can change it for all the apps at once - from one setting, or using some tool? And I would like ⌘Q to do something else or nothing at all.
After I upgraded to High Sierra's APFS, afp://ipadress no long show me files on the remote computer’s APFS drive (only spinning drive shows up, and if the remote computer doesn’t have a spinning drive I cannot visit the computer). But afp://computername still works.
I would like to be able to tick or untick a checkbox in iWork Numbers based on certain parameters. The spreadsheet is a list of projects (Column C), each composed of several tasks (column D). Column B is a completion date that gets filled in by the user when a task is completed. Column A contains checkboxes.
I have a problem on my iMac (late 2013) ever since I installed High Sierra (10.13 - 17A405). When my iMac goes into sleep mode because I'm away for too long, or when I manually activate sleep mode (with holding the power button for a few seconds), it always restarts because of an encountered problem.
What is the maximum screen resolution possible with AirPlay Extend Display on the Apple TV 4K? I.e. is it possible to treat an Apple TV 4K connected to a 4k TV as an external Retina-enabled display with a physical 3840×2160 resolution mimicking a 1920x1080 display, but with better font clarity etc?
I'm trying to build what seems like a dang simple formula, but for some reason it's stumping me. Here's the idea: so that it returns "$100" if B4 contains "apple", or "$200" if it doesn't.
Normally I have my MacBook Pro connected to power when it is on its external display, but at the moment I'm using it without the adapter, with an external mouse, keyboard, and display (a Dell U2515H through an HDMI cable). Every couple of minutes or so the display enters power save mode and the keyboard becomes unresponsive; then after about another minute they switch on again. Q: What is causing this behavior and how can I fix it? I've already tried System Preferences > Energy Saver and increased the "Turn display off after" to 1 hour, but that seems not to help. This question is similar to How to avoid external display going off after I unplug a MacBook from the AC Power?, which is so far unanswered.
I seem to have issues with iotop on High Sierra, googling it I find no useful information. The output is garbled and almost unusable.
The character looks like the power button on the Mac. When I copy it from the web, it is being replaced by a question mark.
Will Apple provide firmware updates for Airport routers to patch the KRACK vulnerability? Apple's abandonement of the Airport product line has me worried.
I'm in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5, and the last supported version is Opera 37.0.2178.54. Now it automatically updates to 48.0.2685.39 and after I close Opera I cannot open Opera again because it tells me “This version is not supported, you need 10.9”. In version 37, there is no preference setting to turn off autoupdate - you get it whether you want it or not.
There is a new vulnerability in WPA2 called KRACK (short for Key Reinstallation Attack), as described in The Guardian article: 'All WiFi networks' are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers' According to the article: The vulnerability affects a number of operating systems and devices, the report said, including Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, OpenBSD, MediaTek, Linksys and others. Have there been any security releases for iOS fixing this?
Good day everyone, I'm developing an iOS application and I was wondering how many times I can deploy to my iPad Mini (the device I use to test) without signing up for the iOS Development Program again. I had signed up before, but I don't have the cash right now to sign up again.
Look at screenshot. There should be only one everyday meeting. But its looks like 7 parallel meetings. It's desplayed right in Outlook for Windows. Deleting meetings from MacOS Callendar don't help for feature days and I can't delete meeting and create new, because i'm not an initiator of this.
My iTunes (12.7) running on MacOS 10.12.6 has a smart playlist called "Classical Music", which lists composer down the side. When you select a composer, all the tracks from that composer are displayed:
Can Preview keep the area of a rectangle constant when adjusting the size? Say that you draw a rectangle that is 6 x 4 (width x length) (unit doesn't matter) = the area is 24. I want Preview to, if I adjust the width to 8, the length should shrink to 3 and if I make it 10 wide, the length should be 2.4 and so on. Holding down the shift key you can make Preview scale the sides proportionally (increase 6 to 9, 4 is increased to 6) but I want to keep the area fixed while changing the length of the sides. If Preview can't do this, can you recommend some other tool?
For the past few weeks my new iMac kept freezing. After many, many hours with Apple tech support, both in the store and on the phone, we narrowed it down to something called SafariBookmarksSyncAgent which is sucking up all my memory, putting the memory pressure into the red, then off the scale. To use my computer, I have to keep the Activity Monitor up on the screen so I can force quit SafariBookmarksSyncAgent when it pops up every 3 to 5 seconds.
Is there a possibility to move Skype's "current call" windows (contains miniature webcam) to fullscreen windows? E.g. I opened up some movie in fullscreen, but I also need that little window to be above the movie. Is it possible to do somehow? Maybe using some additional software?
I am simply fed-up of adding bookmarks in Safari by long pressing the plus icon beside the safari omni-box so is there any one key keyboard shortcut to add bookmarks in Safari?
Not sure if this issue started with High Sierra or Sierra, but definitely have been coming across this issue more and more often. Like it or not, FaceTime ducks the volume of every other source during a call. And sometimes, after clicking the hang up button, volumes are not restored back to normal.
I bought a MacBook recently. It connects to all other Wi-Fi and hotspot devices but it does not connect to my university Wi-Fi. I have also done diagnostics; still does not become connected.
My iPhone 6 broke down and I've tried to use latest backup on my old 4s with no luck. Is there any way I can use it for my old 4s? Thanks
Middle click to paste is making scrolling impossible in Terminal on my thinkpad keyboard because of middle click pasting. I'd prefer to just disable it on that app, but globally would be fine. I found this question with 1 answer but I had too much trouble with Karabiner (it broke hyperdock) and it's specifically about how to disable middle click for terminal, not globally: How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal?
I have various folders with custom icons (some added by Resilio Sync, and some by other things) which drive me crazy in the terminal. Is there any way to hide them from the shell?
Does iOS allow tunneling through a tunnel? If so, how can I check or make sure?
The new iOS uses HEVC/HEIF for video and image encoding. PCs easily support the HEVC videos but not the HEIC/HEIF images. The only option right now for getting JPGs onto your PC is to set "Settings->Photos->Transfer to Mac or PC" to Automatic, but this also copies H.264 (AVC) encoded videos. Is there anyway for me to get the best of both worlds and have JPG images copy (via USB) but keep the videos encoded as HEVC?
I have already installed macOS High Sierra. But it still shows download option in the App Store. Also, the some of the new features that High Sierra is providing like Automatic stopping of videos with sound in Safari, was already updated in my system before I even clicked the download button for installing macOS High Sierra.
I've been experiencing a painfull low internet speed on my Air 11" Late 2010 with the Sierra 10.12.2. Neither my phone nor other user's computers on the network are experiencing this issue. Prior to this problem occurring, I used a non-official network cable adapter.
I was watching some Netflix on my Apple TV 4th generation, when I by mistake sat on my remote, suddenly a message appeared in the upper right corner, the message was like “Hold the button to activate stackshot in X seconds”, I can’t remember the specific text but it was something like the above mentioned. So what is Stackshot? What is it used for,? And how do I activate it again? Apple TV 4th gen. tvOS 11
I moved my Photos media library to an external hard drive. Everything works fine except the ejection of the hard drive. Everytime I try to eject it my Mac says that it is in use:
I am using iOS 11 in iPhone 5S but its wi-fi is getting turned-on automatically, is there any way to stop it.
I saw today someone transferring data from two iPhones (not sure which models). I suspect that was for the sake of backup/restore data one phone from another, but I'm not entirely sure about that also. When he needed to authenticate that the 2nd phone is really is the phone that needs that specific data, there was an animation of bunch of blue dots in shape of a circle on the 1st phone (the phone that should send the other one the data), and the 2nd one has needed to scan this animation (much like QR code) in order to get authenticated. What I want to know if this function is integrated in the iOS, and if it is, what is it called? Update: I've added a short GIF that demonstrate what I've saw.
Apple's Contacts app has been acting up for me recently. About the same time that iCloud sync stopped working I noticed that when assigning photos to contacts, they don't stay saved. They appear to be saved at first but when returning to the same contact card a minute later or so, the photo is gone.
about a year ago i had to change my email because my old one got hacked. i changes my apple id to fit my new email and deleted my old one. the old email i used does no longer excist as i deleted that one too, but everytime i try to update my apps, itunes ask me to log in to my old Apple ID with my old email saying "sign in to itunes store. enter the password for your apple ID (old email)? i have made sure my new email is registered on my phone and it is the email that is used in app store, it is also the one displayed in the settings. how can i fix this????
I have just discovered that my ex husband's email contacts are on my email contact list. I contacted Apple and they said our accounts aren't linked but from what I have since been reading, it seems that we might be sharing an icloud account that I'm not aware of. How can I find out if this is the case please. We've been apart for five years but I have recently had on line security issues
I have a mac book pro which I enabled syncing desktop and Documents to iCloud. This is working fine. I also have a iMac which has a different desktop and documents. If I also enable syncing desktop and documents to iCloud on the iMac. Does it separate the documents & desktops into different folders on iCloud. Or Does it merge the two together into one desktop and one document folder. If it merges, what does it do with files and folders that are the same name but different documents?
I have an old MBP (mid-2010, pre-thunderbolt, with NVIDIA 512mb) and want to connect it to a Dell 30inch display for the first time. All of the resources I can find talk about needing dual-link DVI to support full 2560*1600 resolution - but is there any reason a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable won't work? It's just a cheaper solution if it will work. Any advice appreciated. Editing around suggested duplicate answer: I'm specifically talking about IF a MDP to DP cable will work, not "WHICH MDP to DVI solution will work".
I use my Apple ID on both a MacBook Pro (for work) and an iMac (at home). Here is the screenshot of my ID in System Preferences on my MBP.
I like the feature in the Contacts app that lets me associate one contact with the “related name” another, e.g., make note of a contact’s father and spouse.  Because any of these related names must also have their own separate contact card, these related names display in blue, as if they are a hyperlink.
My personal laptop broke and was in repair for weeks. During that time I used my work laptop for most things. After using iCloud Drive for months now I have no idea how it works. It is way to complicated and black box for me, and as soon as I can gain access to my files I plan to never touch it again. I can't accurately describe what has happened because I hardly understand the mechanics of iCloud so its all really a blur at this point but basically when i starting using my work laptop, second desktop and documents folders were created. Those appeared nested in the regular desktop. I may have changed the name of one of the desktops, or both. I might have moved folders, again I don't know what is and is not allowed.
Want to know what can be the problem and if it worth repairing. Just the fan boots up, the screen is black and the keyboard won’t light up. Apple genius could not troubleshoot.
Comparing three iPhone 6s side by side, I noticed fairly significant differences in the appearance of colors between them. One in particular is much warmer looking, especially for whites. I have confirmed that nightshift is off and that no screen accessibility settings are enabled. I tried to capture the difference in the image below with limited success.
I switched from Linux to macOS Sierra not long ago. There are some handier features of KDE plasma over macOS. I want to know if there are alternatives for macOS. ( Better free if available ) mouse scroll + command/option/controll/fn => tune transparency of window on focus. mouse drag (inside window, instead of on title bar ) + command/option/controll/fn => drag window
I can to enable some program installed from tarball... using this command: But how to do it for all users (including root profile)?
My hard drive began writing a lot and I was having to wait a lot to launch apps. The Activity Monitor told me that launchd had written over 600 megs to the drive. So I ran this: And got this: Is it normal for LaunchD to write over 600 megs of data to /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64? Having come from linux where I knew what everything was doing and why it was doing it, I can't seem to find anything that explains this behavior.
I have updated my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra 10.13. I previously used Paragon NTFS but now it's not working so I uninstalled it. However I noticed I can still read and write to my external hard drive without any other app. Does this mean macOS High Sierra natively supports writing to NTFS external drives?
Is it possible to make OS X execute a script when document is printed ? My printer is connected to a power switch which is controlled with a REST API and the idea is to switch the printer on only when it is needed (basically while printing). Any command (bash, AppleScript) can be used if it can make a call to a rest API (http://10.10.0.1/switchon).
I'm running macOS 10.13 on a MacBook. Users & Groups show me one Current User and a deactivated Guest User:
I found this question and answer iOS undo text field clear (x) via a Google search. Thing is, when I shake my iPhone nothing happens.
Basically want to take my Keychain folder (from old Macbook) onto a new MacBook Pro, then open the login.keychain on the new MacBook, which ideally would show my iCould, system keychain, system roots too, correct?
I have tried different mounting methods, same result: Finder, command line (mount -w -o nosuid -o nodev -t afp afp://server_name/share_name ~/path_to_mount). I have also tried to mount to the default /Volumes/ path, the same result. I can not reload to associated deamon /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist since it is protected by SIP. I have tried everything with SMB sharing also.
I’m trying to transfer my WhatsApp backup from my Windows Phone to an iPhone following the instructions given in a previous answer Restoring WhatsApp's chat history to iPhone. This method worked for me when migrating from WA for Android to WA for iPhone. This may not work with your WP backup of WA. If this should be the case, please leave a comment below. Warning: Please create a separate backup of your iPhone before following the steps below. Step by step instruction: Make sure you have installed and configured WhatsApp on your iPhone.
Cryptocurrency wallet bter.com/mobileapp are asking me to install its app directly from corporate repository. It's firs time when I'm able to see such thing.
Is there a way to see the application switcher (the one pops up when hitting ⌘+⇥ / CMD+TAB) on all connected displays?
I want to install Xcode 6 or 7 but I don't have a stable internet connection so installing the .dmg file with around 2-4GB file size will probably end badly. I was thinking of a way where I can install it safely where if I lose my internet or receive slow connection, I can automatically resume it normally without failing the download. This would be possible if I install it through the App Store but I can't seem to find how I can get specific versions. Is there a way to do this or another method that would suit my situation?
Under previous versions of macOS, to get an idea of what Time Machine was up to I could simply open Console.app and enter "backupd" as a filter in order to see lots of useful messages, in particular things like the space required for each volume being backed up, whether a deep traversal (full scan vs. event log) is being used etc., all very useful for examining slow/large/new backups and such. However, under Sierra Console.app has been redesigned and I can't seem to find any of these messages any more, just some stuff about loading preferences. So my question is; is it still possible to access the same detailed Time Machine/backupd messages somewhere (not necessarily Console.app), and if so how/where?
I'm having this really weird issue with my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, macOS Sierra 10.12.6). For the past two days it have started a reboot loop at night. It will simple starts rebooting out of nowhere. It even reboots in safe mode or recovery mode. I have tried: Disk utility first aid. Internet Recovery mode. Deleting /Library/Caches. PRAM and NVRAM reset. ESET scan. Unplug / Plug in Charger The only thing that seems to work is doing a force shut down and leaving the computer alone for a few hours. If it happens again I'm going to try: Reset the SMC Apple Hardware Test But, is there anything else I can try? I was able to get a error report when the computer restarted fine:
We've been having trouble with students in our new iMac lab not logging out, which ends up locking the screen and preventing anybody else from logging into the machine. While figuring out how to get the "Switch User" button to show would be a solution, we'd prefer to just disable the lock screen entirely. Is there an easy way to both prevent users from locking the screen (^⌘Q) as well as disabling Sleep and Screensaver when users are logged in? If there's a better way to approach the problem I'm all ears. Thanks!
At wit's end. Have MBP named newt running High Sierra. Have Windows 10 machine named "Vader" that's always up & running with a physical drive (X:) shared as //Vader/x with permissions set to Everyone having full control. Other Windows machines can access share just fine & read, write, etc. Windows 10 box has user Adams with no password & automatically logs in at boot.
Suddenly, after rebooting a Snow Leopard Mac Pro (2009), I cannot copy to the main disk, or even move one of its files, without having Mac OS X asking for authentication. Once I type the password in the dialog box, the copy is made, but this is not acceptable nor usable in the long term. I even think most apps won't like it...
I have encountered a problem when exporting a Keynote 7.3 presentation to QuickTime on a Mac. The presentation includes videos (from my iPhone) that play upon transition from the previous slide. While the video will start and play as required, at the end of the video it briefly shows the opening image from the beginning of the video, before the transition to the next slide. This doesn’t happen when the presentation is played in Keynote, and only happens in the QuickTime version.
I'm running macOS Sierra. Lately, my left mouse click intermittently doesn't work in Chrome. I'll. I have to click a few times for the click to register. It's worst on the Magic Mouse, but also happens on the Magic Mouse 1. I tried the following: Restarting Cleaning surfaces of Mouse Reset PRAM Re-pairing the Mouse Make sure batteries are fully charged
I have several Smart Folders that find items by tag, e.g., tag = red. After upgrading to High Sierra, these Smart Folders stopped working, i.e., they show no files. (The files are still tagged.) I tried creating new Smart Folders that find items by tag and those don't work either. Any ideas on what's wrong or how to fix it?
I want to transform my list of reminders in Reminders.app into a checklist inside a note in Notes.app. I tried dragging the list from the list of lists from Reminders to Notes and that didn't work. I tried dragging the contents of the Reminders list to a new Notes note and that imported the content with a [ ] before each item. Is there a way to convert theses into Notes' native checklist items?
I'm trying to slim down my email archive by removing attachments I no longer need, using the "Message > Remove Attachments" command in Apple Mail. After removing several GB worth of attachments within Mail, I noticed that my ~/Library/Mail/ folder wasn't getting any smaller. Digging into the folder structure, I found that all of the attachments I had 'removed' from the emails are still present in the filesystem, deeply nested in the ~/Library/Mail/ folder. I've tried quitting and restarting Mail, rebuilding the mailboxes, and restarting the computer, but the files remain.
When tidying my downloaded iBooks (not all from the Apple Store)my iPad got stuck trying to remove a download. I now cannot purchase any more books because my iPad won't complete the deleting process. I've tried signing out of my iTunes account and signing in again. Holding down the power and home buttons until the Apple logo appears. Nothing seems to work. I have, however, yet to update to iOS 11.0.3 will this resolve the issue I'm having with iBooks, once I complete the update?
I'm new to the filming/editing game and I am only equipped with my iphone 7+. I recently purchased a dual lightning adapter and Lavalier Lapel Microphone. I've started an ASMR channel that relies on delicate sounds + spoken word simultaneously I was wondering if it was at all possible to have both the Lavalier mic and standard iphone headphones plugged in at the same time and have their own separate audios being recorded so that the video sounds layered? I'm trying to avoid having to record voice-overs at a later time and I am worried about the voice taking precedence over sounds (or vice versa) essentially, I am asking for the simplest way to have segmented sound and still use my phone.
I just updated to High Sierra, now I see this this message (as shown in the screen shot)  Could somebody help me - a) Find out why / how and by whom fuse was installed (I have not done it specifically as far as I can recall) b) How to upgrade it to remove the error Thanks for your help.
I have experienced this twice in the last 48 hours, both occurring around the same time. Are the times correlated or coincidence? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
In Notifications Preferences, I have the "Show Message Preview" option disabled for Mail.app, but nonetheless, message previews still appear in Notification Center. How can I fix this? macOS Sierra, Mail.app 10.3
New to Mac. I'm trying to find a way to stop showing thumbnails for files. With documents, I want to see the icon for the type of file it is (word, spreadsheet, database, etc) because I work with files in multiple formats, so it's easiest for me to find them this way.
After my recent software update my iMessage and FaceTime account changed to my husbands on my iPad. How do I change it back to mine?
Test connection to nfs $ telnet localhost 2049 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Test connection to nfs
Previously, when previewing a video in Quick Look, scrolling right and left on the trackpad would scrub forward and backward, but after upgrading to macOS High Sierra, this seems no longer to be the case. Is there any way to re-enable this setting? Or, if not, are there any alternative ways to scrub? (Dragging the line on the progress bar is not nuanced enough, especially for longer videos.)
Previously with El Capitan, an app such as smcFanControl (2.6) could furrow in an obscure way into the OS. Has something changed in either Sierra or High Sierra? After sleeping and waking up, the same app (in the same version) now requires re-entering the sudo password, or otherwise it fails to run in the menu bar.
I just took an update today of OS Sierra 10.12.6 on my work laptop (MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)). Which I had been putting it off until now.
I have an Automator workflow which uses a variable to move Finder items to the trash. It used to work fine, but after editing the workflow, the link between the last two actions is broken.
I got a new phone and I have everything backed up on iCloud. Everything restored (apps, phone contacts, etc.) exceptfor the photos. How do I get them from iCloud on to my new phone? Thanks
I have enabled iCloud Photo Library and selected "Optimize iPhone Storage" on my iPhone. There are 20000+ photos and videos in the "All Photos" album on my iPhone, but since the storage of my iPhone is only 16GB so most of the photos and videos on my iPhone are not full-resolution copies. Now when I connect my iPhone to my Mac and try to import all the photos and videos to a blank library in the Photos app, it says there are only 200+ photos available for importing. Is there a way I can import all the photos and videos on my iPhone to my Mac? Note that I don't want to turn on iCloud Photo Library on my Mac Photos app, because at some point I will reach the storage limit of iCloud Photo Library and I will have to start deleting photos from it, and I don't want to lose the local copies of them on my Mac. My situation
I have taken pictures on my iPhone 8 Plus but when I try to look at them on my MacBook running Sierra 10.12, they all have a triangle on them with an exclamation point. I am not able to edit the photos. What can I do to fix this?
Yesterday I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Air on the partition that contained macOS, so the only OS that exists on my laptop is windows. With addition I had also installed BootCamp drivers on it. But there still exists a problem with the camera, speakers and tilde and ash keys.
We have a Terms and Conditions button that opens a web view. We can put it inline in the app as a view controller that opens when you tap the button, rather than a web view. Have you gotten this rejection, and what did you have to do to get them to approve it?
I haven't seen this request in earlier version of xcode. Why does XCode Helper require this permission?
I have rsync set up, I have set up rsync as a UNIX executable and named the bash script as 'backup' and I saved it to /usr/local/bin so whenever I type backup in terminal it would do a backup to my external disk. But I want it setup in such a way whenever I plug in that drive it would run that bash script. I have already googled this but it doesn't work with High Sierra.
My podcast app decided to mark as unplayed 200+ episodes of a podcast I have listened to for years. In iOS11 I'm not even sure how to mark these as unplayed individually anymore, let alone altogether. Is there a way to do this? I am currently trying to go through and delete each, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. Thanks!
I developed an application that is currently implemented using Xamarin.iOS. I've come to a point where I think it's better to rewrite my app using Swift.
It seems like I cannot send messages on Google Hangouts via Messages after upgrading to High Sierra.  I still receive the messages because I'm authenticated. Is there any hope to keep writing in Hangouts via Messages?
There's a nice lsappinfo tool that lets you do things like monitor for app switching. I'd like to write a program that runs lsappinfo listen and takes actions when the foreground app changes (specifically, change LED colors on my new keyboard).
I'm trying to make it so I can press ctrl + cmd + [ to create « and ctrl + cmd + ] to create ». I tried searching google and couldn't find anything that would allow me to do this and all the tutorials seem to do things differently from what I'm trying to achieve. I have tried *=URL=* but I can't figure out how to setup custom keypresses.
I was just wondering if Mac apps can delete files in ~/documents and ~/desktop without user permission?
I'm facing a serious problem on a clients MacBook Pro (High Sierra). He has transferred his domain to a new provider, where I recreated his email accounts and added them in Mac Mail before the migration took place, so he had both accounts in his list. I expected to do a clean mail migration once new messages started pouring into the new account. However, I seem unable to move the messages from the (now defunct) old account into the new one. The move progress stays at 1/316, taking over an hour now. I also attempted to export the inbox and sent folders, which produces some empty mbox files. Reimporting them should - according to the Apple help pages - create a new imported folder in the folder list, but it does not.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 120GB of disk (iOS 10.12.6)  As you can see, System is taking 60GB of disk space, leaving me with just the half for personal use. How can I shrink / optimize that?
When I read the arguments of csrutil it says csrutil clear will erase the existing configuration SIP: My question is does executing csrutil clear erase the configurations for SIP?
I am using two monitor screens and I would like to use the open command in the terminal to launch an app on a specific monitor. Is it possible to do it?
I have bought an external monitor (ASUSP277) but I have noticed a difference in colours between the monitor and my Macbook Pro. It's quite annoying, especially since I'm using it for web development. I'd like to have the same colour profile between my Macbook and my monitor, is this something feasible? I've tried to modify it in the system preferences and change the colour profile of the ASUS monitor but there is no profile that comes even close to the one on my MBP. I'd be more than happy to have your expertise on this one,
I recently upgraded the computers to High Sierra. My server contains a volume incorporating a sparsebundle. In the past, this volume (/Volume/Videos) archived without problems. Once I ran my script on High Sierra, it fails with:
I had bootcamp with windows 10 running nicely on my MacBook Pro 2016, until one day a windows 10 update caused the virtual machine to misbehave, freeze, show black screens. Startuprepair, DISM, trying to reinstall windows 10 from inside the OS - all didn't work and were giving me errors.
I am using my gmail by plugging into the ship's network and accessing the internet via satellite. However, each time I use my email on my MacBook Pro, the process is dragged out by downloading around 1500 emails each and overtime I log in. Is there a setting to prevent this unnecessary action. Thanks Captain Marc
My default PDF App is Preview. Now, I have one folder (with sub-folders in it) with PDFs that I would like to have to open all the time with another program. So basically I need to put a "Default program" for a restricted path. Unfortunately the "Always open…" is not an option (even if it would work), because the documents in this folder change pretty often. Does someone know if Automator or AppleScript may help me with this?
I have imported 3 videos into final cut pro. Each video is, on its own, at least 20 minutes long, but I've cut them all to be 15 minutes, 5 seconds, 5 minutes in order. There are "straight" (the most basic) cuts to transition from one to the next (i.e., nothing fancy).
Is that possible? Since all the hardware, the MAC addresses are the same, can the phone authenticate using some kind of authorization token other than the password? Some session ID?
It seems Google recognizes voice better. Still, it provides no system-wide integration for their voice service. Not even an official Chrome extension.
I use an external monitor as well as my MBP monitor. I use several spaces, as well as a fullscreen app. Ever since High Sierra came out, when I switch to the space for the fullscreen app, I am immediately switched to a different space containing another window of the fullscreen app, which is then focused. I have tried a couple applictions now, and they all exhibit the same behaviour.
As seen in the following screenshot the Command and Option keys have been swapped via System Preferences | Keyboard | Modifier Keys: Internal keyboard
My goal is to create a clean install of MacOS, yet still have access to the old install (somewhere else like another partition) while I work on the new install to match the old one. I am assuming that I will miss some items initially and will need to refer back to the older install.
I need to repair a MagSafe power adapter, which has a damaged cable. As you can see in the photos, there is damage to what appears to be shielding. Update: This frayed wire is not “shielding.” See the accepted answer and its comments for details.
I set my kernel to boot up verbose using These logs are what I wanted to see, but how can I view the log after booting? I searched all log files without success.
I have a MacBook Air mid-2011. Because of a water damage I changed the motherboard and magsafe power board. Everything works normally except the keyboard backlight and audio headphones, The MBA recognizes the headphones only if I press the sleep button and then wake it up. The sound is not clear through the headphones also although it is normal through the build-up speakers. Is there any solution?
I have nearly 1,500 tags. Somehow, they are all marked to appear in the sidebar. My MacBook Pro is 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 16GB of memory, but it still takes 7 seconds for Finder to remove just one of them via Finder Preferences. Is there anyway to remove all of the tags from the sidebar using Terminal or by some other means? I do not want to delete them, just remove them from the sidebar. Thanks!
I have a brand new MacBook Pro purchased from Amazon. I just set everything up and every few minutes while using Chrome or Firefox, the Mac freezes. Specifically, no application or icon is responsive but I can still move the mouse cursor. If it helps to know, closing the lid does not switch off the screen. The only way out is a hard power off.
I have a folder full of white SVG icons, but preview shows them over a white background, and I can't find a way to easily preview them all. I saw Gapplin, but 1) I find it hard to believe an external application is necessary for such as simple task, and 2) it seems I'd need to open 100 windows and tab through them. How can I preview all of my SVG files?
I personally find line wrapping frustrating when reading long log outputs and I want to disable line wrapping in the OSX terminal (also tried iTerm2) and found the useful command "tput rmam". However, when the terminal window is small, it just cuts off the output. How can I truly disable line wrapping while maintaining the full output?
I’m trying to send messages by using my Apple ID email instead of my number. I went to send and receive everything is set right my iCloud is check and so is my number which I can’t uncheck. I want to be able to receive and send messages using my iCloud just in case I don’t want that person having my number. How can I do this?
I use a lot of screens, and each screen I have dedicated to a specific task, generally. What happens is that I have some apps, like Finder and Terminal, that I want to follow me when I switch to them. So my dream workflow would be like follows: I'm working on a project. I need to grab a quick file or run a quick terminal command, I cmd-tab those apps and they come to my current screen so I can run a command or drag and drop a file.
I have noticed that an app I use has been requiring me to download tons of data whilst in the app despite there not being any new (internal, I.e. non-AppStore based) updates. As far as I can tell at some point in time, perhaps near the release of iOS 11, Apple added a new feature which causes iPhones to delete app data (documents etc.) partially or completely. I’ve seen a few people mention this online but I haven’t heard of any solution besides ”delete some data yourself” which doesn’t seem to always work either. Is there any way to disable this? Thanks in advance...
I would like to direct all SSH connections to go through the bluetooth tethering. I think this might involve some command-line config that specifies the bluetooth hardware device. Maybe a SOCK5 setup? I'm not too familiar.
I have received so many different answers and I'm hoping to get one from someone who knows about this specific issue. My MacBook Pro was stolen last week, but it is still showing on my devices on find my iPhone as "offline." If the thief wiped the laptop, would it still show as offline or would it be completely removed? I read something about it being possibly stored in the NVRAM so it could still show up like it is but I want to be certain. Thank you so much for your answers
So I'm playing around with the Spotlight calculator, and came across a weird thing: If I type 1..1, I receive 0.1 5..6, I receive 3 523..6.1, I receive 31.38 Does anybody know what mathematical function this is? Edit: This works on macOS Sierra 10.12.2, as for people in the comments, it looks like three dots are required on macOS High Sierra.
Is there some state my laptop is maintaining that is being cleared on a restart? If so, how can I clear it manually without having to restart?
Can I install 16 GB 1600 MHZ RAM on my MacBookPro 13" (Early 2011-4GB 1333 MHZ DDR3 ) with 2.3 GHZ i5 processor? According to Apple support, I can upgrade upto 8 GB only and does not provide information about 1600 MHZ RAM. Please help.
I am working on a Mac (Yosemite, OS X 10.10.5) and I have several mht files which I created on Firefox by selecting File → Save as MHT. I have already associated the files with Firefox — it opens them by default — but the files continue to show the exec icon. What I am looking for is a way to make macOS recognize the mht file extension: for eg, when a PDF file is renamed in macOS, only the name of the file is highlighted but not the extension, however when a mht file is renamed, both the name of the file and the file extension (mht) are hightlighed. I tried browsing to Firefox -> Show Package Contents -> Contents and, since it was missing, I added mht to the Info.plist using TextEdit:
Apple Music groups tracks in classical music albums by work and movement, which is great. Here's an example:
Since upgrading to iOS 11, I've noticed that apps running in the background are closed much more aggressively. Two specific cases that are especially frustrating: Google Maps, which was in the middle of routing me, was closed and I almost missed my exit because it didn't give me a notification. Google Maps, which was in the middle of routing me, was closed and I almost missed my exit because it didn't give me a notification. WhatsApp is frequently closed, which stops notifications from showing up on the desktop app. WhatsApp is frequently closed, which stops notifications from showing up on the desktop app. Is there anything I can do to prevent iOS from closing these apps? (and for completeness: "background app refresh" is enabled for these apps, and this is on an iPhone 6)
here's whats going on: I bought an OS10.11 USB drive because I have an audio mixer driver that will not work beyond 10.11. So I try to install and I get the message(after the very long load in time)
I'm using a midi keyboard to record in garageband. It records fine and plays back correctly for the most part but I'm having one small issue with playback.
I just tried to upgrade my Macbook Pro 2016 from Sierra to High Sierra, and the system hung in the upgrade process (screen was black, but keyboard backlight was still on). After I rebooted the system, it booted directly into the Recovery partition.
The previous iPhones had plastic lens elements. What about iPhone 8/8 Plus or X? Did they switch to glass or still have plastic elements?
For some reason I can't copy file more than 2 GB size on a FAT32 MBR USB. I thought the maximum file size limit is 4 GiB (exactly 4 GiB-1 Byte) on a FAT32. I've reformatted the USB again with Disk Utility, FAT32 MBR. Same result. can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume’s format.
I've never connected my iPhone to iTunes before. I don't have anything backed up on this phone, and the stuff on this phone is very important.
So, I was playing around with the diskutil command. Then I thought of mounting the EFI partition. It mounted successfully and I viewed its contents. When I right-clicked on a file I saw an option to move it to the trash.
I have created the Apple ID. Now when I try to download anything from the App Store and I log in with my ID and password, I see the message "this ID has not been yet used". What should I do? I have no more knowledge about these procedures.
shows two connections to The IP address 17.249.28.29 happens to be to Apple.
I have 4 hd in my MacBook Pro. Macintosh HD - system disk. But where did the 3 other disks come from and what to do with them?
I was reading this question but the answer is for root or sudo mode profile. You can see, using finder, something like: unmounting the Drive... Now from like normal user (non privileged mode). I'm forced to use sudo mode Let's go to mount the drive Again forced to use sudo mode The problem when the drive is mounted like root or sudo mode the write/read using copy & paste operation are limited from Finder. How to mount like staff mode similar to made for/from Finder?
On macOs High Sierra I am trying to set a default icon for .pdf files: when I used Adobe Reader all the pdf files showed its icon, then I uninstalled it and replaced it with Foxit Reader as default app to open the same file. However all the pdf files now show a white icon and I would like them to show the Foxit logo instead. I tried to copy-paste the logo from Foxit to a random pdf and it does work, but this cannot be applied to the whole configuration (this means that I should copy-paste everytime the logo in every single pdf file). Is there a way to set the default icon?
In OS X Finder (Yosemite), I want to browse files in column view, arranged by kind, and sorted by filename Z-A. How can I change this from the default A-Z sorting? I've tried switching to list view and reversing it there, but when I switch back to column view, it goes back to A-Z.
Since upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra, the People album shows an immutable list of people. There is no longer an "add people" button at the end of the People list, nor is there a place where unassigned faces identified by the Photos.app from Sierra can be seen. The Photos Agent process is otherwise idle. How can I get the missing unassigned faces list back and the "add people" widget?
Right after update to 11.0.0 (and all further updates up to 11.0.3) my iPhone SE experience became quite painful. I have two different symptoms: Many apps are freezing for several seconds at random moments often. Many apps are freezing for several seconds at random moments often. In few days after iPhone restart I can't hear my callers (and vice versa), when I restart my phone the problem is fixed for next few days. In few days after iPhone restart I can't hear my callers (and vice versa), when I restart my phone the problem is fixed for next few days. It's a 1 year old 64 GB iPhone SE MLM72RU/A which worked perfectly 1 month ago.
I have set up a .plist file which would automatically backup my files whenever I plug in my pen drive but I would like to eject it after the process is complete. How do I accomplish this? Here is my job definition - how do I modify it to eject my drive after backup is complete:
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra Version 10.13. So did my friend. Yesterday we chatted on FaceTime and I snapped a few photos using FaceTime's new Live Photo feature. Some of the photos didn't show up in my Photos app at all. Those that did show up appeared there about a minute after the button was clicked. This seems like an excessively long time. Is there a way to fix these problems?
Is it safe to delete all the iOS installer files that are stored in my computer? I have no more free space in the HD and I have seen that almost 16 GBs are used in old iOS installer. In the case I delete those file will have problem in the future for backup or restore procedures?
I recently purchased a 2017 MacBook Pro 13" no Touchbar, so I have just 2 USB-C ports available. I've spent literally like 2-3 days looking for the perfect USB-C Dongle (I like the ones that take the 2 ports and turn them into a full range of different ports)
The title says it all. I have an iPhone 7 with a broken power switch. Just now I needed to switch off my iPhone, but realised I can't because the switch is no good. I did ask Siri to do it for me, but she said sorry she can't do that. Is there another way?
I have multiple SSIDs in the building. When I choose a different Location, how do I make it connect to a different SSID? When I choose a different Location, how do I make it connect to a different SSID? When I choose a Location where Thunderbolt Ethernet is first in the service order, how do I make it disconnect from the SSID but leave Wi-Fi enabled for AirDrop? When I choose a Location where Thunderbolt Ethernet is first in the service order, how do I make it disconnect from the SSID but leave Wi-Fi enabled for AirDrop?
I have removed an smtp server the way as specified by apple for the mail application on macOS. However the smtp server keeps reappearing. I have followed the suggestions in *=URL=* but no luck. Does anyone have any idea on how can I force delete the smtp server? Thanks
With recent changes in macOS High Sierra it is now possible to share individual files out of iCloud Drive, but no option to share an entire folder and its containing files. Q: Is there a workaround that would allow sharing an iCloud Drive folder by leveraging the sharing of a single file?
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro that is connected to an external monitor in clamshell mode. When I unplug the power supply for a moment, such as when I move it to a different outlet or when the power blinks in the office, the computer immediately goes to sleep. My 2015 MacBook Pro behaves differently and does not immediately sleep. How can I use a 2017 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode without mains power? I called Apple support and they said this is by design and pointed me to this article, Use your Mac notebook computer in closed-display mode with an external display. They said it was a fluke that my old MacBook Pro worked. This is a problem in my usage scenarios because of the side effect of sleeping has on virtual machines (VMs) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections.
iPhone has a function to show facebook contacts. Android can show messenger contacts, but I believe there is a difference between them. How can I export Facebook contacts from iPhone to iCloud or Google?
I'm looking to get a USB-C Hub like the one in the image, there are several of those.  What I understand is that all of these hubs, no matter the brand, they take out 2 USB-C in exchange for 2 USB Type-C and several USB Type-A and SD Card slots, etc. The little Lightning icon means that it is the port used to charge the MacBook... but my question is this:
Apparently df is putting "i" after capital letters for each size. This makes sense for Kilobytes/Kibibytes, Gigabytes/Gibibytes, and Mebibytes (if that's what "Mi" stands for). But why would it use "Bi" for bytes? For example, part of my result of df -h is:
I have 3 devices: a Core 2 Duo iMac running OS X El Capitan (up to date on patches), an up-to-date iPhone 6, and an up-to-date original iPad. Calendar functionality has been used mostly on the iPad. Originally, there was a large local calender there which I recently told to sync with iCloud. Now, events added or edited there propagate to the iPhone, and events created or edited on the iPhone propagate to the iPad. However, all the hundreds of events created on the iPad prior to the switch don't show up on the iPhone. The iMac doesn't see any of it; in fact, it's unaware of the existence of the calendar that has most of these events on it, but it does sync properly with Google Calender. I've tried: force-refreshing calendar apps updating my calendar apps turning on and off all devices turning iCloud calender support on and off for all devices
If I invoke Quicksilver and type "activity", and then press spacebar in order to finish typing "activity monitor", instead of a space being included in my search string, it invokes quicklook on whatever the current target is. Quicklook also steals focus, so no further keystrokes arrive at Quicksilver. Is there any way to prevent this? I don't seen anything in the preferences.
I was navigating through a website but I forgot which one was it now going back to Safari History and searching for the website is a painful thing to do so I was asking is there anyway to open all your safari history with one click?
In the actual Notes application there are menu choices for changing the font of a note. However, this doesn't change the default font for new notes. There is also no Preference.../Settings... where the default font can be changed. Does anyone know how to change the default font of the Notes app on MacOS Sierra and/or High Sierra etc.
Surprisingly, web searches have not revealed much about this feature. All I've found is this GitHub page, but it's for a separate plug-in. Maybe it was released under a license that allowed Apple to make it part of macOS? Curious...
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra Version 10.13. So did my friend. We called each other on FaceTime. It took several attempts to establish a FaceTime connection. The first few times the call disconnected immediately when I hit the answer button. It didn't use to be this way before the upgrade. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra Version 10.13. When I play a gif or a video in fullscreen mode, a light gray band about the size of the Dock, but with no icons, appears along the bottom edge of the screen (see screencap below for illustration). It didn't use to be like this before the upgrade. Whenever I would play a gif or a video in fullscreen mode, the gif or video would occupy the entire display area. How can I fix this?
I am doing a scratch setup on my iPad. While trying to set up a mail account, a dialgo box came up asking for the password for the "personal" account. What is that? Where did it come from? Thanks. D
An Apple official article for iPhone says: When you use the Apple USB Power Adapter to charge iPhone, make sure the USB cable is fully inserted into the power adapter before you plug the adapter into a power outlet. (from iPhone User Guide at https://help.apple.com/)
When I type in a password in Terminal, it sometimes displays a key icon on top of the cursor. I thought that that meant that there was an integration with the KeyChain, but I don't seem to be able to find anything to corroborate that. What does this icon mean? Is it just an indication that something is a password? I see the icon when I type read -s ASDF as well, leading me to think it just indicates a "hidden" input.
Given a file path, I need to rotate all the pages in a PDF at that file path using nothing that isn't included with macOS. The wrapper for this will be AppleScript, so I also have access to the command line and therefore all of the scripting languages installed by default with macOS, but nothing that would require brew or, for example, Python's pip.
I have set up an ipod for my daughter and now all of my messages are sitting on the ipod. I have seen the instructions on how to block them from being received from now but can I delete what is already there without deleting them from my phone?
Regarding the vulnerability in WPA2 known as KRACK, has Apple released firmware updates yet for the Apple-branded AirPort Base Station devices?
My use case is a bit special: sometimes I use MBP as main so I'd like to store Photos library on an external drive, and sometimes I use iMac as main and I'd save it on local hard drive. Photos copied from cameras are stored in directories as references. What I want is that when I switch my main computer, I can copy the whole library and start using it. The problem I'm facing is that: Original library stored externally and always mounted as /Volumes/data/photo; Now I copied photos to ~/Pictures/photo, and referenced photos cannot be found; I then created /Volumes/data and add user permission add_file,add_subdirectory,directory_inherit.
Months ago I updated my iPhone 5s to iOS 10.3.3. Yesterday I bought a game and tried to download it. But before I reach the process of installation, I lost network connected and I had to stop downloading. As usual I paused the downloading process of the App. To my surprise it just disappeared from my screen as I never download. It nearly finished before it disappeared, and I needed to re-download it the next day! This never happened before I updated to iOS 10.3.3. In the past I could just pause the downloading process and leave a waiting icon on my iPhone screen to remind me continuing later. Is it a new feature of iOS 10.3.3? What for? And will there be a bunch of unfinished program data in my iPhone even if I re-download the App?
How can I configure Expose to enable closing of Windows with the middle mouse button, like it is possible in Compiz/Scale Plugin on Linux?
I have one curious question. Currently, I'm using the Anker Powerport+ 5 ports usb-c to charge my Macbook pro 2017 15 inches. The power delivery in the system report is 45W . Is it safe for the long run if I continue using this, the apple charger is quite big for travel. Thanks
I am getting this message in PS CC. I normally use a PC for all of my editing but my PC is down, so I am using a MAC. This is so foreign to me. I am trying to save a file that I imported in LR.
If this is possible while keeping Retina's weird scaling (1415x900 resolution anyone? :P) I'd like to know how it's done. Note: I've seen this question, and none of the answers seem to solve my problem.
On Mac, when you edit the design of a font and want to reflect the change in an app (i.e. display glyphs in an updated design instead of old one), you'll usually have to restart the app. Is there a way to quickly get the change reflected in all apps without restarting? I'm currently editing a font frequently and restarting apps every time is a pain.
I can't think what could be causing this. Happens with a mouse or trackpad, so I don't think it's a hardware malfunction. Why might this be happening, and how can I stop it? Edit with new info:
How can I get rd of these pop up error messages, I have deleted the Sophos Antivirus but still I am getting these popups, where is it coming from ? I am using sierra OS on mac book pro 2013 edition.
I have El Capital 10.11.6 and I do not wish to upgrade, however I need to clarify whether this means I cannot download and experiment with ARKit? The latest Xcode version that is compatible with El Capitan is 8.2.1 but when trying to download ARKit, it suggests using Xcode 9.x so I wonder if this is just a suggestion or absolute requirement?
Could someone tell what is the Preboot folder in /Volumes and may I delete it? UPD: Here is the files list inside Preboot folder.
Is it possible to set unconditional divert for some phone numbers/contacts, like on Android (like described here) ? The only contact specific option is "Block", which is quite different.
For about a month now, I was on my MacBook Air and the audio stopped working. This issue also stopped an app called Camtasia 2 (Mac Version) to stop playing the playback. I read many articles on how to fix this issue but non of them have work (e.g. red light in Headphone Jack doesn't work). And there is no option for Internal Speakers.
When the hard drive is inserted into the original MacBook, the OS starts correctly and allows to login. (I had to perform some verification and minor repair of the "Macintosh HD" volume on the MacBook running Lion for the OS to completely load.)
I have a local HTML file in MacOS. I would like to click something and have it play a song in iTunes. I know how to embed a direct link to the MP3 and have the browser play it, but is there a syntax similar to the ones that open iTunes store pages, and would instead play the song? An alternative would be shell commands to play it, since it is easy to open the HTML in Safari with another shell command. Last resort, AppleScript (but I already know how to do that).
I would like to have iTunes display the lyrics while playing and auto-scroll to synchronize with the audio. I am willing to add ID3 tags or XML or some other such thing to lyrics to support the sync, but I am not aware of a format/syntax to do so. “Cover Version” will display the lyrics (and any embedded codes) but no auto-scroll (and it is unsupported since Yosemite and iTunes 12.6.1)
I have Mac book pro 15 inch 2015 mid El Capitan OS with a Mag safe 2 85 W but i still not working no light no charging the problem I'm from morocco and there is no apple center and nearest seller is 1500 km away so i try to fix it myself the pin intput is 230 V but when i check the connector i found 3 V i think it should be between 16-18 V , also the adapter make noise since it failed its like "tak tuk tuk" .... I already tried: rest SMC :shift ctrl option power for 10 second I check electronic lines and all is Ok . Sorry for my language .
Our daughter has recently started playing a new game, and wanted to purchase virtual "coins" from within the app. As this was an in-app purchase, it required authorisation. Things went something like this: Daughter chose to purchase 1000 coins from within the app (cost: £0.99) App asked for authentication via Touch ID Daughter authenticated with Touch ID App displayed dialog saying that the purchase needed authorisation Dialog button was tapped to request authorisation My wife and I both received a request to authorise the purchase I provided my Apple ID credentials to authorise the purchase Back on my daughter's iPad, a message indicated that the purchase had been approved Another message then appeared indicating that something had gone wrong (I can't remember the exact wording, but it was pretty terse, something along the lines of "An error occurred"!)
When you try to turn on Wi-Fi Calling on iPhone (Settings->Cellular->Wi-Fi Calling->Wi-Fi Calling on This iPhone, using iOS 11.0.3) you get an interesting pop-up message: Enable Wi-Fi Calling?
The option, "show warning before removing from iCloud Drive" option is missing from the Finder preferences menu. So, each time I try to send something to the trash, the warning pops up. Any thoughts on why it would be missing, how I can get it back? OS: 10.11.6 (El Capitan) Mac Pro Early 2008
I am following the instructions to codesign gdb on my MBP however when I get to the end of the System certificate creation process, keychain says "Unknown Error = -2,147,414,007" and the certificate has not been created. It creates a certificate fine for login location, but system fails. What is the problem and how can I fix this?
When I ask Safari to "Remind me about this" while a page in Safari is focused it creates the Reminder but with a link to Chrome. This happens regardless of if the the reminder is created on iOS or macOS. Safari is my default browser on macOS. How do I get the link in the reminder to open in Safari?
I'm setting up an old Mac Mini as a home theater machine. We'll use it for, among other things, letting the kids FaceTime with Grandma on the big screen.
I have just upgraded from OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" to 10.12 "Sierra", and when I open intellijIdea, I get the following error: Can't start Git: /usr/bin/git Probably the path to Git executable is not valid.
Is there built in functionality for the Watch 3 to track my sleep patterns? Is there anything that figures out sleep cycles and duration, and tracks heart rate at the same time for a prelimnary analysis?
I am using an Airport Express as an extender for the purposes of using its ethernet cable for a network device. In this setup, The Airport Express also the behavior of extending my network from my Airport Extreme. However this is causing me problems with our Apple TV since the Airport Express WIFI spec is much slower than the Airport Extreme.
But I updated MacOS to 10.13, and the wrapped app will not launch. Wineskin/Winery still run, but will not run the Azuon MSI to install. I suspect that the much older video instructions will not work, but if I can't find someone who has succeeded, I guess I'll have to try them.
I'm using MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion (OSX version 10.8.5) and I want to copy some data from the MacBook Pro to an NTFS formatted external hard drive. I know that we can use the paid solution from Paragon by purchasing its driver. But I recently discovered that the DMG files from Paragon are provided for free on Seagate site here as well: https://www.seagate.com/in/en/support/software/paragon/
One of my apps got a big update with some mixed reviews, I'm interested in trying the new version, but won't do it if I can't roll back. For pre-iOS 9 systems, I heard you can backup ipa file from iTunes on PC, update the app on iPhone, and then if needed, overvrite back from iTunes and sync. But it doesn't work now - there's no ipa file for that app after iTunes sync.
I am running 10.11.5, after shutting my MacBook pro to trigger sleep, and then reopening it, the input method will always switch back to Australian, I want to keep it set to Squirrel (*=URL=* -- N.B. all the documentation for this is in Chinese). How do I make it so that squirrel is always selected? Ideally, I could even remove Australian, but for some reason, I am prevented from removing all the inbuilt English input methods.
I have some issue with a Mac OS application that I got from the App Store. The support suggested to uninstall the app and install it again. My question is: Is there any way this can help?
I am using Numbers to track data. I have a column that has comma separated values within each row (e.g. ‘I like cats, I hate rain, I like dogs’).
I'm trying to use Gboard dictation on my iPhone 6s+ running iOS 9.3.3. Dictation pops up when I long-press on the spacebar and it takes dictation BUT - once it decides to switch back to the requesting app - either by timing out or my pressing on the color bars - the colored dots spin forever. If I switch manually to the other app the text is there.
I'm trying to use Gboard dictation on my iPhone 6s+ running iOS 9.3.3. Dictation pops up when I long-press on the spacebar and it takes dictation.
I turned on Photo Library on my iPhone and uploaded everything, now I want to enable on my Mac. Is it going to duplicate all the photos that I've already uploaded from my iPhone to the Mac?
I've got some custom font styles that were created on another Mac which I'd like to export and import to another Mac, I don't see any obvious way of doing this — is it possible?  EDIT: Since there is some confusion as to what a custom font style is, the animation should show clearly what I'm referring to. So for example I would like to export/import the style "Highlight".
My parents just gave me their old iPhone 4 and I cannot get my Apple ID to work correctly.here is what I did: Reset all content and settings Selected English, United States, wifi, enabled location, and set up as new iPhone Signed in with my Apple ID (that I had just created during last reset) ([username].icloud.com) Agreed to terms and conditions Clicked use iCloud, and declined find my iPhone Set passcode 7 clicked set up keychain later Attempted to download app (Bible gateway) Clicked sign in with Apple ID
Drive is a default single partitioned GPT for fresh install of High Sierra. I simply erased the whole drive, set a new GPT scheme, formatted it as HFS+ and started the installer from USB. This went ok, but after a few days I checked the Volume after power outage and found that I can't repair it anymore...
I have mac book pro mid 2015 with high sierra. I backup to time capsule network drive. Initial backs ups transferred like this. day 1 250gb day 2 80gb day 3 60gb
The lid sensor seems to be working correctly. When signed into the OS, it correctly sleeps on close and wakes on open. Hardware diagnostic ('d' on startup) found no issues. I have tried wiping the disk and reinstalling Mac OS multiple times.
I have a set of old Thrustmaster TCS joysticks. I'd like to try using them again on my Mac Book Pro to play a flight simulator. I have seen some DB-15 pin to USB Joystick Adapters, but I have not seen a single one that indicate OS X compatibility. Has anyone found anything like this that works with OS X?
i have a little problem with my mac and external tv (LG 4K). Macbook air 2012 (intel HD 4000) LG 43UJ6307
I'm using Apple's Automator and want to create a workflow to send a group mail. I tried to follow the instructions from: *=URL=* However I receive an error message in the end as shown in this: screenshot
This has been an ongoing frustration for me, and I think for a lot of people in the community who use the keyboard a lot. Shortcuts like Command + TAB and Command + W are an everyday stroke for lots of apps. I am not sure what went into the decision for mac to assign Command + Q to quit.
I have recently moved from Android to iPhone 7 plus 128 GB and I thought to use this space by transferring files from my Mac to iPhone. However, I don't know how I dod it. It was easier for Android, just plug the phone and drag-drop.
Few days ago i purchased Mac Mini, but my USB Apple Keyboard is not working on Mac Mini. Keyboard works fine with Windows OS, but it does not work Mac Mini.
I have an external hard drive that I unplugged without safely ejecting and now it won't mount. I can see it if I write diskutil list, but when I try to mount it fails. It is a WD My Passport Ultra. When I try sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk4s2 it says the following:
Last night, I wanted to upgrade my system, so I downloaded macOS 10.13.1 Beta 2, but after downloading 2 GB files, it didn't do anything. I waited 10 mins but it was still the same, on App Store it just says "Update".
I've been searching for a lot of hidden/system files through the Finder recently and it's really annoying to activate the display of those system files manually each time (Tutorial for this here). So my question is: How can I permanently enable to see those files when searching through MacOS' Finder? (Using MacOS High Sierra)
Once clicking on apps in the iTunes connect home page, the information page shows up.  to
I recently upgraded to MacOS High Sierra and starting using Safari like before. All the old favorites/bookmarks are still in place and work perfectly fine but now, when I add a new favorite and want to put it on a certain position, it'll move back to the end of the (favorites-) list after a short while. Same thing happens when I want to save a webpage in the reading list. I'm using MacOS 10.13 and sync my Safari stuff with the iCloud. Is this a known bug or did they introduce a new setting I haven't found yet?
I need an AppleScript application on the desktop to watch a folder, also on the desktop, for files that have been moved to it. So far, I have:
There's a user from whom I inherited my work Mac who is listed under the /Users directory, however, this user doesn't appear in the Users & Groups system preference. I am an admin on the Mac so I don't think that it's a permissions issue. Does anybody know why this may be happening? FYI: My ultimate goal is to delete this user to free up disk space.
For example, am I guaranteed once 100APPLE is full, it will never change? I am manually backing up the folders and this would make my life easier. Also when moving to a new iPhone, it means I can continue to only back up the new folders.
I'd like to setup my own statistics site for my own released apps. I'm just wondering, if it's possible to have an iTunes Connect API where I can fetch all statistics from the iTunes Analytics area like downloads, crashes, paid applications, active users, in app purchases, etc. This kind of question was already asked a couple of years ago (around 2015) but without any appropriate answers.
In an attempt to restore my iPhone 6 Plus, and update it to the latest iOS version, my iPhone 6 Plus keeps on restarting during the Restore. It happens during the stage where iTunes displays Extracting software...
I have a clone of my internal SSD on an HFS+ partition of an external drive. I was wondering if there are issues with using such a disk as a startup disk with High Sierra.
for some reason the universal clipboard and handoff between apps stopped working but AirDrops, receiving and making calls on my Mac and iMessages continue to work perfectly. I contacted Apple Support and we went through resetting the bluetooth adapter but it didn't work. I gave up on that because Apple support insisted log me out from iCloud on all my devices but I don't want to do that because this will force me to set-up banking apps and 2FA code generators from scratch. Do you have a a suggestion that doesn't involve resetting the phone and the mac?
I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro. When I reinstall OS X Lion, I have to enter my own Apple ID. Another Apple ID won't work, I get message "This item is temporarily unavailable". How can I deassociate my Apple ID with this computer so that the next owner will be able to reinstall the OS with their own apple ID?
There used to be 5 built-in visualizers in iTunes, but now I can only find 2 — Visualizer and Classic Visualizer. I am told that the other Visualizers reappear if you run in 32-bit mode, but I can't find 32-bit mode anymore either. Did Apple take it away in Sierra or earlier? macOS Sierra, iTunes 12.7
A few days ago my MacBook Pro slipped out of my hands and fell onto the tile floor. The outside got banged up quite a bit and the Touch Bar no longer lights up but still responds to touches sometimes but not all the time.
Last night, not having a means to charge an IPhone 6s I turned it off. The battery level indicator at that point said the remaining charge was 21%. Restarting the phone in the morning, the battery level indicator said 11%. Does turning off and starting it several hours later normally require 10% of battery?
After upgrading to High Sierra, I'm getting this error message about 30-50 times a day:  Is there any way to find out what is causing this error? Any ideas how to fix it?
I have a Mac as follows: macOS Sierra Version 10.12.6 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid-2012) I am trying to use CommandOptionEject for sleep on MacBook. It used to work on my wired Apple Mac keyboard but its not working right now for some reason. CommandOptionEject still works on Wireless Mac Bluetooth Keyboard and the built-in Macbook keyboard, but not on wired Apple keyboard. I am trying to find if any mapping of these keys has been messed up somehow or if I can reassign it? How do I check if there is any mapping of these keys somewhere in the setup and I could not find inside the shortcut keys section of System Preferences.
I have a Numbers file which has a lot of elements that when I want to export it to PDF it becomes 12 pages of A4 size. All I want is selecting part of it and exporting only that part to PDF. Is it possible?
Bought a second hand MacBook Air and realized that I don't have Internet although I can establish a connection to routers. Tried that with many routers with no success. I thought it's not a hardware malfunctioning because I can see all the available networks and get good signals from both. And tried iPhone hotspot which worked partially this time but with a very limited download speed 0,18mbps while upload speed was 1.8mbps. iPhone with cable connection and bluetooth also worked but again with low download speeds.
I've been trying to create a script so when I run it, it removes the Wifi network from my remembered list. It's almost finished but I'm stuck on one little bit. Can anybody help me out? Here is my code so far:
Every time I try to run IGV, I'm greeted with can't find Java Runtime error dialog. I have Java installed on the system as running /usr/libexec/java_home returns /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home. I also have the JAVA_HOME variable set to the above value (though the value is not included in my PATH).
I've also checked that I'm signed in to iTunes, and I have restarted the computer, just in case. None of that has fixed the problem.
I forgot to mention, if I connect the device up to a monitor, I get an "invalid signal" status displayed on the monitor. Sometimes no signal is detected at all.
macOS sets xattr com.apple.quarantine, when I edit and save the file myscript.sh on a usb stick ?? Remove the xattr manually Thanks to -bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted But he next time, I edit the file, the xattr get's added again by whom? by the texteditor? by macOS (as part of the SIP System?) macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.6 Texteditor: CotEditor, Version Version 3.2.2 (203) USB Stick: SanDisk 128GB Connect Wireless Stick, plugged into the USB Port
I bought the HP Pavilion 22cwa 21.5-inch IPS LED Backlit Monitor off of Amazon to use as a second monitor with my MacBook. However, when using an HDMI cable, there is a connection problem and both the Mac and the monitor flash black repeatedly trying and failing to connect. Eventually the monitor will connect but this could take 5 minutes one day and 20 minutes the next. A Dell laptop connects instantly though, so I suspect it's a problem with my MacBook.
I've started using many charts softwares recently. I open 5 charts at a time and my iMac 5k gets laggy whenever I do that. I checked with iStat Menus and it looks like my video card's ram is almost maxed out. Since my non-retina mac os computers work just fine with more than 5+ charts, I assume Retina resolution is taking too much memory. How do I turn off retina mode and just use 2560x1440? I've tried pressing "option" key in Display preference, but it looks like it's still using retina mode.
I want to install IFTOP using Brew. However whenever I do it, I need to link it. The instructions given online doesn't work. It seems I need to type a PATH:(something here) every time before using IFTOP.
When I use touch with the -t option to change the modification time of a file, for example: Then the file that appeared as such before: Will now appear as: Why is that?
I have an apache web server running on my mac. Since upgrading to macOS High Sierra, if I connect to localhost or 10.0.0.7 in Safari (or any other web browser) I get the message "Safari can't open the page "localhost" because Safari can't connect to the server "localhost".
I'm having problems connecting over VPN on certain networks and I'd like to look at the VPN log. According to *=URL=* I can set the "Use verbose logging" setting via Network Preferences > VPN > Advanced. However the only options I get under Advanced are the ones for DNS and Proxies; there's nothing specific to VPN in there. How can I enable VPN verbose logging on High Sierra?
I'm from Switzerland with a FTTH connection. The ISP gave me an Icotera IGW3000 router. The problem is: all my Macs and iOS devices lose internet connection every x minutes. On my Macs, I have to run Network Diagnostics: iMac 27'' 2013 MacBook Pro 2016 On my iOS devices, I have to turn off/on wifi: iPhone 6s iPad Air 2
Since upgrading to the latest MacOS my Macbook Pro seems to be turning off while in sleep mode if left for a long time, I think only when it's not plugged in. If I close the lid and open it up in about 10 mins, it'll come out of sleep as expected and ask for my password. However if I close the lid and leave it for a few hours, I need to press the power button to boot it back up again asks for HDD encryption password and then prompts to log in.
In Photos 3.0 (from macOS 10.13 High Sierra) there is apparently two distinct ways to delete photos. Delete by holding Command in the menu, or Command+Backspace (⌘⌫).
The picture below shows how my desk looks after I got my new Mac Book Pro (2017). The bright adapter is for USB, HDMI, USB-C and Ethernet. The darker adapter is from USB-C to Mini Display Port.
If you press Cmd+Enter on iTerm while having the preference "Use native fullscreen windows" turned off, it goes into fullscreen but not the standard MacOS-way. Is there a way of doing the same in Terminal.app? I know I can use Ctrl+Cmd+F to enter a native full screen. And I know I can maximize the window manually to eventually consume all of the screen, but in this case the title is still visible.
I have a non-authenticated File Share on my Mac that I use to access from a Media Player at home, in my "private" WiFi network. However, the same shares are accessible in any WiFi network whereever I take my Laptop, i.e. at work or at a public WiFi in a Cafè. Is there a way I can only enable file sharing at home? I do not want to turn on/off file sharing in the system preferences every time I take my Macbook outside.
I have unintentionally overwritten the first 2 MB of the main APFS container on my Macbook. My work related files and other important stuff are backed up, but reinstalling the whole thing again (including apps) is time consuming so I was wondering if it was possible to attempt to restore the volume. Encryption was enabled on macOS prior to the incident and by grepping on the drive I still encounter several "NXSB" and "APFS" strings.
Preview.app is corrupting my images when I rotate them. Does anyone know why this might be? I've had issues with corrupt quicklook previews, but not this. Before: After opening in Preview.app and rotating counter-clockwise once, then saving:
I've recently completed a simple game, then I found out I need to be at least 18... No worries, you can let someone older publish it for you! Then how would anyone know it was ME who created it? Can my publisher register an apple ID with MY legal name but using their credit card / bank account and birthdate? Or can I use a different name (my name) when publishing it? Or can I at the very least write my name inside the game?
The network configuration in my house has changed (new router), so my Linux server (where my networked Time Machine folder is housed) has changed. 'tmutil destinationinfo' yields: How can I change the 192.168.0.12 to something else without Time Machine thinking that it's a completely new backup target (and not realizing that the existing backup is ours)?
I am new here and a rank beginner to Aapplescript. I do not have the privilege of commenting yet to seek clarification from the authors of the answers presented.
I mean when My Photo Stream is enabled on my iPhone, does it upload photos to Apple servers? Then downloads them on other iDevices?
I don't have a Touch Bar, but am trying to find out whether, under High Sierra, the predictive text feature works for languages other than English, like French or Spanish, after either a) changing the keyboard layout, b) changing the system language, or c) setting system preferences/keyboard/text/spelling to the other language.
I am unable to get the the Virtualizarion enabled on my bootcamp of windows 10. Using the boot into IOS then switch to windows trick I was able to get hyper-v support to "yes" but I haven't figured out a way to enable the virtualization. I have reinstalled the Hyper-V management tools and that seems to have no affect. Any other ideas would be so appreciated.
I've got a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected to a MacBook at my desk in my home office. When I'm laptopping outside the office (which is honestly most of the time), away from the keyboard/mouse, they stay connected, thereby chewing through batteries and popping up warnings.
On my new MBP with touch bar, it's inconvenient to use the function keys for me. This is because I do not feel where the keys are. Therefore I'd like to do following mapping. How can this be done?
I'd like OS X to stop switching Desktops when an app gains focus. The traditional solutions to this do not work in Sierra. There is now a new behavior: if an app is brought to the foreground twice in a row (i.e. click on the app icon in the Dock twice), then the Space automagically switches. I have not seen this new behavior until upgrading to Sierra, and have not yet seen any solution how disable it. Deselecting When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application, nor defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO stop this behavior. Is there some way to stop Spaces from switching spaces when the active app is activated a second time?
My sister gave me her extra iPad from several years ago and I can’t get into it. Problem is that she bought it for a dog shelter to use and the guy there had his own ID and password and she had hers. When she got it back from the shelter I deleted her info but cannot use the iPad because his info is in it and he’s long moved away and cannot contact him to have him delete it remotely. Is there any way to be able to use this iPad again?
i am trying to reset the i-mac from 2007 OS X 10.4. with command plus R or alt. These commands are not working, the computer restarts and do let me get to disc utility. Is there something i can do ? Is there anyone out there that knows and is willing to share their knowledge about doing this with command plus S mode ? Thanks in advance.
Basically what the title asks. How do you extract an installed app as an .ipa on a jailbroken IOS 4.1 without password to iTunes Account? Maybe this might entice someone to help.
In the past, we can hold shift and press minimize button to get slow genie effect. But in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, I can't use this trick anymore. How to enable this feature?
In the past couple of weeks, my laptop intermittently drops the Internet connection. It remains connected to the network, but Internet won't be working. It reconnects randomly on its own.
Starting approximately 24 hours ago all my apple devices (macbook air, iphone 6+, ipad original (ios5)) all had an internet connection so slow as to be unusable. Nothing's miraculously changed overnight unfortunately. 2 windows laptops & a windows smartphone are all fine.
Here is an image of the touch bar layout  I normally connect my MBP to two external monitors. When I try to use the expose and launchpad (The third and forth icons from the left) from the touch bar, there is no reaction at all. The behaviour does not change when I disconnect the usb-c to display port cables.
How to flush the cache of the DNS system on a macOS Sierra or High Sierra Mac? I have seen discussion of the following, but am not sure if this is the modern approach. And I am not sure what each does exactly.
If you suggest a third-party app, it must be available to the public at the time of posting, and any changes it makes must apply to the entire OS -- if it only cleans up e.g. the Messages dictionary, it will be rejected. I care about a whole OS solution.
Then, I need to take the value in the "EQM" column of that that row (1.5) and multiply it by the value in the "Flight Miles" column. The result is the "Projected EQM".
Currently I am using two usb-c ports to connect to two Dell U2713HM monitors, as seen in the picture  Is it possible to reduce to one port? Is there a smarter way to connect to external monitor (by using some hub for example)? I don't need extremely high resolution, just good enough for programming work.
I have an old-school Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II that came with 2x 500GB disks. I used WD's bundled RAID tool to set them up as RAID1 mirrors.
How can I use the Thunderbolt Display camera with my MacBook Pro? I have an Apple Thunderbolt Display and a MacBook Pro. I would like to use the camera on the Thunderbolt display rather than the one on the MacBook.
I have a weird bug with some of my applications in the "Applications" folder. When sorted by "Application Category," they will appear in a blatantly wrong category. For example, Discord appears under...Developer Tools? Yup. Is there a flag in an Application's contents that I can change, and even create new categories? Thanks.
In Linux, the following rebuilds, or updates, man's database of commands: But that option does not exist in Mac OS X's BSD version. How could I update man's database of commands on the Mac?
Right now, I am planning to have another account on my OpenDirectory on our Mac Server. How can I add another Directory Admin on OpenDirectory?
I use a lot of aliases in my ~/.bash_profile.. just to make my navigation easier and so on. I was wondering if I can make environment variables recognizable by OSX at a gui level.. for example if I open a finder window, and click ⌘g, I'd like to enter something like this where $dev is defined as /path/to/my/dev/folder ideas?
From my iPhone (iOS 11.0.3, and which has iCloud Music Library enabled), I can see all of my library in the Music App. However I noticed that some files would not play - a popup would appear saying "Item Not Available" and "This item can't be played".
*=URL=* Does this mean we'll see other Computers (which are not Apple built) run the MacOS? If not, then what would happen?
Is there a way with Apple Notes to set a time to be reminded of a note, as in Google Keep? Or must I set a reminder separately which reminds me to check the note?
I am using Safari 11 on macOS 10.13. Just wondering why right clicking the link text would make "Search with Google" moved to "Services"? Thanks. Normal Search with Google: More steps for a Google search:
I was trying to launch the photos library repair tool by holding down option-command while opening photos. However this seems to be not working in macOS high sierra. Instead of repair tool, the photos app is opened. I was referring to the instructions in the below link, to launch the repair tool: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967
I started Facetime and went to preferences to Signout from my old AppleID. After successfull signout I wanted to Login with the new one, but Facetime preferences are greyed out.
I'm used to taking screenshots from android devices using the adb command line. Is there a way to do the same with the iphone?
How to turn off SafariBookmarksSyncAgent forever? I have noticed my MacBooks pro hdd suddenly showing out of free space notifications (I have a bit more than 30Gb of free space) and after a while this space frees up again.
Is it possible to change DNS for cellular internet? How can it be done without a jailbreak? I've tried Apple Configurator, but didn't find suitable settings.
I was told to upgrade my Xcode 9 to 9.1 but when I tried it in App Store it says Xcode can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because macOS version 10.12.6 or later is required. But that is not the problem, my OS is macOS 10.12.5 Sierra, I decided to click the Update button of Software Update in App Store but when my computer is about to restart, I cancelled it when it prompts to close Terminal.
Chose app - eg. Click Safari Mission control exit animation plays, but an app OTHER than Safari has focus.
I also found no way to remove the bookmark in the bookmark menu itself - swiping, long click etc. do nothing.
macOS creates a history or previous version of each any every document/file I edit and this not only happens across the os but also happens across every mac apps. These version files takes up huge chunks of unnecessary storage so how can I stop macOS from making this histories/previous document versions and storing it on your HDD. I don't have Time Machine backup enabled and it still stores and saves the previous versions of a file!
iTunes U collections have migrated from the iTunes U app to the podcasts app. When tapping them in the former I get redirected to the latter.
I installed Firefox on my iOS device and logged into my Firefox (Sync) account. This gives me a new "Send Tab" extension that I can use in Safari to send an opened web page to my Firefox desktop installations.
Disk Utility.app displays my internal HDD "APPLE HDD" to be entirely taken up by "Macintosh HD" at 759.65 GB. Seeing as it’s a 1 TB hard drive, that’s a little disconcerting. I also can’t reclaim the space using the partition tool, because there’s no partition to remove.
I am confused why my host name in /etc/hosts works for Google Chrome only. Not on Safari, not on Firefox, not from command-line tools like curl.
I am aware that Apple has stopped singing iOS 10.3.3 since early October, 2017, but is there any way to downgrade to iOS 10? Any suggestion is welcome. A short description of possible downsides would be appreciated. I am asking as a friends' iPhone 5s has become useless to the degree of being bricked.
I've recently upgraded from 10.11 to 10.13, and Spotlight window suddenly started to crash (to close and lose my input) when I try to use it as calculator. The simplest example: “-2+2”. Or if I enter “2+2”, go to the start of the line and add minus sign. For a short time the result of 0 is displayed, and then Spotlight window closes, and when I reopen it the calculation is gone, unlike when closed deliberately.
I found a similar question here, but it's related to the laptop preparing for sleep. My settings while connected to power are: Screensaver after 20 minutes Turn screen off after 1 hour
This is a rather recent issue: when I download a file from my web server via ftp it gets saved as Unknown.dms macOS: 10.12.6 Safari: 11.0 Interestingly, downloading the same file with e.g. Chrome works flawless. One of my download links: ftp://v473.vanager.de/file_format_examples/ASD/old_format/DC.013 If the file is archived as zip first, then the download works, giving the correct file name to the downloaded file (automatic un-archiving of the download).
Similar questions have been asked before about this, linked below: "You can’t sign in at this time" when signing into iCloud. What is causing the iCloud "You can't sign in at this time" error on my MacBook Pro?
If I take use a USB Type A to USB Type C cable, (like this) and plug it into a wall converter similar to the ones that come with iPhone charger (basically just a little box that plugs into a wall and has a female USB Type A port), will it be safe to plug the USB Type C end into my new MacBook pro to keep the battery from dying? I just need it to maintain the battery level and I want to make sure it's not going to damage the overall life of the batter.
I have a folder with hundreds of pictures like this: Montana_1.jpg, Montana_2.jpg, …, Montana_4500.jpg I only want to use the pictures where the name is multiple of 30. I was wondering if an AppleScript would Open the folder containing the pictures. Copy only the pictures that are multiple of 30 like Montana_30.jpg, Montana_60.jpg, …, Montana_120.jpg. Move to another folder. Another way could be to delete any picture that is not multiple of 30.
How do I backup a frozen open iphone on Apple desktop?
I have a kinda odd question. In theory, would it be possible for a new Mac (Lets say a fancy new MBP) to downgrade from macOS High Sierra to a OS X 10.4.11 Tiger Intel build? If so, what would be the complications of doing so, and would doing so make it irreversible?
I am syncing files between macOS and a remote Ubuntu server. On Ubuntu, the date of last modification of a directory doesn't change when I store, modify or delete a file inside this directory. This behavior makes sense to me, because it's the directory's content, not the directory itself, that has changed. On macOS this behavior is different (and seems irrational to me): Although the directory itself stays unchanged, its "last modified" date gets changed every time when something inside this directory gets changed.
I'm writing an Applescript so that I can attach a file to Outlook from the terminal in the following way: Where attachToOutlook is aliased to osascript /path/to/my/script/attach This is my current implementation: but I'm getting the following error: How can I fix this?
I recently updated my phone to iOS 11 and I find the new "App Drawer" at the bottom of my messages to be annoying. I saw on gadgethacks.com that if you click on the App Store button it hides the App Drawer. However, if I click the App Store button again and exit out of my message and return to it, the App Drawer reappears in all its glory. I want to know if there is any way to permanently remove the App Drawer/App Store button from Messages?
YouTube's search bar is pretty good at finding the most relevant video for a popular search. Like, if I search for "dog of wisdom" the first video is the one I want to see, so I had the thought the other day wouldn't it be nice to be able to ask Siri "play the first YouTube video with search 'dog of wisdom'" and have it play the video immediately. There are no doubt a lot of searches like this, i.e., where the first video of the search term is expected to be the one you want, so that you don't even have to scroll around to find it. Is this something that could be done?
I checked on the terminal by entering sudo ls and trying the password which works in the app store, but that fails. I am 100% sure I type the same password, and also tried copy pasting the password.
Background: My OSX partition was corrupted in some way by bootcamp or the paragon i was running on it. Similar incidents has happened twice before, but I don't remember if the triggering conditions were exactly the same.
I see how to add a label (i.e. home, work, etc.) for iCal events on a Mac, but how do you add labels via your iCloud account or on iPhone?
When I look at all the processes running on Mac, I see a ton of them I have no idea what they are. Occasionally I google a few and find answers on the web.
I have a removable hard drive in NTFS format that is connected to macbook pro through usb. For some reason finder doesn't show one of the directories. First I thought that I removed it by mistake, but when I opened it on Ubuntu the directory was there.
After updating my macOS 10.6.8 to El Capitan my Mac is asking for a 4 digit system PIN. I have no idea what that is.
I've been using Notes to keep track of billable time. I just realized that I accidentally deleted some text within a Note (not the Note itself, so it won't be in Recently Deleted) that I still need. Is there a way to recover this info? Command + Z won't take me back far enough.
I have the mouse gestures such as four finger swipe up shows mission control, or four finger swipe down shows current application's windows. Occasionally after the computer has been on for a while, the shortcuts just stop working. Is there a way I can fix it without having to restart my entire computer?
I created a sketch in a note (Apple's Notes app, synchronized with iCloud) using 10.5" iPad Pro running 11.0.3. When I open this note on my macbook pro running 10.13, the sketch is tiny and there are no options to zoom in (zooming with cmd+shift+. does not affect the size of the sketch). How does one zoom on a sketch so it appears the same size/sharpness as on iPad?
I have Dovecot running as a daemon via a launchd plist. It runs fine but doesn't stop if I run launchctl stop nor if I unload the plist so I end up using doveadm stop. Is there a key or command I add to the plist to tell it how to stop a service? I've checked the man pages for launchd.plist and launchctl but can't find anything like it. This is the relevant part of the plist: There's no KeepAlive or anything like that, it's a very simple plist. Any help with this will be much appreciated.
Several generations of OSX ago, it was possible to view PDFs full-screen in Preview, and they would automatically fit to the screen, which was great for PDF presentations (e.g. Beamer, or PDF-exported PowerPoint). Now, either when using Slideshow or Full Screen, I get these black or gray borders that I can't seem to get rid of (screenshots, first is Slideshow, second is Full Screen):
I have a Mac mini (late 2014). After updated to High Sierra, and used for a while (one or two weeks? w/o shutdown/restart?), suddenly one day I found I can't unlock the screen after locking it with the new feature (ctrl+cmd+Q). Any suggestion? Last time I fixed it by resetting NVRAM (screen lit up when I pressed a key on the keyboard or moved the mouse even after restarting the OS), but today it occurred again. Reinstalling the system does not fix the issue.
I decided to delete an existing iCloud account on my new iPhone SE which my deceased mom left me. After successful deletion, i changed password and forgot it. Now "iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes" is he only display i see. But whenever I connect to iTunes and software update begins to download, it pauses. And instead of resuming the download, it stops even if it is 99 % done and starts all over again. I'm unable to pause download on iTunes and this is killing me because the file is too large for me to afford mobile data or Wi-Fi for.
It happens every single bloody day. At the beginning iTunes works fine. I can see my 'Recommendation' and 'Connect' in the 'For you' tab. However from time to time the following error message appears. It can happen multiple times in a day.
I'd like to have specific photos stored in my iPhone and specific ones stored only on iCloud, so I thought to have two different Photos libraries, one "optimised" and one not. Is it possible? And how can I manage them from my iPhone? Or is it a way to do something like this?
When I forward email having attachment the recipient is not getting the attachment file. Mail application removes it automatically before forwarding. How can I prevent this?
Sketch app for mac has this wonderful feature which allows you to zoom out or zoom in keeping the command key pressed while scrolling forward or backward on the magic mouse mouse surface but when using Ai for mac this feature doesn't works so how can I enable this feature in Ai
I have: MacBook 12" USB-C AV Multiport Adapter USB-A to USB-C cable USB-C Macbook 12' charger Basically I want to keep the USB-C port on the adapter free. So, instead of using a USB-C cable to plug the charger to the adapter, I want to use the USB-A port on the adapter. Will this work?
I am a gamer and I wish to record my Mobile Legends in my Mac book. Any suggestions of the tools that I could use? My phone is iPhone 7 Plus. Thanks
Can I charge my headphones with the MacBook 12" charger or should I use it for charging the MacBook only? The headphones are Plantronics BACKBEAT SENSE which have a USB-Micro charging port. I believe I need to buy a cable USB-C to Micro-USB, if it would work.
I was wondering if it is possible to manage a Perl script so that when the terminal process is paused (as all terminal processes are when a Mac sleeps), on wake a network error doesn't occur as terminal allows the process to continue but the network is yet to connect. I wish to solve this problem because it is incredibly annoying to have scripts exit when they haven't been completed. Basically a possible delay for script continuation when the Mac wakes, or better, when the network connects.
I am looking for a simple method to change password with a script on macOS 10.12.6 (or newer). I tried something like But this is not working, apparently passwd is not reading from stdin. I wonder if there is a official method to do so, like a command line tool.
Any ideas? The goal is to fill the placeholder text on that page with a custom footnote.
I have an internal Hard Disk from my old Windows PC. It has windows 10 installed on it already. I converted that hard disk to external via some connectors that I ordered from Amazon. Can I use this hard disk to boot up Windows 10 on my MacBook Air? If yes, what are the steps required?
What are the max power supplied by Apple's touch bar MacBook Pro from its USB type-C ports?
Is it possible to do something similar to iPhone hotspot, but instead of using the iPhone's cellular data connection, it uses it's Wi-Fi connection instead. Thus, allowing a MacBook Air to access the hotspot in order to use the internet through the iPhone's Wi-Fi connection instead of its cellular connection. I would like to try this because my MacBook Air's Wi-Fi connection is flaky, but when connecting it to my iPhone's hotspot it seems to be fine.
How do I get the page number of each page and place it on the actual page using AppleScript? I know how to place text in a placeholder text box, but I cannot figure out how to get the page number in AppleScript.
I notice when using Live photos you can change the key photo if you want. Is there any quality loss based on doing this? How does this differ from taking Burst mode photos? Is there a difference in how the camera (focus/aperature etc) behaves? Does this function mean that if I have Live photos enabled there's no technical reason to use Burst mode (other than perhaps more control over how long to capture images for?)
I have reset that user's password, however the issue persists with AFP. Again, SMB has no issues connecting.
This also looks for Microsoft stuff. The relevant part of the query is: kMDItemContentTypeTree = "com.microsoft.*"cdw
I would like to know a way to open a notification in macOS (High Sierra), after I received it. Is there any way to open it via keyboard shortcut?
I am using automator to move all finder items in a location to trash if their last date modified is after 2 weeks from today. The workflow is as follows: Get Specified Finder Items (an external hard drive) - works well Get Folder Contents (repeat for each subfolder found) - works well Filter Finder Items (all that are not a folder) - works well Filter Finder Items (all whose date modified is not in the last 2 weeks) - DOES NOT WORK This passes all the items to the next process without any being filtered Move Finder Items to Trash - works well
I need to do "unit testing" on many, many different iPhones, iPads, and AppleTvs. This will require a USB hub with many ports. What is the maximum number of ports I can add to a MBP? I have a 15-inch 2016 model, and several first generation Retinas.
I am trying to run a network server that is supposed to receive very short newline-terminated udp messages. The service plist looks like this
I need to organize the cable clutter in my home... everyone has a Mac, most have the USB-C type of laptop. Is there any way to take the 2 meter cable and make it retractable somehow?
For the longest time the ill-named "Safari Cookies" extension (by using SIMBL) provided this function of automatically deleting all cookies in Safari when quitting the application. But development of that project has stopped and it does not work with the latest version of macOS and Safari. Instead they sell a 20USD product that promises to continue doing that and more.
We use Apple MDM at the small school I work at to manage our iPads. In the past we would download the .ipa from the App Store then upload it to the MDM then deploy it to the iPads. With the new updates we can't figure out a way to download the .ipa files? Can anyone help? (I will add we are not in the US and do not have access to VPP.)
I just downloaded Code 2000 from Wayback Machine but when I tried to install it Font Book reported a serious error but no further details. Anyone know what might be the problem? Are there any online resources that allows me to verify a font's integrity and hopefully could give me some more details about any potential issues?
Question: I actually like the fact that dns-sd -X prints 0.0.0.0, so it's obvious from the log files, at what time I was connected to a VPN, even though my external VPN IP address is not shown, which would be great, but dns-sd can't do that, I believe. So the question is more academical: is there a way to make dns-sd -X avoid the VPN tunnel, maybe with some additional arguments?
What do these two parameters of shown by pmset -g do exactly: networkoversleep is described in the man of pmset:
Playing with AppleScript I want to manipulate the location of a few windows with position but I'm having an issue defining the monitor. Currently I have several different size and brand monitors I connect to with my MacBook during my travels. The only repeating occurrence with all four monitors I connect to is that the monitor I want to manipulate includes the menu bar. When testing with do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType I'm not sure if the returned text of Main Display: Yes considers the main to be where the menu bar resides from the extraction: If my assumption of the Main Display is correct how should I properly grep the resolution of the identified main display so I can manipulate the windows? When I research it would appear some commonly just step into each display: Positioning a window with AppleScript using dual monitors Run AppleScript for Specific Monitor Cannot get or set the window size of some apps using AppleScript? Set position of window with AppleScript
This suggests double clicking to make the toolbar (below) disappear from presentation mode. But that does not work for me. The only thing I can do to make it go way is single-click on the center arrow, but I have to do this on every slide. How can I make it disappear globally?
I have a bunch of factory reset MacBooks. I want to know the CPU, memory and storage configuration for each of these machines. What is the fastest way to get this information without to go through the initial setup and resetting the machines again? I have a USB installer of macOS 10.13 and a macOS installation on an external hard drive, which needs unusually long to load on each machine. What are my options?
I came into work today with a cascade of "Application Unexpectedly Quit" messages on my desktop. Looking in system.log I'm seeing many failures due to too many open files. The first instance looks like: There's about a dozen or so of these pairs of errors, after which I see: There's several screens full of this error and the previous one. Following that is a bunch of other sorts of failure from a variety of applications, and an ongoing smattering of the above errors. There's also several pages of kernel[0]: Sandbox: mdworker(802) deny(1) file-read-data /Applications/App Store.app which I think is from Spotlight, probably a side-effect of the too many open files problem. Using lsof and an awk script, I found that the process with the most open files is Core Sync with a pretty consistent count of 7227 files open. CPU and memory usage seem to be what I'd expect.
I have several Numbers files that are shared in a dropbox folder. These files are regularly updated by a script, as well as other users who have access to the folder. In the past, I was able to place these files in the dock by creating an alias (without first creating an alias, every time the script updated the file, the alias link would break - I assume because of something to do with Dropbox).
My scrolling credits are aligned but when I play the movie everything is shifted. I have changed the text size but that doesn't help.
Safari's history doesn't seem to include Google search result pages. Steps I go through which re-create this issue every time: Search for anything from Safari's omnibar. Visit a result (by clicking it). Optional step: do anything else in Safari. Hit ⌘+Y to load up the history. Enjoy not seeing that intermediary Google results page in the list. This is really frustrating. How can I force Safari to show me Google search result pages in history? I'm using Safari 11.0 (13604.1.38.1.6) and macOS High Sierra 10.13.
I can sort (without using sections) in list view just fine, by clicking the column header. But I can't find any way to do this in column view, as there's no equivalent to the View Options panel (the View menu varies depending on the app).
I want to be able to type Unicodes that have more than 4 digits, such as (1D11E) or (1D122), but macOS only registers the first 4 digits and types the wrong character. I know on windows this can be achieved by modifying a registry entry or something, and I was wondering if there was a way to do the same on macOS. I don't want to rely on the character viewer to type those characters.
I am trying to login into my Google account in browser (tried Safari, Firefox, Chrome) on newly bought MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra 10.12.4) but getting 'Wrong password. Try again.' error every time, even though with same password, I am able to login on my Android phone and Windows laptop. Found this article *=URL=* 2-way auth is off on my account currently, tried this *=URL=* too, but still no success!
I have the same problem as described in When switching to a different space, OS X sometimes just switches back to the previous space. Is there a fix for this? but on Sierra, not Lion, and only on an external display (not always the same external display).
I've got a fairly new iPad, running iOS 10.3, which is doing some very odd things with Wi-Fi. Specifically, having issues with deciding it's properly connected to Wi-Fi. Sometimes, when I go into the Wi-Fi settings, it simultaneously shows the iPad as being connected to Wi-Fi whilst the Wi-Fi is disabled:
It is possible to use icloud (windows) to download folders other than the year? All I have from file explorer are the year choices. Probably an FAQ. Here's my choices -- I'd like to download icloud photo albums also (on right). e.g. I want to download photos from the screenshots album only and not all of 2017 (or 2016, 2015...). I realize that I can download them one at a time but.. that's a time waster. I'm also wondering why only one photo can be selected at a time and not multiple using the shift key. (sigh)
In Activity Monitor, I am getting two different values for the same process, mds_stores.  The usage was around 4 GB an hour ago in the list and the window. It was high because I was reindexing my Spotlight results, because I had to disable and reenable it. I am on a MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015) configured with a i5 5250U.
I have a MBP 13” 2015 with the latest stable version of highsierra I restarted the laptop after a while and as it’s encrypted by default it asked for FileVault password but didn’t accept the passphrase, found out that it is a bug and I need to manually decrypt the volume. I entered recovery OS and entered the command for decryption but somehow it got interrupted and the computer restarted. Now the disk is decrypted 11%, I cant mount it anymore, either from command line or disk utility, so I can’t run again the decryption command diskutil apfs decryptVolume disk2s1
I am getting spam to one of my e-mail addresses. The recipient's address, however, only shows an mailing list (I guess), to which I have never subscribed: >
I have made a typo in my password hint! However, I don't see any way to correct this typo without creating a brand-new password. I don't want to do that either because this is a company computer and the password is managed by the company (and I can't use the same password twice). How do I fix the typo in my password hint without changing the whole password?
i have an iphone 6 running iOS 11.0.3. I recently received a sound from my phone indicating a voicemail, even though no phone call preceded it. When I check my voicemail, I see a blank screen with 'Call Voicemail' in the center. If I push on the message a phone pad comes up for me to call voicemail. I've never done this so I called my own number. It asked for my password. I don't recall ever setting up a password. I made some guesses but they didn't work. Why am I getting this call voicemail message and is there anything to do if I can't recall my password?
I am familiar with the state changes to system properties (such as displaying hidden files) using Terminal commands including: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES to make the any hidden files become visible. But what is the command for showing the current state/status of this (and similar) properties, to retrieve what it is set to, without changing the value? During my initial tinkering, I've already trying appending a STATUS value in place of the YES or NO option; without any luck.
KeyboardViewer app is saved from this AppleScript. Dock toggle save. Adding shortcut to above, needs some work...
How can I add a reminder in Google Inbox via my Apple Watch 3 by voice, without using my iPhone? When I had no Apple Watch I used to ask Siri to send an email to myself as a dirty hack instead of native Inbox reminders. But even this hack is not working with Apple Watch, because it redirects me to iPhone. So maybe there are even more tricky hacks, which include IFTTT or something?
This should be a fairly easy task to carry out, but I cannot seem to figure out a straightforward way of deleting all but favorite photos from the Apple photos app. One workaround is for me to create a smart album to pool all favorites together --> export --> delete all photos --> reimport, but this definitely is a waste of time especially with large libraries. Am I missing something here? Any ideas?
Say I have two iCloud accounts, personal@example.com and work@example.com. My iPhone is logged into personal@example.com, while the Messages app on my work computer is logged into work@example.com.
Furthermore I tried reinstall the OS on Macintosh HD which it would not allow me to do saying that "you cannot startup from this disk". What I have ended up doing just as a temporary fix to back up files and reach out for help here is: I used the Recovery tools to install OS X onto an external drive and boot from that drive which will in turn also be showing up in any terminal readouts I give to clarify my problems. The physical disk I am currently booting from has 2 partitions on it (the second one being the backup of my Windows HD partition: OSX BOOTDISK (≈125GB) Mac OS Extended Journaled, No Encryption WINDOW HD R (≈125GB) ExFAT, No Encryption Notes The External drive I am booting from has one of those CDs that appear whenever it is plugged in, that disk shows up as: WD SmartWare (≈165MB) The partition that was once Ubuntu HD now shows in Disk utility only as part of the APPLE SSD SM1024G partition pie chart as: Untitled (≈50GB) OS X Journaled, No Encryption What am I looking for?
Where can I find the tampermonkey scripts in the filesystem. I can't find it. I tried looking for it in /users.
I was having an issue with a helper process which seemed to using too much memory (around 400-500MB). When I contacted the app support they said it should be around 50MB. What I found out is when I double click the process I get a detailed overview. That view shows the correct memory usage (around 50-100MB). How does it come that activity monitor gives a higher amount?
How can a stereo audio file be merged to mono and converted to a right channel, so that the sound is only played through the right loud speaker so to say?
I have a macbook 12', with "AV Multiport adapter": the USB-C port is used for charging the HDVI port for the monitor and the USB-A is used to charge my iPhone (and to work with xCode). I'm using the iPhone cable (USB-A to lightning plug), that is provided with the iPhone charger.
The method mentioned in this question no longer works: How do I permanently allow a website to access my location? Is there some way to achieve the same effective in High Sierra?
I am a teacher in a Windows-supported college university, where we use a lot of software that only runs on Windows computers. We would like to help our Mac students by providing them with an easy-to-use and easy-to-transfer way to run Windows as a virtual machine, preferably without to need to install or configure a lot of software for the student. Does somebody have an idea of a way in which we can create and configure a virtual machine and provide it to the students for simple use?
I am using two factor authentication on my Apple ID (not the older two step verification) I would like to sign into a Mac with my iCloud/iTunes account and use it normally, but I would like to prevent this Mac from receiving Apple ID two factor codes and being able to authenticate new devices. If possible I would also like to have Find My Mac enabled. Apple’s documentation leads me to believe this is possible:
In iOS 11 after you launch your device, there is no slideover by default and you have to explicitly start an application in the slideover mode to be able to drag it out of the side of your screen in the future. Is it possible to come to this state once there is a slideover with an app hidden? Because sometimes I use apps that need a lot of swipes from right and it is annoying that the slideover always comes out
If I allow an application to write data to iOS Health, e.g. a number of steps; would it corrupt the existing tracking made by the phone itself? In other words: iphone is tracking the number of steps and writes data to iOS Health app is tracking the number of steps and writes data to iOS Health
I'm using Mac OS 10.12.6 Sierra. Recently I've found that whenever I (rarely) reach for a usb stick to transfer images or files, they mount readonly for me. I can't seem to figure out how to mount them read-write, or what causes this. Also the main solution I found has been to reboot the macbook pro 15 and then it'll use usb sticks normally as read-write.
In iOS 11, the Dock has gained some potentially useful features related to recent apps and app suggestens. For me however, it constitutes visual clutter, and I want to get rid of it. Hence I disabled the "recent apps" in “Settings → General → Multitasking & Dock”.
As of High Sierra, Preview always opens all selected PDFs in single windows for each document. In the preferences menu, there is an option to change this behaviour for images, but not PDFs.
my video card is dead.. :( Which graphics cards are supported by a Late-2009 iMac 27inch with this configuration: Intel Core 2 Duo 3,06GHz ATI Radeon HD 4670 - 256MB GDDR3 Thanks so much! Francesco
I got an issue that's driving me crazy - I can't understand how to permanently change finder window default size. I'm running Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13 (17A405) (latest stable). When I'm open new window from Finder dock icon, resize it as I want to, close window, relaunch Finder all new windows I open this way (from dock icon or CMD + N) opens in new size, but if I open Finder another way (for example - by connecting to network share, or from Go in upper menu, or by creating a new folder and open it with double click) - all this windows open in another "default"size (not what I set). When I open folder view settings (CMD + J) and all I have changed is window size button Use as default is greyed out (I have to change something else, for example - column wight) Also I have tried (in every possible order with window size change & Use as default for view options): deleting all ".DS_Store files" deleting all Finder .plist's many reboots, log off/login combination & many Finder restarts Som
When I save a website as a PDF file on iPod Touch, I always use the “Save PDF to iBooks” feature and the “Reader mode” of Mobile Safari. It can make a PDF suitable to read with iPod Touch. The Reader mode also can omit annoying ads.
I use HomeKit to simplify home management for the elderly. One of the things I want to address is the failure of a sump-pump, or flooding condition. Is there a way I can cause a HomeKit sensor to cause this notification?
I just downloaded the latest Java SE Development Kit and tried to install it. The installer opens but then after clicking on install nothing happens. I know this is not very specific (not good with computers). This is what I saw with command L
I can cast from a video playing in Chrome on my Macbook without any problems. What I can't do is cast from a video playing in VLC. I've unsuccessfully tried a whole bunch of solutions I found on the web, including: Using the latest nightly build of VLC 3 Casting the whole screen instead of just the current browser tab (it works, but audio lags badly)
I guess I should also have a look at the software's code (there are some C++ .h files and there is only one file containing #include <QtOpenGL/QGLWidget>), but the code is not mine, I guess it is not the full code (just the s/w's package contents) and I wonder whether there is an easy solution for old software on a new Mac OS. I am very confused. I either need to install somehow and old framework but provide a new path (where? how?) or make somewhat else.
I got an issue that's driving me crazy: Usually, my Finder view settings in a list view mode works like this: I adjust column wight and order as I want, then go to view settings and select use as defaults, and I'm good to go.
My 10 month old has figured out how to open both my wife’s iPhone 7plus and my iPhone 7. The iPhone can be locked which would require fingerprint touch or 6 digit passcode, but for example a moment ago she was ‘editing’ my carrier settings. My baby bought an app a month ago and upon my requesting a refund Apple told me to make sure my phone was locked, which i thought it had been...but gave it the benefit of the doubt. But, recently I have been catching more and more times when we let her explore the item ensuring it’s locked only to have her unlock it.
So pretty much every time I try to open my mail and delete the draft it freezes the whole computer since its a huge file which was mistakenly added. Is there a way to fix this issue?
I have been using Android phone for a long time but I recently moved to iPhone and don't want to use Google Keep as my notes app. I want to move my notes from Google Keep to iOS Notes app. How do I do that?
Yesterday the shift stopped working most of the time (it works 1/100) suddenly (did not spill anything), and the weird thing is that today the Control & Option keys joined the party — they stopped working (only left keys). It's a MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.2 15" Mid-2015 (IG) (MJLQ2LL/A).
I'm in the process of developing a micropayment system, in which the consumers will use a mobile app to make payments. Does Apple take their 30% cut from the revenue of a competing iOS payment app like this? The payment app in question is Bitcoin-based, so it does not make use of credit cards. Can anyone point me towards the App Store terms of service pertaining to this?
I'm using Google Inbox to create template emails, which are stored as "drafts" in IMAP. I want to eliminate that number (in grey, same as unread count in other folders) from Mail.
I have iPad Pro 10.5 (iOS 11.0.3) and iTunes 12.7.0.166 running on HighSierra 10.13 iTunes is keep asking me to unlock the iPad. I set up the iPad to sync over Wi-Fi. I never had this problem with my iPhone 7
My iPhone is really starting to act up on the iOS 11 beta and I was wondering if there is anyway to downgrade from the iOS 11 beta to the regular version of iOS 11 without having to factory reset my iPhone.
I have an iPhone 8 that was set up from an iPhone 7 backup. Every few minutes I get a popup asking for an App Store password, except the account it's specifying is an account that belongs to a family member.
I use a trackpad gesture or some mouse shortcut to bring the "App Exposé" or "Application windows" view. Then I find a specific window I wanted and click on it to bring it to front. This is all good when trying to quickly view all the windows of a particular app at once and jump directly to one of them.
I'm trying to install a profile that I've created on a macOS Server, it was to get an AD Certificate. When I try to install the profile I receive:
Is there a way to bulk delete "personal documents" from the Kindle iOS app? They don't appear under the app folder in itunes when the phone is plugged in to a computer and my web searches have been fruitless. Thanks.
My parents are going to be paying for my new iPhone, but I want to enroll in the iPhone Upgrade Program in my own name so that I'll be able to keep upgrading in a few years when I start paying for iPhones myself. Is it possible to enroll in the iPhone Upgrade Program with a different person's credit card, or would the system take issue with that?
My iPhone 6S is on iOS 11 beta 2 and when I go to software update in settings it wants me to update to beta 3. How can I update to the stable release of iOS 11?
Here are the symptoms: when I use the volume buttons, the "ringer" popup appears, but does not have any of the white bars to indicate what the actual volume is. when I swipe up to get the control panel, the volume slider is completely gone as in this question if I ask Siri to adjust the volume, she says "can't do it", BUT suddenly my volume buttons work! as soon as I leave the Siri screen the volume buttons no longer work. similarly, if I go to settings -> sound and adjust the ringer volume, the volume buttons temporarily work, but stop working when I leave that screen with headphones plugged in, all sound controls work normally I've cleaned the headphone jack and the 30-pin port, with no change. The behavior described above is consistent (doesn't start/stop randomly). Edited to add screenshots: Missing from drawer:
Has anyone experience or estimates on what transfer speeds are to expect when transferring data to / from the latest gen. iPad Pro 10.5 using a USB-C to lightning cable? Scenarios might be creating an iTunes backup syncing movies / music / other media via iTunes copying Photos / Videos using iTunes / some photo organizer app transferring documents to apps using the iTunes app documents feature ...
This problem started immediately after updating to iOS 11 and has continued through all updates. iPhone 6S - Presently running iOS 11.0.3
I have bootcamp set up. When I boot into Windows, I'm able to get internet access through my home WiFi How can I troubleshoot this to get to the root cause of the problem?
I found that my network monitor, Little Snitch, was blocking my Apple iCLoud photostream from my iphone to my Mac. When I stopped the filter the photos were sharable. Why does Apple iCloud photos use googleapis.com?
I use Reminders a lot, and every time I get one it appears at the top of my screen. The trouble is if I haven't used my phone for a few hours, there are sometimes many notifications all queued up that begin to appear one after another as soon as I use my phone again. But in that moment I am trying to quickly access something on my phone, and the annoying reminder at the top of the screen gets in the way of me trying to tap on something towards the top. This inevitably results in me launching the Reminders or Calendar apps instead of the thing I was trying to tap on.
How can I delete photos just from my iPhone and not in my photo library from the Mac? Every time I delete photos from my iPhone it'll be deleted on my Mac and vice versa... Thank you
I recently removed my app from sale from iTunes Connect, revenue generated from that app is around $103, I want to delete the app but before deleting how can I get this amount?
I'd like to have a compiler for ARM on my Mac, and I read somewhere that there is a way to run and maybe debug ARM code on Xcode. Anyone has any hint on how I should do or if it is even possible? Any other solution for ARM on Mac? Thanks
I have changed my mail server a while ago but still get certificate errors of the old domain once in a while. How do I get rid of that? I have already deleted all accounts and then just added the new one.
I'm trying to download macOS High Sierra from App Store but the download is done and it's only an installer. The installer downloads High Sierra automatically but I want the ISO package of High Sierra. Is it possible to download the full version like ISO or the full package so that I can install it later on?
I am currently following one python3 course at the time. For easy execution, they suggest running the following code: Doing so, made it possible to run the file using: ./pythonFileName.py and this is of course much easier then navigation the entire folder structure to find my scripts.
I bought a paid app on my iMac, and a few months later tried to download it on my iPhone but it’s forcing me to pay again for it. I thought the App Store linked purchases on multiple devices?
I have a simple binary file needs to be executed. So I opened terminal and navigate to the folder where the binary file is. Then I gave the command ./bclock and got the following error,
I have a mac mini which I have set up 2 IP's. I also have another Mac Mini which also (amongst other things) runs a local DNS for me. Both of these IP's have been placed in the DNS. No matter which IP/FQDN I choose to SSH in to, it will default me to the primary network adapter in Network Preferences. Is there a way to prevent this and force the use of the other connection?
Since I have a fairly large screen, I often miss appointments, even though Calendar showed a notification. But the notification is very tiny on the large screen and I ofter overlook it while being concentrated on my work. Do you know any tricks or can you recommend any tools to better make me aware of Calendar notifications?
I want to play a prank with my friend in where I open a ssh connection with his Mac. I need SSH to be enabled on this Mac first, which requires admin rights. Is there any other I can enable SSH without sudo or an AppleScript?
Mac is running Sierra and using the mail app. When I try to use the mail search function in the top right of the screen it doesnt find recent emails. Ive tried changing the search context and looking in different mailboxes to no avail. I've rebuilt the mailbox and also re-indexed the spotlight searc (because this is having the same issue but with files) to no avail. Any ideas on what I could do to fix this?
I'm having some trouble with my MacBook Pro Retina display. When it starts up, the display momentarily shows strange colours in 'blotches' on the screen (see image). This just lasts for a couple of seconds before the regular login screen shows up.
Running macOS 10.12.6. I'd like to keep this machine connected to iCloud calendars but prevent it from having a copy of my keychain.
Is there a way to limit which Apple devices are able to approve TFA requests? For example, let's say I have the following devices: Macbook 1 Macbook 2 iPhone iPad
As the title suggests - my wife uses her iCloud storage and is getting ready to get charged. I'd like to move her to our family iCloud storage but want to make sure she doesn't lose any of her files in the change. Does this change just effect the storage location of the information or would it delete any information she has in her cloud?
Nearly every time I mount an HFS+ volume on macOS High Sierra 10.13, a process called iconserviceagent reads all its files, sometimes hundreds of gigabytes. The system slows down to a crawl and the only solution is to wait or to unmount the disk. Is this a known issue or bug or something I can configure or just fix straightaway?
I have broken the touch bar in my MacBook Pro 13". Only the ESC key keeps working. Replacing the touch bar may be expensive so I'd like to know if it is possible to replace its functions with keyboard shortcuts. The functions I am highly interested in are: volume screen backlight keyboard backlight
I have a situation in which sometimes when I launch Terminal instead of showing: It instead shows:
Is there any way to programmatically check if a connection is established to an afp server? I have tried pinging the server but that always results in a timeout. So far the only workaround that I've gotten to work is:
I was running Outlook as my main mail app, and while doing that the notification alerts were showing with just the generic 'app' icon.  For various reasons, I switched back to Mail.app, but everytime I get a new email I get not only the (correct) Mail notification alert, but also the faulty Outlook alert. I use an Exchange account with push. I have uninstalled Outlook, and rebooted my MacBook Pro.
So I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from my Mac's webcam. And I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from the screen of my iPhone, connected via a USB cable. But my question is: can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to record both videos simultaneously? And can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to combine the videos, so that the video of the iPhone screen is shrunk down into the bottom right corner of the video from the webcam?
Note that I do not allow for my pictures to be automatically uploaded to iCloud/iCloud drive; they are only saved in my camera roll. If iCloud drive can work as its own storage, then I will choose which pictures I want to go there, and then delete them from my phone to free up some much needed space.
I live in the woods and lose power frequently. When this happens, MacOS tries to restore every application that was open when the power went out. I don't want it to do this. How do i prevent this from happening. Please note, i am not asking about preventing apps from opening after a restart.
I have the problem of not getting notified of only one of my contacts message but the moon isn't there
How do you connect from a Mac to a virtual machine running Windows? This VM is hosted remotely, e.g., on a public cloud or even a private vSphere environment.
Is it possible to do the iPhone upgrade program without having to either upgrade an existing line or adding a new one? Just doing it for monthly payments?
I found that this happens in other keys (not even keys combination on shortcut). The below is a screenshot when I tried to type in ghost run -D, where t was triggered for so many times.
When placing the cursor in a table cell, my script allows you to define the column widths of a single table. I have a document with lots of tables.
I had a kernel panic on my MacBook Air and I was wondering what caused it and how I can prevent it in the future. Thank you
I had the unfortunate luck of getting the infamous flashing question mark folder when I booted up my 2012 macbook pro. I have never used timemachine before, so I can't call backups. So i've been following a guide I found on apple website that told me how to backup my HDD contents to an external hard drive, as detailed here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204323
I'm looking to run a VNC server on some of my Macs running Mac OS so that I can access them from other machines. Google searching for generic terms was useless, for example "VNC Server Mac OS" only gets you results about Mac OS X.
My iPhone 5c, iOS 10.3.3 used to let me rearrange my apps on my Windows 7 PC through iTunes. Now I can't seem to be able to get to them on my PC.
I tried to remove Chess.app from my Mac: Moving to Trash: “Chess.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS. Trying to change permissions for everyone in Get Info: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission. chmod 755 Chess.app/ in Terminal works, but then doing sudo rm -rf Chess.app/: long list including rm: Chess.app/: Operation not permitted So how can I remove it?
My 2 week old iPhone 8 won’t lock automatically after the set limit of 30 seconds. My phone remains unlocked until I physically press the lock screen button. Even then, if the screen is touched, the display wont turn off itself. How can I get my autolock screen function to work?
I have an iPhone 8 and so far it’s been great, except for one thing. I was sure that the iPhone 8 supported fast charging, like up to 80% or something. but I barely notice much difference in terms of how quick it gets a charge compared to my iPhone 6s. I’ve checked Settings/Battery and tried Low Power Mode when on charge but that made no difference either. I looked elsewhere in Settings but didn’t see anything I can change to make it fast charge. So now I question myself and wonder: Was I wrong about the whole fast charging thing? Is it only the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, or maybe just the iPhone X that supports fast charging? Or is there just something I have to do to get it to fast charge? Your assistance would be great!
I was using chrome for a long time and video blocker always helped me in game release date. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-blocker/jknkjnpcbbgcbdbaampbjlhkcghmgfhk
Recently, my little brother deleted some photos and messages from my iPhone, I'm eager to get them back. I haven't make a backup before. What can I do?
My littler brother deleted some photos and messages from my iPhone, I'm eager to get them back.
I recently purchased an Anker Bluetooth Headset, and i had the common issue that it sounds like garbage when i pair it on my MacBook but awesome using my iPhone The issue is fixed by turning "Input" to "Internal Mic" in Settings > Sounds > Input
Though it sounds like a duplicate of this question, it isn't; the difference is that my eject key works when I connect it to another Mac, so the hardware is good. The situation is that I have a MacPro3,1 tower with an optical drive that I recently upgraded to El Capitan. The eject key always worked before, but after the move to El Capitan it no longer works and I either have to use the menu bar command or press the physical button on the drive (it is an aftermarket BD-ROM from MacSales).
I'm a keyboard guy, even when using web browser. I use Cmd-F to search for content in web page, and then Cmd-G to navigate around. The only problem is, once the keyboard attention gets into that box, I cannot get out of it without using mouse. Every keystroke (including Esc) would be entering something into the search box. Anyone can help with this please? Thanks!
How do I display stop, pause, play and rewind audio file controls on my iMac? I can see my volume control no problem. I can't see or find any controls which will allow me to play an audio (voice) file and then pause, rewind, advance, stop, or play the file. Once started the voice file continuously plays without control - except the volume!
The problem I have is that I also have Boot Camp on the machine for a Windows 7 installation. I used to simply have a simple Automator generated application for blessing the BOOTCAMP partition and rebooting the machine. However, with the upgrade to El Capitan and the associated System Integrity Protection (SIP) you can no longer simply bless the partition and thus my application no longer works without disabling SIP.
Ive got a mac mini running OSX 10.10.5. I use the built in "Photos" app (formally iPhoto) to manage photos i take on my iPhone, which are synced back to the Photos app via iCloud.
I have recently started a new job that involves sending before and after photographs of the repairs I carry out on reported faults in Social Housing properties, I have to send as many as 6 or 7 emails a day and I have to include the same 3 separate email addresses every time. Is there a way to call up all 3 email addresses using a single contact? This would save me searching for and selecting each individual every time I send an email. Thank you in advance for any helpful direction provided by a sympathetic technology-savvy person, I am in your debt. Yours gratefully Sid
I have 2 monitors. Every time I reboot, the windows I have left must be re-arranged to where I want. I wish the windows get stuck where I put them on. How do that with OSX?
It suddenly appears just now for one of my NFS mounts:  Other volumes still plain old normal:
I have pen drive which has two partitions with almost no storage in each. The full size of the things is 8GB as you can see in the image below. The problem is diskutility commands eraseDrive and eraseVolume both take as arguments the device NAME and IDENTIFIER and as you can see in the image above, the different partitions do not have a NAME.
I checked the obvious places which are in settings for keyboard and also for language because I read that somewhere. This is a Mac Mini from 2011 if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help.
I am using a 2017 MacBook Pro. I just installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp. A strange thing is happening. When I move my Magic Mouse 2 up or down while hovering over a web page or window, the content scrolls slightly. I'm not touching the mouse surface when this happens. My research suggest turning off "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" but this option IS turned off. How can I stop this from happening?
I get the following error when installing windows on a new partition using bootcamp assistant. I'm using a 16gb usb 2.0/3.0 drive with Win10_1709_English_x64 ISO downloaded from the Microsoft website.
There are a number of Qi wireless chargers that are advertised for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X that hold the phone on by a magnet. From what I have heard, Apple said that any Qi wireless charger will work with iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Is there any official guidance regarding whether or not the magnetic Qi wireless chargers could harm the iPhone. Because there has been none, I am led to believe that it is safe to use. Is there (official or otherwise) reason to believe that magnetic Qi chargers could harm iPhone 8 or iPhone X? Example: Magnetic QI Wireless Charger Phone Holder Screenshot in case link dies:
So I'm trying to mount the EFI partition on my external drive for troubleshooting, but when I use the terminal and try to mount the drive I get the message: Volume on disk3s1 failed to mount: "Device is blocked" I use the disk utility to see if theres any issues with the drive, but comes back fine. I've also tried to just mount the EFI from internal drives and still get the same message.
I have a mac notebook that just shuts down after I enter my profile. The order of what happens is as follows : 1. power it up and it goes to a profiles window 2. enter my profile 3. enter my password 4. it starts loading up and then shuts off. It won't go into safe mode, shuts down after entering the profile I tried Command + R and ran the utilities - ran successfully (no issues) I tried Command + S and ran fsck -fy and the system said everything was OK. Does anyone have any ideas?
My keyboard is currently not working (literally nothing appears on a password screen when I start typing, both in safe mode and in normal mode). I am currently typing this on an external keyboard. I have tried: NVRAM reset SMC reset Removing the password from the password screen Trying another user account, no go. I would really prefer not to wipe the system.
In here *=URL=* It states: This behavior is fairly common among users because of the misconception that apps that appear in the multitasking screen are running in the background.
I'd like to know if there is any service to easily rent CPU power on OSX to speed up my mac. It would be really nice to be able to do something like this, but with OSX. Is there such a service?
I know that man -t ls | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app produce a pdf of the man page of the ls command. But the pdf produced is in US Letter size (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm). The man page of man says that -t option use internally /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -c. So, according the groff man, I tried this for obtaining A4 size (21 cm x 29.7 cm) in the pdf (A4 size is widely used in Europe): man -t ls | /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc -c -P-pa4 | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app. I obtain the A4 size as desired, but the formatting is ugly (no bold, italic, characters doubled, underscored)... How to have the good formatting (as in the first command) AND the right size (as in the later command)?
I'm trying to write an AppleScript to do bulk find-and-replace operations on iTunes track names. Currently, this is my code:
Last night I very quickly rushed to the Apple Store app and pre-ordered an iPhone X. I was quick, and it's set to deliver November 3rd! I was very content, and went back to bed. This morning I opened the Apple Store website to find an error message for my order, saying
Key to getting it out of the reboot loop, I think, is getting it into DFU mode so that it can be factory reset or sommat. I can get it into recovery mode, however since the reboot loop began iTunes hasn't been able to recognize it, and so I'm not sure if I'm successfully getting it into DFU mode. (Strangely, the process is to hold power+home for 10 seconds, then release power and keep holding home for 10 seconds, but at the same time, the process to hard-reset an iPhone you hold power+home for 6 seconds. I'm not sure if the hard reset is always part of getting the phone into DFU mode, but it's definitely hard resetting, and iTunes is not reporting a phone in DFU mode.)
I'm filtering the Library with the string "outlook" and there are no actions available. Is there something I can do to get Outlook items to show up in here?
Notice how the mouse pointer leads and the window lags when you resize the window fast. My specs: Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 - 1536 MB Disk: 250GB SSD CPU is not constrained when the lag is present:
I'm trying to organize a club/business and would like to send the same text to my clientele. I do not want individual recipients to see who else is a recipient, as most clients don't know each other. This implies I also don't want recipients to see other recipients's replies and that they would ideally go to me. Not being able to reply at all is not a deal breaker.
I have the following data in Numbers which I would like to visualise with a chart. The X-axis is timeline, the Y-axis should contain values. I would like the values of in each of the column to be connected with a line. Numbers does good job when the data is placed in adjacent cells, however it does not draw lines if data is separated by another one.
So I recently got off android and bought the Iphone 8 with IOS 11.0.2 running. Everything was good until about a day after I bought it. I noticed I couldn't download apps anymore. I would sign into my apple id then the app store would tell me its all good then it just gave me the spinning circle and never downloads. I have tried restoring twice and once with a new apple id and still same problem. I have tried going to the At&t store to get it fixed yet still nothing they even gave me a replacement phone. Even with that phone its the same issues. I can download apps for about a day then it just shuts off again. Anyone know anything that could fix this? Or am I just going to have to wait until IOS 11.0.4 comes out. FYI this issues is on both 11.0.2 and 11.0.3 I did try updating it. Any help at all would be very appreciated. Thanks
[MacOS C-Error] As per the title. I've tried using ctrl up-arrow and dragging onto that 'desktop' but my drag is rejected... I want to be able to see my appointments at a glance in the Dashboard, not just a static calendar with a clock.
I had an iPhone 7+ that got broken, and was sent a warranty phone. When that phone arrived, it wouldn't activate. So while on the phone with apple, I made a backup of the new (warranty phone) it activated, and worked, my issue is that once it started working , I went along for months before realizing that my photo library didn't restore. So now I want to get the photo library onto my phone, but not lose any of my new pictures...
I've always enjoyed switching focus between apps with my keyboard. Nowadays it has gotten messier and messier as I'm currently working on different projects, so I'm using 4 desktops and each of them has it's own browser and specific apps that I need in that particular context.
What I would like to do is write a script or something (that maps to a keyboard shortcut) that would take a snapshot and shrink it's size a bit. (and then automatically save it in the folder i've designated for my screenshtots.
The rubber wrap around the charger's wire is cracked, I can see the little wires inside. Will it electrocute me if I accidentally touch those little wires inside the rubber wrap?
My iPhone 6 recently got updated with iOS11. I observed that its taking too much battery power. I need to charge 3 to 4 times a day for my requirements. What is the main reason behind is there any settings or other things can i do, so that i can save my battery power.
So pressing alt+[any key] gives you a special character. I am wondering if there is a way to change what special character is outputted for every alt+[key] keystroke. For example, I would like to map alt+t to the theta symbol, map alt+d to the degree symbol, and map alt+s to the square root symbol.
After upgrading to High Sierra (I have clean installed it), my mac (Macbook Pro 2010) needs unreasonably longer time to login. As a result, I have noticed that the temperature increases to around 100 C during the startup time (I have checked this right after login through Istat Menus). Meanwhile the fans are at 2000 rps. Apparently , the reason why fans do not speed up is because the system as a whole is within the safe temp with the only exception of the CPU temperature as CPU is busy processing all those startup processes. So the fans assume everything is alright and do not speed up.
When I try to access my Mac Pro Desktop from my MacBook Pro, it doesn't let me connect to Mac Pro anymore , I think I've changed the password without ticking the box: "Remember this password in my keychain" The problem is, I cannot find the password in order to connect to Mac Pro Desktop.
I have an iMac with a fusion drive. A while back, the drive separated into two seperate drives, with one OS on both the SSD and HDD each. The Apple Technician was unable to help me to join them again into a single fusion drive over the phone, and so I gave up and just used the OS on the HDD, while rarely using the speedy SSD for importing and rendering video only. However, the 3TB HDD is nearly full, and thus is running incredibly slow - almost unusable. Is there any way for me to delete the unused OS from the SSD, and move just the OS from the HDD to the SSD, while still leaving the data on the HDD. I have 2.8 TB worth of data on the HDD, and only 200 GB free on the SSD, so is there a way to move just the System OS to the faster drive, while leaving all of the data on the HDD without merging them into a Fusion Drive again?
I have footage that is in my iCloud Drive, however I seem not to have access to that drive / folder when opening the "Import" function dialog on Final Cut Pro X. Even when I try to drag the clip to the IMPORT box in FCPX, the file is "rejected" and bounces back to the Finder. If I move the file to my Desktop, then I can import it as usual. Does anyone have an explanation for this behavior?
Since I updated to High Sierra, I frequently get the "No Backups for x Days" notification. I used to be able to make this go away by turning off Time Machine in the System Preferences until I needed it, but there is no way to turn Time Machine off anymore. How can I get rid of these notifications?
When I get a third party app it says it needs to be verified before I can use it but when I go to settings to verify I tap verify and nothing happens. Is there something I can do so I don’t have to constantly reinstall my apps?
I actually use a MacBook Pro 13" with SSD HD, and my brother gave me a MacBook Pro 15" with traditional HD. So I want to move SSD drive from my old Mac to my new one. After installing the HD, when I boot my Mac, it cannot start, it seems it doesn't find the bootable partition.
I don't want to use the same Apple ID on my new phone as on my old phone because it got messed up, however I don't want to have to buy each app twice. Is there a way I can without using the same Apple ID? Same goes for music.
Can I map my trackpad to a single display when I have multiple displays connected? The option is not available in system settings?
In my default Messages app, there are lots of texts between me and my friends, but they cannot be found in the search tab when it has been long. But when I find in the search tab, using the words in the texts, the texts which were sent long ago, (like several months) doesn't appear. Only the ones that were recently sent or received can be found there. I want to find all the texts, using the words they contain, in the search tab. How can I do to find in this way? only if necessary, My phone is iPhone-6S and iOS version is 9.2.1
I downloaded PostgreSQL from here. But when I look at Downloads folder, it looks different from other downloads. It has a small x icon on corner:
Very strage situation: all iMessage functionality stopped work on my Mac (macOS 10.12.6) when I use wifi at home. When I use wifi at my office on the same machine it works fine, so it's some network issue for sure. I suspect my ISP could block Apple IP addresses by mistake, or may be my router was hacked and reconfigured. I didn't change anything there by myself.
I am using Atom on 2016 MBP with these specs: OS: High Sierra Processor: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz Total Number of Cores: 2 Memory: 8 GB
There are specific pages of legal documents that I scanned myself as jpegs then combined in a pdf yesterday and they looked great. I downloaded it back from iCloud and they show up in the application for maybe 0 to 1 frames before a black rectangle covers up all the information in the document. Then I opened some jpegs that have been only on my computer since scanned, and they get the same censoring effect. I think I'll make up the term dynamically redacted since the redacting is being done by the application when displaying the otherwise non-redacted file. For further evidence as requested by a commenter, I also moved the file that Preview was redacting into iCloud to test it with my iPhone and was able to view the file normally with the iPhone. Here is the problem occurring in Preview with a local pdf document. Here is the problem occurring in Finder with local jpeg files.
I am trying to authenticate but it seems that my approach is not working. I am logged into the administrator account, so I obviously know the admin password, but I can't authenticate in Finder or any other place that requires unlock. I am running the latest macOS High Sierra.
I have added an Exchange account on my iPhone configured to sync mail and calendars. When I go to the Calendar on my iPhone and create a new event, I see the option of adding an invitee. After doing so, I simply create the event; but no automatic email is being sent to my invitee.
I have a few pdf viewer windows (instances) minimized in the dock. When I click on the viewer icon I want to open the one I used last. (Sometimes I minimize a window just for a second to do some quick action on some other app). However, clicking on a deck icon never opens the latest instance. Instead it always opens the first instance, (something which I didn't look at in hours), which just doesn't make sense. How can I change that? The same problem appears to multiple instances in other apps.
I have external GPS and it is working on my mac with GPSUtility. But like I see the system does not detect that there is GPS connected. So I can not use it to locate myself in e.g. googlemaps more precise then what is read from wifi location. Is there any posibility to let the system know to use GPS location. Or at least that browser should read this GPS location somehow.
I want to share a folder between my MacBook Pros while connected to home wifi, and not risk security while traveling with the laptop. I'm particularly concerned about a brute force attack that can be used to deduce the administrator password.
The flat I've recently moved into as part of a houseshare has no ethernet ports (what I thought were ethernet ports are actually phone landline connections). I use an Apple Time Capsule for my Mac to back up to - I believe it's a 3rd generation, bought in mid-2010, which has previously been connected to the internet via an Ethernet port from the wall to the Time Capsule. However this is now not possible (unless I can use the landline wall ports?). So is it possible to use the wifi to configure the Time Capsule, and if so how would I do this?
In this YouTube video, Craig Federighi said that person-to-person transactions via Apple Pay cost no money if the user had a debit card. It is hard to believe that for service and background processes they do not charge a penny. Is there any hidden cost?
I have updated to the new 10.0 and now my message screen only shows my messages and an edit option. How can I write a text to someone not in my contacts? I have no box on my message page for new text.
After using Photos app for the first time on El Capitan, and importing photos from an iPhone, an app showed up on my Dock titled "iCloudUserNotificationsd" (yes with a 'd' on the end). The icon in the doc is the usual Apple logo for iCloud, a blue cloud on a white background. This app stops me from shutting down the MacBook, with message:
I'm doing a project for school and it involves running a java program which sometimes crashes. In order to kill the unresponsive program, I'll go to my dock, right click on the program and press "Force Quit":
NOTE: I don't want to use the "Tile" app. I want a connection directly to my MacBook.
Today I was in a bike accident. I landed right on my phone (which was in my pocket) and cracked the entire screen. I've even got a bruise on my leg where the phone was sitting. Anyways, I texted a few people and got back home. Fast forward an hour, I lose internet connection. My phone still has 3 bars of LTE, it still has 3 bars of wifi, yet I cannot do a single thing on it. I can't load my email, I can't browse safari, I can't get on reddit, etc.. The only thing I can do is make calls. I've reset my network settings, I've restarted my phone 3 times, and I've done all the basic "turn it off and back on again" It is an iPhone 6+, iOS 11.0 Does anyone know what could have happened to it or any fixes?
I assume that a TB or USB HDMI capture device won't work with the AppleTV due to HDCP. From what I have read, it would work with gameplay on the XBOX, though. But, I'm guessing that if connects the AppleTV to the HDMI input on the XBOX, it will enable HDCP. I'm also worried about the lag that such a setup would introduce. I'm not a super gamer, so a little lag would be acceptable, but I'm not sure it would even be ploayable.
On macOS I have my photos manually organised into folders within the main "Pictures" folder; I don't use Photos or any kind of picture management app. If I turn in iCloud storage for Photos will it preserve that folder structure in "Pictures"? Or does it all need to be managed by the Photos app in order to sync to iCloud?
I right-clicked on a number, and iTerm2 shows me the number conversion in hex. But what is the 168.64 Ki number? What does Ki denote?
Even if you turn the bluetooth off on your iMac, and have both the keyboard and trackpad plugged into the back of the iMac via the lightning cables, the bluetooth on both the keyboard and trackpad are still on. I want to use them as wired only devices. I don't like any unnecessary bluetooth signals/radiation on around me.
I'm on Sierra, and I have one legacy application that requests Java 6 to run. I have Java 7 installed, and I've also installed Java SE 6 from Apple, but I'm not sure how to force the application to use it. When I launch it now, it does not launch properly, although the process seems to have started: There may be some subtleties with JavaApplicationStub and plists that I don't understand, but in any case the application never gets beyond initial startup (drawing a blank window), and does not function.
For a couple weeks my macbook air (mid 2012) has been going into what looks like sleep mode when plugged in to the power outlet. Sometimes it comes back up after a few seconds, sometimes it doesn't. When I unplug it and let it run through the battery it always works properly. When it unexpectedly goes to sleep, the magsafe charger light goes out, as if it weren't connected. When the macbook is off, if it's not plugged in to the power outlet it won't start (doesn't boot running off the battery). Any thoughts on what this could be? Thanks!
I recently upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra and seem to be losing files. Some files do not appear in ls from console but appear in Finder with a cloud icon next to them. Clicking fails to open the files. I am losing important data. How do I solve this problem? UPDATE: I have found that the files are available online on iCloud Drive but that is cumbersome and I would rather have them locally.
Can anyone tell me how I can know the exact voltage of P-bus for a specific CPU? I mean, are there any documentations available determining that? The CPU in question is Core I5 for Macbook Pro Mid 2010.
I've been looking around for a while for a way to start packing image bytestreams into HEIF files, since macOS High Sierra and and iOS 11 are now out. Haven't had much luck, just large numbers of people converting .heic files to .jpg, and the Nokia JS viewer on GitHub
Word 2016 for Mac is styling text as 'Normal + (Latin) Helvetica' when I paste it into a new document. I cannot remove the '(Latin) Helvetica' style by reapplying 'Normal' or directly formatting the text. How can I remove all instances of '(Latin) Helvetica' and substitute 'Normal'? Below: 'Normal + (Latin) Helvetica' on the left; 'Normal' on the right.
I just got a new Macbook but the guys at my IT department put some application to get support from them (it literally just opens an email client to them), and it is showing on the Dock. It's kind of annoying so I want to remove it but I can't, when I try to drag it to the trash nothing happens and it just goes back there. They are the admins of this laptop, but I have the admin password as well. I'm pretty sure this has to do with me (on a regular account) not having privileges to remove that from the Dock. I have tried to find where can I disable this thing to no avail. Perhaps someone can give me some clues.
I have a 2013 Macbook Air that suddenly won't boot. It was working as of yesterday. I woke up this morning and it wouldn't start. At the time, the Magsafe2 Adapter was not lit up.
I have a Mac desktop computer and use Safari as my Browser on a Comcast account. Comcast just sent a notice that they will shortly discontinue their Calendar application. I have used this service for a long time and this is devastating to me as I depend on the calendar for notifications of important upcoming events. Is there something comparable to the Comcast calendar service that will send me email reminders of upcoming events? I am not the most computer literate person and will greatly appreciate any assistance in how to get this done.
I have a number of eBooks (ePub) either from free sources such as Gutenberg, or purchased elsewhere. I can open them easily enough on my iMac with eBooks, and I gather that they are in my library (when I try to add one manually, it tells me that it’s already there). On my iPhone, however, I can’t see them at all. How do I complete the processes? I will readily consider a third party app.
I already know I can go into my iPhone’s Privacy settings and select what apps can use my camera. My question is not about stopping apps from using my camera. It is about not allowing photos and videos taken by any app to also capture my location when taking them. How do I do this?
I have an old 2007 Macbook Pro 15" and Dell Inspiron 1720. Since the logic board on the Mac is damaged, I kinda combined it in Dell (I took RAM, WiFi card, HDD). It all works perfectly.
I am not having WiFi. To update to IOS 11 iphone needs a WiFi connection. My idea is to use the Iphone for tethering and connect it "to itself". Will it work? Can I connect my Iphone the WiFi it makes itself and than do the update via mobile network?
I recently installed an app from the mac app store known as commander one from the mac app store which allows you to transfer files between the Cloud, Mobile devices and your mac, but as soon as I installed and opened it, it is constantly asking for accessibility permissions in - order to control my mac, so I deny it every-time it asks for it, so can anyone tell me why the app asks for this permission and what it would be able to do after granting this permission?
I'm wondering has anyone seen anything like this before? Was using my 2009 Unibody iMac this morning and noticed black, burn-like, marks appear on the screen gradually. The machine wasn't under heavy usage or anything, however the screen felt extremely hot to touch. The previous week there was condensation looking areas behind the glass. Any input appreciated, thanks.
I have thousands of JPGs (old OS X screenshots) I would like to convert to individual PDF's - one PDF per image file preferably using OS X Automator. This is in preparation for setting up an automated OCR using Hazel & PDFPEn Pro which will process the old backlog & any new incoming screenshots. ...the plan is that all future screenshots will be PDF format and automatically converted into searchable OCR PDFs so I can find content within them easily using Spotlight.
I've experienced this behavior with at least the last two OS X versions and was really disappointed to find that this behavior hasn't changed in El Capitan. Previewing images and PDFs is lightning fast, but for regular WAV files it takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds (sometimes more) to pop up the preview player. This can't be right.
Is there a way to display my desktop icons in all external displays? By default, these icons are displayed only in the "original" screen (the Macbook Pro screen), but I want to see these icons on all my displays.
I tried to upgrade to High Siera but it crashed in the middle and totally messed up my Mac. I tried everything under the sun to fix it, be it Tech Tool, Drive Genius, Disk Warrior. Disj Utilities. Even Single user mode and certain fsck commands, but no matter what I did I could not get it to boot on it's own. Luckily I have a TechTool edrive so I can navigate. I also have a fresh Time Machine Backup. (Doing a Time Machine Restore did not help either). So I decided to wipe the entire Hard Drive and now I am in the position where i have a blank drive and I wish get to get everything back on as it was.
My daughter's MBP recently had a hard drive failure. I replaced the hard drive and purchased the Snow Leopard install disc from Apple.
Hello, I upgraded my Apple Mac Pro to High Sierra last week. This may have been a slightly rash move for I find that whenever I have attempted to install an AU based plugin intended for use with Logic Pro X, I am having difficulties in getting Logic Pro to recognise the new plug-in. I know that deleting /Users/carlca/Library/Caches/AudioUnitCache/com.apple.audiounits.cache will force Logic Pro X to run AuScan, and I have also discovered that rebooting the machine just prior to installing a new plug-in sometimes helps, but it's nowhere near 100% reliable and it's a pain in the derriere.
I use Safari Version 11.0 on my MacBook Pro in some pages like this site stack exchange many images doesn't show at all it was like this from the start and I don't have any extension at all anybody can help thanx?
I have an iPhone 5c with a No SIM issue. I DFU restored it to no avail, still shows "No SIM". I wonder if there's a way to bypass the activation so I can use it even if just on WI-FI. Could jail-breaking it help anything? Any other means?
I have a Quicktime window, and I would like to have it positioned at exactly (533,118). I have (painfully) achieved this using the Macbook's screenshot functionality (because it shows the coordinates of the cursor, so with a couple tries it can be done).
I recently jailbroke my IPad mini running 9.3.5 using the Phoenix untethered jailbreak utility. I got some things to work, but I want to have verbose boot output on the startup/respring screen. Is there any way that this is possible? If this is helpful,nvram -p outputs: I hope I can get it to work. EDIT: It's been days since I posted this and I really want to do this.
So when I try to sign out of iCloud on my iPhone, I get the message - enter password to turn off find my phone. After entering the password, a message comes up stating ‘Verification Failed - There was an error connecting to iCloud’. What I’ve tried so far: 1) Resetting all Network Setting, 2) Changing Apple ID password.
I just subscribed to Apple Music and I decided to upload all the songs I had in my Mac's iTunes library to the iCloud Music Library. Some songs have been labeled as uploaded, meaning that Apple has scanned and uploaded this track from my library to its servers, but it didn't match it with any songs in its database. Some other songs are marked as matched, meaning that Apple has scanned and matched the track in my Mac's library with a song in its iTunes Store catalog.
I bought a sports watch that had to be specific to, "Health and Sports" app to pair with my iPhone. That is the acttual name of the app. "Health and Sports". I lost the watch and deleted the app and now I have found the watch and need back the H & S app I deleted but cannot find it. Help pls!! HopCentury Bluetooth Smart Waterproof Watch Bracelet IP67 for iPhone IOS
Does anybody knows if such upgrade is possible? E3 1150 Xeon's are basically i7s without the GPU but more cache and offer better per watt performance. Update
The Chess app on my Mac seems to have hit some bug. When I start it now, it starts with a screen of the last game played, a spinning wheel inside an embedded window, and then a frozen screen. Here is a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6eVsu
Trying on 3 different macs to use a font called: CombiNumerals. I have installed the font and it appears in the User section of the font window as well as being selectable in the dropdown of both Pages and TextEdit on the Mac. However... regular numbers are displayed... no circled numbers as the font should be. CORRECTION: Font is not showing up in list on Mac Pages, but is visible in Font Book
I've been in a dilemma for a long time that my MBA can't run a decent game. The last thing that I've played is Unturned which didn't really require a high spec but my MBA heats pretty much every time which scared me.
Good day everyone, I have this iPhone unit which we updated to iOS 11.0.2. We were trying to AirDrop files to and from it, but we hit a snag when we were trying to go to the AirDrop control through the Control Center. It wasn't popping up even when we were long pressing the "Network Icon Group". Does anyone know why this happens? I know we can go to the Settings itself and search for AirDrop settings and turn it on, but it's so convenient to be able to turn it on and off from the Control Center.
macOS Server 10.12.6 documentation says that we should prevent arbitrary zone transfers out of our DNS server, and that the way to do this is to firewall port 53 for anyone not on our LAN, with specific exceptions for our secondary DNS servers. What they don't mention is that port 53 is where all DNS traffic goes, so firewalling that port also shuts off our DNS services for anyone on the road. Yes, we have VPN connections; no, they're not enforced and we don't want to start.
I have a MBP 2010 which I reliably connected (for many years) to an external LG 25UM64-S UltraWide monitor at 2580x1080 native resolution using a mDP<->DP cable. The 25" monitor broke and I replaced it with a newer, bigger LG 29UM68-P UltraWide monitor, also with DisplayPort.
When typing a word in the dictionary app, it shows a list of matched words on the left pane. However, the exact matches are far down the list, the top words are usually not relevant, like terms from wikipedia. Going down the list and choosing the matched word manually is a nuisance. Changing order of dictionaries in preferences does not help, as it only changes the result content on the right pane. Is there a way to prioritize exact match in dictionary app?
And can it be turned off to only include the main screen area? (I think the small region is called a "notch"):
But I'm curious, what are the Thunderbolt MAC addresses then? In my MBP 13" (2015), networksetup -listallhardwareports command shows ethernet (MAC) addresses of Thunderbolt 1 and Thunderbolt 2. Also, the result of ifconfig -a contains bridge0 which has a MAC address.
When I try to adjust the volume, the TouchBar appears on my screen. I tried to refresh the TouchBar agent by killing it, it doesn't work. And another problem about this issue is I cannot smoothly adjust the volume, I have to keep my finger on a certain point, because a circle shows up and it needs to be full before recognizing a press. It looks like a debug mode, I have no idea how this happened. My setup is: 2017 MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzkg9l50bn5wlvl/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-30%20at%2010.21.47%20AM.png?dl=0
*=URL=* uses the emoji. In Safari on macOS I see a question mark in a square. See screen. I also have this issue in emoji used on my Instagram profile.
I'm working on application that consume significant CPU time and memory under heavy load. my setup configuration is fusion VM that runs macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
But my iPhone is not jailbroken so I think I don't have a chance to open this file, right? (And if I jailbreak my phone the dictionary will be deleted…)
I've set up cron to run a script hourly but when I reboot cron does not work. Does this mean that I should run cron whenever I boot into my Mac? The cron command which I use cron 5 * * * * path/to/script.sh. Is there any problem with cron or I this kind of behaviour expected?
I have recently bought a pair of AirPods. I use an Android phone and an MBP, so I have to manually switch between the devices (by choosing "connect" on the device I want to connect) whenever I ant to switch. On MBP, it is done by opening the BT menu under preferences, choosing the AirPods from the list and double-clicking. Is there a way to do it using the command line, please?
I need to use OneDrive on my systems, but ran into a snag on one in particular (I don't know how or why this one machine ended up different). It's reporting that it can't be used as the file system is case sensitive... Is there a procedure to change filesystems without data loss? Which filesystem should I be using for best OneDrive compatibility?
I see the following groups on my user id when working in terminal: What is the purpose of these groups?
I'm trying to update MacPorts on an older MacBook Core2 Duo. MacPorts base version 2.4.2 is installed. I'm experiencing an error I have not seen before, and there are no search results for the message:
On my MacBook, I want to see the health status of my SSD. How can I do this? Which app to use?
I have a relatively small iTunes Library with ~750 songs. My plan is to convert them to the MP3 format and copy them to a SC card to play them in my car. If I copy all the songs, is there a way to copy/create a file/folder structure for organizational help? For example, can playlists be captured?
I lost disk space resulting from a failed Boot Camp run. I was trying to create a partition to run Windows 10. Bootcamp failed to make the partition, but the allocated drive space disappeared. This has been covered in another Ask Different thread where I got apartial solution. The command: "sudo diskutil cs revert [Logical Volume guid]" will recover the space, but I need more details. See: Missing Space on Drive using Core Storage after Boot Camp Assistant Failure
My Mac laptop is freezing like age old windows laptop since I have upgrade my mac os to mac os high sierra. Mac details : Mac book pro retina mid 2012 It just freezes and i am forced to restart my laptop, (it never ever happened before) Is any one facing this problem, how to fix it ? Steps done : Run complete diagnostic test Reset smc Reset nvram from this link
The iOS simulator sometimes shows me a keyboard shortcut helper when I spam Command-Shift-H in an attempt to close an app, and one of the shortcuts (the one I need) includes this symbol, but I don't know what key it refers to.  What key is this?
I am very new to Mac. I was previously using Apple Mail. It downloaded all my mails to a local directory (> 1 GB). Now I have switched to Spark and added two of my major mail accounts in Spark. before doing this I removed (unchecked only Mail option) those two accounts from Apple Mail client. What I am worrying is as I am not using the previous mail client the previously downloaded mails should not eat up my storage. But I still see there are mails downloaded in my storage.
I just purchased an iPhone 5s and attached to my iCloud. After that it seems that App Store applications were not installing properly. I did a factory reset and the following screen is shown: Could Not Activate iPhone
Sometimes webpages are completely nonfunctional on a phone. There's no way to edit text that extends beyond the text box.
I have a Macbook Air (mid 2012) which has some various problems. The main problem is that the computer will occasionally display a blinking folder at startup. Whenever that happens I do one of the following things, until I can boot into the computer again that is. Reset the NVRAM Try to boot into safe mode Repair the start up disk Choose the right disk as the start up disk Various keys getting bashed Besides the blinking folder problem, 3 beeps can be heard at start up.
I accidentally deleted my external SSD using the delete function in Disk Utility, and now it does not show up using diskutils list in Terminal nor in Disk Utility. I have disconnected and reconnected the device and it does not show up in Finder. I have also attempted to restart my machine a couple of times. The data on the disk is not really important I have other backups, but I would like to use my disk again. How would one go about to access it?
A weird problem has showed up the last …weeks? The emoji viewer (Cmd+Option+Space on my keyboard) will trigger at random when I click an input field. At first I thought it was just a Slack bug, user error, or stuck keyboard keys, but the problem has showed up on my other Mac too. It's wildly annoying, as I have to hit Esc after I focus on any new input field. My only lead at the moment is assuming its macOS. The problem comes and goes seemingly at random too (haven't found a pattern yet).
I have a Logitech Table Keyboard for iPad. I am using this as a remote keyboard via bluetooth with my Mac (High Sierra). In general it works great. However there is a minor annoyance that I would like to resolve. The keyboard looks like this:
The Force Touch (URL previews and word definisions) of the trackpad of my MacBook Pro 13" TouchBar often stops working and it works again after a reboot, but I'd like to find a quicker way to make it work again. What's the process that handles Force Touch on macOS? Then I could try to kill it and see if it works again after restarting.
Homebrew's current version of Postgres is 10 when installed with: How do I install an older version of postgres? Specifically 9.6
In Yosemite, the Mac Mail app grouped emails with same subject into a thread. Not in this version.
In Preview when I use “Save As” and then begin to add tags If I then click on the tag list option to “Show All” and then click on a tag a different tag name is added to the save as list. For example, selecting “Tax” from the drop down list may add “Bank”. What may be corrupting the tag selection process? Thanks if you can help.
As you can see, when I try to install Xcode 9.0.1, I'm shown an error that says I need an additional 5.6 GB of free space on my drive, yet I have 10.98 GB available, and the App Store lists Xcode as only requiring 5.46 GB of space. So why can't I download it?
I'm trying to restore my computer to a previous backup of my Mac HD. However, when I try, I see an error notice telling me that I cannot, since this file is not able to be deleted: .PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware How do I restore to this backup from last week, considering that I can't delete the above folder, or resultantly, another version of Mac HD ? What I've done:
How can I send a group text to a group of 11 people that do not all have an Apple phone? I have iPhone 6.
Just as my heading says: There is no input fields for the Apple ID verification codes for the iMac 10.10.5. How in the heck do I get it to come up??
I have an older iPod touch which which supports up to iOS 6.1.6 and nothing newer. This device is equipped with a Linea Pro barcode scanner and previously had an application called "Web Barcode" installed. Recently I was attempting to do some work on a web application I wrote and realized that I needed to update to a newer version of Web Barcode - but unfortunately the Apple ID saved on my device was deactivated a few years ago. So I went to settings and updated it with my current Apple ID. Then again tried to update the App from the Apple store. Still no dice - it was asking me for the password on the old account.
How to copy and paste pdf files from finder to the Microsoft outlook, (using keyboard shortcut CMD+C and CMD+V), and not attach as "images" into the email composer, instead as attachments like Windows machine normally does? I have searched somewhere that this can be disabled: Turn off automatic preview in apple mail
In Bluetooth Preferences on my Mac, my wireless keyboard simply shows up as a bluetooth device and is not recognised as a keyboard. Is there a way to force the Mac to recognise this device as a keyboard? The reason I need to do this is so that the keyboard shows up as an option in the "Select Keyboard" drop down in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier keys. Please see attached screenshot of device only being recognised as standard bluetooth device.
Recently when I pick up my iPhone 7 Plus (especially when it is charging), there was some kind of vibration that felt like a turning gyroscope which I played when I was a kid. And then after picking up the phone for 10, 20 seconds, the vibration would stop. What was it about? If it was a gyroscope, what was it turning for?
Xcode 9.2 beta (9C30) was released today, but I have been unable to download it from developer.apple.com. I am using a non-paid Apple ID, but this hasn't caused trouble for Xcode downloads in the past. When I click the blue "Download" button next to the latest Xcode beta, I am presented with a "403 Forbidden" error.
I have been using Apple Music’s iCloud library feature to let me listen to my music across all my devices. When it works it’s great however one issue that has really annoyed me is that is overwrites album artwork with its own, I’ve noticed some of my older songs that have the correct artwork being overwritten with compilation album artwork which also has the song.
Is there any way I can get my login to accept two different passwords?
I have a Late 2011 15" MBP with El Capitan(highest update). The animations on Apple website do not work on any browsers (Safari 11, Firefox 57, Chrome) even if the discrete GPU is being utilized. WebGL, CSS animation settings are turned on. The same animation works on other Windows PC with any browser. Is there any setting I can change?
I don't think it's a problem, but I thought there would be a reason for it. I'm using a program named Macs Fan Control(gives me to control mac's fan) on my MacBook Pro.
What can I do to try and debug this problem? Is there any kind of logging that could point to why everything starts freezing?
With iTunes 12.7.0 and OS 10.13 I cannot change the Album Artwork. Checked permissions and its all Read & Write. The tracks of the Album are my own creation and in AIFF format. I've tried cutting and pasting, dragging of jpegs, and software select - but even though the image appears - when I select OK it reverts to previous image. I tried deleting the image - which was deleted, but still cannot paste my own jpeg (small 100k). Frustrated.
I have a 2012 13" Macbook pro, running macOS Sierra. I have 2 hard drive set up, in the optical bay I have ssd with all system operation files. I'm trying to install a new hdd in normal hard drive slot, but for whatever reason can't erase it. I have tried plugging it externally, after I initialize it I can transfer files to it. Then I put it in hard drive slot and try to partition it but get an error. I have tried erasing disk in recovery mode and/or unmounting drive with terminal commands but I eventually get the same result
Are there any tricks to provide quicker access to the camera in iOS on an iPhone? The drag-up-from-bottom on the lock screen takes multiple attempts. By the time I can access the camera, my photo opportunity moment has passed. Perhaps some combination of hardware buttons can be set to bring up the camera?
I have OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 installed and want to upgrade to macOS Sierra 10.12.6 I have downloaded macOS Sierra version 10.13 I have .dmg file of macOS Sierra 10.12.6 but when I am going install it gives me the following error:
I have no other accounts on the system so I cannot login through them either. I tried the whole terminal reset password thing, but it said no users were available on the drive. I also tried the safe mode which had the exact same issues.
I have an app which is written in AppleScripting language which checks if the S.M.A.R.T. status is 'Verified' if it is not then it will automatically show me a dialog alert. But I need it to run every 30 minutes. I used cron before but it never works with .app extension. So how can I accomplish running the app at regular intervals using launchd?
I have a dual boot MacBook with Retina Display running macOS and Ubuntu, and I need to give more space to the Ubuntu OS. I've already reduced the macOS partition but I don't know how to expose the free space to be used by Linux. I've followed the suggestions from klanomath on this post and this one to extract the useful information but without results. From the command line I got: And: Finally: I've tried with no results: Besides 300 GB is the size of the logical partition. From my understanding I need to: Shrink the Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD from 400 GB to 300 GB (Logical Volume) Make the free 100 GB available to Linux (if there's something to do). Extend Linux partition to use the new 100 GB. Can anyone help me how to process to give to Linux the unused disk space, please?
I am very new to macOS, knowing Ubuntu a little bit, and am wondering whether git is pre-installed on macOS or not. Typing results in But when I init a test-repo and checkout a myBranch, the command
I have been in struggle to set a system where I would be able to duplicate and share data with other users. Under SMB, I had a QSync client being used in MacOS, but seems like it cannot handle extended attributes from each MacOS to the Server. This client is a default one used with QNAP NAS servers. Using FreeFileSync, I have found several problems trying to run it in real time. So do you know a good AFP client for MacOS to connect to AFP server to backup and share data with other users, like FreeFileSync?
I've installed hping using brew install hping. When I run hping without sudo I get: When I run sudo hping, naturally, I get: My question here is, what permissions need to be changed to give hping the permissions it needs - and how do I do that?
I've got Xcode project, and one of its related targets have run-script as the last build phase. However, it looks that when I recompile the target, this stage doesn't being re-executed, only after cleaning the script runs fine. Therefore, I'd like to know how can i set this phase as mandatory in every build scenario. Denote that the re-compiling logs contain the scripts printout messages which may hint that the script has ran, but in fact this is not the case.
My iPhone 5s having this issue after factory reset not able to activate it. I even deleted the LockedDown File c:\programdata\apple....
What are the correct default owner and permission settings for directories in Applications? For me most are either Rax admin (me; sometimes Rax staff) or root wheel. The latter permissions are almost exclusively associated with apps installed by the App Store; but I have a few exceptions that, mostly for apps that were originally installed long ago. That seems like a security issue. Should the owner for all non-Apple application directories be me (Rax admin or Rax staff; does it matter which)? Should the owner for all Apple application directories be root wheel? Who should own directories in Applications?
I was working on a University practice that required Technitium, this is a software that allows you to change your MAC Address from Windows that I was using on a Bootcamp, but the problem is that my computer crashed just when I tried to connect to a network when I turn on the wifi. So now that I have the wifi on and my MAC Address changed, my computer crashes every time I turn it on with the Windows partition. So what I'm trying to do is turn off the wifi adapter so I can change the MAC Address again so it won't crash.
I am trying to set up the Check_MK agent with launchd on a Mac server, to return data over port 6556 when another machine connects to it. (The agent itself is essentially just a shell script that outputs various information about the machine's status in a vaguely machine-readable format.)
I want to enable FileVault encryption but in the dialog I encounter this message: A recovery key has been set by your company, school, or institution. I don't have my laptop set up by a company, school or institution because this is my private laptop.
I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop on a 2017 MacBook Pro running Sierra to connect to a Windows 10 PC. I would like to be able to use the MacBook function keys as they would on a Windows keyboard WITHOUT having to hold the Command key.
How can I "see" the number of the contact to whom I am calling? I can just see the label on calling screen. But sometimes, it's utmost important to see the number during call. How can I see this?
I already disabled the feature to notify me when old backups are deleted, yet it's still notifying me. (I've had this checkbox disabled for years.)
In previous versions of MacOS, I recall that Disk Utility provided an option to select the partition scheme (GUID, MBR, or Apple). If I formatted the USB key without changing the scheme to MBR, I could not read it on a Windows machine. But now there is no option in High Sierra. How do I format the USB key with FAT and MBR?
I just updated my iPhone 6 and now the calendar no longer shows a tag for events I put in. If I click on the date, the event is there, but there is no dot on the date to notify me of something.
I have a MacBook Pro and need to test my apps integration with another developer's iOS app. They have provided an installation link (itms-services://), but I don't have an iOS mobile device. Is it possible to install and test their app on my MacBook with some sort of emulator?
I have an issue where Apache will not start on a restart. I have tried commands like
Sometime around the upgrade to iOS 11 my phone (6s) stopped delivering some notifications to my watch. It seems random, not by app, just random. E.g. some email notifications appear on my watch, others don’t.
If you had to secure important document in an encrypted, yet easily accessible format from state actors; would there be anything better than an password protected sparseimage? I used to use cryptkeeper in linux. A password protected sparseimage is the closest thing I have found on the mac side. Since this occurred (*=URL=* I am doubting that choice.
For some reason, when I do a bash operation on a list of files (i.e. ls | cat -n | while read n f; do mv "$f" `printf "name-%02d.png" $n`; done, the "Hide extension" setting becomes enabled on all of them, and I have to manually uncheck that via "Get info". How can I avoid this, or fix it programmatically?
so I bought a USB-C hub for my MacBook Pro 2017, specifically, this one: https://www.aukey.com/products/usb-c-to-4-port-usb-3-0-hub-with-hdmi-port-usb-c-charing-port-cb-c58
So for some odd reason it seems that some iPhones are having trouble processing the letter "I" and I was wondering if anyone knows the solution to this or if it's just a bug in iOS 11? on some iOS 10 and iOS 11 devices, a question mark shows up or another symbol where they should be an I. Examples:
Is there a way for me to give my iCloud directory a "nickname" in the Terminal, that way I don't have to see "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs" in front of each line, but rather, can just see "iCloud" and know I'm in said directory?
If I run console on my mac and go to the system.log I see that system,log is getting flooded with this error I had installed mysql using homebrew many months ago. but I had removed it I don't know why its still trying to run it. I tried to remove mysql But still i see messages pouring in.
I have a 2012 Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.8 that doesn't boot properly. Sometimes the USB ports don't work after boot and/or the Mac mini crashes after bootup. Graphics are not crisp when output from HDMI; instead resembling an old CRT TV. Before I did a clean install of 10.8 via Internet Recovery, it had a kernel panic/boot loop. So far I've: Reset both NVRAM and SMC Run AHT extended tests (without problems). Found and ran the correct ASD, which consistently shows these seven errors: FireWire Controller (test #20) - Reset PCIe Link Error Registers... ERROR--12114 [Cannot find the PCIe capabilities register] -- TEST FAILED FireWire Controller (test #21) - Read PCIe Link Error Registers... ERROR--12114 [Cannot find the PCIe capabilities register] -- TEST FAILED AirPort (test #8) - Hardware Register Check Test... ERROR--12100 [IOConnect error reading from PCI address space] -- TEST FAILED AirPort (test #9) - Wireless Module PCIe Root Port Hardware Register Test... ERROR--12100 [IOConnec
Google Drive recently became Google Backup and Sync, and this dialog started occasionally popping out of its menu bar item:  I don't have a "Boot OS X" folder that I'm aware of, in Google Drive or locally. When I look at the settings for Google Backup and Sync, I don't see anything about this. I haven't touched the settings since it was Google Drive, so it's set to sync my Google Drive and nothing more.
I have read the 'man atrun' page and ran the sudo command to enable at. I did successfully create a scheduled job, but it does not execute the job at my scheduled time. I only have an at.deny and cron.deny file in /var/at. If I access /var/at/jobs, I can see the job I just created as an executable file. I then double-click the job and it then runs the job I scheduled in Terminal. Do I need an at.allow file? I am running High Sierra (10.13).
Is there a way to put color icons back in the sidebar in iTunes 12? Apple is not doing any changes for quite a while.
Normally, you just select some text with your mouse, then press the keyboard shortcut (which I have set to Option + Tab), and then the computer voice reads the selected text to you. This keyboard shortcut still works in other applications like Finder and Firefox, but when I do so in Chrome it doesn't read the selected text - instead, it reads the <title>Web Page's Name</title> and that's it.
I'd like to route some apps through WiFi and other apps through ethernet. Given that OSX has a wide array of system tools and utilities as well as a rich ecosphere of apps, how can I make that happen?*
I replaced the Core i5 2.7 GHz CPU in my iMac 27-inch (mid 2011) my with an i7 2600. On boot I got a blinking single LED on LED1. Reading up that normally means insufficient power. The main fan would spin cycle up and down.
In Mac 10.11.6 how do I look back at all my previous search history after having deleted it? On 10.10.x it involves either the function key or the option key and one of the F keys.
I had a windows laptop that bit the dust, but the hard drive works fine (booted up in another pc that wasn't mine as an external disk with my SATA to USB 3 adapter). I'd like to use this drive on my iMac (2011 27 inch) without reformatting it and without having to go out and buy a new windows license key. Is there a way I could use the existing and functional license in boot camp, or better yet boot the OS from the drive?
As of today, everyone I know who has an iPhone 6+ on iOS 11+ and use GPS a lot has this problem. Did an app to calculate the best accuracy the device might have within 30 minutes, under a clear sky, out of town - GPS is always erratic, inaccurate. It's definitely an iOS / firmware issue. Went to Apple store and talked an hour with the manager, explaining the problem etc... Basically answers were there is nothing to do - your phone is defective and has to replaced with a new/used one [buy a new [678]+, or an X] ... Dec 22 update
Is it possible to transfer my messages on my mac to my iPhone? I imagine this would be possible by combining the chat.db files in the two devices, but I have no clue how to do this.
I see all of these software that claim that they can recover messages deleted from your iPhone. Do they actually work? For example, if I received 2 text messages from my friend and I immediately deleted them. Is it possible to recover them?
I have a USB drive that I can see/access/modify/etc in Linux/Ubuntu but it doesn't show up on my Mac OSX. I did sudo fdisk /dev/sdb (where my USB is) and then g to create a new GPT partition table, n to make a new partition, used all default settings, then w to save and exit. Then I did sudo mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1 to format the partition with a FAT32 filesystem. I ejected the USB and put it in my Mac and it doesn't show up / get detected. What did I miss?
I have been provided with a Magic Keyboard with my new work kit and I'm not sure it is a default Australian keyboard. Above the 3 is £ not # (although shift + press does use #) so the pound symbol is not used without control+press but it's there.
I tried restoring a device of mine from an old iCloud backup I had. I did not use to use iCloud Photo Library on this device, but backed the photos app's data up as an application's data (which is why this iCloud backup is very large).
If she tries do download it from the main store, she is prompted for payment info. In either case, no app is downloaded. We've tried: Apps I've had for years An app I downloaded today Paid and fee apps Everything at *=URL=* Everything at *=URL=* Signing out of iTunes and back in (both of us) Disabling and re-enabling purchase sharing Enabling automatic downloads of apps I'm not willing to try: Adding a payment method for my girlfriend - with nothing else working, I don't trust them not to charge it Erase and restore the phone - too much faff Removing and re-adding her to the family - I've read there's a limit on how often you can do this
I have an Apple Watch Series 2, and I recently updated the OS to the 4th version. Previously, I could remotely listen music. Since I don't have bluetooth headphones, I was using the Apple Watch just to give the command to play music on the iPhone, which is fine for me. But since the update, now it doesn't play my music on the iPhone, and it asks me to connect any bluetooth headphones. What if I want to listen music without bluetooth headphones?
I am stuck at the screen below having not received a code. Verify Email Address Enter the verification code sent to [email] Did not get an email?
My AppleWatch 3 Series (GPS model) is showing 4 lines of stripes across the screen when it is off and under a direct light. Should I go to AppleStore to check it? Or that is normal?
I have working IPv6 interface with /64 prefix. It means I can connect to direct IPv6 addresses through browser but can't connect to IPv6 hosts like testv6.madore.org. The issue is in DNS configuration where I don't have flag "Request AAAA records": Can someone tell me how to manually add/enable that flag too look like:
Does iPhone X support Display Zoom like the iPhone devices before it that are larger than the iPhone SE?
Is there any "native way" to view the new HEIF/HEIC format (or the viewer-application) in El Capitan or Sierra without upgrade of MacOS itself? It is not yet possible to upgrade yet to HighSierra for me, but I'd like to natively view images from iPhone 8 and up generation, avoiding conversions to JPG.
When using Quick Look on a code file — .swift or .cpp, etc. — the font used to render the text seems to be Menlo. I was wondering if this is customizable. Can I manually set it to any font I want, such as SF Mono or Source Code Pro?
On previous iPhone devices holding down the lock button brought up the "Slide to Turn Off" screen. From the keynote Apple said that holding down the side button brings up Siri now. How do I turn off iPhone X?
I want to use the wheel on the Apple Watch to adjust the volume of whatever I'm listening to... it could be Air Pods paired to MacOS (iTunes works, but Safari or other apps don't) Apple TV speakers MacOS speakers on a MacBookPro How can I use Apple Watch to change the speaker volume in the above situations?
I recently formatted all my external drives to APFS. The result was this:
With Windows is is possible to setup a netsh wlan hostednetwork even if the computer is already using a wlan connection for itself. However, a Mac's inbuilt Internet Sharing functionalities only support generating a wlan from a wired connection. What application/settings can I use to construct a wlan hostednetwork the same way it is done on Windows?
I have been experiencing an issue in Safari where the :active pseudo class is not behaving correctly. I would expect the style to be applied on mouse down and then removed on mouse up. but for some reason the style is staying applied after mouse up. I am using this simple page for testing:
I am trying to free up space in the cloud without having to delete a lot of other items. I have a lot of notes in Notes and would like to know if the following will help free up iCloud space. If i save Notes "On My IPad" will it free up space in the Cloud? Thank you Kathy
I'm trying to save some images from an email attachment in the Mail app. There are five images, but for some reason, only three have been saved in the Photos app. I have tried long-pressing the images and tapping "Save Image" and "Save 5 Images". All five images are jpg files. Nothing so far has worked. What is the problem here and how can I fix it?
I just copied a folder full of PDFs from my Windows 10 machine to iCloud Drive. I can't see the files on my iPad (running iOS 10.3.3), but I can see them when I go to the iCloud Drive Web Site. I can also see he files under Files on my iPhone running iOS 11. Why is this happening?
I'd like to make the Touch Bar display function keys for all the apps by default. I know that you can force the Touch Bar show function keys for specific applications. Is there a way to change this behaviour as default (and maybe be able to bind the touch bar to display the real touch bar only for some applications?)
How do I create a new Desktop ("Space") on macOS using only the keyboard?
I have a really old Apple ID that I'd like to gain access to again. The email used is a Gmail account that I still have access to.
I have connected BlueBoard to Mac. While running program with use of Terminal I receive this error. How can I resolve this?
I'm attempting to create a script for muting the system volume which gets triggered upon logging out or shutting down. This is to avoid hearing the startup chime really loudly the next time I start the machine. Using the instructions provided in this post, I have created a RunAtLoad launch agent that calls the script shown below: The idea being that the script is called and made to sleep until it receives one of the trapped signals, at which point the onLogout function is called in order to mute the volume.
I am having trouble being able to fully control my computer remotely. By fully, I mean being able to {manage files, access the terminal, access GUI, login} all while not allowing a local user to take over.
I have encountered a weird problem with my Macbook Pro (mid 2017/macOS Sierra 10.12.6). It shows the Location Services icon on the menu bar, many times a day, even after unchecking all application from location services except 'Setting Time Zone' & 'Find My Mac' (under 'System Services'). I have also unchecked 'Show location icon in menu bar when System Services request your location', that means 'System Services' can use location services without showing on menu bar.
Previously asked for iOS 7. I need to use Google Voice (e.g. for cheaper overseas calls), not just for the Caller ID part of the problem. iOS 10+ is fine if that solves the problem.
I've been having troubles with my trackpad for 2 weeks now. After trying about all the options possible (Reseting SMC, PRAM, upgrading OS...) I am now able to reproduce the issue. The trackpad will get unresponsive only if I have used a USB Mouse before putting it too sleep or shutting it down.
How do I turn off Low Power Mode if my iPod Touch with iOS 9.3.5 does not have a Turn Low Power Mode On/Off button or slide bar?
I have a company-issued 2017 MacBook Pro (4 x Thunderbolt 3 ports, macOS Sierra 10.12.6). My IT has installed Tunnelblick VPN so that I access company-internal servers over WiFi at home. I would like to share the VPN connection via Ethernet cable to another home machine (Windows laptop and/or desktop). Sounds simple enough, eh? Here is the basic ifconfig (no Ethernet cable, no Inet sharing, no VPN) which works as expected: I can see external web sites, but not internal company sites:
The rm terminal command is being invoked (by an app, not through terminal), and the process has been running for a while at 100%. Here it is in Activity Monitor:
I have an iphone6 and I currently have ios11. I want to install ios10 or an earlier ios version. I am aware apple stopped 'signing' earlier ios versions. However, is there still some method to install an earlier ios version, perhaps one that is 'unsigned'?
My iPhone 7 rings once and answers by itself. I checked the settings and find nothing to help solve this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions or idea on what's going on besides it is possessed?
I want to script over Little Snitch. This is by default disabled since Little Snitch is a firewall and allowing scripts to modify it pose a security threat. Is there any way I can restrict on a global or application level that only scripts signed by certain developers (me) may run or access a given applications API?
Now that the MacBook has all of its ports the same, is it possible to plug in two power cables into the Mac? If I do so, will it charge twice as quickly? In the event that the Mac is unable to allow that amount of current in at once, is there a mechanism to limit how much is allowed in, or else cut it off entirely?
Is it possible to convert some of my Apple Notes that are currently in my iCloud, over to Google Docs? I use about 7 iMacs a week for work but the network here at work has been odd with letting me login to iCloud. Apple's server has issues connecting.
It seems as though the activity in my Console has been deleted. Is this possible? There is no data before the login that led me here tonight.
I've had a iPhone that's been lost for a couple of months now. It's been stolen and wiped already, so Find My iPhone doesn't work and Lost Mode is still pending (and has been for a good amount of time). Although we'll be getting a new iPhone in a few weeks, but I'd love to get my old iPhone back (that's a solid $500 I'd like to not lose).
You know how if you hold down 'i' on the keyboard you get î, ï, í, ī, į, and ì by selecting from number 1-6, well, what if I want, say, for example, igloo.com to pop up as a seventh option when I hold down i. That way I can store things in my keys, even longer stuff not necessarily websites.
Here I am yet again with another iTunes AppleScript question. I have a working script in which you select a work (several iTunes "songs"), and tell it what to set the work metadata as for that selection. You also tell it where the the movement name starts in the song name, and it copies everything after that position into the movement tag, excluding all roman numerals. It also of course numbers the movements. Here's the code for that: You can see my post about that script here: Find-and-replace AppleScript for iTunes Track Names
When I’m on a call, I hear a buzzing noise. It comes as a simple buzz-buzz not a constant buzzing. I’ve checked and there are no new notifications, emails, etc. The person I’m talking to does not hear it. It’s very sporadic. Sometimes I might hear it 2-3 times during a conversation. Other times I don’t hear it at all. Someone joked to me one day that my phone might be tapped. How can I diagnose where the buzzing is coming from?
I have two monitors, one landscape orientation and one portrait and like to view text documents in portrait orientation. This means that every time I open a document I have to drag it to the correct monitor, position it then drag it out to fill the screen. Very tedious when repeated many times a day.
I use and AppleTV4K on ios 11.1 and an iPhone7 with ios 11.1. I have an automation set up that automatically turns on some hue lights when I come home. For some reason, this never seems to be triggered though. The location I set for my home is definitely correct, and I'm logged into icloud on both devices. Triggering the automation manually works just fine.
On iOS there is the option to have the device delete all data after 10 failed login attempts. How can I have the same option on macOS so that my SSD gets deleted/reformated after x failed attemps to log into my user account?
I downloaded the High Sierra upgrade a few weeks ago and have tried to launch it now and then since, but it does nothing. Not even report an error. The High Sierra icon with apparent stalled download indicator in my Applications folder
I recently bought my first Mac, after having been impressed with my iPhone 7 Plus for the past year. On my iPhone I can send both iMessages and text messages by switching on the "Send as SMS" option in Settings.
I just discovered a weird device connected to my macOS. The device is called "Nets", it is found in the bluetooth menu bar, but not if I open bluetooth preferences.
Is it possible to open a website from terminal without it actually opening a new tab? eg: open *=URL=* would open a new tab in the default application and go to that website. I just want a command which mimics that call to the website but not open a tab or show anything. Reason behind this is that I'm trying to call a command on a website, but don't want anything to pop up, I just want it to call the command.
If I install High Sierra on a 3rd party SSD, will the main volume's file system be converted to APFS? The hardware is a Early 2011 13" Macbook Pro with a Crucial M4 SSD.
I have always backed up my iPhone through iTunes but I decided to use iCloud now as well. I only have the free iCloud plan with 5 GB of storage (of which 4.5+ GB free), and I'm attempting to backup an iPhone 7 with iOS 11.0. I tried enabling iCloud backup but I got back the message: "This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available."
I'm trying to create an auto-responder that will respond to any email from a certain address with something like: Thank you for your email. Your number is #0000042. The number should increment every time it sends one of these emails. After looking online at the expensive solutions it looks like my best bet is automating something with AppleScript - possibly saving the last number in a file and incrementing it. What would such a script look like?
Is there a way to know when Apple Music dynamic playlists update? For instance, every Saturday, every day, every month, and so on? If so, where do I find the day of last update?
This is more about to confirm if this configuration is correct to do remapping with Karabiner-Elements to remap: caps_lock to left_control if it is in Terminal caps_lock to left_control if it is in Emacs caps_lock to left_command otherwise Appreciate if someone can confirm if this is good enough, or suggest better/correct ways.
has horizontal and vertical lines flickering and then screen starts rolling nothing is displayed tried cmd opt rp still not working help!
It seems to be only on Instagram and Snapchat so far but when I type the letter I it looks like above. Any idea how to remedy this?
I see some items in Finder show up as bold and I wonder what that means. The example I have attached is somewhere under ~/Library. It's the most recent place I've seen this, not the only place. It also happens outside of ~/ and its subdirectories. It looks like a feature more than a bug. I wondered if it had to do with Git (maybe MacOS High Sierra shows Git statuses in Finder by default the way Ubuntu does), but no. I wondered if it's a Time Machine thing too (i.e. files not yet backed up may be shown in bold). I don't have a definitive answer. I haven't seen this advertised as a feature anywhere on Apple's site or any similar questions in Apple's support site. If this is a feature, I'd really like to know what it's for. Thanks!
Homebrew shows me all packages that I have installed with brew leaves. However, it doesn't show me when was a package been installed. Is it possible to make Homebrew show the installation date of packages?
I have a development environment that uses the Pow webserver. When I initially set it up, it automatically reconfigured the firewall to allow me to connect to my_project_name.dev urls.
I'm trying to run MySQL without installation. I downloaded &Lt;mysql-5.7.20-macos10.12-x86_64.tar.gz&Gt;. In the extracted folder, I created a file &Lt;errmsg.sys&Gt; and set the permissions:
Will I run into problems with this potential purchase and, if so, what sort of problem(s) and how much would they perhaps cost me to remedy? Thanks!
My Mac keyboard is not working during EFI startup, so I can’t press option to select the boot device. I am dual booting Archlinux, so my EFI binary is from systemd-boot. I configured timeout in loader.conf, it shows the menu but I can’t even change the selection. Fortunately it boots Arch successfully, so I can change anything from inside. How can I use my Mac keyboard during EFI startup?
I've got a little AppleScript in Alfred that marks the currently-playing song as "Loved", it looks like this: This script works great.
Was trying to update to the latest version of OS Sierra (10.12.6) and Mac suddenly shut down. It gives me question mark on a file when trying to boot. Power and then command - opt - R gives nothing, the same question mark. Power and then command gives mouse cursor only. What to do next? P. S. I have Macbook Pro Mid-2010 (A1278)
I'm hoping that you can help me with creating a unix script for sending a terminal command through ARD to multiple networked computers. I'm hoping to disable air drop on a set of 36 lab computers at my school. I can definitely manually enter the script below to turn off air drop, but it would be great if I could just do this "behind the scenes" and 36 at a time. The script that works is:
Like others I have been mourning the loss of the Keychain Access menubar item. In the thread I linked to, the OP him-or-herself proposes a self-described “crude workaround” that involves copying the keychain.menu item from within /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources of a machine running macOS 10.12, copying it over, and running it. This, it is claimed, reinstates the menu bar item.
I have a Bluetooth speaker that I use occasionally, but not often. A few weeks ago I decided it was time to upgrade my Mid-2011 iMac from Mavericks, to Sierra (not High Sierra). Ever since then, the BT speaker connects itself as my Mac's audio device every time the machine wakes up from sleep. This is very annoying... if I disconnect a device, I expect it to stay disconnected unless I manually connect it. Why does this keep happening and how can I stop it?
I'm hoping to do some machine learning / tensorflow tasks with my eGPU, but after it arrived today, I realized that tensorflow discontinued support for Mac NVIDIA GPUs. I'd like to install a Ubuntu partition and run the most recent tensorflow-gpu package on that. Would the eGPU still be supported in that case? Would any extra steps be needed to set it up in macOS before running it in Ubuntu?
So AppleScript by default uses the exponential notation of numbers - for example, 2.99E+68. How do I prevent that from happening? I want the number written out as it is.
When working with numbers, AppleScript always adds ".0" to the end of it. How can I make it not do that? I've tried using (variable as integer), and it worked, but not for higher numbers as the integer byte limit is smaller than float byte limit.
How do I make AppleScript count exactly? According to AppleScript, the following equation would be true:89723443578920345892 / 2 = 448617217894600000000
Q: Does anyone know a way to force a name server across all Wi-Fi networks on the Mac? Preferably through the terminal, so I can SSH into all of them and configure? If we can set it as immutable, so kids can't change, it would be ideal. Appreciate the help! *I know that I can do do that via the router DHCP/DNS and force to all computers, but due to some other technical challenges, I can't do it from there.
I have iMac with 2 user accounts. I want to have separate iCloud music Library for this two accounts. Since I have two accounts I have two Apple Music memberships. And when I’m trying to turn it on on the second account i see this:
So I got a usb-c adapter/hub that gives me VGA, HDMI and some USB ports. If I connect it to one of my Pro's two ports, it works fine. If I connect it to the other, both VGA and HDMI start flickering. The port on the Mac itself is fine since I tried it with a different adapter.
I am trying to update my mac OS software to the latest version (10.12.6) from my current version (10.12.4) and unfortunately the app store 'updates' section freezes for me and I can't update it from there. I found another solution, which was to use the terminal to install the update. The problem is that when I type "softwareupdate -l" it returns nothing (I'm aware that this specific command won't actually install it). Not that it doesn't find updates, it's as if it won't stop searching. "Last login: Thu Nov 2 18:48:50 on ttys000 User ~ $ softwareupdate -list Software Update Tool Copyright 2002-2015 Apple Inc. Finding available software " Any help would be appreciated!
Question is in the title. I have a mouse with extra buttons and would like to bind the button so that it sends continous left clicks when I hold it down.
I have a macbok pro late 2008 , running the latest OS apple will allow - el capitan. I have 2 sticks of 2GB RAM. This is above the original specs but due to a firmware upgrade some years ago, it now works with 4GB of RAM My mbp reboots no more than twice a day, usually averaging once a day or day and half.
On a Mac, in what folder might I find the data file used by the Apple Reminders app? What is the name of the file?
Before upgrading OS X Yosemite to macOS High Sierra, I want to take a back-up. So I attached a hard disk to my Mac but it's read-only. After some googling I found, that the external hard drive is formatted as NTFS for Windows computers..
Today, I installed Security Update 2017-001 for Sierra 10.12.6 and my WiFi is unable to get a DHCP IP address off anything any more. I trashed the usual suspects in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist
iOS 11 finally has screen recording capabilities. It can record audio too (force tap on record button to enable). However, while the recorded videos play fine on the iPhone without any problems, when they're uploaded to YouTube or played with VLC the sound is missing. How do I fix it?
I have a new Apple Watch and have to learn how to use this device properly. Because I miss-add a workout in the Health App my activity rings show that I exercised more than 1000 minutes.
I have a personal account ericpersonal and a company account ericcompanyabc (they forced me to even though they could have add my personal GitHub account to their repos) on github.com. I'm using a computer the company gives and spend more time on work projects so I'm primarily logged in as ericcompanyabc I then generated 2 private and public keys as a result: I have to switch between the 2 accounts using the following commands but it's very tedious: I've also tried using .ssh/config file but no success What can I do to make switching between Github accounts seamless? I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6
On Mac, how to start/enable the sshd service? I use network general tool to scan the ports, do not find the 22 port.
I want to write on my iPad and that a distant user (in a another city) can see (in live) what I write on my iPad. Is it possible?
I have a Macbook Pro 2016 that is connected to 2 external monitors via Thunerbolt. When my Macbook is not connected to power supply, I can connect to the wifi with good signal strength but loading websites (or sending a ping) takes forever. But when I plug in the power supply, the websites suddenly load instantly. The problem does not occur when my 2 external monitors aren't connected. Any ideas why this problem occurs?
Selecting File > Export > Export Unmodified Original For 1 Photo in Photos.app results in the unmodified image. This is what I want, except for the missing adjustments. The feature I am looking for was called "Relocate Originals..." in iPhoto/Aperture. macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Photos.app photo library is linked to iCloud storage
Does it make any sense that displays are affected by these humidity? If yes, then why they are not able to repair under warranty? I’m living in subtropical region.
No, dear readers, as the Internet might have you believe, none of these things work on a 2017 Macbook Pro, the kind with the touchbar: Fn+Enter Fn+M Fn+. Fn+Option+Enter Somehow, someway, when I was pasting some text I ended out getting into overtype mode in Slack and now it's stuck that way.
Besides the differences called out by Apple's comparison site such as price, display type and size, telephone camera, TrueDepth Camera, and Animoji, what are the differences between iPhone 8 and iPhone X?
This has been answered repeatedly, but I keep running into a problem. I am trying to add a new administrator account to my computer via the single-user mode in the terminal.
Every time I click on the oval shape in Preview, I get a big ellipse filled in opaque blue. How do I change this default such that every time I click on the oval, I get a transparent circle with a black border?
How can I make a timer in AppleScript that would run in the background until stopped? Is there a timer function in AppleScript? If not, how can I make one and be able to read its final value? I'd like it to be as precise as a millisecond, or, if not possible, a tenth of a second.
How can I make a large integer in AppleScript? I suppose there is a certain byte limit which doesn't allow me to work with enormous numbers. Is there any way around this except for using a float?
Older iPhones required a metal plate be secured to the phone to work with a magnetic mount. With wireless charging, does the iPhone 8/8+/X require a metal plate to work with a magnetic mount, or does the wireless charging circuitry provide enough attachment?
There is a wifi network that I don't want my macbook to ever connect to. However, I do want my iPhone to connect to it. How can this be done? I've looked in the wifi settings on my mac and I can remove the network in the advanced settings, but that will remove it from my iCloud credentials and prevent my iPhone from connecting to it.
The iPhone has traditionally had a display that is rectangular, every pixel of which can be used to display content. The X changes things to be a bit more like the original Macintoshes, with rounded corners and an infamous notch. Within this uneven shape, there is a maximum sized rectangle that can be displayed. (On older phones, this rectangle is equal to the total display area, but that is no longer true.) What are the dimensions of the iPhoneX's inscribed rectangle, in physical pixels, inches?
I use Outlook to an Exchange Server and I don't want to keep all old email and attachments on my Mac. I want to free up space, but I'm afraid I'll end up removing things from the server. I just want to keep few files on my Mac, or maybe only subject, not content. Perfect solution could be also to "move" archived old email to an external disk.
From googling it seems you are supposed to be able to see yet another notification view by swiping up from the middle of the screen, but doing that doesn't do anything for me. I am on 11.0.3.
I need to use an external mono microphone on my macbook pro (2014), on Sierra. If I plug a cheap 4-connectors headphone + mic combo in the jack connector, both work correctly. However, when I plug my mono microphone only, it is recognized as a headphone. I've heard of an "use as input/output" sound menu option available on older versions of OSX. This is exactly what I'd need, but I can't find it on Sierra.
In my elementary school days, the IT dept managed to install tons of classic mac games that ordinarily required the CD to run. They simply had an alias on the desktop to click to run the games.
iPad mini OS11.1 cannot download free apps showing app store cloud icon. Click on it and the circle starts and stops. Have tried everything including erase all contents and settings and then manually booting up and reinstalling. But still the cloud icon shows against apps such as Scrabble, Youtube, Google etc and cannot be installed. This is very cross making! Can anybody help?
There is a question where someone answered topsites://: Open Favourites Page in Safari with Javascript Is there any text which navigates to favourite bookmarks? Like favourites://? I don't use Top Sites because it's so messed up and preview images are never correct and I want to change the homepage to the favourite bookmarks.
I have recently purchased a SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250BW) ) I followed following steps in order to do the clean installation: Step 1: Terminal > "diskutil erasedisk hfs+ External GPT /dev/disk2" Step 2: Plugged a 16GB USB and Tried creating bootable with - Terminal using command and also tried with "Disk Creator". Step 3:
I have an iPhone that is running out of space. I have added the Google Photos app and sync'd all photos to it. I deleted photos from the native phone app. That freed up space but now I have an issue with my Messages app. It has several gigs of space taken according to the storage panel in settings. Message is the number #1 app using my storage, a few gigs! I went into Message and deleted all of the messages but it did not register that the space is saved, so it still lists it in the storage panel as using a lot of space. I have about 20 megabytes left on my phone.
The intent is to create a sheet that references orders from customers with an image of each item ordered from my catalog of inventory. I need to create a spreadsheet that references item SKUs to display an image of a unique item. For example: 004 entered in cell A:1 should lookup 004 on sheet "images" and return the value in column 2 that matches 004. I have successfully created this formula using the VLOOKUP function.
I am using Sierra 10.12.6 and by using Homebrew, vsftpd is installed so that I can set up an FTP server my iPad can connect to. However, I can't run the command vsftd: zsh: command not found: vsftpd But when I try to install vsftpd again, i see that *Warning: vsftpd 3.0.3 is already installed I can do man vsftpd and that works fine. I run which vsftpd at root, this returns vsftpd not found I went to the vsftpd config file and also set listen=YES So how do I run vsftpd?
Right now I am completely unable to log in to my MacBook Pro 2013. This began since attempting the most recent OS X High Sierra update from the App Store. Presumably it failed. I have tried all the usual approaches (disk repair, fsck, PRAM reset, SMC reset, reinstall OS in recovery mode), to no avail. Here’s what I get when I boot in verbose mode (Cmd + Shift + V) and then proceed to enter my password and log in.
iPhone 7+ (iOS 11.1) owner here. If a friend buys an iPhone X and creates/sends me an Animoji, how will it appear on my phone (if at all)?
I know that several years ago, some iPhones had CDMA and others GSM, and others yet had both, depending on which carrier the phones were meant to work with. But I read somewhere that nowadays, all of them come with extensive network compatibility. AT&T told me that their phones are locked but can be unlocked once fully paid off. So it sounds like there is a software lock but perhaps the hardware is universal. I am looking to buy a T-Mobile phone, get it unlocked, and then switch immediately to using another carrier. Are all iPhones the same now, in terms of communication hardware/software?
I have an iPhone SE and a five year old iMac running El Cap. I use iPhoto on the iMac. Since the iOS 11 update, whenever I import photos I get both the edited and the unedited version of the photo on my computer. I used to just get one version. Here's an example of what I see now. I'm fine if it imports the unedited version since that is what I am used to. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere? Would prefer to do this without a 3rd party app since it's a fairly frequent workflow for me. Thank you!
I've been struggling for a while on this, strange set of circumstances. I have a Amazon FireTV box that I cannot connect as university wireless does not support it.
Typing on iPad Pro, it’s all too easy to accidentally tap caps-lock when trying to do ‘a’ But instead of making capitals, it changes the keyboard to Chinese. The setting that controls this only appears when the Smart Keyboard is plugged in. And turning it off only affects the Smart Keyboard behavior. Is there any way to turn off this extremely stupid setting?
The default font for Arabic seems to have changed to "San Fransisco" in some update in the past, but my iPhone shows what I believe is the "Nastaleeq" font, which is supposed to be used for Urdu. This is what it should look like (SF Arabic): This is what it looks like on my iPhone:
I used to be able to arrange the home screens ( pages ) in iTunes prior to iOS 11. I could create new empty pages, ect.
I have 884 copies of a document that have to be printed soon. Each document has a QR identity code on each page, so it is not as simple as print 884 copies of a single document. We are using an canon image runner advanced 6255. The problem is that if I print any one of the documents from preview, it prints correctly. I have set the defaults for the printer using print using last setting, and also set the settings for the driver using the cups browser interface.
I normally tweak my iMac to the extremest way possible, including normally deleting useless system apps and certain processes and services. I did the same when I was running macOS High Sierra (10.13.0) and as soon as I updated to (10.13.1) all those system apps came back but only with greyed out icons and when being clicked they don't open because I have deleted supporting files and processes so now that these apps have come back, I am suspecting that the processes which I have deleted in the past might have also come back. So how can I prevent apps and processes getting reinstalled every time a new version of macOS comes out?
I have been using the pseudo serial ports on the osx (/dev/ptypn-/dev/ttypn) succesfully for my python project in the earlier versions of the osx (sierra and below). Basically, I need to open the /dev/ptyp<n> on my server application and use the corresponding /dev/ttyp<n> on the client to communicate over serial. With the latest upgrade to high sierra, it seems like this pattern is broken. I now have to connect my client over /dev/ttyp<n> and then connect the server on /dev/ptyp<n> to get things rolling. Which looks OK but in the automated test environment this poses another set of problems with setup's and teardown's.
Is There any way to change the default iphone dialer with jio4gvoice app its annoying if someone calls me it pops up like a notification Thanks
I haven't shut down my MacBook Pro for several weeks now. I use my laptop for 5-10 hours a day. I was wondering if not shutting it down was the reason why the battery health went from 92% to 81%
I bought an Apple TV but the remote didn’t come with it (used). I was told I could just use the Apple TV remote app on my phone. So I powered up Apple TV , connected it to router with Ethernet cable so it's on the same network as my iPhone. On the Apple TV remote app - it connects but wants a 4 digit code to be entered on the Apple TV. I can't do that with no remote and the Apple remote app gives no other options!!! How do I enter that code without the actual remote?
So I've bought used macbook air, wanted to format it to delete all traces of previous user. Unfortunately after trying to reinstall I get spammed with this error message:
I'm updating OS X EL Capitan to High Sierra. Today morning I was go on App store and download High Sierra. After downloaded the installer opens automatically and I clicked on "Continue". From apple's official document. But last 3-4 hours my installation process is stuck mean not progressing further.
I have the ESP32 board with Silicon Labs CP2102 controller. When I connect it to my MacBook, I can get the details about this device using the command system_profiler SPUSBDataType, but it is not listed in /dev as a virtual serial port - so I can't communicate with it. I'm using the official driver downloaded from https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers.
In recent times handoff/continuity stopped working for messages on my iMac & iPhone. Messages coming into my iPhone no longer appear on my iMac, & I can no longer send messages via my iMac. It has stopped working since updating to iOS 11 & High Sierra, however it still worked while I was using the developer betas of both. I've checked the following... Both are on the same wi-fi network. Both have Bluetooth turned on. Both are logged into the same (my only) iCloud account. Both have handoff turned on. Messages is the single biggest area where I use handoff & I'd really like it to be working again.
Am I missing something with my hard drive space? I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 on my MacBook Pro and trying to clear some disk space to install something.
I own a 2016 Macbook (with the USB-C charging) - at the time and in response to all of the reports of poor cables and poor chargers, I bought a meter so I could see what the throughput of my cables/chargers was. However, having run some tests I'm now not sure what to consider normal / what is harmless to the battery. For all tests I used an original Apple C-C cable - though was able to replicate with two third party cables I own. I have the original Apple block charging at 14.3 V / 1.99 A and a third party block that charges the same. Another third party block which advertises USB PD and 3 A is currently charging at 20 V / 1.43 A I've done some research online but I can't find any articles that indicate what a normal USB PD output is relative to the devices that connect to it and would appreciate any guidance / assistance.
I have a strange issue with my MacBookPro 14,3 (Touch Bar), a 15" model. Whenever there is a loud sound or a change in music dynamics (e.g., the start of a loud chorus in a song, an explosion, the “bonk” sound that macOS makes on bad input, …), the right speaker volume is lowered, and audio appears to be coming only from the left speaker. It then stays like that indefinitely. I can reproduce this issue with the system sounds preferences – at some point you hear the popping noise, the audio volume is lowered (and sound only comes from the left speaker), then I reset the audio sample rate:
The help instructions for AirPods say I can double tap either my left or right ear to perform an action. Apple Watch already has a setting for left hand usage vs right hand usage, and that is used to determine when they gyroscope should turn on the display. To my mind, this logic could be extended to determine which hand is used to double tap... e.g. Right hand double tap (whatever is programmed) Left hand double tap (raise volume on right tap, lower volume on left tap) Does the AirPod / Watch hardware support such a theoretical usage?
I need to adjust the volume of the AirPods while riding my bike. This could be because the audio is now in "loud commercial mode" or because I need to pay closer attention to my surroundings.
Right now, when I remove one AirPod from an ear, the currently playing track pauses in the other ear. Instead, I want to continue playing the track. My control over this using bluetooth settings is quite limited, so I'm hoping there is another location to investigate to disable this feature.
The Apple Watch "now playing" control allows me to quickly adjust volume from my wrist without pulling out my phone. Once I purchased AirPods and connected them to my watch, my entire user experience changed: I discovered that music can be played "from" the watch, or "from" the phone. The problem is that I don't see a consistent way to bring up the device chooser (AirPods or iPhone) when Music is playing/streaming from one device and not the other Music isn't playing anywhere Music or Audio is playing on both devices (strange ...but seemingly default use case) Non-iTunes audio (as in Audiobooks or Safari) on the phone I'm having a difficult time with this UX and any navigational tips would be appreciated
I used to have an iPhone from work and my Apple watch was paired to it. Now that I've bought a new iPhone and given back my old iPhone I am unable to pair my apple watch to the new phone. My Apple watch says: "wrong code, go to Apple Watch app and..." There is no chance to enter the code manually. But in the App I can only start to pair a new device, but the watch is still paired. What steps do I have to do? My Apple Watch is from series one and I don't know the software version nor how to determine it.
I was working with Terminal then suddenly I thought of running dd without any arguments. Then it started doing something then I immediately started doing something. I got scared so I aborted it using ^C. Output of dd:
I can't login to skype it tells me service not available right now. However, I can log into Skype on other devices that are connected on the same network. I Already tried, but didn't work: Signing out, quitting ("Signing in..." stays even when signed out), then signing back in. Everything on the Skype support page for Why can't I sign in to Skype for Mac OS X?. Removing ~/Library/Application Support/Skype. Reinstalling Skype
I have a MacBook Pro with a Linux partition. The Mac partition is 200 GB, and the Linux partition is 100 GB. I am currently in the process of removing the Linux partition using Disk Utility. However, it has been approximately 24 hours now and it is still stuck at the “Growing disk” line.
So I know /dev contains all the drivers required for mouse , keyboard etc but can some dangerous malware delete the folder? Or can someone manually delete the folder with sudo?
My phone has stopped detecting 2.4 GHz WiFI APs, only 5 GHz APs show up on Settings > WiFi screen. I'm able to see more than dozen 2.4 GHz APs nearby from other devices, none show up on iPhone (6s Plus, running iOS 11.1).
I understand Apple's intention to sort things like this: But it becomes ridiculous in the following example: How can I make Finder not ignore leading zeros when it's sorting by name? Thank you.
I use my iPhone's personal hotspot to connect my non-Apple work computer to the internet. When I want to connect to my phone with my computer's wifi I must first turn on the "Personal Hotspot" switch on my phone.
This is weird… I've recently upgraded from Mavericks to Sierra, so I've been getting used to having Siri on my computer. I schedule things all the time with her on my phone, but on the desktop it's new for me.
PS: When syncing today, iTunes recopied 154 music tracks to both devices. I have not added tracks to my library or edited any metadata since the last sync, which also recopied these same 154 tracks.
I have number of songs in my iTunes iCloud Library stuck with in the "Waiting" status. Not sure what the cause of this is or if theres a particular pattern are reason why some songs are uploaded and some arents as the songs that are waiting are a mixture of different file types (MP3 and M4A) as well as from different sources , iTunes... CD's etc. Actions I've already done which haven't resolved the issue: I have already tried manually pressing Update iCloud Music Library from the options with no luck. I have tried turning off and on the iCloud Music Library option from my preferences. Signing out and back into my iTunes account. Updated to the latest version of MacOS and iTunes Removed the song from the library and re-added This seems to be related to the Library itself, when I create a new Library and upload the same "waiting" songs they upload immediately. Any other suggestions to resolve would be greatly appreciated.
Deleted a folder (just regular old empty trash) on my MacBook Pro internal SSD that I thought I was backed up, turns out it wasn't. I stopped using the computer as to preserve the blocks where the data is written and booted up an old computer to do recovery. I Don't have any experience with data recovery software, wondering if anyone knows any good applications? Preferably that allow me to preview deleted data before I pay for the application (or if there's a free one that I'm overlooking? But I'm not hopeful about that). Lots of things come up on google but it's hard to differentiate one from another in terms of quality.
On Sierra I installed Java (JDK) and Parallels Desktop. The Windows VM I have in Parallels has decided to set its own (Windows) copy of Java as default for Mac .jar files, which means that whenever I want to run a .jar file by double clicking it runs it in the Windows VM.
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. However, it lags horribly when it's down to 0% - even when connected to the power source. Also, it takes over half an hour to get to 1% - then, it starts charging at an adequate speed.
I've found the preview feature of Finder and other file management programs (like Forklift3) to be very useful for checking the progress of a calculation. For example, if I have a code continuously modify a certain file, I can gauge how close it is to completion. However, if the file is visible in preview, can it potentially interfere with the file I/O of the program when the file is being modified?
I find that Web apps slow down my workflow a lot. If I leave browsers open I accumulate lots of unused tabs that slow things down a lot, and new tabs launch in old subject-specific browser windows. OTOH, if I keep them closed (what I usually do) then I have to wait 10-15 seconds for the browser to launch each time, which is 2-3x the startup time of any reasonable app, and worse I usually must log in again. How can I keep web apps from slowing me down?
I just upgrades to 10.13 and I need a ftp server. I installed proftpd with homebrew. brew services start proftpd (or sudo brew services start proftpd) says: ==> Successfully started proftpd (label: homebrew.mxcl.proftpd) But I am not able to FTP-in from another machine. I also tried svftp with the same result, so it is probably not a proftpd issue but the way the service is started. What did I miss in enabling ftp to work?
Is it possible to use spotlight as a calculator for time durations and time? E.g. I want to be able to evaluate expressions such as 10:42 + 3 hours 40 minutes = 13:22 2 minutes 37 seconds + 900 seconds = 17 minutes 37 seconds and so on. Is it possible?
I can't create an account on mac os sierra, when I add all informations (account name, password,...), all seems to go fine, then instead of creating an account I find that a "Group" is created! When I try to delete this group I can't Please, Help!
I'm using a Macbook pro 13 (2015) with 256G SSD. High Sierra 10.13.1. I'm trying to use bootcamp to install a windows 10 on my laptop.But I encountered the following problem.
I've been having issues with my MacBook Pro randomly shutting down for about 2 weeks now. I tried taking it to a local Apple reseller and here's what they told me: The main cause of my problem was because I was using f.lux
New to iPhone. My BlackBerry used to play an Alarm alert until you manually stopped it for Calendar Events. I'd like to have the same option on my SE. Thanks for any help!
I tried to format my Toshiba external hard drive to accept Asus pc and MacBook air files. I removed everything from the hard drive, put it on my pc. I used the format MS DOS (FAT} on the mac and erased the hard drive. All was well till I plugged it into the Asus and now I can not open the hard drive to put the files back on it. It shows it is there but does not open. Just want to add that I used time machine on the mac and I believe that is causing the problem. I would really just like my files from the pc back on the hard drive. What should I do? Erase everything and start over? Is it possible to make the mac and pc compatible on the hard drive. I am not computer savvy and would appreciate any help! Thank you.
The problem is: I can't delete that element. When I try keychain tells me (hopefully correctly translated from the German version of macOS):
I tried Word >> Tools >> Customize Keyboard >> EquationInsert, but I can't seem to modify the "Press new keyboard shortcut" box. I also tried System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts >> App Shortcuts, but adding "EquationInsert" or "Insert an equation" did not produce any responses.
I am supposed to, as part of troubleshooting my iCloud account error messages, sign out of icloud then back in. I get the pop-up that logging out will remove all the Notes from my mac. When i log back in, will my Notes be restored to my mac?
I now have no way of accessing an administrator. When I try move files into the applications folder it asks for admin username and password. I've tried every combination of 'user' and 'grant' and nothing works. Any help getting me access to an admin user will be appreciated.
I keep getting these, awful, pop-ups - almost every time I open my phone from lock.  A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 11 beta. I'm on 11.2 (15C5092b). Software Update page says: iOS 11.2 Your software is up to date.
After upgrading my mid-2011 27" iMac to El Capitan, the finder sidebar icons have gone to generic files, but only for one of the user accounts. I have reinstalled, but the problem persists. It is bugging me because it indicates something not as it should be.
Whenever I receive an email, the "senders" email address is automatically added to my "Contacts". How do I disable this feature? Thanks in advance.
I keep reading online that the Mac doesnt support focus follows mouse, even that its not really possible all around. Anyway I never had it on, then one day I woke up and its on. Is there a way to turn it off? Every single time i move my mouse to chrome or the terminal it automatically focus's and pops up, and worse if a window pops up and my mouse is not over it, it automatically repops up and focuses the window under the mouse!
I've been looking around and found various ssh apps to replace vSSH. The problem is that others sync to iCloud, which I don't want to do, or sync to the servers of the company that makes the app. Which again, I don't want to do. Are you aware of any SSH apps for iOS, that can sync their data to Dropbox?
I installed high Sierra a few months ago and nowadays there seems to be a problem with System Information.app, it always shows the disk usage wrong like for example System 40GB but it shows photos to be 0KB even though I have 19GB worth photos and DaisyDisk reports correct disk usage. so how do fix this? PS. I have also tried booting into safe mode and rebooting. Screenshot: I have run this scan as root user not admin.
What is the primary reason for the cost difference between the two devices? For example, in my country the newest iPhone (iPhone 8) costs about $1,070 at the lost configuration (normal size, 64gb), while the newest iPad (Just the generic iPad, no cellular) costs less than half that at around $465. This is a significant difference.
I noticed this problem on my Mac when I formatted my sd card to HFS+ for testing purposes but what I noticed is that when I format the volume it shows an error and name changes to disk3s2 then I format the parent disk of the volume to HFS it succeeds and also when formatting vice versa. PS. I am not asking how to change this behaviour i am just asking why am I expecting this kind of behaviour? I am getting this same behaviour for any external media I format.
My English is not good. I translated my question based on translation software. Please forgive me if there is a grammatical problem. My system is macOS10.12.6. Set up two routers at home in China (Baidu and Google), connect the MacBookpro wireless and wired. But only one link at a time is available. Is there any way to identify the link distribution gateway after entering the address in the browser? I tried dnsmasq, set the domain name and gateway, but it does not work. Are there any good ideas and ways?
I'm using Postfix to forward emails from my Mac through smtp.gmail.com. Following recent security update (*=URL=* Postfix fails to forward emails with the following errors: Here is a snippet from Postfix main.cf. Any ideas how to get this working again?
I have an external USB drive to which I have been doing my Time Machine Backups for about 5 years now. Recently, it started refusing to complete the backup. When I connect the drive and choose to create a backup, it either: Stay in "Preparing backup" state for a long time and then goes back to idle (does not start the backup at all) Starts the backup, after a couple of GBs it goes back to idle (as if nothing happened)
I have an issue with my iPod. IT is recognized into the USB tree but iTunes did not show it. Inside the dmesg log there are strange things:
the photos app on iOS and macOS automatically creates a folder called "Selfies" and "Screenshots". Does anybody know how the system detects if something is a selfie/screenshot? I thought this information is stored in the metadata of a specific photo (would make sense, right?) but deleting all the metadata of a specific photo didnt seem to help. Any help is very welcome!
Setup: Macbook Pro Retina (mid 2012), MacOS High Sierra Problem: On Starting Plays the boot up sound Thereafter, continues to show a black screen (no display) What I've tried (without getting any display still) booting into recovery options by pressing Option/Cmd-R while booting Resetting the SMC and NVRAM plugging into an external display [there is no display there either] booting into safe mode (by pressing shift)
Here's an snapshot of the utilization. It peaks over 400% at times:
On my iPad, Calendar doesn't show all events (from all of history) from my Google calendars. Only the last 1.5 months or so. I had the same issue with iCloud calendars, but when I changed the sync duration setting in Settings → Calendar, the problem got fixed. However, I still only see recent events from my Google calendars.
I've been resetting the SMC in many macbooks in my job as a technician. Yet, it's not entirely clear to me if the SMC is reset in this case: Please let me explain myself properly: According to Apple's official article: How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support in Macbooks with removable batteries (these are the older macbooks in which the user can push a clip or clips and easily detach the battery), the SMC reset is done by removing the battery and pressing the Power button for five or more seconds. My doubt is: Will the SMC reset if you disconnect the battery and press power for 5 seconds in newer Macbooks? Will the SMC reset if you press the keyboard combination Shift-Ctrl-Alt and Power in older Macbooks with user-removable batteries?
Recently I struggle to charge my older MacBook Air, I need to search for an angle for it to start charge, and magnet is not working properly either so it has to stay still while charging which is very annoying Is there a way to safely clean it (I don’t wanna damage the pins) as I think the dirt may be the reason of that. If not, do you think the black pins are burned/damages?
The native camera app on my iPad mini got deleted somehow. Also, I couldn't find it on the app store to download. It happened on iOS 10.3. I just now upgraded to iOS 11.
A common troubleshooting advice is to "reset the SMC!" But it is actually a bit unclear why and how this fixes things up. Apple also only lists a few symptoms in: How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac Learn when and how to reset the SMC on an Intel-based Mac. What the SMC does…
I have Tritanopia (Blue / Yellow) colour blindness. In iOS I can use Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Colour Filters > Blue / Yellow Filter to boost the relevant colours on the display. I looked around but apart from applications hacks and messing with monitor calibrations I couldn't find anything easy. Is there an equivalent on Mac?
I have checked "use dashboard as overlay", and have F12 as the designatet dashboard button. By the way, F12 works for both opening and closing.
I'm writting my paper in English using Mac Word 2011. Suddenly, all the characters were transformed to "***". All I wrote (about 5000 words) are gone.
I'm using a different apple ID now. So I switched accounts like this: - I signed out of the old apple ID in System preferences > iCloud. Then signed in with the new one. - I signed out of the old apple ID in App Store > Store. Then signed in with the new one. - I de-authorised the old apple ID in iTunes > Accounts menu > Authorisations. Then authorised the new apple ID. I restarted the computer. However, even after authorised the new Apple ID, it's the old one that still shows up in iTunes > Account, on top, even though it has already been de-authorised: Screen Shot 2017-11-05 at 16.56.55.png not only that, now, when I go to Account > View my account, I'm prompted for the old apple id and password, and if I use instead the new one, it won't go through, I'm prompted again for the new apple id and password. Weird!.
My first hint that this would be tedious was finding being prompted to enter the system partition's encryption password several times during the clean install, but the second hint was finding that the external drive isn't mounted automatically, and that that I had to do that via Disk Utility (where I'm prompted for the encryption password). I was initially lulled into thinking this might work when the Account creation for the user account allowed the option of "allow this account to unlock the drive", but that seems to only apply to the system partition. Of course, it also allows you to store the external drive's encryption key in the keychain, and thus "automatically" unlock the external drive and mount it when logged in. However, this all fails if you have your account stored on the external drive... as you can not then log in to the machine with any account on that external encrypted drive after a system reboot. My understanding is that FileVault won't encrypt User folders on extern
When trying to eject a drive with Alfred, Preboot 93 showed up. I know they are APFS container volumes but when checking the /Volumes directory it shows that there are a lot of Preboot drives straying. Can these safely be deleted? Or is this how APFS works by creating more than one Preboot drive?
I have been looking unsuccesfully for related Q&A to fix my problem, so I post it here: I'm running El Capitan with Windows 10 boot camped, I modified my Mac OS X partition and reduced its size by 160 GB. Since then I can not boot automatically (no bootable device found screen) and I can't boot to the Windows partition.
While a CD is importing, I can select tracks, Get Info, edit, and Submit CD Track Names... (which apparently submits many of the other fields). But if there are too many errors to get before the import finishes, what then? I don't find the submit on any other menu or screen except the import, which doesn't exist when not importing.
but now all I get is error 404 page not found from my VM and devices. Other computers on the same network get the same error.
I just imported a classical CD into iTunes, and am trying to correct the information from Gracenote. But when I select "use work and movement" it will only let me enter the work name. "Movement _ of _ named ______" fields are all blank and will not accept focus or typing.
How do I prevent the following dialog from appearing in Safari. I don't see why Adobe would need certain information. Since "deny" doesn't seem to impact anything, I would like to "Always Deny". I have already disabled the adobe plugins within Safari. I am observing this in the latest High Sierra. I have latest Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop installed through Adobe Creative Cloud.
When I type single quote with symbol a and ' replaced to symbol á. How can I solve this problem?
This problem has never happened before upgrading to High Sierra (was on every OS since Lion). The day I upgraded, this problem has been reoccurring every 1-2 hours, and once even 5 minute after a system restart caused by the kernel panic.
I usually quit my applications with the shortcut Command Q but it doesn't work for the Finder app. I can hide it with Command H but I can't quit it. Any suggestion to solve this?
A friend wants to run a videoconference app (Zoom) on his TV. He can stream Zoom from his iOS devices to the TV, but he needs a wider angle. I should know this, but is there a way to connect an external webcam? Thanks
I am using Inkscape to Convert my PDF to SVG file and I would like to change the text content using the xml format in SVG. However, the changed text font seem to be very different and the alignment is totally off from the original place.
Is it possible to run XQuartz in 16-bit color mode on macOS High Sierra? I tried the suggestions in this question but they didn't seem to work for 16-bit color. First, I tried setting the color depth in XQuartz preferences:
I want to restart Clash of Clans from the beginning, but each time I delete the app and re-download it I pick up from where I left off. I tried going into settings into the game center section and couldn't find anything useful. I did the same with iCloud and had the same result. Any suggestions?
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2015 running macOS High Sierra. I've managed to get it to pretty high temperatures for both the CPU and the GPU. I've managed to get them to at least 100ºC and the computer didn't shutdown. At what temperature will SIP(System Integrity Protection) shutdown the computer to prevent thermal damage?
After a failed Windows installation, where I foolishly used the Windows installer to delete and create new partitions, my Fusion Drive lost a ton of space. An attempt to rebuild the drive using Terminal resulted in me using the ‘gpt destroy’ command without fully understanding what I was doing. As a result, diskutil outputs 1TB of nothingness, while my SSD looks fine. Here is the diskutil list output: gpt show When I attempt to use RepairDisk I’m a Mac novice, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: corestorage lvguuid, if it helps.
When ever I turn on Mac every day at first I see this folder missing icon then I go to safe mode then I restart it works normal. When I turn on Mac again on next day I get this again and I have to repeat safe mode process again. I did svc reset and nvram too and even recovery mode process and did a first aid from utility. Nothing works.
I have a bluray disk iso file (~50GB ,no compression, no encryption). Normally I just use the default mounter for iso files. But I found that for this particular iso, when mounted, any reading operation is unreasonably slow: media player can't play and copying the files out manually yields less than 5MB/s (while the speed for other iso is about 300MB/s). Finally I used WinRAR in my Parallels Desktop VM to directly unpack the files, because the speed is normal with this method.
I'm seeing an error every 10 seconds in the system log, using the Console app, complaining about MirrorDsiplays service only running for 0 seconds. It doesn't matter if I have no external display or use both displays at the same time. How do I turns off this warning/error in the logs?
When I try to set another standard user (named "Owner") to an Administrator by clicking "Allow user to administer this computer", the box doesn't check, and instead I get a pop up window that reads "You must restart the computer for your changes to Owner's administrator settings to take effect." All I can do is select OK and the box for making the standard user "Owner" an admin is still blank.
Mac Grapher has is a keyboard shortcut for entering superscripts: use the ^ key. For instance, you can type x^2 to get the expression x2.
After upgrade to iOS 11 my iPad Air 32GB (MD786FD/A) I've got the following defect: the wake-up signal in the integrated bedtime application keeps playing after I touch 'stop' button on the screen or press mechanical 'Home' button to stop it. The short sample of the melody (~0,5 sec) is repeated in the loop continuously. The only way to stop the sound is to switch off the device or start the playback in another application.
I use Sketch App for mac as my main designing software and I am already used to some familiar shortcuts for zooming in/out and moving the Art-board. The shortcuts are holding command and then scrolling up or down on using your magic mouse to zoom in or out and holding space then left click to scroll through the Art-board but sometimes I need to use both move and zoom shortcuts at once.
I have added my google account to the Calendar app on my macBook. It works, but not exactly the way I am looking for. I am able to select a calendar from the left sidebar, then I can create an event and it will be synced with this calendar on a cloud.
My MacBook Air that I've owned for just days has its own guest account, with its own password. This happened to me once before back in 2013 on a MacBook Pro. Typically, I disable the guest account. However, I recently purchased an open-box MacBook Air from Best Buy. I noticed that sometimes, but not every time, a pixelated Guest account would appear next to my user account when logging in, as seen below:
Notational software Avid Sibelius installs preferences into the following path: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Avid That folder contains House Styles, Keyboard Shortcuts, Plug-ins and everything else one needs to professionally use the software.
I work a lot from home, using screen-sharing to control my remote Mac mini from my (local) MBP laptop, or my customers' machines using ARD (or even TeamViewer). Recently I've started having problems with the modifier keys (ShiftOptionControlCommand ) - maybe since upgrading to macOS Sierra, but I'm not sure. It seems to me that the transfer of the modifier key state to the remote machine has changed - and has become "lazy". By this I mean: Before: As soon as I pressed a modifier key, this was immediately reflected on the remote machine. Before: As soon as I pressed a modifier key, this was immediately reflected on the remote machine. Now: The state of the modifier key is only changed on the remote machine when I also press a normal key. Now: The state of the modifier key is only changed on the remote machine when I also press a normal key. trying to perform a mouse action (click / drag) with modifier keys does not work anymore modifier keys get stuck in a particular state until I press
The option for Predictive text has never existed in the settings of my iPhone, as shown in many different forums. When I navigate Settings->General->Keyboards to see all the options, after Enable Caps Lock there goes Smart Punctuation. I tried typing text and pushing longer on the "globe" icon but all I get are my installed keyboards of different languages and options to make it a one-hand keyboard. How can I enable Predictive text? I have an iPhone 6, with iOS 11.1.
I would like to transfer some files from one computer to other 24 macs (which are protected by an user/pass). It is so tedious to do it manually connecting with Finder, transfer the files and continue with the next one... Is there a way to do it with Terminal (scp or other tool) so that I can just write an script and see how it's automatically done? Thanks
Since Apple removed the regulatory information from iPhone X and iPhone 8 that included the model number how I do I find the model number when a device won't power on?
it instead shows like this: I wonder why. This is a Mac Mini 2014 with Flash Storage (no hard drive) and I use a Samsung display attached with HDMI.
It doesn’t allow me to tap on the tabs, so I am stuck on this page. I also don’t want to tap OK as I suspect that it could trigger some malicious JavaScript code and steal my information. I also can’t go to private mode. What should I do?
My os (macOS High Sierra) got corrupted and login screen doesn't appear.. if I reinstall macOS from recovery menu will my previously installed software and data be deleted? And if so how can I back them up on a hard drive, the data and the software are very important to me.
I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5 using Apple Mail with multiple email accounts configured, Google, MS Exchange, and others. Recently, all of my outgoing mail has stopped sending and is trapped in the outbox. I have recently added a new Google Email account (G Suite). I was sending and receiving emails fine, but today it just stopped sending the emails. Mail still receives mail, but everything gets stuck in the outbox. How can I fix this?
I installed windows 10 on my Mac via bootcamp and I notice every time I restart windows the display settings do not save. For example, adaptive brightness, I have to turn off every time I log in. I also like to reduce the resolution size. Both of these display options do not save when I log out and log back in. Not sure if this a bootcamp issue or a windows issue.
I use smcFanControl to control the CPU fan speed, and now wish to reset it so that MacOS automatically adjust the fan speed. Even after using the Reset option in smcFanControl, the CPU fan speed is still fixed to the last value. How can I reset the CPU fan settings?
I have a large number of Terminal windows, that I keep open so I can have a record of what I did, and what the responses were. The windows all have titles indicating the problem space they're for, but sometimes something gets done in the "wrong" window.
A problem was detected with the TrueDepth camera. Face ID has been disabled.
Battery information is given below?? What should i do now??
The information on 1Password regarding using/sharing the application one purchased in AppStore is that it is possible. You are given a rundown on how to install on your other device. But it doesn't work because the menus that are mentioned don't exist in the Mac version. Originally I bought the 1Password Pro App on my iPhone (7) and would like to synchronise the password information via Dropbox on my MacBook Pro. I never received a licence nor secret code by e-mail. Is there someone who had/has this same problem? When replying please keep it simple as I'm not a computer genius
I would like to change the path that my desktop shows so instead of having a bunch of files that are in my desktop folder it shows the files in another folder. My desktop folder has files in it, so deleting that and symlinking the other folder won't work. How can I change the folder the desktop displays?
I have many songs I bought from iTunes that are in the old Protected AAC format. They play find from my iPhone or from my computer to attached speakers. I would like to stream them over my home WiFi network. I tried some Sonos speakers with their app, which could play everything in my library except these. Is there a way to stream them?
I am trying to reinstall mac osx through online recovery. At my place I have access to a regular wpa wifi network which is very slow, but also a 802.1x one which is significantly faster.
I use my laptop for office and home use and I have a different set of windows/apps open and different workspace arrangement when I am at work or home. Is there an app or a way through which I can save window sessions and reload them so I don't have to go through the pain of opening them up one by one every day twice.
Today I wanted to get rid of the old Bootcamp partition of my Mac. I used disk utility to remove the partition, which worked well. However, it seems like Disk Utility failed to correctly extend the main (Macintosh HD) partition, which still has the old size of 260 GB (of 500 GB disk size).
Whilst this is what my friend gets, and what I would expect (this one also matches a UK Mac keyboard layout whilst mine does not):  The keyboard on the Macbook itself works fine with the correct keys. I think this may have gone wrong when I installed the latest macos update.
I cannot set a folder as a directory even if I see it with ls command. What is the problem? edit: Why? second edit: third edit
I have downloaded multiple versions of PHP with Homebrew. When I list all packages I see php56, php70, php71. The problem is that I can only use them with the php command after linking the desired version. Is it possible to have all these versions to be available as commands? For example if I use php56 index.php I would run index.php using PHP 5.6 version.
I'm trying to capture a screenshot of a browser window, where the page content is quite tall. In Sierra, I could drag the window down, and then resize from the top of the window (moving up). I could repeat this process until the window was tall enough to contain all of the page content, and then take a screenshot of the browser window. In High Sierra, at the completion of any vertical resize operation that results in the window being taller than the active display, the window snaps to the size of the active display.
My ultimate goal is to disable password login, as seen here: Disable password authentication on SSH server on OS X Server 10.8 But I suspect the changes I'm making to /etc/ssh/ssh_config aren't taking effect. Here are my steps: sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config Just change the port from 22 to 2222 with this line: Port 2222 (not commented out) sudo launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd sudo launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd That should stop the service and start it again, but it's still on port 22. That should stop the service and start it again, but it's still on port 22.
Are there any free and current(ly supported) solutions that allows me to mount Google Drive in Finder? I have found several OS X Fuse-based solutions on Github but most (all?) of them seem to have not been updated for several years.
Can not import using Gradle (STS) because STS Gradle Tooling is not installed. You can install it from the STS Dashboard.
My U key repeats itself randomly. Even with auto repeat turned off, and at the worst moments, when I have a whole phrase written, and I have to go back and correct the words. Is driving me nuts. I blasted compressed air all around it, following the Apple link on how to clean the keyboard, and finally took the key cap off, and blasted everything, but is still doing that. In fact, it does it without the key cap. If I press the little rubber button in the middle of the butterfly, it also repeats. I'm getting 2 u's, and sometimes even three. I added a couple auto correct entries for multiple U, and it works when I type a single letter, but it doesn't when is within a word, which is almost every time. I wonder if I can spray electronic contact cleaner under the rubber button, and hope to get it fixed.
It works when I merge there into the same file, but that would be rather impractical for my application. I am at a loss as to why it only expects 1 arguement when I explicity declared two parameters in the function. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Windows' Japanese IME and and Google's Japanese IME both use Layout1 for Kana mode. However, macOS's Japanese IME uses Layout2. Notice the different locations for ろ、む、へ, and some symbols. Is there any way to use Layout1 for macOS's Japanese IME? Layout1
Is there any update about the introduction of iMessage in iCloud? I already know that it hasn't been pushed to the public yet from this post: Syncing iMessage in iCloud on iOS 11, but that was more than a month ago. Is there any update on when it will be pushed to the public or in a beta?
I have set a bot with post integration "Periodic Email report" but no reports are arriving at specified email address. I have the following set-up on my local macbook pro. I also have the macOS Server 5.4 running locally
Sometimes I don't touch a Macbook 12 inch because I mainly use the Macbook Pro, and after a day or two, there can be many (8 or 9) notifications at the right hand side. It seems that I have to click many times to dismiss them one by one. How can they be dismissed all at once?
I am using OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite). Ran out of room on ~60 GB Bootcamp NTFS partition of 250 GB SSD. Attempted to reduce Mac partition & increase Windows, but Win7 no longer boots. I'd rather not go through the multi-week headache of reinstalling software I don't have immediate access to following a recent move; plus I really need to work.
On my iPhone 6 I see a headphones symbol that only appears when I increase or decrease the volume. I have no headphones plugged in.
I know this question has been asked before, but none of the techniques shared work anymore.
I’ve downloaded the Apple System Diagnostics disk image and when I mount it I see another two disk images. One is ASD OS 3S150 and the other is ASD EFI 3S150. What’s the difference between the OS and EFI versions?
Is there a button or key combination that can rewind 5 or 10 seconds when watching a movie on iTunes?
So basically I partitioned my HDD on my MacBook Pro so that I could install Linux and dual boot. But I realized I don't really need Linux anymore but it doesn't appear on my regular disk utilities, only my one MacBook HDD does. I type diskutil list in my terminal and this shows up
I normally use Firefox, but have become disenchanted by its arbitrary decisions, so decided to give Safari a try. I am using a MacBook Pro, with the latest 10.13.1 OS I clicked the Safari Extensions menu - I am still waiting for the *=URL=* to load, after more than an hour! Thinking it may be by network connections, and copied the link to Firefox, and it loaded in a couple of minutes.
After upgrading to 10.13.1 Safari doesn't load any site including my router's settings page or any local webserver I am hosting. It keeps loading forever. It was working fine before the update. Every other browser and application can use the internet just fine. I have tried fowllowing with no avail Resetting browser (remove history and cache and preferences folders) Uninstalling any extensions or plugins Restarting my machine
I am trying to link up (create a copy) of a folder in the User's Libraryinto the iCloud Drive folder, so that it will be synchronised across computers should I need to change machine. For your knowledge, this folder contains app settings that are not easily accessible if I had to do a format or system reset. Operating the tar cvfz command on the Users/< username >/Mobile\ Documentsfolder does perform some action in Terminalbut it doesn't actually create any copy of the desired folder.
I created a Custom Shape Library via iWork and would like to share it within my company. Where is this library located so I can copy/paste it to all other users?
I left my laptop around with co-workers for around 30-40 minutes. Can I find out if any files were exported/opened from my laptop during that time? Hello, I have now found more logs, can anyone tell me if a usb was used to extract files in these logs
I'm looking for something like Migration Assistant, but which will let me choose which apps I want to copy/transfer. I want to transfer some apps and their settings/preferences from one machine to another. Something like an App Cleaner but which will copy instead of Trash the support files?
I think my partner wiped our entire hard dive including backup utilities etc. Whenever I start up my MacBook I get a “no entry” or “prohibited sign” (circle with line through it).
I have following setup: A Mac mini 2011 with two displays - one on HDMI and on in Displayport. The HDMI display is connected to an HDMI Switcher which I use to connect different input devices to the HDMI display, like a RPi.
Not always, but usually when I try to wake my Macbook Pro up from screen saver it panics. I've tried to find what could be causing it, but I'm at a loss here. Here's an EtreCheck log, hope it's of use. I've removed Unknown file: /Library/LaunchAgents/ss_conn_service apparently it was installed by Samsung.
Initial situation MacBook Pro 2017 (bought in Austria/Europe) Mac OS 10.12.6 (Sierra) Keyboard layout is not the classic Hungarian, rather than one which has been set up by Ukele (keyboard layout editor) in order to be the same with the Windows keyboard layout (normally Mac OS X Keyboard layout differs from Windows ones). Windows 10 Pro runs on an Oracle Virtualbox VM as guest, and the Hungarian Keyboard layout (QWERTZ) is set up (as the only keyboard layout). A) If I use the Windows 10 guest directly via the Oracle Virtualbox window, the keyboard layout works like a charm. B) As soon as I join to this machine via RDP (official Microsoft Client), exactly 2 keys swaps their place: 1) the key next to number 1 (on the left) 2) the key next to the left Shift key, which is not even illustrated in Ukele, but upon pressing it's highlighted, as it would be next to the number 1 in the numeric key row.
Will it be possible to connect the Mac Mini to the MacBook Pro and use the laptop's screen, keyboard for working on Mac Mini?
I have a few cron jobs that mail their output to my username. I check this mail in the terminal by typing mail. When I quit the mail program with 'q' it says "Saved X messages in mbox" (where X is the number of messages I just read). How can I read those messages again?
I have several Macs and Windows PCs in my local network. After updating the Macs to macOS High Sierra, the Windows Workgroup Name (or Domain Name - if a Win-PC is part of a domain) is shown as a computer host in the "Network" section of the Finder on all High Sierra Macs. In macOS Sierra and older OS X versions only the names of the real Windows computers are listed in this section. Is there a way to prevent the display of the Workgroup/Domain Name?
I have two external drives attaching to my Mac, one for file storage and one for time machine. The latter one keeps the TM backups of the former one. If someday I lost the former one is it possible that I could just buy a new drive and restore the data back to the new drive easily?
I tried Sketch and some other drawing apps. I’d like a bigger canvas to work with. Most seem to only be 8 1/2 by 11 or standard page size. Is there a way to expand the canvas on some of the basic drawing apps or is the a good app that provides a large drawing area?
Is it possible to set up an auto-reply to an incoming text or iMessage, either on my iPhone (or the connected Message app on my Mac)? Ideally I'd like to customize this depending upon the sender.
Please reference the video below, I created it using three different browsers and showing my settings and scrolling inputs so that either the Dev team can use this information to apply a patch or someone can guide me to a working answer. I have been searching for day trying to disable two finger swipe (Horizontal) in chrome so that the browser will not navigate forward/back. Every method I have found has not helped, and I did not show it in the video but I also tried adjusting some chrome flags and that did not help either. I did restart chrome after my changes each time. Methods I have tried; and that have failed: - command line turning off gestures for chrome only - turning off gestures completely in system preferences - defining custom gestures using bettertouchtool - messing with flags pertaining to keyword relating to this issue, such as touch - I think that is all... Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/aYTyjqenSIA
I was wondering if there was a way to access the computer fan speed through terminal. I've heard that you can use software like smcFanControl, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it without any third party software. Another way i've heard of is using the spindump command, but from what I remember it can take a bit for it to finish. Is there a way to get the info from terminal almost instantly without using third party software? Also, is there a command I could possibly use to adjust the fan speed using terminal without any third party software? I'm using a MacBook Pro 2015 running macOS High Sierra.
I am using apple mail email client and I am in need of backing it up. I just have a special requirement that how can I back it up in PDF format.
For a while now I've been importing mp3s, setting them as "Audiobook" and listening to them via iBooks, like normal. However, for some unknown reason a few weeks ago, this stopped happening: Even though they show up in "Audiobooks" on iTunes, they WILL NOT show up in iBooks anymore—they still appear in the Music app, like a regular mp3. Nothing I have tried will force it to show up in iBooks again.
There are some previously unanswered questions about "Reset Keyboard Dictionary" (in Settings) not resetting the autocorrect for specific words. (In my case [iOS 11], the letter "i" converts to "A" and a unicode character... and by the way, a manual shortcut override appears to be the only fix.)
I know I can go to system preferences and change the background color for selected text. Is there a way I can change the foreground color? Use case: I'd like a dark background color with white text for anything highlighted.
When trying to perform the software update I see the message Unable to verify update iOS 10.3.3 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the internet.
How do I use spotlight via ⌘ + spacebar in the remote computer? It works sometimes but not all the time.
Im trying to restore a backup of an iphone using itunes on Windows 10. I bought new iphone X, then backed up my old iphone 7 plus. Now my mom uses iphone 6 which she got rid of and now she will be using iphone 7 plus. I backed up iphone 6 as well. Now im trying to restore back up of iphone 6 onto iphone 7 plus. However something weird is happening and i get error message from itunes that iTunes could not restore iphone because there was an error writign or reading device. The thing is after everytime this happens my disc gets crazily full and now appdata has sizoe of 300GB!!!! Somehow its duplicating the old backup of iphone 7 plus (which is 84gb) and now i have two folders of this size ~80GB. The backup of iphone 6 is only 16gb and seems to be untouched. What the hell is happening?
I've a weird issue. On my macbook 2010, when I use Google Chrome, Command+Left Shift+T doesn't work as expected. I would expect it to reopen last closed tab, but, instead, it simply opens a new one. For what it's worth, same combo, but using right shift key works as expected - reopens last closed tab. Note that, aside from that, left shift key is working just fine. I tried a few extensions for Google Chrome that would let me change the keyboard shortcut, but none of them are using key-press recognition, and in none of them is right-shift, or it's variation that seem logical, are recognized. I'm on Yosemite 10.10.
chrome://apps shows me the chrome apps I have installed. For example, I have the google calendar app.
I recently upgraded to iOS 11.1 and none of my songs are giving me the options to play lyrics. Has this feature been removed or the option to display them been changed?
I am wondering if anyone knows a reliable way to open CorelDraw files on MacOS Sierra. Apparently, CorelDraw software didn't provide MacOS support for nearly 15 years.
I have a folder containing six subfolders. Right-clicking on the Finder background and clicking "Clean up by name" sorts them into the order "1.0", "1.5", "1.6", "1.25", "1.56", and "2.0". This is quite annoying, because that's neither in any lexicographic order (as I'd expected) nor in increasing numerical order, so it always takes a moment to find the right subfolder I want. What order does "Clean up by name" sort files into? OS X Yosemite v10.10.5
I have two icloud accounts and the second account is the one signed in in my Apple ID. If I update my iOS which account will it use? I forgot the password of my main account.
I'm not able to use "Highlight" shortcut. No matter I press control+command+h or control+command+u, it results in underlining text. Clicking the "Highlight" button also underlines text. I can highlight text using highlight with specific though.
Mine is a Macbook Pro 15-inch Late-2013. I read somewhere that the laptop protects itself from damage by shutting itself down when it gets too hot. My laptop's temperature, currently at its highest is 95ºC. The Apple website said that it's maximum operating temperature is 35ºC. I'm using Macs Fan Control, to tell me the temperature. *=URL=* <-- where temperature is stated
I was wondering if someone could explain to me how in my Activity Monitor it says that I currently have 1805 threads But I only have 4 virtual cores on my computer (which means that I should only be able to have 4 threads). Does the thread count mean all the threads that are being handled by the CPUs when they are deciding which thread to execute?
I'm using Macbook Pro 2017, Sierra (10.12.6), with AX88179 Ethernet adapter plugged in via USB-C-USB adapter. And the macOS driver downloaded from here is installed. it is power-plugged in it has its own static IP address the Ethernet cable is plugged in the Energy Saver option to wake for network access is checked the port number 9 is not blocked by the network And I'm trying to use Wake-on-LAN to wake up the Macbook from outside of the local network while it is in sleep mode, but it doesn't work.
I am using Eclipse. When I open popup window (e.g. "Open Resource") and the application is in fullscreen, the popup window also becomes fullscreen too. It is quite annoying. I don't know how to fix it.
The Apple USB-C HDMI adapter has a very non-intuitive behaviour that makes it difficult to work with. Tested with LG 24MP88 LED monitor and Macbook Pro 2016 with MacOS High Sierra
edit 2: After doing more research I've discovered this is a widespread issue with the Intel Core i7-7700k, and affects all iMacs that have it. Apparently Intel claims its temperature spiking to 90 C during normal use and hitting 100 C during heavy use is normal. Seems wrong to me, but who am I to argue with Intel?
Is there a way to see what program is picking up a keyboard shortcut on the Mac? I can't restore a closed tab in Chrome (and neither in Firefox) by pressing CommandShiftT and I am assuming that something else has bound itself to that shortcut and is swallowing it. I may be wrong, but is there a way to list all registered shortcuts or something like that? Or some other way to figure out what's going on?
i have a Problem with my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro (MacbookPro9,2). Sometimes when i close the lid, it is restarting after some time. This is also hearable by the start sound. No special Software is running at this time. I am not using VMWare Fusion and also Parallels is shut down at this moment. Here is the Crash report: [Crash Report Pastebin][1]https://pastebin.com/5346zkn4
I want to highlight a sentence in iBooks for iOS that continues on the next page, how do I do that? I want to have one highlight only.
Is there a hint/method for displaying books not added to any Collections in iBooks? I am interested in the solution for macOS and iOS.
I'm looking for a description of what the firmware update actually does. I have a MacPro (Desktop) 2010, and it's loaded with multiple drives, to be able to run every OS from Snow Leo to Sierra. This is the first I've seen an OS need to update firmware, and I'd just like to be sure I'll have no issue booting into the older OSes after this update. Note: I've had this machine since it was new, mid-2010, and I've never seen a firmware warning when updating any OS.
I switched from an older MacBook Pro to a newer unit. It runs macOS High Sierra V10.13. All files were migrated using the Migration Assistance app. Within one night all files and software were transferred. Now everything is fine, except for files - every file I double-click to open states "file-abc.zip" is corrupted and can not be opened. It's recommended to put this file into trash.
I just noticed my normal command line command to add an item to Finder's favorites doesn't work anymore. E.g. to add the Desktop to Finder's sidebar, I used to do: However, now, it seems it doesn't do anything anymore except showing the output: I also noticed that the file extension of ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems has changed from .sfl to .sfl2. Does anyone yet know how to programmatically add a favorite item to Finder's sidebar in macOS High Sierra? PS: I did find some solutions using a Swift script, yet I'd rather be able to just use a simple command line tool as before..
In Apples MacOS Photos App (Version 3.0) there is a new Search Filter "Category". The Categorys are provided by Apple.
Running this in terminal using php index.php gives me a live output of this file. index.php However, using the "Run Shell Script" in Automator (using cd ~/Desktop && php index.php) waits for the entire script to finish before showing the result. The value "Shell: " is set to "/bin/zsh". Is there a way to enable a live output from a script?
I own a MacBook Pro mid 2010, and formatting it and upgrading it to the High Sierra is no longer displaying TrackPad preferences so I can adjust it, the menu I am referring to is in this order: System Preferences - > Trackpad, it is worth remembering that I am referring to the Trackpad of the Macbook and there is a bluetooth, when I click on the Trackpad option inside the preferences menu there is written that No trackpad found and gives me the option to activate bluetooth? My Trackpad is installed on Mac it is not bluetooth. Sorry for my bad English.
I have multiple user accounts on my MacBook. At the moment all of my applications go to a root folder and then there are separate folders for my user accounts. I'm having a problem with application becoming corrupt because they are being shared between users. Is there any way to stop this functionality so user accounts have completely separate applications?
I've recently updated all of my labs to MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 this summer, and have discovered that they now all exhibit loss of window focus somewhat sporadically. Using the python scripts that can be found when searching for window focus loss issues, I have narrowed down the culprit to SystemUIServer. Has anyone else come across this issue and if so, have you found a solution to prevent SystemUIServer from stealing window focus?
I would greatly appreciate anyone who is able to shed some light and assist me with setting up my network so that the DHCP and NAT on the network is handled solely by Time Capsule. This is so I can use BacktoMyMac...or AFP via an external network.
I've a 3440 x 1440 external monitor hooked up to a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014). It seems as if images are being displayed correctly, but text is highly rasterised, both in browsers and in native apps such as Finder. Any ideas as to what is causing the pixelation? In terms of System Preferences > Displays, I'm using resolution 'Default for display' and in System Preferences > General I've toggled 'Use LCD font smoothing when available' on and off with no change. Below is an image displaying the rasterisation:
Let’s say I accidentally left my “Outdoor Cycling” Activity app session running for 3 hours. Is there any way to edit this manually?
Right now, the status window says "Syncing Artwork to iPad (Step 6 of 6) \n Waiting for items to copy" but it has said that for hours. I have recently manually added album art for one album, and that is already visible on the iPad.
I recently switched back to Apple's iOS podcast app, and it looks like the Recently Played ("Nylig spilt" in norwegian) section is not behaving properly. I can't make sense of which podcasts/episodes appears in this list, or in which order they are sorted.
Had an iphone5s that I ALWAYS saved/backed up to the pc desktop. After an 'update' some very important texts were just gone. Poof. (I had 'always save' on my phone regarding texts). I don't know which update it was, as I didn't notice exactly when they were gone. I've purchased TWO different 'recovery' programs. (They never could get back those 2015/2016 texts). And have tried EVERYTHING/spent hours on the internet. I tried that %appdate% apple/sync/backup thing, but it will only show, or I can only FIND, 2017 files. Now, I do have an Iphone 8, but I was backing up the iphone 5s to my computer at least once a week back in 2015/16. Any ideas on where to find the 'old' backups. I KNOW I didn't delete them from my computer because I'm too techno ignorant to do that. Many Thanks! redbird985
My iphone 5 fell around 40ft down a stairwell, the screen got smashed and the touchscreen hardware appears to have partially popped out. The phone still works, but it has a very strong smell. Should I be concerned?
Location is simply provided by GPS. No cellular data required at all. But even if Apple want to track each my step it can't take more then 1 MB of text data per day.
I recently bought a 4Tb naked (no enclosure) external hard drive that I mount via a Newer Tech dock (the ones where you insert the naked drive like bread in a toaster) and is connected to my MacBook pro via FireWire 800. About a month later I wanted to use the drive and it would not mount. When I connect the drive I get this: So I tried terminal commands like: which yelds this: I also tried: and got: mount: You must specify a filesystem type with -t. and then: which outputs: I also tried: which gives back: and finally: which returns:
I bought a preformatted (NTFS) external drive and I want to re-format it with APFS using High Sierra (last upgrade). It is impossible. Whatever is the file system chosen, I always gat an error. What can I do? this is the second HD I bought. Different manufacturer, different capacity, but same problem. Thanks. Federico
Since I upgraded my iPad to iOS11 it is constantly popping up a little window asking me to accept the new iCloud terms and conditions. When I view the terms and conditions and DISAGREE (I have never used iCloud; signed up for iCloud; or want to use iCloud) it just goes back to popping up the little window constantly. How can I get rid of this obnoxious window? Any help greatly appreciated, Ted
I used to see all my play history from any iTunes on any device. With the last upgrade or because i changed something, now i can not do this anymore. Is there a way to set this up again?
On iOS 11 I've found that iMessage apps will just enable themselves after I've disabled them. I only want 2 apps on the dock yet things like Google Maps keep showing up after they get updated. Can I disable this annoying behavior?
Mac mini late 2014 (7,1), macOS 10.12.6 freshly installed with various services turned on. We'd like to change the alert thresholds for when we get emails from the server; namely, it's annoying to get an alert every time we rotate the disks, but we want more aggressive alerts about how much disk space remains. I found this link with Terminal commands for 10.8, but 'sudo serveradmin settings all' doesn't show these same keys—info is completely missing. *=URL=* Is there somewhere we can tinker with these?
My original account UID=501 got corrupted and since I couldn't locate the bad caches or preferences, it was just a lot easier to create another user account UID=501. I was able to transfer all of the files into my new ~, with the exception for the ~/Library folder, of course. So I deleted UID=501 and ran the following for good measure: Then macOS went haywire and set all ownership settings to UID=501 GID=staff.
This is a problem that I've run into a number of times. If I have a message that was erroneously marked as Junk for example and is in my Junk Mail folder, I can "Move To Inbox" to get it back in my inbox. But doing so marks it as read.
Essentially, I'm trying to use Munki to deploy printers in my organisation following the nopkg method. However, I need to specify these settings during deployment (enabling booklet creation, folding, etc):
I would like to remove following top white bar of the onscreen iOS 11 keyboard on my iPad.  I tried to disable all keyboard options in settings but has no effect. Such bar appears for example when I open a chat in full web (not a mobile view), search something via input field on the top right corner of the page, then go back and trying to post something to the chat:
In my Disk Utility, I see Other Volumes. It happened without me knowing and I have no idea how to check what that is.
For last 2 days I am not able to login to my MacBook Pro. It was working fine and suddenly for no reason after I last shutdown my mac I am not able to login. The mac starts up fine and goes to the login screen. After I enter my password the progress bar is stuck in 70%-80% and sometimes at 100%.
I usually ssh into the department's cluster to run things and recently I've been unable to do so because my Mac (MacBook Pro 13" Retina 2013, High Sierra) fails to access the address when connected to my home wifi. It finds the IP address correctly but can't ping it. One might think this is a network problem but all my other devices (an iPad Mini 4, an iPhone 7, a Samsung Galaxy J5) have no problem ssh-ing to the cluster.
How can I make the title (and tab) bar of iTerm 2 exactly the same color as the terminal background so that it's impossible to tell where one starts and the other begins? How it is at the moment:
My MacBook Air's Wi-Fi is maxed out right now for receiving. Now I am trying once more to download the High Sierra update. But it's telling me 6 hours left and on my usual Wi-Fi connection I only achieve half the download speed and High Sierra usually tells me the whole download will take about 2 hours. So I think something else must also be using my bandwidth. I'm only familiar with top from experience using Linux in the past and this doesn't seem to tell me about network usage. Is there something in the Mac system which can tell me which apps are using my Wi-Fi?
A couple months ago, I started to see some very small stain spots on the bottom of my MacBook Pro early 2015 screen. It's very annoying to see while I'm using it. When the screen is turned off, I see it as in the picture below. But when it's turned on, I see it as very small water-ish drops. I tried to clean it using water, screen cleaner, and even alcohol, but it didn't go away.
Currently I am on OSX 10.8.5, I don't want to upgrade for multiple reasons. Yesterday out of the blue, the OS stops running after rebooting the machine and tells me I cannot use Opera anymore unless I update to OSX 10.9 I started by downloading older versions of Opera (Currently on 42, downloaded each version back to 37) and in every download get the same install OS X 10.9 message.
It's all text is a Firefox extension that allows editing HTML textareas in an external editor. Is there something similar for Safari?
macOS defaults to a handful of convenient text editing shortcuts such as: ^e moving the cursor to the end of lin ^k deleting all characters after the cursor until the end of the line ^a moving the cursor to the beginning of the line etc
If I leave my iMac for a while, it refuses to come out of sleep mode; the screen remains black, the mouse, once it unfreezes moves slowly and then the pinwheel appears forever. I'm forced to force power down (pressing the button). To explain : I've just bought a reconditioned "as new" 21" iMac which came with High Sierra, but unfortunately the setup was all in German despite my choosing the UK language.
Is there a way to retrieve past Facetime conversations from an iPad? I need to have access to a conversation that is now being denied.
I just turned on "unlock with apple watch" on my mac, and now it asks me for a passcode to pair with the watch. Where can I find this password?
Over the past weeks, after working pretty reliably for several months, my Hue lights spend most of the time "Updating" (and unusable) in Apple Home. Restarting and force-restarting the Home app does nothing, nor does restarting the iPhone.
I have a Mac server that I log in to using ssh. When logged in, I connect to a running screen (screen -r). When using that screen, autocomplete freezes the terminal (can be broken by Ctrl+C). If I restart screen and try again, the problem is gone, but re-appears after a few days. Any suggestions on what might be causing this?
This is driving me crazy! Whenever I reboot in OSX High Sierra all the applications I had open automatically reboot. In Login Items NONE of these applications are there! How do I stop this from happening?
Like many, I have an issue where when I plug my laptop back into my dock, all of my full screen applications are on different monitors than they were previously. They stay grouped somehow, but just switch which monitor they're on (so the apps on screen 1 are all now on screen 2, the apps on screen 2 are now all on screen 3, etc). Is there a way to move all (or at least groups) of my applications to another screen instead of dragging each one-by-one?
A year or so ago, I set up (under Sierra) a shell script I wrote to launch automatically using the conditions that it required "network availability" and was to trigger on external drive mounting by editing a plist file in Xcode. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name or location of this file and I need to temporarily disable the configured auto-launch. Can anyone identify this file or at least provide me a list of app startup locations to check?
I have just upgraded my OS to macOS High Sierra. I have been using a custom layout for my Magic Keyboard. But after upgrading to the newer version is stopped working. I have installed the custom keyboard again using Ukele, but it doesn't work properly. Here are some weird problems I have encountered
I had a 4th Gen Apple TV setup as my HomeKit hub and was working fine. Lately I've noticed the Home App on iPod/iPhone says "Apple TV not responding". I've done all the tier-one support obvious things: Updated iOS and tvOS, cycled power on and off, signed out/in on Apple TV cloud login, etc.
So I have the 2015 "13 MacBook so I read some articles to update firmware by holding the power button so i tried to try it for fun but I misunderstood the article and I held the power button while my mac had completed 1/4 of booting process. So I accidentally force shutdown my mac while it was booting. So should I worry about some firmware error or some sort of software error which I can't notice?
Less than a week ago, I just upgraded my MacBook Pro (Early 2015) to macOS 10.13.1. I am not sure if the problem was caused by this. Everything was fine, nothing went wrong during the installation, but after a few days I noticed that Finder wasn't saving my Desktop looks/arrangements. Yes, I tried to delete Finder preferences and restart Finder. Yes, I tried to delete .DS_Store file. Yes, I tried to delete and recreate ~/Desktop folder. I also looked at this apple discussion, this post on OSXDaily and this post at macosx.com but none of the solutions worked. So now, here is my question: How can I make Finder save my desktop arrangements without reinstall? EDIT: I just did a Disk First Aid now, and it didn’t seem to help.
In Sublime or Atom we can "cmd+D" to select next matching character/text. And "cmd+ctrl+G" selects all matching chars/text. How to make such shortcuts in Mac so I could use them everywhere I want - on browsers etc.
With my Canon WiFi-enabled DSLR, while on location I'm able to wirelessly copy stills to my iPad Pro and view the shots on the iPad Pro. I'm trying to do same with my WiFi-less Canon DSLR. Is this possible by inserting the CF card in a card reader connected to "Apple Lightning to USB 3" accessory which is then plugged into the iPad Pro.
Does the 4th generation Apple TV support ARC(Audio Return Channel), if so can I output audio from my TV to my Apple TV (via HDMI ARC), which can send it to my AirPods/AirPlay speaker?
I had an old Mac with Sierra installed. Its screen got bad and I bought a new one with Sierra.
I can't resize an image by dragging and dropping in Notes.  How do I resize an image in Notes?
When using a variety of email clients (Newton, Nylas), MacOS will still show notifications for incoming mail when the client has closed. Is there a way around this?
In older versions of iOS, if I searched for an app with Spotlight, it would tell me which folder the app was in. (E.g., this feature still works on my iPad, which is running iOS 9, but not on my iPod Touch, which is running iOS 11.)
Problem: I cannot run more than one external monitor (Dell 2415, 24") when running Windows 10 Pro in Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. Also unable to run a bluetooth mouse in that configuration. Verified that I can run 4 external monitors in the MacOS, and also a Bluetooth mouse. I need to run 4 external monitors. Anyone have a similar problem or possible solution? And, please, don't suggest buying a Windows computer. Don't want to do that.
Bought a second hand iMac that had two partitions on the HDD. One for Mac, one for Windows. Using disk utility I erased the BOOTCAMP partition and formatted it to MacOS Extended (Journaled). All went well until I tried to remove the BOOTCAMP partition. The minus option is not enabled and I can't seem to fin any other way to delete it.
Using iPhone 7+, iOS 11.1. Every time I reboot my phone, my Bluetooth automatically is turned on. This is NOT wanted and very annoying. I only use it with my remote shutter button when using my cam, which is rarely. How do I disable the auto-turn-on?
I accidentally copied a very large folder on my desktop. I saw that iOS started copying my large folder to the iCloud
I’m having thermal issues with my MacBook Pro 17” late 2011 model laptop I7 2.5 quad core with 16GB of RAM. Has anyone had any thermal issues when running DAW software on this particular laptop?
I experienced a weird behaviour today (Sorry for the image size. The animation only play on the original screen size)
I'm running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s, but I can't use this device to FaceTime with a iPhone 7 that's running iOS 11. What I see on the iPhone 4s is a black screen with a "Connecting" message.
In my default view when using Apple's Mail on macOS, I used to see 3 coluns, from left: Mailbox Inbox Email I stretched the Inbox column / pane to width of the full window, and now have only 2 columns: Mailbox Inbox I cannot "pull back" the Email pane with a mouse. How can I restore the missing Email preview pane?
In its document (*=URL=* it reads "If enabled, option-click will move the cursor to where the mouse pointer is. If you install shell integration, this will be well-behaved at the shell prompt by not sending up and down arrow keys." But it seems like when I do Options-Click it just goes to last command (arrow up).
I recently bought a Insignia USB to Ethernet adapter I proceeded to install the drivers and it has caused me nothing but trouble since. When I try to sign in to my profile, it opens into a window asking if I would like to use WiFi network (this option is not selectable) Local Network My computer does not connect to the internet
These days, Macs have Siri. Siri even works offline for tasks like dictation. When Siri interprets audio into written words, can I somehow capture those written words, and trigger a self-defined action if a certain pattern is detected? For example, if I say "Hey Siri, run my backup script", could a shell script located in my home folder then be executed? (Bonus question: If Siri cannot do this, is there some other free technology that can?)
My MacBook Air has issues maintaining an internet connection at home. I think my access point is at fault, as this also happens to other devices. Reconnecting to the WiFi or running Network Diagnostics fixes the problem, only for it to happen again 5 minutes later:
I have created an app & signed using "Developer ID Application: x" certificate. then using hdiutil i created the dmg to set the drive icons when i execute the below commandsit throws the error I thought it would be related to size and increased the size of dmg from 1.5m to 4.5m but that also not helps, image size is 291kb and the overall app size is 666kb.
The Facebook calendar is checked (picture below), and while the events do appear on my laptop, they won't appear on my iPhone calendar. I uninstalled Facebook and Messenger, then logged out of my gmail account to remove all calendars. It was odd that when I did this, the Facebook calendar option stayed yet the rest left (second picture), but after reinstalling everything the events still won't show up.
I'm trying to create an AppleScript service that allows me to create a new text file in a folder in Finder. So I can right-click on a location and create a new text file. This is my flow so far:
I am looking for an SQLite editor, which doesn't seems like a big task as there is bunch at every corner. What I want from it is find-or-create functionality for foreign records (1:N, M:N). I think I saw slt in Access years ago, but I want to use SQLite for its portability.
I'd like to install Quartz Composer. So I head to Downloads Center and download Additional Tools for Xcode 9 package which contains Quartz Composer.
Looking for: Help to set up my macbook as a router or something like that to provide open NAT type. Thanks so much in advance for any help given. I have searched for days but cannot find a way still. Another example of someone with this issue and his progress is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/6hklpx/help_iphone_usb_tether_to_ps4_using_mac_as_a/
iStat Menus shows me that my GPU RAM is being maxed out. Activity Monitor doesn't seem to show VRAM usage.
Currently I have a Macbook Pro (mid 2014) with 120GB ssd. I am planning to buy a Macbook Air (say, early 2015) with 250GB ssd and swap these drives between laptops. I know they are both PCI based, but that doesn't mean much as the protocol could be SATA/NVM/Proprietary.
I am using macOS 10.13.1 and Safari 11.0.1, since I upgraded from 10.12 it's not possible to access https websites through IP address. For example: I want access the config GUI from a router I open Safari go to *=URL=* Safari says: "connection is not private" I click "Details" → "Open website" → "Visit website" then I have to enter the password from my local user. The site reloads and again I can see the message: "connection is not private". If I create a hostname entry in /etc/hosts like: 192.168.0.1 my.funny.router and go to Safari and open *=URL=* the connection can be established after I clicked "Details" → "Open website".
From iOS 11 and macOS 13, when you use iDevices or Macs and one of your devices connect to the Wi-Fi, and then you connect your another device to the same Wi-Fi network, the pop-up (on your first device) shows up saying whether you share the Wi-Fi password. Sometimes I mistakenly close the window, either tapping "No" (or "Deny" or something) or just tap on another screen or home button to ignore the dialog.
none of my photos are available anymore , they dont open properly (all blurry) and it says its because i dont have enough icloud storage, i went to check it through my iphone but it tells me "unable to load storage info" (i tried both on wifi and data) so i can do nothing about it. I checked with pc and i have 2GB free. I wanted to know how I can get my photos back or at least transfer them to my pc.
My default browser is currently Firefox. On those rare times when I do open Safari, it displays a message at the top of the Favorites page asking if I want to make Safari my default browser. How do I make this go away? Edit 1: I am using High Sierra.
After upgrading from mac os sierra -> mac os high sierra, I can no longer see "Allow network users to log in at login window" this option from from settings -> Users & groups pane as shown here and cannot login to the my ldap user account any more ?  How to fix this ?
Since I installed High Sierra I sometimes have to double tap Command + Space to open spotlight search bar. This problem is weird because it happens randomly. Say I just double tapped Command + Space, it won't happen again for a couple minutes.
A drop down menu no longer appears in MS Word when I right click on a tracked change in a word document. A drop down menu used to be appear on right clicking allowing me to accept or reject changes as I was going thru a text and editing it.
I understand that macOS has its own policies about how various standard Unix directories are used, and that these are (or at least have in the past been) documented in the "File System Programming Guide". I'm about to update to High Sierra (from Sierra) and wonder: have these policies changed in any way between 10.12 and 10.13; and
This question is inspired to: What kind of SSD is compatible with the 2010 Unibody MacBook? I am reading here, MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) - Technical Specifications that the suggested SSD are 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB solid-state drive.
If you choose your app to be Assigned to All Desktops, like:  You won't be able to select it from Mission Control. Check this video: *=URL=* If you set Assign to: None, Mission Control is working great, but the app is locked to the current Space.
I cannot recall precisely, but while attempting to type "9" or "0" or hit the Delete key or other keys in that area of the top row, I just fat-fingered my headphone volume to maximum on the touch bar. It greatly startled me and caused me to shout out loud at work.
edit: It appears that the preference is saved in HTML5 local storage, not in a traditional cookie. I'm guessing fluid apps don't implement this.
My system was running out of disk space so I checked and found out that Mail is occupying close to 3 GB of disk space. The Mail app is about 40 MB and the restare the files locally downloaded from the Mail. How can I delete these files without affecting the original mails?
For one specific contact, whenever I receive an iMessage from them, I get no notifications, no sounds, and the red icon doesn't even appear on messages. When I open the app, the message appears and it looks like the message has been opened/read already. I don’t have my iMessage linked with any other devices and the contact is not on a DND (Do Not Disturb) list. All of my notifications are turned on. I have also restarted the iPhone a couple of times. I do get normal notifications from everyone else or when this contact sends me a message via SMS text instead of iMessage. I can’t find an answer anywhere that has worked for me.
I am using MATLAB on my Mac. Well, MATLAB is running well but not fast -- while there are plenty of free memory, my Mac still compresses MATLAB's memory - from ~2GB to ~600MB -- not to mention the Java VM overhead on which MATLAB is running.
Due to an HDD failure, I have purchased and installed a new Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 3.5-Inch SATA III 6 Gb/s Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010)(*=URL=* The Mac is a 27" iMac EMC 2390.
Safari is acting wierd lately, for example: the Facebook chat window isn't displayed correctly and is in fact collapsing (*=URL=* Also a lot of javascript sites are just displayed blank from time to time.
Is there a way to disable (or do other things to) the Force Touch settings using either shell scripting or AppleScript? Hacks accepted.
I have an external hard drive connected to my cinema display. I don't use the hard drive every time I connect my laptop to the display. However, I forget to unmount it almost every time I disconnect my laptop. To avid incorrect disconnecting I disabled automounting in fstab as described here: How to Disable USB Auto-mount
Is there any way to temporarily allow Safari to load a site with an untrusted website certificate in Safari/High Sierra? This was possible in Sierra. I marked several roots Untrusted due to their bad behavior in issuing certificates. At one time I think there was an option in KeyChain Viewer to "Ask User", but that was depreciated.
I bought an iPhone 8 to replace my iPhone 6. I was able to migrate absolutely everything via the "Quick Start" functionality.
My friend recently gave me an old iPhone was a little banged up. I took the liberty of fixing it up. The issue now is that it has her brothers AppleID on it. We have spent a week trying different solutions and spent the last couple of days talking to apple support.
My magsafe charger reached its peek. It doesn't work anymore. I'm looking for a way to charge it while I'm still waiting for my new one, I was curious if I can charge it using the other ports it have.
This is not the first time I’ve had this problem, nor is it the least frustrating time I’ve had this problem, as the first time this happened to me I fixed it within twenty minutes. I’ve read countless articles and forums with people who have had the same problem, and I have at no point found a solution that works this time, and the people at Tracfone are no help either. Here are the facts: I use Tracfone. I just bought a new factory unlocked iPhone 6s off of Ebay from a well known and reviewed seller. Last night I transferred my service from my old iPhone 6 to this new phone; new sim card, called tracfone, etc. The works. Today I once again ran into the dreaded “could not activate cellular data” message, even though last night I made a successful call on my phone and my number and service have transferred. The message says “you are not subscribed to a cellular data service”, which is a message I haven’t gotten before. Upon calling Tracfone and sitting on the phone with a rep for over 
I've seen the threads referring to the continuing of TM backups after upgrading to High Sierra, but I haven't seen anything addressing my issue. Because of continual system crashes since my clean install of High Sierra I wanted to use Time Machine to restore to my last saved Sierra system before upgrading. It was only then that I learned about the High Sierra switch to APFS format. Now I fear that my TM backup of Sierra is useless because it won't run on an APFS-formatted drive. Is this correct?
I want to project only a selected area or an application window to the external monitor. Is there any software that can do that kind of thing?
The application can not be unblocked.  When I open the application it tells me that I must unblock the program in the mac os settings. I open the settings and it says 'Some software was blocked from loading.' Next to that is the unblock button which does not do anything. I have tried: also I have tried launching the application from terminal via sudo:
Is it possible to add the links to the Reading List from terminal or Alfred without opening Safari? Maybe some AppleScript snippet would do?
Recently, every time I start Safari, I get a popup: "Java was recently installed. To improve security and save energy, Safari did not activate Java after it was installed."
I know how to add explicit tags to individual tracks, but I'd like to know how to add the tag to albums/the album title as well. I'm using windows if that affects anything.
When I go to download free apps it says it wants a payment method. I have already changed my settings to "none" like everyone says to do. But it still asks for one. How do I get it to stop asking for this after I already changed everything?
I just downloaded the newest iOS version, which I don't know what it is, and I can't download free apps now. I used to be able to download free apps, but now apple requires a credit card to download apps even if the apps are free.
Is it possible to restart a certain app (for example Yandex Disk) after sleep? I need that because my cloud storage located on a JetDrive which is ejected every time I put it on sleep, and gets remounted after sleep, but sometimes Yandex Disk couldn't see the drive, so an application restart is needed. How can I do that with Automator or through a shell script?
I am trying to connect two Bluetooth headphones to a MacbookPro. The main purpose is to stream audio in two devices simultaneously. Is there a MacOS feature that would allow me to do this? Also, I am not considering a Bluetooth splitter, for sound quality purposes.
One uses a MacMini from late 2009 running El Capitan (10.11.6), which seems to be the latest I can upgrade it to. That particular setup uses an Epson 1450 Home Cinema projector. I've tested it with other HDMI TVs, though. When I switch the HDMI switch to Output 1 (the MacMini), I see the MacMini display with no issue.
I’m not sure what that box is called, but it’s the one with the search at the top of it, and the history below. In Portrait Orientation you can swipe down on it and it reduces to a single search box. It’s annoying how much space it takes up, but at least it doesn’t cover half the screen.
After upgrading to 11.1.1 both the Settings->General menu item and the sub-menu for Software Update have a (1) badge which will not go away. Selecting the Software Update menu shows the phone software is up to date.
My iPad died to the point it wouldn't even boot up. So I sold it as-is for parts on eBay. Since it wouldn't boot I could not erase it before selling it. I've now been contacted by the buyer (in Russia) who says they have gotten the iPad working but because of "Find my iPhone" being active they can't reset it.
My 2010 MacBook Pro (running macOS 10.13 High Sierra) fan gets super loud when I open more than one app at once. (This has been happening ever since I had El Capitan installed.) However, it can go quiet over software - whenever I use Siri, it goes silent, but it goes back to loud as soon as I'm done speaking to Siri. Is there anything I could do to make my MacBook less loud?
I have a 40" 4K display, which I frequently switch between full 3840x2160 mode and 2560x1440 (HiDPI/Retina) depending on what I'm working on. The problem is that with 3840 it's hard to read text, so in Finder I manually change text size to 14, and in Chrome I change Zoom to 125%.
I've just checked my SSD with sudo fsck_hfs -fy -S /dev/disk2s2 and it threw some errors, for example: block 2760096: *** NO MATCH *** What I would like to know which file is located at offset 2760096.
My Mac has lot of disk storage left empty but within few minutes after I restart Mac, it fills itself and shows that only few MB storage left. I am not using any software that fills the storage. I am using MacOS Sierra. Do not know the reason? May be some bug or virus?
The latest iOS update (11.1.1) bricked my iPhone, and it appears that I will need to reset the phone to factory settings and then restore from my (iTunes) backup. I have a fairly recent backup available, but by far the most important thing that I need to be sure will continue to work is my Google Authenticator codes.
Is it possible to disable Safari autofill for just one website? I use a website often where this is a hindrance. It seems like in High Sierra there are "website preferences," but disabling autofill is not included.
I'm getting the "Macintosh HD can't be opened because the original file can't be found" error when trying to open Macintosh HD from the sidebar of Finder. Happening since I installed macOS High Sierra. (I'm using a 2010 MacBook Pro with 256GB SSD)
I own an iPod Touch 1G and I'd like to listen to my downloaded Apple Music tracks on it. However, I can't do that since "Apple Music songs cannot be copied onto an iPod" (That's the message it shows me when trying to copy them on there) and I can't enable Apple Music on an iPod Touch 1G. Is there any way to get around that?
Shutting down the machine from the command line with e.g. shutdown -h seems as if it would not be particularly graceful, but on a scale of "Pulling the power cord out of the wall" to "Going through the standard shutdown procedure from the  Menu", how graceless is shutdown -h actually?
How do I get them back? They're neither in my Input Sources, nor can I find them if I try to add them.
How do I downgrade an Apple TV from tvos11 to any version of tvos10 without jailbreak safely? My Apple TV is 4th generation.
Why are all file names in Finder that have non standard characters such as accents or umlauts bold in High Sierra Finder?  How do I fix this?
Today is the America’s Veterans Day and, in the Activity App of my iPhone, there's the relative  Watch's badge. I just did my one hour running (recorded by Runtastic and the Activity app on the  Watch) so I generously reached the 11 minutes target to get the badge but, despite this, I didn't received the badge. Am I the only one?
Safari 11.0 on High Sierra does not play any youtube.com videos. It displays instead:
I was updating my MacBook Pro and and I turned off power before update completed. Now when I log in I get a (blank) screen and a long message. Panic(cpu 2 caller Bxffffff800256a8b6) "Process 1 exec of /sbin/Launch failed, erro 2"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3789.16/bsd/kern/kern_exec.c:5831 Debugger called
I'm using a CalDigit TS3 Thunder Station 3 dock. When my MacBook sleeps, and I try to wake it using the attached USB keyboard, the DisplayPort connected screen comes on, but the dock looses connection to the USB keyboard, all other USB peripherals. Also, I have a Sonnet Echo Express III-D connected to the Thunderbolt through port on the dock and it also gets disconnected. The ports won't come back unless I disconnect the dock and reconnect it or restart the computer. I have contacted CalDigit support and they said:
When iTunes updated an iOS app, it typically moved the previous version of the app to the Trash/Recycle Bin. This was useful since you could always move the ipa file out of the trash and use it to restore the previous version of the app if the newer version was not working correctly.
I'm using OSX High Sierra and bash. I'm trying to use a backup script based on IPv6 LLA (so I always reach the server, without DHCP, names etc). With IPv4 this works: On Linux/Bash this works: But on OSX terminal this didn't work. I've tried a lot of quotes combinations but without success. Thank you!
I have just bought a new SSD from Crucial for my iMac 9,1. I have plugged the disk in via a SATA to USB connector and I am displayed with the message The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. When I click on the initialise option it takes me to Disk Utility where usually I would expect the disk to appear in the side tab for it to be partitioned and then cloned for it to then be installed into my iMac however it does not display in the side menu so I do not know what to do, any advice or help will be perfect
Is there a way that I can detect that my mac does not have a wifi connection and automatically use my iPhone tethering without I have to go a select it from the menu?
Since updating from macOS 10.12 to 10.13, Google Docs links in Finder no longer open in the default browser (or anywhere). Double-clikcing triggers the opening animation, but that's it. How do I restore the document opening functionality I had in 10.12?
I almost never reboot this Mac. Lately I noticed after a system freeze that the Mac would not boot, instead the Mac boot process hangs at a black screen. Regression: Unplugging the USB devices immediately continues the boot process to the gray screen with the Apple logo. Because 2 USB hubs are attached I tried to isolate, by moving all USB devices to one USB hub and then to the other, no improvement. Tried to isolate the individual USB devices, boot still fails. How to fix the boot process of my Mac?
I would like to query a BOOTP server as a specific MAC address to test the response. What tools exists for macOS? Something like this? https://www.weird-solutions.com/enterprise-solutions/bootp-turbo
So I have a 2013 MBP that I'm trying to install to give to my friend. I've bee running a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 for a few years. I'm trying to put in a 250GB one in.
I have nsurlsessiond eating all my bandwidth. That's because I have iCloud Drive enabled. But I wouldn't like to deactivate it for good, 'cause when I'm at home, where I have a fiber broadband, I like it to keep iCloud content in sync with my local drive. However, when I'm traveling I like to be able to stop this guy from eating all my paid LTE mobile service. I tried to uncheck iCloud but it pops-up a message saying that all my iCloud documents will be deleted from my local drive. If I press the button to keep a copy, it sais it need to finish synchronization before stoping the service. I tried links like the one below, which recommends stopping the nsurlsessiond process, but it keeps coming back. How to know what nsurlsessiond is downloading Is there a way to just pause iCloud drive or to make it work only when I'm at home? Thank you
I haven't used my old iPhone in months because the screen is completely unusable and I want to recover the data off of it. The problem is I don't remember the old passcode and the computer I'm using is not paired with the phone.
I am a new user of hammerspoon, I want to make a new shortcut (ctrl-alt-T) that opens the Terminal app in Finder's working directory. Do you know how can I get the working directory of Finder from hammerspoon?
Google has an Inactive Account Manager that allows you to specify people who will be given access to your account if you do not log in after a set amount of time. For instance, I have it set up so that if I don't log in after 3 months, then my family will be given read-only access to my account. Additionally, I can choose to delete my account outright.
That's what Safari autofills in some login forms on different websites:  It looks like a password of kind "Internet password" in Keychain. Safari autofills this information even tho there's a proper "Web form password" saved in my Keychain for each of those websites. Isn't Safari supposed to only autofill "Web form password" passwords?
So I have noticed that on iOS 11 my lockscreen displays like this now.  I would like to display the entire album art in full screen. Is there a way to get the old behavior maybe?
I have an Apple Bluetooth keyboard connected to my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. Sometimes I use the computer on my lap, in a room which is just on the threshold of connectivity. Every few minutes I get a message "Connection lost", then "Connected", popping up in the middle of the screen.
However, "the iPhone X A1865 is considered the global phone as it works on both GSM and CDMA networks. This phone is also available as a SIM-free factory-unlocked version at Apple Store."
The Calendar.app in macOS Sierra offers a "Show Holidays calendar" checkbox in Preferences > General panel. According to this article, a "US Holidays" calendar should appear. On my Mac nothing happens when checking or unchecking that box. Any suggestions on making the Holidays calendar appear?
I previously surfed the internet and went into a site that has a collection of tv series so you can watch it online, but then my mac started beeping and telling me to download mackeeper due to a virus. This happened once before, so i didn't bother downloading it again since i had it, and nothing happened after. Now my mac keeps putting pop ups that says: I use macos sierra version 10.12.6 and google chrome
With the exact identical POP/SMTP configuration, correct user and password connected to the same WIFI, the email client can receive and send email on Android device, but not on iPhone's native email app which claims user name and password is incorrect. What could be a possible cause and how or where can I start troubleshoot?
I am curious about Apple Homekit and with the introduction of IKEA TRÅDFRI I can afford LED lights. I know Apple HomeKit requires activating HomeKit with iCloud. I also know that Siri control requires Internet connection because Siri's recognition occurs within Apple's iCloud.
I bought a WD Elements external hard drive whose file system was NTFS. So I formatted it using disk utilities. But something went wrong. Now it won't mount, although it shows up in the Disk Utility app. But none of the Repair, Format, Erase, Aid etc. options work. Anything I've found online and tried has failed. I even tried in recovery mode but nothing seems to work. I also tried connecting it to machines running Windows and Ubuntu but got nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Having read to numerous posts on SE like 1, 2, 3, 4, which all predate iOS 11 and having looked into VLC, Vox, Documents, and of course the files.App I hope someone else has already figured out how to download and conveniently play audio files (mp3, m4a etc.) within iOS, across multiple devices. I sketched up the workflow/use-case I envisioned:
My iPhone 4S running iOS 9.3.5 won't connect back to Pebble smartwatch after forgetting the phone from the Pebble's settings section and it won't connect back over the Pebble app. How can I connect them back?
Almost every time that I put my macbook pro late 2016 (touch bar) to sleep while the USB-C adapters are plugged they stop responding when I wake up the laptop. All my adapters have multiple ports (i.e usb, hdmi, ethernet). If I unplug them and plug them again in different ports only the hdmi works again, and the only way i found so far to make USB and Ethernet work again is rebooting the laptop. PS: I have have Sierra (10.12.6 (16G29))
My iPad ran out of battery, was on charging whole night but still showing the “need charging icon” when I plug in.. Sometimes (I don't know whats trigger it) it displays charging icon, charges for 5 min, boot up with 2% then it shuts down and then does the same thing again. Last time I tired pressing home and lock button to keep alive the charging icon about 50 mins, boot up and the same thing happened again. I tried DFU, recovery and many more but can't enter.. Any recent method? Tried this: *=URL=* Usual behaviour: Need charging icon while plugged in charging. After a while "Need charging icon" changes to "Charging icon" It starts booing, shuts down and display "Need charging icon" And it's going on for a long time, I don't think the iPad could handle it if it really wasn’t charging...
In PowerPoint for Windows it is possible to insert references directly from Endnote into PowerPoint. As far as I can tell, this feature is not supported on the macOS version of PowerPoint. Anyhow, I prefer Keynote, but it would make my life much easier if I could directly insert formatted references from Endnote (according to the different templates that exists in Endnote) into my Keynote presentations. Is this possible? If not, is anyone aware of any good work-arounds for this? I can do it manually with first saving the reference to MS Word and then copy/paste the reference into Keynote, but obviously I would prefer a direct method.
Since the upgrade from El Capitain to High Sierra (I jumped over Sierra), my terminal leaves a blank line at the very bottom as soon as I open another tab. See picture as example:
How do I install postgres 9.6 and a corresponding PostGIS on macOS Sierra using perhaps homebrew?
I'm trying to export photos from iPhone using mac os Photos app. The problem is that there is no way of structuring them in a format that will allow to easily access them by date. Ideally I'd like to have filenames in with timestamp of a photo, something like: 2017-10-03-12-05 but it is not possible with the Photos app. I would also tolerate some folders structure with date information, but I haven't found any suitable way. The only way I found so far is by using subfolder format with Moment Name which creates subfolders with name of the location and date Here is the example of folder name generated in this way: Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria, October 19, 2017
I've gone into system preferences and made scroll as slow as it allows me to, but it's still way too fast. I'm using a logitech mouse, but logitech's software doesn't seem to work. What I'm wondering is whether there's some way to set the scroll speed to slower than the bottom of the slider, perhaps using terminal or something.
I am thoroughly confused by the Apple ID, Email Address, User Name, iCloud conurbation it is to me an almost impenetrable mess. The best answer I have found here is below and I would appreciate some clarification. What I want to do is change the @outlook address I was forced to use to set up Apple ID to an @icloud address. The clarification I need is in the original answer below, the reason is I am conbverting an 86 year old man converting from Microsoft to his first iMac 21 last week! and I need to keep it very simple, trying to explain why he needs a microsoft email address to access his Apple ID is beyond my powers - and his. So I want to set it up with an @icloud address - please help 8-) The answer I found that explains all except the crucial bits is below in quotes, question mixed in for clarity and context. "Sign out of iCloud, the iTunes & App store, FaceTime, Find My Friends, Find My iPhone,and iMessage on each device that uses your Apple ID." OK no problem I don't have any of
My MBP got stolen in January 2017 and is not shown in Find My iPhone but I just found out that it shows up under signed-in devices in iTunes with the serial number and the first name of the new user (Aleksej). Is there any way to track the MBPs location with the serial number or the sign-in information?
It wasn't like this before. Somehow, if I leave my USB plugged in, my Mac doesn't boot. Instead it gets stuck at the Apple logo with a very slow progress bar. When the bar finishes, it just waits. I tried resetting the PRAM but nothing changed. I also tried booting into Safe Mode, but it wouldn't boot. I did boot into Recovery Mode (cmd + r), and was able to repair the disk, but it said everything was fine. But I still can't boot my Mac. What should i do?
Apple Watch Series 3 was announced to have ski tracking possibility. But I cannot find any information on the web if it already possible. Can anyone that has Apple Watch confirm, that you can now track skiing activity, and if so, what exactly can you track? Does it offer similar capabilities as Slopes or Trace apps?
Note - my IMac doesn’t have a functioning WiFi card. The workaround to this before High Sierra was released now doesn’t work for me without a Wi-Fi Card to enable AirDrop.
It's very easy to assign a pac proxy to a WiFi connection, but I can't find any simple way to do that with the cellular network. I have searched it and only found this: Proxy settings for iPhone, 3G connection
After changing ISPs the former email account was removed, but our iPad still tries to log into it. If we try to use the web interface it says the account is unknown. In the iPad Settings it says there's a problem logging in and asks to re-enter the password. In the meantime, all the controls for the account are greyed out until we successfully log in, which of course we can't.
Everyone in my household has an iPhone and is running iOS 11. We have a shared album that we can post to, but whenever one of shares a photo, the location data isn't included.
I have been trying to figure this out for 3 days and have never had any problems like this with any electronics I've ever owned. Problem: My phone tells me to complete set up, I must approve it from another device signed into iCloud. There is just a spinning wheel and "Waiting for approval...". There is no place to enter a code, nothing is coming up on my computer.
I need to print a web page for a person with bad eyesight. I don't want to change my Safari font settings, as I can see web pages just fine. I only want to print the web page in a larger size. I have upscaled the font size in the print settings to a larger percentage, say 150% for example - however, the result cuts off the edges into different printed pages, rather than actually scaling the text and fitting it to the pages properly. For example, this web text appears in the normally scaled print size as: However, when scaled to 150%, page 1 of the print preview shows:
Since updating to High Sierra, Apple Photos has stopped syncing photos, claiming that I'm "not connected to the Internet":  So no recent photos are available on my Mac, and there's apparently nothing I can do about it. What's the point of this behavior and how do I fix it? (Meanwhile, since an update to iOS 11.1.1 — actually a bricking "update" — Photos on iOS are again way behind what they should be.)
I am curious can I share my 3G connection from iPhone to MacBook by lightning cable, not using HotSpot (it not always working properly). Thanks!
Just did a clean install. Oddly enough, when booting up, mouse responds immediately. But after a while it becomes choppy. I am still setting up the machine, so I have no heavy applications running. MBP-13" 2015
I'm trying to set up listening to selected text in Accessibility > Speech. I have headphones on, and when I play iTunes I can hear perfectly. When I click play on the Speech window in Accessibility, I can't hear anything. When I take the headphones out, it works? How do I get it to work with headphones?
I was transferring some files over the network and my macbook pro just fell asleep. I had the "Wake for network traffic" in Preferences>Energy checked. I am using High Sierra. It doesn't sound like Apple not to prevent sleeping while you are conducting an operation. This a bug or a feature?
I just come from windows to mac, so I have some habits in windows that I want to continue on my mac. In windows, I use trackpad for natural way, which means when I move upwards on trackpad, the page goes down. While when I use mouse, I set the mouse as traditional way, which means I scroll down, the page goes down.
I just recently purchased a refurbished MacBook Air from Apple running Sierra. For the most part it is functioning just how I would expect it to, except for the following: for certain networks (it appears to be limited to just wpa2 personal networks. wpa2 enterprise with RADIUS authentication connects automatically just fine) it will not remember the pass. I leave the network, rejoin, and get prompted with the message: A keychain cannot be found to store "NETWORK." It gives me an option to reset the keychain, which I would love to do (there are no custom CA/client certificates on here yet, just a stock certificate bank), but when it prompts me to put in my password, I can't type anything in the box. I have tried the solution listed here, but still get the same result.
Yesterday I left my MacBook to sleep for a long 8 hours and usually I wake up my MacBook by clicking the trackpad but today surprisingly the trackpad did not have that 'click' noise I could move the cursor around but I could not click on anything but after a restart the trackpad functioned correctly. This problem is occurring the first time for me this never occurred to me I just want to know why this is happening.
A few days ago I lost my first generation Apple Watch while traveling. Following Apple’s recommendations, I attempted to check my watch’s last known location with Find my iPhone, but the map was empty.
Following situation. I am using the "iSafeBox" Password Safe on my iPhone 6s where I keep all of my account and password details. After upgrading to ios11 however, I found that the app is not compatible and that the developer will not continue development. To make things worse, I also cannot go back to iOS 10 as it is not signed anymore... I have an old iPhone 6 running iOS 10.3 and was hoping I could restore that one with the backup of the 6S, but iTunes tells me that the version is too old and cannot be restored with the iOS 11 backup.
My headphones no longer work properly with my phone when using seconday apps like Soundcloud, iHeart, etc. They work when I initially connect the headphones. If I pause the music and then start it again, the music plays through the phone speakers. It I make a phone call, the headphones work. I can then play music again after the call. But if I pause the music, same thing happens again. Just started noticing this within the last week.
I always forget keyboard shortcuts to scripts I write (or sometimes the keyboard shortcuts I use don't work in a certain application). I'm looking for a service that I can remedy this by allowing me to use a certain hotkey, which brings up a window which allows me to write the first part of the name of one of my scripts (say, get_date, which just returns today's date in mm-dd-yy format), and it allows me to then invoke it for the functionality I need. I can't seem to find this, and I'm getting ready to embark on writing my own if I can't find one. Anyone know where to find something that I can use to do this?
I'm using iBooks on my iPad to read digital versions of some books. It is working quite well, other than one annoying thing—the title of the book is always displayed at the top, and in a rather large font. How do you turn it off?
I had recently messed up my $PATH variable so I thought if fixing it by removing the /etc/paths but I found out online solutions to fix the $PATH variable by just editing the ~/.bash_profile so I moved the /etc/paths to the trash but then I accidentally emptied the trash so now its gone so now should I worry about some critical system apps to stop working if yes how should I fix this?
I was using my computer and restarted it for something, and now I can't boot up. When starting up from an external drive, Disk Utility shows my startup disk as an unmountable "SATA Internal APFS Physical Store". Running diskutil apfs list gives me "No APFS Containers found".
If I try to add shortcuts to Adobe Illustrator, when I select the app (inside the folder /Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator CC 2017) I get the following message: See image:
I've set up a service in Automator. It is set up as "Service receives no input in any application"
Is it possible to restart/refresh services menus from the command line? Ideally with some logging enabled? I have some funny behaviour on a service (it shows up in finder, but not in other apps) and I'd like to understand why.
When I try to launch Parallels Desktop, nothing happens. I've been using this application for a long time and this is the first time I've encountered problems. How can I fix this issue?
In its document (*=URL=* it reads "If enabled, option-click will move the cursor to where the mouse pointer is. If you install shell integration, this will be well-behaved at the shell prompt by not sending up and down arrow keys." But it seems like when I do Options-Click it just goes to last command (arrow up). This answer here is no longer a solution - deprecated, and the source code is removed (Option + click in iTerm), and the thread should be removed/archived.
up until a few days ago if I pressed a key and kept it pressed, a small menu would pop up with different choices for that charachter (for example pressing the "u" key would show a small menu to input charachters like ü, Ù, etc.) Today I noticed this does not happen anymore. A week ago or so I updated to high sierra, could that be the reason? Thank you!
TextEdit keeps getting stuck in the middle of files stopping me from being able to scroll down any further. I'm on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 - I don't remember ever having these issues on Sierra 10.12. The only fixes I've found for this so far are: adding a new line and then deleting it adding a new line and then deleting it closing textedit and re-opening (but this doesn't always fix it) closing textedit and re-opening (but this doesn't always fix it) Is there a fix for this?
I don’t want to shake my phone. I want buttons that quickly undo and redo on my keyboard but I can’t find a way. Is there something I’m missing or does apple not provide a way to do this? It’s extremely inefficient and looks ridiculous when doing it a bunch of times.
Example: 5 notifications of new podcasts and 1 sounds interesting (and I don't currently have time to listen) so I go in and add that podcast to my queue and get rid of the other notifications. This is how I do it on YouTube too (but there I can even categorize into different playlists too). The issue is that my queue has over 20 podcasts on it...so what if I want to restore my phone?
In Mail app I work with many smart mailboxes and I and usually need to jump to the mailbox where the message is really filed. It's the same with search results - I usually to need to locate the folder (mailbox) where a message I selected in the result view is filed. For previous versions of Apple Mail (at least up to Mavericks) I could do the same as I did in many other applications to locate the folder of the opened document in a window. In the case of Mail.app: Open the message (double-click) Right-click the windows title bar where the subject of the message appear You will see the path of that message Select the desired folder When I moved from Maverick to Sierra I sadly discovered that the previous approach did not work any more. How can I fix this or achieve the same functionality?
I would like to jailbreak my soon to be new iPad 4 Mini. Should I assume that it would still have iOS 9 installed when I get it out of the box?
I would like to change memory stick APFS format to NTFS format by using iMac
I want to know what and where one of my apps trying to download from.
I'm using VOX music player on the Mac (downloaded from the App Store), and needed a feature to stop playback after current track. It's not available as an option in the app, so I thought maybe an AppleScript service could enable pause after current track… Ignoring the syntax, it could be similar to the following lines of code: on start(){ check track playing check current track's remaining time (allow the function to) wait until the remaining time is over pause playback after the remaining time is over check track playing check current track's remaining time (allow the function to) wait until the remaining time is over pause playback after the remaining time is over end start
Is there a way to receive a prompt (with or without timer) when hitting (inadvertently) the screen lock icon on the touchbar instead of locking immediately?
I'm running El Captain 10.11.6. I've recently tried to update to Safari 11 using App Store as I had done in several other machines with the same setup. Safari 11 downloaded fine but something went wrong during reboot and I ended up reinstalling El Captain 10.11.6. Now I'm back to Safari 9 but App Store thinks that I've already installed Safari 11 and so no longer offers Safari 11 as an update. I assume that this will fix itself if and when a new release of Safari 11 comes out. Can I fix this otherwise in the meantime?
I'm having an issue where some Apple mail users can't see .ics calendar invites sent from Outlook/Exchange. The same invites sent to other people using Apple Mail shows .ics attachment as expected... This is how it appears for affected users: And this is how it appears on my own Mac:
Most of the time when I open the Podcast app on my iPhone, it takes about 1 Minute for it to load. During this period, I cannot do anything in the app, let alone start a downloaded Podcast. I cannot imagine a good reason for which "the library has to update", if all the Podcasts are pre-downloaded. a) Where is the delay coming from, b) is it necessary and c) can I prevent it?
I want to download tweets and related images on Wi-Fi environment, and read them at offline environment. The official Twitter client can download tweets and images, but I have to scroll screen and show the tweets to download images. Is there any Twitter client for iOS that can download tweets and related images automatically?
Updated to iOS 11.2 and now my bluetooth device (tune2air) only stays connected for approx 30 seconds before disconnecting. If I restart the phone, or tune2air device then it will reconnect but again only for 30 seconds. It will allow me to play music within that 30 second span.
My iPhone has pulled in all contacts from my Gmail account into my contact list. It’s gotten so out of hand that it’s difficult to find contacts I need. Is there any easy way to remove these and keep them from coming in again? iPhone 6, iOS 10.3.3
also its definitely not the router or an ISP issue I tried a neighbors wifi network and my computer still didn't do anything. the neighbor has a different ISP and has an airport wireless router.
You know new Skype even for Mac is written on Electron and working slow. But old native version is still working.
After upgrading my iPhone to iOS 11.1.1, the locked screen shows iTunes music prominently covering my lock-screen picture, whereas before this never happened. I'd like to disable this feature / bug, but I don't see any mechanism for doing so. Does everyone's iOS 11.1.1 do this, or is it just a bug that randomly hits people?
To make it more clear, I have a stereo analog output named "Analog 1-2". I need to route the output "Analog 1-2" to the analog input "Analog 7-8".
I would like to ask if there's any way to turn off darkening inactive window. What I mean is when I have two monitors connected and I do something on one of them - the second one darkens which for example makes the time on the bar invisible.
I try to establish a serial connection with my MacBook (High Sierra 10.13.1) and need help. I have a Belkin F5U103V USB-to-serial adapter and want to connect to a HP ProCurve switch. I tried to follow several instructions such as this one or the installation instructions in the ZIP-archive of this driver but none of this worked.
I want to get all the entries I would normally get via Finder, but using command line. So from this:
When I plug the external displays back in, suddenly I have six numbered Spaces again and windows that were originally together in one Space are together again, but the Spaces are numbered differently and some of them have moved from one screen to another. For example, chat and calendar (which were originally Desktop 6 and then got shoved into Desktop 1) are now Desktop 5, and they're on an external monitor instead of the laptop screen. In fact, every Space that used to be on the laptop screen is now on that external monitor, and vice versa. Why do Spaces disappear when I unplug external monitors, and how do I stop it from happening? How can I get Spaces to return to the same monitors they were on before, when I plug those monitors back in? Other details: MacOS 10.12.6 MacOS 10.12.6 External monitors are connected via CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock External monitors are connected via CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock System Preferences -> Mission Control has the following settings checked: When 
How do I teach Siri to spell names of geographic locations accurately? For example Siri spells Coeur d’Alene as Cortolane or Quarterline and n e v e r can find it. It gets as close as Idaho.
I'm a Team Agent, and have a Developer ID Application and a Developer ID Installer certificates that I use to codesign an application we're developing for distribution outside of the App Store. There is another developer on my team that needs the ability to codesign our application for distribution as well. I added him to my team here -- *=URL=* and marked him as an Admin. How does he get the certificates that are required to codesign on behalf of our company?
On several occasions, with multiple different unrelated calendar events, I have had an abundance of alerts assigned, that I don't remember adding. I'm at a loss as to what might cause it, and therefore how to stop it.
I have been encountering a sporadic problem where my Mac seems to "forget" where my home directory is. The first clue (because this is something I do very frequently) is always that Google Chrome can't open a new tab. I get the "oh snap" error screen. This leads me to quit Chrome and restart it, which in turn leads to this error dialog, after which Chrome does not start:
I am living in Germany and want to know if is currently possible to buy iPhone X in the USA? If I visit an Apple Store tomorrow will I be able to get iPhone X or not?
I am a programmer, I need to use arrows keys a lot, so can I remap these keys to other keys? I have downloaded the karabiner, however, I cannot define the complex modifications rules myself, karabiner only provide default rules. Yet, I want some new rule, like arrow up can be triggered by fn + i.
I purchased a MacBook Pro: It says that: 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory Configurable to 16GB.
UPDATE: When I said my phone cleared up space from 100MB to 1GB, that was an example of sort, it usually clears up around 300MB on its own. grgarside's answer(regarding clearing of cache) is the most applicable to my case and hence I'm marking it as accepted.
For example, coming from windows/linux environments of 30 years I have now have a habit that is terribly difficult to break. Typing after I click in an app window because I assume it is now focused because I clicked within it.
Trying to install VirtualBox 5.2 on a Mac running OSX 10.13. The installation fails with an installer message reading "The installation failed." I've tried the 2 solutions I've been able to find and neither have worked.
Is there any way to optimize the macOS Sierra Screen Share application for a LINUX VNC? It's so much slower when compared to a connection from an iMac to another MacBook.
A while back I noticed that I had a ton of image files in my ~/Pictures folder. I didn’t know how they got there, so I imported them all into Photos and then deleted them. This ended up creating a bunch of duplicates in Photos, which I am slowly going through and deleting. However, I happened to notice recently that there is a bunch of images files in Pictures again - 656 of them, to be exact. This time I am positive that I did not put them there myself. Their modification dates range from 1999 to 2017, which is roughly the range of dates in my Photos library, but this is a small fraction of the over 16k items I have in there.
Before iOS11, the photo app does not upload newly snapped photo to icloud if the phone is still on a mobile app. It will usually say, to the effect, "Upload paused while on mobile network" at the bottom of the 'Photos' section.
I make heavy use of workspaces, and tend to have a lot of workspaces, most of which only have one window. I pretty much always have two different workspaces that have a window of Google Chrome open. Ever since I updated from Yosemite to High Sierra, I've had this weird issue where, when I switch to one of the Chrome workspaces, it'll instantly jump to the other Chrome workspace (even though there's like 4 other workspaces between them).
In the picture you can see the 'Fn' key I am referring to.  In the top function keys row, all keys are mapped to their corresponding OSX function as expected. e.g. F3 triggers 'Mission Control'.
I did brew update and brew upgrade Now my PostgreSQL is 10.1 On the server I have 9.6 and I want it to be the same. I can connect and read my data now still (as I assume the brew service didn't restart, but I didn't run pgupgrade or anything yet) Also found packages as I have
I'm using a mid-2011 iMac on Sierra (just updated a few weeks ago, from Mavericks). Apple Mail is often, but not always, sending mail from one of my several GMail accounts, to "Recovered Mail" in the "On My Mac" section. I have no idea why... there's nothing special about these emails, they're from a variety of sources, and those same sources sometimes come through normally, and sometimes not. What is causing only some emails, some of the time, from only this specific GMail account, to go to Recovered Messages instead of my normal inbox like they should?
On my MacBook Pro Mid 2015 running macOS High Sierra I was trying to encrypt it using FileVault. I can’t tell if progress is stuck or just moving very, very, very slowly What are ways I can get the encryption to continue, or just cancel the encryption and decrypt the drive?
I'm trying to install HAXM for Android Studio on macOS 10.13. I went to the 'Security & Privacy' panel in order to allow the software to run, but I've run into an issue.
After reading this and this, I am thinking the answer to this question is simply, "No! There is no best way to run Access".
I recently updated to MacOS High Sierra (10.13.1) and noticed that CMD+CTRL+H no longer toggles highlight mode in Preview. Now, it seems like the only way to toggle highlight mode is to click the highlighter button on the menu bar (leftmost in the picture).
After following the Nerdr procedure exactly using gdisk, however, it had all the same menu options so I didn't know if there is a difference. After I was done, Bootcamp was completely erased. Now here's what gdisk shows as my new partition table: These terminal outputs might also help:
I have an iPhone 8 Plus and a MacBook Air early 2014. I've been trying to use airdrop, but my iPhone is not finding my computer.
Finder shows different sizes for my files as compared to Terminal  You can see the difference is very significant (e.g. 6 MB vs 4576265 bytes). The one at Terminal is the correct one, since if I open the files with Sublime Text and count the bytes, or attach the files in Gmail, they will show the same sizes as the Terminal ones. If I open the file Info window, it shows the wrong size as well.
I have been getting warnings from icloud that my storage is almost full. I first tried connecting the iphone to windows PC, but I could not move any files because iphone seems to be mounted as read only media. So I installed icloud for windows and moved a lot files from icloud drive to my local windows drive which has plenty of space. And the warning is still there, it appears that those files were not deleted from icloud. I tried using the web based icloud, but it does not even show the names of the files that I moved around, all photos are named as "untitled" on icloud on web browser, and it would be very painful to manually download and view a file and then delete it on icloud on browser, if I have to do that for every single file! How do I move all files from icloud/iphone to windows PC? Note: I want to move it, not copy.
I know apparently it’s not a good idea to close apps on your iPhone to save on battery. I’ve read questions and answers like Does force closing apps have any benefit on iOS devices? but it still doesn’t quite gel with me. Sometimes I have found over 50 apps running, so not closing them makes no sense.
I've been trying to find a solution to connect my headphones combo jack to my iMac on bootcamp windows unfortunately to no avail. I have the support software and everything still nothing. I really want to use my mic! It does work on OSX but not windows bootcamp DDD:
It is possible to create an AppleScript that calls for the standard Mac OS Color Picker dialog (choose color) and gets the output value after user picks some color: So, selected color value will be copied to the clipboard.
I have copy pasted two non hidden folders to an AFP server, but after I have done that, I saw both folders with an hidden icon, and I was unable to enter on both:  But the strange part is that all the data was inside of both folders, through SSH. And there is no issues with permissions, since if I copy paste those folders, I gain access like there was no problem with the previous folders.
Since the latest iTunes update 12.7 there is no iOS app management feature for iPhone anymore. In iOS 11 there are a lot new features for arranging apps on home screens, multi select of apps, and more. However, in iTunes it was possible to move complete home screens. For example, if I have home screen 1, home screen 2, and home screen 3 on my iPhone, I was able to drag and drop home screen 3 before home screen 2. Is it possible to do something similar on iOS 11?
My iPhone was stolen cellphone data was turned off, I put it on lost mode but my worry is the thief won't be able to turn on the internet since its on lost mode. I've never connected my device on WiFi before so now what must I do. I want to find my cellphone. If I turn lost mode off will the thief be able to connect my device on the Internet ?
Yesterday, I have tried to delete an Ubuntu partition. Since, my Mac (13", MBPro mid-2014) doesn't boot. Now, I boot on Mac OS copy with an USB. i follow different subject of this forum (like this : Partition type suddenly FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF, drive unmountable), and my volume partition change from FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF to 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC. But I still can't boot to it...
I'm using OS Independent ZIP because I'm using from Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows) and save space for several OS. I was using Automator to start Netbeans OS Independent ZIP from Dock, but When Netbeans starts I have two Icon's (one for to start netbeans and other running Netbeans), different to another application like Chrome, System Preferences that when are running is indicated with a dot (note left dot on Terminal, Chrome, netbeans etc...).
I am trying to write a Bash script to open two applications in full split screen, for example: This works, but I want to open Pages and Preview in full screen and split view.
I Just updated to High Sierra. I have a folder with file names like desktop-0001.jpg, desktop-0002.jpg, and so on that is used to change my desktop image every minute. In System Prefs the image order appears to be random and doesn't follow the file names like it always has. I tried using the touch command on all files, hoping to give them all the same modified time so the filename would take over the order, but the new random order remained. This is a Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2015. I also have an older iMac where the problem does not exist. Ideas?
What is the "simplest" and most privacy-conscious way to upload photos from your MacOS Photos collection to Facebook? I "trust" Facebook as little as possible (for obvious reasons) and so do not want to do anything that would give it full unrestricted access to my Photos collection.
I grabbed a forgotten MacPro 3,1 2008 Quad 2.8 and brought it back to life it had a ATI GPU but this turned to be dead. It's running pretty smooth after total clean up, but since I run with non-apple GPU- EVGA 760GTX 2GB, I can't install any other OS on it since I can't see the EFI OS Loader.
I downloaded the OS HS from apple store and during installation I got stuck on the following error: "The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged" I've read a lot but so far haven't been able to solve the problem. I also found out that HS has issues supporting fusion drive. Info: - iMac 12,1 21.5 mid 2011 - In 2015 I replaced the original HDD with a DIY fusion drive (120GB ssd + 4TB HDD) - using OS 10.12.6 - Sierra - using apple trackpad + bluetooth keyboard - I have a TM Backup but it's months old - I have a bootable usb with El Captain - Don't have access to another mac - Only have a windows laptop but no adm rights (work laptop) diskutil shows this: disk0 GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s2 Apple_CoreStorage FUSION 119.2GB disk0s3 Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1 GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk1s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s2 Apple_CoreStorage FUSION 4.0 TB disk1s3 Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2 Apple_HFS Fusion Dr
I have completely borked my Apache installation on High Sierra. I had a wonderful local development environment running prior to the update, and when I upgraded to High Sierra I attempted to force it to use PHP5 instead of PHP7 and in the course of doing so (and then trying to undo what I'd done) I made everything worse. Regardless of what I do with apachectl commands, I just get: AH00534: httpd: Configuration error: No MPM loaded. I have Googled that many, many times and am only finding Linux / Unix sites with information that does not apply. No, I can't find any useful information by looking at the results of tail logs.
After updating to macOS 10.13.1, my Login Items have vanished. Some users have reported this behavior in earlier betas, but this is the first time I've experienced it in a release.
Since I could not longer boot the MacBook Air and I was sure I had two good backups, I wiped the Mac and installed macOS High Sierra from the recovery partition. It installed fine.
My Macbook Air (2015 model, High Sierra) screen is dead most of the time but randomly fades in and out. Sometimes it fades rapidly in and out non-stop for a prolonged period, before fading out entirely. The backlight is not dead - it works but is impossible to control. Please see this video for a demo of the issue: *=URL=* Does anyone know the cause, or solution?
I've got a number of Macs (running mostly El Capitan with a couple on Sierra) bound to Active Directory. I've got them set up in the Directory Utility to allow administration by domain admins, enterprise admins, and one other AD group. I've got Remote Login turned on, allowing access only from Administrators. I found that it is only allowing local admins to ssh in.
There are a plethora of applications (usually expensive ones) that can extract a backup file of an iphone's data. (examples: drfone, anytrans) How are these apps actually accessing the iphone's file system, allowing them to extract a backup database file?
Do the Late 2009 and early 2010 Unibody MacBooks use the same battery as the 13" 2009, 2010, and 2011 MacBook Pro? I'm looking for a battery replacement for several Late 2009 MacBooks and it appears the battery might be the same one in the 13" MacBook Pros of the same era. Could someone confirm this? Thanks.
There is a folder called "SIMToolKit" on my Macbook Pro running High Sierra under the var/tmp directory. What is this folder and what does it do? I couldn't find any information about it.
So, two of the key features of High Sierra is that its Notes app has the ability to pin notes and add tables. However, both of the actions are inactive. Is there some trick on using them? I'm using Macbook Air 13' 2017, High Sierra 10.13.1
from some days my iMac sometimes freeze (only mouse can move) and, after an hard shut down, boot stuck at 50%. iMac version: 27" late 2009 macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 13" with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports. I am connecting a TB3 dock from the back left port of the MacBook Pro but would like to use the right back port instead.
I attempted to install Windows 10 Home on my son's MacBook per the instructions and assurances of others as to how simple this would be. I apologize but apparently I am a moron because not only did it not install whatsoever but now I have a single line on the screen saying "no bootable device--insert boot disk and press any key". I have no idea how to simply get back to a functioning status. Any suggestions?
So I know it's not supported... but I created RAID 0 array from 2x SSDs, formatted as HFS+. Then I Carbon Copy Cloned a working High Sierra install on the RAID. So far so good. Boots OK, very fast, seems to be working fine.
The alternate method I have seen is to "Print to PDF" but print selected page ranges. This seems like a doable method, but many of the pages in the front of the PDF do not have page numbers, also, the "Save to PDF" in the print dialog does not have the option to select a page range on Sierra!
NFS v3 works a little better, but it will still occasionally crash after a few wakes. I'd really prefer to run v4 services only. Here's the client setup: /etc/auto_master # # Automounter master map # +auto_master # Use directory service /net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid,nfc /home auto_home -nobrowse,hidefromfinder /Network/Servers -fstab /- -static /- auto_nfs /etc/auto_master /etc/auto_nfs /nfs/media -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=4,soft,intr nas:/nfs/htpc-media /etc/auto_nfs And on the NAS (running Debian Stretch): /etc/exports /nfs/htpc-media *(ro,no_subtree_check,insecure,fsid=1) /etc/exports Stuff I've tried: turning off firewalls on both ends
I have a MacBook Pro 13inch 2017 and randomly one day when I started it up after shutting down it brought me to the MacOs Utilities window. This happens every time since then after a shutdown or a restart. The only work around I found is to hit the option key while starting up and then start it in Macintosh HD. It doesn't directly bring me to MacOs Utilities though. It first asks me to choose a language. Also, after hitting the option key, I see Macintosh HD, Windows (I'm running bootcamp), and a third option: Recovery-10.2.16. that I have never seen before. Anyone know the reason why this is happening/ how to restart normally? Thanks in advance
My iphone 6 is restarting every 2.5 minutes Changes battery - No Go U2 IC was changed - No Go Power button was not working - replaced - No Go Error log shows lots of Panic.ips messages, Can anyone read this and tell me whats going on? Thanks in advance.
I am looking to update to OS 10.10. I am currently on 10.9.5. Both the appstore and macupdate.com seem to only have 10.10.1-.5, all of which require already having 10.10 (which, as stated, I am looking for). I need this update so that I can install a program required for work. Thanks!
I have a Magic Mouse for my Macbook. I use the Kindle app for macOS, and it is driving me crazy: I barely touch the mouse and it decides I've tried to scroll, so it turns pages. Plus, it also happens on horizontal scrolls even though "swipe between pages" is disabled in the settings.
Error: No available formula with the name "$" //main error which obviously makes no sense to me, almost like an oxymoron. But again, it is probably the tidiest answer to solve and likely the easiest I will come across.
To what extent, if any, is Animoji dependent on the camera and sensor system specific to iPhone X? Would there be a noticeable quality difference if the Animoji software was available on other iPhones?
I have a directory and subdirs owned by user John and group is set to staff. Permissions are set to 640 (-rw-r-----) or 751 (drwxr-x--x) for directores, respetively, and meant to be inherited for new items. This works fine except for any MS Office files created, where group staff is not given read permissions, killing my backup service (done by regular user backup, member of group staff) for said files. Besides running a cronjob to reset permissions regularly, is there any setting that could be adjusted so the problem never appears in the first place? MacOS of latest version Office 2016, Mac version
At the moment this is what I need to do Is there a way to create both in one go (not using &). I'm thinking
I have Beats Solo 3 and when I switch them on, they connect to Mac firstly as headset (with mic enabled and poor audio quality) for 3-5 seconds and then switching to headphones mode (without mic). How can I disable this connection as headset? Anybody has same problem?
I have created a shared folder using SMB with authentication using my personal account. Then I configured my HP printer to use this share for scanning. Problem: When I scan using my document feeder and there is more then one page, it first creates the scan file on page one, and immediately removes it again. When I scan a single document, it appears just fine. What I have tried so far: Use a different user Chmod + chown the scan folder Allow write access for everyone Use a different folder
I know that I can change the settings in the Parallels VM preferences, and within the system settings of the VM. However, nowhere I can find the most annoying shortcut of all, ctrl-D, that results in the following:
How can install vim8 without effecting the built-in vim that comes with a mac? Like with python2 that comes built-in with a mac, I have python3 separate. So, I can call it with vim8. I am using brew. My OSX is 10.11.6.
One of the best features of my iPhone 7 Plus was the way it could be configured to auto-dim the display, which not only helped the phone's lighting to match the mood, but was also appreciated by people around me in dim environments (trains, planes, cozy cafes, etc.):
Why is there a FTP Deamon account and what is it good for?
Is there some way to reset Find my Friends notifications because mine don't work. My friend has notifications set up to alert me but only old previously setup notifications that they no longer see in the notification settings list work while new ones don't. Is there a work around for this?
I am able to associate my custom file extensions to its own icon and the application in info.plist. All looks fine here.
If I create a Shared Photo Album in iOS, every time I post photos I get a nice preview of them grouped together in the Activity View. Depending on how many photos were uploaded in that lot it may or may not display all of the photos in the Activity View. In fact if I wait five minutes and upload additional photos, they are added to the shared album as expected but the Activity View behavior is different.
When I send a portrait photo from one iOS device to another, even through AirDrop, it flattens the photo so that I can't edit the portrait part of the photo to change the portrait lightning effect for instance. Is there a way to transfer portrait photo between iOS devices. I image synced two devices with Photos.app on macOS would do it but I'm looking for a more direct method.
I have my HomeKit Home shared with my spouse. She sees everything I see except for certain automations. She can see the automations that involve people arriving or leaving but not the timer or sensor based automations. Is this a bug and if so how do I fix it?
I'm trying to re-route traffic from macOS Server, but to do so I need to know which ports the server uses. More specifically I need the port for the VPN Out traffic. My goal is to route traffic from the VPN out to the TOR network. What port does the VPN Out Traffic use, or what methods could I use to figure out which port it is? I am using a MacBook Pro Early 2015 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
However, this does not seem to be the case with me. I have an ongoing download of High Sierra (via the App Store), and no info about where it's being downloaded to can be found.
Nov 13th I upgraded to High Sierra. During the boot proces the password for iCloud is asked (I think I entered it correctly). However a spinner started spinning (basically forever). So I shutdown the Mac (button back) and rebooted. Systems works okay. Except for iCloud.
It used to be possible to pause an AppStore download by simply clicking on the icon in the launchpad. Oddly enough, as can be seen in this screencast I just made, that seems to be no longer the case, at least for the High Sierra OS download (via AppStore). Any tips on how to pause the download would be much appreciated.
On my MacBook(IP: 192.168.1.8) I did sudo sudovi and added this line at the bottom. root ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/bin/rsync Then I wanted to rsync files from this MacBook to hard drive attached on Raspberry Pi on the network. So on the Raspberry Pi I went to the location where I want to copy the folder I ran the below command: but still I keep getting the error saying: Please help fix this problem.
A few weeks later, when I needed to write m² I typed my old defined shortcut which is: m ^2. It failed i.e. I got exactly what I typed: m ^2.
The Apple support website states: You can use 4K displays and Ultra HD TVs with these Mac computers: MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013) and later However there is no mention about the type of MacBook Pro Retina, I mean between the 13" which has the Intel Iris Graphics and the 15" which has the Intel Iris Pro Graphics. If it's not possible to connect both monitors in full resolution at the same time, is it possible at least to just connect a 4k like the Dell P2715Q in full resolution?
In my company AD we have a user cannot log in the Mac. The mac has bounded to AD, and the other users can log in without issues.
I'm trying to format my old 2008 iMac desktop. I tried to restart and held down command and R button, and a few other ways. I can get to the utilities screen with the options to format the hard drive. The computer goes straight to the log on screen. Am I missing something in my hardware or software for this to keep happening? Help please
I am using macOS Server to manage our iPads and the Profile Manager is constantly having problems requiring me to stop the service and reboot the server. I also clean out the completed and non-completed tasks (this sometimes helps). I would like to use Automator to run a daily task to clear the completed tasks from the database and one to clear the non-completed tasks weekly. Here is the code I have, can someone help me configure this for Automator? Clear completed tasks: Clear non-completed:
I'm new to AppleScript, and I'm trying to find a way to use it to copy a value from one Numbers spreadsheet and paste it into another file. The situation is that I've been using Numbers to run a personal budgeting spreadsheet, which has worked fine for many months. However, I've recently moved in with my partner, and so we've created another Numbers spreadsheet for joint costs (electricity bills, shopping trips etc). This joint file is shared between us, and so I can't set it up as an additional tab on my existing budgeting file.
Is there a way? In Settings, I can't find such an option and it won't show the percentage there too. Can it be done besides using 3rd party app such as System Status Lite?
I have ~1000 photos synced with iTunes on my old iPad and I don't have the originals. They won't get uploaded to iCloud / Google Photos, but I can create a duplicate for each one:
Put about an hour into researching this but surprised not to find a single instance of this very question being asked anywhere. In Thunderbird everything works without issues. In the Mail app however for some reason it fails to connect even though I know the settings are correct and verifiable via the other client mentioned.
Is there a way to make Firefox use Mac's native fullscreen when watching a video (e.g. on Netflix)? The browser does go fullscreen, but it's not on it's own space on macOS. I'm currently using Firefox 57 and macOS 10.13.1.
I am using my Apple Mac book to take film from a external hard drive and drag it across to a 64GB USB. The total space I have left on the USB is 31GB the film is only 16GB but I keep getting the message the film is too big. Can anyone tell me what to do?
I'm trying to partition for bootcamp but it fails because of that error. I ran disk utility's first aid multiple times. And it's always fine. What do I do? Edit:
When I press the 'Mission control'-button(?) / F3, It shows me 6 extra blank windows. They're called 'QuickLookUISevice'. When I press on them nothing really happens.
When I'm closing an app, and the dock is about to refresh the app icon (from opened to closed), and the cursor is in the area of the dock, a splitting glitch happens as show in the picture below. For less than a second. But it's quite ugly and annoying.
I couldn't find anything by doing enough researching with advanced queries. Bluetooth should support it, but does IOS allow it?
When I try to open 'chrome' or 'safari' in terminal, How to open them in right methods.
I am working on multiple screens. when I intend to open a new chrome window(not a tab),I have to press 'CMD+Tab' to shift to the current and press 'Ctrl+N'. If input command A new tab created not a new window.
There's some weird linkage between my iPhone and Mac. When I go into certain apps, it brings up an icon on my Mac. I do not want this ever. How can I disable this?
I am working on Terminal and attempt to create a New one with commands No feedbacks from the command How to accomplish it?
Background I have a bunch of OS X Yosemite Mac Minis that are used as slaves by a Jenkins master machine to run Selenium tests using Google Chrome. These slave machines get restarted on a daily basis. Problem
I have files and apps which are required to open daily. I open them in terminal with commands embodied in python. After they are opened, I have to draw them to appropriate screens one by one. Where can I start to solve the problem?
I usually have multiple windows requiring to close before sleeping. (all the contents are saved already) I attempt to accomplish it in terminal so I can encapsulate commands to some script. I tried: How to solve the problem?
I'm running Sierra 10.12.6 on a 2015 MacBook Pro and I was wondering if anyone knew a way to trick the OS into thinking the battery is connected when it's actually unplugged. I'm sure you guys will want to know why in the first place...I keep my mac plugged for long periods of time and it's messed up my battery capacity ( down to 70% in just 300+ cycles).
I have been a Linux user for four years. Recently, I have been using macOS and I see it has very efficient memory management compared to Linux. For example, here is a description of the documents/apps I have open on a Mac Mini i5 1.4 GHz 8GB RAM 500 GB HDD @ 5400 RPM: 40 pdfs Blender PowerPoint Photos iTunes 12 Safari tabs QuickTime video Terminal Maps Sublime Text Calendar With these open the Mac showed 5.91 GB of RAM used. My question is: What's different about the Mac that on Linux I can't even open half the apps with a machine with the same amount of memory and HD?
Before the High Sierra update, when I used to boot my Macbook Air, the keyboard backlight was always off by default. However, after the update, upon booting the backlight is always on. This is irksome because I always work in a well-lit environment and don't need the backlight. So I have to turn it off each time after start-up. I can't find out how to change this default setting. Can someone help?
I found something weird. For some non-native applications that I have set up shortcuts (from systems perfs), it seems that some shortcuts will not be triggered. Okay thats doesnt sound too weird, but: When I dug around a little more, it seems that for these applications, if I click on a menu bar item ( any item ), and while an menu is open, I can get the shortcut working then. So, No clicking on menu -> Shortcuts dont work. After opening any menu -> Shortcuts magically work. I am not too sure what is causing this or what I can do to fix this.
[MacBook Pro, MacOS High Sierra host, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Guest] I have a VM running in VirtualBox which has its own DNS server. I am also connected to a LAN that has a DNS server configured via DHCP. I would like to be able to access the domains I have on the VM using domain names (I'm have virtual hosting setup) but MacOS does not check all the configured DNS servers network settings.
My MacBook failed to boot up after a failed update. It instead booted into my windows os installed using BOOTCAMP. I tried to use many boot options but I still cant boot up my mac
How can I make the Desktop folder, the alias folder for a different folder too? In other words: In Mail app, if you double click on an image someone emailed to you, it downloads to: /Users/name/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads I made an alias for that hard-to-get-to folder, and put in on my Desktop:
Since Guided Access restricts only one app to be opened, would it prevent other background processes like app updating, memory cleaning, data fetching and cause apps freezing? My old iPad 2 sometimes lags, and I'm not sure it's because it's designed as is, or because Guided Access is not exited regularly. It's also rarely restarted.
I am a newbie at this and I have some issues with a certain network address. The format, in Windows was \folder\folder\folder\file.ext . My Question is, how can I access it using my macbook? Thank you for help
I have one file,to which hundreds of filepaths reference to. They are of the same file. What's the mechanism behind it?
I want to tag my application folders (hard drive & user folder locations) so I can get to them both quickly, but my computer won't let me. Is there a work-around of some kind? I'm running El Capitan.
At first, I thought that just WoL(Wake-on-LAN) didn't work. But, as it turns out, my Macbook Pro 2017 (macOS Sierra 10.12.6) seems to not receive UDP packets. Sending WoL magic packets while executing netcat -ul 9 doesn't show anything. Executed netcat -ul 8888 (even with sudo) combined with echo -n "hello" >/dev/udp/localhost/8888 and echo -n "hello" >/dev/udp/127.0.0.1/8888 (in bash), but still nothing. netcat -ul -p instead of netcat -ul doesn't make any progress. It's connected to the internet via an USB-C-Ethernet adapter, and a PC in the same network is just fine, so the packets are not blocked by the network router or something. I don't have any problem regarding using the internet though, EXCEPT that I cannot use WoL at all. Please, can anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
Telnet is not available on High Sierra. I don't have the option to copy the telnet source folder from another mac and I'm wondering where/how I can get a legitimate copy of telnet. Edit I'm looking for a copy from a source outside of homebrew or macports
I'm trying to reinstall the sierra 12.6 with the combo update, but combo installation app shows an error message and don't send me to the next step. It said "mac os sierra update can’t be installed on this disk. This volume does not beet the requirements for this update." What should I do for this error?
Just tried Firefox Dev and everything returns invalid certificate issues. One possible cited cause are AV software, so I'd like to suspend Avast and see if it clears up.
I was just wanting to debug a JavaScript error in one of our pages that occurs for users with iOS 9. So naturally I plugged in an iPad 3 with iOS 9.3.5, opened the page in Safari and connected the remote debugger from a Mac Book running High Sierra.
My Mac has recently started restarting itself after automatically updating while I'm using it normally. It doesn't even wait until my computer is idle. This behavior is new. It used to ask me if I wanted to update and restart when new updates that would potentially restart your computer were available. How is this normal behavior?
I have an iMac 5k running 10.13.2 Beta (17C67b), the issue I'm having since some previous versions is that the music clips sometimes. I use usb output, it's more noticeable with siphon/audiolab but it's still present even with regular output.
I've been using Total Terminal (former Visor) for a while now. With the new High Sierra update to osx when I try to open a new tab with CMD+T it ends up opening it like a new window, separately from the sticky tab I already have opened. I have to mention that it worked great on Sierra.
I'm trying to create a script where I send a file to different net computers with scp in a zip file. Then I want to unzip it but I'm unable to use the unzip command with a net file... I don't know if the problem is that the net computers are user/pass protected or because I can't use the unzip command with a net file...
I am planning to buy an iPhone X during an upcoming USA trip. During the buying process on the Apple Store, I am asked to select a carrier between AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verzion. I dot not have any sim from the USA and I am not planning to have one for using the iPhone X ever in the US. Is this important to activate the iPhone?
My wife just upgraded to OS 10.12.6. She uses Grapher to make pictures for work. Now Grapher can no longer read her old .gcx files. She had a template she was using a lot. So, she had to remake the template in the new Grapher. It worked at first, but now Grapher won't even open that file. Has anyone had this happen? Is there a potential fix? I tried to Google, but no one seems to care about Grapher.
I want a few of my statements from my preinstall script to be visible to the user also (not just getting logged in install.log ) when my package is installed (via terminal). Example : when my .pkg is called via the command "sudo installer -pkg /path/to/package -target /" , I want to print out "Thanks for installing my application" in the terminal itself
While using packagemaker to create a package, I want to keep a "File Exists on a System" check, but the path I want to keep is relative path and not a absolute path. Is there any way to set it?
I am looking for a simple file manager for Mac. My requirements are: support the usual grid view show the file size of highlighted files does not truncate long file names - adjusts the grid instead Something like the example on the bottom right sourced from this question on Ask Ubuntu.
On Sierra's Terminal Command1, Command2, etc. would switch between different Terminal windows. Now it switches between tabs within the same window. Yes, I could use Command`to cycle between the windows, however, but I want back the previous functionality.
My MacBook Pro (Early 2015) won't boot any more; it boots into a flashing screen with a folder with question mark. I downloaded a High Sierra DMG and created a bootable USB using both Transmac and PowerISO (in Windows 10) and none of them boots the system.
Currently I change it this way. System Preferences -> Sound -> Output In windows it default switches to the aux/headphone jack when you plug in headphones. Is there a way to accomplish this in OS X 10.10.5?
I accidentally downloaded malware: something posing as Flash Player in flashplayer.dmg. I did not install it, but deleted the dmg file. Now I want to delete my trash bin, but I can't. It says: 'trash can't be emptied, flash player.dmg is in use.' How do I fix this?
I have a mid-2015 15" Macbook Pro, I keep using the keyboard to turn off the speakers and they don't stay off. I'll go to a webpage with sound and suddenly have sound again.
I am using iTunes 12.7.1.14 on MacOS. My desired behavior is for podcasts to be played in chronological order, but to not skip back to unplayed podcasts older than the one I am currently plying. I believe the iOS podcasts app works this way. How can I achieve this. I would prefer to do this through iTunes but am open to other MacOS podcast managers.
Is there an iPhone thumbnail tabbed web browser? Mercury used to have this feature and unfortunately it has been removed from the App Store.
I'm running ios 11.1.1 I have multiple calendars linked to my phone (personal, work, wife, tv-shows,etc).
I am trying to create a smart mailbox which contains enquiries from our website, but will NOT contain replies to these enquiries. I have created 3 rules as on the image below:
Is there any possible way to recover my previous files that I deleted using Disk Utility, after I reinstall macOS? Is there any way to fix this? Or, would going to the Apple Centre be an option, as it takes me a long time to get there since I work on a tanker ship.
I am looking for a way to do some maintenance on the Profile Manager database. I found this script:
Now that my main work's software has finally reached compatibility for High Sierra I am about to upgrade my 2016 15" MacBook Pro to the new macOS. I am going to do it through a bootable external USB pen drive. As I only have a 64GB one I wondered if that would work on a partition of the same pen drive, say 16GB.
A user came in with their OS all garbaged up. It wouldn't start and when I used Target Mode and copied off documents and scanned the snot out of them I came up with a number of viruses. Afterward I booted into OSX Utilities (CMD + R) and erased the drive.
I recently tried to enable 2FA for iCloud - whenever I enter the code sent to my phone, it keeps telling me to try again. I've sent so many codes that it now says that it won't send me too many codes (as quoted in title). Why does this happen and how to fix?
I have a mac pro with 64 GB of RAM and a 14 GB swap file. I'm running a Jupyter notebook that eats up a lot of memory, so much that the OS is telling me it's out of memory and I need to close applications. When I look at the total memory usage in htop, I see that the swap file is indeed full, but I have almost 40 GB of free RAM! Why isn't MacOS using the available RAM? How can I stop it from running out of swap when it has a lot of free RAM?
This particular problem was discussed here before @ I can connect to internet only in Safe Mode. Solutions offered there did not work for me. I have an older MacBook Pro, Mid 2009, El Capitan 10.11.6. My problem is that I can only access the internet in safe mode. This occurred last week.
Since updating to High Sierra (10.13.1), I can no longer see the bcc line in my e-mails in Apple Mail (even when the correct view option is enabled):  Is there something I need to do to really enable this? Is this behavior an intended change with High Sierra?
I have removable hard drive which I can't encrypt. I'm following official guide, but there is simply no encryption option in the erase menu: There should also be an option called "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)", but it is not in the list.
Side note: In Yosemite, some of the Chinese fonts' Language properties have "Chinese, Chinese (Simplified)", so those will show up if you do a Smart Collection for "Chinese", but not "Chinese (Simplified)". In Sierra, however, none of the Chinese fonts' Language properties has "Chinese" alone.
Is it possible to find an Apple ID/iCloud password in Keychain Access? Where can I find it?
My system is a MBPro with the GT750M graphics card, mainly using Chrome/Opera After a day or two of regular usage, it's clear something is accumulating and eventually causing a slowness that shows itself as high WindowServer CPU usage
My Dock icons are always switching to the "generic" icons, like a document with a ruler and pencils crossed. I've run the bash scripts to reset the icons and it works for most icons, however after some time they go back to the "generic" ones. How can I make my icons constant?
brew is great but cask is not as good as brew. I'm talking about the lacking of the update function. Why can't GUI applications be directly installed with brew?
However , the other buttons are working perfectly fine. I use my safari , and I haven't downloaded google play music in chrome extensions either. the buttons dont work on iTunes but anything else
I am at a new institute and to use the Wi-Fi they had to configure some proxies settings on my personal laptop. Now I cant access the internet from my home. A friend who has a Linux laptop said he just has to comment out the settings in his /etc/environ/ file at home. Is there an equivalent file where I would find the proxy settings?
I lost my MacBook around 18 hours ago. When I log into Find iPhone on another MacBook, it is not showing me the last location of my MacBook.
Apple has recently removed the functionality from Windows iTunes to backup apps locally. The only way they offer now is via internet - iCloud. I often have limited internet access so that option is not suitable. Also I feel much better when I can easily and reliably restore the iPad to when everything was functioning perfectly. For example, update an app to find out there's a bug or some new functionality that makes things worse in some way. With a local backup it would be easy to go back and forth between the versions, and you don't have to depend on anything.
Is it possible to use my Android tablet as touchpad and as Wacom with MacBook?
Repeat steps 1 & 2 with a different app. (I chose Sublime Text.)
Since installing macOS 10.13.1 on a MacBook Pro (2.9GHz Intel Core i5) Adobe InDesign (CS3) has stopped working. It only half opens. At the point when the software is loading and the running commentary flashes up "starting up panels" the process stops. Some, but not all of the InDesign software is in place. But there is no cursor and some of the panels are blank. Fortunately the menu bar allows me to Quit.
I have really annoying issue with applications which contains different kind of tables (DBeaver, OpenOffice, LibreOffice). When I am trying to scroll this tables (for example simple Calc document with few SUM formulas) its starts to lag. Like PC from '00. Is my computer too slow for that kind of tasks? (Application "Numbers" works like a charm). My spec:
I recently upgraded to High Sierra and I liked the upgrade too but the most annoying thing is that the safari extensions which I download from the official Apple website keep on getting deleted by itself I have tried to fix the problem by trying the following stuff: Deleting ~/library/safari/Extensions/Extensions.plist Deleting ~/library/safari/Extensions/ So can someone help me around with this problem?
In earlier versions of Mail.App there was an IMAP setting: Download headers only. This allowed me to download only the headers of emails, which are usually >= 100 KByte. Is there an hidden setting to achieve this again?
I am having trouble with logging into our MacOS device in the office but I can SSH into the device and I can view the login screen via VNC. What steps can I use to troubleshoot why I cannot log into the Mac as any user?
How do you turn off the MacBook retina internal display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.12.6 Sierra? All the previous method doesn't work! 1.Turning down the brightness is not the same as turning off the display as the GPU still sends a signal to the internal display and the external monitor. 2.These were the terminal commands to achieve this on Mavericks: Enable sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0" Disable sudo nvram -d boot-args 3.sudo nvram boot-args=niog=1 4.sudo pmset -a lidwake 0.
I have an issue where Apache will not start after updating to High Sierra 10.13.1. There isn't anything showing in the error logs, but when I try to apachectl start nothing happens. If I run apachectl configtest I receive "Syntax OK
The trackpad for my 2010 MacBook works perfectly except the small, round, metal contact push spring that registers clicks is sprung. Tightening the screw underneath the trackpad fixes it but, as it is tightened, there is less margin to click. Does anyone know if I can find a push contact anywhere? I've tried searching online but without result. Perhaps it because I don't know the element's technical name. Any information is helpful. Thank you. I'm looking for something like this (http://hongjusilicon.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008849837334/pdtl/Silicone-keypad/1130112657/Rubber-push-button-switch.htm).
I'd like to regularly programmatically create some Apple Notes. From some searching, it appears there is no API to do this (e.g., via iCloud). The only method I can find is to have an always-on Mac desktop that uses AppleScript to talk to the local desktop Notes app, which then gets sync'd with iCloud. Is that really the only way?
My late 2013 MacBook Pro has began crashing frequently, sometimes when it is just "idling", and sometimes when I am Word Processing. Here are some of the things that I have noticed. This happens more often when the computer is not plugged in, but the battery still has a respectable 70% charge. There is nothing obvious in any of the log files. When it happens one of two things will happen: The screen will freeze, and after around 20 seconds the machine will power off; Or, the screen will suddenly go black and the fans spin like crazy, someone commented yesterday that they thought that the noise was coming from the heating system.
After changing networks where i used a proxy to go online back home I got the message in Chrome that my login details are not up-to-date. I tried to log me in and it works until I close the browser. If I open it again, the same error comes again. After googling I tried the following; nothing worked for me: Make a new profile in Chrome for my Google-Account Reinstalling Chrome and set up everything from scratch
Are there any special uses for the Force Touch trackpad on Apple's newer laptops in the Xcode source editor? I have tried to use it for various things but Force Touch always seems to do the same thing as a regular click. It would be cool to be able to force touch a variable and have that open the refactor menu, for instance. Is such a thing possible?
I would like to translate the following command, which works in linux Ubuntu and CentOS, to work in MacOS: echo $(pgrep -c -P$$) This is designed to be called from within a python script: subprocess.check_output("echo $(pgrep -c -P$$)", shell=True) and run new jobs within a loop when the number of processes falls below a threshold. The issue is that the MacOS version of pgrep does not have a -c option. Many thanks for your help!
When I launch my system onto the Boot Camp drive, it keeps on saying that it needs to restore previous version of windows and then restarting and looping that same process. I woke up to hearing my mac on bootcamp restart many times. I was wondering if i had to completely re-download boot camp (which I don't want to do) or I could fix it with the Windows 10 iso file.
Is there a way that I can add two audio inputs, where one is the built-in internal mic, and another is a wired earphone mic plugged into the headphone port? When I plug in the earphone/mic, I lose access to the internal mic. I found some tutorials introducing "Aggregate Device", but I can't make it work with those two mic's.
I am running the latest version of High Sierra. Both my user Library/Application Support and main Library/Application Support are completely empty when opened in Finder (see screenshot). I was asked to delete a configuration file for an app I use which was misbehaving (a security-related app–a VPN app), and discovered that I cannot view files in these directories. Yet, when I reinstalled the app, its configuration was still in place, meaning most likely that those folders DO still have their contents (which I have seen before) but they are being hidden from me. Also I might add two things: 1) When this started happening two days ago, not only was that one folder empty in Finder (but not in Terminal), but since then, NO new files/folders created show up in Finder, and
For some reason, no matter how many times I delete (using AppCleaner) and redownload Google Chrome, I am unable to launch Chrome on my 2017 MacBook Pro running 10.12.6 Sierra. When I click on the application, it's icon appears momentarily in my Dock and then disappears. I am using Firefox, downloading directly from Google Chrome's website.
I've created a local image of the drive of a hosted VPS by using dd over ssh (ssh user@123.45.67.89 "dd if=/dev/vda " | dd of=/Volumes/Backup/droplet.img). mount shows that macOS supports afs, hfs, exfat, et cetera... but not any version of the Extended File System.
I currently own a 2017 MacBook Pro (13", four Thunderbolt 3 ports) and a Dell P2415Q. I'm strongly considering purchasing two more Dell P2415Qs so that I can have a triple-monitor setup, but I only have one free USB Type-C port when docked right now. I also know that the Dell P2415Q's daisy-chaining capability isn't supported by OS X.
Running iOS 11.1.1 and watchOS 4.1. I'm stumped. What else can I try to resolve this?
I just went to look at the next album by Tune Yards and I can see it says "Pre Order: expected J..." but there appears to be no way to view this text! Anyone know how to expand it or get it show the full text I've seen the non expandable "..." before and it's annoyed me enough over time to post :)
Because of High Sierra 10.13.1, I had to switch from AFP protocols to SMB. I only got this working by storing passwords in System Preferences > File Sharing > Options > Windows File Sharing (strange: for iMac to iMac file sharing??) Now I wonder: where are those passwords stored on my disk? The dialog already says that this is less secure .......
So I had to do a Time Machine restore today, additionally I had to reformat the partition from APFS to HFS, because you guessed it, the restore partition is 10.7 - Lion, still newer than what came with the 2011 iMac (Snow Leopard), and it can’t read the volume to restore or repair, seemed like a bodged software update as it got stuck saying “Can’t find volume ...., restart and try again”. In any case the restore tools can’t even read the partition and I’ve had to reformat to HFS, and will presumably need to use updated tools to convert it to APFS again.
I have an iPhone 5s and I have the following issue: after a while, the screen gets progressively less responsive and horizontal and vertical stripes appear. Things are much worse if I use the phone while moving (especially when using Maps) than if I'm at home or at the office. Is this behaviour indicative of a screen problem or of something else like a motherboard fault? In the attached pictures, you can see the typical striped pattern.
On High Sierra there is an menu option (share button) to add people for a file inside iCloud Drive. Not on Sierra. However, I am able to call it programatically.
I have found that hand written notes will be transformed into corresponding shapes by preview's shape detection. This seems handy. However, when those shapes are opened in other pdf applications, they behaves different. Originally, the annotations are an oval, a tilted rectangle, an arrow, and a freely written character: If this is read by GoodReader on iPad, everything except the free form distort: Similar behaviour will happen when it has been edited by Adobe Acrobat. Text annotations changes oddly:
The FaceID requires the TrueDepth camera to recognise your face, plus there's also one sensor which emits infrared rays to map your face. So my question is will both these things consume significant amount of battery from my iPhone X and will it be better to turn the Require Attention for FaceID off so that the battery consumption is reduced?
I have connected an HDMI cable between my Samsung Smart TV and MacBook Pro running Sierra. The option for output displays lists my TV but it says “display port” where I believe it should say HDMIi. I tried a lot of the methods I found online with no success.
I want to remove recent contacts from Messages for macOS like one can do on iOS. Below is an image of some contacts that appear when I type the number '2' into the 'recipients' box on Messages: I want to be able to remove these numbers from this list similar to how one can remove recent contacts from iMessages on iOS. There is no icon or way to do this as far as I can find. I have spent more time than I want to admit on this problem. I am running macOS 10.13.1 for what it is worth. Thanks for your help!
How do I remove an old boarding pass for Amtrak? Tried settings, tried the info button on the lower right corner, I just don’t see any option to delete.
I'm trying to update a paid app, bought by a family member but shared with family sharing, on the Mac App Store, and it prompts me for the password. The Apple ID is the family member's, and greyed out so I can't change it. I don't think we're supposed to share all our passwords in order to use Family Sharing, right?
I'm looking for a tool that can help reshape images to specific dimensions, but I'm not sure if there's a term easy to search for tools that support that. Preview can resize images to specific dimensions, but at the cost of losing dimension ratio. However you can create a square here in preview to specify how to crop, then to zoom in our out of image to get the crop you want, however you cannot specify that crop dimensions, only the image dimensions.
I tried brining this driver into visibility through System Preferences>Security... with no success. I still do not see the VCP driver in /dev. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver without success. Any suggestions? OS is version 10.12.6. Driver is USB VCP version 5.0.1 from SIlabs.
I plugged my iPod touch 6g in last night to charge it, and I'm sure it lit up and acted like it was charging. This morning, I pulled it off the charger and, although I don't remember specifically, I'm pretty sure the battery was fully charged. About 10 minutes later, I woke it for the first time since removing it from the charger, and the battery was at 20%.
I have two laptops and both have different Notes that are useful to me. Not wanting to share any such data with Apple, they are also not synced to iCloud. So far, I found the path where they are stored: And see that the "DB" behind this is sqlite. Is there any way to export all all the content in one directory and then clear all notes so the files can be re-imported?
I have a FW400 audio interface connected to my '17 iMac via some adapters and the TB3 port on the computer. When the iMac goes to sleep it's apparently powering down the TB3 port which in turn powers off my audio interface and then causes a very loud, potentially damaging, "thump" to occur through the attached monitors. I've taken to powering down the monitors, but I'd like to not have to do this as it's inconvenient with my current setup.
I've had FileVault turned one since I purchased my Mac. I recently turned it off and I've found that I can no longer access my older backups from when FileVault was enabled. Is there any way to gain access to these backups or will I have to turn FileVault back on again? Thanks!
Right after update from Sierra to High Sierra I faced with the WiFi issue on my MacBook PRO 13" early 2015. It's not able to connect to home network. My router is ARRIS TG2492.
macOS 10.12.6, Photos 2.0, running on a mid-2010 Macbook Pro. I updated my Macbook Pro to Photos when Photos was introduced, and it has worked well for me. Two days ago, however, Photos began to misbehave by not showing pictures in the Photos Library which had been taken after August 2015. Until this occurrence, these pictures had displayed correctly. The Mac's OS is up to date. I repaired the Photos library, and restored the Photos library from a Time Machine backup, and restarted in Safe Mode. Photos continues to not display these pictures. My pictures are managed locally only; iCloud is not involved.
I upgraded to High Sierra a week ago, my MacBook Pro 2016 (15 inch) is very slow now even in normal daily usage. I wanted to downgrade back to Sierra, but even tho my MacBook came originally with Sierra, I cannot find it in "App Store > Purchases", there is only Mavericks which I bought on my previous MacBook.
I've been unable to use my Dictionary App for a few days, as it consistently says that it is downloading the dictionaries. I can't find out why it started downloading them again (it already had them), or how to check on the state of a download, or where it is downloading from. I am at a loss as to how to diagnose this. Any ideas?
I have Apple Watch 3 GPS running watchOS 4.1. Reminders app on the watch is showing two reminders lists. One is empty and one contains items which I really have across all my Apple devices.
This question comes from this question: Cannot install bootcamp because of disk error, but disk utility says it's fine? I was advised to ask about the 296.6 GB of free space, but tbh I don't understand what that means, it doesn't seem to appear in disk utility?
I have been having this issue for over a year where these 3 would pop up to take up memory every time i turn on my mac. Then I have to manually FORCE QUIT these 3 from Activity Monitor. And sometimes one of them would rerun while I was watching videos in the background to cause major lowing down. When I try to delete it, the system would reject as "it cannot be deleted" which is so weird.
After trying to create hybrid MBR for dual-booting Windows in UEFI and BIOS with gdisk, main APFS partition (container) disappeared, leaving empty space in GPT partition table. It's only possible to see with sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk1 (space from 409640 to 732437176).
After reinstalling GarageBand (hoping that would fix latency problems), now all of my songs are randomly cutting out completely for a second or two during playback. Any ideas?
Have about 2000 work photos on my Mac mini which I do not want on my iPhone 5 or my iPad Air....but I would like photos I take on either of those to appear on my Mac mini.....how do I configure in settings so I can do this?
I am new on MacOS, would like to set a default folder to open Finder, instead of Recent items folder. I tried: defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTargetPath -string "file:///Users/path/to/folder" But didn't worked... Is there a way to do it?
I saw the answer for 10.10 and 10.9. Sadly I just jumped from 10.8 to 10.11 and discovered that my beautiful and perfectly well-functioning (last night) display is not kaput (too dark). Can it be made to work in 10.11 or do I have to find a copy of 10.9 or 10.10 somewhere and try to revert to that? I did backup my mac before the upgrade, but still. ARGH!!!!
A few days ago the sync between google calendar and calendar app stopped working for me - the app can't retrieve new events/calendars and if I create events in it - they won't appear in GCal. I've tried re-adding google account, removing google related keychains. That did not help. I'd appreciate your advice on this one. The app version is 9.0 (2155.21)
I'm trying to save a Word doc with PDF images in it as a PDF, but finding that the process makes the final image quality very poor. I use PDF images to keep the Word doc file size down, otherwise the file would be huge and become corrupted. I print using Word's built in Postscript, and then use Adobe Distiller to convert it to a PDF. What do I need to do to keep the image quality in the final PDF as good as the PDF images that I start with? MacOS X 10.6.8 MS Word 2008 Acrobat/Distiller 9
I'v installed Windows 10 on my iMac (High Sierra) using Bootcamp. Everything went ok, but when I'm on Windows, Mac disk isn't visibile, it's not on the Boot Camp Assistant on control panel, and if I try to reboot on Mac via the bootcamp icon, it says that it cannot find any disk. The only way is to reboot by holding down ALT. Anyone can help me?Thanks
I have a macbook pro running OSX 10.13.1 which connects to my wi-fi network but is unable to access any website or internet service. Through the Terminal I can ping 8.8.8.8 with no packet loss. All the other devices connected to this network have full internet access. So far I have done the following Deleted wi-fi preferences in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ Rebooted into safe mode and then back Tried new network location Reset SMC Reset PRAM/NVRAM Created a new admin account and attempted to go online there None of these have worked.
I'd like to log in to my MacBook Pro using my fingerprint more. If I don't use it for a while I have to re-enter the password. Is this timeout configurable? Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, on a MacBook Pro, 2016.
I have several iBooks that I have no interest in reading again. I want to delete them completely, but have only been successful in hiding them. I don't even want them in my iCloud storage now, but can't figure out what to do. I have iOS 9 and probably hundreds of books.
My wife is a digital artist and has a Macbook pro, iPhone, and iPad, and I am constantly having to clear disk space from the Macbook due to all of the selfies, snaps, cat pictures, and legitimate photos that she takes constantly. I know I am not alone; these days, cameras are ubiquitous and the Apple product family has some of the best camera hardware and software, and the platform is widely used for digital art.
On iOS11 if I swipe the edge of the left screen, it wants to switch applications. I keep hitting it by mistake, can I disable that?
Since the High Sierra upgrade, I no longer can wake my screen with the "esc" key or by pressing any key or moving my mouse. I have to click the mouse a couple of times to wake the screen.
Having huge issues trying to get any display out of my 1080Ti on a Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010). I recently upgraded my Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) from macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra) to 10.13.1 (High Sierra) through the App Store. Installed the ATI card that came with the Mac Pro, used that to install the update and High Sierra firmware update that was required.
I started using Mac recently and before I used to work on Ubuntu. Suppose I run these commands one by one on my terminal:
For Apple hardware that ships with SSD only storage, will switching the file system from HFS+ to APFS prolong the life of an SSD drive?
This message keeps coming back: "Your carrier may charge for SMS Messages used to activate FaceTime" I managed to get rid of it before but when I change the SIM card it pops up again. It's similar to "Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage", which I got rid of this time but I don't remember how. How to quickly ensure both these messages don't pop up: Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage Your carrier may charge for SMS Messages used to activate FaceTime Ideally forever, but I'm ok with a quick solution that I can quickly find back here on Ask Different.
Any idea why my 7+ randomly deletes songs? I have a red 128gb 7+, with music managed manually. Music is a HUGE use of my phone. Since I bought the phone in July, the native Music app has been deleting random songs that I've manually added and that have successfully queued up and played...but a random timeframe later I'll go back to listen again and I get a notification saying Please Connect To Network in order to listen. It's random songs each time, some in a bulk playlist I've dragged on, some separate songs I've added one by one. My music library, fully loaded, leaves over 60gb free. I've never used any Apple Match, Radio, Apple Music, iCloud music or syncing or whatever it is, and resetting the phone doesn't resolve it. I won't be upgrading to iOS 11 because it's hideous and nearly unusable. Some have suggested I try Settings > Music > Optimize Storage...but that's not there. Thank you so much!
When I need to be constantly CMD-TAPing between two applications and one of them uses the trackpad with keyboard modifiers for different functions, for instance scrolling or zooming, I get that if I'm scrolling the document and then press CMD to switch between applications the document is magnified instead in the period of time that the trackpad inertia takes to stop it's movement. Is there a way to stop this behavior without disabling the trackpad inertia? Is this rather and issue/bug in the application instead of something that needs to be fixed for the entire system?
Its been a few days since this trouble started. Everytime i tried to download an app it’ll load forever and cancel itself. (Just like in the picture provided) Its not my wifi problem as i can still open other apps ive already installed and still received messages through wifi. I tried restarting and changing my iphone language but still no difference. Im using an Iphone 6 with ios 11.1.1 Please help me, i got tons of app to install but couldnt
I have a DELL P2414HB monitor which is connected via VGA port to a VGA/USBC adaptor, it is working well for long time. Today I bought a DELL P2417H which I try to connect with via DVI port to a DVI/USBC adaptor but the monitor show a message no DVI cable connected, I change the cable still same message, I change the USB port in my Mac still do not recognize the DVI cable. I am not interested in mirroring I need extended displays. After a while my MAC frozen with that old scary message "you need to restart your computer....." in four languages. My Mac is a MacBookPro touch 2016 running High Sierra. The new monitor run normally on the VGA/USBC adaptor with one monitor only. Any one had this bad experience? Thanks for any advise.
I purchased a new hard drive for my 2013 Macbook air from OWC. I've checked the hard drive seating, but the drive doesn't show up either in the Disk Utilities GUI or using diskutil list. Any other suggestions on how to get it to show up/mount?
I have an audio problem with my new macbook pro 2017. If there is an audio playing my headphone jack starts to buzz (headphones unplugged). When I stop playing audio, after a short period of time, it stops humming. When I plug the headphones and start playing the audio, headphone jack is not buzzing/humming. This is super weird. It looks like macbook for some reason thinks that it has plugged headphones even when it doesn't Does anyone know how to deal with this problem?
My MacBook Pro won't boot after updating the OS - it's just been saying that it's calculating the time remaining. Then, it shut down unexpectedly and when I try to boot it, it just shows the loading bar stuck at about a twentieth of the way with the Apple logo above it. Is there anything I can do to continue using my MacBook normally without having to reinstall the OS losing all my data?
I'm adding locations to my pictures in Photos.app and I want to a location that isn't in the database. The Google search I tired told me how to add known locations, but not unknown locations. The only thing that Photos offers me near by is the local police station. Any clues how to do this?
I upgraded to High Sierra and now the "View as Icon" option in Mail is no longer there. Is there a workaround? How do we get this problem fixed?
I’ve just got a new hard drive but my Mac won’t accept it as boot drive unless it’s formatted in a macOS readable format - it’s simply not readable by the volatile system (which is what’s run if no OS is found). I’ve ordered a USB to SATA cable to format the drive from another Mac, but can I format the drive, as OS X extended journaled, in Windows? tl:dr --> How do I format (or partition) a clean SSD as OS X Extended (Journaled), as opposed to exFAT etc., from a PC?
I have a MacBook Air 13 inches. I constantly listen to music through the apple earphones and out of nowhere there was this loud static noise coming. I tried turning the cable around but it's still there. I thought it was from my earphones but after using another pair of earphones and trying my own on another laptop, it was obvious that the problem is from the jack itself. It happened out of no where so I really don't know what happened; the laptop didnt fall and no one touched it. So, is there anything I can do or should I send it to the company to get it fixed (I'd rather not as I have so much work on it, but if i really have to then it's no problem) I tried the Audio MIDI thing and uninstalling google chrome but its still same problem. THank you in advance!
i have a friend in Turkey and is asking me to purchase an iTunes card for $200 but if you have an iTunes account can't you put a credit card on it to make purchases like Netflix. They are only over there for a few months for work so does their account not work over there? If I buy in US how do I get the card to them if they cant receive mail? Do I just purchase here and give them the number on the card? Please help.
This story about a new Thunderbolt 3 dock from Promise Technology shows one of the two USB 3.0 ports labeled “USB 3.0 BC1.2”.  Some searches show results for "BC 1.2 port" but I've not yet seen a definition or explanation.
I can open one chrome window through I can also open multiple URLs by multiple lines The following won't work though but it works with I want an elegant inline expression like How to do that?
I want to preface that I know next to nothing about computers, I watch youtube and search stuff on google, but other than that I am clueless. So I am trying to play Team Fortress 2 on my Apple PowerBook G4 550 on Steam. I launch the game and it gives me this message:
So, I’m trying to set up an Airport Express (1st Gen N) to improve coverage at home. How do I make sure to place it so I’m minimizing interference between it and the (5th gen) Air Extreme?
I'm experiencing an odd issue, which I believe started after upgrading to MacOS High Sierra. When I have a Microsoft Office product open (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Chrome at the same time, I find that the Office product freezes if I click on a Chrome window then return to Office. For instance, I can type something in Word, switch to Chrome, then return to Word -- but once I'm back in Word, I cannot click ANY buttons or type any text. It's as if the entire program froze, but I don't think it technically did. The only solution is to Force Quite the Office product. Here's the exception: when I only switch between Word to Chrome using the Dock icon (rather than using my mouse to click the actual window), the issue doesn't seem to occur.
I can open another terminal from a terminal with this command: Also, I can start a terminal at a specified directory
just trying to sync some videos and I'd prefer not to use the desktop application. When selecting files to upload it doesn't seem to want to allow videos.
iTunes on the Mac: Under the Library tab, I can see the TV shows and movies I've purchased, and I can stream them without downloading them. Other purchase done by Family Sharing members aren't there.
I recently used an app that was for live wallpapers and then got a pop up that made a beeping sound (like the typical bomb from movies). I read some reviews of the app which describe the message as a scam, but for the future does apple even provide this type of message? Link to the google search of the app cover for the app I was using when the incident occured Link to img search of app cover of app I downloaded minutes before this one that may have also caused the incident (This one did lag which is a symptom listed for a virus, but also my device is sort of outdated and doesn't get updated any more so maybe the app is too updated 1st link used for research 2nd site used for research
There seems to be a feature of iTerm2 where it shows the manpage for the word under the cursor, activated by a button in the touch bar:  How do I customize what this feature does? For example, apply environment variables to the man command, or run another command instead?
My Macbook Air shuts down everytime when i close the lid. It happened after I left my computer out for nearly 3 days in sleep. How can I diagnose what's causing the issue?
I have been looking into the feasibility of creating an app that mines crypto-currency. I have been searching the appstore for similar apps but none have come up where the miner is part of the app. Does anyone know if Apple allows mining from app? i.e would an app that does mining have even the slightest chance at being approved?
When I try to add a new contact to my Apple Mail smart group the field reverts to All Contacts & doesn't retain the contact in my "New Walks List" group - sometimes it reverts automatically before I start to complete the field. How can I get new contacts to stay on my New Walks List contact group
I love smart quotes in macOS, but for those few times where I really need a straight quote (when manually typing links, for example), I can’t find a quick keyboard shortcut to insist on the straight ones. Is this possible with a simple keyboard shortcut? Update: The most effective way seems to be creating a custom keyboard shortcut for turning off/on Smart Quotes in individual applications (Edit > Substitutions in supported applications) for those few times I do need a straight quote.
I've got a MacBook Pro 13" 2017 - two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports. It came with a standard USB-C cable to support power supply. If I plug this cable into both USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports the Mac seems to think it's connected to a power supply. IMHO it's dangerous for battery in laptop, but I have to ask: is it any risk? What can happen to my MBP if I plug this one cable between both of its USB-C ports?
The LTE version of the Apple Watch Series 3 is not available in my country. Can I use the non-cellular version of the watch for tracking my runs while leaving my phone at home? Would this compromise the accuracy of the tracking? I know that the watch has GPS, but how would it affect the apps if there is no data connectivity while tracking?
Since I updated from Sierra to High Sierra I have an issue when i connect a second monitor to my macbook pro 15 inch 2017 (USB-C to HDMI -> HDMI to VGA). Namely, the OS starts lagging about every 5 seconds which makes it impossible to work with it. https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/87168
I have 399.9GB OSX partition, but the HDD is actually 1TB. If I click on the partition tool, I then have 999GB displayed (with are not in the partition) if I try to resize the volume I'm getting a error. I first thought this was because the disk was encrypted, so I removed the encryption, but same issue, rebooted from internet recovery wasn't even able to erase the whole disk.
How do I make a formula to total (sum) a column using Numbers on iOS, but exclude negative numbers? (Only sum positive numbers) Example: Basically, how can I calculate a total but ignoring negative numbers in the column?
I tried to save a webpage in Safari as a PDF by hitting Command-P, then "Save as PDF". I attempted to save this to an external hard drive. Upon closing Safari and clearing my search history in Safari, I realized the document that I thought I saved as a PDF was not on the external hard drive.
EDIT: I just found "tmutil" which seems to be exactly what I need. I tried to use that to restore the entire backup to the cloud. It ran for a few minutes (nowhere near enough time to actually copy everything), reported that it restored everything, but after looking there wasn't anything actually copied. Why is that? iMac$ tmutil restore -v Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users// /Users//Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~CloudDocs/ Total copied: 334453.70 MB (350700119382 bytes) Items copied: 562891
after having worked perfectly fine for 9 years, my Pages (iWork '08) keeps crashing lately and, as of today, crashes when I do the simplest actions. I operate on a late-2008 MBP which I've upgraded to OSX El Capitan. Now, I can't upgrade to High Sierra, because as per the spec requirements in the App Store, it requires a MBP from mid-2010 or later. However, I also can't simply update to an older Pages version because I still have iWork '08.
I don't use facetime. I'd like to disable it so it doesn't automatically start following system startup. Is there a way to do this? (MacBook Pro, High Sierra)
I just purchased a new iPhone 7/128GB, iOS 11.1.2, to replace my 6s. During the setup process I chose to restore from iCloud backup. I believe the setup process is complete (except for ApplePay) but when I use the App Store app / update function, it doesn't show anything but the very recently-released updates to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. I'm wondering why it doesn't show the list of apps I've purchased in the past, the way the 6s did. (The iTunes music library appears to be properly restored.)
I've seen this question. I have the same problem, except that the incorrect contact list is on an iPhone. My iPad, and MBP are in sync.
I'm trying to recover a standard user's password on Mac. I'm using OSX Sierra. Using the admin, can I view this password? Either with Terminal or otherwise?
I am using a PC keyboard with a Macbook Pro, and I'm trying to get Sublime Text to behave like it does on Linux in terms of keyboard shortcuts. I copied the default keybindings file from Linux, which mostly worked, with the exception of Ctrl + C for copy.
In iOS 9, I was able to tell Siri to do things such as: "Reschedule my appointment from 12:30 PM tomorrow, to 2:30 PM today"
I recently upgraded to High Sierra and after upgrading I've run into an issue where after the machine has been up for several days, the performance starts to get really bad. For example, when typing, characters appear really slowly and it takes about 5 or 10 seconds for them to all appear. Other aspects of machine are poor, such as web pages taking a while to load and render. Menu picks can take 10 seconds for menu to popup. However, the mouse tracks movement normally and is responsive. In general, the whole machine's performance is extremely poor. Looking at the Activity Monitor the cpu load is normal and the memory pressure is normal, so I'm stumped as to what is going wrong.
My MacBook Pro often sleeps randomly after waking (the displays go dark and it either wakes itself up immediately after or has to be awoken by pressing a key). I have noticed this happening often right after I wake up the mac, but I believe it has also happened during normal use, for no apparent reason (no key is pressed at the time the computer goes to sleep. A few details about the MacBook: The MacBook is running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1; The model is MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017); An external Thunderbolt 2 display is connected via a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter;
I did whatever was mentioned there. I signed out Apple ID on my mac. I don't have any other apple device. And I went to the apple ID site to make the change but it only gives me the following error.
I have an iPod touch that I would like to use as the music player in my car, and I have about 4500 songs in my Google music library in the cloud. As far as I can tell, there is no setting in the IOS Google Music app on the touch to tell it to just download everything. I've tried making an "all music" playlist on my computer, but can only put 1,000 songs into the playlist.
In short, something to quickly open the file, find a string, have it open, reload when necessary at roughly the same place. Developers will find this very familiar.
I listen to podcasts on my iPhone X. Sometimes I want to delete a podcast episode mid-listen and not finish it. I can see and delete unplayed episodes or fully played episodes, but cannot figure out how to delete episodes that I haven't finished. How can this be done? Is it possible but something in settings is preventing it? My workaround is to advance the player to the last few seconds of the episode, let it finish playing, then delete it.
Often I'm in some iOS app (e.g. Facebook) and there's a link to some Tweet's URL. When I tap on it, it takes me to the web version of the Tweet inside a webview in whatever app I was in. Then if I want to like the Tweet, I have to login to Twitter again inside the webview even though I'm already logged in to Twitter in the native iOS Twitter app. Is there a quick way to get to the same Tweet in the native app?
I'm using Mac OS X (High Sierra) and would like to run FTP from the command line (as opposed to a client with a GUI). Unfortunately, I don't seem to have it installed ... and when I tried to install using "brew install ftp" I got the following error ... How do I install a command line FTP client on my mac?
I used this question: *=URL=* to install nbd-server on my linux machine and share the CD drive. But installing nbd-client on my Mac doesn't appear to be possible. Can't find it in homebrew. How can I access the CD in that drive from my Mac?
I am trying to clone the content of my 16GB SD card onto a 64GB SD Card. What I tried first was to just copy all the files from the 16 to the 64 manually. This did not work out, the tool using the card could not use the card anymore. So I did following: Create .dmg file from 16GB SD Card. Restore .dmg onto my 64GB SD Card. Boot up the 64GB SD Card = works like a charm BUT unfortunately it also "shrink" my 64GB card to 16... Here is what I get typing diskutil list:
I want to share iOS apps with my daughter. I have macOS 10.13.1 on my MacBook Pro. In "System Preferences" I have selected "Share my purchases with family" in "Purchase Sharing" "My Apps & Services" but when I go to "Manage Family" (I am the organiser) the "+" button is greyed out and I cannot select it.
I install OS X Server for MDM profile manager on iMac with High Sierra. Then used Apple Configurator 2.5 to enroll 16 iPad Air 2 on iOS11 to the MDM and added wifi Profile. All iPads are showing up as supervised devices on AC2. Now on each iPad, I see the Remote Management screen, hit the NEXT on the top right corner to attempt to install the remote management, and they all came back saying failed timed out. The same profile worked fine on iMac.
I can open a url specifying 'chrome browser' from terminal How to open it in an incognito mode?
For a long time I’ve been using MyFitnessPal on my iPhone as a diet/calorie tracker. I recently bought an Apple Watch Series 3 to track my exercise, steps and so on, and I’m trying to get it to work properly with MyFitnessPal, but something has gone astray.
I've read a few posts on here, but not seem to answer my question. I'm a musician with a MacBook Pro and a 2016 model iPad, these are connected via a Hub. The Hub is a Amker mains powered which has 7 data ports and 3 separate charging ports.
I recently noticed that in folders with special icons (eg. on the desktop) have a file in them named Icon? (its a hidden file btw). I tried opening one up using my text editor (Atom) and it comes up as an empty text file, yet it has a file-size (for the desktop one it was 346KB). I understand the purpose of these files, but how do they work and is there any way to make your own?
I installed a Python update, and now I'm having problems with opening a program called 'PriMus': CrossOver is unable to initialize a critical component. Failed to import cxutils module into Python. See console for errors. The program will now exit. How can I fix this?
My MacBook Pro's display has the anti-reflective coating damaged. What can I do about it?
Consider the scenario of restoring a backup taken on an HEIF/HEVC capable device (e.g. the iPhone 7 or newer) to an older device (e.g. an iPhone 6s, running iOS 11). Will images and videos taken on the new device and accessed on the old one be: Not restored at all?
I manually manage my iPhone's music (iOS 11.1). I use music from my hard drive, not from my iTunes account. When I drag music to my iPhone, all metadata of my music shows up in iTunes (iTunes 12.7.1.14) correctly. But on my iPhone, an album is broken into individual albums. So a 12-song album is turned into 12 1-song albums. This is the case 100% of the time. Every time that I add any album to my iPhone, every song will show up as separate albums. Also, the artist is missing from every song on my iPhone.
My Mac just had a white screen and disk repairs have been coming back with disk cannot be repaired. I was able to complete a Disk Utility backup to an external hard drive. Is this usable as a restore point if the Mac HD seems to be corrupted and suggests it cannot be repaired?
I have been having problems on Apple Mail on my work Mac. I had setup everything on my personal Mac, and the settings were carried over via iCloud, no problem. I can receive mail for both Gmail and iCloud accounts. But I cannot send ANY emails. SMTP servers definitely have a problem with them. Some symptoms: Whenever I try to change the Outgoing Mail Account, it just doesnt stay this way
All my FTP password details stored on Coda, get forgotten every single time it's closed, same for Chrome. My gmail accounts, toggl, any site which would keep you logged in, doesn't and forgets entirely.
I have an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.0.3. When it's down to about 15%, it dies completely.Can I do something about that? Also, when It's at around 15% and I plug the iPhone into the power supply, it often goes up to 25% instantly.Why is my iPhone doing that?
I have recently upgraded my mid 2013 MBP with High Sierra and now my Linux partition that I previously installed via Boot Camp is not available as an OS option when booting while holding the Option key. Previously it showed as "Windows" (although its Kali). Now it does not show at all. When inspecting with Disk Utility, I see both partitions along with the OSX partition, but the Linux ones show as "Disabled".
My family have recently moved to a new place, sort of rural area (in the mountains), I did found a power socket in the room, connected a multiple socket into it and plugged in iMac + wifi router, there was no problem at the beginning, but sometimes I feel sort of electrified field over the aluminium case (when trying to plug USB cabels). The real case :) Last night it was cold to work, so I decided plug 600W heater and after 1h I did touch the iMac and was "kindly" suggested to leave the party :) (very noticable electric shock). I know it's more an engenieering question, but maybe someone had experienced similiar situation and can suggest what is the possible work around? P.S: I used the same multiple socket in the previous house and had no problems, the new character here is the 600W heater that I've found recently from previous owners (looks like it's from early 2000')
When I open a calendar even in Google Calendar app, I see actual event details. When I open Apple's native Calendar app (which has a calendar synced from work Outlook/Exchange account), I can see scheduling details (alert, visibility etc..) but NOT the actual text of calendar event. I tried to swipe right/left; click "Edit" button, no way I can see to do that. What can be done to see the event text details? If it matters, it's iPhone 5 running iOS 11, but I observed same behavior back on iOS 10 as well.
I have SwiftKey keyboard installed on my iPhone (5, iOS 11). When I am in normal apps (e.g. Google Hangouts), it is possible to use it.
I'm struggling to get 4096 x 2304 at 60hz using the hardware mentioned. It works intermittently. If I unplug and replug the monitor cable, it sometimes comes back in 60hz. But then it reverts to 30hz after waking from sleep. I've installed SwitchResX and the 60hz resolutions are just missing sometimes - see *=URL=* I could be imagining it, but I think it was running at 60hz reliably before my recent High Sierra upgrade. Apple say 60hz is supported on my hardware here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207447
I would like to look at some of my iTunes playlists and see their contents some months or a year ago. I know I can restore the whole iTunes library, then ask iTunes to open a non-default library when I launch it and finally export the old version of the playlist but that is quite a task, especially when I probably want to do it for a handful of playlists and many times for each playlist.
I have a fleet of 7 macbook pro's running mac osx 10.10, 10.11, and 10.12, and 3 mac pro's running mac os 10.13 ("high sierra"). On all systems, I have set it to never sleep the system or display. Oddly, that doesn't suffice, so I also use caffeinate to prevent sleep. On the 10.13 systems, though, the display still goes to sleep, no matter what I try. This affects two things: my opengl tests hang "osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to restart'" hangs Since only the display is asleep, I can still ssh in and look around. I currently run my script under caffeinate -dsiu -t 31536000, and when it hangs, evidently I've still got all the proper assertions going: and yet the display is in DevicePowerState 1: Executing another caffeinate -u wakes the display up and puts it into DevicePowerState 4 for 15 or so seconds, then it goes back to sleep and DevicePowerState 1, even if I give a longer timeout with -t. I've also tried repeating the -t argument after each assertion (in case the confusi
My MBP's screen has got a horrible screen resolution (lower than usual). How can I fix that?
In short, I would like my iPhone X to go to the Home screen (first page of apps) immediately after Face ID unlocks my phone, without having to swipe up from the Notifications screen.
How can I disable the system transpose (Ctrl+T) shortcut? Note: I'm using a MacBook Pro running High Sierra (10.13.1)
I downgraded High Sierra to Sierra recently (clean install, erased disk, didn't restore anything from Time Machine after installation), and now when I want to update Safari or install Security Update 2017-001, I'm getting "Cannot Verify ...." error. For example when updating Safari to 11.0.1 I get this message:
I am using Monotony to see news headlines as notifications. I have set it to "Alert style" so they are slightly larger and stay there until I click them. However I would like the notifications to be a bit larger so that less text is cropped. Right now too much is cropped to even read a headline. Is this possible, either through the default notification system or by installing some other notification system? Following screenshot shows that a typical headline and article summary are not readable:
My MacBook Pro is going through some sort of kernel panic, however it is not letting me log in at all. It just keeps restarting and playing the chime music before showing some error code text on the loading screen. Then the cycle repeats. Is there any way to fix this?
I have MacBook Pro late 2013 and PC with Windows 10. Also, I have two Dell U2414H monitors. My setup looks like this: MacBook Pro is connected via DisplayPort with both monitors. PC is connected via HDMI with just one monitor.
My iPhone is sluggish so I want to restore it. Concerned I’ll lose my long podcast queue if I restore. Would iCloud/iTunes restore retain my queue?
After installing High Sierra, I noticed GPU related slowness, I initially sought help here: What could cause a cumulative slowness that manifests itself as high WindowServer CPU usage in High Sierra? - But later on stumbled onto this: *=URL=* and easily verified that the issue is related to external displays Before an external display is connected, the GPU temp is around 55C under use, immediately after an external display is connected, the temperature jumps to 75-80C's (no apps used) Very recently, I noticed this darkening on my Retina screen, I deduct it's a side effect of the constantly hot temperatures: https://imgur.com/a/Q6bnz
My iPhone 4S (iOS 9.3.5) is randomly turning off and discharging at unexpected moments. It shows the spinning icon as if it was about to respring but turns off and the battery is dead. When I plug it in a power source, however, within a few minutes, it goes back to the battery percentage of before dying. Why is my iPhone doing this?
Right now, activity monitor shows that a process called "recentsd" is using 1.82GB of memory (1.08GB compressed, 752MB private) on my MacBook Pro running macOS 10.13.1. Some googling has lead to the conclusion that the process is somewhat related to the Mail.app and GMail (which I am also using): Memory leak in recentsd and Mail eating up all my RAM (from 2014) Issues with 'recentsd' using all of my RAM (11 months ago) macOS runaway process "recentsd" (also mentions 100% CPU load which I don't experience) The links also give some ideas for a solution (deleting the "com.apple.corerecents.recentsd" folder and reconnecting the gmail account). However, despite doing that, memory usage of recentsd is still very high (after some time - so it seems to be a continuous growth). Any idea what else I could try?
I've installed a Transmission daemon on one of my Macs. I'd like to have all torrents and magnet links I open on my other Macs to be opened by the program at that-macs-url:9091 via Transmission Remote GUI. How can I make this happen?
I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) on a Mid 2011 Mac Mini. My 'link' to iCloud Drive in Finder is missing or broken. I know there is a physical location for the iCloud cache on the local SSD, but I cannot find it. If I could I think I could just add a Favorite to the sidebar. Much thanks.
I'm new to mac os and Apple products in general, this is my first experience with it. While using my macbook pro for the first time, I saw that I have a "Confer" app which I didn't install, I tried to remove it but it fails because it's running.
We have users who connect their MacBooks to different types of touch screens. Each screen requires different drivers, so the users are having to install the appropriate driver when they switch to another screen. This is creating an issue. They just want it to plug and play. The drivers both get installed to the same folders under /Application/Utilities
Since yesterday, my Macbook Pro early 2013 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 beta has been randomly shutting down. After shutting down, it would take several tries for it to boot up and login, but then it displays this error message every time I login (see picture attached). I already tried resetting both PRAM and SMC, but the problem still occurs. Booting into safe mode wouldn't work when I pressed shift after the boot chime sound came (safe mode worked before this problem). Is there a way to fix this?
I've installed Brackets, but if I try to type brackets at the command line I get I've found that the shell script is located in /Applications/Brackets.app/Contents/Resources/brackets.sh. What is the recommended way to fix the problem - do I just define or should I somehow re-install/update Brackets?
I have an excel workbook open, with old file names in column A and new file names in column B. I am attempting to use the applescript below to rename my files. It runs without errors, but doesn't rename the files. Am I missing something? Any help is much appreciated.
Currently the finder says I have 127.09GB (out of 500GB) available. Disk Utility has 123.03 available. "About This Mac" shows 93.67GB available. System Information shows 79.4GB available. Anyone else having these kinds of issues and is there a way to get available space to 1) be accurate and 2) update instantly?
For several weeks, I haven't been able to go full-screen in any app on my laptop. I thought it was a Chrome problem with YouTube, because when I hit the full-screen button in a movie (bottom-right corner of the movie) it will expand to fill the browser window, but not the whole screen. Then to restore, hitting Escape or the exit-full-screen button doesn't get the video to reduce down again. Reloading the browser page works, though.
So, due to my iPhone 7 being on the developer beta program, I am unable to restore my iPhone X from a backup of the iPhone 7 unless I install iOS 11.2 beta... however I do not want the beta software on my new iPhone. The issue is that I now am stuck restoring from an older backup of the iPhone 7 that is compatible with iOS 11.1.2, I did this but I'm missing about a month of iMessages that are on the iPhone 7. I thought iMessages were supposed to sync via iCloud, but apparently that isn't actually a feature yet or something. Three questions: How do I transfer the messages from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone X without doing a restore - as I now have a bunch of new iMessages that are on the iPhone X that aren't on the iPhone 7? How do I transfer the messages from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone X without doing a restore - as I now have a bunch of new iMessages that are on the iPhone X that aren't on the iPhone 7? For some reason, the iPhone X is showing a software update message that says to updat
So I had always used my Macbook Pro for watching stuff on iTunes, but I would also download MP3 music and YouTube videos and would give it things like thumbnails and whatnot. But now I bought a new PC and want all of that back, but it's only showing the things I bought and not the other stuff. Can anyone help me? Thanks fellas!
I moved from Canada to USA but some webpages still detect my region as Canada. This happens in all browsers, even after I clear their browser data.
The only causal factor I can think of is that one day I put the Mac in my backpack with the external drive still attached. The Mac will sleep but not hibernate due to the OS design. I was jogging for an hour or two and when I opened my backpack the drive cable was no longer plugged in. Plugging or unplugging a USB device wakes a sleeping Mac and waking the Mac will cause the hard drive to start. Bumping or shaking a running hard drive can damage it. None of this should've had any effect on the rest of the Mac hardware I can think of.
I switched from my Mac to a PC that runs Windows 10 and have all my notes from the notes app on my Mac. How can I get all my notes? Thanks!
I want to stop a running driver on Mac OS then overwrite it with another version then restart. The files are overwritten to the same location.
I would like to restart the AFP service but I'm not sure how to do it anymore. In previous versions of OS X I would run serveradmin stop afp and serveradmin start afp, but serveradmin is no longer available in High Sierra.
My primary MacOS partition got corrupted and I can not repair it or make it bootable. Here's the breakdown of the situation: I had this MacOS Sierra partition, 450 GB, and a second partition with MacOS High Sierra, 50 GB. I booted as usual on Sierra and tried creating a new partition using Disk Utility by reducing the size of the 450 GB partition in 50 GB. The goal was to later enlarge the High Sierra one. The operation failed so I restarted, held CMD+R > Disk Utility and tried to First Aid my primary 450 GB partition. It failed as well. The High Sierra one still boots fine but when I try to repair the Sierra partition, Disk utility gives me this message:
Since the macos high sierra I have an issue navigating threw my desktops. For example I have a terminal open on full size (it will be on an other desktop) and mail open on the same way. I am on the terminal, I am doing the gesture with 3 fingers on the top using the trackpad to see all my desktops on the top of the screen. Now I am clicking on the desktop with the mail application, it is going to the mail for 1 second and after directly going back to the terminal. I have from time to time the same issue using the gesture 3 fingers on the left or the right, it automatically goes to an other desktop
I've cracked my new MacBook screen. A single staple that was lodged between hinges (not dropped damage). The screen is cracked and it wont display anything comprehensible. I've scoured the Internet looking for pricing ranges, from Apple Support to DIY screen replacement, no luck at all.
I'm running Adobe Photoshop CC on a Mac with 32GB RAM. I have no performance issues other than Perspective Warp. Sometimes it works immediately, sometimes after a few seconds (while I wait for the revolving rainbow wheel to stop spinning) but it seems to take longer each time I use it within a session - eventually generating an 'out of application memory' message and freezing Photoshop. Restarting the Mac usually resets the function. Can anyone help, please?
How do I remove macOS completely from my MacBook Air 2015 and install Windows 10 only after? I have tried formatting my drive to GPT and tried booting a Windows Installation USB however I'm stuck at the installer not being able to find any drives.
I have been a Prosumer OpenDNS Umbrella customer for years, but their App isn't being upgraded to 64-bit, so it won't work with iOS 11. It provides Umbrella's protections and also allows filtering by category of all internet traffic to/from an iPhone. This has saved me multiple times when I've mistyped web addresses and it reassures me that my child won't as likely stumble across inappropriate content.
I use this Blender computer only for running Blender jobs. Therefore the Deadline application is used. I have a Deadline slave on the Mac Pro and a Deadline slave on the Blender machine. The Deadline repository and database is on the Blender machine. This used to be Deadline 8 and everything worked just fine. Recently I installed a lot of software updates and also updated to Deadline 10. And now suddenly I have this problem that the Deadline Monitor on my Mac Pro cannot access the Deadline database on the Blender machine.
for encrypting and decrypting S/MIME mails? Or is there any alternative?
I found that Xcode on my laptop consumes much of its storage, so I am trying to delete unnecessary files in Xcode. There are four directories under Application/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/. I feel that WatchSimulator.platform and AppleTVSimulator.platform are not necessary, because I use Xcode almost only for basic iOS development. I would like to know if I can delete those platforms directories directly?
Recently I've noticed that if I'm sent an e-mail on multiple addresses for which I have accounts set up in Apple Mail (macOS or iOS), the Apple Mail client will only display only one of these mails, and provide no access (other than explicitly selecting to view one account) to the others. Moreover I can't choose which account's mail is displayed (and it can be different on macOS and iOS).
yesterday after waking my Macbook Air (Early 2015) with macOS Sierra from sleep I was greeted with gray login screen. Now I have gray every time I wake up my Mac. First time I had the same color as background on dock for some reason but that went away after I disabled "Reduce transparency" in Accessibility settings. I did some googling and found that this may be related to FileVault (since everything is encrypted OS presents gray background) however I had FileVault turned on since I got my Macbook and never encountered this gray thing.
I need to batch-process some (several hours of) audio files and get their frequency/amplitude data. I really have 10 folders each containing many wav files and I need the averages of each folder. I need to get the levels of different frequencies across each folder, and computing the levels individually for each file then averaging would work, and if you know of another method please suggest it. Is there a command-line tool (or other resource) that will compute these Fourier transforms for me?
I need to do some performance testing, and I need the MacBook to behave at i3 or i5 speeds. Is this possible? If yes, how? I have the MacBook Pro Retina / macOS Sierra 10.12.6 / 2.2GHz Intel Core i7.
I use lots of terminal tabs : I have 3 main 'groups' of terminals, with different profiles to allow me to know whether they are ssh's into remote servers (and then live or uat etc), as well as local terminals. In older versions of OSX the 'windows' menu would show one entry per 'window' (i.e. 4 entries), with the name being the currently active in that window. Now it seems that the windows menu shows an entry 'per tab' thats open, i.e. for 4 windows with 4 tabs each, 16 entries.
I have a 2017 MBP connected to a monitor with HDMI. On my laptop screen, when I double click the top bar of a window, it fills the whole screen up to the Dock. However, when I do that with a window that's in the monitor's screen, the window fills the screen vertically but not horizontally. Meaning I have to still manually resize the window. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?
So once a podcast ends, it doesn’t just automatically to the next episode anymore. Is there a way to get around this?
WhatsApp doesn’t “natively” allow iOS users to back-up (the term here is rather export) their chat histories to any destination other than iCloud. For my specific need, I need to have these chats in a readable, or at least recoverable format elsewhere other than iCloud. There are several services, mainly MacOS apps, that claim to be able to extract this kind of data, however I am very wary of anything that isn’t “stamped” by an authority.
I'm trying to change/access mobile and managed accounts on a Mac network system. System Preferences won't give me the option to change a password of a mobile account. How can I view or change this password?
My iPad Air (1) started dropping the Wifi connection at random times just after the major upgrade to iOS 11.0. Since then I have taken all the updates (6 I think now!) and am now running 11.1.2. I have experienced the same problem with every update - i.e There has been no difference with the dropped connections.
Upon trying to login to an all domains in Directory Utility, I am alerted with a window saying the account has expired. How can I re-enable it or fix this problem another way? I am able to unlock it with my administrator password, but it will not work for all domains.
In general on newer iOS versions, you can delete downloaded software updates by going to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage > and then finding the update and deleting it from there. Here is an article outlining the process.
With iCloud Photo Library we now have synced people albums. How do the scans on different devices interact?
I was able to send messages, or photos from my iPhone 7 to my work email address (Work email uses Outlook 2016 on Microsoft Exchange). I am no longer able to. But I can send to anyone else in the company. I am able to send from my work email to the same iPhone. I tried updating to iOS 11.1.1, but this did not resolve. Any ideas?
When in Windows 10 or in Windows 7, if I have an Excel file open and I want to know the path to the file I can use the ‘open current file in explorer’ button and it opens that file in the Windows Explorer, where I can copy the path to the file. However, in Mac, I am not able to find any option like that unless I open Finder and find the current file's name, then right click and choose Get Info on the file there.
I am using apple configurator 1.7.2. Accidentally someone upgrade IOS to version 11 as image for every no ipod touch. Is any way I can go back to version 10? I need it for run older application which not support version 11 yet. Thanks for any help
I need to connect my MacBook to a USB-C dock but the included USB-C cable isn't long enough. I have a several longer Thunderbolt 3 cables, so I wanted to know if I could connect the USB-C dock via a Thunderbolt 3 cable? I realize I cannot do it the other way around, but I have never seen anywhere where it said you cannot do it the way I am proposing. I'm using the CalDigit USB-C Dock.
After upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, I haven't been able to access my localhost. I tried restarting Apache, but it still didn't work. So I did apachectl configtest and got this error message: httpd: Syntax error on line 544 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _environ\n Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so\n Expected in: /usr/sbin/httpd\n Line 544 of my httpd.conf file is Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf The +php-osx.conf is an alias to entropy-php.conf, and line 8 of that file is LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so The remaining lines of entropy-php.conf are: LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so I am using Apache/2.4.28 (Unix) and PHP 5.6.30.
Since switching from Chrome to Safari, I've noticed that I no longer have an option to enable desktop notifications from YouTube or Facebook. For example, going to YouTube's settings > account notifications would yield this on Chrome:
I was trying to update my macbook pro from macOS sierra to macOS high sierra and suddenly it freezes. I tried to to restart it but all I get now is a flashing interrogation point :/
Is it possible to use boot camp to dual boot an existing Win10 HD (from a windows PC) by connecting adding it as the 2nd HD drive on a Mac Mini? OSX is already installed on the 1st drive. Is there a way to just install the new drivers? I just want to avoid moving all my Win10 application keys over. I know this is possible if I re-install a fresh copy of Win10 by this answer: Is it possible to use boot camp with windows 10 from an external hdd
I can open multiple URLs in the current Chrome window from the terminal: When I tried to open them in a new window using Chrome responds with only a blank new window. How can I open all of the URLs in a new window?
My iPad’s power button will not work, It is not jammed at all and the internet isn’t much help. I do not know what to do Please help.
Safari can ben opened from a terminal automatically When comes to close it, I have to press 'Cmd+Shift+W' or click quit option in dock
executed without a hitch and I found myself with an apparently fully working dual SSD APFS RAID-0 array. I later used Carbon Copy Cloner 5 to repopulate the drive with my the system's contents, and the operation proceeded without a hitch. Alas, when push came to shove, I found myself with the cryptic error message
I don't know how, but suddenly there are a lot of "Sharing Only" under Other Users. On my other mac, there are no such thing.
On my mid-2012 MacBook Pro the 'X' key is out of order. I noticed also that if I remove the cap and the hinge, pressing the cup does not produce the X character on the screen. The hinge is broken and I am aware that there are companies such as laptopkey.com that sell replacement keys, but the fact that pressing the cup does not work makes me spectical about the usefulness of just replacing the upper part of the key. Any advice appreciated. Related questions : here and there
I recently cleared my system caches and as usual moved them to trash and then clicked empty trash. After the cleanup I was designing some stuff when my eyes fell upon the trash icon, it was full inspite of the fact that I have recently cleared my trash, so I opened it and I came across this cache file (com.apple.kext.caches) no matter how many times I am clicking on empty trash, trash is not getting emptied it still shows full and the file still exits in the trash! The permissions on this file doesn't allows me read/write this file so tried to add myself (admin) via the get info panel and as expected macOS didn't allowed me to change the permissions. After trying everything to delete this file I though of putting it back in it's original place system>library>caches and guess a same file already exits so I didn't replaced it. Moving the cache file out of the trash recreates or creates an exact copy of the file within the trash. Trash is working normal it is deleting everything send to i
The F4 key worked before the HighSierra / Touchbar upgrade. I used Time Machine to migrate, so no configuration changed. The F4 also does not work with on an external Magic Keyboard, indicating a software / mapping issue.
I had been looking for a way to get a message from the printer when a print job is successfully completed. I looked for CUPS APIs but could not find a suitable one. I just started CUPS studies.
everybody i got tv (LG 43UJ6307-za 4K) when i connect it to mac. font are very ugly. when i connect it to windows everything ok. i got dump from screenResX.
Is there a way to clear "today's" activity history? Preferably, I would like to be able to do so selectively, as to remove a large amount of idle hours from the beginning of the day, resulting from me sleeping with my watch on.
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro from 10.8.5 to 10.10.5 and a) I want to install an older version of Opera (version 40) b) I want to eliminate the auto update issue. Issues: I tried downgrading Opera, but anytime I install an older version it autoupdates to the latest version without my consent. I tried downgrading Opera, but anytime I install an older version it autoupdates to the latest version without my consent. I tried with an old .dmg I had saved, however the OSX gives me this message when I click on it: I tried with an old .dmg I had saved, however the OSX gives me this message when I click on it:
I'm a software development student and I'm building an iOS app for a class. The thing is I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2009 with El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G17023) and an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.1.2 (15B202). The latest version of Xcode compatible with El Capitan (I think) is 8.2.1 and it is not compatible with my iOS version. The app im trying to make does not require ARKit or anything that advanced and I would like to know if is there a way I can make this work with my actual devices? I really dont have the money to upgrade my MacBook for a newest one nor for an older iPhone. Thanks a lot for your help!
How do I get rid of the Notification Center button in the menu bar in High Sierra? It's that one in the far right:
I want to hide spotlight from the menu bar  I never click this button. So I followed the instructions here and used this code to change the Spotlight file in some way: It hid the menu-bar icon, but it also disabled the ⌘+space keyboard shortcut that I use a lot. Is there a way to hide the icon in the menubar but allowing the keyboard shortcut to work? I just saw this other question asking the same thing but for Yosemite. The accepted answer doesn't work for me on High Sierra, and all the other answers suggest using third-party tools like Bartender which I don't want to do.
I have a Mac Pro (Late 2013, OS X 10.13.1) and a 4k monitor from Sharp that was back then sold as the standard display. I'm using a scaled resolution on the monitor since otherwise, the font would be too small. Since an earlier update of OSX, I'm experiencing small white lines that sometimes flicker across the screen. This issue seems to be related to the following Apple Community questions: Flickering Screen with macOs 10.12.4 horizontal flickering lines MBP late 2015 white flashing lines on screen macos 10.12.4 Why are there white lines running across my Macbook Pro(late 2013) screen? Horizontal flickering line across the screen
I want to display a notification using osascript in terminal, but the text I want to display is stored in a text file. How can I display that text in the notification?
In Eclipse I can use functional keys, for example F3 will go to the definition. In the MacBook Pro (2017), I need to first press fn to display Functional keys, then touch the key. This works fine on the main keyboard but does not work at the external keyboard used at home. At the external keyboard used at home F3 shows the applications. It is interesting that with the same computer and the same type of keyboard at work F3 on the external keyboard behaves as I want, it corresponds to Eclipse settings.
After upgrading to high sierra, my mac book started to slow down in performance especially with logic pro x. So, I decided to clean re-install the OS on to my Macbook, and also re-install apps like logic pro x.
I heard that a phone can be jailbroken and then "un-jailbroken." Is it possible to tell if an "un-jailbroken" phone has been jailbroken in the past?
I have installed a few programs from Epson to make my printer work and some of them run as background processes on my system, which are spawned by launchd, one of them is com.epson.eventmanager.agent. Unfortunately, there is no plist file describing it and it's impossible to remove it. How can I unload this from my computer? By the way, I've managed to kill that (and a few others correlating to this) with kill -9 <pid>.
I used the models in this website to test the performance of my computer to render 3D graphics, and I found that dragging a 3D model is very choppy in Safari, while in Chrome it’s much more fluid. I know little about how a computer works, but I’m curious about the reason for this difference. Device information: MacBook Pro 15" Retina, 2015 macOS version: 10.13.1
On Localhost I can access and connect to port 9150, but on another devices on the network it cannot see the port and cannot connect to it. I've checked and there is no firewall on the network preventing the connection. If it matters I have a proxy server running on that port that I need other devices to be able to connect to. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 on a MacBook Pro Early 2015.
Ive configured a hotmail account in an iPad Pro 12, the thing is the incoming mails load perfectly, but the outgoing just dont work propertly, sometimes the mails are sent after a few minutes, but you have to go to email app and retry the sending, others just wont send. Thanks.
I have Airport Extreme connected to FTTH via PPPoE and using ethernet to connect a second Airport Extreme to the first in bridge mode. If I have a Mac OS X Server connected via ethernet to the second AE, and the internal ip of the Server is setup as default host on the first AE, will all the server ports be available and reachable over the Internet or do I still have to manually do add port mappings in the Airport Utility Network tab?
I would like to transfer a call (mid-call) to another number. Is it possible?
I'm looking for an up to date solution... In Sierra 10.12, the file for the blurred png login screen (com.apple.desktop.admin.png) does not exist, at least there is no such file in the Library/Cashes folder. So even though I've managed to change the login screen image by replacing the one that was in the Library/Desktop Picture folder with one of the same file type and dimensions, I have not managed to un-blur the login screen image.
I am unable to open a numbers document I have used all the time. Nothing happens, or I get a blank screen and have to close numbers. If I try to copy or export the file it states The file does not exist.
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Retina, Mid 2014, macOS 10.13.1) shuts down randomly. It shuts down suddenly when on battery It shuts down a little more rare when connected to AC It works almost fine when in safe mode It works perfectly while I install macOS It works fine when I have an external screen connected and a YouTube video is playing there (it is my last solution to make work on this comp) but…
I have old email address address1@domain.com as an apple id. How to change email address to address2@domain.com correctly? I have only 1 iOS device. Should i log out from all services and change it through appleid page or i can change it directly from iOS devise without logging out from services (iMessage, iTunes etc.)? Thanks.
Unable to see iCloud tabs on iPad (safari). Tried signing out and in of iCloud on iPad. I can see iCloud tabs on iPhone from iPad.
I feel so stupid having to ask this, but... How do I view/select only photos that are saved on my iPhone on my iPhone? I have multiple hundreds of photos in my Photos app, most of which are there via whatever Apple's latest iteration of "photo stream" is, but according to my Photos app on my computer, there are 128 photos on the phone that are "already imported". I started scrolling through the app on the phone to delete them, but I realized they are hard to find! I can't delete them using the photos app on the computer. It won't do it. I try re-importing them so it will prompt me to delete them, and it seems like it's going to do it, but at the end, it just gives me an error about 16 photos it couldn't import and the 128 photos just sit there on the screen.
As I asked in the title, how can I check if a Mac is rebooting after experiencing a power failure. It would be preferable to check this using terminal or some other script, as I would like to test this automatically in a script upon system startup.
I can't open any .jar files. Java is up to date, the jar file is supposed to be executable, but I can't open it with Jar Launcher. Thanks in advance.
I recently changed my iCloud password to something more secure, but this got me wondering — what exactly is my iCloud password used for? If I have two-factor authentication turned on, does it really matter if my password has, say, 32 bits of entropy versus 48? Obviously more entropy is better assuming I can remember both just as easily, but other than purely stopping someone attempting to login to my account (which is already very hard due to two-factor authentication), what benefit does it provide?
I've got a Toyota Sienna that has a bluetooth connection for phone audio. I purchased the GTA Car Kit to connect to the stereo. This works great with Android devices. However, I've recently switched to an iPhone 6. While it will show that it is connected to GTA Car Kit, it almost never actually plays audio over it. How can I resolve this? It does work fine for the phone audio, and any other bluetooth device I connect it to.
I'm running High Sierra on a MacBook Pro. In the Messages app, My contacts are not present. Although, they are present in the Contacts app. My contacts are synced through iCloud. In the Messages preferences, I signed out multiple times, disabled and reenabled my account, nothing. Any ideas on solving this?
After updating my iPhone to the latest iOS version a couple of weeks ago, every time I go to use my iPhone I have 2 consecutive notifications flash up on my screen re iCloud "approve your device". Normally I can just tap OK through each and everything is back to normal. Whilst it was on Flight Mode today, it happened again, except this time the second message would not disappear and is now stuck on the screen and I can’t do anything with the phone. The message specifically states: Approval Request Sent To continue using iCloud on this iPhone, approve it from one of your other devices using iCloud or enter your iCloud Security Code OK Please advise by return email When I try to access the iCloud site, it's requesting I enter a Two Factor Authentication 6 digit pass code, but i guess its sending that to my phone, which I can’t access. How can I resolve this?
I got a late 2017 macbook pro running the High Sierra update. I am wondering if its possible to auto connect to a smb server. I need to do this manually everytime i start up at work. And as small as it is. It gets quite annoying! I have found a way to connect to AFP servers using a script (but im not using any) but that didnt work for me. Thanks!
I used to be able to mount disk images from the Finder via ⌘O, Double clicking, etc. but after using High Sierra for 1 day, it suddenly couldn't anymore in the middle of me using it.
As a software developer I insisted on buying a 4K Monitor which used to work with my previous MBP 2017 quite ok.The Retina MBP Late 2015 has output that lags quite a bit when I use a scaled resolution. The output is only OK if i try the 4k or 1080p resolutions which are not very optimized for reading things on the screen.
I have no clue why but every-time I try to update my apps it says billing info is required now I haven’t had this before and have purchases things before I started looking for a solution on the internet and it said to put my payment info to none so I did but nothing happens still says I need to fill-in payment info. Any help appreciated!
Can somebody please explain why I cannot use macOS's builtin screen sharing app to connect to Windows machines running the RealVNC server? I can only connect to them using the RealVNC viewer.
To open files within current dir with command: Atom opens them with restoring windows. To open atom fresh, I tried They didn't work as expected. How to open files under current dir in app atom without restoring windows.
I have MacBook Pro Retina with Touch Bar; macOS 10.13.1. Sometimes when I wake up my Mac by pressing TouchID it is turning on monitors then just resets. I have two Apple USB-C to VGA adapters, one USB hub and one USB-C to Ethernet adapter (all USB-C ports are taken). Now I have error dump:
So I just paid £200 for a new SSD hard drive (Crucial said it was a suitable upgrade for my MacBook Pro 15" mid 2012). But this isn't what I was expecting to see. :(
A new terminal window can be opened by a command Is there a way to open a new terminal tab?
I have hearing aids that uses Iphone BLE to listen to calls or audio played on the phone, but I would like to connect an external source like a laptop audio output to the input of the 3.5 mm jack microphone input. I have tried sending input to the microphone input, but the Iphone then just routes this audio back to the L+R outputs.
Needless to say every 0.1 second counts, I want to stay in the flow as much as possible. Current method of unlocking iPhone X pisses me off is really annoying - it requires 3 independent interactions. Related: Is there a way to unlock to Home screen without swiping up?
I have a mid 2011 Mac Mini running High Sierra. According to the apple help site, that model is incompatible with Night Shift. I have f.lux installed (had it for a couple of years) but it refuses to launch in High Sierra. I really like having the less blue night on the screen at night. Is there some way to work around this problem?
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 13" with High Sierra. Is it possible to somehow successfully connect a 27" Cinema Display with Mini DisplayPort to my MBP with an adapter? I have read from some people that it worked and from some others that it didn't work. Can you guys tell if it is possible? Because I have the opportunity to get a 27" Cinema Display for quite a cheap price (but only tomorrow because the person is there for a visit tomorrow). Would be kinda sad if I would purchase a Monitor for 460 Euros just to find out, that these two devices are not compatible and probably never will be in the near future because there is and will not be a working adapter for this specific case..
My wife's computer died and I wanted to restore some of the files from her Time Machine backup to an iCloud drive, so that she could get a new computer with a smaller drive (the files are photos and videos that she doesn't need all the time). So I used tmutil restore to restore directly from the backup drive to a folder on my iCloud drive.
This does not seem to work. I get:
I searched, but I can't find anyone else that seems to be experiencing quite the same issue. Others have reported issues with the mouse cursor, but not exactly the same problem I'm seeing. I may try and revert back to regular Sierra, but I wanted to see if anyone else is seeing the same thing or has any idea how to fix it? Here is a video showing the issue in WebStorm: *=URL=* And here is a video showing the issue in Chrome: *=URL=* The screencast doesn't capture the mouse cursor rapidly changing, especially in the Chrome video, but it is much more drastic than shown in the video.
How can I copy voice messages from Phone (not text or log information) from an iPhone 4 to a computer so you can listen back to them? I am a songwriter and the only was I was able to save some songs on a moment's notice was to call myself up and leave them as messages which I have renewed, some for over a year. This was before I found out about Voice Memos, which I would also like to transfer. I can record with a mic from the phone but the volume is very low.
I'm looking for an iOS app for iPhone 7 that scans for Bluetooth devices AND generates a log file (preferable in .CSV format) that contains the devices' IDs and their respective RSS with corresponding timestamps. I want to be able to do that continuously for a time duration, for example one minute. I looked on the app store but I couldn't find any. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I was told that I could only upgrade to 4 GB. I read on your site that as of 2014 it’s possible to upgrade to 8 GB or 16 GB? Is this true and how do I do this? Specs: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo equipped with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
Here's a short story: I was burning a OS 9 install disk on my Mac Mini because don't judge me. When it was done, the disk seemed fine, but it said the drive was "disconnected" after it finished burning. I looked at the disk (mounted on the desktop, even though I told it to eject) and it seemed fine. Just to be sure, I burned it again to another CD-R, same error, disk not mounted, drive not ejected.
When I click "Import All New Photos" from my iPhone 7 in Photos.app, it imports all the pictures but doesn't seem to recognize it's done so. After clicking back to the iPhone tab, the photos that were imported are still marked as "New Photos", rather than "Already imported". The pictures that aren't recognized as "already imported" seem to be "live" and they show up like this when import them.
After purchasing "OS X Lion" installer, I am trying to download the installer on my newer Mac. In the App Store app, when clicking the Download button, I get an error message stating: We could not complete your purchase. This version of Mac OS X 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer.
I am looking for a script-based solution executed in the command line. Open a new window of terminal at specified ~/desktop Open a terminal tab How to open a terminal tab at a particular dir.
I've been happily using Magic Trackpad 2 for exactly a year and a week (suspicious ;)) and today it started acting strange - I'm using only three gestures mainly (dictionary lookup, two finger scroll and pinch to zoom) and the pinch to zoom seems buggy - I'm not sure if that's the problem with the trackpad or the MacOS (10.12.6 - but I've been using that one for months now with no issues). So in short - before I was able to pinch to zoom all the time, right now I have to pinch and nothing happens and then quickly pinch again to actually zoom. Most of the time it works 50% of the time. I have only one MacBook and I'm wondering if I can somehow check if it is really an issue with my Trackpad or maybe with the OS itself?
My Friend recently gave me her old iPhone 6 and she said that it was currently iCloud locked to AT&T. I have no clue what an iCloud locked AT&T iPhone means. Can I still use the iCloud Locked AT&T iPhone 6 as an iPod to store some music on?
I'm trying to figure out why sometimes my icons don't display properly on my Late 2016 MBP with TouchBar. It happened back when I was on Sierra and now on High Sierra as well. It seems that they only revert to the default app icon in the dock, but most of the time the app icon really does show up in mission control.
My iMac 2015 model is giving me a popup "USB Accessories Disabled. Unplug the accessory using too much power to re-enable USB devices" and none of the USB ports work.
Is there anyway to have an iPhone remember which computers it trusts? Everything I plug mine into any computer that I've already allowed it to trust, it asks me again, "Allow this device to access photos and videos?"
I am planning to follow the instruction from MacSale to add an additional SSD to a mid-2011 27" iMac (*=URL=* It will be placed under the optical drive.
On Best Buy's Q&A page for this monitor (HP Pavilion 32" LED QHD Monitor, Model 32Q, SKU: 5759502) there is a contrary, albeit specific, answer to the question of whether one can connect an MBP to that monitor. Now, I have no doubt that MBPs can be connected, but I am wondering about my laptop's lack of retina display and the potential of not being able to enjoy full resolution.
My scenario is a little different to existing Q&As on this topic and perhaps belongs into more than one category but as the following code is AppleScript / Shell based, I figured this is the place to start. Scenario I am working on an authentication method that involves encrypting an authentication password on the client side using an RSA public key that matches my (the server's) private key. A random salt is hashed with the authentication password to reduce the possibility of duplicate encrypted text. The encrypted string is then passed as a parameter into a PHP page where it is decrypted, the salt discarded and authentication password read. So far... Generating the salt and concatenating the string to it is simple, but this is where I am stuck: How do I implement the correct encryption script with the hardcoded key defined at the top, INSTEAD OF referencing the .pem file that was generated through RSA gen creation? How do I store the encrypted outcome into a variable INSTEAD OF a fil
I was using Safari and I moved the cursor to the top right-hand corner. It shows the "switch screen" fine:
I have a macbook Pro 2017 - I was always able to use the SMS and iMessage function on all my apple devices. Last weekend, iMessages just stopped sending. I get a not delivered and red exclamation mark on them. Not so with SMS to non IOS users, they are good as before. The messages sync when I send from my phone, but won't send when I type on my Mac. I have done all the suggestions on the forums. logged out and in again, checked settings on my phone, set preferences, my appleid is set - I can't find anything that will work.
I have a MBP 2016 which, since upgrading to High Sierra, struggles to drive my LG UltraFine 4k at 60hz. A reboot into safe mode fixes it temporarily, but it reverts to 30hz after the 3rd or 4th wake from sleep.
I just got a new MacBook Pro 13inch with Touchbar and I need to transfer my data from my old MacBook 12 to it. While using migration assistant over wifi, it always has errors or got stuck so I'm going to try the target disk mode. I did some research and a YouTube video says I need to use Thunderbolt 3 cable, so I just went to a local hardware store to buy the cable.
I just installed Glimmerblocker on a computer I proxy through. It's great. However, all the activity seems to be at least three years old. Some ads are getting through. Does anyone know of any Glimmerblocker XML filters for the modern era, or have a recipe to add modern blocklists to Glimmerblocker? Thanks!
I'm going to buy iPhone X and I wonder which size will be most appropriate, 64GB or 256GB. I'm not a big user of apps, taking pictures or video but because my iPhone 5S 16 gb is full right now I am afraid iPhone X will fill up in the years ahead. I'm using iCloud storage to optimize storage on iPhone so all my photos and videos are on iCloud. For now I would like to keep all my files on the device.
I have a problem with iBooks that I download a book from iBook but I cant remove a totally the source of this book. I edit this text because I didn't write about the device to delete from. my device is MacBook Pro and I like to delete source of a file in types .epub from my iBooks but I cant do this and after removing the file from iBooks the book it's there and I just can hide it!
Then, when mDNSResponder forgets the address, the same tools give the following results (notice ping is the only one that does not work): This problem is similar in ways to another unanswered question here, from way back in 2012: ping and browsers do not seem to use local DNS server? (or: mDNSResponder looses local dns server?) Any advice on how to overcome this problem is welcome. (I would like to add the tag: mDNSResponder but don't have the reputation to do so.)
The MacBook Pro is running v10.11.6 and the iPhone is on v11.1.2, both devices can see other people's MacBooks and iPhones, but these particular two devices just won't see each other. Both devices are set to AirDrop ‘everyone’, the iPhone is logged to an iCloud account, the Mac is not signed into any account (it's a company device)
Today I updated my Mac from Mac OS X Mountain Lion to macOS High Sierra. After I log into my account I immediately see this message: "routined wants to use the "Local Items" keychain" I tried to use my Mac account’s local password, but the alert did not disappear.
I have an iMac with a Fusion drive running High Sierra. Time Machine is enabled and backs up to an external disc. Time Machine takes daily local snapshots so that you can go back to a specific day, even if you don't plug in your backup disc every day. Unfortunately, this feature is enabled only on laptops, as the aforelinked page says.
I have a busted close-bracket key on my keyboard. Previously, I had used Karabiner to map L-control+open_bracket to close_bracket using a custom rule I wrote in the xml-format used by karabiner.
I have an iPhone 5C and have logged out of iCloud (in order to test in App Purchasing on an App under development). The 'phone indicated "Removing iCloud data...", which seems reasonable, but it has been stuck like that for around 30 minutes now, which does not. There is not that much iCloud data on the 'phone.
TextEdit in macOS has the ability to attach a file to a rich text document. However, I cannot figure out how to invoke the functionality via AppleScript. The following AppleScript is the farthest I've been able to get; it does not produce errors when run, but it also does not attach a file: What is the correct code to attach a file to an RTFD document using AppleScript (preferably without using GUI scripting)?
My setup is this: MacBook Pro TouchBar Late 2016 (15'') a Dell P2415Q display, connected via USB-C → DisplayPort cable External keyboard, mouse, connected wirelessly (through dongles/hub/then usb-c cable) + an Apple bluetooth trackpad. the MacBook stays in clamshell mode.
I found this app that I needed to disable from association to music and video files that it's capable of opening, and the app doesn't have an option to disassociate filetypes. It's a media player, and after installation, it tends to become the default app for both music and video filetypes. Is there any terminal command to dissociate the apps from any filetype it's defaulted to? If not, any way to disable it from associating files as a default player for those filetypes? Thanks!
I'm using Internet Sharing to share an Thunderbolt Ethernet connection over Wifi. Is there any danger of IP address conflicts with the devices the on the parent LAN? Can devices on the parent LAN ping or directly communicate with the shared devices via their IP addresses?
How can I create a SUMIF statement with multiple criteria? I have a spreadsheets where I track hours for different clients in one table, and below this table I want to summarize in a summary table the hours per client if that work is finished and if it is billable. My Statement would say, SUMIF: Textfield ClientName = "InsertClientName" Checkbox for billable hours = TRUE Checkbox for finished work = TRUE So in my imagination it would have to be: SUMIF(((ClientName="InsertClientName")&(BillableHours=TRUE)&(FinishedHours=True));Hours) How can I create a formula like this? I have browsed the Apple Help Forums and StackExchange, but they mostly show SUMIF Statements with one criteria, or people use IFAND Statements and every row to use that in their SUMIF Statement, but my problem is that I will at least need two criteria in my summary table All hours of ClientX where the hours are checked as billable. Looking forward to your answers.
After macOS High Sierra upgrade I noticed "QuickLookUIService" is always in "Using Significant Energy" list. Has anyone have same problem? And is there any suggestion about this? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) Version 10.13.1
I would really like to use a script to enable these things on macOS High Sierra, by using defaults. I know how to create the script in .bash_profile, as I will use a function for it, and then just run the function in the terminal. However, what I'm missing are the actual strings to enable the following: Displaying of Bluetooth icon Displaying of Volume icon Displaying of battery percentage Displaying of full date Are any of these programmatically settable by using Defaults, and have they changed a great deal between 10.6-10.13? Ok, based on what IconDeamon said in the comments section for this post, I was able to go and edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and was able to see a list of menus that I have enabled.
I just got a new iPhone X and am curious if I should protect it from scratching the lens. I am using an Element Case to protect but is this enough for the lens of the camera too? thx
I am trying to install macOS Sierra from the Mac App Store and can’t get through. I get a AMD-Action:authenticate:SP error message. What does this mean?
What is the path to the global directory (for example: /usr/local/bin etc.) for binary files in macOS?
Can you view iTunes's 4K movies on an iMac 27 5K display, or on an Macbook Pro with the HDMI output connected to a 4K TV?
I'm looking for ballpark figures for what 4K movies from iTunes use in terms of network bandwidth. Is this documented or something that's a known range?
so I've noticed that when I push down on the wires of my headphones they act as if I'm pushing the microphone jack and making my iTunes go crazy. I can squeeze any part of the headphone wires and get the same response I would get from pushing the button on the microphone jack to start/stop my music. Sometimes it even happens just when I'm moving the headphones around. What is happening and how do I make it stop! It's driving me insane!
Is it possible to use a "dba" (doing business as) when registering as an Apple Developer as a sole proprietor? The objective would be to have the "dba" show up as the developer in the App Store, instead of the legal name of the sole proprietor person.
First of all, let me state the following. I did use the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows Support Software, but because of the iMac's drive partitioning, I can not use the Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10.
I have been using my NAS named JBPersonalCloud for a while, and I always used Wi-Fi to connect to my home network. A few days ago, I connected my Mac to my home network via both Wi-Fi and Ethernet for a couple of minutes to test the Ethernet speed. But then I dropped the wire and remained Wi-Fi only. However, since then, Finder has started to show my NAS as JBPersonalCloud-2. But there is no second JBPersonalCloud, and I am using the original connection interface (Wi-Fi).
I installed logitch app for bluetooth keyboard months ago. After I uninstalled it from 'Application', it remind me to update every time I power on. How to remove it?
Is it possible to change the native low battery notification alert from 10% of remaining battery to 20%?
For a while, I had a Linux-based AFP server in my network. Due to issues not related to this question, I've decided to switch it off. Problem is - the server still appears in the Finder sidebar. The original server name was hostname-afp, and for a few weeks, the entry of that name was still visible in the sidebar. About a week ago, the name changed to hostname-2-afp, now it is hostname-3-afp. Where does Finder store the reference to that server, and how do I remove it?
I'm in the process of setting up a new iOS 11 device, and got the Quick Start prompt at the beginning. I've always used the iTunes backup/restore route as (as far as I know) it's the fastest way to do the transfer, keeping the passwords etc in the new device... But I want to know if the "Quick Start" method requires an iCloud backup, or it might work off an iTunes backup. Checking the apple pages Transfer content from your previous iOS device to your new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support, the relevant section says: Your new device offers the choice of restoring apps, data,tand settings from your most recent iCloud backup, or updating your current device's backup and then restoring So I'm not too clear if it's just for iCloud backup or the updating your current device's backup might also cover iTunes Thanks!
When I connect my iPhone SE to MacOS Photos, not all photos on the iPhone shows up for import. In MacOS Photos import, it says: Already Imported (483 items) New Items (4 items) and on the iPhone SE, it says: 1.220 Photos, 40 Videos
Recently I got myself into quite a pickle that eventually required I format my Mac’s dual-SSD RAID-0 array and restore from a Time Machine backup. Unfortunately Time Machine has spent the past 24 hours stuck on “Preparing [destination disk]” and shows absolutely no sign of progress. (The backup is hosted on a Time Capsule-emulating Synology NAS.) There is no information on what is going on behind the scenes, just a solid pulsing blue progress bar that doesn’t even initialize and start creeping rightwards. Before the process began there was some cryptic remark about encryption needing to be disabled subsequently re-enabled as FileVault once restoring is complete, and I authorized the request to erase the destination disk. Quite suspiciously it asks me to acknowledge disabling encryption every time I restart the process, which might imply that some latent form of FileVault is lingering, but I have erased the disk several times and each time explicitly instructed the system to format as J
It says that there are 37 pictures on iCloud however, only 24 of them are showing. I have logged into the iCloud website and only 24 of them are showing up. Does anyone know why, and how I can view the other ones that aren't showing?
I recently try to install ionCube loader and when I tried to check my PHP version via Terminal, it gave me an -bash: $: command not found. How can I fixed that?
I would like to play music (nuryl) on the bluetooth speaker (for my son), while listening to a different app (siriusxm) via headphones. Possible? Iphone 6S. Thank you for any information.
I just got one of the new 12-inch MacBooks and would like to wipe the storage drive. With a conventional SATA drive I'd use the "ATA Secure Erase" command which can be sent from a Linux environment using the hdparm utility.
Is it possible or advisable to have multiple Apple ID's for use with iTunes? I am trying to authorize a new computer for use with iTunes and have reached the maximum number of authorizations for my regular Apple ID (5). Was wondering about the feasibility of that approach as opposed to deauthorizing devices.
I've been having this problem for a while now and it really starts to bother me. Every once in a while, a lot of my app icons go missing in the dock, launchpad, finder, cmd-tab switcher, just everywhere. Some pictures:
This discovery came after my latest question: High Sierra's External Display bug heats Macbook's, damaged my Retina Screen, what can I do? I use my macbook on a stand with good airflow, after High Sierra, I noticed unusual high heating along with poor gpu performance, afterwards I noticed screen damage, and now, I discovered that my macbook is physically swollen, 2-3mm's I'm guessing The issues could be unrelated to High Sierra, yet, it would be too big of a coincidence if it's not the cause, as things were breezy beforehand Here's a picture of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/feBG7
A family member has a really old iphone case that is pretty nice and I'm trying to find the company behind it. Unfortunately the case did not come with packaging (as far as we can remember), it was sold in the Apple Store at the time, and it doesn't have the company name on the case itself, just a logo:
Until now I've always scanned through the Printers & Scanners part of options. It's far from great so now I want to try scanning through Preview. Now I get this error message: The scanner is in use by application '(null)'. And I get it both from Preview as well as the stuff I used before.
I've got a 12-inch MacBook I would like to reinstall. Before doing so I've cleared the storage drive, reset the SMC and NVRAM. I've got a macOS High Sierra USB ready from which it successfully boots. The issue is that after booting from the USB, partitioning the internal drive and going through the "Install macOS High Sierra", it reboots the machine (presumably to continue the installation) - the problem is the machine just starts from the same USB drive and brings me back to "macOS Utilities".
My father-in-law reported an "Invalid SSL certificate" suddenly started appearing on his online banking website. After verifying it's not a website issue (it loads correctly on other computers), I understood that the root certificate of the website certificate is not being trusted probably because too new and the Mac is not being updated anymore. Is my understanding correct? Is my understanding correct? If yes, is there a safe way to download new root certificates that are being added to recent Macs? If yes, is there a safe way to download new root certificates that are being added to recent Macs?
I would like to connect to a specific AP in a mesh network of 12 APs. My Mac automatically connects to the AP with the highest signal strength, but this unit is misconfigured and can't connect to the internet. Since every AP node in the mesh uses the same BSSID, I can only tell them apart by their hardware MAC address. Is there a way to tell MacOS to connect to WiFi by MAC instead of by BSSID? I've looked at the "networksetup" command and don't see how to do it. Thanks!
Is there a way to adjust MacBook Pro's Touch Bar brightness? MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6
I have the following snipped in an AppleScript: The complete script can be found here.
I'm new in the MacBook world. I have a MacBook Pro 2017 13" with only two ports. It was enough because I only need one for the power and other for an external monitor. But now I'd like to use a third monitor and honestly I'm lost with all connectors: DisplayPort, USB-C, Thunderbolt 3.0... adapters? I've bought a monitor with VGA and HDMI and I already have another with VGA and HDMI.
I am being driven crazy by the fact that my media keys aren't working for iTunes. Such a pain! How can I fix this? I've tried the whole Chrome Extensions thing, that being I deleted all my extensions. Still, nothing has fixed this. Thanks to all who reply!
I'm running macOS Sierra on an early-2015 Macbook Air. I've used mac mail to connect to gmail, as well as several other account profiles for years. Two days ago, the gmail connection failed (other accounts are loading normally). When I clicked on "accounts offline" in the top corner, it explained that the login to gmail had failed, and I should re-enter my password. Here's the login screen it brought me to.
How can I allow an app to make changes without typing in the password, but using TouchID on the Touch Bar instead? MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Example:
Sometimes, my MacBook Pro (2016, 13", macOS Sierra 10.12.6) would not let me unlock it with TouchID, saying "password is required to use TouchID". Is there any way I could always allow TouchID to unlock my MacBook?
I've received sudo rm -rf on my machine (MacBook Pro 2017 13", Sierra). As it's expected, most of applications disappeared or stopped working.
My mom just got a new iPad. Now her old one used to be my brother's so his old apple ID is on that one, but will all her purchases. Now she would like to create her own apple ID for her new iPad. Is there a way for her to create a new appleID without losing all her data and purchases from the old apple ID?
Based on, for example, the Wired reporting, this is major bad news. Intel® Management Engine Critical Firmware Update (Intel SA-00086) - www.intel.com *=URL=* Is Apple hardware/macOS vulnerable?
I have gotten a MacBook for my high school, and as I have no phone or other portable mobile devices, it makes it really complicated to contact my parents, when they don't have apple phones, and especially when the only way I know is email. Help and suggestions would be gratefully accepted.
The machine in question is a mid-2010 Macbook Pro w/ the Intel Core 2 Duo (P8600 2.4GHz). I'm not entirely clear on whether or not the memory compression feature in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and beyond takes advantage of compression instruction sets in the newer Intel processors. That being said, is it implemented completely in software and would work on all Apple hardware capable of running 10.9 and beyond, regardless of processor, or does it require a more modern processor with these instructions that speed-up the compression? An example of a compatibility issue with processors is the AESNI instruction set in the newer Intel architecture that greatly speeds up AES and hashing routines, but is unavailable in a lot of AMD processors and the Intel Core Duo series.
You found that the book you were going to order online is in stock at your neighborhood bookstore (it's a near fantasy for your neighborhood bookstore to stock a book you actually want, but it's just an example! It applies for any kind of shopping list).
iOS 11 started to have screen recording. Is there a way to change the bitrate of the recording?
I just purchased a refurbished Macbook air running Sierra a few weeks ago. Starting at about 4:00 today, my macbook started losing connection to the internet. I stay connected to wifi, but I am unable to get out. I am unable to ping my router (192.168.1.1), and all TCP/DNS traffic fails. If I turn my wifi off and on again, I can get back on the internet for a short period of time. Running wireshark, I see Spanning Tree Packets that look like they originate from the Router. As far as I can tell, my device is the only one having this problem. Is there a simple solution here?
I am learning French and I have a folder with 5000 words in it (ie 5000 mp3 files). Out of the 5000 words there are 1243 that I still don't know. I want to extract those 1243 words and put them into a separate folder. I have the 1243 file names listed in Excel, eg "autrement.mp3" How do I search for them all at once, or in batches? Thanks!
I need to prevent my 13" 2016 MacBook Pro from sleeping. I'm using the Sonnet Echo Express III-D and when the Mac sleeps, all cards in the devices are disconnected and won't come back until the Mac is restarted or Thunderbolt 3 cable is removed and reconnected. I have a case open with Sonnet, but until then, I don't want my Mac to sleep. The Mac is running High Sierra and there appears to be no setting in Energy Saver that keeps the Mac from going to sleep while on the Power Adapter, other than this:
My MacBook Pro (15 inch, mid-2014) suddenly broke last week. The only symptom I can see is a strange progression of kernel panics. I believe these are indicative of some hardware issue, but I'm not sure what it is because (1) I've ruled out my prior hunches with testing and (2) Apple Hardware Test comes up clean. I'm a relatively experienced Mac troubleshooter, so here's a quick summary of what I've tried. Things that work normally: Target disk mode (TDM) Apple Hardware Test Disk chooser The download portion of Internet Recovery The MBP's install of macOS booted by another Mac using TDM (Notably, all of these things are implemented in EFI/firmware and don't touch macOS.) Things that work partially: Single user mode Things that don't work: macOS Sierra on the SSD macOS Sierra recovery on the SSD macOS Sierra on an external drive Windows 10/Bootcamp on the SSD macOS High Sierra installed onto the SSD using another Mac w/ Target Disk Mode
I have a hotspot connection on my iPhone 7 Plus phone that is extremely slow. The Internet on my phone is extremely fast. When I connect a device the connection is very slow. The device is a smart TV. I have an option to connect an Ethernet cable to my TV. I have unlimited data and hotspot plan. Is there any way to use my phone hotspot to connect to TV via Ethernet and will the connection be faster?
On my MBP Early 2013 running macOS 10.13.1 Beta, it sometimes randomly shuts down and when logging in, it shows a warning that says Panic Medic Boot. This problem has been happening since last week. I have been trying numerous solutions, such as resetting PRAM and SMC, Apple Hardware Test, safe mode (doesn't work), and even recovery mode/internet recovery mode (also doesn't work), but all of the tests say that there is no problem.When I go to the Kernel Panic log files, it says this:
As I understand it Time Machine will create the folder structure and create a copy of all of the files that are to be included in the Time Machine backup during the first backup. After that a hard link is created during every subsequent backup for files that have not been changed.
I have been trying to pass photos to a shared album on MacOS High Sierra and nothing happens. Sometimes a little ball at the top fills up which seems to indicate it has transferred but it hasn't. I have tried opening and closing it several times, restarting my laptop and closing the photos agent and still nothing. Any other ideas?
My iphone currently runs on ios 9.2. I want to update it to ios 10 so that I can use an app I need for school. I dont want to update to ios 11 yet though. Is it possible to update to an earlier version of ios or do i just have to update to ios 11? Thank you!
I've given myself a nickname of "Me" so that I can tell Siri to "email me." Unfortunately, Siri now uses this nickname all the time, thus producing nonsense like "It's 8:25 PM. Good evening, me" when I ask what time it is.
I have a video, recorded on a recent Panasonic Lumix, that I wish to convert from its MOV format to something that will work on mobile devices when served from my Web Server. Initially I converted it using: Both the conversion and playback worked fine, but I decided I wanted a higher resolution as it didn't look so good on larger mobile devices, so I tried: With the PresetAppleM4V1080pHD preset, I got an endless stream of output in my console as follows:
A colleague added an extra MS exchange email account to her Mac Mail app. Unfortunately, the emails to this address are being saved into the inbox for the other MS exchange email account. How do we separate the two inboxes please? Thanks.
I would love to route my PS4's audio through my macbook pro. Is there any way to make my macbook pro pretend to be a headset for the PS4?
I have a PDF that won't open in Preview; it gives this error message:  However, it will open in Acrobat Reader, but cannot be resaved, or saved with a new file name from Reader:
iTunes/Apple Music links people send to me in 'messages' redirect to itunes.apple.com on my default browser(safari) instead of opening up in iTunes on MacOS 10.13.1. How do I get it to open in Apple Music/Itunes which is the usual behaviour on other macOS devices?
I have a Macbook Pro 13" 2016, without Touchbar (16G1036, macOS 10.12.6) that has been randomly crashing since it was purchased. Last week it gave the message Your computer has been shutdown due to an error twice. What are the most likely causes for this - and is there high hopes in Apple care finding and fixing an unpredictable issue like this?
I zip folders using "finder right-click compress". I am sure that every now and then zipping will fail silently. The failure will only be known when trying to unzip the file:
Specifically I’d like to be able to take a photo some else shot on their iPhone and still be able to tweak the depth filters and so on. Right now when sharing from Airdrop I just get the image flat and am unable to edit the depth data.
I upgraded to Skype 8.11 from 7.x and found that I am now getting audio notifications when I receive a chat message. In the previous version of Skype you had fine-grained control over the notification sounds and I had almost all of them disabled. In this version of Skype that option appears to have been removed. In my application settings I only have 'Chat notifications' enabled; 'In-app notifications', and 'In-app sounds' and turned off.
It used to be in that one could disable the ambient noise reduction in the sound preferences. But I can't seem to find that option anymore, which means when I record sound with the built-in mic I have to accept the warbling effect.
Every time I send a link to my MacBook through AirDrop it now opens as a .txt file instead of opening in Safari which is really annoying.
I did the same thing as mentioned by the poster of this question and I am facing the same problem. My Mac is not booting in OS X and I am unable to find the startup disk also. I gave the same commands and found that the partition type is changed as OP's.
I have one video which is playing well in Windows machine and also sound is coming. But, while I am playing same video on Mac or iPad, sound is not coming. In my Mac and iPad, I have tried other videos which are playing and also sound is coming. In QuickTime Player, if I view details of the video which does not give sound, I cannot find AAC, whereas in other video, I find it. Here is the screenshots: Screenshot 1 shows the details of video that gives sound:
I haven't installed any new hard drive on my macbook pro 10.8.5. But since July I've had an Untitled disk on my desktop. Is this a hacker? I have two hard drives listed under About this Mac. A few weeks ago, I found some of my documents & pictures in the Trash - but I didn't put them there. Can anyone tell me how to find out if this is from an malicious source - or what it may be? Many thanks!
Please help with the above. I uninstalled the files but the icon won't go away! I tried the terminal, went into Applications and I can see both "EndNote Cite While You Write" and "EndNote X8" (without the .app in the end and with spaces between words, which is unusual) but when I try to remove with rm -rf, it says "files do not exist". How do I get rid of it , please?
The trackpad's click often fails during normal use. It fails when the computer is used in a horizontal position flat on the table, but when the computer is tilted at a 45º angle the click starts working again. The computer has gone to sleep twice in the middle of use. Now every time I wake the computer up from sleep, the computer's screen flashes green or with a pixelated image, and the trackpad and keyboard do not work, so I have to force shutdown and do an SMC restart. I was using El Capitan when the problems started, and now I have updated to High Sierra with no improvement.
So suppose I want to make a terminal command and I also want to add specific flags how do I accomplish this? What is the syntax for this and how do accomplish this?
I'm trying to get a bootable hard drive with macOS Sierra going so that I can use Octane Render. My Macbook is running macOS High Sierra, which is apparently buggy with Octane at the moment.
I know this question has been asked before, but there is only one answer: It isn't possible. I recently got a new MacBook Pro (2016, 13", macOS 10.13.1) and I'd like to use my old MacBook Pro (2011, 15", macOS 10.13.1) as an external monitor. Is there any application that would allow me to do this? Before you go on with screen sharing over VNC, be aware that that is NOT what I'm asking for. ScreenRecycler won't work as it requires macOS 10.6 or older.
I need to replace a cracked Retina Display on a 15″ MacBook (2015), but I do not want to buy Apple's expensive replacement parts. Is there third-party hardware that I could use? "Retina Displays" are simply high-PPI IPS or OLED displays, which many other brands of laptops also use.
b) sometimes when I'm working on my computer is in closed-display mode and I remove two mDP - DVI cables from it, then open the lid - it's off. I know the Mac is not off because I just unplugged two cables and never turned it off but the screen is black. I have to reset it. It doesn't happen if I open the lid then unplug the external displays first. I'm running Sierra 10.12.6. Any hints?
Severe newb here. I have a shell script that simply calls a perl script to create a file. It works if I double-click the SH file, but fails if I call the file in a terminal. here is the entire SH file:
I set up a VPN server following the instructions here which I was able to connect my iPhone to over wifi yesterday pretty easy. This morning though, when I'm on wifi, it will try to work and fail. What's weird is if I turn off wifi and force it on cellular data, the VPN works just fine. Also, if I turn off VPN and run on wifi, it works just fine. Only when I try to use VPN and WIFI does it not work. What am I doing wrong? Below is my .mobileconfig xml
My keyboard has suddenly stopped working properly. I can only write by using the keyboard viewer! Basically the characters: ijklmno u and a few other keys don’t work on the Mac's built in keyboard. System information: MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB Mac High Sierra 10.13.1 Also not able to modify system settings for scrolling. Any solutions are appreciated!
macOS High Sierra has a new area in Mail called “Top Hits.” How do I disable/remove it?
I have been using the Modifier Keys option for a few years. It is however not working on Sierra for external keyboards. The screenshot shows the configuration:
My mid 2009 15" Macbook Pro (2.53 Ghz) has recently been shutting down at random. Doesn't matter if plugged into battery or not.
I'm using the Notes.app with different accounts: my iCloud account and some 3rd party IMAP accounts. Whenever I paste a formatted/styled text to a note in a regular IMAP account (using Paste and keep style), all is fine. However, when I paste the same text, using the same Paste and keep style in a iCloud note, the background colour disappear. I'm using this a lot to keep extracts from my Terminal commands as documentation. With IMAP account: With iCloud account:
I have a 4-thunderbolt-port MacBook Pro (2016, 13", macOS High Sierra 10.13.1) and I can use any of those ports for charging the MacBook. Is there any way to get an output of which port I'm using at the moment to charge and which port I'm using the most (to charge)?
How can I count files (without subdirectories) of a certain folder in AppleScript? How can I count subdirectories (without files) of a certain folder in AppleScript? How can I count both files and subdirectories of a certain folder in AppleScript? For example:
I turned off iCloud photos on my iPhone. After that, some of my photos have been lost. How can I find them again and then restore them?
The shortcuts page in the PowerPoint docs does not mention any shortcuts for formatting a paragraph as bullets/numbered - and how to then reset a paragraph back to normal/un-bulletted. I am guessing such shortcuts do exist .. does anyone happen to know them?
I am a lone Mac user in a company that uses PCs...I often get file paths that I need to manually navigate. I have found some scripts, but they don't seem to be working for me. I'd like to be able to right click on a highlighted path and click on a script that directs me to Finder and the associated file. Here is an example of my PC path vs Mac path: PC Path: P:\city\projectname Mac Version of the same path: smb://perkinswill.net/projects/city/projectname The code I found thus far is the following: Script: “Convert Windows to Mac path and open it” I appreciate your help!
I Usually have usb powered display that I use, and have upgraded to high sierra, I noticed that the display was not working. Did a bit of googling and they have problems and says run this script to reset your display, I did this and know my calendar says M11 instead of NOV. I tried to open thunderbird it wont open just bounces forever, tried webstorm and phpstorm they wont open, but most things still work. How can I change the date back to NOV as I think the programs check the date format before opening, and M11 will maybe not be recognised. The link for the script was here Display Link
I have just replaced the original HDD in my late 2011 MacBook Pro with an SSD. I did the Command-Option-R startup procedure to install the OS from scratch, however when I try to use disk utility to reformat the disk it just shows up the 2GB internet restore partition disk1s1. If I open the terminal and execute te command diskutil list I can however see the new disk disk1 at 1.1TB. How can I reformat the new drive so I can install the (latest) OS?
When I open the .ods file in microsoft excel I would like to on the "Alert" dialog box click "Yes" with the apple script.  I try like this, but not work :( Any help?
I have been having issues with Safari 11 using WebDriver. I was able to bypass that authentication popup by using the following:
I never had iPhone and I'm thinking about getting an SE and in this video author claims iPhone SE takes pictures in 4:3 format (not 16:9). It seems weird because many of my old Android smartphones take 16:9 pictures.
I would like to install a VirtualBox guest of macOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro that is also running macOS High Sierra so that I can experiment with MDMs, etc. without rendering my primary laptop unusable. I've created an ISO of High Sierra by downloading the installer from the Mac AppStore and running the following commands:
When you download a picture from a web browser by pressing and holding on the image then clicking download in the menu that pops up in which folder are you able to see it? Is it the same on each browser (Safari, Chrome, etc), or does it differ? EDIT: Referring to iOS
How would I uninstall Search Encrypt manually? I have a MacBook Pro and my toddler installed this bloody thing and it creates pop-ups and annoys me to no end. I have previously tried to find a way by simply googling it, but most instructions are specified for Windows and unclear.
I have installed Slack App on my Mac OS and it works all fine. However, I do not see that application in Applications folder. I am very new to Mac and may be I am missing something but to my knowledge, IF App does is installed on the machine then it has to be in Applications folder. Is there any reason under which it can not be in the Applications folder?
I keep a widget open on my desktop on my secondary monitor. Went away on vacation. No external monitor. The widget was "trapped" offscreen and active.
I aim to search the contents of files at a specified directory. take an example in spotlight search How can such a task be accomplished?
I have registered for Enterprise Apple Developer account and I am a Team Agent. I do not see Users and Roles in iTunes connect and *=URL=* as well. Below are the screen shot for same -
I was looking at the Safari tabs open on my other Apple devices. Turns out that when you hover over a device name (e.g. "Paul's iPad"), the "x" button appears next to it. I clicked it, and all the tabs from that device disappeared from the screen. How do I get them back?
I am able to connect to a network drive anonymously/Guest through an App Store application from my phone without any trouble. I tried from the Mac by opening "smb://10.10.10.1/" in Connect to Server which is giving me an error: You do not have permission to access this server however the server is public which requires no credentials at all.
When I am editing a shared document, the other editor sees the changes after a significantly long delay after saving. (both running macOS 10.13.1 and the newest Pages, both have good internet connection)
I can start Apache Tomcat (installed via HomeBrew) in Terminal using But it does not work in an Automator application Shell script using bash I tried to set up a bash Shell script in Automator like this: When I run the Automator application, it won't work and shows -: catalina: command not found. What is the correct way to create an Automator application, or do I need to use AppleScript?
This happened after I changed my username. It is still desktop folder but showing up as a folder instead of stock icon.
When I check my power management assertions (MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra), I see the following line: What is IODisplayWrangler and what does it mean that it is listed as an "idle sleep preventer"?
I'm running iOS 11.2 (beta 3, build 15C5110b). I've seen that in some iOS 11.1 (stable) installations the App Store shows the version number of apps to-be-updated, but in iOS 11.2 it doesn't (instead it shows the relative release day: Today, Yesterday, ...). Is it a new feature or there is some setting to change this behaviour that I'm not aware of?
I'm working as a software developer and have a project that I've taken over from an old colleague which is developed on a mac with OSX El Capitan. I'm having some problems updating Xcode to the newest version and from what I've read I have to install a more current version of the OS, so I've downloaded macOS High Sierra. Before I go ahead and install it I just wanted to ask someone who has more experience with this to avoid losing anything important. I've backed up the data using the Time Machine feature, I've done it twice just to check if it could and it looks like it works. Is there anything special that I should be aware of about the OS in general & as a developer that affects the update process? Is there any way to validate the backup just to make sure that nothing on it is corrupted? Any information is appreciated.
The original charger for my laptop model can output 87W. Sometimes I forget it at work and I use my Nintendo Switch Charger (Output: 15V, 2.6A = 39W) for emergencies. I was wondering if using a charger that may not be able to input the amount of power needed (for example maybe the laptop needs 45W so it will take the rest from the battery) could damage the laptops battery? Extra: If there is no problem, would that also hold for this power bank: https://www.amazon.com/AUKEY-30000mAh-Portable-Delivery-Nintendo/dp/B071CQYBSN
macOS is not permitting me to change the file permissions of any file! whenever I try to add the admin which is me, finder gives me this error: you don't have necessary permission - operation not permitted In spite of the fact that I am the sole user I have tried chmod, again same error - operation not permitted The permissions are as follows!
I have a little problem (not me, a friend). He bought a 1TB HDD with some service files, including Paragon NTFS 11.3.11 (he bought this HDD with his Mac, which shipped with Mac OS X version 10.10 or 10.11). He has updated his MacBook to 10.12 and Paragon stopped working, so I think this is a version problem.
This is a quick image showing my cables and MacBooks. I got a new MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar (A1706) and now I need to transfer all my data from my old 12" MacBook (A1534) to it. While Migration Assistant always generates errors over Wi-Fi, I see target disk mode could do the work. From this official article by Apple it says: Target disk mode on MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports You can use target disk mode to transfer data between MacBook Pro models with Thunderbolt 3 and other Mac computers. To use target disk mode between a MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3 and another Mac notebook's USB-C port, connect the two computers with a USB-C cable such as the Belkin 3.1 USB-C to USB-C Cable.
I have a macbook pro with 1TB internal glued flash drive, of which around 600GB are full. I would like to change the volume format from APFS (case insensitive, encrypted) to APFS (case sensitive, encrypted). Is that even possible?
I have an iMac, connected to the Internet via Ethernet, and an iPad Air 2. On iMac I have customized VPN (IKEv2). I would like to share the iMac's Internet connection with VPN to my iPad via the USB Cable. I have tried to set up Internet Sharing, but I cant see my VPN name in dropdown named "Share your connection from:" There is Ethernet, but no VPN. When I share Ethernet, on iPad this works great except url-s which are only available by VPN. Is there something I need to do, to resolve this issue? iMac, mac os x version: Sierra, 10.12.6 iPad Air 2, IOS Version: 11.1.2
So now I'm trying to install Windows to the 128GB external Thunderbolt SSD drive. Please help! Here are the outputs of my diskutil list and diskutil cs list commands:
I am on an early 2015 MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra, dual boot with Ubuntu 16.04. In macOS, I did dd if=/dev/disk1s3 of=disk2s2(if i remember correctly). It succeeded and I proceeded to shrink the macOS partition using Disk Utility. That succeeded too. I proceeded to reboot and found myself unable to boot into any systems. Going into recovery mode, I am unable to restore from a backup or reinstall a new macOS.
For example in Adobe Reader I'd like to double click a word to highlight it, but not have it include the trailing comma if there is one.
I'd like to script the action of creating a group via Users & Groups and binding it to the admin account and enabling remote login for the same group enabled service and support. I'm vaguely familiar with commands like dscl - but I'm not sure if this is even the right command I've seen sudo dscl localhost -append /Local/Default/Groups/thegroupname GroupMembership theusername - to add an admin user to a group BUT What should be put for GroupMembership - if this command is correct - The name of my group is Service and Support
I'm trying to set up a VPN connection from my Macbook (OSX High Sierra) to the Vodafone Station Revolution of my office. This is a piece of ppp.log file showing what happens:
Excel has a built-in function for calculating the determinant of a matrix. But Numbers does not seem to have one. Is there any alternative to this, or do I have to type the formula manually? Thanks!
Doing so would make those folders belong to a particular user which would mean another user using the same machine would be S.O.L. unless those folders are some magic per user thing.
I'd like to reset /usr/local to whatever it would be if I reformatted my mac and reinstalled macOS 10.13 Is that state documented? If there was content there is there a way to reset it back to it's original state?
The Touch Bar (as on macOS 10.13.1) has a timeout after which it turns off its screen. How can I turn off/change that timeout?
This is difficult to explain, so please bear with me. When I open a new tab in Terminal, the Terminal window moves. This only happens when the window is at the bottom of the screen. The window moves up vertically just enough so that it is not below/beside the dock anymore. It does not move horizontally. It also remains the same size.
I just ran into a situation where a user with a Mac that had been hard broken by an interrupted update needed into their Time Machine backup outside of the normal recovery process. Unfortunately, they'd forgotten the password to do this. I have access to the filesystem on the broken Mac, and needed to recover their Time Machine password as well as anything else in the System keychain. Difficulty: The system keychain does not use a normal password, it uses random bytes. How do you decrypt a system keychain?
I've noticed that recently, maybe after some sort application or OS update, calendar notifications have been functioning normally in notification center BUT have also caused the calendar application (Calendar.app) to be brought to the foreground. It has no relation to what i'm currently working on or what application i'm using - it even does this while i'm typing, if a new calendar update comes in. This is SUPER annoying as it completely distracts from whatever i'm currently doing.
After upgrading to High Sierra (I think) I've started receiving the following message almost every time I start up Terminal: I had some problems upgrading to High Sierra so I strongly suspect this started after the upgrade, but cannot be absolutely certain. When I enter the $ mail command and read the messages (which can amount to hundreds at one go) this is what is written: Also, when I run $ crontab -e, this is what is returned:
We're currently sampling High Sierra 10.13.1 on a few machines in the office. One of the users is getting a strange issue after a password reset.
Recently, I accidentally cracked my new MacBook Pro screen. There are rainbow lines going across the screen in different directions. I sent it into my school's IT place and they were going to send it into apple with an estimated cost of $800 since it was a tier 4 accidental damage. However, a while ago, the corner was dented from dropping it (I had a case but the case did nothing). Will apple fix that while they are fixing the screen? Or will my screen not be covered because my MacBook has a dent in it? Will it cost anything extra?
When running the command the output lists some weird index locations, e. g.
the problem appeared after i tried path finder app, i didn't like it, i removed it using cleanmymac, than i used defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.apple.Finder and rm Library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist now every time i click on show in finder, instead of opening the folder containing the file( the default behaviour of finder), it open the file, for EXP: if the file is a dmg it mount it, if it's a text file it open it on an editor, would any one have any idea how to reset finder
I am relatively new to Mac, and I am trying to get used to using Safari, after using Chrome for years. I'll click on a link in Chrome, and see a status saying "Loading..." or something to that effect. But with Safari, I don't get any status messages. I've turned on the status bar in the View menu. Should I expect to see these kinds of messages in the status bar? I am on the latest OS (High Sierra).
This Apple page describes how to disable the account but this does doesn't protect against the fault because the fault can just re-enable the account. It will work to restore the system to its normal state with root disabled once the security bug is fixed. Update 2017-11-29 16:43 UTC See About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 to update macOS High Sierra to protect from bypassing administrator authentication without supplying the administrator’s password.
I'm adding a route to all 192.168.1.x ips through a gateway like so: sudo route add 192.168.1.0/24 10.0.0.2 . How do I add this route permanently in High Sierra?
I have a script that is continually opening a new window of an App and then that window closes and the process repeats. However, even if I click Hide on the App, it only hides the window open at that time and all future windows still pop up in front of everything else that I'm doing.
On 28 November, a root vulnerability was discovered by a user in which the root account can be accessed by entering a blank password. This affects all users. Tech Crunch as an animated gif showing how this works if you use an authentication dialog:
This is a rather boring question, I apologize in advance. My screen is broken, but I can force DFU, which I did. In iTunes, I get "Cannot update software." Download 10.3.3 firmware, error 14 cannot update. Any workaround that you can think of?
Example: Pokemon Go 0.83 was available yesterday around noon (Nov 27, 2017), and one of the person in our group downloaded it around noon. But I checked and checked, even restarted the App Store app, rebooted the iPhone, and could not see the Update button. Not until about 10 or 11pm. And today I wanted to see how the app looks like on the iPhone X, and again, I restarted the App Store app, and rebooted the iPhone X, and there is still no Update button, when it is 5pm and 28 hours after somebody was able to update it. When is it supposed to be available and is there a way to force the update to show up?
Ever since I updated my MacBook Air to High Sierra, it turns off almost every time I close it. Sometimes when it is closed it'll actually restart - I can tell because it makes the Mac "ding" startup sound while the lid is still closed. Do you have any suggestions for how to fix this? Here are the full specs of the machine: MacBook Air Mid 2012 4GB of Ram 13" Display After more investigating, here are some further details:
My Macbook has recently stopped connecting to Wi-Fi networks. It shows that it's connected in the Wi-Fi symbol but there is no connection. It will still connect successfully to my phone's wireless hotspot and will connect via. ethernet cable. I have updated iOS and have run Wi-Fi troubleshooting numerous times to no effect. I've also reset my Wi-Fi settings. Our home internet is accessed through a browser login, however, it's not working on my work Wi-Fi either.
I am looking for a relatively easy solution for a Japanese spellchecker (not a Japanese dictionary for the Dictionary app) in High Sierra. I would prefer a link to a downloadable spelling dictionary (Japanese websites are okay). If there are no ready to use Japanese spelling dictionaries, I would be glad if you could point me to a good step-by-step tutorial for making one.
I guess the logs can't go to infinity. Actually, is this how cellular data logging is suppose to work on an iPhone? thanks.
I recently acquired an eMac G4, but I did not get an Apple keyboard with it. I need to restore it to factory settings, but cannot access recovery mode with my Windows keyboard. I've tried Alt+R, Ctrl+R, and Start+R, but nothing. Is there any way to access recovery mode with a windows keyboard?
I have tried some YouTube videos and some movies from iTunes on the iPhone X, and the left and right has small black vertical bars, and the notches are not an issue. And then there are some movies from iTunes that appeared smaller, with black bar on all four edges of the screen, and when I tap it to magnify it to full screen, the 2 notches are kind of "in the way", affecting the viewing.
I have a Debian server set up with a Samba share to provide a Time Machine destination. I can get it working when I set security = user in my smb.conf and authenticate with a local (Debian) user account. smb.conf
Heyo, I'm trying to build a Vagrant box for command line access to a macOS virtual machine, to make it easier to build macOS applications. I managed to script up most of the macOS High Sierra installation with packer, however the boot after SetupAssistant completes, fails with the message "An error occurred installing macOS", and I can't seem to find much more detail than that. Can someone recommend a VMX configuration or provide some tips for getting High Sierra installed better in VMware Fusion? Trace Installing: About 15 minutes remaining ... Installing on "Macintosh HD" ...
Notice the generic icon next to the mounted drive   Notice the Macam icon in the window title
I ran this command accidentally when I was trying to give Homebrew access to write some symlinks: and I realized by the -d flag would create a new include directory. Now the /usr/local/include directory is empty and I can't seem to find any obvious damage done to my system. Could someone please tell me what usually is in /usr/local/include and what I should do to rebuild its content?
I recently upgraded my iphone from iphone 6 to iphone X and has been bothered by small but annoying problems about network connection. As normal iphone upgrading procedure, i use icloud to backup all my data in iphone 6 to be restored to iphone X. Everything is good but i noticed something not right when suddenly i am not receiving whastapp messages and not able to open webpage via safari (after few days of using). I noticed that my '4G' icon is showing, checked my mobile data quota, it is still available. Try to turn on/off my mobile data setting, not working. I still cant get connected to the internet. As a last resort, i turn off my phone and on it back again. That solved the problem. I told myself, it might be just some minor glitch happened and let it go.
I’d like to programmatically execute MacOS Services on text objects from within AppleScript. I’m comfortable with AppleScript, aware of Cocoa frameworks, and a total bungler with Objective-C. I’ve gotten far enough to guess that NSPerformService might be able to handle this, but other than importing the framework, am unclear how to code it.
Sometimes when I plug my iPod Nano Shuffle into iTunes, I get this strange message:  What could this possibly mean?
I don't know what's happening but, during the day media keys accidentally start/stop working for manage iTunes. For me helps only rebootthe whole system. I've googled for solution but any of it not work for me. (there are no any of extensions like Spotify, Deezer etc on mine). Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I'm using iOS 11. I had around 5000 photos on my phone. I took the following steps: Took a local computer (on Mac) backup via iTunes. Did the factory reset & erased the entire phone. Restarted the phone with a fresh setup and took around 20 photos. After a few hours later I reconnected my phone to my Mac and restored the backup took in the 1st step
I'm noticing characters being replaced by boxed question marks. It's happening most often for emoji and accented characters, I think, and I've seen it in Safari, Chrome and the system dictionary.
Yesterday night while working my MacBook got stuck since it was too late instead of waiting for it to restore to normal I forced shutdown today morning I got up and MacBook with Mac OS Sierra installed is not loading and gets stuck at screen below, I managed to boot to repair mode using OPTION + Command + P + R , and repaired disk then I even tried reinstalling whole Mac OS Sierra nothing has helped so far. Please help
So I have something like this:  I got this with rar l file2.rar This basically is one archive inside of another. Is there any way to list/extract the contents of file.rar that is inside file2.rar with RAR for terminal without extraction? Note: I am using RAR 5.50 on macOS High Sierra.
But this is kinda unacceptable, i should be able to restore it with much more ease. What could possibly be the problem with restoring the HDD as the primary disk?
I have a MBP 2010 that worked fine with a mini-DP-DisplayPort cable connected to a (now broken) LG 25UM64 at 2560x1080 native resolution. It worked out of the box, no hassle or adjustments required.
I noticed that I hadn't received any new mail in my Gmail account in Mail.app in the last three days. It is being received fine on my iPhone and iPad, as well as my PC.
But it keeps closing in right after I open it to write someone a reply. So basically I just can view notification previews and can't send a reply to anyone.
I have recently bought an iPhone 6s and transferred my 5c to another family member. I have updated both photo libraries of both phones to my Macbook Air. My problem is that all photos appear on each device at any time, and if I delete a photo from any device then it is deleted from them all, (with or without a cable connection). I would like to use the Macbook as a library for both phones, but keep different photos on each phone. How do I do this without losing any photos now?
I'm trying to gather information remotely from some mac machines - With SSH enabled i'd connect, and run few commands (uname, dscl, pwpolicy, system_profiler...) - to mostly collect users/passwords/machine information I was wondering, Are there more interesting options to query some, or all of the above information? I've read that dscl can run remotely for example (not sure what needs to be enabled for that), and also there might be a case of AppleScript (but again, needs to be enabled). Thanks.
Let me explain what I'm trying to achieve: I've got a shell script that periodically downloads the most recent version of a webcam image. The script is run by cron every 15 minutes and stores the current picture in a folder. That folder contains two images: WebcamImage1.jpg WebcamImage2.jpg WebcamImage1.jpg WebcamImage2.jpg Each time the script is run it figures out which is the less recent one of the two images doing a ls -t1 | tail -1. It then saves the just fetched image under the name of the older file, so that I always keep the two most recent images from the webcam.
I'm trying to migrate some data from an old Samsung phone running Android 4 to an iPhone 5s running iOS11. The issue I'm stuck with is that when I setup the iphone and select move data from android, it gives me a 6 digit code, but on the Android device is expecting a 10 digit code. Is there anything that can be done? Any help would be great. Thanks,
Looks like Apple made another bug in iOS 11.1.2 and if you type 'it' or 'is' they are being converted to 'I.T' or 'I.S'. How can it be fixed?
I am on macbook. I have encrypted bootable volume. I know my password and can normally log in to my profile on macOs. I need to make byte-perfect dump of encrypted partition in it's decrypted state to search for a specific bytes sequence. Steps I did: log in to recovery mode log in to recovery mode mount partition via diskutil mount partition via diskutil run terminal and trying to read /dev/disk1s1 run terminal and trying to read /dev/disk1s1 It shows following error: I also tried with hex editors and sudo mode. Is there a way I can access unencrypted raw bytes sequence on internal ssd of my macbook?
I use a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and iPhone with messages. The MacBook Pro syncs everything fine, but the Mac Pro syncs messages but often doesn't have the correct contacts, which are on my phone and MacBook Pro. I have checked all the settings for iCloud, all seem to be fine. How can I get my contacts to sync correctly on the Mac Pro?
I am unable to sign in or out on iCloud or the App store. Whatever app I am using (Sys Prefs, App Store) loops endlessly. I can quit Prefs, but have to force quit the App Store. iMessage operates but all messages are marked as undelivered. Virtually all documents stored in iCloud drive do not appear in the Finder, but are available through the web (iCloud) interface. All of this works fine in my test account, so it's not a S/N issue, but switching everything to the test account is not an option.
I'm running Filevault on my internal hard drive, but I realized that I never encrypted my external drive. Currently it's running Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I'm not seeing any encrypt options anywhere (right click in Finder, disk utility, etc...). How can I encrypt this drive in place without having to erase all the data first? I could restore the data from a Time Machine backup but that sounds very tedious and time consuming. If there is a faster way I'd like to attempt that first.
I had an odd crash that seems to have damaged my keychain somehow. I had issues with several things including iMessage and they all seem to be working again except for unlock with Apple Watch. When I attempt to re-enable it I get "Your Mac was unable to communicate with your Apple Watch. Make sure your Apple Watch is unlocked, on your wrist, and powered on." Some googling suggests that this is a keychain issue and that turning off iCloud keychain, resetting the keychain, and then re-enabling it should get it working again. I don't want to do this however if it means I'm going to lose a lot of things (passwords, etc..) and I would like to know if it's possible just to restore it from a time machine backup from before it got all fucky. Anyone have any suggestions?
My computer has no sound, and doesn't show any output devices. Headphone jack doesn't work as well. I have followed the steps on hightechdad.com So far I have tried: Reboot Start in safe mode Plug standard headphones Delete bezelservice preference file I have also repaired the permissions following these instructions https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538
Not sure if it's a mac-specific problem (let me know if I should move it), but every time I try to open a pdf file, Microsoft Word tries (and fails) to open it. I have tried "open with..." > Preview with the "always open with" box checked on multiple occasions, and it works for a while, but by the next day it is always set back to opening with Word. Any ideas what the culprit could be?
I'm using maxOS High Sierra on a mackbook pro. When I connect it to an external monitor (Dell U3415W) I don't get any desktop notifications. disconnecting fixes the issue and I get all my notifications at once. I've checked notification settings in macOS and in my applications, all seem right. Is there a setting for notifications in macOS beside System preferences > notifications ? How can I fix it?
So, I've been having an issue on and off for a year or two where my macbook airs magsafe charger wouldn't actually charge my device, and I'd have to reset the SMC 10+ times to get it to recognize my charger. I've recently gotten access to a second macbook (pro) so I was curious if that charger would work for my macbook air. Lo and behold, it works immediately after plugging it in the first time. So, the other macbook charger works for both that macbook and mine. My charger works for the other macbook, but in mine it takes a bunch of resetting to get it to work. What could be causing this weirdness? Not sure if it would help, but here's a pic of my magsafe port (there is no removable debris, it just appears to be discolored and scratched a bit):
I just bought a 4K display (LG 27UD68-W) and trying to get it working on my Mac Pro (macOS Sierra). The display is connected via DisplayPort 1.2 to the GTX 1050 (2GB RAM). Latest NVIDIA web-drivers are installed.
In macOS High Sierra, where can I find the IP addresses that logged in to my Mac through Screen Sharing or ssh? That would be useful in light of the recently discovered root login vulnerability.
On PC: To open Chrome, the command was Win+3, a new window was Shift+Win+3. It just occurred to me how much I relied on this. How can I have something as beautiful and simple as this on Mac? It should try to open the most recently active window, but should avoid changing Spaces as that is super disorienting. It shouldn't disorient.
Is it correct to assume that (prior to applying Security Update 2017-001) a host running macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra, i.e. not High Sierra) is not affected by the serious vulnerability that enables access to the root superuser if the following command returns non-empty ShadowHashData?
I'm following the guide Install Kibana with .tar.gz, and not sure where I should put it on a Darwin/OS X system. I know I can probably put it where I want, but wondering if there is a designated/standard place on my system for such tools. On this tutorial, they use Yum which puts it into a Yum repo, but I'm not sure if that's what I want to use. My Elasticsearch is installed at /usr/local/elasticsearch-6.0.0 with a symbolic link to it at /usr/local/elasticsearch.
I follow all the steps of the official documentation *=URL=* . I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with macOS High Sierra. The computer restarts automatically and attempts to boot into the windows setup.
I got a new MacBook and now I’m trying to make an exact copy(clone) of my old Mac to the new Mac. Tried migration assistant, but I found it not reliable since there are still a lot of settings in my iTerm.app are lost, let alone some configurations of the system such as login iterms. So I’m thinking to put my old Mac to target disk mode and connect two macs and use the disk utility app in recovery mode to restore my new mac’s hard drive from my old Mac.
Is there any way I could use a Linux laptop as a secondary display for my MacBook Pro (2016, 13", macOS High Sierra 10.13.1)? A solution for any Linux distro would work as I'm willing to install any one on it.
I use my iPhone a lot for business calls. Improper use of the mute button could be a career-ender. Is it possible to use the iPhone's headset to toggle the mute button? Thanks!
In previous versions of macOS, there was an option to show the dictionary definition of a word by tapping it with three fingers. In High Sierra this was replaced with the Look Up feature, which pulls suggestions from sources outside of the local dictionary, opens mini windows when used on links, etc. Is there any way to restrict this to showing dictionary definitions alone?
I've got some CPU/GPU intensive screen savers that I like to use. However, I don't want to spend the CPU/GPU cycles (read: electricity) on the screen saver process if the monitor is asleep or shut off.
Similar to others, I experience the issue where Force Click does not work to bring up the look up window, even in native Apple apps such as Safari. However, in a secondary user account, Force Click works as expected, while the System Preferences pane looks exactly the same. Where does macOS (10.13.1, in this case) store the preferences for force touch and how to reset them? Might this be related to the fact that sometimes Cmd+Ctrl+D does not work in my account (despite there not being a conflicting entry in Keyboard→Shortcuts)? As far as I'm aware I don't have 3rd party programmes modifying trackpad/keys.
i have very weird bug that really bothers me. My dock keeps "wiggling" or "bouncing around". It looks like someone is kicking on Dock back and forth for ever. Started this morning and i have not installed any apps since then.
I'm looking to edit some audio tracks for movies without reencoding them. I've searched online, and apparently delaycut and eac3to would be good for what I'm aiming to do (according to an Original Trilogy forum post). The problem is that that they're both Windows-exclusive applications. A possible alternative might be Audio Cutter, but some of the reviews on the App Store have me hesitant to pay for it.
Looking to unpack a bunch of files.7z via terminal it's possible via terminal or I shall install an application?
My MacBook Pro shows just black screen with cursor o it and the light which is right next to the camera is green. Also the keyboard backlight is on.What should I do?
Somehow I managed to change my default cursor on Excel 2016 for Mac to this strange black box:  I know that I may have pressed some unusual combination on my keyboard and this looks like when I pressed 'INS' on Windows but I've tried to use fn+return and fn+i to simulate the Insert key without any success.
Somehow a folder from /var/folders (/var/folders/2j/8_50ggln3wz21k4gmfx86drh0000gn/T/ on my machine) got 65535 links to it. This caused my machine to not boot anymore. I managed to fix the booting issue my renaming it to something else (mv T X) in recovery mode. The problem is I can't get rid of it (rm -rf or even ls on it hangs). And if I try:
I usually close stuff with cmd+w but if I do that with Preview it keep the program open in the Dock even if the file was closed. I know that using cmd+q will do the trick but I'd like to have the same behaviour with cmd+w.
Does one exist? Can one be made? I've tried adding variations of "Show Artwork" to Syst Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts / App Shortcuts / iTunes, to naught. The default operation to toggle view of the album-artwork column in iTunes is: Press commandj to hail the columns control palette; Click the "Show Artwork" tickbox; Dismiss the palette with commandj again. macOS Sierra, iTunes 12
Recently I decided to triple boot my MacBook Pro (2015) and have run into a bit of trouble. After a few days of a working machine (linux-MAC-Windows via refind), my machine suddenly stopped working.
Is there a way to resize and reposition a quick look window with AppleScript? I have an AppleScript that will do this with any app, but I do not know what the quick look app is called. I have tried QuickLook, Quick Look, and QL.
I have created bootable pen-drive using installer. I performed following Steps but it failes. Erase the Hard-disk from disk utility. restart the iMac (hold down - Option key) it shows me the pen-drive (but i select the pendrive prohibited symbol display.)
Boot my MacBook from a Linux USB. Keyboard is acting the same. Other info The issue has persisted through the upgrade to macOS High Sierra, but wasn't as bad before.
I've spent all day so far trying to resolve this. File sharing just doesn't work any more!
I want to automate the creation of my network locations (say Home and Work) and was looking into networksetup -createlocation <location name> [populate] Adding populate adds default services to the network location (USB LAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth PAN, Thunderbolt Bridge) and without leaves the location empty.
I had two partitions on my mac, both had macOS installed on it as a result both had a recovery partiton, now I deleted one pratition cause it got corrupted due to some script which I ran. Now mac has only one partition which is the startup volume. The problem is the previous partition created a free space upon removing it and it is not allocated to anyone, now when I try to delete the free space, Disk Utility fails to carry out the opertaion!
I’m not using the Game Center anymore. My old Game Center account is defined by an old obsolete iCloud account which i don’t use. I’m using a different new iCloud account for my device. Now, i’m trying open the defined Game Center account with my new iCloud ID. However it shows old obsolete account everytime by UIAlertController. How can I remove this account from my device? Thanks.
I want to play iTunes simultaneously on AirPlay (AppleTV) in one room and via the headphone socket into my audio system in another room. I tried selecting the device in the Sound tab in System Preferences but selecting one option just turns off the other. Any ideas?
besides opening ssh- is there a way to connect and read local users defined in a machine? Edit - further info.
Two days ago I noticed that my iPhone 7 (iOS 11.2 Beta 4) switched to another (foreign) carrier. This hasn't happened in a long time but since I live near a border I thought it plausible and just tried to go to the settings to change it manually. That's where I discovered two things: My usual carrier is not appearing on the list, but the foreign one is appearing twice. Even if I try to change to another carrier, the name (top left) doesn't change. Now since that time I used my iPhone in other places and there is no change at all, the carrier name doesn't change.
I used to have both my phone and somebody else's registered on my Find iPhone in my iTunes account. That person and I have since parted ways on bad terms. I changed my passwords to make sure that person cannot temper with my account. That person's phone, however, has stayed in Find iPhone for me to see. I tried to remove it (only possible when it is turned off), but it reappeared.
The recent major security flaw in macOS 11.13.[1,2] has turned the usual advice of not enabling the root account on its head. But it has left me a bit confused about exactly what root account is being discussed. The Darwin shell has a root account listed, and has many files and directories listed as owned by root, but macOS has no login account enabled for root. What's the difference between the root account listed as an existing owner for files in the Terminal, and the (disabled) root login account?
Right now I am currently working on a few things that have to do with trigonometry. More specifically, Sine and Cosine. I am trying to use my computer's calculator to do so. The problem is, the answers always come up wrong. I read online that this is the result of your calculator not being in degrees mode. I have little idea of how to do this. Here's a screenshot:
I've got a mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro Retina (MacBook10,1 - i7-361QM - 8GB RAM) running Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1036) that can take, literally, several hours to boot. I am not able to boot into recovery or verbose (I think I gave up holding the command-r combo after 10 minutes when my hand started cramping), or diagnostics. I will note that it is operating as usual once it does boot. Here are some of the symptoms I've observed: with AC power connected, select "reboot" (normal situation) shutdown initiates, screen goes black startup chimes ... then ... nothing ... sometimes the keyboard lights up, sometimes not, sometimes it lights up when I press a key or trackpad ... wait ... wait ... wait some more ... next day it's finally ready to use shutdown initiates, screen goes black startup chimes ... then ... nothing ... sometimes the keyboard lights up, sometimes not, sometimes it lights up when I press a key or trackpad ... wait ... wait ... wait some more ... next day it's finally ready to use w
I would like to take mathematical notes with my iPad so that at the end of the process I would have a PDF file of A4 pages. Do you have any idea? PS: I have tried Nebo but it is too complicated to type a whole page of mathematics.
Are there keyboard shortcuts to switch between or select specific Activity Monitor View, e.g. CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk & Network?
Is there an option to somehow combine multiple languages at the same spell check "session"? Form what I can find under Keyboard > Text it seems that there are only two options 1) Chose one specific language 2) Allow to detect language by text that is written
I ran the last command in my terminal on my macbook pro high sierra and in the output where entries for the root user. How is that possible? Should that user not be deactivated? Here are the entries for last root: root console Thu Nov 30 09:31 - shutdown (00:00) root console Wed Nov 29 09:23 - shutdown (00:02) root console Wed Nov 22 19:00 - shutdown (00:00) root console Sat Oct 7 22:44 - shutdown (00:00) Thank you very much for your Help!
I plug my phone (iPhone 5s, though I doubt it matters) into my laptop at work in order to charge it. Every time I do, if iTunes is open (it usually is, because music), it pops up a dialog to ask if I want to allow iTunes to access information on the phone.
I have a Macbook Pro 15inch Retina mid-2014. I always use an external display when not on the move.
We have a late 2011 MBP here and ideally I could do with having the more recent bootcamp assistant due to the various options available. I can't seem to be able to edit the plist as shown in previous similar questions. even with a sudo chmod 777 etc (yes I know 777 is overkill) I would appreciate any help with this as really can't be doing with sourcing a legitimate CD and license for W7/8 in 2017 Thanks for help in advance
My HFS partition on my mac was the wrong type, trying to change it use : and try to change using : but the second command didn't work and i can't find my hfs anymore... Is it possible to have it back ?
In my Outlook for Mac InBox conversations, Sent messages are not showing up. Is there a way to include sent items in InBox conversations? Alternatively, is there any other way to show InBox and Sent items at the same time? I need to be able to see the entire thread of a conversation without jumping between Inbox and Sent folders
When I'm running on a treadmill the volume goes up automatically while I'm watching Netflix or listening to Spotify. It seems to go up one bar at the time, with about 1 second pause in between the increments. There's nothing pressing the volume buttons as phone is lying flat on the treadmill panel. It seems to stop when I'm running slower or walking. I have a pair of wired Senzer H2 Earphones connected to my iPhone 6s.
Is there any way of disabling cellular data for new apps installed on the iphone. I do not want to go to settings --> cellular and manually turn it off. When kids download free apps by default the cellular data is set to on and eats up the data plan.
Some system processes like systemsoundservd, logd, diagnosticd, etc. recently use a lots of cpu on my macbook pro. How can I limit them to some degree because most of them are not too relevant to me?
error "System Events got an error: Can't make {automatic login: true} into type of properties of process." number -1700 from {automatic login: true} I'd be grateful for any help.
I'm having troubles with Spotlight. Command Space isn't working in the first try, but when I try it again it does work. After few minutes I need to do it twice again for it to pop.
MacBook Pro mid-2014, El Capitan The charger has to be plugged in before it will wake after sleeping, sleep-wake is set to 1 minute.
When connecting to wifi on iOS via the settings application there are some wifi networks listed that have a second line that says something like “protected by CyberGhost”, does that mean that the wifi option has a VPN built into it? If so does that mean the connection between the iOS device and the router will be encrypted? Or is it just a VPN from the access point onwards towards the internet?
I have an interesting problem for quite some time now. My menubar turns all sorts of states on external monitors.
I've seen this error message referenced a lot in relation to connecting to network shares (see The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “Foo” can’t be found) but I am having this when trying to mount some DMGs. I have tried the DMGs I am trying to mount on a different Mac and it works fine. I have also tried the permission/group changes and relaunching Finder from the previous question, but still no luck.
I have a few podcasts which I want to listen to on my Apple Watch. I know that it’s possible to transfer music from an iPhone to an Apple Watch, but there doesn’t seem to be a similar option for podcasts. Specifically, I’m looking for a way to have my podcasts play from my Apple Watch’s speakers, rather than playing from my phone’s speakers. How can I listen to podcasts with my Apple Watch?
The San Francisco font uses proportionally spaced numbers by default, however it does support monospaced ones. As a developer I know how to make it use monospaced numbers when showing text in an app, but I have no idea how to type them while using text editors such as Notes. Does anyone know how to do this? I'm currently using Helvetica Neue for monospaced numbers as a workaround.
I recently have remarked multiple black spots, all of even distance and gradience at the bottom of the screen. At first, I ignored it, but now my MacBook's screen goes black when I move it past a 90-degree angle. The weirdest part is that the keys still light up, just that the screen turns off. What could be causing this and how can I fix it?
In the macOS version of Pages, I can select a shape and then use this command in the menus: Format > Shapes and Lines > Make Editable. Then I can manipulate the edges of the shape by moving adding points to the curves. For example, here is a square before and after.
Okay I am attempting to Push a Modded IOS over to my device. It is an older Device Running IOS 9.3.5. I have by passed All other Security Measures, however When the Kernal checks the File Signature it, the Kernal automatically revereses the Modded IOS files. I still have the original IOS Files that are untampered with.
When doing a clean install with High Sierra, I have the option to do APFS or APFS Encrypted. If I choose APFS Encrypted, do I also need to do Filevault as well? Is it the same thing?
In my Pictures directory I have Photos Library.photoslibrary and iPhoto Library.photolibrary. When I installed Yosemite all my images from iPhoto on Mavericks appear to be there, but there seems to be no analogue of the iPhoto Events, which shows a list of Events (Albums?) with date ranges and a total "5048 items". In iPhoto I had NOT selected "Copy items to the iPhoto Library", and still have originals, although I had put in quite a bit of work tagging faces etc. Unfortunately at about the same time I suffered a serious illness, which has affected my memory, and I have not revisited iPhoto for some years, and have not imported any new images into either library.
Recently my Mac is showing up some weird messages such as "Month 13 is out of bounds".  How do I fix this error I can't go to ant apple authorized repair centre because it is very far away from an Apple centre
So I upgraded my Mac to high Sierra and I was about the H.265 video encoding standard but when I encode a H.264 video to H.265 standard and then when I attempt to open the video using quick time player it shows "Quick Time player does not support these kind of videos" So is this a problem that only I am experiencing or is this expected. I am running latest version of High Sierra by the way.
Is there any good way to rescue data in the HDD? Any idea is appreciated. Thanks.
I have High Sierra installed on an unsupported RAID-O config in my iMac. (I made the raid, then carbon copy cloned a working macOS to it).
On the iOS 11 iPhone, when I navigate to *=URL=* I am automatically redirected to *=URL=* I have to manually type my username and password in the pop-up form, no matter what. I cannot add *=URL=* to my Home Screen because the URL is always changed to *=URL=* It seems that there is no way to edit or customize the URL of a Home Screen shortcut. For my iOS 11 iPhone, is it possible to embed my website's username and password in the URL itself, so that I can add this URL to my iPhone's Home Screen, so I will never need to type in my username and password manually? I understand that embedding the password in the URL may not be very safe, but this is not a "high security" application, so convenience is more important than high security in this case.
Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 4 + Space behaves unexpectedly. For example, when I right-click on Chrome, the captured window does not include the right-click UI. What exactly determines a unit in Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 4 + Space ? How exactly does Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 4 + Space work?
I regularly switch between German and English as input source. I want to use Cmd + the key right of the left shift key as shortcut for switching between windows of an application. In the English layout that would be Cmd-`, in the German layout it is Cmd-<. Is there a way to define a different set of shortcuts for different input sources? Note: I don't want to define a shortcut to switch to a specific input source.
I'ld like to enable internet sharing b/w my Mac iPhone. I've enabled Internet Sharing and selected VPN and in options to computer using - I've selected iPhone USB. I'm still not able to connect to internet. My Mac is connected to internet via LAN using USB 10/100/1000 , which has port for LAN wire. Any help is appreciated.
I'm trying to follow this tutorial on how to setup an ipv6 wi-fi connection, so I can test my app: http://www.brianjcoleman.com/tutorial-how-to-test-your-app-for-ipv6-compatibility/
I have 16 GB SanDisk USB-C drive and want to convert it to GPT on MB Pro 2017. I haven't found any default tools to do this on High Sierra so I downloaded gdisk. So here is what I type in the terminal: and the output is: How can I convert it to GPT? EDIT: I converted drive to GPT using sudo gdisk /dev/disk2 but the following issue appeared:
The security patch to Apple's root login security flaw — to 10.13.1 (17B1003) — has changed the shell setting reported by for root to /bin/sh (from /bin/bash). What does this accomplish? It's been suggested that for extra security I should set the shell for root to to /usr/bin/false. Does it still make sense to do that?
I believe updating to iOS 11 has introduced what seems to be an Accessibility feature, but I cannot figure out how to disable it. If I touch on, say for example, the Time in the top bar the time is displayed in a pop-up smack dab in the middle of the screen. The problem with this time-viewing-feature in particular for me is that this location is exactly where I have in the past touched in order to automatically scroll the contents of any given view to the top.
macOS Sierra 10.12.6, Mail.app 10.3, I can change the size of the message list font in Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors, and the change is reflected in Mail.app's message list. However, changes to the message font are not reflected by a change in the message display.
I'm sure we're all familiar with the recent security issue in High Sierra/OSX 10.13. It is well known that remote access can be gained using Screen Share, but I've not seen anything definite regarding the feasibility of a similar exploit over SSH, so: Could this bug have been exploited over SSH, either with the default settings or after changing them? (that is, attempt to log in over ssh as a nonexistent root user, thereby creating the root user in the same manner as when exploiting in person) My thinking is that this shouldn't be possible by default, as the default sshd_config PermitRootLogin is probably set to no, but I've seen comments that suggest it is possible sometimes, which strikes me as being much more serious. I don't own a mac, so I'm not able to verify for myself.
macOS High Sierra comes with a new file system APFS, now according to official notes APFS for now only supports modern SSDs. My Mac runs on a traditional rotational hard drive and according to Apple macOS High Sierra 10.13.0. Apple recently released 10.13.1 and after updating to the latest version I booted into the recovery and after opening disk utility and going through the menu bar options I came across option know as convert to APFS, so my concern is that after the recent update has Apple finally included APFS support for traditional hard drives and should I convert my drive to the latest APFS filesystem
I have a Macbook Pro 15" (2016 with Touchbar). The 87 W USB-C charger doesn't keep the battery from discharging when the CPU is working hard (baking lighting for Unity in this case). This limits the amount of time it can work at this level to maybe an hour until the battery runs out. Is this normal, or is my power adapter or some other part of the charging system under-performing? The Activity Monitor graph shows the CPU about 80% utilized.
I was wondering why file sizes of my zipped archives (.zip) are inconsistent. A file that shows in the finder (macOS) as 9.17 GB shows up as being 8.54 GB on an Amazon Drive (same thing with Google Drive).
We're trying to get a DELL U2515H (2560 x 1440) running on a Mac Mini (late 2011). Currently it's connected with HDMI. Unfortunately it seems like resolutions only up to 1920 x 1200 are supported using HDMI on the mac mini: HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution *=URL=* However, resolutions up to 2560x1600 are supported using Thunderbolt: Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution *=URL=* So the question is: which cable should we get to get to connect the Display -> Thunderbolt?
I have a 2016 Retina MacBook Pro running Windows via Parallels. Target Display from the MBP worked great to my 2011 iMac until the video card went out. The replacement iMac - a 2017 5K - doesn't do Target Display (my bad for not researching that earlier).
My iPhone 8 (iOS 11.1.2) has been stable for a month and it was working without any problem so far. But today (December 2) as I was doing my usual stuff it started behaving very strange.
Each time I open and close new tab in Terminal app, the size of window "shrinks" by one line, until it reaches 5 lines, where it stops shrinking at last. I can literally keep repeating sequence ⌘+T and ⌘+W to reproduce this any time.
My MacBook Pro A1708 is recovering from water damage. From not working it has since been cleaned and have the LVDs Cable replaced. Currently the display is showing black but I am able to connect to an external display. If possible I would like to run Apple Diagnostics through an external monitor if anyone can help?
I want to run Mosquitto on my ancient Mac Mini which is running OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. I have the Xcode Tools installed from March 2012.
I am a member of a family sharing plan on iTunes. In order to not charge my partner when I make a purchase, I purchased an iTunes gift card and gave it to myself - $200. I was able to make two purchases against the gift card, but now every time I try to purchase music, even though I can see I have $180.02 balance, I get the pop-up box that says I need the family organizer to authorize. I don't seem to be able to access my own gift card to make my own purchases. Please help!
I changed my Apple ID a few months ago - and I think I updated it everywhere I need to. Everything seems to be fine (on iPhone, ipad and MacBook Pro) except when I use Apple TV it keeps showing my old Apple ID and I need to delete it and enter the new ID and password every time I want to watch something. Can anyone help?
My 2007 Mac Mini is used as a TV media device, for watching free-to-air TV channels and Youtube. It cannot be upgraded past 10.6.8.
I recently pulled my old MacBooks 2009 out of the closet. Not sure what the exact model is, but anyways, a few years ago I spilled water on the keyboard, so most of the keys don't work anymore. (Sadly the special keys don't work either, like option, command, and control.) Before I stopped using it, I wiped the internal drive, for security purposes.
Sorry for the super long title. I just wanted to make myself clear. I want to forgo the EarPods' built-in inline volume controls, play/pause button and mic, and transfer those over to an aux cable with inline controls. I would connect this aux cable to my Android phone and be able to control volume, playback, and use the microphone without issue.
My macbook was lagging so i force quit all the apps and relaunch the finder, Pressed the power button and force shut down the mac, then turned back on. Now my internet connection is not working but WIfi is 100%. very single other devices in the house works seamlessly. I checked another user, Connect to a dif network Connect to my mobile hotspot and nothing works.
Is it possible to transfer photos from iPhone to computer without importing to Photos. I have iPhone5 running iOS 10 (which I don't want to "upgrade" to iOS11). My Mac is running macOS 10.13.1 with iTunes 12.6.2, but I could also use a computer running Linux. Previously I had a number of methods of transferring photos, but none of these seem to work any more on High Sierra. I DO NOT want to import into Photos, but retain the photos with their original names, metadata etc. If all else fails, I could use Dropbox, but transferring 1000s of files on a slow upload link, just so I could download them seems slow and inefficient.
In Xcode editor, is there a way to open files in a new tab only if one is not already present, and if it is, then switch to that tab. If it isn't possible to do so via the preference settings, can it be done via script?
I'm turning here, as no one elsewhere seems to be able to answer this one: unable to activate Facetime or Messages on my 6+. It worked fine until I replaced the NCELL sim with another one when visiting Thailand. On return to Nepal (and when the NCELL chip was put back) that's when the problem began and persists to this day - years later!
I recently found that if I try to run any macports command, without using, sudo, I get the following error: This includes otherwise benign commands like port help. I just noticed this, and I've had macports installed on this machine for at least a year now.
I am working on the latest MacOS. By configuring System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services, I attempt to open a terminal window directly from folder with shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+T following the answer How can I open a Terminal window directly from my current Finder location? - Ask Different. However, it failed to work.
I have an OpenVPN tunnel that's running on the ifconfig named interface utun1 I want to use pf to open port 4000 on 127.0.0.1 and have all requests made to 127.0.0.1:4000 to be routed to the utun1 interface using the utun1 name (so I don't have to manually change it when the gateway changes). Finally the rule or set of rules needs to leave 127.0.0.1 port 1080 completely alone as I've got other services on that port. I have the rdr-anchor reference in /etc/pf.conf working. So I just need the contents for the rules for com.custom file.
I have already tried the scripts at Is it possible to change display resolution with a keyboard shortcut? The script returns the error:
On Best Buy's Q&A page for this monitor (HP Pavilion 32" LED QHD Monitor, Model 32Q, SKU: 5759502) there is a contrary, albeit specific, answer to the question of whether one can connect an MBP to that monitor. Now, I have no doubt that MBPs can be connected, but I am wondering about my laptop's lack of retina display and the potential of not being able to enjoy full resolution.
Does anyone here have any experience with the technical limitations of Workflow in terms of file size? What seems to happen is that when you throw a file at it that is too large (under a gigabyte), it simply exits the workflow. I have had this happen with two workflows that I wanted to create: one downloading videos—which worked—and encoding them into base 64 strings to send the file into a correct folder in a file manager—which simply exited on the encode step; the other attempting to separate a PDF into separate images and store them in a file manager. The later worked for small PDFs, but once I shared a 250 MB high quality 150 page book at it, it simply exited at the very first Get Images from File or Convert Images steps.
Lastly, what is most suspicious is that in Directory Utility, when I search for root in Directory Editor, the root user account is listed with a password of *. Unless it is a placeholder for any password, this looks suspiciously similar to a one-character (or even empty) password. I am confused whether this means that a password for this account is set at all.
It may be worth noting that Alice's email appears as me@alice.com whereas the actual email address is on Gmail: alice@gmail.com. Alice has discovered the hard way that she must use alice@gmail.com in the wizard.
I have Elgato Eve Thermo. Home app on iPhone shows that the device is connected. While on iPad, Home app shows that the device is not connected. Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it?
I have MacBook Pro Mid 2015 running macOS 10.13.1, and I used to attach an LG 34UC98-W display via a Thunderbolt port on the MBP, with external mouse and keyboard plugged into the USB ports of the display. Since the Security Update 2017-0011 the external mouse and keyboard are no longer recognized (the display still is, and if I plug the mouse into the USB port of the Macbook, it also works). When I have the Thunderbolt cable plugged in, the console shows error messages like Does anyone experience similar problems or can suggest a solution? 1 The symptoms certainly seemed to start with the update, but as of now I can't prove it is actually the cause.
My backups stopped functioning. The error message says problems were encountered when attempt to create the folder for the backup. I looked at a list of folders and files on the backup drive and discovered a "package" from a few days ago with an inProgess extention. I tried to drag it to Trash without luck. Then, reading a suggestion (by @grgarside) to another user with - seemingly - the same issue, I went to Terminal and executed the suggested tmutil listbackups command, but the inProgress package did not appear in the resulting list (perhaps because it's a package rather than a file?) Despite its path not being listed, I continued to follow the suggestions of @grgarside and executed the sudo tmutil delete /path/to/backup.inProgress command (replacing "path/to" with the path shown on my backup drive), but the result was this: No such file or directory (error 2)
I’m not interested in sports programming, is there a way to hide the sports tab in the TV app?
It's been suggested that, since the root account now appears in the accounts database on macOS 10.13.1+ by "default" (by accident it seems), it might be a good security measure to disable shell access for that account. Will doing so disable the ability to boot into Single User Mode?
Okay so this one is complicated. I got an iphone which ceased to work a few days ago. Got an older iphone 4 for which i don't know and can't find out the apple id pw. I don't want to lose every chat from Whatsapp, but i can't restore it over icloud (different accounts). The question now is, is there either a way to delete the icloud account from the iphone 4 without pw or can i, if i don't restore the Whatsapp chat from icloud now, restore them from a backup on my pc later?
I have recently updated to Mac OS X High Sierra and noticed that there is no longer a archive or compress option in the context menu in finder. Has this feature been removed or is a there a setting to enable to use this?
My iPad Air 2 auto locks suddenly without any sign as to why, and the lock screen comes up. I have checked the settings and the auto lock is set to ‘never’ yet it auto locks. What could be the problem and what can be the possible solutions?
That is the launch deamon cannot start it (-6). In recovery mode, where it works, the status is 0. System integrity protection was always enabled. The pasteboard service (pbs) has a normal status. Dragging text works (no idea of what that service is). Another user (see below) has Sys' int' prot' disabled and has a copy paste issue.
I have a Late 2013 MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2GB graphics card running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, and when I attempt to connect 3 4k screens (2 Mini DisplayPort, 1 HDMI) while running the internal screen, all screens go blank, and the system freezes until I hold in the power button to force power off. Things I've tried: Using just the 3 4k screens without the internal (this works, but doesn't allow me to use the internal) Using 3 non-4k screens (1080p + 2k + 2k) and (1080p + 4k + 2k) with the internal (this works) Using 1080p + 4k + 4k + internal (this crashes the system) Unplugging one screen after it freezes (system is still frozen) Checking the logs (couldn't find anything (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place), and there's no kernel panic log) Plugging in the 3 screens and then opening the laptop to turn on the internal screen (Freezes like before) Booting with everything plugged in (It just doesn't finish booting) Booting to recovery with everything plugged in (gets 
What exactly this lock checkbox does and how it differs from the lock icon at the bottom right of the "Get info" tab.  PS: Diff. questions from - What does the lock icon on the 'Get Info' screen do?
Record the Spotify audio to AIFF, using something like Audio Hijack I understand that recording Spotify might not produce the best quality audio. I have a paid Spotify account with high quality streaming, though, so it should be good enough. Is there a better solution than using Audio Hijack here? Soundflower + …? Quicktime Player only seems to record to M4A, so it does not look like a good option.
I'm having trouble accessing data on my external USB disk called G-DRIVE USB - it just won't mount. I get the prompt to unlock, which I do, but it does nothing. DiskUtility fails to open when this drive is connected - shows "loading disks" and does nothing. So far I've tried to access the data manually by using the following terminal commands: If I try to repair it: And it doesn't mount:
I use a lot of Windows VMs and Remote Desktop into Windows on my Mac. I am going mad trying to find the correct keyboard shortcut based on which window I have in the foreground for Copy (or Cut) and Paste.
I was trying to make a Finder service to easily convert text encoding of some files. Because the default charset for Simplified Chinese in Windows is the Chinese national standard GB18030 (not the UTF-8 used on Mac). With some help from the answers at services - Automator Get Filename of Selected File - Ask Different, I set up Service receives selected: Files or folders in:Finder Then, I made this Shell script in Automator:
I am able to select non-IKEv2 VPN connections as network interfaces to share via "Internet Sharing", but am unable to share the IKEv2 connection. How do I share the IKEv2 connection via internet sharing on High Sierra?
I have to replace a wifi/bluetooth/isight cable on my mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13". I have seen resources and vids that show how to essentially replace the cable up to the card and including the card but there is the other long end of the cable that feeds and connects too? How do I replace this without causing damage. Help!
How can I get rid of this message?  I've tried clicking both: "Cancel" and "Run Diagnostics" buttons. I've also tried to turn off and back on the Wi-fi. I don't want to restart my mac as there are some important processes running. I'm using a MacBook Pro (Retina) - macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
I'm currently setting up Carbon Copy Cloner to create a backup clone of my SSD. I'd like to be able to store the cloned drive's Filevault 2 password in the keychain so CCC can access it to automatically do backups on a schedule. However, I don't want to store my administrator password in the keychain. (I've heard of a few exploits that allowed malware to access stored passwords). Is there a way to set up a separate Filevault password for the cloned drive? I'm running a MacBook 8,1 with El Capitain 10.11.6.
I was doing my routine work today and it seems the stat and file commands in the terminal don‘t show if a file is a symbolic link: How can I see whether something is a symlink?
My iCloud account was blocked, and I've emailed password reset instructions to my @me mailbox. However, to access the @me mailbox, I need to log in to iCloud, which is entirely circular! Is there a way to access my @me mailbox without iCloud? I remember my iCloud password, and this was not the reason why my account was blocked.
My iPad mini went dead because I didn't charge it while I'm playing with only 2 percent. I started to charge it and for a few hours I start to turn it on. The screen shows that my iPad is charging but the battery doesn't change it just it starts at the beginning (I don't know how to describe this). Then it turn off I noticed that when it turn off the screen would flash a white screen quickly with a black line in the middle of my iPad horizontally. I have been charging it for a few hours maybe between 6 - 7 hours and it was still doing the same thing. I need my iPad for school and my mom would beat my butt if she knews. Can you help me please? Thank you
I'm running Parallels Desktop 10. I've run out of space in my Windows 7 Bootcamp partition and decided that I didn't need it as a separate partition any longer. I would rather just have it as a VM that I could move onto a separate HD. So I ran Parallels and imported the Bootcamp partition into a VM. That worked perfectly. I can now boot my VM in Parallels without issue.
My MCS index is 15 but fast.com says I'm getting 520 kbps vs. 3.0Mbps on my LG G5 (Wifi). What's the next thing to do to fix this? It seems like it's an Apple problem, since my iPad is having similar problems.
I head on to Security & Privacy on Filevault and try to encrypt my disk. When I click the Turn On Filevault I get the error. When going through the syslog I see this:
I am developing apps with Unity 3D, and often have several instances of the program open. When I go to debug my scripts, Monodevelop (the script editing and debugger tool) shows me a list of all open Unity applications and their Process Identifiers (PIDs), so that I can choose which one to attach to.
Is there a terminal command I can use to quit Google's "Backup and Sync" software? I am writing a Bash script to set the machine up for maximum battery life and I would like to shutdown all non-essential software that I usually have running in the background such as Backup and Sync. I tried the usual suspects (osascript -e 'tell app "Backup and Sync from Google" to quit' AND killall 'Backup and Sync from Google') without success.
I did upgrade to latest High Sierra, moved all old *.conf files like httpd.conf~previous to be in use. Checking config works fine: ping of 127.0.0.1 works as expected, server config file is when I try to open localhost or try
I have a 13" 2012 non-retina MacBook Pro that I intend on upgrading with a Samsung Evo 850 SSD. I have watched some tutorials and for the most part, I think I know what to do on the hardware side of things but I have two questions for the software side after the disk has been successfully installed.
so I had installed Bootcamp and felt the need of getting more space. So I created a free partition inside mac and went on to delete it in Windows.
Is there a terminal command to determine if a screensharing session from a remote machine is not just initiated but also actively being viewed? Details: I have a background (Perl) process running on a remote machine that issues system commands like
I have two iPhones (personal and work) that are on the same Apple ID. On the personal one there is the the following problem that doesn't happen on the work one: on the Updates tab of the App Store, the update dates are wrong for most apps. For example, Skype for iPhone right now shows 2 days ago, but when clicking on that app, it shows 2w ago and it was indeed updated about 2 weeks ago (typically I update the apps as soon as updates show up).
I've used Migration Assistant to move my old user account from Windows to Mac. After a while the disk on my Mac being full. Now the Mac won't startup
I have an automount set up in a file /etc/auto_synology which is referenced by /etc/automaster which looks like this: These are mounted in /mnt/synology/[Media|Downloads] When I mount these via: It is successful and I can access the directories ok. If I disconnect my laptop from the network and reconnect, the automounts appear mounted but I get permission denied. yields: Also, working permissions on the directory looks like this:
i'm still using Aperture 3.6 in HighSierra, because it still seems to be better for my 50000 photos/workflow than photos.app. There are features in Aperture, which are not that important, when they are missing in photos.app - but one is a showstopper, if missing: "File -> Relocate Originals This nice feature let's you relocate your RAW/JPG-Originals on an external Drive/NAS in a chronologic form, keeping your library small - and the originals in a safe place.
I’m downgrading to a backup taken when my Mac was on Sierra. When I’m back up, I want to ensure I don’t get another unwanted upgrade.
What is the loopback interface lo0 on Macs? What's the use of it? Does it have any vulnerabilities?
Though there are are some old answers here about how this was once accomplished, it's not clear what the current procedure for exporting Apple Health data is, and though there is indeed an export option in the Health app, this generates an empty file (after taking about 5 minutes). How do I export Apple Health data?
Intermittently, and with no pattern I can discern, my Watch measures "Heart Rate Variability". But I don't see a way to measure this on demand, and I can't find any apps that measure it directly (those that do use the camera and not Watch, and don't share with Apple Health). How can I preform a HRV measurement on demand with Watch?
I have both an Apple Watch and iPhone. When I play tennis, my iPhone lays on the table. What setting do I need to set, in order for the watch to track my movement?
I have a problem with system run out of application memory last days. All my applications are frozen after the system message, and the only way to work again is to make a cold reboot with button. I didn't install any new software, and Springboard is acting like crazy (I think it's the main source of leak since I am able to force Springboard to quit in Activity Monitor and somehow I can use my Macbook Pro for a few minutes after that).
I have a late 2011 Macbook pro, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, with 4 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. It is currently running version 10.7.5. According to EveryMac "... this model is capable of running macOS High Sierra (10.13), and it supports HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), but it does not support hardware accelerated HEVC."
I got a late 2008 MacBook Pro from a friend, not working. The hard drive was broken, so I replaced it. Of course, I needed to put macOS back on there, and I didn't have the disk, so I grabbed El Capitan from the app store and sent it to my other computer running Lubuntu, then ran two commands to put it on there: dmg2img InstallESD.dmg dd if=InstallESD.img of=/dev/sdb (/dev/sdb/ is the volume for my usb drive) Now, here's the issues it runs into: Do nothing: Flashing folder with question mark Do nothing: Flashing folder with question mark Hold option key: Nothing appears but a white screen and a mouse, I can move the mouse Hold option key: Nothing appears but a white screen and a mouse, I can move the mouse This happens even when I put the USB in, before and after the screen pops up. Things I've tried: Reset NVRAM Reset SMC Use both USB ports Verify the DMG had the right checksum
After an update to high sierra most program icons look the same.  Any ideas how to fix that?
I am trying to figure out how to reliably back up my 2013 MacBook pro to my Windows 7 desktop, living on the same network. The Windows machine is hardwired and the MacBook is connected via WiFi. The windows PC has a shared folder, named "MBP-TimeMachine". I created a TimeMachine.sparsebundle disk image on my MacBook Pro and copied it over to the "MBP-TimeMachine" directory. Using the app AutoMounter, I have my MacBook successfully connecting to my Windows share on login. I can get the image mounted, and time machine detects it, but when I begin backup, it gets to ~400-500mb backed up before the image just randomly unmounts and I'm not sure why?
Update: I created a MacOS High Sierra Installation disk, and rebooted to it. The new disk utility does not recognize the disk0s2 partition at all, and diskutil list included the size of the main osx partition in GUID_partition_scheme part of the disk. Would it be possible (and how) to recover the data of the deleted partition (s2) if I reinstalled macOS on an existing unused partition (the Linux partition disk0s4)?
I have my iPhone SE set to use my fingerprints to access it, and this is normally the way I get into my phone. By at seemingly random intervals (absolutely no pattern that I can detect), the phone will require I enter the actual unlock code. The phone has definitely not been rebooted, crashed, or anything of that sort.
I'm going to install Linux on a Macbook Air (from ~2013), and I plan on replacing the entire contents of the hard disk (OS, recovery partition, etc). If I want to restore Mac OS, will Internet Recovery work? Do I really just need to hit Command+Option+R during boot? Should I back up something to make restoring easier?
I can't log out from iCloud on an iPhone 6 Plus. After I enter the password, a popup is shown saying I need to unlock the account because it's locked for security reasons. I can use the same Apple ID on a different iPhone normally. How can I turn off Find My iPhone?
I had some issues on my machine and had to reinstall macOS High Sierra from the recovery partition. Not sure if the setup didn't complete, or maybe it just didn't work as I expected, but I ended up at a login screen with no users on the machine. So I set a password for root from single user mode and then logged into Finder as root, and now I'd like to re-create my previous user from the existing home directory.
My iMac is so slow I literally cannot run anything on it. My work involves the Adobe Suite. Recently I cannot even open a single Adobe program.
Since DVDs are essentially becoming obsolete or at least the macbook laptops do not have accessibility to them anymore, I thought it would be good to back a backup for them before I get rid of the DVD reader laptop and thus still be able to watch my videos. The issue is that I don't know how to watch the DVD inside of my iphone even if I have access to the dmg file. One solution could be to have some app that access the DMG through dropbox/icloud and then open it with the app. Does that exist?
I'm trying to share an IKEv2 VPN connection with Internet Sharing. It's not showing up on the list of shareable connections (other VPNs are.) I think bridging it with one of my network devices might do the trick as I may be able to share the bridge. I can't do this via the GUI in Network Preferences. Is there a way (perhaps via the command line) that I can bridge this VPN connection with another network device in order to share that through Internet Sharing?
I'm running El Capitan on a 2010 MacBook Pro. I have Xcode 8.2 installed and I use it frequently. I installed Norton Secure on my MacBook yesterday. Xcode is now hanging after 3 to 7 minutes. I've also noticed that my MacBook takes longer to shut down as well. My problem is definitely repeatable
My third attempt was to use the Single User Mode in order to apply the fsck command. However I could not even start to write in the terminal since it was going crazy in a loop by giving the message that the Root could not be found (the number of the error if relevant was probably 19). After some time, everything stopped and the background got white, while the letters got black.
I have MBP 2013 OSX 10.13.1, connected a USB external DVD ROM drive model: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N. When I insert an audio CD i get the message. "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"
I can't get screencapture to work work when triggered with exec() command. I am not sure what the $output message is trying to convey. php.ini disable_functions is empty.
How can I create a python script that runs when the computer boots? I know to get it to run on login I can turn it into an app and add it to a as a startup item in settings, but I need it to run once the computer boots. How can I make a python script run when the computer is turned on? I am running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1 and Python 2.7.10
I am thinking about buying this graphic card for my Mac Pro 2009 (originally 4,1, now upgraded to 5,1). Before I do that, I have a couple of questions:
After upgrading my MacBookPro to macOS Sierra, CPU is running very fast. When I tried to debug the issue, here is what I have found.
I have a bunch of aliases attached to a standard IMAP account in Mail.app in High Sierra (10.3.1). I would like to manipulate these using a script, but I do not see where they are stored. They don't appear to be part of Mail's preferences as they're not shown here: Does anyone know which preference file or database they might be stored in?
Also... While the "Mount" option is available under "Disk Utility" -> "File" -> "Mount", selecting it appears to do nothing.
So I booted of to single user mode for fun and I was checking whether my trash folder will be present there but it was not and I also mounted / as read and write but when I boot to my Mac and then use terminal I can see my trash with its contents fine. I am just wondering why I can't access my trash in single user mode? I actually checked if my trash folder exists by typing ls -a /Users/homedirectoryname/
How do I get past the "do not enter" traffic sign that stops me from installing "Sierra" instead of "High Sierra"? I booted into rescue mode and deleted the original "High Sierra" installation, but booting from the USB stick with the "Sierra" installer on it still gives me the "no".
I would like to be able to search DuckDuckGo from spotlight. I am aware that pressing ⌘ + B in spotlight will search the web in your default browser (I use Firefox), however this always defaults to a Google search. I read that spotlight uses the Safari default search engine for internet searches so I changed my Safari default to DuckDuckGo, but this does not change the search engine used in Firefox.
I bought a Macbook Pro second hand and the previous owner did not disable their iCloud account. Is there any way to erase it back to factory settings so I can set up my iCloud account on the device?
To get out of Windows earlier when I had this problem, I would reboot into Windows Recovery, which takes no time at all then press turn off the computer. My Mac would reboot into macOS just fine. Now, the only way that I can find out of Windows is to reboot into macOS recovery, which takes a few minutes to load.
I've set the locale: However, while this mount works: This mount fails: Any suggestions as to how to fix this?
So why does Preview write a subject, and what is the difference between that and a keyword? What is the difference between the magnifying icon and the pencil icon anyway? They seem to show the same information.
I have a Fortran program which I run on my macOS 10.12.6. The code is compiled using a Makefile, in which all the libraries included have their path included as well. For one of the libraries (and only one) my executable can't seem to be able to find it. My code compiles correctly but I get this runtime error at the beginning of the program: Here's how I am adding my library: If I do ls $HOME/usr/lib/slatec/lib I get: libslatec.so.
I have very many pinned tabs in Safari on the Mac. Is there a quick way to "export" them to another machine? (perhaps they can be synced via iCloud?)
I would like to detect that event from an Applescript. I have found the lsappinfo command-line app, which has a listen command that seems to fill my need exactly, but going fullscreen does show up in the output. Here is what I tried. First I ran in Terminal
Before recent OS and iOS upgrades I was able to answer calls on mac from my iPhone. Now, after recent upgrades i can only make calls from my Mac but I'm unable to answer them.
When do you replace a the battery of an iPhone 5s? I used an app that said it has 900+ charge cycles. I find I have to charge it constantly because it doesn't hold its charge very well. I know a Macbook and iPhone are not comparable but this link says after 1000 charge cycles for the Macbook, it's time to replace the battery so I'm wondering if there's a similar rule of thumb for an iPhone too (specifically iPhone 5s)
Does anyone know how to permanently remove an icon put in the menu bar by DYMO label maker software? I can right click it and remove it, or drag it off the menu bar. However, it returns upon a reboot.
I have had an issue with the "Look Up" popup since at least the High Sierra update. I first noticed when it presented a "continue" button for the new personalized suggestions via Spotlight. I'm unable to click continue, I've also tried hitting spacebar/enter when the button eventually highlights but that does not work either.
There's an error in a user profile I'm generating to configure an wireless internet connection. When I try to import it the Profile Manager tells me there's an error, and if I try to use the profiles utility I get the following error: This is the error you get if you try to import any file that's not valid, from an .mp3 file to a proper .mobileconfig file with a missing closing tag, so it's not very helpful.
Last to last night, I was upgrading my Macbook Air 13" from Sierra to High Sierra. During the installation (when the software was upgrading), the Mac was taking a lot of time, so I closed the flap and put it on sleep mode (which was a huge mistake, I know). When I opened the laptop again, it was showing the blinking folder with a question mark icon, indicating that the Startup Disk was not found. After having talked to Apple Care for a long time and looked online, I started the laptop in Recovery Mode, and tried to find my Startup Disk in the Apple Menu but did not find it, so I ran First Aid on my Disk using Disk Utility, it ran perfectly, but I still did not see the disk. The only solution was to reinstall MacOS. I did this using an external hard drive that I erased and renamed to "Macintosh HD". I then went to Recovery Mode again and cliked on "Reinstall MacOS", and did this from the external hard drive to install High Sierra. I then synced data from the backup external disk (which 
I have the following problem since upgrading to OS X 10.13.1 High Sierra on MBP 2017. A generic icon is shown for nearly all my apps. See the image below. Does anyone know how to fix this and get the applications icons back?
I just purchased a iPhone 8 and I was trying to charge it using my Qi charging base that I used on my former Nexus 6. The base worked fine on the Nexus 6 but on the iPhone, it squeals (not sure whether it is the iPhone or the base, but it sounds more like the base) and stops charging regularly. The charge level does go up during this process, but it is so irritating that I have to stop as I also fear damage to the iPhone. I used both the Nexus 6 and the iPhone USB power adapter and the result is the same. For me it seems that the iPhone pulls more power than the Qi base can support. It there a way to reduce the power drawn by the iPhone via wireless charging? The Qi charger is a Itian model A2.
I had my iphone 6s plus stolen in a nightclub at the weekend, I activated lost mode straight away but the phone was offline. I then phoned EE to report the theft and they blocked the sim, but I've since realised that the phone has to connect to the internet in order for Lost mode to take effect and lock my phone and enable tracking to occur, so have I played into the thief's hands by having the sim blocked?
Emacs is installed with brew cask install emacs-mac, which also moves it to Applications folder. Works fine. However it is not listed in Open With menu. If I choose Other... from Open With dialog, then select Emacs, it works fine. I had many entries for many Emacs versions in Open With dialog before, then tried cleaning up the entries with trashing com.apple.LaunchServices.plist and restarting, after uninstalling all other gui Emacs versions. How do I put Emacs back on Open With menu?
My 2011 Macbook Pro's internal HD controlled failed, so I restored a Time Machine image to an external hard drive. The machine boots fine from this external HD volume via USB.
I tried the following, but at each one except the single user mode, it is stuck on the white screen. This problem occurred after I shut down the MacBook Pro using power button after the screen froze I tried booting from external USB, CMD+R, CMD+OPTION+R, OPTION, While it is stuck at white screen it overheats, and sometimes restarts I cannot reinstall MacOS or enter recovery or internet recovery or even erase the hard disk because it always ets stuck at the white screen. Is there any way to fix it using terminal at single user mode?
I recently added a second monitor. I want to be able to keep a window maximized on this screen. Clicking the maximize button when in this monitor causes the alert sound to play and the window does not maximize. How can I maximize a window on the secondary display?
I've seen questions: How can I create a zip archive for Windows and Linux users? How to remove __MACOSX folder in a list of zip files (not a single zip file)? How can I batch zip multiple folders without _macosx files? This question is different. I'm asking for a way to create a zip without the .DS_Store or __MACOSX for less sophisticated Apple computer users who have to coexist with Windows users who cannot accept a zip with the .DS_Store and __MACOSX. I've discovered these are called Mac resource forks. Like I said, for less sophisticated Apple users, so no command line codes please.
I shared an iCloud note with somebody else to work on it together. I sent a link via E-Mail which points to iCloud.com. The other person opens the link, signs into iCloud and then the note is opened in the web app.
I'm trying to set a variable, e.g. but I get The same for It seems that I can't edit the path which looks incorrect... What might be wrong please?
I got this message on a MacBook Pro 2012: path /system/installation/packages/osinstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged
I'm trying to use custom alert sounds for Facetime and Messages and I converted the sounds to .aiff and put them in ~/Library/Sounds in my Home folder. They appear in System Preferences->Sound->Sound Effects, but in the Messages and Facetime preferences pane, I'm only seeing the default Apple sounds in the dropdown. Any idea on how I can get my custom sounds to show up in the app preferences pane too?
Ever since I updated to OS 10.13.1, my mail app has not been archiving my messages. It shows the message as archived, until I close and reopen, then all my messages that were archived come back. Also, when I hit close, the icon just stays there (doesn't say not responding), and I have to hit option-cmd-escape to close it.
I know there is no difference between MS-DOS FAT32 and Windows FAT32 file system and there are only FAT16 and FAT32 but Disk Utility identifies FAT differently and in my case USB drive with Windows FAT32 is unreadable. The latter was created in Ubuntu when I wanted to make GParted live USB using: before that USB drive was formatted in disk utility to MS-DOS FAT32.
I am using SwitchResX, to change the resolution, and I think I changed the colour from Millions to Billions, which broke it. I now can't change it back as it is only broken when the lid is closed. I want to have just the single monitor. How can I change the settings back to normal so that it works properly? The MacBook Pro is plugged in to mains power, and is connected a USB Keyboard and Bluetooth Mouse.
My mother has just bought herself a new IPAD 9,7 running IOS 11.2. I would like to set up Teamviewer so that I can control her IPad from my MacBook. So far I can only "view" her IPad when I start a screen recording, but have no control over the ipad itself. Is this functionality available with Teamviewer?
I am planning to invest in an external 144 Hz display for smooth game developments, now as far as I know macOS outputs video at 60 Hz so if I buy an 144 Hz external display will my MacBook be able to output video/operate at 144 Hz screen refresh rate?
Numerous shows that I have purchased are NOT showing up on my Apple TV. I have tried logging out then logging back in, but still they do not show up. They are on my iPhone and iPad.
I am following this guide on updating php 5.x to php 7 *=URL=* Terminal complains that php 7 is already installed (I dont remember if I installed myself a long time ago or it came preinstalled with OSX). php -v returns php 5.6.30 Adding export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH or export PATH="$(brew — prefix homebrew/php/php70)/bin:$PATH" does nothing and terminal complains that it does now know what - is.
While a server offers both AFP and SMB the Finder chooses SMB as default since 10.11 I believe... ...is there a know defaults param to force the finder to connect through AFP? I'm not looking for way through "Connect menu" or terminal command.
I have recently upgraded Disk Utility on my Macbook Pro. Now my device only boots into Recovery Mode and when I hold alt/option I can only see EFI. When I try to get into safe mode, I see a "No Symbol". How can I transfer files from my Macbook Pro that will only boot into EFI to my Macbook Air that is fully functioning.
I have a Samsung U32H75 with iMac 21" 2011. I wish to make the fonts large for the UI. I try enabling retina with But nothing show after reboot. Is this possible.
I have a Mac Mini that was on Sierra running OS X Server. I finally decided to upgrade to High Sierra today, but after the update ran the App Store will not work. When I open the App Store I get the "Featured" tab information, but if I then click "Updates" (which displays that I have 1 update waiting) the app seems to hang. If I open Activity Monitor the App Store and App Store Network processes are marked as "Not Responding". So far I have tried: Reinstalling OS X High Sierra (booted to recovery mode, picked the "install" option) Cleared the App Store cache and temp files after killing all related processes manually (did this several times) Rebooted into "Safe" mode and repeated step 2 Let it sit there for over an hour hoping maybe it would time out something and retry. Tried running the Disk Utils First Aid on the drive I am not sure what else to try at this point. EDIT: I just tried removing the two plist files:
The VPN I'm running from Server.app is throwing this error whenever I try to connect from localhost: L2TP received invalid message (expected SCCRQ, received Hello)
I play Criminal Case on my iPad and was asked to join a criminal case group. I clicked "yes" on the invitation and now I cannot access anything on my iPad. If I click on any App, it will open up and then immediately shut down. Any suggestions as to how to fix?
Main machine is os x 10.9.5 Is there a canonical list of all os x processes by name? For instance TransportClient is always at the top of my Activity Monitor - Network list. Would like to find out about basic functionality etc. Also I'm the default tech for a teens' macbook and want to be able to identify rogue processes by name whenever possible. I've already had to remove adware and, despite security lectures, there will be more issues. Thanks for any info.
On Windows, pressing Backspace in Explorer will navigate to the parent folder in the Explorer window. Is there an equivalent keyboard shortcut for Finder on macOS?
I came from here and already fixed my sudoers: sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 That allowed me to get sudo working. However, whenever I use sudo, I get a warning: how do I fix this?
I upgraded to ios 11.2. There is now a red badge under Settings on "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone. Under Settings>Finish Setting Up Your iPhone there are two apparent options: Back, and Set Up Apple Pay How do I decline Apple's invitation to manage my financial transactions and mine them for data?
So I was trying to install some app for something so I clicked on their link. It then said, "This app is not available on the US App Store, would you like to change to Chinese?".
Till some days ago, the external USB drive FA_SAMSUNG used to appear in the Devicessection of a Finder window. See attached screenshot.
They changed things in later versions of macOS so that you can't just edit etc/ssh/sshd_config like you would in Linux. What do I type into the shell to run sshd on port 500 instead of 22?
For some reason, numerous websites started displaying as mobile on my MacOS machine today, in all browsers, even browsers I never use like Safari. The agent header I'm seeing in Chrome is: Any ideas about what's going on and how to correct it?
How can I remove "First Volume"(Macintosh HD) on the disk. Minus sign is grayed out. Unable to remove it via recovery either. Even if I erase the volume, I can't use that space for macOS10.12.1... volume.
it is necessary that when the second monitor is connected, the dock becomes from the bottom (without the monitor on the left) and the programs should open from the monitor being launched.
I am confused. If someone deletes/erases a whole internal drive - how come the deleted files are recoverable? My daughter’s computer is a 2014 iMac running El Capitan and it has a 500GB SATA hard drive.
For testing purpose, I temporally switched my phone 7's language to Traditional Chinese, and very soon afterward I switched the system language back to English. However, somehow in Photo, a group of photo has acquired location names in Chinese, as seen in this screenshot
So in terminal there is a fun feature now, as you can open a man page of the current command by using the touchbar. I failed to close the man page though. The usual q did nothing as well as esc or CTRL-C. Does anyone know how to close it?
I installed Windows 10 through Bootcamp and have been using it since 2015. Yesterday, I installed Paragon software which seemed to provide write access to NTFS partition.
I'm running my own daemon under macOS Sierra and High-Sierra, and get unexpected behavior upon shutdown. according to the manual of daemon life cycle, it says that ... If the system is being shut down or restarted, it sends a SIGTERM signal to all daemons, followed a few seconds later by SIGKILL signal. However, in my case I see that my daemon only gets SIGKILL from launchd (my signal handler callback function for SIGTERM isn't being called) I've verified that I doesn't allow sudden termination by setting the following fields in plist : Any idea what am I missing here ?
I realize this question has been asked before, but there seem to be about 50 different posts all offering different answers which haven't solved my issue. I have a 2017 Macbook Pro. I just picked up a Dell U3417W. My fonts look like crap. Everything is super pixelated unless i zoom my screen to about 175%. Even then, all of the text looks like it has a slight red hue around some of the letters. Is this just a result of me being used to retina display?
Is it possible for watchOS developers to allow Bluetooth discovery and connection within an Apple Watch app, or does it have to be done in Settings?
I get a "Maybe:" in front of most iMessage contacts and only the phone number for SMS'es - even for persons from my contact list. What can be the cause and how can I solve it?
I'm running MacOS High Sierra in Mac Mini (late 2015). It ran into trouble when Paragon has been installed. So I can no more see the Bootcamp partition in Startup Disk. I uninstalled Paragon, but still unable to see Bootcamp partition in Startup Disk.
After installing High Sierra, whenever I lock and close my MacBook Pro (2015), all my programs have quit once I open it again. Chrome will often show an "unexpectedly closed" message, which seems to indicate that it was not a graceful logout but a sudden forced quit of all programs. It doesn't happen if I lock the computer and immediately unlock - only, apparently, if I close the laptop and come back after a while (sometimes as little as 5-10 minutes). Why would this be happening? High Sierra also freezes for around 5 seconds when I try to Lock the computer before actually locking, which is extremely slow and did not happen in Sierra. I tried to ask this on Apple forums and got the message: "You are not allowed to create or update this content."
I use ssh terminal windows a lot and everytime I try to type... ... I get ... ...because if I'm typing too fast and I hit ALT-SPACE (instead of release ALT...then SPACE) it jumps me back a word. Is there a way to disable the ALT-SPACE key combo - without doing a mad karabinersomething?
How to change default maps to Google maps on iPhone 7 while sharing location to others on WhatsApp Application ? iOS Version : 11.1.2, Model : iPhone 7, 128 GB I also tried uninstalling Apple Maps, but no use !
In the terminal app you have "marks" that are automatically created each time you run something (or you can add them automatically). Then you can easily jump between marks with the ⌘+⬆︎ or ⌘+⬇︎ shortcuts (or with special touch bar buttons). Is it possible to run the command of the currently selected mark? This would be a nice way to reuse previous commands.
Yesterday the SSD in my 13" mid-2012 MacBook Pro died. I replaced the old one with a new one.
i brought a brand new monitor it was working fine for ~80hrs..then the glitches started see video i tested the same monitor on a newer MBP 2015..and experienced 0 glitches. i then tried zapping the PRAM and SMC as per: *=URL=* it seemed to work for 3 hrs.. then the glitches returned.
I was travelling in China with my Macbook and USB-C Power Adapter. While plugged in at a hotel, the prongs of adapter got burnt.
Is there anything special about the Apple USB-C cable, other than its quality, that would prevent me from using a USB-C cable from another brand? And the same question for the wall adapter.
I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra. Sometimes when I let my computer auto-lock itself, (like closing the lid for a while) when I come back the user is not the profile I was using, but says System Administrator and has the default grey silhouette icon. Using my TouchID logs me in as usual, so as far as I can tell it is just an aesthetics glitch. I also can't replicate it, because it seems to happen at random.
When I enter an event on the iPhone Google calendar, it does not show up in the monthly view on the iPhone. It does appear in the weekly and daily views on the iPhone. It also appears in all views, including monthly, when synced to my MAC Air computer. I have tried re-entering the event, but all I get is a spinning wheel on the monthly view.
In OSX Yosmite, the pcsc service was replaced with Apple's own "Crypto Token Kit" for handling smart cards. We used to be able to restart pcscd like in this answer, but I have not been able to find a way using the new service. Is there any way to restart the Crypto Token Kit without rebooting the machine?
I was deleting some CoreServices and without knowing what OSDUI helper does I deleted it instead of renaming it as .disabled and now when I change the brightness or sound I don't see an on screen indicator like before which shows the current level of sound or brightness - this is my assumption. Even accesibility is not opening
My early 2011 MBP 15 stopped loading one day and is stuck on the grey screen when I start it up. I have changed the hard drive with a formatted one (that I did on my Mac Pro) to the journaled file system cleared the NVRAM reset SMC cleared the NVRAM reset SMC tried booting from a restore USB I created with OSX on it (wouldn't load) tried booting from a restore USB I created with OSX on it (wouldn't load) replaced the thermal past on the heat sink tried to run in single user mode to diagnose firmware problems but now it won't boot into single user mode holding CommandS no matter what I do, it just keeps loading to the folder with the question mark (no operating system yet on the new hard drive) I can get it to start the Internet restore except it gets to the point where the Apple logo comes up, with the spinning wheel below it, then the screen flashes black then grey and stays grey forever.
I share certain files between my laptop and desktop using Dropbox. Because I use these files so often, I have dragged them to the docks of both laptop and desktop. There is a file icon for the file in both the desktop and laptop docks.
I’m running iOS 11 on an old iPad mini. When I open slide over, it works fine. But when I try dragging down or up on the tab, split screen doesn’t work.
I have a question. I'm developing an app for iOS. I don't have a subscription of Apple Developer Account(I'm thinking about buying that but I'm hesitating because I don't know whether my app will work or/and be published).
I searched a lot of similar error on Bash_Profile, but no one seems to look like mine.. I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and this is my Bash_Profile My Bash_Profile I always get the messages, no matter what I do, not even deleting the lines, rebooting, the error is just transferred to another line. The error messages I get Please, could someone point me what is going on?
My husband has his personal iPhone 5s and iPad Air 2 and he also has an iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2 for his work. He wants to change the "work iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2" to a new Apple id not associated with his personal Apple id (icloud ??). I am trying to help, but I am not familiar with Apple iPhones etc. He uses his personal email for his Apple id for all of devices, but separate email addresses.
Now when i go to System Preferences > File Vault i get the following decryption screen (see below screenshot). How can i stop it decrypting and re-enable deception ?
my coworking space support apple display it only can connect with apple connection. it means that apple display-monitor doesn't work RGB,hdmi connection. that's why many people connect with mac book but it is expensive so that i wanna thunderbolt output mini pc(asus) or Mac mini can i connect with this pc to the Mac display thanks a lot
There is a date bug on iOS 11.1.2 which causes iOS to constantly respring after 2nd December, caused by recurring local notifications. iPhone with repeating loading spinner
When setting the preferences for the short date string, the Day of Month does not include the trailing 0. How can I change this?
I updated to High Sierra on my Macbook Pro when it was released. Since I have updated, a lot of my applications show the attached icon when I open them. Does anyone know a fix to this?
I’m using macOS High Sierra. Recently I started to shoot movies and use FCPX to edit etcetera. My question is when going to About this Mac > Storage > Manage > Reduce Clutter> Review Files > Large Files… Much to my frustration I find oodles of QuickTime movie files. I’d like to delete them and regain the almost 300 GB of storage that’s being used up. But I’m worried they would no longer be stored in my Photos application (where I imported or dragged and dropped everything I’ve filmed). Why do they end up saved in that documents file and is it safe to delete them. A related question, when I delete downloads, if I’ve saved them in photos or in pages, will those be gone from those places or will they remain?
I'm trying to remove unused Today widgets from the Notification Center panel, although it's not clear on how to get rid of them (delete permanently).  The unused items show up after clicking the "Edit" button at the bottom of the Today Screen, but the only thing that the +/- seems to do is either add it to the panel or put it in a pile of unused widgets. I would like to remove some third party today widgets entirely, as I don't even have the application installed any longer.
I have an app which is launched by launchctl as soon as any user logs in. This app authenticates itself with a server using a key (stored in the keychain). My issue is that since keychains are user specific, other user's app will not be able to authenticate since they do not have access to the keychain which contains the key. I'm looking at the system keychain which has keys shared between all users (wifi passwords for example), but have not be able to find a way to use it (maybe missing something). What mechanisms for sharing secrets between users exist?
I recently bought this New Iphone 6 online, came in the box all wrapped up and shiny and the earphones and everything else was wrapped with that shiny see through tape or whatever it's called, so then I went to Metros PCS to get my phone's number and the clerk did some things blah blah and asked for my APPLE ID but I got confused cause I'm still new to the phone so I said I wasn't sure and just left after getting the phone service so I'm left with the Activation Lock Page. I press the Home Button then I have to enter in my Passcode, Which I did. Then it leads to a page that says: "Update Completed, your iphone was updated successfully. There are just a few more steps to follow, and then you're done!" I pressed Continue and it leads to activation Lock which I put in my Apple ID and Password and it leads to the same page again so I did it again, after that it just shows a itunes Icon in the center of the screen so I went to Itunes on my PC but When I connect the iphone to the PC it asks 
I want to register 100k Apple IDs with 100k different emails automatically. I tried using a PHP script but it's not working. Any ideas on how to achieve this? I want them to be permanent, and not temporary (for example: Apple ban them in 6 month).
I'm here because I got this situation. I'm trying to go live streaming in youtube and facebook. I'm going to use a gopro, I got a blackmagic Ultrastudio mini recorder, and do it thru OBS software. I could connect it all and It was working with one or two problems I could fix.
My Macbook Pro will only boot into recovery after upgrading Disk Utility from the App Store. In the Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, my disk can't be checked for errors and it cannot unmount. (I believe it also recognizes the existence of the filesystem but cannot verify it or something similar) I have taken the hard drive out of my device and used a disk enclosure and can view my files. How can I copy these files to another HD/SSD and boot from it (successfully) into macOS? I have a file encryptor that encrypts some of my files so I'd need all my app/file data to remain when I copy the files and boot the drive.
Is there an Apple TV compatible game controller that allows for buttons to be remapped? My 6yo son has a mobility disability that affects one side of his body. He's starting to become interested in console gaming. I thought the Apple TV would be a good first platform for him because, among other reasons, the games are not too demanding of the controller.
I’m using the createinstallmedia utility to create a bootable volume on an external 4TB USB drive. This drive has 6 partitions (some encrypted) on it, all of them are JHFS+, 1 is being used as the boot volume. The drive successfully boots a MacBook Pro 2015. When holding down the option key during startup, I can see the external drive and successfully boot from it. If I try to boot a Mac Mini 2012 using the same process, I don’t see the external drive. If I try to set the startup volume using System Preferences > Startup disk, the drive appears as an option, however upon restart, it fails to boot from the external volume.
I have an old MacBook running Lion Server that I want to be an El Capitan NetBoot server. I downloaded the Install El Capitan Application on a supported computer, and then copied it to the Applications folder of the server. When I launch System Image Utility to create the image for El Capitan, there is nothing under the "Sources" dropdown.
All other websites work and can be quickly accessed, even youtube.com will load. google.com will simply not load at all when I try to connect to it over cellular data. It does work over Wi-Fi, however. I tried using a different browser, the Google app, restarting the iPhone, everything. Funny thing though, the Google feed loads in the Google app, yet I cannot search with google within the app.
I have lots of books bought or downloaded not from Apple's store. I would like to simply put a book on my mac, then see it on my iPhone and iPad. I also like to read it on my iPad, set a bookmark, and keep reading from same page on my iPhone.
I have a macbook air 13" late 2015. When I try to power it on a sound comes from the fan though the computer doesn't boot up. It does boot though if it's plugged in. Sometimes when I'm using the computer it randomly shuts off. I've tried to do a SMC reset once, but the issue still remains the same. What is a solution to this problem?
Is there a tool or a process where I can export/sync my Google Chrome saved passwords into iCloud Keychain?
With most apps on my macos (TextEdit, TextWrangler, Skype, WeChat, Mail, Xcode, Android Studio, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) when I hold down a letter like E, I get the choice of accents to use from the PressAndHold popup:
I hate to sound like everybody else. I think my computer is being accessed by somebody, likely the somebody that gifted the computer to me. I don't thing it beneath him at all, or by somebody else. Any tricks to find a hidden user via Terminal.
I had to force quit Pages as it was not responding (apparently my computer ran out of application memory and almost all applications stopped working). After restarting (which involved force quitting all those applications including pages), some (but not all) of the files that were open in the previous session cannot be opened. The error message I get reads "File" can't be opened right now. Pages couldn't read the file. The file exists and was apparently modified at a time after I worked on it last but well before the restart. Is there a way to re-claim the file or at least the text in it?
ISPs' throttle internet traffic, so some provide fast lanes for popular websites while all other websites are available to the user at lower internet speeds or bandwith. I am on an iMac so my question is that is there any way by which I can encrypt outgoing connections from my iMac in-order to escape internet capping
I prefer backing up and syncing my photos locally vs using iCloud and as such I have been trying to automate the process of locally syncing newly taken photos on an iPhone to my PC but have not been able to find any obvious solutions. One of the additional challenges is i'm looking for a solution that would work for sometimes alternating imports of two (or more) different iPhones. Preferred Solution Should: Automatically copy any new photos (and video) from the Camera Roll to a pre-configured folder after the phone is plugged in Keep the original filenames as they are on the phone Keep photos from different phones separate (ideally just sync them to a different folder) I'm looking to sync from iPhone -> PC only as i can already sync edited photos and albums from PC -> iPhone via iTunes Use native/free/scripted functionality I can live with: Having a couple of mouse clicks to start or approve the transfer Doing the transfer over WiFi instead Don't mind if the folder structure from the p
I noticed in this thread - Connect New MacBook (USB-C) to Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI) - the OP successfully managed to connect a 30" cinema display to the new macbook pro USB-C, with full resolution. I have this official apple dual DVI adapter, going to a displayport > USB-C adapter like yours, however the screen does not fire up.
When I click on a hyperlink in a PDF (e.g. in the table of contents) preview doesn't jump to the correct position. Instead of displaying the target position at the top it displays the target in the middle of the window.
When I view a PDF file in preview and use the Page History buttons in the toolbar, preview doesn't jump back to exact same position I was previously, but adds a negative offset of about half a page. I'm using preview on macOS High Sierra. Preview of macOS Sierra shows the same behaviour but Yosemite jumps to the correct positions. Any suggestions how I could fix this behaviour? This question may be in connection with Preview: display position of link targets.
My iPhone 7 had issues and I had done encrypted backups using iTunes. Apple gave me new iPhone as replacement. When I restored from iTunes backup, my Google Authenticator is blank.
I use Safari on my MacBook. I'm disappointed the History page doesn't show times a site was loaded. How can I view the times that a website was visited? Other answers on this site don't work for me on High Sierra, the path ~/Library/Caches/Metadata doesn't exist.
On my 2016 MacBook Pro, the 'b' key on the keyboard has quit working. This is quite inconvenient, and unfortunately it will be a while before I can get it fixed. Is there a way to put a button on the Touch Bar to replace my 'b' key?
I have an iPhone 8 and I would like to use it to answer calls of my older Android phone, which I still keep and I have another line on it. How could I pair my iPhone to the other phone to use the iPhone as a Bluetooth headset?
I use my Google account quite often. On my iPhone, I'm signed in to multiple Google apps (YouTube, Google app, Google Maps, Google Keep, etc.) and I also have the Google account set up in the iOS settings to use it in the iOS apps (like Mail and Calendar).
I like to listen to music and surf the web with Mobile Safari. Sometimes I use an app.
I've purchased set of Sony Headphones (WH1000XM2). They are great, but I can't figure out how to have two simultaneous connections with my MacBook and iPhone. The headphones will connect to either individually but not at the same time. I want to have it that I can listen to music on the Mac, and answer a call on the phone when it comes in. I have tried this with a PC and iPhone and it's fine.
When I put my AirPods in my ears, I can hear a ping sound, indicating a successful connection to my iPhone. My friend who also has AirPods is sensitive to moderately loud sounds, and this sound is too loud for them. Is there a way to reduce the volume of this sound, or disable it?
Amazon Prime video came to Apple TV today. Amazon Prime video supports Dolby Vision, but does it support it on Apple TV. I ask because Amazon Prime video doesn't support all Dolby Vision capable devices. In my case I have an Apple TV 4K.
This is the Disk List for my iMac.  I am trying to merge the partitions macOS and macOS 2 using diskutil mergePartitions now the problem is on running this command macOS will keep data on the first partition which is macOS and will erase everything in between the first and last partition (Last partition included), now the last partition is macOS 2. I want to preserve the last partition which is macOS 2 and delete every other partition so I thought why not include the last partition as the first partition (Which I want to preserve the data on) and include the first partition in the last parameter - which will be deleted. Here's where the issue occurs macOS doesn't allows me to change the sequence of the partition So I am stuck with merging partitions from command line I don't want to use disk utility to merge partitions cause last time when I used it to merge partitions some free spaces were created and were not going away until and unless an entire disk format was performed! One more t
Edit: So I cross posted this question on reddit.com. The 4th line to say is: Hey Siri, kyou no tenki wa? And the fifth one is: Hey Siri, watashi desu.
I have developed an iPhone app and would like to present it to a small group of people using the larger screen on my iPad Pro. The app does not run on iPad, so I would like to mirror my iPhone screen on the iPad.
I have 2 identical looking iPhone 7s which are I am not sure came with which sim tray, and that won't turn on. How do I distinguish between them to determine which one is covered under Apple care? I don't want to bring the wrong device in. Edit: I do have the orginal sim trays but I am not sure which goes with which.
In El Capitan, I used to be able to scroll in remote (ssh) tmux sessions using my mouse wheel and the default terminal application. This stopped working in Sierra. Is there any workaround to re-enable this behaviour? I wasn't able to find anything on that topic.
I would like to send emails from an alias but with a different 'from' name. When I configure an alias and send an email, the name that the receiver sees is the one that is configured in the IMAP settings. An example:
I've inherited an older Retina Macbook Pro from a deceased relative. I don't know the password for their user account, and I would like to make the machine usable. I have a Time Machine backup from my own MBP, however when attempting to restore it, I'm asked for the disk's password: I also can't mount the disk using Disk Utilities, as it again asks me for a password to unlock the disk.
After disassembly and reassembly to fix an HDD cable issue, my iMac is now a blowhard - the fans are going at full tilt from about 30 seconds after boot. I don't believe the device is overheating - I surely messed up one of the temperature sensors upon reassembly.
I am looking for a pretty elegant way to launch the pf - a.k.a. Packet Filtering - process at startup. Using the launchctl or the pfctl commands, root privileges are required and so it is useless to add them into .bash_profile. Are there alternative solutions to this issue?
I'm on a wifi network with a whole bunch of other computers, all of which have AirDrop set to "Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone." (And I do not control these other computers, so I can't go turn off their AirDrop.) When I open AirDrop in Finder, I see 8 of these other machines' hostnames, but not the specific one I want to communicate with. Is there a way to show all AirDroppable machines, not just the first eight? Is there a way to show all AirDroppable machines, not just the first eight? Even better, is there a way to say "I only care about the machine with hostname foobar; please show me that one"? Even better, is there a way to say "I only care about the machine with hostname foobar; please show me that one"? I have found two workarounds: Carry both computers to a Starbucks or something, where there is a wifi network without so many other Macs on it. Carry both computers to a Starbucks or something, where there is a wifi network without so many other Macs on it.
I'd like to rename some image files. Is there a way to have the service ask what number to start at?
I want to open the YouTube app on my iPhone 7 at 8 am every day and open the first video in the list. How can I accomplish this?
I bought a mac on July 17, 2016. I read that this command can tell if the first user of this mac was myself:
I downloaded by accident the latest update by Apple, currently running 10.13.1. I can't upgrade to 10.13.2 due to a problem with the GPU which makes it impossible to boot up.
For example, Apple Pay Cash is currently available only in the United States. Does this mean for devices currently geographically within the U.S. or for U.S. Apple IDs? Or is there some other criteria they use? Would it be possible for a user who activated their iPhone and Apple ID abroad to use Apple Pay Cash?
I have an item "System Events" under "Login Items" for the admin account on a MacBook that is running macOS High Sierra (upgraded from Sierra). Is this login item part of macOS and what does it do?
I have had many good experience with this forum and it helped me a few times already, but now I really can't work around all that, so I really hope that one of you guys can help me. I have a 320 GB HD in my MBP and I tried to have a 50 GB Windows 7 Bootcamp running on it. For some reason the installation got interrupted and then the terminal (using "diskutil list") told me I'd have a 50 GB Recovery HD, which was way smaller before the interrupted installations as I recall. I reinstalled the macOS after backing up my files but the Recovery HD is still occupying 50 GB.
On the terminal I used to see the name of my macbook but for some reason now it has changed to: Typing quit just exits the command prompt so how do I find out what is running / altering that name?
I have an LG Tv with WebOS installed. And I'm trying to cast youtube videos from my macbook with mac os high sierra installed to my tv and it doesn't work. It works with iPhone though therefore I don't know what might be a problem. The thing is that macbook (chrome) doesn't even see the TV device:
This is a little bit awkward, since I remember clearly that it worked on macOS 10.12. My question is this: how can I change the New Private Window shortcut? I am asking this because the usual way with system preferences is not working, and if I press Cmd+N it will open a new window, not a private one. Are you experiencing the same problem? Thanks! This is pre-change:
My Mac is typing that symbols œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ when I'm pressing buttons qwertyuiop I am using a MacBook Pro 9,2 (2010) running El Capitan (10.11.3) with a Japanese keyboard and my language set to English. When I'm using a USB Keyboard I don't have this problem
I want to show only the slide, without the left-side slide thumbnails in the Navigator View. How can this view be made hidden? I am on Keynote version 7.3.1 (5249) Thanks
This is the AppleScript I am using..  Please tell me a way to separate to results in displayNotification by a coma. In this case, the two apps are Notes and Reminder.. The Notification looks like this-
In 2013 my uncle gave me a burned music CD, and I put it into my Mac and instead of playing, it added the songs to my itunes library. I since bought a iphone 6 and had no issues with it or itunes. I recently upgraded to iphone X and it has been prompting me to sign into itunes with his email address.
When I switch to the TestFlight tab for my app in iTunes Connect, it doesn't load. It perpetually shows the spinner.
I want to just "move" the contents of /Volumes/iMacHDD/iMac to /Volumes/iMacSSD/User/iMac. This would make the backup like it came from a single drive. So when I restore to a single drive everything would be there.
I'm about to do a clean install of High Sierra on my iMac and I have a Bootcamp partition with Windows 10. I've checked the partition map, there are a lot of partitions I don't know about and I would like to delete all the unnecesaty ones. Here is my diskutil list result.
I'm new to AppleScript. I'm trying to create a script which takes the list items from a previous Automator workflow action and convert them into variables. There will be an undetermined number of list items (well, between 1 and 40 each run). This works for a determined number of list items, let's say three. But if there are only two list items generated from the previous workflow action, we run into problems. So, I updated the script using if to try to get around this issue.
Why do the messages I receive show up on my iPad and Mac (MBP) as separate threads from the messages that I sent? (see attached)
When I needed storage I did something under the storage section in settings to undownload the apps I haven’t used in a while and if I want to go back into the app after so many days then I have to redownload it but after so many days it undownloads after I downloaded it. How can I get the to stop since I got a new phone and I dont want this to do this any more? It also shows a cloud next to it every time it undownloads.
I am not sure how exactly to phrase this, but wondering if there is a way to manage the display preference and monitor arrangement with a unique profile on macOS? The problem is, I have a home and office multi monitor setup but the specific monitors are arranged different in each environment. So when I move the laptop between work and home the display arrangement is all confused and I have to manually change in display preferences.
how to make Arduino act as a HID keyboard in OS X single-user mode? Just like rubber ducky do. (I know duck tools to convert from rubber to Arduino! but it's not working on single-user mode just in graphic mode. why?)
macOS Sierra (10.12.6) When I enter Exposé using any method, I select my desired window and it comes to the forefront, but then focus switches back to my previous app no matter what. Example: Doing something in Safari Use Exposé to switch to Email (not app switcher) Email comes to the front (or un-minimizes) Safari comes back to the front
Except for my iCloud account, which gets very little traffic, I only use POP3 email. I prefer it because it means I don't have to store 17 years back catalogue on every device I own. I get all my mails on my Mac & have done since time immemorial. My phone I only ever need to check for mail if I'm out & about for a long period of time.
iPad iOS version 11.2 (latest update). Two different email accounts on this device. We use third party SMTP providers (mailgun/sendgrid) for email deliverability/trackability stats. Each address should have its own SMTP credentials. Am able to successfully set up SMTP for each address.
I have an iMac from 2010 with a 250GB internal SSD running High Sierra. I just ran the following from the terminal:
I use "My Photo Stream" to sync new photos into the Photos app on macOS. I just learned live photos are synced as still images via the stream.
This question really stems from the fact that I'm perhaps unfamiliar with the true function of FileVault. As far as I can tell, there's a way to force a pre-boot login screen... which means that, by default, FileVault logs in automatically at boot? Otherwise, the OS wouldn't be able to start.
Is there a dtrace one liner that will run a command, and tell me all the files it tries to open? The Linux strace equivalent of what I'm trying to do is strace -e trace=file -f cat /etc/passwd > /dev/null I am on El Capitan
I have a 13" Late 2011 MacBook Pro with the following specs: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 4GB RAM 240GB SSD I just put in the SSD and did an internet recovery, which installed Lion 10.7.5.
Hi I am having issues trying to resize my Mac OS partition, I previously had a very large recovery partition almost 100gb as a result of removing my linux installation, I since resized this to 650mb. The problem is I am unsure on how to increase the size of my main Mac OS partition as I have no experience with this new container disk stuff. Here is what diskutil list shows:
My mac is stuck at a white loading bar on the start up. I start the mac up, wait and at about 40% the loading bar stops my mouse appears for a moment (i can move it) and dissappears as a rotating transparent loading circle appears, and then it stops, the mouse cursor appears again, dissappears and the circle loading bar becomes whiter and keeps loading again, this over and over again slower and slower. When i try Safe mode the same thing happens. However when i start the mac in recovery mode (command /R) the mac runs perfectly but then disk utility, disk verification and repair disk preferences don't do a thing when i reboot afterwards. I've also checked the file system, reset nvram and the smc and nothing happened but the screen became brighter and the boot sound got louder. I've also tried to reinstall yosemite to 10 but the same thing happened after installation, but there was no apple logo. Then when you try and reboot it, apple logo appears and the same thing happens, smd you stil
I've just updated to the latest MacOS 10.13.2 and after restarting, my machine asked me to allow incoming network connections for "rapportd". After blocking it and checking in the firewall config, I can see that this is an executable in /usr/libexec/rapportd which was created on my machine on the 1st of December.
For some apps, I see this on right-click:  The checkmark: the top window. The diamond: the minimized window/s.
Are Apple's instructions out of date? Should I be doing something differently? Followup note:
I usually wake up with an iPad aside to answer questions. There's some codes in my answer which I'm unable to ensure function well.It should be tested first. At this situation,I have to get dressed to power on computer. How to test python scripts on ipad?
Can somebody explain what 'Overallocation' means in context of file system? I constantly see this message when trying to resize APFS partition, disk checks don't find any problems.
I'm inside a terminal.app with about 20 lines of commands and it's output I started typing a command ("git checkout "), Without resorting to the mouse, how can I copy an arbitrary piece of text (in this case I want to copy "you/236-add-more-test" and paste it at the cursor/prompt.
I was recently issued a 2017 15' MBP for work, and I want to purchase accessories such that I can hook-up my home workspace to it. I thought I had the situation figured out, but as I hovered on the "checkout" button on amazon, I found a review stating my use case would not work.
After verifying the position by Accessibility Inspector, I can confirm that this menu extra is the menu icon I want to click. Then I write this: or replace the "click" statement with: or with: All of the above codes return the same result: missing value, and no menus show up at all!
I'm trying to record system sound from my macbook while simultaneously record the screen. Is there an option for this? Thank you
So basically most of the articles out there are correct when they say imaging Macs in coming to an end. I talked to a Systems Engineer at Apple and he confirmed that the way to do it going forward is through MDMs. Basically when you upgrade to High Sierra it does a bunch of firmware updates on the disk that make deploying images not possible -- or at least a lot harder My Actual Question
I'm trying to do a text-driven installation of macOS High Sierra, and I've figured out how to use tab and spacebar to complete most of the process. But during the first regular boot when you need to select a country, strangely the focus isn't on the country chooser, so ya can't quite use the arrow keys to navigate.
My Macbook saves the Windows support software and windows ISO somewhere inside the mac-OS system so I don't need flash drive. And BCA don't give me the flash drive and download support software options. It asks for Windows ISO and then partition the drive and then goes straight for the downloading of Window Support Software.
I am trying to download OS X El Capitan file onto my old MacBook (late 2009, running El Capitan 10.11.6) so I can create a bootable USB drive to then use on a 2009 and 2010 MBP. When I try to download the file through the Apple Support link which redirects you to the App Store to download El Capitan, I receive the message "This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer".
I have a Macbook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 I'm using Wifi to connect to a server using SSH. My iPhone is also connected to my laptop and both Wifi and iPhone USB have the green circle next to them in Network settings. How can I configure my network so that it uses my iPhone USB for Internet and Wifi for SSH?
I've an iPhone 7 Plus. I already created my Apple ID in Sri Lanka. Now I live in Japan. I want to set my App Store country/region to Japan. How do I do it?
The iPhone X lock screen has two default buttons, one is Camera and other is flashlight. Is there any way to remove/customize the flashlight shortcut? I could not find any solution for it anywhere.
Does my 2015 MacBook 12" work with the LG UltraFine 4K Display and does it actually produce 4k picture?
Pressing CMD+R on startup, after selecting the source to restore a Time Machine backup, an external HDD partition is being refused, the error message roughly states: A Time Machine backup of an APFS system can't be restored onto a non-SSD partition It's not a backup of an APFS system tho, it was a regular journaled partition - is there a solution to this issue, is it a bug? (I've tried formatting the partition as a journaled partition, afterwards an APFS partition, but the result doesn't change) (I needed to make sure I had a bootable copy of my old main macbook before wiping it and sending it for repairs, this issue is sadly preventing me from doing so, as I need an active reference of my old system) Edit: Tried restoring an earlier, Sierra backup, however, that fails too as a High Sierra system can't restore a Sierra backup ...
I've read earlier that after completely recharging iPhone 5 it should automatically turn on. But only in case when battery was drained to 0% and phone turned itself off.
I have two user accounts on my Mac, and I need the photo library (full of Photos) on the secondary account to be shared with the primary account. I can't use iCloud as the library exceeds 5GB and I can't buy more storage. Solution?
Can I see the history of what I've typed into Spotlight? If not on default macOS, are there third-party apps that will add this? I want to be able to look back through things I've searched for, I use Spotlight for things like translations and so on and it' since to be able to refer back to past searches to jog my memory.
I wish to write (what should be) a fairly simple script for an application on another machine that I don't have on my machine. I do need to know what some of the available command are though. How can I get hold of the dictionary for that app without installing the app on my machine? Any help or insight will be much appreciated.
I use a macbook pro 2015 with macOS High Sierra. I installed windows 10 using bootcamp, which resized the macOS partition and created a 80GB windows partition. The machine boots into windows just fine.
I am downloading AVI files from a German "online" video recording service. These files don't work with quicktime, but using the Elmedia video player (via app store) does the job. Now I would like to "cut" those videos (basically selecting the real content of the videos, as they always contain additional 5 minutes before/after the actual recording).
I just bought a new 2017 Macbook air, sierra 10.12, Internet / network is functioning but when I try to open Safari nothing happens. I can't get to the Internet to download a different browser. Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks.
Does anyone know if there is a way to use the music from the Clips app on iOS in iMovie on macOS? For example, there is a song "Aether" by Darren King. I'd like a raw MP3/AIFF/whatever of this entire song so I can use it in iMovie without having to record a giant clip which will also include mic input.
I have an iMac 27" with two thunderbolt ports, and a PC with DisplayPort output. In order to use the iMac as a monitor, it appears that a thunderbolt display output at the source is required (*=URL=* and using a DP-mDP cable did not work (Target DisplayMode on the mac using cmd-F2 doesn't respond).
Had somebody using my laptop the other day and they have cleaned my environment variables. I've been trying to set my http(s)_proxy vars through adding them to .bash_profile and sourcing it. The issue I have is they show through $ echo $http_proxy but not in the printenv output, when they used to before. Is this a problem I need worry about?
My question is similar to this one except I would like to know how to add my own search expressions.  I want to add my own options into this list.. They must be stored someplace...
I know that there is already some topics on this forum about that but I didn't find a clear answer or if someone have tested it since then. Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?
I would like to write a script to change the service order from Ethernet 1 to Ethernet 2. Any help would be appreciated.
On iPhone, how do you back up only your telephone contacts and not your photos or other stuff without paying for the monthly iCloud subscription?
Disk image installation problem In two OS/Safari configurations, a valid .dmg file is not recognized as a mountable file system. I two other OS/Safari configurations, the same .dmg file installs successfully. The OS/Safari configurations are:
My Mac is running a software update (update to macOS 10.13.2) but the process seems to be stuck: for the past hour, it’s been displaying the gray Apple logo screen with the progress bar indicating around 90%. Is there some way to get a log or some more information about what the update is doing? Preferably without stopping it completely in case I am wrong about it being stuck?
When I type "'a" it converts to "á" and when I type 2 quotes it converts to 3 quotes instead. How to disable it? My OS is macOS High Sierra. I've already disable "magic quotes" and auto spelling but it wasn't an issue.
I have a Thunderbolt 3 device that is a 1080p LCD monitor. When the device is connected, System Profiler lists its monitor as using a DisplayPort connection, as well as a few USB 2 devices since this device has touch screen capabilities. It has no external power source -- it's typically powered over its Thunderbolt 3 connection when connected to an actual Thunderbolt 3 port.
Some time ago, after an update of the iPhone OS, it started to ask Touch ID after screen goes black when recording voice at Voice Memos. How can I do in order to Voice Memos stop asking Touch ID? It doesn't seem to have an option to disable this
How I can turn off the Two-Step verification, it's driving me crazy. here is ICLOUD security settings from my MacBook Pro-2015 As you can see from the below pictures I don't have the option to turn off the two-Factor authentication.
I've created a bash script to kill the active process searching by name and execute this shell script in terminal ( v 2.8) as following sh pkill.sh mongod the job is done, but it gives the error too pkill.sh: line 3: [: !-z: unary operator expected kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec] mongod process killed forecfully, process id was . why this script gives an error? I tried with if[[ !z "$pro ]] but no help. Please tell me how to write exactly valid bash script
I have been using my iPhone 7 plus as a personal hotspot since I bought it. The hotspot worked fine with IOS 10. After upgrading my iPhone to IOS 11, the personal hotspot now exhibits the following behavior: It lets one or more devices connect to the personal hotspot but will not forward DNS requests to the internet. All web pages show "unable to connect". If I had a browser open to web pages prior to connecting the computer to the iPhone's hotspot, those webpages can still be browsed because the system cached the IP address of the site's domain.
Its been a while since my macbook pro started updating, and it is stuck. Wondering if I should shut it down or leave it a bit longer? The progress bar is stuck and there is no remaining calculated ( calculating time remaining ... )
I have a MacBook Air and when I tried to install High Sierra, I was unable to do so because I received the message that I needed to turn FileVault off. When I went to FileVault it showed that it is decrypting but does not show the time remaining. I let it run for 8 days with no change. I have tried turning it off in Terminal but I get the message that FileVault is off. I have tried rebooting in recovery made but this did not help. Suggestions?
I want to use my speaker as an audio input device so that whatever audio an application outputs is sent to both the physical speakers on my Mac and back into the Mac as an audio input device.
I need a comprehensive solution for several thousand downloaded files which will often require passwords, including .PART files, rar files, and zip files. I've tried UnRarX, 7zX, and Stuffit. Problems I've had: Filename Consistency:
so i JUST noticed today, that if you hover over the lower boundary of an osx Alert, or notification, you can expand it to read the whole message / text / ect. however, once its closed, the next one will go back to the original 2 line mode. Is there a way to open it to the full size, always?
I'm using rMBP 13" mid-2014 and I'm NOT updating to High Sierra, but even good old Sierra is not as stable as older versions of MacOS. Sometimes I can't play videos, I press play and nothing happens, YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, everything is down. Usually restarting browser(s) helped and normally it happened only in one browser at a time but a few minutes ago I had to restart my Mac, because every single browser I have (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox) couldn't play a thing and restarting them did nothing.
Yes, I know there are apps like Monolingual, Mackeeper, iCleanLanguage etc. that can do that for me but I would feel more comfortable doing it myself if it is not too much of a hassle. How can I do that? Also if there are other files I can manually delete to free up space - please let me know.
I have a music collection composed of music from my CD's and iTunes purchased music. This collection is stored in iTunes. Is there a 3rd party music player that will play this collection? If so, how does one import the iTunes music into the 3rd party player.
I created a LaunchDaemon to automatically start a mining client when the computer boots. Here is the .plist file:
I had Mac OS High Sierra on my laptop. I have had some errors on my laptop's hard drive. I bought an SSD and had to install Mac OS Lion from Internet Recovery. I see ads for a free Mac OS High Sierra upgrade, but it says I need Mac OS 10.8 or later (I have 10.7.x installed). How can I get back to Mac OS High Sierra?
I've got an iPhone 4 that has no mobile plan or phone number, but I've got a Google Voice account. I know I can use the Google Voice app to communicate over SMS, but is it possible to configure the built in Messages app to use the Google Voice number?
Without using GUI scripting, how can I use AppleScript to tell Safari to save the current browser page to a file in webarchive format? The following produces an error "The document “...” could not be exported as “foo.webarchive” (where "..." is the title of the current web page, whatever it may be):
There are several apps that when I click on them, they bounce in the dock for a while but neither fully run nor quit. One example is KDS_v3, another example is the Java installer. I'm sure there are others, but I suspect the common theme is that they are java-based apps.
I’m using OneNote app on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil for note taking at my university. Sometimes I want take photos of lecture slides on the projector screen and paste them on my one note. Since my iPad is 12.9” large it’s weird to hold it up to take a photo. So, I'll take a photo with my iPhone, copy it from the photo library then paste it on my iPad using Universal Clipboard on iOS 11. But, if there were an app that automatically copied the last photo I took with my camera to Universal Clipboard, then I could directly paste it without going back to the camera app to copy the image.
Before moving to Mac Sierra, main media disk was portioned in two volumes; Main with OS space 200GB, Subsidiary with 800 GB. I wanted to delete the subsidiary to merge it again with the Main, and then resize the Main to 400GB, and the remaining 600GB to a new volume. It didn't work: main stayed, the previous Sub volume of 600 disappeared completely and was in hidden modus added to the Recovery HD. Now we have the following status: what commands to enter to resize the HD recovery disk, and to regain the rest of the volume in a new part
I regularly receive emails with very large attachments (uncompressed scans, photos, videos, etc.). Obviously, the sender could have done me a favor by compressing the files before sharing. But not everyone takes the time or even knows how to. To save space in my inbox, I can either delete the message or if I'd like to keep it for later reference I can (with the message selected) click on "Message" in the menu bar followed by "Remove attachments".
I want to make any possibility of losing files on my Mac completely obsolete. Time Machine is awesome, but saving files to single physical hard drive is, well, not safe at all. So, I guess, what I need is to back up Time Machine's backup to a cloud and make sure that my files are being stored in more than one copy in different locations. Then possibility of losing files is too insignificant to bother ever.
Hy there I an ordinary QWERTZ keyboard user. Now when I setup my mac I neglected the Keyboard Layout setting (I thought it would imply the correct one). So the setting was ABC - Extended. Of course I can change it back to QUERTZ but every time I restart my mac it reverts back to the ABC setting. My keyboard does not look like this (But part of me does wish it did).
However, I do not know how to change the search directory. (I'm trying to avert scripting mouse clicks.) By default, when a user initiates a search in Finder (e.g., when the user presses ⌘ command + F), the search directory is "This Mac," regardless of the directory of the Finder window that the search function was called in.
Whenever I'm using some app full screen (usually Safari) and clicking either on an incoming Mail notification or a mailto:<address> link on some website, Mail opens the incoming message or a new message to the clicked recipient in split screen view. This is particularly annoying because when I click the green arrows in the top left of the Mail window to exit split view, the new message completely disappears. I then usually have to wait a few seconds for it to show up in drafts or hunt it down in one of my inboxes.
Is it possible to remove or hide an app for a user on Mac? This way I want to make a user not known about the presence of the app.
I use a piece of software on Mac called ChemDraw to create chemical diagrams/schemes. I then export these as .eps files to use in LaTeX. In the past, LaTeX has been able to replace temporary labels (TMP1 etc) in the .eps file with text automatically, but with newer versions of ChemDraw this no longer works as the .eps file isn't written correctly, meaning these labels don't exist in the file. I had thought this was an issue with ChemDraw, and contacted their support team, however it appears that actually all they've done is switched to using the mac os to write these .eps files:
A common scenario: I wake my Mac, notifications pop up and within 1 second, some of them close automatically. This happens for appointments that have a start time that's in the past (e.g. I open the Mac at 10:23 and the appointment was set for 09:00).
I am using iTerm2. Can someone let me know how can I save the password (may be via Password manager) so that I don't have to type it every time.
i recently got my new phone and tried to download instagram. When i tried it looked normal and everything with the 'get' button there, but when i pressed the button it changed to the iCloud thingy with an arrow on it. Whenever i try to download it now, it just comes up with a loading circle then quickly goes back to the cloud. i have tried so many things like changing my apple ID account, making a new account, restarting the phone. Nothing works. (it is not doing this with any other apps)
I'm trying to do if statement with the current time, e.g if Time is between 14h and 14:30 then ... if time is between 14:30 and 15h then ... and so on. now obviously time is not a string like i did in my script, how can I make that working? Also here is my system time format : current date
Been using PhotoStream for years and still don't fully understand it...When I take pics on my iPhone, they show up on my MBP in Photos, via PhotoStream. If I delete them from the iPhone will they still remain on MacBook or other devices? Or do I need to download them into Photos and off the phone to be sure they are saved?
If I manually &Lt;Menu → Sleep&Gt; or &Lt;Screensaver settings → Preview&Gt; it will work, but it wouldn't do sleep/screensaver with the set hotcorner nor automatically. Every now and then I'll have this issue. How do I fix the problem or investigate what has went wrong? (Its usual settings: *=URL=* (Refreshing the settings (eg by toggling &Lt;Enable power nap while plugged into a power adapter&Gt;) would temporary fix the problem—until it comes again.)
I have an old Mac, where if an App take some time to load (slow HD), the spindump kicks in, completely disabling the machine for close to 10 minutes. There is one post on the web warning that killing spindump can cause some corruption, so, better safe then sorry. Would be great if there was a way to not run spindump on specific Apps, or give them more time before declaring them as 'unresponsive', but I doubt there is.
I have a directory of hundreds of Photoshop files (.psd) and need to locate files by searching for a string of text that exists within a file. Using Finder to search for "Contents" doesn't seem to work. Is there an app to accomplish this?
I've graphed two polar curves and would like to shade the region inside one and outside the other. When I select the two equations and then select Integrate from the Equation menu, I get the error message Cannot integrate the difference between the selected graphs.
three weeks ago I've installed macOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015). I've an internal SSD with about 120 GB (Apple Logic) disk space. Before the update I had about 30 GB of space lost. But after the update it seems that some of the disk space is "lost" or got filled with some random crap. This is a screenshot that shows the information about my Macintosh HD (the text is in german):
I've long partitioned my Late 2016 Macbook Pro (running Sierra 10.12.6). Testing Bootcamp Assistant: The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. I understand that Bootcamp Assistant is expecting the whole disk so: It can take over the bootloader It can manipulate partitions for adding ones for Windows ISO download and target Windows filesystem
When I try to run VLC, I get the follow output: Multiple sources indicated that the cause of this issue is that VLC cannot find its plugin directory and that it should be set to /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/. However, echo $PATH prints Similarly, echo $VLC_PLUGIN_PATH prints
I have an external hard drive that is connected to my computer by a SATA/eSATA cable. Diskutility recognizes the hard drive as two separate drives as shown in the following two images:
How can I log all login history until now? By "all" I mean all users: admin, guests, and every other user. I am using MacOS HighSierra.
I was checking my storage one day on my Macbook Air and found that "System" took up the vast majority of my Mac. I was able to move nearly all of my files off my mac and deleted several applications to no avail. I contacted Apple support, and they told me to re-index the spotlight index and such, but nothing they did helped my situation. Has anyone had the same issue and if so, how can I fix it? (I have been told to re install the OS but wish to avoid doing such because of the fear of ruining the computer.)
I’ve lost an iPhone without a passcode and had put it in lost mode at the moment. However, I would like to erase the data too as I do not want the thieves to see the contents on my phone. But when I press ”erase data” on Find iPhone，I was prompted for my iCloud password and phone passcode even though I had no passcode set. I suspect that the thief has probably set a passcode himself. How do I erase the data on my phone this way? Thanks.
So the apple service nearby told me I have to replace the motherboard. But sometimes my macbook could back normal. Yesterday after being kept in my backpack for hours outside in a sunny day, my laptop was so warm and I pressed the power button and it turned on! Now after being turned off and kept in the air con room it went dead again. If anyone knows how to fix it please help
So I have this issue when trying to reinstall macOS in the recovery, but when I tried to reinstall "Could not create a preboot volume for APFS install" comes up. I came across this solution which requires you to completely wipe your drive but I don't want to do that since that would mean my BootCamp installation would also have to be gone. Is there a way to fix this issue without completely wiping my disk?
Okay, I have a problem with my Mac OS X 10.7.5 because I have to learn to program, I was programming "Hello world" and I was using the terminal and "Sublime Text" for text editor but my terminal doesn't execute the function because it doesn't have the command tools, and I searched command tools for my Mac and I found "XCode" but it is for Mac 10.8 What do you recommend for what the "Terminal" execute the functions?
I have an iTunes Store account which has all my purchases over about ten years. For reasons we won’t go into, this isn’t my iCloud/Apple ID account I use for everything else at Apple. So I have signed into iCloud with my @me account on all my devices, but I always have this separate account signed in to App Store, iTunes Store, and Apple Music.
In a particular folder, there're files created by an application. I want the computer to automatically delete the first item (ordered by name) when the number of items in that folder becomes larger than 1. How can I achieve that?
I recently acquired a 2010 13" MacBook Pro. The computer beeps every 5 seconds (indicating no RAM is installed). I have tried installing four different compatible SODIMMs in both slots but nothing works. None of the slots work! Because both slots are not functional, the computer is useless. What could be causing the problem? What part of the slot might be damaged? I have tried adjusting the four screws surrounding the RAM slot with no luck. Suggestions? Far fetched but has anyone had success with reflowing the RAM slot?
I use my laptop for personal use and work. Is there a way to be able to reconfigure my preferences, desktop icons, and dock apps with a script or app? I personally would like something like f.lux where the settings can change based on the time, so I can set something like work mode between 9a-5pm.
I have MBP 2017 (MPXT2) bought about 3 months ago. I noticed that when it heats enough, only right fan starts blowing away hot air. On the other hand the left side is not that hot and it is probably ok that I have never seen left fan working. I wonder is it expected behaviour for new MPB 2017 or the left fan is probably broken? I do not even know what can heat the left side because the GPU is built-in.
So I recently took a 500GB HDD which already had error with catalog-B tree from a dead MacBook to recover from files, So after recovering the data I formatted the disk and started it using it for backup purposes and I wanted to repair the disk and check for any problems and I did get a problem when I ran first-aid on the parent Disk: And I ran a terminal command to fix it the problem but it failed:
I have AppleTV 4K connected to Sony XE9005 TV via HDMI 2 port (HDR enabled). The TV is flashing in white periodically (like each 3 minutes or so). AppleTV automatically chooses 4K HDR and it picks Chroma 4:2:0 The HDMI cable is the one that Apple sells in the stores from Belkin.
90% of the time, my MacBook does not connect to Internet when I wake it up or when I reboot. It could connect after several minutes or never and in 10% it connects immediately.
The Finder sidebar displays a list of all tagged files. Is there anyway to modify this so it doesn't show files that have been tagged on an external drive?
Since High Sierra update no way to make remote editing through BBEdit working. I try to contact Noloble support 2 times. I got no response to my email. While BBEdit ftp/sftp client works well on High Sierra, and knowing Interarchy proposes Command line tool, I imagined it could be based on some CLI tools to make the remote edition couple working. I saw that some CLI tools where not installed in High Sierra. I took time to install inetutils. But I didn't work more. Anyone could have idea to make it working?
My macOS High Sierra install keeps switching to 720p HiDPI in stead of running at the native 1440p. When I click on the 1440p setting it shows me the correct res but it switches back after about 1 second. When I reboot my Mac I also log in with the correct res but it changes to HiDPI after ~5 seconds. The monitor is from Asus, 27" 2560x1440. I tried changing the res with SwitchResX and jhford's screenresolution utility.
My wife got me an external SSD for my bday. I'm on a 2013 Mac Pro, so my existing user folder is already on another external. I'd like to move to the new drive and use the old one for backups.
I use 'Mail' on my Macbook Pro (early 2015) - running OS 10.13.1 - and my iPhone 5s - running iOS 11.1.2. Recently Mail has behaved differently. When I delete a message on my iPhone it is in the trash for both phone and MacBook. BUT when I delete a message on my MacBook, it remains in the inbox on my phone. Other mail editing functionality is similarly one way. EDIT My MacBook email uses IMAP. Another symptom - I read an email on the MacBook, but it remains unread on the phone. Help please?
I tried enabling quota on a file system(type APFS) mounted using this command quotaon /dev/disk1s1 but it throws: /dev/disk1s1/ not found in fstab. Previously it used to work in HFS type file system. Any way to fix this?
I have several suspicious folders and files in my library folder. And I was wondering if I should delete them. ApplicationaContents ApplicationContents ApplicationSupport
I'm working on a typeface, and am looking at generating test-cases of how specific strings are rendered. What's the simplest way of automatically rasterising many different text-files into a bitmap?
I was recently installing/uninstalling/re-installing some third-party Quick Look extensions (brew cask install qlstephen among others). When all the dust had settled everything worked well except Quick Look for .txt files no longer works (I get the default Dear Kate letter). Quick Look for .rtf files works fine.
Where can I determine what apps make the incredible size of backup?  As you can see there is almost 30GB free space, but I cannot perform a backup because there is not enough space on iCloud. Why? Using iOS 11, iPhone 6S Plus 128GB Under Manage Storage > Backup there is following screen:
I've got an iMac running High Sierra, and over the last couple of months it's developed a problem where it spontaneously reboots itself about once a day. The reboots always occur when the iMac is asleep and the pattern is always the same. When the reboot happens, the startup chime happens twice in close succession. The error message is always like this:
This is my first try at AppleScript. Ultimately I want to automate adding lyrics to my iTunes library. My first challenge is to tell Safari to search a webpage for a phrase, click on the link, and then copy the plain text on the page that comes up to the clipboard and then paste it into Text Editor.
I am currently working on deploying software from our MDM to Mac's. The software installs correctly but there is no user feedback during the install unless they know to manually go and find a specific log file and look in there. What I would like to do is have a script open a Terminal window and the run the following command: less +F /path/to/logFile.log This way the user can see the status of progress. Does anyone know a way that I could make this pop up automatically?
Can I connect two external monitors to my Macbook Pro's (non-retina, mid-2012) mini displayport ? I got one mini displayport to dvi converter and dvi-male to 2*dvi female splitter but this setup didn't work. My question is, can I use one display port to connect to two different monitors (both the monitors should be independent and not mirror)
Is it possible to remove macOS from my system which currently has macOS Sierra and Windows 10? If so could someone explain or direct me to a resource/guide? I think the last time I tried to remove macOS I couldn't boot Windows anymore.
I have a new 2017 iMac, that when it arrives, I'll be using in a home office to edit videos for video production business on Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). The 2017 iMac will be hooked up the same as I currently have a late 2013 iMac. Cox coax cable to router to Ethernet cable to Airport Extreme to Ethernet cable to back of iMac.
On Mac OS, it is so handy having your text messages work seamlessly with your other iOS devices. But, the crazy thing is that you will end up with a crazy list of unread messages even though they are often already read on the iPhone. And also the history of messages fills up to a mile long mess, even though I have deleted them on my iPhone. Currently, the Message Preferences have minimal customization options; I can only change my message history to auto-delete after either 1 month, a year (no in-between!), or 'forever.' Is there anything I can do to either have it mirror my iMessages from my iPhone, or at least introduce some sort of "Apple Script" to auto-delete after, say, 1 WEEK? Thanks in advance!
After I opened up iMac to add a secondary SSD, I realised that I am missing one of the EMI gaskets (Did I get the name right? I picked up the term from the video here: https://youtu.be/eFHvIrdm9So?t=1m50s)
After I restored my iPhone, the game, Heroes Charge, asked if I wanted to restore to level 102, warning that I would lose all games. I said no, and it started from level 1. Is there anyway to get back to my previous level?
Is it possible to set the Note application on iPad to open new notes from a customised folder (Diary, for example)?
And, how can I configure this mapping? Can I put something in a config file which causes Xquartz to treat each of my Mac "displays" as a separate X "screen"? Again, pointers to docs would be great.
Is there a way to change the default zoom increments in Safari, or are they hard-coded? Currently in Safari 11, there is no zoom level between 100% and 115%. It's not a readability problem, but sometimes the comfort zone would need a zoom level at 105%-110%.
I followed this video instruction *=URL=* to add a second, SSD harddisk (OWC brand) to a mid 2011 iMac. After the installation is complete I rebooted the machine and tried to install using a usb thumbdrive with High Sierra installation image. The usb thumbdrive is prepared by running the following command: However after the reboot, the drive is not visible in the disk utility.
everyone. I found lots of typical questions like mine, but still no solution. Story:
I have followed this QA - Can I make a song in my iTunes library into a ringtone - and created an mp4 version but cannot find the more options on iTunes to go into tones. The answer states 'go to the row of icons in the top left corner and click on the three dots' but i don't have the three dots. I used to have my own ringtone but since apple's last upgrade this facility seems to have disappeared and has left me with a default ringtone - can anyone help?
Is there a way to change the background image of the second monitor without connecting the Mac to it? I connected my Macbook to a projector and set up a background image. Now that I disconnected the projector, is there a way to change the background image before connecting the projector again? The reason for this is simple: I need a way to define a single background image on all spaces, monitors and projectors at once so I know which background image my audience will see when I connect to a projector or change to another space. I just want one way to change all desktop backgrounds at once, even displays that are not connected. I would prefer a Terminal command so I can script this.
I don't want to use virtual machine software because of performance issues. So I want to use Mac and has Mac OS. And from time to time use Windows, but I want to install 2 Windows (because I need to use 2 versions of Microsoft Office).
How can I do this? What is virtual memory? Has it to do with the caching process operated by macOS every time I launch/close an App? What can I do to check this and possibly solve the problem (assumed it is not a Sibelius related issue, in which case I will be covered elsewhere)? Thank you for your help.
I was wondering if it is possible to delete my one and only user account because I am creating a script to add and remove users on my Mac. I have this command here: I'm a little bit worried to test that because I don't want to delete my only user with all my files so is it possible?
I enabled "System Preferences" -> "Sharing" -> "Remote Login". The dialog is telling me
Please note: macOS (10.12.6) is installed on a third disk. I also cannot update: I had to downgrade because High Sierra breaks compatibility with some stuff I have and I don't like the root login without password thingie.
Recently my 2015 MacBook Pro started to lag a lot, especially the graphics. The animations are really slow and breaking up sometimes. Someone suggested an NVRAM reset followed by an SMC reset will fix it.
When I set "Open with:" from Finder's Get Info sheet for a file and click "Change All...", it will open in the designated app if I immediately open the file, but the application set for "Open with:" doesn't stay for long. For instance, for some reason the OS "decideds" that .txt files are to be opened with Numbers. I reset it to BBEdit over and over but Numbers keeps opening these files. The same file set to BBEdit will open with Numbers the next day. Same problem with other file extensions insisting on using e.g. Xcode to open them.
Before Sierra Calendar and after "defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1" we could locate the first event of a repeating event in our calendar. This was extremely useful for deleting all linked events from without having to hunt them down one by one. This would be required if one of the events became disassociated from the rest of the repeating events because a change had been made to it, like time of day. Has anyone figured out how to replace this removed "feature" - the debug menu?
In pages you automatically get selected a table style when creating a table. However, after pasting in multiple elements I find that the paragraph style is different in multiple cells of the table.
I have a lot of typing that I need to do and would like to use voice dictation. However, it doesn't seem to "type" consistently across applications.
I have a Mac that someone asks me to help them sell. They already wiped the hard drive and put a fresh installation of macOS on it. Upon boot, it's at the "Welcome" setup with no users intialized yet.
I am using a PC keyboard with my Macbook pro (High Sierra) that has pageup, pagedown, home, end, etc. keys, but they unfortunately don't do anything in some applications. I am wondering how I can make the pageup and pagedown keys work in git blame, git diff, etc. in the terminal. I already know I can use the spacebar to scroll, but it would be nice to be able to use the proper keys too. I already tried searching for this, but all I got were endless questions about how to do the opposite, simulating pageup and pagedown on a keyboard that doesn't have those keys.
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro 13" with a 500 gb SSD the SSD is about 1 year old and it was performing excellent, but now i dont know Sometimes when i turn off the Mac and turn it on again im experiencing the Prohibitory sign on boot, i usually wait and sometimes the apple logo reappears or flashes a few times and then prohibitory sign appears again, sometimes i wait a few seconds and then it boots as normal
I found this puzzling setting in iPhone Settings > accounts and passwords (for iOS 11): Is Fetch > automatically the same as Push?. How does it work with Google Contacts, Gmail, etc?
Is it possible to have the Waze app on iPhone automatically launch when I connect to my car BlueTooth?
To start by saying that I fixed the 'first crash' by disabling the notification within skype it was crashing as soon as someone send a message while Skype was in the background. I thought I'll just reinstall and apply the common diagnoses and fix. Uninstall deleting .com.skype.skype.plist and other skype files.
I have AppleTV 4K and Sony X900E. AppleTV picked Chroma 4:2:0 with an option to select 4:2:2
I have this suspicion that a user id is still tied to a group id and causing the user permissions problems when he mounts or saves files. I was able to successfully change his primary group to a general group for staff members, then chowned all his directories to the staff group. However there was a group called nonstaff that he was originally a part of. When I look in the UI I can see that the group has 13 members but only lists 11 active names, and when I look a this user's name I can see that he is not showing this group being listed. Earlier today the nonstaff gid was his primary group and I changed it to the staff gid. I am trying at the command line to do the following: 1-list all the uids inside od this nonstaff group to compare to what is showing in the UI 2-remove any orphaned associations he may have lingering with this group since the permissions for the non-staff group are far more limiting for his work. As OS X command line is super new to me still I am struggling to make 
I had a performance issue recently, which I was able to capture in the Monitor. It looks like there was plenty of free memory, but then suddenly the graph goes red, with no real spiking.
I used to have two drives on my machine, Fast and Big. I replaced Big with Bigger. Now there are a number of pointers in various apps that still point to Big.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina, Mid 2012) with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB. It has two Thunderbolt ports and one HDMI port.
I tried to install an application with homebrew: And then towards the end of the installation, I notice the following error:
I had macOS and Windows 10 installed through Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro (late 2013) and everything worked fine. Then I tried installing Ubuntu on an external drive and setting up pure-EFI triple boot. However, in the process I accidentally deleted the original EFI folder (not the partition, just the folder) and now the option for Windows doesn't show up when holding down ALT/Option key during startup, though I am able to boot into macOS and Ubuntu without problem. I noticed the EFI folder in /dev/disk0s1/ (the EFI partition) has only an APPLE folder but is missing the Microsoft one. I wonder if there is a way to recover the EFI files/entries and fix this problem so I can boot into Windows again? If I remember correctly, I deleted the original EFI folder by doing this in Ubuntu:
We only have cellular phones in our home and with our older phones my wife and I could add TouchIDs to each of our phones, and add our children's fingerprints as well. So, anyone could quickly use either phone. It's not just a matter of convenience, but also if there is an urgent matter... perhaps not a 911 emergency, but an emergency none the less, our children can quickly use the phones to get help.
look at the imac with two monitor set up can imac 27inch 5k with Radeon Pro 575 with 4GB work with two external LG 5k displays? Can they work well or laggy?
so the recent page i use on safari wont disappear from the screen/desktop, can u pls help me idk wht to do..and im sorry for my broken english. I'm not so good.. If u know what to do pls tell me about it u can email or reply my question.. The recent page i used on safari left a trace and also the dock..
My Requirement: I am trying to use Orkney light font in HTML email signature in a iPad What I have got: Have configured email sign, no issues except the font used in my design is missing. What I want: How to install this Orkney light font in iPad
Install Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. I have downloaded the latest Windows 10 (Version 1709, OS Build 16299.15) iso file. Boot Windows using the legacy BIOS boot method.
As a cleanup routine, I remove files from ~/Library/Logs and ~/Library/Caches directory. I also remove ~/.Trash and ~/.DS_Store My question - Is it safe to remove ~/.rnd and ~/.CFUserTextEncoding? What are these files/folders for?
I have an appleworks 6 database file (.cwk), but no Mac with an old enough version of OS X to run Appleworks 6. While pretty much all other appleworks files can be opened with something else, I can't find anything that will import a database.
At the gym, when i connect my bluetooth earphones to my iphone to listen to my music, it starts playing and within less than a minutes it automatically stops and i get the message on my phone "...seems like you are listening on another device". Not sure why. Although I did think it might be because sometimes my husbands iphone connects to my hotspot but even when we disconnect 'forget' each other, i still get that message. If anyone has a solution, will appreciate it.
I want to Write the current state of macOS to /private/var/vm/sleepimage immediately before shutting down Write the current state of macOS to /private/var/vm/sleepimage immediately before shutting down Power on my Mac again and boot into my Boot Camp Windows partition (by holding opt at boot) and do some tasks Power on my Mac again and boot into my Boot Camp Windows partition (by holding opt at boot) and do some tasks Shut down and power on again (selecting macOS at boot) and load the saved state from my sleep image to resume EXACTLY as I left it after writing the image Shut down and power on again (selecting macOS at boot) and load the saved state from my sleep image to resume EXACTLY as I left it after writing the image How can I achieve this? OS/hardware config: macOS 10.13.2 on a MacBook Pro 11,3 (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
I've got a Mac OS 10.11.6 serious bug : the exclusion list keeps filling up "automatically" with a couple of critical folders from the user profile (cf. picture attached) : Library, Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Music, Sites, Downloads, Movies.
Almost once a day Word opens with the following error: Word cannot open the existing global template: Normal.dotm I then delete Normal.dotm from ~/Library
I would like to check if the new installed ram can have generated a kernel panic with AHT (Apple Hardware Test). Restarting by pressing the D key the dropdown appears for the selection of the network but mine is not present. If I try to find it by entering the network name and the WEP password I get an error. If I see all the other networks why I do not see mine? And why the form don't accept my data? My system is a Mac Mini late 2012 with Mac Os Sierra 10.12.6
[MacOS 10.13.1] I'm organising some files and have two Finder windows open so I can move files from one to the other. Since the filename doesn't always describe the contents of the file, I am renaming many of these files after reviewing them and before I moving them. Renaming the file in Finder window #1 causes the file to be automatically be placed in its correctly sorted position in the file list. Whilst I understand the behaviour, it then forces me to scroll down to find the file I want to move. This is getting rather tedious for the number of files I'm dealing with.
Does anyone know what happens or what I should expect if I restore all contents of ~/Library/Keychains from a Time Machine backup? I'm trying to assess the risks of doing this.
When you enable Private Internet Access' kill switch, you can only have internet when you are connected to the VPN. When you disable it, you should have internet even if the VPN is not enabled.
My Macbook (2017, 13 inch, no touchbar, i5, 256 GB) will usually wake up from standby when I open its lid as it is supposed to. But every 10th time or so it won't wake up no matter what keys I press, including the power button (when I press the caps lock key the green light will turn on, however). The solution, usually, is to wait a few seconds then close the lid, wait again and opening it a second time. Any idea why this happens and how I can fix it?
Apple says that this space is hidden and not accessible to users, but I don't think it's like that. It must be stored some where, so where could this be stored?
Is there a way of saving the terminal history of a script to file? I know I can do this by Shell > Export Text As... but is there a command (Bash) to do this?
I received a email with an attachment in .eml format. I can open this file and read the attached email. That email also has a .pdf attachment in the same email, and the mail app show that it is 300KB. When I try to open it via mail.app, it shows nothing, so I try to open it via Adobe Acrobat and it show me a popup this document is empty (0 KB) How can I open this .pdf file?
Under activity monitor there's a process called mediaremoteagent. I can't find any information about this process. What is this process and is it safe to disable it?
A problem that I recurrently have with my iPhone is that in some HTML emails font size is small. I know that there are some tricks to increase the font size but none of then worked for me as I would have liked.
I've developed a kernel-extension and I'd like to load it in all possible modes which are Recovery-Mode, Safe boot and of course Normal mode. When I stored my kext bundle In /Library/Extensions From normal mode, and then restart my machine and move to Recovery Mode, I couldn't find my kext in /Library/Extensions and therefore I tend to believe that Recovery Mode uses different partition. My question is how can I access this partition from Normal mode, so when I install my driver, I can also place it where prelinked kernel can load it in Recovery Mode as well ?
I have an iPhone 7. Lately, incoming phone calls has stopped overriding ongoing WhatsApp call, due to which its only after hanging up a WhatsApp call that I realise that I missed a phone call.
MacBook powered from the monitor. Locking screen. No waking up, computer restarted due to crash. It's happening over and over again.
Here's the scenario: A client is having a conference and wants to give away a brand new iPad (not yet purchased). They also want to pre-load the iPad with a bunch of their content (audio and video) and give the iPad away to one lucky attendee. The Content: As far as I'm aware, the content (audio / video) does not exist in any app on the iTunes store, but rather I'd take the audio and video files the client wants to pre-load and load them via my computer. The problem: I haven't owned an iPad in a long time, but I remember that in order to put content on the iPad you need an Apple ID, or you have to tie the iPad to approved computers and sync via iTunes. Since we won't know who the winner will be, and won't be able to tie the device to their Apple ID / Computer, is it even possible? Before asking this question here, I went down to an Apple Store and talked to a Genius, and the suggestion was to just use iTunes because you can set an iPad up without an Apple ID...but that still poses the 
I just got new 6s and signed in with my iCloud from my old 6. The pictures were transferred from my old phone to the new. If I delete the pictures off my 6s will is also delete them off my original device?
I no longer want my subscription of iTunes music - how do I cancel my subscription?
I am reading my emails and want to open a link. This link is automatically opened in my browser in slide over mode. I have an IPad Pro 10.5 and when used in portrait mode, the slide over app is tiny and make webpages unreadable. My question then is: how can I still use multitasking (which is useful by itself if I control how to use it) but prevent an app from opening other apps in slide over mode.
Using Bootcamp to install a Windows partition on my iMac. I've created a partition on the HD. The format Bootcamp defaulted to is "Mac Extended OS (Journaled)." But when I try to install Windows on that partition from a USB external drive I created for this task (i.e., it has Windows installed on it), the error message I get is that the program can't be installed unless the partition is in NTFS format. How do I reformat just that partition to NTFS. . .or is that not possible? Thanks.
In the "~/Library/Logs" folder, I discovered a folder called "Ubiquity", but I have no such app named "ubiquity" on my MacBook Pro. I Googled and also searched here (Ask Different), but all references to "ubiquity" seem to relate wifi or iCloud syncing, and my MBP has had issues with both, so I am curious what Ubiquity is.
My Google-fu was unable to find any battery benchmarks for the iPad 4. (Retina iPad 2012), which I might use to compare the battery's actual performance. I get about 15 hours of screen on time, which seems good.
After updating to OS 10.13.1 I got messages to update JDK, I have gone to the website, downloaded then installed the update. I then have the website run a check to see if I have the latest update. The site says that I, indeed, have the latest. But every time I boot up the Mac I get the message to update. I seem to recall this issue with an earlier update a couple of years back and don't remember how to resolve it.
I would like to hide that Admin user. Command: sudo dscl . create /Users/admin IsHidden 1 only hides the user when logging out. But when I restart my computer and the launch screen pops up I can still see the user. Are there any more commands for launch screens? What should I do? Is it even possible?
I am trying to connect MacBook Pro 2017 to Dell U2712HM monitor. I bought Hama USB-C to Display Port adapter but it does not work with MBP 2017. When I plugged it, it does not recognize it - nothing happens. Strange enough, the same adapter works just fine with MacBook 2016. I read that Apple has changed USB-C in some way for 2017 version.
Need some urgent help with my unruly Mac (faced with the prospect of erasing my hard drive after 150 days without backup...) Here is the problem that I have. My Mac got quite slow and I restarted it and upon the restart I got a prohibitory sign, which is like a crossed out circle. I read that the solution to this would be reinstalling the OS in recovery mode (Cmnd+R) which I tried to do. The problem is that my hard drive is encrypted using Fire Vault so I need to unlock it before the OS can be reinstalled on it. Unfortunately, there is a known bug where the Fire Vault password is not recognized in recovery mode (I know a 100% it is the correct one, but the mac just rejects it). Again, upon googling I found that the solution to this problem would be to go to the Terminal from recovery mode and unlock the disk from the Terminal. (here is the thread where I found the solution *=URL=* ) Now I tried to follow the directions in the thread which are: find the core storage UUID by doing diskut
Previous versons of OS X and macOS automatically converted pure GPT drives to hybrid GPT/MBR format when the 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th GPT partitions were formatted "MS DOS (FAT)" by the Disk Utility application or the diskutil command. I am not sure when this changed, but this no longer happens under High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2). My Mac needs the hybrid format in order to BIOS boot the installed Windows operating system. Below is the output from the command diskutil list disk0. The BOOTCAMP volume is NTFS formatted and the COMMON volume is FAT32 formatted. Note: The next two commands were executed after starting up from macOS Recovery. Below is the output from the command gpt -r show /dev/disk0. Below is the output from the command fdisk /dev/disk0.
I'm trying to limit the amount of time my kids can play on their iPad. Sure there is guided access mode and other solutions out there but here's what I really want: I hand the iPad to kid with no password on it, he can unlock and watch or play for 2 hours, then, without warning the device goes all black and shuts off complete for 2 hours before it boots up again.
Our company policy allows us to use the company laptop for personal matters, but of course, the proxy prevents us to visit some sites like Netflix etc. So I frequently disable the proxy - I'd like to have a shortcut or a more convenient way, than actually digging through the menu every time. I tried Automator, but it doesn't seem to recognize my click on the "Advanced..." tab in the settings, so it crashes at that step:
I ran the following to see what version of g++ I had: I thought g++ was a different compiler to clang/LLVM. Can anyone clarify what the above means?
I often can hear that an external HDD has spun down, and figure it would be safe to unplug since it won't be writing any data. Am I wrong in this assumption?
I frequently use the do shell script command in AppleScript (AS) to return some information, including encrypted text. One such example is: If run in Terminal, this command logs in the history and can be viewed by typing: history, then pressing the Return key. Problem: The above example includes the plain text password as a parameter, and it shows in the history (when run in Terminal), from where it can easily be copied and used to reverse the encrypted string, no knowledge required.
Complete crash logs (different from the screenshot): Non-Apple kexts that are loaded:
Recently I switched to Dvorak, but found out that although my Chinese layout also switched to Dvorak, the Japanese layout didn't. I deleted the Japanese layout from the list on the System Preferences, but got no luck. Why is the Japanese keyboard doesn't switch to Dvorak layout as well, and how can I, if possible? I use High Sierra.
I had to send MacBook Pro #1 out for repair and used Migration Assistant to temporarily work on a loaner (MacBook Pro #2). Now #1 is back. Do I:
I just accidentally deleted a pdf in iBooks on my MacBook, and I'm trying to use time machine to recover it. I learnt from the following question that I can only get access to the folder storing all my iBook files using terminal: Where are my iBooks stored in macOS Sierra?
Say if I want to use terminal and one of my node.js process via tun0 (a socks5 connection to my office) while using all other process through the regular internet connect (eth0), how should I set it up?
I have an encrypted sparsebundle from mid-2013. I am aware of the encryption type (AES-256) and the passphrase used to create the sparsebundle.
I have some photos on my phone that became unavailable - here's an example:  All the remaining photos taken around that time are available. When I scroll through the roll (~4000 photos), there are a few such blank photos. The following error messages are shown:
Before upgrading to High Sierra (i.e. when using Yosemite/El Capitan/Sierra) I constantly hid file extensions by hitting enter and manually removing the file extension from the file name. After upgrading to High Sierra, I noticed this no longer applies. Instead, I have to go to the file info via cmd+I and manually check Hide extension. As for Finder preferences, Show all filename extensions is de-selected. How can I restore the previous behavior, which is very comfortable to me?
Since I updated to High Sierra (Version 10.13.1 to be exact) the "x days since last backup" reminders have returned, showing up every day or so in the top right corner of the screen. I checked, and the Back Up Automatically box in System Preferences is still unchecked. Is there any way to make the reminders not appear again? I'm not interested in backing up using Time Machine tool I've had poor success restoring my computer with it one previous time.
So Bitcoin seems all the rage, but it’s way too expensive for us mere mortals. Who can afford a bitcoin, right? But apparently bitcoins are produced by mining them and mining them involves a computer processing mathematical calculations. So I wonder, can I use my Mac to mine bitcoins?
How do I get the spotlight calculator to always use scientific notation? This is how it looks by default:
My MacBook Pro just made a notification/alert noise that I did not recognise. I am familiar with all of the sounds that are available as alert sounds under the sounds effects pane in System Preferences, so I am unsure what this was trying to notify me about. I only had Google Chrome open and all tabs I had open did not have any sound-playing components to them (no YouTube, no autoplay ads, etc). It was a longer sound maybe 2–2.5 seconds. Is there a site that details all the notifications sounds so that I may be able to figure it out?
If you hold cmd and click View -> Reload Page From Origin what does that do exactly and how does it differ from a standard reload? I'm guessing it reloads the current page without using cache? But i'm not sure. I hope some one can confirm this.
So I check a volume of my Hard drive for bad blocks and I used the following command fsck_hfs -fy -S /dev/disk2s1 and it immediately threw errors like: Did I make a syntax mistake using this command? Or is my drive failing I tried running fsck_hfs -fy -S /dev/disk2 and it is taking some time to scan for bad blocks.
Yesterday I started my free trial of Apple Music and downloaded about 200 songs on my iPhone through Wi-Fi and it worked fine (with Wi-Fi turned on). Today I went for a walk and I could not play the downloaded music offline. Once I turn off both Wi-Fi and Cellular network I get an error: “Cannot Open: This content is not authorized”. Neither of songs downloaded to the phone works. However, if I turn my Wi-Fi back on, everything works perfectly fine. Does anyone know how to deal with it?
My Wi-Fi of my MacBook is really unstable since the month December, I also get a lot of errors: (and of course the error Month 13 is out of bounds) Does somebody knows what the first error is?
I'd like to adjust the volume of a specific audio device from the command line in OS X. All examples of this that I can find are for the active audio device using osascript, which doesn't appear to let you specify specific hardware. I'm specifically looking to adjust the volume of something that /isn't/ the active output device, the same way I can manually do so by opening Audio MIDI Setup, selecting "USB Audio Device", and dragging the sliders.
Background: I have added an additional SSD to my iMac and made it the startup disk. The old 1TB hard disk is still attached and is now the secondary hard drive.
The network selection window that opens when you click the WIFI icon >> Join Other Network >> Show Networks, is stuck open. Clicking "Cancel" doesn't close it.
I currently have an Iphone that is properly set up with Exchange. When I go to delete a single instance of a recurring item from my calendar on my IPhone, The deletion does not appear on my Outlook calendar. Is there a fix for this? Or am I just missing something?
The problem here is a file that I recently modified won't be at the top of the "date added" list, and one I just downloaded won't even show up on the "date last opened". I'm still coping with the loss of recent files thanks to High Sierra update.
I am running macOS 10.12.5 and I am setting up a localhost and everything looks correct. I used brew to install Apache (httpd), MySQL, and PHP. I have changed the hosts file to point the localhost to the custom site and changed the vhost to: I have updated httpd.conf to include the vhost file and the appropriate php modules needed.
When I add a WIFI network to my MacBook Pro, it is automatically synced with my iPhone. This is OK on some networks, but if I am using my laptop at a company that blocks certain ports, such as those for external email (e.g. Gmail), I don't want this to be blocked on my phone too. So, I removed the WIFI network from my iPhone so I can get my email, but now my MacBook has also removed the network, which I need to do my job.
This is recent (popped up in the last week), and I don't think it came up with any updates; most recent thing I can think of is watchOS 4.2. I'm on the iPhone 7, with iOS 11.2.
I'm running a simple Alfred 3 workflow as I always have but the osascript portion of it is failing all the sudden. I've restarted my machine and of course Alfred 3. This is the error I get in the debug panel: [ERROR: action.script] osascript: no such component "JavaScript". I'm on OSX 10.12.5 If it helps, I actually submitted the question to Alfred first and they sent me here, see the original Alfred forum post: https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/11058-osa-script-failing-for-javascript-all-the-sudden/?tab=comments#comment-57404
This question has good answers on how to remove ringtones that one may have installed using iTunes on a Mac or PC. However, it appears to be possible for iPhone users who do not have a Mac or PC to create and install custom ringtones using the iOS Garageband app (see here and here). Is it possible to remove those user-created custom ringtones from an iPhone (without having to find a Mac or PC with iTunes)? If so, how?
I have an external SSD device which is randomly mounted in my MacBook Pro with macOS High Sierra (anyway, I had this problem even in Yosemite, it is not OS related). I've formatted the SSD with Disk Utility app to NTFS because I need a drive readable from wherever. I do have the Paragon NTFS for Mac app (version 14.3.318), so I guess the filesystem is not the issue. I said so also because this morning, just after the format, I was able to copy stuffs to the ext SSD. But right now is not detected at all. If I run in the terminal: I can only see the internal SSD
I have an iPhone 6S (with iOS 11) which is working fine except for the fact that I no longer receive any push notifications whenever I receive a new text message - no sound either. All I see is a badge on the icon. I can't understand why, especially since all push notifications options for the Messages app are on in Settings (e.g. "Show on Lock Screen", "Show as Banners").
When using Mail as a full-screen-app, when you compose a new message it pushes a modal view controller over the whole application for the new message. This prevents the use of the message viewer while this is up. It is incredibly annoying and limiting. The only workaround I know about is to go to a space other than Mail, then right-click on the Mail icon on the dock and click "Compose New Message" - this makes it a free-standing window. How do I make Mail always make new messages into separate windows?
HDD has many, many SYMLINKS with broken links. Can a script .. Find all aliases in directory/subdirectories.
I'm trying to connect my ATV4 (non 4k) to Xcode so that I can download some package contents from it. Unfortunately the device isn't appearing in Xcode when I try to add a new device. I can put the ATV into DFU mode and see it in system profiler & iTunes so the cable & connectors check out but it isn't able to connect to Xcode in DFU mode so I can't access the package I want to get its contents. My ATV4 is currently on 9.0.1 (jailbroken) and I'm running OSX 10.12.6, Xcode 9.2 Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
We've an old 2007 MacBook that I'd like to connect to a recent TV. If I'm not mistaking, the laptop has a FireWire 400 port, a VGA port, and USB ports. The TV has HDMI ports and USB ports insofar as I can tell. The laptop can't run AirPlay insofar as I can tell - it's running OS X Lion and is too old to upgrade. Is a USB/USB cable the recommended way of connecting the two devices in this case, or are there reasonably priced adapters to convert FireWire 400 to HDMI or something to that effect?
I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 11 and I have just noticed that a large amount of my iPhone's storage space being occupied by "System" (12.27 GB). I have tried the answers for the iPhone 4 explained in the question Why is so much "Other" space occupied on an iPhone 4? (except for factory resetting and setting the iPhone up as new as I need to keep my app data) however those did not solve the problem on my iPhone 6s. I have tried restarting and syncing with iTunes, but neither solved the problem.
I just wanted to merge 2 NTFS drives because I want to increase size of my BootCamp partition. But now, I can't boot to macOS. I can see it when I boot to Windows; its files and everything ok, but somewhy it is listed as Macintosh HD (D:) and my Recovery Partition is listed as Recovery HD (E:). When I open Startup Menu, only my Bootcamp and Recovery partitions are avaible to select, no Macintosh HD.
I'm trying to stop Windows apps installed on a VM in Parallels from appearing in Spotlight search results on the host Mac. System details: Mac OS: 10.12.6 Parallels Desktop Business Edition Version: 11.2.3 (32663) Windows OS Version (running in Parallels): Windows 10 Pro 1709 I've made sure that in Parallels setting for this VM, the setting Options ➡️ Applications ➡️ Share Windows applications with Mac is set to false:
Its been a week since i have been trying to install cocoapods on macOS 10.13 , but its hangs at somehow 5% or below 10% I have tried removing all cocoapods and reinstalled a number of times (show your work here, we might catch an error) I have updated ruby version and updated all pods. (What version and pods work)
Syncing from the iPhone using Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync doesn't work (just get "searching for computer" which goes away after about 1 minute) and the device never shows up in iTunes.
I work on the command line quite a bit and often have to take a screenshot a region of the screen and save it to directory I am currently working in. (let's assume I've already taken the screenshot and clipboard has it). This is how I have to do it right now (after have the screenshot in clipboard): launch Preview. in Preview, ⌘ + N (File, New from Clipboard) creates a new file with the clipboard contents. go back to command line and copy the directory name (copy the results of pwd)
iMac (mid 2011, running OS X 10.12) gets stuck on white screen (after playing the chime sound and displaying the Apple logo and progress bar) when I try to boot normally boot in safe mode (holding down Shift while booting) boot in recovery mode (pressing Cmd+R while booting)
We have a bunch of Mac at work that no longer require Xcode or command line tools so we'd like to remove them so the compilers aren't hanging around and we don't have to keep updating them when updates arrive. In the old days, there was an install script (perl in /Developer) to remove the tools, but now that Xcode is an app store app you are left with the tools if you ever install them. Can we clean this other than wiping the OS for macs running 10.10 and newer?
Every so often when I double click the home button on my iPhone6 (to switch between apps or close apps) I see a memo along the bottom saying something like Safari – From "Your Mac Mini". My Mac Mini is my desktop computer an my iPhone6 is my mobile device, but I don't use or open Safari on either of them. I've clicked the memo before and it's usually just a random site I've recently visited on Chrome. What are these memos for/about? How do I stop them from happening?
The button to edit the core HTML of a wiki page is gone. It used to look like this: <> Did they completely remove it? Is there a way to bring it back?
I am using Mac OS X 10.12.5 with the Mac Mail client Version 10.2 (3259). When I try to add a new rule to account in Mail, the part of the rule where the action to perform on the email is not fully expanded for some odd reason. Here is an example
In Safari I have no such option. And from now both browsers want to open everything on https. I have 10 vhosts, only 4 domains listening on https at all with nginx (this one is quick to workaround though but still).
How can I enable sound alert even on silent mode for some important events on iOS? Devices: iPhone, iPad iOS: 10.2, 11
I have an AppleTV 4th gen that im trying to set up as a HomeKit hub. I have it signed in using two factor authentication and it shows on my Apple ID devices page. The settings app on appletv says it’s connected to my home and I also see the Apple TV as a hub on my iPhone home.app under the house settings. Both the iPhone and Apple TV are on the same WiFi network. I can control my devices with my iPhone but not with the Apple TV.
I opened keynote 7.3.1 on my Mac (10.12.6) and navigated to the Desktop to open a .pptx document. This resulted in an error dialogue stating that it could not recognize that file format (.pptx). What would cause this error and how could it be resolved?
When I try to visit one particular webpage (on my employer's site), it's being redirected to a spam site instead. How can I fix this? I'm using: iPhone 6 AT&T cellular data (I'm not on a wi-fi network, so there's no router to check.) Safari It doesn't happen: for other web addresses (including other pages on the very same site) using other browsers (such as the StackExchange app) using a different iPhone I've tried: clearing Safari's history and website data disabling Javascript in Safari's settings turning the phone off and on
Just now while using Chrome with an infinite number of tabs and windows, it stopped responding with a colorful spinwheel. The computer is still working, but every other application moves 30x slower whereby every action I make will be delayed by ~2 seconds, even if its a simple click. I waited for about 10 minutes to unlag but its still the same.
I bought a new conputer to replace my aging MacBook Air (2011). I migrated from my Time Machine backup, bringing my old applications. One of the steps in the migration said "identifying incompatible software." Some applications have a gray slashed circle over them, while others (like OmniGraffle 4) just crash instantly on launch. What causes some applications to be preidentified as incompatible while other simply fail to work?
I was recently restoring macOS from one partition to the other during which all files got corrupted. Since none of the files were opening I did a complete format and reinstalled macOS Now my question is how can I recover all my files (properly) without the help of any recovering software!
I went to Japan, changed my store to Japan and added a prepaid credit card to purchase apps. Now I am back in Dubai and I can't change the store to Dubai now. My WhatsApp is about to expire in 1 day.
I recently noticed that certain keyboard combinations involving Cmd+Ctrl+Alt (Cmd+Ctrl+Opt) are captured by my Mac but cannot figure out what is doing the capturing. For example, Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+j/; both trigger their pressed keys on the virtual keyboard showing that they are not being caught. However, Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+k/l show the modifiers being held but neither k or l are shown as triggered. Of the letter keys on my keyboard here are the ones that do not work with Cmd+Ctrl+Alt: t, p, a, s, k, l, c, m, ,, .
I am pretty sure that one used to be able to subscribe to just certain IMAP folders in Apple Mail: In the side bar, right click on an IMAP Mailbox and select "Account Information", then select the third tab thing. Today the list is plain empty (see attached screenshot in German), while all existing folders are shown in the side bar of the main window. How can I unselect some of the IMAP folders in Mail 9.3 on El Capitan?
Since about 2 weeks my chrome icon randomly changes to the one pictured. Turning off chrome fixes it, but soon after restart the weird icon comes back. What is it, how do I fix this?
Anyone knows what causes this behavior? In Console > system reports all .awd reports have characters like this
I really like Time Machine for local backups, but I'd also like to have a cloud backup of everything on my local disk. What's the best way to get full, versioned incremental backups of my machine, to the cloud? The obvious solutions do not fulfil this seemingly simple goal: BackBlaze is convenient and works well but doesn't back up anything outside of /Users/—and even then has undocumented exclusions such as not backing up empty directories, symlinks, etc. BackBlaze is convenient and works well but doesn't back up anything outside of /Users/—and even then has undocumented exclusions such as not backing up empty directories, symlinks, etc.
I want to select only the text items on a slide using apple script. I keep getting the following error: Any help would be much appreciated!
I bought a new MacBook Pro and installed Xcode but I don't have the developer folder. What is the problem? How can I fix this problem?
Pretty much the same as someone reported back when Yosemite arrived. No answer here as well. Older quite similar question: Samba issues (deadlocks and instability) in OSX 10.10.1? I can find many similar error descriptions on various older posts in the apple discussion forums but none ever had any solution. Tried this (*=URL=* as well but didn't make any difference. So trying here, anyone seen this behavior and knows how to get this fixed? UPDATE January 12th, 2018:
I am getting "Unknown Error = -2,147,414,007" on creating a certificate through the Keychain app.  Steps to Recreate:
Has anyone seen this? So basically I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else, or if my computer might be infected with malware or something.
I followed this tutorial to set up a proxy using an AWS instance. I was able to do so, and upon running this command:
I want to buy and external monitor for my MacBook 13 inch 2015. What I want is the monitor to have the same clarity as I have on my Macbook. I am not very familiar with the resolutions, I just know I want "retina" clarity.
This used to be the normal behavior for me: I have a Chrome window A open The focus is in another program window B I bring up Alfred and type Chrome Chrome is the first result, selected by default I hit Enter and... The focus goes to the already-opened Chrome window A
I have a Mac mini with a HDD that is shared in the local network with other Macs via System Preferences > File Sharing. All systems have the same OSX installed.
I wrote a little shell script that switches some settings that I have to switch a lot. I saved it as a .command file, so double-clicking will run it. Now everytime I run it, it's asking for my password (although just changing those settings doesn't require any password when I do it by hand). Is it possible to make the bash script run, without it asking for a password everytime? All it does is switches my proxy settings off... The script:
Working on building a Handler that passes the terminal window then calls the ID for a script I've run into mixed results and I'm curious if there is a cleaner way to get window 1 The handler: Everything I've read and researched: Applescript to open a NEW terminal window in current space Open terminal via AppleScript Applescript to open specific Terminal Style Windows Script opens two terminal windows Sending commands and strings to Terminal.app with Applescript
The external keyboard configuration from Preferences|Keyboard|Modifier Keys is not working properly on my Sierra mac. It works fine for the same and other external/USB keyboards on my two El Capitan machines. The following *=URL=* recommends to disconnect the external keyboard and then delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist. However after having done so - and verified the file no longer exists: But the external keyboard still shows up:
I often open files, mess with them and then close them, not wanting to save. The system dialogue prompt always asks me if I want to save and this is annoying. I want this nag to end as quickly as possible, but my keyboard arrows won't change highlighted field (I's on cancel by default). Tab is ok, but still too slow. How do I A: quit a close a document (without saving) without touching the mouse? or B: disable the "do you want to save" dialogue completely without touching the mouse? A fix for either scenario would make my life more streamlined.
I have a number of folder aliases I use that map to the same network volume. However, as I click through them, I notice Finder will sometimes hang for a minute or so, and then when the folder finally loads, I see I have another copy of the same network volume mounted on the desktop.
I'd like for files downloaded on (macOS) Safari to have the original file's name, without the added ".download". is that possible at all? The idea is that I'd be able to use some files before they're fully download, like MP4's for example.
I have a very simple problem and I thought the solution would be simple. However, I do not see any straightforward solution to this problem so far.
I changed my sim to another sim because I was on vacation in another country and my "trust number" in the apple id settings was changed to the new temporary sim number. And now when I came back and I want to change it back to my real sim number (in my country - I already replaced the sim) I can't remove / add / edit it to my real number it says all the time some "error" like could not connect to iCloud / Could not verify phone number and below it "We cannot process your request, please try again later."
iOS 10.3.3 This question is similar to this, but the apps aren't even starting to update and I don't have the blue dot next to the app name on the homescreen. I have 15 apps available for update on my iPhone SE, but when I attempt to update them, it doesn't work.
I have the NordVPN IKEv2 desktop client running, as well as Server.app's L2TP (ipsec) server running on the same machine. When I connect to the latter, I can't use the internet. How can I run both at the same time?
As we all know, the MacBook and MacBook Pro do not have Ethernet ports. Apple makes a Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter (which requires no driver), but with the change to USB Type-C, this is no longer an option without an additional adapter.
I don't know exactly when, but some of my app icons became blank and some keep toggling between normal and blank. It looks like this: This is my macOS version: and since I've having a lot of bugs recently, I'm considering reinstall macOS on my MacBook. Is there a easy way to restore the data and applications back after reinstalling the system? I've made a macOS thumb drive with the newest version but I haven't done this on mac before and I don't know how to restore the data. Thanks! update:
Whenever I recompile a tex file, preview keeps popping up the sidebar of the resulting pdf. Is there any way to get rid of the behavior? I like to work with both files side by side and the sidebar takes up precious horizontal space (since I am working on a laptop). I know I can remove the sidebar, by selecting "View->Always show sidebar" and deselecting it again, but that becomes annoying with time.
My mac was turned off during the High Sierra update and now just gives me the flashing question mark when I turn it on. If I boot into recovery I can't select my startup disk because the OSX Base System disk image is 'booted'. It won't let me unmount it either. I can see my start up disk but I can't boot into it. Can anyone help with this?
Since I upgraded to high Sierra (10.13.1) I have this annoying problem. When switching desktops, if I have multiple open windows from an application (chrome, pdf Preview, ...) on different desktops, it always jumps to the first desktop. It's driving me nuts! Anyone else has the same issue? Any suggestions? Here is how my setting looks like:
I created a Read/Write DMG file from a folder in my Mac, size is about 175GB. Then I copied the DMG to an external HD for backup. To ensure data integrity, I checked the MD5 of both, local HD and external HD copies of the DMG file and they are different! I reformatted the external HD and copied the DMG onto it again and it was different again. I did notice that the first MD5 of the DMG in the external HD matched the MD5 of the second attempt in the external HD, so it looks like the file is being copied consistently. After all this, I created a simple txt file on the local HD, copied it to the external HD and checked the MD5s, they match as expected. Anybody know why the MD5 of the DMG on the local HD is not the same when copied to an external HD? NOTE: both local and external are HFS+
There are some apps that allow logging in via Touch ID (for instance banking apps). I know that it is relatively secure to use this feature as long as no-one has illicit access to my fingerprints, and the device is not physically accessed. But what if the database of the application gets compromised?
I want to add the home directory to the favorites directories, how can I do it?
How can I do this in Numbers? How can I auto populate a date value in column "B" when a value is set in column "A"? It's important to keep in mind that once the date is set I don't want it to change. Here is my attempt at translating this formula in Numbers... I get an error message in Numbers... Thanks
I swapped out the hard drive on my old MacBook Pro. Installed Mountain Lion, then High Sierra. Now I’ve found my time machine password (available in Keychain Access app on my laptop but not in my iPhone passwords!!?! - thanks apple). So I’m trying to use the “system restore” from time machine. It’s stuck after 115GB (it’s done 10MB in the 20 mins I’ve been watching)
My iPhone won’t download apps from the App Store. They say loading under them and it never starts downloading or installing. At first I thought this was a problem with my internet but I tried downloading small apps (around 70-100 MB) with data and on different WiFi hotspots but I still had the issue. What is this problem and how can I fix it? (iPhone 6S with iOS 11)
For my late 2012 iMac I clicked restore on Disk Utility and it restored it to “OS X BASE SYSTEM”. I tried to reinstall macOS but it said the disk was locked. When I boot up my iMac it only boots in to recovery mode not macOS. (I don’t really care if I lost all my data on it.)
I would like to create a calendar from my iPhotos and mail it directly in a country different from my billing country (to reduce delivery cost). Is this possible?
I come at macs from a windows perspective and it bothers me that Safari stays open after I've closed all tabs. I don't like needing to then go and either quit from the top bar or cmd-click-quit the app in the dock.
I was wondering if it was possible to install Android on an iPhone X ? I saw that it was possible on an iPhone 3GS.
Saving prints of particular website to track changes. Would like to change the name of the saved pdf file to reflect time*date when I did the pdf print instead of just the webpage name. (e.g. XXDashboard-2017-10-12-13-02 ) TIA
My computer keeps restarting and after taking it into the Apple store and a repair store, both are telling me the CPU needs to be replaced. The Macbook pro is a late 2013 and it's like a $500+ repair. Do you think it's worth replacing or should I just buy a new machine? Also, is the CPU the same as the logic board?
...and the output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk1:  I've tried to resize the container using: but this command throws an error: The size (500g) must not be greater than the partition map allocatable size
I own(ed) an Apple iPhone 6 and an Apple Watch 2. All my Apple watch activity, including exercises, were stored and displayed in the activity app on the iPhone. All my Apple devices are backed up on a 200GB iCloud storage.
I hit some Cmd + ? shortcut while previewing a file and now I have a problem. Whenever Finder has focus, it goes straight into this full-screen mode. Heres a quick screencast.
Apple Mail sometimes finds additional contact information when reading an email: Siri found updated contact info in this email: John Smith (123) 456-7890 Is there a way to update all the Siri-found contact info at once -- as though I manually went through each of these messages and clicked "update" on all of them?
My mom just recently got an iPhone and I recently got an iPad. Now, I used to receive my mom’s texts, I took care of that, but I don’t know how to not get my mom’s photos from her iPhone and to keep them off my iPad without deleting from her phone.
I would like Launchd to run a login script every time a user logs in. The script is configuring the users finder favorites and it works when running it manually. I have setup the Launchd plist as follows: /Library/LaunchAgent/
The latest macOS 10.13.2 update apparently didn't install well on my MacBook Pro 13" with Touchbar. On every boot the system loads the update installer but gives then an error message that the install file was not found. Since the update installer would load automatically on every boot this results in a boot loop. However I figured out that I can force to boot into macOS with ALT+R which has been a temporary fix for me since then.
however silly this question might seem, there is a legitimate reason behind it... I would like to go back to Sierra on my iMac. So after creating a bootable Sierra installer I intend to wipe the drive, install Sierra and restore from a Time Machine snapshot. So I would like it to be the latest Sierra snapshot possible... Is there any way of finding out which one it is? I don't remember when exactly I installed High Sierra and want to avoid guessing blindly.
Via my MacOS settings I have my caps lock remapped to command. This works beautifully in Emacs by intercepting the command as control via the (setq mac-command-modifier 'control), so that caps locks drives both the regular control hotkeys in Emacs as well as the command hotkeys in MacOS. I cannot figure out how to recreate a similar setup in iTerm2. How can I make caps lock pull double duty in iTerm2 like it does in Emacs?
I'm looking for a way to swap Mission Control space n to space m, by means of a keyboard shortcut or a terminal command as to make this process more automated/automate-able. With this, I am not trying to switch from one space to another, but to perform an action that rearranges the ordening of the active spaces. When Mission Control is open, you can do this with the mouse by dragging for example the "Space 1" text to the position of "Space 2". Is there a way to achieve this in a more "automatic" fashion? (preferably not using automator mouse actions)
I am using MacBookPro12,1 (early 2015 model) and it restarts randomly without any warning. In the log, I found this: 2017-12-14 20:51:50 Previous shutdown cause: 5 2017-12-15 10:37:31 Previous shutdown cause: 5 2017-12-15 12:08:05 Previous shutdown cause: -63 2017-12-15 19:14:19 Previous shutdown cause: 5 2017-12-15 19:42:05 Previous shutdown cause: 5 2017-12-15 20:09:32 Previous shutdown cause: 5 2017-12-15 22:32:39 Previous shutdown cause: -63 2017-12-16 00:08:00 Previous shutdown cause: -63
macOS High Sierra (10.13) is the main OS on my Mac and it boots without issue. However, the recovery partition is corrupted and I cannot boot to it without seeing an error. How do I reinstall the recovery partition without having to disrupt my working main OS? The machine I'm using was upgraded from Mavericks. Meta Note: While there are similar questions for previous MacOS versions, I think unique issues relating to the new APFS in High Sierra justify a new question.
I have noticed that my extra space just suddenly disappears since upgrading to macOS High Sierra. For example, I have 170 GBs free in the morning and then by the afternoon I'm down to 56 GBs.
If I have wifi access, after taking a photo, by the time I go to edit or share it mere seconds or minutes later it's already been uploaded from my phone to the cloud. This then means the big delay grabbing the photo from the cloud. Is there any way to try to make that better, other than turning off "optimize photo storage", which I can't do given my phone+library size. (I'd also accept a rdar::// number if this is known issue)
My old iPad 2 is unusably slow, even just to browse the internet (such as by using Google Chrome). It's nearly a piece of trash at this point. I've tried a complete factory reset multiple times. If I'm willing to do pretty much anything to this iPad at this point (jailbreak, roll back to previous iOS, or install a different operating system entirely, etc), what can I do so that I can browse websites easily and quickly? I'd love to use the latest version of Google Chrome or Firefox if possible, but at this point I don't even really care, and I don't care what OS I use either.
I am hoping that someone knows how to do this. I've been searching online for days now and I have found no solution that works. So, I am looking for a way to export the passwords saved on Chrome as a CSV file to import it into my password manager (Enpass). My System:macOS: 10.13.2 Chrome: 63.0.3239.84 Here is what I have tried to far: In Chrome, I went to: chrome://flags/#password-import-export Then I enabled "Password import and export" and have relaunched Chrome Then I went to: Settings > Advanced > Manage passwords I see the export button, when I click on it, it asks me to where I want to save it, I selected "Desktop" and clicked Save. Now that open the file (a CSV) and open it, I only see the headers and no data. The CSV looks something like this: name url username password
I have a personal developer account and my friend is connecting his bank account to my apple development account. Because I have developed the app so I want my name to be under the name of my app on app store, not my friend's name. Can I still be the seller of the app even though payment is to my friend's bank account?
I would like to keep repeat the audo clip until the end of the video clip. However I cannot find a way to do it.
MacOS 10.13.2 (17C88) Backupdb is three times the size of the used space on the internal drive. When there are lots of hardlinks in something (as there are in TM backups), does 'du' count every link, or does it count the actual file once?
I'm currently running Sierra, trying to download the El Capitan installer from the App Store, but am unable to due to the message in the title. Is there any way around this, or am I forced to erase my HDD and download an OS from internet recovery mode? Am I able to pick a specific OS to download from recovery mode if that was the case? To note: I don't have a back up system to restore to. I have a drive to load the installer on to. Thank you.
Lets say that I just captured a screenshot called "screenshot.jpg" and I have a folder of screenshots called "screenshots". I want to take this recently captured screenshot and replace the "misc.jpg" file within the screenshot folder. What is the best way to do this? I know that I can rename the file to the name of the file currently within the folder, copy+paste it into the folder, and then choose "replace file" option when prompted, but this isn't ideal. Is there a keyboard shortcut or other quick way to perform this action?
[Mac OS 10.13.2, Meld 3.19.0] After choosing either File or Folder comparison, when I click the button to choose a file/folder and select the root folder (label of the drive mounted as /), the selection of folders is limited to: However, because none of the other folders are listed, I cannot select /usr. I suspect this has something to do with GTK+, and an earlier Meld version worked fine. Do I need to hold down special keys (like option) or do something else to allow this?
I'm trying to sell my phone on eBay but they returned it and said the issue was that the ESN was locked. What does that mean and how can I fix it? The phone is connected to Sprint. Thank You!
Notes will not open either from dock icon or from Finder, even after a forced quit and re-starting of MacBook Pro...just begun happening today during normal MacBook usage. Suggestions?
In the macOS Photos app, select one or more photos and then choose > File > Export > Export 1 Photo. A popup dialog appears with options for the exported image:
I recently updated my iPhone 6s from iOS 10 to iOS 11.2. Together with the update the device started really annoying me by turning on Voice Control on headset button press. It gets turned on approximately in 30% of the cases. May be it reacts on a longer presses, but anyway I'd better turn this off.
The macOS operating system is on nearly every Mac. What has Apple done to make sure that their users cannot see, and thus recreate or modify, the low level code that makes macOS, macOS, how have they done it, and why can't we, the users, get around their method of hiding parts of macOS?
Last night, my Macbook (running High Sierra) fell about 2.5 feet, landed on the screen portion of the laptop, and is now broken. The floor it landed on was half carpeted and half tiled, I don't know which part of the floor it hit first. I am now unable to do anything meaningful with it. See the first two of the three pictures below for what the screen looks like now, both full view and a detail of the lower-right corner. There is a big gray area and then area with lines of different colors, and then a view roughly diagonal discontinuities in the pattern extending from the lower-right area. Also: The buttons that control the screen illumination no longer appear to do so The buttons that control the keyboard illumination no longer appear to do so The screen no longer automatically turns on when I open the laptop (it did previously), but does turn on if I hold the power button down for several seconds after I open the laptop. The screen no longer turns off if I hold the power down for hal
First time poster here. After installing High Sierra on my iMac (27", late 2012) my Boot Camp Windows 10 partition is no longer visible in the Startup Manager (accessed by holding Option-key on startup).
iCloud says "Password is wrong", but I think it's correct. How should I proceed?
I recently went through setting up a new DHCP server. It's working, except for my Mac. Renewing the DHCP lease doesn't get it an IP address and if I assign a manual IP address, settings app shows Ethernet is connected but safari and chrome don't connect to any sites, not even my router or server's configuration page. I've tried restarting and resetting the network config to no avail. I'm running macOS 10.12.6
how do I make sure that the Logic Pro X Keyshortcut settings are somehow fetched from the iCloud Drive every time? I keep switching from machine1 to machine2 to machine3 and I think I've had to keep recreating the shortcuts from scratch about maybe 5-10 times over the course of the past 8 years. Could Symlinked files somehow help with this?
I have followed these instructions (available from Wayback Machine in case they disappear) to add the certificate of my Asus Router to the keychain but Chrome still refuses to trust it, with the error message "NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID". However, Safari accepts it. I have spent a lot of time on Google looking for answers and there are a lot of articles about this but they seem inconclusive (and many are old). So how do I make this work? In case it matters, the router is available both at 192.168.1.1 and router.asus.com (in both cases I use the port 8443). Bonus: How do I make this certificate work from the outside (both in the case of a FQDN as well as when connecting using the IP-number).
I have an apple home network. I also have a Synology NAS and I have a website www.vlakbijdemolen.nl running on this NAS. Everything works fine until I update firmware on my Airport Extreme and my Airport Time Machine. Now I suddenly cannot connect anymore to my website (SAFARI says it cannot connect to the server www.vlakbijdemolen.nl). How can I analyse this ? I really dont know where to start?
What happens if the iCloud/GoogleDrive/DropBox data center where my important files (business info, family photos) are saved ever faces a catastrophic situation like a terrorist nuclear bomb attack? Is my cloud data stored in more than one geo-location?
I realized today I actually have two MySQL databases on my Mac OS X Sierra because when I log in to MySQL via iTerm, its not the same database as what I see via phpMyAdmin, but no matter what username or password I attempt from the user accounts in phpMyAdmin, I am unable to log in to that particular database even if I change the password to any of the users. In this case I checked the wp-config.php in my WordPress core files for the database username and password, but I was not able to log in with those, which means those are not the correct credentials. I realized after retracing my steps that those were the creds for the production database.
When connecting to a wifi network and waiting for a short period of time (ranging from 20 seconds to 5 minutes), certain iCloud related requests will result in a timeout. I found the error first in BusyCal, a third party calendar app, when trying to sync iCloud calendars, but it also occurs in the native calendar app. Both apps try syncing for about 20 seconds and give an error sign afterwards. The error even manages to beachball system preference panes for iCloud and internet accounts (sometimes).
I have many time machine snapshot files on my local volume. These are named com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-12-15-215252, for example, and a new one is created every 10 minutes even though I do backups weekly to a different volume. What are these files and is it ok to delete them with the tmutil command. I am running High Sierra on my iMac. Time Machine backups are saved to an external hard drive.
Alright so most of the people have their desktop having some missing icons but i'm not really having this problem, the real problem is that all the apps in finder are missing icons and sometimes they reappear weirdly...  DolphinEMU's icon is the most inactive. When i look up on finder... this happens...
iTunes Connect says: Make sure your apps are up-to-date and ready for the winter holidays. New apps and app updates will not be accepted December 23 to 27 (Pacific Time), so any releases should be submitted, approved, and scheduled in advance. Other iTunes Connect and developer account features will remain available. If I have the app already approved by Apple before the deadline, can I still release it on Christmas if I use the "manual release" or "automatically release no later than" option?
I'm unable to activate Apple Music on iTunes 12.7 When I go to Preferences -> General There is no Show Apple Music option. Apple music works fine on my iPhone. How do I enable Apple Music on iTunes?
When my laptop isn't plugged into my thunderbolt display it crashes. The screen will go black, the computer becomes unresponsive, and the fans will boot up loudly. I have to force shutdown to get it to stop. I'm not sure if this is a known error with the Thunderbolt, or if it's even related to that. But when it's plugged in seems to be the only time it doesn't crash, and it crashes quite often.
I'd like to suppress the "Shared Folder" banner which appears in Finder windows. I understand why and when it appears, but users find it misleading in my environment where it serves no useful purpose. I've been unable to find a hidden pref for it, or any online reference to one.
Whenever I start a text, my contacts list shows email addresses instead of phone numbers. Not always but very often. A contact will be that way, then next time it won't.
I've got a Mid-2011 iMac. For the past couple of months I've been experiencing a strange WiFi issue for which I couldn't find any solution online. Basically I can browse the internet just fine for hours, but when I start downloading anything at full speed (like torrents), the WiFi stops after about 10 minutes, the top right panel (Network, sound, time, Spotlight...) freezes, and I need to restart my computer for the internet to be on again.
I have about 20 computers at the office that I wanted to have identical installations. Some are iMacs, some are MacBook Pros, some are Mac Pros.
After dealing with this problem several years ago, I thought it had been left far behind. But I recently got a new Toshiba 3TB HD and hooked it up to my server running High Sierra (SSD, 16 GB RAM, 2012) Did not look closely at what Disk Utility was doing, but chose to initialize it in APFS as one volume. When it was finished, it was an 801 GB HD. Have tried many things to get it back, (see "El Capitan's Disk Utility won't format new 3 TB drives higher than 800 GB" on this list as the closest to my problem) but nothing works... How do I get the missing 2+ TBs back?
I need to start a new, totally new wireless config. My 17" MBP 4,1(1261) wireless died. Card removed was 3 wire but new one has only 2. ifixit.com says connect black, then blue, and grey does not get connected.
How do I get Itunes to STOP deleting or reverting my playlists on my iphone every time I connect to Itunes? I have wasted so many hours rebuilding my playlists.
I'm trying to add a specific, external server as a Time Machine destination. It's not discoverable via Bonjour (always at least, I want to use time machine backup over the internet) so to get it to show up in the Time Machine preferences I have to connect to it. I can then add it from Preferences. The weird thing is if I try and add the other destination which is visible via bonjour it works just fine, despite being able to mount the share normally in Finder.
I bought iPad Pro to replace my MacBook in some light works. For personal interest I produce small (2-3min) videos, but on iPad there is no way I can add coustom musics I find on internet (even though musics are non copyrighted). Also it don’t let me use musics from my Apple Music account.
On an Apple TV 4K, with latest tvOS update, the Prime Video app by Amazon fails to finish installing. So it is unusable.
After updating the ram 2 x 8 GB (CT2KIT102464BF160B) the mac mini late 2012 have started various kernel panic, doing the Apple Harware Test to verify the modules the ram is ok, everything is ok. So the crashes should not depend on the ram, but by putting the original modules back, everything goes back to work without crashing. In doubt, however, I started asking for the return of the ram but I wonder and I wonder is it still the ram to cause me problems even if the AHT tells me it's ok?
When I try to access my 2Tb Transcend StoreJet External Hard Drive in Finder, I always get the following error:  However, 16Gb USB Flash Drive can be accessed without any problems. I cannot also see any obvious reasons for that looking at disk info:
I am trying to redirect the outbound traffic to destination port 80 to the local proxy port 127.0.0.1:8080 without success /etc/pf.anchors/com.forwarding /etc/pf.conf Then: The local traffic 127.0.0.1:80 is redirected to 127.0.0.1:8080, but not the external, the one towards internet.
I have a Mac Mini (Late 2012) and a MacBook. About a week ago, I suspected that my Mini had been infected. So disconnected the Time Machine to preserve my backups, switched to the MacBook and when I had the time, downloaded the installer and tried to install High Sierra. I created an external bootable media by downloading the installer on my MacBook, plugged in an external HDD and ran sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MacInstall
I am facing a really perplexing issue where I am unable to use the same settings on two identical monitors. The Setup: 2016 MacBook Pro 15" on OS 10.12.6 Two Asus PB287Q 4K displays Both connected using USB-C -> DisplayPort cables One monitor is vertical and the other is horizontal Rotating so both or horizontal does not change the options available Rotating so both or horizontal does not change the options available As you can see from the image below, despite everything being the same (as far as I can tell), I am able to use scaled HiDPI settings on the 2nd monitor but not the first.
With the more recent macOS installers, using createinstallmedia to make bootable installers is widespread practice now. *=URL=* When we take that drive to a Mac to erase it and install a clean OS - do the installer logs with any errors get saved to the external or internal disk or do we need to inspect/ save / send them to Apple before we quit the installer?
My iPhone 6 is locked to icloud,, it has never been synchronized with iTunes i need a way to backup it,, is there any modded iTunes or any program can help me.
My MacBookPro(primary device for receiving verification codes for other devices) crashed and I have to replace the hard drive. How do I make my Mac-Mini my primary device?
I recently deleted my Exchange email account (old work email) and now some of my contacts are "missing". When I search for them to send a text message they are there but their names disappear. They are not, however, in my contacts list. Anyone know how to fix? I've done a reboot but it didn't help.
I'm using Safari 9.1.2 on EL Capitan and it sadly has a few rendering errors. For example, on Facebook, if I chat with someone, the icons are overlayed on the text entry field. also there's a similiar problem on youtube when hitting the add to playlist button. Everything works fine on Firefox and Chrome and I already tried disabling all the extensions and so on. Can somebody help?
I've made many AppleScript module for TextWrangler but this time I face a "stupid" problem: The idea: if nothing is selected in the text, set the selection to all the text. I've made many tests, without any succes. Here is the last one:
My MacBook Pro 2011 with latest High Sierra 10.13.02 is suffering from a hard disk usage from time to time. In attempt to track down where all these disk I/O 's are coming from I came across to a "fud" process being called: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAccessoryUpdater.framework/Support/fud What has to do with Mac OS X and can I disable it ?
Lately I submitted an app to the App Store, but unfortunately, it has been rejected because based on them it's not in compliance with guideline 3.1.4 content code. The app is basically messaging app like WhatsApp, but the only difference is that groups can be joined by ten chars code that the app generates. I tried to explain to Apple that 3.1.4 is not the case and the codes are generated free and that is basically the same as links. What do you think? What can I say to them?
I was trying to set the default video download quality in iTunes to 1080p. I'd read online that to do this (on Windows) you go to Edit->Preferences->Store, and change an option there. However, in my iTunes (the latest, 12.7.2.60, on Windows 7) there is no such option.
This is not a duplicate of this question. The situation is a bit different. In my case, I have already installed High Sierra on a MacBook Pro 15inch 2017. I encountered this issue when updating the Security Update 2017-001. It got stuck in a boot loop where upon entering my password, it would send me to install High Sierra. (I've installed it over a month ago). Then it would show this error.
I have a wireless router / modem from my cable provider and I was looking to use my existing Airport Express as a WIFI range extender. Is this possible? I currently have it connected directly with a cat6 cable but I rather use it wirelessly to get extra range. Thank you in advance!
I am having difficulty repairing a Time Machine backup. After upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra, the Mac had difficulty finishing Time Machine backups to the Synology NAS. Ultimately the Mac itself would not reboot and the hard drive was wiped with Sierra reinstalled at the Genius Bar. (I was confident I had backups via the NAS). When I tried Migration Assistant I notice that the backup is "Amanda's Macbook Pro.purgeable".
I'm using a 50GB plan on iCloud and now it seems to be almost full. I received the message saying it is almost full and checking iCloud discovered there is less then 1GB free.
I am running High Sierra, updated, with iTunes 12.7.2. My Music and Album Art is on an external HD. I rip my own music into AIFF files, then manually add the album art. This afternoon all of a sudden it will allow me to go through the motions, but the album art does not appear in iTunes. I have checked the permissions for some of the files and they say I have read write permissions. Please do not suggest downgrading my music.
I have the newest version of iOS 11 on an iPhone SE. I am having no luck figuring our what time text messages were sent or received. Is there any way to do this?
On my windows wifi devices I am able to add wireless network filters to disable connectivity to unwanted signals. First I whitelist any networks I deem secure using the following command: Then I blacklist all the others using:
I want to create a new PDF file from a rectangular region of an existing PDF file, old_file.pdf. Currently, I use the following rather laborious process: Open the old_file.pdf in Preview. Chose the rectangular regions using rectangular selection. Copy the region using cmd c. Paste the region into an empty slide in a Keynote file, using cmd v. Export that single slide (by hiding all others) into a new_file.pdf. Open new_file.pdf in Preview, chose and crop the rectangular region, then save the file and exit Preview.
PS. She went to an Apple store but they needed a proof of purchase. She doesn't have a receipt anymore. She paid for it in cash about 2 years ago.
I`m unable to terminate process by SIGKILL signal. What does it mean that process in parentheses? How to kill it?
Really annoyingly, since few macOS version, Mail toolbar is not enabling the user to set toolbar in "Icon & Text" mode, inside the message composition / open message windows. The option to select the three options is only available inside the main window of the app. Terminal hacks are welcome!
I set up Boot Camp on my MBP (2014 model) installing Windows 8.1 (I want to use Windows 10, which is supported) but the boot camp wizard did not seem to work with Windows 10 for some reason - possibly me choosing the wrong variant of Windows 10 from the MSDN page? I tried the "Media Creation Tool" in windows to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 but this failed with a message about the tool not working for my version of windows.
Let's assume: I'm looking at function foo. Inside foo, a function bar is called. I follow bar to the definition (in the same file) to see what it does. Now I want to go back to foo
So I couldn't find anything stating that a developer license is required to use HockeyApp and I tried to use this app for deploying my app. I tried to upload the app to HockeyApp, installed the HockeyApp itself on my Iphone and logged in as a test user (I submitted the app as a developer user in HockeyApp) but it said: "Please wait - the developer needs to add your device". I tried that but that didn't worked out well, after searching for the error I found a git repo where someone stated that the app had to be signed. In my case I did not sign the app so I tried to do that in Xcode (9.2).
How can I get AppleScript to run this query and save each value (country, city, etc.) as an AppleScript variable? I'm trying to get information about IP and domain and set the value of some variables. I was not sure how to even run the query from AppleScript so I used do shell script to call curl:
When I remove a user or a group permission from a folder and all its children files and folders, this is what I do: Right click the folder Click "Get info" Unlock the padlock (typing my admin password) Remove users and or groups Press "Apply to all enclosed items" and confirm How can I do this from the terminal?
I've got a late 2013, 15-inch retina MacBook Pro. Since a couple macOS upgrades ago, my system has become randomly slow, borderline unusable. I've come to realize it spikes when using 3 displays (2 external 1080p and laptop's retina screen). If I close the laptop and only use the 2 external displays, CPU usage instantly drops. And then, if I open it again, rises up and kernel_task can report over 150% CPU usage and transitions, typing, everything becomes laggy. This can happen even on a fresh boot.
I'm trying to edit the info.plist file inside of Boot Camp Assistant. Using a normal text editor, it prohibits me from editing the file as it is locked. With using sudo nano, I get an error saying that there was an error saving the file. I checked file permissions and I had no access so I tried changing that and It said I could not do that. As a last ditch effort I attempted to do all of the above in the root user but there was no difference. Any ideas of what's happening?
I accidentally deleted a conversation just now in Messages on iPhone. Is there anyway to undo this action or restore the deleted conversation in iOS 11? The conversation still exists on my iPad but I would like to have the full conversation on my iPhone too.
As older versions of macOS & OS X no longer appear on the App Store search, how can I get any older version of a Mac OS to be able to run as a VM, or to reinstall on my Mac? This is an attempt to provide the canonical QA for this issue, as per the Meta QA - Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different? I expect it to be modified over time to hopefully become a complete information resource.
My MBP 15" (end 2016) on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 have a strange behaviour when I close the lid. It goes to sleep (I hear the fans becoming quiet) but after ~20 seconds it returns to work and then the cycle starts back. In the future the behaviour I would like is to have the MBP to sleep for something like 10/20 mins (2/3h when on charger -c) and the go in hibernation mode (hibernatemode 25), but that's another story. Those are the settings I currently have:
I'm using xhyve to run Linux virtual machines on my computer. One commit implements autopty support:
Few weeks ago, on an Apple 21.5” iMac Desktop Computer (4th-Generation, late 2013), I installed the just released macOS High Sierra v.10.13.1. I’ve recognized that on November 29, 2017, Apple Released a Security Update for macOS High Sierra and installed it on the iMac in the background (without consent). During the next weekend I’ve Shut Down the computer, then turned it off with the power button and unplug the power cord overnight. When I reconnected the power cord and turned on the iMac with the power button on the next morning, I could see the log-in screen, enter the password, and then a muddy picture with a unusually slow moving progress bar, which run (filled) completely, but the screen did not progress, as typically, to open a functional Desktop (picture) with the Dock. After waiting for about an hour, I’ve tried to Force Shutdown the computer by pressing and holding the power button, then restart the iMac with the power button, but only got the same muddy picture with the slow
I usually type "* " (or "- ") to start a bulleted list but how do I start a checklist quickly on Mac?
Adding the app in the systems preferences as followed: Go to Apple > System Preferences Select the Keyboard preference pane Click on the Shortcuts tab In the left sidebar, select the Function Keys option On the right-hand side click on the plus + button Search for the app you want to use Add the app
I'm using Mac High Sierra and QuickTime v 10.4 (although I'm open to upgrading versions). I have the following script for recording waht's going on on my machine ...
What does the cloud symbol next to an apps name mean? I’m assuming when you tap it it uploads data to iCloud but I’m not sure and I’m also wondering if there is a way to make these apps do whatever it is that they need to automatically. Below is an image of the symbol and what happens when I tap the apps.
I have an old MacBook Pro (mid-2010) and I am currently running Mountain Lion. Due to lack of any type of support (I cannot install most new versions of applications), I think about installing a newer version, but I don't want the most recent as it will slow my computer down too much. Ideally I would like to upgrade to Mavericks. I saw a similar topic, which unfortunately doesn't answer my question (as I have never installed my desired version with my Apple ID): How can I download an older version of OS X? Is there any way I can do this?
I'm getting this error when I'm trying to use Rails. It seems there are problems with using local files. pasting below to show the versions of ruby and rails pasting the common error when trying to use rails or ruby
I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, late 2011 which some time ago started suffering this [1] issue and I was wondering if do someone know how to ensure if the fault comes from the LCD cable or the LCD display? I've tried disassembling the MacBook to check for cable connections, I even tried removing the LCD display and attaching an external one via thunderbolt to HDMI connector and it worked fine on the external display. In fact attaching an external display i'ts the way I've worked around the problem. Also I've tried resetting SMC, NRAM and PRAM without luck.
My ISP provides me only with an IPv4 address. After setting up a connection to my university OpenVPN server, I get an IPv6 address. With an example IPv6 address www6.fit.vutbr.cz I can: host www6.fit.vutbr.cz ping6 www6.fit.vutbr.cz traceroute6 www6.fit.vutbr.cz open *=URL=* in a web browser (safari/firefox) BUT, I cannot: open www6.fit.vutbr.cz in a web browser
Does anyone know how to open a new Firefox window from the command line while Firefox is already running? I can't find any solutions currently out there that work for me.
Problem When I try to make a back-up using time machine, the back-up gets to about ~500 MB and than halts. The following error is given:
I have the requisite model iMac -Late 2009 iMac, and a brand new PC build employing AMD Threadripper and a GTX1080. I would like to use the iMac as a display in target disk mode from the PC/
I encountered strange problem few days ago. After I entered the password progress bar stuck at 99-100% and stay there forever. I can't even go into Recovery Mode and I can't even install new OS with USB. Every time I turn on it is same. Is there anyway I can fix this?
I have two Macbooks, one is running High Sierra, and one is running Sierra. My problem is, that I cannot open my Photos library with Sierra since I've opened it with High Sierra, it says that I need to update my Photos app. Is there a way to update this app without changing the OS?
Apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are now exclusively available in the new App Store for iOS. And the new App Store makes it easy to get, update, and redownload apps—all without a Mac or PC.
I use AirPlay everyday and put my display to sleep if I leave my desk in macOS Sierra. However, putting display to sleep with AirPlay crashes all the apps after upgrading to macOS High Sierra.
I did: chflags hidden /Users/MyUser/Library/(theareawheremyfileis) and it hid my file. I did this in Terminal, now I typed in ... unhidden ... and I can't seem a way to unhide the file I hid. Along with that, I want a way to see all hidden files just using a terminal command, no matter hidden by the computer or hidden by the user using chflags. So I need two different things.
I just purchased the Pixen app because it seems to be a popular one for making pixel art. However a wierd noise is coming from the computer now, one that I haven't heard before, and I've had this Macbook pro (the new model) for about a month. I'm not sure whether it's a bug or not, since it's only coming from one specific action.
In iOS 10, is there any way to make it so when typing with the single and double quote keys, that “smart quotes,” rather than inch and feet markers, are inserted? The symbol that is displayed on the keyboard is of the smart quotes, but the traditional ASCII inch and feet markers are what are inserted. I’ve learned that I can press and hold the button and I am able to choose the smart quotes that way, but is there an easier / more automatic way to insert them?
Tried recovery mode, disk won't mount. Tried Target mode - no way no how. I've read where some people went into Single User mode and used the command line to delete some files they don't need. I've gotten as far as the command line. tried all the fsck stuff - nothing. Tried /sbin/mount -uw / (as per this thread *=URL=* but I'm getting a long error message that ends in: mount_hfs: error on mount (): error = -1 mount_hfs: Invalid argument. I've tried various rm commands, but keep getting various slaps on the wrist that end in "Read-only file system"
I am on a MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 When I run xcode-select --install to re-install Xcode developer tools, I am prompted to this  I choose install option which opens the agree terms prompt
I use a Mac to make Keynote presentations. I use AnyFont to load fonts from Mac to iPad. Why do some fonts fail to load, with Zero bytes showing on the fonts list. I drag fonts to the fonts list screen. Then I can use AnyFont to install them on the iPad. It works well for 19/20 fonts. Then it doesn't. The fonts work fine on the Mac.
I'm in a tough situation and am hoping you can help me out. As a student in California, USA, our teachers sometimes require us to sign on to the school's wireless network. Supposedly, they have an application where they can not only listen to each device's incoming/outgoing traffic but also view our screens in realtime (sort of like a VNC client).
*=URL=* (video of the bug) Internal microphone works only when Siri is activated. I started noticing this after installing Boom 2 (I think), which I've uninstalled now and the problem still persists. I've tried restarting, creating a new user, resetting PRAM, and resetting SMC. I've also tried messing around with the Audio MIDI Setup.
The version of the system I'm using for this is 10.12.6. Yes, even though the version of the system itself is 10.12, Xcode refuses to use an SDK which matches said version. So how can I force xcodebuild to use my older SDK in my own custom directory?
So long story short, I recently purchased a 32gb flash drive off of Amazon yesterday and I attempted to transfer 1.2gb worth of picture onto it. It mounted no problem so I let it do it's thing but when I came back, I received tons of errors and then flashdrive unmounted itself (I'm not sure why). Now here I am, having trouble mounting it back onto my Mac or PC Things I've done:
By default running the Google apps manager's "curl-based" install command bash <(curl -s -S -L *=URL=* places gam into the directory $HOME/bin/gam. Typing bash <(curl -s -S -L *=URL=* -h reveals the options
I'm really new to MacOS so maybe this is simple question. I'm using High Sierra with default PHP 7.1 installed, I've also installed PHP 7.2 running: When I run: I'm getting:
I had very low disk space, but kept working because it has happened a number of times. Then I had to use Word, it behaved weird, forced a few restarts, and now if I resrart I get an apparently fine restart, except Finder seems to not open so I'm stuck with a gray screen and the cursor showing up. The computer seems to be working fine, except Finder apparently won't open. What can I do? Is there anything I can do except for restarting from a System CD-ROM (whivh btw may not work since my computer seems to have lost the ability to process CDs as I tried a couple different audio CDs and the reaction was the same: thinking for a long time, then spitting the CD out)? In particular, is there any way to auto-trigger the opening of an app with which I can browse the computer and back stuff up, like Terminal? Extras When I say the computer seems to work, I'm referring to the following facts: Android File Transfer opens up when I connect my mobile; Android File Transfer opens up when I connect m
I have a MacBook Pro at work and I think it uses too much swap instead of RAM. I am used to monitoring UNIX system activity using htop. I notice that my OS X never uses more than half of the RAM, but uses more swap instead. Usually 7 GB of swap, but it can be more.
Yesterday I went to Bluehost to see their plans, and now by FB feed is filled with ads for hosting services. The thing is, I had Prevent cross-site tracking turned on. Does this actually work? Does it work if the cookie already exists from before this feature was added? Is there a tool to delete tracking cookies I can use?
Can I use screen mirroring if I install Windows on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", Early 2015)? We have another laptop here, an HP laptop running Windows, from which I can wirelessly connect to a Samsung Smart TV. If I install Windows on my MacBook Pro, can I do the same from it? I'll retain macOS and have Windows with it on my MacBook Pro.
Is there any shortcut for ending a screen sharing session (via VNC)? I know I can click the symbol with the two rectangles in the menu bar, but as someone else is controlling my mouse that person could theoretically prevent me from clicking there.
How can I block witheld numbers on my iPhone? its running iOS11. Just switched from Android, and dont understand why this isn't easy to do?
The Macbook was joined to an Active Directory domain but I no longer have access to that domain. I went to the Directory Utility and clicked Unbind, which seemed to work. But I'm still unable to change the password - get the same error message. How can I fix this? Thank you, Clint
I'm using the CalDigit USB-C Dock and the Mac said it is using the power adapter, but my battery is slowly draining:  I did an SMC reset and reset PRAM (NVRAM) but still won't charge. Why isn't my Mac charging?
It seems that this "Updated Projects" folder is a collection of original media files from several events which are unrelated. As well, seeing how the media that made it to the "Bobs" directory was from the same camera (think: media type) as the ones that ended up in the "Updated" folder, I'm not sure why the difference.
I followed your tutorial How do I fix a corrupted USB drive on OS X? and got the final message: dd: /dev/disk2: Permission denied Then I tried it with a sudo command and got the message: dd: /dev/disk2: Resource busy Do you have an idea how I can successfully fix my corrupted USB drive?
Related: Hotkey to show hidden files and folders in File Open dialog? Looks like there was a keyboard shortcut for it. But in 10.11.6 all I get when I press Cmd Shift . is the bonk sound.
I have a clean install of macOS High Sierra with APFS Encrypted file partition. During install I checked the "decrypt at login" option, but each have a different password. I now want to change my APFS password but I haven't been abled to: "change password" is greyed out in the Disk Utility for my APFS volume. diskutil apfs changePassphrase ... returned an error saying it can't do it. Any idea how I can do that?
This is not the first time I have seen this. The sync icon is rotating next to the WiFi icon. Nothing is downloading from the App Store, there are no app or IOS updates available, Mail doesn’t say it’s downloading anything, Maps.me isn’t running and hasn’t been asked to update any maps, etc. It has been rotating for over an hour, during which it has not been plugged into either charger or Mac.
Is there a way I can combine my icloud backup from my phone and the backup from my ipad to one backup so i can restore to that and get all of the files? the backups are both on the same icloud account
As in title. I am trying to locate old voice memos of interviews from 2015. My backups have been destroyed and I have charged up the old 4S I used to record them, and -- lo and behold -- when I connect the phone to my Mac, iTunes lists the entire playlist of interviews that I need. But when I try to play them on iTunes nothing happens, I just get the little '!' icon appear next to the file. The Voice Memos app says 'No recordings' -- the recordings aren't visible on the device.
I know for Skylake X you need a 61xx or better CPU to get two FMAs, but it’s not clear what the situation is with Skylake W ? Everything I have found for Skylake W just says “up to two FMAs”, without any specific detail as to which CPUs have 1 and which have 2?
I have a floating "download" icon that shows up on the upper left corner of many media windows in various mac browsers (chrome, safari, firefox) on my macbook but I can't identify which application is placing it there. Here's a screenshot of it on top of a youtube window. Does anyone recognize this? I'd like to get rid of it unless it's necessary. Control clicking the icon provides no useful info. Thanks...
I got a 64GB USB Stick formatted as exFAT from Windows containing a lot of files. The stick mounts without any problems on a Windows 10 system. My MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.13.2 cannot mount it. Instead the disk utility tells me it contains kind of Mac OS extended file system (German, sorry) but unable to mount (also information looks strange):
I have a new MacBook Pro running High Sierra (10.13.2) and installed current versions of Pages and Numbers. But I need also the old versions (from iWork 9 I think) with mail merge support. I had those installed in parallel on the former Mac also using MacOS 10.13 but that one is broken (main board failure).
Recently I've bought I new MacBook Pro 15 inch and after a while I noticed that a thin white line appears on the top of my MacBook Pro's screen as it's show in the pictures below:   Please note that I have installed Windows 10 on my device too (using bootcamp) and this issue does not show up in windows at all. My macOS version is Sierra.
I'm in the unenviable position of trying to merge multiple Photos libraries together. On an OS X El Capitan. Two of the Photos Libraries are version 2.0, so how do I merge their content into a v1.5 Library, so that my wife, who'll be using my OS X El Capitan -capable machine, will be able to continue with her photo escapades?
My computers been randomly shutting down. I've noticed on activity monitor that cached files is almost always at 8GB+, even with no programs running.
When the computer booted back up, everything was working fine. I used my computer like normal, until a few days later, it happened again. o I did the same thing. This was maybe 5 days ago. And today, it happened again. So it's not happening every time I use my computer, not even close, but it's still annoying, and I'd rather it didn't happen. I didn't do anything to my keyboard before this happened, so I have no idea what could be causing it. Anyone have any ideas?
I click 'Continue', then 'Continue' for the 'Turn On' Radio button, a loading icon rotates for several seconds, then I'm back at step 1 and nothing appears to have happened. Is bluetooth tethering 4G too slow an Internet connection for this feature to function? Is there a server connection problem so that I must use a different Internet connection? What is the problem?
I have included two photos of my screen, the first one in original color and the second one I edited the photo to make color differences more obvious. Notice that the left edge of the screen is orange-ish. On the other hand, screenshots taken by say command+shift+4 are perfectly normal (which is why I had to take photos...sorry for the bad photo quality).
Is it possible outside of jail breaking an iPhone to access the cache.db from iOS 8.3 or above? I am currently using iMazing and I seem to not be able to find the cache.db file. I found this source *=URL=* that seems to confirm this. However, I want to be 100% sure about this. Edit: I can access it through simulator, but not on actual device properly.
Warning: Idle sleep timings for "Battery Power: may not behave as expected. - Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero.
I acquired a 13.3" MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro turns on but freezes after approximately 30 seconds. I installed a good hard drive with Lion and the loading spinner simply stops spinning after it freezes. I also tried booting from a bootable flash drive but it also freezes. The boot media isn't compromised because I've used the hard drive and flash drive with different machines with success. I attempted resetting PRAM. The battery is brand new. I have also attempted verbose boot mode but it doesn't reveal anything abnormal. Note: I have since allocated the hard drive to a different machine so I don't have a working hard drive available right now.
In Numbers is there a way to set a fill color to repeatedly select for random cells, such as in Excel? I am not looking for a conditional formatting. I would like to color fill any cell I choose without having to go into the cell fill option and re-select the color for each individual cell.
Is it a common problem for iPad Air 2 microphone to not work? My method of communication is dictation, so the microphone is critical. It works on my synced iPhone 6.
I’m having this problem with the most recent iOS versions. My iBooks, my Notability and my eBreviary apps all routinely loose their data, and have to be reloaded from the cloud/server. Some process has to be erasing the local copy of the data. Nearly every time i open these apps, my local data has to be retrieved from the cloud somewhere.
I "think" I understand that all firewalls are software. However, I am splitting the monthly internet bill with a roommate who has the ISP modem/router in his room. I would like add (if possible) more security measures. (I cannot get my own ISP in my room; as the house is designated as a “heritage house” and the landlord won’t agree to any “drilling”). I have my macOS firewall turned on to “block all incoming connections”. I also use Tunnel Bear VPN. Are there any recommendations (hardware or software) available considering my situation?
The thing is: any other app using internet seems to work just fine and every other computer on my house is working just fine. Just trying all the options I run MAMP and noticed not even the Localhost page is loading Also tried starting in secure mode and plugging the ethernet cable and turning off wifi. Any ideas on what can be the problem and/or how can it be solved? Thanks a lot. EDIT: I was able to download Chrome via Terminal and it is working just fine, I also realized that neither App Store nor Mail are working propperly, thanks
I needed an app that would control the ringer volume of an iPhone. According to a developer I have been talking to, this is all good and possible on an Android phone but not on iOS. I just wanted to confirm if this is the case that it is not possible in iOS?
I try to turn off automatic preview in Mail by following the advice in Turn off automatic preview in apple mail. But I don't know where to enter defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes. What do I need to do to make this work?
How can I make a certain iPhone not require 2FA when logging in with my Apple ID? I have a phone that never asks me when I login with my Apple ID, but on a new phone it will ask for it every time I log back in. Is it based on how long you're logged in for it to trust the phone or something?
Is it possible to have multiple Docks on the same screen? Like, one on the bottom, one on the left, and another on the right?
I'm considering having both a work and personal iPhone. The phone numbers will be different, but I'd like to use the same Apple ID for convenience.
I’m wondering, if there is a way to enable Whole Disk Encryption on a Synology NAS (in my case DS218+). Every topic regarding encryption on a Synology NAS addresses “Folder Encryption” rather than encrypting the whole disk. Since I am going to put all my personal stuff - including sensitive information - on the NAS to keep my Desktop and Laptop (Apple OS X) in sync, I need to encrypt it.
Can anyone explain what would be advantages/drawbacks if one uses local vs. server folder, like Draft etc.? Thanks!
I want to view Spanish content on the TV app, but I am just shown UK content. My apple id is from the uk and all my devices are in english, but I live in Spain. The new (Dec 2017) Apple TV App shows content from British apps, many of which don't work outside of the UK (BBC, itv etc). I have changed the region of the Apple TV, but I still see the same content. Is there any way to force the Apple TV App to show content for my local region?
I have a MacBook Pro (2009) running MacOS X 10.6.8. I would like to move photos in iPhoto to my iCloud library (which I have recently set up from my iPhone 7 so that I can back up the phone)? I need to do this so that I can free up space on my harddrive, and then I can upgrade to the latest version of MacOS.
Even the first part would help. Select file, press key command, naming field then highlights, pastes from clipboard. Thanks.
I'm encountering an issue on my mid-2012 Macbook Pro (system specs below). While performing an Xcode build of an Ionic project from the command line, I see (once every ten times or so?) the process stall and almost all apps hang or beachball.
Went again to apple store to ask to try replace battery and see if that help. They did full test again, and said it seem like software issue, all hardware is in great condition. And they recommended reset without restore. We did full reset and I did not install any apps, and the issue is still not resolved. EDIT 1/18/2018:
When you hover your mouse over a "box" in OneNote, it should look like this:  Instead, randomly, the application stops responding with the box outlines (my mouse is in the same place both above and below, i.e. where the caret is):
I have always been a Windows person, so I’m not familiar with this. Recently I have started using a Mac, and I found out the Vertical/Column Selection feature where you press down the Option key and use the Mouse for selecting vertically. I use macOS Sierra 10.12.5 if that makes any difference.
I'm using Mac High Sierra. How do I reset my key chain? I went in to the "Keychain Access" application, clicked on the "Reset My Default Key Chains" button and then entered my login password, but get the message
I want to export/ backup my iCloud library to an external harddisk. My iCloud library is larger than the computer storage so to start syncing in the Photos app, I had to choose "optimized pictures". I would want the originals, but then syncing couldn't be done.
For now I have a following issue: When I connect my external monitor (DELL P2418D) to my mac (MacBook Pro 15 2015), everything works fine, but after some long period of sleep(20-30 minutes or more), during wakeup WindowSever process crashes. It causes full logout from a system with finishing current session and closing all applications (this is annoying).
I would like to remove Malwarebytes from a friend's macbook. There is nothing in Applications Folder /Library/LaunchAgents (or in /System/Library/LaunchAgents) /Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/StartUpItems (or in /System/Library/StartUpItems) System Preferences > Users & Groups and yet, it is still in the top bar:
My iPhone 6 with ios 11.2.1 seems to lose charge too quickly. I connected my iPhone to my iMac and ran the app coconutBattery. the app reports the charge on my phone and the charge capacity. It also reports the design capacity. There is a bar graph which shows a red bar indicating charge current is at 42%. It seems even when my phone is completely charged, it reports full charge capacity is 819 mAh whereas design capacity is 1810 mAh or 42% as reported. This would explain why iPhone discharges so quickly. My question is, is there anything I can do to fix this? I have included the coconutBattery window.
Yet in the App Store, it shows everything as Japanese, shows money in yen, etc. and there is no mention of ANY English apps in it. When I searched for the app it said "open" instead of "update" like it should have.
Hope anyone might have an idea how to troubleshoot this problem: Since I updated my MacBook Air 6,2 (early 2014) to macOS 10.13.2 both Night Shift and Flux have completely stopped working. Meaning no matter how often I start or restart or (re-)install Flux (or change any of the settings), or no matter how often I change the Night Shift switch, I am not getting any kind of red shift whatsoever anymore.. Both used to work fine before. I've found a lot of discussions online regarding similar problems but all seem to boil down to either: Too old hardware, which shouldn't be the case for a 2014 MacBook Air. Deleting ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.backgroundtaskmanagementagent/backgrounditems.btm as discussed here. I tried the solution mentioned by point 2 but unfortunately it didn't do anything for me. Does anyone know a way to pinpoint more closely what might be the cause of this problem?
I've been filling out a PDF form in Preview, and noticed when I was scrolling through it that the font size shrunk dramatically on a few longer items. It looks like it goes roughly from 12-point to 6-point. Everything that has text that would be more than a single line is affected. I've never seen this happen before. The markup toolbar doesn't say anything different, but this is in the fillable part of the form rather than in an annotation, so I wouldn't expect it to be accurate here.
I have a airport extreme router and an airport express router, and I'm trying to set up the airport express to extend the extreme. It works fine until I try to turn off the 2.4 ghz channel - when I save changes the airport extreme resets, and when it comes back the airport express shows the yellow error light and won't connect. I've tried resetting my airport express and trying to connect to the airport extreme with just the 5 ghz channel up, but it goes through the set up process and then runs into an error when it looks for the 2.4 ghz channel and can't find it.
When I hit Return after entering a number in a cell, the cursor automatically drops down to the next row under the cell. How can I disable that, so it stays on the cell I entered and I can move on my own to wherever I want to make my next entry? I use the num pad when entering into a spreadsheet and it is habitual to hit "enter" after inputting numbers into a cell, then arrowing to wherever I need to go next (often to the next column rather than the next row.) There was a way to disable the automatic movement in Excel, but I've not been able to find a way to disable in Numbers.
so I bought a USB-C hub for my MacBook Pro 2017, specifically, this one: http://www.qacqoc.com/product/gn30h-premium-usb-c-hub-with-power-delivery-3-superspeed-usb-3-0-for-macbook-12-inch-gray/
Upgraded the os last night and this afternoon my settings and safari icons disappeared. help!! how do I get them back?
Got this error while trying to copy & paste a folder from my NAS to my Mac using Finder on MacOS 10.13.2: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8058).
My goal is to set system-wide default Finder view options. In List view, I want Arrange By Kind and Sort By Name.
So I have a Mac which I would like to disable trim on an original Apple OEM SSD for fun but it does not disable when I try trimforce disable It still shows TRIM Suppirt Yes so is it possible to disable TRIM on an OEM SSD?
I have been trying to set up an Apache server on a Mac 10.9.5 OS X and I started getting unusual localhost when I used Safari. The compass would fly out of the page without an error message. I would get a messages like server can't connect because server can't connect. I did get it to work briefly, but the links on my computer needed to be fixed and when they were repaired, the localhost wasn't working. I can still call the html pages as files in the browser, I can still use Safari to visit webpages. I can't Currently, I'm getting an Internal Server Error that is generated by an HTML document with very poor grammar that has accessed my configuration file because the HTML file has my e-mail address on it.
I have two MacBook Pros: a 2011 17 inch and a 2017 15 inch; both have the latest macOS installed. Does anyone know if it is possible to make the 15" MBP use the 17" MBP as an external monitor?
I just learned the feature of split view, does anyone know if there are shortcuts for that (moving a window to the left/right half of the screen)? If not, is there anyway to set up shortcuts?
For example, what is the difference between installing software (could be operating system update or any other software) from AppStore or from Terminal using softwareupdate command. Is there any difference in security, performance, reliability etc?
I have read, that Apple Watch will have the same phone number as iPhone and if iPhone is far away, it can connect to cellular network itself. Doesn't this mean that Apple Watch clones the SIM and how this corresponds with the statement, that modern GSM network SIMs can't be cloned?
I have macOS Sierra and 2 users. I log in as one user, then open the terminal and execute an app with a user interface from the command line as a different user, such as The application runs, but, when File->Open is selected, it gets stuck or crashes with a segmentation fault, or it gets stuck.
I have my MBP plugged into two external monitors (DisplayPort & HDMI) via a bodgy "push in the connectors" docking station. Every time I undock it and then later open the laptop to log in, the screen is blank. I'm pretty sure it is off rather than black (although the contrast ratio is pretty damn good so hard to be sure). If I blindly enter my password and hit enter it will log in and the screen comes to life.
Digging on my slowness my EtreCheck report.. report a 'sound me strange' MS-DOS partition It is possible to know, maybe via terminal, when it was created and or from which process? It could be that it has to do with an attempt to install bootcamp done time ago was not successful but then I formatted the disk so it is strange
Long story short: I haven't allowed Geekbench 4 to access the camera, which means that the application shouldn't be able to use the camera. However, in the benchmark result a category named 'Camera', with the unit 'images/sec', caught my eye.
I have an encrypted APFS container with several volumes. The container lives on a physical partition (disk0s1), which is followed by more partitions (disk0s2, ...) with no free space in between. I need to expand one of the volumes on the container without having to move the other physical partitions in order to expand disk0s1. I know with LVM you can expand the container (physical volume) with other partitions which don't need to be adjacent, or even on the same hard drive. Is that possible with an APFS container?
What things should I look for in Windows to determine whether I have the bootcamp drivers installed? Are there some files or registry settings I can check for?
For reasons unknown, I cannot get sound to work on any Bluetooth device (have tried several headsets and speakers). It always comes out of my main speaker even if I select another output audio source. Tried restarting my MacBook Pro 2015. Tried sudo killall coreaudiod
I do a lot of research using web sources found almost always in Google, which I then refer to in my writing. When the link points to a web page I can click it and then copy the URL from Safari's nav bar. But when the link is to a document like a PDF or Word, it downloads the file when you click. The URL is shown in green, but is invariably "shorted" by adding /.../ somewhere in it.
I get different results for my IP when I type google "What is my IP" and when I type in macOS' terminal ifconfig |grep inet Why are these results different on macOS version 10.13.2 High Sierra?
I work in the IT department at a company that will in the near future be getting a Mac OS Server. Although I'm not in charge of maintaining the server, I thought it might be beneficial for me to at least get a bit of hands-on experiencing using one. I was planning on installing it onto a VM (like I would a trial version of Windows Server) and play around with it that way. Is there anyway I can achieve this?
Many users will have a few files they access so often they serve a direct link in the MacOS dock. To quickly differentiate between different Word files with the same standard icon, the best way is to use a custom icon (bottom right). This is easily done by copying and pasting a new icon in the Get Info window. The problem is, these icons constantly get deleted by Word (bottom left) when you change the file, making a stable non-default icon impossible (Mac Word 2011 & 2016 on MacOS 10.11). Do you have a way to create a dock link to a Word file with a custom icon and have it survive the next round of editing?
I want to use VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. I allocated 8G memory and 4 cores as CPU to the VirtualBox. I have installed Windows 8.1 Pro. But I realize that the mouse still lags in Windows. Does anyone know how to fix this?
The problem I have is that I can reach my Macs from the outside only thru the router that is currently set as the default gateway on those Macs, while accessing the Macs thru the other router always times out. Of course, if I switch a Mac's default gateway to the other router, then I can access the Mac via that router from the outside, proving there's nothing wrong with the router's port mapping setup.
I've gotten a new USB keyboard for my Mac. It is a Windows keyboard, but after remapping the Alt and Windows keys, it works just like a Mac keyboard. It is missing one particular feature and that is the "Eject" key. I'm not sure how to remap that command to another key. Where can I find that command? Also if I can assign volume up and volume down to control the sound from the keyboard. If anybody knows of a way to resolve this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.
If I go to a site where I am purchasing something and I click on Autofill, I’m presented with a pop up that has the following options: Custom Home Work Customize Other Contact Cancel
I went to backup my notes from my old Mac (running macOS Sierra) onto an external hard drive (was selling quickly and didn't have time to perform a full Time Machine backup). All I want is my Notes! The new High Sierra can't open them.
This is a Macbook Pro 15" Retina from 2013 (11,3). After switching my SSD for a new one, the fans started to behave wildly, spinning constantly at ~6000rpm. If I use a fan control app I can keep them in the 3000 range, which is silent, and there will be no heating whatsoever.
I am programming a certain webpage with login and Safari is asking me if I want to save my password every time I try it (I have to try it a number of times, because it's the point of the webpage). Can I stop Safari from saving passwords for just this webpage?
How do I disable the message: "Android Studio is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" on my MacBook Pro? I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.
I have an external LaCie Porsche 9223 2TB drive connected to my Macbook Pro 15 (2015) via USB3. After I converted it to APFS after upgrading to macOS High Sierra, it keeps disappearing randomly from Finder/Disk Utility and the "/Volumes" folder, and nearly every time I boot my Mac. This is what puzzles me though:
Coming from a Windows Machine to a Mac - one of the things I missed was the HOME and END keys when editing a text document. Then I discovered: Which seems to do the same thing.
Problem With Automator, you can select a list of Calendar events via filtering or search. There is an Automator Library action to delete calendar events. However, as far as I can tell, there is no way to decline calendar events. I don't want to delete events; I want to decline them. Is there an action to modify the response to a Calendar invite (vs deleting it)?
So my MacBook Pro has been experiencing some weird issues after an unprompted and unexpected shut down. When I turned it back on, it claimed there was a “critical software update” and asked to choose a WiFi network. So I did so and it installed and after two minutes it was done. However, the USB C ports on the left side had stopped working. I was using a satechi adapter and removed it to find that the charging cable only works on one of the two ports now. The right side ports will work with the adapter usually. I did a SMC reset and reinstalled High Sierra, so before I do a full wipe I want to see if anyone can give me an answer.
I'm planning to install Docker on my MacBook Air (Early 2014): Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM. I need Docker to be able to run SQL Server on my Mac (as I understand this is the only way to run it). However, there are some system requirements that I should meet to be able to run it.
I have a problem that while watching videos in Safari in full-screen, I need to access another program, but at the same time keep watching the video, in not-full-screen mode though. Currently if I cmd-tab from full-screen of Safari to another program, that covers only a part of the screen, I get this in my Safari window:
Which 5k displays supports by my MacBook Pro mid-2015 with Radeon M370x and how it's done? Is some one saw articles or tests about MBP 2015 and 5k displays?
After swapping the DVD drive with an SSD, I installed Debian Linux on it. I left the original SSD with OS-X untouched. After a reboot, OS-X (El Capitan) started. After another reboot, pressing Command-R, Linux started. After yet another reboot, without pressing any key, Linux started by default, without the option to boot OS-X.
When all the apps failed, I was forced to update IOS to the latest two weeks ago. All seemed fine until streaming Morning Joe burns through 80%+ of the battery and the device becomes hot. Last month I could watch many hours on 80% Is there a method (setting) to monitor clock speed and temperature? Is there a setting to slow the clock speed?
After installing Phyton 3.6 , I can't get Terminal to find it . I am trying to learn Phyton and very new at this. Please help with details instructions. Thanks This is what I get:
In the iTunes 12.7.2.60, I'm trying to create a Smart Playlist with the songs that I didn't listen to in a while. This playlist should not include songs that I skipped recently. My current rules look like the following (see the screenshot):
The nominal links /etc --> /private/etc, /tmp --> /private/tmp and /var --> /private/var are all straightforward and I understand they are there because of a legacy need that has passed. Nothing magical about them.
My contact search isn't working. When I write a letter on the search bar, it doesn't find the match on the phone book although I have these contacts saved on my phone. I now have to manually go over a list of 500 to find a contact. I have iPhone 6S Plus and never had that issue before. I have tried group contacts, hide all, then show all and it still doesn't work. Please any help or advise?
I’m trying during the installation from MacOS High Sierra to separate the system and user data. I splitted the SSD with Disk Utility, but I can’t mount the second APFS Volume to /Users with the Disk Utility. Is that possible at this stage?
I have a TB external HDD divided in 2 partition: First partition: 280 GB Second partition: 1720 GB Initially, both partitions were NTFS.
Connecting my Blackberry to my Mac I'm able to install the drivers that show up and install some software. But other than that nothing is working. No device is showing up in Finder. No Blackberry application added to "Applications". The only thing I see is the following in /Library/Application Support/Blackberry:
I have two tables such as and I would like to plot them in one plot (scatter, line) that shows both variables Var_A and Var_B on the y-axis and one continuous time axis (x-axis). How close can I get to this with Numbers v 4.3 on macOS?
Im trying to follow some tutorial where you install OpenCV but they require me to have the output of which python be /usr/local/bin/python. No matter what I try, it's staying as /usr/bin/python/ My .bash_profile looks like this: And my /usr/local/bin/ looks like:
I have Comcast cable Internet service with one cable modem. I don't think I have a static IP from Comcast.
I am creating a solar panel charger for my iPhone. For the charger I need to know the minimum charging voltage for the phone to begin to charge. What is the minimum voltage required for an iPhone to begin to charge?
For example, on a desktop computer, if I enter in Google Maps website: I can easily get in the URL If I use the Maps app or Google Maps app, is there a way to get the latitude and longitude number easily?
I don't understand the sort behavior I'm experiencing in Finder (MacOS Sierra). Is there anyway to get the 'sort by name' to sort alphabetically such that 0 < 9, a < z, and numbers < letters?
In the Finder of my new Mac, there are two things I don't understand: 1) in the sidebar Desktop and Documents are placed under iCloud. 2) the Desktop and Documents folders are not shown in Macintosh HD ==> Users ==> SoftTimur in Finder, even though in a terminal we can see that they are physically in the folder of SoftTimur. Does anyone know why it is like that? PS: ls -lO returns PS: in Mac Finder:
There is recent news (acknowledged by Apple) of a feature in some software versions of iOS that reduces the current usage of the iPhone6 and 6S when the battery ages and is less able to supply current, and this makes sense. It tries to prevent the phone from suddenly shutting down when the battery can not supply the required current. I've suffered from those shut-downs first hand by trying to get the last few weeks out of a clearly-dead battery - which is unadvisable to say the least! Is it known for a fact if this feature reinstates the phone to original performance and speed after the battery is replaced?
I am trying to format my USB flash in ExFAT format to make it work on both Mac and Win devices. But I am unable to format my USB flash because I am getting an error when trying to format it via diskutil. 1) Check our external device in disks list: 2) Format: According to the internet answers, I have tried to boot in safe mode and format USB flash then - but also got 'could not open device' error. Can somebody help me with this?
I have an iPhone 6s with 64GB. I run test under charge with full battery.
I'm accessing files on a afp Network volume wirelessly from a MacBook Pro. Wifi and LAN interfaces are active on the Air. Both running High Sierra.
I usually record task on iPhone note listed under appropriate date. The problem is that I have to manually type the date which unable to insert automatically.
I just upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra. Apparently everything works fine. But when testing my works in local (Web developments in PHP, etc) I see that none works. Checking and looking for where the bug might be, I went to see that all my Virtual-Hosts were fine, and I find that the Virtual-host file, which had more than 10 configured elements, there is only 2 virtual-host of tests The content of the virtual-host file after updating is: My VirtualHost file is: /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
My freshly minted son poured my large coffee on my wife's MacAir. After $900 of fixes, a week later he barfed on it. A lot. So we've given up on laptops for a while.
My question is: how he could've texted me although I got a completely new number? Is he telling the truth? Or do you guys think he somehow got a hold of my new number from someone? Is it because I did not change my apple Id and he was indeed able to get to my by getting a new number and imessaged me? I do not understand the imessage versus sms business. Please help me, so I know how to prevent him from getting my new number. Thanks.
I want to tag the people in my photos, even if their faces are not visible. Does this confuse the facial recognition function and reduce the success rate? Is there another way to tag people?
There's a number of great tiling managers for MacOS (e.g. SizeUp, Divvy, Magnet). They allow to conveniently resize an application so that it takes, for example, the left or right half of the screen, using a keyboard shortcut.
I used the backup/restore via iTunes to set up my new iPhone X. It's missing hundreds of my contacts. I use iCloud to store my contacts, photos, etc, but alas they are not all sync'd. Is there a workaround to this?
I have a 2 TB external HDD that was divided in 2 partition: First partition: 280 GB Second partition: 1720 GB I accidentally delete the second partition. Here are several steps that I already did; result of diskutil list Here is the result of sudo fdisk /dev/disk2 EDIT:
I have home network with 3 devices: MacHighSierra Windows10 WDMyClould Bell Home Hub 2000 is the router, from my Mac, I can access #3 by doing
My wallpapers tab does not allow me to change dynamic wallpapers on my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 11.1.1. My low power mode is off. How can this be fixed? I am not willing to update my phone.
I have a disk with almost no labeling. I can tell by looking that it's a CD and not a DVD. I can tell by looking closer which side is which (mfg. part/batch number) and that it is blank (writing makes a band of different appearance). I can also have my MacBook Pro tell me all those things by putting it in the optical drive.
I hear multiple reports that some users found their iPhone 6s running a lot slower after updating to iOS 11.2.x. Keyboard input lags behind keystrokes. Camera app takes many seconds to open, etc. Other people I know report no such slow motion behavior on their iPhone 6s devices running the same iOS version.
The Setapp.app helper missed my first attempt to Trash the app (maybe an earlier version?). So I need to clean out it's various helpers and plugins manually. Here's what I've found so far:
I need to print a bunch of envelopes for holiday cards. How do I do this? I want to do it from Pages because I need to change some details on some before they print. How do I do this?
I was going through the following tutorial: *=URL=* and I followed all the instructions as given but in the last step, I was not able to get Steam to work. An error pops out (which is expected):
I'm trying to add a Bluetooth mouse to my Apple Macbook using Win10 on a BootCamp partition. --I purchased the Logitech M557 Bluetooth mouse as it seemed to have a great record for robust installation. --Mouse works great on my MacBook laptop with MacOS. --Mouse works great on my HP desktop machine loaded with Windows 10.
At present neither shutter count nor the iPhone serial number are embedded in iPhone picture metadata. Is there an app for that?
Back in 2007 when we first started an iCloud account, my husband and I used the same one. As a result, our emails all come into the same INBOX, but we each have our own email address with a mac.com ending. I want to move my email address to be under my new apple ID. Can I do this?
My retina display in MacBook pro 2013 model broke. Part Number: 661-8153. Apple store said it will cost me $430 to get it replaced. I don't want to spend $430 on this old MacBook pro. What are my options? Can I instead put 2012 non-retina display or any other display to it which will cost me less? Right now, I removed the display assembly and connected it to an external monitor via HDMI port and using it like a desktop.
I'm running MacOS 13.2 on a mid-2014 MBP (11,3). I have a 2 TB external HD (Seagate Slim, spinning disk, GUID format) that was partitioned into two 1-TB volumes. Recently, using my main volume's Disk Utility, I deleted one volume and expanded the other to 2 TB. This action corrupted the drive: (1) while the partition map said the volume was 2 TB, Finder's info. window said its size was unchanged, at 1 TB; (2) Disk Utility's sidebar incorrectly depicted the volume as a separate device, rather than a volume on the existing device (it didn't indent it); and (3) First Aid failed.
I've just done a fresh install of High Sierra and was about to embark on setting my development environment back up. However, I wanted to ask the community if anyone's investigated a way to do this that can be isolated to a single user account and doesn't require administrative privileges.
My home folder name (bob 1) does not match my account name (bob)", but I want it to. How I got here: Got a new Mac Didn't have the cables to transfer from previous Mac, so I just set up a simple test account with my same username "bob" Once I had the cables I created a new account called "Admin" and then logged in as that account and deleted my previous test user account "bob" in System Preferences. Migrated data from old Mac.
I have Murus 1.4.12 and am following the directions to share my internet connection from en0 (static IP connected to Comcast modem/router) through en3. Both the client and server are macOS High Sierra 10.13.1. I am successfully able to share it via System Preferences -> Sharing. Regardless of Murus, I am able to use en3 as a network device and ssh into the host over it -- just cannot share internet.
Under IMessage were it states "You can be reached by IMessage at" it shows my email with a checkmark beside it. I can send text but not receive and sent text shows my email instead of phone number. It worked great at one time but something changed, probably by me! If I tap on the email it does not give me the option to use my phone number.
I am using a multiple-monitor setup. Every time I click on a window of an app, it will bring all windows of that app to the foreground, which hides some other apps on the other monitor. This is very annoying as I usually look at the other app at the same time.
I try to use Windows 10 via Parallels Desktop in my Mac. Here is the sharing setting of Parallels Desktop:
I have a french keyboard. I try to use Windows 10 via Parallels Desktop under Mac.
I just bought a brand new MacBook Pro: a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports). And here is the issue: It will not sleep/require password automatically pretty much at all. This is both a battery saving issue and a security issue for me. My settings are as follows: Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver. Disable automatic login Turn display off after 1 minute when using battery Turn display off after 1 minute when using power adapter
I am unable to view/access some photos - I get a grey triangle with an exclamation mark in it. This has only happened with the last two uploads I've made. I have a DSLR camera, so I upload my photos to my Mac to edit them. (I have a refurbished MacBook if that helps?) I've uploaded with the same memory card and whatnot before, but this recently happened. Maybe with the Sierra update? Revert to original was grayed out for me, so I tried "Rotate Clockwise" and that hasn't worked. I then selected "Rotate Counterclockwise" and the image still isn't visible. I've tried repairing Photos... nothing. I don't know what to do.
I recently replaced the battery in my late 2011 MacBook Pro, and the battery seems to do fine except that it will drop very quickly from about 75% down to 2% and then continue to work for quite a while (I haven't timed it but probably close to an hour if not more of normal use). What could cause this, and how might I fix it, so that it shows a more reasonable battery life estimate? It's a little irritating having to guess at how much time I have left before it sleeps. coconutBattery says: Current Charge: 114 mAh (2%) Note: this hasn't changed from 114 in the 15 (edit: 20) or so minutes since I first checked. Full Charge Capacity: 5752 mAh Design Capacity: 6900 mAh Manufacture date: 2015-06-24 Loadcycles: 13 macOS Battery status: Good Discharging with: 12.15 Watts Manufacturer: Simplo Battery failure: Yes
I have set up a launchd job which checks my S.M.A.R.T. status.
I'm trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of these instructions for creating an archlinux bootable drive on a Mac. (I'm using a Micro SD to USB adapter.) I found these instructions on partitioning a flash drive, but I'm not sure how to apply them, since the instructions I'm trying to "translate" into macOS terms talk about sectors, and that's very much a lower level than I'm used to working in. To be expressly clear, my question is this: how do I achieve the same stuff as in the instructions using macOS 10.12.6? Thanks!
I think this is new behaviour since Safari 11, but I'm not absolutely certain. I tend to leave Safari open all the time, with several pages of tabs, each for a different 'subject'. On relaunch - if I've been cleaning less savoury cookies etc, or even that rare occasion I reboot - it used to reload all the tabs, whether currently visible or not.
Callto/tel links inside Chrome open up for me in Facetime. How can I change the default application used for opening such links? (I'd like to set it to Skype)
I am looking for an app that uses a smartphone to remotely control another smartphone's camera allowing me to see the perspective and zoom. It is technically possible. In fact I have found two apps, auto cam for itune and another camera app for android, to achieve it. The links are as below. Sorry I cannot find information in English. The link is in Chinese.
I’ve got sensitive data on my Mac. I’ve taken it to a repair shop, because my mac was not able to boot. They are keeping it till 28. December. I gave them my password. I’m scared they will check and see some of my folders/text files.
I'm trying to make AppleScript to execute Python 3 script: but I'm still getting an error 1721. I tried different types of file as well as changing Command Line command from: to Both commands: and Run OK, when typed directly within the Terminal.
Edit: This is a bug After a restart, normal behavior returned. Also, I noticed some files that appeared on the external display momentarily and disappeared. These files only showed from a Finder window showing the Desktop but did not show on either Desktop (aside from showing for a second when switching Desktops).
Can i use the iPad pro as my only machine for becominb a full stack web developer? I currently use a pc and from what i know about web development for now can be done on iPad but can i do more complicated stuff like make web apps on iPad?
I have over 30k photos on my Mac (running macOS High Sierra V10.13.2). They are stored as Events (e.g. Summer 2015), making it very easy to quickly find an individual picture. I also have an iPad and iPhone 5, both with 64GB memory on which I store all my vital pictures (by selecting certain albums from my Mac when synchronizing). This ensures I have two back up devices.
Using: MacBookPro (Retina, 15-inch Mid 2015) macOS HighSierra V 10.13.2; Internal HD has 250GB. In order to save space in my HD-internal, I have 5 USB connected external disks which are for backups and storage of images, files, etc.
In Google Calendar I have a shared calendar called "Public Holidays". I can see all events of this calendar in Google Calendar and macOS Calendar app:
I use iTunes Match and have more than a thousand albums. I have listened to Exile on Main St. every day for a couple of months, and every time I want to hear it I have to tap Artists › [scroll a long time] › Rolling Stones › [scroll a bunch more] › Exile on Main St. I would like to find a more direct way to get to an album I listen to every day. Is there a way to see albums I've listened to in the past week? Is there any way to see an album view in a playlist? All the solutions I can think of just result in a long list of songs that means even more scrolling. I can see the album via the search tab, but I can't think of a quick way to search for a favorite album. The closest I've come is creating a keyboard shortcut ,exm which expands to Exile on Main St., so I can search for the album directly. Then, I can use "recent searches" to get back to the album quickly. I have also tried Loving the album then making a playlist of loved albums, but again it's just a long list of songs.
In other podcast apps, there's a "fetching" mechanism that polls the feed and lists all available episodes. This happens as soon as you subscribe. Once you know about all possible episodes, you could then download one, all, or setup a rule to download every new episode, but not all 600 past ones for instance.
This morning, my mom logged into her computer as normal, used Mail to check her email, and then got distressed when seeing "squiggles and lines" on her monitor. When trying to restart her machine, it always fails. The apple logo and loading bar come up, it loads to completion, and then the gray screen (no Apple logo) just hangs for a minute or two. Then it turns off. I can't boot into Safe Mode, and I've tried a NVRAM reset (for 3 chimes). She has a backup as of about a month ago, but I'd rather not wipe everything if at all possible. What could have caused this?
My Mac has Filevault from quite some time ago. Just now, I restarted it and went into recovery mode using cmd+R. From there, I select Startup Disk from the menu, unlocked, and clicked restart.
Before Filevault was on, I had a lock message set using &Lt;Set Lock Message&Gt;:  After turning on Filevault, I changed the lock message. However, I realize that when I restart the computer, the message is showing the old lock message. Why does this happen? How do I set it to use the new message?
I have my Recents showing in my sidebar. However, not all of the most recent files modified show up. For the past month, the only file types that show up are .pptx, .png. and .pdf. And not all of those appear. I also use Word, Excel, Adobe Illustrator and others but none of those are listed. I looked at an older post here from 2014 but it was never fully answered; at least the poster never responded that it worked. I am using macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.
After unplugging/rebooting/waking, regardless of whether the power cord is plugged in, the screen on my MBP (15-inch, 2017, MacOS 10.13.2 [17C88]) will default to a brightness around 80%. Is there any way I can disable this, or at least change the default to something brighter?
I am using a french keyboard in MacBook Pro. The followings are shortcuts in Notes. Zoom In works perfectly, whereas Zoom Out by Shift + command + , does not work. Does anyone know what's wrong?
When my iPhone X rings and I go answer in the volume sign it shows the Bluetooth sign, then to speak I have to select iPhone, or MacBook Pro. How do I change it to the normal setup? I never had this problem before even when the Bluetooth is setup for my car.
I have an unlocked iPhone 6 (A1586) that I purchased from Apple here in the UK. I'd like to know if I'll be able to use it in the US with Verizon. What will I have to do? Just buy a Verizon SIM and pop it inside?
I know, on Xcode, you can create an iPhone app, and test it on your own phone via USB cable, but this expires after 7 days. I want to create a swift app just for my iPhone and not have it expire so quickly. What are my options?
I'm a script kiddie noob so sorry if I get some of the jargon wrong or if this is a dumb question but... I have written a launch agent that runs an application I also wrote at specified times to launch iTunes and play music to act as an alarm. The problem is that I've turned it off over Christmas and this morning it still went off. The launch agent I turned off with doesn't appear in the list when I use
I'm considering using ChronoSynch 4.8.3, both to create a bootable backup of my main Mac as well as to sync between it and another Mac I use for travel. My question concerns the sync function.
I tried about family sharing or gift app but both require two Apple ID to be in the same country. I only have Malaysia paying method, so my payment method only available on secondary account, I also don't want to risk changing the country of my primary account back and forth as I worry about losing my ability to re-download those paid content.
This is... confusing to say the least. A few months ago, the battery in my 2010/2011 MacBook Pro completely died, complete with a Permanent Failure Flag. Today, I replaced it, and things are really weird now. After I replaced the battery, the computer no longer has to be jump started, which is good.
I would like to configure this calendar app so that I only get one alert for a holiday. I would like to keep one so that it works as it is intended, so that I am informed about upcoming holidays. But I would like to not click Dismiss 3 or 4 times!
I've read almost every thread related to this, yet no one has quite made it easy to access a table like the following. Most of the time I use arp -a and there is also dns-sb, but none of them make it easy to find out 3 key pieces of information whenever I am messing around on the network, i.e., IP Address, Hostname and MAC Address. I am surprised that there isn't a utility that accomplishes this!
I started having a problem with a computer of mine and iMovie where the "Share" menu is empty: when it is accessed by the toolbar, it pops up an empty window; when it is accessed from the file menu, no sub-menu appears. I'm now on a new computer and did not transfer settings over and I still have this problem. I've tried making new libraries, deleting the preferences, deleting the old library, etc - NOTHING. How can I fix the Share menu?
Don't know if this question is better off here, or in the Linux world...but I need a decent answer.. :) I am using Applescript to pull data from fields in a spreadsheet or database, shove them directly into terminal for encryption. My Applescript includes a line like: My question: is there a way one could filter thru log files to catch this plaintext instance of the password? Is there a better way to prevent hacking? If sending an "echo" into terminal is traceable, is there another way I could push something into Terminal where it doesn't hit any logs (and where AppleScript can get the results)?
I see that I can find the public IP address for my MBP using Current IP Address
I can use Photos.app to import photos to my MacBook's internal SSD, but I can't figure out a way to copy them directly to my flash drive. Is there any way to copy the photos without doing something insane like paying for some closed-source file-copy app or copying one batch at a time to avoid filling up my SSD?
I have an account on macOS 10.13.2 (High Sierra) where groups returns this: Yet when I touch a new file I see wheel, which is not in the list, as GID:
I migrated my TimeMachine from a 1TB drive to a 2.5TB drive by cloning the disk and enlarging it afterwards, using DiskUtility. Everything worked perfectly, but now both TimeMachine backups, which I want to use both, are identified as being the same, despite the partitions having different names. I assume that some IDs in the time machine backup itself or the partition are identical, and TimeMachine uses these IDs to identify individual backup drives.
My iPhone 4s is not turning on. I have tried many ways of turning it on, including a force restart, it but nothing happens.
When looking around in my setting, General, or anywhere else in my iPhone 6 Plus, what is it I should be looking for, that could tell me my phone has been hacked? I already know it has been.
I've just updated to 10.12.2 and now Contacts.app does not open, it just shows a spinning beachball, requiring a Force Quit. I have already tried without success: restarting logging into a newly created user with admin privileges deleting the directory ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook turning off Contacts for iCloud In the Console, I don't see any errors generated by Contacts.app itself, but something called sandbox has this error: (Full debug text of that here.)
I noticed that the Search bar in Finder not only searches the filenames, but also the contents of some types of files. It appears that the search includes the content of all text files, and even some binary file types like .pdf, but excludes the contents of other file types like .docx or .xls.
I get the following error message when reinstalling macOS High Sierra: Could not establish pre-start volume for APFS installation. How do I resolve this?
I'm using Selenium in order to control multiple Firefox sessions at the same time. In this context, the OS handles each Firefox window as a different application. I want to build a workflow that'll allow me to close all the recent windows of Firefox (leaving the "oldest" one working), but I couldn't find any way to sort them by their opening date. Any help would be appreciated!
I add a contact (Firstname, Lastname, Phone, Email) and save it. After a few seconds, presumably when macOS tries to sync it to Gmail and/or iCloud, it disappears. I have a Gmail account and an iCloud account synced, when I add the contact via the Android app, it stays in the Gmail address book and it gets synced into macOS.
So I have a simple bash script which checks whether my S.M.A.R.T. status is Verified if not it throws me a pop up alert. But is Disk utility very accurate when a drive is failing or not. Like suppose if my OEM SSD is failing one day will it show me the S.M.A.R.T. status as "Failing"? I have high Sierra on my Mac. EXAMPLE
I got a new iPhone 8 and when I try to download snapchat it asks my my password then it does the spiral circle spinning then just goes back to the’get’ Icon
Not sure why. I can access my macOS partition via hitting the option key. But the control panel doesn't seem to find it, And I want to set it as my default drive to boot into rather than Windows.
With a new harddrive purchase I decided to encrypt it before moving all the data there. I have followed some tutorial regarding encrypting the drive and have used disk utility to create and encrypted image on a 2TB Seagate hardrive, encrypted image is 1.8TB. When trying to move my data I realised that the speeds are horrendous and moving directly to the encrypted image is much slower than moving to the unencrypted part of the harddrive. Below is the comparison:
MacPro Mid 2012; quad core 3.2 GHz Xeon processor 24 GB ram running Yosemite 10.10.5 4 internal 4 TB drives, 2 external 4 TB drives in NewTech cradles. 3 Dell 1920 x1280 pixel LCD monitors. Microsoft USB corded mouse. Stopped working yesterday.
While watching a Netflix video in the browser on my MacBook Pro (late 2016), the touch bar, also known as control strip, shows a play-button, volume controls, and a widget for scrubbing the video.  This is all great and useful, however after some time (a minute or so), my touch bar goes black and the controls reappear only after I touch the touch bar once.
I have installed Intel Power Gadget. When I've tried to start the app it fully freezes system. I then need to reboot.
Back when I used Linux I had a window manager similar to the macOS window manager, which had the same concept of different workspaces/desktops. It had a very useful additional feature, that you could map a keyboard key to let you switch between your current and previous desktop (instead of specifying the number). For example if I was on desktop #6 and switched to desktop #4, I could press i.e. alt+tab to immediately switch back to #6, and press again to switch back to #4 etc.
I have an external 3 TB hard drive with 3 partitions. I use 2 partitions for backups with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner.
How does the Touch-Bar control an HTML5 video? When a video or other media plays a slider comes up with a slider that can control the timing of the video. How does the touchbar interact with an html5 video to change the time? Is it using javascript or what? Thanks in advance!
hi i have a second hand iphone 4 my partner brought off his sister for me christmas prezzy. this phone asks me for icloud password and i askedmy in law for it this morning this phone says its incorrect but my sisternlaw said its the only password she uses for everything so i dont know what to do. i cant get apps or anything really without this password either so i really need help. im also useless with tech like this lol so i need like more help than most lol just wanted to ask how i can change my icloud password or keychain
I have a Early 2015 version Macbook Pro which has 126 GB HD / 10.11.1 El Captain OS on it. I wanted to upgrade the SSD. I decided to go with OWC. Transcend Jetdrive 820 for my Macbook model is on bit higher price.
I deleted the iBook app from my iPhone X. To get the app back, I assumed I could fetch it from the App Store. But when I searched the store for the app, the only hits I see for apps are for Audible and Amazon. How can I get the iBook app back and working? Notes I use the app for audiobooks. There is an audiobook on my phone. When I'm plugged into iTunes (on a PC), then through iTunes I can see the tracks and listen to the book. The iOS is 11.2.1 and uptodate.
I am using iTunes on Windows 10. There are multiple "copies" (air quotes) of most (not all) audiobooks in iTunes. I used air quotes because when I search the PC for the books, there are only single instances.
Setting up a new laptop... I downloaded the Install macOS High Sierra.app from the app store on an El Capitan machine. "codesign --verify --deep" on the .app says: However "codesign -dv /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app" says
I checked rectangular box to reopen windows when rebooting. However, because at that time, computer was extremely slow, booting progress bar doesn't go ahead. Maybe it seems that I checked box to reopen all windows.
I am using a late 2016 MBP with macOS High Sierra, and I've installed Windows 10 via Bootcamp. After a recent Windows 10 update, my Mac only boots into Windows after shutting down from Windows. Holding down the option key does not work (i.e. I cannot reach the StartUp Manager, it just automatically boots into Windows). Likewise, holding command+R during startup does not work either (no response). I looked up various threads online, and SMC reset seems to do the job, but I need to do this every time I want to go from Windows back to OS X. Restarting from macOS is fine, it defaults to macSO and I can hold down the option key to select the disk.
I have a headless Mac mini that currently runs macOS Sierra. I typically control this machine using Screen Sharing, which works fine even when rebooting a machine.
I am on MacOS High Sierra. I need to share the internet connection from Thunderbolt though WiFi with WEP as the security protocol. But I cannot see WEP in the sharing options. I tried this link but apparently, it is not working as well. Is WEP completely removed in High Sierra or is there is a way to achieve this? PS: I must use WEP to connect to a rather old Embedded device.
Recently I have uploaded all my photos from my iPhone 7 to Google Photos. I have also used the feature to free up space on device. Right now all my photos are in Google photos and none on my iPhone in its memory. And here I have encountered a problem. When I try to zoom in a photo, I can clearly see that edges which normally should be in focus are a little bit blured. But when I log into google photos on Android device and zoom on the same photo its just as it should be, crisp and clear. The same on my PC, photo is for a second blurred when I zoom in, but after 2-3 seconds it becomes sharper. Another thing is when I hit the Download button in iOS Google Photos on a specofic photo, it saves it to Camera roll, and in Apple’s Photos app it looks good, with sharp and clear edges. I assume that Google photos does something to not download full resolution photos to preview them, but it should when I zoom in, just like in Android version of this app. Did anyone of You had this problem before,
I have an issue that I can't seem to be able to fix. Hope you can help be with that. I have a MacBook Air 2012 13", a Thunderbolt display and a Samsung monitor connected through DVI on one end, and the other end DVI to mini DisplayPort. I would like this setup to occur: when connecting the MacBook Air to the Thunderbolt Display both the Thunderbolt Display and the Samsung display to work. I have connected the mini DisplayPort into the back of the Thunderbolt Display and connected the Thunderbolt display into my Mac, but the Samsung screen will not work. Is there something I am doing that is wrong?
I am new to Mac OS X. I need some help. I am having the following setup. Yosemite 10.10.5 Python 2 Version 2.7.13 Python 3 Version 3.6.2
It was driving me crazy that every time someone was calling to my iPhone it started ringing at full volume when most of the times I would even hear it with a simple vibration because I always have it right next to me. So how can I get a ringtone with ascending volume onto my iPhone?
When I want to set a Live Photo as my wallpaper it only had Still and Perspective as options. In Settings → Wallpaper it only has Still and Dynamic. Can I do anything?
I have an iMac G3 from the Summer of 2001, and it appears to have an issue with its CRT. After a few minutes of being on, the entire CRT appears to take a yellowish tint which is extremely visible, especially on blue and white colours.
I've looked for hours on how to record a slideshow with an external USB microphone but I didn't find anything. Is it possible to change the audio input in Keynote to an external mic?
I have a volume (saved as an encrypted sparsebundle) that I use from time to time. For security reasons it should be ejected when not in use. Of course I should do it myself, and usually I remember. But not always. Is there an automated way to do this as a back-up for fallible me? Maybe a Folder Action attached to it that will eject it after a certain length of time (or even better, a certain length of time idle) or at a certain time of day?
Whenever I receive a notification from mail, I hear the notification sound but the banner shows up 3-5 seconds later. There is a delay between the notification sound and notification banner. This problem is only specific to mail app. How can I fix it? I have tried restarting and some other standard/quick fixes but nothing helped. This issue also came up after I updated to High Sierra. I would appreciate any help!
Until now I have all my photos in a folder 'Images' on my Mac. To organize them better I want to start using the photos.app. When I open the app there are no fotos, so I guess I have to import them first. A few questions: Can't I tell Fotos.app just where to look for photos and use that folder?
My iPhone got stolen and I don't have my AppleID. It was previously set by the vendor who sold me the iPhone. AFAIK, I only have my Gmail set as my rescue email address for the AppleID. Is there anyway to recover the ID so that I can recover my backups?
I am trying to remove a container disk and exFat partition on the GUID partitioned SSD on my Macbook Pro 13" 128GB early 2015. It got created by BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT. It is taking up 29GB of space on my disk. There is also a small exFat partition that I cannot remove. In disk utility the option to delete this partition and container disk is greyed out. When I press partition when I have selected my SSD and click on the 29GB container disk, the - button is greyed out, and in the bottom right corner it says "You cannot remove this volume because the previous volume cannot be resized". I have tried doing this when booted into Recovery mode 'Command + R' Here are some screenshots:
I'm having issues formatting a micro sd card a for a friend on my Mac. I've tried using Disk Utility, diskutil commands in terminal and SD Card Formatter. This is what I get when I try on terminal:
When I started my iMac 27-inch, it shows the message "your computer has been restarted because of an error". I searched on the internet and Apple's site said that it might be a software issue so I reinstalled macOS, but even after that the same error is showing after boot up within ~20seconds
I am on Sierra and would like to disable the periodic nagging to update to High Sierra. I will do it when I am ready. Any easy way to do this?
What if I want to upload 10 photos to iPhone from PC, without using the internet. I don't want to keep the photos on the PC and want to maintain only one copy at the mobile. How do I do that?
While trying to debug poor video chat quality, I noticed that certain apps cause periodic ping latency spikes even while pinging my router. I tracked the problem down to the fact that the apps (e.g. Genymotion, qbittorrent) seem to be scanning for wifi networks every few seconds. (When I turned on debug wifi logging, I kept seeing lines like Info: <airportd[74491]> SCAN request received from pid 76811 (genymotion) with priority 0 that correlated with the latency spikes.)
A week ago I checked the disk on a different machine using a cable to connect it to USB. The disk still works, no problem there.
Today I looked at the interfaces on my Mac and so I saw the adapter "utun0" on the Mac, this is just for VPN Connections or "Back to my Mac" thought. I have never VPN enabled and "Back to my Mac" is not enabled. Is the adapter creates by default or what program creates it? Something is afraid of malware / adware / viruses, etc.
My grandpa has suffered from a very annoying "problem" in Gmail (on Mac OS under Chrome) for a long time and unfortunately I haven't found a solution for him yet: When composing in Gmail, each time he types a, he often accidentally presses Tab at the same time (a and Tab are next to each other), which points the focus to the Send button and when he presses Enter (for a new line); the email is unintentionally sent. This happens to him very often (please don't blame my old grandpa, this problem also happened to a lot of people: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/Y9DjPEA_6sk/V7IzWt02iugJ).
To help with recovering history across restarts etc I would like to get some key data, like $TERM_SESSION_ID, stored in my command history. This would be preserved when the command response output in screen history is no longer available. I have tried a number of ways and though the session text shows the TERM_SESSION_ID data it is not stored in the command history: Although I saw on screen (and do not mind the error messages): I do not think this is down to the "info commands" being non bash-valid commands since I get the same sort of results with saw output of ls command here, but command recorded is ${test} as typed Can you tell me how I can get my command history to log/include the data from the shell variable? For instance:
Is it possible to share the screen of my iPhone on my MacBook wirelessly?
My MacBook Air has installed Ubuntu, and I want to remove it and expand the Mac partition, so I delete the original partitions, like this picture:  but I forget to note the UUID of disk0s2 and disk0s3, so when I make Partition, there is a problem, like that:
Anyone seen this before? After updating an iPad to the latest OS now all rows of icons are duplicated. They also seem to wiggle a bit. Hard reboot with home and power button do nothing for the problem.
I was in the middle of texting my sister and my phone went into 'find my iPhone mode.' I did not activate it, was simply texting back and forth.
I am currently running macos High Sierra 10.13.2 on a MacBook Air early-2014 and a weird thing has been happening for the last 2-3 days. When I turn on my mac, the files and folders on my desktop get renamed to "?.
I recently had the opportunity to try playing music on the internal speakers with both models, although in different stores, and I've noticed that the older iPad's internal speakers are either quieter, have less bass response, or are otherwise less clear than the ones in the 2017 model. I'm wondering if this is just an artifact of the different environments I listened to them in or if there are actually significant differences in audio quality.
I found tutorials on how to find the sha256 hash of files, but cannot seem to find one on simple text (not a text file). Does anyone know how to do that?
I was making some changes recently, trying to rename my user account from the macOS High Sierra System Preferences, and it seems I've locked myself out from making any changes to Users & Groups now. When I click the lock icon (Click the lock to make changes) I am prompted for a User Name and Password. No matter what I input in these fields I am unable to unlock the preferences. I am sure I know my user account, otherwise I wouldn't be able to log into the computer, and there is only 1 user on my Mac. I've also tried with: So it seems the name change is causing a mismatch between what's in the sudoers file, so I basically have no user with admin access right now.
I'm planning to buy standard 13-inch MacBook Pro (2017) without Touch Bar or Touch ID features; I plan to use this for basic computing task and web development/programming. Does connecting a monitor to MacBook Pro via display adapter lower the refresh rate, or should I just find a non apple monitor that has thunderbolt port? I don't want to have to deal with any performance issues while coding and compiling or render images/graphics in Adobe CC. I'm very new to the whole Mac ecosystem, so all advice is appreciated.
I want to use my magic trackpad while it's rotated, as if in 'portrait' mode. I can't find any option to make it work like this, unlike a display Rotation option.
I would like to know if my new phone, iPhone 7 (A1779) from Japan works on Verizon and H2O wireless network. According to the spec sheet of an iPhone 7 from Apple web page, the compatible cellular bands are: but I don't know about this kinds of stuff so well, so I want to ask you if my Japanese iPhone 7 works or not.
Strange, I have access to other kext utilities such as kextcache, kextfind, kextlibs, kextstat, kextunload, kextutil but not kextload. Is there any cause for that ? Edit - 1 : kextload files; Edit - 2 : Context of problem
I have a SSD and a HDD, wherein the SSD is a bootable drive. I have moved the /userfolder to a partition on HDD wherein it is working perfectly. The Android SDK and projects are also on Hard disk at the moment.
I have iPad Pro 10.5 and MBP, all of them are running the latest iOS, macOS and iTunes versions. I can't drag and drop books to the books sections of the iPad. The option Sync Books of the iPad is not enabled.
Apparently those green LEDs on the back of an Apple Watch flash very quickly to get samples for heart rate calculations. But how fast do they blink? What is the sampling frequency for the heart rate monitor on an Apple Watch?
The play/pause and backward and forward buttons on my MacBook are not working as they should. When I press the play/pause button, nothing happens or it quickly pauses and plays again. Backward/Forward buttons are skipping previous/next song and play the second one in order.
Due to the fact that Apple has dropped support for all Wifi devices I have opted to migrate my home office Wifi to a Ubiquiti AC-AP-Pro with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X SFP as the main firewall/router. The setup has the EdgeRouter out front with 1 WAN (eth0), 3 LAN (eth1-eth3) and 1 future "DMZ" (eth4). The AP-AC-Pro is hung off eth3, and I moved my primary Time Capsule to eth2 (secondary Time Capsule is plugged into one of the LAN ports of the primary Time Capsule) and turned off Wifi in settings for both the primary and secondary Time Capsules.
So I was messing around with Sharing Preferences and I accidentally changed the name of the local host name I don't remember the previous name so I would like to reset it back to what it was before and I also have a full time machine backup.
I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2017, 13", no Touch Bar) and I want to create Linux live USB. However, keyboard and trackpad are not working when I'm booting Linux OS from live USB. I'm able to select EFI boot, proceed to selection how I want to boot my Linux system but as soon as OS is loaded - trackpad and keyboard don't respond. I tried Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.03.
Suppose if I were to just view my Time Machine backup via Finder and just see its contents, no moving/renaming/deleting. Would just viewing the files affect my Time Machine backup and storing files inside backup.backupd? Because I just created a empty folder inside backup.backupd and I immediately deleted it.
Trying to copy (drag and drop) an ISO file from SSD1/MacOS Extended to SSD2/FAT32 (two physically different and internal SATA drives): ISO file size: 4.7 GB Space available on SSD2 partition: 20 GB Error message: "The item "*.iso" can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format" Tried to copy on a USB memory stick (10 GB available): same message. From the command line:
iOS 11 provides the ability to customise the lower toggle controls in Control Center (show/hide and rearrange) from Settings → Control Center. Is it possible to customise the other controls at the top of Control Center, showing/hiding or rearranging toggles and controls?
I'll keep it short, if an iPhone is jailbroken can you spoof your iOS version to pair an Apple Watch running OS 4 or 3 for iOS 10 on an iPhone with iOS 9.3.2?
The reader of my university lecture regularly posts lecture notes online. The pdf contains handwritten mathematical theorems including the proofs. Everything is written on a completely white background. I want to create a new printable file containing the theorems and comments only (no proofs) as exam preparation
I removed my CDROM and added an SSD to my MACBOOK PRO I7 (mid 2010) in it's place. I can boot into my windows partition, however while I am in bootcamp(in WINDOWS) I can only select to start from old OSX partition and not my new SSD. I always have to hold OPTION key down to be able to boot form the SSD when coming out of windows. I've looked for INI files related to bootcamp in the \Program/ Files Directory and user directory. Where can I find the Drive definitions, so that I can add my new SSD? BTW, it boots just as fast as many newer models now.
On the website my account looks like this. There are 2 people sharing with me some files:
I created a new Admin account in Sierra High and needed to delete the previous admin account which is marked now as the standard user. However, after unlocking as admin and selecting the respective user that I would like to delete, I see the - sign is marked as Grey.
I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch Mid 2012 and I installed an SSD in it. I'd like to upgrade my computer, but I'm not sure if I need to disable the trim before the update and reenable it after. I've heard that it could cause problems, but don't know why. I have macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and I've enabled the trim since I switched to this operating system.
Since upgrading iOS to 11.2.1, my iPhone has aggressively prompted me to setup Apple Pay. Every time I decline to set it up. Now, there is this persistent badge ("1") on my Settings app, which makes me think there is some kind of iOS update to install, but instead, it is a prompt to setup Apple Pay ("Finish Setting Up Your iPhone"):
I want to be able to start a video, 30 seconds in, using the terminal. I'd prefer to use IINA because it's awesome, but VLC would work as well.
I have a MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 and I couldn't find the proper keyboard layout matching its actual keyboard This is a picture for my keyboard :
I have a 13in Mac Book Pro High Sierra and just purchased 3.7 Pixelmator. I am making an automator to place a watermark in bulk of photos and no matter the size of the watermark text, it comes out small after applying the automator, how can I get it to keep the size I created the text in Pixelmator? I just created a simple watermark with a text layer on top of a transparent background saved as a png file.
Using iMac, late 2015, El Capitain. Mail sends my emails out with no sender. Same email account when used on my MacBook Air sends out the mail correctly (with a sender); if sent from my iPhone, mail goes out correctly (with a sender). If sent from webmail - it goes out correctly. Has anyone seen this before and if so, do you have a fix?
I have gifted my 9 year old a iPad. However before I let him use it, I need a checklist of all the steps i need to do to child proof the iPad. Configure safari so that all bad searches are blocked All bad sites don't open Search results don't return explicit content.
I plan to purchase iPhone SE. The spec says the Wi-Fi module is 802.11ac (5 GHz band). However, my router is rather old - it supports 802.11b and 802.11g only (2.4 GHz band). I cannot find information on whether a 802.11ac device can work in a backward compatible mode (i.e., on a lower frequency) with a 802.11b/g router or not. So, will I be able to connect iPhone SE to a 802.11b/g router?
This is a relatively complex problem and LONG description, so bear with me. Please ask questions in the comments if you think I can clarify something. I am hosting multiple websites on a single computer running macOS Server (version 5.3.1 running on macOS 10.12.6). On one of these websites, I have a PHP form that is supposed to send me an email when submitted (but doesn't). I have three test platforms: a server at college (heavily regulated enterprise network), a server at home that hosts the website (relatively secured and managed personal network), and a laptop with me while I'm staying with friends abroad (relatively unmanaged, likely less secured, personal network). All three devices are Apple computers with macOS Server set up.
Flash memory and SSD controllers are reported to spend more time running wear-leveling and/or anti-fragmentation garbage collection algorithms when their storage is near full. People have reported that clearing some free space on their near full SSD storage, and leaving their iMac or MacBook running overnight (to do something like wear-leveling or storage block garbage collection) increased storage speed/bandwidth performance significantly. Similar things are reported to occur involving UI lag on iOS devices that have almost completely full flash storage. So, is there a recommended percentage of free space to leave on the SSD on a Mac, or the flash storage on an iOS device, to avoid having these algorithms kick in and possibly affect storage speed or read/write performance.
I have my macbook pro running with two external monitors. Usually when I use the switch desktop macro(ctrl+left or ctrl+right) it will affect whichever display the mouse is currently on. Recently it has started to only affect my primary display. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
I have no idea how anyone types quickly on the default iOS 11 keyboard considering you have to bring up a full different keyboard to type punctuation. My previous phone was a Google Nexus 4 and the default keyboard there had a punctuation button which you can hold down for a dropdown menu to select common punctuation marks.
Now, on this fresh install of macOS (the most recent version, 10.13.2). Disk utility recognizes Windows and macOS, but it won't recognize the Linux partition, even as a Linux filesystem. I can still see the partition that I made for it a few months ago, but it appears that I would have to delete and reinstall Linux to boot into it again. I don't keep a backup of that, unfortunately, because I only do tiny projects on there. There is currently one tiny project that I actually care about that I would rather not lose.
I'm cutting and pasting from Apple's Community support site where I posted this issue today, rather than type it again, since the details are dense: My system, prior to 12/20/2017 was a MacBookPro9.2 (mid 2012) running 10.8.5. Why that OS? I hate Apple upgrades, as things always break and 3rd party SW has to be upgraded. Mountain Lion is a perfectly good OS, but over time has not been able to keep up with iOS. I loath the Apple phone so 10.8.5 suited me just fine, until I needed some R bits complied for Sierra. So, R is very important to me so I upgraded to 10.13.2 from the Apple store. I upgraded to an SSD inside the Mac, and after 5 days of testing, used Carbon Copy Cloner 5.0.5 to clone the SSD to an HFS+ (recommended by CCC) HDD inside an OWC/Mac.Sales On-The-Go USB 3.0 enclosure. No issues and CCC even created a 10.13.2 Recovery image. Interestingly, the Apple store upgrade wiped the 10.8.2 Recovery image on the SSD, leaving me with no Recovery image on that drive.
On iPhone 7 it is possible to double tap the Home button to see them. On iPhone X is there an equivalent?
I want to upgrade the hard drive in my 2012 Macbook Pro to an SSD. I have the parts, but had a question about how to clone the contents of my current drive so I can install it onto the SSD. I've seen tutorials where people suggest connecting the new SSD to the Macbook prior to installation and using a Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive, and then installing the SSD drive.
Is there an app I can use to vibrate my iPhone once every second continuously?
I'm looking for a setup that will allow me to view the video output from another device (1080p/60 over HDMI) on my MacBook, at full frame rate and with minimal latency. I assume this would take the form of a Thunderbolt dongle, but I don't know what to look for, or if such a thing even exists.
When I open spotlight and enter a running application name (such as spotify) and press enter, nothing happens. If the application window is in the current workspace or in a workspace pulled up on any monitor - even if hidden, and is entered into spotlight, it does come front and forward. My mac used to do this just fine, but recently it has not done this and I have not been able to find any solutions, the closest one being this link macOS 10.13.1
I have AirPods and I love them but I don’t love what a hassle it is to switch my phone to send audio output to the AirPods. I have my AirPods synced with multiple devices such as my Mac, so it doesn't know which one to connect to. What I do now is: Swipe up from the bottom edge to raise the control center. Force press the wave icon in the top right of the audio playback control Tap the audio out control button on the right to raise a list of output devices. Select the AirPods from that list.
I have always have an iTunes account, and sometimes, apple.com forced me to change my password after a few months. Logging in on Google Chrome or iTunes has no problem whatsoever. And on Apple TV, it asked me for the new password, and my iPhone would automatically get a beep and ask me to "allow" or "deny" the access and once I press "allow" then it will send me a verification code to enter on the Apple TV. So I entered it on Apple TV, and it immediately sent me back to the log in screen, again, and again, in an infinite loop. I thought I had too many old devices associated with the account (some old iPads and iPhones, total 9 devices), so I removed a couple of devices, and tried again, and again, infinite loop.
I cloned a Time Machine backup folder Backups.backupdb from one volume to another following Apple's instructions. The contents of both folders look very similar (same amount of files, same file size, etc), so I assume the cloning worked well. However, some files have different permissions listed when displayed with ls -l: A file Info.plist on the original volume shows like while on the cloned volume it shows like
In reference to my previous question, I have researched my problem and found that the flickery intermittant issue I am experiencing could be a lose onboard VGA connector. I am eager to attempt what seems like a simple fix, however I think I may need to pull off the CRT cover of the unit. Do I only need to pull away the logic board faraday cage and i'll have access to what I need to meddle with, or will I need to remove the CRT cover? If I do need to remove the cover, is it safe for me to take an (approximately) 2 foot screwdriver, and some car jump leads, hook one end to the chassis (unplugged fully) and the other end near the top of the screwdriver and stick the screwdriver tip into the anode cup doing the one-hand-behind-back manoeuvre? I believe the tip is slightly coated for protection, will this matter? I am not concerned about capacitors say on the power supply, as I know how to safely discharge those and handle charged ones. Thanks.
I was given an iPhone for Christmas and want to know how I can scan QR codes? My Google searches all point to articles or reviews about apps you can install, but some of these don’t even exist anymore. Some of my Google searches took me here where’s there’s questions and answers about installing QR code apps, but these all seem dated to me.
The "copy/look up/share" pops up when I am reading and scrolling and I never want it to.
OS Version I'm on is High Sierra 10.13.2 My battery seems to drain way too much on my new MacBook Pro 13 w/ Touch bar 2017 when it's supposed to be sleeping. Things I've done after reading other posts on the issue: Turned off power nap on battery in the settings Turned on Do Not Disturb whilst sleeping After a test yesterday, at the end of a day the battery went from 100% to 84%, I didn't open the lid once in that time. I don't recall ever having this issue with my MacBook Air mid 2012. Is this a software, hardware issue or both? Thanks
I have configured input switch with CapsLock. But Some times it takes several times pushing CapsLock key to change input language. Is it MacOS lag, or is it configuring some where?
Using tmutil localsnapshot I was able to create snapshot(in this format: com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-12-28-032610), but was not able to revert to this snapshot using tmutil restore since APFS doesn't show me the path to this snapshot. Any way to fix this?
I have come across the POPyourPHONE product that is compatible with Android devices that support OTG. However, I haven't yet come across a similar device compatible with iPhones.
A couple of days ago I upgraded my Apple Music subscription to family mainly so my sisters could access music from their iPhones. Since my dad is avid music listener I decided to set up Apple Music for him also on his Windows laptop.
First thanks for reading my post and willing to help. I'm trying to run a program (MultiWiiConf 2.4, last version now) on my Mac (Sierra 10.12.6) but it won't launch and error No compatible version of java 1.5 is available is raised.
Usually my Apple Watch's screen turns on when I raise my arm, and then it turns off either when I put my arm down, or if I leave my arm in that position for 15 seconds. This has always been the case
I have a MacBook Air (10.13.2). I'd like to play videos full screen on an external monitor, while still being able to continue working on my MacBook. I can't get it the way I'd like. Whenever I click back on my MacBook, the dock and menu bar appears over the full screen video on the external monitor. I've Googled and the only way I found to get rid of them is to uncheck the "Displays have separate Spaces" in System Preferences >> Mission Control. However, that brings the unfortunate effect that when I switch to a different desktop than the one where I started the video, I lose the video on the external monitor as it too switches to a different desktop. Anyone know how I can get rid of the menu bar/dock on the external monitor and still keep it as a separate space?
What it says in the title. There is no obvious way for me to remove an equation in Grapher. I used Grapher a few years ago and I probably knew how to then, but I cannot remember now.
How to migrate Projects from Photos to a new MacBook?
So I just have this question because one time when I was cleaning my MacBook with a damp wet cloth, I started cleaning my trackpad but I didn't notice that I was clicking it very hard so I immediately took of the cloth and I stared testing whether my trackpad was working correcting by clicking random stuff it felt weird however after some 3 secs it worked perfectly fine like brand new. Should I worry about hardware damage to my force touch trackpad.
I read about people sucking on the mesh part to get the wax out but that isn’t very effective/sanitary...wondering if there are any better ways to clean AirPods/EarPods when earwax inevitably collects on them?
If I connect my MacBook to a monitor with no speakers, and use it in clamshell (with the lid closed) will there be no sound / volume? Or will any sound be muffled becaused the lid is closed?
I thought the Bluetooth module can connect to only one another device, but iPhone(or any iOS device) can be connected with Apple Watch and AirPod at the same time. How can it be possible? Is there any additional module in iOS device? If yes, why can't i make another double connection except Apple Watch or AirPods?
Been a user of Alfred for a long time, however whenever I search anything I get a lot of FUD results due to alfred also indexing all my web project node_modules directories. Is there any way to path-match and exclude all results from within a /node_modules/ directory? This would greatly improve the utility of the search.
I just upgraded to the new MacBook Pro, and thus now have a trackpad the size of Rhode Island. While typing I often rest/touch my palm on the edge of the trackpad.
I have a new Mac Book, and I moved data using Time Machine. Since I have a new username (raj.more) on the new Mac Book, the restored data is sitting in it's own profile folder structure (rmore).
Suddenly I'm getting repeated (endless) prompts that mdwrite wants to use the "metadata" keychain and asking me to please enter the keychain password. but my password (I know the password for each of my keychains, my system, and their full history) is rejected.
I currently have three OSes installed on my 2017 MacBook Air: macOS, Ubuntu, and Windows 10. I couldn't boot into Ubuntu without rEFInd, but I strongly prefer the default boot manager, because I want to use the firmware password (which rEFInd doesn't have). Is there any way for the macOS boot manager to recognize Ubuntu without using a third-party boot manager? NOTES:
I'm at work and I'd like to call one of our suppliers, Acme Corp. I've already saved the contact for our current Acme rep on my iPhone. Today our rep is Pete, but recently it was Susie, and in the future it might be Phil. I don't remember what the rep's name is off the top of my head, but I do care that they're the person to call for Acme. How can I see the company name in my contacts list while still recording the rep's name?
Hello, I have a problem authorising any admin tasks on Yosemite 10.10.5 (like installing new apps, unlocking system settings etc.). I have an admin account with a password, yet the system won't authorise it. The prompt just shakes around as if the password was incorrect. However, I'm able to log into my account without problems, so I assume the login details are fine.
It is easy to find descriptions of how to create Apple RAID arrays, either via terminal or via the Disk Utility GUI. But, under both approaches, I cannot find a way to specify the size of the array that gets created. Instead, it just seems to default to the largest size possible.
I am looking for ways to have a permanent custom message/note on the primary lock screen on iOS 10+ Have tried Lock Screen Note which does it via push notification, but problem is that as soon as I unlock the screen, the notification disappears and I have to re-activate the message in order to have it again.
I am using a Macbook Pro with MacOS High Sierra. I have recently moved from Windows so I am quite new to Mac.
I next tried to go back to the first step and perform it again. The trouble is that what used to show up as my RAID volume under diskutil list: Now shows up as a different kind of disk (though of exactly the same size, implying that it is indeed what was originally my RAID volume): Furthermore, when I try to create a new LVG (diskutil cs createLVG ...) on this disk4 I get the error message:
I want to turn off Find My iPhone on my iPad Mini 4 before sending it in for repair since Apple states: If you're unable to turn off Find My iPhone, Apple may not be able to service your device. This policy is in force to prevent unauthorized persons from servicing your device without your knowledge. If you don't remember your Apple ID and Password, please go to iForgot. However, the Wi-Fi keeps turning on / off by itself before I can turn off Find my iPhone. Can I do this remotely perhaps?
What gestures or buttons make the Apple TV in Netflix app zoom/stretch the image to fill screen? On the Apple TV 4K (2017) using Netflix app, I somehow zoomed/stretched an old tv show with nearly-square aspect-ratio to fill the screen of this 4K TV.
So basically I've got a Macbook Pro 2013 / 2014, I'm not sure which. It has a completely wiped hard drive, and I'm trying to install Windows on it. I have a Windows 10 Installer USB drive that works fine on other computers. By this I mean in other computers, the BIOS lists the USB drive as a boot option and works as expected. But in the Macbook Startup Manager (accessed by holding the option key while the computer is booting), it is not an option. If I use a live Linux USB (I've tried arch and debian) it works as expected, debian installed on the Macbook with no problems.
I want to share some avi files I imported into my photo library via iCloud Photo Sharing. After I made a selection to share, I can see the process indicator like so:
Although the official information states that iTunes authorizations apply to the computer, I recall reading somewhere that in fact an authorization applies to the specific user account on that computer, not to the computer as a whole. I am hoping that somebody can tell me which of those statements is is correct. For example:
What folder are the iTunes and iTunes Classic visualizer stored in for iTunes 12.7 on a mac?
I used to run my 15" MBP with 21.5" iMac in Target Display Mode and everything was fine for a while. But as of a couple recent macOS upgrades, every time I disconnect, the iMac never restores to it's previous state. The screen is black. Once in a while, after 10 minutes or longer, it would come back. But more often than not, I have to power-cycle my iMac.
I'm creating a table of configuration codes for Macs (the last 4 characters of the serial number). I've checked several CTO's and found that, when they have the same specs (CPU speed, Memory size, Graphics card, Storage size), they have the same configuration code. I wonder if this is always the case, so that you can rely on the EEE code to know the original specs for that mac.
I was low on disk space, and upon further inspection I discovered ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MediaLibraryService taking up over 10GB of space. I was recently downloading syncing my iCloud photos into a photo library, and the files in this cache folder seem to be the files that are being downloaded, albeit with randomized filenames (which may be how they are stored inside the photo library). Is it safe to delete the contents of this folder? I see no reason that they should stay around in my hard drive even though they are being downloaded to a photo library in a different location.
I've already tested my earbuds out on my computer and my guitar amp by moving around and constants flapping the wires and pushing them, so the problem is isolated to my iPhone only (I have the iPhone SE). It's weird because the sound almost cuts out for a second, then the volume turns down to a very quiet setting, and after a second or so the volume will turn back up to what it was originally. Notes: I'm not using Apple earbuds. I have an iPhone SE.
I reset my MacBook to factory settings 4 weeks ago, after I started having issues with missing libraries, etc., after messing around with a few 3rd party applications (SDKs and such). After resetting I recognized that my device wouldn't connect to a particular network. It keeps asking me for the WPA2-Enterprise credentials, although previously provided credentials were 100% correct.1 Today, in addition to previous problems, I can't connect to a specific access point including when in "Recovery Mode".1 On top of all that, I cannot connect to certain websites, such as iCloud or DropBox, although both services are available when using a different device. I already tried to flush my DNS cache and changed the DNS server.
I would like to increase the RAM in my iMac (it currently holds the standard 2 x 4GB cards with 2 empty slots). I have found some 16 GB cards for a good price and would like to increase the RAM to support my graphics programs. I know that it can only support 32GB (as per apple website). Do you have to use all 4 slots if you increase the RAM? Do you have to use all 4 slots if you increase the RAM? Will it still work if I remove the 2 x 4GB cards and replace with 2 x 16GB cards? Will it still work if I remove the 2 x 4GB cards and replace with 2 x 16GB cards? Can I add just one 16GB card and leave one slot empty? Can I add just one 16GB card and leave one slot empty? Thank you
I am trying to make configuration of a new macOS system as automated as possible. I use Alfred and prefer to use Cmd-Space to trigger the Alfred window instead of the install default of calling off to Spotlight.
Can Login Items be added via a command in terminal? I would like to add a few essential utilities like ShiftIt and Alfred to my Login Items via a script when I'm configuring a new Mac. In versions of macOS previous to High Sierra these items were stored in a plist in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist but since High Sierra has been released it seems they've been migrated to be loaded via a new mechanism. I am interested in ways to set Login Items from a terminal primarily for High Sierra but interested from an academic perspective to know how it could be done in prior releases of macOS.
I use Smart Invert (Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Invert Colors > Smart Invert) extensively. But when I enable Smart Invert colors become slightly dull, especially reds, see image:
I asked in the apple forum, but got no answer, so trying here... Mac mini 2012 mini-displayport flashes to black intermittently with High Sierra 10.13.2
My terminal frequently freeze with a spinning beach ball of doom. I've tested using both iTerm2 and the default Terminal, and it happens with both. And it doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing. I've had it freeze while nothing is running in any terminal, as well as while running a myriad of different programs (npm, webpack, gulp etc.).
Here is what I have for ls output in my Volumes dir ... Going from the info found here ... What do the different colors mean in ls?
I have tried a lot of things but I keep getting failed backups when doing a first backup on High Sierra. I have not used Time Machine previously and I am trying to backup to a usb drive. Checking the logs after a failure I get something like: Last failure:
I'm trying to figure out how to force Safari, on specific websites, to ask for the system password or user password before allowing one to log in using the website username+password. I'm trying to make Facebook have "more steps" to logging in rather than the usual "click on the Login button to login", while the username + password are there automatically. I'd prefer for the username+password to be there automatically, but for there to be an extra step to kinda force you to rethink whether you wanna go there or not. I'm not looking for any /etc/hosts tweaks.
Every time I start my computer a popup window shows up that says "If you want to open CS5ServiceManager you have to install the older Java SE 6 Runtime" Why does this show up, and how do I resolve the problem? I have Mac OS 10.11.6
I am trying to VPN to my work from my mac but I am facing some issues. The network admin only knows about Windows so no help there.
As to whether it's the SATA cable that's possible, though the behavior seems different from the last time my cable was damaged and it seems odd that the MBP could connect with the drive at all were that the case. But I am going to see what happens if I just try to run the drive as an external.
Whenever I boot the machine, or wake it from sleep, with an external monitor connected, the laptop screen flicker and dim/undim for at least a whole minute (while the external display remains black) before finally turning on. While this is going on the machine is also very slow, and responds poorly to keyboard/trackpad input. This does not happen if I do not have an external monitor connected. Specifications: High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88) Macbook Pro (15", 2017) External monitor is connected through an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter (HDMI) The machine is connected to a power cable What I've tried I've tried resetting NVRAM and SMC to no avail.
I tried to do the new update (iOS 11.2 I believe) on my iPhone 7. that was when it basically went kaput. it first wouldn't go to "sleep" when I would hold it to my ear to talk. so I did a hard reset on it. wouldn't come back on until it died and I plugged it in the next day. made a call to my husband, he couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear him, even when it was on speaker. so I did a hare reset again; same thing. it wouldn't come back on for a few hours. I've connected it to iTunes but it won't do anything that I haven't already tried. NOW I can't hear any phone calls and they can't hear me even when it's on speaker. the volume works fine and music plays just fine as well. I tried to voice memo app but it won't even say its recording. I don't want to have to do another hard reset on my phone and risk having it not come back on permanently. what do I do from here?
I installed a user certificate and the enterprise CA onto an iOS device (iOS11). The user certificate contains UPN (User Principal Name) in its alternative subject name. I then tried to set up an certificate-based IKEv2 VPN, but if failed connecting.
I currently use my 4th generation Apple TV as my smart home hub. The only accessories connected at the moment are Philips Hue lights, but I plan to increase this - hence the need for a more integrated voice activation system in the home rather than doing everything from an iPhone. As Apple's HomePod is likely to cost around six times the price of an Amazon Echo Dot 2, I was wondering if the Echo would be a viable solution since my devices are controlled from a HomeKit hub, rather than the proprietary hub that comes with the Hue lights.
In this thread, apparently you can test a iPhone without a battery. Test iPhone 4s hardware without battery. Possible?
A lot of applications, for example VLC and ES File Explorer seem to have problem connecting to SMB shares on recent versions of OS X. I am not sure but it seems the problem has to do with SMB2, therefore I would like to try to use SMB1 (I know SMB2 is supposed to be backwards compatible but…) specifically to see if this solves the problems. Is it possible to setup SMB to run SMB2 on one port (the default port) and SMB1 on a non-standard port?
What is up-to-date and tried method to create AppleID of another country without having a credit card or bank account of that country? I am on a short visit in another country (Estonia in my case), so having a genuine-local internet connection is a completed step :-)
(Bonus) Parallel reconnect. When the iOS device loses its Wi-Fi connection, make connection attempts on all auto-join hotspots in range (in parallel) and associate with the first one that accepts.
I have an external 3 TB WD drive for backup. I think it is shot so I want to replace it. I don't need a portable drive but if they are more durable I'd like to get one. The cost difference between portable and regular is negligible at Amazon. Are there any issues associated with using a portable HDD for a Time Machine backup?
I have a late 2013, 27" iMac with a GeForce GTX 780M graphics card, which I'm trying to get to connect to two 4k displays (Asus MG28U) at 60Hz. When I connect them, I am limited to 30Hz (but importantly, the 3820x2160 resolution does work):
I need to sign into my apple ID account but I have two-factor authentication turned on and don't know the phone number I used for that Apple ID account as someone else created it for me. I have only one Apple device on which I've signed out of iCloud I still know my iCloud password it's just the phone number I don't know. Is there any way to access my account without this phone number?
Another troubling facet of this issue is that I cannot export my Safari history to another browser. Both Chrome and Firefox refuse to import anything from Safari except bookmarks. Moreover, I do not have many backups of my Safari history. Although, backups would not help too much anyway since a backup would lack my recent history. So how can I get Safari to stop losing my oldest history items? Some environment info:
I have an iPad 3 (A1430, on iOS 9.0.2) that I lost the passcode. I know the icloud / apple ID account that iPad has and I can see an icloud backup of it online (on the icloud website). I tried following the recommended recovery options for a lost passcode but it seems my computer was never used to backup this iPad, 'find iPhone' also doesn't work because the iPad doesn't seem to be connected to the WiFi network. From instructions my option is to use Recovery Mode to reset everything. My problem is that it seems it will also update to the latest iOS version which I don't want do to. Is there any way to unlock this device or do the recovery mode reset without updating the iOS version?
I am trying to prevent 2 volumes from mounting at startup. I created a new fstab using vifs and added the UUIDs of the volumes I don't want to mount at system startup, but for some reason this does not seam to work in High Sierra. Both volumes will mount as usual. Any idea what's missing? The following syntax is what i used - UUID= none apfs rw,noauto
So my mac was acting very slow and so I backed up all my files to an external hard drive using time machine and then proceeded to restart the entire mac. Now that I plug in my hard drive with my back up I dont really want to put it all back since my computer is running so much faster. My question is then how do i delete some files on that back up. Every time i press delete it says files can not be deleted from this back up time machine?
For some time (about a month give or take) the Network Preferences pane in System Preferences has been freezing every time I open it. Wi-Fi works fine and I can connect using the menubar icon, but I can't change anything in the Network preference pane. System Preferences also works fine, except for the Network preference pane. When I open the Network preferences pane, the app freezes and starts eating up system resources.
I have a problem that is bothering me and I kindly request for help. When ever I try to search / Google/browse something on the Internet using Google Chrome a website named Dfwu1013.info pops up on my screen and I can't proceed to browse want I intended to browse. Could someone be knowing what it is and how I can stop it?
I have unlimited data on my mobile plan which includes a 30GB allowance per month for tethering. My allowance renews on the 27th of each month, but two days after my allowance renewed I received a message from my carrier informing me that I have already nearly used all of my allowance leaving me with only 6.14 GB of hotspot data left.
I have Time machine backing up every hour, so it will run inevitably at least once while I'm watching a (totally legally downloaded) movie, which I happen to store in the same external drive as the time capsule, so when it's backing up the reproduction has some hiccups that mess all the video compression for a couple of seconds. Can I prevent this in an automatic way which doesn't involve manually skipping backups or turning it off every time I watch a movie?
*=URL=* The issue is highlighted in the video above. It's on a fresh install of High Sierra. System info:
Does there anybody knows a script, that will make Safari ignore the autocomplete=off statement that prevents Safari from using Autofill on a web page input field? Like the old extension "Autocomplete Always On" for Safari 4 and 5. I find only a statement to this old extension (*=URL=* I know the reasons for Safari's honoring that command, but for myself, I'd like to override it. Greetings Andy
We got a new iMac for Christmas and it has seemed really slow for the past couple of days. In desperation I checked out Activity Monitor and it shows photoanalysisd as the guilty process that is hogging my CPU. I assume this is related to the Photos app, but that's not even running! What is "photoanalysisd", why is it using 77% of my CPU, and can I safely stop the process?
The scenario is: I cannot log in Mac OSX if booting normally as the booting halts and the screen becomes green with nothing else on it.
I am a starter in AppleScript and there is an issue with my script I cant fix. The script is:
But now if I open Remote Desktop a dialog opens up about "View Certificate" for *.remote.windowsazure.com and it beachballs there. I can't close that dialog and go to my Windows server connection.
On my MacOS 10.13.2 machine I am being inundated with network share login prompts literally every minute and they will not relent. If I ignore them and push them aside, they jump right back in my face. Pop-up ads aren't this insidious. Aside from the requirement to click "OK" to authenticate things already on your keyring, this is one my my least favorite changes in Sierra. I am not sure how I told AutoMounter that I want this network share that is on a NAS that no longer exists, but now I cannot find how to un-tell it because AutoMounter is attacking every 60 seconds. Console shows the proof:
After my iPhone 6S Plus was in cold weather -8*C Skiing with the iPhone near my body, my iPhone loses battery very quickly, decreases by 1 percent per 15 seconds just on the home screen with no apps open. Every few seconds of use the iPhone screen will go black and a circular loading sign will appear (no Apple logo) and it will go to the password screen soon after. I know that cold weather increases the internal resistance of Li-ion batteries, but surely no permenant damage when it was not even being used?
I have a very strange folder in trash that cannot be deleted, even in safe mode. It looks like this: a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b...
I have a VNC server (a QEMU VM to be exact) that I want to connect to, but I am experiencing a really strange problem. My server is on [ip]:5905 (or [ip]:5). When I try to connect to this server via VNC Viewer by RealVNC, it connects with absolutely no problems, except the Unencrypted connection warning. When I try to connect to exact same server using the built-in Screen Sharing app, it either tells me that it failed to connect, or it stays in an infinite “Connecting...” loop. What should I do?
I am going to buy a 2015 Macbook Pro. I'd like to be able to run SolidWorks with Parallels or Bootcamp occasionally (for 3D printing model development). I believe it requires OpenGL.
My Time Capsule backs up 4 Macs. Having recently carried out a big switcheroo of those Macs within our household, 3 of those machines have almost entirely new content, so it makes sense to give them entirely new Time Machine backups. The 4th machine's content is unchanged, so it should keep on using its existing TM sparsebundle. Is it possible for me to use the following method: make a copy of that 4th machine's sparsebundle reformat (or otherwise globally erase) the Time Capsule copy the sparsebundle back onto the TC have that 4th machine to continue backing up to that sparsebundle?
All works fine. But I was wondering, my sample library 'Samples' containes folders from the sample packs, and within the sample packs, there are folders called 'Bass Loops' etc.. Some of the sample packs may not have a name of Bass but are placed in the Bass Loops folder.
Is there any way to rotate a table by 90 degree? I've got vertical document but one table is to wide so I would like to rotate it.
I am running Mac OS High Sierra v10.13.2 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012). My Ruby version (output from >ruby -v) is ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]. When I am trying to install Homebrew using the following command:
I am looking for a command line tool that is able to make a log of the outgoing connections. I have already taken a look at the nettop command and it is really good, but the list of connections is updated in real time; due to this, I can't monitor quick operations like HTTP requests to websites or similar tasks. Then, can you suggest me some tools with this mentioned feature?
So I have Ubuntu and high sierra working fine, but yesterday I decided to expand the ubuntu disk space. So I free up space in the macos by deleting application and then doing a partition(this is how I remember allocating space for ubuntu when I installed it). The partition was done in osx. After a reboot, the option to boot osx is gone, so I can only boot ubuntu with reFind. I'm guessing the macos might have unmounted it self after the partitioning or it might have to do with the new mac file system which reFind doesn't recognise. Booting into recovery with command-R all I get is internet recovery and error code of -2002F meaning I cannot connect to apple server. Thanks for the help!
I use an iPhone 8 and my 12 year-old daughter had an iPhone 6 just purchased. I'm worried about Internet sites mainly and would like to monitor text messages of certain friends she has been in trouble with at school. I have spoken to her about this and it was one of the conditions she was allowed her own phone. Can my iPhone monitor her web sites and sms texts ? Can I block both from my phone? I have seen some apps but was told they could be circumvented.
Well, I've got a little problem with my SSD. I had Windows installed through the bootcamp, when macOS offered me a High Sierra update. I've updated. But when I wanted to remove Windows, I could not do it. I had to delete it via the Disk Utility. And then I ran into a problem: I had 2 containers on one internal physical disk.
I have an old Macbook with macOS Sierra and I wanted to transfer data from it to another Macbook using Time Machine backup. I took an uncrypted backup to an external drive, and then I installed the files using Recovery Mode with the other Macbook. Everything worked alright, until I tried to toggle on Filevault on that new Macbook, after which it said that Recovery Partition is missing, as for some reason it wasn't initialized with the macOS Recovery (never asked about creating one, so I thought it would be automatic).
I've only recently come across automation world and realized that it could help me solve one big problem. I've roughly 4 GB of PDF files in my computer, mostly from the university, they range from economics to philosophy and political science, in economics, they range across an almost infinite number of categories, the problem is that they are scattered all over the place. So I figured that the tag system really would help, but to manually assign tags in 4 GB of PDF's is not going to be a pleasant task. As far as I could figure out Automator isn't going to help because it seems it can't handle custom made tags, only the standard ones that come with Mac OS, so I turned to AppleScript, which I know virtually nothing. One thing I discovered, I could, theoretically, write an AppleScript and attach it to folders so it'd scan its contents, looking for PDF’s based on their name and then based on that name assign the tag, but I have no idea how that AppleScript would look like.
When running sometimes I get How does one verify if any named attribute exist for a given XXX.app?
I want to save all my photos to iCloud and then delete them from my iPhone. How do I delete them from the iPhone while still keeping a copy on iCloud?
In HTDOCS folder, when I created a folder using php script, folder has creating successfully but it's doesn't appear, the folder is exist but it's just not showing, i know it because if i used spotlight search, it's appear and i can open it in different finder window based on click on spotlight search result. It's also happen when i copy some file, i know it because if I double paste those file, window confirmation ask me to replace or keep the file both. And this happen only in HTDOCS folder.
After a reset and restore suggested by Apple's support for a completely different problem with my iPhone half of my music library become unplayable with the tracks appearing in gray and tapping them returning an error message "Object not available. This item can't be played".
When I tried to restore my iPhone from iTunes, it would give me an error code. So, I went into preferences and deleted the backup, thinking its just some cache that might be generating the problem. Is there some program or way to recover the deleted backup?
I just purchased an iPhone 8 Plus which is running iOS 11.2.1. I am upgrading from an iPhone 6s which I never upgraded to iOS 11. When I make a phone call, the top right option used to be a toggle for just speakerphone. Now, it shows "audio" and there are multiple options. They are: my iPhone, Speakerphone, and my iMac. My iMac did NOT used to appear as an option, and I do not want it to appear.
I'm trying to run a game server using WebSocket and node.js. It works fine for about 5 minutes and then all of a sudden the game stops and I can no longer connect to the internet.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro, which has been upgraded to a MacPro5,1. It's currently running macOS Sierra. I was going to upgrade it High Sierra, but the High Sierra installer said it needs to first update the firmware and asked me to proceed in doing that. I'm nervous to allow this to happen since the firmware was already upgraded from a MacPro4,1 to a MacPro5,1.
Good Afternoon All, I am attempting to mount an external hard drive using ext4fuse. I have installed ext4fuse using the following: This seems to work without issue and I can view the contents using sudo su, but not without. I followed the instruction on another post which states:
My computer is running High Sierra. I was planning to reclaim the free space in Macintosh HD and allocate it to Bootcamp. As I did this in Disk Utility, computer partition scheme was changed to AFPS and now I can only boot into apple, the multiboot option is gone. I ran the diskutil list command and this is my output. Additional output from commands:
What are the technical details behind how a worn battery slows down the iPhone 6? Why does replacing the battery with a new one fix the issue? Is it iOS doing the throttling or is it physical limitations of the hardware? Relevant news story on the subject
Will factory reset of my old iPad2 remove my transferred data from the new iPad and iPhone? Everything's on the same account. Do I have to unsynch first?
My goal is to search for all files with any of the 3 file extensions I specify. I tried various things but to no avail:
How can I remove the "Last Opened" extended attribute from a file (in this case a PDF)? I have tried looking at the file with xattr, and it doesn't show anything. However, the extended attribute shows up and is set when looking at the file with mdls and the hfsdata -a command from osxutils. So running xattr -d "kMDItemLastUsedDate" pdffile.pdf doesn't do anything, it says it can't find the attribute. xattr -c also does not do anything. As far as I can tell it has something to do with the kMDItemLastUsedDate extended attribute.
Running High Sierra. I used a Seagate external hard drive and a Verbatim hard drive for Time Machine backup. Suddenly they are both not recognised by the iMac. The power lights are on and the disks are spinning. I have tried direct connection and via a usb hub. I have tried different cables. I have another Seagate hard drive which works fine in both the hub and direct connection and with all the cables. How do I wake up the 2 drives? Disk Utility does not recognise them either.
I have an unlocked GSM iPhone 7. I am unable to get the iPhone to restore or reset via iTunes. Every attempt to do so returns error -1.
I've got this really old external drive which I store files from way back in college (~7yrs ago) in. Recently it has started acting up. I've tried a load of different option to reformat it (reformatted w/ PC, Ubuntu, and Mac).
I have a new drive. It is an SSD. I am trying to restore from a TM image. When I select the image and say to restore. I get an error message saying "An error occurred while preparing the disk "Samsung EVO 850" Try erasing the disk with Disk Utility or choosing a different disk to restore to" I have erased the disk in DU and get the same error.
I have an iMac and I'm trying to use the folder /Users/Shared to share files between different users of that iMac. When I copy something large to that folder two things happen The iMac slows down a lot On a macbook that I also own (same network, logged into same iCloud account, ...) there is a popup "pasting X items from iMac" and it seems to initiate a copy over the network
I just bought a Magic Mouse, but I find its sensitivity is not great (we obviously cannot play a shooting game with that). So I want to buy a gaming mouse. But one thing I am worried about is how to do Swipe between full-screen apps in a gaming mouse. Does anyone have an idea?
Apple has recently confirmed they're slowing down phones which have a battery that's too old. How can I verify if that's the case for my particular model? Is there an app that can tell me the current "slow down" stats?
Same goes for when I delete this plist, entirely -- a new plist is created with "0-3". Any ideas? UPDATE: Before posting this, I tried a tip I found which advised to repeatedly delete the plist then restart until the plist stays deleted — this never happened (a com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file has always been present after restarting) but the “0-3” has changed to “0-2”.
If you open the Airport Utility on you Mac, there is a option Add WPS Printer. Since Apple explicitly named it Add WPS Printer..., can you use this for other devices then Printers?
I accidentally deleted all of my bootcamp drivers on my mid-2015 iMac by undergoing a windows reset which I did not realize deleted all of my bootcamp drivers. I am currently stuck on windows with no backups to restore to. My Mac partition is not being read by Windows but Windows has not taken up the space the old partion would have. How would I go about restoring access to my macOS side?
A nice feature of TextEdit on a Mac is the Command+ or Command- shortcut which makes a selected piece of text grow or shrink, respecting the ratios between the different parts of the text (thus, if a heading’s font size is twice that of a paragraph, this 2:1 ratio is preserved by Command+ or Command-). I have been unable to find an equivalent in the MS Word 2011 on my Mac 10.11.6. Are there any ?
When I look at my sleep tracking I see the graph shows a spot for tomorrow for nine minutes. There's an end of year calculation bug. It thinks I have nine minutes of sleep in the future. It's currently December 31. It also calculate the total wrong. iOS 10.3.3
My iPhone 6s Plus doesn't want to download apps. Whenever I tap on GET as per the above screenshot, I get an error stating:
I have a really basic question, but the more I read, the more confused I get: How do I install pip so I can install kernels? This question came about when I tried to install the Hydrogen package to use in Atom, the text editor (to help me learn Python). I finally succeeded in installing Hydrogen, but got stumped by the missing kernels (not sure which ones I need, so I am willing to install them all). But I can't seem to install the kernels without pip.
We have our family computer (currently running OS X 10.12.6) set up so the kids can only access whitelisted sites. That is, under System Preferences -> Parental Controls -> Web we have selected "Allow access to only these websites".
I am unable to install the stock apps after a factory reset of my iPhone. Other apps seem to install fine. Any help would be appreciated. iPhone 6 iOS 11.0.3 Error:
Will Time Machine backup a RAID 1 Drive. Will you get single copy of data or is each mirrored drive backed up?
I know this has been asked on here before, and similarly to the others I have not backed up my data... I found this duplicate and got lost in the answer and didn't want to mess too much with the tables without finding out if that is even the right fix for my issue.
A neighbor of mine has a phone that keeps trying to connect to my Mac. Considering they're probably trying to connect, I'm a little annoyed. Any way I can find the BT MAC logged anywhere by default in High Sierra so I can pop this into the IgnoredDevices array? My console digging hasn't helped me so far.
Sometimes (and seemingly randomly) application icons don't show the application-specific icon for the application (see image). This happens everywhere, as far as I know (dock, application switcher, viewing /Applications in Finder).
Often 3rd party kernel extensions (aka Kexts) are the cause of problems on macOS systems. One tell-tale sign is a system that boots okay in Safe Mode and doesn't reproduce the problems a user may be experiencing when booted normally. While this doesn't guarantee the problem is a 3rd party kernel extension, it's certainly one of the more likely causes. How does a user identify what 3rd part kernel extensions are installed on their Mac?
I've got some wireless bluetooth headsets which I really like except for the fact that I have little to no control over whether the bluetooth subsystem chooses A2DP (high quality music) versus the HFP (low latency skype-type hands-free) protocols. Whenever I launch Google hangouts, for example, and I choose the microphone as the input device the bluetooth system switches the audio quality on my headset. Using bluetooth explorer I see that it's using HFP with the SCO codec:
I installed Windows 7 on my 2011 MacBook Pro (MacOS High Sierra) successfully. It was recognized at boot time by the computer and had no problems.
Someone has put themselves as my family on my iTunes gift card account and used up almost all my remaining balance. Is there something you can do about this? This person is definitely not in my family or anyone that I know.
One of my USB ports is being constantly disabled by my OS because it is drawing too much power, without a device attached. Is there any way to permanently disable the port?
In the process of purging Windows off my computer I did something rather stupid. I accidentally deleted the partition with the bootloader off of my hard drive. Is there any way that I can rebuild it or restore the partition? Currently I have UBCD and can use that if needed.
I am designing an AppleScript which contains a hard-coded date to which the script refers multiple times throughout the duration of the execution. An example is as follows:
I've tried to install Kali Linux as dual boot with macOS. I've partitioned 20 GB on the side from 250 GB for that purpose but the installation didn't go as planned. So I decided to reboot macOS and just delete the partition. When I went to Disk Utility, I didn't find the 20 GB partition anywhere, so based on google I've deleted them using the Terminal, but I ended up having FFFFFFF as a partition type on the 230 GB partition.
I took a Time Machine backup to an external drive from old MacBook (Sierra) and then put it to a new one (High Sierra automatically) using macOS Recovery and "Restore From Time Machine Backup". Drive on the old Macbook was encrypted using FileVault but the backup I took wasn't encrypted as it takes ages to encrypt one.
My Mail.app is configured for Gmail and Exchange.  The Exchange shows subfolders directly inside Inbox, but Gmail has separate Googletab below Mailboxes tab.
And that picture is from diskutil list command:  Right now neither Windows nor macOS is working.
Since a while, probably the last system update, after inactivity, the screen won't go to sleep. The system itself is configured not to go to sleep, but the screen should, and it should lock then, but it doesn't. There is a similar question here: My MacBook won't go to sleep anymore
I use multiple (3) screens with a High Sierra iMac + 2 slave screens. How do I get High Sierra to remember what is up on each screen when it wakes up after sleep? I have one High Sierra verison on a Thunderbolt drive which remembers the screen menus perfectly, but the iMac High Sierra will not remember the correct placements for each screen and combines them all onto the main iMac screen on wake up.
Is there a macOS app to manage and organise apps on iOS? Apple used to have this as part of iTunes but since they have dropped that feature there doesn't seem to be any real alternative to manage all those iPhone apps into separate screens and a manageable order.
I’ve got an iPhone 6 from a friend. I didn’t delete everything from that iPhone, but I logged in with a new AppleID. I recently bought a new one iPhone 8 Plus, I tried to restore from my AppleID cloud, but the apps that were installed with my friends ID couldn’t restore or install. what is happening? I can find new apps with my Touch ID from the App Store, with my account, but when I am trying to reinstall apps that have been installed with my friends ID, it is impossible. It says that my pass does not exist. I choosed to restore my account. But 4 days by now, nothing happened.
I have AppleID & pass. My account. 2FA exists and can’t turn off (iPhone 8 plus, iOS 11.2). Have device with authorized phone number in possession, so I can receive/use 2FA. Problem is—even with latter, primary registered device is notified. How can do it without Primary registered/authorized device being alerted?
The instructions for a tool to move WhatsApp messages from Android to iOS say that I need to install: Whatsapp.ipa appears to be the app itself. How do I locate it? After backing up an iPhone using iTunes on a Mac, only the data seem to be in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup (with coded filenames). The apps do not seem to be there (as would be expected; that would be wasted storage). A comment below this answer suggests that it's somewhere under ~/Library, but yields nothing. (I'm working my way through this problem.)
I posted this on the Apple forums but, as usual, it goes weeks and weeks without answers. I have strange problem that has happened before but now is many times worse. The issue is that I have a Mac Mini running High Sierra and it will stop publishing it's shares to my network after between an hour and four hours (I haven't nailed this down exactly) and every one of my Mac's, regardless of OS version, will be unable to access the shares anymore. If I try to connect to that system in any way from any computer it just tries for a few minutes and tells me it is unavailable. One interesting additional issue is that when the computer stops publishing shares I can also no longer access the sharing preference pane, always getting the message "Preferences Error - Could not load Sharing preference pane". This has happened before with much less regularity back when I had upgraded my "server" to El Capitan but it seemed to settle down eventually. Coincidentally when this computer is in this "state
Why doesn’t the /etc/paths file include the /usr/local/sbin directory on macOS? I would have expected:
Messages on High Sierra has become increasingly unusable for me. I get frequent (every dozen words or so, at least once per message) long (5-20s) lags when typing — which seem to occur most often when something ambiguous has been entered (a typo or incomplete word) — or when switching to the Messages window. Messages has been increased slow and a resource hog on macOS (to the point where I just shut it off most of the time) in general, but this unresponsiveness is the major annoyance. What causes this and how can I fix it? I've followed suggestions I've found online to turn off syncing of contacts in all accounts but one (in my case iCloud), but that seems to have no effect. Pauses seem to be associated with log entries (filtered on "contact" errors) like the following, but it could be many other things too (e.g., changes of focus to Messages), and there's no clear association with the exact logging of an error and the lag: A related question focused on a possible cause (perhaps extend
I have a 13-inch early 2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display, and today the keyboard and trackpad stopped working completely. (I have OS X 10.11.5 if that's relevant. I can't update to sierra, as a software I use is not compatible with it). The only thing that works is the power button. Now, this isn't unprecedented. This started happening a few weeks ago, but every time it happened, shutting down and restarting by holding the power button fixed the issue. But today it didn't.
I have been suffering from some weird issues on my MacBook Pro after periods of usage. These are a few of the problems which occur once the problem starts. Software starts behaving weird/stops working correctly The Mac will sometimes say it can't start the software Messages semi logs out, it receives messages but doesn't let you send them. All issues resolve with a restart.
Even if I don't do anything with the files in a .sparsebundle, just having a .sparsebundle open, it seems it is alive. Let me explain.
I'm trying to DBAN -- or otherwise wipe -- my old 2009 Mac OS X 10.6 Mac mini. The CD drive on the Mac is broken, so I have been trying to do it with a bootable USB. No matter what I try, I cannot get the USB drive to show in Startup Manager. This is what I've got so far: DBAN 2.3 iso downloaded UNetbootin to make the bootable image The Cruzer pen-drive is formatted HFS+ with GUID Partition map -- DiskUtil reports the non-EFI, DBAN partition as bootable. I've tried various key combinations to reset NVRAM, I've follow apple.com advice on how to set legacy insecure behavior on NVRAM
I am trying to understand why are these devices showing when I log into Find my iPhone. I checked each device (belongs to family members) and each is logged into their own iClouds with their own login info. Turning off Find my iPhone on their device[s] stops it from showing up on the map, and turning it on adds it back.
My problem started when I run for the first time my .osx through terminal (bash .osx) and the Mac stopped showing apps icons, then I run some commands for cleaning the cache of the icons and now my Mac won't pass the loading screen after login, it completes to 100% and won't show me anything else, and with verbose I got that screen after I type my password and click to login. .osx file link: *=URL=* Commands I ran for cleaning the icons cache (Recommended by this post: Apps Icons not appearing):
On Manage Storage in my macOS Sierra within the section iOS Files. I had cut-and-paste a folder in the iOS Files to my USB flash drive. I wanted to free up some space temporarily. Now I am trying to drag-and-drop back again and it doesn't let me. I am wondering is there a way to copy the directory back again to the iOS Files either via terminal or by another way. Example
Since my upgrade to 10.11, disk images are occasionally slow to unmount. Typically these are installation images and local virtual disk images that I use to store encrypted data. Sometimes they unmount instantly, other times it can take 15 or 20 seconds.
I typed in terminal and entered the password. However, nothing happened. I suppose tmutil to return all local snapshots on my computer, but it only returns xxxs-MacBook-Pro-3:~ xxx$.
My iPad is frozen. I have Assistive Touch enabled. I can touch some buttons in AssistiveTouch, but I can't shut it down. The sleep button on the device is broken too.
[Mac OS 10.13.2] I'm trying to setup the standard Apache version (2.4.28) that comes with Mac OS to run mod_fcgid but I can't find it anywhere, nor can I build it from source. I wish I had done this earlier as I wouldn't have this problem now. mod_fcgid has gone missing from Homebrew since they've reorganised the Homebrew/homebrew-apache repository and emptied it without indicating where all its contents have gone (like they've drunk the wine and are giving away the empty bottle): For reasons beyond my control, I'm using Homebrew as the 'package manager' that Apple doesn't want to supply, and thus can't use Mac Ports. I can't build mod_fcgid.so (even though I have the source) because, Apple in its 'infinite wisdom', have decided to no longer ship apxs on High Sierra (it's worth looking further into this as I'm sure you'll find some surprises you weren't aware of), which is a required component of the Apache build toolchain. Anyone know how to get mod_fcgid.so on High Sierra?
PhotoScanPro, when i run the program it says your system run out of application memory
Simple question: is it possible to get the "Quick Look" of images and text files by clicking the results of ls in an iTerm2 window?
So my goal is to use iCloud Drive to hold all of my ebooks and organize accordingly. On my iPad and iPhone, I have enabled iCloud Drive and by iBooks in Manage iCloud Drive, toggled that on too.
I restored my new iPhone using a third party app iSkysoft. It uses iTunes backup and restored my phone. I used it as needed to selectively restore my phone due to storage problem. Now, after restoring I am facing this problem that for all the Messages conversations that I restored, I am unable to send them message. I checked the phone number, which appears to be fine, but message cannot be cannot send. How do I resolve this issue?
I met a problem when using linux top command on macOS. The default top open view now looks like
It could be the lateness of the hour, but I can't understand why the following script isn't working. It's directly from the CommuniGate Pro documentation *=URL=* but when I try to run it manually, the echo commands don't echo, and the email never gets sent. Installation process: copy from web page, sudo pico filename, paste, save, chmod 755.
Any help or comments are appreciated. Thank you!
My iPhone 6 got water damaged. And I checked and found that logic board has short circuit. So I'm planning to buy a logic board from eBay and replace old one. But I want to check it just by connecting iPhone 6 logic board to a battery and a display. Can I check whether the logic board I just bought is working properly or not?
I restored my new Phone from the itunes back up using the iSkysoft due to lack of storage (selective restore). After restoring I wasnt able to send messages to anyone, later turned out that numbers have been corrupted. In the below image the number should be either 0346 3897737 Or +923463897373 but it missed the 0 at the beginning. I tried again and again, but every time it has the same problem. Is there any way I can get them back.
Does anybody know how to share local Ulysses content across Mac user accounts? I can see the local content is not stored at a user-specific directory: ~/Library/Containers/com.soulmen.ulysses3
As you see here, I can't access any Apple Remote Control on my security preferences so I'm not able to pair my Apple Remote again. I'm using High Sierra updated. Funny thing it was working previously on the same Mac w/ same config. Any ideas? Thanks!
Is there a way to prevent Dropbox, or any other cloud service, from synchronizing those ._ and .DS_store files, although they exist in the Dropbox folder?
A website I work on has a partly transparent png image overlying parts of the website. The image is resized to 100% of the browser window width. In all other browsers the transparent parts behave normal – but safari shows a thin outline whee the image should be transparent. I hope the screenshot makes the problem clear:
When transferring my Messages database (~/Library/Messages/chat.db*) to a new local user account, and launch Messages as the new user, the messages do not appear until I reboot. Sometimes a "Converting iMessage database" dialog appears and just stays forever. I have even tried transferring about my whole Library folder without any luck. The whole things seems buggy. How can I make the messages appear instantly without a reboot?
I've seen a few similar posts, but they are quite old, and the problem I have is not exactly the same, so here it is: For a few months (and probably after I upgraded to iOS 11, although I don't remember exactly), my iPhone has kept asking for my iCloud password in the settings.
I used to have 2TB of iCloud storage then for several months of not paying, I was downgraded to 5GB free storage. What happens to the data I previously had? Will it get deleted?
I am using AppleScript and Python together to gather system information about the Macs in my stock as well as adding some supplemental info to the Spotlight comments field. Specifically, AppleScript gathers the info on the Mac whose details I am capturing (whilst booted up to an external USB drive). I use dialogue boxes etc to gather feedback about OS version to be installed, the order number as well as the machine's actual marketing name (thanks to *=URL=* these are all saved as comments in the final System Profiler *.spx file that is generated/saved by the script.
I have an older MacBook Air (Mid 2011) now running High Sierra. I am backing up documents, pics, and videos to an external HD that is formatted in exFAT. I use my MBA and a Lenovo system interchangibly and need files accessible on both, hence exFAT. I noticed size and size on disk in Lenovo to be tremendously different (400 GB takes up 800 GB space for example). In trying to figure out what was happening, I came across an unusual file system block size on my MacBook, at least as far as I am reading it. I followed the steps shown on this page What are the sector sizes on Mac OS X?.
Is there a way to modify the type style and add JPEGs or PNGs to Contacts?
I've got the most beefed up version of MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) from *=URL=* I've got two monitors:
Currently, when I SSH onto a Linux machine, the ls output colors and syntax coloring in VIM are different from the colors on my local machine. The colors shown are not defined in my Profile...Colors...ANSI Colors, and include an ugly dark brown color for "yellow." How can I force the text from a remote session to match my ANSI colors, so the coloring is always consistent?
New MBP purchase shipped with High Sierra. I'd like to downgrade to Sierra but am running into the issue that you can't install a version of the OS lower than what was shipped. The explanation I found is that the drivers don't exist, but I know for a fact that the drivers exist since there is another MBP at my company shipped just a few months prior with the same specs, running Sierra. Is there any way to force this laptop to boot into a bootable Sierra install USB drive so I can perform the downgrade? I can't even get this laptop to boot from a live Linux USB, I just get a giant "No" icon. It seems li
I find it annoying and get no use from it. Here's a picture of what I'm talking about:
I have a 2 TB external drive. It contains two volumes (disk2s1 & disk2s2): I tried to format my first partition with Disk Utility, and changed format from Système de fichiers Windows NT File System (NTFS) to Système de fichiers Windows NT, but now, I can access my first empty partition, but the second one can't be mounted... The system version is 10.13 High Sierra. I already tried: diskutil mount readOnly /dev/disk2s2, but I get I also tried to restart in safe mode, and repair my hd, but options SOS is greyed What can I do?
is it true that only Apple chargers are secure from data theft from your phone through electrical systems such as in a hotel or coffee shop? I was told that you should never use a non-Apple phone or iPad charger because only Apple is proven to keep you secure from information being stolen while you are plugged in to a large non-residential power supply.
Is there a way to automatically quit (though not force quit) all visibly running applications on a Mac except for the current one? Besides going through every one and quitting each one separately?
I found that many of my books and PDFs had been removed from iBooks. I'm not sure exactly how it happened but recently I had both used the Storage Management app (to remove a few specific books) and turned on syncing on a new Mac that already had some books stored locally in iBooks. Anyway, I can see that my remaining books are stored in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/. If I run open /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/ and then try to open Time Machine, I'm just brought to a Time Machine window for iCloud Drive and it appears empty, with no iBooks entry. If I try to go to the specific folder in Time Machine (with cmd+shift+g) I'm just dropped back at the iCloud Drive folder again. So how can I (1) check if my books were backed up by Time Machine and (2) restore them?
I'm making short sound effects for a music track using Garage Band I don't want any silent time at the end of the SFX and don't need a loop. Is there a way to stop the track say 1 second or so after the effect has played?
A couple days ago, I was streaming a show on the internet when suddenly the internet stopped working. I closed my tabs and restarted my WiFi but to no avail. I checked to see if the internet was functioning as usual on my phone and it was. Therefore, this must be an issue with my device- a MacBook air- and not with the router. So far I: ran diagnostics and according to that, everything is in working order. renewed the DHCP lease. made sure it wasn't a dns issue. reset SMC and NVRAM cleared my browser cache checked my download folder for anything suspicious restarted many times, both in safe mode and recovery mode
Install macOS virtual machine on Windows and connect iPhone physically over USB to Windows host. But it doesn't seem legal to install macOS as virtual machine on non-Apple branded hardware (see *=URL=* and Using Mac in a virtual machine legality?)
My dad has been trying to set up iMessage on my sisters iPod touch so my sister can text me. How do I sign in to iMessage on my iPod? People have said to clear out all of the data, but we have not done so because all of the apps and contacts will be erased.
With Homebrew-Cask you can install many programs such as Google Chrome or OmniFocus. I can come up with a few advantages: You can install programs without going though the process of finding the download link, possible mounting the image, and installing it if contains an installer (although this doesn't save too much time unless you're trying to reinstall many programs on another computer) You can install programs without going though the process of finding the download link, possible mounting the image, and installing it if contains an installer (although this doesn't save too much time unless you're trying to reinstall many programs on another computer) You can uninstall the programs fairly easily You can uninstall the programs fairly easily Looking at the website, they list three advantages: Install with ease – this I mentioned above Unix-savvy, macOS-friendly – here it mentions applications are installed in /Applications or any other configured area, which is nice but not a game-ch
I need to purchase a new MBP for my boss. He wants all of the bells and whistles and he wants a docking station at home with a nice screen. He likes the Dell U3417W but I'm not clear whether there is a way to have it work with the new MBP.
I feel like this (bug?) started happening after one of the latest OS updates applied. I'm currently using Mac OS X High Sierra (10.13.2). Steps to reproduce: Start OS Switch language to Russian Able to type in Russian Switch language to English Result: Still types in English, even though it shows Russian as selected language....
How can stop iTerm2 from using the mounted disk I cd'd into? Sometimes, even when i cd out, it's still blocking the disk. I have to ⌘-Q the entire program which is very irritating. It's just idling anyway, there is no point in blocking the disk. So how can I disable it? I'm surprised I couldn't find any Google results either. Force unmounting the disk does the trick for the time being: diskutil unmount force /Volumes/MyVolume, however, I'm looking for a cleaner solution.
then trying to do anything with the machine the hanging beach ball problem returns immediately. Only recourse to cycle power. Machine appears normal, can log in, see GUI. Can do very limited stuff like Apple>About this system (what ever) once, or twice, then it hangs. Tried one thing on each iteration like turning off airport or turning off bluetooth. I get that one thing done but then the machine hangs.
3 people at my office send me messages from their iOS device. If I read and reply from my iOS device, all works well. If I read and reply from my Mac, the replies get mixed and and the wrong person receives it. I have each set up in my Contacts with unique mobile numbers, but identical work numbers.
My MacBook Pro running High Sierra spontaneously rebooted while I was moving the mouse using Chrome as focus to access GMail. Upon reboot I got this panic report: Is there any clue in there what went wrong or what program caused the issue?
I am kind new on OSX environment, learning about the dotfiles now, I am building my own following a guide. Got a mix between paulirish and mathiasbynens, getting what I want from them.
My projector is having a very strange issue where the green channel is inverted. This seems to be happening inside the projector (the menus are broken too). I figure since I have a computer, all I have to do is invert the green channel of the video output and it should be normal again. Poking some further, it seems all I have to do is create an ICC color profile, or edit the one from my projector, to invert the green color. But how do I edit those color profiles?
I just migrated an iPhone5 to an X. I'd like to put the iPhone5 into very long-term (probably 1+ year) storage. While I'll hopefully never need it again, I'd like to keep a back-up iPhone at the ready.
Is it possible to set keyboard shortcuts to work with burst images in Photos for Mac OSX (10.13+)? The existing process involves a LOT of clicking - first you have to select which photos to keep, then you have to click on the done button, then you have to click on another button to choose either what you selected or keep everything. The process is extremely tedious. It would be very useful if i could assign keyboard shortcuts to simple functions - e.g., left/right arrows move through photos, space selects a photo, enter/return keeps your selection, etc. Is anything like this possible? Thanks!
Every so often the default viewer for PDF files gets changed to iBooks. I want PDF files to be opened with Preview, and I want that setting to persist.
How people sync contacts between devices on PC, Tablet, Phone? When i use same apple account on my ipad and iphone it is ok but it is not possible to sync with my Android Tablet (google account) and my PC (Microsoft Account) How to achieve that?
I have an iPhone but am thinking of getting a OnePlus 5T and selling my iPhone. I also have a Mac and I've started to develop React Native apps too. Is the iOS simulator enough to test and publish apps to the iOS App Store, or should I keep my iPhone?
I am blind user and I must use a program which is an accessible with Voiceover, the Apple screen reader. That’s why I need a way to press keys instead of learning to click something which I don’t see. On a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, how do I use keyboard combinations, instead of Touch Bar clicks?
On my Macbook with a US-International physical keyboard, the windows of one application are cycled with CMD+`. Now I also use an iMac that has a German keyboard (the printing on the keys). I switched the layout to US-International, but weirdly, the windows of one application are now switched with CMD+> instead. This is exactly the key that would be in the same location as CMD+` would I be using the German keyboard layout. I am not using that layout, though and I don't want to cycle windows with CMD+>. How can I customize this setting?
I'm not an IDE user and I spend a lot of time going back and forth between finder windows opening files in quicklook just to look at a thing here and there. This gets awkward fast, specially as QL loses the spot I was reading at, and the file browser is not as attuned to this usage as that of an IDE file browser. Also, the QLStephen source code preview stops working from time to time. I'm wondering, is there any lightweight alternative to browsing source files like this?A finder replacement, a terminal utility, or something like those old school image file browsers ala ACDSee but for text?
I am trying to delete a user from iTunes Connect users and roles tab. This user was provided a developer role and has not accepted the invitation. The invitation is already expired. When ever I click on Edit and select the user and again click on delete it doesn't seems to do anything and the user remains in the list as it is below is the screen shot for same.
inspecting the file to which access is apparently denied reveals that the file should be accessible with read+write permissions. If that adds any element, running a sample python script that imports the matplotlib module returns that matplotlib is not installed, while I can see one such module under:
Back in iOS 10, it was a new feature that words from a different language and be mixed in your primary language and wouldn't get autocorrected. And you can type the whole thing in that other language and it will actually help you put accent on these foreign words. Then in iOS 11 it all disappeared. Does anyone have a fix for this? For this feature I am mentioning, we can see an article pointing it out here http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/22/inside-ios-10-multilingual-typing-eases-autocorrect-woes
I have 2 old macs with data that needs to be moved to 1 new mac. Can I simply run migration assistant twice, moving the data into the same user account on the new mac?
The phone has never been jailbroken. Never got wet, anything. But after one night it reboot, and got stuck. The battery overheat and even after a few attempts to solve the issue through iTunes, Recovery and DFU mode, it continues stuck at the same part of the boot. I really don't know what to do anymore. It is an iPhone 7 Plus 256, 2 months without warranty! Thats the worst!! I'm running iTunes 12.7.2.58 on a MacBook Pro
I have an issue on iOS 11.2.5 tested on both an iPhone 6S and an iPhone 8. When DHCP offers the IP address of our local DNS caching server (on BIND9), it shows up in the settings page just fine, but doesn't work. Switching from automatic to manual, but not changing anything (i.e. the IP of the local DNS cache is still there), it suddenly works fine. This is happening on multiple devices and even after full reboots.
Following the instructions on this article, I've had hibernatemode 25 working since Sierra, El Capitan, and probably Yosemite. It's set via: Beforehand, it worked like this:
How can applescript display a long text that does not fit on the screen? I am looking for command similar to "display dialog", yet where I would be able to read the whole text. "display dialog" amended with a scrollbar would do the job. Thanks
When I'm in the "highlights and notes" view in Preview, I can click on a comment in the grey area, and it will jump to the comment/highlight. Is there anyway to do the opposite, where I can click on the highlight or "comment square" within the text, to jump to the sidebar note itself? Moreover, if I am not in "highlights and notes" view, is there a way to click on the in-text highlight/square and have the comment appear if it exists? I do not want to have to right-click and hit "edit note" to do this.
How do I know if I am connected? Terminal does not respond to any of the listed commands from 'help'. I can control+c to get the prompt back, stop, restart, and connect and get the "attached to key daemon.." response. How does one reference this connection, if it is a connection?
I have recently been trying to systematically extract album artwork from my iTunes library, such that I can use them elsewhere. I understand that all the album artwork is stored in the Album Artwork folder, inside iTunes-specific .itc2 files. I have researched and found that these files are simply wrappers for PNG, JPG, and RAW image data.
Does "backing up" read/write data to a hard drive? I'd like to backup both my Mac (using Time Machine) & my PC to a single 3 TB Seagate external hard drive using the USB port on my wireless router. If this is relevant, the router supports the following file system types for full read/write access: • FAT16 • FAT32 • NTFS • NTFS with compression format enabled • Ext2 • Ext3 • Ext4 The router supports the following file system types with read-only access: • HFS • HFS+
Using iTunes or Spotify to play music through bluetooth headphones. While the music is playing, I watch a YouTube video in Safari. When the video ends, the music is muted. I can see in the music app that it is still playing, just muted.
I got a 2015 MacBook Pro from eBay. I’m trying to install Sierra from scratch (after completely formatting the SSD) but I get this strange extra step (although the install USB is vanilla and done using Apple’s own bootable usb tool) that I can’t pass (pressing continue asks me to connect to a IBM private network, which I obviously can’t do)
I'm capturing packets on a specific channel using "airport" command on Mac OS X Sierra. The command saves the packets into a *.cap file in my tmp folder. The file is already almost 2 GB large. What I would like to do is to pause the capturing process and then be able to continue to capture on the same channel and into the same *.cap file. I'm afraid to just abort the command in Terminal using CTRL+C because then after rerunning the command I suspect it will just create another *.cap file and not continuing using the original one. The exact command I ran is:
I would like to password-protect apps individually (prevent uninstall) with a long password. On stock IOS this is not possible. Are there any apps that do this on jailbroken IOS 11?
I'm having a friend take my iPhone 6 to the local Apple Store to replace my failing battery. What steps must I take to have my phone ready for the Apple Store technician? I read somewhere you may need to disable 'Find My Phone'. Is this true? What other steps should I take? Will the fingerprint reader require my presence?
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro 15″ with High Sierra. I never turn off my laptop, instead I simply put it to sleep, so next day it's easier and faster to turn it on.
I have an issue where the mouse cursor(I-beam) on my Mac (High Sierra) is extra large. The large size only appears when viewing this Mac via Screen Sharing - the client Mac I'm on shows the correct size for the mouse cursor in local application, but whenever I select/hover text in the remote/host Mac the mouse cursor is huge. If I look at the local display for that Mac, the mouse cursor is the correct size, so it's not a system setting on the host, but some kind of display issue with Screen Sharing itself.
I have thousands of "Group" folders in my Apple Contacts, something went haywire in a sync years ago. No way to get them out other than 1 by 1. Any suggestions?
My iMac had an SSD startup drive (called SSD) and a 3TB internal hard drive (MacintoshHD) duplicating the SSD as well as containing the User folders and all data. MacintoshHD died last week. I reinstalled the original 1TB hard drive (also called MacintoshHD but not currently being used) and bought an external Thunderbolt 4TB drive. Onto this I've copied my home folder (at root level so the supplied LaCie setup software is untouched in the root too).
First of all, I've seen How to prevent mail app from marking e-mails from VIP as spam and did the steps. For some reason, Mail.app (macOS 10.13.2) thinks perfectly legit mails are junk:
I'm pretty sure my Mac has his high cpu usage rates due to an error that keeps repeating itself all day. I took this info from /var/log/ but couldn't find the file at /system/library/LaunchAgents so that I could delete it or whatever.
How can I "Optimize for" an external monitor, downscale the resolution but supersample for clear text, similar to leaving macbook open and saying optimize for built-in retina display "looks like 1440x900"? I posted question here but got no answers -- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8203211
Just plugged in two LG 5K Ultrafine displays on either side of my iMac Pro 8 core. Everything on each display is slightly blurry. When I unplug one of the displays, the other returns to razor sharp clarity as I expect. Each monitor is plugged directly into the iMac - no daisy chaining. How can I get both monitors to show clearly?
I'm using a Macbook Pro 15-inch (early 2011) runs MacOS Sierra, the main storage has been replaced with SSD as system volume, and running applications on it. SuperDrive has been replaced with a HDD as data volume, and my Home directory points to it.
I have a 2015 MacBook Air 13. Right after I let it sleep and reopen, I can't type the password as it only beeps when alphanumeric keys are pressed. It also beeps when escape, space, delete or arrow keys are pressed.
My internal optical drive is not working despite attempts to clean it. I have an external USB Superdrive but it will not work with my MacBook Pro since it has the internal optical drive. If I just remove the internal drive, will my MacBook Pro recognize (and work properly with) the superdrive. I primarily use the superdrive to copy audiobooks from CDs into my computer.
I deleted 1 of 2 partitions with the following commands to merge 2 partitions: But I got the following error when I run the last command:
I put my mac to sleep, returned several hours later to find it was off. I logged back in and all the windows I had opened reopened. This was not a battery issue. When I run 'last reboot' on the terminal, it shows today, at the time I turned it back on. However, when I run 'last shutdown' it shows the most recent shutdown as occuring 12/15. I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.6
If I use Terminal to initiate a time-consuming process (in this case, deleting a large .sparsebundle file on my Time Capsule, which could take hours) and if I then quit the Terminal app itself before that process has completed, does that ongoing process (the deletion) also quit? Or does Terminal just act as the 'trigger' and the process runs autonomously regardless of whether Terminal.app is active or not?
For the past year I've experienced high CPU usage on CORE process (activity monitor) and also extreme heating, with cooling fans at maximum, draining my battery every single day. My home banking requires a security module to be installed, named WARSAW (DIEBOLD, Gas Tecnologia). So I came across this solution: *=URL=* I know many many people have this problems and it was really really hard to find a solution for this.
We found a new iPhone 8 in a foreigner country, the owner of the phone is also a tourist in that country. The sim card in this phone is a new local sim card that this owner bought at that same day( I know by an sms on the lock screen he received about it). It’s locked with touch ID. We really really wanted to find this man, but we couldn’t. We waited for him to call but we suspect that he doesn’t know his own phone number because it’s a new number he bought probably for data only. We waited for him to call but we suspect that he doesn’t know his own phone number because it’s a new number he bought probably for data only. He didn’t use Find my iPhone(i think) or got any message from a friend on the lock screen( because this sim is a new number/data only probably) He didn’t use Find my iPhone(i think) or got any message from a friend on the lock screen( because this sim is a new number/data only probably) Now, i am not sure i can find him or return it to him because we left that city, an
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, 2015) connected to 2 LCD monitors: one through VGA and one through DVI. Text in both this monitors look awfully blurry. Example:
This is what happens over and over while trying to install Windows in a Bootcamp partition.  How can I get back to macOS?
When a friend uses the Share button in Safari to send me a link by email, the email I receive is a huge (and very buggy!) reconstruction of the Webpage including pictures and everything. How can I reconfigure macOS to only share a single line with the link itself and nothing more?
I need to export the chat history of an iMessage chat to either a text or PDF file. I realize this is a common question, but I ask it again because preferably, each message should have beside it a record of: The sender, and a time/date-stamp for when the message was sent.
If I open several tabs in the terminal, minimize the window and make the window active again, the first tab will be switched on. I want to keep my last chosen tab on when I active the terminal, which I believe is the expected behavior before. Is there any setting I missed to fix that? I recorded a video to show my issue: *=URL=* System: macOS 10.13.2.
It turns out that the directory where pip2 installed into is ~/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/. For python2 to load it as a module I could include this latter path in my $PYTHONPATH variable, however I would prefer not to rely on the directory ~/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ as my python installation is rather messy in that location (there is stuff that was put there without Homebrew) and I would hope to rely on Homebrew alone for the moment.
Is there a shortcut for closing all the open tabs in Chrome browser on an iPad? Last time I checked, which has been a few years now, this function was available on the iPhone, but not on an iPad.
Some applications currently don't seem to allow copy and pasting. For example I have an application that asks me to log in every time and it doesn't allow me to paste anything so I'm forced to type a very long and complicated password every time.
I regularly use the Notes app with our corporate IMAP server to share notes between my devices. (Corporate policy forbids us from using iCloud or any other 3rd party service.)
I want to create a course but where I come from Itunes U Course Manager isn’t supported. I tried solving this but with no success. I use Chrome and have downloaded an extension called Bitternet which sets up a Proxy so that my IP appears to be in the US. I have also created a new apple ID which has an adress in the US but still when i try to log into the Itunes U Course Manager it says “Country not supported”. Is there a way to bypass this?
I want iTunes to stop generating titles on its own and use the filenames, so that the episodes end up sorted correctly. How do I do this?
I want to create shortcuts like "Copy path of current folder" and "Open terminal in current folder" in the screenshotted context menu. I know how achieve this with Services and Automator but only for when a file or folder is right-clicked. How do I do it when a blank area is right-clicked?
I have a macbook air 1.4 Core i5 with macOS sierra. It hangs every time I shut it down. Thus, I cannot update it to high sierra. Using command+v I was able to screenshot the printout during the shutdown sequence.
I'm running Windows 10 in Parallels on my brand new 2017 Macbook Pro. While at work, I have two attached monitors and an old clicky Windows keyboard.
I have a computer that I use for work and, after installing a bunch of required proprietary software, I noticed that my MacBook Pro (macOS 10.13.2) is auto-generating a new admin user account called "[COMPANY NAME] Admin Support". I ended up deleting what I thought was all the proprietary software from my company, as it slowed down my computer and in general I had no idea what kinds of things it was running in the background. (For one, I kept getting notifications that not all the required software I needed to install was installed.)
I ejected the iPhone and restarted iTunes, but that doesn't help. iTunes seems to remember the file as "Podcast" instead of "Music", so that effectively I can never, ever load this file onto the iPhone and listen to it. How can I coerce iTunes into displaying or replacing this lost file?
I have an iphone and I want to get my complete gps history, similar to what google offers here: *=URL=* Unfortunately, my iPhone wasn't configured to send this data already to google. I am aware that I can get three months of gps data through my iPhone itself. This is not sufficient.
My iPad Pro was locked during New Year’s Eve. I've tried to change the password but my Apple ID is disabled. I went to the website to change my password and filled the requested information. An email was sent to my email but I don’t recognize that email — I don't even know an email server that starts with ‘@m’. When I was setting up the iPad it didn't ask me for an email. I was surprised because on my iPhone I had to use my Gmail.
When I place my compatible iPhone on a wireless charger, it slowly falls off the charger over time as vibrations come in from messages. I appreciate the notification, but not if it will cause the phone to eventually fall off the charger. Are there any other options besides (1) manually turning vibrate mode to ring, which sometimes vibrates anyway, or (2) manually activating Do Not Disturb?
There is an option for keyboard backlight to be switched off after some timeout. I would like to do the same for Touch Bar.
I want to run sudo ifconfig lo0 alias someIp every time I open my mac, what would be the best way to achieve this?
I'm using Firefox with duckduckgo, I search for a location and it provides me a map on the right with the location I'm looking for. Clicking on it will show a prompt asking if I want to open it on Apple Maps software. I wanted to open it on a web page so I've put Firefox.app, Clicked "Remember My Choice". Same dialog but for maps in my case Firefox Preferences: Bug: Firefox enter in a loop opening a tab that opens another tab etc... Needed: Remove Firefox from the automatic opened App from OSX Settings when I click on this kind of link (mail.apple.com). Checked: *=URL=* It's not a file but an URL so I don't know where to change this. Thanks for any help
Maybe some kind of tests or similar information. If an iPhone has 75% from design capacity should it be replaced or not?
While Apple has yet to comment on the flaw, Alex Ionescu, Windows security expert, noted a fix was present in a new 10.13.3 update to macOS. source: How to Protect Yourself From Meltdown and Spectre, the Latest Processor Security Flaws
How do I find last location my iPad was used? It’s not connect to WiFi & is off obviously. I just need to know if I just put it in weird place in my house or it’s actaully gone. Sick of looking:-((
When I run Inkscape on Mac OS or in Parallels, the horizontal scrolling works fine when I use the touchpad but Shift+MouseWheelScroll doesn't do anything. ctrl+MouseWheelScroll works fine (controls zoom). It makes Inkscape very hard to use IMO, as I cannot easily navigate through the drawing without zooming-unzooming all the time.
I would like to remove my Raspberry Pi from my iPhone 8 (running iOS 11.2.1) as a connected bluetooth device. Normally, I would go into my Settings -> Bluetooth and select the info button (a little circled I) to show the "Disconnect" and "Forget Device" dialogs Unfortunately, iOS does not give me this option:
How can I restore an image (dmg) of my MacBook's 512 GB SSD (APFS encrypted) onto a 1 TB Fusion Drive using Disk Utility? I am a bit confused with the Fusion Drive. Can I make it pure HDD and just do an old-school Disk Utility restore? Currently after messing a bit with it I am facing "problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting" when running first aid on HDD. The state of the iMacs disks is like that:
WiFi is the best connection at my house for most things. I have it first in network preferences under service order. However, I have a NAS connected over a local switch which I want to connect to via Ethernet. The route is such that if I use WiFi, I reach the NAS via Powerline which dramatically slows the link.
So I have established that I have a Macbook 8.1 that apparently can run High Sierra. Problem is I can't download from app store because it says it requires 10.8.0 to perform that task.
I am currently sharing my Mac's ethernet connection via Murus static NAT. Upstream I only have a cable modem, so the IP address of Mac #1 is my ISP-provided external IP. I am running an ethernet USB adapter to another Mac and then using MacOS Internet Sharing from that machine to share the wired connection over its WiFi. In other words, I am using Mac #2 as a wireless router. This is less than optimal. If I were to replace Mac #2 with a wireless router or access point, how would I configure that to use it seamlessly instead (have it do DHCP, etc, accept new devices without manual configuration.)
A couple of days ago I updated Apple Mail but after the update its hung up. Nothing seems to be working. After I launch it, I am not able to send or receive any emails. I am asked to reset it by some professional but before resetting it I want to backup all my data. I am not relying on Time Machine as well because it starts backing up everything on the Mac. Looking for a decent solution to backup apple mail but how can I do it if it's hung up like this.
I can't seem to connect my BA3001BA Bluetooth keyboard to my mac. It pairs, and then asks for a passcode. I enter the passcode and I get the spinning beachball of death and shortly thereafter, it says the pairing wasn't successful. I managed to connect the device to an Ubuntu Laptop by bypassing the passcode, but it's not possible on a mac.
I want to install Win10 in a partition on my Macbook Pro. Model: Macbook Pro 13' MID 2010. I already have Windows Software Support that I downloaded from Boot Camp app.
I additionally noticed that this huge folder is backed up by Time Machine, which is absolutely horrendous. Why would I need a large folder, full of cache files which I will never use, to be backed up?
I have a weather station program that I would like to run automatically in Terminal when I log in. I manually have to run this every time I log in. This is the simple script I would like to automate: (mono asks for system password which is entered in on next line)
Mid 2012 Macbook Pro OS - High Sierra I was deleting all mySQL files in system library due to mysql server not turning off, but after I did that, my internet stopped working (guessing due to the files i have deleted, since wifi was still working). So i restarted my mac thinking it would fix it. Well, after signing in, it loads half way then shuts down and restarts entire mac.
I have used the afp protocol to share between Macs on my local network. I normally connect using a command like the following:- This then prompts for a shared directory to connect to. I have experienced some difficulties since upgrading to High Sierra. My wife has a new Macbook Pro, which she setup by copying from a TimeMachine backup from her old Mac (running Sierra) then upgrading to High Sierra. I can access the old Mac with no issues.
If the home network is running 802.11n or 802.11ac, can the Air Play from a Macbook to Apple TV video playback be guaranteed to be the same as if connected by a cable? There may be 2 Wifi or up to 3 Wifi data streams happening: (1) from the NAS to the Macbook (by Wifi), and then (2) from the Macbook to the Wifi router, and (3) from the Wifi router to the Apple TV. If the video files in on the Macbook locally, then there will be 2 data streams only (the (2) and (3) above). Besides, is there a monitor tool that can show the data is only at a 33%, 50% or 80% of the max Wifi bandwidth, to show that it is running smoothly in general?
Apple stated the following in this support article about Meltdown and Spectre: All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. Since exploiting many of these issues requires a malicious app to be loaded on your Mac or iOS device, we recommend downloading software only from trusted sources such as the App Store. Apple has already released mitigations in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 to help defend against Meltdown. [emphasis added] Apple Watch is not affected by Meltdown. In the coming days we plan to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre.
Wifi on the iMac is turned off, so the connection is definitely via Ethernet. Nothing else is connected to either the iMac or the TC (wireless is off on the TC too) other than a printer connected via USB to the TC.
Booted into recovery mode with Shift-Command-R (downloads the system from Internet) and ran First Aid again. This time with limited success: ** Checking volume. ** Checking the container superblock. ** Checking the EFI jumpstart record. ** Checking the space manager. ** Checking the object map. ** Checking the APFS volume superblock. ** Checking the object map. error: invalid dstream.size (10730881024), is greater than dstream.alloced_size (71151616) error: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : invalid dstream error: inode_val: object (oid 0x16309a1): invalid xfields ** Checking the fsroot tree. fsroot tree is invalid. ** The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely.
I have an odd smoothing issue with Preview in MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on my retina MBP. Every right-hand (odd-numbered) page is very blurry, almost unreadable, while the left hand pages are somewhat blurry, but not quite as badly so (see screen capture below).
Since upgrading to High Sierra I often get a verification problem of my backups on Time Capsule. Time Machine then deletes the complete disk image (deletes all the backups) and starts with a fresh full backup. In the log I see Time Machine works then well for a couple of days and then the verification fails again (image deleted followed by an initial backup). Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
I want to create an "application" in Automator for recording mouse actions. When it is run, i want it to execute the actions in the background, like it happens when a macro is run in excel, rather than simply replaying it like a movie. Is this possible?
I have Brother driver 4.0.5 installed. I found a scanner 4.2.0 on brother support site (sorry, page not available in english). From that installation on I cannot connect using bonjour any more but using IP but still no scanner available.
I recently installed an SSD hard drive for my Mac Mini, and all fine until I've tried to do a clean installation of High Sierra via USB. What I've done is download the installer to usb memory stick by following the steps described in this tutorial: *=URL=* that is, configuring the pen through Terminal, etc, etc ...
I'm running two Macs (a MacBook Pro and an iMac). They are both running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2. File Sharing is turned on for both machines, and they are on the same LAN. From the laptop I can successfully connect to the drives on the iMac and access the files. From the iMac when I try to connect to the MacBook Pro it simply rejects the login credentials (and yes I am certain that the credentials are correct). I can successfully connect from the iMac to other (non MacOS) SMB shares that exist on the LAN. Clearly I'm not alone in getting deeply frustrated with Apple's apparent ongoing SMB issues which seem to stretch back some years. I've turned off client signing on both Macs (as sharing is only on the private LAN) and this has had no effect. Any pointers to other potential solutions - and I've spent a fair bit of time Googling around this issue already - are most welcome.
I am thinking to buy a new MB Pro in March. However, the bugs discovered has made me a little bit concerned.
I am using macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.2. The output below from a Terminal application window shows that that diskutil partitiondisk disk1 2 gpt apfs Mac1 500g apfs Mac2 r command fails to create two APPLE_APFS partitions. Marlin:sbin davidanderson$ diskutil unmountdisk disk1 Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful Marlin:sbin davidanderson$ diskutil partitiondisk disk1 2 gpt apfs Mac1 500g apfs Mac2 r You may not specify more than one APFS Container per partition map Marlin:sbin davidanderson$ The output below from a Terminal application window shows that that command fails to create two APPLE_APFS partitions.
So I have been noticing now only that if I try to charge my iPhone using a cheap quality charging cable to charge my iPhone in the right side usb port of my Mac it does not charge at all and my iPhone doesn't show up in System Information but however it works on the left port even after a SMC and PRAM reset the problem persists however if I use a high quality cable my iPhone charges just fine on both usb ports and even my android phone charges fine. My question is why is my iPhone not charging from the right side USB port of my Mac using the cheap quality cable?
I'm far away from civilization thats why I need your help guys. My problem is: MacBook Pro 13" early 2015 is not turning on and charging and the trackpad is also dead.
Can I change the language used for my iPhone's predictive text input independently of the layout of the keyboard? I want French spelling suggestions but I still want to type on a QWERTY keyboard. The iPhone is a 5S, if that is relevant.
I was just wanting to see the impact on speed due to the patches for the recent Intel CPU Bugs. I have run the update already, but was wondering if someone could run a Geekbench test on macOS 10.13.1 and 10.13.2 for a by-the-numbers comparison to how the CPU ran before and after the update (preferably on a 15” 2017 machine)
I have a new MBP with 2x 4k monitors. Due to the layout of my desk, I want my right-side monitor to be my primary display. I know how to set this up within the display settings, however, I have to do make these changes every time I connect my monitors-- they do not persist.
A day ago I was extending the win 10 bootcamp partition and after restart to Windows got this error: “no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key”. So I started to googling and now must open the startup manager at booting but my mac and windows keyboard not working so I can't enter it. Any ideas to fix the error and keyboard ?
On Sierra ... my Open/Save dialog file listing are displaying in a larger-than-normal font size. How do I change this?
I don't have a Mac or a personal Ipad to experiment with. I am trying to prevent a user from removing certain apps (not all apps). Can I stop the user from removing individual apps on a supervised device?
The ITunes store app has gone from my phone. When i go to app store, the option open doesn't work. Also it's not in icloud.
I've been tasked with supporting a print shop using Kodak Prinergy 6.1, which is ancient. I need to install it on a new machine. The problem is that the installer has a bug where it compares OS versions lexicographically, so it doesn't grok that 10.13 is newer than the required minimum of 10.4. Is there a way I can trick the installer into thinking I'm running 10.9?
first of all I must say I'm pretty amazed by all the help and great contributors on this site. I already tried a few different Solutions but I came to a point where I couldnt help myself furthermore.
I would like to prepare hand-written notes (via One by Wacom tablet) for my educational purposes, therefore I would like to have a software which has ability to create infinite long (or big enough) canvas, where I can write using my tablet. This is something similar to Notes or Word app, where one can write as much as they want, and pages keep on increasing.
I bought a brand new MacBook and set it up earlier today. Went through setup, updated to High Sierra, enabled FileVault with a recovery key, wrote that down and then shut it down at some point. When I tried to log in again, it wouldn't let me. Wrong password. OK, I thought, I have the recovery key. So I log in using that, change my password, restart and run into the same issue again. New password doesn't work. Next time I tried with a fool-proof password "123456" - no luck. The password somehow gets reset to something I don't know on restarts.
I'm running MacOS 10.13.2 on a mid-2014 MacBook Pro (11,3) with a Dell P2715Q 4K external monitor. I currently use f.lux at its min. nighttime color temp of 1200K. Unfortunately, f.lux sometimes behaves unpredictably on my machine, and may be causing some stability issues.
How you can make changes take effect and update in the Preferences GUI immediately without having to reboot (unacceptable), log out (bad) or kill processes (last resort)? macOS 10.12 Update:
Pretty straight forward question: I just updated to High Sierra 10.13.2 last night, and my F3 key isn't allowing me to see all the windows I have opened. I have tried using multiple different keyboards. Does anyone know how to fix?
How do I connect my MIDI keyboard using MIDI to Thunderbolt interface with zero latency which is compatible with Logic Pro X? I'm aware of MIDI to USB interface but Thunderbolt is much faster. Otherwise, would I need to purchase an audio box?
Can I use one pair of AirPods with two or more Charging case units? Can I take turns charging the case, and deposit AirPods into either without any bother? Apple sells a Charging Case for USD $69. Apple announced their intention to soon sell a Qi charging case upgrade for AirPods.
I'm using the following command to fetch a password from the Keychain in a shell script: security find-generic-password -w -s "MyServiceName" It works, but it's showing a popup window asking me for the login keychain password:
Can my son block me from locating him with my find my iPhone app? Is there a way for me to know if he has turned it off at all? When I was trying to locate him, he's 15, all I was seeing was a location from 3 hours prior but it showed the real time location of our other phones. Later his phone with location showed up again.
Just purchased an old used iMac G3 but unfortunately the plastic subframe is pretty brittle. I doubt it's something that I could gorilla-glue back together. Does anybody know where I could buy a new subframe or a new chassis altogether?
Recently, I bought the iPad Pro 12.9 inch, 2017 model (as the title says) as well as the Apple Pencil, and I've been noticing a massive number of glitches that have been quite irritating. The glitches are as follows:
At university I added a few documents to my print queue. A few minutes after I got home with my laptop still in my backpack, my printer mysteriously printed exactly two pages of the document I added to the print queue. I have power nap disabled.
I have set up two-factor authentication for my Apple ID and turned on iCloud Keychain. To test whether it backups my passwords, I turned it off and chose delete from iPhone. Then I turned it on and looked at my passwords, but nothing was there. I’ve tried many several times, but it seemed iCloud Keychain won’t store my passwords. I think it might be because I turned it off, rather than signed out of my Apple ID, or it might be something wrong with my iCloud configuration. Please help me resolve this problem.
Edit: I’ve been meaning to order A4 paper anyways since I’m an international student and I like its dimensions better anyways. I have some coming in on Monday, and the proportions of A4 paper will resolve the issue. Nevertheless, I would still like to be able to print booklets on US letter paper, just to know how.
Installed VirtualBox on my Mac (HighSierra), my version 2014, doesn't have a CD-ROM/DVD drive so I'm using a portable drive to install Windows 10 64-bit. VB isn't recognizing the external drive. Frustrating, not sure what to do? Any help? TIA
I have seen this question before but not for a long time and I know there is another answer. I log on remotely from my MacBook pro to Sage on my desktop at work. There is no insert key for functions that Sage require. Several years ago Apple Care had given me the solution which worked but its been several years since I used it and now I forget how. One of the solutions I've seen on this site requires a numeric keypad which I do not have on my MacBook Pro. The fn key and enter key do not work. Looking for the right answer please.
I would like the ability to view photos grouped under two "People" (two children, say) in Photos 3.0 on all of my Apple devices. Basically I take new photos with my iPhone and occasionally sync them over to my MacBook. I want to view all photos in those two albums on the iPhone (when visiting relatives, say). I don't want to upload all of my photos to iCloud, so iCloud Photo Library does not seem to be the right option. I want the ability to view all photos from those two albums (people) on my devices, so My Photo Stream (which covers only recent photos) also does not seem to be the right option. I want to "share" these photos with myself, not necessarily with others, so iCloud Photo Sharing does not seem to be the right option either? Is there native support in macOS and iOS for what I want to accomplish?
I recently had a hard drive failure while trying to update to High Sierra. I had to take it in as the problem couldn't the solved remotely. It was returned and the data had to be recovered from an iCloud back up. I also have a back up on a 2TB Time Capsule but I was locked out of this for a while so I continued to use my Macbook Pro for 2 weeks while I tried to resolve the issue with the Time Capsule. I now have access and can restore the back up from the time capsule.
I needed to do some work with old hardware from my old Macbook 2007, but it turns the keyboard has gone nuts. Some keys aren't working. My password contains an L and it doesn't work. The keyboard does, however, write lots of characters on its own. Here's a video:Macbook ghost keyboard Any idea what the problem is and how to solve it?
I want to delete all my photos from my iCloud (ca. 2500 Photos), so that I have no photos in the iCloud.
Cannot write on TimeMachine data disk - told "Don't have enough permissions to write to '/Volumes' - files say (unknown) read&write, staff read&write, everyone read&write Details: I have a brand new laptop but am using an old AirPort TimeCapsule - I've been able to download files directly to it from my previous Mac, but not this new one. What should I do? I'm using uTorrent to download files. I can't seem to add username to the Sharing & Permissions - and can't figure out how to change the Information / Access of the TimeCapsule drive either?
I'm a new Mac user and I wonder what really happens when my external SSD (with Windows installed on it using Bootcamp = Windows To Go) is disconnected while being booted to Windows. Will my Mac system get damaged or will the files on my external SSD get corrupted?
doesn't work on High Sierra. How to do it?
I noticed that the VPN client creates two IP interfaces, utun0 has only an ipv6 address whereas utun1 has both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. So I tried ssh -4 but that didn't help. This is my ~/.ssh/config: This is /etc/ssh/ssh_config (comment and blank lines omitted): Any ideas?
I kept getting errors about iCloud backups failing on my iPhone (iOS 11) due to insufficient space. When I go to Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> Manage Storage -> Backup -> my iPhone Next Backup Size is 4.6 Gigs, even though all the items under "Choose Data to Back Up" are likely under 100 megs.
I have a new iMac 4k 21.5" (2017) running under macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and featuring 2 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports for the connection to additional displays. I'm attempting to connect this Mac to my 6 years old Samsung HD TV (32" 1080p (UE32C)) but with no luck. My TV has 4 HDMI ports, port 1 is connected to Apple TV and works quite well, the rest 3 ports had been used to hook up my Mac over an EZQuest cable.
My iPhone rings once and the caller is there. How do I make it ring until I answer it? I’ve tried looking for a solution in settings.
After reinstalling Ubuntu on a secondary partition macOS started to boot slower than usual. I tried to check the main APFS volume and encountered some errors. FSCK_APFS was unable to recover this volume (all modes, recovery, single-user). There is no full APFS documentation available in public. No structure explanation. So is it possible to repair APFS manually? Is there any datasheet? What is "fsroot tree" in APFS? Why can it be invalid?
So I recently installed a new SSD into my MacBook Pro early 2011. Before I installed the SSD I backed up my mac using Time Machine onto an external hard drive. I am now having trouble installing the os via my external hard drive onto my new ssd.
How would I use Automator/AppleScript to convert a selected bunch of MP3s to WAVs (from folder1 to folder1 - so retaining original folder), please? I'm running High Sierra and would prefer not to attack the commandline just to get a mp3 back to wav.
I am running the latest iOS on an iPhone 6. Weirdly, when I swipe up and get the search box, and type "cal", it does find calendar app on my iPad... but not the iPhone! My question is: How to fix this on the phone? reboot didn't help.
When I launch the messages app on my iMac I get a notice that the Messages database is being upgraded. The notice, shown below, tells me to wait while it finishes or relaunch later. This just started recently and has been going on for 2 days now. Any idea how to check my messages? I'm running High Sierra and have been for a while now so this doesn't appear tied to the system upgrade. I've tried quitting and returning several times and also tried just leaving notice up. Neither attempt worked.
When my wife upgraded her iPhone she gave me her 5S and I installed my SIM card. After using the phone for about a year every time I tried calling my wife's cell number it goes straight to voice mail and she doesn't receive my text messages.
I use sudo lsof /Volumes/foo to see what's keeping me from ejecting a volume. But it tells me too much, and not enough. For example: All I care about is the COMMAND and NAME; I don't need PID,USER,FD,TYPE,DEVICE,SIZE/OFF,NODE. And I want the full name of the app; in this case I want to see Adobe Premiere Pro, not Adobe\x20. I tried lsof -Fc and variations but didn't get the expected result. Any way to achieve this?
Is there a way to easily see web element tooltip on touch screen devices like iPad or iPhone? For some elements on site, e.g. tags this can be achieved by taping and then go back in web browser’s history (screen shot from Google Chrome on iPad):
So I used defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool yes thinking it would set a mandatory policy for the global (machine) level, but it turns out I was wrong and it set a recommended policy. How do I revert that recommended policy back to an unset policy so it doesn't show as set to any value by Google Chrome? I tried a complete uninstall of Chrome by deleting the app and going to ~/Library/Application Support/Google and deleting the whole Chrome folder and then reinstalling Google Chrome but the policy is still present and shows as set. Any help is appreciated and thanks for your help in advance. I tried: defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool no(only sets to false) defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool 0 (still false) defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool(syntax of command error) defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool null(syntax of command error)
Is there any way to convert JAR file to IPA file to be able to play java games on iOS device? I searched something but found nothing working. Thank you.
I have installed both qlcolorcode and quicklook-json plugins. When I try to open a json file, It use qlcolorcode. But I want to open them with quicklook-json. I can solve this problem by remove public.json from info file, but I don't want to hack it. Do it have a way to state which one should use first or something like that?
The idea behind a small project I'm working on is to be able to upload a music file and have After Effects pick it up and render it within a video file template I have. The workflow would be:
I've got this message in Terminal.app at startup I have found some links regarding this issue. But the problem is that I can't run terminal app, so it's not possible for me to try brew doctor or other options. It's not possible to reinstall Terminal app, other terminal app (iTerm2) is not running at all. Is there a way to fix this problem without reinstalling OSX?
I recently erased my bootcamp partition through Disk Utility. I couldn't use Boot Camp Assistant and got the following error: The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
My Macbook Air is up-to-date and I have had this problem with the Mail App since I purchased it a few months ago. My Gmail account is successfully connected to the Mail App and I am able to send/receive emails without any issues. However, I recently noticed while I was reading a long email that the messages list constantly refreshes itself. Every 10 seconds or so. Activity window does not show anything. In other words, no messages are being downloaded but the messages list keeps refreshing regardless. It is really annoying and distracting while reading an email. What I mean by messages list being refreshed is that the Sender Name and the Email Title flicker; that is, the text is replaced with something different but it goes back to normal within just a few hundred milliseconds so I am unable to read what that other text is. But it is definitely different because the flickering is easily noticeable. I hope this makes sense. I am not sure how to better describe the issue. Rebuilding the 
Though the menu bar is hidden in fullscreen, mousing to the top makes it drop down. This really bugs when switching between tabs on certain programs. Is there any way to change this setting?
I am trying to get a live feed via the following setup on my MacBook Pro 2012 running Sierra 10.13.2. HDMI Out on camera, plugged into HDMI In on BlackMagic device >> Thunderbolt out plugged into MacBook Thunderbolt port. I have a few Camera's I have tested but none work.
I use iTerm for doing things such as creating passwords by selecting random words from /usr/dict. I prefix the commands with a space so they aren't saved in the shell history. I discovered to my horror that iTerm2 keeps recent paste, commands and other history. See Session > Open Paste / command / .... Its all there in plain text sqlite db file.
For the software on the top-right menu bar, I can use the following AppleScript to access the menu bar items like this This AppleScript helps me connect to my AirPods. But if I put the bluetooth item into Bartender 3, it doesn't work. What should I add into the codes to get access to item in Bartender?
So I wanted to plug in my earphone jack into my Mac but I was not seeing so I accidentally and gently without that much force I put in my earphone jack into my Mac left usb port but it did not touch the pins. So should I worry that I have damaged my Mac?
I have several pages imported from scanner in PNG format. I use image editor to clean some noise, downscale to 100PDI, convert image palette to grayscale, etc. Finally I've got a bunch of PNG images of small size, looking good at computer screen still.
Few days back I gave my iPhone 6 to a shop to change the battery. The person asked me to remove the passcode so that he can check the battery status. I collected the iPhone later when the battery was fixed.
I scanned my Mac for viruses using a nice open source GUI app called "KnockKnock" which was pretty useful to remove some unnecessary binaries from apps which I had deleted a long time ago. But KnockKnock also reports some kernel extensions. I have a SAT Smart driver installed so I know that kext but the other seem to be doubtful and I have a feeling that they might be some type of malware. However clicking the 'info' button reports that it is developed by ATTO Technologies and sited by Apple CA, However I am still doubtful:
Previously, I was able to press and hold the - and after few -, the combination of all the - create a solid horizontal line. Now, I use Sierra High and I'm not sure that it changed because of that. I provided an image of the solid horizontal line.
I have a MacBook Pro with recently-installed Mavericks (10.9.5). Today, I noticed this:
My iPhone shows I have two backups of WhatsApp, one in iCloud Storage and the other is included in the iCloud Backup of my iPhone. If I delete the one in iCloud Storage, will it also be deleted from the iCloud Backup?
I have attempted to improve the performance of a Mid 2011 27" iMac by booting from an external Thunderbolt SSD, specifically a Transcend 256 GB StoreJet 500. It may or may not be relevant that this does not have a separate power supply.
The main point - What are my other options to force APFS/High Sierra to accept a partition of greater than 15 GB and/or make Boot Camp Assistant actually go through with it's job. I’m open to all options to solve this problem. High Sierra has a lot of bugs in it and they're getting on my nerves. Apple needs to up their QC. Anyways thanks to everyone for reading/helping me out - much appreciated :)
How do I change the name of an album in Photos my Mac?
I've a computer strictly devoted to recording that I do not connect to the internet. I just upgraded to Pro Tools 12HD (12.8.3) and my OS is Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Which installer(s) should I download to upgrade to the newest version of High Sierra? Thanks for your time!
Both is not possible. I can only hide entries by deleting them, which is not possible/desirable. Adding alerts is also not possible if the entry was not added by me.
This feature used to work fine. I just tried to use the sketch/freehand tool in Preview to annotate a PDF and while the little "pen point" shows up in blue, the area I sketch remains blank, with only the parameters of the sketch showing (those little dots that show the size of the annotation).
What should I do to prevent an app with a configuration profile from reinstalling after I delete it? I don't understand how a program can "fish" itself back after it's deleted.
Is there any way to set inner/ outer margin in Pages? I'm going to print my thesis both side and as I can see in the Document tab under Document Margins there is only Left and Right margin. If it's the only setting how can I achieve it? I've got more than 60 pages in my document.
On one of my iOS devices, I am faced with a rather common issue: Standby and Active use counters on my iPhone are identical. The iPhone is the only device on which this happens whereas two iPads who feature identical SW versions and are used on the same iCloud account do not display this behaviour. Signing the iPhone out of iCloud and signing back in temporarly resolves the matter but things go wrong again after a few days. iOS power stats are utterly useless (there are no apparent sources of background usage.
I recently took a bunch of pictures around a location, expecting that each picture's precise location would be recorded so I could place them on a map. This has worked before. What I found when I got home is that all the photos seemed to have the same location (which was slightly southeast of any location I photographed). I'm wondering if the iPhone camera is now either rounding off geographic coordinates to a lower precision, or giving all photos taken around the same place and same time the same coordinates, or both, and if so, if this is particular to the Camera app or universal to all apps using the camera. Extra info
I am transition from Windows to OS X: Can one configure the Safari browser with a socks to tunnel through a SSH tunnel (Putty in MS-Windows). Can a SSH tunnel be configured from the command line and command the Safari browser to direct request / responses through the tunnel? If yes, an example is appreciated.
Can someone help run this instruction? High Sierra slow startup time seem common to many people, is there another approach to fix them? Any idea why Apple still hasn't fixed after several updates? Many thanks
This started happening a few weeks ago. I just want the old functionality back again, it looks like this: Now, when I receive a call, FaceTime.app starts, my camera's green led comes on (due to FaceTime's preview) and I cannot even accept the call. It seems possible that turning on WiFi calling on my Mac caused this change in behavior. I would really like to understand what went wrong here.
I have some events on my Calendar that I would prefer to have listed in Reminders. (They were added to the Calendar by TurboTax.) Is there a simple way to move them from one app to another? (I'm using Mac OS 10.11.6.)
Im buying a new iphone and getting a number on it: Here's the deal, i lost my phone and ever since then when somebody sends me messages it appears as sent but not delivered (only 1 check) now, if i get a new phone and start whatsapp on it with the same phone number, will i get those messages? Those messages really matter and i would like to know if its worth doing all the process to get back the same number
I tried to connect to the wifi and failed at first so the 'could not be joined' pop up came out but then soon after the wifi was connected. I clicked cancel and run diagnostics but nothing happened. There are two pop ups but neither disappears...
I have a late 2012 iMac i7 16GB RAM and 1TB FusionDrive which I want to sell. Using the Disk Utilities in Recovery Mode, I erased all data on the Macintosh HD partition. I then went on and selected reinstall MacOS High Sierra in the recovery mode, which failed a couple of times (no progress for hours) and after several tries it showed Mountain Lion (instead of High Sierra before) as the OS to be installed. I tried this as well, but the installation process froze after about 7 hours with "3 hour remaining". Then, I created a USB bootable installer for High Sierra. When booting the iMac and pressing the option key, I am presented this USB drive as startup option, and when I select it I end up in the recovery mode window again with the option to reinstall High Sierra. The installation takes about 5 minutes and in the very last second I receive an error message "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again". What options do I have from here?
An Apple account with a Canadian billing address and payment method is used to buy movies on the Canadian iTunes store. Will an Apple TV 4k located physically in another country (say, Vietnam) be able to stream these movies if it is logged in with this same account? (The account's payment and address remain Canadian.)
After a recent upgrade to macOS 10.13.2, Safari has an interaction problem with the Amazon website: Clicking SOME items on Amazon (e.g. Books), a text ONLY description of the book pops up while the item's 1st page disappears. NOTE: This is not a global Amazon problem but intermittent. It happens to only SOME items, but those items it happens consistently. It happens only with Safari and only on the Amazon site.
Recently I upgraded my mid-2010 MacBook Pro from Snow Leopard to Yosemite. Everything seemed to be working just fine, and then, a few hours later, the kernel panics started. Thankfully, I was able to find the solution here: Question about GPU Panic on Mid 2010 MacBookPro6,2 Now I am thinking about upgrading that MacBook Pro to a newer model, but I just saw somebody on here talking about having a similar issue with their 2016 MacBook Pro, hence my question. So newer MacBook Pros have the same problem?
Do you know how you can add ringtones to your iPhone? I just noticed that my iPhone X has default ringtones still just like the older ones.
I am writing a program to read cpu and memory statistics from a remote host. The remote host can be Linux or Mac. So I need a command which returns the cpu/memory usage as output. I have found the command for Linux which is vmstat. But I couldn't find a good one for Mac. I know there is one command vm_stat on mac but it only returns memory usage. Is there a command for CPU usage as well? I have searched that most people use top. But top is good at monitoring and it would be hard to parse the result if I analyze its output in my program. I want to use one shipped with MacOS not a third party library.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.2 and iCloud set up to sync with my Desktop and Documents directories. Today Finder stopped working, I couldn't click on anything and my cursor only showed as a rainbow wheel. Using spotlight I could open any other application, but they would run slow and eventually everything would completely freeze. I reinstalled the operating system which didn't fix the problem, then used the terminal to kill the finder which seemed to work. I then restarted my computer and iCloud is uploading around 702,000 files that total 46.92 GB, and is trying to download around 8,000 files. I should also mention before the Finder problems, I had nothing on my desktop except 3 images and a pages document. Now the desktop is packed full of random files. Does anyone know what is happening? Will this cause any files to be lost on my iCloud Drive? Will this affect my iCloud Photo Library?
My Terminal windows restored correctly after updating to High Sierra--but each only has a single tab in it; none of the other tabs restored. I've got all of the history files from ~/.bash_sessions, so I think the worst-case is that I am only able to recover the command history by manually opening new tabs and replacing the histories. Does anyone know of a way to recover the scrollback history, given these session IDs (or perhaps the window GUIDs, from com.apple.Terminal.savedState/windows.plist)?
On iPhone 7 and up, when using a picker (like setting an alarm time), there is only sound when no earphone are connected. When connecting earphones, there are only vibrates, no click sounds. Anyway to change that?
Ok I understand I can reinstall Mac OS from the Command + R Menu and the OS is reinstalled without touching (we hope) my files unless I erase the disk first. However, what if I just choose to restore a Time Machine Backup? Is any disk repair or OS repair performed or is it just a clone of the last backup? Any corruption in the Time Machine Backup would not be repaired but rather put back on its corrupt state? Is the recommended Troubleshooting Procedure to always reinstall MacOS and then restore your TimeMachine Backup?
I'm trying to create a global keyboard shortcut to mute the microphone in Skype for Mac, version 8.12.0.14 This seems impossible though, since there is no menu entry for Mute. Any ideas?
Under Mac OSX 10.13.2 my notifications list is only showing the last notification, not a list of the most recent. How do I fix this?
I had a Macbook Air (2014) running iMovie 10.0.5 on Yosemite which died by water damage. The SSD survived and I had it TimeMachine backed up to an external drive at an Apple Store. The backed up iMovie Library file is too big (122 GB) to copy to my Macbook Pro 15" retina running iMovie 10.1.8 on Sierra (10.12.6). I've copied the backed up iMovie Library file to a different (Mac formatted) external drive which has 'Ignore ownership of this volume' checked. When I try to open it on the Macbook Pro I get the message:
I was at school when we tested a PowerPoint presentation on one of the school's laptops. Apparently, when we got home, many of my classmates told me that the laptop gave a "shortcut virus" on their USB flash drives. The flash drives contained a shortcut to the flash drive itself, which would lead to nothing. Files would have to be recovered.
After selecting some images and pressing &Lt;Spacebar&Gt;, I click on the index button: This is what I see:
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a working High Sierra install on a SSD (APFS Volume) in an USB3 external enclosure mounted on /dev/disk2s1 according to Disk Utility After I moved that same SSD to the internal SATA HD slot, it no longer appears as a boot drive. Disk Utility would still recognize the SSD on /dev/disk3s1 as a SATA drive. Also tried resetting the NVRAM but that did not solve the problem. I moved the SSD back to USB3 and everything still works fine. Update
So yesterday morning I was using my Mac normally encoding some videos in HandBrake and installing some github repo installing some python packages system wide like a python package named b45. Then I shutdown my Mac normally then at night when I booted my Mac it won't boot. It would boot upto 80% then a loading symbol appeared. It never booted so I checked for hardware errors then disk errors reset the smc and pram, no luck! So I booted up in verbose boot and saw the following error: IOConsoleusers: gIOScreenLockState I had no idea what that was so I just restored my Mac from my Time machine Backup and it boots fine. But still I am curious what this error means?
I'm happy with my Sierra (10.12.6), but the macOS downloads High Sierra in the background automatically and it takes over 5 GBs of my SSD. Every time I delete High Sierra image from Applications it keeps redownloading itself. How can I stop this madness?
Is it possible to make any changes to macOS through the Terminal or in another way, so that Launchpad allows simple uninstalling application files, downloaded not via the App Store?
I've used Byobu on Linux systems, and the x! msg (x being a number) means that many corresponding packages need to be updated. However, on a Mac with brew (all packages updated) I cannot tell what the 1! msg is trying to tell me? Is there someway to parse it's data out?
I was going to set up my Raspberry Pi 2 as a Time Capsule but was stopped by this answer. It is said that Linux doesn't support encrypted HFS+ (neither journaled, nor non journaled).
I'm annoyed that when I arrange a folder "by Kind" while in Icon View, each section is a single line with a cover flow collapsing all the icons that don't fit in the line. (I very rarely use icon view, but the folder in question contains a mix of images, GIMP files the images were generated from, and a great many subfolders; I'd like to be able to quickly look at the icons for my png images.)
what risks about Apple chargers always plugged in? I want to leave my iPhone and iPad chargers always plugged under my desk (so I can just connect my device when I want to charge) but I'm worried that they shouldn't be plugged all the time.
Is there a way to create a macOS smart folder which uses an "or" search? E.g. find all files which have tags "A" or "B"? It seems that smart folders allow only to search using an "and" command.
I have an iPhone 6, and the cell antenna does not work at all, except right after it's re-assembled. I replaced the battery and it worked for about 15 minutes (I activated it and made a call). Batteries Plus changed the antenna and it did not work, then when they put the old antenna back in and put it back together it worked for a few minutes, similar to my experience.
I'm using a MacBook Pro with MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.2. I used Ukelele to create a custom keyboard layout. I installed it (using the Ukelele installer), and it works fine in some apps, but not others. I can use it in Chrome and in the Terminal (and I am using it to type this description).
I've got an iMac on High Sierra 10.13.2. I am using the Mail app v11.2 with an Exchange account. I also have Outlook for Mac 2011 v14.7.3 for my Exchange account.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) and some days ago I realize that the trackpad mechanical click sometimes not click. I mean, the trackpad is pressed but the click not work on the first time, and I need to press for the second time works fine.
I have recently upgraded my MBP mid2010 to HighSierra and I am struggling to get the card reader and microphone to work. I can see them in the system report but the mic isn't working and the card reader doesn't mount any cards. I am using the new apple file system, I have the best specs I was able to get, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD so it's running nicely.
This is a classic problem but I can't find the right solution for me. I have downloaded iOS 11.1.2 (current latest version is 11.2.1) from apple's official servers and tried to install it manually with the latest iTunes 12.7.2.58 on my iPhone 6. After extracting the software, I get the error: Declined to authorize this image on this device for this user. I'm currently on iOS 10.3.3 and don't want to upgrade to the latest version to keep my iPhone "jailbreakable".
I would like the Calendar app in High Sierra to not check my location for timing conflicts, make location (or any other) suggestions, confer with Siri, and otherwise look for ways for Apple to link my calendar to the cloud. Can the Calendar app's functionality be limited to non-networked behavior only? Is there some Calendar agent I can permanently disable to accomplish this?
Today App Store offered me Safari 11.0.2. But I already have this. See the screenshot below.
Every time I open the App Store on High Sierra it cannot connect. I've checked the DNS settings, old certificates, keychain access; in short I've completed all these steps and still:
I'm trying to setup custom A records for domains via /etc/hosts on my OSX 10.13.2 MBP. It usually works just fine, first time that it works only for 1 of the 2 domains: 1.2.3.4 dev.com (works; points to 1.2.3.4) 1.2.3.4 admin.dev.com (doesn't work; points to live IP 5.6.7.8) I tried flushing DNS cache as well without success using: Pinging both domains returns 100% packet loss Also tried different browsers (Opera, Firefox, Safari) as I know Chrome is pretty agressive with DNS caching. Any idea? EDIT: IP adresses and domains are pure fiction here.
So recently I started listening to Apple Music, but I didn’t realise that I had to pay 10 dollars every month. Now I want to quit it. Anyways, I tried going to my account, but there wasn’t a button to stop using Apple Music. Should I delete the app?
I use an external Common Access Card reader to access secure websites for work. This CAC card has ID certificates loaded onto it for security purposes and allows access to secure sites, different certificates for different sites. Prior to 10.13.2 it worked flawlessly. Right after upgrading I attempted to use Safari like I normally do and while I was banging away on buttons a window popped up asking me something and in my haste I just clicked clicked yes and there starts my issue. I immediately realized that I had never seen that message before, even the window it was in was a different gold color the I've seen before. I don't know exactly what it asked me, but I'm assuming that it was asking something about using one of those certificates as a default for accessing sites as a feature new to 10.13.2 as opposed to the previous version where I would have to choose from a list of certificates each time I attempted to access a site. Now, each time I try to access one of those sites I get a 
I am creating an app using the following command to get CPU and memory usage: I wonder whether all users have permission to run it and get the same results? If there is an admin process, whether the ps command outputs it for a guest user?
I have a bash script called git-watch.sh (gist link) that calls fswatch in a loop like this: (Note the ampersand. I had to use it because fswatch blocks waiting for change, so the while wouldn't get past the first iteration otherwise. It could be interfering with launchd though, not sure.) It works fine if I call it from the command line passing it a file, like Running ps aux | grep fswatch yields: Which is what we want. But now I want it to start automatically on login, and I haven't been able to get launchd to cooperate. Here's my com.user.gitWatchMyPathsOnLogin.plist so far:
I recently stopped receiving iMessage and SMS messages on my Mac. I suspect it's to do with the fact that I recently upgraded to 10.13.2. I've reset my NVRAM, logged out of iCloud, logged back in, deleted my iCloud passwords from KeyChain Access, all to no avail. I've seen that this topic has come up before but wonder if this is something different as a result of the recent MacOS update.
Whenever I click the text tool icon, it automatically places a text box in the center of the screen. Is it possible to add text boxes at the location I click my cursor (for example at the left edge of my PDF)? Any help would be appreciated.
I'm running FileMaker Server 16 ("FMS") on macOS High Sierra, without the macOS Server package. I set the FMS web server components up on ports 8080 and 8443 because I wanted to continue running other web services on ports 80 and 443.
I installed the Dogecoin Wallet Core, for which I did not require any admin privileges to install, but now I am trying to get rid of it and it is asking for admin (literally just an app on the desktop). any ideas how to get rid of it? (I do not have any admin access)
On Macs OS X 10.11.6, the ⌘ + shift + 4 key combination saves a screenshot to the desktop by default. Is there a way to change this destination to a custom directory?
I installed Kali Linux on my Mac and now I wanna have back macOS. I made a bootable thumb drive with Sierra. I booted my Mac up to the thumb drive. Then I try to re-partition the disk with Linux on it but it gives me a Media Kit error and says something with not enough space. After that I tried to boot up into Linux but it was gone.
I recently downloaded and installed Python 3 from python.org because I wanted to use Hydrogen with Atom (the editor). From what I can gather, Hydrogen (in Atom) runs on (powered by?) Jupyter kernel. Hydrogen allows me to check code inside Atom. That feature is great. However, once I saw how Jupyter Notebook works, I really want to try Jupyter Notebook on my MacBook Pro (High Sierra).
Is there a command that I can issue (from the command-line) to determine the status of and why an application has run amuck (mouse cursor spins indefinitely and unable to tab back to the application. I have tried: sers-MacBook-Air:Documents user$ ps | grep -i mind 11313 ttys000 0:00.00 grep -i mind
I try the following: Create a vCard with a name prefix of "Mr." Double-click it, creating a new contact in Contacts. Realise they're a "Mrs.", so edit the vCard to reflect this. Double-click again and Update the contact. The contact's prefix remains unchanged and the new prefix is entered into Notes! How can I get Contacts to apply the change to the contact's name prefix? Here is a sample vCard: Here is what I see when I update, which looks promising… …but the end result is this:
I have a Python3 script that I wrote; this uses tkinter to bring up a window prompting users to connect to shared resources. This all works OK, and I normally run it from a terminal. I want to wrap this in a .app so that it appears in Launcher and can be used by others in my family, who are averse to the command line. In the past I have used an Automator Application with Run Shell Script selecting shell /usr/bin/python, however macOS doesn't include Python3 so I have installed Python 3.6.4 and I can't seem to find a way to run a python3 shell. I have tried using my normal shell script, commencing:- This generates a string of errors:- I have tried a number of other options, including /usr/bin/env python3 and finally got this to work with:- This is rather clumsy and requires the script to be in an external file. I am looking for a solution, comparable the running python2 script. I am unsure if this should be asked on this site or Stack Overflow.
This is not a profound question, but I don't know the answer. What is the name of the OS behavior that brings you to the file name in a finder window by typing the first few letters? "Search as you type"?
Okay so i updated my iphone 5s and the only thing i deleted was apps like game fb snapchat and everything like that. not once did i delete pics notes and etc... but after i updated i went to my pictures and everything was gone.
Has anyone successfully installed reFind after installing high sierra? I have been attempting to install reFind since I need an ubuntu machine. My current issue has been that I apparently have SIP and that is messing up the installation. Has anyone found a way to bypass this issue?
The backup dimension is 2.37 Gb with 878 Mb of videos. Currently I have 8.2 Gb of free space on my phone (and 40 Gb on iCloud), but whatsapp complains that I should "free 512 MB of space on the phone to do chat backup". So, I have two questions:
Today, I found a phone I thought I had lost a few years ago (an iPhone 5s). I was wondering if I could extract the saved WhatsApp conversations from the iPhone to my PC and be able to read them? I don't have the same phone number anymore, so I don't know if I could use another number and restore my chats.
Is it possible to move the location pin in the Reminders app, or otherwise set a custom location? I want to set a reminder at a place with no address. (This is on an iPhone 7, so 3D Touch is available.)
We have a legacy application which tries to force login at startup - but the server is not accessible. If there is no internet it just skips login (talk about security).
Do you have any idea why? I'm on 10.13.2 Thank you.
I own two Macbooks, an Air mid-2013 (256gb) and a Pro Early-2015 (128gb). As far as I know their ssd drives are the same model.
I am struggling to arrange work-family life, and a shared calendar seems to be a good solution. However, neither Google Calendar or Apple seem to have a intuitive way to send invitations to a shared calendar and have them automatically accepted. My simple question is: How do I send invitations from Outlook (or any other client) to my Apple Family Calendar?
I've been importing my DSLR photos using the standard Photos.app. Now I'm running out of HDD space. What's the best way to move my RAW photos to an external storage device?
Need to know, Is there any app, which gives a keyboard shortcut Or any inbuilt keyboard shortcut to cascade windows(attached pic for reference) of same in application in macOs Note that I'm not asking about Expose shortcut
I have four fields in Numbers on macOS: F1: datetime F2: datetime F3: duration F4: number The dateime-fieds contain only a time, like: The duration-field is calculated by this formular: And shows something like: This works fine.
In our large auditorium, an A/V rack which contains an AppleTV 4 for use as an AirPlay device to our humongous projector, sits in the back of the room in a closet. The ATV4, with the latest tvOS, uses a combination of Bluetooth and Wifi to establish a Conference Room Display connection from an Airplay-enabed device (laptop, iPad, etc.)
I want to send a PGP encrypted email to someone let's say has the email address john.doe@example.com
I download goodnotes 4 app and sideloaded it via cydia imapactor from PC. But the problem is im unable to get the icloud sync working. When i go to settings within the app,it instructs me to go to main settings and icloud and icloud storage and enable it for good notes. But the problem is good notes app wont show up in icloud storage?
So my question is, which drives/memory chips are compatible with my laptop model? Which hardware interface should I look for?
I just noticed that what I thought was "waveform bars" (for lack of a better description) on my iPhone 6 was actually a miniature landscape of houses and trees. What is it and where did it come from?
Within OS X 10.11.6, the Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 4 key combination saves a screenshot to the desktop by default. Is there a way to automatically copy the file to the clipboard (in addition to saving the file), so that the screenshot can be pasted into a document? Maybe there is some clever why to tee and pipe the image to the clipboard? The intent is to: save screenshot to a file and copy screenshot to the clipboard
I managed to save the ~600 line log when Spotlight crashed: Binary images removed, full text at *=URL=* How do I go about investigating what caused the crash?
So I want to install Windows and Linux (lets say Ubuntu) on a Macbook Pro. Ideally that should work without installing some Software like rEFI..whatever. The 1st Problem is that OS X already occupies 3 partitions out of the 4 a MBR table can Support. Bootcamp then shrinks thoose and adds a 4th Windows uses. My plan now is to boot into a Linux live CD delete this 4th Partition and creating an Extended Partition there which would then contain the partitions /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 for Windows and Linux respectively.
All I found were articles on patch availability for El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra. Where do I get a patch to fix the Meltdown exploit? (type that into Google if you don't know what that is, it's been all the buzz in tech news last week) Bonus points if there's also a patch to minimize the risk of the Spectre exploit.
So, for the 4th time now, all process tools on my mac stopped working (top, pgrep, kill, Activity Monitor, etc). I can't find a pattern nor any log on what's causing it.
On my Macbook Air running Sierra 10.12.5, there is no longer a Dictionaries directory under /Library, so the below suggested fix no longer seems to apply: Dictionary lookup wider and taller (pop-up dictionary lookup styling) in OS X Is there still a way to do this?
I am running Yosemite on a Mac Pro Mid 2010. When I moved to an SSD for my boot drive, I started using Symbolic Linking so some apps would store their data on a regular HD. So, for example, I go to my library folder and in Application support there's an Evernote alias. It works flawlessly, and I've done this for many apps that don't offer an easy way to store data elsewhere.
I have a folder of 6000+ PDF files (chapters, articles, etc.). I'm trying to weed out/sort those that I've just downloaded but never annotated. Is there a way to do this? Those PDFs that I've never annotated usually have the same "created" and "modified" dates, so I was thinking those criteria could be used (i.e., look for files whose modified date is later than/not the same as the created date), but I have no idea how to do that. In other words, I need to be able to find any PDF on my computer that has been modified. Thank you for any help!
I am trying to block animated gifts in Safari. I installed Deanimator, but it is dated and it does not always work. I also searched for Saft, but it seems this extension was abandoned. Does anyone knows an alternative way of doing it?
Couldn't find an official source for an installer/download of supported Mac OS versions. Everything I found goes to the App Store which prompts for an Apple ID.
As an Ubuntu and MS-Windows user, I regularly used the hotkey to snap a window to half the screen. This feature was built-in to the operating system. There are 7 year old threads which lists third party apps, which means enough time has elapsed to build the capability into the OS.
After moving to High Sierra, I realized that I can’t use the normal bootcamp preferences any more, since Windows won’t detect MacOS on the APFS volume. Apples workaround is to hold down the option key during startup to bring up the startup manager.
Yes, I found Download macOS High Sierra for offline install [duplicate] and macOS High Sierra media installer
I was wondering if anybody else noticed difference between units sold reported under the "Sales and Trends" section and what is actually paid out under "Payments and Financial Reports" section? I'm currently missing around 100 units, which equates to about $100-$200 loss. Does anybody know what is the best procedure to raise this issues with Apple, or better has anybody had similar issues and succeeded with Apple?
From what I've read, when you buy a water cooling system you match stuff depending on your cpu socket or gpu type. Can that be done for MacBook Pro's?
With the old iCloud App on my iPhone SE, I could always see my Macbook's Desktop and Documents folder. That is no longer the case with the new Files App! It will show the amount of free space available, but no files. The size matches what is actually shown in iCloud.
GarageBand version 10.0.2. I haven't upgraded since getting this computer because I keep reading nightmare reviews about incompatibility with earlier project formats and more recently in versions 10.1 and 10.2, removal of functionality. Apple appears to be ignoring the negative reviews and pushing ahead with ruining GarageBand in future updates, so I'd like to avoid updating to 10.1 or later.
I want to use a Mac Mini remotely via the Finder, but my concern is that someone local to the machine could plug in a monitor and see what I was doing. Is there a way either to: (1) determine whether a local monitor is plugged in (2) prevent a local monitor from seeing what a remote user is doing on the machine
I have tried downloading new driers, both of version 1.9 and version 1.7. I have tried copying the Printer settings from the old machine to the new machine. I've tried using the Add Printer function in the System Preferences.
Ive downloaded twitter multiple time and on different iphone6 devices and it never shows as if I have already downloaded it, like its a fresh install every time, why would this only be happening with twitter?
I've got a Macbook Pro 2011 with a failed discrete graphics card. I've been able to install ubuntu on it with some modifications through it's GRUB interface to run on integrated graphics. I followed this guide:
One of my contacts just switched from Android to an iPhone and they have activated both FaceTime and iMessage. We both have iPhones SE and are both running iOS11.2.1. However, even though we can communicate through both iMessage and FaceTime, the option for the latter doesn't show in their contact card on my phone (their contact details on my phone are their FaceTime details). The option does appear on their contact on my MacBook Pro and all my contacts are syncing via iCloud. I have tried to restart the phone, turning both FaceTime and iMessage off and on again and even resetting my network settings, but still the Facetime option is not available for their contact.
I have not been able to save my ssh passphrase to the keychain since upgrading to MacOS Sierra. I understand how to use the ssh-add -K flag and the UseKeychain configuration option, and my coworkers use them without any problems. My .ssh/config contains this:
We had developed a PWA application using angular 4, website url: *=URL=* which is working fine on Google chrome. but this Progressive web application do not render properly in Safari(Both Mac laptop and Mobile IOS browsers) and noticed it hangs the Safari browser and even very hard to open Web inspector. How we see on Chrome browser of Mac: How we see in Safari of Mac: Any thoughts on this issue is highly appreciated.
My WhatsApp on iPhone is stuck on "Optimizing WhatsApp" screen. Now, when I try to open the app again it is showing a white screen before closing immediately after.
However, when I try the same thing from a Pixelbook, I am not able to edit existing Notes, though I am able to create new Notes. When trying to edit an existing Note, the system does not give an error or warning message; there is just no response, whether or not I use the touchscreen, trackpad, or mouse.
The documentation included with Python 3.6 contains the following: 4.5. Distributing Python Applications on the Mac The “Build Applet” tool that is placed in the MacPython 3.6 folder is fine for packaging small Python scripts on your own machine to run as a standard Mac application. Where is this “Build Applet” tool and how to use it?
I have added my ssh passphrase to my keychain with ssh-add -K option but I cannot seem to find it in the keychain. I have looked at login keychain and icloud keychain. I used the command line application security without luck. I even looked at every single entry in the login keychain to see which applications are allowed to read in case I stumble on ssh-agent. Any tips for finding it?
I have been taking screen capture videos in iOS 11, but for some extended captures the recording stops and I don't get anything at all. What is the maximum length of a screen capture video on an iOS device? Tried on iPhone 7 and various iPads.
I start off with macOS fully updated, install Windows 10 using the Bootcamp Assistant (like every other time on previous models). Windows 10 finishes and Bootcamp installs the driver's. Then I check device manager, device manager says my Bluetooth driver is "Bluetooth radio" from 2006.
If I leave Mail.app open and turn on a system-wide VPN on my MacBook Outlook (one of my email accounts) gets mad at me and disables my account and I have to use microsoft's outlook.com to sign in again and reset my password etc. because apparently "somebody else is using your account." How can I stop this from happening? Recently I've stopped leaving Mail.app open all the time so that I don't accidentally cause the problems when I start a VPN and forget to quit Mail.app first. But this is a pain b/c of course I don't get notifications and don't get emails as soon as they arrive. Is there a way to disable that account while a VPN is in use? Or somehow stop these problems.
I'm running into an issue with my 2016 MBP with touchbar, after updating to High Sierra, where my LG 27UD69 external monitor will periodically have the whole screen turn blue for a split second before going back to normal. The monitor is connected to my MBP using the provided HDMI cable which then goes through an Anker thunderbolt-3 to HDMI adapter. I'm outputting 4K at 60hz.
The error says: The URL *=URL=* encountered HTTP error 404. Make sure the URL is correct.
Despite this, none of the buttons work and moving the mouse doesn't move the cursor. I've tried: Updating the Logitech drivers. Switching the mouse off and back on. Replacing the battery in the mouse. Un-pairing the mouse, restarting the machine and then re-pairing it. Un-pairing the keyboard, so only the mouse is paired. Plugging the receiver into a different USB port.
I moved my full photo library from a hard disk "MonsterHD" to an SSD "SieraBoot: to get more performance. I copied the whole directory with all the bits and pieces over (preserving the original one as a fallback.) Then I launched Photos (latest versions of everything) with OPT key down and set up the new location as the photo library. I also clicked "use as system library".
I have periodically used my time machine for years now. The last time I backed up was November 2017 and I started to try and back it up last night and it took ages to "prepare" and started to back up, but then kept failing. When I click the red (i) symbol on my TimeMachine it just says Time Machine couldn't complete the back up.
"About This Mac" --> "Storage" reports that "System" is using around 180G. But if I check the complete disk, it looks like that: df also says that only 20G are available:
I have a Macbook Pro 2016, maxed out. After I updated to High Sierra, I experienced two freezes within the first day. In both instances, the screen freezes, except for the mouse, and the fan gradually ramps up to max speeds. The first time I experienced the freeze, I had a lot of programs running, however, I only had a few programs running during the second freeze. Are there know issues with High Sierra, and is there something I can do to troubleshoot them?
If I were to backup my Mac with Time Machine does it do a file level backup or a block level backup? I don't want want some deleted files on my Mac to be stored on my backup HDD and even for restores. For example if I put back the data on the HDD to my Mac does it do a file level or block level restore?
I want to make a universal code to delete this specific folder but I can't seem to make my variable (=answer) work in the quoted path. .
On December 26, 2017 I took delivery of a 10-core iMac Pro. From the time of its arrival I have had a serious problem with external USB3 drives (I have tried a variety from different manufacturers) attached to the ports on the back of the iMac Pro, ejecting 95% of the time when I wake the iMac Pro from sleep. If I restart, the external USB3 hard drives reappear and function perfectly until the next time I put the iMac Pro to sleep. They do not dismount during use. The only setting I have checked in System Preferences > Energy Saver is “prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display is off”. To solve this problems I have tried: resetting the SMC Controller; resetting the NVRAM; completely reinstalling the Mac OS High Sierra software using Command > Recovery; Using a variety of USB3 HD’s from different manufacturers.
Starting yesterday, I was unable to send a picture text or receive a picture text to one of my contacts on my phone. I have an Android and she has an iPhone. We never had problems before recently, and what's weird is that we can send and receive pictures to others on our contact list, just not each other. Neither of us receives any pictures we send, but normal texts work fine
I am getting a replacement Mac today and I am concerned about the reliability of the Migration Assistant in High Sierra. Both times I've used High Sierra's Migration Assistant there have been timeouts on several new machines (2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros), resulting in me having use Target Disk Mode on the source machine to get the transfer to complete.
We have a 14 year old daughter we are trying to monitor her texting. We use a third party app that captures deleted texts but it’s not real-time not user friendly. How do I set up our phones wher all of her texts come to us as well?
I have a first-generation iPad mini (model MD529LL/A, A1432, 32GB) running iOS 8.4.1. I use it mostly for web browsing with Safari and Chrome, email with Gmail, reading PDFs with iBooks and Adobe Acrobat, maps with Google Maps. It's not the fastest experience but it works just fine. However, some apps no longer support iOS 8 and I'm considering upgrading the iPad to iOS 9.3.5, the latest version supported for this model. Will this upgrade make my iPad feel much slower? What other downsides should I be aware of?
Recently, I was working on a project when I cam upon the following instruction (one of the many here: *=URL=* : After you've installed VLC, set the following environment variables:
I upgraded my mac to High Sierra without backing up my data. Then my Mac wouldn’t login, it gives me a black screen then it restarts.
This is necessary, because I write the program on Ruby, and I need to programmatically change the layout of the keyboard
Has any developer experienced regret after associating their personal Apple ID with a developer account? Considering that our personal accounts can be extremely significant, whether its because we've had them for 10+ years or because we have a lot of purchases tied to said account, I'm wondering if there are any risks to associating the two ID's (Personal and Developer). Another related situation arises when you consider that you may be doing contract work or development for an employer- is their any possible fallback once you move on, leaving your developer account tied to that project?
Help! For the past year, it seems that enabling the "iCloud Photo Library" feature on my phone causes the entire phone's storage to fill with "System".
I know that this is a recurring topic but wondered if any one of you is experiencing this issue with mac os high sierra? I don’t know what really happened on the eve; but the day after when i switched it on i got stuck on the boot screen with the apple logo and progress bar completed.
Specs: macOS Sierra 10.12.5, JBL in-ear headphones with microphone Ever since I got my new headphones, people on Discord and Skype could listen to me watching videos and listening to music, which is pretty annoying. At first I thought this was the fault of those applications, but when checking the input settings of Sound Preferences I saw that macOS was picking up on this as well. I have tried changing settings in the Audio/Midi configuration but my headphones don't show up as a new device but changes the settings of my built-in microphone (from internal microphone to external microphone), so I can't select the mac's original built-in microphone. Can someone please help me with this problem? Pictures for reference: Before plugging in my headphones:
Running osascript -e 'display notification "Message 1" with title "Title"' then osascript -e 'display notification "Message 2" with title "Title"' in terminal shows the first notification then it instantly gets replaced by the second one. Is there any way to show them both at the same time?
I previously was dual booting macOS and Windows 7 on my MacBook but I also needed a Linux partition. I wasn't able to resize my Windows partition so I booted gparted and resized it from there, I then booted back to macOS and added the unallocated space to the Mac partition and tried to make a new partition for Linux.
I have a Folder Action on a /Volumes folder. I'm checking when a specific disk is mounted (folder in /Volumes created), checking ssh to remote computer. If all present I run rsync there.
I have a Mac mini Server Macmini4,1 (A1347) mid 2010 model running Sierra. The ethernet port is not working or the computer doesn't recognize it. I had to take apart the computer to replace the drives. I know the ethernet port is soldered to the board. I think I connected everything when I was putting back together the computer. I don't seem to have AppleKextExcludeList.kext extension listed under Library. When I go under System Report, I get this message: This computer does not appear to have any PCI cards installed. I have tried the following: PRAM reset SMC reset Ran any pending updates Copied AppleKextExcludeList.kext from a known working computer to this Mac mini Server and restarted computer
If she chooses to share my storage, will all of the data currently in her storage be wiped out? That is, will she lose data and/or have upload all her data back up to iCloud?
I have two new Evoluent mice that both randomly send double 'command-[' sequences on pressing the back button. I suspect it's an issue with the mouse driver and not the hardware since it's happening on two different models (left handed VerticalMouse 4 and right handed VerticalMouse C). Anyway I'm looking for ways to filter the double back sequence, such that if there are two command-[ keypresses that occur in under some interval, the system will just ignore one of them. I'm being lazy here but does anyone know how I might be able to do this in hammerspoon or any other input scripting system?
I deleted a TimeMachine backup subdirectory with: Then later I realized that I could do it better with the standard utility and did this for another subdirectory Now, how to I verify that the TimeMachine backup at /Volumes/.../Backups.backupdb/ is still reliable since the first rm ... command I ran, can presumably be destructive in some way?
I am trying to download 7+ gb of videos that my daughter has on her iPad mini. The videos were made in the app musical.ly and I would like to get them from the iPad to my Macbook. I cannot figure out a way to do this and would appreciate any ideas.
Does anyone have an idea of what's happening here? Could Flash be a culprit here? I mention Flash because it gives me problems in Safari that I can overcome by switching to Chrome or Firefox.
I have an LG 27UD58-B 4K display, and I'm trying to connect it to my 2017 macbook pro touchbar, via hdmi and the official apple hdmi adapter. When I plug it in, macOS detects a new monitor and switches me to dual-display mode, but the LG display stays dark. The LG display has no buttons and should turn on automatically... but it doesn't. I've installed the LG OnScreen Control, rebooted, and this also sees the display when plugged in (and tells me when it's not) but no dice.
It seems that every time I try to save a plain text file that is not ending with .txt, Safari gives me an ugly prompt about appending the .txt to the original filename. I never want to do this as I always want to keep the original filenames and extensions. How can I disable this prompt once for all? Is there any CLI trick I can used to tune this?
Can I use MacBook Pro as a display for AppleTV? I'm often traveling and I don't have always external monitor for testing tvOS apps on the device. Thanks, Milos
I want to turn off tabs for Preview especially. Following these instructions, I went to Dock and set “Prefer tabs when opening documents” to Manually - yet PDF documents keep opening up in new tabs in Preview when I open files I download from Chrome, open files from the terminal, or even if I click on them from the Finder. Help?
when I am trying to unpack installer with (pkgutil --expand xyz.pkg output/path) it says "problem extracting file from package" output/path/XXX.bundle/contents/_codesignature/coderesources What could be the possible reason for failure?
replaced the Samsung SSD with original Apple HDD and tried again. The ia.log was same as that of SSD
How does the Mac deal with video content played back at a rate that does not neatly fit into 60 fps screen refresh? I have never noticed 23.97 content looking wrong to my eyes, so is this a solved issue?
I have tried to build and run my project through CodeLite. I have installed Command Line but somehow it doesn't work. It says "no such file or directory" but whenever I ask it to look for gcc, it tells me that i have it in my Mac.
I accidentally ran a command (once) that I copied and pasted on disk1 instead of changing it to the appropriate disk and now I'm really worried I may have damaged my primary disk's (SSD) partition table. The MacBook's still running fine, but I'm afraid to reboot it. The command was: And the error was: You cannot manually partition an existing APFS Container disk.
There's a shortcut for toggling the hidden files in Finder that works on QWERTY layouts: SHIFT + CMD + '.' However, on my AZERTY layout (Belgian more specifically) this doesn't work. If I switch to a QWERTY layout, the shortcut works, so you'l be able to test it if you switch to a AZERTY layout. Anybody any idea? I'm on High Sierra.
I was upgrading my Windows Parallels and after shutting down, now my Mac will go to a black screen and cursor. I have tried to boot into Single User Mode using Command-S, also I tried to reset the NVRAM using option-Command-P-R.
I have one Mac Mini (running 10.11) with a HP P4015 printer attached via USB and shared via System Preferences => Sharing inside my network 10.161.5.x (IP range for machines attached to the cabled network) and a Macbook (running 10.13) in IP range 10.161.6.x (for machines in Wifi) and try to get printer sharing working. Routing between the networks does work, the machines can successfully ping and SSH each other, also accessing *=URL=* CUPS interface works.
I have two non responsive wifi dialogs.  They don't go away with cancel, and they don't offer the join option. They don't appear in the activity monitor. I don't know what the process is called, I tried killing every process with the word Wifi on it, and Wifi proxies. Any way to solve other than full, reboot/logout?
Mac OS has started adding this annoying grey box around keywords/topics when I mouse over them. It happens a lot when I am typing about movie titles and other known hot topic items. If you click on the grey box it does a "Lookup" on the keyword. How can I disable this auto highlighting of keywords for lookup?
I had to go in to single-user mode because I couldn't log into my admin account, I made a new account and changed my admin password. Now, on my first admin account, I can search for my files but everything is like it is factory reset? My wallpaper, and everything. I can only look things up, and once I do, they are on my laptop again. Help? Where are all of my files? How could I solve this?
I have an early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with only a Windows 10 partition. MacOS is not currently installed on the machine. The Windows 10 partition is encrypted with BitLocker and because of the partitions layout, I believe MacOS cannot currently be installed alongside Windows.
Is there a way to get a double digit page number (01. 02. etc.) in Ms Powerpoint 2016 ?
When I try to create a new contact. . . after about 10 seconds from completion it simply disappears! However, if I create on my iPhone, send to Mac, then edit it, it is OK. Is this a place to install Malwarebytes?! or something? MacBook Air, Mac OS 10.13.2
I want to download games in school iPad but I don’t have the AppStore. What are some websites that I can use?
Over the past few weeks I have noticed my iMac 21.5" (mid-2010) running OSX 10.11.6 tends to go to Sleep mode every now and then, and then cannot be akawen again using either the keyboard or the mouse. However, I can re-vive by pressing the power button, but this rather results in a re-boot which suggests that sleep was rather a shutdown. If I left in sleep mode for longer, the Mac re-boots by itself. There are no kernel panic messages upon rebooting.
As titled, whenever I try to click on update to check for updates, I get the following:  /var/log/install.log: High Sierra 10.13.2 on a mbp middle 2012 Any idea?
Does the Apple TV 4K provide PIP feature so I can share the screen between two apps both running at the same time? If so, how to engage?
I noticed that in TortoiseHg ver. 4.4.2 some elements of the main window are "retina-ready" (revision list, changeset line) while some are not (diff and console). I wonder if there is some setting that would make all of them fine. I would also like to understand why this is happening.
I don't see my graphics card listed in the System Information menu.  My co-worker has the exact same specs/macOS version, and his shows both the integrated graphics card as well as the a AMD Radeon Pro 460. I found that I'm able to see the card in my hardware menu as illustrated:
I am running macOS 10.13.2 and I am trying to open a jar file for java. I have tried left clicking to open the file and I have also tried to change the security preferences to Always open but it still does not work. It says that I should the errors in the console. Error Message from Console:
An AskDifferent superuser answered a question in 2014 about how to enable Bonjour on a Mac. At the time, the "Advanced" tab in Safari allowed a user to check a box to view Bonjour settings in the bookmark menu. In current versions of Safari, however, those steps don't appear to work. So here's the first of a two-part question: • Where are the Bonjour preferences/settings accessible under El Capitan and newer Mac OS? Here's the second part of the question: • AskDifferent user, "njboot", in response to the Bonjour question in 2014, stated "Unless you’re running a firewall behind a NAT router (which serves no point), Bonjour’s enabled and running by default."
I imported an iCalendar (.ics) file into macOS Calendar. Because I expected the file to only contain a handful of events, I chose to add the events to an existing calendar rather than create a new one. However, the file turned out to contain hundreds or thousands of events, most of which were not relevant to me and which I don't want spamming my calendar.
I was trying to reformat an external hard drive so that I could use it on my MacBook. I tried a bunch of suggestions and eventually was lead to run the command:
Rofi is a fuzzy searcher for linux (select one entry from a set of entries quickly by typing a substring). fzf is a similar tool for the shell. This is useful for quickly producing hacky GUI interfaces. Is there a similar way to easily select one of several strings with a gui from the command-line in mac? Searching and playing audio files from a known location.
I was fooling around and experimented with "apple configurator 2" it sounded cool, and I "supervised" my iphone so I could fool with it and change settings and stuff. a while ago I dissasembled the computer, used it's parts, etc. can't find the hard drive. and my iphone won't connect to any other computer, since it was supervised.
I can not download WWDC 2011 session_310 whats_new_in_instruments well. I do not know why. Other WWDC sessions are downloaded as expected , As you can see
Does anyone know how to enable right click on the bottom right corner of the trackpad while dual booted into Ubuntu 16.04? Currently, I can only use a 2 finger click as right click. What do I need to adjust?
After an update from Microsoft, /secondary Skype stopped working as mentioned in How can I run multiple Skype accounts in one computer?. I think they willfully want only one Skype should be working on a desktop. The only one way I've found to run multiple Skype instances now is to just install the old classic Skype. Is there any way to do it for new Skype?
I installed (native, so no vm) Windows 7 (64 bits) on my old MacPro2,1. With 10GB RAM I would have though it would run pretty decent. But no, its extremely slow and I have no clue what causes it. I'm guessing a setting or a wrong driver.
I have 25 videos on my iPhone SE which all have the naming scheme "Mike Plays_Metal Gear Solid #\d\d" (Twitch collection I downloaded from a channel I sub to). Problem is that, because this title is too long to fit on the screen, I can only see "Mike Plays_Metal Ge..." and the rest of the title is cut off. All the videos have the same date (yesterday), and because videos 4 through 9 aren't prefixed with a zero, the videos are somewhat out of order. Is there a way to see the rest of the video title inside the Videos app?
I'm now on High Sierra but have had this problem previously on El Capitan. Sometimes, even directly after a reboot, files like .png or .jpg open, instead of in Preview, which is what I want, in some ancient canon photo util programs I still have on my system (which I should probably delete). I'd like to know what could be happening here and to investigate - can anyone advise how to precisely control filetype associations and what are the common causes of this getting messed up? Following other questions on this topic, if I do: cat ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist I just get: bplist00?
I am experiencing short interruptions of the Bluetooth connection on my early 2013 MacBook Pro Retina. I have connected my Magic Mouse, my Magic Keyboard and Bluetooth headphones. Every few seconds there is a short interruption resulting in lag of the input devices or a short distortion in the sound. The devices do not get disconnected. The time interval is very short. What I find peculiar is, when I ping at the same time ping google.de, every time the distortion occurs the ping tenfolds just for one iteration. Has anyone observed similar problems?
In the past, I used to use the same Gmail address for testing in-app purchasing (sandbox testing) by adding + sign to my email. For example, myemail+testYapp@gmail.com
Since iOS11 one is forced to use 2FA, unless one wants to do without a second factor. But 2FA has the disadvantage that the passcode is transmitted to the iCloud. But I don’t know when this is the case. So I would like to know when and how this happens?
I'm having a strange problem in macOS Sierra, when trying to connect a remote server via SSH. I have a key, which I have created it without passphrase. I can correctly connect to the server using that key with Putty (Windows) and CyberDuck (Mac). However, when I try to connect via SSH using the command line (ssh -I path/to/key user@server) the system asks me for the passphrase.
I tried to do a very large copy (2TB) by copy/paste to two external drives. It hung up on the "Preparing to copy" dialog. After about 20 hours of waiting, I cancelled and that also seems to hang. Can I unmount these drives, and/or can I relaunch Finder without worry to the data on the drives?
Quicklook was not working (i.e. the visual icon preview for application files in the finder). First I read man qlmanage and tried what is suggested there. Following that, output from qlmanage -t ~/Documents/SKETCH/960.sketch is below. High Sierra security feature breaking quicklook?
Current situation: We have the old phone (associated with the old account), and we have successfully updated it to the latest iOS version and backed it up via iTunes. The old phone does not have iCloud services/backup activated. We have the new phone (factory reset), updated to the same iOS version (11.2.2).
My VPN dis-/connect workflow script isn't working since upgrading to macOS High Sierra (stable Version, v10.13.2). I used an Alfred workflow to connect to my VPN connections which uses scutil command under the hood. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2861556/31211266-02d886dc-a998-11e7-952a-e1409d882a59.png
My voice memos are popping up on all family members' devices, how do I change that setting so that they can't access them?
I'm not very familiar with iPhone's iCloud backup mechanism and I have searched online expecting for an answer. Unfortunately, I got into confusion more than finding myself an answer.
I am having a very severe issue. I erased my Mac’s disk and reinstalled macOS High Sierra yesterday (I was already on High Sierra before reinstalling). I made copies of the drive before wiping it and I have all the data of the old disk at hand on external drives. (This is not a question about any kind of data loss, no loss occurred.)
If I install a application using *.dmg image using user user1, it will be available when user2 log in as well? or it will be available only for user1 ?
I am using High Sierra (10.13.2, all updates in, including the one for Meltdown). When I do one of my regular checks for disk health using the first aid in Disk Utility the whole process is (1) incredibly slow and (2) recently freezes my laptop altogether. Given that I have a a 500GB SSD with 160 GB space, I am well surprised both by the drop in performance and now, by the fact I need to restart my laptop.
I have a late 2009 27" iMac which has served my well for many years. Unfortunately, it seems the graphics card is broken. Trying to boot normally, I just get the grey screen of death after the initial chime and Apple logo. First of all I tried all the usual resets, including: Safe boot Boot into recovery (including Internet Recovery) Re-install OS from OS X DVD Clear NVRAM Reset SMC Results: Booting into recovery mode works (CMD+R) with mayor graphical glitches. Trying to run the Apple Hardware test (D) results in the same grey screen of death as the on normal boot. Thanks to the tips from Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install) I de-activated the graphics card by booting into single user mode CMD+S on boot and moving the driver files: After this OS X normally boots up into OS X again, so I guess the graphics card is broken. Under About this Mac > More Info ... > Graphics/Display the graphics card is still shown correctly: But even with the 
I need to toggle back and forth between engaging and disengaging a socks proxy within Safari: Next open safari and click on "safari" in the top left menu bar to open the drop down menu and then click on preferences. You can do the same thing by pressing CMD+,. Click on the advanced tab and find "Proxies", click "Change Settings". System Preferences should open and you can now select "SOCKS Proxy". You should be setup and if you check google for your IP it should be masked by the address that you're SSH'd into. Note this is system wide and will cover all network communications. You can turn this off by unselecting the SOCKS Proxy.
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro 13-inch Model that has 6 operating systems manually installed on it (High Sierra, Yosemite, Android x86, Windows, Ubuntu and Kali Linux). As I said, I installed Windows manually, without using the BootCamp assistant.
How do I fix my mail search feature on my Mac? Somehow my mail indexing has gotten "frozen" on my Mac (OS Sierra 10.12.6), so that messages newer than last June do not appear in searches.
I have the following data in the cell column numbers app, column with date format like this, how can i format it to my current timezone which is EST as these date are in UTC? Im trying to filter it, but in order to filter it i need to change this format because the mac doesn't recognize the UTC, so under the format data option i selected Date & Time and Date is 2017-08-05 and time is 20:06:20 but it didnt recognize it because UTC. worst case, i need to open txt editor and replace all UTC with empty space :(
When I display a video, I see this message: When I click through to the message about HTML support I see: Yet we know that Safari supports H.264.
I don't have the "internet sharing" option activated I don't have the "internet sharing" option activated
I am running a Mac mini in a datacenter 5000 km from my location and I am using Remote Desktop to run and manage it. When I installed Google Drive File Stream it stopped working and I got the advice that I need to allow it run.
I am making a self-driving RC car to drive around a track for a school project. I am going to attach my iPhone camera to the car to film. the car is connected to my laptop which needs the video in order to tell the car where to go. How can I upload the video from my iPhone to my computer while the camera is filming continuously? the computer and iPhone would be connected by a cable at all times.
I’ve been having a few issues with the sd card reader on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro. A few weeks ago every sd card I inserted I could only read from, but not write to. I know the switch on the sd cards for enabling/disabling writing, and that was not the issue. After some googling I found out there is actually a switch inside the sd card reader, and that had gotten stuck. So I was able to flip that with a paper clip and everything started working again for the past couple of weeks.
I sync an iPod Touch with the latest iOS (11.2.2) to the latest iTunes (12.7.2.60) on Windows 10. I download and delete podcasts manually in iTunes. I have podcast playlists in iTunes, but since Apple removed podcast playlists from recent versions of iOS, these are not available on the Touch.
I have recently purchased two new MacBook Pros. One is a 2016 13" MacBook Pro, the other a 2017 15" MacBook Pro. On both of them, I have had to reinstall macOS High Sierra from the Recovery Tools. On both machines, it has taken over 5 hours to install.
Is there any way to select part of all lines in pages? For example: I have 100 lines with 100 characters each and I need to select 20 characters from each line. Can I do it with some kind of shortcut or it is not possible and I have to do it manually?
I am currently running macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and was wondering if there is an easy way to format code (like there is for Title, Heading, etc.) in Apple's Notes app?
So, I'm an iPhone 5c user, who was on iOS 8 for quite a while. I recently was convinced to update to the newest update (which I believe is 10.3.3), and ever since then, my phone has been bedeviled with issues. It started with my phone constantly deleting my tabs after leaving Safari, then the Camera Roll being wiped (the photos eventually got restored, but this keeps happening multiple times), as well as my music, podcasts, and contacts being deleted off my phone.
For 6 months now my Mac freezes 4 to 5 times a week, forcing me to reboot. The software I run the most when my Mac freezes are: Google Chrome and Molotov.tv.
Someone has broken into my apartment and stolen my MacBook Pro and my roommate's Mac. Neither of the two devices was logged in to iCloud. Is there a way to track my device through its serial number?
I have an ultrawide screen (similar to this), which is connected to my Mac. I am looking for a way to split this screen into two or three virtual screens when needed, for easy multitasking. OSX does support screen splitting if you hold on the green button at the top of any screen, but it's very inconvenient because it takes a lot of clicks to switch which applications are currently displayed. Is there a better way to make efficient use of such a big screen?
I have a jailbroken iPhone 6s, running iOS 9.3.3. An "Erase all content and settings" will reset the phone, but will not "un-jailbreak" the phone. I know a factory restore will completely wipe the phone and update the iOS to the latest available (and hence remove the jalbreak), but I want to keep the iPhone on iOS 9. Is there a way I can un-jailbreak my phone, without having to update the software?
I'll start with quoting another Stack Overflow user: Apple's MacBook Pro has a slight delay on the caps lock key. That is, the caps lock key has to be held down slightly longer than normal to register the key press required to engage the caps lock.* It appears that by remapping the caps-lock key on macOS (in System Preferences, Keyboard, Modifier Keys), the delay goes away until reboot.
My old MacBook has many fonts that I need to sync to my new MacBook. How do I figure out the ones that are missing, and sync them?
I need to know what text to enter into System Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts / App Shortcuts, but I can't find the command names in the iTunes menu bar, nor by hovering any of the UI for tooltips.
I got a new iPhone 6 which is tied to a carrier and I currently am still using an old Samsung I have because I don’t want to waste the minutes (as I cannot transfer the plan from the iPhone to the Samsung). They both have different carriers, anyway. I have set up my iPhone a couple of weeks ago and recently it has been giving me a notification that pops up every 10 minutes saying “iPhone not activated please contact your carrier".
I had to pawn my iPad for a bit, so I uploaded all of my third-party books to iCloud and of course, when I turned iCloud off, the material was removed from the device. Now that I have it back I naturally want to download my entire library to my device again. At first it let me download about half of my library, but when I tried to download any more, suddenly all of my books were pulled back onto the Cloud. I assumed it was a storage issue, and gave myself another gigabyte of space... NOW, not only did the problem continue but it’s actually gotten worse: iCloud periodically pulls back any book I try to download. It doesn’t even notify me, let alone asks permission — it just does it and the cloud symbol suddenly appears. Is there some setting I got jacked up or what?
4 days ago my 2017 MacBook Pro started exhibiting a strange behaviour. Basically when it's in sleep mode, it crashes and when I open it I have to boot it again and the report shows a kernel panic, that is almost always identical, that says something like
I am french, i live in germany. And when i do researches on my iphone 5c i am looking for results in german, sometimes in french, sometimes in english.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), and when I unlock my Mac , my trackpad often gets stuck and 'unlock' itself after a couple seconds. I think that it's a software issue, and I suspect that the problem happens when my Mac unlocks itself with my  Watch, but I have no idea of how to fix it.
After syncing approx. 1000 photos today from my iPhone to photos.app, I discovered that lots of metadata was removed, most prominently the favourite (heart) tagging and album affiliation (I had arranged photos in albums on the iPhone). This was removed without any warning. I assume it's impossible to get this metadata back, but is there a sane way to keep this metadata on the next import? I understand that some metadata will be kept if I do this process over iCloud, but it seems unreasonable to pay Apple perhaps 100 USD/year when all I need is metadata to be transferred from one device to another.
It is impossible to take photos with my iPhone 6 in winter. Temperature can be from 0 Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) to minus 10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) i.e. not very low. Phone just turns off without any explanation. I can warm it inside my pocket or coat and take out only for few photos -- it doesn't help. Once in room it recovers. Other phones and cameras work well in such conditions.
I'm frustrated. In Adobe Animate CC or Adobe Flash Professional in Windows, some of the function keys serve as shortcuts for the timeline. For instance, F6 will insert a new keyframe.
Because Pokemon Go has a bug on the iPad version and I cannot see the number of Pokeballs remaining to catch a Raid Boss (due to aspect ratio of iPad about 4:3, not the same as iPhone's 16:9), so I want to use the 2-app-side-by-side method to see if I can somehow change the aspect ratio of the app. So I either run Pokemon Go and slide in a Safari, or run the Safari and slide in Pokemon Go. (By running Pokemon Go, and then slide from bottom up of the screen to see the dock, and then touch-and-hold an app and move it to the edge of the main screen area).
Yesterday I received a brand new MacBook Pro Touch Mid-2017 with Touchbar, which was built-to-order. Before even passing through the setup screens, I noticed that the Force Touch Trackpad gives away a mechanical thud/clicking sound at each press. At every press, the Trackpad is nudged down/slightly lowered, and this is what creates the mechanical sound. The same thing happens regardless of where on the Force Trackpad's area I press.
As a last resort, I just unmounted the hard disk and rebooted. I then asked Photos to "rebuild" the library. I then had it "in background" for like 36 hours.
I have an iPad Pro running ios 11.2.2...and, I can turn off the gray bar using the “general>keyboard>predictive” switch...but the prediction just pops up in a bubble next to where i am typing. this is a SIGNIFICANT SECURITY ISSUE as password predictions pop up when the first or second letter is typed...anyone using the device can easily see any password that i regularly use...so, how do I stop the predictions from occuring?
I checked the different similar questions and tried the suggested solutions but in vain. Disk utility doesn't help at all. I tried running this command from the terminal as suggested. Error: -69771: The target disk is too small for this operation I have more than 25 G of free space:
I'm starting the Hack This Site application challenges, and all of the macOS applications are in the .sit file format. I've downloaded StuffIt Expander, but it crashed when I open the file. I've also tried The Unarchiver, but it tells me 'Unknown data format'. I have deleted StuffIt .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences.
I am having trouble with my High Sierra OS X Server's file sharing volumes. Sometimes the connection is very slow. Other times I can't connect. Then I sometimes have multiple mounted volumes of the same share, but I can't write to any of them. I don't have any hard drives converted to APFS, so my question was, is there a way to activate AFP from Terminal? sudo serveradmin fullstatus afp shows that there is something still there and I can start the afp demon without any error message with serveradmin start afp. My only question is where do I configure the settings?
A friend of mine gave me an old mac mini, the white one, i guess from 2007 or something. It has Mac OS 10.x installed (actually it has 3 versions installed for whatever reason). The problem is that he has no idea what his user name and passwords are. So I would like to re-install a fresh OS and setup the mac mini. It is not the first time, that I do this, so I do press for sure the right keys while starting up. I tried booting the system holding down the apple key + r without success. The system will boot into the primary installation. With Command + Apple + r it is the same. I can reset VRAM using Command Command + Apple + r + p and I hear the chime sound. Pressing any other combinations doesn't let me hear any sounds. So I wondered and created a bootable stick with MAC OS Sierra on it. Just to make sure my old mac mini can handle it. While booting up and pressing command I can choose between the installed Versions of MAC OS or install Sierry from USB. When I choose to install from US
When I type on my MacBook Pro, I tend to rest my palms near the trackpad - and sometimes they end up touching the trackpad directly. As a result sometimes I end up moving the mouse around while typing. The worst is when it ends up highlighting text I've already typed, then I end up typing over it. This happens a lot.
I tried to dual boot into linux the other day and accidently ended up messaging my boot volume - the machine ended up booting only into Grub resuce. I ended up using diskutil to erase the Linux filesystem and swap memory but was forced to erase my MacOS boot volume. I keep backups of everything so it wasn't a huge problem.
I want to click-open a file by path, but a colon is part of the output of grep, which make the filename non-clickalbe, e.g.,
Here's my problem...I have one contact who will call me 4 or 5 times in a row to "be sure" I really can't talk. They're driving me NUTS. But I'm job hunting and don't want all my calls to go directly to voicemail...is there any way I can put just this person on DND?
I recently created a photo book and had it printed at Apple. When it returned a number of the photos were distorted and upside down - so quite different from what appeared on my screen at home. I created a PDF of the book and in that the photos were similarly distorted etc What do i do to fix this? I am running an iMac with macOS High Sierra
My MacBook Air will not keep charge unless it is plugged in. However it started right after I spilled some water on it. Went in through the Trackpad and keyboard. I thought it was completely dead, but I then plugged it in and it turned on. But it does shut off when you unplug it. If I keep it plugged in, it will not run certain games as it will get too hot and shut off. Everything works fine, Except for the battery. It only charges up to 20% and the status of the battery is "Replace Now" I suspected that maybe it was just the battery and nothing else was wrong, but I went to the apple store and they did a quick check and they said that I am lucky it even still turns on because of all of the damages. They also said it will take as LITTLE as $800 to fix it. They claim it is more than the battery. But I suspect that battery replacement will fix it. Maybe not completely but at least to a point of it being semi functional. But what do you think? Is it just the battery? Or something more?
Long ago, back in the OS 7 and earlier days, it was a snap to perform what was formally called a "Clean Install" of the OS. It would utterly remove the OS and place a brand-spanking new one in its place. Applications and data (other than system preferences and such) would be untouched, and you rarely even had to reinstall a single application. Adjust a few system prefs and you were good as new in no time at all.
I have a Macbook Pro with the four USB-C / thunderbolt ports, running High Sierra. I have a USB-C to DVI cable. I have tried an old 1680x1050 monitor connected it which works fine. However another 2560x1440 monitor does not; it just doesn't display anything when connected, the same as having no signal. That monitor works fine when connected to a PC at full resolution with a DVI to DVI cable.
I was given a thumb drive by a colleague with a collection of files on it. I put it in my mac, looked at the contents, removed it and passed it on to another person. I only looked at the contents, before removing the drive. Upon review the drive now shows the time stamp when I looked at it, and also shows a trashes folder with filenames, many of which are duplicates of the active files. I am being accused of deleting files, but I believe they were deleted by the person that used the drive before me to make space. Is there any way to explain this or show they were moved to trash earlier?
Then I came across: Majd Alfhaily's post *=URL=* where he was able to accomplish the exact task that I am trying to do using his TransLock Brutefore tool. I tried to replicate his work, but my programming skills are limited. I got as far as downloading his libTransLock file on my GitHub...(https://github.com/freemanrepo/libTransLock).
Is there a way to formulate a URL that will open on the Apple Watch in Maps? I'm trying to use IFTTT to push a link to PushOver, so I can open it on the apple watch to pull up a location.
I recently been adding things to my nvram and I think I broke it for good. I have one of those Mac Book Pro 8,2 with El Capitan 10.11.5 and I was fixing the problem described here (I have one of those toasted discrete gfx cards) *=URL=* And tt did work once I was able to boot with the Intel 3500HD, was so happy, but then something weird happened: the system won't boot at all, It gives up when it tries to boot and no kernel panic is shown .Probably kernel is not even loaded devfs_kernel_mount: kernel_mount failed: 2.
I'm trying to set a L/R balance for various apps separately. For example, one app would play through the left channel and the other would be set to the right. I haven't yet found a solution to do so, besides changing the settings globally, which is not exactly what I want.
Safari can't open "feed:*=URL=* because Safari can't display RSS feeds. You can search the Mac App Store for an RSS app.
I have a launch agent on a remote machine which runs Yosemite. The LaunchAgent is saved to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and I am the owner: When logging in via SSH (as that particular user), attempting to load the file produces the following exchange:
I tried to find a solution but all of them are about trying to install cli-tools without Xcode. All of them eventually require the internet connection. My case is that I want to install cli-tools on a completely offline machine which was never connected to the Internet. Thus the only option is to install from files brought using USB flash.
This has been driving me crazy. I have a script which is an executable within /usr/local/bin/, which works perfectly in Terminal, but I am unable to get Applescript to call it:
I monitor my MacBook's temperature using Macs Fan Control app. When I bought my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) ~2 years ago, the CPU PECI temperature is ~98°C when encoding some videos.
I'm running OSX High Sierra 10.13.2. also, where can I collect more info about why this is happening?
I have two Playstation 4 Dualshock controllers and am thinking of getting two more. They have both bluetooth and usb connections, but prefer bluetooth to avoid cable salad — and of course to be able to conveniently play games on the big screen from the couch. Am thus far unable to use both wirelessly at the same time. How to connect and use both controllers using bluetooth at the same time? Tested on macOS High Sierra (10.13) and macOS Sierra (10.12) on two separate 2015 model Macbooks. Can pair with both controllers individually, if turning bluetooth off/on between. Cannot connect with both at the same time.
I'm trying to give new life to my old white late-2006 MacBook by installing a new OS (dual boot), but I am having problems as my DVD/CD drive is broken and I just can't get my Mac to boot from my flash drive. The Mac has 64 bit processors, but the EFI is 32 bit.
I have a Mac High Sierra (10.13.2) connected to Open Directory. The server is a OpenLDAP Linux Server With Apple Configurator I created a Email Profile to config email account. In local users I don't have any problem to install the profile, but with network users "Profile installation failed: No user identifier found in record":
In outlook for windows you can chose an implemented rule which stores an answer together with the original message in the same folder instead of the 'sent' folder. Outlook for Mac doesn't have such a predefined rule. In outlook 2011 you could use an AppleScript for this purpose in the menu 'rules' which I did since outlook 2011 had been released. Outlook 2016 doesn't provide such a solution. My question is about how to store an answer together with the original message in the same folder in outlook 2016?
I wiped and re-installed macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 on an older MacBook Air (11″, 2013). Then I tried to download Office 365. It got as far as "one minute remaining" on "Running Package Scripts", then it hung. I tried force-quitting and re-starting. It won't let me. So I am stuck here. What can I do?
When downloading a pdf file in Safari 11.0.2, can I save it in a particular file folder without first saving it in Downloads?
I tried to sync my photos... what a huge mistake. I knew this would be a disaster before I started but I had to go attempt anyway. Luckily I had backups of my multiple photo libraries because it completely obliterated all my organization, uploaded thousands of duplicates, won't let me delete anything.. I'm nuking everything and starting fresh. I have all my libraries restored from 3rd party backups but the problem is I have all these photos in iCloud Photos web. Is there some kind of automation/javascript I can run in the console to select all photos?
I have similar problems in iTunes. If I open iTunes and try to select an output device, I can select the Apple TV but the same pop-up window requesting the "AirPlay code" that I don't have a way to see appears. Note: I have a 27" Apple Cinema Display, but it has not way to connect directly to the Apple TV. Again, any suggestions much appreciated. Footnote -- If I had a shorter distance between the Mac Pro & the DAC I could use USB, but USB doesn't do well at distances beyond 20 feet.
Upon disconnecting, if I want it to do what I asked it to do, I have to physically go to the Server and use its mouse and keyboard to log back in. As soon as I do that, it resumes what it was doing. How might I resolve/troubleshoot this issue?
On macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, when I manually lock the screen (shift+ctrl+power) and later press any key to turn it on, the screen content which was shown at the time I locked the screen is briefly displayed on the screen (something like 1/30 or 1/60 of a second — I can measure it with high speed camera but it doesn't matter much) before it finally displays the login UI. I've never seen it before High Sierra, but now I can reproduce this 100% of the time. This is really annoying because this might allow a stranger to capture screen contents which were shown immediately before the screen was locked.
Unless I'm missing something this is proving absurdly difficult. I am an office 365 user and I use both Outlook 2017 Desktop and the iOS Outlook app. I want to share my main Outlook calendar with someone else who is not an Office 365 user but does use the iOS Outlook app for their default iPhone mail app. The following did not work: Open Outlook Select Calendar Select the menu > settings cog next to desired calendar Click "Add People" > Choose Contact
I am on High Sierra, and I have opened Console. I am seeing TONS of authd : MacOS error -67050 and sometimes -67062. Sometimes I see this on taskgated and also iCal. What can I do to trace what causes this?
I'm trying to read the CallHistory database saved on my Mac, using: But, the ZADDRESS data is stored as a blob and I'm not sure how to extract the phone number from it. I'm seeing the same issue in the 5a4935c78a5255723f707230a451d79c540d2741 iPhone backup file
When I shake my 6th generation iPod Touch (NKH62LL/A) in a motion by holding it on the sides (so that it moves roughly alone a line between the lightning port and hold button), it seems like something somewhat heavy shifts and thuds inside. It sort of is rattling, but heavier as if maybe the battery is not secured.
So I have an iPhone 4s and I have had it for about 4 years by now. A few days ago I was walking my dog, she pulled on the leash and the phone dropped from my hand face flat onto concrete and skidded a good few feet away from me. The screen was completely shattered but it still works perfectly fine after the drop, and it hasn't had any previous damage or drops. A day after this happened I was using it and noticed a strong smell. I did some research and people have said that it could be the battery but the smell is not sweet like a battery leak was described. It is more of a heavy smell that makes me feel sick. I am getting a replacement phone but wondering if using this one in the meantime is dangerous? What is this smell?
Our website provides hyperlinks to third-party software which requests basic authentication. Previously a user would click the link, they would be taken to the new URL, and an authentication prompt would be shown. On the recent update Safari no longer prompts for authentication, and users are given a 401 Unauthorised error immediately. If you reload the page, it will prompt. Pasting the URL directly into the address bar works correctly.
I have this problem that recovery mode won't initialize the graphic mode properly, it goes to a grey screen. I wanted to delete the AMD Radeon kexts but I can't mount the filesystem in read-write mode, It says the device is write locked once I run mount -uw /. Do you know if there's any way to edit files on the recovery partition by booting into it in single user mode? I'm on El Capitan by the way..
I have been in Cancun for about a week now. After using my phone almost everyday, it broke and when turned on, only had a small hairline crack of light running down the middle. I had not dropped it, sat on it, or anything. Also, after leaving my macbook alone for about 4 days, when I turned it on and clicked battery it said "Condition: Replace now", even though it was fine 4 days ago. I was just wondering if anyone knew if humidity affected macs and iphones.
Recently I am trying to figure out how to run a dotnet service after my MacOS startup. On Windows, I can install the NSSM to run the script as a service. This script will be triggered whenever my computer starts up. Inside the script contains the line of code like dotnet RunMyService Am I allow to perform the same action in MacOS as well?
I'm having to switch between apps a lot with macOS High Sierra, and one app will either have Caps Lock on or off at random times - which is fine, I can make do with Caps Lock being on/off in that app, but I would like to make sure that no matter from which app I switch to app#2, no matter if Caps Lock is On or Off in other-than-app#2, that when I switch to app#2, I'm most certainly always in Caps Lock=Off. How would I do that?
Has anybody know how can we share folder/files from High Sierra? I can not access files when I followed usual process of going to "System Preferences > File Sharing > Enable AFP and adding users with required privileges”
I would like to purchase an iPhone 8 as a gift for a current Verizon customer who is still using an old iPhone 5c. I plan to purchase the phone outright and since the cost at the Verizon store is the same as with Apple, I would prefer to get it directly from Apple. My question is, can I buy her a SIM free phone from Apple or must I buy a Verizon activated phone from Apple instead? This person has a current, activated Verizon account with a Verizon iPhone 5c phone (which was paid off in monthly installments a long time ago). My guess is that since she already has a Verizon account with the 5c and an active SIM card, I could just go with the SIM free option and then all she would need to do is transfer her Verizon SIM card to the new phone and it will work fine. Is this a correct assumption? Thank you!
I have multiple tabs of finder open in a single window. By default, Mac shows the name of the folder open on the tab. I want to change or prepend a name to it. How to do it? Thanks
I have a 13” MacBook Air (mid 2013) with OSX Yosemite and bought a BenQ SW271. It was all working nicely in 1440p through DisplayPort cable. After update to High Sierra it shows no signal detected but in MacOs i can see the monitor is connected and i can change the resolution etc.. I tried reinstall MacOs multiple times also from internet recovery(option+cmd+r), reset nvram, smc, changing resolution, plug unplug, turning it off for a day all kind of voodoo I found on YT but so far no luck. I called Apple but they didn’t have solution until now. Any idea what might be the problem?
I asked a similar worded question at stackoverflow, but here is the question concerning the Mac side - so: similar text, but different question. I am using a Mac and the Calendar.app.
I have two location configured in the network settings. One for my workplace with only an ethernet connection configured and one for home with wifi & Bluetooth configured. Can I somehow configure the workspace configuration to be automatically activated when an ethernet cable is plugged?
I'm trying to install unbound using brew command. Here's output for brew install unbound: As you can see, I was asked to use brew link unbound to link to unbound 1.6.7. But I failed to link to it because I got the following error: I've the other stackoverflow here. And the answer sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local creates the following error:
I just upgrade my mac mini to macOS high sierra. Before, when I turn on the power, there is the option for me to choose boot from Windows 10 or macOS. but right now, it boots and enters macOS directly. I checked and found that BOOTCAMP disk still exist, all content of the bootcamp hard disk appeared and nothing removed. Is there any way to activate/import the existed bootcamp disk and add the option for Windows 10/macOS when turn on the power?
In Finder , when I am browsing through my Audio Files [Like on an External HD or just the normal HD] On the top bar of the finder, there is a few options and categories for identifying and organising the files or arranging the files besides just the file name. These are : Name / Date Modified / Date Created / Last Opened / Size / Kind / Version / Comments / Labels
On a thumb drive, here is what the trashes look like "/.Trashes/501/Carrie copy/2015/7-30-2015 filename" They are copies of many, but not all of the files on the thumb drive. The thumb drive was sent from a colleague. I inserted it once into my Mac, now it shows these "copy" files in the trash. I didn't do anything with the drive when I inserted it, just looked at the list of files and removed the drive. Is there any possibility the system created copies to view on my Mac and then discarded them when I removed the drive. The files are old and were probably created on a PC.
If it's not possible to do what I need, is there a way of installing OpenWRT or DD-WRT software onto an Airport Extreme? Or do I need to buy a real (but cheap) router?
I have a website which is internal to the company I work for. I am trying to streamline access to the website for our iOS users and I have ran into a problem.
The Calendar app does not sync created events to the google calendar on a fresh install of high sierra. Syncing new created events using the web gui of google calendar works fine. The only error in Console regarding Calendar is: I don't know if that is related though.
My iPhone SE suddenly started to be slower. I have also tried to reset to factory settings. I am wondering if I may be effected by Apple's decision to slow down devices with older batteries. How can I check if this is the case?
I'm trying to solve a booting problem with my Macbook Pro (A1707) and I'm finding that there is no power indicator. After turning on I sometimes hear the fans running, but for the purposes of pressing keys to start certain boot disks and other bootup functionality I need to know whether the system is on or off and whether I need to press the power button briefly to turn it on, or hold it down to force a shutoff. Assuming the boot drive doesn't light up the screen (either it doesn't by design, or it doesn't get that far) what indications can I look for to tell me if the system is on or off?
I accidentally created a profile in the Vivaldi web browser via terminal command: /Applications/Vivaldi.app --profile-directory= I intended to use the command to see if I could use two profiles on Vivaldi, and somehow forgot to enter a profile name after the =.
Is it possible to make an uploaded iOS application unavailable to download using an API just like Play Store ?
I just purchased a mid-2010 Mac Mini and am trying to run Apple Hardware Test. When I hold down D or Option-D at startup, it brings up the Internet Recovery. Once that loads, it says it is not compatible with this computer. I have the original DVD that came with the computer, but even when I insert that and hold down D or Option-D, it still brings up internet recovery, which is not compatible. It seems I need to override that somehow, but I cannot find any instructions for doing so online. Does anyone have an idea?
I usually use Preview to read my PDFs. Usually, the files are very long and I have to jump from, let's say, page 20 to page 200 continuously. Is there a way to set the Layout to two Columns or two Rows such that I can read page 20 in one side and page 200 to the other side within the same PDF file opened? I am trying to do the same thing I do with Sublime Text ( View > Layout > Columns:2 ) which is able to do so.
Is there a way to automatically switch F-Keys functionality from being sound/brightness keys to F1-F12 when I switch to Intellij IDEA? And when I leave IDEA F-Keys sound/brightness keys again.
I was trying to print this document. It opens great in Preview but I cannot print it:
How do I monitor system log for <host> sshd: <user> [priv][<process>]: USER_PROCESS: <process> ttys000 and display with $(osascript -e '(display dialog "User $user connected. Kick out?" buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 2 with title "SSH to $host") and kill -9 <process> if answered Yes
I just activated an iPhone X on Verizon Wireless. My previous iPhone was able to do WiFi Calling on my home network. Now when I try to turn WiFi Calling on (Settings -> Cellular -> Wi-Fi Calling), I get an error message telling me to contact Verizon.
I upgraded from Yosemite to High Sierra and found that Calendar has "forgotten" all entries after the upgrade: no trace of them was to be found in ~/Libraries/Calendar. As I never activated synchronization with iCloud and also suppressed it during the upgrade, there was no direct way of recovering them.
I am trying to sign up for Apple Developer membership, and I've enrolled and paid for 1 year. But after trying to sign in to my developer account, it states that my membership is pending and to complete your enrollment by purchasing the membership. But I've already bought it and they sent a confirmation email to me. Does anyone have an idea why it is telling me to complete your enrollment by purchasing the membership?
I am setting up my new iPad mini - the volume icon is midcenter of the display and I can't get rid of it. suggestions?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Sometimes my mac using a lot of CPU power. The usage is 75% of the system. But this occurred when I was away and the mac was in the sleep mode (I went away at about 11 AM till 8 PM). Also, the "User" usage is used more power than even when it is on. Does my Mac has some problems or is this behavior normal? Can it be a Virus?
I'm on a Macbook Pro 13 (mid-12, not retina), macOS High Sierra. I spilled a few droplets of water (actual water) and my left arrow key decided to stop working. That's fair. Then I thought i don't use the right-alt key, so I tried to remap it using Karabiner-Elements. It didn't work (it was still registering as alt). BUT when I remap it to the right arrow key, it works!! I honestly don't know why that's the case. So I thought it could be a software issue, restarting the computer, and going into another user account (that's newly made) didn't help.
So I just installed Flash and restarted my Mac, and now it won't start. It was working perfectly before that and I didn't drop it or anything. The power cable works (tried it on another Mac) so it's not that.
Hello I want to upgrade my SSD disc because im running out of space now. I found this one Crucial 525GB SATA SSD MX300 M.2 2280 will it be compatible with my mac - MacBook Air 13" Early 2014 1.4 GHz?
I have my Macbook Pro at a desktop station with a monitor and mouse and keyboard. I will generally be working on the monitor and using the Macbook display for reference material and chat. When I am working, with focus on the monitor, I will open mission control and click on a different space on the Macbook screen to look something up. However, the initial click to switch spaces does not switch focus to the Macbook screen, so when I start typing I end up doing random things in the full screen app on my monitor.
Since I updated to High Sierra, me and my colleagues at work have the same problem with our mouse pointer. It appears to be twitchy when switching from the standard arrow to another image (pointer/cursor/...). I have recorded a gif to show you the problem (the grey area on the left is a button):
I'm having a difficult time getting texts to show up on the Messages app on my laptop and my Android phone. It's really weird because some texts appear on my phone while others get sent to the Messages app. When I sent a message to myself via phone, it didn't get sent to the messaging app, but every once in a while someone will send me a text that gets routed to my laptop and not my phone.
FWIW: Though I have many "internet accounts" enabled (and more disabled), I only use contacts from iCloud. No other accounts are used for contacts. What could be causing this and how do I fix it? Note that I also had what appears to be related errors of the form which I simply eliminated with
My iTunes account is only showing 1 item purchased despite my having purchased 100's. I can sync my phone and my ipod to my iTunes account and all my music is there but I cant do anything with the tunes (edit titles, rate etc) except play them, and only when the device is connected to my computer.
So i can add an anchor to the already enabled firewall by doing something like this: the file "anchor_rules.txt" might contain something like this: Now, i can see the rules inside the anchor by doing this: However, when i show the current active ruleset with:
I am connected to the internet . I can connect to different websites but the content is not being displayed. If I connect to youtube a video will start and I can only hear the video and not see it . It is happening to both chrome and safari. When I connect to the app store the content there is not being displayed either. This is a MacBook pro running Sierra
I accidentally repartitioned my main storage hard drive, by using the following terminal command on it: The hard drive has about 3 TB of data on it, everything that I need. Is there any way to get this data back by just simply re-creating the partitions? Meaning will software out there restore the partition table? The original hard drive had two partitions: one for data and one for Time Machine backups.
I have multiple folders within a folder. Each of these folders contains only files (no subfolders). None of the files have duplicate file names.
I cannot sort by name when I simply open a finder, and select a folder. See the image below:
Bash 4 installed successfully using homebrew and the additional steps required to make bash 4 your default shell. Many guides on the net with a simple google: Example Bash 4 upgrade guide for Mac Bash 4.x (installed via brew) location: /usr/local/bin/bash Bash 3.2 (Default OSX) location: /bin/bash
I am trying to setup a VPN connection using IKEv2. I fill in the server address, the remote ID and the user/password. When I click connect it tries to do it but immediately disconnects.
For example, I go to Finder > Disk Station > TomsiMac I click on TomsiMac but it will not open.
I upgraded a early 2013 MBP Retina to 10.13.2, and obtained a new external 4TB drive to do TM backups to. Time Machine now pukes after a semi-random period of time -- 20 to 60 minutes. Here's what the console says What's more, the icon in the menu bar no longer spins. What in the world is going on?
I use below command to show memory and cpu usage on MacOS but it shows in G not byte. How can I make it show byte in the output?
(2) Connect the iPhone over USB and turn on Internet Sharing (share Wi-Fi with iPhone USB). This also works, as the iPhone can then connect to the internet and the IP is the same as the non-proxied Mac.
Edit: I ended up formatting the whole drive and doing a fresh install of El Capitan, as and a fresh partition for Ubuntu. Apologies for that. I have three partitions on my MacBook pro (13-inch, Mid 2009), 160 GB hard drive.
I enter the password successfully, and then it shows the same prompt a second time. I enter the same password again, and then it shows another prompt saying that Mac OS wants to make changes to the System keychain and asks me for an administrator username and password with the username and password fields both blank:
I have a MBP 2017 and I'm trying to find the name of one of my usb devices so I can program it with my Arduino. It is connected to a usb C to USB A adaptor. The arduino software lets me see the list of serial ports. The name of the arduino is /dev/cu.usbmodem14541 but I can't find a way to get the name of my other ports. I tried using this tool but it doesnt provide path names *=URL=* I also tried using this information but it also doesn't display it *=URL=* ls /dev/tty.usb* and ls /dev/cu.usb* dont list it
I have a Mac mini which has hdmi and display port outputs. The spec says it can drive one monitor at QHD and the other at 1900x1200. I have a nice dell u2715h QHD monitor and would quite like my 2nd monitor to be identical... When I upgrade I'll be able to run both at full resolution. But I can't ascertain if I can run such a monitor at 1900x1200 well in the meantime?
I'm not sure why I can't seem to find a simple answer to this question online, but here's what I'm trying to accomplish. I have 9.5GB of photos and videos on my iPhone that I want to back up to cloud storage. I am interested in using iCloud Storage for the simple fact that I am already paying for extra storage for my iPhone backup. But none of the options available (iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Sharing) fit what I want to do.
I'm attempting to make my USB a bootable windows 7 installation. I have the Windows 7 installation ISO image and related files. When I attempt to format my USB with the files, I receive the error: Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use a ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation. My ultimate goal is to make the USB bootable with a new Windows 7 install from within my mac, and then booting my old Windows Vista computer with the fresh install. How might I get this to work?
When copying a file from flash drive to macOS file system, the file creation date remains the same as the original file. If it is on Windows, the file creation date of a new file when copying a file and pasting it will not be same as the original file, but will have the current date time instead.
How do I do this? Specifically how do I do this in such as way as the 10GB already in her iCloud storage is not nuked.
Back in 2009 I had a JVC DV-recorder and imported the movies into iMovie on my Mac back then. Now I would like to reclaim the space by recoding them to mpeg4 but I have found that there are decoding errors giving a screech in the audio and decoding artifacts. The properties of the movie is
I have lots of notes and want to connect some of them to each other. We can add links with CMD + K and I know we can run other apps with links like reminders://. Is there any URL scheme to create a link to another note like note://noteTitle?
I'm using a Google mail account for work and I didn't really add any people to contacts. I just mailed people and with time Google autocompleted the addresses and added the names (I guess this is what the 'Collected addresses' label is).
I know this has been answered before with the whole "rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone" thing in High Sierra but when I try to do this, I'm told that it's a "read only file system". Is this because I have my SSD encrypted? Whatever the case, I'd really appreciate a work around.
I always run my Mac with volume about 50% on the primary output device (a USB interface). This has always been fine until recently when it always resets to 100% upon restart. This makes for some rather startling early-morning events when I forget! I just updated from Yosemite to Sierra on my Late 2012 Mac Mini - could this be the culprit and is there anything I can do about it?
I installed last iStat Menus version (v6.0.0) from bjango website and the Intel Power Gadget as recommended but history graphs are not diplayed for CPU and Memory:   My specs : OS : MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Computer: 15" MacBookPro 8,2 (early 2011) CPU: 2 GHz Intel Quad Core i7 RAM: 16 Go 1333 MHz DDR3 HDD: 512 Go SATA SSD Graphic: Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 Mo
The following command: Outputs: When the expected output is: This is strange because it replaces fine in PCRE, which sed should be compatible with, correct me if I am wrong. Hope someone can point out my error in the sed command above.
My partner gave me his iPad mini but I cannot use iMessage as it is linked to his account and I cannot change accounts. Is there any way of doing this?
recently I noticed that MacOS has become pretty unstable, in particular there is a new bug that is annoying me a lot. Since the computer has been started, it starts to collect some glitches on the screen, some of them blink and is very annoying, the situation get worse until the computer block it self or the OS crashes, this happens after two days usually. I was used to let my Mac powered on for weeks and now I have to restart it also three or four times in a week... I noticed also that sometimes the OS crashes due to video player in Safari, it happened some times that I was watching a video on the internet and suddenly the OS crashed causing reboot. I'll attach a picture of my screen to this message. These problems occur on my iMac (21.5" min 2011 with High Sierra 10.13.2) but I saw some other graphical problem during login on another my Mac (MacBook Pro 13" mid 2015 same OS version). There is a solution? Can I solve this problem without a clean installation of the OS? Thanks very muc
My macbook crashes when I install antivirus software on in, I've tried Avast and Sophos, both cause my macbook to crash. When I install the software and I keep my computer running everything seems to be fine. The problem occurs when I shutdown my computer and then boot it again. After I login, my programs will startup which include the antivirus software that is installed. Almost immediately after the antivirus has started, my computer crashes and has to restart. What could be the cause of this problem? About my macbook: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C205) Processor 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Startup Disk Macintosh HD Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1 GB Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB This is one of the error reports: Below is the screen I'm getting when my mac crashes.
I'm trying to install the Tunnelblick open source VPN client on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5. When I try to install the dmg I get the following error (see attached screenshot).
I have a mid 2014 MBPr & it is very sluggish (2-3 second response times moving between applications/slow chrome rendering) to the point that i did a full re-install of OS (High Sierra) at the weekend to see if this would speed up the laptop. There has been no significant speed increase with a fresh install
I have tried solutions in various places (including here but there are still no color in my iTerm. I have these lines in my .bash_profile: And if I do ls, it gives me everything in the same color:
Since the High Sierra update my Mac is freezing and restarts automatically whenever I lock the screen. After reboot I get a bug report popup which details the error: Can you guys make anything out of this error report?
I just set up my new MacBook Air laptop, however I set it up towards the wrong Apple ID. In order to just start the laptop from scratch again so I could make a new Apple ID, I reset the laptop.
The question how to change "§" (section symbol) key to write "`" (back quote) has a solution using Karabiner but I am looking for a non-Karabiner solution.
I'm trying to create a simple Automator workflow to find all non-searchable PDFs then OCR them with PDFpen. I can't make much sense of the one or two other posts here (like this one), nor do I have Hazel. Outside of Automator, I can use Finder to show non-searchable PDFs by searching "kind:pdf NOT intext:"a"" but I don't know how to translate that to an Automator workflow, pass those files on, scripting, etc. Thanks for any help!
First I added a launch daemon to set sysctl -w vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other=1 on every boot. I then symlinked both mount_osxfuse and mount_simple-mtpfs to /sbin and added the following line to /etc/auto_master: And to /etc/auto_simple-mtpfs:
I have an iMac running 10.13 and it creates burn folders continuously until I eject the disc. If I reset Preferences to ask me what to do when a blank disc is inserted, it creates Finder popups that appear and disappear continuously. Any suggestions?
I saw this question Spotlight search results priority from 2015 and OS X 10.9 that suggests modifying the filters and also states that there are no options provided for changing the priority. Is that still the case?
I would like to add an additional airport to extend my wireless network. I'm trying to decide between another 5th generation airport extreme (A1408) and a 3rd generation airport express (A1392)
I need to sign the code of an app I'm trying to submit to App Store through terminal: but I'm getting the error 3rd Party Mac Developer Application: DEVELOPER NAME: no identity found for all DEVELOPER NAME I try. I have no idea of what to fill in it. What should I fill in order to get rid of this error?
I have a number of old 3.5" floppies (Amiga and PC format) that I'd like to archive before they disintegrate. I'm curious if a cheap USB 3.5" floppy drive will work on OSX / macOS 10.11+?
When I'm connecting Bluetooth headset with microphone, OS X automatically selects new output and input devices (headsets microphone). Is there any way to keep behavior of automatic output device selection while disabling switching over to the new input device (headset microphone)
I am thinking to put an external Time Machine backup (HFS+ files) from my old HDD on a newly installed SSD in my MacBook Pro mid 2012. Is this possible? Will the SSD recognise and accept this backup? Or is it possible or advisable to install the new SSD with the old HFS+ system instead of the new APFS. All in High Sierra. How to go about?
I am installing Android Studio system image from within the program. Although the image size is about 800 MB, it takes so long to complete and it has downloaded almost three or more as much (According to Activity Monitor). Why is that so?
I've used rsync before, on Linux, many times, but also many years ago and I also don't know if there are any differences or issues between using it on an iMac and on Linux. I have a drive with a problem and now mounts read-only. I replaced it with a good new drive and it's now connected via USB in a SATA case. If I want to create a folder on the new drive, say, "/OldDrive", and copy all the files on my old drive over to it, preserving ownerships, permissions, and anything else macOS cares about, what are the command options and switches I need to use on rsync to do this?
I supervised my iphone with my computer with apple configurator 2, just did it for experimentation. I have regained access to the computer I used to supervise it, and can connect to it, but not any ither computer. Can someone help me remove the supervision without wiping the device?
I have a script that creates previous week's folders with the week number in the name. Here's how I'm getting the value of the current week number and assigning the previous week's number.
Endless loop of kernel panic and reboot after a crash during the upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra on a MacBook Air 2015. Since then when it was rebooted it sometimes tried to resume the upgrade but then crashed in the same way, while other times it logged in but ended up with a kernel panic. So far have tried:
When you import photos from your iPhone into iPhoto, you see each photo as it is imported (or for us, a couple flick past and then one sits for a few seconds). We like the random memories shown when doing these occasional imports.
I am curious as to whether it is possible to synchronise custom/downloaded fonts from macOS High Sierra to an iPhone? From what I understand, if both devices meet the requirements for Continuity they are capable of implementing the Handoff feature. This means a document (containing the custom font) started on the mac will show the same custom font on the iPhone, correct? Is it possible then, to reverse the logic such that custom fonts are always synced between both devices, without employing the use of the Handoff feature - making the fonts available in other iOS applications?
I think I've found the most secret and disappointing easter egg on Mac. ⌘Fn← (Command Function Left) in Safari goes to Apple.com; does anyone know why, or when, this was added? Cmd-Fn-Up and down and right don't do anything. I couldn't find anything on this after about 10 seconds of skim-reading on google search. BTW I was trying to do ⇧⌘← (Shift Command Left) which selects everything to the left of the cursor. Also noticed ⌃⌘← (Control Command Left) does some weird right-align thing.
I have a 250GB SDD, and AboutThisMAC is showing 191GB available, but ALSO showing the SYSTEM taking up 159GB. I've scoured the forums and cannot find an answer to this strange occurrence. I already rebuilt the Spotlight cache (add HDD to privacy, reboot, remove HDD from privacy, reboot) I also check the TimeMachine, but since I haven't used it, it had no backups
BACKGROUND Many years ago when I first got an iPod I created an AppleID, which my wife and I shared for AppStore purchases. When Apple changed the system, we created new AppleID to use for iCloud synchronisation for Contacts etc. We continued to use the original AppleID for purchases, which were all done through iTunes. Now that iTunes no longer works for purchases I have been updating apps on line.
I’ve actually locked some of my important information in a documents in Pages. Been excessing those information through ‘finger print’ technology in iPhone 6s. Now having upgraded my iphone to X, I’m unable to access pages as it doesn’t offer ‘finger print’ ability and I’ve forgotten the password. How can I get access to my password or change it to get access to the information perhaps by an alternate way in which I could access pages and it’s information in my iPhone X?
Is there anyway to mirror the Apple TV screen to macOS? For the cases where you don't have a TV set (or have someone hogging a TV set all day long), but an Apple TV. And a Mac.
I use Spotlight find my require file see bellow:  But how can I enter the file's directory?
I decide to open a url in a new window with command: It opened a new window in blank.
Is it possible to test a cell using IF against multiple strings? So for example, I want the function to output Fruit in cell A2 if cell A1 contains the string Apple or Orange. I can only come up with this in cell A2: This results in an error.
By default, the Finder always saves the last scroll position in folders and restores it when these folders are opened again later. How can I disable this feature? I want all folders to always open in the Finder scrolled from the beginning. High Sierra is installed.
I've set up macOS Sierra (10.12.6) machine and it binds to AD (Win2012R2). It works with SSH and VNC login without any problem, but not work with File Sharing. Connect to mac server as smb://macserver then user authentication prompt popup, but cannot login with AD user account... Auth with mac server's local account works, I can mount file share.
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 running High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C205). Disk encryption is on. I can pair and use my bluetooth keyboard and mouse fine and they work when logged in.
Is it possible save workspace for all projects? I want to use one workspace at work and the second at home on my laptop. However, I cannot find (through the menu) the global workspace settings for all projects - only the one currently open. If the application cannot do this job, maybe some plugin can achieve the desired outcome.
I scheduled an automatic backup with Automator, it has run properly and I receive a pop-up notification every day informing about it. Now, I want to stop the task but I do not know where to find the list of scheduled tasks and how to kill them.
I'm trying to transcribe a video in Irish Sign Language. That means lots of pausing and playing, and frequently jumping back five seconds. Using the mouse to achieve this is a complete and utter pain. Unfortunately, I'm using the school's Mac computers, which have QuickTime only.
I'm using APFS to create mostly empty files. They get filled progressively later, but first I want to create them with a logical maximum size (and a null physical size).
I am curious as to how I'd go about changing the order of Spotlight search results in macOS High Sierra. Such that folders are shown first, followed by PDFs and so on.
I have the following issue in the last few weeks: I surf the web (chrome), everything is fast and smooth, than on some sites the internet stops working. I have 2 internet connections, it happens on both. When I connect another appliance to the same connection that fails on my mac it works with no problem. I noticed that it happens when I surf to a https page. I tried to use Safari, and got the same problem but also it displayed a message about some proxy setting and a button to change the settings. When I clicked to button it took me to System Preference -> Network -> WiFi -> Advanced -> Proxies where I saw that Secure Http Proxy (HTTPS) is checked and the value for the proxy is localhost:8888 I unchecked the Secure Http Proxy (HTTPS) and it seems to solve the issue. My question is - why is it checked in the first place? I'm 100% certain that I didn't set it and ASAIK there is no proxy server running on localhost:8888 (unless MAC is running some default proxy that I'm not aware of?) I'
I am running a mid-2012 MBP with a Win 10 bootcamp partition. I just updated to the latest windows 10 updates as of 1/16/2018 and all networking stopped in Win10. I have downloaded the latest Apple support drivers from the boot camp assistant and tried to reinstall them. Nothing was installed because the latest drivers were up-to-date. In the device manager there are yellow triangles on some of the broadcom drivers. Additionally, no network adapters are registering. I have no Wi-Fi and no ethernet. Any ideas?
I am a Mac user who used to benefit much from the Genius Bar in America. Now I relocated to elsewhere without the support and I know so little what to do right now.
Since I changed the directory structures of my Mac, Spotlight has not successfully produced search results for my files or folders. I have tried Killing SystemUIServer Rebuilding the Spotlight Index manually using sudo mdutil -E / Changing Desktop Resolution Clear caches and preferences using downloaded application Rebooting Mac
My battery is in 'service-required' state since couple years back. I am in South Korea and the first apple branch will open in Seoul in March this year. I wonder if this is part of the reason why it takes so long to retrieve the needed components as they say.
When I work with an application in fullscreen mode (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA on macOS Sierra), the menu bar is hidden and shown only when I move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen.
(Please suggest a better title...) I've been trying to help a friend with a couple of issues with their email. The main issue is that the number of unread emails on their iPhone isn't the same as the number on their Mac. Both sync using IMAP and seem to have identical settings. I've logged into their webmail and the number of unread emails there is the same as on the Mac. The inbox on the Mac contains very few emails (60 or so) whilst the Account Info panel in Mail shows 1400, which is the number the web interface displays in the inbox. If I find an email that's unread in the iPhone's inbox, but not present in the Mac's inbox, it'll be in the inbox and read on the webmail interface. When I delete an email on the Mac the change is reflected on the iPhone, but not on the web interface. When I mark one of the emails that is unread on the iPhone, but read on the web interface, as read and then unread again, the email becomes unread on the server.
my understanding is that I can ask question about third-party Apple software, as long as I don't ask "which is your favourite app to do something". However, there is also a Software Recommendations site on Stack Exchange so I'm a bit confused as to whether my question is on-topic or not...please migrate my question to Software Recommendations if it's off-topic here. Concerning duplicates, I've searched the site and I found Any way to automatically lock *Me* out from *My Own* iPhone for a specific amount of time?
iMessage and FaceTime throw an activation error any time I try to login on both of my devices (Mac Mini 2011 and iPad Pro 9.7). This happens since Dec 20 and I can't fix it. It looks that I have tried everything that is told when you google for "imessage authentication/activation error" / "could not sign in to imessage" / "iMessage doesn't work" and other stuff: obviously reboot set the time to auto-since with Apple servers reset nvram on Mac remove sim from iPad and put it back in reset network settings logout and log back in to iCloud via System Preferences change Apple ID password, disable/enable two-step auth "wait 24 hours" tried both with home Wi-Fi and via cellular data on iPad finally... created NEW Apple ID first on Mac, then created another one on iPad. ... and it doesn't work.
Is there any way to do this? I'd prefer it to be a local solution, because I don't want my local network accessible in any way. I am happy to write a complicated script/program and/or spend money on this problem in service of an elegant solution. Thanks!
When managing multiple mailboxes, is it possible to disable the notifications for certain mailboxes?
Did we lose the Blurred Effect option for Portrait Mode on iOS11? My iPhone X I noticed this morning when I wanted to use that feature, Under Portrait Mode it just as the studio options now.
2 weeks into a new MBP touch bar 2017 and i get a kernel panic: can someone read the log and tell me what's up? thanks in advance.
I'm a beginner at Linux OS's and thought I'd start learning. To do so I decided to install Ubuntu on a partition on my late 2013 15" mbpr, currently running mac os 10.13. I followed this guide: https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733
I want to have a port forwarding apps supporting multiple ports for example, the port forwarding command is I tried *=URL=* but it does not seem to support this.
We are trying to add apps to our 1st generation iPad. We reset to factory settings and need to add some apps to it. I tried signing in with the same Apple ID that is on our other iPad and my husbands iPhone. It says that I need to reenter the password and add a verification code that is found on our other devices. However, when we try to sign in again, it never gives us the option to enter the verification code so we have been unable to download any apps leaving this iPad virtually useless. All the apps require iOS 9 or higher and this generation's highest available version is iOS 5 so we can't download directly. I need to be able to change the Apple ID on the iPad so we can share apps between our devices.
A couple days ago, my MacBook updated to Mac OS X 10.13.2 (17C88), and since then, the swiping between spaces has been fickle. Before the update, I just had to swipe with three fingers (as per the setting) and the screen with my mouse cursor would switch to the desire space.
I'm using a Magic Mouse on my OS X High Sierra on a 4K external monitor. The issue I'm facing is random erratic scrolling as my move the mouse around. I go to move the mouse and the window scrolls very small amounts left, right, up, down in a erratic fashion. Searching the internet I'm only getting hits on Zoom, but this is not a zoom issue, it is a scroll issue.
No problem, sez I; we'll just do that again, only this time you should leave "Old password" blank. It doesn't work: he gets "Incorrect password" every time. How can I tell him to change this?
I find it annoying to pre-load streamed video in Safari, e.g. to prevent buffering while playing. That's because I want to do other things on my computer at the same time. If I pause the video and then switch to another tab, or app, the video doesn't load at all until I next focus it.
I've recently started using a Mac after using Windows for 20+ years and one annoying thing is that I have to re-learn all the shortcuts. I've found that you can change small stuff like swapping the Ctrl, Fn and Option buttons, but the shortcuts themselves would still be different from what I am used to. I've also found Karabiner helpful for remapping individual keys, but it won't let me create more complex rules, such as assigning Alt-Tab to change between Windows. Is there a program/extension/terminal command that would allow me to remap any shortcut in the system to any other shortcut combination?
I have a brand new MacBook Pro. I've had it about 2 weeks. I moved into a new house and thought I knew the wi fi password. I did not. I tried about 15 times and every time I was wrong. I switched to using my cell phone as a hot spot. The problem I have is the little boxes that pop up when they want a WPA2 password WILL NOT GO AWAY. I have about 15 of them open, all asking for a password that I don't know. I suspect if I knew the password then I could click JOIN and the box would disappear. As it stands, I don't know the password, can't cure the problem until Frontier comes out next Tuesday, and I have tried EVERYTHING to make these stupid boxes go away. I have deleted everything in the password field and have not checked the box for show password or Remember this network. I click Cancel and the blinky bar for typing shows up in the password box. I tried to click the little question mark on the bottom right. Nothing happens. Someone save me from the annoying boxes! FYI, not computer lit
I am a Linux user and do not use iTunes. There are 2 way usb drives around that allow one to attach them to iphone and transfer media using supplied app as well as use them as USB drive on a computer.
Unfortunately *=URL=* broke Postfix on macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Although Postfix works on High Sierra many people don't/can't update for various reasons. I am one of those people. Here are some places where that problem is referenced: *=URL=* *=URL=* *=URL=* And many more...
It's easy to write an Applescript to open a Finder window to a certain folder, e.g. tell application "Finder" to open "Macintosh HD:Users:Username:Downloads" Is it possible for Applescript to open a Finder window showing all files tagged, for instance, green? Thanks!
I was attempting to make a script that would generate a random mac address and then assign it to en0 on startup. This would make a sort of spoofing system so the mac address couldn't be traced. Unfortunately, this didn't work as expected and it looks like it created an IPv6 address instead of setting the mac address. Before this when I ran the command ifconfig en0 I would get a result similar to this: en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether f4:5c:89:bb:2f:a5 inet 192.168.0.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD> media: autoselect status: active
At this point, I plan on doing a full OS reinstall and copying stuff back from my disk image. But if anyone has any idea why this happened in the first place, or what I could do to repair it short of doing a full reinstall, let me know. If you want screenshots of any of this weirdness (taken with a phone camera, because Preview can't open to take screenshots...) then let me know. Thank for any help!
I am currently running macOS 10.10.2, but would like to be able to run the latest Ableton Live 10 which is built on macOS 10.11. When I directly run the executable I get errors referencing symbols not found in: Of course this issue would be resolved by upgrading to 10.11, but that is something that I really do not want to do for a number of reasons, so I am wondering if I can: Extract the relevant Framework files from a El Capitan InstallESD.dmg, and Overwrite the existing framework files with the new ones. How much am I missing, or would this work? Thanks Edit: I want to know if this is possibile, not if it is a good idea.
I deleted a calendar within a two days full of events (325). Now when I open mail I get a lot of new messages windows opening in the screen that completely stop mail usage. I believe that the invalid "from" address raises the problem asking for the user intervention, so a lot of popup mail alerts are shown on the screen completely, at least hundreds of them. How to stop or delete this sending queue that prevents the mail app usage?
I have, due to aborted imports, many duplicate emails. How can I find these duplicate emails and delete them, the best would be to archive them first, just to be safe.
Right now I have a Google Nexus mobile which I have to give away. After that I would be getting iPhone 7. I want to transfer data from my Nexus to iPhone 7. The issue is that there is a gap between when I give away my Nexus and get my iPhone 7. Is there a way that I backup my Nexus data somewhere and then move it to iPhone when I get it?
I usually have a lot of applications open with lots of windows in each. Let's say I'm working on several documents in a word processor, while having several web browser windows open for reference. I need to switch back and forth between my different documents, and a particular web browser window, which is a Wikipedia article. Currently, to switch to the Wikipedia article, I need to ⌘ Tab a random number of times (depending on how many applications I have open) to Chrome, then Cmd ⌘ ` a number of times (depending on how many Chrome windows I have open) to reach the window with the Wikipedia article.
When considering a switch from one iPhone form factor to another, one of the importand aspect is: How physical text size compares between old and new phone (each of iPhone X, 8/Plus and SE)? How does different DPI affect it, if at all? And how much does the Zoomed View setting change the size? This is especially important for elder and weak-eyesight users. With release of iPhone X, my earlier question becomes critically outdated, so I decided to create a new one.
Since upgrading my 13" Macbook Pro (early 2015) to macOS 10.13.2 High Sierra (clean install), I occationally experience (perhaps once per hour) a delay in response when pressing the Force Touch trackpad. I press, but receive no haptic feedback nor click events, for about 1 second. The click does eventually occur (sometimes multiple clicks finally happen all at once since I pressed multiple times while it wasn't responding). It's not a physical problem with the trackpad; it feels to me like the CPU is bound up momentarily and can't process incoming data from the trackpad. It seems like it happens mostly when using Chrome (but of course, it would seem like that because that's the app I use most).
I have a user that wants to use an add-in available on the Microsoft store. However, the store button under Add-ins on the Insert ribbon is disabled. This is in Word 2016 on OS 10.13.2. Is there a specific setting or permission that can cause this to occur?
Ever since Sierra was installed, I have noticed that 2 network drives automatically mounted when an application is launched. The annoying thing is that the 2 network drives have nothing to do with the application. Since upgrading to High Sierra, the 2 network drives are still auto-mounting but it seems to have slowed the launch of the application. How can I stop the auto mounting of these drives when I launch this application?
This seemed troublesome. But shame I don't have a clue what is the issue nor how to deal with it. Could anyone share some insight please?
On Linux I execute: How does this work in macOS?
Experiencing exact same issue found in following post (Prohibitory sign on boot after Sierra update, can't mount disk anymore). The answer to post was handled by "Klanomath" using TeamViewer to apply updates to the iMac so I'm unable to follow the steps myself. Has anyone found resolution without requiring remote assistance?
We have a mac mini set up to display a "NOC Wall"* on two wall mounted screens. For various reasons known and unknown, osx will rearrange, unfullscreen, switch work space, minimize the window, or otherwise mess the display on it's own despite there being no keyboard or mouse attached. This requires an irritating daily fussing to get the screens back the way they are supposed to be via remote screen-share. Some reasons I know of that seem to trigger the hijinx: Sometimes one of the TVs gets temporarily co-opted, either by switching it input or someone steals the cable to the mac-mini's to demo or display something to the room. We shut the screens off at night when the last person leaves. Some piece of software decides it needs an update despite my best efforts to turn that sort of thing off (I'm looking at you, Java) It's Tuesday, there is a SSW Wind over 7knots and the moon is waxing gibbous. Any tips on getting a browser window to stay full screen? * A NOC Wall is essentially an infor
The card I'm presented with when I use Apple Pay from my Mac is the wrong one. I've set the default card correctly in iOS (where it appears correctly), but when Apple Pay in invoked from macOS, even when payment is completed on iOS, the wrong card is presented on macOS. How do I set the default card for Apple Pay on macOS?
Is it possible to extract a user’s password hash through the terminal in Recovery Mode?
I am looking for a tool to automatically convert a set of Beamer slides (in PDF format) into current versions of Keynote. I have hundreds of slides, so need something automated. To be clear, each slide is a single page in the PDF.
Audiobooks play fine in iTunes (12.7.2 on High Sierra). Sound continues smoothly from track to track (or chapter to chapter, if you prefer). When I sync via USB to iPhone (iOS 11.2.2) and play in iBooks app, a half-second of silence breaks each track. If I specify the tracks' "Media" as "Music" instead of "Audiobook" (Info / Options / Media Kind), and re-sync, they play without breaks in iOS Music app.
UPDATE 1: I was trying to reproduce hybrid MBR with Disk Utility, and I discovered Disk Utility no longer produces that problem. Not sure about GParted.
But with no sign of kernel panic in the console. The screen just turns black all of a sudden, but the backlight stays on. After up to 10 seconds, it shuts down completely. People I talked to over Apple chat were convinced it was a battery problem, but the battery drains normally, and the problem appears with or without the power cable connected. They had me reset NVRAM and SMC, still no change. I booted into a linux distro from an external drive and used it for more than 12 hours without any interruption. Although not definitive, this strongly suggests that this might be a software problem rather than an hardware problem. If so, how could I pinpoint a problem that doesn't show up in the console? I'm using 10.11.6.
I have this: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and this monitor here *=URL=* I connected it via thunderbolt and *=URL=* the monitor works but I'd like to know how I could reach 60Hz, for now it only goes at 30Hz.
I got a new iPhone and since I had installed a lot of things over time I don't need/want anymore on my old one, I installed the new from scratch, downloading apps, adding the needed accounts, imported WhatsApp msgs via WhatsApp backup etc. Now what's missing is e.g. my old SMS/iMessage and Signal history. Since there's no export/import mechanism I tend to use iCloud Backup to get the missing pieces from the old to the new iPhone - and to save space and make it fast I removed everything I already have like music (can be synced later) and photos (already on my Mac in Lightroom) and most of the apps. Question now: If I create a new iCloud backup on the old iPhone with only a small set of apps (thus focusing on SMS/iMessage) and restore it on the new iPhone, will this just add the missing pieces or also clean up the new device and remove everything that's not in the backup (and by that destroy everything I already set up)? And if it would destroy existing data: is there any other way to ge
All our MacBook Pros (various generations, OSes), freeze (usually, app just hangs, but sometimes whole machine freezes) when they wake from sleep if, when going to sleep, they had anything open from our shared Windows folder. Is this better if we had an actual Windows Server or Linux-based NAS? Is there a way to stop this from happening? Said another way, here is the issue.
into the “linkto” box. When clicked, I get the error: “Cannot open the specified file.” When I edit the Excel hyperlink, I see that Excel has changed the destination to: How should I specify the Excel hyperlink so it can find the app? My software versions are: Safari 11.0.2, OSX High Sierra 10.13.2 and Excel Mac 2011 14.7.7
I use the command-ctrl-Q key in emacs, but find that it is locking my screen on Mac OS X High Sierra. Checking the System Preferences in the Keyboard Shortcuts finds nothing to turn off. I'd rather not move my meta key off of Command to option and thus keep it where I'm used to it. How can I disable this functionality?
When I try to sign in to my Apple ID on my Apple Watch Series 2 (watchOS 4.2), I get an error stating that "An account with that identifier already exists". The Watch App on my paired iPhone seems to think I haven't signed in on my Apple Watch before. (Apple Watch → General Apple ID → Sign In). However, my watch is already registered when I check the manage your Apple ID page.
I just tried to upgrade nmap with my package manager but got knocked back because it's supposedly not installed. Even though it is:
Is there any shortcut for toggling what funtion keys (F1, F2, F3,…) do? I sometimes want them to do the special operations (eg. brightness) and sometimes use them for toggling things in Pages (you can set shortcut for Style etc.).
I installed macOS on a partition in an external drive which is encrypted with FireVault. I don't want to mount it when I plug it in, but I get the "enter a password to unlock the disk" prompt whenever I plug the drive in (which is fairly often) and I need to escape out of it every time. Is there a way to stop showing this prompt, while not having to mount it? You can prevent it from coming up with the "[remember password in keychain]" option but that would mount it every time.
I used to have only a 500gb SSD for my MacBook Pro, but later came across a 1TB SSD that I wanted to switch to using. Instead of using the 'recommended' method, I opted for the dirty route and just connected another MBP in Target Disk Mode via Thunderbolt and used pv /dev/rdisk0 > /dev/rdisk(x) x = whichever disk for the 1TB at the time. However, prior to copying the entire contents over to the 1TB SSD, I used rEFInd and installed a copy of Kali Linux as a dual boot, which I've been running with.....minimal issues for quite some time now. So the 'dirty' copy worked as planned, the 1TB SSD boots fine and, after a quick reinstallation of rEFInd, everything runs perfectly as it ever has - except now I have an additional 500gb of 'Free Space' at the very end of the 1TB SSD. I've tried booting to an external OS X drive and using Disk Utility (both from Yosemite Disk Utility and El Capitan Disk Utility), to expand/merge/delete/create anything to do with this 'Free Space' - without any workin
I'm a recent refugee from Windows and new to all Apple basics. I've bought a secondhand post-2013 Mac Pro and I've discovered (unsurprisingly) that I don't have Administrator's rights to load software. Looking at Forums it looks like quite a task to gain it. As my machine doesn't have any 3rd party programs or data on it, it seems to me that the easiest solution would be to reload High Sierra. Is that a good idea and can I do that without those Admin rights?
I have a Mac Mini Mid 2011 serial number - C07H31HNDJD0 I just put in a SSD drive to speed it up. When it restored itself to Lion 10.7.5 I can't upgrade to Sierra, as I can only do this from 10.8.
How do I combine 5 pdf documents I created in Word and put in one pdf file? I have tried several things, none of which work.
First, let me say I'm new to Mac... Just helping a friend with a fried OS by re-installing Mac. When I do data recovery, I usually load a LiveISO via USB, but since I may be helping them again, I wondered if I could find a way to leave the ISO on there laptop like I do with my Linux VMs. For example, on my Linux VM's I have the ISO reside on the HD and add a grub-entry for the LiveISO. I can then use the command grub2-reboot "LiveISO" to reboot directly into the LiveOS without needing a USB.
I want to cancel my apple music subscription for now, but may want to bring it back this summer. Will all the music I added be permanently removed when I unsubscribe, or will re-subscribing retrieve all my previous music?
I'm trying to get my AX88179 USB 3.0 to GigE adapter working with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and although it loads fine with: sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/AX88179_178A.kext
I have iOS 11.2.2 Installed on an iPhone 8. Periodically, someone will try to send me something via AirDrop and it’s turned off. I NEVER turn it off. I never turn off Bluetooth. I do sometimes turn off Wi-Fi in order to disconnect from my home Wi-Fi when I’m driving away but I turn it back on after. When I find AirDrop turned off, I always turn it back on and then a few days later, I’ll try to use it and it’s off again. What could be causing this??
If I tap a photo, it initially opens as a large version of the JPG placeholder. If I wait a moment, sometimes the full version of the photo appears, with an exclamation point in a circle at the bottom. I assume this has something to do with it being an HEIF converted to a JPG, but it does nothing when I tap it and there is no other indication of a problem.
First of all, I'm sorry if it seems like this question has been asked a million times before, I tried to make the title hint at the fact that my schools filesystem is different from anything I've used before, and the usual results that you will find on google don't work for me. Let me start off by saying that my school just upgraded their computers from El Capitan to High Sierra, and before the update, all it took to speed up the terminal was a simple one liner to delete the logs: find ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports -mindepth 1 -delete
When I copy from the clipboard a long string command in my iTerm, the terminal freeze for seconds. for example, if I copy the following test and I paste in my iTerm console: echo 'test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test' take a couple of seconds to be written in the terminal. If the command is longer can take 15 seconds. ZSH version '5.3'
If I write an email to somebody for a long time, a large number of my letter duplicates are created in the trash. One on each small text change.
Before the update to High Sierra, when I received live photos via AirDrop, the system always asked I want to save them to the downloads folder or import it into the Photos app. When I choosing the second option, the imported live photos could then be exported as files to a disc, where for each live photo there were two files — an image and a short video. After the update to High Sierra, the system immediately, without asking, saves the photos received through AirDrop into the downloads folder, with only JPG/HEIF files, without the live component video files. How can I fix it?
I recently bought an MacBook Pro Late 2011 with an i7 2.2 GHz and 4 GB of RAM. I wanted to get started in some mobile development and learn how to work with macOS. So this was a good offer online.
Every time the monitor is disconnected and connected, the audio icons on my Touch Bar go black and I have to unplug and plug back in my EarPods for it to turn back into white icons. I use the Hyperdrive to connect to a monitor using HDMI.
I placed my MacBook in lost mode through find my iPhone I found it and I am able to play a sound on it when logged into into Find My iPhone. However, I can’t remember the PIN.
My company has internal wiki systems which run on *=URL=* with different subdirectories. For example, example.com/wiki1, example.com/wiki2, and so on. I have my accounts and passwords for the above two different wikis, wiki 1 and wiki2, with different account and password combinations, account1/password1 and account2/password2, respectively.
I don't use CLoud or anything else so disabled 'Copy pictures to picture library'. Then I imported all the pictures into Photos.app.
After upgrading my late 2012 Mac Mini from Yosemite to Sierra I notice a weird occurrence - briefly when moving the mouse it suddenly jumps to about 10x the normal size for just a tiny moment. A timed screen capture from Skitch shows this happening:
I'm have wake issues on my late 2012 Mac mini but one thing I've realised is I don't know when it is going to sleep, to diagnose if it always fails on sleep, or only sometimes. During the day the screen will go off and it will wake but after a night, it often won't come back.
I have to use Tunnelblick (VPN) to be able to connect to a server, the problem is that Tunnelblick is very buggy and laggy and sometimes also causes wierd problems like overheating when the laptop is folded (it does not shut off). Or frequent crashes. Now I was wondering if there was a better alternative for doing so. Kind regards, Robbert
While adding some annotations to a PNG image, using the Preview App, I added a mask to highlight part of the image -- Shapes » Highlight. After doing that I couldn't save the image anymore. I got the following error message: The document "[FILE_NAME]" could not be saved.
I want to connect to L2TP VPN, but the server has limited IP range from where it accepts connections. So I have to connect to another VPN server what is in accepted IP range - this server uses OpenVPN.
I almost exclusively use a non-admin account for everyday use. Only for installing software, etc. I log in with the admin account. This normally works very well, however, there is one issue I haven't been able to resolve so far. The Console.app will only show the few log files it has access to. That means, for instance, /var/log/system.log will not be displayed. I know I could log in with the admin account (either in terminal or the desktop environment), but I am looking for a more convenient way to open logs from the non-admin account.
i also tried adding interval and pause value in pyautogui. But it doesnt help. Randomly script is failing. Instead of typing a whole sequence i tried to run a loop like below
What are the hours in which Apple reviews apps? I.e., 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
All I need is help on how to get a disk to pick out to put Mountain Lion on. Right now it shows nothing and the install button is grayed out. Does it have something to with the sizes of the partitions not matching up to the total amount I have available?
I have spent years tinkering with complex features in Windows but am new to the Mac. Time machine is not as straight forward as it appears. The scenario I am looking to do, is within the Time Machine application, I would like to delete one or more backups that were made in the middle but leave some of the oldest earliest backups, and of course keep the most current backups. This is to recover space and keep a record of my system as it was in certain known points in time just in case. I use an external hard drive that is formatted in Mac format (HFS). The Time Machine UI permits deleting all backups and deleting all backups before a given point but it does not seem to have an option to blow away just a specified backup (or backups) in the middle. Is there a way to do this using the Time Machine UI?
Apple Watch Series 3 has LTE capability, meaning it can connect directly to a cellular data network. I am a PagePlus customer. Can I use the Apple Watch Series 3 on my PagePlus monthly plan?
I contacted Apple Support and the support person said that the alarm is silent when the switch at the top left of my iPhone 6s is switched to silent. However I think they are wrong because I tested and the alarm still goes off (with sound) when it is switched to silent. So is the support person misinformed or am I going crazy?
I've got a pretty deep question here that I hope someone can answer. In macOS, regular users can ping as well as root. Normally, root access is required to open the raw socket necessary to run ping. I've noticed on Linux that this usually accomplished by adding extended attributes to the ping program file to allow root-level access for opening raw sockets (in the past, this was done by just setting the setuid bit on the ping program, allowing it to do anything in its programming as root).
I have a 2016 12" Macbook that's only a little over a year old (and therefore out of warranty) and I'm noticing in Coconutbattery that the battery is 88.5% of it's design capacity even with only 53 load cycles. The stats are as follows: Design Capacity: 5550 mah Full Charge Capacity: 4844 mah Manufacture date: 2016-04-06 Cycle Count: 53
I can no longer install any apps from the App Store to my iPhone as the only way to now do so is via Touch ID which I cannot use on my phone. How can I download apps from the App Store without using Touch ID?
To expand on the title question... There are numerous in-code methods, with varying reliability, to detect if an iOS device has been jailbroken. However, is there any method that a device user can detect this?
Following this guide can't access to site with .local When try to ping home.local say ping: cannot resolve home.local: Unknown host but have this folder in /www I'm do everything from guide but not working for me.
I copied a number of Adobe Premier Pro movie files and some mixed Pro Tools files onto a WD My Passport Slim from my Mac Pro in order to work on them on vacation. When I plug the external drive into my MacBook it won't mount. The power light is on so I know the drive is getting power through the USB cable. At one point it appeared in disk utility but I could not alter it at all. Now it's not showing up at all.Tried to install the "My Passport"drivers from WDC but it won't load properly either (just gives me a "not responding" message). I am running Sierra on this MacBook and the drive itself is formatted to FAT32 so everything should load properly. And yet!! Any tips would be appreciated.
I've noticed that every once in a few days (sometimes daily) my CPU spikes to a 120% or such usage when any of my browsers are open. The scenario is weird, today I was watching a movie using VLC player and I saw my battery starting to drain unusually fast and my fans running out of control, I open up the Activity Monitor and see that Safari Networking is clogging up my CPU time and usage (100%). My Safari was open but in the background with a few random websites such as Stack Overflow, none Flash-related apps or something along the lines. This was happening on Chrome way too often under the Process Name of Chrome Helper, but with a slightly greater CPU usage.
In our office, we have a printer accessible through our network. I was able to find and add the printer to my mac, which is El Captain, but it is not working since it requires authentication. When adding the printer, there is nowhere I can insert my credentials. Also, when added, there is nowhere I can authenticate! Any help is appreciated.
In the system report accessed via the About This Mac menu option, there is an entry in the Hardware > SATA/SATA Express info panel which shows the bay name that each hard drive is installed in (e.g. upper bay / lower bay). Is there an equivalent terminal command which shows the same information?
I'm looking for a simple application that i can use to turn image sequences into gifs, and split gifs into image sequences for mac OS. i know there are online resources but i need something i can use when I'm not hooked up to the internet. I also use the application processing for various things, so if anyone knows where i can find a simple java scrip for this, that would also help. It would be an added bonus if it can also do the same back forth conversion for video too but not necessary since i already have tools for this.
MP4 files show as music files icons. Services shown are the ones related to audio files. Even if I try to import the mp4 to iMovie it shows only the audio wave Files are not corrupted, I can open them on any video player (except iMovie) even can export them as .mov with QuickTime and then everything is fine.
I did a All Setting Reset and after the reset the data via cellular is not working ( 3G & LTE not showing in the status bar ) only via wireless , tried to reboot the device ,reset network setting but still not working .... Any Solution from your side ? Note i don't want to update my iOS
This has been posted on Apple Discussions earlier today, but I couldn't get any answers, so I have decided to also post it here I have an iMac 27" mid 2011 running Sierra, and I have troubles installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I have downloaded the latest drivers onto my flash drive, loaded up the official licensed DVD of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, but when I click "Proceed" after choosing "Install Windows 7 or Windows 8", the Boot Camp Assistant tells me "Windows 10 is not supported. Please use a DVD or USB with Windows 7 or Windows 8", as if my DVD has Windows 10 on it.
I'm in Japan, and I have a Time Machine backup on a disk that's hooked up to my AirPort Extreme in New York. I can connect to the disk using Back To My Mac. The disk is quite old, and I have no backup of that backup, so I'd like to at least backup the Documents folder that's on it. While I can dig into the folder structure of the backup when accessing it from Japan, I can't get to the Documents folder itself. There are several Time Machine backup instances, and from what I gather about how Time Machine works, the folders within these instances are aliased to their corresponding folders in previous instances when data hasn't changed between backups.
diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s2 says the drive was already unmounted, but diskutil mount /dev/disk3s2 and diskutil eject /dev/disk3 time out. I've also tried running first aid on the drive, but it fails.
Usually (but not every time) it would claim an error writing to the internal SSD. Thought the SSD might be failing, but did a little snooping and found that it was a permissions error.
When I add an Excel doc as an attachment to mail it converts it to a blank text edit document. Any ideas why this is happening? Is this an MS Office issue or Mac Mail?
Actually, I didn't suspect any big issue moving the messages from the mailboxes from the old to the new server (after all, Mail.app seems to be caching all messages for offline reading anyways). But this assumption was probably too simple. I made the following attempts:
The destination I want to choose is my iCloud drive. (don't want to store local). I installed so many apps each more annoying, bloating, ad-infested than the other.... but no one allowed me to say "extract the contents to" and then let me choose my icloud drive folder.
how do I stop this message from popping up on my MacBook 12": com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64 wants to use your confidential information stored in "v4.services.acrobat.com" in your keychain
Within disk utility, the partition icon is grayed out. If I mouse over it, it reads: "Disks with Master Boot Record Partition Maps cannot be partitioned". The history on this drive: It is a 2 TB Seagate external hard drive that the Mac store reformatted for me to use with Time Machine. I had a problem right after I bought my Mac and we did this to backup my machine and literally restore it to a new machine. Since then, I have used it with time machine and now want to re-partition it so I can store backups of additional files to the other partition (once it is created). The current single partition is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". Any ideas how to address this issue? I would prefer not to have to erase the disk as part of the process (if possible).
A relative has a Macbook Pro, bought new a few years ago. They say the OS-X version is "at least Cheetah." Originally, they did not need to enter a password to use it - just turn on and go. But, after an O/S update (don't know which, maybe about a year ago), it now requires a password. They do not know any to enter.
I use the iOS Mail app with a Gmail IMAP account. From the home screen (or any other app), when I tap on a banner notification for a new email, it takes me to that message in the "All Mail" folder. This is annoying, because then it takes a few taps to get back to the Inbox folder. Also - when viewing a message in All Mail, the archive button turns into a Delete button.
This seems basic enough, but is there a shortcut to highlight the current row? I know the column is Ctrl+Space.
i'm a newbie with applescript. I managed to get together a little script that add selected files from finder to a email attachment as a service workflow. Now i stuck on the last issue. I'd like to add the filename to the subject. Here 's the applescript. Could anyone help?
I was trying to resize windows partition using EASEUS partition manager in windows to free up unallocated space so that I can extend APFS partition in macOS but I failed to boot into macOS after resizing. Please help me! how to recover lost APFS partition? Hex dump below.
I am planning to visit a relative that has an ATV-4K and plan to bring wedding videos for everyone to view. What file formats can the ATV play from a SAMBA share? If you have had success please state this in your reply: thank you
Anyone have any idea what boot mode this grey screen is, and how I can boot to simply the regular login screen, and have the login screen display on the external? Any help would be great.
I've a new iMac with Apple keyboard and Trackpad 2. I'm coming from my old MacBook Pro to this new system and wanted a similar keyboard and trackpad arrangment, so I got one of these
In the last few weeks, I've found that one of our macs, a mid-2011 Mac mini, keeps dropping off line (hardwire, not Wifi). Can't browse the internet, it drops off the LAN, etc. My solution to date has been to go into the networking preferences, make the Ethernet service inactive, then make it active again. Then everything is fine once more, for a few hours, maybe a day tops. Rinse & repeat.
I've purchased a TRRS CTIA adapter for my lavelier microphone. I'm using a wireless microphone transmitter and receiver.
My Macbook Pro late 2013 is freezing except for the mouse still moves but is inoperable - Ive never had this issue before installing High Sierra - I can be watching YouTube and I can expect my mac to lockup after 15/20mins .. weird thing is I can still hear the audio - but the vision and all apps are frozen - I have done all that's been suggested such as resetting the NVRAM and SMC many times .. also I have ran Disk Utility plus CleanMyMac app multiple times - I have searched and found similar issue is happening with a lot of MacBook users running High Sierra. Has anyone got any further information or tips I can try to resolve this? much appreciated - Mark
I recently purchased a used 2014 MacBook with knowing it has no hard drive. However I do not care for Mac OS, the question here is can I effectively run Windows 10 on a MacBook just by installing a Windows SSD? If so do I need to format anything or is it good to go.
I use ⌃⇧⌘4 first, then I paste it into Mail, when I double click the image that I pasted, it is TIFF format. I try to change the screenshot format to png, it works. But when I change back to jpg or bmp, both of them will be saved as TIFF format. How can I save it as jpg format?
I have faced following trouble. I wanted to have multiple versions of PHP so I used this article to achieve this. But I could not stop Apache via sudo apachectl -k stop when running this command I am getting the following result: So now it seems like I have two configuration paths: open -e /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf open -e /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf open -e /etc/apache2/httpd.conf open -e /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
I have noticed that is the filesharing is working properly and I come back to the laptop and unclick filesharing, osx will come up with a dialog that says users are still connected to the sharing, would you like to end sharing in x minutes. If I come back with the sharing is not working and unclick the sharing it doesn't give this warning. Sometimes the problem is the firestick as I can see the sharing working on the phone but sometimes the problem is osx as the sharing has stopped working for both. I am not too surprised the firestick stuff is a little unstable but the problems with osx and sharing surprise me. Any thoughts as to what causes this?
I have an iPhone 5s, I have had this phone since 2014. It is pretty beaten up... But it still works. My question is; If I accidentally restore an older back up on my phone, will I be able to go back into iTunes and restore the most recent back up to get all my current information back on my phone?
So I was flashing my ESP8266 using Arduino and when selecting the port for flashing I saw this:  I don't know what the red highlighted ports mean? What are they? And what happens if I flash them?
Now I would like to reinstall Windows 10. I go to the Boot Camp. But the option to install Windows is not accessible.
I have several sparse bundle disk images on my system, used for various purposes (mostly to prevent Time Machine from backing up the entirety of very large files). However, I'm planning to restructure my storage in the near future, and will likely be eliminating the use of these disk images. What I'd like to be able to do is mount a sparse bundle that's located on my Time Machine backup drive, so that I can copy data from inside it into its new location, without having to copy the disk image first (requiring double the storage).
I have a Mac mini that I want to backup my MacBook Air to. I've shared a folder for this but I keep getting this error randomly: When this occurs I notice that my share has been mounted twice but is not accessible through either mount point. This can be fixed by running sudo umount /Volumes/Aikakone-1 && sudo umount /Volumes/Aikakone && sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Aikakone-1 && sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Aikakonebut it's only a temporary fix, the problem occurs again after some time. What is the cause for this and how could it be avoided? MacBook Air: High Sierra 10.13.3 Public Beta 6 Mac mini: High Sierra 10.13.2
I've got two source code directories (different programming languages) and I've noticed that when I alter source files in language A the direct parent modification time also updates. However, in language B, altering sources does not seem to update the parent directory modification times whatsoever.
I have macbook following version. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS: Mac OS Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88) I am using the following link to setup Apple pay for Mac. *=URL=* But i can't see the option of 'Wallet and Apple Pay' in the System Preference.
I have a USB battery which has a USB-C port on it. When I connect it to my MacBook Pro (regardless of whether the MacBook Pro is running off its battery or via the mains), the Mac doesn't charge the battery, but instead uses the battery to power the Mac. If the Mac is not on its own power supply, it will use the USB battery for charging (very slowly, but useful in a pinch). In every case, the Mac tries to make power flow from the battery to the computer.
I would like to launch "Network diagnostics" from the command line.
I'm having an issue getting my MBP High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88) to function with Windows 10 on Bootcamp. I've used the bootcamp assistant to successfully partition out 85GB of space from 250GB APFS mac partition and download the windows support software - but then after restart nothing happens. There is a black screen with a delay (where otherwise Windows should load) and then it goes back to loading OSX.
I am considering adding HomeKit devices to a few rooms in a house, and assuming the HomeKit Home is shared with the family, that presents an issue with access. It would be best not to allow everyone to control every device. For example, would it be possible to configure the Home to that John and Jane can both control living room devices, but only John can control the lights in his office? Thanks!
This question is the same as this one from 6 years ago. Have things changed in the Apple or Windows ecosystem that has enabled a new way of quickly sharing files between the two without using a cloud service?
I use two phones, one Iphone 7 and one 6. I recently lost the 6 and started using an old iPhone to replace it. I restored the iphone 6 on that old iPhone, but as the capacity of the phone was smaller, I had to delete all my videos and about 1000 photos. What happened is that this old iPhone synced with my iPhone 7 (the main phone I use) and deleted all the photos and videos on that phone too. Is there a way of retrieving them?
[Mac OS 10.13.2, Preview Version 10.0 (944.4)] I have a large annotated PDF document and I would like to see a summary of these annotations on the Highlights & Notes side panel view, but nothing other than the side panel title is showing. Is this a bug in my version of Preview? I am able to get a list of annotations using cmd-i but this list does not show the details, like actual text, of annotations, nor does it allow me to jump to the annotation when I click on it. Any tips?
Connect your iOS device to your computer and open iTunes. If you don't have a computer, borrow one from a friend, or go to an Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider. While your device is connected, force restart it: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. Don't let go when you see the Apple logo — keep holding until you see the recovery mode screen. When you see the option to Restore or Update, choose Restore.
Previously when I would receive calls and I would pick up on my Apple watch I was able to transfer the call to my iPhone and continue my conversation. Recently, when I pick up a phone call on my Apple Watch I’m not able to handoff and transfer to my iPhone as the iPhone completely disconnects. I am on an iPhone 7 Plus and on the newest OS. Any ideas on how to fix the issue?
Last night I tried to upgrade my gf's Macbook Air (probably 2012) to High Sierra. Although it's been more than 10 hours, the screen with Apple logo and progress bar was stuck at some point and was not processing. Therefore I made a hard restart. The login screen appears but when I try to login, the progress bar gets stuck at some point again. What I have tried: Booting to the safe mode -> The progress bar loads completely and then gets stuck. Booting to the safe mode -> The progress bar loads completely and then gets stuck.
It's not clear to me how the iMac Pro enforces secure boot chain - specifically if this performed by the x86 processor, EFI firmware, the T2 or a combination of some or all of the above?
I'm sure this question has already been asked, but I can't find it. I recently bought a new moniter which I've connected to my 2015 MacBook Pro via HDMI. When I close the lid of the laptop, I wish it to go to sleep, however, rather than sleeping, all the windows appear on the moniter instead. How can I disable this and force the system to go to sleep even if the HDMI is connected? I dont want to disconnect the HDMI each time before putting it to sleep.
Initially there was a +-Button in the People-Album. But at some point in time this button disappeared. I can still cmd-I a picture in my library and add a new person, but it somehow does not give me the option anymore in the People-Album. When I remember correctly I was able to look through a huge list of already identified faces and add a name to them. Was this feature removed?
So for a while now I've had little to no space on my phone because of my picture library, I couldn't even back it up. So today i decided to delete upwards of 700 photos and 70 videos. After deleting them in the storage nothing has changed, I have disabled iCloud Sharing and no, before you say anything, there are no photos in my recently deleted.
I have my contacts stored on iCloud, so they sync between my iPhone and my MacBook Pro. On my iPhone, the Messages app displays the Contact Name, however on my MacBook Pro it does not. It just displays the telephone number (including country code).
For a short time, I'm reverting back to my old iPhone. I entered my current Apple ID (the one with email address). A long time ago, Apple ID wasn't an email address.
I'm rsyncing from a remote linux box to my local solid state hard drive on my mac running High Sierra. I'm using the -a switch (archive) which is supposed to preserve the ownership of the group but the files are saved with my owner and group, not the ones on the remote server. Using disk utility, I see Owners is set to enabled. I seem to remember being able to do this and the files would be saved with the UID and GID numbers. Is this still possible?
I save the following AppleScript as application, to open Firefox in full screen and without the menu bar: And execute it as:
Is there any way to "emulate" HOSTS file functionality on iPad where IP is resolved locally without outgoing DNS request? Perhaps some browsers can do that?
Whenever I install or upgrade an app after the install step (but before the app is able to launch) my device freezes for between 30s - and a couple of minutes (worst case). During this, it's unresponsive to home button pushes, swipes, etc. After the time passes, it resumes function as normal. Rebooting, upgrading iOS to latest -- And perhaps most informing, this issue has followed me through 3 phones (2 iPhone 7, and one iPhone X) -- It seems to be with something that gets backed up, so that when I restore from backup the issue then persists.
I have joined (bound) a MacBook Pro to a Windows Active Directory environment. I've set it to prompt for name and password, rather than show a picture, being the network user is not a local user, and this is fine. However, I'd like it if the "Name" field remembered the last logged in user, rather than requiring both username and password to be entered each time.
I am programming a keylogger with Python in order to track the keyboard activity when Safari is used (I'm a mac user). Right now I'm trying to find something like "target" shortcut option as the one Internet Explorer offers but in Safari. The option I exactly mean is depicted in the following picture.
a friend of mine bought a second hand iMac and they erased sort of everything from the iMac before it was given to him. There is no OS installed and it's not possible to instal a new version from OSX from Internet Recovery because the Hard Drive is greyed out. When I open terminal and check distil list this shows up: What are those 17 disks? and how can I remove them and rebuild the whole harddrive? Everywhere I look they say that is should have an UUID but when I use diskutil cs list it says "No CoreStorage logical volume groups found". iMac 27" early 2016 2TB Fusion 8GB Ram Internet recovery (El Capitan) I hope there is someone that can help me!
I am developing an embedded system with bluetooth connectivity. There is the bluez and hpcitool in lunix which helps a lot with development of such products, namely listing all the advertisement that the device is seeing etc. So far I have only been able to find pybluez (*=URL=* for mac which is somehow similar to bluez, but still misses a lot (such as gatttool, which is necessary to list the incoming advertisements). Are there other alternatives and work around that someone can tell me about?
So I'm aware that Recovered files in Trash usually means that an application stored something under /tmp and didn't clear it up properly. Usually it's fairly obvious what application created them, for example iBooks Author will result in Recovered files containing a ton of folders with com.apple.iBooksAuthor in the name. However, since updating to High Sierra I'm getting Recovered files that I have no idea how to track down, as the contents are nothing more than the following: I've looked everywhere that I can think of, and can't find anything that the UUID corresponds to, it's not my machine UUID, or the UUID of any disk or volume for example, so appears to be random (I haven't been keeping the folders so can't compare).
I have three 65 watt L type chargers. Problem is with one of my laptop (MacBook pro 13 mid 2012) during charging, charging indicator light turns green and orange after some minutes(its random time sometime after a minute or more... time is not fixed). On the other side these chargers are working fine with my other MacBooks.
Im running a web application in guided access on an iPad Pro. Every other day i get the problem of when clicking into fields, the keyboard does not show up. Ending guided access and restarting the app helps. Any ideas on how to fix this?
My app needs to create a system-wide socket (unique independently of the number of users on the Mac). I'm using a *.plist to this end:
TLDR; for testing touchpad interface on a MacBook, would a desktop with Magic Trackpad be suitable? We are developing a cross-platform application Win/Mac and though we develop mostly on Windows, MacBook users are a key demographic, specifically this raises issues with trackpad functionality. None of us have MacBooks but I have a MacMini so I can test the Mac build - but only with a mouse. I wondered if getting a TrackPad would let me test gestures a)work as planned b)are user friendly in a realistic way. If so, which version would be adequate?
I have text messages that I get on my phone from a previous employer... they are sent to my phone via emails. The problem is that the iPhone sees each and every message as coming from a different "number" - so I can't simply block a single number. Each text has a FRM:root@example.com SUBJ:... How can I block text messages based on content of the text?
I'm wanting to reset my iPod Mini 1st Gen. Device manager for Windows 10 recognises my iPod Mini (1st Gen) as a generic USB storage device whether in Disk or iPod mode.
I have a fresh bootcamp windows 10 home 64 with bootcamp drivers version 6.0 Both the internal trackpad and the wireless trackpad are recognized as regular mouse (just pointing and 2 axis wheels). I had to go to regedit and change the FlipFlopWheel property so that the scrolling is natural just because windows does not recognize it as a trackpad, which allows that configuration via regular settings interface. Also because it's recognized as a regular mouse there is no way to configure multi touch gestures.
I would like to know if the camera behavior I am experiencing it's normal or if there is a problem. When I shoot a photo in low light conditions the photo "preview" I see in the camera app is really different from the final photo.
With other apps, like twitter, for example, you could simply use twitter://xxxxx to link to it, but how do you do the same with the Notes app? Thanks
Reading *=URL=* it doesn't specify if a default transition time on Keynote for objects. is this possible? I keep having to change most object manually
This post concerns the folder located at the following file path: I right-clicked this folder in Finder.app and selected Get Info. After several minutes of waiting, the "Size" field still stated, "Calculating size." So, I ran the following command in Terminal.app to get this folder's file size: This informed me that this folder takes up 70 GB on my rMBP.
I believe it is possible to have a custom HTML email signature on an iPhone by simply copying it (in the form of a webpage) and then pasting it into your signature on your email settings. I'm wondering however, does it actually copy the image file to the phone? Or does the image need to be hosted online somewhere and the signature just embeds it?
The red battery status color stayed there for about 40 seconds, then went back to black.
I have a MacBook pro 15inch - refurbished - 256GB, sometime it's screen suddenly flashing along with keyboard light, I tried to reinstall OS once (10.13.2), do SMC reset but problem still persists randomly. I have a video here: *=URL=* Any idea how to fix this?, local warranty service refuse to do anything because it's always worked fine when I took it there.
I accidentally turned off FileVault on my MacBook when trying to allow downloaded Canon driver software to be opened. FileVault is currently decrypting and I want to stop it as soon as possible. How do I stop FileVault decryption?
I'm running into a series of issues while attempting to install High Sierra on a mid-2013 Mac Pro currently running El Capitan. Both when trying to update using the standard installer, and when booting from a USB installer created following the instructions here, I run into the same issue: Midway through the install, a dialog appears stating that "macOS could not be installed on your computer An error occurred while verifying firmware." When I restart from this dialog, a new one appears after restart stating that "The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged." When I attempt to search for OSInstall.mpkg from the terminal in recovery mode, the following command: yields this response: So I don't appear to have an option to copy the install media to the expected directory as some users appear to have done.
How to kill Google Drive File Stream process in OSX? Using sudo kill -9 <PID>, the process appears to keep itself alive. Every time I try to kill it, the PID changes in Activity Monitor.
Just noticed this after upgrading, and it's not a huge deal but it does get annoying when constantly minimizing/restoring Terminal windows. The gist: regardless of which tab you're currently working in, minimizing then restoring will always set the focus to the first (left-most) tab. Is there any way to revert to the original MacOS behavior, where restoring a minimized Terminal window preserves the current tab?
I have a 2016 Macbook Pro 15" running macOS Sierra. The left speaker sounds muffled (it isn't outputting any treble) while the right speaker sounds perfectly fine. For some casual debugging, I've done the following: Played with volume (no change) Used different audio sources (no change) Tried headphones (headphones work fine)
I've been able to pair a Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Surface with my MacBook ever since Yosemite, but when I updated to High Sierra the mouse stop connecting. When I turn on the mouse, the Bluetooth sensor just flashes and the LED light below the scroll turns green and then red. Normally this is an indication that I need to change the batteries, but I have already changed them by new ones. What else can I do?
I have my cable modem (10.0.0.1) to my iMac (10.0.0.36), and my iMac (10.0.0.36) with a (bridge100 192.168.2.1) Internet Shared IP to my debian machine (192.168.2.34), and all of that is working perfectly. I would now like to forward port 80 from the internet through the bridge on my iMac to my debian machine... I found the following link, which lead me to However, it's not working... Now in the link they are going to localhost, and I found this link which says i may need something like But I have not been able to get pfctl to parse the above line correctly Any ideas on how I can forward from 10.0.0.36:80 <-> 192.168.2.1 <-> 192.168.2.34:80 ? Edit: The cable modem/router is a TG852G from Xfinity... Edit: pfdump
Is there a way to list only the packages that were built from source? I want to check what options they were built with, and since that's the main reason I install packages by building from source most of the time, this would be useful. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to write a script to list all packages and filter out the ones poured from bottle, but I'm wondering if a simpler way exists. I could just brew info and go through all of them to check, but when the output is really long, it isn't that trivial to do this.
This only gets me part of the way there. My font and color scheme doesn't seem to match still. The theme is supposed to look like this: But mine looks like this:
I'm not big on saving electricity at all and I'm trying to decide whether to select Mac's &Lt;Put hard disks to sleep when possible&Gt;. What are the pros and cons of doing so? Eg, can I expect the hardware to last longer by keeping the hard disks on 24/7?
I have a Drobo network file server which insists on offering it's mounts via both afp:// and smb://. Is there any way to force my Macs (they are all running High Sierra) to NEVER mount network volumes via AFP?
This is my first post in these forums, so please bear with me if my question is poorly phrased. I'm trying to install macOS and iTunes updates via the app store, and come across a screen like this (normal):
I have created a macOS High Sierra install USB as a backup for my Mac and Windows. I want to be able to use one 16GB USB drive for my Windows and Mac. I think that this is possible using Clover.
Whenever I lock my screen (using command+control+Q), the display goes to sleep within about 5 seconds. How can I prevent this? This happens while plugged in, and my screen is set to never go to sleep while on power:
I'm on a Mac and Windows PC, and have many files (videos, photos, documents, iTunes Backups, but without Windows or macOS system backup) the size is 3TB or larger in my old external hard drive. I use macOS 10.13.2 and Windows 10 (Build 1709) I plan to copy this data into an single macOS Image and put it on the new external hard drives (4TB). it is recommended to create a disk image (sparse image or sparse bundle image, I am not sure what is better) of macos with a single size of 4tb. what file system (hfs+, apfs, exFAT) should the macos image have for the future?
Does anyone know if it's possible to auto renew your Apple Developer Program with a different credit/debit card than the default one on file for your Apple ID?
Why is "verify" only an option for network time machine backups (not local/usb disks) I would have commented on the answer there that says that, but I don't have enough reputation... Why is "Verify Backups" in the Time Machine icon menu disabled?
I used AnyTrans to try to transfer some photos to my iPhone. When I did this, it added all my photos to the camera roll but it also added them to an undeletable AnyTrans album. When I press edit, I can't remove it, although I've removed every single photo from that album. This is what it looks like when normally:
I have some old archived Outlook for Windows files that I want to move to Apple Mail in order to look into some older files. I don't have any access to Windows systems, I run Apple Mail on my Mac Book Pro. I tried looking online for a solution but the methods explained the result in nothing. Seeking for help on this forum and hoping to find the best possible answer. Thanks
For example, the app can be set to search on the Twitter channel *=URL=* for a custom phrase such as "Best Buy" or "PayPal" for such sales events, every few minutes or every 30 minutes, and show a notification on the iPhone or iPad when such tweet is found. Or equivalently, it doesn't need to be Twitter specific but can be a webpage *=URL=* Is there such an app?
I just upgraded to High Sierra and started noticing a problem. When I open a new Terminal window, everything is fine. The output starts at the top and then fills the window. Eventually all rows are used (unless I run something like clear). This is the normal expected behavior. The problem is if I then open a new tab, the last row is not being utilized. It is always a blank line regardless of how much content is in the window. If I go to Preferences > Profiles > Window and change the number of rows, the number of rows in the actual window changes (as expected) and the last row becomes useable again.
I have a late 2008 Macbook (first unibody model). I learned that this model is able to support 8gb RAM with a firmware upgrade (see: https://blog.macsales.com/9102-secret-firmware-lets-late-08-macbooks-use-8gb).
I have 2011 MacBook Pro that I have not used for a while. Now I am back to using it and would like to upgrade to the latest OS available. Currently, it is 10.6.8 an here are the issues
I have been using hard links, as described here, for linking my important folders to my Dropbox. A very useful trick for backing up without messing up your preferred directory structure. After my update the High Sierra, all the hard links where corrupted in such a way that all the files were lost.
I have a mid-2017 iMac that we purchased in September to replace our ageing mid-2010 iMac. The thing is this iMac feels slower than our old iMac. My husband and kids complain all the time too, so it’s not just me. New iMac Specs: Mid-2017 iMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch 3.0GHz quad-core Intel i5 CPU AMD Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB Memory 1TB Hard Drive 8GB RAM macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Old iMac Specs: Mid-2010 iMac 21.5 inch 3.06GHz dual-core Intel i3 CPU ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256MB Memory 500GB Hard Drive 8GB RAM Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2014 with a HDMI port and a Thunderbolt 2 port (that I beleive doubles up as a miniDP port). I have just bought an Acer H2777HU 27 inch (2560 x 1440 pixel) monitor. It has a HDMI port, DP port and USB-C port. It only came with a DP cable, which does not fit the miniDP port on my MacBook. So my question is: what is the best way to connect the two, ensuring that I get the full 2560 x 1440 resolution, 60Hz refresh and can use the built in speakers? Is it: HDMI to HDMI (are there different sizes of HDMI?) miniDP to DP (does this cable exist?)
Is there any app that allows me search for string inside huge list of .js,.html,.php files without opening individual files?I have tried an app called Documents to no avail. (Just like Search for Text Inside of Any File Using Windows Search)
Is there a reason why nowadays, even in warm conditions, my iPhone freezes and restarts? By this I mean it freezes for a while and then restarts into a black screen for 10-20 secs followed by the Apple logo and then the Home screen. This can happen when taking pictures, starting an app, or just opening a link in Safari. It seems to be a software problem and only started this year. I've tried: Updating iOS to 11.2.2 Taking it in for checking - the battery was replaced and they said the logic board was ok. It's an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.2.2.
Clicking on links in Apple Mail (http or https, doesn't matter), opens a new iTerm 2 terminal session instead of my default browser. I can't figure it out.
Title says it all. Starting to regret the Fusion Drive. But don’t want to lose my warranties. Location: West Sussex, Chichester UK.
Does Time Machine restore cloned files (created e.g. using the finder or cp -c) as such? Or are they restored as regular duplicate files (or, potentially worse, as a single file with multiple hard links)? If so, is there a difference when only part of the file is shared, versus all blocks?
Some of my photos do not export from the photos app. the pop up menu does not open completely up with the first section "photo". Any help?
Ive got an airport express setup an airplay receiver only (basically just plug it into the network and connected a 3.5mm headphone jack between the airport express and my speakers). The current default name for my airplay receiver is Base Station ece640. Id like to change this to a custom name, is this possible ?
When setting up new iPad Pro-by default it only permits one email address to be used for Apple ID & App Store. On all my other devices, I have one email associated with my Apple ID & a different email address associated with my App Store. Because I haven’t been able to locate where one can make this distinction, in Settings (or elsewhere), I can’t access any of my previously purchased apps. Any one run into this or know how to resolve?
One of the recent IOS updates introduced a feature which no doubt some like, but I hate it. I refer to the 2-3 seconds of video showing how the camera moved before I took the picture. I have absolutely no use for this, and since I do take real videos from time to time, I have no way to automate removing the crap. Is there a way to turn it off?
I've got a 2009 wireless keyboard connecting to a 2012 Macbook Pro running El Capitan, and it's giving me serious lags; occasionally sticking; sometimes just disconnecting. Things I've tried thus far include resetting PRAM resetting the bluetooth keyboard running it in safe mode
What does the watchOS Activity notification look like from someone sharing with you after they completed a run? How much detail about the run is shared? Does it just show whether the set goal is completed, or does it show other information like the rate of speed?
After an upgrade to high sierra, my 2013 mac pro experienced intermittent freezes that required hard restarts to resolve. On every restart I get a black screen with a progress bar, and there is an empty progress bar under the launch pad in the dock (see images).
I have been trying to backup about 30GB of data for an entire week now. The hard drive hasn't been disconnected for a week.
I've seen Macs startup with a white [very pale grey] screen & some with a black screen. random pics from interweb...
Not sure about the Yosemite version because "About this mac" option doesn't work too. Terminal, X11, Screenshot to name a few, don't work. Used to work fine since I updated from Lion a few months ago. This message shows up in "console" when I try to open one of those options: 23/1/18 21:36:52,032 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Terminal.11392[853]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1 I found this answer from 2014:
I got issued a Macbook running High Sierra, and the user and group ID seem funky. It was configured by the IT department at my work. Why are they large integers, instead of being single or double digits?
Recently I've been getting my Yahoo mail notifications on my Apple Watch 2. I've looked everywhere I can think of on Yahoo and in my Apple settings to try to turn off. Any ideas? TIA!
I have an 11 inches Macbook air. My macbook air turns the screen off and logs me out anytime i move it slightly across my bed. (it does not happen when i move it from bed and move it) even two inches moving turns the screen off and i am logged out as if i had closed the lid. I have not been able to find any answer so far.
My wife has a wifi-only iPad. She'd like to be able to send and receive texts from it, but it has no phone number, and she has no other Apple device to send/receive texts through. She's configured iMessage to know her email address and she's logged in to Apple using her Apple ID, but texting from my iPhone to her email address (using iMessage) results in the message showing up in her email, not in iMessage.
I've had my Macbook for a while, and since I now have gotten a new desk and monitors, I've hooked them up for a dual external display setup. I've linked the products I use below. HDMI Cords x2 HDMI Cords x2 HP Pavilion 21.5-Inch IPS LED HDMI VGAMonitors x2 HP Pavilion 21.5-Inch IPS LED HDMI VGAMonitors x2 Redragon M601 Gaming Mouse Redragon M601 Gaming Mouse 2 Official Adapters 2 Official Adapters
I used to have bluetooth PAN by default, but i was messing around with the network interfaces.  and when removing it, i accidentally set it to not return. I've spent hours googling and constantly removing plists, yet i can't get it back. please help. Version OSX 10.13.2
Is there anyway to recover my data? I went to go get my backup HDD out of the office but my little brother had dropped it in soda a few weeks ago and told no one so it's useless. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
My iPhone froze and wouldn't unfreeze. After messing with it for awhile it finally went to a black loading screen. I have help power and home button down together and down volume and power button together. I have plugged it into a charger. Nothing will make it work again or even leave this loading screen.
I am using my iMac 2017 5k as my main machine and want to use my 21 inch 2017 iMac in target display mode. When I try command f2 I hear a beep and nothing happens. I have also tried doing it at the login screen and also tried fn command f2 but nothing worked. What am I doing wrong? Is this possible?
I'm using WinOnX2 Virtual Windows OS emulator, and it allows me to run Windows apps on a Mac. I installed this windows only music player Aimp, and it has this global hotkey feature to allow me to use media keys or keyboard shortcuts to play/pause or change track. Since the Aimp software is installed in WinOnX2 and not a real Mac installation, the global hotkeys don't work on the Mac.
I am a student of middle school and I plan everything in the native Calendar app. I am looking for a way to set shortcuts for editing the time of particular events (Would that be possible using Automator/Services?).
I've recently faced a problem: each time I try to push to git repository (in my case, Bitbucket), I get that error: I've found a way to solve it by running these commands:
I get a "disk was not ejected properly" to a time machine external ide drive connected to the hub (dell monitor) is there a way to have "mount" or another command report when a volume was [re]mounted?
Usually when you wake up your MacBook, macOS automatically establishes e.g. IMAP or various background sync connections. How can I make sure that all traffic is sent over to VPN connection BEFORE I connect to wifi or my VPN connection fails?
What application should I use to open and edit a .dict_ file on Mac or Windows? When I open it using a text editor I get unreadable glyphs.
I have an older MacBook Pro with 10.11, and I am having a lot of issues with iMovie. There is an update showing in the App Store, but when I click Update, I get the little swirly in the upper left corner of the App Store indefinitely. It never downloads. Other apps download just fine. Is there a direct URL or another way I can download it?
My mac is randomly restarting in sleep mode. It doesn't happen every time. How am I able to find the error or application which tries to restart the mac? Thanks
I have a Mac book Pro connect to internet via WiFi router the connection is working fine. However, when I try to connect also my Mac to a Lan router with different IP I cannot connect to internet anymore. I have changed the order of the router in network preferences but still not working. How can I connect to WiFi internet while using a Lan router with other macs to share folders?
It is a motherboard of a Macbook Air A1466 EMC 2925 Early 2015.
I'm assuming this should be possible with some command line tools but I'm at a loss where to start. I'm working with some recorded UDP data, recorded by Wireshark, that I want to play back to the iOS simulator. I've successfully managed to this by using a program called bittwist that will play the data back to the network adapter vmnet8 which only appears if I'm running VM Ware Fusion. As I understand this is a virtual network device which I believe shares the physical ethernet connection (or wifi)
I'm using Automator to run a shell script (Rar selected files) as a 'Service', so that I can just right click a folder and select the service. It works fine, but i've added verbose and testing (to see the progress and test results) so I need to see the output of the Terminal window to make sure the archive is ok. Is there a way to see the output in real time? or to take it an extra step echo the results? here's the script that works in automator but the output is silent.
I want to have multiple desktops created in a specific order on the startup of my system. I want two apps (Safari and iTunes) to be full screen on each desktop on startup. I know about "Options > Open at login" thing but it doesn't do the trick of opening and placing the app full screen on a separate desktop at startup. I want them to be strictly in that order on startup:
Is there a short(-cut) way to move to the parent file while you drag files? So you can e.g. move them to the parent folder outside of the current folder. Unfortunately CMD + Arrow Up doesn't work while dragging. Otherwise what would be the best technique?
I thought I could remove hamcrest: but Macports seems to disagree: How do I actually remove this port? I have MacPorts base version 2.4.2 installed on High Sierra.
I assume this is impossible, but I thought I'd ask: I have an PowerComputing PowerCenter 150, running some version of Mac OS 8. I don't have a mouse, keyboard, or monitor for the computer. I do have an ethernet cable, but not a crosslink cable.
I have a script to automate starting a few servers on the terminal. These are server processes of the software I am developing. They can be recompiled and changed multiple times a day. The binaries can live in different places (working copies). My script uses to ask for the root password once, then creates a new iterm2 terminal window (and some tabs) and tries to start the servers with sudo: Everything worked fine on El Capitan, but not on High Sierra.
My desktop is configured in such a way that a sudden power loss (or abrupt restart) would result in absolutely no data lost. I therefore want to make sure that updates can always install on schedule and that I don't have to manually close any programs when clicking the Restart button. How do I force Mac to always restart without delay, completely ignoring whatever software might be running in the background?
I'm trying to move to Numbers instead of Excel for basic sheet stuff, as Excel is a pain in the ass to use on Mac. I'm trying to have some dates to look like dates and apply conditional formatting. The dates in the Excel are like:
I signed up and have been using iOS 11 Beta due to ability to record screen video. But now that iOS 11 is officially released, I am still getting the newest Beta of iOS 11. How do I smoothly transition back to using iOS 11 non-beta?
A few minutes back, one of my browser windows opened a very suspicious tab, which then made a pop-up trying to install "Flash Player". Thinking this was a malware install, I moused over to click "Cancel", but in my haste, slipped and clicked "Install" instead. A second later I had clicked cancel, but the window flickered first - had it finished? Now I'm on damage control, confident that a website tried to install malware on my computer. What would you do after such a suspect encounter? So far I've:
Every time I accept a meeting invitation from Mail or Calendar, the invitation email automatically went to Mail's Trash folder. Is there a way to stop Mail from deleting accepted email invitations? Most of the times the invitation email contains useful informations, and I really don't want to delete those.
Is there a way to configure iTerm2 preferences from the command line? I am specifically looking to automate setting the Key preferences, for instance configuring escape codes to be sent when certain key combinations are pressed. I am using a script similar to *=URL=* for other osx automation. Thanks!
The latest macOS version at the moment is High Sierra (10.13), and I can't find the installer for macOS Sierra (10.12) at the App Store. How/where can I download the installer for macOS Sierra?
I have an Ubuntu NAS box that is sending shared hard drives over my home network. The NAS share is seen by the finder, and the hard drives are visible, but every time I attempt to open one of the drives, I get a pop-up window saying: "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "MINISTERETH" can't be found.
It seems that this is either intentional (because of the Fusion Drive?) or a bug in High Sierra. With exactly the same procedure on a Macbook Pro 2017 I get an admin user with a Secure Token and that user can manage FileVault and give secure tokens to other users.
I have an iPhone 6s and this is the second time I have dropped my phone into water. I managed to get it replaced the first time (this was only a few weeks ago) but it happened again. It initially didn't seem to be as bad as it was before so I'm hoping this can somehow be fixed.
I would like to know if there's a built-in GUI application in Mac OS X that can generate file hashes (Disk Utility?). If there isn't such a built-in application, does a FOSS alternative exist? I can accept any application that can generate a file hash as CRC, MD5, or better in the SHA realm. Additionally, showing how this is done in the application would be a bonus.
I recently got my hands on a Macintosh Color Classic that is known to not work in the hope of fixing it. I have the power plugged in, keyboard, and mouse. When I flip the switch on the back, I hear the fan come on, and then three monotone chimes about a second apart. I have searched for manuals or docs to tell me what these chimes mean, because they aren't the normal Sad or Happy Mac chimes. After those chimes, the fan remains on but the screen stays dark. Any ideas?
Is there a way to block a list of specific apps on macOS? I have looked up solutions such as Cisdem, but there are some holes in the way it works that I don't like. Unless you also block Activity Monitor, Terminal, and System Preferences, you can simply quit the Cisdem process or create a new user to get around it. You have to block Activity Monitor, Terminal, and System Preferences to make it work well.
Apple's Photos app has stopped downloading photos from iCloud (though I can confirm that they are present in iCloud.com and all my other devices). Only recent photos seem to be missing. I've waited a day, an still nothing. I've rebooted, turned Photos off and on in Account settings, force quit Photos, etc. I've even repaired the photo library. There is no indication that the Photos app is syncing. How do I get Apple's Photos app to download recent photos from iCloud?
Today i made a payment of 99$ to get some certificate for developement but now apple just sent me a email saying: The billing information you used on the Apple Online Store to purchase an Apple Developer Program membership does not match the billing information you provided during enrollment. Before your membership can be activated, we'll need a copy of your government-issued photo ID. So i did the payment with my father Debit Card and i was wondering if is it gonna be okay if i send my passport photo, contact them, send them some papers saying that my father was conscious of this payment or should i send them something else?.
so i closed my space grey 2017 macbook pro 13" ( i opted for the model without the touch bar) after a lecture and was going to put it in my backpack , but when i closed it, the edge of my zip up hoodie got caught in the macbook (picture the macbook eating my hoodie zipper). It was a very short part of the hoodie just above my abdomen that got caught so i simply pulled it out and closed the macbook all the way.
Most of the time (all of the time?) when I download a large file using Safari from any website I see 1/3 as much data being uploaded. So if I'm seeing 3MB/s downloading I'll see about 1MB/s uploading. I'm not doing anything else. What is being uploaded?
A while ago I was trying to set up convenient ssh to a server, so I added an entry to /etc/hosts (not real IP): I've realized since then that using ~/.ssh/config is a better solution, so I removed the hosts entry. But ever since then, the IP seems to reverse-resolve to dokku.1 when I try to visit that IP in safari, it replaces it with dokku.1, then fails to resolve the hostname. Does anyone know where that resolving behavior is coming from, and how to stop it? I have rebooted the computer since I removed the entry. macOS 10.12.6
I'm having a really annoying issue and I would like to know what's causing it (Xcode triggers it). When I'm using Xcode and the storyboard editor, selecting or moving anything will occasionally cause a complete system failure or freeze. Not 10 minutes ago I was trying to set the class for a UIView whilst playing some music and I suddenly heard a loud buzzing sound through my headphones and my screen just went black. The computer rebooted and showed the kernel panic screen. This is the first time it completely crashed the system as it usually just completely locks up and requires a force restart. I check the logs and I have these files matching the day of the crash: Kernel_2018-01-25-033831_Noahs-MacBook-Pro.gpuRestart: *=URL=* Kernel_2018-01-25-033918_Noahs-MacBook-Pro.panic: *=URL=* I have created pastes on pastebin for these files as they contain quite a bit of information and would flood this post. It seems to be GPU related, I don't think it's a hardware issue as I've been pushing 
Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) I'm looking for detailed schematics, preferably official Apple publications, describing and/or annotating the dimensions or other specifics of the components. I'm not looking for electrical layout diagrams. I've been looking all day. My goal is to create an acrylic chassis inspired by the old imacs to replace the aluminum. Any leads on the topic of this documentation is welcome, even if it's not everything.
I recently bought an external bluetooth dongle to add BTLE support to my Macbook Pro 2011. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.2.
[MBP 2014, Mac OS High Sierra] I managed to crack the lower left corner of my screen last night, the power cable flicked into the space as I was closing the lid. As a result, I'm missing a couple inches of screen space on the left side. This, of course, means that I cannot see the "Apple Icon" (not too big a deal) nor the first, usually "File", menu item.
How to turn off the iSight indicator of my Mac's camera (without putting black tape on it)?
After importing picture files from my Iphone, I copied the lot onto my external drive & deleted these files from my Iphone & Photos app. But unfortunately I lost the drive. Is there a way to recover those files on Mac, which were once imported?
I had the (possibly mistaken) belief that one of the functions of Bluetooth was to easily transfer files between two nearby devices. I could certainly do this with my Android phone and my Linux laptop.
I am looking for a solution (I am not sure that's possible) to prevent our gear (iPhones and Ipads) to iCloud sync over some SSIDs. I fly for a living and we use EFBs (Electronic Flight Bags) based on iPad. When we fly we need to be able to get emails (so connected to an SSID) but I would like to prevent iPads and iPhones to do iCloud syncs over the aircraft internet which costs a lot and slow the satellite internet down.
My iPhone keeps disconnecting from my MacBook Pro; in fact any iPhone I try to connect (and with different cables) can never connect to it. I am very familiar with command line and Linux so please if anyone has any pointers on what could be going on here feel free to post commands or locations where I can try find the source of this issue. MacBook Specs: Sierra 10.13.3 MacBook Mid 2015 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 iPhone 6s Plus / although I have tried with iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 as well as 3 different cables. tail -f /var/system.log output is as follows When I plug in iTunes it still keeps doing the same thing but the error reports are as follows: dmesg outputs these lines multiple times: I'm trying to build an app at the moment so not being able to test on a real device is a pain, has anybody managed to fix this or come across it before?
I have downloaded a VPN service app, and it works fine. However, if I run on school WiFi, VPN hangs on "Connecting..." and after 10 seconds it disconnects and tries again. I believe this is a WiFi problem, but I don't know for sure.
I upgraded my macbook pro and have now two internal SSD drives (I removed the old drive and also the DVD drive). I have been using Time Machine to back up the 1st drive to an external drive, and I now wonder if there is any way I can also use Time Machine to back up the new second SSD drive. Hope it makes sense.. so I back up my main SSD-1 drive to an external drive called Backup1. and now would like to back up my second drive called SSD-2 to a second drive called Backup2. Is it possible to use Time Machine for that?
I am using Mail.app for email. I have to transition an account to a new machine and login account. Is there a way to read all my account information (username, ports, etc.) and set up a new Mail.app account on the new machine using the command line in Terminal.app?
I charge the phones over night, so they are both at 100% when I leave the flat in the morning. Then at some point in the day when my iPhone SE has 80% battery left, the iPhone 5 has 40% battery left. This is with the new battery.
I've been doing some research on this topic but it seems Apple has changed their file hierarchy. From the MacScripter post "Get user default browser" it references the line:
In my terminal, in settings->profiles->keyboard, I set some shortcuts for option-left and option-right. When I realised that these had overwritten the default "move to beginning/end of word" behaviour, I deleted them. However, now that shortcut doesn't work at all.
I am also having some strange problems: The browser (Safari) keeps continuously loading new pages, on YouTube "you might be interested in-thingie" (individual ones, work fine). Also, Google Mail's "new interface," sometimes requires me to log in, multiple times. Otherwise, it goes goes back to the my original page, when I start the browser. I am interested in not just fixing my problem, but in the integrity of my system.
Good morning everyone. I own a Yamaha Net HI-FI, a CRX-N560D that has airplay capabilities. I couldn't get my new Macbook Pro 2017 - High Sierra 10.13.3 installed - to stream audio to airplay speakers. The Hi-fi is connected correctly to the router and then to Internet, as it streams Spotify flawlessly. I had the same problem with my old Macbook Air late 2010 with every OSX i had installed on it, from Snow Leopard till High Sierra. The odd thing is that i could connect easily iPad Air 2 since iOS 10...
I have an external keyboard connected to my MacBook Pro (13-inch, late 2016, 4 thunderbolt 3 ports, running High Sierra) through a dongle and every time my mac sleeps, I need to unplug the keyboard and plug it back in in order to function. Is there any way around this?
Is there any way to do this from a browser or macOS? It's faster to type on the computer if you're copying from another list. I frequently read about a new movie on my computer and don't want to switch devices just to add it to my queue.
The title says it all. It's weird. You can install apps from the Mac App Store without an admin password. But you do need one to uninstall them. Why? I know macOS is UNIX /Applications is a system folder. But why do we need root privileges to remove, but not to add a file to /Applications? Example:
At some point in the recent past, Smart Folder results started getting organized first by size groups. For example, if I look for all files with a certain extension, and sort by date, they are first sorted by size groups (e.g. "From 1MB to 10MB" and then "From 100KB to 1MB", etc.). I do not want this size sorting; I just want to see items sorted by date as I asked. How can I turn this size grouping off?
I'd like to recycle iPad 1. How do I clean all personal info? The battery is dead, I tried to recharge it for an hour.
According to the service guide for Macbook 12-inch 2015, after opening and eventually re-connecting everything and closing the macbook bottom case for whatever troubleshooting or repair, and before you can test or use the mac again: you should connect a 5w power adapter for a while, instead of the 29 watt usual one. “failure to do so, may damage the logic board”. This is not the case with the 2016 and 2017 macbooks. Why is this?
I can use Finder to view the physical size (bytes) and logical size (on disk). This works for files, folders (contents), but not volumes: I can use mdls to get the same metadata information, but that only works for files: I've tried df and du but neither display both physical & logical sizes. Is there a command line method to output the physical and logical file size of a folder (contents) and/or a volume (contents)?
Firefox uses the larger Apple Touch Icons instead of favicons for bookmarks where available. The problem is that they are shown at Favicon size, when they are not designed for that size. Is there any way to make it so that Firefox only uses favicons? Appearance in bookmarks: (bad — unreadable text!)
I am trying help someone setup a new printer (HP Envy-4520) on an older Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) Obviously the best solution would be to replace the computer, unfortunately, this isn't an option. I am not onsite with the Mac at this time. I found instructions through Google, but they are obsolete*. The printer does work when printing from a mobile device.
How do I add an alert to a new event in macOS (High Sierra) Calendar via keyboard? Tab keypresses in the event edit dialog upon reaching the to datetime section will highlight in blue the section (including "Add Alert"). Return or space keypress will open the datetime section. Tab keypress then will move across the start and end times. But it never reaches the alert subsection.
According to *=URL=* Secondly, we are necessarily leaking the newly generated password into the process table as the shell expands the backticks (more details here). Sadly, the security(1) utility has no other method of non-interactively accepting a password but on the command-line[1]. For this reason, it may be preferable to create the secret using the GUI application. Is it possible to programmatically add passwords to the keychain without leaking them to the ps -ef output?
When I'm in Photoshop or when I try to upload a file to Google Chrome, I want my files to be organized by Date Modified. I have selected that but it group it into Date (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days). How can I then organize them by time (newest at the top, oldest at the bottom)?
A friend had his iPad fail and had to restore factory settings, losing lots of valuable recordings, and he hadn't backed up. I'm wondering if its possible to use the dd command to copy the data to a flash drive, and then scour the image for recognisable files using some utility. Or do we need to pay for 3rd party software e.g. Dr Fone?
I'm facing multiple Boot/Update/Shutdown issues with my Mac Pro (2018) 1) Mac gets stuck on a black screen while shutting down (no cursor or UI elements visible)
Since MacBook Pro 2015, Apple introduced the "Force Touch" in the Track Pad. When you click it in the Terminal, by default it gives you dictionary/Wikipedia search results.
I use a Mac at school which resets all settings once logged out. I would like to automatically set some settings in system preferences.
Does the camera of a newer MacBook require the green camera light beside it to turn on when the camera itself is turned on? Is the camera light hardwired to the camera, meaning that if the camera is supplied electricity, this would imply that the camera light would also be supplied electricity?
I have a two part question: Can I create an app that has a subset of features only available to users who have upgraded on the website? (I have no upgrade options in the app, but I do not have any links or notices that upgrading is available via the website. If a users is a free paid user, they won't have any indication that there are paid features they're missing out on.)
I have an iPhone 6. It's (unfortunately but unavoidably) had repairs at a third-party repair shop for a new battery, and later a new USB connector - I think the contacts finally wore out, I use it a lot.
Everything I've found says to hold command or option until you hear the boot chime. Obviously I'll never hear that. Nothing I do seems to work, it always goes to Windows 7.
Apple messages keeps asking for password every time I try to log in to my jabber account. The password is correctly saved in the keychain (in fact I just go and copy it from there each time). Save Password to Keychain is of course always checked.
I gave my daughter my macbook pro and my older 6plus for college/ seemingly still knows me because she is getting msg photo library etc for me. Was it not wiped totally? Help please. I do still see two iphones when my devices are listed.
I recently installed VMware Fusion 10 on a Mac running macOS 10.12.6. After doing so, my bash PATH is broken. I traced the problem to a /etc/paths.d path file that Fusion installed; it contains the following entry (with no newline): /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public
I can't seem to find any updated (or reliable) sources of iOS emulators for Mac, I am running Sierra. At first I believed that in Xcode, when I went to run my app, was running an emulator, but I was mistaken. I guess it's a simulator. The difference is they have different compatibilities, so if you take an .ipa (iOS app) file and install it onto the Simulator, the app will crash. My question is are there any iOS emulators out there where I can install real apps from the App Store, or from an .ipa file. I couldn't find anything so any help or suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks!
I just got my hands on a 1993 color classic to try and repair. The machine turns on (I hear the fan) and emits three monotone beeps. Not the chimes of death, but something I can’t figure out. I busted out the logic board, and wow. There was some serious corrosion. I tried to clean it up with some isopropyl alcohol and cotton balls, but some resistors totally fell off and I can see connectors that are completely worn through. I’ve attached some photos. What should I do? I only see one really leaky cap. Should I try dishwashing it? I’ve heard of this method but I don’t know how to go about I to without a. ruining my dishwasher or b. ruining the board. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
If I add a new device to the local network, Finder/Network folder sometimes does not list the new device or it takes 5 or 10 minutes to update the Network folder. How can I force Mac OS X to update the Finder/Network folder for new network devices? Terminal command would be helpful.
I have problem installing mac os high sierra from app store, don't know what is the problem but when it download complete it suddenly reset and nothing is happening and when i open up app store it shows me to download the os again. I want to clean reinstall high sierra on my mac and the only way to it is to create bootable flash drive because i have a bad internet connection. I have downloaded mac os high sierra combo update with a download manager, and my question is can i create bootable flash drive with this combo update ?
I want to edit manually the following .plist file: Because I get a lot of spam and adding each spammer address to the rules using Mail is impraticable:
I tried to install the app 'Duet Display' today. It was always troublesome on my Windows PC, so I was disappointed to see it wasn't working very well on my new MBP 2017 13" w/ TB as well. The installer ran fine, but upon reboot the progress bar seemed to hang. I never reached the login prompt. A macOS update was pending and was waiting for a reboot, my iPad was plugged in and the MBP was on charge.
Most instructions show that when there's an opportunity for a software update. However, this is a different case, as the device you want to install on (lets say a 1st gen Ipad and you want to install an app that requires ios 7+). Is that possible, as the device cannot update further? Or does it require special programs?
Does the iPhone &Lt;Reminders&Gt; app store creation dates of the reminder lists and the individual items thereof? Is there any way to retrieve the information using iCloud, PhoneView, iFunBox, etc?
Can a app from App Store access my Apple ID data (like first-name, last-name, country, email,...)? I am interested in both platforms, iOS and macOS.
Is there an app or export tool that can retrieve all iPhone cached contacts? (After unlinking contacts of a &Lt;Mail, Contacts, Calendar&Gt; account, some are still cached in the &Lt;Messages&Gt; app.) (After unlinking contacts of a &Lt;Mail, Contacts, Calendar&Gt; account, some are still cached in the &Lt;Messages&Gt; app.) (1-by-1 manual retrival is possible but would take way too long (and wouldn't be complete due to non-English names).) (1-by-1 manual retrival is possible but would take way too long (and wouldn't be complete due to non-English names).) (iOS 7.1.2 over here.) (iOS 7.1.2 over here.)
I tried making multiple sessions of screen recording on two devices, each recording its own screen: iPhone X and iPhone 5S. The result was that recordings on 5S were in several cases shorter than on X, but I didn't explicitly stop the recording in 5S's Control Center. Under which conditions could iOS stop the recording at its own initiative / basing implicitly on what I did? I found only "tapping status bar" that could stop recording (though it asks for user confirmation); is there anything else?
I usually connect to my server backup storage with the "connect to server" functionality of finder. I usually click on connect to server and then I add the address which let's say is
As you can see, a portion of the screen is missing on the left side and there are some artefacts (black vertical bars). I read on the web that a PRAM reset might be a feasible option in such cases. However, unfortunately I cannot do in on my own because it seems to require a separate admin password, which I don't have. Of course, a last resort would be to contact the IT people but this could take too much time.
I updated from 10.10 to 10.13 (HighSierra) and I want to downgrade to 10.10. I have a backup on my TimeMachine from before the upgrade. When I restore my computer from TimeMachine, will it overwrite the new OS and replace it with 10.10 - or will only the files get replaced, but the underlying OS stays the same?
Essentially as the title says, if I have an audio input connected to one of my Macs, is it possible to share it with other machines across my network? All of my machines are Macs, in case this makes things simpler. To give some detail, the device in question is a vinyl record player connected to a HiFi system, however it also has a USB port which I am intending to connect to my media centre machine (a Mac Mini running macOS High Sierra, mostly used to run OpenPHT with an IR remote). However, the media centre machine is in no useful state to be used for actual recording work, so I'd really like to be able to have the record player (which simply appears as an audio input device, just like any microphone or such) shared with other Macs on my network so that I can handle recording from one of them instead.
When multiple objects in a single keynote slide appear in an order on a single slide and I accidentally press an extra time, is there a possibility to just withdraw the object that I accidentally made appear too early? If I press 'left arrow' on my keyboard or the remote, the slide reverts to its beginning state (with all objects withdrawn) but I just want to withdraw the last one. Is that possible?
Recently I face the issue on my iphone like this:  translated to english: Connection error from iPhone, call ended When it happens?
my MacBook is a bit too slow for me so I'm looking to sell it. I'm trying to wipe it so it's ready to set up for the new owner, but after erasing everything on the hard disk I'm now trying to reinstall El Capitan OS X but it takes hours and starts with 29 hours remaining, and then slowly increases up to 62 hours (sometimes more) and then it randomly stops and says it failed, so I should try again. And every time it does the same thing. Any known reason why that's happening? Thanks!
I have discovered that when adding a free VPN to a device an admin credential is not required to import the configuration into the network preferences. I'm looking for a way to stop this from happening all together before i pursue methods of removing them if they are installed.
I'm having issues with FileVault being stuck while encrypting, and it's causing major slow downs in my system. I initially had my file system set to case-sensitive, which prevented me from installing Photoshop, so I created a TimeMachine backup, and converted that backup to case-insensitive and then restored my computer using that backup.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to play one song on speakers, yet a different song through headphones, using a Mac. I use songs as examples for any given audio. The way I assume this would work is by having some kind of external device that plugs into the aux port on the Mac, that in turn would have multiple inputs for the aux jack for your speakers and also the headphones/earbud jack, and then you could set your web browser playing YouTube to the speakers and your iTunes to the headphones, or something along those lines. Has anyone heard of anything that would enable you to listen to one song on headphones while the rest of the room listens to another, without interference between the two?
I am usually backing all apps which I purchase. Recently I purchased a bunch of new apps, which I would like to download. So I opened the iTunes (12.6.20) switched to purchases and right now I see that cloud icon for downloading the app in some apps is missing. See picture.
There are a half dozen Apple devices (ie IPad/IPhone/MacAir). There are several accounts (ie Gmail/Att/Yahoo/ICloud/). All of the devices and accounts are owned by one person. Each of the devices seem to have differing configurations of the accounts set up.
I had a telephone conference days three days ago. I took notes while talking and now I can't find them. It could be that I just tipped them into an open document or maybe I created a new one and didn't save it properly or idk... I looked through the last versions of the last docs I used but found nothing. I still know the exact time I called, so maybe I would remember where I wrote them if I could see which files I used while the call.
Locally in the terminal after creating a file named foobar.scpt I go to cd the location of the repo locally and I run git add . I then commit the file using git commit -m "Adding foobar.scpt" Afterward I use git push origin http://location-of-repo
I recently deleted my bootcamp partition that was 300GB and then tried to resize my Macintosh HD partition to my full 500GB hard drive, but after I tried to do this, instead my Recovery HD took the 300GB from bootcamp so now I am stuck with this: Is there any way I can resize the partitions so that I have one Macintosh HD partition at about 500GB and the Recovery HD the normal size? (About 650MB). I have tried using the following command in terminal : but I get the following message when I try to do that:
Because of having issues with High Sierra, I had to downgrade to Sierra. My macOS is on an internal SSD (of my Mac Pro) and my user homes are on an external SSD. When downgrading using a backup, Time Machine only replaced macOS (on the internal SSD), but not the user homes (on the external SSD). Looks like Sierra is not happy with my High Sierra user homes: Messages hangs Messages hangs identityservicesd and callservicesd are constantly crashing identityservicesd and callservicesd are constantly crashing
Based on the advice given on my last question on iOS and Wifi, I want to make my iPad forget all the wifi networks it has ever connected to. My problem is, how to actually do it?
The Preview app used to be the default app to open PDF files. For some obscure reason, this is being changed into Photoshop every now and then. If this happens, I do this: Right click on a PDF file, Open With... For some reason Preview isn't even in that list, so I click Other Select Preview, check the 'Always Open With' box, and click Open Then I right-click the file again, Get Info The "Open With" part shows Preview, and I click the "Change All" button
Are there any key combinations standards for tabbing between windows within an application? For example, in the Safari web browser: CTRL-TAB will cycle through the open tabs. It would be nice if this was
I am using Keynote 7.x on Mac OS High Sierra. I created a table of numbers, and for a particular column, I want to align right with some padding on the right.
So far as I've been able to determine, group ACLs appear to have no effect at all in macOS 10.13.3. Given a group "editors" with members "joe" and "jane" who belong to no other groups, and a folder "Revisions" with the following permissions… …neither "joe" nor "jane" can access the folder.
My early 2015 MBP keeps having kernel panics. I cannot seem to figure out what causes them from the error reports nor can I pin down a certain behavior that triggers them. Has anyone also experienced similar frequent panics? I have run the built in hardware diagnostics serval times as well as EtreCheck and nothing seems to be faulty... Specs are: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) Processor 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory 8GB 1867 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB Anonymous UUID: C1236BAD-D106-F37E-7163-1D56C62AB201 Fri Jan 26 16:56:53 2018 *** Panic Report *** panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801036e339): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8010200a1c, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0xffffff805050600c, CR3: 0x00000001f40820fa, CR4: 0x00000000003627e0 RAX: 0x0000000125c13000, RBX: 0x000000008febeba0, RCX: 0xffffff802e2ceed0, RDX: 0x0000000058469e02 RSP: 0xfffffd000004c720, RBP: 0xffffff9143c13b30, RSI: 0x0000000000000008, RDI: 0xffffff8010a0af68 R8: 0x00
The "Play/Pause" button in the lower left corner of the remote control for the Apple TV 4K has no effect. Previously it stopped and started videos playing in apps such as Netflix. Workaround: Clicking the physical button under the touch surface stops and starts the playing of videos. Is there a feature, some setting, that may be altering this button’s behavior?
I've fully wiped my SSD and installed a fresh copy of high sierra using internet recovery. I've made sure to not install all the apps I usually use. I still get a Kernal Panic every now and then and it's worrying.
When there are two Bluetooth devices in range (e.g. my car and the earphones in my backpack) it seems like my phone at random moments decides to abandon my car speakers and start playing through the earphone in my backpack. It seems very random. I would think that if I manually pick Bluetooth #1 the phone shouldn't just decide to go to Bluetooth #2. Does anyone have a solution to this? Tanks!
I own a MacBook Pro purchased in 2014 that was shipped with OS X Mavericks already installed; since then, I have never upgraded to newer releases of the system software because I didn’t like Apple’s growing policy of restricting their customers in the use of their computers, but now I find myself almost forced to give up my obstinacy and to finally upgrade to the most recent version of macOS. Before doing so, however, I’d like to set up a way to roll back to Mavericks should I ever want to. I read this answer to Rolling back to a previous version of OS X Mavericks, which suggests “to attach a USB HD and clone the [startup] drive”. But how can I do this? How do I clone the startup disk? Edit: Solutions that require the use of command-line tools are perfectly acceptable. I succeeded in cloning the disk with the dd command; but when I try to set the cloned disk as the startup disk, by means of the relevant pane in the System Preferences application, an error sheet appears, with the follow
I have a MacBook Pro Retina with OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10.5 with one physical drive 256GB. This drive had 3 partitions: 1 - Mac, 2 - Mac Recovery, 3 - Win 7 64 bit. Due to low disk space on the Win 7 drive, I booted to OS X and shrunk the Macintosh HD partition by 25 GB. Then I created a 4th partition of 25 GB, which I planed to merge with the Win 7 partition. After doing this, there was no option to boot to Win 7 anymore. After restarting the MacBook, I had only two boot options instead of three: MAC and MAC recovery. diskutil list: sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Using the default manpage paths (via /private/etc/man.conf), the openssl(1) and related pages (i.e. x509(1), req(1), ca(1), etc.) are missing. Has anyone discovered if these were placed in a different location or if left out altogether?
I thought the idea was that i could go into the Apple TV settings app and sign in with my TV provider, so that I would not need to sign into into apps individually. What i find is that even after an app asks for permission to access my TV subscription, I am still required to go to another device, navigate to a URL, and sign in with my TV provider password. Is this working right?
This is essentially a repost of a previous question I asked a while back, but a few things have changed and I never got a working answer, so I thought I should post again. My friend has been on iPhone for a while (in case you read the old question, after the Note 7 recall fiasco he went back to iPhone so the problem went away until now) and has now switched to a Note 8 running Android. He is currently able to text me fine, and it shows up in Messages as an SMS in the existing chat history we've had for ages (green bubbles now, not blue as before). My replies however, are never received by him. The do not fail to send, they are just never received. Here are some more facts: I am the only person he has this problem with, other users both on Android and iOS can receive and reply to his texts without incident.
I've just upgraded from Mavericks to ElCaptain (yes, I'll avoid entering in details why…). Either way, in mavericks the "Put Display to Sleep" hot corner would sleep the display immediately, however now it fades smoothly during about 2 to 3 seconds and this is really slow process.
The Apple TV shows a progress bar indicating how far along in a program I am. That bar shows the number of hours-minutes in total. Apple TV is also aware of the current time-of-day, given updates over its internet connection. Is there any way to have Apple TV estimate the time-of-day when I will complete the viewing of the current show?
Main problem:  When I run an app that monitors CPU temperature, it rises from 40° to 76° in 3 minutes. Even though the CPU usage is 12%, CPU package power draw maxes out at 31W. I checked the clock speeds and temperatures from iStat Menus. The CPU core power draw was only 7W at maximum and integrated GPU power draw was at 21W. My Question: How do I fix this?
I have noticed that HandOff between mac and iPhone doesn't work when connected to VPN. Steps to reproduce when using ExpressVPN: install ExpressVPN native client on mac, connect to local wifi, then to VPN server, take note of server install ExpressVPN native client on iPhone, connect to same wifi, then to same VPN server try HandOff of webpage from Safari in iPhone to Safari in mac -> doesn't work, Safari on mac displays message "opening webpage from HandOff" but page doesn't load (stays blank, no 404 or other error shown) disconnect from VPN in both mac and iPhone and retry same experiment -> Safari opens the page without problems
I have a Raspberry Pi running Openmediavault and I need to expand the main partition as I’m running out of space. I’ve got a 2013 i7 (64bit) MacBook and I’ve been trying to boot GParted from a usb stick but it keeps crashing. The GParted iso that I used is the AMD64 version (as the Mac is 64bit) - I get through most of the menus but it doesn’t launch the program. Has anyone got any advice for using GParted on a Mac? Is there another way to change the partition on the RPi SD?...I have other RPi’s running but I haven’t got a usb card reader. I do have the option of borrowing a PC laptop from work but I’m not sure if that has an SD reader.
I have subjected MBP mid 2015 w/ the following modification: internal SSD was replaced by Samsung SSD 960 EVO after death of apple's disk (w/ the help of adapter of course). And here's the description of my circumstances: apple's SSD died before the ability to upgrade my Sierra OS to High Sierra (S->HS), so my EFI ROM version remains as MBP114.0172.B09. But, as we know, mentioned S->HS upgrade updates EFI ROM firmware to MBP114.0177.B00, which gives MBP the ability to boot from NVMe SSD like my Samsung EVO 960.
I am opening a text file using Mac's TextEdit that has &eacute; in it. &eacute; is supposed to be showing up as é instead. Is there a way to make TextEdit read it as é?
I recently purchased an iPhone X, and along with it I also purchased a 29W USB-C Power Adapter and a USB-C—Lightning cable. This setup is supposed to enable Fast Charging of the iPhone X.
I just got a new MBP and I just tried using Migration Assistant. I didn't do this when I first turned the machine on as I (rightly) expected that it would be very lengthy.
I didn't know how to word this perfectly -- but I'm looking for a Mac app or software that freezes your camera to only display one frame. So for example: You're in a video call Press button (on app or software) Your video recording is replaced with that frame so only a static photo shows Press button again Camera continues as normal Is there anything like this?
Thanks. Any help is appreciated. I am not using time machine, and my OS is OSX El Capitan.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that's had problems for ages. My mom just get herself a new MacBook and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the old one. I had problems trying to install ubuntu, so I tried to just reinstall macOS High Sierra. I can barely reboot the thing without it gray screening, and it takes a few tries to get into recovery mode. When I try to boot from a USB with the bootable version of High Sierra on it, I again get a gray screen. I've tried booting from this drive from Recovery Mode, from Startup Disk mode, and from Startup Manager. I have no idea what to do because I can't even reinstall macOS. EDIT: By the way, resetting PRAM and SMC doesn't help.
I am interested in running windows 10 on my mac via apple's Boot Camp. I plan to follow the instructions laid out on this website: https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/how-to-install-windows-10-mac-boot-camp-assistant-partition-video/.
I tried to create a new partition and delete it in Disk Utility. But after I deleted the partition, I found that the space missing in Macintosh HD.  I run disktuil list and find that all the space goes to Recovery HD
My friend recently asked me to take a look at his 2013 MacBook Air 2013 (A1466) that he hasn't used in a few years. The laptop is dead and does not respond to a verified working charger, leading me to think its a battery issue. I opened it up, and there also seems to be a ton of corrosion and a burn mark on what ifixit identified as the thunderbolt controller.
My question is general but also has the agenda of finding a temporary workaround to prevent the mouse cursor from bringing up the hidden menu bar (Make the Menu Bar never show while in Full Screen) I would like to know if there's an app that prevents the mouse cursor from moving to certain areas of the screen (e.g. block a few rows of pixels from the top). You could press down a key to "release" the mouse from the gates. This could be useful when trying to focus on 1 application only, and wanting the mouse to "bang" on the corner of the window to easily interact with UI elements on the edge of a window instead of flying off to some other application. The gate/wall location for the mouse should be customization, as would be the method to release the cursor.
If the startup disk is copied in its entirety to an external drive, can that external drive then be used as a startup disk?
I google'd and found nothing useful. Also, if anyone from Microsoft reads this it'd be great if you didn't put these spaces in the file path.
I work in accounting and I am trying to select either the top right portion of my screen to display on another monitor. That way when I am working on my laptop, I can broadcast a portion of my screen so that the client can see what I am working on. Is it possible to display only a portion of my screen to a separate monitor? Is this a built in function of MacOS or are you aware of a 3rd party application that can do this? Thank you.
I bought an old iMac for $50 a week ago and have been trying to figure out since what's wrong with it. None of the diagnostic LEDs light up when the power is connected to the computer. I have tried two separate power supplies, both of which show the same issue: no pin, when measured relative to ground, shows any output voltage. I followed the voltage chart here, but no pin shows anything on either power supply.
I still can’t get my Apple Watch Series 3 out of power saving mode and I have held down the side buttons, and held down both buttons for at least 6 seconds. What do I do?
Currently I have an LG Ultra Fine 5K Display and a MacBook Pro with TouchBar. I have one cable connecting my laptop to the monitor that takes care of power, display and USB. I'm using the cable that came with the monitor. I'm looking for either a right angle connector or a cable with one right angled connector that does all of the above.
I have never heard of or installed this Numbo Call Blocker app, but my Update screen wants to update it anyway. It fails when it tries. I searched on the App store and did not find it. It looks suspicious to me. Is there a way I can delete it from the update list?
I have faced a problem where my Mac is not booting up and throwing messages like this continuously. I tried repairing the Hard Disk and re-installing OS, but that didn't fixed the issue. So before i erase the disk and re-install again, i have to backup my files. So i boot-ed up in Single user mode, but i wasn't able to mount the pen drive, as High Sierra prevents loading unsigned kernel extensions, in this instance msdos kext for mounting my FAT formatted pen drive. So i eventually fixed it with the help of online forums and i m putting it together so that it can be useful to others as well.
How do I restore my phone to factory settings, I choose a password & cannot remember what - rather than the numeric code, as well as my fingerprint being on there. Is it possible I can restore it without needing to plug in into iTunes please??
I received an iPod Touch and am trying to set it up. When I enter my Apple ID and password, it responds with: Verification Failed. There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server. I have reset the iPod and also restored it by connecting to iTunes via USB cable. Verified software up to date. Can't get it to work. Please help, I just want to get music on it so I can listen!
This is what I see when searching my iTunes profile for PDFs or EPUBs:
I've copy my osx from Macbook to a external usb disk, and then inserted it into the iMac, so that I can use the same system on both iMac and Macbook. Nearly everything works perfectly, except that Chrome and Safari user settings(extensions) do not sync. Each time changing the hardware resets all settings.
None of the answers to this question have even vaguely answered it but have gone off on tangents instead. It has nothing to do with the airline, whether it is accepted or not depends upon the airport, not the airline. But that is besides the point, the question is how do you physically add a boarding pass to Apple Wallet. American Airlines sends an email to you which contains a link to your boarding pass. American further advises you to add the pass, that appears after you have followed that link, to your Apple Wallet. The procedure should be to open Wallet, click on the + sign in the top right corner and then position the boarding pass within the box in Wallet until Wallet clicks and records the boarding pass. Unfortunately, nothing seems to happen. You never get to that "click" and the question is why? I agree with the person who posted this question earlier: it should be easy, so why isn't it?
I've been experimenting and have found no conclusive corner radius for the iPhone X. Some sources, such as iPhone X Screen Demystified - PaintCode, say its 40pts. Some say it's 44, like UI Design for iPhone X: Top Elements and the Notch - Max Rudberg. Using Xcode, I created a circle with a width and length of 80 (so radius 40), and put it in the top left corner of the iPhone X (so x and y are zero), there is a tiny white gap between the circle and the the edge of the screen, which you can see here:
iCloud Drive on my Mac (10.13.3) won't sync. My other devices perform perfectly, as does icloud.com. Any change made on one immediately propagates to the others.
Is it possible to hide FaceTime audio? It certainly was possible to hide or move the window in earlier macOS versions but with macOS High Sierra I can't select the window nor can I hide it with shortcuts.
Every time I start my computer a popup window shows up that says "If you want to open CS5ServiceManager you have to install the legacy Java SE 6 Runtime" Why does this show up, and how do I resolve the problem? I have Mac OS 10.11.4 https://www.java.com/en/
When My computer crashes while using Terminal, I see this kind of screen when I reopen Terminal, showing me what was previously on the Terminal screen. Where on my hard drive is that information (the one above the grey line which reads "Restored Jan 27, 2018 at 7:07:50 PM") stored for Terminal to show after the crash?
So last night when I finished using my MacBook and then I noticed the left speaker had some small ball of dust. So I thought of taking it out in the morning tomorrow. So then when I tried to take it out it instead it went inside I tried gently shaking the MacBook to make the small dust particle to come out through the speaker. But no luck/ Should I worry about my speaker getting damaged or dust flying into the logic board and making my MacBook slow. As dust is a poor conductor of electricity.
Reviewers say that the customer contact for this app does not respond, so my hope was that someone out there may know of a way to get at the data in this app. iExplorer was no help. Maybe there's another tool I can try? I have iTunes on Windows, if that helps narrow it down.
I recently got a 4K 60Hz monitor for my 13" MacBook Pro Late 2013. It supports both HDMI and DisplayPort, but since the included cable is a full-sized DisplayPort cable, I'm currently using HDMI. Back when the rMBP Late 2013 came out, an article wrote about how it could support 4K@60Hz, but only on Windows because of a driver issue. I was wondering if that issue has since been fixed, and if it is possible for me to run my monitor at 60Hz.
I had a working Apple SuperDrive until about half an hour ago. I was burning a school project to disc from Final Cut Pro X when it suddenly failed and returned an error. The disc showed up as Untitled Disc and Untitled Disc 2 on my desk. Not knowing what was going on, I deleted them both as the disc had automatically been ejected and then threw the disc away. Now it will not accept any discs on any computer I've tried (2 Mac Minis, Late 2014) Does anyone know the answer to this problem?
Specifically: Are there certain things I should do on my end (MacBook Pro 2017, High Sierra) so as to avoid crashing Photoshop Elements 2018? Not having a decent photo software on my MBP is driving me crazy and Gimp just doesn't do it for me (subscribing to Photoshop isn't worth it).
I have emojibubbleshooter notification on chrome every once in while. (*=URL=* I haven't installed new extensions for few months so I am not sure why I am getting this ad. I checked notification tab, and found the following :
After upgrading to MacOS Sierra, a new folder ~/Library/Application\ Support/Knowledge/ emerged, I'm not sure what it stores I already tried to google for it, but only got results for Application Support folder. Any ideas?
I have an external USB drive and want to encrypt it. I have seen many 'suggestions' on how to do that, but I do not see any option to encrypt the drive. I am using MacOS 10.13.2.
Too frequently my Mac connects to WiFi but can’t access the Internet on cafes (my iPhone works properly). It has been tormenting me for over a year and I tried everything I found on the web but still could not resolve it. So I finally want to reset the WiFi settings.
I have a MacBook Pro. When I'm not using it - at lunch time and overnight - I put the MBP to sleep. This in turns sends the external monitor to sleep. However, should I be turning the external monitor off? Will this save energy, money and the life span of the monitor - or the opposite? EDIT
I recently bought a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017 and an LG Ultra HD (27UD88) 27" display. Before buying the display I researched a bit and found no issues in relation to the MacBook Pro. However, after attaching the screen via the USB-C cable that came along with the display, I only have the option of a 30hz refresh rate.
In Security & Privacy / General / Allow Apps downloaded from:, how to dis-allow apps again after you have allowed? I am asking simply because I have installed some software that I would like to stop from having these privileges.
I need your help so much. I am new in Mac and I have trouble with terminal. When I open terminal just showing Last login information and in the last line [Process Complete]. The terminal cannot be write any thing. Please I need so much to resolve this problem.
So on my Mid-2010 13-inch MacBook Pro I decided to try installing Windows via Bootcamp with a USB stick by modifying it(yes I know I shouldn't do that). Apparently, after some research it said the MacBook is only compatible with a USB 2.0 stick, while I have a 3.0 stick.
I have a plist installed on my system with the following in it: man launchd.plist tells me:
If I sign into someone else's icloud from a device that they have never signed into it from, will they get a notification or a email?
Is it possible to utilize Automator/Applescript or similiar on my 2012 MacBook Pro Laptop running 10.13.3 (High Sierra) to automatically pair with my iPhone 5s when I plug it in to my computer. Thereby removing the request to tap in my lockcode on the phone sceen to have my computer recognise my phone?
have an iMac late 2012, its got OS X 10.9.5, however have bought the new iphone X, which needs itunes 12.7.3 to talk to the iMac, but 12.7.3 won't upgrade unless OS X is 10.10.5 So, when I try to upgrade to 10.10.5, its not happening Any suggestions how to tackle this matter? Thank you
I need help regarding my admin account, I can't access to unlock the device anymore. It started when I edited the account name of it, then after that whenever I unlock it the username account lock icon on the bottom left it is blank and as I key-in the current password it wont work and it became a standard user. I have no admin user anymore.
After some time, Mail.,app stops polling from iCloud, while still polling from other imap servers. It seems to hang while moving some messages on the iCloud account.
What is the partial red in dot top left of screen? I started seeing this the other day. At first I thought there was something broken now I think it has something to do with notifications. Anyone know the logic behind this?
I have a problem.The provisioning profile account for the developer apple account appears invalid. How can I change this to valid. At the same time, users are using this application. Users should not be affected from this situation. How can I fix it? Help me Thanks
I am trying to set up my printer HP ENVY 4520 to my computer and I am using a USB cord. I have tried everything and I don't know where to go from here. Is it possible for you to go step by step on how to hook up my printer to my computer? I am not that familiar with computers but my friend owns a computer business and he is even stumped. Is there an easy way to set it up. PLEASE HELP!!!
Let's say I'm working in application A and copy some sensitive data to clipboard. Can application B which is opened at the moment catch the information I've copied? Does OS X protect from such vulnerabilities?
I need to use the Gill Sans Light font, but Preview can only see the standard Gill Sans. Is there anyway at all to force the Preview app to see more options for this particular font? Thanks for any help I can get.
Sometimes when I try to save photos received in iMessage, the following error or something similar appears. The error changes even between attempts on the same pictures.
I have a keynote template and the links come up in a teal blue color. However, the default on some templates is black, so I know that this can be changed. How do I change it?
I want to run the cvlc command using the terminal. Usually I would access /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Why are there some processes listed in Activity Monitor for applications that I've recently quit? They are displayed in light grey characters under the Energy tab, and the only column with data is the Avg Energy Impact column:
According to this site my Macbook should be able to support OpenGL 4.1. However, when I try running an ubuntu guest with 3D acceleration on the Macbook it crashes with a black screen. From what I have been able to research Ubuntu requires OpenGL 3+ for 3D acceleration. I know that my Macbook is runnning 2.1 thanks to this command... How do I have it actually run the 4.1 promised in the docs? See this link for more info
I occasionally find that emails become confused and an email belonging to one person can appear in the thread of another person. How do I fix this?
At this point I'm faced with a challenge. The open file doesn't have the changes from the other computer, which is normal - I haven't re-opened it from disk. However, there is no longer any way to close the file without saving the current contents! I can either close and revert (which replaces the file on disk with the last saved version on that computer) or I can close and save (which replaces the file on disk with the current version on that computer). Either way, I lose the changes I made on the other computer. The best workaround I've come up with is to force quit the application (which is risky), or to duplicate the open file in Finder, close the open file (choosing revert or save - it doesn't matter), delete the just-closed file and open the duplicated file instead. Pretty convoluted right? It gets worse when I'm sharing my Box folder with a second person - in that case I need to be mighty sure to close the file after every editing session, or risk overwriting the other person's 
I'm having troubles with replacing the trackpad on my MBPr 13" Late 2013. I've tried two replacement parts. With the first part only click works, but nothing else (I cannot move the mouse pointer at all), and with the second part nothing works at all. I tried the original cable and replacement cables but the results are the same (old trackpad works with the new cables / new trackpads do not work with the old cable...). So I'm kind of baffled because I could not find anybody having troubles doing this. One of the quirks of my makbook may be that it has a Russian keyboard. I've tried resetting SMC and NVRAM to no avail.
Hi I have an old MBP which I`d like to sell. It is Filevault encrypted and has a HDD. I am very worried about data security. Would it be sufficient to just reinstall Sierra (the newest version possible on my MBP) via diskutil on bootup without typing in the passwort or would i somehow otherwise need to securely erase the HDD?
The phone ringer or text ringer won’t work. I can only hear the other person on the phone if I use the speaker phone. My side switch to turn ringer off and on now says headphones off and on. Do not disturb is not on
I have a Time Machine and two Macs. I want both computers to be the same, not back them up separately. Is it possible to use one as a primary (always backing up from one) and then "downloading" the latest changes onto another?
I'm running macOS High Sierra on an Early 2015 MacBook Air. As I'm a student, I'm looking to run ArcGIS on my computer without paying a fortune for licenses and and virtual machines.
One (of the many) things which has always annoyed me about Microsoft Word 2016 (and indeed, pretty much all others apps in the Microsoft Office suite) is its inability to keep the background CPU usage to zero. When using Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the CPU usage of each of the apps decreases to zero after you switch to another app. However, the apps in the Microsoft suite seem to use around half a percent of CPU on my laptop (which sometimes even spikes).
However, why does the system then allow me to add custom access rules to this volume? Do these rules do anything on a volume with "Ignore ownership on this volume" enabled?
I have a Mac Mini(late 2012) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 16GB DDR3 macOS High Sierra and a Mac Book Air (2015) 8GB Ram 1.5 GHZ Intel Core i5 macOS Sierra. I connect to the internet on my Mac Mini via wifi.
My wife and two sons have MacBooks and my propose is to make a backup of their computers, but I just have one external hard drive.
Considering the speed and versatility of Thunderbolt, it can be very useful to boot from a thunderbolt device on a Mac. Would it be possible to use a disk image on one Mac to create a virtual bootable drive? On top of that, how can you connect one Mac over Thunderbolt to the other, and actually boot from the disk image stored on the other Mac?
No idea what's going on here, but sometime within the last week or so Skype on my iPhone SE has stopped making any text-related sounds. Phone calls are fine including ringing and speaking/listening, but notifications will not make a sound. iOS notifications for Skype are enabled, Notifications within Skype itself are enabled, and I am in "online" mode (not Do Not Disturb). I have rebooted my phone, quit & relaunched Skype, etc. Still no joy.
I don't know why this PCs are showing up in the shared computer and when clicked on anyone of the them it's showing that I am connected to this PC as a guest. I never tried to connect to this PC then how did the connection happen so my question is how can I remove this PCs and terminate the connection I have tried the solutions mentioned here Mystery computer appearing in the Finder's source list but nothing seems to work!
After applying the 10.13.3 update, I am not able to open itune and xcode.  In lanuchpad I don't see any update is being applied to these applications
I'm using google calendars with 2 different calendars on my account. I added the calendars to Apple Calendar via the Internet Accounts options. All events turn up as expected in Apple Calendar but I cannot find an edit button to change an event. What am I missing?
I've been trying to create some persistent USB Linux thumb drives loaded with Elementary OS and a few other Linux distros, but have had no such luck. I don't really like the idea of partitioning my Mac and installing other OS directly on it, as I like to keep my Mac drive purely macOS, but since I'm having no luck with the persistent thumb drives, I'm considering partitioning my Mac drive and installing the distros on their own partitions. This idea doesn't entirely bother me, but I've been reading of other user who have had issues deleting the partitions after they have been made. I don't want to be stuck with a Linux partition on my comp if I don't care to keep using it. Can anyone here verify if they can delete a Mac partition? My setup is a 2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina running macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra). Thanks.
Trying to activate iMessage and FaceTime on my MBP (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015; macOS 10.13.3) keeps returning "An error occurred during activation. Try again."
I am trying to install gnu-tar based on a tutorial guide I am following. However, I am facing some issues having the installing using the following command brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names) The laptop I have to install it on belongs to the company and I am not given root access to perform sudo commands (however, I am granted administrative rights or it). Is there an alternative way to install gnu-tar without brew or anything that requires sudo?
I have a PNY 128gb flash drive that I can no longer modify (can't delete files). I've tried to reformat it using Disk Utility but I get the following message and my usb is unmounted:
It appears that my display settings have changed all of a sudden. Black colors are not as dark as they used to be, blacks look kind of grey now, and whole display looks yellowish. I haven't changed any settings. My settings: Display profile: COLOR LCD Night shift - color temperature: in the middle I'm using macbook pro 13 ntb with high sierra.
With the new Macbook, I have to use a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Here, I use one of the brand "LPG" and one from Apple. The Problem persists with both adapter as well as with either one of them alone. [/edit] Obviously, this is not a problem with a specific system configuration, version, or hardware, but rather seems to be a problem of the OS itself. Description:
I've got a situation where if I push an update to an instance on the web, it will take 3-5 minutes to compile, then when that compiling has successfully finished, the instance will shoot Error 502 for a couple of minutes before it will start running again. I'm looking for a solution where, the instance (a server URL) will be queried every 5 seconds or so, and when it stops replying 502, Safari will boot up.
The "marker" markup tool in iOS 11 photo editor is translucent. Is it possible to make it opaque?
I have a Mac at work running High Sierra. I want to access this Mac remotely without the desktop being visible on the console. In Sierra, I could log into a second account on the console before leaving work, lock that screen, and then access the first account remotely without the screen unlocking. In High Sierra, on the other hand, the console switches users to the first account and unlocks the screen.
I have iPhone with a SIM card and a phone number. I would like to activate iMessages, but only for my Apple ID's e-mail address, and not phone numbebr. Is it possible to do this?
I have a user who is having difficulty opening Safari on one particular client machine. They have tested it on all other client machines in the same office and it works without issue, but this one machine will not have it. It stopped working half way through the day without any changes taking place. I initially thought this might be because all user homes are located on a network server running in Server.app, but I haven't seen any documentation suggesting that this may be the case. Steps taken so far: Deleting the saved state and caches. Clearing history, lastsession, metadata cache and cookies. Restorying the ~/Library/Safari directory from time machine. Restorying the entire ~/Library directory from time machine.
I have used "Contacts" for years. But now when I try to add cards, they disappear as I am filling them out. Using OS 10.13.2 on Macbook Pro.
I recently got a MacBook, and I've added a few Google accounts to the Calendar app. Ever since I did, I've been getting alerts about the event after it's already passed or in progress. It seems as though Calendar.app is adding alerts to the event on its own; this didn't happen before I added my Google account to the macOS calendar.
I know how to take full-length screenshots of a given page, but what about video? Audio recording not necessary, but would be interested to know of any tactics or well-hidden browser extension recos for capturing a full page in all its animated glory.
I want to sort files by the URL I downloaded them from. Is there an Automator action I am missing? Or do I have to use Apple Script for that?
I noticed the Screen Sharing icon when logging in despite it being disabled on my computer. After logging in, it didn't appear in the menu bar.
I have decided I don't want to deal with the bugs of linux and would like to go back to OS X. Sadly no matter what I do I cannot seem to get OS X to read the file system that linux uses. I tried formatting it but could not get it to work. After loads of googling I ave up and decided I would ask here. Any ideas?
Both in chrome and safari under macos layout of sites is often broken when browser is collapsed to half screen. This affects top sites too - facebook, google, apple store. However, it does not affect wikipedia or yandex.
I've tried the basics - restarting the Apple TV, primarily - but that doesn't seem to help at all. I also re-created the WiFi network.
I connected the external display (ASUS 27" 1080p monitor) via an HDMI to Thunderbolt3 adapter (as I do everyday without any issue) to the Thunderbolt3 port of my 2016 15" MacBook Pro with High Sierra 10.13.2. Tonight, upon connection, something appeared written on a black screen (so fast I could not decipher it) and then the machine restarted. Upon reboot (all the applications automatically reopened without any issue) and an error appeared: as follows:
I have free data from midnight until 6AM and want backups to be done during this time to iCloud.
I would like to change the current behaviour of my high sierra OS. Below is the process of what happen: Open Mail on Workspace 1 Open Safari then open it in full screen mode (you have two workspaces now: Workspace 1 and Safari full screen mode, ctrl+cmd+f) Go back to Workspace 1 The focus is still on Safari and not Mail.
My small company is building an iPad app for a fixed installation in a small, non-profit museum. This app isn't intended for the general public, and we do not want it listed in the app store (or need to be subject to app store validation requirements); however, we do need to be able to keep it running in the museum for at least 5 years, and being able to remotely update it would be a huge plus.
It boots into the Mac OS absolutely fine. It's just the windows installation that is currently inaccessible. Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks.
However, when I receive invitations to my Office 365 account they appear in OS X Calendar "incoming invitations" menu bar item. They also show up as grey tentative bookings in the calendar.
I am currently using terminal to early and quickly add APFS volumes to my Mac's APFS container. Once I make an empty APFS volume in the container, how can I copy a disk image to it and make it bootable? I have tried using dd, but there have been various issues that seem to keep this from working. Thanks!
I know that on macOS you can access the last run Apple Diagnostics test in System Information, as seen in the image below.  You can also access reference codes in the Terminal using system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | grep "Reference Code".
How can I take a screenshot of the entirety of a web browser (or just the HTML page) which includes the select input? I can get the following images with Apple shift 4 and clicking space:
Does the Apple HomePod speaker system support additional functionality through third-party apps? For example, will I be able to stream services such as SomaFM through a HomePod unit?
Getting tired of that, I wanted to have some operating system, so I created a bootable Windows 10 installation media with Rufus. It installed perfectly, and Windows worked fine after I installed the BootCamp support drivers, besides no bluetooth or multitouch trackpad support.
I want to delete my existing iCloud email address and replace it with a new one. My Apple ID is a hotmail address which I do not want to change. I have been getting too much rubbish on my iCloud email, so I just want to delete it and replace with a new one.
I accidentally deleted files and folders from the new 'Files' app on my iPhone and that action ended up deleting those files and folders from my Macbook (it's like syncing to the Desktop). My iCloud account is full and now I can't find any way to recover these files. I have no external backup for these items either. Could there be a way to get these files back onto my Macbook?
Has Apple made any announcements that they will patch Krack on iOS 10-only devices? Has Apple made any announcements that they will not patch Krack on iOS 10-only devices?
I bought a new modem from Arris and tried connecting to that and the touchbar bug disappears. I would like to keep using my old SURFBoard gateway but it seems like I am forced to use a new modem. Any ideas?
Once I switch to Mac and then try to switch back to iPhone, it does not automatically connect. I have to turn off Bluetooth and reset. This is very annoying.
Because of the selection I see a different context menu and it's really annoying. How to change this behaviour? It's the same for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
I have created a new app in iTunes Connect and filled in the basic details such as description, screen shot, etc. After I created the app I can see the ‘View in App Store’ link but not ‘App Transfer’ link. When is the app transfer link enabled?
Recently I bought a used iPhone 6S. Whenever I signed in with my apple id, the phone start to send SMS to an unknown number. I don't know if it sends SMS or ..., but I can see that it uses my credit balance.
Because of some unknown problems, I have hundreds of empty contacts group,I want to delete them all. I try it on Mac and iCloud,they can just delete one group a time. I haven’t found any good apps to do it in App Store,if you know one,please tell me.
I am not familiar with the iPad but my MacBook died and I can't afford a new one. How can I install software that is not from the Apple Store on my iPad? I have the software .ipa file, but how do I install it?
Assume my Mac Mini (Sierra/High Sierra, doesn't matter) has two defined users: user1 and user2. The machine has two IPs assigned via Ethernet: Is it possible restricting user1 to 192.168.1.24 and user2 to 192.168.1.25? i.e, when user1 performs any network actions on the machine, the source IP would be 192.168.1.24. Both users can be logged in to the machine at the same time via SSH. UPDATE So it's possible to perform source IP NAT translation by adding the following rule to pfctl But nat-rules do not support filtering (by specific user) - in contrary to block/pass rules, so I need to keep digging
There seems to be a lot of confusion, conflicting information and assumptions about this matter, so I'd like to clarify that this question is specifically about the 2009 model of MacBook Air. I am aware that most Macs boot from USB just fine. Internet Recovery was introduced to the Air range in 2010, IIRC.
Update 3/5/18 I know this is getting to the point of being closed, but I have one more interesting report. I ended up frying my MBP 13”’s SSD when I spilled water on the keyboard and had it’s puffed up batteries replacing on Apple’s dime, and it basically got a free moboard, screen (there was a recall) and with the SSD which was under warranty, it’s basically a new computer. I did a TM restore onto the new, blank SSD (which restores the machine to the same state as the last backup, warts and all) and it’s super fast with the kernel process and window_manager running at quiet levels, so I am pretty sure the problem was hardware all along. This means my mini may be suffering from some sort of hardware sadness, but maybe not. I’m going to rebuild it and see. It’s never been since I bought it 5 years ago (always did “upgrade”) so it’s probably due!
I recently upgraded to High Sierra on my Macbook Air. I installed the latest upgrade of Python: 2.7.14 from python.org. There is documentation and a Read Me file for 2.7.14 in the Applications folder. The Read Me file for the user-installed python states:
Basically I with my team are figuring out a way to block screenshots taken on our corporation's computers (Mac mostly). I have searched it extensively and found that there is something called Screen buffer which is being accessed by any screenshot taking software (eg. Snipping Tool etc). I tried to find the exact mechanism and the actual implementation of such softwares but with no luck. Also I found out that Netflix uses some kind of technology which corrupts screenshot image and blackens it. I did not find any actual mechanism or implementation to study it further. I also came across something called Hardware overlays but did not understand it properly in order to use it for actual implementation. I have considered a way to edit scancode maps in registry but I am looking for a more general way. I read a few articles for apple's FPS though. Can somebody please guide me through this? Some good resources for the same would be highly appreciated. Any particular or relevant forums or subs
The Situation: MacBook (Pro or Air, no difference) can't makes first copy to Time Capsule disk if: Power Nap is switched on. Power cord is plugged on. Disk on Mac is SSD. I start copy via Time Machine, it starts normally. I close the lid, wait 10 minutes, open the lid and see that copy process fails. If lid is open, copy process run normally.
I am trying to debug an application so I will need to share my pc connection to an iPhone. I would like to do that via an USB. PC (Windows) Internet -> USB -> Iphone Iphone will use my pc's internet connection. Managed to get it working for android but not for iphone
How to get the list of folders in the sidebar using AppleScript? It is okay to get the list of all items too since I will be able to search for them
For the last few days there has been a huge lag in my emails showing up to my iPhone. If I look on the computer the emails are in my inbox and it says 11am however they don’t show up on my iPhone mail app until 6pm.
As the title said, my Desktop and Documents folder doesn't appear in finder when i'm in the path /users/[username] But however : How is that possible ?
MacOS 10.12.6 I have port forwarding in my Airport correctly configured to forward connections on port 22 of my public IP address to port 22 of my statically-assigned 10.0.1.200 MacOS. I've set the Mac's System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Login to accept connections from both myself and "Pete". Pete is remote, and is using public key authentication and can successfully ssh to my Mac. I also have public key authentication set up, but am unable to ssh in. When I look at /var/log/system.log on the Mac, I see:
I am trying to set up an xdebug inside a docker such as it communicates with PhpStorm. I have found steps for linux which sounds promising. However, the following command fails to run on macOS (sudo: ip: command not found). I failed to translate the following Linux command to a macOS command. How to run it on macOS?
I have a late 2012 mac mini whose hardrive was causing me lot of issues. I decided to move onto Linux and I have formatted the complete hard drive and installed Linux on it. I would like to get back to OSX and I have decided to upgrade my harddrive to an SSD.
I have a kernal_task that is routinely consuming over 400% CPU, leaving me 0% - 8% of my computer's power for doing things like typing. How do I find out what it's doing? And how do I kill it / restrain it if I'm not impressed with what it's doing? Yes, I have root access
This keeps happening on a Macbook Pro running High Sierra. Upon a new terminal window, the cursor will go to the bottom of the screen as expected as you press enter. However, it often will stop half way as shown below. This seems to happen when I SSH in and out. Any idea how to fix this?
I bought a 2.4GHz mid 2010 MacBook Pro logicboard on eBay. Upon installing RAM, the computer beeps every five seconds indicating it doesn't detect RAM. I used standard 8500s 1066MHZ RAM with 8 modules on each side of the chip (2Rx4?). The seller claims the board will only work with RAM that has 4 modules on each side of the chip (1Rx4?). I guess the terminology here would be 1Rx4? The RAM is good because both chips worked in an A1342 MacBook.
I have recently upgraded to an iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2017) that has High Sierra (OS version 10.13.3) installed. I have an Asus monitor that I used with my old iMac and had no issues. Ever since the upgrade (usually not more than once a day), the second display will suddenly turn blue:
Is it safe to store password from macOS account inside of any keychain? I think that if someone can access my keychain, then this someone can access anything on my macOS. Therefore it's safe to store account password there.
I use the application Desk Cover which creates an effect of the desktop being in the background when there are windows open in front of it. However, I am wondering if it is possible to hide the application from both the dock and app switcher while still keeping the menu bar icon (where all of the main settings are located) visible. I know about the LSUIElement trick, however, to the best of my knowledge that will also hide the menu bar icon. Is there any way around this? Thanks!
I'm ultimately looking to create a service that will allow me to count all selected non-whitespace characters. To get there though, I'm looking for a way to remove all whitespace characters from a string in a service that I can then use for other such purposes. For example, I mainly want to use it to get quick DNA coordinates while looking at output in Terminal.app, but I can think of other uses, like counting code characters. I have found applescripts to remove spaces, but nothing I've found appears to account for tabs, newline characters, carriage returns, or any other strange or weird character that doesn't display. Note: I don't want to create a file or use or change the clipboard. Side-question: Is there a way to display the result (briefly) in a bezel, like the way you can display phone numbers from the Contacts app?
I have some really weird auto-correction issues in Office for Mac (not sure if this also happens in other apps, as I am primarily using Office for texts). The auto-correction changes of the to oft he and for that to fort hat. There are also other examples, but those are most common and irritating. The system-wide auto-correction is disabled (in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text):
i installed two brand new 4gb OWC ram cards (total 8 gb) on my 2010 macbook pro 13" and the computer beeps once every three seconds while the screen remains black. it will not boot. i replaced ram chips with the 4 GB that comes with it originally and the computer still beeps once every three second until i do a forced shutdown. it was working with the 4GB chips. what's the problem? can somebody tell me how to fix this?
I've got a few addresses that I can be reached at, one phone number and two email addresses. I know which address new conversations are started from, but how can I tell which of my phone number/emails a current conversation is being sent to? I want to change my number in iMessage but I don't want to have to message everyone to update them just in case they're sending messages to my phone number instead of my email address on iMessage.
My end goal is to be able to check for, and close duplicate tabs in Xcode, a question for which I had enquired about previously. So far I’ve been able to do this via an Automator service for Xcode. But now I would like for it to run in the background while Xcode is running, and detect when a new tab/window is opened for a file. Is there any way for my service to run in such a way, and execute the Applescript accordingly?
It's well-documented that creating an install drive erases the target medium, but what about later, during the install process ? i.e. can I create a bootable flash installer, and then add files to it, knowing that a later use of the flash for an installation will not erase those files ?
I'm running an MacBook Pro Retina (Mid 2014) with macOS High Sierra (10.13.3). Coincidentally, I found the key combination Control ⌃+Option ⌥+Shift ⇧+Power button that immediately turns the MacBook off. As soon as I press the buttons, the screen is black and the computer is off. It's like a kill switch.
I've got an interesting problem happening. From iMac -> MacBookPro BTMM works fine. From MacBookPro -> iMac .... not so much. Sometimes I can't even get past the connection piece. It just does that shaky thing that it likes to do when it doesn't accept a password. When / If I do I get an error message that says the viewer and server are incompatible.
I've had this external hard drive for about a month now. It's a WD Elements 1TB HDD, and it's served me quite nicely. It currently has a Fedora install that I've been booting to on my MacBook Air. However, this morning I plugged it in to boot up Linux and it wasn't an option. Confused, I booted macOS to troubleshoot. The disk was not visible in Disk Utility, which further puzzled me, but it is visible under USB Devices in System Information. Things I've tried:
Apple has started the phasing out of 32-bit applications on MacOS. How is this going to impact virtual machines, be it Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox, or Apple own hypervisor? Will it still be possible to run 32-bit OS inside virtual machines?
I'm trying to see the specific cells that were changed in Google Sheets on the iOS app, from my research it says you have to use the desktop version to use this function. Does anyone know of a work around?
Listing local snapshots yields this and i try to delete a local snapshot but running this but listing the local snapshots again showed that the snapshot has not been removed Just for fun i wrote a little bash script to delete them all (which also avoids any typos). Strangely enough, i can repetitively run that command above and it will always show the same output:
I installed quick look plugin StringsFile.qlgenerator and I moved it the the following path /Library/QuickLook as illustrated in *=URL=* Yet, it is not working. The files that I am trying to use show are txt files .bib. Any idea how to fix that. Thanks
I have held the side button, I have held both buttons down. Each for 6 seconds or even to a minute nothing is working. Please help!
When editing text in selection using Applescript in an Automator service, is it possible to keep the original indentation whilst adding tabbed spaces in front of it?  The following snippet demonstrates expected results and current output using the aforementioned workflow and script: Sample Input Expected Result Current Output
I have an Apple ID which ends with @icloud.com and I want to change it to another @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com. I've found a page which describes how to do that but it seems it doesn't work for me. I turned off two-factor authentication and removed all my devices. But there is no the following option: Under your Apple ID, click Change Apple ID. Could you help me?
Subsequently, the alert on the iPhone counts down to the meeting time, but the notification on macOS says things like "Meeting notice ..... 14m ago". If I get another alert (second alert say ten minutes before) this overwrites the notification in the notifications panel and the time is reset to "now". Is this a bug?
Can I temporarily prevent a webpage from capturing any mouse and keyboard events in Safari? I should be able to click anywhere, scroll, press any key, etc. but nothing happens. How can I do this?
I don't know how I got my computer like this, but somehow pressing either shift button causes Expose to open. What might be the cause of this and how can I fix it?
I'd like to run the latest public beta of High Sierra (10.13.4 Beta 1) in a VMWare Fusion VM. I already have a Fusion VM running High Sierra 10.13.3, but trying to upgrade it to 10.13.4 with the App Store gets stuck just showing a black screen with the Apple logo after downloading and initiating the upgrade process (see Screenshot).
Ever since I upgraded to macOS High Sierra, I’ve had a black rectangle on my screen:  My cursor started out inside it, and when I try to move my cursor outside of it, it follows my cursor:
I surf in the internet with Safari. When I download a file, it is automatically saved into the default directory "Downloads". I usually download pdfs from *=URL=* and *=URL=* and I would like to automatically save those pdfs in a different directory, say "Papers", without using "Save as" and then choosing the directory.
I've recently upgraded my MBP (early 2015) from mac OS 10.10 to 10.12 and I now noticed, that when the MBP is connected to a data projector, the displays will dim/turn off after a certain timeout. I haven't noticed that before. I'm sure the projector is correctly identified as such because the MBP will switch to Do-not-Disturb mode. I already tried connection via HDMI as well as VGA (via miniDP-adapter).
I have just updated my MacBook Air to High Sierra but weirdly I cannot adjust the brightness with the keys on the keyboard. Anybody have an idea why this is happening and how to fix?
Not sure if this question has been asked before, so apologies if it has: I have some photos on my MacBook Air, which I want to transfer onto my Android smartphone, which is a Lenovo. I'm not sure how to do that and have not been able to find much info online. Please let me know. Thanks
I installed High Sierra via the app store, the regular way. In the process the fusion drive of my mac mini was converted to apfs. I am still on 10.13.1, and wondered, why available upgrades did not show up, so I downloaded macOSUpd10.13.2Supplemental.dmg macOSUpd10.13.3.dmg
Changing the brightness of the Dell monitors through their physical menu button on each of the two each time I change my iMac display brightness is extremely tedious and annoying. It involves several steps to reach the brightness adjustment interface.
So I am running some Python scripts that print out data tab-delimited (i.e. adding the \t character during the print command). I am trying to copy that tab-delimited data from the Terminal into Excel Mac, hoping Excel would recognize the tab-delimination and put the items into separate cells This does not work; however, if I copy the text into an editor such as Atom or Emacs first, and then into Excel, it recognizes the tabs as delimiters. Why does it work with the additional step? Do the text editors change the nature of the tabs, and how can I emulate this behavior within the Terminal? Result: Copy from Terminal into Excel:
Selecting text with trackpad or mouse has become super annoying experience - my Mac thinks he knows better than me what I want to select and will extend/shrink the selection to fit some hidden rules. Sometimes I can not select the specific subset of a word no matter what, the last resort is to hold shift and use arrow keys. Is there a remedy to this madness?
I click remove all cookies with the Manage Website Data... tab in Safari>Preferences>Privacy After the website data refreshes all the same cookies are reloaded. data types are mainly databases Why do they keep appearing?
I have an iPhone 6 I want to sell. I just reset all the settings and removed all the data using the iPhone 6 option in the general settings. The phone now says "Hello" as a new phone would. I don't have a SIM card and cannot logon to the phone to confirm that all is adequately deleted. Was the procedure I performed sufficient to adequately remove all of the data, such that another user would not reasonably be able to retrieve the data?
I have just wiped my iMac, and something must have gone wrong in the process as i cant change the boot drive by holding down option key and when i go to install reinstall macOS through macOS utilities when i select the 500GB hard drive the main one it just says "Disk is locked". Can anyone help me with this issue?
I have been observing strange behavior with two dictionary apps from a French / Belgian developer. I can launch both of them multiple times -- i.e., multiple instances of the app will appear in the dock (and Activity Monitor) -- but this is true only for these apps. I'm running Mac OS 10.13.3 on a MBP mid-2015. I've reported this to the developer, but they can't reproduce the problem -- and state that no one else has reported this. If I create a test account, the problem still occurs. I've tried completely deleting and reinstalling these apps, to no avail. However, it turns out that I'm unable to launch more than one instance of these apps on a 2010 MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.11, and I don't know whether it's because of the hardware or the software. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot, if not how to resolve this problem?
My server app (OS X Sierra) will not take the admin password despite confirming that the password is correct when doing other administrative tasks. I have read that the Server App can 'just die' after the first install and I also read that you can enter sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist in Terminal to load it, but that file is no longer located there (It moved in version 4) I can't administer the server (I need to set up multiple share points) because it won't allow me in. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.
Since then, it occurred to me, the drive in question is 3TB, and I am about to replace it with a 8TB drive. If I were to clone, instead of copy, the 3 onto the 8, would the aliases on my boot drive find the correct target, the 8TB drive? (Yes, the old 3TB would be removed, so there won't be that conflict)
My mac acts weird sometimes when I connect it to two of my 1080p screens. The computer will become extremely lagging to the point where it becomes unusable. Things will recover once I unplug either one screen or both screens. (My MBP's screen is closed, power plugged in.)
I cannot save Contacts in High Sierra. I have tried following instructions for deleting the .plist in the User Library, but there is no "Show Library" option within the Finder's View>Show View Options.
Below is the output from diskutil list. This output is from after terminating the Boot Camp Assistant and restarting my Mac.
Is there an iOS app that uses something like Apple's Vision Framework, Google's Vision API, or similar for detecting what objects are in a camera picture (e.g. a table, a bottle) and then uses Augmented Reality to superimpose corresponding labels in a chosen language (say, Chinese). I imagine something like this could be useful for learning words in a foreign language for objects that one normally encounters in daily life.
OSX Sierra For a while I've been starting my computer and noticing that the bluetooth is turned on. I disabled/deleted the bluetooth service in network system preferences. Now upon starting up the computer, Im getting the message "A new network has been detected"... because theres no bluetooth service setup. Ive already tried reseting the module and deleting all devices from the shift+optionbluetooth icon.
Then again, I cannot move any of them, nor delete them. It just won't allow me to. Am I stuck with all those mess, like an advertisement that I cannot dismiss? I just want my space, inside that Applications folder of mine, or at least I thought it was mine...
I've noticed that the first time I launch apps under iOS 11 -- or on second/third/etc launch when I haven't used them for a while -- there's a considerable delay of 3-4 seconds when an app is displaying its startup screen (sometimes nothing is displayed). I've tried everything short of setting up my iPhone 6s as a new phone: I've reset all settings, I've restored, I've performed a DFU restore.
I need to compare GPS signal level across two iOS devices moving in the same conditions, to check whether one of them has a weaker GPS reciever than the other. Is there an iOS built-in feature or a third-party app that can help to continuously log GPS signal strength over time? All the third-party apps I've seen are either GPS coordinates-only tracking, or report only current GPS signal level.
Is there a way to speed up the animation time for switching between spaces? (Or maybe turning them off?). Preferably without buying a third party app. Maybe there's an option defaults. I'm on Sierra 10.12.6. Thanks
Building a new High Sierra system. An image from a scanner using the image capture app can be opened in Preview, can be seen via terminal, but does not show up in Finder for a long time (> 1 minute). The file has same permissions as others. This happens in home, download, desktop directories (at least). Even using Save As or Move To from preview doesn't result in it showing up right away. Also a delay in downloads from e.g. gmail.
Can I split network requests over multiple "interfaces" and trick the router into thinking I'm more than one device? E.g. in public places where routers limit bandwidth per device can I increase downloads speeds by pretending to be more than one device? I have a Macbook pro 2015.
Finder and Safari seem to have this weird problem. A pop up will appear asking “Finder was unexpectedly quit. Do you want to reopen your windows?” This window will freeze (spinning wheel, not able to click, touch bar also doesn’t work) and reopen no matter what. This is the same for Safari, except Safari will stop when force quit. I have tried force quitting Finder, restarting, updating, killing the process in the Terminal, clearing the saved state in the Terminal, and force quitting in the Application Monitor. I am on High Sierra, and will get version number soon.
How can I get my Safari bookmarks automatically sorted alphanumerically within Bookmarks manager? I want to accomplish this without installing a bookmark management tool, nor by going through the process described at this link 1.
I've given up on trying to make my once working Apple TV Home Hub respond again. So I logged the apple tv out of the appropriate iCloud account and decided I would make my iPad the HomeKit hub. Much to my chagrin, there does not seem to be a "Make iPod Home hub" option showing up under the iPad/Settings->Home (where all the instructions tell me to go an enable the iPad as the hub) Per instructions, two-factor authentication, keychain, and Home are all enabled under the iPad/Settings//iCloud settings.
So I'm saving articles locally on my hard drive to store permanently - basically backing up all of my bookmarks stored in Safari to my external drive for safekeeping. All I'm doing is visiting the webpage and going to File>Save As I have some folders with over 100 links... is there a way to do it all at once? maybe via Automator? Any help is appreciated thanks!
I have not yet had an update since the spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities came out... This leads me to believe they have not patched spectre/meltdown on anything below High Sierra... I have hardware that does not support drivers past 10.10, therefore I cannot upgrade without paying $1000 in musical equipment; plus, everytime I upgrade, my computer slows down significantly and I don't want to deal with the hassle.
*=URL=* says it does not support the newest version of macOS any more. What's a good replacement?
I keep worrying that I'll accidentally lose or edit my Keynote presentations. Is there a way to automatically back them up somewhere? I tried using Hazel to copy all the files from my iCloud folder to my computer, but only the ones that were downloaded were copied.
I'm on a mid-2012 MBP and I've started having this issue since upgrading to High Sierra. Sometimes it'll pause the media and start back on its own or sometimes it'll just stop it completely and I'll have to physically unpause the media.
I recently got an iPhone X and noticed it has the same issues with its speakers at the bottom of the device as my older iPhone 5s. On both sides of the charging port there are grills for the speakers, however there is no audio coming from the left one. When I place my finger over the right, I can feel it but not on the left.
Yesterday, I downgraded my iPhone 7 from iOS 11.3 Developer Beta 1 to iOS 11.2 Release (It was being signed then) using the "Upgrade" option. Downgrade went fine, but after the downgrade, the device started overheating and I discovered most of my data was corrupted, including Social media, Wifi and iCloud passwords and contents and some System Settings. I had no option but to restore the iPhone, so I restored to iOS 11.2 and it works fine now. My question is: Is this a normal behavior after a downgrade (from a beta) using the "Update" option?
Sometimes an icon is shown in the left bottom corner of the lock screen. Sometimes I can see some logic in it - when I plug the earphones, then the streaming radio app icon appers. I cannot start the app tapping the icon though. But sometimes an icon is just there without any visible connection to my actions, for example the Stack Exchange app icon:
suddenly my macbook air (High Sierra OS) starts to have problems with my earphones bluetooth. After few minutes that I'm connected to my earphones, they start to make a scretch sound and after a while my macbook lose the connectivity with them. Sometimes happens that the laptop can't reproduce any sound with the earphones. I've already tried with another mac and the earphones works correctly, I have this problem just with my mac. I've already cancel my earphone from the bluetooth devices list and pair them again, but it didn't solve anything.
After searching for a long time, I could not find the solution, on the internet. I hope someone can help me, to configure my setup with following equipment : Airport Express *=URL=* 2 x Sony SA-NS510 Airplay & LAN Speakers *=URL=* Is it possible to configure the Airport Express as a standalone Airplay receiver, connected with its Ethernet LAN port to a 5 port Network LAN switch which distributes two LAN cables to my Sony speakers to receive music from my Iphone selecting the Airport Express as Airplay receiver ?
Searching on SMB share in Finder on macOS High Sierra (10.13.3) shows all files names as "?". The correct kind and size is identified, it is just the name that is messed up. Browsing works fine and all files show up correctly. It worked fine on Sierra before upgrading to High Sierra.
I decided to get a new laptop but as a temporary solution until I get the new one, I would like to add an offset to the left side of the display such that the full content still appears properly on the healthy side of the display. I couldn't find any setting under Display Settings in Mac OS where I can apply such an offset. Is there any way that I can set it up through command line maybe?
When I try to backup my iPhone 8 Plus, there is not enough space for the backup (I have the free 5 GB). But when I go to Settings > iCloud-Backup it says that the backup has 2,6 GB, so theoretically it should work. After I try to backup several times, sometimes it says that "Some files are unavailable for backup". What should I do?
Siri seems to be targeted as the primary method to interact with HomePod other than some rudimentary touch controls that it has. Are there any other ways to interact with it? I'm specifically hoping for some sort of remote control app for iOS. I don't have a particularly good track record with Siri playing the correct song when I ask her to on my iPhone, partly because my music collection contains stuff in many languages; so I prefer to choose the right track manually from a list. I'm aware of the option to AirPlay to it, but I'd prefer the functionality the iTunes Remote iOS app offers: remote-controlling the device through a graphical UI. Any chance for that on HomePod?
I haven’t experienced this issue when calling out—only when receiving calls. When calls are not being made, signal strength also seems to be normal (at least I haven’t noticed it cutting out at other times).
I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 that does not load anymore. When I tried to hold option key during startup, my hard drive showed up on the screen, but once I clicked on it, it stayed on a gray screen for a long time... I do not know how to solve this. Thanks a lot for your guidance
⅓ of my screen is blocked on the left by a Bookmarks column. Is there a way to remove it?
I installed High Sierra and now my iMac (27" 2011) can not see the external USB TimeMachine drive. The drive shows up in DiskUtil but it's greyed out. I can not mount it. In fact it doesn't respond to any commands, mount, eject, first aid won't run. I also have a MacBook Pro (High Sierra too), it can't read the drive, same problem.
WiFi is consistently dropping at random times regardless of network. Question : how do I fix it so I have a reliable consistent wifi connection when I use Windows 10? I have a MacBook Pro, purchased late 2017.
Is it possible to open and use a different app on iPhone while using CarPlay or is the CarPlay only mirroring the iPhone? More specifically would it be possible to have Waze running on iPhone and use different apps such as music apps on CarPlay simultaneously? If not what does happen when some non-CarPlay app is opened on iPhone? Does the CarPlay go to home screen?
There's a few songs that I've added to iCloud Music Library using iTunes on my PC but it seems that some of them didn't upload correctly because (1) they never play past a certain point on my iPhone and (2) deleting and re-adding them to my library on my iPhone doesn't made a difference. So, how do you re-upload a song to iCloud Music Library? Preferrably without removing it from my iTunes library as I assume that this will delete the play count. I've tried using File | Library | Update iCloud Music Library.
In the past, I should have been able to simply uncheck the "Sync Photos" box and accept the "Remove from Phone" button, sync and then see the photos disappear from the phone. However, that doesn't do the trick - the photos are still there. I've tried re-enabling and sync'ing with a subset of photos which appears to complete successfully, but then when I try to uncheck and "Remove from Phone" and sync again, they still don't delete.
My JetDrive volume is inexplicably showing as "Dropbox Installer" in the Finder. If I eject and re-mount it, the same. Also "TB Backup" is supposedly mounted, according to Disk Utility, but Finder does not show an eject button. If I try to browse "TB Backup" I get:
I tried to clean the NVRAM. CMD+ALT+P+R with the power button, but it doesn't work. Any idea? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVq4eKWjcyE
When I start up the computer I get the following message: "This computer will restart to a secure, Safari-only system for the Guest user." I've logged into iCloud via another computer and find my mac is not turned on. Any ideas what's going on?
macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra D-Link DWA-131 Utility - USB WiFi Adapater Hello, I am trying to access the wireless diagnostics tool that I have read is available in macOS. I've tried using the [opt] key when clicking the WiFi menu bar item, but that doesn't appear to reveal the secret menu, as described here: *=URL=* If run Spotlight (or Alfred) I can find the app, but selecting it just results in a momentary flash as if something is trying to run but then fails. And if I navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications and type open wireless diagnostics.app I get the same result.
How do I connect dual screen setup on a Mac Mini? Mac Mini: Late (2012) Apple Cinema Display 27" Apple ThunderBolt Display 27"
I have a local domain for my home network, which uses .loc as a TLD (not .local). Name resolution for hosts on that network always works using dig or nslookup from a terminal, but intermittently fails everywhere else. One day it will work fine and I'll start regrowing my hair, and the next I'm unable to ssh to another machine to save my life.
I buy a new one. I am trying to format support for my mac air. I tried all the way by seeing some procedures showing on the youtube even no luck. I disk is appearing like this:
I wanted to add telnet server on my macbook pro(macOS 10.13.1) and followed steps in How to get BSD FTP and Telnet back in 10.13 (High Sierra)? to install telnetd with homebrew.
My macbook is stuck at a spinning circle. I use another external bootable drive to boot up and copy the crucial data from the Macbook drive. I believe the hardware of my MBPR 15 2015 is perfect. The suspicious part is that some applications/programs/kext are blocking the boot procedure. How could I fix the Macbook drive using command line to delete or remove some items?all scan results returned for 'airportd' and stop at strange loop Thanks so much!
How to properly delete apps on iOS? Is not there a similar problem here, as in macOS, that after a simple .app file has been deleted, the system still has various garbage in the system folders and user libraries (launch daemons, applications scripts, defaults)?
I simply want to delete the bulk if not all of several hundred photos I have uploaded from my camera, to free up space as it is already full. However I cannot find how to delete them unless I do it one by one which requires at least three different actions and would take forever! Someone said highlight first and then delete, but I cannot find any control to highlight them! I went to the nearest Apple shop today. It is 125 kms from where I live. Apparently it does not open until 9.30 am and at 9.10 there are already 30-40 people patently waiting outside! I do not have time for this, and returned to pay $6 for parking my car!
I have a printer set up on a MacBook (Canon C5240i). Now I want to use the same printer on another MacBook, but I know nothing about the configuration and also don't know the IP address. Is there a way to copy all information about the printer from one Mac to another?
Is there a way to disable relative dates (today, yesterday) in Mail.app?
I've had a look already on the forums for an answer to the problem but most of the time it is in the context of batch converting files (with disparate names). I only want to just open a range of JPEG files in Preview.
Due to recent partitioning mistakes I was unable to boot up my Mac OSX or my Bootcamp on my Mac since. As a last resort I went to recovery mode and downloaded a new El Capitan OS.
Context In Gmail, you can have POP3 accounts (Outlook, etc.) besides the main Gmail account. Emails sent to the main account (Gmail) are fetched instantly, or at most I need to click the inbox (on Web) or equivalently in the Gmail iPhone App I should pull the top edge down and emails will be shown up there right away.
I have a late 2008 MacBook running Yosemite and I have a 64 GB USB pen with a Mavericks dmg image on it. When I boot pressing the option key the USB pen is visible and I can run Disk Utility.
Ok, now I own Individual Apple Developer Program. Simply I would like to convert my account to Enterprise Program. Is it possible at all? Or do I have to create another appleid? A few questions: Does apple make a reviews when I distribute in-house apps? Will I be able to select users to whom I distribute the particular app?
when I try go onto App Store to download an app, even just WhatsApp it's says I just log in, so I do and I put all the right stuff in and then It just keeps saying "verification error has occurred"
For a long time I used the "Find my friends" widget in the Today pane of MacOS, but since last week it is gone and cannot be added again. Find my Friends works as expected on iCloud.com and on iOS. On this Macbook however, my today pane looks like below. Can I reset the today pane or get Find My Friends back in some other way?
I want to buy a game in the Mac App Store. How can I check before buying if the game/app is 64 bit or not?
I created a few projects on an old iPad 2 years ago. The iPad broke down and I have had no more Apple products since then. Now I've set up an installation of macOS High Sierra in VMware, and I want to retrieve those projects uploaded to iCloud, from an iPad running iOS 6.1.3 (that's the last time I opened GarageBand on the iPad). I can confirm that the projects are still there by checking the usage of my iCloud space.
I'm using the screencapture command line util to capture window contents of a MS outlook window. I have two macs, one I've had for a while and upgraded to 10.13.3 gradually; another I installed MacOS 10.13 recently from scratch. The one I've had for a while captures all windows correctly when I run
I cannot get the default Finder "New Terminal at folder" service to work, no matter what. I've tried every trick I could find online. So I created a new service and it appears in the Services list, but again, cannot get it to appear in the actual services menu nor does mapping a hotkey work.
Is it possible to set the default signature for every account within Mail automatically? As shown in the image below of the Signatures tab in: Mail > Preferences… Is there a way like changing a file in background (which I use to add the signatures) or something simple with an AppleScript?
How do I completely remove "Microsoft AU Daemon” from my Mac? I don't want to disable it. I want to remove it altogether so that it does not run. It is not in my Login Items as far as I can tell.
I love using the Waze App with my iPhone 5, except for one very annoying problem: while driving and Waze engaged, I listen to music on the radio, but I keep getting interruptions in the radio where the radio screen shows my phone name and phone number indicating I am calling myself. It happens often and only when I have Waze activated. I don't know if it is a switch on the phone or something with Waze. I would like it to stop because it's very distracting and annoying.
In my usual review of email, I have the message preview pane open and use the keyboard to delete, archive, or skip messages with the focus in the message list. Sometimes I want to click a link in in an email. When I'm finished with that, I usually switch back to Mail using ⌘-Tab. In that case it takes a mouse/trackpad gesture to put the focus back in the message list. Normally, I would expect to be able to use ⌥-Tab to shift focus between the panes, but instead, the focus moves to individual items in the toolbar and skips the message list. What am I missing?
This Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts support page, in the Mac > Webpage shortcuts section, indicates: Reload your current page, ignoring cached content: ⌘ + Shift + r But that keyboard shortcut does not work for me, my mac only beeps when I press those buttons. ⌘ + r works as expected, but ⌘ + Shift + r only beeps.
No matter which browser you use, there's always a Look Up menu when right-clicking any text inside the web browser. I have disabled Lookup/Spotlight suggestions on right-clicking, via System Preferences, but on right-clicking any text in any browser, the Look Up menu still shows up with dictionary suggestions.
Is there any way to randomize the alert sound effect in Mac OS? In system prefs I am able to select which sound effect I want to hear. Is there a way for the system to choose a random sound each time?
I am very new to apple, I tried look up answer but was afraid to mess thing up more and loose data so decided to ask for precise answer here. I have hard drive on my mac of 750GB, and decided to divide it to 2 partitions, 450 and 300 but then I deleted the 300G but these 300 GB now have been added to the Apple Boot recovery HD and I can't use it.
I have a MacBook Pro 2012 13" (Non Retina) model, The MacBook has no backlight keyboard and the MacBook does not sleep when you shut the lid. I feel the issues are related and it could be damage to a ribbon cable, but I'm not sure what one. I have tried SMC and PRAM Resets and it has had a fresh High Sierra install so it is not software related Thank you for any help Bradley
I have multiple desktops on High Sierra. Given an app window (like Safari) on each desktop, I can click on the app icon on the dock, and it will cycle through the desktops with this app. ⌘-` will cycle app windows on this desktop Can I set a key to cycle app-desktops?
In a bigger piece of AppleScript, I need to mount an SMB share. This works:
The AppleScript Dictionary for macOS Calendar 10.0 (High Sierra) appears to have no API for addressing specific accounts. For example…
I tried to much partitioning on to many different apps, and know there a lot of "partitions" on the disk and its not clear what is the right partition start/size for the main partition. Is it possible to find it out?
I have had no problems with my 2013 MacBook Pro until now. Hard drive was replaced less than two years ago to an SSD (Samsung EVO 850 Series).
In VIM, when I enter Shift+Tab, the escape sequence ^[[Z is passed and VIM does not actually "see" the Shift+Tab. How can I make iTerm2 repair this behavior? My assumption is a Send Hex codes... or Send Text with vim "special characters"... remap would do the job. I am trying to put in my .vimrc a map of <S-Tab> that can cycle backwards through the popup menu.
My Iphone 6+ has glitches and issues with apps and holding a battery charge. I was told to do a restore but make sure phone is backed up. I recently had my computer updated to windows 10 and the location of the iphone backup has been moved to another drive. My C drive was too full and moving Itunes back up eliminated over 50+ gigs. My concern is thru Itunes I performed a backup but cannot see any current date of the phone backed up anywhere with todays date. But in Itunes it is showing that it backed up. I am worried the original files that are now moved to another drive has messed up everything and that when I do a restore to Iphone and then restore backup there will be nothing to pull from or corrupt location?
I've been using, and enjoying, a Microsoft Sculpt Wireless keyboard for the past couple years. All of a sudden tonight the backspace key stopped working. Using the keyboard viewer, I can tell all the other keys are fine:
I have a MacBook Pro (2015, 13") with 2 Mac Operating Systems installed on it, one of them is the latest macOS High Sierra, the other one is OS X Yosemite, where High Sierra is the default. Today I was going to boot from OS X Yosemite using the Boot Manager (alt key during boot), but I noticed that Yosemite was gone, and there was a Recovery HD out of nowhere. I chose it to understand what it was, but the computer booted into Yosemite. Is there any explanation for this? Why would it rename itself to Recovery HD? This is just so annoying.
I have a lot of books in ePub and PDF format in iBooks on my Mac. I sync the next few ones I want to ready to my iPhone and iPad and read them there.
2013 Mac Pro. Using both built-in ethernet ports for 2 separate networks, one a Storage LAN and one an Internet connection. On heavy disk I/O (Disk First Aid, array to array copies, etc) the Storage LAN interface just stops working after a while. No framing errors are logged, the routing table is unaffected (until the arp cache times out), the interface counters increment when I ping, and there are no logged events, but all ARP entries disappear and packets never leave the interface. The Internet interface (which was lightly loaded) is fine. Weirdly, even unplugging and replugging the cable does not reset the interface, and neither does changing IP, resetting the switch port on the other end, or changing flow control. I used to have to reboot to reset the interface, but now I found that switching from 1Gb to 10G and back clears the problem. I'm dying here, however, because it is not reproducible reliably, and ChronoSync hangs so bad when the shares disappear that I have to force reboot
After years on a much older version of Mac OS, I'm now on v. 10.13.2, and I observe strange behavior when I use find functionality, in various applications. If I search for some string in one application, when I open the search interface in another application, the same string auto-populates the search field.
I have my AppleID, password and access to the email account registered to the ID. But I don't have the answers to the security questions. I have not used the account since it was set up in 2014 and I'm 99% certain that I didn't set up security questions at the time because if I had I would have used my password manager to create and store random strings as answers, and I have nothing saved. I can reset my password easily enough but I actually can't login. The option to reset security questions requires you to answer a security question!! Like doh, if I could do that I wouldn't need to reset them.I do think this is ridiculous. I got Apple support to phone me and the best they could suggest is change the password to a strong random one (it is anyway) and abandon the account! Anyone have any other ideas?
Can I somehow create a service through an Automator or a background process through AppleScript so as to break the saving of scroll position in Finder? I do not want every time when opening my folders the scroll is automatically installed where it was last.
Let's assume the following situation: My device gets stolen and my keychain keys (including iMessage encryption and signing keys) I reactivate my iMessage account and new iMessage keys are generated. As far I know, iMessage client sends the every public key to apple, so when someone send me message my message will be encrypted with each public key ever associated with my account. If someone sniff on my messages and because they have my old keys, can they read my messages? Is there way to manage my iMessage keys associated with my iMessage account?
I didn't try to install through Internet recovery yet. I don't think it will work either.
After resizing the APFS container, it is not reflecting the changes but Disk Utility shows that the container is successfully resized. Container size should be 128 GB but it's 78.09 GB. Strange!
I work with TextMate and R over the terminal. When pasting a lot of code (CMD+C/CMD+V, e.g. 60 lines) it sometimes happens that few characters in the code are scrambled, which then leads to error messages and wrong code execution. For example: col <- ifelse(... is turning into col < col < cse(... or onlyDF is turning into oalyDF These character-replacements seem very random and it is difficult to predict when it happens. The problem is also described here for iterm2: *=URL=* The explanation provided there is that it is a bug in bash that can lead to buffered input to get lost due to paste speed.
On a MacBook Pro, the built-in Facetime app will not allow me to change cameras. I have a Blackmagic capture device connected via Thunderbolt, and it shows up in the list of camera options under the Video menu, but when I select it, I still see the picture from the built-in Facetime HD camera.
I'm trying to record a video in portrait (vertical) mode by flipping my macbook pro on its side. I’m using QuickTime player with the built-in FaceTime camera. The problem is that Quicktime flips the video upside down, so it's recording in portrait mode upside down. Is there some way I can disable this behavior?
Simple question- My mac regularly & seemingly randomly tells me it has been scheduled to go to sleep automatically- usually (I think) right after I wake it up. I have no schedule for automatic sleep set up in preferences.
2) The number of items was completely off the count in the iPhone app. In the App, it was 7777 items. The count of transferred files was 7926. Also, if I only count the CLOUD or only the APPLE folders, I do not get the same count. Any ideas what could be the explanations for the two issues I am facing?
I've followed the instructions from How to delete/remove custom ringtones (tones) from iPhone in iTunes 12.7?, but the ringtones are still on the iPhone after I sync, even though in iTunes the tones are no longer there. How can I remove the tones from my phone?
Equipment: Apple TV 4K iiyama ProLite E2273HDS LED monitor, with built-in speakers iPad Pro iPhone 6S Connection: HDMI, from Apple TV to monitor I am temporaily using my Apple TV 4K with a computer monitor, instead of a conventional TV - connected via HDMI. It's working great, except that the only way I've found to control the volume of the built-in speakers is via the very fiddly on-screen menu. Is there an easy way via the Apple TV to control the sound volume on a computer monitor with built-in monitors, without using the monitor's on-screen menu? Things I've tried: Using the volume control on the Apple Tv's remote - it tells me to use the remove control for my TV, which doesn't exist Use AirPlay or Screen Mirroring on iPhone and iPad to send to AppleTV - the iOS devices then don't allow the volume to be changed Search online for inline HDMI devices to control volume - I didn't find anything
What preference files does Safari share with Finder? Also, which ones does it share with Safari Tech Preview?
smbget is a simple utility with wget-like semantics, that can download files from SMB servers. You can specify the files you would like to download on the command-line.
How to browse files on your iPhone with Bash inside the Terminal with iPhone connected to Mac with cable? Thank you for your answers :)
I run a business making prints from an HP Designjet wide-format printer. Here's my current workflow which I would like to put into two applescripts, each with with a hotkey: Open selected .jpg file in default viewer (Preview) Choose 1 of 2 presets (16X24 or 24X36) Print file Close Preview I'd like to have one hotkey to print with 16X24 preset and another to print in 24X36 as this would save me hundreds of clicks a week.
On a Mac Pro 2013 running High Sierra I have discovered that port 5900 remains opened which is a "VNC remote desktop". I do run TeamViewer but have turned it off & confirmed it being off with activity monitor. On Terminal I have tried (see below). I really don't want this port simply being opened all the time.
I want to use Siri to record my weight in Apple’s Health app. However, when I tell Siri “Record my weight as X pounds”, she responds “I can’t answer that on your iPhone, but you can find it in the Health app”. Is it possible to record my weight in Apple’s Health app using Siri?
This result doesn't work for me. What I'm trying to achieve is to pass multiple paths for selected finder items for further action.
iTunes has been acting up lately (album cover disappears, glitches when adding ID3-less tracks), and I want to erase my Library and re-add manually my music to iTunes. I know some data is written in the ID3 tag of the song (Song Name, Album Name, etc), but not my personal ratings. How can I erase and re-add my albums to iTunes without losing data such as Lyrics or Ratings (Stars/Hearts)?
What can make the IOS Music app pause when the pause icon is not visible? I was using an iPad app that has no sound and the song I was playing stopped. No fingers (nor anything else) was near any of the buttons. Brought Music to the foreground, and it was definitely paused.
i have a iphone 4s which is not currently connected but i am wanting to get old text messages from in but for some reason the conversation only goes back so far and does not contain the entire conversation which could have partly included imessages as well
Bootcamp Assistant and Disk Utility have changed, I've realised. Bootcamp Assistant gives me: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition When I click "Continue"
I have an external drive which contains two partitions. Although the second partition is visible in disk utilities. However, it's not mountable and could not access data from there. I've tried Disk Drill but no luck. Any idea?
I have two machines running Yosemite: Mac Mini and Macbook pro. Neither will accept and manage more than one ethernet interface. If I create two interfaces, only one will work. This has not been an issue with older OSX systems. Wifi is irrelevant, and I have it turned off at the internet connected router. My expectation is to be able to have two isolated local networks; One connected to rounter/internet, and the other for local machines I do not want connected to the internet. What has worked in the past, for Macbook pro, which has one rj-45 jack, is to get a usb-ethernet adapter so one network would be connected to the built in ethernet and the other connected via the usb-ethernet interface. Is this something that Yosemite won't allow or is there some setting I need to make? Thank you for time and attention;
I know that my apps in app store will not be available, until I renew. But, from the developing perspective. what will be the different when I'm developing apps ? Can I develop and test notifications and iCloud in the development apps ?
I have a Mac mini 2014 and I would like to show its content on a PC (Ubuntu) and an LG screen. I succeeded for the LG screen but for the Ubuntu PC, I don't know what to do. I tried to plug-in an HDMI cable from my Mac to the PC but it doesn't work. Can someone help me ?
I have a company (university) computer, and it displays a bunch of information on the desktop, in really large and ugly font that dominates the upper left hand corner of my desktop. It's not on the background itself, it's floating on top, so when I change the background image it's still there. Minor problem, but it's ugly, and I was wondering if there's a way to remove it or at least shrink the font down significantly!
Is it possible to make or install a custom screensaver on to use on macOS? For example: create a video or GIF and use it as a screensaver.
I recently bought a HP MFP M277dw printer (which is by the way really good) and as macOS hadn't driver for it I had to install the HP's software. This thing is really annoying and what's more concerning, it taking up to 100% cpu time (of one core) while doing absolutely nothing (one would hope). So I deleted the directory /Library/Printers/hp/Frameworks and killed it. The problem is that every time I boot this directory with all these crappy apps from HP is being restored. Is there a way to prevent it? Regards, Radek
I installed pip-3.6 using Mac Ports: Then, using this version of pip, I installed virtualenv: Now when I tried using virtualenv, bash isn't recognizing it. PS: I didn't want to select pip-3.6 as pip because I have pip working with OS X's version of Python 2.7.
I am looking for an app (or builtin feature) that allows adding calendar events in my iPhone using text. For example, in my Google Pixel I have an app called Quick Event that when I open a simple text field appear. If I type "Lunch with Bob thursday at 3pm" the information is parsed and an event is created in my calendar. Anything similar for iOS? I have searched all over but cannot find anything similar. I will preferably be able to add this to google calendar.
I would like to achieve the following: When I copy one photo into Folder A, I want to the same photo to be copied to folder B. So what I want to do basically is to copy a photo to two folders with one copy command. Is it possible to do that?
My iPod Touch got low on battery and when I powered back up it wiped out the entire music library. I have synced 2 x and it's still not showing. Any ideas?
I have iPhone 7 that I bought in 2016. The notification center is becoming extremely slow and non responsive. I removed most the widgets but the same issue.
I have iPhone 7 running iOS 11.2.5 iMessages (Messages) application is not displaying any notifications for the messages that is coming from bank.
I recently installed XAMPP for OS X (XAMPP VM PHP 7.2.1) which now virtualizes the entire box for obvious benefits of higher security. Although I admire the new concept and see its benefits, I cannot put my head around one thing that puzzles me. I would like to enable the PHPMyAdmin tool, which requires me to change a file, based on this well described set of instructions: http://localhost:8080/dashboard/docs/access-phpmyadmin-remotely.html
While running my UI application as LaunchAgent I sometimes get dual running processes on the same user instead of one (which is reflected on the screen by duplicated identical windows). I guess this happen because of a race, I manually load the agent while it can also be monitored and executed when the related plist file is created inside /Library/LaunchAgents.
I checked, this is not a duplicate. I just installed VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro (macOS HS 10.13.3).
While attempting to remove a Windows partition through Boot Camp Assistant, the process ended in an error. Now, upon going into Disk Utility, macOS is only showing my macOS partition of 400GB out of the maximum 500GB and the original 100GB Boot Camp partition is missing. Any way to resolve this and to recover the space to fully remove the Windows installation? The end goal being to use Parallels to reinstall Windows. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Info: macOS 10.13.3 MacBookPro 10,1 (Retina Mid 2012) diskutil apfs list
In the Finder , Arrange -> None provides the ability to specify a custom sort for the files within a folder. Is there any way to read this info from the command line? A Mac OS utility equivalent to ls with the ability to get the sort data. I realize that because of the graphical nature of the Finder folder, this info will be x,y screen coordinates Ideally I could use this utility to build a shell script or command that returns a sorted list of files (kinda like ls -R and variants)
I have an SD card formatted as Mac OS Extended that was imaged with the Apple Diagnostics disk image. Holding option to boot to this SD card on a Mac works as expected. I tried to use Disk Utility to convert the only volume on the SD card to APFS, and Disk Utility presents the error
With macOS 10.13.4 Apple will start to show a warning if a 32bit application is started, and it is assumed that with 10.14 32bit applications will not run at all. Starting each application to see whether it is 32bit might be cumbersome, so if I want to prepare for the migration early how can I easily (via GUI or Terminal) assemble a list of all 32bit applications on my system?
I have an 3rd generation Apple TV which I use as a home hub. After remote access was disabled from Apple because of CVE-2017-13903 and turned on again with iOS 11.2.1 it stopped working remotely for shared users with the Apple TV. Here are the changes to HT207057: This is the version of Dec 15, 2017. And here the version of Mar 27, 2017 as it looked on Sep 27, 2017:
I am looking to confirm what iOS version started including the 'chat.db' database for storing text messages/apple imessages
I had some strange issues copying text out of a PDF on my iPad (I always got a bunch of ????), so I decided to run my pdf through xpdf to see if that would fix things: After the first command ran though, I got the following error: On a Linux installation, I'd typically resolve this by installing a font package, but I'm not sure what to do on OS X.
I have iPhone 5s with iOS 11.1. Few weeks ago had to change back my iOS version from a new version because my iPhone did not work well with the new one.
iTunes can, of course, create a Genius playlist of songs related to a single, currently selected song. Is there a way to ask Genius to create a playlist based off of a multiple songs? That, is, if Song A, B and C are currently selected, is there a way to easily create a playlist of songs that match with all three?
I heavily use Terminal.app as I am a software engineer. While working, I can have over a dozen terminal tabs open spread across multiple terminal windows. When I have this large amount of tabs open, the right-click menu of the docked Terminal.app becomes really cluttered. I have attached screenshots illustrating this.
My Mac decided to go weird and got a kernel error and won’t boot anymore. Looking around in desperation mode I figured that maybe I could use that Bootcamp pendrive I once setup. Now it turns out it’s not compatible with my model (2017 tMBP) and while windows has installed successfully and I can use a usb mouse and keyboard nothing else works. I installed because I though I would be able to boot it, get online and then create a bootable Mac install from it. Perhaps more threatening is the fact that now the computer doesn’t boot from removable drives at all (including the flash drive I installed it from). Would I be able to reinstall macOS? I’m thinking that maybe I could get a bootable install shipped to me and reinstall Bootcamp from there?
The short man page of 'mdls' gives every indication that it should list all metadata by default. For some reason, I'm only getting a small portion: The missing metadata is still there, because I can call for it: Any ideas why I'm not getting everything at once? Thanks
I am currently running my iPhone 6s on iOS 11.2.5 and I want to downgrade it to either iOS 11.1.2 or iOS 11.2.2. Before anyone says that this isn't possible, I say that there is always a way. I have a number of iTunes backups ranging all the way back to iOS 9, but I don't really think these will be helpful as iTunes does not restore the OS with the backup. Is this assumption always correct?
My iPhone‘s screen is broken and touch doesn’t respond. I would like to do a backup. The problem is iTunes requires a confirmation from the iPhone to do the backup.
In the past, If I've ever wanted to take a photo on my iPhone and move it to my mac, I'd have to use the files iOS app or google drive. I recently had an idea, instead of uploading the photos to somewhere, I could just save them from the macOS photos app to my disk after they were backed up.
Can i use apple remote desktop to control a windows 10 machine on the same LAN ?
As you can see whenever I try to backup my iPhone it tells me there is insufficient storage. All I want to do is backup my contacts and all super basic data in case something happens to my phone. I have backed it up a couple of times to my computer but I would like the more consistent back ups from iCloud.
Is there a way to programmatically enable the macOS "Dark menu bar and Dock" option (found in System Preferences > General) via a Terminal command, without having to restart the Mac? There is a way to change this option in the Terminal, but it requires the use of sudo and seems to require a restart, neither of which I want to use. I could do this via the Terminal using AppleScript, but as far as I can tell it would require GUI scripting and my having to allow Terminal to control the Mac in the Accessibility settings.
I have a new Mac and I have passed my older Mac to my husband. How to I stop the computers from being synced? For example, if my husband saves bookmarks in Google they are appearing on my new computer. Thank you.
Using AppleScript, I can add a track to a playlist by using a command something like this: which works fine. However, if the playlist is currently playing, that track will never be played. How can I add a track to a playlist and get it to play when the playlist gets to it (not immediately)?
My imagemagick installation via brew seems to not have created symlinks correctly. Running Gives I checked To install Brew's ImageMagick and fix its Symlink but the issue solved is of broken symlinks already present, not permissions. Other useful information includes: And Note the unlinked keg in the cellar. This problem is fixable by using but I would really like to know what caused the original problem, and if there are better solutions.
I want to show a photo on my desktop. I don't want it to be my desktop background, or my screen saver, but I'd just like it be on the desktop so I can look at it, bigger than a thumbnail (maybe a couple of inches by a couple of inches).
If I do not have a SIM Card installed in my iPhone 4, will it still connect to the internet? I have tried to connect via WiFi, it says that it is loading, yet doesn't connect. I don't know if it has anything to do with the SIM Card because every time I try, it does not work and the message 'NO SIM CARD' shows up.
I had installed a bootcamp partition to try out windows 10 on my 15" 2017 MBP, and removed it. After removing it, the system boots onto the windows partition, revealing the "Windows is Broken press F1, F8, or F11 for boot options. When this happens, if I hold down the TouchID sensor, there is a temporary workaround where I can hold the option key on boot to change it back to macOS. How do I stop this tedious behaviour?
On macOS, it is possible to select items such as checkboxes or even dropdown lists by pressing the spacebar when the item in question is highlighted (usually with a colored box around the item). The ability to highlight them (usually by default or by using the tab key) can be enabled with the Full Keyboard Access setting in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts (this feature can also be enabled by pressing ControlF7).
ifconfig can be used on linux to check network transferred bytes in each interface like below: the RX bytes and TX bytes shows the current data transferred in the eth0 interface. However, the ifconfig on Mac doesn't show this information for me.
I scan documents (receipts, etc) PDFs and the software does OCR to make them searchable. I can search them from within Preview, but I'd like to be able to search within the documents in Finder (or Spotlight). Is there a way to do this? Or a third-party app that does it?
My iMac HDD just gave up after making a loud clicking noise for several weeks. Since the internal HDD is dead, I want to use another disk, preferably an SSD. I do not want to go to a store at any point and so I looked into taking the iMac apart and replacing the HDD myself. Seems like a hassle that I would like to avoid if I can simply plug in an SDD into one of these three: USB 3.0 port Firewire port Thunderbolt port
I'm currently on macOS Sierra. In order to get rid of the daily nag notifications to upgrade to macOS High Sierra I downloaded the installer, but have not installed it. I have no intention of upgrading at this time.
How different is Radeon 555 and Radeon 560 in the 15-inch Macbook Pro 2017? Are there any notable differences between the two?
Recently I downloaded some updates from the Mac App Store including the macOS high Sierra update and a few other security and application updates. However, presumably because of a corrupted download, these applications fail their integrity checks and don't run on the system.
Does anyone know what's going on here? My screen randomly renders these patterns all over the place at random times. OSX High Sierra. When you resize the window, it's gone but reappears soon after. This problem only started happening recently (after recent High Sierra update)... screen is fine.
Basically I want firefox to open URLs starting with "ssh://whoever@wherever" using iterm2. Unfortunately I didn't pay attention - the first time I tried this, Mac Os suggested to use Terminal, and stupid me also clicked the checkbox to remember that setting. Now I can't figure how to undo/change that decision. I have seen this question - but unfortunately that one is 7 years old and seems to be outdated (my preferences->profile window doesn't look at all like the one shown in the existing question).
I have an Australian iTunes account, but am travelling in Spain and would like to download an app from the Spanish store
With apple configurator I have set an iPad to supervised. While configuring this iPad with new settings accidentally I have unsupervised the iPad. Is there a way to set the iPad to supervised again?
I am using my iMac 2017 5k as my main machine and want to use my 21 inch 2017 iMac as a second screen. I have learnt from the previous question that I asked that the target display mode is not going to work. What are some workarounds to use the real estate on the second 21 inch 2017 iMac while on the main machine?
This may very well have been asked/answered, but I sure can't find it. I replaced the screen, battery, wifi module and wifi antenna on a iPhone 6 (not + or s). The symptoms are: no display, no sound, no noticeable response to the home or lock button press. The phone will feel warm when plugged in for a few minutes, will accept phone calls--that is, it will vibrate (won't ring but I cannot tell if the ringer volume is just turned down) but I cannot answer or decline with the buttons, and iTunes will recognize the phone.
Sometimes I have my mac on full volume (maybe because I am / was listening to a song). Then I move a file in finder, or put something in the trash; finder plays the "move file" sound at full volume and it breaks my eardrums :D Is there a way to limit the volume of sound effects on finder?
I've shot several videos in 4k 60 fps from the iPhone X and when I wanted to transfer them to my Macbook Pro using the lightning to USB-A cable, it took multiple hours where the videos were approximately 60 GBs. My Macbook Pro is a mid 2015 model with USB 3 ports. How can I increase the transfer speed?
I have an iPhone 5s with jailbroken iOS 8.1.2 onboard. Some time ago I have noticed, that in some random apps (Telegram, VK, etc.) icons, mostly in Tabbars and Navbars, are glitched. I've tried to: Reboot hard/soft Respring Reinstall those apps Reload UI cache by running uicache in Terminal Here's the example:
I have a mbp 15 early 2013 model. It was running smoothly until yesterday suddenly it passed out with a folder question mark screen. so I went to recovery because I can't boot up. In the startup disk I can't find my ssd and in disk utility can't first aid my ssd and even can't erase my ssd to perform a fresh install.. when tried erasing in terminal it shows up the error waiting for disks to reappear.. so I think that ssd is working fine because it shows up on the disk utility, so this might be a controller problem in which in my case I don't have a hard drive cable, instead I think it's part of the logic board where ssd has to be plugged.. suggest me a solution.. Sorry for my explanation if it's bad.. I'm very much worried as of now.. My question is different.. the apple genius couldn't figure out whether it's logic board or ssd.. because both are functioning properly in diagnosis.
I have bought an Aukey wireless (bluetooth) keyboard and it doesn't connect to (any) Macbook pro. Testcases: the keyboard doesn't connect to MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, MacOsX Sierra 10.13.3 (17D47) (tested on two machines, same hardware and configuration) the keyboard successfully connects to iphone (tested on two iphone devices) Description:
I use screensharing from an iMac to a mac laptop for fairly extended periods. Every now and then I press some key combination (and I'm not sure what it is) on my physical keyboard that causes keyboard input to break. After pressing this key combo, I can only type capital letters using the shift key. Lowercase letters and backspace do not work. Only holding shift on my external keyboard (connected to the iMac) produces anything, and that's capital letters.
After upgrading to High Sierra the different rows arranged by date in Finder collapsed and there is no way to expand them!  How can I expand the "afgelopen 7 dagen" , "afgelopen 30 dagen", "2017" and so on. It is only possbile when I switch to another item on the favorites list and then switch back again.
I have an iPhone 6s and I'm using iOS 11.2.5 I tried running a backup from iTunes, but got the following error: "iTunes could not back up the iPhone "[iphone name]" because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone." I've tried multiple computers, OSX, Windows, older iTunes, but always got the same error. On OSX I've opened the Console app, to see what's going on in the background, and found that the following lines are logged, when the error happens [image]:
Basically I am "at odds" with Mac OS on how to properly type my password. Meaning: when I used Linux (ubuntu with unity to be precise), I really didn't care about the "state" of my Linux box. If the screen saver/lock was up, I just started typing my password and hit enter. And ... I was logged in. Because the Linux screen lock was smart enough to understand that the string I typed + Enter is my password.
I started the day by receiving the following message, spontaneously: your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few minutes to continue starting up.
I forgot the password of my admin account on my MacBook, although I still remember the password of the root account. Is there a way to change the password of an admin account from within the root account? I know about the option to directly reset the password through Recovery Mode, but this implies losing the passwords on the Keychain, which I want to avoid. Any help would be very appreciated.
I'm running photos 1.5. Older versions of Photos used a different date format for the title of moments. Right now most of my pictures are organized using the old date format (YYYY-MM-DD). Is there a way to modify the date format for all moments in the latest version of Photos?
Time Machine allows encrypted backups. Where does this encryption happen? Is the data written to files inside the time machine volume encrypted? If so: does this mean it's possible to end up with "doubly encrypted" data, if my disk partition is encrypted (i.e. by activating encryption in disk utility when making a partition)? And if that's possible, where should I most efficiently use encryption - should I do time machine encryption only, or volume encryption only?
After a reboot, the system still detected XP, just couldn't boot from it. No CDs/DVDs are being detected either.
My MacBook Pro early 2011 has stopped booting. Starting in Verbose mode, it boots no further than "vm_swap_create_file failed@ 74 secs"
After I installed the last macOS updates in December it has been rebooting at random times when in sleep as per below: Any ideas please ? Cheers BTW it is running High Sierra 10.13.3
I always want to see all available advanced options without having to do a trial-and-error pressing each one of these keys.
I'm trying to diagnose a MacMini that is painfully slow to start up. I already check the filesystem (fsck) and the disk (Disk Warrior). I am running High Sierra.
The trackpad on my MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) running 10.13.3 will occasionally register command clicks instead of normal "left" clicks after returning from sleep. Neither command key is show as being down (verified with keyboard viewer). I used the event viewer on Karabiner-Elements to see what was happening. The problem sometimes resolves seemingly of its own accord, other times I must restart. I've shut down all running apps and menubar utilities, but nothing seems to effect the issue.
I see this data in my iCloud purchase history. There are my credit card number, my first and last name, my address, and iPhone's name. Which of this are accessible to the developer of the app?
When I open/quit a blank Safari window, the following message keeps showing up in system.log. What exactly does error = 147 mean? What does com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder do? How can I stop those messages? Update: I am also seeing those messages on a clean macOS 10.12 installation.
I like to use macOS's alias feature to not have to make redundant files. These aliases work great with Chrome and TextEdit. When I open them with vim, however, I get a giant messy file (presumably the way macOS encodes aliases). Is there a way to edit the actual file through an alias with vim?
I can use vmstat on ubuntu linux to show IO input and output stats. Whether there is a build-in command in MacOS do the same output?
The only difference I can see is that I use macOS 10.13.3 while another user uses macOS 10.13.2. Can poor performance of my MacBook be attributed only to the difference in macOS version?
I have a 2017 MBP with MacOS High Sierra. When working from home, I typically connect to my work network via VPN and then I can mount various network drives (SMB).
How does one properly unregister httpd from launching at reboot following a sudo wfsctl start and subsequent sudo wfsctl stop? Background:
So I did this thing. I sent this imessage and but the guy on the other end didnt have wifi I guess. It didnt say "sending" at the top and it didnt say delivered. So I turned on Airplane Mode, sent the imsg as a text and after it failed to deliver I held down on it, selected more then clicked delete. And now I'm paranoid and wondering whether or not he actually got the text. Can anyone help?
I don't quite understand how iTunes libraries work. I don't use Apple Music. I do have iTunes Match, although I don't know if I've set it up on this computer. In any case, I have downloaded a few TV shows that I want to delete to save space. If I right click on them, I have the option "Delete from Library."
For some time now I have a problem in Preview. Whenever something on a PDF looks like it could be a text box or field (such as a horizontal line) and I click in the vicinity of it, above or below the line, then Preview creates a textbox (assuming it is a form that I want to fill in). This behavior is certainly pretty new in Preview, although it might have been around for a few OS updates. I find this behavior rather annoying and would like to be able to turn it off (or at least I'd like to not have it triggered by a single click ... clicking with some control key pressed down might be useful). Any hints what I might try, or where else I might look for help would be much welcome!
I have a live usb image that seems to run on my lenovo thinkpad that I'd like to get to work on an old iBook (Model A1007). Things I have tried so far
I need to back up my Pro Tools folder to an external HDD everyday, but need a program that looks for changes and saves them only, similar to the way time machine works. Is this “appended” or “incremental” and does your Mac Guru software perform this function?
Ok, I'm going insane over this. I refuse to believe there are ZERO ways to access the data on a locked iPhone 4s running ios 7.1 or so. I recently found my old iPhone which I was ecstatic about because it contains literally thousands of personal photos, videos and voice memos. I have no idea what the password is anymore.
I'd like to try Arch Linux, just to play around a bit. However, when I fire it up using the iso in a virtual box, the internet connection is extremely slow, it doesn't get above 20 kiB/s. I've looked at Settings --> Network, changed it to Bridged Networking and I tried all types of networking hardware. None of them achieve higher speeds than ~20 kiB/s. How should I configure it so that it runs properly? I am running the latest macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), the latest VirtualBox 5.2.6 and I have downloaded the latest iso for Arch Linux, 2018.02.01.
How to stop an app (Garmin Connect) from accessing all notifications? Currently it displays all my notifications on my vivactive 3 and i cannot find where it gets that permission to read all my notifications.
I’ve just upgraded to a much newer Mac after having been on an old MBP running Snow Leopard. There’s a lot to learn in the major jump from 10.6 to 10.12. One change is that my user’s Library folder is invisible. I did Google this and see I can hold down the option key to make the Library folder visible when I need it to be, but is there a way to always make it visible so I don’t have to do this extra step every time?
There is an unsolved problem with MBA laptops that there's no way to disable the build-in keyboard from the command-line. E.g. see here: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/alfred-workflows/issues/13
This was a difficult topic to search for on the Web, so I'll try asking here: On a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) with 2 x USB 3.0 ports, if I transfer files to an external drive using one port, does this in any way "eat up" the performance of the other USB port? Or does each port have its completely own bus / capacity? A relevant side question is how the same applies to other multi-port setups such as: the USB ports on Cinema Displays the USB ports on Thunderbolt Displays the Thunderbolt ports on newer MacBooks
I like the built-in Preview.app, but when giving presentations (in particular, when using multiple PDF pages for animated page components such as with LaTeX-beamer) I am annoyed by the brief low-resolution rendering on every page transition. After about one second, I am getting the desired rendering, but on every keypress, I am first getting an immediate, blocky pre-rendering. Edit: Here's a QuickTime screencast if the above is difficult to understand In other programs, I find options such as "pre-render next page [in presentation mode]" or "prefer quality over speed [when rendering PDFs]", but not in the Preview.app preferences. Is there a hidden way to configure this, or any other solution?
This question is related to one I asked before, OSX freezes and logs me out when switching workspaces, it doesn't happen everytime and it's not consistant? I did track the logs this time but it is a bit cryptic for me to go through, ( actually I have no idea what they mean at all ). Those are the logs while it was working up to it froze, maybe a little when it was actually frozen (••My__Mac•• is the name of my Mac): this is while it was freezing: It'd be great if some one could take a look at any suspicious stuff that I could research further.
On an old (G5) Xserve, I noticed that from time to time, the amber "System Identifier LED" very briefly flashes - just once, and very short. It almost looks like what you see on smoke detectors to indicate that the battery is still good.
I would like to export my Keynote slides to pdf with the presenter notes. The layout of the resulting pdf is not good : the slides are scaled down on each page, and the text of the presenter note is not aligned with the slides (see screnshot) Is there a way to change that layout ? I tried the option "print to pdf", but I can't get good result. If it's impossible to get nice pdf from Keynote, do you know any other app that could handle this correctly?
I have a MacBook Pro from 2011 that was left aside with little battery left and unplugged for about one week, now it won't start nor will it charge the battery. What I tried so far: reset SMC reset SMC leave it plugged in over night leave it plugged in over night checked the power board (small logic board near the magnetic connector) for corrosion or signs of component damage checked the power board (small logic board near the magnetic connector) for corrosion or signs of component damage checked the RAM (just in case) checked the RAM (just in case) Tried a different power charger Tried a different power charger
I have a 2016 MBP running 10.12.6 with an external Dell 24" (P2415Q) monitor in my home office. At work I have a Dell 27" (U2717D) and a Dell 24" (U2415). At work the U27 is connected DisplayPort to USB-C and the U24 uses HDMI through an Apple branded adapter. At home the Dell is connected with a DisplayPort to USB-C.
I recently tried to install Linux on my computer for which I created a partition of 100 gigs after trying to install it my main partition showed FFFFFFFFFFFF... I tried one of the solutions from this website and I installed a copy of macOS in my 100 GB Linux partition. Now when I open Disk Utility, it's showing my main partition as free space. I have all my photos in it and I didn't back them up. But I'm able to see the photos using a disk recovery app: Disk Drill, but it asks me to pay for the software for the recovery process. Can somebody help me in recovering the photos. I just need the photos nothing else.
These option codes are referenced without RFC specifications in the RFC 3679. DHC WG is probably reference to IETF's The Dynamic Host Configuration working group (DHC WG), but there's seems to be no references to these options. These are also listed in IANA's assignments list. Apple's DHCP server and client implementation also has Netinfo references. Is there any official specification documentation available for these options from Apple?
My iPhone 6 got stolen, and while trying to secure my data and lock my phone I logged into iCloud, then clicked on Find My iPhone and also downloaded iCloud for Windows on my PC. During this process I was asked for my iPhone passcode. Could it be that a hacker to whom the phone got sold was trying to get that passcode from me, or is it routine???
Like in Chrome or Firefox, I wish to right click on the navigation arrows on the left to display the pages visited before in the current tab in Safari. Is it possible to configure this? I did not find it in the browser's options. Thank you
I have a Samsung external hard drive and I am the user of both mac and windows operating systems. I came across a problem, where I would need to use a hard drive on both system, however there are limitations on both operating systems and disadvantages of each file system of hard drive.
I don't see explicitly said in *=URL=* what is the role I need. I guess it is 'admin', given 'Access to all sections within iTunes Connect.', but maybe other role can do it.
Could there be an issue with the laptop, or the adapter? Or is this a known problem with thunderbolt displays and newer macbooks?
Every time i connect a bluetooth device, headphones or speakers, the output switches to the new device. This is fine, however, the input also switches. I would prefer for the microphone input to never switch. How can I permanently set 2013 MBP Microphone to onboard hardware mic? edit also, if there is a way to switch inputs via applescript or alfred workflow, I would love to try them out
I have a log file I'd like to open in Numbers to make sifting through it a lot easier. The problem is that the format isn't CSV. Each line has about a dozen fields, and the fields themselves are separated by spaces. However, some of those fields are strings, which contain space, so I can't just do a find replace for spaces and put the comma in. One field, the date, is actually formatted like this: [06/Feb/2018:03:27:37 +0000]. This appears to be the only spot where []s are used, so I could find/replace those with "s, but I'm still having trouble importing the document. It places every row in a single column. So, to summarize, my goal is to take an input file and break up each row so that the space is the delimiter, but it ignores spaces within quotes.
How does one go about setting up a macOS High Sierra wfsctl WebDAV server to use with application such as Password Wallet? Does any one have a good set of notes for setting up a wfsctl server? Use Case
I was looking online and found links to two articles about the potentially harmful effects of AirPods on the body. This is the first article.. It links to a video where the EMF intensity of the AirPods was tested and compared to other bluetooth headsets. It was concluded that they emitted a relatively high average EMF intensity. It allegedly also has a "consistent field intensity... in the 7-10 milligauss (mG) range" as opposed to a varying amount, which is apparently has a greater magnitude of effect on "brain chemistry." Do note however that this site sells supplements, if that makes any difference in its validity.
When I connect a second display, InkScape windows aren't visible on either the primary or secondary display on any desktop. When I enter & leave Mission Control, the InkScape windows fly off to the left towards the second display. Showing all windows (for XQuartz, as InkScape doesn't manage its windows) shows the window as belonging on the primary display (assigning it to the 2ary display doesn't make it accessible). When the second display isn't connected, the windows are accessible on the primary display. How can I access the InkScape windows with two displays? Assigning windows to desktops on either display (2ary click on app (XQuartz) in dock → Options → [Assign to] Desktop on Display x), or to all desktops (2ary click on app (XQuartz) in dock → Options → [Assign to] All Desktops) has no affect on window accessibility. "Displays Have Separate Spaces" is set in Mission Control preferences. OS: 10.12.6 Sierra
A friend of mine accidentally deleted all mails for one IMAP account on her iPhone. The delete was synced to the webserver and a running notebook. None of these devices have current backups (“no backup needed as mail is synced to multiple devices…”) Only remaining device which holds an up to date copy of the mail is an iPad. As I do not have access to an iPad and don’t want to mess up the last copy of mails: Is there a safe way to rescue the mail? If I access email as described here, can I reimport them to an IMAP server?
I have scanned a few photos back in Dec 2013. They were scanned by 'Image Capture' app and they were imported into icloud via Photo at least two years ago. Today when I browsed my photo on osx, I realised they are corrupted:
Cleanly uninstalling and reinstalling Creative Cloud, FireFox, setting Permissions, and even reinstalling OSX doesn't seem to help. This is not just happening in one Mid 2012 MBP, but two. Deep Hardware tests pass, Malwarebytes and Avira Antivirus show no infections.
Here is the result of df -h command It is hovering around 20Gi even though I have aggressively deleting unused file (e.g. unused docker image files). I have also used CleanMyMac 3 to find and remove unused files several times:
I wanted to print from my work MacBook (MacOS 10.13 High Sierra) to my old Canon Pixma IP4300 printer at home, but when I connect them I'm told to look for drivers on the manufacturer's website. However, the latest available driver is a "CUPS" driver for MacOS 10.8 Mountain Lion, dated september 2017.
So I turn on my computer today and try to type the letters "php" but it automatically turns to this "₱", the Philippine currency symbol. So far Ive tried: Trying my wired apple keyboard and logitech wireless Tested the Keyboard viewer and noticed something change in the function keys really fast, i recorded it and noticed the F16 key appeared which is not even used on my Logitech, my main keyboard Tried turning Fn keys off and on Tried Resetting NVRAM Reinstalled OSX Sierra Tried remapping with two programs, Karabiner and Better Touch Tool, which when recorded in Better Touch showed the actual keys being hit as phpv
Does anyone have any ideas. These spreadsheets contain more than 10 years worth of data.
I have sub-folders in iCloud Mail. I can see all of the emails in each subfolder but when I open any sub-foldered email in iOS I get a message that it has not been downloaded from the server. I cannot view the contents and I cannot move that email out of that subfolder. How do I correct this?
How to move the cursor one character forward in iterm2? I can move one character backward with ^b. I tried ^f but instead of moving one character forward, it scroll through command history from the beginning.
I installed new application that contains both driver and launchDaemon that communicate between each other. After that, it seems like the shutdown flow takes too long, at first I thought it was derived from kextcache synchronization, but even when I manually triggered rebuilding kextcache prior to shutdown, it still tool long time (~2 mins) According to the unified log (log show --info --debug) the shutdown flow start with halted by <username> message (1), but notice that the time gap derives from the last printout message in the current session (2) to the first message after booting (3), and there is no additional messages in between.
I think I have a problem with my Apple Watch 3 with cellular. I have set it up with my carrier to use mobile data when away from my iPhone, but even though I’ve followed the setup steps ok, and my carrier says it’s all setup and working, it doesn’t seem to be working! :( This is how I’ve tested it- Using another phone I dial my cell number and my iPhone rings. I then place my iPhone into Aeroplane Mode and dial my cell number again, but this time it goes straight to my iPhone voicemail message. This confirms my iPhone is off, but shouldn’t the call now automatically come through to my Apple Watch first before it’d go to voicemail?
I have MBPr 13" early 2013, as it does not support 4k at 60Hz, I was wondering if I can use both TB ports (max TB resolution is 2560x1600) to push image to a 4k display using picture by picture functionality? I would flip them vertically. Any experience with this idea? Backup plan is to pick up two 2560x1440 monitors :D
I'm used to the linux way of opening a PDF from the terminal. That is, via e.g. evince sample.pdf. Command completion makes this fairly fast. In particular when there are many files with the same name but different endings (like after pdflatex compilations). From macports I have the bash-completion, but it is ineffective for the open command in the sense that I have to cycle through all files until I get the PDF one. Is there another way of opening a PDF that allows to employ the bash-completion? Or a way to make open ignore certain file types?
When I use three-finger lookup, this is what I got.  The order of the results is wrong (i.e., different from my settings shown below), and many dictionaries are missing!
I got problem downloading icloud for my PC, so I access my icloud from icloud.com (mozilla browser). I want to free up my cloud storage, so I need to download all my photos and videos from icloud. Problem #1: I need to select one by one the file, cannot select all.
If you right click a song in iTunes you will be able to select the Play Later option that adds it to queue. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this?
I wanted to install High Sierra and made a USB Installation Disk with Disk Maker X All goes well and the installation is doing fine. Then this screen appears:
In Cambridge Dictionary, terminal has two meaning separately reference to computer and electrics. 1) Computer, a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, used for communicating with the part of a computer system that deals with information 2) Electricity, the point at which a connection can be made in an electric circuit Which does 'Terminal' on MacOS derive from?
Every time I log into my work's VPN an automated script rewrites my hosts file, resetting it to some standard version that they manage. That only happens on Mac OS (I have a Windows laptop with the same VPN connection and this doesn't happen).
I have a 1 TB hard drive with two encrypted partitions, one for random stuff and one for the Time Machine backup. Upon reorganising some data I ran a Disk Utility check on it. Apparently the time machine partition was corrupted, disk utility told me to run the S.O.S from the recovery drive but it didn't work. This is the output of diskutil list /dev/disk2: And the output of sudo fsck_fs /dev/disk2s2: Here it's being suggested to disable the encryption, verify, then reenable again and here it suggest to use repairDisk (however I'm not sure if it is the right way since the error is a bit different and the command says that a partition may be erased while repairing the partition map).
I am trying to recover the photo from a couple years back. I have it set as my iCloud profile photo inside System Preferences>iCloud but I am unable to locate it. Where is it stored on the mac? I am on macOS Sierra. Thanks, Josh
I am trying to use Bootcamp to generate a Windows 10 USB key (64GB). I use Diskutil to initialize the key as MS-DOS FAT with MBR. The Bootcamp Assistant selecting the three options on the dialog box. It all works fine, but when I use the key to boot and finish the installation it tells me it cannot install Windows on that partition and that it needs an NTFS partition instead. Thing is, the partition was reformatted by Bootcamp Assistant itself before copying the WindowsSupport software to it:
I have a Jabra Move bluetooth headset and a bluetooth Apple Magic Keyboard circa 2010/2011. I can pair them both with my 2015 Mac Book Pro (running OS X Sierra) with ease. However, as soon as I start playing audio through my Mac to the headphones one or both of two things happens: 1) The music drops in and out and/or, worse 2) The keyboard disconnects and reconnects frequently. It's so frustrating that I mainly disconnect my headphones from my mac and stream music through from my phone. I used to have the same setup with a ~2013 Mac Mini and had exactly the same problem. I am in a busy office full of computers, phones and bluetooth and wireless devices.
During an inpatient stay, I had my 12.9” iPad Pro(Model A1652 EMC 2827), which I tried to use much of the time I was awake. The battery was depleted most of the time: I had it plugged into a wall charger, and power was never really more than 5-10%. It lost power frequently. I took it to the Apple Store and was offered immediate replacement.
By default, when I close the lid of my macbook, the external display becomes the primary. It is annoying because I have to plug out the cable and charger to turn it off but I'd like that whenever I close the lid of my macbook, it puts the macbook to sleep and turns off external display? Is it possible?
I'm running macOS High Sierra and just noticed a couple of these processes with an icon but no name. See screenshot below.
I've got a message from support that I cannot use the service anymore, and if I register a new profile they will automatically track it and block it. As I read from Uber's case it's forbidden by Apple to track app reinstallation. So how will they track me? advertisingIdentifier — I've disable it Geoposition — I hope they wont block all users in my area IP adress, social network profile — I've changed it
I have a standard home network, using an xfinity router, with several phones, apple tv's and computers (Mac + linux). In the last few days, if the iMac I use for work is asleep, the whole network goes down. We can't use internet on any devices, and while they say they're connected to wi-fi, can't even reach 10.0.0.1 until after I've woken up the iMac (then all other connections immediately start working).
How can I disconnect a bluetooth device from an apple watch without having to forget the device? Do I really have to re-pair things like headphones every time I want to disconnect them?
It's a brand new 2015 and I move from office to classroom all the time, plugging and unplugging HDMI. Fairly often the machine either goes black or literally hard crashes with the multi-lingual crash message.
As mentioned in the title, the keyboard won't function until the OS loads (High Sierra) so I have no way to use the PRAM, SMC or option key to select bootcamp or Mac OS options, none of them...an external usb keyboard works fine but it's a pain. This is new keyboard and official app install and works perfectly otherwise, it's kinda like the drivers (kexts) aren't loading until a later part in the boot process, so like I said I can't use the PRAM, SMC or option key for any type of troubleshooting on the internal connection. I've triple checked all connections, zapped the PRAM and done a SMC reset as well as disk first aid (all using a usb keyboard when a keybord was needed) but none have resolved the issue....
I have a 2TB Toshiba hard drive that somehow ended up like this: with those two partitions of 43 MB and 1.8GB. I want to delete and merge into NTFS both of them. When I delete both, using disk utility, it does not merge them. How can I do that?
The macbook of one of my colleagues keeps forgetting her password when she reboots the machine. I can log in as admin user, set her password, and it will let her log in after I just log out.
Connecting to Docker hosts locally via 'localhost' fails, and I have to use subnet address instead. I am on macOS Sierra, with Docker Toolbox 17.09 My local docker containers all run on IP 192.168.99.100, binding to various ports per each configuration.
I just bought my first ever mac - mac mini - and now I'm trying to get it running. I have connected it to a dell monitor through hdmi and a windows usb keyboard so far.
I have made a few remarks on some PDFs using the remarks button, which puts a yellow icon anywhere I want on a page, to add some text that shows when I click on it. Unfortunately I've found that, after saving the PDF and a few days after, what I wrote there disappeared except on a very few remarks. Is this a known bug? I'm using Preview version 10 on macOS High Sierra
I have a Mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro work laptop. At work, it's connected to 2 external monitors, plus I use the laptop as its own monitor, arranged as [laptop][monitor1][monitor2].
I'm on macos Sierra (2013 Macbook Air). When I press C-s (control and the character s) nothing happens. Then, if I press it again (within a certain amount of time) it triggers. If I open the keyboard viewer in macos I can see that the s is not triggered until the second time it's pressed. Any ideas on why it could be like this or how I can find out what is causing it?
I have a Macbook Pro running 10.13.3. When connected to an external display, the system goes to sleep when I power the monitor off. I would expect this to be controlled by System Preferences->Energy Saver->"Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is turned off". But, that setting is enabled, and actually, the checkbox won't even toggle. It will only stay enabled.
Hello AskDifferent – first time posting, hope my style is okay. I've recently gotten myself a mechanical keyboard (a Vortex Race 3) and want to use it on a MacBook and perhaps iMac. So far it works, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to reassign certain inputs – effectively I just need to move one:
I bought an Insignia USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter with my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I don't have a CD drive, so I downloaded the driver from their website. Now, when I try to go to my network preferences, it takes about 5 minutes to load. Then it g off. I was trying to find how to uninstall the drivers but cannot find them. If it is helpful I can make a pastebin of my syslog. I maybe want to know how to uninstall the driver for this so I can at least use my wifi.
I am using iTerm2 3.0.15 beta on Sierra. I have had shell integration installed since many months ago. At some point, shell integration stopped working. (I'm not very observant; I just noticed it at some point. I'd been away for a while, too.) What I mean when I say it stopped working is that command history, recent directories, etc. sections of the Toolbelt are empty. Also, there are no mark indicators before the bash prompt.
I started clicking some black and white photos (monochrome) using the iPhone. I would like to see them in a separate folder, is there some setting provided by iOS to do so? I would like to see them in a separate folder, is there some setting provided by iOS to do so? If there is no such option supported by iOS, that is, by the default Photos app , are there any third-party apps (available on Apple App Store) that can find and show ONLY the monochrome images i have taken. If there is no such option supported by iOS, that is, by the default Photos app , are there any third-party apps (available on Apple App Store) that can find and show ONLY the monochrome images i have taken.
While running our own MacOS software, a permissions dialog of some kind appeared unexpectedly with random characters. See the screenshot.
I installed Windows 10 onto my Mac Mini using Bootcamp. Windows 10 decided to do a forced update, and ruined my entire installation. I can't even boot into Windows 10 anymore. I want to completely remove Windows 10 Bootcamp Partition, and merge it onto my Fusion drive / Core Apple partition. The macOS installation is useless to me currently, so I'd like to completely restore that to factory settings. So I just want to remove my Bootcamp partition, merge it into the core, and reinstall macOS. I am currently in Internet Recovery Mode. I sought out assistance on MacRumors as well and the solution resolved my issues completely.
I'm on a 2007 MacBook Pro running 10.7.5 and I would like to reassign the F7 key from the window mirroring function to Mission Control. I want to use the 2 free function keys for other things, but can't because I need one for mission control. One thing I can do is swap keyboards with my 2008 silver MBP, but I don't know if that would work correctly. Thanks
Sometimes (and in particular the last two times I restarted), a strange bar looking like a load bar or a copy bar appears on the restart screen, as in the image below.  I am running Mac OS X 10.9.5. What is it? Is it just the installation progress of updates (that install without me saying anything but that is another story) or is it something else? Note It has oftimes happened to me that I saw this:
I'm working on a native macOS app. I need to test some multi-monitor issues. When I'm at home I use AirPlay to my TV to test multi-monitor issues. But, when I'm at a cafe or co-working space if I could AirPlay to my iPhone then I could continue to work on multi-monitor issues. I suspect people might suggest Air Display but I'm not sure it lets me display to iPhone and reviews are very poor. Ideally I'd just like "AirPlay to iPhone" to show up as an option on my Mac.
I have Apple Watch 3 GPS model. Starting from this week, it is not charging fully. After a night of charging, it is only something like 95%
I couldn’t find an answer here, so maybe this doesn’t bug anyone else. But surely it must?
I had to reinstall macOS recently, and ever since, I am not able to back up. After a Prepare phase, it gets to backing up some 5-6 Gigabytes (if I am lucky), then it stops ("Stopping..." as seen in preferences). It was working perfectly before. I am using High Sierra 10.13.3. I am on APFS I am trying to backup to a Time Capsule (firmware version 7.6.9) over wi-fi I am using a MacBook Air from 2012 I have tried restarting Time Capsule (which triggers an fsck) I have tried to reuse same backup as before, or create an entirely new backup I am trying to use an encrypted backup (backing up without encryption is not an option for me) I have tried excluding system folders from backup so that only /Users remains
Every window for an individual message in Mail.app takes up the entire screen, but I am not in full screen mode, nor is Mail's main window taking up the whole screen. Examples: Composing a new message Double-clicking a message in my inbox Clicking on a new-mail notification If I do one of the above actions, and then resize the resulting child window, the resulting type of window (view/compose) "sticks" to the new size for a while, but eventually the behavior returns to Mail making every window the maximum possible size. To the best of my recollection, this began shortly after an upgrade from 10.12.6 to 10.13.3 Is this behavior defined somewhere, or is my only recourse to trash my prefs file for Mail?
I'm hoping someone can help! I recently downloaded a torrent directly onto an external hard drive, (using a 2009 MacBook Pro and 1TB Seagate Expansion portable Drive) somehow during the download the drive was accidentally ejected, since this incident when I plug the drive back in it’s having problems reading. The drive works fine for about 10 minutes, I can read/copy/paste and access files but then starts to wreak havoc; apps hangs, it hangs the Finder, etc. I’ve tried repairing it in Disk Utility, which reads and repairs this disk but problems inevitably continue as described above.
I have just updated to Mac High Siera. Now, on clicking the mouse, the cursor hotspot area is temporarily obscured by non-translucent yellow. How can I change/stop this?
My MacBook Pro (2011) loses Wi-Fi connection when connected to a Thunderbolt display. This problem developed a few months ago -- prior to this, I never had any problems with Wi-Fi. Now, when I connect my MacBook Pro via Thunderbolt and go into full screen mode, the Wi-Fi won't work.
Are there any hidden system settings that might allow me to align the text to the left of an icon on the desktop instead of below or to the right? I'm not sure why Apple chose to limit the options for text alignment to bottom or right... I really prefer left.
I can't figure out what's going on here, but my wife appears twice in Messages on my phone (iPhone SE, iOS 10.3.1) and I appear twice in her Messages on her phone (iPhone SE, iOS 9.3.4). There are two distinct chats with each of us, but there is only 1 contact for either of us on our phones (in the Contacts app).
I am trying to install tensorflow with virtualenv. Did not realize I had previously install python3.7. Now I cannot safely and completely delete it without manually removing files from /LIBRARY. I am not sure if that is the right way to do it. If there is a safe way to clean up the system folders please indicate which.
I have just installed XAMPP and when I click "start all" nothing actually starts since there is a problem with the some configurations (I do not have any idea of what those lines mean since I am a completely novice in servers). I just to have everything running in order to be able to start my PHP course. Here goes what is written in the application log (upper tab): I do not know if this info could be useful but my OS version is Sierra 10.12.6 Please feel free to ask me more details in the case you need additional information to find out what the problem is
I am using Apple Configurator 2 to help manage my stock of iOS device. One very useful feature of it is that it can be used along with Automator (on its own) to easily produce a Numbers spreadsheet of values such as IMEI number, Battery Status, Serial Numbers and loads of stats. I have cobbled together some Applescript already to change the hexadecimal colour values it produces in the spreadsheet to something more readable e.g "#e1e4e3" becomes "Silver" (for most otherwise "white" iPads/iPhones of late). The script also changes the formatting of some columns for text substitution. P.S I use this as part of an Automator workflow with a separate "Run AppleScript" block before the main code, otherwise it may throw an error.
Whenever I want to backup photos from a Photos Library I rely on copying all the contents of the folder ~/Fotos Library.photoslibrary/Masters. However, I noticed that a lot of seemingly full-sized photos are stored in ~/Fotos Library.photoslibrary/resources/media/master with names as fullsizeoutput_XXX.jpeg.
I did a web project years ago where if you hit a particular URL on the site an admin action is triggered. I have a bookmark in Safari even to this day for the url of that action. Yesterday that action was unexpectedly triggered for the first time in years. A review of the Apache Server access logs reveals that the action was requested by my IP address. The user agent string as recorded in the Apache Server logs is: This looks a lot like Safari, but when I actually hit the same site with Safari, Apache Server logs a slightly longer user agent string:
The 11 inch MacBook air did not ship with or offer a 256gb SSD, only 64gb and 128gb. However the 13 inch from late 2010 did ship with a 256gb SSD. Is the 256gb SSD from the 13 inch MacBook air (A1369 I believe) compatible with the 11 inch MacBook Air (A1370) from the same late 2010 time period?
My built in microphone in MacBook Air 13″ (2017) keeps adjusting itself to the maximum volume each time I have video/audio enabled in Google Chrome (or any other browser except Safari). This happens in Skype (mic auto adjusting function is turned off) as well.
On MacOS I see ways to enter checklists and tables but no way to enter a horizontal line. Is this possible to do?
I share an iCloud with my aunt and I turned off my iCloud Photo Sharing and Photo Stream. However, my aunt still is able to automatically get my pictures on her device. How do I stop that from happening?
Can't figure out what's going on here, but my Macbook Pro (mid-2011, macOS Sierra) no longer remembers anything new in Messages. Every time I quit and relaunch Messages, the history is right back where it was before I launched. The last messages I have there are from Feb 4 (4 days ago) and anything since then is always gone. I can open it right now, chat with someone, then quit & relaunch and everything we had said since launching the app, is gone. I did just do an OS reinstall recently to try and fix some other random weird issues I was having, also repaired all permissions etc. though there was nothing to repair. I'm stumped.
When I launch Messages on macOS and attempt to do anything at all with it (or even, it seems, if I just wait a while until a message is received) the two processes soagent and callservicesd start maxing out CPU and don't stop until Messages and they are all force quit. Messages is in effect now unusable on my Mac. My iCloud account is the only one that syncs contacts and the only one used in Messages (the use of multiple accounts in either case is suggested as a trigger of the bug).
I have a MacBook Pro Retina early 2015 8 GB and Intel 6100 1536Mb. Today I used an HDMI cable to my TCL 55" TV (TCL U55S6906 / Chassis NT667E-EU) and when running Mac OS X the text is blurry and only at 30Hz. While running Windows 10 it looks better but is still at 30 Hz. Also, sometimes it goes black for a second or two, and sometimes it shows green lines and plays a strange sound.
I have recently purchased an iMac to replace my 13" MacBook Pro and am gradually setting it up. My eyesight is fading, so I intend to use the bigger screen to improve readability.
I want to find the IP address of my home ethernet printer. When I follow instructions like here: *=URL=* in both cases, it says that the Location is Home. How do I do this?
But the same level on Apple's US International PC is a lot different and looks like this:
I use 4 desktops and have enabled Assign to All Desktops for several apps. When changing from one desktop to another, any of these "all desktops" apps that were on top get sent to the back. Can this be disabled?
Hello so my "E" key on my keyboard stop working. The tech says I need to change keyboard but for now I just want to use a bluetooth apple one. The problem is I cant connect it without logging in and I cant log in as my password contains an "E"? What can i do to connect the bluetooth keyboard. Everything else works. Keys and mouse plus trackpad.
I updated my iPhone 5s to iOS 11 just recently. After having updates I had troubles with my phone. My phone will turn off even if it shows 40% (which never happened prior to the update) there are times that It will have dead spots on my screen (I need to restart to make it work again). I want to go back to the old version. Is that even possible?
When I right click on a file in finder and go to the Services menu, the list of Services is unsorted and it is difficult to find what I'm looking for. How can I change the order in which Services are displayed? The tool "Apple Services Manager" which could do that (according to the answer to a similar question five years ago) doesn't exist anymore for El Capitan.
I recently found there is a Java process with more than 4 GB memory in my MBP, and it respawned after I force quit it. After restarting the computer and entering safe mode, the process does not appear in. And I removed all the LoginItems of my account and cleared the path /Library/StartItems/, and restart in normal mode. Then the problem still there: a java process appeared after about a minute when entering the system. And seems the process do nothing...
I'm hooking up my new MacBook Pro (13-inch 2016) to my old iMac (27-inch late 2012) using a lightning-to-USBC converter, in order to use the latter as a screen when working from home. Pressing CMD-F2 on the iMac keyboard successfully connects the monitor. Hurrah!
I'm on Mac High Sierra and I've set up multiple daily repeated schedules (around 10 workflows) to run Automator workflow and the first few days it ran fine, but after a week the alarm just stops working. The schedule doesn't even show up in notification center anymore. Does anyone know how to diagnose/fix this issue? Update Everything works fine if I open up Automator and run it manually, just that calendar alarm doesn't trigger Automator workflow anymore.
I would like to make an Automator Service that will open any link in a different browser (i.e. Firefox) than default (Safari). Precisely: I want to right click on any link in Mac OS and select a service that will open that link in a Firefox.
I've just changed the Graphics card on my Mac Pro 3,1. I've installed a Nvidia Quadro FX 4800. Everything is fine, the only thing is the when I boot the Mac the classic grey screen with the Apple logo and a progress bar has disappeared. When pressing the button the screen is black and then it goes directly to the password screen. How can I do to make the silver screen return?
I’m new to MacOS world. By accident I deleted the admin partition (Directory). Every time when I want to install a programme, the system ask me for the admin login. I enter the login but it is not accepted.
I have sync'd iTunes to iPad several times since the last time I added any artwork. But often, if I add a bunch of .mp3 without artwork and sync, iTunes says "Syncing artwork (step 6 of 6; waiting for items to copy." And it will say that for an hour or more.
Will the 2012 mini run with the 2011's SSD as is? My suspicion is no, I likely need to reinstall Sierra so the OS knows about the new hardware interface, but then I don't know how macOS works at that level. (I'm sticking with Sierra for app compatibility.)
I am currently working on a project which involves working on files in two different directories, both with very long path names. I want to make some kind of "terminal shortcut" (apologies for not knowing the correct terminology), so I could run for example cd Path1 where Path1 then would be something like Path1 = /Path/to/directory/that/is/some/very/distant/subdirectory and similarly for Path2=/Another/path/to/directory/that/is/some/distant/completely/different/dir
I heavily use my iPad Pro with pencil to go paperless. This works perfectly, but printing to paper from any Mac app is still much simpler than printing to the "paper-replacement", meaning to an iPad app. I am therefore looking for a mechanism to make this equally simple. Currently, I open the "Print" dialog in any Mac program, click on "Open PDF in Preview", then in the Preview app "Share via AirDrop", wait a moment until my iPad appears, find it, click it and then select on the iPad into which application to copy the document.
I have a WD "My Passport" 1TB external hard drive. It isn't recognized by my Macbook Pro (retina, 2013) or a friend's very similar model, but it works with every other machine I've tried, including two Linux netbooks and an older iMac.
When I lock my screen, the monitor does not shut off, even though the display is set to sleep after 10 minutes. I suspect it is because one of the applications running is preventing sleep. Is there a way to tell the mac to suspend the monitor in this situation?
Reinstalled the Home app on my iPhone X after having deleted it several months ago. When I launch it, I get the Welcome Home on-boarding screen with the orange Get Started button. Tapping on that button brings up this error message:
I have a shell script that I want to run from the scripts menu in the menu bar. (This is the menu that you can activate in the Script Editor preferences.) The script works when I run it from Terminal, but doesn't work when I run it from the scripts menu. To debug the problem, I'd like to see what error messages it's printing to the console — but I can't find the console output.
I'm trying to forward emails from appleid@id.apple.com to another email address. Currently, the emails from appleid@id.apple.com are being sent to my iCloud Mail account via my Apple ID login. The email address I would like them to be forwarded too is gMail. Everytime I try and set-up a rule, I receive the following error message:
Does anyone know how I can remove some fonts (that I know I'll never use) from my Mac? Some fonts don't allow you to remove them, and these are often the ones that I want to remove.
iMac is hardwired to AE, which is connected to cab/mod. I have 200 Mbps service thru Spectrum(TimeWarner). When I have iMac hardwired directly to cab/mod, I get 200+ Mbps speed. But when I go hardwired to AE, I can only get 95 Mbps. Why is it so much slower?
Aoerture allows you to have a keyword hierarchy. Unfortunately if you choose ("write keywords to masters" it doesn't apply the upper elements of the hierarchy, but only the leaf node. To get around this I have to rewrite the leaf node to include all the parents. In inporting and exporting the file, Apple indents each level of the hierarchy by one tab I need to change this: (Snippets are exports of Apple's keyword hierarchy.) To this
Now, when I connect it, it no longer appears in either the desktop or in Finder and most times it also fails to show up in Disk Utility. Those times it did appear I tried First Aid for a while and when that didn't work, formatting it. First aid does nothing aside from mentioning an error some of the times I ran it, while formatting always fails at the end saying (I'm translating this, so please bear with me if it's not worded perfectly):
I have a Macbook Pro 2010 I have a problem running Docker, it says
Every now and then, I’ll notice the back of my Apple Watch glowing with a green LED light. It seems to happen sporadically and usually only lasts for a few seconds. Why does my Apple Watch glow green sometimes?
I'm not receiving new messages in the Messages app on macOS (High Sierra). I do get notifications of new messages there (delayed many minutes from when I receive them on iOS). And I can send messages from macOS (which appear immediately on my iOS Messages and at the recipient). But no new Messages of any kind appear in Messages on macOS. Is there a way to totally and completely reset Messages on macOS so that it works again?
I seem to get a lot of banding when playing a 4K Dolby vision iTunes movie in the TV app vs the Movies app. Does anyone else have this experience? Is there a work around?
Why doesn't iTunes allow me to reset my Music library? When I click the iPhone icon and then click to "Music Settings", this is what I see. Nearly nothing. Why?
After -k converted all the links to relative, I worked with a few of the pages. I then exited Safari, but did not shut down MacOS. When I got up the next morning, the links did not work!
UPDATE: I've managed to reformat the partition doing the FAT32 filesystem, this time naming the partiion only in CAPS as per @David Anderson's suggestion. Succesfully booted into linux (Bodhi this time) and now almost two weeks later, the partition doesn't mount in OSX nor is it in my list as an EFI bootable drive anymore. Here is what diskutil list outputs this time: And fdisk /dev/disk1: Looking very very similar to what there was before.. not that I know how to intepret this though.... Thanks!
As said in the subject, every time I add a to-do in Reminders.app from the Safari 'share' button, it gets created as Chrome Link, rather than Safari. Therefore when I click on it, it opens Chrome.
I have got this 256GB external SSD that I had divided in two partitions with 2 bootable versions of macOS: 10.11 in one partition and 10.12 in another. Now I want to just have one APFS partition, but restoring the disk from Disk Utility did not help. I cannot get to a single APFS partition. This is the output of diskutil list: I see the two partitions as separate disks in Disk Utility:
This article implies there’s a “Language” and “Siri Voice” section in the HomePod settings of the Home app; unfortunately, these sections don’t appear for me:  How do I enable this configuration option?
So I was searching for sys/mman.h and ideally sys/mman.c in *=URL=* and didn't find it. Any idea why? Where could I find the source?
[Mac OS 10.13.3, GTK+3 (HomeBrew), XQuartz 2.7.11] I'm finding that in various cases, tooltips pop up that relate to windows I have lower in my view stack. For example, I have Finder open, and Komodo Editor 10/11 or Glade 3.20.2 in the background, when I happen to move the mouse over something that these apps present tooltips for, the tooltip is shown even though they actual object is not visible (as it's behind Finder) and Finder has focus. I believe this has something to do with GTK+3 but I'm not certain. Anyone else having this problem and/or know how to fix it? (I would like to use tags: GTK+3 and Tooltip but neither exist.)
I am trying to install Windows 10 on my iMac 27" (Mid 2011 - iMac12,2 - 3.4GHz -Core I7, OSX 10.11.6). When rebooting with the WININSTALL key, Windows Setup stops as it says it cannot install on the BootCamp Assistant generated partition (it is FAT32, wants NTFS). So I click the Formatbutton and he now says that the partition is MBR and he wants a GPT. So how do I make a GPT? Note: Regarding the Boot Camp Assistant application: I modified the info.plist file by removing the "Pre" in ' "PreUSBBootSupportedModels" ' so I could get the checkbox to install Windows on the key. Next question, I tried partitioning manually as suggested in question: Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition?, but the command:
the Core problem was on my internet connection. I connected my laptop to EDUROAM (Public guest internet network) via Hotspot using my windows laptop. After begigning of installation (10 minutes) the internet connection droped to hotspot and this why I got the error. I couldn`t connect with my MacBook Pro directly to EDUROAM because I need to logging to network via HTTP and apple doesnt provide this option by installation :( I solved this problem by using an other internet connexion which is connected directly to router without login.
I've restored macOS High Sierra ISO file (downloaded from Torrent) to pendrive (16GB SanDisk's Cruzer Dial) using Disk Utility, however when booting from it (by pressing Alt and selecting the drive), it stops on the screen which shows the white stop sign on the gray background. So I've booted with verbose mode enabled (by holding pressing CMD-V at the start), but the messages aren't clear on what it's failing. Few messages from scrambled screen are: IOUSBHostDevice::message: kUSBHostMessageRemoteWake IOUSBHostDevice::forcePowerGated: kPowerStateSuspended completed with 0x00000000 after 15ms
How do I stop my iPhone 5s from voice identifying what keys impress and actually respond and accept the keys I press?
In trying to resize a bootcamp drive, I managed to get myself in a lot of trouble. I've successfully managed to get my computer running again, but now I've lost some HD space and I can't resize or remove any of the partitions except for the bootcamp volume. Any help is very much appreciated. I am willing to wipe the entire drive and start over with my TM backup, but I can't seem to get the Fusion drive to even allow reformat while in Recovery Mode.
On mac we can use Cmd+Ctrl+Space to quickly launch an emoji panel and type in emojis. And on that panel, we can navigate around with the arrow keys and press enter to type in the selected emoji. I am wondering if there are ways that I can navigate through without having my hands leaving the main keyboard. Or in other words, to press the arrow keys you always need to move your right hand to the arrow keys, which is kind of inconvenient. I think the ideal case would be using vim's hjkl to navigate. But not very sure how to configure.
Connect the computer to another Mac. I'd rather not, as I don't have another Mac.
Is it possible to track exercise bike and other activity aside from steps, with an iPhone SE without the addition of 3rd party hard/software? If yes, then how? If no, what is the simplest/cheapest way to automatically track exercise bike activity? Is it possible to track exercise bike and other activity aside from steps, with an iPhone SE without the addition of 3rd party hard/software? If yes, then how? If no, what is the simplest/cheapest way to automatically track exercise bike activity? Bonus question: Is it possible to get the Health app to stop counting exercise bike activity as steps? Bonus question: Is it possible to get the Health app to stop counting exercise bike activity as steps?
I want to launch an application via Finder in a current Mac OS X. I want to enable some logging modules, which can be set by export NAME=etc on the console, but I want to include them in the Finder-launch. Is this possible?
I couldn't find it here. Perhaps you can't disable it but if you can I would love to know how. My preference is for Notification Centre to open instantly.
Quite often I come across these online posts about these hidden tricks that, usually entered it Terminal, access the user defaults system and overwrites/creates new defaults which are not normally changed by the system GUI. What I'm wondering is how do folks "figure out" these so-called "hidden" tricks? Did Apple document all the usable preferences for their software? Did these people know people that work for apple and therefor built these tricks? Are these people just nuts and spend all their day punching in random defaults looking to see if any of them do anything?
I'm running Linux Mint on Virtual Box (.vdi on my internal SSD) on my rMBP (macOS High Sierra). While I haven't pinned down a pattern, I think it breaks every time my computer wakes up from sleep. So, I assume its something to do with putting the SSD to some sleep-state which breaks Mint. What setting can I enable/disable to keep this from happening?
I have few media files in my Mac which I want to stream on my Android phone. I have enabled File Sharing and enabled both smb and afp protocol. When I check in VLC for Android app, I can see my Mac's name there. However when I try to connect it, it shows me a login prompt asking me to enter username and password.
I have been using Mac for many years and I have just recently switched to a Windows 10 based workstation. I have 14 HDDs (with physical backup drives =28 drives) which were all formatted in OSX journaled extended and contain my library of work. Now that I am on PC, I would like to be able to use them on the PC as well as Mac going forward. What I know so far is that exFat is the file system I should be using going forward, and with this knowledge, I purchased a 4tb drive to use as an exFat 'mule' to copy the data to, then reformat my source drive to exFat and dump the original data back onto the source drive. FYI; On the mac, I have a Thunderbolt 2 dual bay HDD 'toaster' and on the PC I have a dual bay USB 3.1gen2 (10gb) toaster) as I use HDD's to physically work between machines, versions and backup's etc. Apart from the 'phantom' 500gb that finder tells me is now present on the mule drive (it states that there is 3.17tb of used space on it, where the source drive only had 2.76tb of d
MacBook is displaying the message "no hardware installed" when I click on wifi? I followed the link above trying to solve the wifi disconnection problem using SMC reset and NVRAM but it still doesn't work. My Mac still can't connect to wifi. Does anyone ever encounter the same problem ? How do you solve it ?
I am having the worst luck with my iPhone 6+ although it doesn't appear to be but 25% full its painfully slow and works like its backup somewhere (Cashe mem?). I’ve tried to clear it all. Maybe I just have to many apps.
I have a strange issue with deleting items from the Trash. It appears that there are infinite nested directories which I cannot seem to remove. If I try to "empty" the trash I get an error which reads "The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use.". I tried using Terminal to cd into .Trash and the files are not listed, but I tried rm -rf * anyway, but to no avail...
I'm copying my Macbook Pro from its startup disk (Samsung SSD) to an external hard drive (WD My Passport for Mac) on my mid-2012 MBP. Using Chronosync Express. I formatted the Passport before doing this and double checked it was in Ma Extended (Journaled) mode, etc. There is about 369 GB to transfer and we are at about 202 GB copied and it is 10 hours and 42 minutes and counting.
My mid 2014 13" rMBP has had a ~10 to 15 seconds long delay before showing the Apple when booting from the internal SSD for a long time now. Spanning different versions of macOS (including clean installs) and even firmware updates, this didn't go away and I have never found a way to solve it. What could be the cause and a solution?
I'm using El Capitan at the moment, but I've had this "problem" for a long time - it's more an inconvenience, really. I have a number of network volumes in my Startup Items because I want them to be re-connected at logon. This works, but always opens a bunch of Finder windows, even though the "Hide" flag in the Preferences is set for these volumes. How can I prevent these windows from re-opening every time I log in - and if this is not possible, is there a trigger or something I could use to automate closing the windows, e. g. using Automator? (I found a related question here, but it has no answers and is targeted towards general application behaviour - I don't care about other applications at the moment, I'm specifically looking for a solution to the Finder issue.)
I am using MacBook Pro 15 2015. I erased the drive and now I cannot complete the Internet recovery. It is stuck saying
I discovered at today, my Apple Watch S2 measures my heart rhythm when you are not on the go. For example, I was sleeping at 02:35 AM , today. But it measured 135 BPM heart rate an it is was standing in the drawer. Are anyone encountered with this issue ? Thanks.
My husband accidentally rebuilt my Apple Mail on my MacBook and it seems to have wiped out the folders and local emails. The rebuild gave me a generic new folder structure with emails from the server from the past 24 hours. I do have the emails on my iPhone. How can I get these emails and the email folders restored to my MacBook?
I would like to click and have automatic action with a software, I can refer to it and get the value of the text but can't manage to click This return missing value and if I do select static text "General Info" of UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of front window then I have a return (but no click obviously) what can I do to click in this area ? I have a similar issue with a dropdown menu with I have to select and set a value I can't manage to select a value (for example the second value inside the menu)
My user login password not working for executing sudo in terminal and I cannot unlock Users & Groups preferences. I tried to write password in editor and paste it but no success on macOS 10.13.3
I have a one year old iPhone 5s. After about six months of use it started crashing and restarting. This often happens when launching an app, when I imagine power consumption may be at its highest. Through trial and error I noticed that enabling low power mode prevents crashes entirely. Without low power mode I get about one crash per few hours. I have tried wiping the OS and reinstalling to no avail. What's happening and what can I do to fix the problem?
My iPhone 6 is constantly at around 98% memory utilisation, even when it is running a bare minimum two or three apps (these figures were obtained from the Lirum Info app). The phone runs noticeably sluggishly, and it is not uncommon for apps to crash when attempting processor-intensive tasks.
In iTunes, I've noticed that some fields/columns can be edited quickly by doing a long drg+click, or a double click, but some fields will not respond to that behavior and you have to go the long way, as in right-click>get info>fill info. In my particular case one of the fields that don't react to 'instant-edit' request is the BPM field. Since my lists have usually a minimum of 20 songs, doing this long-way edit is really annoying. I don't like using third-party-batch-smart BPM tools because they are usually pretty inaccurate. What I'm thinking for a hack in this situation: Fill in an 'easily-editable' field, like say Comments, and then maybe use a third-party tool to copy the comments field into the BPM field, if that's possible. Fill in an 'easily-editable' field, like say Comments, and then maybe use a third-party tool to copy the comments field into the BPM field, if that's possible. Autohotkeys script that can map a single-key shortcut (Ctrl+I) to open the info and focus on the BPM
I have inherited my better half's Macbook (OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan) and attempted to update standard OS X apps (iPhoto, Garageband). When updating, the user is prompted to input AppleID and password. I believe that a recent security update was able to install. Attempts to put his and her AppleIDs are met with: This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled.
In the last two weeks, Apple Mail is starting to get "stuck" with increasing frequency, showing a "Preparing to move messages: 1 of XXX" message in the lower left corner. Apple Mail still allows me to read messages, but attempts to delete or move messages fail as described below.
I just bought a 21.5 inch iMac (latest macOS), I was using a macbook and got used to the trackpad and multitouch gestures, so I bought one (Magic trackpad 2) for desktop stuff as well. Its my third day with it and the pinch to zoom multitouch gesture stops working for a while, and then if I restart the computer or leave it, when it comes back from sleep It may be working fine. I've tested in all possible applications, such as: Keynote Photoshop Preview
I create educational products and sell at an online marketplace. I buy clipart and use this.
I have recently, imported various photos from both iCloud Shared Album downloads and directly from my iPhone. The problem is that some of these photos are duplicates, however the iCloud Shared Album duplicates are exactly half the resolution.
I am working on a Processing project for fun and I wanted to use the cursive font that is usually called in HTML and everything else, "cursive" or "Cursive," but in Processing it does the default sans-serif (Arial I think). Does anyone know what the actual name of this font is? "Times" and "Marker Felt" do work, but "monospace" also doesn't. A snippet of my code (though not necessary as this is a question about macs and not code): textFont(createFont("Cursive", width*0.75/9)); Post-scriptum: I did check font book and wikipedia, but not thoroughly.
Was this changed from 10.10 to 10.12? Why? Why doesn't it work anymore in normal boot mode but still in recovery?
I want to search for files that have certain tags, and don't have other tags. Right now, when I use finder I can list the tags I want (e.g. searching for files that have tag1 AND tag2 AND tag) but I don't know how to query for for files that e.g. have tag1 AND NOT tag2. Is there currently a way to do this?
I have an Docker container running NGinx on a macOS High Sierra machine behind a corporate firewall that cannot be disabled. The container is unable to be accessed externally from other machines on the corporate network using the host IP. I have tried running the container on a machine not subject to the firewall and everything works fine, so the issue likely lies in the firewall. Things I have tried: Running and both commands add Docker to the list of apps under Security & Privacy > Firewall Options but the container is still not accessible remotely via the host IP.
I'm wondering if I can still use the old Apple Remote (Aluminium) with IR to control some Apple devices? I have the Retina MacBook (without IR)(how?), an iPhone and an Apple TV. Perhaps it can also pair with other (non-Apple) products.
I've set up billing information and address but still the laptop I am trying to use says "This Apple ID has not yet been used with the app store." I am entering in my information correctly. Because I get to that screen. I just updated billing and address about 10 minutes ago but the laptop doesn't seem to have registered that.
iCloud says that iCloud Drive takes up 592MB of space:  However, when I open the iCloud Drive folder on Finder and sum the sizes of the stuff shown there, I get a much smaller sum:
I have multiple apps which I get notifications from but they are all in Hebrew. I was wondering if there is a way to let the notification go through a process in which something like Google Translate translates the push notifications and then I receive them. Is that possible?
I usually have a lot of external drives connected to my MacBook, such as flash drives, hard drives, and SD cards. It so happens that I need to eject them quite often.
I am looking for a physical flashlight or torch that uses the same kind of LED light as the one housed in the iPhone's flash. I do a lot of shadow puppetry, and the iPhone's LED makes very crisp shadows, while in other LED torches the shadows blur. Curious if anyone has any leads, or if anyone knows about the specific kind of LED that is used in the iPhone's flash. Thanks!
I am trying to resize my partition using the following However I am getting the error:
I'm using Remote Desktop app on the full screen and when I get my mouse too close to the bottom of the screen (in orders to interact with remote system), the Dock is shown.  The mouse pointer (annotated below) is not even close to the Dock edge or icons and the bar is already showing up.
I have got a MacBook pro with 500GB of total storage and an iCloud subscription for 2TB. iCloud is synched with my MacBook, this means that any file in my desktop and documents will be stored automatically in iCloud. With time, however, the MacBook storage is getting full and now I have got only ~2GB left (in the Mac) but >1.70TB available on iCloud.
At some point in the previous years, apple decided to include newspaper names in their dictionary. For Swiss French, this includes the words for morning and minutes, capitalised. So if write “munutes”, it gets corrected to Minutes and not minutes, which is particularly annoying. Is it possible to remove this word from the spellchecking?
The issue is highly reproducible, but not 100% reproducible. Sometimes I plug a drive into my Pi and I can read/write the drive via Samba in Finder. If I choose "Connect server" in finder and type smb://my-pi.local/portal/KINGSTON, a new Finder window will open, directing me to the drive directly, and I can access my drive.
I know Time Machine is a great backup system on Mac, but I don't like it when it starts backing up everything on a mac.My work is completely done on emails and these emails now need to be backed up as the mailbox is filling up quickly. I am using Apple Mail as well as Outlook 2016 for Mac, both with different email ids. I need to backup both of them so that I don't lose any emails and also if I need to access those emails in future I can do that easily. Here Time machine is a great app to backup but I don't want to backup other stuff, I just need it to backup my email database. Is that possible, if yes then how can I do that and if no then what are other possible options I have as an email backup system?
What is the "Apple" way of managing Macs in company environment? I've red about macOS server and Apple Remote Desktop which seems to share some management features. The later seems a bit dated, at least judging by it's website that didn't receive revamp like the rest of apple.com pages. What I need is ability to manage software updates some network config like VPN Active Directory config (yes it's mainly windows environment) e-mail is provided by company's Exchange server
The key repeat options in iOS Keyboard settings seem to work for the navigation keys (arrows, backspace, etc) but not for the letter keys. When I hold down a letter key, it does not repeat. Is it possible to change this behavior to allow all keys to repeat like on a regular desktop keyboard?
I'm trying to set up some system behaviors to occur when particular iCal or GCal events begin and end. Is there a way to hook into the notifications system (e.g., via a LaunchAgent) to make the Mac run a script when a particular notification fires? Note that I'm not asking about triggering a notification from a script, but rather the other way around.
How loud is an iPhone 6 is if you make an unweighted measurement in dB? I found this, but they use a pop filter on the microphone. How loud is it really?
I tried searching what error -10810 is but nothing came up on Google. Any idea on how to fix this or go around this?
I was able to get Mac OS back on. The display works, but as soon as it boots in a bit the screen gets lines and freezes. The system has 4 ram chips, which I’ve tried all independently and running memtester from a Linux boot disc says the RAM is okay. Although I still can’t get anything but a black screen when I boot into Linux (I SSH in to the Linux livecd). In short:
Audio from my iPhone used to automatically go to my AirPods when I put them in my ear. About 4 or 5 days ago I started having to open Control Center, then tap on the little two arcs in the corner of the audio control widget and then select AirPods in order to get audio through them.
I seem to only be able to AirDrop to/from one of my Apple devices to another if one of them is signed out of iCloud. I have all my devices (iPhone X, 2017 iMac High Sierra, 2017 MacBook Air High Sierra) all signed in to my iCloud account (the same account). The devices cannot see each other in AirDrop unless I sign one of them out of iCloud.
I can't log in to my MacBook Pro. The log-in screen now has question marks in place of letters and won't allow me to type in the password box.
AirPort Utility 5.6.1 is still used to communicate with older AirPort Extremes. A workaround exists to run it on newer versions of macOS. How does one apply a workaround to run it on High Sierra?
I have an iPhone 6 and would like to know if I could factory reset my phone and still be able to use all my data, minutes, and texts as soon as I set the phone up again?
Whenever I restart my iPhone, the brightness gets set to the lowest, so it is very dim. Then I have to adjust it back to around the middle, where I like it. How do I stop this from happening? I turn off my iPhone by holding the power button, then slide to turn off, then press and hold power button to turn on.
As usual the main internal drive on which macOS gets installed is journaled. I was going through some Ask Different posts in which there was something mentioned as Disk journaling which saves you from file corruptions but each time it registers the status of your file at the present time.These registrations might be having a huge impact on your CPU and Disk (My Assusmption), so is there any way by which I can check if my disk has journaling turned on or not and if it has how to turn it off via terminal? When I click on File Menu option via the menu bar after selecting my main Disk, this is what I get - Journaling is greyed out (I guess this option lights up if and only you are in recovery mode)
My external USB drive, formatted as NTFS, is no longer being recognized in High Sierra. As soon as I plug it in I get the following error message:
My OS X machine gets assigned two public IP addresses from Android 7.1.1: The problem I've encountered is that the temporary one may change with sleep/wake, whereas the permanent one still has the prefix that is not guaranteed to stay the same (it depends on ME).
I am working with Numbers spreadsheet files whose final output must be in German. The source of the data is the Apple Configurator app (via Automator), which produces everything in English despite the German regional settings applied to the user account... that's just a tiny bit of background. I have found some AppleScript to help with this already. This can be easily reapplied to deal with other words in the column that I am interested in.
Since updating to High Sierra I have problems with my messages app. I can drag and drop or copy from dashboard for example images into the messages window and send it to an iPhone. The receiver can not download the image, it says 0bytes. On a desktop he get's no notification about anything send. Additionally my Quick Look is also no longer working inside messages. The only way to open an attachment is right click an selecting "open". Not sure if both problems are related, but even after installing all the latest updates and restarting the computer several times, the problem still exists. Has anyone an idea how to fix this?
for some reason my accountsd is taking so much memory. even though I have a 16 mb macbook pro.. If I kill that process it keeps on opening back up again.. ideas?
I'm considering upgrading from an HP EliteBook to a MacBook Pro. However, one things that bugs me is that I use OneNote extensively for work, and I cannot afford to lose my years of notes in the passage. I know there's a similar question: How to import from OneNote on Windows to the Mac edition of OneNote? however:
I have just recently moved to iOS from Android and the app which I am missing the most is Walnut. It automatically analyses the SMS messages and adds to the expenses and categorizes them. It is linked to my bank accounts where I can check my balance and also reminds me of my credit card dues. It's also connected to all my mobile wallets.
I am trying to install particle cli on macOS High Sierra. When I run this command: bash <( curl -sl *=URL=* ) I get this error: /dev/fd/63: line 1: Moved: command not found Can anyone help me fixing this issue ?
I've noticed recently that even though my iPhone (running iOS 11.2.5) has "do not disturb" mode on at night, WhatsApp voice calls go through as usual. So far, the only solution I could come up with is turning vibrations off in the sounds settings. Is there a better way to handle this situation? If not, who should I contact in this case? Apple or WhatsApp? Thank you!
So I recently got some Apple AirPods for work because my standard EarPods stopped working. Now I noticed that when I have my phone paired to the AirPods I can walk to the other side of the house with multiple thick walls (concrete) in between me (the AirPods) and the phone without having any stutters or losing connection. But when I am using it with my macbook (at work), I cant even move 10m away (without anything in between me and the laptop) from my laptop without it stuttering or just losing connection completely.
I have been using HomeKit on an iPhone 8 and 6s to control six Philips Hue bulbs through my 4th-gen Apple TV for the last few months with no issues. Yesterday my Amazon Echo randomly stopped being able to control them so I reset the wifi settings(on the echo) and that solved the issue. At the same time my HomeKit also stopped working. All lights now give "no response" warnings. I can still use the Philips Hue app on my iPhone to control the lights as well as through Alexa. I am wondering why this may have happened and how to solve the issue.
Since the slot for Kensington cables has been removed from the MacBook Pro Retina: what are the possibility to physically protect a MacBook Pro (2015 and 15 inch model) against thieves? The goal is to prevent the computer to be stolen in a library, coffee, conference room, hotel lobby when I am next to the computer, but not currently working on it (e.g. discussion with somebody else, looking for something in my bag...) and not to leave it alone in the open.
The command man bash produces a lot of output. What I desire would be to either search the results or print the results to paper. So, is there a way to convert a man page to a html and/or pdf document. I would prefer the answer work for not only man bash, but rather for any man page. I know the output from man bash has been posted on the internet, but usually these posts are not current.
I am trying double keyboard setup. I have been able to connect both keyboards using the method described in this answer.
iOS 11 signaled the end of support for 32-bit platforms like iPhone 5C. There are now a plethora of used or refurbished iPhone 5C's on eBay and elsewhere online at very good prices, so the idea of buying one is attractive. If I bought an iPhone 5C what can I practically expect to be able to use it for?
After looking at How to completely remove Garage Band from macOS?, I was able to found /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/ and /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index/ using ls and deleted them using rm -rf. But I also found other folders: My question is: can /Library/Audio/ and all its content be safely deleted?
when I'm watching a video on Safari (i.e. Netflix) every now and then the video momentarily becomes blueish or orange-ish. That would usually happen when the scene is predominantly light colors. Sometimes the color will persist on regular apps if I stop the video and switch to these apps.
As by subject. It is very annoying, but iTunes does not play the last 3/4/5 seconds of podcasts and moves down the list (which it should also not do, since I selected play oldest to newest and it still goes to an older podcast). I can live with iTunes going to an old podcast once the one I was listening to is finished -- I'd like to finish listening to the whole thing though. I am MacOS 10.13.3, iTunes 12.7.3.46
I have read where Apple plans to stop making OSX server. What does this mean for LDAP services? Is it possible to install LDAP on a regular mac running High Sierra? Could my own iMac be the LDAP server for my organization in other words?
Is there any way to remove duplicate songs from an Apple Music playlist that I have? I imported two similar playlists from other users into a single playlist on my account. I did some searching, but nothing has come up. Note that I am asking about Apple Music playlists, and not local iTunes playlists.
I have looked and looked and whilst I can find many suggestions for my issue I cannot find a solution, not one that seems to work (in software). I have two projectors (or monitors) connected to my Macbook. Both same resolution, etc. I want to have a Keynote that stretches over both displays with the notes on my laptop.
When I set a Mac used as a public display (reminder: it turns on and off automatically during business hours) to shut down at a specific time (via Energy Saver), macOS will countdown 60 seconds then will add an additional countdown of 10 minutes. What can I change in macOS so that there is no countdown at all for a scheduled Shut Down? I found articles on the Net detailing commands for Terminal but they don't manage the 60 seconds/10 minutes countdown. Somebody told me: "use this AppleScript and that will work.
I often need to search or print a man page. Executing the man [-a index] name command invokes a readonly navigable viewer of name[(index)]. For example, the command below displays open(1). The command below displays open(n). Is there a way to use the Terminal application to involve a viewer where I can search and/or print a man page?
Good day. I have a Mac network. Consists of 3 Macbooks and 1 iMac. There is a Spectrum router giving DHCP address; I attached a Time Machine via ethernet cable to the router and assigned a static IP address to the Time Machine that matched my IP scheme. The Macbooks can back up to the Time Machine, the iMac can't see it. The iMac can ping the Time Machine. The Macbooks can't get a ping reply from the iMac. The iMac can ping everything and get a reply. What could be wrong with the iMac? Thanks in advance.
This is a pretty weird 'problem' for me. I always only close the lid when leaving my macbook, today I did the same. After an hour or so, when I checked find my iphone, i saw my macbook as online, in my backpack at my dorm. I waited half an hour hoping that it'd show as offline, but whenever I checked it became online. I freaked out, thinking that it'd overheat and burn it mainboard inside my backpack. Apple help says that macs are findable if and only if they're turned on and connected.
I'm searching for a way to change the date of multiple photo in the Photos App on macOS.
Pretty much what the title says. I'm trying to find a photo I have as a contact photo to use in another app. Any ideas? Thanks!
Any ideas? It's kind of hard to search for help with Mac OS Extended right now without being bombarded with APFS posts. diskutil list shows: diskutil info disk0s4 shows (among other things) either: or
macOS 10.13.3 This window suddenly opened in the foreground. It is not directly associated with any program, stays open if everything else is closed, can not be selected in any way, can not be moved or anything. At the time of it opening itself I am miles and miles away from the city of Berlin. This is the second time it happened, the last time being weeks ago. Googling has not turned up any meaningful results. What is this?
I have a file named Chemical Principles the quest for insight 7e by Peter Atkins.pdf but I want it to appear on Spotlight search when I look for the keyword Chemistry textbook. Is that possible?
I'd like to share a disk to a Mac on the WAN using the smb protocol. To share the same disk over afp, I simply forwarded port 548 to be available to the WAN. For smb, I've tried forwarding every port that seems to be related, but am unable to mount the disk.
I need to use escape for VI on my iPad Pro. I have the Microsoft Foldable keyboard, I have already tried Ctrl + [ and it doesn’t work. Is there a solution for this?
I am trying to sync my iPhone X and Mac Pro, I get an error message saying not authorized, but when I go through the steps to authorize, I get a different message saying the computer is already authorized.
It would make sense when I have Safari read Japanese text (for example on this page) by clicking Edit then Speech then Start Speaking, that it would recognize Japanese language and switch voice to a Japanese voice. However, it reads the text in the default U.S. voice and says "Hiragana Letter Hu, Hiragana Letter...". In the Voice Utility app, I have selected default voices for Japanese:
The issue occurs only with my user but not with another user (I created an new user to narrow down the failure area). My humble conclusion is that it must deal with my specific environment/configuration, but I have no clue how to narrow it down furhter or pin point to the error prone configuration: System preferences → Keyboard → Shortcut does not give any hint: No error no warning. Both shortcuts are assigned to the two system functions "save picture of screen as a file respectivally save picture of selected area as a file.
I'm starting to program and use both Mac and Windows. I need to add space to my Windows Bootcamp partition, so I went into Disk Utility and shrank my Mac volume. But now my Bootcamp partition doesn't appear when restarting holding Option. I also can't create an image of my Windows partition using Disk Utility in Mac, says I don't have permission.
I have a MacBook Pro with a 250 GB internal drive which I have backed up with time machine to a 1TiB drive. This has been working fine until I updated to High Sierra. Now, Time Machine estimates the backup will take 2.2 TiB which is ten times the size of the source drive. The "preparing" step took a very long time so I suspect that it was stuck in some sort of filesystem loop... Why is Time Machine estimating it will take much, much more than the actual size of the source drive?
Is FaceTime audio and video really encrypted? So that we don’t have to worry about anyone listening to our calls when we call using FaceTime?
I have installed osxfuse 3.7.1, sshfs 2.10, fuse libs 2.9.7 under High Sierra 10.13.3. Things seem to work, except that if I mount a distant directory via fstab, upon unmounting the mountpoint is left is left in a zombie state, and the only thing I can then do with that path is to reuse it for an sshfs mount, as root. Although there's a weird trick by which I can recover the mountpoint by transfering the zombiness to a different file (see below). My /etc/fstab is: This demonstrates the issue (here I’m using diskutil umount but umount and eject in the Finder’s GUI give the same result): First, with sshfs directly (no issues): Second, via /etc/fstab (leads to a zombie file): However, actually now foo is "zombie":
I had my MacBook pro partitioned half/half with Sierra and Ubuntu Desktop. Boot camp wasn't used and I had to startup macOS by long pressing the option key. Now while trying an upgrade in my Mac I encountered a message saying: "need boot camp assistant for installation of new os".
How do I separate iCloud Drive from Desktop and Documents? I accidentally clicked on an option to have iCloud store all of the desktop files, then all of the sudden, iCloud ran out of storage.
My screen saver - that shuffles between a list of files in a folder - have stopped working after I updated to 13.13.3. When the screen saver starts it shows a black screen with the following message:
3) However, the actual app has the previous version. And in Settings of the device it is stated that the version of the app is indeed the previous. But because it is now "Open" only in AppStore, the user can not update the app. The only solution for this is to wait (about a half a day), then delete and install the app again. This is ridiculous. And yes, if the user does not update the app straight away after the new version is released, but does it a little later (again about half a day), everything seems to work perfectly fine.
I noticed some very odd behaviour in macOS High Sierra's (10.13.1) Finder. For filenames that contain timestamps Finder changes the timestamp format, the two screenshots below illustrate the issue.
I have a MacBook Pro 8,1 (Early 2011) / 8GB (2x4GB RAM) /256 SSD and was running El Captain. One morning I couldn't boot it up.
I bought 1Blocker app for my Mac and iOS devices. While it works on Mac and iPhone, the app is not functioning on iPad. The developers on the app stated on their website that to get support, use Twitter.
Is any technical documentation available for Apple's new File System. By technical, I mean File System's internal structures, File allocation block etc. If Apple has not released any documentation, did someone tried to reverse engineer it?
My iPhone was only charging when turned off whether I used an original cable or not. Today it stopped charging even when it is powered off.
The "Force Quit Applications" window opened spontaneously due to memory pressure. Now I can't close the "Force Quit Applications" window itself . The "X" button doesn't close the window and it doesn't have an icon in the dock or a menu bar.
I am new to macbook pro. A few weeks ago I bought used macbook pro. I tried to change user name and it looks somewhat well. But when I open my iterm2, something that I don't want is wroten(MBP085ui). My user name is bmy4415 and MBP085ui is not I want. And this also appears in my default screensaver. ScreenShots are below. How can I change MBP085ui to my custom name? And What is the official designation of that(for eaxmaple, It's username or It's unique name of device) p.s I also changed my 'account name' and 'full name' from 'User & groups' tab. *=URL=* https://i.stack.imgur.com/WNZc8.png
I'm looking to save some space on my internal drive and noticed that com.apple.bird takes lots of space - 76 Gb to be exact. As I understand from What is com.apple.bird? Why does it grow so big? it's part of the iCloud stuff and should only keep the data temporarily. This wasn't true for my machine in the past 3 years. No matter what I did to it it just kept growing to the same size. Now my question is whether it is safe to move com.apple.bird to an external drive and just create a symlink to the folder on the external drive?
Firefox Focus? BlockBear? Brave AdBlocker? Another specialized browser? DuckDuckGo? Ghostery?
A client has a MacBook Pro Retina with a FileVault2 encrypted boot drive, and the Mac used to dual boot with Linux. Disk Utility apparently showed 4 partitions [Mac HD, Linux, and other 2 small partitions, likely used by Linux as it too was full disk encrypted. He managed somehow to delete one of the small partitions, and now all disk utility shows are disk0s1, disk0s2, and so on, without even the containing physical drive above in the list. The os was 12.12.4 [likely, definitely 12.12.x]. This is an image from Recovery > Disk Utility:
Touchbar breaks my external keyboard, and the option to use all fn keys as fn keys is gone. Is there a way to do so anyway? For me the whole touchbar thing is completely useless, and I'd prefer only having it while I hold the fn key, like it works when I add a single app in the settings Sierra 10.12, 2017 model
I have an old early-2008 Macbook which I'm using only occasionally (my main machine is now a mid-2012 Macbook Pro). The old Macbook's battery, since it was a 3rd replacement, still has about 90% capacity. However, I've left it in the Macbook and haven't recharged it for several months now.
I would like to make a document where each paragraph of text with a "section" paragraph style is prepended with a level-one number (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.) and each paragraph of text with a "subsection" paragraph style is prepended with a level-two number (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, etc.). Here is the layout I am looking for: The main reason I'd like this is so that the numbers update automatically if I add in a section or subsection.
I have used the afp protocol to share between a Mac Air at home and an iMac in my office. My iMac has a Flash storage and a SATA disk. I normally connect using a command like the following:- open afp://machinename.institutionaddress This then prompts for a shared directory or one of the disks to connect to. Since upgrading the iMac to High Sierra, the prompt no longer appears, and it connects directly to the SATA disk - unfortunately, because I usually want the flash.
I just bought a 12.9" IPad Pro. I was surprised to realise that I couldn't read my PDFs as 2 pages layout (side by side, like a book) on a landscape orientation with iBooks. Would you know any free application to do so?
A High Sierra user at my company is seeing Finder freeze hard 4-5 times a day. Clicking "restart" in the task list has no effect. The only solution we've found is to reboot the machine. During one of these episodes, I got into a terminal and ran ps aux:
Aquamacs freezes upon re-start. If I delete .emacs.d/SessionDesktop.el before restarting, all works fine.
How can I remove blank spaces from files and folders names, but just at the beginning and at the end of the files and folders names? Thanks.
I wish it were possible to press a keyboard shortcut while in full-screen Safari, have a finder window appear in the middle of the screen, and then drag+drop files from that finder window to safari. How can I do this?
I have found that I can add images to cells as background in Numbers in various sheets. I'd like to reference these images in these cells from another sheet. Is this possible?
I stopped using iCloud Photo Library and there are photos and videos on iCloud. I want to delete the photos and videos to have more iCloud storage, but when I delete some from iCloud, they get deleted in all my devices. How can I delete them (or all of them in once) without losing any of them on my iPhone and iMac?
Cross-post from discussions.apple.com. As the title says: I have a paragraph style for the main body of my document. Within a paragraph, there are some words that need to be in small caps. From my playing around, it seems as if "small caps" can be an attribute of a paragraph style but not a character style—and of course, if I set some words to a different paragraph style the entire paragraph changes, which is not what I want.
I would like to decode shared secret of OS X native Cisco IPSec profile. Then try to decode it. I tried to look in /private/etc with hope that there is CiscoSystemsVPNClient folder, but no luck... Where is it located?
I was considering the possibility of replacing the font file Pages uses with a downloaded Latin Modern Math font file, but I'm not sure what to replace. Could I replace Times New Roman in /System/Library/Fonts/ or something like that?
For some baffling reason, Apple thinks that whatever I search for in one app will be the same thing that I want to search for in another app. This results in my actual search terms being overwritten in (for example) my text editor just because I searched for something on a web page or in iTunes. Having my carefully-craft regex replaced with "Pink Floyd" is aggravating, to say the least, especially when using a text editor without a search history. The user-interface thinking that led Apple to this decision is beyond my ability to comprehend, but I really would like a way to turn it off. How can I disable this?
So I need to downgrade itunes to 12.0.1 for a jailbreak (6.1.6 on ipod 4g). Currently, you can't just delete itunes. What would I have to do? My idea is: Disable SIP (boot into recovery mode and disable) Delete the Itunes Application Install the 12.0.1 Itunes
I have been using keynote 5 for many years now in particular - the pen tool has come in extremely handy for drawing around images in order to mask them out. You can see in the animated gif below that I can trace around this image quite easily by click-dragging to make a curve and then I can delete one of the handles by clicking the anchor point (if I didn't delete the handle the line after the anchor point would continue to curve where I don't want it to):
I know that this already has an answer, it is outdated. I am running iOS 10.3.3 on an iPhone 5 (so its 32 bit), and I want to run a web server for no reason at all. I have tried install lighttpd and php, but I can't find a way to turn it on. Does anybody have an answer to my problem?
I tried to uninstall AVG but kept in saying can't be deleted because it still open, I then went to applications > Utilities and opened up Activity Monitor. Highlight it and click the "Quit Process" button but it comes back straight away and can't delete it. I can't understand why this is happening. Please if you can help doooooo.
While installing a file, the pop up with the fake flash player downloaded a dmg to my computer. Because I was already downloading something else and expecting to find it in my downloads I accidentally opened the dmg file. At this point I knew this was not the software I wished to download so I closed the window. The installer might have been left open for several hours past that until I ejected it and deleted it however. So I opened the dmg file and left it open for a while but I didn’t install anything nor run it. Am I good? Is there anyway to be sure?
I didn't even do anything to my iPad mini but the battery went out. When I charged it with my cable it kept on showing the white background and the black apple screen and now I can't turn it on. Is there anything I can try in order for the device to turn on?
I have a late-2016 MacBook Pro (without Touchbar) - MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 - Java 9 Since one or two weeks, when I launch a Java application (NetBeans, a JavaFX app, Eclipse... etc) my MacOS docks freezes for at least 5 seconds before unfreezing and showing the application in the dock (and launching it). I can't switch between applications. It does the same thing when I try to compile applications from my development environment. It's unusable for now... Do you have any solutions?
I have 200go on my iCloudDrive and all my Documents folder is on the cloud. On my iPad, with the Files app, I am able to browse in the folder hierarchy in Documents but ultimately the folders are not sync. Some files are missing, some folders also...
Is there a way to (quickly) find out the size of the local Time Machine snapshots from the command line? I can list them But I did not find any tmutil verb regarding the size. With du I get a lot of errors and it takes a lot of time With the GUI (About this Mac > Storage) I get the information in few seconds (so it must be cached somewhere).
I'm trying to build a BCHS application. I do have a remote server running OpenBSD, but the network latency is killing me, so I decided to develop on my MacBook Air and deploy to the OpenBSD server later. I haven't installed Apache yet (and don't think I'll need it), but httpd seems to be a built-in utility of macOS. I tried to start httpd with the following methods, but they didn't work: TL;DR
I have a Mid 2015 MBPr ("About this mac" screenshot below) Since I attached a 27" 4K Monitor (HP Envy) via one of the thunderbolt ports, the built-in screen occasionally (a few times an hour) appears like this:
I was on private browsing mode (on a MacBook Pro / High Sierra) and searched and found websites that I need for my work. Unfortunately I did not realize it and now I don't even know how to retrieve my history of private browsing to see the exact websites I visited. Is there any possible way?
just purchased a 2010 Mac Pro, running High Sierra. It has 12 lovely cores. But, when I look at the CPU activity in the CPU History half of the rows are blank (image below). Does this suggest one of my CPUs isn't working?
Trying to solve this issue I have looked in the Console app to further troubleshoot. Here I find the errors: Can anyone help me understanding what these are and how I might be able to fix them?
I check my opened ports via Network Utility (macOS X High Sierra 10.3.3) and get this result: Port Scanning host: MY EXTERNAL IP
I have 2 apple-ids, "logistes" which I started using years ago, and which I have used to make all my app-store purchases, and another me.com email based one that I use for iCloud data - contacts, Safari settings etc. I recently had to reset my iPad when updating to a beta version of iOS left me unable to get internet. As I got back into the machine entered the me.com email and the password and that worked fine. But when I went to sign in as my older apple-id there doesn't seem to be a way.
Is there a way to change admin passwords for all my Macs connected to my network. I know the local admin password for all PC's in my network and I need to just to change password for Username: admin
Anyone ever had a loud noise coming from the speakers when inserting the usb charger? When I say a loud noice, I mean a screeching, metal-scraping-like sound at full volume. My volume was turned off though. I keep getting the issue until I reboot my device. System information: MacBook Pro (13-inch 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) Processor: 3,1 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 8GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB running macOS High Sierra (version 10.13.1)`
I'm using macOS High Sierra (version 10.13.3) on a 27"-iMac and on a MacBook Pro. Almost every time when I'm going to log in, I see various notification on the lock screen, even before I've entered my password. This means, that everybody, who passes by and moves the mouse or presses a key (or opens the lid on the MacBook), will see this notifications too, without being logged in. This is a security issue.
I couldn't boot into single-user mode on my iMac 2007 with Mac OS X 10.5, so I forced it to do so with sudo nvram boot-args="-s". However, now my Mac won't boot and sits there with the spinning icon under the Apple logo. Obviously, being an older OS there is no Internet recovery or normal recovery partition to boot to. Icing on the cake is, it's a 2nd hand iMac with no recovery disks. I have tried resetting PRAM and NVRAM, alas to no avail, does anyone know how to remedy this?
I am a regular user of the Workout application on my Apple Watch series 2. More recently I have noticed that the watch has slowed down significantly, and frequently becomes unresponsive to touch, especially in the fitness application. I currently WatchOs 4.2.2 installed. My question - Is there anyway tool available to benchmark the Watch performance? I suspect that Apple have slowed down performance to increase battery life.
So I had to format my phone recently and redownloaded all my apps. Unfortunately now I have to reorder more than 40 apps on my phone! iTunes used to have a feature that can allow us to edit and organize apps on the iPhone, which have been removed with the recent update. Is there any other way I can easily reorder and organize my app list?
I was working 2 hours ago on a project in Xcode 9 and suddenly the simulators stopped working and the Main.storyboard looked awkward. I decided to restart the Mac thinking it would resolve the issue but now I can't work at all. The finder doesn't open, the desktop icons are missing, when I go to Disk Utility (after reboot with Cmd+R) at first I can't do the "First aid" to my internal HD because it says that is unmounted.
Alternatively I tried downloading the device manager from the manufacturer of the adapter, and my device wasn't listed on the device manager. The device managing software couldn't even find the adapter (error: couldn't open usb on [1][N]). My Question: How to update Bluetooth driver on Mac OSX High Sierra?
On an iPhone 6s running iOS 11.2.5, suddenly 3D Touch is triggered at the slightest touch. For example, swiping to go back always opens the 3D touch app switcher and holding an app icon on the home screen opens its 3D touch shortcuts menu. Resetting the phone’s settings doesn’t help. What else could I try?
How to convert many .pages documents to later open them with Word using Mac?
Ever since upgrading to the .3 version of High Sierra (10.13.3) the Time Machine backup is staying a lot of time into the "Preparing backup" state. Before someone asks, there is not a huge amount of file to backup every time it does.
Under System Preferences > Keyboard > Text, I have a lot of entries under Auto Correct. How can I back these up to transfer to a different machine?
I have an external 1TB disk that I use for Time Machine backups that I temporarily added a second 100GB partition to. After deleting the partition, though, I can't reclaim the free space. Disk Utility won't let me drag the partition button onto it:
I use several news apps on my iPhone X. When I read an article, I often want to search for a specific term within the article (similar to Ctrl-F, "Find", in a browser). How do I do that?
When typing in Hebrew on macOS 10.13, the daghesh sometimes 'jumps' from one character to another. Here is an example. Initially, the daghesh is in the correct place (שׁ):
rMBP 13” 2015 with the latest MacOS I installed rEFInd so that I could boot Linux as well as MacOS. After an update, rEFInd didn’t work anymore so I thought t would be safe to delete the partition. Now I can’t boot my Mac because there is no boot partition - oops. Here’s some info from recovery:
I have a 15" MBPr Mid 2015 with the intel iris graphics with 1536MB VRAM and 16gb RAM. When plugged into an external 4k monitor (HP Envy 27") graphics performance seems very slow. Photoshop is much slower to work in for instance.
I have an apple account that is NOT enrolled in Apple Developer Program. I became a member of another organization using their invitation and they gave me the role of "Admin" in iTunes connect. However, I do not see the option of publishing application to app store from iTunes connect when I am logged in using my apple account. Question: Do I have to pay 99 bucks to be able to publish apps on app store even though my apple account is a part of this organization. If 1 is true, then why is apple charging me again even though the organization have already paid them.
Im running MacOS 10.12 Sierra on Virtualbox.. I need to change SID "Security Identifier" is possible using Terminal ? For windows we have SIDCHG and Sysprep ! Is there any equivalent application for MacOS or Any way to change SID on MacOS ? Reference: How to get current user SID in Mac OS X Screenshot: Thanks in advance !
On my new iMAC 20.5, I plugged in a USB drive which lights up ok, but doesn't show in Finder-Other devices. Instead, I have a "Remote Disc" listed in Finder, which when clicked, shows gray and can't be removed. How do I get to transfer data to the seemingly non-working thumb drive??
I want to have a full local backup of my iCloud Photo Library. To that cause, I want to get the cheapest Mac Mini that is recent enough to support Photos.app, equip it with enough storage, and set it to "Download originals to this Mac".
This small white window often pops up and it's very annoying. I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6 It may or may not be related to these questions: 1, 2
Thanks for looking at my post! I’m working in the command line in Terminal (Yosemite) trying to load Certbot app using SSH. I’ve tried many things I’ve seen on forums but nothing seems to work. I was trying to install Certbot on my web server using this command: and received this error: When I put this code in Terminal: I get: When I put in this command: I get: Somebody on a forum said try these: I got this: But, when I try the original Certbot code, I still can’t download and get same original error.
My son in US gave his used iPhone to me in India. Even though I set to my id , whenever any AppStore updates prompt come, I am unable to update as it asks for my son's iCloud password, how to resolve
Considering the latest 15-inch MacBook Pro that has four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, I'm wondering if it's possible to connect four 1080p monitors to it. I'm assuming I could connect three monitors to the three Thunderbolt ports , since one is reserved for power, but how would i connect the forth? I'm not planing to game or do video editing of this machine, but otherwise, how will the performance be with four monitors (assuming this is possible) Any ideas?
Is there a "good" way to crash OS X? I need it for testing particularities.
I know the admin password. What script I need to use to change password and enable Remote Login and Remote Management
I am currently using a MacBook Pro 2015 with Iris Pro 2G graphic card, which supports up to 2 extended display (I tried to setup 3 extended monitor - 2x Thunderbolt 2 + 1x HDMI, it won't work, 1 screen has to go dark). On the other hand I also have a MacBook Pro 2013 with a broken screen. Both MBPs have 2x Thunderbolt port and 1x HDMI. MBP 2015 has a 3-screen setup: Laptop screen Thunderbolt 2 to DVI on FHD monitor (extended) HDMI to DVI on FHD monitor (extended) MBP 2013 has a single screen setup: Laptop screen - broken Thunderbolt 2 to DVI on FHD monitor (mirror, not extended) My question is, Is it possible to use a Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 2 cable connect these 2 MBP and make the 2013 MBP's FHD monitor as another extended display to make MBP 2015 to total of 4 screens? If not, any suggestion to make the most of the MBP 2013?
I have a 2011 iMac running High Seirra. I have an SSD with the OS installed and a separate HDD where I've put my Home Folder. Imaginatively named High Sierra HDD and High Sierra SSD.
I recently tried installing GnuPG on MacOS High Sierra v10.13.3 After getting frustrated, I attempted to uninstall GnuPG by moving all folders I had downloaded associated with it to the Trash. However, when I'm in terminal and I type in I get the response: At which point I have to use ctrl+z to stop the process, and which leads me to believe that GnuPG has not been fully uninstalled off my system.
I have had a problem with my MacBook Pro 8,1 (early 2011, 4GbRAM, 256Gb Sandisk SSD) for weeks now. All the Apple Hardware Test(AHT) results are negative - Memory, SSD seems to be OK. I have made a bootable USB with El Capitan and am trying a restore but have noticed that the Erase time is very long...over an hour. I have previously restored to Lion 10.7.5 but the Spinning wheel of death made it unusable and after the first reboot the system never started again. Could this be a clue that the SSD really is bad but the AHT is not seeing it? Is there a reliable test for the SSD?
I have way too many photos in the Photos app to manually go through and delete every photo which may have a missing original, is there any other way to select all the photos with missing originals and delete? Edit: Okay, so clicking consolidate just brings up continuous dialogs per each image with a missing original, but there's no option to delete that file and writing down the filenames and then trying to find them all somehow would take ages. I don't know how this would possibly work, but maybe there's a way to access the actual Photos DB and get the rights to delete items and just run some SQL like delete from table_name where column_value = some_value_which_indicates_missing_original?
I just found out if a keyword is searched inside of Google Chrome on a Mac, then if I go to the Terminal app and search there, the keyword will go across there. That is different from what I know before: each app's search is independent and they would not go across. How come it is happening and is there a way to make them independent? (this Mac is still running Mavericks but I am wondering if High Sierra is doing the same thing)
I have a mid 2015 MBPr running an i7 processor. I have a 2160p video [which is x265 encoded] that I'd like to play but VLC stutters [large part of the video is fine but certain parts get a bit too heavy I reckon]. I downloaded the x265 plugin from here and compiled it as instructed. Ideally I'd like to get it working without upgrading to High Sierra for native support.
I recently bought a NAS (Synology DS218+) to help with backing up several Macs in my household using Time Machine. So far, each Mac has been backed up on individual hard drives.
I am about to get a hold of a liquid-damaged mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina. I am going to attempt to repair it. Assuming the logic board needs replacement, is it possible to replace it with a different logic board from the same model year? Basically, if the current logic board is the 2.2 GHz i7 IG (MJLQ2LL/A), can I replace it with the logic board made for the 2.8 GHz i7 DG (MJLU2LL/A)?
I know you can ostensibly remap the keybinding on a given application in the Keyboard prefs, but this remap is not always possible when the format match is not an explicit menu choice. I'm assuming the attempt at preservation of formatting in a paste is a system wide behavior in the API, but maybe I'm wrong. Barring this, would it be possible to hack the copy script to auto-convert the clipboard to plain UTF text when it copies anything it sees as decorated text?
I wanted to delete all my partitions and merge all the space to the Macintosh HD but I made a mistake by taking the Macintosh HD volume out of the physical storage list. I don't know what happened:
My iPad Pro with iOS version 11++ has been disabled and I only get a screen : "iPad is disabled. Connect to iTunes.". It need to be restored in order to function again properly but all data would be erased. How can I access the data while it is disabled ?
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running Sierra. I have it set up with a Dell U2715h monitor via the thunderbolt port on my Mac, with a miniDP -> DP cable, as the only way to get the full QHD resolution support. The monitor has several USB ports (USB3 I think) which could be really handy - except they don't work.
If I have pictures in macOS Photos, and people's faces have been identified and named in the People section, how can I search for pictures where both person X and person Y appear, or where X, Y and Z appear? Currently, after some googling and experimentation with operators, I've only been able to search for pictures by using the name of a single person.
I've always understood that my Mac Mini is limited to one QHD (2560 x 1440/1600) monitor via DisplayPort and one HD monitor (1900x1200) via HDMI... from Wikipedia: Like the 2009 version, a Mini DisplayPort (which allows for a VGA connection, via a non-included cable) is included. A HDMI port, which Apple describes as being HDMI 1.4 compliant, replaces the Mini-DVI port on the prior models as one of the main video connection methods. The HDMI port supports up to 1080p on HDMI connections and 8 channel 24-bit audio at 192 kHz, Dolby Surround 5.1 and stereo output. With the included HDMI to DVI adapter, for those currently using a DVI interface, the HDMI port will work with resolutions up to 1920 × 1200 pixels, while the Mini DisplayPort can concurrently support a resolution up to 2560 × 1600 pixels However this link suggests I can run two QHD monitors via the thunderbolt port and a splitter: Native Mini DisplayPort output DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
I use an iPhone. What would happen to the Offline videos on the YouTube app once I delete/uninstall the app and want the videos (offline ones) back, after I install it again later?
I want to set the default text editor for Makefiles to something like Atom or Sublime Text to make them easier to open, and so that when I edit remote Makefiles through CyberDuck they will open in one of these editors by default. Typically, I set a default file type's default 'open' app by right clicking -> Get Info -> Open With -> Change All However, every time I try to do this for files called 'Makefile', I get the following error: An error occurred while changing the application that opens “Makefile” because not enough information is available. Do you want to open “Makefile” with “Sublime Text.app”?
I'm trying to set up a new backup utility on my system, and am getting an error that it cannot get the files in folder /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles under macOS 10.13.3. I don't get the issue under a VM running macOS 10.12 - but if I attempt to read /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store, then I get errors: Getting info on the file in the Finder show unknown permissions:
I have a 500 gb SSD, and recently I madre a 100 gb partition for installing Ubuntu. Now that I have erased the ubuntu partition, when I open the Disk Utility app my SSD has 100 gb of free space that is not being used by the main system. How can I merge this free space with my Mac OS volume?
I am working on a MacBook Pro (2015, pre-touchbar) running Sierra and using Microsoft Word 2016/365. When I used Find function, the "Find what" box autocompletes. I want to disable this and can't even figure out if this is a function of Word or MacOS. For example: If I search for "yearbook" than later wish to find "year" the rest of the word "yearbook" is added to the right of my cursor as soon as I start typing, so that if I just hit Return the search is for yearbook rather than year. I want to turn this functionality off but can't figure out where from it's coming.
I'm trying to remove the SMS badge from the avatar icon in my Google Hangouts conversation list. I can open the Developer Tools and make the change in the DOM, but I want an automated way to do it. I have TamperMonkey installed, and I have a CSS declaration that works (.Dkouue {display:none}), but I can't get it to apply no matter which @match declarations I try.
My wife accidentally unplugged the usb connector from my docking station with the HDD Backups. Now, Time Machine is unable to backup. I tried to repair using Disk Utility > First Aid but it didn't work.
While backing up my macOS using Time Machine I came across the following folder: /Users/Shared/adi. What is the purpose of that folder? Can this entry be safely removed?
I've recently revived an original clamshell iBook which has something my modern MacbookPro lacks: a CD drive. This has given me an idea: ripping CD's with my iBook and bringing them over to my newer computer. Is there a piece of free software for classic Mac OS which is capable of ripping lossless audio files from CD's for free ?
I tried to watch unbox therapy’s new video: “The Worst Text You Could Ever Recieve” and the YouTube app keeps quitting. Furthermore, my screen just blacks out for a second before showing the home screen. This is only for one video, not others. Tried restarting, no effect. Running latest version of iOS.
My worst nightmare happened today: all my work bookmarks in my work computer (which I do not own) were deleted and replaced by my personal (home) computer bookmarks during an upgrade of my work computer to High Sierra. i.e., hundreds of professional resources I use on a daily basis were deleted, and replaced with my favorite leisure websites.
So I tried this new character that apparently kills any app that it's rendered in. I wanted to try it with my own mac myself.
I am using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Macbook Air. The problem I am facing is that the internal touchpad and keyboard stop working as soon as I login. They also do not work in Safe mode. I have also tried to create another login account but the keyboard/trackpad fail to work there as well. I have also tried SMC / PRAM reset multiple times and also reinstalled the OS from recovery mode, but again failure. The only abnormalities that I have found are that 1) the multi touch kernel extension does not have a Plugins directory which is a different structure than all the other kext directories. ~ Fri Feb 16 20:19:11 $ ls /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext/Contents/ Info.plist MacOS/ _CodeSignature/ version.plist and 2) there is no option to disable the trackpad in the accessibility preferences pane. Does anyone have any guesses as to what might be going on ?
Sometimes my Airpods do not respond to my taps, so I have gotten into the habit of answering phone calls from the iPhone screen if a call comes in while I am wearing the Airpods. However, if I answer from the phone, the device seems to think I want to talk through the phone itself, and automatically disconnects me from the Airpods. I have to then press the "Speaker" button, and then choose my Airpods from the list, and only then am I able to talk through the Airpods.
After some more icon clicking, Force Quit-ing and Dock relaunching, I opened Activity Monitor. I found Safari didn't show in Activity Monitor when view was set to "windowed processes." I set the view to "all processes" and searched for "saf" and found the same four processes above. I force quit them with Activity Monitor.
I am new to Applescript and I am trying to open a xlsx file that ends like DK.xlsx. Tried using the following code, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here? Please help.
I have several multi-page documents created in MS Word 2007 and can't print double sided pages from it. I have tried several times to change the default page size from "Index Card, "Letter 8x11 inches" to "US letter" from the layout tab and format document page setup page size default.
I am a Chrome user and on one of my Macs which I just upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra (to try to address performance and glitchy problems, Chrome being one of them, but had to anyway) I am having issues where I am outright having login problems with just this one Mac using Chrome. (Other Macs with sync Chrome accounts don't have this, and the problem spans the upgrade.) Lots of extensions simply will not allow login. Man sites do not load properly. Chrome is basically FUBAR. I've not had much luck on Googles forums, which is par for the course. Vague answers and general plausible deniability appears to be the general MO.
Today I wanted to check the /etc/fstab on macOS and found that there is no /etc/fstab anymore. Ok, maybe its a long time since I've used it on OS X but i was always sure that the OS X had not too many differences from "UNIX" (since it is supposed that macOS (High Sierra) is indeed a UNIX).
Unfortunately, as I reported in that other post, it suddenly started suffering from the notorious kernel bloat issue where those familiar processes became the machine's sole purpose as they were generally up top of the proc table as I have seen it on many other troubled Macs in the past. I was downright emotional about it and I received some great suggestions as to how I might resolve it, but since the machine had been upgraded so many times (it literally has not gotten a fresh install since Mountain Lion, yet no performance issues until just now, oddly) I opted for a full install. It was due. I had my installation checklist well defined along with settings (I just need to Automate it next!) so the mini is now running on what is effectively a fresh install of High Sierra. While right off performance is so much better, once I installed Chrome and it synced up with my Google account, crazy things happened and I am now picking its mess off so I can start fresh. Dunno if its an bad extensi
Is it possible to use hardware accelerated HECV encoding somehow from the command line in high sierra? Quicktime supports it in the GUI, but I dont know how or if I can utilize this from the command line.
Does anyone happen to know where I can get the RAT3 drivers? I have a 2015 MBP. Currently my Mac will not do any hovering of the mouse and I think it may be due to the lack of drivers for the mouse. The Mad Catz site does not have any downloads anymore.
I tried to take a screenshot using command shift 4. The picture will appear on the desktop for a second and then disappear. How do I fix this? I've tried restart and it didn't work. I'm running High Sierra 10.13.3
A couple of weeks ago my MacBook Pro 8,1 early 2011 with a SanDisk 256 SSD wouldn't boot. I have ran the Apple Hardware test many times and everything checks out fine, but even when I restore from the Time Machine or even clone using CCC the MacBook won't boot from the SSD. I have now got an old Fujitsu mechanical 120 GB HD and the MacBook runs fine from this now.
I have generated a Let's Encrypt certificate for the subdomain I use for the profile manager website. I have exported the certificate and imported it into the Server app. I got the following message when I try to select this certificate.
I've had my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) for over a year and I've never had any problems with charging until now. I was always able to use both USB-C ports for charging, but I just tried using the port that I don't usually use for charging (the one closest to me) and it just doesn't charge. I can use this same port to charge my phone, but when I try to charge my MacBook with it, it just does nothing. How can I fix this?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2013 with macOS high Sierra and double hard disk. One SSD for OS and one HDD for data. After boot the Mac as usually data hard disk disappears and now I can't access to my documents and data. How can I check if hard disk is dead?
I have a 5c running iOS10.3.3. It has been accessing my yahoo account for years. Today, first it said it needed the password, then would not accept the password, then could not connect to server. I have now gone through resetting network settings, deleting my email account and now I can not get past the Add Account page. From Settings - Mail - Accounts - Add Account - Yahoo - I enter my yahoo email address and password, and it then reverts back to Add Account page. Similarly when I go through my Mail icon, it comes up with the Welcome to Mail page again. I enter my yahoo address and password, but it reverts to that page again from there too. I seem to be stuck on this page from both avenues. All help gratefully received x
iTunes 12.7.3.46 won't play my purchased movies or tv shows! Any ideas on what to do? I've even worked with Apple Care support and couldn't find a solution. iMac late 2015 with latest versions of iTunes and High Sierra.
I am unable to connect through IKEv2 VPN. I fill in everything but clicking connect only tries to do that(without actually connecting) and almost immediately disconnects. Syslog is empty, in wifi.log however I can find: I don't really know what that means though.
I use my Mac for personal, school, and work use and as you can imagine it's really easy to get cluttered up with a ton of windows. The solution I devised is separate desktops for home and work, separate full screen safari tabs, separate Xcode windows, etc. The only problem is macOS loves to jumble to ordering around. When I click links in mail they will open in safari, but then the safari window will move around in mission control. I don't want that. I want the work windows to stay together and the home windows to stay together. Is there any way to keep these windows in their place?
I followed directions on getting iPhone messages to iPad. When I clicked on receive only my email addresses showed up- my cell number not there How do I add phone number. I have iPhone 6
I have a table like this:  In yellow circle, I have a table formatted with Date and Value I want the result as shown in the red circle, with same dates combined and their value summed up. I have tried this formula:
My friend has an iPhone X and he got hit by the Indian character text bomb via WhatsApp. Appearently he was able to remove WhatsApp from his phone but his phone still randomly reboots/resprings. Is there any way to fix this (possibly without a restore)? I got this information via SMS and he didn't give much information.
I'm not sure what's causing it, but suddenly the systemd process just started using about 150% CPU (according to my iStat menu). I checked in Activity Monitor and it said the same. I checked the CPU temperature and it was almost 100℃ so I immediately shut down. I turned it back on and the same thing happened, so I shut down again and, after trying a couple more times, logged into the guest account.
I've an APFS disk image (disk3). Currently it's capacity is near close; around 700 MB left. Is it possible to increase it while keeping the data inside intact! I've tried diskutil apfs resizeContainer but with no luck. diskutil list:
Garageband is taking up nearly 25 GB of space under Music Creation when I look at "Manage" storage on my Macbook Air running High Sierra. I have deleted every file for Garageband, including Apple Loops and the preferences and containers and any files that were suggested online in various help lists, including this one. I deleted all files and emptied the trash and restarted several times, and it STILL shows 24.93 GB of space used under Music Creation for GarageBand instruments and lessons. I don't use GarageBand nor do I use LogicPro, so I would like to free up that much space. Any ideas on what to do next? This is infuriating, I've tried all the suggestions, what I am missing?
After the upgrade to HighSierra, my mac has been running very sluggish and stuttering at times. There is little CPU usage and randomly in any application I'm in, the mac will lock up for a few seconds. It comes in about 1-5 minute intervals and doesn't seem to be apparent to task switching. I've tried resetting the NVRAM and SMC as well as doing a normal cleanup. I can't seem to find out what the issue is which is left me through system logs to find fixes. Does anyone know what causes the authd process to have error -67050? I also get these errors too: Edit: (Adding More logs and link to apple thread of similar issue *=URL=* )
i recieved An i phone7s plus but cannot activate because previous owner did not erase it so can not by pass the Icloud how do I activate this phone
I am having trouble with my 5 Airport devices. I have one Airport Extreme connected to the internet and four other Airport devices. The configuration I would like is the following:
In Numbers, it is possible to go to the cell below the cell you are currently in by pressing Enter. In a table in Pages, it seems as though pressing Enter simply makes a new line in the table cell. Additionally, pressing the arrow keys only move the text insertion cursor and pressing Escape. Pressing ⌘ Enter does deselect the current cell and keep the entered text in it, but it doesn't automatically go to the next cell. Is there a way (like there is in Numbers) to go to the next cell in a table in Pages?
I have seen other posts asking similar questions to this but they were for Ubuntu and Windows. All answers were exclusive to the respective operating system. I have not seen something that will work for Mac OS users to get the desired result: Disabling the prompt to Discard or to Keep (requiring annoying user intervention to initiate the download) so that downloads just download regardless of their extension type.
Since iOS11, when making a call using my iPhone Dialer app, instead of the speaker button being listed alone, when I click it, it has a context menu that offers Speaker or my iPad. I've never used this, and really have never wanted to use my iPad as the speakerphone for my Phone. What's funny is that Googling for it shows very little written on this feature. Any ideas on how to remove it?
I have been using HomeKit on an iPhone 8 and 6s(both iOS 11.2.5) to control six Philips Hue bulbs through my 4th-gen Apple TV for the last few months with no issues. Yesterday my Amazon Echo randomly stopped being able to control them so I reset the wifi settings(on the echo) and that solved the issue. At the same time my HomeKit also stopped working. All lights now give "no response" warnings. I can still use the Philips Hue app on my iPhone to control the lights as well as through Alexa. I am wondering why this may have happened and how to solve the issue.
As I understand it, the major cellular carriers in the US support wifi calling. If I purchase a late model iPhone from carrier A, and I decide in the future to migrate to carrier B: is it reconfigurable to be used with carrier B's wifi calling system? (ignore CMDA / GSM compatibility)
Hardware 1 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) 2 Dell U2517D documentation 1 Hubee usb-c dock documentation Expectation Successfully connect and extend both of my Dell "U2517D" monitors using my "Hubee" usb-c dock to my MacBook Pro to render 3 separate windows(Mbp screen included). Issue
I recently purchased a 2012 Mac Mini and am attempting to max out my dual monitor setup. Currently, I connect my Mac to a Dell S2417DG's HDMI 1.4 in via this passive mini DP to HDMI 1.4 cable. According to the specifications, 1440p should be possible, yet macOS only offers a 1080p maximum in System Preferences > Displays.
When using Python scripts in Blender, where scripts are on ICloud, what is easiest way to reference the files. Since 'ICloud' is not a drive, even though it is in the 'favorites' list, it is not shown in the 'java' based open file list provided in Blender. Is there a simpler way then to have to browse into /Users/xxx/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/
I'm building a Swift4 app on MacOS that uses GTK+3 to provide a GUI. I have my package.swift file correctly setup and my app builds both from the terminal and in Xcode. However, when I run the app from Xcode (i.e. debugging) the product name is incorrectly displayed as per the image below:
There is this specific apps that I can't download on the App Store and they have this 17+ rating. Now hear me out first, I have the restrictions disabled and what's odd is when I enable it and look into the apps rating it only shows up to 12+. I mean there has to also be a 17+ button there because I've seen other iPads have that.
I'm wondering if we'll ever see native window management in macOS just like Windows 10 offers it. What I mean by that is the Windows key + Arrow keys functionality for moving windows around, halfing windows on screen, moving across monitors, minimizing, maximizing, just with those two keys.
I would like to control the fan speed using terminal, if possible without third party app. The idea is to automate and schedule different fan speed.
I am using a Logitech c920 HD Pro Webcam with my Macbook Pro 17" (early 2011) and Mac OS Mavericks 10.9.5 I am able to record videos with Quicktime 10.3 where I have two options for "quality" with this camera: high or maximum. The file size gets very large, especially in "maximum" where 80 seconds in an black and white (colour setting to 0) take up 2.6 GB already. I think this camera is providing a H.264 stream which already should be compressed much more but Quicktime seems not to be able to load from that stream. Also, the quality of the video seems to be rather blurry and not really Full HD.
I am considering adding a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle to my 2011 Mac (to enable Airdrop). Will my Magic Mouse 1 still work?
That is true for other threat modelling scenarios than I have as my use case. However, enabling 2FA (e.g. TouchId + password) for the laptop is a valid solution to this question, if it's possible.
Also here are the diskutil list & cs list from terminal:   Also i don't happen to have a 'CoreStorage Logical Volume Group' for some reason i don't know why !
On my external NTFS HDD I have my music collection with over 3800 artists in it, which is structured like this: /Music/Artist/Year - Album/, each artist as a separate sub-folder. When I try to open the Music directory in Finder it takes from 10 to 35 seconds to show me the list of sub-directories there. Something similar to this happens when I access such directory on a EXT4-formatted HDD in a QNAP NAS over the network (SMB or AFP). Any Windows machine opens and displays the same folder in Explorer near-instantly both locally and over the network. What causes this behavior on MacOS and how do I make MacOS list the subfolders quicker, like on Windows?
I've started using Firefox with multiple profiles, however sometimes I'm lost and I can't find the right window. For example given I've the process with PID 1234 such as: how can I switch the current focus to it based on its PID?
Looking for ideas on how to fix my iMac, it's a 5k 2014 that will no longer boot. It all started one morning when I'd put it to sleep the evening before, when trying to wake it, nothing happened, and the power button did nothing too. Randomly managed to get it to boot later that day, would reboot fine, but when I turned it off it no longer would switch on again.
Is it possible to link to another notes in macOS Notes Application? For example I want to add in link to "Note2" from "Note1". So I click on the link, it will take me to that note.
When I upgraded my IPAD Air 2 to IOS 11, my current video player (CineX) stopped working because it is not supported anymore. How can I associate my current movies on the IPAD with another player (VLC etc.) without downloading and uploading them again?
Ive got mac mail running on my macbook pro (2.7ghz i7, 16gb ram, 1gb dedicated gpu) using OSX 10.10.5 It seems to be very slow of late, in general operations and in searching, i presume this is down to the amount of emails i have which are divided up between 9 accounts, all of the accounts are connected to via imap or in the case of google apps for business accounts using the inbuilt mail.app google apps / gmail account setup which i presume builds an imap connection in the back end. (see below for details on accounts).
I am heavily struggling with a corrupted USB. The problem I am facing is that I can neither partition nor erase the Disk. The disk is empty and there is not partition created. I can also not find a volume. It is also impossible to initialised the disk or perform any action on disk utility. Any help is highly appreciated.
Assuming this is coil while, what would be the best way to deal with this issue? I have talked to Apple support online, who advised the usual troubleshooting steps of an SMC reset, among a few others. I restarted in Safe Mode, reset both the SMC and NVRAM, as well as ran Apple Diagnostics, all of which neither resolved the issue nor indicated any hardware issue.
I am using JSON Helper to convert record to JSON. I have run into difficulty that using certain words inside the record produces empty JSON. As you can see from the screenshot, first two variables (test1 and test2) silently fail and produce empty JSON. Here's source to the script in question - link. My question is simple - why test1 and test2 produce empty JSON?
After looking at more pricey (for me) solutions I'm wondering if its possible to connect two monitors, that only have VGA connections (so I can't daisy-chain using Thunderbolt), using an HDMI splitter. I.e. using two VGA-to-HDMI cables to connect to the splitter, then connecting the splitter to the MacBook Pro via a HDMI displayport adapter.
In Pages, when you want to edit the code for an equation, you simply have to double click on it for the "Edit Equation" dialog box to pop up. However, when you have an equation inside a table cell, it doesn't seem like you can double click on it to edit it. How would you edit an equation inside a cell without cutting it and pasting it somewhere else, double clicking on it, and then cutting and pasting it back?
If I were to use a portable ssd as the bootcamp partition, would I be able to use it on different mac computers?
This is really worrying me as I need this computer to function by tomorrow. So, I downloaded Windows 10 and loaded it onto my computer, and now it keeps saying that "An unexpected error occurred and Windows could not install, press 'OK' to retry". This has been looping for over 20 mins. I desperately need help.
I have two external monitors (both are Sanyo TVs). My Macbook Pro has one Thunderbolt. I purchased a Mini DisplayPort to Dual HDMI Adapter. The adapter is connected to the Mini Display port and to a USB. I have two HDMI cables, each connected to their own HDMI port in the adapter. My problem: The laptop works just fine independently; however, the two external monitors mirror each other. I have tried clicking on Display and clicking on Detect Displays but it does not detect the 3rd monitor or if it does, I am unable to make it work independent of the 2nd monitor - Help, Please!
I've re-installed the system and I'd like to find the location where macOS keeps the VPN configuration (in which file), the one configured in Network, System Preferences, so I am able to restore it manually from the backup files. I've checked under ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<UUID>.plist (as per this post), but it looks like it's something else. When I've manually created new VPN, I've checked the content by: but the VPN configuration is not there.
A few months ago on a flight, I stupidly put a glass of wine next to my immaculate Macbook. The inevitable happened and half a glass of red wine was split directly onto the keyboard. In a combined two handed move which I now call the "Macbook Save", I held down the power button to turn it off and tipped the Macbook to the side and the wine ran out of the keyboard.
I have recently had some problems charging my iPhone 7 from my 2013 Macbook Air. For a while, the phone would only charge if I had the lightning cable turned a certain way, otherwise it would do that incredibly annoying connecting/disconnecting thing. It now refuses to charge at all when connected to the laptop. The strange thing is - my laptop charges my portable phone charger fine (suggesting the laptop port isn't the issue) and the phone charger works with my iPhone fine (suggesting the phone isn't the issue either). And I have tested 2 different cables (one new, one is an apple with no signs of wear and tear) and both work with other devices.
I can't activate iMessage or FaceTime on any Apple device. It keeps saying that it could not be activated and I should try again later. I'm on the latest version of macOS and iOS and the date and time are set automatically on both devices. I have no phone number linked to the Apple ID so it has nothing to do with a carrier, etc.
Does anyone know if MS Office 2011 works in High Sierra? I'd like to upgrade, but I'm on a deadline and I can't spend a lot of time upgrading right now. Plus, I really detest "subscription" software which apparently is the way Microsoft is going.
I've been using my 13" 2015 MacBook Pro with BenQ projector. I'm connecting these with simple HDMI and watching Netflix, that's all, no Apple TV, no fancy stuff. Right now my projector is connected to 5.1 home theater but I need something more mobile and I've been thinking about a bluetooth soundbar, something like this one.
I went to a apple store recently and ordered a custom 2017 Macbook Pro with the help of an employee. I was ordering on a demo MacBook Pro when I noticed that the B key was stuck and could not be pressed. This got me suspicious, but I assumed apple has high quality products so I ordered it anyway. In the evening, I did some research and I found out that this a much bigger problem. So big, that apple even as an official diagnostic page for stuck butterfly keys.
I want to implement a basic captive portal. For the test setup, I have a mac mini connect to wifi (192.168.1.1) and ubuntu laptop connected to it via lan.
When I travel I want to be able to back up my RAW photos with metadata to an external hard drive, and then later import them on to my iMac. (For whatever reason, photos on my MacBook don't always upload to iCloud, despite being on the same account as the iCloud.). If I export originals, the metadata must go in an XMP sidecar. Mac Photos does not want to import that sidecar. When I tested it, once the metadata didn't go with it, but once it did. I may have done something wrong the first time. When I imported into Lightroom CC, the metadata seemed to go along. I am not sure it's all going with the photo. Can I rely on being able to access the metadata with the RAW photo? Thank you.
I want to make the keyboard shortcut for a Service I made ⌃⌥⌫ (Ctrl+Opt+Backspace); however, System Preferences doesn't let me do this. Is there a way I can include the key manually?
How can I stop receiving notifications telling me to update from the iOS 11 beta? I don’t have enough storage to update and I really don’t want to completely reset my phone either.
"Enable Quick Website Search" is unchecked. "Include Safari Suggestions" is unchecked. "Include Safari Suggestions" is unchecked. "Spotlight Suggestions is unchecked. "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Look up" is unchecked.
So my MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.9 recently started having problems (which is its own issue, and also seems to be hard drive corruption), so I thought in the meantime I'd switch to an older computer, and work from a backup. I connected an external hard drive with a Time Machine backup from the 10.9 computer to a computer running 10.4 (because it was close), and noticed that most folders in the backup were appearing as 0-byte files. Wondering if this was due to some incompatibility between the two systems, I tried instead connecting the drive to a computer running 10.5, and now it gives an error message saying "The disk "My Book" was not repairable by this computer." and that it would be made available with limited functionality, and the Backups.backupdb folder appears to be empty. The folder also appears empty when I try to access it from Terminal on the original 10.9 computer through recovery mode. (In case it matters, the first time I tried connecting it to the 10.5 computer, it o
There are many questions and commentary about using launchctl setenv PATH /path/to/include in order to have GUI apps inherit user-specified paths. I did this about four years ago, and the changes I added have persisted to 10.11.6 (current OS). Unfortunately for me, I have long forgotten these settings until recently...
I have following versions of Java: Then I want to set Java version to 1.7: Seems OK, but: Why?
When playing music on iTunes or similar and then locking the screen (accomplished by hitting the ⌃⌘Q key combination or selecting "Lock Screen" from the  menu), how do I prevent the media keys from functioning? In particular, the play, skip, and pause buttons are still functional at this point. This is problematic because I tend to lock my screen in order to prevent my cat from wreaking havoc on my laptop when she steps on the keys -- but she's still able to mess up my music via the above, usually…
Random question, but remember back in the day when WinAMP had visuals that responded to the music you played? iTunes later added a similar feature, that it wasn’t particularly responsive to actual music. I was wondering if a similar app or add-in exists for the AppleTV 4 so when you’re playing music on it or streaming from iTunes over AirPlay that you can look at something on your TV other than the screen saver?
I was trying configure my Mac to dual boot Ubuntu and macOS. In the process, I somehow managed to make Macintosh HD unbootable (is that a word?). I was able to boot Ubuntu just fine. I had just recently created a Time Machine backup so I tried to restore it. I booted up while holding the Option key Selected my backup disk (this is the only disk that was visible) Erased APPLE SSD and created a new Macintosh HD partition using the APFS (case-sensitive) format and GUID partition map. Started restoring the Time Machine backup
While it is often complained about, the dongle for the later iPhone models has as its most notable flaw a rather low-end DAC (digital to analogue converter) built into it that is clearly far inferior to the on-board DAC of earlier iPhones when they still had a headphone jack. This leaves music sounding even lossier and flat than they already sound with heavy compression on AAC or MP3 lossy formats. It’s a very disappointing experience. I have been able to get around the poor lossy sound by encoding music myself at better bitrates, but this problem is a deal-breaker. If I can’t find a solution then the iPhone and I will be parting ways.
I was wondering if there's a modification on Touch Bar when a MBP booting up e.g. putting up a JPG image before booting completed / login.
The solution I've been pondering is to find an alarm app that uses the flash light to wake people up. Questions: Is the flash light on an iPhone sufficient to wake up a person? Are there other options for waking him that will not wake me?
Is there a way to work with music production so that the basic MIDI data (notes, events, etc.) are separated from the rest of the data used by the music program (plugins w/settings, advanced sheet music notation, etc.), so you can work on one copy -- literally a single file -- of the basic MIDI data that is then in turn used by all music programs such as Logic, Sibelius, Reason, etc.? To visualise concretely how I would imagine this, the MIDI file would be a separate file, which in a perfect world was loaded and saved by the music program alongside the program specific data.
In iOS 10 Podcasts app there are grey dots next to some episodes in the feed of a podcast. What does it mean?
I have an external hard drive that is partitioned as a single encrypted HFS+ volume. Here's what's going on: The volume won't mount, Disk Utility won't repair it. diskutil cs list says:
I wonder whether one can make the signature optional -- to select if it can be enabled on per-message basis?
I need to run *.app from our NFS share where the different apps and versions are stored. I can't get it to work as part of a bash script. For exemple, for Sublime Text, here is the command I use to launch: When I call my script, I get the following error:
As an iOS developer I have many (>150) apps installed on my iPhone. Sometimes I cannot figure out on which home screen an app is located.
I have macOS High Sierra installed on my MacBook Pro already with the APFS format. However, I would like to know the steps involved to perform a clean installation of macOS High Sierra with the APFS format?
I want to disable password auth - ie keys only - on SSH. I've done this many times on Linux variants, and some searching here suggests it's the same on Mac, ie: Then add/edit:
I am getting this line each time I open my terminal. Everything else seems to be working ok but I would like to get this fixed since I don't think it is a good sign. I have checked out my bash_profile and this is what it looks like
I have a macbook pro retina 15 inch late 2013 I am running macos high sierra 10.13.3 and i want to install windows 7 and dual boot my macbook, I have sucessfully created a bootable windows 7 usb drive with bootcamp 5 driver in the pen drive, When i start installing windows 7 bootcamp show me this message ( Need 64-bit Windows installation USB drive or DVD.) My windows usb installer have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions. I tried to solve my problem by following these steps, given in this link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4747024
The FreeOTP application is typically used as a second factor in two-factor authentication. By design, it does not synchronize the secrets over iCloud or allow exporting them. The only way to get them out of the device and in again has been using an encrypted iTunes backup. Recently however, when setting up a new iPhone using iOS 11's Automatic Setup, I noticed that the FreeOTP secrets were transferred to the new device. What in this new iOS 11 Automatic Setup process made this possible?
So there is a mystery story with synchronization over wi-fi. I've been synchronizing over wi-fi my macbook and iPhone for about 3 months. But some day it happened to stop working. iTunes doesn't see iPhone over wi-fi anymore. Checkbox is checked. Also, handoff stopped working(any app). I've discovered that if I connect to another wi-fi network my phone is shown and able to synchronize over wi-fi(returning to main router changes things back). Both devices are connected to the same network (it's the only one I have nearby) and bluetooth is on both on mac and phone. I've tried: reset network and location settings full reset phone and backup then restoring wi-fi router switching off and on wi-fi and bluetooth loggin out and in Apple ID, iTunes etc. unchecking/checking handoff and iTunes wi-fi sync delete wi-fi network
One of the features I really like about Dropbox is the ability to have screenshots automatically saved to Dropbox and the sharing URL copied to your clipboard. Is there any way to do this with Google Drive for Mac? I'm not looking to simply change the location of screenshots, but also copy the sharing URL to my clipboard so I can easily share it in other apps (like Slack).
A business with an iOS App needs to pay its users (the users perform work for the business using the app). Can that business pay its users with Apple Pay? Clearly Apple Pay can be used for peer to peer payments, but my searches are not revealing to me whether or not this is available for Business-to-User payments and whether there is an API for this.
I need to delete a saved public wifi network, which my computer keeps trying to connect to when I'm at home, but I can't open my Network preferences and do it trough the GUI, due to an error in my MacOS installation (see linked question below for details). I'm guessing there might be a way to do it, through Terminal or digging into a .plist, but haven't been able to find any non-GUI guides to this through searching, so how can this be done? Why does my Network preference pane freeze every time I open it? System info: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G29)
My Asus Router (Blue Cave) has the ability to let its disk act as a Time Machine capsule. For computers on its LAN, that works just fine. You can see the disk advertised (via Bonjour?) in the sidebar of Finder, select it via Time Machine, and back up.
So I have two DELL u2415 monitors connected to USC-C to Dual Display Port adapter. The problem is when I go to displays it shows both my u2415 monitors as one under arrangement and they are just mirroring each other. I think it could be because the adapter is plugged into only the 1 usb-c. Could it be that I need two adapters and for them to not share the same adapter? Surely there is a way as the adapter was advertised saying it would work. Anyone had any experiences with an issue like this?
I recently restored my HD from Time Machine, and it looks like everything in keychain copied over fine - except for one password for a very important disk image! When I look at my old login.keychain passwords, it's not there either, even though I mounted that image a hundred times from the keychain-saved password. Any idea where it went, or where it was stored?
This Automator workflow works perfectly when run from Automator. However, when launched as a service from a keyboard shortcut, the script generates a timed out error.
My iphone home button doesn't work and it doesn't turn on. It shows the apple symbol and doesn't start. Trying to hard reset the phone. Whenever I am connecting it to the itunes, it is asking for the permission from the phone(It wants me to allow Access) but I can not see anything but the apple symbol. Please tell me if there are any other ways to reset the phone without using the home button and connecting it to the itunes. I am trying to turn on my iphone by resetting the iphone.
Is there an iPhone application for TOTP that uses the Secure Enclave to store the keys? Some popular TOTP applications for iPhone are FreeOTP, Authy and Google Authenticator, but it is not clear if any of them stores the secret keys in the Secure Enclave.
I have had my airpods for about a couple months and they have worked completely fine. I charge my airpods every 2nd night, today after charging them they have been flashing orange and the sound is gone in the left. I know that orange means it needs to be charged but i am charging them right now and they are still flashing orange. When i remove one pod from the case, the light changes to green but when I put them both in together it flashes orange. Also they won't connect to anything device it doesn't know and won't reset using the button. pls help
In Outlook 16.9 I have a number of Office 365 mailboxes in addition to mine and therefore I get notified about every email in every mailbox/account. Is there a way to disable notifications for all mailboxes except mine? Google wasn't very helpful. Thanks.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 via Virtual Box on my MacBook Pro 2017 w/ TouchBar (3.3Ghz i7, 16 GB 2133 MHZ) and I am getting a very laggy and unpleasant experience on the machine. I have gone through the suggested changes from 7 years ago here: https://superuser.com/questions/172989/virtualbox-running-ubuntu-is-slow-mac-os-x-host
I have three backup drives, but when traveling, I leave the bulkiest one in USA. This trip, I also left one of the small ones. I would like for MacOS to stop confronting me with "no backups" on the drives not connected. Mildly inaccurate to say "no backups" when it really means "no backups on this particular drive." But the unnecessary notices are more irritating than the trivial inaccuracy.
For some reason, since recently (perhaps even today, after installing the MacOS 10.13.3 Supplemental Update), I can't launch "Time Machine.app" to enter the Time Machine file restore interface. When I double-click the app, nothing happens. It doesn't appear in Activity Monitor, etc. What should I try, in order to fix this?
I am using two displays and since updating to High Sierra I'm experiencing weird behavior when opening files on the same space. I have a non-full-screen Finder window open on a Space on Display 2. When I open a file, such as a PDF, either by cmd-O or by double clicking, it will open in Preview on Display 1. This even happens when I have another Preview window open in the same Space on Display 2. And even when there's a full-screen app open on Display 1, then it'll move Display one to the first Space and open the PDF there. All apps are assigned to "None" under the Desktop options. How can I force macOS to open files on the same space or at least the same Display?
I play a lot of games on my iPhone and listen to music as well. But some games stop my music and I was wondering if there was a way I can keep my music playing. I’ve tried starting it after I start the game but it pauses shortly after.
I recently got an AppleTV for the sole purpose of using my TV as a wireless second monitor. I'm pretty happy with it but I noticed that if I put my display to sleep via Hot Corner while I'm connected to AirPlay, I will get logged out of my computer.
After spending the time to plug in and setup my Mac mini, I successfully get everything up and running minus internet connectivity issues then shut her down to leave my apartment for some time. I come back to boot up my Macmini and the machine will not give any video output although it produces the “Apple Chime” on boot. I cannot even see if I am booting into recovery to attempt to “Recover”.
While my MacBook Pro was running in ElCaptain I have taken Notes app backup from ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes location and the file I have got is NoteStore.sqlite. Also, I have got taken backup (NotesV6.storedata) related to Notes from another location and then my MacBook undergone reimaging and now it is running on HighSierra.
What is wrong in my .sh script ? After executing it It still ask me for new password to retype it 2 time. Is there a way to change it just using script
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I have recently had some trouble with my MacBook Pro 8.1 (Early 2011). After running tests, installing the old 2x2 GB RAM sticks and basically trying else everything to restore it, it turned out that the SATA cable didn't want to work with my SSD anymore, although with an older mechanical drive it was ok. So I swapped my SATA cable for a new one, installed my 2x4 GB RAM sticks again and it works again like new. Today however, out of curiousity, I ran the Apple Hardware Test again just to see if anything comes up, and I had this error:
I have a similar problem as the asker in this question on Apple's forum. After I updated from Sierra to High Sierra (v10.13.3) on a MBP retina 13" mid 2014, I noticed the character picker (special character pop-up) that appear when long pressing / holding a character, e.g. to type ë or ñ, does not appear anymore. However, when such a key is held, the character is repeatedly entered. This is not what I want, because I'm used to the character picker. I don't want to use ⌥ key with u for ¨, i for ^, e for ´ etc., which I fail to remember and is slower than simply holding to reveal any character variations. That is much more efficient in my opinions and therefore it is better UX. I've tried the linked question's terminal command without success: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
I would like to remove the animation used in macOS High Sierra's "Show Desktop" hotcorner. This might be a repeat question, but I haven't been able to find any identical questions so far. What is the Terminal command to remove the animation?
I found my self in a bit of a situation. I was developing my app for a while, without signing up to apple's developer program and using my personal apple id in XCode for Signing section, so I could run it on my phone. Today I finally created a team account linked to apple developer program and tried to use it for code signing, but it was unsuccessful, to my understanding because bundle id's were taken by my personal account?
Articles, Videos and similar posts / questions all describe being able to join clips in iMovie using the Join Clips option in the Modify menu of iMovie (10.1.8) on macOS High Sierra. It seems to be a common and recurring issue to which I am seeking an answer once and for all.
I have an old Mac that I’d like to upgrade by adding an SSD. The problem is that the OS is really old (Snow Leopard, Mac Early 2008), so I’m really not sure if is the backup restore is going to work. So I thought I could carbon copy the current hard disk to a new SSD and boot from the SSD. Do you see any problem in this approach?
I have 4 mail accounts (2 Gmail and 2 Yahoo) + 1 iCloud on my iPhone 5s. All show up on the Settings > Accounts & Passwords. But when I go to Contacts > Groups , there are only iCloud and 1 Gmail. I want all my contacts to show up there (I know I need to checklist all the groups contacts but they're not there). Is there any options/steps I missed to do?
I am in the process of installing Bootcamp to my Mac. A question has just crossed my mind Can you only use windows from the account you set it up on, or does it work for all users on the mac? For example, if I set up Bootcamp using Bootcamp Assitant on User X's account, can User Y use Bootcamp on the Mac without having to log in to user X's account? Thanks.
I have a bunch of bookmarks displayed in my Favorites Bar. From time to time, I accidentally drag some of them out of the bar (which deletes them) or reorder them against my will. I am using this method for locking the Dock, I am searching for something like this, but for the Favorites Bar.
Why when I try to change my password using terminal The output is Im using High Sierra
I'm using 3 languages. Is it possible to have a separate keyboard sequence for each language? So I would be able to switch to a desired language without checking which one is current. For example:
To clarify and summarize this issue, my main hard drive now contains two partitions; one for El Capitan, and one for High Sierra. I have a separate HDD that contains Windows 7 which was originally set up via Boot Camp Assistant, but went through the aforementioned changes. I need to be able to boot my Mac Pro into any of these three OS'es at any given time.
I have installed some command lines (i.e: rbenv ...), but every time I start new terminal tab, it looks like those environment reset. I must manually call again: source ~/.bash_profile
Is it possible to access a remote Mac using Apple Remote Desktop and run a second session? Eg. while the main user is still in there account I could either go into their account or login with another account without interfering with what they are doing.
I have a MacBook Pro in the office, but because of needing a non-standard, non-QWERTY keyboard, I have plugged in an AZERTY PC keyboard, and ‘tweaked’ a few shortcuts, as well as adding ‘French-PC’ to the input sources.. But I seem to have broken some things. For example ALT TAB launches the ‘displays’ settings pane in system preferences. And CTRL-c and CTRL-v do not copy or paste.
I'm using Pages and want to make the middle section wider and right section smaller while left section stay the same. According to this question it should auto-resize, but while I type a long text into the middle section it extend to the left section and get below it (left section's text overlay the middle section text). How can I solve it?
I've written some logging software in Electron which runs on macOS. I handle the suspend and resume events to stop and start recording automatically when the device is closed/suspended. I've noticed that even with the lid closed, it still wakes up occasionally and records some data. Does anybody know what could be causing this?
When my fingerprint is simply not recognized, iOS 11 used to say: and provide the passcode numbers keypad quite soon. Now, presumably after I have changed some setting, iOS 11, and even on the supposedly (more) sophisticated fingerprint reading system and algorithm on the iPhone 8, keeps me locked out, and does not provide the option to enter the passcode, not even after two dozen attempts at unlocking with a fingerprint. How do I make the keypad appear at all? sooner; say after two incorrect fingerprint readings? Update
my screen is frozen on the slide to power off screen and it won't let me get out of it. I've tried holding down the home button and the lock button for a long time and it hasn't worked. I've also tried using siri and haven't gotten anywhere. I plugged in my phone as well and that didn't do anything either. I have an iPhone 7
I just bought a new iPhone SE to replace a destroyed iPhone 5S. It was set up to the point of being able to make calls at the Apple store, but it was not logged into iCloud. At some point after getting home I noticed it was already logged into my router's WiFi. I had not yet manually attempted to log onto my router. I may have logged into iCloud but this device must have a different UDID than my old iPhone 5S. How then was my new iPhone able to automatically log into my router's WiFi?
I know that you can send a call to a HomePod to use the microphone on the HomePod to talk to the person you're calling to, and use its speaker to listen to the person calling. Since it is possible to call others with the microphone on the HomePod (through the iPhone of course), is there a way to do audio recording with the HomePod's microphone (with some app like Voice Memo)?
I currently own an iPad pro with an Apple Pencil, and I must say that Apple Pencil's accuracy is one of the best in the market. I am an illustartor and I don't have any WACOM tablets right now, so can I use my iPad as the input tablet and use it just like any other digital pen table and make illustrations in Adobe illustrator?
I have a specific reminder that runs every day. The time at which that reminder should fire changes frequently (about once a week). instead of manually changing it every time, I’d like to run a script to modify the reminder.
I set up a new Apple Watch yesterday by restoring from the backup of a previous watch. The watch from which the backup came was successfully logged in to my iCloud account. But with this watch, each time I have attempted to log in, I am getting an error:
I am trying to open all PDFs in a folder from the Terminal. When I do Preview (my default PDF application), opens only one of them. Is there a way to get Preview to open all of them? Is there a way to get Preview to open all of them? If not, what other PDF viewer works well for this? If not, what other PDF viewer works well for this? Thanks! Running Sierra 10.12.6 on a MB Pro.
For some reason, every few times (let's say every 5 times) I restart my Mac Mini (running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3, on an SSD), the startup screen will get stuck on the white loading bar with a black background, with the white bar at 100% full and just sitting there for minutes (the longest I left it on that screen is about an hour, and I wasn't willing to wait any longer). If the startup screen is stuck, and then I force my Mac off and turn it on, then it just gets stuck there again, once the loading bar reaches 100%. The only way to bypass this is to reset my Mac's PRAM. Then when I start up the Mac again, it loads fine.
I often will hold a window's title bar while reading something, and every once in a while the window will become maximized while I'm holding it. I can't totally reproduce this, so I'm not sure the exact behavior that's causing it. I'm not hitting any other keys while holding the window, and I believe I'm holding it still. A bit of looking on Google isn't yielding me results. I hold onto windows by habit so this has become pretty annoying. macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
The login screen seems to be 'squeezed' into the lower left corner. Not sure what event caused this to happen. Macbook Air, El Capitan 10.11.6
I use ARD to admin 6 computers, sometimes i can connect to 5 of the computers fine, but 1 of them will just not connect and i get an error like the below screenshot. I have got this computer to connect in the past but as of recently it never connects. Whats odd is that i can see all system info like current programme, OS, installed ram etc, but just cant get the control connection to establish.
Ever since I got it, even after a fresh install, AddressBook Source Sync has been the cause of wake up every single time. It has a Fusion drive, so the HDD spins up every time it wakes up, which gets annoying as it’s in my bedroom. Also it’s probably using up power it doesn’t need to be doing this, which I don’t need it to do either, I don’t sync my contacts ... so what the hell is it trying to do.
I'm aware of this question Built in FTP client (cmd + k) - can't upload files (Mavericks), but my question is specifically targetted to anyone who has used Ubuntu, and fully understands how seamless FTP can be. I'm looking to natively connect to an FTP server and be able to read and write. And open up folders in Atom or Sublime Text and just start editing files on the server.
Everything I've been able to find when Googling for this falls into one of these categories: it requires Jailbreaking; it's really just a way to display the iOS device's screen with AirPlay, and has nothing to do with controlling the screen; it's a remote support service that charges up the wazoo
It must be some accessibility feature? But I cannot see what the setting is and how to turn it off?! Its driving me crazy!!
I have an external drive for my iMac with a Windows-to-go and Linux system installed on it. It took an awful lot of work to get this set up just the way I needed, and am trying to find a way to back up the drive so that I can restore either system if things go wrong, especially given that Windows-to-go has no recovery environment. My main OS is macOS so I'd like to do the backup in that.
If I double-click on a .docx file that is anywhere on the hard drive or iCloud, it opens in Open Office. I have already changed the default app for .docx files to Open Office and it works every time.
Sort photos on iPad, including favouriting and organising into albums. I would like this work to sync to my MBP.
I have an older Macbook Pro which I haven't used much lately since purchasing a new Macbook Pro. The older one was near capacity and would get very hot. I could still turn it on and look for things now and then until a few weeks ago when turning it on I got the following screen:
I am currently using OSX High Sierra.There are two disk images mounted within my Disk Utility App. They are both labeled "Flash Player". I have not downloaded Adobe Flash Player in the last couple of years. I cannot eject/unmount them. When I try to, it says that they are "in use". It worries me, since both of the disk images have Owners "Enabled", and when I try to get to the Mount Point "/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/FPInstallMountPoint" using the command line, it says that I don't have permission, even when I use sudo. Any ideas? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
The limited functionality of the App Store has me looking for an alternative view on "Apple-approved" applications. I appreciate the vetting that occurs as part of inclusion in this catalog, but I'd like to see a set of features that are common in nearly all digital purchasing interfaces: sorting and filtering by price, number of reviews, user rating, whether or not there are in-app purchases, et cetera.
I'm unable to shrink my APFS macOS partition in Disk Utility or by using diskutil. When I try with either method, I receive error code 49187. There appears to be no reference for these codes and I can't find any information online. I have tried deleting Time Machine snapshots and that made no difference. First Aid on my disk reveals some kind of corruption in the partition map:
"How to delete cookies for a specific site" is a good question but seems to be about Chrome on a computer rather than on iOS. This question seems to be just about iOS Safari (rather than Chrome). (And this forum doesn't seem to have an answer yet.) I found a note from myself (dated more than 1 year ago) saying that this bookmarklet from *=URL=* should work, but I haven't been able to get it to work on iOS Chrome today and don't know what my note was referring to. Any suggestions for how I can clear cookies on iOS Chrome for one particular domain (rather than erasing all cookies)?
In iTerm2, if I type /one/two/three/four/five and now if I want to delete five and write another string, then how do I delete the word five ? If I use CTRL + W, it deletes the entire command all the way up to the beginning forward slash.
I have an external disk, partitioned long ago, most likely by another machine running 10.9.5. It has a 128GB partition (to match the SSD in my Air) and a 512GB partition for Time Machine. I had been using it successfully to keep a bootable SuperDuper clone and the usual Time Machine incremental backups of the Air, running 10.12.x. Now that the Air is running 10.13.3 (a clean, over-the-air install as post-upgrade it was chewing through battery), it sees a very confused view of that disk. Disk utility reports the expected partitions:
I recently purchased Apple AirPods, which I use with my iPhone 7. The sound quality is amazing, however, when using Siri through the AirPods, whether invoked on the iPhone or double-tapping the AirPod, Siri's voice quality is very poor. It does not sound too unlike the original low-quality Siri voice you get on a new iMac or iPhone before it downloads the HD version. When I disconnect the AirPods, Siri goes back to speaking in her high quality voice, with the context inflections Apple added not long ago. Is there any way to switch the voice quality for the AirPods?
I started hosting a sparsebundle full of existing Time Machine backups on a Samba share. When I now try to make backups with Time Machine over the network, it complains that the image is write protected, but I don't know why. This is what I checked:
As part of my work I have to run various commands using sudo (I am a local admin on the machine). Recently I have experienced a very strange situation where despite having previously run sudo commands during my session, it will suddenly start returning the error: [my username] is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. for every attempt to use sudo.
How do I get apple script to include the current time in an imessage sent with apple script?
I'm suspecting a roommate somehow got my password, and I want to confirm this hypothesis. Is there a log that keeps track of successful and failed log-ins? PS: I tried using the wake reasons log, but it's not accurate.
I have a mp3 album on my old drive. I've imported it to iTunes on my Mac. Everything looks correctly.
I bought an iPhone 8 from USA while i was on my exchange student period. The sales man at Target promised me that it is not carrier locked. So naturally, it's carrier locked.
I am watching Netflix in Safari on macOS 10.13.3. I just tried taking a screenshot through several methods: ⌘⇧3 while Safari in full-screen mode (Netflix isn't). ⌘⇧4 and dragging while Safari in full-screen mode. ⌘⇧3 while Safari is not full-screen and not focussed. ⌘⇧4 and dragging while Safari is not full-screen and not focussed. But none of these captured the screen, I get only black images. How can I extract a frame from a show on Netflix?
Currently I am using MacBook Pro with 128 GB ssd. I have one WD Elements 1 TB Hard Disk Drive. HDD is formatted to ExFAT and it is giving me speed of 30 MBPS and sometimes it goes down to 5 MBPS and stays there most of the time. Me and my friend both bought the same HDD 4 years back. He's using it for windows in NTFS format and getting speed of 100+ MBPS. Is there anything that would cause ExFAT to be slower?
The last couple of days I've started experiencing an issue with iCloud desktop sync. Files that previously were on the desktop, and files and folder found recursive from the desktop, are (seeming) randomly synced back. The files added back by iCloud often has it's filename suffixed with a number, because the file it tries to add back already exist. I also see that lot's of .icloud files are added. Why has this started to happen, and what can I do about it?
I have a huge problem. I just exchanged the SSD of my MacBook Pro. I made a backup just before - everything worked fine. Now I wanted to restore my Mac from the backup - Problem: apparently the Backup Volume is encrypted with FileVault - which I did not know before. Now I don't remember this password and therefore can not access or restore data from my Backup Volume. Does anyone have an Idea how to access my Backup? I wonder why my Mac never asked me for a FileVault Password when either logging in or when running a backup the Volume via Time Machine.
I was trying to set the iTerm and tmux integration and found that panes could be displayed as iTerm2 window splits, if I run tmux -CC. But there is a problem, this 'simulation' of tmux does not have the status line, at least I was not able to find manual how to accomplish that. If you know the way to do that, please, tell me how, thanks!
I accidentally deleted some files from my Applications directory. I don't recall exactly what but some of them included the Cellar directory.
I just turned on Find My iPhone and the location displayed is not where I am. I have an iPhone 6. I have logged out and in 3 times and still get the same wrong location. What can I do?
I am not a terminal user, but a composer with a very limited knowledge of programming. I am using OM6.4 from IRCAM, and when I evaluate a function that calls on an imported midifile, Terminal opens and gives me this message: Last login: Wed Feb 21 18:10:44 on ttys000 /tmp/LWtemp.fergus-johnstons-imac-5.local.6503.2.command ; exit; fergus-johnstons-imac-5:~ Fergus$ /tmp/LWtemp.fergus-johnstons-imac-5.local.6503.2.command ; exit;
I've tried logging out and back into my Apple ID account on my Mac, but some (not all) messages are showing the red exclamation point and "Not Delivered", but when I go to the same thread on my phone the message shows up as delivered. I've also checked some of them with one of the people I was chatting with and they are being delivered. This behavior started 2 or 3 weeks ago.
I can manage settings, apps and updates from Apple's MDM but changes won't get applied because WiFi is always off if I don't manually start using the iPads. iPads are in charging cart whole night and all updates are in pending state. In the morning people start using iPads and WiFi goes automatically on. Updates and changes start rolling. Users have to wait. How to configure iPads to turn WiFi periodically on so updates can happen at night time?
I administer seven Macs running a range of OS X 10.10 to macOS 10.13. The machine I use to administer them is running OS X 10.10. All of the users are Standard accounts, with one Admin account which I use to administer the computers. Is there a way to set an incorrect password lock out, which will only let you try more passwords if, a set time is elapsed, or the Admin user grants access again?
Today I opened the Google Maps app and was immediately faced with this prompt:  I had already granted the app access to my photos for uploading images for places in reviews, etc.:
Until QuickTime Musical Instruments came along, classic Mac OS didn't have much support for MIDI. So many games would pack the MIDI data and samples into resources in the resource fork of the application. They then interpreted the MIDI data and mixed the samples together at different pitches to make music. There was a developer who released a library that made this all possible. Some games that used this library were: SimCity 2000 Lemmings Wolfenstein 3D
I am wondering if the Apple USB C charger can be used (without risk) for regular smart phones which also use USB C. Essentially, is USB C capable of universal charging? Otherwise what is the point of having the same wire for every device?
I wrote an Automator Service (intended for use on any selected text in any application) that modifies the length of the selection given a number/length that the user specifies. Here's a snippet of relevant code that excludes all the other features/niceties of the service:
I want to import Apple text replacements from a text file. I want to import a large amount of shortcuts to the system so I am wondering if that is possible.
I own an iPhone 5S and today in the afternoon I received a sketchy email about Blockchain that, as soon as I opened it, deleted itself. Should I be concerned?, has there ever been incidences of malware entering through emails in the Mail app?, was it a bug of the Mail app itself? I've checked all the inboxes and their respective spam and thrash bins and I've found nothing.
I have an external 2-TB hard drive I backup my computer to whenever I can remember. The last time I did this was December 2017; back then, I had macOS Sierra. I now have macOS High Sierra and am attempting my first backup since the update. When I attempt this, it says "preparing backup" and then starts the backup, but it interrupts itself and doesn't give me any warning.
According to this article, I can use this command: To enable "locate" command to find files. However, recently I find this command not useful anymore and want to shutdown the background service/daemon. Does anyone have ideas about how to disable it or shutdown it? Thanks!
I have a really old IMO Snow Leopard intel iMac that is still running so that I sync with iPods. It is running iTunes 11. Is there a migration point at this point to get the music off the computer(without doing it manually)?
In iOS 10, the QuickType menu is a lifesaver whenever the user needs to type a long word and doesn't feel like typing it (and it's also fun to make up silly sentences). It also randomly suggests Emojis. But finding what to type to make the intended Emoji appear can be quite discouraging. For example if I want to type the "Smiling Face With Horns" there doesn't seem to be a way to QuickType it without having to go in the Emoji Keyboard. See examples below showing attempts at entering "Demon", "Evil" and "Devil":
I accidentally deleted a printer from my Mac (OSX 10.10.5). I was able to restore the printer using TimeMachine (restoring the /private/etc/cups folder), however the "Completed Jobs" list is empty. I haven't been able to figure out where OSX stores completed jobs data so haven't been able to restore from TimeMachine. How can I track down the Completed Jobs listing from a deleted printer using TimeMachine?
Possibly this question cannot be answered, or maybe it will be deemed an opinion...? But, I recently had a Windows 10 update that forced me to reinstall all 4 OSs and again set up the perfect balance of boot loaders I wanted (Debian is the first one - I am not using rEFInd anymore, nor want to).
I have a mid 2012 non-retina MacBook pro 13" and recently the hard drive failed and needs to be replaced. I sent it in to a local Apple authorized service provider and was given several options for replacement which include a 1TB HDD and a 525GB SSD. The price difference is about $150 and I was wondering if it was worth the upgrade to an SSD. Also, how difficult would it be to replace it myself if I chose to buy it separately considering I've never done anything trike this before? Thanks, Amanda
I am working in 2 environments (Mac & Windows). Once I have problem with invisible characters in Windows and notepad++'s "show all characters" feature helped me a lot in displaying the invisible character (which turns out to be LF).
I'd also like to try using SQL, but the way the LibreOffice docs say to import flat files and/or spreadsheets does not work. (Hmm, I did install MySQL; perhaps I'll try that.)
I just found out about the ^1, ^2 etc. keyboard shortcuts for switching to desktops.
In Settings > Energy Saver, if I select "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off", a warning / confirmation box pops up which has to be dismissed before the setting is applied.  How can I turn it off?
I have developed a game for iOS platform. This game uses Google Analytics. I have following questions: Is my game(software) subject to export compliance for App Store submission? Do I need to provide any documents related to export compliance for App Store submission?
I have a MacBook Pro 2017, running High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D102) connected to a ThinkPad USB-C Dock, and two Dell U2412M screens attached to the dock, one by HDMI to Thunderbolt and the other by DisplayPort to DisplayPort. OSX successfully detects both screens, as seen in Displays dialog,
I bought an Airport Extreme 6th generation router and I'm not able to make internet stable. It is connected through Ethernet on a DSL modem and it keeps drop out internet connection two - three times per day. When internet drops out, airport led remains always solid green and the only thing that works to recover connection, is to turn off DSL modem and back on (if I reboot airport connection doesn't re-establish, problem solves only when restarting DSL modem). I have tried hard reset airport extreme a couple of times, give a static ip to airport but nothing works. It drives me crazy. Any ideas to try are much appreciated.
I've been reading up around sleep settings as I keep finding my Late 2012 Mac Mini in a weird hung state each morning that requires a force-reboot (it's like running Windows 10 years ago!) I thought the "deep sleep" function was to blame but when I ran pmset-g I got this: However Difference between autopoweroff and standby in pmset says:
My MacBookPro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) do not see any Bluetooth device. So I can't connect external wireless mouse and keyboard and this is annoying. This is a log from a Bluetooth Packet Logger. Here is system info OS: macOS 10.13.3 17D47 x86_64 Host: MacBookPro11,5 Kernel: 17.4.0 Shell: zsh 5.3 Resolution: 1440x900 DE: Aqua WM: Kwm Terminal: iTerm2 CPU: Intel i7-4870HQ (8) @ 2.50GHz GPU: AMD Radeon R9 M370X, Intel Iris Pro Memory: 3736MiB / 16384MiB Some images illustrating the problem.
I turned my iPad off fully (with the whole "slide to shut off" thing) and then turned it back on. After a few minutes the lock screen came up, showing 86% battery, but the finger controls weren't working. now i can't even get it to turn on. What do I do?
I have Mac mini (High Sierra 10.13.3) as a server. Server has external HDD formated as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I'm using a PC (Windows 10, NTFS) for downloading files. When I copy files from my PC to my Mac mini, the Mac mini administrator (me) doesn't have permissions for read/write and I can't open new files.
I have two iPhones (one personal and one business), each with a separate Apple ID, so I can keep these logically separated. Ideally, I'd like to use Messages on OS X to be able to send and receive iMessages and/or text messages via both phones. As far as I can see, I can only configure one Apple ID against Messages (in Messages preferences, I cannot add another Apple ID). Is there perhaps a way to run another instance of Messages and/or add my other Apple ID? I'm on OS X 10.11 and iOS 11, if it matters.
I get the following error message when I delete emails on Mail "An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)” Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot...
i have a problem when i downloaded my iMovie. at first, the download seems fine so i left my mac alone in my room. but when i checked it after a few hours, there's a box in app store saying "an error has occurred". it happened more than 5 times. i've been charging my mac since last Sunday and now it's Thursday bc i'm afraid if i don't, it would prevent the download from being done. what should i do? please, help.. thank you
I try to make and get: I have a home-brew install of 7.3 at /usr/local/Cellar/gcc I tried to export PATH in .bash_profile with: My Cellar directory has: and gcc is: My current bash_profile is: when I do sudo vi /etc/paths I get:
How can I debug issues with DisplayPort or USB device (display) detection? My Dell ultrawide screen was working fine at 60Hz with a USB-C to DisplayPort cable before.
I have a bash script that requires to know if there are any windows on the current screen. I couldn't do it in bash so maybe there is a way. Also, if I could find if there is an active window (if there are windows on the screen) that would be great but it is not that important. Thanks
Groupy App by Stardock can organize multiple applications into grouped tabs like below. Is there a Mac app for macOS Seirra which supports different apps as tabs?
I've just installed High Sierra on my iMac. My trackpad no longer scrolls through pages, mail or browser. The only scroll action that still works is three-finger swipe to change between layout pages. How do I restore scrolling?
I want to digitize a bunch of records from my turntable onto my Mac. I've got a couple different Macs available with "audio in" minijacks: a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini, for example.
I have turbo booster installed on my old macbook pro which I currently use to handle files between my iMac Pro and the macbook. The macbook has a base clock of 1.4 Ghz turbo boost upto 2.3 Ghz. On enabling turbo bosster (Third Party application) the system continues to run at 2.3 Ghz as a result everything is fast enough to run, but on running the CPU at it's maximum level results in thermal throttling. Turbo Boosters are normally used to check thermal throtlling and I am using it to boost the clock speed so am I doing something wrong or damaging the CPU and other hardware componenets by running the CPU at it's max level?
Has anyone tried whether Intel Iris Pro found in 2015 retina MBP is powerful enough to drive single 5K screen like Dell UltraSharp UP2715K or Iiyama ProLite XB2779QQS or Philips 275P4VYKEB or HP Z27q? (basically all the ones that aren't relying on usb c/thunderbolt 3 connector like LG 27MD5KB-B UltraFine)?
Does anyone know if it’s possible to swap a MacPro 5,1 into a 4,1 case. My 5,1s feet are damaged beyond repair. I know they both use the same sleds and iirc same trays of sorts. I believe they also share the same power supply size, etc. Motherboards different?
I'm trying to install High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update. But I'm getting an error, which is 'The request timed out. (-1001)'
I have a MacBook Pro with full disk encryption. I'd like to secure my information from someone who steals my computer or has physical access to it while it's unattended. Are any of these methods more effective than others? Lock Screen with password required Sleep Log out Shut down I'm interested in attacks that would allow them to unlock and use the computer as well as ones that would allow them to access information stored on the computer without unlocking it. This question is partly theoretical, so for the current purposes please assume that: The attacker can't guess / brute-force the password I'm not concerned about hardware attacks like inserting a hidden microphone or physical keylogger I'm not interested in options to remotely wipe or lock the computer I understand that there's no such thing as perfect security; I'm just interested in differences between the options
I have tested further and discovered that if I turn the external drive off before booting the Mac it will not boot - I get the folder with a question mark in it screen. How do I figure out which system files are on the external drive and remedy this? As requested: I should say, this means absolutely nothing to me!
Sometimes, iPhone suggests emojis based on the text you have typed, like so I have been trying to trigger this emoji on the Predictive bar shown above without success. I know there is some personalization involved, but is there a way to find the text that can trigger a particular emoji? I would think there is are some default text mapping to each emoji.
I am experiencing an issue when trying to install modules with CPAN (and with manual make). I have installed perl via Homebrew and when I run cpan install MODULE_NAME I get this error: I know this issue is because of my Perl version since my Perl version at the following location is 5.18 and not 5.26 (see:/System/Library/Perl/5.26.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Outputs of the following are provided: First line in /usr/local/bin/perl is: #!/usr/local/opt/perl/bin/perl Edit 2:
I have a Mac that runs macOS High Sierra, and a Boot Camp with Windows 10 that used to be running and up to date. But now, when I try to open Windows environment, I have got a blue screen with a KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error message straight after I enter my Windows password. How can I get past this error message and open Windows, with or without reinstallation, whatever is doable/easier. I have tried to use the Boot Camp assistant (under OS X), but I get an error message The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
I'm attempting to retrieve my personal files off of an iPad Pro 12.9 I have. The issue is that the digitizer is broken, so I cannot "Allow" anything to connect to the iPad to grab my things off of it. I have no external backups to recover from, and I haven't been able to find a single person with a solution to a problem like this. Some people say the issue happened after the update recently and they were able to fix it. I'm just trying to recover everything before I lose all of it trying to figure out if the digitizer is broken or if the update screwed everything up.
In Numbers, how can I change the point where x-axis crosses y-axis. I want x-axis and y-axis to cross at point (0,0). I know can change the crossing point in Excel like in the screenshot below. How can I do the same for Numbers?
I've followed instruction on how to activate Apache on my Mac prior to upgrading to Sierra. I got the "It Works" page after entering localhost in the address field, yet after I upgraded to Sierra, I got the "This site cannot be reached" page. All of my (Google) searches say to to deactivate Apache with this: but, when I use that, this is returned: I have tried: but receive:
Randomly, last night, I had a pair of Open Directory servers cease to be bindable outside of themselves. When I checked the logs, I saw this: It repeats non stop.
Since the update to macOS High Sierra, our Mobile Account users are no longer able to log into their accounts when outside of our corporate network. Inside the network they are authenticated without issue, but as soon as they can't see our internal directory server, their passwords are rejected at the login screen. Local/cached login worked fine in all OS's prior to High Sierra, so something fundamental with LDAP and/or Kerberos seems to have changed in this latest OS.
I would like to have a chart in Keynote that updates automatically when I change the source data in Numbers. I have found one article from 2010 that explains how to do this — it basically says to create the chart in Numbers, then copy/paste it to Keynote. It shows this screenshot of the update button in Keynote. But I cannot get the update button to appear. I'm using the latest version of Numbers 4 and Keynote 7 on macOS Sierra. I can't find any info on this in Apple's documentation, so maybe they removed the feature? https://www.engadget.com/2010/11/08/auto-updating-charts-with-numbers-and-keynote/
I have MacMini (High Sierra 10.13.3) and I'm using IR remote control. But sometimes the IR remote stops working. I have to wait few hours or restart MacMini after that is everything ok again. I already tried reset PRAM, but the problem persists. Don't you know how to fix this? I'm ready to post log file if you will tell which one :)
Is there any way in iTunes to move the focus from the search query to the list of songs? I just typed something, the list of songs got updated and I'd like to play the first (or any song) from the list so I'd like to use my keyboard to navigate through the results.
For whatever reason, Disk Utility will not allow me to resize the partitions in the GUI. I am Apple HFS file system on the external drive, which is a hard drive, not an SSD. There are over 400 free GB on the Time Machine partition and another 250 free GB on the other partition. How can I increase the size of the "Wanderer 2" partition?
I'm getting a 15" MacBook Pro but only 256 GB storage. I will need an additional 1-2 TBs fast storage, used for Virtual Machines or Video Editing. I don't mind using an external drive, the challenge is I will use on a 2 hr commute each way by train. I am wondering if there are any existing products that allow storage to clip on underneath the laptop or screen, etc rather than hange off the side.
I am trying to copy contents from a source excel file after editing a few rows and paste that into a new workbook. Tried the following code, but it doesn't copy the contents or show any error. Please let me know what I am doing wrong, I am new to applescripts. tell application "Microsoft Excel" end tell
Hi guys I have a massive problem with my MacBook Pro mid 2012 high Sierra, the progress bar is stuck at 100% after the password and doesn’t let me in. I read a few articles online and I’m not the only one, the problem is that at the moment I’m in Japan and it’s difficult to make myself understood and asking help. I tried to to something myself:
I'm trying to add a new rule to pf on high sierra. It seems there are no changes made: Checking the rules via sudo pfctl -a foo -s rule doesn't show anything.
I have a jail broken iPhone 4 (allowing me to use it as unlocked) but I have no idea if this phone was initially locked to a network in the first place before it was jailbroken. I have entered my IMEI on numerous websites and it comes coming back as being unlocked. Is this because it is jailbroken, or is the phone actually unlocked?
When I am typing something and want to accept a text replacement, I have to use space character, enter, or tab to accept it. However, that will write the new character also. For example, assume that I have the substitution cat to catty, if I want to type cattydoggy, I will have to type cat[space][backspace]doggy. Is there a faster way to do this (is there a way that I don't have to type backspace)?
I am trying to do an automator calendar event where every Friday, it deletes files whose date modified is older than 30 days; EXCEPT files within folders labeled red. I have my Documents folder with 3 files, one folder created today and labeled red, a folder last modified a week ago, and a pdf that was modified more than 30 days ago. My automator script goes as follows: [Find Finder Items] Search "Documents", ALL of the following are true: [Move Finder Items To Trash] //end But this moves the red labeled folder and the older pdf, when it should only move the pdf to the trash.
Does anyone else's Homepod automatically reconnect to their network? Mine doesn't. Every time it loses the connection (unplug it, internet goes down, power outage) I have to reset it completely and reconfigure it. I've had to do this 5 times already. It's a huge pain. Besides, now that I'm tryna get all home automated - if the internet went down while I was out of town, I would not be able to get to any of my remote hardware until I returned and reset the silly thing. Any suggestions?
TC backup is not working anymore, More than probably due to file in progress or HD need repair. Since the upgrade to mac Sierra 10.12.6, in Disk utility 16.3 the repair function isn't available in the First Aid menu.
I have noticed that after installing the macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update if I plug my Macbook into wall power and walk away and it reaches 100% it'll automatically turn itself off. Did the update do this intentionally? It seems like that could break features like Find My Mac. It only seems to happen once the battery hits 100% as if I close my mac only for a few minutes and come back it wakes up from sleep without issue. I appreciate any information the community has on this.
I've been using folder actions for years. Ever since upgrading to High Sierra, my folder actions still work but the ability to add new ones is missing. When right clicking on a folder, there used to be options such as "Configure Folder Actions" and "Attach A Folder Action." Now, at least on my Mac, those options are gone. Where has this gone and how do I get it back? I'm the only one who uses this Mac and I'm logged in as an Administrator.
I have an automator workflow starting with "Take ScreenShot" to take screenshot and paste to clipboard. Following that I have I want to include the screenshot in the message with the time.
Started from the Recovery partition with cmd-R. Started the Installer (12.13.3 17D47) Now it's stuck. Can I type something to see a log of what's happening?
If I now want to connect (ping) to a device in test network (b) it works: But If I try to connect (ping) to a device in the company network (a) it doesn't work:
How can I run a shell as Admin in Terminal if Im logged in as User with standard privileges? I know the passwords for user and admin account
I got locked out of my iphone 7 and now it says the "iphone is disabled and needs to be connected to itunes." This iphone 7 is not synced up to itunes. What do I do?
I have recently uploaded an application on TestFlight. I have added internal and external testers using non Apple ID email addresses. I know that these testers can test the build using the redemption code sent via invite email. I have following doubts with TestFlight: Is it possible to install the app using same redemption code on multiple iOS devices having different Apple IDs? Is there a way to limit the installation on multiple devices using a single redemption code?
I am using Macbook Pro 2017 (with touch bar) with macOS Sierra. When using terminal, the autocomplete adds a character. For example, typing 'cd Des' + tab, I am expecting 'cd Desktop' autocomplete. Instead, I get Desktop/k
This seems like a very big drop in performance and it's consistent across 2 of the same model enclosure (the other enclosure gets approximately the same speeds with a single 4 TB drive). I'm not sure how else I should troubleshoot this.
Sometimes I would wake up and try to unlock my phone and be told that it doesn't recognize my fingerprint and that I HAVE to put my passcode to enable touch id but I thought that only happened when you put your finger on the home button too much and you don't have that finger registered or something. For me as soon as I wake up it says it doesn't recognize me like I already tried it before when I know I didn't and nobody else did either. Does anybody know what's going on?
I've got a device running Ubuntu where I've configured a DHCP server and a DNS server with bind. When I connect my Windows laptop to this device, it automatically gets an IP and the DNS server I've specified, so that I'm able to ping another host in the network running an apache server. The problem comes with my Mac, it also gets an IP correctly, however, the DNS server is ignored and I cannot ping that host. Any ideas on how to fix it? Here's the dhcpd.conf file of the Ubuntu machine:
iPad 4th gen (MD520LL/A) with iOS 10.3.3 As the title says, the screen sticks when scrolling to the notifications page. I've removed all notification panels on the screen so all that is left is the edit button and the wallpaper, but it still stick for about 7-10 seconds anytime you access that page. Scrolling through the app pages is quick and snappy. Soft and hard reboots have not changed this behavior.
macOS Sierra Version 10.2.6 I want to use the 5 key on my numeric keypad as a mouse click. To do this, I enabled Mouse Keys under Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad.
Just got this notification on my MacBook Pro running OS 10.12.6.  It reads:
The title says it all. My problem is:
Recently I am trying to set up an AppleScript to do some simple task. But I can't really find some resources that can provide me with a systematic introduction or tutorial for me to get started with Apple Script. So I'd like to hear some advices on how should I get started. Or in other words which are the recommended materials or documentations that I should follow? I tried to go through the Apple's official documentation, but that seems too heavy to be a quick start guide. Something like this as we have in python would be the best. And I just attach the actual problem that I am trying to solve below. a simple logic: Quite simple and naive isn't it.
In my ongoing research about pmset it seems autopoweroff replaces standby and hibernate functionality; they might still be supported but modern OS versions disable them. In particular, hibernatemode allowed for some more complex scenarios - is my understanding that this should be ignored correct or is there a place for it? Maybe the answer is different for laptop and desktop machines?
This is the result of me pinging my laptop from another machine on the network: This is the result of the same ping from another machine but with doing ping -i 0.2 192.168.0.1 from the laptop: Notice how low, and stable it is now?
So at random times my wireless headphones will skip every 3ish seconds while connected to my Macbook Pro. Other times however, they are totally fine and will work for hours with no problems whatsoever. I have been unable to find any correlation for times when it happens. I'm always at the same coffee shop, with generally the same crowd. I thought it might be the signal interference from other people's phones and such, but if anything the problem only gets worse the less people are here. I've tried console commands and done extensive googling of a solution, but nothing has worked. I am running the updated OSX High Sierra. My Beats X headphones work flawlessly on every other device I've used them on, it's only this specific Macbook that has this problem. It happens on average 2-3 times a week. Thanks for the help!
Is there a way to use defaults write to toggle tap to click without having to log out? I would like to toggle several times in one session. I am using High Sierra.
I got a new Mac and used migration assistant. It stopped incomplete and there was no other option but to cancel so I did it again. This caused a problem in which I had two user accounts causing error messages. I tried everything I could find online until I followed the thread below. My computer is now in the recovery mode without the graphical interface and I would like a detailed explanation of what to do next or how to get out of it. Please help! After battling this problem for hours I just found a great, reliable solution! If you reboot holding Command-R-S then you can get into an undocumented combined recovery mode and single user mode, this will go directly to the command prompt without the graphical interface but you will be in recovery mode and can enter the csrutil disable command successfully. I did this by triggering the reboot from the device selector dialogue in the regular recovery mode on Sierra on a Macbook 2010 but it probably works via other methods. So happy to have f
I work at a web design firm. I need Safari's cache to be permanently disabled on my work computer, as it creates too much confusion when I'm testing websites. This setting should persist after I restart Safari, and when the inspector is closed.
Up until earlier this week I was developing normally, until I decided to update my Mac from Yosemite to High Sierra. I was unaware of SIP at the time, and so I may have made a premature decision in upgrading.
I need to trigger sysdiagnose on my old iPhone 5S. However it looks like its physical VolumeDown button does not work, neither for volume nor for any combinations. How can I trigger sysdiagnose without pressing Volume Down?
I'm in the process of configuring my new iPhone7. At some point it requested the password for my MacBook, which I gave. However it didn't recognise it. After three tries I got the following screen:
Running High Sierra (APFS, unencrypted) with up-to-date Boot Camp Assistant (6.1.0) — clean OS install a couple days ago. Running into trouble at every step of the process, with both Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit (clean ISOs downloaded directly from Microsoft).
I am abroad so I'm using different SIM to that associated with my Apple ID. I'm getting an annoying badge in my iPhone settings prompting me to "Update Trusted Phoned Number". Which takes me to the screen shown below. Infuriatingly I am unable to tap "Keep Using +bleh".
Since the update to high sierra 10.13.3 my mac book air crashes without a charging cable as if the battery is in bad condition. The guy at an apple store, tested everything and the Hardware is in great condition. My Mac book air is only two years old. He then booted from an external Disk and it worked without problems. He did some kind of stress test and said everything is fine with the hardware it‘s a software problem and I should reinstall the os. I reinstalled it but that didn‘t solve the issue. Then I made a back up and deleteted everything from my mac book and reeinstalled the newest Version of high sierra but it still crashes and won‘t boot without charging cable....
Is there a CoreBuetooth Framework for Mac OS X 10.5.8? I have some problems with missing Frameworks. I need a framework for CoreBluetooth.
Note: I´m not trying to solve a problem of finding something specific with whatever tool or to gain an overview of my files. I wanna verify if my spotlight is working normal and if I have missed some changes from Apples side. I´m using Alfred, Houdahspot and Finders smart folders if regular spotlight does not work. Can I change the amount of listed matches to expand beyond 5? I dont remember this limitation from before and I´m a longtime user. Have Apple made any significant changes or depreciated any operators specifically for the spotlight GUI? I also recall being able to use specifics to list all matches, but it seems like Apple is using kind: for all categorical operators.
I signed out of an AppleID on my MacBook, kept a local copy of Contacts etc. I then signed using a different AppleID (which I used some years ago). Now I find the Contacts on iCloud are missing some entries (presumably the newer entries since I last used the AppleID). How can I force the iCloud Contacts to be updated? PS I created a new Contact on my MacBook, which shows on iCloud.
Suppose I want to open a specific app which has an icon on the menu bar tray, is it possible to do it using a shell command? In my case, there is an app called "Quick View Calendar" (available in Mac App Store) which shows up in the Menu bar, which I would like to open with a Terminal command and to use that code to run an Automator service to
I have two iPhones, when I back up one of them I have multiple dates of files when this as done. When I back up the other one there is only one file and that is the last date backed up, it appears to write over the same file, how I get back to another backup up file?
I'm trying to write a script to toggle between Fn keys and app controls on the Touchbar using macOS High Sierra. There a few apps out there that say they can do it but none seem to work for Touchbar. So I'm now trying to write script that opens up the System Preferences, keyboard settings and toggling the Touch Bar setting. So far I have the code below which toggles "Adjust keyboard brightness in low light". I just need to adjust to select an option from the Touch Bar drop down menu.
[MacBook Pro 2014, Mac OS 10.13.3] I have my apache install setup to use mod_fcgid. However, when I restart my Mac, or after it restarts from sleeping, /usr/sbin/apachectl does not create /var/run/mod_fcgid, which is needed along with correct permissions. Since I cannot modify /usr/sbin/apachectl, due to SIP, so I'm wondering where can I add the necessary commands to create the folder?
Trying to install Mavericks on this Mac Pro (MacPro1,1), and it will not install. I do not use Wi-Fi, and the computer has 2 ethernet ports.
I always clean install new macOS release to make sure my machine (MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2015) stay fresh and fast. However, for the past 2 years I still couldn't find the best way to backup and restore Apache configuration on my machine.
When I use photos on OS X, I can right click the image and enter a caption for metadata, how can I do this using photos on iOS? I have tried several apps (inc. investigator and exif) but both require saving a new copy of the picture which is reduced in size. I want to move to a 100% iPad and cloud photo management workflow, but am stuck on how to add a description to the photo. Feel I must be missing something obvious?! Ideas appreciated. I also tried subscribing to Lightroom CC but not possible there either!
I have multiple instances where Siri finds an update to a contact entry in Apple Mail.  The problem is: there is no new contact information. When I click update and save the changes to the contact and open the same email later again, I am presented with the same message. The result is, that I have multiple duplicates of the home address in my contact. How can I prevent or reset this process?
I have noticed that most of my Contacts appear to be duplicated when I list All Contacts on my Mac. This is a nuisance in email. I was checking and when I look at All iCloud I have 221 Contacts. When I look at All iCloud I have 221 Contacts. When I look at All Contacts I have 409 Contacts. Further investigation shows that a few, which only appear once, have a cards attribute with On My Mac and iCloud.
I tried to re-install macOS on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) via the internet (Command+Option+R). After 5 minutes and some progress the following was shown, what does it mean?
I attempted to connect to a website using the Array Networks web based (Java applet) VPN client. However, since the update to El Capitan, I was not able to connect to websites and was hence forced to use a Windows VM for this purpose.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro with a MagSafe 2 charging cable. My wife has a new MacBook Pro from 2016 with USB-C. I was wondering whether I could technically (in the matter of electronic feasability) use her charging cable on my MacBook and vice versa with some sort of adapter / dongle, and, if so, where I would get one?
Two days ago my Macbook Pro 13” 2016 with Touch Bar started to refuse charging the battery. In System Information everything seems to be fine, and the power adapter is detected as a 60W Apple one. I can charge other USB C devices both at 5V or 9V without problem. When the Macbook is switched off the charging is working with the expected speed.
I need to convert Microsoft Publisher files to Mac.Can you recommend something?
I am using the network sharing feature of a MacBook Pro to share the Internet connection from Thunderbolt Ethernet to Wi-Fi. On iOS devices, I can see how many devices are connected to the hotspot. So I figured it should also be possible on a Mac, since Mac usually provides more functionalities on these management tasks.
I have discovered, through personal experience and checking online forums, that the software for my 10-year old, CanoScan 8800f, film and negative scanner is no longer supported for High Sierra users. Users of this particular scanner, a wonderful workhorse, are furious. I know that one solution is to purchase VueScan software for about $50. I have seen that another solution would be to find an open-source driver. As I continued my search for an answer, someone noted that scanners should work with Image Capture, but Image Capture does not recognize this scanner. Further searching revealed (and I hope I have this right) that Image Capture does not "see" this scanner because the scanner is not TWAIN-compliant. Is there some way I can make this scanner TWAIN-compliant?
Are there any other technical or logistical issues? The big one I can think of is maybe the model she'll get will be setup for different cellular bands than the model she'd get in a US. But my information might be dated, perhaps this used to be a bigger problem last decade than now. Plus this is Central America, not Europe or Asia. Anyway, this is a pretty wide-ranging question but thanks for any advice you can provide.
Due to APFS having a mind of its own and filling the hard disk with unwanted snapshots, I made a cron to run tmutil deletelocalsnapshots xxx. Later I found out that running this command while a backup is in progress will stop the backup. How can I know if a time machine backup is in progress to avoid running the command? The man page for tmutil doesn't list any status command. Right now I'm doing the following in the script, since now backups mount at /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/:
I was following this guide to get Python 3 setup, which recommended changing the PATH variable such that "# If you still see 2.7 ensure in PATH /usr/local/bin/ takes pecedence over /usr/bin/". I put the following in my .profile: This sets my PATH to /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin This fixed my python --version issue, but now when I type pip --version I get in my terminal.
I’m on iOS 11 and to sliding an entry to the left is supposed to remove the entry. Now that the clear all option is gone I have to do it one by one, which is okay, but the problem is it doesn’t work. The entry comes back immediately and it only works for new entries.
First off, sorry I didn't understand you had to use apples bootcamp software to deal with bootcamp partitions. I wanted to stop using bootcamp, so I deleted the partition through disk manager some time ago. Since then I have been trying to get the 400GB space back. Today I followed this thread: Cannot delete or merge old boot camp partition in El Capitan
I been installing Windows on my new MacBook Pro 13" 2017 Touchbar (MacOS Sierra) but I have been stuck because I get the error Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive ... I tried installing it using a 16gb USB stick (MSDOS fat32) and no USB since my MacBook can install Windows even without USB flash drive (as mentioned by apple in their website.) Can someone help me with these problems?
Whenever I attempt to delete a conversation thread in the Messages app on my iPhone, why is it asking me for confirmation? It used to be just swipe left and delete.
Is it possible to debounce a MacBBook keyboard via a script? I have the obbbnoxious double "b" problem wherein my keyboard inserts two "b" characters abbout half the time (also occasionally the r and i characters, but less often). The keyboard is bbuilt into the case, which makes the replacement a cool $1015 ($680 for parts, and $335 for labor). Hence, I'm hoping for a software solution.
Sometimes when I try to unlock my iPhone X with Face ID it fails and goes to the Enter Passcode screen. While on this screen what's the fastest way to get it to retry Face ID? I've found I can tap cancel and swipe up again, but hoping there's a faster way I'm not aware of.
Is there a way to use the copy-on-write cloning feature of APFS to reclaim space from existing duplicate files? When you copy a file on APFS, it doesn't actual duplicate the file blocks, instead it just clones the metadata. That prevents it from using any more space until you actually make an edit to the duplicate file. It seems like there should be some tool to find existing duplicates and replace them with clones, reclaiming the space used to store the duplicate. Related questions on Apple Communities and the MacRumors Forums don't have anything.
Today I went ahead and tried to tidy my MacBook partitions using easeus partition manager on bootcamp. I deleted a Linux partition I had and a few other partitions I thought unimportant that proceeded the bootcamp partition on the boot table. Long story short, my OS X partition became unbootable. I can still access bootcamp. Easeus partition manager says there is only unallocated space where my OS X partition should be. I can’t press option at boot and select OS X. I entered internet recovery, accessed terminal and this is what I saw. Find attached.
I have been trying to convert some of my photos from Live Photo into a still photo (by making a duplicate). However, the duplicates are added to the bottom of the list, instead of next to their counterparts.
This is my last ditch attempt to get backlight controls working on my MacBook Pro10,1 (Retina, Mid-2012) with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M. I'm using the NVIDIA driver version 384.111. I have looked at a bunch of questions like this and tried every answer I could find, but nothing has worked for me. So far I have tried: 1) adding "setpci -v -H1 -s 00:01.00 BRIDGE_CONTROL=0" to /etc/rc.local 2) Including 'Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"' in the Devices Section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf 3) Changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor" in /etc/default/grub and then running sudo update-grub 4) using xbacklight, which just has no effect 5) This thing that I didn't really understand: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105051#c37
I am not able to update my Mac OS from Sierra to HIGH Sierra. It shows the error below when I try to update from iTunes. How to fix it?
On my iphone 5, I often delete emails without opening them. When I then work on my Macbook, these emails are marked as unread in the Mail app and, as a result of that, the Mail symbol in the Dock shows a notification. This behavior is confusing. Is there a way to mark an email as read upon moving it to trash? These emails come from different senders, so I cannot create a rule in the Mail app.
I reset my cellular data usage by a accident.. is there anyway that I can do to returns the information? It’s so important for me... I have no idea what should I do
But, as a applescript newbie, I am clueless for how to proceed (I know this might not be in the right stackexchange spirit, I hope I am excused). How do I write a rule which says: "Load any inline images which are NOT from *=URL=* ?
I'm using Fortclient VPN to connect to a customer network and the client enforces the use of their DNS (since the customer is in Turkey I get false DNS responses on wikipedia and other websites while connected) Before high sierra I was able to reset the DNS server used using scutil: that usually was enough, starting on high sierra even after setting the DNS value using set it still shows the old values: Is there another way to do it in High Sierra?
Quote from VLC 3.0 Vetinari 3.0 Features Core - Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) How to use that feature on MacOS?
I have a Mac Mini late 2014 2.6Ghz Intel Iris 1TB 5400rpm HDD 8GB RAM model. So far it has been great, does everything I need, no issues with performance. I use it more as a media center than a pc. It's currently hooked up to a 32" 1080p LED TV through HDMI.
2) iCloud: it’s only possible to share albums, so sharing the entire collection is cumbersome. Plus, backing up shared albums seems difficult (I’d need to manually save them and would create redundant copies for all photos I uploaded before to the shared album)
I can´t connect my MacBookPro 8.1 (Early 2011) to my projector using a "Thunderbolt to VGA Adaptor". This my second adaptor in the last 12 months and am now not sure whether the problem lies with the adaptor or my MacBook Pro. My Apple hardware report shows nothing out of the ordinary. Is there any other reliable way to test my Thunderbolt port without plugging in any hardware or do I have do dig out more money for an adaptor that may or may not work?
Trying to change Finders side bar's preferences (Initially: No Favorites' boxes are checked, if checked by me, they become unchecked again after a few seconds. Now: Trying to access the side bar ridget of Finder's preferences invokes the beach ball until I close the menue.)
I did something stupid. I ran (something like) diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 GPT HFS+ newdisk against the wrong disk. It was one of those moments where you realize what you've done, as you're doing it. So it only ran for (literally) about 0.25 seconds, or less, before being terminated (^c), like it was all part of a single motion. But it was long enough to trash the existing partition table.
I was getting sick of running CleanMyMac to scrape back a few GB of space here and there, so used DaisyDisk and discovered in /Users/user/Library/AddressBook/Images something like 50+ GB of space taken up. I checked online and it appeared safe to delete, so I trashed it. However, trash has been emptying since last night and it currently says "3,041,134 items deleted" and it's still going up.
I want to know to browse files from iPhone with Bash Terminal or other tools on Mac. Does anybody of you know how to do this ? Thank you for your answers
I find these have been uploaded to my iPhone. They are visible under Settings > Accounts and Passwords > App & Website Passwords. Passwords are shown by default, in plain text, albeit protected by the 6-digit passcode.
Thank you in advance for any useful hints. After login I get a totally black screen or one with a spinning wheel. I have tried the following things. Zap nvram Smc reset Deleted as single user login peers. Start as another user that was installed for migration Verbose mode... too fast to read and ends up in the same thing
How can I set a firewall rule to only allow connections to port xxxxx from a device with a LAN IP of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx , in macOS's in built firewall tool? I had a look around in the tool, but I can seem to only allow / deny access to whole programmes, rather than ports etc..
There are a number of post on the internet arguing that Siri might be better if Apple would not value privacy so much. Other say that this is not necessarily true.1,2
So I have been trying to make a bootable Kali Linux USB drive for a while. I am using the command: It asks for my password once, and then gives me the error: My drive looks like this:
I want to be able to unlock my phone when I’m wearing touch screen compatible gloves. Touch ID doesn’t work with gloves. When I tap the home button to unlock, (sometimes) the phone doesn’t do anything. Just stays on the lock screen. This behavior is inconsistent. If I hold down the home button it activates Siri. When this is happening, it doesn’t matter how much I mash the home button, I cannot get the phone to give me the option to use my passcode. I have to take my gloves off and use Touch ID. On some occasions there is a tap here to use passcode link but I don’t know what the logic is to get that link to appear. Any advice? iPhone SE iOS 11.2.6
Is there anyway by which one can have grayscale system wide except some selected (by user) apps, on macOS?
I had an older Macbook 7,1 with Snow Leopard that I would like to update. Apple says I need to install El Capitan first, then High Sierra. I downloaded the El Capitan installer and applied it, and the install failed, so the computer now boots to an Installation Log viewer and I can't access anything else from it.
There are a ton of apps to collect specific things - health, habits, commutes, etc. But what I'd like is an app that allows me to collect my own data on arbitrary things I care about. For example: how often I exhibit symptoms of a minor medical condition how often the headlight bulb on my car fails (known issue, very predictable) how much fuel my lawnmower uses so I can try to time things so I end the season with no extra gas how many minutes my daughter spends reading every day
I was trying to access the Recovery Mode on my MacBook Pro5,3 with OSX El Capitan 10.11.6, however every attempt ended in Kernel Panic (KP). I would see the Apple logo with a loading bar and the following console-like text as an overlay: Rebooting with CMD+R - results in KP Rebooting with Option+CMD+R - results in KP Rebooting with Shift+Option+CMD+R - results in KP Rebooting with Option and then selection the Recovery partition - results in KP
I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 and I want to install Windows 10 with Bootcamp. But it always fails when creating the partition and I cannot for the life of me get past it. It says: "Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning the disk. Please run Disk Utility to check and fix the error." I've tried: Running First Aid from Disk Utility Try to partition manually with Disk Utility, same failure Decrypting my disk Restarting in Single User Mode and running "/sbin/fsck -fy" sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999999999
It is possible to press ⎇ Backspace on macOS in order to delete the previous word (left of the cursor), and ⌘ Backspace to delete the previous line (left of the cursor). If you have an external keyboard with a "delete" key (or the "forward delete key"), or are able to emulate the delete key via software, it is possible to press ⎇ Delete to delete the word to the right of the cursor. However, perhaps surprisingly, it is not possible to press ⌘ Delete in order to delete the line to the right of the cursor.
My purpose is to write a script to automate Spamcop Reports. There are some tries in forums, but as mac os changes along the years, scripts lose its functionality. I'm newcomer with Applescript.
I am using macOS high Sierra. By mistake I converted my admin account to standard user account. Now by entering into the single user mode and trying to mount the disk,it shows message that "devise is write locked " and "IO failed , error = 13" and trying to remove the apple set up done file the error message is "no such file found." Please guide how to resolve this situation.
I'm using High Sierra, I have my main Macintosh HD encrypted using Filevault. However in Disk Utility there is an option to create new volumes that share space with container. So finally I have volumes Macintosh HD but also Documents, Music and so on. In Disk Utility I can see now: Macintosh HD - APFS (encrypted) Documents - APFS Music - APFS As you see there is no information for additional volumes that there are also encrypted. So the question is - are those volumes encrypted or not (and how can I verify that) and if they are not encrypted how can I encrypt them too using FileVault?
Since today Shift-Command-4 gives me the camera symbol, meaning that it will screenshot the active window. Pressing the spacebar then, changes to the selection tool. Usually the behaviour is the other way around: selection-tool, when pressing space the camera appears.
I'm creating a new release of an iOS app in iTunes Connect. The release has been reviewed and approved by Apple. However, on the App Information page the following is stated: "The name will be reviewed before it is made available on the App Store." Does this mean that, for this release, there will be an extra delay after I click "Release this version"?
I'm willing to go to any length to recover the data. (I will exchange thousands of bucks to get back the data if needed, no-questions-asked.)
This is likely the same problem I saw reported countless times. However, mine comes with a twist, so I wonder if anyone can provide extra insight. Briefly, my laptop randomly shuts down (I think it happens only on battery). It's an early 2011 17" version running the latest macOS.
I had my MBP /running High Sierra) fitted with a SSD and more RAM awhile ago, and had to replace the HD cable too (turns out that very component gets flaky, I thought my HD was dying, but turned out it was A-OK…). And now the Mac gets rather hot. I’ve downloaded several fan-control apps, that work perfectly fine on my Mini (running 10.9…), but none are able to make my fans move. Can I have misplaced some fan cables or broken something off in there?
When clicking on a URL for an M3U playlist on an iPhone, it opens in Safari as a blank, gray webpage, and no audio plays. How can I play an M3U playlist on an iPhone, given the URL to the playlist? Does Apple have a URL scheme where I can make a URL that will tell the phone to open the playlist up in iTunes?
So far as my experience goes, some software are available directly from Mac App Store, others are installed from other source e.g. gimp for Mac. When I check for updates in Mac, does it check for updates for the second category as well? If the answer is no, how do I know whether a new version for gimp has been released?
I cant see my main mac partition in my SSD. This is my story:
I use numerous aliases set at a given UNIX environment. For example my current fish shell under OSX have these below gb -> git branch pmm -> python manage.py migrate hpl -> hg pull dk -> docker kill and so on. Now the challenge is I use iTerm 2 for connecting to various remote sessions and I wish these aliases work seamlessly on all sessions. Is there a way to push these aliases into a global context so that iTerm 2 will input the original command upon detecting these aliases. i.e if I hit gb + enter in any iTerm window it must issue git branch to the remote session.
I went to update a few older (2011) iMacs the other day using the Command + Option + R combo in an attempt to have them update to 10.13.3. It was my understanding that this would work but they defaulted to what had been installed. Today I read that this option became available beginning with 10.12.4. Does that mean the machine has to be 10.12.4 installed before it will upgrade to 10.12.3?
On High Sierra using the U.S. keyboard you can press and hold letters to get accents. Pressing and holding a for instance gives you:
The following screenshots both show my iCloud, viewing from Finder and from web. Why some of the folders from web are not there in Finder? May be I deleted them, I'm not sure. Anyway, is it possible to see the missing folders (Keynote/Numbers/Pages/Preview) in Finder?
I have 14 VIPs. 13 of them are functioning perfectly. 1 VIP contains the other VIPs messages and thus does not function correctly.
after updating this morning I ended up with the message on the screen that the osinstall.mpkg was missing, using Time Machine I managed to get everything back to normal without too much struggle, but what do I do now ? If I update is going to show the same mistake again ? How do I proceed ? Thanks
I reset my machine recently to remove some dependencies for some libraries. I didn't realize that I had put a password on my external hard drive that I've been using to backup my machine as well store some files. When I plugged it in after resetting my machine it asks for "Enter a password to unlock the disk" which I can't remember clearly. Is there anyway I can get any files from my disk?
I have only a web browser available currently, but I want to share photos with a friend. How can I create shared albums in the browser client (https://www.icloud.com)?
I'm using MacBook Pro 2017 Touch Bar with macOS Sierra 10.12.6.. I've installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp. After the installation, and restarting several times, I got an error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encounter an unexpected error Windows installation cannot proceed to install Windows, click OK to restart the computer and then restart the installation"
I looked in Google for a long time for "Adding an app to the list of sharable file", but I didn´t find anything. When I open File Sharing in iTunes I can see the following apps:
I'm an astronomer, and I constantly (read: several times per day) check the same website to view the clear sky chart for my observatory. Specifically, the chart found on this webpage: http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/YerkesObILkey.html
I have credit in my iTunes account but iTunes will not let me buy songs using it, they want to bill my credit card. How can I spend my own account money ?
My Mac crashed, operating system error, tried reinstalling OS, no luck.... anyway I need to do a fresh install so I am copying my data off the machine using command line and recovery mode. My question is, I've copied the data without any issues, but isn't this a security flaw? What's to stop me going to someone's Mac, starting recovery mode, open terminal, go to the Users or a user directory and copy off whatever I want?
In Safari I open a page that contains Flash, after I close the page. in the Activity Monitor, the Flash Player occupy CPU is very high, and whats the meaning of the red color?
I have a problem with my iPhone 6. It randomly went off, and when I tried to power it on again it became stuck on boot loop (Apple logo is displayed, going black, and Apple logo is displayed again) over and over. I've done some research, and I tried all solutions, such as restoring the phone via iTunes, ReiBoot, and other similar software everything goes fine, but when progress bar is displayed on the phone, it stuck, and it is not moving at all. I don't have any idea what more I can do more...
I have the MBP 15" model 2017 (macOS High Sierra 10.13.3) with touch bar. What I realized is that the touch bar volume element (mute / unmute / volume up / down) does not work. I press them but nothing happens.
I have macOS Sierra installed and have an SSD and using the following command to avoid conversion to APFS but I get the following error: Error: could not get license agreement Also if I add the parameter --agreetolicense I get the error
It was listed on a slide in the iOS 11 keynote. What does it do and how does it work? My best guess is that I can initiate an iCloud backup by signing into iCloud online? https://imgur.com/a/JLfwe#2TjEs9c
My early 2008 MacBook runs on a dual boot of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 16.04. I deleted some partitions, so I am unable to boot either OS X or on Ubuntu. I tried a repair by using installation DVD Disk Utility and Time Machine, but both are unable to find the target volume.
I am using Dell P2715Q display (4K) with MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). It is by default scaled to 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz (copied from System Report). But the display shows "Resolution: 3840x2160, 60Hz" (at the bottom of the Menu). It bothers me cause I have some performance issues working with this display. I also have Dell U2715H display (2K) at home which doesn't show any performance problem at all. I assume the problem is in Mac OS scaling but don't see a way do diagnose or fix it. Mac OS Sierra Version: 10.12.6 (16G1212)
I have a Canon MF-4800 printer/scanner. It's been working fine up to last week. Now as you can see from the screen shots, it is mangling characters when printing. It scans ok, and prints test prints ok - also shown in another screenshot. The machine is connected to my local network and is used by three Macs computers running slightly different versions of High Sierra. I've tried: Cleaning the printer, Reconnecting the printer to my network, Downloading new drivers Any ideas would be welcome.
Since I switched to another provider, I had to setup the email address using an actual server address. I did that in Outlook before backing up the emails, which led to losing some important emails and folders.
The Pages app bundle includes many assets in the Resources folder. I find one of them confusing. PlaceholderImage.png is a 512x512px image that looks to the eye like a solid gray square. But it's actually very patchy and this compresses poorly.
The link from Apple's support page redirects to the Mac App Store but upon clicking download you're met with an error message saying you "This version of OS X can't be installed on the computer" Note: I've tried 4 different MacBook Pro TouchBar but none will download it. I'm only looking to download El Capitan so I can create a USB installer for an older Mac.
I need to access a web-site that is only reachable via https, but the certificate has expired (I trust this site with good reasons). My problem is that neither Firefox nor Safari nor Chrome will let me add a security exception. The button simply isn't there. I've tried to manually add an exception in Firefox under Privacy & Security → View Certificates → Servers, but that has no effect. I don't have any anti-virus software installed, but I used to have Sophos running. I'm currently running macOS 10.13.3. I'm guessing it's a system issue, since 3 different browsers are affected, but I have no idea what could cause this. Any suggestions on where to even look would be very welcome. Edit I've now found that with Chromium I can ignore the problem and proceed to the website, but I'd still like to know what's going on.
Not a major but a semi-annoying problem is that totally out of the blue all PDFs will start opening in Preview instead of Acrobat. All PDF file icons change from the PDF icon to Preview, as if the default program switches. Then it goes back by itself, for no apparent reason after I manually drag PDFs into Acrobat. Just happens randomly and I wonder why that is and how to prevent it, because it happens often enough to be a minor nuisance.
I am trying to determine how to resolve an error related to a complex key name in a property list file. The plist file contents are as follows:
I have a multi-series numbers Numbers line chart with 15+ lines. It's tough to make out which line is which from the legend, so I'd like to display the names alongside the lines.
I have two Macs connected via Thunderbolt bridge. I assigned two IPs (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2). Put up two Oracle Linux VirtualBox VMs and shared the Thunderbolt connection in bridged mode. Assigned manually 2 other IPs (same class ... 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12). Question: why cannot I ping between *11 and *12? Can ping from between Mac's hosts (*1 <-> *2). Can ping from VMs to Mac (*11 <-> *2 or *12 <-> *1). Can ping from VMs to Mac (*11 <-> *2 or *12 <-> *1). Successfully shared files between Macs via SMB. Successfully shared files between Macs via SMB. Firewall disabled on Linux VMs. Any tip would be appreciated.
I saved a word document to a path similar to: "something/にほん.docx" then closed down Word as it appeared to save successfully. I looked in Finder and the file wasn't there. I opened Word again, and I can see the file in the "Recent documents" folder but when I try to open it I get "this document is either deleted or not currently accessible". Is there a way to recover it? Obviously I can rename it to something using the roman alphabet. Possibly relevant info: I am on macOS 10.13.1 on a 15 Inch Mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro. My Mac system language is English (UK). I have enabled hidden files in finder. I have tried:
I'm trying to install CUPS-PDF for Mac by Homebrew as follow: but there is an error that it has been migrated to homebrew/core which I'm trying to install from. In this case, what would be the proper method of installing it?
Up until two weeks ago I run the latest Microsoft software update, my outlook on mac used to be organized by Boxes (Inbox, Sent, Draft, etc) and then under each would be each of my accounts. Further below I could access each Account by folders if I wanted to. Now instead I lost that view and I can either look into each account separately or in all accounts at same time. I called Microsoft and they say this is just how the new software updates works. Nothing that can be done about it. I can't believe this is the case. Am I the possibly only one using the view by box? Anyone else having this issue and/or having figure how to get it back the previous view? Thanks
So my bash prompt looks like this [parth:~]$ and if I go cd to Desktop, it looks like this [parth:Desktop]$. I only want to see the current directory, next to my username so if I go to a folder, in Desktop, it would replace Desktop with the current directory name. This is what I have in my ~/.bash_profile to make it look like this: export PS1='[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]]\$ ' This PS1 also follows the color highlighting of my terminal theme.
As visible in the image, the last two statements from 2017 are at the top. This happens with no other 10th and 11th statement though. Also 2018_001 is at the top, below the last 2017 statements (wich is correct, relatively).
After I have played with boot camp, the disk became only 250 GB out of 500 GB. disk utility, terminal, and system information are showing that disk capacity is 250 GB. Although I am sure that the disk is originally 500 or to be precise I am sure that those same programs displayed 500 before, I'd like to know how can I know the real capacity for sure and of course is there any solutions to undo whatever I did that corrupted the disk.
How can I write a script to turn on the accessibility keyboard present in macOS High Sierra? It's of course possible to do this by going to System Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard > Accessibility Keyboard > "Enable Accessibility Keyboard," but this takes a number of clicks. I would like a script that can be launched from the Dock, since I frequently use the Accessibility Keyboard. One idea is to use AppleScript; another idea is to find the Accessibility Keyboard binary and use a shell script to open it. Here is my attempt at an AppleScript: This script fails with the error: "System Events got an error: Can’t get button 'Accessibility Keyboard' of window 'Accessibility' of application process 'System Preferences'." If I remove the last two click commands, the script does not produce an error, but also does not appear to click the "Keyboard" UI element.
I'm a Realtor so I plug in my Bose headphones to the headphone jack of my Macbook Pro (latest High Sierra) and use it to make phone calls. I have a Thurderbolt Display hooked up to my Mac using an adapter. The problem is that when I hang up and make the next phone call, it switches from my headphone jack back to the Mac external speakers.
When I run brew --version, it took 30 seconds to return a response. Other brew commands are even slower. My CPU is ~ 90% idle. All other programs are running perfectly fine on my machine. I have the latest version of brew, and brew doctor passes. Any ideas on what I can try (other than reboot the machine)?
We have the following problem: An iPhone is acting as a Network Access Point under the PAN Bluetooth profile, but it does not respond to DHCP request/discover from our Linux-based system. The PAN connection can be established, but no IP address is assigned. Steps to Reproduce: - Activate Bluetooth on iPhone (5C iOS 10.3.2, but also seen in 6S iOS 11.x) - Activate Bluetooth tethering on iPhone - Pair our Linux-based system to iPhone via Bluetooth (PAN profile, NAP service) - Execute dhclient in our Linux-based system. Expected Results: - The iPhone assigns an IP address via DHCP to our Linux-based system. Actual Results: - The iPhone does not respond to DHCP request/discover from our Linux-based system. Is there any special handling/protocol in order to get an IP address and establish the PAN communication?
The last thing I entered wassudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /. I have no idea what’s causing it. Also any idea why it says last log in on ttys000? I saw a few places talk about it but didn’t really explain it clearly..
Turkish is not among the languages that are supported in multilingual typing. Is it possible to work around this limitation using a 3rd party app or using some other means?
Is it bad for my macbook pro 2013's battery if I often charge my bluetooth devices via its USB port.
I am currently working on setting up an IKEv2 VPN server with strongswan. I am working on a Mac running v10.11.16 (El Capitan). I have been referencing the following tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-ikev2-vpn-server-with-strongswan-on-ubuntu-16-04
I have a basic 1Tb external drive plugged into the back of my 2012 MacMini. It works but is ugly. I've been considering for a while getting either a NAS, or just plugging a USB drive into the back of my main router as a network disk - for central store of photos and digital media (music, video) across our household.
I've been looking into tools like Karabiner, which are cool, but I would like more control. In general, I'd like to remap specific keys to run AppleScript or some other code. Ideally it wouldn't send the keystroke though to the active application. Is there any way to do this?
I have a WiFi only 4th generation iPad and to trade my device in I am being asked for an IMEI serial number that you would dial for on your dialer. However, my iPad does not have a dialer, and I cannot find an IMEI in settings. Can you help or is there no possible way to find this information?
Using 2017 MBA with High Sierra. Randomly drops the internet connection. Sometimes several times per hour, sometimes once a week. Most of the time it also drops the WiFi connection. Have tried turning WiFi on and off, renewing DHCP lease, rebooting. All of these work or not on a random basis. I rule out the WiFi network itself since all my other devices maintain the signal with no problems (2017 iMac w/High Sierra, 2007 iMac w/ Sierra, 2006 MacBook w/OSX 8.6?, original iPad, and iPhone 8), even when situated at the same physical location. When the MBA drops the WiFi the toolbar icon at top drops out. But the Network panel in system preferences recognizes that the WiFi network exists and has a strong signal but is not joined. There are no other competing networks in my area. I also removed saved networks previously used when away from home. This random action does not seem to be correlated to sleep mode, long stretches of inactivity, keyboard actions, or anything else i can identify. Ha
I an trying to create an Automator Workflow. I selected Get selected Photos Items which appears to work.
I know I can configure the Touch Bar Control Strip in System Preferences, but how do I configure the items shown when the screen is locked? In particular, I would like to configure it so that the previous/play-pause/next and mute/volume down/volume up keys remain in the same position regardless of whether the screen is locked or not.
After installing the 10.13.3 Supplemental Update last week, I can't access my localhost. It says: You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Is there a reliable way of securely deleting a file or directory without wiping the whole disk (by encrypting the whole disk)? As I understand it, srm command has been removed because it doesn't really work on a SSD. So are there any software available that can perform this function? If there are, how do they work?
This morning I resumed my Backup and Sync syncing after having it paused for about a week (I was messing around with some Minecraft modpacks and didn't want it uploading all the packs to my Drive). It picked up where I left off and began syncing. A few minutes later I decided to check on its progress and was very surprised to find it uploading a bunch of PNG files that looked like bits of some YouTube videos I watched previously in Firefox 58. When I clicked on the uploading files, I found those pictures (and others) in a folder called ResourceCache. My question is: What is the ResourceCache folder, where is it and how do I get rid of it?
Here is the issue. The picture is in a pdf with words around it. I can only select part of the picture and not the whole picture. I can only select part of the picture one piece at a time. How do I take each piece to make it into a whole? When I right click on the selected picture, the only thing that pops up is "copy image". What program (if I need one) can I pull the piece image into so that I can make each piece into one whole piece? Each piece of the picture is in a different location in the page of the pdf file (but all is on one page), and has different sizes. I do not believe that they overlap. I'm trying to get the pieces together to put them in a Pages file with the same words around it, but not in the same way it is in the pdf file. This is for my own use. I just don't like the formatting in the pdf. I am pulling information from multiple pdf files into my own one or multiple files using Pages, and would like to include some of the pictures that are in the pdfs. Search engine
I have MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011) I did never factory reset it. It's getting sometimes slow and have too much heat, I've changed the fan but still got some heat and slow function till I force quit all apps.
I've got a programme that I use regularly that has a really bad memory leak problem. It seems to be triggered when closing my laptop / putting it to sleep and then waking the laptop up again. I wondered if it's possible to create an Automator workflow to say "when laptop is closed / when laptop goes to sleep close programme"?
I have a sheet with sales data and need to aggregate the data based on day. Is this possible to do in Numbers? I'm trying to use sumif, but I can't see that it has the functionality to sort the data based on day.
My hard drive in my Macbook completely broke a few weeks ago (didn't have much on it thankfully), so I bought a new hard drive and replaced the old one. Now I'm not too sure how to set this new hard drive up (as in putting an OS on it and formatting it correctly) - I'm not concerned with getting any of my old data back on it, I just want to set it up as a new Macbook. Similar questions I have found all seem to ask how to set it up with all the old data. How do I boot the system up (safe boot, recovery etc.)? and what do I need to do once it's booted up? Any help is much appreciated.
I want to do the following on my MacBook (MacOS High Sierra) using a script (maybe with Automator): I press Cmd + Space. (Spotlight-search-input shows up). I enter a search-string ("helloworld" for example).
My screen goes black when opened past vertical. Tried all the NVRAM and SMC recommended fixes, but neither have fixed it. Seems like hardware issue and it seems to be getting worse...
So after 2 days I am still stuck in the black screen on my internal SSD disk. And I desperately need my computer. I installed the same obnoxious High Sierra on an external disk which previously held a Lion Backup.
Latest OSX update (10.13.3 (17D47)) added a shortcut cmd-shift-V for Edit -> Paste and Match Style globally. This interferes with my selected shortcut for ClipMenu paste *=URL=* How do I remove a global shortcut like that?
I would like to gift a book listed on ibooks as a giveaway for 175 people at a European conference. Attendees all have iphones/ipads but are based across various European countries. I have all their email addresses and would email all individually but I seem to be thwarted by the fact that the destination of the purchasing store (UK) and the recipents store (various European countries./US) are not the same. Can anyway suggest a solution?
I am very new to iOS - I am an android person, and I have been given an app to test which is already installed in our iphone. I am using appium as a testing tool. Is it required for me to have a developer account - paid - just to be able to test apps on a real device?
I have VMware Fusion 10 (10.1.1) on OSX Sierra (10.12.6). I have a question regarding Applications Menu. How can I remove "Windows Explorer" and "Windows Media Player" from it? See the screenshot below:
Around six months ago, I bought an iPad Pro to replace a stolen iPad 2. I set it up (if memory serves) from the backups of the stolen one and expected it to also inherit the name (since several times when I've obtained a new device, I've had difficulty deactivating the old one due to identical names. But after a while, when importing photos, I noticed Photos.app labeling it "iPad (4)" I wondered about the (4) but thought maybe it means this is the fourth iPad I've owned. Until one day, Photos started saying "iPad (7)" and then a few days after that, I noticed Safari was offering me pages I had viewed on "iPad (7)" So, I picked up the iPad, went to Settings → About, and sure enough, the iPad's name is "iPad (7)"
I'm having an issue with my iMac where it hangs during shutdown. It gets to a black screen with just the cursor showing. I am able to login from another computer via SSH and see that it's doing nothing (according to CPU usage). The system.log didn't show anything of interest either. I discovered this when trying to update the supplemental update just released. It won't install because I have to do a hard shutdown (either holding the power button or issuing sudo shutdown -r now via ssh).
If you didn't know macOS has a well hidden directory called "/AppleInternal" that is pretty secretive. It's not possible to ls or rm it and I've never seen it referenced before with anything other than fs_usage, where it was being listed frequently as /AppleInternal or /AppleInternal>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with usually between 5 and 20 >. Thought it was some reference to something other than a directory but the / before AppleInternal made me wonder and google has an article about how to enable it, which apparently added some hidden features to Xcode.
According to Zabbix agent installation, you can install just the zabbix-agent on macOS with brew install zabbix --without-server-proxy Nothing explained how to configure the agent, tells him where to send the information ? Is there any configuration file located somewhere ? There are some files in /usr/local/Cellar/zabbix/<version number>/ but nothing similar to a .conf.
When sending an iMessage to a recipient, they see the email address associated with the sender's Apple ID. As a sender, is it possible to hide the email from the receiver, instead having the parties refer to each other using only a phone number?
I have a peculiar problem when using headphones on my iPhone SE. When playing music, podcasts, videos, or doing Facetime calls, sound only comes through the right side. Yet when I make a telephone call, audio comes through both sides / ears. Some things I've tried: Cleaned the headphone port with a cotton swab and with a paperclip. Ensured the "channel" slider in Accessibility settings is centered. Tried different pairs of headphones.
I'm trying to write an AppleScript for Mac Outlook 2011 that talks to an Exchange server. The idea is that when the rule is triggered by a message, it runs an AppleScript. The issue I'm having is that I'm unable to figure out how to reference this message that triggered the rule within the script. I'm aware I can reference it through 'outgoing messages' once the message is sent, but I'm trying to work on the message before it gets sent.
I'm writing a tool that needs to cache files that are supposed to be hidden from the uninformed user and persist across reboots. On Linux, I am putting these files in ~/.cache. What's the equivalent of that on the mac?
Siri can recognize and transcribe voice (duh!). Can I use Siri to transcribe the spoken audio in a recording… like, for example, from the Voice Memos app? If Siri can't do it, are there any apps that make use of Siri's voice transcription abilities to do this?
Is a user's downloads folder always called "Downloads" and located in the same path, or does its name and path change due to localization?
Apple's technical documentation in the Apple File System Guide describes that some directories like /tmp are not good candidates for the fast directory sizing feature. Fast directory sizing works by precomputing the size of directory as content is added and removed. Therefore, it is most appropriate for directories that contain many files and have relatively little churn. For example, a user’s Documents folder is a good candidate for fast directory sizing, whereas the /tmp directory would not. How can I tell if a given directory has this enabled or disabled so I can choose where to do speed intensive "churn" work and where not to do that sort of work?
All the way through El Capitan, the way this used to work, in the Terminal, was: In Sierra and High Sierra, it appears that the IOUSBMassStorageClass kernel extension is no longer loaded, and instead, the IOUSBMassStorageDriver is loaded. Running kextstat | grep USBMass reveals this. If I try to unload the IOUSBMassStorageClass kernel extension, I get the following error:
I often boot into an external startup disk. In order to do this, I need to access the Startup Manager by holding alt/option while rebooting and then selecting the disk I want to boot up into.
First my Bootcamp crashed due to a Win update on my iMac. Then I tried to fix it, assisted by an AppleCare person (using Diskutil and Terminal). Now it seems I have lost 500GB+ on my Fusion drive, and I have not been able to restore Bootcamp using BA.
Suddenly I began getting a box asking me to enter the password for my Gmail account for the server: smtp.mail.me.com. How do I find that out? The issue seems to be between my Microsoft/Windows Outlook email box and the Gmail box I access on the Google site.
Using MacOS 10.10.5 on a recent Macbook Air, I'm trying to use X-windows emacs on a remote Linux server via vnc. I have the Mac command key configured as the emacs 'Meta' key, and it works fine for Meta-F, Meta-B, Meta-X, etc... However, certain key combinations: Meta-P, Meta-Q (command-{P,Q} on the mac) don't get transmitted correctly, making the experience very frustrating. Is there a way to change something in this setup to get those keys to work?
Is it possible to use an iPad to link to an iPhone, remotely log into an app (saved on iPhone) and run it? Can it be replicated across 20 different iPhones?
The Mac on which I’d like to keep the mail also has a 200GB iCloud Photo Library, so signing out of iCloud is a pain. But I’m not sure that would work. I would guess that when I sign back in, it would be minus the just deleted email account. Running Sierra 10.12.6 on both computers.
I am a family admin I purchased a 200GB plan which allows for sharing I sent the share notification to family members I received the invitation as a push notification on the family member device When I click it, it will take me to the Apple ID setting in the Settings app When I click on iCloud and look at storage it is still maxed out (5GB of 5GB used) and my only options available under “Manage Storage” is to “Upgrade,” which then wants me to purchase a plan. Note: I also cannot get purchased app sharing (not in-app purchases) to work
I use a MacBook Pro regularly, but I also have a Windows 10 box that's sitting right next to me. I use Microsoft Remote Desktop (MRD) from the Mac to occasionally remote into the PC over WiFi for the quick odd job.
Can you control an iPhone remotely using Mobile Device Management protocol? or any other protocol/service? Of course, the user's consent will be obtained before performing any actions. I am mainly interested in changing the settings and manually selecting a carrier on behalf of the user. Any suggestions are welcomed.
my brother sent my friend an effective power message and his phone turned off completely. His phone doesn't work at all and supposedly it's on "boot loop" where the screen only shows the apple logo and it is staying like that. Any ideas on how to fix his phone?
This problem (weird startup disk in S.U.Mode) had me stuck for a day, trying things. Then everything worked for one S.U.Mode boot -- got to the usual boot drive. Not sure if it is something I did or if it was random. Anyway I ran fsck -fy which showed no problems, and ran my usual nvram gpu-power-prefs script and did a reboot. The GUI then came up fine, using the integrated graphics chip. (I fortunately did a backup during this time.) Next time the machine went to sleep though, it was broken again. I tried a reboot into S.U.Mode, but it used the small limited boot disk.
On my OSX 10.6 MacBook, the Adobe Application Manager menubar app always launches at login. It's supposed to have a settings button but this button does not appear since the app only shows "The update server is not responding". I want to disable this menubar app from launching automatically at login, but since it won't let me do this in it's own settings, I was wondering if I could find the preferences file and change it manually.
I want to make a row in a table super thin but Pages has a 0.28in minimum for rows when auto-resize is turned on and a 0.11in minimum for rows when auto-resize is turned off. I searched everywhere but all I could find were posts explaining how to resize a table and this post. Since that post is about Numbers (and has no solution), I thought I might ask this question to see if someone has a solution for Pages. Has anyone been able to overcome this restriction?
Having some trouble with a project and hopefully someone can help. I'm trying to take extracted text from tesseract-ocr and use that text as the search query of Google Chrome searches. My shell script can extract the text and launch Chrome, but I cant figure out how to send the text to the search bar of Chrome. Below are some pictures of my script.
A friend of mines has a MacBook with MacOS X 10.5.8 Leopard on it but it doesn't bear a serial number. We checked "About this Mac". We checked "System Information". And we even checked underneath the MacBook where Apple usually engraves the MacBook's serial numbers. My friend can't view most websites and doesnt have any of the original packaging. Is there anything else we can do to find out the MacBook's type and serial number?
Background: I got a new computer recently, a new MacBook Pro running High Sierra. My old computer was a 2011 MacBook Pro, and I used an external drive to back it up with Time Machine. The drive has two partitions, both Mac X Extended (Journaled), and one contains my backups (Mac Daddy) while the other is empty (007). I no longer need two partitions on the drive, and would like to merge them without losing my backups.
Every spec I've seen shows the diagonal measurement of 13.3". I'm interested in the actual width and height of the screen. Thanks!
What program can I use to open a .prl file? I want to view the preferred roaming list from my carrier bundle, but I don’t know which software will open this file.
I emptied the trash and the "Are you sure" message won't leave. The trash has been emptied. Neither of the buttons are responsive.
I've been using a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter to connect to an external monitor for over a year. It stopped working yesterday and I am about to replace it. However, I noticed there are Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables on Amazon, as well. The cable's length, either 3 or 6 feet, may be useful to me. That said, I have 2 HDMI cables already, so getting another cable may just be a waste of space (pricing is roughly the same, as far as I can tell).
I used Monster ScreenClean to clean the screen of my MacBook Air. I later read that this will leave a film on the screen, which seems to be the case when holding the screen up against the light.
I've recently been looking to upgrade my MacBook Pro, but wanted to see if anyone else has attempted this. The plan was to upgrade to a Crucial MX500 250GB SATA 2.5-inch 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD and upgrade from 4GB of RAM to 16GB of RAM. I assume this would make the Mac run like new! Anyone tried/got any advice?
I recently noticed that macOS has an icon for every W1 enabled audio device in the Bluetooth preferences, but I'm not exactly sure where the system gets these icons. In the screenshot below, the Beats Solo³ and AirPods were paired to my iPhone, and iCloud paired them to my Mac. It looks like the color of the Beats headphones in the icon do match the color of the real headphones as well!
I found this post whose answer explains what to do in order to record the screen using QuickTime player with sound (both from the micro and the computer). I followed the steps there, and although I successfully managed to install Soundflower and to add a Multi-Outputp device, the screen recording produced by QuickTime player has no sound. Is there a way to check whether the Soundflower works properly? I'm connected to an Apple display as well, so does this pose an issue?
I'm trying this on iOS 11.2 iPad. L2TP VPN has "Send All Traffic" option, so that I can control whether I would use VPN server as my default Internet gateway. Curiously, IKEv2 VPN does not have that option, and I find it works like "Send All Traffic = yes". Could someone explain why Send All Traffic option for IKEv2 is missing from Apple's design?
I'm backing up my mac from a Hard Drive that someone gave to me, but I don't have enough space on my Mac. How I can delete files that I don't need to be backed up (when I try to delete it says The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified) from the HDD so backup wont be corrupted and I can backup my Mac?
I haven't been able to find an option to not override my external calendar (Google Calendar) default alert times and scheme. I always have one email alert 1 day before and one normal reminder like couple hours before.
Several times a week I find that, despite my volume being set to a reasonable setting, I receive no alert sounds (slack, messages, etc). Every time, the alert volume is set to 0. See picture below. When I see this, I crank up the alert volume and all is well.
For some reason my I can't run sudo, every time I try, I just get the error sudo: unable to open /var/db/sudo/ts/user: Invalid argument The folder listed in the error (/private/var/db/sudo) is completly empty, which explains why I can't run sudo, but how can I fix it, without sudo? Things I already tried and other notes: · Creating new (admin) account: still same error · Both USB-ports are broken, so know backup of whole system possible (most important files still saved in cloud) · I'm aware that I can reinstall OSX via ⌘+R or ⌘+⌥+R
Mail.app puts all of my mail into the junk mail folder. Junk mail filtering is turned off. I have also turned off junk mail filtering on the server side and turned off all sorting rules. This only happens on one user account on my computer, Mail.app behaves normally in the other user. Every day I have to select all junk mail and drag it to my inbox and then waste my time manually sorting.
i have about hundreds of movie files stored each in a folder. the scheme i named each folder is like this: ABCD
When trying to change the associated application that opens when double clicking a file, I'm seeing the error message: You can’t change the item "<filename>" to always open in the selected application. The item is either locked or damaged, or in a folder you don’t have permission to modify (error code -54). Any idea what the problem is?
In the iOS Mail app, there's no "Share" button (box with an arrow) that presents the standard share sheet with options to send via Messages/Airdrop, save to Files, open in other apps, etc. Is there any way to share the contents of an email other than forwarding, replying, or printing?
I have created an iOS app that I want to distribute over the air. I have create a website that links to the itms-services url with the mainfest.plist file. When I try to download the file on my iOS device, it prompts me asking if I want to install it, and then it says "App name could not be downloaded at this time". Here is an example:
How do I change the color of an event in Mac High Sierra Calendar? I am trying to import and synch my Google Calendar events with the Mac High Sierra native calendar (iCal ?). I can successfully imported and synch the calendar entries, yet they all appear in iCal in the same default calendar color. Yet, I have not as yet discovered how to synch the individually selected Google Calendar "event" colors (such as, Dk.Blue=Travel, Red=Meeting, Green=Bill pay, Lt.Blue=Work Item, Purple=Anniversary, etc.)
Since I have broken Permissions, which can't be fixed now, because my sudo is broken too, I want to create a Time Machine Backup. Now the problem: both of my USB-Ports are broken. After some research I found out, you can use your Mac as a hard disk and you can boot a Mac from an external disk, so my idea is to connect the working Mac (Mac A) via FireWire with my broken Mac (Mac B), so I can use the hardware of Mac A with the software of Mac B and create a Time Machine Backup to an external drive. Since I don't want to risk that Mac A breaks to, I'm asking here, what I need to do different or of this even possible.
I am sharing my internet / vpn connection via en4 to 192.168.2.0/24. Sharing internet works. Sharing the VPN works. I am doing DNS resolution on the router and not forwarding DNS requests through pf.
I was recording a very important video with Photobooth. Unfortunately, near the end, it ran out of file space. So it was recording, and there is a 1 TB MOVE file there, but the end is missing. This means the file will not play at all. Is there any method I can use to recover the file, at least the minutes recorded up until the file space ran out?
I'm trying to use a simple version of the ~./ssh/config file, but whenever I try to connect to any host listed in the config I am repeatedly prompted for the ssh key password. I'm not trying to save the password / use keychain like most of the other questions I've seen. I'm just trying to provide the password, but it keeps appearing like it is incorrect. It is not incorrect. I type this password hundreds of times per week, and if I delete the host info from the config file, it works fine. It is only when the host is in the config file that it repeatedly prompts for password. I have tried rebuilding the id_rsa.pub file with command: I have tried adding this to the config file Here's the only thing that is in the config file The user listed in config is not the same user as I am locally, if that makes any difference. id_rsa & id_rsa.pub are both 600 permission
My MacBook Pro 13" (A1502, early 2015) is displaying a flickering screen with horizontal lines and all kinds of other distortions. An external monitor hooked up by HDMI works just fine though without any artifacts even in mirror mode.
This issue was previously reported here: MacOS Sierra; Text deselecting when using scroll-wheel with Logitech mouse., but there is not a solution, the question is a year and a half old, and the issue is closed without higher rep. Using 10.13.2.
I have Tight VNC jviewer in my applications folder. It is a Java application. I want it to show up in the Recent Items > Applications when I run it. How do I do this? As a side note, it also doesn't show up in the Alfred commandline as a potential application either.
I've installed Insomniax on my MacBook Air. After I tap "Disable lid sleep" my Mac can't sleep.
I'm running macOS High Sierra. My wife is on a computer that only supports OS X El Capitan. She writes a document on Pages. How does she collaborate with me, or I with her, so that neither of us are bumped to iCloud.com.
I wish to switch between Eclipse IDE (not running in full-screen mode) and a tutorial running in Safari (in full-screen mode). Whenever I Command + Tab from Eclipse to Safari I am not taken to the tutorial in full screen mode but to a Safari page showing the message Click to exit full screen. How could I move between the two without changing Eclipse to full-screen mode and without switching spaces using swipe on trackpad?
I attempted to upgrade from macOS Sierra to High Sierra on my late 2010 MacBook Pro and it failed part way through the installation. On restarting it flashes a folder with a question mark on a white screen.
I typically associate certain file types with certain editors and IDEs. You know R with RStudio, Java with JetBrains, and all the other goodies with Sublime Text. But every time I install an Xcode update, Xcode takes over every code-related extension imaginable, and I have to associate my files manually. Is there anyway to prevent Xcode from taking over my file associations?
I'm frequently generating a .csv file and opening it in Numbers from a terminal command. Each time, Numbers shows the Format sidebar, and then I manually hide the sidebar.
I really like TouchID on my Macbook Pro, and I use it often to unlock my Mac in reasonably safe environments. I'm wondering if there's an easy way - a keyboard shortcut, Terminal command, or something else that can let me lock the laptop and prevent Touch ID - similar to the five power-button clicks for "SOS mode" on iOS - for use when I am slightly paranoid. I know that shutting down the laptop works, but that takes time and stops background tasks. One use-case is leaving my laptop in a shared lab overnight to run jobs, and wanting to ensure that my password is needed to get in.
The display in my terminal is: gaowei at GaoweideMacBook-Pro in ~/desktop I intend to change to Max at MDFK in ~/desktop Where can I configure it?
I don't want my son to use Minecraft until after he has finished his homework. Even after applying Parental Controls (Minecraft DOESN'T show up in the list of "Allowed" applications), he can still run it at will !!!!
Being a big filesystem compression fan i've compressed really a lot on my mac partitions. Unfortunately apple's bootcamp hfs driver for windows doesnt support compression (i see the files but cant read the content). used google but seems like nobody cares about fs compression on hfs, plus no 3rd party driver mentions anything about it. Do i need to decompress everything in order to share it with my bootcamp/windows installation? Never thought a filesystem feature might lack support as i never had problems reading ntfs(compressed) files on a mac.
The default way to install an iOS app was through iTunes. Having not used iTunes in several years, I'm trying to put an app on an iPad I have, and can't for the life of me find the iOS store in iTunes. What am I missing?
Apparently, TCP/IP configuration is only valid for that single network, so I'd like to find a way to apply that config to the specific network. Is there such option?
I've downloaded Onecast which allows me to stream an Xbox One to my Mac and it supports connecting an Xbox controller. Is there a way to emulate an Xbox controller with my keyboard and mouse on my Mac so I can use it in games?
I bought a new iPhone 6S+ iOS 11 device just yesterday and I encountered this error. My old Apple device was lost. How can I fix this?
Basically once my MacPro wakes up, the Wi-Fi icon is greyed out and it takes like a minute (which feels pretty long), before it connects to my home Wi-Fi network. This happened already a few times over the last year. It starts happening without a good reason, and it fixes itself also like that. Utterly annoying. I cleaned up my Wi-Fi list (only 3 networks in it) and my home network is on the top. Running 10.13.3 Any clues?
I'm trying to figure out what usb-c charging hubs would be useful to charge my MacBook Pro. The specs for the charger that is included (61W) says: Output: 20.3V - 3A (USB PD) or 9V - 3A (USP PD) or 5.2V - 2.4A.
I have a MacBook pro mid 2012 and, since my old hdd is dead, I brought a Samsung 500Gb EVO 850. When I'm trying to format the new hdd to install the OS(Internet) I get a message saying that the format was failed to avoid future accidental tests. The same thing happens when I try to partitions. Can some one help. Thks in advance
Is there a keyboard shortcut or hotkey to switch between the "In Library" tab and "All Apple Music" tab when searching in iTunes? From my research, the only way I see the ability to switch between tabs is by clicking them.
My iOS App received a metadata rejection because I made a mistake in the review information for In App Purchases. Made the necessary correction and submitted an appeal to the App Review board. Has been a week but still no response. What is the correct course of action to get the app passed through the review? Should I re-submit the build using "Submit for review" button?
So, I just asked and had answered this question, Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable vs. adapter - for MBP mid-2012, about the adapter vs. the cable. I am leaning toward cable now, but was wondering about the 3ft, 6ft, and 10ft versions. I'd likely go with 6ft. But my question is, will there be any degradation in performance due to the length of the cord(s)? In other words, will the 6 perform better than the 10 and the 3 perform better than the 6?
yesterday I tried the solution for my MacBook Pro under Sierra from the forum under this link: MacBook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI? I tried the following steps under Sierra with a good result (I've got an AMD graphic card for NVIDIA change the code from AMD to NVIDIA): Start in Single-User Mode (boot while pressing cmd+s) Typed in the following command: sudo nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00 reboot(reboot while pressing cmd+d) Open the Terminal and use the following code: diskutil cs list (find Logical Volume UUID: last item) diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume UUID (UUID: from previous command) cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD mkdir AMD_Kexts
I have tried editing the Library/Spelling file, tweaked entries in System Preferences → Keyboard → Text. The issue has persisted for years across various iteration of Mac hardware and operating system. I am currently running Mac OS Yosemite.
Does it sync browsing history and safe passwords? Or just bookmarks and the reading list?
I've realised that I'm able to charge my new USB type-c ported MacBook Pro using an iPad charger (with a 3rd party cable) and also I can use my old Google Nexus 5X fast charger which has USB type-c port too. Using these charges keep my laptops battery on level - no charge, no discharge. My question is, if I keep using them, would they harm the battery?
I've successfully removed a regular key following the advice from MacBook Pro 2016: Keyboard key stuck – how to remove key? I'm considering doing the same with up/down keys but not 100% sure if the attachment mechanism is the same - claws on bottom, and hooks on the top. Can please somebody confirm it?
MacBook pro 2014, OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 There're two history entries that I can't delete (as seen in pics). Whether I chose to clear history of all time or manually delete entries, it just won't work. At first there's only a Feb 8 history entry stuck there which I didn't pay much attention but yesterday another Feb 28 shows up and really annoys me. I googled for a while but can't get any clue. I'm reluctant to resort to resetting because of data loss(saved passwords .etc). Please help!
I know that I can turn on/off the badge from the notifcation center, but is there a way to do it with a script? If possible I would love to do for a specific app, otherwise it will be fun to turn it off for all the apps. So far I was able to do this: end tell It has only one problem:
I want to download the photos from my iCloud to my iPhone se, iOS 10. This is the message I got from apple:
I'm trying to write a script to automate a task that involves the logged user's username. The problem is the username is coming up as domain/username and I just need the username.
I have two scripts that open and close an app; let's say it's the builtin Calculator.app. The "start" script uses /usr/bin/open to launch the app, then a one-line AppleScript to set the app's visibility to false. This is the entirety of the "stop" script: I am running these scripts from a LaunchDaemon that calls them at certain fixed times of the week.
I copied my custom keyboard layout into /Library/Keyboard Layouts. After that, I can easily choose from System Preferences → Keyboard → Input Sources, and it just works fine. But whenever I restart the computer, the previously added keyboard layout is deleted automatically and has to be added again The computer does not delete the files inside the /Library/Keyboard Layouts directory, it only deletes the entry in System Preferences. How do I resolve this issue?
This is a very small annoyance, but may point to a basic misunderstanding. I've created a symlink in my home directory to a deeply nested Customers folder with this command: It works fine most of the time: ls ~/Customers and ls /absolute/path/to/target give the same results, and files can be referenced using the link with no problems.
The macbook pro comes with a usb-c adapter with the following output: Most USB-C hubs I have found support at most 15V, will this be enough to charge a macbook (I understand it will do so on lower speed)
What Linux support hardware drivers for screen / trackpad and optionally all keys? Core requirements: no state changes to the original hard disk (this qualifies it as "external" ) drivers for Apple screen resolution and GPU if possible Apple keyboard drivers or support Drivers for the trackpad OR a usb mouse Network is minimal - ethernet OR wifi Optional requirements (the more that work the better): the full function key row drivers) audio drivers all external mouse all external keyboard all external screen all external audio Run on bare metal - I'm open to a virtual solution if that's the only thing that can work, but I'd rather have linux boot against the actual hardware so I have one OS running on the Mac hardware. Now -
Hi :) I've got a 2017 macbook pro w/ touch bar According to this site: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i7-3.1-15-mid-2017-retina-display-touch-bar-specs.html
I have three Apple devices, a Macbook Pro Early 2011, an iPad, and an iPhone 5. The macbook appears to have all of my contacts synched but the iPad is missing a few and the iPhone is missing even more. Each device is connected to the same Apple ID and Contacts is turned on under the iCloud settings for each. I'm not sure what else I can do to get this straightened out.
Is it possible to modify file size attribute in Terminal? seems my dash cam only recognizes video files with the exact size of 419,430,400 bytes. My video file is much smaller than this, but in order to play it on dashcam I have to make it match this number! I have tried this: but didn't work.
So i have this strange “malfunction” with my backup. It says that I don’t have enough storage space, but I After I try a few times it says that some files were unable to be used and I found This at strange thing at my iBooks while looking in the backup files.
Recently I have downloaded and installed macOS High Sierra. Downloading went well, installing went well, no problems during that process. Only when my iMac started back up I saw nothing new. It looked like it didn't install anything at all. So when I checked which OS it was running it said 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
I can't figure out exactly why, but it seems after I download xcode and install the command line tools, certain files such as php and ruby files do not display the proper icons. The icon for a ruby file in macOS should be displayed as
I'm turning stones to find a possible cure for my mid2012 Macbook Pro 15" Retina. I had an external hard drive attached to the left side USB port (the one attached straight to the motherboard), and as I moved the computer, the drive fell down hanging on its USB cable. The computer went off immediately. Now it starts maybe every tenth try so that I can sign in. I stays on for a minute or two (or 20 seconds) and then the screen goes black and nothing else remains to do but force shut down the computer.
Is there a way to change the Finder tab title to include the name of the containing folder? I work on projects that have the same standardized subfolder names (e.g., code), which makes it difficult to switch between projects without going through each tab to identify the containing folder. Current state: ambiguous Finder tab titles for three different subfolders
I have a wireless drive [WD My Passport Pro] and of course I want to encrypt it, but of course there's no way to encrypt the actual drive with FDE and still have it recognized by the Passport's firmware, so I've created a sparsebundle within in encrypted with AES-256 with the drive physically attached to my Mac. I've been able to write to it, but as soon as I've accessed the sparsebundle from the underlying drive mounted as a network share, it became read-only, even though the underlying drive is r/w and I am the owner of the sparsebundle file. Re-attaching the drive locally and opening the sparsebundle still results in a read-only FS. I've created a sparseimage and I've been able to write to it ever since, even after several ummounts and remounts, but it seems to be much slower, which is expected. How can I make the sparsebundle writable once again? I'm on the latest 10.13. Similar to this. Thank you
I wonder if there is a way to set multiple passwords for a single user under macOS?
I have installed pandoc using homebrew and the Anaconda python distribution using pyenv. I've just found that Anaconda comes with its own pandoc binary and since the pyenv shims come before homebrew in my PATH, I cannot use the homebrew (and newer) version of pandoc. This is my current PATH Is there a way to force the terminal to use the homebrew version of a binary without breaking the PATH?
Lately when I try to sign into iCloud for Windows I occasionally get asked to supply two-factor authentication code. Today, it won’t accept my six digit code even though I know it is correct. What could be the possible reason? I am using macOS High Sierra and Windows 10.
I recently tried to change my account name and home directory in System Preferences > User & Groups > Advanced Options. I didn't know that it changed your home directory to an existing one instead of renaming the current one. I became a standard user and had to add a new admin in single-user mode (I don't have administrator account on my mac) and from there made my original account an admin.
Every once in a while when I send a text message, the recipient receives it as an email text attachment from my iPhone account, 989xxxxxxx@vzwpix.com. I send my texts by going into Contacts then choosing "Send Message". Any ideas?
I am trying to change my DNS servers to the OpenDNS servers (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220). I put them in in System Preferences, applied the changes, and checked in terminal, but when I go to the OpenDNS website to test if it's working (internetbadguys.com), it says that it's not installed. I am running macOS High Sierra v10.13.3 on a MacBook Air. Any help would be appreciated. UPDATE 03/06:
I'd like to know if there is an efficient way to use my Mac Pro from my MacBook (Not using anything like TeamViewer or VNC), so I can enjoy the power of the Mac Pro with the mobility of the MacBook while I'm home.
My iPhone is behaving slowly, so I am trying to watch CPU usage in Instruments.app on a Mac to see if any particular process is to blame. But the CPU activity in the "Activity Monitor" instrument doesn't make sense to me. Right now it's showing a steady CPU Total Load ranging between 30% to 40%. But in the list of processes below, they add up to less than 1% in the %CPU column. So what is actually being measured at 30% and is there a better way I should be diagnosing this?
For eg: for automatic iCloud backups, the iPhone must be connected to WiFi, plugged in and locked, and backup takes place once a day. Similarly, what would be the conditions for auto updating of iOS apps?
I'd like to understand how deep the queue one can go undoing their previous actions in finder?
When I open Keychain Access, I cannot lock the "local items" keychain. The lock indicator that shows that the keyring is in an open-state is greyed out. Right next to it there is text: "Local Items cannot be locked". Is this normal behavior? I read that this keychain is somehow linked with iCloud, but I am not using iCloud on my Mac and as far as I am aware I have disabled it. Any hints are welcome!
Is it possible to show only the date in the menu bar and not the clock. When I go to System Preferences > Date & Time, I can only remove both, but I'd like to keep the date and only hide the time. I also tried to go to Language & Region and change the format in which the time is shown to nothing but that did not do the trick either; the menubar clock just jumped back to the standard setting instead of removing the time, as I hoped.
I installed an Anemone theme from Cydia called “iPhone X Theme” to get the dock from the iPhone X on my iPhone 6s, but it didn’t look very good, so I disabled the theme and deleted it, but the dock still didn’t go back to normal. Here’s what it looks like right now. My clock app also got messed up
I am trying to install Jira which requires java JDK. I installed the latest Java JDK and it says it was successfully installed. However I get an error: when I try to install Jira (see this post) the answers to that question do not work for me (setting JAVA_HOME), so what exactly should I do?
I want to permanently remove iTunes.app from my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan (10.11.6). Earlier it was enough to delete the app and create a non-writeable file that is owned by root. But since a couple of days I noticed that iTunes keeps being re-installed. Is there a way of removing iTunes and preventing the automatic* re-installation?
I have a Mac mini late 2012/2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, with 2 disks, one SSD, and a HDD. The SSD has the most recent High Sierra and the second drive OS X 10.9.5. After many attempts to force High Sierra to connect my Bluetooth keyboard, I decided to set Maverick as the boot drive and restart to check whether the keyboard is detected there. In fact, it was, but now it does not mount the SSD with High Sierra and even in the terminal mode I get the message "unknown special file or file system." Any ideas how to force it to mount again, besides upgrading the 10.9 to Sierra?
Now I am running out of idea about how to recover the system. I have created an image of the Macintosh HD before using Internet recovery therefore I'm not worrying data loss. The image below was taken after I erased the Macintosh partition to install macOS again – I haven't installed it yet.
I have a 4TB WD external hard disk that is partitioned as follows: Time Machine app recognizes the disk and all the partitions but when it attempts to erase the partition a popup message appears saying "MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation" How can I fix this problem? macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra
I just noticed that the rendered font size vary across apps even when the font size and the font face were the same, when printing. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 and I normally use 12 point Verdana across apps for writing documents, notes or whatever, just for the sake of consistency.
I have a Mac laptop and an Android phone. I have my headsets connected to my laptop, (and like to listen to music that way) but would like to have my phone's audio events heard privately through my headset, too. Since no version of Bluetooth supports simultaneous audio streams from two audio source devices to the same audio sink device, I'm left with finding a way to route audio from my phone through my laptop and into my headset.
I am not able to sign into iMessage and FaceTime with my Apple ID. Currently, my iMessage and FaceTime are activated by my phone number, but I need my Apple ID email as well. Every time I try to sign in with email, an error occurs and nothing else happens.
MacBook Pro (2014) 2.8GHz i7, 16GB memory, macOS 10.12 Sierra. In Mac Mail (Version 10.3 3273, only installed extension is GPGMail, v2.7.1), when I receive an email with large attachments (>5mb?), the email's details such as title, sender, and recipient all appear blank. (See screenshot below) I have tried opening and closing Mail, and rebooting, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. The email and attachments have fully downloaded, and there is no activity showing in the Activity window. This occurs in both the preview pane and when I open the email as a separate window. All other emails (including other emails from the same senders) are fine. I have tried rebuilding the mailbox, to no change. I know there's nothing wrong with the email itself (or the attachments) as when I open the message in my webmail client, all the information and the attachments appear correctly. The email server/account is IMAP. Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks.
I have two ios devices and a mac all using the same iCloud account. My iCloud email settings are automatically set up in mail, but my third-party email accounts like google, for instance, are not. I have to manually donfigure them. Is there a way to store my third-party email accounts settings in iCloud and have them automatically setup in mail?
I'm attempting to write an AppleScript that keeps repeating an action until you press a key or click away from the active window. How would I go about doing that?
My understanding of standby modes in MacOS is they will not be triggered with an external disk. However even though I explicitly set my power settings not to sleep the disk, it still does.
I followed a pretty simple guide to bring some Dashboard widgets onto my Desktop. The only problem is that they seem to have the property of constantly being above all application windows. Is there any way to make these widgets behave just like any other window? Meaning I'd like them to be able to fall behind other windows when those windows have focus.
I own a PowerBook G4 A1104 with 512 mb of ram and 1.5 ghz and I also own an Ibook G4 1.33 Ghz 512 ram. I have seen videos on youtube of people turning their ibook g4 and imac g4 into machines running from Yosemite to Sierra. How can I accomplish this?
It's a Mac Mini, Late 2012, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM and an internal fusion drive of 1 TB, running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3. The issue is that it's running so slowly that there I can move the mouse and it takes up to sixty seconds (on one memorable occasion, eighteen minutes) for the cursor to move on the screen. I launch an application and it's two or three minutes before it's available. I say available, but it's not really available unless I'm prepared to move the mouse and then go for a coffee whilst it acknowledges the action. I ran top command:
I've been having a problem on my El Capitan installation for a few months. At unpredictable times, the system "unlearns" the programs associated with certain file types.
I’ve had a problem with websites popping up in place of websites I’m trying to access. Can you block websites with suffixes such as .top and .club? I’ve been able to block individual websites but silmilar sites keep popping up with the common denominator being those two suffixes.
I'm really in the need of cmd-shift-q and cmd-ctrl-q but they keep logging me off! it's terrible! how do I stop them from logging me off?
At what point during a Deep Event Scan is it reasonable to conclude that something has gone wrong and the process should be interrupted? I'm going on 6 hours now and starting to think it's time to stop the process.
I am charging my iPhone from a newer Thunderbolt 3/USB C enabled MacBook (in my case MacBook Pro 2016) with USB C to lightning cable from Apple. What I know is: For example there is an iPhone 8/8 Plus/X or a newer iPad Pro 13 Anything I do from a 2016 MacBook Pro 15 it seems I get the default charging speed (5W) through USB C despite the same USB C to lightning cable with the MacBook wall plug can fast charge (29W).
My college has two wifi networks: eduroam, which uses WPA2 Enterprise authentication and is meant for all of our computers/phones/tablets/etc., and open, which has no authentication and is meant for devices that can't handle WPA2 Enterprise, such as smart TVs and Amazon Echoes. WPA2 Enterprise-capable devices literally aren't allowed to use open, they won't be allowed to connect to the Internet from that network. My question is, how can I teach my Apple Watch that open is a usable network, given that I can't put my iPhone on open?
Some time ago I purchased an Original MacBook battery and it works fine, but when I plug the Magsafe connector into the Magsafe port it does not light up neither does it charge or be recognized by Mac OS. I already searched on Google but I didn't find a solution. Clearing the PRAM and NVRAM didn't solve the Problem. I'm able to charge the MacBook only if I plug the MagSafe in and insert the Battery afterwards. My MacBook is a mid 2009 A1181
Some time ago I went through cleaning of my mac and I have removed old developer tools from Library, which were for old iOS versions. I no longer need them, nobody uses them, I have removed them and reclaimed some space.
I have a workflow in automator that "receives a selected PDF file in Finder", then "Open finder items", follow by "Set PDF Metadata" When running the workflow, "Set PDF Metadata" opens a window that takes some inputs (title, author, and so on), and then requires me to press "Continue" to move on the next step of the workflow.
I bought a MacBook Pro 13'' with touch bar 2 years ago and only now (for several circumstances) I had the chance to unbox it and connect it (it remained in an unopened box for two years). I plugged the computer and started to use it normally but noticed that the battery stays at 0% and the battery status reads: "Condition: Replace Now". I just did a reset of the SMC and that did not fix it? Are there alternatives to servicing / replacing the battery?
I am a student who also has the iOS Apple Store App on their iPhone. Is there a way in viewing and buying products with a student discount through the app or can I only use my student discount on apple.com/uk?
I already have a service that will create a network file:/// link to a share point over AFP but I would like to have one that does the parent folder of a file. If I right click a file I would like to have the option to either choose to copy the file path to the file or the files parent folder.
I have a MacBook Pro (15" Retina) running High Sierra (OS X 10.13.3) and an iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 11.2.6. My MacBook Pro recently had a security issue and I had to have it re-imaged. All of my files were backed up in iCloud, but now when I open iCloud, I can only see my most recent (one-day-old) files. I have no other backup. I have two iCloud accounts, but cannot switch between them. I get the "Waiting for Approval" window that just spins continuously when it asks me to go to one of my other devices (in this case, my iPhone) to approve the MacBook Pro. Help??
I'm out of ideas on why this refuses to work. The iMac just doesn't appear to the iPad at all, only the MBP shows up.
I was wondering how may I add two keyboard shortcuts of the same thing, just different directions (they involve Ctrl+Up / Down arrows, doing what Cmd+Up / Down arrows do in text-type applications. Again, that is the thing I can not change in System Preferences | Keyboard Shortcuts. I do not want to switch around Ctrl and Cmd as the other's modifier key for any type of text documents; the prominent ones I have that I simply use most are Notes, Pages, and Scrivener (I would think there can be an option for adding for all text-type applications, but that is why I'm asking, that I can know). What would I select in Automator (the services document in it, as the start), and then what to type in to add those two commands (and I can answer what the commands are in more detail). Those shortcuts will help me immensely, since I also do much writing and typing, and would like some uniform cursor-movement options.
Download stack is missing from the iMac Dock. The Download stack was originally present but may have been removed with the High Sierra update. Presently all downloads go directly to the download file and plus be recovered from the Finder application. I have not been able to find guidance on how to solve this problem in the Safari help.
I uncheck Desktop & Documents Folders from iCloud Drive, and I deleted folders manually from Finder, after I copied them to my local storage in my Mac. The folders size is around 13 GB. By the time, there is no folders from Desktop & Documents in the iCloud Drive (accessing from devices and the webpage from iCloud), but there is still 13 GB and I can't do anything about it. Is there any possibility to free up this space?
I want to open a GUI application (most likely Electron based) periodically on a Mac Book. The period will be configured (daily, hourly etc..) within the application. How would I go about achieving this?
I looked online and attempted resetting the SMC and PRAM several, several, several times. Sometimes, I would login and the screen would be completely distorted and discolored. I attempted logging in via the Guest account, and browsed Safari for 2+ hours just fine, but as soon as I went back to my user account the problem started again. I rebooted and ran the disk utilities and even re-installed Mac OS completely. I still have no luck, and now, sometimes when I turn it on, the "startup chime" will play over and over again every 2 seconds like it's trying to start up but can't.
My niece gave me a lightning to USB-C cable. She doesn't know where she got it. If I connect it between an iPad Pro and a Nexus 5X, neither shows charging. I can use it (I assume) for a Macbook to charge the Nexus via the gender-bender that came with the Apple pencil.
When I type It says Login and password are correctly
I've been using DOSBox through Homebrew for years, and now it won't update because of a SHA256 mismatch error. I tried all possible updates and cleanups in Homebrew to no avail. According to Homebrew, this means the brew is abandoned. DOSBox was last updated in 2010. What is the best version of DOSBox for macOS, preferably available through Homebrew?
I have lots of large tiff and DNG image files that I sometimes need to access remotely (with InterConneX although this applies to other sharing methods). When I view a directory I’m presented with a load of default filetype icons and have to open the images one at a time to establish the one I’m looking for. If I could have the thumbnail as the finder icon I would be able to search much more efficiently. I have looked for Automator actions and Apple scripts to perform this but so far have drawn a blank.
I just installed bash 4.4.19 through brew on my mac and configured Terminal.app to use it as the default shell. All of that works.
How can I stop Safari loading a page from history, each time I scroll the current page over the page end? i.e. swipe upwards on the Magic Mouse when the page is already at the bottom.
Is there any way to define a keyboard shortcut for monospaced formatting in Apples Notes app? Any alternative suggestion to quickly format a single line monospaced without using the mouse?
I'd like to install and run MAME binaries on an iMac G4 (PowerPC), and information on this seems to be very limited. Official MAME pages link to two pages related to Power PC Macs.
recovery booted, loaded recovery fine, did Disk Utility, it says the drive is fine. rebooted... same
I keep receiving the following error message in Console logs on a new factory refurbished Macpro6,1 with macOS 10.12.6 pre-installed each time I connect to a previously logged in session via Screen Sharing: Occasionally, this will lead to the console freezing up entirely with WindowServer crashing. The console remains frozen even after remotely ssh'ing into the machine and restarting logind/WindowServer/screensharingd via kill HUP.
I wanted to test if the erase had worked, so I went on the internet and downloaded some free data recovery applications (Disk Drill and Easeus). After a few hours, to my horror, all my data came back, in the exact same path and was easily readable and recoverable. I did some more research and was told that encypting the disk would be a good way to securely erase the data (I wish I knew this beforehand!), so I turned on FileVault, let it encrypt the disk and then went through the same stages again of wiping the drive with AFPS format.
summary: L2TP over IPSec VPN does not start from Script in MacOS 10.12 Intro
I have problem configuring Apache server. I am using High Sierra.
Edit 2 I am currently experimenting with creating the contacts manually with 500 numbers per contact, for a total of 20 contacts. It only took a few minutes to generate and import four contacts with 2,000 numbers total once the spreadsheet was set up, and that included emailing the contacts to my phone and importing them there.
Apple keeps asking me to accept the new iCloud terms and conditions on my new iphone x. I have accepted the terms and conditions (many times) but the warning does not go away. Anyone that have a solution?
Last night, my MacBook Pro worked perfectly. Today I woke up with my keyboard useless (only two or three keys worked), so I connected an external keyboard to write my password so I can login and try to figure out why my keyboard wasn't working. The thing is that even this external keyboard that works perfectly, had some keys not working on the Mac. I entered the recovery mode to change my password to a simple word but at the moment of logging in this new password didn't work. Now I have reinstalled mac OS on the drive but the password keeps failing.
My iTunes music library consists of iTunes downloads (256 kbps), and songs copied from my CD's (~400 – 1100 kbps). I have a dumb playlist containing a subset of these, which I sync to my iPod Nano (it doesn't have room for my entire library(. Also on the nano are other dumb playlists, each containing specific songs that are subsets of my main dumb playlist, which are tailored to my various workouts.
There are certain core services in macOS which takes up a significant amount of your CPU and RAM. I don't use iCloud so nothing synchronises but, still Safari needs to run Bookmarks Sync Agent for no reason. I have removed/unloaded the .plist file for Safari Bookmarks Sync Agent. Unloading the .plist file works but doesn't stops the service from restaring during the next boot-up, in order to stop it from restarting you need to delete the associated core service agent. Now deleting a core service (Safari Bookmarks Sync Agent) screws up the OS. So is there any way by which I can safely unload/remove coreservices without screwing up the OS. I searched the web but I coudn't find any answer to my specific question.
When i Open ipages, I see squares where photo images should be. If I double click one square, I get a large triangle with an exclamation point inside the triangle. I can see the photo images at the bottom of screen about 1/2 inch high. When I try to get the photo, nothing happens, but I know the image is there. If I try to move the triangle, the clicked photo moves too but will not enlarge to main screen. Can you help?
My iPhone 5 can not connect to the internet because I can only use 3g. In my settings, there is no LTE button. The only thing that is present is a 3g button. Because of this, the internet will not connect. Is there any way I can fix this error?
I just found my old iBook G4, but I only have the installation-cd for OS X 10.3 and I can't find any downloads on the official Apple download pages. Is there some way I still can get the update? Update: I overlooked the "Load" button Update2: Actually my iBook is to old to show the Loadbutton
I just spilled tea over my MacBook 12" keyboard. As a result, the dot key is no longer working. I wouldn't mind swapping the dot key with a key that is functioning (like the backslash key, which I barely use), but not sure how to go about that. So, how do I swap the dot key with another key?
I use Apple Mail and I have a work account on Exchange/Office 365 that I use through Apple Mail. I do NOT have the Exchange password, I am not the administrator. Is there a way for me to archive or download all the emails (to a .OLM or .PST file?) and then import them to a Gmail account?
I'm writing an AppleScript which contains a list of items that are mixed between text and numbers. I'd like to filter this list to only the items containing numbers. I haven't been able to figure this out on my own and so far haven't been able to find any helpful suggestions online. Here's my list: And I only want the search to return these: For the sake of this post, let's say the list is stored in myList. I've tried: but that's a big no go!
I have an external drive with 1 TB. Disk Utility tells me that there is only one partition on it. But the partition is only 600+ GB in size.
What can I do to fix this? I am using iOS 11.3.
I can't even get the keyboard to appear. It's ALL the people in my address book.
I remapped Copy to ctrl-c via Preference>Keyboard>Shortcuts and it works pretty good. But when I have the find dialog open in Firefox, when I try and Copy I actually end up toggling "Match Case". I don't care if I have a shortcut for "Match Case", could someone please help me keep my Copy functionality while the Find dialog is open?
A mom gave her iPhone to her kid to play with (or possibly watch cartoons on YouTube), and the phone was auto-locked probably due to some time of inactivity. Then the kid just randomly entered some passwords and then when the mom saw the phone again, the phone showed it would be locked for 25,114,984 minutes, before the user can try to enter the password again.
Steps: Connect iPhone (SE1, iOS 10.2.5) to external monitor via lightning-to-HDMI adapter and HDMI cable. iPhone is now mirroring to external monitor. Launch the native Photos app, Camera app, Safari, etc, and see that rotating the iPhone to its side will turn those apps to landscape orientation, and this is properly mirrored on the external monitor.
I'm having a problem doing a clean install of macOS High Sierra on a MacBook Pro 13 early 2011, I installed a brand new SSD and tried to install High Sierra but I'm having issues I've tried doing Internet recovery and USB bootable but both won't work, the SSD works perfectly cause I tried on a laptop and installed Windows on it to discard SSD failure, however I'm encountering two different results while installing High Sierra by Internet Recovery before finishing it shows a message box with "Cannot Open File" and when installing by USB it finishes installing but when restarting it shows a prohibitory sign.
I work on an iMac (Late 2015) with macOS High Sierra (10.13.3). On this computer I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Users can sudo rm -rf a file or they can move it to the trash and empty the trashcan. I want to know whether one option has benefits over the other with regard to the "health" of an internal solid state drive on a Macbook pro laptop.
I'm wondering if my HD gets stolen, and my current permissions are set to: User: R&W Staff: R&W Everyone: R only. Would anyone be able to plug it to a mac (it's a HFS+ partition) and just read any file?
I have an old iPad 2 (not used for a while with a sim card) that I want to use as a kindle reader. The battery was so dead that it now wants me "activate" again and complains about a missing sim card. Is there a hack to get past this? iTunes shows my old music on it, but I don't get past the activation screen... More details (I don't know how to do the screenshot). iTunes on Mac says:
On some websites safari is not displaying some images - in background I'd say. Instead it displays black rectangle. It happens on different websites: maps.google.com, wikipedia. Firefox displays everything fine. WHat should I do to see all the images again? Safari and iOS are up-to-date, that is: Safari Version 11.0.3 (13604.5.6) MacOS HighSierra 10.13.3 (17D102)
I'm installing El Capitan on my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) from bootable USB. The original OS of my Mac is Lion and the latest OS is High Sierra, so I created a bootable flash drive for El-Capitan. The installation process asks me to enter an Apple ID.If I I enter it correctly dialog close and nothing happens!
I'm suddenly unable to use the dictionary look up feature in MacOS. When I choose "Look up" on a word I get a dialog saying that "Look Up now shows personalized suggestions... etc" and a button on the bottom that says "Continue" (see image). But the button does not respond to clicking it, so I'm stuck with this message. Neither updating the OS nor restarting seems to mend the issue.
I was just trying to copy my photos with my PC, but I accidentally clicked to restore a back up of my husband iPhone. Everything shown on my mobile is from the back up and I don't see my data now. How do I access data from my iPhone?
What are my options for upgrading the drive of an iMac G4 to eliminate the noise from the original drive? Either an SSD, or a mechanical HDD with a lower noise level than the original, if this exists.
I've got dmg file that formatted to HFS+ filesystem and i'd like to mount it with limited access rights. Is it possible to create a mountpoint that will be accessible to specific user (by name) or specific process (by name/path/pid or any other identifier), so that other entities wouldn't have access to that mount drive ? thanks
I recently upgraded PHP through Homebrew. When using terminal command PHP -i I'm getting PHP Version => 7.2.2 as expected. However, when running phpinfo(); on localhost I get PHP Version 5.6.30 instead. I have already restarted Apache ($ sudo apachectl -k restart), unlinked php56 ($ brew unlink php56) and tried ports :80 and :8080. What am I missing?
Can Iphone SE receive a Bluetooth signal from a TV and send that signal to hearing aids at the same time?
Since I can remember, my MacBook Air's Display has been behaving strangely. Every time I log in, the color temperature of the display changes to a warmer tone and it's very noticeable and annoying. I tried to fix it by reinstalling macOS High Sierra, but the problem is still there so the problem is at a system level, instead of my settings, maybe? I'll inset two photos where you can see the before (bluish tone) and after (yellowish tone). How can I prevent my display from changing to that warmer tone? [
Battle of VirtualHost /Users/myusername/Sites/foo ~/bar Internal Server Error goin on for days now tryin to attach localhost/~myusername to Apache/2.4.28 http server on macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra theater of operations not going according to any plan: Apache not working with user Sites folder on macOS 10.13 High Sierra Set up Virtual Hosts on macos High Sierra 10.13 in Apache Set up localhost on macOS High Sierra (Apache, MySQL, and PHP 7) with SSL/HTTPS My question is of course very similar to Fyfe’s: Apache not working with user Sites folder on macOS 10.13 High Sierra except I don’t need to maintain any /Library/Webserver/Documents as there were none, just want Users/myusername/Sites to be operational.
I'd like to auto mount my dmg file which represent disk image with single HFS+ partition upon every boot. is it possible through autofs ? do I have to set the location of the dmg file in any configuration file (/etc/...) thanks
I'm using "screen images move when pointer reaches an edge" in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Zoom -> Full Screen. I remember it always working on all four edges. However, just recently, within the past few days, when zoomed in, the screen only moves when my pointer reaches the upper and bottom edges. When the pointer reaches the left or right edges, the screen does not move. This is clearly unintended behavior. How do I fix this? I am using the latest Mac OS High sierra, 10.13.3
If you have swiped-left and delete a Messages thread, but it is still available on a Mac laptop, is there any way to transfer the thread back to the iPhone from the Mac?
My playlist won't sync to my iPod because there's Apple Music mixed in the playlist. I didn't think I had any Apple Music in my library. How can I tell which song is Apple Music and which song I own?
I have created an album from iCloud now I want to move it onto a memory stick, how do I do this?
I'm in a corporate LAN situation where I have a wireless LAN that will give me access to the outside work, but no access to the corporate servers and a Corporate Ethernet which will give me access to the corporate servers but not the outside world. As I need both to do my job I'm endlessly switching networks or turning wireless on and off to get things done. I've been looking into how I can run both wireless and ethernet together and have DNS work across both, but I'm struggling to understand how to set it up. I think I may be able to do it using /etc/resolver/ files, but so far all I've been able to do is hang my requests rather than get resolving errors back. Has anyone solved this situation and how?
In Preview's Edit menu there is the option Zoom to Fit which adjust the zoom to fit page width. I would like to adjust zoom to fit page height. How should one approach this? A shortcut will be great. Also it needs to stay in Continuous Scroll. Not sure if it matters by I'm concert with viewing PDF's at the moment.
Earlier, I accidentally pressed Option + Command + Delete keys while entering a message on the Messages app on macOS Sierra. Now, all the chat history with that person ("Sophia" in this case) has disappeared. Apparently, I didn't just "closed" the conversation, but completely "deleted" it. I am wondering, is there any way to restore the message history? From what I can see, all the .ichat message history files are still stored as tiny pieces in Library/Message/Archive (see picture below), and when I double click to open the file I could see pieces of chat history, but I cannot seem to find a way to put all them back to the Messages app. The only solution I can think of now is to wait for the iOS 11.3 update with iMessages on iCloud, and by then I will be able to merge the history, which is still on my iPhone, back to this mac.
I had installed a Ubuntu partition on my Mac, but last night the keyboard broke, so I was trying to reinstall Mac OS from the recovery mode and accidentally wrongly deleted all the partitions my Mac had and now when I turn on the Mac I get this screen I know I messed up the computer, but is there any way to fix this? Like, deleting all the data and all partitions and reinstalling Mac OS. I have thought of using any software like DBAN, to hardly erase all data on the drive but I don't know if I can still boot from a external USB drive with mac OS on it...
The Facebook and WhatsApp apps show as downloaded by I cannot open the same. Deleted Facebook app from the usage section. Now the download button is inactive for Facebook app. I have switched off and restarted the phone and still it prevails
I tried telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and it said telnet: command not found. Is it deprecated? It is a bit trivial, but I thought it was worth asking about at least.
When I run an AppleScript from an application in fullscreen, for example Google Chrome, the system will change the focus to the desktop and leave the application was is in fullscreen. Is there any way to stop switching to the desktop and stay in fullscreen mode ? I know you can return to fullscreen mode with… …but it is very annoying to go back to the desktop, even quickly, each time the script runs.
Why is wifi connectivity so unreliable on the macOS? I don't even know where to start, but applying a laundry list of fixes from deleting network settings to checking if something's wrong with the router, and what still exists is that after an hour or so of perfect internet connection, my MBP falls back to the same crawling speed that I've been observing for days now and I'm absolutely frustrated with this issue that has been prevailing since El Capitan.
I can't overstate the significance of "instantly"! I'm trialling a working process that makes very heavy use of spaces. Heavy enough that any delay when switching spaces is making it essentially unworkable.
I just got my iPhone back from service with a sticker on "WMI Fail". What is "WMI"? Googling doesn't return any sensible Apple related explanation, neither does asking @AppleSupport on Twitter (they didn't know).
Does anyone know how to copy large files to a usb flash drive through airport extreme? I read that I have to format this as hfs+ but this doesn't work for me cause I use windows and usb drive won't be readable to my pc. My usb sticks are formatted as FAT32. Airport reads them OK and copies files with no problem except big files (as movies). Anyone knows a solution?
A few weeks ago I got a new iMac and used my TimeMachine backup to restore files. I have since been working to setup the new machine and most seems to be OK. I have been writing a program to extract details of my picture files to create a database, and noticed a few anomalies - missing EXIF data and even a few files I could not even view images. Further checks on my old MacBook Pro seemed to be OK. I selected a few sample files, which on the surface seemed identical (timestamps and file sizes are identical), but on checking found differences e.g. This is very concerning, and short of calculating checksums for all files on both systems can anyone suggest a remedy.
Applications in MacOS are special app folders. I assume this is done by setting some special permissions. Its normally not possible to navigate into such special folder from within other applications: the open file dialog of the Finder does not allow it.
I recently purchased a pair of Lightning EarPods, and was a bit annoyed by their sound. They pan out the L and R channels a lot, and it sounds like someone has slapped a low and high EQ on the audio so that the mid is most pronounced. I'm concerned they are defect, because I feel the 3.5 mm EarPods that I also have sound much better, even when connected to the same phone with a 3.5 mm–to-Lightning adapter.
The Apple Watch app on my iPhone is hopelessly stuck in the process of uninstallling a dozen apps and installing 3. It’s been at it 2 days. I’ve followed all the suggestions I could find: - verify Bluetooth connection - toggle Bluetooth on and off on both - ensure both are at the most recent OS version - hard reset both
My iPhone wireless hotspot quit working, but I can still use the internet through a USB connection. I’m wondering if I can use internet sharing on a MacBook Pro to share the USB internet connection from my phone. I attempted this and found the shared connection on my Apple TV. It connected but didn’t seem to provide internet to the Apple TV. I have another device I would like to use this shared connection with but I have to buy a WiFi adapter to test it. Prior to buying that, I thought someone here may be able to answer if this is even possible.
file names: /build /el_capitan /optional /recommended /yosemite etc All the files are created at the day I opened my mac for the first time (iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015))
Can you guys help me fixing this problem once for all? I'm starting to think it is the Logic board that somehow messes up my cable, still, I'm trusting the Hardware test. I'm open to any detailed suggestion, will provide more information if you also give me detailed instructions on how to get them. Thanks to all.
How can I view invalid characters in a (text) file? At the left is Notepad++ on a Windows machine. At the right is TextWrangler on a Mac machine. Notepad++ shows me what those invalid characters are, but TextWrangler just displays inverted question marks. How can I view those invalid characters (more meaningfully) on Mac?
My old iPhone 7 broke, so today I got a new iPhone X. When I restored from my iCloud Backup, 30 days worth of photos appeared because I had turned on the "Upload to My Photo Stream" option on the iPhone 7 before it broke completely.
It's unable to turn off, won't completely load (doesn't got to apple icon)and cannot connect to itunes through computer. It's starting to get very hot as well. We have tried all the suggestions found so far with no luck (ie holding power and hold for various times, none have them have had any effect)
I know that I can download the music on my Mac and then synchronize the iTunes but this involves using a computer and hence it is inconvenient. When I was using an Android, I could have simply downloaded an MP3 to my phone and then listen to it.
Is it possible to remove photos from iPhone using the Terminal line of command? I've been struggling with Image Capture (not making the "delete" icon available) or even Aperture or iPhoto (not being able to delete after import from iPhone). Thanks all for any input and recommendations. Lau
I frequently need to take notes and write equations. I never draw any thing other than graphs, diagrams, etc.. like board works. I am not a painter. I bought an Adobe Ink for my iPad (not iPad pro). Tried to use in one of the Adobe softwares. It looks like that is very good to paint or sketch. But when I try to write some equation, often it jumbles up with subscript notations. It applies its intelligence to turn my x into n. iPad's own notes app works slightly better. Instead Microsoft Onenote works much better. But still even with onenote things don't work to my expectation. I thought I would be able to take notes straight away. But it is nothing close to that smoothness. If I write very slowly ike painting letters on the board then it somewhat works. Should I change my stylus for a better experience ? Are these styluses optimized only for painting ? What budget stylus is good for writing and taking notes ? Or if it is more or less same for all stylus then I would not bother buying an
Ok so my monitor is an Ultrafine and doesn't have any sort of input for a PC. Also, it would be nice keeping the PC away from the desk. Also also, it would be nice doing productivity work on one computer (my Mac) and just hopping between MacOS and the Remote Desktop. The PC is a 7700k with a GTX 1080 ti. I am using it exclusively for Rhino 3D and VRay. How would the performance be if I were to headlessly connect to the PC via my Mac with -say- an ethernet connection?
I'm using the latest High Sierra. When using 3rd-party software to quickly place calls, like the Uni Call Alfred workflow or Cardhop, a notification pops requesting me to confirm or deny the call about to be placed. It beats the whole point of those clicks-saving apps.
My phone was disabled so I connected it with iTunes. We unlocked it and now it is requesting the old Apple ID. I don't know the old one but my brother made a password reset, and now it gave us a code but there is nowhere to type it in on the phone. The screen didn't reset for us to type in the code. What do I do?
Has anyone measured battery life on both for comparison? Does the non-Touchbar model have better battery life?
A little while ago I switched my late 2015 Macbook Air to Ubuntu (not dual boot) because I needed a linux computer for work. I overwrote the existing os because it was taking up a massive amount of the storage space and i said "I can always just use a bootable usb to switch back if i dont like Ubuntu". This might have been stupid, but it made sense at the time. There have been issues with Ubuntu and I like it less in general, and no longer need it for work, so I am trying to switch back to mac os. I tried booting the computer in Internet Recovery mode by holding Command + R and selected the Reinstall OSX option and went through the steps until I got to the part where you select the disk to install it on. Normally I think there would be an option called Macintosh HD there, but it is currently empty, as you can see in the attached image. I also should mention that I have a bootable usb with High Sierra on it that I made with my other computer, and when I plug it in, and boot the computer
I want the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro to stay awake and not sleep after 60 seconds, and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to keep do this. I tried the script mentioned in this question: Disable the sleep function of the macbook touch bar
I have this command from the question Can automation service to get the parent folder path? but it has spaces in it. When it's ran it looks like this: This is exactly what I wanted except that it has spaces and it needs to have %20 instead of the spaces in the file path. Could someone show me how I would edit the shell script below to replace these spaces with %20?
I've bought an iPhone X about 3 months ago, 1 month later I started facing a problem where some Arabic letters and words are being cut and not shown in the messages in Messenger, Facebook, Line and even the Messages app. While the same messages are shown normally if I come back later.
Sometimes, when I hit a combination of keys (I have not figured out which one) a weird bar in the bottom-left of a screen appears. I cannot get rid of it in any way. The screencast: *=URL=* The only way I have figured out of removing it is via: killall Dock.
Scenario Apple volume is normal through speakers Connect Air Pods via Bluetooth Apple volume is normal through Air Pods Disconnected Air Pods Apple volume is low through speakers, I have to crank it up. Notes volume is at 100% through OSX (volume bar in OS status bar) volume is at 100% in app (using spotify) Restarting spotify does not remedy the situation
My Macbook Pro seems to become very hot after just a minute or two of high CPU usage by iCloud related processes. Is there any way to improve cooling. This happens while using my Macbook on a woden desk, I've tried the standard SMC Resets and other suggestions but to no avail :(
I used to love shift+control+command+4 for pasting screen grabs. But now it doesn't work in Chrome. In Stickies and Text Edit it doesn't work and gives the Apple error sound. The pasting Works fine in Discord, Skype and Firefox. I'm using macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, copy paste image doesn't work in Safari either. This is a real productivity killer.
I have this shell script from here. Right now it outputs something like this: If I were to paste this into a browser it fails because of the /Volumes/ portion of the output.
So, on High Sierra, I know how to change the login screen for when a user logs out by changing the com.apple.desktop.admin.png file in /Library/Caches. And this works fine when you log out, however I was wondering if there was customization to where it would display on lock screen? Because as of currently, when the screen gets locked it goes to a low transparency picture of the background.
I have replaced my broken HDD with a new SSD and I can't install Mac from recovery (Command+R) no matter what connection I try to connect to, I tried different networks (router via Wifi, router via Ethernet, 4G Hotspot) I mostly got Error -1005F and sometimes -2105F. The only option left was that I download High Sierra 10.13.2 dmg file from a trusted source and I created a bootable USB using TransMac, with the only problem being, it doesn't recognize the USB (though formatted as GPT), if I restart the Macbook holding option key, it only shows a box to connect to Wifi, there are no disks to choose to boot from, I tried a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 devices, both didn't work. Any idea how I can troubleshoot?
I have problems pasting images from clipboard to Facebook in Safari. I have recently uninstalled Google Chrome and started using Safari since Chrome uses tons of energy and memory. I liked it but I had to reinstall Chrome since the Safari clipboard is very limited.
I recently bought a WiFi speaker that needs to connect to a WiFi connection to play music from my phone. I also travel out of the country a couple times a year but do not have a data plan for out of the USA. Is there a way I can turn on my mobile hot-spot to connect my speaker to my phone without actually using data so I don't pay outrageous international data charges? I currently have an iPhone 7.
After upgrading to High Sierra, SVG files appear completely white, can't see their thumbnails. With El Capitan, I was able to see SVG thumbnails. Any idea how I can enable them in High Sierra? I already have Gapplin, but I want to see thumbnails, directly in Finder.
How do I get /usr/libexec/java_home to return my Java 1.8 VMs?
I've read comments from people saying deleted data is difficult to recover from an SSD anyway, so don't worry about it. Well even if that is true, what if you have a Fusion Drive and you don't even know which part of the drive the data in question resides in?
I had an, MS-DOS formatted external flash drive connected to my MacBook. It had bent a few files at the next. Most probably because of this, when I accidentally brushed my finger against it, it disconnected from my laptop. I got the "disk not ejected properly" notification from macOS. I inserted the drive back in and tried opening the folders I was working in – and to my horror, it seems as though all the folders had been converted into 0 byte "Unix Executable" files. No files in the root of the drive were affected – only the folders in the root of the drive had been 'converted' into this strange 'file' The folder modified/created dates seem to have been retained, except the folder is not a folder anymore cd /Volumes/EXTERNAL_DRIVE/myFolder returns the message Not a directory file /Volumes/EXTERNAL_DRIVE/myFolder returns the message empty Duplicating one of these mystery files seems to happen instantaneously, implying that the 'folders' contain no information The drive seems to have a 
I have tried both methods of escaping the space in the Path in the following script: I've also tried changing line 2 to: In both cases I get the script error: ./pg10-restoreDb.sh: line 3: /Applications/pgAdmin: No such file or directory From the shell, I can execute /Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/SharedSupport/psql no problem What could be causing this error?
It then comes up and says "The customizer could not find Microsoft Word 2008, 2011 nor 2016 installed on this computer. If you have installed Microsoft Word to any non-standard paths, or have changed the start-up file location, please click the customize button"
I'd like to remap the following camera controls in SceneKit module of Xcode 9.2 (I'm coding in Swift): panning – alt + LMB orbiting – LMB dollying – alt + MMB Pan drags the virtual camera along the XY plane, Orbit rotates the camera around Y axis and Dolly moves the camera forward and backward along local Z axis.
There has been a lot of wingeing over the loss of "All My Files" in favor of "Recents" in High Sierra, and I am beginning to understand why. For one, it seems to be an opaque tool and I have yet to locate any means of adjusting how it behaves or even learn what criteria make files appear there.
My Mac recently tried to NetBoot on restart despite it never being set up to do so. (Instead of Apple logo during startup, a flashing globe icon is displayed.) This happened a second time when I rebooted. On my third reboot (in quick succession) to test whether this would continue, it booted from disk and did not attempt to NetBoot. I’ve been unable to reproduce this since.
I try to solve problem when Telegram receives phone calls only in silent mode. If I open app, I see that somebody calls me. If the Telegram hidden (phone locked or use another app) I can't see that there is incoming call. My device iPhone 7, last updates. Other messengers like WhatsApp works normally, no silent mode or something like this. Try to delete/install The Telegram and allow all notices - no effect. Text messages ok, voice calls - silent. If I answer, everything ok, the only problem is I can't hear that somebody call me. May be it is often appeared trouble?
I have a table with a list of items, and I want to create a new table with all the values that contains a certain value. In the first list, are all the profucts that I usually buy and a cell with "YES or NO" In the second list I want to put only the items with a "YES" on the first table. See image below. Thanks for your time.
According to Apple, the 2017 iPad Pros (12.9 and 10.5 inch) are equipped with a USB-3–capable Lightning connector and Apple already sells a Lightning to USB 3 camera adapter. However, I am looking for an USB-3–Lightning cable to connect the iPad at full speed to my MacBook Pro. Does such a cable already exist?
I want to view the tree structure of current directory, like: How to accomplish it?
I was getting this problem but couldn't fix it. In a rage I ran brew uninstall zsh. Not a good idea!
i bought an iphone 5s signed out the older apple id and signed in my own every thing is ok except app store when im trying to get an app it asks the older apple id password be ware that in itunes & app store part in setting my new apple id is set what can i do ?
On Android devices there seems to be unlimited Google accounts a user can log in and have the system memorize the user names and the passwords, so to log in automatically, it only takes one tap on the user name (which is an email address). On iPhone and iPad, it seems that various apps using Safari to log in to Google and authorize the login. There is a 10 account limit, unlike Android devices. Is there any way to overcome this limit?
When performing a Spotlight search, either through the Finder or via terminal commands, is it possible to filter results against the full-path of a file, or at least the name of it's parent folder? The reason I need to be able to filter by the full path is that although I'm searching for actual files, I only want to return files that are found within folders matching a particular pattern. For example, consider I have a bunch of files structured like so: This is a bit of a contrived example for simplicity, but consider now that I want to find all the preview images found only within folders with "Poster" in the name. I could do this with find using something like:
My question is about chassis temperature and overheating issues. I have a recently bought a Macbook pro 13" - 2017 with two thunderbolt 3 ports. The notebook is performing fine, but when it is connected to the external Dell monitor (2560x1440 resolution), it gets uncomfortably hot. The same monitor was previously connected to a 2013 Macbook Air (i7) and there were no heating issue whatsoever (it would get hot only when doing extremely intesive CPU work).
In the Mail setting (under Viewing) tab, there is a option Load remote content in messages which I unchecked, so for each email that contains remote content, I need to click the Load remote content button. Is there anyway of a setting (probably not) or plugin that does this automatically for senders you would approve? Thanks!
I exchanged the logicboard and now the speakers don't work well. If plugged in both on the logicboard then the right speaker (the one without the subwoofer) makes distorted sounds.
Until today I was able to silent a call (both from ringing and on silent/vibrate modes) on my iPhone 7 plus with the lock button on the right. When I press it now, it just declines the call on both modes.
I dropped my iPhone 7 Plus and it no longer detects the screen. I say "no longer detects" because I confirmed it; I connected it to a monitor with an HDMI dongle and it sees the monitor as the only screen (screen fills the whole monitor and isn't stretched at all). I didn't do a backup for a long time, I need to get my data from the phone, but I can't unlock the phone because it apparently restarted after I dropped it and I can't use Touch ID. Touch screen is completely unresponsive.
Log showing the endless loop. Initially I am truly on battery, and then I attach the monitor which triggers the first Now drawing from 'AC Power', everything else happens by itself after that:
If I open a PDF on my computer in Preview or Adobe Reader/Acrobat, I can see the page dimensions. How can I do that on iOS? Anyone know of an app which actually supplies this information?
I'm looking to see if a LaunchDaemon script is running at its assigned time. Looking at that time in the Console produces this result: "mac-hostname com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.user.delprofiles[48049]): Service exited with abnormal code:1"
We have a lot of apps. Clients ask us to have access to the analytics, sales, etc. for their own apps. However, when they are connected to their account, they can see the full list of users even if those users are not part of their allowed apps. Is there a way to limit the client accounts to view only the apps that they are allowed to use? Or do we need to create an iTunes Connect account for each client?
Using the screen recording method of connecting my iOS device directly to a MacOS system and recording through quicktime - is it possible to record the setup assistant? Or is recording only capable once the phone is set up and booted into iOS.
I'm a systems admin for a company and was thrown into a horribly configured server. In the midst of my refactoring I was adding users to my /etc/sudoers file. I seem to have accidentally removed my server admin account from the sudoers file access. I know what I did wrong (i accidentally commented out the %admin line) question being, how can I reinstate my server admin access in the file without having to restart anything. Here's how it looks right now: Also note that my users do not have permission for sudo for some reason:
I'm trying to understand what is meant by the wording of this Disk Utility cautionary message that appears when attempting to add a new partition to a disk. First point of confusion: It's going to be added and then erased?
I have created a folder with user 'afayes' called tempfolder in directory '/Users/afayes' and have set permissions to be able to read, write and execute for all users: I am trying to access the tempfolder with user called 'testuser'. From the directory '/Users/afayes' I am executing: I get the error
Some people told me that - the battery in refurbished iPhone is Not new. Is it true?
iCloud says I have just over 600 photos. On the iPad's storage it says there are just under 300. However when I go into Apple's Photos.app apparently I have 1800.
Have to detach all external HID's in order to reach the boot menu via 'alt' on start. When i reattach the devices right after selecting bootcamp partition, windows gets stuck in the boot process. I have to wait till i get into windows logon screen.
The macOS app Console has a Type column with dots (and badges in the Info Pane) reflecting the level of message. See section 1 of its help page. The colors used are: red for Fault, yellow for Error, dark gray for Debug, light gray for Info, and blank for default. These types do not, however, match those mentioned in the logger, syslog(1), and syslog(3) man pages. How can I set the error level of a message being generated from a shell command? I tried the older logger command, setting a priority matching the situation, e.g. and the syslog command's provision for sending log messages, e.g. Can a shell script log something on a message level the Console.app GUI will reflect?
I get the exact same kernel panic on my iMac 5K Late 2014 Edition pretty much once a week. Does anyone know what is causing it?
I need ethernet on my macbook running windows 10, however, no adapter seems to work. I've tried thunderbolt, Zap and an Asus adapter. The driver is installed and updated on my current adapter, and it's showing in Device Manager, as well as Devices and Printers. However, it doesn't show up in Network Connections. It works fine in OSX though. I don't have the Android File Transfer Agent, so that is not the issue.
I have this osascript with a command Now the iTerm window closes at end tell but I want to keep iTerm window open to see my command result and work further. Any hints?
Was playing around with brew install asciinema and it broke my python install on macOS High Sierra (10.13.3 (17D47)). But now that I'm re-installing python for the awscli via pip, it's not acting like I would expect.
I have to administrate a remote macos machine. Today I logged in since some time off and I've got this error: Amy idea what this is about? I've already installed Xcode (macOS Sierra version 10.12).
I'm trying to create a bash script that runs a command based on OS version that way I can deploy it to machines running 10.12 and 10.13 the only problem is depending on the version the command needs to be slightly different. How can I go about this?
For a couple of days my phone was stuck at 51% then it randomly shut off. Now it loses battery very fast and gains battery during long periods of time. It also just suddenly shuts off. I've tried everything and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
I have a Wacom Intuos 2 and a 2009 MacBook running OS X Sierra (not High Sierra). Is there any way I can possibly get the tablet to work with my computer?
...apart from the obvious limit of the user's iCloud storage quota, of course. But aside from that, could a third party app store, say, 1TB in the iCloud account of a user who was on the 2TB plan?
Sometimes when I use Open Recent in the File menu of TextEdit, the path appears as a long trail of icons. Often (as shown below) it is doubled, identical on two lines. This seems to happen spontaneously, doesn't look like that a few minutes before or later, and nothing notable (that I'm aware of) has happened. I've seen this happen for a USB flash drive, and also for local files. Why does this happen, and does it have any significance that I should be aware of?
I had a problem before about my icons not displaying correctly, and I followed Orlando Castro's answer in this discussion at Apple Forums. In Menu > Go (press option) > Library > Preferences Find and remove "com.apple.dock.extra.plist" and "com.apple.dock.plist" then restart. After doing so I had no issue at all, but yesterday night I wanted to switch off "Night mode" which is located in Notification Center and for my surprise it didn't open at first with the gesture (Swipe left with 2 fingers from the right edge of trackpad), to make things worse I found that clicking on the Notification Center icon at the top right corner didn't make the Notification Center to be shown so I kept clicking on it for many times until it finally popped but it auto closed before I could turn night shift off. Here's a video showing the issue: *=URL=* I restarted my Mac and I'm still having this issue. These are my Mac specs: MacBook Pro (13", 2016, four Thunderbolt 3 ports) (With Touch Bar) Processor: 2.9 
I don't know why but a lot of spammers have my phone number and I'm getting called every day. I can't block their phone numbers because they use a new one every day. However, I use my phone with Slack and PagerDuty for work and I want to be able to hear notification sounds from those. How can I disable all sound for incoming calls (ideally, allowing certain known contacts to get through) while allowing certain apps as well?
When viewing PDFs in Preview I can use a multitude of keyboard shortcuts for various actions (for example, ⌘+2 for single page view). Similarly, I like to use ⌘+→ or ⌘+← in QuickTime to control video playback.
I have a custom ssh server implemented. Where I have not handled echo, ie once a user connects and logins successfully using client lets say Putty he will not be able to see the characters he is typing in putty window.
I recently had a problem with my apple id on my ipad. I called apple tech support and was guided through some steps by the technician.She assured me everything was ok but during the process I had to enter my apple id password 5 or 6 times whilst I was screen sharing with her.She said the internet signal kept dropping and she could not see what was going on.So I entered my password which was working correctly and the verification codes 5 or 6 times. My initial problem was to do with changing my apple id password and tech was very helpful. I am sure that I called the correct apple support and I got a follow up email from apple.Question is is this usual apple says very clearly not to share password with anyone.
I want to be able to unlock screen, or login to physical user while I'm connected with ssh connection. I know this might be unsafe etc. However that's ok for me at the moment. What options do I have to do this?
My iMac has a 2 TB Fusion Drive. Our PC IT guy seems to screwed it up. Now I only have 1 TB of usable space. I tried formatting, repartitioning, but nothing works to gain that 1 TB back. I don't need the data in it as this is a new iMac.
Below is a screenshot of Activity Monitor on mac os. I wonder what command line I can use to get the memory usage. I tried below command: These two lines:
As you can see my screen, it gives impression something got scratched on it but that's not the case. What can I do?
I have recently set up a 600 gb sparsebundle to use as a back up drive for my MacBook Air. I am using a 2 tb Seagate drive connected by USB to a Linksys WRT1900ACS router which connects by wifi to the MacBook. I followed the instructions on this website to set up the virtual drive and was successful. Initially Time machine recognised the drive and began the back up albeit very slowly. However it soon started to disconnect seemingly randomly but I could restart it and it would download a few more GB and then disconnect again.
I noticed a difference when compiling a latex document within emacs, but I think this is really a mac question. When I open emacs via ⌘ - space and then type C-c C-c, instead of compiling with pdflatex, the minibuffer proposes 'Command[\doc-view]', and if I enter 'pdflatex', the TeX-shell (within emacs) tells me 'pdflatex: command not found'. When I open emacs from a terminal window and type 'open -a emacs', it works fine. Why is that?
I've configured OSX to force all Finder windows to open in tabs - because this really takes care of all the clutter. The thing is, there's a shortcut to close all Finder windows, CMD+OPTION+W - and this will conveniently exit and quit all Finder windows completely.
Backgrounder, we have two (2) Apple Developer Accounts, one account is being used by development team and another is for production deployment and distribution. I know that this is not the best practice, but have to do it (for the meantime) as to comply to internal company policies.
I copied the com.apple.print.custompapers.plist from my old computer to the new one. I then did restart cfprefsd.
How can I use Apple Pay to purchase something online from the Apple Store? I have the normal purchase options with credit card etc. I assume that Apple must support their own payment system?
I have got a BeoPlay 7 bluetooth headphone. If I double press the headphone it dials the last person I spoke to on the phone. Is there anyway to disable this behaviour in iOS 11?
iPad mini 4 - iOS 11.2.6 I'm experiencing a strange issue where iBooks seems unable to open certain PDF files that I have opened at least once before. When I try to select them from the iBooks app, their icon flashes, just like when I'm selecting a normal epub or a working PDF, but the PDF file won't open and iBooks stays on the main view. I know the files in question are not corrupted because I have been able to open them at least once before, and have been able to transfer them and read them just fine on my desktop. Removing said PDFs and re-uploading them seems to make them readable from iBooks again sometimes, but that isn't a real solution.
I want to change safari default search engine by native app or safari extension however it's possible. I have tried to change preference (com.apple.safari.plist) file but there is no key to related safari search engine. I also change in .globlerpreference.plist but no effect on safari browser is there any file appear in finder thats content safari default search engine.
In MS Word it is possible to change style-sets, so I can switch between making different documents. Is this option, or something similar, available in Pages? As it is now, I have to start every document with the default style, and change every title, body etc.
Xcode has keyboard shortcuts for Filter in Navigator and Filter in Library:   Is there likewise a keyboard shortcut to jump the keyboard focus to filter the debug console output?
I'd like to stop those apps from relaunching at startup, but only those apps. I'd prefer to keep using the "Reopen windows when logging back in" option so that all my other applications reopen in their previous state. Is there any way I can do that? edit: A few points of clarification: None of these apps are specified as login items. None of these apps are specified as login items.
Please see the screenshot of steps.txt. From the finder, I cannot open but you can see that I just edited and saved the file using textmate. Also, the disk free space at the bottom in finder is reported correctly.
All machines are set to never sleep, and not to put hard disks to sleep. This happens regardless of mounting with AFP or SMB. I have also tried individually disabling either AFP or SMB for file sharing and it hasn't mattered.
How to know which process or App is responsible for creating/managing a particular window in macOS? In my case I got really cryptic error message, in non modal free floating window. Using message found that it is from Sparkle framework, but I don't know which process or App cause it.
Sometimes I will see something that does not really belong in Launchpad—a readme, for instance—and I'd like to see it to move it. Sure, I can close Launchpad, open the Applications folder, and hunt for it there (perhaps in subfolders), but it seems to me that there ought to be an easier way. Is there? I can't seem to find one. Right-clicking, sadly, seems to do nothing. I'm not trying to delete items that are in Launchpad from my drive; I just want to see them in the Finder, so that I can move them around or perform other operations on them..
I want to print out a QR code for a Wi-Fi hotspot, so other people can easily connect to it with their iPhones and such, and the QR-code-maker has me choose between "WPA" and "WPA2". How do I find out whether a Wi-Fi hotspot, in my MacBook's Wi-Fi history, is WPA or WPA2?
I found this link to remove a badge icon from a single app. Disable badge for specific app with a script Is it possible to create a script with multiple apps to remove all badges at once? Running High Sierra 10.13.3
So, I got an iPhone 6s and an iPhone 5. I've got an app on my new iPhone which unfortunately got deleted from the App Store and it stopped working recently on my phone. I somehow hope that it is going to work on my old iPhone but I have not found a way to convert a deleted app to another iPhone. Is there any way to do it?
I'm on a MacBook Pro using Microsoft's Ergonomic Sculpt Desktop (i.e. keyboard, mouse, and number pad). The Number Pad looks like this and as you can see has a Calculator button. Unfortunately, on Macos, it seems that Calculator button does nothing. I would have expected it to ideally have opened the Calculator app, but it does nothing.
When I quit MacVim, quite often there is a 5-10 second delay before I can interact with the machine again via keyboard. No Command-Tab, no Command-Space, etc. I've noticed that most apps I quit with Command-Q have a second or two delay, but MacVim is definitely an outlier. How do I make this delay go away? End result: I'd like to be able to almost immediately use my keyboard to do things on the machine.
I reluctantly updated my iPhone and discovered that now when you press and hold on a link in Safari it makes a pop-up window with a preview of the link come up. What is really awful about this is you only need to tap it for a split second for it to start rendering a preview, so very often (maybe 50% of the time) when I'm simply trying to click a link, I have to try several times to press it FASTER in order to get to the page I'm trying to go to without rendering the preview I never wanted. In addition, this now prevents you from easily copying and pasting links found in your browser, because when you try to select link text, it keeps interrupting with the pop-up. Rather than negative the way I tap, is there way to disable this feature?
Anyone know what command can I use to check my Internet speed in the Terminal app? May be I can use curl command and add some IP addresses, like the to check our IP and Country location via curl ipinfo.io command?
My iPhone5S always AUTOMATICALLY connected with my car radio upon entering the car and when I made or received a call by pressing the button on the steering wheel of my 2011 Chevy Mailbu, I would hear the call through the car's radio speaker, no problem. Then with no changes made on my end, bluetooth quit connecting automatically. I can still make a receive a call by pressing the button on the steering wheel but the call is now NOT heard thru the car speaker. I can make it use the car speaker by pressing on the round "audio" icon that appears on the iPhone screen and the pressing "my vehicle" on the next box that appears. However, having to hit these two buttons on the phone while is too dangerous while driving.
Sometimes our Internet service (terrestrial wireless funneled through our router to all devices in our house) temporarily stops working, but comes back up within minutes. During and after the outage our Windows and Android devices never report a problem with the WiFi password, just network issues, and never require the password to be re-entered to re-establish connectivity.
It would seem that some system service is required for mounting the RAM disk, and is not ready yet when LaunchD runs this startup script. But it's in /Library/LaunchDeamons so you'd think all of the system stuff would be up and running by the time it gets to my script?
I've installed WhatsApp on my phone, and now I only have the option to make WhatsApp video calls - not FaceTime. Sadly, they almost never work (for some reason??). When I use my partner's phone, FaceTime always works. How do I make a FaceTime video Call rather than WhatsApp?
I tried to revert back to OS X, but I can't boot into recovery, or USB. It shows the prohibited symbol (a circle with a line through). I thought it was a good idea to install Windows on a Mac, but it turns out it's a terrible idea (driver issues, slow downs, overheating). What should I do? I think my hard drive partitions are messed up. I used this guide to install windows 7 http://derekhat.com/install-vista-on-a-macbook-without-bootcamp/
I'm the single user of my personal MacBook (macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D102)), using it only inside my single apartment, not inside a network, not connected to anything beside my router, and a user called "Linchengzang" has created a user folder inside my filesystem and is writing Xcode files into it. The user is not know to the system. I never used Xcode (but I am a developer), and I didn't install any software in the last few days, but these files and folders appered within the last few hours. It's creepy that these files have suspicios names, all related to auth things. Can somebody please give me a hint what is going on here ? Big thanks!
I have a mid 2010 Mac Pro and I would like to have a larger Pointer on my cursor so that I can find it easier. Where might I go to fine and download one?
How do I pair my AirPods to my phone? I have tried everything, such as turning off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Contacting Apple Support did not help.
As I recall, I've only used MacPorts ever to install one thing - I think it was Valgrind (which is not functional in High Sierra - so I don't need it). Of note - there is not a "MacPorts" User that I can login with or see in the Sys Prefs >>> Users & Groups:
I have a MPB 2015 13" MBP with High Sierra. I bought a ViewSonic VP3881 monitor. Monitor works flawless. (Except for a documented feature of sound control access from keyboard not working.)
I have a MacBook Pro 15” 2017 model. I noticed that when I try to use gesture pinch zoom in and out, often times it takes a second delay to respond and sometimes won’t even work, especially when I do the gesture and lift my fingers from the trackpad and then do gesture the second time. Is this normal? This is the first MacBook I’ve owned.
Sometimes and for absolutely no reason my file associations screw up, eg. txt -> max , gif/jpeg/tiff -> illustrator , pdf -> photoshop ; ... etc Most of the affected files are associated to standard builtins like preview or textedit and quicklook compatible. The things are back to normal on reboot but its frustrating. Wonder what might cause this trouble - the screwed up assocs arent random but always the same.
For simple bulk renaming actions, which is what I do most of the time, I really like the way Windows does it - select a bunch files, press CTRL+F2, write the string, and all files are renamed to that string, followed by a serialized number enclosed in parenthesizes.  Is there ANY way to configure macOS to behave the same (but using macOS's default ↵ as the shortcut)? Paid 3rd party solutions are totally accepted. Thanks!
My MacBook MagSafe cable is damaged. Somehow it's not possible to straighten the inside white wire, because it is longer than a part of the little outside silver wires.
What I want to do: open an iTerm window/tab, and ssh to some remote system. On that remote system, I need the following exports to be "effective": When I open that iTerm tab/window manually, and type ssh whatever.host ... that works nicely (as I have these exports in my .bashrc on my Mac). Now I configured Firefox to use iTerm for ssh-URIs, like ssh://whatever.host.
I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition and add a new partition as exFat to share between the two... I formatted my bootcamp partition, was unable to figure out how to merge it with my main macOS partition... After some searching, I came across : *=URL=* I followed the steps I thought I needed... using the command
Is it possible to use equation editor to write piecewise functions? e.g.
I'm trying to automatically execute a Python script every day, but it requires an Internet connection (to send emails, etc.). So I fixed the date and hour at which it needs to be executed, but if there's no network available, I want it to be executed as soon as it finds a network. I thought that the following would do just what I need: It works fine when I have an Internet connection at 10:30, but when I don't have network available but only get it back at, say, 11:00, it does not execute the script and does nothing for the rest of the day. What did I do wrong? Many thanks,
I'm new here so apologies if this has already been answered. I have 2TB iCloud storage, with Family Shared Storage turned on & several accounts in use by various family members. I would like to maintain a local copy of this 2TB, and I have a spare Mac to use for the job. My issue that as far as I understand, it will only sync iCloud (files and Photo Library etc) for the currently logged on user.
I've noticed issues where the audio level intermittently drops. When playing audio the volume will intermittently drop off (doesn't stop just gets quieter) then after some period of time it will return to normal volume. This happens consistently when using CarPlay (plugged in via lightning connector) or on car Bluetooth.
I attempted to replace the icons for system applications on my mac and whilst this has worked for most, I still have a couple of issues. I have done this by replacing the .icns file in package contents after switching off SIP as I have done in each previous iteration of OS. This has always worked before, and although most of the applications have changed (admittedly, a couple of them took a bit of time) there are still a few that haven't. So far I have tried copying and pasting an image into the 'get info' window for each of the offending apps, and using a 'touch' command in Terminal.
I would like the ability to view my heart rate by quickly glancing at my Apple Watch. I know I can use complications to view my activity rings or add a shortcut to the Heart Rate app from my watch face, but I couldn't find an option to directly show my heart rate. Is it possible to display my current heart rate on the Apple Watch face screen?
I'm running a Mac server in my office with the following set up Mac Mini with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Apple Server 5.4 NAS unit On this system, we have a number of users connecting into it on a regular basis which we want to track all of their activity including logging on and off the server, which files they access and any other details we can possibly trace (as much detail as possible). My question to the community is - does anyone know of any software that can actually do this? All recommendations would be great. Thanks.
Recently upgraded to High Sierra, Trackpad only searches for bluetooth trackpad, And shows "No trackpad found". My trackpad functions very well and it's not defective so it's not a hardware issue, I can see the relevant information of my trackpad in system information. I want to edit settings for my 13" 2011 Macbook Pro internal trackpad/touchpad. On Sierra I had:
I guess this is a personal preference, but does anyone know if there's config for it: when i use cmd+/, the // (e.g. in a swift file) is always placed in the first column. I would prefer it be at the current indentation. if i have this code: and i press cmd+/ with the caret on the print line, i get if i have this code: and i press cmd+/ with the caret on the print line, i get
I'd like focus-follows-mouse (autoraise) with XQuartz windows (for X-Forwarding purposes). I'm using a small app posted on SO on this thread and it works OK for regular apps (which run under Quartz, I assume).
don't laugh, but I have encrypted my external drive and cannot remember the password. The good thing is, the password was really bad (only four digits), so I could get it with brute force. You don't have to tell me that it is ridiculous to encrypt a drive with such a weak password. I do know this. I just don't know anymore why I encrypted the drive. Probably just because I could
I plug my Backup Plus Portable Drive (Seagate) into my MacBook Air (10.13.3 MacOS High Sierra Version) into my USB ports, both of them. The drive lights up, I can hear it running however it is not showing up in Finder. I have searched the Web for all sorts of solutions however I am unable to find any and Seagate was no help.
I know there are plenty of ways to receive real-time log messages from an iPhone - e.g. the Console app on a Mac, Apple Configurator, and cfgutil syslog. But is there a way to look back at older messages, say from an hour before I plugged the device into my Mac? I have macOS 10.13 and iOS 11.2
I have a Lexar USB drive which will not mount or show in the Disk Utility on my Mac but lights up and is displayed in the System Report meaning it's connecting but not mounting I believe. Can anyone provide guidance on how I can get this device to mount so as to access the filed contained within? Below is the output from diskutil list
I'm using Apple Numbers in macOS, and utilizing its conditional formatting feature to compare some numbers, however I want to compare the numbers' absolute value. The numbers I work on are estimations, and the sign signifies whether the value is an under or overestimation, but I need its distance from the actual value while comparing the two. I wanted to do it in conditional formatting to not to add more columns to the table. Is it possible in Apple Numbers?
I am looking for an app similar to conky on Linux that will allow me to display various system stats and style them right on my desktop wallpaper. I am only able to find things like iStats which have menubar interactive items but I don't really want that, but something that will allow me to put various stuff right on the Desktop. Does this exist? Something like this
So for christmas one year my younger sister got an iPhone 5s. But currently she had to replace the battery and she had to reset her iPhone to do so. She doesn't remember who set up all her iCloud and Apple ID information, so now we are stuck with a reset iPhone on the activation lock page. Someone please tell me how to fix this or if it even is fixable.
I’m looking for a workaround to not buy Adobe Acrobat since this is the only time that I had needed it since using a computer for the last 20 years and I need to do just this 1 job with it. I’m trying to use Preview viewer to merge pdf files together and I was successful at doing it just a minute ago yet can’t seem to replicate my steps again. I open 2 pdf files in 2 separate Preview viewers (one being an older version) then drag a page from one sidebar into the next sidebar to correlate my multiple pdf file.
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4 System Version: macOS 10.13.3 (17D102)
Trying to determine cause of shutdown/restart on my Macbook 7,1 (mid 2010). I have attached a photo of the terminal log pending a restart.
So, my cleaning lady dropped something on my iPad Pro, and now the screen is black. HOWEVER, my problem is a bit... weirder. First off, when I first tried to open it I pressed the home button and saw light bleeding through a crack under the surface of the screen. As I’ve furthered my attempts, small, horizontal lines of light started appearing on the screen. Lastly, when I tried aimlessly tapping, I found that the touchscreen is functioning. In fact, I heard the sound the keys on the sign-in thingy make their usual noises.
I am using Windows 10 in a Bootcamp scenario where I installed iTunes and found that after closing the program it reopens automatically unless I restart my system or uninstall the program. Uninstalling and reinstalling the program has no effect.
I am using macOS Server to host files on a website. I often need to download large files to the server to host them myself. Because I do not usually have physical access to the server, I use the default Screen Sharing app In macOS from a different mac into the server (VNC). From there I open Safari (on the server) enter the url and start the download. The files range from 400MB to 2GB. They are downloaded to an external drive that is constantly plugged into the Mac. Once the download starts it can take a while to complete so I often disconnect through the screen sharing. Unfortunately, a minute or two after I disconnect the download stops. When I check what happened by clicking on the download arrow in Safari it says that the download timed out. If I try to continue the download, it continues only to be stopped again when I quit the screen sharing. This is extremely frustrating as I am forced to keep the connection open while it is downloading. My settings in the Energy Saving tab of S
But even at max input volume the audio is barely audible unless the output volume is at max. I tapped a pen against the mic pickup and it's only audible at >50% volume (which is actually loud for listening to music or video, I usually keep my volume at 20%).
Recently some iPhone apps which are already installed are not available when clicked. I noticed recently some apps I don’t use often need to be reloaded. I assume this is some kind of memory reallocation innovation to make room for all of my favorite podcasts.
My iPad Air 2 keeps charging and Uncharging. I don’t think it’s a charger problem since I plugged into my iPhone SE and there’s no problem. When I plugged into my iPad, it keeps switching between charging and not charging rapidly. Video: *=URL=* Similar to this situation: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6300997
I am able to print to the remote linux cups server using the methods here: Printing to a Cups Server without using the local CUPS doesn't work since OS X Lion This is the approach I used: I'd prefer to be able to print directly in the GUI; however, I cannot print if I setup the printer as IPP or LPD.
I'm having a problem with the Music app on iOS. I manually manage my music. When I add albums though they show up under "Recently Added" as single tracks. If I delete the entire album and then re-add it to the Music app then the album will group properly. -It's not a problem with media tags. I only noticed this behavior starting iOS 11. Any ideas why this is happening & how to fix it?
I have a longish iMovie (about 80 minutes) that I'm trying to "share" as a file to my desktop. It doesn't seem to be working. Any advice??
I have been using the mac for a long time, earlier I used Entourage as my email client, then came the Outlook 2011 for Mac and now its Outlook 2016 for Mac. Due to some official guidelines I now need to switch over to Apple Mail. This includes transferring my database from Outlook 2016 Mac to Apple Mail.
I can no longer open a URL in a specific tab using AppleScript. I tried the following code without success: and neither of which perform the desired action. Question What do I need to change in the code in order to be able to accomplish this task?
I had a selection of genres and artists that were all mixed up and I didn't enjoy any of the recommendations Apple Music made for me. So I reset my genre and artist preferences, but I'm still stuck with the previously generated For You playlist. How can I force a new playlist to be generated without having to wait another week?
On the surface that has worked. However, I've noticed a few peculiarities with settings that have changed. My guess is that going back to the older OS which might have different configuration format the default settings were generated and saved. And then when booting in the newer OS they were 'migrated' overwriting the settings in the newer OS. This seems to correlate with increased CPU activity when I boot into the newer OS after using the older one. But this is just a theory.
Does my MacBook - which is connected via Thunderbolt bridge to an iMac with Internet Sharing - see devices on the network the iMac is connected to? I can see a new subnet is created on the Thunderbolt bridge adapter: 192.168.2.x My main network is 192.168.1.x - the iMac is connected to this on Ethernet adapter.
My 11,3 rMBP has been freezing of late (with shutdown cause of -128) but this is only in OSX, Bootcamp & Safe mode runs also fail.Diagnostics report a healthy system. Cleared the PRRAM/SMC (multiple times) & did full format/re-installs of osx. issue still occured
After I click the X(to close) or -(to minimaze) a program when I try to cmd + tab to that program I wont pop up but I have to got to the dock and click on the program to maximaze it again. The program is in the menu bar. Is there a way to open the program without going to the dock?
I'm guessing it's because Kernel dump container is preventing the whole free spaces to merge. Now I am in internet recovery mode and want to make the "Macintosh HD" partition again but also need to get back the 233 GB space from the deleted container that is still missing as well as keeping KernelCoreDump container. How can I do this? Can I delete KernelCoreDump, merge the free spaces and create it again or should I do something else?
My old Time Capsule died so I decided to buy a new one which has a 2TB disk instead of the old 1TB disk and I got it up and running. For now I would like to limit the Time Machine backup to around 1TB and instead of repartitioning the drive just create 100GB files with "mkfile -n 100gb emptyfile" on the /Volumes/TC/Data path. This takes ages as apparently the "-n" does not avoid writing the full set of zeros to the file. Is there a way to create a very big file on the TC from my Mac so the diskspace is allocated but without actually writing all the zeros?
I have got an IMac 27" Late 2012 and can't install the supplement update of 13.3.3 High Sierra. The process stucks in a boot loop, saying that "" is damaged or missing. I recovered from it via safe mode and deletion of /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/macOS\ Install\ Data.
I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.6. Recently I bought a USB-to-Ethernet adapter so that I could connect to Ethernet. It was working fine, but now it's not after a few days. Now, I don't see the Ethernet option under "Network Preferences", and I tried resetting my NVRAM (as I've seen on some other suggestions online) but that didn't work. Any clue as to how I should proceed?
In Office 2016, how can I see which Microsoft Account I use with it? The About box just shows a serial number and user details in the preferences is empty.
My iPhone is iCloud locked and I want to wipe it. Will it take it off? I can't do USB transactions.
I logged into a MacBook to complete an app purchase and was asked to enter a 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) code, with the dialog stating that I needed to verify from a trusted device (presumably the iPhone on the account). However, no 2FA code never popped up, and I had to get a text after several retries.
When I test an internal development build In App purchase subscription durations are greatly reduced according to the table at: *=URL=* In an internal development build when I purchase a 1 month subscription, it actually expires after 5 minutes. When I submit a build to iTunes Connect to use with Testflight, will my beta testers see the shortened durations (5 minutes) or will they see the actual durations (1 month)?
When I logged in to icloud for the first time on my windows pc, my iphone made a loud notification sound and a message saying that another device has just attempted to log in to my icloud account popped up. I selected "allow" on my iphone and the verification number was then displayed. From my pc, I entered the given code and was taken to the icloud launchpad, where I received a prompt asking me if I wanted this browser to be remembered as trusted (so I dont have to go thru that process again, I assume). I selected yes and I logged out soon after. Later, I went back to icloud with a different browser and immediately another warning was displayed on my iphone. Going back to tbe browser I originally signed in on didnt ring any alarm...although it;s the same device that wants to access my account. My question is what info is exchanged in the verification process to ensure that I dont have to repeat the two factor step with a trusted device? Also, is there any data from this exchange store
I just got a new phone, and I restored from my previous phone's iCloud backup, which worked great EXCEPT I apparently had one or two songs in my music that were authorized by an old friend of mine. It keeps asking me now for that friends Apple password to authorize the song - but I have no idea what song it is. I would really just like to get rid of the song, but how can I go about finding it?
I was try and my macbook can charger with ipad charger (i see output 5.2v-2.4a) with usb A to C convert. But when i read on my macbook charger, it is have 2 output : 14.5v-2.0a and 5.2v-2.4a
The app is listed under 'Filesharing' in iTunes however when I click on the app icon, the "Save to" button isn't highlighted (only the "Add File").The app (AllBudget2) contains all my financial data since 2015 so I need to extract the data somehow but don't know how. Thanks for your time and help:-)
I've been searching ways to merge them all wondering it will improve my notebook perfomance a whole bunch. I have no idea whats lowering my perfomance and what is filling the other volume. I do not have another user too. I am attaching some screen shots here, if it helps a thing.
I used the answers - how to start slideshow in Mac, but it does not work. I have iMac and may be somebody can help me. I open my pictures in the finder and then use one to start the slide show using the View and then Slideshow. Nothing work
I used to have messages syncing between macOS Messages.app and iPhone Messages. Then I had an Apple Store replace my battery in the iPhone. Since then new messages do not sync. How do I make this work as it used to? I have tried the suggestions here *=URL=* and I think any combination of turning messages on and off on both iPhone and Mac.
Windows 7 Boot Camp doesn't boot on MacBook Air 2011. The only option I get in Windows boot manager is "Continue Recovery",
I wear my watch to bed to track my sleep, but some mornings I have started to snooze my alarm or turn it off completely from my watch without waking up. Is it possible to remove alarm notifications from my watch and have them only ring on my phone?
I was just running lots of labour-intensive code on my mac, and then suddenly the disk space was full. I noticed two things that I hadn't seen before: System was taking up a huge amount of disk space, Other Volumes in Container was also taking up a huge amount of disk space.
On my Macbook Pro with High Sierra 10.13.3, I have an Apple external keyboard. I used System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... to make CAPSLOCK into another CONTROL key:
Most of my contacts in Contacts.app have the city typed in UPPERCASE. This has led my iOS devices to correct, for example "Stockholm" to "STOCKHOLM" for a while. How can I bulk change all cities from UPPERCASE to Titlecase?
As I was going through Brew's FAQ, I noticed that it said that brew cleanup would cleanup old files. As a usual person would do, I decided to run this command (Ok, maybe most people wouldn't run random commands they found just for fun). I sit for maybe a minute, and BOOM, This operation has freed approximately 7.2GB of disk space. WOH! After doing some quick research, I didn't exactly find why this removed 7.2GB from my computer. Brew's FAQ said: By default, Homebrew does not uninstall old versions of a formula, so over time you will accumulate old versions.
Every time I go to the web on my iPhone 6 it asks me if I want to use Google or Safari. Every time I select the option to not ask me every time but it still does. I have designated Safari as my primary web app in settings. Help please.
I use Chrome as my primary browser (Work and Home) but have to fall-back to Safari for side-businesses during work, such as music streaming sites. For consistency, I like to keep my browsers in sync. Chrome carries all my bookmarks and I prefer importing them all into Safari. An obvious limitation of this is that to keep my Safari updated with latest bookmarks of Chrome, every once in a while I must delete all bookmarks / favorites from Safari and add them again (just to avoid any duplication).
I need to stress my rMBP components (e.g. CPU/GPU/RAM) without loading any additional software tools. Background - My rMBP has a hardware fault (similar to this issue) which causes system freezes that only manifests itself once it has been in use for hours and is under daily load (freezes 4/5 times a day on average) - I can use geekbench which causes the system to freeze quite quickly but want to reproduce the error quickly with no 3rd party software installed so to show genius team that the problem can be reproducible of a fresh install of High Sierra & without any 3rd party software installed just to speed up the process of diagnoses & eliminate user error. Currently I'm watching 4K youtube videos & visiting greensock.com to get Safari to stress & trying to open photos but the machine isn't even noticing the extra load!
I can open a URL from command as: If I tried: Nevertheless, it works on Windows like:
Having some confusion regarding which instructions to follow to fix an issue I'm having with my Bootcamp Installation. I've had a copy of Windows 8 (not 8.1) installed for a quite a long time which worked fine until I upgraded to High Sierra. Is it still listed as a disk in my Startup Assistant: However when I restart and boot into it, after a minute or so the Mac will attempt to boot but will get a "No Bootable Device" error. I'm just wary of following any potential wrong instructions which may compromise my data on either my Mac or Windows disk so any help which would show me the best steps would be great. Thanks Edit: See gdisk read out below:
Applications like Skype or Dropbox now refuse to install on Mac OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion), and just spoofing a higher System Version does not resolve this. I was wondering whether there is a simple way to find out the dependencies of these software installations, and then install the corresponding system libraries (alongside their older versions that came with Mountain Lion). I have an installation of Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra) on a second partition, so I can install and run the software there, and I should in principle have access to all required system libraries (in their latest versions). Any hints as to how silly/realistic/problematic this would be are appreciated.
I would like AppleScript to add a new row on a number or excel sheet (or on a SQL database) I have my data saved on a .plist which I can retrieve with the idea is to create a database or sheet with all the variables in the same row (and add a new row with more data when running the script again e.g date |var1|var2|var3 date |var1|var2|var3 What I tried so far the issues with that : 1: numbers have to be open (but I guess that's might be a requirement anyway) 2: the data is always added to the 1st row
After numerous attempts at this I bailed and tried reinstalling the OS. No dice there, it would just stall at the startup screen.
All of my purchased TV shows... gone from my ATV... are still on my MBP... I have attempted all the normal fixes. reboot, log-out then back in etc. Can't get to apple help. Any suggestions?
I'm building a deep neural network, which will take a long time to train. It's just started training and I can see that there will be roughly 7.5 hours of run-time, and my computer is making quite some noise and is heating up.
My Mac is stuck in the grey login screen after I input the password. This happens because I installed High Sierra on my Mac. If I start the Mac in safe mode and reinstall it I will get the same error. I m not sure what should I do to get out of this. Thanks
In the Apple commercial, it shows the color burst wallpaper having different frames. Is there a way to achieve this effect on a Mac (MacBook Air) without a Touch Bar? Can I get the other frames downloaded?
I have a LAN that has 4 Macs and a router / switch to connect them all. My Ethernet LAN speed on my iMac is pathetically slow. I additionally have a MacMini, MacBook and G4 in my LAN, they all go way faster. For measuring I used a 220GB file to copy from one machine to another. While between the MacMini and MacBook this estimates to take about an hour, when copying to my iMac this measures at about 15 hours.
I tried enabling the "root" user (using GUI, not terminal), logging into it and changing settings, but it doesn't affect the login screen. (There's also another question](How can I get my trackpad settings to work on the login screen?) with someone asking to modify trackpad settings on the Lagin screen, and the answer involved changing some settings in a global .plist file. However, I'm not sure how to generalize to changing display settings.
Until a couple of days ago, I had used 49GB out of 50GB on iClould. I upgraded to 200GB, but the problem still remains.
I need to reset the firmware password in a 2015 iMac (not the pro version). I put one on there about a year ago and have since forgotten the password. I've read the instructions for resetting SMC on an iMac but it's failing to reset and is still asking for the firmware password when I try to boot into recovery mode. Here's what I tried: Unplug iMac Hold power button down for 5 seconds Plug in power cable Press power button while holding CMD+R I've also tried: Is there anything I'm missing?
I'm interested in finding out how many lithium cells the battery of a MacBook Pro 15" (2015 year's model) contains. The background to the question is that I'm interested in mailing a MacBook, within Europe, and realized that lithium batteries are classified as dangerous goods. From what I understand, the rules for packing and labelling are governed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Furthermore, my understanding is that the number of lithium cells determine how you're supposed to pack and label the shipment.
Since I have installed Google drive file stream, the drive is listed many times in the toolbar. I have already tried to unmount or remove them from the view, one by one. But everytime I mount the drive they show up again. As a last tentative, I have reinstalled file stream, but it didn't solve the issue. I have used both terminal and diskutil, but I couldn't find a way to solve the problem.
I have about 1100 songs in my library from CDs in itunes which are matched in Apple music/iCloud music library. Some of them are loved in terms of Apple Music and others not. Here comes the challenge: I want to create a smart playlist with still not loved songs(love is none rule) limited to 25 and it should live update every week. What I’ve done is to set the following rules: Plays < 15 Love is none live updating Limit 25 songs
Could someone explain how fonts are readily available for MacBook and iMac, but not for iPhone and iPad? I'm trying to work with a document (using Pages) that I share on all my devices using iCloud. However the alignments and document size ends up varying largely as my iPad and iPhone do not have Calibri typeface.
Just updated iMac 2011 model to High Sierra, when I search website it automatically goes into reading. I then have to click that site on reading list to open page as it doesn't open in the normal window as i would expect.
When I am uploading file(s) in Safari using file picker, I have 3 view options (icons, list, columns). I cannot figure out how to sort files by date (e.g. date modified) when I am in columns view. Please refer to the screenshots below for the clarification (p.s. I am referring to sorting, not grouping):
My new Western Digital My Book external drive will not erase to re format for my iMac. That is to say it starts but then goes no where. No green in the bar. What's up?
Had the following appear when attempting to login to an account. What does it mean & should I approve? com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64.xpc wants to use your confidential information stored in "v4.services.acrobat.com" in your ketchain. To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password. Always Allow Deny Allow
After choosing a file location to save a screen recording, the movie will start to save, then it says "Cannot Open" and nothing is saved. I can retry but it still doesn't. I just saved a video before this. It's on macOS High Sierra. 10.13.1. This same issue is plastered all over the Apple.com help forums but there are no answers. QuickTime is Version 10.4 (928.5.1) - the version that came with my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016). After the saving progress bar gets to about 1/4, it flashes "cannot open this media may be damaged quicktime" then "Cannot Open" I'll add a video below to show exactly what
I'm using 10.11.4 on several machines on my network. When I do a Network connection from one machine to the other, I get "Connected as:" random things. Sometimes I'm connected as Administrator, sometimes one of my e-mail addresses, sometimes my username. Why??? I want to set that connection to default to ME. I want to always connect as ME. If it isn't set to ME, the permissions of the files I port from one machine to the other don't include ME, which is bad, since I have to manually add my access permission before I can do anything with the file on the target machine.
I am using the 'Preview' application for reading a PDF file on MacBook Pro. What I want to know is there any way in I can read it in the dark/night mode? You can do it in Adobe Acrobat Reader by changing background and text color, but can 'Preview' do that too? Thanks!
I am on High Sierra. When I close a space (hitting cmd + W) it automatically switches me back to the Desktop. Is there a way for it to switch to the space that is to the left/right of the space I just closed?
Since upgrading to High Sierra the 'Shared' menu (back to my mac, connected servers, bonjour computers) has disappeared from my Finder sidebar. Selecting/de-selecting in preferences makes no difference. Favorites, Devices and Tags all work as expected. Thanks. osx 10.13.3 (17D47)
After removing a Windows partition, my Recovery HD has increased in size to about 70 GB. I'd like to reclaim this disk space into my main HD, but cannot figure out how. What is the easiest way to do so? The output of diskutil list gives: My machine is a 2015 MacBook Pro. And the results of diskutil resizevolume disk0s3 limits give:
I have tried to do but it came up with the error
Bought a iphone 5s from friend and they moved they never said nothing about the iphone being disabled wont connect to itunes i know the imei number if ot helps
I have a disk image file (.dmg) with a single partition that points to an HFS+ formatted filesystem, which is observable via device file /dev/diskNs1s1. The record for the single image in the partition table is set to specific GUID that triggers IOStorage kernel module that suppose to run this filesystem. Once I tried to mount this drive to selected folder using /usr/sbin/diskutil mount ... it appeared that the filesystem might be corrupted : looking deeper into the unified logger printouts, I saw the following message : I also made sure that my image is well formatted using fsck_hfs
I have an iPhone 7, as well as several MIDI controllers. To use these controllers with my iPhone, I purchased the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Connector with Lightning input (*=URL=* This works perfectly with both charging and MIDI input. I would like to have a direct audio out at the same time, which is difficult thanks to the lack of a 3.5mm jack. Is there any combination of 'dongles' I could use to have both an audio output (3.5mm or USB) as well as the MIDI input? I found other dongles such as (*=URL=* and this (*=URL=* would it be possible to daisy-chain them in any fashion. I am happy to sacrifice the charging aspect for the audio output. Thanks
Sharing files and folders on Mac somehow confuses me. There are Public Folder, Drop Boxes and Shared Folder. What confuses me is the following: Which one of the above to use when sharing folders between multiple users on the same Mac? Which one of the above to use when sharing folders between multiple users on the same Mac? Is sharing folders using any of the above makes it available to whoever on the same network? Is sharing folders using any of the above makes it available to whoever on the same network? How to share folders and files between users and not network? How to share folders and files between users and not network?
I recently got my first mac (macbook pro) and I use it primarily for coding C++ and python in the terminal. I noticed if I use finder to copy a directory (with my code in it) onto a USB drive, then the permissions on all the files get changed to 777. Is there any way I can use finder to copy files onto a USB and have it preserve the existing permissions?
I'm using iTunes 12.7 and iOS 11.3. A while ago I added a long list of custom ringtones that are still in my phone. iTunes can't see them (Tones section is blank). I can use iExplorer to delete the files from iTunes_control, and they then disappear off the phone, but the iExplorer media library still shows them there.
I came across this website: *=URL=* by Apple about the Apple Pencil. Apple has used the screenshot of an app as the header of the website. Can anyone help me figure out which graphics design app is featured in the screenshot? (The screenshot consists of an illustration by Malika Favre)
I tried to remove rEFInd and I believe this borked by EFI, when I ran the OSX diskutil repair utility, my drive encrypted partition type became 'FFFFF..'. I tried to gpt remove/read the partition at the correct block / size and unfortunately I'm still totally locked out from the drive. I believe the recovery partition got blown out which really messed with things. Booting just the grub prompt. Can't reinstall the OS because it can't see the partition/drive.
Cannot connect MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) (10.13.3) to the internet through my Apple USB Ethernet Adapter. I am receiving this error under System Preferences/Network: "Apple USB Ethernet Adapter has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet." IP Address: 169.254.59.248 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
My Mac all of a sudden got a blank screen and after I tried to restart it, it now gives me a circle with a diagonal line across it after I login. I looked online for a solution and found Data Not Backed Up, Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF. I went through all the steps/bullet points in the answer but when I try the repair i get Error: -69716: Storage system verify or repair failed Underlying error: 1:POSIX reports: Operation not permitted
I have installed and configured snort on various Linux flavors, so I am familiar with the overall procedure. I installed snort via homebrew and edited the configuration file appropriately. Where I am hitting my snag is on linux to make the snort user you make the user a "system user" with the -r flag in the command useradd snort -r -s /sbin/nologin -g snort, what is the corresponding option with dscl? Or is it even necessary to make it a "system user"? I have never used dscl before so I am also curious about the correct syntax in this instance, my guess would be to use dscl as such dscl . -create /Users/snort UserShell /sbin/nologin then to add it to the group snort (which I have already created using the GUI tool dscl . -append /Groups/snort GroupMembership snort. are these correct? Summation of questions: 1) Does snort user need to be a system account in MacOS, if so how do I accomplish that?
I have a Mac Mini server (macOS Sierra, 10.12.6) with a RAID 1 hard disk, which (when I Screen Share into it) has 716 GB of free space:  However, when I connect to the disk via File Sharing from my laptop (macOS High Sierra, 10.13.3), it says there's only 591 GB left. What causes Finder to report 125 GB free space less than on the machine itself?
So, I have this music app that I want to enter, but I can't since it needs to be updated and is in another ID, but the musics that I have in the app can not be loaded somewhere else without entering the app, I searched on how to update a app that was purchased in a different ID, but I would have to delete it and lose all the music in it, is there anyway that I can enter the app without updating it or another way to update it without having to delete it?
Both of my Macbook (2011) USB ports only work with my Samsung wireless charger. I have tried to fix the ports using the methods in this question: MacBook Pro USB Ports Only Work With External Hard Drive But nothing has worked, has anyone had this problem, or know a fix?
I am trying to recover my MacOS using an external bootable drive. I tried doing Sierra and High Sierra but both the times I receive the same error. com.apple.packagekit.pkfiledownload error 3 How can I fix this? Edit:- After this error when I return back to my disk utility my SSD simply stops showing up there.
I capture images via iphone camera and attach to iMessages. When I send those over iMessages if it is using data image quality is very low. For an example. 5 MB taken image once it is sent over iMessages using data is 107KB Please note that low image quality is always switched off. If I send over WiFi original image is received by other party.
I already have a released build for iOS 9+ devices. Now I want to release a new version for only ARKit devices that requires arm64 too. But my build doesn't pass a verification in XCode for itunesconnect release. It shows an error that I can't change target devices range for already released bundleID. But if I change bundleID in XCode it will be another application. I want to provide an update only for ARKit enablers, how can I do it?
I'm using the latest High Sierra on my macbook air with an external acer monitor. I recently did a clean install, and noticed that display mirroring gets reset after every shutdown. Before my clean install (I had the same High Sierra before) when I reboot, my monitors would be mirrored automatically, since I had set it that way. However now, whenever I reboot, I have to manually turn on mirroring every single time I reboot. Why is the setting not sticking? The only user account I have is an administrator.
I have installed an iPhone app from the AppStore that takes a phone number and searches an online database then returns a name that belongs to the entered phone number (and vice versa). Is there a way for me to know what is the back-end server this app is talking to? (a hostname, or an IP address)?
My keyboard has discnnected from iMac when I used it on linux system and iPad. I cannot find a way to connect it because there is no Bluetooth option on login screen and I cannot login because I cannot enter the password. Mac doesnt have on screen keyboard.
After updating my MacBook Air early 2016 to High Sierra the machine now having image persistence or ghosting issue i.e the older windows shadow is still persisting after upgrading to the high sierra. What is the issue and what i have to do with this? I went to the official apple documents regarding this but they say it will go after few 10-15 minutes. Still i face the same issue. Any light on this?
In the short video below, I'm trying to place the "CIS 256" in a new line below the paragraph ending with "MLQRT". But Pages refuses, insisting that the last line in the page, just below "MLQRT", should be unused. Why ?
On my server, I have a script that gets executed if the PC's screen is locked. For my Linux hosts I found a solution (found a process for an active session and screenlock), but for the Mac I didn't. Already tried to compare the process list to find a "login" or "locked" process, also I tried this here: OSX: check if the screen is locked. But sadly it didn't work. The bash script self starts multiple SSH sessions to check... macOS is 10.10.5 Anyone know how to do this?
I have a sheet with a few columns, Columns A contain dates, Columns T contain some text What function can I use to count : The numbers of result in the columns A which match the current day I tried COUNTIF(Table 1::A2:A72, DATE(TODAY())) The number of recurrence of the same text on columns T (e.g how many time "Approved" is listed on T I tried =COUNTIF(T1:T99,"Approved") but this return an error Update for question 2 COUNTIF(Sheet 1::Table 1::T1:99, "Approved") is actually working
I recently updated my iPhone 5s to iOS 11 and now Podcasts seems to be totally broken. All I want to do is play Podcasts I download - preferably on iTunes. Now I see seemingly identical Podcasts with a download link. Is there anyway to fix the display of podcasts to remove the duplicates? The following shows part of the problem: identical Podcasts one with a download link.
I have 15 gb of data in MacBook Apple mail box, I would like to take backup of mails. but I cannot able to export more than 2 gb ".mbox" file size, how to export my all 15 gb of data in a sigle ".mbox" file.what is maximum file size of Apple ".mbox" size?
I need to map a 3-fingers click on my trackpad to a middle-click. I've tried a few different tools: BetterTouchTool: Way overkill for what I'm looking for, it constantly uses 1 or 2 percent of CPU time. MagicPrefs: Doesn't work for me on High Sierra.
According to the rm man page rm -P ... overwrites items three times to delete them securely: -P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted. Is it possible to single pass secure delete items with rm ...? Notes:
Having recently purchased Backblaze, I'm currently backing up to the cloud my 4TB WD external drive (7 months old). The backup process can run without problems for a few hours (ranging between 4 and 10 or so), but will inevitably stall on I/O errors with the external drive. Running First Aid using Disk Utility returns that everything is fine. I've tried a different USB port and a different USB cable, all to no avail.
I use to have my SMS displayed in the OSX Messages app but it doesn't work anymore. I check this link and my configuration is well set up: *=URL=* Any idea how to restore it? My configuration: iOS version: 11.2.6 Mac OS version: Sierra 10.12.6
I have just installed a new battery in my A1181 MacBook (since the 10-year-old original one wasn't exactly pulling its weight lol), and I read through the battery's manual. It mentioned that while the battery is new to the computer, and while it is being broken in, the computer's charge circuit may "misread the battery's charge..." and basically in so many words act adversely. I did note now that when going to my battery menu to turn on the percentage option, it said "service battery." Mac Help says that this just means the battery is acting differently, but I wanted to be sure that this didn't mean I got a defective battery.
Main Question: How to add 1024 x 640 HiDPI resolution on MacBook Air HighSierra internal display? I'm trying to decrease resolution on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011, non-retina) Default resolution (1440x900) is clear and sharp but it makes fonts inside programs like Xcode and others too small, making it nearly impossible to read. So naturally, I wanted to increase the resolution as I did on windows (and older versions of MacOS). But in High Sierra, adjusting to other resolutions makes everything blurry.
After I press okay, I don't see my SSD in the Disk Utility anymore. Only 1 external(my bootable drive) and 2 disk images.
When looking at this part of the Wikipedia article it appears as if resource forks can contain directories themselves. However, I may be misreading it.
Searched the archives but didn't see this question asked or a similar instance when searching on Google and looking at Google images. I have a mid-2011 iMac with stock internals and a AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB graphics card. Only on boot and after logging in on the right side of the monitor it has a white gradient glow going up the right side.
My child and I have been using the same Apple ID. I want to create a new Apple ID for him. How do I remove him from mine and set up his own. Also, when removing from mine will he loose anything on his iPhone?
How can I universally change the following keybindings to something that is faster? Option+Arrow (move 1 word) Option+[delete] (delete 1 word) Command+c (copy) Command+v (paste) Command+x (cut) Command+z (undo) Contorting my pinky to press the command key is too slow OS version: MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
I'm shopping for a used iPhone. I would not use it as a personal phone, just as a device to explore Apple's apps, for professional reasons. I wonder what older models are still compatible with recently launched apps developed for new devices.
Is it necessary to create the bootable USB from the same kind of device in which you wish to use it. I want to create one for my MBP (for which I have deleted the recovery drive as well) and I have a working Macbook Air. So if I use my Air to create the drive for MBP, will it work?
Since I updated to High Sierra the Preview app no longer remembers the sizes and positions of its open windows. Instead it just opens all windows on the same desktop with standardised size and position when the computer starts up. How do I fix this?
Today I decided to do a clean install on MacBook Air - did an online recovery, erased the disk and installed MacOS High Sierra. Even clean it didn't behave really good so I decided to try Geekbench - with the Mac restarted and only the Geekbench app running - I got pretty low score - 1251 on single core and 2457 on multiple cores.
I got a message from my Mac IDrive app that there has been no backup for four days. The message says the most common cause is the Mac being turned off, but my Mac is always on and connected. IDrive has been working fine for months.
So now I'm wondering if I can get one of those 16GB chips for each computer, put it in the working slot, and have 16GB. According to this Macrumors thread, the answer is "no"
My MBA mid-2013 usually lasts for about 6 hours; it's been used for almost 4 years now. I use Chrome for internet browsing, mostly Facebook, Reddit and go over to other websites from these two websites. No other streaming or song playing or any other app runs that continuously syncs over the Internet. I do use a number of extensions on Chrome - adblocker, lastpass, Evernote, hover zoom+. My questions is, is 5-6 hours a normal battery life for 4-year old mid-2013 MBA with these settings or is is it time for me change the battery?
I have a 13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) that is failing to fully boot. What happens once I press the power button: Screen turns on, and the typical boot-up loading screen with the Apple logo appears Once the loading progress bar reaches about halfway, the screen goes black About 10 seconds later, the login screen appears I click on my account, type my password, and press enter Now this is when the funky stuff begins.... The computer does not transition from showing the password box to the loading bar Sections of the screen are now gray & green and slightly jittery After roughly 2 minutes of spazzing out with along with the odd colors showing up.... Screen goes black Fan is still fanning Repeated beeping noise Annnddd thats when I hold the power button and come to you fellas for some help I'm looking to diagnose the problem in order to hopefully fix it, any help/recommendation/advice would be much appreciated. Thanks The work-around: Thinking the graphics card might be the problem, I did th
I can do Get Info on a file or folder but this gives the path of the containing folder not the target file or folder. Say I want to copy a full path into a file dialog; how can I do this?
Can I run an script if a variable is between 4 and 6 characters only ? e.g This is obviously not working : else if theLength > 4 and < 6 then
I'm quite tempted by some 4K HDR external monitors that are slated to come to the market soon. Question is - can a Late 2016 MacBook Pro drive 4K HDR monitor at 60Hz? 4K monitors are supported as per Apple doc, but it doesn’t mention HDR at all.
I want to setup my iPhone send me two reminders about my contact’s birthdays. One reminder a week in advance and a second reminder the day before. So for example, if my friend’s birthday was set to March 20th on my contacts list, I would want one reminder on March 13th, and a second reminder on March 19th. I’ve tried changing default alert times on the built-in calendar app, but I couldn’t find a way to set multiple alerts at once. How can I make my iPhone send multiple alerts about a contact’s birthday?
This is my first time to using a Mac, some macOS settings need to edit due to Security Audit. We are using macOS 10.9 to 10.12 version in 10 of iMac, we’ve had an problem is how to keep long time record for “system.log”? In my observation, system.log will rebuild by script if the Macs don't shutdown at night and log file only keep around one day data. Is there any chance to change specific date (one month) to rebuild system.log file and keep one month data?
I’m not sure why, but whenever I tried to download something that’s free from the Apple store this message pops up: There is a billing problem with a previous purchase. My card works perfectly fine I just haven’t put any money on it, but that’s not needed if I’m not purchasing anything, so how can I fix it?
In our app, we display the details of the provisioning profile and certificate. So I came to notice that the date of expiry of the certificate precedes the date of expiry of the provisioning profile. Is this possible? Actually, the date of expiry for certificate indicates that it is already expired, but the provisioning profile wont expire for another 8 months. What is the best course of action that should be taken?
I’d like my iPad to talk to my MacBook Pro directly (not via cloud or router) sometimes, such as: in a location where the “free WiFi” blocks https when I suspect eavesdropping even though https isn’t blocked.
It's extremely annoying to attempt to click on a tab at the top of the screen, and have the menubar pop up because you went too high. Is there something that lets you disable the menubar while in full screen or something similar? It's very frustrating. This question is pretty much the same thing: Make the Menu Bar never show while in Full Screen But is there a better/newer way to deal with this?
I'm hoping someone might now how to get user input at the login window. I'm trying to raise an input box at the login Window as part of a first boot script. Initially I had tried to use, CocoaDialog (but I have also tried AppleScript). Here is my initial script, it works if a user is logged in, but not if the system is at the login window. This is the error I get when I try to ssh in and run the script as root while at the login window: There may be no way to do this, as I think it's something to do with sandboxing, but if anyone has any idea, they would be much appreciated. I'm open to using AppleScript, or Javascript instead of CocoaDialog if someone knows how to get that working
I used profiles created in Apple Configurator 2 successfully to configure HTTP-Proxy settings on Apple TV 2nd generation Now I tried to use the same profile to configure the settings for Apple Tv 4th generation. I get a warning in the Apple Configurator that I need to interact on the Apple Tv to install the profile, because it is not supervised.
I mostly have the same folder name on different shares. These can get confusing after a while. So, is there a way to show the shared folder name and not the mount name on a Finder window title? EDIT: I'm explaining on the below screenshot.
Hosts file is blocking access to some websites. How do i put custom HTML instead of default message "This site can’t be reached"?
Out of the box, one can create notes as plain text rich text (RTF) Markdown "Formatted note" Plain text is obviously not the solution here. Both rich text and formatted notes use the very old-style Mac formatting mechanism of just giving you a text style and color selection dialog, see this screenshot:
Preview has a pretty clean and efficient PDF editor, especially when it comes to adding and removing pages. What I'm really looking for is a function that can remove duplicate pages. I've got a pdf with tons of duplicate pages and it would be really great if there was an option to remove all doubles. Any ideas?
I want to use Karabiner Elements tool to remap some of my keys. This tool however overrides the default Caps Lock delay. It is possible to set in manually in milliseconds. I would like to set a value that would be the same as the default macOS setting.
I just bought a new external hard disk and I want to create some partitions. I am using the Disk Utility app in an High Sierra OSX MacBookPro. However, the "partition" option for my hard drive is greyed out, therefore I cannot go ahead with the partition operation.
I'm having problems with creating a new partition on my late 2012 iMac with a 1TB Fusion Drive. I want to do this because my existing bootcamp partition is too small and I'd like to increase the size of it. For this I first have to create a new (empty) partition so I can select that volume in Windows to increase it with. When I use Disk Utility to create a new partition I get the error "a problem occurred while resizing core storage physical volume structures". I have tried it several times but the same problem occurs every time. How can I solve this problem?
I got a MacBook Air about a month ago, and I have been using Spotify, but the Rewind, pause, and go forward keys don't work. I have tried different websites but they don't seem to be working. I have also tried Chrome but that doesn't work either.
I am trying to launch a Google Chrome extension in AppleScript or Terminal. By "launch," I mean replicate the act of clicking on the extension icon found in Chrome's toolbar.
I have a 99$-paid Developer Program membership that expires in ~ 2 months. I'm not planning to renew it. What happens if I publish a free iPhone/iPad app on AppStore now?
I just installed irssi using Brew in High Sierra. Using iTerm 2, I can't figure out how to change windows (channels). Pressing CTRL 2 for example doesn't take me to channel 2 like it would on an Linux machine. Does anybody know the key combination that would make it work on iTerm and High Sierra?
I am currently developing an app that allows users to search for a youtube video and then allows them to download the video offline for viewing when there is no wifi/cellular coverage.. I noticed that the AppStore lacks this category of apps, or to put it in other words: apps like these appear for a short while before being removed, or updated to stop downloading videos.
How do one change (or correct) a bluetooth devices perceived ”Type" at pairing? Preferably the firmware with through a mac (maybe with terminal), but if not possible - just for an iPhone.
As the title says I can't unlock System Preferences in High Sierra, however my password works for login, for authenticating app installs, and my account is an Admin when I open the Users and Groups panel. I've tried resetting my password, however it doesn't fix the issue. Every article I've seen about a similar issue the fixes don't work either as it's typically that the account isn't admin or the reset fixed it.
This is what Disk Utility says I have right now. Extra and Common are just empty partitions for now.
I've been using this code as part of a larger script for the last year. Yesterday I upgraded Excel to Version 16.10 (180210) and I keep getting an Parameter error -50, which I've previously associated with permissions to access a particular file or folder. As suggested in some other articles I've seen, I have Excel alias the path, but that no longer seems to be working. Any suggestions? Here's the code:
I wanted to know if I delete an app such as Skype from my phone will my father get to know from Icloud if the same has been deleted or not?
I still have the very first retina iPad. Purely from empirical comparison, I have the impression that it has gradually become slower. At this point it is sometimes irritatingly slow, even for trivial -open-google's-maps-app- actions.
In iTunes Connect, I can add additional users. When a different user logs in, if they're an admin, it doesn't look any different. How does one determine who owns the account and who is paying the developer fee?
I have a folder with thousands of files in this format filenameA - 1.ext filenameA - 2.ext filenameB - 1.ext and sometimes filenameB - 02.ext I need a script that will read the files and create a single folder with each distinct filename before the " - #.ext" and then add all files with that same name into the folder.
Is it possible to install a Linux distribution on a Macbook Pro partition and do a dual boot, without installing rEFind. Thanks!
I commonly use the cmd-space shortcut to bring up the spotlight, but as of yesterday it no longer works. I did not knowingly update my software beforehand, I do not have any conflicts in the keyboard shortcuts (no yellow triangle), and I only have one input source.
Any idea how to make it so domain bound machines can log in with just the "username"? I'm having to always specify "domain\username" in the login window.
When I open a folder, the "date modified" date changes. This is annoying if nothing in the folder has changed. I like to search for things by reverse "date modified" order, i.e. listing things that I have changed recently at the top. Is there a way of changing this behavior so that the folder's "date modified" reflects the last time something changed in the folder?
I have thousands of pix in my iPhoto library. Can anyone tell me how to back them up in iCloud Drive?
Running 10.13.3. Calendar entries that are assigned colors show up with muted color backgrounds after they are deselected. This makes them all but unreadable. Any fix?
I don’t want to create a new table I want to empty the data of the old table and add new data.
After loading TimeMachine I decided to partition the SSD; via Disk Utility the partition button is grayed out. I erased the SSD to start again but partition button remained grayed out. How do I partition the SSD now?
I have what appears to be the same "iMessages" on my iPhone 6 and iPad, 2nd generataion. Yet, when someone writes me a message, it only appears on my iPhone and not my iPad (altho I have a whole list of names who I have already corresponded with on my iPad.
The question is not about how to free space but how to get rid of this annoying message under macOS Sierra, since the "Don't warn me again about this disk" option is absent.
My Disk is 500 GB, and APFS Physical Storage and AppleAPFSMedia are 300GB, can't run First Aid on both. Currently I can login to macOS High Serria(199GB partition) on which I post this. There was a system(macOS high serria) and a lot data on that 300GB partition, I can't just erase it, How can I rescue that partition ? details as below:
I am suddenly finding certain strange behaviors in Preview app Version 10.0 (944.4). Current OS version is High Sierra 10.13.3. 1) On selecting a section in Table of Contents, the selection gets switched to preceding section.
The following AppleScript code clicks the WiFi icon found in the menu bar (source): Please complete the following steps to reproduce the bug: In Automator.app, click File → New → Service. In Automator.app, click File → New → Service. Drag a Run AppleScript action to the workflow. Drag a Run AppleScript action to the workflow. Paste the above line of code into the AppleScript body. Paste the above line of code into the AppleScript body. Save and title the Service. Save and title the Service. Run the Service. Run the Service. The WiFi icon is never clicked, and I am instead presented with the following (painfully ambiguous) error message:
After upgrading to High Sierra, my *=URL=* website works again, but I cannot get sym links to operate properly. returns You don't have permission to access /~Henri/index.html on this server. I followed instructions provided by https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12034
I want to use AirPlay to send videos from my Mac to a studio video monitor (no speakers) and synced audio to studio audio Speakers. I have a mixing console receiving audio from Mac interface, and I want to flick the vision to a large HD screen but keep the audio at the mixing desk connected to studio amps and audio monitors. Can I divide the Video from audio with AirPlay?
I have an iMac Retina 5k 27", late 2015 and I also have Dell monitor which supports VGA, HDMI,and DVI inputs. I want a dual monitor setup by using this Dell monitor as the second monitor.
We are working on an iOS app which is already on the App Store. We are planning some new features for the app. Can we add these unfinished features in a beta mode? Will Apple allow this?
Spotify arrived in my country, and I want to give it a try to compare it with my current Apple Music subscription. I can't find a "freeze" option for Apple Music. If I cancel the subscription, and decide to come back in a few months, will they restore all my favorites, liked songs, library, etc?
I have a Mid 2011 Mac Mini which is connected to: Airport Express Apple Bluetooth trackpad Apple Bluetooth keyboard Suspiciously frequently and quite consistently, maybe every other day, one of the three disconnects, and I have to reconnect them manually, which usually goes fine immediately.
I had the error Too many files open while I was trying to run couchdb on my Mac. However I was able to get rid of this issue by using following command :
When a video is shot using iOS standard camera app on an iPhone 6 Plus and location is enabled, does each frame in video contain GPS data that shows location info when that frame was shot in the video? Or does it only record GPS info for the start frame?
Is there a way to switch off the power going to the USB ports when I switch off my Thunderbolt Display? Currently, when I turn off the monitor, my peripheral appliances remain on. thanks!
Find my friends currently shows my iPhone location. I would like to change it so it shows my Mac location instead. I have 10.12.6 (Sierra).
I accidentally uninstalled my iMovie from my MacBook Pro mid 2009. Thing is, when I go to the app store and try to reinstall it, I can't – my system's too old. When I try to get an old version of iMovie, they're just updates – not the core application itself.
I was using a Macbook Pro 2015 with a 20 GB partition for Linux and rest Mac OS X. I had a security update for MacOS Sierra and did that. After that my reFind boot loader stopped showing up.
I reinstalled my system and recovered the known_hosts file with Time Machine. And now I have no longer permission to write in said file.
I'm trying to move/copy files from an external HD to the Shared user folder. Due to the fact that the Shared folder isn't really shared (Permissions for new files in shared directory) I have been using an external HD with the setting 'Ignore file permissions on this volume' ticked to share files between users. But now I want to improve my backup plan. I need to copy all the files back to the Shared folder, so I can use the HD as a backup disk. I'm using rsync. But I get a this error.
I have a MacBook Pro 15", mid-2012 (the last Non-Retina MBP model). I've changed the RAM for 2x8Gb Corsair Vengeance, and the HDD for SanDisk Ultra II SSD 480Gb, now I'm using macOS High Sierra (10.13.3). Every time it stays too long on a sleep mode, it crashes when it wakes up. I've tried reinstall macOS, and tested older versions since Lion, but the problem happened on every version since.
I've been using iCloud for many services such as Notes, Reminders, iCloud Drive and Keychain for a long time withh my Mac, iPhone and iPad. A few weeks ago, I've noticed that new passwords have not been syncing to my Mac if I've registered somewhere on my iPhone. I'v disabled iCloud Keychain, restarted, re-enabled it from here:
After hours of Googling I'm a little depressed with the results.. For work, I have multiple Java Installations, some of them via SdkMan, and some of them seem to found there way into the /Library/Java ... Now to the problem: If I try to start any .jar File (self coded or not) via double-click, it just says 'Couldn't open jar file, check console for errors'. But if I try to start the same jar File from Terminal, it works just fine.
iMac 27", High Sierra. External headphones with mic (Bose QC25 if it matters). Everything works fine after system boots up.
I'm being prompted for a passphrase each time I try to connect with my ssh key. I was given these credentials (private key) by the server admin, so I cannot regenerate the key, and there is nothing wrong with the credentials. I copied/pasted the key exactly (there is no botching of dashes with hyphens due to a mail client, etc). I verified there are no spaces / line break issues with vim, an the same issue happens. Permissions are set correctly (to 0600). What did I do wrong?
How does one go about installing sphinx 0.9 on the latest Mac OS ? (Sorry if this sounds silly, I just inherited a really old application)
can't exit full screen in the FORMAT WINDOW for textedit mac 10.13.3 Have tried restoring default settings. The top left buttons: red closes window as it should, orange is not active (the regularly orange button is just gray) and green button does nothing.
My iPhone screen started going fuzzy a few days back, I can't see anything anymore. It's still working because plugging to my Windows PC syncs it with iTunes and sometimes when lucky the screen lights up and notifications are visible but touch is finicky and goes away shortly. Is there a tool/ utlity I can use to see my screen on Windows and Control it, etc? The tricky part is any solution requiring me to first do something on the iPhone won't work, since I can't do anything on the phone at the time. Note: Similar question for Mac exists - Control and see iPhone from Mac with broken iPhone screen Need a way/ solution that works on Windows "today (2018)" for "specific" versions of iPhone / iOS. Open to 3rd party or OEM toolkits that can do so.
I might need some help. I have an Automator Service / Script, which does basically just toggle play/pause in some application. I call this script via Shortcut. I am using this to play/pause Spotify, because since Apple changed the behavior of the "play" key on the keyboard in the latest MacOS Versions, which does only react to the last active window with playing audio, and basically never does what it is supposed to do, or used to do in the past. My problem is, when I call it with the shortcut it gets started so many times, that it is not predictable which state I will be.
I would like my apps to restore their previously opened windows/tabs if I restart my computer, so I tried unchecking System Preferences -> General -> "Close windows when quitting an app". However, the setting doesn't seem to persist. If quit System Preferences the setting is checked again. Does anyone know how to get it to stay unchecked? I'm on 10.13.3 High Sierra.
See picture below. I am seeing "Messages in iCloud is currently disabled. Repair Account." The "repair account" is not clickable. I have enabled Messages in iCloud and I have tried to sync several times but nothing happens. I am not sure what other steps to take. Any ideas?
Is there a way to change the auto-generated passwords Safari generates? Sometimes, websites don't allow long passwords, and sometimes they don't accept the dash symbol as a valid symbol, and in those cases, I would have to manually input something. In my case, I would also prefer longer passwords for some websites, e.g., my bank or brokerage account. If it matters, I'm on the latest MacOS High Sierra.
I have a GitHub repository where the folder structure is like this: MyCompany Data Web.Service Web.Site Windows.Application ... Data Web.Service Web.Site Windows.Application ...
I upgragded to macOS High Sierra and to Server 5.5 and now Profile Manager won't open but gives an error and says Reload. What could I try?
I can't believe that something like that is not possible, or at least configurable... If it isn't, is there a way to use it as another regular key in order to make a shortcut? (if I try to create a shortcut, pressing the Touch ID button does nothing)
As an individual software developer, I want to keep the myriad details of my finely-tuned macOS system in a cohesive configuration management system, so that I can quickly set up a new development environment without lots of manual effort. I currently use Ansible with Homebrew and the Mac App Store CLI for package management and Homesick for my dot files. But I lack a solution for managing application preferences (PLIST files).
I really need to be able to rely on Skype for video and want to be able to actually see the other party, so this is a huge problem. Surely there is a way to stop it and/or get back?
Just discovered a problem - I have a large icons set in the SVG format and they displayed in the finder as a small icons in the upper left corner of the big page, so I cannot see them all and cannot choose what I need. Is there a way to make finder display them normally? Or maybe there's any finder replacements that could do that? Thank you
First off, let me say I am a Windows guy. Not an Apple guy. I am not "tech genius" nor "Tech stupid" and know my way around a few things. My wife is a professional photographer, mostly weddings and newborns and family shoots. So she is the Mac lady in our family. Here is my situation: About 5 years ago we bought a very well kept/used by another responsible adult, 2009 iMac, 24" 2.9ghz, 4GB Ram, 640GB HD, OS X 10.5.6 Leopard. When we bought it, I upgraded it to 8 GB of Ram for her, which was easy as 1 2 3.
I'll be in the middle of a long download (a software package or movie) and a network glitch will halt the download ("The network connection was lost"). In the Downloads icon on the Toolbar, I see the file(s) I was downloading with buttons beside them that have little orange circles to indicate "Resume." But sometimes the button continues the download and sometime it restarts the download from scratch.
The whole right top panel on my mac disappeared. This included wireless, volume, battery, date etc. I cannot access to Network in System Preferences, nor Users & Groups and bunch of other icons. I tried to reboot in Safe Mode and restart but it didn't help. I also tried to set up guest access but couldn’t find it in the help panel in System Preferences. I will be happy if you can help
I have an iPhone 5s, the screen is broken and so I cannot get past the lock screen. I have seen that you can plug a keyboard directly into the iPhone 5s to enter the lock screen pin code.
I wanted to make a little script involving messages on my Mac and after some research I discovered it was indeed possible. The only problem is that the "AppleScript handler" option in Messages>Preferences>General is missing for me. This very option is listed right on the Apple website under the High Sierra heading. This is what I'm expecting:
Was looking on very reputable website for kids sports. Clicked on what I thought was an ad and got porn. Finally had to delete Teamsnap app to get rid of it. How could this happen on a website?
I've gone over the help pages on my QuickTime Player 10.4, but haven't found how to DELETE a clip from the center of my video. I don't really see any tips on how to do this: only how to SAVE a part, never how to DELETE a part. I've extrapolated one plan from the help instructions: I dragged a clip (that I want to delete) from the center of my video and placed it at the beginning of the video. I then drag the yellow box around all but the clip I want to remove (now located at the very start of the video). I then "save" the video, less that one clip I want gone. I should have trimmed more, but it now seems I can't trim just 1 or 2 seconds, or maybe it's waiting for me to "save" this edit, before letting me trim more?. That first clip I thought I'd deleted still appears in the bar-meter below the video image. Shouldn't it be completely GONE from the video file now?
About 4 days earlier I deleted my important c++ files along with other files on the desktop by mistake without even realizing and figured it out later. I'm unable to find .cpp files in the deepscan of recovery softwares like iSkysoft data recovery. How can I recover them? It's urgent. Device : Macbook Air 2015 OS : High Sierra 10.13 Backups : none
I have recently installed one software from internet and it installed MacKeeper malware in my system. So every time when I open any link in any of the browser one page pops up in different window with dataloading.com and disappears. It was frustrating as it was loading for every action (even for page refresh) you do on browser
I have a Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini with dual 4TB drives in hardware RAID0 (the enclosure has a raid switcher). I have formatted the drive to APFS. I am connecting to a 2016 MBP w/TB using the supplied Thunderbolt 3 cable. Could anyone tell me why I would only be getting MAX 250 MB/s read AND write, and how I could possibly remedy it. The enclosure advertises up to 860MB/s Enclosure: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-mercury-elite-pro-dual/mini
For macOS Sierra I am trying to change the login image. I am going to System Preferences → Users & Groups and clicking on the edit button on the image.
I don't know why but for some days Instagram (Web Version) is acting weird when it (webpage) is being loaded in Safari. When I am clicking on my account page, all the contents within the my account page is getting aligned to the left, this wasn't the case a few days before, everything (All Contents - Posts, profile Pic, etc.) used to be centrally aligned.
I have a .CSV file, it opens well in Numbers ~4, but when i do changes in that file (editing row color, etc) i can't correctly save it. If i try to save it as .numbers - when i open that .numbers file, it gives me blank rows, everything is empty.
I recently started running into a lot of memory issues on my mac running High Sierra. Rather than the force quit window coming up, my system would freeze completely and the only way to recover is to force a reboot.
Sometimes apps stop responding to user events probably due to bugs or unexpected edge cases. But it's different from a crash because an app may stop responding for some time and then "start responding" again, for example Photoshop may get stuck when opening huge images because processing might take some time, but eventually it loads the image and continues working fine.
I'm trying to use a modem with an Apple MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.12.6) and I've been given the following instructions: But don't know where to configure this. I have a phone attached via USB that I can use to dial and connect to an ISP, but can't find anywhere to configure the AT command set.
Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I have searched and not found anyone with the specific problem I'm experiencing. My MacBook Air (A1466, Mid 2012) has a third party battery that is nearing the end of its life. It has about 250 cycles, but can only power the computer for about 30 minutes.
I have a 160GB external hard drive connected via USB I pulled it from a windows pc to MacBook running MacOS High Sierra, I want to format the hard drive to a file system that should work with Windows, MacOS and Linux operating system. The hard drive is currently NTFS formatted, into 3 partition which I want to get rid of and just keep single partition. I am just going to backup my media , doc, zips and tars Any Help will be greatly appreciated.
I have a Mac running the latest version of OS 10.12. I need to upgrade this Mac to the latest version of OS 10.12. Although the hardware will support OS 10.13, for other, important reasons I am not able to perform an upgrade to 10.13 at this time. I do not mind intermediate steps as necessary, such as upgrading to 10.12.0 and then updating to 10.12.latest.
If we go to System Information > Power in Apple menu, we see a parameter that is the cycle count of the battery. if we reinstall the operating system, will that remain the same or reset to 0?
Is there a way to restrict Programs installing for admin users filtering them by hash ? MD5 or SHA-1. For example: In case a admin user start a *.dmg file with hash equal to that I typed in some file then *.dmg wont install. But still other admin user can install it.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2016 and I can't figure out how can I remove the saved auto-fill emails like I can on Windows/Linux using the keyboard: Select one of the suggested emails from the drop down via arrows Press ShiftDelete And viola the email is removed/forgotten I've found this link on Google Support which suggests that I use ShiftFnDelete on my Mac and it should do the same, but for one laptops keyboard does not have the Delete key, and even though I have the delete_forward key remapped over Caps Lockit does nothing. Is there any other way I can do this, I'm only interested in solutions via the keyboard, not the other solutions using Chrome's settings etc...
I have a 13-inch 2015 model Macbook Pro that has macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 installed on it and I was going to install Windows 8.1 manually since Bootcamp assistant failed. What I did was going to disk utility and creating a partition. It failed with the APFS error 49153 and my left space in Disk Utility immediately turned gray, which is the color for "Other Disk Partitions". I thought it was a temporary problem so I restarted Disk Utility, but it stayed the same. I then realized right under "Other Disk Partitions", it said -578,1MB, which is definitely not right. I am not sure what to do right now, and I am afraid to shut down my computer as it might not boot again. Is there any way to fix this?
All my devices are set in Messages preferences to use my email address for all new conversations, and I'm set to be reachable at my phone number and email address on all devices as well. I'm stumped.
When starting an application that launches on the same monitor, I'd like to let it steal the focus from whatever desktop is currently displayed (i.e., I'm in a full-desktop application). A simple example of this is having a full-desktop application on monitor B, and on monitor A I right-click a file, and click open with my editor -- this launches the application on monitor B, but it's not full-screen, and it's on a different desktop. Is there a way to allow launching applications to steal focus from other desktops on the same monitor?
I am having some trouble creating an Applescript. I am trying to use Automator to search a folder and all the subdirectories named Web for any files modified within the last 30 days of running the script. Any file that matches I want to be copied into another folder, but the issue I am running into is I want the folder structure to be maintained when copying the file. I have something basic setup in Automator, but not sure where to go from here. Can someone point me in the right direction or help me out.
I have this simple mapping set up in my vimrc to avoid using the <esc> key to get out of insert mode: imap jk <esc>. This works great in the terminal version of vim and I've gotten used to using it.
I like to use my MacBook with a USB mouse most of the time, and keep "Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present" option checked to avoid accidentally moving the cursor while typing. However, occasionally it's useful to switch it back on for certain tasks, and I'd like to be able to do this with a keyboard shortcut. I've tried recording the process of switching it on/off with Automator, but when I copy the resulting script and run it, it gets as far as the Accessibility settings and then gives me a syntax error saying 'Can not click checkbox 3 of window "Accessibility" of application process "System Preferences"'.
I want to manually renew my Apple Developer program with a different credit card then what's on file. https://developer.apple.com/support/renewal/
I just opened my AppleTV 4K and I found an app called 7TV installed! Any ideas how that could happen? I never downloaded it. Location is Germany
As the title asks - what is the software used by Apple Stores/ASPs to diagnose hardware on a device & is it publicly available?
Is there a way to configure Safari to expand goto/foo to goto.company.com/foo? My company uses this for internal web links and it is supported by browsers in Windows, so people use this shorthand frequently, even though it is non-portable.
The battery died while I was using Workout.app on my Apple Watch. What happens to my workout data when my watch finishes charging?
I am developing a custom VPN client plugin for iPhone, working on iOS 11 devices. I am hoping to set up nested VPNs so that the traffic is double encrypted.
I have a Mac book pro (13 inch late 2013) and I have an old iMac (27 inch mid 2010). I checked on apple website and it says that the 27 inch Mid 2010 model does support target display mode *=URL=* It says that target display mode is supported but I need a "mini display to mini display cable"
This MacBook fails to finish logging in after boot ... diagnosis was a "bad harddrive cable", but after replacing that, no change. For reference, an independent, Apple-certified repair center did a "long" diagnostic after the "Genius" (term used only due to branding) bar said the hard drive was bad.
I checked my login keychain on the keychain access app recently and my regular macOS login password worked as always before. Today Xcode was asking "codesign wants to access key access in your keychain". It wouldn't accept my password, and now keychain access itself won't accept my password. What gives? What changed?
Every time I login the Apple Developer Center, there is a mistake. I have to click the cancel button times. I do not know that is why. the original image:
Suddenly the keyboard and trackpad of my macbook pro 13' 2015 model stopped working, this issue happened when I upgrade from sierra to high sierra. Also I already tried re-installing the OS from the internet recovery way, still the issue is present. Then I tried booting my macbook pro on Remix OS (android) both the keyboard and trackpad is working fine.
I'm trying to hook into a "finished" event from a program that doesn't provide any native way to do it. It does, however, post a notification to the notification center. So I'm looking for a way to monitor notifications and run a script whenever my computer shows one, preferably with the notification context available.
Does anybody has experience with using built-in Apache/PHP in a High Sierra? Does it have any drawbacks if compare to homebrew apache/php? I plan to use it with Laravel or GravCMS. Any thoughts?
I have my Windows' iTunes library and database file on an exFAT partition(changed the Windows Music Library to the exFAT partition), so I thought I could simply select that as my library location on macOS, and it would work. But the iTunes database(or XML file) won't be carried over. And apparently the file locations will be different for both(since the file path will vary b/w OSes as macOS mounts under /Volumes/) How can I make it work between both OSes?
This is to decide whether to buy an AppleTV 4K or not: For example, some areas may have an 18 to 22Mbps Internet connection, and is just about 10% to 20% lower than the official recommended 25Mbps. And since the 4K movie cannot be downloaded but can only be streamed, and will be "downgraded" to the next lower resolution (from 4K to 1080p), will a connection of 18 to 22Mbps be able to stream a 4K movie? Some factors: If it is not an action movie, it may not require 25Mbps. If it is 22Mbps, it is about 10% less than the recommended 25Mbps, so if Apple TV can buffer up 10% of the movie: 9 minutes of it out of a 90 minute movie, then mathematically, the whole movie will play till the end smoothly if the user is willing to wait for 9 minutes of start time, or even a 4.5 minute initial wait plus a middle intermission restroom break of another 4.5 minutes, instead of not being able to see it in 4K at all.
How can I change the location of the Music folder from /Users/Me/Music to an external drive, so that iTunes saves its stuff there? This is so that I can access the XML file that you can create from iTunes for Windows programs to use. And yes, I know that the file paths are not the same, but it will still be helpful.
Can anyone explain to me what is an OLK15message file, what it has to do with Outlook 2016 for mac? Actually, my outlook mac database got corrupted and someone told me that Outlook Mac stores its database in OLK15 message files. Is that so? If yes then how can I recover OLK15message files in order to restore my Outlook 2016 for Mac?
I have an old ~250gb Time Machine sparse bundle from a 2012 backup (obviously different macOS version than now) and I don’t get three partitions when running the usual recommended commands to repair: I only get And NOT
As you can see these white lines on the two borders (probably supposed for reading list and scroll bar respectively) are quite distracting. I tried to set the background color of body to black but there are still present. Any solutions?
In the Advanced Options for a user under the Users & Groups System Preference, there is field for UUID and a button for Create New next to it. How is the UUID used by macOS and what are the implications of changing it?
I would like to construct a desktop-like solution for someone who is not terribly computer-savvy by allowing her 2011 MBAir to connect to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I've looked at various docking stations, but none of them appear to power the computer itself (at least I haven't found one), which means it would separately have to be connected to external power (note: this is a Thunderbolt 2 computer). So I've been thinking about just doing this without a docking station, since it isn't obvious that a docking station would make for less work.
The problem is that if I switch from the code editor space to the chrome space on the right monitor, it causes chrome to jump to the front of all applications on the left monitor. Ideally, I would like the right monitor to change spaces without affecting the other monitor. It doesn't seem to matter what application currently has focus on the left monitor, Chrome seems to always jump to the front. I have read that similar issues were caused by one application being spread over two spaces, but I haven't found a fix yet. To make this more frustrating, sometimes the issue will just fix itself for no apparent reason. Does anyone have an idea for how to prevent this behaviour?
When I insert a memory card and use Photos, the images that are displayed before importing them seem to be the videos, not the photos. I need to work and upload the photos, but cannot do so until I first do something with the videos. How can I see pictures instead of the videos? (usually there are 300 to 600 photos). Why when I click the option to delete after importing does not always work?
I am on macOS High Sierra (Version 10.13.3) all recent updates are installed. The open executable is not in the /usr/bin folder anymore.
I work in IT for a company and have been given the task of upgrading phones for everyone. I have done a couple of new iPhones and every time I try to do a restore from back up on iTunes, it makes me update iOS. Is it possible to update the phone without activating service on the new phone so that I could make it easier for the client, as in complete the update before I tell them we are ready to switch out the phones. I ask because I worry that the new phone will activate mobile service and render the clients current phone useless until they get the new one.
I'm using iOS since day 1 and since possible I'm using CardDav to sync my contacts to my own server. I was always able to set it up and then use it as default place for my contacts.
Every once in awhile the touch bar registers, reacts by highlighting the virtual button pressed, but ignores the actual button press on my touch bar. This is most noticeable on the lock screen button I’ve added. Touching it a second time always works fine, as if the touch bar has now gotten focus. Has anyone else experienced this, fixed it, or been able to reproduce it consistently enough to file a bug report?
I'm not opposed to using John (the Ripper) to recover the password. (It's my laptop, after all, and I can let the recover run for days or even weeks without being concerned about it ... it would actually be quite nice, since then I could just change my password to something recent I'll actually remember!) But I've only ever heard of that program in passing, and I don't know how to prepare a mac for its use.
I own a 2015 MacBook Pro. If you accidentally drop your MacBook, or it slips from your lap, the screen automatically turns off, and the device is locked. I could not find documentation on this feature online.
I'm running VirtualBox 5.2.8 on my Mac High Sierra 10.13.3. The guest OS is also macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.
Why are holidays showing up one day early on my calendar. Just recently updated to IO 11.2.6
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) with MacOS Sierra. My issue is that the WiFi keeps searching indefinitely, even when I'm stably connected to my home network. My house is quite isolated so my hotspot is the only one in range. In addition the icons don't reflect the actual signal strength (when choosing the network), and the one in the top bar is constantly animated as if during the connection phase.
As you can see, there is no WEBP format in supported formats list. So, how can I upgrade Imagick for MAMP? Will it help?
Is there a way to know which macOS or OS X version was initially "clean-installed" on a particular Mac computer? (Assuming major or minor OS updates may have been installed later.)
I'm using the latest MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar and an up-to-date High Sierra. I would like to know, please, what actually happens in the when the below scenarios occur, and I guess it varies greatly depending on whether the MacBook is on battery or connected to the power adapter. So I would like to know, please, the answer for each case. When I close the lid. When the screen goes black after a period of inactivity, while the lid is open. When the screen goes black after I lock the MacBook and leave the lid open. Thanks!
We have a Mac Pro 2013 that struggles to power a third USB 3.0 self-powered hard drive, that is: you can connect two self-powered USB 3.0 drives, but won’t detect a third one (it won’t appear in Finder or disk utility). I doesn’t matter in which order you connect the drives, whichever you connect the third, won’t be detected.
Weary of the Finder's sloppy, semi-legible sizing of list view columns, I'm attempting to code an AppleScript solution. Omissions and bugs in the Finder's dictionary make this (to indulge in understatement) challenging. The goal is to have any window display a minimalist list view with a single keystroke, with all columns set to the minimum width that avoids truncation and the window itself sized to its content. Something along these lines…
I'd like to automate the adding of metadata to various .m4a files using Sound Studio. I have a Python script that will run thru all the files I care about and pass along useful data to an AppleScript that can actually manipulate the metadata. But I'm not sure what the best way is to actually do the metadata manipulation in AppleScript.
A MacBook with a Kaby Lake m3 once appeared around 30% faster than a corresponding MacBook with a Skylake m3 according to some benchmarks. I presume Kaby lake exploit speculative execution more than Skylake? How so? In other words, how much of this performance improvement disappears when one applies the software patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in recent Intel chips? JavaScript would be the primary vector for speculative execution based attacks on laptops, so web browsing might be hardest hit with browsers doing their own special fixes, but the kernel requires fixes, which impact everything on the system.
There's a thread where people say option-click "Scaled" in the Display preferences and can select the refresh rate. When I do so, there doesn't exist a pull-down for refresh rate. Here's the display preferences:
My wife's phone (iPhone SE on iOS 9.3.4 - she will not upgrade to 10 or beyond so please don't suggest that) just recently started exhibiting the strangest problem. When in our home, she cannot reliably send SMS messages to people on non-iOS devices. iMessages (to other iOS users) are fine, never any problem there... but SMS fail a lot - maybe 60% to 70% of the time. Repeated attempts to send the failed message will often eventually work, but not always.
We've plugged a Toshiba 1TB USB3.0 drive into our Netgear CG3100D-2BPAUS Formatted it exFAT Finder connects at smb://192.168.0.200/storage0 Info tells us the 1TB drive has a capacity of only 206.5MB Not sure why the full 1TB isn't available...
I want to type in Chinese pinyin and found a website, but it only works for second (é) and fourth (è) tones. The first and third tones don't work on Dvorak, as Option + a and Option + k input å and ˚, respectively. In Dvorak, how can I type in these remaining Chinese tones?
I know that I can remove app by long tapping on any icon on desktop and then tap the cross sign. But what if I have many apps and don’t want to waste my time to scroll among desktops to find specific app. I can find any app by search by name via drop down on desktop. Unfortunately in this case there is no ability to delete app (I didn’t find it), only to run. How can I remove app quickly only knowing its name?
I have an iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5. I would like to install the kindle app. But that requires me to upgrade to iOS 10.0 or later. If I go to General->Software Update, it says "Your software is up to date". Unfortunately, I am not able to find any other way to upgrade the iOS version. Can you help me ?
I have an iphone 6 running ios 11.2.6 which I'm attempting to use with an apple bluetooth keyboard. I can successfully pair the two devices, at which point the on-screen virtual keyboard disappears from text entry scenarios, so clearly the phone is expecting input from the keyboard. However, when I type, no keystrokes are received by the phone.
I have a simple script that opens an excel file and copy the used range to cilpboard as image. It was working for at least 5 years. Now with the latest update from microsoft it is not longer working and throwing parameter error (-50). I have tried all combinations of optional parameters with appearance and screen. No matter what I try I always get this parameter error. Please suggest how can I change the parameters to make it working or confirm that it is not working for you too and hence a bug that should be reported to Microsoft. I have following code. The excel file is opened but then I get error -50 stating Parameter error. Parameter 'used range' is correct according to MS Excel dictionary documentation and the script works with Microsoft Excel 16.10.
I would like to get something like a report of how much times I spend on which websites on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. For example statistics like, you spend 2 hours on twitter, 3 hours on facebook, and 3 hours on google in the last week. I would like this kind of information, because I want to get more insights in my own behaviour.
is it possible to control iphone using mac? to see screen and tap display. I have remote mac with connected iphone accessible via teamviewer. I use xcode to develop cordova apps, simulator is good, but sometimes need to test real device.. safari inspector works great for javascript things, but need to see native things on screen.
I often find macOS's endlessly repeating "I want your attention" dock bounce animation irritating, so I disabled it with the command defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE , followed by killall Dock. I'd like to have a subtler visual cue when an app needs my attention. Can the bouncing animation be replaced with a repeating toggle between the normal and translucent appearances of an icon (or any other "flashing" animation)?
I am trying to use QGis but sadly it needs not simply Python 3, but the python.org install -- nothing else will do. QGis in not available in the latest version either via homebrew nor anaconda, which is a right PITA. I do not normally use Python, but I like the fact stuff like homebrew or anaconda can be removed altogether in a clean and safe way, and can be kept up-to-date in an equally clean and safe way. So, aside from the advantage I can install QGis, what are the SNAFUs to look out for if I go the python.org route?
I have been following this thread(Forgive me, I am new here and do not know how to reply to the existing thread): Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) 2.6Ghz Intel Core i7, 16GB DDR3 with the GeForce GT 650M 1GB and it has the Apple SSD SM512E.
The fan on my old trusty macbook pro started to behave very strangely. It starts then stops then starts then stops and it just continues to happen. CPU gets pretty hot without any load (30-40%) - 72°C as well as laptop. Apparently it is not cooled down properly. When I run something with heavy load it seems to increase RPM but then CPU cools down and I get the issue back.
iOS 11 added the option to scan a QR code with the built-in camera app on an iPhone. However, I couldn’t find an option to scan a QR code from an image saved to my camera roll or otherwise already saved to Files and not something printed or physical external to the phone. How can I scan a QR code from an image already saved on an iPhone?
MacBook Pro Retina mid 2012. The error "No connected camera" could be "solved" by "sudo killall VDCAssistant" years ago.
I have a MacBook Air (mid 2011) that I only use from time to time. The battery no longer works but I don't mind since I really only use this machine when connected via the power adapter.
Changed router, unable to access purchased apps on iPad 2. Had "forget this network" message on iPad WiFi. Changed network name and password. Still had "forget this network" message on iPad wifi, and unable to access purchased apps.
I would like to set up a remote public directory with read-only access using ftp, smb, or something of the like. I would also like anonymous access enabled, so no login credentials are required. What's the fastest and safest way to do this, assuming I am already able to configure port forwarding?
The files already have track numbers matching the 27 chapter numbers, i.e., 1 0f 27, 2 of 27, …, 27 of 27. Since I only have ten blank CDs, and they are CD-R (write only once), I am reluctant to answer this by experimenting.
This question is just a sanity check. I wanted to factory reset a MacBook Pro (mid 2014) model. I first searched the standard tutorials and such, and have the core steps down: back up stuff log out of everything command + R on restart to get to the startup menu click disk utility click your partition erase and reformat (to macOS Extended or APFS) reinstall macOS (need internet for this) In the myriad of tutorials for this there are a few images showing each process. In particular when selecting one's partition it often has the little arrow drop down and the partition is not grey-ed out.
I'm new to the Apple ecosystem and I'm using Ubuntu as my primary OS on desktop. I have my computer set up as ssh server, and I have generated a public/private keypair on it which I want to transfer to my iPhone. I have just picked a top App Store hit for the ssh client (Termius), but I cannot import my key into it, except by iTunes.
I had Time Machine configured and working, then one day it stopped working and got stuck on preparing backup. I ended up wiping the backup drive and had Time Machine start new. It finds the drive and begins to back up but then it never finishes, in fact it will start every hour but never finish.
I am using pages for mac (iWorkk 09) to make a list of figures. I'm doing this by making a table of contents and then selecting it only display my "captions" style. The catch? I use tables to format my images and keep my captions together. Pages can't seem to find the "captions" styles inside these table cells. How do I fix that? Is it possible? Thanks!
Looking for an app that I can trace over existing PDFs and then export the tracing as a separate document. Specifically, I have a PDF with some line drawings that I need to "redo" according to government standards. No need for anything fancy, just need black ink with various thicknesses.
So the situation is as follows, I have a 2TB external USB drive partitioned into 2 halves, 1TB each. The first half was used for Time Machine, and the 2nd half a generic ext. USB HD.
I am getting following error for the script below. Please help
Twice in the last week my Apple Watch (Latest WatchOS 4) has reported massive amounts of exercise, when in fact I hadn't done any those days. Like many hundreds of minutes of contiguous, non-stop workout.
I physically dropped an iMac tonight, shattering the protective screen. The computer was sleeping when it got dropped. The drop was from a couple feet high, and booting up looked promising until I realized that I am no longer able to boot into the OS X partition, only the side-by-side bootcamp Windows partition. On holding down alt during boot, only my Windows option is displayed for system to boot into. This seems like a strange way for things to break due to physical damage given that the Windows partition is working perfectly and there is a single physical drive.
On a recent flight, I noticed that iCloud was syncing (Notes in particularly) when I connected to Gogo inflight wifi, even though I hadn't paid for wifi on that particular flight, and I wasn't able to directly reach any other website. How does iCloud sync work, such that it bypasses Gogo's gateway?
After I tried to install Windows 10 on my MacbookPro 2017 (High Sierra 10.13.3) my mac was frozen on step when bootcamp assistant was creating partitions (I had to reboot). After that i lost 100GB of my space. Somehow i realised how to remove this new partion but now I'm still missing my 100 GB of hard drive on primary partition.
Example: acwake 0 ...but Mac still wakes if unplugged. hibernatemode 0 ...but it still hibernates after a few hours of sleep.
When you download an app, and it gets taken off the App Store, aren’t you still able to download it from the purchased section in the App Store? This usually works for most apps (Ex: I can still download Flappy Bird from my purchased section) but some apps that I got a while ago don’t appear in the purchased section anymore.
The set-up that has worked for me for years and years on end suddenly – as of this morning – failed to work. I have my Mac switched on most the time, and to connect to my iPad I set up a network for Wifi: Create Network > Channel 11 > Security 128-Bit WEP. On my iPad, I could select it, enter my password, and enjoy all the couch-based browsing I wanted. Nothing router or modem based, as far as I am aware. It worked all fine and dandy until yesterday. This morning it decided not to: Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address 169.XXX.XXX.XXX and will not be able to connect to the Internet. (As I found, the 169 here is a dummy IP address that indicates no connection can be made.) Indeed, if I reconnect my iPad to this network, it warns that "This network is not connected to the Internet" (and "Join anyway" does, as expected, nothing). I have: restarted my Mac restarted my iPad restarted my modem (although Internet works correctly through the Mac) created a new network created a new network lo
We have four phones on the same plan, including those our children use (who are adults). We're running low on iCloud storage. Apple messages said we could get 50MB each for $.99 a month or 200MB that could be shared. But now it appears that the sharing would also entail agreeing to pay for iTunes and a number of other things. How can we share just iCloud storage, as Apple seemed to tell us we could do?
This is a late 2012 mac mini. I recently replaced the fan, which was making a lot of noise. The replacement is not from apple. Everything works fine, and the system is quiet. But I ran an Apple diagnostics which gives me the following error: 4MOT/1/40000002-Exhaust-0. Is this because the fan has not been installed properly or it is Daignostics not liking a non-Apple product? Many thanks for your advice
I accidentally formatted an exFAT partition to OS X journaled on MacBook Pro and lost data, how to recover?
Every guide I found on the web says that to sync contacts with a google account, you go to settings -> contacts -> accounts. But there is no "accounts" under contacts settings on this phone.
I'm trying to move my iphone data from my old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6s. To start, I'm trying to back up my iPhone 5 to my Windows 7 computer running iTunes. It connects, starts the backup, but about 15 minutes into it I get a message saying there's not enough space on the computer to do the backup. I have 582GB free on that drive (It's backing up to the C: drive).
I would like to make a wide table in Pages which exceeds the document body and cuts into the margins of the document. It seems as though in order to do this, I need to change the Object Placement setting (in Format > Arrange > Object Placement) from "Move with Text" to "Stay on Page." However, this causes the table to literally stay at a particular position on the page, irrespective of the text around it. I would like the table to move with the text but still be wider than the document body.
I've tried cycling iPhone on and off. I've checked my account on Apple account page, and all are connected (to same Apple ID). All are on the same wi fi network. Router has 2 Channels, all are on same channel.
I'm working with docker and containers and I'd like to install and use only mongodb command line tools (mongodump, mongorestore etc ...) I unsuccessfully checked the docs. Is it possible to install the command line tools only?
I have a iMac G4 that doesn't boot, so I'd like to check the HDD for faulty sectors. Are there any utilities featured on the Leopard installation disk I can use for this purpose? For instance, can dd be run in any way to report all faulty sectors?
I'm trying to install Inkscape using Homebrew but the build process takes too long, and it's CPU intensive. So I'd like to pass the number of threads that would be used for the build command. Than way, at least I can use the computer for other tasks while the build process take place.
What settings do I need to use to make HEVC video in Handbrake? I encoded a h.265 video and it will not play on my new iPad(5th Generation) I am trying to open them in the iOS 11 files app.
Is it possible to use Siri to play the podcast that's currently open in Overcast? Saying "Hey Siri, play Overcast" opens the app, but doesn't start playing the audio.
I'm using internet from iPad/iPhone sometimes. The image bellow shows both devices but I don't understand why they are listed in different fields. Why iPad is not listed in the Personal Hotspot area as the iPhone?
To help a friend with a project, he gave me his gmail account login information. Now I don't know how to delete his email account from my Gmail list without affecting his account.
I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra, an iPhone 7 running iOS 11 and an original iPad mini running iOS 9. The files sync between my Mac and iPhone and also show up on the iCloud website. I cannot for the life of me get them to sync on the iPad. I've tried doing a fresh install and rebooting, turning iCloud off and on again etc. Nothing works. Did apple break backwards compatibility? The iPad is running iOS 9.3.5 which is the latest and final version.
I did partition my hard drive to try out MacOS High Sierra. Once I was happy, I deleted the partition and now running High Sierra as OS. But I must have done something wrong when deleting the partition because now I have APFS container disk 2 that is still there in between. And since, Time Machine gives me an error and can't finish back up when try to back up the 1TB SSD. I believe this is because of the container as Time Machine was running fine before I remove the partition.
Is there any method for transferring photos from a folder directly into the Photo Library (main library, not an album) on iOS from macOS? I have a situation where I need to use an app (Scanner Pro) on iOS to manipulate scanned images from macOS, however each time I push them to my iOS device via iTunes by selecting a folder to sync to iOS from my Mac, they are not showing up in the app supposedly because they're in an album on iOS and not in the main "Photo Library."
My Macbook Pro occasionally will use up high CPU and freeze after being left idle overnight. How can I enable process accounting so that I can track down the processes that consume most of the CPU?
I came across this article: *=URL=* which is talking about 3 bugs found in Apple software. Are these resolved now? Does anyone have any idea about these bugs?
When you try to sort by album on iOS, the player sorts by album and then it also sorts by artist. How can you get it to sort by album only? Edit: I should clarify that I’m using an iphone 4 with the latest updates, so this question is about whatever version of iOS runs on iPhone 4
On one of my laptops which is running macOS High Sierra, is failing to resolve hostnames. I have specified two DNS servers in my network settings. One is an internal DNS server, and the other is 8.8.8.8. When I try to resolve local hostnames that the internal DNS knows, it resolves properly. But when I try to resolve something like google.com it fails. I see that it tries to use the internal DNS server first, and since it doesn't know the hostname, I thought it would try to use 8.8.8.8 to resolve the hostname, but it never tries the other DNS server. When I try this from my other laptop, it works properly i see But from the one where it doesn't I see
Is there an app for the menu bar that would allow me to enable/disable the: "automatically adjust brightness" setting?  I've searched and all I've found is an app that changes the actual brightness levels, but that's useless as it exists as a shortcut on the keyboard.
I bought my MacBook Air in 2016. I had to change my login password. Now every time I log in I can’t get past the question For password for keychain. I don’t know what it was a Apple store employee set everything up He’s gonebnow I’ve tried to sync with my new password but I don’t know How or where to go to do the sync Can you help??
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) (11,3) and I'm looking to change it's drive. I've found 2 models that I think fits my model. OWC 480GB Aura Pro X SSD For Mac Pro (Late 2013) with Envoy Pro Enclosure OWC 480GB Aura Pro X SSD For Mac Pro (Late 2013) with Envoy Pro Enclosure Transcend 480GB JetDrive 820 PCIe Gen3 x2 Solid State Drive Transcend 480GB JetDrive 820 PCIe Gen3 x2 Solid State Drive
I'm recently upgraded to High Sierra on my macBook Pro late 2013. My setup is that I have one screen connected via thunderbolt port and another via HDMI. Screens are arranged left-to-right in this order: macbook screen hdmi screen t-bolt screen Occasionally, on wake up, the contents (windows and background) of the two external screen get swapped, however the screens are still in the correct 1--2--3 order (if I navigate the cursor through them) - it's just "content" wise that it becomes (1--3--2).
I have a number of emails composed in Apple Mail (macOS), with graphics included. Now I want to upload these to a wiki (MediaWiki based, same as Wikipedia), each email as a separate wiki page. Is there a tool available that (1) converts the formatting (text styles) and (2) does the upload of the graphics and includes the references accordingly into the text?
I’m stuck in MacOS Utilities I can’t reinstall High Sierra because I’m pretty sure I deleted my disk the only thing in my internal slot in disk Utility is something call “Container disk1” and “OS X Base System”I can’t do anything with them I get an error when I try. I don’t know what I’ve done or what to do. I’ve tried the command keys Command+R+Option , Command+R+Option+Shift,Option alone, anytime I try internet recovery I get a caution sign with an exclamation point in the middle. Nothing is fixing whatever it is I’ve done. All I wanted was a factory reset now I can’t even get past MacOS Utilities I don’t have anything backed up in time machine or anywhere else I’m not looking to recover anything lost like files or data just to get back to using my freaking computer is this something I can just take it to Apple for and have them fix it ? because I’m pretty sure I’m too stupid to fix this and even more stupid for trying it in the first place
Ok, so I've come across a (seemingly) common problem in High Sierra: annoying problems using Contacts.app/AddressBook (not sure why they don't just call it AddressBook.app, but that's irrelevant at this point). For a while, I thought the problem was on my end. To isolate this, I deleted my AddressBook folder in it's entirety and restarted. Now, with a fresh (empty) AddressBook, I still am having the same problems: the app hangs and I can't add/search/edit/delete etc... Nothing. Unfortunately, I am unable to decode the .hang file - I don't have a ton experience in this area. That is to say, it's not giving me any relevant information that I can discern.
I have a 2nd-gen 13" MacBook Pro; basically the last version without a retina screen. My "B" key no longer functions as a "B" key; instead it launches iTunes. Occasionally, if I hit a different key immediately beforehand, I can get it to actually insert a "b" into whatever I'm typing, but it usually takes a few tries. "esc" appears to have similar behaviour.
When I type on my iPhone running iOS 11 I get these characters as suggestions: ℬ ℱ ℳ ℛ ℰ
I am currently using microsoft AD on my windows machine to manage users and groups and access privileges,etc. But now I received a macbook and I wonder how or if there is a way to do AD operations on mac?
I'm not sure when this behavior started, but whenever I try to access a saved e-mail draft by double clicking on it, mail app freezes. When I force quit and restart, I see that the entry for the draft remains in the drafts list, but the message now has no content. This is fairly bizarre, and annoying as I have to re-write e-mails that I wanted to send at that moment. How can I diagnose the cause of this problem and fix it? I use macOS High Sierra (10.13.3) and Mail app version 11.2 on MBP retina mid '14 15".
When placing calls, I can’t hear the other person and they can’t hear me. The calls go through and can be answered but neither side can be heard. If I try and use voice memos, I can’t even begin recording. Any app that makes calls such as FaceTime or Facebook messenger fails if I try and call or answer a call. If I try and restart my phone, it gets stuck on the Apple that comes up when turning on for hours at a time. I’ve tried resetting, and updating and neither option has fixed the issue, just led to more hours stuck on the “Apple screen”. Apart from the audio and reboot issue, all other functions of the phone are working.
I have a couple old MacBook Pro's laying around and would like to put them to use. So here's the question. Would it be possible to extract the CPUs from the boards, and connect them to a single logic board or some sort of adapter where they are both connected to the same machine? I could you could think of it as a CPU rig.... and of course I'll be using it to mine cryptos :)
I had a working Mac and suddenly it could not boot. Digging deeper I found the "Corpses" famous cryptic error being the cause. Reading through I found a way to fix it, that is reinstalling in Recovery Mode. So I went and did just that and after about two hours it was saying 1minute remaining and ka-boom! My wi-fi connection was lost and it hanged there forever. Even after restoring a working Wi-Fi it is still saying the same: one minute remaining.
I have an iPod touch Gen 3 running ios 4.2.1. I have done a restore via itunes on my MacBook many times in the past. Usually when I do a restore, all the apps on my iPod are restored. For example, I recently did a restore last year and all the apps were restored.
Always when i try to turn on night shift nothing changes and i can see following error messages in the logs: Does anyone else have this problem or knows how to fix it? Thanks in advance!
I have a simple backup bash script that dumps the output of pg_dump for a PostgreSQL database into a Google Drive File Stream directory. This bash script is referenced by a launchd user agent. The XML file for the user agent runs the script with a StartInterval key. In theory, this means that the script should run once at login, and should then repeat according to the StartInterval key's integer.
OS X 10.12.6, Sierra My Sharing & Permissions says "You have custom access" and it's showing two entries for "everyone" where the first is set to "Custom".
These horizontal lines are roughly gathered in the same place on the screen (on the top), and they may increase or decrease the numbers, from time to time. However, if I do the print screenshot, I do not see any such horizontal lines.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro exhibiting strange, seemingly random, beachball and application freezes. Sometimes so bad the machine has to be force shutdown.
So using terminal I typed in: nano .bash_profile I then have access to the following bash_profile : GNU nano 2.0.6 File: .bash_profile
The bumps are in the display area marked in below photo (iPad Mini has this SUPCASE case on it so it looks a bit different). I have not put a screen protector on the device though.
The instructions the for SystemRescueCd software does not mention how to install for use by Intel based Mac computers. I wish to boot the software from either a entire drive or a partition on a drive. I currently have High Sierra installed. Once booted, I will be using the software to move an Windows 10 partition on a 2013 iMac.
Camera Hardware suddenly not detected/listed/found in System Profiler. Can it be caused by faulty FaceTime cum wifi antenna cable connection between Camera board in LCD display to the Logic Board?
I want to backup my phone as if it were a new phone. Context that makes my situation different from other similar questions I found: I've deleted all my old backups I do not have my old backup password So I cannot change my password to a new one (this requires the old password) And I cannot uncheck "Encrypt iPhone backup"
My friend recently took a photo with iPhone 5 in Target's changing room and a watermark automatically applied over it saying "You look goooood. #UniversalThread #TargetStyle". It wasn't written on the mirror, it's clearly watermarked on the photo after the capture.
Today I moved (CMD-Drag) a folder from my laptop to my desktop across my LAN. The resulting file (an Ableton Live project file) opened on the desktop but is missing things that were present when it was on my laptop.
Enrolled in Apple developer program as a company but didn't receive mail titled "Request for enrollment documents". I tried emailing the Apple support team, got an automatic mail reply. What should I do now?
I am learning Linux command from terminal, It feedbacks 'command not found' for every command even though executed successfully. How to solve such a problem?
I recently enrolled into paid Apple Developer Program as an Individual. I'd like to know what otherwise paid apps or services are available for free to the registered Apple Developers?
For a while now, every time that I try to switch an application using cmd+tab when I stay in the target application for more than a couple of milliseconds, when I lift my fingers, a new instance of the target app is launched. I've been looking everywhere how to change this behavior, but it has been in vain. Originally I thought it was an emacs bug but then I noticed it also happened in chrome.
So the problem is that, I connected my iPhone 7 to my PC (Windows 8), I opened the DCIM file, however I can't see several photos that are already on my iPhone. I suppose that these photos should be in the iCloud, I opened the iCloud, and the surprise is that I could not find them either in my iCloud. To be precise: The missing photos in my iCloud are the photos of the dates between Feb2017 and Nov2017, and between Dec2017 and March2018. In the DCIM file, the disappeared photos are random, they have no precise date.
A relative told me that he received an email from me this morning, that arrived in his spam folder. He opened it and apparently there was some porn related things inside. Obviously, I didn't send this email, and it doesn't appear in my sent message. What also surprised me is that apparently, another of my contacts was also in CC, even though these 2 persons know each other and probably have each other's email in their contact list. Sadly I don't know more about the email itself, if it was my real address that was used or simply something like "John Doe <spam@email.com>"
it's appears that loading my kernel extension sometimes takes too long, and the following set of messages repeats during the load time : Notice that I've disabled SIP for the test so that my kext can be loaded unsigned, and I seem to get messages that somehow connected to numerous attempts to get the proper certificate from apple to the kext manager (kextd) I'd be happy to hear more insights about this issue and how it can be resolved ?
On a 120GB SSD hard drive in a MacBook only 70GB are available. The missing 50GB are not even shown as free space. Here is what the output of Disk Utility looks like:
I'm looking to rename a large number of files based on the folder name in which the file resides. Most folders only contain one file (usually a PDF but could be Word or other files) and I am looking to only change the file base name and not the extension. Current folders: Preferred outcome:
A folder contains searchable PDF invoice files generated by my accounts system. I have a list of account numbers and email addresses of some customers who want their invoice by email. Based on the account number I want to attach an invoice to an email, address it to the correct customer and send it. My idea is to have a text file with accountNumber, emailAddress for each emailCustomer then step through that list matching the accountNumber to the relevant PDF then starting an email, attaching the file, addressing and sending it. I am stuck on how to get information from one file to interact with the other. I am a complete novice at this game so any pointers to a workable approach would be gratefully received.
I'm trying to connect my Mac to the corporate network but I can't. We have 802.1X configuration to connect to the network. Can you help me create a configuration file with our certificate or explain how to do it?
Is it possible to set a hierarchy for audio output devices? I have a home and work office and move my MacBook Pro (13", Touchbar) between them. When I'm at work, I connect to an Apple Thunderbolt display with built-in audio. At home, I connect to an HDMI monitor with horrible built-in audio, so I prefer to use the MacBook's speakers. Despite manually changing the output device in each environment, the MacBook can't seem to make the right (or even consistent) choice on its own.
Does Spotlight keeps the privacy excluded folders in some special configuration file ? Those folder are configured under system preferences -> spotlight -> privacy
When copying a bootable partition using the dd command or similar means, the copy runs fine but will use the same IDs as the original. This leads to problems when using Apple cloud services such as iCloud and Messages with both the copy and the original. I remember seeing instructions on how to change these IDs, I believe by modifying some plist file(s) inside the /System folder, but can't find them any more. Could someone post the solutition here or point to an existing answer? Note: Cloning a partition using Disk Utility's Restore operation would avoid this issue.
I've got two different workstations at work, one is a treadmill desk which has the monitor mounted above my laptop and the other is my desk where I have 2 other monitors located to the left of my monitor. Whenever I go from my desk to the treadmill desk, it always tries to use the same configuration as my normal desk. Is there a way to set the configuration based on the connected monitor or do I just have to not be lazy?
A few others and I use onedrive to sync our work within a master folder. So this folder is constantly updated with files created by others and synced to my computer. I'd like to be able to filter smart folder/search results to show only items that I created/viewed/modified. Basically just the things I'm working on. I haven't found a search attribute to make this work. Is there a criteria that I'm missing, or another way to do this? Thanks!
I'm trying to do a ping and a traceroute to the Mac Appstore for some testing purposes. Does anyone know the address, where the store is hosted.
The Finder icon on the dock seems to be locked to be the first one. I would like to have a few other application icons to the left of the Finder icon, but click-and-drag doesn't work for it. What the Docker looks like: Finder, Launchpad, Mission Control, and then Chrome Order of icons that I want instead: Launchpad, Mission Control, Chrome, and then Finder I'm running macOS High Sierra on a Mac Mini.
CMD + ` means show this app's next Window for most Mac programs. In LibreOffice Calc, it means show formulas. How can I turn that off? Going to System Settings, Keyboard allows me to map keyboard shorcuts to an app's menu, but there is no next window menu item in Calc. Calc's own Settings did not, at quick glance, show anything to affect their shortcuts.
For the last couple of days, I have been trying to connect to a linux system from behind a proxy. I tried these links (link1, link2, link3) but didn't help. Suppose my proxy address is: proxy-address:8080 and my ssh address is user@ssh_address so to connect user@ssh_address I wrote the following in my .ssh/config: and whey I run $ssh ssh-proxy it gives me following error:
What's the oldest (read: cheapest) iPad I can purchase that will run the Swift Playgrounds app for learning the Swift programming language?
I need an app that does the following: Allow me to paste multiple snapshots from clipboard. Also resize and move them. Draw arrows, write texts... Just what paint on windows does. I've tried Gimp but is terrible slow and full of bugs.
Is it possible to use the OpenLDAP of the OS X Server app to store X.509 and retrieve certificates with the user data? Background: I would like to share our public S/MIME certificates over our LDAP, so they can automatically be retrieved from any (supporting) client without having to import them manually.
I am trying to find out my public IP address for my MacBook Air It is on Comcast/Xfinity Wifi (my parents had some tech dudes set it up). When I check *=URL=* or any other I get 73.170.168.215, but this is the same as on my iPhone 8.
I am developping and distributing a python program for linux, windows and macos. I use pyinstaller with the onefile option to package the application so it is easy to use by non technical users (no dependencies, configuration, installation...). It just generates an executable file that contains everything necessary.
Currently using Yosemite on older computer. Want to continue using Adobe cs5 apps which don't work past Yosemite. Don't remember how I installed it but not purchased and don't have installer. Anybody know where I can get installer. Can I install from backup of current computer?
All the contacts are on my iPhone but when I go the iMac all it says is no cards. Preferences has the contacts checked and view groups show all the names but no data for the card?
I'm a developer, and I'd rather not mess up anything on my system. So I guess, the general. Take a backup advice applies.
I just realised someone sent me an email 6 hours ago. This was an important mail. I think I was watching a full-screen video in Safari at the time.
I have always been wanting to connect my macbook air to an external monitor, so after researching the best types for macbooks, I figured connecting my macbook via HDMI to a monitor would work. However, I have connected everything up with no success. I made sure to first shut down and restart my laptop, and when fully booted connect the mini display adapter into my mac, and connect one of the HDMI cables to the adapter. I then connected the end of the HDMI cable to my monitor's HDMI dock. After switching on my monitor and waiting for it to connect, I realised that my macbook was not registering the device. Yes, my mouse was lagging a bit while my monitor was attempting to connect, so I think it knows it's there, but I could not connect it. I have tried various solutions: Uninstall Display Drivers -> restart -> install new display drivers again -> restart -> connect Monitor + Macbook again Clear recent items -> unplug all devices -> shut down -> reboot with command + option + s + power b
I have a backup of SMSs from an old phone in vmsg format. What would be necessary in order to lead them on the iPhone? I am new to apple products. Can I not make a backup of the phone and download it to my linux computer? How? If so, it would be a matter of converting the messages to other format. I take it sqlite from a bit of googling around. I am a computer programmer, this is not a problem for me. What's confusing me is the whole backup and restore policies. Or ideally, is there a way to restore only the sms.db?
Does there exist a theme plug-in or add-on that can make the Thunderbird on macOS looks mostly dark or black?
iTunes playlist not playing in order of when I had download it. Comes up with some random order. How do I get it to show by latest downloaded and added? P.S: have tried to reorder playlist on my laptop, but my iPhone just doesn’t listen to it.
I've used Macs for 20 years, and I've owned three Powerbooks/MacBooks in that time. I'm used to just closing the lid (power lead plugged in or not) and coming back to it and just resuming what I was doing.
I use my iPhone and the app Messages interchangeably for sending and receiving messages. They are both connected to my apple account and for a long time they worked in sync. However, recently Messages has begun to act particularly. For instance, it views all messages in the thread that have not been checked since the last time the app was open as unread (as oppose to being marked read, when I read them on my phone.) This includes my own messages that I have sent out. Also, when I try to send a message from the app, it immediately returns not delivered. Any ideas?
I have an iMac running El Capitan (can't upgrade further) that has been hosting my TimeMachine backup for years. New MacBook Pro can't see the Time Machine volume - doesn't even see the drive connected to the iMac as an option.
I have a pending purchase from the app store. I have not downloaded the purchase and I would like to now cancel the purchase.
Get a mail from Wizzair. If I scroll to the date when I get, I can see in Mail, but when searching "wizzair" it does not show up. Why?
I have two macs, a 2010 MBP and a 2013 MBA. They run identical software: both use macOS 10.12.6, and Contacts.app 10.0, build 1756.20.
I had wanted to reenable this default, and therefore disable key repeat. The most obvious method that I had found via numerous forums and blog posts was entering the following into Terminal:
I am using rsync per Fastest and safest way to copy massive data from one external drive to another I have two external hard drives, connected via USB. According to System Information, both have up to 5gb/s. However, when I run rsync, I get about 17 kb/s. Since I need to copy a terabyte of data, this isn't good. What could be causing the issue, and should I be using some other method? EDIT: I tried using cp, it is slightly faster, but still nowhere near a reasonable amount of time.
I recently installed uTorrent on High Sierra but wasn't thinking and installed the Yahoo thing. The uTorrent installer says "Opera", but I ended up with a Chromium icon in my Launchpad. The problem is it isn't in my Applications folder.
I managed to change screenshot names executing following command: So now file names are like: I would prefer instead: or: or: Is it possible to change it?
my macbook air shuts down 0-30 seconds after I unplug it from the magsafe. the computer says it's at 90%, and charging; I did an SMC reset, ran apple diagnostics (no issues detected), cleaned the port, tried using a new magsafe cable, and the system report on the battery is as follows: Model Information: Serial Number: D8651634CATF90JA9 Manufacturer: SMP Device Name: bq20z451 Pack Lot Code: 0 PCB Lot Code: 0 Firmware Version: 511 Hardware Revision: 000a Cell Revision: 1210 Charge Information: Charge Remaining (mAh): 5735 Fully Charged: No Charging: Yes Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6441 Health Information: Cycle Count: 478 Condition: Normal Battery Installed: Yes Amperage (mA): 283 Voltage (mV): 8226 The I/O board was replaced a few months ago, so I don't think thats the issue.
My ex-collegue just passed on a Mac mini Server to me and said it needed an OS. So I start it with Command-R, and then it asks me for Wi-Fi connection.
I'm trying to save a website as a PDF file using the File -> Print.... The PDF preview has a white border all around, as does the final final PDF product. I've followed the steps suggested on this website, but that doesn't work. Other websites suggest using File -> Page Setup, but that option no longer exists in later versions of macOS. How can I force the PDF file not to have any white borders? For what it's worth, I'm using Safari 11.0.3 on macOS 10.13.3. Thanks in advance.
I created a 75gb partition to run Bootcamp but don't use it. I removed the partition through directions that said it would go back to a single disk. It did not. I now have 75gb of "free space" that is inaccessible. When looking at it in terminal it doesn't show that this free space exists. I've already tried reformatting the 'free space' as a MacOS (Journaled) but it wont stick. I Apply the changes and then try to quit disk utility and it tells me that my changes wont be saved if I leave. I apply again. same results. Terminal looks like this:
Is it possible to prevent a system from maximizing an app's window which was previously minimized to dock when I click the app icon in Dock or when I type app name in Spotlight/Alfred? What I want to get: when I type app name or click app icon in Dock, it's last minimized window should not come to the front. I just want to see the app (its status bar, for example), not its windows with old documents.
If there in fact are advantages to having an Apple router behind the ISP router, how should I configure the network to avoid Double NAT? It seems that the ISP router can't be set in Bridge mode, and I think the ISP wouldn't like it bridged as they sometimes access it for diagnostics and pushing firmware updates.
Is it possible to have a program (any language) that will run on Mac OSX that will detect and control common commands such as print, copy, in MS Office for Mac 2016/365? I am being told that it is impossible to do this? Thoughts/ideas?
I was wondering why there is a discrepancy between the apps and windows that appear in Mission Control, versus those that show up in the application switcher (CMD+TAB). Mission Control always seem to show more apps and windows than the switcher, and offers the "complete" overlook on what's really running. Here is an example of two windows that are "caught" by Mission Control, but not the application switcher. For example, the macoS Fonts window:
I am running macOS High Sierra on a 2011 iMac. I was also running Windows 10 via BootCamp. In order to prepare for a 3rd OS, I installed reFind and resized the BootCamp partition to make space. Unfortunately, this rendered the Windows partition unable to boot, I got the message "Missing Operating System" on a black screen.
Each time i unselect Google Drive (Backup and Sync From Google) option in System preferences -> Extensions -> Installed Extensions , after restart it is back. How to save that state so after restart current option will stay deselected?
I got a new Macbook so I used Migration Assistant to move all my content from the old Mac... my only used on the old mac was called 'user' and that is the only user I wanted to move to my new Mac. Halfway through the migration, however, the connection ended, so I just decided I would start it over again. However the 2nd time I did not have the option to overwrite the half-baked 'user' account. Hmm. So I just asked it to bring over 'user' as 'user2' on the new machine... then I figured when it finished, I would delete the original 'user' folder and account, rename user2 to user and be done.
I use an app that can accept files a few ways: open and then use its own file select dialog "open with" from Finder "drag & drop" from Finder Method 1 is fine and the app responds as expected. Methods 2 & 3 result in the app opening—you can see the app's menu bar—but then there is a delay of 4 or 5 seconds before the app window appears.
If my headphones are plugged in, after going to sleep mac doesn't have any sound in headphones. After re-plugging, everything works well. Sometimes, changing the output in sys/Sound works, but not always. I'm on macbook pro 2017, Sierra 10.12.6
I have an e-Mail Account from AOL which I can add on my iPhone. However, I can't add it with the identical server settings I've used on my MacBook Air. I installed Thunderbird for testing, and it doesn't work there as well.
System Report>Camera>No video capture devices were found USB>Device Tree> No FaceTime HD Camera (inbuilt)listed
I recently installed a SSD hard drive into my friends computer. I then set up the computer based on the TimeMachine backup. We had to fix the permissions on the Library folder to get some of the applications working again. Now in the native Mail.app when he opens the Settings ⌘ + ; he'll only see the empty signatures screen:
Is it possible to add an argument to a pkg package that will be used from the scripts inside the pkg package? Then the argument can be added like this: The key1818283475 can then be read from the scripts during installation time.
My root filesystem is formatted to APFS and I'm working under macOS version High Sierra. For some reason, all my files are allocated with fileid that is added to offset of 0x200000000 For example, create new file /tmp/1 and getting its attributes will produce
I want to enable SSH on OSX from only my Parallels VM. My fear is that by opening SSH I'm putting my host OS at risk for remote exploitation. How can I configure MacOS to only allow connections from the local Parallels' Windows machine? Perhaps I can establish a dedicated VNet for the two machines, but I'm not sure how to restrict MacOS to listen only that subnet / IP address.
After apple made it impossible to save and restore apps to and from iTunes and instead started relying solely on AppStore redownloads to restore apps, combined with the fact that I can't manually install earlier versions of apps on the AppStore even if I wanted to, I'm wondering why I get the exact same version of the app back after restoring from a backup? I.e. I have the same app updates waiting for me in the AppStore after a backup restore, following an erase of all contents and settings — which in my case was also followed by a restore in iTunes to a new version of iOS. As someone who updates apps individually and manually I think it's perfect since some of my apps will become useless if updated, but I didn't expect it. iOS 10.3.1 -> 10.3.3
This is a 2014 27" iMac on 10.12.5. The external drives are normally 2.5" LaCies or G-Drives connected via USB 3.
Hoping someone can help: I sent my apple device into a screen repair shop (had to drop off ipad and require to provide passcode) Can I use the diagnostic and usage to see what apps were opened during the time of repair? (Due to screen cracking couldn’t properly disable private accts and etc) Some things I see in the diagnostic/usage, during the time of repair, are “force reset” and “reset count”. Also “dup_image” and “P” “c” Can anyone help decipher these codes and advise if possible personal files being copied.
There are 20+ drives in the system. One of the drives is having issues according to the disk controller. The disk controller reports to me by the drives serial number. That drive serial I can map to a "Device / Media Name" (f.e. HPT DISK 1_7 Media).
I use an AppleScript script with Path Finder (and a similar one with Finder) to identify the current folder in PF, and then open an iTerm session with the CWD set to that folder. It checks to see if iTerm is running; if so, it opens a new tab in the current window; otherwise, it opens a new window.
Photos.app — I can't find a way to see in which albums a photo is in, neither on iOS or macOS. This seems such a basic thing that should be there but I can't find how to do it. When a photo is selected, I would expect an indication on whichever albums in the sidebar the photo is in. At least show it on the info box on mac or info pane on iOS. But right now I can't figure out if it should be there and I'm seeing a bug, the functionality isn't there, or if I'm too stupid to figure it out.
I just realized that iOS 11 handles screenshots taken on device in a very interesting way. If you immediately send screenshot after it was taken - JPEG file will be send. If you take screenshot and save it to Photos, and then share it from Photos - PNG file will be send.
How can I create a keyboard shortcut that flips my screen upside down? I know how to enable this setting in System Preferences but I want to be able to bind it to a shortcut. Is it possible to make the same keyboard shortcut revert the display back to normal orientation?
Had thought this camera spec would be easy to find online, but it seems FOV / field of view just isn't mentioned these days for macbook cameras? Does anyone know what the touchbar macbook camera's FOV is? (Also Official link if that exists)
Is it possible to remove or change a keyboard shortcut in Keynote? I found this question/answer about creating a new one, but it doesn't address removing a standard one. Specifically, I find it really annoying that the Play/Pause button on my keyboard starts a presentation when I press it expecting my music to Play/Pause. I'm on macOS 10.13.3, Keynote v7.3.1
I'll preface this question with the obligatory "I did something stupid"... I wanted to factory restore my 2012 MacBook Pro. I did Command-r, and later Command-Option-r, but both times Reinstall macOS failed after a while. (I did not write down the exact failures but, in hindsight, it may have been connectivity problems).
That leaves me with either locking down preferences and removing the option to set desktop images via 2 or locking whatever file points to the current desktop image from being modified without a password. Well, because you cannot protect the Desktop & Screensaver pane in Preferences, that option goes out the window.
Hi all my Macbook Pro Early 2008 randomly shuts off and leaves this in the console, 2018-03-21 2:11:35.000 PM kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: -81 I cannot find any information about -81. I have reseated the RAM, Replaced thermal Paste and tried removing the battery and running from AC to no avail. Any suggestions are appreciated.
My iPhone 7 has been disabled from too many password attempts. I try to do a force/ hard reset but the apple logo just fades on and off. IS there anything I can do? I really don't want to have to go to the store since it is so far away from where I live. Any other ideas?
I am interested in setting up my home folder and /Applications in another hard drive like you can with Linux. Is there a way how to do this? I would also like to make sure that it won’t cause any problems on updates/reboots providing I have the external drive connected.
A while back I checked out the application Tripmode when I was using a free trial of Setapp (its like Netflix but for Mac Apps), I removed Tripmode however I've noticed the kernel module persists and would like to remove it. The kextstat utility reveals the following: A list of the kernel module system directory shows the following.
On an iPhone, how can I find out how full my voicemail box is? I'm not talking about how much space voicemail is taking up on my phone's storage. I believe each cell provider sets some limit of how much space your voicemails can take up until people won't be able to leave you voicemail. How do I find out how close I am to that limit? Is there any indication on the phone when it's full?
I have a HTTPS website which is protected by basic authentication. When I use Safari on macOS to access this website, it will store my credentials (in the Keychain). However, Safari on iOS (11.2.6) refuses to do so. I can click on the key icon on the top right of the keyboard, but it will show only credentials from form-based websites (the same list as in macOS Safari -> Preferences -> Passwords). Is there any way I can force Safari on iOS to remember these basic authentication credentials?
Whenever I put my Macbook Pro running High Sierra to sleep my Asus PB277Q keeps waking up displaying a blue screen saying 'HDMI no signal' every few seconds, forever. Some other times it sleeps normally, and I can't tell what is causing the behavior.
I'm on macOS 10.13.3, and every time I launch the Photos app, I get the following screen, showing "What's New Photos". I have to click the "Get Started" button to access my library, which works every time, but is a bit of a nuisance.
9 months ago, my Macbook Pro 13in (2012) had blurred lines on the screen and would immediately shut down. I went to Apple Care and they quoted me $700 to fix the issue, which I think they said was the logic board. Today, I reset the NVRAM/PRAM by pressing Command + Option + R + P and it's been an hour and the computer is working just fine. Is it likely that the logic board is the real problem and is it work investigating/replacing myself? I am about to gift this laptop to kid who needs it for school and I don't want to give him a broken laptop. Thank you in advance.
Does deleting voicemail from the iPhone Phone app free up the space it takes with your cellular provider or do you have to delete it from Deleted Messages list as well?
EDIT: After disabling Hey Siri for a couple of days, my battery drain has slowed way down and Siri is only a very small part of it. I'm not convinced however that this is actually the culprit however because this had never happened before. I've turned it back on now and will see if anything changes again.
I use this to open a link (the url is unknown): is there a way to have AppleScript to open in a new tab, in the background using the javascript with not known URL my workaround for now is to duplicate the first page and open the link on the duplicated page, by the website don't handle that very well and it's not always working
Typically, Finder displays the Eject symbol next to an external storage device, and an inverted version during mouseover, like this:  but today, Finder displayed a Refresh symbol, and an X during mouseover, like this:
Bought a new iMac desktop and want to download loads of photos to an external drive I just bought (WD 1 TB My Passport. I clicked initialize but still can't figure out how to download the photos to it.
I'm looking into security holes in my daily life, and I ran across an article that says that most devices broadcast their MAC address continuously. I'm wondering if that applies to iPhones (and other iDevices) as well. I would expect them to use active scanning when Ask to Join Networks is on, or if you are actually in the Wi-Fi Settings (though I don't know that that is the case), but what about normally? Is my iPhone broadcasting its identity everywhere it goes as long as the Wi-Fi is on?
When I click an app to download it, It’ll start spinning and stay like that for a while. Eventually it’ll turn into the little cloud icon. If I click the cloud icon it’ll say the app has been downloaded and will download again at no extra charge. Then it’ll close the window and stay as the cloud icon. Nothing pops up on my home screen while “downloading” or anything like that. I’ve tried the following: Restarting my phone Signing out of iTunes and back in Updating phone Resetting all settings Turning data/ WiFi off & on
I have mac PC and icloud installed and working fine as well as if logged into icloud.com i see my all files there. The problem is when i have configured with my windows 10 PC there is no file in icloud drive folder. Even i tried uninstall and reinstall. I confirmed firewall is not blocking it as well as there is no space issue on my pc as well as on icloud drive space. Everything seems to be fine even i contacted apple and they were not able to figure out. They said it weird and unique problem but couldn't solve it. Anybody experience this problem before? I am afraid if there is file limit or anything which is stopping the sync? Or may be something else?
I am trying to create a script to open the URL csbsju.instructure.com in Safari, wait for the page to load all the way, click the login button, and then double check if the URL is correct (there's a bug that adds dashboard-sidebar, so I'm just checking the URL and if it's incorrect, redirecting the page. The typing of credentials is handled by Safari's iCloud Password thing, so I don't need to worry about that. The big issue I'm having is the waiting till page is loaded part. I've been looking around, and currently am attempting to use this code, although it does not work: I'm currently using this script to click the login button and check if the URL is correct:
I recently created a website for a publishing company, from where the visitors can download book samples in PDF format from the company's FTP server. On Windows, macOS and Android everything works perfectly, but on iPads and iPhones I receive the following message: You do not have permission to view "book-title.pdf"
When browsing to a web page which opens a new dialog popup window, if the browser is maximized, then the new window is not opened as a dialog but as a new tab. However if the browser is not maximized, then the new window opens as a dialog. I need it to be a dialog (not new tab) always.
I have a 'slight' issue with my macbook and was wondering if anyone could help me please. Model: A1278 (EMC 2419*) MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.3 13" Early 2011 OS: Yosemite
I have been using VirtualBox for years to run Windows and many Linux distributions but recently I purchased the Parallels program and am currently porting over all my virtual boxes. All of them work flawlessly except Parrot OS (Debian based) and I just can't figure out why. I install it perfectly fine but when I try to boot it it hangs at the message below:
I have a iCloud Music Library membership because I have a number of devices and it simplifies syncing my music libraries. I recently had to replace an iPad that had stopped charging under warranty and restored it's content from a backup of old iPad. However my music wasn't restored as I expected.
I have got a macbook pro late 2015 with MacOS High Sierra on it. It has a Swedish keyboard. How can I use it as an English ANSI type? There are problems with replacement some keys and it doesn't comfortable for my work. MacOS recognizes this keyboard as ISO and it is impossible to change it in system preferences. How can I fix this problem?
I just got hi speed internet and turned on wi-if calling on my iPhone 6 since I have poor signal at home. Also just installed a signal extender(booster)from Verizon, which increased my signal to full strength. Since I don't need both I was going to send back the $160. Extender to Verizon, but would my phone then be searching for a better signal even though its on wifi calling and using more battery life?
I have an iPhone 7, running iOS 11.2.6. I had earlier disabled iCloud but it recently got activated as some kind of a side-effect of some other activity (maybe my Apple ID email change, an iOS update, or something else). What steps can take to ensure that iCloud is completely disabled and stays disabled?
How to view the kernel on MacOS? I am learning Linux command line by William Shotts, The Kernal directory can been accessed by : How to view the kernel on MacOS?
I've a MacBook Pro and recently my hard drive kicked the bucket. I bought a new ssd drive and installed it in my MacBook.
I want to do some cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) using Xamarin, the problem is that I only have an android device and a windows machine. But I still want to be able to test my apps for iOS and I can't really buy a mac (and/or an iphone) just for this. I'm thinking about testing my apps using Appetize.io, but to do that I would still need a MAC machine to be able to build the app and upload to appetize. Is there any workaround for that?
I've seen some people on YouTube saying they were able to connect an early 2013 MAC Book Pro with some 4K Monitors. I bought an 4K LG TV. It seems that I can't connect using 60Hz. I already tried the Thunderbolt connector and couldn't make it. Could anyone help me with that?
How do I stop this annoying pop up on iPad the latest edition bought this winter . Always amazon answer three stupid question and get say $1000. Always I delete and not open . Happens when in browser. Want this to stop
The title is more or less explaining the question, but reason why I made a new post instead of just using an existing one is that I am in a particular kind of situation. Basically I am using my MacBook Pro late 2015 in dual boot with MacOS and Parrot (Debian Linux), this made no problem until Parrot decided to get a problem and corrupt a few days ago. Even thought I was always using the standard Mac Bootloader, and the default startup disk (in this case partition) was the Mac one, the boot loader decided not to accept the partition as bootable and for some reason not finding it (thank's parrot ). The result is that I had to completely reset my mac, and reinstall both macOS and Parrot.
I'm quite baffled by this as i can't find how and why it's happening. For years i'm using Sublime Text to open ruby files and surely i have Xcode installed but except of command line tools i don't use Xcode as an IDE ever. Just since today and no software update has been installed in this regard for weeks Xcode registers itself to open .rb files.
I have two annoying icons in my menu bar. The first I have no clue at all. If I try to click on it, the pointer changes to the "waiting coloured ball". The second one relates to Malwarebytes that I deleted for I didn't trust. I would like these two "intruders" out of my way. Does anybody know how? Thanks your help Manuel
I stupidly deleted the system python on High Sierra, hoping to only use the Homebrew version. However, now I want it back. How can I restore it?
Essentially, it seems basically "a report on when emails were sent". (I guess, using Mail.app.) Can anyone think of something like this?
Quite some time ago I've noticed that even if I create DMG files from the same directory, with same files and etc, the results are always different. Not only their size is ~15 bytes shorter/longer from one another, but their SHA checksums (and their contents, when being viewed from the HEX editor) differ drastically. Just out of curiosity, I've created 5 compressed unencrypted DMG files from the same folder containing nothing but a single text file. The results are: 0.dmg | size - 26 204 bytes, checksum - 5ba9ba0ee4d8ec5ba4718f1b491baf31c2c4e642 1.dmg | size - 26 221 bytes, checksum - a86d76f6c07ee5a81c0aefb31b6fd40ef787ebd5 2.dmg | size - 26 235 bytes, checksum - a31f4cf29e4e2858b7ac63c82574499200d81108 3.dmg | size - 26 209 bytes, checksum - f3c19414279b6d6b94b90341453906e4a69e28dd 4.dmg | size - 26 217 bytes, checksum - 9603c0334125762fc7908343e3ee400e038fe779
But I haven't been able to figure out how they made those calls. I assume it has something to do with them being at the top of the Recent Calls list.
I got an iPhone 5c not too long ago and it was working fine until all of a sudden Safari would not load anything it always says "Safari cannot open the page because it could not establish a secure a connection to the server" for any website and Youtube, Gmail, and the app store isn't working either now... I have no idea what’s going on.
I've checked the access rights in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/sites, but they seem okay. Restarts didn't cure it either.
So I have a keyboard / mouse issue; neither built-in will work.. Looked up online and people have suggested rebooting and holding "command, option, p & r"; tried it, it refused my password when trying to disable FileVault (still don't know why) rebooted and disable FileVault manually from system preferences. Kind of regretting it since it now tells me "more than a day" until finished. Googled and found out I couldn't cancel and had to wait for it to finish...
First steps with Python, I am trying to run Python in a virtual environment in macOS. I Googled "install virtual environment python mac" and got a link for this. When I typed in Terminal: I got a "command not found".
What does a blinking yellow light on my 2TB Time Capsule indicate? Seems as if my WiFi is still working.
I am recording several 20-25 minute videos. The screen recording has failed already twice while saving. I stop the recording and just nothing happens, even after 10 minutes. What can I do with it?
I did not understand the answer to this threat: Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?. Can I just format a Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB Internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) Solid State Drive with my my MacBook Air Mid 2013 (A1465) (running High Serra) and then swap my native SSD for the Samsung 960 EVO? Thanx!
I need to recover important pictures from an iPhone 6 Plus with a brand new screen who does not respond (including home button). I have a trusted computer and I know the phone is stuck on the lock screen because iTunes asks for it to be unlocked when I plug it in. I connected a small numeric keyboard to unlock the phone by typing the pass code, without success (even if it works on every other mobile devices we have). This phone has not been used in a while and is probably running iOS 10. Options : Format the phone to unlock it and then recover the erased pictures using a reliable software such as Dr. Fone (see "BTW for more details"). Go to the Apple Store and pay about 150$ to get this fixed, transfer the pictures and then resell this refurbished phone to cover the expenses. Your suggestion. Thank you! BTW : If you have any recommandation of CHEAP and reliable software to fix this issue, I would greatly appreciate it, because we're not planning in investing 100+$ in an iPhone repair b
Yes, I know this question has been asked many, many times. I promise I have tried everything all of the solutions that I could find. I'm running OC X El Capitan on a MacBook Air.
How can I copy only a section of text from a hyper link? As in, if there is a link like below, how can I copy only a part of the text that is linked?
The idea is that it creates this new_file.txt in the same directory that CREATE is in. As-is, it creates the file in /home/ since that is my default.
What is the fastest way to transfer 200GB data (~ 2 million files) from 2014 Macbook Air to 2016 Macbook Pro and how long will it take?
I've seen this problem before (with CouchDB, interestingly enough), and I've gotten around it, so I know that there's a solution, but I can't remember what I did. I'm sure that someone using Ask Different will know, and it'll be useful to have the solution documented in a prominent place. In case it's relevant, I'm on 10.11.6
I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air, as well as an iPhone SE. I use iCloud to synch Safari bookmarks. Both computers run macOS 10.12.6 and Safari 11.0.3; the iPhone runs iOS 11.2.6. All this software is up-to-date. Synching has worked quickly and correctly for many months. Synching contacts and Keychain and Find My Mac continue to work correctly. Yesterday, bookmark order and organization became random.
I used Command-Option-R on power-up. When I power up, all I get is a spinning globe that quickly has a triangle with an exclamation point and the message 'apple.com/support -3403F'. I cannot connect to the internet to start the OSx download process. How can I get to the point of using Migration Assistant on the MBA and my old MacBook?
So AppleCare ended on my device like 1 year ago. Is there any value in keeping the agreement numbers or terms of service? I printed them out but they seem completely useless now.
My computer running El Capitan (10.11.6) keeps resetting the apps used to open particular file extensions. For instance, it randomly sets PDFs to open with Acrobat Reader instead of Preview no matter how many times I've used the 'Open with' menu to set the app I want. Strangely, when I right-click and go expand the 'Open with' menu, Preview doesn't even show up in the list – I have to choose other and browse for it.
I run command less got many lines of directories. How to enumerate them ?
I am new to macbook. I am trying to install MobSF in macbook, i am getting errors. When I type the command: I got below errors:
I am trying to convert a iso file to img file using the hdiutil command in the cli terminal but it seems my hdiutil won't recognize the iso. (non riconosciuto = not recognized )
I am using iPhone 7.And total space is 32GB,and i duplicates 5000 photos into 50000.And when i went and see the iPhone storage, it's showing total capacity 32GB,free space 0 and photos part occupied 54GB.I am confused and posting this Question.How is it possible to store 54GB in 32GB device.Please help me.
I was looking at some of the built-in keyboard shortcuts in macOS, and some of them are totally incomprehensible to me. I tried to do some research, but couldn't find any useful answers. All of them can be found under this window:
There's multiple tutorials videos and books introducing Linux filesystem, Such as: Are there similar diagrams or tutorials for MacOS?
I want to restore a remote Time Machine backup on a fresh install of macOS. From what I've read, you need to do this from the Recovery Mode (Command+R). However, the new Macbook Pro (2017) doesn't have an Ethernet socket and doesn't support USB-C to Ethernet adapter in Recovery Mode. My only option is to restore over WiFi which will take 90+ hours... (1TB SSD)
In iTerm2 3.1.5 on macOS High Sierra, I want to be able see more of my history as I scroll. Currently the scroll history is not enough for me. How can I increase the amount of data history I see while scrolling upwards? I tried looking in iTerm2 preferences and changing the magic section for instant replay (on the general tab) but that's not doing it.
I can’t play Fortnite because of my iPad has only 1 GB of RAM.
I own an Apple watch series 2 and I've recorded my heart rate during sleep for a week now. Twice during this period my heart rate during sleep shot up to around 110 for 1.5 to 2 hours and that seems very suspicious to me. Since I don't have any sleep problems (that i know of) I was wondering whether this was an inaccuracy of the heart rate sensor. So I wanted to know whether there is some consistent way to trick the sensor into recording double the actual heart rate (e.g. by pressing the watch against the wrist or something).
Is there a way to move tab using the tab number in Google Chrome ? something like this : obviously the code is not valid
Finder has columns you can sort files by: Name, Size, Kind, Date, Comment, etc. These are shown as headers when Finder is in "List" mode, with respective file properties shown below. If I Cmd+I a file, and change Comments to FOO, mdls shows FOO and Finder shows FOO. If I set Comments to BAR from Terminal, mdls shows "BAR", but Finder still shows "FOO"! How can I change the "Comment" field from Terminal so the change propagates to Finder?
I created two files try to combine them Unfortunately, the newly combined.md is blank. How to combine files from terminal with commands?
I'm getting this mail quite often. What is this about? Is my Mac ok? Do I need to update something or delete anything?
I'm trying to updates Excel for Mac 2016 and Word for Mac 2016. Apparently when I go to help I should be able to see a 'Check for updates' menu option. However, I cannot see this menu option - see screenshot. how do I update Excel for Mac 2016 and Word for Mac 2016?
I am having a problem regarding a monitor Connected to my Macbook Pro using Thunderbolt to VGA converter. The resolution of my monitor is set to 640 X 480 and whenever I try to increase the resolution of my monitor, my mac Hangs. Specs: OS X - 10.13.2 MacBook Pro 2012 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB Monitor - AOC E2070SWNL
Using the Magic Keyboard, how do I change the F3 and F4 back to copy and paste? The Apple Magic Keyboard with High Sierra launches mission control or something else.
Is this possible to click on the button "detailed" using AppleScript (Google chrome) for="7cd6f428-1are-41f2-9054-c452d7fe242-view-selector-e5f5de50-634a-45bc-bf30-98e2a64676cc">Detailed I would usually use this for a click but in this situation I'm not sure how to proceed update : I updated my reply as I didn't realised the code was hided by askdifferent text editor that what I usually use :
After upgrading Mac to High Sierra and some other upgrades there is a problem connecting to localhost. Actually, upgrading to High Sierra was OK but according to the Mac update history the last update was to MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update. It was kind of strange because the problem started after I hit restart with update but this update required one more specific restart.
I have a Mac, an iPad air and an iPhone 6, the two latter ones I have access to iCloud but yesterday lost the iCloud connection in the Mac. I reset the password for Apple and when enter it in the Mac iCloud I do not find all the notes I have in the other two devices. HELP
I have a 13' 2016 Macbook Pro with touchbar and, really frequently, after I wake up the Macbook, the touchbar is completely disabled. I mean, even in the system settings I don't have the touchbar settings. The touchbar is plain black (off) and I have to restart the laptop every-time in order to make it work again. Any idea how to solve this?
It surprises me that (apparently) this can't be done. At least I can't find a hint of it in any docs/web pages. Photos can export images to directories named with the format "Place, day month year." I would like to make it "year month-number day place" so that photos that happened at almost the same time and place are together in a directory listing, instead of widely separated just because the geocode lookups didn't match.
I have a file sharing application which works like DropBox and Google Drive. The application works fine in Mac OS Sierra 10.3.2 and older. However when we update the OS to High Sierra (10.3.3) the app crashes. Apple did move from Openssl to Libressl in the update. Scenario.
I have an iPad 1 which is unable to reboot at all. I tried to go in DFU mode, using Home and Power buttons. It's been detected by iTunes, when I try to reinstall from iTunes, nothing works. I have an 1602 error (every time). I tried on a Mac and on a PC, and my last chance is here before I throw it to the garbage :(
I am based in China and I need to use VPN to access most of the internet. Currently, I am using ShadowSocks which is a SOCKS5 proxy.
I have an account at the Apple Store Switzerland and I would like to get App’s from the store in China as I live there now. I can’t download Apps like 抖音 because the store in Switzerland doesn’t provide it. What can I do?
I have an iPhone 5S with iOS 8.3 that I would like to upgrade to iOS 9 (prefer 9.3.3) for the purpose of testing developed apps on this OS. I do not want to upgrade to iOS 11 or iOS 10. Is there a way to do this, via jailbreaking or some other method? Downloading the IPSW is not signed by Apple and will not work in this case. Thanks.
Do 21.5'' iMacs from other years use the same glass panel than the A1418 of late-2012 ? Not only the screen diagonal 21.5'' must be same, but also the height, width, thickness, and width of the black frame. It would be to replace a broken panel, whilst the LCD is undamaged.
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina, and recently replaced the SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1TB) and logic board (refurb). The original machine was crashing, and long story short diagnostic mode indicated an unfixable hard drive error. I first upgraded the SSD, OS install went smoothly and the machine worked well for a few days, but soon started having the same random crashing issues. The problem seemed to be with the logic board, so I replaced that as well.
When using Microsoft Remote Desktop, I frequently find myself accidentally trying to close browser tabs with ⌘W (which is mapped to "Close Connection" by default). I was at least able to stop it from closing the connection every time by mapping it to one of the help menu options, but it's still annoying to have a window pop up every time I do it.
I've had this infuriating problem for quite some time now, where I can't empty my Trash. More specifically, every time I empty it, there's a folder called temp(1) that keeps reappearing in there after a while. I managed to determine this folder comes from iCloud (specifically the .trash folder under the iCloud library folder). I have no idea how all that information got in there (I had no idea iCloud has its own trash folder), but it's been there for a while apparently.
I use Safari as my main browser on macOS. I would like Inbox by Gmail to be my default email client so that it opens mailto: links. Is that possible?
I have two user accounts, personal and work. I used to have two machines, a desktop and a laptop. Laptop had personal account, and I would use the work desktop with Screen Sharing to have both accounts accessible to me with a simple four finger swipe (with Screen Sharing in full-screen mode).
I used always a single inkscape window to work and export many .eps images during a month. But I saved it as a SVG many weeks ago, and saved always as .eps to export images.
I've recently bought an used mac mini (early 2009 version) patched with preinstalled HighSierra on it. My main goal is to get it working. Currently I'm trying to install El Capitan which is somehow not possible (details below).
Every program or window I try to open opens without a problem, but nothing is displayed. It's just blank. Has anyone else seen this problem or know what to do to fix it? I have tried restarting my computer many times. Another weird thing too is if I drag over where an icon is supposed to be in the window, the icon appears and gets dragged, but then disappears again when I let go.
don't have a WiFi or Ethernet at home. I have enough mobile carrier traffic and would like to use them for my Mac. I don't want to use Bluetooth connection, but a wired connection to go on the internet.
I just set up default app for certain file extension by mistake. Now i cannot revert it back to default, i can only set another app to open this type of file (CMD+I).
I got a friends MacBook Air that isn't working after an update. When I boot, I see the Prohibitory Symbol. I tried to boot in safe mode, did a NVRAM and SMC reset and Apple's First Aid on the SSD. I also tried to just reinstall macOS onto the same Macintosh HD but it won't let me, because it is currently being encrypted. Then I tried to disable FileVault but Terminal says fdesetup command is not found. Any other ideas?
How can I send SMTP mail from Terminal in any out-of-the-box macOS 10.12+ installation, eg. Without installing extra software Without changing root files (sudo) Choice between sending to localhost and at least one external server This article says how you can do it by changing postfix configuration, but that requires sudo and I'm not sure if/how you can choose between SMTP servers with this solution.
I have MBP laptop that is connected to external hard disk, which serves as the TimeMachine. How do I setup TimeMachine wirelessly (without connecting the HD to the laptop via USB)? I don't have Apple TimeCapsule, I'm not planning to get once since Apple stopped investing into them.
I'm considering to get a new external HD for my Mac setup. While I have an old MBP 2013, I'm planning to buy a new Mac this year (possibly iMac).
Toggling "Do Not Disturb" blocks banners/alerts for notifications, but I still hear the sound when I, for example, get a message. Is there any way to mute the Notification sounds without muting the entire computer?
I have Launchpad with database just reset and I want to remove from it the iBooks icon. Getting database path using... Trying to remove the iBooks icon...
I work with three date format, 1.04/18/2015 (PS my system date is not the same but DD/MM/YY) 2.June 2nd, 2012 but converted to the 1st format by code bellow 3.Saturday 24 March 2018 (current date) I just created the script bellow to convert both date in the same format: Question 1: How can I convert date number 3 (which is the current date) to the same format (I know how to return as a string but not otherwise) Question 2: can I create a script to tell me if the difference between date 2 and date 3 are within 60 days or outside 60 days?
I often start up an app to do something quickly, e.g. quicktime, record some audio, check it out, then I'll ⌘Q out of it. I don't know about other people but generally for me ⌘Q means "be gone as fast as possible" I always get prompted with these though:
What exactly does Activity Monitor's Memory column mean? How come in the example situation below (from a macOS High Sierra system) the Real Mem column is greater than the Memory column? According to a previous question How is the "Memory" column calculated in Activity Monitor?, one might expect that Real Mem should always be less than or equal to Memory, which apparently is not always true.
I got an used iPad Air from my sister. I then decided to "Erase all content and settings". After doing that I used my wife's iPad mini to setup this iPad. After installing iOS 11.2.6 as part of the setup, I found that both the iPad Air and iPad mini had the same name Olacab . I then went to Settings App->General-> About->Name and changed the name of the iPad Air to "Manu iPad". However, when I tapped the Apple Id name on the top of the Settings app, at the bottom the name is still "Olacab". Is there any reason for this ? When I connect to my Mac after starting iTunes, the new name shows up.
I am using python requests to get itunes URL responses. for some links it works and for others it doesn't, for example: working - *=URL=* not working - *=URL=* (getting a 404 error) I noticed that the difference between the 2 links is that if i paste the working one in the browser, it opens it correctly, and if i paste the non-working one, it tries to open itunes and get stuck. I tried few user-agents, for example: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3188.0 Safari/537.36" Since spoofing a user agent isn't enough for my python tool to appear like a web browser, Is there something else I can try?
I was looking for a solution to auto set custom title in the terminal based on what command is being run on the current terminal. So, rather than java showing in many tabs - I'd love to have it pick apart which java program is running not that all say just java. I found very interesting and different answers yet not fully useful for my requierment currently, I have written below line in ~/.bash_profile which works somewhat fine in **iTerm2 ** but it displays the complete command as a title but I want the specific argument or part of the string of command as a title suppose I run this command in the terminal sudo java - jar xyz_service/build/lib/xxx_snapshot.jar and the terminal title being set as it is but I only want to set xyz_service as a title note: above command always display update_terminal_cwd as a title in default bash shell terminal my other trials which are not working though this is also not working My environment is: macOS HighSierra v 10.13.3 iTerm2 build 2.15 shell is ba
When using the current Opera browser, many pages such as DuckDuckGo are displayed as if the server is talking to a mobile device: Narrow column of text, huge fonts, zoomed in, nearly unusable. Not all web sites show this misidentified-as-mobile problem, just some sites. It happens so often that I can rule out just one site’s content being flaky/buggy. Is there some workaround or solution? .
I am repairing an iMac 27" , late 2009 model (EMC 2374), 2.8 gHZ. It has a bad video card causing stripes on the screen and problems booting. The video card is an AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Video Card. This model is very hard to find and very expensive. Does anyone know of any other compatible video cards for this model apple machine? thanks
I am curious about how Apple's computer DACs are implemented, especially on computers like MacBooks and iMacs. I have been trying to figure out if the 3.5mm output on Apple devices (specifically a MacBook Pro, for me) is controlled by the system volume level through an analog section after the actual DAC, or is it reducing the volume digitally before the DAC?
I have iOS 9 on my iPhone SE. If I wanted to update it today to iOS 10.3.3, would it be possible? How? I'm asking it because the most recent version is 11.3 beta 6
I'm using Outlook on my iPhone to read my email. When I receive a meeting notice and acknowledge it, Outlook adds it to my calendar then deletes the email. Is there a way to disable Outlook automatically deleting the meeting email?
How do I enable syntax highlighting in vim on Mac?
I want to use rEFInd to start my OS', I do not really care if it shows up on the Startup Manager provided by Apple. I just want to be able to boot into OS X if something happens and goes horribly wrong :)
My system voice is currently Daniel. I'd like to change the VoiceRate of Daniel via terminal. I've therefore located the relevant Array in the defaults script:
Errors with 'echo [A-Z]*' I am working on the root directory and intending to print those starting with upper letter. The result confuses me because cores dev etc home installer.failurerequests net private sbin tmp usr var vm doesn't match my pattern. How to resolve it?
I'm a programmer and enjoy writing lots of code on the Mac connected with 3 monitors. I've been trying to figure this out, if it's me or how the mouse works across operating systems, I came across suggestions for difference in speed curves etc between Mac and windows. but there's something different that I can't articulate and I'll try my best here. I won't call it's lagging, or slow mouse, it's just not fluent I'd say. On my Mac, my magic mouse is so fluent, good, responsive and most of all very precise, I can move my windows around easily without difficulty, can position cursors between lines of text or between characters, select words or entire lines, in short very efficient. Now when I boot into windows all these tasks become very tedious and hard, it's not the speed of the mouse that you can set within control panel, I played with different speeds but it's not just that, there's something else which is missing from the equation in windows that all of a sudden I lose fluency and ef
For some time now (perhaps since the 10.13.3 upgrade of MacOS) I have been waking my Mac up from sleep and seeing between 3 and 7 cascading dialogue boxes with the error message: "Unable to find an application to open URL rstf://?scheduleState=1, with "Ok, Cancel, Find Application" buttons. I have searched everywhere and cannot find any reference to rstf or scheduleState (there some scheduleState stuff, but it seems unrelated). Does anyone know how I can find and kill what is trying to open this URL? Presumably the job is scheduled somewhere, but crontab just has a SuperDuper entry and I've since deleted SuperDuper.
If I send a message to her email address, it will appear on her phone in a different chat, than if I send a message to her phone number. Despite there being only a single contact for me in her phone, with both my email address and phone number in it.
A friend of mine was arguing that Apple’s staunch pro-privacy and pro-security branding is disingenuous since they hold iCloud encryption keys. To what extent is this true or an oversimplification?
The screen resolution of my MacBook Air is perfect for the guest user account but horrible for admin. System preferences defaults do not fix the resolution. The resolution for admin has broken lines (font) and missing borders (of fields). Troubleshooting steps fix problem but don't stick for good.
I add an alias to `~/.bashrc and activate it. Activate it It work well on current bash. Unfortunately, it refuses to work when I quit and restart the bash It has to be activated manually again. What's the problem with my configuration?
I was just curious about the command key, a little thing that seems to have been used for quite a long time. Is there any particular reason that the founders of Apple decided to use the ⌘ symbol, not the Apple logo (like Windows does on their keyboards) as the Command Key? Just to clarify, I want the reasons why the designers chose it, and not personal opinion. Thanks!
My phone storage was full and I couldn't open WhatsApp. I put the phone on charging and the next day when I tried to open WhatsApp, I was logged out. I had to provide my phone no and other information to login as we do when we change our device. Also, all of my WhatsApp data was gone, messages, history and pictures. Although, the saved media was still available via the Photos app. Was my WhatsApp account hacked, or did iOS deleted the data?
In High Sierra, hitting the Play/Pause (f8) button now ends a FaceTime call if one is in progress. This is quite frustrating as I often pause music after I answer a FaceTime call, is there any way to disable this?
Ive got a online phonebook that our company voip phones connect to, which allows us to keep a centralised list of all contacts phone numbers which is available on all voip phones. The online phonebook outputs an XML file with the contact phone numbers, which the voip phones read. Is it possible to also get our mobiles (iOS 11) to read from the same XML phonebook and input the data into the iphone contacts ?
Is there a way other than using the airport command line utility to get the list of available wifi networks programmatically (for consumption by an application)? Here is the context: I have a command line application for managing wifi networks (*=URL=* gem install wifi-wand) in which I get the list of available wifi networks using airport -s.
I need what format did it used to use to revive my old Macintosh Plus. So I'm doing a research on what format did old Macintoshes used. (on hard drives or hdds). What I mean with this is what format did old macintoshes use back in the day, like a primitive version of hfs+ or something like that.
Mail app is using 10GB on my laptop (High Sierra 10.13.3). I don't use it at all; I usually use the web interface and occasionally Thunderbird for my Gmail account.
If I copy an application already have in my Apple ID (Edit: for example, Xcode) from another computer to the Applications folder, will the Mac App Store be able to update it? Or will I have to do something manually in order to enable updates from that app?
I am running MacOS Server 5.5 on my home Mac (running High Sierra 10.13.4) and wanted to run the VPN service. But when I try to log in from my phone I can't connect. After checking all configurations were correct I decided to take a look at the logs. As you can see below everything goes well until CHAP peer authentication fails.
I have particular EQ settings I like to use for my speakers at home, however when I'm using my laptop speakers or Bluetooth headphones I prefer to have a flat EQ. Is there a way to specify different EQ settings for each audio output and automatically switch to the correct setting when the audio output is changed?
She said she deleted from disk utility. I have tried to partition that part but we were not able to do. Because there were no (-) button. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203738
How can I fix the issue when macOS switches the input language after pressing SHIFT + (i.e _), sometimes it doesn't switch at all. I can't understand the principle. The switch language keybind is set to command + space.
I rebooted it but it still says "iPhone is disabled, connect to iTunes" even though I don't have a password on it anymore because I rebooted it. When I try to connect it to iTunes it says "Can't connect to iPhone because of an unexpected error.
For a specific application, how can I open a workspace that has a specific window of an application and move to the workspace at the same time? For example, if I am in workspace 3, and I look at the Dock that contains information about Google Chrome, it will look something like this:
So I was trying to use bootcamp to use windows 10 because I need to use Visual Basic for my university and it failed and I’m not so sure how ended up with all these volumes. I have copied all important files to another USB so is there an easy way to clean up all the non-needed volumes so that my Macintosh gets all the space like before I started down this path?
I backed up my Mac (macOS High Sierra) to my external harddrive through Time Machine. After I restored my computer, I decided to delete the backup. Except, it stopped half way. My External HD shows no trace of the file, but the info shows that the space is still occupied. The backup file exists in trash but every time I try to delete it, it says Folder in use. I used Stella Phoenix Data Recovery to restore deleted files from my HD to my computer. This is taking about 6 hours. Meanwhile I tried to delete the backup in trash using terminal, this did not work either.
Previously I had backed up my Mac files on my old external hard drive on time machine. This made the hard drive only visible and usable by Time Machine. How would I reformat the drive so it goes back to FAT32 or something usable like a normal hard drive? The hard drive is not being recognised or detected by disk utility either.
When I insert a table of contents in Pages, the page numbers are inserted with only a tab character separating them from the title of the paragraph style. I would like the page numbers to go to the right of the screen, preferably with some sort of separation line between the two (e.g. dots). I am doing this to emulate the look of any standard table of contents:
Where is my apps tab in itunes (ver 12.7.3)? I am actually trying to find an app called RFK WiFi to change the settings but it does not appear in Settings app list of apps. I thought I could change it on my PC in Itunes. Now I learn I do not have an apps tab in iTunes.
I have a browser based idle game which I am playing on a MacBook Air. When I am running that game fullscreen everything is fine, but when I switch to other Space with an app running fullscreen, the game freezes and stops counting time. It's the same problem as having that game in another app on Windows, but the solution was to open that tab in new window as an active tab. Is there any suitable workaround for macOS too?
I’m curious about Apple history, and this has puzzled me for a long time. For any Apple fans like me, it’s a famous fact that Ronald Wayne sold his share of Apple very early on for only $800. Does anyone know why he sold it? I haven’t been able to figure this one out.
Using the ABAddressBook framework, I am able to find all of the entries in my addressbook that come from LinkedIn. I cannot delete the AddressBook card from within the Apple AddressBook; when I have one of these cards selected, the DeleteCard option is not enabled.
Simple question for all you experts: String A: "I like cherries, apples, berries" String B: "I like cherries, apples, berries, cookies" I would like to find the text in string B but not String A(the odd one out) I am trying to find-> ", cookies" Is there an AppleScript that can solve this for me?
I have some videos that were recorded at 720p which I'd like to edit in iMovie. They're saved as MP4s. When I import one and view it in the media browser, it looks fine. As soon as I add one to a movie project, the aspect ratio changes to... something else. The video gets trimmed at the top and bottom, and people's heads get cut off in some shots. How can I add these videos to a project and keep the entire frame? Ideally I'd have a movie project that matched the resolution of the clips. If not, can it be letterboxed to at least not lose any of the existing content?
Is it "normal" for the Wi-Fi connection to "need" reconnection when the Mac is "idle" for a brief period? It is the same when the Mac is on Ethernet / LAN connection as well as on a USB Wi-Fi adaptor? I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
Can an alarm sound in the headphone on iPhone, I don't care if it also sounds outside the headphones, but I think that having it come through the headphones would help me wake up, specifically wireless headphones How can I get alarms play through headphones?
There is no item in Login Items, but why I boot my Mac, there still has a few software launch automatically?
Here there are many shortcuts for Numbers *=URL=* I would like to have one for Borrom border. I tried (without success) the following: Is it possible?
On my iPhone 4, the Google calendar notifications have randomly stopped working. The notifications still pop up at the appropriate time, but the title of the event is hidden, so I have no idea what I'm actually being notified about. This has been happening for about a month.
When I copy from Excel (Microsoft® Excel for Mac Version 16.11.1 (180319)) and paste into the terminal (Versian 2.8 (400)) via pbpaste I often (but not always) get weird chars at the end. Why is that? Can it be avoided? I'm on macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.13, my locale is:
I’ve got an iPhone 4S that I still use, but the WiFi chip has died. I want to try the hairdryer and freezer trick (I used it once before) but in the meantime I want to be able to add apps to it through iTunes. However, somehow the Apps tab is gone. Is there a way to get it back? Help would be appreciated a lot.
I have the ac version of the airport extreme. I have formatted my 8TB seagate drive to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) several times and repaired it. The Mac immediately asks me if I want to use it for time machine but the airport cannot see it. It is a powered drive. The drive has its own proprietary USB 3.0 cable. I have successfully used it with an airport extreme (ac) before. Additionally, I have tried putting a powered USB hub between it and the airport. How do I fix this?
Searching further I find on the company's homepage a link that takes me to the app on iTunes. As soon as iTunes opens, the phone (iOS 11) starts to sync, but no option to install the app. Exactly the same message appears again.
I was working with my Apple Macbook pro (retina, early 2015) last night when I suddenly realized that battery is not charging while adapter is plugged in. I searched in the net and found there is a possible solution by resetting SMC. I did but nothing got better and I ran an Apple Diagnostics test and the verdict was reference code PPT002 stating that the battery will need to be replaced soon. On the other hand what confuses me is that battery health information in System Report is Normal. Some screenshots are attached below. Any sort of comments and/or ideas are highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Has anyone else encountered a new iPhone, where the display is wrongly installed into the device? On the new iPhone 7 I got, there's no left margin in the screen? Pic 1 (see how the operator bars in the top left corner nearly touch the edge) Pic 2 (see "No sim" touches the left border):
If Windows on bootcamp partition is infected by ransomware, and encrypts all files stored in disk, can it encrypt macOS disk files?
I do a lot of non full size screen recordings, e.g., they could be small such as 320x240 or in completely non-standard sizes and proportions like 1500x300. I want to save them using HEVC (rather than the default H.264). In QTP HEVC is only available using File -> Export but that way I can only use a couple of standard dimensions (4k, 1080p, 720p and 480p). How can I use both HEVC and a non-standard format in QTP10?
I have a LaCie 2Big Thunderbolt 3 and LaCie 2Big Thunderbolt 1 (only with classic Thunderbolt ports). Is it ok to daisy chain the Thunderbolt 3 RAID drive to Thunderbolt 1 RAID drive? If yes, any known issues or consequences should I be aware of?
I want to check top line in the Terminal.app after working on it for all day long. How to scroll back to top in a quick way?
Overnight, my MBP would not power on with the power button. The Battery was full and the LED on the charger was green. SMC Reset did not bring any results. So I opend up the Mac, disconnected and connected the battery from the logic board and connected the charger to MPB. MPB turned on automatically, but the power button still doesn't work. I had problems with Caps-Lock and a few keys, but after cleaning the keyboard connector they disappeared. Power Button still does not work. Any suggestions?
I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Screen and USB type A ports. I'm trying to declutter (and come up with a way of easily switching my peripherals between my windows laptop and my Mac) and there are a plethora of USB-C hubs with HDMI out. Is it possible to use a USB-A Male to USB-C female adaptor to use this port for HDMI out on my machine? I have a USB 3 type A docking station at work that outputs DVI and Display Port that I use with my Mac, so I'm aware that my laptop will output video over USB, but I've tried the above configuration and the laptop sees the hub as USB 2.0 and no display is detected. TLDR; Can I use a USB-C hub with a Type-A to Type-C adaptor to get HDMI from my Early 2015 MacBook Pro with no USB-C port? It may be my flawed understanding, but I am under the impression that USB-C was just the type of connector and independent from the spec, so I don't know why this wouldn't work.
I am a developer so I frequently install stuff on my machine to try out, use command line tools that download packages, etc. pp.
I am using High Sierra 10.13.3 and my system language is definitely set to Italian:  When I want to open the System Preferences (which are called Preferenze di sistema) I usually open Spotlight and start typing the name:
Should you connect the power cord to your notebook and then plug the power cord into the socket, or should you plug in the socket and then the notebook? Are there any recommendations from Apple?
I was trying to create bootable USB media in Boot Camp Assistant. Had a small USB plugged in and my HDD. Upon formatting I think my partition table screwed up. I had 2 partitions. 1.2TB NTFS and 0.8TB exFAT. Immediately I ran diskutil and gpt which show: diskutil (I already tried to fix using gpt add - causing both partitions to read NTFS):
I have only one iCloud account associated with the Notes app and I don't have local storage enabled. No backups either.
I recently bought a USB to Ethernet dongle, and I ran the package script and restarted the computer, only to find that I had the infamous ‘Wi-Fi: no hardware installed’ issue. I've tried: Reset NVRAM Reset SMC Moved and renamed /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist Ran the AHT, and entered recovery mode.
Just getting to grips with restrictions on multiple iOS devices using the same AppleID. Are restrictions device specific? If yes, do I have to set them up again on the other device?
With grep, I can search through the content of all the files in a directory, for an instance: searches for the pattern program within the content of all .md files in the current directory. How do I search the Bear notes in Terminal using thegrep command?
Whenever you type in a command, there is a macro on the touch bar that displays the manpage for whatever command you are currently typing. Is it possible to add (e.g.) a macro to compile a project or refresh a python webserver?
I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 and I wanted to create a basic rule that would look for the word "Monitoring" in a message subject and move it to a "Monitoring" mailbox if it was found. I created this rule and nothing happened to either my existing messages or new incoming messages.
I have unlimited data available on my phone, but my plan does not let me create a mobile hotspot. So I can’t even share my own data. I am also in a place where I do not have access to Internet or a computer and my iPhone needs to be backed up. Is there any way I could possibly get this done?
In Windows when you're in File Explorer, you can right-click anywhere and create a new item of various types (there's then a submenu option to select which type: text file, ZIP file, etc., just to name a few). In Finder there seems to be no such option. I imagine the expected workflow on Mac would be to open an Application and create a new file from within the application, then save it. But I sometimes prefer this alternative workflow of creating a blank file first, and then opening it as the entrypoint into the application. Is there some way to configure Finder to add a right-click option to create new, empty files?
Why is this happening, and how can I fix it? Note I've rebooted, and ensured Notification Center is enabled, as mentioned in things I see when googling about this issue.
Enable command 'grep' the return the regular expression matched exactly. Command grep will print a line when the line contains a string that matches an expression, which not handy to search specified content. For instance, I have vocabulary files with formatting I'd like to retrieve all the words to make a wordlist within files It return bulks of content. How to enable grep to catch only the 'word' ?
I'm using an application called Better Touch Tool which does keyboard mappings, and so requires that you give it permission to the Accessibility API in System Preferences > Security & Privacy. I did this immediately after installing the application as you can see in this screenshot.
I was wondering if there's a quick (preferably through a keyboard shortcut) way to set the front-most window (or Panel) to always stay visible and on top, until toggling it off again. Thanks!
When I open Contacts app in iPhone 5c, I see one contact displayed on the top of the list with bigger font and icon. How to choose this entry?
Upgrading to High Sierra is really painful. I cannot do brew upgrade, I am getting thousands of security notifications - see the attached file. There are some recipes in Internet but they are not working, maybe the latest upgrade does not allow them. I can approve files one by one but there are hundreds of them. Maybe at least I can approve all files in a directory? Or run a script approving all files?
I'me getting Invalid property list when trying launchctl load -w /Users/open/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.inMemTask14.plist for this .plist: What is wrong with my list that I get this error?
I use Office 365 to access my Outlook/Exchange email, and there are the automatic Focused and Other categories. Is there a quick way to emulate the same when viewing Exchange email in Apple's Mail.app on macOS, so that I don't have to re-create the Other rules on the desktop?
Which file on MAC OS is the Adobe lightroom v6.0 serial# is stored? I've looked at /Library/Application Support/Adobe PCD/ - the cache files, but that only has the trial license and NOT my license key.
I dont use any apple apps(such as iBooks, iTunes, iCloud etc). I just need to create apple ID to download and install OS updates.
I have a text file that I need to remove double quotes from. I found this question that suggested using the following:
I need to "rdp" into my mac mini on my local network from my windows machine, to do this I simply enabled Remote Management, downloaded VNC viewer on windows and then connected, viola!... Except it is not encrypted; which is fine because I trust my local network.
Hopefully some of you Mac gurus can provide a simple and quick answer. Here's the question: I have a Mac running High Sierra, connected to a primarily Windows network. On that network is a new Seagate NAS 2-Bay. The NAS has two private and one public folders defined. All the other users are using Windows 10 PCs. It appears that whenever the Mac opens a file on the NAS that file becomes unavailable to anyone else once closed.
I have a LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 3 RAID drive. I'm currently using LaCie RAID Manager software to create RAID array.
I would like to use my iPod touch 3.1 only for music, pictures and videos. Can I still download music to this iPod from my current iPhone music list?
I try to export the manual page of grep to grep.txt It displayed in garbled code: How to get a formatted manual page from command line?
This one has been irking me for quite a while. I've made a few plots in a Pages graph (as well as their R^2 values). It is especially useful to move the equations around, especially when there are multiple plots on the same graph.
On my Mac mail I have a person listed in my VIP list but I don't even know who the person is. There are no emails in the boxes with his name on it. I cannot find a way to delete this person from my VIP list. How do I remove this person without removing my VIP folder?
I am stuck in a situation here. I am migrating my email database from Apple Mail to Windows Outlook. Plenty of my emails were on the online web mail that were automatically downloaded when I signed in Outlook for windows but there are many emails that are offline and stored in apple mail. How can I migrate those emails from Apple mail to Windows Outlook?
Here's the deal. I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro that is running on version 10.11.6 OS X El Capitan. I got the computer from a friend who didn't need it anymore, so I don't know if iMovie was originally installed on the computer or not. When I click install iMovie in the app store, it tells me that it cannot be downloaded on Macintosh HD because OS X version 10.12.2 or later is required. I tried downloading High Sierra from the app store, and it tells me that it can't be downloaded. I got the most recent update for my computer and it is still not letting me download it. I tried the downloads on the apple website, but they are not actually iMovie itself, but rather updates for iMovie. The apple website says that my computer is eligible for High Sierra but it still isn't working. I have the required amount of storage to download high sierra and it just won't work.
I have an external USB Flash storage which is generally realiable. When editing text files on the drive I often get the message: However, sometimes it does save successfully.
I try to grab words from a file: The result I intend is to get only words: Refactored code with specified quantifier {,20}: Unfortunately, it returns nothing. How to solve such a problem?
My terminal wont "restore all commands"; it only opens up blank window group. This exact thing works on another mac, with the same os version. What am I doing wrong/how can I manually edit the group to do what I need?
Is there a way to prevent messages (iMessage or SMS) from getting deleted from an iOS device running version 11.2.6?
I have recently acquired a mechanical keyboard Corsair K70 (non RGB model) and have successfully used it with macOS Sierra (10.12.6). Everything works as expected with the exception of certain keyboard shortcuts within Xcode. One of which is Cmd + Left Click on a function name, which brings up an action popup menu as shown in the image below: . The same goes for the function documentation Option + Left Click:
How I can parse the list of all Mac applications? I am executing:
I have a Mid 2017 MacBook Pro 13" and the n key is broken. Replacement process at Apple would be really complicated since I am far from maintenance centres and I need my laptop everyday (plus I have a non-default keyboard, it's a US international, spare parts are not in stock etc...)
I need to handle, i.e. read, write, store and search, mail in maildir or maildir++ format. Mail must be stored on my mac, that is, reading and storing maildir on a server, via IMAP would not be good for my use case. I am aware Thunderbird can handle "almost-ready" maildir format, but it still has a few bugs. Also, Thunderbird is still non completely maildir-compatible. I am aware of this question, but it does not apply to my case, as I need to be able to store messages in maildir or maildir++ proper format on my mac. Is there a mail app handling maildir in a reliable manner, without resorting to the terminal?
Every few days or so I keep getting this notification:  I always click on Details but there is no option to stop this from stalking me again. And I’ve tried System Preferences > Notifications and nothing there stops it, nor does changing the App Store preferences.
Is it possible to visualize a particular character (even if it's a special one) in a Pages document ? (I need it for a third-party doc I'm using, to know if certains spaces are just spaces, tabs or something else, and also to get the Unicode value of some exotic characters). All I see in the right bar or the Show Fonts windows is the "style" info but not the glyph itself.
I know I can block a number from messaging/calling me, but I can only do this after the event. Is there a way I can stop unknown numbers from messaging/calling before the event, i.e. for numbers that aren't in my Contacts list? My iPhone is running iOS 11.2.6.
I would like to change the Cmd + Tab hotkey to Cmd + Eject. I use a Mac Aluminium keyboard with the eject key, which is only present on external keyboards. I would like to try this key combination, or other possibly, to avoid the excessive amount of Cmd + Tabs I do every day; and even maybe prevent a future RSI.
So I recently noticed this that when my MacBook Pro is shutdown there is no clicking while when I turn it on the click starts to work. At first I thought it's just one time bug but I tried a couple more time to replicate the same thing and it works every time. It seems like the trackpad gets locked when the MacBook is turned off and gets unlocked when turned on.
I was able to install Windows 7 32-bit on my Macbook 2,1 and it functioned well. Not longer than a week later, Windows Boot Manager hanged, it was stuck on countdown and I couldn't select any other option, using the arrow keys didn't do anything, so I couldn't boot in safe mode, if somehow I was able to select an option (it would give me 1-2 seconds before it hangs), I would be greeted with a black screen and that's it. I decided to just delete the Windows partition and install it again but it didn't appear to have solved the problem, the installation would also hang 1-2 seconds after the blinking underscore, the same that happened before I deleted the original Windows partition.
When I change the Desktop background in macOS, the change gets reflected only in the current Space and not the others. The background image I am selecting is one from the default set. I tried disabling use different spaces for displays but that didn't work either.
Preview has recently started hanging when I search pdf documents, which is really hindering my work. I get the beachball for a minute before it says it's 'saving changes' to multiple documents - even though there is only one document open (see image). Any idea?
In my Pages document, I have a passage in my abbreviations list that looks as shown below:  I'm not satisfied with the display of the first item, because on the second line the word inscriptions should be indented, i.e. preceded by a tab.
Every article that I can find on web suggests the keystroke Option + z to insert that Ω symbol on a Mac. However, on my Mac, when I press that combination, I get the ˀ character. I followed the instructions in this article.
My users have a required web and secure web proxy configured in the macOS System Preferences. It's required by network administration. The macOS 10.11 and 10.12 users have only System Preferences open - and change via Users & Groups.
In iOS, when some action in an app causes another app to launch, a button appears in the status bar towards the left side of the screen, and when you press it, it returns you to the previous app (the app that caused the current app to launch). Here is what I mean:
I'm trying to use the following .plist to invoke a python script. For some reason when I execute: launchctl load -w /Users/open/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.inMemTask14.plist I get the following errors in my system.log:
Is it possible through a male/male cable to route audio from my iPhone 6 to my computer through the Sound In port?
In most of the places, the Mac computers are protected against the malware and viruses, but not all of them. This means that even Mac computers may be infected with these dangerous things.
It's worth noting I have tried using a local admin account, but am currently trying an Open Directory account. I get the same result both ways.
I have 2 folders that I need to merge. Inside each folder are subfolders. In about 50% of the cases these subfolders exist in both parent folders. E.g.
Today I saw that 2 different positions in "manage storage" menu differ in size: Photos and Photo Library. I would like to know what is stored in which, but it is my first Mac and I cannot (or do not know how) simply check what lies underneath - both positions opens in the same window of Photos app. Screenshot below:
I'm trying to configure a packet filter firewall to block access to a small range of IP addresses when a VPN is not connected. My rules should allow https/http traffic apart from this small, specific list of IP addresses. It's important the device can not reach these IP address when the VPN is not connected. I'm using the built in macOS VPN in 10.13 I've got some fairly standard stuff in my rules so far:
So what is my issue? Did I mess up when wiping the hard drive? Do I just need to reformat it? Is there anything I can do, or have I rendered this computer a hunk of junk? Also, how do I prevent this in the future?
I'm trying to migrate my data from an old external hard drive to a new one. When I copy and paste from within Finder, the data seems to expand to take up much more space, so I'm assuming some link structure is being lost. What's the most robust way to do this? Details:
When I set an alarm on my Apple Watch only the watch goes off when the alarm time comes around. I'd like my phone to also participate in the alarm. I've even tried saying: "Hey Siri, set an alarm on my phone..." and that went off on my watch only. Is this just the way it is, or is there a setting I'm not seeing that pushes the alarm to the iPhone?
If I set Website Restrictions to Limit Adult Content, Safari stops showing search engine suggestions regardless of the engine being used (Bing, Yahoo, Google, or DuckDuckGo). If I change the setting back to All Websites, it starts working again. Search suggestions do show up if I make the query from the search engine's webpage.
I’ve been getting this message a lot. It just started today and I haven’t tried to purchase or download anything.
I have a beefy Docker image that I'd like to run on my work machine (OSX 10.13.3, 16 GB RAM, Core i5), but I find that when running the image, along with a web browser, that the computer crashes or needs to rest for long periods of time due to memory errors. Most of these seem to stem from the set of cached files stored in memory, which seem to increase over time:
Through today, portProxy.bin has been eating up my CPU, constantly using about 60% and making the fans in my computer whizz up. I'm guessing it might be connected to my VPN use, but now I haven't been running any VPNs for some hours and portProxy has still been staying at around 60% CPU usage.
Today, on my professional computer, I wanted to open a personal document (PDF) directly from Dropbox website. However, it was impossible for Dropbox to show a preview of this PDF file (This file can’t be previewed). Actually, I couldn't preview any of the files stored on my Dropbox, and downloading them didn't help either. My Dropbox is synchronized with a local folder on my Mac, on which FileVault is activated.
I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile today, and all the voicemails I had on my iPhone 5S (iOS 11) were lost after my AT&T account was closed. How can I recover them?
My main Master Photos Library is over 400GB, and getting too big to tote around on trips. I keep it on removable HD. So I started creating new library for each trip. Problem now is managing them all, and creating a master. I use Power Photos (from Fat Cat) to move photos between libraries, but they don't support Live Photos. A given trip might be as many as 4000 photos. Some from SLR some from iPhone (Live Photo) and I combine them in the library. Any suggestions on managing these and combining the libraries?
The drive is seen by the System as a generic internal journaled SATA HD that's writable, repairable, not ejectable, and not bootable. No problems found with file structures on the volume. Already recreated the Finder's plist file for luck.
Normally, Safari provides a pop-up window for the public Wi-Fi's landing page: requesting the user to agree to TOS (Terms of Service). Attempts to login to Wi-Fi were not successful: ifconfig revealed an IP address (172.31.99.185)was assigned to the laptop's Wi-Fi adapter attempts to ping 172.31.99.1 failed browsing to *=URL=* failed browsing to *=URL=* failed Is there a Safari menu item or process that will call the TOS pop-up?
I have an iPhone 7. My screen broke so I got it replaced. It went underwater and then the home button started vibrating when I pressed it. The screen flickered in and out. The next day I could press the home button and it would vibrate but the screen was completely off. I plugged it into my computer and iTunes recognized it but I couldn't type in my passcode. How can I get a backup of my phone?
Upgraded on 2018/03/28 After restart macOS, Safari/Google Chrome cannot play embedded videos. But...
I'm following these instructions (scroll down to "Manual Installation") to manually install get-iplayer Terminal command (don't want to use brew): I see that this requires (and talks you through--partly) the install of ffmpeg and AtomicParsley.
I have 2 MacBook Pros: a Late 2008 model and a Late 2011 model. Both of them are running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The Late 2008 model has no issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks.
In Linux, there's a configuration file /etc/fstab that lists the file systems (typically hard disk partitions) that are to be mounted at boot time. macOS and Linux share the same UNIX linage. A file with the same name is not available in macOS, as apparent from the output shown below: What is the equivalent configuration file in macOS?
I am unable to transfer a music file from my MacBook Pro (2015 model A 1398) to my iPhone 5s. Here are the messages shown on both the MacBook Pro and the iPhone: macOS:
I wish to copy the files to the current directory using the cp command. Here is the command that I entered: However, I get an error as shown below upon executing the above command:
Additionally, my MacBooks dies without any warning. macOS used to notify of low charge previously, but now it just dies without any notification. I've never seen the percentage when it dies but I am suspicious that the battery isn't hitting 0%. How do I resolve the issue.
Update：I found that everything goes fine when I works in another User account of the computer. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 on a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro 13" (2015).
I deleted photos from my iPhone when the phone memory was full. I subsequently deleted them from my iPad too. Now I can't find them anywhere.
I am trying to locate an app in the App Store, but I can't find it. It has been entered correctly. May it be that the app is blocked for certain areas? How can I locate and download it?
Who is supposed to be the owner of the .config directory under user's home folder? On my machine it appears to be owned by the system user and it is only readable by that user. Several programs, like Homebrew and git (which should be allowed to be used without root permissions) complain by producing warnings as shown below: warning: unable to access '/Users/andrea/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied
My Macbook Pro is trying to shutdown itself every X amount of hours, is there a way to check in the logs what process is triggering the shutdown process? I can see the following in the logs, but not much else:
I am using macOS server and a couple of macOS and iOS devices. I want to start managing settings centrally with Profile Manager (e.g. mail settings, VPN settings, parental controls) but I have gotten stuck. Years ago I used to do this with WorkGroup Manager with earlier versions of OS X Server. Now I am supposed to use Profile Manager for the same. When I tried this many years ago, it did not work so I stopped using it and I have been managing settings locally on each device since. But now it turns out that I cannot locally manage Parental Controls for accounts that are Mobile Accounts, so I need to get to work with Profile Manager again. Can I do that without enrolling in some paid Apple program?
I manage a number of iOS devices. These devices are supervised via Apple Configurator. When they connect to a specific SSID, I want the devices to use the servers specified by DHCP (If needed, I can explicitly set the DNS as well.) However, when connected to any other network, I would like for these devices to use OpenDNS. Is there a way to: Set the default DNS Servers for a device, even for new wifi connections? Override that default DNS Address? Ideally, configurable through a profile so the user cannot change this?
I didn't know how to give this question a better title since I have no idea what happened to my SSD. I was using this SSD in my MacBook Pro set up as a DIY fusion drive with the MBP original HD.
I am aware that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Yesterday I found out that I can access the website from my MacBook if I use Google Chrome as a browser without any VPN tools. At the same time the connection fails when I try it from Safari. How come it works in one browser, but not in the other?
I have a macboook pro from 2016 and as of this morning I have not been able to save my word documents (word 2017). No issues ever before. When I press save on a new document, a note pops up that says "Word cannot save this document due to naming or permissions error on the destination volume." Once I press OK to dismiss the message another message pops up and says the "Document 13" cannot be saved as "New Name". Why is this happening?
Can I move the mini window that appears whenever I change the monitor brightness or keyboard brightness? I want it higher on the screen, or (ideally) not there at all. The suggested duplicate doesn't answer my question because the answers work only on previous versions of macOS, here's what I get:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running High Sierra 10.13.3. Recently when I have dragged and deleted image files from my desktop there has been a thumbnail of one of the pictures deleted left floating on the screen, it seems to be on a layer above anything else and the only way I can get rid of it is restarting my laptop. Anyone else experienced this/found a fix?
We're all used to the media keys in the top row of an Apple keyboard to command iTunes, even when some other application is frontmost. If I have VLC frontmost, those media keys don't control iTunes but work as "next / previous" in VLC, which is a rather annoying exception because not does it only make iTunes controlling unreachable, it's plain unnecessary because to navigate within the frontmost application, the norm is to use arrow keys, or cmd+arrow. How do I reserve the good old media keys for iTunes, always? I'm on Yosemite.
The Pages 7.0 updated released yesterday (March 27, 2018) includes the ability to have master pages in your Pages documents. I read their support article on creating and using master pages, but I'm unable to find the master pages option. You are supposed to press the leftmost button on the toolbar, but it doesn't say "Edit Master Pages" in any of the options. There is an "Edit Master Pages" option in the "View" menu, but it seems to be grayed out for all of my documents. Master Pages should be usable for Pages documents as well as books. I can't seem to get the "Edit Master Pages" option in the View menu to "ungray," – even when trying to create a template or load one. Could anyone explain how to use this feature?
updates for Numbers, Pages, and Keynote say that you can do collaborative work using Box. What do we know about this "Box"? Searching such a short word on Apple's site seems hopeless.
I tried to connect an other Mac Mini's sensor but that didn't work either. The thing is, the Mac runs from an external harddrive connected to the Mac through SATA to USB. It is missing the internal SATA. Can it have something to do with the missing SATA? Or has anyone else fixed this issue before?
I have a iMac 27" Late 2013 with 3TB Fusion Drive running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3. I want to install Windows 10 through Bootcamp but it always hangs on partitioning the hard disk after I choosing the partition size for Windows in Boot Camp.
I am using macOS Sierra on clients and macOS Sierra with Server 5.3.1 on my server. I need to set Parental Controls for a user (or group of). I have created a special Group of users in Server.app, added the specific user to that group, and I have added a Parental Controls Payload to that group in Profile Manager. I also have enrolled the client Mac as a Device in Profile Manager.
A few months ago, I ran into the persistent certificate approval issue with my school's WPA2 Enterprise wifi network after I had reset macOS. After doing a lot of fiddling, I was able to connect without the persistent re-approval window. However, it occurred to me more recently that I could be using the network without a certificate, which would be very insecure. Is there any way to check this, perhaps by viewing which particular wifi certificates are in use for a network (or lack thereof)? Thank you for any help! -sheich
I have added Japanese as a favourite languages in preferences :  However, in the Input Methods panel, the Japanese input method seems to be missing :
I experience the weirdest behaviour on a Macbook Pro 2017, running High Sierra. Some apps, like Appstore, Apple Mail, Telegram and Enpass Password Manager, just to name a few, are all of a sudden unresponsive to click interactions. Even the taskbar does not react to any kind of trackpad- or mouse-interaction. If I navigate with the keyboard, everything seems to work, just everything related to the cursor is not working. Other apps, like Finder, Safari, Firefox, Mathematica, and so on, are working without a problem. I already cleared out the the systems cache, removed the preferences for trackpad and mouse in the Library folder, reset the NVRAM/PRAM and the SMC-Controller, all to no avail.
I have more than 140 GB of photos & videos. On my Mac I have only 256 GB of storage so I chose "Optimize Mac Storage" to make more room.
I have 1000 groups of 5 pdf files I need to combine/merge. I aware of the "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" command and have created the 1000 different versions of the command I need. Currently I am copying and pasting each separate line into Terminal to run it. Is there a way to put all 1000 lines into a script and run the script. Thanks
When I type d-o-e-s-n-;-t the machine sees “d-o-e-s-n-;” and immediately autocorrects it into “doesn’t;”. I don’t realise that I have made a mistake, nor do I notice that autocorrect has completed the word for me, so I finish typing the end of my word (“t”). Then I end up with with having typed “d-o-e-s-n-;-t” but the text in the file reads “d-o-e-s-n-’-t-’-t”.
Run df and it reports from MacOS: The devfs entry occupies physical space of 186, while it runs persistently in full capacity on my Mac. What's the mechanism behind it?
I'm trying to setup a 6in4 tunnel from my home with IPv4 only addressing to a Hurricane Electric tunnel for some IPv6 testing. I tried to create a new Interface: But the UI only provides 6to4 which is the reverse (IPv4 services on an IPv6 only network).
I have an Asus ZenScreen that I have connected to 15in MacBook Pro. Under arrangement, I have the ZenScreen as a extended monitor (Arranged Above my MacBook Pro Display: shown below):
To highlight text in pdf files, I select the text and hit the highlight button:  The default was yellow highlight. Somehow, it got changed to a red underline. How can I change this back to yellow highlight again?
The March Challenge in the iOS Activity app is making no sense. At the beginning of the month it started out telling me I needed 719 Calories a day. And my average at the start of the month was:
My iPad's digitizer has a few dead areas. I can live with it. I just updated iOS using iTunes, and it's saying ..... and, the "continue" button is right in a dead area on the digitizer. Rotating the iPad does nothing; it will only interact in the home-button-down orientation. I have tried home button, on/off and rebooting. Is there any way I can access the iPad through iTunes to get through this screen?
I'm wondering if an early 2013 macbook pro retina (so two thunderbolt 1 ports, each supposedly outputting up to 10gbps) can have both thunderbolt ports plugged into a Dell or LG 43 inch 4k monitor as two separate inputs to drive 4k @ 60hz. Online, it says that these monitors support multiple inputs, so half of the screen can be driven by one computer and the other half by another. Although thunderbolt 1 alone can't output 4k @ 60hz, I'm wondering if I can use one port to output 4k @ 60hz to the top half (or left half) of the monitor and use the other port for the other half, and thereby put two pieces together.
I do not have any songs synced to the device from my iTunes Library. I haven't used iTunes Wi-Fi Sync in a long while.
I'm on a Mac for the first time in 25 years. It is running macOS Sierra version 10.12.6. When I press Cmd + Tab on the keyboard, I can cycle through the open applications, but if I Tab and release Cmd key on an app that is minimised, the minimised app won't open. Is this the normal behaviour?
Use ftp to obtain source code. I am following a linux command line book to learning compiling. I tried and it reported an error How to solve the problem?
I've just installed High Sierra on my external USB SSD. Although the disk is an encrypted drive (made using Disk Utility), I can't help but notice some users are visible on boot, before entering the disk password. What's more, I can log-in to that user and skip entering the disk password. Also, when I create files inside the login-session with disk-password entered, I can see the same files inside a login-session without disk-password entered.
just got new iMac 27 5k :) Setting up PHP environment but having trouble. I am getting Forbidden message when trying to access *=URL=* or *=URL=* Here are some configuration details. Since I learn there is not Sites folder in user directory so by following the tutorial I have setup everything as below. Sites Directory: ~/Sites/ Default WebServer /Library/WebServer/ phpMyAdmin Location /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpMyAdmin (I don't know if it is the right place or not but installed by following the tutorial) httpd-userdir.conf /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf username.conf /private/etc/apache2/users/myusername.conf httpd.conf /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
I need to change some configuration for the brew doctor tool and by surfing the web I learned that this can be done by editing the doctor.rb file and adding some custom code inside it. The problem is that when I run I get an output like this: So, which doctor.rb file should I edit to customize the configuration?
Dictation provides a great way of entering text. However, the documentation I found so far is scarce, and for instance I do not know what the blue dots underlying some parts of the text:
Recently I enrolled in Apple developer program. I'm looking for a link through which i can get all my apps that I developed/published. How i get all apks under one link in app store ? I've found one developer link in this format: From where i get developer-ID for my app store ? I've app-ID of all my app, through which I can go to single app not my all apps.
so I have a alot of logs of different PC's. Logs where parsed with command It's there a way to delete default mac applications(that one that comes with system or that one that are developed by apple doesn't matter) from every log in bulk
I haven’t used my MacBook for around 2 weeks, it’s been in sleep mode (closed lid). I’ve never had any issues with my MacBook Pro, but suddenly any form of gesture other than 1 finger on the trackpad causes a temporary 2/3 second freeze. Here’s what I’ve tried: killall Dock on the console updated to High sierra OS unticked all trackpad gesture options reset the SMC sleeping, restarting, powering off and on
I'd like to create symbolic links for multiple books searched from running find command. Firstly, I collect all the JS books It returns 35 books Additionally to copy them to directory js_books
I just got a new Mac and while addressing my screen saver I was prompted about hot corners. What are they and how should they be used?
My WD 4TB drive recently began to report I/O errors. Running TechTool Pro on it uncovered a number of bad blocks. It's still under warranty so I'll be returning it, but the next question is about the data that was on it: I've transferred the entire contents to a different drive, without errors – does this mean that no files were broken or corrupted? How does one make sure that all data is unaffected?
I have two OSX computers and I've been sharing a single folder between the two computers using SMB. The computer hosting the folder was previously running OSX 10.10.1 and I was able to connect from High Sierra by selecting Go -> Connect to Server and then typing smb://example.net/shared_folder. After upgrading both machines to 10.13.3, trying the exact same operation I get the following error:
It appears to me that BOTH Apple Menu>Lock Screen AND Fast User Switching Menu>Login Window halt user processes at some point. (AirServer eventually stops working for me)
I then made another partition for the future Linux install. Feeling optimistic, I booted from the Windows 10 DVD in legacy mode and got to the point where you choose which partition to install Windows on. I keep getting the message "Windows cannot be installed on this partition" even when I format or delete the partition to leave free space.
On MacOS, you still have that legacy option to set a size limit, above which a confirmation is needed to load an email. I can't find a similar feature on iOS Mail.
My Mac gave me a pop up that asked "bin needs to download the font “Nanum Myeongjo” I clicked it away and ran Malwarebytes which found and quarantined "Adware.Spigot". Am I fine? Should I still be worried? I am using 10.12.6 on a 2015 Macbook Pro 15 inch.
When I swipe from left-to-right on my trackpad, iBook goes to the next page. When I swipe from right-to-left, it goes to the previous page. Is there a way to reverse the order for this?
I have a Late 2008 Mac Pro running Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4. I have an Nvidia GT120 graphics card installed in the machine with a DVI and a Mini DisplayPort as the available outputs.
I have got all of it set up and imaging went through without a problem, but at the last stage system log showed an error mounting AFPS volume. When the system rebooted, a folder with ? mark showed on the screen. I made attempt to boot the system using startup disk and checked disk utility, it shows disc not mounted.
I tried all the suggestions I could find from users who had this problem wither OTHER apps, none of them worked, and I can't find anything specific to iDrive. I contacted their customer service but I don't know how long it will be till I hear back. Can anyone help? To be specific, the suggestions I tried were: holding shift while launching the program, deleting saved application states, rebooting the computer in between tries, and finally doing a COMPLETE uninstall of the program (including related files in /var/db/BootCaches) and then reinstall. I have El Capitan and I cannot upgrade to High Sierra or even Sierra b/c this Mac is from 2008 (not my main computer, as I said).
I have quite a few file servers at work that serve up files over SMB/CIFS. How can I tell what version is negotiated when someone says that I need to be sure I'm connecting over SMB version 3 to get best performance?
My macbook 2011 17.5" won't start. I tried all options listed here *=URL=* on how to boot with different keycodes. Only single user mode seems to work everything else ends in white screen a few seconds after the apple logo. I can choose the startup disk and tried booting from a backup but that also resulted in whitescreen.
So recently I updated my computer to MacOS High Sierra. When I tried to boot up my Windows disk (running Windows 10) using Startup Manager, it wasn't there. I looked in my files, and I still had it. "Ok, so it's a pretty common problem. Easy fix, right?" Then I looked in Startup Disk and saw something REALLY weird. This apparently is not normally the case, but here's what it looked like. The fact that Bootcamp showed up as a folder did kind of confuse me, and I haven't been able to find any information about it. When I boot up into Windows, I see a "No bootable device found" error message.
I exported Apple Wiki data on an Apple server running 10.10 using the command 'wikiadmin'. It exported successfully. I copied the exported data over to a new Apple 10.13 server and am trying to use wikiadmin import to import the data. I'm getting this error: I've tried changing the export options as well, using "-format legacy" which I think is the default anyway. I'm at a loss as to what else I can do. I tried just manually replacing /Library/Server/Wiki with the same folder from the old server and the new server did show the wiki but I'm afraid that's going to introduce other problems so I'd like to do this correctly.
When trying to test something with my app in the Simulator while simulating my location in Shanghai I can't seem to get directions. I just see a message about 'Directions not available' and 'Directions not available from this location'. Do I have to use a VPN to make it look like my request is coming from China?
I installed the Google Assistant app on my iPhone 6. I tried to set a reminder with Assistant but it said I had to enable notifications in the Assistant settings. There are no notification settings there but all the settings that are there are on. I looked in the Notification section of Settings and there is no entry for Assistant. What do I need to do to enable reminders on my iPhone?
I have tvOS 11.3 beta installed and I’d like to install the regular, default current version so that my aTV is both stable and continues to update itself. How can I do this and can I avoid wiping the device first?
I am using an iPhone 7 as a Personal Hotspot. Every now and then, the line at the top of the screen which says how many connections there are goes up. I don't know if someone else is accessing the hotspot, but I only use it for my laptop and would like to filter connections to the hotspot to drop everything except my laptop. Is there a way to do this?
The programs of BSD in MacOS are not upgrated to the latest Take examples: man ls BSD May 19, 2002 BSD V.S. FreeBSD 11.1 December 1, 2015 FreeBSD 11.1 And man find BSD September 28, 2011 BSD V.S. FreeBSD 11.1 January 24, 2017 FreeBSD 11.1 and so on How to update them all?
Xcode shows the Issue Navigator after a Clean operation (i.e., Product -> Clean). Is there a way to customize this and have to preserve the current navigator, or show the Project Navigator instead?
I just set up family sharing. I'm the organizer and I enabled purchase and location sharing... I can see my sister's purchases but she can't see mine. Also she can see my location but no my purchases, why?
I'd like to check the status my directories Check their status The format is dense, I prefer a sparse format to distingish each file or dir intuitively. How to achieve it?
I was using the Mac Mini when all of a sudden the monitor screen went blank and it displayed "Entering Power Save Mode" and no matter what I try, even switching to a newer monitor, it displays the same thing upon startup and I can't do ANYTHING because I can't see anything. The 1st monitor was a LG with a VGA port only but the 2nd monitor was a DELL monitor with both VGA and DP Ports. Would love to get back to work so if anyone can help me out it would be appropriated greatly.
We’re looking to make sure we know where our daughter is and so are using the Find My Friends app on iOS 11. We’ve set things up within restrictions however the app settings have changed. We’re guessing that this has been done through iCloud on her iMac. Is there any way to stop the settings being changed again once we put them back?
I started to update my MBP (2013) to macOS 10.13.4 using the AppStore. After installation and login, I got a notification that some things didn't get install. I opened the AppStore, macOS 10.13.4 is not available anymore to download, neither it is in the Installed section. I checked also "About This Mac", my version is still 10.13.3 No, I never installed any Betas or GM.
I was originally creating a 25 GB partition for a linux installation, but then something went wrong with it and somehow the 25 GB went to my Recovery HD. I resized it and reclaimed the disk space and tried the partition again. It worked, but now I think the Recovery HD is broken in a way. However, my main OS still works just fine. Here's what comes up in the terminal from diskutil
The 0 (zero) key on my MacBook's built in keyboard stopped working. I am unable to login as the password contain that character.
The ip program is a multi-purpose network configuration tool that makes use of the full range networking features available in modern Linux kernels. However, it does not work on Mac: Switch to Ubuntu,things go well Is there a substitute tool for it?
I am looking on eBay for an iPad Pro 10.5” model and in the original Apple website it clearly says that both Pro versions 10.5” and 12.9” comes with Wi-Fi + Cellular connectivity. But many of the sellers in their descriptions point out that it is Wi-Fi only. I do not understand - should the iPad Pro 10.5” come with Wi-Fi + cellular or only Wi-Fi?
I issue the following command follwing a command line instruction book, To be cuirious, I refered to it's manual It's the latest version of today (March 30, 2018). It seems to be updated automatically, Is that normal?
I'm trying to use gnuplot on my MacBook Air (Mac OS X 10.11.3). I have installed XQuartz by using homebrew after I installed gnuplot (with this YouTube video: *=URL=* But gnuplot did not work and terminal showed: Terminal type is now 'unknown'. For example, I wanted to plot sin(x) and I got a error message as the following:
i have an older model macbook (2010) and my sound output wont change automatically anymore. I have a bluetooth speaker system that I connect to my macbook for music and when I turn the speaker off and on I have to manually change the sound output in the sound preferences.
I have an old Macbook Pro (15-inch, mid-2010). Unfortunately, (mechanical, non-SSD) hard disk has bad sectors; it needs to be replaced, the GPU is faulty, if it is in use, the kernel panics; sometimes within several minutes from the boot up. I figured out the procedure for installing a new working hard drive, yet before I do that, I have to ask:
I created a disk image from a folder using disk utility and now when I double click it to open it i get an error message saying image couldn't be opened. Image not recognised. What can I do?
I am trying to install php71 with the command brew install php71 but instead php@7.1 is installed. When trying to install redis with brew install php71-redis it's installing but not working with that php@7.1. macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 also sometimes still get this warning: Warning: Use php@7.1 instead of deprecated homebrew/php/php71
I am trying to install octave following these instructions. The last line tells me So I try
My iMac doesn’t start up. The loading bar doesn’t fill up and then, after 10 minutes or so, it shuts down. I tried to get in the recovery mode, but there is the Macintosh HD drive grey and it says „not active“. Any help or advice on how to solve it? Thanks (I haven‘t saved my files on a external hard drive and I don‘t want to lose it) Macos 10.13 Update: So i think it tries to repairs the volume repair volume and then some error messages one says invalid number of threads and then it tries again and then something fails and it shuts down.
I realized my Mac doesn't have a single account with Administrator permissions. Following the instructions in this answer: My computer has no admin user gives me a new account that does not have administrator permissions.
I do a search in the messages application on High Sierra and it lists the conversations that have matches. But it only shows one match on the screen even it says there are multiple matches. How can I scroll to the next match in the same conversation?
After upgrading to macOS 10.13.4 my extensions in Safari were disabled. Safari Preferences Extensions tab says "Extensions can be enabled in the Develop Menu". However when I try to uncheck "disable extensions" in the Developer menu nothing happens and it stays checked.
I have an iMac12,2 with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I want to upgrade to the newest possible Mac OS. If I click the Software update button it says "Software Update doesn't have any new software for your computer at this time.". If I want to download High Sierra from the App Store it says "This update requires macOS version 10.8 or later."
If I turn text message forwarding on my iPhone to forward to Mac, how far back does it forward? In other words, does it only send to the Mac what was sent/recieved via text from the date the forwarding was turned on? Or does it download old texts deleted from iPhone as well?
I'm using this script to add some data to a new line in the active Numbers sheet. This was working fine for a few days, but day after day numbers can't handle the volume (659 row at this date) and start to be extremely slow. Numbers script : the objective is to be able to display all data, and be able to filter the sheet if necessary, but also create some metric from the data. For some reason excel seems to handle the file much better. Is there a way for Excel to add a new row after the first one and do something similar This don't seems to work for the rest I think I can use the same code : Otherwise I was considering creating a CSV file and add manually each time but that won't be as handy , or maybe instead creating a database , with I guess would make more sense
On Sierra, I recently noticed that the 'right-click' menu related to Dock applications or Dock Preferences disappears too fast; I am not able to move the mouse fast enough to access any of the menu items before the menu disappears. This seems not affected by toggling the auto-hide feature of the Dock. Anyone else noticed this? Any way to modify the time before menu disappearing?
As I asked above, I am leaving work and I have to bring my computer home. Can I close the screen and resume it later?
I have a reasonably sized CSV file (40 Megabytes). I know that some apps won't work with certain encodings, and that they will throw error if the encoding isn't ASCII. But its alarming that even TextEdit.app is unable to open this file.
I'm trying to record a podcast using two different microphones (after already realising you can't record using 2x the same mic) on my Mac High Sierra. I've tried this with multiple microphones but I always have the same issue. One mic only has "1 input", the other has "2 input" and it affects the way they record sound. Microphone 1 (Blue Snowball) appears as having "1 in" Microphone 2 (USB Microphone 2) appears as having "2 ins"
Everyday when I come back to my system it will be shutoff no matter what I do, if I log out, it'll be shutdown, if I restart it will be shutdown. A grep through the log files shows me this:
I have about 7 external hard drives of varying capacities. From time to time, I move files from my MacBook onto those external drives and put Finder aliases where those files used to be. The process usually goes down like this: Move file in internal drive to the external drive. Hold Cmd + Option and drag the file from external drive to the original location, thereby creating an alias.
Does the chflags hidden shell command write information to the folder itself, or write it to another hidden file like .DS_Store? I'd like to know because I'm making a thumb drive and I'd like to remove any extra files that show up on older versions of Windows. I don't want to remove the property of the folder being hidden on macOS, OS X, and newer versions of Windows.
I want to be able run apps and tools in containers or virtual environments. When working with python projects for example, i always make a virtual environment and that helps keep things clean (i.e. once i delete the virtual environment there is no sign of the app). I am not asking for how to sandbox apps, security is not my concern, instead I want to be able to delete everything connected to that app when I don't want it anymore. Things I have thought about: Install apps with brew whenever possible (i believe that brew uninstall cleans properly). Install apps with brew whenever possible (i believe that brew uninstall cleans properly). Run apps from their DMG file without copying to /Applications directory (I don't know if this actually helps with anything). Run apps from their DMG file without copying to /Applications directory (I don't know if this actually helps with anything). Use the AppCleaner app, (I am using it currently) which is not bad but is solving the symptoms rather than 
I am able to mitigate this by enabling Reduce Loud Sounds and Sound check, but the music is still a bit too loud to my taste, even on the lowest volume point on my soundbar. Plus, Reduce Loud Sounds has a negative effect on the music (highs are muffled, etc). So what I've been doing to avoid this issue is to Airplay from my Mac to the Apple TV and setting the volume to 50% in iTunes on my Mac, but it kind of defeats the purpose.
Can one use FaceTime on an iPhone 6 without being billed international rates? I have a iPhone 6 bought in U.S. and I am going to China to visit family for six weeks. The iPhone region is United states. Do I have to change my region on my iPhone while I am in China in order for my U.S. WeChat account to work? Or do I use the FaceTime or iMessage apps?
I wish to turn off all animations in macOS. I'm following the steps provided in the answers to How to turn off all animations on OS X.
In Finder.app, as per the default sort order, the files and folders whose name begin with an underscore character _ appear before the hidden files, i.e. ones whose name being with a dot ..
I have an iPhone X and an iPad Pro, both running iOS 11. I notice, when streaming a YouTube video in iOS Safari, the video resolution is limited to a maximum of 720p.
I am able to connect to WiFi alright, but the Internet connection drops off after about 60 seconds. In the routers console, the assigned IP address is shown which matches with one on the device. In the current connections list in routers, the iPhone is listed.
I currently have a set up where my default iTunes Library (of ~550 HD movies) resides on a 2TB external HD. I share this library and use it to serve my Apple TV/other LAN devices. The drive is close to full, so I got a 4TB External HD to migrate the Library to. The default library path is set to /Volumes/MEDIA_2TB through iTunes Preferences, though all the .xml and .itl data still resides in ~/Music/iTunes/. I'd like to migrate my current library contents to /Volumes/MEDIA_4TB while retaining the metadata (ratings, play count, watched/unwatched, date added, etc), as well as set Volumes/MEDIA_4TB as the new default library.
As was answered in this question, Cannot paste images from clipboard to Facebook in Safari unlike Google Chrome, Safari Technology Preview 51 has the attribute to copy and paste Facebook and Tumblr images. Apple has recently upgraded Safari Technology Preview to release 52 and it has more Facebook related bugs than release 51. It has also lost that attribute. Where can I download Safari Technology Preview version 51?
I have an Exchange work calendar syncing with my iPhone (iOS 11.3) and often I have many new work invitations appearing on my iPhone notifications and subsequently on my Apple Watch too. For all of these invitations, I manage the replies (Accept/Decline) on my work computer. The only reason I have my iPhone syncing with my work calendar is to see which events are coming up in the next 15 minutes, and to see which room they're at.
A test of key scans: I ran the xev program in XQuartz (X11) environment and verified that the system is responding to keypresses on the function keys (see comments). Q: How do I reset the function keys to do what they advertise?
I want to create an installer for a Apache Mesos for Mac. I don't want to use brew since that needs several steps and an internet connection and packaging makes one definite version we can push and also isolate from version changes. Furthermore, Mesos has dependencies on java, git, autoconf, automake, libtool, subversion, and maven. How do I start with packaging all these dependencies?
With the recent update to 10.13.4 I now have issues with applications, notifications area and any other area that is showing images or text with a transparency. I would show you a screenshot but when you do take a screenshot it actually renders correctly. Therefore I need to describe it... it is like a highlight of the general colour as though you were highlighting the image or text in word. It is not a strong highlight but it is very annoying nevertheless. Actually will take a photo on my phone: What it should look like: I have a Mac Pro with a Nvidia Geforce 680 in it so I believe that it might be something related to the new eGPU support. Any ideas?
I keep getting alerts saying that "your start-up disk is almost full". I have an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro running macOS 10.11.6 with a 128MB SSD that has 63GB free according to About this Mac > Storage. I have created two other standard user accounts for my wife and son. I typically see this issue after coming home from work after they have been using it. If the alert appears, About this Mac > Storage will indeed indicate that all storage has been used, the bulk being of type: Other. When this happens, any open apps are sluggish, frequently showing the spinning wheel cursor and preventing saving.
After hours of searching, I can't find the answer to this. I am trying to change the axis values of a chart in Keynote using AppleScript (I assume using System Events, since the dictionary does not seem to give any means to access the axis labels directly).
Is there a way for an AppleScript command to display the last time it was run? I have a few scripts where it would be useful to have a timestamp of the last time it was run for logging purposes. I am very green to scripting, any ideas are welcome.
I'm looking for some help, I'm trying to help a user migrate from Dropbox to OneDrive, However, I've found that OneDrive doesn't support some of the file names that she has within Dropbox. Which are part of the invalid filenames unsupported by OneDrive ( ~ " # % & * : < > ? / \ { | } ).
As in the title this character half ra: र्‍ is used in words in Nepali such as पर्‍यो From what I read this is formed by typing "ra" र + "halant" ् + "zero width non joiner" + "ya" य I do not know how to type a zero width non joiner character in iOS, I am using the standard iOS hindi keyboard.
My question is very related to this *=URL=* I just want to do the same but in merged cells, as in the picture below. Is it possible? I see no fill handle here.
The following command causes an immediate system sleep Trying to shutdown system with pmset Experiment with shutdown command So each time to shutdown system, I should enter a password to use the superuser. Could it be possible to shut down with ‘pmset’?
Why do you think the OS estimates a battery percentage a little above the actual value? I noticed it is always between 0% and 5% more. In particular the two percentage gets closer when the remaining battery gets lower. Maybe this way the device seems to get faster to 100%, since the 95%-100% takes a lot of time...?
If I remember it correctly, in MS Excel I can print just a selection of cells. This is usefull if there are more cells in a sheet then what can be put in an A4 peace of paper. Is it possible to do the same in Numbers?
I have a 2011 MBP which i bought with a faulty screen to use with an external monitor / TV which has all been fine until today. After seeing the upgrade to high sierra reminder everyday and ignoring it i thought i might as well give it a look and told it to go ahead without thinking about the display issue. After the initial restart all i get is a grey no entry sign on my external hdmi display and nothing i do will change that, I tried booting in safe mode by holding the shift key down but with the display open i don't get anything on the TV so no idea whats happening on the broken screen. I tried hitting shift on a wired keyboard after hitting the power button and quickly shutting the lid but again nothing. only if i hit the button and close the lid i get the TV on wight he grey no entry logo. So it looks like i killed my perfectly working laptop in no time. Any advise greatly appreciated.
I have occasionally observed this on Slashdot website. It appears every time Safari is relaunched and the aforementioned site is opened. I have not seen this happening on any of the other websites that I browse on my iPhone. However, as I only regularly browse a handful of websites on my iPhone, there may be some reporting bias here. I don't think this is an HTTPS issue as all the major websites that I visit run over HTTPS.
My OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Mac seems to only be able to hit HTTPS URLs, but not HTTP URLs. I tested another computer on my network, and that machine seems to work fine. I tested using this URL: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js
I have an early 2015 Macbook Pro running Mac OS Yosemite. Last year I replaced the Mac's internal 500GB SSD with a OWC Aura 1TB SSD. Everything has worked fine up to now, although the OS still recognizes the SSD as an "external" drive.
I am attempting to watch a video frame by frame in quicktime. Video format is *.ts Video was recorded at 100FPS
In default installation of macOS, Python and Bash are installed in /usr/bin and /bin directories respectively. So it's appropriate files can be opened using the command-line as: Along similar lines, I want the ability to open an HTML file with Google Chrome using the command-line as: But I get the following output: An alternate way to achieve the desired workflow is make Google Chrome as the default browser and execute the following command: How do I achieve the former workflow?
UPDATE: Added screenshots to clarify what the macOS share menu is. This is located on iOS and macOS as an arrow icon on Apple applications (a majority of them). The screenshots are from Safari's share menu. I'm looking for a way to toggle the Share Menu you can find on many apps such as Mail, Safari, Messages, Finder, etc.
I bought a late 2011 MacBook pro for parts. The computer turns on and functions but there is no lcd backlight. I can see there is video to the screen when shining a light through the back of the apple logo.
I don't see a way to edit this style property in the iOS version of Pages. (I'm using 4.0, March 2018). Am I missing it, or do I need to open the document on my macOS system to set this property?
I am on macOS Sierra version 12.10.16. I downloaded an application. This app has .dmg extension. I would like to install it without using sudo or without being one of the sudo users. When I do hdiutil attach <image>.dmg from Is there a command to install a dmg, it doesn't work. If I do it using GUI I get this error message: Modifying “Applications” requires an administrator name and password. How do I install a .dmg file without being a sudo user?
There are a lot but they don't have screen-sharing, I want a one with screen-sharing, for windows and free. Thanks
I have a 13" MacBook Pro, mid 2012, in which I installed a Crucial 1TB SSD, and installed macOS Sierra, then upgraded to High Sierra. Recently it would not boot after waking up from sleep, then I had to restart.
I just upgraded to 10.13.4, and every time I reboot or login I get the "Setting up your Mac" screen. It also adds the default apps to the dock (such as Siri and Downloads folder). If I remove those two and log out or reboot, the next time I log in I get the same "Setting up your Mac" as well as the default apps again. This happens on two machines I have; a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro.
The Photos app on my Macbook hasn't been syncing for a while, ~6 months. I just came from holidays and added photos from my camera to it and again, nothing. Photos is stuck at "Uploading..." but there is no network activity. Some facts: I have a Mid-2014 Macbook Pro battery health: 82%, cycles: 209, condition: normal MacOS High-Sierra 10.13.4 (updates in the past didn't help) I'm on a wired 1gb fiber connection (8ms ping, down: 880, up: 470) Fully working iCloud photo library across my iOS devices with more than enough free space What I have tried: deleting ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/ and killing cloudphotosd It does rebuild the index and re-syncs shared albums, those always work It does rebuild the index and re-syncs shared albums, those always work Resetting the Macbook SMC & PRAM Fresh install of MacOS, reimport photos from scratch The actual problem: The console logs the following which seems highly relevant: 
I have a 500 GB MacBook Pro 2014 with Boot Camp installed (OS X Mavericks and Windows 7) with both OS's booting correctly. I need more space in Windows, so I want to resize the Mac partition to enlarge the Windows partition.
I have seen several different answers to this question and so I am a bit confused. If I enable Filevault 2 upon setup of my 2016 Macbook pro and THEN create a windows partition for boot camp, is the windows partition still covered by FileVault 2?
On the MBP, the Finder will mount the Mini's network share without asking any credentials, even if I forbid access to any user (on the Mini, while keeping the share enabled). Why? And where are the Mini credentials stored on the MBP? I'd like to erase them but I can't find them in the MBP's Keychain utility.
im struggling for two days now tryring to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro Can anybody help me out? I tried several methods none is working for me.
I am using a 13" MacBook Pro 2017 with a Shinevi Hyperdrive adapter for access to a wider variety of ports, granting my access to a single Thunderbolt 3 port, a USB Type-C port, and a single HDMI port. While fully charged, I can connect both of my Samsung S22C300 monitors with no problem, one through the HDMI port, and the other through the Thunderbolt 3 port. (Note: The single Thunderbolt 3 port is the only port that allows you to charge the MacBook through the Shinevi hyperdrive). This configuration allows me to use 3 screens in total, including the MacBook Pro screen. However, when my laptop starts running low on battery, I have to unplug the external monitor connected to the Thunderbolt 3 port in order to charge my laptop, leaving me with only one external monitor.
I have not used my Apple ID in a while and would like to resume using it. The Apple ID in question is protected by two-step verification. Unfortunately I have lost access to the linked SIM card which was used to receive verification SMS.
In Apple Safari the command-d creates bookmarks. I would like to have it in Apple Pages. Is it possible to have a shortcut to create bookmarks in Pages? I know command-k but its for linking to already existing bookmarks.
I'm trying to install Adobe Creative Cloud. Running the installer quickly yields a dialogue with the message:
I create an alias behavior Nevertheless, It refuses to work when I restart the terminal. As a solution, I place the command to ~/.bash_profile Again, it report similar error How to solve such a problem?
When I install my Xamarin-generated package with the terminal command from Installing .pkg with terminal ? the place it actually gets installed is inconsistent, even from the same package.
As the title states. I'm using OSDisplay (as a sort of answer to my question here). I've noticed that in Sierra (or so it seems), the OS's icon for the brightness HUD changed some—longer and thinner rays, thinner inner circle, etc. I would like to change the file that OSDisplay uses so that it matches the default icon.
I have macbook pro mid 2012 edition. I want to disable sound at the time of boot that comes while turning on..
it is quite annoying everytime i plugin the power cable to charge iPhone 6s or sync with itunes it vibrates, i want to disable this vibration notification. my iphone os is 11.2.6 (15D100)
I didn't mean using VLC media player, that's just for adding the subtitle temporary, I meant making the subtitles part of the video..
I keep my music on an external drive. Yesterday everything was fine, however today I open iTunes and my playlists are all empty and a lot of my music is missing. I followed advice from a site to upload my playlists again, but it puts them back on my computer which doesn't have enough space for all my music. How do I get my playlists back, while keeping them on my external? Please help!
MBA 13" early 2015 crashes randomly. It started when I uninstalled MS Office 2016's latest update. Excel was sluggish so I reverted back to earlier version of MS Office 2016. After reinstalling an earlier version of Office, none of applications in MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3 were working, including native Mac apps.
I was formatting my Fusion drive of 3 TB and unfortunately it seems 1 TB is missing. I tried to search the answer on this forum and found some relevant answers here but my situation is bit different from rest of them. I followed the question Can not delete Free Space on iMac 5K: Partition doesn't appear in CS list, but in my case there is no disk type "EFI" with name "NO NAME" at index 4 in this question of /dev/disk1. I followed the question Can not delete Free Space on iMac 5K: Partition doesn't appear in CS list, but in my case there is no disk type "EFI" with name "NO NAME" at index 4 in this question of /dev/disk1. I also followed the question How do I regain unaccessible free space after a failed Boot Camp install on a non-Fusion drive?, but in my case the partition with no "contents" in output of sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk1 is not in last rather in middle of partitions. I also followed the question How do I regain unaccessible free space after a failed Boot Camp install on a
I have a seemingly broken MacBook Air that doesn't boot, but I can get into the recovery console. If I try to reinstall Mac OSX on the main disk (Macintosh HD aka /dev/disk1s2), the installer complains that there isn't enough disk space available. So I opened up a terminal and tried to manually delete unnecessary files.
My S0 sport won't pair with my iPhone 6s on a 11.1.x version of iOS. I can't actually update my iPhone at the moment but this is the only suggestion the engineers have given.
Every battery case I see is either a two piece design or one of those tiny rubber slim things that might as will not even be a phone case. I’ve always used a phone case as the number one protection against falls, and some cases I see are laughable. FYI I’ve never had a broken phone since I broke my 3GS and bought an OtterBox.
In TextWrangler, I have a lot of white area in the editor that goes right well past 100 characters. Then it continues into this gray area. That creates a huge horizontal scroll bar.
I usually work with multiple Safari windows open. Each has multiple tabs. Each window is a particular theme. Is there a way to name these windows so I can easily navigate between them? Or is there an app that can do it or at least provide a work around?
My daughter's friends were messing with the keyboard and now the right shift key minimizes the screen every time I'm using the shift to make a cap with the my right hand. Since I'm a touch typist this is really frustrating.
How can I go about requiring an admin password when changing Wi-Fi networks on Mac? The auto-connect/preferred list sometimes connects to a lower priority network without my knowledge.
200 GB of movies and photographs, drive won't mount...
I have the infamous "battery not charging" problem on my 2014 Retina MacBook Pro. The power source shows as "Power source: power adapter".
Is there a document shortcut for Make Link or where I can bind it?
I am setting up several iMacs which have different hardware configurations. I would like to temporarily connect the iMacs target drive externally on my main machine and perform the initial install on it. Once the first phase is complete, I would like to install the drive back in the iMac and allow the installer to finish the second phase of the installation (after the first reboot).
I opened a terminal and tried to view the file system. It hangs. Screen Single User Mode I noticed in the kernel messages that disk2 'media is not present' - /Volumes is empty. Boot Menu
I have added a Google Talk account in Messages (macOS 10.12). How can I get a notification a select few Google contacts come online? I can't find this anywhere in Preferences or Contact Info.
I have a 1TB Samsung M3 that I mostly use to read files, and not writing. I've always used it as read-only (the standard way OS X will mount NTFS disks) and never had any problem.
I created custom Cyrillic keyboard layout using Ukelele. It works fine except one problem - I can't switch to it using Caps Lock from english layout. I even don't have option "Use Caps Lock to switch to and from US" in keyboard preferences. Ctrl+space switches layouts ok. Default rus layout can be switched by Caps Lock. How could I make my custom keyboard layout to switch by Caps Lock? EDIT
Apple's Network Diagnostics was supposed to be an application that helped you determine the health of your network. It showed the status of: Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Settings, Network Settings, ISP, Internet, and Server. Can someone explain the difference between Wi-Fi Settings and Network Settings? Thank you.
Using Windows, pressing TAB will finish renaming the current file and start renaming the next one in the list. This is the behaviour I'm looking to replicate on macOS.
I was wondering if there was a way with Automator to: Take a screenshot. Once the screenshot is taken, it uploads to an FTP server. Once it has been uploaded, it copies the link automatically for you to paste.
Can I use the white USB-C cable provided with new MacBook Pro to copy files from my MacBook Pro to another one, even if the transfer rate is poor?
Is this an accurate list? Is there official Apple Documentation detailing which commands get installed? The Command Line Tools (macOS 10.13) for Xcode 9.3 installer was recently made available from Apple:
I'd like to add protection to a folder on my computer (OSX El Capitan) where it requires a password for a user to open it in finder. I've tried googling this and all the answers seem to involve creating on an encrypted disk image which isn't what I'd like to accomplish.
I noticed a mysterious hidden folder on my desktop containing one hidden file. The folder's name starts with .E05268AB3AE5F72AF... and the file name starts with DF2CEE62032EFA2196B0B673... The folder was created on July 19th 2014 and its file on October 22nd 2014
I have 3 Apple devices, an iPhone and iPad both running iOS 11 and a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10. On the iOS devices I am getting alerts to enable two-factor authentication for my iCloud account. Will enabling it restrict me from accessing my iCloud account on my MacBook Pro?
My hard drive usually works on my MacBook, but today it has decided otherwise. My hard drive works on the TV and DVD player. However, when I plug it into my Mac the light comes on and I can hear it running, but it doesn't show on my desktop or appear in Disk Utility. I've tried researching to find options, but nothing seems to be working. I've also plugged a USB into both USB ports on the MacBook and that works fine. What can I try next?
I'm using the GUI version of Emacs installed using Homebrew-Cask. I launch it by searching into Spotlight, which as I understand is equivalent to opening it from the Applications directory.
My kids share my Apple ID and can see all my photos and videos. I do not wish to share it with them. I have turned off all the shared Photo Stream and removed them off my Apple ID. However, my pictures are still in the photo library on their iPhone. How do I get my photos off their iPhone?
I was away from my MacBook Air (Yosemite) briefly and suspected that someone had copied files from my Mac. Here is what I can see from the system.log under console /var/log. Could some experts advise whether this "(non-unique): 000000000820 " log may be sign that some one plugged in an USB drive? What do I need to search for to find out what directory of files were possibly stolen? _____________________BEGIN______________________
When I import bookmarks to Safari (e.g. File --> Import from --> Chrome/Firefox/file), all the favicon are lost. See below: Before importing to Safari:
I'm using a script to control quitting the Box.com app once files are finished syncing. The code works great except there's a 5 second delay once the menu item is clicked and I'd ideally like to speed that up. I've unsuccessfully tried incorporating the trick of using ignoring application responses and terminating System Events after the click as mentioned here. Can someone provide direction on how this code can be sped up?
I keep my git repositories in a directory under Documents directory, which puts it in the path of iCloud's Optimized Storage. Often, I'll open a git repository to find files replaced with .icloud placeholder files. Current workaround is resetting the workspace changes, but I sense this may cause some issues.
I was cleaning my macbook pro retina's display with Apple's piece of cleaning cloth that came with the macbook in box. But after I'm done cleaning I noticed weird marks on my screen and they won't be removed with cleaning liquids or even with pressure.
I use shift + control + command + 4 a lot. The default fileformat in my case is .tiff. I have tried to change it to .png using these setting: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/change-default-screenshot-file-format-macos
My Macbook Pro- 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 is not showing default login/Touch ID screen with background blur effect wallpaper. instead it is poping up some weird screen to login(Attached image). If I create another user then it is showing fine. This kind of screen is coming only for one existing user.
Is there a way to open Steam games directly from Spotlight?
I have to read a lot of scanned text in PDF format for university and Adobe's accessibility features for replacing colors don't work for this type of PDF. I've searched for hours online and it seems to be completely impossible to invert colors or replace background colors on a scanned PDF on Mac (or online). I was wondering if I could somehow add a semi-transparent gray overlay to the PDF instead, that would also help. I didn't find much information about this online. Any ideas on how it could be accomplished?
Is it possible to install a Safari extension on an iPhone, if so, how?
We have a 2013 13" MacBook Pro that is behaving strangely on the keyboard. As far as we are aware there has been no water damage to this MacBook. Symptom: Power Button on keyboard shutdowns but won't allow a restart. Left Shift key works, but won't switch to uppercase.
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) which came with a L shaped magsafe charger. I have been having problems for sometime now, wouldn't charge properly, cut off randomly, charger would cut out/not good connection. I replaced the battery, bought new chargers, reset the SMC and NVRAM many times. Eventually I gave up on it and let it sit for many months and used a work laptop.
I've been resisting moving to iTunes 12.7 as Apple have removed functionality & are insisting on far greater reliance on OTA than I am happy with. iTunes 12.6.3 was touted as the 'opt out' version which kept Apps locally yet was capable of handling iOS 11. As of iOS 11.3 this appears to no longer be the case & it is insisting on updating to iTunes 12.7.3 [even though I'm aware 12.7.4 is out] in order to update the iOS.
I’ve been playing Sims mobile on my iPad, but I want to restart and become a new user, but every time I delete it and install it again it keeps bringing me to my old account and I don’t know how to delete it from iCloud permanently, I’ve looked it up but can’t find anything, plz can someone help me figure this out?
I have an old iPhone 3GS I'm trying to use back again. I loaded it up on iTunes and noticed I have 3.8Gb worth of "Other" data stored in it. Keep in mind this is the 8Gb model.
I need to check whether or not iCloud is being used for each user account on a device, and I need to do this for multiple devices. The devices in question are each used by one or more other people, and I don't know whether or not these people have set up iCloud for the user accounts that they log into, which is what I want to learn.
I use the Omnikey extension on Safari 11.1, and find it very useful. It allows immediate access to the search function on various websites through Safari’s address bar, merely by typing a keyletter or two; the user can specify both the sites searched and the keyletters. This dispenses with the intermediate step of navigating to the website to be searched, or even typing out the whole website URL in the search bar: the search occurs immediately upon the user’s entry of the site-choosing keyletter, the search term, and the return key.
On my Early 2011 MacBookPro 17", I tried "diskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 660M", but it says "Unable to resize because file system volume format does not support resizing".
Note, I use Time Machine backups, and I have a 2TB drive with about 40% free space. There are lots of "snapshots" on the volume. Is there a way to recover the system to the Time Machine snapshot taken before each update? Or, will I need to reinstall macOS High Sierra?
So at some point last year I set MacOS language to my native language. I didn't quite like it, so after a while I switched back to English. Since then, MacOS keeps sporadically showing me messages in my native language, usually in low level scenarios (during startup, shutdown or update, in some system dialogs like Disk Utility repair disk log, etc.).
After starting or restarting macOS, Xcode is launching and opening a file that I never touched. Any idea how I can stop that?
When I try to "Save as…" a Word document, I used to get a Finder window and could then save it where I wish. Instead, I now get a short list of possible places to save it. What happened to the Finder dialog box?
I have an issue with an app. I was forced to update my ios and now I can't open my favorite music app because it's no longer on the app store. I don't need it anymore, it's okay, I'll find another app. But I had A BUNCH of songs on that app and I just want to open it for a couple minutes to just screenshot all my songs I had in there, and I can delete it then. I have the app on my home screen, but I can't open it, because it gives me two options - to delete it or to keep it, but then nothing happens when I press to keep it. Is there any way to open that app to just see my data? Thank you for your answers.
If a game controller mentions that it's compatible with iOS, is it likely that it's also compatible with the Apple TV? Tons of controllers are iOS compatible, but only a subset of them claim to be compatible with Apple TV. As the Apple TV's tvOS and iOS share many similarities (tvOS is a modified version of iOS), and many games work on both platforms, it seems reasonable that the game controllers would be universal.
When you dial 3001#12345# on an iPhone, it brings you to field test, which gives you cellular info and stuff like that. If I got the source code for this, would it be possible for me to turn it into an app using Xcode that I could just open from my home screen. It would be much easier than dialing that every time.
I'm trying to run aerender (After Effects' command-line renderer) via launchd to render a video on a timed interval. The command works fine in Terminal. In launchd - even when I use screen -d -m ... - it always exits early. Here's my setup. Skip to bottom for things I've already tried. plist for launchd: render.sh script: Output: Here is what normal output looks like, when I run ./render.sh from the command line:
I tried many different things to resolve this (i.e. standard resetting NVRAM, reinstall the OS, safe mode, etc). The only thing that has "fixed" the problem was booting into Safe Mode, though I cannot easily tell what changed since there is not much to test there. The hardware diagnostics do not indicate any problems.
I want to create custom Quartz filters to reduce file sizes to custom specifications when exporting a PDF in Preview. I found a helpful article on how to do it with an old operating system. I found the code to modify here on Ask Different: How to decrease .pdf size without losing quality
I am looking to record my screen using Quick Time on my Mac, but stopping a recording requires you to press CommandControlEsc. My memory for shortcuts isn't great so I would like to know if it is possible to create a custom shortcut to stop the Quick Time recording. Something like CommandControlS or even something more simplified. I prefer not clicking the STOP button on the top menu bar because the recording captures the mouse trailing up to click the menu bar STOP button. If this is possible I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to create a custom shortcut for this Quick Time action.
Sometimes when I'm actively using the phone the lock screen pops up and I have to unlock. 145 others have upvoted this problem at *=URL=* . I tried the only suggestion, which was to set the time to the past just before upgrading iOS, but the problem persists. I'm on 11.3 now. Help? Any logs I can look at to get a clue?
I'm doing some remote Mac administration and finding myself needing to copy a keychain to the machine and then add it to the default list of keychains. Using VNC and the GUI, this is simple: just double-click it and Keychain Access opens, revealing that it's been added. But how do you do this via terminal over SSH, so that it can be scripted? The security tool doesn't seem to have an "add-keychain" command or an argument to any other command that would do this, as far as I can tell. How do you do this?
When plugging in an external monitor on my MacBook-pro Sierra I could set the monitor options to show up on the menu bar. That works like a charm. Since the upgrade to High Sierra, I am not able to get this option again. I connect an HDMI monitor via Apple Adapter to USB-C and I am unable to find a way to enable this option. Other colleagues don't have this issue with exactly the same setup.
I have a Clash of Clans account on my iPad, but I could not update the app. I also want all the data of the iPad Clash of Clans progress on my iPhone. I also can’t use the iPad’s Apple ID since I lost the password. Do I use Game Center. Or is my progress lost forever.
I have an Applescript that successfully clicks the Replace button in the InDesign Save As dialog, but the same script doesn't work in Photoshop. It fails on the click command in this section of the script: with this message:
I am looking for a Contacts App for iOS which includes the following feature: After adding a new contact I want to have a function "save as" where I can select either iPhone-Contacts, Google-Contacts, etc. (Reason: I keep my business contacts on exchange and my private on google and do not want to always change the default group setting before adding a new contact) Can anybody help on this?
I let my sister use my icloud account on her phone (we live 2,000 miles apart). However, our contacts are synced....pain! I had do delete a lot of my contacts and back them up elsewhere. Trying to mull through so many is a pain. Plus she gets all my calendar alerts. I want my own contact list. How can she be removed from my icloud account so that she can create her own?
The beta versions of macOS 10.3.4 were reported to include warnings when you started a 32-bit app. From the release notes: To prepare for a future release of macOS in which 32-bit software will no longer run without compromise, starting in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 a user is notified on the launch of an app that depends on 32-bit software.
I have a regular sized 9.7" iPad. I want to be able to read text on it while running on a treadmill, from a distance of 1-2 feet.
I figured, that a probable reason could be that CouchDB 1.7 was installed via Homebrew Cask, while Apache CouchDB was installed from the downloaded installer as it is not yet available via Homebrew Cask. They have your database migration covered, but not an 1.x-to-2.x upgrade path for the application itself on macOS.
How do I delete the disk0s2 partition (see below) on my iMac's internal drive??
However, if I open a Windows Explorer window and try to navigate to the host as a UNC path (e.g. \\192.168.0.1), I get a Windows Security prompt.
Does anyone know how to open files from Mac in Microsoft Remote Desktop 10? I'm specifically looking to open .mtw in Minitab 17. I tried changing the folder to my "Macintosh HD" folder and also tried using the specific folder from "My Documents" but it still doesn't show up when I'm using Windows through RDP.
I have several image files that were originally .png, but due to my own needs I changed their name to some custom extension .xyz. Thankfully, I can still preview the images using the spacebar, so that's great. However, their thumbnail is blank:
On macOS 10.13.4, for some .java files, Finder displays "Java Source" for kMDItemKind (i.e. the "Kind" column in "List" view), but for some other .java files, it displays "Source Code", even within the same folder. How can I ensure that all .java files consistently have kMDItemKind = "Java Source"? Here is the output of mdls for a file that displays "Java Source": Here is the output of mdls for a file in the same folder as the previous file, but that displays "Source Code" instead:
As can be seen: mactex was installed successfully: Where is it however..
I've got 37$ sales of one of my IAP and 25$ as proceeds which are shown clearly on Sales and Trends in March. Now, I am not seeing those profits in Payments and Financial Reports Section. Note: I've not set receipt validation for IAP.
I like using Chrome on Mac and it is my default browser. However, Microsoft SharePoint and Chrome don't work well together.
Worst mistake of my life upgrading to High Sierra. At first I couldn't use Time Machine with error 11 and so I decided to try FileVault to encrypt my SSD and it's been going for a week, stuck at 10%. Unbelievable it can't be stopped in terminal. See below: This is actually a different message from yesterday when instead it asked me for a password and then username and then I got a filevault not disabled (-69573) message. Does anyone know what that number code means?
I have noticed that when I open an app from the App Switcher it actually shows me a screenshot of the latest state of the app instead of showing me the real app. Can someone clarify the process of opening apps from the background?
I have an iPhone 6, running iOS 11. Before iOS 11, the lock screen would never rotate to landscape mode (similar to home screen, that never rotates). Since iOS 11 my lock screen has started rotating to landscape mode. I don't want this behaviour. Can I stop my lock screen from rotating to landscape mode while letting the other apps auto rotate to landscape mode normally? UPDATE I have exact steps to reproduce: Unlock phone Open an app that supports landscape mode Rotate the phone to landscape Lock the phone while it is in landscape mode Now the lock screen is in landscape and it is "locked" in landscape until I unlock the phone.
Today I have realized that there are two weird additions to the list of Network Devices on my Macbook Pro (High Sierra). It kind of freaks me out especially because of the weird non-latin characters associated with one of the devices. Is it something potentially dangerous? Could it be an attempt for hacking?
I created 2 iCloud email aliases a year ago, but didn't end up using them so deleted them from my iCloud mail preferences. On my iPhone though, if I select "send mail from" those aliases are still there, whereas if I log into iCloud web mail they aren't. Is there any way to get rid of them on my iPhone (running iOS 11.3)?
I am new to Apple and I have Outlook 2016 installed in my Mac. I am unable to see the To-Do-Bar which I use in Outlook for Windows. How do I view the To-Do-Bar in Outlook for Mac?
I have two-factor authentication turned on, and I have several Apple devices that support it. I have my two-factor recovery key saved in a password manager that’s backed up in several places. In short, I’m happy that I’ll be able to recover my account if required, without a trusted phone number.
When signed in with an Apple Music account on Homepod and another device, can I play music on both devices simultaneously? I believe it's not possible for e.g. iTunes and an iPhone; is Homepod an exception? Specifically, it would be quite annoying if a family member at home started to play music and this disqualified me from listening on my iPhone on the go.
When using any fixed width font but "Menlo" (Blue) font in Terminal, Unicode characters eat more space than they are supposed to, overlapping the adjacent characters (Red, "Monaco" font).  Is this a bug, or is there an explanation to this?
I have installed Windows 10 (version 1709 build 16299.309) on my MacBook Pro 2017 model through Bootcamp. After Bootcamp installed its drivers, I am unable to connect to my Wi-Fi router most of the time. Whenever I try to connect to the network, it will fail 95% of the time with the unhelpful message "Can't connect to this network". When Windows is trying to connect to the network, the network sort of "resets" (icon goes red momentarily in the taskbar and the Wi-Fi connection in Network Connections goes disabled momentarily) just prior to it failing (almost as if the network driver crashed or something). When it does manage to finally connect (after attempting numerous times), the end result could be any of the following:
I am currently porting from Windows to MacOS. One of the cool features I liked about windows is the way it orders multiple windows of the same application. For example, If you have 10 Chrome windows, it'll order the windows in the same order you opened those windows. Whereas on a MacOS (I am using High Sierra 10.13.4), the windows are ordered alphabetically. So every time I visit a new website, the order in the application's dock icon would have changed depending on the title of the website. In my opinion, it is very annoying because you will have to scan each and every window to get to the one that you want. So the question here is, is there a way on Mac where I can make sure that multiple windows of the same application are ordered in the same order that I open those windows instead of ordering it alphabetically ?
Is there a way to prevent applications from requesting for password forever? I found lot of references to give applications root permission so they won't prompt for password. But I don't want to give any permission, I just want to deny all requests for password. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
When I go to "About this Mac" it shows I have 1 500GB hard drive, but when I use diskutil list it shows I have 2 500GB. Can someone explain this please?
I use Make Bookmarkable to convert some audio files to the m4b bookmarkable format. However, since macOS High Sierra, there is a problem when running the script with a batch of files. tell (add loc) raises --> error number -1700 that number -1700 can't be converted to item
I need to do some software testing against macOS. I know I can download the El Capitan and Sierra installers, but they seem to install the last version (i.e. 10.12.6) rather than the 10.12.0 release. Is there a way to get ahold of the older installers, or some way to downgrade?
If I need to send a set of 15 photo images via email, what is the best way to do this? Will I need to send them in multiple emails? I understand that I should resize the files to 72 dpi.
I don't have access to my proper AppleTV remote to control my AppleTV (4th Gen), but that's no problem because I can use the Remote app on an iPhone and iPad. The Remote app was working fine until one morning it wouldn't connect from any iPhone or iPad. The status listed is "offline" -- see the attached screenshot. The AppleTV appears to be still connected to the WiFi network, as I am able to share my iPhone's screen. How would screen sharing work but the Remote not work? I killed the Remote app multiple times (swipe up) and rebooted the AppleTV (power cycle).
Not every single picture, but it seems the majority of pictures that I imported into MacOS Photos have a duplicate. I am not sure why. Is it some interaction with Photo Streams? Does it have to do with having both a RAW and Jpeg? Is it a bug? Have you seen this?
The obvious gist from @reidransom didn't work for me.
I am interested in using iCloud for Windows for syncing bookmarks between Windows browsers (as a replacement for Xmarks, which is shutting down). I installed iCloud for Windows and used my AppleID to log in, but it said I needed to first use an iOS device. I do not have an iPhone or iPad, nor intend to have, so maybe the iOS simulator in Xcode could be enough for this purpose of mine. So my question is: does Xcode's iOS simulator allow me to sign in my AppleID account? Or does it work "offline", account-free?
While attempting to connect to my iCal via another laptop I get an SSL error that looks like this:  Now I read somewhere that you can fix this by adding an NSAppTransportSecurity key to a plist, I've also read that allowing 8.8.8.8 in your DNS will do the trick as well. Neither of these have worked (could be because I didn't edit the right plist). Does anybody have any idea how to allow non-HTTPS connections into an iCal, or how to fix this SSL error?
When trying to use sendmail from a script, it fails with Output from ls -la /var/spool/postfix looks like this which is identical to the output on another Mac with working sendmail:
The Messages app on my Macbook Pro (running High Sierra) suddenly stopped sending text messages to Android devices. I can still send texts to Android users from my iPhone without a problem, but when sending texts from the Messages app on my Macbook Pro it will not send to Android devices. It just started doing this out of the blue yesterday. I have not had an issue until then. And I have not made any updates to the Mac or the iPhone OSs in that time that might cause the problem, but I did install Microsoft Office 2018 on the Mac. Cellular data is turned on on my iPhone as is Send as SMS.
Need to do dscp marking on a mac machine Here is iptables command I use on linux box What's the iptables equivalent in OSX for above command?
I've tried VMWare and VirtualBox and both have an intentional "mouse capture" process wherein the keyboard and mouse control is passed into the VM, and then has to be explicitly released to get back to the Mac desktop. Are there any VMs, or configuration methods, that allow a Windows VM to behave like any other window? I.e., meaning that: When the mouse is over the VM window it is assumed to be operating in the VM, The mouse can be dragged out of the VM onto adjacent desktop without clicking a "release" key The keyboard is captured and released by the VM based on whether the VM window is the "top" or "active" window on the Mac dektop
Why is the output of $PATH different when in a script vs when running $PATH from the terminal? Even for a minimal script like this:
I have a group of folders, each folder representing a different product that my record label has released. Within each folder are the .wav audio files of the tracks that make up that release.
Have an app on two test phones (Android & iOS) which is still in beta testing and distributed via HockeyApp. Got an update on the Android and noticed the developer has removed some important core functionality (on purpose), so I'd like my iOS device not to be updated. I haven't lunched the app on the iOS device since the update happened to avoid it but really need access this functionality one more time so I can take some notes before allowing to update. I'm sure once I lunch it it'll immediately update since the update seems to be mandatory, that's what happened in the Android. I'm trying to find a way to block it from checking for updates, any ideas? Thanks!
I'm having an issue where HomeKit stops working in my house. I have four devices involved: My Wireless Router - a Netgear R6220 My Mac Mini - running Homebridge (it's a software implementation of homekit that allows to publish your own homekit devices My AppleTV - acts as a HomeKit hub My iPhone - HomeKit remote - works inside and outside of the network due to the HomeKit hub HomeKit will work just fine for months at a time, and then suddenly I will get a message from the Home.app on iOS saying that No accessories responding. I have also noticed that when this happens, I cannot resolve any services that rely on Bonjour - mini.local is not ping-able from my iPhone and airplay services of the Apple TV aren't discoverable. Since HomeKit and Airplay both rely on Bonjour, this tells me that it's an issue with Bonjour. I downloaded the Bonjour Browser Discovery app and ran it when things were not resolvable over bonjour, but low and behold all services seem to be found by the app. Now for th
I have searched the user manuals and can find no information on using F keys and how to cancel a command I have done. macOS 10.8.5
Planning to buy Macbook Pro 15 2017 model. Is there a big difference between Radeon 560 and Radeon 555. Which should I go with? To give you background, what I shall be mostly using my MBP for: Lot of editing in Photoshop/Photos Quite a lot of Applications being opened (nothing graphical though - Skype with Screen Sharing, Chrome with 100s of tabs) Playing and editing Videos Virtual Machine for Windows running in parallel Dockers shall be running Vagrant shall be running Sublime Text with 8 or 9 projects being opened Xcode Android Emulator Multiple external monitors What should I choose?
When I go to "Preferences", a window named "Signatures" appears, which is empty. All my many previously saved Signatures are gone, and there is no way to access Mail Preferences.
I am working on a development project in which when a user gets in range of the iBeacon their device will open their Apple Wallet to their membership card for our business. Is this possible?
Dmg file contains a volume with identifier Apple_HFS, which is compressed with various methods (zlib, bz2, etc.), how can I extract a raw, uncompressed HFS volume from DMG file? Right now, it cannot be done with Catacombae - HFSExplorer, due to unknown block type, with the 0x80000007 identifier, which is probably LZFSE compression method, 7z also won't do a good job.
This issue is driving me crazy. I have a late 2014 retina iMac and a mid 2017 retina iMac. I updated both to 10.13.4 at the same time and now both of them reboot or turn off while in sleep exactly 3 hours after in sleep mode. If they reboot, they freeze on the login screen and the screen stays on forever Here is what I tried so far: 1. Shut down Disconnect all external devices Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) Reset the nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM) Then use safeboot (SHIFT at Startup) Then reboot normally with devices disconnected. 2. Erased Macintosh HD completely and reinstalled fresh macOS (without restoring Time Machine backup or any other stuff, so basically untouched system).
Sometime last night, the directory /private/var/db/uuitext/dsc on my Macbook Pro started filling up with junk files until the HD was completely full. Each one is 40.9MB and has a name of the pattern A1AB32B2D7BB3CD99B4E784ECD7BC614.[8-char random alphanumeric] In the logs, I see these three messages over and over: The PIDs of logd and its child processes increment each time, and closing them manually from the command line has no impact on the issue.
On OSX Sierra, I can no longer select a Bluetooth Audio device for sound output. I can see the Bluetooth head set is connected and I can select momentarily under Sound Output (see attached screenshot). However, within a few seconds, the Bluetooth device de-selects itself and reverts back to Internal Speakers. A few notes:
This is a bit of a strange question possibly? I was pulled over and ticketed for speeding last week, but I was not actually speeding. At the time I couldn't exactly say to the police officer, "Well let's drive back 10 blocks and we'll find the speed limit sign." That's just not going to go over well... So a couple days later I'm driving the same route home from work and sure enough the speed limit is posted and I have been wrongfully ticketed... Now the speeding ticket shows the time that I was ticketed and the street I was on, but it doesn't show the cross street so it's impossible to prove in court that I was following the speed limit.
I use the little green button with my workflow heavily. I'd like to be able to add a monitor for displaying web pages that i'm not directly working on. For example, if i'm working on web dev, I want to be able to switch between screens on my laptop while not effecting the display on the monitor. Currently, with the monitor being an extension of my laptop display, if i switch between windows with the green button feature on, the monitor also switches and goes black. Mac osX Yosemite 10.10.5 Macbook Pro 2015
Well, one of my clients made an iTunes backup of her old iPhone right before she wipe and sell it. She never expected that the backup is corrupted till she got a new iPhone and tried to restore that backup and iTunes threw an error. Anyway, her main concern about the notes. I tried to explore the backup with some third party programs but none of them could get me the Notes. We also contacted with Apple to see if they can help with fixing the backup or with anything in general but unfortunately they couldn't offer us much help. I could extract Notes app documents and database but when I try to explore it in DB SQLite Browser, it says "Encrypted database" and it needs the password in order to decrypt it. My client does know nothing about it so, what are my options here? Brute-force? or what exactly as I don't have any experience when it comes to SQL databases.
I'm running a Subversion server on MacOS. My remote IDEs connect no problem (using ssh tunneling). But, I can't figure-out the process name of the Subversion server. It is so easy: But I go looking for the server as such:
I've tried every suggestion provided by Apple and a few i found here but am still unable to boot my laptop. This occurred yesterday and i did manage to get in & do some work. However this morning (exactly the same as yesterday) as soon as i opened & started using Mail it crashed. the difference today is that nothing gets me in now. On the white screen i get the owl icon & pw field but once enetered the progress bar quits between 50-75% way through every time. I tried the internet reset option but it also failed! I'm on a pension & trying to start my new biz (design etc) to support myself so i do not have money to take it to a repair mob so am desperately seeking a solution here. am not overly tech yet but am able to follow instructions as have been using Macs for 20 yrs but this has stumped me!
I was bored one day an thought it would be cool to follow this tutorial to make my Finder windows look like Retro Mac OS Finder *=URL=* I thought it would add to the effect if I made my Mac Grayscale by going into System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Use Grayscale. And then, as usual, I got annoyed by the theme and changed everything back.
In Apple Mail, normally inbox items have a white background, except for the selected items which have a dark blue background. Yet, yesterday I received an email from Apple which displays with a light blue background (third item on the picture). How to un-blue this Apple email?
I just downloaded Fortnite for iOS and it needs 3.017 GB. I have 16GB but it still says I don’t have enough space? It says I only have 2.435 GB space.
I'm reading a e-book which can be easily found by Google, its name is "Discrete Mathematics and It's applications, 7th, Rosen". When I wanted to take a note using the HIGHLIGHTS & NOTES feature of Preview, I found that a mysterious note is already there. Then when I attempted to delete it, my Preview crashed. It's really sad that at the same time I open others Preview and some notes had not been save!
I want to update my xcode from xcode 9.2 to 9.3. but in the App store when I press update button, it shows the alert like the picture above. even though in fact I have a lot of space it is only xcode, when I update the itunes, it can update smoothly.
I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017. My macOS High Sierra has the version 10.13.4 (17E199).
Sometimes, when I try to force quit an app after it fails to quit using command ⌘+q, it doesn't appear to work. It still shows up in the dock as if it is running, still shows the app in the list when I hit command ⌘+tab to switch between apps, and is still listed in the Force Quit Applications window. However, the app doesn't show up in the list of running processes under the CPU tab in Activity Monitor, so it would appear it isn't actually still running.
Is there any way of forcing input language set to default one on terminal/iterm focus? Basically what I want to achieve is setting current keyboard input language to English on switching back from other programs. Scripting solutions would work as well.
I developed this website *=URL=* for a waterproofing company recently. While testing it, I found out that the loading time of Safari in MacBook Air is slower than the loading time of Safari in Windows PC. What do you think is the reason for this?
I recently sent my 2012 MacBook Pro to a technician to repair it and he said he replaced the disk but I do not believe he did so. Is there any way I could prove he didn't?
Use the TP router JUST as a modem, put the TC next to the router with a 6" Ethernet cable and use the TC to provide WiFi coverage for most of the house and put the Airport Express on the end of the Ethernet cable in the study and configure it to extend (bridge?) the TC's WiFi network?
I have an issue using the following versions Chrome 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) (64-bit) MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
I can't connect to Messages with my apple account from last week. Apple ID and password work perfectly on the Apple website and iCloud, but it is not working for Messages and FaceTime, saying that "an error occurred during activation, try again". I tried to change the password and reconnect,but the same problem is appearing. Do you have a suggestion for solving this problem? Thanks!
I don‘t use mobile phone call and text messaging any longer. (I think it’s a highly overpriced legacy service: FaceTime, WhatsApp etc. entirely replace it, and with better quality. Services like “Satellite” deliver backwards compatibility to the phone network (e.g. to call doctors, lawyers etc.).)
I provided a /Library/Application Services/MyService/uninstall.sh script which uninstalls the daemon and clears its temporary data, as suggested on a StackOverflow question (in which the main answer stated that "there is no standard way of doing this on OSX"). However, customers find this method to be "not so user friendly", so I'm thinking of alternative ways. How can I make this process easier?
I know this is somehow a common issue, however none of the solutions I found worked for me. I have a macbook pro 15" late 2016 with high sierra. I have my laptop connected to external displays most of the time. Suddenly yesterday when I arrived at home I found that the main display was black, while laptop is running (I can ssh into it, or play with the touch bar...) I tried every thing I found out there: reboot reset SMC reset non-volatile RAM I have done all the items above with both external displays connected and without any peripheral connected (just power). Since this could be caused by a third party app I will list below the ones that have something to do with displays: Disable Monitor (this could be the issue, however I have not used this app during the last 2 months and it was not even installed...). Spectacle flux The display does not seem to be detected by the graphical card, if I go to about this mac -> hardware -> Displays only my external displays are showing there. Edit
Is there a way to automatically turn off an iOS device every night (say from 0:00 to 6:00) to save battery WiFi bandwidth? There's an iPad mini in our living room basically running as Spotify/Podcast player which we don't normally use in the evening and certainly not at night, and the battery tends to be drained if we forget to turn it off. Android has a setting for scheduled shutdown but searching through the iOS settings (11.3) didn't reveal a thing.
I downloaded an app from the Internet using Safari. Upon executing it, macOS notifies that the app is from an unidentified developer.
Is it possible to create a new Account Managed with Parental Controls from Terminal? Is it possible to create a new Account Managed with Parental Controls from Terminal? Is it possible to convert an existing standard account to Managed with Parental Controls? Is it possible to convert an existing standard account to Managed with Parental Controls?
long time lurker, never posted, but I have encountered a problem with my iMac that has me totally stumped. I am not very tech savvy, but I will do my best to explain the issue. My computer specs (please let me know if you need any other info): iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) Version 10.13.3 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 AMD Radeon R9 M390 2 GB
Since some recent update, when copying stuff from Terminal into Gmail compose window, it's pasted as formatted text, retaining all my terminal colors and fonts.  How to stop them (Chrome, Gmail, Terminal or whoever is to blame) doing that? This is really annoying.
I would like to to restore all the partitions to normal in a single volume (and keep the data of the os x volume if possible). Which diskutil command should I run? This is my diskutil list output.
When someone in the room is dialed into a Skype meeting in the room and I'm too far away from the screen to clearly see everything, I dial into the Skype meeting from my laptop. Unfortunately, even if I mute my speakers, my OSX laptop will unmute the speakers and the microphone causing feedback.
I was following this tutorial *=URL=* to download Rails. Upon completed this tutorial, I noticed that my terminal's color code, alias, display format when doing "ls" are all messed up. My .profile worked before and it is rather simple. My .bash_profile is rather simple as well: But apparently nothing in my .profile works after the installation.
EDIT: I think this problem is not related to ASCIIquarium at all because this happened again after a week. Also I am not the only one having this kind of problem.
I want to upgrade my MacBook pro mid 2012 Hard disk to 512 SSD, I opened my MacBook back and took photo see below.  and then I found this on website with the following spec, the size of my hard drive is 2.5 inch and 9.5 mm which is currently inside my MacBook, the below picture is of the one I am thinking to buy its also SSD SATA and 2.5 inch 7mm.
This issue start appearing after updating to iOS 11.3. The first few times restarting the iPhone solved the problem, but now after trying all of the solutions found here, nothing has worked.
I have a Music folder with separate folders for genres, artists, and albums etc. I found that iTunes allows folders and subfolders, and need to just drag/drop the music folder to iTunes to be able to create playlists of every last subfolder, with parent folder as a subfolder to another parent folder. Exactly as the file browser/finder(mac)/Explorer(windows) displays it, although in folders>playlists format. Any way I could do this?
I can't seem to make the notifications in fluid app work. The checkbox Allow sites to display notifications is checked. I also tried to check if it worked via userscript but had no luck with that either. I also tried to paste that directly into the console that too didn't work.
If I look at each of the podcasts individually I've marked all of the episodes in each one unplayed and can see all episodes in each one. If I play from the individual podcast then it starts with the oldest episode and automatically moves to the next newer one when finished. It's only in the Smart Playlist that I can't see the oldest episodes.
I made a boneheaded mistake while erasing my hard drive (can’t tell you what that mistake was) and now I can’t reinstall macOS! Can someone tell me what I need to do so I can free up the hard drive and correctly reinstall the new copy of macOS?
I have an iPhone 6 (A1586) that randomly refuses to connect to a carrier over GSM for a while. I am currently running iOS 11.2.6 (15D100) on it (though it also did the same thing on an earlier version, not sure which) and the SIM card belongs to Turkcell. This was also happening on my old iPhone 5 which I have replaced since. What I have observed while it is in the not connecting phase: The "Carrier" menu disappears from Settings Usually "Searching" is displayed in place of the carrier name -- notice how there isn't an ellipsis (...) after the word Sometimes "No Service" is displayed in a zone where I know I get 4/5 reception Wi-Fi calling still works, I'm able to place/recieve calls and send/receive SMS messages What I have tried: Updating to the latest iOS version Replacing the SIM card Rebooting toggling the airplane mode on and off Resetting network settings (this seems to work sometimes, but not reliably)
Every time I open a new iTerm2 window is shown the following warning: Warning: Use php@7.1 instead of deprecated homebrew/php/php71 Anyone can help me out please? I've uninstalled PHP, and installed again, and the problem remains. I've also checked this HomeBrew PHP issue but after I run: I get the following: After I run the last command recommended I get again the initial warning. I have macOS High Sierra 10.13.3. Thanks in advance.
I've been playing around with the chat.db file in Library/Messages to look at my messages from a sql perspective. I'm wondering if it's possible to see contact names in this db, specifically somehow joining on the message table. My poking around hasn't been helpful, and neither has googling. Any insights appreciated!
I have a program that monitors for new screenshots but however, I had to change the default screenshot directory to /screenshots instead of the in com.apple.screencapture How can I obtain the directory set within com.apple.screencapture from within Python so that the program can run on any MacOS computer without having to manually change the screenshot directory location first. Example code (currently after changing dir):
I deleted Server, but the reinstall attempt gave me the same previous version offer, but again, clicking OK, nothing downloaded. So I tried hiding it from Purchased. Noticed that Purchased wants me to "accept" GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, & iMovie. I clicked Accept, but every time I go to Purchased, it still wants that. Updates is still blank.
Odd problem started after latest High Sierra update. Basically, once one browser is open I cannot open another. For example, say I'm using Safari to write this question here and then go to open Firefox or Opera, I get the following message:
I’ve gotten myself into quite the perdictament here . After successfully repairing my video card and reinstalling I started having issues with slow boot time on my IMac 2007 . Putting it into disk utility I somehow verified the base OS X base system over my core storage and am now stuck. I’ve attached the diskutil list . I tried reinstalling but the main drive is locked and I only have one drive showing as of now. Any help would be greatly appreciated PLEASE Thanks
When I try to resize my APFS container, I get the following error: I followed this guide: How to Resize Your APFS Container on macOS High Sierra Is there any way to resize my APFS container without backing up to Time Machine, wiping the disk, then recreating the partitions? More details below: Here is the output from the diskutil apfs utility when I attempt to resize: Here is my diskutil configuration: Here is the total of those volumes (calculated manually by me): And when I go to Disk Utility, press the "Partition" button in the toolbar, and manually enter a size for my main disk partition, it won't let me set it under 997 GB, leaving only 3 GB for new partitions:
I'm highlighting a textbook with Preview, and for what seems like 90% of lines with mathematical symbols, Preview's character recognition gets messed up, and highlights too much. This seems like a common problem. Is there a way to change the perceived height of certain fonts in Preview, or just change the way Preview's highlighting tool works in general? I'm currently using the line drawing tool (as specified here), but clearly I'd like to use the highlighting tool to highlight stuff.
When deleting imessages on my mac, I want to press space bar so that i can quickly click on "delete" however tab doesn't work and I can't seem to focus on the pop up that has two options "cancel" and "delete". Basically I would like to press tab and then press the space bar to delete the imessage.
My Mac just "restarted" while I was looking away and I'd like to know if it was a crash or a postponed restart due to an update. My Mac does sometimes crash and restart but hasn't done so for a couple of months. I installed some OS updates in the past couple of days but chose not to restart yet.
I have a bunch of folders with various names, for example As you can see, the general structure is a varying level of nested subfolders containing images. What I want to do is to flatten the structure, adding the name of each level of subfolders to the filename, like this:
When I restart my computer I usually type my password to log me in. However, when I try to do this now it shows me the following message: "Your computer restarted because of a problem"
I have lost administrator access after trying to change my username in system preferences and restarting. I have followed the directions by rebooting in Single user mode, ⌘S and typing the following commands: It then asks if I want to override rm /var/db/.applesetupdone and if I then type "YES" it says that it is a read only file and nothing happens. I have also tried typing rm /var/db/.applesetupdone in terminal and again it asks me if I want to override, and again answering YES I get the reply Permission denied: I am using MacOS High Sierra Version 10.13.4 How do I remove applesetupdone or get administrator privileges back?
I acquired a Late 2008 MacBook Pro. The bottom cover is a split bottom design. The battery cover is loose around the edge of the laptop. I'm guessing there was a magnetic strip holding it along the edge. It looks like there was a metal strip previously lining the edge but it is missing. The latch is only toward the inside (middle) of the laptop. Could someone confirm/explain how the edge of the cover is held in? I'm hoping I can get some magnetic tape to line the edge of the battery cover. I'm trying to avoid spending $15-$30 on a replacement cover. This is what the battery cover looks like.
I am using MacBook Air mid-2013 model running macos High Sierra. I installed Windows 10 using bootcamp. Can I install Windows 7 using bootcamp and run three? That is, like while startup I hold the option key and it shows me 3 operating systems?
When I enter in Terminal: it hides the actual original folder the alias points to but it does not actually hide the alias itself. How do I do it?
I know open ports let applications communicate with devices or applications on network or internetwork, however I have been using my MacBook for 5 years and I have installed and removed lot of things over time. I will highly appreciate it if someone can please tell me how to list all open ports, and which ports are being open/used, and by which applications on my MacBook.
I have bound mailto: links to the following AppleScript, which simply lets you copy the To: address to the clipboard: How can I change this script to: Copy the mailto: address to the clipboard without showing the dialog Activate Terminal (already running) Activate tab running Emacs (already running)
RCDefaultApp can change so-called macOS "roles", eg. change the handler of the mailto: protocol. This is stored in the following file:
I am using the Photos app Version 3.0 (3251.12.190) Not all of my photos (that were taken using the standard Camera app on the iPhone) can be synced into the MacOS Photos app. They simply don't show up under Devices > XXX's iPhone (neither in Already Imported or New Items).
As far as I know, Battery Management System (BMS) are responsible for turning off charging of your iOS device after reaching 100% charge by cord. Does it work in the same way with wireless chargers? Is there any article about BMS and how it works?
My iPhone 6s (iOS 11) is not powering on, and in order to bring it for service, I have been asked to remove it from my iCloud account first. From what I have understood, removing it from my account will keep it locked with my passcode and won't erase the device. Do I need to erase it before removing it from the account?
I have a 2014 iMac 5K. I find that the fans seem to have two speeds - slow, or top speed. Using SSD Fan Control, the optical drive seems to sit around 1200 rpm on startup at 43 degrees, and hits 100% max rpm when I launch anything taxing on the CPU. The other fan is the Hard Disk fan, which sits at the same temp of 43, but permanently reads 65,535 rpm, no matter what. It hasn't changed once! What is the reason for this?
I am upgrading my iMac to macOS High Sierra, however it has been stuck at 28 seconds remaining for a long time now. Is there any way to resume setup without losing downloaded files? The install log is as follows, along with the upgrade screenshot:
For a contact with several phone numbers, how do I find which number I sent a message to? I am trying to find which of the contact's numbers to try next, because I'm not getting a reply. The techniques given in these two answers no longer work, or don't work for me: One contact with several numbers - sent messages How to find the phone number text message sent from? Specifically, I have tried the following: view the message thread tap the (i) icon top right tap either the contact name or the '>' beside it This doesn't help, because all the contact's numbers are listed in blue and none are tagged with 'Recent'. I'm using iOS 11.2.6 on an iPhone SE.
I have a bash script that needs to find out itself from which partition / disk it is running from. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that or if there is a piece of software that can help me with this. It would be really great if someone here could help me with this!
I have a MacBook Pro Touchbar running the next-to-latest version of OSX and Keynote (I've not updated for two weeks, I know there's one waiting). One of my many jobs is to be a public speaker: regularly speaking to hundreds of people in one room. My slide decks, using Keynote, are complex and have a variety of video and audio files in them.
I am a web developer, and sometimes I encounter software bugs that has runaway threads or used up available memory in a browser process. Terminating the offending Chrome process will free up the memory usage, but kernel_task still use up a huge chunk of memory
I have a 13" 2017 MacBookPro. I wish to connect two monitors to it, a Samsung HDMI monitor and a LG VGA Monitor. I am using an Aukey Multiport USB-C Adapter.
On the App Store my iOS app has 10 reviews but there is only one visible review. How Apple select the user's review which will be publicly shown?
I am unable to open RDP URLs from the command-line. Whenever I try to open RDP URL from command line by executing the following: or any other IP address, I get the following error:
Searching for tagged content within a notebook in OneNote for Windows is straightforward. There's a Find Tags menu option.
I'm using garageband, and I am trying to lower the volume of one track. I adjust the volume slider to where I want it (-13.8 db) , but when I start playing the song, the volume slider for that track instantly resets itself back to a much higher volume (+1.8 db).
I have a simple web camera on my local network. I browse to it with Safari (version 11.1 on MacOS 10.11.6) and it begins streaming the video. I see a corresponding uptick in downstream traffic on Little Snitch (originating from the camera's IP address and destined for "Safari via Safari Networking" -- confirmed using netstat and lsof). Sometimes when I close the associated tab/window, I still see the incoming traffic in Little Snitch (reconfirmed, by using netstat and lsof, that it's still going to Safari)-- sometimes for hours after I closed the original window (and having verified using Sessions that there wasn't still a hidden tab left open to the camera somewhere across multiple Safari windows). The only way I've found to resolve the streaming is to restart Safari (a painful endeavor when I have dozens of multi-tabbed content-rich windows across various virtual desktops) or reboot the camera. Creating a rule in Little Snitch to prevent connections to the camera doesn't seem to work
A friend can copy an image on Facebook by clicking the three points at the top of an image and selecting copy and it copies to the clipboard. We both got an iPhone 7, same version of iOS 11 and Facebook App, but I don't have the copy option. How can I get that option?
I would like to use my 3rd generation Airport Time Capsule's 1TB hard drive (v7.6.9) as file/media server. I want to access it away from home over the Internet. How can I do that? I tired many tutorials without success. I am using a Mid 2013 MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra.
Is it possible to screencast from an iOS device to a chromecast ? We'd like to be able to screencast in the same way you can from an iOS device to an Apple TV.
Is the data transmitted between two machines during an Apple Remote Desktop session encrypted? E.g. the login password, the actual screenshare, the text typed etc.?
Sometimes, I need to see the actual IPv4 address of web sites I open in Safari. Now, there are two terminal commands, host and dig, which I could use for that.
I am trying to download the YACHT & JET DESIGN app on an iOS device running iOS 11. I am unable to do so. The app was released during iOS 7. How do I download it?
I tried to install Windows via Bootcamp and when I first launched BC it said (something like): The drive cannot be partitioned because there is not enough free space and it said I needed 40gb. However, when I tried to check my total storage in the "about" section it said that I had over 100gb free space! Then when I double checked with Disk Utility it said that I had 33GB free space! in Disk Utility it also said: Available: 103,21 GB (69,25 GB Purgeable) What does this mean?
The study I am working on has a data logging device whose status can be checked by connecting to a wireless ad hoc network hosted by the device and going to the device's ip address from a web browser. I purchased a few iPhone 5cs for this purpose for the study (since android and windows 10 have, I guess, created some blockades to connecting to these types of networks).
macOS High Sierra – 10.13.3 (17D102) I clicked Apple / About This Mac / Storage / Manage, and System Information app launches with a series of suggestions to reduce disk usage. One suggestion is to empty the trash of items older than 30 days, which sounds appealing.
I have a mac desktop and laptop at work, and I keep the desktop up to date with tools, code, etc, so it's my main machine. When I'm working from home, I like to connect to my desktop since it's all setup - but it has 3 monitors, and when I connect using a single monitor, some of the apps I was running are on other monitors and can't be seen. Even when I try and CMD+TAB to apps that are on other monitors, they dont show up. How can I manage this better?
In iCloud, there are rules to forward matching emails to an address and to move matching emails to a mailbox, however I can't find a way of forwarding matching emails to an address and then moving them out of the inbox. Adding two rules (one to forward the emails and one to move the emails) doesn't work since only the first rule is applied. I'm looking for a server-side rule as I don't want to have to keep my Mac running to prevent being notified about these emails and having them appear in my inbox on my phone.
I'm trying to create a .plist file in textwrangler, something I've never done before. I'm using these instructions which tells me to: Save code as com.rTask.plist file under path ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
I'd like to put several devices on a closed network using an older Airport Express 802.11g wireless AP. One of the devices is a wired device I'd like to connect to the the RJ-45 plug on the airport. Assuming I can surmount the obvious problem of Airport Utilty 5.x not being supported on newer OS X editions (which I can do) and have full configuration access inside the AU 5.6.1 utility, what settings should I use so that my wireless devices?
I have different size monitors that I am using and while switching from the larger to the smaller, often times the mouse pointer is stuck at the bottom corner between the monitors. Is there a setting somewhere that I can set so that this annoying issue doesn't happen? A quick video showing the annoying state.
Is there a reliable YouTube video converter than can download music videos? I am a professor teaching overseas and often download music videos for classroom use. For example, gospel songs and Christmas songs for my Intro to the Bible course. ClipConverter use to download both talking and musical vids, but now blocks musical videos.
I'm using launchctl to load/start my python script and it works to a certain degree. It launches ever 120s, but some times my script takes 500s to run and my theory is that is I have a process running it restarts it rather than letting the first one run. What I think happens: - launch tester.py (tester.py estimated time to complete 400s) - after 120s - launch tester.py again and abandon the first one What I want: To finish the first tester.py not restart it.
This has repeatedly shown up and I have no idea what it is. Can someone help me and explain if I should block or accept?
I'm afraid I'm out of luck but... I followed the directions in various places,
I'm trying to disable SIP, and I can't get Recovery Mode to work at all. Everything I've read says to just hold down command-R during boot.
Windows 7 installed update for iTunes, but iTunes did not work. Used system restore and now I cannot open iTunes.
Inconsistently, but often, the cursor lags for seconds before moving. It does not happen on line 2. It does not happen in the Terminal prompt either. And the strange thing it happens in all the editors!
On my old Mac I have a CPU history icon showing single aggregate graph.  On the new Mac running the same OS version and having the same number of cores I can't seem to find this option. History only shows individual CPUs. In my size of icons it's not very useful.
so I am trying to add a user to the admin group on my computer, but I don't have any admin powers. I do however, know the password that allows me to enter the macOS recovery mode, which I think must be in the admin group and I could use to give another user admin powers. Does anyone know the username of this macOS recovery account?
I use iCloud Photo Library to sync my photos and videos between multiple devices (two Macs, iPhone, iPad). One of the Macs is set to keep all original files from the iCloud Photo Library. Everything is working fine, but the shown storage usage does not make any sense to me. The Mac that's set to keep the originals has a "Masters" folder of roundabout 115 GB - that is, to my understanding, the raw image data and not counting for any significant metadata (smaller previews, faces information, etc.)
As of a few months ago I began to notice my iPhone would automatically close and unload open programs if I don’t have them immediately running. This effectively eliminates any “multitasking” ability the iPhone used to have. For example, if I have a spreadsheet open and I switch to email, after a few seconds in the background the spreadsheet app will automatically close; if I reload it then I need to go through the process of opening the app, reopening the file, and waiting for it to load (which can take several minutes with a complex file). I’ll be on a social site, see a thread that I’d like to comment on by linking an article, minimize that app, find the article in Safari, and return to my app, only to find that the social app was closed for me and I probably can’t find the thread again. Playing a game? If the game doesn’t constantly auto save then I lose all progress if I answer a phone call while playing.
I would like to get a better understanding of how the "Recents" folder in the Finder's sidebar works, especially since many times I expected to find files I have just created at the top of "Recents" list, but they don't show up (whether they were created with commercial apps like Photoshop, or system ones like Preview). What's the polling interval? Shouldn't this folder be updated immediately when there's a change in the file system?
To reproduce: 1) Create a new event 2) Type as the first line of the note the characters message: Result: the word message: converts to Show in Mail... This happened to me by accident when I added this as the first line of a calendar note, and it deletes the rest of the text in the note if there is any.
Just upgraded High Sierra to macOS 10.13.4. A bunch of fonts are missing after upgrading to macOS 10.13.4. What happened to these fonts?
I am looking into IFTTT as a alternative to Tasker or Llama context-aware task automation. Especially I am looking for controlling the various radio devices on an iPhone, like Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi or mobile data. However, I am stuck at the IFTTT home page.
It works great in all situations except one: using Microsoft Office software. More specifically, Office uses the "Language" input setting to set the spellcheck language.
I don't mean file system snapshot, I mean the system state that is saved by the hibernate procedure (or deep sleep), to be recovered after a shutdown, so that I I'm able to restart from the situation (opened windows, running processes, etc) as it was when I did the save operation. This is possible with Virtual Machines (yeah, I know it's physically different, cause they save the virtual hardware and don't rely on the OS capabilities) and basically, it should be the functionality run upon hibernation, without the final power off step. I need this because my old Mac has started shutting down out of nothing, with the system restarting from scratch after that (so, all previous app have to be reopened, all unfinished jobs need to be restarted). Note also I don't mean the "reopen apps" functionality that is available as a login option: that just relaunch apps, but they restart from scratch, not from their previous state.
I'm using screen inside terminal, but when I have multiple tabs, I can't cast Ctrl+a+Tab because Ctrl+Tab switches me to next tab inside Terminal instead of switching to next tab inside screen. I thought I can do this with Karabiner Elements, but I was only able to remove Ctrl+Tab from terminal.
A bit of an unusual question maybe. A friend needed to set up her new iPhone but doesn't have a computer and is restricted to mobile data at the moment. She wanted to back up her old iPhone to use on the new one. I tried to back her old one up using an old MacBook that I thought I had wiped, but realised partway through that all my photos (from iPhoto) were still on the MB. I had logged out of iTunes and it is logged in using my friend's Apple/iTunes account...it's just that the MB had been linked to my Apple account for my photos. The more I think about it, the less likely it is that the photos were transferred from my MB iPhoto to her iPhone backup...but I just thought I'd check.
My FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) is not detected anymore. Logitech C310 HD Webcam System Requirement does not include MacOS meaning the web camera may not be compatible or work with Macs.
I can't use/see Google Drive files on the Files app on iOS 11. Instead it comes up with this error:
We have a Mid 2015 retina MBP that I am trying to restore some data from a Time Machine backup to. This is a business, so we save TM backups to a NAS (network attached storage) device. Yesterday I tried loading Time Machine via "Enter Time Machine" and browsing to the date in question, but it sat at "Waiting" for over 3 hours. I rebooted the NAS and tried again, but nothing changed:
My MacBook screen cracked (very minimal tiny crack) and at first it was showing something, a few minutes later the screen is completely black. Now, I didn't have an issue with that the first couple of days because I was using an external display so I didn't really mind the cracked black screen. The problem is, one day I restarted the computer and now it won't connect to the external display and won't even get past the login screen (I was using voice over to login but after that nothing works, I'm assuming since voice over is not saying whats on screen).
I faced with strange rendering problems when use Safari in my iMac: sometimes after I search in Google using address bar, page not rendered and text in address bar disappears (see attached screenshots).  And sometimes text in address bar became invisible
I have this keyboard *=URL=* and am running Sierra on my Mac. How can I make all the function keys (F1, F2, F3 ....) work? They are not responding. This is my config: Update, looks like the drivers are installed
I want my mac screen never dim, never sleep, never turn off. below is my power setting
I'd like to change the default smb settings at startup to remove timeouts. I have the following script;
What color wallpaper do I need to use to make the page control dots invisible? I know, you can't really hide them, as in "remove from the screen" (without jailberaking) but you can make them almost invisible if you select the right color of the wallpaper. I have tried using two different wallpapers, while one makes them almost invisible the other does not, but the dots are over the same color on both wallpapers.
Yet another marvellous new 'feature' - Safari 11.1 now will not auto-fill any login data unless you specifically click the first field, select the login drop menu, select the login.... Is there any way to go back to the old method & prevent this complete & utter waste of time, every time?
I just bought an Acer XB252Q gaming monitor that has 1080p 240hz. I was wondering if I can output 1080p at 240hz with my 2017 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar using a display port cable? I ask because on HDMI it only outputs 1080p at 60hz.
I did try to gunzip a folder in usr/local/ but it says permission denied. Same result with sudo. The su command just freezes.
Recently, my iPhone 6s Plus randomly starts opening programs and games one after the other until I shut it down. Then yesterday when I was on a phone call, numbers started rolling across the top of the screen like it was trying to dial. Today, when I was on a call, it disconnected twice with the message "system failure!"
I restarted my computer and it's like I have a new install. The system tells me it can't find a telephony file and my login startup items are gone. All my Finder preferences and other settings are gone. I am using El Capitan 10.11.6 and my home folder is on an external drive. Has anyone ever seen this?
The 2018 Subaru I bought has a "Starlink" media center that supports CarPlay. I have an iPhone 7, tethered to the player by USB. For various reasons I strongly prefer Google Maps to Apple Maps. However, if I'm playing anything in the foreground (radio, podcast) and Google Maps interrupts it with spoken instructions, the media doesn't resume playing afterward. The problem doesn't happen when using Apple Maps.
I had a whiteknuckle stalled update experience while restarting for the new point update (10.13.4) last night. Ultimately everything ended well, but I got hung up on the Startup Volume chooser a couple of times due to a quirk of my 8-year-old MBP 17’s optical bay SSD, and was curious about the second volume (named MacOS Update I believe?) that appeared alongside my startup disk.
I have a 2012 MBP non-retina. I've been running 2 old CRT's along with the laptops monitor. One CRT is connected through a Thunderbolt converter, and the other through a DVI/USB converter. When my system automatically updated to 10.13.4 today, I soon learned that: 10.13.4 does not support the USB converter... which I guess Apple considers an 'enhancement'? Just looking for some clever ideas as to how I might regain my expansive desktop, without 'having' to Time Machine back to 10.13.3.
In the Messages app, starting with the MacOS 10.13.4 upgrade Apple has removed the "AppleScript handler" option, which I had formerly used to play custom notification sounds when new messages were received from certain specific users (the feature removal confirmed today in a telephone conversation with an Apple Care rep, after I had opened a case regarding the missing feature). Is there any other way to play custom sounds that identify the sender of a newly-received message in Messages? Failing that, are there any similar applications (I prefer a free one) that are able to play custom sounds for newly-received messages from different message senders, and that support the XMPP protocol (used by Google Talk and similar services)?
I swiped down from the top of my screen to view my notifications accidentally clicked on one that I didn’t get to see properly and then I clicked off it. I pulled down my notification screen again but the notification has gone as I accidentally “cleared” it. Is there anyway to retrieve old notifications that have been cleared?
What? How did that file get modified? That's not the file I modified. Well I though maybe my IDE had it open, but no. Not open in Chrome or a different text editor. So I check lsof:
I am running macOS 10.13.4 and recently when I am getting calendar invites from an exchange server, the invites are doubling up. In other words, I am seeing two of everything and am forced to accept both, so I end up with double events in my iCal. If I delete either, it sends a decline. How can I prevent double invites?
How can I find out which Apple ID has been used to set up my ipad - it has been hacked and is now some years old and I am in the process of restoring this device. This iPad is not listed on the Apple ID I have established.
I don't really like an idea of using an Apple ID and want to refrain from it. Is there a way to update macOS without registering into the Mac App Store?
I am trying to set up WhatsApp on my computer (Mac running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6). I am told to "select WhatsApp Web" in my iPhone settings. But there is no "WhatsApp Web" anywhere. The iPhone is running iOS 11.3.
I recently invested in a google WiFi as my old Time Capsule 4gen finally gave in and stopped receiving internet from the socket in the wall. The WiFi and lan-ports work fine though.
A few weeks ago I told all of my three external hard drives to encrypt. This went well, macOS (10.13.4) converted them to a APFS formatted encrypted volume, except for one drive. This drive doesn't complete it's encryption as it seems. Right-clicking on it shows a greyed-out entry for the "encrypt volume" command. I tried decrypting it using the cli by executing Which is answered with an error It seems as if the encryption got stuck somehow.
I have an mbp mid-2012 running the latest Sierra. I installed the latest update which attempted to restart the machine. The usual progress bar was showing and then it shut off. Curiously, it didn't restart. Now, when i press the power button, the sleep led flickers and then dies along with the machine. The screen never turns on. Things I've tried resetting SMC Are these symptoms familiar to anyone?
A message appeared on my iPhone this morning but went before I could read it properly. Something about an application update I think, not sure. Now I see under Accounts that my gmail account is listed as inactive.
I need help with hiding/showing the toolbar in Safari by using the terminal. I already found out that there exists a key within ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist called AutoShowToolbarInFullScreen that is either false or true and it changes when clicking "Always show toolbar in fullscreen mode" (Safari->View->Always show toolbar in fullscreen mode). I tried setting the property using defaults: defaults write com.apple.Safari AutoShowToolbarInFullScreen -bool true (or false) That worked, however, the UI did not update or layout itself after setting the property. Is there any way how to hide/show the toolbar in Safari or to update the Safari UI via the Terminal? Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Switching the input with CMD+Space language works in Remote Desktop only if you disable the shortcut in MacOS. If it's enabled, it's received and handled by MacOS, even if you are in Remote Desktop fullscreen at the moment. So, instead of switching the remote input language, it switches the local one. Are there any workarounds? I'm thinking of something like "disable that system shortcut in that particular app", but I can't find the functionality neither in the MacOS, nor in Karabiner. A relevant issue on Remote Desktop UserEcho
Last night I left my iPad close to my bed, placed above my Windows phone 8. When I woke up in the morning I was first surprised that the alarm didn't work, but when I checked, the iPad was off and very hot the side of the battery, the Microsoft phone was also very hot on its screen but the phone was on and is working properly but my iPad took some minutes to cool down and up to now it doesn't switch on. What is the step to power on or reset the power button on an iPad when one press doesn't work?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) *=URL=* Now after three years of use, the charger isn't responding to being plugged in. I tried to reset the SMC by holding down the left side shift control option and the power key but no luck.
Can I program a key to intercept any app that seeks attention? I think that Linux, Gnome or KDE, used to have this a long time ago, ctrl-A or something like that is the hot key to activate the space / app that needs attention on other OS. What automation or tool might do this on macOS?
Safari 11.1 running under macOS Sierra 10.12.6., on a mid-2013 MacBook Air. The software is all up to date.
What happens to all the music I have accumulated during the time I have been using Apple Music if I choose to unsubscribe? As I have been paying for those songs, do they remain available for listening once I unsubscribed?
I have an Apple TV and a bunch of DVDs that I want to rip and then stuck in the loft. I want to watch them via the AppleTV.
I had an iPhone 5C for 4 years - all photos were backed up on iCloud. I know this 100% for sure.
I am using a 2009 13" MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11. On my desktop, I strangely have a PDF with the name "Macintosh HD" and the properties of my main system drive.
I downloaded this application: Donkey Simulator And after unzipping there should be an executable file but also a folder called "log", and once the application is running, new files are written into this "log" folder. However this does not happen and they warned about this situation:
I got a wireless magic keyboard with the numeric keypad. I installed bootcamp using windows 10 and am unable to connect the keyboard. At this point all i can do is use it plugged in. How do i pair it over bluetooth to be used wirelessly.
Any ideas on how to set up wireless printing on a HL-2270dw for someone running 10.13.x (High Sierra)? Most of the Brother instructions require 10.11 or 10.12. The SetupWizard Java App crashes on 10.13. Results in
What’s going on here? Why the huge discrepancy? And why can I still keep writing data to my iPhone?
Using my AirPods with my Mac is easy: Check the Show volume in menu bar checkbox in System Preferences > Sound. Ready the AirPods near the Mac. Click the Volume menu bar icon, and choose your AirPods. How to regain control of the AirPods in iOS 11 such as on an iPhone?
Just upgraded from 10.12.6 to 10.13.3. Everything seemed to go smoothly... except I see I have no Recovery Partition any more - holding down Option at startup just gets me my macOS and BootCamp boot options. Here is the results of mount: So is no Recovery Partition expected with 10.13?
My disk was only 1 part. I tried to install Windows using Boot Camp. I followed the steps mentioned on the official Apple website, but I got an error message while installation. When I checked my disk status, I have 2 disk part now: Container 1: 86.55 GB, empty Container 2: 156 GB, MacintoshHD
If so, what would I then need to do to 1) connect and log in and 2) restore from Time Machine from the command line? Step by step instructions for a command line n00b please :) Thanks very much!
After installing High Sierra when it was released, I was initially happy with APFS and gave no care to its relative novelty. Recently I've been using Linux, macOS, and Windows, and having to reboot back into macOS just to grab a file and then copy it to my Windows or Linux partitions is becoming inconvenient and tedious, not to mention a waste of space. I decided that I'd make the attempt to convert my macOS partition back to HFS+. Here are the steps I've taken so far:
When I open up my terminal I now get: In my .bash_profile it says: Any idea what is going on?
My computer opens many folders through obscure codes. Instead of closing them one by one, I tried to force quit Finder. However, there's only relauch option. After relaunching, those folders still exist. How to resolve such a problem?
How do I resolve this issue? All I could find on Google is people saying Install Xcode Command Line Tools.
When I search for mail in Mac Mail, the search results tell me that the mail it located is in a folder called "2018". But I have lots of sub-folders called "2018" with different parent/containing folders; I want to know where this folder is in my folder hierarchy.
Is there a way to disable the mobile-data-saving features in iOS? I now have a mobile plan with unlimited LTE data, it's faster and more reliable than most Wi-Fi connections as well. So it would be great if I could tell my iPhone that it's ok to do things such as download 100+ MB apps from the App Store, or actually download videos from my iCloud photo library in full 4k/60fps resolution, or download an iOS update etc.
I have a MacBook Pro Touch 2017. A few days ago, I noticed that the display seems to have started to have a very faint warm/reddish tint, but I can tell the difference nonetheless. The greys aren't "cool grey" but more like "red grey", and the whites are sort of "faint pink-white".
This is not the VR experience I was sold on. I had imagined that: I would pop the phone in the goggles Place the goggles on my head Use the VR controller to navigate my phone and to initiate the VR app
I need to understand which version of sqlite3 is used by a GUI app. I have several versions installed on my machine and I want to know which one is available to MacOS GUI app. There must be a place which defines a PATH to the GUI apps.
Playing around with this new phone, as you do, I’ve turned on the annoying voice of Siri and he’s driving me mad spelling out loud everything I’m typing! please can anyone help me get rid of him before I crush this phone!!! Thanks in advance Lynn x
I have a 6 generation iPod touch and am looking for a specific app. I want to be able to play some track in the background, let's say song A, and then not only that it'll keep playing when I minimize the app - I also need it to keep playing while I play different tracks on the Music app, for example. Song A (from the app I'm looking for) and Song B (from my iPod's music) should be playing simultaneously. Is that even possible on iOS?
I wanted to try to mount a Linux ISO in Mac and later mount it in a docker container (all for learning) but I wasn't able to mount the disk using hdiutil command as it kept on giving error - So I found a workaround here and I was able to successfully mount the disk at mount point in /tmp Output of mount command: Output of diskutil list command: How do I unmount this ISO mounted at /tmp/rhel-installer? I have used diskutil unmountDisk command which runs successfully but doesn't do anything.
The photos would disappear from iOS after the first Time Machine/Time Capsule backup from macOS. This is particularly important to ensure that once I delete junk photos from macOS (extras taken, poorly lit, inadvertently saved after receipt via this or ThatsApp), I do not find that they are—ever-so-helpfully—still hanging on somewhere else. Update
I tried to view all the processes dynamically with command top, unfortunately, it not allows forward movements of command less, just show one page. Meanwhile, top command works properly on ubuntu. How to solve the problem?
What does not work But when it is detected like this, the systems seems to not consider it as a proper microphone or audio input, and because of this you cannot control it, that is selecting it as source in applications like GarageBand/Skype or controlling its volume. In fact, when you want to select the audio source for an application like GarageBand or Skype, it just doesn't appear, and I only see "built-in microphone" in the menu, while I would expect to also see the "External Microphone / iPhone headset) which appears if I click on "System report" as explained in the "what works" section. Plus, perhaps because of this problem, I cannot even control its volume, which is quite low. Possible explanation The system seems to just recognize that it is connected as part of a headset (because I connected it using the splitter above, again see this question for details), but nothing more. Question(s) Do you know any advanced setting (or terminal tool) for MacOS or any external application c
This problem can be seen when we deal with auto-completion feature of given IDE. I noticed this behaviour in text editors like: Xcode, Vim, VScode, Atom.
Applescript (speak) option for Messages has totally disappeared with latest High Sierra update - Does anyone have any information about this and how to get it back? I so enjoyed having my messages read aloud to me when they came in.
I'm using an old Macbook Pro (2011) to host a few websites. Everything works fine, but after a long time without hitting the server the websites take a really long time to load (even in my local network) and I can't figure out why. I imagine that it has to do with the machine entering in a sleep state, or something similar, but that's just a guess. Any idea of what could be happening? Turn off Put hard disks to sleep when possible (Preferences->Energy Saver) macOS version: 10.13.3 Server software: Caddy Disabling the sleep mode: InsomniaX
If I use a track from my music library as the alarm sound — on any given iOS device, will the playback times be updated every time the alarm fires? Or maybe when the whole track is played?
However, the files that were deleted were on iCloud/Documents (where so many of my files are.) I assumed this was a redundant backup.
I edited about 20 photos on my phone yesterday -- cropped, altered saturation and contrast etc. This morning, on my phone, those edits have all reverted to the original photos.
There was a question on Disable Command-W in the terminal but is there a way to determine Command-W globally on MacOS? I keep accidentally closing my applications.
I want to create a little bash script that restart my mac and boots from another partition. Of course I could do that with changing the startup partition, but that would cause that it would always boot from it. It should only do that if the script will be executed. Is that possible? And if so, how? Thanks for your help
I’ve been searching on the forums and Google for a while now but couldn’t find a answer to my question. It’s a ._filename related one but one who varies from the search results. First my Hardware setup: iMac Retina 5K, 27 inch Late 2015 (iMac17,1), 2 TB Fusion drive, two partitions (1: High Sierra, 2: Bootcamp with Windows 8) Macbook Pro, 13 inch, Mid 2012 (MacBookPro9,2), 256 SSD, one partition (High Sierra) Both machines have been reinstalled this month, both are running the latest version of macOS High Sierra with all updates installed. Now when I copy files to a FAT32 USB stick on my iMac it’s creating those ._filename. When I do the same thing on my MacBook Pro it’s not creating those ._filename.
This is my first question on this forum. My MacBook has been turning off randomly when left unplugged. It shuts down before the battery indicator reaches 0%. I have reset the SMC and PRAM several times before. It starts up and i've cycled the battery 2 or 3 times after a reset. So it does start up without being connected and has let me cycle the battery from 100% to 0% Since it's actually letting me cycle the battery, i'm under the impression that it's working again. But out of no where it's shuts off on me randomly.
The display hangs on one page after I invoke process through command top, Press 'space', 'arrow' take no effects. I got recommend to use htop, but find it complicated to manipulate. How to page top command down?
Potential virus Hi I recently went to a streaming website and after watching a movie I went on and did other things like surf the web But two hours later in a next safari tab I noticed that It had rapidly changing URLs and it was basically a blank page but with different urls changing under seconds I was wondering if my machine is compromised?
I am trying to download photos from my Windows PC onto my iPad. I don't want to use iTunes. I am trying to download wirelessly. I used VLC app. I dragged my pictures into the designated area in the app. Each picture downloads and says 100% complete. A thumbnail of the picture never comes up it just says 100% in the spot the thumbnail should be. I can not find my photos anywhere on my iPad even after several attempts. I was only able to get 3 pictures to download onto my iPad. I waited a week and tried again this time nothing downloaded. I have also used several different transfer apps and nothing seems to work.
Long story short, I recently deleted the Google YouTube app off my iPad 1 in hopes to fix some weird behavior. I planned to reinstall it right after, but to my dismay, it wouldn't let me download it from the purchased section. I'm aware that if an app no longer supports your ios version, but it used to, you can go to the purchased section of the store and attempt to download it. A warning would appear that says you can download the last supported version of the app for your device.
MacOS could not be installed in your computer The installer resource were not found Quit the installer to restart the computer and try again Pressed restart then it hang and get this MacOS message again
I was updating Xcode and macOS High Sierra at the same time. The OS restarted and then Xcode was in update "paused" state. I tried but couldn't restart/resume it so I deleted the app hoping it would be fixed. Now the app is removed but I still have that icon in my Launchpad.
On Linux (or X in general), it's possible to move a window while holding down a modifier key (Alt+drag or Super+drag) and clicking on ANY part of the window. This makes moving windows super easy, as one doesn't have to aim so well ;) On macOS (High Sierra), this doesn't seem to be enabled/possible by default. How do I enable this or what add on do I need?
I'm noticing that Google Chrome (Version 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) (64-bit) — current version as of writing this question) has enabled my MBP camera and, perhaps, the microphone: I have no tabs open (just one window, which defaults to *=URL=* I have also disabled all Chrome extensions and apps. I went into Chrome's settings and set the switches to require sites that use the camera and microphone to first ask my permission.
As pressing ⌥⇧7 keys simultaneously to type a backslash character (\) on a German iMac (macOS High Sierra 10.13.4) keyboard is rather unhandy and painful I would like to know whether it is possible to change the key combination to something different, like ⌃7? Is there any way to achieve this without using any third-party application?
I updated an iMac 2011 to High Sierra and now the dock and the upper bar disappear continuously and the wallpaper turns black. Just for a second, then all restart again. And it is happening all the time. It's like the GUI is restarting but other apps don't.
SO I am a brand new Apple user. I have multiple email IDs, namely: gmail.com my office email
I have placed 200GB SanDisk card inside Nifty adapter and put it into SDXC slot in my Mac. I want to use it as permanent & encrypted storage. Unfortunately encryption requires GUID partition which I tried to create but without any luck. "Partition" option - under "APPLE SD Card Reader Media" in Disk Utility - is greyed out.
At one point when attached to the MacBook Air wirelessly, holding my finger down on the trackpad with enough force to normally make it click once, it would start clicking at about 15 clicks/second, with additional attempts sometimes causing about 7-8 clicks/second. Removing my finger from the trackpad stops this behaviour. Note: names have been replaced with (me) Note: names have been replaced with (me)
I have a Macbook Pro retina 15 inch (Mid 2014) with High Sierra OS. When I close my macbook and open again, the trackpad turns crazy and starts moving and clicking by itself. I have to make a force restart (option + power) in order to fix it. Now I'm using my mac without closing it. I've done a full clean reinstall of the OSX and still happening. I ran the apple's test and everything it's ok. Any suggestions?
I have opened up an old Time Capsule because the power supply was broken. The light did not turn on anymore. So I removed the HDD and used a SATA to USB cable for it. Since it requires 2 USB connections (to power the drive) I used an USB extension cable because the MacBook Air has no 2 USB connections next to each other.
I'm creating some Automator services and applications to create custom "workspaces" depending on which project I'm working on. I've created a service in Automator with a shell command that opens a specific Chrome profile window.
If I plug my iPhone into a Windows computer the photos I believe DCIM folders display as basically a drive. All you do is drag and drop the files you want. This works great!
Since installing High Sierra I’ve had trouble booting into Mac OS X from Windows 10. I use a 2016 MacBook Pro, run closed, hooked up to two external monitors. When I restart Windows, I hold down the alt key to select the startup disk and select the Mac drive. The next step is that I have to enter my password to unlock FileVault.
In Pages it is possible to center an element (such as an image, a table, etc.) whose "Object Placement" has been made "Move with Text" and "Text Wrap" setting into "Inline with text"? When I click the image, table, or chart, I see no option in the format styles panel to center the element.
Is there any way (even a brute-force workaround) to assign a unique ringtone to "No Caller ID"? Manually assigning a ringtone to all contacts and setting the default ringtone to something different is not an acceptable solution to the problem, because both unknown callers and No Caller ID callers will use the default ringtone. I would like a ringtone that's unique specifically for No Caller ID. Thanks!
How can I make a modern iPad show photos like the old iPad, ie. on the whole screen, with a subtle transition effect, and most importantly, in random order?
I have read answers to similar questions and it does not answer it completely. I do not get prompted to answer where I want to send the message. It just automatically sends to phone, email, and mobile. This is a serious problem since it is trying to send to landlines as well.
I have this issue for a long time in iOS. But it's so annoying lately. Here is the situation, 5 months back I moved to new address. I changed my address in the contacts. When I try to create a new event and type 'home' in the address, it shows the old address as a home address and new address as 'John Doe Home'. Same happens for work address. But my MacBook shows it right. I use Gmail calendar in the calendar app. Is there a way to fix this? I tried following solutions and nothing worked so far Unlinked my Facebook Deleted home address and added again Removed home address from significant locations in the Privacy section Checked Gmail calendar settings, everything looks good
I'm having some issues tethering my internet connection from an Android to my MacBook. It must be an issue with the MacBook, as it works on Ubuntu without a problem. A tried to re-pair the device and even remove the configuration from network settings and add it again but with no luck so far. Any ideas?
I have a late 2009 21.5" iMac. It has a mini display port. Its hard drive has been formatted, and I haven't re-installed OSX yet (and don't want to if I don't have to). I'd like to use the iMac as an external display for a windows PC that has a display port.
I have two Macs, A and B, on the same local network. I'd like to access a folder on B from A. I've used sshfs before, but this requires osxfuse which requires rebooting the machine. Is there any way to mount a remote folder without having to restart my Mac?
I have had issues with my macbook pro due. My fault. I backed it up, and decided to do a fresh copy of the MacOS. I had so many issues with that. Recovery didn't work. It froze. Repeatedly. Did Internet Recovery, and that didn't work either. Also froze. Found my disc and got that to install. Couldn't download anything from the app store. Finally figured out to click the top left apple icon and do software update. Then app store worked. Installed the latest iOS I had in the purchased page - OS X El Capitan. Got all the updates done and caught up and it is running pretty great. Except - I can't get the High Sierra to install. That freezes. I've left it all day and tried several times. Never gets half way.
On macOS, I can choose Add Bookmarks for These 108 Tabs... which let's me save all open tabs to a bookmarks folder. Is there an equivalent on iOS? My workaround is to use iCloud tabs to copy the tabs from iOS to macOS and then do the above.
Tried booting into Single User Mode to see if I could terminal-foo my way out of it. Hangs after an "AdjustBusy timeout in 40000ms!" so I could never get to a command prompt.
At a loss as to what I can do now. I'd be happy to reformat the drive and install a fresh version of OS X as I have everything backed up on an external drive but I can't seem to get to that stage. Any tips would be much appreciated.
I've seen some code editors, like Brackets, that autofill the closing tag when you are writing HTML code. Is there a way that I can program TextWrangler to do so, or is that not an available function of the program?
As I move my mouse around the screen it will briefly get stuck at random points then start moving again. This doesn't happen on the MacBook Pro trackpad...only when I have a Magic Mouse connected. This also happens most often on the left 1/4 of the screen when coming from the right side of the screen or trying to transition from the lower to upper half of the screen. This started happening right after Security Update 2018-002 for Sierra 10.12.6. Restarting hasn't fixed it. My cursor size in Accessibility > Display is normal.
I have Mac Mini with an external hard drive. The external drive is indexed with Spotlight. Whenever I use Spotlight to start an app on the local machine, the external drive spins up, because obviously Spotlight wants to check the spotlight files on the external drive for search hits. The drive makes an audible noise, and stays running for some five minutes until it idles to a stop.
I'm trying to use LaTeX fonts in my LibreOffice Impress presentation so I downloaded the lmroman12 fonts from here and installed them via font-book. But when I open a document containing the font it does not load them hinting: the current font is not available and will be substituted I would appreciate if you could help me know what is the problem and how I can solve it.
TextWrangler for Mac does not have an HTML Entities palette built in to easily put special characters and symbols into your code. Is there a way to download one and integrate it into the program?
So I have a simple AppleScript that I think should type a bunch of keys, but the period character doesn't print in VMware Fusion's virtual machines. This is odd because my period key (.) enters a period like normal in those VMs. Here is my latest version that I tried:
I want to run my laptop screen and both 27" Apple displays at the same time. Basically achieve this setup: *=URL=* but with my hardware.
I was getting all notifications from one contact but all of a sudden it just stopped giving me notifications. Also it automatically opens the text and it doesnt say that I have read the message but read receipts are on. "Hide notifications" is turned off too. I have an iPhone 8 Plus.
I use my MacBook pro late 2011 with SSD, 8gb ram etc at home with an extra monitor as an almost desktop PC, however I just purchased a MacBook air 2012 128gb SSD which is running Yosemite to use when I'm out of the house etc. By any chance would I be able to carbon copy the MacBook pro stuff (has things like office documents etc.) And flash them onto the air ? Really don't wanna go through the hassle of setting everything up again . Hard drive space not an issue since I only used like 60 on the mac pro. Any help would be appreciated thanks:)
I've read all the techniques to reset an iPad and none of them work. Not only do I not know the password to the Apple ID, the Apple ID doesn't exist at all! It was a former employee's email address. So I just recreated his old email account and registered with Apple as a new Apple ID. But the iPad won't take the Apple ID password I just created...
Tap-to-click works fine, and so does right-click - most of the time. Left click does not work at all, unless you press it very hard at the very corner and hold it there for a while until it registers, although it worked a little sporadically yesterday, worked completely normal the day before. The computer was manufactured mid-2013, but the battery was in 2016 and replaced mid-2017 - that's all the modifications done to it. I'm guessing it's a hardware problem, but the clicking sound and feel is completely normal. Any ideas about what is at fault and how to fix it?
I have some applications that routinely prevent restarts from happening correctly (most often iTerm2 and Slack, though others participate as well). When I request a Restart, these applications will present an "Are you sure?" dialog and halt the restart process. This annoying most of the time, but especially so when I've requested system updates to install overnight and I instead waste the first several minutes of my day after clicking "Yes I'm sure" and then allowing the reboot to proceed. Is it possible to tell OSX to always reboot when requested and never stop for user input?
This one is hard, I fear. I need to script dragging MP4 files into my Android emulator (Android Studio), which I normally do by manually dragging. Scripting it seems hard because the emulator resides in the SDK folder and doesn't have an app, that I can see, with only something called qemu-system-i386 running in Activity Monitor. So any of these would work for me a) a way talk to the process and tell it I've dragged an MP4 over (so it should receive it and put it in its storage) b) copy it into the storage emulator file manually somehow or c) otherwise hack the UI so it thinks I've dragged a file, with good reliability Any advice would be much appreciated!
APFS supposedly features cloning for files and directories I would like to figure out how this works, but I can't find a way to use this feature. The only man page which seems vaguely relevant is clonefile(2), which says:
Macbook Pro early 2011 model - 13" - running El Capitan. I've been seeing other people reporting this left and right and mostly they don't look at the activity monitor first. I can say I have and my activity on my computer isn't high at all most of the time. Here is a screenshot of a typical situation
I would like to improve my typing. Currently, I start web dev with vim. I use one of the feature called split, which create new window for me. then we need to hit Control+ W to move around cursors. I find myself vary awkward hit press the control key and w key at the same time, pinky for control key and ring for w key.
What is the fastest/easiest way to download your Apple Music library for offline playback on an iPhone when transferring to a new device on iOS 11.3 and above? The advice out there about how to download your whole library in Apple Music (create a playlist in iTunes, download by genre, etc) doesn't seem to work any more as you have to open up the list of tracks and there's a download icon next to each item instead of being able to download all as a whole.
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017, Sierra 10.12.6, iMovie 10.1.8 I have a project that I'm learning on. Got the video clip thing coming along well. Just detached audio so I can start learning that, but before I did anything, just one of the clips lost its sound. The audio waveform is still there, all sound controls are not muted, but I can't get the sound to play on this one clip. Can't detach the audio from this clip either. Mystified here!
I have an iMac 27" Late 2015 with High Sierra installed. When I bought it, it came with Sierra installed, and when High Sierra was released I made a clean install but formatted my Fusion Drive to APFS. I had some problems but finally I got the 10.13.3 working properly. Now when I try to update to the 10.13.4 it simply doesn't update. Nor via Apple Store, not via downloading the whole installer of the update. And when I try to reinstall the whole system via a thumb drive I receive the “an error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again” message. I have already corrected the date but even though it doesn't install. Any suggestions?
I just added a new contact to my iPhone. When I look at the contact page there's a FaceTime icon (Under, next to that person's phone number). Does that mean that this person has an iPhone?
I have a mini-mac on my local network with remote login and screen sharing turned on, and have the password to one of the users login. Problem is, I can't currently connect it to a screen via HDMI (to see the user names), and I don't remember the correct user name. Being able to list user accounts given the mac's Host Name / IP would be really handy. Is it possible to list the user names of a remote mac before having remote shell access?
I have an iPhone 5S (iOS 11.3) New mail is arriving fine. But when I manage mail on my MacBook (delete/file emails) these changes are not syncing with the phone?
Is there a way (even external app, etc...) to get smart inverted colors on mac os? For instance, images and selected text are very hard to read at current stage. Thanks.
I regularly run a .jsx script in Adobe Illustrator that saves a bunch of files in a particular format. while Illustrator is the active app, running the script on 5 files takes 23 seconds. while Illustrator is the active app, running the script on 5 files takes 23 seconds. When Illustrator is not the foremost app, running the script on 5 files takes more than 5 minutes. When Illustrator is not the foremost app, running the script on 5 files takes more than 5 minutes. According to Activity Monitor, Illustrator is using around 75% of the CPU when in the foreground but is throttled to less than 2% when in the background. According to Activity Monitor, Illustrator is using around 75% of the CPU when in the foreground but is throttled to less than 2% when in the background. According to Activity Monitor, App Nap is not being used. According to Activity Monitor, App Nap is not being used. Why is this happening, and is there a way to change it?
In Mac OS, file and folder access permissions are managed in a layered way with basic unix (POSIX) style owner/group/everyone read/write/execute modes along with, recently added access control lists (ACL) for additional access control. Both the POSIX and ACL controls can be managed from the command line with the traditional unix command 'chmod'. For example:
I got a small script that quit app when the computer is idle for X amount of time. It works fine but if I save it as an app and start it, I can't quit it. Result is I have to force quit my script app to restart my computer. Can I fix this? Is it the repeat loop that not the way to do it? Thanks
I have a Mac Book Air that I have shortcut the battery on, so I just use the computer with the power cord. It shuts down after 20 minutes and I want to know if there is some parameters I can change in the terminal setup to prevent this ? I have set the sudo pmset sleep to 0 as well as the disksleep and the displaysleep but this isn't enough :( /Micke
Don't really know how to describe it, but I think I have the same issue as here so here are some details. My girlfriend got a new iPhone 8. When she opens the Health app, in the Sources tab it shows my iPhone as a data source. She can see and edit my step count. Not that I really care (I have nothing to hide :-)) , but it's pretty strange and she'd like to see her values there.
The problem remains. I've also tried to clear the NVRAM but also doesn't seem to working as expected. I see no loss in setting or any change at all on the laptop. I have few questions of the subject, as I am new in the Mac world and any help would be appreciated
So I wanted to use an ad-hoc network that uses both Linux and macOS. However, the macOS device says to be connected, but is not reachable.
I know the trick with "show package contents" and I've gone to: $ECLIPSE_HOME/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS However, the file in there is 'eclipse', rather than 'eclipse.ini'
I noticed that the WiFi speeds (ping & rates) on my MacBookPro11,3 (osx 10.12.6) are far, far worse than with Ethernet or with other devices on the same network. With WiFi my speeds are rarely above 1 mbps; whereas over Ethernet (same machine, same router) or WiFi on my Android phone (S7) I get a steady 20-25 mbps.
I'm sharing a large volume from a Mac running Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra via SMB. When a share user creates a new folder, they can't manage the permissions on that folder, from their Windows client. How can I configure default permissions for new files and folders created by my SMB share clients to allow users to change permissions on their newly created files and folders?
I have various books on my iPad that I do not want. Tried to select and delete permanently,it removed from iPad but not from iCloud. I sync'd my iPad to my Mac thinking I could do it that way, but it still doesn't work. How do I delete PERMANENTLY from iPad and iCloud? Are some books put there by Apple so they can't be removed?
So I have a set of data such that: "Months A/B/C" represent X values, and Cost represents the associated Y value. Combined, there is the data there to plot three different data series on this one scatter graph. However for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to add X axis for each series, they all seem to use the "Months A" X values, rather than their own.
I am trying to connect my MacBook pro to my vizio via HDMI cord. I have the right cord plugged into the computer and also the only HDMI port for this tv. I put the tv set to HDMI but it still says that the device is not connected or powered on. I am using my hotspot from my phone to run my computer. That still should have a roll in why the HDMI cord is not working for my tv.
I have Java 8 installed by an admin /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Home/bin /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin I needed to install java9, so I downloaded and installed the JDK to However, I got no .../jre folder! When I tried to install the JRE as a standalone, the installation completed fine but there's nothing new under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines (or jdk-9.0.4.jdk)
My Notification Center is a vast wasteland of unwanted alerts. I really don't want to open the Preferences pane and go through Every. Single. App. and click around to change things -- I'll give myself RSI. Is there any way to: Batch modify the settings from the command line, and/or Configure default settings for new apps?
Having used Google Chrome for a long time, I've previously taken it for granted that multiple tabs in a given browser window can be selected, either one at a time (Ctrl-click) or in a contiguous range (Shift-click). (The main reason one would do this is to drag multiple tabs simultaneously to a new browser window, or from one window to another.) I'm giving Mac Safari a chance to win me over, but the very basic functionality of selecting multiple tabs appears to be completely absent. Am I missing something?
I've a problem with skype, and I don't get any notifications (nothing at all), messages or anything else. No sound no notification in the notifications center.
I use Automator as a productivity tool to set up my environment for work. The script I'm working with basically does the following: - Quit all open apps - Pause for 5 seconds - Launch Terminal - Launch Editor - Launch Music Player ... etc I have exported this workflow as an App.
I'm unsure if this is a mac issue or a browser issue, I suspect the former so I'll try here first. In short, I have a few browser applications that generate desktop notifications. If I lock my mac and within a short span of time, ~45 seconds or less, over 4 notifications appear, the computer won't wake. Once when I walked away, it had even rebooted itself by the time I got back, but I have not been able to replicate this. I don't know if non-browser generated notifications cause the same problem. This is not a problem while the mac is unlocked.
I recently followed the instructions here to mount an Apple-formatted HFS external drive on Ubuntu. I transferred the files I needed, then unmounted the drive. Now the drive won't mount in OSX. In Disk Utility, the volume (top level) and partition (bottom level) for the external hard drive show up, but the partition will not mount. First Aid on the top level completes without error, but running First Aid on the partition level fails. What could be preventing me from mounting the drive after following those instructions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have found lots of answers about remapping one key to another('A' to 'B')but cant seem to find how to swap the order of a single key so that shift+(-/) gives me a dash(-) and a single press alone give me an underscore (). I would prefer a command line DIY solution (like Technical Note TN2450 *=URL=* than having to download a program.
I'm trying to emulate my ISP setup to configure a few devices remotely before sending it to site. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter X that is configured for PPPoE on VLAN 10 using credentials myusername and mypassword.
I understand if I block someone on one device, the person will also blocked on my other devices. I always believed this is done through iCloud, but something weird happened. I use different apple id on my iDevices and my computers, so they do sync contacts using different apple ids. What I found was block and unblock anyone on my phone get reflected on my macs and vise versa. I'm so puzzled. How does the block list get synced? I suppose it's still via iCloud, but how do they sync between two different apple id? Anyone knows how this work?
Has anyone got a stable setup for miracast to a microsoft wireless display adapter from a 13" macbook pro 2017? Previous macbooks (air & pro) connect without issue. The latest model will connect, but it is very intermittent, mostly can't see the adapter and mostly fails to connect when it can see it.
I have made an Automator workflow that renames files automatically when they are places in a folder "SCRIPTZ". It is supposed to add the words RENAME_ to the file [DELETE] WatchOUT eXtreme Brochure EN-LR.pdf. But it has added it 23 times instead. It does this with all files I add to the folder. RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_REN AME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME _RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_RENAME_[DELETE] WatchOUT eXtreme Brochure EN-LR.pdf Does anyone have any ideas why the script is repeatedly renaming on the files in the folder?
I have this problem in my main user account which manifest itself that some file types in the Finder incorrectly preview as text. For example I have several .dmg file that looks like this:
We have a legacy Mac in our inventory with Mavericks installed. Just looking for advice from anyone who has done an OS upgrade to High Sierra. Does it work well or is it best to just leave it as-is and keep it cleaned up as much as possible? If upgrading is an option, what were any hurdles that we can potentially avoid? It's a pretty vanilla system other than being a bit on the older side.
I downloaded a certain video file from a certain online source. I was able to view it just fine using Quick View, but when I attempted to actually open the file in QuickTime Player, the app crashed. This happened three times in quick succession. After restarting my Mac, QuickTime Player is now nowhere to be found, and the default app for opening movie files is now VLC. What the heck happened? How can I restore QuickTime Player? (I'm using macOS High Sierra v10.13.4.)
When I write 7/3 in spotlight it automatically shows result but the font is too small and doesn't have enough contrast. Is there a way to increase the size of the result font or all Spotlight fonts in general?
This might seem like a duplicate at first sight, but bear with me for a minute. TLDR; A quick command line way to restore the whole shell environment to the same as upon terminal startup, while not losing the print (scroll up) of the previously executed commands and their outputs.
In my household, there is a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, both of which backup to a NAS via Time Machine. There is also a portable external hard drive that we use for storing large media files. I would like the external hard drive to backup to the NAS when it's connected to either laptop, without duplicating files on the backup. Is this possible? The only solution I can think of would be to have one machine exclude half the contents of the external drive from backups and have the other machine exclude the other half, so each machine's backup sparsebundle would include half the contents of the external drive, but that's a terribly inelegant solution.
I would like to know what does Finder's "Date Added" mean exactly (added to where?), and how does it compare to the "Date Created" (coming from Windows, there isn't something similar there to "Date Added"). Thanks!
Using the Apple Lightning > HDMI display adapter and then an HDMI > USB-C adaptor, can I output my 9.7" iPad Pro to my LG Ultrafine 4K for word processing etc? This question implies that it could be done, albeit at a 1600x900 resolution. Has anyone tried this? Does the Ultrafine scale up the resolution satisfactorily?
I seem to be unable to enter "safe mode" (holding down shift at power-on). I am however able to get into recovery mode. First I tried just using the App Store update; this has previously always worked for me.
I am trying to download the latest version of Xcode from the AppStore so I can continue with my development. I am on a MBP 2016 touch-bar running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4. I did a lot of digging and can't seem to find anything recent or something that works.
I am trying to create a Windows Bootcamp partition on High Sierra but when I got to select the target disk it tells me that there is no space left on the macOS container. My SSD has 250 GB free space and it has a single APFS container with a single APFS Volume. How can I fix this? The computer is a late 2012 Mac Miniand it has a 16GB RAM and a primary SSD (512GB) and a secondary HDD (1TB). I would like to install Windows 10 to the primary SSD. The output for
This is my current setup:  1 year warranty expired. 90 days warranty warranty expired too. Using external keyboard on top of the internal keyboard for now. I need to disable the built-in one, because using the external keyboard sometimes triggers keystrokes from the internal keyboard. Alternatively, I can rebind some key to act as r I am looking for a temporary software solution; in particular something like this, but it should lock the keyboard instead of disabling the screen.
I was previously using a thunderbolt 2 to DVI-D connection to successfully connect my macbook pro retina 2014 to my monitor as follows...  This works fine but I recently wanted to use the same monitor with my Macbook Pro 2017 and so bought this thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter to give the following...
I would like to run a script at wakeup. So my laptop is sleeping, I open the lid, and the script should run immediately or within the minute after wakeup. This script should run at startup as well, as that is essentially the same situation. How can I run a cronscript at either wakeup and startup?
I have an extension that I need to build back to safariextz, but there is no + sign to add new extension. In the tutorials there are + signs but they are old tutorials and there is no new information. How do I build extension?
There is space named "other volumes" on my Macintosh HD system volume. I have not been installing or downloading files but this gray space has been growing! Sometimes, by restarting the machine, other volumes gets smaller and again grows rapidly. Now the MC HD volume is full. How to remove "other volumes"?
How would I configure mac's to open a browser to a certain website on login for all users? I work in a lab we need to distribute a survey. I'm looking for a possible terminal command to configure this.
I am trying to use internet recovery to install OS X Yosemite and dual boot it with High Sierra on my 2015 model 13-inch Macbook Pro, but I’m having some issues. I can boot into Internet Recovery, can choose an internet connection, but after doing that, absolutely nothing happens. The earth icon is still spinning, I can change to a different wifi, NOTHING happens. Is there anything I can do to start Internet Recovery properly? By the way, the computer already has High Sierra installed, and works properly.
I recently encountered this scenario: I had Evernote open, and it was updating itself. When I clicked "Update and Relaunch", I immediately switched back to Ommwriter. What I didn't expect was that upon relaunching Evernote, Mac OS would automatically switch to Evernote's window. The microsecond distraction was quite irritating.
I have a 2012 Mac mini Server running OSx El Capitan. Our server provider has been sending reports about my hard drive failing, telling us we need to replace it as soon as possible before we have data loss. I've run a smartctl scan on my system and have noticed a lot of errors: However I've also noticed that my overall SMART health scan passes: Would now be a good time to go ahead and replace my hard drive or am I good to wait for a little while?
My MacBook Air Early 2014 has a thunderbolt port. According to this article thunderbolt supports dual-mode DisplayPort (DP++), which in turn supports passive converters.
How can I get WiFi ack failure count, retry count and multiple retry count for on Mac ?
How do i select vertically (columnar) in TextEdit using keyboard? I can do that using mouse i.e. pressing the option button and selecting the text but I would like to do the same with keyboard. How do I do that?
I'm working on an application that uses UDP-broadcast for discovery. For what it's worth, I'm using ZeroMQ's pure-java implementation project, JeroMQ (but I don't think this is germane to the problem).
I have a workflow service I built using Automator that I would like to distribute through the Mac App Store. I've successfully "exported" the workflow, signed with my developer ID. I can open the workflow in XCode, but I don't see options to set the bundle ID, assign to a team etc. Any ideas?
CTRL+c / CMD+Dot and the nodemon rs commands are not working in tmux on iTerm or Terminal. No errors but just not working. Restarting terminal/iTerm/tmux does not fix it. It never works. Update: it seems to take a while and then CTRL+c seems to be executed.
I'm trying to reinstall Mac OS on a late 2009 21.5 inch iMac. The previous owner tried to install ubuntu on it but failed to get it to work properly so I'm trying to install Mac OS Sierra from a USB stick. I know the USB works because I can boot from it on my Macbook Pro. The problem is that I can't figure out how to get the iMac to boot from the stick. Whenever I try to get into startup manager all I get is an all white screen and a mouse curser. I can get into Ubuntu safe mode and grub but I'm not sure what I can do from there to make the mac boot from USB.
I upgraded from a MacBook Pro with Windows 7 in Boot Camp to an iMac with Windows 10 in Boot Camp. In Windows 7 my I had read access to my macOS volumes (no write access), however, in Windows 10 I can only see the Windows Boot Camp volume in Windows Explorer. Are the Mac volumes no longer accessible from within Windows?
I'm hoping to serve an NFS mount from my High Sierra (10.13.4) server to a linux client. The linux client can mount using NFSv3 protocol, but I use ACLs on the served files and directories, so I think we need NFSv4.
How can I fix my Imac? If problem about with EFI Flash, How can I reinstall EFI on rom. Thanks in advance
I am looking for a command line equivalent to the Get text from webpage option in /Applications/Automator.app. The Get text from webpageoption is pretty self explanatory, it gets the text only, without HTML tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc. from a webpage. I know I can use wget or curl but that will give me all the HTML tags, CSS, javascript, etc. not the only text version of the webpage. Thanks in advanced!
I want to change my default media player in macOS. (In my case, I want to change it to my own AppleScript-created instance of VLC that I exported as ‘VLC-New-Window.app’, which is scripted to always open files in a new VLC instance so that it doesn’t override the existing paused playlist or video file I want to keep in the background.) It is very tedious to find an example of every file type I use VLC for (whether mkv, avi, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, mp3, flac, or m2ts), right-click on it, and manually set the new default program each time. And honestly I’d like every audio or video file type that VLC can open to be applied here so that I never have to worry about this again. Is there any method that can help automate this, or do this in batch?
I am building presentations in the current version of Keynote on macOS Sierra. How do I move them to my iPad or iPhone for review and playback?
After reading a pdf file, I made many highlights and notes with a different colour, and each colour represents a specific meaning, for example, BLUE means something that I need to look deeper. My question is how can I search highlights and notes with different colour, for example, if I want to search all highlights with blue colour, how can I do that?
I'd like to enable Advanced Tools in iMovie preferences. When I open preferences, I only see:
After following this guide and giving my partition the proper GUID, i can't access it. Is there a way to recover the container reference its supposed to have or at least a way for me to extract data from it? disk0s2 is the one i "fixed" . .
If you type a sentence and hold command then press delete then it'll delete the whole line. What if I want to insert the cursor in the middle of a sentence and forward delete the right of the sentence?
I bought a broken late 2008 13" Aluminum Unibody MacBook on eBay. Supposedly, according to the listing, Apple had said the original battery needed to be replaced. The other issue was the slightly-damaged battery cover. The computer arrived and, upon powering on, did not even detect a battery indicated by the [x] mark on the screen. Hitting the battery indicator button on the side of the case also indicated no battery. I assumed the battery was completely shot and I bought a replacement third-party battery. The computer doesn't detect this battery either. I've performed PRAM and SMC resets. I tried two different magsafe chargers to eliminate the possibility of a bad charger. At one point, I was looking at the system report and the magsafe led suddenly changed to orange from green and the computer powered off suddenly before immediately turning to green.
An industrial application needs a barcode scanning kiosk and upload scans 18 hours a day,7 days a week. Users are not expected to touch the display, however, the display will be on broadcasting instructions and providing feedback that scans are successful. Has the iPad been tested or used in 18X7 duty cycles or similar high duty cycles?
Seems like I’m missing a delete button at the bottom. I do not have family sharing enabled. How do I get rid of this list?
I screwed something up. i just got vlc for apple tv 4 and enabled file sharing from my mac mini 2014 running high sierra 10.13.4. it ran great but it allowed anonymous login, so i thought i'd restrict it because I live in high rise and use wifi. Anyway, I deleted some users ('staff', "Everyone") and added a new admin. Now nothing works. vlc recognizes my computer in smb but when i try to access it the folder reads empty. Can't see anything on iphone app, either. is there someway to reset the thing? i tried diskutil resetUserPermissions / id -u in terminal, nothing doing.
I have a brand new MacBook Pro provided by our home & contents insurance which is replacing my wife's Mid-2013 model that was accidentally damaged. She ran Win 10 on the old one, installed via BootCamp. My question is, if I use a GPT formatted Windows 10 install USB that I usually use for UEFI installs on "normal" computers, can I just install straight onto the SSD without needing BootCamp?
In macOS dialog menus, two buttons are usually already in focus: one will probably be encircled in blue and is invoked by hitting Space, the other will be filled in blue and can be invoked by pressing ↵. Sometimes, there's only one button in focus (like in the following image) or there are simply more buttons than the two already in (either kind of) focus.
I'm lookin' for Italian keyboard scan codes. I've searched the net but nothing that deals with Mac except for: But this does not contain Layout Related scan codes. My questions: Is there any official documentation about this? Is there any software like 'dumpkeys' running on macOS? If possible I'd prefer the triple (byte 1: Modifier, byte 2: Reserved, byte 3: Keycode 1) as defined in http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/
I tried to install GNU utility stat However,it succeeded to install GNU Bash How to achieve such a task?
i've checked several posts, for example - (Make `hostname -f` return fully qualified hostname) My apple machine is connected to the domain and i'm logged on with a domain user. the thing is, that hostname command only gives me the machine name - but i cannot find the domain part. This is also true if i use the command host 'hostname'. any clearance would be appreciated.
My MBA got stolen in Pakistan three weeks ago. I contacted Apple help center to get the location of my device, but they replied that they cannot do anything because the location service is disabled on my Mac, so no one can track the location. But I just learned about WPS tracking on this site in a relevant topic. Can anyone help me track my device?
I haven't used my iPad 1 for a long time. Now I have reset it to factory default.
I'm using Pythonista, a mobile Python environment to code on my iPhone while I'm on the train with no laptop around. I've started working on a small web application using bottle and d3.js. However, finding javascript errors in Safari is impossible. There is simply no way to find out what error stopped the application. Is there a workaround for this?
Is there any easy way for me to add emoji to a document or email when I’m using my Mac? I know I can set up up an emoji viewer in the menu bar via Apple > System Preferences > Keyboard, but I find this very clumsy to use. A keyboard shortcut would be fantastic, but when I checked the Mac Keyboard Shortcuts *=URL=* page on Apple’s website I didn’t see any emoji shortcuts listed. What’s the easiest way for me to insert emoji on a Mac (one without a Touch Bar)?
Every time I go to Finder and I select a shared folder in other macs on the same lan I notice that there is a long delay before the content of that folder is displayed. The network monitor of Little Snitch shows me that uploads and downloads are performed to icloud.com. When these uploads and downloads stop, the content of the shared folder is finally shown in Finder.
In Preview.app for macOS 10.13.3, how do I remove a tag from the drop-down menu and add additional colour tag, other than the few shown? I made a tag which I want to remove from the drop-down menu. Also, I wonder if it is possible to add custom colors to tags?
I'm using macbook air. My XLR mic works fine without phantom power supply in between, it's just that audio is low. When I use phantom power supply, macbook doesn't detect the microphone. Has anybody faced a similar problem? What's the solution?
I´m working on a script that need to read files inside a FIND loop. Something like this : The problem is : when the foldername has a space inside , i have to put the var $DIRINI inside a "" and this make FIND works , but the other commands inside the loop that use $DIRINI does not work , they split foldername in two use one half in each cicle.
How can I view PDF at two-pages and in the right-to-left order? Acrobat can do this but Preview is more responsive.
MacOS: 10.13.3 Pritunl VPN client: v1.0.1653.28 I have been following this: *=URL=* and http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050621051643993
After installing OS 10.13.4 on my mid-2010 MackBookPro (with an SSD) I made one sparse image bundle, which is working fine. However, using Disk Utility,I am now unable to make any additional disk images of any type, on my internal drive (APFS) or on any of my external drives (HFS). Depending on the specifications of the disk I'm trying to make, encrypted, non-encrypted, etc, I get varying error codes, always accompanied by "Permission Denied." I've tried every type of image and every possible combination of size, file format, etc. Absolutely nothing works.
All of the answers to this question Is there a command to install a dmg work for me in installing a DMG file from the command line. But I don't want to have users need to enter the sudo password, it is inconvenient.
Does the iPhone X use Facial Recognition hardware not found in previous models? Or is the algorithm executed on the CPU?
By the way, part of the AppStore fix was a reinstall of the OS without a disk wipe. So why did not these items get updated during the reinstall (by internet with Recovery partition)?
Does Apple allow the use of iTunes gift cards (in this case a Japanese iTunes gift card with a Japanese Apple ID) to buy an in-app purchase (for in-game currency)?
The "join clips" option is greyed out in iMovie (even when I press the shortcut key combination Shift + Command + b). I keep on getting a space between clips, and so far haven't found any option to delete it. How do I merge two clips together?
I have a used MacBook. The former user was still the admin so I Googled and followed instructions to remove his password and get myself in as admin. I then deleted his user account. I just looked at my settings on my iPhone and saw under messages "share with FORMER USERS NAME MacBook"
Sometimes I receive the following error when trying to unmount an external USB, CF, or random drive: dissented by PID 17728 (/usr/bin/login)
Looks like Photos Agent is running in the background. I'd like to dedicate this machine to file services and not run unnecessary processes. How can I disable "Photos Agent" at boot time. I'm hoping to free up resources like RAM and CPU.
So I have a chart that I have created in Numbers, with a trendline using a polynomial function, and I've got it to display the formula, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out what x value I'm supposed to use to get the resulting y value! x is a date / time, so clearly it must be something related to the date value. But I've tried using ms since the unix epoch, secs since the unix epoch, etc. each to no avail. Some "other" spreadsheet tools make it clear how they convert dates into numbers when creating polynomial trendlines, Numbers however, does not.
What security features are making McAfee upset? Or does it have to do with the OS update?
My friend gave me his old iPhone and reset everything so I could use it. I set up an iCloud account, but when I try to sign in, it says that my username (which is my email) is invalid. How is that possible when I can use the same email to sign into my iCloud account online? What should I do?
We dealt with this when Apple dropped PowerPC and Rosetta, but the change of CPU architecture was a bit more obvious since it was apples-to-oranges. However, the difference here is that our x86_64 platforms can still natively run 32-bit x86 code. It is simply a decision by Apple to cut off 32-bit code. Sure, it is great to get rid of old stuff but it also cuts off useful software which might not be maintained anymore.
Is there any way to remove the location from photos already texted to someone via iMessage?
I lost my iPhone 5C. It appears to be dead or offline on Find My iPhone. I have tried to get it to notify me when found and to play a sound, but it stills says those actions are pending. Is there anything else I can do to find this phone? It contains important photos that I don't want to lose.
Dictation and dictation commands work fine for all other applications. However, when I try to use them in Microsoft Word or OneNote the literal text like select sentence is typed out, rather than the command being run. What is the reason behind this behaviour?
Over time, I've made many tweaks to my OS using defaults write, for example: and so on. How can I generate a list of all the non-factory settings I've overridden?
For various reasons beyond the scope of this post, I must create a new Apple ID and iTunes account. There are a few apps on my phone that I must preserve the content from (I don't mind re-buying the app). This post from 2013 indicated that I could backup the app .ipa file to my computer, retrieve the 'container' folder, and then restore it to the filesystem once installing the app under my new account. However, the desktop applications used in that post don't seem to function properly with ios11 and I'm unable to access the filesystem to restore content. Is there another clever way to do this? If I switch accounts and try to re-install the app, will it locate the old data?
I've noticed on my MacBook Air (early 2015 edition, macOS 10.13.3) that there is a certain 'touristd' process that launches when I turn on the computer, downloads about 14.2MB of data, then exits. This question already discusses that the process is for the "New to Mac?" tour, and although a comment on the answer also notes the downloading, no answer appears to be offered. Here's a screenshot I managed to capture just before it exited, from Activity Monitor:
I'm trying to run an app on a device for a very long duration (in hours). I thought that Xcode would keep running the app, but it exited several times, saying "Finished running on my iPhone."
My Mac suddenly started to give me "Your disk is almost full" messages. When I checked my storage, most of my storage is being consumed by "System storage". I have seen posts on this issues already, but I want to understand the following points: Why does this issue occur suddenly? What is the root cause for it? How to resolve it (I have installed OmniDiskSweeper as suggested in one of the other posts)?
I want to block the iPhone users connected to my home network from downloading apps from the apple app store.I used a similar method to block the auto apple updates but I don't the server responsible for downloading apps.Does anyone know the Domain address?
When I send a text to my husbands Android it shows as being sent from his email address. He has to delete the message in order to respond to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve spoken to Apple, our cell phone carrier, with no resolution. I’ve deleted his information, he’s deleted my information, I’ve updated my software, I’ve turned off IMessage.
I'm running Microsoft Outlook on Mac Book Pro 2015. How do I open multiple windows of it? On windows I could open outlook multiple times. Can i do this on Mac?
After updating to Safari 11.1 (under 10.11.6) I'm not able to preview (Quicklook) URL's in Mail messages (using the Data Detectors feature) regardless of which browser (Safari or Chrome) is the default. Instead of a preview this pops up: In Console this pair of errors shows up whenever I try to view a preview ever since updating Safari: Does anyone know what's causing this?
When I copy from Excel for Mac (version 16.11), and paste into Keynote (version 7.3.1), the formatting jumps every time. This means I have to paste individual cells one by one instead of the whole table of numbers, which is time consuming every time. Eg 1: Copy(CMD+C) this from Excel: Paste (CMD+V) and get this in Keynote: Eg 2: Copy(CMD+C) this:
I am searching for a solution to automatically connect my MacBook Air to my iPhone hotspot. I don't like to connect manually every time. Is there any way to connect automatically.
Is there any way to cycle between Mission Control (⌃+↑) windows with the keyboard? I'm referring first and foremost to moving between the windows shown in the bird's eye view, see image. Either native or 3rd-party solutions are most welcomed.
Just noticed that my iphone 8+ (ios 11.3) rings through speaker even when headphones are connected (works both with earpods and beats solo wireless). Is it a bug or a feature? Is there any way to disable it?
I can see that iTunes and App Store has in Settings to not automatically download updates. But what about iOS updates themselves? The recent iOS 11.3 update for example, is near 800MB, and when I use my main phone as a hotspot, then will my other iPhone silently download the iOS update? The issue is important because the 800MB can cost up to US$12 at $15 per GB such as on Verizon, meaning that to download the update from iOS 11.2.6 to 11.3, it can cost me $12, and if 2 secondary phones, that means US$24 for downloading an update I wasn't aware of.
What may be the cause of this? It happens every time when I build the app on either simulator or device. Should i clean sth or reset my harddrive? using High Sierra and Xcode 9.2 EDIT: It is enough to open Xcode and it hums the same way.
Does anyone face the same issue? As I can remember that behavior appears after I tried to re-assign those keys in Windows Bootcamp (maybe it's just an accident that happened at the same time and it's not actually related). From that time I changed the hard-drive an installed a clean version of latest macOS. The problem still persist.
Every few months or so, my iPhone 6S becomes unable to charge via the lightning port without jiggling the cable. I am able to fix this problem by using a paper clip to clean pocket lint out of the port. A surprising amount always comes out!
My sept 16 MacBook Air has overheated and died completely. I have spoken to Apple tech and to computer specialists and apparently the only people who can retrieve data from the ssd card is seagate and another national company that want to charge me more than the laptop (Apple never made an adapter to do this nor do they do data transfer apparently). PROBLEM! The laptop died whilst in the middle of writing a very important essay and naturally didn’t have time to back up....so can I swap this ssd card into a newly purchased MacBook Air, retrieve and back up this data quick and bin this ssd for the new one? Is the 2017-2018 MacBook ssd the same as the 2016 models? Will this damage the new machine? I’m desperate for my work.
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Im using my macbookpro with external everything, computer is closed. Im missing the trackpad tho.. Is there a way to configure the trackpad option 'swipe between full screen apps'on my mouse? Im using a Corsair Harpoon mouse
I used cmd-option-r to enter recovery mode and reset the MacBook Pro 2017 by reinstalling macOS before giving it to a friend to use. Issue is, it now refuses to do anything. It won't install macOS as usual and it won't boot from a USB. I've tried formatting everything, resetting NVRAM, and setting the date/time. Is this thing actually bricked? Installation of macOS could not continue.
Traditionally, Unix machines hold these values in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. These files do not contain the Users and Groups I have added to my system.
I ordered an iPhone X from the US. Now I am using it in Myanmar, but I cannot sign in to Apple ID. It asks for an address, phone number and Zip Code in the United States. However I do not have those. What do I need to do to set this up?
MY Apple ID has changed, as in the original one was closed and now have a new one, and I cannot sign out of some devices because it is asking for the password for the account that is now closed. How do I get around this? Thanks.
I don't know how long ago this happened, but today I realized that when I open up terminal it no longer says as it used to. Instead, it appears to have synched up with my roommate's macbook pro. It now displays: I've restarted my mac but it doesn't change the name. I've tried the suggestions suggested in these posts But no effect! echo "$PS1" returns \h:\W \u\$
I can easily bold, italicize, and underline words...but I really want to be able to style my emails. Are there mail apps that: * support colors (mandatory) * free or low cost preferred Nice to have are: * full "html editor" built into the email client to change fonts, font size, color, alignment, etc. Can someone recommend options?
I have the Whatsapp MacOS app installed. I am trying to experiment sending a whatsapp message using the Automator Workflow.
I don't know a lot about the ins and outs of Apple charging devices. I have a RavPower 26800 PD usb type C battery, and they are meant to be able to charge a MacBook of various descriptions at least once. I have a similar Anker one but less powerful. I have a late-2013 MacBook Pro, so has what I think is a "magsafe" adapter on it. Its also got what looks like Thunderbolt inputs? There must be a way to charge my MacBook from the USB type C battery's thunderbolt port? Or a converter into the original power input?
I know I have a $path variable. If I type 'env' or 'set' at the Terminal command line, I can see what's in the $path variable - along with lots of other extraneous stuff. But if I just type 'echo $path', I see only a blank line. What is wrong? I'm El Capitan (10.11.6).
I have multiple versions of Microsoft Office installed because who knows when I'll have to open some old version of a file that may not work well in newest Office. I want csv files to open in the most recent version of excel (~16.12) by default. I press cmd+i with the csv file selected and i tell it to open with the newest version of excel and then i choose Change All... I get a confirmation dialog: So I confirm (Continue). Then promptly the info window shows the previous/wrong version of Excel.
I have been researching this problem for two days, and I know there are many other posts about it. But the solutions are always "fix the permissions". That does not solve it for me. I have recursively changed the permissions on the symbolic and original directory trees to 777 and I still get the error. Not only is the PID file not being updated, but the error file is not being written either, though the error message in Terminal when I try to start MySQL says that it is. That does suggest something is preventing processes from writing to the directory, but it's not file permissions. Here's the full error message:
I have an application to run a slideshow on the mac. I would like to disable screen dimming when I start the slideshow, and enable it again when I stop the slideshow... Therefore I need an api into the MAC to do so. Is anybody aware of such api? ( I am aware of caffine - but that disables this for the whole application...I only want when I have selected screenshow.)
I have some iPads I'd like my staff to use. However, these are 4th generation iPads, so the latest iOS I'm able to install on them is v10.3.3. However, the website they need to access requires a more modern browser than the built-in Safari. We tried downloading the Chrome app, but it seems the Chrome app is using the Safari engine. Is there any way to use a modern browser (one that supports ES6+ Javascript) on iOS 10.3.3?
Are permissions set in the 'Get info' screen when right clicking on a file enforced cryptographically? If not, how are they enforced? Could anyone, for example, boot of a live OS on a USB stick and edit file permissions?
How do I record a GPS track (including height) and audio simultaneously on an iPhone (iPhone 8 / iOS 11) in a way that I can later see which time of the audio relates to which GPS position?
Goal: "install" JDBC drivers for MATLAB to use This article indicated that one can put the JDBC driver .jar file in: .bashrc and .bashrc_profile were configured with CLASSPATH Command Line tests: Is there any other steps I need to perform to install the JDBC driver? How can I test from the command line that JAVA can 'see' the JDBC driver? Is it enough to have the .jar files on MATLAB's javaclasspath?
I was organising my app screen on my iPhone SE. I move the apps around till I am satisfied. Once I was done, I got this app icon (red circled on the screenshot) on my main screen. It doesn't open, if I touch it for long, the other apps start to wiggle in their place, but this doesn't respond at all. What is this and How do I get rid of it?
My ipad mini 1 (A1455 Late 2012) is very slow and it is even much slower than my ipad 3(A1416 Early 2012). Both are running iOS 9.3.5. Why? I thought later model should be faster.
How do i transfer apps from one iPhone to another. in Android we do the same using Zapya, where we can send applications. is there any way in Iphone for the same?
Is it possible to use my iPhone as a microphone for my Windows PC using only a USB connection? I searched for solutions and found some that require a male to male 3.5mm audio jack, but I would like to know if I can use the USB connection as a microphone.
The title is a little weird and complex, so here is an example.  That was photoshopped, but is there a way to make that actually possible in an iPad? Trying to make the webpage portrait mode, and the iPad is still in landscape mode? Anything helps!
hi I am an iPhone 5s second hand user. When I update my phone, it is locked and I don't know the original owners icloud ID and password. so it is locked and can not open my phone right now. so please tell me the steps to unlock the icloud . I have search in the Google and YouTube but the answer that shown in that is completely fake. so help me
I find macOS' special character popup menu, the one invoked with a long press on some keys (like A. see image), and incredibly useful feature. For some reason, it doesn't work in all of the applications I use, like Adobe's Illustrator or Photoshop (I use the latest versions for both). Is there any way to control in which applications this menu will appear, and in which it won't?
The ONLY time it's booted since it's been in my possession was when it was in the Apple Store, when it ran the Apple Diagnostics. What I've tried is: resetting the SMC (no reaction) using power on pads, which makes the MagSafe turn green for 2 seconds, and back to amber. unplugging the battery and plugging it back in plugging the MagSafe while battery is unplugged unplugging keyboard from macbook and power on pads
I had this problem when I was on High Sierra, so I copied my files on a hard drive and installed El Capitan. I'm just curious now — was that error recoverable? What I did: reset VRAM, reset SMC, repair startup disc, reinstall MacOS, fix file system and nothing helped.
I click X on the person. The conversation disappears from the list view. I send or receive a message from the person.
I am wanting to do the above with an old version of Pages. I actually did find this out a couple of years ago but cannot remember how to do it!
My iPod Shuffle 4th generation for a long time it doesn't charge and when I charge it, it only shows 5 second red light. When I plug in and out, it only shows a continuous red light. So what I do next because I put the charger in the wall plug off mobile charger and now it is not charging?
Here's the problem that I have My Bluetooth headset is connected to my smartphone and laptop. I'm listening to music using the smartphone. When I do some invalid action using the laptop my music gets interrupted. I know how to volume down not to make a sound effect for an invalid action but what I want is to completely disable the sound effect so that my Bluetooth headset is not interrupted by it. How can I completely disable the sound effect? FYI, these threads don't have the answer How do I disable the beep in OSX Leopard when I perform an invalid action? How can I get the Mac Terminal to not beep? Mac: disable the “boop” sound played when search results are not found Update
After the iTunes version 12.7 it seems impossible to install an app from iTunes and sync it to the iPhone: *=URL=* However, there still exists the option in settings of iOS 9.3.5 on my iPhone 4s. Is it redundant?
I used my iPhone Thursday night and put it on the charger and the following morning it was completely dead! It didn't get wet and I didn't drop it, so what happened?
I am working on writing OpenCL programs running on a MacBook Pro with built-in Nvidia GPU. I know that OpenCL kernels can run on the CPU, or the integrated Intel GPU. But if I want to configure it to run on the Nvidia GPU, do I need to install CUDA and other Nvidia stuff? Thanks!
I have a Early 2011 MacBook Pro and I've been wanting to give it away (as it is acting up) so I factory reset it. Erasing the hard disk went fine, but when I tried to reinstall the OS in the recovery mode, it keeps showing errors and not letting me restart. It says no native mechanism to verify basesystem.dmg, no native mechanism to verify basesystem.dmg, no native mechanism to verify applediagnostics.chunklist no native mechanism to verify applediagnostics.chunklist and failed to verify installESDDmg.pkg: xar_verify failed
A few weeks ago now, I updated my Mac to OSX High Sierra. I then attempted to use my bootcamp partition, but it was unavailable. I managed to correct an earlier error about "No bootable device", but it now says "No Operating System". Bootcamp still appears as a folder in the Startup Disk page in System Preferences. I am using a 2012 MacBook Pro, with Windows using the BIOS boot method.
I created an account some time ago and I could sign in through a username. I have the correct password and username but it took me a few tries to remember. The account got locked and it tells me to go to the Apple ID website to recover the account. I have to type in my Apple ID but I cannot because the username isn't an Apple ID.
SSH stopped working suddenly. I am using macOS 10.13.4. I am getting timeout every time today but all was working yesterday. I have added my public key to GitHub. I get the following output upon running ssh: My ~/.ssh/config reads as follows:
I mistakenly ran chown -R /. Subsequently, I reinstalled the OS from the recovery drive (10.12.6) and ran everything I could find on the internet, including diskutil resetUserPermissions (id -u). Things are functional for the most part. However, every once in a while I hit a bizarre problem that seems to be related to permissions.
The initial cursor position is essential to my app's function. I could preserve the cursor location with a screen capture (using keystrokes only) but I'm hoping to avoid writing a handler to wrest the cursor's location from the picture. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.
I've written an application in C++, using OpenGL and Cinder. When I launch the app file from the Finder, it runs nice and smoothly at 60FPS. However, when I launch it using launchctl load the performance is terrible, the UI is sluggish and in general it runs at about half the desired FPS.
Resetting the SMC and NVRAM initially makes the headphone audio work again. But switching on the second display - no audio even though its set to headphones. After unplugging the 26" display, which sound immediately comes out the headphone and waiting and replugging. I eventually got it to work, sound stayed on to.
So I had some pictures from school and I edited them in the Photos app on my Iphone 6S (latest software, done some updates in the meantime, maybe this could have caused my problem?) with markup, doing some important notes on them. A few weeks later, today, I wanted to take a look at them and I could not believe my eyes. The markups have disappeared, leaving me with the original photos with no notes on them. I can't imagine how something like this happened... Any way I can get my markups back? It would save me hours of work. The photos are not backed up on my icloud because it's full... Also, they worked in the past, this is not the first time I want to look at them since I edited them, they were fine some time ago.
I can also delete these songs from my library, but I don't necessarily want to do that either. Just because I generally don't want to hear them doesn't mean there will never be a time when they are needed or wanted (by someone else in my family, if not by me).
I'd like to write a shell script that uses xquartz. Specifically the ‘Allow connections from network clients’ checkbox at Settings/Security has to be checked. Is there a way to do this programmatically ?
I'm trying to understand how Spotlight indexing works - in the documentation here, Apple says that the kernel notifies the Spotlight engine which then attempts to update the metadata store. If this is the case, why does it have to index - presumably it would be up to date if this already happens after every file event?
Even after I successfully download any apps from App Store, the progress of that download doesn't go away from dock.  How can I fix it? The problem is on macOS High Sierra, 10.13.4.
Whenever I try to manually save a file through Safari (for example by pressing CMD + s on a pdf file opened in a new tab or selecting "save blah blah as" from the context menu) it opens the last directory I uploaded something from as the default location. I find this annoying and unintuitive specially when I have already set a default downloads location.
Right click on desktop:  Clicking the black Apple icon in the top left corner of menu bar:
I have downloaded a genuine copy of macOS High Sierra from a website and after I opened it I can see many part files (like part 1, part 2 ...). How can I install macOS from these part files? How can I make a bootable out of it?
I've completely removed macOS, but installed the bootcamp drivers, and now the mac-style volume overlay is the most annoying reminder that I gave money to Apple for this product. Is there any way to remove it?
I'm trying to make use of an old Mac Pro with 10.6.8 I had lying around as a wireless home media server, backed up with Time Machine. I'm just using a standard Huawei router provided to me by my ISP. I've set up file sharing and screen sharing, so that I can access the files on the Mac Pro with my Macbook Pro. But is there a way that I can save power by having my Mac Pro constantly asleep, but wake up automatically when I want to access it from the Macbook Pro? Then go back to sleep once I'm done?
I would like to find a way to change the style to heading1 of a particular text string that I'm adding in an MS Word document using Applescript, but after hours of searching, and looking at the dictionary, I can't find a way to to it. Something like this:
Yesterday I tried installing Windows using Bootcamp but as usual, it didn't go well after partitioning. BC Assistant wasn't able to remove its partitions either. So after reading around, I managed to format the 50 GB that I allocated to BC into FAT32 and then into APFS and I tried to increase the main APFS volume (that has macOS and every thing) using (I used the correct disk identifiers, not those names mentioned below)
All of the x categories work exactly as expected; I can cd into directories with --x, but nothing else. I can cd into directories with -wx, create and delete files, but ls returns an error. And I can cd into r-x directories, list their contents, and work on files for which I have existing permissions, but cannot create or delete files. All these make sense to me. So what am I not understanding correctly about r-- and -w-?
I have an iPhone and an iPad where I sync my photos and videos on iCloud with the photo library. Now I have deactivated the photo library on my iPad because I created some videos that exceeded the 5GB limit and did not sync.
I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro (A1286). I upgraded it to macOS High Sierra and I sold it to a friend of mine, who returned it back after few weeks because it stopped booting. It always gets stuck at white screen after the loading bar reached certain level, no matter what booting method we tried - safe mode, recovery, recovery from the Internet.
Say I have 3 input sources, English, Chinese and Japanese. I use English and Chinese on a daily basis, but Japanese not so much. However, I use Japanese sometimes and I would not like to enable and disable it in System Preferences every time I want it. Is there an app to make command+space only switch between English and Chinese, but another shortcut assigned to Japanese?
Basically I want to be able to create a link in a folder in Finder to link to a specific Mail.app Mailbox folder or subfolder. Any ideas? (relates to these questions 1 & 2)
Occasionally the command-tab stops working - and when attempting to use Option-Tab (instead of Command-Tab): the message in the title appears. What is the cause of this? And how can whatever setting is stuck be reset? Note: I can not do a screenshot since the Option (/command) keys are locked and so the screenshot key combination is not available.
I have "iCloud Photo Library" enabled, and "Optimise iPhone Storage" selected (because there's not enough space locally for all photos and videos). With these settings, is there a way to tell iPhone to keep certain photos or videos always available locally? What now happens when I don't have access to internet is that I can't play videos at all (ones that have already been uploaded to iCloud). Especially when travelling where roaming is prohibitively expensive and most of the time I'm without internet, it would be very useful to be able to select some files to be available offline.
As I continue to develop a larger script (which is working but for this), I can't figure out how to insert a file into a Word document using Applescript. I can insert a picture, but if the file is a Word doc, an Excel spreadsheet, a video file, etc., I can't see in the dictionary where the commands are that would handle that. This example almost works: end AddAttachmentFileToWordDoc
I am using MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and it's been running really slow for the past few weeks and i was able to recover from that when I plugged the hard drive externally, so i think the issue is with the hard drive cable, even though my problem is not this, glad if you could mention something about this too. I don't have any other option than booting externally until I get this fixed which might take a week or so.
I am studying mathematics and I find the Preview.app's freehand tool extremely useful to help me understand the documents I am reading. As you can see in the picture below I end up having a LOT of shapes to make sense of the maths. Sometimes I just need to move a group of shapes to make some space to add new ones. At present after clicking on the first shape to select it, I have to click on each further shape very carefully while keeping the shift button pressed to add them to the selection, and if I ever misclick (which happens 1/3 of the attempts) this then leads to all the selected elements being lost, requiring me to then start from the beginning. [Update: clicking ⌘Z after such an error recovers the selection up to the error!]
For several reasons, I need notes and reminders around my computer for various purposes like reminding myself of things to think, do, ask etc. or putting myself into the right frame of mind while doing some task for example, changing my mood for a certain type of conversation with a colleague over skype versus a friend.
I have a mac mini that's serving files over the network (Through the "sharing" part of the preferences). All files have a size, and are accessable locally. but when I try to cat them on the terminal off the network or copy them to my local HD I get empty files only .
I've found many 'how to's' which do not inspire confidence. A couple experts recommend: Mount the TM sparsebundle in the finder; go into TM and delete the backup; and then add back the sparsebundle from the finder... problem solved!
I have run commands in terminal to make my dock re-appear quicker than default so now it re-appears instantly. In full-screen mode, it doesn't appear quickly like non-full screen mode does. How can I make the behaviour of the dock in full-screen mode the same as if it were in non-full-screen mode? Also, is it possible to make the menubar appear instantly in full-screen mode like the dock?
I am looking for a way to create a RAID 1 Volume from macOS Sierra with a format that will be readable from both Mac and Linux. Using DiskUtility I can not seem to find a way to format the RAID in another other formats other than JHFS+. Even from the command line. Maybe I am wrong and just have not found how to do it. Please let me know if I have missed it.
I have a used iPod Classic 5th Generation (A1136) that was purchased for a parent as it is compatible with all their 40-pin gear. One of the parents already has an identical model which was "working fine" (although hadn't been synced for over a year). By this I understand that syncing has worked on their family PC (running Windows 10) in the past, but updates may have been run / fiddling may have taken place since the last successful sync.
My MacBook Air (2017) currently has 3 OSes: MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu (making it work was a nightmare). Yesterday when I opened up rEFInd, only MacOS and the Ubuntu stub loader (which, fortunately, still works) was there. All my partitions were still there, but...
SMS relay is working fine between my mac and iPhone. However, there is one phone number that fails. This person used to have an iPhone, but switched to Android. Now whenever I send through Messages on my mac, the messages show in blue, and I get a "not delivered" message. If I click to resend, it says "xxx-xxx-xxxx is not registered with iMessage". However, if I go into address book, and sent a text from there, it works, and shows up in Messages in green, as it should, for a text message. For other users who have Android devices, they work fine, and show in green as they should. Is there any way to force sending through SMS for this user (or in general)?
My screensaver in Mac 10.8.5 has oddly started requiring the password for a sparsebundle on my internal drive to start running. This is not to return from screensaver mode, but to start it running. When the sparsebundle is open, screensaver starts correctly, but when it is closed, starting the screensaver (via hot corner or time lapse) brings a prompt for the sparsebundle password.
I wish to enable Text Message Forwarding to send and receive SMS from my MacBook Pro (running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4). I remember having used this feature for a while with both iOS 10 and iOS 11 on my iPhone. However, when I try to enable it now, I can no longer see the option available under Settings → Messages. It used to be available there before. I am currently running iOS 11.3. I have only one Apple ID which I use for everything. I am logged in with it on both my MacBook Pro and my iPhone.
how can I find missing iPhone6pls when it’s off for find my iPhone app but the iPhone and iPad have the same email and password
I'm testing some scripts which are destined for use inside various GUI Apps, either as direct shell calls or as part of an AppleScript do shell script call. I know from experience that the shell which an App gets is nothing like what I get by default when starting Terminal, so I'd like to figure out a way to simulate the shell that an App gets so that I can debug the scripts knowing that they are behaving as I should expect them to behave in their final expected use environment. So, how to I open an Terminal (or modify one which is already open) so that it behaves like the shell that a GUI App has access to?
Guides online refer to a text box beneath the image, but I don't see one in Keynote 8. I've filled in the Description, but I can't find any way to make that visible, either. Must I create a text box? I am using my company's presentation template.
My question is; how can I see my old TM disk content? My first TM disk was almost full so I have changed my preferences to backup to new HD.
I'm trying to do a first-time install of Windows 10 1709 with Boot Camp Assistant. During installation, I receive the message: "An error occurred while copying the Windows installation files." This leaves me with the extra partitions, which are cleaned up upon restarting my computer, starting Boot Camp Assistant, and letting BCA reset the partition. I've tried booting into System Recovery, running csrutil disable, and retry the installation procedure, but I receive the same error.
Just got a new iMac and it is making an alert type beep every 30 secs. I have tried turning everything off in notifications but this isn't stopping it. The only thing that helps is turning the volume off completely which I don't want to have to do. Can anyone help please?
Because of my job, my texting is limited. I have discovered I can email to text but when the recipient responds, replies go to email on ipad not computer. How can I get responsess to go to email on my computer?
This just recently started happening and I don’t know why!  I saved this photo today and it’s says I saved it in 2005!
How do I disassociate an Apple-ID from an iMac? I am trying to push updates on a work computer but I can not. I am unable to because a previous employee's apple ID pops up and I do not have the password. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I'm using the macOS High Sierra. There are two network interfaces on my Mac, Wi-Fi and Ethernet. The Wi-Fi is connected to the Internet directly, and the Ethernet is connected to out company's local network. They're in different subnets, one of which is 10.0.0.0/8 and another is 192.168.0.0/16. The Wi-Fi has faster speed than the Ethernet, but the sources in the local network cannot be accessed via Wi-Fi.
On Windows/Linux, it's really easy and straightforward to customize the VLC toolbar by using the menu "Tools">"Customize Interface..." (See this help page.) Somehow this menu doesn't seem to be available in macOS. Is it just a missing Mac functionality, or is there a way to customize the buttons showing on the toolbar on macOS?
im Trying To Sign Out and Verification Failed with Show "There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server.
After my modem got upgraded to a higher speed, I have had this problem. I keep getting prompted for my iCloud password 2-3 times after booting up and logging onto my Mac. Even after entering the correct password this happens. I assume that I am using the correct password, because I can use the same password for downloading apps from the “App Store”.
When try to run, it report error: on linux system:
As per various code snippets on the web I am trying to implement a simple AppleScript to save the attachments of Mail messages to a folder. Here is what the dialog box reports when I run the script with one message selected in Mail that has an image attached: Saving attachment to Macintosh HD:Users:billtubbs:Documents:20180415_103233.jpg Here is the error message I get: It is raised on the line
I have a MacBook, FileVault turned on. One day I formatted the internal SSD entirely (not just one partition), and started 'internet recovery'. The MacBook connected automatically to my home router's Wi-Fi, which is WPA2 password protected. It never prompted me to enter any username, SSID, or password.
I notice that iPhone antitheft cables that attach on the back side all take up a huge space on the back of the phone. Are there small form factor ones? Is there a way to get the Apple Store sized smaller security antitheft cables?
After updating to MacOS high Sierra when I use quicklook to watch a video I can't go to fullscreen with pinch in/out and have to click on fullscreen button. Is there anyway that I can fix this? Extra: Quicklook is the program that show you a preview of an item when pressing 'Space' or use three-finger tap on an item.
I have followed all the instructions provided at MacBook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI? and I'm stuck at the following step: 3.1 Move AMD / NVIDIA kext files to a backup directory
Update 10.13.4 (requiring restart) took ~30 minutes at maximum fan speed on a Mid-2011 Mini (SSD drive without FileVault). Most updates are like this, even on my Mid-2014 Air.
Years ago magic jack updated their app, and replaced the app window/or skin. Problem is, the new skin was huge, and still is. It takes up way too much space on the display for what it is, a phone dialer. So my initial question of course is how to make it smaller. But I have found nothing online to help with this. The best option would be to replace the skin somehow or control the magicjack with another parties software. But another hopeful option would be to somehow permanently reprogram it somehow to be half its size or even make it think the display was bigger if possible. I don't know. But I'm hoping someone out there can help with this issue. I'm not alone in this. Everyone I've talked to who uses MJ has this same complaint. Herb
tl;dr: Is there a macos pendant to binfmt_misc? Linux has a kernel feature called binfmt_misc which
I installed VirtualBox from here: *=URL=* on macOS 10.13.3 and I am an admin on the computer. When I try to run the application it does not start. I tried to reinstall the application, but nothing changed. What am I doing wrong?
I have a new iPad (iOS 11.3) and the control center does not contain anything related to screen orientation or lock rotation. I tried to ask Siri about this and got gibberish. Does anyone have a suggestion? I am starting to think it just might not be an option with the new iPad though that seems crazy.
Yesterday I was using windows, after I finished i closed the lid and didn't use the laptop anymore. In the middle of the night it woke up (with the lid closed) and booted into macOS. This morning I can no longer boot into Windows. If I do normal restart holding option key, only windows logo is shown and then it boots macOS automatically. If I reboot from system preferences -- startup disk, it kinda gets stuck in an infinite loop bringing up windows logo again and again. It can only be stopped by pressing option key and choosing macOS. If it matters, I'm using mbp ntb 2017. Any help would be appreciated.
Does someone know a way to add a new calendar account (CalDAV) from command line?
On my the MacBook I want to migrate from the applications folder is just 8 gigs. But when I run migration assistant it estimates the folder to be more than 71 gigs. What am I doing wrong? What am I misunderstanding?
I've noticed an iPhone 5S consuming quite a lot of data (30-50Mb per day) - it's mostly listed under "Time & Location". I have apps running that use the location a lot (e.g. Strava, location sharing etc), but I don't understand why getting your location uses any significant amount of data at all.
If I boot into recovery and use terminal, I can see the APFS container using "diskutil apfs list" once before it acts as if it isn't there. I tried unlocking it once but it hung for a while and failed. I had started to decrypt the volume but have been unable to get it to continue. Is there anything left to try before trying to delete the partition from Windows?
It's as though on occasion the 'bridge' between the WiFi and the modem is not working. although some wireless clients might be working whilst others aren't. The problem appears to only manifest itself or clear upon joining the WiFi network - if it's working, it stays working. Wired connections are fine. Any ideas?
On board a train whose WiFi has two screens (click "Join", click "I agree") I have no difficulty from macOS. I'm offered the two screens each time and I click to connect.
The dialogs "I'm here #1" and "I'm here #2" appear as expected. The process fails before displaying "I'm here #3".
I have an older mac which doesn't support any OS after 10.6.8. I have no reason to throw it out, but Firefox has given me warnings about not supporting anything older than 10.8. I'm not complaining about Firefox - it's a solid browser that does what I ask. However, I'd like to be more secure in terms of the limited web browsing I do from that computer. (Very, very limited web browsing, so I don't need to hear about the poor security practice of using a years-old OS to browse the internet.) Is there a browser I can use that is either: - Still releasing updates that I can apply to 10.6.8, or - Built with legacy hardware in mind, and might not have a ton of features.
I recently got a new laptop and had the laborious task of transferring data across. This included photos - Google Drive has now deleted all my pictures - so the only copies I have are synced to my phone.
(Similar to Why do my Macbook Pro's WiFi speeds drop significantly when paired with Bluetooth devices?, MacBook Pro WiFi doesn't work when Bluetooth is on, and *=URL=* On my MacBook Pro running 10.12.6, whenever my Bluetooth Apple Magic Mouse is connected, the WiFi is practically useless. Speeds drop to less than 1 kbps, sometimes no connection at all. I've searched and tried every solution I could find: Removing the "Bluetooth PAN" network interface. Using 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz WiFi networks. Deleting config files from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ Resetting PRAM/NVRAM and SMC Setting a new network location with custom MTU and DNS
Apple hasn't updated their display documentation for the new iPad yet. Is the 6th Gen (2018) iPad's Touch Delivery Rate 60Hz or 120Hz?
I have two computers (iMac, MacBook Pro). I am the sole user of both, and I am logged into the same iCloud account on both. Both run High Sierra. I used to be able to connect from MacBook to iMac via AFP either by clicking the iMac in Finder's sidebar or doing Command+K, afp://username@imac.local/ — and then either way authenticating with my local-to-iMac credentials.
According to the Apple Tech Note *=URL=* "CrashReporter limits the number of crash log files for any given combination of user, process name and host name. The current limit is 20." Also, the ReportCrash manual states:
When i try to import photos from my Iphone i have every photo doubled - second file is created as a film because of "LIVE" option. Here goes a question - how can i import JUST Photos without additional files (movies from LIVE option)
Issue: The ringer on/off switch on my iPhone 6 was stuck/gummed up so I sprayed it with contact cleaner. I didn't think liquid could get in through that opening, but I was extremely dumb. iPhone was off, waited overnight before powering on. Major waterspotting on screen. Rice trick got rid of most of it, but some spots remain. iPhone works 100%, except my battery life took a nose dive after, surely related. I'm about to replace the battery (which I've done before; iPhone is way past warranty). While I'm in there replacing the battery, how do I also fix this waterspot issue? I was thinking I might be able to wipe the liquid spots off with alcohol after reaching steps 37-41 in this iFixit guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+6s+Front+Panel+Replacement/56283
I'm trying to remove python 2.7 and replace it with python 3.6. The main thing I want to do is type "python" and my terminal use python 3.6, but for some reason I'm being restricted from upgrading python. I installed python 3 with:
So I have an old audio tool that only outputs sound through the audio jack, I need to connect this tool to my car stereo via a usb cable. Bluetooth transmitter is not an option as most cars I use either don't have it or if they do they require a pairing process that the transmitter can't do (Input pairing password number from the transmitter that has no screen nor buttons). I'd like to connect this tool to the iPhone via the audio jack and then connect the phone to the car via USB. I looked on the Web for audio to usb adaptors but no car will recognise it as it's basically analog to digital and I need some sort of active adapter. So is this possible via some app? Tool to audio jack > audio jack to iPhone > iPhone lightning cable to car usb port?
I dragged an image(tried both jpg and tiff) to a GIF file and Preview just opens up two documents in one window, instead of adding the image to the first document (GIF). I have Preview 10.0.
I have an iPad Air 2 running iOS 11 and an Android phone. Now, I want to be able to access the alarm tones from the iPad on the Android phone (I find them to be more soothing). Is there an easy way to go about transferring them? I could not figure out how to do it via iTunes (assuming there is a way). The android phone is running Oreo (if that is of any relevance).
I've tried the following commands: Thanks to Scot, the following command works: The problem with this is that it does not give me the username of the account trying to be accessed. Does anyone of any bash/Python programs or Terminal commands that will give me my failed login attempts (graphical login/ssh)? See more info here
I have two active network interfaces on my machine connected to two different subnets. I run Apple Remote Desktop Admin to administer hosts on only one of the two subnets. How do I restrict Apple Remote Desktop Admin and Client to broadcast from only one network interface? Or, How do I block incoming traffic from the ports Apple Remote Desktop Admin and Client use (TCP 3283, 5900) on the interface connected to the subnet I don't want to hear from? I have looked into Murus Firewall (successor to IceFloor 2) but I don't really need any of the many other features that software offers. If I could achieve what I want with the built-in firewall controls that would be great.
I vaguely recall using System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing. But I see only Thunderbolt Bridge and Bluetooth PAN items, nothing for over the Lightning cable.
Apple used to maintain its own set of calendars, but that page no longer exists, and recently my subscription for Vietnamese holidays (pulled from Apple’s now-retired page) stopped updating in the Calendar app. It’s easy enough to derive certain countries’ holiday subscriptions from the US one. For instance you can subscribe to French holidays at *=URL=* However there doesn’t seem to be one at https://p20-calendars.icloud.com/holiday/VN_vn.ics.
Capacity: 250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes) Model: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB Revision: EXT0DB6Q Serial Number: S1DBNSBF769503A Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Medium Type: Solid State TRIM Support: No Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: EFI: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s1 Content: EFI Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B disk0s2: Capacity: 249.85 GB (249,849,593,856 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s2 Content: 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
I want to open .py files in Sublime Text rather than Xcode. But I can't set it up system-wide. "Open with" just applies to that particular file not every file. Any solution?
That is, until my backup drive got corrupted. It's now in a state where disk utility consistently fails to reformat it and time machine can't write to it. I have two other USB devices this has happened on, but they were fairly old ones I used infrequently so I assumed something else had made them fail.
Is there an adapter that connect the older 85W power charger supply to a newer 87W usb-C power supply? I used the older ones on Apple computers up to 1009. Now I have a new MBP which only uses usb-c power supply. Is there anyway to connect the older ones to the newer type supply?
I've looked everywhere it seems, but I can't find any trace of any CE or FCC certification on the Apple Watch. Now I hear FCC has loosened up lately, but not CE. All electronics have to carry a CE symbol if sold within EU. So where is it?
As I understand it should, but I can't find any explicit statement. This is important for me because I'm trying to understand which MacBook should I use - with external GPU or not. Still I can assume that the answer to the question is yes because Apple sells 15-inch with external GPU while 13-inch without it.
Apparently I have issues with my partitions so someone on here suggested that I could reset my macOS. If I do a time machine backup before resetting, does the backup inherit all partition issues or is it merely just saving files and their paths? Do I need to look out for something else that might make my life harder?
Sometimes, when I click on a piece of text or part of the background of a web page in Safari, it plays the system alert sound. No other browser does this. Is there a way to turn it off?
Last night I was using the iOS files app on my iPad to download music from the external hard drive to my iPad using the Files Explorer app, then exporting those music folders, by artist, to the OneDrive section of the iOS Files App. In OneDrive I can see the folders that I have uploaded but none of the song files have shown up. Does syncing files with a cloud storage service through the iOS Files app work on the same limitation as the desktop version; that the device needs to be awake and the app actually running for the syncing to continue?
when I try to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 10.13.4,it reported that it cannot find Installer resources. Anyone has solution to solve it?
I was looking in the docs: *=URL=* I want text to appear more condensed. Where is the button? It was there in a non-elements Photoshop version...
I am having difficulty changing the workgroup name for my network interfaces due to a bug cited on the Apple Forums Can't Set WINS and Can not change workgroup. Using the duplication method through the GUI is not working for me. Question How do I change the workgroup for Mac OS using the command line?
I am a user of a MacBook Pro mid-2014 with macOS Sierra (10.12.6). I am planning to move to 10.13 and wanted to do a backup using Time Machine. So I was wondering if a backup (or an encrypted backup) can be done with Time Machine on an external hard drive (formatted for macOS) with existing files already on it. I have found some answers here but they seem outdated (2011) so I want to be extra sure. EDIT You can find the link to the past answer here
Is there an easy way to show and then hide and then show and then hide (as in toggle) “hidden” files in macOS High Sierra? I’ve found I can use the following terminal commands to show them: killall Finder and then use these terminal commands to hide them: killall Finder but this is clumsy! I then came across Onyx which allows me to do this at will, but unless I want to keep it open, it’s not a good option because it takes forever to launch! I did check the list of keyboard shortcuts at this Apple website in the hope it may be that simple, but no go.
My iMac is wonderfully performant, but under extended load it sounds like a hive of angry bees. I am using Turbo Boost Switcher to avoid using up all the CPU headroom, but for multithreaded applications it is not helping much. I would like to underclock the CPU (or GPU for that matter) to limit the heat produced. In Windows (using Bootcamp) I found options for limiting CPU load in the OS scheduler (which is not exactly underclocking), and an option for limiting GPU power (making it "battery friendly").
I have Numbers 4.3, 3.6 and 2.3 installed on different computers. I want to copy charts from Numbers to Keynote but when I do that in 4.3 or 3.6 the title, legend etc are omitted (and yes, I have tried "plain" copy as well as "copy as pdf" - the result is the same). I can export my file to Numbers 09 and open it in 2.3 and achieve my goal but that feels like a very inefficient and stupid workaround. I found this article that suggested I should group the chart with its title and then copy the grouped object but it does not work since I am unable to select both the title and chart simultaneously. How do I copy everything that belongs to a chart in Numbers to Keynote? (Mostly working with pie charts at the moment if that matters)
Is Apple slowing down older iPads too? Apple said it's slowing down older iPhones which you can disable under battery health, but I think Apple is slowing down iPads too. I watched this *=URL=* YouTube video today in which the reviewer said that Apple has slowed down his 2 years old iPad Pro 12.9 inch. If this is true then how can I find out if Apple has slowed my iPad pro too?
I have a bit of a curious problem and since a wide variety of Google searches led to no conclusion I figured I might ask here. I have a Folder Action set up using Automator that is meant to check if a previous instance of ABBYY's FineReader is currently running using AppleScript, proceed when it's not and then add new files to be processed by the software. This is necessary because I'm running a central Mac that gets files from multiple client Macs and processes them (not ideal, but I can't change that), so when FineReader gets called before having finished its previous requests it leads to faulty behaviour (requests get lost or the software crashes). Now the workflow itself works quite well, so does the script, but there is a little problem: Whenever the workflow is called as a Folder Action it will, without fail, open an instance of FineReader before any of the commands within the workflow are processed and then continues with the rest of it.
My Google Calendar account has stopped syncing with the Apple Calendar app on macOS (High Sierra 10.13.4). I've tried turning Google Calendar off and back on in the System Preferences -> Internet Accounts panel and i've tried removing the account from the Calendar app. Neither have made any difference. I don't see anything unusual in the system logs. Everything is up to date in the Google Calendar web app.
In the top chrome of some apps, there's an icon with the current file name (FYI: right-clicking on that icon will show the location on the disk). In some apps, if i drag this icon to a finder window, I'll have moved the file. in other apps, it creates an alias/shortcut instead of moving. Why doesn't it always move? If i hold down option as suggested here, then I can see that it will copy it, but holding command as suggested (in a totally different context, admittedly) here, seems to result in a secondary/right click, showing the file's location.
I am trying to send some docs to my MacBook through Airdrop. Problem being, I have tried almost all suggested troubleshooting, tried restarting systems, took care if the devices were having DND mode on, or were on Sleep, the Bluetooth is also shown connected. But still the Airdrop of either of the devices is not showing the other device available in their respective Airdrop section. This has happened quite a lot of times with me, since past many months. 4/5 month wrt delay in connectivity. Please suggest why it could be happening and what can be done to let Airdrop work fast.
I just set up a new iPad with a clean install and logged into iCloud and tapped 'Use iCloud' when starting iBooks. When I try to download a previously downloaded book from the 'My Books' tab in iBooks an error message with the following appears:
I am on MAC OS High Sierra The first command (*=URL=* looks OK The 2nd command results in the error: However, as I understand it is not needed now. The 3rd command results in the error: I suspect that installing at the base path / does not work.
I have a problem with connecting Macbook Pro 15' Retina (late 2013 with only Iris pro) with external monitor BENQ BL2711U. In specifications for MBP late 2013 with only Iris pro, HDMI supporting 3840x2160. Today I'm trying with BENQ BL2711U and nothing. No detected display on MBP , no signal on the monitor. How to connect this monitor? Thanks in advance!
I am looking for a way to create a keyboard shortcut or an icon I can click on that will simply open a blank Outlook email. I found several solutions for Windows but I need to do this for my Mac. I've been trying a few options but none can just open a new Outlook email with one click or one keystroke.
This MAC address keep showing up on my Xfinity account and my Wi-Fi. A8:BE:27:AC:10:37
The display of my MacBook Pro 15" is glimmering and backlight-flashing (as well as has wrong colors) when I move a mouse pointer. It occurs when MacBook Pro wakes up after a sleep. I was working with Autodesk Maya (just one app) on Radeon 560 4GB before closing the lid. This issue disappears right after the closing of Maya (so Radeon switches back to Intel). What should I do to get rid of this issue? MacBook Pro 15" – 2.9GHz Touch bar (middle 2017). macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. Autodesk Maya 2016.5 / Mental Ray Renderer.
When I print Wikipedia pages with math, they come out bold, ugly:  Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome all display Low-rank_approximation like this in print preview. Do I need to get additional fonts for math, if so where ? (My ~/Library/Fonts is empty.) Or, possible alternatives: is there a site with downloadable, ready-to-print pdfs of Wikipedia pages ?
The ability to automatically sort items by priority on desktop is an useful feature. It keeps them on top in list view reminding that most urgent tasks are to be completed first. Therefore, lack of it on mobile is that much apparent. iOS version: 11.2.6 (15D100)
A system gesture I use often when reading is to force press on a word which will pull up a definition and/or wikipedia page of the selected word (referred to a 'Look up & data detectors' in system preferences). I'd like to save my history (preferably into a flashcard format) for review. Anyone know of someone who's accomplished this or which direction to look in?
About four weeks ago was the last time I booted into OSX. Restarted, and ever since, it defaulted to Windows - wasn't a big problem as I've had to use that more often as of late.
I have an iPad pro that will connect to my 5GHz wireless network, gets an IP from the DHCP server (verified on the iPad and on the router itself), and then after 10-20 seconds it disconnects for no apparent reason. It repeats this in a cycle if I have auto-connect turned on. There are no error messages that I can see which would indicate the reason for the disconnect, and examining the logs from the wireless access point it appears that the iPad just decided to disconnect on its own. I have tried forgetting the network on the iPad and reconnecting. I have tried rebooting the device. All to no avail.
I'm managing a lot of favourite internet radio stations in a m3u file that is stored on my Dropbox to use it on several devices, but I have problems to play this on my iOS device. So far, I was unable to find any app that does the job for me. On Android there are many apps like Total Commander that can play m3u files with radio streams. Here is an example content of such a m3u file: Is there any way to play this file without jailbreaking the device?
Will this desktop setup work with the iMac running 10.11.6?
Currently I have a pretty organized folder structure Projects>Subject>File But sometimes some files or subjects are shared across mutiple projects and tags seems to help me bridge the issue. However is there way for the files to inherit both the tags from the Project and Subject?
After downloading my phone to a MacBook Pro I have experienced multiple photo duplicates in iCloud. 30,000 plus photos are now on my iCloud and the duplicate photo fixer only scans 2200. Any advice?
I give this application a new icon, and I drag it to Dock. Every time I click on the new application (blue icon), a new firefox launches with original icon (orange icon).
I bought a private proxy server which I'm successfully using in Telegram application. Now I went to network preferences (I'm using wifi connection), selected SOCKS proxy and filled credentials. Internet connection works, however when I check my ip address on few sites I got my original ip. Plus, I noticed, that first time I filled wrong user/password but didn't get any error.
I can’t find my iPad I’ve lost it for about almost a year now. How can I track it even if it’s dead? Or can I just go to an Apple store and have them track the last location it was connected to the internet?
I have multiple AirPort Extremes connected over ethernet in bridge mode to a Netgear R7000 dual band router. Can the 5ghz in the router work with the AirPort Extreme 5 ghz?
I am trying to connect my Ausdom S04 Earbuds to my Macbook Air 2014. I can connect to them on my iPhone (6), but when I try to pair them with my mac, they don't even show up!. I tried disconnecting, and even removing them from my phone. Any suggestions?
I noticed tonight that I can't convert a document to black and white in Preview. When I open the PDF in Preview and select Export, I see a select input for Quartz Filters, and I'm able to choose any filter including "Black & White". But when I save the document, the filter is not applied.
All my previous backup disks are either ext3, ext4, ntfs or fat32. I am having tremendous difficulty accessing my files easily from my mac (even with tools such as Tuxera). I did not expect an OS to not support access open file systems!
I had my SSD fail on me where it would see the disk, but the partition was not visible in Finder or DiskUtility. The partition map gave it a strange type as described in the following post. Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF Macbook Pro I followed the directions and was able to change it to a Core Storage, but the partition is still not visible and i get the following when i verifyVolume:
If a question asked on this forum does not get an answer because the feature requested does not exist (e.g. [1]), or it is agreed that there is a bug, ... what is the best way to report this to Apple?
I have a late 2016 15” MacBook Pro with a Radeon Pro 455 with 2GB VRAM. I have upgrade to macOS High Sierra because its support external GPUs. I have purchased Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box with 550W Power Supply and installed NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080. I cannot get this setup to use the eGPU to power the internal screen.
My MacBook's (Pro 2105) batteries are swollen and there is no AppleStore available here, is it possible to disconnect the battery from the mainboard and use the machine until I find replacement batteries from third-party stores? I don't want them explode! Here are the pictures of the batteries:
I am using Mac OS El Capitan on my macbook pro and have just installed Power Manager following your recommendations elsewhere on this website (see Low Battery Alert for Mac OS X El Capitan). However, I see only an option to power down the computer when the battery charge falls below a specified level. I would like to simply display a pop-up warning on the screen along with a sound alarm and, if continued unheeded for a few minutes, put the laptop to sleep instead of powering down. I guess the way to achieve this would be a script; could you send me such a script indicating wherever I have to insert my preferred parameters? Thanks.
Having previously had issues where my MacBook late 2012 would go into deep sleep then not wake up, I disabled the feature using pmset. It was improved but recently the problems are back - nearly every morning I find I have to reboot it as it is stalled on a black screen.
I'd want to set a global shortcut key for the "Go to Folder..." action available from Finder's dock icon. Right now I figured out how to trigger the same action from Finder's menu bar via AppleScript: however I don't like this solution because if there's a space with Finder windows open, and I'm in another space without Finder windows open, that causes to switch spaces. Instead, right clicking Finder's dock icon and selecting "Go to Folder..." keeps me in the space I'm in. How to automate this action and set it as a global keyboard shortcut?
Now I need to know if temperature actually went down over time. For this I need a graph, like XRG
I frequently use WeChat on Mac and would like to access the chat history directly (without the application). How can I find out where WeChat keeps its local data?
This MacBook Pro has only two USB-C ports. Since one is used to charge the laptop (the monitor can't charge the laptop), there is only one available port to plug a monitor.
Can the following be done with Automator, or any other tool/script on macOS? I have multiple video files with various file names (always .mp4). All video files must be embeded in to separate HTML documents. The HTML-documents should have the same file name as the video file. Both files should be placed together in a zip file. The zip file should have the same name as both the video and the HTML file. So, if I have the file video-to-html.mp4, I would like to end up with a zip file containing two files: The contents of the HTML file would look like: I am not a developer, so I do not understand a lot of coding.
We are a small company using several Apple devices. We do not want to store our documents in the Apple cloud for several reasons. Therefore, we haven't activated iCloud Drive on any of our devices.
I am trying to completely erase an external SSD; however, whichever way I try to do it, I get a different error. I think I have broken something. I don't care about information on this drive at all, I just want to be able to use it. Using Disk Utility
I'm trying, without success, connect to a local network ssh server from macOS by doing: and then I get:
We all now we can select all text (in a text area) in any app by using Ctrl/Cmd + A. And this feature is also available for a lot of other contexts such as file selection (in finder for ex), content selection (in photoshop for ex) etc... But in those other contexts you can also perform a multiple selection and an inverted selection among other stuff. In the same way for text I would find very useful having shortcuts to be able to
In AppleScript you can create a finder window with: after setting the target if you want to create a new tab I'm aware of:
I can launch applications from the dock. But when I launch apps from the applications folder, they do not open. Another odd symptom: in Preview with the app closed, in some folders I can open an image by just clicking on it. But in other folders, a jpeg will not open. But, if I launch Preview via the dock I can open up all images. Any ideas?
My ISP is blocking Internet access on Apple TV's. How do they determine that traffic is originating from an Apple TV? Any way around it?
I have a Mac Mini sharing internet via pf (Murus static NAT) to an airport extreme. If I set the MTU on its client (Macbook Pro, via the Wifi Preference Pane) to 1372, I get flawless internet. I'd like to set it on the router so every client connects with that MTU. How do I adjust the MTU on my Airport Extreme (ac model)?
This is what in my Istatus Menu As picture shows, my mac is running every 53 min when i'm sleeping This is the sleep settings on my macbook pro, I experimented that if I turn off the wifi and my mac will stop running every 53 mins after lid. However, it will be so annoying to turn off wifi everytime I lid the mac.I really want to know what is running every 53 mins... I checked the system log and it shows: It seems my computer waking up by touchbar or something and printed my UI, is that my computer got hacked?
I've got to give my computer (mid 2012 MBP, 15", running OSX 10.10) to a repair shop (not Apple store, but Apple authorised) for them to replace the battery. My concern is that someone at the repair shop could either access data on my drive or install something malicious. I've got FileVault enabled and a secure password to log in to the machine, is there any further steps I could take (short of removing the HD prior to giving it to them)?
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with two external Dell monitors. I also use the Mac disconnected from the displays at times. When I reconnect the laptop to the monitors (dual USB C -> HDMI adapters), the window orientations and desktop backgrounds are (usually) correct, but the windows on the leftmost (external) and rightmost (laptop built-in) monitors are switched. This holds true for both fullscreen and windowed apps. The contents of the center display (external) is always correct. The primary display is the center (correct) one.
I can find bookmarks for one profile at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks. However I don't know where I can find the bookmarks for the other profile. Where should I look?
When I use the Terminal application I want to close it using the command exit if only one Terminal window is open. If more than one window is open, I want to close just the window that executed the exit command. To achieve this behaviour I use the following function in my .bash_profile
We're developing an app for internal employees for easy communication. Now we want to remove all potential barriers for our employees (1500+) to install the app. Therefore we would like to host the app within the AppStore - employees can then download it like they are normally used to download other apps. Of course there will be a login screen in advance to make sure that only employees see the right information. The app got rejected with the following: Guideline 3.2 - Business
When I spotlight search for Pages on my mac, it opens "pages panel" but not pages. The only way I can find the Pages application is through Launchpad. Is this something that I can fix in some way?
When you 3D touch on a springboard icon you’ll either see a short list of developer defined controls, or you’ll see a generic “Share appname” control. However, is it possible to share an installed app with 3D touch? Or one would have to go find the app in appstore in order to share it? For example, I want to share the music app, but when I 3D touch on it I only see some music I’ve played
I am trying to remount the SD card after eject using but it says Kext com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC not found for unload request I am on macOS HighSierra
I downloaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD from Apple Developer Connection website from this link. I am attempting to install it as a guest OS using Virtual Machine (version 5.2.10, current as of this writing) running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, running on a Late 2013 15" Retain MacBook Pro. However after booting from the DVD, I am encountering this error:
I have put several plist entries in /Library/LaunchDaemons all configured to run at load. However, after booting, none of them load up automatically. Every other script in this directory loads automatically. My only workaround is to use an app called LaunchControl to manually load them, which works fine. Here is the text of one of these scripts
I recently had an 10.13.4 update problem and while trying to fix it I ended up "corrupting" completely my "Boot OS X" partition files. while my Fusion drive partition was updated correctly to 10.13.4, I couldn't boot from it any more.
How can I know the macOS version (such as 10.12.1) installed on the startup drive if I don't have the password (or has filevault encryption and I don't have the password). I wonder if there's a way to know it by using a Terminal command from macOS recovery or by starting from an External storage disk.
Every time I add an audiobook from mp3 files via iTunes, the chapters are completely out of order even though they have the correct Track numbers in iTunes:
I have my iPhone connected to a pair of bluetooth headphones for listening to music. If someone calls while im listening to music the call will ring on the headphones, but as soon as i pickup the call, by using "slide to answer" on the iPhone; the call starts on my phone eg. through the phone's earpiece, i then have to manually select the call to be taken through the headphones. Is there anyway i can set the iPhone to continue the call through the headphones by default ? Im running ios 11.3 on an iPhone 7. The bluetooth headphones im using are Bose quiet comfort 35.
I have a person who is looking to count pages of her perhaps 2-3000 PDFS. Unfortunately I am away and not sure what to do. She is non-technical. She needs a total count, of all the pdfs, combined (it will probably some something like 20,000 spread across the 3,000 PDFs) - no other details are necessary. I considered adobe combine and then get a page count, but just testing on ~500 files, it is pretty slow going! Adobe is an option.
I am looking for a Terminal Command to get the following information about a disk Last shutdown Last reboot I need to be able to specify the disk because I will be booting from a different, external, disk, or possibly from macOS Recovery. Note: I do not have the user password to log in.
In Pages (version 7), I can create a Bookmark and I can insert a link to a Bookmark. When linking to a Bookmark, the page number the Bookmark is on is visible. (That is, Pages is aware of what page number the Bookmark is on.)
Several months ago I was using Grapher, something strange happened. Instead of going to Equation → Integrate, I clicked the symbols menu (with the summation notation, cube root, etc.) and clicked the integral there instead. Now, whenever I do Equation → Integrate it does the silly integral computation instead of the symbolic integration which is so much better. The silly integral computation struggles to compute an integral of 2x to the left of the y-axis, although it may have its uses with integrals which cannot be solved symbolically. It used to say about symbolic integration here but now that page isn't working so now it's turned into a bit of a conspiracy theory.
My iPhone 6 works fine for common QR codes, but won't scan certain 2D codes (mac parts QR codes, for example). Are these codes different?
My IPhone Wifi hotspot (the first one in the screenshot) is shown with a different icon from any other hotspots (Android, broadband etc). This doesn't bother me except I need to manually re-connect my Mac to the hotspot whenever it's restarted/woke up from sleep, instead of it auto-connecting like other wifi hotspots. Anyway to get the Mac to auto-reconnect? Specs: IPhone 6 iOS 11.2 MBP MacOS Sierra
I have paired my new Iphone8 plus to my Bluetooth land line in my house. However, after disconnecting when I leave it does not automatically reconnect when I return. My Ipone 6 always automatically connected. Now I have to go back into settings and Bluetooth and manually select it. This is not good and a step backwards.
I got a Macbook Pro in January 2018. Mostly it's as expected, however the laptop arrived with some sort of glass plug (or something) lodged in the headphone jack. It's somewhere between amber and reddish in color and there doesn't seem to be any way to remove it from the jack (not that I've been able to find, anyways). It looks like maybe it's supposed to light up or something, though as far as I can tell it doesn't and the only purpose it seems to serve is making it impossible to actually use the headphone jack.
I was wondering if there's anything I could do to charge the battery on my current MBP (11,3) to a safe level, eg. ~80% charged, and keep it at that level while plugged in to the charger?
My wife's iPhone SE is a couple years old and many drops in (probably average of 1/week at least). It's been rock solid this whole time, but earlier today, it started having horizontal lines going up and down the display, and the lines seem to get more intense if the iPhone is doing some heavy processing or rendering something on the screen. A picture is worth a thousand words:
My app store pref pane was set to this: *=URL=* - I unchecked now it looks like this: *=URL=* - I'm on 10.13.3 now, it looks like 10.13.4 is downloaded and ready to install *=URL=* - I've been getting nagged to reboot for days. I keep putting it off. Anyone happen to know, if 10.13.4 is primed to install on next reboot, is there a way to cancel this?
I followed the instructions here *=URL=* to get an FTP server running on High Sierra. But when I log in to localhost, it doesn't recognize me as a user.
I have a brand new 2017 iMac on which installed windows 10 Pro. I installed the Bootcamp support software and for the most part the system works fine. Except for one annoying issue - I cant shutdown or hibernate the system it will only restart. I have done as much research i could and FWIW - Fast startup on windows 10 power settings is disabled. Installed and reinstalled Bootcamp windows 10 support software. Don't know if this is an issue the Intel Management engine.
OSX 10.13.1 The App Store shows a badge of "3" on the icon, but opening it and pressing "Updates" will result in an indefinite hang with low CPU utilization.
With a mouse or trackpad, we can double-click in text to select an entire word. If we hold the pressing of that second click, and then drag, we can select a series of entire words in most text editing places in most apps on macOS. Is there a way do the same effect (selecting a series of whole words) on a trackpad without the physical clicking, using only touches and taps? (I want to give my thumb a break from that downward-pressure repetitive motion.) Using Apple Magic Trackpad 2 or MacBook Pro built-in trackpad, with macOS Sierra.
I was looking for some help. I have a mac and an iPhone. I have 200 important notes in my icloud. I am scared that something will happen to my phone or mac and I will lose all my notes because my icloud is not backed up. I am looking for a way to relocate all of my notes to something more universal that does not need to be backed up (Gmail).
I used to work as a salesperson at an Apple retailer. I remember that prior to WWDC Apple usually changed the target price on old computers before the new computers were launched. (I guess they are easier to sell before the new models come out). Are there any statistics when this usually happens and how much those prices change?
I had partitioned my hard drive for Windows to be ran on it through Bootcamp. Everything was working okay, I could run in MacOSX or Windows. After I installed macOS High Sierra I began to have issues. When I was in Windows it would not find the MacOS disk. I was only able to load into OS by restarting Windows and holding down the 'option' key. I loaded MacOS, then deleted the Windows Partition. Now my disk looks like this: My diskutil list reads:
Will they still be able to negotiate the correct charging amount of 60W and not overload the cable?
I run OS X El Capitan on a Unibody MBP 13-inch mid-2009 and support for El Capitan is likely going to run out in fall, so as El Capitan is the last OSX update supported for my MBP, I will stop using OSX in a few months. The MBP still runs fine though hardware-wise so I’m thinking of just using it with Ubuntu. I’m just wondering if this would be unsafe as I can’t get any updates anymore for Mac OS X or if it doesn’t matter and I’m fine using Ubuntu security-wise? Thinking of things like maybe firmware updates that would have to be tailored to MBP hardware and supplied by Apple (but I’m really just guessing). Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
I am trying to print using a HP LaserJet Enterprise M609 connected with spoolss (i.e. smb). I can connect and authenticate with other printers that way, and they all print using the 'generic postscript driver', but this printer does not work with this driver, for reasons unknown. Apple lists it as one of the printers that would be able to use AirPrint, but this is not an option I can select. Any idea how to tell the printer to use AirPrint? The steps I need to follow are the same as these, and work for other printers.
To submit an updated app apple is requiring: Review the updated Paid Applications Schedule. In order to update your existing apps, create new in-app purchases, and submit new apps to the App Store, the user with the Legal role (Team Agent) must review and accept the Paid Applications Schedule (Schedule 2 to the Apple Developer Program License Agreement) in the Agreements, Tax, and Banking module. However when the link to the module is clicked it shows just a blank page with a grey square in the middle so I cannot accept the module.
How can I do this on iOS? I tried using Photoshop Fix, but all I see is "crop," no cut and paste. I'm not committed to Photoshop as a solution; any way to use part of one image to cover another will do.
I would like to delete all of my photos from icloud immediately. The only way I have found to do this is select each individual picture and delete it. There does not seem to be a select all option anymore.
I am trying to get past my activation lock screen on start uo, i havent used my iphone 5 in years and since then the email that was used has been deleted. I don't know my password for my account, anyway to bypass it or get my account opened
I collect and restore vintage Macs. I have PDF OCR versions of all MacUser and MacWorld magazines from their premier issues to 1995. I do a lot of searching through these magazines for reviews and articles on hardware and software to use in my restorations. I've tried using Acrobat Pro to search through all the PDFs for specific words but it's incredibly slow as there are around 300 magazine issues equalling around 16GB. I just tried DevonThink and it's faster but makes you click into each magazine issue to see what it found (no summary). Is there another more robust (and fast) way of doing this that I'm missing? I like Acrobat's way of doing this but it literally takes 30 minutes to an hour to complete a search. TIA
When I was updating my iPhone 8 to iOS 11.3 I went to the Software Update screen and there I noticed an extra "2" appearing in black letter after the link image :-  after HT1222 an extra 2 in black font is there. It appears like this HT12222
Do I have a hardware problem or a software problem with Chrome?
Today I downloaded a soundtrack composed of 19 tracks. Their format is FLAC (24bit depth and 96kHz sampling). In order to add them to my iTunes library and eventually to my iPod, I converted the files to ALAC (24 bit 48kHz) which is the maximum my 7th gen iPod classic can handle.
i am using following command to change the keyboard layout. i am rebooting the system after issuing the command. In few operating system its working and in few its not.
Because this has happened from day one, I have been at the Apple Store many times, and the MBP now has its 4th logic board (!) Still, the problem remains.
On linux there is a great command line program ts. It adds a timestamp to the beginning of each line of input. Here is an example (on some linux machine): But there is no such program on my mac: And there is no program with such name in brew. How can I get ts program on my mac?
I'm trying to block some IP addresses, on Linux I can perform the following command and successfully block the IP: iptables -A INPUT -s 11.22.33.44 -j DROP Does macOS have an equivalent command, or a way that I can install iptables on the system itself (perhaps using brew)?
I have an automator workflow, that is supposed to take a PDF from Hazel, split it into it's single pages and store the new PDFs one level above the input file. The output folder of the single page PDFs should depend on the input file. Link to workflow in Dropbox The first action is only for debugging purposes and doesn't contain a file in the saved version.
Recently I upgraded my High Sierra machine to version 10.13.4 but ever since the CPU load has been high. On running htop it showed /usr/libexec/sharingd to be consuming most of the CPU. Is there a way to stop this service? Update: I was forcefully able to stop this service but still my high sierra machine has become very slow after the recent update, is anyone else facing same problem? 2nd Update: sharingd process comes up again after rebooting the machine
I need to duplicate cells from one worksheet to another if the associated record [row] contains a given word. Say row 2 has "foo" in cell A, I would like to duplicate all the cells in that row to another workbook. If A3 has "floop" in it no cells should be duplicated—it would be skipped essentially (without a blank row). The data is as so: The resulting table would be as so: -- This is as far as I've gotten: I've created a helper table beginning at A52 to sort the data for which "foo" is present in column A utilizing the formula =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("foo",a2)),a2,"") [Which I have a feeling is redundant, but is the only bit that seems to be working.]
Mac OS 10.13.4, iTunes 12.7.4 Somehow my music library has become screwed up, and almost all of my 28,000-odd tracks aren't where they should be (according to iTunes). I can create a playlist of all the tracks, and I can export that playlist to a text file. But I don't see how to download those tracks to a library.
I use iTerm (default settings) + oh-my-zsh on my macOS. To setup my mac i used dotfiles from mathiasbynens/dotfiles which i'm happy with but the only issue i can't figure out how to fix is, when i paste a long text (say a base64 encoded string) in terminal, it takes a long time to complete, see below gif: *=URL=* Does anyone know what setting controls the speed of pasting text and how to speed it up?
I'm unable to open a RAW picture file anymore on my MacBook Pro, double click in finder does nothing, its thumbnail looks washed out, and if I right-click and Open with Photoshop explicitly I get the error: Item “_XXX7336.NEF” is used by macOS and can’t be opened.
I always keep the Mail application running in the background (there is a dot below the Mail icon in the Dock but a Mail window is not open) to get notifications about new messages. When I finish work, I don't turn my MacBook off, I make it sleep by shutting the screen pane down. Every time I awake the MacBook in the morning, a Mail window opens as soon as an Internet connection is established. It is very annoying. How to prevent Mail from opening the window on the day first login?
I would really like to make that I can plug in a USB into a mac with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format and an application automatically opens. I know this works on Windows with Command Prompt (Cmd) I'm not sure but maybe this would work with Automator Folder action
With an iPhone (currently 11.3) there’s an option under Settings / Music / Volume Limit / EU Volume Limit to limit the maximum volume the headphones will produce to reduce potential damage to your hearing. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a similar option on Apple Watch (currently 4.3) when leaving the phone behind. Am I missing something obvious here?
On my mac (macOS 10.12.6) I can't find a quick way to resize image thumbnails in icon view mode. I remember many years ago, with Leopard, by using Ctrl + Scroll Up/Down it was possible to resize thumbnails. Is there any way to use that functionality or third-party software that enables this functionality in Sierra?
So when my iPhone 5S shuts down over night because of low battery, I have following behavior the next day, when I connect it to my laptop or my car's usb: It turns on, tries to boot, but then dies because of a the low battery. This happens again and again for about 30 minutes. Then it will stay on with some percent of battery, charge as it should, and then last about one day.
I have an application (executable file) that's installed to /usr/local/bin/. The binary is available to me from my terminal. However, there's also a server running on my Mac, and that server application fails to find this binary. I'm speculating it runs on behalf of another user. Probably Guest, because ls /Users/ only displays Guest Shared admin, where admin is the name of my user. How can I make this binary available to Guest, or better yet - to all users (in case I add more users in the future)? The system in question is 10.13.4.
I prefer my desktop to be as empty as possible. So the first thing I do whenever I get a new Mac is hide all items on the desktop (hard disks, external disks, CD's and servers).
Today I gave my MacBook to my brother. He asked to change name and password. So, I changed all my info. And when I want to unlock to make changes, it shakes (probably error). But I can log in. Can I reset a password without data loss?
After syncing photo albums from a Mac to iPhone (11.3) latest added albums don't show up in the album list on the phone anymore. I use the syncing function in iTunes (12.7.4) with "selected albums" option.
I have some sensitive work data on my mac that i keep in an encrypted backup. It's a big file of about 19gb. I can open and access it fine using the password i set, however, i have noticed that every time i do this and then open some of the files within and then finish and dismount the volume, time machine will begin backing it up. However, it doesn't simply back up just the changes i made, it backs up the entire encrypted image again and so makes a duplicate of it, this is rapidly using up space on my time machine drive, is this supposed to happen and how do i stop it? NB: It also does this even if i don't make any changes to the encrypted image and simply view some of the files within the volume and then close it. Many thanks for any help you can give.
I have an old iPhone I want to sell and I don't remember which iOS version is installed on it. I am currently presented with the "Hello" setup screen. So I can't determine which iOS version is installed. Is there a way to find out which version is installed?
The MacBook Pro 2014 (macOS High Sierra, A1502) I’m using has a firmware password set. I tried to boot into target disk mode and it asks for this password even after turning it off/on. I tried many key combinations, SMC reset, cmdoptionPR, etc, none of which worked.
Lately, I've noticed on my home's internet connection that my down link is basically constantly going at full-speed. Using iftop and darkstat I see this traffic comes from 2 iPads and one Macbook Air, and that the traffic is in the form of downloads from Apple servers (more specifically servers in the 17.X.X.X IP range).
Activity Monitor has a number of columns that show different measurements of memory usage for each process. Including: Memory Real Memory (various) Compressed Memory How can I display these for a specific process or app in Terminal, AppleScript or Xcode?
I've read through a similar sounding problem here: My MacBook pro Wi-Fi is slow, other devices are OK. However, my MCS index, Transmit Rate(Tx), RSSI and Noise seem to be relatively acceptable. See screenshot here:
OS: macOS 10.13.4 Application: Apple Mail, version 11.3 (3445.6.18) Problem: Apple Mail hangs (occasionally, but more often than I'd like) I have 22 email accounts that I have to keep track of and I'm finding my Apple Mail client is hanging periodically, without causing a fault report. Yes, I know it's a lot, and no, I can't reduce them or have the emails forwarded to another account on the server side.. :(
I recently installed MacOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, but now every time I restart my Computer it boots the MacOS Installer volume but fails to complete, because System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged Now, I've read here (here the installation failed with the same error message), that you can just select the regular HD to mount, which works, and install the update, but there's no update to be installed, as the installation actually was successful. My computer works fine if I boot it with the HD. Any ideas on why it still wants to boot on the Installer? Specs: MacBook Pro 13" 2014 MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3 note In the link I provided, one of the answers suggested finding and moving the OSInstall.mpkg file, but I can't find it at all.
My MacBook pro won't start at all. I successfully created a bootcamp partition a few days ago and it's been working fine--I can switch between Windows 10 and MacOS High Sierra easily. However, I somehow unallocated around 20gb of memory and couldn't allocate it back to my main (Mac) harddrive partition. So I attempted to use a Windows app to allocate it as an exFAT partition with the hope of deleting it from the Mac side using Disk Utility. However, once I powered off my computer, it now won't turn on at all. Meaning, the backlight, keyboard, and touchbar don't turn on. The startup chime was disabled and there is no LED Apple logo so I can't use that to indicate power, however when I hold down the power bar to boot the computer as I normally would, the Force Touch trackpad begins to click and likewise when I power it off, the trackpad ceases to click. Also I think I can feel warmth coming from beneath the computer near the vent.
I'm running a Mac Mini 2014 with High Sierra (10.13.4) and am experiencing some lag, since adding a pair of Thunderbolt RAID drives. I've also added 25 or so SMB sharing users. Only a few users are active at any time, and mostly through Sharing, not logging in. The lag is apparent in the Desktop when I'm logged in, and in initial delay, when I access an SMB share. A couple of questions:
I use FocusMe for productivity reasons and such. The software works quite well, especially since my roommate agreed to create and safeguard a password. But, in order to prevent the program from simply being quit, Activity Monitor must be completely disabled, which is done via FocusMe’s settings. This is normally fine, since I don’t often need to use Activity Monitor (and, when I do, I can ask my roommate to enter the FocusMe password).
how do I prevent those dialogue boxes from appearing? There's nothing in /etc/fstab except the actual internal hard drive. I need to stop them automounting.
One of the apps I have installed is not working super well and I'd like to try deleting its data to see if that helps. Usually, when you delete an app on iOS, it warns you that all data will be deleted. As such, the common advice is simply deleting the app and then redownloading it from the App Store.
Update: Having unplugged the right-hand monitor from the MacBook and plugged it gloomily back into the iMac, I gave up and went to lunch. When the iMac woke from sleep, this time (unlike every other time for the past week or so) the right-hand monitor was working. Clearly, my mental model of how computers connect to monitors, developed in the RCA / CGA / VGA era, bears no relation to how they work in the bold 21st-century world of USB-C and DisplayPort.
I've seen this question asked before but the answers either didn't quite seem to address the question, or were very old so I'd like to see if there's any way to do this today. I have a mid-2011 iMac that does support Target Display Mode, but since I want to connect it to a Windows (7 Home) PC I understand TDM to be irrelevant and it won't work.
I have a huge folder containing musical scores and books (mainly in .pdf). I would like to create a text document (TextEdit will do just fine) which contains the complete list of the folder's content (possibly even divided into subfolder).
Does non-Server macOS still have a file sharing user limit these days? The way they are abandoning the idea of running Mac Servers, it seems plausible they could have removed the file sharing limit from "client" macOS.
I made a bootable USB with El Capitan on it, and when I boot from that, the USB ports work. But now the SSD won't mount, so I can't recover anything. Running "diskutil list" shows the SSD as disk0/disk0s1/disk0s2, but only disk0/disk0s1 can be mounted (of course disk0s2 is the partition I need to access). disk0s2 is APSF, and I don't think its encrypted. How else can I get one of these disks mounted?
I really need help with this issue: whenever I try to open a word document file from my Mac, the archive utility application opens up and turns the .doc file into a .cpio file and if I click on that it then turns into a .zip file. I've tried to research and even called Mac Support and they were not helpful. I just want my MS Word files to open up when I double click on them. I don't know how to stop the archive utility from opening up. It's a repetitive cycle of .cpio file to .zip file to .cpio and so on. If anyone knows how to fix this issue please let me know.
I have iBird Pro on my old iPad and it has stopped working because I "updated" it and the new version requires an internet connection. Even with a connection it does not work and I just get Flickr ads, no pictures of birds.
I host several web services on my internal network and have created TLS certificates for each of them, all signed by my home-baked OpenSSL certificate authority. I've imported the CA certificates into Keychain on my MacBook and into my trusted certificate store on my Windows PC, and since then have had no "invalid certificate" errors pop up when accessing my internal sites via Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
I recently got the iPhone 8. After some research, I found that it had the IP67 rating. I'm not sure what this means though. Does this rating mean that it is fully waterproof, or is it only waterproof for a certain number of meters?
I'm trying to migrate my old messages from my old MacBook Pro to a new one I just bought. I tried copying over the old Messages folder, including chat.db, chat.db-shm, and chat.db-wal. I then restarted my Mac and it has created new chat.db, chat.db-shm, and chat.db-wal files - and it appears to have renamed the files I copied over from my old Mac as chat.db.incompatible.v11026.sqlite.db, chat.db.incompatible.v11026.sqlite.db-shm, and chat.db.incompatible.v11026.sqlite.db-wal.
Does anyone know anything about the white/blank window in the picture below? So it comes up whenever I open a new Safari window and the only way to close it is to quit Safari. It's not an extension issue because I don't have any installed on my Safari browser. It's not related to Sophos or Malware bytes either because I installed them a few days ago and the problem has been going on for a few weeks now. So far I have run Malwarebytes and tried to repair permissions as well as cleared my Safari cache. However, the problem is still there. Can anyone identify it or tell me how to remove/stop it? I'm concerned that it may be a security risk. https://i.imgur.com/O9GDCIW.png
I guess since up 'upgraded' to 10.13.4 I get a login screen if I leave my MacBook air alone for the briefest time. This is a real pain in the neck. In system preferences the this statement is checked: "Require password [immediately] after sleep or screen saver begins."
I've bought a refurbished MacBook Pro (early 2013). My original one (early 2011) keeps shutting down, so took to repairman who reflowed the logic board (cost 170, didn't work) so payed another150 for him to tinker with it and it came back worse than before, now instead of just turning off it freezes and gives me vertical grey line and repeats the last sound the video I was watching over and ob=ver.
Is there a way to automatically detect duplicate pages across multiple PDFs? e.g. we have 300 PDFs and there could be the same page in each of the PDFs, and we'd like to remove all but one of them. Preview or MacOS built in option preferred (something simple - for a non-technical user). We have to be able to visually confirm. Any insight would be much appreciated.
What would the proper syntax to get this to work on a Mac Os 10.13
Recently I've bought my AW3. At the beginning everything was great, but I've noticed problem with sending SMS. When I try to send message to my girlfriend I see at the the top of screen progress. After few minutes watch notifies me that he can't send SMS. When mobile data is on or when I turned off iMessage this problem doesn't appear. I've tried many ways to solve this issue. Reset watch, reset phone, unpair watch and pair as new, reset network and all setting in phone, update phone os to clear new through iTunes. I wonder if exists a solution because I've contacted with Apple support many times and nothing happened :( If someone of you faced similar problem and solve it I'll be glad for leads :) Thanks for reply.
Minimising a window in MacOS takes too long for me. I sped up the dock autohiding by using these commands in Terminal: How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster?
Clicking The right side info icon (!) does nothing. Clicking on share/delete/download buttons at top of the file container does nothing.
In iBooks Author, the preview on iPad option is not working. I have tried 2 different iPads on all ports and my iPhone, but it is still greyed out and not available. What could be wrong?
I now this interface is capable of 100 watt, but I couldn't find what's the voltage/current capability for these machines through the USB-C ports (neither for the Macbook 12-inch 2015/16/17).
I Signed on Mac Store For First Time And Downloaded App.Pop-up came which says welcome to app store and it has new apple privacy icon with two man shaking hands and i clicked continue is that normal process or some adware ?
The content in my Downloads folder is getting bigger and bigger. There are many older documents that I don't need any more. Is there a way to bulk erase files from a given number of days ago?
I use macOS and, from Scala, I like to call the default text editor on text files. I want the user to be able to edit/modify the file, and be called back / notified in any form when this editing is finished, thus the editor quit. Alternatively, a notification on any modification after saving (in particular the first) would do the job. Ideally there would be a notification when the external process is actually finished since the text file is only created temporarily by my app.
I have heard about this called trimforce enable which enables TRIM on third party SSDs. But I have an original apple ssd which has trim enabled by default. I ran the command. But then I read an article saying that running such a command will allow unsigned kexts. So I am thinking of disabling it. But I have a question if I run trimforce disable will it disable TRIM on my original Apple SSD? Thanks
I have to change my pain relief patch every 3 days so I have set up a reminder on my phone. It alerted me today but still says overdue. How do I keep it on to remind me without having to delete it and put the next due date in?
I'm not very clear on the difference between the two (from what I have read, a Mac alias is a kind of symbolic link, but with different behaviour). However, while working on other projects where, e.g. an app calls on a script which may be intermittently updated by my programmer, I know we had to make use of a symbolic link to avoid issues when the file was updated (& an alias would not work, in that case). All these files are currently stored on DropBox, in case that adds additional complications.
If I disable bluetooth, the popup stops. But as soon as I enable it back, the stream continues.
I postpone it, because I need to do some work this weekend. We close up my laptop, and I go home.
Whenever I move around icons in Launchpad, then log out and back in, the layout resets to factory defaults. And for some reason, Launchpad doesn't create it's db file. Why?
My iPhone backup PC that had my iTunes backup is dead. I'd loaded a lot of my CD's to the iTunes in that PC. How do I back up my iphone MUSIC contents to a cloud back up, including the CDs which are still on my phone (and had been backed up to now dead PC)? I already managed to do a similar thing with the photos that were really on the PC in sync folder, by saving photos that would have been lost by copying them to my phone before converting to icloud backup.
I have done this:  (then click Open) about 4 times now. And yet the last time I clicked on an MP4 file it opened up in Quicktime. It's like OSX is ignoring what I told it to do. When I look at the file with Get Info it says it is an MPEG-4 movie. The default option under "Open With" is Quicktime.
I asked in the Apple community Mac OS X forum seven days ago - no answers. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8357828
I've just downloaded and installed VS but it won't start. I don't get any errors at all, that app simply does nothing when launched (although it does load for a while). I didn't need Xcode so I didn't install it. I am a total mac noob and have no idea how to troubleshoot this :( Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks
I have issue with the display on my macbook pro 15 in 2017 touch bar. When I boot or restart the device there is some noise in the screen. After osx start the screen back to normal. I did rest SMC & NVRAM, also run the safe mode, still the issue is appearing. I have already contact apple support they said I need to bring it to apple store to fix it, yet there is no official apple store in my country, I need to travel in order to visit apple store. Can anyone help me to solve it
I received what appears to be a malicious message on my Apple Watch 2. It did not arrive via any known messaging app. There was no banner, only the words. The words were threatening. I had recently been using FaceTime. I checked my iPad and iPhone but theres no message there. Then I went on my MacBook Air and a box popped up: "Your Apple ID and phone number are now being used for FaceTime on a new Apple Watch". My Apple Watch is not a new Apple Watch. so I'm a bit alarmed. Any advice?
I just got an used Imac and try to create an fresh install. After some try's with deleting partition and install where i got an error that High sierra not could be install because of the APFS file system. Then i read that i should click on delete on "Macintosh HD" after i did that, the hard drive is not showing up. The return of diskutil cs list is: No CoreStorage logical volume groups found. Results from diskutil list: Results from gpt -r show disk0: I'm pretty lost right now, hope some of you can help me.
I asked this question *=URL=* on Stack Overflow, thinking it was a Python programming problem. Since then, a number of users have reported no issue, and I installed Python 3.6.5 on an old MacBook, running 10.12.6 and the code runs as expected. Can anyone suggest why it does not work on my new iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017) running 10.13.4 and more importantly what I can do to change this. The program also fails to run correctly on a 2011 MacBook Pro running 10.13.3 under Python 3.6.4 The following show the display, and after resizing.
I have a 2011 MacBook Air with 4gb RAM, 128 SD hardrive and Intel Core i5. For years it ran great. I code for web so never needed anything super powerful, other than the ability to keep several Chrome tabs open.
Hiren's Boot CD comes with an ISO that I could write to a stick with dd: But that ISO doesn't include a boot loader. Hiren's instructions explain how to install GNU Grub with a Windows utility, but I'm using a Mac to create a Linux rescue stick so I can recover the data from my failing Windows laptop. (My family never discusses religion at the dinner table.) If I pray to Google most of the hits are posts that ask how to install GRUB on a Mac, not how to use a Mac to install Grub on a storage device. I'm running High Sierra but I also have El Capitan installed, and could install older systems if I needed to.
When I tried to edit a CSS file to adjust the pop-out font through vim in terminal, I got W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file. Thinking sudo could be used to tackle that, I went editing the file anyway.
I was running a computationally intensive code from Rstudio, and it stopped responding. I used forcequit on the app, and tried to restart my computer. Although Rstudio wont show on ps -ax, mac refuses to shut down saying "Rstudio" is still running. When I right click on Rstudio in dock, it says "Application not responding", I think it tried to start itself and failed somehow. On DiagnosticReports I have a .hang file created after this. My question is, how do I force quit an application when option+command+escape, or right click > Force quit does not work, pid is not listed and cannot see it running in Activity Monitor. What might be wrong?
I want to delete Windows from my Macbook. Ive seen many youtube tutorials on this topic but I don’t have the same screens as most of them. Here are some screenshots from my Mac. Can someone advice me on how I can delete it? Or is my partition irreversible?
I was googling & found this one *=URL=* but it doesn't work anymore, maybe someone knows some alternatives. For example I'm using application 'Drakdoo' on my iPhone and I want to get its notifications on my Mac.
The login screen to my iMac is now half black every time it starts as shown here. Once logged in, the display is fine and I can view the whole screen. :s Any ideas why this might be and how to resolve this?
This screen came after I entered my credentials to login, and stayed here for a long time. I have tried reinstalling the os and clearing nvram, tried booting into safe mode and run diagnostics and tried updating the OS, but nothing has worked. How do I get to log in?
I'm looking to the sublimetext build system, where I considering to customize my own build based on make. Since there is C.sublime-build I was expecting to find Make.sublime-build. Where is it?
I am wondering is there a shortcut to raise another app's window underneath the current app's active one, so i can quickly toggle the top two windows, as this is a common workflow in my daily work. I have tried a few window management apps, but couldn't find any that allows me to do this task. I want to bring the window upfront immediately, not something like Command + Tab that goes through a list of all open windows.
I have a late 2013 27in iMac running Sierra. After a couple of hours it "disconnects" from my network, but in a very odd way. The computer can still access the network but I cannot connect to it via VNC, or if I have any services running on it I am unable to access them through my local IP. If I turn off and on the wifi it will be back up and I can access services hosted via FTP, HTTP, VNC and DLNA. I am quite unsure how to even start troubleshooting, any guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.
The only way I have found to find a redirected email item is to look for the little -> icon on the left of each message so redirected. Is there a way to set a rule looking for that in a smart mailbox? And if not, has anyone requested that feature? Thanks. Boyd
My iPhone 6 has a problem charging it will charge then not charge then it will repeat it. When it gets to 100% and it get taken off the charger then a few minutes it will die. What do I need to do to fix it?
I have a MacBook Air with mac OS Version 10.13.4 and I am not able to write to external disks formatted in format "Windows NT File System (NTFS)". It is definitely not an issue with the drive as I am able to write to the drive on Windows and Linux systems following these guidelines: Plug the drive into a free USB slot.
I installed Windows 10 64 system on my MacBook Pro 16 / 13 Retina I used to switch simply by clicking on boot camp and clicking on the partition I want to use. But since today I can’t see the Windows partition anymore I looked only and I tried to restart my Laptop and press and hold the Option key but when I do that, after my PC starts I reach a black screen with a locked sign as you see in the picture I uploaded. I have to hold the power again to lose this screen and it restarts to my Windows again Any help to how I can access my Mac iso again I have a lot of important files there
I’ve got to send my laptop, MBP mid 2012, running OSX 10.10, into a repair shop. I use the computer for work so can’t really be without it. Could I take 5e HD out (this is one of the old MBPs with a removable HD), put it into an enclosure and 5en boot into it to work in from a Mac mini which is currently running 10.13 although I believe it had 10.10 on there at some point so the drivers should be there. Would booting into the HD cause any issues with email accounts (imap accessed via Mac mail), Dropbox sync app, and other pieces of bought software that require a serial number ? I also have file vault enabled on the drive but presumably as long as I know the password I can still boot into it.
I am looking for a way to in terminal is there a way I can create a script or a shortcut for cd-ing / sshing on a mac? I thought I can create a script.command file and in that write cd path 1
I have 2 question. How to fill Editors' Notes in iTunesConnect for iPhone games How to fill Editors' Notes in iTunesConnect for iPhone games
how can I delete this file? if I run netstat -an this gets listed it is probably an old installation of cyberghost, but I realy think that this is shady that it is not uninstalled. I already tried:
I am running Sierra, but I am sure the problem is as bad, or worse, in High Sierra. I don't want to store files in iCloud, unless I decide to. But now, when I go to save a new file in Keynote, I don't even get a dialogue box: it is automatically put into iCloud, and I have to manually save it elsewhere. I have thought about turning iCloud off, but I don't mind having system prefs saving stuff there - just not my voluminous workfiles that I share via DropBox instead. How do I stop this happening?
I recently noticed that my error log is being literally flooded with "0 is not a valid connection ID" generated by signpost_notificationd process. The message is being logged few times per second. How can I check what is causing this?
First of all but not my main question how can something use the CPU for more than 100%? My main question is how can I get rid of it? Is it safe to force it to stop? I think it's a Google Chrome thing, from what I could gather. It uses up a lot of CPU leading to my laptop heating up and fast battery drain. Has anyone a solution to this problem? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with Sierra (10.12.6) Edit: I usually use Safari and do not have Chrome installed only firefox as a second browser.
And if any of the files within these folders share a name, fogitaboutit. Finder simple "can't" merge these folders. So two questions: How do I actually move folders, merging any duplicate folders in Finder? How do I make this the default behavior for Finder? And yes, I know that there are options to cp, mv, ditto, and tar that do this sensibly on the command line.
I am currently having some problems with my iPhone, making it impossible to connect to it. I did before it died perform a full backup, so my question is whether it is possible to simulate my iPhone using the backup? and if so how?
On the workout app, for all of my workouts except “Outdoor Hiking” the default setting under the little green figure says “Open Goal” in bright green. Under the Outdoor Walk it shows “750 Calories” in red. When I start it, the countdown ring is in red. How do I reset this to Open Goal and countdown ring in green ?
I accidentally unmounted and erased the Macintosh HD in disk utility and restored to the OS X Base System, and now I can't reinstall macOS. The only disk that shows up in disk utility is the OS X Base System. Please Help!!!
If FileVault is off, I know my disk is unencrypted but I don't quite understand what that means in regards to unauthorized access. How exactly would someone get into my Mac if it weren't encrypted, since I already have a password on it?
I am looking to increase the RAM of my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015). I found one on the Apple website, but it is $400. If I could find a better price, it would be amazing. I was looking around on Amazon, but don't know if the SDRAMs I found work with my iMac. Do you guys have any advise for how to tell whether or not the SDRAM is compatible with my iMac?
the lsof command tells me launchd is listening on port 4444: I'm trying to set up a Selenium (*=URL=* Server whose default port is 4444 - I realise I could change Selenium's port, but I don't recall having this clash on Macs previously (I guess prior to Tiger) Is it possible/viable to have launchd run on a different port?
I have a small airplane which provides 14V (volts) through a cigarette lighter socket. Can I use this to charge an iPad?
Later I reused Bootcamp to reinstall Windows on its specific NTFS partition (in this case Bootcamp does not pass through resize step). Mac and linux still have access to NTFS share, but not Windows. Moreover windows Disk Manager does not shows the remaining partitions (share, linux, etc) beyond its install partition, instead it shows one unique big unallocated partition.
I am not sure if it is a hardware limitation or not. If I connect my 2017 macbookpro to two external monitors (Dell U2715Hc) and try to use the macbookpro monitor at the same time, the two external monitors' resolution got messed up (beccomes very low resolution and windows/applications are displayed beyond the boundaries of the physical displays)
Here is the info of my laptop: - MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) - 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 - 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 - Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB - macOS High Sierra version 10.13.4 - Acer G236HL Bbd 23-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor I've tried both a SMC reset and NVRAM reset and nothing worked for me. I am so frustrated with this issue. How do I troubleshoot this issue: I used the same Thunderbolt cable and a new MacBook Pro and connected to TV - WORKED I connected the Cable and my Acer monitor with OLD MacBook Pro 2012 - WORKED I connected the MacBook Pro 2015 and same cable and Acer monitor - Not working.
I can open a new iTerm window like this: How do I do the same but with MacVim?
I've been occasionally getting a notification saying Time Machine hasn't backed up in XX days. When I go Time Machine preferences, it lists my Time Capsule there as my only destination and reports recent backups. Running tmutil listbackups shows me that I have months of daily backups, ever since I reformatted my Time Capsule hard drive late last year. I've tried removing /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist and resetting the Time Machine preferences, to no avail. Any idea what might be happening here?
This works no problem. It copies all 29K files. The next step is to get all of the content inside of the folder and filter it down. Get Specified Finder Items ( The folder that was just copied ) Get Specified Finder Items ( The folder that was just copied ) Get Folder Contents ( Repeat for each subfolder found ) Get Folder Contents ( Repeat for each subfolder found )
I freed up some space on my 2017 MBP this afternoon. I had 7gb so I deleted 30gb to make some room. Came back to my MBP a few hours later and 30gb of space (and counting) was used up again. How does this happen and how do I stop it? I am watching gb drop at a steady pace and I don't know why. Help is much appreciated, as always.
but it doesn't change the tab size in the Notes app. I find no related preference in any of its menus.
An iOS device such as iPhone or iPad can share the internet connection of a Mac by either connecting with a USB cable or connecting via Bluetooth, as discussed in this Question.  If I want to be sure that I am using the shared internet access of the Mac, I can shut off cellular data in Settings on the iOS device.
I have a Xampp web server running on another computer in the local network and my Mac can no longer access it after updating to High Sierra. All other devices I have in the same Wi-Fi network connect to the web server using the server computer's IP address without any issues. The only thing that changed, as far as I know, is that the Mac was updated to High Sierra. Any guesses?
I usually don't have to login to Facebook, Gmail, ... the browser "remembers" me, and I surf the web a few times a day. And this evening (I used the computer a few hours ago) All my accounts were disconnected, which I find strange. Every 30(?) days gmail asks for my password again, Facebook more rarely, ... and those should be independent events. Is there another cause?
However, the very same application had been working previously with no issues. Is any way I can restore it? I have downloaded the same application again from this direct download link, but now it is still blocked from starting with the same message, by what looks like only a system lock outside the application. Is there any way to bypass that blocking setting and start the application? Here is a screenshot of the message:
How do I run Visual Studio Community 2017 from the terminal? The program wont start and gives me no error so I'm trying to troubleshoot it (but I'm a total mac noob). Someone said running it from the terminal would give me the error.
After Updating to mac os High Sierra Whenever Macbook awakes from sleep it flashes a white screen with apple logo and progress bar and sometimes it shows freezed image of the app that i was working on . reset Smc , nvram and installed new os nothing fixed this . Device:- Macbook Pro mid 2012 Os:- mac os High Sierra
There is an eject key on the upper right corner of my Magic Keyboard. Since I'm neither using the eject key directly nor any of the shortcuts associated to it, I would like to remap it to a symbol that I use more often. That is in my case the backslash.
Is it possible to set up encryption such that backups are still reasonably fast? I will accept a 25 to 50% degrade in performance, but not a 10x blowup in time to completion.
I have a MacBook Air 13" High Sierra, early 2015. The computer is only a year old. Battery life is good, amperage good, holding a charge. The problem is, the very instant I unplug the Magsafe adapter it shuts down. Goes black. Dead. I've reset the SMC to no avail. I'm attaching images to show that the battery is indeed fine. Before I take this to the Apple store I thought I would check in with this bright, enlightened community. Thanks!
Problem Currently on my machine my macbook is showing that it used 104/256 gb of the memory when I have no such files or applicaion on my macbook that takes up that much space and this macbook is fairly new and I have not downloaded anything onto the mac other than Imovie and Microsoft word and a python developer kit which is no greater than 2 gb I was wondering how I could fix this? I did try doing first aid and nothing worked and I did try updating the os
I just want to switch the Y and Z keys. I've tried everything with Karabiner on High Sierra, but it just doesn't seem to work. I always get an error message along the lines of: "Karabiner Error. Error in xml. Unknown symbol: KeyCode::0x6" Attached you can see the code that I've been trying to use, as well as the modifier keys for Y and Z (which I've tried every variation of in the code). Please help!
Is it possible to make a Safari extension, or userscript, that would allow Netflix videos to be screenshotted? Does anyone know how Apple are disabling Netflix screenshotting in Safari and whether this can be bypassed with an extension or userscript?
Yesterday, I ran the most recent HighSierra update on my Late 2009 iMac. This computer has three separate user accounts, I am the only one who has an AppleID and I am also the admin. My mother was the one who initiated the update; from her user account on said computer.
I need to replace the hard drive cable in my MacBook Pro Mid 2012. I am unsure how to buy the correct hard drive cable due to the confusing sorting method relating to part numbers. I found a hard drive cable that fits with the following part number: 821-1480-A, but my par number is different. http://www.powerbookmedic.com/identify-mac-serial.php
I have only Ubuntu 16.04 (no Partitions) running on my MacBook (My model is A1181) but I would like to install macOS, replacing Ubuntu. How should I go about doing this?
Even though the option of "Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications" is unchecked, I get alert in websites asking for permissions. How do disable this completely?
I was trying to install the mac latest update “high sierra”, i was using sierra and it was working fine.. but after i installed the new update and run it, it keeps interrupting for an error at the installing process, when i made the error test as guided it detects the following error: ( 4xxx/6/40000005: @÷Òä “Battery” ) . everytime i start the mac i have to go through the update installing process which keeps failing and asking me to restart! is there anyway i can bypass the update error or ecen the whole updating?? i can only access the disk utiliy and the terminal after the installing interrupts.. and by the way .. i sadly didn’t have a backup .. please help P.S: i also tried to boot using the safe mode but everytime i press the shift it fails and only restarts again and again!
I use iTunes on MacOS and Windows and the Podcasts app on iOS to listen to podcasts. Ever since they re-designed the iOS app, everything it's a mess and nothing works as expected: for example, there's no "mark as played" option in the iOS app, but there is one in iTunes.
I'm working on macOS 10.13.4. When I open the App Store and attempt to update my apps which need updating, I am prompted to sign in to my apple account. However, it's prompting me to sign into foo@yahoo.com without giving me the option of changing that ID.
After resetting my PC, iTunes says my Yamaha receiver is "not available". Even though my PC says it is connected to the internet. The connection is through an HDMI. I am running Windows 10 Pro. The PC and receiver don't seem to be communicating.
On the Podcasts App on iOS (11.x), you have the ability to skip ahead 15 seconds by hitting the "15" in the clockwise or counter-clockwise circular arrows.  On iTunes, I can skip ahead 5 seconds by holding CommandOption→ (← for back 5 seconds). Is there any way to change this value to be 15, or any other value for that matter?
I can check the photo I want to delete but then after tapping the trash can it states 0 photos deleted. Why? I can't select the whole album or collections either to delete as a group.
On MacOS as well as iOS : is it possible to search directions including an intermediate point ("via") ? Google Maps can do it.
I have a python script, that is manually run in Terminal, and whose purpose is to open a couple more terminals, with a few tabs each, and run a command in each tab. It's working "good enough" right now, but one issue is that the way it create the terminal tabs and launch commands takes the focus away from the current window. I use apple script to launch the commands like this: The full script (which create the content of SCRIPT_ONE and SCRIPT_TWO) takes a little while, so if while waiting for it to run, I start typing something in another terminal window, the apple script will mess me up... and usually my keystone will end up being mixed with the terminal the AppleScript is trying to setup. So how can I tell Terminal (with AppleScript or something else) to open Tabs and run commands without stalking focus ?
Is there an easy way to check what version of OpenSSL will be linked if I remove the line NO_OPENSSL=YES from the config.mak file? I will try to remove that line and do make clean && make after that. I did update whatever the notification was suggesting, but don't know if OpenSSL was part of the update.
It still works but am afraid it will unexpectedly die. I bought a new drive that's compatible but don't know how to transfer data from old to new after I install the new drive. Can I use Time Machine, Disk Utilities or what? The old drive is Sierra 10.13.4 and the new drive is formatted with Sierra 10.12.
I use Acronis True Image backup software on a new mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina with a 2.8GHz processor and a 1TB SSD running High Sierra and APFS. Incremental backups, even when there's almost no files that are changed on my system, take about 30 minutes to scan ~300GB. Almost all of this is scanning time to look for changes. Activity Monitor's Energy tab reports Energy Impact of about 150.
I finally used Startup Disk Creator on a Dell laptop running Ubuntu and got Ubuntu 17.10 running on it using the SanDisk. All is well, but I don't necessarily like Ubuntu, and I didn't really like OS X that much.
On my Mac, can I simply create a new partition in Disk Utility, install an Operating System to it, such Arch Linux, and then boot from it by holding alt/option during boot (Startup Manager)?
Where can I set (or reset) the default Window Size for an MS Office Document? I'm on OSX High Sierra using Office 2016, and when I open a Word or Excel file from Finder, it opens on a small window, less than 25% of screen size. I can easily resize it, but if I close it and reopen, it opens small again.
I guess the absence of the file path in High Sierra has something to do with the SMB protocol. Apple has discarded the AFP protocol in High Sierra and uses SMB instead. Yosemite still uses AFP so i guess thats why the full file path is showing. My question: is it possible to make the full file path visible again in High Sierra when selecting a file in the search results on a SMB server?
Tell me how to get another password don’t recall what I used. Thanks
I have a Mac Pro. Since upgrading from the original Mavericks it crashes - a lot. The way the Mac freezes varies with each new OS X upgrade and I'm currently on High Sierra but I suspect it's fallen foul of the dreaded graphics card recall issue but can't prove it and the recall only applied to the larger two variants of the graphics. If anyone can glean any info from the log below I'd be really grateful or if others have had experience that'd be good to know too. Here's the log generated from my last forced restart.
The folders/files don't show up on www.icloud.com so I presume I would need a second machine to verify via terminal. Can anybody test this? --
I am using macOS Server's Time Machine service to centralize backups for my mac workstations/laptops. One of the laptops hasn't been backed-up since upgrading to a new MacBook Pro (using Migration Assistant) 6 months ago. I'm now connecting the laptop Time Machine to the server, but instead of using the old backups with the same name, it's creating new ones with a "1" at the end of the name (e.g. MacBook Pro 1 when the name of the existing backup and mac is MacBook Pro). How do I force Time Machine to use the existing backups so that we may keep all the backup history? For what it's worth, I believe the macOS Server Time Machine service is no more than a SMB share from the laptop's perspective. I have seen posts on how to do inherit a Time Machine backup on a locally attached drive, but I'm not sure how to do this on a remote sparsebundle.
I removed the OS X partition off my HDD and installed Ubuntu. Now I want OS X back but I can't install it considering I have no access to Mac OS X. I need either an OS X Snow Leopard or OS X Lion .iso so I can put it on an installer USB.
The verification code, when signing into my Apple ID, is sent to my old phone number. I can't receive it, because I do not have my old phone or access to the associated phone number. So, How do I go about set up my new phone with my Apple ID?
Using "Better Touch tool", I have a hotkey set to "Add New Space To Mission Control". I would like to create the inverse of this and set a hotkey to close the current space. Specifically, I would like hotkeys to open and close desktop workspaces. If this isn't build into BTT, is there a bash command which can be used to accomplish this?
I'd really like to have hardware schematics (circuit diagrams for motherboards etc.) for Mac computers, as they might help me to repair them. Any clues as to how can I get them?
I have a MacBook 2015 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4,I installed Windows 10 using Boot Camp. After that I created two partitions swap,root to do installed Linux Mint. Finally I installed rEFInd to manage the three OS's, but where reboot I can't access Windows. It's show message error "rEFInd - Booting OS Starting bootmgfw.efi Using load option '' BlInitializeLibrary failed 0xc00000bb ", How to fix it?
I have created a VM on esxi. I have removed the hard-disk from my macbook pro and want to use that for booting. So I plug it into the USB drive using a external Hard drive enclosure case and configure the USB drive on the VM. All works fine and after I start the VM it starts booting using the external drive - the apple logo shows up and progress bar starts moving and goes till around 60% I guess. Here is where I run into problem and a prohibitory symbol comes up and after that I am unable to do anything. ]1 Request Guidance on how to resolve.
I have a HP 32GB v210w pendrive and I somehow made it to read only halfway transferring the file. I tried every diskutil method and few terminal methods but it's all in vain. The pendrive works fine but it's read only. Kindly help me out on how to format it. This is one of such errors that I get.
my ipad 2 won't turn on after i dropped it. it had 93% charge and is still on charge but won't turn on. i have pressed the power button, home button and both at the same time. i don't have a iTunes account. and if i press both buttons i can hear it making a screenshot. the screen is navy blue, not black, so i know it is on, but not showing any display. if i try to restart it, there is no apple logo, just blue. what should i do?
I happened to download an app and it got completely downloaded (yes, its showing “open” next to the app in AppStore) but somehow its not showing up on the Home screen. Points to consider:- 1. I have not applied any restrictions to download any of the apps in Settings>General>Restrictions. 2. The app is accessible from the AppStore and shows up in the spotlight search only the icon doesn’t show up anywhere no the phone’s screen. 3. Yes I have completely checked in all folders and screen menus, but couldn’t find the app icon. What steps need to be taken?
I recently did a backup of a FAT32 disk which contained a lot of diverse data. It contains many media files, many big binary files, and as usual with FAT32, it has all kinds of odd (but potentially important) permissions for all of these different files. The whole directory of this backup weighs in at a few hundred GB. I would like to have a compressed archive of this backup, but I have a few requirements from whatever archival utility that I use: It needs to preserve extended attributes It needs to preserve timestamps It needs to preserve permissions I would like for it to preserve as much metadata as possible
I've just taken delivery of a new mechanical keyboard and laser mouse as I wanted to switch off the Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro (early 2013 Retina, running High Sierra). All is working nicely with the Mac except I've lost the gesture control which I use a lot to switch between VMware virtual machines. The laser mouse is a gaming mouse (HyperX Puslefire FPS) with a couple of extra buttons and I'd like to assign these buttons to switch desktops. Does anyone know how I can do this, ideally without 3rd party software, using automation or similar?
After installing Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro 14,1 the fans in my computer started to make loud sounds like squeezing a plastic bottle every time when it runs at high speed. After sending it to a service center, an engineer told me it is because I partitioned my disk for Boot Camp and because of that it makes it harder for the computer to read the disk, so it needs more energy and this causes the fans to run at higher speeds. My question is here: Is it safe to install Boot Camp (dual boot or triple boot) on my MacBook?
I run Apache on my Macbook Pro for off-line use of a web app. But for "self-defense" online, I use /etc/hosts to map certain hostnames to 127.0.0.1 which means if a webpage causes a GET to one of these, it hits my local webserver instead.
I rarely use FaceTime on the MBP, but it's linked to my AppleID so that I can keep track of missed calls without reaching for the phone. However, I don't like having it start the camera and showing me my face as soon as it starts, because: It's distracting from the actual information I am looking at: the list of calls; As handsome as I am, I am not that big a narcissist to keep staring at my own face; I prefer audio calls, so I rarely have occasion to keep the camera active anyway. How can I make FaceTime just show the list of recent calls without showing the camera feed? I'm on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E199).
I love my MBP and the Touch Bar is pretty cool, but sometimes I find I’m second-guessing myself. Did I press the ESC key or not? Did I press that function key? Well you get the idea. There’s just no physical feedback and sometimes I keep tapping where I think something is, but it’s not!
I have an Xcode window open with many tabs. I want to open a file through Quick Open (⇧⌘O).
Does the 21.5” mid-2010 iMac support the full 6 Gbps SATA III standard?
Is it possible to get the option (⌥) + right click move item here command to show up by default on right click when copy pasting items between different locations in finder. Rather than having to hold the option key ? Im using OSX 10.10
My Mac Book Pro is now stuck after Apple logo screen on a grey screen and after hours of search I found the problem is in my graphic card (this issue happen after updating to High Sierra). So I need to disable the second VGA I tried with but I got an error : any idea to fix this or at least disable SIP ? Notes I am not able to boot to any GUI neither by safe mode boot nor verbose mode or even recovery mode, so I need to do it via terminal I am only able to boot via single user mode
What went wrong? whoami still shows my previous username..
Problem solved: see "Update 2" section. I have a MacBook Pro 15'', A1286, Early 2011 which was running OS X Lion and became extremely slow few weeks after an upgrade to El Capitan. The upgrade itself took very long. After the upgrade, the laptop was running smoothly during about 1 week.
Recently I've installed the Outlook app on my iPhone. It looks great, it works great but there's an issue with Gmail: whenever I press 'archive' button on an email, it goes away from the list of emails but it is still in Inbox in Gmail (checked via web gmail) after I close Outlook and then reopen it, the message is there, in Inbox, not archived.
MacOS crashed with this error. Is it hardware or software issue?
I am moving to Costa Rica and want to take both of my iMacs. Humidity and salt air are a problem. Will leaving the iMac running help to keep humidity out of the unit? I see only one vent; maybe a cover?
My environment is 10.13.4 (High Sierra). I turn on Set date and time automatically and want to acquire the timezone. I am aware of systemsetup -gettimezone which only can run with sudo, however, it returns the timezone set by TZ=foo/hoge in my rcscript. I want to acquire the computer's current, automatically-set time zone via the command line.
When I use any editor like PHPStorm and open any files by using "Open" menu I get the normal finder view But I want to use the tree style like the attached photo
I know about History > Reopen Last Closed Window. But the window I want to reopen was the second-to-last window I closed. And History > Reopen All Windows from Last Session is disabled (greyed out) and, therefore, not an option. So how do I reopen my second-to-last closed window?
Once this happens other processes seem to cascade into failure as well. For example, Terminal will not respond when attempting to ls a smb mount in /Volumes/ after this and hangs just like Finder without even control-c killing ls.
I use Fantastical for my calendar and thus don't want notifications from Calendar.app since they're redundant with Fantastical's notifications. As you would assume I turned off Calendar.app's notifications but they keep turning back on after a certain period of time. I believe this happens on more than one computer of mine as well.
Whenever I create a new search (or use one of the pre-defined Smart Folder searches), the results come back with each message being listed three times with the same time-stamp, and once without any time-stamp (!).
When set via the NVRAM, should "serverinfo --perfmode" tell me that performance mode is enabled? If not, how can I tell if it has been enabled? The NVRAM variable essentially says "turn it on when you boot", but it does not tell me "it got turned on when I booted".
Update: After the two answers so far I have moved the goalposts slightly. I need multiple selections & tabs - the existing answers; one has multi-select capability, the other gives me tabs, which I've realised is the way to go. I decided the best way to keep track of a catalogue of published photographs without disturbing their original hierarchy was to drag aliases across to a separate location. However, many use-cases require the original; they can't cope with having the alias itself dropped to, eg a web site, or Photos.app
When I fille out some PDF forms in Preview, I used to be able to enter text in the empty lines. Since some time, it has not been possible. When I click empty lines, an empty text box appears, but I cannot enter any text. (See the image below.)
Ever since the move away from SAMBA, I've been plagued by various oddities with SMB and both Windows and Mac clients. Digging about /var/log used to do the trick, but it doesn't seem that the SMB server messages are really contained in their fully glory now. How does one go about seeing all SMB server messages and output in 10.12 and 10.13?
I wish to disable message forwarding for all conversations in the Messages app that comes with iOS. After updating to iOS 11.3, some message conversations are shared between two devices (an iPhone SE and an iPhone 7) on one Apple ID. None of these messages should be forwarded. In settings, message forwarding is disabled on both devices and “Send & Receive” address sets for each device are mutually exclusive (no address is enabled for both the SE and the 7). The conversations which get forwarded seem random, with no relationship to how many people are in the conversation, which contacts are involved, who in the conversation (if anyone) is using SMS protocol, or to which phone the conversation is supposed to go; but either all messages in a given conversation are forwarded to the other phone, or none of them are. None of the other devices on this Apple ID seem to be affected.
I'm trying to add a hyperlink to an image in a slide. I ctrl-clicked the image, chose "add link", then "webpage", but no dialog or field popped up to add the URL. How do I get the URL field to show up? Screen recording Keynote version 7.3.1 (and version 8.0.1 - still happening after upgrade), Mac OS 10.12.6
I've been trying to get some of my packages from Homebrew moved to Macports recently. One such package was the Crystal programming language. Unfortunately, sudo port install crystal doesn't work: Likewise, port info and port search yield no info about the Crystal language: Yet, when I search macports.org for crystal, I see it:
I recently purchased the new macbook and when comparing it to my 2013 macbook retina, the newer model is much dimmer, it was as if I downgraded. Is there any way to "hack" the brightness in the backend to make it brighter than what the settings are?
I am 99% sure of the answer, which is no, so this is more of a feature request. I want smart invert to be on when it is REALLY late at night. Like, 2am to 5am. I would imagine that for the majority of this feature's actual usage, it's not really an accessibility feature as much as an extra-aggressive mode to lower total screen luminosity. If it can be scheduled like I want, then I can use it as like an "environmental" cue to go to bed. Another idea is if it can be location based, so that I can set it up so that when I am physically in or near my favorite movie theater, it is always switched on. It would also be great if the whole incompatibility with true tone and night shift could be eliminated too.
I'm about to register to the 99$ Apple Developer Program. If for a reason Y or Z, the app is rejected from AppStore, can I ask a cancellation and refund of the Developer Program? The reason is that it wouldn't be useful to stay on Developer Program if the app is not accepted.
When I log out of my guest account, it gets stuck with a black screen and a cursor that I can move around but can't do anything except do a forced restart. In my searching, I have seen an old recommendation to remove the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist file (that didn't work for me). I've also seen that someone disabled System Integrity Protection with csrutil disable. I looked in the Console after restarting and saw the following line:
I have a very weird behavior with iPhone SE. I was tried to download a new app on it, the button GET changed to gray loading indicator, and never go anywhere. It did not change back to GET or start download. When I enter updates and try to download any update - the same behaviour. If I kill the Appstore and open it again, all updates are still pending and app is not downloaded. The internet (safari, FB, etc) works great... What I tried: Reset Networking settings Turning on/off airplane mode Restart iPhone Connect to LTE and different WiFi Change DNS setting from automatic to manual nothing worked.... The weirdest stuff is that when I try to enter update section of iOS, it shows that some error happens, please try again.
I imagine this wouldn't be too tough to do with Automater, but I haven't found any obvious answers to this online thus far. For example, let's say I use an app that requires me to authenticate with TouchID, or I'm making a payment online with ApplePay. I should be able to verify my identify with my watch as well (this is how ApplePay works in the "wild" anyway). Would love to hear any ideas about how to do this and would be up for collaborating on a solution as well.
I found this article: *=URL=* According to changing between multiple opened documents in LibreOffice and Chrome.
I want to change my 2016 MacBook Pro's wallpaper to a custom image which is already in the Pictures folder. If I launch System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop, under Folders there is the Pictures one but it looks empty. Is it normal?
I have an iPad Air (not Air 2) running iOS 10. Last night I had just finished watching a TV episode on the Amazon Video app and was editing my watchlist in it when the app suddenly jumped to the Amazon login screen. Then I almost immediately got an Apple pop-up saying that I needed to put in my password for my Apple ID, then several saying that I needed to re-enter the passwords for my 3-4 e-mail accounts in the default Mail app settings. After a hard reset (2-button restart), these problems persisted, AND I noticed that the iPad also seemingly 'forgot' all WiFi credentials (or at least, it doesn't connect to two that it used to--asks for the password instead). So overall there seem to be at least 4 categories of things where the iPad has forgotten its stored/saved passwords.
I have the following script that I want to use to change a single string in a Pages file to another, and it bombs with can't get alias. How do I fix this?
macBook pro mid 2014, High Sierra, Windows 10, Ubuntu Recently I used Bootcamp assistant to make a WINSTALL key, resize one unique partition to make space for Windows NTFS partition, and installing Windows 10 in UEFI mode.
I couldn't connect to iCloud when I try resetting the password through my Apple ID. I’ve tried signing in to iCloud on my iPhone and it works just fine. Booting up and automatically connecting to WiFi seems to work fine.
I need to connect a FireWire 800 external hard drive to a MacBook Pro early 2013 through its USB 3 port. I would have done so through the Thunderbolt port but the adaptor for that is too expensive for me at the moment. I bought a connector on eBay but the FireWire end was female when I want a male end, but I've looked and can't find a single male FireWire end with male USB 3 end. I badly need to restore my new Mac so your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I followed the instructions on this site and installed qbittorent. I run the command: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL *=URL=* < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null But then I decided that I want to undo everything that this command has done since the system had another torrent program already installed. Here is the CLI history: Afterwards, the apple store poped up an update for the Xorg tools. When I type brew command I get unknown command so I guess homebrew is not installed... Can anyone explain what exactly this command did and how to undo it?
This Automator workflow worked in Sierra, but it fails in High Sierra with the error, "The chosen receiving album does not exist in the Photos library: ". The album does exist, and the dropdown list shows all my existing albums. In the error message, there is no text after the colon, so it seems to be trying to add to blank-named album.
If I try to set value to MM then after restart of SystemUIServer it resets to LLL, h:mm. I have tried several other formats and eventually value restores back to something else. What is the problem here?
So I have ventured to buy an Asus GTX 1080 ti 11g, with an Akitio Node Pro. Worked once and now the Windows Dev manager does not recognise the eGPU anymore..... tried everything in almost all forums, except prioritising powering up first (because I dont know how :( ). Any help is welcome to solve this void I am stuck in, in Bootcamp world...
I have found an iPad on the street last night, it's an iPad Air (Wi-Fi Only) according to the model number (A1474). How can I find its owner?
I see two hard drives in Disk Utility when I plug the bad boy in. Just to give a quick view: For both main drives mount is greyed out, and First Aid works fine (no error), for the rest (Preboot, Recovery and VM) the First Aid gives an error.
I have a new MacBook Pro 15'' and want to connect two older 1080p monitors. Each monitor has a VGA and a DVI port. Is it possible to connect both to a single USB-C port of the MacBook? If so, how do people do this?
I have the MacBook Air 2017 and until today it was working fine. Now, when I plug in the Mag Safe connector the light doesn't turn on nor does the computer detect that I've plugged the cable in.
A couple of months ago I made a couple of (guilty) in-app purchases for a game, under the impression that even though my family has Family Sharing, that my details would still be used for the purchases. I was later informed that they had in fact been charged to my mum's card (the one who's details are in Family Sharing) instead of mine. Is there a way to set it up so that my details are used instead of my mum's, so I don't have to use her money and can instead use my own?
Whenever I open a new tab in Safari on one of my iPads, it automatically opens the same tab on another iPad. How do I stop this?
I have Maas360 on my iPhone, but the app isn't installed it's only listed under MDM. Can it track my location even if I didnt give the app location permissions?
I really like the Aqua UI which is available on Mac OS releases before OS X Yosemite 10.10. It is possible to install OS X Mavericks on my 2016 MacBook Pro?
How do I get Boot Camp Audio Drivers iMac(10.13.4) in Win10, they did not install. Everything else works in Windows.
I've been dealing with something like Mac OS X external drive appears as empty in Finder, but when accessing from Terminal, files show up I don't know the problem but after waiting for 30min or so part of the files show up not all files. Sometimes my laptop stop working because of the external hard drive so I have to unplug it. I tired and plug it in PC but nothing showed up.
So at some point, I recall seeing dates in my podcast list. How do I get them back? I've toggled between "classic list" and "list" and clearly the metadata is there, but not being shown. This is when you have navigated to a single podcast's episode list. Screenshot:
This is related to this question, but I am on OSX 10.13.4. lsof takes about a minute to run, even with the -n option on. I can't even run dtruss to examine the system calls being made:
There are many questions on this, I know, but everything I found references out of date articles or 404 pages... I'm using Coda2 and CodeKit3 to make .scss changes. At the moment I save my scss, Codekit automatically compiles it, and then the new files appear in the publish area of coda, I then hit CMD+CTRL+P to publish all of those files to their respective directories.
Apple Calendar allows setting a default alert for events, including all-day events. But with all-day events there is no obvious way to control the time of the alert. All options displayed in the UI are for 9AM.
Note disk Identifier Disk4s2, which is the problematic partition. I wondered about the "Apple_CoreStorage" type and and and...
I'm trying to make the argument that macOS (Mac OS X) has a very long legacy as a desktop operating system, but my colleagues brought up the point that it's gone through so many iterations since 10.0 that it might as well be considered completely different. My question is this: Is there any way to run even one GUI application on both Cheetah and High Sierra?
My late-2013 13" MacBook Pro recently started missing some keyboard inputs in some applications, particularly Slack and Bear, and especially (but not only) when I'm in a Google Hangout video call. Hangout typically hogs the CPU when running in Safari and typing on Slack results in missing characters (not just delayed!). Interestingly, typing in Sublime Text always works fine.
I am developing a Ruby On Rails application that uses react. All of the dependancies are installed through yarn. My system details: high sierra 10.13.4 (17E199) Homebrew 1.6.2 Node v8.11.1 Yarn 1.6.0 postgresql 10.3 ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-darwin17] rails 5.2.0 When I boot the server using foreman: I get this error Operation not permitted - /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store on localhost.
I am planning on buying a MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015 (not a used one, but a new one directly from Apple). For reasons of running legacy software I would like to install Mac OS X 10.10 on it. When it came out, this MBP was delivered with Mac OS X 10.10.3. Now, I also know that you can't usually downgrade a system that you newly buy (say downgrade a Late-2016 MBP to OS X 10.10), as it was never available with such an old OS X in the first place. However, since the Mid-2015 MBP was in fact available with OS X 10.10, I am now wondering: Could I downgrade to OS X 10.10 when I newly buy such a machine today?
So yesterday I went to sit down and use my computer (for programming with Xcode) as normal. When I opened up my computer it froze and I was unable to interact with any apps. I shut down and rebooted my computer and was presented with a lovely screen which was completely wrecked (see picture). Anyhow, I figure it's a problem with some video drivers within the latest update of Mac OS High Sierra (my computer is a MacBook Pro 13" 2017 without touch bar). I restored to a backup from Time Machine (from about a month back) and reset the MVC and NVRAM/PRAM. So far the Time Machine restoration seems to have worked, however, I'm wondering of a way to prevent this in the future and make sure that all the drivers are fully functioning. Thanks in advance!
I used a certain domain name temporarily to build a site on. The site has been moved to its own URL and now I want to use the same domain again for another site. I have set up the WP installation but on my computer on any browswer it will not resolve saying the ip is not found. The WP login page resolves on my iPhone using mobile data I have rebooted the WiFi router and also reset the MacBook High Sierra DNS cache but it still will not resolve on the macbook?
At 3:30 am, my sleeping macbook started up iTunes and played part of an audio book at full volume for ~30 seconds. The macbook was asleep and had been for 5 hours. The battery level confirms this.
My imac 27" from mid 2011 stopped working. Here is what happens. Computer Turns on. White screen for 5 - 15 seconds. Regular Apple logo and boot loading, slow 3+ minutes. After loading nothing happens, either screen becomes white with random occasional brightness changes, or turns black but not off. None of the boot commands work i have tried all of them and there is a High pitched sound but i'm not sure if it makes a difference. I have tried everyhing on most forums this includes: resetting pram, i'm not even sure it did it. all commands, no response.
I am looking for a way to search the serial number (of Apple products such as iPhones, iPads, Macs, etc.), and get information about the original configuration of that specific device. I am aware of this (or the JSON version) page of Apple's site that allows you to get the specs page of the product from the serial number you search, but I would like to get the specific configuration of that particular device.
I have created an Automator Service that converts the subtitle coding to UTF8 for non-UTF8 encoded subtitle files using a shell script. I have saved the Service and installed it to ~/Library/Services, but it isn't showing up in the context menu amongst other services for certain file types (such as .srt, .torrent) while it's showing up for other file types (such as .mp3,.pdf,.png). In Automator, I have set up the Service to Service receives selected>files and folders in Finder, but the results are unchanged even if I change it to documents or no input for instance. Other Services from other applications (such as iTerm2) are showing up even for the problematic file types, so I'm clueless about the reasons why my Service doesn't show up for certain file types.
User1 cannot: run any apps, utilities, etc. Even System Preferences will not start/display. No apps can be installed/re-installed.
I am trying to troubleshoot a 2010 Macbook Pro with a trackpad that won't register clicks. The trackpad makes the click-clack noise and it can be used as a pointer with no issues, but the clicks don't register. I've read this question and I'm trying to figure out if there's anything else to try before I open it up to examine the battery/screws (as seen here). Here's what I've tried.
I am trying to install some software, (at this particular moment I want to install VirtualBox, although this issue has happened with other software), and I have to click "Allow" in System Preferences, in the Security & Privacy -> General window. When I click on it, nothing happens, and the button and message stays there. I looked online, and all of the solutions say that there is some kind of program running that captures/forwards mouse clicks and such, and thus I am not "directly" clicking on the Allow button. The problem is that I don't know of any programs that I'm running that do this. I am on a Macbook Pro 13 inch 2016 with touchbar, running macOS High Sierra I am not connected remotely I have tried restarting my computer I have tried running the installer through terminal, with and without the sudo command I have tried right-clicking and clicking on "open" on the .pkg file I have tried unlocking the system preferences page before clicking "Allow" I tried re-downloading the .pkg f
Alright, so I posted a while ago about how I was having trouble enabling WiFi Calling on my Apple Watch 3 Cellular. My carrier is Sprint, and after considerable testing, I found something really odd.
I’m looking for a way to apply two different display configurations inside System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement with AppleScript.  Is this possible? I was thinking about reading and setting values of these two configurations and storing them inside variable, but I don’t know how to get those elements (they’re not standard radio buttons, checkboxes or something familiar).
I have a Mac (Yosamite 10.10.5 - can't upgrade OSX version due to necessary software compatibility) which since two days ago has started logging every single action it performs on the IMAP mail server. It's always in the format but it logs this for every single IMAP and SMTP action - send, receive, check, synchronize etc leading to the Mail log becoming gigantic and eating all the disk space. I can guarantee that Connection Doctor > Log Connection Activity is not checked. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this constant logging of debug-level messages and how I can prevent it?
Checked the system prefs for sound/audio, which would normally let me select "Internal speakers" as the default output device. But there is no such option, nor any other device to choose from (the selector window is just completely empty) Launching audio/MIDI setup (which showed up with an empty main window), I tried to set up a "main device", which worked, but it said that the main device was not available/present (or something to the effect that the hardware in question is apparently AWOL) Tried fixing permissions on the main volume (but learned that this isn't even possible anymore on Sierra) Did both a PRAM/NVRAM and SMC reset Rebooted into hardware test mode and did both the normal and extended tests; both found "no trouble" Other than this issue, my machine is completely fine, both hardware and software wise. Now I’m all out of ideas.
I see this issue reported a lot but all the accepted solutions have not worked for me. I have created a bootable USB stick using UNetbootin with a Debian image. The USB stick is FAT32 formatted with a GUID partition table. When I reboot with the usb stick plugged in and hold down option I'm only presented with the MacOS hard drive to boot from. I've successfully reset the PRAM using option+cmd+p+r keys but this has had no effect.
I was trying to install an ipa file onto my iPhone 6plus. I unpacked the file for looking into its contents and I packed it again and tried to install it through Cydia Impactor but I got this error! Does anybody know how to fix this?
My trackpad has suddenly started behaving erratically. In normal mode it will jump and double click to open things. In Safe Mode it works OK. To troubleshoot so far I have tried... Resetting the SMC by removing battery and pressing power button for 10 seconds. Reset the NVRAM. Ran a First Aid from Disk Utility and all OK. Installed Coconut battery - Cycle count 442 and status GOOD Booted in Safe Mode and trackpad does not jump. Does anyone have any suggestions of what to try next to fix this issue?
I have an applescript that returns the title from a website, the only issue is, it also contains lots of unwanted HTML (I think?). Most of the time, I can overcome this by removing the common characters using the following code. However, since this code removes the numbers, when I get titles such as it returns as "iPhone" instead of "iPhone 8" edit: on the website "higherorlower.com" I am using javascript "document.getElementsByClassName" to return the title of the given search amount any ideas to overcome this?
When sending email on my local machine (echo foo | sendmail $USER), the email contains From: (my-user-name)@(my-machine-name).localdomain. According to my command line tools my host doesn't seem to have a local domain extension added to any of the various host names macOS allows.
I've recently had to be looking at log files due to some unforeseen issues with users. What I need to do is set the log files into a mode that is more verbose if you will (basically a debug mode), ore specifically authd.log. I've found this but it seems to be more for High Sierra then others. Currently I run El Capitan on a Mac mini server. Is there any way for me to set the authd log file to a debug mode?
I have a small iCloud account of 5Gb and because i chosen to sync desktop and some other locations, now pending list of files to sync is very long and I just want to keep all data in mac and get rid of iCloud account. So I: System Preferences / iCloud / Sign Out / Keep a copy
On my macbook pro 2010 (running Yosemite 10.10.5) I have two users. My normal Admin account and a Guest account. Whenever my computer is turned off, it automatically logs into the guest account when I turn it back on. Can I change that so it logs into my normal Admin account whenever I turn on the computer.
I am using a Late 2012 Mac Mini exclusively through Screen Sharing on my MacBook (Both on 10.13.4). The only way I could get the Mac Mini to full resolution was to: Close connection from my MacBook to the Mac Mini on MacOS's native Screen Sharing utility Plug Mini DisplayPort adapter into Mac Mini (leading to an Apple Thunderbolt Display) Immediately unplug it Log back in on MacBook
I'm sure I've seen this before, but I upgraded an older MBP (2011) to an SSD. I boot to a High Sierra installer that i created and format it to Apfs, but then the drive is greyed out - it states it needs HFS+ to install. Is this because this machine does not yet have the updated firmware that allows it to install on apfs? Cheers
Siri has correctly identified a few contacts who have texted me. Is there anyway to accept the suggestion rather than have to manually type in their names?
I have correlated these to having one specific app either running or configured for background refresh. If the app is closed and background refresh is disabled, I do not seem to get the prompts.
I'd like to do something whenever clipboard content changes. I have a solution working now where I get the clipboard value and store it, then I start an infinite loop where I look up the clipboard again, see if it's changed, then sleep for 0.5s and do it all over again.
OS X 10.13.3 Safari how set default window size & position (NOT FINDER)
My company has a single file sharing Mac Pro computer that every user connects to. Occasionally a user will drop a file in a folder for another user to access, but the the files will be greyed out and are inaccessible to the other user, while a different user can see and access it as normal. Sometimes dropping a file will cause a user to just have spinning ball and will not drop. It has worked well enough for a few months now, but this problems has been becoming more frequent.
I have tried everything I can think of. Most (maybe all) the boot-up key sequences, resetting PRAM and SMC (including by killing the battery completely), the Apple Hardware Test (which runs fine and sees nothing wrong), booting from two bootable thumb drives (one created with the macOS installer and one with TechTool Pro), even target disk mode (which works fine). Regardless of the boot source, it does the same thing.
I know I can use internet sharing in macOS to share the internet connection provided to one network interface over one or more other network interfaces on my Mac. However, the feature set is VERY limited. No choice of DHCP range. No DHCP reservations. No port forwarding. etc. MacOS Server has a DHCP server and other services, but none of them actually share the mac's internet connection in any way, nor can they be used to control or add those features to the native macOS's internet sharing feature mentioned above. Are there any software tools, Apple or third party, that can do what internet sharing does (share my mac's internet connection out over one or more other network interfaces), but with the kind of additional features listed above? Thanks!
I used to have a AppleScript snippet which convert my date to this format : 08/25/2017 (MM/DD/YY) The source date format changed and I don't managed to make it work e.g : The creation date is an example but it's taken from a webpage and it's not fix. here the result I received {"date -j -f '%B %d %Y'", "'2013 04 03'", "+'%d/%m/%Y'"}
The 'Date Modified' and 'Date Created' are completely wrong in the Finder. Not off by a Time-Zone adjustment, just plain wrong. For instance, I created new directories today at 14:01 and they appear as Apr 23, 2018 at 12:06 and other such incorrect dates. The Date Added attribute is correct.
I recently purchased an iMac from a local Goodwill. After talking to Apple support I was able to find out that this is a 2008 all-in-one model. Additionally, I asked for help with the "flashing question mark folder" icon that would appear on startup. After three different people, I still could not get anything to work. Here's what each Apple rep had me do: Try restarting iMac while holding down various combinations of Control, Command, Shift, Alt/Option, R, P, C, E, etc.
She would like to print from the iPad and from the iPhone to the AirPrint-capable printer. I set up the iPad in Personal HotSpot -mode, had the iPhone and the printer connect to it and was thus able to print like this: iPhone Prints -> iPad receives -> printer listens.
I would like to change the filename of a lot of files by adding a random suffix to the existing filenames. I have tried to change this code (changes the filename instead of adding a suffix) but with no succes. A command line or automator solution would be preferable
It basically gives you a PinYin-like words prediction but for English
I have an iphone 8 and was pretty much using it as a camera only until I could backup my iphone 6s to then transfer the data. However, I forgot to backup my photos from the new iphone 8 before restoring the data from the iphone 6s. Now I have all the photos and data from the 6s on the 8, but I lost every photo I had on the 8 before doing that. Note: Like I said, I didn't do a backup for the 8 before restoring it with the 6s data. Is there a way I can recover the photos from just before the data restoring? Many thanks in advance
I am using an iPhone X with iOS11.3.1 and today I wondered what this little field at the bottom of the app closing screen means. The English translation of the content would be "Arrival at work". If I touch it, Whatsapp opens. Can you guys tell me how this functionality is called and also the purpose of it?
I have a late 2012 MacMini. I was previously running with two old VGA monitors both using adapters from HRMI/DP ports on the Mac.
As per Apple Developer Program website, an organisation can enroll in Apple Developer Program and Apple Developer Enterprise Program. Is it possible for a company to be enrolled in both at the same time? For instance, if the company has apps that are meant for internal distribution only, but also has other apps which are targeted at customers and are distributed via the App Store.
i have iPhone 6 of 16GB, which is upgraded to 200GB, it's not showing upgrade storage capacity on the iPhone, still showing only 16GB
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling iCloud. That did not help. When the PC boots, I get my old apple ID at iCloud sign in. Any ideas?
I imagine I can just import the files back into iTunes, but fear that the (very) many hours of work put into cleaning and organizing the library will be wasted? Is that the case?
I've unlocked the Users & Groups preferences pane, nevertheless I'm unable to select the user "username" for deletion. How can I delete the account?
I am using my Early 2013 MacBook Pro (max spec.) connected to an external 4K monitor (as described here: Early 2013 Macbook Pro with 4K).
Device: Apple Watch (Series 3) OS: Watch OS 4.3 What is measured differently between the two workouts? Don't both detect movement by GPS coordinates? Based on movement + age, height, weight, heart-rate it should be able to compute calories burned. Right?
As we all know in iOS 11 there are three states for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi buttons in Control Centre: Off, Not Connected, and On.  I'd like to know whether Not Connected state drains my iPhone battery or not? I'd like to know whether Not Connected state drains my iPhone battery or not? And how to turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi completely via Control Centre? And how to turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi completely via Control Centre?
I don't have the option to change the delay on "require password xx after sleep or screen saver begins. For security, I would like to change it to "immediately" instead of 5 seconds. I obviously have admin privilege (I'm also the only user on the Mac) I thought that was due from a restriction in mobile profile, so I removed some of the profiles that could have prevented me to change this setting, but no luck how can I change this? PS Advanced user : use ID 501 group staff
I have an iPhone 5C, running an app that is connected to a Bluetooth device. When the connection to the Bluetooth device is lost (spreading apart, Bluetooth turned off etc.) the app sounds a buzzer. From what I´ve read, specific apps are allowed to run in the background, and some of them communicate with Bluetooth devices. For this particular app, that is true almost all the time.
I've got a 2012 MacBook Pro which, when you turn it on, shows the no drive icon. But if you leave it for about 5 minutes or so, it starts to boot and works normally.
I've done likely stupid things in Keychain Access and now I don't have access to identities: I've imported my certificates from developer.apple.com, but identities are still not shown. I think I'm missing private keys, but I don't know what to do. I don't seem to have developer IDs in place: How can I restore identities?
Mac works great when I use keyboard shortcuts and Spotlight Search in a single-display environment to switch between windows and workspaces. However, this is not the case in a multi-display setup, because the Control← and Control→ shortcuts that switch to left and right workspace operate based on which display my mouse pointer currently is. If I started on display 1, and then through keyboard shortcuts, moved focus to display 2, if I want to switch workspaces on display 2, I can't just hit Control← or Control→, because doing so will actually switch the workspaces on display 1, where my mouse pointer still is. I have to actually move my hand to the mouse, move the mouse pointer to display 2, and then use the keyboard shortcuts to switch the workspaces.
problem So i got windows 10 on my mac and realized that i barely had partitioned enough space on windows so i booted back into Sierra and messed with the partitioning so i decided to delete the bootcamp partition, now everytime i boot up my mac it boots into windows but it gives me an error page so i have to hold "option" everytime i boot up my macbook. Would reinstalling windows with bootcamp again solve this? Btw when i open disk utilities, the bootcamp partition isn't even there which is weirder
I am having a problem with choppy wifi. My main question is how can I troubleshoot this problem? I am using new MBP Mid 2015 - newest OSX 10.13. A few days after a restart of the machine the pings slow down. More precisely they slow down to 1 second every 10 seconds:
What's the best way to copy a Linux disk image on to an SD card to use in a Raspberry Pi I tried Disk Utility but it did not allow for FAT32.
Changed the motherboard/logic board of a MBP 13" 2014 model. After the operation it just shows a blinking question mark when starting. I can however boot it from a High Sierra USB drive and when it logs in there it asks for the password to unlock the internal SSD, showing that it can read the SSD. I can also mount the SSD in a MBA 13" 2013 that I have and it will boot from the SSD, like it happens with FileVault encrypted disk, it boots and the log in screen appears very quickly.
This is driving me nuts. settings -> Date & Time -> "Set date and time automatically" is unchecked In terminal:
I am using Apple Configurator to configure iPads by setting Profiles on them - e.g. block bluetooth and restrict apps. I need to fulfill this requirement of allowing non-Apple Configurator hosts (meaning specific white-listed Windows laptops to connect via USB) with iTunes software to copy files to the iPad. However, allowing the "pairing with non-Apple Configurator host" option in my Apple Configurator profile would allow another Mac to remove the profile which I need to block. Is it possible to restrict iPad pairing to certain white-listed Windows laptops (only allow iTunes) and only my Mac (allow everything else)?
I would like to remove all the keys on the touch bar except the escape key.
I'm suffering Safari crashes upon startup. After manually deleting its preferences folders, it starts normally and immediately starting to sync bookmarks from Chrome (despite clicking "Do not keep bookmarks button") and then crashes again. How can I prevent it from automatically importing bookmarks and other data?
I like using the Reading list in Safari, and the ability to divide articles as read or unread. I usually have Safari show only the unread articles, however very often I do not finish reading an article and it is marked as read anyways. Is there a way to set Safari such that I have to manually mark links as read every time, regardless of how many times I have open the link?
I just found a way to convert into hiragana on Japanese keyboard using F6, but the F6 key is used to change the illumination of the keyboard in default. But since my MacBook does not have any illumination, it is of no use, and rather want to use it as a conversion on the Japanese keyboard.
I've never try to fix it but my quicklook doesn't work on some file like .c, .java, .json ect.. I think it begin (about 2 or 3 months ago) when I tried to install plugin for quicklook find on this page *=URL=* . I tried to fix it using the multiple solution I found on the internet like run qlmanage -r, qlmanage -r cache, deleting the .qlgenerator files but nothing work. Then I found we can run qlmanage in debug, I did it and I found that I've got a permission problem, here is what I get when I run qlmanage -p test.java : And here is the quicklook I got :
I know my username is correct because it tells me in terminal, and i also know my password is correct because i log in with it, but when i try to install something it doesn't accept them together. Theres only one account on my entire computer so i know my username and password, they just don't work together. How do i fix this without resetting my computer? I don't want to lose all of my apps.
With my MacBook (MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) it occurs that, without me wanting it, an item is attached to my cursor and dragged. I am not able to replicate it when I want so when I called Apple they could not really help. Have some of you the same problem? Can you replicate it? Have you a solution?
I’m running iOS 11.3. Recently I activated Offload Unused Apps in order to free up space. That is supposed to work by examining the date each app is last used, and offloading the ones you don’t use often. The problem is, my iPhone doesn’t seem to be tracking that “last used” date properly. As the screenshot shows, when I go to Settings app → General → iPhone Storage, all the apps say Never Used, instead of displaying the last usage date.
Isn't the lens proportional in width and height? Is there a specific reason they are cropped to the orientation?
i tried to bring up a system with OSX Sierra 10.12 Startvolume/Bootvolume from SSD RAID 0 + FileVault. What i have done is: 1) I followed the guide mentioned in the topic "Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume?". Raid successfully created. Nice hint. ;-) 2) Copy/Clone my previous installed osx OSX Sierra 10.12 System with SuperDuper/CCC to my new created encrypted raid Startvolume 3) Select startvolumen in preference pane press restart and a error message appears "no bootcache can created because the recovery partition is missing.... or similar) 4) tried to create a recovery partition with terminal fails also with is there a workaround for this issue?
I have a problem after deleting Kali OS from my dual-boot Macbook (with High-Sierra MacOS). The problem is: I can only boot into internet-recovery-mode I can not use gpt command, as it results: 'resource busy'
I want to batch convert .m4a music from iTunes to a flash drive as .mp3 This bash script... (source *=URL=* for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k "${f%.m4a}.mp3"; done This bash script... (source *=URL=* ...achieves this, but I'll like use set up an Automator Folder Action to do this for me. AFAIK, the automator in this screen shot should work but does not. I'd read some stuff - which I didn't really understand - about "$f" needing to be in quotes, but it already is.
I am currently registered as an individual Apple Developer on the App Store and have a free app which is available under my name. My membership is due for renewal in a few days. However, I have registered my company and would like to distribute the app under the company name on the App Store. As I understand, registering as a organisation with Apple requires a D-U-N-S number.
If I navigate to Settings > iPhone Storage and wait while storage usage is calculated (Text under the categories bar says "Calculating category sizes..." and the location where individual apps appear shows just the spinner) Settings crashes without completing the calculation, leaving me unable to manage the storage on my iPhone. How do I manage storage on iOS (without resetting completely)?
On my Mail application, I have 2 accounts configured — Work (Account 1 in the screenshot) and Outlook. For some reason, the application shows duplicate inboxes for both of the accounts. I have clicked on ‘Edit’ and de-selected the duplicate inboxes (to hide them) but they keep re-appearing! How can I get rid of these duplicate inboxes?
I assume that the disk has no hardware issue. According to smartctl I get:
How would I go about interacting with my late 2012 Mac Mini via a touchscreen?
When I plug my iPhone 7 (iOS 11.3) into my Mac (macOS 10.13.4), I see the following categories in iTunes (12.7.4):  I don't see any way to do backups. How do I do local backups with the latest iOS / MacOS?
At least in macOS 10.13, if my iMac reboots due to a kernel panic or when a software update requires a reboot, the system restarts the applications that were running immediately before the shutdown even if I have unchecked the "restore windows when logging back in" checkbox in the restart dialog the last time I was shown that dialog. (Of course, upon a hard reboot, this dialog is not shown anyway.) Restarting all applications automatically is exactly the wrong thing to do if the problem was caused by the applications running at the time.
I just purchased an older Mac from someone. It was working fine and El Captain 10.11 was installed. I wanted to wipe it with all the junk they had on it. I did the erase and booted to Recovery Mode but it won't install the software as it says it's not on the Apple Store. I tried to download it through iTunes but it says it's not available in Canada.
I have several nefarious individuals attempting to gain access to my servers constantly with VNC, presumably using some kind of dictionary attack against the password. Is there a way to get a log of the actual attempts being made inclusive of the VNC password or in this case the macOS username and password being attempted? I can see the logged attempts at the connections in my firewall software... just not the actual data from the attempts by 45.115.39.125, 185.148.147.101... (the most persistent two).
I googled everything & everywhere but couldn't find an answer. I have an iPhone 7 Plus stuck at press home to upgrade screen; the home button is broken. I tried pressing power + volume down. Then tried connecting iTunes: it says enter passcode on phone to connect. Latest iOS. Advise a solution please. If this button is repairable or not?
I can't find anywhere in Apple's guidelines what the behavior of Face ID should be in the following scenario: I enter valid credentials I enable Face ID I use Face ID to log in (for some period) I return to the login screen and disable Face ID I reenable Face ID
I wonder if it's worth learning VoiceOver as a help tool to repair Macs and iOS devices with no-video issues. Any experiences regarding this?
It eventually switches to another screen where you can make out the image of the recovery mode options, but, again, with the screen broken up into small horizontal strips with pieces of the image, but not lining up vertically. I can move the mouse around, so the computer isn't just completely frozen, but I can't interact with anything.
I have a Late 2013 15" Macbook Pro with discrete graphics. According to this Apple support page: *=URL=* this model supports 4K 60Hz over MST. I just purchased a Dell P2415Q monitor, which supports DisplayPort 1.2, MST, and 4K 60Hz. I have the two connected by the included mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable. And the monitor is running at 30Hz.
Running El Cap on early 2008 MacPro. I use R which has a versioning system built into its Frameworks implementation. All of the package folders are inside /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library need to be able to be periodically updated from within the R program. Something happened when I moved my "blessed" installation of OSX from a harddrive to an SSD. (Please pardon any archaic terminology, I'm an old guy with decades of mac-ish history.) The package folders are all listed in the getInfo panels as Read only for everyone.
This is my partition table according to the gpt tool with GUID's and labels I've used diskutil to format the top and bottom partition to "Free Space" which performs something similar to gpt remove. Anyways I want to know if it's possible to move the start of the Mac partition to the top where all that free space is (Basically reclaiming like ~400GB to the Mac partition) and of course making the Mac partition start at the top instead of having this weird isolated free space hidden away above it.
It seems unusual that the FPS would decrease with later versions of Apple's hardware. We are trying to figure out if this is a software issue or simply the technical specifications for the frame rate for the FaceTime camera.
I'm trying to click on a button using YX coordinate, it's work with some app, but I have one app with two windows which give me an issue. here is my original code but the result is Result: the button I want to click have indeed an image (UI) but click seems to happen. PS the App title contain some variable but have some static too I tried this instead but same issue. How can I manage to have this button pressed ? if I try using automator I have the same result FYI, I have other button that I manage to click normaly on the same windows e.g -- I also tried but without success
I'm looking for a way to type in ` character by pressing the top-left key (below the Esc key). This works when I use the English input, but on Chinese input it changes into ·, and Shift + ` key gives me ～.
How do you send a photo from my photo files? The enter key does not act as a submit key
It is clear that this installation didn't run correctly. And I searched through the /var/log/install.log which had been filled, but didn't find any intelligent explanation about the size of damage of error n°1.
I am facing a strange phenomena on my iPhone X running iOS 11.3. Whenever I edit a photo in the Photos app, the edits simply disappear the next day. Any photos I edit, all of them revert to the original state the next day. I've also noticed, when I take a photo in the Portrait mode, it reverts to no portrait bokeh effect, as well.
I created an external volume with macOS High Sierra. When I try to convert it to APFS with Disk Utility, the "convert to APFS" is greyed out. I tried unmounting the volume first, then it's not greyed out, but when I try to convert, I get this error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.DiskManagement error -69546.).
I have an iPhone 6 and during the last 2 months I see the Apple ID verification message. After I input my ID and password the iPhone won't accept it. I also get the same message with regard to iTunes sign in, and the same error message appears or an iCloud cannot be accessed. Review your account information in settings message.
Messages shows the email of the person I am sending to instead of their phone number on some contacts. Why is it picking the email up for some contacts and the number for others
Why 29.68 fps? Is it possible to set up a 30 fps or 29.97 fps frame rate for Live Photos?
I have the Japanese keyboard enabled and am able to input hiragana and kanji fine, but I can find no way to input katakana. How can this be done?
I plugged my external HD, then in a Terminal, I type This lists files and folders as expected, but then entering: throws the following message I can even reproduce this behavior with my own folders.
At about 8:50 PDT this morning, 2 out of 3 MacBooks in our household restarted at the same time (about 1 minute apart). What happened is I left the room for about 5 minutes, and when I came back I saw the "you restarted because of a problem" message. I logged in as usual and started to try to find why. Then I heard two startup chimes from the other two computers. I checked those, but only one laptop actually restarted. These two computers were closed when the chimes occurred.
I am using OS X El Capitan. I edit the .m3u files that are playlists with TextEdit. After editing and trying to play the playlist files I receive the "is damaged and can't be opened" message. I can get around this by adjusting the whole system security (system preferences -> security and privacy) to allow apps downloaded from anywhere but I'd like to somehow set .m3u files to be editable without security concerns instead of changing the whole system to be less secure. How can I get the .m3u extension to be ignored by this type of security.
A couple of weeks ago my iPhone froze while I was using Facebook. I was able to get it unfrozen but now the Facebook app is gone and I cannot re-download it or any other apps. Some of the other apps I have, I can't open. I also can't search for anything in the App Store. How can I resolve this?
Using Audio Hijack I can intentionally "lag" the audio, so that when a sound happens on the system, I hear it a second later.  Can I similarly delay monitor output? I want to have my display lag a couple of seconds behind the audio that I hear. On my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)'s built-in display.
Seems like Safari has a very strong restriction on Content Security Policy (CSP). For example, on GitHub, most of the userscripts and extensions don't work because of it. I get errors such as this from the console:
I've been having issues when I connect my external drive in bootstrap. When I boot up in Windows 10 I connect my external drive and get a Kernal Panic and I have to reboot the machine. This also happens when I boot up the machine with the hard drive connected. Sometimes I get lucky and it never happens. It never gives me any problems when I start up in macOS or when I connect it to any other Windows 10 machines. Late 2013 iMac High Sierra and Windows 10 Western Digital My Book External Drive USB 3
So, I restarted my Mac in the morning and I receive this error while trying to start my normal VBox but it did not start instead it gave in an error. This is the error image
Today I used the Mac version of Skype on my Mac Book Pro 2017. Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 16 GB boot ROM Version: MBP141.0173.B00 SMC Version (system): 2.43f6 Skype version 8.20.0.9
I am trying to diagnose a 13" mid-2017 touch bar MacBook Pro (Model A1706 EMC 3163) that will not charge or turn on. This issue showed up a few days ago when the Apple-provided charger appeared to fail. The charger was replaced, and the computer and new charger worked fine for a day. After a day, it appeared to stop working. The battery went from 100% to 0% in a few hours while the computer was unplugged and asleep. Since then, it has been unable to charge or turn on. When the power button (touch ID button) is pressed, it displays the "plug in to charge" symbol. I have tried: SMC reset, using all four ports to charge, nvram reset (doesn't happen) and holding down a variety of startup key combinations (network recovery, diagnostics, etc). My theory is that this is a hardware problem, either with the SMC chip or the power supply. Question: Are there any more software fixes I should try before taking this MBP in to an Apple store?
My Mac's login screen is different from the normal one now and I am not sure why. My current login screen looks a little like this
Something strange going on with my iMac; it's hard to describe. When I click on any link on my Reading List sidebar, for a split second there is a flickering line which goes across the screen. When I say line, what I mean is, a faint copy of the link below flickers for a split second horizontally across part of the screen.
Is there a way to duplicate/mirror the second screen onto my primary display? I certainly do not want to use the "mirroring" option in the systemprefs/menubar as I don't want students to see my desktop/other content on the computer, and also to be able to access other apps in the meanwhile.
I own a MacBook Pro Mid - 2012, macOS High Sierra v10.13.3. I had an app, which did not close even after force quitting. I tried uninstalling the application manually, but I was unable to, as my Mac would tell me that the application is open. So, I used the command rm -rf to remove the app from the Applications folder of my Mac. While the app has been removed from the Applications folder, it continues to appear in my dock (and Force Quit dialog) as an open application. I tried finding its PID number using ps -ax but it doesn't show up. How do I kill this application, and uninstall it once and for all from my Mac?
This has happened to me twice in the past week. I put my MacBook Pro to sleep while my user account is logged in. When I return, I enter the correct password and it shakes, as if the password were wrong. I try several times, and get nowhere. So I force reboot, and then I am able to login again. Here are some relevant lines from the log right after the reboot. The opendirectory lines are repeated hundreds of times.
In my Mac on the Dock is a separator which keeps the last open programs. How I can remove it? I didn't find any place in the Dock settings... I don't want to see any apps on the right of the separator.
I'm not sure what's going on, I manage to run some script with no issue on the script editor, but some wouldn't work anymore if launched from Text Expander, Keyboard Maestro or even when exported as an app. e.g of a script having an issue when not launched from script editor :
I made the error of trusting bitdefender and now I can't delete BitDefender VPN. I tried to use sudo chflags nouchg, sudo chmod 777 and then sudo rm -rf but my mac's response is always "Operation not permitted". The BitDefender VPN .app file's position is /Library/Bitdefender/Central/Modules/com.bitdefender.vpn. How can I do to delete it? Thanks in advance.
I've got the HFS+ filesystem represented by .dmg image file. For security reasons I'd like to make sure every I/O applies directly to the .dmg file and not through any kind of memory in the middle. Is there any way to cancel the option for read and write caching while mounting the filesystem?
If I have an application with two windows in different workspaces, with the application in the foreground in one workspace and in the background in another, switching to the workspace with the application in the background brings that application to the foreground. For example: Open two Chrome windows Drag one of the Chrome windows to a different workspace Launch another application, putting the Chrome window into the background Switch to the other workspace Switch back
I need to install a secondary OSX, older one, like yosemite or something, on a computer, which has High sierra installed. The problem is it has the crazy APFS file system, which doesn't seem to allow normal partitions (at least the Disk utility doesn't seem to do that) and it also says that it cannot run Yosemite installer, because it's too old for this computer... Any ideas? I'm also trying to download the OSX High sierra installer and the damn App Store is saying "downloading", but that's it, no clue how far it is or if it is actually downloading...
I've created a template with several placeholders for images. I'd like to do the following: Create a duplicate of the template Replace images in the template (from a csv or text file) Export the presentation as a movie Repeat for the next duplicate
This feature acts 2 ways - same icon. When you are viewing a search result page, you hit it and it saves the page in a stack of sorts. When you are in the home screen, it opens up your stack of saved pages. WHAT IS THIS?
Here is the HTML tag of the button I would like to click using AppleScript. Here is my script Result: missing value how can I generate a click ? Update : I found that this is causing the block Full HTML block If I can't click on the menu, how can I remove this using AppleScript?
Screenshots and screencasts taken on my Macbook Air (Sierra 10.12.2) have a yellowish tint to them which doesn't match the actual display output on the screen itself. It's very odd. For example, here's a screen grab of this page:
A friend of mine has an iPhone 8. Each time she changes her email or password on things like Facebook, Email, Instagram, her Bank app etc., we suspect her ex-boyfriend is changing them back within 30 seconds. He lives 5 states away. My friend has used my phone and my email to change her password and email on Facebook, but her passwords are changed again when she tries to log in. Can someone jailbreak her phone and install an app where her ex would be able to see everything she does?
is there a way to stream content (music) to an Airport Express from an iPhone, but using that iPhone’s LTE data instead of the WiFi connection for internet? Basically the LTE is a ton faster than our WiFi. I don’t need the Airport Express for anything but music streaming to a set of speakers. A natural way of doing that would be to open a personal hotspot on the iPhone, and connecting the AE to that - unfortunately the iPhone hotspot does not show up as a network in Airport Utility; it seems making a direct connection isn’t possible. Is there another option?
I've connected my new MBP to my Apple Thunderbolt display using the Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter. The display and USB are working as expected but I'm not getting any ethernet. Ethernet is working fine with my old Thunderbolt 2 MBP. Has anyone been able to get this working?
I use CleanMyMac 3 to clear caches ocassionaly on my mac, but I don't clear Safari caches often using CleanMyMac becuase I believe that clearing Safari caches logs you out of all the website you are currently logged into, logging into the websites again by entering passwords is a hit or miss scenario. Luckily, CMM3 gives you the option to clear some parts of the file and leave the rest but I don't know which part of the Safari System Caches stores and remebers active logins. I am attaching a screenshot to give a better idea of all the cache files I am currently able to see. If anyone can tell me which cache files to delete and which ones to keep then I can save myself from the hectic process of Logging in again to all the websites
iPhone4, syncing to iTunes 10.6.3 on a mac G5 running OS 10.5.8 (This is the latest system version that the G5 will run) I sync some audio on the G5 to my wife's iPhone, no problem. About half the iPhone memory is taken up with photos going back several years- photos have never been synced. If I turn ON photo syncing now, will it delete all photos on the phone? We do NOT want this to happen! But it's clogged up, and the photos don't need to be on the phone, just kept somewhere else where we can see them. But how do we get them to that "safe somewhere else" without risking them getting deleted forever? [I really miss the days where an iPod showed up on the desktop as an external disk, and you knew where you were!!!!] The dialogue on iTunes says 'Sync from folder...' which is what alarms me. I want things to go from the phone to a folder.
I have an iPad that has a bunch of OneNote notebooks that are connected to an account that I no longer have access to (the "in the cloud" piece is no longer reachable, and the notebooks give sync errors). I want to find a way to copy the local iPad "file" to anywhere, but the OneNote interface doesn't seem to give that option, where the desktop interface does (IIRC it's a "change location" option). Does anyone know if rescuing this from my iPad is possible? I know I can email pdf copies of the pages, which is not so helpful.
I have a iPad 4th gen. I want to delete unused apps. Is there a way to easily tell what apps are not being used?
When I'm on a phone call using my iPhone 5 running iOS 10.3.3, I get the vibration of iMessages in my ear while I'm on the phone. It's irritating to say the least (pun intended.) The recipient can also hear the buzz.
Been researching the internet for answers to my problem but cannot find the issue. I've used an external monitor with my macbook (13" Early 2015 Model) for atleast half a year with no issues. I use a HDMI to HDMI connection. A week after coming back from work and reconnecting my macbook to the monitor causes a "No Signal" error. My monitor can detect the cable is connected as I can select the HDMI input, but there still the no signal error.
Lately, I've been using VeraCrypt to create virtual disks and store them on my NAS. I want to use this as my backup solution to store all my photos, documents, etc. However, I also want to have a copy of the virtual disk on my MacBook's drive so I can still access my files out of the house. Is there any way to have it so that as soon as I connect to my NAS, the copy of the file on my MacBook automatically gets copied to the NAS? I basically want a way to 'mirror' two files on different drives, kind of like how RAID 1 can mirror two disks. Thanks for any help!
Suddenly all the browsers begin to open all links in a new tab. Even when the link is deliberately intended to leave me at the same page (say, uncollapsing some text).
This particular document is laid out in a table as we need to have three columns with text in one column positioned relative to text in another column (hence it uses rows). The table has no other purpose (e.g. there are no calculations, etc). My question:
I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro currently using MacOS X El Capitan 10.11.6. I downloaded MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and have the "Install MacOS High Sierra" application. My problem is that when I try to install MacOS High Sierra, the only available disk to select is "Restore Image," which "Install MacOS High Sierra" tells me is used for Time Machine backups, but it is gray and faded and I can't select it. I have FileVault turned off and "Restore Image" selected in my "Startup Disk" menu. How can I be able to select the disk and install MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4?
Since Apple will be discontinuing Time Capsule backups and I have a couple of years worth of backups I would like to access, please inform as to how to open the Data folder inside Time Machine and transfer the enclosed data to a high-capacity hard drive.
The green light on MagSafe is acting up. It is not always on. Snapping it back into place lights up again the green light, for some time at least.
Sorry if I'm in the wrong place, just started on this site. I am thinking of making a Bluetooth Low Energy device (more specifically an Arduino watch) that would connect to an iPhone, and would like to be able to send time/date information to the watch. Are there any features/apps for iOS that allow you to send information every X seconds/minutes to a BLE device? I haven't started making this watch yet as I want to make sure that something like this is possible. The reason I need to send time/date information is that the watch isn't going to have a built-in real-time-clock. Any help is much appreciated, sorry again if I'm in the wrong place!
A friend of mine (not on StackEchange) has used LittleSnitch to explicitly disallow Internet access for every process/app that attempted to access the Internet except the ones he actually needs to do this (e.g. Safari, Skype etc.) (to save traffic and maintain better privacy). Everything he wants works great but one thing doesn't - the "Word of the Day" screensaver, it won't show the words, obviously because it can't fetch them from the dictionary server. Looking through the rules list (the blocked executables/apps names) doesn't suggest any obvious candidate to allow. What is the name of the process that is responsible for fetching the words for the screen saver and needs to be allowed?
On macOS, it is possible to increase the text size of a webpage using the ⌘+ or ⌘- gestures. This even works on Chrome on macOS, as well as many other browsers. Is it possible to do something like this on iOS Safari, or iOS in general?
I created an automator service that duplicates a specified folder to the desktop, but I'm unsure how to run this service whenever I need it without having to open automator. I was thinking it would be available on right-click of a finder window or the desktop for example, or even via keyboard shortcut?
I have tried sending videos to hidden folder that didnt do it How do I tell my ipad to NOT backup videos?
I'm struggling to get a basic AppleScript script running correctly. Here is what I want to do: User highlights text, shortcut key is pressed and then AppleScript will copy the selected text and type something before it and something after it. Here is the script I have, it doesn't seem to execute correctly, anyone have an idea why?
I am trying to create a folder action that will automatically create an alias for every folder (not subelements) inside a selected one. I followed this process but I am not sure if I should have written down the path in a different way. My only problem is that the target folder is on an SMB server.
I have installed fuse using steps which are linked below in an article. Each and every step was successful but after mounting my WD external drive, still it was not writable. Everywhere I found same steps. I am currently using macOS high Sierra 10.13.4 on my MacBook Pro. After installing Paragon for WD drives only, it worked for my WD drive but FUSE still does not support or come into action as I plug my another Sony's 1 TB external hard drive. Is there any problem with FUSE? Link to install FUSE & ntfs-3g
I did however follow the steps in the second answer here. That worked, but it doesn't seem right to access phpmyadmin via phpmyadmin.localhost.
I have a Numbers file containing some rows with machine learning predictions and also what the actual values were. The first column contains an unique ID, the second column contains the actual values, the following columns contain the predicted values. Per column I would like to count the number of times the predicted value was correct, so the amount of rows where the predicted value matched the actual value from the other column. I'd like to add a row add the end of the data where I display this amount of correct values per column, and also what the accuracy would be (correct values/total values). I tried using the COUNTIF function for this, but get errors every time.
i want to delete a chat history on my Whatsapp Permanently, so i delete it and make again a new Whatsapp-backup via Icould, is that enough to make it unrecoverable ? Thank you very much
I tried to get the number of available brew packages by running but I don't know how accurate this really is. What do I need to take into account to get a more correct number? PS: macports lists 19,889 packages online here
I have a Mac and pc sitting beside each other. Each has an independent monitor. Currently I am using a two port usb switch to move between the two systems, but it can sometimes be cumbersome to switch between the two quickly. Anyone have any other suggestions for ways to switch between the two systems?
I am interested in the TrueDepth mathematical representation of a facial measurement. Is measurement representation documented? Is the data available to programmers via an API?
I am having a hard time getting Windows 7 to install on my iMac 2011. Any help would be most appreciated. There seems to be a lot of different ways to get this to work depending on various system specs etc so I am getting confused trying to get the correct method to work on my particular machine. My iMac specs: 21.5inch mid 2001, macOS High Sierra, Bootcamp version 6.1.0, and a brand new 16gb blank USB Stick (formatted to MS-DOS Fat using Disk Utility erase feature, blank DVD-RW) Here is what I have tried so far: Method 1 Downloaded ISO Windows 7 Pro file Formatted MS-DOS FAT 16GB 2.0 USB Stick using Disk Utility Inserted blank DVD Right click ISO file > Open With > DiskImageMounter Disk Utility > Right click mounted iso file File > New Image > Format > DVD/CD Master > Save file Rename new file from .cdr to .iso Right click > Open With > DiskImageMounter Run Bootcamp (both boxes checked) -- Download latest Windows support software -- Install Windows 7 Bootcamp gives me this message:
I found an old macbook pro in the electronic waste this morning. I plugged it in, it is able to power on, but has a broken screen. There is a password and I can't figure out how to reset it without logging in and I cannot see the screen. I have an external monitor, but I don't think I can make that the main screen until I log in, which is unlikely.
In an attempt to get it linking properly, I did something along the lines of brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force openssl brew install openssl While this solved the immediate problem of getting pycurl to build, it broke almost everything else (ssh, databases, etc.) Is there a way to recover from this state, or am I best off just reinstalling OSX?
I am experiencing flickering with my dual monitor setup. The nature of the flicker is "on/off", i.e. the screen gets completely black for a split second (sometimes a few seconds) and it goes back on. Sometimes it happens when I am not doing anything on that monitor, and sometimes it seems like it is triggered when pixels change on the monitor (opening something, or even just moving the mouse cursor) I have a dual monitor set up at work with my MacBook Pro 13" 2017 (two thunderbolt 3 ports). I am using the following to connect these monitors to my Mac: BenQ BL2780T monitor AOC I2475PXQU Kensingon S4600P docking station Belkin HDMI-USB-C adapter
The "Display in Place / Display as Icon" choice in Mail.app (accessed via a right-click), previously removed from High Sierra, has now also disappeared in Sierra running Mail.app 10.3. Is there a workaround? I have a 160K one page .pdf attachment that I'd like to display in full.
I have boot camped the Mac to have windows. I had an issue so deleted windows during setup to reinstall on the partition. In this process I think I have lost my recovery for Mac as its just all fallen apart from there. So gone into disk utility to delete the partition to restart it now I am not seeing the partition at all and when I try to resize the Mac one its not allowing me too as it comes with an error that it cannot find the other partition that windows was on.
I accidentally formatted an external USB Drive to APFS, I needed to change it back so I found this walkthrough: *=URL=* and I ran this command: Now I can't use the USB drive anymore, I can't see it in diskutil via command line. The only place I can find it is in system information as so: But it doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is a drive, how can I fix this?
By chance I found that for some folders and files the names, as they appear in Finder, are different from their actual names, found in the file's info under "Name & Extension". E.g. I have a folder called "Open Wipe" in the Finder listing but "40183A33-91F8-42A4-A899-E3C98D391629.localized" in "Name & Extension".
I work in security as an intern, and I've been asked by my boss to look into disabling Siri on macOS Sierra. I noticed that there's no way to prevent users from re-enabling Siri even if it's disabled by an administrator.
Is there a way to remove the spacer between the downloads stack and apps?
I'm aware that the iTerm2 window title can be set with but that appears to only set the title for a single pane. When I switch panes, the window title is changed. How can I quickly/automatically set the window title to be the same for every pane?
In .bash_profile, should PS1 be defined before exporting? As an example, the first line in my .bash_profile is currently: export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ " But instead, should it be:
MacBookPro11,3 High Sierra AFPS After having recently reduced the size of APPLESSD AFPS partition there is now a "Free space" partition between the previous and the next one. Unfortunately, it is impossible to resize, merge, erase or format the free space partition with Disk Utility. Actually merging is accessible through - button but it fails with an internal error saying a disk could not be found. The same in recovery mode and SIP disabled. Disk Utility doesn't find any error.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the functionality as a whole but how does Disk Utility wipe the disk it's executing on? For example, if you were to erase yourself there would still be a hand left.
I've recently calibrated my MBP's display and my LG 5K 27" display at home. When I'm on the go, at school for example, I would like to be able to raise or lower my screen brightness without screwing up the calibration. It was kind of a PITA to get both displays to perfectly match in brightness. I'd like to be able to sort of bookmark my current brightness so that I can later restore it.
I've noticed that every other day or so after a stepping away from my MBP (mid 2014, OSX 10.11.6) and logging back in, all of my recent apps and documents will be opened, even though they were not when I stepped away. It usually happens when I close my lid, but have seen it happen when lid is left open, and it's been going on for past several months. It's an odd problem to Google as results are all over the place. Has anyone faced a similar issue or is there a known bug related to this? I have all my updates and I've tried restarting my laptop. I have no items listed in "login items".
I recently came to know about youtube-dl to download YouTube videos. As my Mac being my main PC of use. I want to ensure I don't download any malicious script or software. Is youtube-dl totally safe?
I get this pop-up warning on one-off installers and such irrelevant situations. I understand it's to encourage a migration away from 32-bit apps; fine, but there's nothing I can do about it. It's getting on my nerves. Is there some way to put a stop to it altogether?
After installing updates for Mac, rEFInd won't show up when the computer starts, and even if I held down the Option key the disk manager only shows Macintosh HD. I already tried disabling csrutil and also reinstalling rEFInd, none of those work. When I held down Option-Command-P-R then opened disk utility, it showed both Macintosh HD and disk0s3 (name of my ubuntu partition) but disk0s3 was greyed out. How do I get into ubuntu again? Version: Mac OS High Sierra Ubuntu Version: 16.04 LTS
I once extracted a huge tar file in terminal, but it was too big. So, in the middle of the process, my computer ran out of memory, and everything crashed. I rebooted my system, hoping that things get fixed, assuming that the /tmp directory gets wiped at reboot. However, the problem still persists and I often get “out of application memory” nag box for no true reason. Can someone help me find and erase problematic files created by tar command?
I have a 2009(?) 2 AA battery Apple wireless keyboard that I got off of Ebay recently as a 'used' but functional product. It functioned fine for a week but now weirdly, while I was in the middle of writing something, suddenly pressing 'o' produces uppercase 'O' while caps lock is off and all other keys are lowercase and print fine. Also, pressing 'left-shift' produces uppercase 'O' and pressing right shift brings up 'developer tools window' (F12?) in Firefox if I'm in Firefox environment for example.
I download VirtualBox 5.2.10 r122088 (Qt5.6.3) On my macOS High Sierra. I set up my virtual machines but I cant have bridged adapter apparently. it was working in the last one but in this one, it just Gives me an error whenever I do AttachedTo: Bridged Adapter, Name: en0: WIFI(Air-Port) and in the advanced Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)
This is macOS 10.12.6 and Safari 11.1. Frequently when accessing a website new to me, I am presented with this dialog:
I am wondering if it is possible to do this. My current configuration is: iMac's thunderbolt (mini DP) port <--- miniDP to DP cabel ---> the DP in port of U2414H #1 the DP out port of U2414H #1 <--- DP to miniDP cabel ---> the miniDP in port of U2414H #2 But the two U2414Hs are mirrored.
I realize that there are no shortcuts specifically for the Settings program on iOS. With that in mind, perhaps there's another way to do what I'd like.
Today I went to push to my Github account and got an authentication error. Surprised, I looked in Keychain Access to see if there was anything wrong as I had setup git to use git-credential-osxkeychain. I freaked a little when I saw that there were no references to git at all. I went to log onto the GitHub site and found that my password wasn't working either. After calming down from a I've-been-hacked-panic-attack I saw that Github had sent me an email that they had to reset some users passwords due to an internal error. Annoying but OK.
I ran into a really annoying problem yesterday. In a small office of just three workstations (and two more that connect remotely), the computers cannot automatically connect to the fileserver on boot. Instead of using the username/password associated with the shared folders, it automatically connects using the AppleID, which works because the server uses the same AppleID. The server is a Mac mini running High Sierra also.
My problem is that my internet speed to Apple's server is very slow, and I have 6 devices running macOS so I like to download security updates or system updates only once for all 6 of my devices. I checked these folders: The package is not in either of these folders...
I have a Mac Mini connected to a Sony W755C TV by HDMI. If I put "Set display to sleep" on the Mac, the TV goes to black but displaying a very unsightly OSD text "HDMI 1 (Clock) No input. Check your cables, etc." which stays on forever, until I power the TV off manually. I can't find any menu items in the TV to remove the OSD, which just looks ugly on the huge TV in my living room.
Lately my Macbook Pro switches to the "Lock Screen" page out of nowhere while I am working. When I say "while I am working" I want to make clear it's not due to inactivity, I am actually using the computer as it happens. It does not log me out (none of my windows are closed), it only locks.
I am making a website for scheduling work and off-days (for about 30 employees and managers) and I would like to make it so that the website imports their work times into their Apple Calendar. Is there any way the website could create an Apple Subscription Calendar for each employee and then update it when the timetables change?
I have a problem with one of my USB-ports on my Macbook. I can plug in my charger for my Jaybird X3 headphones and charge them, but I can't charge my iPhone for example. And no data from the iPhone is getting transfered to the computer. I've dropped it with an usb-device connected, and that's when it stopped working correctly. Is there any way to bend some connector back or something like that?
I used the how to from *=URL=* to install AWS CLI on macOS. After executing command source ~/.bash_profile it seems that my default PATH location from file /private/etc/paths was lost. /private/etc/paths file content: ~/.bash_profile file content: For example next command cant find the location of basic files installed in /usr/bin/: -bash: vim: command not found Is it a way to restore path to be reading from /private/etc/paths? Also I can't use the same command to reread from the location
I have a long running Python process (using multiprocessing), run from Terminal, and regularly come back to it realizing that it has been suspended for several hours while I was away from the Mac. The moment I get back to it it's running again at normal speed (it's displaying a progress bar in Terminal). This is despite: checking "prevent computer from going to sleep automatically when the display is off" in the Energy Saver preferences panel running caffeinate from the parent process (Popen('caffeinate')), which does show up in the Energy section of Activity Monitor Using appnope to begin an activity with NSActivityUserInitiated | NSActivityLatencyCritical
Just bought a macbook pro in Dubai with this keyboard layout:  I'm trying to move the tilde symbol to the § key, but I'm not succeeding. Anyone can help? best, D
I've seen this earlier but never got time to bother looking closely into the problem. So when I open a pdf file I created (long time ago, though in 2014). I see this error message from Preview:
I upgraded my iMac to macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. Since then my email account with 1&1 (that was previously working fine) - decided to work intermittently, then just failed completely. I contacted 1&1 and they couldn't help, saying I was using the right login credentials. They even screen shared and were still none the wiser and said it must be an internal problem.
The touchbar mac prompts for answering a call on the touchbar. However my Google Voice callers require me to hit 1 on the keypad. The FaceTime app doesnt seem to be "connected" to the phone call. In previous macOS's there would be a little notification block looking phone call object on my screen while the call happens, this appears to have been replaced with the touchbar's functionality.
I bought a new iPad and my wife is taking my old Mini. She really likes "Word Collect", but wants to start at the beginning, not at my level. I deleted the app, deleted the backup, but when I reload the game from iCloud it comes in at my old level, not zero.
Can I transfer 100 PDFs files from Windows to Acrobat Reader on iPad without going through iTunes or transferring the file one by one?
I booted to recovery and checked out Disk Utility, where the only disk listed is the 2 GB OS X Base System underneath the Apple disk image. This raises some red flags, as her internal 256 GB hard drive is nowhere to be found in disk utility.
I am trying to port an OpenSSL-based C program from Linux to macOS, and I would like to use a library for TLS which is officially supported by the OS, because then the OS keeps that library up-to-date and secure without any extra work for me or the user of my application. I though LibreSSL was officially supported in macOS and I have already ported my program have a LibreSSL backend, but I'm unsure of the state of LibreSSL within macOS. Is there any official documentation that addresses whether developers should treat the LibreSSL library as depricated or not? PS: I've searched on Apple's developer site, but the official Apple documentation about encrypting network communication makes ABSOLUTELY NO mention of LibreSSL (which is not the same as OpenSSL).
Command + C does not always work on first try on any of my four Macs. I often highlight text, press Command + C, head to another window, press Command + V only to find that the original text did not copy.
I turned off iCloud drive and gave me a popup stating that all documents stored in iCloud would be removed from Mac and presented three options: Keep a copy, cancel and remove from Mac. I selected "Keep a copy option" and can't find files in both my mac and icloud. Where would mac be keeping a copy of my data? Any help would be appreciated.
I'm looking for something like this for external displays on my MacBook: UPDATE 16.05.18 available resolutions via RDM
I have a problem with making bootable USB. I'm getting this error:
I've designated a folder to receive screen shots I receive from the default Mac screenshot command. How can I elicit a prompt that will let me rename every screenshot I take? Thank you
I had an issue with my MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 13" (Early 2015) (MacBookAir7,2) and after repeated problems I decided to wipe the computer and give it a clean slate. I downloaded a copy of Mavericks and Yosemite off the internet and created a bootable external hard drive with an iMac. I've tried both Mavericks and Yosemite but always get the prohibited sign.
I have two external monitors connected to my MacBook Air. When I close the lid the display does seem to power off, but in the display management it still shows all 3 instead of just the 2 and my mouse can scroll off screen onto the built-in display even though its shut. How can I resolve this?
On an Apple Watch Series 2 with WatchOS 4.2.3, how can I record a weightlifting session on the Workout App? I’m currently recording my sessions as “Other”, but I’d like to categorize them as something more specific in my activity history.
I've noticed how often I do the following while working in my IDE: Code Cmd+Tab to or click on terminal window Press 'up' to get the last command Press enter Cmd+Tab to or click back to my IDE Repeat.. Is it somehow possible to create a keyboard shortcut that takes care of this so I don't need to keep swapping back and forth? I'm using zeit's Hyper, in case that makes any difference.
Yesterday I update MacOS Sierra to MacOS High Sierra than I remove xCode 9.2 after that when I try to install xCode 9.3 from App Store, It gives me below error: Xcode failed to download, Use the purchase page to try again I tried below solutions.
How Can I Lock my MacBook Pro 2015 screen? In MacBook Pro 2014 it works with ControlCommandQ, but it doesn't work in MacBook Pro 2015.
I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on VMware on Windows 10 Pro 1803 build 17134.1. My screen's resolution is 3840x2160 (4K) and I want the macOS to be in resolution 3840x2009. However. it seems impossible, due to a strange behavior in which when I go to System Preferences → Displays and either click "Default for display" or choose from the resolutions list "3840x2009" - the resolution is changed for like 1 second, and then returning to resolution 1920x1005. Note: I just reinstalled VMware Tools. Thanks for the help!
I want to log out one specific user after he's been inactive. I share a computer with my brother and often when I forget (I'm often in a hurry, but that's a different topic) to log out, he just uses my user account and changes a lot of stuff, which is now getting on my nerves. Is there a way that I can write a script which logs me out after around 20 minutes of inactivity? I know that there's a way with doing it with the system preferences, but I don't want to log out every user (sometimes we have users in the background still online who don't want to be logged off) Hope that someone can help!
Basically, I am having problems with the sound always finding a way to come out of the speakers, which is annoying, in a work environment. I've removed all external audio devices and set the volume on the internal speakers to 0.
How do I disable Thunderbird under MacOs 10.12.6, without losing all my archives of Thunderbird email? Thunderbird is 52.7.0 (64-bit).
I've created a kernel extension for macOS High Sierra. When the kernel extension file loads in High Sierra the user has to allow it in the Security & Privacy preferences.
We have an iMac in our office which we are going to put an SSD in (The iMac itself is past warranty and apart from the slow hard drive is functioning fine) however no-one of us in the IT Department are used to using Mac and we can't seem to work out how to re-install Mac OSX on a new hard drive as we can't seem to get a .iso file for MacOSX like you would with Windows How would you re-install Mac OSX on a replacement Hard Drive
I've created a bot for Continuous Integration process using Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145). Under the Triggers section I did enable Email Notifications for Periodic Email Report. I'm expecting report after each integration just like mentioned in this Apple documentation. Even though bot is running perfectly fine, I'm not receiving an email with that report to my mail address (Ex. myname@officedomain.com and my office mail domain is based on outlook). Is there any particular configuration that I need to do to receive these eMail notifications or is there any other thing that I'm missing?
If I connect my iPhone to my Mac via USB, it enables personal hotspot on the phone and then my Mac sucks my data-plan, even if I'm connected to WiFi on both devices. I don't know why, is there some kind of setting I could disable this behavior? I want to prioritize WiFi over celular data, which are paid and limited.
I charged my iPhone 7 (iOS 11.3.1) from car for about 3-4 hours during the ride and Waze app was on all the time. Next day I noticed that phone discharges really fast. Power saving mode helps, but also the problem still appear. And the problem is not in apps running in background that could take power too much. Now it also gets very hot when charging, like never before. What could be the problem? Could it be that the battery life is almost over?
When I add some webpage to my reading list (like Medium articles, I'm not able to read them if I'm offline: I have a error telling my phone is not connected to Internet. According to the documentation, pages in the reading list should be accessible offline (I checked Settings > Safari > Reading List > Automatically Save Offline). Is it a bug?
what was a bit strange for me because locally checking (ie. from system preferences -> iCloud), they take about half of that size:
I use a few network MIDI devices, and each time I want to connect to them I have to open Audio MIDI Setup, drill down to MIDI Network Setup and connect to each of them individually. Is there any way of programmatically doing this? I haven't been able to find any command-line/AppleScript interfaces for it so far, and I'd really like to save some time and create a script to connect to them all automatically. Thanks for any ideas!
In the Finder, when several tags are set to a file, we can see only few of them in the Preview Pane. Is it possible to increase this field height so that we could see more than one or two tags ?
Two+ years ago my dropbox was connected to a business account of the company I worked for. The company doesn't exist anymore. The dropbox business account doesn't exist anymore. There is no trace of it when I go online to my private dropbox account.
I tried the answers on the similar previous question but nothing worked. Obviously Apple removed the critical file .AppleSetupDone in the last Security Update. Is there anybody who could help getting my administrator account back?
Looking for some help writing a bash script that checks if a particular bundle id is installed and proceeds to install the package if not found. Found that we can use "mdfind kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.hnc.Discord" (for example) returns the location for the particular bundleid if the app is not found nothing comes back. Maybe I can use this with an if statement somehow? Any help would be much appreciated.
So I can create an account and download apps. But when I try to make a purchase, I hit the wall as there seems no way to finish the payment.
I like to tag files with xattr, e.g. xattr -w user.foo bar myfile.
My iPhone X won't alert me when I receive a text from one particular contact. This is happening with only one contact. It vibrates, but there is no notification, and when I open the Messages app, the message that was sent to me appears as if it has already been read. I do not have do not disturb on, and have tried to set a special text tone for this one contact.
Every time I open a pdf or image file using Preview when Preview was not already open, Preview will freeze up for a few seconds. If Preview was already open, i.e. I already had a pdf open and opened another one, then there is no issue with opening the second pdf. I've tried resetting Preview by deleting its files in ~/Library, but the problem still persists.
Furthermore, if I open XQuartz normally and try to open the XQuartz terminal nothing happens. Under XQuartz>Applications> there are also "xman" and "xlogo" options that don't do anything when clicked. Previously I remember clicking "xlogo" would open up a small icon of XQuartz in a window. So this seems like something is preventing XQuartz from opening any kind of desktop windows.
When using Airpods on an Android device (I am specifically using a Google Pixel 2), does sound come through both of the Airpods when making/receiving calls? Or, does only one of the Airpods play sound when on a call?
I get a lot of meeting invites and would like to move them to a separate Outlook folder. How can I do this in Outlook 2016 for Mac?
Summary: My MacBook Pro 2017's audio works in Windows 10 with Boot Camp. When I have my Akitio Node Pro plugged in through Thunderbolt 3 to the MacBook, using an Asus GTX 1080 card, the audio doensn't work. Hardware / Software in use: MacBook Pro 2017 13" with Touch Bar Akitio Node Pro PCI Express external GPU box 40 Gbps Thunderbolt 3 Cable Asus GTX 1080 8GB Windows 10 Pro latest, updated Nvidia official game-ready driver, latest Cirrus Logic audio driver What's working and not working: When the Akitio Node Pro is plugged in to the MacBook Pro's top-left Thunderbolt 3 port (the one it's supposed to use), the audio doesn't work in Windows 10 When the Akitio Node Pro isn't plugged in to the Mac, the audio works fine in Windows 10
Japan uses 100V; I will be in parts of the country using both 50Hz and 60Hz. Will I need a voltage converter for a) a MacBook power supply, b) a standard AC-to-USB plug? I live in the U.S.
The rubber feet of my retina Macbook Pro (15-inch, late 2013) are breaking and falling off (images at the end). From what I’ve gathered, Apple doesn’t sell these feet and expects you to pay about $100 for a replacement of the bottom panel.
I'm a bit of a newbie to Python and definitely to virtual environments and Django. I want to install Django but it first recommends a virtualenv / virtualenvwrapper. A video I am watching recommends installing virtualenvwrapper so I just tried this, following these instructions: *=URL=* and *=URL=* I first ran
How can I connect wireless keyboard to iMac when Bluetooth icon missing from system preferences? I bought a refurbished computer and have not been able to connect due to missing Bluetooth icon needed to connect wireless keyboard
The high resolution option has been greyed, not responsive to taps, and stated that wifi network was needed, for all of the time I have been able to observe it. This includes efforts on all four wifi networks I tried. I also tried rebooting the app, and at the advice of Apple technical support, rebooted my iPhone.
On my Late 2016 15" MBP running 10.13.4 the Touch Bar/Touch ID are not functional, but only when I am booted in Safe Mode. The ESC key doesn't appear either (when holding the fn key) and doesn't work if I try to just imagine it's there (I tried Force Quit shortcut--cmd opt esc).
I use BlueJeans for videoconference on iOS 11. When in a videoconference, is it possible to disable the interlocutor's video? The motivation is to reduce the network usage.
I used to have some iOS apps that were authorized to access my Twitter account through the legacy Twitter integration feature in old iOS version. This feature is no longer available in iOS 11. According to Twitter (*=URL=* : Note: Though you will see other specific apps like Twitter for iPhone or Camera for iOS listed in your active connections, you cannot revoke access to these individual apps; you have to revoke access for the entire iOS integration. How do I revoke those apps' access if all my devices are running iOS 11?
I want to stop this prompt:  Normally I’d encourage people to keep their system / app up-to-date, but there is only one word that can describe what Microsoft had done in Office for Mac: catastrophe.
Is it possible to output the PPD driver path my installed printer is using?
I'm trying to create a simple loop/counter script to display information about installed printers. Main the Name, PPD, PPD Version, and URI. I have two problems... 1 - the name is not coming up; 2 - the second printer PPD is incorrect. Here what I have: The output: Thanks.
Somehow a vertical video I shot was saved upside down. The phone was not upside down when I shot it.
I have a clip that I have modified in iMovie 10.0.1, and I don't seem to be able to export it. I can click on the "Share" icon, and it presents a grid of nine options including YouTube, but nothing interesting has happened when I've clicked any of them. I can't tell anything happening when I click on YouTube. Now that I have a modified clip, how can I upload to YouTube or export (preferably without corruption) to any format YouTube can parse?
FUSE has not worked for me on macOS 10.13.4 on my MacBook Pro. I have installed osxfuse from home-brew and also installed ntfs-3g and exchanged the default driver with ntfs-3g (Driver which manages the auto-mount USB). After successful installation, I was still unable to get the write support for my NTFS drive and thus I want to uninstall osxfuse and reset the native default driver of macOS. How do I do this?
I am thinking of an accessory as below: Let's assume accessory has battery in it to do certain function, now to charge the battery can we use same iPhone charger lightning port and draw the power from that port?
I’m unable to delete pictures on my phone. I press the delete button, and the picture disappears for a bit then appears again. I can’t delete pictures from my recently deleted folder either, and when I try to delete them using my computer, (a toshiba) it says connection to the phone was lost. I can’t transfer pictures or delete them from my computer or my phone. I tried using the option of deleting my iCloud but it says verification failed and that storage details are unavailable. How do I solve this? please
I use a personal password manager and the database is protected by a password and you have to provide a key file. To select the key file you click a file selection dropdown. A Finder window pops up and opens the folder I previously navigated to with this file dropdown and presents you the folder where I stored the key file. In terms of security, you understand this is not desirable behaviour.
The YouTube app on my iPad 1 has stopped working. It shows an error: Error: App is Outdated. How do I get the app to work again?
I want to connect an iPhone 6 to my 2016 12" MacBook. I have a USB-C to USB-A adapter. If I connect the iPhone, macOS shows a warning (translated): USB device requires power (Note: It just says power, not more power). Original text is (German): USB Zubehör benötigt Strom. The iPhone is neither recognized by iTunes, nor does it charge.
Something strange sometimes happens when I'm working on my 2016 MBP 13-inch w/ Touch Bar (Mac OS 10.13.4). I don't know exactly why, but occasionally certain gestures (i.e. pinch to zoom in and zoom out, force touch over a word to open the dictionary) simply stop functioning until I lock and unlock the laptop. Other gestures (mission control, move across desktops) keep working. This happens to all the apps I try to use (Safari, Word, Pages, Ulysses, Mind Node and so on). I can still use keyboard shortcuts to perform those actions. As I said, the only solution I could find is to lock and unlock the laptop or just reboot it, but I would like to know if there is a better, permanent fix to this issue.
I've giving my 2009 iMac to a friend. It was running El Capitan and Windows 10 on Bootcamp. I've tried to be clever (which apparently I'm not) and I've done a clean reset of Windows 10, not understanding that I would no longer be able to see or access Mac. Yes, all traces of macOS have disappeared. Even the Mac keyboard doesn't work, presumably because I've lost all Bootcamp drivers.
I used to use smoothly Gdal on my mac from the terminal before the update to Mavericks. Since that, I have struggled. I am now using High Sierra, and my computer can't find the software. If I run: then I hit the problem
It has been 'bugging' me for a while now, sometimes when i open or put VLC media player on fullscreen on my MacBook Air, my screen freezes,audio keeps playing, cursor stops moving and I am not able to do anything, cannot even open Task manager(Force quit applications), and I am forced to shut down my system using the power key. Not necessarily with High definition videos. Opening and closing multiple videos seem to fuel the process. No issues with any other app. I am using VLC 2.2.8 on High Sierra 10.13.2.
When you maximise apps to fullscreen on Mac OS Sierra, the menu bar is hidden. This is expected, because it's full screen, but if you're using an app with tabs (like Visual Studio Code), the menu bar often drops down when you're trying to switch tabs. This can be infuriating.
At the moment, the management of the Share / Action menu items is done as follows: we tap on the Share button, and then in the opened menu you can turn on / off the elements and change their order. However, the items selected in this menu depend on the content / format, and when you open another item, the items change again. Is there any way to choose visibility/order of elements of this menu in one place (without dependency on content)?
In the App Store > Updates it showed the 10.13.4 update, I did that but About this Mac still shows me 10.13.1. I would like to download the newest XCode but that reqiures at least 10.13.2 So I went to the Apple download page where it says I should upgrade it in the App store instead of installing it from scrap. I tried through terminal, it downloaded and installed it, then it said I need to restart and wanted the password. After I typed in the password, the computer shut down and restarted. In the Terminal it said Session restarted, and the MacBook still runs on 10.13.1. I have 210GB of free storage at the moment.
MacOS has just (last couple of days) started placing a red circle with a white number on the Calendar (version 8.0 (2034.9)) icon, as if there are calendar notifications sitting around, waiting to be read. It's just like the mail notification that tells you how many unread emails you have, or the App Center notification that tells you how many unapplied updates you have. When I open up the calendar, I likewise see that number next to one of my Google calendars.
When I answer emails from outlook on my PC I can add in-line answers to questions I’m asked and it automatically add my initials inside brackets when I click “enter” like so: It also makes my answers bold and italic usually. Is there an iOS app that does the same?
I use LaunchBar and it sometimes loses the custom icon. I have asked the vendor for support and will answer should I get an answer, but I wondered if I could find a cause or fix for missing icon previews on the OS level.
I’d like to use my emergency services function to quickly notify friends and family that I need help without calling 911. Is there a way to disable the emergency services auto dialer and skip straight to emergency contacts? If not can I change the emergency services number to a family member or friend? This is US with an iPhone X on ATT if it matters.
I'm looking for a bash script that checks if the Installer process is running and waits/pause if it then proceeds once the process is no longer running. Here is what I have so far:
Is there a way to run an Javascript using AppleScript here is the JS : I tried this but this return the error "Expected end of line but found identifier."
I filled in a PDF form on a Windows computer using a program called Foxit Reader. When the text was too long for the field, the font size was automatically adjusted. Now I wish to continue filling the form on macOS, and the font size did not adjust. I searched the Web for a macOS workaround, but I did not find one. So I tried to do it with Adobe Reader DC and Foxit Reader for macOS. Did anyone encounter this problem as well? I don't see the point in installing Windows alongside just to fill in some forms.
I have a lot of photos/videos which is not fitting into my iCloud storage. I would like to be able to sort them by size to see which photos/videos are taking up the most storage in order to either delete or transfer them to my computer.
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2017 i7 16GB OS Version: High Sierra 10.13.4 (it's possible it was an earlier version 10.13.3 or something because this occurred about a week ago) Take a look at these images though, I don't think anything particularly out of the ordinary happened, no catalyst that I can think of, but I was using my computer one day and all of my menus and UI started glitching. I ended up restarting the computer which fixed everything, but it was a system-wide glitch which impacted everything running.
Windows can run Connectify Dispatch (no longer available to download BTW), and both MacOS and Windows can run Speedify which proves that Link Aggregate with Ethernet and Wi-Fi is possible on macOS...too bad Speedify doesn't connect to the Internet directly...instead it connects to a VPN server. In theory we can create a virtual Ethernet port that is actually a Wi-Fi port and then use macOS' native Link Aggregation to combine bandwidth...Is there a software that does this?
I'd like to be able to boot into the recovery mode the next time the machine boots not by using the start up key presses. I'm already logged in in normal user mode - can I set this in the terminal? Any help with this is much appreciated.
I wrote a postscript file including a blue (0,0,255) RGB and a yellow (255,255,0) RGB shapes. When viewed (in Preview) and according to the apple DigitalColor meter set to "native colours" mode, the colours are different: yellow becomes (252,255,54) blue becomes (43,0,251)
I am trying to download xCode form the appstore, but it says that i have to have a newer version of macOS but i dont have enuff space on my computer to upgrade. Its like 8 gigs or something like that and if i only could download xCode that was compatible with macOS Sierra that would be nice.
HighSierra, 500 GB SSD Disk Utility shows two partitions that does not appear through diskutil list. First, the ouput from diskutil list: Now, a screenshot from Disk Utility application with 2 partitions not listed previously: This last one is OK : How can I solve this? Here is the output from gpt:
I'm using Version 4.5 of Notes.app There's an option to add a table. I see that if I tab through the table then rows will be added, but I'm not finding a way to add columns to the table. Is it possible?
I have a large external drive that I would like to encrypt using my laptop. Based on the size of the drive, I believe the encryption will take several days. I would really like to be able to unplug and move my laptop during this time, which would thus necessitate a way to pause the encryption process. Answers such as this one give good procedures for the encryption, but do not mention pausing. man diskutil does not seem to mention anything about pausing, nor can I find any options for it when using the OSX GUI.
I'm in the process of installing Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro (macOS 10.13.4/17E202, 256 GB of storage, no partition), but Boot Camp says I need at least 40 GB of storage. So I freed up some space by removing some files, and "About My Mac" now shows almost 100 GB of free space on my Mac:
Looking to share my Itunes Library with my wife on same machine. SO for example, when I log off, and she logs in, I would like to be able to access my library in her ITunes.
so recently my MacBook Air has been very quiet. I do not know how this happened because I did not change anything in my settings. I cannot hear anything until the volume is half way up and it is still very quiet on full blast. Is there anyway to fix this?? (This has been going on for about two weeks)
How can I do a whole word search in less? Per this post on a unix/linux forum you can use regex 'whole word' markers \<word\> but that doesn't seem to work for me on macOS 10.13.4 (17E202) in iTerm2 on less version 487 (found by less --version).
On Windows's Japanese IME, when typing Hiragana, I can change the conversion mode to "No conversion", and then the romaji I type are entered as hiragana without having to press space or enter. Is there any way to do this on macOS (particularly High Sierra)?
When I plug headphones into my iPhone 7, the audio continues to play through the speakers. I have tried with 3 separate pairs. I couldn't find any troubleshooting tips, other than to check for debris. Any suggestions?
It's clear on how to delete conversations in iMessage one by one. Does anyone know how I can delete multiple or all conversations all at once? Thanks.
Trying to send message to someone in my contact list and only choice is their email address. Why is their phone not showing to choose?
Is it possible to download my ebooks from ebook reader to Kindle on my iPad mini? If so what’s the process?
I've recently been faced with a challenge at the library I work at that I need to make a small bit of code in MacOS High Sierra that I can't figure out for the life of me! I have some experience coding in Windows but have never used Macs before and I was really hoping someone here could help me, as its really hard to learn what I need to do with no basic knowledge of AppleScript. Here is what I need this code to do. Login into an admin user from a non-admin user at a certain time Run a script in the admin user account Script reboots into Windows using bootcamp
I've tried to re-calibrate the battery by letting it drain to 0%, but the laptop goes to sleep at around 40% and won't drain it to 0%. Coconut battery still indicates that there is about 2400mAh left of juice at this point.
I am checking specifically if I require to get a separate adaptor to replace my existing 128GB SSD in Macbook Air model 2017 (A1465), MacAir,7,2 with the Samsung Nvme M.2 SSD Evo 256GB?
In Chrome or Firefox we can use Stylish. There seems to be an unofficial extension for Safari but I’m put off by its use of Google Analytics.
I don't manage to fill up the text from this textfield here is my script : I have no error on AppleScript but no result on chrome...
“T” is also the first letter in my first name. But below my addresses, & sometime above them, autocomplete offers “bob bobson (SET Team)” It has two “t’s, but they occur, as you can see, much later in the “name string”. All my contacts starting with “t” are listed as choices below “bob”.
About a year ago, I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp, which I now want to remove, but it doesn't seem to be done causing issues... When I go into the Boot Camp Assistant, I get this message: My Disk Utility looks like this: diskutil list gives me:
I've recently joined a new company, and my corporate login requires an additional TOTP. I've tried using the same QR code generated for the TOPT on several TOTP generators, and have had mixed results: Authenticator extension for Google Chrome, invalid TOTP 1Password extension for Google Chrome, invalid TOTP 1Password app for macOS, valid TOTP 1Password app for iOS, valid TOTP Google Authenticator app for iOS, valid TOTP Google Chrome is running on the same Macbook as 1Password, and both the date/time values on my iPhone and Macbook are being synchronised with an NTP server. Does anyone have any idea why the TOTPs generated are all invalid when using Google Chrome extensions?
-bash: export: =': not a valid identifier -bash: export:0de946b3adfc5de6336ff06ca740ffbeba68f055323038a179def14f63ee3b1b7aa0b50bdd8a7b7578d8c19f1a5e62fff0047843b252e551426e2c0a5f49ee88': not a valid identifier I was following a guide to install postgres , and i added a PATH to .bash_profile .Then i deleted it and now i am facing this error every time i open the terminal. This is my bash profile
I have an Airport Extreme Base Station with two networks: my main network and a guest network. Is it possible to set it up so that devices on the main network have access to devices on the guest network, but not the contrary?
Using diskutil, or other command line tools, how can I determine which filesystem I'm using?
"For iOS, changing the language restarts Springboard and quits running apps. So the next time you launch an iOS app, it uses the new language setting. ... For iOS and Mac, the region and calendar settings can be changed at any time, even when your app is running."
Using Command + R at boot, I entered recovery mode but the /private/etc/ directory is Read-Only. Is it possible to unmount the disk then mount it again with write permissions?
Is there any full jailbreak for iOS 11.4 except Electra (it's for 11.2 — I cannot downgrade cause Apple doesn't sign that firmware anymore)? Because, honestly I think that Pangu Anzuchang is not a full feature jailbreak as it's just a web clip application which does not inject a kernel exploit (as Electra does, that's why it restarts the device), so what will you suggest?
The Apple Watch spends most of its time sleeping with the display turned off. When you twist your wrist, it wakes and displays on screen. Unfortunately, the Watch does not always appear for me.
When starting my MacBook in recovery mode with Command + s, it prompts me to Choose Network.... The process that takes place immediately after entering my Wi-Fi password can take several minutes and it's kinda frustrating. Is it possible to access recovery mode without connecting to the Internet?
When first starting to use OmniFocus, it opens with some example data preloaded for practice. Am I supposed to delete that bogus data, and continue to use that existing file/database for my own data? Or am I supposed to create a new distinct file or database for my own real data?
I know more or less how Push works, but why is there a Push on top (in Settings > accounts and passwords > Fetch new data) then other options for iCloud, Outlook, Gmail etc?. Is any of these related to My Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Library...do these use Push or Fetch too?
Moving the plist located at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist to macOS High Sierra from OS X Mavericks. (Reverted after failed attempt).
It happens as I run through my neighborhood as I listen to a news app. I have to stop every 50 feet or so and hit the triangle that has appeared on my iPhone indicating the NPR app is no longer broadcasting. Driving me nuts! I’d be grateful for your insights. Thanks!
I have this instructions on CentOS 7 Linux version. And Already I know that it is possible to add group and user using: The question is how to perform Linux steps on macOS in the simplest and sure manner? When I say the above I want to imply, what lines can I do without? PD: I know is it possible install Oracle Database using Virtual Machine but I'm not interested (I'm exploring this way).
In recovery mode, the date is incorrect. It's several days off and in the wrong timezone (it's in UTC, should be PDT). It's causing issues with HTTPS requests, the SSL certificates error. I found a few older guides online which state changing the date and time can be done with date 0505193018, but I get the following error: date: illegal time format
I recently tried different keystrokes to regain control of my mouse/keyboard from parallels, and I pressed something that cause my Mac to start shutting down. It didn't prompt me to confirm that I wanted to shutdown my Mac, it just started closing applications for the shutdown. Question is there a way to require that the use respond to a confirmation dialog before shutting down / restarting their Mac?
Like many people my attempt to install update 10.13.4 has not worked. A 2012 Mac Air running OS 10.13.3 with the usual "resource not found" and exit the installer. I click restart and stuck in the loop.
I am trying to run copyq menu which is opening the menu context. This supposed to worked, but I got copyq command not found and struck at this step. I had tried putting the /Users/myname/.bash_profile but it does not work. I also had tried do shell script "copyq menu" command not found either The ultimate goal I wants is I am be able to use shortcut to call copyq menu OSX: 10.13.4 CopyQ Clipboard Manager v3.4.0 (hluk@email.cz) Built with: Qt 5.10.1 Question How to get copyq menu runs by shortcut?
I have a working MacBook Air (2015 model) with a non-functional keyboard. Water was spilled on it accidentally which shorted everything out. A 3rd party local computer repair shop got the machine working again except the keyboard. Since then it's been used with a Logitech Wireless PC USB keyboard without any problem, putting it to sleep when done, and waking it up via the external keyboard. This has been working fine without any issue.
My question is related to How can I show the full notifications in the notification center?, but I do not necessarily need to "show" the full notification text, only to acces its content somehow, for example by finding its source log so I can read it with vim/grep, etc. I'm missing some critical information because the notification text is truncated.
I understand from my findings on the topic that sharedfilelistd is an "agent that is used by applications to read/modify recent documents/servers/hosts" and distnoted a "distributed notification services". What I don't understand is why those two process very frequently start using between 130 and 200% of CPU (Monitor). I tried various combinations of apps loaded or not that would be causing the problem, but I was unable to discern a pattern. I can't tie this issue with any noticeable event (update, install, config tweak, ...).
I'm trying do get every totals from an internal webpage and get the total. for getting a single result I wrote this : the output on this example is : (PS the currency is not always the same) for getting every value this work which give me something like this : I would like to clear the text and do a total, Tried this for clearing the values, but obviously not working : and for the total I'm not sure yet how to proceed.
How can I make a TV (a Sony W755C in my case) do a "soft power off" (same as when pressing the ON/OFF on the remote) by sending HDMI signals from a connected Mac? I think Apple TVs can turn TVs on and off, so then a Mac should theoretically be able too. Is there a command line utility that does this, eg. hdmitool --soft-power-off?
On Ubuntu, I use VLC to play all types of videos. Now I have a MacBook Air I bought in 2017 with macOS High Sierra. I tried to play an AVI file, but QuickTime does not recognize the format. There is no other app it offers in Applications. So I tried searching for VLC on the App Store but unable to find it.
The "rubber" feet under an Apple Magic Keyboard 2 (MLA22D/A) are too slippery except when using them on a perfectly level and smooth (glass) desktop. Increasing their staying power might be of general interest. But my question is specifically about increasing the usefulness of the keyboard for mobile use.
Someone, please help me I really don't want to buy a new iPhone! Also it isn't recognised by iTunes.
I have a problem that I thought I knew the solution to, but apparently do not. Somehow, in the past few days, I did something to change the behavior of the tab key and the spacebar when controlling iTunes. The space bar, when pressed in Miniplayer, closes Miniplayer and returns to the full app display, rather than play/pause (space remains play/pause in the full app--it does not return you to Miniplayer when pressed again). The tab key now moves between nearly every control on the screen, where previously it only transferred between text boxes and lists.
How can I change the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf while the MacBook is in recovery mode?
I accidentally sent a text while my iPhone was in Airplane mode. I realised upon further consideration, that I would rather not send it. Is there any way to cancel the text before taking the phone out of Airplane mode and make sure it doesn't get delivered?
I want to stop receiving messages from a certain group chat I've been made a part of. I don't want to simply "hide alerts" from it, I don't want the messages to come in at all. Is there any way to do that? Deleting the conversation doesn't seem to help.
I just got a new MacBook Pro 2017 128GB no-touchbar, bought it in the refurb. I'm doing a bit of Photoshop ( I know it's not the best MBP, but I really need it right now for work ) and I have Safari ( 6/7 tabs ) running with Spotify, and I feel like my MBP is too hot. Here are the temperatures according to iStats
Is there any way (without using accessibility feature) to record mobile screen with gestures like taps? I need to record how user is using my app and where exactly he taps.
I found it was downloaded in /Applications folder and did the install. Everything worked like it should.
I had to format my Mac and make a new user, the guy who formatted it for me made the acc called "USER" and I changed it to my name from users & groups. It gave me a message that some changes will happen and I agreed anyway but now I have an admin acc that requests a username and password that won't mach any of what I used since the format, and it won't mach the login information (I have no problem logging in), I have an admin acc only and it won't give me authorization, and I can't copy to my partition drive it require authorization that I don't have and a username not changed.
I've been migrating an old MacBook Air (2012) to a new MacBook Pro, and am doing a clean at the same time. I've been running df -h. to give me an idea of free space: To track down where the usage is, I've run du -sh:
When I attempt to Enable Sticky Keys on my new Mac, the option appears greyed out in System Preferences. Although Slow Keys is available.
Mac OS X disk utility appears to be stuck/hanging (attempting a boot camp partition) how to cancel it?
I want to know the groups of some user. $dscl . list /groups filterByUSer theFindUser Is this possible (even if I have to enumerate all the groups and then filter by user) in a straightforward manner?
A few days ago I installed Mac OS and Linux Mint on my 2015 MacBook pro. I created a 412GB APFS container for mac and used the other 100GB for Linux. After wrestling with the issue, I learned that Apple blocks access to the Intel iGPU to third-party operating systems and Linux only uses the AMD GPU. I tried to delete the Linux partition using disk utility, but it did not see the Linux partitions, so I used a live CD to delete them. I am trying to reclaim that space to use on my Mac OS partition but it does not seem to be an option. Can I get help? I attached 3 pictures of what disk utility looks like for me.
I have an external hard drive, with which there is a .sparsebundle that I use for TimeMachine backups. I want to automatically mount this .sparsebundle after the external Drive mounts. I've tried making an AppleScript app to launch on startup, however, it doesn't work. Here is what I have so far. edit:
my proxy password keeps changing! It makes no sense why, and I cannot figure it out. I enter my 5 digit proxy password, press ok and apply. Then when I go to chrome and try launch a website, I get an internet connection error. I go back to see my proxy setting, and boom it now becomes a 10 digit long asterix. Please help
I would like to configure my spare iPhone 4S running iOS 9.3.5, to display the local temperature on the lock screen in Fahrenheit. Is there an iOS configuration item to display temperature on the lockscreen?
The above works just fine if I take a picture using my iPhone 6S. The un-modified picture goes up to the cloud and the Photos App on the Mac pulls down the full-resolution picture from Photo Stream. If I subsequently connect the phone via USB, the photo in the Camera Roll is correctly classified as "Already Imported".
im trying to view (as root) wifi passwords in plaintext via Terminal[1] but get the following error: so i googled the error[2] but i didnt find the answer helpful. [1] How to access the Wi-Fi password through Terminal? [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8303755/keychain-security-command-line-tool-works-with-find-internet-passwords-but-not-f
I am looking for a way to add Mac text replacements (Keyboard -> Text) programmatically. I looked at applescript or directly editing plist files but not much luck. Is this possible on macOS?
I went out this weekend with my wifi working fine, but when I came home it said there was no internet connection on any network. Its obviously not my router because here I am on the same wifi typing this question. I have tried to reset the network on my phone and restarted it many times. another problem is that i cannot reset my router because it is one of the public wifi things you pay for so I do not have access to it. I have tried everything over and over with no luck. any ideas?
I'm trying to make a POST request with httpWebRequest on Https endpoint but this gives me exception like: System.Net.WebException "SecureChannelFailure (The authentication or decryption has failed.)" Xamarin Mac Project's target framework is : Mono/.Net 4.5 Mono Framework:4.8.1
i tried saving aliases (see below) for the root user in .bash_profile to /var/root/.bash_profile and restarting Terminal, but it didn't work. where does the .bash_profile file need to be to maintain persistent aliases in the terminal? my specifications:
I have very important data on my external hard drive (a Passport Ultra model). My external drive shows does not mount in Finder but shows up in Disk Utility. It can't be repaired, and it cannot read the boot block. Its format is exFAT. I've tried plugging it into different ports and computers, and have tried a different cable. What else can I try?
I've been using bitbucket for my project, we have settings for invalid commit ID for instance if there's no bug ID/or ticket (or invalid)ID present in the commit msg bitbucket won't let the pull request merge. I have been looking for a script for the terminal which can restrict commits which don't have ticket/bug ID or valid ID. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Is there some way on the mac to give the focus to a window without raising it to the front? This was/is a powerful feature of KDE on linux. With it I was able to bring a window to the front so I could see all its content, but was still able to type into a window which was partially obscured. This is especially nice for touch typists who don't need to look at the characters they are typing. It is also great when I have several large windows on the screen at once.
Has anyone found a way to download iTunes Purchase history into some type of csv or text format? The closest thing I could find was this StackExchange answer of a great applescript that could automate this task, but the script doesn't work with High Sierra and the newer versions of iTunes. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/229240/288140
I can create a clickable script, by changing the .sh extension to a .tool (or .command) one. However when I do this, the paths that I have in my script break. I am trying to run a dotnet core application and my shell script is simple: Where OUTPUT is the name of the folder with the dotnet release files in it. if the script is a .sh file, the script runs, but then the end user has to go to the terminal and type in ./runscript.sh or whatever I call it. The other thing I noticed was that it looks like the output of the app removes any spaces changing: dotnet ${PWD}/OUTPUT/Calculator.dll into: dotnet-${PWD}/OUTPUT/Calculator.dll How do I make it so that my paths in the script don't break when I change it into a .tool extension? UPDATE: As the answer suggested I have tried both: dotnet ~/OUTPUT/Calculator This results into: No executable found matching command "dotnet-/Users/jeff_mba/OUTPUT/Calculator" and: dotnet\ ~/OUTPUT/Calculator which results into: /Users/jeff_mba/Projects/calctest/ru
Probably the most represented password kinds in an iCloud keychain are application password and Web form password. Subsequent being the kind one can preview on iOS in Settings > Accounts & Passwords > App & Website Passwords. Despite the "App" in location's name, is Web form password the only kind viewable on mobile? If so, how do you change one kind to another?
I just want to unsync the folders from the cloud. It's very straightforward in Dropbox.
I'm new to macOS after a decade using of using Windows, and whenever I view shortcut keys anywhere in macOS I get confused. Is there a way to somehow replace these symbols across macOS, for example, by changing themes or system fonts, so that I might end up with something like below?
Web forms usually allow Safari to suggest and create a password that has a specific format. Can you generate one – not necessarily graphically (via Automator or Script Editor) – of the same format with Keychain Access too? Password format Password suggestion
I have simple dashboard visualization in d3 shown in Safari running on a MacMini on a big screen in fullscreen. *=URL=* After a while a grey line is shown in the top of the screen with a message that the page uses a lot of power.and if I close it could make the Mac faster. After a while a grey line is shown in the top of the screen with a message that the page uses a lot of power.and if I close it could make the Mac faster. When I close the alert, it shows up again. When I close the alert, it shows up again. Does anyone know where I can find the configuration option to remove it? (Safari version 11.1 on both systems)
My iPhone 6 fell down the toilet two days ago but now it works fine. It charges fine when I plug it in, but once I take it out, it shuts off, and tells me there is not enough battery, when it was at a 96 percent. When I plug it in again, it works perfectly and it is at the same percentage that I had left it at. What can I do?
Upon entering correct information into FaceTime on latest OS X, we receive "An error occurred during activation. Try again." Have already tried resetting power controller and memory, making sure date and time are set correctly, etc. Video here: https://vimeo.com/268399235
The below is my macOS version with basic capabilities :  While developing my apps, my Mac often shows great memory usage and swaps. These makes my Mac running and building apps slowly.
I have a Macbook Air (mid 2011) that had a RAM problem. Sometimes it turns on, and while still booting macOS it would crash and hang forever due to bad RAM. I want to sell the machine for parts, but I am worried about my data getting in bad hands. I have a backup of every data stored in it but the disk isn't encrypted and it didn't had a login password. I have it registered with iCloud but It seems that the remote wipe option wasn't set. I NEED a way to do a wipe of the contents stored on the SSD, is there a way I can do that without opening the machine?
I want to change the weight that I originally used to set up the Activity app, but I cannot see a way of editing the setup.
I am using MDM to configure e-mail accounts on iOS devices using Mail/Exchange ActiveSync payload. Is there a way to configure 3rd-party iOS apps like OneDrive and DropBox using MDM or Apple Configurator? I am aware that using MDM an iOS device can be configured to come pre-installed with 3rd-party apps, but is there a way where the apps themselves can be configured too, like logging into one with a specific account?
I have a server running that simply returns ics file on a get request. I emailed the link to myself, and clicked on this link in the apple mail. Apple Mail redirects me to safari, request to the ics service is made, and I'm promoted to add the event. However, clicking on that link in the apple mail second time, redirects me to safari but nothing happens. Also, if I open this link directly from iOS Safari it works every time without any problems. Any idea why this could be happening only from apple mail?
the en0 wireless interface doesnt seem to be available from the terminal. is it possible to connect to known and/or new wifi hotspots from the single-user mode console? my specifications:
On MacOS High Sierra (10.13.3), how do I lock my screen without locking my keychain? I run some long-running terminal scripts that make periodic use of the keychain, and would like the ability to lock my screen and walk away for lunch, without causing the terminal scripts to block for a password prompt.
When looking at photos on google images or on facebook, the photos flash like a screen shot. I just got a new phone and it is doing this. I had an old iphone and this happened too. I have no idea if its a virus but my phone is only 2 weeks old. Its very annoying. help.
question with two parts: Is there any card that has PCIe x4 with AHCI interface (to be bootable on MAC Pro) that takes two M.2 SSD cards? And if teher is does it matter if the SSDs (if the card allows) AHCI or NVMe as it will be in RAID and the RAID chipset will be AHCI?
I am using macOS High Sierra. I erased my 1 TB disk using disk utility to using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
How can I backup an email account keeping the email folder structure? I mean for instance: I want to backup all the emails older than 2 years however I want to keep the folder structure that I have on my email accounts... For instance, I have a folder for each client...
I just got a MacBook yesterday, but I haven't been able to upgrade it to High Sierra. I've tried upgrading from the App Store where I'm logged into my Apple ID, and from Recovery mode where I booted with option + command + r to get the latest High Sierra Recovery mode. The High Sierra installer error log below:
Our iMac randomly powers off while on standby. I put it to sleep, come back, and it is powered off. I need to reboot it, which is a long process.
downloaded high sierra from the app store, then tried creating a USB installer using Terminal but i get the following error: the high sierra directory is present, im able to press tab on my keyboard to auto-complete the paths. after googling the error, i found this reddit answer but im not sure what he's talking about or why it should be done, so i havent tried it. "Move the directory /macOS Install Data (which is downloaded after you run through the installation once) to be Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport" the USB im using is 64Gb and freshly formated using Disk Utilities.
I want to know how extract by terminal the Darwin version. *=URL=* For macOS Sierra 10.12.3 is 16.4.0 for 10.12.6 is 16.7.0. Now, I want to create: Is it possible obtain this complete value?
When I don't want something anymore and it says: "Moving to trash," is it actually moving the data, or just updating its path or giving a special "Trashed" label or something?
Last week, I found a deal on Cubevit Qi chargers on Amazon -- the price was fantastic and the reviews look good. However, I noticed that they are not certified by the Wireless Power Consortium like other Qi chargers from companies like Anker and RavPower are. Is it safe to use a non-certified Qi charger with an iPhone X?
My script is in ~/bin which is included in PATH. I have a folder, ~/jars for Java apps, each of which has its own folder. In that folder I have copied my project-> ... dist app.jar and my libs folder that has external jar libraries. The script has execute permissions. Here is the script:
I am trying to "blast" out the credentials for our next enterprise wireless SSID to all of our users using unix commands via Apple Remote Desktop. I did this flawlessly several years ago when I created the current netork/SSID. When the process gets to this command"networksetup -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex en0 [SSID] 0 WPA2 [Passphrase]", a popup reading, "network setup wants to use the 'login' keychain. Please enter the keychain password." I am running the command as root and the network is added no matter what, but how can I eliminate that popup from appearing so as to not get 200 support calls/tickets? Clients are 11" Airs running 10.10, 10.11, 10.12.
Similar to this issue, im still unable to upgrade to high sierra. any advice would be amazing right now since I'm getting a different error:
I have some raspberry pi computers on a private network which do not have real time clocks and thus cannot keep time accurately after they are shut off. Because they are disconnected from the internet, they cannot use ntp to update their clocks after they sync. However, I can connect my mac to the private network and ask the raspberry pi computers to get the the current time from the mac. When I try doing this, it does not work.
I’m trying to pull images off of my Camera Roll on my iPhone 6s with iOS 11.2 to my Mac locally and not using iCloud as I won’t sign up for that. I would like to use the Image Capture program or iPhoto, but I've also tried using the Dr Fone programs too and all of them say that my iPhone has a password lock on it and they can’t access my iPhone when it's connected via USB cable. However, I have no password active on it. The only thing that I can think of is that when I first bought the iPhone it asked me for a Passcode during the first initial set up and for some reason this main Passcode is preventing me from accessing the photos through my Mac.
I have several files in my local Dropbox directory which Finder shows with the blue "in progress" indicator, some have been there for days. How can I force Dropbox to Sync the unsynced files?
I sent a text message from my iPhone 7 Plus this morning and in the green bubble it only shows a portion of the message and then has a forward arrow (>). If I click on the message, it takes me to a white screen with the full message.
This question has been asked of European adapters, however, I am traveling to some other countries such as India, Thailand, and Indonesia. I wonder if it is safe to charge my MacBook Pro and iPhone 8 simply using an adapter in those countries.
I'm on Mac and have just created an environment variable inside the .bash_profile directory, it works fine when I run: I just want the know why the dollar sign is there and if it is possible to remove it. Any help would be appreciated :)
I have a question about using iSCSI mounts in macOS (High Sierra). What is the preferred way to mount iSCSI targets in macOS? Also, is it possible to do so from Recovery Mode? Any advice would be appreciated.
I've got a Macbook Pro Late 2012 with a Samsung EVO 750 and 16 gb of ram. I've worked with it for a year with no issues. Two weeks ago, it suddendly got really really slow (APFS on High Sierra). I couldn't even open the Apple Logo menu in order to shut it down or maybe logoff. It took like 2/3 minutes or more to open a Finder window. After some reboots the Dock couldn't even load the App Icons, question marks everywhere. So I decided to create a bootable High Sierra USB drive, backup my data first (with Paragon APFS for Windows) and then reinstall the system on the disk. Here come the troubles. It looks like once I booted the USB drive, the Macbook saves a flag in its cache, so that the second time I reboot the laptop and open up the Startup Menu there are no USB disks despite the fact they're plugged in. After waiting like 24 hours the "cache flag" looks like disappearing, so the Laptop sees the usb thumb again. After some tries I succeded in installing MacOS Sierra, but after some re
I've installed an updated version of python 2.7, which comes with the IDLE development environment. High Sierra is giving me warnings that it needs to be updated (which I took to mean that it's 32-bit, but it's not.) I can't remember the exact warning, but it's the 'this app is not optimized for MacOS, consult the developer' thing.
For above MacBook models, the two batteries are uncompatile. In this thread, Jozef Vaclavik explains that the order of pins is different, although the connector is same. With proper equipment and knowledge, the pins could be inverted.
I have been using Cisco Meraki for mdm and its has been working fine. I have observed today that it is asking for a shared mailboxes password after an ios gets updated. Can you guys help me out? Thanks
Do Mac mini come with a unique serial number? How do I find it? It is a model without optical drive.
I have found the ribbon/menu option where you can work with your header and footer but according to Google there should be a "None" option you should use if you don't want any header or footer at all - and I can't find this option. This is how it looks when I click the Header button in Header and Footer ribbon:
The issue of digital privacy is becoming more prevalent in the minds of many smartphone and social media users, especially after controversies such as the recent Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. To their credit, Google and Facebook each offer a service allowing their users to download all the information they hold about them.
I own a MacBook Pro from 2012 that pops a gray scren everytime I try to boot. When I try to boot from my original disk, the screen is gray with a question mark folder. I tried Internet recovery and it seems to work out. When the loading bar is full, a screen with Apple logo appears for like 10 seconds, and then a blank grey screen, nothing happens even if I wait for a while. I then tried to boot on Linux mint with a live key to test the hardware, it fails to install, and the screen remains blank for a while as well, same for any other Linux distribution.
I have two Samsung monitors with HDMI input. Is it possible to connect them simultaneously to my Mac mini using HDMI? I wish to have a extended desktop setup.
I have one HD, after some issues I reinstalled macOS, now I'm getting this, Can I format/delete them?
I was making some changes recently, trying to rename my user account in macOS High Sierra System Preferences, and it seems I've locked myself out from making any changes to Users & Groups now. When I click the lock icon (Click the lock to make changes), I am prompted for a User Name and Password. No matter what I input in these fields I am unable to unlock the preferences. I am sure I know my User Name, otherwise I wouldn't be able to log into the computer, and there is only 1 user on my Mac. I've also tried with: So it seems the name change is causing a mismatch between what's in the sudoers file, so I basically have no user with admin access right now. Does anyone know how I can reset these, even from the command line?
I am using Pages 7.0.1. and trying to find out if it would be suitable for writing complex technical documents, full of tables, diagrams, footnotes, etc. Inserting tables is easy. Each table can also have a name that could be used as a 'caption'. Is it possible, however, to add references to these tables in the text of a document (something like, "... as shown in Table 3 above ...", where "Table 3" is a reference to a table included in the document - with associated hyperlink, if possible). Inserting such references is also needed for other elements of a Pages document, such as diagrams, footnotes (a single footnote may need to be referenced, or 'pointed to', from several places in the text), bibliography, etc. Is there a way of achieving all of the above in Pages?
I have an iPhone running iOS 11.1.2. How do I remove the URL in my screen at the top of Safari so that I can type in a new search?
Is it possible to use MacBook Air as a display by connecting the peripheral via Thunderbolt 2 port ? I can get an adaptor if required. I would like to use my MacBook air as a display for Play Station 4.
I'm using Packages to deploy an App but when I add a postscript that I need to run the installation always fails due to the postscript. Do we need to write post-scripts differently? Below is what I have The .pkg copies an app MyApp.app to the /Applications folder the runs: I have also tried
For years, a typical TM backup for me is around 200MB. For the last week or two, it's grown to about 1.2GB even if I haven't been using the machine. I finally dug into why using tmutil compare and there is a file /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/0/com.apple.LaunchServices-221-v2.csstore that is 870MB. This file is modified before every TM backup and thus it is backed up every time. There is another file in that directory named com.apple.LaunchServices-175-v2.csstore that is 5 months old and only 27MB (if this is a useful data point).
I am having an issue with Google Photos backup Sync on my Macbook Pro (MBP) — it does not detect changes to a photo (such as after an edit). Following is my typical photos usage pattern. Capture image using my DSLR
This has to be simple: I want to use AppleScript to add a new row at the top of a Numbers sheet called WorkoutSheet in a table called WorkoutDB in a Numbers document call Workout.numbers. (Using Numbers 5.01 on macOS Sierra). This AppleScript throws the error "Can’t get sheet "WorkoutSheet". Edit: this works; the key was the use of of `document 1' in the tell block: And the delay 2 doesn't make a difference; Applescript waits for Numbers to launch and the document to open. I also added the tell block to add the current date to the first colun of the new row.
I’m getting telemarketing spam with the same caller ID name, but different numbers, including prefixes. Is there a way to block these?
Hello apple stackexchangers, i evenly splitted the pcie ssd of this MacBookPro11,4 back in 2016 with two evenly encrypted HFS+ partitions of 128 GB each. Back then with El Capitan. One for the startvolume: 'Macintosh HD', the other one is called 'Workspace'.
If I run my Java apps with java -jar from the terminal they work. From the terminal, I see this:
The mouse has two scroll wheel options. One is incremental, which seems to work fine. This is where the mouse wheel clicks slightly as it's turned. The second mode is more of a fluid scroll, which can be enabled by pressing the mouse wheel down. When I'm in the fluid scroll mode, many apps misbehave. For example, when I view Google Maps the map starts zooming in and out randomly, and random uninitiated scrolling happens in other apps as well, like Acrobat. Using Mac High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E202) Update: It seems that the problem goes away when I disable smooth scrolling, but this really limits the functionality of the mouse.
I want to invite someone as team member to the iOS developer program. Is it possible to restrict his rights to only one app? He should be able to create/edit/delete certificates for app 1A but not for app 2B.
I have 1500 books, which are PDF and DRM-Free, organized in collections, and need to transfer them to a PC with the same organization. Is possible to export iBook collections from an iPad to PC?
com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[5252]: objc[5252]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff88e02b68) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x10a793cd8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService[5252]: assertion failed: 17C88: libxpc.dylib + 72637 [F7E5F1BC-614B-39CB-B6CE-92A9C7B7EC0B]: 0x89 I've found a few Github issues which reference that specific error, none of which had a solution. Any ideas?
I generated a PDF by running pdfTeX on the following source file: In Adobe Reader, it renders like this:
I own AirPods and connect to by my iMac (for video conference) and iPhone (for phone calls). How do I get the AirPods to switch to the device that I want to use?
I tried renaming my root user account and for a second after saving it looked like it had no name whatsoever. That was the last time I could use the "lock" icon under Users & Groups. I followed some instructions by rebooting in CMD+S mode and basically using passwd command to reset it which allowed me to log in but I'm still powerless to use anything that requires admin privileges. For instance, the "put in your root password" dialogue box is no longer pre-filled with my account name and no variation of the name seems to work. Using sudo in the terminal results in: What do I do to restore things to the way they were before?
Has Apple ever rolled out MacBooks with FileVault enabled by default? If yes, which version(s)? If no, is there a reason why they wouldn't?
I think there is some funny business going on with one of the devices in my house. I'm not sure if the person is changing into between iCloud Accounts on the same device, or switching Sims or using multiple Sims on an iPhone 7 or not? It just seems strange and I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.
Do to corruption problems with Time Machine on my Drobo NAS, I have decided to have two shares housing the TM backups so that they back up in a rotation. I have already completed the initial backup to TM_A, but it takes over a day. To save time, I want to duplicate TM_A to TM_B. I want to use the Drobo to handle the copy it's self and avoid the slow down of using the wifi network to send data from the Drobo to my Mac and then back to the same Drobo.
I can imagine a few reasons why some songs become greyed out and not available for listen/donwload: for instance song removed by owner from apple music, or it was probably rearranged to another album. While my sense of fairness revolts when it happens to my beloved songs, I'm pretty sure apple has it explained somewhere deep in their user agreement. But what logic is behind the situation when song keeps getting greyed short time after I added it to my library, while it hasn't been removed, rearranged and I can totally add it one more time, just to find it greyed out again after a while?
For Example, a picture I uploaded from my PC, which is located in Europe, is grouped under a European location on iCloud.com. However, the EXIF metadate indicates (correctly), that this picture was taken in North America.
When I search from the finder spotlight is working as expected. When pressing cmd+space and entering the same query I only get results from Safari's history. Edit
I'm trying to create a reverse shell listener using High Sierra but nothing seems to work. The bash command kinda just hangs in the terminal and times out. The python command errors with "Connection refused" when using python or python v2.7. the netcat command errors with "nc: invalid option -e" I've tried other solutions I've found online but you get the idea... Is it possible to create a reverse shell (preferably with access to bash) using High Sierra? specifications:
I followed the instructions here: *=URL=* How to take a screenshot of a window Press Shift-Command-4. The pointer changes to a crosshair. Press the Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera. Move the camera over a window to highlight it. Click your mouse or trackpad. To cancel, press the Esc (Escape) key before you click. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop. But afterwards, I get a blank image (transparent everywhere).
The code for pagination in the footer is: ‹#› Is there a similar code for the total number of slides in the file? The goal is to have the footer include the number of slides in the deck: i.e. 5 of 9 or 5/9 I have a deck of 11 slides and tried to 'hard-code' the '11' in the footer of the 'slide master':
I am running iOS 10. So when I receive calls with my headphones plugged in I get a ringer. But when I get a text message with my headphones plugged in I get nothing. Both "Do Not Disturb" & "Silented" from the orange side knob are disabled. How can I make the text messages make a audible room noise even with headphones plugged in? I am the latest supported version on my iPhone 5.
A few days ago, I was trying to play a .mkv video that was giving me a hard time. VLC wasn't agreeing with it for some reason, so I ended up shifting my efforts to a slick media player I found on GitHub (IINA), but the video still wasn't wanting to open. After troubleshooting and looking trough some forums, I found a potential resolution I wanted take a shot at. I ended up changing the default application within the 'get info' window; selecting the 'change all..' option so that all .mkv files would open with IINA. This solved the issue I was having with the .mkv, which was great, but I'm starting to think this may not have been the best idea. I was looking through ~/Library/ earlier today, and I noticed that several .dat files have appeared as filetype 'IINA document'.
I just had something really concerning happen to my iPhone 6s (iOS 11.3.1, I update my apps everyday, not jailbroken). I was on the YouTube app when the screen completely froze and the screen’s colors looked slightly off (specs of red and green, etc. Could still see the video, but it stopped playing). My phone almost never freezes, and in particular it’s never had the screen issues I've just described.
When I have the monitors connected, the CPU load is very high with fans running at 5500-6000 RPM and a processor temperature of 54°C. This does not seem healthy to me. It's kernel_task which is using absurd amounts of CPU (sometimes spikes up to 600%) Things I've tried so far Before I used to have a high CPU load as well (with the additional monitors connected), but that got resolved after following the instructions in this article, CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor, kernel_task spikes to 600%+. Before I used to have a high CPU load as well (with the additional monitors connected), but that got resolved after following the instructions in this article, CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor, kernel_task spikes to 600%+. Disabling X86PlatformShim.kext Disabling X86PlatformShim.kext Resetting the SMC. Resetting the SMC.
Last evening I tried to add a system macroscript (Switch Control) recipe. After that my iPhone wasn't responding to any of touch moves. I managed to unlock it with Touch ID but I failed a couple of times and now it requires a password. I tried this: Subtle click the volume UP button. Subtle click the volume DOWN button. Hold the startup button until you see apple logo.
I restored my iPhone from back up as I accidentally deleted some messages that I needed. But, I have lost all my photos as they were not selected to be included in back up and iPhone photo library wasn’t enabled. Is there any way I can get them back? I haven’t synced to iTunes for a long while.
I wish for my pupil to be able to login using VoiceOver. There are three user accounts and VoiceOver doesn't read them. We have used System Preferences to use VoiceOver at login and changed to username / password for input. We can't tab between the two and can't hear VoiceOver for caps lock.
I once needed an app which was only available in the US App Store, so I installed it using my US Apple ID. Now, months later when I want to update apps, many of them require the US Apple ID but even though that was NOT the Apple ID they were "purchased" with (most of these apps are free). I am 100% certain these apps were not downloaded with the US account. My question: How can iOS switch the ID used to purchase apps even though they were not downloaded with that particular account? It's important to mention that as soon as I installed the US app I switched back to my normal Apple ID (and therefore the other store not being the US one).
So I have MacBook Pro 13" 2015 and when I connect the MagSafe power connector to it, it seems like it’s more difficult to charge. So I check the MagSafe port and want to clean it I think.
Our community group has just had three Apple Macs donated to us. Two are laptops with macOS Sierra installed and one is an iMac with macOS High Sierra installed.
For some time now, I have been looking for a macOS tool that allows me to group apps similar to the upcoming Sets feature in Windows 10. So far, my search has been fruitless and I have been considering diving into app development for macOS to see if I can build it myself, but I strongly suspect that Apple does not support 'wrapping' applications like this. Does anyone know of anything similar?
I seem to remember a Lightning port being on a Macbook (probably the 12-inch ones) but cannot find mention of it anywhere. I "remember" a YouTube video (not from who though) that mentioned the lightning port, but people were irritated that it was only able to charge it, not do anything else. Am I just remembering stupid, never-true stuff, or was this real?
Can I use software from my computer to operate an iPad with a broken touch screen?
I am trying to record a video of my iOS game, using Quicktime Player, running the iPhone8Plus Simulator in a portrait mode which is supposed to produce a 1080px1920 video. However, the resolution I got is 750x1334 in iMovie after trying to share it as an App Preview. Please, advise me on what I should do to get the required resolution. Thank you
I am trying to assign apps purchased via Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP) to both supervised and un-supervised devices via MDM. I get the alert "Allow app and Book Assignment", after which it takes me to App Store to accept the "Terms and Conditions". After accepting the terms and conditions, nothing happens.
I have a 2TB External HD that I had split it into 4 parts: a 500GB TimeMachine backup, a 500GB Password-locked partition for work data, what became an 883GB partition for personal info and media, and a 116GB partition (Ex-Fat formatting I believe) that I used to store files I needed access to on a Windows machine. I decided I wanted to collapse the windows partition into the personal info one, but when I deleted it in diskUtility with the '-' button, instead of adding the space to any of the existing partitions, it just deleted the partition. diskutil list returns the following: There's about 116GB unassigned in /dev/disk2 that I want to add to /dev/disk4 I've tried a very solutions including but that returns the following error: unable to get disk for physical volume Any thoughts on how to get the space back?
I continue to get the following error when trying to curl an *=URL=* endpoint: I've tried manually installing with --with-darwinssl:
I am using chunkwm for managing windows. How can I start/stop it with a hot key? Currently, I start it in a terminal window. To close chunkwm, I "Ctr-C" in the terminal. I would really like to have a hotkey to toggle between chunkwm on and off.
So far, I've tried setting the icon through the default application, which is the only solution I could find so far aside from changing the icon on a file by file basis, with no luck. I attempted this by changing the CFBundleTypeIconFile for the python entry in the Sublime Text Info.plist file from PYTHON to Sublime Text. Upon reboot, the icon had not changed and sublime could no longer launch due to verification issues I think. Changed that back and tried simply replacing the PYTHON.icns file in the Sublime Text Resources folder with a copy of the Sublime Text.icns. Rebooted and no change had taken place.
Model: MacBook Pro (13", Early 2015, 3.1 GHz) OS: High Sierra (10.13.4) Printer: Canon MF4890dw
I've a MacBook w/ the following specs:  Very annoyingly, CommandControlQ locks the screen. I can't even remap it to anything else; trying to do so in Keyboard locks the screen instead of registering the key combination. Is there a way to get rid of this shortcut?
I'm developing a website for a client, but some space of the server we will be used to transfer large files of softwares like Maya Autodesk (my client working with 3D modeling). I'm trying to configure the filezilla on MacOS of my client which did not work correctly. It is possible to upload files, but I can not download anything from server. I checked if it was the firewall that was blocking Filezilla, but it wasn't. The error message that appears is below: Thanks guys
Siri does not voice activate on my iPhone 6. When summoned by the home button & asked to make a call, it repeatedly plays a song from the play list. For example, when I say "Hey Siri, call my mother" I get a response like, "I do not know who My mother is".
Recently when I'm playing Pokemon Go I get a message saying I don't have a GPS signal. Some people told me it could happen because the battery is pushing on the GPS component in the iPhone 6 model.
I have MBP with masOS Sierra. I’ve configured Apache server and mysql. I’m not using xampp or some other tool. I want to access my localhost on my iPhone. I’ve tried many different ways mostly describing getting local ip of my MBP and using it in iPhone browser but nothing is working for me. Any help? Thanks
I have a 27" iMac Retina (Late 2015, 3.2GHz i5, 24GB, Radeon R9) with HDMI secondary screen on a Thunderbolt/HDMI adapter. I use Mission Control to put 4 workspaces on the main monitor, and switch back and forth using control-arrow keystrokes. This still works, but screen hot corners to view Mission Control, Desktop, etc. do not work any more. Also, I use auto-hide for the task bar, and moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen no longer pulls up the task bar -- as of today, I have to click at the bottom.
I recently just changed my Apple ID account and I want to change my iCloud account to the same email. I'm thinking of changing it. But, the only problem I have, is whether or not my app and everything on my phone will be deleted and erased when I change my iCloud account. If I change my iCloud account will all of my apps and photos be erased?
How can I change the hotspot name without changing the iPhone name (the name indicated in Settings > General > About)?
I am a MathType (6.7) user on a Mac using MS Word (14.7.2) in Office 2011. I recently upgraded macOS to High Sierra 10.13.4, causing an unresolved problem with MathType. Namely, when an equation is edited or a new equation is created everything looks fine on the screen, but when I print that equation I get a very low quality result that is unacceptable for publication. However, previously created equations continue to print fine. I tried upgrading MathType from 6.7e to latest 6.7h, but this had no impact on the problem. Does anyone have any ideas on the cause and solution to this problem? Also, is there any update past Nov 2017 on a new version of MathType for Mac Office 2016?
Today I finished an audiobook; deleted the book from the iphone (i.e., did not do anything in iTunes) used iTunes (PC) to transfer a new book to the iphone.
I have about 3K .pdf documents named to the following filename convention: BER_0020236-BER_0020293.pdf the next file in the sequence could be something like BER_4039464-BER_9384762.pdf (the numbers are nonsequential). What I need to do is preserve the first part of the filename BER_0020236, while removing the rest and preserving extension .pdf.
My wifi drops out multiple times per hour. It says it is connected but it goes to 1kb/s up and down and nothing works until I turn wifi off, then back on. Then it will work until it doesn't. I want to log the speed and strength so I can diagnos and maybe use to convince my ISP that they have an issue (they provide the connection and the wireless router).
I've been having a problem where my macbook won't reconnect to the internet after I turn off my work VPN. A simple reboot fixes this, but I was wondering if there was a way I could restart the network configs, or clear cache (not sure exactly what the problem is) from the command line - without having to do a reboot? I've tried the following, without success Is there a way to reset the network config to whatever the default values are after a reboot? Edit: This doesn't happen every time, I'm not exactly sure what chain of events triggers it.
I am not able to see Accept/Decline option for the calendar meetings in Calendar app in my iPhone. How to do i Accept/Decline meetings in calendar app in my iPhone?
Is there a way to prevent iPad from going into Sleep mode when not in horizontal mode?
My machine is a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) with AFPS formatted Kingston 480Gb SSD. Running the latest OS X High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E202) For a while, the machine was running OK but I had a few times where it crashed resulting in the following symptoms: All I could see was my desktop pictures; no dock, couldn't force quit/restart the Finder.
When I try to mount a disk using sshfs on my Mac High Sierra v10.13 I get the pop-up message: System Extension Blocked
I have a new keyboard connected to my macbook (high sierra) that I'm currently adjusting, and I would prefer if the first key to the right of the spacebar was an option key and the next a right ctrl key. I know that the modifier keys can be changed in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier keys, but that does not let you change the left and right sides independently: the two keys closest to the spacebar stay the same kind no matter which kind you choose, and I want the first key to the left of the spacebar to remain a command key. I have used Ukelele before to modify the layout of the rest of the keyboard, but as far as I know, you can't change the modifier keys with it.
Does Filevault2 need to be disabled (decrypting the disk), then the master keychain deployed, then Filevault2 re-enabled (encrypting the disk)? This would take more time than is available to me, but I understand if that's the only option for deploying it. Thank you.
Each morning when I connect my Macbook Pro (late 2016 model) to an LG Ultrafine 5K display, the Macbook Pro display will dim to around 85%, and I have to manually turn it up. Why is this happening and can I prevent it?
I have an old Mac Pro I decided to upgrade. I found a company on eBay selling "16GB 4X4GB DDR2 MEMORY RAM PC2-5300F 667MHz ECC FB-DIMM" for a good price so I bought two units (32GB total). (Kingston PN# F51272F51) I installed the memory and all 32GB of the RAM is showing in System Report, but it does not show as ECC. Here's about the Mac itself:
I'm having a very odd problem where the keys F, V and ⌫ (backspace) stop working for no apparent reason! Then the problem seems to fix itself some time later, to reappear afterwards.
I installed octave using homebrew. When I call I get error: octave: GUI features missing or disabled in this build Q: How to make it work in GUI mode? I also tried like it was suggested in this post, but it didn't help. Here is some debug information:
I have a serious problem with my Macbook pro retina 13" early 2015. Some days ago, after a normal shutdown, the Macbook did not startup anymore. It emitted the short start sound and it went back to off state again. Yesterday, I realized the macbook is able to startup correctly only if the power button is held down for a long time (until the apple's logo appears). Nevertheless, the boot up takes long time and the system is extremely slow. From the activity monitor, I see that "kernel_task" (PID 0) is wasting lot of cpu. Actually, the system is not overloaded since the battery lasts for many hours and the case is not heated. I tried to update macOS to High Sierra but an error occurred while verifying firmware.
HomePod does not respond to my Siri commands anymore. I have tried to reset HomePod.
I have an external HDD (USB) with a non-encrypted Time Machine backup. I suspect that the HDD was mounted on a different Mac in a precise date and time. Q: Is it possible to get a log out of the HDD, with date and time of mounted/unmounted info?
I have an iPhone 7. Using the compass app, no matter where I walk on my property, the N and W coordinates are always the same. Shouldn't these change as I move from one side of the property to the other (a square acre)?
I'm unable to get the range of a document if said document contains a link. I can get the range of a text object in a Word doc when it does not have a link, but if the Word doc has a link, the range I get is incorrect to add text after the link. It seems that I need to use another method to get the range (of something other than a text object?), but I don't know what that is. Hours of searching online and diving into the dictionary have only gotten me to the following. (Despite of the length of the code below, the question that interests me only concerns the last part, how to create a range that also captures the link, so as to be able to add more text correctly.) Here's the code that is giving me trouble, if you run it with any file used as a link in FilePath, it will add the link to a word document but will not add the end marker "End of Email":
My middle mouse button is set to create mouse gestures. I've spent several hours on different occasions trying to understand which app I installed to set up the gestures but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
I keep finding pages of white blanks in my iPhone they look like movie files but there are hundreds of them. They are not shot by myself. About 1350 have appeared today.
Macbook 13 Pro. Two USB-C ports only one used for charging one used to connect to a monitor I need another one for a USB-C to ethernet adapter
I have an Automator service that accepts multiple pdf files, converts them to pngs while converting a white background to transparent, and then uses a Quartz filter to invert the color of the png file. To test the workflow, I added the Get Selected Finder Items action to pass the pdfs to the service. Everything works exactly as expected in this case.
ever since updating my mac to high sierra my kernel_task has been using way too much RAM up to 1gb (i have 4 gb of RAM). Any solutions on how to resolve this?
My school has iPads for use for students. Currently, each student has their own iPad, with their own password, and own files on it.
I have a 2009 MacBook Air with Mavericks. (It’s old, but low miles.) I was about to pull the trigger on buying a SSD to improve performance, but I just now learned that I won’t be able to upgrade to Sierra (?). Only 2010 and later models for MacBook Air are supported according to apple.com. https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/
I have an application that complains about the permissions of its directory inside of /Applications. It wants to be set to 040775. I can fix it by running chmod 040775, but I do not understand what the first 2 digits mean. Just running chmod 775 does not work, so apparently these first 2 digits are wrong. What are these 2 digits, and how can I view them in macOS? I'm looking for something like ls -l. I'm running High Sierra.
I have an individual apple developer account. I bought it mainly so I could use a few of the advanced APIs (e.g. NetworkExtensions) in an app that I’m testing/developing. There’s another programmer with whom I collaborate. I want him to also have access to the app so I assigned him the “App Manager” role in iTunes Connect. However, I’m unsure about what he has to do afterwards so that he can work on the same app as me. Can he directly fork the project and access the APIs? Does he need certificates?
The Apple logo on my MacBook was never ever lighted up since I purchased it over a year ago. I was under the impression that some models are made this way, but on checking out how to turn it on, I'm learning that perhaps all models come with the lighted function and the common challenge lies in turning the light off. How could this be? I had placed a white Apple sticker that came with it on the cover, but now I'm feeling that I might have gotten a defective unit....what do you think?
How can I hack the Bootcamp plist (or other) so it will allow me to select and install a Windows 7 ISO. Currently it's minimum Win OS is set at Windows 8 + but my DVDs, licence and backups are essentially all Win 7. El Capitan 10.11.6 Thanks
I created a script to return some credit card informations from an internal website I have two issue with my script, I can't get rid of the first link with is not a CC numbers tried : set myRawData to items 2 thru -1 of myRawData as string but don't seems to work. I can't get rid of the first link with is not a CC numbers tried : set myRawData to items 2 thru -1 of myRawData as string but don't seems to work. I don't manage to remove all the missing values. I don't manage to remove all the missing values. Can I remove some entry from the list that contain "none" ? Can I remove some entry from the list that contain "none" ? Here is my full script
When it comes to Spotlight, I'm trying to get it to reindex. However, it gives me this: The output is the same when running sudo mdutil -E /.
I'm running on a late-2016 MacBook Pro with macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra. I recently created and installed a Bootcamp partition. Since installing Windows, both Disk Utility and the Startup Disk pane in System Preferences never load anything or do not believe in the existence of any discs at all, respectively. Disk Utility simply does this:
I have gone to Device Manager to check whether the keyboard, mouse, etc. are all set to wake the computer from sleep. They are. Is there any way to resolve this?
I have an iPhone 6 which is completely dead (black screen whatever I try). It had behaved erratically for some time; unfortunately it died before I could wipe it clean and restore it to factory settings, meaning there could still be a lot of sensitive data on it. What's the recommended way of destroying any data that could be on it (or making it prohibitively expensive to recover it), so that I can dispose of the iPhone safely and in an environmentally friendly way?
I'd like to find the PDF files whose name (excluding the extension) is greater than three. when test with How can I enable the {3,} variant?
I have a set of Sony MDR-1000 Bluetooth headphones. When I power them on, they auto-connecting to my MacBook, but don't show up in the Output devices. I have to manually disconnect them and connect again. Here is the gif of this process: *=URL=* Would you please tell me why is this happening and how to fix this?
There is a setting under Security & Privacy -> Advanced, to "Log out after X minutes of inactivity". However, this is a system wide setting. I just want to have my kids account log out after a period of inactivity, but leave my account logged in. Is that possible?
I have configured Terminal like this, but I can't find a similar setting in TextEdit:  Is it possible to disable text antialiasing in TextEdit the same way as in the Terminal?
How do I get this to work? I do not have Apple Music nor iTunes Match subscription and I don't think I need one for this.
My dinosaur macbook randomly shuts down. I've reset the SMC and it still shuts down. Even the computer doesnt know its coming because you can hear the arm inside the hard drive clunk as it shuts down. If you leave it sit it will last longer on the next startup. Sometimes it wont even make it to the startup chime.
I am not a pro-Mac user (I am a Windows user) Here's what I did with my old Macbook Air, Press COMMAND + R while booting and it went into the mode shown in the picture Selected Macintosh HD to (hopefully) install Mac OS X again Entered Apple ID credentials However, upon logging in, a message box shows saying that the Apple ID has not been used with App Store then the install won't proceed. What can be done to format the Macbook Air into factory settings.
I've tried twice from scratch to set up an IMAP account for Startmail on my ipad and the steps appear to be simple however when I try to use it I'm told that either my userid or password is incorrect on my imap connection. I've verifed these and they are correct. I'm familiar with setting up an IMAP client to Startmail because I've done it on other hardware. Any suggestions would be welcome.
How do I purchase and send an iTunes gift card to someone in a different country by e-mail?
So I recently bought an early 2009 macbook (A1181),everything works besides the battery, and facetime. The issue is facetime won't let me sign in with my account. It says, "This apple id cannot sign in to facetime on this mac at this time". My school account works just fine, but my other 2 accounts (one is an icloud apple id, the other is an outlook apple id) won't. It will let me sign in to everything but facetime. Even messages work. How can I fix this? (I recently upgraded to El Capitan, so that is probably part of it)
I'm running 10.13.4. I tried to install the "Security Update 2018-001" via the Mac App Store. It downloaded as normal and then attempted to restart to finish installing the update. Before restarting, my Mac became stuck on a black screen with a movable cursor but nothing else.
This nagging background task comes on every midnight and prevents the mac from sleeping after morning wake. I found this out by doing: pmset -g assertions I get: pid 380(UserEventAgent): [0x00008557000b902a] 00:19:24 BackgroundTask named:"com.apple.KeyboardServices.TextReplacementCKSyncTask" Created for PID: 582.
I'm on High Sierra on MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM with SSD. Got 15G of swap files, is there any method of freeing swap space/files without restart? I'd like to somehow drop these files without disabling dynamic_pager. I've tried to: run sudo purge (force disk cache to be purged); quit all apps which I'm not using; trick the system by creating dummy swap files before they're created: cd /var/vm sudo touch swapfile{0..20} 2>/dev/null; sudo chmod 000 swapfile{0..20} 2>/dev/null but it didn't work, as the system still creates/changes files despite of 000 permissions, weird. trick the system by creating dummy swap files before they're created: but it didn't work, as the system still creates/changes files despite of 000 permissions, weird. For some reason, htop shows virtual memory as 532G, but I believe it's a bug, as top is showing less used.
Is it possible to upgrade Mac Pro 2.1 to 5.1 firmware? Does it also make sense -- is the hardware different? Has it been done before?
I want to know if someone in my family share group still has an app downloaded on their phone. Is there a way to tell if they have deleted the app from their device? I know all about hiding apps and how they cannot be deleted and all that. I get all that.
Is there a way to disable (or significantly lengthen the time required for) key repeat for a specific key in macOS? I know that from System Preferences, Keyboard, it is possible to change settings for key repeat in general, uniformly across all keys. But I only want to disable it for spacebar (alternatively, I'd be happy disabling it for everything else but enabling it for arrow keys and delete, I suppose).
Is there a way to rebalance panes in iTerm so that they are all arranged evenly? I'm trying to write an AppleScript that can ssh into X number of hosts in different panes. Writing the script is pretty difficult unless iterm has this ability. Then I can just loop through each host and do The above logic is what my tmux script does, but I much rather have iTerm panes over tmux.
I know that many other people have already posted similar problems, but I have tried all their fixes and still none of them have worked. Earlier, I had a "No Bootable Device" error, and I followed the instructions provided in order to fix that. That then created a "No Operating System" error, which I also tried to fix with the known method. That didn't work either. Is there anything else I can do? System Information: Bootcamp is using a BIOS Method 2012 MacBook Pro High Sierra 10.13.4
I'm trying to open a PDF using Preview where the input file is a shell var: etc etc etc I always get the same error: -bash: /usr/bin/open: Argument list too long Is it possible to do this? example PDF for anyone who wants to try: https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/english/44592-linux-restricted-shell-bypass-guide.pdf
I can use the Google Assistant app to make a web hook call to IFTTT. It’s just a simple URL. This calls IFTTT with the hashcode at the end to authenticate. This then runs a recipe which tells my pinhole ad-blocker to shut off for 2 minutes. I’d like to say, Siri, shut your pie hole which calls that URL.
I have set my desktop background image to automatically change every 30 minutes. Most of the time, I have at least 3 Desktops/Spaces open on my MacBook; so sometimes I see the same image on 2 different Spaces. Apart from increasing the number of images (which may decrease the likeliness of occurrence), what can I do to prevent the same image from being set as background on more than one Space?
I don't manage to execute javascript in Safari anymore I have this working script for chrome set caseID to "11111" end tell I converted to Safari here : The result do return on AppleScript but Safari actually take no action Result: "11111" Basically the script is suppose to click on a button to have a pop windows and fill up the text what m'I doing wrong? My system : OSX 10.13.2 (17C202) Safari Version 11.0.2 (13604.4.7.1.5)
How can we add multiple line text in Chrome using document.getElementsByClassName? I have no issue when it's one line but one I have more than one I have a missing value instead Result: missing value
I'm using an Iphone SE to create a personal hotspot from my (unlimited) mobile data. The issue occurs when connecting to this hotspot with my macbook air running High Sierra 10.13.4 When I connect to the hotspot, it works very well on my own user account either by wifi or through usb.
After I put my MacBook to sleep, like I always do; the following day, I open the lid and it’s off for some reason. I turn it on and it powers up. I select my user account and enter the password. It loads and then freezes/hangs about half way through. It then reboots and loads some weird screen saying and macOS installation failed either restart, shut down, show log/save log.
After updating to High Sierra (10.13.4) the preview of jpg files in the finder are broken. It would appear that it is only the case with jpg's created by Adobe Illustrator (CC 2018).
When I looked in the purchased section in the Mac App Store the app was not there. Am I doing something wrong or do app have to be purchased on both iOS App Store and Mac App Store?
So, I have one new SSD and old 1TB drive inside my laptop. disk2 is the problem SSD. The partition itself: Doesn't appears in a APFS list: fsck output: And gpt output: Trying to mount: Trying to verify: Trying to unlock: What else can I do?
I have been using Time Machine on 10.9.5 for a long time now, and it was working flawlessly until today. This morning a friend of mine tried to access a freshly set up NFS share of my Music folder, but couldn't read any files due to their permissions. So I went ahead and ran chmod -R 755 ./* on the whole Music folder, which is roughly 600 GB in size. And so, now it wouldn't backup at all, telling me this:
I'm trying to remove line and replace them by "\n" (to them add the final text in javascript with actual line) I can manage to remove the line but I can't replace them with the text "\n", how can I proceed ?
I have turned off automatic download of app updates. I open the App Store and press Update All. I realize it's going to take too long or I am on the wrong data connection. I just want to stop the update all command. For now, I don’t see any way to do so. I tried turning off Wi-Fi and data. That stops the download, but leaves all queued apps for the update in an unavailable state. Is there a way to stop all or is it just racing and press stop on each queued app for update?
The drive has verified ok, disk repair sees no issue. I did a search in the Finder as advised. FOLDERS + CONTENTS <1 and it returned all my empty folders after a duplicate clean.
My emails are not getting through to anyone. When I go to MAIL and then to ACCOUNTS and then at the bottom under OUTGOING MAIL SERVER (SMTP) it shows that the server is offline. Is this the reason my emails are not getting through? What can I do about it?
I enabled Apple Remote Desktop on an iMac, and I'm trying to use it from a Ubuntu machine with Remmina Remote Desktop Client. I configured the connection to use SSH tunneling. I can connect successfully to the mac over the Internet; The login screen of the Mac is displayed; I enter my password on the normal mac login screen; Password prompt blinks lightly but no error is displayed (it is as if the password was incorrect) and the session is not started. Is this a known problem, any solution? I am able to establish the remote connection (the mac login screen is displayed).
My friend has a Late 2013 Mac Pro and he would like to connect an eGPU. I don't know much about Macs. Can someone suggest an eGPU case that would be compatible and a GPU to go into it? I've tried looking online but I've read there's compatibility issues because of Apple dropping support for older hardware.
I recently cloned my late-2015 MacBook Pro (to another of the same model) using Acronis True Image 2018 for Mac. The cloning part worked well, but on the new laptop my Time Machine incremental backups are taking 30+ minutes to complete even though there's been almost no activity on my Mac since the last backup and very little (under 1GB) is usually backed up each time. Both original and new laptop are running High Sierra using the new (APFS) file system.
We have an iMac with two users A and B who are both logged in are both administrators have different Apple IDs (and are both logged in to their's)
So I have an account on my iMac (Sierra 10.12.6) which was managed by a mac mini with mac OS Server (5.2). Actually, it's always considered Admin, Managed, Mobile open the iMac (even if I don't synchronize any more). The fact that it's managed by the server is now annoying, so I wanted to free it (I want to use the server just for accessing files). The profile is set to "Home folder: local only" on the server I'm now having trouble changing password: If I change on the server, it doesn't change on the iMac, so I have two different passwords for the account (one locally, the other when connecting to the server)
When Im not using the laptop, after a few min, the screen will dim. Returning after >15 min and waking the laptop, the wifi needs to reconnect to my wifi hotspot. How can I keep wifi connected indefinitely using Terminal? Some related articles that I didnt find helpful: Prevent iMac from sleeping, for VPN login? Prevent MacBook Pro from going to sleep
I know there are Login Items under Users & Groups and /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons under Library, System/Library and Users/FooUser/Library. And then there's right click on Dock icon -> Options -> Open at Login.
Videos shot with iOS are saved as MOV container. MOV is not supported by Android. So what is the best way to email a video to Android? I'm really surprised I couldn't find an easy answer for this with googling. It would be great if it automatically transwrapped to MP4. I don't want to use a computer, and I would prefer not to use a third-party app if possible.
I downloaded Google Voice on my iPhone and the app downloaded without error, but anytime I open it there is already a Gmail address displaying. All I have to do is swipe over, and it enables the account. How do I remove the default account that is showing that is NOT linked to anything on my iPhone?
In system preferences, under Security and Privacy, the "Require Password" box is not checked. Interestingly, even when I have entered my password and the lock icon is open, I cannot check this box - I click on it, and the checkmark briefly appears and then goes away. Despite the box not being checked, my computer almost always makes me type in a password when I open it or after it goes into the screen saver. Occasionally, it does unlock automatically, but when it does so, I cannot click or interact with any windows, and I have to shut and open my screen again and type the password in order to actually use my computer. I am using a MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra.
So, I was installing bootcamp in my mac and it suddenly crashed and the only message that was appearing was "Restoring partition blablalba" but the message freezed over there. So I went to disk utility and removed the partition of Bootcamp but now I can't merge the partition that was created by bootcamp with my original partition of high sierra. I can't proceed to install bootcamp also because a this message appears: I tried everything I searched on the internet and I don't see the correct answer for that. Here is the view on my diskutility. No I can't click on BC1 and press (-). Here is the outcome when I go to the terminal and type: "diskutil list"
I want to change the app icon for a pre-installed iOS app. What are my options?
Is there a problem with the ApowerMirror application I downloaded? Can any other app serve my purpose? For YouTube app
i create a little app using Script Editor and exported to .app file. now im trying to change the icon to a custom .icns file. the icns file was converted from a png using this website. also tried using this website. after copying the icns to Contents/Resources/applet.icns and modifying the below lines of the Info.plist: also tried Contents/Resources/customFilename.icns and Contents/Resources/customFilename:
In short, I have a working executable in my home directory. I want to make the executable available in the Terminal for the current user in any directory.
My iMac backups that are stored on an external USB drive are suddenly not being recognized for backing up. Using option key and pull-down menu, I can select the set of backups on this USB drive and can restore from them, but I cannot get Time Machine to use that folder for more incremental backups — It wants to create a brand new backup (for which there is not room).
Does anyone know if there is a way I can start a bullet point list in the updated Notes app that comes with the MacOS with a keyboard shortcut that looks like this or this
im able to modify .app icons only when the dimensions are perfectly even (eg. 256x256) but not rectangular shapes. this website allows for exporting png images as icns files in any dimension but they dont seem to work with .app's? is it possible to modify an app to use a rectangular .icns?
My iPhone X frequently starts to speak something when I’m outside. It never happens when I’m at home.
I have a macbook pro 15" 2017. I use an Android hotspot to connect to internet.
I have an AppleTV 4K connected to a Sony screen over HDMI. The AppleTV is connected to the Internet via WiFi, the Sony is deliberately not connected - just power and HDMI. Recently I have learned that there is such a thing as ethernet over HDMI. How can I confirm that the AppleTV is not providing this to the Sony? I don't want the latter to phone home, "upgrade" its firmware, run Android apps or anything else - I just intend for it to be a dumb (i.e. non-smart) screen.
I understand that when uploading Apple live photos to my windows laptop that they will come across as a JPEG and a MOV, but I am missing several and I don't know why. I can see them on my phone but I can't see them when plug my phone into my laptop and look via explorer. Any ideas ? There are lots of them !
Is it possible to setup a Raspberry Pi with a USB HD to act as a Time Machine?
Please guide me how to add and configure this printer with this MacBook. What have I did wrong? Do I have to install any new software for this to work?
I have a Time Machine drive which was previously used to back up my old Mac. Since that machine died I'm using it to back up my new Mac. This means there are two folders in the time machine's backup folder - one for the old machine, one for the new machine. The new machine's Time Machine app does not show me the content of the old machine's backups. I would like to rescue/extract the important files (such as Pictures folders etc) from the old machine's backups. I know TM files are not stored contiguously but as it does not provide a granular management tool, is there a way to extract/copy files from a Time Machine history which the current machine does not see?
On my macbook keyboard I have two languages - Hebrew and US. On 'keyboard viewer' I see that clicking and holding the cmd should temporarly switch to the other language (instead of cmd+space and then cmd+space again to go back), but that doesn't seem to work. any idea why?
The thumbnail display for JPEG files is displayed corrupted in Finder in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. After updating to macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, the preview of JPG files in the Finder are broken. It would appear that it is only the case with JPG's created by Adobe Illustrator CC 2018.
Server.app does not allow me to add a TXT record to the main domain (zone) but that is what is needed for SPF. So, I added a TXT record to my db.rna.nl file. (Note this is a split-DNS so on the outside it works fine, this is about the inside)
This question is related to: What causes the UserEventAgent to run with 100% CPU usage? I am running on a MBP late 2012 on High Sierra. I observed this problem after the update from Sierra. I have been studying it's behaviour also through a small App to monitor the fan speed. When it rises over 2700 it is always because UserEventAgent is hitting peaks, or heading towards it.
How can iOS allow that? It’s clearly not something the app developer intended, or that the devs could even control.
I am tempted to install XtraFinder on my mac because of all the features it provides but am worried that it may leave my system vulnerable to a security breach. The installation dialog box says the following I went to the link provided System Integrity Protection I quote from the page.
I am trying to switch between tabs within the same window in apps running on my MacBook Air. What keyboard shortcut can I use to perform the switch conveniently?
I have a Macbook 2011 that suddenly crashed and won't start afterwards. It fails approximately about 55% into the loading bar, seemingly always in the same place. It won't load into safe mode either, it goes up to ~95% and then fails. In the first case it gets stuck on a grey/dark screen whereas in the safe mode attempt it is a blank/white screen, though I can't confirm this is always the case. I tried resetting both SMC and PRAM, did Internet recovery with no success. Below are a few logs from unsuccessful attempts to start the system. Another log. Please find the original screenshots below as I might've misread some of the characters or if the last few lines aren't enough to determine what goes wrong. Log 1 Log 2
I didn’t pay attention in which iOS version it happened but as you know, Apple redesigned their App Store. However there’s something I can’t find anymore with this version of App Store: The whole list of purchased apps associated with the iCloud account signed in. In the previous App Store you could go to App Store app → Updates and, on top of the list, there was an item named Purchased, that, when clicked, would show a list of purchased apps in a descending chronological order. Where can we find that list now that Apple redesigned the App Store?
preliminary notes: It appears this could simply have something to do with copying text from Upwork and editing in TextEdit, but I don't know why (they exist, on the desktop, and why they are named as such). I mainly want to verify it doesn't signify some sort of hacking (highly doubtful). Operating System: High Sierra 10.13.5 Beta Opening the first in TextEdit named "python", the contents are: bplist00—XUTI-Data”_$com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text_public.utf8-plain-text_public.utf16-plain-textFpythonVpythonLp�y�t�h�o�n�B[u|É������������� ���������������ê The other's title is the name of a client I have on Upwork, to whom I sent a message today after a period of silence. The other (titled with the client's name), opened in TextEdit: bplist00—XUTI-Data”_$com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text_public.utf8-plain-text_public.utf16-plain-textKclient name[client nameOclient nameB[uÅç������������� ���������������¶
I purchased the 15 inch MacBook Pro that costs $1999 on Apple's website a couple of weeks ago. I believe this is the 2015 model, and it does not have a touchbar.
In iOS, is it possible for apps managed via MDM to get access to photos and text/WhatsApp text messages of user stored on user's iPhone. If yes, what kind of permissions do these actions require?
I have an iPhone 6. When I text another iPhone user. My messages and my friends will show up in a blue text bubble. If my friend is not using an iPhone, the messages will show in a green text bubble (i think). Sometimes the message bubbles will be one color but after a few minutes, change to the other color. What causes this and is there a way to stop it?
I created a (bootable) backup disk for use in Carbon Copy Cloner and applied Filevault 2 following the CCC instructions. I am using the backup disk to transfer the files to a new computer. The old computer is running Yosemite. The new computer is running High Sierra. I have three users on the old computer, call them A, B and C. A is an administrator, the others are not. User B is the one I use as my main active user for ordinary use. I have successfully done the transfer, so the role of the backup disk is to fill in any gaps or inconsistencies that I may come across. Thus I would still like to be able to read individual files on the backup disk. Unfortunately, the users on the two computers don't match, which complicates accessing the files.
I have the bootup manager rEFInd installed on my Macbook. The key combinations for recovery (Command R and Command R+I) just boot into rEFnd's bootloader. At this point in time holding the option key while booting still allows me to plug in a USB and boot it (e.g. I can boot a Linux Live USB and wipe the disk - afterwards I'd be able to do internet recovery mode without a problem). That being said I'd like to be able to access internet recovery without the usage of external media and without giving up rEFInd. How can I achieve this?
While being sold bottom quality LCD replacements for my iPhone 5 and subsequently returning them six times I lost one of the screws that holds the LCD shield plate in place. It's the one closest to the home button on the back of the LCD assembly.
when I try to download a free app it asks for my credit card info, and I don't have one and I say none but it just restarts and wont let me pick none.
I have a 3rd generation Apple TV and typically have the iCloud account set to mine. However, another member of my family is starting to use iMovie Theater and their videos do not appear on the Apple TV as we have separate iCloud accounts. It seems that the iMovie Theater app on the TV is tied to a single iCloud account.
What does the "link" () mean in the Wi-Fi network list on iOS? Example (see red rectangle):
I have Apple's QuickType keyboards for English and German installed on my iPhone. I get predictive text in both languages, but sometimes I'll get suggestions for German words when using the English keyboard and vice versa. Is there some way I can configure the phone so that when using the English keyboard, I get suggestions only for either (1) words in an English dictionary or (2) words I've added to my custom dictionary when using the English keyboard? Similarly, when using the German keyboard, I want suggestions only for either (1) words in a German dictionary or (2) words I've added to my custom dictionary when using the German keyboard. I'm running iOS 11.2.2 on an iPhone 6.
How can I tell if my iPad is 32 or 64-bit? I use iOS 9.3.5.
I am using the latest High Sierra operating system 10.13.4 on an iMac, which I had been backing up just fine to an external USB drive connected by USB cable to the iMac, but inadvertently, a day ago, I got this backup to work with a new hard drive rather than the iMac, and now I need to get it to work again with the two years of backups on that USB drive. Time Machine does not recognize the backups on this drive as being associated with the iMac: with the option key I can select the USB drive as having the backups but these cannot be read or incremented by Time Machine. I want to use tmutil to restore that association.
I am trying to group all songs with no album title (i.e. the 'Album' field for the songs' metadata is empty) for the same artist into one "Unknown Album"
Can I assign a functionality to a particular key in the keyboard , specifically I don't want enter to be used for renaming rather than opening a file or document , can I assign the functionality by my own ?
Have had my iPad reset due to being disabled and when setting it up again it has asked for the old password to restore some apps.I am not sure exactly what it is so can I find out somehow as I don't want it to disable again?
I wonder if there is a simple way to download and save a pdf from a website and then upload the same file to another website through an HTML5 form.
Scrolling to the #Linkedin feeds I have come across the term #VSCode. Please, anybody, explain the pure purpose of the tool or it's really trending in development Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a source code editor with powerful developer tooling, like IntelliSense code completion and debugging. I have a doubt it's a code once and export to multiple platforms like a tool.
I've been using the excellent Link Shell Extension tool on Windows 7 to create hard links remotely to files on the same mounted volume on a Windows Server 2008 R2 drive [not symlinks — I included this in the tags for the question as I can't tag it with hardlinks!]. I note in LSE's documentation that: It is little known, but the SMB networking protocol supports operations to create remote Hardlinks, Junctions and Symbolic Links within SMB mapped network NTFS drives. On both MacOS Sierra and High Sierra, however, I can't create hard links using ln(1) when I mount this volume using Finder.app -> "Connect to server… -> "smb://windows2008r2.example.com/Files" So to my questions: Is this a limitation of Apple's implementation of mount_smbfs(8) or am I doing something wrong? Is this a limitation of Apple's implementation of mount_smbfs(8) or am I doing something wrong? If the former, does the SAMBA project's SMB client have the same limitation? If the former, does the SAMBA project's SMB clie
I have an old Mac Pro 2008 3,1 which after running pretty much 24/7 for 10 years was left switched off for a two-week holiday. Now when powered up, the PSU & GPU fans spin up, but nothing else happens. No main fans, no chimes. It's recently had the PRAM battery changed & went through some heavy diagnostics at that time with no apparent issues.
Running MacBook Pro early 2015 (10.13.5 Beta) with Apple's Thunderbolt <> Gigabit Ethernet adapter and Airport Extreme on a 1 Gbps connection, but the speed is only 200-300 Mbps. On my PC that is even older I'm seeing like 800/800 Mbps and no freeze that happen sometimes that makes the network die for 3 seconds up to a minute. Its not the network as I can don't have problem with this on a PC machine. Is it common with Apple thunderbolt - giga dongle that performance suffer that much?
I am a long-time PC user using macOS. I am missing some useful commands I used when coding. I know can add keyboard shortcuts but I would like to know is there already command equivalents for Mac: Home Button: Go to the beginning of the line. End Button: Go to the end of the line. Shift + Home: Selection of the line from the cursor point to the beginning of the line (not up to the document) Shift + End: Selection of the line from the cursor point to the end of the line. Shift + Delete = Cut Text Control + Insert = Copy text Shift + Insert = Paste text
Without my intervention, pdfs just open up in Photoshop. I've never told them to open in Photoshop, even once, but the computer decides to change the default program to Photoshop. I change the default program back to Preview but a day later it changes to Photoshop again.
Whenever I rate or review an app on from the App Store on iOS, it never saves the rating or review. It only appears to save the rating/review initially, then if I view another app in the store and go back to the previous one, the review isn't saved. If I close the App Store and reopen it, the rating/review disappears. I can tell that I'm definitely logged in to the App Store as I can see all of my purchases and register new apps to my account. How do I get the rating/review system to work properly?
I have 10 iPads that we use for training. I want to be able to text as a group as we are working on activities. How do I set up the iPads to allow group messaging without facebook or phone numbers? They all have the same Apple ID.
This morning my phone asked me, unbidden to log into my Apple ID (or iCloud, I can't keep those straight). My login did not work (I used the correct password), but I was able to login after resetting the password.
I'm send my laptop to sleep ( -> Sleep) and when I open it later, it starts loading system from the beggining as if I powered off it. I lose progress in my work because of this. I don't found where I may disable this behavior in settings. This is started a few weeks ago (after system's update, I guess). Is a way fix it? macOS 10.13.4 (17E202) MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) EDIT EDIT 2 My actions after work day: - unplugging power cable from laptop - clicking to sleep ( -> Sleep) - closing laptop's cover Laptop go to power off not because low battery in sleeping mode, I'm checked it (after sleeping the battery always no less 80%). EDIT 3
I'm dead broke. So, I have a cheap battery for my dead-broke-esque 2008 MacBook. It only lasts about 2 hours on a full charge. However, it's a little goofy at times. Not in a dangerous way, just that it seems to miscalculate how much time it has left sometimes, and suddenly dies at 25%. I know, terrible choice to get an old battery. But I'm poor and was sick of outlet-surfing, so I got a cheap battery. Anyway, since my upgrade to OS X Lion (in 2018, mind you), I haven't had as much of a problem, but still might have it sometimes. Plus, I'm going to be letting a friend/colleague of mine use it for a while, and would rather tell him to "plug it in when it gets red" than sit and explain the goofy battery more than I already have.
When I want to send a text in the messages app it no longer displays phone #s, only email addresses so I can't send a text. I can go into my contacts app and send a text from there but it doesn't allow me to send to multiple people
I am looking for some help with an external drive that keeps ejecting. I GPT that showed that my sectors for my GUID partitions were not looking correct. I attempted a repair and got errors followed by loosing my EFI partition. I was able to add the EFI partition back and clone if from another external HD so I am back where I started, that i can access the files but the drive will unmount ever few mins and then remount. I have included lots of snips from my terminal time in hopes that someone might have thoughts. I was thinking about trying Techtools, DW or Drive Genius but i am not sure if any of those apps will help here. Just an FYI data is backed up with backblaze but am hoping that this might be able to be fixed without formatting and requesting a drive from backblaze.
I dropped my MacBook Pro (15" mid 2012) last week, which appeared to just give a bit of cosmetic damage near the Ethernet port. But over the last few days, my Mac has repeatedly automatically set WiFi to off in the toolbar and won't let me turn it back on. Sometimes the toolbar displays "no WiFi hardware installed".
After much research (I am not familiar with Shell, Bash coding... and only just discovered the magic of Automator and Terminal usefulness), I've created an Automator service that captures a shot of specific rectangle of my screen and saves it on desktop upon press of a shortcut key. It runs well, but it would be handy, if I could add code to it, that would then reveal the new image in Finder. I don't want to open the newly created image, just to reveal and highlight it in finder, so I can take several images in succession and see that they were created without having to do anything else with them at the time. My 'Run AppleScript' in Automator at the moment:
I installed a Yosemite 10.10.5 OS to a Macbook Late 2008 model. The OS works fine except for the Audio. I have tried NVRAM reset and SMC Reset but all failed.
I installed Nedit on my iMac this weekend. I used it several times and it worked fine. For some reason last night it quit working. When I type Nedit in the terminal window I just get the message NEdit: Can't open display. Using Homebrew again, I reinstalled Nedit using
My MacBook Pro MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 Beta (17F66a) shuts down very time I close my lap top
I'd like to export the browsing history from my iPhone's Chrome app and access it easily on my laptop. The phone is an iPhone 7, iOS 11, and the Chrome version is 66.0.3359.122. I've done this before with an app called iExplorer, but this doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to do this, whether with a different app, or more directly? Thanks!
This progress bar shows up after POST (and initial firmware boot?), but before the login prompt. The drive is a brand new SSD (from WD and initialized properly), so I'm really doubtful it's an fsck issue. The OS is a brand new High Sierra install, and showed up both before and after updates.
I paid for a version of MacKeeper which may be a mistake. Their tech wants me to allow them to access my computer as in have access to my desktop files, etc. They say it is to fully license and engage the program . I have not done it as of yet.
My sister recently purchased a MacBook Pro. She makes stickers and she is running into an issue where OSX is printing things "less bold" than Windows is, which makes it harder for her to apply foil correctly to the stickers. I am trying to troubleshoot this, but I can't seem to find any relevant menus about print quality in the printer settings (where as I can find these on Windows). Any ideas? Would be really greatly appreciated. If it helps, it actually appears the that Mac version is printing a more "precise" representation of the image, but just not as bold.
Currently I have mission control to activate on three fingers up as so  However once mission control is activated I would expect to be able to close mission control by repeating this three fingers up gesture. Or at least that's how I had it configured on a previous mac. How can I restore this functionality?
I have a latest-generation, fully updated TC named "Mount Olympus". It has a drive called "Data". I am connected to it using ethernet. I am trying to connect to the drive Data so I can pull the backup of my wife's old MBA.
I leave my MacBook Pro on my desk nearly all the time, connected to the charger with the lid closed, connected to an external display. I've heard this is bad for the battery health, and everyone in my office have to replace swollen batteries every couple of years. I want to regularly discharge the battery, per Apple's recommendation, but I don't want to physically unplug it because that temporarily turns off the external monitor, and then I have to reconnect the monitor. So I am looking for a software method of disabling the power input, to force the laptop to discharge its battery to 20% and then re-enable the power input.
My Seagate External HD works like normal on a windows PC laptop but doesn't get recognised on MacBook Pro. The light doesn't turn on when plugged in but can hear it spinning. Wont show up in Disk utilities or Finder files so have no idea how to access my files on my MacBook
Some device is being shown under Shared section on my MacBook. I don't remember setting up any such device at all.
I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and the latest version of Pages, 7.0.1. I duplicated a .pages file to make edits and saved it as a new .pages file in the iCloud Pages folder. I then attempted to export it as a PDF, intending to save the PDF in the Pages folder as well. It wouldn't let me. Saving it to the iCloud desktop and documents folders worked. So I saved it to the iCloud desktop and tried moving it into the Pages folder. No dice. I got the circle-slash indicator on the file as I hovered it over the Pages folder.
I have a Mac mini (Late 2014). I want to connect a second monitor to it. I have a monitor connected to the HDMI port. The Mac mini has two Thunderbolt 2 ports and the second monitor that I want to use only supports DVI and VGA. My question is, do I need a special Thunderbolt 2 to DVI/VGA adapter or can I use a Mini Display to DVI/VGA adapter?
I wish to set a Wi-Fi access point as default to connect to. I was told to go to Network Preferences and click on Advanced... button to set the default. I am unable to find it. What am I missing?
I've tried to install Octave using homebrew by using this command: brew install octave. But after make sign, I got stuck and nothing happened more than a half hour. How can I solve this?
Is there a way to open a file from the command line with a specific application, where I specify the application by path, not name? So something like: instead of:
I'm using iMovie 10.1.9 on High Sierra. My AirPods are paired and all of my audio is playing through them but I am unable to choose them to record a voice over in iMovie. I've even set them as the default input source in sound preferences but the internal microphone is always used.
I upgraded from 10.13.3 to 10.13.4. The mouse works on the built-in screen but not on an external monitor. A PRAM reset as in this thread did nothing. Increasing the size of the cursor as in this bug report shows the mouse pointer but not the I-beam cursor (text cursor), then increasing the size even more shows both cursors. Confusingly, a Quicktime recording of these changes shows the cursor always present, and always the same size.
Yesterday I was recording a song with garage band on my iPhone 8. The volume was perfectly fine. I then exported the song and the volume is perfectly fine in the exported file as well.
I have a problem where every once in a while when connecting my two external monitors, one of my running application's windows height will be restricted to half the hight of the screen. The window can be moved anywhere on screen but can only be resized to half its height. Moving the window to one of my other screens allows it to be resized freely, but when it is returned to the problematic screen it shrinks back to half size. The problematic screen is always the "primary" one (the one with the dock) In this screenshot I'm dragging to resize, the window can shrink but can not grow more than this, also notice the cursor is a single arrow up, and not the expected double arrow.
Recently I upgraded to MacOS High Sierra (10.13.4). After upgrade my homebrew seems to have stopped working. So I uninstalled the homebrew by executing the below command I tried to install homebrew again by executing the below command But the installation failed with the error as discussed here. Then I tried executing the command as suggested in the above issue. But it did not work because of the issue discussed here. I executed the below command as suggested above It gave me some Operation not permitted warnings.
I purchased my iPhone X in Japan, and I'm now in China. While staying in China, I dropped my iPhone X and the screen is cracked.
There is no way to renew the MDM vendor certificate,you just have to create a new one. After I create a new one, the devices have to be re-enrolled. Is there a way I can avoid re-enrollment of devices? I want to know what happens to the enrolled devices when the MDM vendor certificate expires?
If I click on "visit this website", I am asked for my administrator password to change certificate trust settings. After entering my password, I am redirected to the original "This website may be impersonating [website]" message.
I want to fill a webform (text filed) from a page i open in Safari with the text from a excel cell. I have managed to do a script to copy the cell content to clipboard but i do not know how to use this to fill the form.
I've got an eMac that's mostly working (running Tiger, plus a selection of other nice software), but has a broken optical drive. I have a spare USB optical drive lying around, and it works for most purposes, but, according to this discussion on the Ars Technica OpenForum, most PowerPC Macs (including eMacs) can't boot from USB drives (at least not out of the box and without a LOT of tinkering and swearing), although they can boot from FireWire drives. Just in case I ever have to reinstall Mac OS X on the eMac, here's my question: if I plug a USB-to-FireWire adapter into one of the eMac's FireWire ports, and plug the USB optical drive into that, will the eMac be able to boot from said optical drive, or will I have to shell out for a FireWire optical drive?
I am wondering if there is a way to tweak the auto-hide option for the MacOS dock so that the dock appears not when the mouse is above it, but only if the mouse is located in a corner of the screen of my own choosing? It would be great if such a tweak existed! Best to all!
I have deleted a really big folder (130+ GBs, Parallels VM) yesterday and it took about 30 minutes to claim the free space. After that, I created a new VM and during the setup, Parallels warned me about low free space (16.2 GB free space), but the Info window showed 167.29 GBs free. I then force touched my disk and it said 16 GBs. What can be wrong here? I already restarted a couple of times after deleting the file.
Is there anyway I can have two instances of native Calculator app running simultaneously.
I noticed a few days ago that the Recovery partition was inside the APFS container. Isn't it better for it to be a separate volume? For example, APFS containers sometimes get corrupted with an invalid partition type (FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF), so you can't boot to Recovery mode either, because that's inside the container! Why is this the case? Is there an explanation? Here is the output from diskutil list. You can clearly see that it's inside the container.
I often glance down at my calendar and occasionally look at the CDT time zone instead of my personal time zone. Is there a way to hide CDT time zone in calendar? I am running iOS 10 on an iPhone 5. Alternatively making the calendar bold may work. I believe this is the same issue here https://blog.appriver.com/2014/12/ios-8-calendar-events-display-dual-time-zones/
A few months ago I installed Ubuntu on my macbook. I did not end up using it all that much, so it has simply been sitting on my disk. Now today I went to install high sierra but found it failed due to "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer". I thought it might have to do with the fact that I automatically boot into Ubuntu, and have to hold alt during boot to get into OS X.
My system is OS X Yosemite. When I connect MBP to a monitor, the monitor shows no signal error and the MacBook screen also becomes black. Disconnecting will not make the MacBook screen normal again. I have to force it to shut down and restart. I also don't have the "detect display" option in system preference -> display. Does anyone have the same problem? =======
The general scrolling is way too slow and unsuitable for large articles or pages. I want a way to grab a scrollbar on the side of a page (just like on a laptop/desktop operating system) and use that to scroll through large articles and pages. There's no reason why I should have to manually scroll through 300 pages, 1 page at a time.
Since yesterday, my iOS 11.3.1 (on an iPhone SE) is in a strange, beforehand unseen state whereby most of its default apps apparently have become uninstalled somehow (for instance, Maps and Videos are marked with the Cloud-like download item) and iOS proceeds with downloading them from somewhere (hopefully/presumably Apple) anew when I click on their icons (has e.g. happened with Notes and Podcast so far.)
I have a user who is having problems with her messaging. She is set up so that she can send messages from either her iPhone or her desktop (a late 2012 Mac Mini running macOS Sierra).
I have finally figured out how to insert a Word document in to another Word document using AppleScript, but the code below adds it at the beginning of the document instead of the end (assuming, of course, that there is text in the receiving document to begin with). Can anyone please tell me how to add the document to the end of the document instead? What am I doing wrong?
When an application hangs, and I force-quit it, my system typically generates a long report, and invites me to send that report to Apple. My question is this: Does this report contain any confidential information, especially information that could be used to compromise the security of my system, were it to fall into non-trustworthy hands?
I was using gdb recently on my Mac and I was annoyed with the incessant popup which always shows up when I try to use gdb:  I read on StackOverflow that you can make this popup go away with the following incantation:
Outlook creates 256 folders for messages and 256 folders for attachments, and it evenly distributes new messages and attachments among these folders. For example, my Outlook profile has about 250K messages, most of which have 1+ attachments. Each of those 512 folders contains about 1,000 messages. I get about 500 new messages per day, so if it's been a day since my last backup, each of those 512 folders will have 1-3 new files and about 1,000 unchanged files.
On a 2010 Mac Pro, using a new drive, doing a fresh install, I have no sound, not even a startup chime (when the El Cap drive is set as the startup drive in the control panel). From the numerous articles I've found, I tried the usual fixes, after doing all of the available updates. Checklist of attempts to fix: reset the SMC reset the NVRAM checked the headphone jack (reports of debris, etc.) checked the Sound control panel (all devices list properly, and recognizes presence/absence of headphones) tried switching between devices tried sudo kill coreaudio deleted the com.apple.audio... pref and restarted None of these had any effect.
Today I saw for a very brief moment (like a fraction of a second) an alert telling me that some “baesystem.dmg” (or something like that) file was being mounted, even though I wasn’t trying to mount anything, nevertheless a strange image. So my question is: Is it possible to see a log of anything (and everything) that was mounted on my system?
Command + F2 to enable Target Display Mode (using a Thunderbolt cable between my two iMacs) has mysteriously stopped working. I have a new iMac and an older iMac (late 2012) both running 10.13.4.
I have 1 Macbook Air and 1 Macbook Pro. Macbook Pro screen is broken so I log into Macbook Pro by Screen Sharing app on my home local network and view it in my Macbook Air.
i have a 2003 10.6.8 and i am not able to install vpn app as it prompt me that my macbook need to have 62 bit intel processor, can someone please advice or recommend an vpn app for my macbook please ?
My desktop is an iMac 27" late 2013 (3.2 MHz Intel core i5) running OS X Sierra, 10.12.6 (not brave enough to upgrade to High Sierra after the first attempt was a fiasco). I use Photoshop a lot, and it popped up after an update saying my graphics card driver needed to be updated. My graphics card is a NIVIDIA GeForce GT 755M, 1024MB(of Vram I guess).Searched the web for the drivers, but for some reason my graphics card was listed in with the notebook cards (I'm pretty sure when I purchased my iMac I opted for the upgraded graphics card at the time so...). I eventually found what appeared to be the appropriate download on the NIVIDIA or GeForce site; however, it was called NIVIDIA Web Driver, but was listed specifically for my graphics card and for Macs, and it was the most recent release they had available. So I downloaded it and installed using the dmg file. No problems except it's Privacy Policy or Terms of Agreement, which of course you have no choice but to accept, said that it wil
I'm not sure if this is possible but let's say I have a few variables : Can I make Applescript to found every instance of this text on Safari (any tab) and change the colour of the text? ( "document.getElementById("foundhtmlhere").style.color = "#ff0000";" or document.querySelector("td > a").style.backgroundColor = "red"; --
I am having trouble with a specific email addresses, every time I try to open email from this company, I get the dreaded red strikethrough https and x-ed out padlock, with dire warnings about an insecure connection. the computer freezes every time i open any emails for this company.
I’ve recently changed the password on my iPhone SE (running iOS 10.x?) and now I’ve forgotten it. I was able to use my iPhone for a few days from TouchID but after the iPhone restarted today, I can’t get into it. It's a 4 digit passcode.
I want to put a web link, right-justified, in the header of a page. There is room for the entire link to easily fit, but Pages keeps breaking it at one of the slashes. Pages does: What I want is: How can I force the link to display on one line?
I have submitted my app to the app store 6 times and always been rejected because apparently the UIRequiredCapabilities key is not set correctly. Well, I've tried many different combinations of things and cannot seem to figure it out and they are not helpful at all. Doing more research today, I found this https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/apple-store-rejection-uirequireddevicecapabilities/57029/5
Is there a way to change the master tempo in Garageband after you've already recorded some audio tracks? Use case:
Already ran a diagnostic (where you reboot, press D and whatever) and also they ran a light diagnostics test in the Apple store. They said next step is for me to have to bring it in for a few days, where they run a heavy diagnostics on it for 5 hours. Also opened the bottom and took a can duster and cleaned out the fans and vents.
I'm trying to click on the ViewMYMachines link, I'm not sure how to proceed, I suppose I have to use document.querySelectorAll here is the link : here is my code
Whenever I receive a call or a text message in Google Hangouts, the notification appears in the upper-right corner of the screen, but there is never any audio to accompany the notification (even when the Hangouts-extension window is the active window). My computer would previously ring for calls and play "dings" for messages. I have no idea what happened to stop this from occurring. I've ensured that my system volume is at the maximum setting and that audio is enabled in the settings of the Hangouts extension, as you can see in this screenshot:
How can I mute BlueJeans on iPad when in a videoconference? I use iOS 9.3.5. The "sound" icon is greyed out, I don't know why:
I'm trying to nurse my Mid-2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15" through at least another year. Unfortunately, the hinges seem to be going bad. They were getting loose, but in the last few days the right rear one has become very hard to close, such that if I push the lid closed by the front edge it pops back up about 1 1/2":
EDIT: This post was edited due to the automated "Title" keyword matching function of this site that caused some confusion for us humans with the word "AutoHotKey"
On toolbar button click the popover shows the original viewController, then on a button click I'd like to show a second view replacing the original, how can I replace the original ViewController in a popover?
then I would like to print it something more like this:  including using conditional formatting to colour the cells, if at all possible.
How do I recover my user name an password for I cloud for I phone 6? I know my apple Id an password.
I tried booting my mac today as usual but it turns out that almost immediately the nasty prohibition sign appeared. I tried the usual stuff: resetting PRAM, SMC and nothing. I tried safe mode, but I got that prohibition sign again, so I booted in verbose mode and got the following message:
I am new to Apple ecosystem and have just obtained an iPhone X. I bought it new from store and during first boot I have created a new Apple ID as I never had one earlier. Now my new phone has been registered to my new Apple ID. At present I want to use my iCloud ID which I have made after that, so my doubt is that is there such thing that i have to keep my Apple ID live (one which I have used during first boot) as my new iPhone that has been registered into it, or can I change the Apple id anytime? I need to understand how Apple ID works and what is the Apple iPhone/product registration onto Apple ID.
In Safari --> Preferences --> Privacy --> Manage Website Data, I'm unable to remove the data that shows up as Databases. I'm able to remove Cookies and Cache data but not able to remove Databases. Please see the screenshot.
I tried to install Ubuntu (without rEFInd) and followed this article on how to achieve that on a dual boot Mac (macOS and Windows): Installing Ubuntu on Mac with macOS and Windows already installed After resizing & creating new partitions on the hard drive and installing Ubuntu successfully, when trying to launch Windows 7 again the message "No operating system" is shown now though. I tried repairing the Windows partition with a Windows recovery USB drive, as mentioned on this website: *=URL=* Unfortunately Windows' "diskpart" doesn't show all the partitions and repairing doesn't seem possible as mentioned. Now I'm lost finding out how to repair the Windows partition, either in macOS or in the Windows recovery tools. MacBook Pro late 2013, macOS Sierra, Windows 7, Ubuntu 18.04
I deleted bootcamp with Disk Utility and now have lost 100GB of space that I can't recover. I called apple and they had me wipe the HD clean, and reinstall the OS. It still hasn't fixed the problem, would appreciate some help! Tried deleting the free space on disk utility but just get this error,
I'm using the Contacts app on my iPhone, some of my contacts are synced with a corporate exchange account, some with my private Google account. I want to ensure all contacts are synced with Google account as I might loose those who are added with exchange account when I leave the company. How can I accomplish this?
I'm trying to write a numbers script (to do this, as it happens), in which I need to change the value of a cell. However, if I do something like then I get the error
Usually I keep my ring volume pretty low. When I connect my bluetooth headphones the ring volume symbol comes up and shows that the volume is quite in the middle. So it has been increased when I connected my headphones.
I get the iCloud delete immediately prompt, accept, but the photo is still there. Help? iPhone 8.
I've uninstalled software from brew (as I want to use a different version), using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1 And downloaded the software from SourceForge instead, then copied the executables onto the $PATH However when I try to run the command I get the error
My iPhone went wrong and last time I didn't backed it up in iTunes, but earlier I do. And earlier I used often Time Machine. Do you think it is possible get back and revert an iPhone application? Is iTunes backup part of the Time Machine saving scope? I found that iTunes backup is stored on this path:
Since Xcode 7 was released, a target device has now free provisioning. A developer doesn't have to sign up for Apple Developer Program in order to test his/her app on an iOS device.
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I'm using a 13inch touch-bar MacBook pro with a Samsung U28E590 4k monitor. I'm very happy with the resolution on the MacBook's screen and everything is a comfortable size. However on the monitor the "default for display" (which says "looks like 1920x1080) makes everything huge and sacrifices the amount of space on the screen. If I go into display preferences and choose the middle option (3008x1692) this is a good size, but it has a noticeably bad effect on performance - window switching, resizing etc is jerkier and slower.
I upgraded from "OS X El Capitan" to "macOS High Sierra - 10.13.4" a couple of days ago. Today I have tried executing a command which no longer worked, while trying to investigate the issue I tried executing the command with "sudo". When executing "sudo" I get the following output:
Ok ya I have a iPhone 7plus and I locked myself out and I have tried the volume down and power button down mode and nothing. So then I tried the sleep and power button it shuts off then cuts back on and goes back to the same disabled screen.so now what do I do? I love my phone and really need help to get back into it please someone help me.
I'm unable to delete the two links (sites) from my Safari History - Apple Support which is actually a malicious URL. Right-click --> delete doesn't work for those 2 sites alone. Delete works for all other sites though. Could someone help me work out how to manually remove those?
Mac gets stuck when trying to update and I get the error “macOS could not be installed on your computer, file system verify or repair failed”. I tried using disk utility and running first aid. I get the following error: the volume Macintosh hd could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8. File system or repair failed. Operation failed.
I really need help with this one. My mac updated to the latest version of Java and now my Vectorworks is not working correcly anymore! I thought that there must be a way to connect an older Java version 6 to the app. How do I do this with the help of Terminal? I reinstalled Java 6 with Homebrew. Thanks!
Having an iPad stuck on the Apple logo, I cannot find a way to shut it down. When holding down both the top "Power" button and the "Home" buttons, the iPad goes to black screen, but starts again even if I released the buttons when the screen went black. So, the iPad always comes back to the state showing the back Apple logo on a white screen. Edit 1: Thank you for both answers until now. Holding only the power button down doesn't work in with this buggy iPad. Holding both the power and the home buttons down reboots the iPad; even if I release one or both buttons a fraction of a second after screen turns black, the screen always turns on in the next seconds
In addition to that, some applications are no longer showing their name in the "menu bar", and my chrome menus ... are all empty?!
Today I'm dealing with the following problem: *=URL=* (picture of never-ending notifications saying "Disk Not Ejected Properly") Is there some way I can get rid of these without spending my entire day clicking, short of Homer's Drinking Bird (*=URL=* Note: This is not a duplicate of How do I clear All OS X notifications with 1 click?, because the notifications in my question aren't shown at all in the Notification Center, and thus the solution in that question doesn't work for this question.
For the past six months I've been trying to isolate sporadic iMac system crashes unsuccessfully. The machine is a late 2012 iMac 3.4 GHz i7 with the 3tb fusion drive (replaced awhile back under the recall program), 32gb of Mac certified RAM from Crucial, and the NVIDIA GTX 680MX graphic card option. I sometimes hook it up to an external monitor. I also typically have the machine hooked up to external USB drives. The system can run for weeks without issues, then crash or sometimes mere minutes/hours. The behavior is that the system simply shuts down with out warning. Things I've tried: Running the machine with a UPS to eliminate the potential for power fluctuations. Running the machine without a UPS to eliminate the potential that the UPS is to blame. Checked the RAM using a multi-pass scan. Replaced the RAM with new RAM directly from Crucial despite no issues found in scan.
I doubt the actual connection is the cause, but just in case: I have a VGA cable going out from the monitor and connecting to a VGA/HDMI adapter, which in turn is plugged into an HDMI/USB-C adapter going into the machine. (Every port on this model MacBook is Thunderbolt 3.0.)
Is it possible to take a screen shot, using hotkeys, where the cursor will not disappear? I am making a short tutorial and it would save me time to have the cursor present, as opposed to post-processing the images. For example, if there is a button I could press in addition to CommandControlShift4 to copy a screen portion to the clipboard, including the cursor, that would be great.
I just restored my iPhone from iTunes. At backup time a Bitcoin app was installed on iPhone, with an already created wallet with a balance. After restore, Copay in on iPhone, but when starting the wallet balance is not included in the app. Why?
I’ve been having this issue for a long time and I can’t get my head around it. When I connect my MacBook Pro 2015 to an external 1920x1080 monitor, the font becomes fuzzy and I get dizzy within a few minutes. I tried all suggestions on the official Apple forums but nothing worked.
In the Adium chat client, each contact includes a number of event hooks via the "Get Info" window for a contact: Contact becomes idle Contact goes away etc.
How can I watch a lecture from videolectures.net on a Mac? I have OSX 10.12.6 and the Flip4Mac is not working/outdated (in particular, this link on the help page has expired. I just downloaded Chrome, so I'm not sure what's going on when I receive the following error message:
In other words, does it just hide the permissions on file, or change them? More specifically, if you have a volume with file on it that have different owners and you check Ignore ownership on this volume, and then later you uncheck it, will the original ownerships/permissions revive correctly?
Can I take my iMac to an Apple store and have the Geniuses replace its Fusion drive with a pure SSD?
I want to be able to Metal 2 (for eGPU support) on my MacBook Pro 2011 13" but my Mac isn't on the supported list (2012+). I know that Metal doesn't depend on the CPU. I'm wondering whether Apple bases Metal support on the GPU you are currently running or if they completely block 2011 and older Macs from using Metal. I'm interested in running a RX580 which is compatible with Metal on an eGPU (I know I can't run an eGPU out of the box I would use the eGPU script from eGPU.io)
How can I sort PDF by date in Adobe Acrobat on iOS? By default the order is lexicographical:
I have my boyfriend's location on the Find My Friends app and he has mine as well. Normally his location appears to hops around a bit when it's loading on my screen, but it's usually in the same 2-3 spots. However, the other night while it was loading, his location appeared to be some distance across the street, and then when it loaded it appeared to be in the middle of the street. Normally it is a little off, but still closer to his house then it was the other night. Is it normal that the location can appear to hop around a little, or for it to be a little off?
Siri informed me that I have a new phone number associated with my email address. This is false; I do not have a new number. Have I been hacked?
Is there any hardware which enables iPads and iPhones to be used as a display for other devices? I know, that is it possible to use these devices as a wireless device for Mac or PC, which has the required software drivers, but what about devices like old computers, VCRs, DVD players, etc? I want to use my iPad as a monitor for my iPad.
I have recorded CD on Mac in 2001 (TIF, EPS). But I cannot open files from this CD on Windows.
I am using a 2010 iMac that needs to use the hybrid GPT/MBR to install Windows via Boot Camp. I had a working dual boot install using Boot Camp with Mac OS High Sierra and Windows 10. To install Ubuntu, I made 3 new partitions using Disk Utility in Mac OS and installed Ubuntu 16.04 onto them using the "Something Else" option. Mac OS and Ubuntu now boot fine either from Refind or from the option menu on boot up. Windows now won't boot and gives a message " Missing Operating System" when I try to boot from it. This is the new diskutil list output (the new partitions I created were 4,5,and 6):
I was using the Chrome browser which suddenly adds this annoying offer to translate, written in Chinese because I'm accessing the internet from Taiwan. The problem is that GoogaChrome is shooting itself in the foot by covering its own message about moving to the English version of the site with it's offer to translate in situ. Are there any settings in macOS that are somehow read by Chrome that will convince it to just go ahead and take me to the English version of the site, or am I completely misunderstanding how the internet works?
if i create a time machine backup, then install Debian/Ubuntu over the macOS partition -- or for example, destroy the OS ($ sudo rm -rf /), can i immediately hop into recovery mode, plug in the time machine USB and restore everything and get macOS back? i think the answer is yes. sorry for the lame question. i just want to be sure before i go crazy partitioning the SSD.
Yes this is different than other "show menubar in fullscreen" I have a program where i make my own tests for people in class and when opening it i have to close all my programs that's ok for me but when in the program i can't swipe to left or right and can't see the menubar. so my question is is there anything possible with the info.plist to change it to let me show the menubar? (i have a MacBook Air 11inch early 2015 with Mac osx Sierra)
I deleted several time machine backups to trash. I tried emptying trash and had over 1 million items and still deleting. I stopped deleting. Files are still in trash bin. How do I get rid of them without waiting forever.
My battery was draining very fast even when UNUSED and in LOW POWER MODE. This was happening even in AIRPLANE mode (i.e. overnight, unused, in Airplane and Low Power Modes both enabled).
MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports). When I press OptionF1, a display system preferences window comes up. It conflicts with my application specific shortcut. How can I disable OptionF1 triggering display settings?
I want to create an Alias for my Terminal to quick-search inside files. In Ubuntu is was: alias gre="egrep -rnw ". I used it like that $ gre 'my search string'.
I am running Mavericks om my Mac and using Garageband 10.1.2 . I want to update my computer to MacOS High Sierra, but I do not want to change my Garageband version Does Garageband get updated along with the High Sierra update of MacOS?
the problem I’m experiencing is that contact names do not appear on whatsapp lock screen notifications. For example, if I get a message from Dad, whatsapp only displays the whatsapp logo and “message”, without displaying the sender. When I turn on message previews, I can see both the contact name and the message preview, but I used to be able to see just the contact name (“Dad has sent you a message”) instead of having to see the preview. This just happened as I updated to ios 11.3.1. Anyone having a similar problem? Thank you so much.
EDITI followed all the guides mentioned as duplicates and lost all my data thank you it clearly wasnt the same issue :) Im running a MacBook Pro Retina 15’ With Sierra triple booted 500Gb ssd.Today I rebooted my mac and suddenly my macbook partition was gone..i proceded to log on recovery mode and ran diskutil list to find out that the partition changed to FFFF-... .I know this question has been asked here before and i tried to follow this post Question But i failed because i get an error in running diskutil unmountDisk disk1
I could close specified apps like The active processes could be check with command top
I have inserted a external USB with free storage but when attempting to copy items to USB it says: "The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found.(Error code -43)." What can I do to fix this???
I could check installed apps with command type -a However, there's no -a options in 'man type' What's the reason?
I wish to take an APFS clone snapshot of a large directory using a shell script. In Finder, I can just Cmd-C, move to the other folder, and Cmd-V and within a few seconds I have a duplicate that takes little extra disk space. Using the cp shell command, it takes ages and creates a copy that takes up disk space. What shell command can duplicate a folder "instantly" the same way Finder can?
I give a lot of talks using PDF slides built with LaTeX beamer. I was very happy with Skim, because it offers you to synchronize two Skim windows, s.t. you don't have to mirror the screen, but instead use both displays at their native resolution and also be able to watch the thumbnail sidebar etc. on your own display without your viewers watching (similar to what PowerPoint and Keynote offer with two displays).
I reset NVRAM (and just for kicks the SMC). This had no effect.
OSX 10.11.6 + Airport Express I just ran the "Scan" function in the Wireless Diagnostics app. I see the channel recommendations are different from the channels being used so I power cycle the Airport and when it reboots, I see it is not using the channels it recommended. I did this several times with the same result.
How do I get rid of "other user". I had used a Mac Tech prior and he worked on my Mac. It only showed my icon on the start up screen. Now I have another icon for another user which when I open it, it opens up a dark gray screen for what I believe is for screen sharing.
When I'm using my MacBook out in the world, for security I like to have it immediately lock when the system goes to sleep or the screensaver begins so that it requires me to type in a password to unlock it. (i.e. the "Require password ... after sleep or screen saver begins" setting in the General section of the Security & Privacy system preferences.) However, when I'm using it at home, that tends to be quite annoying, especially since I might be switching between my MacBook and another system fairly frequently, meaning I have to unlock my MacBook an awful lot.
I have an iMac from 2006 with an Intel Core2Duo, which is 64-bit. I have also found I am using a 32 bit EFI:
I have 9 Insignia tablets running Android 5. I run an app called "Mobile Sheets Pro" and I can set my tablet as the "MASTER" and the rest as the "SLAVES" by creating a group on Wifi and the other tablets joining the group. I then can call up songs and it appears on their tablet. I have an Apple Airport Express I take with me to gigs with simply is a closed network that does not have access to the internet. All the tablets will continuously drop the Wifi connection when there's no internet.
I'm travelling outsude my home country and my data roaming is turned off on my iPhone, the car is rented Mini Cooper Countryman 2017. I usually connect the iphone via USB or Bluetooth and the car multimedia is paired with it. I don't use Apple Car Play (the multimedia screen looks like native Mini Cooper multimedia). The strange behaviour that I figured out is that I have no music downloaded on my iPhone (doublechecked it, i have big library though) but while connected to the car multimedia I'm able to navigate the music library from car display and listen arbitrary music from the library. This music is not downloaded nor the mobile internet icon is showing up on the iphone status bar. How can the car multimedia play music?
I was having trouble with my font cache in Photoshop, so per Adobe's instructions I reset the font cache with: Now, while most applications will show my fonts, Font Book comes up completely empty:
I am booting up by CMD + R. Internet recovery globe icon appears. It downloads something for 2 minutes and then restart the macbook pro.
Starting from this great script offered by Daniel Azuelos How is it possible to modify it in order to find if a USB flash was plugged in, on any random computer, on a certain date?
I tried to import my photos and videos from my iPhone to my Mac and it used to work, but this time it wouldn’t let me and would say “the following file could not be imported. the file is in an unrecognized format” what do I do?
There is an empty folder in my trash can, its called "include", and whenever I delete it, it just reappears. The actual folder is in ~/iCloud/.Trash but if I delete it either through emptying the trash can or rm -rf, it just comes back a second later.
I don't know why but these days my fan for some reason runs throughout the day. When the fan start spinning the computer become extremely laggy. I have also tried running macs fan control app after reading about it, but my system still hits 80 C. At that time it also freezes for 5 seconds to 2 minutes. So any suggestions as to why it might be happening, and how I can fix it? System: Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
I was giving a presentation on accessibility tools for the Mac and launched the VoiceOver Rotor utility. Someone in the audience asked why it was called "Rotor?" I had no answer for them. In doing some Googling around, I saw that on iOS, the Rotor is like a virtual knob that allows you to toggle through various functions:
I am planning to open up port 22 on my router to my iMac so I can login remotely. Login is required and allowed for only the admin user. The password is very secure--over 30 characters long. I'm not too worried about a bot breaking through the password but I am concerned about the system being bogged down. I looked into a few different brute-force prevention programs; sshguard, fail2ban, and Denyhosts. Each seem to have their pros and cons. However, I am finding almost zero documentation as it relates to setting one of these services up on anything above Mac OS X 10.11.
im curious to know why im not able to copy applications from a root terminal using the cp command?
I have the most recent Magic Keyboard and I find it hard to type on it as it lays very flat on my desk. I'd like to have an angle on the keyboard for typing; other wireless keyboards have little "feet" that fold out to enable the user to tilt the top upwards For now, I have taped two pencils under the keyboard for some angle which kinda works. Is there a product / better way to fix the keyboard up that way? (Keyboard was given to me at work, not really an option to switch)
Today I updated to version 2.18.52 & I can’t see the names of the people who send me a message. The only thing I see is the WhatsApp logo and the word “message”.
Folks, On my 8 year-old 2010 MacBook Pro, I started getting a bunch of random shutdowns starting about a week ago. I reinstalled High Sierra after the first few, but I'm still getting them. Terminal reported the shutdown code -60 in all cases, which I understand is due to a bad master directory block.
GoTC is currently bound to FB and Game Center... using iPad Pro 12.9”, iPhone 6s Plus and also have iMac but don’t play this on it. GoTC is the only game I’ve seen that doesn’t let you unblind within the game, so there should be a workaround, right? The new user wants me to bind it to her Game Center account so she can take it over. I just need to unbind it from my Game Center account first!
I googled the same question and found instructions that said press volume up, volume down then hold the power button. The problem I have is it just gets the off button. What I want is more details e.g. how long should I wait, how quick does the button press need to be, any other tricks
I made this app and I would like to put it in the App Store and I searched the Internet for how to do that but they all require you the account that you used to enrol for the Apple Developer Program and unfortunately I don't have one(I learned Swift by Youtube). What can I do? NOTE : I don't care if I have to pay any money.
On macOS High Sierra, with SSD formate with APFS, i've got: I just have a 512 GB SSD. So, my problem is how to correctly parse it to get: Total Space Available Space From the output, I can't simply sum all the lines starting with: Volume Total Space and Volume Free Space; it seems they both lists the same thing: Volume Total Space: 500.0 GB (499963170816 Bytes) (exactly 976490568 512-Byte-Units) Trying df -H, the output is: Again, there are 2 lines (for /dev/disk1s1 and /dev/disk1s4) showing: Size 500G and Avail 189G I know somehow this behavior is related to APFS thing; but again, I need some logic to filter out the duplicated entry . I just want to use one or more CLI commands, which somehow let me respond this question: How much space are on ALL disks (sum) on this host, and how much is available on ALL disks (sum) ?
Even though I have correct time-stamps on the texts, they are still being displayed out of order. An extreme example (take a look at the time stamps given) that I just recently happened to receive is
I have an iMac, Macbook Pro and an iPad Pro, but I'm relatively new to the IOS/OSX ecosystem as I've only used these devices for very specific use cases. I'm in the process of making the switch to all Mac. As part of that quest, I signed up for iCloud and I'm paying the monthly subscription for 2TB. Since that amount of storage is greater than the sum of all of my devices, I would like the apps that need to save files somewhere to all save on iCloud. This way I can access those files from any device without having to think about which device the files are on, or having to make sure I sync the files or folder.
Honestly, I'm finding Apple's launchctl and plist (XML?) usage to be somewhat confusing and overkill. Using Terminal, I just wanna say hey, macOS, start program.app at boot! or hey, macOS, start my /path/to/shell.sh at boot! How can I add a boot item --remotely via Terminal/SSH/Netcat/command line/shell?
Any suggestions for a good, free audio converter for Mac? I used to use Max.app but it has long become abandonware and is now super buggy and crashy. I just need something I drop a couple (or 20 thousand) Apple Lossless files into and let it crank away making me some AAC compressed files or some MP3 or whatever.
I'm using brew vim which is currently at version 8.0.1850 but 8.1 has just been released and I'm wondering if there is a way to upgrade to it yet? I've done some digging and can't see an option to do it.
P.S.: Yes, I do make regular backups, but as I was on an offsite field trip for the last couple of days, it would be great if I could recover my notes so that's why reformatting and restoring is not (yet) an option...
I cannot boot in my Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 7) Boot Camp 10 partition any more ("no bootable device - insert disk and press any key"). Probably after the High Sierra 10.13.4 Update. When I run Boot Camp Assistant I get the message "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition".
Does anyone know if I exclude whatsapp from being backed up using iCloud backup, would it still be backing up all the chat on iCloud drive nonetheless?
I have set my Mac menu bar to auto hide and show. Normally it is hidden, but when I move my cursor to the top of the screen, it becomes visible and I can click the icons within it.
We need to move iPads from old MDM server to new MDM server. From School manager we added devices to new MDM server.
Trying to locate the logic instrument pack on my HD. Earlier versions had them in Library/app support/Logic, but no such file exists.
I want darker colors to be brighter on my MacBook Pro 2015 (retina display). Every frame displayed should be as if it's gone through photoshop and the "shadows" slider has been increased. How can I do this?
The following command: $ sudo mkdir /AppleInternal and entering my password when prompted, results in: mkdir: /AppleInternal: Operation not permitted
Memory pressure is still "green" most of the time. Running out of space is also not an issue so most of the data seems to be "temporary". However, I am a bit worried about my SSD - writing 25 TB per year (in addition to the "regular" workload) does not seem to be a good idea... Any ideas?
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 with Touch bar, and therefore Touch ID. I have tried to setup everything that I can to use Touch ID including login and to authenticate the sudo command.
What necessary and sufficient steps can one take, from the software side of the device, when (s)he is purchasing a used Apple Watch, to make sure the Watch is what the seller is claiming it to be? Are the steps different for GPS and GPS + Cellular models?
Whenever I touch the screenshot button on the touchbar, it asks sets the "Window" option by default and at a minimum I have to click the mouse to take the screenshot or tap on "Window" again. How do I tweak the settings such that tapping the Camera button simply takes the screenshot without prompting for any other actions?
On the right side of the terminal app appeared a white bar (I don't know how). This bar has a button which upon pressing splits the terminal horizontally. I would like to get rid of it, what must I do?
In theory, I ought to be able to select the keychain in Keychain Access and choose "Change Settings..." there, or use security set-keychain-settings in Terminal. But all menu items for the "Local Items" keychain are disabled in Keychain Access, and I can't figure out how to refer to the "Local Items" keychain using security.
I've 2 partitions on my mac 350GB 150GB What I need to do is to delete the 150GB permanently and put it back into the 350GB
Below is an example of what I'm trying to do: The plist was added to /Library/LaunchDaemons so it should run at boot for all users, right? The appropriate file permissions were set.
I bought a 480GB OWC Aura SSD with a known compatibility issue for my Macbook Pro 15" (mid-2015) after my old SSD died. I installed the drive and partitioned it. It shows up when running diskutil list in a High Sierra recovery terminal, but not on any older OS versions (Yosemite or El Capitan)
I have an external monitor hooked up to my iMac. I only use it when I'm coding, so mostly it's off. But some windows can get lost over there, because as far as my iMac knows, it's still in use. What's the best way to deactivate it? Unplug it from the back of the iMac until I want to use it again (drag) Mirror the displays when not using, so nothing will get lost over there (I think this makes my primary monitor appear look weird, since my external monitor is portrait and my main monitor is landscape.) Some other way?
I have an Early 2015 13" MacBook Air with Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB. I'm trying to figure out what its capabilities are in terms of connecting two external monitors.
I'm trying to take a screenshot of a part of a video in Quicktime 10.4. Any idea how to do that?
My iPhone died; would not charge or turn on. I took it to Authorised Apple retailer (Not Apple Store) instead of fixing it, they replaced it with a new phone (_after a couple of weeks of waiting for them to get back to me ... meanwhile I kept using my Apple Watch (Series 2 Model A1758 with OS 4.2.3) but was using a "temporary Android phone" ... the Watch has data I don't want to lose_) So I now have a new iPhone and want to pair my existing Apple Watch while preserving all the health/fitness tracking data that the Watch has been accumulating. Note: I've done a bunch of searching to find out if this is possible, but not found anything so far ...
The problem I’m experiencing is that contact names do not appear on whatsapp notifications (locked and unlocked). For example, if I get a message from Dad, whatsapp only displays the whatsapp logo and “message”, without displaying the sender. When I turn on message previews, I can see both the contact name and the message preview, but I used to be able to see just the contact name (“Dad has sent you a message”) instead of having to see the preview. This just happened as I updated to ios 11.3.1. I reached out to whatsapp and they mentioned below:
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question. If not direct me. How can I keep photos on my iphone but not in icloud? Most often the question is asked in reverse. I'm not interested in icloud for the most part and would like to free up space but still have pics on my phone. Do I need 3rd party software to do this? I'm not sure why apple makes it so hard to do stuff. Thanks!
Bought a used MacBook (~2008), and trying to set it up. Wasn't able to install the OS (Lion is the suggested one) due to a recurring "temporarily unavailable" error. Went to reformat the hard drive, and while I'm able to erase the primary partition, attempting to erase or partition the overall physical drive is failing with a "cannot unmount disk" error. Tried to force through the Terminal with diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk0, and got "Forced unmount of disk0 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted." Tried sudo -- command unrecognized.
I am trying to automate a bash script which calls pandoc. I would like to highlight a markdown file in finder, then select the 'md2tex' service, which will turn the markdown file into a .tex file. I have got this to run fine in the terminal. However, when I try to automate it, it doesn't work. When I open Automator, I create a new service, then a drag and drop 'run shell script' into the window on the right. Other options are shown in the window below. I have used the $@ symbol to refer to the variable name (name of file). The screenshot shows all of the options / settings.
I know terminal isn’t meant to be the latest in computing, but batch deletion of text is really essential. How do I fix this? Also, yes, I know about ⌥ Option⌫ Delete to delete full words. Still it's no bueno for text editing. How can I delete whole lines of selected text?
It doesn’t boot so I tried disk repair but it returned : "File System Check Exit Code 8"
I accidentally deleted an encrypted APFS volume and created a HFS+ volume, but didn’t do anything else afterwards. Is it somehow possible to restore the APFS volume? I do have the password. It was a volume spanning the whole disk, so I hope it should somehow be possible to be recreated, if hopefully the HFS+ table didn’t overwrite critical portions.
I currently have cookies enabled for websites I visit in Safari. Is there a way to set a cookie policy for a specific site such that this particular site never sets cookies?
I use Sessions to keep track of browsing sessions in Safari. I was having some trouble with invalid cookies and I cleared my web history. Now all of my saved Sessions are gone. Is there any way to recover the data? Where does Sessions store it's data? I may have a backup.
Looking to download my iTunes purchase history and found this AppleScript by @Boris42, Download entire iTunes purchase history as CSV file (MacOS High Sierra), however it's not working on my iMac. 21.5-inch 2017 High Sierra OS 10.13.4 (17E202 - which is one earlier than Boris') iTunes 12.7.4.76 I copy pasted his script into my Script Editor & ran (reposted here). ... and this is the error I got: System Events got an error: Can’t get UI element "Purchased" of group 6 of list 2 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of group 1 of splitter group 1 of window "iTunes" of application process "iTunes". With this line highlighted: click static text "Purchased" of UI element "Purchased" of group 6 of list 2 of webarea Boris had originally replied:
I have a MacPro that i want to keep on Mountain Lion, but I'd like to be able to startup off of the latest MacOS. Is there a way to create a bootable drive that uses High Sierra?
When my iPhone 5c is connected via lightning cable the photos are showing up on one of my macs - which has El Capitan. The photos do not show up on another one that has High Sierra (and it did not show up earlier when that computer was on Sierra either). Here is what is available:
Pretty much just the title. Does the order that you do it in matter?
My friend has been using a clamshell phone for the past two decades and has never had internet access. I had an old iPhone 5 I don't use and thought, well that's a way to get him near the current decade and on the internet so we can work on GarageBand together. So I wiped my iPhone 5 and had him walk through the setup. He created a new iCloud account and so-on. When it came time to download GarageBand he was met with this planned obsolescence bullshit: "This application requires IOS 11.0 or later". How do I get an older version of GarageBand installed for this Luddite so he can join relative modernity?
What was the maximum screen resolution and refresh rate that a 68K-based Macintosh could display? There are reports of Mac OS 9 going up to 1920 x 1200, but that is, of course, running on a PowerPC CPU. I'm wondering what the highest resolution was, assuming you were running the most powerful 68K-based Mac with the latest Mac OS 8.1 (which was the last version of Mac OS that ran on 68K chips).
Each time I Cmd+S an .mp3 or .mp4 file, it saves it, but as it turns out, as an empty Zero bytes file. Even if I'm explicitly choosing Save As and Format=Page Source, it doesn't work. I doubt this is an expected behaviour as it has let me down several times since some of the files are no longer online. This issue is very similar to After Maverick, Safari will not download PDF files, but the solution there doesn't work for me as I don't even have that "Allow Plugins" checkbox in my version, nor do I use any. I have Safari 11.0.3 on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6
How do I find the route for a specific IPv6 address? For IPv4 I can do: But for IPv6:
I am running into an odd situation recently, that when my MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep, it will not be able to activate the Spotlight shortcut (command + space), not until a reboot. I am not sure what went wrong? And how should I inspect it?
So, I have Windows 10 installed in my Macbook Pro (Early 2013). Some files from AppData directory are getting mysteriously deleted. For example, my Chrome extensions usually gets corrupt and I have to sign back in with my Google Profile. Sometimes, when launching Discord app, I get "missing update.exe" file error. Some games loses their settings and switches to default settings.
Have the solution to auto launch on login. This shouldn't be a problem, if it can be scripted or something.
Is it possible to have a setup where you have: two non-mirrored external monitors (with maximum 2K resolution) eventually excluded built-in monitor (blank or lid closed) power supply single USB-2 with keyboard/mouse other USB-2 free with my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)?
What I'm looking for: a simple iOS and/or macOS app that would notify me at 10:00 to start working, and 10:55 to take a 5-minute break, and so on, until 19:00, for example. Usual pomodoro timers can't easily start at the beginning of an hour, and allow pausing/skipping, which messes everthing app, and I need an app that simply works at a rigid timetable.
My MacBook Pro 9,2 suddenly cannot boot anymore (I see a question mark). I started it in recovery mode and disk utility does not seem to see any HDD plugged in. I removed the HDD and I placed it inside a USB adapter, and it seems to be properly recognized by another Linux machine. Then I tried to boot the mac recovery system and the HDD is properly recognized from the same USB case. Then I tried to install a SSD unit inside the macbook: recovery system can recognize the SSD properly. Any idea why the macbook seems to suddenly be unable to detect a regular old original HDD when installed with the SATA connector while still being able to detect SATA SSD and to detect anything plugged via USB? I also tried to reset NVRAM and PRAM, nothing changed.
High level - have an APFS container that won't mount or repair. In Disk Utility I have the external drive (disk3) with the "APFS Physical Store" unmounted below. (disk3s2). I then have a mystery drive listed "AppleAPFSMedia" (uninitialized) which lists as (disk4). Running "diskutil apfs list" in terminal turns up the following which is listing disk3s2 under disk4. My thought is that the references got messed up somehow. Any thoughts on how to fix this (aside from the obvious, format and start over). +-- Container ERROR -69808
The problem started when the battery depleted. After plugging it in to recharge and rebooting, Wi-Fi stopped working. It says that Wi-Fi is connected, but there's no actual connection to the internet. There's no problem with the connection itself or my modem or router because Wi-Fi works fine on my other devices. In fact, it works when I boot up Windows in the very same MacBook Pro. It just won't work in OS X (Mavericks), so there's no hardware problem, only a problem with some settings. When I connect the computer to the modem or router with a cable, it says that there's an ethernet connection, but that doesn't work either. This seems to be a common enough problem and I've tried lots of things previously suggested, to no avail: turning the computer, the modem and the router off and on again resetting the system clock removing and readding the network changing the location setting changing IP and DNS addresses resetting NVRAM and PRAM turning off antivirus software etc. Any ideas on ho
After AMPPS started giving me issues after upgrading to high sierra, I decided to buy Mamp Pro. I can get to *=URL=* just fine, but anytime I try one of my vhosts, I just get the message "It Works!" Any idea on what might be causing this? Thanks!
Recently my Macbook Pro Retina Late 2013 has started to shut down unexpectedly while running on battery. I thought it was because of my CPU was too hot but it was not the case. When checking it further, I found that my battery status is "Service Battery". I used coconutBattery to check and found that the Full Charge Capacity of my Mac is insanely low. I could be sure that it was around 90% last week and suddenly now it dropped to 46.9% of the Design Capacity.
I need to send a file over Email securely. My idea was to use a Disk Image containing the file. Unfortunately, the person who I am sending the file to has a PC running Windows 10. I need a way (most likely through the command line) to create an Encrypted Disk Image from a folder that is both read and write compatible on both Mac's and PC. Even better would be an Apple Script Droplet that would take a file (not a folder) create a folder and then create an Encrypted Disk Image from that folder that is both read and write compatible on both Mac's and PC and then remove the original file and folder. Note: Shell scripts are fine for the Apple Script Droplet.
I’m trying to disable my iCloud keychain on iCloud and all devices. I’m trying to do it as this article instructs: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204085
Recently upgraded to mac os 10.14.4 and I have external 4k monitor with resolution set to 1920x1080. Now if I play a game in fullscreen mode with 2560x1440 resolution, my mouse jumps to the top edge if I click anywhere in the bottom of the screen. Like I would be out of the screen and it corrects mouse position by setting it to the 0 on Y axis. If I change the basic out of the game resolution of that monitor the problem disappears but then I am stuck with text so small I cant even read out of the game. Playing with lower resolution also works but the game experience is close to unplayable. Is there some fix for this?
last week left cmd button on my macbook pro 2017 w/o touchbar broken i swapped that with right command button but some of inner hinge pins are broken too can i change that too? i barely use right cmd button and Apple does not have Store in my country it currently looks like this you can see that right-up and button-left pins are broken
Since upgrading Whatsapp to version 2.18.52 contact names do not appear on whatsapp lock screen notifications. For example, if I get a message from Mom, whatsapp only displays the whatsapp logo and “message”, without displaying the sender. I used to be able to see just the contact name (“Mom has sent you a message”), but now, no Names are displayed. This just happened as I updated to ios 11.3.1. Anyone having a similar problem? Please advise how I can fix this issue. Thank you
Hello I recently upgraded my MBA with new ssd Samsung 960 Evo 250 GB. I am using adapter ("M key M.2 PCIe AHCI SSD Adapter as SSD for MACBOOK Air 2013 2014 2015 A1465 A1466 Pro A1398 A1502" from Ali). Everything worked fine - installation and running system for few days. But now I have problems that it keeps itself turned off and now when I started MBA, I get error - folder with question mark and MBA keeps restarting. Is there any way how to fix this, or I need different SSD?
Does the 2013 Mac Pro use M.2 solid state drives (SSDs)? I would like to upgrade my Mac Pro to 1 TB of storage, but OWC's SSDs are too expensive for me.
I've been experiencing duplicated birthdays on my laptop and iphone and couldn't find the answer. Every time someone's birthday it says tomorrow/today *name's* birthday and one more `tomorrow/today name's age birthday.
I'm able to gpt remove and add partitions from the guid table but despite my current efforts, I still get the same errors when I verify the disk and volumes. When I check in disk utility, I do not see any disk partitions from the guid table, just the 500g ssd drive.
Here is what I see in the photo app  However I am actually connect to internet with no issue. It seems like the message app on my macbookpro is not delivering messages too. How can I fix it?
In System Information, we can obtain information about the battery, e.g.: I'd like to know: What does the Cell Revision field mean? How are Cycle counts calculated?
I have the iPad Pro 12", original model (when it first came out), along with the Apple keyboard/cover. This error message appears randomly, and searches so far have blamed it on an OS update, but those notes are from a few revisions back. The current iOS is what I've installed 11.3.1 and the error still occurs, making the iPad virtually unusable even using this as a cover, not even typing. Any hacks/fixes to this issue?
Mac Mini (late 2012). Primary monitor is a Dell 34" U3415W and the secondary screen is a TCL 1080p TV. For the most part everything runs smoothly and I have no issues but...
I am writing a book. That book has chapters, obviously. I have put every chapter on a new section.
I'm trying to figure out how to see the mail on my larger monitor. Feel like I did something to fix it once but I cannot remember what I did to get it working properly. Any ideas???
I have WAV (raw audio) files on an SD card, recorded with a Zoom H4N digital recorder. In the field, I need a way to get the WAV files off of the card.
Yet another major major bug with the simplest app such as reminder. I can't set the reminder for certain time. I can set it, but as soon as I go out, and in again to the Reminder app, it gets resetted and doesn't have the date set to be triggered. Completely useless app. Does anyone know how to set a reminder on an iPhone with iOS 11?
Is it possible to get a complete list of all homebrew packages that are able to install using brew install PACKAGE_NAME?
When I use Compressor to forge a video, the frequency of CPU drops to 1.0ghz. It doesn't make sense. Macbook pro 13, 2017, without Touch Bar
When I use Grab, if ever I close all its windows and then take focus away from it by clicking somewhere else it disappears from the dock. Grab hides from the dock even if the Grab window I close is the "About Grab" window. Grab doesn't hide from the dock if I open it and then take away focus before opening and closing a Grab window. I can see the Grab process is still running when I check from Terminal and when I "reopen" it to get it back into the dock it's the same PID and only one copy is running.
The command line tool security set-keychain-settings provides options for locking when the system sleeps (-l) and locking after a timeout (-u) but does not seem to provide any options for reversing these settings? How to I use security set-keychain-settings to disable these options?
I recently upgraded my MacBook to High Sierra (from El Cap). It appears I can no longer use the say command. When I enter a simple command
I want to draw a box around formulae I am inserting into a page in Pages using latex. Pages will not accept formulae inside text boxes and this would be a lame method anyway.
I have noticed all my iOS devices and my those of my friends have javascript disabled in Safari settings by default (Settings > Safari > Advanced). Yet, javascript seemed to be working on all websites.
I'm on a Early 2015 13-inch macbook pro with macOS version 10.13.4 (model MacBookPro12,1). When I click on the wifi symbol in the menu bar (the 4 curved lines in the shape of a triangle), there is a ~2 second delay before the networks show up. When I'm in an area with a lot of networks (20+), there is another 20+ second delay before I can actually click on a network - it freezes until then.
I'm trying to connect to a Screen Sharing service using Remmina in Debian, but it doesn't seem to connect. But now I'm not sure now if this is possible? @DavidAnderson says: "What make you think Screen Sharing is compatible with VNC?"
If VLC is running, playing a movie at file path X, is there any way I can know what file path X is from a Bash script? (For simplicity's sake we can assume that only one instance of VLC is running.)
Ive recently noticed that from one of my keynote presentations it creates a ".spin" log whenever i close the presentations without saving or view previous versions of the presentation with the 'Revert to' option. I believe this is due to two things: the spinning wheel showing up before it closes(as it is a large presentation and could take about 3-4 seconds to revert changes) and/or when i go to view previous versions of the presentation sometimes the spinning beachball could briefly appear.
I want to share an internet connection (Wi-Fi) through my laptop. I understand that you can't receive internet data and create a network simultaneously using the same internal adapter, but what if I bought a Wi-Fi adapter, like this one, so one can receive data and the other transmit it?
I have a MacPro 2009 reflashed as a 2010. I am considering to install a Tempo SSD PCIe card and then put High Sierra on it. This card is advertised to allow booting on it: would anyone have first hand experience with that? The background story is that my boot drive is a RAID 5 Softraid with 4 disks (the four internal slots of the machine) and I have just discovered that High Sierra can't be installed on a RAID. So if I could have put one SSD on that PCIe card and boot on it, the upgrade path would be very simple.
I'm having a very strange issue with a recent sale I completed this afternoon for an iPhone 8 Plus. I had turned off Find My iPhone and wiped the device a week and a half ago, and this afternoon I sold the device in person to someone on FB marketplace. An hour later he contacted me saying he's having issues activating it at the Boost Mobile store and sends a photo of the device with an activation lock screen. It's showing that it's linked to a p*****@icloud.com account.
I've been missing Notepad++ since changing from Windows to macOS and there's an article that says if I use WineBottler (that's the only thing I miss), it should run. WineBottler packages Windows-based programs like browsers, media-players, games or business appli­ca­tions snugly into Mac app-bundles.
I need to format an SD card to 4096 bytes Allocation Size Unit, but I'm not sure how. I know I need to type in a specific command into the terminal. Could anyone help me out by telling me what code I need to type in to make it work?
Goal To be able to boot from an external hard drive with Windows 7 installed on it from my MacBook Air. So far... I have successfully installed Windows 7 on said hard drive and have verified it works by booting from it on a PC running Windows 10. The Problem When I plug my external hard drive into my MacBook and select Windows from the Startup Disk utility my MacBook hangs on a black backlit screen with a folder with a question mark on it until I shut down or restart. MacBook Air Information MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) Processor 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
For my watchOS app that I’m developing, I don’t want people on my Sharing tab to receive notifications while I’m testing HealthKit integration.
Is it possible to WIRELESSLY connect an older (2007?) iMac as an external monitor to a MacBook Pro via Bluetooth, WiFi, Airport Express, Apple TV, or some other WIRELESS connector? If so, how? The iMac is running Mac OS X, version 10.4.11. The MacBook Pro is running macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.4
Once I was using my computer again, I have a persisting sequence of dialogue boxes that will not go away. They seem to interfere strongly, rendering other applications unresponsive (beachballing) until I cycle through them once or twice by clicking Cancel three or six times. Preview is particularly difficult to use now.
I was using an external hard drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk - 1TB) having 5 partitions (each with NTFS format) on my MacBook Pro (macOS High Sierra). I had installed Tuxera NTFS to read/write the external drive. Today, Using Disk Utility, I tried to format 1 of the 5 partitions with Mac OS Extended format. But it did not succeed and gave error. Thereafter, when I connect the external drive, it gives following error (disk you inserted was not readable by this computer). I also tried accessing it on Windows laptop but it does not work.
In Settings > (my name) > iCloud > iCloud storage: I can see “Whatsapp messenger: 12.8 MB” In Settings > (my name) > iCloud > iCloud storage > Backups > (My iPhone) > Whatsapp: 86 MB” What’s the difference between these two?
I originally thought it was as simple as using Bootcamp and then making a partition for Linux. But apparently installing Linux breaks the Windows installation.
I recently changed from a macbook to a macpro desktop. My keyboard has no media keys but on the mackbook I was able to use the standard media functions keys when I wanted to skip songs etc. I no longer have that option so is there anyway to map a keyboard shortcut to media controls? FYI My media player is Google play music in Chrome and media keys used to work fine with this. My keyboard is an Apple Extended Keyboard 2 which obviously pre-dates media shortcuts!
My keyboard is doing something wonky! When I hit the “9”, or “1” buttons it comes up “19”. This is the same for some other numbers/letters!
when it's closed the Usb port doesn't provide energy. How i can do this? If i plug the phone while using the mac it works but after some minutes that i close it, it stops providing and it's like all the computer is shutted down. Thanks for help
My university Wi-Fi has multiple SSIDs with the same name, but broadcasting in different channels (as I receive signals from different routers at the same time). However, in my room my Wi-Fi disconnects often which I'm assuming is because it is connecting to a router with poor signal strength. Is there any way to manually choose the SSID channel that I wish to join?
I want to download the old version of Musically app on my iPhone 8. Please let us know the steps to download the old version of the app. I can only download the latest version of apps from the app store. Can we download the older version in the new phone?
I've created a new automator Service. This service executes the following AppleScript:
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) running OS X El Capitan with dual boot Windows. I would like to replace windows with Ubuntu 18.04. The command disktil list shows:
Several times a day for the past several weeks, I'm noticing my phone briefly vibrating as though I've received a notification of some sort. However, upon checking, I have no new notifications of any kind.
How long does enrollment take as an organisation? I have been waiting for over a month and the only feedback from Apple has been:
I wrote this to push on a button, and it's work fine when I run the script, however when I run the script from mail (trigger from a email rule) nothing happen. Is this due to an Applescript limitation or am I doing something wrong?
I am running Mail 11.3 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and I have several rules set up to move messages in specific email folders. I have a Gmail account and a work-related account.
I had to switch temporarily to a MacBook Pro 13 early 2011 model and when I'm connecting my iPhone 7+ or iPad, it's not getting detected nor charged. Other USB devices like thumb drives or USB-microphones are working just fine. If I put a voltcraft USB power converter between the iPhone/iPad and my MacBook Pro, the device is getting charged but it's still not getting detected in iTunes/duet. I already reset NVRAM (*=URL=* as suggested in similar posts here but that didn't fix anything and I don't know what else to try.
dtruss worked great in 10.12.x (after csrutil disable), but in 10.13 I've noticed that it no longer functions. For sudo dtruss ls we're only getting output like: Any news on what's happening here and how to get our necessary access to this back now? Just for clarity, 10.12.6 yields much better results: For anyone wondering if I have given ALL output, the following is ALL of the output for a folder I created called "test" with 6 "testing" files that I touched in it, executed as root:
I have a macbook pro early 2015. I'll put this in situation. I have internet connectivity, so I start working on pages. After a while, I see that iCloud doesn't sync. The Wi-fi icon looks like I'm connected to the internet, but I don't have internet access. I have to disable wi-fi and enable. After that, internet works. I have an iPhone and there the internet works perfect. Why this is happening?
I searched all the online solutions already and did my due diligence (reboot the phone, reset all network settings) and nothing works. I tested 2 Wi-Fi networks in the area with a laptop. One of them works fine on the laptop and fails on the phone with "No internet connection" or "unable to join network". The phone can't see the other although I can see it with almost full signal on the laptop. As mentioned in the title: iPhone type = 6s, iOS version = 11.2.6.
I have an iMac (2017) and a Mac Mini, both running high Sierra 10.3.4. When I try to access the Mini's screen from the iMac, it works at first, but if I maximize the window so that the shared screen takes up my whole screen, the mouse pointer disappears and keyboard control stops working. If I switch back to a regular window, it still doesn't work. If I share in the other direction (i.e., accessing the iMac's screen from the Mini), it works fine. Any idea what might be causing this?
I have discovered two ways to share internet on my MacBook. Firstly, clicking on the Wi-Fi icon and selecting 'Create Network...'. Secondly, in System Preferences, Sharing > Internet Sharing and select 'To computers using: Wi-Fi'. What is the difference between these?
I have been trying to upgrade my iPod 3G to use a 64g CompactFlash card, as outlined in this blog post. I have had partial success. I can format the iPod using Disk Utility. I can get iTunes to see the iPod, and even sync songs to it.
When I press cmd-p in safari the print page shows up. Escape doesn't work because I've remapped my escape key to ⌥esc How do I exit this without using the mouse or escape?
I don't want my name to show up when I text new people, how do I fix this?
What would cause a specific series of photos not being picked up by Photo Stream? Specifically here's the scenario:
I use iMessage for my iPhone and Macbook. The problem:
There are 2 iPhones and 2 iPads in our house and every now and then, when no one is using them, they will consume all of the available upload bandwidth of our internet connection for quite a long period of time. I normally just turn them off or kick them from the wifi when this starts because I don't believe they're doing anything important, I have no idea what could require them to upload so much data. The iPhones are both running iOS 11.2.6 iCloud backup is turned off on all devices they upload both when they are plugged into a charger and when they are not. I have a router running LuCI lede-17.01 branch (git-17.152.82987-7f6fc16) / LEDE Reboot 17.01.2 r3435-65eec8bd5f.
I don't have her on do not disturb and when she texts me the blue bubble next to a contacts name that normally shows up when I receive a new text doesn't show up either. Does anyone know how I can fix this? We're both on the same iCloud account if that has helps.
After I print one document, if I try to print another document within the next few minutes my printer does not print. On the Mac, the document briefly goes into the queue before being sent to the printer. Neither the Mac nor the printer report any errors, the document simply does not print. On the Mac, everything appears identical to when a document successfully prints (i.e. the queue is not paused, the status shows as available and the document queue clears once the printer is sent the document). The issue resolves itself if I wait a little while (~5-10 minutes) before printing the next document or by unplugging the USB cable from the Mac and plugging it back in. After that, I can again print one more document before the issue repeats itself.
I'm also getting very long estimated charge times, it first started at c. 5hrs, and was slowly charging. But now it seems to be slowing down at around 40% charge, and is saying time to fill the battery is c. 10hrs.
As of about 4 hours ago, my iPhone has refused to charge and the battery has drained, every time it gets enough power to turn on it displays the lock screen and "9%" battery before promptly dying after a second or two. I have never had any issues with my battery before today and i'm using the same charger i've always used EDIT: It is an iPhone 5s, I have had it for about a year but is second hand, iOS 8.X, it no longer turns on at all, just displays one or other of "charging" or "needs charging" and can not reach the lock screen, I have tried 3 different charger with 2 different cables.
I'd like to page up in LESS/pager output on Mac's Terminal using Shift-Space. How can I map shift-space to page up in Terminal?
I am not able the save the videos from share it into my iphone (Camera Roll) ?? Please suggest me an answer.. I checked few other links, i am not getting Import option to save the files into my iphone..
Something really really bad happened to me. I was formatting my SD Card with the Terminal when suddenly something happened and it formatted my ext. Hard drive. After that, I found the software "easeus data recovery" but every file I recover is corrupted, but the file size is the same as the original one. Here some data from me: System (OS): macOS High Sierra V. 10.13.4 Hard drive before: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Hard drive after: Fat Terminal command: sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat /dev/disk2 What I already tried: Saving on an other Hard drive (Journaled and ExFat) Does someone have a solution for that?
I dont want the contact names to show on the notification but I stillwant the notification badge to show
I have a mac mini (Mid 2011) running High Sierra (10.13.4) that I've been trying to use a home server. I'm not sure what the cause is, but my external USB drive (a 3rd-gen 4-drive Drobo) keeps disconnected after 16-48 hours. The Drobo is out of warranty and since June 2017 Drobo doesn't provide any community support so I haven't been able to figure out if the issue originates with the device. Aside from power cycling (which isn't the cause in my case) what might cause a USB drive to disconnect ?
When I press the shiftcommand\ keyboard shortcut, it goes into 'expose' mode and allows to search thru only the tabs in the current window, not all windows. It would be super handy to be able to search/display tabs from all windows. Is there a way to do this?
I have a USB drive (a Drobo) that appears disconnecting randomly after 10-20 hours. I'm trying to gather data to help understand the root cause of the problem so I'd like to understand the timing of the disconnection. Is there a log file that would have this kind of data ? On a related note, is there a log that would have generally relevant data that I could use to try to correlate to the disconnections?
I just bought my first Macbook today (long time Windows user) but I am running into issues loading in the .OVA of Rapid 7's "Hackazon" vulnerable web app into VirtualBox and getting a bridged connection so that I can scan it and connect to it. I know there are lots of these questions that have been posted about networking with VMs in other forms, but I have followed all of the suggestions from a dozen pages and nothing seems to work, and I would really like to not regret buying this machine. Here is my setup: VirtualBox Settings Screenshot: Screenshot of error on VM load Screenshot of ifconfig on the VM
I made some small changes and then rebuilt the database and all seemed well, but I want to ask if there is a known danger of loss of photos somehow due to the way Photos manages this. I didn't find much on the Apple site to explain how Photos does folder level organization (EXIF CreateDate?), since this is what Photos abstracts as part of its UI.
MacOS 10.13.4 Keynote version: 8.0.1(5579) Ive recently noticed that from one of my keynote presentations[roughly over 475MB] it creates a ".spin" log whenever i close the presentations without saving or sometimes when i view previous versions of the presentation with the 'Revert to' option. I believe this is due to the spinning beachball wheel that can show up if i view previous versions(roughly 1 second) or close without saving(~2-4 seconds).
Suddenly the shortcut cmd + opt + arrow (left or right) stopped working. I used it to switch tabs in Chrome and move back and forth in code (IntelliJ).
I have iOS 11.2.2 and have not used Apple maps in a long time. I’m seeing a blank map with a grid on iPhone, but no actual map layer or tiles ever loading when zoomed in. How do I fix broken empty Apple maps in 2018?
I feel like I constantly get notifications from the Mac App Store. I find this distracting and stressful and would like to change how often the Mac App Store checks for updates, or how often it notifies me of these updates. I know I can go into System Preferences and disable the automatic checking for updates, but I don’t want to do this as I’m not likely to remember to manually check for updates myself. Is it possible to check for updates less often or to get notified less?
I have disabled hidden files in the Finder on macOS Sierra, but they still show up in my text editors, such as Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and PhpStorm. I have already tried This works for the Finder but not for any text editor.
I've added a webroot directory and file within /Library/WebServer/Documents. The web site/file displays fine but when I try edit it within PHPStorm or when using nano (without sudo) I get file permission issues. The parent directory of the webroot is owned by root:wheel and has 777 permissions. Within the web directory mysite the permissions and owners are as follows: Then in /web Are my owners configured wrong ?
What fonts does macOS have that give major Asian scripts an artistic, calligraphic look, as if painted by a scholar with a brush? (As opposed to a formal, computer characters.)
I would like to change the current JRE from Version 10.0.1 to some previous versions like 1.8 for instance. At the moment Im confused about my current setting. Basically, Java Panel in System Preferences is telling me that my Java Version is Version 10.0.1 which corresponds to: java -version was telling me that: So, I tried to set different versions of my JDK in .bash_profile: Where I set the default version to:
I like to edit my pdf documents and add notes (I'm studying Russian). But sometimes I'll add a note, and then open the file on a later day, and the text will have become much larger, or sometimes have completely disappeared.
How can I get Outlook 2016 for Mac to allow separating entered email addresses by commas instead of semicolons? I have found directions for how to do this on Windows, but I have not been able to find a corresponding option on Outlook for Mac- it just insists on only recognizing semicolons.
I am making a service in Automator that runs the following AppleScript code: If you couldn't tell, I'm trying to click on something and type "Hello" there. However, when I run this, all that happens is I hear the "plunk" sound when you do something invalid, twice. Why isn't this code working? The log does say "Run AppleScript completed" and then "Workflow completed." I have it set to run with no input on any application. I tried increasing the delays, but that didn't help. Let me know if there's any more details I can provide.
Can I set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle two-finger scrolling on my trackpad? In some situations, like when watching videos on youtube, VLC, or playing video games, accidental trackpad scrolling is a real pain. I'd like to disable scrolling in these situations.
I have an app from which I'd like to extract some data, it's no longer being updated and will stop working as soon as I upgrade to iOS 11 due to sun setting of 32 bit support. The app contains two files, one .bak and a .dat. Opening with a text editor shows the files to be SQLite related. (The first line states SQLite). Some of my data is visible in the file, but portions of it are in unreadable characters.
In many applications shift-tab will unindent: but it just indents further on powerpoint. What is the shortcut?
Would it help to throw out a lot of these fonts? (Will macOS even let me do this, since most/all of them actually seem to be installed by macOS and subsequent updates?)
I recently upgraded to a 13-inch MacBook Pro (2017 model) and installed macOS High Sierra version 10.13.2. The new Mail app is grouping e-mails into "conversations", which has the net effect of making e-mails from my clients disappear under my replies. I use Google mail (on the web), the Apple Mail app on my MacBook, and the Mail app on my iPhone 6S. My goal is to have all three of these apps simply display the e-mails in the order that they were sent and/or received. I don't want some "helpful" feature on one platform adding to the overall cognitive burden.
I know that High Sierra has had some issues with USB audio in the past, but I can't understand what might have happened here. Are there any ideas?
Hi I recently tried to partition my MacBook pro so I could install Windows 10. While I was going through the custom install of Windows 10, I accidently deleted the allocated space instead of erasing it and now I'm unable to recover the partition data. Is there anyway I could restore the data back as it is approximately half of my total storage around 125gb. Thanks for any help in advance terminal
If this could be done if it weren't for the XQuartz rendering, I could switch to Skim (with a regular macOS window). I own BetterTouchTool and Alfred, if either might be useful in a way I have not thought of.
When issuing the command pmset -g in macOS (tested on El Capitan through High Sierra) the first two lines come up about the active UPS and AC profile: What does the negative one (-1) refer to and what is the asterisk (*) denoting?
Unfortunately, most streaming players I'm currently using, except YouTube, have this exact same problem. Sometimes they simply don't play, even though they should have been loaded far enough. But in other times, they work perfectly fine. So, it's surely not that the video is defective.
My Macbook5,1 running El Capitan 10.11.6 has been crashing multiple times... 250GB SSD/94GB free I have tried to 'clean up' hard drive by deleting some memory-intensive files and cleared Desktop. Not able to run a Apple Hardware test due to age of machine but just passed a Power-On Self Test via Diagnostics. I have unplugged all external items (keyboard, monitor, etc.) Generally only running Chrome, Excel and Word when the crash occurs. I've included the latest crash report below and thanks in advance for anything you can do to help ...
I am trying to install Windows using bootcamp in my Mac (High Sierra 10.13.4). However, bootcamp tells me that I do not have enough disk space while in fact I still have a lot. I am deleted all local snapshots. I also tried disktutils: And df -h: Also,diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 limits: And diskutil apfs list:
I own a company that had purchased two iPhone 6+ on a plan through Manitoba Telephone System. The company was asked to switch to Tellus Mobility which we did and upgraded to 8. An employee left the company and left his iPhone 6+ without passwords and pass codes. I the owner of this company have a use for this phone but I need to get it unlocked and am told i need to contact apple support in order to do this. Can someone point me in the proper direction please?
I'm trying to automate creating an encrypted APFS image with files in it. What I have so far: But the final attach command failed. If I try to open the resulting DMG in Finder, it too tells me that there are no mountable file systems, so clearly I failed to add the volume, even though the addVolume command succeeded and said it successfully created the volume. Maybe it didn't though, so does anyone know how to do this?
My company developed an app a few years back (last updated in 2016) for our news website. Our developer at the time uploaded it under their name. Since then though we have stopped working with them and have developed a new app that is under our name. I have tried on a number of occasions to contact the app's owner to delete our old app via email, Facebook, Messenger etc but they just will not reply. What can I do?
According to my Geekbench 4 results, my discrete GPU Open CL score is ZERO. Additionally, my discrete GPU Metal score is lower than that for the Iris Pro! Does this mean my duscrete GPU is faulty? Below are screenshots of my device and results, and here is a link to my Geekbench results online: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/compute/2415138
Please take a look at my thread with all the tests and troubleshooting done on Adobe's forum: *=URL=* Also, the screenshot while writing this post - Safari's 17 tabs, Slack, Airmail, Messages, TickTick and Spotify - had this "setup" opened in 93' Windows 3.1 and didn't hear any problems ;)
This process is taking all my bandwidth, but no idea what it's for?
I used to receive the permission notifications when my son tried to buy something from the App Store, but a few weeks ago this just stopped. I've tried everything: buying from 2 different iPads signed in as him, also signed out and in again. I even checked on my old MacBook to see if the notification were received there, and also on an iPad logged as a me. Nothing seems to receive the notification.
I'm getting this old annoyance...  Which is worrying, because I have automatic backups running. And when I look inside the settings, I see...
According to iTunes, on my iPhone 6 I have 6 Gb Photos, 2 Gb Apps, 1,4 Gb Documents & Data and 1,6 Gb of Other. I have no idea what Other is and what makes 1,4 Gb of Documents.
I have a pair of disks which I configured as RAID1 (mirrored) via Disk Utility on my Hackintosh. I am now traveling, and took the disks with me, and want to mount them with my MacBook Pro using a USB dock like this one.
iOS Version: 11.3 My iPhone won’t allow me to give any apps camera, microphone, or library access.
I want to cleanup my system and uninstall mysql. If I do so with:
I am using Contacts OSX and iOS app's and they both synced into iCloud and I have opened them to check if the contacts are the same on my phone and Mac and they are. However when I receive an iMessage or Text message in Messages OSX it doesn't recognise the number even though that number is saved in Contacts.
I had a Terminal window with 7 or 8 tabs with a lot of history and long scrollback, with resume set to 10000 rows, that was always persisting between sessions. I have accidentally closed the window instead of quitting the Terminal app and I have lost this setup. I have a time machine backup from the day before. Is there a way to restore my tabs with their histories? I have found these two possibly related Q&A, but I can’t figure out how to use that info to restore my tabs: Restore specific Terminal history from .bash_sessions? How do OS X terminal sessions persist through reboots?
My mother is ailing and I want her to be able to reach me all the time. Also when asleep etc. Is it possible to disable all (phone-) sound with exceptions?
I have an 2 tb Hdd Drive Which i have started Encrypting Early Today In the morning which had 180 Gb of free space. But Currently now when the encryption have reached upto 20% the the free space remaining is only 6 Gb. Does it normally take so much of space to encrypt such drive if no then what must be the reason for shortage of space.
I’m the tech-savvy owner of a MacBook for which I have admin privileges. I have tried blocking Internet access for myself in the past but I always find ways to circumvent the block. So instead of that, I would like to find a way to make it as inconvenient as possible for me to re-enable. Is there any possible way in which I can make it absolutely and positively so that that Internet access is delayed for myself for a certain period of time?
A family member gave me a 13" mid-2015 Macbook Pro that had been water-damaged. Besides the battery being dead, the computer booted up fine. The only two things that don't work are the keyboard and trackpad. However, the keyboard backlighting and power button do work. Running Apple Diagnostics (using an external keyboard), I found a hardware error code PPN001. Apple has quoted this repair at about $900 USD, so I'm trying to see if I can do a repair myself for less. Would it be possible for me to do the hardware repairs myself (ie: is the logic board still ok), and if so, what parts need replacement?
I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 11.3.1. The Mail app is able to download and display e-mail from my GMail account. However, e-mail to my account at register.com is frequently not displayed until I have powered off the phone and powered it back on. The webmail service at register.com shows that the e-mails have been received, and the iPhone actually shows a little message saying "Downloading 5 of 5" or whatever, but the e-mails never appear. We all know that 11.3.1 is something of a failed release, but has anyone else experienced this problem and found a solution that doesn't involve turning the phone off and on to receive new mail?
Edit: No, I don't need to actually record the noise. I just need a quick way to Start a timer and then an equally quick way to Stop the timer, so it makes an entry that I can annotate later. I'm thinking there has to be some sort of lap timer for runners that can be used to do what I'm thinking about. Something like: Entry #1) 5/23/18: Start Time: 11:30PM Stop Time: 5/24/18 1:30AM.
In short: I am trying to install BIND9 on OSX inside a jail-environment (chroot) and failing to create a /dev/{null, random} file inside. Since Apple is slowly removing support for DNS, DHCP and more services in their server application, I tried to work out a suitable solution for using DNS and DHCP services on a Mac operating system. I ended up using BIND9 and ISC-DHCP.
I'm trying to understand the various keys printed from the following command: Does Apple document these somewhere? Specifically I want to know what the following keys mean and how to interpret their values: InstantTimeToEmpty = 65535 PermanentFailureStatus = 0 OperationStatus = 58435 ManufactureDate = 16020 MaxErr = 1 Amperage = 18446744073709551614 The other keys seem to be mostly self explanatory.
Granted they’re generally invisible files, but it’s like every application wants to store a million configuration files in my home directory. I like to keep my home directory neat and tidy. Ideally I’d like to make a folder called bash and store all the bash, shell, etc files in there. Like every app leaves a trail of one line files in my nice, clean home directory. This is my working directory:
I think it is important to note that I have FileVault enable on my mac. With that said, I tried logging into my computer about 3 hours ago, and upon inputing my password, the loading bar appeared like it usually does. But once it was about half way done loading, it slowed down a lot. It ended up slowly moving its way all the way to the end of the loading bar, but my computer just stayed on the loading screen. It did not show my desktop. It stayed there for about 10 minutes until I forced shut down my computer. Then I went into recovery mode and ran "First Aid" on my "Mac HD". Once done, I restarted the computer. And it did the exact same thing. I have a feeling that the reason this is happening is because there is some bug in FileVault, because this has happened to me one other time while I had FileVault enabled. Is there a way to disable FileVault from recovery mode? Or is there a way to fix this issue where it does not result in me reinstalling the OS?
I am trying to record a audio with iPhone via input cable like AUX from laptop Because I have audio file to use for the voicemail greeting, So I need to record with good quality.I think if can play from the pc and get the sound trough cable can record it with good quality
While I can create an encrypted thumb drive easily enough with Disk Utility, I wonder how can I create an encrypted DVD+R disc which, when I put it in the drive, causes MacOS to ask me for a password?
I just removed Calibre app via Finder Cmd+Backspace. The app cannot be found via F4 key now. But it is still available via context menu "open with", even two versions there. So how app can be really removed? macos 10.12.6
Is it possible to set the maximum computer fan speed on the latest Macs, ideally with Terminal? I understand this is a terrible idea as it will likely lead to hardware overheating and failing, but I'm curious if that level of control is still available. From what I can tell, popular options like smcFanControl only set the minimum temperature.
I recently acquired a 2010 13" MacBook Pro. When attempting to boot to a Leopard installer on a USB drive, I am greeted with a kernel panic. There is no specific error message but instead prompts me to restart.
My emails on the iPad are obviously infected and are sending random emails to others ....how do I stop this Without anti virus ( I do not use any other device for Email
I'm using Apple's wired keyboard with number pad.  Above the number pad there are 4 unassigned function keys (F16 to F19) which I would like to assign to the German umlauts ä, ö, ü and the sharp s ß. Is there a way to do that?
it's been 2 days since I bought the Apple Developer Program, and my account is pending: About 10 minutes after the enrollment, I got an email, telling me that my purchase was being processed. 1 hour after I got this email, I got another email about the taxes, and there was a PDF attached to it. I checked my account on Apple's website, but apparently, my account wasn't activated.
If I have a MacBook connected to a projector, how do I use my iPad as the presenter for slide switching? There are solutions for using Keynote here But how do I do it just with PDF slides?
This is my situation, "Seven" is the main source for internet "Seven Extreme" Is extending that network. I want "Primavera Cero" to extend from "Seven Extreme" and not "Seven" Is it possible to modify this connection in a way that remains linear?
My Mac: And I find some emoji doesn't display well on my Mac. Check out that Link:
I have a couple of issues pertaining to my iCloud and I'm honestly wondering if I should attempt to delete the account and create one anew. The account was created back in highschool when I first bought an iPod. this was probably about 10 years ago.
I have an issue where I installed an app, the installer completed with no apparent errors, the app launched immediately after installing, but afterward if I click the app icon in /Applications the icon bounces once in the dock then disappears. I looked at the postinstall script on the package and saw that one of the last things it does is run the command launchctl start ES.Examplify, which is a PLIST that was copied to /Library/LaunchAgents. If I run that command in terminal (with sudo at the front) it launches the application.
I'm upset with being asked every day whether I enable the location of a particular website. In prior version it seems possible to enable the access to the location on each website, but in Safari 11, the pane is no longer available, and even thoung I set it from Preferences → Websites → Location as is explained in the comment, and confirm the website is allow, the dialog still keeps popping out on the next day. In Safari 11, is it still possible to prevent the dialog from popping up every day?
I want to access a partition from my internal SSD from both macOS and Windows 10 to share things like KeePass database or other confidential data. Thus I am looking for a way to have an encrypted file system that provides read / write access from both systems on my MacBook Pro 2016 (Touchbar). I used to run Windows in VMware Fusion where I could easily share data from my File Vault volume with Windows 10 running in a VM.
I have a Mac Mini whose volume "Shadow" has disappeared. Not showing up in Disk Utility.
I'm trying to revive a friend's timemachine drive. It failed at some point in some way and went into read-only mode. It was difficult to unmount (had to reboot) but then got it erased. Now when I try to partition it, it fails with this message: Couldn't open disk Operation failed Anyone have any ideas?
However, Sublime Text stores its workspace files as siblings of its project files, which means that 50% of the files in the stack shouldn't be clicked. This is frustrating in several ways. I don't want them to appear in the stack.
I've never used Automator. Is it capable of "clicking" every link on a web age, clicking the download icon on the PDF that appears in a new tab, then closing that tab? And also to go to the next page (because there are only twenty per page of generated output)?
Office 365 provides Outlook for the Mac, but not everyone enjoys the (enter sarcastic voice here) grandeur (End sarcastic voice) of MS products. Because of this, I am forced to administrate with MS Office, in a Mac Environment. This I have a mixed bag of users that refuse to use Outlook 365, because it is MS... So I am in a balancing act of keeping everyone happy.
Every couple days, my Mac will simply freeze for several seconds to a few minutes. Any audio stops playing, and the mouse stops responding. Then it's back to normal. The 99.9% of the time it's behaving normally, it's just as snappy as the day I bought it. How can I figure out what is causing this?
While I am trying to use fonts from illustrator, font book not listing any of the fonts and shows "Multiple copy of fonts are installed". I tried clearing cache and checked with library font files. I could see the list of fonts. Tried removing duplicate fonts from the font book. It shows no duplicates found. But font book is not displaying even a single font. Please help me.
I have several iCloud accounts, one of them has a default group of "friends" and "work". The native contacts app allows me to filter by these categories but I don't know how to Assign a contact to one of these groups Move a contact between accounts Create a new group (such as "Family") Ideally I'd like to filter which contacts apps can access, instead of "All contacts", but I think that this feature is a prerequisite
This copies nothing to the clipboard. Whereas if you swap out the following I get returned "Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 1:42:47 PM" My end objective is to replace the word "TIME" with the "Date without the year" & " at " & "Time without the seconds" I'd also like to find some way to keep the AM or PM aspect of of the time but it might just be easier to find some way to trim off that last section.
I try to connect an iPad (iOS 11.3.1) to a WiFi network which uses EAP-TLS. There is no way to specify EAP-TLS mode because of the lack of the certificate, so I need to import the certificate first.
While I know High Sierra can run off an external HFS+ drive, I was wondering if going through some hoops to reformat the internal drive back to HFS+ would cause any problems. My plan:
I saw someone's iphone5 whatsapp notification pop up with only the whatsapp badge and the word "message" but I can't figure out how to do that on my iphone5
One day my MacBook Air mysteriously remapped the 'U', 'I' and 'O' keys to all be the alt/option key. I've no idea what triggered this, I took it to the apple shop and it seems to stay that way when they did the hardware test. Does anyone know why this could be, and hopefully recommend a way of fixing it?
There is no admin account and i just have one account, and its written standard. when i tried "command s" after rebooting that doesn't work to create new account and back to login again and the password work but when go to admin account it doesn't work.
GlobalProtect VPN client refuses to uninstall the regular drag-app-to-trash way. Their recommended method is to download the original .pkg installer and use its uninstall feature. This isn't always possible since GlobalProtect is branded to an organization and if you're no longer with that organization you can't download the installer. Is there a way to uninstall GlobalProtect without using the installer?
I have a good internet connection. The problem comes when I play on Counter Strike: Global offensive. I have stable ping (5-25ms), but each 3-4 seconds i got lag spikes. It's like, I 'teleport' ingame. I've tested it with just my macbook on my network and with just CS:GO running. What may cause this problem?
System specs: After I chose "Shut down" from the Apple menu, my apps started closing (as usual), the screen went black and only a frozen mouse cursor (arrow) remained. I waited a little bit and tried to move the arrow without success. Since I had to leave I forced shut down by keeping the Power button pressed for a few seconds.
I do not get notifications from one person only on iMessages. The chat is not marked on Do Not Disturb and that contact is not blocked. On my iPhone, I get the message but there is no sound and no "1" in the top left corner of the app that suggests that I have a new unread message. On my MacBook, I get the sound notification only, but the blue dot in the messages page that shows that it is a new unread message disappears as quickly as it appears. What should I do?
I have a Macbook Pro 2017 13" and I'm struggling to figure out how to drag a note over. If I force-click, it deletes the note. I've tried using 2, 3 and 4 finger swipes to no avail. I've tried double-tapping then dragging with no success. A double tap is interpreted as a delete. Force click is a delete as well. I can sort of lengthen and shorten notes, but sometimes it deletes it. This is extremely frustrating.
I've had this problem before, but I was able to resolve it that time. macOS 10.13.4, everything up to date. Yesterday, Internet Accounts forgot my LinkedIn password and would not reauthenticate. Today, it forgot my Facebook password. I've tried: App specific password. Removing the account and re-adding it. Turning off 2-factor authentication. Deleting associated entries from Keychain. Logging out of iCloud, deleting Keychain entries, removing and re-adding the account, then logging back in.
When I put Hotspot from my Mac Book Air, Hotspot is getting turned off automatically when Mac goes to sleep. This is not the case with Dell laptop. Is there a way to stop it?
Is there a way I can know the names and number of devices connected to my Mac Wifi-Hotspot like in Windows? In Windows, it'll look like this:
Am using Mac Book Pro 2017 model 128 GB.Am using ios development purpose. but some time memory management alert. Here my mac using system space above 70 GB. How can i reduce my system space.
My Mac laptop automatically connects to a Wi-Fi access point every time I switch it on. When I go to Keychain Access to check the password; I enter the system password as prompted and click Allow. But when i check the box Show Password the check suddenly disappears and NO PASSWORD is shown. It stays blank. How do I retrieve the password for the access point?
I like backing my laptop up. Time Machine notifies you after around 10 days or so (I think) after not backing up that you have not backed your computer up to your TM drive. I find 10 days much too large. I would prefer to get a notification two days after not backing up. This is especially important because TM backups occur in the background (the only indication is a menu bar icon which shows you're backing up, which I've hidden anyway). This means that I have no idea when backups aren't happening as I always think they're happening as normal. I don't like the idea of not being backed up for too long, so a notification after not backing up for a shorter period of time would be ideal for me.
The goal: Remove LDAP Contacts account from list of the Internet Accounts. The problem: Removed LDAP account reappears in the Accounts list in 5 seconds after deletion. Current OS: macOS 10.13 High Sierra Steps: System Preferences -> Internet Accounts Select the LDAP Account Press "-" button Press "Remove From All" button on the pop-up dialog window "Do you want to remove the LDAP account “ldap.hostname.com” from all your computers using iCloud Keychain?" Account removed from the list After 5 second appears in the list.
Sometimes when I plug my HDMI cable in, the macbook freezes. It's 15inch retina, early 2013, recently clean installed macOS High Sierra.
Whenever I try to access to iCloud Drive in my macOS High Sierra, and type my password then after while appears the same window and ask for my password again. I even changed password but still I can't access iCloud. Thank you for help.
Using Safari Version 11.1, whenever I open the web inspector on a web page, all media queries in the CSS stop working. If I close the inspector, the problem goes away. This happens on any site.
I handed my MacBook Pro (15" Touch bar) to the service centre in order to have the keyboard replaced. Now, when I check the battery cycle count, it shows "1". Before it was at "82". Also, I'm getting a battery life of only 4.5 - 5 hours now. Is there a way to find if my battery was replaced or not?
after config in “Settings>General>Accessibility>Speak”, i could select a paragraph of text then could let iphone "speek" it out. But I found that French text are spoken much vaguely, on the contrary, English are much more clearly read out. Is there a way to improve French text speek effect?
After migrating to a new MacBook Pro I can no longer ping localhost. I already tried to change my /etc/hosts file although it was already right before.
It is happening with some frequency that iTunes is skipping my podcasts automatically. I don't know if this is happening with music as well because I use Spotify for music. I don't know if I can provide any more information, because I have no idea about what is happening.
I want to buy the AirPods but I only have an Android phone. The functions that would be ideal: Stereo and mono sound works like iOS when you take one AirPod out and charge it and then put both AirPods back in your ears. Tap function - is there no / some / complete parity with iOS tap features Voice assistant - is there no / some / complete parity with Hey Siri and tap / manual Siri voice commands Basically, how feature compatible is the Android OS and hardware with AirPod features beyond simple Bluetooth microphone and headphone function?
While showing items as icons (not in a list, in columns or wit cover flow). In order to know file size I right-click the file then select Get info then a window opens full of info and I have to look around just to find file size.
I recently installed an SSD into my iMac and downloaded "Macs Fan Control" which works perfectly fine. However, when I plug in my external monitor via Thunderbolt, the GPU temperature increases for 10°C (50°F) to about 55°C (131°F) or something which I think is normal. Due to the temperature increase, the RPM of the ODD fan (which I use to cool the GPU) also increase to a hearable amount. (about 2000 RPM) I use following settings for the ODD cooler: Sensor based value from GPU Diode Temperature that fan speed will start to increase from: 45°C (113°F) Maximum temperature: 70°C (158°F) Can or should I tweak my settings (increasing the temperature that fan speed will start to increase) without the risk of damaging the GPU?
I was in an SSH session remotely using vim. For some reason, SSH crashed, and I was returned to my home shell. However, whenever I tried to scroll, instead of the terminal scrolling, it printed sets of characters. Also, it's hard to reproduce a single set of characters, because every few seconds, it prints different characters. They are always ASCII characters, like `, ?, a, J, etc. Toggling the alternate screen does not help, and all my other terminal tabs work fine. How can I fix this terminal session?
I just want to ask if someone here know how to reset the admin username and password in "groups/ users"? At first I was just trying to change the name of the admin in "groups/ users" then I restart the laptop as advised, my MacBook opened w/ my previous username & password but when I try to login the admin again in "groups/users", It won't accept my previous username & password. I also tried to shut down the MacBook w/ the command + r button, it just change the password but w/ the same previous username. And it's no longer admin in the "groups/ users" it changed to standard. Pls. Help
I have deleted several time machine backups using tmutil in an attempt to free up space for the other computer to backup. Because this is a network backup, the backups are located within a sparse bundle, which does not automatically "compact" to reclaim the free space. I have tried to manually compact it using /Volumes/Data/iMac.sparsebundle but this resulted in the error hdiutil: compact failed - Resource temporarily unavailable. That's because the Time Capsule was mounted, so I unmounted it, which required I first quit Terminal, reopened Terminal, and ran the command again, but now it logs hdiutil: compact failed - No such file or directory. How can I make that disk compact so it will relinquish that space?
For whatever reason I can't seem to get my contacts to sync with Apple's Contact app to completely sync with Google's contacts account. So I've tried Contact Mover by Playa Apps and I only had it install on my iPhone. So far it has merged some of my contacts but time after time I end up with 2 or more of the same contact information on my iPhone. When I pull up my contact's on my Mac the same contact information isn't found. So I decided to purchase Contact Sync for Google Gmail, it's an app by Playa Apps found in the Mac App Store. Even with the two I'm still getting Duplicates. My First thought is to remove the apps and unlink Google's Contacts. The problem with that, I use Google Voice to sort my calls. So the contact information I add to Apple's Contact must exist on Google's Contacts. The App on the Mac subjects I go to Google.com to resolve duplicates. But that seem to only work on Google side and not with Mac iOS or OS. Frustration!
I have a Macbook pro 2016, I am a Linux user at home and I am used to CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V kind of key mapping for my copy, cut and paste actions. I have set up keyboard modifier as below
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro 13 inch without the Touch Bar. I am using this dongle: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter
I have a clip at the end of my movie that is eight seconds long, but the Cross Dissolve or Fade to Black transition will only let the end transition happen for one second. Trying to increase the duration shows the error: “The clips do not have enough media available to change the length of this transition.”
I want to bind control-option-command-F to "Filter by Selected Cell's Value", a contextual menu item in Excel. As you can see in the screenshot
So a friend of mine bought a brand new 2017 MacBook Pro (basic config model). Everything went fine with the installing and it works great, except for the fact that her small 128GB capacity is somehow already full to the point where she can’t even download the smallest of apps. I think she has something like 3GB of free Space left. (Or less) I already checked the iCloud which is fine, she hasnt activated time machine so there are no possible snapshots of the system hiding somewhere. Under memory management, the system appears to take 50GB alone (where it should take up about 10GB) The support doesn’t know a solution either and we are pretty desperate. What could it be? Would an etrecheck help you guys?
I am trying to install windows using Bootcamp on my MBP 2016, while I find that the free space is not equal to the actual free space:  I have 240 GB available, but Bootcamp says I only have 2GB of free space. Here is the output of diskUtil list: And diskutil apfs list:
My Bose system only has one optical audio input so I added a toslink 1to2 splitter. I can play my TV sound going through the optical audio cable to the splitter and then to my Bose system, but the Apple TV optical audio cable will not work when I put it though the splitter. It does work if I put it directly into the optical audio input on the Bose? What is going on? Any help would be appreciated!
How do I install Ubuntu from DVD? it's a 13 inch macbook, late 2008. Intel core duo, 2GB RAM.
I never had a problem with Seagate backup plus for Mac desktop until now. I connected it, and it keeps saying "disk not readable". I have only used it on one device. I have options to initialize, ignore, and reject. How to fix it? I have MacOS high Sierra version 10.13.4 (17E199)
Does macOS log application start (i.e., launch) events, or is it application dependent (or are application start events not logged at all)? And how far back are logs kept? The real-time event stream available via the Devices section of the Console seems to only go back about up to a day. I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
Previously I had the default Python 2.7, and I have a lot of virtualenvs created under python 2, using virtualenvwrapper. Recently, I wanted to be able to use python 3 as well as python 2.
The very same account tries again and logs in on line 6, contrary to the previous entries. Lines 7 and 8 show the process and closure. Then two more failed trials, then another login.
I restarted my computer earlier today because the trackpad gestures were finicky for some reason. after restarting the computer, although the trackpad issues corrected themselves, all of a sudden my mac (early 2011 a1278 mbp) locked into a display color profile shown as sRGB IEC61966-2.1 where the colors are very cool and washed out, and flux is no longer working.
Looking to burn a CD and use songs from Apple Music. Can I do this with only iTunes? Do I need 3rd party software?
A clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 being painfully slow, trying Bodhi Linux. It's been at least five minutes after install -- the reboot is just hanging. Apparently, it booted fine under Mac OS X. It's a 2008 Macbook 4.1, as I recall, with 2GB RAM and a 2.4ghz intel core 2 duo cpu.
I have observed the Auto-Lock to become greyed out and unavailable while the battery saver mode is turned on and the iPhone is charging. However, it remains disabled on my iPhone despite turning off battery saver mode.
Now, to compare with other keys i did the same on other arrows and ctrl, and even without the chiclets they worked just by pressing upon the rubber cup up arrow doesnt. Ive been googling this for some time now and before replacing it i thought you guys might see something im missing here... is the cup supposed to be airtight? does it have something inside it? i thought about taking the cup off but its glued and i dont want to push my luck.
I have fired up an old notebook running Windows XP (to use some legacy software). This has network access via a local router (all machines connect to the same router). I am attempting to network this, and have tried a number of things, unsuccessfully. I have setup a home or office network and can ping and see my wife's MacBook (running 10.13) but not connect.
Last morning I turned on my laptop and the screen stuck in this view. Does anyone know what kind of problem it might be?
Sorry for the French language in second screenshot (as well as for the cropped aspect, I don't have access to a computer for now). Note that I tried to uncheck the "show birthday calendar" in iCloud Calendar Settings and when I came back later it was still enabled (I didn't forget to hit the save button, however and I tried several times).
I tried different way to run a script on a specific schedule / time, I found Lingon quite handy, I also try using calendar but the result was very bad. I wrote this :
I have a script which is passing values to a plist, it's work fine, but I would like to change some of the values without removing everything else. I used to have a script for that but can't found it at all. Here is my script which creating the value here is what I wrote for changing the value, but the issue is the plist will only have the new value and all the other properties would be removed how can I change some of the value without removing the others ?
I have a Mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro (MD102B/A). It has 1x Mini Display / Thunderbolt Port and 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports. At my desk I need a bigger setup, so I connect the MacBook Pro to a 24" monitor using a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.
Ive got 8 email accounts which i manage in mac mail. The largest one of these accounts is 30GB and the others are each c. 5GB. So 65GB in total. Most of these are google apps for business accounts, and one is a private imap system. I feel that the size of the email accounts is making the mac mail programme slow. Is there anything i can do to make mac mail run better with these large files. I have seen some other email clients that have a feature where you can only sync the last X years of emails to the desktop client whilst keeping the rest of the older emails on the email server, dose mac mail have something similar ?
The post below from 2011 gave a really good script for pasting unformatted text into Word for Mac. How can one create a shortcut for pasting unformatted text in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac?
I occasionally use Opera Browser, but it recently started behaving strangely. When I opened it today, it asked me for my password for the first time in a long time, if ever:
I am a complete newbie to the Mac. I have sight problems and would like to make the print size larger and if possible also darker colour or boldface on screen. I don't mean font size in working documents or emails. I can do that ok.
I replaced the battery in my mom's old iPhone 4s. Battery is direct from iFixit. I've replaced iPhone batteries before and everything seemed to go right. Problem: I charge it fully before bed, and when I wake up it has like 30% power. My iPhone 6 will have battery percentage above 90% in the morning. I understand the 4s battery is 1430 mAh vs the 1810 mAh in the 6. But the drain difference seems too big. I did a DFU restore of OS 9.3.5 (the highest a 4s supports). Didn't help. Ran battery to zero once to condition it. Auto-lock is set at 1 minute. Mail accounts are set to fetch, most notifications turned off, etc. Seems like the iPhone just doesn't fully go to sleep to save battery. Any ideas on how to slow the battery drain? Is that just how it's supposed to work? Should I give up and get her a newer iPhone?
Can i use my iOS device (iPhone / iPad etc) as an apple remote desktop client to control a remote desktop server (eg. OSX machine) ?
The circumstances of my Macbook Air (late 2010 model) and its inability to charge the battery are a bit unique from the other cases I've read about on forums: My battery would not charge, and the computer would die instantly upon removing the MagSafe cable. The MagSafe indicator light would sometimes show a very faint green, but most of the time, it was completely off. I tried resetting the SMC; nothing changed.
How do I stop the action center from causing the right side to pop up over the screen when using the vm (virtual machine)? I have tried the setting of no notifications but it continues (even as I am writing this) . I am using the parallels 13 (win 10) on a new mac book pro. Thanks
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with touch bar (15”) and I consider making it my primary computer, as my iMac turned to be very old now. If I will I need to get an external monitor and for that I’d like to buy the lg ultrafire 5k. My only concern is I’m very worried making the MacBook a primary computer will shorten its lifespan, make it heat a lot and noisy and generally destroy it. I’m a software developer and I work with my iMac 10+ hours a day with heavy use thus my worries. If it will ruin the nacbook I’ll rather just get another iMac so it’s not a budget issue (I just rather wait for the new Mac Pro instead of buying the iMac pro now but if it’s in the cost of completely destroying my MacBook I’ll buy the iMac pro now). Does anyone have experience with such issues or knows if I should be worried or not?
How do I get the internet speed on the virtual machine the same as the Mac book internet speed? The Mac speed is 300-400 and the virtual machine is 70-120.
I'd ideally like to avoid a full restore or reset. I would like to clean up things and that includes fixing my iCloud account/keychain access if it has problems. By the way, my iCloud passwords are fine on my iPhone. I also checked keychain access but don't know how to check/fix any issues (if any) with that.
I am having trouble to download the latest OS Update. When I try to install the update using native mac features I get an error like So I tried command line. Result: My Mac Mini has the following specs: 2 GB DDR 2 Memory enough HDD Space 1,83 GHZ x2 Here all specs in german: I am currently running on Version 10.7.4
Today i deleted from disk utility a linux partition (dual boot) on my macbook and i get an failure. Then i restarted but it won't boot.. I don't know what I have to do.. I don't have any recent backup but i need to recover some data from the SSD and I don't know how to do this.. Please help me
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with touch bar (15”). I want to use it for UE4 development of desktop grade games. I understood that I need an external GPU for that. Assume I’ll buy the Vega 56 or 64 with external gpu chassis, will it be sufficient for UE development?
So I recently did some spring cleaning on my Mac and re-installed the system. I installed High Sierra 10.13.1, but I'm experiencing some issues with bringing it up to 10.13.4: namely, the updates aren't showing up in the app store.
I have two MBP 2016 and i used to have them set as trusted, meaning on airdrop If i would set contacts only it could see the other, now I have to select everyone instead. How can I make it a contact of each other?
Is it possible to take a photo or record a short video with the MacBook's webcam using Terminal?
For example, icons in the tray, where are these icons stored? Can they be modified (without installing third-party software)?
I am trying to write a shell script to automate installation of a bunch of dependencies for a project on macOS which will be an equivalent script for the same that works on EL6/EL7 and uses the yum package manager. This script will try to leverage HomeBrew to do the same.
I did a clean install of my Mac and continued to use my same Time Machine drive. I want to preserve the last backup before I did a clean install, but Time Machine will delete old backups as the drive gets full. How can I copy a backup without worrying it will be deleted? My first guess was to just perform a copy, but I'm not sure this will work due to the structure of a Time Machine backup.
Model: MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015 While I was working, I didn't realize that the battery was low and as a result, my MacBook Pro shut down when the battery had no power. So, then I plugged in the charger and powered it on. This time I noticed something was strange. The battery was stuck in 0% for like around 10 minutes and the date got reset to 1st January 2017. I tried resetting NVRAM. Nothing happened. So, then I ran diagnostics and I got this as a result:
I pulled a boneheaded move and trashed all my Gmail inboxes in Mail.app with a bad filter. Thankfully Gmail's archive saved the actual messages, but I'd like to restore what was in the inbox, if possible. I've got backups of Mail's database (via Time Machine and Arq), but I'm not sure how to actually restore from those without just creating duplicates in Gmail, or keep Gmail's server state from overwriting the backup state. Does anyone know of a good process or app to make that happen?
I have very weird issue with Safari which I have experienced for a long time now. I have a few servers which I actively manage, and sometimes I can't access these through Safari. I can access via Opera, Chrome, Firefox, curl and wget. Only Safari returns "unexpectedly dropped connection" and similar error messages.
When clicking continue on the first Boot Camp screen, I am presented with a dialog that displays: The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned. You must have at least 39 GB of free space available.
I need to delete the Apple ID of my dads iPad. He died and I don't know his password.
Mid-work at airport, Macbook pops login screen. All of a sudden stops accepting my password (which is same password used for all services). After researching the issue and talking to Apple I was presented with the following options:
Is there a command we can use via terminal to start recording audio through my macbook microphone?
Photos on my iPhone iOS 11.3.1 revert automatically into original even after editing and re editing .. pls resolve this
Except restarting, how can I connect to it? I already tried the following command, but it does not fix the problem.
The picture attached shows what I see when my computer "crashes". It happens occasionally. It may be because of heavy load. Or because I have it open many hours. I don't really know.
I have an internal disk which is noisy and seldom used. With previous versions of OSX I was able to spin it down by using diskutil eject, but with the latest High Sierra 10.13.4, after a few seconds it powers up again. I am looking for a way to stop it powering up again or totally disabling it without physically opening the Mac. Is this possible with software?
I have a problem with an external disk. Whenever I don't eject my external hard drive (this happens quite often because of my broken adapter - usb-c) I have to wait 20 minuetes or so to mount a partition (for Mac to show a drive in Finder).
My machine is a 13" MacBook Pro with retina display, running Sierra. When I record a screen (video with sound), the machine heats up rapidly (80 celsius in less than 1 minute of recoding).
Whenever I use curl to get a file like .profile from Pastebin, the .profile file isn't read properly. I did some checking, and it seems to be down to the carriage returns.
I can't figure out how to adapt this script, which highlights text in Safari, to get it to work with Google Chrome: Here is my Google Chrome version : Reply :
I have midi roll-up piano and I was using it perfectly on windows with Everyone Piano app, however It is for windows only. I tried to use GarageBand and I think because of my piano it does not work well. And other apps to use midi keyboard on Mac? Thanks.
I'm looking for some Pages templates for academic textbook. Do you have any suggestions?
Building on @Allan's answer, I'm trying to redirect the ffmpeg output to a server. But I get the following error message: "At least one output file must be specified" I've also tried using ffserver instead of SSH but I'm not having any luck. Is it possible to stream audio in this way?
On my iMac, I tend to adjust the Turn off display after: from short to long and back again, pretty frequently. It would be convenient if I could get to this with one click, perhaps from the menu bar. Is there a way to accomplish this? It's not one of the things in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras.
If I turn on google docs/sheets/drive offline sync through chrome on os x and activate "Make Available Offline" for some doc, where is the doc stored locally on my machine? I am not talking about google back up and sync - I am talking specifically about activating offline docs sync through a browser (in this case chrome).
I utilize this application called Anydesk for remote desktop very frequently, and while I was recently removing programs from starting up at login (because I wanted a faster start up speed) I noticed that Anydesk wasn't in the list of login items, even though it shows up whenever I login after I restart/shut down the computer. How does one rectify this issue? I am running OSX El Capitan on a 13" MacBook Pro.
I have the latest MacOS and Safari on a 2012 Macbook Pro. *=URL=* provides me with a function and a loop to call multiple times. If I paste the function definition into the JS console, then the loop command, nothing happens. If I change the function call to "console.log" and put that in, it prints the correct parameters.
Both of my two monitors, an Acer P215H, and a Dell E228WFPC, couldn't detect any signal from my Mac Pro mid 2015 when connected using the two adapters, in the first picture, either via DVI or VGA. However, both work well when connected using the Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter, in the second picture.
Is there a way to extract wallpapers from macOS installation CD without performing installation itself? Yes, I understand 7zip can unzip dmg file as a simple archive. But what next? I don't see any wallpapers after unzipping. My ultimate aim is to get the original unaltered desktop background pictures included with Mac OS X versions 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9.
Acronis boot rescue partition. This is basically a customised Linux. It boots perfectly when burned on DVD (but there is no DVD drive anymore) maybe a diagnostic Linux LiveCD maybe a diagnostic Linux LiveCD
My 2011 MacBook Pro is running High Sierra and has a WiFi problem. It stops working after a few minutes and shows "No wifi hardware installed" after reboot. A PRAM / NVRAM reset sorts this out until the next time. SMC reset also temporarily solves the problem.
Bodhi Linux and Ubuntu 18.04 install fine -- but whenever I try to install Ubuntu Server onto this older Macbook it doesn't boot. Instead I get a question mark:
Since skim provides some kind of AppleScript access, which Preview doesn't, I wondered whether to try using AppleScript. But I need to get on with what I'm writing, rather than get into an infinite regress of things I need to learn first.
When I try to take a photo through window screen, the plane of focus is the window screen rather than the things outside. Is there any way to forcibly change the focal distance when every part of the field of view is covered by the window screen? I want a close-up shot, of the thing outside, so stepping back from the window screen is not ideal.
I have an iPhone 4s that is running iOS 7.04 and won't update. It requires iOS 8.0 or newer to install any apps. How can I download iOS 8.0 or newer on my iPhone 4s?
I have Amazon Linux server setup. I am unable to access it via my MacBook Pro (El Capitan). It keeps asking me for the password for my .pem file. Please find attached screenshot. Below are the commands: chmod 600 ~/.ssh/Magento_singapore.txt chmod 700 ~/.ssh ssh -i ~/.ssh/Magento_singapore.txt ec2-user@<my ec2 instance>
I have an A1342 MacBook I cobbled together from spare parts. It works perfectly except the rear speaker atop the optical drive outputs distorted audio. The two speakers underneath the keyboard work perfectly. I also verified the speaker itself isn't the problem by taking a good speaker from another working MacBook. All audio from that speaker on the motherboard outputs distorted audio: the startup tone, the beep code when no ram is installed, etc. Resetting the PRAM didn't accomplish anything. The speaker connector on the motherboard looks fine (it's not loose or broken). What on the motherboard is causing interference with the speaker circuit? Why is this happening? Thanks.
I have some utilities that I would like to use. These open source browser-based utilities require me to hand them sensitive information. Although I mostly trust them, I would like to deny the browser access to as much as possible to reduce the possibility of the utility storing/sending sensitive info.
I have the following items: Macbook Pro Retina OS 10.13.4 HDMI cable Brand new Raspberry Pi Model 3B+
I have a logitech microphone that I need to un-assign the default kernel driver for it so that libusb can properly work on one application. Unfortunately, I can't find which kext file I need to unload to do this. Here is a screenshot of my System Information.
My roommate brought me her iMac this afternoon because it's been behaving very badly since she upgraded to High Sierra. It turns out that her boyfriend has gotten a lot of malware onto it, and I'm having real problems getting rid of it. The biggest culprit is a set of browser hijackers (they may all be related, or they may be separate malware, I'm not sure), including well-known ones like G-Search.Pro, and others (feedvertizus, beleelashopper, etc).
I was wondering how to list an album as another artist's work in iTunes "Artists" view. I have an album whose artist and album artist are "eason and the duo band". I would like to list the album as "Eason Chan" by using the "Sorting" feature. However, the album still belongs to "eason and the duo band" in "Artists" view.
Let say I have the following text file : DEMO TEXT1 TEXT2 DEMO etc.... etc.... DEMO DEMO TEXT1 TEXT2 DEMO etc.... etc.... DEMO DEMO TEXT1 TEXT2 DEMO etc.... I would like to added some text between the first TEXT1 and TEXT2 (line 2/3) so the text would be like : DEMO TEXT1 MY TEXT HERE TEXT2 DEMO etc.... etc.... DEMO DEMO TEXT1 TEXT2 DEMO etc.... etc.... DEMO DEMO TEXT1 TEXT2 DEMO etc.... I know how I can filter the text to get the value of any text that would be there with the code bellow, but how can I add some text on my text file at this empacement ?
I've the following kernel panic Can anyone help me to understand how to read this report in order to understand what caused the crash? I've the kernel panic several days a month.
I have an SVG file, that uses the SVG 'mask' attribute to do some complex clipping. I convert this file to PDF using rsvg-convert.
I have had some sync issue with my Google calendars and my iPhone / iPad / macOS calendar app, so I have decided to try to fix it. I removed / added my Google Account from my iPhone and now I can see the calendar without issue. The problem is with Calendar desktop application (on macOS). I followed all the instructions but while I can see Google listed on iCal, I can't see my Google calendars (check the picture).
I know you can use Terminal to switch on/off hidden files in OS X and already use these commands. What I want to know is if it’s possible to just do this from WITHIN the Open or Save As dialog boxes so I can navigate and access hidden files when I need to. I seem to find myself using Terminal to switch hidden files on/off a few times a day, but this is getting monotonous.
I need to hide all files with .pek extension on Finder (macOS Sierra) automatically.
This is perhaps a question for hg as much as it is for macOS. I just upgraded to macOS High Sierra(10.13.4) to install Xcode. Before the upgrade, my mercurial was set up to use kdiff3 as the diff tool and I was happy with it.
I tried zip also, but it doesn't even seem to have an option to exclude symlinks. Can tar do it? It would be best if rsync can do it, but if not, any standard Unix tool would be acceptable.
My Mac is now nagging me to setup two-factor authentication. One factor is annoying enough, thank you. Is there any way to disable the nag? (That is, my settings app icon has a big red circle complaining that there is a setting that needs to be set). My short-term "solution" has been to remove it from the dock.
I am experiencing a strange problem with the inbuilt messages app on my iMac. For 2 of the threads in the app, the unread count is not resetting and when I read the thread, the blue unread icon initially disappears before immediately reappearing again. Furthermore, doing this seems to cause the rest of the system to hang for some time afterwards, so it's becoming quite problematic. I have tried the following to fix this problem: Force quitting the app. Deleting the threads (problem reappeared on next communication with the person in question). killall Dock in Terminal. Booting in safe mode. Changing notification settings. Scrolling far back through the threads. Reinstalling OS (not a complete clean reinstall).
I'm using Mac 10.13.3. I want to trim the first second and the last two seconds from my mp4 (movie). I tried writing an Applescript like so but when I try and save it, I get the error
I recently purchased new bluetooth headphones, which connect successfully, however the volume buttons on the ear buds wont work. Any idea why this is? Is there a setting I can adjust on my mac to make it work?
Normal fields like text, textarea etc. work fine, though.
I'm copying an image from MATLAB Figure which is copied as Vector Image. I want to paste it into ImgUr / Slack / Other Application (Which can accept Bitmap Data) as Bit Map (Rasterized image). In Windows I usually do the following: Copy the vectorized data. Open Paint. Paste data into Paint which converts it into Bit Map. Select All + Copy. Paster into the application which requires Bit Map data.
When I click the apple symbol and select System Preferences it takes me an iCloud page. I want to view the settings on my printer. Why is this happening and how can I correct it.
I'm using Mac OS 10.13.3. I have Quicktime 10.4 installed if that will help here. I recorded an application on my computer, however I recorded a little too much screen real estate. I would like to remove, or barring that, black out, the right-most 30 pixels from my movie. How can I do that on Mac using freeware tools?
I don't need my iPhone 6 to store full-res versions of all the photos and videos I've taken over the years, so I've enabled iCloud Photo Library and Optimize iPhone Storage. Unfortunately, enabling optimization means that even new photos get uploaded immediately, and it's not uncommon for me to review my photos at the end of a day only to have to wait a few seconds for each to be downloaded at a suitable resolution to view on my phone. This is very annoying.
I wanted to clear room on my computer, so I restarted the computer with cmd+r keys and opened OS X Utilities. I erased my drive and wanted to reinstall OS X El Capitan. After I agreed to the terms then selected my drive I signed into the Apple store. I put the confirmation code in from my phone and it said “This item is temporarily unavailable Try again later”. I tried restarting it and trying then shutting it down and trying but it still won’t work.
Since iOS 9, the iPhone has had a default album called Selfies that gathers all the selfies you've taken on the device (i.e. all the photos taken with the front-facing camera) in one place. This makes it easy to browse through and manage your selfies on the device itself, but I want to be able to do so after uploading the photos to my computer (such as via iCloud Photos or by manually copying the images in Windows Explorer).
As of about a week or two ago, I started getting notifications in macOS (High Sierra, 10.13.4 17E202) that I need to sign in again ("Facebook Password Required"). It seems to accept my (definitely correct) password but then a moment later it asks for it again and I cannot get Facebook features like photo sharing to work at all.
I have a MacBook Pro 15” late 2016. I plan to use it from today on as my primary computer. I do software and games programming so I work for 12-14 hours a day on my computer.
I ran into issues with my Macbook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.4. The problem is that Other volumes in container metric are showing over 176 GB of space taken and I am not able to reclaim it back. I am not running Time Machine on this computer.
How can I unzip a .xz file? Archive utility failed. Is there an app that I should get to do it? (Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5)
I'm looking for a way to track the location of my iPhone and make it available to others I have given access to, as Find My Friends does, but which also produce a log I can check of every time the location is accessed (only the time/frequency of access is important). I seem to remember many years ago Find My iPhone used to send an email when it was used, and that would work well, but it doesn't seem to do that anymore. I'm looking for something automatic that doesn't require any special action on either end.
I have an sparseImage that was created on High sierra but when I was loading it for the first time on a new machine, lost power as it was mounting. Now when I try to load it by double clicking the sparse image or using hdid with the terminal I get the error Illegal byte sequence. I can't find anywhere how one would go about correcting the image. Text output with the debug flag on wouldn't fit, so it can be found in this gist: https://gist.github.com/tomjohnson/840b9092724f6a43fc42b39ed8048c49
I need to fax a couple of pages from my Mac. My printer doesn't seem to support faxing. I found one online site that will fax from a mac but they wanted a monthly subscription starting at $12.95 a month. Is there another way to fax without going somewhere that will fax for me?
I have a few keyboard layouts or "input sources" as the system calls them. The system also lets you define a keyboard shortcut for "Select next source in Input menu".
My iPhone 7 Plus turned off and went to a black screen. I've tried: holding the power button and the volume down button plugging it in into my wall charger plugging it into my laptop In all cases nothing helped. What should I do try now?
I have a late 2012 model MacBook Pro with the Nvidia GeForce GT650M and Intel HD 4000, and it's getting ridiculously bad performance in all games I tried to play. I know it's not a high performance card, but I have an almost identical GPU on another Windows laptop I have and that one is getting like 50+fps, while on my MacBook it's getting ~10-15fps, same game. I did complete restore of MBP, with fresh install of newest MacOS (High Sierra) Complete new install of Windows 10 Pro through bootcamp assistant No other software installed other than Chrome browser and misc things like notepad++ and video player Manually updated Nvidia driver to latest through Nvidia website
I wanted to download gimp , and the website said that the best way was to use Macports, I was able to install Macports, but whenever I type sudo port install gimp It shows - Error: Port gimp not found I have also done
I am using a Macbook Air with macOS High Sierra. When I install a third party application and later delete it, I have to remove files stored by it in Application Support, Preferences etc. in ~/Library. I have to manually look up and delete files containing the name of the third party app (eg. com.EaseUsMobiMover installed by MobiMover).
Recently XQuartz was automatically updated on my Mac running High Sierra. Now the apps that used X11 no longer work. I also noticed that if I run XQuartz by double-clicking on the app it opens but immediately shuts down after about 1 second. Does anyone know why my apps requiring X11 no longer work?
After dropping my macbook pro, my touch bar has stopped working and I am getting frequent kernel panics Does anyone have any idea how to solve this or which part of the macbook is faulty? Thank you!
Here is my scenario: I'm on a window (let say Safari) and I want to open Mail. I'm hitting CMD + SPACE, type mail and finally hit Enter. While Mail is opening, I'm still on Safari and I want to stay on Safari, so no losing the focus, and I'll switch to Mail when I'm ready. Unfortunately, for now, the focus is on Safari while Mail is loading, and as soon as Mail is ready, it is stilling the window focus. Is it possible, and if so how, to change the current behaviour so that I decide when to change the window focus instead of having apps stealing it?
I have an iPhone SE with iOS 11.3.1 . If I send a normal SMS (that is one that does not require internet, the old SMS we had) using iMessage then no delivery report comes. This is not a network issue because Android or non smart phones do get delivery reports.
When I open the DCIM folder of my iPhone on Windows 7/10, I can choose between: Preview: opens the image with Windows' default preview (?) program. I can jump to next/prev photo and delete the photos, however I don't like that program as it's too simple (difficult to zoom in, does not rotate based on EXIF, no full screen mode, etc.) Open: opens the image with the associated program, however copies the photo to the Temp folder first, hence jumping back&forth, deleting the (original) image from the device is not possible.
Only a few days ago i noticed my mac calendar wast syncing up with my facebook one but didn't think anything of it. Then next thing i know a notification pops up with 'cant connect to the account Facebook' and that i need to put in my password. I have done this now 20 times and it still just sends the same notification after putting in the 100% correct password. Unsure why it keeps looping around, not showing any signs of the details being incorrect. Please send help i really rely on the facebook calendar to be synced up with my mac calendar app.
I’ve been.getting page errors on a variety of sites when using both safari and edge browsers. This one came from my school account when I was trying to open a different page and was dumped out: • Activity ID: 00000000-0000-0000-7e3f-0180000400db • Error time: Tue, 29 May 2018 14:42:18 GMT • Cookie: enabled • User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 I also got Disallowed Provider Error when trying to connect to my Azure account for school.
I am running macOS High Sierra inside VMware (Professional Version 10.1.2) on top of High Sierra. Inside the virtual machine I am using a different apple id (I am not sure this is relevant here).
so, i am using macbook pro 13”2017with touchbar and using the latest version of macos high sierra just today when i tried to open my macbook, entering login password as normally i got into my mac and then it hangs after i tried to open chrome. So i hold power button until the macbook shutdown and powering on it again but this time after entering login password i got and black screen with only cursor that can be move. so i hold power button again and shutdown the mac, and tried to login again but this time after entering password normally it will show loading bar, and just when the loading bar will finish (just leaving a little gap until finish) it stuck there, nothing happens... so again i hold power button and shutdown it again and do everything the internet tell like safe boot, reset thing with (opt+cmd+r+p), reset other thing with (shift+crt+opt+powerbutton) and even doing macos reinstall but not erase the disk yet... also tried to check disk at recovery mode, nothing fixed it now i
I installed Acronis True Image 2018, but unable to install the drivers due to permission issues. Also I have tried the below This has not helped either, I have tried to contact the Acronis support team and they couldn't help either.I also tried to disable the system policy and trying to allow apps from anywhere
I know this question has been asked and answered before but none of the solutions worked for me thats why I'm asking a new question. I have MacBook Pro Mid 2015
I have been having Internet connection issues for weeks and my ISP sent me a new Modem/Router today, but the issues are still there. The tech has opened up an online case I can respond to and attach screenshots if need be. Now the tech is asking me for the RSSI, Noise and TX Rate values.
I'm using FFmpeg from a Debian machine on my local network. This machine is listening from incoming streams: And from my MacBook, sending the video in AVI format: The above commands work, but I'm looking for some FFmpeg optimization tips and tricks for minimizing the CPU load on my MacBook while maintaining the video output quality.
SORRY FOR MY MISTAKES actually I have installed team viewer but it is showing commercial use detected due to which I got from the net this particular script as Run the script with root: sudo ./TeamViewer-id-changer.py 3. Reboot. I have set it to root so when I open terminal it shows username/root# here I type sudo ./TeamViewer-id-changer.py but it shows error error is that no command present. I am new to MacBook how do I go to that directory where the script is written and execute the command
I've found where they live, how to switch them on or off... *=URL=* What I haven't found is - if in a Mac Pro with the Time Machine volume permanently mounted & scheduled for once an hour, is there really any point in these local files? Do they prep for what's to be backed up at next run, or do they just scavenge changed data in case the scheduled task has to wait for any reason - drive not present, etc? In short, do I need them in this situation or can I safely just switch it off & delete the existing files?
I have this MacBook Air that has been having a fan problem over the past few weeks. The fans run at full speed ALWAYS. As soon as you hit the power button, before the system even starts booting, the fans rev up to full speed. And they don't stop until you shut down.
I was trying to downgrade my iTunes to an earlier version so I can access my App Wishlist and copy it and then upgrade to the latest. I came across a webpage that suggested navigating to the Applications folder via terminal and deleting the iTunes app via sudo rm -rf iTunes.app/ however many files didn't get deleted and this left me unable to open iTunes anymore and I can't install an earlier version since the install thinks I have a newer version. Is there a way to fix my iTunes (at least get the newest version fixed/to work again) instead of maybe reseting macOS?
In Photos app on my Mac, every time I click on Wife's People/Faces folder, it just immediately crashes. I've tried repairing my Photos library many times, but alas, the problem still exists. How do I resolve this issue? I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. Refer to the lines below from the error report:
Is it possible to limit an iPad to only join Ad-Hoc networks and not create a new one. I am currently having trouble with an iPad Pro which sometimes creates its own network instead of joining the existing one. I think it happens if the signal strength of the existing network gets too low.
I have several files that have the same modification date in a folder, and I would like to change the date for all files within that folder, and the same with other folders in the directory so that each the content of any folder's modification date is different to any folder. If that didn't make sense, here's a screenshot of an example directory. The aim is to change the modification date to a different date on the folder's contents and do the same with the other folder's contents with different date.
If I had a Linux machine, I'd be able to enter the password for the encrypted boot disk in a serial terminal during the boot process, via another machine connected to the serial port I can SSH into. Is there a way I can do this with macOS as well? Or is there maybe another setup that allows me to unlock FileVault during boot remotely?
I just realized I made a big mistake in one of my Pages documents : for a Romanized version of a Hebrew text, to represent the letters ayn and aleph I used left and right single quotes instead of (for example) left and right glottal stops, as defined in ISO 259-3. Now Pages understandably interprets single quotes as single quotes, and makes them left or right as it sees fit to have a logical presentation. As a result my text is now a mess.
I factory reset my Mac and followed the steps until I saw this: I tried running the command: npdate -u time.apple.com and date mmddhhmmyy
The Music app in my iPhone is stuck on looping one song every time, bit like the old repeat setting that has disappeared. If I play any song as part of shuffle from a Playlist, Artist, All Songs, then that song, when it ends, restarts from the beginning.
As I was watching a movie mac started to lag and became noisy. Moment later it was almost unusable (very slow). Simple procedures (restart, shut down) didn't helped. So I thought it's a great moment to start from over - reinstall OS. That was a pain as I had to reinstall via internet (for some reason I wasn't able to reinstall current OS version - High Sierra, because when I tried that in Disk Utility, an error was thrown that servers are unreachable) so I deleted Hard drive and started installing Mavericks via internet. After it was done, problem remained - noise and slow. Most notable error in console at that time was: The USB device Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Port 5 of Hub at 0x14000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
I'll be honest I don't have much experience with OSX or bootcamp in general so I'm at a loss here, I have High Sierra installed on one partition with Windows 8.1 on another. Both systems worked fine until I tried to shrink the Mac partition in order to extend the windows partition, however now while I can still boot into OSX no problem, bootcamp doesn't show on the list of bootable devices. Not sure what you need from me as far as system info but any help would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to lose my data, thanks in advance!
"You have a new memory"... No I don't, I have the same dodgy recollection of the past that I always did. "What was for dinner yesterday?"... not a clue unless I look at the dribbles down my shirt. Anyway, Photos seems to think I ought to be reminded of people & places I haven't recalled in years & announces out of the blue, "You have a new memory"...
I updated Whatsapp yesterday and after that I get bubbles saying only "Message" in the locked screen whenever I receive a message. My setting was to show the person's name but not the message, and this changed. I cannot find the setting option to go back to the setting I had. The only option I have is to have a preview of the message, which I don't want.
I have a group of around 50 PDF files with related stuff. My goal is to have a select list so I can open the relevant one without scrolling through a list of file names. This was easy enough on macOS, i just created an HTML document with a bunch of anchor links.
I wrote a small command script for changing file permissions in Terminal, but the user that runs the script needs to type in the password of the computer. This happens in the Terminal window itself. Is it possible to extend this so it gets a popup box where you enter your computer username and password? This would make the process look cleaner for people that are not into programming.
Furthermore, I've discovered that when I open a new Terminal window, it doesn't appear to be in vi or emacs mode. It behaves in a vaguely emacs-y way, but control+A doesn't jump to the beginning of the line, and the small handful of other emacs-specific keystrokes I'm familiar with also don't work. If I run set -o emacs, then those things start working. If I run set -o | egrep "on$" (which lists the currently enabled zsh options) in a fresh terminal, neither emacs nor vi appears in the results.
I'm looking for an external bluetooth button/switch that I can program to do something specific, like open up an app / run a script. Does anything like that exist? Even if it can only do 1 specific thing that would be enough.
When sending emails from a hotmail account in Mail, the message appears to me duplicated in the Sent Mail folder. How to solve?
I have a lot of accounts in Mail. I use KeyboardMaestro to automate much of what I do, but I haven't found a way to reliably get it to choose a given account in a new message window. I'm wondering if I can get applescript to do it for me. I have the following: and Mail obediently opens a new message window...but doesn't bother to set the sender correctly :-(
I upgraded to my iPhone and Watch (iOS and watchOS 11.4, respectively). I've already had iMessages turned on and have been using it for years. I enabled iCloud Messages on the iPhone but the Messages on my Watch kept showing a green bubble from my blue bubble people. I went to this Apple page to ensure I was turning iCloud Messages on correctly and I verified my iPhone settings were correct.
I just updated my iPhone 7 to iOS 11.4 and this seems to cause some issues to my Photos.app library. I'm using iCloud Photo library and right now when I checked the amount of Photos in the "Albums" view of Photos.app on iOS the amount of pictures is way lower. Also some old pictures are suddenly showing up mixed in with the last photos I took a few hours ago. When I check "Photos" it tells me "Uploading 7.xxx Items" at the bottom. Does anyone have a clue what's going on there and how to fix it?
I wish to lock my iOS devices into running a single app only. I have surveyed Guided Access Mode, but it doesn't persist between restarts, and have to be re-configured (by pressing the Home button thrice). The requirement here is for the iOS device to behave as if it is capable of running one app only. The requirement is to practically reatrict the device to use a single specific app, unaffected by power interruptions.
If I open the document in Word for iOS then I can view it in "Mobile" view, which lets me zoom in and not have the left-right scroll, it wraps the text. However if I accidentally tap the screen then the keyboard appears over the top of my notes.
My MacBook is booting straight to recovery mode and the startup disk isn’t appearing. When I try to go into safe mode I get the prohibitory sign. Also I’m unable to partition Macintosh HD or restore it to an external drive.
When I turn scaling on for Screen Share the window just goes black. If I turn scaling off it stays black. I have to disconnect and reconnect to get the screen back, but then scaling is turned off again. Is there any way to fix this?
Just took my laptop with me on the plane the other day & when I took it out of my carry on, the trackpad wasn't working. It still detects my finger as I move the mouse around, but I can't click anything. I've seen some posts of people saying one side of their trackpad was jammed because of dust or something, but my entire trackpad is stuck down. Any thoughts on this?
After the high sierra update I bootcamp started acting weird. Things like not being able to go back to osx via the assistant. After a while I decided to remove bootcamp and to my surprise the assistant wouldn't work. I tried recovering through diskutil but didn't work. In my ignorance I deleted the partition with APFS format thinking it would merge.
When I go into my apple software updates on my OSX 10.6.8 computer to update to an OSX 10.9, the computer tells me that I do not have any new updates. How can I update to OSX 10.9 if it does not give me that option?
I recently bought a Dell U2518D monitor to use as my primary display paired with my 2015 Macbook pro 13". This is a 2560x1440 1440p monitor. I used the included display port to mini display port cable and the first thing I notice is the blurry fonts on full 1440p resolution.
If you click on an image file in finder on the mac and press the space bar, Preview will preview the photo for you. After doing this, you can zoom in on the image (by pinching two fingers apart from each other). When you do this it's like a gray layer with low opacity appears over the image (as if there is less contrast). When you zoom out all the way, and continue doing the zoom out motion with your fingers it's as if this gray layer disappears (and the resulting image often looks better.)
i converted recently from windows, and i do a lot of email dispatching, which i did in outlook with quick steps. I could mark an email, hit a button for team A, and a fowarded email was composed with team a as recipients and some text in the email. Same was possible for emails for team B and so on.
I have an iPhone 5c which hasn't been used for around 2 years. The screen needed replacement and recently they send it to repair. When I put the iPhone to charge (when got enough battery) it turn on automatically and after 5 seconds or so it goes to this screen with Apple logo and a bar beneath it, empty.
I'm looking for a solution in order to prevent certain website to appear in the Safari (macOS) history (no suggestion visibility, history appearance, …). Using Private browsing, is not an option due to the usage of cookie in order to authenticate the user against the website which should not appear in the history.
I moved from UK and handed my iphone back to my employer. I now live in France and 3 months later I have an iphone again. I realize I have 2 outstanding bills to be settled in UK. My UK card is no longer valid. I tried to use my French Credit Card to settle the bills, but the system prompts me to ONLY use a UK credit card. How to solve this?
I'm trying to switch to a Hungarian keyboard layout in High Sierra. I downloaded Ukelele for this and got a custom layout which I installed and then selected in System Preferences.
Let me explain what I mean. I'm not talking about autocorrect, which I really hate! What I mean is when I type something on my Mac I’ll often get a suggestion like so:
How to delete/remove custom ringtones (tones) from iPhone in iTunes 12.7?
I am working on a document in Numbers where I have to write a phone number starting with a plus character +, like +33553379412, but as soon as I press enter, the plus is going away. Is there any way to show it? Thank you
Currently, I am using Pinentry Mac from Xcode on my system to sign git commits. For this, I am having to input my passphrase each time I am waiting to sign a commit. Seeing that my MacBook Pro has a fingerprint sensor I was wondering if there is a pinentry implementation can substitute password entry with a fingerprint check?
I downloaded iMovie and to my surprise I realized that it didn't support the Graphite appearance option. iMovie's window buttons are colourful. This leads me to believe that iMovie has badly written code. I was wondering if there's something I can do to get that Graphite appearance?
I have a MacPro3,1 that I've recently upgraded to High Sierra using the patch. I also still use an older 1st gen 64GB iPod Mini (yes, upgraded) that I've always connected to the machine via the FireWire 400 cable. Up until I did the High Sierra upgrade, the Mac and iPod had no issues.
I would like to copy the .qtz file for the iTunes music visualizer so that I could see how it works in quartz composer and possibly edit it. Does anyone know the path to this file? I've checked all the files in /System/Library/Extensions, and none seem to be it.
I'm running Sierra 10.12.6 on a 2010 17" MBP. My "Show Desktop" no longer functions, no matter what key combo I have selected in Mission Control, or whether or not I use fn, or have fn checked in the keyboard control panel. All the other shortcuts in Mission Control work fine. This makes no sense, it all works right for other users on the same machine. How can I fix MY OWN user prefs?
I might changed accidentally content in secure notes stored in iCloud. I would like to see the precious state of it, like I would to with Time Machine. Do you think it is possible somehow?
I've installed an hp software for my printer but it changed one of my folders to a package, I uninstalled the software but my folder still kind package
In iTunes' preferences pane for Restrictions, Apple Music is grayed out and checked as disabled. Any idea how to enable this? The lock is not engaged at the bottom.
I want to launch TAB-Q command. How do I use TAB key as a modifier key such as CMD and Shift? I tried this in ScriptEditor. But the script didn't work (just launch the application). Asana shortcuts, Quick ADD
I decided to take apart my MBA by myself to clean it up. I know that it is wrong — it was my decision and I knew what to do. I did everything very carefully. After I put everything back my MBA works fine, even better than before, BUT the machine's serial number is missing and sound has been disabled (there is no startup sound, no sound in headphones, and the built-in speakers do not show at all in system info).
I'm trying to create a custom keyboard layout as described in Apple's tech note here. My basic keys are working, but combinations with the control key are not. For example, Control-A to move to the cursor to the beginning of line. For my control <keyMap> I have the "A" key mapped like this: which I simply copied from other example .keylayout files I've seen.
Is there any way to: display all native and 3rd party keyboard bindings in one place, similar to how Atom or Visual Studio Code IDEs can? OR...allow me to type a keyboard shortcut and tell me the recipient app of the command (to find out what app gets triggered by a shortcut?) My situation: I have a "rogue" app somewhere on my system that owns a keyboard shortcut I want to use for other purposes (CMD + Shift + 5) CMD + Shift + 5 on my Mac currently triggers some sort of screenshot app
Is that it? We chose Enterprise first, and we're stuck? Is there truly no way to offer apps to your own employees and then allow customers to access a different application as well? That seems rather short sighted. Surely the big banks get around this somehow.
I have an older MacBook Pro that had some HDD issues. Now the Mac doesn't have a working OS and I need to install MacOS. The newest version that it can use is Mac OS Mountain Lion. So I borrowed a friends new MacBook, logged into the Mac App Store with my Apple ID, and the bought it. But now I can't download it because when I click download, it says this version of MacOS is not compatiable with the newer MacBook. Which is fine, but I'm not trying to install it on the new Mac, I just want to copy the install over to an external hard drive so that I can then use it to install macOS on the older mac. Any ideas?
Numbers has the ability to pull in prices for various stocks and currencies. However, I am after the ability for it to pull in prices for various cryptocurrencies, not just BTC.
Question says it all, I'm very confused and this doesn't make sense to me. I power on my computer, put in my password, and it works just fine.
I am using the iPassword app on iPhone to store some less and medium important passwords to websites and emails. I have made probably a silly mistake. I was in the hotel and was using an unsecured public network. I forgot about it and backed up all password content via iCloud and I am worried that this could be visible to someone! I have a question: When the network is still unsecured, is there a chance that a transfer between a device and iCloud would still be encrypted?
I run both iOS' Photos app as well as the Google Photos app on my iPhone, but I worry that doing this causes two copies of each picture to be stored on my phone. Does it, or do the apps share the photos they both show me? I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 11.
Background I use the same main Apple ID for iCloud across all the iOS devices (a couple iPhones and a couple iPads) in my household. However, for one of the iPhones, I use a different Apple ID for Messages/iMessage. This is on my wife's iPhone; she uses her own Apple ID for Messages so that she has her own set of messages and conversations on her phone.
The trackpad on my laptop is too big and Karabiner does not seem to offer the necessary feature for resizing effective trackpad area yet. Any other software that can do this job ? I want to ignore all touches on the top-left quadrant of the trackpad.
In the midst of plugging in my monitor and three-finger swiping up to move Chrome to the second desktop I got this.  I couldn't access my top bar (with the time and battery) and if I clicked the side that is not blue the blue would switch to the other side. Unplugged my monitor and it stayed on my laptop screen. What did I do?
Have Apple iPad. When using an app the iPad will lock up or go blank. Tried installing Nortons to try an scan for virus but in the process of installing iPad gives me a System Error and says to try another time. Tried to install virus detector app and get as far as installing, ask to verify account started to input new payment information and screen goes blank. Is this a software issue or is my iPad going dead on me?
I reformatted my MacBook, and I am trying to reinstall macOS but I can't find any Disk. The recovery partition is non-existent, so I tried Internet Recovery to reinstall macOS but the problem persists.
Apple released iTunes update yesterday. Is iTunes on Windows store up to date? In store release date says 2017. Is Windows store version updated same day as desktop setup release? Are store apps updates checked, pushed automatically? I forgot that I installed store version, ended up downloading exe then only I remembered that I'd installed store version. It seems Apple removed check for updates in iTunes menu. How to know if my iTunes is up to date?
I also would like to note a few other things: 1: I have been trying to do this for a while. I even got bootcamp like halfway through (disk image accepted and everything) and then it seemed to stop working sending me on a long path to figure out how to delete the useless partition 2: My mac has been running a bit slowly recently (like when I restart, it spends a ton of time with just a little bit of the bar not loaded) 3: I spilled coffee on my computer a while back, but nothing seemed particularly wrong for quite some time - I highly suspect that this is NOT the issue. 4: If you need any more information please let me know 5: I have an entire hard drive full of backups, so if I need to I can completely reformat. However, I'm not sure exactly how licenses and stuff carry over. Thank you for your help in advance
I want to type in numbers on Japanese Kana input keyboard, but it needs alt key to type in numbers. For example, to type in 3, you must type in Alt + 3.
I have been happy with homebrew until I had a chance to use pacman on Arch Linux and chocolatey on Windows. I get latest versions of packages in hours with pacman, days with chocolatey, but it seems it takes weeks with homebrew, especially the cask packages. I'm obsessive about the latest versions. I'm wondering whether homebrew is still the best package manager for Mac or is there anything else better out there and it's just I don't know yet.
Yesterday I tried to format the hard drive of my Mac and install fresh system. After formatting I noticed that I can't choose MAC OS Extended File System on Disk Utility. Anyway I go to install my system and it crashed at the end, giving me the error: Can't create a pre-start disk (or something like that). After that in Disk utility i haven't seen any hard drive. I go to terminal and try to fix that, but it didn't work. Now when i list my disks on diskutil I see this: And on Disk Utility I see those disks (at any of them I can't install the new system).
Before I updated my OS I was able to set my current screen saver as my desktop background using this command found in this answer I'm not able to run it anymore as /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/ doesn't exists anymore. Anybody knows a workaround ?
My setup is running 10.13.4 and my main mount is: "/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, journaled)" I'm working on a file scanner, which crashed when reading the following file /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/D38C3BA0-4D76-48DC-BE82-994F7B9A7FAA/live.1.shadowIndexArrays in order to understand the problem I stat live.1.shadowIndexArrays 16777221 826783 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 262144 "May 31 01:58:04 2018" "May 31 01:03:34 2018" "May 31 01:32:43 2018" "May 31 00:49:27 2018" 4194304 384 0 live.1.shadowIndexArrays So the file size is 0x40000 (=262144), but I can only read up to 0x30000.. when I'm trying to above this address, I always get ״Result too large״ error. Any idea how can this corruption occur ?
After I selected some text and opened the context menu in Safari, I accidentally managed to search the selected text in Google with the result opened in a new window. I didn't know what I did nor could I replicate it. I know holding down the command key while clicking "Search with Google" in the context menu will guarantee that the search result is opened in a new tab, but I don't know how to make it open in a new window. Safari Version 11.1
My iPhone 6 is stuck on the Apple logo and can't turned on easily, after many times with hard restart and turned it off, it worked for while then returned back to sleep.
In the answer to question about enable wildcards recursive: bash - What expands to all files in current directory recursively? the globstar could be activated by shopt -s globstar: I post snippet of the answer as below: In order for the double-asterisk glob to work, the globstar option needs to be set (default: on): From man bash: However, I encounter error when tried it
In the iOS Weather app what does the cloud icon with two horizontal lines beneath mean?
I've recently changed my hard drive for an SSD in my late-2011 mac-book Pro. I'm trying to partition it and re-install Windows 7 (64 bits) (juste like I had successfully done with my former HDD), using BootCamp Assistant. Everything seems to work fine at first, the partitioning happens, but then when it reboots to install Windows, it always fails: I never get the screen where I choose on which partition I wish to install windows I never get the screen where I choose on which partition I wish to install windows I get directly to "loading windows files" screen I get directly to "loading windows files" screen
I recently bought a used MacBook (a1181, early 2009) for extremely cheap and I was curious to ask if there was a way to exceed the 4gb ram limit. I was actually trying to get 8gb in it. I know, kind of a dumb question. It currently has 4gb in it. I also patched it so it could run OS X High Sierra if that helps any. Thank you!
When i go into the settings I see this message:  Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address IP_ADDRESS and will not be able to connect to the Internet. However when I just go to the normal drop-down for network settings in the menu bar and select the network it works perfectly fine.
Every now and then, when my MacBook has been left alone for quite awhile and somebody goes and closes the screen or folds the laptop up, when I go to get back into my work, my MacBook will not respond to any of the keyboard taps. I have to hold the power button and it starts all over again, meaning it powers back up. I don't like that because it inappropriately shuts down my system and reboots everything.
For some reason I have some files on a Drobo5N, which is a NAS, that were copied over from my Mac. They have a filename issue:
Let say I've saved my Instagram password for the account "xxx". I know I could find this password using Keychain Access, but is there a way to do this in Terminal? I've tried things like: but this didn't yield the password.
I read here that my model MacBook should support 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz, but I suppose this is without HiDpi? Is there a way for me to get a 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz HiDpi resolution, or does my MacBook simply not support this?
What is the best way to ensure that the 2012 iMac is running at lowest power usage and optimal efficiency while in Target Display Mode? I feel like the processor is working in the background, even though it is just being used as a monitor.
iOS noob here. How do I go about deleting all of the configuration and/or cache for a single iOS app? My goal isn't to simply uninstall the app, but rather to delete all the app's settings to make it act like it's a brand-new download with no configuration yet. (I'm used to Android where I can go into the Application Storage and click "Clear Data" and "Clear Storage" to delete everything except the app.)
There is a certain song that I sync to my iPhone 6s from iTunes (newest version) that can't be played directly. Everytime I choose it, it show this:
Safari strips the GPS metadata from uploaded photos. Is there any way to stop this? Visitors to my photo sharing website use a simple HTML form to select a photo from their phone:
My MacPro (Late 2013, OSX Yosemite) has two AMD FirePro D500 GPUs and three Cinema HD Displays. When I look at the System report all of the Displays show up under one GPU and the other GPU has nothing.
On iOS 11, the music app has created a sub section for music actually stored on the device rather than in the cloud. I never want to use cloud tracks, so I would like this to be the default view, but on my phone it always jumps back out to the top level menu. On my iPad, the menu setting seems to stick, though. Is there a way to make it stick for the phone as well?
I wanted to upgrade the memory on an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), which had 2x4GB chips. I bought 4x4GB chips (I only needed 2, but bought so many to use in other machines). None of the 4 chips worked - as in, swapping them out one by one, making sure they were well seated, the 2 original chips worked fine, but with the 4 new ones, the machine would not boot at all. The original chips, made by "SK hynix", have a sticker that says: 4GB 1Rx8 PC3L - 14900S - 13 - 13 - B4 HMT451S6BFR8A - RD NA AA 1638 The new ones, made by "Komputer Bay", have a sticker that says: 4GB PC3-14900 DDR3 2RX8 NON ECC 1.35V
I'm setting up a Synology NAS running DSM 6.1. I only have SMB enabled (up to SMB 3) and enabled Bonjour for Time Machine discovery. I've setup my shares, set quotes, granted appropriate user read/write access and when I configure the workstation to backup to the NAS, I see the backup targets. However, when the backup starts, I immediate get an error that reads:
My old hard drive died and so I bought a new SSD, I put it in my macbook and plugged in the USB hard drive with the installation media, but no matter what it just won't boot into the installer: I see the bootable disk icon after pressing power + option ⏻ + ⌥, but as soon as I press the ↑ icon I get a prohibited icon and nothing more. I have tried with macOS High Sierra, Yosemite and Mavericks images but they all do the same. I tried everything: TransMac dd'ing the images into the USB hard drive (after converting the .dmgs into .isos with dmg2img (linux) Creating an HFS+ filesystem and dumping the contents of the dmgs there I have to note that I tried using the createinstallmedia command present in the installer's Resources directory (before my disk died) but I couldn't run it because this mac has a 32 bit OS and the file (according to the file command) is for a x86_64 arch.
Trying to change permissions via Terminal: Before it can start diving into the subfolders, it comes back with: chmod: 777: No such file or directory. Looking at the files, the folder is now "Write-Only (Dropbox)" across the board. Attempting to adjust batch permissions via Get Info panel does not recursively apply even when directed to do so. Any ideas?
I run high sierra, and the large private/var/vm/sleepimage file has been bothering me. My computer has 16 GB of ram, which means sleepimage takes up 16 GB on my drive. I have read tutorials on how to remove it, but it does not work for me. I tried typing sudo rm -R private/var/vm/sleepimage in the terminal, but the terminal responds rm: private/var/vm/sleepimage: No such file or directory. What do I do?
I would like to move column 3 in numbers in between columns 1 and 2. In other words, I would like to swap columns 2 and 3. This is possible in Microsoft Excel.
All folders need to be copied over to the desktop and zipped with same layout. STEP 1: copy over folderB into SIZExSIZE folder STEP 2: Delete all files in the SIZExSIZE besides folderB STEP 3: DELETE all files except for any SIZExSIZE folders
I want Home and End keys to work inside terminal and vim exactly like they work on linux. After searching a few solutions, I found that setting it to \033[H and \033[F fixes it for terminal command line, But not inside vim. Neither for local vim instance nor for remote screen sessions. I found another solution which fixes it for vim, that is setting it to \033[1~ and \033[4~, but then this doesnt work for terminal command line. I want a solution which will work for both unanimously. I also have following lines in my ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict ^This helps it to fix it in other applications but not on vim.
The problem is that while an app and the associated data might take up something like 1GB of storage, which will make the app appear at the top of the list, offloading the app might only reduce storage usage by a small amount. The app is removed from the lost nonetheless.
after turning on my filevault on the Mac, the next day windows started popping up requesting for local Keychain password (cloud,acountsd,cdp etc). I have put in my login password and also tried my Apple ID password but both have failed. How can I resolve this and stop the windows from popping up?
On my Macbook Air A1466 the shift key seems to be constantly pressed, even during boot so it only boots into safe mode because of this. The issue exists both before and after replacing the keyboard with a brand new one! This is what I've tried: Reinstalled MacOS Replaced the whole keyboard (painful process) Reset NVRAM (alt + cmd + p + r) during startup Hooked up an external keyboard (this one works fine, but shift is still held down) Tried Keyremapper: *=URL=* which helps WITHIN the OS, but not during boot Any ideas?
I recently upgraded an early-2015 13" Macbook Pro (A1502) from a 128GB SSD to a 256GB ssd. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the original drive to an external 500GB, then booted off of that and cloned to the 256GB SSD. Now, random shutdowns are happening, and upon logging back in I get a "you shut your computer down because of a problem" message. The output of log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h is as follows:
The iphone can't be used continuously when not in charge. Sometimes scren goes black with blue and red vertical lines then the phone restarts.
I'm using Microsoft Outlook mobile app on my iPhone x and iPad Pro. After upgrading the version 11.4 for iOS, I have some sync and notificaiton problems with Gmail on Outlook. Some new mails notifies on iPad howewer not on iPhone and the opposite case is valid also. Are anyone encountered with this issue? Thanks.
For new message, when I type next to "to", very few of my contacts show up even though I have been texting them for years??? Only their emails are showing up for the majority. Randomly, a few contacts will have a mobile number I can pick to message. Some contacts don't show up at all even though they are marked as "favorites"--all very bizarre. Sending a group text is next to impossible because none of my contacts mobile numbers are showing up.
I have an old ssl certificate in my keychain that Safari continues to access when I try to remotely login to my home NAS drive . . . it's called TS Series NAS. I will go into Keychain and delete it, but as soon as I try to access my home NAS securely, I get the certificate warning. I click to view the certificate and it's the TS Series NAS that's expired. I go back to Keychain and there's my expired certificate again. (Is there a cache where this is stored?)
I want to append text to a document without new line with AppleScript. I can do it with this: Is there a solution that does not exploit a shell script? If I set the text body the content of document is overwritten!
I want to open current active tab in Chrome to a new window. The intention of this to split tabs side by side (for use with BetterSnapTool).
When I open files from iCloud Drive for Mac (via Finder window), it downloads and saves the files from iCloud which ends up taking space up on my MacBook. How can I prevent iCloud Drive from downloading files?
I have a recently rebuilt recently purchased (read: really new) iMac that is running High Sierra, Chrome, and a few other very standard apps. Nothing unusual at all. A very basic set up. The user who uses this machine for their daily driver took a video of something that happens almost everyday when he is preparing for class. Here is a screen shot of it:
I have 3 mac's Mac Mini 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo , 2GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Macbook pro (15", Early 2011), 2GHz Core i7, 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Macbook Air (13" Mid 2012), 2GHz Core i7, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Is it possible to use 4GB memory modules from Macbook pro and put it in Mac mini, thus upgrading its memory size. If that works, then i was thinking to taking 8 GB memory module out of Macbook Air and put it in Macbook Pro. And finally get new 16 GB memory modules for Macbook Air. Considering that all of them require DDR3 , does clock speed cause any issues with working on macs.
I have several email addresses. All of these email addresses pop up when I go to check my mail. How can I stop this feature?
With the arrival of iOS 11.4 and macOS 10.13.5, I am looking forward to having messages up-to-date across all my Apple devices. The master set of messages lies on my iPhone which I have had the longest. My Mac only has messages from a certain point, and also has many messages shown in mixed up order.
However, many folks end up using them based solely on instinct rather than knowing their exact meaning/name. There comes the question.
I am nearly out of disk space and trying to remove old/unused files. I ran du -k -d 2 in my home directory to attempt to identify candidates and found the following:
I've got a bit of AppleScript that is frustrating the heck out of me. I need to get a list of all Safari tabs, then filter them down. I was expecting this to be very simple. It's not.
How can I make a shell script do something every time when the command pbcopy is executed (when the user copy something into the clipboard or press CMD+C)?
You can stop the backup task at any time. CCC will pick up where it left off the next time you run this task.
Screenshots taken since 2018-05-19 just produce an empty file rather than the png file that I expected when using Command-Shift-4. Before that date they were working fine.
On an older Macbook from 2008 the DVD is stuck in the tray. Unfortunately, GRUB isn't booting properly so there's no OS.
After ejecting a recalcitrant DVD I'm presented with a GRUB menu: 1.) why so many? 2.) Which one is Linux? 3.) Might this indicate hardware error?
I want to be able to copy all folders in the stream but only copy the bottom folders content. Thanks!
I've installed and am trying to open pgAdmin 4 on my Macbook Pro. However, if I right-click it and select "Open", nothing happens.
Above is the output when I was trying to upgrade google-chrome. It looks like I have Chrome version 66, but the server already has version 67. However, I was not able to upgrade it with brew cask upgrade. I'm wondering whether I have done anything wrong.
I have a MacBook Air with OS Yosemite. I tried to install windows 10 by selecting the top and the bottom, which installs the setup on a USB and partitions a section for windows 10. The bootcamp successfully installs it and boots into windows 10 setup. After that, it completes the setup and boots into windows 10. That’s where the error is. It restarts and goes to a blank screen. The screen is not off, and the computer isn’t off either. I booted back into Mac OS and tried to boot back into windows 10, and the black screen reappears. Here is a video of what happens: *=URL=* Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
Having a little problem with my mac mini. I have two monitors set up with it, and they are working fine as a dual monitor setup. However I want to rotate on so it is in portrait mode but when i change one it alters both of them. The screens arent being mirrored so I am a little stuck on whats happeneing Any help would be appreciated
What is the behaviour if not all devices support Messages in iCloud? Do the supported devices sync to iCloud and the older devices continue to receive messages as normal, not synced?
I have 3 devices, on the MacBook, I have messages preference set to "keep forever", on the iPhone , I have it set to "delete after 30 days", and I have an older iPad, so its not up to date. If I turn on messages in iCloud, whats going to happen?
Is it possible to execute a bash script by double-clicking on it? The shell script executes with $ ./script.sh without issues. Double-clicking the script opens TextEdit. It would be nice to execute by clicking on it...
I have an iPad 3, running iOS 8.3. I am unable to update it to iOS 9.3. When checking for Software Update in Settings app, it says that I have the latest version installed. How do I update it to iOS 9.3.5?
My SSD Samsung Evo 840 is getting slow and heat, so I'm trying to update its firmware from a MacPro Late 2013. I downloaded the ISO provided by Samsung (Samsung_SSD_840_Series_DXT09B0Q_Win_Mac), burned it to a disc, but when I try to boot from it (holding Alt/Option when the Mac starts - tried hold C too) the computer doesn't see the CD drive with the bootable image. I tried to do that with a USB stick too, but without any success.
The fact I have to ask this question on here is testament to the utterly terrible user interface Apples these days seem to endorse. I know how to remove 1 track from the iPhone but still keep it in iCloud, but how do I remove a whole album from my iPhone but keep it on my other Apple devices and iCloud? I couldn't find a way either by trying or searching around. The only option seems to be to "Delete from Library", which I do not want to do.
I have a linux dual boot installed with rEFInd, which I want to delete.  I tried to just delete the disk partition, but that throws an error. First Aid completes without any errors. From this other post, I figured my best option would be to run qparted on my linux dual boot to fix the disk partition.
There is a new cloud messages option for iCloud users. After Updating to macOS 10.13.5 and iOS 11.4 and checked all the boxes to get Message to sync across all devices and computers. When you do so, you are alerted that your Keep Messages setting on your phone/pad has been changed to Forever.
How can I open a terminal that is located in the current finder directory with a keyboard shortcut? I am aware of all the answers out there, particularly from this thread How can I open a Terminal window directly from my current Finder location? that all fulfill only one or two of the criterias mentioned above. The Keyboard shortcut options in the system configuration also require you to select some folder to open it in the Terminal, but I need the one that is opened in the very moment. High Sierra 10.13.4
How do I write to the log for my "Device" in the Console app from the command line. I've tried and but don't see anything.
I'm working on a PowerMac9,1 (Late 2004 PowerMac G5 with single core) that refuses to recognize any external boot devices on the option/alt boot manager screen, including Debian and the Mac OS X Leopard install disc. It only recognizes the internal Leopard install on the HDD. When booted to the Leopard install itself, it's able to mount external devices. For example, when using the Leopard install disc, the installer will open but upon rebooting will just go back to the HDD install.
Just to be clear, launching the application with arguments is not a problem (e.g., "open -a <apppath> --args ..."). Creating something that the user can manage like an application (i.e., Dock) that actually launches the app with arguments doesn't seem to be something very easily accomplished under OS X.
Whenever I input accidentals, it defaults to a flat. Any idea how to convert the display to sharp view? Thanks.
If I delete a message from Messages on my iPhone or iPad connected to Messages in iCloud, it gets deleted from all my other devices. However if I do the same from my Mac also connected to Messages in iCloud, the message/conversation only gets deleted from the Mac. How do I make message deletion work correctly from a Mac?
I have added some pdf's on iTunes:  When I tried to drag the files into the `Stephen's iPad on the left nav the following message appears:
There is no iBooks on my iPad. I went to the iTunes AppStore and searched for iBooks and that showed anything and everything but that app. So what is the correct way to use/install/download iBooks ?
I just updated my iPhone 6s to the latest iOS version and turned on Messages in iCloud (Settings → my name → iCloud → turn on Messages). However I don’t think anything got uploaded to iCloud, per the below screenshots showing my iCloud storage. When/how does this happen?
Is it possible to catch native/cellular calls while the app is running in the background (with a background mode like e.g. Bluetooth LE) via PushKit/Callkit? My research so far only came to the solution that you can register on Voip-Calls trough a certain socket while running with the respective Voip-Background-Mode.
tvOS updated yesterday to 11.4 on my Apple TVs, and on startup asked what room each Apple TVs is in. However, it didn't show the list of rooms I have defined in my Home app. It showed a generic list of room names. I selected one, expecting that I could access it and change its name in the Home app, but now the Apple TV is in limbo somewhere and not accessible to the Home app. And there doesn't appear to be any user interface in tvOS to bring that room selection back up. How can I regain control of my Apple TVs in the Home app?
my MacBook Air won't turn on. I plugged in the charger and it says charging. When i turn it on, the light instantly turns green for a few seconds, and then it goes to amber. What's going on?
This is the second wifi card I am trying, so I am confident that it is not the card in question that is not working correctly. I have High sierra Running 10.13.5 with a TP-Link Archer T4UH with the official drivers installed from TP's website. Everything appears to be in working order, however no matter what I do I cannot get the network to display.
I would like to have syslog messages for the local1 facility stored in a file /var/log/local1.log. I've tried managing /etc/asl.conf but can't figure out how to modify it. It seems that Apple is no longer using a standard syslog or rsyslog.
According to AppleScript documentation, I can create a notification with buttons by setting it to use alerts instead of banners in Notification Center preferences. But when I save an AppleScript as an app, then launch it once (assuming it has to launch to tell macOS it exists), it never shows up in the preference pane.
I want to figure out a way to tell Photos that all original source files are in exactly the same place as before but on a different volume. (The equivalent of changing all their paths' reference to /Volumes/driveA/... to /Volumes/driveB/....) My old external hard drive failed, I was able to recover the files from somewhere else, and I had to restore the files to a differently-named external hard drive. Now that I'm trying to share, or create picture with, pictures from my library, a dialog comes up saying:
I have a 4k monitor that has power over usb-c but it is only supplying 15W instead of what it advertised of 60W. So I was wondering if I could charge my Mac with its 87W power supply while having the monitor plugged in with its 15W while I sort out why my monitor is only suppling 15W and not its advertised 60W. Thanks.
My non-jailbroken iPhone 6S Plus (iOS 9.3.5) failed to boot up to the lock screen (stuck in apple logo) after the battery was depleted. Hoping to keep my data intact, I have tried several online suggested solutions such as booting it into safe mode (powering on by pressing the power button + volume up button and holding the only volume up button when the apple logo shows) but to no avail.